Twelve Day's of Preston: October

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, good morning, and welcome another of the twelve days
of Presston.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're here, you're here, so.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Grab yourself something to drink, maybe something to nibble on,
and just chill and relax for a while, because we're
going to keep you company with the tenth.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Show of the twelve Days of Preston.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Of course, that also means we are at the three
hundred and sixty fifth day of the year.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is New Year's Eve.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
We will be with you on New Year's Day and
the day after and back live on Monday. Cannot wait,
But let's get started before we start looking into the
month of October as it unfolded.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Let's get to some scripture.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
And in Hebrews ten, verses twenty three and twenty four,
it says, let us hold fast to the confession of
our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful,
and let us consider how to stir up one another
to love and good works. It was so cool to
end the year stirring up one another raising funds to

(01:25):
build house number six for Orphan Shade. That was awesome
and cool. But this is a good scripture to kind
of end the year on. Let us hold fast, hold fast,
to the confession of our hope without wavering for he
who promised his faithful That's a great scripture to hang

(01:48):
your hat on as we end the year and move
into a new year.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
No doubt about it, all right. Quick check of history.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
December thirty first, Thomas Edison gives the first public deaymnstruation
of his incandescent light bulbs by lighting up a street
in Menlo Park, New Jersey, in eighteen seventy nine. In
nineteen oh seven, a giant ball is first dropped in
Times Square to bring in the new year. Nineteen twenty nine,
in New York City, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

(02:18):
introduce Americans to the custom of playing all lang zine
on New Year's Eve. Clarence Darrow of Pennsylvania patents the
board game Monopoly in nineteen thirty five, and in nineteen
ninety nine, the US transferred full control of the Panama
Canal to Panama, decision that we would come to regret,
you know, we will obviously today on the program talk

(02:40):
about some more in the in the wake of what
happened to Charlie Kirk, some more reaction to that. But
we got a lot of other things to talk about,
and we also always, always, whenever possible, insert a little
bit of fun. We try so hard to make sure

(03:04):
that when we talk about something and say this is
going on, we do the follow up kind of the
epilogue and let you know how it ended up. For example,
I am quite certain that thousands of you are wanting
to know who won the Fat Bear twenty twenty five competition.

(03:25):
The Chunky Champion has been named. It is the eleventh
annual Fat Bear Week. It is a contest of a
bracket where they put the photos little description of each bear,
and it's a winner's bracket type thing, you know. It's
a single elimination tournament, winners advance. They got it boiled down.

(03:50):
These are bears that live near Brook River within the
Katmai National Park in southern Alaska.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
And the winner thirty two thirty two Chunk.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And I'm showing Jose a picture of thirty two Chunk,
and I mean he and I don't know if you
can see from there. He's got a massive scar on
his snout. That's a big old bear. Yeah, I can't
see it. Yeah, he's a big fellaw adult brown bear.
The scar across the nuzzle. He muzzle. He has a

(04:26):
broken jaw apparently now it's healing, but apparently he got
into a fight with another bear during mating season got
his jaw broken. It is healing, but he's managed to
keep his weight by eating salmon in massive numbers and

(04:53):
avoiding any fights with other bears. While as jaws healing,
he's just being cool. And so he has won. He's
the winner. He unseated one twenty eight grazer who is
the twenty twenty four winner, and it will happen again

(05:15):
next week. So there's your winner.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I thought to myself, Okay, that's good. We have a winner, right,
But you know it's this time of the show. We've
got a chunky champ to honor.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
And so I thought.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Broken jaw and scars still he ate enough to win
King of Fat Brown Bears.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm dying over here.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, you know what's really fun about this is for
those of you that do not know, we just occasionally
drop a haiku on you. And that is a spot
on perfect haiku written by Ai. I've figured out the code,

(06:33):
and so what you do is you give the appropriate
topic and I'm not using any of the big Ai machines.
I'm just using a generic AI thing and I give
them the topic. And in this case the topic was
haikup on Fat Bear winner thirty two chunk, and so

(06:57):
it pulled up a little mini write up out him winning,
and then it said, here is a haiku celebrating his victory.
Don't you feel like you're enriched? I mean, check us
out right dropping hikup bombs on you on a Thursday morning,

(07:26):
beautiful day. And listen to the music. I mean, the
morning show band is just crushing it. You can't get
this anywhere else.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
This is.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
High end radio. Oh you can't play anything else. You
just got to leave this right, Let's just yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh my, you know it's funny how many people stop
me in stores, have written me and love that little
throwaway feature we do from time to time with the haikups.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm glad it brings some joy, all right.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
When we come back to the Twelve Days of Preston,
spend a moment honoring Charlie Kirk, don't leave us. New
Year's Eve is here, New Year's Days upon us. But
we're together today celebrating the final day of the year

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and remembering the month of October. Here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, Welcome back to the twelve Days

(09:13):
of Preston. This is day number ten, the month of October.
I know the calendar says it's New Year's Eve. We're
going back through the year one day at a time.
This is the tenth show, so the tenth month, and
of course I needed to take some time after the
shock had worn off to honor Charlie Kirk. I'm playing

(09:38):
a clip that was picked out by a young man
who happens to be black as a YouTube channel, and
he posted this Charlie Kirk video deeply moved me, and
it was Charlie's speaking at a pastor's conference.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
The young kids, they don't want you to kind of
sanitize all this stuff for them. They will come and
flocks for you to say the blunch truth that you
think is going to offend them. Yes, you need Jesus,
but do you know why you see the reason why
it's not yet being translated into revival is that they say,
of course Jesus is your savior, but we're not connecting
the dots. How do you know you need a savior

(10:14):
if you don't know what you're saved from, and you
only know what you're saved from if you talk about sin.
So we focus everything on the fact that someone's gonna
save you from drowning. We don't tell a generation that
they're drowning, and they're so obviously drowning. It's the most
suicidal generation in history, the most drug addicted generation in history,
the most poor addicted generation in history, but objectively the

(10:37):
most miserable generation in history. And yet we say you're
just perfect the way you are. They don't feel perfect
the way they are. They're telling you that everything is
not okay. They're telling you that something is wrong. And
the message that Christianity gives you is well, he gets
you or whatever that commercial is right, everything's fine. No,
that's actually not how you win young people over. You

(10:59):
win them over being like, you know what, you know
why you're miserable because you're not following God's laws and commands.
That's why actually, and you'll never actually follow all of them,
and that's why you need a savior, because if you
don't have a savior, then you're gonna end up in
a not very good place and you won't end up
being enough boom mine blown. By the way, this is
not like the Charlie Kirk thing. This is how the

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Gospel was taught successfully for two thousand years, and the
last forty years we decided to hyper modernize it and
it's been a failure everybody. And that is the most
important thing. What young people especially are screaming at is
they say, give me a structure that I can live
my life by, Give me a rubric.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
That I can follow.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Don't just affirm every bad decision I've ever made.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
In fact, it's okay if you tell me.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I've messed up, because you'll be the first person that
tell me I've messed up in my life because my
parents won't tell me that anymore. My professor tell me
I'm the greatest person ever. In fact, the modern church
has been led to believe this secular lie that what
this church needs, what the generation needs, is a.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Better pump up.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
You know, yeah, you're enough and you can do it,
because we think since they're depressed, they need to be
pumped up more. It's you know, it's kind of obvious, right,
when in reality they have everybody telling them the most
narcissistic thing ever you're the greatest, You're the most awesome.
Take more pictures of yourself, more selfies, more snapchats, more tiktoks,
more and more me me, me, me me, And all they

(12:28):
do is to think about themselves all day long, right,
and if you have anything wrong with you, you have
to go claim mental health issues and go talk to
accounts or what you're legitimate, some of which are obviously
just concocted by the environmental factors around them, and they
get in this endless spiral loop when in reality we
have to do less affirmation, and especially with young men,
more challenging of them, more saying you know what, honestly,

(12:49):
I'm not going to talk down to you. Stop being
a boy and become a man. You want to learn
what that means, come to church and I'll tell you
what it means to become a man.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
That is just a snapshot of a speech that he
gave to a room full a conference of church leaders
and pastors. And you know what he was begging them
to do. Teach God's word, don't water it down. We

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have allowed the message of Christ to be absolutely diluted
because we don't hold each other to a standard why
do you think Charlie Kirk was adored by a generation
who looked at him as their big brother because he

(13:51):
said the tough things. But there is so much more
to Charlie. When we come back, I'm gonna let you
you listen to just one encounter at one of his
stops that will shatter this whole thing of he hates gaye,

(14:15):
he hates LGBTQ. This is just a I mean a sliver,
a splinter's worth of wood of Charlie and how he
conducted himself. And I chose not to air a fight

(14:38):
where someone just was dropping f bombs and you'd hear bleep,
bleep bleep. No, I want you to hear this because
this is somebody that's coming out of the shadows to
talk to Charlie. And I want you to pay attention
to not just what this young man says, but I

(15:01):
want you to pay more attention to how Charlie interacts
with him.

Speaker 7 (15:06):
I was Charlie. My name is Roderick, and so for
over tim plus years I identified as a gay man,
and then I gave my life to Jesus and left
the LGBTQPS community. And my question to you is what
is your response to those who say that conservatives and

(15:26):
God hates everyone in the LGBTQ PUS community.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
Well, I think it'd actually better for you to respond
to that because you've received that and you're no longer
of that. Here's the true, but more provocative answer, that
your identity should not be in your sexual proclivity. It
should actually be your identity is much greater than just
what you do in the bedroom. Being gay is a
behavior more than anything else, and you, I guess, are

(15:51):
evidence and I'd love to hear your story that you
could stop acting on that behavior. So tell the audience
more about you would identify as gay and as not
tell us about that that path, that journey, because I'm
told that can never happen.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
So, I mean a lot of people tell me that
you are what you feel, you are your attractions. You know,
you're quote unquote born with it, you know it just
there's just many reasons why you have same sex attraction,
that that will never leave you, and that that is
who you will always be. And I believe that lie
For almost ten plus years in my life, I slept

(16:24):
with men many times.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Watch a lot of porn.

Speaker 7 (16:29):
Dwelt in a lot of sexual sin and just gave
my body up because that's what I thought love was,
and that's what I thought it looked like until I
met Jesus and he helped me to see that I
was never meant to identify as a gay man, but
I was always meant to be a son of His
and have a new identity and a new.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Life in him.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
And I walked away from that lifestyle for over five
plus years now, and I have never looked back because
Jesus is way better than the sexuality that I was
partaking in.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Praise God.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Are are you happier and more joyful that you're no
longer participating in a homosexual lifestyle?

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 7 (17:06):
Like before I met Jesus, I was filled with so
much depression anxiety. I wanted to kill myself multiple days
of the week. But Jesus came and healed all the
brokenness inside of me, and I love being a son
of His rather than identifying as a gay man.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Well, and so to answer your question, there is not hatred.
There is still what we have as conservatives and Christians
is a simple understanding that God has a certain sexual
ethic that we should try to abide by. Everybody has
temptations that you have. They have proclivities that you have.
Some people are more likely to gamble, some people are
more likely to be compulsive liars. You don't have to

(17:42):
act on those temptations. I am curious though, Like, so,
in your own sexuality right now, do you still feel
attracted to men? And I'm asking because just because you
feel an attraction doesn't mean you need to act on it.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Is that correct?

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah, so, yes, I would say that I still do
have attractions towards men, is not as much as they
used to be five years ago. But I've learned that
it's not really about whether or not I have attractions
towards men still. It's more so about whether I have
a relationship with Jesus, which I do, and that relationship
with Him far exceeds any attractions that I acted on

(18:18):
in the past, And yeah, my life with him is
so much better. And just because you become a Christian,
I'm leaving the lgbt kep US community. That doesn't mean
that your same sex attractions will go away, but it
does mean that you will have a God who loves you,
who'll walk with you, and who will give you eternal
life through him.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
And let me just say one of the things, very
important thing. We want people to be free from sin,
because sin means suffering. And then when you are captive
the sin. For example, I, like many men in this audience,
studied struggled with pornography, you know, ten years ago whatever,
getting through that. We all have something we struggle with.
You should never affirm the struggle. You should try to
break free of the struggle. And only Christ Jesus is

(18:54):
able to do that. Thank you so much for your
time today. Thank you, yes, thank.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
You all right?

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But did you notice was there a bully in there?

Speaker 6 (19:06):
Now?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Of course this is a young man that's coming to
him saying this is where I was. He wasn't there
to pick a fight. Charlie will push back, He's very capable.
But what you heard was the beauty of being able
to lay back and listen, ask questions while making statements.
And that is what we've lost or have we? That's

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really what's up for grabs and moving forward. Isn't it
something I will continue to try to do on the
Morning Show. Honor Charlie Kirk, Remember his gifting, Remember his impact.
Justin Haskins joins me next, he'll share his thoughts on
Charlie's passing. Got a lot of great guests still to

(19:54):
come to stay with us. It's the Twelve Days of
Preston here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome
back to the Twelve Days of Preston. Let's get right

(20:16):
back into it as we look back to the month
of October, and this was my October visit with Justin Haskins,
vice president of Policy at the Heartland Institute. It was
one month ago. You and I traditionally have our visits
on the second Tuesday of the month. One month ago,
on the second Tuesday of the month, Charlie Kirk had

(20:37):
one day left to live. And to bring those points together,
we are seeing now how politics poisons, how politics has
caused a devolution in social discourse and in civil dialogue
and debate. And I'm not quite sure how to recover

(20:59):
from it. But I love to get your thoughts on
Charlie and what's happened.

Speaker 9 (21:05):
Yeah, obviously, what happened with Charlie Kirk was horrifically tragic
and in a lot of ways, one of the most
tragic parts about it was that it really isn't all
that surprising that this happened because of the problem we've
had with politics and discourse in this country. The left

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continues to believe that the right, regular people on the right,
are fascists and Nazis and evil, and that they're going
to lock kids in cages, and that they're going to
do the most horrific things imaginable, and that they're coming
for regular people in a fascistic way like they're Nazis.

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And because they use that language over and over and
over again, some people have come to believe it. Millions
of people, they really do believe it. And the right,
some parts of the right, hues very similar language about
the left, and the reality is that in the vast
majority of cases, there is a lot more going on
here than that. Now. I have some really serious problems

(22:13):
with how authoritarian and in certain respects the left has become,
especially when it comes to free speech and other things.
There's been a real problem there, I believe. But the
fact of the matter is there is we have not
come anywhere near close a level where people should be
shooting other people in the streets. That is just absolutely insane.

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It's being driven by false perceptions that both sides have
of the other side because of politics. If we stayed
focused on the actual issues, not only would we get
more things done, but and live in a better country.
But I think the temperature in the room probably would
come down a bit. But the reality is, politicians are

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capitalizing on the situation, are capitalizing on social media, They're
capitalizing on the twenty four hour, seven day a week
news media in order to score political points, and the
best way to do that for them is to drive
hatred of the other side. It helps with fundraising, it
helps with them getting re elected over and over and
over again, and it keeps the focus off of our

(23:17):
things actually getting better. And because of that, until people
wake up and realize that's the situation and that you
shouldn't pay so much attention to those kinds that the rhetoric,
and you should spend more time focusing on what are
the actual solutions here, forget about the rhetoric. Until that happens,
we're going to continue to see this escalate. And unfortunately,

(23:38):
I don't think Charlie Kirk is going to be the
last person who's going to lose his life because of politics.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
So let me ask you the question I have asked
everybody in the week's subsequent to Charlie's assassination, what was
worse that Charlie Kirk was killed or that we have
millions of people people celebrating it.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
Oh, it's one hundred percent that there are of people
celebrating it, and I and I think it's because it
is a better indicator of how broken our society is.
That that's really the issue. There's always situations where you
could have even the most you know, United country, you
could have an assassination where someone gets killed. It's just

(24:24):
a crazy person goes and kills someone. It doesn't necessarily
mean anything about where society is as a whole. But
in this particular case, the celebration of it is sort
of or even just in a lot of cases, not
celebrating but just saying, well, you know, he shouldn't have
gotten killed, but you know, he kind of deserved it.
That kind of attitude is just it's indictive of where

(24:48):
we're at as a country. And again, I think it's
indictive of where the left is when they hear the
rhetoric over and over and over again that Charlie Kirk
was a fascist, he was a you know, Nazi, sim empathizer,
he was a white supremacist, he was you know, these
are the kinds of things that were said about him
over and over and over again. None of it was
even remotely true, but that kind of language for people

(25:12):
who aren't really paying attention or who are sort of
radical in their views, it made things even more radicalized,
and it turned the temperature up in the room for
really what the past two decades. This has been going
on now, and I think you have a whole generation
of people who are now voting age, you know, millennials

(25:34):
and gen Z who really do have extremely radical views.
And I think that problem is not going to go
away overnight. And it's a massive, massive one because as
more younger, as younger people take over a greater share
of the electorate, things are going to get uglier over

(25:56):
time because the differences between the average millennial conservative and
average millennial liberal, and the average gen Z conservative and
the average gen Z millennial gen Z liberal are so
extreme now, so extreme and their positions are so diametrically
opposed to each other that the conflict and is just

(26:17):
going to be exacerbated.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I want to get your reaction to a story we
talked about yesterday, and I'm not sure it's getting a
whole lot of attention. But big picture, what is the
impact of dominion voting systems now being owned by an
American who is vowing that it's going to be one
hundred percent American owned, operated and audited.

Speaker 9 (26:42):
Yeah, this is a great story because even it's sort
of everyone should be in favor of this. It's sort
of like, even if you don't think there are any
problems with the voting machines, and there are reasons to
think that there are issues with voting machines, even if
you don't believe that, though, wouldn't you rather have someone
who wants to be very transparent and regularly ought at

(27:05):
them and make sure that there isn't anything going on
behind the scenes and opening all of that up to
the public so everyone can have trust in them. Because
that's fundamentally regardless of whether an election is full of
problems or not when it comes to to voting machines,
if people believe that there's a problem, then it taints
the outcome of the election, regardless of whether there was

(27:27):
one or not. Right, And so this is a really
good thing regardless of whether you think voting machines were
a huge problem, and obviously a lot of people think that.
But regardless of whether you think that, this is great
because we need more transparency so that people have greater
trust in our elections, because that's a huge problem right now.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I want to bring up another issue, and that is
the government shut down and the I'm getting a lot
of email from people saying, how is it possible that
in a government shut down, the people that will never
be affected are the people responsible for the shutdown?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I e.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Congress justin how is it possible that we are in
a place where they get paid but a bunch of
other people aren't.

Speaker 9 (28:11):
Well, I've been asking myself that question for a long time.
I mean, we have these government shutdowns or threats of
government shutdowns every year. Every year, this is something like
this happens or almost happens, sometimes multiple times a year,
and at the end of the day, the elites who
are making the rules are going to be taken care of,

(28:32):
and it's everybody else who hangs in the balance. And
it's completely insane. And all of the stems from the
fact that they just can't pass regular budgets like every
other functioning organization in the world. Why is that because
they ultimately are playing politics and they're not doing the
right thing for people. And until the voters stand up

(28:53):
and say, we're just gonna you need to pass an
actual budget, get together and pass an actual budget every
single year, or you're gone until that happens, and until
we have a sustainable path for reducing the national debt
and things like that, which is also a huge part
of this conversation. This is going to continue to happen forever,

(29:15):
and politicians sees on the so called crisis that they're
manufacturing to accomplish other goals that have nothing to do
with making people's lives better or not. And that's the problem.
This is just a big political game that happens every
single year, sometimes multiple times a year, and it's the
voters who are allowing it to happen and have to
stand up and say we're done with this.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Justin Haskins with me from the Heartland Institute, a good
friend at this stage in our long standing visits here
on the program.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, we'll come back a little bit of a change.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Tom Claven, best selling author, will join me talking about
his newest book, Running Deep. Here on the Twelve Days
of Presston the month of October. All right, back with

(30:19):
you the twelve days of Preston Here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. You know, we're really tickled to
have the guests that we do and know that you
enjoy them. And I think we've sold a lot of
books for this fella. Best selling author of history, Tom Claven,
The latest book is Running Deep, Bravery Survival and the

(30:39):
True Story of the Deadliest submarine in World War Two.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Tom, Welcome back to the show. How are you a friend?

Speaker 10 (30:45):
I'm fine. Thank you for having me back.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I love having you on this program, especially when you
write these books. Man, I want to ask you, is
researching and writing for you? Is it more than just
a profession? And is this your hobby? I mean, do
you do anything else?

Speaker 10 (31:04):
I don't do anything else? Well first that way, I
mean I tell people all seriousness that I have no
other talents and skills, so I stick to the one
thing I know how to do.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Because you and the variety of books what I love,
of course, and listeners of the program. No, I don't
generally talk to people that write novels. I love history.
I love the true stories of history, and there are
so many and this is perfect timing Veterans Day coming up.
But I always ask, Okay, where did you stumble upon

(31:36):
the story of the USS Tang.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
I was researching something else and I came across a
line in a book somewhere that compared Captain Richie O.
Kine to Audie Murphy. Now, for some of your listeners
might not remember, but Audie Murphy was the most decorated
Army soldier in World War two US Army soldier and
Richiel O. Kaine was the most decorated Navy officer of
World War Two. But nobody heard of Rizil Okine. So

(32:00):
I wanted to find out more about him. And that's
how he's the captain of the tank which became the
most effective submary of World War Two of the Americans.
And these the submarines sank, so there were survivors, including
the captain, and they had to survive this Japanese torture camp.
And that said to me, this is a story about survival,
and I want to write it.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
I would, Okay, let's set the stage. What part of
World War two the theater? Because I think most people,
even those that are maybe World War Two officionados, when
they hear submarine, they're thinking Germans. They're thinking of the
U boats. Right, they're the most notoriously well known submarines.

(32:42):
Where is the tank operating and at what part of
World War Two?

Speaker 10 (32:48):
Well, the Tang was first launched in early nineteen forty four,
and it was operating only in the Pacific Ocean, in
the Pacific theater, and that's where most of the submary
activity was because you had the best reaches of the
Pacific Ocean. So the tank was very effective. It was
not the only submarine, of course, that the Americans deployed,
but it was the most successful.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
When we think of submarines, I think obviously all of
us look at it through the lens of the technology
of the day. How important were submarines in World War
Two to the US naval operations?

Speaker 10 (33:24):
Well, that became clear right after Pearl Harbor, because when
the disaster of Pearl Harbor meant that many of our
surface ships are not available anymore. The aircraft carriers and
destroyers they were either sunk or they were so that
damage they would not come back into action for months
and not a year or so. Well, we had left
with the submarines, which was pretty much untouched, and that
was our last line of defense for months and months

(33:45):
and months until we started to rebound. Our manufacturing plants
were turning out more ships. But if whether for the submarines,
the Japanese could have certainly invaded Hawaii and possibly even
the west coast of the mainland. So the submarines played
an important role, which surprised everybody because they don't think
considered very important. It was as important as the surface ships.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
You say that, and it's interesting to me because the
surface ships tend to get the notoriety the aircraft carriers
and some of the battleships. Submarines, I guess maybe appropriately
they bask in anonymity.

Speaker 10 (34:19):
They do. It was called the silent Service in World
War Two because they did operate well, let's face it,
they operated below the surface of the water. Weren't as
obvious visibly as an aircraft carrier or a battleship. And
one of the reasons why they could be successful is
they had to be stealthy, you know, they had to
go under water and try and go you surprise enemy ships.

(34:39):
So yes, they were. To this day you could say
that the submarines don't get the kind of attention that
the surface ships do.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Tom.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
You mentioned the captain of the USS tang Richard Okaine.
What did you learn about him before his service in
the United States Navy.

Speaker 10 (34:55):
He was a native of New Hampshire and the only
way a kid he wanted to be in the Navy.
Loved sailing, built his own little sailboats. And he was
not a brilliant student in Annapolis, but he graduated pretty
high up in his class, and he went into as
most graduates did. He went into service ships who worked
on the battleship. But like some other officers, and since

(35:19):
he decided he wanted to try submarines, and I should
point out that submarine service was completely voluntary. He could
not be assigned to work on a submarine for the
obvious reason that you supposed you have a class A
phobia issue or just a discomfort with the underwater three
hundred feet. So he volunteered, he was underwent training, and
then he became the executive officer on a boat called

(35:40):
the Wahoo, which was very successful in World War Two.
And so when the tank was being built and he's
a captain that was going to take it to the
next level, and Okaine was chosen to be captain of
the tank.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
What were his orders? What was he tasked to do
and accomplish?

Speaker 10 (35:58):
Well, that's a good question because one of the things
that the Navy did was they would send out the
submarines and like wolf packs, uh, two or sometimes three,
sometimes maybe even four submarines would would go out together
so they could support each other. Okine did not like
to do that. He wanted to be the lone wolf.
He took the tangle very independently on its own roots
and so search, search and patrols and and uh, that's

(36:21):
how it became, I think, so effective because he could
go wherever he wanted to, and he had unusual instinct
for knowing where the enemy was.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
So was he doing this on his own or was
he doing it with the approval of the higher ups?

Speaker 10 (36:34):
Well, I wouldn't exactly use the word approval, but the
hill name named Lockwood, who was a wink you know,
like stick with your colleagues, wink wink.

Speaker 11 (36:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (36:46):
Uh. Fellow Charles Lockwood was the admiral in charge of
submarines in the Pacific, and he he had so like
a paternal relationship with o'kine. You have to remember too,
o'kine when he was a named captain of the tank,
was only thirty two years old. These were these are
still very man who were putting positions of great responsibility.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
When you came across this story, like, I love asking
this question of you each time we have you on
the program. Where do you get your research? Were there
any surviving members? Were there members of family?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You know? I mean, who'd you talk to?

Speaker 10 (37:20):
Well, the last survivor of the Tang was a fell
named boats His nickname was boats live Bold and he
died at ninety nine during the pandemic. So when I
started to work on this story, there was no living
survivor of the USS tank. However, there's reports, there's deep
briefings when they when maybe liberated the camp prison camp

(37:40):
was liberated and they could recover from their ailments. They
were interviewed really extensively, and those interviews exist. They could
be found either in the Library of Congress or the
World War Two Museum in New Orleans. And Ocaine himself
he wrote a sort of a memoir called Clear the
Bridge about his time as captain of the Tang, and

(38:01):
that was very helpful. Not the most exciting read, but
it was very helpful with details.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Joining us on the program is Tom Claven the book
Running Deep Bravery Survival and the True Story of the
Deadliest Submarine in World War Two. Before we go to break,
Tom kind of quantify that statement deadliest submarine in World
War two, because that's lofty it is.

Speaker 10 (38:22):
And the Tang sank thirty three Japanese ships, and it
was by far the most ships sunk by a single
submarine in World War Two. So not only sank shifts,
but it clused the Japanese many times to alter their roots,
to sometimes not even send out convoys because they were
afraid the Tangs out there somewhere. So not even were

(38:42):
effective by sinking shifts, but they were very intimating and
changed in Japanese thinking about where they both could go.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
But there was one particular convoy that met a very
unfortunate fate at the hands of the Tang.

Speaker 10 (38:54):
Correct yes, you know, in October nineteen forty four, so
we're talking about eighty one years. The Tang by itself
encountered an entire Japanese convoy and took on. Rather than
let it go or miss out on some success here,
it attacked the entire convoy by itself, and it was
during this attack on a convoy which was successful and

(39:15):
almost every ship was sunk. The tang actually was sunk itself.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Next hour on the program, we'll have Matt Staver visit
with our Commissioner of Education talk a little bit about
the Shroud of Turin. Pretty cool stuff that was. But
first my buddy Jerome Hudson, So stick around. We are
just finishing up our number one, going to our number
two show number ten New Year's Eve, but we're remembering

(39:42):
the month of October here on the Twelve Days of
Preston on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Don't you
dare go anywhere it'll hurt my feelings. I mean it
a lot. Welcome back. This is the second hour, and

(40:23):
I know, I just feel like an obligation is here
to just say, if you're tired of the Christmas music,
I'm sorry, but I'm going to keep playing the Christmas
E music.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Christmas E stuff just makes my heart happy.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Besides, when I'm putting this show together, it's we're not
even at Christmas yet, so just saying so the Twelve
Days of Preston show number ten, which means the month
of October. So we have done a best of and
now we're into the tenth month, and even though it
is New Year's Eve, we are looking back just a

(41:02):
couple of months to October. Now this hour, we've got
Matt Staver from Liberty Council. The Commissioner of Education for
the Sunshine State, Anastasio Kamutsis a fascinating talk about the
Shroud of Turin. But first, my friend. He's a dear friend.

(41:25):
I love him like a son. Former intern, author of
the Fifty Things books, and the entertainment editor at Breitbart
dot Com, Jerome Hudson. Now, when I had Jerome on
the program, the news had broken, just in the recent
days that the NFL and its infinite wisdom not chose

(41:47):
Bad Bunny, the profane, vile, disgusting hip hop artist from
who knows where, doesn't do a music in England. He's
going to be the halftime show at the super Bowl.
And it was certainly something I was going to talk
about with Jerrow Jerme. I noticed on the entertainment page

(42:11):
of Breitbart Charlie Sheen like we really care what he
has to say about much of anything, but still weighing
in on the NFL. Going with bad Bunny for the
Super Bowl halftime show. I was fascinated by the comments
of the commissioner, basically dismissing the criticism of the selection, saying, Oh,
there's always going to be people that are upset with

(42:32):
our choice.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
He's going to do a great show.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
And then he made this comment that I found absolutely
mind numbing. He said, it's going to be a uniting event.
What the heck is he talking about?

Speaker 12 (42:48):
Yeah, you know, I will say it's possible that in
some grand fashion the show includes a real, true patriotic
jet true as I say that, I cannot really think of,

(43:08):
at least in recent memory, a halftime show and has
done that. And now the more that I think about it,
all the divisive, truly horrific political seems like the Beyonce
halftime show was just, you know, twenty minutes of a
black panther rally basically, So I like to look at

(43:29):
empirical data. I would throw Charlie Sheen in that because
he was kind of the last person Preston, and I
mean maybe the last person that I thought who would
not only weigh in, but would have such a hard
line stance on it. Charlie Sheen basically saying they need
to drop bad Bundy because Charlie Sheen doesn't think that
it's going to be that bad Bunny's going to deliver

(43:49):
a show that's going to be pleasing to the majority
of the country watching the game for the sake of
the game, right, Like I think, I think it's always
going to be Noodle because I just don't know enough
of football fans. But I don't know in twenty thirty,
twenty five years, going back to high school, I marched
in the Savannah Hyde High School band when I was

(44:12):
in eighth grade. A lot of people come for the game,
and you see the prayer circles after the game, and
you have the national anthem, star spangled banner that is
before the game. Is very patriotic and it's very pro America,
and that Bunny could do that.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, but here here's the problem though Jerome, he stayed
seated during the national anthem at a playoff game with
the Yankees. He kisses guys on stage, he dresses like
women on stage frequently. He will not be entertaining in English.
He's going to be entertaining one Spanish.

Speaker 12 (44:51):
Songs are in Spanish.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
And then he had the gall to stick it in
the face of American fans saying you've got a few
weeks to learn it, learn Spanish.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
It's like, well, screw you, pal. I mean, I don't
I don't.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Understand any any way, shape or form where this is
going to be quote uniting. I'm just grateful that Turning
Point USA is putting an alternative show out there.

Speaker 12 (45:15):
And I can't wait to see the numbers on that. Yes,
I just can't wait. I'm looking at empirical data fifteen
hundred and nineteen US adults as nationwide, you know, do
they think that.

Speaker 13 (45:29):
Do they?

Speaker 12 (45:29):
Do they oppose or are they for bad Bunny performing
at the Super Bowl? And the number is completely split
and actually forty eight percent of approved, not even a
majority of that approved. And I think it's for the
reasons that you laid out, you know, and you didn't
mention that bad Bunny just a week before he was
announced as a Super Bowl performer, basically bashed immigration and

(45:54):
customer sportsmith yes, and said that he skipped on his
worldwide tour. He basically toured and everywhere except for Antarctica,
he's skipped the United States because of President Trump's illegal
immigration crackdown and said that he wouldn't do shows in
America because for fear that his fans would be arrested,

(46:17):
and so pretty despicable guy.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
And what does the NFL do?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Roger Goodell signs off on bringing him as the halftime show.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Beautiful, It's about business, babe, It's about business in the NFL.
But that's grow is about growing his audience in Spanish
speaking countries. And Bad Money is the perfect person, maybe
the only artist on the planet alive today who is
best to do that. But that's that's the end of
the conversation as far as Roger did.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, but what happens because I personally think they're going
to have trouble with their rate card for the halftime
show now that turning Point USA is promoting an alternative
halftime show. And what if a third of the audience leaves?
Do they do rate adjustments? Do they give rebates? Do
they do bonus spots on the carrying network?

Speaker 12 (47:08):
It won't happen. It won't happen after this year. Right,
they'll still be the NBA, the NFL still be able
to charge the networks, They'll still be able to charge
the advertisers. The company it's the same rate, but this
turning point. Does it again in February twenty twenty seven,
and the audience grows the turning point the audience shrinks

(47:29):
during the halftime show for the Super Bowl. Then I think,
you know, we've seen this time and time again. You know,
money matters, and money certainly talks, and it makes markets
move and it makes minds change. Target Cracker Barrel, you know,
Bud Bud light on En Hauzard Bush Parent companies. So

(47:50):
that's what I'm saying. You know, if the audience strengths
during the halftime show to offset the amount of people
watching the commercials during the game, yeah, you will see
you will see thinking change. But again, like I just
looked at a video of Jay Z who is on
the selection committee. I think he's the head of the
selection committee, and this contract was just extended. He's proud

(48:11):
of the choice for bad Bundy.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Whatever, I'm going to make a prediction. You can make
note of it that they will be doing bonus spots
for the advertisers of the halftime show this year, not
next year, not the year after that, this year, because
they're going to lose audience and they're going to owe
the advertisers because they're not going to have the audience
penetration they expect. Love my conversations with Jerome Hudson, you

(48:36):
can tell we are we're buds. Even though he's quite
a bit younger than me, I'm young at heart. It's
the Twelve Days of Preston and this is day number ten,
the month of October. More to come on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back to the Morning Show

(49:13):
with Preston Scott and our presentation of the Twelve Days
of Preston the month of October. This is show number ten,
so the month of October, and I know it's New
Year's Eve. Now for this segment, we got a little
deep into some Bible and the shroud of turn because
I sat back yesterday and thought about the third segment

(49:39):
of the show in yesterday's program and decided now I
needed this. This needs a little more time. We are
in a time in America right now where a lot
of people, young and not so young, are awakening to

(50:05):
this the tapping of the Holy Spirit, the still small
voice that's saying, come to me, all who are weary, burdened,
heavy laden, and I will give.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
You rest.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
And I wanted to share a story written by Paul Gardner,
and he simply writes two tangible reasons for a bold
faith in Christ. One is prophecy. I talked about the

(50:55):
fact that biblical prophecy has been a a real centerpiece
for my faith, my study of God's Word. I used
to teach a course apologetics one oh one and Apologetics
one oh two. They were two different courses I taught
years ago at our church. And apologetics is not apologizing.

(51:26):
Apologetics is a term is a word that comes from
the Greek word apologia, which means to give a defense.
The Bible talks about always being prepared to give a
defense for the hope that you have. And this information
I first came across in Josh McDowell's book Evidence That

(51:46):
Demands a Verdict. McDowell wrote a piece that was just
I mean, it's tough reading. Evidence the Demands of Verdict
Part one and Part two put together is thicker than
the Chicago Phone Book back in the day. I mean,
it's thick full of material. And he probably got it

(52:09):
from the book Science Speaks, authored by mathematics and astronomy
professor Peter Stone and doctor Robert Newman. In nineteen fifty eight,
Professor Stone addressed the questions was the Jesus of the
Bible who he claimed he was? Was he really the

(52:30):
Son of God? Was Jesus the Messiah? And for his
initial calculations, Professor Stone used eight of approximately three hundred
prophecies about Jesus and his life his coming that exist
in scripture. He used eight. The eight he used Micah

(52:54):
five to two, born in Bethlehem, Malachi three to one.
A messenger will prepare the way for him, That would
be John, his cousin, that he will enter Jerusalem riting
a donkey Zechariah nine to nine, wounded by his in
his hands by his friends. Zechariah thirteen six, betrayed for

(53:16):
thirty pieces of silver. Zekaria eleven twelve, gave thirty pieces
of silver to a potter. Zekaria eleven thirteen, remained silent
before his accusers Isaiah fifty three seven, and wicked men
pierced his hands and feet Psalm twenty two sixteen. And

(53:36):
evaluating the prophecies, Professor Stone asked this singular question one
man in how many men has fulfilled this prophecy? He states,
I realize that some will object to this question, saying
that these prophecies were made with respect to Christ, and
no other man has or even can fulfill them. But

(54:01):
he did the math. Fulfilling just eight of thirty three
biblical prophecies about Jesus came to the number of one
in ten to the seventeenth power, that is, the number one,
with seventeen zeros after it.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Those are the odds.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
If you double that and add eight additional prophecies and
take it take it to the number sixteen. The odds
of one man fulfilling all sixteen would be one times
ten to the twenty eighth power times ten to the
seventeenth power, or one in ten to the forty fifth power,

(54:50):
that is the number one, with forty five.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Zeros after it.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
He didn't fill fulfill just sixteen prophecies, though Christ fulfilled
three hundred of them. And what makes that significant is
that while you could say, well he chose to enter
writing a donkey, he knew what that prophecy was fair,
that's fair.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Did he know the donkey was going to be there?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Did he know it would be given to his disciples
for him to ride? And even if he did, if
it was just a chance, I mean, come on, what
about the other two hundred and ninety nine plus prophecies.
What about being born in a certain town? Did he
have control of that? Well, he did as the son
of God because it's prophetic. Did he have control of

(55:45):
the trial? Did he have control of the betrayal? Did
he have control of the fact that a townful of
people screamed his praises one week and called for his
crucifixion the next?

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Did he control that?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
What?

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Did God know?

Speaker 1 (56:02):
And he laid out a trail of breadcrumbs for us
to know. That's just part of what I want to
share with you. This is how Professor Stone concludes his

(56:34):
mathematical calculations. Any man who rejects Christ as the son
of God is rejecting a fact prove perhaps more absolutely
than any other fact in the world, Which is why
some have written a book basically stating that it takes

(56:55):
more faith to believe in evolution, and that there isn't
a God then that there is. But then there's this
the Shroud of Turn. Now I have long been a
follower of news surrounding the fourteen and a half foot

(57:18):
by three point seven foot wide shroud. It contains the
face up image of a man with bloodstains on his forehead, wrists,
and side and feet exactly the areas of the body
where the Christian Bible describes how Jesus was crucified by
Roman soldiers. But it's really a photographic negative. Research indicates

(57:45):
that the fabric of the shroud is characteristic of fabrics
fabric's woven in Israel during the first century. The fabric
contains microscopic residue of plants known to exist around Jerusalem.
In a story from Newsmax, doctor Robert Harrington, renounced skeptic
and scientist, recently shocked his colleagues and peers when he

(58:06):
announced his conversion to Christianity. After the investigation into the
Shroud of Turin, Doctor Harrington embarked on his study of
the shroud, intending to debunk its authenticity. However, as he
delved deeper into the analysis, employing cutting edge technology and methodologies,
he encountered findings that challenged his scientific and personal beliefs.

(58:27):
Quoting doctor Harrington, I approached this study with a critical mind,
ready to expose what I believed was a longstanding historical fabrication.
But the evidence we uncovered was so compelling that it
left no room for doubt. This is the burial shroud
of Jesus of Nazareth. And then he gets to the

(58:48):
shroud of Turin research project, which included thirty five physicists, chemists,
NASA image specialists, electrical engineers, forensic pathologists, and they determined
that the sh shroud's image and here we get to
the important part.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Appears to have.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Been created by an oscillating strobe of high intensity coming
from inside the body. The event happened in one fortieth
of a billion billionth of a second, like a laser
beam moving two point five billion watts of electricity. To

(59:29):
create a similar light, one would need all the electric
power generated on Earth. If I have said it once,
I've said it probably one hundred times over the years.
It takes more faith to not believe in a god,
the God of the Bible, than it does to believe

(59:51):
in God's word that he sent his son, which we
just celebrated.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
All Right, we come back the.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Commissioner of Education and commuts us on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. In the Twelve Days of Preston Well
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 14 (01:00:18):
We struck up a relationship with Blaze and Golia, the
new CFO, and a relationship with the new Commissioner of Education,
Anastasios kammuts Us.

Speaker 15 (01:00:33):
Good morning, Preston Presson, Thank you so much for having
me on the show. Looking forward to discussing on something
that impacts both you and I as Leon County residents.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Well let's start there now. Obviously, we've got listeners all
over the state and in fact all over the country
because of iHeartRadio, and so, as I like to point out,
you can learn lessons by just paying attention to what
goes on in any local community, and I think that
what's happened here in Leon County as it relates to
education is a really great opportunity for people to learn lessons.

(01:01:07):
So let me start with this. Why did you choose
to come to the school board meeting on Tuesday night?

Speaker 15 (01:01:13):
So the reason I was going is, I know there's
been quite a bit of scrutiny on two major issues
right now in Leon County. The first as a school
board member Daryl Jones, who is engaged in social media
posts as it relates to Charlie Kirk that are totally
divisive and inappropriate, and so there's been some outrage in
the community, and I know there wasn't the only public

(01:01:35):
speaker that evening. The superintendent called me out, suggesting that
this was an intimidation tactic, but I think he fails
to recognize he is a public servant at the end
of the day that answers to constituents. I am, in
fact one of the constituents of Leon County, and so
I am allowed to be able to provide public comment
at a school board meeting. And I did that as

(01:01:58):
it relates to the Daryl Jones hosts. But I also,
as Commissioner of Education, wanted to show the school board
and the superintendent there is a pass forward as it
relates to these teacher salaries, and so I took the
time to address both issues, and they're very pressing issues.
I have continued to beat the drum and make sure

(01:02:19):
it's a priority that these teachers in Leon County are
receiving the compensation increases that they deserve. I am a
huge advocate for the educators and making sure that we
receive it in the timely fashion. Year after year, Leon
County has failed and paying their teachers these salary increases
that the governor appropriates in a timely fashion and so

(01:02:40):
to this year, we're doing everything we can so that
they understand we're advocating for them to get those pay increases.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
We're talking about. Over the last six years, nearly six
billion dollars has been put in place solely to improve
and increase teacher pay. I'm curious, I personally think the
fault lies on both sides. What's your perspective.

Speaker 15 (01:03:06):
I don't disagree, I think, and then I said it
at the meeting. Leon County families and educators deserve better
and it's up to Superintendent Hannah and the Leon County
school Board to deliver. Leon County Schools continues to show
a lack of effective leadership. How is it a year
after year totally nearly six billion dollars over the past

(01:03:26):
six years, Leon County has repeatedly failed to deliver those
raises on time. Last year, teachers had to wait over
six months before they saw those pay increases reflected in
their paychecks. And what's interesting is that they continue to
criticize the governor as if he is not championing this

(01:03:47):
initiative to give teachers the pay increases. Let me remind folks,
he had one point five billion dollars last year alone
recommended in his budget, the legislature landed on one point
thirty six billion dollars, which was still an increase from
the year before. That was an increase of about one
hundred and two million dollars, but again that's money that

(01:04:08):
is only dedicated for teacher salary increases. Let's also talk
about the highest ever per student funding at nine one
hundred and thirty dollars per student, which is an increase
of nearly one hundred and fifty dollars per student. And
so the district has the ability to be able to
utilize the flexibility you recall in the first year, I

(01:04:31):
think new teachers were prioritized to increase that starting salary
and then there was full flexibility given to the school
district to be able to make sure that the veteran
educators were seeing similar pay increases in their salaries. And
so as it relates to Leon County, instead of correcting
task mistakes and finalizing teacher pay agreements on time, we

(01:04:53):
see that the Leon County Schools is once again dragging
its seat. I also want to say that while the
state invests and teachers and classrooms, yeah, Leon County is
prioritizing executive staff and administrative paid, which is a real problem.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
You touched on something here at the very end of
that last segment that I think is worth expanding on.
You know, it has long been believed that though there
are some fine people working in the district, just like
there are some great teachers and administrators, but Leon County
has long earned the reputation of it creating high paying

(01:05:30):
jobs at the district for people that fail as principals
or assistant principles in the school system. It's where bad
administrators go to be paid very well. In your experience,
if you look at the structure of the county, staci
is it. Are we top heavy? Do we have more
administrative people at the district level than most districts are size.

Speaker 15 (01:05:53):
Yes, Unfortunately that is the case, and I called it
out at the school board meeting. I pointed out at
Saint Lucy County School District, for example, Saint Lucy County
has forty nine thousand plus students. Leon County has about
twenty thousand less students. Yet Saint Lucy County has only
two hundred and eight administrators and executive staff, but Leon

(01:06:15):
County has more at two hundred and seventeen. It leaves
me scratching my head thinking why have they prioritized administration
and executive staff over the teachers. And when you look
at some of these pay raises for those individuals, you're
seeing numbers increasing of over ten thousand dollars and that's
a you know, that's significantly more than what they're offering

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the teachers who are in the trenches impacting these students' lives.
I want to make sure I make something clear because
I'm often attacked as if I was not a kid
who grew up with a single mom three kids, struggling
to make ends meet. My entire life, I went through
the public education system, and I often rave about the

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great teachers that had a significant impact on my life,
both inside the classroom and outside. Whether it was basketball yep,
whether it was the math team. I mean, we have
great teachers who are doing great work. They deserve to pay.
I also want to say the president of the Leon
County Teachers Association, who's a supposed advocate for these teachers,

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Scott Maser, also has quite an insulated salary, making double
what a starting teacher makes, with a total compensation package
exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and so the Leon County
District leadership and school board members wonder why teachers are
frustrated and are debating whether to leave the county. I
can tell you this is a big reason why.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Well, I mean, what's going on with the leadership of
the union locally is no different than what happens in
unions all across the country Florida. You know, FEA is
top heavy, with a lot of people making a lot
of money. And of course Scott Maser, in his comments
to the local newspaper, was very dismissive of that, calling
it a distraction. No, it's very significant that he gets

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paid more than double but the rank and file teachers
are making in this county. But this also dovetails into
the discussion on consolidation. To my knowledge, only one school
board member, Alvis Smith, has been raising the issue of
the need to consolidate schools. What's happening or not happening
in Leon County that is happening in other parts of

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the state. I'm under the impression that, for example, Duval
County has been consolidating like crazy and shutting down schools
and opening schools where people are moving.

Speaker 15 (01:08:29):
That's exactly right. Look, many schools in the Leon County
School District are operating at half capacity, yet district leaders
refuse to consolidate or manage resources efficiently. They choose instead
to complain about budget issues instead of actually solving the problem,
and I call them out at the school board meeting.
Like you said, we've seen not just Duval, but several

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other school districts who are choosing to close and consolidate
schools in order to have more efficient operations. Roward has
done it. Heck, just next door Wakulla have even done
some consolidations and have developed or implemented plans for consolidation.
So I think with the right leadership in place, Leon

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Counties could certainly follow their lead. But that's just it.
I was at an announcement earlier this week with President
Richard Corkran at New College and Governor DeSantis championing the
Civics and Debate initiative, and we were celebrating how many
students have participated. Originally it was only eleven school districts.
Now all sixty seven school district with over three hundred

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and thirty teams are participating. The hundreds of hundreds of
kids are doing this why because of great leadership. Yep,
we don't have that here in Leonmac County.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
Commissioner of Education for Florida, Anastasios Camuzas a frequent guest,
now very pleased to say that we got the people
that matter on this program. No fluff, all good content.
Speaking of when we come back. He's the head of
founder of pastor of Liberty Council, Matt Staver here on

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the Twelve Days of Preston. Welcome back to the Twelve
Days of Preston, day number ten, the month of October.
As we look back at the year twenty twenty five,

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we've made so many good friends over the years, with
people that make a difference, not just in Florida but
across the country. And one of them, founder of the
Liberty Council, Matt Staver.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Some good news.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
I want to talk specifically for just a few moments
about the federal judge ruling in Florida's Escambia County school
Board that it can in fact deal with questionable books
in its libraries.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Explain the case.

Speaker 16 (01:10:50):
Yeah, this is a good decision by a federal judge
regarding the Escambia County school Board. They removed a book
called and Tango Make Three, which follows two male penguins
who adopt Patch and then raise Tango, which is a
penguin chick at New York City Central Park Zoo. And
this was actually promoting same sex marriage. So the school

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board decided that this was inappropriate for the young readers
and they removed it. They were then sued in twenty
twenty three by the co authors and a female student
wanting to borrow the book from her school library. The
judge Alan Windsor rejected their first Amendment argument. Actually, he

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cited our case that I argued in one nine to
zero at the US Supreme Court, the Shirtlift versus City
of Boston case, And he goes through the criteria for
what requires what requirements there would be to get a
public form? In other words, did the library open up
its facility as a public form for people to bring

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library books and therefore excluding a book or removing a book?
Is that viewpoint discrimination into the first Amament? And the
judge said, no, it doesn't meet that criteria. The libraries
must have discretion to be able to purchase books, and
they have discretion and control over what books they retain
and what books that they remove. This is not a
public forum where any author or individual can force a

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library to either accept a book or retain a book
that they don't want to have on the shelf. So
this is a good decision in one certainly that makes
common sense and protects children.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
However, we also recognize that we are fighting an adversary
in Satan that is just not going to fold up
and go away. This is an ongoing battle. Matt, talk
to me about the challenge. Okay, we've got this court ruling.
It's a win, but we know that this is going
to be fought in other ways, in other venues and

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with other judges ruling differently.

Speaker 16 (01:12:55):
Well, and here's this thing. There are cases previous to
the shirtlifd case that I argued in twenty twenty two
and one nine to zero that go the opposite way.
So another word, when a library chooses to remove an
objectionablebook book like this because it's inappropriate for young people,
the libraries have ensued and the judges have gone the
other way. I think the tide will turn as a

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result of the Shirtlift case. However, on the other hand,
what you have is the vast majority of libraries, particularly
public libraries, whether they're school K twelve or outside, are
different than a Scambia. Scambia is making good decisions to
remove books that should not be on the shelves. But
what we find in most libraries it's the opposite. So

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they are excluding religious or Christian books or books from
a conservative standpoint, or they put them in places where
they're hard to find, and they're purchasing with tax dollars
pro LGBTQ books and abortion books, and they're prominently displaying
them so that they're very easy to find. That's primarily

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what's happening in a lot of these school situations as
well as public library cases. So we really see the opposite.
So what do you do with that, Well, if a
court can't force them to accept a particular book, then
what happens is you need to be involved in the
political process. So you need to go visit your libraries,

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whether they're K through twelve or public libraries for the
general public and find out what kind of books they
have on the shelves and then bring this up for
political pressure. And what we're seeing is this is happening
all over the country where the political pressure is taking place. Parents,
people in the community are going to these different deliberative bodies, county, city,

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deliberative elected officials, and they are protesting and bringing up
these issues in some way, even taking it and believe
it or not, to extreme levels. To illustrate the point,
even reading verbat in some of the trash that's in
these libraries that's quite offensive and is shocking to the
people that are sitting on the board making these decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
When you look at some of the rulings coming out
of the High Court and you look at some of
the cases it's accepting or not accepting, kind of give
me your overview, your sense of where we are with
the High Court right now.

Speaker 16 (01:15:21):
Well, at the High Court, I think we're in a
good trajectory. They're not making all the right decisions that
I would agree with, but by and large, the trajectory
is correct and they're correcting some of the problems that
we're seeing in the lower courts. What we're seeing in
the lower courts is absolute rebellion. Ideological decisions that are
being put in place that are not following law, particularly

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as it relates to President Donald Trump's actions, and we
see those overreaching time after time a time. But then
you have more activity of the president at the United
States Supreme Court than any other president in American history,
and the success rate and when ratio at the Supreme
Court is phenomenal. So some of that is being corrected.

(01:16:04):
I think that'll have long term consequences in a good way.
We do have a number of cases that are at
the Supreme Court that I think are very positive. One
it was just arguing last week. That's the Change Council case.
We've been litigating that since twenty twelve, and I think
we're going to have a six three or seven to
two victory on that particular case, striking down these laws

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that ban counsel to people who want to overcome on
wanted same sex attractions, behaviors or gender confusion. So I
think that's a good decision. We've got a case that
I'll be we'll be hearing from at the end of
the month or early November, and that's the Kim Davis case.
In that case could be one that would that's challenging
the twenty fifteen of Bergerfel's same sex marriage opinion. Plus

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it's also a big, huge religious free exercise case. So
keep an eye on that one. That'll be a huge
one if they accept the case. But I think generally
at the High Court it's going in the direction that
should it's correcting some of the errors of the past
decades of the activist judges. But on the other hand,
you had a lot of judges that were put in

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place by Biden and Obama, and those, by the way,
they're not rule of law type of generally people. They're
ideologically driven, the results oriented, and we see that a
lot in some of them recent litigation. It's frustrating to see,
but I think at the end of the day, it's
being corrected when it's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
All said and done.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
Though, if a district judge, you know, for example, the
Supreme Court says district judge cannot go beyond their district,
but they keep doing these nationwide injunctions and they're not
following the directives of the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
What's the remedy.

Speaker 16 (01:17:43):
Well, the remedy is appeachment. But you know, we've never
had an impeachment that's been successful recently. You know, the
last one was Alsei Hasten's den in Miami and he
was impeached for accepting it bride, but then he became
a US member of Congress and the Democratic Party. He's
deceased now, so it's not been a real effective means.
The other possibility is just continually, you know, the Supreme

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Court recorrecting the record and forcing them to obey. And
the other is other kinds of discipline that might be.
You know, judges are also should be abiding by their
judicial codes or canons of ethics, and if they don't,
they could be you know, challenged that way as well.
I know, in the litigation regarding church lockdowns, we had

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a case where it went to the Supreme Court, we
won five to four. In December of twenty twenty, we
went back down to the district court and Obama appointee
ruled against us again. We had to go back to
the Supreme Court a second time, this time one six
to three. But that's the kind of thing that we're
dealing with. And the problem that we have is even
though the Supreme Court is correcting a lot of these
cases with regards to President Trump, most cases are not

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taken up by the Supreme Court. So that means a
lot of damage can be done by these lower court
justices or judges. I should say that the justices we'll
never see and never be able to correct.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
As always, we appreciate all the work you and your
team are doing. Thanks so very.

Speaker 11 (01:19:06):
Much, Thank you, Preston. Always good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Thank you, Sir Matt Staver with us from Liberty Council. Boy,
if you want a place to direct a few dollars
for a good cause. They take on cases that go
before the United States Supreme Court. Matt will never brag
about it, but his record before the United States Supreme
Court is incredible, absolutely incredible, because he's got God on
his side. And oh, by the way, he's smart and

(01:19:29):
he's right. Matt Staver of Liberty Council. You know, we're
proud of every show we do. We do the very
best we can every day to bring you good content
and some thoughtful maybe commentary, some good dialogue back and forth.
And I just love the guests that we have. So
this is the best of the best and the end

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of our number two. When we come back our number three,
we'll kick it off with JD. Johnson of the Talent
Training Group here on the twelve Days of Preston.

Speaker 17 (01:20:04):
Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
Christmas Tree lovely.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Yeah, how lovely are they are?

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
We waiting for an answer? Welcome. Sorry I'm stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Welcome to the third and final hour of today's show,
show number ten of the twelve Days of Preston, and
here's my visit for the month of October.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
With JD Johnson of the Talent Training Group.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
We talked personal defense once a month here on the program,
but we've been doing it for years, often twice a month.
And JD, you and I haven't chatted since the events
of September tenth, and it really it is very difficult
to this moment to get my brain around the fact
that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Let me first ask what

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was your reaction when you heard?

Speaker 17 (01:20:58):
Well, I got I got a text about it happening,
so I got on the immediately, got on the on
the internet, and you know, it's just it's mind boggling
to me that that it happened. But I guess that's

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the world we live in today. There's a movie out
there that I really I think the older I get,
the more I relate to it. It's gone No Country for
Old Men. And it was the sheriff that just had
a you know, had seen all manner of things in
his career and in his life. And he's really had
a hard time wrapping his head around the the violence

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in the world we live in today.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
And I kind of feel that a lot lately.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
When you, I mean, we step away a few days,
we get some information. Obviously, the videos out there and
and there's all kinds of doctor videos now.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
That are out there. We've talked about that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
He's not the president of the United States, but Charlie
lived in a world where bulletproof vests were commonplace. He
wasn't wearing one that day, knowing on his staff was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
What they wouldn't have helped.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
It wouldn't have that shot, no, because it was above
the torso right.

Speaker 17 (01:22:23):
Not only that, is that any ballistic vest that you
can wear that is soft, soft enough, small enough, thin
enough to wear under a T shirt where you don't
look like a teenage mutant ninja turtle right, okay, is
not going to stop a high hired rifle. It's not
designed to. The soft body armor easily defeated by small,

(01:22:49):
high velocity projectiles. They're designed to stop pistols and shotguns,
and they're end at the story rifle plates. Body armor
are thick, heavy, and either ceramic composite material.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Or steel.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
Obviously the fault lies with the person who committed this act. Yes,
At the same time, I can't help but step back
and think where no lessons learned from Butler? The high ground,
the high ground the I mean, I immediately thought about
they've got all the video showing this young man on

(01:23:29):
the security system. JD tell us, if I'm not mistaken,
you worked with FSU police, right, Yes, and while it
was then and this is now, when things have probably
changed somewhat. Do they have a place where all of
those cameras feed and there are monitors that you can
look at or not.

Speaker 17 (01:23:48):
I have no idea nowadays the technology since I've since
I've been even I've been retired for twelve years now,
so technology has come a long way. And I know
that there are live feed camera systems in operation in Tallahassee,
just for general everyday things. So that's monitored by somebody.

(01:24:12):
I don't know about campus, but I do know that
I had an experience one time to be part of
the security detail for Lewis. Ferricn came and spoke at FSU. Well,
he's a divisive guy. Yes, are considered by most to
be a divisive person.

Speaker 8 (01:24:29):
And.

Speaker 17 (01:24:30):
We locked down every building, searched every building, went on
physically went to every rooftop and posted people to keep
somebody from accessing a building and gaining the high ground.
That's that's security protocol one oh one. I mean it
doesn't that's not changed.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
We're I don't quite know how to frame our discussion
here today. I you see, we were just talking in
the break. You know, whether they have a little bit
of a command center where they have all those feeds
that someone can be saying, hey, there's somebody on that
roof tell Charlie to hold on until we go send
somebody up there to check it out, or turning Point USA,

(01:25:14):
even flying drones above the facilities if they don't have
the adequate staffing. And I'm not faulting the university, even
though it's the biggest university in the state of Utah
by capacity. But at the same time, BOYD, what would
you say is a lesson or lessons to learn from this?

Speaker 17 (01:25:36):
You know, we have to do a better job, as
law enforcement has to do a better job. Security experts
have to do a better job whoever's in charge of security,
especially for and here's the thing, it's not just a
it's not just Charlie Kirk. It's anybody. There's people that

(01:25:56):
will do bad things like that just to be famous
in today. You know, that's that's a big part of
the school shooters, the active shooter people. They're looking for
notoriety or notorious, reputation, whatever you however you want to
call it. I mean they're they're looking A lot of
them are just simply looking for that to go down

(01:26:18):
in history and trying to make their mark on the world.
And you know, uh, infamous is part of being famous.
You can have infamous, you can have famous. Uh, that's
what they're looking for. They're in their really messed up mind.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
So we come away from this situation with just a
you know, hopefully people take more seriously the nature of
the world we're living in now, because one thing is
is not arguable. This violence is being celebrated by people
on one side of the political aisle. Unfortunately, when we
see this violence happen to certain in certain circumstances, No

(01:26:59):
boy on my side, nobody that I know of that
things like me, we don't celebrate the death of anybody
like this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Ever, No, it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Doesn't matter whether we ideologically think they're nuts. It's wrong
it's evil, but there's a side that celebrates, which tells
me JD. That there is a likelihood of this type
of violence happening again.

Speaker 17 (01:27:19):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely, to anybody willing to step out on
the public stage, to anybody, not just necessarily people representing
the right or you know, people representing the left or whatever,
just anybody willing to step out on the public stage
that is a public figure that somebody knows a lot

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or a lot of people know who they are.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I'm reminded of the line from the movie In the
Line of Fire, which was about that. It was about
an assassin that used to work for the government that
decided he was going to end the life of a president.
He said, you cannot stop me, because all that's required
is for me to be willing to lose my life,
and I'm willing to do.

Speaker 17 (01:28:01):
That, And that's there is there's some truth in that
ton of truth to that. If I'm willing to you know,
if I'm willing to embark on a suicide mission, somebody's
gonna have to know that I'm leaving the house, and
that's my intentions when I go, Because between there and
the end, if you don't know what's coming. I've got weeks, months, days,

(01:28:24):
hours to make all of this happen and to adjust
my plan. And unfortunately, like you said, evil exists, and
there's people willing to do that kind of stuff just
to get their name in the history book.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
All right, when we come back, I thought a pepper
today's program with a little bit of you. So it's
What's the Beef and some of your calls. Who knows,
maybe you made it on the air and on the
best of show that's coming next here on the Twelve
Days of Preston. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.

(01:29:20):
This is show number ten, which is the month of October,
and it's a segment that I have done for nearly
all of the twenty three years plus of doing the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's when I turn over
the phone lines to you and let you take over
the content with What's the Beef. I look forward to it,

(01:29:42):
You look forward to it, and it's always interesting. If
you're new to the radio program. Thank come friends. The
third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott for

(01:30:03):
October the tenth show fifty four to seventy and on Friday,
we take calls for this half hour. It's known as
what's the beef? Where you get some things off your chest.
We have two rules, no profanity, don't make it personal.
And because Dave has a meeting that he's walking into
in five minutes, I said to Jose, Dave goes first. Dave,

(01:30:25):
thanks for calling in and being with us. What's the beef?

Speaker 8 (01:30:29):
Hey, Preston, I got to stay right off hand. I'm
a long time caller, first time list. How does guy
get sulking off by chairs? I used to work there
at a university right there in your backyard, and I
love the job, and God opened the doors, and somehow

(01:30:49):
in his will he pushed me, and I do mean
pushed me in a good way to go work at
a local high school. And it has been a transition.
But I am shocked and amazed at how much sacrifice
high school teachers have to do. I am our contract

(01:31:13):
is basically for eight hours a day Monday through Friday,
but we can't get the work done in that time,
and we have no resources. And I am working eight
to ten hours on Saturday and class to six hours
on Sunday just to get the job done. Because it
requires grading and homeworking lesson plans, and then on Sunday,

(01:31:33):
because they're so underfunded, I'm being sent out in the
community to go talk to business leaders to ask for donations.
So after eight weeks of this, I basically send an email,
you know, very very politely touch to my chain of
command and was like, hey, listen, I need to set
some boundaries. You know, y'all telling me I'm doing a

(01:31:55):
phenomenal job. You're telling me I'm going to buff and beyond.
But I really really need to revisit my contract and
figure out.

Speaker 18 (01:32:02):
What am I doing wrong or do we.

Speaker 8 (01:32:06):
Need to you know, we got to figure out something.
My wife, my family is getting upset because I'm in
my office all day Saturday, all day Sunday. Y'all are
sending me out in the community to fundraise. I need
a break. And I was just shocked. I ain't even
put in my in my message and I quote, we understand,

(01:32:26):
there's no disrespect here, there's no anger in these words.

Speaker 19 (01:32:30):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:32:30):
I am not gonna leave. I'm not gonna quit. I'm
just asking for a little guidance. And I got back
the most the response that I just couldn't wrap my
head around that basically told me, well, this is how
it works. If you don't like it, maybe this job
isn't for you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Oh wow, yeah, Dave, thanks for calling in. You've got
a meeting to get to. I would tell you have
your new marching orders right there. That's just my opinion.
You got to you gotta do what you know you
feel like the Lord's leading you to do. But that
response tells me there is no future there. That's just
me though, But thank you and thank you for what

(01:33:09):
you do in helping and Karen for those kids that
you are teaching.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Ray, thanks for calling in. You're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 18 (01:33:17):
You know, it's been sticking to my craw. The absolute
disrespect that the UN gave to our president about three
weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
Huh.

Speaker 18 (01:33:27):
And unfortunately with the news cycle it just rolls off
and we don't think anything about it. But there were
three slaps in the face with him, the escalator stopping
that the telephone are not working, and then the meeting
getting translated into Portuguese. Got to watch my language.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
I was just going to make sure that this wasn't
going to go to I know you well enough to
know Ray, this isn't going off the rails at least
not too far.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
But have you got it all said?

Speaker 18 (01:34:05):
Yeah, I mean to heck with those people seriously, and
we support your graft.

Speaker 15 (01:34:12):
You do nothing.

Speaker 20 (01:34:14):
Our president has done more for world peace in nine
months than y'all have done in ninety years.

Speaker 18 (01:34:25):
Just there needs to be an apology. There needs to
be a formal apology, and heads need to roll from
the UN or we need to withhold funding.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
Now I would just say kick him out of the country,
be done with them. That's what I think. Great, Thanks
very much for calling in. It is What's the Beef Friday?
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We're going
right back to the phone line. Standing by is Greg Greg.
Good morning, Thanks for calling in. What's the beef?

Speaker 21 (01:34:54):
Joe Bullard and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Jones
were disciplined and we'll be oberg hasn't been.

Speaker 13 (01:35:02):
Joe Buller was.

Speaker 21 (01:35:02):
Fired, fined ten thousand dollars from the Southwestern Athletic Committee,
and Jerry Jones's dray middle finger got him a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine from the NFL. Yet
here is woo The Goldberg's quote from Monday's episode of
The View. Everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in

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the sun.

Speaker 22 (01:35:25):
That's the first thing.

Speaker 21 (01:35:26):
And then this is probably the only time you'll ever
do this, give yourself a Latin accent, as if it
didn't already work for Ted Danson. That just shows you
that even after the death of Charlie Kirk, there's still
no freedom of speech in the workplace unless you're a
democratic socialist activist.

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
All right, Greg, thanks very much, hope you feel a
little bit better getting that said. Let's go back to
line four here, John, you're up.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
What's the beefy?

Speaker 13 (01:35:59):
Good morning?

Speaker 11 (01:35:59):
Play us.

Speaker 19 (01:36:00):
And I'm afraid my first wife's gonna be at you
because earlier this week you kind of whiffed on Poe Pot.
You didn't remember that he was the desperate leader of Cambodia.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Oh it was Cambodia. Okay, yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 19 (01:36:14):
Yeah, the Kenning, the Killning Fields, the killing fields. But anyway,
I'm kind of upset that all these people are angry
with the the Boyne Uh, the Boyne school Board not
recognizing a fraud in their midst when they hired him.
The guy said all these accreditations was good. Uh, we've
got a senator. I won't name her name, but she

(01:36:37):
uh uh. She looks like Marci Off, married with children
and looks like a chicken when she gets all animated
and trying to talk, and posed as a Native American
to get a job as a college But I'm not
gonna name her name. Uh So you know she got
by with it and is a senator. So don't jump
on the school board anyway.

Speaker 10 (01:36:57):
They'll have a good wigain.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
Thank you, John, appreciate that. See here we go to Dennis. Dennis,
you're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 13 (01:37:05):
Good morning presson? My thing is, can we fign a
petition to keep Jimbo Fisher out of Tallahasseee? Because I'm
not the only one that I talked to a lot
of people about that game last weekend. I had to
turn it off in the third quarter because this little
pow wow session he was having in the end zone
and they kept cutting back to him and cutting away
from the game. I was so irritated. It was bad
enough watching, you know, Florida State played the way he did.

(01:37:26):
And I'm not mad at the boys. They played the
hard time, and I'm glad they didn't. I mean, they
fought to the end, but they have him sitting there
just chatting away about, Oh, I would do it this
way and I would do it that way. What do
y'all think about this? The whole game was so irritated.
I wanted to throw something out my TV.

Speaker 12 (01:37:45):
Well, the way he.

Speaker 13 (01:37:46):
Left our team that we had to dig you know,
he left us in a hole for seven years and
we had to dig out because he thought the pastors
were green or somewhere else. He can just stay somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Thank you very much. I hope that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
You feel a little bit better getting that off your
chest there, Dennis, let's go to Ken.

Speaker 11 (01:38:04):
My beef is with our government. You can't be and
I know you've heard this one hundred times, you can't
be a president more than they years. Then you can't
be anything more than their years. You don't need somebody
sitting up there for fifty years doing nothing. And I'm
so angry at her right now. If they can't fix

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it so we can keep running, why do they see
they get paid?

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
That's absolutely affair.

Speaker 11 (01:38:35):
They should be the first ones not to get paid.
They're not doing.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Their job completely agree, there needs to be an introduction
of a if need be a constitutional amendment that if
there's a government shut down, then they don't get paid,
none of.

Speaker 11 (01:38:50):
Them first first ones don't get paid. They ain't doing
their job.

Speaker 13 (01:38:55):
You've got your.

Speaker 11 (01:38:55):
Government, you've got your military, you got your everybody else
is doing their job. Some are not doing it for
no money. But these guys who won't do their job
are still getting paid. I'm sorry, have a good weekend.
I'll let it go with that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
You don't have to apologize to us around here, my friend.
It's what's the beef? So where we take your complaints
and let you get it, get it aired. A lot
of people agree with you on that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Of course, the government shut down is revealing how big
the government is and how needless a lot of government is.
But the idea of you know, the one thing I
will push back a little bit on is I understand
term limits, but just understand the term limits give more

(01:39:40):
power to the unelected bureaucrats, and so it's really that
one's tough. But I don't disagree with the principle of
your point. All right, let's do some news and when
we come back. US Congresswoman kat Camick joins me. On
the twelve Days of Preston here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott wasting no time here on the Twelve

(01:40:19):
Days of Preston. Here is our October visit with US
Congresswoman Cat Camick the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
We're gonna waste.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
No time because time is fleeting this morning. That's what
happens when you are a member of the United States Congress.
Joining us is US Congresswoman Cat Camick from Florida's third District.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Good morning, Cat, how are you.

Speaker 23 (01:40:39):
I'm doing good. Great to be with you in between
diaper changes. And by diaper changes, I don't mean my
own I mean little baby os.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
I thought you might be talking about some of the
members of Congress, but certainly.

Speaker 23 (01:40:50):
In the Senate absolutely because they won do act like
babies in summer of the age for that to actually
be a thing. But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
I have spent a good bit of time this morning
talking about the shutdown, pointing out that this primarily is
about an absurd number of requests that people like AOC
want to put back in and Schumer is basically surrendering
the rest of the party to the extremists. Plus illegal
immigrant healthcare in the form of health insurance subsidies in

(01:41:19):
the like, how would you characterize the shutdown?

Speaker 23 (01:41:24):
I would say it's not just a shutdown, but it's
a shakedown. You hit it right on the head there.
We're looking at a request from the Democrats of one
point five trillion dollars and in that one point five
trillion dollars, they are requesting two hundred billion dollars with

(01:41:45):
a B for illegal non citizens taxpayer funded healthcare. And
I actually have had a few Democrat constituents in my
office here in the last couple of days, because I
always have an open door policy. You know, anyone who
wants to come in and meet, they absolutely can, and
they all try to challenge me on this, and I'm

(01:42:06):
always happy to point out that on page fifty seven,
section twenty one forty one of the Democrat counter proposal,
it says in black and white exactly what we've been saying,
that they want to give non citizens illegals healthcare that
is even better than what people on Medicaid effectively kick

(01:42:28):
and so yes, that is actually their number one ask.
But as part of that, there's also some other nuggets
in there. In trying to do the subsidy for insurance
companies they're actually rolling back the historic fifty billion dollars
that we just invested into rural healthcare. And for anybody
in North Florida, you know, you see it. The healthcare system.

(01:42:51):
It's crumbling as we know it. We don't have healthcare.
We've got sick care, the health all the clinics are
shutting down, we have maternity health deserts, hospitals shutting down.
And the Democrats want to take that investment and direct
it elsewhere. So we have a huge mess on our hands.
But we're going to hold firm.

Speaker 1 (01:43:08):
I was just going to ask you, will the Speaker,
will the Senate majority leader.

Speaker 23 (01:43:12):
Hold absolutely there's zero appetite out of the Republican conference
in the House or the Senate to perpetuate a four
hundred billion dollars subsidy to insurance companies. Keep in mind
that insurance companies have logged a two hundred and thirty
seven percent profit margin this year. There's no appetite in

(01:43:35):
the country. And I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat.
It's heard that an insurance company would get the subsidy
to then turn around and say I'm going to lower
your health insurance meanwhile, I'm going to keep denying because
we see denials on the rise and perpetuate a system
that is effectively broken. We're not going to do that.
So the Speaker has been very clear, we are not

(01:43:56):
going to hold the American people hostage over a discussion
that is entirely separate. And I should add entirely of
the Democrats to do and keep in mind, they were
the ones that made these subsidies temporary and slated the
date for this and everything. Meanwhile they're saying it's so
essential that it needs to be made permanent. Well, they

(01:44:17):
had nothing but time, space, and opportunity to do so,
and they opted not to. Makes you wonder.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Why it sucking a lot of air out of the room.
The government quote shut down. The fact of the matter
is the overwhelming majority of you feel no impact of this,
which really speaks to the large esse of government. But
kat I thought it was amazing. The Washington Post and
an op ed said the real problem is that the
Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama's

(01:44:45):
signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with
subsidies based on their income. The dirty little truth about Obamacare,
which we knew more than a decade ago, is finally
being admitted to by some on the left.

Speaker 22 (01:45:01):
M hm.

Speaker 23 (01:45:02):
I mean that's it right there. I couldn't have said
it better myself. The Affordable Care Act has never been affordable.
And when you talk about people who are watching as
this fight is going on and they hear all my
premiums are going to increase, keep in mind that again
you have a broken system that over the entire course

(01:45:23):
of the ACA or Obamacare as we all know it,
it has gotten worse. Your premiums have doubled, while the
quality of care has been cut in half. The number
of doctors, the number of procedures, you know, accessibility has
has actually gotten worse.

Speaker 18 (01:45:39):
That is why you.

Speaker 23 (01:45:40):
See, not only is it fiscally irresponsible to continue moving
forward down this path, but we have some serious structural
reforms that have to be made in order to really
get back to a place where you and your doctor
are making decisions for yourself and your family rather than
some bureaucrat or someone at the insurance company who's going
to either approve or to not your procedures and your

(01:46:02):
healthcare needs. That's me is absurd. So again we're eighty
five days out from those those subsidies expiring. There's absolutely
no good reason as to why they want to tack
on a massive and I mean massive. You heard four
hundred billion dollars without a single debate on it, and
so I just think that this is ridiculous. People are

(01:46:24):
seeing the writing on the wall. The Democrats conveniently omit
that they voted for this bill four times. Previously, this
exact bill, every single word exactly the same. They voted
for it four times. But now they're willing to hold
hostage the entire American government. And you see, most people
aren't really impacted by this because people have gotten smart

(01:46:44):
to the fact that the fearmongering doesn't work. Social Security
checks still going out the door. Where we do mean
to actually address things is the military. They should never
be used as political pawns in the Democrats games, or
any game for that matter. They're the ones that are
not getting paid. When you look at TSA, border patrol, ice,

(01:47:06):
et cetera. They're showing up doing their jobs and they're
not being paid. That's not okay, that's not right. They
should absolutely be paid. But every time we put the
bill on the floor, to pay our essential services and
the government shutdown. The Democrats they know, tells you everything
you need to know about where they're at. And that's
me is really really discouraging, just as an American, that's

(01:47:27):
really discouraging.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28):
Well, you highlight and you brought up Ice, and I
have to point out, boy, if there's not If there's
an issue that highlights the difference better between Democrat run
states and Republican run states, it's what's going on with
trying to enforce immigration laws in this country. You look

(01:47:49):
at what's happening in states like California, in Illinois, in Oregon,
and you compare it to what's happened, say in Florida,
where nothing's happened, where we're getting it done, it's.

Speaker 23 (01:47:58):
Stark m M, I mean, and my heart just broke.
We all. I hope everyone has heard that that call
out where Ice was getting swarmed by some very agitated protesters.
They were getting violent and they called for backup. And
you heard rank and file officers in Chicago on the

(01:48:22):
radio talking to dispatch saying, you know, are we going
are we being dispatched? And the dispatch operator was basically saying,
no leadership has given us directives do not respond. My
heart broke for not only the Ice agents on the
ground that must have been absolutely terrifying, but then the aige,
the officers who wanted to be there to back their

(01:48:43):
fellow brother and sister up as the wife of a
first responder, this is something that it really hits home,
It really really hits home. And that again is the
Democrats political leadership right there saying that they are going
to literally play politics with people's lives by issuing a
directive like that. So I think that the difference couldn't

(01:49:07):
be more stark. Americans are not stupid. They're seeing how
this is playing out around the country, and overwhelmingly, I
think you're going to see that reflected in midterms next year.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
I hope so. And I hope that members of Congress,
I hope. I don't know if you're on the appropriate committee, Cat,
but I hope that the superintendent of police in Chicago
who lied to the media yesterday and said no such
order was given when the evidence is overwhelming, I hope
he's called to testify an.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Answer to that.

Speaker 23 (01:49:35):
I imagine he probably will. Let's get the government back up
and running and get back to our work of actually
doing our appropriation buils so we can reduce the size
and scope of government. And I'm sure in the meantime
we'll be holding people accountable through the appropriate committee.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Kat. Thanks as always. We'll talk again in a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 23 (01:49:54):
Be well appreciate it, Preston, have a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:49:56):
Hey, we've got one segment to go, so don't leave us.
It's the twelve Days Preston Here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott and final segment here Morning Show with

(01:50:26):
Preston Scott. For this particular show, which is the tenth
of the twelve Days of Preston, it is New Year's Eve,
so a quick reminder, be smart, just saying, be smart,
live to see another year.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:50:46):
We'll be back tomorrow. We show number eleven the month
of November, but this polishes off the year. Sorry, the
month of October. And before we get to our final segment,
here came across the story that I thought was interesting.
Of course, we devote time to pets on the show
Doctor Steve Steverson in our pause for Thoughts segment, and

(01:51:10):
I had this story just catch my eye. I thought
it was really interesting. The headline says this what dogs
actually mean when they look guilty, according to science. Now,
before we delve into the meat of the story here
for just a moment or two, let's remind ourselves that

(01:51:34):
we now live in a world where there are communication
pads for dogs. I bought one for my wife, and
I bought one for one of our kids and his wife.
They have two dogs that they just have elevated to
a pedestal and a platform that is higher than life itself,

(01:51:57):
and we thought it'd be interesting if they could get
their dogs to talk to them through these communicators where
they just push buttons and in essence they learn how
to tell you what they want. It's pretty remarkable stuff.
But science says that when a dog cowers, it's actually

(01:52:17):
something that comes from their wolf relatives, that they are
in fact signaling an apology bow. Out in the wild,
if a playful wolf bites too hard, the animal will
be kind of spurned by the pack for bad behavior.

(01:52:40):
In order to return to the social unit, the wolf
approaches with an apology bow. The theory is that dogs
are doing the same thing when they look guilty. That's
their way of apologizing, Hey, you know, just saying take
it for what it's worth. But it is an interesting
thought to say the least. All right, let's get to

(01:53:01):
one of our favorite segments here on the Morning Show,
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and inappropriate matters, seek professional tax and or legal advice.

Speaker 2 (01:53:34):
Howard, good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:53:35):
Tell me what are young people doing today with their money?

Speaker 22 (01:53:39):
Well, young people today, I'll tell you what they're not doing.
Not a lot of them are becoming first time home buyers.

Speaker 16 (01:53:51):
This past year, pressed in.

Speaker 22 (01:53:55):
First time home buying fell to just slightly over a
million homes. And that's actually just barely half of the
historical average if you look at the last twenty years,
and if we're talking about gen Z mid twenty age Americans,
only sixteen percent bought homes this past year, and that

(01:54:20):
compares to about twice that number of twenty five year
old's answer to your question, they're opening up investment accounts.
Thirty seven percent. That seems high, Yeah, it is, It's
very high. It's actually up from six percent a decade ago,
winning up investment accounts and with a strong preference towards

(01:54:46):
the more emerging, exciting, higher return type investments.

Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
So young people are investing more now than they did
a decade ago, by thirty one percent. That's crazy.

Speaker 22 (01:55:00):
Yes, well, I think it speaks pressed into the fact
that I have more options today. We have exchange traded
index funds. And just to give you an example, there's
a company frankly that I've never heard of, called Volatility

(01:55:21):
Shares that filed for the approval to have twenty seven
single stock and crypto crypto currency index funds. Here's here's
the drum roll that are levered up five times. Okay, Now,

(01:55:42):
just for the listeners to get a little bit better understanding, Okay, well,
what does it mean to be levered up five times?
It means for every dollar that they invest in that
index fund, they're borrowing an additional five dollars from the
management company me to give it extra juice. But you know,

(01:56:04):
folks have to remember that works good when things are
moving up. But you capture five times the loss when
things turn the other way.

Speaker 1 (01:56:13):
And there's a record amount of money flowing into these things,
right and at least in the US, Yeah, there really is.

Speaker 22 (01:56:19):
If we look at the flows to the end of September,
you had over one trillion new dollars pouring into index funds.
Now that's all index funds, leveraged and unleveraged, single stock
or not. But that type of flow is three times

(01:56:40):
the normal amount when we look back at the month
of September historically, and as a result of that, you've
had in the neighborhood Preston of one and a quarter
trillion dollars moving into index funds just here in the
very near term.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
How many EFTs have launched this year?

Speaker 22 (01:57:03):
A bunch, A bunch is the answer. Eight hundred that
have already launched this year. And since we talked about it,
with a third of those employing leverage within their structure,
and I'd like to make a comment about that. So
we talked about leverage in the market. It's a little

(01:57:26):
different than you know, borrowing funds to buy your first home.
There's currently one point one three trillion in margin debt
and the investors you know, you pay interest when you
take a loan out right, So there's one point one
three trillion in margin debt. That's a new all time

(01:57:49):
high by a wide margin, surpassing the margin debt that
we had or the leverage that we had in the
markets back in nineteen ninety nine, right before the dot
com boom bust, and well higher than the financial housing
market peak back in two thousand and five and six.

(01:58:12):
So I was simply in by the note that this
is certainly not a low risk investing environment.

Speaker 8 (01:58:20):
Back.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Okay, full disclosure.

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
This is the third time I've tried to wrap up
this program. Maybe it's because I've been up since one
thirty in the morning. One in the morning, I don't know,
and it's two in the afternoon. But I'm not doing

(01:58:47):
this again. I've gotten the timing wrong twice.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
And I'm at the end of this show.

Speaker 1 (01:58:56):
We'll have show number eleven tomorrow on the Twelve Days
of Preston. It's New Year's Eve, and so you know what, friends,
I'm just gonna say, be safe tonight and we'll be
back with you tomorrow on New Year's Day. Bye.