Ep. 5096: He Gets Us?

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Episode Transcript

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Five minutes after the hour. Goodmorning, Welcome Valentine's Day on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, Show numberfifty ninety six, Day eleven, twenty
of America's embarrassment, and it's greatto be with you. That is Grand
Allen over there. It's got youlaughing already, as you might note as

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you're starting today's show, I'm remindedtoday's ASH Wednesday. And never forget when
NBC News called it the Mark Wahlbergforty Day Challenge because he had his the
ashes on the cross when he cameon and was interviewed on ASH Wednesday last
year, and they called it theMark Wahlberg forty Day Challenge. Grant Allen,

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Ladies, Yeah, classic NBC.Yeah, So ASH Wednesday is coinciding
with Valentine's Day this year? Itis, yes so, And I will
say Mark Wahlberg has sent ripples throughthe Hollywood scene with his commitment to his
faith. And good on him,you know, good for him showing a

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little moral backbone to a group ofpeople that need some anyway. Good to
be with you this morning. Wewill unpack a lot, although today's show
has changed again overnight quite a bitit's why we come in early, justin
case, and the justin case kindof happened on a few levels. So
we'll get to all of that later, but we start with Scripture second Thessalonians

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one, verses three and four.This is Paul, Sylvanus and Timothy writing
to the Church of the Thessalonians,and they write, we ought always to
give thanks to God for you,brothers, as is right, because your

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faith is growing abundantly, and thelove of every one of you for one
another is increasing. Therefore we ourselvesboast about you in the churches of God,
for your steadfastness and faith in allyour persecutions and in the afflictions that
you are enduring. Question one,could those words be written about you?

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Question two? If not, isthat something you would strive that you would
be known for? Question three?If so, how do we get there?
How do you get there? They'rethanking God because their faith was seen

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to be growing abundantly. How doesone demonstrate that? It says here the
love of every one of you forone another's increasing. I would think that's
an outflow of one's growing faith.I think your faith grows as you get

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to know God, as you getto know God's word, and out of
the faith that you have, growingyour ability to trust that God's doing a
good work. I think that expandsand flows into others. It says,
therefore we ourselves boast about you andthe churches. The testimony of the Thessalonians

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was spreading. It was being usedas a point of pride in a good
way. That this is a groupof people, though persecuted, that are
demonstrating faith and love. Says,not just in all of your persecutions,

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but in the afflictions that you areenduring. Could those words be written about
you? If not, why not? And how do we turn that around?
There you go. That's how we'llstart today. Now. Interestingly enough,
in the third hour, we're goingto get to the messaging of that

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movement. He gets us some interestingcomments coming in the wake of their Super
Bowl ad, and they're defending themselvesby saying, yeah, this is pretty
cool. Huh sweet sweet. We'llget to all that. We'll unpack it.
That's coming up in the third hour. Much to do today. Ten

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past It's the Morning Show with PrestonScott. It's the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Twelve minutes after six am. In the Eastern time zone five in

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the Central. Good Morning Wednesday onthe Morning Show with Prestin Scott, Valentine's
Day, take a peek here insidethe American Patriots Almanac, and I'm going
to go outside the Almanac to somethingelse that should be included. Noteworthy on
a lot of levels, but first, eighteen forty nine, James Polk becomes

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the first president to be photographed inoffice. Eighteen forty nine. Okay,
I saw. I just saw inthe last couple of days a image floating
around social media of his I thinkit was his inauguration or soon after,
maybe during his presidency, and hewas having a ball at the White House

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and Dolly Madison was present in there, the Dolly Madison photographed in her elder
years. She was, you know, the matron of the ball, and
she was just kind of, youknow, the special welcomed guest. She
who saved Washington's portrait. She's therephotographed with Polk, with the vice president,

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whom I'm forgetting right now. Yeah. It was crazy. It's like
this, you gotta find that andsend that to you. Yeah, I
will. It was a crazy phototo think that, you know, one
of the wives of the founders.You need to post that on X if
we can. Yeah, Twitter,that's incredible. Track that down. Eighteen

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fifty nine, Oregon becomes the thirtythird state. Years later, nineteen twelve,
Arizona becomes the forty eighth state.And on this date in nineteen twenty
nine was the Saint Valentine's Day massacrein Chicago. Do you know anything about
it? I do not interesting story. I knew about it, and that's

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why I looked it up because Ifelt like it ought to be included here
because of the It happened during Prohibition. It was the murder of seven I
don't know what you would call them, bootleggers who were unarmed. They were

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gunned down inside a garage, ClarkStreet garage. And it's never been quote
solved, but everybody is pointing tothe fact at that time that it was

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al Capone. They just could neverprove it. It was all about controlling
the flow of illegal alcohol and liquorin the era of prohibition. Here's what
makes it interesting Beyond the obvious.The shooting led to the National Firearms Act

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of nineteen thirty four, where guncontrols started to really rear its ugly head,
it regulated in taxed machine guns ata high level. And so once
again, even going back to nineteenthirty four, a crime happens and lawmakers
instead of responding, react, Nowgranted it was five years later that they

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finally did it, but it wasa reaction to a crime, just showing
things don't change that much. Crazy. Nineteen forty six, the Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer, the first generalpurpose electronic computers, unveiled at the University
of Pennsylvania, and in nineteen sixtytwo, millions tune in to watch First

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Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosts the first televisedtour of the White House. Consider the
history you were just talking about withDolly Madison and that incredible. I mean,
it is an incredible building of history, the people that have walked there,
good and bad, friend and foe. But to think that American viewers

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got to see it without traveling there. I've been inside the White House.
You've been inside the White House.I've been inside the White House once.
It's kind of surreal, it reallyis to be inside that place. All
right, sixteen past the hour,come back and explain natural selection. Twenty

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two past the hour, I got. I don't know why. It was
just a few moments of flipping aroundthe channels, a little downtime with my
sweetheart, and I'm watching Yellowstone Wardensand they've got crews that follow around wardens

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that are patrolling Yellowstone National Park,which is expansive, and and then they
they patrol the state and they've gotthe state broken down into regions. And
they showed three hundred or so headof elk that were making a run for

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it and the hunters that were followingthem in their pickup trucks and many of
them hunting illegally, hunting on privateland, and the wardens are just you've
got to be kidding me kind ofstuff. You know, you guys,
you guys are doing this really,and I got to I got to thinking

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about you know, he was talkingabout that herd of Elkie said this is
going to get ugly. He said, when these these guys make a run
for it, this is going toget ugly with all these shooters around here.
And it did. And so itwas just it was interesting because I
had a story selected about Yellowstone andand it's from Daily Caller and Kay Smith

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or maybe she pronounces it Smith Idon't know. She's uh, she's a
news and commentary writer and she zerosin on a video by the turns of
Yellowstone. You know what a touronis. It's a combination of a tourist

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and a moron. You it's sad. You see the stories. You know,
I looked up the This particular storyfocuses on the the Lower Basin.
It's it's technically called the the LowerGeyser Basin, and and it's it's fantastic

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that the sights on this tour takesabout a half hour to walk a very
prescribed path. It's a boardwalk sidewalkarea, and you got to stay on
it because some of the springs arepopping out water that is just below boiling,

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and people have fallen in because they'vegotten off the path and thought they'd
be clever and have died. Butthis particular video of turons shows them doing
exactly what you're not supposed to do. They got off the boardwalk and these

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idiots are sticking themselves in the midstof a herd of bison. Now,
bison don't generally kill people, butthey severely injure them because they don't like

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people. They don't like people wanderingaround them, They don't like people near
them. These are wild animals,and so the headline was watch a group
of idiot tourists nearly die at YellowstoneNational Park. Now here's the point she's
making. After talking about the fools, she said, it's a natural wonder.

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This lower basin one worthy of protectionfor eternity, unlike these bison chasing
idiots, one of whom allegedly decidedto throw a rock into the basin.
Listen, I've already written many storiesof stupid people being idiots at Yellowstone At
this point, can we just letwhatever fate they deserve befall them. I'm

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talking about a new law. Ifyou go wandering off the path at a
national park and a wild animal getsyou, that's on you. That animal
should not be euthanized for doing whatGod created it to do. Bison aren't
really known for killing people, butslew of serious injuries have risen from tossers
like these lads trying to get selfieswith the beasts. So what do you

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think of the natural hurt thinning ofthe herd that way? See, I'm
all for it. If something happensto you you're not where you're supposed to
be. Oh, well, we'renot going to kill the animals, although
the argument is made that, forexample, with a grizzly bear, you

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have to because it gets used tohumans and the taste of human, and
then it becomes more of a predatorything with the bear and with humans,
you know, same thing. Iguess with mountain lions. I don't know.
Yeah. Twenty seven minutes after thehour, get to the renewed Big

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Stories. It's the Morning Show withPreston Scott. Well, now get amates.
Happy Valentine's Day two. Yet it'sthe Morning Show with Preston Scott,

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It's Grant Allen, it's us today. We've got the decks clear for the
day. There's just so much totalk about. The House has voted to
impeach Alejandro mayorcus they I didn't getaround to explaining. I forget who the

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member of the House was. Republican. Voted against impeachment, so it wasn't
a tie because if it had beena tie, they can't bring it up
again. So he did a technicality. He voted against the measure so that

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it wasn't a tie and they couldbring it up again, and they did,
and they had more members present.We'll get to the importance of numbers
here in just a second, JoeBiden said in his response. History will
not look too kindly on House Republicansfor their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that

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has targeted an honorable public servant inorder to play petty political games. Now,
on the surface, I say tomyself, he's so detached from reality.
But you look at the vote twofourteen to two thirteen, may Orcus,

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there's no question that we have achallenge, a crisis at the border,
and there's no question the Congress needsto fix it. He's putting it
all on the feet of Congress,putting all the blame there. Meanwhile,
last night in a special election,Republicans lost another seat a former Democrat Rep.

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Tom Swoozy or is it Swozy?I do not know, but Swoozy
sounds kind of fun. Yeah.He took the seat that George Santos was
kicked out of because he was sucha loser. Republican County lawmaker Mazzy Pillop

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lost. She used to be aDemocrat. She an Ethiopian Jew, fled
to Israel at age twelve later enlistedand served in the Israeli military before immigranding
to the United States. But thenumbers now two nineteen to two thirteen.

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Huh in that interesting. Go backto that count in the House vote two
fourteen to two thirteen. So somedidn't vote or some weren't there. But
I want to point out what's importantabout that special district race, that special

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election in New York. First,it's generally been held by Democrat. Sandos
was the first Republican in a whileto take the seat. That said,
the guy reclaims his seat running onimmigration, border security, crime and abortion.

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Okay, I can see where NewYorkers, a lot of New Yorkers
would be all, you know,bent over the rail by the abortion issue.
But really a Democrat one on immigrationand crime and border security. This
to me is a bad sign.This is a very bad sign. Last

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big story in the press box.We just I'm gonna have to take more
time on this story tomorrow or Friday. Tony Bobolinski, the former business partner
of the Bidens, gave testimony yesterdayto the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.
What he had to say is reallyimportant and we will unpack more of that

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in the days to come. Thisis the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Grant just sent me the picture.I suppose that's your way to say.
Grant just sent me the picture ofwith James Polk right, Yes, and

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and Madison. I was reminded whoeventually became president. Buchanan is on the
far left, kind of on theedge of the picture, kind of sort
of shrouded there, Yeah, shroudedby the age of the picture, kind
of is worn and you can't quitesee him as clearly. But that's Dolly
wearing the hat. Yes, thebonnet. Yes, I was saying to

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Grant, boyd, now she shedoes not look at all like she's portrayed
in paintings. Number one, yeah, number two, and Polk for that
matter. Yeah, I mean,and I'm guessing Polk is the distinguished gentleman
in the middle with the bow tie. Yes, and and the dark suit.

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Uh just to the uh, justto the left in the photo of
Dolly Madison. This is crazy.She would have been seventy seven in that
photo, assuming that it was duringgood for her Polk's presidency that started in
eighteen forty five. Good for her, she hung in there. I mean,

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does she look seventy seven to you? No? All right, Okay,
got a piece here in Newsmax fromthe McLoughlin brothers. I guess they're
brothers, John and Jim. Thisis fascinating. They have a reaction to

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her report, which is hu rabout Joe Biden's mental lacking. That is
totally different than anything I've seen anywhereelse. They right, everybody's talking about
Joe Biden's age, not his allegedcorruption. This is genius. Following the
release of her report, everyone shouldhave been to talking about the abject negligence

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of what Biden had done removing andkeeping classified documents, the fact that Hunter
may have had access to those samedocuments for his alleged influence pedling, which
oh, by the way, that'san absolute that stuff was made available to
China and Ukraine and all kinds ofpeople anyway, But there's seemingly no one

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talking about that. Instead, whatshould have been extensively talked about are Joe
Biden's apparent Instead, what should havebeen extensively talked about are Joe Biden's apparent
cognitive issues worries, some issues,indeed, but not as serious as the
purported criminal ones. They go onto say, why is Joe Biden getting

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off scott free for a parent lessthan honorable transactions while serving in public office?
Why is Donald Trump heading back tocourt when Biden doesn't even get a
slap on the wrist. In Octobertwenty twenty, the night before the second
presidential debate, Trump called US McLoughlin'sto ask us if he should make Hunter
biden laptop scandal a big issue inthe debate. We responded absolutely. We

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had just gotten back a battleground state'spoll which asked what the voters least liked
about Joe Biden. If they werevoting for Biden, they responded his age
too old. If they were votingfor Trump, they said, corruption,
exposing the Biden family and it's lessthan savory practices could have delivered the election
to Trump and Republicans in twenty twenty. I'll add, without cheating, even

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against cheating, rather, but thebig media wouldn't allow it. Tony Bobolinsky,
see we're going to connect some dotshere, held a press conference before
the debate, tried to bring theissue up. The mainstream media wouldn't have
any of it. Now, onthe eve of Super Bowl weekend. US
Special Counsel Robert Hurr issues a reportwhich says Vice President Biden failed to properly

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protect highly sensitive classified information. Thisinformation could have been important about Biden family.
Clients from China, Russia, Ukraineand other countries reportedly paid tens of
millions to the Bidens. Cleverly,Joe Biden called a rare primetime television press
conference not to defend his innocence againsther reports of corruption, but to disprove

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charges that he's too old or mentallyunfit. It could have been the greatest
political diversion of all time. Youknow what, they're onto something And then
they go on to quote the lateArthur Finkelstein, who was a political strategist
who worked for Nixon. One ofhis strategic rules when faced with scandal was

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quote, substitute, divert and counter. They basically use that mantra to say,
that's exactly what Biden did. Brilliantlygo figure forty six minutes after the
hour, go inside a little sausagemaking. Next in the morning show,
Preston Scott, what are you doingwithout Freedom? On used Radio one hundred

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point seven w UFLA. I'm trying. I am. I'm really trying to
find some stories that are a littlebit I don't know, later just hard

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to come by. You know,I worry when I see the results.
Do you get worried when you seethe results of a special election? And
yes, it's New York, butthey just elected granted he was a fraud.

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George Santo is a Republican and theygo back to a guy. He's
a moderate Democrat. He's described asa moderate, but if you listen to
his comments, I don't know howmoderate he really is. But I worry
that we're just people aren't getting it. Things aren't bad enough yet. How

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is that possible? Yeah, it'snot until they're actual Like what's the old
like survival tip, you know aboutlike civilization, Like everything is just like
three meals away or like three tosix meals away from people really starting to
freak out. If that's threatened,then people will start to really think the

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inflation numbers we went through yesterday.I understand the difficulty and just but they're
honestly probably doing okay in New York. They are because the progressives understand politics
in a brutally honest way and thatthey reward their friends, and they punish
their enemies, and so like,these different communities in New York are probably

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doing just fine. Meanwhile the restof US rubes are struggling. But how
does a Democrat get elected running againstor on immigration problems the border security crime
numbers when it's all their fault.I don't get it. So it I

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just all that to say, I'mtrying to find ways to lighten the fair
around here because I realized yesterday asI finished prepping for the show, which
again it changed this morning, butit didn't change as in who we can
kind of pull that and go alittle lighter here. No, it was
just the opposite. I just Ifound myself feeling just almost a little oppressed

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because I don't sense that enough peopleunderstand. And I say that because I
don't think enough people that think likewe do know how to explain it.
I think there are are you familiarwith the term NPCs. It's in the

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It's it's a term that you'll hearonline. I'm blinking. I know.
It's an acronym for non playable characters. It's like when you're playing a video
game, you're the main character andeveryone else is just like built into the
game already and they just they justthey do what they're programmed to do.

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A lot of folks on the onlineright and things like that have started to
refer to that kind of phenomenon like, seriously, what is wrong with people
as the phenomenon of being an NPCthat they which is again a non playable
character, meaning that they are justspaced out, they programmed and they just

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run in their circle and they dotheir loop, and that's what you have
to work with precisely, and thecapability of thinking outside of their context is
not possible. I'm looking back atthe sausage making of the Senate passing that
spending bill, which we hope isgoing to die in the House. I
hope they have the courage to dealwith that. A couple Democrats actually voted

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against it, but sadly, twentytwo Republicans, including Mitt Romney of course,
who's defending it. Is one ofthe most important votes in the history
of Senate. What Josh Holly,my goodness, we have enough money to
make hundreds of millions of dollars availableto the private sector in Ukraine. We're

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now literally funding their business, theirbanks. Lord knows what We've got money
without end. We've got enough moneyto pay for Ukrainian bureaucrats salaries, any
government officials pensions, got enough moneyfor so called humanitarian aid, and of
course we don't have any of that. And it's rhetorical all of it.

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Second hour, Valentine's Day edition ofThe Morning Show with Russell Scott. Good
Morning. We'll give you some numbersthat are interesting illuminating on the topic.
Later on this hour, I mentionedthat I wanted to share this I came
across, thanks to Way, aresearch assistant, a piece from The American

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Thinker written by Blaine Bardo. Heis a New York Times bestselling author,
writes a lot of different stuff.I pulled up his bio here, true
crime, science fiction, military nonfiction, political thriller, paranormal, business management,

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I mean, you name it.Featured speaker at the US National Archives,
US Navy Museum, the New YorkMilitary Affairs Symposium. I mean,
the list is pretty impressive. Buthe's been canceled by the publishing world,

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and so it's interesting. A NewYork Times bestseller gets canceled by his publishers
in twenty twenty two for things thathe was saying writing doing, and so
he wrote this little essay. Thereare days when I wake up in an
America I hardly recognize. Part ofme is thankful my grandparents were not allowed

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to witness what we all are.They would not have tolerated what we now
take for granted. I never thoughti'd see America another Cold war with Russia.
Cities ignore the law under the labelof sanctuary cities, then complain when
illegal immigrants are sent there, governmentofficials conspiring with big tech to censor millions

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of Americans online. I never thoughti'd see the federal government human trafficking over
a million illegal and undocumented people ayear. A president who took deliberate actions
to make the southern border weaker,Congress and the media labeling a protest as
an insurrection while calling actual riots peacefulprotests. I never thought I'd see the

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American people turning a blind eye toa president who's clearly suffering from dementia and
pretending that everything is all right.The intentional weaponization of the federal government against
the vast swath of the American people. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs stating

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that he would inform China if weopted to take military action against them.
Let me just pause and point out, isn't that treason? I never thought
i'd see our public schools being turnedinto indoctrination centers by one political party,

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being told that there are more thantwo sexes and that we had to agree
on that or be ostracized. Inever thought i'd see extremists threatening the lives
of Supreme Court justices, or theFBI actively creating and taking part in crimes
in order to make arrests. Inever thought i'd see schools arguing to make

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offensive material available to minors in theirschool libraries. He's writing about things that
we may have forgotten, but he'skept a list. It's a pretty comprehensive

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list, though not exhaustive. Inever thought i'd see the government and a
single political party attempt to take outan opposition candidate by charging him with trumped
up crimes and civil action. TheLabor Department fudging the numbers about unemployment claims
and jobs on a monthly basis,only to quietly fix them later. I

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never thought i'd see parents wanting toensure their children's education being targeted at domestic
terrorists. More to come. Tenminutes past the hour, It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. It's theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Eleven minutes

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after the hour, going through anessay of I never thought I'd see by
Blaine Pardo, an author, commentator, speaker. I never thought I'd see
men competing as women in sports assomething that is acceptable. Governments trying to

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ban gas stoves, regulate air conditioners, and ban wood fired ovens. I
just got to pause and laugh atthat for just a second. And people,
how is it possible that we stillhave forty five percent of the electorate

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thinking that what that side of theaisle wants is okay? How is that
possible? I never thought i'd seestudents taking out loans and demanding that they
not have to pay the money back. Our military spending hours not training for
war, but training on diversity androoting out extremisms. I never thought i'd

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see mobs robbing stores because they knowthey won't be arrested, and stores having
to lock up items they sell outof fear of being robbed. I never
thought i'd see Disney turning its backon family centric content in favor of material
that offends its largest customer, base. I never thought i'd see where one

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party can question election results with noramifications, but anyone else is labeled a
conspiracy theorist. I never thought i'dsee government officials picking and choosing what laws
they will follow in which ones theywill ignore. Americans still afraid of a

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virus four years after its outbreak,the President of the United States making citizens
choose between being forced to take ashot of vaccine or losing their careers.
I never thought i'd see our governmentmonitoring words used in the banking system to
spy on US, an unarmed protestershot in the Capitol, and the officer

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involved is promoted rather than brought thetrial. I never thought i'd see the
President declaring that the Constitution is fluidand subject to political interpretation, the ships
of the US Navy rusting Chinese spyballoons flying across the US, and the
government trying to hide that from US. Cocaine discovered in the White House and

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no one has charged. I neverthought i'd see the President of the United
States clearly having sold his position toprofit his son and other members of his
family, people getting worthless college degrees, and blaming everyone else that they can't
find a job. Illegal immigrants beingtreated better than our military veterans. I

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never thought i'd see a government officialin charge of nuclear material being arrested for
stealing luggage in women's dresses. Inever thought i'd see terrorists attack a staunch
ally and members of Congress openly sidewith the terrorists. Never thought i'd see

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the most patriotic leader in the countrycoming from South Africa, Elon musk And
I never thought i'd see the Departmentof Justice state that the President willfully took
and distributed classified material but won't becharged because he's elderly and has poor memory.
If this is build back better,I'd like a refund and a recount.

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Is there anything on that list youdisagree with? Is there is there
anything on that list you'd forgotten?Honestly, there's things. You know why,
because there's so much, and that'show the left works. They throw
as much at us as possible,knowing there are only so many fingers to

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plug the holes in the dam.Sixteen minutes past, I'm making a case
in advertinally this morning on why thestatus quo in Congress is killing our country.

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Our friend David Ditch from Heritage Foundationdropped out five charts to show why
Congress has to stop deficits spending.Chart number one, Growing spending is the
problem. We are right now attwenty seven point nine percent as a percentage

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of the GDP in spending revenue isalmost ten points behind that. He writes
federal government as a starry track recordof running deficits most of the time.
The size of the gap is alsoimportant. When deficits get too high,

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as happen during COVID, it addsinflationary pressures to the economy. If the
current trends continued, driven by thegrowth of spending its share of the economy,
deficits will balloon even in years withouta recession or a major war.
Chart number two, trillion dollar deficits. The first one trillion dollar deficit happened

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in two thousand and nine. Whois president then? Oh yeah, he
was helped by George W. Bush. Though you may remember, George W.
Bush got the wheels moving on somebailouts and some money that we didn't
have to get before Obama even tookoffice. Obama greased the wheels with George

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W. Bush is help. Notonly are we dealing with the time when
the one trillion dollar deficits are commonplace. We're heading to two trillion dollar deficits
as soon as twenty third one.We could be seeing two trillion dollar deficits

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in spending versus income every single year. Public debt is at World War two
levels. The difference is, asDavid points out, when World War Two
was over, civilization was saved.Obviously, federal spending came down, and

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the debt receded. We're not ina world war We could be, but
we're not. And look at whereour spending is, and it doesn't recover,
it doesn't go back down, itjust keeps growing. If you look
at the charts, it's just it'sit's crazy. As a percentage of the

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GDP as of right now, we'reat ninety nine percent our debt, it's
projected to be at one hundred andseventy two percent in twenty fifty four.
The drivers of spending growth. Incontrast, most current federal spending is for

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categories where a commitment has been madein the future. For example, social
Security, which I keep telling youis not a guaranteed benefit. Congress doesn't
have to pay it. That's whyit doesn't show up on the federal balance
sheet. It's not required, it'spolitically suicide to not do it. But

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to put some context to where weare. Social Security, Medicare, and
interest on the debt make up twentynine percent, twenty eight percent, twenty
four percent of our spending, healthcaretwenty nine percent, social Security twenty eight
and net interest twenty four percent.That's where our budget is right now.

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Within the next decade, social Securityand Medicare trust funds are expected to go
bust unless we start changing course andimmediately, and even then it may be
too late to save those programs.The final chart interest costs. While the

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growing national debt is an important factorbehind the recent rise of interest payments,
the spike in interest rates is areal problem. CBO revealed that the federal
government will likely spend more on interestpayments in twenty twenty four than on national
defense. Interest payments don't help protectthe nation. They don't fund public investments.

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They represent a bill coming due.We have to wake up. And
I know some of your saying,Okay, what are we supposed to do
local elections, state elections, federalelections. We need some fiscal hawks,

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is what we need. We needsome people that are willing to go to
war and save our economy. Andthere are so many things going on from
our border to where we're sending ourmoney that we've got to take a good
hard look at and pull back.We got to tighten the belt. We
got to get people off the publicdole. There are jobs. Why are

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we paying people to not work whenthey are able bodied people that can work
and there are jobs. List goeson and on, but those are five
charts from David Ditch of the HeritageFoundation. Come back with a Big Stories
in the press Box. It's theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Big Stories

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in the press Box this morning,brought to you by Restore carp carent Tyles.
So, the House votes to impeachAlejandro Majorca's first time we've had that
come up since what the eighteen hundreds, eighteen sixty something. But it doesn't

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matter. It's going to die inthe Senate. A because it's controlled by
Democrats. B because there's a bunchof weak, sorry Republicans in the US
Senate. Now, by the way, I went ahead and put a call
out to try to get Senator RickScott back on the show. We have
not had him on the show sincehe was governor. We'll see what happens.

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I kind of gave him a snapshotof the first few years when he
was governor and how often we hadhim on the program, and then what
happened when there was a change inthe Press secretary's office at the governor's mansion.
But we'll see, you know,I'd like to talk to him.
I'd like to get his thoughts onjust how weak the Republican Party has grown.
You know, Grant's talked about ita lot. How is there a

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difference? There is, but moreand more there's less of one. More
and more Republicans are acting like Democrats. You're not seeing democrats acting like Republicans.
The pendulum is all moving the sameway, and that's been a sitting
pet peeve of mine for decades.The pendulum is consistently swinging left. The

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Democrats asked for one hundred percent ofsomething, and they get sixty, it's
a win. They get ten,it's a win. It's moving further and
further the wrong way. So itdoesn't really matter that they voted to impeach,

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other than if they were to takethis and say, we're trying to
hold the administration accountable for the invasionof the southern border. But we've cited
time and time again the inability ofRepublicans to message. I don't see that
changing anytime soon. I hope itdoes. Another big story in the press

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box, the Republican edge in theHouse has gotten narrower. Former Democratic Representative
Tom Swase got his seat back.He lost it to George Santos, a
Republican. He's got it back becauseSantos was a jerk and got booted out.

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I mean, you got to thinkthink about how lecherous Congress is.
How bad do you have to bethat even those guys and gals booted him.
He tried to say, oh yeah, well what about you guys.
Yeah whatever, that's not gonna fly. We know that. That's why there

(50:23):
are efforts to say Congress has tolive by the laws they pass. They
can't exempt themselves from anything. Whata novel idea that is. And the
third big story in the press box, which I'm gonna take more time.
I had planned on taking time withthis, but it's just gonna take more
time than we have this morning.But we will talk about and reset the

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comments made before the primary or thedebate between Trump and Biden back in twenty
twenty, Tony Bob Vilensky came forwardand broke down all kinds of information.
Do you realize he is yet tobe interviewed by anybody with the Department of

(51:09):
Justice or connected to the Department ofJustice. He was only Hunter Biden's business
partner. He only has texts,emails, documents, signatures, bank transfers,
dates, total intel on everything thathappened, at least as it relates

(51:31):
to and overlaps with his company.He said, Look, I've been defrauded
by the Bidens, but this isbigger than that. How is it possible
that he has yet to be askedto give a statement under oath to the

(51:52):
Department of Justice because they don't wantto know, at least not yet.
More to come on that tomorrow inthe Morning Show The Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Gang warfare breaking out inCancun, Mexico. Eight people hacked to

(52:22):
death with machetes. Mexican authorities havearrested six members of a drug gang.
Whatever. I will never get mybrain around why anyone would visit that country

(52:45):
at this point. I just nochance, especially if you're a younger person
and you frequent the clubs. Noway the chances of being confused for someone
running drugs or being a rival orwho knows what, uh huh, not

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a chance anyway. Got this notefrom Matt Staver. This is interesting to
me because you remember how the associationthat represents pediatricians, they've been wrong on

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COVID, they've been wrong on genderand affirming care. The American College of
Pediatricians, six hundred member national organizationof healthcare professionals, released a position statement
last week stating quoting they could notcondone puberty blockers, hormone treatments, or

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mutial surgeries on gender confused miners becausethere is no long term evidence that they
improve mental health. In fact,the group noted that even long term follow
up research on adults largely shows nomental health improvements and those who have undergone
these procedures. They were viewed oversixty studies in America and Europe. They

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found that children with gender confusion areactually at higher risk of mental health issues
before and after gender affirming therapy,including depression, anxiety, autism, eating
disorders, self injury, and suicide. The studies indicate the likely reason for
this is that gender confusion is oftenpreceded by a significant psychological trauma that leads

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children to question their gender identity.Pediatricians noted that data shows many adolescents will
come to feel comfortable with their biologicalsex if allowed to go through the natural
course of puberty. I think thenumber is something like eighty plus percent.

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The rest you offer help, andthat's this is all buttressing what we've been
talking about. We were talking aboutthe shooting yesterday that happened at Lakewood a
transgender allegedly and the fact that itthere's no way to get around that's mental

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illness. You are. You're wonderingwhy someone who is made to be a
male or biological female, and thenthey start getting these injections opposite of how
they're wired, how they were madeand created to be. I mean,

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if you want, go ahead takethe theological side of this, in God's
creation, out of the equation theywere selected by nature to be a male
or selected by nature to be afemale, and we're gonna pump drugs into
them that goes against that wiring,and we're surprised that there's mental fallout.

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This is a good development, thoughI'm hoping we can see the end of
this. You know, there's agroup of people that are into this transgenderism
just to have a chance at beinga predator, because it's almost always the
predators are almost always men pretending tobe women to gain access to women in

(56:52):
private places like restrooms, and inpublic spots locker rooms and so forth.
If you remove those people from thenumbers, the numbers of people dealing with
is so small, so infinitesimal.But we've allotted them the public square for

(57:12):
reasons. You know, we canprobably sit and guess about we come back
some interesting Valentine's Day numbers. Considerhim your truth detector. The Morning Show
with Preston Scott on News Radio onehundred point seven doubl UFLA. You've seen

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the campaign, he gets us.Sure you've seen it, if you've watched
any television. It's been around fora few years. Talk about that.
Are they doing a good thing ornot? Love to get your reaction to

(57:57):
it, Maybe we'll open up thephone lines see what people think of it.
I'm gonna guess I think I knowwhat you think of it, Grant,
But well we'll get to that nexthour. But yeah, let's just
go ahead and throw the lines upand if you'd like to, I would
just like to know what you thinkof the campaign before we talk any much

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in depth about it. And somaybe we'll take callers for one or two
segments and then we'll move on totalk about it with some of the comments
that the people behind the campaign aremaking. Is it a positive campaign for
the cause of Christ, for theadvancement of Christianity, the faith, the

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Bible, accuracy in God's word,et cetera. What do you think?
So we'll take your calls next houreight five zero two zero five to b
FLA if you want to weigh inon he gets us. It's the name
of it. They ran an adduring the Super Bowl that's at least seven
mili. I don't expect that evengroups like that that I'm guessing as a

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non for profit group, I don'tknow. I don't know that they get
any kind of discount. It's theSuper Bowl. Some numbers. This is
from the Daily Signal, which ofcourse is the news outlet for the Heritage
Foundation in Rachel Sheffield writing its NationalMarriage Week. Just drop in some numbers

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here on you number of Americans whoare married has dropped steadily the past several
decades, specifically those in their twenties. In the nineteen sixties, ninety percent
of thirty year olds were married.Today, a little more than forty percent
of thirty year olds are married.Share of younger Americans and committed relationships has
declined. The data goes back onlyabout a decade on this. But people

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do marry into their thirties and beyond, but an increasing number of Americans do
not, as marriage delayed becomes marriageforegone. It's just some delay in marriage
has its benefits. Those who wedin their teens significantly more likely to divorce
than those who wait till their earlyto mid twenties. Divorce risk continues to

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decline some into the mid to latetwenties. Taking time to mature and prepare
for marriage is still wise. Therisk for divorce actually increases for those who
wait until they're late twenties to wed. When it becomes When it comes to
marital satisfaction, men and women whomarry in their early twenties report higher relationship
satisfaction than those who marry at agetwenty five or later. Despite the positive

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story the data tells, the culturalnarrative often preaches that marrying in ones early
in mid twenties should be avoided.Young adults are told it's best to wait
until they have it all together education, established career, a house, money,
et cetera. News flash, younever will, dad said to me.

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Waiting is delaying the inevitable, goingbroke. Yep, that's funny,
that was dad. Let's see.Married adults are happier, more likely to
thrive, less likely to be lonelycompared with unmarried counterparts. Besides greater happiness,
married individuals report better health, financiallybetter off. Marrying younger gives couples

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time to have children rather than beingon a tight timetable. Waiting to seek
out a relationship date get married untilone is ready can make it harder for
people to have children as fertility diminishes, and it goes on from there.
Interesting observations. I don't think there'sanything like real surprising there. Yeah.

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I think it's societally observational. Allof those things. You can see it,
you can feel it. It's there. It's visible in our churches,
it's visible in our groups, ourfriends, our circles. It just it
is it just it is what itis, and I'm it's it's it's it's
interesting to try to this This littlepiece doesn't try to explain the why oh,

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to even begin to explain the whyoh. That's like a two hour
podcast alone. Yeah. That that'sthat's tough digging, all right. Eight
five zero two zero five to wf l A eight five zero two zero
five ninety three fifty two He getsUs. Do you like the campaign?
Do you not turning the page thirdhour? Feel free to weigh in on

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this whenever, if ever you likethis morning in the next two segments or
so. This year, the campaignHe gets Us spent twenty million dollars on
two ads. I want to knowwhat you think of the campaign. I

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remember a few years ago when Ifirst saw it, I didn't really pay
attention to what they were doing.I just noticed that this was this is
a little different. I recognize someof the themes that were being shared,
and then I get the He getsUs dot org. This particular Super Bowl

(01:03:43):
the campaign Rediscover the Love Story ofJesus. Two spots sixty second called foot
washing, fifteen second called Who's MyNeighbor? And I'm curious what you think
of the campaign in general and ifyou saw or have seen these two specific
advertisements, promotional announcements, whatever.I'd love to know what I'd love to

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know what you think of them?What is your overall impression. There are
those that might say, hey,it's getting it's getting Jesus and the message
out to the secular world in thatarena. Man, let's do that.
Awesome. There are others that say, well, but it's a watered down
message. It's not an accurate message. It is a selling out of that

(01:04:31):
message, and therefore it should notbe pushed out. The creators are loving
the controversy. They find it quotevery reassuring. But what do you think.
Let's go to Ray, Hi,Ray, thanks for calling in.
He gets us. What do youthink, Hey, good morning? You
know the juries for me, thejury's out and I think we may have

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even emailed about this sum last year. But you know, we're supposed to,
minister, We're supposed to go outand spread god God's love to the
people that need him. I onehundred percent agree with that, right.
But I also have seen some youknow, essentially equating Joseph and Mayor to

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illegal immigrants as well, which Ithink is a bit of a stretch because
they were following lawful orders took tobe in Bethlehem for a census. They
weren't illegal immigrants, So I justgot to be honest. The jury's out
for me on this. I'd liketo know more about the organization behind it.

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Okay, fair enough, thank youvery much. Right, let's go
to John. Hi, John,thanks for calling. Hey, good morning,
Chris, and I agree with theprevious caller. I don't know a
lot about the organization, but oncircles at service level he gets as well.
Yeah, he was tempted in theday is a forty days and he's
known every temptation that we went through. Yet he did not sin. But

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he did not This is the mostimportant thing people need to understand. He
did not suffer that death on thecross to give us a license to continue
in a sinful lifestyle. Thank you, Thanks very much. Appreciate that you're
welcome the way in what your thoughtsare. Let me let me tell you
what I know and we'll read afew quotes of their spokesperson. The ads

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this year were funded by a newnonprofit called Come Near. It's not affiliated
with any single individual, political position, church, or faith denomination. Okay,
this is this is from the HeGets Us website. Now. The

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CEO Forcome Near is Ken Calwell.He was previously the chief marketing officer at
Compassionate International. He also worked fouryears as an executive in the food industry,
most recently as CEO of Papa Murphy'sPizza. Okay, so that's the

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little bit that we know about thecompany. Now when we come back,
I'm gonna share some quotes from thespokesman for Brand Haven, Jason Vanderground.
He's the president as well. He'sgonna explain what their reasoning is for why
they do what they do. Youcan allow it to educate you or not.

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And we're gonna also take some timeto consider some pushback on his comments
and the campaign. I'll give youboth sides next to the Morning Show.
This is the Morning Show with PrestonScott. We made him laugh with that

(01:07:59):
liner He Gets Us. Jason Vandergroundtelling Fox Digital that the ads are meant
to invite people intrigued by Jesus's quoteunconditional love, kindness, and generosity to
explore his message. Campaign sought todisrupt preconceived notions about Jesus and Christianity.

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Quote foot washing shows unlikely persons washingother's feet, including a police officer washing
young black man's feet, a protesterwashing the feet of a woman outside a
family planning clinic. It ends witha slogan, Jesus didn't teach hate,
he washed feet. He said.The idea for the messages this year,

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including Who's my neighbor, showing peopleasking for money and in need, we're
crafted with election year in mind,but we're not intended to be political.
That seems a little oxymoronic. Hegoes on to say, we just we

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see just a lot of divisiveness,but we also see isolation and anxiety running
high. As we look back throughscripture, we were looking at what would
be the unique message of Jesus inan environment like this. What we're trying
to offer people is this invitation fromJesus to even if they have differences,
even if they have different beliefs,strongly held convictions, that there's still a

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way that we can treat each otherthat transcends all of that, and it's
actually very helpful for us as Americans. He said. The ads impact the
largest campaign for Jesus we've ever seen, over seven hundred thousand views on the
website since the game. We're justkind of trying to get people a glimpse

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into what is this Jesus way inwhat we're trying to really disrupt their preconceived
notions about Jesus and a lot oftimes their views of Christianity to say,
here is this person who lived anddemonstrated perfectly for us unconditional love, radical
forgiveness, grace and kindness. Hesaid he found the pushback very reassuring.

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A lot of times we're trying toput out such a disruptive message about Jesus
where people are changing their understandings ofwho he was and what it means to
follow him, that many times wedo get that reaction that people from all
sides are taken aback at it atthe beginning. But the more they really
explore our message, the more theyread about it on our website, I
find that other Christians are saying,that's the Gospels, so we do see

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the Last Supper. For a Christian, there's Jesus on all fours washing the
feet of Judas, who's going tobetray him? Washing Peter's feet is going
to deny him. He wasn't makingchoices there at the table about whose feet
was going to wash. We thinkthat that's something that we can take and
apply today. There's more, butare you persuaded? It all feels very

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simple to me. Honestly, let'sgo through the thought experiment. Would he
gets Us ever portray of all thedifferent scenarios that they portrayed of feet washing,
would they have ever included a rabbiwashing the feet of a particular German
chancellor with a funny mustache. No, we know the answer to that.

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If we're truly being about love,complete and total love and tolerance at all
times, then well we can't dothat. Though it feels so obvious to
me that this is coded political andthe theological implications really don't mean anything.

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Exhibit A. This is a screenshotfrom LinkedIn, and this is a quote
from the LinkedIn bio of someone whoworked on the He Gets Us ad campaign.
This person her name was Mattie McClenaghan. She her media strategy supervisor working

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on the He Gets Us account.Fierce passion for all things DEI. It
feels so obvious. It's like rightin front of our face, and trying
to like nuance our way out ofthis feels silly. We're gonna get to
some pushback on this message and toraise point sort of not sure where he

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is on this, see if wecan help, We're gonna we're gonna push
away a little bit to to createsome more time on this. I think
it's a really important discussion because it'sgetting so much traction. Now. I

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have my worries and concerns about this, but I want to get your thoughts
on the He Gets Us campaign.They're airing messages, not just in the
Super Bowl, they air messages throughoutthe year and roll out these campaigns,
and so, Casey, what doyou think? Hi, good morning.

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So honestly, I actually feel likeit's caused more harm than anything. It
was actually quite disturbing to me.And the reason I say that is because
I feel like it's it's actually preachingmore of like a popcorn preaching, I
call it. It's not calling peopleto actually repent, it's actually making them
remain in their sin. And tome, that's not really showing love because
the way that he just shows aflove. You know, he came,

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he died for our ends, andI just feel like you're kind of patting
every one in the back so they'recomfortable and so that's going to make them
remain you know, the way thatthey're going, so to me, it's
really doing a disservice and I completelyyou know, recognize the agenda that's kind
of being pushed right away. Soyeah, that's my thoughts on that.

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Thank you, Katy. I appreciateyou calling in and making time to share
your thoughts. Let's go to Diane. Diane, what do you think.
I'm very discomforted by the emphasis onself, which seems so prevalent in society
today. I'm also it's a littlebit too obvious with the vignettes that they
choose to show on who they're targetingor what their targeted audience is. And

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I think I'd be much more comfortableif it had been titled we Get Him,
and that there wasn't such emphasis onspecific images. Got it all right,
Diane? Thanks very much. Yeah. You know, initially the messaging,
like I said, I wasn't payinga whole lot of attention. I
just saw that he gets us,and I'm like, Okay, someone's throwing

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out there in the world and tryingto message through it. Cool. And
then as I as I started topay attention, I was very much like
a lot of the callers. Iwas not feeling the message because it very
much parroted to me what I wasseeing and hearing out there in culture and

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what was causing mainline quote Christian denominationsto split this idea of Jesus's love and
everybody's welcome in it. And that'strue. But we've made God, we've

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made love of God, as ourpastor said, and we've forgotten that God
is love and that love takes differentforms, and that, as it was
just mentioned by, I think,Casey, you're not really loving somebody if
you're just saying, oh, justkeep on living that lifestyle, don't worry
about it. Why do is thegates? And why is the path?

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That's not the gospel. This grouppresents to me half of the messaging,
and it does it in a sloppy, heavy handed way, because the other
half of the men, you know, half of the messages Jesus standing in
front of the woman at the welland saying, uh, yeah, you

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got sins, toss a stone andstanding in front and standing up for and
then the crowd leaves and he turnsand says, don't do this anymore,
stop sinning. See that's the partof the message that is being missed in
all of this, and so whatare we doing by highlighting half of the

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gospel message? And then what sopeople get curious and what they find a
translation that's comforting to them, andthen they run across that gate at some
point that's narrow. That's the gatethat leads to eternity. And we just

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told people, Oh, God lovesyou just the way you are. We
forget the He loves you too muchto let you stay that way. We
don't do the rehab half of thismessage. I think we need to reject
this messaging because I think the motivationis to water down the Gospel of Jesus

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Christ. It's not the adherence toit. We come back. We're gonna
expand this little more. I'm gonnaget Grant weigh in on this a little
deeper into the theological implications of this. I think that they're huge. I
think they're selling Jesus like a fieldgood story, Preston Scott. They're gonna
get a I'm just knock, knock, who's the ash on WFLA. Getting

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a lot of email response to thissegment on He Gets Us. Someone forwarded
something I had not seen you toobad the Super Bowl ad they should have
made he saves us. I didsee that one. It was very good
sixty seconds. Yeah, I highlyrecommend you checking it out. So you
heard my little mini dissertation on this. Your thoughts, Yeah, I think

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I think it's spot on the Thethe general message of progressive Christianity, if
you can even call it that atthis point, moronic right is the totalizing
of love. Jesus is your hippieboyfriend kind of thing, and he just

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loves you, man, he justloves you for who you are. And
when progressives say Jesus and God islove, they're using actually a tactic that
Satan himself uses when he quotes Scripture. See, they start out with something
that you can agree with, likeit's actually true God is love. You

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can't end your sentence there. There'sa whole book that talks about how continuing
in your sin is actually really notgood, like for your eternal soul kind
of thing. And when he getsus, it's not real good for your
temporal Yeah, it's not real goodfor your temporal state or your eternal state.

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And so when he gets us,puts out this ad that is an
incomplete picture like they are actually showingwho their true father is, their father
is Satan, because they're using thesame tactic. Or I would say the
powers and principalities of the darkness areusing the same tactic through He gets Us.

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And so yeah, that's that's that'smy view. I've got it.
I came across a piece written bya young lady, Jennifer Oliver O'Connell.
She says He gets Us reduces Jesus'message to simply good works and words,
and that's and that's the shortened versionof a very lengthy expository writing about the

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no no on this and no onthat and this this nuance on on the
washing of the feet was missed andthat da da da da. I've gotten
several email about the alternative ad h. Bobby writes in uh, I feel
it's a Trojan horror. Preston yep, take God and weave in the woke
theology and the woke ideology to progressto progress or yeah, to progress.

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Matthew writes in was gonna call yousaid it best. I stand at the
door and knock. Yes, hecomes to us where we are, but
we have to open the door.We must turn our face to him and
require you change your ways. That'swhat's missing from their message. I have
a strong negative reaction to their lifelongMethodist as a lifelong Methodist who lost their

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church to the gay agenda. Thankyou, Matthew. Bob writes in love
only flourishes in truth, Well said, Paul wrote in there's almost always a
nuggative truth in Satan's lies. Greatpoint. So yeah, thanks thanks for
writing in These are the little things, you know, if you look at

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scripture. And it's funny because I'mI'm writing a book, and it's a
book that I've been working on forfifteen years, and it's almost as if
I've been prevented from writing it fullyuntil I lived more life. And it's
actually a mashup of my love ofgolf and my absolute love for my Savior

(01:22:18):
and the merging of those two.And it's and as I was compiling some
thoughts yesterday, I came across somenotes that I'd written, and it comes
from a sermon that I did thirtyyears ago called the little Things and the
little Things Matter. We have tobe stubborn about the little things, have

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to be because incrementalism is how wegot where we are as a country.
I mean, take away the theology. The idea of incrementalism is the boiling
of the frog. It's it's whatwe were warned of by our founders of
giving the citizens the checkbook and lettingus write checks to ourselves. And that's

(01:23:09):
where we are today. We've incrementallyhooked and addicted people to government, and
we're incrementally watering down the gospel messageof Christ. And so we have to
be stubborn about these things. Wehave to be stubborn. It's the little
things that matter, and these littlethings in these ads, they matter.

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And so he can say he's gratefulfor all of the pushback whatever. This
is The Morning Show with Preston Scott. In the wild or in our homes,
we love them critters large and small. Time for another edition of Animal
Stories on The Morning Show with PrestonScott. Forty two minutes after the hour.

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We needed this today, we reallyneeded this. We needed something else.
Thank you animals for coming through.I'm going to take you to Erstwick
Turn, a small lake near Olverstonin the UK. Give you a little

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a little map here. Alverston iscloser to Scotland than it is to London.
It is in England, but it'sup north and west. Sit in
the north of England. Yeah,okay, something like that. Yeah,
north of Blackpool, which is northof Liverpool. And so Denise Chamberlain and

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Erstwick Parish councilor spent time living inFlorida. And so when she saw what
she saw in Erswick Tarn, whichis a small little lake, she knew
what it was. A Florida nativealligator snapping turtle. She was able to

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capture it. She knew how tohandle it. Florida woman, come on,
come on, get some of that. She captured it by herself,
took it to a clinic. Theynicknamed it Fluffy. Nicknamed it Fluffy.
It's the rottweilers named Daisy. Kindof phenomenon. Yeah, brought to dominic

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Mule a veterinarian surgeon at Wildside Vetsin Cumbria. They look quite prehistoric.
It does almost look a little dinosaur. And I mean clearly it didn't swim
across the Atlantic to get there.Yeah, and clearly it's not native.

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And I'll tell you what. Onlyfate smiled on the fact that someone who
happened to be there that happened tobe have spent time in Florida and recognize
it, because otherwise someone could havelost some fingers. Oh my gosh.
You know, first of all,they're nasty looking things. They just are.

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They're creepy. Look they're they're evil, they really are. But I
got to thinking, whoever got thisthing and imported it? I'm just wondering,
is there's somebody walking around this villagemissing a couple fingers, right because
they learned a really painful lesson.But they just dumped it in the lake
anyway. I don't know what they'regonna do with it. Oh, Bob,

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you said it was a saw accident. You thought you were woodworking when
you're in the Ganggreen come from Itdidn't come from a saw. Turtle is
going to be sent to a specialistwildlife center in Cornwall, probably to some

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fanfare. And then our final animalstory here is the story of a six
week old puppy named Patches who nowis thirteen years and six weeks old.
Patches ran away from home. Theowner had to move and Patches bolted.

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At the age of about ten,Patches was found six hundred miles away from
the family friend's home in Colorado,turned up now four years later near the
Mexican border. Patches went south.That stuff crazy to me, dogs in

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their ability to root around and findfood. Someone feels sorry for him,
gives old food and patches like peaceout. I'm on the road. I'm
a rambling dog. I don't putmy I don't put roots down. I'm
wild. I'm born to be wild. That's just funny to me. Dog
went missing from a family friend's home. Turned up six hundred miles away near

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the Mexican border. But all iswell. So there you go. Wait
to go Patches forty six past thehour. Little epilog on the story about

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patches, Mark writes in rumor hasit patches were captured coming back across the
US border without proper documentation, wasplaced on a bus now residing in New
York at point Mark, our audiencegotta love it, gotta love it,
just the right mix of sap tothe to the show. Thank you so

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much for contributing. Mark. Tomorrowin the program, Steve Stewart joins us,
we'll have doctor Steve Steeves in ourpause for Thoughts segment, Hoping to
have the author of an article withheritage on. I think it's George Lucas
who wrote, not that George Lucas, different one. Maybe it's not George

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anyway, but he's gotten all hislife. Yeah, hang on, hang
on, hang on, hang on, Fred, sorry, Fred Fred brothers
his brother, Fred Fred Lucas,and we're trying to find out he describes
the next George Soros. And noit's not his son. He's identified somebody
else that is dropping money and arguablymore than anybody else into the political left

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and is shaping a lot of thingswithout anybody knowing. The sith have always
come in Two's right never more.Nevertheless, thank you, Grant, you
said George Lucas, I had todrop it. Yeah, we'll also take
you on a road trip again.Give you that quick reminder. It is

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Valentine's Day, guys, it's itisn't too late. I will spend some
time this afternoon. I'm gonna I'mgonna get my prep done. I just
I just told Till Grant after theshow, making a few Valentine's delivery runs
for the kiddos and the family onbehalf of my wife and and me.

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We've got one of our kids comingover for lunch. I'm gonna bring lunch
to another and and then my wifeand I I've ordered us a heart shaped
pizza from Dave's Pizza Garage. It'skind of a favorite place of mine,
and so we're getting a heart shapedpizza. And then I'm trying to get
her to sit down and watch themovie cast A Blanca with me. I

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just it's not a prototypical Valentine's movie, but it sort of is. It's
got the start of a got theshirt of a beautiful relationship. I mean,
come on, it's it's It's justit's a it's an epic, it's
a classic movie. So she's neverseen Casablancas, so I'm gonna try and

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get her to watch Castle Blanca withme. So that's what our our day
looks like. Hope you have agood day, and remember, guys,
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the sponsorship of the Big Stories inthe press Box, one of them the
house voting to impeach may orcus.It doesn't matter because the Senate's not going
to do a thing, but somebodyhad to just symbolically do something. It
was just it was by a razorthin margin. Speaking of margins, the
Dems have flipped a seat in theHouse. Tom Squaz, former representative in

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the House, took back his seatthat he lost to George Santo's figures,
we finally gain the seat and wegive it to some reprobate whatever. Tony
Bobolinski, we will get to thatmore either tomorrow or Friday. He testified
before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees, and what he had to say is

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really important. You need to knowit so that you can share it with
others out there because the upcoming electionhas to be won by Landslider will loose,
they'll cheat, they'll steal, they'llfind a way. We talked about
that he gets us Super Bowl adsand the campaign says that criticism is very

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reassuring. That's that religious spirit,that's like yes, Jesus' message. He's
always faced pushback. Dude, yourmessage is wrong. Well, I'm sure
we'll be dealing with that in thefuture of the McLoughlin brothers. Biden's demented
response to her report was genius.Talked about five charts showing why Congress has

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to stop spending, and so muchmore. I feel like I need to
shower after this show. We'll beback tomorrow. We'll try again.