Ep. 4940 Chick-Fil-A Gone Woke?

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Yeah, I think I'll go aheadand talk How are you? Thursday,

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June first, Wowsers, It's uh, it's show forty nine forty of the
Morning Show with Preston Sky of Morning. I'm Preston over there running the program
this morning is Jared standing by,prepared to offer something pithy, insightful,
maybe even humorous as Grant Allen,How you fellows doing over there? Great?

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What a day it's You know,Dad used to say one day I
spent a week in Cleveland, anduh, that's that's how this morning has
felt so far. But we wethank you very much for joining us and
has always put some perspective on things. We start with a little scripture.
John twenty four said, verily,I tell you truly, I tell you,

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whoever hears my word and believes himwho sent me has eternal life,
will not be judged, but hascrossed over from death to life. If
you look at kind of where weare today, you know the devotional I'm
looking at here. It says thatyou're no longer operating in the world of

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the dead. You're doing business inthe world of the living. So long
as you have decided to operate underneathGod's grace. Well, that's partially true.
You are, but you are surrounded, and you are, in fact
in a world that is fallen,and we all are. We all make

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mistakes, we all fall short,we are all very much prone to go
there. But rest assured, there'sone thing that is abundantly, abundantly clear.
We are in this world and we'vegot to figure out how to operate
in this world. And I thinkone of the biggest challenges that we are
facing is the times that we areliving in. But I have to wonder,

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is it all that much different fromwhen Christians face persecution under some of
the Roman Caesars. Maybe it's noteven that bad. Now it could end
up being that bad. It wouldcertainly seem as though the values of faith

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and discerning and believing that there isa right and there is a wrong that
there is, you know, asthe Bible talks about there's a way that
seems right to man, but inthe end it leads to destruction. We're
certainly budding up against a worldly philosophythat runs in opposition to that. But

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is it really any different, oris it just that the current seems a
bit stronger. I've always likened aChristian's walk to that of walking upstream to
fighting against a current. You justhave to keep fighting against the current,
and sometimes the current gets stronger,sometimes it gets a little bit easier,

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but it's always going to be aprevailing current against and that's what we face.
Listen to what it says in Philippiansfour. Philippians four says, rejoice
in the Lord always. I willsay it again, Rejoice. Let your
gentleness be evident to all. TheLord is near. Do not be anxious

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about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your request to God. Andthe peace of God, which transcends,
which passes all understanding, will guardyour hearts and your minds in Christ.
Finally, Brothers and sisters, whateveris true, whatever is noble,

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whatever is right, whatever is pure, lovely, admirable, if anything is
excellent or praiseworthy, Think about suchthings. Whatever you've learned or received or
heard from me or seen in me, put it into practice, and the
God of Peace will be with you. That list is phenomenal, noble,

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true, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy, think
about such things. We as aradio program are always going to buy necessity.
By the nature of what news is, we will be defaulting to things
that are not so pleasant all thetime, that are challenging, that point

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out the roadblocks, the obstacles,the potential traps, the difficulties. That's
what news is. The challenge isto run that through the filter of what
we know. And that's the challengeI leave with you today. Ten minutes
after the hour, come back theAmerican Patriots Almanac. Beckins will take a

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look at June first in history.Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott
and show at Preston Scott's go Ahead, Make My Day on News Radio one
hundred point seven. Tell the uFLA June first. I will not you

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have permission to mute me if Icall this anything other than June. You
know what I'm and you know whatI mean. Yep, loud and clear,
buzz, whatever you need to do. It is June June, seventeen

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seventy four. In response to theBoston Tea Party, Britain closes the port
of Boston Losers. Seventeen eighty nine, President George Washington science the first Act
of Congress, which was oaths ofoffice for public officials. Seventeen ninety two,
Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state. Seventeenninety six, Tennessee follows and becomes

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the sixteenth state. So it tookfour years before we acknowledge Tennessee. So
Kentucky is older than Tennessee. That'sinteresting. I would have thought it the
other way around. And then thisduring the War of eighteen twelve the United
States Britain, we're of course fightingit out. Captain James Lawrence sailed in

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command of the thirty six gun frigate, the USS Chesapeake. On June first,
eighteen thirteen, the Chesapeake was engagedin a battle against the HMS Shannon
near Boston, a ship to shipduel if you will. Lawrence's crew was
young and inexperienced. The Shannon,one of the best trained crews in the
Royal Navy. British guns quickly cutaway the Chesspeaks rigging, setting her adrift.

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The King's men swarmed onto the Americanvessel within a few minutes. Captain
Lawrence was mortally wounded. As hewas carried below, he gave his last
order, tell the men to firefaster, don't give up the ship.
Okay. Despite the captain's exhortation.The Chesspeak was soon captured. Lawrence died

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a few days later, leaving behindwife and daughter. When fellow officer Oliver
Hazard Perry heard of lawrence death,he had his friend's dying words stitched onto
a large blue banner, which flewfrom his flagship, the USS Lawrence,
named for Captain Lawrence, when hefought the British on Lake Erie in September

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eighteen thirteen. Perry's flag now hangsin a place of honor, Immemorial Hall,
the US Naval Academy in Annapolis.Words it bears, don't give up
the ship have become the rallying cryof the navy. Who knew? I
didn't know that flag was flying inat Annapolis. I didn't know it even
existed. Ye, good story.And that was on this date in eighteen

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thirteen that he gave up. Hegave his last command, don't give up
the ship. Nineteen ninety, PresidentGeorge HW. Bush Soviet leader Michal Gorbachov
sign an agreement to end chemical weaponproduction, begin destroying reserves or did we
yeah? And then in two thousandand nine, General Motors files for Chapter

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eleven bankruptcy in the midst of therecession. We bailed him out. Mistake,
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got facing all kinds of travails thismorning. Went in to make my oatmeal.

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Realized we no longer have hot water, so that means you have to
cook the oatmeal in the microwave evenlonger. So that's why I was nearly
late coming back onto the program here. I'm always prepared, though, how
so, well, I'm ready toget hot water with you. No,
you've got a canteen of hot water. If you're not sitting in that chair,

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I'll just be like, well,hey, good morning everyone. Preston's
on his way back, not surewhen he'll be back, but I'm here.
All kinds of curveballs. It is, um. You know, we
talk about it all the time,that that we're not surrendering, you know,
we're not giving the rainbow up,and we're not gonna give up the

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month of June and call it,you know, like Pride month or something
like that. Wait, I saidit didn't. I oh, I didn't
even make it twenty three minutes intothe radio program, and I'm already messing
up by calling it Pride Month.Yeah, we're not surrendering. It is

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June. It is June. Itis it is Preston month. Ah,
just wanted to see, just wantedto see if I could fool him,
you know, get some potatoes.Nah. It's like that Acepnura scene right
right, yeah, shut cock go, you're out of air right now.

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There's there's about twenty guys laughing andeverybody else holding their hands up in the
air going what um this is?This is classic lead research assistant sent this
my way. Yes, your allergiesare worse this year. And here's why.
It's good to know that, accordingto at least one expert. And

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the article says, experts say,and you know what that means. They
say it's climate change. Oh ofcourse I'm not making it up. It
is. It is climate change.Over the past few decades, climate change
has led to longer pollination seasons andhigher pollen counts, mainly due to the

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decreased number of days with frost eachwinner. Is that true? I don't
necessarily believe that that's true, giventhat we still had snowfalling in the United
States in May, and I knowthat at least here in this part of
Florida and Georgia. We had recordcold. Yeah, it was in the
fifties here in the mornings last week. Well, and we had record cold

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in and around Christmas and the NewYear that killed all kinds of plants.
And oh, by the way,the actual temperature globally has dropped since twenty
sixteen. It has not increased.And that's even with the little cheater stations
that they have. They have temperaturereading stations in all of the wrong places
and they don't tell you that.But even with that, the temperature has

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actually fallen. But I always thought, here's what would make sense to me,
is that allergies happen every spring becauseplants are blooming, and sometimes we
have a shorter season and sometimes alittle longer. See, I personally thought

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pollen ended really early this year.Yeah. The gage is usually always like
your car. Yeah, and itpretty much ended by the end of May
April, like this third or fourthweek of April, it was pretty much
done. And I'm whatever, It'sjust I just think it's always fun to
know all of the things that arethe result of global warming. And so

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there's another one allergies. You mightnot know this but so far, three
hundred and thirty COVID research papers andarticles have been pulled citing a lack of
ethical standards, among other things.Of course, you're not going to hear
a lot of this. Even Lancethas pulled papers. Some of them are

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smaller, some of them are larger, but they took shortcuts, and to
several researchers out there that are goingthrough these articles that have been retracted,
they took ethical shortcuts, they tookresearch shortcuts. They even made assumptions one

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paper, this is hilarious. Virusessuch as measles, mumps, and meningitis
can damage auditory system. It's alsowell known that COVID can affect our sense
of smell and taste, so itwas reasonable to assume it might affect our
sense of hearing. So because theymade an assumption, they published based on
it, and this stuff shaped publicpolicy. These types of assumptions, for

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example, that hydroxychloroquin would cause anincrease risk of heart arrhythmia, even death
and patients. It wasn't hydroxychloroquin.It was the COVID vaccine that increased the
risk of heart arrhythmia and even death. Hydroxa clark Win had nothing to do

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with it, and so as aresult, Lancet, which is considered one
of the pre eminent locations for medicalinformation where journals are peer reviewed and not
released until and unless they've pulled that. But yet countries use that paper to
say no, hydrox See there's apaper and they've quietly pulled it back and

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said, yeah, we were wrong. Three hundred and thirty so far that
we know of. I cannot waitto see what's next. Well I can
tell you what's next. It's thebig stories in the press box. Preston
Show with Morning Scott. What Thursday, June first on the Morning Show?

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might as well be you do it. Big story in the press box,
Well, we got a couple.One short and sweet. Well,
sorry, short and distasteful. TheHouse passed the debt deal. More Democrats
voted for it than Republicans. Butit's passed and it wasn't even close,

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three fourteen to one seventeen I'm justI am dumbfounded, and Kevin McCarthy is
actually proud of what he's done.Cannot wait to talk to Congresswoman Catchamic next

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week and find out why in theworld this got passed. This again,
the compromise always benefits the left,never the right. The other big story
in the press box, much tothe chagrin of local Chick fil aans,

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it is now one of the bigstories in the in the world of conservatives,
and that is that Chick fil Ahas gone ahead and sent a signal
and it's being reported all over theplace now of becoming I don't want to
use the word woke, but theywent ahead and hired a diversity, equity

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and inclusion officer. Basically what theydid is they promoted a guy from within
and created a post for the job. And the guy's been with a company
for a couple of decades, andthat's fine. I'm just trying to understand
what was it that Chick fil Awasn't doing? See, I think that's

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the analysis that needs to be madehere. So is Chick fil A admitting
that it wasn't what we thought itwas. Is there any other way to
analyze this other than to say thatthis is virtue signaling. That's it.
Best as I could tell, Chickfil A hired about anybody, welcomed anybody.

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Four years ago, they cut donationsto some causes that it had supported,
causes like traditional marriage, Fellowship ofChristian Athletes. It stopped donating to
programs like that, and that wasthe first signal. It upsets some folks,

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but everyone kind of got by it, and Chick fil A righted itself.
But now this, Why would youput a person into an office and
create an office like this unless you'revirtue signaling, unless you have internal problems,

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and I don't know of them,but this is a massive mistake for
Chick fil A. And to thehandful of you out there that are going
to make sure that Chick fil Amanagers and owners hear about what I said,
don't blame me. This is onyou. This on your company.

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This isn't about the one time outof five hundred that I got a bad
customer service experience. I actually hadpeople upset because I talked about that,
whatever, get over yourselves. Youhad you had a bad day with one
employee, As I pointed out,it was one employee. It was a

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bad day. Oh well, nota big deal. But you can't take
the criticism. Well, sports,this is all on you. This is
self inflicted. You guys have donethis to yourselves and you haven't learned the
lessons that are all over everywhere aroundyou. In fact, even though you're

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certainly not alone going this way,I'm going to show you how it's starting
to turn back around here in justabout sixty seconds on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Think Show with PrestonScott. You're mocking me, aren't you.
Oh no, no, no,no, no, no no.
I'm used Radio one hundred point seventell the u FLA to show you how

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fraught with danger this path is.When Target started going down this path a
decade or so ago, culminating withits own chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer,
Kara Fernandez, it probably sounded andsaid a lot of things like Chick fil

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A saying right now, now,listen to where we are with Target,
Fernandez said, one of the hardestthings in the world to be every day
is black. What's interesting about thatstatement, before I go on to more
of her statements, is that that'ssomewhat subjective, kind of depends on where

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you are and who you're with,right, I mean I could say the
exact same thing about being white.I could say the exact same thing about
being a white male in a lotof places today. You're painting a target
on your back by just being whoyou are, a white male. She

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continued on by saying, we're ontrack to spend more than two billion with
black owned brands by twenty twenty five. We've already increased our investments with black
owned companies and suppliers, including marketingagencies, construction companies, facilities, maintenance,
and more by fifty percent since twentytwenty. Wow. Now, if

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you just take the word black andreplace it with white and make that same
statement, you're a racist and abigot. She went on to say that
white women have to call out transgressions. I think the number one thing that

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I would encourage white women to dois to take the di learnings and use
your voice so the women of colorin the room doesn't always have to because
whether it's right or not, thereare places that you and I will go
where your voice will be heard differentlythan mine. And that's why we're doing

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this work. That's why it's soimportant to have this conversation, but we
also can't ignore the systemic history thatgot us here and the things we have
to do differently to remove those barriers. Well, here's where I can sympathize
with her. I've had the samethe same thoughts about black on black crime

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and the black communities challenge with fatherAs Holmes. I've said the same thing,
black people, You've got to bethe voice here because I'm not gonna
be listened to even though I'm theonly one seemingly talking about it in a
lot of circles. Barack Obama's nottalking about it. Kamala Harris isn't talking

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about it. Jesse Jackson's I'm talkingabout Al Sharpton's not talking about it.
The folks at CNN, MSNBC,USA Today, etc. Etc. Are
not talking about it. There aresome places that are talking. Tim Scott's
talking about it, but there aren'tmany. Clarence Thomas is talking about it.

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But here's the good news in allof it. The University of North
Carolina School of Medicine has renounced itsown DI framework. They are disbanding the
d EI Task Force without implementing itsrecommendations. They have come to realize that
perhaps there's a different kind of biasbeing created here boy who said that before?

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but again iHeartRadio Access Day dot comand register. So where does this end
for Chick fil A? What doyou think it's gonna happen? Are the
Chick fil aans out there going tojust say, yeah, we're done,
or are they just gonna cut backor it's just gonna be full steam ahead.
I don't think that the potential damagewill be outweighed by their new chums

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and buddies. In the d EIworld. It's a mixed bag just because
they've done so much. They've takenso much heat in the past for their
stances of traditional marriage and being prolife and like outwardly discussing that that's who

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we are as a company. Soit's it's a mixed bag. But you
can't the problem is you can't evenlet them get a foot in the door.
And this d EI thing is afoot in the door. Well,
every major corporation now has it.Everyone's doing it, and you can kind
of tell who a corporation who ismost why who they're more afraid to offend

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by who they genuflect two And youkind of see that with the d EI
thing and chick Flay included. Apparently, is this a result of a forty
three year old taking over? Idon't know. Yeah, because the grandson
of true At Kathy, Andrew TruettCathy is now in charge. And it

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is not lost on me that thisdecision comes because of a forty three year
old. I've no doubt there's agenerational difference between the founding vision and where
we are now. But not shockedme one't bit How else are we to
interpret this as a a signal lookhow woke we are? Not only did

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we acquiesced to the Southern Poverty LawCenter when they said we were a hate
organization for supporting you know, thesethese these entities or those entities were hateful
and so we should cut support tothem. Whatever, it doesn't matter,
it's all in the same thing.If you're supporting an entity like Fellowship of
Christian Athletes that Southern Poverty Law Centercalls hateful at group you're supporting it,

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you are, by extension, Iguess, considered hateful too, so they
cut their funding to them, aswell as programs that support traditional marriage,
like that's somehow wrong supporting the strongmarriages, whatever. You can give money
to whoever you want or not.But the fact of the matter is that,
in and of itself was signaling byChick fil A. So now we

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fast forward and they're either sending amessage that they have been to knee to
the woke culture or they have realinternal problems at Chick fil A that they
felt they needed to address. What'sinteresting is and it's a shame because the
guy that they put in charge,I'm thinking, is a pretty good employee,

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pretty good at his job, he'sbeen there for better than two decades.
He just happens to be black.But his comments indicate, well,
this is what Chick fil A hasalways been about. These are our standards,
blah blah blah. Okay, sowhy the office then, why not
just do what you've been doing?And see, that's the problem with this
entire movement. This entire movement isnothing more than virtue signaling. If you're

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if you're a bigot, you're abigot. If you're not, you're not.
You don't need to hire an officerto send a message to the world
that you're not bigoted. You're notyou're not bigoted, you're not you're not
discriminatory in your in your practices ofdoing business, but we have a d
EI officer. Whatever. It's justI don't wish bad on anybody, but

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if they self inflict wounds on themselves, so be it. And that's how
I look at this. I hadsomeone say to me yesterday, sweet,
I won't have to wait in lineas long as to drive through. That
was the reaction someone had. Thelines will be shorter, so they'll get
their food faster. We'll see.I don't know that this by itself will

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change a lot, but it might. Did you anticipate what was going to
happen to bud Light and Budweiser hasan overall brand. Steve Stewart on deck
on the Morning Show with Preston Scottfive minutes after the hours the second hour

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of the Morning Show with Preston ScottAccess Day. Remember lots of great opportunities,
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He is the one, the onlySteve Stewart. Thursday, June first,

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on the program, You're squeaking justa little bit still, How are
you good. Yeah, it's hey, June first, summers, kids out
of school. How do you how? I'm always asked, So I'm gonna
ask you because you get the dirtydetails. I tell everybody I'm not an
investigative reporter. How do you keepyour head straight? Because it's depressing sometimes

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it can be a lot of thingsyou can't write about, you know,
because we have standards in terms ofthe things that will report on, and
so it's de whoa, whoa,whoa. You can't be having those now,
I know. But yeah, andyou know, a good segue into
we get a lot of calls fromschool, you know, parents and you
know, coaches and the stuff thatwe're parents. Some parents still care,

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yeah they do. And so justgive you a couple updates on some of
the things going on with the schools, because we're gonna a lot of stuff
happens over the summer when no one'spaying attention, right of course, you
know, it's like you will be, I will be, and we'll get
you update on it. But there'sa couple of things that have not been
sort of dealt with. One ofthem is this investigation of the child's football
coach, which seems you know,I had heard a couple of weeks ago
that it was winding down because thisis to remind your listeners, is something

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that got thrown outside of the schoolsystem for an investigation because of some allegations
that were brought to you know.I got it something in the mail anonymously
and followed up on it, andso, yeah, four or five weeks
ago was sort of winding down.But I've reached out to a number of
people that I know, and it'sjust evidently it's growing in breadth of what

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they're who they're talking to, becauseparents and maybe even more players are talking.
Yeah, I think so, Ithink you know what I'm seeing and
we'll talk about the other coach herein a second. Is that I think
the longer you there, you're there, kids graduate, the kids that are
actually in school, the parents they'rethey're trying to protect their kids, and
they don't want to talk, theydon't want to go on the record,

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and they just they don't want tocause any problems for their kids. Right.
But now, I think when you'rethere long enough, you've got people
that have graduated that are now willingto talk or parents that are coming for
with examples that can be verified.And so I think this is happening both
with this football coach and also withthe Leon volleyball coach, and so I
look for that. I thought itwould be done and addressed, but it

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looks to me like now it willbe over the summer, which you know,
I always wonder how that gets handledover the summer when people aren't paying
attention, do they try to youknow, slap someone on the risk.
But we'll keep an eye on that, Steve breakdown for all of us.
Kind of the chain of command whenit comes to personnel issues within the county
and instructional coaches and so forth.Who's in charge? Yeah, that's a

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great question because I have asked thata number of times and I've got an
idea. I mean, Rocky Hannahhas been one of these that says,
I give you. He gives alot of leeway to the school, to
the high schools, okay. Andso there's an athletic director that is at
the school board that deals with Kthrough eight. Okay, they are a
county athletic, county athletic Kakey Bellwas that, Okay, all right?
But the authority for high schools,it's the principal hires the athletic director and

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they hire the coach. Is andit is it is left to them,
Uh, to the principle in theathletic director at a given high school are
the ones in charge. Yes.And the problem that we see is that,
as I said before, is itappears that they advocate more for the
coaches than they do the students.And if you think about it, it's
like, you know, hiring coachis a big deal. Getting rid of

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one is a big deal because yougot to go find a replacement. And
I will tell you this, thissituation with his football coach, he's been
I think had seventeen complaints that wereinvestigated and had no findings for you know,
in a two week period by theschool. I think this investigation this
school or there were issues at aprevious there were And so the problem is

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is it never gets outside of theschool. Uh. And this did because
of people's coming, right, andso now there's an outside investigator. Now,
if we pivot to the the Leonvolleyball coach, the same type of
thing almost exactly. You've got youknow, ten year coach there, ten
twelve year coach, lots of ofyou know lots of complaints, not formal

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complaints where somebody writes it down andputs their name to it, because they're
not going to do that. Butnow we've got something outside that. We've
got the sanctioning body of Florida USAVolleyball who is investigating issue to sanction and
that now is investigating again. Soit's outside of the school system. Now,
how are they going to deal withall this? Um, that's the
thing that you're gonna that we're gonnabe following because I think it's extremely important.

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So the school board really has nosay. They can in essence use
whatever bully pulpit they have as schoolboard members at school board meetings, but
they don't have the ultimate say.They and they also meet with the superintendent.
Some of them have individual meetings totalk about issues they have and so
they can address it there. Theyallowed to do that, I think,
so, yes, they're allowed to. Yeah, they're allowed to. I
think. So I'll have to lookinto that because I was, yeah,

(37:46):
they I think they have meetings toget caught up on things because he's the
he's also like the uh you know, he's like the city manager. You
have to be able to meet andtalk about specific gotcha operations they just can't
meet too exactly right, gotcha,all right, all right? Ten minutes
after the hour Steve Stewart Talask Reports, the website Talasreports dot com. Oh
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(38:10):
Keyword preston. You can subscribe,get the paper Talask your Reports and the
website Talaskreports dot com. Exe coneditor Steve Stewart with us this morning,
and so we move from the schoolboard to the local economy. Yeah,

(38:30):
a couple of things I wanted tobring to your listeners attention. First,
unemployment two point four percent. Imean it was two point six percent in
Marches, so it's come down totwo point four percent here. This is
where did all the bodies go,Steve, Yeah, because there's there's help
wanted signs in almost every window.And the other thing about this, though,
is if you look at the numbers, it's not the unemployment rate is
not going down because the number ofpeople are getting out of the workforce.

(38:53):
I mean that we're adding numbers tothe actual number of people working and the
number of people looking for work.And so there is definitely a demand for
workers. Um, and so whereare all the people? I mean,
I get the seasonal thing that happenswith the students that leave town, but
this has been ongoing, No,it is and it's um, so do

(39:14):
you believe the number? Yeah?You know, well I if you go,
people are definitely looking. I mean, there are companies that need work,
so there's a there's a there isa lack of supply of workers.
So that would that So where arethe people? Yeah, you know,
that's a great point. I mean, uh, um, I think maybe
they're more jobs than we think,and there's a lot of people that are

(39:34):
that are working. I mean,look, it's uh, you know,
just anecdotally. I have two kidsthat are twenty twenty one and they are
both working and making decent money atyou know, part time jobs. I
mean it's but using that word anecdotally, as you drive around the community,
you see help wanted signs everywhere onbillboards, they're on doors, they're on
windows, they're online, and yetwe seemingly don't have anybody to fill them.

(39:57):
Yeah. I mean it's u it'sa conundrum. Okay, what else
is going on with the game onthe So The Wall Street Journal had an
article that said that home whisper andwhispers go ahead. So I'd love to
use that work because it's one ofthe few big words I know. But
but uh, article in Wall StreetJournal home transactions down, um home medium

(40:23):
home prices down, and so inLeon County only half of that is correct.
Home transactions are down if you lookat the talasse msa twenty percent or
so. Okay, but home prices. Medium home prices are up about eight
percent, which leads the state.Now I've sort of looked at the numbers.
It's coming down. Uh, Tallahasseesometimes lags the rest of the state.

(40:43):
So prices I think are headed down. It's just that you know,
we're like but number of tracks transactionsdown twenty percent is is pretty big.
Now, if you look around thestate, the increase of the median sales
price compared to a year ago wasbasically flat. Here it was up eight
percent. But the median sales priceis lower here in Leon County in the
state, So, you know,interesting numbers to keep an eye on in

(41:06):
the real estate market because it youknow, it drives a lot. The
last thing is the airport. Werebounded from the COVID numbers pretty consistently.
We now I think it's safe tosay, or now have sort of hit
the ceiling and we're starting to bumparound in terms of traffic, and there's
a lot of different factors. Ihate, you know, I know that
the airport gets a lot of grief, but it is impacted by worldwide trends.

(41:27):
I mean, you know, theair the airline industry is looking to
move more people and bigger airplanes tobigger cities, and they really don't you
know, they really don't care aboutthese smaller areas. So we're up against
that. So it will be interestingto see now that we've sort of rebounded
from the COVID uh the pandemic,and now we're starting to see, you
know, this sort of flattened out. Well. The other reality is is

(41:50):
that not just in a community thesize of the capital city of Florida,
but across the country, more andmore people are saying, yeah, we
won't spend the money flying, We'regonna meet remotely on you zoom or teams
or whatever. They push that.And I think the other thing to look
at on the airport is this developmentin terms of a logistics center. I
mean that is in the works itwill be interesting to see how that impacts

(42:13):
that. I mean, when youhave the Amazon fulfillment Center gets ramped up.
So we are a logistic hub that'spart one of the industry sectors that
really does well. So we'll seeif the airport benefits from that. Maybe
not so much civilian travel, butmaybe commercial with packaging and so for exactly
interesting. All right, Steve Stewartwith us. Another segment still to come
here on the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Today is iHeartRadio Access Day,

(42:38):
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(43:05):
Executive Editor, Tallahassee Reports. We'recovering the school board, We're covering
the local economy. Oh, thecity of Tallahassee. What's up. Just
a couple of quick notes on theI guess, yeah, I guess local
government city in Blueprint City. SoJack Porter is up for a re election
and as you know, I've talkedabout previously. It's getting to be where
these these cycles is almost full timeelection for a lot of these people to

(43:25):
get in early. We know CommissionerLeon County comission Brian Weltch got in already.
I mean it's two years well nowit's less than that, but they
got in a couple of months ago. Commisier Porter got in. So somebody
finally got in against commissioner to runagainst Commissioner Jack Porter with a city and
we know about the three two votesand sort of what I would call dysfunction
on the city commission Passer Rudy Ferguson, who has been been around for a

(43:47):
long time. I don't know,I'm spoke to him once, I think,
but he had run against Nick Maddoxat the large County Commissions, has
been very involved. Lifetime resident orlongtime resident of Griffin Heights, married for
thirty one years, four kids youknow that have that are now adults.
So you know, a good personalstory that I see on paper. We'll
see how this works out. Ithink that more people will get in that

(44:09):
race. I think one of thethings that you see usually strong incumbents,
you know, don't get challengers week, incumbents will get two, three,
maybe four, and so well,I would I would categorize and this isn't
Commissioner Porter as a week incombent becauseof some of the decisions that she's made.
She's a very capable person and she'sI think she's very clear in what

(44:30):
she believes. So when I sayweek, I don't mean that per se,
just mean that she hasn't been ableto build a consensus that would say,
yeah, we want to re electJack Porter. Well, and if
I were to take it a stepfurther, I would point out that she
also went out of her way totry to get a couple of her colleagues
not reelected now, and that's alwaysa problem. You don't know, you
know, endorsing an opponent is onething, but but she and Jeremy Matlow

(44:53):
actively campaigned against right and so thatusually what's the old saying, you know,
you report you so yeah, alittle so I think that. But
again we're you know, this isJune, so the election would be next
August, so I would expect morepeople to get in there now. They've
had a recent budget workshop, notmuch new to report there. They're still

(45:15):
trending on a property tax increase topay for increase another property taxing right to
pay for a law enforcement We'll seewhere that goes. There's probably two more
budget workshops, maybe one. Sothat's an interesting dynamic there. This allows
for the progressive wing to vote againsta tax increase and appear to be fiscally

(45:36):
conservative when they're actually probably voting againstit because it's going to law enforcement.
Is there a reason why they can'tjust move money around and give more money
to law enforcement out of the existingrevenue because they're getting more revenue due to
the eight percent increase in values.There is if you read the document,
there's all kind of rationalization and whythey can't be done. But it's a
seven million dollars looking for seven toeight million dollars and you're looking at I

(45:58):
didn't find it. I think Icould too. So the other the final
issue that is it's sort of interestingthat this is an issue because we're talking
about park right and you're talking aboutlocal government because that's one of the things
they do right, parks parks.So and you know, if you go
back and look at this, itdoes sort of get comical because this really

(46:19):
got someone elected. You know,where's the park, dude. And I
think that's still you know, it'sstill a valid question, and it just
can't seem to get the park acrossthe finish line. And so there'll be
a meeting on June fifteenth, andagenda will be out before then, because
if you remember, the previous meetingwas supposed to be voted on a little
bit of a problem. And soit's there's two issues. Well, there's

(46:42):
really three issues. There's the amenitypart of this that I don't think was
vetted very well. It's a reallybaseball centric park, which is should be
a little more diversified. I thinkthat's an issue. The second thing is
the cost. It went from twelvemillion to eighteen twenty million, and I
think there are some people that arereally concerned about that. And the third
thing is I think the way thatit was presented. I mean, Commissioner

(47:05):
Welt, like I said, gotelected on this. This is a very
high priority for him, and Ithink the way that it was presented,
um is, I think is rubbedsome people the wrong way. And when
you're look, Commissioner Proctor has donethis remarkably well for a while. He
has been able to represent his constituentswith a passion and then at the same

(47:29):
time not completely upset everybody on theCounty Commission. And the way you do
that is you got to pick andchoose what you fight on. UM.
Commissioner Proctor is I would say afriendly business vote. He's no kidding,
you know, And so I thinkhe's merged those two things together to be
able to do that. So whenyou're just you know, so you've got
to be careful because you gotta haveother representing your constituents, but you gotta

(47:51):
have votes of other part of alarger hole, right and you've got to
really and that takes you know,that takes some skill. And I think
that the park has become a victimof the inability to do that. We'll
see what has happened in the interimbefore the June fifteenth. What's your guess.
My guess is it's going to beboth the cost. I think the
amenities there's gonna be options to voteon, okay, And I think that

(48:13):
UM that the cost is going toget pulled back and we'll hopefully well,
I think we're gonna get a decentarea park, but it's gonna be and
the vote is going to be theBlueprint Committee, which includes the city,
twelve people, city county together,And so is your hunch that they're gonna
be okay? Proposal A is thewhole thing. Proposal B. It's with

(48:34):
these amenities taken back in the pricehere and so far I think failed back.
I think there'll be three options,and I think that it'll be interesting
to see what those three options are. And I think there's going to be
more citizen input. Hey, look, I'm personally affected by this. I
might live a mile and a halffrom the park, so I may actually
go speak just on behalf of myhousehold. Sure, and so I think
that more people will will speak.And um, but I said, like

(48:55):
I said, we'll get in agenda. Hopefully we'll have it out before the
next our next session here and wecan talk about that nice. Thanks for
all right, thank you, Preston. All right, Steve Stewart, he's
going to breeze out of here.The headphones will be flung, the chair
will be tossed, and out he'llgo, demanding green M and m's as
he leaves. According to his writerin his contract, it's twenty seven minutes

(49:17):
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It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston over there running the
radio program is Jared alongside is Grant, and it's great to be with you
this morning. Got doctor Steve StevensonPause for thought in just a few minutes.
Next hour, Jerome Hudson of Breitbartdot com the story that we have
to talk over with Jerome. Alwaysa good time having my buddy back on

(50:04):
the show. Jerome a former internon this fine radio program before he hit
the big time. He occasionally hostsa program on Patriot Radio on Sirius XM,
and he is the editor to entertainmenteditor at Breitbart dot com, as
well as the author of the FiftyThings books, with a third book coming

(50:25):
soon. But first, the bigstories in the press box. Are you
surprised by the vote margin in theHouse? It passed? The debt ceiling
bill passed three fourteen to one,seventeen more Democrats voted for it than Republicans.

(50:51):
I figured it was coming. KevinMcCarthy's smiling ear to ear and we're
hearing the ads. The promotion ishow they stepped to the plate and held
the line victory and nothing of thekind. It apparently might face a difficult
passage in the Senate. So Iguess the bill has to be passed in

(51:13):
the Senate. The House constructs thespending, but the Senate has to agree
to it, and so that ithas a less certain future there we'll see.
To me, the clear winner herewas the guy who's walking around wondering
who he is and who his wifeis at any given moment, right,

(51:35):
I mean, it's well, hegets brain freeze without ice cream. You
know, that's that's Joe, AndI just who was it that wrote the
line? You know, we gotwe got smoked by a guy who can't
find his pants. Yeah, andwe did. The Conservatives got absolutely wrenched

(52:00):
on this rentsed out. I mean, I'm just there's nothing in here.
What I love is the way KevinMcCarthy spun it. McCarthy's line is absolutely
classic. He's calling it the largestsavings in history. Tonight, we're going

(52:23):
to do something we haven't done before. Tonight, We're going to vote for
the largest savings in American history.Over two point one trillion. That's what
we're voting for. Every great nationthat has extended itself has collapsed, over
extended itself as collapsed. And whatare we doing? I was going to
say, and we're not. Butnotice what he said, we're saving.

(52:46):
He didn't use the word cutting.We're not cutting the debt. We're merely
not spending as much ergo saving twopoint one trillion dollars only that's the language
of David Copperfield. That is thelanguage of a Harry Houdini. That is

(53:09):
the language of a magician saying,look over here, don't pay attention to
which in my hand on this side, Just look over here. And this
is just disastrous because we're not gettingrid of debt. Forty minutes after the

(53:30):
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dot com. Come on, let'stalk about our pets. Joining us Doctor
Steve Stepson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Good morning, doctor, How are
you, sir? Hey Preston,I'm doing great. How are you?
I'm doing fine. I'm grateful thatI've never personally owned a cat and don't
have to deal with this issue.But cat owners out there likely know about

(54:35):
it. Okay, So cats haveurinary tract issues? How frequent? How
common of a problem is this?You know, Preston, It's not that
common in general, but certainly inan animal hospital we see this all the
time. Any cat can succeptible tohaving a urinary track problem, especially that
the male cats have a much biggerdanger than the female cats with this issue.

(55:00):
These cats form crystals in their urine. Typically this is because of all
the excessive minerals in the diet they'reeating. Then those minerals then cause irritation
in their bladder and their urethra andthat creates all the symptoms that we see,
the increased urination, the straining ofurinate, urinate, urinating frequent small
amounts or prolonged attempts to try andurinate, all these symptoms that occur in

(55:22):
now the litter box all the time. And so then and a female cat,
it creates all these problems in amail cat that cash you can lead
to an obstruction because there's aurethra ismuch smaller, and so that obstruction can
be very very dangerous. Let's circleback to what we talked about last time
we visited. Then, is thisdiet related? I mean, will they
change in the diet of the cat'sfood? Are there things to look for

(55:44):
in the cat food that signal apotential problem? Yep, Actually yes,
Preston, So there are diet cats. You can find diets on the grocery
store shelf or talk to you thatan erin. There are diets that are
labeled as quote unquote urinary diets,and those diets are lower in those so
they don't form the crystals as easily. Very often these cats, if they

(56:04):
have this problem, put them ona canned food too, because of can
food they're taking them more moisture withthe can food sure extra water makes sure
you're more dilute less crystals in theirbladder, So it helps to alleviate the
problem that way as well. Whyaren't cat food manufacturers just removing some of
these mineral additives whatever that contribute tothe problem. I assume that's I don't

(56:29):
know, cresting asson. That's allthe name of profitability. It's probably more
expensive to make these diets lower inthose minerals. Okay, they just naturally
occur in the food, and soto extract them pobbies more costly. And
so they're looking out for profit andnot for the bottom, not for the
health of the cats they're feeding.Let's transition to our other little four legged
buddies, our dogs. And thistime of year, you see it if

(56:50):
you go to the beach, ifyou drive by the beach, folks love
bringing their dogs to the beach.But I've got to believe there's some inherent
I don't want to say dangers,but there's some things to be aware of.
Oh, absolutely, the person youtake your dog to the beach,
make sure. Number One, dogsand cats can get sunburned, and so

(57:12):
you definitely want to be aware ofthat and make sure you have plenty of
shade for your dog, that theyhave a nice thick coat to protect them
from the rays of the sun.Provide lots of fresh water for them at
all times. What do you hangon a second, what do you do
if you have a short haired dogto protect them? Is it? Mary?
I mean, there's not sunscreen fordogs, is there? Well,
there are some sprays you can useon your dog. Talk to your veterinarian

(57:35):
about that, you know, usingsome people will put a shirt, you
know, a little T shirt,mini T shirt on a little small dog
that has a very thin coat orshort hair that exposure to the sun.
Obviously, one thing we see quitefrequently is dogs who out there and they
start eating the sand. They findsomething in the sand, they smell,
they like it for whatever reason,they start eating that sand. They come

(57:55):
in with all this an ingestion ofsand, and that could be a real
real problem for their gi tracks.That's something to be careful of keeping on
your dog. Make sure they're notout there finding something on the beach that's
washed up on the beach. Youknow that they decide they want to eat.
What about saltwater? I always worryabout dogs lapping up the water because
they see it. Do they knowinherently not to drink it? Some do

(58:17):
a lot, do not, certainly. All that salt ingesting all that salt
water can create all kinds of problemsas well, and so be very careful
how much saltwater your dog and jests. Don't let them drink it. If
they or one that tends to dothat, you want to be aware of
that and keep them away from thesaltwater as much as you can. It
goes, I'm guessing without saying,make sure you got plenty of fresh water

(58:38):
so that if, especially if they'relapping up a little of saltwater, you're
flushing it down with some freshwater.Absolutely, shade freshwater, have a leash
on hand. If there are otherdogs on the beach, be careful.
Make sure you don't have a fightoccur on the beach with your dog and
somebody else's dog. Avoid the hotsand. If it's really hot and you
can handle with your feet, theyprobably can't with their pads either. Good

(59:00):
stuff. I think we'll have moreto talk about with this, the whole
sun and dogs and their coats andall that stuff. We'll do it in
a couple of weeks, Doctor Stevenson, thank you great, Thanks Preston.
Doctor Steve Stevenson joins us a coupleof times each month. Here it's Pause
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good if it's getting you all emotionalhold on. It's located on Hart Island.
Built by a heart filled with loveby George Bolt. He was the
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Jerome Hudson joins us from Breitbart dotCom, where he is the entertainment
editor and boil Boy. No shortageof stories on the pages of Bright Bart
and we'll talk about some of themnext with our good friend Jerome Hudson.
Right here on the Morning Show withPreston Scott, we've got news, weather,

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(01:04:58):
hour for today of the Morning Showwith Press Since Scott Thursday, June first,
it is show forty nine forty ofthe radio program Grant Allen Over there,
Jared's over there and with me onthe phone line. Is the entertainment
editor with Breitbart dot Com. Heis the author of the Fifty Things books,
The One the Only. Jerome Hudson. Hey, friend, how are

(01:05:18):
you? I'm doing good, doinggreat on this finne and lovely Thursday,
this cheak Thursday, because you know, it really would have been Wednesday if
Memorial Day wasn't Monday. That's howit works. Dude, that's way too

(01:05:41):
deep for me. My man,hey, I need you to weigh in
on one of the big stories inthe press box this morning. What do
you make Why did Chick fil Ahire a d EI officer? Why promote
within a guy who obviously was areally good employee, good at his job.
Why create this office? Is theIs this the symptom of now being

(01:06:05):
of a company being run by aforty three year old mum? But likely
likely? I mean you have toremember that Chick fil A a few years
ago came out and announced that itwas going to start, you know,

(01:06:26):
donating to and supporting some LGBTQ pregnantman emoji organizations. I think I think
Chick fil A canceled Salvation Army,and Salvation Army also canceled Christians right,
so that there there are wars withinthe woke war. Um we call them

(01:06:48):
alien versus predator. When one leftwing organization or person goes to battle with
another, Um, we we don'tcare who wins, and in fact,
everybody could lose and America wins.Um. I mean Chick fil A is

(01:07:11):
quite interesting in that way because ifyou if you scour their website enough,
you'll also see their purpose which isto do good uh in all things rooted
in Christianity or something like that I'mparaphrasing obviously. Um, what's happening with
these corporations is what China did afew years ago. They actually launched a

(01:07:35):
nationwide social credit score system, andwhereby Chinese citizens are rewarded for going to
certain restaurants, for exercising a certainamount, for pursuing certain careers and disciplines.

(01:07:55):
They are actually rewarded as citizens.And so there are are a couple
different corporate standards that have been rolledout in this country that are doing the
same and one of them is thissocial equity standard. And you know,

(01:08:16):
the more pride merchandise that you sell, if you're Disney, for instance,
regardless regardless of the fact that thatmerchandise is manufactured in a country at sanctioned
slave labor and that punishes lesbians orbisexuals or transgender individuals. I know this

(01:08:45):
because I purchased buttoned down Pride MickeyMouse shirt maybe about a year ago,
just to make sure that it wasmanufactured in one of the provinces in China
routinely abuses gay people or Christians.It doesn't matter, though, because Disney

(01:09:08):
gets the points for celebrating Pride money, and you can't just celebrate it.
You can't just have a dude who'sclearly a dude on a bud Light can.
You have to outdo Target. Sobud Light puts Dylan mulvaney on the

(01:09:30):
can celebrating his womanhood. Target hasto outdo bud Light. So what do
they do. They put bathing suitsfor toddlers, bathing suits for boys.
But the bathing suits are special becauseyou know, if your boy wants to
tuck his genitalia, he can't inthese bathing suits. So there it literally

(01:09:56):
is though awoke Olympics at this point, and the rest of US. I
mean, the overwhelming majority of thecountry doesn't care who their neighbor has sex
with, if their neighbor has sexat all. But that's the reality of
these corporations. They're being rewarded forgoing woke. Hang on a second,

(01:10:17):
I want you to hold that thought. We're gonna come right back there because
there's a ton of stories along thisfront. Jerome Hudson with US entertainment editor
with Breitbart dot Com, author andguest friend on The Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Being told what to believeby the liberal media. Get a refreshing
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(01:10:39):
hundred point seven WFLA back with JeromeHudson from Breitbart dot Com, entertainment editor
and our guest here on the program. Jerome, I don't understand what's really
in it though. For Chick filA, all it can do is damage

(01:11:00):
itself with its core, and itscore is massively conservative, and by all
accounts, Chick fil A has beena model employer for its duration. So
this is nothing but pure virtue signaling. So what could possibly they win because

(01:11:21):
the people they're signaling to are nevergoing to be their friends. No.
I have friends who have had togo through you know, the diversity,
equity and inclusion training. They don'tunderstand it. They think it's a waste

(01:11:42):
of time. They actually pressed anddon't have good answers to my questions,
Like, you know, this financialinstitution has been around for a quarter of
century and you guys just rolled outexcuse me, you guys this gendered language
that can't be used. And Isay, you guys just rode this program

(01:12:05):
out three years ago. I waslike, was it okay that the company
was virulently racist and uninclusive for thefirst twenty two years? I think,
Um, and they and they haveleadership people of all colors and backgrounds.

(01:12:26):
Um. I mean it is truly, you know, it makes everyone feel
good. Um, everyone is verywell. Everyone that is that that is
supposed to feel good. Okay.UM. You know when when when the
standard or when the standard of racewas included in the decision making of allowing

(01:12:50):
someone on a college university campus asa student, or hiring them as a
police or firefighter, or awarding acar track to them. Um, the
decision to to solve the problem ofdiscriminating by race by using race as a

(01:13:11):
decision point. You know when whenpeople decided to do that, the people
who came up with the idea,I'm pretty sure they felt pretty good.
But you know what we did itWe solved racism. No, you made
it worse. Okay, and that'sChick fil a is. You know,
we have to do it. Wecan't be the only company that doesn't have

(01:13:34):
a diversity equity inclusions are and policy. And if we have the policy,
we have to put it on ourwebsite. We've got we got one minute
left in this segment, so let'slet's put a bow on this topic before
we move on to something else nextsegment. Let me ask you why is

(01:13:54):
boycott target the number one song oniTunes? Well, have you heard the
song? I mean, the thingslaps as the kids say, get in,
get into the old Wait wait,wait wait, I don't know those
terms. It what it's it's slap, it's slap. That's that's actually an
old one. That one maybe tenyears old, maybe fifteen years old.

(01:14:16):
Okay, Well you're not helping meout then, because I gotta get always
want to try to be hip.Okay, when when you leave the office,
grab grant, get in the getturn it on, turn the music
all the way up, and ifit's too loud or too old. That
is a line I think Brendan Frasersaid that in Airheads. But it's it's

(01:14:36):
a it's a good song. AndI think people are buying into the idea
of what you said earlier. Youknow what, I don't want to support
this company. You know, Ican go buy from somewhere else my ice
cream and a diapers. So arewe now seeing with Target? With and
Target's been at it maybe longer thananybody, but with Target, yeah,

(01:15:00):
Budweiser, Miller Light in particular,or bud Light rather in particular. Now
Chick fil A, are we nowseeing that they've just gone too far and
people are done. People don't wantto drink politics, they don't want to
eat politics in between a biscuit intheir chicken, and they certainly I've walked

(01:15:23):
into the Target one hundred times.I've never actually thought what those people think
about taxes or race or immigration,and most people don't. And yeah,
it's turning people off. It'll bea slow turning of the tide. But
I do believe that bud Light ropethe damn it'll be interesting to see what
happens in the coming weeks, months, and maybe sadly years. Jerome Hudson

(01:15:45):
standby. He will be with usfor one more segment seventeen past the hour.
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two past the hour of Thursday,June first, on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott, I am Preston,that's Grant, that's Jared, and this
is Jerome Hudson of Breitbard dot com, the entertainment editor. I told you,
Jerome, this is from your ownpages, so I will not consider
this a curveball under any circumstances.All right. I just smiled ear to

(01:16:38):
ear when I saw that Warner Brothersdid not renew its agreement with Patrese Colors.
I mean, I just I thinkthat is a story that absolutely needs
to be shared. You know thisis interesting because first j Patrise Colors remind
everybody he's one of the co founderof Black Lives Matter, and she may

(01:17:03):
not even be famous for that.It's it's like, yes, she's a
co founder of Black Lives Matter,but she went on a real estate spending
spree that, at least in myopinion, seemed to make her more more
of a prominent figure because it justit's so perfectly pointing out the brazen hypocrisy

(01:17:27):
and the corruption and fatal flaw ofthat organization. Like people gave money to
that organization believing that it would dogood in the world, rome the whole
God bless those people. Gods wellyou know those those say people who rooted
for Colin Kaepernick and his entire protestwas based on on the same live But

(01:17:53):
anyway, Um, I was thinkingabout this because I've been doing a lot
of radio and I'm sorry to admitto you in front of the live audience
that I have been You've been unfaithful. But I think it is what happened
one happened God with one. Ihope it was want God with one.

(01:18:14):
Um, haven't you One of thequestions was, you know, somewhere along
the lines of you know, isDisney going to ruin everything? Because in
the latest trailer for the latest IndianaJones movie number five. For the uninitiated,
there there are attacks on capitalism andit's just so weird because Walt Disney

(01:18:39):
is one of the most lucrative corporationson the planet. But anyway, and
I was, I was, Iwas just thinking about this yesterday. I
was like, um, we're goingto see Hollywood do weird things like give
out what we assume it was amultimillion dollar, multi year tell of vision

(01:19:00):
and film contract to a person likethe Colors, like, she has no
discernible talents that I can see,not the least of which involve her being
rewarded something that people dedicate their entirelives as creatives, as writers and content
creators to get the type of dealthat Warner Brothers gave her. All she

(01:19:23):
did was trademark and patent a sloganthat has that has done a lot to
divide this country on the lines ofrace. But that is Hollywood in a
nutsheow. Warner Brothers looked at theTrees Colors and said, you know what,
we want to strike a deal thatallows you to create content for us
that we can share to our audience. And the punchline is that after signing

(01:19:47):
that deal, what happened? Ah, yes, this is this is what
gave us all the giggles and feelgoods in the Bright Part newsroom. This
woman created absolutely no content for herbrothers. Zero not. I mean I
think I think she did the equivalentof taping a pilot episode of a commercial.

(01:20:12):
It's quite seinfeld funny in that way. Um, But you know it's
the most amazing thing I will sayabout that story is while I was looking
for the photo that I event trulychose for that story, I ran across
a bunch of getty images of Patresecallers performing. And I have to tell

(01:20:36):
you, Preston, I have tofigure out a way that doesn't break the
copyright agreement. This woman has adifferent side of her life than only a
few people get to enjoy. AndI have to say I would probably pay
money to see one of her shows. I mean, she's holding a tricycle,
a golden tricycle in front of herface, imposing other people are like

(01:20:58):
moving and weird ways in a lowlylit room. I mean, it's some
wild stuff. And so because thedeal expired, we are we are spared
that indignity of having to even runacross it. I don't know. I
mean, maybe we would have beenblessed with content from the co founder of

(01:21:19):
Black Lives Matter. We'll never know. Yeah, that's that's gonna be one
of my great regrets when I passon. All Right, all right,
my friend, thanks for the time. We'll talk again next month. I
love you very much, My dearfriend, Grant, take care of this

(01:21:40):
man. I always try. Allright, brother, take care of Jerome.
Jerome Hudson with us this morning,I'm the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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I'm listening to the soundclip in theNational news story about Kevin McCarthy,
and tonight we're going to do somethingwe haven't done before. Tonight we're going
to vote for the largest savings inAmerican history, over two point one trillion.
That's what we're voting for. Everygreat nation that has overextended itself has

(01:23:56):
collapsed. Now, if he'd ifhe'd have stopped before that last line,
he might have gotten away with ita little bit better. But all of
that is rubbish, and it almostbrings back a little anger in me,
because I remember when George W.Bush said words to this effect. In

(01:24:21):
this year's budget, we're cutting theamount of an increase in deficit spending.
Wait what, We're cutting the amountof an increase in deficit spending. Okay,
so we're still spending more than wetake in. Yes, we're just

(01:24:44):
not spending as much. Yes,but we're still spending more than we have
Yes, that's all Kevin McCarthy justsaid, but he went a step further.
Every great nation that has over extendeditself has collapsed. We were overextended
in two thousand. We're just moreoverextended. We are so beyond our skis

(01:25:10):
with debt. And I just again, you know, I will occasionally be
criticized as someone that does not evercriticize Republicans. And obviously you don't listen
to this show enough to make thatstatement, but you make it anyway,
and some of you write to meand make that assertion. This is a
classic example. Kevin McCarthy, theleader of the House, the leader of

(01:25:34):
the Republican Caucus, is absolutely insane. We are overextended, and we are
not cutting any of our debt.We are merely not spending as much.
So Joe Biden gets to say,look at this fellas, I delivered a

(01:25:56):
one percent increase in spending, whichadds up to over the course of the
deal about four trillion dollars. Excuseme. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna
increase spending, but it's not increasingas much. So we're going to celebrate
that. That's where we are today, forty minutes past the hour and the

(01:26:19):
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(01:26:41):
Tomorrow on the radio program Senior Pranks. Did you take part of any of
that when you were in high school? I don't. I don't think so.
I don't remember what ours was.Jared Ewan, Yeah, did you
take part? Oh yeah, yeah, okay, I remember, I remember
mine. We're gonna save that fortomorrow. We're gonna have we're gonna take
calls your your senior high school prank. And there were a couple one that

(01:27:09):
that was my class that I didn'tparticipate in. It just because I didn't
have time, but I was somewhatproud of what they did. But there
was another class before Hours a coupleof years earlier that to me set the
all time bar. So we'll talkabout senior pranks tomorrow in the program.
Also, what's the beef? Somegood news headlines from the bing more.

(01:27:30):
All right, I'm gonna take youguys into a scenario here. You are
living in California, whole be still, and I know Grant in particular,
this could really cause a problem foryou to even consider the thought. My
first question is why have I beenkidnapped? Okay, you, but you
are, You have found yourself livingin California, and you you you think

(01:27:53):
the way that you do. Howeverthat is I don't know Jared's philosophies on
certain things as well as I knowyou're at this point. But California passes
a law and it says this thatby twenty thirty five, there will be

(01:28:14):
no gas powered vehicles inside the state. It's sold in the state of California.
In fact, thirty five percent ofautomakers sales have to be electric in
twenty twenty six. By twenty thirtyfive, they all have to be electric.
You can't buy as of twenty sorry, twenty thirty five, you cannot

(01:28:38):
buy a gas powered vehicle in California. Are you leaving? Oh? Yeah,
yeah, unless for whatever reason,I lived in a you know,
like a rural northern California setting wherethat's where my parents were and my grandparents,
and you know, unless that waslike home home, like root down

(01:29:00):
deep, I would probably leave.But if I did decide to stay,
I'd be buying horses. Would yoube buying a couple of as many as
you could afford gas powered vehicles intwenty thirty four, for example, probably
to get as new a vehicle asyou possibly could. What about you,
Jared, would you be is thatenough? Would that be enough to say?

(01:29:23):
Or is that not an issue foryou? I don't know if it
would be a huge issue for me. I think for a lot of people
who live in California, especially ifthey live in southern California, you might
see a lot of them going acrossthe border in New Mexico to buy.
And that's something that is pointed out, that they'll be able to go to

(01:29:44):
neighboring states. But the thought isthat the legislature is going to outlaw that.
Now, good luck constitutionally with thatpractice. Well, they'll outlaw it
by saying, yes, it's legal, but you have to pay an exorbitant
tax to import a vehicle. Orthey'll simply say, yeah, you can
do it, but you can't bringit back here. You can't own it
and live and work and drive inCalifornia, and they'll give you a certain

(01:30:09):
amount of time. My point is, this has happened, this is past,
this is law in California. Howabout the thousands of gas stations in
California. What are they going todo for a living? Well, how
about the fact that you can't powerthese cars. How about the fact that
when ten years goes by, unlikea gas powered engine that can run twenty

(01:30:32):
thirty years, forty years. Ihave two of them that are well over
two hundred and seventy thousand miles,one over three hundred and forty thousand miles
runs great. To this day.I would be on my third set of
batteries at about twenty to thirty grandto pop in an electric vehicle. What

(01:30:54):
about the hazardous waste that those batteriescause. Where's that gonna go? And
the fact that the California already hasrolling blackouts for an overused power grid.
They can't power what they have,and they're not going to be using traditional
sources for power. They didn't build. They didn't build enough nuclear power.

(01:31:15):
That's been that's become you know,persona and on Grotto. When it comes
to power coal electric powered by gas, it's solar. Their debt is coming
due on solar right now. Allthose solar panels are wearing out. And
they've now just realized in California inthe last three years, Oh, this

(01:31:40):
is toxic waste too, and itcan't be recycled. Now what do we
do? I'm just pointing out,and I wrote on my rundown a Harbinger,
this is what happens if you leaveilliberals in charge. What would be

(01:32:08):
on your list? Spending the daywith Dan and the Danettes. Yeah,
that'd be cool, that'd be fun. Yeah, that would be pretty close
to the top of my list.Having chef Tyler Florence prepare a meal.
I don't know that I'm I'm thatmuch of a connoisseur that I would appreciate
it. Yeah, I'm to thelevel that I feel like you would need

(01:32:30):
to appreciate I wouldn't want a realfan to experience that one. Yeah,
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that can cook at that level.It's like, you know, my good
friend and great chef David Gwinn,It's like, dude, the stuff you
can do. I just I justI My palette doesn't maybe appreciate the nuance

(01:32:51):
of fine cooking, but they're justa ton I would say, you know,
Lionel rich here at the Wind andFire, that might be a thing.
I haven't heard Lionel Richie sing lately. I don't like he's still an
American idol. Yes, yes heis. He. I can't even describe

(01:33:11):
how big of a hit machine hewas back in the day. It's just
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career and then Earth Wind and Firewas iconic and still is in a lot
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show one on WFLA. All right, So the House has passed the deal.

(01:34:19):
It's going to be a contentious votein the Senate. They may not
have the votes. I don't knowif they have to get to sixty.
I should know that. I shouldknow that. I'm sorry I don't,
but it's going to be a contentiousvote. I don't think they'd have a
chance of getting to sixty if theyjust need a simple majority. I don't
know. I don't know. Thehardlineing liberals don't like it because they didn't

(01:34:44):
get enough. Conservatives don't like itfor the obvious reasons. Kevin McCarthy has
negotiated horribly. He blinked in thebattle between he and Joe Biden. He
blinked, It's as simple as thatChick fil A decides to create a diversity,

(01:35:08):
equity and inclusive or inclusion officer,and it is, according to many,
a signal of a huge, largeproblem in corporate America. We talked
about that today in part with JeromeHudson, a Breitbart dot Com good discussion
with Jerome. Talked about your pets, your cats. Yes, I even

(01:35:28):
talked about cats. Though I'm loathto do it. I did because I
know that many of you love yourcats. So I do talk about cats
sometimes. With doctor Stevenson, wealso talked about bringing your dog to the
beach, some challenges, some thingsto think about. And I'm not talking
about jaws throwing the stick out thereand your dog doesn't come back. I'm
talking about other kinds of things.Also talk to Steve Stewart Tons to talk

(01:35:51):
about there target demands that it's diversitychief, demanding that white women get to
work against the stem a racism.University of North Carolina Med School renounces its
own di framework. See that's Idon't know if enough will awaken from their
wokeness. If I can say itthat way, better than three hundred COVID

(01:36:15):
articles have been pulled back over alack of ethical standards, rigors of research,
and so forth. Show of handsto anyone who's shocked by that finding.
Yeah, tomorrow we'll tee it upall over again. Lots to talk
about. Take your calls, what'sthe beef, Take your calls, high
school senior pranks. Until then,have a great day.

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