Ep. 5133: Just One Challenge Expands... Again

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Episode Transcript

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All right, five minutes past thehour, Good morning friends. So tell
me, is that what you wantto hear when you first tune into the
radio program. See, we havea wide array of listeners. We have
some folks out there that have beenworking all night wall and they're wrapping up

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their shift. They're wide awake,might be ready to go to bed,
but they're wide awake. We've gotothers that have been up for hour or
so, a little workout, alittle devotional perhaps they're at it, ready
to go. Then they're those thatare just waiting. And I try to

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be respectful of that. Try tobe chipper but not over the top loud.
I don't know, I don't know. I we try our best to
thread the needle. We welcome youto the radio program on Tuesday. It
is April the ninth. We survived, We survived the rockets being shot into

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the ion a sphere. We survivedthe eclipse, maybe sort of barely.
Craziness, absolute craziness. And letme just go ahead and say this upfront,
Grant, Let's let's put the callscreener up because I'm gonna make an
invitation here other than when Justin Haskinsis on the program and Howard Eisman with

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our money talk as long as we'reon the air in programming. If you
want to tell me how your lifehas been transformed by the eclipse, you
call in. I don't and andnow now listen, I don't want people
calling in being sarcastic. I wantif you earnestly had your life changed by

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yesterday and seeing the eclipse. AndI understand for a lot of you you
got part of it. You didn'tget the whole thing, but we will.
We've got listeners that were in thepath, that made the trip.
If it changed your life forever movingforward eight five zero two zero five to

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be a film just making you aware. I will stop what I'm talking about
and take your call if you canhonestly truly say that you believe that yesterday's
happening did that for you, becausemy golly, I heard it over and
over again on TV. I mean, and look it was the imagery was

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incredible, It was awesome, andit now me. It caused me to
just go God, you just gotit going on. Man, you just
thank you what an amazing celestial bodyyou spoken to being. But boy,

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people talking about their life changed,crazy people doing crazy things. And I
told you that was gonna happen.We knew that. Anyway, Let's do
our verse today. Our devotional comesfrom Ezekiel, and this is just an
incredible prophetic statement. And I don'tbelieve that followers of God, the Jews

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of the era, they didn't connectthe dots. Listen to what was said
in Ezekiel thirty eight twenty six.And I will give you a new heart
and a new spirit I will putwithin you. And I will remove the
heart of stone from your flesh andgive you a heart of flesh. That

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was a prophetic utterance where God said, look, because of the choice that
Adam and Eve made, humankind istainted now. And so I'm going to

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give you an opportunity to get ridof that heart of stone, and my
spirit will dwell in you. Andthat's exactly what happens when you become a
Christian. That's what happened to thedisciples on the night of Jesus's resurrection.

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See, Jesus had to die beforethat could happen, before that could be
fulfilled. That's why if you lookat the encounter in the upper room when
they were locked behind doors because theywere scared, and Jesus appeared and said,
hey, what's up, and hebreathed on them and they received the
Holy Spirit. That's when they becamebelievers in Christ as we would understand it

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today. That's when they became Christians. It's an amazing opportunity God gives all
of us to change it out,to change out our heart and to have
His Spirit take residence in us.And that's how we start Tuesday show fifty

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one to thirty three of the MorningShow with Preston Scott running the radio program.
Over there is Grant Allen. It'sday eleven seventy five of America held
hostage. Yeah, we'll get tothat April ninth. By the way,

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you got less than a week toget your taxes done. I'm just saying
we'll get to that as well today. Five facts about March from Scott Beacon.
Scott will join us later this month. Sixteen eighty two, Sierra de
la Salle claims the Mississippi River valleyfor France whatever, and then Napoleon sold

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it. Thank you. It wasone of the many great land deals that
have been struck in US history.There have been a few. I mean
that was that was good On thisdate. In eighteen sixty five, Robert
E. Lee surrenders to General UlyssesS. Grant. Do you smile every

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time you hear Grant? No?Sorry, I mean, never mind,
forget it. I was trying tomake conversation. I hear it a lot.
It doesn't matter trying to never mind. Nineteen thirty nine, Marian Anderson

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had her concert at Constitution Hall canceledbecause she happened to be black. So
she went to the Lincoln Memorial inWashington, D C. And performed before
seventy five thousand people. That hadto be absolutely spectacular good on her nineteen

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forty two, seventy five thousand starvingAmerican and Filipino defenders on the Batan Batan
Peninsula and the Philippines are surrendered tothe Japanese. Mm hmmm. That would
lead to the Batan Death March,which was brutal. You met a survivor

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of that, didn't you. Yeah. Number of years ago in Mobile at
the battleship they've got what is that, the USS Alabama I think it is,
yeah, yeah, And they hada veteran who authored a book about
his experiences just there and talked tothem for a little bit, you know,

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families on vacation, and so itwas cool. I can't even imagine
what that was like surviving that,my goodness. And on the same date
in two thousand and three in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's giant statue was toppled as
US troops and Iraqi celebrated the fallof Sadam' that's how, that's how,

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George H. W. Busher forSadam Sadam all right, it's fifteen minutes
after the hour. Back with hadto happen next time twenty one minutes after

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the hour. Here on the morningshow, Jeff writes in I think if
God talked to you last night andtold you that he had a message for
the world. The message is thateveryone's standing outside at three o'clock Eastern time
today will be saved and the resurrectionwould begin. That you would get on
the air and tell us everything,except one time it would happen preston atiheartradio

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dot com. If you want toshare some thoughts, just let that linger
and let you mow on that forjust a moment. We have we've already
got reports of just weirdness. Ashooting on I ten because God told a

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girl to just go go ahead andindiscriminately shoot at people, which she hit
a couple. God told her todo it during the eclipse. There you
go. Well, we'll get tosome other things perhaps, but again,
the offer stands. If your lifehas been changed. I think you need

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to check who's speaking on the otherend of the line. Yeah, yeah,
who you talking to? Which,never mind, I gotta pause right
there. Uh. April first,California minimum wage. Right, couple of
little interesting tidbits. McDonald's for now, at least most of them and Chick

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fil A's have not raised their prices. That's interesting. Now, I don't
know what the pricing is for fillingthe blank at Adam McDonald's or Chick fil
a in California. Burger King aTexas double whopper meal now is just a

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tad under seventeen dollars. Oh mystars, you might as well go to
a sit down restaurant. A bigfish meal is now eleven fifty in out
Burgers, prices are up. Businessowner quoted here. When you're dealing with

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this kind of extraordinary overnight change,a twenty five percent increase in wages,
no stone has remained unturned I can'tcharge twenty dollars for a happy meal.
My customer's appetite to absorb these kindsof prices is not unlimited as of right

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now, if you worked forty hours, you're going to make forty one six
in a fast food restaurant in California. And for everyone out there saying,
see see finally go live on fortyone six in California, let me know

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how that works out for you.See, that's not how it works.
Here's what's going to happen. It'salready happening. Some restaurants are going to
automation. That's already happened here wherewe live. They're automating there, they're

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streamlining ops. If a burger mealis seventeen dollars, though, do you
think any of the automation will beenough? You know what I mean?
Like, that's that's a bridge thatI think a lot of consumers just they're
not going to cross it, nomatter how automated. The burger King or
the McDonald's is seventeen dollars for well, a bigger meal is just like that's

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not like I'm going somewhere else,I'm staying home. Well here, well,
yeah, I mean. But here'sthe thing. The automation can bring
your costs down doing business because ofall the ancillary costs of employing a person,
your social security contribution, to theirto their social Security retirement, which
is gone, medical workmen's comp,workers comp. There's there's a list of

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things that improve with automation for theemployer. They don't have to worry about
people calling it sick, they don'thave to worry about people just having an
attitude. They employ fewer people ata higher wage, but they're they're employing
far less people. Wages will beoffset by less hours, they'll be offset

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by automation. Uh. Some willjust go out of business. They just
can't. They can't do it becauseyou can't charge twenty dollars for a happy
meal. And and and again you'reyou're just continuing to put pressure on inflation
by raising wages because prices go up, and prices go up because of wages

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going up, and it's a cycle. And that's why government needs to be
out of the business of setting wages. The market needs to set those good
employers will pay more and for skillsthat are warranted, and people that are
entry level workers will have these jobsavailable at a lower wage. But all

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of that's going away, even inFlorida. So just brace yourself. Kids.
We're in a cycle now and I'mnot sure anybody can fix it.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Morning Friends. No time to waste.

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Big story in the press box.Story in the press box. Grove,
a creative marketing and digital expertise,our proud sponsor, the resident of
the United States, just flat gaveyou all a middle finger, and I
want you to listen to what hehad to say, and you'll have to

(16:17):
do your best figuring out some ofit because he slurs his words like a
drunk at this point. But thisis Joe Biden yesterday. From day one,
my administrator has been committed to fixingthe broken student loan system and making
sure higher education is a ticket tothe middle class, not a barrier.
My administration's approved debt cancelation for fourmillion Americans through various actions, and today

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I'm announcing new plans I would cancelstudent debt for millions more. In total,
these plans would cancel some are allstudent debt for thirty million Americans.
When combined with everything we've done sofar to find out how these plans may
impact you. Visitsad dot Go,the music everything courtesy of the White House

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in no particular order. Joe Bidenis bribing people for votes. He's flipping
a middle finger to you. Becausethere's no such thing as student loan forgiveness.
There's no such thing as student loandebt cancelation. It doesn't exist.

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It is a lie because you willpay for it. I will pay for
it if you pay taxes. Youare paying for this, and I want
to issue a just one challenge,he said. So, bab bag is

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broken, or words to that effect. Broken. The student loan debt student
loan program is broken. Why howis it broken? Is it broken because

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people took out student loans did notweigh and measure the cost of the education
versus the value that they receive inreturn. I don't know of anybody that
is forced to go to college.I don't, So what's broken. People

(18:47):
have been paying on their debt forbetter than ten years and not gaining any
Well, they're paying the minimum that'show loans work. Loans are It's like
revolving credit. If you pay theminimum payment, you're likely never going to
get out of debt. It's setup for the loan provider to make money.

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All that the government is doing isthey're bribing shallow information voters. They're
bribing young people for votes. I'missuing the just one challenge again. We've
yet to have anybody take me upon it on a wide array of topics.

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I want just one person to goon the air, first and last
name and defend this. Why shouldyou get your student loans forgiven, which
aren't being forgiven. Why should yourstudent loans be turned over to everybody else
to pay How are you made totake that loan out? Why is it

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that you shouldn't be held responsible topay it back. There are a handful
of cases where forgiveness could truly exist, where I would say to the educational
system, this person has faced atrauma. This guy can't pay his loans.

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He went and served our country,He had a cataclysmic injury serving our
nation, and the university writes offthe debt, not the taxpayers. But
by and large that's not the case. So just one anybody defend this.

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And oh, by the way,he's saying screw you to the United States
Supreme Court. Now, this latestthing is already going to be challenged.
State attorney generals across the country arealready preparing to file lawsuit to stop this
and made to look like the badguy. It's almost like the custodial parent

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is stuck trying to keep law andorder with the kids when the other non
custodial parent just spoils them rotten andlets them do whatever they want when they're
spending time with them. It's notfair and it's not right. It's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, indefensible. Can't defend it, cannot defend this.

(21:55):
Any single one of you that votesfor Joe Biden is defending this.
You've lost your ever loving mind.Oh, by the way, speaking of
things that Joe's doing to destroy ournation, but he's not alone. And
oh, by the way, thisis not just oh the Democrats blame the

(22:18):
Democratic Oh no, no, no, no no. This started with George
H. W. Bush, thisidea of ah, we don't have to
call it a treaty because that wouldhave to be ratified by Congress. We'll
just call it an agreement. Joe'splans and this has been talked about for

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a while with the World Health OrganizationI got a release from Matt Staver Liberty
Council talking about the new World HealthOrganization Pandemic Plan and this agreement, which
is a treaty and their draft,which was released March thirteenth, has been

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looked at fully by Liberty Council ActionsTeam. The treaty will do the following.
I'm just hitting the lomarks, establishingthe World Health Organization is the world's
authority with one hundred and sixty fouruses of the legally binding language shall dictating

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actions of nations. When the wordshall is inside of an agreement, you
shall do this, that, andthe other. All you have to do
is read the fine print of anyloan agreement, any credit card agreement you've
ever signed. Asserting the World HealthOrganization's control over any risk of international disease

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risk that's like assault weapon, that'slike health of that's like viability. That's
as ambiguous as it gets. Creatingdigital health passports that can be shared internationally
for vaccines, test results, andmore. Creating healthcare as a right in

(24:18):
a path to international socialized medicine.Demanding equity in healthcare, which means they
can move anyone up the ladder ifthey think that it's equitable for them to
do so and conversely discriminate against anybodyelse. Requiring parties to exercise authority at
community levels, Controlling development and patents, Demanding standards of control over everything from

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plants to pets, Controlling access toapproved medicines and censoring non mainstream treatments,
censoring disinformation and misinformation, forcing internationalsurveillance, controlling supply chains and logistics,
Controlling water access along with sanitation andhygiene practices. Mandating that medical staff and

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facilities participate in abortion, LGBTQ,forced vaccinations, and more without religious carve
outs or conscience protections. Pushing taxpayerfunded pandemic vaccines, and providing that vaccine
manufacturers should be afforded legal immunity,mandating a two year commitment with no withdrawals

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permitted during that time. I'm scratchingthe surface. This is what Joe Biden
is signing us into. Though hecan't legally do it, it does create
the precedent of having to then goto World court. See, this is

(25:59):
why you need to just say tothe World Health Organization, the UN and
all of them get lost, goaway, go away. Scary times Friends,
forty six past the hour the morningshow at Preston Scott On News Radio
one hundred point seven WFLA. Ifyou remember early on March April, when

(26:45):
the full scare was on for COVIDin twenty twenty, that was the That
was the Christmas gift of all time, that was dumped into the last of
Democrats. Now, I'll be honestwith you, I'm starting to rethink one

(27:10):
aspect of the whole COVID thing.If you're China, who do you want
as president? Trump, who wasputting money back into the defense, was

(27:33):
bringing money back into the United States, removing some money from China, placing
tariffs on some Chinese goods, levelingthe playing field, creating a more robust
competitive marketplace in the Pacific. RimOr Biden, who, if you're China

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you know, personally had taken moneyand been bribed for favor through his son
Hunter, Who do you want aspresident? See, this is the part
of the whole thing I'm rethinking.I'm starting to consider that maybe this was

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intended and was not an accidental release. Maybe it was intended and it had
its desired effect. It gave roomfor Democrats to cheat just enough to get
Joe in office. I'm just sayingit's a possibility. But early on it

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was absolutely clear that fear was beingused to manipulate the citizens of America.
The absurdity of masking. Fauci justchanging his mind with no studies, no
support, nothing on masking. No, we don't see a need for the

(29:08):
for vaccine mandates. That would bethat would be ridiculous. And then all
of a sudden, we have mandatescoming out. We just dodged one here
in our company. I sent aletter to our legal and I said,
please wait, because they said therehad been a turning point, so this

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might become something we have to do. And I applauded our company because they
were absolutely dead set against mandates,but they were being forced by the government
because of the size of the company. And I said, just just wait.
There's a case before the court system, right, you gotta wait.
And we waited. I won't sayit was because of me. I might

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have played a role in bringing itto the attention. All I know is
we waited and we didn't have togo there. I'm grateful I didn't have
to face what a lot of ourcolleagues in this industry did across the country
and what many of you had toface and some not successfully. You had
to get the shot to keep working, and I get it. But now

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the CDC is released hidden COVID nineteenvaccine injury reports as a result of a
lawsuit. They had to be forcedto do it. And we were reporting
the website, the v safe website, vaccine I think it was the vaccine

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ah, I can't remember what itis, but adverse reaction website and the
reports, well they're coming out andwe're talking hard inflammation, miscarriages, seizures,
Bell's. The list goes on andon, and the CDC hit it.

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Let's get to ower number two next, All right, let's do it
hour number two Morning Show with Presiden'sScott Presse, He's grand. It's show

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fifty one thirty three, and theoffer still stands. I'll interrupt anything I'm
talking about if you want to callin telling me how witnessing the eclipse yesterday
has changed your life forever. Idon't mean in a sarcastic way. It's
not about a joke. It's aboutif you really believe it's changed your life,

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then by golly, you need tobe sharing that. Whatever that happened,
for you. Now, if itmade you go, wow, there's
got to be a god for thiskind of thing. Okay, call in,
I'm all ears. I got thisfrom a listener. Greg wrote in,

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you said, good morning, sir. Saw this on Gateway Pundit.
Trump did an ad featuring his silhouetteeclipsing the sun. Grant I knew would
know about this. I'd like tosay that it lit up my life,
except that it darkened my life,but it lit up my spirit. The
libs had a cow best laugh I'vehad today. Keep it up, sir,
Thank you, Greg, appreciate thekind words. Did you see it?

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I did? Yeah? It wasvery very funny, was it?
Yeah? I didn't see it?So what what what it looked like?
What are we talking about it insteadof the moon? Okay, it was
just it was the silhouette of Trump'shead, and we can tell it it's
Trump. Oh absolutely, that's thebeautiful thing about Trump. Yeah. I

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mean, Biden can be any doddering, you know, wandering soul, but
b and it just kind of youknow, I think the theme from two
thousand and one is probably a betterfit for that one. Yeah, probably
so. But it was very funny. Nice all right, Let's get to
five facts for March, brought tous by the bee Line. Scott Beacon,

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our friend, the shortest route towhat you need to know, and
he's doing a reflective look back onthe previous month and some number crunching.
He'll join us later this month.Fact number one stock market values. These
are just a random observations backed byfacts. Stock market in nineteen ninety four,

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at the beginning of the Internet revolution, he writes, was valued at
sixty six percent of the GDP.Listen to this. It is now valued
at one hundred and ninety three percentof the GDP the US stock market.
How is it possible? One reason, all of those big tech companies Apple,

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Teslahave been created and founded in the
US, And he asks, isit just a coincidence that with all the
talent and intelligence in the world,that had just so happened that had occurred
in the United States. The otherreason is that is the incredible amount of
money that's been created by the FedReserve over the last fifteen years. Money

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has to flow somewhere, and sothat's see, that's what I've been driving
at with the artificial inflation of thestock market it's been kept afloat by all
of this unbelievable flow of cash thatis devaluing the dollar at the same time.
Second fact, what is a fairshare of income taxes? And just

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the most recent intel one percent ofthe top income earners paid forty six percent
of all the income taxes in twentytwenty one. The top five percent paid
sixty six percent, the top tenpercent paid seventy six percent, The top
fifty percent paid ninety eight percent ofthe taxes, which means the bottom fifty

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percent paid two percent two percent.I maintain everybody should have skin in the
game, even if it's one hundredbucks. The boys are tax code screwed
up. We'll get back to theother three facts from the month of March,

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as observed by Scott Beacon of theBee Line. You gotta subscribe and
get that. We'll talk with Scottagain in a couple weeks, but more
facts coming up next here on theMorning Show with Preston Scott m a d
radio network where we challenge you tomake a difference. And this is the

(35:53):
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Idon't know did everybody, I don't know
if everybody heard the previous little fifteensecond PSA by the FDA on sunscreen.
Make sure it's got the right SPFand broad spectrum in it. I'm immediately

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distrusting anything they say to me.Am I wrong for being distrusting? All
right? Let me go back justa little add on point here that Scott
makes on the on where we arewith taxes and debt. The interest on

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the federal debt in twenty twenty fouris going to consume forty three percent of
the tax receipts the debt, intereston the debt is going to take up
forty three percent of income taxes.What's left to pay for Social Security,

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Medicaid, National Defense, the differentwelfare programs, paying for federal employees,
paying for the FBI, the CIA, all of the other agencies, and
we just keep ignoring it. Factnumber three foreign born residing in US.

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It's the highest percentage of foreign born'sresiding in this country since in history,
according to the Census Bureau. Inhistory context he offers here, Scott writes
more illegals will have entered the UnitedStates during the first four years of the
Biden administration than in the forty peakyears of immigration through Ellis Island. Get

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your mind around that more illegals inBiden's four years than forty years during the
peak legal immigration at Ellis Island.If it's not intentional, what is it.

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He's allowing an invasion of this countryfor a reason. Understand that.
And then circling back to the debt. US debt is now higher than it
was right after World War Two whenwe had to borrow money to get through
World War Two. We were ableto work our way out of the debt

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because most of the rest of theworld was in ruin. So the production
that the United States was able toconvert to after the war machine was broken
down and the Industrial Revolution picked rightup, we found our way out of

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debt because there was a marketplace theworld. They needed to buy our goods
until they could rebuild. Right now, debt stands at one hundred and twenty
four percent of GDP. This iswhere I need you to just I know
that this sounds like noise at thispoint. You hear it over and over

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and over and over and over.But now I'm going to bring it in
for a landing. And this isreally important. The CBO Congressional Budget Office
projects that the US will pass adebt to GDP threshold of one hundred and
thirty percent in the next ten years. Here's why that matters. An analysis

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done by Hirshman Capital several years agobased on International Monetary Fund data, found
out of fifty two countries since theyear eighteen hundred where debt to GDP had
surpassed one hundred and thirty one hadpassed one hundred and thirty percent, fifty
one out of fifty two countries haddefaulted. The only exception was Japan fifty

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one of fifty two. Once theyget to that one to thirty mark,
and as of right now, thefifth fact is only thirty two percent say
they have any trust in the mainstreammedia. I'm shocked it's that high.
Republicans eleven percent, Democrats twenty ninepercent, their independence twenty nine percent.
Democrats are only at fifty eight percentdespite the fact that the mass media is

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doing its bidding every single day.That's fascinating. Sixteen minutes after the hour,
twenty one minutes after the hour,all right, day before the NCAA

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championship game between South Carolina and Iowa, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley at
the required media press conference, danZac sheskey out kick coach. She just
talked about, you know what amassive weekend this is obviously for women's basketball,

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women's sports in general. One ofthe major issues facing women's sports right
now is the debate discussion topic aboutthe inclusion of transgender athletes biological males in
women's sports. I was wondering ifyou would tell me your position on that
issue. Damn, you got deepon me, then I I'm on the

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I mean, I'm under the opinionof trying to thread the needle. You're
a woman. You should play.If you consider yourself a woman and you
want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play.

(42:35):
That's that's my opinion. You wantme to go deeper, do you do
you think uh, transgender women shouldbe able to participate in And that's your
question. I want you to ask. I mean, you want to ask,
so I'll give you that. Yes. Yes. So now the barnstorm
of people are going to flood mytimeline and be a distraction to me or

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one of the biggest days of ofof our game. And I'm okay with
that. But you're not upset atthe ridiculous nature of the question, you
just won the national championship. No, no, this is this is before,
this was before, this was beforeWho cares anyway? You're in the

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freaking final four? Was this beforethe national championship? It was the day
before the national championship game. AsI said, you don't like reporters like,
like, I have no problem withthe question. I think it's a
ridiculous question to even ask, like, we don't like reporters are ridiculous.
The journalist press that asks these questionsis just asinine, like how is that

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whether men should be allowed to competeagainst Well, that's not my point.
I'm like, why they're they're injectingsomething that like they pulled this out of
a blue No, they didn't.That's that's that is the dominant question of
sports today. My point is,you're in the final four, likely going
to the national championship game, andwhat does the reporter care about that?

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Well, all the other questions arebeing asked. He's asking another question about
another story. He's talking to allof the coaches about this. He's asking
what do the coaches in the NCAAWomen's basketball tournament think about men competing against
women? And her answer was alsoridiculous. It's just like that's where the
focus ought to be. The questionis highly appropriate, one hundred percent,

(44:28):
one hundred percent. The question iswhat it is. The point I was
trying to communicate was we don't dislikethe press enough. Well, I think
we kind of dislike them a lot. I clearly not no, no,
again, But you're you're somehow takingissue with his question. His question is
on the money. Yeah, Ithink he's I think it's stupid to ask

(44:51):
a sports like related question or thisthis this style of question give the context
of the National Championship game, likewhen you're a coach and you're singularly focused
on getting your team ready for thefinal four, a deep postseason run,
national championship game. What this isagain, it's a question that was asked

(45:17):
of her. Is her competitor thecoach of Iowa. She said, I'm
not going to weigh in on thatright now. I'm focusing on South Carolina.
That's the right answer. Well,that's the answer she chose to give.
The answer that Don Staley gave isher honest opinion. But I want
to point out that, first ofall, you and I couldn't be more

(45:38):
a part on this. This wasa great question asked at the best time,
while the attention is on and wehave people ducking this issue across the
country. And I'll point out thisis the convenient answer. This is the
answer of the Megan Rappinos of theworld. It's convenient to say, yeah,

(45:59):
let the men compete until it affectsyou. I want to see guys
lace them up and compete against andI mean washed up guys, guys in
their forties fifties playing against her team. They'll be destroyed, destroyed, and

(46:19):
she'll change her opinion when men knockoff her team in some you know,
like some obscure programs somewhere that happensto have a couple transgender dudes playing knocks
off highly ranked, top ranked nationaldefending champion South Carolina. That would then

(46:39):
she'll care, just like Megan Rapinowill care when when girls lose spots on
the US women's team. Until then, they don't care. So they're going
to give the politically correct answer asthey see it. I don't think it's
politically correct. But what I wantto point out, which is the highlight
here, is the NAI the NationalAssociation of Intercollegiate Athletics is banning trans athletes

(47:04):
from participating in women's sports. Thevote on the board twenty to zip shot
has been fired over the bow ofthe n C two A. On this
I applaud the question. I applaudthe timing of it. I applaud the
fact that this issue people are.We're gonna keep driving on this issue until
the right thing happens. That's what'sgood about all of that. Back with

(47:30):
the big stories in the press box, Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Oh yeah. Tomorrow theTruth of Amas will share the words of
the son of founder of Hamas incase you're interested, because he's over all

(47:53):
of the pro Palestinian Hamas defenders inthis country, and apparently a doctor Phil
show took place where he sat downacross from a couple of American Hamas supporters
and just trash them, owned them. Anyway, we'll share a little bit

(48:15):
of what took place there. That'stomorrow on the program. Justin Haskins coming
up next half hour about a halfhour from now, and then of course
also next hour, Money Talk willtake a little deeper dive into what's going
on. But first, the bigstory in the press box story. That's
right, just one grow a creativemarketing and digital expertise, and just one

(48:38):
challenge is underway. I want oneperson to come on this show first name,
last name. I'm gonna trust thatyou will be honorable, and I
want you to defend accepting this.From day one, my misery has been

(48:59):
committed seeing the broken student loan systemand making sure higher education is a ticket
to the middle class, not abarrier. My administration has approved debt cancelation
for four million Americans through various actions, and today I'm announcing new plans that
would cancel student debt for millions more. In total, these plans would cancel

(49:20):
some are all student debt for thirtymillion Americans when combined with everything we've done
so far to find out how theseplans Yeah, whatever, Now I'm not
going to let me back up ifthey do this and it's held to be
legal. Whatever, But how isit owed to you? How is it

(49:45):
that anyone's free decision to go tocollege and to accrue that debt should should
be paid by everybody else. He'slying when he said forgiveness. He's lying
when he says cancelation. He's lyingwhen he said, broken system. There

(50:07):
are a lot of things broken inthis country, but paying back your loan
isn't one of them. If youwant to say, well, I didn't
know it would be so hard,Well, whose fault is that? Did
you not consider your educational path andthe costs and the outcome and you know

(50:29):
what kind of income you could expectin return and all of the different things
that you should consider before signing acontract and obligating yourself financially to things.
And is that somehow supposed to betransferred to everybody else, because let me
tell you, it doesn't get canceled. It's paid. It's already been paid.

(50:54):
The taxpayers have to pay for it. The taxpayers have to make this
up. It's just it's obscene tome, it's offensive to me. And

(51:14):
Joe Biden is also not just flippinga middle finger to you and me,
he's flipping one of the United StatesSupreme Court. So state attorneys general are
back at it and are going tosue them all over again. Preston Scott,
boy, that escalated quickly. Imean that really got out of hand
fast. On WFLA Rand paul Us, Senator from Kentucky, authoring a piece

(51:52):
have not looked at it yet.The great COVID cover up shocking truth about
Wuhan and fifteen federal agents sees quotingshame on all the federal employees who covered
up these facts about COVID nineteen oh. I cannot wait to read through that.
Mmmmmmmm mm hmm. Is anything goingto surprise? You talked about how

(52:19):
it all worked, shared last lasthour about my growing concern that maybe there
was more to this as a conspiracyinvolving China to help Joe Biden get in
office. I mean, if you'reif you're China, who do you want
Trump or Biden? That's a nobrainer. I mean, my goodness,
you got Joe in your pocket.You own him, You absolutely own him.

(52:44):
All right. This is an interestingstory because on one hand, I'm
like, ugh, I don't knowabout this, But on the other hand,
I'm putting myself in this guy's shoesand thinking well. Rick Slayman sixty

(53:05):
two. He received his first kidneytransplant from a human donor in twenty seventeen.
The organ began failing in May oftwenty twenty three. Went on dialysis.
Now, my dad had kidney diseaseand ended up having to go on

(53:27):
dialysis, and that was a very, very difficult thing. And I remember
all of us getting tested to seeif we were a match, and literally
everybody was. All of his children, my sister, and the four boys.
We all tested positive. But mybrother Patrick was the best match.

(53:52):
And so my brother Patrick, whois the one serving as a deputy for
the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department after allthese years, came out of retirement to
just get back and help. Hewas the donor and he has lived very
healthy life since giving up one ofhis two kidneys. The transplant worked.

(54:13):
My dad had many more years beforepassing away in nineteen ninety eight. But
I remember all of that. Iremember the dialysis, I remember the challenge,
the difficulty of all of that,and I can't even imagine what it's
like for people to go through.Right now, more than one hundred thousand

(54:36):
people in the US are currently onwaiting lists for organ transplants. Seventeen of
those die every day. At MassachusettsGeneral alone, where this surgery I'm about
to talk about took place, morethan fourteen hundred patients are currently waiting for
a kidney transplant. Fourteen hundred kidneysare the top of the most commonly needed

(54:58):
organs. End stage kidney disease expectedto increase each and every year, and
so what was used for this manon March sixteenth was a genetically edited pig

(55:19):
kidney. The idea was to makeit more compatible with a human recipient and
to eliminate the risk of infection.He was released April third. I think
this moment, leaving the hospital todaywith one of the cleanest bills of health

(55:39):
I've had in a long time,is one I wished would come for many
many years. Now it's a realityand one of the happiest moments of my
life. No more dialysis now.Historically these surgeries don't last very long,

(56:00):
and one would presume that that wouldbe that. But I don't know.
I don't know what the process ismoving forward for this gentleman. But I
go back to the question that Iraised at the very beginning. I don't
know where I am on this.There's a part of me that's like,
that's just But I also, youknow, I'm sixty three. I look

(56:20):
at this guy, he's sixty two, and I'm thinking, you know,
I still feel like I've got alife to live. There's a part of
me, that's like, well,you know, that's kind of on God's
economy, whatever he decides. Butat the same time, you know,
God, God also allows for certainskills and research, and so I don't

(56:45):
know. If you've got a hardand fast opinion on this, good for
you. I don't have one.This is one of those situations where having
gone through this with my dad andthinking, you know, if there was
something available to my dad, ifmy brother's kidney, if we hadn't been
a match and there was a wayfor his life to be prolonged, I

(57:07):
don't know. I don't know whatI'd think. I suppose I would just
leave it up to my dad todecide. But anyway, forty seven minutes
past the hour, all right,well did you get out there? Did

(57:37):
you look? Did you did anyof you stare at the sky through the
appropriate glasses? I guess and Idon't understand this. Maybe you can explain
it to me. There's a periodof time in what did they call it,
the path of totality. There's liketwo to three minutes where you could

(58:01):
take your glasses off and look atit. How is that possible? I
don't get it. But apparently that'swhat was going on. It seems kind
of risky to me, but whatever. But they certainly had all the cameras
with the appropriate filters and so forthon them, and you could look at

(58:21):
it in every city that it wascrossing. It seemed for hours yesterday because
by the time I got home,I played golf yesterday, and of course
I was getting off the golf coursebefore this thing hit. I could have
been attacked by you know, anynumber of things, squirrels. Squirrels could
have lost their mind, golfers couldhave lost their mind. Anything could have

(58:42):
happened. So I was getting offthe course. But I've just I've got
a story here Americans suffering from aclip sickness, including insomnia, headaches,
and changes to women's shall we saycycle, all kinds of things. I
mean, this is like eight agesof write ups about people saying this happened

(59:06):
or that happened. Anyone else's dogacting weird this morning, I mean,
and honestly wouldn't shock me. Youknow, I've heard Charlie and JD talk
about the fact that during full moonsthey can count on more arrests, more
things happening. Some people say ithas to do with the fluid in the

(59:27):
brain and the gravitational pulls and forcesadjust things a little bit, which affects
people's behavior. I guess if you'reso inclined, I don't know. Then
there's the woman who FHP arrested.She will remain nameless Holmes County. She
decided to go on I ten atthe one twelve mile marker and start shooting

(59:52):
hit a couple people. She hasbeen She said she was directed by God
relating to these older eclipse I'm sorry, I just we knew it was coming.
We knew that people were gonna makeexcuses for everything that they want.

(01:00:14):
That's the thing. It's like,maybe there's some people that are affected by
this stuff in some weird way.I don't know. I you know,
I noticed the light just got weird. If you looked outside, it was
it was like this weird filtering.And we've seen that before during partial eclipses
and other you know, it's justit's the it just gets weird. But

(01:00:37):
in the path of the totality,it got dark, not pitch black,
but close. It got dark forlike three minutes, and people went nuts
all right. Time for manly minute. This is a seasonal manly minute.
Remember mal by birth, man bychoice. These are skills. These are
things to teach your son so thathe will grow to be a man.

(01:01:05):
Teach your son how to mow thelawn overlapping runs, understanding how there's a
little thing behind most push mowers thatallows the grass to lay down one direction,
and then if you go the otherway, it causes the grass to
lay down the other which creates thosestripes that you see on baseball parks and

(01:01:25):
football fields and soccer pitches. It'sa usually it's weighted, but on most
push mowers it's just a piece ofplastic behind It keeps debris from being pushed
back, but it also causes thegrass to kind of down. But teach
your son how to run a lawnmore at the appropriate age. How it
works, Let him do it,Teach him to do it the right way.

(01:01:50):
That way. One day you canlook at him and say, you,
sir, you know I don't mowa lawn, and that makes you
an me Back with our three,turning the page on the rundown. It

(01:02:12):
is show five thousand and thirty three, now into year twenty three of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott On Prestonhe is Grant Allen. Great to be
with you this morning, and Iam so delighted to have back on the
show as a New York Times bestselling author, director of the Socialism Research
Center at the Heartland Institute, andin fact editorial director at the Heartland Institute.

(01:02:36):
But more important than any of that, he loves Jesus and he's our
friend. He's Justin Haskins. Hello, sir, I'm doing great. How
are you? I love how Ilove, how I love Jesus and he's
my friend are the most important things. That's that's very true. You did
put Jesus first. Absolutely. Youmight flip it, no, but you
got it right. No, Absolutely, Jesus is first. Hey. I

(01:03:01):
was a little taken aback by thelatest piece in Newsweek where you're tackling the
southern border because we have been talkingabout the great reset esg for so long.
I forget that your eyes are coveringlots of different horizons. So let's
talk about the southern border. Howdid we get here? How did we

(01:03:23):
get to where a buddy of ourson the show, Scott Beacon, he
said more illegals have entered in Biden'sadministration than forty years of peak immigration through
Ellis Island. Yeah, I meanit's absolutely astounding. I think we all
know how we got here. Thisis the easiest softball question of all time.

(01:03:45):
Thank you. Democrats and a lotof establishment Republicans don't want to do
anything about border security. And overthe past forty fifty years we've seen that
play out over and over and overagain. The problem has been getting progressively
and finally what happened is we gotan administration that is so far to the
left that they've essentially said, justcome on in. We don't care,

(01:04:10):
we don't care anymore. Just comeon in. Anyone can claim asylum,
and it doesn't matter if you're cominghere under suspicious circumstances, it doesn't matter
who you are. We will notonly welcome you into the country. We
will, you know, allow youto go to all sorts of different places,
will fly you across the country.We'll do all kinds of things.
And I think a lot of peoplein Mexico and in Central America and South

(01:04:35):
America are and around the world whoare coming across the border. Because we're
finding all sorts of evidence that peoplefrom China and other people are coming across
the border. Through Mexico. Nowrealize that this could be their last opportunity
for a very long time to havethis, you know, just walk across
the border with no consequences. Andso I think that's what's going on here.

(01:04:56):
This is sort of the last ditcheffort. If Donald Trump becomes president,
you know, a lot of thisis going to get shut down,
and a lot of other people aroundthe world know that as well, and
that's why we're seeing this massive floodthat coupled with the radical policies as the
Biden administration, it's just been gettingprogressively worse, and if Biden wins,
it's going to get even crazier overthe next four years. I think we
understand why the left side of theaisle wants to do this. I think

(01:05:20):
we get a little bit of that. Tell me about the right side of
the aisle. Why are established RepublicansIt is it because they want to turn
an eye for those that hire thesepeople, or what is it? Man?
I have heard all kinds of differentexplanations from people. I think some
of it is genuinely compassion. Ithink they feel bad about the situation.

(01:05:44):
They don't want to just round upa bunch of people who've been living here
for years and sending them home.They I think part of it is just
it's really difficult to get anything passedin Congress. Republicans couldn't even get Obamacare
reversed after they promised for years andyears and years to do that, you
know. So I think there's adegree of that. I think that there
are some establishment Republicans who have tieswith big gigantic corporations, and big gigantic

(01:06:09):
corporations some of them benefit from illegalimmigration because illegal immigrants work for a lot
less than the American workers, andso, you know, big agriculture and
you know, certain industries like thatI think benefit from it. So I
think there's a lot of different motivatingfactors on the right. On the left,
I think it's just really simple.They want more people to come here,
and then they're going to hope thatthey'll vote for them, which I

(01:06:30):
think is all this is about.Joining us on the program is Justin Haskins
with our Land Institute. We're talkingabout a piece written in Newsweek about illegal
immigration, and I think it's importantto discern between the two. We're going
to talk a few more minutes aboutthat before we move on to some other
things. Here on the Morning Showwith Preston Scott, eleven minutes after the

(01:06:58):
hour, Justin Haskins with us fromthe Heartland Institute. Justin we talk about
some businesses, some industries benefiting fromthis, and when I mentioned that,
I always hear from a friend ofthe program that says it's time to name
names rather than allowing that to kindof be a shadow cast on business in

(01:07:23):
general and industry in general. Isit time to name and call out?
Do we know the actual names ofthe businesses the organizations that are benefiting from
illegal immigration, and how do theyget around the issue of wage laws and

(01:07:43):
paying people under the table and allthat. Yeah, I mean, I
think that's all. That's a greatquestion. I think we should. I
think we absolutely should. I havenot done the research to know exactly which
corporations are promoting this, but ifI were going to look into that,
and maybe I will, I wouldstart with who is giving money to the

(01:08:05):
various causes and organizations that are promotingthis ideology, Which corporations are giving money
to those causes, which donors andwhich donors are you know, shareholders of
these big corporations, and that sortof thing. That are giving money to
promote these policies in Washington, dc. And at the state level and
all of that. I think usuallywhen you follow the money, you'll find

(01:08:28):
the answer that you're looking for.I think, generally speaking, in a
variety of different ways, directly andindirectly. I think corporations kind of all
benefit from it in the sense thatyou know, regardless of whether you as
a corporation, hire someone who's hereillegally, you might do business with a
supplier that does, or you mighthire a building company that does, or

(01:08:54):
you might or or maybe you justhave customers that do right. And so
there's just maybe you just think it'sgood for the overall economy generally in your
area, and you know, sothere's so many different factors that relate to
this, but I don't think youcan separate that part of it from the
equation. I really do think that'sone of the most big motivating factors on

(01:09:16):
the right with establishment Republicans. Iknow that the left has been working so
hard to remove the term illegal fromthe immigration equation. They want us to
look at it as if it's justimmigration, but it's not. There's legal
immigration and there's illegal immigration. Andthey've conflated the two, and they do
that quite intentionally, and they doit well. So how do we What

(01:09:39):
do you believe is the answer andwhere does it lie? Does it lie
in the states? Does it liewith the federal government? Right? So,
I believe strongly, and this isa little bit of a controversial few,
but I believe strongly that states havethe authority to do a great deal
on immigration. I would are arguethat border states have the ability to build

(01:10:01):
whole border walls to stop what's goingon right now. I would argue that
states have the authority to pass allkinds of laws that would remove illegal immigrants
from their state and do other thingslike that totain illegal immigrants. And the
reason I believe that is because Articleone, section ten of the Constitution says

(01:10:23):
that no states shall, without theconsent of Congress, engage in war unless
actually invaded or in such imminent dangeras will not admit of delay. And
another section of the Constitution says thatthe federal government shall basically protect states in
the event of an invasion. SoI believe that what we're seeing right now

(01:10:44):
is clearly an invasion. I thinkwe've seen that over the past forty or
fifty years. And the reason Ibelieve it's clearly an invasion is because if
you look at the history of theuse of that word at the time of
the Founding Fathers, which is whatmy Newsleague article is all about, well,
it's very obvious that the word invasionincluded all kinds of scenarios that would

(01:11:05):
apply to this situation. For example, James Madison, who was widely considered
to be the father of the Constitution, wrote in the Federalist Papers, which
were essays advocating for the passage supportof the Constitution, that pirates were invaders.
This was an example of invasion,and that he was making a case

(01:11:27):
for why we need to have navyand all this other stuff. Twelve of
the thirteen dictionaries that were available atthe time included a definition of invasion that
was extremely broad and did not applyto just military incursions. The piracy thing
was brought up over and over andover again by numerous It was a huge
issue in the eighteenth century, asyou might imagine. And I don't know

(01:11:53):
how you could make the case thatpirates were invaders in the seventeen and eighteen
hundreds, but that drug cartels fromMexico are not invaders today, and so
I think pretty clearly the federal governmentis doing is not stopping drug cartels.
They have not effectively done that becausethe borders are wide open. Therefore,
states have the authority to stop drugcartels. Drug cartels are invaders, just

(01:12:17):
like pirates are invaders, and Ithink it's a pretty open and shutcase.
They can do what they need todo in order to stop that. But
there were also other things that occurredin the eighteenth century. There were peaceful
immigrations between states. So there wasa huge conflict between Connecticut and Pennsylvania in
the latter half of the eighteenth centurywhere a bunch of people from Connecticut were

(01:12:41):
moving into lands that were claimed byPennsylvania and they were setting up towns and
doing things like that, and thestate of Pennsylvania for fifty years argued this
was an illegal immigration and all ofthis stuff into their states, and they
specifically referred to them as invaders onmultiple occasions. Benjamin Franklin wrote about this,
calling them and it's calling it aninvasion. At one point, the

(01:13:03):
Pennsylvania legislature officially declared in a resolutionthat they ended up sending to Congress saying
this was an invasion and it wasillegal. Hang on a second, Justin,
we got to break seventeen past thehour. Justin Haskins with us for

(01:13:26):
just a few more minutes. SoWest Virginia is cracking down on major banks.
They're the latest state, justin topush back against ESG. Are we
seeing a bit of a tipping pointwith what's happened in Florida, Texas,
now West Virginia, a handful ofother states. Yeah, I think there's

(01:13:48):
I'm hoping that there's a tipping point, you know. I think last year
with the law that was passed inFlorida with ESG and cracking down on financial
institutions, and ESG discriminated with banksand pension funds and things like that in
the state, I really hoped thatthis year would be a wave of anti
ESG laws, And we saw alittle bit of that, but not as

(01:14:11):
much as I would have liked.But I do think that we are reaching
that point where states are realizing theyhave to do something or else banks are
just going to run wild with this. Other financial institution's insurance companies, they're
going to run wild with it.This year, actually, Tennessee is on
the verge of passing a very verygood law. It's probably the closest ones

(01:14:31):
of the one that was passed inFlorida of any law that we've seen.
Since it's already passed the legislature,it's waiting for the governor's signature if they
expect that he's going to sign itsometime soon. So that's really good news
on the ESCHI front. So inAmerica, I do think we are seeing
a pretty good pushback in the States. I'm hoping next year we're going to

(01:14:53):
see an even bigger pushback, notonly because I'm hoping the election goes well,
but also because next year we havesome incredible, incredible things happening in
Europe that I think are going torequire states to really start taking this seriously.

(01:15:13):
The European Union is on the vergeof passing its own ESG law,
except this ESG law is going torequire massive companies all over the world to
basically impose ESG on their employees ifthey do business in Europe. Wow,
it's a really crazy ESG laws.There'll be a vote on it this month
coming up. Implementation would start overthe next few years, and I think

(01:15:39):
that's going to scare the heck outof a lot of people if it actually
passes. What about what Mississippi didthe Secretary of State there, Michael Watson,
basically suing Blackrock and hitting it witha cease and desist order over untrue
statements about ESG investments. Yeah,I think this is great in states that
can't get bills passed for whatever reason, and there's a bunch of them.

(01:16:02):
There are a lot of AG's andothers who are putting pressure on big financial
institutions, big asset managers like Blackrockto say, hey, look, you
can't do this kind of discriminating.In some states they've started requiring companies like
Blackrock to just the right an attestationsaying we don't discriminate like this, and

(01:16:26):
then that opens the door to themsuing them later on if it turns out
that they are discriminating. So reallyreally clever tactics for out of Mississippi.
Louisiana has done some good stuff inthat same way, and we've seen it
in other states as well, WestVirginia, etc. So there is a
lot of progress that's been made,but unfortunately we need a lot more progress.
Next year. We have Texas,we have some really big states that

(01:16:48):
are going to be taking this legislationup that either weren't in session this year
or weren't doing non financial bills thisyear, because some states do things differently.
They every other year or something,and so next year we've got some
really big states that are up forgrabs, and I have really high hopes
that we're gonna we're going to seesome massive momentum in twenty twenty five.

(01:17:12):
Where and when is the vote goingto take place? What body is making
that vote? In Europe, it'sso it's the European Parliament, which is
one of the two legislative bodies inthe European Union. The Council in the
European Union has already approved it,and the European Parliament had already approved an
earlier version. So now they're justin the process of reconciling it. And

(01:17:35):
basically, if they don't pass it, the vote is in a couple of
weeks. I think it's the twentyfourth of April. If they don't pass
it, it will be because it'snot radical enough, essentially, and so
I think it's going to pass becausethis is their last opportunity to do it
for a while all right, asalways, Justin, thanks so very much,
my best to you and your family, and we appreciate the visit.

(01:17:57):
We'll talk to you next month.Thank you, Sarah, thank you.
Alrighty Justin Haskins with us this morningon the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scotton News Radio one hundred point seven w
FLA help me, Yeah, Sothe Euros are gonna try to strong arm

(01:18:30):
the United States companies into this ESGstuff teeth. I just keep reminding myself
and anybody that I know God's onthe throne. He's not up there panicking.

(01:18:53):
I almost think God's chuckling. Really, Okay, go ahead, creatures,
Oh my, what a mess wemake of things. Welcome to the
program. If you're just tuning inbusy show today, catch up on the
podcast a little bit later on thismorning. It'll drop, as they say.

(01:19:16):
But the big story in the pressbox this morning, brought to you
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(01:19:41):
I want a person to use theirfirst name and their last name,
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challenge. I need to go backand think through the different just one challenges
that we've offered. Because Joe Biden'sgoing to try again. He's tried.
He's done it a couple of timessince the Supreme Court slapped him and said,
you don't have the authority to dothis. My goodness, Nancy Pelosi
said he didn't have the authority todo it. But they're not fighting it

(01:20:25):
now because they're desperate. And thisis called bribery. This is buying votes,
of course it is. But Ijust want someone with the courage of
their convictions. You know, yearsago, I had someone call the program

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and tell me that they believed thatthey should have taxpayer funded, paid time
off from work to have a baby. She's incredulous that I didn't agree.
I said, do me a favor. Wherever you live, go in the

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subdivision, the apartment complex, whatever, and asked them for money every single
week and tell them why you've chosento have a baby. You don't want
to work after you had your babyand you need it to be paid for,

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And let me know how that worksout for you. Never heard back,
didn't think I would. But thesame applies here. Now. Let
me ask you what if this wereTrump? What if Trump were in office

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and came forward with a plan tocancel which you can't do, to forgive,
which you can't do because there isno canceling or forgiving. It's being
paid. It's just being paid bytaxpayers. I just want to know what
the media would do. What someof you would be screaming if it were
Trump doing it. If it wereTrump, that was told by the United

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States Supreme Court, you can't dothat. Anyone added to it anyway.
He just kept doing it different differentlittle pockets of people buying votes here and
there. There would be screamed,he's a dictator. Look at him.
He thinks he's a king. Hecould do whatever he wants by Edict Biden

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them money? Good morning, sir, how are you? I'm good morning,
Preston. Quick question their new homeprices. What's going on out there,
because home prices can can give usa little bit of a reflection what's
going on in the economy. That'sright. Well, obviously, home prices

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in real estate and housing and sheltermake up about twenty percent of the nation's
GDP. Awful big part of oureconomy, So you know, Preston.
They rallied sixty percent from the pandemiclows in April twenty twenty, and they
actually hit their peak in October oftwenty two, with the median sale price

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of a new home having now fallensince then by nineteen percent almost twenty percent
declined, so down from around fivehundred thousand as the median price of a
new home to now about four hundredthousand as of the end of February.

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All of this push for the livingwage and look how out of reach housing
is for so many people, Sothat leads us to renting and buying.
What's going on in the rental versusbuying front, well, the increase in
the cost of financing you know,a new home to buy it, along
with the aforementioned increase in prices asnow for the first time and sometime,

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given a clear advantage to renting overbuying. So preston, if you look
at the fifty largest metropolitan areas inthe country, this is an amazing number.
I'm going to share with your listeners. The monthly cost of buying a
starter home is sixty percent more thanif they chose to rent. So the

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monthly cost of a starter home asmaller home is about sixty percent more more
than one thousand dollars more than ifthey chose to rent. So renting don't
pay property taxes, don't pay insurance, and probably don't pay for any of
the maintenance. I would guess thatmetropolitan areas are even maybe even a better

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bargain for renting very much, Soif you look at particularly the areas that
have been really really hot, likeAustin, Texas, Seattle, Phoenix,
big big advantage for running over buyingexactly when you look at I mean,
we're staring square in the face.Our next visit will be after the filing

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deadline. But the tax filing deadline'scoming a week from now, a little
bit less. What you know,the tax code is cumbersome, it's absurd.
How absurd is it? Well,precisely, very very absurd. So
the tax code was most recently updatedApril, a year ago. It's goot,

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four million, one hundred and thirtyeight thousand and seven hundred and eighty
eight words, isn't it, Preston. That's more than five times larger and
longer than the King James Bible,seven times longer than that big, big
novel War in Peace. So thatmeans that there's an awful lot of lobbyists

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and folks with special interests that youknow that that have bunked it up,
if you will, with at leastsome of those four million words four point
one million words in the tax code. Yeah, but let's not leave off
the other eighty seven hundred and eightyeight above the four point one million.

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That's right, that's an awful lotof talking. That's incredible. Last question,
real quickly breakdown kind of where weare with where people are budgeting today.
Yeah, so, uh, thisis really a challenge for the reasons
I think all your listeners and folksare aware of. So uh, fifty

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percent goes to needs, thirty percentwants is what I want, and idel
a twenty percent in savings. Thatwould tip be a budgeting baseline. It
looks the one hundred largest cities inthe US. Six of those cities,

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when you look at the cost ofliving there would require a combined salary of
at least three hundred thousand dollars inorder for a family of two adults and
two children to live comfortably. Andunfortunately, you know, less than two
hundred thousand is you're able to liveon that. You still got to earn

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two hundred thousand to live comfortably injust eleven cities in the US. So
it's a big, big pra youknow. It's the huge problem right now
is I think we look ahead towardsthe elections this fall and it's not going
to get any better. They're nosigns showing that it will. Howard,
thanks very much of the time.You're most welcome. Preston, have a
great day. Howard Aisman with usthis morning forty seven past the hour.

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We'll follow up to our money segmentwith Howard Eisman pulling up the spot price
of gold and silver right now.It is right now sitting an ounce of
gold at twenty three hundred fifty dollarsand ninety two cents active trading silver at

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twenty eighth eight announce. If youlook at the last five years, gold
is up one thousand dollars plus perounce in the last five years. Silver
is up thirteen dollars roughly just underthirteen dollars an ounce. That speaks to

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how bad the economy is, becauseprecious metals go up as the economy goes
to weird places. I'm just notat all surprised by any of that.
It's a new record. Twenty threehundred plus is a new record. Go

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figure. I mean, there's nothinghappening right now that anyone should be shocked
by with the economy just because ofwho's running our country. And so it's
funny because Democrats are trying to sayto Joe quit trying to say that the
economy's great. People don't believe itbecause their world sucks, their economy stinks.

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The Joe Scarboroughs of the world tellingyou how stupid you are because you
don't understand how good the economy iswhen you're spending obscene amounts of money on
your power, on your fuel,on your groceries, on any good and
service that you purchase. But you'restupid because the economy is great. Whatever
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WFLA our verse today, great versefrom Ezekiel thirty six, verse twenty six.
That's how we started the radio program. Joe Biden the big story in
the press box. He is goingto ignore the Supreme Court. He's going
to flip it the bird. He'sgoing to take his other hand and flip
you and I the bird. Andhe's going to unveil a plan has unveiled

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to plan for more student loan forgiveness. One reason he wants young voters who
are moving towards Trump to come back, come back. I mean you could
almost see the It's like a cartoonstrip, a little animation. Here's Donald
Trump over there. We make Americagreat and all they come over there because

(01:31:56):
he's Donald Trump and he's kind ofa rebel, and people, you know,
young people kind of like that.They think that's kind of cool.
Plus he's owning his hair, heowns it. He just you know whatever.
And so you've got this mob ofkids running to him and Joe Biden
saying, wait, I'll pay offyour student loans. And so the mob
runs back to Joe. That's whathe's trying to do. He's trying to

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lure him back. This is nothingbut a vote buying scheme. That's what
this is. And that's the SupremeCourt said you can't do it. But
as I've told you, they'll justkeep doing it. They'll find different ways,
and then the Court will have torule on that, and then they'll
find different ways, and the Courtwill have to rule on that. He's
going to keep doing anything he canto buy votes. Hence the Southern Border

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