Ep. 5581: Cutting Grass is Racist.

The Duke sings. That makes me feel better about my singing. Welcome. John Wayne in a celebrity ensemble kicking off the morning show with Preston Scott. Good morning, friends. How are you doing? It's April the 13th. It's a Monday show 5581 of the radio program, affectionately known as Common Sense Amplified. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. We will take a journey through the news. And we will cover a lot of stuff. Hey, the X page is gaining a little momentum. There's so many stories out there. And there's some sound we're going to play in this broadcast today. And at least one or two pieces of it will originate from the X page at TMS Press and Scott. But as always, we begin with some scripture. I'm just, this is what popped up in the devotional. Sometimes I do devotional. passages. Sometimes it's something from the message on Sunday. Sometimes it's something that I've just been kind of floating around in my brain and laying on my heart. This is from the devotional today for God so loved the world that he gave his only son. And I want to pause there. This is John 316. This is the verse that the dude with the rainbow afro for years on major sporting events, he'd travel the country. And he'd hold up a John 316 sign. And he would be in the camera shots. And he literally was like a traveling evangelist. John 316. He held it up all the time in major sporting events all over the country. One guy. I don't know that anyone's ever really told his story. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him. Some translations say that whosoever, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. And the whoever part is I want to underscore. Some of you have been taught to believe that you don't have a say in the matter, that it's predetermined. And you've misunderstood and had mistought to you the scripture that talks about predestination. That verse right there sets everything straight. If God doesn't give everybody the opportunity to become a Christian, he's not just. And that verse, no matter how you approach the translation of it, says the same thing. Whosoever. You have a say, and don't ever forget that. Ten past the hour. Features to keep you entertained. Guests and experts so you stay informed. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

The Masters is in the books. Rory McElroy wins his second straight. Very few players have ever repeated. It's a very daunting task. And my fave, Scotty Sheffler, bravely. I mean, he just jammed the golf course two straight days, but he started slow in this tournament. And he fell one shot, one shot. Think about that. This is the part about golf that is hard to get people to understand if you're playing a round of golf, let alone you're playing in a local tournament or your club championship or whatever. Every single shot you can save on the golf course matters, whether it's the first hole, the fifth hole, the 10th hole, or the 18th hole. And just look at this. They played four rounds of golf. And one shot was the difference between Scotty Sheffler and Rory McElroy. Hundreds of golf shots hit between the competitors and one shot separated first and second, two shots first and third. It's, I mean, two shots, one shot. I use that illustration to point out little things do matter. They do. If you can manage your way through the little things in life, you'll find fewer big things getting in your way. It's not a guarantee, but those little things add up. Boy, do they add up. But congratulations, happy for him. It would have been happier for Scotty. But no, I'm happy for him. Let's see. It's April 13th, 1743, Thomas Jefferson, T.J. To those of us that knew him. Third U.S. president born in Virginia, 1830 in Washington, President Andrew Jackson gives a famous toast during a time of sectional strife. Our federal union, it must be preserved. 30 years later, we were fighting because in 1861. 33 hours of bombardment afterwards, the union held Fort Sumter in Charleston, but it surrenders to the Confederates after getting bombed for 33 straight hours. If you've never been to Fort Sumter, that's a place worth going to. The history in, that's where the Civil War started. 1970, the moonbound Apollo 13 spacecraft crippled when the oxygen tanks explodes. It was on this date. April 13th, 13th, just saying. 1997, Tiger Woods becomes the youngest person to win the Masters at the age of 21. What else we have here? We've got National Decorating Month. I guess it officially begins today. Today's National Thomas Jefferson Day, of course. It is... What else do we have? What? They've changed the format of this thing. This is stupid. I want to... What's today? Okay, thank you. It's National Peach Cobbler Day. National Make Lunch Count Day.

National Scrabble Day. Do you ever play Scrabble? Scrabble's a good game to stretch your brain. As long as you've got a Scrabble dictionary. Because people throw words out at you and you're like, that's not a word. And the people who play Scrabble all the time will just smile and they go, oh yeah? Check me. And it's some bizarre word that they know these were like 400 points. It's crazy. 16 past the hour. Come back with a great way to start the Monday show. Yeah. I don't know if you giggled when I, like I did, when the president announced we were going to have MMA fights at the White House on the grounds on flag day, which is his birthday. It's Trump's birthday. It's Trump's birthday. I'm not mistaken, it's the, it's the birthday of the United States Army. and when it was all upset because he was rolling out a big parade for the army and it was oh it happens to be his birthday a big whoop whatever get over it i got i got your tears in a bottle liberals um here's the thing i you know i'm not a huge fan of m m a i'm not it's just not something that i'm interested in i like the sweet science better i like boxing um The bloodbath that usually MMA becomes just doesn't interest me because that's really kind of what it's all about. But it's like hunting. I'm not a hunter, but I don't begrudge people that like hunting. That's fine. This is not for me. It would be for me if I had to to survive. MMA. I watch other things. It's just not something that I would tune in or pay to see or anything like that. But now this, I don't know if you've heard. The story is true. On a phone call from left-wing social media commentator Andrew Calligan. Hunter Biden gets a call, said he was going to organize a fight, a cage match between Hunter Biden and the sons of Donald Trump. Apparently, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric been challenged to a fight. And so Hunter, because he's, you would think that a guy that has gotten away, with the deeds he's gotten away with. We just lay low, you know, take it down a notch. But no, no, no. He said, I told him I'd do it 100% if he can pull it off. And if he can't, I'm still coming. I don't expect that to be the case. I wonder if, uh,

if Barron shows up if he'd feel the same way. But now just because you're tall doesn't mean, you know, and I get that. You might remember the match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that never took place. They had challenged each other or Elon Musk challenged him and he was like, I'm down for it. You know, the idea of political duels kind of. Although there's a charm involved. You're walking stick. You wrap somebody on the head on the floor of the Senate. Why, you, sir, you have insulted me with your very breath. Whap! You are catamite! Wap! Step outside, sir! I mean, you know, you may recall, 1804. Then Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton got into a duel. Hamilton got shot and killed. Did you know that that's how Hamilton died, right? Yeah, that's the whole musical Hamilton. It kind of revolves around all that. The big Disney thing that, you know, it's a Disney thing. It is. They on the rights to it. And while there's some language, it's, it really is from a musical perspective, it's pretty cool. But that effectively ended Aaron Burr's career. He was, in fact, there were rumblings. He was trying to kind of start a new nation or something like, it's crazy stuff. But anyway, yeah, if it happened, would you watch? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would watch it. I picture Hunter Biden in one of those leotards that has one shoulder strap. Not two, but the one, the one shoulder. And see, I'm just not. I think those things look like buffoonish. But then again, I'm not a fan of that kind of dress on a lady either, you know, the one strap thing. I just think it looks weird. But that's just to my eye. It's, you know, but I just picture him in one of those leotards bouncing around with kind of a flowy kind of robe, you know, Trump boys come out. They've got, they've got, they've got men, you know, that they're stepping on to get into the ring, probably, not stairs, not for the Trump boys. Anyway, all right, let's come back. And, uh, the big stories. Yeah, we got one that you just. Yeah. Beck. He's always been a white guy. Glenn. Beck. Right. We got it. Licensed to talk. Nine to noon on WFLA.

Hit it. Good morning. And welcome. To the Maldon show with Preston's call. 36 minutes after the hour. He's Jose. Show. Big stories in the press box. We are. We're three and a half hours away, three hours and 24 minutes away from the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by the U.S. Navy. According to the president and clarified by U.S. Sentcom, all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports will be blocked. Anyone not going to an Iranian port, free passage. Our mine sweepers have been out there. We've been using drones to find mines. The Iranians liars that they are claimed, you know, we just don't know where the mines are. That's nonsense because their boats can't navigate and do the harassing that they do, the terrorizing that they do, the extortion that they engage in without knowing where those mines are. So that's rubbish. It's absolute rubbish. So we and maybe other nations have helped. We've been working to clear a passageway for the passage of ships that are not engaging. Trump said that Iran had been charging $2 million for a ship to pass through the strait. And Trump basically said that if you're a ship that paid that. You're not going to be doing business through here for a while. So we're going to stop you. This will be interesting because now you're really poking the eye of China and Russia and getting their fuel. So I think there are a lot of moving parts to this. But that blockade begins today. The Iranians, for their part, you know, As soon as the United States stops acting like a totalitarian regime, then we can negotiate and find it. No, we're not negotiating. I'm speaking for myself. We're not negotiating with you lunatics. You put adults in charge. You start the process of free and fair elections. But no, we're in it now, friends. You got to see this through the finish line. The Iranian people have to have a chance to form a government. Not this one. Can't leave this one in place. The biggest story in the press box I'm going to hold till next hour. I'm just going to tell you about it. But you have to hear it to believe it. It is the latest example of racism and white supremacy. You ready? Lawn maintenance.

Now, I'm not kidding. Now, if you want to get ahead of it, you can go to my blog page. I've got a, not blog page, you can go to the X page for the show, and you can see it right there because it's just, it's less than 40 seconds of gold. This girl, woman, okay, explaining that white supremacy is found in lawn care. You might think, why would you play that? No, there is a reason why I'm going to play this and why I'm going to focus on this. There is a reason. But you've got to hear it to believe it. That's coming up next hour. Those are our big stories this morning here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Guests, the other shows can't book, topics they won't talk about, and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. You know, sometimes...

sanity can be found on the left. Just last week, maybe the week before, I think it was last week. I pointed out I was wrong. Democrats were right about one thing. They, and I say were, are. That were is an accurate statement. There are so many positions that Democrats have taken over the years that now they're 180 on. It's not about evolved thinking. It's it's it's it's pure political calculation. In fact, my commentary this morning that that that that I released spills that out. It spells that out. It's it's all about it's politically expedient for me to think this now because we need voters. I'll play I'll play examples of it. of Harry Reid, who would become the Senate Majority Leader for the Democrat Party. He determined what was heard in the Senate, basically. Harry Reid proposed a bill wanting to end birthright citizenship. How in the world didn't it happen? Well, he changed his mind in 2018 and said it was terrible. In the early 1990s, it was a thing. Same thing with illegal immigration in general for Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, all of them. All of them. And I bet privately they still think the way that they did. They just can't do it publicly. John Cleese from Monty Python. I mentioned this ever so briefly. It looks like, it looks rather as though black lives don't matter, he posted. Also, writing about it would damage the image of the murderers who killed these poor people. He's talking about at least 26 who were killed on Easter in Nigeria by Islamists, Christians, targeted and killed on Easter by Islamists. And his point was, if you're a black Christian, I guess your life doesn't matter. Let me help John here. If you're a black conservative, your life doesn't matter. If you're a black Christian, you're kind of more than likely going to be a conservative. More than likely. Because conservatism is anchored on convictions, and convictions are part of a moral fabric. But he also said this. And keep in mind, Cleese is a liberal. He doesn't like Donald Trump, dislikes many things. But he also made this, he tweeted this statement out a few months ago. The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values. Regardless of dogma, despite the many mistakes made by churches, true statement. For centuries, British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching. If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain anymore.

I posted a response to his comments, and I welcomed him to conservatism. And I appreciate the fact that he's making a stand. But this is an exercise in circular thinking to a certain extent because it just draws you right back to the whole absurdity of what the left claims as racist. how the left claims tolerance, but in fact, among the most intolerant of people anywhere in the world. Because if you don't fit, he's an illiberal on a lot of things. Maybe I'll put it this way. He's a classic liberal. But he doesn't, he has principles. And so because of that, he's now hated by illiberals. He's out of the club. And that's the way it works. We've got some animal stories today. Dr. Joe will join us. One of the creepiest stories you'll ever hear. And Zach Smith from the Heritage Foundation in the third hour. Morning show with Preston Scott. Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast. On WFLA.

All right, a few reminders here. Capital Conservatives. One week from tomorrow. You can sign up if you want a meal. The deadline for the meal is this week. Capital Conservatives sign up at gmail.coms. We're making progress. It's not quite a click at a website, but we're making progress. Capital Conservatives sign up at gmail.com. If you want to do the dinner, which is at the Oaks Lodge, it's $18 a person. And then you have a meal. And then Peter Schweitzer will be there. That's 6 o'clock. And you're invited if you just want to come to hear Peter's talk. You don't have to buy the dinner. You have to have the reservation to have the dinner by this week on the 17th. I think it's Friday. But... Yeah, Peter's going to be talking about his new book Invisible Coup. And so if you're interested. Also, put this on your calendar. There's a simultaneous Bible reading going on May 3rd at the state capitol from 4 to 5. They got people assigned to different books of the Bible and go. And, I mean, you're going to have every single book of the Bible being read at one time from 4 to 5. If you want to take part in that, you can reach out. Florida prayer.org slash Bible reading. And you can sign up. But, you know, if you sign up, you got to do it. You know, you can't make that commitment and then bag out of it. That would be bad. I commit to read God's word on that day at that hour, this book. And then you just say, no, can't do that. But the National Day of Prayer is coming up on Thursday, May 7th. I'm going to be there. And again, my challenge is for all pastors to announce and to be there and to lead your congregation to the event. Yeah, but it's in the middle of the workday. Oh, tell me you haven't taken a couple of hours at a lunch hour sometime. You can do it. You can rearrange things and be there. The turnout last time is not acceptable. Yes, I am pushing hard. I have made a commitment. I will be there. I'm not, I'm there to just be like you. I'm going to walk around and pray. I have. You know, I, I'm going to, you know what I'm going to do? Between now and that day, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to give you an idea of how to pray. Because it's hard. It's hard work. And I came across a years ago, and I don't even know where it originated. I don't remember. It was a laminated card that took the Lord's prayer. and broke it down and if you if you use the outline not the words the outline and and you break down the lord's prayer you're going to pray for an hour without without even thinking about it you're just going to be going and and as you start to pray

Holy Spirit starts moving in you and all of a sudden you start getting recall of people you oh man I need to pray for this person I need to pray for that person I need to pray for this situation I need to pray for this leader I need to pray for that leader whatever it might be you're gonna be spurred on by the mere discipline of putting yourself out there so it is at the state capital the historic state capital 1130 to 115 on May 7th. Just do it. Put it in your calendar now. No excuses. Shut it down for two hours. Whatever you lose in business, you'll get it back. You will get it back. And also pray for the Uyghurs in China. Investigative journalist Ethan Gutman reporting. He has come convinced that there is now there have been disappearances of 28 to 29 year olds inside these concentration camps. Why are 28 and 29 year olds disappearing from China's Uyghur concentration camps? They're harvesting their organs. They're killing them and they're harvesting their organs because that is when the biological clock says you're at your healthiest. Your organs have stopped growing, and that's that. I'm going to talk more about this another time because it's not on our radar. We're not, we're not, it's just not. Let's come back, get to hour number two, and I will ask a very, very important question about pajamas.

to the second hour of the morning show with Preston Scott. I came across this story by Molly Englehart on Epic Times. It's just an opinion piece. But it asked this question. Let me just pose it. We're not going to take a bunch of time here, but I think it's worth talking about. When did pajamas become public attire? If you step back and think about it, it has become a thing. A lot of people point to COVID. People just started working from home, staying in their jammies all day long, staying comfortable, whatever. I'm just going to read a few thoughts here from Molly. She said, this isn't about poverty. This isn't about people that don't have money. This is about preference. When did it become normal to wear pajamas in public? Big box store, grocery stores, airports, everyday errands. Pajamas have quietly crossed the line from private to public. The more I see it, the less I think this is about clothing. It feels like a signal that something else has shifted. So let me pause. Is she reading too much into this? Or is she on to something? Getting dress used to be kind of a social contract. No rigid or formal, not rigid or formal, and not about wealth or fashion, but about marking a transition. You woke up, you prepared yourself, you stepped into the world in a way that showed you were ready to participate in it. There was a clear difference between private life and public life, between rest and responsibility, between being at home and entering a shared space. Pajamas erased that line. When we stop marking those transitions, something subtle changes. We do not fully arrive anywhere. We are still half at home even when we're out in the world, and that affects how we engage with everything around us. She points to COVID and then says this. We have elevated comfort to something close to a guiding principle. But when comfort becomes the highest value, other things begin to erode. Discipline weakens. Preparation fades. Clothing used to signal effort. It told the people around you that you were present, that you were engaged, that you made some attempt to meet the moment. When that signal disappears, everything flattens. I want to pause for a second. Think about that expression. Everything flattens.

wearing pajamas into the world can feel like a quiet message that says, do not ask me to do anything hard. I'm not prepared for that. See, when I read that line, I got to thinking she's on to something there. Don't ask me to do anything hard. Now, just pause for a hit the pause button. I'm going to finish here in a second. Considering what? Many of us observe in our culture today. Is that observation far off from what we have been thinking? I watch young mothers today get somewhere on time because they have a child or two. And I think to myself, whatever happened to starting earlier instead of always being late. Young families struggle being places on time because, well, they have kids now. Well, start earlier and be on time. To wherever you're going. To whatever you've committed to. Molly finishes with this. This is not about judging people for what they wear. It is about noticing what happens in a culture when some small standards quietly disappear. Those small standards rarely exist in isolation. When they shift in visible ways, it raises the question of where else they are shifting. We often talk about freedom as the ability to do whatever we want. That is part of it. But there is another side of freedom that matters just as much. And that is self-governance.

Now, I bet you don't look at people wearing PJs out in public again the same way. And again, it's not about judging. It's about observing what's beyond the statement of wearing PJs out in public is a statement. What I'm challenging you to do is figure out what that statement is. Told Jose in the break, I think it was a brilliant set of observations. And I loved her analysis of them. Twelve past the hour. Let's take you on the way back machine, courtesy of C-SPAN, Libs of TikTok. This is the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993 on the floor of the Senate. Harry Reid, who served as a Democrat for 30 years, Senate Majority Leader for 8, introduced the bill, the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993. He introduced it. Listen to what he said on the floor of the Senate. If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No same country would do that, right? Guess again, if you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee of full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at country-county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born? to illegal alien mothers. Just when the American people think nothing can be more absurd than the way we deal or rather don't deal with illegal immigration, they discover that we have a political asylum system that would qualify us for Senator Proxmeyer's Golden Fleece Award a thousand times over. I don't know why he didn't make this award. He should have. When Democrats Talk about limiting and eliminating birthright citizenship. They're lauded. When they introduce a bill to curb illegal immigration, they're applauded. Trump does it? He's a Nazi.

There's a bigger issue here, though. This isn't about the hypocrisy. That's too easy these days because hypocrisy is owned by the left and it's borrowed by the right. This is about what he said years later. That bill was a mistake. So Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. Kamala Harris, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, all of them have changed their position. This is the problem with the Democrat Party. Their positions move based on what the political calculus is. They don't have conviction. It's about OMG, we need voters, we need to do this. It doesn't matter that it sacrifices the future of this country. It doesn't matter that America is slowly being eroded by multiculturalism that has no anchoring to this nation. People moved here and immigrated here because of America's values that were unwavering largely. Mistakes made were corrected, but largely this nation was anchored to a set of moral values and principles that are found in a Bible. We put them into law. And now that's all being undermined. Later this week, I may share something with you that I talked about at the dinner table yesterday after church with family members. It's one of the most stunning things I think I've ever seen in my life. And if I saw it right, and if I'm right, What I saw here just locally driving around. It'll stagger you. It really will. But that's to come. For now, just think about the change. And can you trust what a Democrat says? Great question.

Before we get to the next segment here real quick, four British hikers caught on the Golden Road after illegally entering the U.S. from Canada. Their names, Ali Muhammad Ali Abdullah, Hachmid Mohammed Nagy, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Muhammad Sultan Salah. These are the Brits. They're British citizens that entered into the United States illegally and were caught. Winder in this miners road called the Golden Road entering into Maine. 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 Preston Scott. You might have seen the story, the Savannah Hilton Head International Airport, brief delay of a Delta flight due to an alligator near the runway. Air traffic control audio captured the pilot calmly reporting the animal's presence. There's a six-foot gaiters sitting on his two legs. Excuse me? Six foot? Yep, he's about six foot. He just laid down. So airport crews responded, safely removed the alligator from the airfield, relocated it outside the airport grounds. No injuries reported. Here's my question. So how big of a problem is it? Alligators wandering onto a runway. No, I mean, if you're flying into that airport at night, I'm just saying, how did the alligator get in? Might want to check the fencing around the airport. That's a catastrophe waiting to happen. The next story was funny to me. Because I never heard have you ever heard of an animal cafe? Uh, no. This is a couple weeks ago, an ostrich escaped an animal cafe in Thailand. Ran nearly 10 miles on a highway before being captured. Um, guy, guy named Isara Boraboon. owns the cat cafe, said one of his two ostriches named B1 and B2 darted through an open gate and followed a cement truck onto the highway. Ran 10 miles. There's a lot of video apparently this ostrich running alongside traffic inside. But here's where my mind went. Thailand? Animal Cafe? I'm thinking... What they're serving up is wandering around you. That's what I'm thinking. I mean, you know, I mean, there have been stories for years about the Asian culture finding canines to be a delicacy. I mean, source of food, cats. And so an animal cafe, I'm thinking this is a cultural thing. It's actually a place where people bring.

Or have, or cats, dogs, whatever, in this place cats wander around while you're eating. And people find it comforting or what have you to have a cat to, I don't know. I don't get it. It is so unhealthy. It is so wrong. That's fine at home, but at a restaurant? No. And that's, in part, that's kind of my objection to these dogs that are finding their way into grocery stores. There's so many people claiming service dog status that aren't service dogs. Come on, stop it. There are legitimate service. Stop it. You're jeopardizing the health of other people. But that's the culture we live in now. And if you have a pet that is unruly, that's why you go to dog pond kennels. Because they'll take care. If you're wandering around in public with your dog all the time on a leash, while you go shopping because you can't bear little dog being at home without you, at least get your dog trained. Okay? Do a favor for everybody, including yourself. You'll be glad you did it. All right, we got back. We'll come back with. The big story that I did not fully expand upon last, you've got to hear the sound to believe it. White supremacy has been now located in lawn maintenance. No, I'm not kidding. He helped you make the argument, the communicator of common sense. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

Just sit back and listen. I can't stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist and like based in white supremacy. If that doesn't make sense, that's okay, I guess. It seems really obvious to me. It's really upsetting. Bring back weeds. Bring back clover yards. Look, can we just, can anything just be okay in its natural state, or do we just have to whitewash everything, make it a competition, and use it as a sign of your worth as a human being in society? Like, can we just have weeds? You can laugh? It's okay. When I first listened to this and looked at this young lady, I felt pity for her. I mean, maybe some people view their lawn as a place of competition, but I don't.

I enjoy working in my yard. I'm a big believer that, like, according to the University of Minnesota, proper lawn care helps prevent soil erosion and runoff, reduces pollution in waterways, helps filter rainwater, improves water quality and absorption, traps dust and pollutants while producing oxygen, reduces urban heat by cooling surrounding air and surfaces while reducing noise and glare. Also, according to the University of Minnesota, which, by the way, is a liberal bastion. Properly maintain lawns support wildlife habitat, minimize issues like filter, fertilizer runoff. And let's not even count the jobs that the landscaping profession provides to people. But this goes back to lead research assistant who flagged this, said this is another example of just opposition to anything that appears to touch on exceptionalism. I mean, if this girl walked on to Augusta National, she'd have a heart attack.

The beautifully maintained grounds. I wonder what she would say at Disney. Disney would be a bedfellow, probably from a political ideological perspective for her. But Disney is meticulous in the landscaping it provides. And it is one of the reasons why many people enjoy going there. It's just a lovely place to be. The fact that we are now at normal things, mowing the grass, is now tied to white supremacy and racism. This is not a new idea. This is something that illiberalism breeds. and develops and grows. It fosters it. It fosters this idea that anything that is good is white supremacy at its core. So she wants weeds. She will need, and you know what? And that's fine. If that's what you want, you'll need to own a piece of property and go live somewhere. that doesn't have any kind of HOAs because housing experts will tell you that a yard covered in weeds reduces the value of the property. Not so much a piece of land, but the property surrounding a home. The home's value is decreased by the lack of care of the property, of the grounds. That's why realtors will often employ lawn maintenance people to maintain properties of vacant homes that are up for sale to keep them mowed down and not keep them looking nice because it helps maintain value. She's entitled to think that way, but I don't have an objection to her thinking weeds are just great. There's some weeds that produce flowers.

But there's the assignment of racism to it. If you happen to be black and you're listening to that, you've got to be just dying inside. Really? So me mowing my yard is racist. I'm now tapped into white supremacy because I'm mowing my lawn. My neighbor who happens to be black who loves working in his yard and maintains it, I wonder what he thinks of this. Dr. Joe is standing by next. Morning Joe with Preston Scott. What will you do without freedom? On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. Time for some healthy expectations. Joining us, as always on Monday, Dr. Joe Camps. Good morning, sir. Good morning. How are you today, Preston? The question is, how's your lawn? You know, I was thinking about that. I happen to like my lawn to be beautiful. I do not like weeds. My grandfather grew up in the lawn care business. You're absolutely right. The environment is very important to me. It doesn't matter what people think these days. But, you know, I came across something that I thought was pretty simple, and sometimes simple is more because things get so complex. You know, what about this? What about this? What do they say about this? You know, information is out there galore. I came across a little something that's called the 3-3 Rules for Health. 3-3-3 Rule for Health. Okay. And this actually went viral, and I sort of liked it because it says it's simple. It says three meals a day, no snacks, balanced protein, and this one got me three liters of water. Now, I think... I think you could probably get away with about a third of that. So you might, I mean, three liters of water. That is a lot. That's a lot of water. That's a lot of water. That's a lot of water. So I'm not going to go on record saying I agree with that, but it was part of this three-three rule for health. And then that's roughly about 13 cups of playing. Well, that's a lot of water. Anyway, three miles of walking or a rigorous exercise. Or you can actually... count steps. I know my wife is doing that, and she counts her steps all the time. And so I was thinking that it's very difficult. I mean, I understand the difficulty with those that are trying to find regimens and things that they can do. You think about time. You think about kids. You think about raising a family. You think about work. I mean, it gets very simple, but you've got to take care of yourself. And I've been fortunate as I've retired now to have a walking group. It's good because it gives me mental stimulation as well as exercises. So try to make it fun. But I thought this was a nice, simple way to 333 rule for health.

It's online. You can look at it and see if it might be applicable to what you're doing in terms of trying to have a balanced profile. So, count of simple today, but President, you know, the long I do this, every time I see something, I go, we've talked about that. We've talked about that. We've talked about that. We've talked about that. I have a little more respect for you guys that work in the communications industry now that it can be challenging and tough because sometimes you don't want to be repetitive. So that's my little simple message of 3-3 rule for health today. And I'll be back with you soon to have an update on something else. Thank you, Joe. I appreciate the time this morning. All right. You have a great week's question. Thank you, sir. We were just starting to lose his phone there. So we just got that in there. Yeah, be careful because, like he said, three liters, that's a lot of water. And you can harm yourself by drinking too much water. That is a thing. So, as always, consult with your doctor before you start doing anything that's a little bit beyond the norm for yourself, no matter what kind of pattern you're in. 46, almost 47 minutes past the hour.

On the X page at TMS, Preston Scott, if you scroll down, there's just, I mean, it's rapid fire. There's content firing all the time now. And there's a video that is, it's certainly gone viral, guy on a ring camera, who identifies himself as Harry Dresden. Now, some of you might know that Harry Dresden is the name of a guy from the novel series, The Dresden files. written by Jim Butcher. Harry is a male wizard who works as a private investigator. And it's worth noting that this guy dresses like the fictional character, the long coat. But he's wearing, he's wearing sandals as he shows up at some dude's house in Fairfield, California, banging on the door, shouting profanities and threats. And I mean, if you watch the video with the sound up, do not watch it with children around. And it is intense. It is beyond creepy. The guy eventually gains entry to the house. The homeowner, it sounds like, was not immediately there but got there in a hurry. and ended up confronting him with a shovel and police ended up arresting him. There are those out there that say, oh, this is just clickbait. Well, the police don't think so because they've arrested the guy and they've charged him with multiple charges. Now, there are a few things I want to mention about this story. Number one, as I posted on the clip, there were multiple occasions in this video.

where this guy crossed the line where you would have been justified shooting him through the door. You would have. He was attempting to gain entry to the door to the home, the residence, through the door. And certainly when he walks in. But the other thing. And I'm going to discuss this the next time we do our personal defense segment with Charlie and J.D. It'll be J.D. in the month of May. The other thing that stood out to me is how much this guy has the eyebrows of Eugene Levy, who's an actor. Some of you know exactly who I'm talking about. But who up close, I mean, he's already been memed like crazy. when he gets up to the camera and he sticks his nose up in the air and it's like oh gosh this guy's going to live forever in infamy but the threats of violence open this door i will end you that kind of stuff the way he talked and what he did while he's then beating on the door or trying to kick the door in yeah that's that's that's a that's a that's a firearm through the door But the other thing that stood out to me besides the eyebrows is how much this guy looked like Keith Oberman. And he rages just like Keith Oberman. So I'm wondering if there's a thing connected to looking like Keith Oberman that just causes, that triggers this irrational rage. Because Keith Oberman is just nuts. You know, Keith is the former. fill in the blank. He was a former anchor at ESPN. I don't know if he and Dan Patrick would still be close friends. I don't know that Dan would care to frequent. I mean, I'm sure he chats with him from time to time, but I doubt that Dan would consider Keith a buddy at this stage with Keith's just kind of gotten off the rails. But this is on the X page. If you've not seen it, it's just, it serves as a reminder to me. You know, we talked about a lady walking her dog. Or maybe it was her cat, I don't know. And she just, some dude was walking through this upscale neighborhood in South Central Florida. And he just randomly decided, I think I'm going to kill this lady. And he stabbed her to death. This guy just shows up at someone's door. He's never seen him before in his life. Has no idea who this guy is. And he's now trying to kick in his door. You just don't know. And it is why we strongly suggest if you have the Constitution, get trained. If you don't have the Constitution, still find ways to figure out what you would do. Speaking of crime, Zach Smith from Heritage joins me next.

And welcome. It's the third hour of the morning show with Preston Scott. I've got to turn the page on the rundown. And here we go into the third hour. It is show 5581. That is Jose in Studio 1A. I'm here in Studio 1B. And I'm pleased to have with us a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation manager. The Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program at Heritage. Co-author of rogue prosecutors, how radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. He is our friend. He's Zach Smith. Hi, Zach. How are you? I'm doing well, Preston. Thanks for having me on the show. I'm always fascinated by what is the straw that breaks the back when writers choose to pick a topic and say, okay, I'm now writing about this. Was this a culmination of things or did, was there one story, one event, one community, one DA that brought this article out? Now, it's really a culmination of things, Preston. Look, as you mentioned, I've written a lot on crime, policing, criminal justice issues over the past several years, and I travel a lot for my job. I have an opportunity to go into many of these communities, places like Washington, D.C., Memphis, San Francisco, Los Angeles. And I saw firsthand just how bad things had gotten in many of the cities of the past four or five years. And recently... I noticed a turnaround in some of those cities. Now, there's still a long way to go in many of these places, but particularly in Washington, D.C., compared to the state of things three years ago, it is a much, much cleaner place today, is a much safer place today. And I said, well, let's take a look and let's find out why this sudden turnaround has happened. Yeah, I want to do a deep dive into Washington, D.C., because in your column, you cite some things that I want to get into. But I want to back up just a little bit. You know, there were some of us that looked at the election in New York City and the proclamations that now Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made, and now he's told us that he is the Grand Puba of all things, that he will overrule the police commissioner as needed. Yeah, Flintstone's reference, you're welcome. I look at New York City and say, you know what, they voted for this, but this is going to be a good thing for America to see. to see how things so dramatically change and not for the better, because it's not possible for it to move towards the better. What's your view of New York City and what you're going to see from a crime perspective there with Zohran Mamdani's positions? Well, it's a sad state of affairs, Preston. There's no doubt about it. And I think in some sense, we're going to get a real-life, real-time natural experiment where you're seeing New York, Chicago, a couple of these other deep blue cities who are doubling down on their failed policies when it comes to criminal justice. So you have Zohran Mamdani, who obviously is pushing policies that I think will make New Yorkers less safe. He's pushing policies that will likely lead to a racist-level staffing shortage among the New York Police Department, the NYPD there.

You've already seen record numbers of retirements, record numbers of officers leaving for our home state of Florida and elsewhere around the country as well. And then keep in mind, on top of that, you have Alvin Bragg, who is the rogue Sorosbacked prosecutor there in Manhattan continuing to push his problematic policies. Now, the one silver lining for New York may be that things aren't going to hit absolute rock bottom immediately. because you still have the Trump administration, the Trump DOJ, going in aggressively prosecuting violent crime at the federal level. That's something that the Biden Justice Department wasn't doing well, wasn't doing very much of, to be perfectly frank. But the Trump administration is doing that. Now, if that changes, I think that would be really a nightmare scenario for New York City. And what's really interesting to me is that... Zohran Mamdani is so extreme. He's even having to fight the liberal government of the state of New York on some fronts. Well, whenever you see New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hokule coming out, trying to be the voice of reason, that should be a red flag for everyone. That something has gone terribly wrong, terribly off the rails in a lot of ways. Joining us, legal analysts and experts, Zach Smith with the Heritage Foundation, we come back. We're going to zero back in on our nation's capital. We just spent a minute talking about the maybe commerce capital of not just the United States but the world, at least for now. But that's changing. But what about our nation's capital? There's an incredible before and after, and we'll talk about the before next. On the show with Preston Scott. They're going to get a... I'm just... Knock knock, knock. Who's there? On WFLA.

Zach Smith, joining us here on the third hour, in the third hour of the morning show. Zach, you brought up the nation's capital of the very beginning of this. Tell us, give us a retrospective here. When Joe Biden took office, what started happening? Nothing good, Preston. Now, that's kind of par for the course for stuff coming out, Washington, D.C. But it was really sad. Things got really bad in the District of Columbia. It was leading our nation in terms of murders, it was leading our nation in terms of carjacking, leading our nation in terms of violent crimes being committed. And there were really at least two causes behind that. The first is you had local, local, radical city council members. who pledged to defund the police. I talked about it in my article. One city council member was giddy that the funding cuts would lead to the largest decrease in the local police force in nearly 50 years. And guess what? That turned out to be right. DC police are short-handed by almost 400 sworn officers today. That's a 50-year low in terms of manpower for the local police force. And then you had the Biden U.S. attorney for the district of Columbia, who essentially serves as the district's local elected DA, but he's appointed by the president because of the unique status of the district. But the Biden appointed U.S. attorney essentially took a soft-on-crime approach, wasn't prosecuting a number of crimes, just cutting sweetheart plea deals with repeat violent offenders. And so, of course, you started to see those violent crimes exponentially increasing. You know, we always hear the left throw out how there are so many minorities in prison that the numbers are disproportionately high, but they ignore the other disproportionately high part of the equation that you quantified in your article. The victims. Yeah, nobody talks about the victims, Preston. That's often the forgotten component of this conversation. Whenever we talk about murders, yeah, we talk about the numbers, but keep in mind, each one of those murder victims, that was a person, with a family, people who cared about them, who loved them, a community that suffers as a result of it. And to your point, you know, one of the sad realities is... that young black men are disproportionately victims of violent crimes, particularly murders and shootings. And so whenever you see those violent crime numbers increasing, the shootings, the murders increasing, that unfortunately means more young black men are being victimized. And so the very individuals, so many of these policies are designed to help, it actually ends up earning those individuals the most. You talked about murders, you talked about carjackings. Give us, quantify that just a little bit. Give us some numbers that you have. Yeah, so let's go back about 15 years or so. In 2012, the district had a 49-year blow of 88 murders. Now, for a big city like D.C. with a long history of violence, with a long history of crime, that is a tremendous accomplishment, 88 murders.

By 2023, the district was experiencing a 25-year high of 274 murders. So you went from 88 to 274 murders. Carjacking. In 2019, as recent as 2019, there was a relatively low number for D.C. of 152 carjackings that occurred in the district. If we fast forward to 2023, there were 957. Think about that, President. 957, almost 1,000 carjacking's in our nation's capital. In just that short period between 2019 and 2023, that's an increase of almost 500%. And keep in mind, you even had members of Congress being carjacked outside of their own apartment buildings. That's how bad things got. And it was a really unfortunate and very sad thing to see. When we come back, Zach Smith will stay with us. We're going to talk about how George Soros factors into any of this and whether it's quite so isolated as maybe some of you might think because it's really not. We're also going to talk about the after because things have changed. The old adage, there's a new sheriff in town, has literally proven to be accurate in the case of Washington, D.C., and we'll talk about it next.

UFLA on your phone with the IHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Hey, so here we go. An IHeart's radio station. With the Heritage Foundation, Zach Smith, friend of the program, been with us for many years, senior legal fellow, and we're talking about an article that he wrote. highlighting before and after, if you will, a snapshot of how these rogue prosecutors across the country are causing really big problems for communities across the country. Communities large and small because the effort by George Soros is in communities large and small. And Zach, I want you to just share a little bit how does George Soros factor into this whole equation? What does he have to do with state attorneys across the country? Yeah, well, George Charles, he's very good at finding arbitrage opportunities. He's very good at finding where his money, his resources can be most effective, and he realized that state attorneys, a local DA races, typically a very low profile, low dollar affairs, and for a relatively modest investment, when we're talking about political donations, he could have an outsized influence on those races. And he was also smart enough to realize that he didn't have to do the hard work of convincing... legislatures to change their laws, to overcome a governor's veto, to get new policies put in place. He just had to change who is in charge of enforcing many of those laws. And so he has funded to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars, directly funded many of these DA races. He's put in place an entire infrastructure to support their work. And unfortunately, even though there have been a lot of successes recently in pushing back against this radical movement, It's still very much alive and well. I mentioned New York earlier. There's still road prosecutors in places in California, places in Texas. And even in Florida, Monique Orrell, in Orlando, is still in office and still promoting a number of very problematic policies. I mentioned that things change with the election of Donald Trump. Let's quantify that. Yeah, well, Donald Trump, he came into office. The first thing he did, he appointed a new U.S. attorney, Janine Piro, Judge Janine, who said she's actually going to prosecute crime. She made clear that if you commit a criminal offense in the District of Columbia, you're going to be prosecuted and appropriate cases of prison sentence is going to be sought. Or even if you murder someone, she will seek the death penalty for you if the circumstances warrant it. So that's a big change in and of itself. And then the other thing that the president did, he deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Now, he got a lot of blowback for that. Many people on the left were very unhappy about it. But essentially, what he did by deploying the guard to Washington, D.C., he solved the immediate manpower shortage. I mentioned before the break that Washington, D.C.,'s local police force was at a 50-year low in terms of manpower. Well, by deploying the guard, he essentially solved in some respects. that manpower shortage. Now, the guard is not a permanent solution. I don't think anyone thinks that it will be a permanent solution, but it helped immediately solve that manpower crisis. And Preston, the numbers, the results speak for themselves. I mentioned in 23 that the district had 274 murders. Well, guess what? So far this year, there have only been 12 murders in Washington, D.C. That's a...

68% decrease from this same time period last year. And if that number holds, this will be the lowest year for Washington, D.C., in terms of murders committed, really since good records were kept beginning all the way back in the 1930s. Carjackings have also plummeted this year. So far, there have only been 37 reported carjackings. That's down by about 44%. compared to this same time last year. And so this idea that we cannot police, we cannot prosecute our way out of a violent crime crisis plaguing many cities today, I think these results show that that is just not true, that these tactics work and that more cities should be adopting them. Let's take the before, because I think it's a harbinger for what we're going to probably see in New York City. Zohran Mamdani is talking about cutting 5,000 police officers. from the New York City Police Department. That's terrifying. There's no other way to put it. It's terrifying. Look, we know that putting police officers on the street, empowering them to appropriately and responsibly perform their jobs, is one of the most effective crime-fighting tools available. And you know what, Preston, if you go into many crime-ridden neighborhoods, the residents of those neighborhoods will tell you, we want more officers on the street. We want more officers in our neighborhood to help enforce the law, to help enforce community standards. And so whenever you're talking about that drastic, that dramatic of a decrease in the number of sworn officers, it is going to cause many problems. And I think what happened in Washington, D.C. on a much smaller scale. shows just how bad it can get. How quick. So is the big takeaway, I feel like there are two big takeaways here. And you correct me or amplify or change whatever. One is defunding the police does not work. And two, funding the wrong people to become the district attorney, state attorney, or what have you, the lead prosecutor in a given community can have a remarkable impact on the quality of life in that community. 100% agree with both of those things full stop. What I would add on top of that is, look, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel here when it comes to protecting communities. Think back to the early 90s in New York City, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Bratton. They employed what's known as Broken Windows policing. Basically, they enforce the small things, stop small problems from becoming big problems, and we saw a record decreases in crime when that happened. We know that by putting officers on the streets, by prosecuting criminals, particularly repeat violent offenders, that that is how we protect our communities, how we enforce law and order. And yet so many on the left today say that we don't have to use those techniques, that those techniques are harmful. And again, nothing could be further from the truth. Zach is always great intel. Thanks for writing it. And appreciate you joining us this morning. Talk to you soon. Of course. Thanks for having me on. Thank you. Zach Smith with us from the Heritage Foundation, senior legal fellow manager of the Supreme Court and appellate advocacy program at Heritage and co-author of a book. Appropriate, huh? Rogue prosecutors. Radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Look, this is as important a topic as you can imagine in the upcoming election cycle. Are you in a community where the state attorney is up for a reelection or election?

Pay attention to who is funding who. That will tell you a lot of what you need to know. Morning Joe with Preston Scott. Go ahead. Make my day. On News Radio 100.7. WFLA. Tomorrow mainly minute, money talk. Justin Haskins tomorrow from the Heartland Institute. We have really smart people on this show. It immediately raises the IQ level of this radio program because just Jose and me. So we got to bring smart people on here. We have, let me just give you a snapshot. What's going on? All right. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins in an hour and 24 minutes. There's not going to be a deal. The Iranians that are, quote, in charge, you know that total regime change, they're taking the position of, yeah, no, we're not going to abide by what the United States is demanding. And, okay. It's your right to say no. We'll just root you out. Good luck with that. That's going to be a challenge. The U.S. has to create enough space for the Iranian people to step in, and they've got to do it sooner versus later. This has to happen quickly. You've got to... You know, if it were me, I said last week, I would be calling for the Iranian people to... to show up at such and such a time in all of their cities. And I would have in the big cities, I would have a coalition of forces that are there to protect them and kill bad guys. That's just what I would do. I'd say, okay, we've got to do this. We just, we got to give these people a chance. Look, there's a reality here that a lot of people, I think, are uncomfortable with. But if France hadn't come and helped us, We'd still be British and we'd have crappy teeth. We'd have socialized medicine. We'd be leaving our country into the hands of the Islamists. Look at what's happening to England. But let's go back in history. Without the French help, we might not have made it. Now, I believe all of that was God ordained. But you still had to have willing vessels. You still had to have people willing to step up for God to use them. I am of the opinion that something similar has to happen here. That's just me. And that's why I'm not president. You know, I watched the documentary Melania with my wife the other night. It was, you know, it was fine. It's, it's, you wonder. You're surrendering your life for four years or eight years. And then for however long thereafter. Because the freight elevators that you travel in and out of, just, I mean, it's just, it is a giant imposition. That said, the job is thankless.

You got people that hate you no matter what. You got people that want you dead no matter what. Look, in my little slice of the world, I have people that hate me. All because I think differently than they do. And it's like, okay. Really? I can't imagine what it's like for these people, the Trump's. Or, you know, I mean. Well, you thought that way about Biden? Yeah, but I didn't wish him dead. I hoped, I prayed he found his way out of the Rose Garden. Look, I'm all for him. Hey, buddy, get your way off that stage. Navigate, you can do it. I didn't wish ill will on the man. Anyway, check out the big stories from the first two hours of the show. I know that that. You know, we're going to run a blockade. We're going to, this is going to get interesting as of 10 a.m. this morning, so we'll see. And there's your big story in the press box. Still serving as the mayor of Realville and dispensing information at the speed of sound. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

All right, for those of you living in the Crawfordville area, a little FYI. Paul Renner is going to be in your area today. The event begins at 1230. He's a candidate for governor, former House Speaker, U.S. Navy. inviting homeowners, seniors, community stakeholders, local business owners. You are welcome. It is the affordability now tour. He's going to talk. He's going to listen. Take questions. 1230 today, Crawfordville. It will be at the Wakula County Chamber of Commerce. 23 high drive in Crawfordville. So there you go. So if you live out, I know, short notice. You know, I just found, I just, hey, you. Case you have not heard. You remember the reparations that were being paid out in Evanston, Illinois? Well, a judge is allowing a lawsuit from Judicial Watch to stop the payments. He's letting the lawsuit move forward. He found credibility to the lawsuit. It's a program that's providing $25,000 direct cash payments to black residents, descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston from 1919 to 1969. I'm sorry, but slavery ended in the 1800s. I'm not saying there weren't mean people. I'm not. I'm not saying there aren't jerks. But I don't think that counts as even something worthy of reparations. That's just... Anyway, the lawsuit's moving forward. That's good. I think they're going to have a problem with this time window. If not, the whole overarching issue is as being discriminatory in and of itself on its face. According to Tom Fitton, who we've had on the program, he said the program provides payments to blacks only. The Constitution forbids race-based government programs like this. So the lawsuits moving ahead. And then there's this little story about inside the courts. A judge that is twice, listen now, twice been slapped by the Supreme Court. has temporarily blocked another Trump administration immigration priority. Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts found that the Department of Homeland Security did not follow proper protocols when it decided to cancel the temporary protected status of more than 5,000 Ethiopians in the United States, which means that they're eligible for deportation in 60 days.

I want to know why judges in district courts, federal district courts, are flaunting and are mocking the U.S. Supreme Court and flaunting their authority by suggesting that their rulings carry weight across the nation. The Supreme Court said, no, they don't. And he's still doing it. These are judges that are marked for impeachment. They're not following the laws. I don't need to tell you what happens to a society that says the laws are irrelevant. Just think through that for a second. The laws don't matter. We'll do what we want. That's called anarchy. These judges, man. Mm-mm, mm-mm. Grounds for impeachment. Remove them. Pull them. Pull them. Replace them. That's the game that indirectly, Zach Smith was talking about. Getting judges, getting district attorneys, getting these people into places that then wreck the court system, the legal system of this country. All right. We'll wrap it up. Don't leave. You have no idea what's coming.

So what did we learn on the program today? Well, it's hard to, uh, it's hard to ignore this. I can't stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist and like based in white supremacy. If that doesn't make sense, that's okay, I guess. It seems really obvious to me. It's, it's really upsetting. Bring back weeds. Bring back clover yards. Look, can we just, can anything just be okay in its natural state? Or do we just have to whitewash everything, make it a competition, and use it as a sign of your worth as a human being in society? Like, can we just have weeds? I mean, how do you ignore that? I've learned that working in your yard is white supremacy. That, by golly. Weeds is the thing. What do you say to that? How would you have a conversation with somebody like that? I don't know. I mean, I would certainly, she's calm. She's not using profanity. Good, good. I would love to burrow into her mind to understand. Where did you connect dots and somehow make this about racism? That's the big one that I learned today. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the morning show 180 on WFLA. My thanks to the Dan Patrick Show for What Did We Learn Today? I like that feature on Dan Sullivan show. Polly, what did you learn today? That goes around the room and he asks. Of course, he's got a cast. He's got a staff. Jose, me. There's your staff. What did you learn today? They're cutting your grass is racist. Okay, thanks for that.

We started the show with John 316. I made a kind of a biblical commentary out of that as well, offering some help to those of you that might be exposed to a wayward teaching that's out there from well-intentioned folks that love Jesus. No doubt about it. They're just wrong about one aspect of theology, but that's okay. We let you listen to that, young lady, telling you that you're a racist if you believe in mowing your lawn. Talked about the blockade. It's an hour and five minutes away. That might be made to watch television at 10 a.m. Pop on Fox News and check out what's going on with that. We allegedly started clearing mines out of the straight. yesterday or over the weekend. Maybe with some help, don't know. Animal stories today, of course, a great conversation with Zach Smith about the before and the after, the importance of law enforcement, but not just police officers and sheriff deputies and troopers and the different ways that law enforcement shows itself. But we're talking about the state attorneys out there, the district attorneys, the prosecutors. Having men and women that honor the rule of law and handle their job appropriately, we're fortunate in this community where we are. We're hanging in there. That's not the case across the state of Florida, and it certainly isn't the case across the country. Let you listen to Harry Reid. You'd think he was a Republican. Crazy, huh? And we talked about pajamas. That was a fascinating piece. Check out our two of the podcast. Pajamas in the public square. Definitely a good listen. Friends, thanks for joining us. Have a great day.