Ep. 5498: The Epstein Files Release Backfires on Democrats.

Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest here, and I have discovered a fun to escape from the daily grind Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has hundreds of social casino-style games. It's all free to play anytime, anywhere, with daily bonuses. So get to chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Group. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See, terms and conditions, 21 plus. It's Wednesday on the morning show. I'm Preston and you're not. How are you? He's Jose. I'm Preston. And welcome to show 5498. You know what that means? That means on Friday. It's show 5500. Wow. Oh, boy. That's special. Anyway, welcome to the program, friends. Good morning. Hope you had a good night of rest. My poor wife had a horrible night of rest. She just got nailed with a massive headache. I think she got dehydrated. And she doesn't like taking stuff like a Tylenol or an Advil or whatever. I've always found Tylenol is the best for a headache. Worked pretty quickly for me. But everybody's different. And so bless her heart, she was not doing well. Felt terrible leaving for work today. But she's a trooper. She's doing better. And so I can now start the show fairly clear-minded. Well, as clear-minded as I'm ever going to be. I mean, you know, read all this stuff all day long. I mean, you know, your mind gets a little frazzled. No, it doesn't. We're in scripture here, and we went to Genesis 3. And we're talking about this interaction between Satan, the serpent. and more crafty than any other beast. And God's creation, Adam and Eve. But you notice first that in Genesis 3, verse 1, he approaches the woman. Now, this is just an opinion. I think women are generally more discerning spiritually. What we call women's intuition, now, it's the Holy Spirit. Whether they credit the Holy Spirit or not is another story. That's a personal issue of conviction for that person, whether they are actually saying, well, the Holy Spirit's just kind of let me know that something's not right. Women just have this spiritual attunement. And I think that's one of the reasons why God created man and woman. a suitable helper, companion, someone who literally fills a unique and different role. It's not one of superiority and inferiority. It's one of complementary roles. But Satan approaches Eve. Now, Eve had been told by Adam because God told Adam what to do.

But listen to what Satan does. In verse 2, the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you die. So she's accurately quoting what she was told. This is what my husband told me. Because Satan tried to say, Did God really say you can't eat of any tree in the garden? She's like, no. So he first tries deception. Did God really say? Is that what really? And so she comes back with, no, that's not what he said. He then goes the direct route. But the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die. And isn't that what the world says today? Really? Come on. Just do this. You're not going to die. You're not going to get in trouble. You're not going to get addicted. You're not going to fill in the blank. It's the same tactic. But there's something else in here that I think is worth mining from these verses. And it's subtle. Why did God not want Adam Neve to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Was it the bite of some apple that contains some weird amount of knowledge? No. That was a simple lesson of obedience and disobedience. See, the knowledge of good and evil, God didn't want us to have a good life. He wanted to have us a great life, an abundant life. But disobedience was all of a sudden going to open the door to the knowledge of good and evil. Now you're going to be faced with it because you disobeyed.

We overemphasize that knowledge. God doesn't want you to have knowledge. No, but it's about sin. That's what God wanted to prevent us from having knowledge of is sin. 11 minutes past the hour. Nothing's changed. Same today. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Hey guys, it is Ryan. For years, Chumba's been set in the bar for online social casino fun, and it just keeps getting better. With new games released every week and daily bonuses to collect, the fun never stops. So claim your welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. We're prohibited by law. See terms and conditions. 21 plus. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeart media a part of your 2026 plan today. Call 844-844-I-Hart. Again, that's 844-844-I-Hart.

The Truth, the morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7, WFLA. All right, let's take a look into the American Patriots Almanac. On this date, November the 19th, in 1493, Christopher Columbus discovers, Puerto Rico on his second voyage. How about that? Hey! Uh, what shall we to call that that? Uh, Puerto Rico. You know what that means? You know what Puerto Rico means? Uh, good port. Or delicious, rich port, right, right. Rich port. Puerto, Porto, rich. Rich Porte. We call it the Puerto Rico. Okay. Whatever it works, Chris. 1831. James Garfield, the 20th U.S. President born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. Wow. Wow. To be there. I watched a video the other day of a dude on, was it, this is your life? It's not this is your life. It was maybe to tell the truth. I don't know. One of the old panel shows, black and white, he witnessed Lincoln getting shot. The dude was on YouTube. as an old man talking about the day when he was in the theater as a young child and he watched Lincoln get shot. Could you imagine being in the room during an event like that? My goodness gracious. 1919, the year my dad was born. So my dad would have been on this date. Five months old. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. participation in the League of Nations. Boy, they got it right, at least on the League of Nations stuff. And in 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the second landing on the moon. Alan Bean, you don't know the name. Astronaut? Amazing painter. I mean, look it up. Look up the man's work. Amazing painter. Today also is National Play Monopoly Day. Where's the last time you played Monopoly? Who, years. Been a while, hasn't it? Yeah, I was horrible at it. What made, I don't know what makes someone good at it. You have to get lucky. You make bad decisions. Is that what it is? Oh, yes. Spend money incorrectly. As opposed to buying properties and collecting rent. Right. I'm all about acquiring as many properties as I can acquire. But I want to acquire the properties on that last run on the board.

I want Park Place, Park Avenue, Park Avenue. Anyway, the last one's there. Because when someone hits that, man. But see, I remember playing Monopoly as a kid with my cousin, who was just such a cheater. My older cousin, and he took advantage of being six years older than me, he changed the rules every time for what you get when you pass go. Or when you land in on jail, there were times that if you landed in jail, you collected the money in the pot. It's like, what? What are you doing? It's not what we did last time. That is. And then the next time we'd play, you'd get the pot for passing go. It's like, what do you? National carbonated beverage with caffeine day. There's a few of those. And National Education Support Professionals Day. Okay. 16, almost 17 past the hour. Come back, lotto games and money. WFLA at WFLAFFFM.com. On your phone with the IHard Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos, and IHart's radio station.

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The delegate Stacey Plaskett that she was actually, he said she was taking a call from her constituent. She was actually back in 2019 during hearings was texting Jeffrey Epstein. That's just weird to me. Trump said, release the files. I'll sign it. That's fine. I, we're going to get to this. Just hold on on this story because there is something else to consider. But I'm going to go back to my default position that if there was something in here incriminating to Trump in any way, shape, or form in a bad way, other than he had a photo with the guy, whatever. How many people had photos with the guy over the years had nothing to do with him? I would say that that would have come out before this last election. Dearborn, Michigan, the mayor Abdullah Hamoud said it's not an issue. What's not an issue? The 5.30 in the morning sirens to prayer. Could you imagine? Let me tell you something. No way. And here's what's happening as a result. He is just closing his eyes and ears to the growing problem. The city is being run as if it's being run by Sharia law. And so now you have his anti-Islamic protests taking place. One guy, who, oh, by the way, was at January 6th, attempted to burn a Quran. Counter-protesters knocked it from his hands, so then he took a slab of bacon and put it on the open pages of the Quran. So a counter-protester and Islamist grabbed the book and ran off with it. Why was that not theft?

Why was that not theft? That's his book. What would happen if people burned a Bible? You think anyone would be upset? Yeah, we'd be going, oh, whatever, I'll go buy another one. That's between you and God. You want to burn that thing? Okay, fine. But people burn Bibles all the time. But it's apparently an offense in a Islamic community. in America. But the big question here is, why wasn't the person who stole the Quran arrested? It doesn't, it's his Quran. If he wants to put a slab of bacon on it, that's up to him. See, this is the, this is the collision between Islam and America. You can do things like that. You can be gay in this country. In Islamic nations, they throw you off of buildings. And that's not a joke. Jose talked to me yesterday about a story of these protests where trans genders are trying to march with the Islamists. And the Islamists are like, get away from us. We don't want anything to do with you. You're sick. You're perverted. You're whatever. They're just distraught. We were on your side. How is it possible? You don't understand. They hate you. We hate your sin. We love you. There's a difference. We don't throw you off of buildings.

We don't stone you to death. We shake our head. And then this, I know I'm like, I told you. Six Democrats have gone on a video and have urged the military to refuse illegal orders. The orders they say to refuse are any orders that dispatch them in cities as the National Guard. They're telling them to refuse those orders because they're illegal and unconstitutional. Says you, the judges are split on this. Personally, I think it's 100% legal when a city is in defiance of federal law, and that is immigration. The president has the right to defend federal officers conducting federal business. That's my opinion. And so far, the courts are split. But to think, just think about this. Elected members of Congress who are Democrats are telling the military to engage in treason? To not follow orders? That's dangerous. Now, this isn't political partisanship. That's dangerous. 42 minutes past the arm. I told you. I don't know how I'm going to get through the rest of the show. It's too big. Being told what to believe by the liberal media, get a refreshing dose of truth. It's the morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7, WFLA.

All right, I want to circle back to that vote and that won. It would be very easy. And look, our friend Kat Cammack voted to release the files. But I want you to at least listen to the reason why Clay Higgins voted no. Here's his quote. I have been a principled no on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House. I don't disagree with him. This is about... A virtual lynch mob throwing victims to the mob. When you think about what a lynch mob is from its early inception, it's taking anybody suspected of anything and throwing a rope over a branch and putting a noose around the neck. Due process, trial? Oh, no. Higgins' concern is that you are just dumping these files. Anything that's not classified, you're just dumping these files out, and you're going to let the media go to town. You're going to let people without the nuanced understanding that there's going to be thousands of people listed here that have committed no crimes. So why is everyone doing this? Because it's been turned into a political tool. It's been turned into a, ah, Trump's hiding something, huh? Or someone's hiding. And I'm all for uncovering the truth about whether elected officials, whether anybody engaged in illegal actions. Let's find him. Did Prince Andrew take advantage of underage girls? Prosecute him.

All I'm saying to you is that one vote has a point. 250 years of how our criminal justice system is supposed to work is going to get literally thrown to the media. So I just think the holdout is notable. And I wanted you to hear it. And you can decide for yourself. 48 minutes after the hour. Did I tell you this is going to be a show? Pete. Thought or story you want to share? Write him at Preston at iHeartRadio.com. Yes, he knows how to read. Well, actually, his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. We are having a debate around here. Jose trying to channel his inner younger generation mindset. Ridiculing me is an old man. We're talking about whether AI, first of all, so many of you are getting duped because people are blatantly ripping off mainline artists. They're saying, oh, check out this song by Lady Gaga and Jelly Roll. And it's neither of them. It's AI.

but they they appropriate the names and they're going to get sued eventually. But I just think that's wrong. That's just, that is wrong on every level. First of all, when you're taking other people's names, that's a different level of wrong, okay? The other level of wrong to me is worth having a discussion about. which is my opinion. But the first, and I get people emailing me. Did you hear this song? I think it's awesome. It's so and so and so and so. No, that's clickbait. They're telling you it's Eminem and Forrest Frank. It's not. They've sampled the music and they've created an AI song and it makes you think that they're working together in a collaboration and it's not. It says right there under the YouTube clip, this is AI generated. There was one AI song that was AI Drake, and it actually made better music than the actual. Duh, there. Absolutely. So there's that. I mean, co-opping popular singers' names, Lauren Daigle and so-and-so. It's like, no. No, and I comment on these things. This is wrong. This is, don't, don't be saying, doing this. This is stealing. It's wrong. But the, the debate that Jose and I are having is, it might be, right now, the number one song on the Billboard charts and country music is an AI song. It's, it's, it's, the person doesn't exist. Someone said, Hank Williams didn't drink himself a death for this crap. Another person said, well, doesn't have to breathe. No, no pausing for breathing. But it's an AI song and it's incredible. It's number one. And they don't exist. Glenn Beck brought this thing up and I think it makes for a great topic. Are you okay with that? Some would say, and I think fairly, well, what's different between that and sampling? Pop artists do it all the time. They sample a sound, they sample the crowd. Forrest Frank does that. He samples the crowd, turns it into a song right then and there. It's just the next step, right? Taking computer technology. All right. When we come back, let's talk about happier things. Thanksgiving is coming up. And trust me, we will debate that another day. Thanksgiving is coming up. Are you ready for Thanksgiving? We're going to talk about Thanksgiving. The money involved in it, the costs, are they up, are they down? That and more. Coming up next, hour two of the morning show with Preston Scott.

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I mean, all these are, they're right there on my blog page. I don't what you're waiting for. I got it all for you, right there. But Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I love it. I love every part of it, even though I am, my wife and I are exhausted when it's done. My Packers are going to be on television playing Detroit. I get to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade while I'm. preparing the grill. I now cook my turkey outdoors. I do the indirect method of cooking it on my grill. And I love it because it frees up my oven. My oven now, I've got a double oven. I've got, I can use that for anything, all the other dishes. Brilliant. But Thanksgiving is, to me, It's the least commercialized holiday we've got. Would that be fair? I think that's a fair statement. Because Thanksgiving revolves around being together with family and friends, not giving presents, not stuff. I have no problem with trading and giving and sharing gifts with people that you care for and love. I still think that's awesome. But you know what I mean. I mean, they start putting Christmas stuff up in July. Now, if we did that because we're celebrating Jesus all year round, count me in. But so it's this. thing that I'm in a tug of war with how we have commercialized. And Easter, of course, we've commercialized the worst. At least with Christmas, Christ is in the middle of it. You can't take his name out of it. It's Christmas. Like the old saying, you can't spell Christmas without Christ. Easter turned into a bunch of rabbits and eggs. Anyway. More to share on the cost of Thanksgiving. Got some news here from Lending Tree. They survey and do some price checks each year at this time. That's next. 11 past the hour. Thanksgiving. Talking Turkey. The show with Preston Scott. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. was convincing the world. He didn't exist. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. Yeah, I'm all about the brining of the turkey. It's created the most moist turkey I've ever had. And you know what's so funny is I would love to try a Cajun turkey sometime. I think that just sounds so good. But I don't want to sacrifice the traditional turkey. Plus, my wife is not a big fan of the spicy stuff. If we ever get 4,000 grandchildren and they get old enough and I'm still kicking,

Maybe we'll do two turkeys one day, one Thanksgiving, and we'll do a Cajun one. I know deep frying is great. I know it creates an incredibly moist turkey. I just don't like the mess that comes with deep frying. And I just too many people don't know what they're doing. Now, I would not be one of those. My turkey would be completely thawed, but let me remind you. You make absolutely positively 100% certain that your turkey is 100% thawed before you drop that bad boy in the deep fryer. That is how body scarring accidents happen. So you be safe if you're doing the deep frying stuff. But for me, the biggest key to Thanksgiving turkey. is letting the turkey sit for 20, 25 minutes. If it's really big, up to a half hour. First of all, you will be amazed at how hot it is. 20 minutes later, 25 minutes later. Secondly, that's the key to a moist turkey. For years, bless my mother's heart. Mom would pull that turkey out, and even though my brother was a master chef, he never said anything to her. And he knew. So she'd carve it and say the words, eat it before it gets cold. Well, it's getting cold because you're cutting it. You have to let the juice assimilate back into the bird. It literally sucks it back in. All of the juices that are running around, it comes back into the bird. When you cut it, it all flows out. And you're in trouble. Your bird's going to be dry, and it's not going to be at all warm. It's going to turn cold in minutes. Wait before you carve it. Even if you're just cooking a chicken breast or a turkey breast, wait. You should do that with all means. You should let it rest a little bit. The exception would be a hamburger. You know, a hamburger, you let it rest for a minute or so. But the rest, no, you got to let them sit. Right now, this blew me away. Thanksgiving hosts expect to spend an average of $487 on food, drinks, and decor. What? That's crazy. That's up 13%. 60% of Thanksgiving celebrators say inflation is impacting their plans. 28% are couponing more. Looking for excitement, Chumba Casino is here. Play anytime, play anywhere. Play on the train, play at the store, play at home, play when you're bored. Play today for your chance to win. And get daily bonuses when you log in. So what are you waiting for? Don't delay. Chumba Casino is free to play. Experience social gameplay like never before. Go to Chumba Casino right now to play hundreds of games, including online slots, bingo, slingo, and more. Live the Chumba Life at Chumbacasino.com.

You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-I-Hart or go to IHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-I-Hart or Iheartadvertising.com. Or couponing? Is it coupon or coupon? I don't know. 18% are cutting guest lists. 10% are skipping hosting. 81% have a budget. 33% feel financially strained. Due to increase in holiday costs, 19% say they may reconsider doing so next year. What? Come on now. And then this one is the one that really got me. 63% of hosts expect guests to chip in. One in ten wouldn't re-invite guests who show up empty-handed. No. The only way that's legit is if you are doing a potluck where everybody brings a dish. Then absolutely. And then you say, let me give you an example. You say to the college student that you're inviting in that's away from home. You come. You don't bring a thing but yourself. Because you know, they don't have a big kitchen. They don't have a bunch of resources. You invite them to come. But if you're hosting at Thanksgiving and it's anything but a potluck where everyone brings a dish, man, if you are, if you are, if you're like mad because someone didn't bring something, you got the wrong heart. You have fix yourself. 17 past the hour. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Happy Thanksgiving. Ugh. UFLA. On your phone with the IHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. And free. And IHeart's radio station. This is ice skating music. You can just kind of...

Skating, skating. The memories. Memories of skating on ponds, either in our neighborhood or literally in one case in our backyard. You waited until it was frozen, and man, you'd play hockey out there. Of course, if you didn't do it right, and guys were jerks. You'd launch that puck into the snow. It's like, where in the world is it? Yeah, that's always fun. So you figure out a way to put some boards up to kind of keep the puck in, and you try to make sure that your slap shot was down. You didn't elevate it. But anyway, great memories. Down the back hill. We used to, our, we were at the bottom of the hill in one of our homes in Edina. And you could go to the top of the hill and everyone, no one had a fence backyard except us. And so you could literally ski down everybody's backyard. You could tobogging down everybody's backyard. And everybody understood it. It was never an issue. You could, you could take your sled, you could toboggan, you could ski literally down the backyard. I did create a little too much speed once and caught my fence. Great, great memories, though. Hey, I mentioned at the start, we have slowed down quite a bit here, Orphan Shade. I want to thank those of you who gave yesterday. We didn't bring in a lot yesterday or the day before. So we're at just under $19,000. And we, we, I would love to get us to Thanksgiving at as close to halfway there as possible. Now halfway there is $27,500. That's, that's halfway there. So the only way this happens, and I understand paydays and all that and holiday shopping, I know, I know. But as I said a couple days ago, maybe it was even just yesterday. If there is a group of people that, you know, when Jesus said, if you do this for the least of these, you do it for me, if there's a least of these that fall, I mean, could a child that does not have a mother or father that has been orphaned, it's not their fault that their parents died. It's not their fault where they were born. It's where they were born. And they were born for a purpose. And orphan shade tries to create more purpose and help eight girls at a time. So this is home number six. And we're going to try to help them raise the money to build it. We're just going to do the best we can. But we cannot do it without you. And I mean that. I mean, $5, $10, $20. Whether it's one time, monthly, quarterly, whatever you are willing to do, please do it. And if it's not now, if you're just saying, right, Preston, stop, I'm going to do it. Now, I can't stop because I have to remind everybody that's tuning in because we have people tuning in that haven't tuned in a couple of days, that don't know where we are, or haven't heard, we're doing it again. Operation Thanksgiving is underway.

There's a challenge for Panama City listeners. We can raise $2,000 in the next few days from Panama City listeners. We have another $2,000 waiting to be given. So we would love for you to give. Just put, go to orphanshade.com, donate, build a house in the drop-down menu, and in the comments, number six, PC challenge. If you're out there and you're willing to write a check for 5,000 or more, Your business has done well. You've done well. We need some big gifts to make this happen. I've been very upfront with you about that. Marvin Goldstein offering a concert to the Leon County or a joining county area for the first $5,000 donation, $5,000 or more that goes to Orphan Shade. If you want that donation, let me know. And that would be great. We did have a significant donation. I'm waiting to find out if they want the concert, but we're still making the offer. So if you can help, orphanshay.com, home number six.

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I personally think those sirens are among the most chilling sounds on the planet. Those sounds, to me, are worse than gunfire. They're horrifying. And things are starting to get really... spicy in Dearborn because they're going the way of Sharia and residents are starting to say we've had enough I am of the belief that it is not possible for Islam to exist in this country as it is expressed in the Quran It is not compatible. I don't believe Islam should serve in government. I'm sorry. I don't. Because those beliefs are not compatible with our laws. If they were, you wouldn't see Sharia law popping up in these cities. You wouldn't see this stuff. Why is it that a protester who decided he was going to burn a Quran?

And an Islamist wouldn't let that happen. That's not a surprise to me. What is a surprise is that when he grabbed this Quran back and slapped a slab of bacon on it, and you can say what you will about that. That's so mean-spirited. Whatever. It's his book. He bought it. He acquired it. It's his. Why is there not a theft charge on the guy who took it and ran with it? That's not his Bible, his Quran. That's the other guys. But he's going to blaspheme against it. Whatever. It doesn't matter. This is America. See, that's what I'm saying. This goes head to head on what this country is about. That is a, that's not a big story. That is a massive story in the press box. Six Democrats urging military members to refuse the illegal orders in a viral video. Six Democrats telling members of the military to ignore orders by the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War, Pete Ex. And he's doing the will of the president because they say it's unconstitutional for the military to be in these cities. Well, they're going to protect federal workers doing federal work, which the federal government has a jurisdiction to do. And that is to apprehend illegal immigrants, people in this country illegally. And you're not supporting that work. Friends, this is a very frightening development that you have members of a political party telling them to defy military orders. And then the Epstein files. There is one principled no. Passed unanimously by unanimous consent in the Senate. The House passed it. The vote in the House was, goodness gracious, 427 to 1. But that won. I want to talk about that next. 42 past the hour. I can't do these segments on time. Too big today. The big stories. Listening to the MAD radio network where you're challenged to make a difference each and every day. Good morning and welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

It is so easy. I've done it. I've looked at one voting against the crowd and thought, really? I remember a local commissioner saying, what good is it for me to vote against something? It's six to one. I'm like, yeah, be the one. Be principled. But it would be easy because there are people that I really respect, like Kat Cammack, Kat voted for the release of the Epstein files. Clay Higgins, representative Republican from Louisiana, said no. He was the only member of Congress in the House or the Senate to say no. Listen, here's what he said. I've been a principled no on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, This type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely, I want you to remember these words, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends this bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans who are not named but who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House. Inside this article that quotes Representative Higgins is this sentence. No doubt Congress is going to screw this up. Someone is going to shoot their mouth off and defamation lawsuits are going to pour down. So I'm just asking you because it, look, we all could fall into this trap of one guy. What a wing nut, right? What a wing nut. But does he have a very good point? Consider the wave of pressure. I mean, I've brought it. Come on, release those files. You said you would. Does Higgins have a point? I think he does. So let's just put a bookmark on this. Let's fold the page, right? And let's see if he does have a point. 46 minutes after the hour. Come back with a no way, Jose. I am fair. I am good. I'm a happy example. Glenn is on 9 to noon. I am stronger every day. On WFLA.

52 minutes past the hour, and it's time for another edition of No Way, Jose. Well, howdy, amigos and amigos. I mix it this time. So, uh, got a pretty wild story here. Uh, really blew my mind. Um, just as it did you, Preston, when you saw the headline on Fox News. Nikki Minaj and the UN, um, Those wait, wait, wait, those two things don't belong in the same sentence. Yeah, yeah, rapper Nikki Minaj at the UN joins Trump's UN ambassador, Mike Waltz, to spotlight persecution of Christians in Nigeria. I... Hey, welcome aboard. Amen. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, so she condones the violence, say. Condems. Condems. Yes, yes. She condemns the violence. And she says that it's about uniting humanity, not politics. So I really hope that, you know. She finds a Christ in this journey if she hasn't already. She's saying that she's a Christian. It's just there's a little fruit problem there. But again, welcome aboard. Right, right, right. Yeah. So she's to speak directly to Barb's stressing that she's standing against injustice, not taking sides, which you ought to take sides. In this, if you're going to stand up for Christianity. You think? Yep. No way, Jose. Yeah, so Nikki Minaj in the UN? Yeah. Speaking? Yep. Mm-hmm. She's calling the genocide wearing the mask of chaos. Okay. Or she calls the killings wearing the mask of chaos, warned of U.S. military action. Well, Trump, you know, Trump threatened U.S. military action, stuff like that. And then also we have in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, they are reopening their Christmas festivities. After two years of being closed. Yeah, because of what happened in Gaza. Yeah. Yeah, so they're reopening that. The tree light lighting is going to be in December 6th in Manger Square with messages of peace and hope.

as are all throughout scripture. So that's really nice. Yeah, thousands of pilgrims are expected. And in past years, they saw over millions of visitors. Nice. Hopefully we could get back to that number. Okay. That would be nice. Okay. And then also, there was a mosaic discovered in Israel. It was found in the world's oldest Christian worship site. The... It's worship. Yeah, worship. A warship. Worship. Worship. We're not talking about the Navy. No. Worship. Yeah, but, yeah. And no picky English sometimes, you know, get a little mix up. I heard worship, and I think you meant worship. Worship, yeah. So it's being exhibited in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. So that's pretty neat. And it affirms the Christian belief that Jesus is God. So sorry Islam and other faiths that don't give him his full divinity. Well, he's just a prophet, you know. Right. He's just, you know, he's just another one of the prophets. It's a very good man, though. Only God is good. Hint, hint, wink. Jose, can you see, ladies and gentlemen. Hey, I don't know if you heard Chick-fil-A testing two new sandwiches in two cities. Chicken and waffles and the chicken and waffles breakfast sandwich. So they're doing a chicken and waffle sandwich and a chicken and waffles breakfast sandwich. They're testing it in certain restaurants in Baltimore. Why Baltimore? That's just first of all, just saying Baltimore makes me laugh. It's just one of those cities. And then the city itself makes one laugh too. All right, we come back. We're going to change gears. Back again to the news of the day. Seamus Bruner joins us, Director of Research, with the Government Accountability Institute next on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Dozens, hundreds of these little NGOs that organize, provide the signs, provide the water bottles, everything. It's an industrial operation. When you say Tides and Arabella, give our listeners a snapshot, what are these organizations? Where do they come from? What were they founded to do? Yes, great question. So they've been around, even longer, some of them. Arabella's rather new, 2005, its network, and it's got about seven sub-fund. Arabella Advisors is just the advising entity, but it's got the new venture fund, the 1630 fund, the Windward Fund, more names than people care to hear about. And so those are the entities that actually do the funding. So Soros is actually one of the biggest funders of Arabella. He was there from the beginning, 100 million plus. There's actually a foreign billionaire named Hans-Yorg Vise from Switzerland. He's given a couple hundred million over the years to the Arabella network. Bill Gates puts in 300-plus million in the last five years or so. Also, big news in June was that Bill Gates would be cutting his funding, that's, I believe, directly tied to Arabella's demise because Bill Gates cut the funding. He was one of the biggest funders of that. Tides has actually been around for much, much longer decades, and the Ford Foundation is also in this whole ecosystem. The Ford Foundation goes back. I wrote a book, Controllagarchs. that shows that the Rockefeller Foundation, which keeps popping up time and time again, that was really the prototype. I mean, it goes back to 1904, these big industrialists guys, they did not want their money going to these things, but over the years, these big foundations like Henry Ford and his now Ford Foundation, it's all been taken over by leftists, and they're big endowments, and they've ballooned and grown in over a century. But they really, the Rockefeller's tides, Ford, they pioneered the art of using tax dollars as a force multiplier for their own agendas. They get grants to do theoretically ostensibly good things. They take those government grants, mix it with private cash, and then it just becomes an ATM machine for radical left-wing purposes. You got to love that. Seamus Standby. Seamus Burner with us with GAI, Director of Research, author, and most importantly, He's our guest right now on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Get it off your mind. Get it off your chest. You have a story you want to share? Write him at Preston at iHeartRadio.com. Welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

They don't make it easy to find it if you do a search on Google. What a shock. Government Accountability Institute. G-A-a-hyphen I.org. G-a-a-i.org is how you find them. Seamus, Bruner, with us. Seamus, what should a taxpayer do in response to this? Hey, it is Ryan Sechrest here. Want to bring a little Hollywood excitement to your day? Take a few spins with Chumba Casino's brand new game. Ryan Seacrest's 10K ways. It's free and features 10,000 ways to play, giving you nonstop action, including thrilling bonus re spins and cascading reels. Every spin brings something new. So step into the spotlight. Enjoy the excitement. And play today at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Voidware prohibited by law. CTs and Cs, 21 Plus, sponsored by Chumba Casino. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with Iheart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. Well, I think the exposure of these formerly dark money, I mean, it's still dark money in the sense that we cannot track it all the way, but we have the 990s. That's the best you can do is we come through thousands and thousands of pages of IRS form 990s of these big left-wing NGOs. Shining the sunlight as we've been doing and many others. especially on Arabella, and then people get upset about it, and now they can't hide in the shadows anymore. So this was big news yesterday that Arabella, I mean, it's a rebrand. I don't, you know, we're not taking victory laps here. Sure. But, you know, when it gets exposed, they have to recalculate. They've lawyered up. There's been a few articles since that White House roundtable where we talked about Riot Inc. They are, they are lawyering up. They're taking steps to hide their trails. You know, they're on the run, I'd say. Now, they're not going away, but we just got to keep spreading the word, sharing the news. Thank you so much for having me on, talking about it and letting other people know that their taxpayer dollars are funding. And we talked about Riot Inc. We've actually got a big report on migration, Inc. how your tax dollars have funded this invasion and the resettlement going on. That is why I believe these big NGOs are funding anti-ice. protested because it's the same people who funded the uh... invasion and then why did they do that it's because they fund the get out the vote operations it's the same players funding the mad they know that they can get non-citizens on to the voter rolls either legally or illegally and so this industrial operation the more we we expose it uh... the more the trump administration goes after i you know i like many people uh... wish there would be a lot more arrest

sooner than later. Yeah. If we don't fix this soon, they're going to use it in 26 and 28. And, you know, we won an election the last time, but nothing's guaranteed here. Seamus, you talk about, I'll call it a kind of a hard rebrand that Arabella is going to be in the midst of doing. Then there are soft rebrands. I consider Bill Gates backing off of his climate hysteria to be a very significant. important, but a soft rebrand. What are we to make of Bill Gates sort of saying, yeah, okay, maybe not so much. It's not so bad. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I think it's pretty cynical. He's got a lot of interest that the administration can affect. That's why you saw all these tech pros lining up to fund the inauguration. I think President Trump is trying to keep his enemies closer with this, I hope, you know, having them to dinner and all of that. But, I mean, the FCC, the FEC, anti-DJ's antitrust, these guys, Mark Zuckerberg Bill Gates. They all could, the Trump administration could make big problems for them. So I think it's, he's doing it to, you know, I don't think he's, well, first of all, I don't think he was a true believer ever. I mean, he's the biggest user of energy. He's got two private jets, a couple of sea planes and helicopters, yacht, a 66,000 square foot mansion in Washington. The guy doesn't believe in climate change. He uses that as a tool for... control and to actually increase his bottom line, get investments into his so-called green tech energy ventures. But... I think it's good for us. I mean, at the end of the day, it's good for us that he has retreated. Yeah. They were gaslighting us about this the whole time. Now we can hold that up and say, wait a second. I thought, you said it was going to be a catastrophe. Now you say it's not going to be a catastrophe. Well, then we're not going to do what you say was banning our gas stoves or banning steaks and cows here, which is what he was one of the guys pushing. Bring incandescent bulbs back. That's where the campaign begins. 16 minutes past. We got another segment to go. Seamus Bruner, director of research with GAI, the Government Accountability Institute. My guest is an author and Point Man in Riot Inc. for GAI. Explaining it to the peoples here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

On your phone with the IHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Dude, yes. And IHeart's radio station. Final segment here with Seamus Bruner, Director of Research with GAI, the Government Accountability Institute. He's an author. and our guest here this morning. Seamus, give me your take on the importance. of getting more information out regarding Jeffrey Epstein. I have mixed feelings given what I read of Clay Higgins and his reason for voting against the release. I feel like he's got a principled argument here that there are going to be some innocent people dragged through the mud that are in these files and the media is just not going to know any restraint whatsoever. But Epstein's got some other entanglements and involvements. Do you feel like there's more to come? You know, this is one of those things that's going to be like the JFK assassination or 9-11 or, no matter how much information people get, they're never going to be satisfied. So that's unfortunate because, you know, you'd like to be able to close the case and move on. But the problem is that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, they were charged with trafficking minors. to nobody apparently and so and as long as i mean is there there needs to be just even one arrest of a guilty person obviously uh... and you see people like larry summer that it's it's going to It's going to hit the Democrats' hardest because all of the people who are closest to them are huge Democrat funders. I mean, yes, it's a small world, by the way, the billionaire class who have places in both Palm Beach and New York. So when Donald Trump is, you know, friends with Jeff, so-called friends with Jeffrey Epstein, you're not talking about a huge group of people. I mean, the number of gala and dinner parties and things of people who live both there, it's actually really, really small. So, of course, they're bound to run into each other. uh... you know the geoffrey epstein was by all account charismatic uh... guy uh... and so yes there are innocent people who knew him and people think oh you must be guilty because you knew him or even flying on the jet i mean that's not and even attending the island is not uh... evidence of guilt the problem is that there are guilty people and until any anyone is brought to justice and in the statute of limitations on crimes against minors is i don't believe there is one in some cases so They really do need to arrest. And I've got many questions left. And so I'm glad the files are coming out, you know, innocent people, I think will remain innocent. I don't think anybody's going to grab pitchforks and torches and, you know, lynch them. But, you know, it's a tricky thing because until somebody, you know, when you're talking about crimes against minors, people get really upset about that, understandably.

You'd love for, I know a couple. I mean, so here's one thing I reported in the book Control of Arts about Bill Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is it ran through the bank, J.P. Morgan, and there was an executive at that bank, and I've seen the emails between that executive and Jeffrey Epstein, and they are horrific. I mean, you just search for J.P. Morgan at Jeffrey Epstein. Disney characters, the executive's name, and he's, by the way, been indicted on several other charges for other things. So he's not a good guy, the JP Morgan executive. But Disney was referring, you know, I was with Beauty there. I was with Bell last time, you know, Snow White last time. They're using code names talking about his time at the island. It will turn your stomach. Don't read the emails, but they're out there. The New York Post reported them and others. So there is enough smoke here and even some fire that people really want some justice. I'm one of the people who want the guy who went to the island and committed crimes against children brought to justice. So until that happens, I think there's going to be a lot of anger about it. And I'm glad that, you know, the Trump administration kind of came around to it. Seamus, thanks for the time. You've been generous with it this morning. We're here for you. Anytime you want to get some things out there to some folks, so we may be a small pond, but we have a big splash. Yes, you do. Yes, you do, President. Well, thank you so much. Have a great morning. Thank you, sir. Seamus Bruner with us from the Government Accountability Institute. He's the director of research. His book, Control of Garks. We had him on when the book came out. And again, meticulously researched. GII just doesn't mess around with that stuff. That's why they're so respected because they just, where the evidence leads is where they go. And if that's on the right side of the aisle, it's on the right side of the aisle. If it's on the left, it's on the left. So my thanks to him and all the work that they do at the Government Accountability Institute, 27 minutes past the hour.

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Veterans Day, it was handed off in Washington, D.C. at Arlington to the National Sheriff's Association to take it state to state to state around the country. How does that actually happen? Because that is not a small undertaking. It isn't, it's a wonderful grassroots effort, ranging from the American Battle Monuments Commission and Vietnam Veterans to just about every major veteran service organization in the country. with a sponsor from UPS to be our transportation corporate sponsor around the country and cooperation of the National Sheriff's Association to take it around and to touch the goal is to touch all Americans, including POWs, MIAs and active duty military overseas. The flag was ceremonially accepted. by Admiral Grady, recently retired from the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Navy Notre Dame game on November 8. So it's a grassroots effort to get the country to touch all Americans dead and alive. And at the end, it's targeted to fly over the United States Capitol on July the 4th, 2006. Oh, yeah. It'll touch Pittsburgh. You'll touch Pittsburgh right before it gets there, and it's going to get a military escort into D.C. Okay. Pittsburgh, of course, my birthplace, ladies and gentlemen, if you did not know that, I was born in Pittsburgh. We've got more to talk about. Rommel Nicholas with us, chair of the National Flag Foundation, and you're hearing about Flag Sojourn 250. And I love how this is unfolding. I want to dig a little deeper, find out a little bit more. But could you imagine that? What I love is one singular flag. going across the country, overseas, U.S. territories. And I feel like as we start getting into the spring and summer, prayerfully without incident, that it will be like a wave of patriotism. And so when that flag gets to the U.S. Capitol to be flown, that's going to be special. 40 minutes past the hour. More to come with Rommel here on the morning show with Preston Scott. This is the morning show with Preston. This is the morning show with Preston.

All right. It occurs to me that I might have violated one of my longest standing rules here. And have I been butchering your first name this entire time? It's... Preston, I get Rommel frequently. It's Romel, but that's fine. No, it's not. It's not fine. It's no more fine than when people call me Scott Preston. That's terrible. I'm ashamed to myself. Romel, Nicholas, is chair of the National Flag Foundation. I want to understand a little bit more about because I've got this image in my mind when you say going state to state this flag. How literally does it go state to state? Well, this initiative has been endorsed by the National Sheriff's Association. Right. Their sheriffs around the country are on notice, and there are designated sheriffs in each state that the flag will be delivered to by UPS, and each sheriff will be making some effort to ceremonially receive the flag and then pass it on. So it's a logistical feat given upcoming weather and pattern for the flag. But fortunately, through the efforts of UPS and America 250, which is one of our partners in this, we've been able to plot out of a very solid course for every state and every territory. We're talking about just being in states, not each county jurisdiction, correct? That's correct. And our belief is that, or at least our initiative, based on the fact that by touching the state, it touches those dead and alive within the state. And it's a grassroots effort to take a simple American flag around the country and, you know, around the world, so to speak, and a flag that anyone can purchase. No gold fringe, no... spectacular movie stars or celebrities attendant to it, our position is that the flag is its own celebrity. Absolutely. Am I to assume that your goal is to get it to state capitals? That's the plan. There are some deviations on that, and there are a few states where there aren't sheriffs. For instance, in Alaska, we've had a request from the Allute Indian Nation to accept the flag on behalf of the state of Alaska, a few other variations, but generally, yes. So when does this flag, or is this flag in Florida now? It is, and my understanding is that the appropriate sheriff in the state of Florida has the flag and has ceremonially received it, and will soon be passing it on to the next state. They were the first. They were the first of the formal states. The flag touched down at University of Notre Dame, passing from the Pacific.

to the Atlantic, so to speak, and it was received there by Admiral Grady. Then first state on the trajectory was the state of Florida. Look at us. Look at us. On the East Coast, and you're going to just start making your way across the country from there. That is awesome. Now, what is planned for the flying of the flag at the U.S. Capitol on July 4th? Is there anything mapped out yet? Yeah, there's a, it's to an extent, a work in progress. We have already been invited to have the flag fly over the Capitol. And tentatively, the plan now is that the flag will leave Pittsburgh at 6 a.m. the morning of July the 4th, there'll be a 250 motorcycle brigade. from the American Legion that will escort the flag directly to the Capitol, and it will fly over the Capitol that day, midday. That's wonderful. Ramel, thank you so much for the time this morning, and I appreciate all the work you all are doing to bring attention to our flag and to properly honor what it represents. Thanks so very much. And Preston, thank you. And I appreciate you getting the word out because I agree with you. As time goes on, people around the country will be hearing about it more and more. And thank you. And let us know if we can help spread the word any further on anything else that's going on. Thank you very much. Thank you for giving me the time. Absolutely. Ramel Nicholas with us. And he's chair of the National Flag Foundation. What a wonderfully simplistic mission. I love it. This is our focus. It's not left. It's not right. It's the flag. Love it. It's just too bad for a few people in this country. It isn't representing what it should to them. 47 minutes past the hour. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

You want to follow the flag and learn more about the National Flag Foundation. Might be something you want to get involved in. Just go to national flagfoundation.org. Really good website here. And literally you can follow the flag. You click the little yellow icon. And it pulls up a page here. We can learn about the sojourn. All the different little aspects of what's going on. And then there's a drop down here with a map that shows you where the flag is gone and where it's going and kind of where it is at any given moment. Pretty cool. National flag foundation.org. Hey, speaking of hitting the web, orphanshade.com. We need you. We really need you. We are falling a little behind now. We had a great first week, but this second week we've fallen behind. And I know paydays and things like that factor in. I'm bringing it to your attention. If you want to give, I'm not going to rehash a bunch of stuff now. We'll get, you know, we'll talk more about it over the coming days and weeks. But orphanshade.com, donate button, give what you can. And in the drop down, you're giving to build a house. And in the comments, number six. And if you want to be part of the Panama City Challenge, put PC challenge in there. And we would greatly appreciate any support. It's orphanshade.com. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. Really strong. Part two of a devotional. We do it every day, but I mean, sometimes they connect a little bit. And this is a part two. We'll do a part three tomorrow from Genesis 3. And so that's where we started the program today. Big stories in the press box. I don't know why my voice is all of a sudden sounding a little weak. I don't understand that. Dearborn.

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