Ep. 4921: The Story of Poor Jack Phillips

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wed. May 3rd, 2023.

Our guests today include: Allen Burkes from First Commerce Credit Union disucssing check washing, and J.D. Johnson from the Talon Training Group.

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, How are you?I hope you're doing all right? It's
Wednesday, May Third Morning Show withPreston Scott Show forty nine, twenty one
Day, thirty three. Hey,have you ever if somebody said to you,
how are you doing today? Justkind of one of those and you've
had just and you're just having abad day? Do you ever say that

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very good and see what they do? No? I usually always just keep
it down the middle. Good.How are you? Do you ever do
you automatically do the return in caseyou're not the first one saying it?
Yeah, usually just out of habit, probably, yeah, courtesy common courtesy.
Yeah, sometimes I wonder and thinkit would be kind of fun to

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just sort of see where people are. You know, it's a really sucky
day, you're at the check outline, how are you today? Sir?
Terrible? See what they do,See if any empathy comes out, or

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words of encouragement, or if they'rejust like, okay, what did you
find everything you were looking for?All right? Stepped on? Okay,
I'm gonna backtrack here. How aboutthose uh, those two two for ones
huh out of love coupons? Yousaved four dollars and ninety seven cents today.
Sir, anyway, good morning,and welcome the um. The verse

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today comes from John fifteen, versestwelve through seventeen. This is my commandment.
Jesus just dropped this hammer. Loveone another as I have loved you.

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Greater love has no one than this. That someone laid down his life
for his friends. You're my friendsif you do what I command you.

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No longer do I call you servants. The servant does not know what his
master is doing. But I've calledyou friends. For all that I have
heard from my father, I havemade known to you. You did not
choose me, but I chose youand appointed you that you should go and
bear fruit. That you're fruit shouldabide. So whatever I ask the Father

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in my name, he may alsogive it to you. These things I
command you so that you will loveone another. Come on, admit it.
There are some people that are reallyhard to love. But it doesn't
change the command. Now, Ido want to make a point. It

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doesn't mean you have to like everybody. I've pointed out many times over the
years. I have not always likedmy kids, but I have always loved
them. I have not always likeda choice, A reaction whatever. But

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I have always loved them, Andboy, isn't there a difference? Right?
I think the difference is found whenthings get very challenging, something's going
on in your kid's life. Youset aside immediately the things that you don't

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particularly like at that moment, andyou go back to that that hub of
the relationship, which is love.Now, where it gets challenging is when
it's not your your immediate blood family, when it's not your your family,
and you have to find a wayto love that person even though you don't

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necessarily have to like them, butthe rule applies. So who today do
you need to purpose in your heartthat you've just got to love them regardless.
Ten minutes after the hour, theAmerican Patriots Almanac is open and standing

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by its show forty nine twenty one. Busy day awaits us here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. TheMorning Show with Preston Scott's on News Radio
one hundred point seven wuf LA.Alright, let's take a peek inside the

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American Patriots Almanac. May third,tomorrow, by the way, National Day
of Prayer, So if you areinterested, it's it goes on at the
State Capitol in all fifty and andso if you're interested, little music begins

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at eleven thirty. Prayer time isis at noon runs till one fifteen,
and so if you're interested in goingto the state capitol. But that's what
happens at all fifty and so throughoutthe day. What's really cool is as

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one wraps up, another time zone'spicking up and prayers going up in the
state at the state capitols all over. So, yeah, if you're interested
in going to the state Capitol,there you go. It will be in
the courtyard, but between the oldand the new capital, not on the
steps up. So there you go. That's tomorrow. Also tomorrow, if

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you're interested, the hurricane hunters arecoming in town in the afternoon. It'll
be from one thirty to four.You can see the planes in person.
That'll be cool. Honestly, that'dbe fun just to watch them land.
So you can go from prayer downto the airport boom, just like that.
All right, it is. Itis May third, seventeen sixty five.

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The first US medical school established atthe College of Philadelphia eighteen o two.
Washington, DC is incorporated as acity. Now, what's interesting here
is. In seventeen ninety, ayear after Washington took office as president,
Congress authorized him to find a sitealong the Potomac River for the new nation's

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capital. It's the first time acountry it'd ever established its permanent capital by
legislative action. President ended up choosinga spot just a few miles upstream from
his home. Hey, you mightas well have a short commute to work
after the father of the country.You kind of get that, right,
I guess, Dad. Yeah.Surveyors staked out an area a hundred square

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miles straddling the river. The ideawas to create a special territory, not
part of any state. That's importantto remember, to contain the capital city.
The land came from Maryland and Virginia, and the territory was named the
District of Columbia in honor of ChristopherColumbus. Not our best effort there,

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I think it's cool. Well,I'm just saying, not the most accurate
decision. It's not like, wouldyou want to go the District of Amerigo.
I'm just saying, honest and truly, the District of America, if
we're being serious. The first Europeanto attempt to have a settlement here in

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North America was leif Ericson. Sodistrict of Ericson it doesn't quite hit.
I don't know. That's because you'rebiased. Pilgrim lover. Washington hired French
engineer Pierre Laphan to play in thecity, which would lie within the new

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district. By the way, youwill find him at Arlington. In fact,
his burial site is above everybody's.It overlooks the entire city of Washington,
DC. That is a spectacular viewfrom up top of Arlington National Cemetery.

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May eighteen o two. It wasincorporated as a city, as we
just mentioned, and so there youhave it. Now they're trying to become
a state. No, I don'tthink so. No, not gonna happen.
Let's see. Nineteen twenty one,West Virginia becomes the first state to

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impose a sales tax. They wereonto something consumption tax. That's what works.
Nineteen twenty three, Air Service LieutenantsOakley Kelly and John McCready land at
Coronado Beach, California, completing thefirst transcontinental NonStop flight twenty six hours and
fifty minutes. Margaret Mitchell wins thePulitzer for gone with the wind in nineteen

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thirty seven. Of course we're nowediting the hound out of that. And
in nineteen fifty two, Lieutenant Colonel'sWilliam Pershing, Benedict and Joseph Otis Fletcher
pilot the first plane to land onthe North Pole. An Air Force ski
wheeled C forty seven did the trick. So there you have it. Sixteen
minutes after now, seventeen minutes afterthe hour, it's The Morning Show with

(10:54):
Preston Scott Well. Tucker Carlson's gotan offer of one hundred million dollars and

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a seat at the board of thecompany Value Tainment by Patrick Bett David CEO
Online Content, Online content company.Five year deal, one hundred million dollars.
So you got twenty million a year. Well, now the motto is

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to enlighten, entertain and empower.That's uh, there you go. It
has some it has some brands JordanPeterson, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
Alan Dershowitz, Neil deGrasse, Tysonamong those that it features. Okay,

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so we'll see what Tucker does.That's it's a good starting point. I
guess twenty million a year, yeah, I think so. Oh, man,
do you wonder what the price willbe. What do you think it
ends at? Does he go forsomething like that or does he want to

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be on broadcast television, whether it'straditional or cable. I don't know what
would you do in my position orme being Tucker, Like, I mean,

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what if it were you, whatwould you do? I'd go independent.
I'd just start my own thing.Yeah, no seat at any board.
We've seen how that works out forJames O'kames O'Keefe. Yeah, yeah,
I wouldn't do that. But Tuckeris more um, but I don't
know if he wants the headache,see, that's that would be. That's

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the thing that I'm not a fanof. I don't like all of the
stuff that goes with running owning abusiness. Yeah, but if he goes
back to a more traditional corporate mediasetting, then he'll have to deal with
maybe maybe not on the same scaleas like a Rupert Murdoch, but someone

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like Rupert Murdoch there's gonna be wantingsome sort of vision for the content,
and Tucker clearly can't be told,yeah, boxed in told what he's going
to report. So I don't know. Well, here's an interesting story of
a defiant person, and one ofthe research assistants flag this to me because

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we both love golf and there's onehome that is on property adjacent to Augusta
National that they can't sell that orthey can't buy. Augusta has been buying
up property for years. Really,they have more than doubled their footprint.

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Wow, they have spent two hundredmillion dollars buying up property around the golf
course for two decades. One familyhas consistently and continues to turn down millions.
It is, it's it's hilarious.The Thackers eleven twelve Stanley Drive,

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adjacent to Gate six A. It'sthe only one Augusta National camp buy.
It was built by the Thackers.Herman passed away in twenty nineteen, but
he's been saying no with Elizabeth,who still lives in the house, even
though the offers keep coming up.Elizabeth said in twenty sixteen, we really

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don't want to go. Herman's backthere saying money ain't everything, and so
they they've turned it down. NowHerman passed away, Elizabeth lives in the
house who was built by them innineteen fifty nine, nineteen hundred square feet
three bedrooms, sits on two thirdsof an acre. Estimated value three hundred

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and forty eight thousand dollars. It'sbecome somewhat of a legend among people that
enter that gate because they walk byit and oftentimes they're out just saying hide
everybody. But apparently Herman's brother,William, he owned several properties, and

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in fact, the Thatchers themselves theyowned property. They sold one piece of
property to them for one point twomillion. William sold his properties for three
point six million. So people areleaving millionaires. And so the representatives of

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Augusta Nashville pop by every now andthen just to just want to let you
know we're still interested in your property. And we tell them the same thing.
They say, I don't know ifthey have any kids. I know
they have. They have a grandsonthat's actually a PGA golfer. He's not
ever qualified or one a tournament tomake it to the Masters, but that
would be kind of cool. Butyou wonder what that price will be.

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It's probably gonna be when Elizabeth passesaway. Sometime after that m A.
D. Rady Network, It's TheMorning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty six

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minutes after the hour of the MorningShow with Preston Scott. That's Grant.
I'm Preston, and the big storiesin the press box are stories that just
need to be on your radar.They're not necessarily the stories that are leading
the news, although occasionally that willhappen. For example, they did get

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the illegal alien that shot and killedfive with his rifle. And you know,
it really doesn't matter what anybody used. And of course reporting is never
going to get to that stage.The issue isn't the implement The issue is

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the action. But he was hereillegally. He's been deported and we don't
we I gotta stop I just becauseI'll get distracted. I won't get to
the other stories. But they've gothim. They caught the guy. On
the subject of firearms, it haspassed the House and the Senate in Florida.

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One of the one of the billswe've been paying attention to. I
know Justin Haskins will be interested toknow this. We'll talk to Justin next
week. The prohibition of registering gunand ammunition purchases by credit card companies.

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It has passed the House and theSenate overwhelmingly passed. You might remember that
credit card companies have been basically tryingto do their own version of a registry
that they can therefore provide to thefederal government or decline, yeah, no,
we're not gonna let you buy agun. We're not gonna let you

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buy ammunition. And what Florida hasbasically done with Center Bill two fourteen is
yeah, you can't do that.If you do that, you will be
punished, as is in the localnews. Don't know if it's in the
news wherever you are, but aTallahassee woman Selena Chambers forty one, I'm

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quite certain somebody out there knows thissweet lady who was at an event in
Walton County, and at that wineand food festival was US Congressman Matt Gates
and his wife. She apparently doesn'tlike him, started shouting, shouting vulgarities

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at him, and then decided shethat wasn't good enough, and so she
threw a glass of wine at him. That is called battery. And she
has been arrested and she'll have herday in court. My suspect is she
will be pleading, but well done, showing once again the classic illiberal way

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of dealing with people you disagree withshouting vulgarities and then throwing things at them.
Forget the fact that you know,you throw a glass at somebody,
you break that glass, you canlike literally someone could lose an eye,
as mom would say. And then, unbelievably, Jack Phillips Masterpiece Cake Shop

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is once again having to appeal toin this case the Colorado's Supreme Court.
Unbelievably, despite the ruling by theUnited States Supreme Court, even though that
that ruling was limited and it's ashame that it was, he is still
dodging lawsuits filed against him by thestate of Colorado. They don't get it.

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We will talk more about that throughoutthis show. Preston Scott on News
Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA anactivist attorney. Back in twenty eighteen,

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same day the Supreme Court announced hewould hear a case at that time involving
Phillips, the custom cake maker,an attorney called requesting he create a custom
cake that would symbolize and celebrate gendertransition. Same attorney then called to request
another custom cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana. The idea was to correct his way

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of thinking. According to the attorney, He said no, to both.
He said he works with all peopleand always decides whether to create a custom
cake based on what the message willbe, not who requests it. When
did the very first lawsuit with MasterpieceCake Shop come about about ten years ago?

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Was it around twenty For some reason, I had in my mind like
two thousand and nine, twenty ten, but it might have been later.
But okay, so ten years ago, right, ten years ago, I
kind of would have thought something alongthe lines of this business owner has his

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civil rights. He can you know, he has a shop open to customers
to come in and purchase, butcustom orders. He reserves the right to
not do these things dislike a Tshirt company, t shirt company, you
know, book publisher. Correct,they reserve that right. And that is

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still true. However, in thelast ten years, the propaganda machine and
the regime has shown their true colors. And it's not just about getting a
gay pride flag, you know,made on a cake, right, It's
not just about that. Nothing todo with then, I agree, It's

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all about now forced coercion to theirregime where you are so right and and
we wouldn't have said that maybe tenyears ago, but it has changed so
much since then. Won't. Wewill tell you about to sink. Yeah,

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the attorney said it to correct histhinking. Yeah, anyway, we'll
we'll, we'll dig a little deeperbecause it's so important you understand the argument,
the the and again I think thatthat the State of Colorado is stupid

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in pursuing this. They will eventuallylose before the United States Supreme Court.
They will same. And why thecity of Boston lost on flags, I
mean, it's just this is justeven even the liberal justices were like,
yeah, I mean, you can'tdo that. Anyway, we'll get there.

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I just this is kind of almosta PSA. I don't drink.
You know that you've listened to theshow. It's not a thing for me.
This story is just heartbreaking. Couple'smarried. They're getting into the golf
cart that the groom is driving thebride. They've left the wedding reception.

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A couple of the groomsmen are ridingin another cart in front of them.
They're in a street legal cart ina twenty five mile an hour zone,
and a drunk young lady comes plowinginto them at sixty five miles an hour.
Within a couple of hours of sayingI do a young lady, Samantha

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sam Hutchinson thirty four, grinning yearto year after the wedding. That I
mean she's dead. Her husband hassignificant injuries, in critical condition, may
have brain injuries. Don't know.I don't know if he's even aware his
new bride is gone. I don'tknow. She had the audacity to tell

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officers that she was on a scaleof one to ten ten being totally sober.
She was an eight, but sherefused her sobriety test. She has
been charged. She's now telling authoritiesthat she's considering suicide. Here's my reason
for bringing this up. Just don'tdon't if you're gonna drink, just don't

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drive. Communicator of common sense amplified. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott

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the audience. I have a photosent to me listener of the program that
was at Augusta National and took aphoto of the house that we talked about
where they won't sell. Right here, I got the photo, real simple

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looking house. I'm actually looking atit going three hundred and forty nine thousand.
Really, how about that? Doyou know what they say? Though?
Location, location, Location, Thankyou Tim for sending that our way
going back to the to the tothe wedding. I can't even get my

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brain around that. Families have losta daughter, a daughter in law,
a husband has lost his wife andhis dearest friend, friends lost a best

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friend, workers lost a co worker, and all because someone could not exercise
discipline. Now here's the brutal reality. Some of you listening to me right
now are guilty of driving after drinking, and you know the dangers. There

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is nobody this to me at thisstage. This is just like the warning
on the side of a cigarette packdanger this can cause cancer. Well,
you think, and I am beggingyou. This is a young lady that

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was old enough. She's twenty five, for Pete's sake, she's old enough
to know. We're not talking abouta sixteen year old that's having a few
beers and didn't know the difference.They're still stupid. But this is an
adult woman, and I know thatthere are people listening to me right now,

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and you just think it's not goingto happen to you. But this
little girl's going to jail and thengoing to prison. It's not going to
end well for her. What shedid killed someone. One of the groomsmen

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is in serious condition as well.The cart they hit was thrown. Just
think about this for a second.The golf cart was thrown the length of
dope Campbell's Stadium one hundred yards.That's the severity of the impact. Just

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saying, I have no problem withpeople having a drink, none whatsoever.
It's not my thing. But I'ma problem with it. It's not a
it's not a Christian thing. Beingdrunk is that's that's being dumb. It's
also generally make a jerk of yourselfand so forth. But it's it's you

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know, but I'm just saying,especially with graduation coming up. Come on

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second hour Wednesday on The Morning Showwith Preston Scott, effectually known as common
Sense Amplified. We try our best, try to help you wade through the
waters that are constantly changing. Youget your swimmings in place, and next
thing you know, you need alife preserver. You get a life preserver

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and swimming is the next thing youknow, you need bins and a mask
and air. It's crazy the thingswe have to talk about on this show.
But we appreciate you sharing time withus. That's grand over there,
and I am joined by Alan Burgs. Alan has joined us a few times
over the years. He is thedirector of risk Management with First Commerce Credit

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Union. Allen, how are you? How are you are doing? Good
pressing? How are you doing?I'm doing well. I was. You
know, no one is surprised anymoreby the warnings and the things we hear
about identity theft and online fishing andall that, but I was blown away
to hear that kind of an oldschools scam of theft is back checkwashing.

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Are you serious? Yeah, It'sa crime that's old as checks themselves.
It's been around for a long time. And we have our Big Been Fraud
Task Force meetings once a month madeup of law enforcement financial institutions in our
area. And one of the hottopics over the last year has been,
you know, altered checks is whatwe refer to them in the business,

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and essentially, you know, it'schecks that are being mailed or provided to
someone that are either intercepted by youknow, a criminal or um you know,
sold off for someone to make duplicantcopies of that check. And you
know, as long as checks arebeing passed around, specifically mailed, this

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type of crime is going to continue, and it's it's just become more and
more frequent over the last year.I'm not exactly sure why. I don't
know if it has to do with, you know, COVID restrictions coming to
an end, but it's become quiteprevalent. Alan is this happening primarily to
business checking accounts or our private checkingaccounts being subjected as well? Well.

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It's affects consumers and businesses, butmore more so for businesses because the folks
stealing these checks are looking for mailthat is of a business nature, and
they're obviously looking for checks that arelarger dollar amounts because they want to get
the most bank for their buck.And it has a much larger trickle down

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effect for businesses. But consumers,you know, they mail checks two and
checks they're stolen out of the mailas well, but it doesn't affect as
many people, mainly just the accountholder and who they are mailing the check
too. But with businesses, youknow, if they mail a check,
not only the check gets stolen andthe person that it was meant for doesn't

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receive it, but it could affecttheir entire operations. Say the check is
for payment of services or for supplies, and then the supplier or the service
provider never receives the check, thereforethey don't provide the services and you know,
they don't realize it until later on, and it's at that point disrupted

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the whole business operation and oftentimes requiresthe business to close their account because now
they have all their account information inthe hands of a criminal. Joining us
on the program, Alan Burkes withFirst Commerce Credit Union, Director of risk
Management, Alan, are these checksgenerally stolen on the front end or the
back end? Are they waiting ata mailbox? Are they waiting at where
they're sent? Good question, andthe answers both. Oftentimes they're they're looking

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in mailboxes. They're looking in theblue boxes the post office has, you
know, they're they're breaking into thoseand often and they're looking in the mailboxes
of you know, businesses that receivepayments if they have some sort of drop
box. There's various methods for themto intercept checks. And obviously when a

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consumer mails a check, they walkout to their mailbox and flip that flag
up. That's just a red flagto criminals to come steals something whatever's in
the mailbox, which is oftentimes apayment. I'm curious is the postal service
responding to this if this is kindof becoming a new vogue way of stealing

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any chance of I mean, removingthe whole red flag on the mailbox thing,
and just you know, if mail'sin there, you pick it up,
and if there's not, you don't. Yeah, you know, I
would certainly encourage folks to not putchecks in their mailbox. And yes,
the postal service does, you know, try to get a handle on this
and investigate these crimes, but it'sso prevalent it's difficult to to you know,

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review and investigate every instance of checkfraud or mail frauds. It's just
become that that prevalent. So yeah, I would encourage folks that if you're
insisting on sending a check, deliverit straight to the individual that you're trying
to send it to. And ifthat's not possible, you know, take
it directly to the post office.Putting a check in your mailbox is not

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not smart and not as oftentimes goingto result in fraud. All right,
Alan, stand by, We're gonnakind of pick up right there, because
that seems to be only half ofthe equation when it comes to write and
checks. Check writing. Who doesthat? I mean I like write five
checks a year, maybe ten minutesafter the hour. It's Morning Show with
Preston Scott, The Morning Show withPreston Scott on news Radio one hundred point

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seven WFLA checkwashing altering, call itwhat you want, it's theft, it's
fraud and joining us from First CommerceCredit Union director of risk Management, Alan

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Burkes. Alan, if you ifyou don't put the check in the mailbox,
that's half of it. But that'sstill not necessarily eliminating the risk.
So what's the best way to eliminatethe risk? Well, to mitigate the
risk, you can certainly use otherpayment methods, both on the consumer side
and the business side. You know, it's a little harder for businesses,

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especially those with a lot of employees, to not write checks because not all
their employees have the ability to acceptdirect deposit. But I would encourage,
you know, all businesses that ifthey have the ability to to really push
their their employees to set up anaccount so they can receive direct deposit.
That eliminates having to provide checks andaccount numbers. On the consumer side,

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you know, there's many, many, many, many ways, as you
mentioned earlier, to make payments.Besides checks yep, um, you know,
whether it be bill pay, youknow, automatic payment. I would
encourage folks to use their debit cardto set up automatic payments with Visa and
MasterCard. If your card expires orgets compromised for some reason, they will

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automatically update your payments so you don'thave to worry about that. And you
know, if your card's compromised,you don't have to is your account or
anything like that, so it's justa new card and you move on about
your day. With businesses too,they have the ability to set up what's
called positive pay. Most financial institutionsoffer this product to where the business tells

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the financial institution how much a checkwas written for the check number and who
it's payable to, and if itdoesn't come in with that information on it,
it doesn't get paid. So it'sa way to eliminate this because some
businesses given and they might write alot of checks, obviously higher risk of
this type of fraud. Yeah,and I you know, I always sit

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back and think how many people areactively reconciling their books when they're writing checks
like that. It, I mean, that's an arduous process, it is.
And now with online banking, andbeing able to view check images through
your online banking. I certainly wouldnot suggest waiting to the end of the
month to review your check images.If you can log in daily and look

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checks. If you're writing frequent checks, look to see who they're payable to,
because the financial institution does not knowwho you wrote that check to.
Again, unless you have positive payset up for a business, so the
financial institution is not going to questionto pay. Only you, as an
account holder, know who you wrotethe check too. So it's very prudent
to sign once your online banking orreviewed, not just check images, but

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all transactions on your account all Alan, When I get an email about this,
it tells me that this is becominga significant issue. When did you
start noticing? When was this reallystarting to become something on the radar of
everybody in your field? Um,well, it's been around for a while,

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but probably over the last year we'veseen it in this You know,
this transcends a lot of different businesses, consumers, and on the flip side,
the folks negotiating the checks who arepresenting them for payment. There that
ranges quite widely as well. Itcould be someone who actually compromised the check
and altered it. It could besomeone that they've recruited to negotiate the check

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for, or it could be ascam victim themselves and they have no idea
the check is altered, which isusually some type of online scam and they're
using someone as a kind of amoney mule to negotiate a fraudulent item.
Alan, does a signature have tobe on the check that really matches?
I mean, how closely has thatpaid attention to. I'm kind of thinking
about, you know, people guardingtheir checkbook and their backlog of or their

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backup set of checks that they have. Yeah, absolutely, the check,
the signature on the check does haveto match. But if the check is
stolen out of the mail and thepay he has changed, the signature will
match. Or if they duplicate thecheck and make more they have a copy
of your signature, so it's nothard to reproduce that. But yes,

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it does have to match. Alan, thanks for the time today. Thanks
for the warning and advice. Weappreciate it very much. You're very welcome,
Preston, thank you for having meall today. My pleasure. Alan
Burke's with us again. His wholemission is to prevent this kind of thing
for clients, customers, members ofFirst Commerce credit Union. But this applies

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to everybody, no matter what yourfinancial institution is. And and so there's
some man go figure, they'll doanything they can scammas. Seventeen minutes after
the hour, It's The Morning Showwith Preston Scott J. D. Johnson.

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Next hour, a little personal defense. We're gonna talk about a lot
of different topics, sort of aforgive the use of the term, but
the parlance works a bit of ashotgun approach. Next hour on the show,

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let me give you the most importantquestion that you need to ask frequently
of the people in your circle.And this is just a not on the
rundown, just a random thought,not a random thought. It's it's a
thought that I hold very close tome at all times. When you look

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at everything's happening in our country.If it's not intentional, what is it?
It's just that simple. If we'renot trying to intentionally hurt the economy,
what is it? Because we wouldthen change course, wouldn't we If
we're not intentionally trying to compromise ourmelody that military, then what are we

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doing? Because we would reverse course, if we were not intentionally trying to
create an environment where China holds theupper hand, and what are we doing
and why are we doing that?Well, because of Joe and his relationships

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with Chinese been paid by for yearsby them. They they have a debt
that Joe owes, Joe owes China, a debt they're collecting. Anyway,
if it's not intentional, what isit? That's it? I have?

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The term has been coined recently isshrink flash. Where do you notice shrink
flation? The most bags of chips? Yeah, grocery store. I mentioned
it years ago with crackers. Yeah, whether it's Ritz, Ritz is where

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I noticed it first, Then saltines, it's everything. Do you see what
a little squeeze jar mayonnaise runs thesedays? Oh? Yeah, we were,
My wife and I were just pointingout that our contact solution is now
in a smaller bottle. We're like, what the heck? Why's mayonnaise up?

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Eggs? Yeah, gotta have eggs. The thing a mayonnaise running about
six bucks? Gosh, I mean, it's insane. Candy leaders are telling
you that, Well, they're justreducing size to kill keep America's waistline down.
No, no no, no,no, no, no no no.

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It's called srinflation. You keep theprice the same, but you're producing
less. You're giving people less productfor the same price. But eventually even
that wears out. They kind ofjust um, they got to raise prices.
Ten wings of Dominoes used to beseven ninety nine and twenty twenty two.

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Now it has eight wings. Somesix the days, Cadberry's cream eggs
have decreased more than fourteen percent insize. But I've got a list here
of the different I've got. I'vegot like pictures of the products here.
And Rees's Hershey's Kisses Doritos, Imean, rec's six point two percent smaller

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bag of Hershey's Kisses ten percent,bag of Dorito nacho chips down five percent.
One Cadberry's cream egg is down fourteenpercent in size, the chicken wings
twenty percent, wheat Thin's original crackerstwelve percent. Simply lemonade orange juice down

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twelve percent size. And again thisis all shrink flation. Hagandas ice cream,
lays, chips, honey bunches,oats, I mean it doesn't.
The categories are endless. I lookedat salad dressing and my eyes crossed.

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I could not believe how small abottle of dressing was for a little more
than what you used to pay fora big bottle. And so I circle
back to where I started. Ifthis is not a situation the manufacturers are

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responding to what's happening in their world. Going back to what I talked with
Cat Camic about yesterday. If thisis now all from from oil, gas,
the push to electric to it alldecimates our economy, all of it.
If it's not intentional, then whyaren't we reversing courses on all of

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it? Why aren't we going anew direction or set of directions because it's
intentional. Preston Scott, this isthe way News Radio one hundred point seven
WFLA Florida legislature comes through. That'sa that's a win for US. House

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and Senate have overwhelmingly passed a build. It prohibits credit card companies from tracking
your gun purchases. They want todo business in Florida, they can't decline,
they can't track, they can't codeyour gun and ammunition purchases. It's
just as simple as that governor's goingto sign it. We'll talk obviously more

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about that on Monday. Maybe Monday, might be the following Monday. It
all depends on how things unfold andSAL schedule. Sal news though, we'll
join us either this Monday to wrapup the session or the following and then
we will meet monthly thereafter and getready because committee weeks come quickly this year

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and there's some legislation. I wantto I want to get on radar.
There's just there's some things we gotto get covered and done here in Florida.
But we'll unpack all that. Floridawoman, sorry, Tallahassee woman arrested
for assaulting US Congressman Matt Gates duringa Miramar Beach festival in Walton County.
Forty one year old Selena Chambers ofTallahassee. She looked like a happy camper

(49:52):
in her mugshot. Here's the thing. I bet she's celebrated in some circles
here in town. Probably. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. If
she spends a little time in thepokey, we'll find out. But we
also have the arrest of the massshooter in Texas shot and killed five people,

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including a child, because they askedhim to stop shooting his rifle.
So you know his child could sleep. He's in the country illegally, and
he dares, he tares to dothat, not just I'm not talking about
taking a life, but to justact that brazenly. Now we caught him.

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Of course, as as the WhiteHouse Press Secretary has been discussing this
entire issue, she is completely leftout of her narrative that he is in
the country illegally because it doesn't fitthe narrative. And then the case of
the Masterpiece Cake Shop, the artistcake baker Jack Phillips being attacked yet again

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by the State of Colorado. He'sgoing they are appealing and in fact,
twenty two states, six state legislators, multiple advocacy groups have filed Friends of
the Court brief with the Colorado StateSupreme Court asking them to take the case.

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Here's the issue. The difference isso clear. If someone walks into
his shop and wants to buy blankwhatever he's made, anybody can buy anything.
They can take a cake that he'smade and go take it somewhere else

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and have it decorated however they want. They can just take it as is,
decorate it themselves. But what heis not compelled to do is to
create something that violates his beliefs.Just like a T shirt company has to
sell you any shirt that they're sellingon the rack. But what they don't

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have to do is make a shirtwith messaging good or bad, vulgar or
not messaging custom messaging. They don'thave to make that for you. He's
being attacked for not putting messaging ona cake that he doesn't agree with.

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Welcome to the Morning Show with PrestonScott. It is inconceivable that we have
a system that allows this to happento this guy. Think of the money
now. I have long believed heneeds to sue the State of Colorado for

(52:52):
an unseemly amount of money and letthem hide under whatever, you know,
immunity clauses they think they have.But this endless, warrantless, ridiculous prosecution
of this man for saying it wouldbe the equivalent of making an author write

(53:15):
a book that he doesn't want towrite. Do you need to write a
book? You're an author, aren'tyou. Well, I'm requiring you to
write a book. I'm hiring youto write a book showing the benefits of

(53:38):
adults being attracted to children. I'mnot going to write that book. Oh
no, no, no, yes, you will. It is the exact
same issue with Jack Phillips. Theauthor can say, I've got all kinds

(53:59):
of books here, you're welcome tobuy. I don't write a book on
that topic. Though that's not atopic I'm going to write. Oh no,
no, no, you will.That the state of Colorado is saying
you must write that book. Becauseyou write book, you go strite for
other people. You're gonna go stritea book for us. No, I'm
not. That is the exact argumenthere. I'm dumbfounded that we find ourselves

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in a country where this kind oflawsuit can exist, where this kind of
persecution can happen, And if wedon't stop this stuff deadnits tracks right there
in Colorado, it will spread.I think it's inevitable it's going to.
But anyway, you ever heard ofa group called as You Saw? Nope,

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they are a nonprofit that promotes ESG. They introduced a proposal for Coca
Cola shareholders. Now it's interesting tome. How does an outside company introduce
a proposal for shareholders of a company. Anyway, It said shareholders request that

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Coca Cola's Board of directors issue apublic report prior to December thirty one,
twenty twenty three, omitting confidential informationand at a reasonable expense, detailing any
known and potential risks or costs tothe company caused by enacted or proposed state
policies severely restricting reproductive rights, anddetailing any strategies beyond litigation and legal compliance,

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that the company may deploy to minimizeor mitigate these risks. What this
group is asking Coca Cola to notI mean, they're they're expecting litigation.

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Of course you will sue, right, you will, you will do this,
But to look at the impacts?What impacts could there possibly be to
Coca Cola. Thankfully, eighty sevenpercent of the controlling share is voted against

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the measure. That's a that's athat's a slap in the back of the
face to the as you saw anonprofit group that said, voting power is
allocated by shares owned, so it'snot a one for one. So the
majority share owners said, uh,yeah, no, we're not We're not

(56:52):
going there. I mentioned this toexplore how this type of activism finds its
way into the everyday lives of youand me through infesting businesses. The Morning

(57:15):
Show with Preston Scott. Yeah,this is um. This is a topic
that I don't know. I don'tknow how broad of an interest this has,

(57:39):
but it's interesting to me. Fighttook place at a golf course in
Lakeland, Florida, near a Tbox. I'm sorry, you said.
A fight of a golf course,Cleveland Heights golf Course. Members of one
group started to um complain about thepace of play of the other group.

(58:07):
One foursome that was getting attacked verballysaid, look, there's there's nothing we
can do about the slow play.It's slow everywhere. It's it's they're probably
waiting on someone ahead of them too. There's a group in front of us.
We can't go any faster than twogolfers shove each other or miss kick,
Fists start flying. Oh my gosh, it seems to get broken up.

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One of the golfers though, saysbring it, drops the B word.
That's so funny. Then another pairof golfers are squared up and another
more punches are flown. The reasonfor the slow play was groups in front

(58:52):
of them. Saw a story inthe news today about one a doctor a
dentist sorry, assaulting a doctor witha golf club, and I mean left
him badly injured because the doctor andhis wife were walking on the cart path

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going for a walk, and golfcourses are pretty clear that you're not allowed
to do that. Now, somegolf courses will say it's okay after the
course is closed and no play ison the course, that it's okay to
walk on the on the cart paths, but a lot of golf courses are
like no, Um, that's that'sfor carts and not for strolls and people

(59:38):
just wandering around. It's for peoplethat have paid money to play around a
golf But it's interesting because I seethat, and I and I heard a
discussion about quote live golf and livegolf you know, had this great event,
they call it a great event inMelbourne, and it's the what live

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golf is supposedly all about. Andthat's basically drinking and partying in loud music.
And that's how they set themselves aside. And if that's what they want
that tour to be, that's fine, but it further crushes the argument that
it's that it's like the PGA Tour. It's not. It's not like the
European Tour. It's not like thecorn Ferry Tour. It's not like any

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of them. They wanted to bea circus with guaranteed money and a side
show and scantily clad women and boozeand all that. If that's your thing,
cool, that's fine. But thisstuff seeping into the game of golf
is going to ruin the game.And you mark my words, I will

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be right about this. And Iknow that I'm on the outside of the
way. Some of you even thinkabout this that listen to the show.
You you think that having boomboxes andmusic playing and all that, that's just
the way it is today that bringsyoung golf is in no no what it's
going to do. It's it's goingto denigrate the game of golf, and

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it's going to bring in an elementto the game of golf that is going
to eventually ruin the game of golf. And I could list golf courses that
are paying the price for allowing thistype of thing to go unchecked, because
you then have people bringing their ownbooze, their own coolers onto the golf
course. Then you have them wearingwhatever they want on the golf course.

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There is no dress code or anything. Listen, when when I was younger,
there was a very strict dress code. You wore a collared shirt.
You at that time, you woreslack. Shorts weren't allowed. Shorts were
only allowed later. And you knowwhat eventually happens is you've got a group

(01:01:52):
of people that do not know etiquette, and then it's going to lead to
more confrontations, more fights, andthen you've got you've got the people that
are willing to pay the money tobe on a golf course. They're they're
gonna retreat, they're gonna leave thegame, and the semi private public courses
are going to just turn into kindof like tailgate parties with a game.

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And you know, you might aswell be playing cornhole at that point.
You know, have a beer inone hand, swinging a golf club with
the other. Why don't I justplay golf polo, you know, just
run around with a golf cart andsmack the ball and just keep going.
It's the game can be improved.They can do things to improve pace to
play. One of the things Iwould recommend golf course superintendence too, is

(01:02:40):
cut the rough down, save peoplefrom all the time they spend looking for
a golf ball, raise it upduring the term. I'm gonna cover this
again sometime good morning, five minutesafter the hour. It's Wednesday, May

(01:03:05):
three, you know, of coursewe'll say it ahead of time. Tomorrow
is May the fourth be with you, and then Revenge of the Fifth that's
coming up tomorrow though, and Fridayperfectly. It is show forty nine twenty
one of the Morning Show with PrestonScott. That's Grant Allen over there in
Studio one A. I'm here inStudio one B, and I am joined

(01:03:29):
by he's the co founder of Everything, Everything with Talent on It is the
co founder of it, and it'sJD. Johnson with US Talent Training Group,
Talent Outdoors, Talent Holsters, andmost importantly for today's purposes, our
personal defense segments during the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Are you I'm great,

(01:03:52):
Harry, I'm doing well. Youcame in giggling because you were.
Yeah. Great, show and telltoday in the classroom. We'll get to
that. We'll get to that.Um, what has been your short term
reaction in terms of what you're seeingto the new law that's been passed doesn't

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take effect till July. First,what are you hearing from people at at
the shop, at the range aboutthe new concealed carry law? UM?
Primarily confusion, you know, UM, whether or not to renew their concealed
carry permit or get a concealed carrypermit. Um, what's it gonna do?
What's what's this new law gonna cause? I think you have you have

(01:04:35):
some people that have some substantial apprehension, you know, worried about people having
guns, more people having guns.And I said, well, you know,
my my response to that has prettymuch been, yeah, you'll have
more law abiding citizens carrying guns.You're not going to have any more not
law abiding citizens. There's gonna beno change in that side of the equation,

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change in that side of the equationbecause outlaws don't care about the law.
That's what makes them outlaws. So, UM, I think the big,
big concern is untrained, trained peopleare worried about untrained people being armed,
UM more readily armed. And Iand I get that, and I
understand that. UM, I havesome hope. Uh just I really expected

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that by this point we would haveseen a decline in the number of people
attending our classes. UM haven't seenthat yet. Our classes are still filling
up just as before, so youknow we're still we're still booked a couple
of classes out and so, um, I think you'll see. I mean

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there are advantages beyond the training.I mean the training is the primary advantage,
right, but there are even justpractical advantages to going ahead and keeping
your concealed carry or obtaining one.Yeah. Yeah, the the reciprocation in
states that are not uh constitutional carry, So you're getting to carry in ten

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or twelve more states, um thatyou can't that are not constitutional carry.
Um. I like the lack ofa three day wait. When three day
wait if you walk into the gunstore and fall in love and and and
and need to leave when you wantto leave with it that day, you're
not having to make another trip.Um. So yeah, there's there's some

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distinct advantages to having the permit,and that the permit if you factor in
the fact that it's a seven yearpermit divided by the hundred whatever dollars it
cost, um, it's pretty cheap. There were I listened to you and
Charlie and Fred Conrad, who isalways interesting when he's on Talent Outdoors.

(01:06:47):
You roll your eyes and shake yourhead. Uh. People can't see that
on the radio, but they couldsure feel it. Um Fred though is
a criminal defense attorney. He isa brilliant criminal defense attorney. He has
pointed out that in reading the statute, there could be some adjustments that will
be needed because there could be somegray areas. Always, I mean,

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there is no perfect There is noperfect law written, especially on the first
go round. Um So, yeah, there's gonna be There'll probably probably be
some some gray areas, some tweaks, some some clarification that usually comes through
court decision, you know, throughcourt precedent, and it could eventually come
through a rewrite or of an addendumto the law. When I say the

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word printing, most people don't knowwhat I'm talking about. Yeah, that's
obviously you're wearing a gun under yourshirt. It looks like a gun under
your shirt or in your in yourpocket or wherever you're carrying it. It
looks like a gun, but it'sstill concealed or covered up. Does it
matter in the new law whether someonesees that you have a firearm in your

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pocket or under your shirt or not. No, there's printing has never been
a violation of the concealed Carrie statute. You know it can obviously be a
gun under your t shirt as longas you can't see and that it's a
gun. A lot of folks don'tunderstand the difference between what we know and
what we can prove. You canlook at it and go, yeah,

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I'm that's a gun. Now I'mI'm convinced that's a gun. But I
don't really know unless you pick yourshirt up and say, oh, oh,
yeah, that is a gun.You highly suspect and knowing is two
different things. We're gonna talk moreabout this and kind of where this can
lead, as well as some otherthings dealing with legalities and firearms. Next
in the Morning Show, Don't KnowWhat to Believe? Clear the Fog The

(01:08:41):
Morning Show with Preston Scott I NewsRadio one hundred point seven w FLA.

(01:09:09):
Jend Johnson with us from the talenttraining group Talent Outdoors. You can listen
to the program on the weekends nowSyndicated. It's hard for you to get
your mind around, isn't it.I love it? I love it.
Yeah, you have no idea.We mentioned other issues that might come up

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and will come up when it comesto the new law and so forth.
But let's let's talk about the personthat is going to decide that Okay,
yeah I am going to carry nowbecause I don't have to get permission.
They were just kind of they justdidn't want to go through all that.
What's the most important thing for themto do when it comes to carrying itself?

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Do they need to find the rightholster? Do they need to find
the right I mean what, let'skind of sequence this out for somebody that's
going to get a firearm. Yeah, it's all part of it. And
that's like I said once again,my first thing was seek some training.
Seek they need to seek some trainingfrom somebody, somebody reputable, not saying

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they need to come see us foryou know, absolutely, And you don't
have to take a class, aconsumer carry class. You can just get
training on firearms right from somebody rightyou know that knows what they're talking about.
Find your buddy down the street,that's a that's a deputy, share
for a police officer, and youknow, get some training from somebody.
Spend some time with your firearms soyou know how to operate it, how

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to how to clear malfunction, howto load it, how to unload it,
what amo to carry in it?You know, there's so many things
and integral things to to being aresponsible firearms carrier, you know, user
um, I mean, I justthink back to when we got to let
the privilege of driving. We wentthrough how long being with somebody else next

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to us before we returned loose?Well that and then you turn sixteen and
we see what sixteen year old driverslook like that driving by themselves. It's
still a scary proposition sometimes, youknow, with young drivers because they don't
have that experience. So you know, it's it's every time you go out
to the range and you do asession, a shooting session, you should

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be attempting to learn something from thator and you can have fun at the
same time. You know, Ienjoy shooting recreationally. So does most of
my family and a lot of friends. And it's fun to go out there
and see if you can hit whatyou're aiming at. How someone carries it
occurs to me there are a lotof factors that go into how somebody carries,

(01:11:49):
sure, the type of firearm youhave, the how you are physically
built, how you dress, allof those things. You know, what
kind of dress do you wear ona daily basis, how do you how
do you dress on a daily basis? All of these things factor in,
um, you know, and mostpeople find that, uh, they don't

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just carry a certain gun. Theythey have two or three different guns and
two or three different holster setups andwhatever else for depending on how they're dressed,
what they're doing, where they're going, so forth, and so on.
There there's only certain guns I carry. When I'm out on the boat
fishing or when I'm hunting, Idon't carry, you know, the same
thing that I would carry. I'mnot necessarily carrying the red dot. Yeah,
it's so and it just all well, hunting, I am sure sure

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you know, I'm carrying a big, big ten millimeter with a red dot
on it because I might want tobe able to to take a hog or
a deer when I'm with my pistol. So, um, there's just so
many factors that go into it andto to you know, steal sharpened steel,
metal, sharpens metal, and youknow, if you get around other

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people that are also carrying, youcan pick up good habits, you can
pick up bad habits depending on whoyou're hanging out with. But um,
you know, it's it's that's theenvironment that we have at Talent and the
reason, one of the reasons we'vedone this is because of that. We
we have a shooting community. Yeah, we got more to talk about when
we come back braces. What's goingon? What's going to happen with braces?

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Should you turn yours in? Shouldyou say I have one shot?
What are we doing here? We'lltalk about that next and more. The
J. D. Johnson of theTalent Training Group twenty two minutes after the

(01:13:38):
hour the Morning Show with Preston Scott. J D. Johnson of the Talent
Training Group with us, all right, what what do you think the I
mean we're we're running into isn't atthe end of May when braces have to
be quote registered and announced to thefederal government. Yeah, we're coming up
on the only end of the onehundred and twenty days. Here, explain
the listeners that have no idea whatwe're talking about, what this is all

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about. So, if you havea rifle, a rifle that the barrel
is, well, it's not arifle if the barrel is less than sixteen
inches on a let's just say ana R fifteen or an AK forty seven,
or a Remington bolt action for thatmatter. If the barrel, if

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it fires a rifle cartridge and thebarrel is shorter than sixteen inches, it
has to be in a pistol configuration. Some really smart people came out with
this device called a pistol brace thatallows you It was designed to attach to
your forearm so that you could betterstabilize. It's called a stabilizing brace better

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stabilize the pistol for one hand operation. It also allows you to it gives
you something to put against your shoulderif you wanted to fire it from your
shoulder. The ATF has gone backand forth about five different times prior to
this latest venture determining whether or notit was legal to put that on yours,
to put it up to your shoulder. They first said yeah, you

(01:15:06):
can do it. Then they said, oh no, you can't. You
can leave it on the gun,but you can't touch your shoulder with it.
They just can't make up their mindhow to deal with this. And
it's primarily for AR fifteen pistols,for AR fifteens with barrels shorter than sixteen
inches. So the latest iteration ofthat is the Federal government came along and

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said, okay, pistol braces arenow going to be forbidden. Can't have
them at all. Can't be attachedto the gun, whether it's a rifle
round or not, rifle round ornot, could be a nine millimeter in
a carving short barrel carving configuration.Can't have a pistol brace anymore unless you
notify us in writing, fill outthis form, send us a picture of

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it, give us the serial number, blah blah blah, blah blah.
And they're initially and what a lotof people think is, oh, well,
I'm getting a free tack stamp.You could always have these items,
these these prohibited item you could alwayshave them. There was a two hundred
dollar tax stamp associated with it.You could you could pay your two hundred
dollars. Fill out some paperwork andsay, I want to manufacture my own

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short barrel rifle. We put ashort barrel on it, and we put
a stock on it, and it'sa short barrel rifle, and it's regulated
by the federal government, and theycharge you two hundred bucks. So everybody
says, well, and the government'snow saying we're not going to charge you
the two hundred dollars. We justneed to know that you have it.
This this latest one, this latestone says we don't. We're going to
waive the two hundred dollars tax stampand whatever. Well, what they're really

(01:16:40):
doing is they're not giving you atax stamp. They're giving you a hale
pass. They're giving you a pieceof paper that says, we know this
gun should probably buy our definition.By our definition, this gun should have
a tax stamp associated with it.We're gonna say, because you've owned this
pistol brace for ten years, twelveyears, however long they've been out,
we're going to give you an exemption. Here's your letter exempting that particular firearm

(01:17:05):
from needing a tax stamp. Becausethe bureaucracy can't levy or rescind taxes.
The stamp that you guide on youron your document, if you had a
tax stamped item, is a physicallittle blue stamp that costs two hundred dollars.
The bureaucracy can't wave that fee.They don't have the authority. Most

(01:17:26):
of us believe they don't have theauthority to write a statute in the first
place. And that's essentially what they'redoing. With this, which is why
I think the statute or this newregulation will fail miserably if somebody ever takes
it to court, and that's agiven it's going to be taken to court.
Oh, it's already there. Therewas day they wrote. The day
they wrote this regulation and sent itout to the public, there was umpteen

(01:17:49):
dozen lawsuits filed immediately. And justlike the bump stocks when when President Trump
was in office, you had thishorrible amen out in Las Vegas, and
they immediately went to we're going toban these bump stocks. Supposedly bump stocks
were used in that event out there. Hadn't seen a lot of proof of

(01:18:11):
it, but supposedly that's what wasused, so they banned bump stocks.
That's already failed. They've they've rescindedthat executive order. It was found unconstitutional
as and there's zero difference between thatand what we're talking about right now as
far as being unconstitutional. So Idon't think it will live very long.

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A lot of people are taking advantageof getting their getting their letter exempting their
item. My recommendation is take itoff your gun if you have one,
until it goes until this issue goesaway. Take the brace off your gun.
If you have a gun with abrace on it, and wait to
see what happens. See what happens. Yeah, so you know, that's

(01:18:59):
basically what I'm telling people to do. When we come back. I've always
wanted to ask what is so specialor is it not so special? In
nineteen eleven, what makes it unique? And thoughts on that as well as
JD as a toy with him.Today we're going to talk about that too,
and a little bit more here inThe Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:19:24):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott,JD. Johnson with me from the Talent
Training Group. It is our personaldefense segment. We're not really focused so
much on personal offense. We're justtalking about ancillary issues dealing with guns and
what the FEDS are doing. Oneof the things we haven't touched on yet,

(01:19:46):
JD, is the something that huntersand an even fishermen are going to
be confronted with is they are tryingto push out a new regulation that is
going to impact hunters as it relatesto ammunition. Yeah, that's coming straight
out out of the Great State ofCalifornia. UM so years ago, several
years ago, California passed state lawsthat prohibited lead being used for hunting or

(01:20:13):
fishing or target practice. So there'sthere are there are replacements for that.
You have to shoot solid copper umprojectiles and made out of solid copper.
They are prohibitively for the most part, prohibitively expensive. Uh to lead is
a cheap material compared to copper um. There are there is a line,

(01:20:38):
most manufacturers have a line of copperum solid copper projectiles through the federal government's
trying to take part in um inthat law from California. They they basically
their claim is that and if youyou will see it on products all the
time and you don't think of it, but per you know the California statute,
blah blah blah, this this productcontains lead. You see that little

(01:20:59):
notice on all kinds of stuff,not just gun related stuff. So California
is super restrictive because lead is infact toxic if it gets in your blood
stream. So if you eat itor breathe a lot of it, micropulverized
versions of it, if you breatheit, if you eat it, it
gets in your blood stream, itis toxic to humans. Bullet you can

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take a solid lead bullet and putit in the ground like we do at
the range on a regular basis,and a hundred years later, it's still
gonna be right there unless you pulverizeit to the point where it turns into
microscopic traces of it. It's notgonna migrate, even with water flowing over
it in its solid form, it'snot going to migrate. But they treat

(01:21:46):
it like it's nuclear waste, andI personally think it's It's yet another attack
on the firearms industry, right.It's just another core needed way to make
things more expensive and more difficult andmore challenging for anyone who owns a gun.
No different than the credit card stuff, than the banking stuff with gun

(01:22:08):
related stuff, you know, thebanking industry. Though all of that stuff
has been manipulated, turned and weaponizedto a degree by governments around the country,
state governments and federal governments. Andit's just another another poke at it.
I used in the segment prior aboutin nineteen eleven. What's unique about

(01:22:29):
in nineteen eleven, Well, it'sjust an iconic it's an iconic firearm.
It was designed by John Moses Browning, the most prolific, probably the most
genius, one of the most oneof the most genius, if not the
biggest genius in the firearms industry ever, one of the greatest design firearms designers.
So he designed it. What's iconicabout it, it was it was

(01:22:51):
the service pistol for both world wars, so it existed. World War One,
it existed, and they didn't changeit for World War Two. It
went through Korea and Vietnam, soall of the major conflicts the US has
had since the since nineteen hundred,Uh, soldiers have been armed with the

(01:23:12):
nineteen eleven and it's, um,you know, it's it's still a viable
self defense tool. Um, it'sit's it's been outdated, you know it's
it's they're not as reliable. Uh. And I know the phone's gonna blow
up and people are gonna cust meout because I'm speaking of sacrilege. I
love them. They're great guns,they're fun to look at, they're fun

(01:23:35):
to shoot, all that stuff.I'm not going to carry one for self
defense because there's better options out thereat this point. Um, you know,
there's somebody somebody out there's heads headsabout to explode right now. Yeah,
but uh, they're they're just thatthey you see them in all the
movies. Uh, they're still swatoperators and and cops around the country carrying

(01:23:58):
them. Um, they're easy toshoot. They have a really light,
short trigger pool and you can overcomea lot of lack of training with them
because of that single action trigger.J D. Johnson will there's another segment
to go here on The Morning Showwith Preston Scott. The Morning Show with

(01:24:20):
Preston Scott, a couple of randomquestions topics here Final seven with JD.
Johnson of the Talent Training Group.Remember Talent Outdoors. Get the podcast.
That's the easy way, you know, if you can't listen live, just
do what I do. I'm justsubscribed to the podcast and it provides me
great fodder. But when I listenedto the new episode, then it goes

(01:24:44):
back to the last episode I didn'tlisten to, which would be years ago,
and so I enjoy those. Butwell, I'm glad you listen to
how your voices have changed. No, I'm just kidding of not mine.
I still sound like a fourteen yearold boy. Only when you laugh for
the person that's going to take onthe responsibility of a fire. I'm circling

(01:25:05):
back to kind of where we started. What are some must must have,
some things they've got to know howto do. And I'm thinking of the
maintenance. I'm thinking about some thingsthat a lot of people don't really understand
about owning a gun. I'll tellyou we get guns. People come in
the shop all the time. Agun quit working. You know, it's

(01:25:26):
not shooting this, jam and it'sdoing this, it's doing that. Revolver,
even revolvers, and I've revolvers.Everybody thinks, oh, you don't
have to take care of a revolver. That and forget right, um oil
all earl whatever you want to callit. Lubrication. Guns need all to
function properly. They need to occasionallybe clean there every time you've pulled the

(01:25:51):
trigger and fire a projectile, fireof a cartridge to find occasionally um and
I know it varies on how youknow. It varies on the gun.
If there's no if you have timeclean it every time you shoot it,
okay, if you don't have timeclean it every other time you shoot it,
at least once a year, itneeds to be taken apart and cleaned.

(01:26:15):
Whether it's whether that's done professionally orby you man. There's just there's
tons of YouTube videos out there howto feel strip, take apart. You
can pull up a video on justabout any gun. Yeah, this old
nineteen oh eight cult that I thatI showed you this morning. There's a
video on YouTube disassembly reassembly. AndI'm not talking about just feel stripping for

(01:26:42):
cleaning purposes. I'm talking about there'sa video to completely show you how to
completely disassemble it, take every pieceand part out of it and put it
back together on YouTube. So atleast once a year, maintain the gun
at the very minimum, you know, clean, put some lubrication on it.
The correct lubrication. WD forty isnot the correct lubrication we see.

(01:27:05):
I see guns all the time thatare that have stopped working because somebody sprayed
it with WD forty. And it'snot that WD forty is not a great
product for certain things in a firearm. Over time, it turns into varnish,
it turns into this brown, gunkymess that's going to slow down the
action of the gun or gunk theparts up where they don't work anymore.

(01:27:29):
When you say oil a gun,how much is too much? How little
is too little. I would saythe biggest thing is if you look at
any any machinery, you will seewhat we call in the business a witness
mark, so you will see wheremetal is touching metal. It just needs

(01:27:49):
a real fine, thin amount oflubrication on those points of the firearm where
you get that witness mark, whereyou get that shiny spot. That's what
I'm talking about. You get thatlittle shiny spot on there. It just
needs a little bit of really finyou can use really fin ol. I
recommend buying some type of gun oil, not not going to the Baudeau Park

(01:28:14):
store and buying thirty weight pencil,right, something made for a fire something
made for a firearm. Now thatbeing said, there's some firearms that they
actually make thirty weight oil for certainfirearms are fifteenth, there's a there's a
there is a thirty weight ol foran AAR fifteen. Where don't you put
oil on the grip for one thing? You know, Um, there's there's

(01:28:36):
not there's no harm in wiping downall the metal surfaces. I don't recommend
putting gun cleaning oil on any ofthe wood or any of the plastic surfaces
that you put on guns. Nowadays, some petroleum based products can deteriorate the
internal part, like where you knowthe firing mechanisms are on certain guns you
don't want to do that, buton some of them you do, and

(01:28:57):
that you know, happy to helpyou show you if you bring a gun
in. Most of my guys,most of my employees can show you where
to do that if you need thatguidance. But this is where YouTube can
be your best part. Absolutely,and don't take everything. Watch more than
one video that you know that youmay have five guys saying do this,
and one guy say and do that. You may want to take into account
the five people and not kind ofignore this guy because there's some idiots on

(01:29:23):
YouTube. Sure, so you knowthere's some guys that don't have a clue
what they're talking about. Sometime sortof like Saturday, I'm telling outdoors,
ain't that the truth? Where wehave no idea what they're gonna say,
and neither do they. It's gonnabe a lot of fun this weekend.
You can bet good to see afact, good to see you. Thank
you all right. JD. Johnsonwith us, and it's forty seven minutes

(01:29:44):
after the hour still to come.This week Friday on the program Animals Stories.
Already know an animals story. It'spersonal crime. Crime is broken out

(01:30:12):
in the animal kingdom around my home. Oh no, no, I'm not
kitting. I'm not kidding. Sharethat story on Friday, Speaking of animals.
Tomorrow, Pause for thought, We'vegot on the road against segment.
Steve Stewart will join his Horace Cooperback with us from Project twenty one.
Love me some Horace Cooper. I'mgoing to talk about the the vice resident

(01:30:36):
he is. He has come tothe and this is a guy who who
is a professor of an expert onconstitutional law, taught constitutional law George Mason
University. Still might for all Iknow. But but Horace is not having
any of Kamala. And so we'regonna have a little chat about Kamala tomorrow

(01:30:56):
on the program. I have Ihad asked you because I've seen a story
now where a couple of nitwit zoomers, yeah, are being paid incredible sums
of money to try to convince youngvoters that Joe Biden deserves reelection. Not

(01:31:23):
just these two googers, but theBiden administration announced that they would be calling
upon gen Z social media influencers acrosssocial media too well propagate lies lies.
Yeah, they're out there saying,well, you know, Republicans can't engage

(01:31:45):
in a civil debate. Oh really, Oh really? So I have tasked
Grant with reaching out to these twoyoung men, one being paid two hundred
thousand dollars in the last eight monthsalone by the DNC. And they video,
Yeah, they posted a video sayingthey're not getting paid by the DNC.
Well, they have an agency,and the agency is the one that's

(01:32:09):
receiving the payments from the DNC.So they're being legalists, they're liars and
so but that's what you would expect. So we're going to invite them to
come on the program and chat.Whatever their names are, I'm not going
to use their names until it's absolutelynecessary. But I didn't even know who
they are. That's I'm a terriblezoomer, So I don't even know who

(01:32:29):
they are, just saying I suspectmy just one challenge will continue that even
the paid messengers won't engage in thejust one challenge. But we'll see.
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or less. Prohibition of registering gunand ammunition purchases by credit card companies has
passed the Florida legislature on to thegovernator that will be signed. Tallahassee woman
Selenna Chambers of Tallahassee forty one ischarged with battery of an elected official.

(01:33:19):
She threw a glass of wine atUS Congressman Matt Gates after shouting obscenities.
So she was so frustrated at beingin his presence. I mean, it
was at the South Walton Beaches Wineand Food Festival, but he's not allowed
to go. But such is illiberalism. She was triggered apparently by his presence.

(01:33:45):
Twenty two states supporting Masterpiece cake artistright to create freely, hoping the
Colorado Supreme Court agrees tomorrow. Wegot a bunch more to talk about and
we will do it. Dan,thanks for listening. Have a great day.