Ep. 5131: What Happened at a Disney Shareholder Meeting

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Episode Transcript

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Oh, come get some of thatthis morning you ask you received. Good
morning and welcome friends, Friday ofthe Morning Show with Preston's gott April the
fifth day, fifty one thirty one. Great to be with you, Grant
Allen running the show our verse today, let's go through it all Aphesian six.

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Finally, be strong in the Lordand in the strength of His might.
It starts at verse ten. Puton the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to standagainst the schemes of the devil. For
we do not wrestle against flesh andblood, but against the rulers, against
the authorities, against the cosmic powersof this present darkness, against the spiritual

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forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor
of God, that you may beable to withstand in the evil day.
And, having done all to standfirm stand. Therefore, having fastened on
the belt of truth, put onthe breastplate of righteousness, and as shoes
for your feet, having put onthe readiness given by the Gospel of Peace.

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In all circumstances, take up theshield of faith, with which you
can extinguish all the flaming darts ofthe evil one, and take the helmet
of salvation and the sword of theSpirit, which is the Word of God.
Praying at all times in the Spiritwith all prayer and supplication to that
end, keep alert, with allperseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

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and also for me, that wordsmay be given to me in the
opening of my mouth boldly to proclaimthe mystery of the Gospel, for which
I am an ambassador in chains,that I may declare it boldly as I
ought to speak. Come on,Paul wrote that in prison. He wrote
that looking at the Roman guards,and he took what the Roman guards were

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wearing, and he fashioned it intothe armor inspired by God that we are
to be wearing. You want toknow why you're getting worn out. You're
getting worn out in part because youare not wearing the armor of God.
We are not fighting the type offight that is conventional. It is an

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unconventional fight, and you must useunconventional weapons, conventional in God's world,
unconventional in this world. You wantto beat the forces of this present darkness.
You do so, you overcome bythe blood of the Lamb and the
word of your testimony. And thattestimony starts with preparing yourself for battle with

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the armor of God. Ten minutesafter the hour. That's how we start
here on the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Twelve minutes past thehour. Take a peek inside the American

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Patriots Almanac here in a moment.But first Sunday is the United Prayer Summit.
The idea comes from Second Chronicles sevenfourteen. If my people will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, I

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will hear from heaven, and Iwill forgive them their sin, and I
will heal their land. This isabout praying for your community. If you're
in the Tallassee area, it isat the moon ironic, given the eclipse
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Take a peek inside the American PatriotsAlmanac sixteen fourteen. Indian Princess Pocahontas Jamestown,

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Virginia, colonist John ralf Are married. I'm curious how did that?
I mean, how they figure thatout? Did they? How they communicate?

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I know that she would be invaluablein helping the settlers communicate with the
Indians. And I know that thereare accounts explaining her understanding of English,
and some way, shape or form, she would become very, very fluent
in English over the course of herlifetime. But you just wonder how that,
How was it? Like a look, so was she coy? Was

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she? Hmm? I mean,I don't know. I'm just crazy.
And then it was seven years laterthe Mayflowers set sail from Plymouth to return
to England. I think Grant's relativeswere on board the ship coming in.
No, never mind, just theone coming. Yeah, they never left,

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they stuck around. Huh. Seventeenninety two, George Washington casts the
first presidential veto, rejecting a billto apportion representatives among the states. Nineteen
thirty three, doctor Everts Graham performsthe first operation to remove a lung in
Saint Louis, Missouri. Again oneof those swallow hard think you know what

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you're doing and sure he can livewith one lung. What a decision,
what a what a bold strategy,Cotton. And then in nineteen eighty four,
Kareem abdul Jabbar Luel Sinder. That'show many of us remember him coming

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out of UCLA Lewis lou Alsinder.A run of centers that UCLA had.
The era of John Wooden college basketballwas just different. There was think Alabama
football under Nick Saban. That's whatUCLA basketball was under John Wooden. It's

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funny because years years later I wouldbe asked to coach an AAU team for
a local high school and I usedone of John Wooden's offenses, the double
high post offense. It was thatgood and we just schooled teams with it,
just schooled them so much fun.He was such a great coach.

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But Kareem was a player. PhoenixSuns lost him. It was a coin
flip when he was coming out ofcollege. The Milwaukee Bucks won the toss
and selected Kareem abdul Jabbar. TheSons lost the toss. Fates were changed.
Interesting because the Bucks would win theNBA title and then Kareem would leave.

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He went to Los Angeles shortly afterturning pro that he changed his name.
Anyway, he was followed up byBill Walton. I personally liked Bill
Walton's game because he was just abrilliant rebounder and passer who's just so incredible.
And the NCD I think it wasthe championship game. I think he

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shot twenty one of twenty two fromthe field and not all around the rim
dunks. No, no, no, no. He's one of the greatest
performances in a NCAA tournament game.It might have been the semi finals,
but I think it was the finalsanyway, seventeen after the hour, come
back, let's get to let's getto opening up the show here. Well

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we sort of have, but wellyou know what I mean. Yeah,

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as listeners born out, don't forget. You can always catch up on the
program. You miss something, clearly, context matters, and so we might
be talking about something that we've beentalking about all week long. And if
you're just tuning in after missing thefirst few days of the week or all
of the week, just remember,go back listen when you can. It's

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a little there. The Apple pickup where you left off. If you
subscribe to the Morning Show with PrestonScott podcast, you'll get notified every day
when there's a new show The Conversationspodcast. Same thing. I mentioned this
earlier in the week. Case inPoint Washington Post has an article about Democrat

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data scientist Aaron Strauss. He helpsa what is described as a progressive spending
mission at the firm Open Labs,and inside the article it the data is

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showing that when Democrats help register youngervote, they end up registering people who
will vote for Trump. Now they'reconsidering not even holding voter registration drives in
target markets because they might align withTrump. Here's from the Wappo. Confidential

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memos circulated among top Democrat donors hassparked a furious debate in Democrat circles about
whether to narrow the focus of voterregistration efforts to avoid signing up likely Republicans.
So first of all, let's backup for just a second. All

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of those tables set up at atin front of Walmart's and in college you
know, greens, green spaces,and you know we're just registering vote.
No, no, no, no, no no. They are focused on
registering Democrats. That needs to beremembered up front. It's it's why if

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you you know, there were someof the petition gatherers for the abortion petition,
they weren't telling anybody what the petitionwas about, and someone caught wind
of it. In fact, Ithink it was a listener of this program
and followed him around and said,this is about allowing abortion to birth,

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and that person signing getting petitions signedleft because they did not want to disclose
the truth about what was being signed. You know, folks signing those petitions
is really silly if you don't fullyunderstand what's at stake. Matt Staver talked
about that at great length yesterday.The article can continues for decades, nonpartisan

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groups allied with the Democrat Party haverun wide ranging efforts aimed at increasing voter
registration among people of color and youngpeople, groups that tend to lean Democrat
but have historically voted at lower ratesthan older and white peoples. And then
at the end, it says this. Aaron Strauss, an influential data scientist

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who helps direct progressive spending at thefirm Open Labs, sparked private disagreements over
this issue in January, when hesaid about a dozen major Democratic donors a
confidential memo that challenged traditional nonpartisan registrationquoting. Polls in the recent months have
regularly shown Biden is polling below twentytwenty levels among black and Latino voters.

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Recent Quinnipiac University poll found Biden pollingsixty percent of Black voters thirty four percent
of Hispanic In exit polls in twentytwenty, Biden got twenty seven percent of
Black voter sixty five percent of Latinovotes, So dropping from eighty seven to

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sixty percent and sixty five to thirtyfour. Those are numbers that could lead
to a landslide. Now, don'tread anything more into it than the fact
that they're now freaking out over registeringkids because they're worried a bunch of kids
are aligning with Trump and guess whatthey kind of are back with the big

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stories in the press box. Next, Preston Scott, Hello, Hello anybody
O Hya Live on News Radio onehundred point seven, Douusla. What's to
be Friday? In the third hour, Best and worst of the week according

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to Grant and Me, Well havea dad joke. News headlines from the
b next hour. Scott Sheppard hewas represented at the Disney shareholder meeting or
he was there. We'll find outwhat happened, but first the big stories

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Florida's GOP is within one percent offlipping Hillsborough County red. Is that

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because, look, you can't getthere with just people leaving the Democrat Party.
But that certainly is part of it. People are just leaving the Democrat
Party, some are becoming Republicans,are just remaining independent. But people are

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leaving the Democrat Party and I toldyou they would. But this is also
I think a result of the migration. That's good news. Right now,
Florida Republicans have a nearly one millionvoter lead over Democrats. That's stunning.

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That's good news. Center for ImmigrationStudies they are pro legal immigration, anti
illegal immigration. They are absolutely awareof the differences. Data shows the most
migrant flights have been landing. Theseare Biden administration flights in Florida. Biden's

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bringing them to Florida because the Departmentof Homeland Security refuses to answer freedom of
information requests. The Center for ImmigrationStudies did an analysis of public information on
US Customs and Border Protection website filteredto see Office of Field Ops Airport Customs

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Officer encounters and have found out thatFlorida has been the top landing site nearly
three hundred and twenty six thousand initialarrivals through February, and this started in

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October twenty twenty two. Again,this is Biden targeting Florida intentionally. Lesser
numbers landing in Houston, New York, both northern and southern California, and
Washington, DCA, Florida is theheaviest by far intentional targeting. Speaking of

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National Guard member arrested for smuggling,member of the Texas National Guard tracked down
on a high speed pursuit arrested specialistSavvion Johnson twenty six. Twenty seven year
old Texas National Guard member was smugglingin an illegal makes you wonder what he
got paid what he got offered USCongressman Chip Roy, pointing out that according

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to the Wall Street Journal, sixtythree percent of the new audits targeting taxpayers
whose income was less than two hundredthousand dollars sixty three percent. Do you
remember what we were told that thepeople being audited were the people that make
a million or more a year,and some said, oh no, no,

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note, don't you buy that.Don't you believe it? In fact,
eighty percent of audited taxpayers earn lessthan one million dollars, but they're
targeting less than two hundred thousand aswell. Last big story, mortgage rates
are rising yet again. Applications havedropped for three straight weeks, and right

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now rent is more affordable than buyingin all fifty states. See what's happened
is people aren't selling either because theirrates are infinitely lower. So if they
sold, they would they You can'ttake your mortgage with you. If you

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sell, you have to then buywith the new rates. For example,
I've got a fifteen year note,mind's at two and maybe six tenths.
Why in the world am I goingto pay five six percent? Tripling my
costs? No? Forty one minutesafter the hour The Morning Show with Preston

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Scott, would you would it besafe to say that homelessness has been a

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thing all your life? I meanpeople have been homeless. I have no
idea for generation. I never noticedit when I was a kid, not
around Tallahassee. Yeah, I couldn'tthink of it. But like the places
where I would drive up and downThomasville Road and you know, the panhandlers

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and people with shopping carts full ofgarbage. It's just that didn't exist when
I was in high school. Soit's ramped up in your eyes. Yeah,
I don't know when, Like,I just don't remember it. I'm
sure probably it existed, but Ijust didn't see it in my neighborhood and
on my sides of town where Idrove. No, I never saw that

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when you see someone panhandling, askingfor money, holding up a sign.
You know. I've talked about howyou can really kind of get a sense
for culturally what's happened by just thinkingback to when you saw people holding signs.

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It was rare back in the eightiesand nineties, but those signs would
say will work for food, lookingfor work, will do anything type thing,
you know, And I remember whenit was in the early nineties.

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I approached some of these people andoffered them work and the chance at a
steady job, and was told whatwe pay today, and they laughed and
said, I'll get that in thenext two hours, next hour, that's

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also changed too. I don't thinkpeople are so prevalent to give well.
And again I think there are waysto curtail this. But here's my question.
Do you really think you're helping somebodygiving them five ten bucks even a
twenty? Do you think you're helpingthem? And I'm asking earnestly you and

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anyone listening right now, do youthink you're helping them? Are you putting
a gap between them and homelessness?Are you nudging them towards being self sufficient
and having a place. See I'mof the opinion that most times when you

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survey the situation, they got someheaters, they usually have a cell phone,
and I'm thinking to myself, huh, how do you charge that thing?
How do you afford? I mean, if you priced a carton of
cigarettes when you want to feed yourself, over feeding your habit and your addiction,

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I just see bad choices. Nowhere's the argument I want to make
as well. We're not helping peopleby giving them money. We pay a
lot of taxes, and in thiscommunity, they've fumbled the football, They've
done nothing. The state is slowlystarting to address this, but I want

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to get into and I'm going toshare when we come back, a story
that reveals why I believe we're nothelping people by keeping them on the streets
panhandling. It's a sobering story,so stick around. Preston Scott Mother No
you wear eth for drade on newsRadio one SEVENUFLA. My contention to the

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elected officials and of course the uhthe progressives out there just want to take
your money and do nothing with it. That's what they do, is that
sometimes you're not helping somebody by justgiving them money. Well, it's easy

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for you to say sort of yeah. I have known people that have worked
their way out of being homeless.They took advantage of opportunities and they worked

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hard and they got out of thatsituation. Most people that do that will
tell you that they had to getto a place where they just had to
change their mindset. And it's almostas if you're giving somebody just a little

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bit more of a drug when you'regiving them money. Just keep them out
there asking for more. A younglady in Tampa was panhandling when a forty

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eight year old guy showed up andoffered to help. His name was Walter
Medina. This happened back just afew months ago start of the year.
He initially gave her some food,oh and some narcotics, but then he

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held her against her will repeatedly.In fact, he never let her go
when she escaped. Maybe it wasMonday of this week. She jumped out

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of his van while he was ina Walgreens and ran to a local convenience
store, where she was bruised,bloodied, beaten. She had been beaten,
broken ribs with a baseball bat.She had repeatedly been stabbed with a
screwdriver. He clearly knew something wasup. When she was gone, he

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fled, but they caught up tohim the next day, high speed pursuit.
He runs into a median, theyarrest him. It was a bit
of a violent arrest. But thenyou look at his record, and this
dirt bag had served time in prisonfor false imprisonment, HMM, kidnapping,

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aggravated assault of law enforcement officers,and robbery. He's been charged with second
degree murder, attempted second degree murder, armed kidnapping, arm, false imprisonment,
aggravated battery with great bodily harm,tampering with a witness, tampering with
physical evidence. The list goes onand on. It took a canine get
him. But this goes back tothe panhandling. See. I maintain that

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by giving people money, you arevictimizing them over and over and over because
you're addicting them. And this younglady, I don't know anything about her,
don't know anything about why she wasout there, why she was panhandling.
I can only imagine that the waythings are going right now with people

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putting minimum wage laws on the books, where people that are low skilled are
out of jobs because if you're goingto pay someone twenty dollars an hour,
you're going to hire someone that's alittle more skilled. But even that is
falling behind the cost of inflation andthe pressures on the economy. So we're
going to have more and more situationsthat are going to go bad. And

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so you don't handle this. Thisis such a wide problem, a deep
problem. It is now not asnap of the fingers to fix it.
But what I can tell you iswhat we're doing is wrong. Florida is
trying to head in a better direction, but we need mental health hospitals and
we need to establish what does itmean to help someone as a matter of

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policy and understanding. You don't helppeople by keeping them addicted. And that
can be drugs, it can bealcohol, it can be money, handing
them money. Just something to thinkabout. Second Hour Next, Welcome to

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the Second Hour Friends Show five thousand, one and thirty one of the Morning
Show in Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's Grant Allen. Great to be
with you on. We are thrilledthat back on the program, Scott Sheppard.
He is the project director or he'sthe director of the Free Enterprise Project
General counsel as well. Scott,welcome back to the program. How are

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you. I'm wonderful, Preston,glad to be back with you. How
are you? I Am terrific,especially knowing that people like you are out
there doing what you do. Giveeverybody the thirty sixty second snapshot of the
Free Enterprise Project. Yeah, wetry to get corporations to drop all this
left wing partisanship and get back todoing doing their businesses and working for shareholders

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and for customers and leaving politics tothe politicians who do it badly enough.
How is it possible? Before weget to what happened this week with Disney,
Scott, how is it possible thatthese companies that are openly traded are
not held to some fiduciary responsibility levelby the SEC or somebody. Well,

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this sec, Gary Ginsler's SEC isfully in line with having corporations be left
wing mouthpieces and put the goals ofESG, which is the label that the
lefties who run corporations give to theirlefty pushes without calling it just hey leftism.

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The chief ESG goals are the sameas the chief Biden administration whole of
government initiatives. So there's no questionESG is left. All the stuff these
corporations are doing is left. Thisadministration certainly not going to get involved with
stopping that. We've seen states doit, and of course you're at the
beating heart of that, and Disney'sthe biggest loser in those games. But

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we've got to have more states involvedand hopefully eventually a different, a different
look of things in Washington. Whatwas your goal heading into Wednesday's shareholders meeting
with the Walt Disney Company. Well, our hope certainly was that the big
investment houses would do their duty foronce and vote to have at least one
non yes man on Disney's board thatunfortunately didn't happen. But our goal we

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had submitted a shareholder proposal about it, was specifically about charitable giving, but
pointing out that everything that Bob Iigerhas done at that company and to that
company has been driven by his personalpolicy preferences, his left wing politics,
rather than for the good of shareholdersand for the good of the existing customer

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base, and that all violates hisfiduciary duty, and it means he's putting
his personal private interests above those ofrunning a company. That's called self dealing,
and in a financial sense, itguarantees all sorts of bad results.
It's a per se violation of fiduciaryduty. Well, he's doing it in

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a political sense, so there's notcase law about that yet, but I
expected before too long we're going tosee huge damage awards against some of these
CEOs for making these companies into theirpersonal think tanks. You know, the
Free Enterprise Project is kind of engagedin shareholder activism, is how I've always
described it, Scott. But thereare more and more groups that are starting

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to follow your lead and are showingup at these shareholder meetings. At what
point can the board turn away fromwhat the bottom line is, which is,
if you take away all of thepolitics, you take away all the
social issues, and you simply lookat the numbers, Disney is hemorrhaging value.

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How do they explain that away?Well, the big road block is
I alluded to this just a secondago. The big, the giant three
investment houses are Black Rocks, StateStreet, and Dangord. They're run by
executives of the biger sort who puttheir politics ahead of their fiduciary duty.

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And between the three of them,they can change any election, any vote
at any shareholder meeting they want to, they can run the show. Well,
what it is now is a leftyboys club, a billionaire's boys club,
a world economic forum boys club that'sprotecting each other. So one one
outside voice on Disney was too muchfor these investment houses. A result,

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Hel's lost. We've got to breakthat. Scott Sheppard with us. We
got another segment still to come tenpast the hour in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. The Morning Show withPreston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven w f LA. We're talkingabout the Disney Company and of course Florida

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has won some significant battles with WaltDisney, and as a result, we're
seeing a little bit of a spilloverlegislature tackling ESG and and black Rock as
well. Scott Shepard with the FreeEnterprise Project is with us. Scott,

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what's next? So Disney, youprobably knew going in the odds were against
this proposal. So what do youthink happens next? Well? I think
that as we were discussing that thatthe focus has to be on each of
these individual companies. But because theywon't listen to that, they won't do

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their fiduciary duty. The Big Threewon't won't support proposals like this or insurgents
like Pelts. I think one ofthe next steps has to be the courts
with shareholder derivative lawsuits. We're we'relooking into that. We know that some
other organizations are looking into that.Another response that that Florida's a leader in,

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as in so many other things,is legislative responses. You know,
there are state antitrust laws as wellas federal there are state civil rights laws.
And one of the things about ESGhas been pushing discrimination on the basis
of race, sex, and orientation, calling that you know, a progressive
goal. As long as the discrimination, the civil rights violations are against the

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people that left, the groups theleft dislikes, Well, it turns out
everybody has the same civil rights.It's still illegal. We could fortify state
civil rights laws to include new categoriesto make it clear that if companies work
together to discriminate and violation of lawits or criminal offense. So legislation at
the state level can help. Investigationsat the state level can help. Having

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more shareholder activists join us on ourside, I think would be would be
terrific. He said, we werebeing joined by allies in putting proposals from
our side up. If most ofthe proposals from our side were up,
then the pressure we've been putting onthe proxy advisory services in Black Rock States
through vane Guard to finally start supportingsome of our stuff would get much more

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intense, and the potential lawsuits againstthem for being wholly left partisan and refusing
to admit it or to account forit, or to do their fiduciary duty
would increase. Well, you knowthat the public is behind in general,
if not understanding the nuance of it, because they're just they're not supporting Disney

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products, whether it's movies, whetherit's the theme parks, whether it's the
properties, Disney's hemorrhage and cash.Well, yeah, I mean, aside
from everything else, this left wingpolicy agenda makes for terrible storytelling. If
all women have to be perfect andleaders and powerful, then they can't have

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an arc because they can't have anyflaws. And if all the men are
wises are evil, then you knowbefore you get into the theater exactly what
the storyline is going to be andexactly who's going to play what role.
There's nothing left to tell. It'sjust tedious in doctrination, and nobody wants
to go see that. And nowthey can't put their kids in front of

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Disney because Disney is most aligned withtrying to confuse their kids about gender and
talk to them about things. Andnobody needs to talk about ever. But
certainly little kids don't need to havedrum to do them. What's next Disney
is a shareholder meeting that everyone anticipates. Who are the other companies on the
radar, Well, we've got We'vestill got most of them head of us.

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We've got all the big tech companiesthat censor conservatives and otherwise discriminate by
viewpoint. We've got the too bigdefail banks. Now too big to fail
has to mean too big to discriminatebecause those banks are backstopped by all taxpayers.
And yet the beating heart of discriminationfor and against industries people, anything

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that the center right likes is thetwo big to fail banks JP Morgan,
Bank of America, smug bankers tellingus how we can spend our money,
what we can get loans for.That fits again right with the left wing
agenda. Always appreciate your time,Scott, thanks for coming on and keep
at it all right, Thank youso much. President take here all right.
Scott Shepard with the Free Enterprise Project, he's the director and general counsel

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fighting the good fight. I loveshareholder activism. I think it's clever and
it garners attention, and it's growing. See that's the thing, it's growing
more. In the Morning Show withPreston Scott twenty minutes after the el,

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What's to Be Friday comes up ina little better than forty minutes, about
forty five minutes from now. Yourchance to just complaint. You're new to
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.We do it each and every Friday at
eight o five eastern seven oh fiveCentral, chance to just get it said.
Whatever it is that's been bugging you. Got a note here from a

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listener, am I. What Iam going to send you is really against
my beliefs, But I have thoughtsabout what the state or county governments should
do with panhandlers. I think thepanhandlers should have to pay for a business
license. Take about two months toget panhandlers with the ability to get their
panhandler license. But after the originaltwo months panhandlers don't have a license.

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They should be fine for not havingtheir license, and violations should be like
any other business that is not incompliance. Any other business in Florida has
to have a business license and andsetting up a business on a street corner
for some reason is not considered abusiness. He writes, It's an interesting

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way of looking at it. Wewere talking about panhandling in the last hour
and how you're not really helping anybody, and so you can check out that
conversation of the podcast. Got thissent to me by my son, one
of our boys, and I itwas a screenshot, so I didn't catch
the name of the person posting this, but there's photos that go with it,

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and it says I've been a Knowlesfan for thirty plus years living in
Michigan. This past week, Imade my first ever journey to Tallahassee.
Let me just pause for a second. How does that happen? Thank you?
How think you? What's the draw? First of all? Welcome?

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Welcome. Well I'll answer that question. Bobby Bodden. Well sure, Bobby
Bowden, man go thirty plus years. You're talking the heart of the run,
when Bobby was winning national titles andfinishing in the top four for fourteen
straight years. I guess I justI think of like college football being such

(41:13):
a local thing. Yeah, yeah, that it feels. But he's in
Michigan. I'm not trashing the guy, but it does feel like if there's
not like a connection, like youknow, I lived there for years,
born and raised there. You knowwhat I mean. There was a connection
clearly spiritual. I mean, hewas in Michigan, grand I know,

(41:34):
you can't even say the M inMichigan. Well, yeah, so it
feels like even anyway, Yeah,and so he said, I made my
first ever journey to Tallahassee. Ifound the Seminal Experience online booked the tour,
got to see baseball, softball,soccer stadiums as well as dope.
I don't know if the football godswere smiling down on me, if it

(41:55):
was just a stroke of pure luckor some combo both. My girlfriend's son
had to use the bathroom before wemade it into Doaks, so the guide
took us inside and there was CoachNorvelle finishing a conversation with a recruit and
his family. Let me tell you, Coach could not have been any more

(42:15):
kind and accommodating to me, somerandom fan who just popped up out of
nowhere. I asked if I couldshake his hand, and not only did
he oblige, but he asked ifI wanted a picture with him as well.
I will forever remember this day andmoment for as long as I live.
I didn't think it was possible,but I left Tallahassee an even bigger

(42:36):
fan than I was before I arrived. And then he shows the pictures of
he and Coach inside the More Center, and I wrote in the rundown,
that's our coach. That is whyFlorida State is back in football. Mike

(43:02):
norvel is his own version of BobbyBowden old school, but with a charm,
a politeness. I absolutely love howMike Norvel has taken this program over

(43:30):
and embraced what made Florida State football, which was Bobby Bowden. Different person,
to be sure, but you'll findcommonalities. Decency, caring for those

(43:51):
young men, hard work, acommitment to doing it right. I hope,
and I won't say pray, it'snot that important, but I hope
we're able to keep Mike Norvel aslong as we had Bobby Bowden, because

(44:16):
I think we will be better asa school as a football program for it.
And stuff like this just cements mybelief. This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott just telling our bossGrant always wins the best dressed award for

(44:46):
the Morning Show staff at the staffparty every year. Always guilty in an
age of civilizational decline. Some muststand alone. Some have to, like
Andy Griffith, It's Friday in theMorning Show. It I don't believe I

(45:10):
said that open. Now, comeon over here. You gotta nip it
in the butt and we've got thebig stories in the press box. What
do you make of this? HillsboroughCounty, Tampa is one percentage point from

(45:31):
flipping GOP from Democrat to GOP.Nine hundred thousand is the number that the
Republicans have over Democrats statewide, nearlyone million voters. But Hillsborough County has

(45:52):
been a Democrat haven. Why isit because of my migration? People coming
into the state, fleeing them Andwe've been worried that some of these people
would bring their politics with them,and I'm sure some will, but it
would appear to me that that's notthe case because we're seeing that happen statewide.

(46:17):
We're seeing the numbers grow. It'snot just people leaving the Democrat party,
though some are. Hillsborough County isgrowing with Republicans. Now, I'm
not making out the party to bethe be all end all of political parties,

(46:37):
not at all. They've failed us. But why why is it happening?
I don't know. I don't evenhave a theory. Hillsborough ranks third
in population, behind Broward and MiamiDade. Admittedly, I just think of
everything south of Okaala as a differentstate. You don't disappoint I live up

(47:05):
here. Everything going on down there, I don't know what they do.
But what's funny is we live inarguably the most liberal portion of North Florida,
surrounded by North Florida, which isarguably the most traditionalist conservative part of

(47:28):
the state. You'll get, youknow, the cattle ranchers in kind of
the south central Florida Lake Okeachobee area, very conservative area. But then the
rural North Florida is very conservative.Let me hear from you Bay County.
I mean you know there, shoutand amen, that's why they live there.
The Panhandle is overwhelmingly conservative. We'restill the Bible biled up here.

(47:49):
Yet it took Steve Sutherland before wehad a Republican representing that congressional district,
the second district since reconstruy Diruction.Think about that now. It wasn't until
Steve Sutherland won that congressional seat thatwas the first Republican since deconstruction. Reconstruction.

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Sorry, that's crazy, it reallyis. So you've got this remarkable
and by the way, this isa big story brought to you by Grove
a creative marketing and digital expertise thatthe GOP's within one percentage point in Hillsboro.
A couple other big things here tomention, Joe Biden's Department of Homeland

(48:35):
Security will not release the details,but through some digging, Center for Immigration
Studies shows that Biden has flown inthree hundred and twenty six thousand illegals into
Florida since twenty twenty two, dwarfingany other state, any other community,
any other area. He's intentionally targetingFlorida. It's an attack on Florida.

(48:57):
It's an attack on Rohnond de SandisNational Guard, a Texas National Guard member
arrested smuggling an illegal immigrant across theborder. Mortgage rates are going up,
ever so slightly, but they're stillgoing up. Applications for mortgages have dropped
three straight weeks, and so you'recaught up. Those are the big stories

(49:19):
in the press box. They allthere's more, but there. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott, all right, let's consider what Donald Trump said when
he was running for office in twentyfifteen, twenty sixteen. He said he

(49:40):
wanted to drain the swamp. Rememberthat. Now, there are many that
say he didn't accomplish it. It'stoo big a task for one person alone.
Agree, Yeah, I'm saying that'swhat's that's what's been said. Well,

(50:01):
he didn't accomplish it. This isand you could argue that there were
spheres that he could have, yeah, take an action it was within his
write and purview that he didn't.Yeah, and he paid a price,
I think potentially. Yeah, thisthe draining the swamp phenomenon is a worthy

(50:22):
effort, make no mistake about it. But this is a generational type thing.
Like this is like you need anew almost elite cast of Like once
you get your guy elected, nowyou've got an entire apparatus ready to go
in to every agency where all oftheir tentacles, you know, get into
our lives and just upend it.But we don't have kind of like that

(50:45):
apparatus ready to go. Well,let me use a crude analogy. In
our world of radio, going backto the early days when I started in
radio in the late nineteen seventies,radio engineers generally speaking had incredible job security.
Why because they wired things just alittle differently. They would do everything

(51:09):
by the book, but there wouldbe certain things that they would wire in
such a way that they became indispensable. Now that's not one hundred percent,
but it has long been considered thata radio engineer has the greatest job security

(51:29):
of anybody. Now. Of course, companies contract and they expand the responsibilities
to engineers in this modern era.But as an illustration, that's where bureaucrats
are. The process of Washington dC is so complex that you need someone

(51:50):
with some level experience to know howto navigate it. Now, I would
argue back, no, no,I'm just fine slowing that thing way down.
Let's have a learning curve of oh, I don't know, eight years,
sort of the do no harm wayof viewing government. If they can't
pass laws, they can't do anythingbecause they don't know what the heck to
do to pass one. I'm okaywith that in a large degree, because

(52:15):
all that seems to happen is welose more control of our country as a
citizenry. Government gets bigger. Weneed government to contract. That said,
when Trump took office in twenty twenty, or rather when he was leaving in
twenty twenty, he signed an executiveorder it targeted federal workers, removing protections

(52:38):
from some employees to make it easierfor a president to hire and fire.
He was preparing to learn he hadlearned from his previous four years, and
was preparing a second term to beable to get some people out of the
way. Well, guess what JoeBiden just did. He signed an executive
order solidified the Bureaucrats announced to playin yesterday to protect bureaucrats from being fired

(53:07):
by a potential second Trump administration,the Office of Personnel Management finalized a rule
that protects employees in civil service bypreventing removal of their status and protections involuntarily.
In other words, if you firethem, you're going to have to
go through a long, long drawnout process. This is how they protect

(53:30):
and also this is a tip ofthe hand that Biden's worried. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott, well,you know the drill, If you know

(54:02):
the program, phone lines are openeight five zero two zero five WFLA eight
five zero two zero five WFLA oreight five zero two zero five ninety three
fifty two. What's the bee?Friday comes up in just a few minutes.
How is it possible that anyone inCalifornia that works at any kind of

(54:28):
fast food or dining establishment does notunderstand and know what's coming their way?
I don't I don't get it.Lead research assistant of The Morning Show said,
Slow Learners Club Foster's Freeze, smallbusiness that operates throughout California, has

(54:55):
had to close multiple locations and anex manager was let go. Former assistant
general manager of Foster's Freeze In Lamoresaid, it's a shock. Would have
been nice to have a notice sowe could get some applications out. I

(55:17):
could prepare them. Best I cando is honestly give them some references.
Referring to the workers that no longerhave jobs. They showed up to work
on Monday, thought that the noticethat the place was closed was an April
fool's joke. It was not.On Monday, California's statewide legislation went into

(55:39):
effect that enforces a twenty dollars minimumwage for restaurants that have at least sixty
locations nationwide, except those that makeand sell their own bread. Otherwise known
as the special handout to a donorof Gavin Newsom who happens to own Paneraes.

(56:05):
True story. They exempted Penera becausethe guy gave a big donation to
Gavin Newsom's campaign. You can't makeit up, but I want to go
back to the assistant manager speaking onbehalf of staff. I can see their
intentions with increasing the minimum wage,thinking that it will attract more people.

(56:30):
But I honestly don't think it willwork. This is not the first business
that's closing. There's already a fewlocal businesses for me that are closing,
So I feel like this is onlythe beginning. From the people that I
spoke to my employees, we wouldrather have stayed at the wage we did
before, because now we don't havea job, and those who are still

(56:53):
working in the areas around us wentup to twenty dollars an hour, they
got their hours severely cut. Mygoodness, people, see this is why
you share this program. I willnever be accused of being the sharpest knife
in any drawer. I will neverbe accused of being the smartest man on

(57:15):
the planet. Far from it.But my goodness, people, common sense
goes a long way. I've neverowned a business, and I have absolutely
dissected this problem for years. Mandatingminimum wages beyond what a market demands is

(57:37):
courting inflation and job loss. Thevery people that the bleeding heart illiberal left
and the John Morgans of this worldclaim to be helping are the ones without
jobs. Yes, we were right, we warned you. We begged,

(58:02):
you don't do this in Florida.This is California, this is coming this
way. Jobs have already been cutbecause of the increased minimum wage. They
will continue to be cut because theminimum wage in Florida is locked in forever

(58:23):
to the consumer price index. Andwhat has happened there in the last three
years, what has happened to prices? See, this is what the John
Morgan's of this world didn't tell you, or they're just not smart enough to

(58:43):
have understood it. They wanted tobe populists. They want to have people
love and adore them. The truthof what happens is that the wage goes
up, and then prices go upbecause the price of that wage is infused
into the price of the good orthe service. So it just keeps going.

(59:05):
And the person working never catches upbecause they can't. But they're without
a job and they're without hours.What's the bee Friday's next? Let's go

(59:30):
ahead and do this. Turn thepage hour three. It's your time,
It's what's the bee Friday? You'vebeen slowly stewing, grinding, the burn

(59:53):
has been endless. Now's your timeto let it go, to release it,
to find harmony. And spiritual creaminessin your personal universe by letting go
of the anger. It's What's theBeef Friday in the Morning Show with Preston

(01:00:15):
Scott eight five zero two zero fivew FLA. We have two very basic
rules. No profanity, don't makeit personal. Tell us what happened,
leave the name of the business outof it. We go to George.
Hi, George, what's the beef? Good morning? Preston? Might be
first of all commenting on the tripthat Biden and Buddhajeg took together. Can

(01:00:38):
you imagine that what that dumpster firesounded and looked like? Good lord?
Oh my lord? Well, Imean it's inept and just the Twilight Zone
adventure. So my beef is withour city commissioners, particularly Jack Porter,

(01:00:59):
because I've emailed you and talked toyou about how you and Steve Stewart have
people that read his paper and listento your show from their office. Just
uh uh uh and and and thatloads. But so I called up there
uh to try to get her onthe phone to ask her about this trip

(01:01:19):
she took for the progressive stuff andcan't get a call back, and finally
talked to I guess one of heraids that lost their mind over me questioning
that and said that this was aright wing conspiracy theory hatched by a local
radio wacko and uh and uh,you know what what they call Steve Stewart.

(01:01:44):
Uh uh, you know, agarbage a garbage journalist and uh that's
what they say. They get personalwhen facts corner them. Yep, and
I mean got nasty now. Butso that means what you and stead are
doing or working so uh, butthey she won't even talk about it completely,

(01:02:09):
saying that that is denying it,that it didn't happen, that that's
just made up. Well, that'sjust that's just a lie. So oh
absolutely, Yeah, the whole thingyou're doing is so I just again,
voters Tallahassee, wake up because they'retrying to turn this into Portland into Washington
State, so Seattle. So butkeep up the good work is my my

(01:02:35):
message. Impression. Thank you,George. I appreciate the kindness and the
words, and yeah, call calljust again. Here's how you you You
just defeat it at the ballot box. That's what you have to do.
And there are options. Greg,thanks for calling in. What's the beef
being punked? By James o'keef.Oh. I was positively giddy watching Letitia

(01:03:00):
James get punked by New York andfour other primaries, all giving Donald Trump
eighty percent of the vote, roundedup or down. So then I see
his post on April first, sayingthat he is going to retirement in oblivion,

(01:03:20):
that he cannot financially keep this uphis investigative reporting, and it had
plausibility because of what has happened toDonald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike
Lindell. And one day later hesaid April fool, I was got and
got good. So you're beefing againstyourself. I was beefing that. James

(01:03:50):
o'kaid came up with the perfect ruse. Thank you very much, Greg,
appreciate the phone call. Let's fitone more here and real quickly, Ray,
good morning, you're up. What'sthe beefy? Good morning. You
know, when we get President Trumpback this time, what President Trump needs
to do is to go into everythree letter agency and fire everybody about ten

(01:04:14):
or fifteen people deep in there andreplace them to get rid of the liberal
mindset that has infested the federal governmentat this point. Completely agree, Ray,
thanks very much for your phone call. But Joe's doing everything possible to
protect the bureaucrats. Now he can, he can take care of the top

(01:04:39):
level and obviously his uh, hisown, you know, cabinet. But
Joe's doing everything possible to protect thedeep state, and he'll be aided and
abedded by some Republicans. Ron,you're next, then, Matt. We
have two lines open. Now wouldbe a very good time to call if

(01:05:01):
you want to be on the program. It's What's to be Friday on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, TheMorning Show with Preston Scott. You should
know the number by now eight fivezero two zero five wfif usla. Do
I know the number? Eight fivezero two zero five ninety three fifty two.

(01:05:26):
Going back to the phone lines inorder of longest wait, we go
to Ron. Good morning, Ron, welcome, what's the beef? Good
morning President? Always, thank you, thank you, thank you. And
I had to change my note alittle bit. Didn't know about the newsom
giving the pen you know, panor bread. I mean, is the
rules about that? Is that therelaws about the money giving the people.

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It's happening with that, it's happeningwith the family and people in the New
York deal with Trump. That's crazy. It's I just don't get it where
the rules and laws are not takinginto effect on things like that, expectally
about the money and being in thegovernment, and there's nothing going to change
until we the people voting is notworking out. I know we're trying,

(01:06:10):
We're trying, We're trying, butwe have got to do something. I'm
telling you, I don't know whatit is, and talk about Israel's got
to do what we say? Arewe aren't they their own country? That's
funny. We got a dictator ofthe world. Biden's going to say.
What everybody's got to do. Ismy buddy Vick, my good friend Vic
over the highways. Better be listeningbecause there's going to be a quiz on

(01:06:33):
this later. So all I cansay, thank you very much, thank
you very much. Thanks Ron,always a pleasure to take your call.
Thanks so much. Eight five zero. That freees up a line two zero
five WFLA. Let's go to Matt. Good morning, Matt, welcome,
Hey, good lorn and Pressed,and how you doing today. I'm usual
belliating about the politics too, butyou know, it seems like I'm preaching

(01:06:57):
the choir, and there's really awhole lot we can't do right now until
November. But I'm coming to worktoday. It's like and I'm off.
I gave in my nine year noticein December, so but you know,
if you're retired, please stay hometill about nine thirty. Don't go out
and plug the roads up doing seventen miles per hour below the speed limit,

(01:07:18):
and keep your bicycles home at leasttill ten o'clock. Don't go out
on my canopy roads on my wayto work. You know, we're trying
to some of us are trying toget to work and be productive. And
I think our DOT needs to reevaluateour passing lines. I think we have

(01:07:38):
double yellows way too often we don'tget a chance to pass. That's just
it. It was a total bellya today and I appreciate it. I
feel better, absolutely, Matt.We're here for you. I'm just going
to tag onto that it's been along standing rand of mine. I know
by law, you bikers are allowedto be on the Canopy roads. I
just don't think you should be,That's all I'll say. I just don't

(01:08:01):
think you should be, and Ithink it should be stopped. I think
we ought to let bikers be onsidewalks, and I think bikers ought to
go the opposite way of the flowof traffic to give them a chance to
stay alive when we have so manypeople texting and driving. But that's just
me, Robert, thanks for callingin. What's the beef? I'll confirm
your statement on the the bicycle was. My son was killed on a bike

(01:08:27):
in two thousand and nine and bya driver not paying attention. I'm so
sorry. My beef was is excuseme, three hundred and twenty thousand fly
ins to Florida and Texas of theinvaders by Biden. God, just three

(01:08:49):
hundred and twenty thousand into Florida.Well that could be. I couldn't have
read that wrong, but even so, it's one of them. Is too
many? And where are the Republicans. You haven't heard them do say,
or make any motion at all thatthey want to fight here. They're weak,

(01:09:15):
They're extremely weak. Thank you,Robert, appreciate the phone call.
I will disagree slightly. They're tryingto get the border closed back up,
but not enough of them. They'renot standing together, and so that gives
I think a fair amount of roomfor you to criticize Republicans in general,

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So I'll go with you on that. Sixteen past the hour, John Richard,
you are next. We have twolines open. They can be yours,
but you need to call now.One more segment of audio therapy remains
on what is called the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Here we go,

(01:10:04):
bringing it in for a landing.What's the Beef Friday? Unbelievably, we
still have two lines open, soif you didn't want to wait through the
break, your gamble paid off.You have room if you call now eight
five zero two zero five to BFLAeight five zero two zero five ninety three

(01:10:29):
fifty two. John, good morning, Thank you so much for being patient.
What's the beefy? Good morning?Pressent, Thank you and grant what
you do my beef? This morningis like about every morning with this corrupt
and incompetent administration. One of themany things on top of the President violating

(01:10:51):
the protocol with displaying the American flagby putting the Rainbow flag on par with
it. Now Easter Sunday come outand gives the Trance Day proclamation. Someone
said a long time ago this countrywould cease to be when it ceased to
be good, and I'm afraid we'reat that point. This nation needs to

(01:11:12):
beg for forgiveness, ask for revivaland repentance. Y'all have a good weekend.
Thank you, John Well said,appreciate it. Let's go to Richard.
Richard, good morning, Welcome.What's the beef Morning pressing? Unfortunately,
it's with my daughter. I havethree children. She has a twin
to a boy, and she isa Democrat, and I don't understand.

(01:11:35):
She's the only one that went tocollege and I can't get there's your answer.
I know that. But she's innursing school and she's going to be
a wonderful nurse. But I justwish my parents were still here to get
through to her. I tried andtried and tried, and I just can't

(01:11:57):
get through to her. Have herlisten to show no no no no no
no no no no no no nono. She needs to. She needs
to spend some time listening to myradio program. I think that's a very
good idea. Challenge her to giveit a listen for thirty days, okay,
and we'll win her over. Thankyou, Press to have a good

(01:12:20):
week here. Thank you brother,and and then just keep praying. That's
all you could do. I feelyour pain, brother, Larry. Let's
go what's the beef? Hey,a person, Thank you for what you
do. My beef is young mennot decamping themselves, or wearing a ball

(01:12:42):
cap in church, or when enteringsomeone else's residence, or just showing the
respect and the decorum and coming intoa place of authority, but especially church,
wearing ball caps in church. That'smy beat. Thank you very much,
Larry. Appreciate the call. Hopeyou feel a little bit better getting
that said. Let's go to Mike. Hey, Mike, here up.
What's the beat? My beef isagainst the people in this country tour I

(01:13:09):
call them domestic terrorist sympathizers. BecauseI asked a lot of people I call
congressmen, the senators, I said, do you know anything about the Second
World War? And they said,oh sure. I said, but we
have let Hitler stay in tower andsay cease fire to Hitler said, oh
you can still have Germany. Wewould have not done that. We did

(01:13:30):
what we had to do, goin and destroy not seasoned Hitler. But
what's wrong with our Some of thesepeople in our country now all they want
to do is Sea Spire, SeaSpire, Sea Spire. We need to
let Israel do what they need todo. Go in the guys that go
in the Ratha, take the headoff the snake and get rid of Hamas.
And these kids that go out thereand do all this u protesting for

(01:13:54):
Amas, they should lose their all, their everything, they get part of
their for the schooling and everything.They should be kicked out of school in
anybody, And I'm up front withdaverybody. If you go out there and
say we should have a ceasefire,I say, you never let a domestic
terance sympathizer. And I'm so tiredof all these people. We need to

(01:14:16):
let Kisrael do what they need to, go in and take care of business.
Thank you, Michael, I appreciateit. I don't disagree with you
one bit. Israel didn't pick thisfight, and the person that picks the
fight does not get to dictate theterms of how it ends. Let's go
to RUSS final caller, Rush,you are up, sir. What's the

(01:14:39):
beef? Yes, sir, goodmorning, thank you for taking my call.
My beef is about these pro abortionprotests where you hear all the protesters
are the especially the women say it'smy body, my choice, my body,
my right. I'm just wondering,why don't you ever hear about the

(01:15:00):
father's rights in these discussions? Whathappens to him if he wants the child?
What recourse does he have? Ihear you, Russ, great argument,
and I appreciate your phone call,my friend. I'm sorry, but
I'll take it even a step furtherthan that. Why aren't we protecting Why
aren't the women out there that arewhining about this concerned about protecting the rights

(01:15:26):
of the female babies that they're boarding. It's all about women's rights. What
about their rights? We've just donea poor job fighting this fight in some
public arenas. You win this oneon your knees, praying you win this

(01:15:51):
one with searing logic, which isunassailable. But sadly we had four guys
on the State Supreme Court supported gofigure. Come back with the best and

(01:16:11):
the worst, no big stories,but our thanks to Grove creative marketing and
digital expertise for helping present the bigstories. But when we come back,
Grant and I give you the bestand the worst. It's The Morning Show
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(01:16:32):
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(01:16:55):
the best and the worst Europe.My best and worst are kind of actually
the same, just two different angles. Our friendly neighborhood, TikTok influencer,
gargoyle, illegal alien friend. Helooks he does look like a gargoyle.
When you said that it maybe heuh heart he got arrested by ICE.

(01:17:20):
I was like, oh great,because he was calling on people, all
these you know, the invaders tosquat in the homes of Americans so that
they could get squatter's rights. Sothat's good. Uh, but what are
the odds he actually gets deported zero? I mean like, so it's a

(01:17:45):
double edged sword. I was like, oh, good, white pill moment.
He got a he got arrested,and I'm like, what are the
chances he just slap on the wristand gets turned loose right around. I'm
like, I've seen this story before, so same story. Best and worst.
My worst of the week, theFlorida State Supreme Court and the four

(01:18:05):
dudes. That one's hard to shake. Yeah, that one kind of kind
of sets the little bit. Yeah, stings the nostrils. Yeah, it's
uh, it's pretty bad. Andsorry, guys, you're just you got
bullied by your conscience in a badway. And by conscience, I mean

(01:18:26):
you just didn't want to seem tobe you know, that guy who just
is ignoring the women. Whatever.You're just wrong, legally wrong, morally
wrong. Good luck with that one. We oppose simple behavior in all its
forms. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Now now tied with that was going

(01:18:47):
to be Joe Biden's middle finger toChristians because we we decided long ago.
You remember, it was a consequentialdecision does the week start on Monday or
Sunday Sunday? And we went withSunday. That's right. We had a
long discussion on it. So EasterSunday is still a part of this week,

(01:19:08):
correct, And so as a result, that was in the running,
but the Supreme Court decision in Floridapunched it out of the way. Besides,
the best of the Week kind ofrelates to Joe's middle finger, and
it comes courtesy of the plain whiterapper Tom MacDonald breaking News Joe Biden has
declared Easter Sunday as transgender Day ofVisibility. Joe, I think there's been

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some sort of misunderstanding. Jesus cameback from the dead on Sunday, he
didn't come back as a woman.I mean, seriously, as a day
of visibility even necessary because they're visible, Joe, Because everywhere I look there's
a pregnant man dominating in woman's sports, or a rainbow flag, or a
miss Universe that looks more like amister Rogers, or a group of people
who identify as pancakes trying to forcefeed themselves to a classroom full of third

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graders. They're visible, we cansee them. Hey, maybe we could
have a day of invisibility where wedon't have to pretend that the adult men
begging our groceries is a beautiful lady. What's next? Christmas is going to
be Men's menstrual Cycle Day, Thanksgivingis going to be the feather Festival to
bring awareness to people who identify asbirds, Let's just rename Monday the Gay
Day. Instead of hiding little chocolateeggs on Easter, maybe we can hide

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candy coated coupons for gender reassignment surgeryor hey, maybe instead of blatantly trolling
Christians, we can just spend alittle more time not running the country into
the ground. Happy Easter, everyone. That's my best of the week right
there. Thank you Research assistant Robfor that. Gem the Morning Show,
Preston Scott for forty two minutes pastthe Hour Monday on the program, and

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White Tallasse the annual motorcycle at MusicFestival. He's the president of the event.
He will join us for a fewminutes. We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about the eclipse. Tenways, no scratch that, eleven ways
for you to feel happier came acrossten Research assistant. Lead research assistant,

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I believe sent it my way.I'm going to add to that. There
will be eleven and hopefully we'll postsomething that'll be kind of fun. But
in advance of that, just areminder, my brother is guessing. Pat
Scott Ramsey St. Paul, RamseyCounty, but Saint Paul Sheriff's Office,

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Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. He expectsto be out tonight eight ish fifteen ish.
Now I don't know if that's Centraltime or Eastern time, but I'm
expecting a shout out to you ruminators, So if you want to check it
out live on patrol on YouTube,you can look at it. But I

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will post, no matter what,the video clip on the blog sometime in
the in the next few days.So just something to look forward to this
evening. Hey, do you haveany good news for a change? So
much? Just spell it's time forsome good news. It's true, even

(01:22:35):
I need a little good news nowand then wouldn't it be lovely if we
had just a little bit of goodnews? You know, we talk a
lot, and I will tell youup front, I'm greatly influenced and impacted
by the fact that my brother Pathas spent his entire career serving people and

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putting his life on the line quiteliterally every single day as a police officer
now a sheriff deputy, and myother brother Bill did the same in the
neighboring city of Minneapolis for many years, and so my family's service to their
communities dramatically impacted me and my loveand regard and respect for law enforcement officers.

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And I'll be the first one totell you that I don't have a
lot of respect for bad law enforcementofficers. Because they harm people like my
brother, who's one of the goodones, and most are very very good,
and we see stories where they puttheir life on the line routinely.

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This is a story that just showsthe humanity and one of the reasons why
they do the live on patrol thingwith Ramsey County Sheriffs and why they have
a order of a million subscribers peoplethat follow it is to show that these
men and women are humans. Theyhave families, they have lives, they

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care, they matter. In Titusville, just a week ago or so,
a couple of police officers went aboveand beyond see they they had to arrest
a delivery driver. Guy was wantedfor charges out of Texas and Florida and

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he was delivering groceries when they caughtup to him and found him and had
to arrest him on the spot.But the groceries were still sitting in the
car waiting to be delivered. Sothe officers got the name of the and
the address of the person that thefood was supposed to be going to,
because that person and paid for thefood and paid for the delivery and immediately

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went to that home and delivered thosegroceries. I just think that. First
of all, you can back upand say, well, that's that's what
they should do maybe, but Ipromise you that's not what always happens.
Something goes wrong with the delivery.Oftentimes the person that made the order gets

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left out in the dark. Butin this case, I think it's just
cool because it reveals police officers.Law enforcement officers are public servants. Something
to keep in mind next time youget pulled over. They're mostly really good
people and thankfully that's good for us, which is good news. Here in

(01:25:54):
the Morning Share with Preston Scott,we always end the Friday program with a
dad joke. Something to share atchurch over the weekend, wherever you might

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be where you can share a dadjoke. This one came from a listener
back in July that I'm just gettingaround to because he's sent several what's orange
and sounds like a parrot. Idon't know a carrot. If there is

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a You're welcome die for some headlinesfrom your My hour, trusted source for
satire ladies and gentlemen. These areheadlines courtesy of the Babylon b Biden condemns
Jesus for rising again on Tran's Day. Of visibility. God, can people

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who attend church two days per yearcan go to heaven for two days per
year? Oh gosh, Caitlin Clarkcanonized this saint after performing miracle of making
women's basketball watchable. You didn't haveto say it. Judge orders Trump to

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stop noticing that people are trying toput him in jail. Are all democrats?
Scottish Parliament declares William Wallace was awoman after learning he wore a skirt.
Civil War erupts in southern town astwo first Baptist churches open. I

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didn't do that, insists Biden,after Aid's ask him who colored the wall
on the Lincoln bedroom. To regainpopularity, major League Baseball to allow one
player per team to take steroids.Boy, would that be a wild time.
Mexican robots surge across southern border totake new fast food jobs in California.

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Oh my gosh, geez, CaliforniaStarbucks struggling to find robot workers with
enough tattoos and piercings to work,registers. Biden's still polling well with three
am mail in ballot. Demographic andDemocrats warn parents to quickly transition their kids

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That's what I'm saying. But ourscripture was Ephesian six ten three, went
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Big stories in the press box today, of course, our thanks to grove
of creative marketing and digital expertise,Florida's Republican Party now within one percent of

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tipping Hillsboro County. Oh that's unexpected, or is it? Is it because
of migration into the Sunshine State.Are people just fleeing the Democrat Party and
becoming Republicans? Maybe? A CombinationCenter for Immigration Studies shows Florida had nearly

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three hundred has had nearly three hundredand twenty six thousand illegals flown into the
state by the Biden administration. HomelandSecurity refuses to publicly identify the airport's being
used to bring in. These aredirect flights from overseas into the country.
They're bringing illegals in since twenty twentytwo by the hundreds of thousands, and

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they're targeting Florida. Texas National Guardmember arrested for smuggling an illegal immigrant across
the border. Covered a lot ofother things. Make sure you check out
the podcast, check out the blogover the weekend. Have a great weekend.
We'll be back Monday.