Ep. 5518: Why Johnny Can't Read.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, friends, and welcome Already Wednesday, January seventh, on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Kids are back at
school today. Sorry made a mistake yesterday and we'll keep
you company, So leave a little early, give a little

(00:34):
bit of time. Deep breath, everybody, relax. You know it's
going to be chaos.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Part of this is because we don't put kids on
buses hardly anymore. Parents want to drive their kids to
school and pick them up, and that's why the lines
start an hour and a half before school ends. Parents
reading books and doing who knows what while they're sitting

(01:02):
in line so they can be first to get their kids.
It's just it's insane. Schools just weren't designed for this,
but it is what it is. But welcome friends. We've
got a good show for you. Charlie, Charlie Strickland will
be with us. It's been a minute since we had
Charlie on the show. Lots of things to talk about

(01:23):
with Charlie and our personal Defense segment, but we always
start with scripture. Yesterday we were in Romans one. We're
gonna pick up in verse eighteen for the wrath of
God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men who by their unrighteousness suppressed the truth. For
what can be known about God is plain to them

(01:45):
because God has shown it to them. Listen, now, this
is the the Neon sign flashing part of this set
of verses. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power
and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the
creation of the world in the things that have been made,

(02:09):
so they are without excuse. Here's how I've always taken
that verse in particular and expressed it. God's nature is
revealed in God's nature, meaning nature. One of the things

(02:35):
that I just I admit that I approach things with
a very common sense analysis. One of the ways when
I was a child that I just looked at evolution
and thought, what that makes no sense? Is allegedly we

(03:04):
all come from the primordial soup and and the and
that we have things in common with cockroaches, whatever. But
let's boil it down to apes and monkeys. Fair enough.
We are descendants of apes and monkeys, so we have

(03:30):
the beginning of that particular evolutionary chain, and we are
allegedly the at this point the end of it. We
have both parts. Where's the middle? Where where is the
middle in this evolution? If the beginning pieces? Oh but Preston,

(03:51):
it's it's far great. Wait a minute, we have the
beginning pieces, they're right there. Surely we should be seen
evidences of evolution of apes to man or maybe, just
maybe there is a creator. I look at butterflies, I

(04:16):
look at birds. I went snorkeling in the Bahamas over
the holidays, and I looked at fish, and I thought,
look at God, Look at God.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Look at how perfectly designed and colored painted. If you
will these fish are. That's not evolution, that's divine creation.
That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
This part of scripture is saying you have no excuses
because God's nature, those qualities, those characteristics of God are
revealed in creation, in nature. So you, my friends, no
matter where you are in the do you believe, do

(05:07):
you know you are without excuse? God has revealed himself
to you. Take a look. Ten past the hour.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
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With the Morning Show Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
So many stories, so many things to talk about. Man,
I love doing this. Get to sit around together and
trade ideas thoughts, and look at the news and have
a laugh, have a cry. Right, there's there's some Sometimes

(06:12):
you just want to sit and cry. Look at what's
going on?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
January seventh. Israel Putnam, American patriot born in Salem Village, Massachusetts,
seventeen eighteen. That is a name that you should know.
You should know what Israel Putnam did and his contributions
to the birth of this nation. It is a brilliant

(06:41):
example of what one man can do, making a difference,
regardless of any physical limitations he may have. It's a
marvelous story. Seventeen eighty two. The Bank of North America,
the first US commercial bank, opens in Philip seventeen eighty nine,

(07:02):
the first presidential election is held. Americans vote for electors,
who one month later choose George Washington as the first president.
Oh my goodness, what a choice again. You just you
just see God's hand over and over and over in
the birth of this nation. The question I have, do

(07:24):
we see God's hand providentially blessing this nation? Now and
if not, why not? Eighteen hundred Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President,
born in Locke, New York, eighteen sorry. Nineteen twenty seven,
commercial transatlantic telephone service between New York and London is inaugurated.

(07:48):
They had to lay cables through the Atlantic Ocean for
that to happen. I believe we hooked it up wrong.
Can you imagine they spliced it? Because at some point

(08:11):
you're splicing, you don't have that much line on your boat,
and they had to splice. Could you imagine if someone
got that wrong? Who wants to volunteer to dive down?
Let's see here? And in nineteen ninety nine, President Bill
Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the Senate charges of perjury

(08:33):
and obstruction of justice. He's acquitted, shouldn't have been. He
was guilty, he was he lied, he absolutely lied. It's
like everyone just started went, oh, well, you know, what
else do we have? Okay, this is good, this is good.
It is National Bobblehead Day. Tell me, do you know

(08:56):
of anyone who celebrates bobbleheads more than me? I know
there are people that have more than I do, but
I don't think you know them. You know me and
I have in my studio here, I probably have close

(09:17):
to thirty five bobbleheads close. I'm gonna count them. I'm
gonna count them. In the break. I'm gonna give you
an exact number. And you'll love this. It is National
Tempura Day.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Uh huh oh.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, I'm not. There will not be a haiku about
tempura dar. But here's a few things that you should
know about. First of all, is it not just the
best breading ever? It is so light and so crunchy.
But there are some tricks here that I want to
tell you about. First of all, where did temper originate? Japan?

(10:12):
No dying. The Japanese took ownership of it, but it
actually came from Portuguese sailors. Portuguese sailors taught the Japanese
when they arrived in Japan in the mid fifteen hundreds.
This goes back to the fifteen hundreds. A new way
to deep rice, seafood, vegetables, et cetera. It's incredible. Here's

(10:37):
what you need to know though. The temperature has to
be between three fifty and three sixty and be constant.
If it's too low, too much oil gets absorbed into
the batter, and it's oily. If it's too high, it
burns because the batter's so light three fifty to three sixty,

(10:58):
which means only a few things in the oil at
a time, because the more you do that, the temperature drops.
So you got to watch that. And and the best
oil to use canola. Canola is the best for tempura,
although any oil with a high smoking point, corn oil,

(11:20):
peanut oil, sapflour. But again, the most popular for tempo
is canola. And I know these oils have some you know,
detractors and things that you gotta be careful of. I'm
just saying, there you go. I am Jonesan for some
tempura right this second. I'll tell you what. Some tempura shrimp,

(11:43):
even temper a chicken. I'd even do tempera veggies. And
I'm not a big huge veggiet anyway. Seventeen minutes past
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Speaker 4 (11:55):
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Speaker 1 (12:06):
Season next hour. Another exciting addition of No Way Jose,
the first of twenty twenty six, No pressure, quick little reminder,
The FCA Outdoors fourth annual Pheasant Tower Shoot is coming

(12:31):
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(12:54):
FCA Outdoors. So we would love to have you take part,
So just check out FCA dot org learn a little
bit more. There. You can email Gerald Panel Panel GPA,

(13:15):
N N E l L at FCA dot org for
a little bit more intel on the event. Now next Yesterday,
we spent some time in the third hour talking about resolutions,
and I recognize that many of you aren't able to
hang around for all three hours of the show. I
get it, but I wanted to just throw some stats

(13:36):
at you that got the attention of a lot of listeners.
Most people quit their resolutions, their promises, their challenge, whatever
you want to call it for yourself. Twenty three percent
quit in the first week, so nearly one quarter they're

(13:59):
already out of the game. By the end of January,
just thirty days in sixty four percent have stopped. So
add those two numbers up, you are at eighty seven
percent have quit by the end of the first month,

(14:25):
which leaves less than twenty percent. The average resolution that
is going to be fulfilled at all last less than
four months, and only nine percent achieve their goal for

(14:46):
a full year. I share that because and one of
the things we spent time on yesterday was practical ways
to achieve your goals. You have to make a plan
to achieve your goals. At a gentleman call yesterday and

(15:11):
say he wanted to shave some strokes off his golf game. Okay,
how are you gonna do it? He said, Well, I'm
gonna take lessons, I'm gonna and it all involves spending
more money. Well, I think I can coach him via
email and I can get those five shots off his
game without him spending more money. Now, can you practice more?

(15:37):
My point, though, is having a plan. It doesn't matter
what it is. Have a plan. Don't bite off more
than you can chew. Start with a plan of let's
say you want to exercise. Okay, you're gonna exercise once
a week because now you're not doing anything. And instead
of saying for thirty minutes, I'm gonna hit the treadmill, No,

(15:58):
how about five, then ten, then fifteen, and then do
fifteen three times a week. Don't put yourself in a
spot where you hate what you're doing, or you will.
You will quit. It's why diets fail. I can't eat this,
and I can't eat this, and I can't eat this,
and I can't eat this, and then you hate the diet.

(16:22):
So if you have a cookie every day, have a
cookie every other day, and then go to once a week, moderate,
begin there, get some wins and you will succeed. Twenty
seven minutes past, we got the big stories in the
breast box and one you must hear.

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(17:05):
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Speaker 1 (17:18):
All right, let's get to the story that okay, you
need to know lawmaker state lawmaker in Georgia. She submitted
her resignation to the Governor Brian Kemp on December thirtieth.
Karen Bennett House District ninety four. She represented parts of

(17:41):
Gwinnett and cab Counties. She has been charged by the
Department of Justice with obtaining COVID unemployment benefits. I won't
go into the details, but she took a fourteen thousand
dollars allegedly claiming that she was prevented from performing her work.

(18:09):
You know, lawmakers are usually part time workers. They've got
full time jobs, and she works with metro therapy. She
said that she couldn't do it because of COVID reaching
her place of employment because of the quarantine. Problem is
that her role with metro therapy was administrative. She worked
from her home. She was never prevented, and she never

(18:29):
didn't receive a paycheck. She doesn't work with patients. Additionally,
she had another job with a church that paid her
over nine hundred dollars a week, so she had three gigs.
She's working part time for the legislature, getting paid working
for this metro therapy, getting paid working for a church,

(18:52):
making what a lot of you would love to make
about a grand a week, and then she scams the
government allegedly those kinds of programs will always be targets
for fraud always. But what I really wanted to focus

(19:15):
on here was a piece by Stephen Moore, and it's
entitled why Johnny Can't Read? And he's pointing out he
is an economist by trade, he said, but I cannot
ignore the numbers here. The number of sixteen to twenty

(19:40):
four year olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased
from sixteen percent in twenty seventeen to twenty five percent.
One quarter of young people between the ages of sixteen
and twenty four can't read. It's getting worse, it's not

(20:00):
getting better. All these interventions that we've been told had
to take place haven't and they're not working. Why Because
what we've done is we've dumbed everything down. And he
quantifies this. He said, the education establishment apparently doesn't want
to stretch kids, doesn't want them to read books, but

(20:22):
rather they want to dumb down the curriculum so everyone passes.
And then he points to Alice Deal Middle School in Washington,
one of the best public schools in the District of
Columbia with reading proficiency rates at eighty percent or double
the rest of the district. The rest of DC is

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thirty eight percent. This had proficiency of eighty percent. But
what they decided to do was they removed all full
length novels from their eighth grade English curriculum. So they're
at eighty percent proficient, see not the district average of

(21:04):
thirty six thirty eight percent. So what do they do.
They decide, we're overachieving. We have to be dumb too.
So instead of making kids read books, they read excerpts.
They're reading basically cliff notes. You know, when I was
a kid in school, cliff notes were allowed by some

(21:26):
teachers for certain projects, but rarely you had to read
the book. You had to read books. It's scary to
think this is what's happening at a good school. It's
scary to think what's happening at a bad school. This

(21:48):
is the what he writes is the tyranny of low expectations.
Here's why I'm bringing this up. Louisiana and Mississippi among
the poorer states in the country as it relates to
education and the economic level of residents. They have gone

(22:12):
to old fashioned phonics, and they have seen massive jumps
and reading scores because they're going back to basics. I'm
sharing this so that you parents understand that in most
schools they're dumbing it down. You have to be your

(22:33):
child's teacher, read to them, get them reading books. And
that's why it's a big story in the press box.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Wherever you may be, from Florida Sunshine State to Washington State. No, no,
not Washington. Sorry, Washington's also hopeless for crying out loud.
Is this the only bastion of physical wealth and mindset goodness? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I
am going to continue to bang the drum on the
dangers of Islam and the dangers of socialism. New York's

(23:34):
got the double whammy. New York City is going to
face all of the horrors. Islam is a religion of violence.
Want proof You ever see any cartoons, drawings, images making

(24:02):
fun of Mohammed? You might, but you'll also see that
the artist gets killed, or gets attacked or gets maimed.
Hear what happens, Salman Rushti. It's a religion of violence.
People attack Christianity all the time. Mock make fun of

(24:26):
Jesus all the time. But you don't worry about Christians
taking violent actions and reprisals over it, because we look
at people that do things like that and go, it's
on them. They'll face judgment one day for their mocking

(24:46):
of God, because one day every knee will bow and
every tongue will confess. So we don't need to worry
about that. But that's not the way it is with
Islam socialism. Socialism is in compatible with a constitutional republic,
and we are allowing people to run and take office

(25:08):
as socialists. Seattle has elected a socialist mayor. Her name
is Katie Wilson. She's in her forties. She spent most
of her life, according to Amy Curtis, at town hall,
being bankrolled by her wealthy parents. Typical a socialist. Who
oh wow, wait, Zorah and mom Donnie. Isn't that interesting?

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People that are from these lofty places of wealth love socialism.
Why because they keep it and they take it from others.
Guess what's happening in Seattle. She's blaming corporate greed for
stores closing in Washington, not crime, not the ridiculous policies

(25:53):
of COVID that jammed businesses with no ability to make
a living, make money. We shut everybody down in left States.
And so she's now going to She's now going to

(26:14):
kick around some progressive policies to deal with the problem
of vacancy. Office vacancies in Seattle second worst in the nation. Huh,
you don't say they've had socialists in their city commission
for years. They've had illiberals running the city for years,

(26:35):
and now they've elected a socialist and they have a
terrible vacancy rate in their offices. I wonder why that
would be. See, they're incapable of blaming themselves. It's their policies.
So guess what she's going to do to solve the problem.
She's going to tax the owners of the vacant offices
for vacancy. Think about the multiple choice she had, lower

(27:00):
taxes for businesses to bring business back into the city,
clean up drugs and crime off the streets, or tax
the owners of vacant office buildings. She did the ladder,
or she's going to do the latter. And the insanity

(27:21):
of it all is that along with that, she's also
talked about converting offices into housing. So watch more businesses
will leave. She'll take it as a queue to create
affordable housing, and Seattle will continue its spiral down the drain.

(27:46):
Why because they elected illiberals and then socialists, and that's
what the city of Tallahassee is facing. I'm gonna keep
reminding you you have two illiberals quasi socialists. Already one
wants to be the mayor. He will make sure best

(28:08):
as he can to have someone that is equally socialist
as he replace him, which gives them three votes. And
you're done. You do you. I can't vote in the
city elections, but you do you. I'm just going to
keep warning you. Socialism will kill a city it touches
forty seven, pass the hout.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
We started counting his shows at the beginning because we
weren't really quite sure how long he'd last. Yeah, now
it's just turned into a thing. Welcome to The Morning
Show with Preston Scott Personal Defense Segment.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
If you have questions you'd like to ask Charlie Strickland,
you may send me an email or we'll take a
call or two. We've got a lot of things we
want to talk about, but you're certainly welcome to call in.
You know, leftists Democrats, illiberals, even some parts of the
federal government. They want to take guns from you. Tate

(29:19):
A Domiak is still sitting in prison. That it is
inexcusable that his pardon has not happened from Donald Trump.
It is difficult for me to believe that Trump doesn't
know about Tatea Domiak. He was framed. The left wants

(29:39):
to take guns from us. But time and again what
they do on the left is they turn loose people
that shouldn't be turned loose. Let me tell you what
just happened in North Carolina once again. North is North
Carolina becoming one of those states. You drove through North

(30:04):
Carolina to get to Virginia. I'm sure, Oh yeah, it's
a beautiful state. But do you really want to live
in Charlotte. In this case, in Raleigh, school teacher Zoe
Welsh was murdered by a guy named Ryan Camacho. He
had twenty priors. Among the twenty priors were red Flags

(30:37):
red Flag crimes. Weeks before the murder, prosecutors begged he
be committed. A Democrat judge released him. He escaped from prison. Larceny,
breaking and entering, discharging a firearm into an occupied property
but he was released from jail on a one dollar bond.

(31:00):
One dollar He's going back to court later this month.
He broke into the Zoey Welsh's home. Police said. Welsh
called nine one one at nine thirty on Saturday morning
back a week or so ago, saying a man was

(31:22):
in her house. He began assaulting her. When police arrived,
she had life threatening injuries and would die. Another resident
of Raleigh, Wes Phillips, told news outlets that the guy
spent a decade harassing his family. He would stand outside

(31:43):
their home and just stare. He fired his gun into
their home, but they didn't charge him with harassment, just
firing into an occupied dwelling, that's all. Philip said. There
were signs everywhere that this guy was a danger. He

(32:04):
stood outside their home and just stared at them. They
had no relationship with the guy. During a hurricane, he
just stood out there staring. This is what the left does,
soft on crime. Another warning sign for those of you

(32:25):
voting in Tallassee. And here we go into the second
hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I am Preston,
How are you a show? Fifty five eighteen? He is

(32:45):
Jose Later on this hour No Way Jose stories selected
chosen by Jose Can you see for your canssumption. We'll
also have Florida Man got to follow up on the

(33:06):
Hilton Hotel story from Minneapolis. It's a good one, but
first I'm going to solve part of the affordability and
housing crisis. It's an idea I've long held onto, but
was now inspired to go ahead and say, here's what

(33:29):
we ought to be doing because there's now technology that
that's really a game changer. You say, wait, technology changes
the affordability with housing problem. Yes, And this particular example
comes from a little town in western Denmark.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
It is.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Hulsterbro where they are engaging in Europe's large just three
D printed housing project. You heard right, houses that are
three D printed. The project sits near Via University College,

(34:14):
serves students in the area and they are building pods.
Each one holds six ground level student apartments. It uses

(34:36):
a three D printing machine that extrudes cement like material
layer by layer, following a digital blueprint with millimeter accuracy.
The very first building when they got everything on site,
because they put a machine on rails that then moves
back and forth took a few weeks. By the time

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they had the final building going, it took five days.
They built the entire thing in five days. Oh and
with a crew of three people. It's incredible. Each apartment

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measures four hundred and thirty one to five hundred and
thirty eight square feet full kitchen, study area, lounge, bathroom, shower,
bedroom with a double bed, windows, lots of windows, slanted
ceilings pull in daylight. It's modern, still kind of homey,

(35:50):
little bit of an industrial feel to it. Here's how
I think this matters. The problem right now, the single
biggest problem is affordability for singles to buy a home
or for young couples to buy a home. Entry level

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housing right now is north of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars entry level. These tiny houses can be built
at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of
the time, taking up a fraction of the land. Depending
on how you want to do it, you might want
to have quarter acre lots with a couple of these

(36:36):
things put together to make a bigger home. Thousand square
feet boom done ten days, three people building it. I
believe that. See, I've always been fascinated by tiny houses

(36:57):
I think the innovation and the opportunity for innovation is
everywhere with these things different way I've seen. I've long
believed that, for example, you could build a tiny house
where it's made in such a way that you don't
have to have a loft bedroom where you can hardly
stand up or can't stand up, we have to crawl

(37:19):
up a ladder and crawl into bed. You ever tried
to make it a bed on your knees where the
bed literally just drops down into middle of your living
room and then when you're done, you push a button
and it lifts right back up. But to me, this

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is creating entry level housing where you can combine units,
these small ones for singles, larger ones for couples, the
opportunity to not spend a ridiculous sum of money on
your first house and to own huge, huge, And so

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the fact that this is happening, I just think is
really cool. And that there is now a machine that
does a cement type product and can build it in
five days, that's insane. And there are modular homes you
can buy at big box stores literally that come and
you unfold them and they're up and they're ready, they're beautiful,

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They're really cool. There are all kinds of options out there.
That's part of the solution to affordable housing. Liven past
the outum. We're just here to solve problems friends, just
solving problems. Want at a time.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Print in a positive way, improve the lives of others.
That's what this show is about.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
And this is the Preston Scott Show.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Connect the dots on a couple of stories here. The
Nashville shooter wrote this massive set of notes before she
went on an attack as she wanting to be a
he transgender theme to this segment. Some of the writings

(39:26):
list Christian school quote hate religion. Someone that believes Christianity
is the hate religion doesn't know Christianity one two never
read the Quran. It's so interesting how people refuse to
call Islam a religion of violence and intolerance because they're

(39:53):
scared to.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Just is.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Former Islamis are all over the world. That will tell
you the same thing. But the young lady that killed
those people at Nashville's Covenant School, you know, she bought
some of her firearms her pelgrimt. She also talked to

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a friend describing the planned attack as a suicide mission.
That's quote and that the friend would likely quote hear
about me and the news after I die, once again
seeking attention, seeking publicity. I don't know how many stories
I'm gonna have to talk about. And I'm all but
alone on this. I know I am a voice screaming

(40:55):
in a howling wind that will never be heard. I
get it. I'm just a little guy, and you know,
doing a radio show in small, medium sized markets, and
then of course iHeart picks it up. But you know,
I mean, I'm just a little guy in the grand
scheme of things. I'm right about this issue. I'm one

(41:18):
hundred percent right. Stop using their names. You'll see some
that change direction because they won't get the attention, that
they'll be forgotten, that they don't want that they want
to be remembered sore anyway. They are attention seeking. But

(41:41):
this is the part of the story that really stood
out to me. Hell's parents Shooter's parents sorry inadvertently used
the last name, told investigators that their child used federal
pelgrant money to purchase firearms used.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Wait what.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Now, I will be the first to tell you I
don't understand how all that works. I guess you get
a check Why the pelgrant money doesn't go directly to
the school is beyond my understanding. It's supposed to be
for education. Why are we cutting checks to people? I

(42:25):
don't get that. Anyway, Here you go, there's an example
right there. And oh, by the way, the second story,
the young man arrested for vandalizing Vice President jd Vance's
home in Cincinnati insisted that authorities call him Julia. He's

(42:49):
got previous priors. He's not well, but I mean another
transgender or transgender seeking or someone seeking to blame transgender
it whatever, And so it continues. When we come back,
follow up on the Hilton story. Hilton Hotel Minneapolis. Oh,

(43:12):
what a fascinating little development there. We'll get to that
next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Twenty two minutes past. So, the global hospitality company known
as Hilton is removing the bake View, Minnesota Hotel from
its chain. It's no longer part of Hilton. Why well,
you may recall the ever Speak hospitality management company for

(44:13):
the hotel that refused to allow DHS and ICE employees
to stay at its facility. And we raised yesterday the
real problem that staff members took it upon themselves to
independently do searches of the names of the people doing
the reservations, and we asked, well, what about people like

(44:38):
you and me? They're going to what if they don't
like what I talk about, they're gonna refuse me a reservation. Well,
remember we talked about, Oh they apologize, Oh we take
an action, blah blah blah blah blah. Well here's what happened.
A video surfaced after the apologies, after the clarifications, after

(44:58):
the none, No, that's not the way we do business
at this hotel. The franchise said, guy named Nick Soder
posted a video where he posed as a government official
trying to book ten rooms for DHS agents refused by
front desk employees, and it's all on tape. Even the

(45:21):
front desk manager said he had spoken with the owners
shortly before I walked in around ten fifty in the
evening and confirmed the anti DHS policy remained in effect.
The guy informed the employee of Hilton's statement, but was
still unable to book a room. The hotel's owner did

(45:44):
not answer a phone call for clarification, and so the
owner of the hotel, which is managed by ever Speak Hospitality,
is not answering calls and apparently is not back down.
So Hilton has cut the chain. They are no longer
part of the Hilton chain. And I'm guessing the removal

(46:07):
of the name of the hotel. I don't know if
it was a Hampton In or if it was a
Hilton is like either happened immediately or is happening, but
they're no longer part. What this illustrates again is how
deeply entrenched this crap is. Are they Somalis that work

(46:29):
at this hotel? Are they Islamis? You know, there's evidence
popping up now that not only Tim Walls, but Keith Ellison,
the Attorney General, was involved in the fraud. This is
going to get really interesting. But I would suggest that

(46:55):
those of you that are like frequent stayers at Hilton,
you might want to make a few phone calls. You
might want to do a little checking, because I'm not
convinced Hilton has changed its policy of five years. Five
years ago, it started nationally with a policy that really

(47:17):
suggested that it was not interested in running out rooms
to members of immigration enforcement.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Okay, I see you, boss.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
All right, we've got Charlie Strickland coming up next hour.
If you have a question you'd like to ask Charlie,
send me an email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. And oh,
by the way, that's your email if you just want
to shoot me in out. Got a lot of really
just so kind comments about our twelve days of Preston programs,

(47:53):
and I will tell you it really it does make
my heart happy and it helps me know that we're
hitting the mark on how we put those shows together.
I have so many people that have written saying I
didn't know how much I missed. There were interviews on
that on those shows that I never heard. There you go,

(48:17):
and so the best of presentation of the year. I'm
gonna do one thing a little differently this year. I
omitted the month of June because we just it was
on Christmas Day. Next next year it would be the
month of July. I'm gonna combine June and July or
July in August so we don't miss some key interviews
from a month, so that we're always trying to do better,

(48:40):
and we're always trying to make the show something that
you enjoy and find useful. So yeah, we've got we've
got that coming, all right, We've got the big stories
in the press Box Florida Man, No Way, Jose, and
more still to come in the next half hour here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Speaker 1 (49:21):
Thirty five minutes past the hour, Florida Man, just moments
away the The Morning Show. Big stories in the press
Box fall into three buckets. If you're new to the program,
let me just quickly explain. These are the things you're
hearing about that you might be talking about. There are

(49:44):
stories that you'll hear that you will be talking about.
We're going to advance a story here and there, and
then what I think is the most important story bucket,
and that is the bucket that holds stories that you
should be talking about. And the story here is quantifiable

(50:07):
with one set of statistics. The story is that America
is edging its way to a literacy, one generation at
a time, you know, the new math isn't always the

(50:29):
right math, The new way isn't always the right way,
The new fill in the blank isn't always better. Economist
Stephen Moore writes a piece why Johnny Can't Read, And
here are the statistics that I want to share with you.

(50:50):
The number of sixteen to twenty four year olds reading
at the lowest literacy levels increased from sixteen percent in
twenty sevenventeen to twenty five percent in twenty twenty three.
So in seven years we dropped nine points. So project

(51:23):
that ahead. Every six or seven years we go another
eight or nine points to the negative or increase the
number of students young people enable to unable to read proficiently.
It's not many years, maybe one and a half generations,

(51:48):
where you're nearing half of the young people in this
country cannot read. And that is the big story today.
What's happened, and he cites as an economist, examples in

(52:11):
particular schools, specific schools, But what's happening is schools are
dumbing down curriculum, they're dumbing down standardized testing in order
to ensure that more kids pass. And this goes back
to something that was showing up in the nineteen nineties,
we didn't want to give a kid an f because

(52:33):
it just hurts their feelings. Oh, it hurts their little heart.
It's why city leagues said, don't keep scoring flag football.
They're no losers. Well, yeah, there are teams win and
teams lose. And the way that teams lose get better

(52:53):
is by losing and saying we don't want to lose anymore.
We will work harder. That's what you do. I still
remember having the discussion with staff in the city of
Tallahassee sports and rec departments, saying, what you can say
that all you want, but your rule book has points,
and I promise you every kid on the field is

(53:14):
counting points, and every parent is counting points. Everybody knows
who's winning or losing, so we will have winners and losers.
We have forsaken the idea of making kids in middle
school read entire books, classics of literature, and we've allowed

(53:40):
them to use cliff notes or read excerpts of a
given book. It's failing, and so the big story in
the press box Moms and dads, read to your children.
They will be ahead of the rest when job time comes.

(54:08):
Read to your kids and make sure they read. If
it's not part of the curriculum in the school that
they're attending, either get a new school, teach them at home,
get them virtually, or just do it yourself. Make reading
a regular part of your personal home curriculum. That's the

(54:31):
big story in the press.

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Speaker 1 (55:25):
Florida man here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott
o'calla Florida, Florida man filed a lawsuit against Outback Steakhouse,
alleging that he was on a handicapped toilet when the
seat suddenly shattered and collapsed well he was busy, resulting

(55:50):
in injury. Michael Green said he suffered severe bodily injury
during the incident at the Outback on Southwest College Road,
and o'callajuries include quoting from the lawsuits. Significant and permanent
loss of an important bodily function, oh wow, loss of

(56:11):
capacity for the enjoyment of life. We can only imagine
what happened to this man. I'll be honest with you,
I'm a little shocked he's only seeking fifty grand. If
you've permanently lost a body function, I would think it

(56:34):
would be of more value than that. But I you know,
I don't know the going rate for all that stuff.
Restaurants accused of negligence and failing to ensure the toilet
was properly secured to the floor. If it shattered, that
tells me it might have been too tightly secured to

(56:55):
the floor. Now, I mean, you put those those washers
on top and secure those the toilet with those washers
on top of bolts that are in the cement, and
if you tighten him too far, you crack the porcelain

(57:17):
and that I mean. I'm just I don't know how
big the guy was. I'm not trying to shift blame here,
but yeah, I guess I'm not gonna ridicule the man
for suing them. But now we've got a Florida man
story that makes us proud of Florida man. You don't
always get that opportunity to salute a Florida man. But

(57:38):
we're gonna do it. We're gonna salute Tige pure Joy McCoy.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
He is.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
He's preparing to run half marathons in every state this year.
He said he was sitting in the bed of his
true and he was praying about a way to make
a difference in the world and in the country. He's
a young guy. He's looks like he's in his twenties.

(58:12):
And he said, it was a real windy night and
I saw that US flag waving. I picked her up
the next day and I ran for twenty two miles
and the rest is history. So he runs carrying a
US flag. I love this country. I'm trying to spread
as much love as possible. And so he's running in

(58:39):
half marathons in every state in order to carry the flag.
He said, most people love it. He said, I've had
a few people curse at me. He spit on me, said,
but we just keep moving forward. Tell him we love him.
Asked if he has a message for the country, he said,
get ready, I'm coming to your town. Prioritize your health,

(59:01):
Grab that flag, become patriotic again. Baby, I love y'all.
And that is tigue. Pure Joy McCoy. What a great name,
pure Joy McCoy. Speaking of pure Joy, Charlie Strickland coming
up in just a few here in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Him to the M a D Radio Network, where we
challenge you to make a difference in your world in
a positive way, improving the lives of others. It's The
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Speaker 1 (59:42):
Good morning everybody.

Speaker 4 (59:44):
Ol.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
This is what I get. The cue him, I'm playing
the music in my studio and I go.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
You're on.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
I was almost like, what are you pulling that? What
do you?

Speaker 6 (59:55):
What is he doing over there?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Time for another thrilling first of the Year edition? No way, Jose, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:02):
We got got some exciting stories. One of them is
there Roman era discovery.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
And ephesis Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:00:11):
One of the one of the cities that's mentioned in
the Book of Revelations. Yes, that's when I was first
reading this Ephesians. Should should I be concerned here? Because
what's the story?

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:00:23):
Well, they found uh they uncovered a first century Roman
marble bathtub.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
What yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Yeah, first century, first century Roman bathtub, and uh, not
just that, but they also found a part of a statue,
big old marble statue. And what I find interesting about
this is they were both.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Repurposed, you mean repurposed.

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
Well the uh the bathtub was repurposed as a fountain
through Okay, so I guess at some point they figured
out hanging a bath in it or bathing it no more.
And this statue was repurposed as a paving stone.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
No for the road there.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
Yeah, yeah, I thought that was pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
A statue was used as a paver That's yeah, that's
what I was like. But that way, Jose well allegedly.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Okay, I don't want to get caught up in court.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
What's your second stories?

Speaker 6 (01:01:22):
The second story is imagine being in a hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Rather you're wearing an air I don't want to. I
don't want to imagine that you're wearing an heirloom ring
from your grandfather.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
I would do that, and you accidentally throw it away.
Yeah yeah, So this lady in Iowa, Iowa, woman accidentally
threw away her waiting ring.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
She threw it away or the staff? Did she did know?

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Yeah? Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Did she have a fever or something? What was going on.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
I mean, I'm not too sure. Didn't really say, but
the trash already been compact by the time she realized that,
oh she may have accidentally threw it away. The trash
was compacted with a mixture of a waste for days.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
So the maintenance crews went out there. Once they found out.
They searched through sixty to fifty bags. No they didn't.
They really with a metal detector. Yeah, they Oh my gosh,
they really tried to help. They went above and beyond. Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
Then an imaging manager brings out a little X a
portable X ray machine.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
At like forty five minutes and thirty five images later,
they found the ring.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
No they did not, no way.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
Yeah yeah, wah, yeah, you bought to believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Okay, what hot Where was this hospital?

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
It was an Iowa somewhere. Didn't really write down, okay,
exact location.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
See, because that's like I will go to that hospital. Yeah,
just fly me there. Good hospital, because if they go
to they'll go to that after to find that lady's ring. Yeah, incredible.
I'm imagining that they probably deliver pretty good care.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
I would have been like, uh so sorry, send you're up.
It'll u we cannot look it for your ring.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You know, I don't want to get poked by sarranges
or nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
Better, better people than me. I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
That almost is good news category stuff. That's good. That's
a good story. Yeah, good job, which is aggresses. But
to come back, uh transition, thank you, Okay, thank you. Yeah,
I'm not I barely speak English. I don't don't be
throwing me curveballs in another language, like you know, Portuguese
or something like that. Now, all right, hey, we would

(01:03:43):
come back Charlie. It's been a while. I was trying
to think back. I think the last time we had
Charlie here was September or October, busy man, and so
I'm I'm thinking we are, we are. We're grateful to J. D.
Johnson's available to come in as often as he does

(01:04:06):
for us. But Charlie Strickland's going to join us. Next
from the Talent Training Group and Talent Outdoors our personal
defense segment, the first one for the year. Do you
want to email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott turning the page,

(01:04:43):
because that's what I do. It is now the third
hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is Wednesday,
January seventh, first Wednesday of the month, and that means
it is time. And as we were just talking, it's
been quite a while since we've had Charlie Stricklan in
studio with us. Happy New Year, Mary, Christmas, all of
those things. How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
I'm doing fantastic. Yeah, it's it's been a busy new year, yeah,
but pleasantly so accomplishing some things technically I plan to
do before the end of last year, but I'm trying
to close out last year this year. It's kind of
paying taxes. You pay them a couple of months, you
pay them for last year, and it's like, yeah, I'm

(01:05:26):
making it. I'm not anyway, it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Well. One of the things it is as well is
as of today, the kids are back at school.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
They are I spent yesterday speaking to these school safety
officers for the Lynn County School System. Okay, I was
invited in by the Chief and administration to do what
I do, and that is talk to those people who
are protecting our children in the Lynd County School System today.
And I always enjoy having an opportunity to sit there

(01:05:54):
and talk to them about professionalism and you know, mindset
and the things that matter or what whatver it is
that I'm invited to talk about that point in time.
And I look around the room and I see the
people who are there to protect our children, and I'm
encouraged to see that those people do exist and that
they do care. I mean, so that's good. You know,
every county in North Florida has a little different mix

(01:06:16):
on how they do things. You know, my children attend
Jackson County schools. You know there's a different mix there.
I feel very good about the safety there. As you know,
I love to teach. So when I have an opportunity
to go speak to someone Monday, I always spent the
entire day. I just spoke an hour, hour and a
half the other day, But on Monday, I spent the

(01:06:36):
entire day training some of my people who are private
security officers in some of the private schools, faith based schools,
and love doing that. Active shooters, stop to bleed, you know,
help tree eyes, all of the different things, you know,
moving to contact, precision shooting, all that a lot of

(01:06:57):
people don't realize what goes intoeting our children in the
schools today.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
But I do one of the things I beg the
local school district, and this probably goes to a lot
of other school districts that are in areas listening to
the program right now, is even if you don't allow
staff to carry, even if you don't have a lot
of people on the grounds that are resource officers, at

(01:07:22):
least let people think they are a bunch of them
on the property carrying. It was like put up a
sign that says not a gun free zone. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Yeah, I agree with that. I can't speak to why
school boards and people make different decisions, but every county
you go into has a different version of that, right,
and so you just have to kind of you know,
I'm not going to run for school board. I'm not
going to run for office. I don't live in I
live in one place and my kids go to school

(01:07:52):
in one place, and I have a pretty strong effect
on what goes on there because I volunteer for the
Sheriff's office, siam a captain in that chaff's office. I
volunteer my time. I help train those people, you know,
and so I know what their capabilities are and say
it's it's it's I think that a lot of and

(01:08:13):
I was talking and one of the things I talked
about today, I says, listen, when you come to work,
people look at you and they judge you based on
what they see. Our society is perception based, it's not
performance based. What you see is what you get, at
least you think. So when when you carry this goes
for anyone out there, When you carry yourself a certain
way and you look confidence and confident and competent, then

(01:08:38):
that's what people think you are. It's it may be
a complete bluff. It's like putting a burglar alarm sign
in your front yard and not having a burglar alarm.
You know, if you look like a bad dude or
a wicked woman, you know, maybe that's what you are.
They see what they perceive and you present that every day.
And a lot of people when they go to work.
They at any job. If you when you go to

(01:09:01):
Sunday school, or you go to uh uh a funeral,
or you go to anything that matters, you look in
the mirror before you walk out the door, and you
see what the world sees. When you go to work,
you do the same thing. You look in the mirror.
What does the world see? How do they perceive me?
Because in their minds, whoever sees you, that's what you are.
You are what you are perceived to be. And so

(01:09:23):
that professional image is important. People size you up. They
look at me and you and they go, I can
look at you and you're a green based packer fan. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
You just gave it up right there, for you're you're
wearing the jersey, wearing the package, You're wearing the colors.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
You know. So it's you want that's something you want
the world to see. Yes, and that and I want
people when they look at me, I want them to
see someone who they probably shouldn't put in a position
where they get themselves hurt. And so do I carry
myself a certain way?

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
I do. Do I make him maintain eye contact with
people and look friendly and confident? Yeah, sure I do.
You know, so you show that and then you never
have to prove that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Got more to come with Charlie Strickland of the Talent
Training Group and learn more online Talentrange dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Beck He's always been a white guy, Glenn Benk We
got it licensed to.

Speaker 7 (01:10:19):
Talk nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Back with Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group Back
to School. Let me just before we change subjects. Are
there things that parents ought to be telling their kids
that just in case something happens, you need to do this?
Or do we need to defer to whatever the school
is telling kids?

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
You really can't, I say, if you're a small child,
there's nothing you can really tell your children other than
follow the rules and go along with what the teachers
tell you. There are plans in place. Okay, are they
the plans I would put in a place? I don't know.
I'm you know, I have a different philosophy on things,
but every the mainstream is you know, the run, hide,

(01:11:10):
fight model. Schools have lockdown drills. There are procedures. I mean,
my company has guardians and schools that has private security
and schools. I mean, follow the procedures that are in place.
You tell your kids because an one outlier can get
everyone hurt. You know, You've got one kid that's going
to do something different, so I've told them to do
so and so, Yeah, then the teachers distracted, they're not

(01:11:31):
focusing on all the kids. Maybe they don't get the
door locked fast enough. These are for small kids, they
need to go along. High school kids a little bit different.
These are young adults. They can think for themselves, you know,
so it's hard to say. It kind of goes to
your personal philosophy. I want my kids to get the
heck out of there as fast as they can. They

(01:11:53):
need to be moving and scooting and going. But that's
just what I want my kids to do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Would you be, regardless of the of your kid, whether
you've got an older kid with a backpack or a
younger kid with a backpack, would you be having a
little kevlar plate in that backpack.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
It's not a bad idea. I mean, I've seen them
on the shelf of some local stores that I'm very
familiar with. I mean, they are out there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Yeah, but I mean practically it is an option to
help fortify protection.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I We'll tell you. I watched when
my kid goes to school every day. My son his
backpack would stop bullets just by the nature of all
the dead gun bucks, all the books that are in there. Yeah,
my lord, that thinks full of stuff. I guess Sunday
you have to take all that thirty hours, but that
you know, yeah, I mean that there are a lot
of people that buy those for their children. I mean

(01:12:40):
it seems a little out there, just a little bit,
but I don't think so. I wear a vest when
I put on a uniform, aware a vest in plates,
I'll wear a plate carrier. I want something that'll stop,
you know what it needs to stop. So I don't
think if you have the means to do it and
your child doesn't think it's weird, and you think they'll

(01:13:02):
carry it, it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
It's to me it falls into the category better to
have and not need than need and not have.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Yeah. I mean, if it were socially acceptable for children
to arm themselves in schools, I'd be the guy that
would be arming my children. I mean, that sounds crazy.
It's not socially acceptable. It's not legal. You can't do it.
My kids know how to shoot, you know, they're perfectly
mentally capable of doing things reasonably. I mean, but I

(01:13:29):
you know, I don't think we should go legalize children
can agains in school. I think that's silly. But I
do believe strongly that we have every bit of responsibility
to protect our children and ourselves and our families. You know,
I struggle with the concept of not doing that the

(01:13:49):
way we should and there's a lot of places that don't.
And like I said, every community has a different way
of doing it. Yeah, I fully support what we're doing here.
I think it's the we're spending a lot of money
and doing a lot of really good things. What on
tweak a few thanks here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
The jargon that people use is they call it a silencer.
It's actually a suppressor. And we're gonna talk with Charlie
we come back about suppressors and timelines and what's changed
out there, because things have changed in the last few months.
If you're not aware that more next on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:14:28):
La on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos.
So here we go in Iheart's Radio season.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Just because.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
And we're back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
Just makes my heart happy? Just does manage does all? Right?
Before we talk about suppressors and what's going on in
that world. Okay, I got a question here that came
in from carl He said, a question for mister Strickland,
what's the best way to dispose of old Ammo? That
won't be used. Uh does talent take them for disposal?
Also the reloads that were sold during COVID, are they

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still safe to use?

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
The reloads sold during COVID?

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
When manufacturing just drive me down.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Yeah, I mean we've been selling remanufactured ammo for years. Okay,
So when you look at reloaded or remanufactured reload if
when I say when I hear reload, I'm thinking what
you did Bubba and his shed with a with a
lead press and you know going through you know, a
Dylan sixth or whatever, going through and reloading you know

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what it depends on how you stored that and how
you know, how accurate you reloaded it, and what kind
of path it depends on you If it's your reloads,
it's your handloads, your person. Really remanufactured ammunition. I want
you to think about this. That ammunition is factory ammunition.
All they did was get the brass off the ground,
clean it up really well, check it, make sure it's

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in good shape, and then put new bullets, new powder,
new primers, put it in a new box. And there's
nothing wrong with it. I mean, it's it's it is
factory ammunition. Fraults and we sell a lot of that
for practice ammunition. We wouldn't sell that for carry rounds,
but we would sell it for practice ammunition. There's it's
there again. Ammunition will last virtually forever if you store

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it correctly, not in the heat not right. Well, I
mean you know it'll last a number of years out there.

Speaker 8 (01:16:44):
But there's a limit to that. Yeah, right, if you,
if you, if you take care of it and store it,
it'll be fine. You're because so COVID wasn't that many
years ago. So anything that was factory, remanufactured, or remanufactured
just fine. I've got some personally handload of stuff that
I would still shoot. I wouldn't put my life on it,
but i'd shoot it. Okay, what about old Amo? How

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to dispose of it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
You can bring it to us, Well, we'll get rid
of it for you. The best thing to do is
to shoot it, practice with it. But if you're shooting
old am you want to make sure that when you're
shooting that if you get a squib load, when it
does not go boom, it goes poof, that you stop
what you're doing and make sure that the bullet did
go all the way down the barrel. You do that

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by Yeah, you do that by clearing the weapon, unloading
the weapon, disassembling it, looking in the barrel. Once you're
disassembled it, don't don't go looking down the barrel. That
would be silly. Yeah. But and if you continue, if
you ever get a squib load where it goes poof
instead of boom, you need to stop shooting because the
next round may be a full power round and that
second bullet going in a plug barrel can cause a

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catastrophic failure in the firearm.

Speaker 7 (01:17:53):
I e.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
It'll hurt and you might lose an eye or you know,
some blood or fingers. So just be careful. We see
guns blow up. Not often do people get seriously injured,
but it happens. So I don't have a problem shooting
the old ammo. I just wouldn't carry it old old stuff.

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You know, if you see AMMO that's got discoloration on it.
I don't mean that the brass is tarnished. I mean
that there's blue stuff around the edges of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
It, or you know, it's like a bat old battery.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Yeah, starting rights right, it will get a funky look
to it. Stuff comes in like that, you see stuff,
I wouldn't shoot that I mean, you can bring it
to us and just turn it in. You can turn
it in at a local law enforcement agency. They'll take
it as well, okay, and they'll what they'll do is
they'll send it out. They used to, don't know if
they still do it. They would send it out with
the bomb squad and they would go out there and
cook it and make it all go pop pop pop

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and dispose of it that way. That's the safest way
is to give it to someone to get rid of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
What's going on out there in the world of suppressors
these days.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
Well, you know that can be a silencer. The ATF
cause of the silencer silencershop dot com obviously calls it
a silencer. We were always told to call them suppressors
because they're not They don't shoot. It's really their interchangeable terms.
Right now. You know, we were waiting on January one,
when the two hundred dollars tax stamp part of Big
Beautiful Bill went away. No longer. They are no longer

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tax stamps. You still have a certificate that you'd get.
I don't know what they're calling it now, but it's
not really a tax stamp anymore because didn't pay the
tax so January one, that and people were buying cans.
So I'll use cans because I don't want to offend you.
So we're buying cans up all the way up to
December thirty first. Unfortunately, for some odd reason, they weren't

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tax free like guns and some of the accessories were.
In Florida, sales tax was off of other things, but
they specifically exempted silencers and the suppressors. But anyway, people
were buying them waiting to apply for the tax stamp
after the first two years. Sure, so that's been and
everyone anticipated that the atfs E file system was going
to lock up, and that all of the places that

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process these for Silence Shop, all of these places were
going to lock up, and that in fact did It
did happen to some degree. It's working itself out There
are some there's some manadotal evidence out there on the
web that people are getting some twenty four hour turnarounds.
I think within a few days all this is going
to be caught back up. There's some glitches, but if
you're in your thinking you've been thinking about buying one,

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you can save the two hundred dollars now, because that's
not part of it. Just come in, pay for the
can apply for the not tax stamp, and wait a
couple of weeks. I think you'll be fine. We come back.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
I'm gonna hit Charlie with a story that Jose hit
me with yesterday. It's a tragedy that happened on Christmas Day.
But I think it offers us an opportunity to talk
about something we have never talked about in all the
years we've done these segments. We'll do that next year
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
You are listening on an old radio in your car,
work truck, or streaming on one of those other thingies.
Thanks for joining us. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
Thirty five minutes past and final two segments here with
Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group. Remember Talent Range
dot com. Go get a membership of that range, get
some training. Hello, talk about a new Year's resolution, prepare yourself.
I shared briefly with Charlie this story, and he'd heard
about this, and I want to just give you folks

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a brief overview. Jose brought this to my attention. Christmas
Day guy gets a gun he's firing a few rounds
just to kind of give it a dance. Unfortunately, he
wasn't paying attention to what he was doing, and one
of those rounds went far enough that it hit a
neighbors home, went through the home and hit a grandmother

(01:22:03):
holding a grand baby and killed her. Yeah, and so
first of all, I want you to address the realities
of a bullet and what happens when someone just fires
one in the air or what have you. And then
I want to take the bulk of the time, Charlie,
use your expertise to explain to people that have large

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pieces of property how to and the safe way to
create a shooting range at home.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
Yeah, I'm glad you gave me so much to say
at one time. All Right, So, first off, realities of
a bullet. Bullets, bullets kill people. Guns don't kill people.
Bullets do. So I've seen instances. Now you're talking about
celebratory gunfire. What goes up must come down.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
You do not do that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
I've been out on calls of fireworks on the holidays
when I was on the road as a deputy, and
you know, we go, oh, it's just works, And you
get out there and I'm standing there talking to somebody
and all of a sudden, I here cut thunk, and
a nine millimeter bullet falls into the truck bed. I'm
leaning on talking to this guy off five way twenty.
I'm like, ah, okay, you were right. That is gunfire.
Because sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Don't shoot

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up in the air. It's just not dangers it's just
not safe. It is very dangerous to do. So when
we teach firearms, one of the things basic safety rules
to be sure of your target, back stopping beyond. That's
not just on the range, shooting into a pile of dirt.
That is in reality, when you're thinking about defending your home,
you need to be looking at what stops a bullet.
Does a sheet rock wall in your living room keep

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the bullet that you missed the bad guy in your
house you missed. Does it go then go through the
wall and into your kid's bedroom. I mean, you had
to think about these things. So when you're setting up
a gun range in your yard, and they're Florida laws
that dictate where and when you can do these things,
y'all research that make sure you're doing it right. You
may have homeono's rules and blah blah blah. You deal
with that. Don't get into all that. But when you

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are shooting on your private property, you have a duty
to make sure the round does not leave the property
or endanger anyone in any way. And you would be
amazed at where bullets can, in fact go. Jeddy and
I run only running gun range. We've seen bullets do
really weird things. Okay, Bullets will hit other bullets in
the dirt like a pool, like playing pool, cuball hits

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the number five, it goes up. But in a gun
range it goes up in the air and can do
what we call a PLoP, you know, bullet, not the
round that gets fired, that's a ricochet. But another bullet
gets hit, goes up in air, falls down and funk,
you know. And it's no different than dropping something off
the third or fourth floor, you know window. It may
not kill you, but it might leave a bruise. Shooting

(01:24:45):
from your property, those bullets will carry and you think
you're shooting into the woods. We had an instance right
here in Leon County where I went out up this
little road to a guy's house and.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
A home.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
There was a family sitting in the dining room behind
a sliding glass door, having dinner, and a bullet broke
the sliding glass window, came into the house. Didn't hurt anybody,
didn't hit anybody, but it could have. And they were like,
we don't understand what happened. And so I'd go to
the neighbor's property and there's a pile of firewood out

(01:25:21):
there in the yard and some trash with bullet holes
in it. And the guy's been out in the yard
shooting sort of uphill into this pile of firewood and
some cans and stuff. Perfectly legal, except then on the
other side, I said, pile of firewood is a vacant lot.
There's you know, maybe half an acre or so, but

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there weren't enough tree limbs or anything to stop the
rounds went in and hit that. He could have killed somebody. Now,
he was very remorseful. I mean you could tell when
I told him what happened. I mean, he was sick
to his stomach. I mean he was like, I'm so sorry. Well,
what if he had killed somebody? Yeah, you know, that's
jail time. That's and tragic for everyone. It was a family,
there was kids in there, so we had a case

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where a bullet hit a school bus here in Leon
County fifteen years ago. Somebody sighting in a rifle out
on a power line easement, some HIW or another and
if you look at it, you wouldn't think the bullet
would escape that area because shooting down into a hole
and bullet carried hit a school bus. I mean, it happens.
You could see the physical evidence of it. The person
who was fighting in the rifle was like, that was

(01:26:25):
not my intention. There's no way that bullet got over
there were the only person around there shooting. Just please,
you know, put up a pile of dirt. Yeah, I
want to talk more about that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
I want to talk about some of the things that
are important to include in your home range. Okay, we'll
do that when we come back, and maybe throw in
a training tip.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
We'll see what we can ring out of him. Charlie
Strickling with me here from the Talent Group.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
The Mayor of Realville. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
The final segment here with Charlie Strickland of the Talent
Training Group. Talentrange dot com is the website you can
learn all you need to know about training classes, different
things that are available. So somebody's got a big piece
of property, they want to do the right thing. They
find out from you know, whatever covenants and restrictions exist,
they can do this. They have the adequate property, the
adequate zoning. They can put a range up in their yard.

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What do they need to do?

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Well? First, I would if you have neighbors within ear shot,
I'd let them know what you're doing. I mean, just say, hey,
I'm gonna put up a gun range here, keep your
shooting the reasonable hours, come see us by a suppressor
of silencer and keep it quiet. You know, just just
keep it quiet. But no, seriously, you need you have

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an absolute responsibility to ensure that those rounds do not
leave the property. Now, if you're sitting on hundreds of
acres and you're shooting in an area where you know
that I'm going into a hillside or something, then use
some common sense. But that's not always the case. I mean,
most people are on ten acres, five acres, twenty acres,
and you can put a gun range in there. You

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still need to be cautious and we'll go out at
midnight shooting your pistol. You know, waking up all the neighbors.
You'll get a roising plant. But seriously, though you invest in,
go rent a tractor for the weekend with a bucket
on the front, and go dig you a hole and
pile up some dirt. Or call a dirt hauling company,
call around to some of these plumbing places or some

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of the dirt play good. Listen. If you've got some
old dirt, you know you, you know what would what
would you charge me to bring me some scrap dirt?
You don't have to buy really really good dirt. Get
you some clean field sanding. Probably six seven hundred dollars
for a dump truck load. You're gonna need several dump
truck loads if you're gonna do it right. But just
shoot into a pile of dirt. If you want to
use half the dirt, then build you a retaining wall

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behind it with landscaping timbers or railroad ties, and then
you can pile dirt up against that and that'll do
two things. One, the soft dirt will catch it. You
only have to use half the dirt because instead of
having a forty five degree slope on the front and
a forty five degree slope on the back, then you
only have the forty five degree slope and it's not
You literally cut the amount of dirt that you use

(01:29:24):
in half by using retaining wall, and then you have
something solid behind it so if you do miss or skip,
then you've got something to catch it. I mean that's
just basic. You know range construction one oh one that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
Will a crescent shape semi circle.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Yeah, I mean, if you're going to be doing any
type of dynamic shooting, you would like to have some sidewalls,
something so that you know you're shooting at a backstop,
but also on the left and the right you have
something that'll catch a ricochet or if you change your
angle a little bit. It depends on how robust you
want your shooting to be. If you're just going to
go shoot one single target in the backyard. Even my

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mom and my stepdad have a pile of dirt in
their backyard and they're little on thirty acres, and before
Robert would go shoot out there because there's family property
behind it in the river back there, because there might
be somebody back there. He had somebody bring in a
big pile of dirt that we're doing some construction nearby.
I mean think about that. Yeah, dirt is your friend
when it comes to a gun range.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
When you talk about that retaining wall, the height of
the pile of dirt, I would.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Be at least head high. Okay, if depending on the
distance you're going to be shooting from and what's on
the other side, and you're shooting skill. You know, if
it's me shooting a rifle, I don't need much of
a backstop because I don't miss that far.

Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
Sure I would start up.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
I would start shooting close in to make sure I'm
where I need to be before I started extending my ranges.
But yeah, I would go at least head high. As
a general rule.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Is there a max range you would advise for a
home range for rifle one hundred yards?

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
It depends on what's behind it and how much plan
you have. So if you've got enough room for a
thousand yard range, you're gonna shoot out. So I say
five hundred yards, gonna shoot out there. It's easy to
shoot over a bermit at that distance. You need about
another half a mile behind it of nothing there to
hit because at some point in time you're going to
miss that little pile of dirt you pushed up and

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that bullet's gonna keep going. But you got to compare
it to hunting. When you go hunting, you need to
have the same concerns. You're not gonna put up a
pile of dirt in front of where your deercorns at,
but you certainly need to know where that round is going. Yeah,
but you're typically not typically not hunting, and there's a
lot of people live up in Corn Lakes would have
loved to hunt in their backyard. I recommend a bow
for that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
Yeah, always good to see if thys are coming in.
Charlie Stricklin of the Talent Training Group forty seven Past
the Hour Busy Show Tomorrow, Scott Beacon, the b Line blogger,

(01:32:10):
will join us some intel on venezeueyless and data that
I think is fascinating. Doctor David Harts Steve Sewart back
with us tomorrow, and yeah it's already Thursday and a
double dose of Jose This week we're going to take
a suggestion of his for the road trip idea. So yeah,

(01:32:30):
he came armed with a suggestion on a roadie. So
we're gonna talk about that tomorrow on the show. North
Carolina Woman spur of the Moment decisioned by a lottery ticket.
She ended up with a two million dollar powerball prize
as a result of her spur of the moment purchase.
Three dollar ticket matched five white balls in the drawing,

(01:32:54):
earning the one million dollar prize, and it was doubled
when the two times a multiplier it so she's got
the two million dollar prize. She said, it's gonna help
local charities. She's gonna help a domestic violent shelter. She said,
I'm gonna make sure it gets used for good. We
can help a lot of people with this.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
That's another way to look at it. Just think of
if you're a lot of player and you're using it
instead of buying bread, that's dumb. If you buy a
ticket every now and then, personally it doesn't whatever, that's fine.
But the opportunity to do good with it, that's huge.
That's huge if you if you get a win.

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
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about tomorrow's program. What we didn't tell you is.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
As we reflect on the radio show as we presented
it today. We started with Romans one with Versus eighteen
through twenty spend a little bit of time talking about
how God reveals himself in all of creation.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Boy does he?

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
And it's beautiful. It really is. As much as we
screw things up, man, it's it's a thing of beauty.
Big stories in the press box why Johnny can't read.
We shared some data with you, and the big story
was the importance of reading to your children and demanding

(01:34:35):
that they read books, not cliff notes, not summaries, not
AI summaries, books to read the book. Every classic of
literature comes in paperback. Now, they're just there are no excuses.

(01:34:55):
And I personally think that that a actual book is
better than a kindle or one of those digital readers.
I think having pages turned and seeing progress and being
able to put a book market, I think these are
all really good things. Talked about the former state official
Democrat in Georgia charged by the DOJ for fraudulently obtaining

(01:35:21):
COVID unemployment benefits, a couple of Florida mand stories. The
Hilton canceled that hotel in Lakeview, Minnesota, because it was
still even after it claimed it wasn't oh, we've made
everything right, It was still denying people, and it was
caught on tape. Talked about affordable housing, maybe three D printing.

(01:35:45):
Maybe the state legislature can clear the way for permitting
to allow tiny homes to be built more efficiently and
provide entry level housing for younger folks. All right, tomorrow
we'll do it again. A great one,