Ep. 5619: Statistically Impossible.

Preston Scott. I'm Preston. How are you? Hope you are ready to have an awesome day. He's Jose and we hope we're not sure Justin Haskins is going to join us. I haven't gotten confirmation, so I don't know what's up. Normally I write him over the weekend before the Tuesday he joins us and I hear back and we share an email or two and kind of decide what we might talk about, but I got nothing. So, you okay over there, buddy? Are those your smelling salts? What's up with that? No, it's a little candle I have here. Okay, you were smelling it and something fell out of it. Yeah. Okay. All right, just making sure you're not burning the place down over there. Let's go to scripture. Yesterday we were in Matthew 5, verse 13. Now let's go to verse 14. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Let's just pause there. He expands on this, and we'll get to that maybe tomorrow and Thursday, but you are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Why do you think, I mean, Jesus had just gotten through sharing salt, right? If you lose your saltiness, how do you get to be salty again? You can't. It's done. My personal feeling, and this is just Preston 1-1, right? Okay, this is just me. I think Jesus recognized that not everybody was grasping hold of what he was trying to say. He's God. He knows. He knows whether it's computing or not. And so he had just talked to those gathered about being salt. And I feel as though recognizing... I'm going to take another pass at this and use a different example. And then he moved to light. Because he had just said, you are salt of the earth. But then he goes on and he adds, you are the light of the world. Isn't that much the way that we communicate, sorry, but to children? We try to find an analogy that they will understand, and when it's not quite connecting all the way, we'll move to another analogy. We'll try to share another example. Jesus is making a really important point to you and I. Yes, the words that come out of our mouth are hugely important because... You know, at the very beginning of creation, when God spoke, that's when everything happened. God spoke. And in the New Testament, we're talked about the power of our tongue. That you can bring encouragement and you can bring discouragement. You have so much power in your words. And it's one of the most important things that young couples need to learn. is the importance of their words and what they say and how they say it. And Jesus is saying light. He's not talking about noise here. He's talking, he's not talking about words. He's talking about that what people see in our life communicates to more people than what they would hear. Because after all, The only people that hear are people that are within proximity to listen. You know, right now you're listening to me maybe in your car or in your home or maybe for some of you in your office. And however loud you play it, that's the extent of who's hearing. Jesus is saying, I'm... I want you to guard what comes out of your mouth, but more importantly, I want you to live your life in such a way that people that see how you're living your life, they are touched by that. They see something different in you because people will see from afar what they might not hear. Ten past the hour. Good morning.

And welcome to show 5619 at the morning show. Still serving as the mayor of Realville and dispensing information at the speed of sound. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. And inside the American Patriots Almanac, we go. June the 9th, 1973, Secretary at Wins the Belmont. That's still just singularly one of the most impressive things I've ever witnessed in my life. And by witness, I watched it on TV, right? It was just, it was incredible. I'm still in awe. Every time I watch Secretariat's races in the Triple Crown. Just in awe. 1732, James Ogleth, I'm jumping back and forth here. There's an intent to this. James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. Well, okay then. Suppose he had to call it George. After King George. That's second, I believe. 1790, Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States. 1863, Battle of Brandy Station. Largest cavalry battle fought on American soil takes place in Virginia during the Civil War. By the way, yesterday I was... Was it yesterday? Yes. Yesterday, I was driving on Connor Boulevard here in town, and there's this large, I don't want to call it a ranch, but it's kind of a ranch. There were two horses in this large field fenced that were having the best time. You know, normally when you drive, you just see horses, you know, Just kind of chilling. Maybe they're eating a little grass or something like that. But they're just chilling. These two were having a great old time. They were running around, rearing up on their hind legs. Like they were just like playing tag with each other. It was everything to not just pull over, stop and watch them. It was so much fun to watch these horses having a great time. That was just so fun. And it was on this date in 1934 that one of the most famous, iconic names in movies and television and theme parks made his debut. It was on this day in 1934 that Donald Fauntleroy Duck made his first film appearance. You got to tip your cap to Walt. Walt Disney, man, you just do. He'd be disgusted by what's happened to his company. But he'd be proud of the lasting legacy of, like, today is National Donald Duck Day.

It is National Strawberry Rubarb Pie Day. No. National Forklift Safety Day. National Call Your Doctor Day. Yeah. Yeah, do that. Just everybody call your doctor and say, hi, happy day. No, don't do that. Call only when you need to, okay? Do him or her a favor. Today we've got a lot of things to talk about. And we'll start next. Here in the morning show with Preston Scott. I don't know if I'm going to help anybody here or make things worse. I have no idea. But last week, we had more than a few chime in on the school zone speed cameras here in the capital city. Now, perhaps your community does this. I don't know and I don't know how they do it. But I decided to go ahead. And I forwarded the questions we were getting on the phone line and via email. And there were things that quite honestly I was told that caused me to go, no, come on. And so you take this for what it's worth. I got into a exchange with the chief of police. And chief revels a good dude. He really is. with a thankless job. No, I mean, honestly, you want to be chief of police? I said, can you clarify, are school speed zone cameras ticketing people outside school operating hours or outside when the lights are flashing? They are not. They only operate during school hours. The lights start blinking 30 minutes before school starts and last 30 minutes after. The cameras only capture violations that are 11 miles an hour over the posted speed limit of the blinking lights while they are on. Then 11 miles an hour over the regular posted speed limit when school is in. I said getting calls about school zone tickets stating during the day when the lights are not flashing. Tickets are being issued for school zone flashing light speed limits, not the posted speed limit when the lights are not flashing or school is not in session. Can you clarify? People going 30 or 35 should not be ticketed when lights are not flashing. Correct. He said that is correct. People going 30 or 35 will not be ticketed and we have people reviewing each of those so that should not happen. Also, no tickets are issued when school is not in and no tickets are issued over the summer. Call me if you need more. I said, thanks. I advise callers the same. But we will see if they contest it. One stated on the back of the ticket claims that if you contest and win, you still owe $300. I asked for proof. He said, I don't believe that's true, but I will confirm. Then he wrote back. He said, I confirm there is no fee. It is simply dismissed by the hearing officer. So there you go.

So my understanding of it is correct. Right now, school's not in session. The lights are never flashing. So whatever the speed limit is, you've got a few miles per hour to play with. Even though school's not in session, there's still a speed limit. And, you know, I don't like these cameras. And, you know, I have a difference of opinion with others on this. I understand that there are issues with kids in school zones and people going too fast. I get it. But I have yet to see where a child has been harmed, where a crossing guard has been harmed. Maybe it's happened and I've missed it, but I haven't seen it. What I guess I'm getting at is I don't like this particular way of enforcement. just as a rule. If you have an area that's a really bad area, put a police officer there for a few days, correct the behavior. It will correct. Find an officer there, put a few motorcycle police officers on either end, and you'll get plenty of tickets, I'm sure. But I just wanted to clarify that when the lights are flashing, it's during the school hours. We don't worry about that in the summer. And you still have a grace, but you don't have much of one. When the schools are in session, but those lights are not flashing, schools going on, but we're not in the hours where school is being dismissed or when school's opening, then it reverts to the normal speed limit for that zone plus or minus. So, look. You can, don't bother emailing me if you have a problem with what I've just shared. Okay. I'm the messenger here. I try to get clarification and I recognize that some of the people that, that were complaining about all of this, listen at another part of the day. Hopefully they'll come back and catch it in the podcast. I'm not the type to repeat myself all morning long on something. So there's the answers. I think it goes without saying when you're driving through a school zone, drive appropriately. Don't be a lughead, man. I mean, stop it. Slow down. But at the same time, I do think this is largely a money grab because I don't think it was a problem. That's just me. I'm not mad at the police. He's doing what he's supposed to do. I mean, this is what he was asked to do and he's doing it. So, you know. Anyway, we have the big stories in the press box coming up next here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Morning show with Preston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't you? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. All right, 35 minutes past the hour. Big stories in the press box. Because this is so interconnected, this story has to be part of the narrative of what's going on with Iran, Israel, the United States, the neighboring nations. I mean, if you step back and think about the coalition that President Trump has built with Arab nations in the region, it's done a pretty remarkable job isolating Iran.

Now, we're not seeing the end result that we want at this point. Iran is still not working with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the enriched uranium. Where is it? It was at 60%. You get it to 90% and you've got a nuclear weapon-grade uranium. That's a problem. It just, again... There is no issue with nuclear power. There is a huge issue with nuclear weapons. And so, you know, to anyone that argues they should have every right like any, no, they shouldn't because they're irresponsible. Look, you don't give guns to everybody. You know, there are certain people that are not allowed by law to have a gun. It's a right that we possess until you forfeit that right through actions and conduct that then cause you to lose that. Any right that Iran would have had has been forfeited by their constant claims to erase Israel. End of discussion. Chinese National pleads guilty in Georgia. To listen to this, indicted in April of 2025, along with two others. laundered at least $30 million in proceeds tied to drug trafficking of cocaine and fentanyl, among other things, through the state of Georgia using the WeChat app for communication and various codes and so forth. I know this is draconian to many. We really, I listen to a guy who is running for mayor of Carrollton. Texas, a Pakistani who was born in this country talking about his hate for the U.S. military in the United States in general. I, nope, shouldn't be allowed to run. But he's born in this country, Preston. Yeah, but he's not of this country.

It's not about being perfect. It's about you hate this country. You shouldn't be allowed to run for office. I just, this isn't complicated. And to make matters worse, this is a story that's really staggering. The fertility rate, we've talked about it, is bad. It is a record low right now of 1.599 kids per woman. But there is another looming crisis. According to a paper published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States faces a prolonged life expectancy stall. Recent cohorts born since 1970 exhibit increasing mortality in cardiovascular disease, cancer, external causes compared to their predecessors. Short version, the people in this country are dying out and we're not reproducing enough babies. We're aborting too many. One is too many, but we're aborting babies. Cancer rates among younger people have surged 80%. I don't know. I think that's a problem. When you add the low birth rate, And you combine it, which by the way is a problem for Social Security moving forward because we don't have enough people entering the workforce to pay into the system to pay it out to the people that have already paid in and their money's gone like you and me. Our money's gone. Everything we paid in for in my case 40, 50 plus years of working, it's gone. It's been spent. It's been taken. It's been rated. And we don't have enough people working to replenish it. Now you have a birth rate issue and you have a mortality issue. These are uncomfortable realities that we're facing. 40 minutes pass. Those are the big stories in the press box. Remember, wherever you travel, across the fruited plains or around the world, you can listen to the morning show with Preston Scott for free on the iHeart radio app. This would be what you would use to learn how to play the drums.

Oh, I have music in my bones, but I ain't got no skills. Let's see here. We've been talking about the need to denaturalize people that have violated their oaths. I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and adjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen, that I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. that I will bear true faith in allegiance to the same, that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law, that I will perform non-combatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law, that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law, and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, so help me God. How is Ilhan Omar still in this country? along with millions of others that are violating our laws every single day. The Trump administration is launching the largest ever denaturalization effort. But here's the downside. They're focusing on 17 people.

17 illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes, lying on documents to obtain citizenship, other kinds of fraud, offenses against children. I mean, the list goes on and on. What's interesting about this issue, you know, Markwayne Mullin, who a senator from Oklahoma, who is now the Secretary of DHS, he said American citizenship is a privilege. It must be earned honestly. If you come here and break our laws, lie on your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege. Now, I would maintain that Ilhan Omar is, there you go. She lied to get in this country. Now, some have said, no, she never, she never claimed allegiance to Somalia first. Well, I respectfully disagree with that interpretation. I think she has, and I think she's done it multiple times. But the bottom line is, she entered this country illegally. She, she, I mean, she married a brother. That's creepy. What's also interesting is that when the United States has attempted to denaturalize somebody, they've been successful 95% of the time. Now, the previous high is 11 cases at one time. They're going for 17, a record. The fact that that's a record is a little, it's a little depressing. Because honestly, there are, I mean, just line them up. You entered this country illegally, you committed these crimes or, and then those are like automatic. You don't even get it. You're out. But those that have become naturalized citizens. It's like the dude from Iran. He's a naturalized citizen and he was selling, you know, stuff back to the Iranian government to help with their nuke weapon program. Gone. You're going back to Iran, brother. That cushy life you've carved out for yourself here in the West? See ya. Anyway, I applaud the effort. It's just, you know, you have to, you have to remain focused on your faith in Christ to manage your way through the news.

When I sit around a dinner table with a group of people talking and they want to, oftentimes people want to talk about the show and what I do for a living. And the question I get asked more than any other question is this, how do you do it? How do you talk about all of the news that's out there that is so negative and maintain your outlook in life? And it's Jesus. You know, in sports, they talk about keeping your eye on the ball and keeping your eye on the prize and keeping your eye on the goal. Well, that's it. That's Jesus. And it's the only way you can navigate this. You have to be informed. I pray you don't just click off and go live in the woods somewhere because that's a waste of your God-given skill sets and talents to touch other people's lives for him. But you have to be informed of what's going on. And that if nothing else informs your prayers. And maybe your actions, at least I hope it would. Anyway, when we come back, there's more from the Beltway. We'll get to that next. And then so.

Like a lot of talk show hosts, he's admitted to be wrong. That's when he thought he was wrong, but in fact, wasn't. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Well, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released a report detailing that as early as 2019 or 2020. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew of the fraud that was going on by Somalis in their state. They had the authority to cut off the fraudulent payments. They didn't. They pressured whistleblowers with silence because they didn't want to harm the state's reputation of being kind to Somalis. They didn't want to be accused of racism, even though it's a bunch of Somalis that are doing the fraud. It's not racism. It's called profiling. Criminal profiling. It is a standard investigative technique. I got police officers listening to me right now. Detectives listening to me right now. Sheriff's deputies, troopers, and FBI agents, they will all tell you. If a senior adult with white hair commits a crime in the vicinity of where I'm working and I'm out walking, I'm going to get pulled over and ask questions. That's called profiling. It's what you do. The suspect is, you know, the suspect is 3,500 pounds and has large ears and a trunk. You're going to pull over an elephant. You just are. It's just. Anyway, it's not racism. It's called criminal investigative work. And if it happens to be a certain demographics, so be it. It doesn't matter. But guess what? That goes back to what I said was going to be the undoing of this country when I started this show. In the first week of doing this show, I told the story of political correctness. on a playground in California. And I said, if we don't get this, get control of this, and this is political correctness, you can't do that. There's Somalis. They came to our country for a new way. No, they came in our country, not all of them, but a whole bunch of them to rip us off and to send money back to the terrorists in their nation. So they can grab their Somaliland or whatever it is they think is their ancestral home. I don't know. Anyway. And, oh boy, yesterday I said, well, you know what? I'll just say this. Once again, a warning to those of you in the Presbyterian Church USA, PCUSA, they now are fighting. There's a, there is a vote coming on a monogamy requirement.

And there are factions in the church that are up in arms because monogamy, how dare you tell us how to, how dare you tell us what kind of life were to live? There's a massive wing in the church that's already screwed up six ways from Sunday. I mean, they've allowed open ordination of openly gay clergy since 2011. They altered the definition of marriage from a man and a woman to two people. And the list goes on and on. But there's a group in the church that's even beyond that that they want free reign to have as many sexual partners in marriage as possible. They want polygamy. And it goes from there. PCUSA members, get out of your church. Second hour here, the morning show with Preston Scott. This is a, this is turning into a bit of a problem for Florida State University, but I can assure you, FSU's not alone. What's the problem? The problem is that you've got kids that are leaving the program. of right now baseball and softball for no apparent reason other than money what brought this to my mind was when one of my kids who's a huge sports fan and really doesn't care much about Florida State softball, just cares about Florida State. Texted me. Issa Torres is in the portal. Issa is the national player of the year in softball. They didn't make the College World Series. No crime. Head coach Alani Alameda, who, oh, by the way, Maybe one of the finest, most accommodating coaches that I've ever been around. She's just delightful. And she's awfully good. She's built an incredible program. Wins every year. Dominant. Didn't make the series this year. Okay. It's not the end of the world. But I guess for Issa Torres, it was. As I read her comments, this has been one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made. After a great deal of thought, prayer, and conversation with my family, I've decided to enter the transfer portal to pursue the next chapter of my softball journey. Florida State has given me more than I could ever put into words. except money, I guess. No, seriously. I mean, with all due respect, this has to boil down to money. You have just a good chance to win at Florida State because that's what they do. They win. So what's going on here? The lack of loyalty.

to the coach, the program, the school that you came to and molded you into the national player of the year. The only explanation is money. She said this decision is not about leaving something behind. Well, yes, it is. It's about pursuing a new opportunity and embracing a new challenge. My respect, appreciation, and love for Florida State remain unchanged. No, that's not true. It is changed. Because your love for Florida State brought you to Florida State. Now you're leaving. So it's changed. And I know I'm picking on a kid. I get that. But more than likely a kid with an agent. And when you start to look at the players that are leaving the programs, first of all, Florida State's recruiting is okay in football, but it's not the recruiting that is necessary to maybe win on the level that fans are used to unless.

They find the secret sauce that Indiana found with good football players, not great, good. I'm not sure Fernando Mendoza is a great quarterback. I think he's a really good one. I think he's a great leader. But unless you find that group of football players that kind of have chips on their shoulder, We're in a new world today. And so the question I'm raising is, is Florida State finding itself in a place where the kids that are teed up for success and have some and are given a chance to play and play, then just move on? Are we a stepping stone school now? Not a destination. I think it's brutally unfair what's happening in the world of college sports. You look at what, you know, Texas Tech is in the finals against who? Texas.

They haven't been mainstays in the college softball world series for a long time. I mean, so what's different? Money. Oil money. Money, deeper pockets. It's, I mean, until there's stability in the world of college sports that creates some form of level playing field, I'm concerned. I'm concerned where Florida State lies and all this. More to come. Hang on. Validating your feelings or perhaps helping you come to terms with the fact that you have been wrong for so much of your life. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Right now, FSU men's basketball is the outlier in Florida State sports. Luke Lousk and FSU alum, his wife and FSU alum. Luke is out there getting amazing players to come to Florida State, some to come back in the sense that you've got kids that went to Florida High, went on to another school, and now have come back.

But you've got arguably the best big man in the country that's committed to FSU, Marcus Ponder. And, I mean, this is a guy who's already breaking rims in the practice facility. Marcus is going to play. But will he stay? You know, we've got, you know, when Michael Alford was on the program, And we talked about NIL. He talked about the fact that kids sign contracts and that there are buyouts that have to happen if a kid wants to leave. Well, that's the way it should be, but I think the bigger question is why are they leaving? You know, why is baseball him? I mean, Luke Jarrett, Link Jarrett, I got confused with Luke Lex. Link Jarrett is an outstanding coach. I wouldn't want anybody other than Link Jarrett coaching the Seminole men's baseball team. Why are they leaving? What in the world? Gabe Frazier? Or is this a ploy to get more money? Because you put your name in a portal, you can come back. We saw that with the DeSere twins in FSU football. They had an agreement. They wanted to renegotiate it. See, that's a problem. But there will always be somebody that can offer to buy out the buyout clause in a kid's contract.

You know, solving the NIL problem, and I knew it was going to happen. I knew this was going to happen. I absolutely knew this was going to happen. There was no way it could be just kept to football. It was going to have to expand into every sport. And that's what we're seeing. Schools that have deeper pockets win. getting the athletes that they want. So how will the other programs, let's set football aside, all the other programs. Okay, Luke Lokes, does he have somebody helping get these players across the finish line? I don't know the answer to that. I'm not well connected. I don't know. But here's what I do know. All the other programs. Soccer? Volleyball? Women's basketball? How long before we lose Lonnie Alameda to a program that has deep pockets to get the best players in the country to stay? See, it's not just about coming, it's about staying.

We are in a whole new world with college athletics. There are many of you that are just saying, I don't want any part of it. I'm tune out. And here's the bigger danger, I think, for the whole, the grand scheme of things, is that all of this is going to, I mean, if you look at what college football is in the mindset of many, Does it reach a point where the players moving back and forth, it just erases that loyalty that you, that's what's always separated college football, is the loyalty to the school, the school, the alma mater, the program. If you lose that, do you lose college football? Does it start to die out? We'll see. I think that the Issa Torres moving on, I, you know, I think she's disingenuous in what she's saying. And I think it's a terrible lack of loyalty. But at the same time, she's not going to make any money playing professional softball worth a, worth a stink. And if someone's going to pay her $800,000 or a million dollars go play somewhere for a year. Yeah. All right, a little long in the segment there, but I think it's worth considering. What's the future of college sports? UFLA on your phone with the IHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. And free. And IHeart's radio station.

Well, it would seem I'm a contrarian here when it comes to my reaction to what Donald Trump did on ABC's Meet the Press on Sunday. Glenn Beck thinks that what he did was absolutely awesome. One of the writers at Not the B thinks the same. I don't. And it's okay. And you might think that what he did is absolutely awesome, that the press had it coming to him. Look, I'm no defender of the mainstream media. If you don't know what happened, the president is tracked down by ABC News for this interview in Wisconsin. He agreed to it. He talked about the election in California. It was rigged. And we're going to talk more about that in just a few minutes because there's some mathematical things involved here that that don't. disprove what the president's talking about here. There's no doubt that California is set up for fraud. It's not even debatable. But then with the interviewer said they're crooked, just like you're crooked, the press is crooked, meet the press is crooked, the interviewer. said, to be fair, I'm not crooked. Really? You play right into their hands then. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this crap. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows they're rigged. And then he walks out. I don't know if that behavior and conduct wins a lot of people over. And that's the thing. When you're in that environment, There is ample evidence of fraud. There is ample evidence. And again, we're talking about individual cases across the country, examples of what investigative journalists have found out. examples of what happened in 2020 with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, with postal service workers bringing ballots across and in sworn affidavits where they go to jail if they're lying. I mean, all of that stuff. All you have to do is come armed with the information. And then you've got the audience of ABC News. Yes. Left wing. Yes. All sold out to the left, but you have the chance to make the argument. And instead, you throw a temper tantrum. I absolutely understand the frustration with the mainstream media. I think wisdom would have been come prepared and drop. all of the information nuggets that you can and conduct the interview. You're getting a chance to not just preach to the choir. You're preaching to the congregation there. You've got a chance to win people's minds to say, oh, well, you know, he made a good point there. But instead, he comes off being petulant.

I disagree with Glenn. I disagree with the writer here from not that. I had people email me. Boy, you and Glenn aren't on the same page. No, we're not. And that's okay. It's okay to disagree. I don't see it that way. I don't disagree with Trump's assessment of the media. I disagree with how he handled the opportunity. I wish he were better. But we know what we're getting with Donald Trump. He's not going to change. I pray for him. You know, his conduct is between him and God. It's not, you know, I just hope and pray he does better. Anyway, I just thought it was important to share the differing view that I have from say, Blake. Fair. I am good. I'm a happy example. Glenn is on. Nine to noon. I am stronger every day on WFLA. Well, today you got some primaries going on. Graham Platner in Maine is likely going to advance. I mean, I just.

Wow. Spencer Pratt is out in Los Angeles. We'll get to that in just a second because it's mathematically possible but statistically impossible what has happened in California. I will share information on that. Every year we hear the words, this is the most important election in our nation's history. I actually believe that every time those words have been said, they've been true. The downside to that line is that people are becoming numb to it. But the consequences to these elections are being felt. Do you think the people in Seattle and Portland? Not all of them, clearly. But do you think that a lot of people wish they had a do-over going back about 15, 20 years ago? When they started going down this route of socialism, they started electing the wrong people.

We've said that these elections, each and every subsequent, you know, two years, four years are the most important. Because they are. We're going to keep going down this path of losing the constitutional republic that our founders stake their entire lives and fortunes on to birth this nation. Or we're going to put, at the very least, skid marks on the side of the road that goes over the cliff. We might not stop it in time. But just consider the visual. Hitting the brakes as hard as you can, as quickly as you can, doing a controlled stop and your tires are to just, you're hoping you can stop in time. To keep from going over the cliff. We're going over the cliff. Will there be skid marks and will will subsequent generations say, well, you know, they tried. There was a group that tried. There was a group that put the brake, tried to put the brakes on and stopped the vehicle.

If you just go through all of the different headlines and all of the different stories and where we are, I mean, you know, like I said, I'm going to get to California here in just a moment and why it matters that they're cheating because they'll cheat in the national in the election coming up. They will do that because they've set it up and they have by law. created an environment where it's easier than ever to cheat. So these news headlines, these things that are, I mean, good grief, that Graham Platner is potentially going to be a member of Congress? He's just a contemptible soul. And here's the thing. Jesus loves him. Jesus died for him. And I'm mindful of that. It does not change the fact that as he is right now, he is, he is vile. He's unrepentant. He offers a lot of explanations, but he's unrepentant. I'm reminded that in the Old Testament, The Israelites wanted a king. They didn't want God. They wanted a king. We want to be like the other nations. God said, okay. There you go. We are who we elect, and God will allow us to have what we want.

California, broken down next. Welcome to the morning show with Preston Scott, guaranteed human, and covering what you're talking about, what you will be talking about, and most importantly what you should be talking about. Democracy and action. That's how MS, NBC, MS now, Jacob Soberoff is describing what's going on in California. This is democracy in action. He says there's nothing to see, everything's good. Neitha Raymond or Rahman. If you're into noodles. It has been described as the Zohran Mamdani of Los Angeles. She's extremely wealthy. She wants L.A. to become more progressive like New York City, more progressive than it is under the mayor, Karen Bass. It's Karen Bass. I mean... As awful as it is, Karen Bass is better than this. This woman. On election day, she was eight points behind Spencer Pratt. And if you look at the count as it unfolded, it was going exactly as we predicted it would go. All these votes that started coming in, almost all of them were for her. All the mail-in votes, all the late ballots, almost all of them. It was a miracle. Statistically impossible. Allow me to explain.

According to Robbie Starbuck, who turned loose chat GPT, chat GPT cannot find a single example of a third place candidate surging days after election day to overtake second place. Think about this for a second. Think about all of the elections, local state national in U.S. history. Not once did it happen. Until this week. Now it's interesting that there's apparently 43,000 votes that came in for Raymond. And there's 43,000 homeless people. That's what Spencer Pratt's pointing out. because there was an effort to register homeless people over the last decade and a half to two decades. Gavin Newsom signed SB 73 into law that bans election observers from challenging signatures on ballots. I'm going to show Jose a photo of one of the signatures. This is an example. So someone witnesses a ballot. And they sign as a witness. If a voter is unable to sign, the voter can mark witnessed by one person. And so there's a smiley face that's being counted as a signature. No way. That's a ballot. A smiley face. And it's witnessed.

These are the types of things Gavin Newsom in the state of Florida now have outlawed. Observers cannot question those ballots. This is cheating. This is California. This is American elections now. Third world countries do it better. In some parts of America. Or Sense of Sensibility. Communicator of common sense amplified and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Time for Manly Minute. Male by birth, man by choice. These are skills, traits, virtues, ideals, thoughts. To teach your son so that he is a man. You ready? Teach your son. Teach your son. The virtues and benefits. of vice grip pliers. Set of vice grips, absolutely indispensable. If I assembled a toolkit for a little boy, vice grip pliers would be absolutely positively in the very beginning at the one of the very would be the first tool I would list it above a hammer I would put it right equal to screwdrivers but so much more versatile you you can actually you can do so many things with a pair of vice grips I can't even begin to describe the number of times a set of vice grips have bailed me out of whatever. A stripped screw came partially out, then it's stripped. Get it the rest of the way, man. Clamp that sucker around there, adjust it, get it tight, good tight. There you go. teach your son all of the and if you don't know all of the you here's the thing you can show them you can show your son the principle of how they work and how they adjust you'll never be able to show them all the ways it can be used because there's just no limit there just isn't it can be used in so many ways i've even turned them upside down and used them as a as a hammer to tap nails into a into a piece of drywall if i needed to hang something i didn't have a hammer perfect Anyway, there's your mainly minute here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Did you see this story? Another roller coaster, this one at Six Flags Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. Sirens Curse broke down twice in a weekend on a Saturday and a Sunday and left people dangling. Now, everyone was safe. They say, oh, it worked just the way it's supposed to. System performed as designed, keeping all guests safe.

I think we're reaching our limits on these rides. That I'm just, and look, I admit, I'm mad enough to admit that I'm a coward on those things. I am not a roller coaster fan at all. I like my stomach where God wanted it to be in my belly. I don't like my stomach in my throat. I don't like that feeling at all. I just don't. So I don't go on roller coasters. I remember going on the kitty roller coaster at Wild Adventures in Valdosta. And I was a little put off by it. The little kid's one. It goes up and then it hits the, it does a square at the very top. And I'm like, it's going to throw me off. It's going to throw me over the edge. This is how I'm going to die on a kid's roller coaster. Anyway, no, not me. All right, when we come back, I have no idea if we're going to call, if we're going to talk to Justin Haskins or not. But we'll be here. So let's find out together next.

Show 5619 of the morning show with Preston Scott. If you'd have told me when I started this program 24 years ago and some change, the things that would be occupying the news headlines today, I would have slapped you in the mouth and called you a liar. There's just, you cannot make it up. Just. And so I am. Privileged to try to find guests that are able to help make sense as best as we can of the things that are happening. And perhaps no one stands taller on that mountain than this gentleman. Justin Haskins is the vice president of policy. With the Heartland Institute and a prolific writer, author, you'll find his books on Amazon and all the different booksellers that are out there. Justin, how are you? I'm doing so well. How are you? I'm hanging in there, but Justin, I'm hanging in there. I am so, I told our audience earlier in the show that the only way I navigate through what I do, is my faith in Christ because God's on the throne. He knows the end before the beginning and it's going to come to a point where it's going to make sense in the grand scheme of things in God's economy. But I'm having trouble making sense of everything from Graham Platner to the Save Act to where we are today. How do you filter through everything? Oh, um, You know, it's a lot of coffee, a little bit of alcohol, a lot of praying. Honestly, I go, I went into this when Republicans won the last election, Trump won the presidency. I went into this. This is pretty much what I was expecting. Yeah, okay. I mean, I think Donald Trump has done a lot of good stuff through executive action and things like that. But I think for the most part, the way the Republican Party is right now and the way Congress is set up and the rules of the Senate. and everything else, we are just not going to get good legislation passed. It just is not going to happen. And without that occurring, we really can't fix the structural problems that exist. We can put band-aids on bullet holes. That's all we can do. And it is incredibly frustrating and very disappointing. And this, but this is, this is where we are. And the Democrat Party, uh, likes to stand on its, you know, soapbox and tell, tell the Republicans how horrible they are for, you know, having, um, less than perfect candidates in office. And then they go and they pick a, like, a Nazi, you know? It's like, that's, of course that's the case because Democrats are not a viable option for,

for a lot of people either. And so it's just, it's just politicians right now. The entire political system in Washington is so broken. And that's why people elected Trump in the first place. But we keep running into this same cycle over and over and over again, where we elect politicians who say that they're going to do something different and they don't do something different. And then a section of the vote of the populace switches parties, votes for the other party. They come into power because they say they're going to do something different. They don't. And we bounce back and forth between these two parties and nothing changes. It's incredibly frustrating. joining me on the program justin haskins just in standby it's good time to just take a pause here we come back i want to i want to expand on that we have nothing scripted here today friends we seldom do i mean i might say i want to talk about this that or the other i we're having an organic conversation here and i don't know if we're going to encourage each other or just simply live the adage that misery loves company i don't know stay with us here in the morning show with preston scott

other shows can't book topics they won't talk about and guaranteed human it's the morning show with preston scott eleven past the hour justin haskins with me from the heartland institute justin We just talked about the failure of the parties. Republicans, I would say that it's enough of them without conviction and just being the elected people that we've grown accustomed to having in Congress. And with Democrats, they're just woefully misguided in their philosophy and have no anchor point whatsoever. And all the while this is going on, the socialist, communist, Islamist faction of this country is gaining strength. Yep. That's an accurate assessment. It's not good. I would say that we have huge massive problems coming in this country, not just because of the socialist factions that are growing, which I think is a huge crisis, but something I've been working on for many years now. Because huge... sections of the young American populace 18 to you know say 39 year olds believe in socialist policies. Many of them say they openly support socialism and want to see socialist candidates become president, depending on the poll you're looking at, you know, it could be as high as, say, 40 to 50% want that. But if you ask about specific crazy policies, like do you want to nationalize whole industries and do you want to take away vast amounts of wealth of other people's? money, not even just the super rich, but just people who have me, they say yes. They want these policies, too. They want to blow up the Constitution. They want to blow up the Supreme Court, not literally, but they want to start all over. Huge portions, again, we're talking, depending on the question, anywhere between 30 to 50 percent of young people want that. And on top of all of that, we have this looming problem of of artificial intelligence causing lots of economic disruption in the future, especially for young people. It's already, I think, starting to happen, and that's going to make socialism even more attractive, which is why people like Bernie Sanders are working so hard on that issue because they know that. So these are huge problems, not to mention all of the stuff that's going on overseas. There's tons of things we could talk about there with China and Russia and so on and so forth.

For the most part, we can't even get our politicians in America to pass common sense basic laws that make sure that the people who are filling out ballots are really the people who we think they are. So we don't just send massive amounts of ballots in the mail to people's houses. We can't even get them to do that. And that's really the issue here. We just don't have good enough politicians when it comes down to it. Why, I haven't found it yet. Why have Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell coming in opposition of the SAVE Act? Oh, gosh. I don't know how anybody is opposed to the SAVE Act other than you want voter fraud. And in those, truly, I know that sounds extreme or whatever, but I really believe that that's the case. In their particular situation, it doesn't benefit them. I think their thing is a little bit different for each of them, but I think in Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins' case, for example. They're in states where it benefits them to be a quote unquote, moderate, middle of the road, you know, not partisan person. But that's not middle of the road or moderate. 83% plus of this country think it's what we should do, even Democrats and blacks and Latinos. Yep. I know. I know. And I don't understand that at all. I don't understand it. I mean, in Susan Collins' case, I think it's because, you know, she's in a Democrat-leaning state and Democrats in that state think it's a conspiracy theory that voter fraud happens. So maybe that's part of it. In Alaska, I don't, I can't, they have lots of mail-in-balloting in Alaska, and they have for a long time because of how rural it is. Sure. So maybe that's the reason there. But ultimately, there's no reason why we can't have some version of the Save Act. And they're just totally unwilling to go along with any really great piece of legislation. It's not just this. But the Save Act to me is the most important one, because if you can't trust the elections and what's the point of all of this? Justin Askins is with me for another segment still to come here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

All right, we're going to go ahead and do it. What if? Justin Haskins with me from the Heartland Institute, where he's vice president of policy. And the website, by the way, where you can go with your kids, like, I'm not kidding, your kids, your middle schoolers, your high schoolers, stopping socialism.com. Mom's, dads, it's up to you. Justin, with us, I'd asked you in the break, prepare us for what you believe will happen. if Democrats take back control of the House and the Senate in the midterms? Yeah. I think what everybody needs to understand is that we are on the precipice here of a very dark period in American history. Things don't go well in the next... four to, let's say, 12 years, you know, three, four to ten years, somewhere in that range, it's going to be very difficult for America to turn things around. And, of course, people have been saying that for a very long time, and I know that. This is the most important election of their lifetime. I'm not saying this election coming up is the most important, but it is incredibly important. And the reason for this is because of the things that we talked about in the last couple of segments here. We have the rise of socialism, our children and the generations who are not even children anymore, people who are in their 20s and early 30s. are insatuated with socialist ideas. They believe that the things that we all think America make America great are actually horrible. Many of them are ashamed of their country. Don't actually love America. Some of them openly say in polls, huge segments of them, I don't have the data in front of me, but huge segments of them say they would put the United Nations in charge of America if they had the chance. Oh, my gosh. And you have artificial intelligence rising up now that's going to do a lot of job displacement in this country and automation and things like that. People are going to need new jobs. There's going to be a lot of unhappy, miserable, angry people on top of all of the problems we already have and all of the issues going on overseas. And you have to have good policy. We have to have it. or else this country is going to continue to slide down the path toward socialism and communism. That's where we're going to go. And the Democrats are completely fine with that. They want the disruption. They want the chaos because it benefits them politically politically. And that's why Bernie Sanders and people like that are out there saying the things that they do. This is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the darling of the media on the left. Not all Democrats obviously are like this, but the party itself, a lot of the people who are now powerful in it, they've thrown out all the moderates. It's a socialist party. The stakes could not possibly be higher at this point. If you were advising...

Joe Gruders, chairman of the RNC, who I know of him because of his time here in Florida, what would you be telling him they'd need to be doing right now? Well, I would say... It's too late. Well, the biggest problem that they have in the party is you can make promises that help you win elections, but if you don't follow through on them, which someone, you know, the R&C leadership can't necessarily control, then it doesn't matter. And that's the issue. The reason that Republicans won in the landslide in the last election is because primarily of the economy... and things not being good for people in terms of the ability to buy a home, the skyrocketing personal debt, skyrocketing student loan debt, all of these, the inflation crisis, supply chain issues that were going on, the chaos that was overseas, the craziness going on in kids' schools. It was a lot of basic, you know, foundational issues. and some of the most important things. And then really, the Republicans in Washington have not focused on those issues, some of them. And we don't have solutions for most of those problems. And things just continue to get a little bit worse for people, regular working people. Wealthier people are doing okay, but regular working people are struggling. And if you don't follow through on those promises, you're going to be in huge trouble. And so what I would tell them is to focus on those things, but... At this point, I don't know how much credibility they have in this election cycle with people who believed things were going to be different this time. And now here they are getting the same thing that they always get, which is a whole lot of nothing from people in Washington, D.C., other than the president who is trying through executive action, but there are limits to what you can do to, you know, improve the economy using executive orders. Yeah, because that'll just immediately be overturned when the next guy or gal comes in there. Justin, as always, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Justin Askins with us. Morning show with Preston Scott, 27 past the hour.

Unlike a lot of talk show hosts, he's admitted to be wrong. That's when he thought he was wrong, but in fact wasn't. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. All right, 35 past the hour, Howard Eisenman, Money Talk just a little bit. Tomorrow, no way, Jose. Can't wait to hear the stories he takes for me tomorrow. Dr. Bob McClure scheduled to join us tomorrow as well. Big stories in the press box. I can't help but reflect back on what we were talking about with Justin. I promise you. I am going to try diligently to not just focus on the bad. But I will tell you, it is hard. It is hard finding stories that don't reflect. the state of our nation and our culture, our society, as it is right now. It is because I believe that just as I believe we are who we elect, you know, we talk with disgust and disdain about how bad Congress is, and it is. But they are us. We elected them.

and we've created an environment where Congress is just the only people that want to be in it either have the best of intentions and they just get smoked or they're they're just they just want the office they just they they want to be in the office they want to have it So they can say that they're a member of the House or the Senate or whatever. They're not in it for the right reasons. And so we find ourselves like the House, I would never want to be a member of the House. There's too many to make a difference. In the Senate, you have a better chance. But look, I mean, I think pretty highly of Rick Scott and Marco Rubio when they were Senate. I think Ashley Moody's done a fine job. But look at who's leading the Senate. Look at what's not getting done. It's tough being optimistic. It really is. And so I'm going to do my best to walk. I'm going to just keep doing what I'm doing. I'm going to try to walk that line between making sure you're informed of what's going on, but also finding some other things so that we can just have a moment, right? To just think on other things. You know, that's really my, I keep challenging myself. With that scripture that talks about the things to think about. Think on those things. Because that's the news. Sucks. Nuclear watchdog to Iran. Reengage. Allow inspections. They're not going to. Fertility rate is bad. The rate which younger generations are dying is not going to. We have a huge problem in America. And it's impacting our Social Security and Medicaid and all of the different programs out there. We don't have enough workers. We're facing what China did to itself what we're doing by, through voluntary. We're reaping, honest to goodness, we're reaping the consequences of the extremist movement and the feminist movement. We're reaping the consequences. I don't know how else to put it. We are. Chikoms, pleading guilty to laundering millions in drug proceeds. This is in Georgia. Good Lord, just north of us. For those of you in Georgia, man, I mean, this is happening everywhere. All right, 40 past. Howard Eisenman standing by. Just money next. Features to keep you entertained. Guests and experts so you stay informed. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Time for Money Talk. With investment advisor, Howard Eisenman, with enhanced financial services. Securities and advisory services offered through NBC Securities, Inc.

Member FINRA and SIPC. Say that all fast three times. NBC Securities Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Bank USA. The opinions expressed are not those of NBC Securities Inc. Uh-uh. May nay. Or IHeart Media. On appropriate matters seek professional tax and or legal advice. Money! Money! To you lay that money down. Howard, it is the mantra of everybody running for office, local, state, national. It's all about affordability, inflation, affordability, affordability, inflation. A lot of talk. Those are the two big buzzwords. So why don't we get started? Let's start with something that maybe isn't talked about quite as much, and that's the U.S. federal budget deficit. What's the deficit? That's the shortfall between the revenues collected at the U.S. Treasury, and how much the federal government is spending? Who's the federal government? The aforementioned Congress that you just touched upon, and the president. And between them, they do the spending up in Washington. So what are the numbers? Well, year the revenue collected came in at 5 trillion and that's about 17 and a half percent of our 31.8 trillion dollar gross domestic product and that's a that's a big number but unfortunately Preston they ended up spending 6.9 trillion which is 23.3 percent of that same GDP And so when that deficit runs five and a half, six, six and a half percent, and it has for much of the last four or five years, we add $1.9 trillion more to the national debt. That debt's $39 trillion. And oh, by the way, we taxpayers pay interest on the debt. So that's kind of where we start. You'd think $5 trillion would get things taken care of, but nay, nay. Wouldn't it be nice if they could even trim that shortfall from, you know, from the 6% range down to the 2% to 3% range, we could probably make that work. Imagine if we just paid $4.9 trillion in expenses and kept some to pay down debt. Wouldn't that be nice? But that's going to require a lot of things that the aforementioned Congress doesn't quite seem willing to do yet. Hey, I was at the grocery store the other day and wanted to buy a Chuck roast, make some French dip sandwiches, and I almost fainted at the price of beef. Yeah, you know, it's getting, and I understand why, Preston, we're pushing $7 a pound. for USDA ground beef. And it wasn't that many years ago in June of 2003. It had surged to $5 a pound. And then $6 a pound last June. And here we are in June of 26. I think it's about $6.92 this morning.

That's up about 20 cents. And so we could very well be looking at $7 right in time for the barbecues to get cranked up here for July 4th Independence Day. For people that are not just buying groceries, but out there buying cars, what are they looking at right now? Yeah, it's a tough environment because the cost of cars, in part due to the tariffs, in part due to supply chain issues with the parts to make those cars, in the first quarter of this year, we saw a spike 19% of all new vehicle loans on new purchases. had monthly payments of at least $1,000 or more. A thousand dollars? And we're not necessarily pressing even talking about the luxury high-end vehicles. 74%, 3 quarters of the $1,000 plus payments on those vehicles are for non-luxury models. And if we want to look at kind of the biggest, highest expense, Pickup trucks, way, way up there, basically to buy a new pickup truck today. It's pretty close to what I probably bought, you know, my home for 20 years ago. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Howard, I don't expect it's coming down anytime soon, so I'm sure we'll be visiting these topics again. Thanks for the time. Absolutely. Have a great one, Preston. Thank you, sir. Howard Isman with us this morning. And the hits just keep on coming here on the morning show with Preston Scott. You know what? I feel like I should tell a bad joke. No, really, I just feel like we need something. I need something, maybe. Maybe that's what it is. I need something. It's just like, I'm going to focus on celebrating my granddaughter's birthday this weekend. Even though her birthday is my birthday, it's still a couple weeks away. But we're going to celebrate because she and her mom, dad, and sister, they're going to be out of town on her birthday. And so we're going to celebrate with her this weekend. We've got my sister-in-law and brother-in-law coming in town.

And so we're going to just kind of turn it into a little family gathering. But I just need to think about her and my grandchildren. But here's, see, the second I do that, then I'm like, oh, God, what kind of world are they inheriting? And then I get down again. Because we suck. We do. What's happened to this nation? We've allowed our schools to educate poorly. And so we've got a bunch of knuckleheads out there voting. Not all of them. Not all. And yeah, there's a real strong move of God in among young people right now. We need more. We need to take the education system back and teach kids critical thinking. Anyway, I got it. I just need pause. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. I'm just mumbling at this point. I just, I needed to hit the pause button there and I hit it too late. That's my pause button. It's on me. We started with Matthew 514. And boy, I'm trying to remember that verse. You are the light of the world. The city on a hill cannot be hidden. Can't. Can't give in. Cannot give in. Got to stay focused on the prize. Got to focus on the prize. Keep our eyes heavenward! I'm not resetting the big stories in the press box. You know why? Because they'll depress me even more than I'm depressed. Hey, I can at least laugh about it, right? And you know that I'm sincerely laughing at myself. I know how to do that. We talked about the statistical impossibility of what happened in California. Statistically, it is impossible. It's never happened before. In all the elections ever held in this country, what happened in Los Angeles to Spencer Pratt has never happened before. Mathematically possible, statistically impossible. Just get your mind around that and tell me there's not fraud there. I disagree with my friend Glenn Beck on, well, friend, acquaintance. We're on the same side. We just disagree on what Trump did on Sunday on Meet the Press. I think FSU, along with a lot of other colleges, universities, I think they're in trouble with their sports teams because of the way NIL is functioning. And if you're in the PC USA Church, get out. See you tomorrow.