Ep. 4936: DeSantis Is Announcing Today

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, good morning, and welcomeWednesday Morning Show with Preston Scott, and
all things are right in Studio oneB. How are you? Yes?
That means the phones are back workingthanks to the herculean efforts of our chief

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engineer Charlie Wooten, and and theteam. Still have a little more to
do outside of the studios that we'restill getting worked work done on, but
nothing that you have to worry about, and nothing that will affect your enjoyment

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of this fine radio program. Howare you? It's Grant Allen over there
in Preston Scott at Show forty ninethirty six of the radio program Wednesday made
twenty fourth more on that date inMere Moments, Day fifty four of America
Hostage Isaiah forty three. Let's reada few verses here together. This is

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what the Lord says. Let mejust pause for just a moment. In
the Old Testament, when you geta proclamation like that, you really ought
to pay close attention to it.It's sort of like the Old Testament's version
of the red letters that you findin some New Testament translations. The red

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letters would be the words spoken byJesus. I always thought that was kind
of a cool thing. Songs havebeen written about the red letters. This
is what the Lord says, Hewho made a way through the sea,
a path through the mighty waters,who drew out the chariots and horses,

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the army and reinforcements together, andthey lay there, never to rise again,
extinguished, snuffed out like a wick. That's the description of the Lord,
He who did all that, saysthis. Forget the former things.

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Do not dwell on the past.See I am doing a new thing.
Now it springs up. Do younot perceive it? I am making away
in the wilderness and streams in thewasteland. The wild animals honor me,
the jackals, the owls, becauseI provide water in the wilderness and streams

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in the wasteland to give drink tomy people, my chosen, the people
I formed for myself, that theymay proclaim my praise. Oh, come
on, number one. For manyof us, a look at the daily
news is all we need to know. We are in a bit of a

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wilderness. I got water here,you can sip on it right now.
But that's not what we're talking about. God is reminding us to keep our

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vision forward and to know that Hewill sustain us and provide for us in
the midst of the wilderness. So, no matter how things look as we
go through the news this morning,as we consider how ridiculous things are,

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and boy they are, none ofthat is lost on God. And God
knew all of it was coming,all of it was going to happen.
He has a plan for it.And for his people there is sustenance.
He will provide sustenance, refreshing.And while we're not necessarily talking about literal

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water, we're talking about a streamof life that comes through Christ, that
comes through the Word of God.But get to the last line, what
is all of that for? Whatis the provision for? What is all

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of it for? That gets youto the end of the day that they
a proclaim My praise. Come on, no matter how discouraged you may be,

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you read that scripture today. Soakit in Isaiah forty three, sixteen
through twenty one, Drink it up. Ten minutes after the hour it's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Twelveminutes past good morning. Might be pushing

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past some of this rainfall. Look, I'm grateful to have the rain on
the yard, on the plants.Don't have to put the sprinkler out.
That's awesome, but come on,let's dry up a little bit here.
How can how can we expect toget anything done with it raining all the

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time, So it looks like we'regoing to get a little bit out of
that rain pattern. It'll be back, don't work every afternoon. We'll have
the thread of the storm and allthat stuff it comes with this time of
year. We're in plaid today.Huh yep? Is that your go to?
No? No, I just havea couple of shirts like this just

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felt like a plaid day. HuhYeah, I did. Yeah. Nice.
May twenty fourth, eighteen thirty Band O Railroad, first passenger railroad
in the United States, begins servicebetween Baltimore and Ellicott Mill, Maryland.
Okay, it's one of those monopolytrivia questions that B and O. Yeah,

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that's one of the railroads on there. Eighteen forty four, in a
long distance demonstration of his telegraph,Samuel Morris sends the message what hath God
wrought from Washington, DC to Baltimore? Man? Are those words appropriate for
Washington, DC? These days?Wow? That story by the way of

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Samuel Morse. We've documented it onthe show. It's a fascinating one.
How he got the idea to dothis, because that wasn't the plan for
his life. Eighteen fifty six,anti slavery leader John Brown leads an attack
against pro slavery settlers in Kansas,killing five. Eighteen eighty three, the

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Brooklyn Bridge. By the way,speaking of that subject, I don't know
that I'll fit it in today,but there it was a fascinating Twitter debate
between AOC and Ted Cruz on thesubject of the Democrat Party. Ted just
threw the hammer down, and youknow, AOC will always be the mouthy

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little post millennial that she is.But but but yeah, it was good.
We'll chronicle that discussion probably tomorrow onthe show. Brooklyn Bridge connecting Brooklyn
and Manhattan opens. The traffic ineighteen eighty three still stands. That's It's

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another one of those things that Imarvel at the design of bridges back then
that stand the test of time.Just the engineering that it too. Look
his not been improved upon very muchover time. Just genius. And in

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nineteen sixty two, astronaut Scott Carpenterin Auroras seven becomes the second American to
orbit the Earth and I bet mostpeople didn't know that. We know,
we know Alan Shepherd, we knowyou know John Glenn. Wait a minute,

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Scott Carpenter, second American to orbitthe Earth. Really? Yeah,
how about that? He's one ofthose that I believe died in the fire
on the launchpad with Gus Grissom andRoger Chaffee. I think I think sixteen
minutes after the hour, come backget rolling here on the morning show.

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Is it ever too early to talkfootball? Yeah? Probably is. Mac.
Well, here's the thing. Wehave a love a relationship with it.
Man, I got some junk inmythrope. Yeah, it's like the
NFL. I hate it, butI love it. I hate how politicized

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it has become. Not because ofany of us. They did it,
Roger Goodell did it, Kapernick,all those nonsensical things. They did it.
The game itself is awesome, Butnow we're trying to turn the college

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game into the pro game by speedingit up. Bad mistake, bad men
steak. You know, I'm convincedthat's why one of the reasons why soccer's
popular. NonStop. You get,if they delay, if they if they
waste time, they just add it. Yeah, Okay, you want to

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keep at it wasting time, We'llkeep adding time injury, We'll add time.
But the fans they're gonna get ninetyminutes plus of action no matter what
something's going on on the field.And that's what I dislike of what's happening
with the NFL and now college footballfollowing it. But the NFL did change

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rules, and it's a significant rulechange. You might remember what happened in
the NFC Championship game last year betweenthe Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco forty
nine. The forty nine ers wereon it with Brock Purdy as their quarterback.

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He got hurt. The backup quarterbackgot hurt. They didn't have any
more quarterbacks, and so Purdy hadto actually go back in the game with
a torn ligament in his elbow.He tried to throw I think one pass,

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and the Eagles knew it. Theyjust loaded up to stop the run
and that was it. Game wasover. They didn't have anybody that could
throw the ball down field because theother, the other backup quarterback, got
a concussion. And so what theNFL has decided to do is if it
happens again, they approved the rulechange that allows teams to have an emergency

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quarterback available on game days, sothey can activate a third quarterback whoever might
be on the practice squad. Whateverthey act debate a third quarterback, it
gives him basically an extra roster spot. And so if the first two quarterbacks
are injured, the third quarterback canplay. It cannot be for a coach's

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decision because the first two guys werestinking it up. It has to be
injury related. If the injury allowsone of the first two quarterbacks to go
back in the game, the otherquarterback comes out immediately. For example,
they take a guy out they thinkhe might have a concussion, he clears
concussion protocols, he's fine. Hegoes back in the game. If he

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gets injured, then the backup,the third quarterback, can go back in.
And the reasoning is pretty clear.You had fifty million people watching that
football game, and you don't wantthem watching a game without a quarterback because
that was pretty bad. I mean, it's a novelty for admit. For
like a minute, let's see whatChristian McCaffrey can do running the wildcat.

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But these are NFL players, they'reall pretty good. You know that the
talent pool shrinks down so dramatically betweencollege and pros, just like it does
between high school and college, andso as that happens, you know,
it's they talk about the speed ofthe game. That's what they're referring to.

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You know, in high school,that one great player on the team,
the game's slow and easy for thatguy. In college the first year
or two, unless he's just thatguy, the game speeds up and he's
not that dominant anymore because he's surroundedby other that guy from other high school

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programs that are on the field withhim. Now, same thing happens in
the pros. You get to thepro level and you're no longer that guy
from the college program. You're nowwith other really good athletes, all of
them really good offensive linemen that canrun defensive line, that can run quarterbacks.

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Totally different, different environment. SoI think this is a smart change.
Not all of the rule changes theNFL's done have been smart. This
is this is for the betterment ofthe game. And why they don't just
make a roster spot permanently available forthree quarterbacks, I don't know, but
whatever, it is the most importantposition on the field without any doubt,

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but it is what it is.But it's an improvement, sadly. And
I'll talk to Michael Alford about this. Michael was going to come in.
I think in July we're gonna kindof get a state of FSU Athletics is
going to come in for a fullhour. We're gonna talk about the change
in football. I think it's abad change, change in the clock,
but we'll get to that later onthis summer. Twenty seven minutes after the
hour. The big stories in thepress box are huge. That's gonna be

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an interesting day. I'll tell youthat. I'll tell you what. It's
Wednesday in the morning show with PrestonScott not Taling Outdoors. Boy, I'll
tell you what. I'll tell youwhat. I'll tell you what. What's
funny about that is Paul Tire couldnot be a kinder, gentler soul on

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the planet. Loves what he does, loves Jesus, you can tell that.
And he is the fishing guru onTaling Outdoors. Charlie and JD have
Paul on and JD's definitely the fishermanof the two of them. And when
Paul gets excited, well, I'lltell you what. And it's to the

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point now where Charlie and JD whenthey say the words, they just come
out and they start laughing. Yeah, they just start laughing the inside jokes
of the Talent Outdoor Show. Comeon. You need a listener's guide.
Yeah, you need to have thempublish on a website or something, a
Listeners Guide to Talent Outdoors And whenand near the top of that list is

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going to be I'll tell you what, boy, I followed by, I
don't believe i'd have told that.I told that exactly. It appears that
the secret is out that today isthe day. In fact, apparently tonight
at six o'clock on Twitter, RonDe Sands is going to announce his candidacy

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for President of the United States forthe GOP nomination for president. What do
you think, Well, yep,here we are. Well, I'll tell
you what I mean. We're notsurprised, but okay, it's here.
Now. We've had a lot oflisteners when we took calls, I think
a couple of weeks ago, youknow last week was it last week?

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Yeah? Man, when the phonesworked. Yeah, now they're back working.
Well, most people were kind ofof the opinion that they'd support whoever
the GOP nominee was, but itseemed like the consensus was just hold off
Ron. You know, we knewhe was going to run. We asked

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should he should he or shouldn't heand the definitive answer was he shouldn't but
he is so, but we knewthat. Interesting little sidebar here, Trump
has spent more money attacking to Santisbefore he's announced to run than he spent
in support of Republicans running in themid terms. He's or fifteen point three

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million dollars attacking Trump or attacking toSantis. Fifteen million was spent on supporting
cam Innodates. What's interesting is MAGAInc. The pack responsible, has spent
fifteen hundred dollars in support of Trump. All the money's going attacking. Now.

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What seems to be forgotten in allof this is that the idea is
to beat Biden. And this isthe fear. I'm gonna go ahead and
say it. We've talked about it, not recently, but this was something
we talked about long ago. IfTrump does not win the Republican nomination,

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I believe he will run as anindependent. And that's it. That's it.
The Democrat will win. Whoever thatis will win. That will be
seized upon, and that will bethat it will be evidence that Donald Trump.

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And now I personally think that whileDonald Trump was a great policy president,
his actions indicate that Donald Trump theperson really has a magnificently huge ego,

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huge, huge, And I believethat the running as an independent will
cement all of that into place.We got a lot more. I don't
know how I'm gonna get it allinto day The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(20:48):
Yeah, I don't know how productiveit is to just abuse other candidates
because of the other candidate wins,You've made it more difficult for that person
to win the nomination. I don'thave high hopes for this. I think

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this is going to go poorly,but I hope I'm wrong. I think
voters are in a real conundrum becauseI find myself going back and forth on
this all the time. I've mentionedit on the show. I'd love to
see Trump get another crack at it, but he seems to be well to
the left of DeSantis. Now,DeSantis is numerous really good conservative policies Trump

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has counter signaled on, and Ihold that thought. Yeah, can I
point out to all of you thatare going to write me and say,
yeah, well, DeSantis is meetingprivately with the Bushes and with Paul Ryan.
I don't care. How has hegoverned? And Lindsey Graham rallied had
a rally with Trump too, sowe can talk all day long about rhinos
and who they support. How didhe govern? What has he put his

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signature on in law? He's onthe right side of all the issues I
care about. Sorry about the puncontinue well, I just in concluding thought
there, de Sant has signed asix week abortion band love It targeting diversity,
equity and inclusion curriculum in college andhigh school. Get that out of

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there, all of these things targetinggoing after Disney when Disney put their foot
in their mouth. Good, I'mall for it. Let's go. And
then and then Donald Trump Junior andTrump himself were like, yeah, let's
end the bud Light boycott. It'slike, I don't know if I would

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have signed the six week that abortionband. That seems a little too harsh.
And I'm just thinking to myself,I don't know, is Donald Trump
more left than we thought? BecauseI'm now in I'm I'm in this conundrum.
I'm like, Okay, so RonDe Santis seemingly seems way more conservative
than Trump, but I still wantTrump to have the crack at it,

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right. I don't know if thisis this. I don't think it's this
time for governor to Santis. SoI'm just going back and forth all the
time of Jesus. I don't knowwhich one is going to win out in
my heart and mind and how itplays out. You know, if I
knew that whoever won the GOP nominationwas not going to face the other as

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an independent, I would be fine. But the only one I see of
the two of them taking that approachis to Santis. If I lose,
I'm not running as an independent.I see Trump doing that, don't you.
I think it's much more likely hewould. Yeah, And if that

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happens, it's over. Republicans can'twin divided, can't. There's no math
on the planet that shows that happening. Doesn't exist anyway. White House dug
in, according to Kevin McCarthy.Now, he says there's a deal on
the debt limit that can be had, but the White House wants to raise

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taxes and they are not willing toreduce spending much, if any. They
want to increase spending, but maybethey're willing to increase it by less,
so they're going to raise taxes andthey want to keep spending money. How
does that work with the economy inour world? Can you do that?

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Can you do that in your personaleconomy? Nope, Nope, you can't.
And then this, Remember we talkedjust the other day about the Department
of Education needing to be banished thefederal Department. Yesterday they are now saying
that a school district cannot remove sexuallyexplicit books because it violates students civil rights.

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Yeah, one of the books thatthe Department of Education says must remain
on the shelves is a book thatdescribes a black boy growing up and learning
about different sexual experiences. It's calledAll Boys Aren't Blue, and it describes

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several graphic sexual situations, including twoboys performing oral sex on one another.
And they think that should be theDepartment of Education, Miguel Cardonia believes that
that has to be on the shelves. And oh, by the way,
the FBI is refusing to provide asubpoena document to US Congress. And I'm

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still not getting through all the stories. This is the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Fifty one minutes after thehour, Jesus Rodriguez joins us in the
third hour, all the way fromArizona up before the birds at five am

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local time to join us to talkabout the border crisis. He a member
of the US Border Patrol Service asan agent, retired after more than two
decades of service. I wrote onmy rundown, Yes, this is who
they are. Grant mentioned the sixweeks the heartbeat bill in Florida legislature now

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protecting babies to step in the rightdirection. It's a it's a major step.
It's huge. Students at City Universityof New York's Hunter College, representing
a group called Students for Life ofAmerica, received permission from student affairs to

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set up a little table, veryhumble little table, and to engage any
students that wanted to talk to themabout about abortion. An adjunct assistant professor
was having none of it. Now, you gotta wait for this story because

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even though you've heard that, youhaven't heard what's coming. More than likely,
the professor, Schaleene Rodriguez, saidthat they're they're guilty of violence.
And we're triggering her students. You'renot educating bleep. This is bleeping propaganda.

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She said that the pro life studentswere propagating dangerous propaganda, having included
inaccurate depictions of abortions from unscientific sourcesand dared to humanize the unborn with the
aid of a plastic fetus. Now, of course, all of those claims
are the claims that are made becausethey're embarrassed by what they're doing to children.

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These are children that just happened tobe inside of a mother versus outside
point to be illustrated in moments.What are you gonna do like anti trans
next. I mean, no,we're talking about abortion. This is bleep.
This is violent. You're triggering mystudents. She then takes a violent

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approach. She says to one ofthe guys, you can't even have a
bleeping baby. You don't even knowwhat that is. So she takes a
metal case and tosses it into onestudent, slams all the pro life literature,
throws it all over the place,and storms off. It's all caught
on tape, so the college islooking into it and apologizes for the conduct.

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Meanwhile, the abortion rights group theProfessional Staff Congress trade union members.
They all support her. They willnot have this stuff on their campus.
Okay. Meanwhile, a reporter catcheswind of this from the New York Post
and arrives at her apartment, knockson the door. Once an interview.

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She comes out with a machete.What the guy's there with? A videographer.
The reporter is Ruven Fenton. Hewas on Hannity last night, and
there's video of her holding a macheteto his throat. She's chased them out

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the building and down the street,and I'm trying to figure out why has
she not been arrested, No kidding. He apparently is deciding on whether or
not the file charges. Well,he needs to decided two hours ago.
Well, here's the thing. Thatdecision isn't even shouldn't be up to him.

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She's on tape holding a machete tohis throat. It's on camera.
We have her violence and her assaultand battery days before. The only good
that's come of this is Hunter Collegehas fired her. Good. That's what

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needs to happen. I'll go sofar as to say that these student groups,
the unions, all of them thatare advocating for this type of attitude
towards a thought that's different than theirown should be all thrown out of school.
That's what should be happening, andthat's who they are. Five minutes

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after the hour of the Morning Showwith Presdan's got Wednesday on the program on
PRESDA, that's Grant Allen, Goodto be with you. A little change
in the rundown here. I wasgoing to talk about interests plus inflation equals
delinquency and what's going on with creditin America today. But I'm gonna hold

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that because I have a chain ofstories here that just I've just got to
keep with because it's too important,you know. I I remember when I
first came to the realization, andI was in my probably my mid twenties,

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early twenties, when I came tothe realization that we paid more attention
and put a higher price on theending of a bald eagle's life than we
did a human being. When youcould go to prison be fined twenty five

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thousand dollars for disrupting a bald eaglenest, and we were in the beginning
stages of row Wade. It's justdumbfounding that we have that we had gotten
to a place with terrible court ruling, but where we had gotten to a

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place morally where that's the price ofa human life, not even the value
of an egg of an eagle.And look, I'm all about protecting a
bald eagle. Listen to this womanin Nebraska, after originally pleading not guilty,

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has pled guilty. She, withthe help of her mother, she
was seventeen at the time, endedher pregnancy. She took an abortion pill.

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She ended up giving birth to astillborn baby because of the pill,
two days short of thirty weeks ofdevelopment. A baby is full term at
thirty nine weeks. At twenty nineweeks and five days, that child had

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skin color hair, eyes that wouldopen, and could see things eyelashes.
At the time, Nebraska had atwenty week abortion band. It was passed

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in twenty ten. Not only didshe and her mother arrange to abort the
child, and I mean, I'mjust dumbfounded by this third trimester abortion.

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They then burned the baby's body andtossed it in a grave. On that
they dug that. I just onthe heels of what we just talked about

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before the top of the hour,And look, I get it. This
is like, man, really,Preston, come on, back off.
It's the way the news stories are. This is what's happening. This is
this is this is where we are. And we have people that hold a
machete to the throat of a reporterwanting to ask a question that reporter should

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know. They don't value life.All of the false arguments of what about
this, what about that? Well, how about this? How about that
ninety five ninety eight percent of abortionsare done because of convenience or because this

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is true, they don't like thesex of the child. They wanted a
boy and they have a girl.They wanted a girl and they have a
boy, so they abort the baby. How about we talk about that.
And again I'm gonna go back towhat I wrote down in my notes.
This is who they are Change Gears. Next on The Morning Show with Preston

(36:49):
Scott. The Morning Show with PrestonScott, we talked about how Target was

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one of the major corporations in fact, may have been one of the catalysts
of the woke movement in corporate America. Target started the transgender bathroom nonsense by
allowing anybody to choose any bathroom theywanted. They've been embracing the LGBTQ plus

(37:45):
movement with clothing and all kinds ofridiculousness. And you know what, they
have ever right to do it.It's their business and do what they want.
You have every right to decide ifthat's what you want to support with
your dollars or not. I mean, it's that simple. There's choices.

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I'm not a believer in Boycott's generallyspeaking. I just don't. I believe
in the law of sewing and reaping. This is what you want to do.
Cool, let's see what happens.Target has apparently made an emergency phone

(38:31):
call to all of its stores,and they did it last week, apparently
on Friday. It was about aten or fifteen minute call, and they
are trying to avoid quote a budlight situation. What month is next,

(38:54):
It's Pride month. And Target nowis going to find themselves in a very
difficult spot because in mostly southern stateswhere they have stores, Target generally tracks
well in those states among conservatives becausethey have a slightly better grade of material

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of product, nicer stores, betterselection, people don't mind paying a little
bit more. The problem is thatTarget has been pushing all of their transgender
rainbow stuff to the front of thestore with signage and everything. Well,
they have told all of these storespull it back, and so they have

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been relocating merchandise, displays, signageto the back of the store and a
smaller area they don't want to prominentlydisplay. Here's where it gets entry.
You know who's gonna scream and yellabout this. See, I'm like,

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yeah, whatever. I don't goout of my way to shop at Target.
If there's something that that store happensto carry that I happen to need,
I might swing in and get it, but I don't go out of
my way to shop there. It'sjust a personal choice. There's just places

(40:32):
that I personally choose to not frequent. But you know what happens when you
get on the wrong side of thesepeople. They don't know how to live
and let live. That It's sofunny because that was the claim for years
Jesse, Hey live and let live. No no, no, no,

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no no no no no no no. I was alive from the beginning.
You better believe it was, sir. And it shows who the corporations truly
fear, who's really in control.It's not you and me. They answer
to someone. Yeah. But here'sthe thing. What's gonna happen as this

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story finds its way to the Prideworld, They're gonna have their own bud
Light moment because their emergency call hasgotten to the news media and it's out
there now, and I won't beshedding one tier about it. That's what

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you do cool, Like I said, if that's you, own it,
own it. Smart businesses just runtheir business and they don't wade into the
politics. They just do what theydo. North Carolina Zona in the news

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for similar reasons. That's next,coming up to the halfway mark of the

(42:22):
radio program. North Carolina so muchpotential, pretty state, the Carolina's It's
a beautiful part of the country.Get everything you want. One state mountains,
beach which North or South North?Yeah, I mean, I guess
technically you do get some mountains inthe far reaches of upstate South Carolina,

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but not so much not North Carolina'swhere most of it is. Love South
Carolina, though I've said many atime, love me some Charleston just think
it's a cool town. I couldlive kind of in that. What I
like the low country stretch from Charlestownto Savannah, just kind of that region

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of you know, the coastline.It's just it's slower paced. It's such
a lovely area. I would saythat there are states that I would completely
remove from any consideration, no matterwhat the amenities are, natural, beauty,

(43:29):
quaint towns, if the political climatewere wrong. Like, there's not
a chance ever of living in Californiaor Washington, or Oregon, or New
York or New Jersey, or Michiganor Illinois. My my, my home

(43:49):
state of Pennsylvania where I was born. I was raised in Minnesota. Arizona.
Now Arizona could become a red state. It could. They have a
lot in the legislature, but theycan't get the governor's race right. But

(44:10):
North Carolina Nope, Nope, youkeep electing stupid governors in this case.
Do you see what Roy Cooper did, emergency orders over school choice, a
state of emergency. He declared astate of emergency because you need to know

(44:35):
what's happening. If you care aboutpublic schools in North Carolina, it's time
to take immediate action and tell themto stop the damage that will set our
schools back for a generation. He'stalking about the voucher program. We'll pour
your tax money into private schools thatare unaccountable to the public and can decide
which students they want to keep out. They want to expand private school vouchers

(44:58):
so that anyone, even a millioncan get taxpayer money for their children's private
academy tuition. First of all,he fails to mention he sent his kids
to private school. He didn't wantto send his kids to public school.
Second thing these people forget to mentionis that it's mostly low and middle income

(45:19):
people that benefit from them. They'rethe ones that benefit the most from the
vouchers. Do tax money moved toprivate education, You better believe it,
because it's their tax money. Andthis is the other part he forgets that
even a millionaire can get taxpayer money. It's their money. Why shouldn't they.

(45:46):
You know, we have this theDemocrats have this idea that somehow millionaires
have no right to getting any ofthe benefits of being a taxpayer, that
they should just be like, youknow, walk around with with a a
IV hook to their to their veins, drawing blood all the time that they

(46:08):
that they ought to be just gettingblood sucked out of them and never getting
any returned. They just suck itout, suck it out. They're just
there to be a donor. Don'tgive them any services because they're a millionaire.
And then in Arizona, the GovernorKatie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that
would require a school to notify parentsof any transgender name. Nonsense going on

(46:32):
in schools. She's she's vetoed it. Don't know if they have a veto
proof majority in the Arizona House andSenate. But the bottom line is that
again common sense on behalf of parents. The bill would allow a parent to
say, yeah, they can callthemselves Biff if they want. If the

(46:53):
parents says fine, fine. Butagain, Democrats on the wrong side of
every single important issue everyone. There'sno exception by a matter of policy.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott onNews Radio one hundred point seven w f

(47:15):
LA, thirty five minutes after thehour, second half of the radio program
officially begins. Now, Big Storiesin the press Box. I am Preston

(47:38):
Scott. That is Grant Allen,and the press box has one S short
for Press. Preston. My nicknamePress. That's what my nickname was for
most of my life. That's whatmy siblings would call me. That's what
my dad and mom would call me. That's what friends would call me.

(47:58):
Now at school, I had adifferent nickname, but that's we won't talk
about that. It's arable, it'snothing like that. But I just yeah,
we don't need to go there anyway. The press box is a collection
of stories that I think are mostimportant for you to know. We don't
necessarily go deep diving into into thisstuff. We just lay him out there.

(48:20):
Make sure it's on your radar.Florida Governor round As Santis is supposed
to be announcing his candidacy for theGOP nomination for president today six o'clock on
Twitter. Your thoughts on his decisionto announce on Twitter. I actually kind
of like that move. I thinkhe saw the Tucker Carlson effect that when
Tucker announced that he's coming back officially. I checked it yesterday. It had

(48:46):
one hundred thirty two million tweet impressions, meaning one hundred thirty two million people
at least saw the tweet, whetheror not they interacted with it. So
I think going Twitter is it's definitelyan interesting route. But I think that
immediately means Donald Trump is coming backto Twitter, do you yeah? In

(49:10):
fact, I think it would bethe biggest troll move in the world.
Do not be surprised if Donald Trump'sreturned to Twitter was his own Twitter space
where he's rivaling de Santis at sixPM. I wouldn't be surprised if that
happened. It'll be interesting. Mostpeople emailing me agree with my analysis that

(49:36):
if Trump loses the GOP nomination,he will run as an independent. My
contention is, and I hate this, I really do, for a lot
of reasons that Grant believes that Trumpdeserves a shot at getting the office back
and finishing what he started. Froma policy perspective, My cringe on all

(50:00):
of this is that Trump is stillTrump personally, and Trump personally, I
think is significantly lacking. And youknow, the shame of it all,
He's capable, He is completely capableof being a gentleman, of being thoughtful,

(50:21):
and consider it because I've seen it. I've seen it, I've watched
it. But you know, there'sa there's a there's a scripture that comes
like this out of the abundance ofthe heart. The mouth speaks, and
I think Donald Trump's core issues thathave plagued him throughout his life is the

(50:47):
suppression of his ego, his focuson self. I will tell you right
now, if Trump could find away to get rid of the venom and
act more like a man his ageshould be acting, he would win in

(51:13):
a landslide because people saw policy success. Whether certain demographics in this country want
to give him credit doesn't matter.Deep down. They just won't tell you

(51:35):
they're going to vote for the guy, and they'll vote for him because Black
Americans enjoyed historic wage increases, wehad historic unemployment, historic growth in money
coming back into this country being repatriatedbecause he was He brought back manufacturing jobs.

(52:00):
At Barack Obama said they're going notgonna come back. They came back.
But I don't know that he's willingto do that to show that level
of discipline. There's more in thepress box. We'll get to it next.

(52:21):
It's the Morning Show with Preston ScottUS Radio one hundred point seven WMLA
or on News RADIOFLA, Kanama Citydot Com. Donald Trump his pack MAGA
Inc. Has spent more money attackingFlorida Governor around To Santis than it spent

(52:47):
helping candidates in the twenty twenty twomid terms. That's another Achilles heel for
Trump, his vindictiveness. It's againI hate giving him free advice because I
should charge for this. But asmart candidate campaign to remold the image of

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Trump to be more appealing to themiddle ground, to even many Republicans that
hold their nose voting for the guybecause of policy. They just can't stand
the personality. And I know ofmany that just will not vote for him

(53:36):
because of his personality. Now I'mnot one of those again, heart,
I vote with my heart my consciencein the primaries, and I vote strictly
with my head in the general election. That's how you should vote. But
but Trump, Trump doesn't care.He just he goes on the full assault.

(54:04):
And if he would just say,you know what, A welcome Governor
to Santis to the race. Iwelcome Senator Scott to the race, and
we'll have a good robust debate overpolicy and issues and see what resonates the
best with the American people. Boomboom, that's it. Man. Taking

(54:27):
that tone right there changes so manypeople's minds. But he won't do that.
In fact, I'll be curious tosee though he's a resident of Florida,
does he join in with the NACPin attacking Florida. It's the type
of thing he would do. What'sinteresting about the NACP is that a story

(54:52):
done by the Washington Free Beacon showsthat not only is Florida economically better for
blacks than the states that want toattack Florida, like California, New York
and so forth, population wise,it has grown nearly doubled. Black population

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has nearly doubled in the last thirtyyears into Santa's first term as governor,
significantly lower amount of hate crimes thanCalifornia. In fact, Florida's hate crime
rate was point six per one hundredthousand, California's three point one. So

(55:38):
what is that five times five timesmore hate crimes in California. Far less
likely to have fatal interactions with policein Florida than California or Washington, DC.
In fact, lower than California,Oregon, Colorado, Delaware, and

(56:00):
the District of Columbia, as wellas others. Of course, we commented
that Leon Russell lives in Tampa.He's the NAACP Chairman of the board,
and five of his colleagues traveled toFlorida since DeSantis was first elected in twenty
eighteen to visit. How about that? A few more things. The debt

(56:21):
limit arguments continue. According to KevinMcCarthy, the House Speaker, the White
House has dug in. They wantto raise taxes, and they want to
continue to increase spending, but bya smaller amount they're willing to spend.
They're willing to increase spending by lessthan they were planning to. Like,

(56:44):
Nope, So we'll see, We'llsee who blinks on this one. Biden
administration saying that school district in thiscase one, but it might as well
apply to all cannot remove pornographic booksfrom the libraries. That's just stunning to
me. So there you're caught upon the big of the big stories in

(57:04):
the press box. It's the MorningShow with press It's Scott. I see

(57:29):
stories sometimes and make the mistake ofprojecting myself into them. Do you ever
do that? Do you ever seea story and kind of just say,
I wonder what I would do orfor yourself in that situation. Oh I'm
a guy, so obviously my mindis going through situations all the time where

(57:50):
I'm like, oh, yeah,I could take them out. Oh yeah,
I'm always thinking about that. Wellnot always, but I'm a dude.
I think about those things. Whatam I going to be the hero?
I'm not talking about just those kindsof stories though. Okay, now
I'm afraid you see a story sometimesand I just this is a cringe story,

(58:16):
but a totally different kind of cringe. This is a oh no kind
of story. Young guy twenty yearsold, Illinois visiting Alaska outdoorsman kind of

(58:37):
guy. I guess. I mean, you gotta be to go to Alaska
or love being out right. Idon't think anyone's drawn to Alaska to visit
and or live unless they have astreak in them. It's a little bit
of a homesteader and outdoorsmen, wildlifebeing kind of out there. And this

(59:00):
guy is walking in an area thathas mud flats. Water goes out,
sea goes out, then that leavessome mud flats behind. Now there's certain

(59:20):
you know, obviously, there's there'rebeaches that you can walk and and the
ocean goes out, and there's littlesand bars and things that you go out
to, and there's little tide pools, and there's all kinds of cool stuff
you can sometimes find aquatic life andyou know crabs and different things in those
tide pools. Well, this guyis um in the tidal mud flats in

(59:45):
an Alaskan estuary and all of asudden he submerged up to his waist.
He stepped in and just sunk downto his waist. He was not alone.

(01:00:09):
There were others with him. Now, obviously you see a situation like
that, it's a little bit likeice. You have to be very careful
trying to rescue somebody that breaks throughthe ice because of the fear of it

(01:00:29):
breaking when you're going out there.To get him, right, they couldn't
get him out, so they callednine one one, but by the time
help arrived, the tide had comeback in. Oh gosh, and he

(01:00:52):
drowned. Oh my gosh. Oneof the guys that had tried to rescue
and was flown to anchorage with hypothermia. And so just for a second there,
think about that's what I mean.This is one of those stories.
Oh man, terrible way to go, right, It's it's not it's not

(01:01:22):
altogether unlike the person that's in asubmerged car and there's a little pocket of
air. Oh yeah, and they'rejust trying to keep themselves like some underwater
scene in a movie. And you'regetting there, you're getting anxious because you
know the air's running out. Imean they they got the rescue call,

(01:01:50):
but it took too long. Butjust I'm bringing this story up for a
couple of reasons. Number one,it's just like, oh a man,
are you kidding me? Going thatway? But here was another one.
Respect nature, you know, Imean, you're gonna go swimming out in

(01:02:21):
the golf waters and the weather's alittle wacky. Pay attention to those flags.
Respect nature. Our threes next,and we now moved to the third

(01:02:53):
hour of the Morning Show with PrestonScott. I'm Preston. That is Grant
Allen. Great to be working withyou today and thrilled to have with us
on the program. He's our firstguest post lightning strike on the phone lines.

(01:03:13):
Jesus ride Reguez better than two decadesserving the United States as a United
States Border Patrol Agent, now retired. Jesus, thank you as always for
serving our country. How are you, brother? Good morning? Is very
good? Yourself? Who first guestafter the lightning strike? Come on and
look at you beating the birds up? Once again in Arizona. Yep,

(01:03:35):
it's a great morning out of here, great data. I'm walking on the
grass. That's a good that's agood thing. I was gonna say,
you sound like you're outside, man, Yeah, I am. I'm outside.
Weather's probably sixty six, it's niceand cool. You're going the day
already. Let me guess you're you'reoutside patrolling the neighborhood for illegals entering your

(01:03:57):
your space. No, actually,not, believe it or not. They're
all headed out of here. They'reall going to those big cities, you
know, they're going back east andwherever else they need to go to.
So, no, they're just passingthrough here, maybing and getting their cell
phones and moving on. I didn'tget a chance to ask you the last
time we talked, how different arethings in Arizona now that Katie Hobbs is

(01:04:24):
the governor. Well, you know, what I understand is that when she
came into office, she directed,uh, I'm not sure which office to
start removing all of those those uh, contic boxes that Governor Doucey had put
up, right, and so uhand so they started to remove and and

(01:04:44):
so I mean, traffic is traffic, right, before titled forty two was
just wild and crazy. Brought uppeople from Mauritania, Egypt, a lot
of Sikhs, a lot of Indiansfrom the country of India. I mean,
just to variety of everything. Imean, it was there. There
were a couple of ages to sayingnegos. When did you when did we

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ever apprehend people from you know,the continent, from different continents, like
I said, ever and so thatand tons of Chinese nationals too. So
I mean it just opened up thefloodgates, it really did. And so
that's what they were dealing with ona daily basis. And some stations were
just I mean, it was ridiculous. And then they were just basically they

(01:05:26):
were basically just a shuttle service,if you will. And that was because
of the ending of title forty two. Right before title forty two, there
was just a humongous wave of people. I mean, it was I would,
you know, I would look atsome of the pictures that guys that
sent me it like, jeez,Louise, it's just crazy. But you
know what, President, here's whatwhat what um what I what I saw

(01:05:50):
is that people talk about people comingin illegally, but you should see the
environmental damage that's that they're leaving behind, now only on our side, but
on the Mexican side. I meantons and tons of trash, clothes,
luggage, I mean, you nameit, it's out there. I mean,
and we're talking like in the AFAarea there by Lookeville Port of Entry.

(01:06:14):
There is a ton of garbage outthere that I mean, it's an
environmental disaster. I mean, youknow, it's just they just left to
behind. They was just dump itthere and walk away before I well,
let me follow up first. Sowhat are what are residents of the State
of Arizona thinking about Governor Hobbes's decisionto remove barriers that make it easier for

(01:06:40):
illegals to enter the state of Arizona. Well, as you can imagine,
most people are not happy with it. And of course you have, you
know, you have the other theother side that doesn't say much about it
at all, and they're just kindof keeping quiet about the evil plantom of
the radar. But you know,there's a large, you know, group
of people they are just not happywith it. But you know, and

(01:07:00):
that's that's one of the issues outhere. So I mean you have to
kind of pick your pick what issueyou want to do with, but that's
that's one of them. Off hereas well. Joining us on the program
is Jeseus Rodriguez. You're retired UnitedStates Border Patrol agent, still in regular
contact with and interactions with men andwomen serving our country. Lots to talk

(01:07:27):
about as we talk about what's goingon on the southern border, and these
conversations began a couple of years agorather organically, when we learned what he
did professionally previously, and he offeredto, you know, share some thoughts
of what was going on on thesouthern border that things that don't get reported,
and so we've got a lot ofthings talk about here this morning on

(01:07:48):
the Morning Show Preston Scott on NewsRadio one hundred point seven double FLA ad
minutes after the hour. Sus Rodriguez, United States Border Patrol Agent, retired

(01:08:12):
our guests here this morning on theradio program. He's just I'm just curious
you mentioned that your former colleagues aretalking about the influx of people entering this
country illegally not going through the immigrationprocess, which is you know, I
understand tired and laborers and filled withdifficult challenges, but other countries that normally

(01:08:40):
aren't seen in numbers. What doeswhat does that inform you about the relative
awareness of our national policies or lackthereof, and how people around the world
are following what's going on. Imean in talking in previous you know years
when you would get these large influxof people from these different countries, it's

(01:09:03):
because they would get you know,they would be apprehended by the word choyagins
out in the field, and thenonce they got to those detention camps h
and again we're talking number of yearsago. You know that they were cut
loose. The word spread fast,and I mean it went fast before you
knew you were dealing with multiple youknow, groups of those of those people

(01:09:26):
from those sending countries. And youknow I saw with people from Brazil,
uh, you know, from differentdifferent countries like that that you would just
get you know a number of themlike that Polish nationals believe it or not,
you know passal. So I mean, once you you know they got
cut loose, it just opened upthe floodgates. But what what shut the
floodgates down is once they started theshipping back to their sending country, that

(01:09:49):
would end it. In this case, they're not sending them back. They're
coming in and they're staying. I'mso word spreads fast. Social media plays
a big, big role the cartels. I mean, what would explained to
me is that when some of thesegroups would come up to the border and
they would get taken off the busand they were giving different um like different

(01:10:14):
colored braces to the will and theywould be directed toward certain certain groups and
that that group would take or thatcar stump member or that smuggler would take
that group to a certain spot alongthe border, and that's what they would
cross. So it's it's an assemblyline. They know exactly what they're doing
and how to do it. Iwas just curious about that, Jesus even

(01:10:38):
I mean, maybe naively, I'mthinking immigrants from Central South America, certainly
Mexico. No, the cartels kindof hold sway here. But those immigrants
from India and China and these othercountries they have. Are the cartels controlling

(01:10:58):
all of the traffic, kicking atrafficking of illegal immigrants into this country?
Oh yeah, I would say sopresent because you have to go. I
mean, how else are they gonnatraverse from? Let's they come into Mexico
and get up to the southern border. I mean there's there's there's always someone
you know, willing to make abuck. And and you know, like
I said, world spreads fast.I mean we see it in the past

(01:11:21):
where you know, you get agroup of illegal aliens out there and you
know, or or they would leavesomebody behind. And it was a group
that that had, you know,made contact with a smuggler, and that's
smuggling to put him in contact withsomebody else. And so that's how it
went. I mean, even it'sit's everybody takes a cut of the money
along the way because it's it's avery organized um group. And so it

(01:11:45):
starts from wherever the sending country is, all the way to where wherever route
they take, all the way upto the southern border, all the way
across the other border, and allthe way into wherever they're you know,
into the United States, wherever they'reheaded to. So even if even if
we're dealing with people that are tryingto come into the country the right way
or have justifiable reasons for trying toget into America, the cartels have their

(01:12:10):
finger their hands in all of it. I would say they would I mean,
was it You're dealing with with theimmigrant that illegal immigration issue, but
Preston, don't forget that. There'salso the drug issue, right, the
narcotic smuggling that takes place too.And like I've you know, like I've
mentioned the past, you know,people seem to forget that. Yeah,

(01:12:33):
you're dealing with whole the people outthere, okay, but what's coming in
on the flanks. You think it'speople that really you know, that you
really want in this country. No, it's people that have either been released
from from a prison system in thecountry somewhere, or the smuggling the narcotics
in there. And we're not talkingyou're marijuana. We're not talking your green

(01:12:53):
leafy stuff. Since we're talking yourhard stuff. Jesus stand by, we're
gonna pick up right there. YEsus Rodriguez, formerly with a United States
Border Patrol as an agent serving ournation, now our guests on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Almost twentytwo minutes after the hour. Azus Rodriguez

(01:13:15):
joins us once a month from Arizona, which means he's taken one for the
team, getting up this early becauseyou know, darn good and well,
if he's getting up at five am, Arizona time to do this segment,
he had to get up earlier justto be coherent. And now in the
break he's talking about things we've talkedabout on the show. So my goodness,

(01:13:39):
gracious, what a soldier formerly aUnited States Border Patrol agent and our
guests here this morning. I'm curious, a zeus, when Texas decides,
Okay, the federal government's failing inits job, we're gonna do this ourselves.
We're gonna send our own tactical borderforce to the border. To US

(01:14:00):
cyst, what is the reaction ofyour colleagues likely to be when a state
says they've got to do something tohelp those of you serving the federal government.
It's really helpful because in the pastyears we get these National Guard flights
that would come through. Um,I you know, worked a lot of

(01:14:20):
midnights and evening shows out in thedesert, so it was nice when you'd
have air support come in in theevening and it was National Guard guys and
they would you know, they wouldfly those missions to help us out,
and it was real helpful because Imean, they know they were additional eyes
for us. And help us inaddict a lot of groups out there and

(01:14:40):
a lot of narcotics. So it'syou know, it's real helpful. Like
uh, you know, when youhave extra people that are out there helping
you, it is it makes abig difference because now you've got additionalize that
are helping you spot what you're missingor what you're trying to track down,
and it helps, and you know, it's a help. How does it
work though, from a logistics standpoint, when you've got you know, you

(01:15:05):
have your federal job that you're doingon behalf of the United States, you're
under a certain set of orders,and then you've got the state and while
there might be some overlap kind oflike a ven diagram, their bottom line
is protecting the state. Do thosethings ever collide? No, No,

(01:15:26):
because maybe they were used for forintel gathering purposes or eyes on on on
the border area. So they wouldcall out the groups or you know,
like I mentioned was the air support. They would they would um lead you
into wherever the narcotics is at orwhere the group is at. And so
you know, rarely did anything ever, we'd ever have any kind of issues

(01:15:46):
with them, um you know,and then on top of that, with
the with the air support, wealways had an agent that was with that
crew flight crew, so you know, the the agent was well aware of
what, you know, the area, very verse in the area, so
they're kind of guiding them and sothey're you know, they're directed the philis
and where to go and uh andthose kinds of things. So it no,

(01:16:09):
we never had any issues. LikeI said, it was real helpful.
And even when they would come intoassistance, would you know, even
just the administrative things like you know, uh, fixing the vehicles, that
was a big help too, becauseyou know, out in the desert you
can wear and tearing the vehicles ishuge. So when you when you have
extra hands in there that are fixingthe vehicles and getting them out faster,

(01:16:30):
that's a big that's a big plus. Two. Did you hear any reaction
when from from your former colleagues aboutthe fifteen hundred troops that Biden sent,
he sent you know, National guardsmendown there. Uh. You know,
some retired Border Patrol agents are outsaying, look what they were doing was
acting as a welcome wagon. Wesaw a video of one of them from

(01:16:51):
Illinois. I think it was actuallyunlocking a gate and allowing illegals to enter
the country through a gate. Well, I mean, look at the Look
at the distance from San Diego allthe way across to Texas. Now it's
a long border, fifteen hundred.You know, soldiers isn't going to do
much of anything, and and alot of times are probably going to be

(01:17:12):
assigned to administrative duties, you know, maybe manning the radio, things of
that nature. So they're not reallyand they're not really intimately involved in what's
happened on the right on the borderitself. And so no, most of
the most of the soldiers like that, I know that we're already out here,
and so they were helping out withworking cameras and and calling out the

(01:17:36):
groups to the agents. But again, uh, you know a lot of
these groups were just they were comingacross and they were they were quitters.
They were just walking up to theto the ages and just you know,
sitting down and waiting to be processedand shipped out. Last question for you.
We got about a little less thana minute left here. Jesus um.
Now that a you know, titleforty two is over, we didn't

(01:17:58):
see the crush immediately. Do weexpect to see an increase over the coming
weeks and months. La Crush,I already came through and went, you
know what, Preston, I thinkit's it's going to continue. I honestly
do. I don't think it's goingto slow down anytime soon. It may
not be in the numbers that werein the in the past, but you're
going to keep seeing that because againthe ward has spread spread to these countries.

(01:18:23):
You know, come in and they'llprocess you, and they'll kick you
out the door, and you know, on your way you go and they're
not going to be seen again.More than likely, no, you'll never
see him again. Welcome to theUnited States, Zeus. It's always thanks
so much for making time for uson the program and appreciate your service to
our country. Brother be well,Thank you, sir. Take care all

(01:18:43):
right. Jesus Rodriguez with us thismorning in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty five minutes after the honor

(01:19:09):
of the Morning Shower, Preston's GotYou by show forty nine thirty six of
the radio program. I'm Preston.That's Grant Allen running the show tomorrow.
Steve Stewart, doctor David Herts,doctor Ed Moore makes a return to the
Morning show a little more history.It's been a while. Always have a

(01:19:30):
good time. Good it's a pleasantdistraction talking about other things for just a
little while. I think we needthat. And trust me, I'm trying,
I really am. But man,what do you do when you got
your governor announcing he's gonna run forpresident? You gotta talk about it.
And so because you have to talkabout that, you have to also therefore

(01:19:54):
talk about who he's running against.The former president really really really really really
really wants to be the president again. You don't want to be the resident.
He wants to be the president.Do you agree with me that if

(01:20:15):
Donald Trump had I said this toJesus in the break, had Donald Trump
in his final year of office justacted like an adult, a bit more
presidential, not a bit more,a lot more acted presidential, a little

(01:20:38):
bit more of a statesman. Sameon Twitter in the sense of bypass the
media, forget them, get yourmessaging out on Twitter. Just don't be
snarky unless you're being snarky against themedia because that tracks well because people hate
the media. But just act likean adult. He would have won by

(01:21:03):
a landslide, so that cheating wouldn'thave mattered. That's my contention, wins
by a landslide because so many peoplesaid these words. You know, he's
done a great job policy wise,but I just can't stand the guy.
Can't vote for him, can't votefor him, he's just a jerk.

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And for independence that are well,yeah, he's done okay, but that
was that was it because that raceshouldn't have been close. That should have
been Reagan asque second term. Youremember, Reagan got into the Oval office,

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blew everybody away, dominated the reelection. It was a beat down.
Trump had a beat down waiting forhim. He just couldn't act like an
adult. That's my contention. Doyou agree, I don't think his personality
I don't. I don't think so. I think I think his big mistake

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was not dismantling the deep state quiteas robustly, and that didn't cost him
votes. Everyone behind him though,everyone underneath him, every bureaucrat, every
unelected was conspiring with the media,no doubt too. But that's not why

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people didn't vote for him. Becausethe people that love him, they're gonna
support him. No matter what.So the fact he didn't do what we
had talked about, just fire himall. You know, that's not going
to change votes. I completely agreewith your analysis what he didn't do,
But I'm talking about costing him voteswith voters now because we knew who he

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was in sixteen. Yeah, butwhat I'm saying is he won by a
razor margin in sixteen. His policiesdominan needed they kicked. But but people
you know people I know people thatsaid yeah. But and while I disagree

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with that reasoning same thing Hart versusHead in a general election, I maintain,
if you act like a grown up, you win a bunch of people
over you could say all day long, well it shouldn't be like it is
like that. And so it's goingto be fascinating to see how this shakes
out with ron to santa is enteringthe race today six o'clock on Twitter.

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Really the Morning Show with Preston Scottun News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
I Earlier we talked about the decisionof ron to Santas to announce on
Twitter with Elon Musk, So Iguess it's going to be a sit down

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with Elon Musk. That'll be interesting. Now, you do remember Musk voted
for Biden. You wonder if he'sever gonna has he ever announced? Maybe
he hasn't. I've missed it thatit was a huge regret. Does Elon
have any regrets about voting for JoeBiden? Um, I feel like I've

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heard something like that before. Iknow, he's certainly taken shots at the
other media platforms, and he certainlytook shots to Twitter before buying it.
But but you know, Musk himselfhas done a little d platforming. It
was in twenty twenty two where Musksaid he'll be voting for Republicans for the

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first time in his life. Interesting, very interesting. Well, did sandis
not alone? Tucker Carlson is nowgoing to be joined by The Daily Wire.
Wait, I'm sorry say that again. The Daily Wire is moving all
of its nine podcasts onto Twitter effectiveMay thirtieth. CEO Tom Boring not Tom

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Boring. Jeremy Boring said that YouTubeis engaged in a demonetization effort on all
of its programming, especially the MattWall Show. They're done, They're moving
everything to Twitter. In fact,he said, the overwhelming amount of positive
feedback from our advertisers and audience.Putting The Matt Wall Show on Twitter signals

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the tremendous opportunity, which is whywe've decided to distribute the rest of our
shows on Twitter. In less thana month on Twitter, the Matt Walls
Show had seven point four million videoviews, twenty four million impressions, and
the show's account gained one hundred andforty thousand followers. So are you telling

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me now that Twitter is hosting shows? Apparently you've always kind of been able
to do like a live stream onTwitter, but uploading long form podcasts was
not a function. But that's whatElon has been trying to get it to
do. And so now I've justrecently been seeing like two hour long podcasts

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now available on Twitter. We'll getthis. The show's offered on Daily Wire
plus the Ben Shapiro Show, CandaceOwens podcast, Doctor Jordan Peterson podcast,
etc. Will stream on Twitter beginningMay thirtieth, which is next Tuesday.

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It's kind of surreal, honestly,to have such a coordinated effort move away
from YouTube wow, because YouTube hasthat's been it. YouTube was the way
MTV was when it first came out. That's where you went to watch music
videos. YouTube is where all videosare. Everything, everything's on YouTube.

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And to see to see a majormultimillion maybe billion, I don't know,
multimillion dollar company like Daily Wire.Just completely leave YouTube and go to Twitter.
I mean, you've got the largestcable news show in the planet,
Tucker Carlson moving to Twitter. Wow, it's quite a development. Yeah.

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So DeSantis is sitting back there,his handlers are sitting back there going you
know, and now I want Iwant you to get a chance to restate
your prediction. You said Trump isgoing to do the ultimate troll or that
you would not be surprised. I'mnot sure if you're predicting it or not,

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are you. Um? I won'tgo so far as to say I'm
predicting it because I think he lovestruths social too much. But it would
not shock me one bit if atsix pm at real Donald Trump starts his
own live stream on Twitter at thesame time as Ron de Santis, that
would be the biggest troll move ever. And that's the account that is active,

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has been reinstated, but hasn't beenused correct, Yeah, I mean
has since anything appeared on that sincethe reinstatement no, not a thing.
Let me see, this is realtime radio, ladies and Joe, and
this is why you tune in andlisten. Here you're going to break news
right here. The last tweet wasJanuary eighth, twenty one. Snap.

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Okay, So Grant Allen is notpredicting, but is merely speculating, be
on the lookout, speculating. That'sa great word in our world. He's
speculating that that the Donald will jumponto Twitter at six pm tonight. The

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question I'll throw out as a retortis or will he simply roll out on
truth Social? I think that mightpersonally just maybe maybe this is my prediction.
Now I would say that's more likelythe truth social thing, but it
won't have the same effect unless he'son the same platform like Twitter. Yeah.

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Not just that he's got his people. The move politically would be to
do exactly what you're saying and tojump on Twitter at the same time and
back It is a better Trump thanI do. All Right, I'm gonna

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give you a chance to have agiggle here, a little gif, a
little laugh, a glimpse into myworld. And I I love my life,
I absolutely do, and I getas I've said to you, I

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get I get a lot of email. I get well over fifteen hundred email
a week, and that number justonly grows. A lot of you are
kind enough to write in, andI read everybody's and I try to reply
to most in some form or fashion. If someone's just sending me a link

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to a story, I thank youfor the link, but I don't necessarily
right back on that. But ifyou're sharing a thought, ask a question,
or whatever, I do my best. And for those of you who
interested, it's Preston at iHeartRadio dotcom. But I get, I get
email. And we've talked about thefact that Memorial Day is oftentimes not recognized

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for what it is. And Iam all about having some barbecue, grilling,
some burghers and dogs whatever. I'mgood with that, but not at
the expense of taking time to rememberwhat the holidays about. But I gotta
tell you, I am so relievedto know that Florida ranks as the seventh

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best state in the nation for greenburials YEP, number number six in aquamation,
number four in conservation burial grounds,twenty eighth in traditional burial and green

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burial related keywords number eleven. Soit's so good to know that Florida is
ranking in the top ten for greenburials. HEAs and gentlemen, that is
a great relief to me. Broughtto you by Barren Ol Heating and Air.
It's the Morning show one on WFLA. Grant's over there going what the

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heck is green burial? Yeah?Come on, now you know all about
the green movement, use your imaginationgo from there. What are they just
talking about deep frying everyone and gettingcremated and then just spread nashes that way?
Not necessarily because cremation involves carbon footprint, right, that's come on,
I think a pine box six feetdeep is probably the greenest. Maybe maybe

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not to just know that, justjust know that Florida's top ten, baby
top ten. The Governor's going toannounce for president today six o'clock on Twitter.
You can check that out. Iwould imagine that if you guys go
to twitter dot com, it'll bepublicized somewhere. I don't know where to

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send you. I don't know ifit's Elon's page, the Governor's page,
I don't know. But tomorrow youcan bet we're going to talk about it.
We had a good show today,lots to talk about lots of stories
in the news, plenty of passiontomorrow loaded with guests typical Thursday, and
looking forward to joining back with youtwenty one hours from now. You have

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yourself a great day, and it'salways thanks for listening.