Ep. 5513: Tragedy, Terror, and the Fight for Free Speech

Good morning. Yeah, I am so happy to be with you. It's Monday, December the 15th show 5513 of the morning. But who's counting? Great to be with you. And the band is back together. Ladies and gentlemen, occupying the seat in Studio 1A is none other than the man we now call producer, a producer emeritus, and fill in host. Great Allen back in the fold. Hey, bud. How are you? Good. I'm doing well. How's everyone? Look at him. He's in his suit and he's got his vest and his jacket. It's cold. I needed a sweater vest and a tweed jacket today. Hey, baby, it's cold outside. It is. We'll see how many politically incorrect things we could say. We started it in the first three minutes. Yeah, I was going to say you say the band's back together. Yeah. Is that to the benefit of the audience or to the detriment? Yes. Yes, we are fully capable of both of those things. Watch out. Yes, so let's begin as we do with some scripture. This is it. You ready? It is John 14, verse 6. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. That pretty much settles it. Now, you don't have to believe that. That's your call. But don't ever think that you can relegate Jesus to one of the guys. That he's just one of the many ways that one. No, no, no, no. See, this is this, that's one of the many heresies of the late Pope is.

He said, oh, there's so many paths that lead to God. Oh, no, Bubby, that's not true. Jesus just said it right there. No one gets to the Father except through me. And to all of you that as we move closer and closer to Christmas, Have yet to bow a knee and accept Christ as your Savior to receive his grace and love and forgiveness? That is a very direct challenge to you. One way. Period. And stop. Ten past the hour. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. This is the morning show with Preston Scott. Live to the parking lot of the Walmart on Lanyap Way, east side of town of Tallahassee. Yeah, Grant didn't know this. The parking lot, somehow some live chickens got loose in the area. and the parking lot is full of roosters. That's amazing. Wandering, they're beautiful. I mean, they're as healthy as can be, but they've made nests now. You know how they have the little medians near the carts and then away from the carts that have shrubs? Yes. They've made nests in them. And we're not talking one or two. We're talking maybe a dozen. And so all day long, you go into that parking lot, you are going to be hearing roosters crowing. the entire time. It makes it so much fun. Amazing. Yes. Wow. Yes. They need to go down the road to the tractor supply on 90. Right. That's their, although they're probably kind of got a little PTSD from that because, you know, that's where they sell the chickens. It could be. Yeah. It could be. And that could be why they escaped. Yeah. Got loose on their way to market. Anyway, it is the 15th of December. 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified on this date. 1864. Union forces rout the Confederate Army of Tennessee in the two-day battle of Nashville. I had an ancestor there. Yeah? Mm-hmm. Yep. At the Battle of Nashville. Fighting for the good guys, right? Or not necessarily? We're all Americans.

Reconciliation is our game. We shook hands. We said, what's done is done. I told you, is this to the detriment or the benefit of the listening audience? You're all Americans. All right. In 1939, Gone with the Wind premieres in Atlanta, Georgia. Gone with the Wind, Scarlet. frankly scarlet i don't never mind uh 1944 an army plane carrying band leader glen miller who joined the army to play for troops during world war two disappears over the english channel never found it to my knowledge that plane has never been found i don't know if they after the immediate search i don't know if they ever looked for it again i'll be honest with you that to me would be that'd be worth finding What a way? Man, going down. That's just, yeah. 165, Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft maneuvered to within a few feet of each other in orbit to achieve the first rendezvous in space. That was a preparation for what some of you believe never happened. We never, ever went on the moon. Whatever. Let's see what else we got here. It is... It is National Cat Herders Day. Herders? Yes. Okay, I'm learning of a new profession, apparently, or hobby. Well, let's look deeper into this. How much trouble can they cause in general when describing our lives or our jobs? Are they that difficult? No matter how organized we try to be, errant kittens get away. Well, we're focused on bringing three or four tasks into line. Another spills the milk or creates an avalanche of problems before we know it, chaos ensues. And so apparently hurting Kat's Day is about getting your personal business life and home life and the chores and all of that in order. Oh, I see. They're using the phrase. Yes. You know. It feels like hurting cats or getting your ducks in a row, that kind of thing. There you go. That's it. So if you've got a job like hurting cats, it's about putting some order into that life. It is National Wear Your Pearls Day. I mean, you're very natally attired, but... Thank you. Yes, I left the pearls at home. National Cupcake Day. And it is Bill of Rights Day. So there you go. 16 passed. Come back with more here on the morning show with Preston Scott. We're going to get right to it because today is loaded. Let's all sing. You first. Feels a little bit like Christmas out there, doesn't it? Little chilly. And I am in remarkably good spirits considering my Green Bay Packers lost a game they had won, but more importantly lost players that they really can't afford to lose. Oh my goodness. What a, what a day. Oh, well, it's just football. I just feel bad for the guys that got hurt. I don't care who it is. See, that's...

That's a conservative mindset. We don't want to see anybody die. We don't want to see anybody suffer. We want everybody to do well. Unless they're Barack Obama in office or Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. You get the idea. Just remember, last week, Tim Walz told us what a masculine man he was and that we were scared of him. We were scared of his masculinity. Did you see that? Oh, you bet I did. That was amazing. I mean, if he had been anywhere with a live audience, not just sitting there with Gavin. And I will say this, Gavin Newsom, I think deep down knows the deal. I think so. He's not dumb. No. That's the thing is he's really bright. He's smart, but he's, man, he's a snake. And he knows how to govern for... Well, for his clients, which are leftists. He is a leftist, right? And that's why he's scary. Tim Walz is just an utter moron. Oh, he's like a... He's what they would say in the Warner Brothers cartoons. A maroon. Yeah, he's like one of those dads in a sitcom. He's just kind of a blubbering fool where he's the punchline. He thinks he's the example. I'm friends with school shooters. He's the example of masculinity. That would have been the insertion of the laugh track. Exactly. Yes. Republicans have finally unveiled an Obamacare alternative. They're getting hung around the neck because they don't message and they haven't messaged in years. I've used this same line about messaging for two decades plus three years. I mean, think about it. At come March 18th, I will finish my 24th year sitting in this chair. And by the way, this exact chair. This is the chair I was sitting in down the hallway. A lot shorter there because the console was lower. But this is the same chair. And I've been saying for better than two decades that the Republican Party does not know how to message. And you then begin to come to the conclusion they're choosing not to do that. They don't want to really be the voice of conservatism. They don't. There's some conservatives that are Republicans because there's nowhere else for them to go. But having said all that, the lower health care premiums for all Americans act. Under the legislation, and there's some really common sense stuff in here, groups or associations of employers could band together to offer health insurance regardless of industry. Businesses could come together and form a larger group and buy cheaper insurance. As long as they existed for at least two years. establish formal governance with employer-controlled boards, cover at least 51 employees total, offer coverage to all. Self-employed individuals could join as both employers and employees if they work at least 10 hours weekly or 40 hours monthly in their business, with at least 20 self-employed members needed to form a group.

Now, there are problems here. The preexisting thing, I keep telling you it's an issue because you're forcing insurance companies to lose money. I'm not saying I have the perfect answer to that. I'm just pointing out that when you tell an insurance company by nature is managing risk. We need to call it something else because insurance is about managing risk. It's betting. They're betting on you either being healthy or not, living so long or not, and it's all based on the premiums are all about exchanging odds of you getting healthy or staying healthy or getting sick and being sick, getting injured, dying, not dying by a certain age. It's all about odds and problematical odds and actuarial tables. When you remove that by forcing an insurer to cover preexisting conditions, it's no longer insurance. They're going to lose money. They can't possibly recover in your premiums what, say, a major stay at a hospital will cost. They can't. So when you have a preexisting condition, the insurer is going to lose money on that person. So they have to build into the premiums of everybody else a way to recover that. So as long as we understand all that, is this a viable alternative? It won't matter whether it's viable or not. Because the Democrats have successfully pushed and bullied Obamacare thanks to John Roberts. Being an activist judge for one ruling, he's been an activist for more than one ruling, but in that ruling, he was an activist judge. Well, they meant taxes, but they didn't say it. Yeah, but that's the point. They didn't put it in the law, so you rule as a law that what they're doing by taxing people is a violation of the law. So that's what a judicial originalist does. No, that's not what you wrote. Sorry. You don't imply meaning. Back with the big stories in the press box. It's the morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7, WFLA.

Forget you can follow us on X. It's real simple. At TMS Preston Scott. I know we were promoting going on Instagram. We're still planning to do it. We're just, we're encountering some hurdles. It's a first of the year goal. So we'll see. But welcome. Grant Allen over there in Studio 1A. I am here in Studio 1B. Let's get to the big stories in the press box. Over the weekend. I mean, nothing but tragedy over the weekend. Well, as far as the big stories that we're focused on here this morning. Brown University. I want to know what was yelled. They're prepping for finals on a Saturday afternoon for a Sunday final. Crazy. Sick people. Yeah, that's nuts. Stinking Kay Ivey League schools, godless bastions of Satan. Desecrating the Sabbath. Really? I mean, come on. Anyway, engineering school, guy busts into an auditorium-type room. and start shooting after shouting something. We don't know what he shouted yet. Have you seen anything? No. But there is something bubbling up that may be it was targeted. One of the dead is confirmed to be... a leader of a conservative Republican club. The college Republicans on campus at Brown, her name was Ella Cook from Birmingham. So our condolences to the Cook family, but we don't know that yet, but it's possible. And again, I want to know what was said. Because if he shouted anything, he's making a statement. There's a political statement of some kind, right? Speaking of, 15 killed, one of two gunmen killed at Pam Bondi Beach at the beginning of the Jewish Light Festival in Australia. Islamis again. A father and son, one of the two of them's dead, the other in a critical condition. And this shows you how screwed up Australia was. First, if you've seen the video of the shooting, someone videotaping had a high point, had clear shots, and could have ended it with a 9mm handgun because they had a perfect, perfect spot to engage the shooters. But in Australia, they don't allow people to have firearms. See what that did? I guess those two shooters just didn't follow the law. Shame on them. But there's something else. First of all, I want to congratulate whoever the Muslim was, the Islamist. There is a difference in the minds of many, by the way.

Islamists are crazy by and large. Muslims not so much. I'll leave it for others to figure that out. But he disarms one of the shooters, but instead of just shooting the guy, he lets him back away and he eventually goes on and kills a bunch of people. Should have shot him. Or disarmed him. Someone else was running over to help and just laid on him until the police got there. Because, I mean, let's be honest, he's pointing now with a rifle that he took away. He could have gotten shot and killed. But that's, here's my question. Was he worried that he couldn't shoot this guy because of Australia's laws? But I want to congratulate there's at least one, maybe we'll call him a peace-loving Islamist. Thank you. Thank you for that. But there's more to come. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. That's two tragedies. Third, actor, director, Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead. Yesterday, victims of what we are hearing is a stabbing, and the person of interest is their son. Nick Reiner. Now, To illustrate one of the many differences that we have with our counterparts on the left is we don't celebrate and rejoice a death like this. Rob Reiner politically was a joke. He was an extreme Uber leftist. But guess what? Okay. I mean, okay. He was a very good filmmaker. A few good men. Bucket List. When Harry met Sally. Princess Bride. Stand by me. Misery. The American President. I mean, he made some really good films. I admired him as a director. Thought he was really good. As an actor, many of us learned of him as Carl Reiner's son in All in the Family. He was the protagonist to Archie Bunker. He acted his beliefs. He was a left Democrat in that show, and it was hilarious. It was a great television show. So what if I disagree with the guy politically? This is terrible. This is horrible. No one's celebrating this. I'm just... It's just sick. It just is. So we don't know who the shooter was Brown University. They arrested a person of interest and said, yep, we got to cut them loose. Now, does that mean they don't have evidence or does that mean not the person? I don't know yet. You oftentimes see someone arrested and then they circle back to that person. We don't know.

You know, I said to myself, let's do our best to make the final three shows of the year, live shows. Because this Thursday, we start the 12 days of Preston. And the month of January, we do a year in review while we're away on vacation. And so while we're taking the break, we leave you with programming. So you don't have to listen to him for 12 days. meaning Gordon Deal. Not a deal. Not a deal. Not even a bargain. We really wanted to just have some lighter fare, and I am going to do my dead level best on Wednesday to deliver that to you. But Sal Nuzzo joins us in the third hour today. We will give you some shopping help. The response to the shopping. So many of you are asking me to send you the list of shopping sites that I've offered. Dozens and dozens of requests. If you want the list, you're going to pay shipping now. Okay, you're going to have to. You're not going to get the free six-day shipping thing. It's not going to happen. So if you want the expedited thing, you're going to have to pop a little bit more cash. But I will give you sites that you can go find some really good stuff. And that's what I've heard. We'll do that today. But have you noticed how the backtrack on COVID has been like? Death of a thousand cuts, just a little bit here and a little bit there. They're not just saying, we were all wrong. But the evidence is coming out, and it's like the old days of front page headline, back page retraction. When newspapers used to be... actual newspapers where you would get a print copy of a newspaper in your hands and there would be some substance there and you could read the stories and they would get things famously wrong and then maybe two weeks later there'd be a retraction at the very back of the paper front page headline back page retraction hated it but at least it was there right who's who's promoting this a study from Stanford University that pinpoints the cause of vaccine-linked myocarditis. Listen to this statement, and all I'll tell you is I am so vindicated. I had people putting up faux signs at Halloween with my name on it and a gravestone saying, I shouldn't have listened to Preston Scott. That hurt a little bit. It was a little funny, but it hurt a little bit because it's like, no, I was giving you the truth. I was warning you. And I have been proven right. Listen to the lead of the study, Dr. Joseph Wu. As a cardiologist, we get asked all the time. How exactly does the vaccine cause myocarditis?

We thought it was very important scientific and clinical question to spend resources on and tackle. Thank you. And guess what they found? It did. They found that the vaccine created two chemicals inside the body that led to the myocarditis. The very existence of the study proves what we've said. Boy, I feel better. Hour two next. It is already the second hour. I really don't know where the first hour went. I really don't. We absolutely are the fastest three hours in media now. I still think we were faster than rush, but I defer to the original mayor of Realville on that. But we thank you for joining us. We, meaning Grant Allen over there in Studio 1A, ladies and gentlemen. He has really picked up the... The sartorial splendor of Studio 1A. You never know what you're going to get when Jose walks in the door. You just don't know. I know what I'm getting with Grant Allen. It is a place of wonder over here. Yeah. Jose, we pray safety over him. He's hunting. And he's never gone hunting before, but he's with an experienced hunter. And if you're going to... Do I put on the shark jaws hat? Please don't. Let that stay retired, at least for the rest of the year. But now, Grant will be with us today and tomorrow. Jared will join us on Wednesday. But we ended the hour just pointing out, I'm aggravated by the fact that... We're getting the truth about COVID. Now, we're never going to get to the whole truth. We're just not. This was developed by the United States along with China. China let it loose. I personally think they were testing the possibility of a biological weapon. And you were potentially de-platformed. Oh, I was not potentially. I was. I was called on the carpet by our bosses. Right. Meaning you as you and I. Yeah. Facing reprimand. Yes. Professionally speaking, if you dare to even entertain the slightest possibility that it was a lab leak. Well, you need a vindicated again pin to put on. I was right. Yeah. Maybe I'll have one made for us. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Ask me how I was right. I was right. Ask me. Vindicated again, bros. Something like a series. Yeah. And so with that still sitting there chewing at me a little bit, I'm trying to understand why in the world the Supreme Court will not listen to a case of another Christian Baker being harassed this time in the state of California.

They've rejected the case. Now, there could be a reason why. But as of right now, this particular case is not going to be heard. The ruling came after the Supreme Court has sided with the Christian Baker in Colorado saying, no, you can't make an artist create something that offends them. There's other people that'll do it. Go to them. But you can't make someone. Now, if they want to come in and buy a cake that you've already made and say, we'd like that cake, they have to be able to buy that cake. And that's fair. But you can't make them make one for you or decorate it for you. Well, in California, this lady said she was Catherine Miller, sole owner, Kathy's Creations, small bakery and Bakersfield called Tastries Bakery. She designs and produces custom wedding cakes, and she doesn't believe in same-sex marriage. Tip of the cap. God doesn't either. She started the bakery. She started to get requests for custom projects that were not in line with her faith. Gory cakes, marijuana cakes, adult cakes, cookies depicting genitalia. Yeah, I can only imagine what kind of requests you get running that kind of business. She was asked to make a cake announcing a divorce that a husband was planning to surprise his then wife. Oh my God. Well, now, you know, maybe the wife was fooling around. I got to admit if you're going to. Oh, it's like a prank. I mean, that would be kind of funny. Hey, I'm divorcing you. Enjoy your cake because that's the last time you're going to enjoy it and eat it too. Anyway, but we don't know that. Two women showed up in August 2017 asking for a wedding cake. They indicated they wanted two women to be depicted on the top of the cake. She said she couldn't. She offered to refer the women to a nearby custom wedding cake designer, but the women declined, and that's the point that I just, oh, there are all kinds of places that'll do it for you in California or in Colorado or wherever. That'll put pornographic cakes or design same-sex wedding cakes. Go to them. But no, that's not the way the left works. They specifically target this Christian Baker. That's like a proven fact. These... LGTV activists absolutely go to the ones that are Christian because they know they're going to get attacked legally in the court. She's lost half her employees. She's been the recipient of massive amounts of abusive messages. But here's the thing. Here's where the story's ambiguous and I don't know. The Supreme Court or rather the higher, the appellate court said, well, they came in asking for a cake. that was not messaged in any way, shape, or form, and you refused them. But the first part of the story said no, they asked for a specific messaging. If it's the latter, I can understand why the Supreme Court said no. No, you got to sell a cake. It's like if someone wants to buy a t-shirt out of your shop, they can just buy a t-shirt. If they want you to put a screen print on it that's offensive to you,

That's where the line is drawn. It's simple. So I don't know enough about the case, but this is where the Supreme Court of the United States I think owes more than just no. They need to say why they're not taking a case. Preston Scott. Can you fly this plane and land it? Surely you can't be serious. I am serious. And don't call me Shirley. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. He's trying so hard to keep me on time. Things haven't changed much. all's well i got a great email here i talked last hour about being the victim of some people thinking that it was funny to put my name on a faux gravestone at halloween saying i listened to preston scott um mac writes in um you should insist that they put up grave headstones which say i should have listened to preston scott oof true that Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind from just your emails. People that have sent me letters that lost loved ones within weeks, months of getting the vaccine that had zero health problems prior to. And we're not talking elderly necessarily. Younger people. I say younger. I mean, I'm 65. So younger than me. If you're in your 50s, you're a young person. If you're a grand sage, you're a kid. Even if he is a parent with two children. The stories today are ridiculous. Yeah. One after another, after another, after another, after another. Seventh-grader, Horizon Middle School, Moorhead, Minnesota. So we immediately, you know, go to Minnesota there where Tim Walz is a manly man and showing us what it means to be a manly man. A 13-year-old kid arrested for having some fentanyl. Fifteen hundred fentanyl pills. Tested, field tested, fentanyl. Fentanyl. 1500 in a middle schooler's backpack. Holy crap. One parent is cooperating with police.

Police chief of Moorhead, Minnesota called it a wake-up call noting the unheard of quantity in the deadly risk, even one pill. How about a fraction of one pill? Random canine sweeps are now planned at local schools. One vigilant student reported it. Someone posted on a social media. account talking about this story please continue to blast the fishermen into the deep deep blue ditto keep blowing them up i'm good with that fishermen no fishing rods on those boats and nargo terrace Come on, do your Trump, blow him out of the water. We're going to kill him. We're going to kill him like dogs. I've got, by the way, some more Trump. And I've played with the permission of, I think he's named Sean Foresh. He's the best Trump impersonator I've heard yet. I've got, I wrote to him. I tracked him down, wrote him, and he said, absolutely, play it. Have fun with it. I'm trying to get him on the show. I'd love to do a back and forth where he's himself, and then we do another segment where he's Trump. That's what I, because I want to know how he kind of fell into this, that he just realized he could do the voice. Because some, like Grant does a far better Trump than I can do. There's some voice I can do. That's just not one I can do. Anyway, 17 passed. Shut. We have on the blog page a lot of really good Christmas content. We lighten things up intentionally. And yes, we do say Merry Christmas around here. You'll find some really good Christmas lights. You'll find some Christmas specials. You'll find some heartwarming stories, perhaps. And of course, we will post the Man and the Birds. That will be posted as we always do. We'll put the stereo version. Because we broadcast the mono version on the radio because we broadcast in mono, even though we are on FM. The signal we have here is not stereo. It might be stereo in Panama City. I'm not sure about that. But we do it in mono just to be safe. But the stereo version is the one you want jamming up in your speakers and in your headphones on your laptop or desktop or home. You can stream it on your smart TV if you have one on the IHeart radio app. It's brilliant. And you'll enjoy the stereo version.

So you'll find some good content at WFLAFM.com slash Preston or WFLA Panama City.com slash Preston. On my Christmas list, it is hoping that Iheart in Jacksonville and I heart in Orlando and Tampa and Miami and in communities across the state finally wake up to this show and put us on in these markets. We should be across Florida. We do a better show than the rest of the iHeart news talk family. We just do. And, you know, I'm not, I'm not kicking indoors and trying to force that to happen. I just think it should. And hopefully there'll be some courage around there and people will decide that they want to get some better programming and better content on the air, better guests and so forth. But that's my Christmas list wish. You might have far simpler Christmas wishes to see fulfilled. And so to that end, in helping you do some Christmas shopping, we have been offering you a new site every day. And it's the 13 days of shopping that we've been doing here on the program. And we started with Kevin's catalog.com. It is a huge catalog. It goes to over a million people around the world. And it's loaded. It's got a lot of stuff. We took you to 1776 United.com. We took you to littleobsessed.com where it's just little things. Literally, I mean small, little tiny little things. Men'sgear.net Signals.com. One of my favorite sites, kingdom and country, kingdom and country.com. Husband and wife, veterans. created this site that has t-shirts and hats and gear for people that love Jesus and love America. It's geared strictly to that. If you go to the site, you'll really, I think, fall in love with it and the mission of it. So it's kingdom and country.co, not dot com.com. There's uncommon goods.com. There's nemoequipment.com. That's for those of you that really like to camp and you're interested in finding kind of really Tough to find, unique, trendy camping gear. Folio Society.com slash USA for the book lover. Touchofmodern.com. And I pointed out there's one section there. It's designed for husband and wife. It's not for kids. But it does have, and it's not like there's, you know, nudity or anything like that. It's just that it's not for kids. But it is a really cool site, and there's some really good gadgets and things on that site. And then today. Today is, look, there are a lot of, a lot of people get to this stage and they're like, ah, I don't know what to do. I'm going to send them food, snacks, goodies. And they're the steak sites and, and, you know, we've done all that. And then there's the Harry and David and then there's the Hickory Farms and all of that stuff. I've tried to source what I think is a little bit better.

site for gift baskets for food and so forth and just in general and it's called gourmet gift baskets dot com make sure you remember to put gift in the middle gourmet gift baskets dot com you'll find some really good stuff that you can get shipped out and again might be a little challenging to get it there by christmas because christmas is a week from this thursday but you go there today you know you might find it. You might find that it'll work for you. So if you want the list, just send me an email, Preston at iHeartRadio.com. That's Preston at iHeartRadio.com. Big stories in the press box next on the morning show with Preston Scott. Good morning. And welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott. having lots of email requests for the shopping list and testimonials thank you as soon as i heard you mentioned uncommon goods jumped online immediately found the perfect gift for my granddaughter there you go i'm k kringle man that's what we do compile ways to help all right big stories in the press box they do not have a person responsible for the shooting at Brown University on Saturday. There is the possibility it was targeted. Grant mentioned the name of the young lady from Alabama that was one of the two that we've killed, and that she was the president of the campus Republican club.

We don't know if she just happened to be a victim or if she was intended to be a victim. It matters. It absolutely matters. In the wake of what happened to Charlie Kirk, you're darn right, it matters. I want to know what the shooter screamed when he entered the room. It's an auditorium classroom. They were prepping. A teacher's assistant was prepping the class for the final for the next day. And so it's one of those rooms where you walk in and it descends down like a small little theater. And a guy busted in, screamed something, and then started firing. And then the video shows a guy just calmly walking away. No facial recognition cameras so far were able to get anything of use. We'll see. The person that they had originally apprehended as a person of interest, apparently there was chemical testing and so forth that cleared that person. My guess is gunpowder residue, that kind of thing. Was it politically motivated? Did the guy shout, Alua Akbar? I don't know. I want to know, though. I absolutely want to know. The fact that it's not being reported yet leads me to think there may be something there. Call it. And how sad is it that we're at a place in America where we distrust the media? Because the media has an agenda. Another shooting this time in Australia. At least 15 killed 16, including one of the gunmen, the other in serious condition. Australia's gun laws are more responsible for this total number of shootings or deaths than anything else because no one could defend themselves. And people that had the opportunity didn't. One guy just brilliantly ambushed, came from behind, wrestled the gun away, pointed it at him and didn't shoot and kill him. So he left him to kill some more people. Yeah, the classic tail, the dog caught up. What is it? The dog actually got his tail or like finally caught the car or whatever. He's like, I got it. Now I don't know what to do. Now what? Yep. Man. Brutal. And was it because of Australia's archaic gun laws? I mean, almost certainly he looked like he didn't shoot him. Almost certainly it looked like he didn't exactly know what he was doing. He was like, ha, ha, ha, I've got the weapon. And he points it at the guy. and lets him back away. Yeah, he starts to run off, which is insane. Guy gets to a bridge, gets another firearm, starts killing people. There were people videotaping from high ground that could have had they had a firearm ended it. It's just Australia's as much to blame for this. Now, Australia's...

Australia bears some responsibility for the death toll. And not just in the gun control realm. It does invoke an immigration question too. Yes. This is what happens when you coddle Islamists. They want to kill you if you are not one of them. And then Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife found dead. News reports indicate a stabbing inside their home and their son is a person of interest. And that's just tragic. That's just, that's just, that's so sad. Those are your big stories in the press box. What a bunch of sad stories today. I really was hoping for better on the... The final week of the show. And yes, that is Grant Allen's voice. I've already got email. Oh, it's so exciting to hear Grant Allen back. Producer Emeritus comes back in now and then to lend his expertise and occasionally hosts the show. He's the only guy I trust. That should make you smile. Yeah, that is an honor, you know, to sit in the, sit in the chair, sit behind the mic. Yeah. If one day fates allow you to inherit this, just promise me man in the birds gets played in the final show before Christmas. You got it. The rest? I mean, you know, an occasional homage. No, just kidding. Can't help it. I'm just a jerk. All right. Got this note from Matt Staver from Liberty Council. The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act, but caved once again to Democrats on a lot of important policy issues, as you may remember. We've talked about the whole transgender thing repeatedly, but did you know? that buried in the appropriation for the Department of War are transgender drugs and services? Now you and I know Pete Hegseth didn't ask for that. Republicans gave in and put it in. Same thing happened in the one big beautiful bill. The Republican-controlled House and Senate caved to Democrats on long-term funding of Planned Parenthood and establishing a surveillance state while also adding $6 trillion to our deficit. There's more, but damage is done. Bill signed. Look, for all the good Trump's doing, he's making some big mistakes. We're going to talk about a couple of them in the next segment. Before we bring Sal Nuzzo in to get us ready, the legislative session is almost here. That's crazy. And I'm just, I'll be honest with you, the last one I thought was horrible. Yeah, I'm kind of, I used to think like, oh boy, Ron DeSantis is going to, you know, ramrod some great legislation through, and now I'm kind of like, geez, what's the GOP going to do now? I credit him. He's running through the tape.

He's trying. But you've got a faux Republican leading the House. And you've got a in the Senate. And so I don't know. But we'll talk about what's teed up and what is apparently going to be some of the main emphasis. So the next hour is big. It's big hour here on the show. But going back to Matt Staver. He said, just because we have Republican control of Congress in the White House doesn't mean that conservative principles will win the day. And this week's vote proved we cannot sit back idly and assume Republican majority will vote our way. And so he comes to the Equality Act. And we're going to talk to Kat Cammack about it tomorrow, assuming Kat's going to be able to join us. I don't know that she's going to be able to. I've got her scheduled, and that's where we are as of now, but it could change. Listen to this. The National Equality Act seeks to overturn every ban on men in women's locker rooms and showers, overturned city and state obscenity laws that ban have seen drag shows and strip shows for children, federally bans Christian change counseling for patients seeking to heal gender dysphoria and unwanted unnatural desires. And specifically it revokes Section 1107 of the Civil Rights Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which in turn will force churches and Christian schools to hire transvestites, pedophiles, and promote queer ideals, forces all individuals and businesses, even Christian home-based businesses, to set aside their religious freedom beliefs and rights to instead promote queer ideals. This is the Equality Act. And we have to have to defeat it. So A, pray. You have to pray about stuff like this. You might think about fasting. There are some demonic strongholds that are only defeated by prayer and fasting. And this is a demonic stronghold. This sexuality thing, this effort to normalize what is abnormal, that is demonic. So we'll hopefully talk more, but thanks to Matt Staver for apprising us of what's going on. All right, it's 47 past the hour. Write him at Preston at iHeartRadio.com. Welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

A little clarity here. The first victim of the shooting at Brown University identified sophomore student vice president of the school's college Republican club. This according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate. Ella Cook has Grant shared in the first hour of the program. Talk about it's just stupid and needless. Who's going to celebrate this? A bunch of people are going to celebrate this too? You know, I remember asking the question. And it is featured in the 12 days of Preston. What was worse? The shooting of Charlie Kirk or the celebration of it? I maintain the celebration of it. It revealed the really sick underbelly of this country and of some of the people that occupy it. And it reveals the nature of sin. I mentioned that the president gets some things wrong. He's a person. He's human. We're so far better off with Donald Trump as president. That said, there are some things that he's just missing on it. And I think one of them is the approach he's taking on AI forbidding states to have any say in it is just wrongheaded. To say that the federal government will establish certain benchmarks. Okay. A certain floor. Dr. Bob McClure, the James Madison Institute, weighed in on this. Said the feds need to have some kind of base mark here for AI. But to just say states have no say in the matter. I'm not sure I agree with that. Yeah, the allegations that the Trump administration is just beholden to like the tech right, you know, the Palantier, Peter Thiel types. Yeah. Right. When I hear something like this, I'm like, well, it gets its legs. Maybe. Yeah. Like, sure kind of like, why? Why? Like, it doesn't make sense. Yeah. And this is another one. He is going to do everything in his power to legalize weed. Yeah, what is this, the Biden years? I'm sorry, but no. Yeah, that's, yeah. It's wrong. All of the evidence shows, first, that the states that have legalized weed have regretted it. Now, they may not admit it, but the data that underscores the regret is everywhere. Then there's the scientific data. It destroys... children's brains. Secondhand marijuana smoke is devastating to children and to youth. Devastating. If you want to sit and argue with me that it doesn't lead to it's not a gateway drug, that's fine. People argue and are wrong about things all the time, and that's fine. You're wrong. Is it as big a gateway drug as, say, alcohol? No, but it's a gateway drug. And I will once again share my experience. I have had interactions due to Teen Challenge going back to Phoenix, Arizona, with a guy who would eventually be the National Director for Teen Challenge. I've never spoken to one drug addict.

that did not start with weed, not one. Now, I'm sure there are some out there, but I've never met them. And so I will use my experience and personal conversation with drug addicts to tell you marijuana is an entry drug, and to make it easier for people is a mistake. These are two areas where Trump is wrong. There are others. Not addressing the debt more definitively is a mistake. All right. When we come back, Sal Neuzo joins us next. I can't believe we're already to the third hour, the morning show with Preston Scott. By the way, it's cold outside. Good Old Days here program. Not only do we have Sal Nuzzo with us from Consumers Defense, but in there in Sartorial Splendor is none other than Grant Allen, the producer emeritus. Who you call an old? You said the good old days. Who you call an old? The days. Okay, that's fine. Dude, I entered old territory years ago, and I've just accepted it. It's all good. It's all good. I will not go gently into that good night. I can tell. I can tell. There's a little resistance in your voice. Resist. I'm doing good. Merry Christmas. We say that around here. Merry Christmas. It is the start of Hanukkah. So happy Hanukkah out to many of my Jewish friends are celebrating. And sadly not. With what happened in Australia. What a train wreck that is. Let's just get going. The session, let's remind everybody, this is an election year, which means January 13th, January, February, March, it begins the first Tuesday after the first Monday or something, a second Tuesday of the, I can't remember. January 13th is when it starts 60 days. They have one constitutionally mandated requirement that's pass a balanced budget and send it to the governor. they will come and do a whole lot more than that and then some. I mentioned last hour the governor's running through the tape. Yep. He's not taking time off. He's not coasting into the final year of his governor's office responsibility. He's running through the tape. And to that end, back to the constitutional mandated requirement, he's submitted a budget. Yep, he will also not go gently into that good night. He did submit a proposed budget last week asking for $117 billion total, which is about a $2 billion increase. over the prior year. A bit of a reminder in table setting, when you look at Florida's budget per capita compared to other states, we are the leanest state operation in the United States.

We're also a heavy growth state. Anywhere depending on the year from 600 to 1,000 new Floridians every day, by nature, that budget number is going to have to increase unless you're doing some incredible austerity, which we had. That time is just not now. We've got to invest in some things. And so $2 billion more. You've got $53 billion in the governor's proposal, which would be general revenue. That's the portion of the budget that is not line itemed for either a particular federal program. It's not a pass-through. It's not a trust fund, some designated revenue stream. The $53 billion is what the legislature will use policy and appropriations to put into the various silos. So the balance of the budget for people's understanding, it's $53 billion in general revenue, but we're asking for from the governor, $117, where's the difference? So the biggest difference is going to be federal pass-through dollars for Medicaid. About 30%, 31, 32% of the entire $117 billion is going to be just tax dollars coming from Washington, D.C. to pay for Medicaid for Floridians, the half or the 90% depending which population. Is it oversimplified to say that's just some of Florida's money coming back? Oh, absolutely the case. That's a lot of Florida's money coming back. There are also other federal programs that some have winded down, but there are still other federal revenue sources. You've also got trust funds and things that go toward designated uses. like the dock stamp fees and other things like that. What else stands out in terms of the numbers inside the governor's budget? A couple of things. On the tax relief side, you've got $2.5 billion in tax relief just from the elimination of the commercial rent tax. That's something that Florida has been the only state to do that for many years. It is a sales tax if you rent your business space. And we finally got that glide path down and out. He's also proposing a couple of... percent across the board for state workers for increases. However, if you're in a special risk category, I think fire police, law enforcement, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, you got 5%. Few numbers on the K-12 side, just over $30 billion in that silo, another $6 billion for higher education. You've got a billion and a half just for salary increases in this budget for instructional staff and things like $20 billion in the transportation silo. That's going toward roads, improvements, expansions, things along those lines. And it's important to remember this is just a proposal. Right. The legislature probably won't even take this.

and tweak it, they will develop their own budget proposal, submit it to him, and then he has the ability to use line item veto to nix out any lines that he does not like or that he isn't comfortable with. This is just providing maybe some guidance to the two bodies on what he is looking for in a budget. Yeah, it's a designation of his priorities for the coming year. More with Sal Nuzzo. Consumersdefense.com is where you can go to learn about his organization. We'll come back and learn more about the upcoming session next. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. And we are back 12 past the hour of Sal Nuzzo with me from Consumers Defense. The attorney general, the CFO, what should we know? Yeah, cabinet members still active and engaged. The AG recently announced a suit against Starbucks going after them for their hiring practices, which because they are stalwart defenders and champions of DEI hiring and have all kinds of... quotas and whatnot. Because Starbucks is a publicly traded company, the AG is rightly pursuing. That opens the door. Yep. in terms of whether or not Starbucks is pursuing its fiduciary principles to generate a return for investors there. CFO showing local governments for and exposing them for the rates of increase in local budgets just over the last six years. And it should be fair to point out, Republican and Democrat-run communities in Florida. Yeah, he does not care. This is an issue that is If you're a fan of scripture, I would call him kind of John the Baptist paving the way for property tax proposals that are going to be coming down the pike. But, I mean, his points are incredibly valid. If you look at just the inflation rates plus population increases within counties, the budget increases that these counties have seen are just... off the charts and there is not any case to be made that services have gone up the same therefore there is there is room for the governor's proposals we got about two and a half minutes left in this segment unfortunately so let me ask you this regardless of the the wrestling match that is going on with obamacare and what comes out of the wash or doesn't What options does the state of Florida have to address health care? Well, a lot. And that's the thing is that there are a substantial amount of regulations that are kind of dictated by state governments versus the feds. Now, they've got to work within the framework of the ACA and where there is abilities to get issues waived or carved down. But Florida is a massive growth state.

And as I mentioned in the prior segment, it's up to, has been up to 1,000 people a day moving to the state net. You also have two-thirds of our population growth over time and projected into the next 10 years is going to be over the age of 60. What that means is that there is going to be a far more dramatic increase in the need for health care services just because that cohort of the population is who consumes more health care. And you've got. state-level regulations governing the supply of practitioners. And there's a lot of room for the state to make reforms that address that supply. And so what we see, at least from the House right now, is Speaker Danny Perez. And this has been something that he has talked about since probably his freshman term in the legislature, the need for Florida to address the health care challenges that we have. We've done a lot. he's proposing even more to come in the 2026 session. Do states have the flexibility to, say, allow for more competition even across state lines if they work, let's say, with Georgia or Alabama? In some cases, yes and in some cases no, but it requires a lot of work on the part of the states. So you have things like you can do licensure compacts, which is... If you're a doctor, a primary care physician in the state of Georgia, you know, human beings are the same in Georgia as they are in Florida. You shouldn't have to go through a ton of hoops and barriers to be able to practice in the state of Florida. You also have things like recognizing specific licenses on specialists and things along those lines. You have the ability of states to... If they do it correctly, join with other states for association health plans and the way that you can pool insurance. That all requires a direct effort on the part of policymakers and people in the agencies to push in that direction. More to come with Sal Nuzzo. We're talking about the legislative session that is literally just weeks away here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Talking about the legislative session that is four weeks away. I mean... Wow. Yep. It's crazy to get your mind around, but it is an election year. Yeah, and it's also important to remember that last legislative session carried over way, way late. So we're ordinarily on a short time frame, and then it was even shorter. So it's, yeah, it's all fresh. Before we continue with health care, do you expect any of the animosity from the last session? Because the last session was plagued with a lot of bitterness. Is it going to carry over? I think is the, I would have wanted to say, no, it's not going to carry over and everybody came to their senses. Unfortunately, what I'm seeing is kind of a continuation of a lot of the back and forth on specific issues, completely unrelated to policy and having a whole lot to do with other things. And so will it be as bad as bad, in quotes, as last session? Probably not. But I don't see them all getting together for s'mores around a campfire. Let's put it that way. Back to health care. What reforms do you expect bubbling up into the session? Sure. Well, Speaker Perez has kind of taken on health care affordability as... Probably is his big priority for the final year of his term as Speaker. There are two major bills in the House, HB. 693 and 697. So one of them, you've got 693, I believe it is, you've got reforms to the public programs, Medicaid, Snap, Chip. They're going to align with what was in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. about 80 hour per month work requirements for Medicaid to push in that direction, some tightening up of regulations on coverage. But then it goes into the supply side of the challenge, which really is where a state... can have a whole lot more impact. So we have health care provider shortages. We need a far greater number of doctors, nurses, specialists, everything across the board. So what are we going to do? So first out is cutting out the remaining certificate of need laws on nursing homes and hospices to greater expand the ability of new facilities to get online. You're going to see an expansion of what we call the scope of practice rules for nurses and anestheticians and what have you, allowing them to not only get training to do new things or to do things, but to be able to perform the things that they are trained on, which because of the way that state laws work.

isn't always the case. We talked about it in the last session, licensure compacts. If you're an anesthesiologist in Mississippi or Alabama and we want to recruit you in, what are the requirements for you to get licensed in the state of Florida? How do we make that easiest? And those are things that go to that solution. transparency requirements on coverage networks and how deductibility functions. They're going to go after the pharmacy benefit managers, which are the middlemen between drug manufacturers and the insurance companies. Explain that for just a quick second and its impact on a consumer. So if you're a drug manufacturer and you make Tylenol, let's just say it's a patented drug now, you want Tylenol to be covered by all of the different insurance networks. You have a pharmacy benefit manager. which is a role in between the manufacturer and they make sure that the drug then gets placed on all of the insurance networks. Now, that's a very stripped down version of it. But what... Why is it necessary? Well, you know, at one time, it's in the same way that any distribution network is potentially necessary. I'm not necessarily arguing it's unnecessary. What... many critics have discussed is they've taken that role and leveraged it to manipulate rebates and incentives so that consumers are not getting the cost savings all of the time there. So they're going to do some things there in transparency and removing what's called spread pricing and some other things there. There's one provision in there I'm not as sure about, which is benchmarking drug prices in Florida to the European country networks, which could be tandem out to a price control. And I'm not sure. I've got to see the wording in that before I'm on board there. And that's where your work with consumers' defense really dovetails nicely. Yeah, we do a lot of work in the health care space with respect to drug pricing, but then also this federal program called 340B, which has been manipulated by a lot of nonprofit hospitals. It's a federal program that then passes through the states. And those two areas are ones where we could do deep dives whenever you want on. all of the specific provisions in there that then either do or don't trickle down to consumers. More with Sal Nuzzo of Consumersdefense.com as we talk about the upcoming Florida legislative session here on the morning show with Preston Scott. This is the morning show with Preston Scott.

The one topic with Sal Nuzzo here of Consumers Defense, that truly has the possibility of impacting everybody, whether they own property or not, because everybody is impacted by property taxes in some way, shape, or form, renters as well. 100%. What are we likely to see what are the proposals out there? Yeah, so a reminder, the governor wants the elimination of all property taxes for at a bare minimum homesteaded residents in the state of Florida. He's called on the legislature to put something forward for the ballot. The House has several proposals that they have submitted. I believe the last time I checked was eight. Of those eight, none go as far as what the governor has called for. Right now, you have about four of them that have moved through committees in the pre-session committee weeks. And so one of those proposals would eliminate all but the school funding portion of the property taxes for homesteaded properties. One would lift the cap entirely on Save Our Homes portability. So if you have $200,000 in Save Our Home Savings, you could port that. And if you were to buy a home that was $200,000 or less, you would effectively reduce your property tax rate to zero or something along those lines. One would eliminate all taxes for seniors. And one would provide a new $200,000 homestead exemption, which would cover a good, sizable portion of the homesteaded properties in the state. Is anybody talking about what I think is the lowest of the hanging fruit? And that is simply while you're figuring this out, just make it so that you cannot take someone's home or property. for not paying it. There have been proposals in the past that would shield your homestead from specific pieces of that. Now, I don't know if any of the bills that have been put forward in the house get at that where it shields you, and it could be something where it shields you as long as you're alive, but it doesn't pass on to your heirs or things along those lines. The challenge with this is that whenever you get into things like real estate, you also have various tax vehicles and things that happen that lawyers can do to kind of get around certain of those provisions. So I think the governor, to his credit, is saying, let's keep this simple. And granted, there is going to be a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth on the part of cities and counties. as they go through this and trying to... And it ties to what the CFO is trying to accomplish in determining how they've responsibly or irresponsibly handled their budgets. Exactly. And to both of their credit, one of the things that I've said previously is...

Before you ask the question, how are we going to provide for all of these services? You actually have to ask the question, what are the basket of services that our local government should be providing? That's first. And what does that then cost? And so we're going to have to see as this debate continues on. There's talk about the governor is stipulated because the Senate hasn't really moved in either direction heavily. They may want to consider coming back in a special session. The House is saying they do not want to do that. Same kind of holds on redistricting. You have these kind of varying debates where you get into triangulation. You have three. parties. You have to house, the Senate, and the governor, and where they align generally when two come together, that's what moves the policy forward. All right. We've got one more segment to go. Sal Nuzzo with me from Consumers Defense here in the morning show with Preston Scott.

All right, the X-Lax portion of the conversation here with Sal Nuzzo of Consumer's Defense. So what's moving? Oh, my gosh. Way to frame that. You're welcome. So a number of kind of... policy issues that are bubbling up. Bill filing has a deadline to it, and it's usually in the first week of session. So a lot of things are being put forward, submitted, filed, and then heard in various committees to team up for that first week of session. One thing that I think is going to be a theme of the session is going to be fighting hostile government actors in Florida and things like... The way that the Chinese Communist Party is infiltrated and leveraged technology in a number of different respects, whether it's drone use or routers, medical technology. You see a focus. Transformers. Everything. You see the Attorney General. You see the CFO. You see the Agriculture Commissioner. Wilton Simpson actually having the foresight to put some stuff in his agency bill last year that's now bearing fruit. A lot of this. is going to be an ongoing theme and narrative as the state tries to set itself up as a kind of a national leader in fighting hostile actors. Then you've got a number of different bills that have just kind of gotten some movement and we'll see where they go. HB 318 from Senator Don Bill Gates is more SB 318. More controls in place for school choice money. A report came out from the Auditor General's office, kind of indicating that the controls needed to be increased in how individuals are distributed scholarship funds and where they go and what they're used on. So they're going to be doing some overhauling there. HB197 from Representative Jockes, expanding E-Verify to all employers. But not. Back employers. The languages I read it did not cover the grandfathered in employees, but the other thing is that it does not have a Senate co-sponsor or companion bill yet, so it would need to get one in order to move forward. HB133 from Rep. Soroy, moving the gun purchase age to eight. considering we're now an open carry state, this would seem like some low-hanging fruit to me, but as we've come to discover with our friends in the Senate, they aren't always as open on expanding gun rights as the House is. The Senate president last year had a big package called the Rural Renaissance package, and they're reintroducing it in this year from Senator Cory Simon, our senator. It would kind of create some opportunities for those within the county system that are not getting population growth or losing revenue, what have you, to be able to tap into, whether it's federal or state dollars, to address various challenges there.

Senate Bill 126. I'm watching this one carefully. It would reform the ways in which the Public Service Commission, which the PSC is what governs utility rates for all of Florida, it would govern how they approve of rate increases. So the bill itself, it's long, it's real in the weeds, but the intent is they want to provide some additional visibility and transparency to how rate increases are arrived at, what data are used to support specific increases and such. One we talked about a couple of months back, I think, HB 527 from Representative Cassell's requiring a human to review all insurance claims before any denials are made. And there's a fear that insurance providers could be using AI just to kind of blanket claim, blanket deny claims. We've talked about this. Can I just ask you, doesn't that start to then butt up against Donald Trump? forbidding states from addressing AI? Well, and you talked about this kind of before I came on in terms of What the federal government does as a kind of floor or benchmark for AI regulations, there was a provision that had been in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but it got pulled out at the last minute, that would have preempted any state or local government from regulating AI in any form for 10 years. That's not in there. So what we're going to see now is states beginning to pass what they view as effective. But he's going to try to stop it. It may come back. And if so, there's going to be a tug of war on this one. There's going to be a fight. Okay. Lastly. A couple of other ones, HB. 145 from McFarland, raising the caps on suits brought against the government to $500,000, which has been long an issue with folks because then they have to file claims bills. And then H.J.R. 27. They're going to try for local term limits again, 12 years. years and then you would have to sit out for four years. That would be for city, county, and school board races. All right. Good stuff as always. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Cannot wait to kick this off in January. We go weekly. The fifth. The fifth. One week before the session starts, we'll get everybody ready. We will have our running shoes on. It's going to be an interesting one. Do we need our headgear, though? Will we be seeing a boxing match? Likely. Yeah, I can't wait. Thanks. Always a pleasure. Sal Nuzzo Consumersdefense.com.

Still looking for the shooter Brown University. Still want to know what he shouted. Still want to know why Australia's is stupid. A lot of things we don't know yet. One thing we do know is the drunk raccoon in Virginia. Hear about this story? I did. The photo was breathlessly. I mean, it was just, it was beautiful. It was incredible. If you did not know the story, a raccoon broke into a liquor store in Virginia and was found absolutely passed out, face down, by the toilet. It's just a, I mean, and he was alive. He was just, he was sleeping off a bender. He was trash, man. Unbelievable. Well, now we've learned he's a repeat offender. Oh, my gosh. He has a record. Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter said that this is not the first time he's been in one of the buildings. The block of shops includes the ABC Liquor Store, but this is his third break-in. He was in a karate studio. Then he got into the DMV and ate some of their snacks. Oh my gosh. Spent the night in the liquor store breaking bottles and drinking the contents. What's his drink of choice? Everything. Yeah, I was going to say. No, I mean, I saw the video of the store. He trashed everything. That's impressive. And I don't know if he was looking for snacks and then was like, well, Okay. This will work. Yeah. Yeah. And so they're now saying they hope the raccoon learned something about temperance from the most recent break-in. I don't know. I don't know. Once you start down that path. Got to get that poor critter in AA. Here's the thing. Next thing you know, he's going to be on a street corner smoking weed. And then the break-ins for Doritos and the things are going to go off the charts. Begging for change. Brought to you by Barano, Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. Hey, hey, man. Can you spare buck? I just, I just need a little song. Need a quick hit, man.

He talks and then just breaks into a stutter. I'm sorry. I'm not making fun of anybody that's in any level of addiction. But come on. First of all, raccoons are funny looking. They look like bandits from the beginning because they've got a mask. And I don't care what anybody says. That character in Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy, it's a raccoon. Come on. Whether it's a red panda or not, I don't care. It's a raccoon. Wait, there's a debate about that? Yeah, yeah, there is. There's some people that think it's an insult to call it a raccoon. And whether you call them a raccoon, a red panda, or whatever you call it. I don't care. It doesn't matter. Anyway, look back at the program in 180 seconds or less. We started with some scripture, and we went to John 14 versus verse 6, where Jesus said, yeah. Me. I'm the one. You don't get through God, the father, except through me. End of debate. Of course, we talked about the shootings. We talked about the terrible death of Rob Reiner and his wife, the actor and director. Hollywood apparently may have been stabbed by their own child, their own son, grown adult, sad. Tomorrow we'll do it again. Friends, have a great day. Grant, thank you.