Twelve Day's of Preston: November

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome, Happy new year. Yeah, January first, Good Morning Show
with Preston Scott, and this is the twelve Days of Preston.
I know some of you might be growing weary of
the Christmas themed music, but not me. And we've got

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today and tomorrow ago before we go back to the
live programming on Monday. We'll be back with you Monday.
God Willie. But this is a show number eleven, which
means the month of November. But as we always do,
we like to start with a little scripture, and so
let's do just that. In first Thessalonians five, I thought
these were these were good verses to start the year with.

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First Thessalonians five, verses sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. You ready rejoice,
always pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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How about that. That's a nice way to start the year.
And so welcome to a brand new year, twenty twenty
six January first here on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott and again the twelve Days of Preston. We are
looking at the American Patriots Almanac. January first, in seventeen
fifty two, Betsy Ross, said to have sown the first

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American flag, is born in Philadelphia. Eighteen sixty three, Abraham
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. In eighteen ninety two, Ellis Island,
on New Year's Day begins processing immigrants in New York Harbor.
And in nineteen oh two, the first Rose Bowl is
played in Pasadena, Michigan defeat Stanford forty nine to nothing.

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Oo ouch to the Rose Bowl. It's it's just so
much fun to go to and to be at. And
in nineteen twenty eight, the first air conditioned office building
opens in San Antonio, Texas. Well, there you go on
January first. Not sure that you needed air conditioning on
January first, but it was a good time to throw

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it out there. But here we are. It is January first.
Happy New year again. But it is the month of November.
So let's think back. What was going on? Well, elections
were going on, and there were there were some elections
a lot of people were paying attention to, notably New
York City the mayoral race where Zorron Mom Donnie was

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elected the mayor openly socialist slash Marxist communist mayor of
an Islamist mayor of New York City. So let's just
get going and welcome to the twelve Days of Preston.
Did you I know that the Democrats socialist Islamic mayor

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of New York City wanted to be a rapper, announced
an all female team to help him transition into the
new office. He's proposing a thirty dollars an hour minimum wage.

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He wants to mandate that for anyone working in the
city that they must pay that to any employee. This
is just the classic example of people that are on
the left not understanding the mathematics of an economy. All right,
everybody in the city makes thirty dollars an hour. First

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of all, here's how you argue this point. Why stop
at thirty, Let's make it seventy five. Then the retort is, well,
you can't pay seventy five dollars an hour? Whata wait?
Why not see you take whatever they're throwing out. They're
thirty dollars, fine, thirty, okay, how about sixty? Why not

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seventy five? Seventy five dollars an hour? Why not because
they'll say you can't do that, well, why not the
very same things that will be listed as reasons why
you can't do seventy five an hour, are the reasons
why you can't mandate thirty. But we're doing it. But
here's what happens. Inflation happens. Inflation has to happen because

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a business has to maintain margins to stay alive, to
stay afloat. It must rate raise prices of goods and
services to account for the dramatic increase in labor costs.
And so as you raise the cost of labor, you
raise the cost of the Social Security contribution you have

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to make on behalf of those workers, so your cost
of labor goes up even more. So what you then
have to do is you have to cut the number
of employees that you have, so joblessness goes up, or
you have to cut their hours so you gain You're
gaining nothing by doing it this way. This does not

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cheat the curve, It exacerbates it. It makes it worse.
But then he wants free buses, and buses will run
faster because they won't be taking fares. People won't be paying.
But how is he going to pay for that? Well,
we know he has told us how he's going to

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pay for it. He's going to tax the wealthy. He's
going to tax businesses. He's going to raise the corporate
tax rate by four and a quarter percent, up to
eleven and a half percent. So not only our business

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is paying taxes to the federal government, businesses now have
to pay taxes to the city at a rate of
eleven point five percent, not seven point twenty five, which
is thievery anyway. And so that's going to raise five
billion dollars a year. Except for this, businesses are going

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to leave. So now what, Well, he's going to tax
as well anyone who makes more than a million dollars.
The top one percent in New York City make over
a million dollars a year, he says the campaign, But
a tax are essentially the same rate as everyday New
Yorker's three point nine percent. Yeah, and three point nine

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percent of a million dollars is a heck of a
lot more than three point nine percent of one hundred thousand.
But that kind of mathematics escapes people on the left.
They don't understand that. No, no, they're going to raise
it another two percent. That's going to raise another four billion.

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So now with just new taxes, you're taking nine to
ten billion dollars out of the pockets of the people
that spend money. They don't have that money to spend anymore.
So that's ten billion dollars out of the local economy.

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But people are going to be able to ride a
bus for free. And who pays for that? The people
that pay for everything, the people that are taxed. And oh,
by the way, those corporate taxes, you know who's going
to pay for that. Not the businesses. They'll either leave
or they take that two percent additional cost. And they

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do what they did with a three point nine percent
was originally on there. They added to the bill because
businesses don't pay taxes. People do. And so there is
your short lesson on minimum wage and quote taxing the rich.
He is speeding up the exit of the people that

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make it possible for New York City to exist. Oh,
we have so much good stuff still to come. We're
just getting started. Show number eleven on the Twelve Days
of Preston when we come back Noah's Ark? Has it
been found? What would happen to your faith if they
found it? Does it cheapen it? Or does it make

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it bigger, stronger? Better? Don't leave us. It's the Twelve
Days of Preston on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston Show number eleven,
the month of November. Now, let's get right to it.
I got a little theatrical in this segment, but it
fits and it's worth it, and I think you'll really
enjoy it if you miss it the first time around.
In Genesis six, it says in verse thirteen God said

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to Noah, I have determined to make an end of
all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence, and
through them, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in
the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

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This is how you are to make it. The length
of the arc is three hundred cubits, Its breadth is
fifty cubits. Its height is thirty cubits. Make a roof
for the ark and finish it to the cubit above,
and set the door of the ark on its side.
Make it with lower, second and third decks. For behold,

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I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth
to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of
life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you
shall come into the Ark, you your son's, your wife,

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and your son's wives with you, and of every living
thing of all flesh. You shall bring two of every
sort into the Ark to keep them alive with you,
and they shall be male and female. The account of
Noah's Ark is fascinating in scripture, and it has been

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a much debated part of God's story. Even though virtually
every culture on Earth has some version of this in
its records, it's remarkable elsewhere it says this. In chapter eight,

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God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the
livestock that were with him in the Ark. And God
made a wind blow over the earth, and the water
subsided the fountains of the deep. I'm underscoring certain things.
The fountains of the deep and the windows of the

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heavens were closed. The rain from the heavens was restrained,
and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the
end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had abated,
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of
the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains

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of Ararat. Now we're going to pause there. That is
the story in a nutshell of Noah's Ark. It is
a story that has fascinated people for years. NASA astronauts

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have gone to the mountains of Ararat in search of
Noah's Ark, but there has been a development in that
search and it brings about a lot of fascinating questions

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about one's faith. Do you want them to find it?
Jesus talked about having faith and that it's better to
not see and believe than to have to have evidence.

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But there is a place for evidence, isn't there, especially
in the culture that we find ourselves in. So when
we come back, is it evidence? I will say this
it is news. Now. This story comes from the Daily Express,

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US headline Archaeologists find Noah's Ark with groundbreaking radar discovery.
Team of researchers in the US have been using ground

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penetrating radar to scan the Duropinar formation in Turkey and
they think they found evidence of Noah's Ark. Now, let's
dig into this for just a second. They're using the
technology and they think they found the remnants using ground
penetrating radar and it has revealed a chemical imprint along

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with pieces of wood in the ground in the shape
of a hall. Now, if you look at the picture
of the air from above, its size, its shape, its
its sheer, scope and volume is the measurements of the arc.

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Now some say, now it's just a natural geological formation.
Here's the problem. This ground penetrating radar shows linear passageways,
and it shows three levels. The Bible we just read

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said God commanded Noah to build three levels lower, middle,
and upper. The ground penetrating radar detected what appeared to
be one thirteen foot passageway cutting through the formation center.
The analysis claims to have identified as central and side
passages or corridors. The scans additionally detected three distinct layers underground,

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which corresponds to Genesis six sixteen. And this formation is
eighteen miles south of Mount Ararat itself, otherwise known as
the Mountains of Aerra Rat. It's known as Mount Ararat
to this day, and it's what it was called in

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the biblical times. The mountain hasn't moved, and it did
not say Mount Ararat, it said the Mountains of Ararat.
I'm looking at the thermal imaging and I'm just showing
it to Jose that show three distinct areas that are
outlined at this point, and that then betrays the idea

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of a natural geological formation. Even if you suggest that
somehow this shape is natural, it's tough because it has
a bow. Its shape is that of a boat. You
can't explain away the corridors in the hallways. According to reports,

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intense rainfall in seismic activity in May of nineteen forty
eight eroded the covering mud, exposing this formation, which was
discovered by a Kurtis Shepherd. Did you say May of
nineteen forty eight? Do you know what else happened in
May of nineteen forty eight? For the first time since

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seventy a d Israel was reformed as a nation in
May of nineteen forty eight. Well, now, I mean, that's
at the very least, that's quite a coincidence, isn't it
that all this seismic activity, in all of this jury

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debris mud reveals this shape as Israel is reformed as
a nation. I believe it was May fifteenth, nineteen forty eight,
and this happened in May of nineteen forty eight. Now,
obviously they need to go in there at the bow

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of the ship. It's showing corridors, it's showing hallways, it's
showing thermal imaging of something in there. Five hundred and
fifteen feet long, eighty six feet wide, fifty two feet tall. My, oh,
my own mind. So let me just pose the question,

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what would it mean to you if they found wood
and if they determined that it will as ancient gopher
would What would that do for you and your faith?
Would it change it? Would it enhance it? Would it

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help you maybe be more bold with others? Perhaps the
discovery of something like Noah's Ark has been hidden for
all these years just because God talked about the importance
of faith of seeing and versus believing and having the
faith to believe without seeing. Or maybe the veil is

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being torn off of Noah's Ark so it could be found.
For days like these, Have I mentioned lately how much
I love what I do? All right? We come back,
Jad Johnson from the Talent Training Group here on the
Twelve Days of Preston. Welcome back to the Twelve Days

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of Preston. Day number eleven, which means the month of November.
Kind of a year in review, one month at a time.
This was JD. Johnson of the Talent Training Group. Now
this was just ahead of Christmas. Keep in mind, these
are buying tips when it comes to firearms, and I
think it's useful year round. Any listener of this program

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that's been around knows, I can't wait to talk about
Christmas shopping. I'm into it come July. But now you
get to November and you know you've got people JD
thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
J D.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Johnson with me from the Talent Training Group. And of
course there are people that want to let's start with
the youngsters. They want to get their child that first
BB gun.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Some things to know, you know, the biggest the biggest
mistake I think I see with parents getting their kids
their first gun or you know, BB guns are one thing.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
If it's a BB gun.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
There are pellet rifles, air powered pellet rifles now that
you can deer hunt with. So it doesn't need to
be that, okay, and you need to start them out
with the training them that that is a real firearm.
You treat it just you treat a Daisy Red Rider
because it'll put your eye out.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
It will put you out.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Uh, you know, you start them out with a Daisy
Red Rider. Just like it's a real gun, you know,
and yeah, even a toy gun that doesn't fire a projectile.
You need to start teaching them trigger discipline, muzzle discipline,
all of those things, and not to point it at somebody,
no matter what, no matter what. Yeah, you know, that's
that's the biggest thing. Not just here's your daisy red rider,

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

Speaker 1 (22:12):
And you had a rifle or a shotgun in the
back of your truck. Yeah, you know when you went
to school.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Absolutely every day I went to school, if it was
hunting season, there was a rifle or a shotgun or
both in the you know, in the back seat of
my truck or underneath the whatever, you know, in the
truck somewhere. And but times are different and you can't
do that anymore, right, But so if you're going to
get your kid a gun, you start them out with
firearms discipline and don't make it a mystery if you

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have them in the house.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
So teach them, let them learn, let them shoot. It's enjoyable,
it's an enjoyable sport.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
But that first shooting experience, We've talked about it, but
I want to remind everybody that first shooting experience is
crucial to get it right.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, don't hand your kid a single shot twelve gage
shotgun and go here, try this, you know, because that's.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
A bad expt experience for a kid.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
You know, something that's going to have a tremendous amount
of recoil and noise, and you know, protect their hearing.
I'm the prime example of not protecting my hearing when
I was a kid. I've been wearing hearing aids since
i was thirty five, so I'm going on twenty something
years of where needing hearing aids. So eye protection, air protection.
Don't hand them a giant caliber to shoot for the

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first time. Start them out with a twenty two or
a pellet rifle or something that doesn't have a lot
of noise, doesn't have a lot of recoil. Ease them in,
you know, don't just go here here, here's Grandpa's thirty
out six. Shoot that target.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
There and it recoils to the point where it.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Because they may never pick up a firearm again.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Absolutely, I see people that get absolutely ruined at a
young age, and that they still, even if they still
like to shoot, they don't shoot well because of the
flint reaction that they have. They still have that subconscious
thought back there in the back of their mind that
this thing hurts and is loud, and I don't like it,

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even though I want to hunt with it or I
want to shoot it or whatever.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
So and if they've got if they make the decision
to go with a BB gun or an appropriate pellet gun,
they can train with that and teach their child that
at talent rings.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Absolutely shoot the paper targets we've got. We've got paper
targets that are just fine for doing that.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
You have to be careful with BB's because they're made
out of steel, and you don't shoot anything hard with it.
It'll bounce back and it'll put you, you know, come
back at you three hundred feet per second and it'll
hurt you. Put your eye out, joke, you know. So
be sure of your target and your backstop. That's some
of the cardinal rules of firearm safety that we've we've
covered you know, we've covered right right here in this

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segment enough though you can't you know, the finger off
the trigger, muzzle discipline, be sure your target, and your backstop.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
You know, all of those things are important.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
J D.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Johnson of the Talent Trading Group with me. All right,
holiday shopping dos and don'ts tips. We now transition from
the youth to an adult. If you're thinking about a
firearm for a spouse, a son, a daughter, et cetera.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Get them a gift card.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Don't don't go guys, don't go by your wife a
thirty eight special five shot snubnose and go here, honey,
I got you a gun. Let them go to the range,
rent something, go be Let them be part of the process.
While while it is an admirable thing, and I get
it most of the time, women, absolutely, most anybody that

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are not gun people.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
If you're not a.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Gun guy, a snubnose revolver is the hardest gun to shoot.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's the worst.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
It is.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, it's the most unpleasant to shoot. Yes, it's the
you know. Yes, it is simplistic to operate. It doesn't
take a lot of effort to pull the trigger where
you do have some manipulation with a semi auto.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
But what you give, what you get out of that.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Is you you're giving up a lot of more pleasant
experience if you get the proper training right, you know,
And I see it all the time. Guys come in
with their wife and my wife can't ract the slide
on this gun. And usually within about twenty seconds and
a little bit of technique, I go, see she can

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do it.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
It's just to matter doing it.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
The right way. And there and there are semi automatics.
The gun manufacturers are sensitive to that criticism and are responding.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
To there are there are, There are some automatics that
they have made easier to operate. Several of the manufacturers
Smith and Wesson, Ruger, there's several of them that have
made it easier to operate. But even the ones that
aren't that way, it's technique. It is technique. It is
not strength. Every now and then it is strength. See
I see you know, debilitating arthritis. Sure it's one of

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the worst ones. And you have somebody that just has
absolutely debilitating rheumatoid arthritis.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
But no, it's just I see that mistake a lot.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
They go and buy the gun that they think their
wife wants or needs or whatever and go to the
range and she absolutely hates it.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Would it be better before you even do the gift
card for a firearm, to get them a gift card
to go get some training first.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Preston, I probably turned down two or three gun sales
a week, people trying to buy the right gun standing
at the gun counter that have never shot any of them.
So yes, absolutely, a day at the range with a
gun rental or with with the fifty dollars rent to
the class, to the class in any of those things.
The class gets you the training, and it gets you

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access to all our rental guns at the end of
the day, and you know we we we've been doing
this a long time. You can come up there and
rent every gun we have out there, which there's lots
of them, for fifty bucks. Try all of them. As
long as you're willing to buy them and keep feeding them,
We'll keep handing them to you. Let's try them out
till you find the one you like. That's let that
person that you're getting that you want to buy the

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gun for pick it out.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
So give them a three stage gift the fifty bucks
at after the training and then the gift card for
the firearm.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now you don't have to do the fifty bucks that
if you do the training, we give you that same
we're giving you the AMO and letting.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
You try the gun.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Okay, there you go for two hundred bucks training.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
So yeah, that's we've tried to make this an affordable
proposition for most people.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Last question, is there something that is new on the
market or maybe that people don't really think about that
might be either a useful, practical or just playing cool
gift for somebody that enjoys firearms.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
There's not a lot new on the market. Honestly.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
The biggest new thing that's been around for you know,
it's been a becoming very mainstream especially.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Is the red dot sites.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
That's that's an option that makes shooting easy, shooting a
handgun easy.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And that's different than the laser.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, that is not a laser. A laser projects a
beam out in the distance somewhere. The red dot is
a holographic site that where you're not having to focus
or worry about three different focal points. You're not you
don't have a rear sight, you don't you can take
the sights off the gun. You've got one dot on
there on one holographic dot and to using those properly.

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

Speaker 1 (29:23):
And are they are are good dependable red dots in
kind of all price ranges.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
No, you expect to spend two hundred and fifty three
hundred dollars or more. There's a lot of cheap ones
on the market that just you're honestly, the one hundred
dollars ones, you're wasting your money.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
You're gonna literally get rates than you pay for.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
It's not gonna last. Those things are mounted on the
slide of a handgun, and that handgun slide is moving
every time, violently, coming to the rear and going forward,
you know, moving every time you pull the trigger. So
if they're not well made, they're not going to last.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Pack with more of the twelve twelve Days of Preston
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Boy. This

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first hour has gone quickly. If you're just joining us,
we're in the home stretch of the twelve Days of Preston.
It's our year in review and away for us to
keep you company while we're taking a little bit of
a break and getting ready for the new season of
shows which begin Monday, January the fifth. So we're just

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days way. Happy New Year if you're just joining us now,
we're recapping the month of November. So going back, we're
dealing with stories, interviews, segments from the month of November.
And uh, you can tell from the tone of my
voice this one is important. This is a story from

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Red State and the headline is smoking gun damning emails
appear to show Comy okayed leaks expected to work for
President Hillary. Now, James Comy, the former head of the FBI,
is been indicted by the Department of Justice on federal charges.

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If I'm not mistaken, this was a set of charges
by a federal grand jury. Reminding you that a grand
jury is made up of people like you and me.
The prosecution lays out what it believes is probable cause
for the arrest, indictment, the charges, and it asks do

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we have enough to substantiate these charges. It does not
ask guilt or innocence. It asks do we have enough?
And a group of individuals said yes. Now, his alleged
lie is that he denied that he authorized anonymous leaks

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to the press about the Hillary Clinton classified emails case
and Trump's concocted supposed ties to Russian election interference. John Solomon,
a writer over at Just the News, wrote, federal prosecutors
revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails

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showing then FBI director James Comy openly talked in the
days before the twenty sixteen election that he expected to
be working soon for President elect Hillary Clinton and was
being kept prized by top FBI aids on efforts to
anonymously provide information to the news media. So did James

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forget about these emails? The lead prosecutor in the case
is Lindsay Halligan. Just plant that name in your memory bank,
he wrote in his email regarding leak's good job, my friend,

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that's James Comy. The notes also show that Comy thought
he was going to be working for Hillary Clinton. So
the guy was protecting Hillary Clinton's emails and knew the
fake plan to frame Trump as a Russian agent he
thought was going to get him a new job the
Department of Justice is arguing that the emails proved komy

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knew about the leak, authorize it, yet testified otherwise. Halligan's
filing says the article showed Comy was aware of an
encouraged Richmond, and Richmond is Daniel Richmond, a Columbia law professor,
an advisor to Comy, encouraging Richmond's contacts with the media.

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Contrary to his claims to Congress, consistent with the above
described correspondence, Richmond corresponded extensively with members of the media
regarding or on behalf of the defendant, James Comy, including
in an anonymous capacity. So it's the smoking gun. These

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emails in James Comy O his own hand and there
are notes handwritten by Comy show that he was dishonest
when he testified to Congress that in fact knew of leaks,
authorized the leaks, approved of the leaks, and said good job,

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my friend, regarding the leaks. And keep in mind all
of this it was based on a product, the Steele dossier,
Steel a former member of British intelligence that allegedly had
all this dirt, and all of them knew the federal

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government knew there was nothing in it that was accurate.
It was all made up. They knew it. Hillary Clinton
rolled the dice and went after this thing, paid for it.
And it was a nothing burger. And it was four
years of hell for Donald Trump in office and lie

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upon lie upon lie by people that we are supposed
to hold to a standard of honesty, not just elected officials,
but the people in charge with the Department of Justice,
the FBI. Oh but we're not done with this story. Wait,
do you hear what's next? This story involves Jeffrey Epstein

(36:06):
former cellmate of his. Not just any cellmate, This is
Nicholas Tartaglioni. Nicholas Tartaglioni is a former police officer. He
said that he was framed. He's a former canine officer

(36:32):
in Westchester convicted in a twenty twenty four Convicted in
twenty twenty four for a twenty sixteen killing of four
men after a cocaine deal went wrong. He claimed in
his pardon bid that the prosecution had been flawed, evidence
was manipulated by police to frame him. He claimed in

(36:52):
the request that the man who worked for Tartaglioni, Marcos Cruz,
had confessed to setting up the murders for a Mexican
car or. Tell what was allegedly convinced to change his
story by an investigator. What does that have to do
with Jeffrey Epstein. Well, he was in a prison cell

(37:13):
with Jeffrey Epstein before Epstein found himself alone in a
prison cell. He said, Epstein told me. The lead prosecutor
said he didn't have to prove anything as long as
President Trump's people could not disprove it. According to the prosecutor,

(37:36):
the FBI were her people, not his. He claims that
Epstein was offered a deal to walk free if he
simply said Donald Trump was involved and frequented his parties

(38:00):
and gatherings in Ireland. Epstein refused. Then there's this. Guess
who the lead prosecutor is was Maureen Comy, James Coomy's daughter. Well,

(38:33):
isn't that interesting now? Is it true? Can't be verified?
Is it possible? Yeah? Is it plausible?

Speaker 6 (38:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah. The effort to get Donald Trump failed at every
single turn, and so in my opinion, they you can
decide who they are tried to kill him. It is

(39:16):
the only way that I can explain the dereliction of duty.
In Butler, Pennsylvania, the almost look the other way. We'll
see or maybe we won't. We may never know, all right,
That puts our number one in the books. When we
come back our number two show number eleven of the

(39:38):
twelve Days of Preston the month of November, there was
some huge climate news. You know how important the climate
is to me. Don't miss this next story and guessed
on the twelve Days of Preston on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Happy New Year. It's the Twelve Days

(40:17):
of Preston, our number two. It is January first, but
for our purpose as of programming today, it's the month
of November. As we go back in time, this is
the eleventh of the twelve Days of Preston, and we
begin this hour with a visit with a longtime guest,
expert author and a topic that is just one of

(40:41):
my favorites. We were introduced to this gentleman a long
time ago when his book Inconvenient Facts came out. I
got to know Greg Wrightstone a little bit, and we've
had him as a guest on the program ever since.
A second book followed, A very Convenient Warming, and he
is the executive directors for the CO two Coalition Greg.

(41:01):
Good to have you back on the show. How are
you friend?

Speaker 6 (41:04):
Good?

Speaker 7 (41:05):
And I have good news to report from the climate
change front. We are winning bigly. That is good.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Well, I you know, I called because I talked about
you last week when I when I saw the story
in Epic Times about Bill Gates. I won't call it
a onet eighty. I'll say it's one forty five. Is
that fair? He did a one forty five.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
Yeah, he went about as far as you could expect
him to go by by what we're talking about here
is his near retraction of climate crisis. He says, you know,
if I was wrong about this, you know, he says,
we'll have serious consequences, but you know what, We're all
going to survive. People will be able to thrive and

(41:49):
live in nearly every climate. It's not going to be
the catastrophe that I've been talking about for the last
thirty years. And so this is a huge, huge reversal.
And bear in mind, Bill Gates has been funding to
the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars some of
these many other groups, and he's pulling his funding on

(42:09):
some of these, and one of those one of those
organizations actually is pulled from is the Breakthrough Institute. Ted
Northouse was the founder there and he also almost I
think it was the day before the gates came out.
Ted Northouse, You've probably never heard of him, but he
was a huge climate alarmist and he said just about

(42:32):
the same thing he said, you know. And then following
on to that, we had interviews on Joe Rogan with
our founder will Happer, doctor William Happer, and Richard Lindzon.
The two hours on Rogan that reached probably twenty million people,
talking about the realities of climate change and how it's

(42:53):
beneficial not catastrophic.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Well, and then it still gets back down to you know,
we were just talking about a story. Greg in Maryland
Supreme Court is taking on a case brought by the
Council of Baltimore, the Mayor and the city Council against
BP and they're claiming, you know, fossil fuels, climate change
costing all this damage, sea level rise, extreme weather, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. But what we constantly see is

(43:19):
none of the dire predictions, none of them happened. They
don't come true.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
They don't and you know, we have to wonder now
why Gates and Nordhouse and these others are moving back.
And I've been saying now for decades, you know, eventually
the truth will win out, and it always does. It
just might take longer than we would like. And I
think we're seeing that today. Like you say, the predictions
they make all false, are none of them pan out,

(43:48):
and they continue doing it. Just last week about the
Great Barrier Reef. I'll be writing about that in the
newsletter this week, claiming that eighty percent of choral reefs
around the world are dying and nothing further from the truth. Right,
The Great Barriery from twenty twenty four had the largest
they started doing these surveys in nineteen eighty three. In

(44:09):
twenty twenty four, I had the largest amount of coral
that they've surveyed. Its breaking records of healthy corals and
the Great Barrier if But they're saying just the opposite.
They're lying, and they've been able to lie and get
away with it for decades.

Speaker 8 (44:25):
Now.

Speaker 7 (44:25):
Hopefully that will all turn around and we can expose
and we've been, you know, with your help, we've been
exposing some of their lives. But hopefully when we'll get
a big, big, big, turnaround here and Gates can pulse
them in his funding like he is now, maybe some
of this climate rhetoric will be toned down and we'll

(44:46):
get the truth out there.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Greg by Trade, you study things in a very different world.
That takes a lot of time, and yet you find
yourself sort of steering a a coalition of scientists and
experts that recognize that this move using what I call

(45:08):
glorbelt warming as a vehicle. We don't have time. We
have to push back because the transformation to our economy
and our culture has been pretty dramatic. Given it's been
built on myths, it is.

Speaker 7 (45:23):
But you know what, boy, ever since Trump came in,
it's just been a u turn and we've been seeing
really really good things coming out of Washington, d C.
I never thought I would say that again after years
of the Biden administration just keeping one climate nonsense factoid
or non factoid onto another and imposing regulations and over

(45:48):
regulations on us. Chris Wright, it's a Department of Energy,
Lee Zelden at EPA. Boy, they're really really, really pushing back.
And here at the CO two Coalition, we're working. We
provide the science, the facts, and the data in support
of what the Zeldman writer doing, and even Chris Duffet

(46:09):
or a Sean Duffy at the Department of Transportation, we'll
be filing a comment coming up on transportation issues. And
so that's our role as scientists. We stay out of
the politics as best we can. It's hard to with
this subject matter, but we supply that the facts and
the data is to support this. And we've got to

(46:31):
Our senior legal counsel is Chuck Weller, who's devised a
great legal strategy using science. And when we file these
comments for the EPA and Department of Energy for their deregulation,
these are all filed and created with the expectation that
it will eventually be heard at the Supreme Court, because

(46:54):
what they will do there's this called the endangerment finding.
Each of these repeals will go through through and then
it'll be sued by the Environmental Defense Fund or whoever,
and then it'll go to the Fifth Circuit Court of
DC that will rule in favor of the alarmists, and
then DOE or EPA will appeal that and ends up

(47:14):
the Supreme Court. So our comments and our science are
all designed to be used so it can be in
support of the Supreme Court overturning some of the previous
really really bad rulings under both Obama and Biden administrations
their epas. Because they've regulated, they have systematically stripped freedoms

(47:39):
away from everyone listening to this this morning. You don't
have the freedom to choose what kind of light bulbs
to use. Dishwashers, washer dryers, even your ceiling fans are
highly regulated. They're more expensive. They're not more they say,
for example, dishwasher Preston new dishwashers, they say they're highly efficient. Well,

(48:02):
i'll tell you what. The government's definition of efficient is
a lot different than my wife's definition. The government says
they're using less electricity and less water. That might be true.
My wife's definition of a good dishwasher is one that
gets the dishes cleaned and dried in thirty minutes or less,
and we don't have that now. These are now two

(48:23):
and a half to three and sometimes four hour cycles
for a dishwasher, all to save a couple of a
couple little bit of electricity and water.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Our number two of the twelve Days of Preston Show
number eleven the month of November, when we come back,
we talked about whether we were on the brink of
a civil war here in this country and took some calls.
Did you make it on the air? Find out next

(49:19):
Welcome back. It's the Twelve Days of Preston. Don't be fooled.
It's New Year's Day. But this is the eleventh of
the Twelve Days of Preston, which means the month of November,
and we're getting ready for the live shows to come
back on Monday. But it is January first, So Happy

(49:43):
New Year, everybody. I love to be picky when it
comes to phone segments. There's nothing worse than doing a
phone segment that bombs. I mean, there's just there's nothing worst.
It's you know, you're just sitting there hoping for the best.

(50:09):
And while it does happen to anybody that ever does
this type of program, I usually have a pretty good
bead on what you want to talk about, and I
had a sneaky suspicion that this would generate some interest.
We're asking a very simple question on a scale of
one to nine. One to nine, I don't believe we

(50:33):
are in a civil war, because a civil war and
Jose and I had this discussion in the break he said,
I think we're there. No we're not, because we're not
firing back. No we're not. The left is committing acts
of violence right now. We have people that celebrated the

(50:54):
assassination of Charlie Kirk. These are signs, you know. I've
shared how in the wake of Charlie's murder, I had
people saying there should be martial law, declared they hate us,
we are Charlie Kirk. And I don't disagree with the latter.

(51:15):
I disagree with the former. I don't think we're at
martial law. I don't think we're even close. But I
do believe that Joe Rogan is hitting on what I
hit on immediately after the assassination, the murder of people
that are influential. There are rational people all over that

(51:43):
just decide they're going to just do something and stop them.
And it's still surreal to me that a little better
than two months ago Charlie Kirk was assassinated just talking,
and then the misrepresentation of him, the character assassination of him,

(52:07):
the celebration of that murder. And so I'm asking you,
on a scale of one to nine, nine meaning civil
war is imminent, where do you think we are and
why Charlie certainly has brought this about by virtue of
the conversation, I should say, by virtue of just how

(52:29):
he conducted his life and the fact that he was
killed for just engaging in discussion. But Joe Rogan asked
this question and he said, it's just bizarre. Like normal
people that I think are they're good people, and they think,
they genuinely think that this guy was a bad guy.
And I don't think they're right. I think they were indoctrinated.

(52:51):
And I don't agree with everything that Charlie Kirk said
or did, so he's saying it's somebody that I don't
agree with everything he says. But this is nuts, and
there's a large number of nuts out there. David, thanks
for calling into the Morning Show. What do you think?

Speaker 9 (53:13):
Well, I think we're in green sixty seven, maybe higher.
But then again, Jefferson is sin wants to a letter
in a letter in the James Madison got a little
revolution every now and then of the gig tame not
in his generation, so we're a little bit overdue.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
But is that the revolution that you think Jefferson was
talking about?

Speaker 6 (53:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (53:35):
Necessary, Yeah, see, I took I completely they went to
war over taxms. We weren't play at higher taxes now
than they were two hundred years ago.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah, but that was a government. But that was a government.
I'm talking a civil war, a war among people.

Speaker 9 (53:53):
Well, the government, the government's going to get involved. Government's
already involved. I think the government's actually pushing it.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Okay, thanks very much, David. I appreciate the phone call.
That's what I want to hear. I want to engage
in a discussion with you. See, I I think the
government is complicit on a whole lot of things in
allowing us to get to a place where they are.
But it's coming from the left side of the aisle.

(54:22):
The question that I have is how far will this
go before people on the right just say enough? Trust me.
I'm not advocating that because the winner there is Satan.
Satan laughs at civil war because a bunch of people
die and he loves seeing God's image bearers killed. Period end.

(54:48):
But I just want to hear your thoughts, John, and
then another John. We got John to the second power
coming here? What about you? Eight five zero two zero
five to wfla scale of one to nine, nine meanings
civil war is imminent. In this country. David just said seven.
He agrees with Joe Rogan. Going back to the phone lines,

(55:09):
we're asking about civil war and just your thoughts on
whether or not we are edging closer. Some are saying
social media is stoke in the fires, the mainstream media
is stoke in the fires. Just what do you think
we've got? We really we got John John and then

(55:30):
John John euro up.

Speaker 10 (55:34):
Hello, Yeah, I think it's about a five.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (55:38):
Why you got a religious cult on one side and
the socialist people on the other side. You're going to
try to win over votes. Well, that's basically what they're.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Going to do. What's the religious cult.

Speaker 10 (55:56):
On the right side?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
So are you called in Christianity a religious cult.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
No, I'm saying that Republican Party has become a religious cult.
How so, Well, I mean that's basically all the decisions
are based on religions.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I would love for you to give me an example
of that. Well, I mean, because I'm seeing just the opposite.
I'm seeing a godless society and godless decision making.

Speaker 10 (56:33):
Wouldn't you agree that the socialists are on the Democrat side,
of course, they're becoming increased, They're becoming increasingly.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Socialist, of course.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
Yeah, and the right side has become increasingly religious.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Well, there's a difference between religion and Christianity. Yeah, but
you're talking about it as if it's a cult and
Christianity is what this nation was based on.

Speaker 10 (57:02):
No, I'm saying the Republican Party has become a cult,
not the religion itself.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Yeah. See, I don't see that at all. I think
it's just the opposite. I think the Republican Party has
distanced itself from its its fundamental conservative Christian base.

Speaker 10 (57:19):
Since the Tea Party has taken over.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Tea Party hasn't taken over.

Speaker 10 (57:23):
Friend, are you still you still called the tea Party.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
I'm not called anything but a Christian, but the Tea
Party hasn't taken over anything. Tea Party movement came and went. John,
Thanks very much for the phone call. Let's talk to
another John. Hello, John, Hey.

Speaker 11 (57:40):
Good mornin. I think Rugan's probably right on the money
with a seven.

Speaker 12 (57:46):
And rationale for that is, I.

Speaker 11 (57:49):
Mean, we're in a in my opinion, we're in a
coal civil war. We're not shooting at one another. But
if you look at how people are treating one another,
and when you celebrate.

Speaker 13 (58:00):
You cele bring the death of someone.

Speaker 11 (58:04):
Like Charlie kirk. Uh.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
And it's not just a mind, it's not just a fringe.

Speaker 11 (58:09):
Movement that's doing it. This is there's elected people and
saying it out loud, and there's people in leadership positions
at colleges and not just the goofy students and taking
the example of a state that is doing exactly what
the Confederate States did. Uh, like Prisker in Illinois, Newsom

(58:33):
in California saying, it doesn't matter what federal law is,
it doesn't matter what you want. We're gonna do things
like we want, and we're we're gonna hype up the
people and our citizens to challenge you on it.

Speaker 14 (58:47):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (58:48):
It's got all the ingredients for it. And I don't
know what's gonna take to set it off. And I
hope it don't.

Speaker 10 (58:54):
I really don't.

Speaker 11 (58:54):
I hope people will calm down and cooler heads will prevail.
But look at who's being elected by Seattle, New York City.
It's it's all all the all the pieces are coming
in place. Let's just hope the kick don't go off.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Maybe we are a two, maybe we're a four, maybe
we're a six. Or an eight, no matter what the
number might be in your own mind. I don't think
it would take much to cause some significant disruption in

(59:35):
this country because there's so much division and because one
side of this country, and I don't necessarily think it's
fifty percent. I think that the other side is maybe
closer to twenty percent. At twenty percent, though, yeah, all right,

(59:55):
we would come back more reaction, but running the big apple.
Here on the Twelve Days of Preston on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back to the Twelve Days

(01:00:22):
of Preston. I happened to be Preston Preston Scott, and
it's the Morning Show only this is a best of
sort of. We are taking each month in order, and
so this being the eleventh show, this is the month
of November. And look back at the topics that we discussed,

(01:00:45):
the interviews that we had, and one of the big
topics of the month of November the elections, and of
course what happened in New York City was a big,
big topic. And while I was talking about New York City,
I just got unto the subject of democrats in general.
I even look, I invite democrats on this show. But
Democrats traditionally don't want to come on the show because

(01:01:07):
traditionally there are exceptions. Okay, we paint with a broad brush, right,
there are exceptions. But generally speaking, Democrats don't know how
to engage in reparte. They don't do give and take
exchange of ideas well, because their ideas are bankrupt. They're

(01:01:32):
just not good. They fail. You know, the Lieutenant Governor,
we were talking about New York City. How how many
history books have you not read to miss the lesson
of failed socialism? And you've not only handed over in
New York City to a socialist, you've handed it over

(01:01:57):
to an Islamic extremist who stands arm in arm with
an unindicted co conspirator in the bombing of the World
Trade Center in nineteen ninety three. I'm sorry, I don't
want my photo taken next to unindicted bombers like we're

(01:02:21):
best buddies. No, hey, have I shown you that photo
I've got with Isama bin Laden, whoa so cool? No,
you don't know. You don't show that off unless you're
proud of it. Unintentionally, big story in the press box,

(01:02:48):
New York City. It's rest in peace. From this day forward,
it is rest in peace, and it will be anything.
But he doesn't believe in police officers, doesn't believe in prisons,

(01:03:10):
doesn't believes in the government owning and operating as much
as possible free everything. Let me ask you this, who's
going to pay for it when all of the people
that have been move See there's a mathematical component to socialism.

(01:03:37):
And one of the reasons why I love math, not literally,
I'm not a mathematicis I hated it in school. But
one of the reasons why I love math is its certainty.
There's a certainty to the mathematics of taxation that explained
that if you want to give away all of these things,
and you want city run grocery stores and all bus

(01:03:59):
service free, and all all education free, and all everything
healthcare free, everything free, nothing's free, someone pays for it.
Who who will be left? Because the rate of taxation,
the mathematical certainty of those numbers, demands that you have

(01:04:23):
to have people to pay it. But if those people leave,
then who pays for it? Oh, it's gonna be this
is gonna be tough lesson But right now, the socialists,
the communists, the Marxists, the Islamis are celebrating. I'm just
gonna put an addendum to that segment, and I'm gonna

(01:04:46):
zero in on all of you living in Tallahassee. This
is what they want for you, the extreme left that
has been running the local Democrat hardy now for a
few years. They want Jeremy Mattlowe as mayor because he's

(01:05:06):
Zooram Mamdanni gone light. He's the low fat version, he's
the diet version. He's a socialist. He believes in all
of the same mantras, all of the same ideals, as
does Jack Porter, who sat in a chair right in

(01:05:26):
front of me and lied about what she believed, which
is why I'll never have her on this show again. Ever,
she lied, I don't put liars on this show. She
presented herself as one thing, got elected, and then revealed

(01:05:48):
who she was not going to have it, not gonna
have it. So this is a warning for all of you.
Tallahassee could be next. The state capital of Florida could

(01:06:09):
be next. Because if Jeremy Mattlowe wins the election and
someone just like him wins his seat, it's over. It's
three to two, baby done now. There's a group of
people out there that say, let it happen. Let people

(01:06:31):
get what they vote for, that's what they want, Let
them have it. The problem is the collateral damage. Like
what you're gonna watch happen in New York City could
be a real help to Tallahassee voters because you're gonna
get to watch it all happen. City of Tallahassee. They've

(01:06:54):
got a city owned grocery store. I don't know if
it's up in operational, but that's in the plans. If
it's not, they have a public transportation transportation system that's
a money's money pit. They have a history of underfunding police.
Now that's changed in recent years. But they went over

(01:07:15):
a decade decade and a half underfunding local law enforcement
and watched as Tallahassee became the number one city in
the state for violent crime. And when people hear that,
they go no more than Miami, Yeah, more than Orlando,
Uh huh, more than Tampa, Yeah, Tallahaffey Yes. For years.

(01:07:36):
Only in recent years has it changed because they started
funding Tallahassee police with more money. That will end because
here's what they'll do if they get a three to
two swing and they get they get their socialists in
office here locally, they will fire the city manager that

(01:07:59):
is first, and they will hire somebody that sees the
world the way that they see it, and they will
not fund law enforcement. These elections yesterday, grand scheme of
things don't say much. I'm not hopeful that Republicans in

(01:08:20):
you know, whether it's the state of Florida or nationally,
will learn enough to finally get to messaging. You win
on issues, As doctor Bob McClure from the James Madison
Institute says, all the time, good policy is good politics.
Get the policy right, and the politics will take care

(01:08:43):
of themselves, because when it's all said and done, if
you speak to people's hearts and minds and you're straight
up with them about what we're facing and what needs
to happen, they respond. So why Florida has been just
brilliantly governed by Santas. He's brutally candid. He sometimes has

(01:09:07):
had to drag the legislature along with him. We right
now have a Speaker of the House that is, in
my opinion, a rhino at best. At best, he is
the opposition to conservatism and conservative values in this state.

(01:09:28):
That's just that is a fact. Anyway, Elections have consequences.
How many times have we heard that it's the Twelve
Days of Preston day number eleven when we come back.
If you miss the interview the first time around, you'll
be glad we're reracking at least a portion of it
from the Government Accountability Institute, working with Peter Schweitzer. Seamus Brunner,

(01:09:51):
an author, frequent guest on Fox News, Newsmax, all the
different sites, joins us next. Well, sort of, at least
the tape interview does. Here on the Twelve Days of Preston.

(01:10:22):
Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston. Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott, keeping you company until
the live shows begin, which will be Monday. But for now,
Happy New Year, and welcome back to the program. Let's
finish up our number two with another great guest. We're
so fortunate and I'm glad that we're able to present

(01:10:44):
guests like this to you. You know, I can't explain
why we have favor where we have it, but grateful
that we do. If you miss this interview the first
time around, I think you will be very, very glad
that you're listening now here on the twelve Days suppressed him.

(01:11:05):
He is the director of research for the Government Accountability Institute.
Works with our good friend Peter Schweitzer, and what they're
doing is incredible work, important work. Seamus Berner, Welcome back
to the show, Seamus, how are you.

Speaker 14 (01:11:20):
Good morning, Preston, great to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
You do this, you find a way to take something
massive and condense it into sound bites. Because I know
you do television and the last time I saw you,
you were on Fox. You were addressing the President of
the United States and you were talking about something that
you guys had I guess kind of created the title for,
and that's riot Inc. Tell us about this, tell us

(01:11:45):
about the paid protest network that's operating in this country.

Speaker 10 (01:11:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:11:49):
So, as you know, Peter Schweitzer, our team, we follow
the money. We followed it to the top of the
protest industrial complex. We call it riot Ink. President Trump
wanted to know who's behind these anti ice riots all
across the country, mostly in the blue cities like Chicago, Portland, Seattle,
Los Angeles. And we've been tracking this for a while.

(01:12:12):
Of course, Yes, it is George Soros and his open
Society Network. It's also some lesser known big left wing
funding networks like the Tides network, the Arabella funding network, which,
by the way, news just broke yesterday. Arabella will be
shutting down or at least rebranding. That's it's a tentative win.

(01:12:34):
We know they're going to pop up like a hydra
with more heads and more places. But nonetheless it's this
big ecosystem. And by the way, the thing that shock's
President Trump the most was that your tax payer money
finds its way into these riots. It goes from your
pockets to the federal government, which then distributes more than

(01:12:56):
one hundred million dollars. We calculated two networks like Tides, Rockefeller,
even the Soros networks you know USAID. But there's also
other agencies that fund these big left wing NGOs ostensibly
for some charitable purpose, but we know money is fungible,
so then those big networks funnel it back out to

(01:13:18):
the boots on the ground. And it's not just Antifa.
It is a whole host of dozens hundreds of these
little NGOs that organized provide the signs, provide the water bottles, everything.
It's an industrial operation.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
When you say Tides and Arabella give our listeners a snapshot.
What are these organizations, where do they come from, what
were they founded to do?

Speaker 14 (01:13:44):
Yes, great question. So they've been around even longer some
of them. Arabella's rather new two thousand and five. It's
network and it's got about seven sub funds. Arabella Advisors
is just the advising entity, but it's got the new
Venture Fund, the sixteen thirty Fund, the Windward Fund, more
names than people care to hear about. And so those

(01:14:06):
are the entities that actually do the funding. So Soros
is actually one of the biggest funders of Arabella. He
was there from the beginning one hundred million plus. There's
actually a foreign billionaire named Hans jorg VIIs from Switzerland.
He's given a couple hundred million over the years to
the Arabella network. Bill Gates puts in three hundred plus

(01:14:28):
million in the last five years or so. Also, big
news in June was that Bill Gates would be cutting
his funding. That's I believe directly tied to Arabella's demise
because Bill Gates cut the funding. He was one of
the biggest funders of that. Tides has actually been around
for much much longer decades and the Ford Foundation is

(01:14:49):
also in this whole ecosystem. The Ford Foundation goes back.
I wrote a book Control of Arcs that shows that
the Rockefeller Foundation, which keeps popping up time and time again,
that was really the prototype. I mean it goes back
to nineteen oh four. These big industrialist guys, they did
not want their money going to these things. But over

(01:15:10):
the years, these big foundations like Henry Ford and his
now Ford Foundations, it's all been taken over by leftists
and their big endowments, and then they've ballooned and grown
in over a century. But they really the Rockefellers, Tides Ford,
they pioneered the art of using tax dollars as a
force multiplier for their own agendas. They get grants to

(01:15:33):
do theoretically ostensibly good things. Yeah, they took those government grants,
mix it with private cash, and then it just becomes
an ATM machine for radical left wing purposes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Shamus, What should a taxpayer do in response to this?

Speaker 14 (01:15:49):
Well, I think the exposure of these formerly dark money,
I mean it's still dark money in the sense that
we cannot track it all the way, but we have
the nine nineties. Uh, That's the best you can do
is code. We come through thousands and thousands of pages
of I R S Forum nine nineties of these big
left wing NGOs shining the sunlight as we've been doing,

(01:16:14):
and many others, especially on Arabella, and then people get
upset about it and now they can't hide in the
shadows anymore. So this was big news yesterday that Arabella.
I mean, it's it's a rebrand. I don't you know.
We're not taking victory laps here, but you know, when
it when it gets exposed, they have to recalculate. They've
lawyered up. There's been a few articles since since that

(01:16:36):
White House roundtable where we talked about riot Inc. They
are they are lawyering up. They're taking steps to hide
their trails, and you know they're they're on the run.
I'd say now they're gonna They're not going away, But
we just got to keep spreading the word, sharing the news.
Thank you so much for having me on talking about
it and letting other people know that their taxpayer dollars

(01:16:58):
are funding and we talked about Riot Inc. We've actually
got a big report on Migration Inc. How your tax
dollars have funded this invasion and the resettlement going on
That is why I believe these big NGOs are funding
anti ice protests. It's because it's the same people who
funded the invasion. And then why did they do that.

(01:17:18):
It's because they fund the get out the vote operations.
It's the same players funding the They know that they
can get non citizens onto the voter roles, either legally
or illegally. And so this industrial operation. The more we
expose it, the more the Trump administration goes after. You know, I,
like many people, wish there would be a lot more

(01:17:39):
arrests sooner than later. Yeah, if we don't fix this soon,
they're going to use it in twenty six and twenty eight.
And you know, we won an election last time, but
that nothing's guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
Here, Seamus, you you talk about, I'll call it a
kind of a hard rebrand that Arabella's going to be
in the in the midst of doing. Then there are
soft rebrands. I consider Bill gates backing off of his
climate hysteria to be a very significant, important, but a
soft rebrand. What are we to make of Gates sort
of saying yeah, okay, maybe not so much, it's not

(01:18:15):
so bad.

Speaker 14 (01:18:18):
Yeah, I mean, I I you know, I think it's
pretty cynical. He's he's he's got a lot of interest
that the administration can affect. That's why you saw all
these tech bros lining up to fund the inauguration. I
think President Trump is trying to keep his enemies closer
with this. I hope, you know, having them to dinner.

Speaker 8 (01:18:37):
And all of that.

Speaker 14 (01:18:37):
But I mean, the FCC, the FEC, anti DOJ's, anti trust,
these guys, Zuckerberg's gates, they all could the Trump administration
can make big problems for them. So I think it's
he's doing it to you know, I don't think he's
a well first of all, I don't think he was
a true believer ever. I mean, he's the biggest user
of energy with his He's got two private jets, a

(01:18:59):
couple of seaplanes and helicopters, yacht, a sixty six thousand
square foot mansion in Washington. The guy doesn't believe in
climate change. He uses that as a tool for control
and to actually increase his bottom line get investments into
his so called green tech energy ventures. But I think

(01:19:19):
it's good for us. I mean, at the end of
the day, it's good for us that he has retreated
they were gaslighting us about this the whole time. Now
we can hold that up and say, wait a second,
I thought you said it was going to be a catastrophe.
Now you say it's not going to be a catastrophe. Well,
then we're not going to do what you say was
banning our gas stove or banning banning steaks and cows here,
which is what he was one of the guys pushing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Seamus Bruner with the Government Accountability Institute, author of the
book Control of Garcs. All right, that's our number two,
back with our number three of the twelve Days of Preston.

(01:20:14):
Happy New Year, everybody, and welcome third and final hour
of the eleventh of the Twelve Days of Preston. Here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be
with you this morning. We are doing a year in
review and being the eleventh show. This is the eleventh month,

(01:20:34):
the month of November. Let's kick off this hour with
one of the best guests that we have. He's in
the top three without a doubt on our power rankings.
I think he's one of the brightest guys in America,
and we're fortunate that he has a regular guest here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Joining us is

(01:20:55):
Justin Haskins. Hello, sir, how are you?

Speaker 15 (01:20:58):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
How are you well? You know I feel like I
need to take my temperature about every fifteen minutes. Right,
it's the news. I was struggling today to put together
the show because the number of significant, big stories is
just endless. So I thought I would get your considerable insight.

(01:21:20):
You are the one that warned us, and I oft
repeated what you said about the New York City elections.
Now that mom Donnie has won, what are your thoughts.

Speaker 15 (01:21:31):
I think this is just the beginning, That's what I think.
I think we're about to see another wave, another resurgence
of socialism in America. I don't know if it will
be as successful as the last wave, or maybe maybe
it'll be more successful. We're going to find out. But
I think that we are on the verge of potentially

(01:21:55):
having a socialist president of the United States. I think
that's coming within eight years or so, and I'm very
concerned about it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
Should it be allowed? And hear me out, and we
might have touched on this before. I'm struggling with the
idea that someone who is a socialist or a communist
can run for office in this country. And to those
that say, well, they'll just lie about it. Yeah, But
if they lie about it and govern differently than what
our constitution allows, they're kicked out of office. It's that simple.

Speaker 15 (01:22:30):
Yeah. I mean, I think the problem is once you
start going down that road, then everyone will be thrown out.
It will be prevented from running because there'll be some
sort of alleged qualification that they're not meeting ideologically. But
I agree with you that it is impossible, impossible to
be a true socialist, which so Ron Mamdani is. In fact,

(01:22:51):
he's a communist. He's not just a socialist, he's an
actual Marxist communist, that's what he is. And I think
it's impossible to be a communist.

Speaker 13 (01:23:01):
And be.

Speaker 15 (01:23:04):
Say that you're going to support and defend the constitution
of the United States or the laws of the various
states or anything like that. I just don't think it's
possible for you to take an honest oath of office
in most places in this country and be a communist.
So I don't know, you know, so I agree with
you on that front, I really do. I just I

(01:23:25):
think at the end of the day, we get the
government that we deserve as a people, understood, And if
we get a socialist or a communist running the largest
city in America, it's because there's something fundamentally wrong with
the people at this point and we need to change
or we're going to get this kind of government and
we're going to have We're going to reap what we sew.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
Unfortunately, Justin, is there any chance, and you could call
me way too optimistic, but is there a chance that
in the one year that happens between now and the midterms,
Mom Donnie will go so far so fast that New
York bellies out the people that support it leave. All

(01:24:09):
they have are a bunch of illegals moving in. They
go to this thirty dollars minimum wage, They go to
this nonsense of free bussing, which of course isn't free,
and we see the results, and enough people see it
to go, yeah, that's not for us.

Speaker 15 (01:24:25):
Ah boy, you're do you act?

Speaker 13 (01:24:28):
Do you believe that?

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
Well? Do I believe that it's possible? Do I believe
that he'll do it? I don't know if he's sophisticated
enough to just slow himself down. If he doesn't it
could actually be the best chance we have to beat
it because it will collapse on itself in New York City.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:24:49):
Yeah, So here's the thing I would love to believe
that the American voters are would do that, would look
at even if it is catastrophic, they would look at that.
We don't want that. But the reality is, after what
we saw with Black Lives Matters and some of the
insane things that they were doing there, and with COVID
and some of the insane things that were happening in

(01:25:09):
the lockdowns and all of that, you had whole cities
being taken over or large parts of cities being taken
over in places like Seattle. You had riots in Portland
attacking federal buildings, and people still went out and voted Democrat.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
Okay, let me try to make an argument, and I'm
not going to disagree with you, but I'm going to
try to convince you for the half glass full out
of this nonsense that is the socialist takeover in New
York City. Hang on, Justin Haskins, vice president of policy
with the Heartland Institute, senior fellow, and more importantly, our

(01:25:44):
guest this morning here on the program. He joins us
once a month. Here's my argument, Justin, and why it's
so important to me personally, is because the capital city
of Florida is literally one elected seat from being socialist.
They aren't as bold as calling themselves that, but that's
that's what they are, and they're one vote away. And
here's my here's where I say it's a different scenario

(01:26:06):
than you correctly point out Black Lives Matter, Clantifa, all
the stuff that we've seen on the left coast. But
the difference to me is the policies of socialism, when enacted,
are largely economic and in the big Apple, now, the
big red apple, right, I don't think there's a way
to escape the math that's coming to New York. You

(01:26:28):
can't do what mom Donnie's going to do without driving
out the people that would that would make it possible
to do it.

Speaker 15 (01:26:34):
Yeah, I I totally agree. And in a world governed
by reason and logic, that would be what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Yeah, but I think the math is going to win
the day. But the math is going to win the day.

Speaker 15 (01:26:47):
There is there is a way out for them, and
the way out for them is to blame Donald Trump
and and and he is the boogeyman, and he will
still be president at that time, and they'll blame whatever
economic woes they're having and everyone else in America is
having on the Trump administration and the Republicans who are
running Congress, if they're still running Congress at that time,

(01:27:08):
that's what's going to happen. And the reality is on
the left, they have decided, they have made they have
decided it's time for socialism again. We're going to give
this another go. And because they believe they never really
got a fair shot to try it, that's what they think.
You know, all the all the other times communists China, Venezuela,

(01:27:28):
you know, all those places in Gola, they don't count.
So this is a this is a new this their
this is their big chance. Bernie got screwed and the
two times that he ran for president, he got screwed.
This is their time to run again. This is their
time to make it happen, and they're going to get
their chance. Biden didn't go far enough. If they just
go further, they're going to win. Economic populism is the
wave of the future, and I think young people have

(01:27:51):
totally bought into this lie and they are willing to
give any strong man a chance right now, because they're
not seeing positive results in their lives personally, and because
of that, because they feel like they've been screwed and
the economy is rigged against them, they are willing to
give any strong man a chance. And someone like Zoron, Mom,

(01:28:12):
Donnie or who knows AOC somebody else is going to
step into that role and is going to take charge
and is going to give socialism a real shot. And
whether we can survive that or not, it's a totally
different question.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Justin Haskins from the Heartland Institute always love visiting with
Justin's a good friend and love him as a brother
in Christ. All right, we've got a great hour here.
We've got a guy who you watched at Florida State
football games for five years. We'll explain us Congress wimen

(01:28:48):
Kat Camick visit from her in the month of November.
But when we come back, some more phone calls. Did
you make the cut? Did you make it to the show.
It's the twelve Days of Press and stay with me
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back

(01:29:17):
to the Twelve Days of Preston. This is month number eleven,
the month of November, show number eleven. In the twelve days,
we tackle topics that a lot of people want to
steer clear of, and this was one of them. And
make sure you listen to the end. This is not
to be argumentative in any way, shape or form. I

(01:29:37):
would earnestly like to hear your thoughts on just the
concept of the manner, the guidance for who should be
facing the death penalty, and just the topic in general. Matt,
thanks for being so patient. You're up, you're on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
What do you think, helly person love the show man.
I got a lot of a lot of weigh in
on this one. Without sounding cruel or fruit brutal, board Barry,
I do believe in some humane death. Say you know
you made a mistake. You you drunkenly killed somebody, You're

(01:30:19):
repented about it, you feel horrible about it. I mean
life in prison maybe for that one. But if you
brutally kill somebody by bashing their head in with a rock,
you know it brings the mind. The woman that was
set on fire in the subway in New York can
full of gas and a match and make it publicly known.

(01:30:43):
That's that's that's what you face when you when you
do these brutal crowns. Maybe it'll cut back on some
of it, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
So literally an eye for an eye, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
It is. It is the Old Testament. And I know
our Lord and Savior said has turned the other chief,
but that doesn't dismiss some of the rules of the
Old Testament.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
Now, I'm just pointing out that what you're advocating is,
however somebody caused the death of another, is the form
of death they should.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Face if it's heinous enough.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
Yes, got it?

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Thank you, Matt. I appreciate you calling, and I think
you articulated your view very very well. What are the
bars that should exist before handing out that kind of sentence?
Are there? Are there are there places that the evidence
needs to be in a conviction for the death penalty,

(01:31:44):
because that's man. You still see stories of people being exonerated,
they're sitting on death row, they're doing life in prison perhaps,
and then they find out through DNA they did not,
they weren't there, and boy, with a capital punishment, there
is no do over. Mike. What do you think?

Speaker 16 (01:32:07):
Okay? Thanks pressting. When it comes to death penalty, one
thing that really irritates me. He have these people we
know for sure that kill somebody, Why in the world
do they stay on death row for ten to twenty years.
What they need to do is, if we know without
a shadow of doubt that they kill somebody, go ahead,

(01:32:29):
try them, go ahead and convict him and execute him
within thirty days. There's no need for the taxpayers to
pay for their upkeep own while they're on death penalty.
In the penal system, we need to go ahead in
subject to the crime.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Thank you very much, appreciate the phone call. Let's go
to Nicky Nikki Europe. Good morning morning.

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
I appreciate you taking my call. I just you know,
it's one of those things where as a mother, I
especially if there's a crime against a child or or
just anyone who's vulnerable like that.

Speaker 13 (01:33:08):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
I used to think that death penalty was the way
to go. I used to think, you know, especially the
more the more atrocious the crime, get it, get them out.
I don't want to pay to feed them, house them anything.
But then I thought more about it, and you know what,
we need to bring back more chain gangs. And I'm
not talking about this cushy little oh yeah, and you

(01:33:32):
get TV time and oh are your are your body
cuffs chafing you? Let's pad that a little bit. I'm
talking about old school one hundred years.

Speaker 13 (01:33:41):
Ago, chain gangs.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
Uh, you know, and work it off. And I think
in many cases, I think death is too good for
some people, you know. Really, Uh just let's just uh,
if we're gonna pay to feed and close them, let
them pay it back in another way and don't let

(01:34:06):
them off easy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Thank you, Nikki, appreciate that, Ted, thanks for calling in. Thanks.

Speaker 12 (01:34:10):
Before the death penalty, and when I became a lawyer,
I decided, like, you know what, it's not a deterrent.
And it ties up the court system for years. There's
so many appeals and that you have to look at
it because it's it's the state trying to take someone's life,
so it takes years. I don't think it's a deterrent.
I don't think people who end up committing heinous crimes

(01:34:32):
are deterred by like, oh gee, I better not do this.
I might get the death penalty if I get caught.
It's it's just a waste of time. I just don't
want them in society. I'd rather have someone off and
you know in prison somewhere, you know, maybe in a
smaller cell than.

Speaker 10 (01:34:49):
People get nowadays.

Speaker 12 (01:34:50):
But anyway, there's my two cents on it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
Appreciate it, Thank you, Ted. The method of execution in
South Carolina, it's lethal injection, electric chair firing squad. You
can choose, the inmate chooses, the convicted chooses. On the
subject of the death penalty. Patricia, back to the phone
lines we go. You have been very patient. Thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:35:14):
You're up, Hey, Preston, thanks for taking my call. I
don't have a problem with the death penalty except that
the appeals and delays and all these things that it
takes to put someone to death. And I agree one
hundred percent with Ted. I think that if you commit

(01:35:39):
a crime that would be I guess otherwise subject to
the death penalty, you should get life in prison without
the ability to get parole, and your life should be hard.

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Because I.

Speaker 17 (01:35:57):
Gather that people that are on death row they get
a lot of freedom and flexibility to go to the
library and to meet with these people and you know,
do all these things. And I think you certainly should
be able to get an appeal if you are innocent,
and you you know, get somebody to support that you're innocent,

(01:36:18):
that that that you get an appeal, and that you
get the ability to seek counsel for that. But otherwise
you should be in a tiny little cell by yourself
with no amenities, no TV, no computer, no nothing, because
of what you did. And that is a lot less
costly to the state and to the taxpayers than all

(01:36:42):
these countless appeals. And I think it's a lot more
of a deterrent.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Thank you very much, Patricia. I got a roll on.
Let's go to James. James, are you there, I am,
good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:36:53):
So I've been to prison and I work tell on
death row. When I was a young man, I'm a mistakes.
I'sned for my mistakes. I've turned my life around. I
now have six kids in a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
Good for you.

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
What I can say is they don't care. They don't
find Christ until they die. There's no The only remorse
they have is they got caught. It's every one of
them follows the same storyline. Oh well, now that I'm dying,
I'm gonna find my savior, which is hard feelings for

(01:37:28):
me because the person they killed never got a chance.
I'm for the death penalty. Okay, just simply for the
fact of seeing the people who killed people living with killers.
Bunk mate was a killer, just didn't have the death penalty.
They do not care. It's they're only sad they got caught.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
James, thanks for your insight. I'm grateful to hear your story.
Makes my heart happy. Thank you very much. Let's go
back to Jim. Jim, you're up.

Speaker 18 (01:38:00):
I've got experience with this. My sister was brutally murdered,
strangle to death and the guy put mason jar gas
on her and caught her on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 18 (01:38:11):
We went to Yeah, well, you know God's got all that. Brother.
Let me tell you, it's only way I made it through,
went to court, all the games that they play. We
went for the death penalty and we didn't get it.
He got life in prison plus seventy years without the
possibility of parole. But you know, I was disappointed at

(01:38:34):
first about the death penalty because I really wanted him
to die. But I look at it, it can go
both ways. For me, He's going to be the rest
of his life with somebody telling him what to do,
how to do it, when to do it, and had
him to protect himself. To live day by day. He

(01:38:54):
can't go to the refrigerator get something to drink.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
He can't you know what I mean, Yes, I do.

Speaker 18 (01:39:00):
And if if they were to take the lethal injection off,
you know, either you get fire squad or you get
the electric chair. That's the way it should be. Because
none of their victims got the choice. They killed them brutally.

(01:39:20):
They died with fear, and we're going to put them
to sleep. And you know, and as far as the
fella before, it doesn't matter when and how he got
he got saved. Maybe it took that for him to
give his life to christ. I don't want anybody to
perish in him, even the guy that killed my sister.

(01:39:40):
So that's a story, President.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
And that is why I do phone segments from time
to time. Woof, no, it's powerful, all right. More to
come on the Twelve Days of Preston show number eleven,
the month of November, and our visit with US Congresswoman
Kat cam is next, and we are back final half

(01:40:23):
hour here on show number eleven of the Twelve Days
of Preston the month of November. Don't leave us for
this last half hour, and we're joined by us Congresswoman
Cat Camick, Florida's third district, Cat, how.

Speaker 15 (01:40:40):
You doing, good morning?

Speaker 6 (01:40:42):
Sorry for the delay, any.

Speaker 13 (01:40:44):
Mom or dad in the newborn stringe of No, it
is unpredictable.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
Absolutely, it is what's Thanksgiving shaping up to look like you.

Speaker 13 (01:40:53):
Know again, having the baby makes it real easy for us,
Like we bring the plates or a dessert. We are
not doing the turkey, we are not doing the sides.
We are we're keeping it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
Simple, making the run of publics grabbing the pecan or
the pumpkin pie and head nine.

Speaker 13 (01:41:14):
Yes, yes, but I will say I will say for
our family Thanksgiving while there is pie everyone team. We
tend to gravitate towards like the dumb cake or like
I do a total cheat apple cobbler in the crop pot,
and that to me is the easiest thing in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
There you go. Crock pots are a thing of beauty.
Cash gets there. How frustrated should Americans be by what
follows the shutdown ending and the fact that we are
we're going to be looking at this again in January.

Speaker 13 (01:41:49):
I would say frustration absolutely, but also we should be
cautiously optimistic and use that to push members to get
the appropriation bills done. So just recap for everybody listening.
You got twelve appropriation bills. You have to pass them
out of the Committee of Jurisdiction as an authorizer, get

(01:42:11):
them to the appropriators. Appropriators pass them out, We then
vote them on the floor of the House we're representative,
and we coick them to the Senate and then we
conference them. That hasn't been done in thirty years, and
so that's where you get all these crs and the
omnibuses coming from. For the first time, we actually the
House and the Senate. We agreed on three of the

(01:42:32):
twelve in the reopening of the government, So that is
a sign of hope. Last night I was in a
meeting with about forty five of my colleagues and they
were saying, listen, we're ready to rock and roll. We're
going to get all of our appropriations done. The scary
part is the Senate hasn't even taken up a bill
or we're on their side on many of these. So

(01:42:53):
basically it's going to be the House leading and we
the people have to keep the pressure on the House
and a Senate, but mostly on the Senate because they're
just going to drag their feet and then they'll stick
us with another omnibus. And I don't want to do that,
and so I think it's important that we say engage
on this and be pushing for a full blown appropriation
season to take place by January thirtieth.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
What would happen if the House just dug in its
heels and said to the Senate, just like we didn't
budge on on Obamacare getting subsidized any more than it
already is, we're not budgeting on this. It's time for
us to do a proper set of appropriations. Until you
do them, we're not moving.

Speaker 13 (01:43:35):
I think you would see a lot of the same
kind of gnashing of teeth that you saw in the
shutdown of you know, you had senators coming out of
the woodwork being like, well, but what if we did
a three year And I can tell you from my standpoint.
I was texting my Senate colleague saying, I will be
an absolute hard no on anything that involves keeping Obamacare

(01:43:56):
in place. It is the Unaffordable Care Act, it is
a broken system. Throwing money at it does not fix it.
And in the House, we only have two votes to lose.
They can't tinker with our margins. And so they know
like they're basically unnoticed in this This I think is
going to be the key going into not only the appropriations,
but then addressing the broken healthcare system. The House has

(01:44:19):
to lead on this because the Senate, the Senate just
they don't have the capability to lead in this space.
We're the ones with the tight margins. So I think
I think the message has been sent and.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Received inappropriations help those of us that may not fully
understand the process. And the Senate do they have to
get to sixty?

Speaker 15 (01:44:38):
They would have to.

Speaker 13 (01:44:38):
Get to sixty in order to if we have the
filibuster in place. And you know, we've heard that Trump
and others have President Trump and others have said, you know,
it's two away with the filibuster. I am torn on
this because it was designed specifically to avoid rash decisions,

(01:44:59):
but we also scene where it can be used to obstruct.
And we know full well that not a matter of if,
but when. Because the power, you know, it swings back
and forth all the time. Eventually, Democrats, some point down
the road, many years from now, will be in charge
and they will make Puerto Rico estate, they will make
DC estate, They will pack the Supreme Court. They will

(01:45:21):
do all the things. And that's why abolishing the filibuster
is very dangerous at times. But we look at it
and we say, well, hey, we need to get our
election integrity measures through, we need to get our budget
on track, we need to reduce the size and scope
of spending. We've got to fix all these things. And
if we can't get seven Democrats to join with us

(01:45:43):
and that, then we're going to have to make decisions.
And so that's where that sixty vote threshold versus a
simple majority is kind of the key right now.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Congress, So and tell me this what can be done
to you talked about the the unaffordable Obamacare. What can
be done to start to move the needle in the
other direction to get a handle on healthcare in this country?

Speaker 13 (01:46:07):
Oh well, I don't think we have enough segments to
go through it, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
I mean, obviously it has been proven. We said it
back when Obamacare came into existence. You know, when you
hurt from Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 13 (01:46:19):
Herself, you have to pass it to see what's in it?

Speaker 6 (01:46:22):
They claimed.

Speaker 13 (01:46:23):
You know, if you like your doctor, you can keep them.
It was supposed to drive down costs. We know all
that to be completely false.

Speaker 6 (01:46:30):
It was a lie and we knew it then. It's
been proven today.

Speaker 13 (01:46:35):
So this notion of we're going to send four hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:46:38):
Billion dollars to insurance companies, No, that's not going to
fix the problem, especially when people are finding that there's
less access, less opportunities to get with a specialist or
a doctor. In nine times out of ten, you've got
insurance companies making medical decisions for you, basically going around
your doctor saying, sorry, doc, we're not going to do that.

(01:46:59):
We're going to recommend this, and we're only going to
pay for that, And that's just wrong. So we need
to get back to a place of a mindset that
is preventative not maintenance. First and foremost, we need to
acknowledge that the system in place is a sick care system,
not a healthcare system. We need to put the decision

(01:47:19):
making capability back in the hands of doctors and patients,
not insurance companies. I would love to see us get
rid of the in network versus out of network. I
think we should expand hsas increased choice, get the price
transparency back into it, because if people are actually seeing
what everything is costing, then it puts these companies on notice, like, oh,

(01:47:43):
maybe you can't charge one hundred and forty five dollars
for an aspirin. You know. It's things like that. I
think competition is the way to go. There's a number
of things that we're working on right now. In fact,
we're working with the White House on an expansion of
hsas that anyone who needs that help to cover a

(01:48:05):
plan would go directly to the consumer rather than to
the insurance companies. And that's something that we're looking at,
and some cost reduction savings element. There's so much we
could do, but it's clear that the system is broken.
We have to address maternal health deserts. Under Biden, thirty
eight percent increase of maternal health deserts across America, meaning

(01:48:28):
women have to drive hours and hours and hours to
see an ob or a gynecologist. I mean, heck, in
our area, if you're in Valdosta or Lake City, you
got to drive to Gainesville to find an.

Speaker 13 (01:48:41):
Ob that can deliver your baby.

Speaker 6 (01:48:44):
It's just stuff like that that's common sense and putting
people back in the driver's seat and taking the bureaucrafts
out of it. That's what we're aiming for and there's
going to be a lot of proposals here in the
next few weeks and months, and we're excited to be
a part of that conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
Kat does tort reform this is that a federal issue
or is tort reform need to be left to states?

Speaker 6 (01:49:05):
You know, everyone has always talked about tort reform as
part of it, and it is incredibly important, right, but
we have found that typically when the states are leaving
the charge on tort reform, and in Florida we've done
that a few years ago, we need to make another
round at it because it affects all of the insurance elements.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
From absolutely the.

Speaker 13 (01:49:24):
Home insurance to the car insurance. And in Florida we
have been clamoring for relief. And I can tell you
I have talked to my state.

Speaker 6 (01:49:32):
Representatives and said, you guys got to do something. This
is out of control. That is something that typically I
think is best left at the states because that also
will help foster competition and driving costs lower across the country.
But there's elements though, certainly regulatory reform. You and I
have talked about that. That's my passion is really taking

(01:49:52):
on the red tape and the regulatory bureaucrats that are
driving costs up everywhere. That's a huge part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:00):
US Congresswoman kat Camick back with more. The final segment
is a good one here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Happy New Year, everybody, Welcome back. Final segment

(01:50:26):
of the Twelve Days of Preston. You'll be glad that
you tuned in if you have missed this interview. This
was just a portion of it with Drake Anderson. Drake
is a local business owner owned Sentinel Fencing, and for
five years you watched him at Florida State football games.
Let's set this stage up a little bit. Let's set

(01:50:47):
the story and go back to your days. We were
just talking about how in the world did you get
to become, for lack of a better way of putting it,
a horseman.

Speaker 19 (01:51:00):
I think that it was just something that God put
in me from the beginning because my family history. They
grew up you know, hunting, fishing, all that kind of stuff.
But my grandfather had a forty acre small cattle farm,
but never had any horses. I didn't grow up with horses.
I just came out of the womb wanting to be

(01:51:22):
a cowboy. Diapers and cowboy boots from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (01:51:26):
Do you remember, like when your love of horses even started?
Was it a picture? Was it a movie?

Speaker 19 (01:51:34):
Was it just I don't remember a time when I
did not want to be a cowboy.

Speaker 20 (01:51:39):
That's how far back it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Yeah, all right, So when does the relationship with horses begin.

Speaker 19 (01:51:47):
I had the opportunity at right at ten years old.
We had moved to a horse farm in central Alabama,
and the guy that owned the property was a cutting
horse trainer. It's a type of event that you do
with in western horseback riding. And I had the opportunity

(01:52:08):
to start. And he was a rough and tumble, old
gruff cowboy, and I had to earn my spurs. I
cleaned stalls for about six months, scooping, scooping all the
stuff right to earn the right to ride. So I
started at the bottom and started to work my way
up to be able to just get on a horse there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
And you didn't care what you were asked to do.
The end goal was getting on that horse, that's.

Speaker 19 (01:52:32):
Right, that's all, that's all I wanted to do. I
was homeschooled at that time. I was actually homeschool until
I started high school, and so I would I would
wake up at six o'clock every day and I would
do my book work and be done by noon, and
I would be sitting at his barn waiting on him
to come back from lunch so that I could start
whatever he wanted me to do, so that I could
eventually get on a horse.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
Do you remember the first time you got on a horse.

Speaker 19 (01:52:55):
No, I remember the first time that I got to
ride a cutting horse and I actually trained. It was
at that time, you know, fifty thousand dollars finished horse,
and I got the opportunity to ride him. That was
probably the nicest horse that I had sat on, probably
the top two nicest horse that I've ever sat on,
two or three at least, And I remember that vividly.

(01:53:15):
But first time, No, it was probably when I was
very very young, k pony at camp, some kind of thing.
Tell me about smoky Smokey. So I learned from a
very young age saving money my parents. I started a
bank account and I worked and I earned money. By
the time I was ten years old. Coinciding just after
I had met the guy, the cutting horse trainer, I

(01:53:39):
bought my first horse ten years old.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
My own money.

Speaker 20 (01:53:43):
My dad made me negotiate the deal. I went and
met with him.

Speaker 19 (01:53:46):
I shook his hand and told him I could offer
him a thousand dollars and he took it, had a
bill of sale, rode it out, did the whole deal. Okay,
brought Smoky home.

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
How big was Smoky? What do he looked like?

Speaker 19 (01:53:57):
Smokey was a smoky black color, so like kind of
a black bas coat, kind of faded out in the summer.

Speaker 20 (01:54:04):
Little charcoal, the that's right, okay, little charcoal.

Speaker 19 (01:54:07):
I rode him for about six months and ended up
flipping him for I think it was forty three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
Why Why were you able to do? Was he just
developed skills or were you that good at selling? Man?

Speaker 19 (01:54:22):
I think that was just a very fortunate deal, Okay.
I think that he had some ability that was untapped.
We fed him a little bit better than probably where
he was, got him looking really nice and pretty, and
found the right buyer, and it just happened that way.
That was my first horse trade deal. Over doubled money,
well substantially more.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
Than doubled what was going on in high school. That
would land you on the radar of Florida State University.

Speaker 19 (01:54:48):
So after a year or so of tutelage under the
cutting horse trainer, I found another barn locally. We had
moved from that property, and I found another born locally.
I was eighth grade going into high school when I
met Terry Dinard and he became like a mentor to me,
and that is where I really learned the majority of

(01:55:11):
my horse training. I started riding with him and he
did team roping, and so he fixed and trained horses
for team roping. This event. I started with him, started riding,
started roping, became very successful locally there. I did not
compete in the High School Rodeo Association. I was kind

(01:55:32):
of like a junior pro doing local jackpots and other
USCRC events that are team roping events. The Durham family,
they contacted Terry looking.

Speaker 20 (01:55:45):
For someone to come in.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
So they knew him.

Speaker 20 (01:55:48):
They knew of him of.

Speaker 19 (01:55:51):
Him he was at an announcer for the High School
Rodeo Association, so they contacted him looking for a replacement,
and he of course brought me to mine. So that's
how the connection was made.

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
If you don't know the Durham family, Bill Durham is
credited with being the founder of the tradition we now
know as Ostiola and renegade. The family raises these horses,
acquires these horses, and they are responsible for I guess
the recruitment of the whoever would be Ostiola. Now at

(01:56:24):
the time, did you even know of the Florida State tradition.

Speaker 20 (01:56:28):
I had heard of Bobby Bowden before, That's about the extent.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
But you didn't know anything about Oh, they use a
horse and a rider.

Speaker 20 (01:56:35):
Not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:56:35):
I had.

Speaker 19 (01:56:36):
So my skill set became team roping, and I was
training horses. I was making eight hundred dollars a month
with three to four horses at a time throughout high school,
and so I actually ended up having a heated discussion
with my father about why I did not want to
go to college because I was making a lot of
money training horses and if I could do it full time,

(01:56:56):
I can make even more. So I ended up getting
a scholarship offer from Mississippi State and from Troy University
for rodeo. So they have rodeo collegiate teams there and
I got a scholarship offer from them. I was a
week away from signing with Troy State when I was
contacted by the Durham family, and I had never heard
of FSU or heard of the tradition and had only

(01:57:19):
ever heard of Bowden and FSU.

Speaker 20 (01:57:22):
That was it?

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
Why did it win? Why did you decide to come?
And oh, by the way, become at the time the
longest tenured Osceola writing at Florida State football games bowl
games for five years.

Speaker 19 (01:57:37):
So initially he showed me a video, showed me what
it was about, and I was like, man, that's really cool.
What changed for me and what made me realize that
this is really what I want to do is when
I had to read a book, and I had to
read a book about the life of Osceola, the life
of the Seminole tribe and the Seminal Wars, and write

(01:57:59):
a report about what it would mean to me to
represent that individual. And in reading that and learning about
the history of the of the program and the history
of who they are representing, that's what sold me on it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:11):
Looking back, are you surprised you did it? Surprised as
in that you took that path after going through that,
because I mean, there's that's some hoop jumping. Oh yeah,
reading the book, write in a report to get a
chance to do this where you've got standing offers at
to universities. Yeah, are you surprised you did it?

Speaker 19 (01:58:32):
I'm surprised that. No, I don't think so. That's where
I needed to be. That's where the path that God
laid in front of me, and I think that that's, uh,
that's where I needed to be.

Speaker 20 (01:58:43):
So no, I'm not surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:58:45):
What would people be the most surprised to know about
being Osceola and writing in front of seventy plus thousand
fans on a horse like that.

Speaker 19 (01:58:58):
I like the anonymity there's when I'm out there, You're
we're portraying a fierce warrior with all the regelia and
the wig and the makeup, and no one really knows.

Speaker 20 (01:59:11):
It's kind of flying under the radar.

Speaker 19 (01:59:13):
I never was braggadocius or really said anything. I've only
ever had one person recognize me out of out of
character that I did not know already.

Speaker 20 (01:59:22):
Sure so that I enjoyed.

Speaker 19 (01:59:24):
Being able to do that as a gift to the
university and to the tribe and not have the spotlight
on me.

Speaker 1 (01:59:31):
Drake Anderson one of the many guests we had in
the month of November, and that'll put a cap on
this particular show. When we come back tomorrow it will
be the final recorded show Day twelve of the twelve
Days of Preston. Until then, have yourself an awesome day

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to the back of the floor.