Ep. 5463: Pfizer cutting medication cost at Trumps behest.

Welcome to the morning show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He is Jose. It is great to be with you on this first day of October. And it's October? I don't know. I just felt like that ought to be the way it would be said. It's good to be with you. We'll start today with a little scripture. And friends, there is absolutely some kind of spiritual stirring that is happening, not just in our country, but around the world. And understand this, Satan doesn't like it. And that's why there is some unbelievably violent response to it. Everywhere from China, Russia, some of these places where God is all but forbidden to be worshipped to places like South Korea that you would think, well, I mean, isn't that like a big hub for Christian? You'd be surprised. I've got a story that I've been just sitting on for a while about the persecution. of a pastor in South Korea because he's not he's not bowing to what's going on there and what's going on there is a move to socialism we have an absolute

ignorance in our young people of the dangers of socialism while there are young people that are moving towards conservatism there's a bunch of them moving to socialism they're being they're being lied to socialism is nothing but a lie and so i say that because the importance of god's word now more than ever is being highlighted through the events and through the news and through the things that we're seeing the importance of you changing your routines and making time to read God's word with your children teaching them the value of anchoring their life to it but not just saying it doing it, living it, modeling it. If it's not good enough for you to live it, what makes you think your kids aren't capable of seeing that and going, well, they just talk about it. They don't live it. Mom and dad talk about us living peacefully with others. They don't even live peacefully with themselves. Dad's not the priest of our home. I know. I know. It hurts. Still in the book of Haggai. Chapter 2. We talked yesterday about the challenge that God was offering through Haggai. to the people of Israel to get about the business of getting God's house in order. And we talked about how that in the New Testament is you and me, getting you and me in order, getting our interior right because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. When you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit takes residence inside you. You have a new heart. It's why things just start to be different. I have watched video after video after video of young people that didn't know Charlie Kirk that are making a mockery of that smug little girl talking about he's not a martyr. He doesn't matter enough to be a martyr. And the thousands and thousands and thousands and perhaps millions that are saying, I don't know this guy. But for the first time in my life, I mean, these are young men in tears. I'm reading a Bible and I'm realizing that I need to change teams. What this guy believed and died for. And listening to his wife, forgive his, her husband's killer? Yeah, I want that. In Haggai 2, verse 4 it says, Yet now be strong. O Zerubbable. And he is the one called to rebuild, to lead the effort to rebuild the temple, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua. Son of Jehazadegh, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts. Here's the New Testament application.

Work on yourself. Be a better version of you because God is with you. I'm done. I don't even need to do the rest of the show. Have a good day. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. I think it would be fun if we, every time we said October, we did it with some zeal. It's October! It's October! Just, just, just that one, that's it. What are you doing on October the 14th? Going to the Charlie Kirk Vigil? Just saying. It is on this date, October 1st, 1811, the first steamboat to travel down the Mississippi River, the New Orleans, reaches its namesake city after a month-long trip from Pittsburgh. From Pittsburgh? Okay. So what? Did it go down the Ohio River and hang a left? Yosemite Park established in 1890. Henry Ford introduces the Model T automobile. In 1908, its price, $850. That was a lot of money back then. 1924, Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia. 1942, first U.S. jet, the Bell XP 59A makes its maiden flight at Murrock Dry Lake in California. And in 1971, Disney World, number one tourist destination in the world, is it still? Maybe. Opens in Orlando, 1971. Today is, this is incredible, National Jiffy Mix Day. You know the cornbread jiffy mix? I got spoiled. I don't know who made the first sweet cornbread mix, but the first time I ever ate sweet cornbread, it was over. I couldn't eat cornbread again. Cornbread was just like, can I have some water, please? It's so dry. It is National Walk to School Day. Okay. National Pumpkin Seed Day. I've been eating those lately. Yeah. Yeah. National Coffee with a Cop Day. Okay. National Fire Pup Day. Dalmatians. Celebrating Dalmatians. National Pumpkin Spice Day. Back to pumpkins. National Black Dog Day. Black Labs are so good. Not my, they're a favorite, that's not the favorite. My favorite is a golden retriever. They're just, they're sweet. National homemade cookie day, random acts of poetry day. So there you go. Today on the program, J.D. Johnson, much to discuss. But when we come back,

Kids, don't, don't dismiss this next segment. It might be bigger than the big stories in the press box for reasons that will be self-explanatory next here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Good morning, my friends, and welcome to another morning show with Preston Scott. And a true continental man. That's Jose. Jose's still wearing the bright summer colors. You wear those throughout the Fall and Winter, too? Oh, yeah. Does the wardrobe change at all for the colder temperatures? No, just jackets and sweaters. That's it. You layer up. Yeah, about five or six jackets. Yep. Got it. At one time? Oh, yeah. At once. Cannot wait. My own Michelin Man right here. That's going to be awesome. This is a post by Paul Gardner, and some of this is just really handily put together. And these are things that I taught in my apologetics class, although there's information here that goes deeper than anything I've known before. But I used to teach an apologetics class with the church I pastored, and I really enjoyed the teaching component of vocational ministry. But in this piece, John Gardner writes about the two reasons for bold faith. in Jesus as God's son. And this is, I think, as important as ever because of what the Holy Spirit's doing in our country right now. Yes, there's resistance. There always is. There always will be. But there is opportunity here. Charlie Kirk's... assassination has opened people's eyes. There will still be people that slander and mock and ridicule and lie about Charlie just as they did and do about Jesus. But in here, he points to the recent authentication of the Shroud of Turin. And then he gets into the probability, the odds that are found in prophecy. Now, that's an area that I feel real comfortable talking about. Now, while I have been a student of the Shrout of Turin and aware of it and have been fascinated by that story for decades, what has just come out? And yes, this is part of an interview Tucker Carlson did with a Dr. Robert Harrington. Dr. Harrington, a renowned skeptic and scientist, dropped the bomb of bombs on the scientific and skeptic community when he announced his conversion to Christianity as a result of his investigation into the shroud of Turin. Let me quote from the...

From the article in Newsmax that talks about it, Dr. Harrington embarked on his study of the shroud intending to debunk its authenticity. However, as he delved deeper into analysis employing cutting-edge technology and methodologies, he encountered findings that challenged his scientific and personal beliefs. Harrington explained, I approached this study with a critical mind, ready to expose what I believed was a longstanding historical fabrication. But the evidence we uncovered was so compelling that it left no room for doubt. This is the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth. Now let me get into the specifics. He was part of the Shroud of Turin Research Project, a study group that included 35 physicists, chemists, NASA image specialists, electrical engineers, forensic pathologist, and others. To determine that the Shroud's image, quote, appears to be created by an oscillating strobe of high-intensity light coming from inside the body. Second, the event happened in 1.40th. of a billion of a second, like a laser beam moving 2.5 billion watts of electricity. To create a similar light, one would need all the electric power generated on Earth at one time. Now, Tucker Carlson's interview correction was with Dr. Jeremiah Johnson. And that's an interview that a lot of people are pushing towards. But I've known for a few decades now that the image on the shroud of Turin could not be, could not be in any way, shape, or form replicated by anything that man knows at this time, let alone then. There are microscopic, uh,

details from plants, botanical matter that is consistent with Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Going back 2,000 years. And I'm not even getting into the statistical odds as it relates to prophecy. I'll just give you the short version. There are about 300 prophecies in the Old Testament about Jesus. If you grab eight of them, where he was born, a messenger preparing the way, entering Jerusalem on a donkey, the list goes on and on. 30 pieces of silver for his betrayal. I mean, all of these things were predicted. Eight of them, the odds of those being fulfilled in one person are one in 10 to the 17th power. What that number is is you take and you put 17 zeros after it. If you double that and go to 16, 16 of the 300 prophecies that Christ fulfilled, you are looking at 1 in 10 to the 45th power. That's 45 zeros. Jesus fulfilled not just 8, not just 16, but all of them.

People have said it this way. It takes more faith to believe in the Big Bang theory that we evolved from the primordial soup. I don't have the faith for that. There is more evidence to support Christ as the son of God, fulfilling prophecy, exactly as it was laid out hundreds and thousands of years before his birth. Grab hold of these facts. Grab hold of these things. Own them. Memorize them. Rejoice in them and share them. 28 minutes past the hour. I told you it was going to be good. Potentially bigger than the big stories in the press box. You're a sense of sensibility. Communicator of common sense amplified. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. This is not to make light of anybody that's impacted. I just know that very few people will be. The government shut down last night. By the way, the rapture didn't happen last week either. I'm just saying, yeah, and this is the Chuck Schumer shutdown. You want to know what this boils down to? First of all, As President Trump said, Democrats, there are consequences to your actions here because we're going to have to cut and furlough some people that may not ever come back to work here. See, these shutdowns illustrate for most that we didn't need all these people working because our world functioned just fine. This is over. medical care for illegal immigrants and funding for NPR. Democrats insisted on 1.5 trillion for illegal immigrant health care. They're calling it American health care. They consider illegal immigrants Americans. This is all word games.

Democrats, some joined Republicans in this. Polling shows that roughly two-thirds of the country in total, Democrats, Republicans, independents, completely think Democrats have lost their mind, that they're going to shut down the government, that they have shut down the government over this. Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid continues, Postal Service, Veterans Affairs hospitals, clinics, immigration border patrol security, et cetera, just rocking along. There will be furloughs, IRS, small business administration, housing programs may see a delay in rental assistance. This may impact some. This is all over funding for illegal health care. for illegal immigrant health care and NPR. Democrats wanted funds for the rural health care fund. Republicans said, we agree. And they restored funding. Democrats opposed it. What? You said you wanted it. It is the Chuck Schumer shutdown. In the midst of all of that, President Trump reaches a deal with Pfizer. Pfizer committing $70 billion of investment into America to reduce drug costs. The United States is going to have what's called most favored nation status for costs, meaning we will finally be paying what other countries are paying, at least with Pfizer drugs. Some of the most important and most popular drugs are going to be dramatically dropping in price. But here's the big one. Pfizer will be moving drug manufacturing back to America. This is vital. That's the important part of this. Now, I'm not going to kid myself. Pfizer is doing a rehabilitation tour here. Pfizer has lost a tremendous amount of credibility through COVID. And then we played some of it at the end of the show yesterday, the third hour, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense. Fat generals, low standards, gender delusions, they're gone. We'll get more into that as the show unfolds. 41 minutes past the hour. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. I quote Pete Hegseth. This administration, he gathered all of the leadership of the United States military apparatus to Quantico. This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate worship, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris said before, we'll say again, we are done with that bleep.

He used the S-H word. As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace are those willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous. If the Secretary of War can go do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It's a bad look, it's bad, and it's not who we are. Whether you're an airborne ranger or a chairborn ranger. A brand new private or a four star general. You need to meet the height and weight standards and pass your PT test. So each member will have to pass two physical training tests per year while meeting height and weight requirements. There you go. He said, he additionally said, if this hurts your heart, where we're going, Feel free to resign. We would thank you for your years of service to this country, and thank you for leaving. He's not going to tolerate any subversiveness. And this is why it is so important, I said this yesterday, to have continuity in the White House. Following Donald Trump, we need people that will keep Pete Hegseth in his chair. As Secretary of Defense, we're rebuilding our military. Recruiting numbers are skyrocketing. People want to be part of this military. Don't know if you know it. A massive comet has entered our solar system. Although one, one scientist, Avi Loeb. claims the comet could be an artifact of alien technology because it weighs more than 33 billion tons and is 3.1 miles across. It's a big comet. They discovered it entering our solar system earlier this month. Next week, it's moving. Next week, it'll pass... Within 167 million miles of Mars orbit coming close to both Jupiter and Venus. So just something they're keeping an eye on. They're calling it 3-Eye Atlas. Atlas. 46 minutes past the hour. We have so many good stories today. The morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7, WFLA. I haven't gotten to this story until today. And now, if you've been listening to the show, you know we've been following Greta Thunberg.

and her efforts to bring, bring refugee supplies and aid to Gaza. Because, because mean evil people would dare to stop it. Well, Greta Thunberg, who is, um, one of the many scoffance of Al Gore's cult. known as gorbel warming, the gorble warming cult. Maybe they'll move to, you know, Jonestown and Guyana. I don't know. She's been part of this effort to bring supplies through the Israeli blockades to Gaza, keeping in mind that Israel has been bringing and the world has been sending all kinds of aid into Gaza. Hamas has been stealing as much of it as it can, keeping it for itself, selling it on the black market to buy arms. But now we get to this. I'm just going to read the article. Greta Thunberg's flotilla mutinies after queer activist joins cause. See, Greta and the other lefties that are part of it have just learned a lesson. Local coordinator abandoned ship we were lied to about the identity of some participants. A single queer activist has thrown Greta Thunberg's Gaza-bound Flotilla into disarray with several participants blasting the group's leaders and at least one coordinator ditching it entirely. The beleaguered global Sumud Flotilla aims to bypass Israel's blockade, deliver aid to Gaza. But when the self-described queer activist, Safe Ayadi joined the effort, Khalid Buzhemiah, the Tunisian coordinator for the flotilla, resigned. We were lied to about the identity of some of the participants at the forefront of the flotilla. He went on to say, I accuse the organizers of hiding this aspect from us. And then there's a litany of quotes from people named television anchors from Tunisia, organizers in Tunisia that are just blistering. the organization that Thunberg is part of, though she's saying now, I am not on the board of directors. I'm merely a volunteer. And what else? She's a organizer. Well, here's what they forgot to take into account. Tunisia, where this was paused, this flotilla was at, is a Muslim nation. And I don't know if you've checked in lately, but Islamists don't have high tolerance for gays. Like they have no tolerance for it. Like they take gays and lesbians and tie them and take them to the top of buildings and drop them off of high rises. I'm not saying that's the thing to do. I'm pointing out. that these lefties just got a lesson in the realities of working with Islamists. They're all upset because Palestine was supposed to be the cause. We weren't supposed to be distracting and hurting with these immoral things, these things that are socially and religiously wrong. I'm paraphrasing their quotes.

Being queer activist means that you're violating societal values and putting me, my children, my relatives in a situation we reject. That's, that's, I mean, I'm just saying it's funny to me. And here's what you don't hear. You don't hear Greta going. How do you? To the Tunisians. You don't hear that sniveling little brat. wrinkling up her nose and pointing fingers at the Muslims for their faith. Now, do you? We come back. Some intel on the shutdown. We'll get to that. But first, what happened in Portland last night that might be worth your interest? things to talk about. Good morning, Ruminators. Welcome to the second hour of the audio magazine. We call Common Sense Amplified. You call The Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose. I'm Preston. J.D. Johnson. We'll join us next hour from the talent training group, our personal defense segment. We've had quite a number of things happen since we had Charlie on last month. We had the shooting of Charlie Kirk. We've had the shooting at a Michigan Mormon church. We've had the shooting at ice facilities. And then we have the continued violence that just happens. And so we'll discuss all of that and try to help you digest what's happened and what, if anything, can be learned for you and I. On the subject of violence, Portland has been a train wreck for years. Now, for all of you listeners in Tallahassee, do not forget what I'm about to tell you. This all started in Portland when they went with socialists and progressives to run the city.

This is what awaits you. For two straight election cycles, the progressives in the capital city of Florida have attempted to wrestle control of the city council from Democrats. This is Democrats versus Democrats, but the progressives are an extremist, unreasonable, power-hungry group. They hate the police. They've said it. They've accused police of murder when police have been proven time and time again of having used justified force in circumstances. But I won't waste time on that. I'll merely point out, Portland is a snapshot of what the capital city of Florida can become if we don't get more people awakened in this community. Last night, independent reporter Nick Shirley was in Portland during a demonstration. Klan Tifa was out, masked as always as the cowards that they are. That's why I call them Klan Tifa. They're not Antifa, they're cowards, just like the Klan Tifa. And so Nick Shirley is an independent reporter. He posts on YouTube and a masked man belonging to the Clantifa group storms up to him, probably knowing who he is saying, get the bleep out of here. He said, what are you doing? I didn't do anything. The aggressor kept advancing, driving Shirley backward into the street, blocking him from moving freely. You come back. I'm going to bleeping smoke you, bro. That, by the way, is street term for kill. Really? Shirley replied. The agitator kept pressing forward, threatening to smash Shirley's camera as he tried to push him away. Shirley stood his ground, said he had every right to be there. And then Shirley said this. You have DHS watching you right there. They are lasered on you. You have a sniper lasered on you right now. The protester said, I don't give a bleep, but that's when other protesters showed up. Other members of Klan Tifa. You see, Trump has placed members of the National Guard. The Oregon National Guard, Department of Homeland Security to stop the attacks on ice and to stop the violence in downtown Portland. And lo and behold, while this guy was threatening this reporter, a sniper from DHS was on top of a building and his laser was on that man's chest. And it wasn't moving.

He deployed 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. Here's the point. When will Portland say enough? When will Portland citizens residents say enough? Our city has become a military zone because of the city council, because of Clantifa, because of these mostly peaceful demonstrations. When will people say enough? And all I'm pointing out here at this very first story of the hour is this is the fate that awaits cities, communities, counties that don't pay attention to who they're electing. Ten past the hour. This morning show with Preston Scott. Apparently, Troy Aikman having kittens over the football game. He broadcasts with Joe Buck the other night. Monday night football, the Broncos beat the Bengals. Bengals without their starting quarterback, but it was 28 to 3, but there were 22 penalties. 18 penalties were accepted. 18 out of 22. 22 flags.

Aikman was correct in pointing out, yeah, it's a good call, but it totally, it didn't affect the play. It needed to be just picked up. And there's the problem. There are penalties being called in football games that are just absurd. Like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. And then there are plays that are not called that are like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. Every game, it's just, it's hilarity. And it kills the flow of the game. All the penalties. Oh, my gosh. But, you know, that's what you get. I was laughing at the WNBA. They're all upset because their league is not getting the respect. It says it deserves. It's like, you guys, you guys have bitten the hand that feeds you. You know, you've literally had no league until Caitlin Clark showed up. Now Caitlin's injured and, you know, the Indiana team that she played for is out of the playoffs. They made the semifinals. That's good for them. But it's like, who's going to watch? No one watches. They only watch if Caitlin's playing. I mean, really, the ratings are terrible. It's been kept afloat by the NBA. And I don't know what these. I mean, if I had a daughter playing the NBA, I'd say, you are fortunate to have a place to play and to make any money. Well, players have to go to Russia to make more money. Okay. It's called the free market. You can't make people like something that they inherently don't like. Department of Education is going to be allowed to continue to cut jobs. Appeals Court ruled that a previous lower court ruling was faulty, was an affront to a Supreme Court ruling, and so the Department of Education is going to continue laying off workers. They're going to keep cutting staff. So far, 259 employees accepted an offer of eight months of paid administrative leave.

313 accepted a $25,000 lump sum and then step down. There you go. We are, and I know that this touches people. We hear calls during what's the beef. I get emails. I know this touches people. The government's too big. It just is. Has to be cut down. There's so many things that have to, I don't, it's not going to be fixed in my lifetime. But anyway, 16 past the hour. When we come back, a monument to Obama. Sentencing this week for P. Diddy. The question is, Did he? Sorry. Daily caller, John Loftus, editor, Too Big to Fail, Monument to Obama's, I'm sorry, Obama's ego, not Obama, Obama's ego. Slowly imploding, bailout on the horizon. Listen to this. This is so emblematic of the left. 19 acres on the south side of Chicago, they start building this monstrosity. And I mean, it is a monstrosity. But the presence of it caused property values in the area to spike, which means rent and home prices have exploded, which is hurting people that live on the south side. The cost of the project, original estimate of $300 million for his, what presidential library, whatever they want to call it, to now at least $850 million, nearly $1 billion. In 2017, the budget clocked in at $5 million. later to $500,000, then later $700 million. Now it's $8.50. So what they did is the Obama Foundation entered into an agreement with the city of Chicago to establish an endowment designed to generate sufficient interest every year to fund operations without depleting the principle, leaving taxpayers off the hook. See, the idea here is they're going to raise and deposit this massive sum of money to fund its operations. So the city will never have to dip into its pockets or tax citizens to pay for the Obama operation, the project. During the deliberations, they settled on a $470 million deposit. Listen now, this is important. Deposit 470 million. That money is untouched. The interest off of it would then fund the operation. Does that make sense? That's what an endowment is. An endowment puts money in and whatever the cause is is funded by the interest on that endowment. The first year operating costs of the library were projected to reach $40 million. According to...

documents in 2021. The estimates suggest an endowment ranging between $800 million and $1 billion to keep operations afloat. They said it needed $470 million. Actual is $800 million to $1 billion on deposit. But here's where it gets really good. That original $470 million endowment, guess what they have so far? Guess how much the Obama Foundation is raised? $1 million. Roughly 0.2% of what was pledged. And that deposit was made in 2021. So over the last four years, they have not raised one dime. So they have this massive building. It's not finished. They have an operational budget of at least 40 plus million a year. They pledged an endowment of $470 million, but it needs to be $800 million to $1 billion, and they have $1 million in the bank. One million. This, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly how the left works. They make all these promises. and they leave taxpayers holding the bill. It's like going out to dinner with a bunch of people, and they stiff the waitress, they insist on, you know, separate checks, and then they stiff the waitress, and the good person among the group ends up paying for the tip to not embarrass the whole group. In this case, this is a monument. to Obama's ego. And what's fascinating to me is Obama spent how much time in Chicago dealing with black on black crime when he was president? How much time? How about none? None. And yet we're going to honor him with a monument that the city can't afford. Now what's going to happen? Now what's going to happen to the taxpayers. 27 minutes after the hour. Big stories in the press box next on the morning show.

Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hello. Hello. Anybody home? Hey, think with flying. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. We've got a shutdown. We've got a shutdown. Will you notice? Probably not. I'm not belittling the work that people do that are going to be impacted by this. I think, though, that these shutdowns do illustrate the largesse of government. Just to put your mind at ease, here's what's not going to be impacted. Medicare, Social Security. Medicaid, Postal Service, Veterans Affairs, hospitals, and clinics, immigration, Border Patrol, security activities, among others. There may be some furloughs in the IRS, small business administration, housing programs may see delays in rental assistance. But, you know, and yeah, there will be some private sector pinch. And I know what some people might be thinking. Well, you say pinch just like when they say, oh, this will just pinch when they give you a shot and it hurts like that dickens. I get it. No, this will just pinch a little bit. And you know, it's subjective to a certain extent, right? But I want you to understand what this was about. The Democrats. Wanted $1.5 trillion for illegal alien health care and refunding of national public radio. Refunding, not refund. Refunding. They wanted money back. No. Nope. NPR can exist like the rest of us in the radio world. We don't get your tax dollars. We're not funded by government. If the government buys advertising for some reason, most of the time it's covered by PSAs. But if for some reason the government buys something, they buy it from us and anybody else. But that seldom happens. It doesn't happen often. NPR is funded.

And it leaves us at a massive disadvantage to have NPR radio stations in the Nielsen ratings competing against us, but they're funded with my tax dollars. Excuse me? And the programming is one-sided. And it's really a shame because there used to be some really fun shows on NPR. Used to be. They don't exist anymore because it's gone completely woke and it's gone completely left. The entertainment value diminished. You know, I have to live in the free market world. We compete. And, you know, I'm grateful that we have advertisers and businesses that support what we do, but we have advertisers and businesses that don't really care what I do. They just care that we have a lot of people that listen. They're in the market. They want their messaging heard. Democrats have shut down the government because they want illegals to have health care on the taxpayer expense and they want NPR to have funding. Really? Those are the hills you're dying on? Okay. It's the Chuck Schumer shutdown. Some Democrats abandoned ship on the Democrat platform on this and came over to the Republicans and said, no, we need to keep the government running. They know. This is not going to be blamed on Trump. Initial polling said it would. It's not now because people now know why. President has announced to deal with Pfizer to lower the cost of prescription drugs, at least from Pfizer, Pfizer investing 70 billion. in American manufacturing of their products. Now, this is a little bit of the Pfizer reputation repair tour. Pfizer's doing everything possible to try to repair the damage it caused during COVID to its reputation. I will never forget it. But here's what's important. It's not so much that drug prices will come down. That's important. But what's more important is that manufacturing of drugs will expand here in America. If you recall, that was the problem during COVID, that there were medicines not available because they came from China. That is a huge underscored part of this deal. And then Pete Hegseth, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, just reminded us of why he is the Secretary of Defense. He is making things right in the military. Standards will return to what they used to be. If women can meet those standards, terrific. If they can't, just like there are weak men out there, then that's not the job for them. 41 minutes after the hour. J.D. Johnson coming up at the top of the hour. Except he has a little more hair. The morning show with Preston Scott. There are things that defy common sense.

Harrison revealed that he had his own anti-venom that he brought along for the ride. Harrison needed the drug to avoid dying. Said the paramedic, Barnes. He said the first part of the stage is paralysis. The second part is respiratory arrest. Third part is cardiac arrest. He said, I'm going to die. Barnes tried to call his supervisor but got no answer. Paramedic reached out to Clark Regional Medical Center. The doctor gave him permission to administer the anti-venom to Harrison. But in Kentucky, only wilderness paramedics are authorized to administer the drug. And so Barnes and his fellow paramedic are facing loss of license because they saved the man's life. Defies. Common sense. But yet California now will let doctors anonymously mail abortion medication under a new law signed by Gavin Newsom aimed at protecting health care providers and patients from legal or disciplinary risks. Excuse me?

A state cannot. I'm sorry, this will be found to be illegal on every level possible. A doctor can never act anonymously. Ever. That cannot be allowed. But yet, here you go. California once again. And that guy wants to be president. 46 minutes past the hour. We come back another exciting edition of No Way, Jose. Morning show with Preston Scott. Does Mother know you wear as her drapes? On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. Yeah, we look forward to it. Another edition of No Way, Jose. Oh, but wait. Breaking news in the WFLA Newsroom. We interrupt our programming for? Well, if you read something insane, I probably didn't.

introduce you to what on most occasions might be considered a Florida man apprentice, but no, no, we're going to bestow Florida man honors to young Caden spate at the ripe young age of 17. No, no. If the name sounds familiar, it's because we all got an amber alert about a 17-year-old boy that was kidnapped by four Mexicans. Remember that? Four Hispanics kidnapped him. You see, things started to unravel for young Caden when he texted his family that he had been abducted by four mysterious Hispanic men in a van, but yet his phone was found with his truck and... Other things. How was he texting that he had been abducted, but then his phone was found left behind? Here's what Caden did. I guess things in Dinell in Florida are a little slow sometimes, and Caden decided to spice up his week. So he tells his family he's been taken, went bare grills, Got himself a tent, sleeping bag, a bicycle at Walmart. Of course, with the Amber Alert, Sheriff's Office had to do its job, right? So there's this massive manhunt underway. But he decided he needed to do one thing more. So you know what he did? He shot himself in the leg. Yeah, the entire thing was made up. Sheriff Billy Woods, the initial details were completely made up. We just spent thousands of dollars and man hours because Junior wanted a live action role play CSI, Florida. That's a quote from the sheriff.

Will he face charges? It's not off the table, according to the sheriff. And of course, mom and dad, being the good parents they are, will not now let detectives talk to him. There's a story I've got here. It says nothing says good parenting like shielding your son after he fakes a kidnapping, shoots himself and sets off a countywide, countywide, statewide, panic. Bravo, parenting goals achieved. Caden spate. You know, I got to thinking about this. This is not any different. It's just in the basic storyline, except it's not quite as severe as the accusations made against the Duke lacrosse team back in the day. When a young lady who happened to be black claimed that she had been gang raped by the lacrosse team when nothing of the kind happened. She admitted that she lied. Those guys got their lives ruined. In this case, at least it wasn't a specific person, but it could have been. You're saying four Hispanics in a van. How generic is that? You could say that, well, that's maybe worse. Because it's a broader accusation. Either way, it's the same horrible lie. And that, my friends, is a Florida man, if I've ever seen the story. What a doofus. Now, that child needs some counseling. What is going on in his life that he felt like he needed that level of attention. And at what point? Did he not think he was going to get found out? I mean, is he doing drugs? J.D. Johnson's with me next.

And away we go into the third hour of the morning show with Preston Scott. Good morning, friends. October 1st. I cannot believe that we are in the home stretch of 2025 already. It really is hard to get my brain around it. That's Jose in Studio 1A. I'm here in Studio 1B, and I am joined by co-founder, co-host of all things, Tallinn. Ladies and gentlemen, he is J.D. Johnson. Hello. Good morning. How are you? I'm great. How about you? I'm doing all right. You know, I mean... You ain't been kidnapped and... Oh, my gosh. Somebody'd still be beating me. I'm 57 years old and somebody would still be whipping on me if I'd done something like that. I can't even conceive of doing something like that. I mean, I go back to even when I was young and stupid. I wasn't that stupid. Anyway, for those of you that do not know, we talk personal defense once a month here on the program, but we've been doing it for years, often twice a month. And J.D., you and I haven't chatted since the events of September 10th. And it really is very difficult to this moment to get my brain around the fact that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Let me first ask, what was your reaction when you heard? Well, I got a text about it happening, so I got on the, immediately got on the, on the internet. And, you know, it's just, it's mind-boggling to me that it happened. But I guess that's the world we live in today. There's a movie out there that I really, I think the older I get, the more I relate to it, it's called No Country for Old Men. And it was the sheriff that just had, you know, had seen all manner of things in his career and in his life. And he's really had a hard time wrapping his head around the violence in the world we live in today. And I kind of feel that a lot lately. When you, I mean, we step away a few days. We get some information. Obviously, the videos out there. And there's all kinds of doctored videos now that are out there. We've talked about that. He's not the president of the United States, but Charlie lived in a world where bulletproof vests were commonplace. He wasn't wearing one that day. No one on his staff was. What they missed. Wouldn't have helped. It wouldn't have that shot. No. Because it was above the torso, right? Not only that is that any ballistic vest that you can wear that is soft, soft enough, small enough, thin enough to wear under a t-shirt where you don't look like a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Right. Okay. Is not going to stop a high-powered rifle. It's not designed to. The soft body armor. easily defeated by small, high-velocity projectiles. They're designed to stop pistols and shotguns. And they're end at the story. Rifle plates, body armor, are thick, heavy, and either ceramic composite material or steel. Obviously, the fault lies with the person who committed this act. Yes.

At the same time, I can't help but step back and think were no lessons learned from Butler. The high ground. The high ground. I mean, I immediately thought about they've got all the video showing this young man on the security system. JD, tell us, if I'm not mistaken, you worked with FSU police, right? Yes. And while it was then, and this is now and things have probably changed somewhat, Do they have a place where all of those cameras feed and there are monitors that you can look at or not? I have no idea nowadays. The technology since I've been retired for 12 years now. So technology has come a long way. Sure. And I know that there are live feed camera systems in operation in Tallahassee, just for general everyday things. So that's monitored by somebody. I don't know about campus, but I do know that I had an experience one time to be part of the security detail for Lewis Farrakhan came and spoke at FSU. Well, he's a divisive guy. Yes. Considered by most to be a divisive person. And. We locked down every building, searched every building, physically went to every rooftop and posted people to keep somebody from accessing a building and gaining the high ground. That's security protocol 101. I mean, that's not changed. I want to pick up right there. We got more to talk about with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group. It's our personal defense segment. There's a lot of stories in the news and we're going to try to touch on them. You're on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

I don't quite know how to frame our discussion here today. I just see we were just talking in the break, you know, whether they have a little bit of a command center where they have all those feeds that someone can be saying, hey, there's somebody on that roof. Tell Charlie to hold on until we go send somebody up there to check it out. or Turning Point USA, even, flying drones above the facilities if they don't have the adequate staffing. And I'm not faulting the university, even though it's the biggest university in the state of Utah by capacity. But at the same time, boy, what would you say is a lesson or lessons to learn from this? You know, we have to do a better job. As law enforcement has to do a better job, security experts have to do a better job, whoever's in charge of security, especially for, and here's the thing, it's not just Charlie Kirk. It's anybody. There's people that will do bad things like that just to be famous in today's world. Right. You know, that's a big part of the school shooters, the active shooter people. They're looking for... Notariety. Notaryity or notorious reputation, whatever you, however you want to call it. I mean, they're looking, a lot of them are just simply looking for that to go down in history and trying to make their mark on the world. And, you know, infamous is part of being famous. You can have infamous, you can have famous. That's what they're looking for. They're in their really messed up mind. So we've come away from this situation with just a, you know, hopefully people take more seriously the nature of the world we're living in now. Because one thing is not arguable. This violence is being celebrated by people on one side of the political aisle. Unfortunately. When we see this violence happen in certain circumstances, Nobody on my side, nobody that I know of that thinks like me, we don't celebrate the death of anybody like this ever. No. It doesn't matter whether we ideologically think they're nuts. It's wrong. It's evil. But there's a side that celebrates, which tells me, J.D., that there is a likelihood of this type of violence happening again. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely to anybody willing to step out on the public stage. to anybody and not necessarily people representing the right or you know people representing the left or whatever just anybody willing to step out on the public stage that is a public figure that somebody knows a lot of or a lot of people know who they are i'm reminded of the line from the movie in the line of fire which was about the it was about an assassin that used to work for the government that decided he was going to end the life of a president he said You cannot stop me because all that's required is for me to be willing to lose my life. And I'm willing to do that. And that's there is a ton of truth in that. If I'm willing to, you know, if I'm willing to embark on a suicide mission, somebody's going to have to know that I'm leaving the house. And that's my intentions when I go. Because between there and the end.

If you don't know it's coming, I've got weeks, months, days, hours to make all of this happen and to adjust my plan. And unfortunately, like you said, evil exists and there's people willing to do that kind of stuff just to get their name in the history book. When we come back, we're going to talk about what happened in Dearborn, Michigan, because that was simple hate for one particular religious sect. What can businesses, what can churches learn from this, if anything? Next with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group. 21 minutes past the hour with JD Johnson of the Talon Training Group. Remember, I can say that. You can get yourself signed up for some great training. Head to the range. Just go to Talonrange.com. They have all kinds of classes where I hope you take this stuff seriously because it's getting a little bit weird out there. There are more and more people that are irrational to me, JD, than at any time in my lifetime. That said the church in Dearborn, to me it's irrelevant, what kind of church it was. It doesn't matter whether it was a mosque, whether it was a synagogue, whether it was a Mormon church or, you know, a quote, you know, Protestant church, Catholic church, it was evil. What happens, though, is this guy drives a truck into the building, shooter jumps out, starts unloading his rifle, and then proceeds to go around and set the church on fire using gas as an accelerant. Take this stream of what happened apart and tell us what could have been done maybe to prevent it. Well, I think there were some things on the front end. You had a guy that was making a whole lot of reckless statements to a whole lot of people about hating Mormons. So we have to look at those things when you get somebody doing stuff like that. And there's a lot of states that have enacted, and I know that a lot of people don't like red flag laws. Right. You know, they're controversial because they really hasn't done anything until he does something. But it's worth going and talking to somebody and going, you know, why are you making these statements? What are your intentions? May nothing come of that. You may zero, zero may come of that. But let me just pause for a second. We got time on our side here for a little bit. Let's say that, you know, law enforcement realizes this guy's making a lot of statements. It's not illegal to say you don't like people, all right? But at that point, would it be wise then to go to each of the Mormon churches in the area, say something, and then say maybe you need to be thinking about your security around your property? Absolutely. Okay. That's intel. And that's something that needs to be passed along that everybody needs to be on the same page and say, hey, you know, this guy's saying making these statements and you need to be aware of that because you're the target, right? So.

Yeah, that's first and foremost. Secondly, you know, we've talked about we've gone to churches all over the area. Yes, you have. And tried to, you know, tried to help them come up with their plan and it's, and their security plan. And folks, you've got to get your head out of the sand to start with. And. multiple layers you know there was a and I don't remember exactly where it happened but it was also one I think it might have also been in Michigan where recently where a guy pulls up in his truck and people were paying attention outside layer one you know layer one of the security was that was at people outside and they stopped that one engaged him in the parking lot and it ended before it ever started I think a deacon in the church ran him down with his truck is correct Exactly. It was, but at least somebody was outside and paying attention. Right. And, you know, it's, it's all of this stuff when you're, I see the glazed overlook and some eyes when I go and have these discussions sometime. And because everybody lives in the, that would never happen here. A bubble. Yeah, that, that's that bubble. And churches have always been a safe place, a, you know, a place to go and you're not. You hate to think about and it is hard to think about evil existing when you're inside the church. Because it does. Because we cast it out. Right. Exactly. And, you know, and that's not why you're there. But. You have to think that way. Would it be safe to say that if they had security, I tend to think they probably didn't. But if they had it, you can fairly say it wasn't sufficient. It wasn't adequate, whatever it was. Because there were opportunities to intervene the moment the guy runs the truck into the building, weren't there? Absolutely. So talk me through that. So you got a guy driving a truck into a church building. It's not like the parking lot. ended and three feet away was the building probably i'm assuming you know there's there's some there's some open ground in between pretty much every church i've ever been to so if you've got outside people and you say a guy start accelerating because i'm sure he didn't drive into the building at two miles an hour or five miles an hour he probably got a head run and start all right well Get out of the way. Wait till he stops and be ready to engage then, you know, immediately. Why let him out of the truck at that point? At that point, I mean, I don't think I'm picking at this to say if he's got a long gun. He can't just wield that inside the cab of his truck. He's got to get out of the vehicle. Well, first of all, the first weapon involved in this is the vehicle. Right. And there's nothing against the law about shooting at someone in a vehicle if they are trying to run you over. Right? That is a 7,000 pound weapon. Yeah. Okay. And that's...

You know, we tell people that, now, shooting at someone because they made you mad and road rage is different. But if they're trying to run you over, they're using their weapon of opportunity, which is that vehicle that they're operating. So there's no reason if they had outside security, either it failed miserably. Somebody wasn't paying attention or it wasn't there. But his weapon of choice was a long gun, and he would have to get out of the vehicle to deploy it. Absolutely. And that was the opportunity. And there's your second, that's your second opportunity. First opportunities to engage before. Sure. Second opportunity is as he's exiting the truck. And third opportunity is when he's getting the gas cans, because I'm sure he didn't jump out of the car with the gas can in one hand and a rifle in the other. Yeah. You know, I mean, so you can, you stop it if you can and mitigate it if you can't stop it. Friends, if this is all like Greek to you, this is the reason why you. Try to get some consulting with Charlie J.D. and learn more about how to protect your church or your office or what have you. 27 past the hour. More to come with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group Talenrange.com. Be surprised if you laugh. We suggest you use the restroom before you listen or invest in a 30-foot catheter. Yes, I use it all the time. This is the morning show with Preston Scott. And we are back. With J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group, we're talking through the things that have been in the news, and it's sad the number of things that have been in the news. It is what it is. Bit of a change in recent weeks. Due to a court ruling, Florida is now a truly constitutional carry state. What does that mean? Well, so the law that was passed earlier in the year that took the license requirement away from conceal carry, put us in that... a huge step into that direction. They just wouldn't go all the way and say they still wanted to hold on to a little bit of, a little bit of authority and say, you can carry without a permit, but you have to carry this specific way. And the court came back, the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee. There was a case from over in the Panhandle, I think Pensacola from several years ago. where a guy was arrested, had a permit, but he was carrying openly. And he got arrested in charge. And this wasn't an accidental exposure. It was just open carrying. The case is actually kind of funny. He was standing on the street corner, waving the American flag on the 4th of July with openly carrying a pistol. And he got arrested? He got arrested. got arrested and charged, got convicted, or pled to one of the other. I don't remember exactly, but, and then they appealed it. And the appeals court said, no, if you, if you're going to allow conceal carry, because of the history involved with open carry, if you're going to allow conceal carry with a permit or without a permit, you have to allow open carry because the history of

carrying a firearm back in the day, you carried it openly for, and then there's words to a song, for all the honest world to see. So the history of open carry in the country. Conceal carry is what your bad guys and your gamblers did. You know, that was, they don't want anybody to know you've got a gun. The honest world carried it for everybody to see. So, and that's kind of what the court used to base some of its decision on. And rightfully, even though I don't personally open carry, I don't agree with the tactical. There is a tactical disadvantage to it, regardless of what people think, there is a tactical disadvantage out in public to carry openly, in my opinion. And my opinion's worth, you know, a cup of coffee maybe. But I don't like it. I don't agree with it. It's not smart. Especially for people that have had zero, most people have had absolutely zero weapon retention training, which law enforcement carries openly. They have special security holsters that require two or three different maneuvers on their part to draw the gun out that make it difficult for somebody else that doesn't know how their holster works to draw. And they practice defensive tactics on retaining that firearm because they're always... in the potential for a, let's just say, discussion of ownership of the gun that they bring to every situation they come to. Right. So, but the court said, nope, it's, if you're going to allow concealed carry, you have to allow open carry. The attorney general didn't, the state of Florida didn't contest it. The governor won it. Now the Florida legislature has a whole lot of, whole lot of language to clean up in a bunch of the gun laws. Yeah, they do. And they're going to. try to limit certain things, no doubt. But bottom line is there are places you cannot carry even openly or conceal. Period. The places that you can't carry conceal legally, you certainly can't carry open legally. You know, so the bars, not the restaurant. You can go to a restaurant and order a drink sitting in the restaurant section, but you can't go to the bar. Or any business, it's a private business that says no. Well, They have to tell you no. Right, yeah. Yeah, they have to say, and the biggest advice I can give somebody, so he says, you can't have a gun in here, and it's not your property, and they tell you you can't have your gun in there, just leave, don't argue, sorry, wrong business, I'll take my business elsewhere and go about your way, don't argue with them, because if you start hanging around after you've been asked to leave, that is the definition of trespassing. If you're trespassing with a firearm, which makes it a felony, and if you get convicted of that, all of your gun rights go away. Yeah. Think long and hard before you are argumentative on this one. More to come with J.D. Johnson next. Wherever you may be from Florida Sunshine State to New York's. Forget New York. Nah, scratch that. New York's now hopeless. At least the city is. For the rest, we're your morning show, the morning show with Preston Scott.

A few minutes left in our personal defense segment with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group. Let's look at everything that we've talked about here today. We've talked about open carry. We've talked about circumstances where you need to react and think about what's going on around you. What are some practical ways to take this to the range? Well, you know, everybody pretty much open carries at the range. It's very, probably. Can I stop you and ask you? Sure. Is that smart if you don't open carry? No. Thank you. You have to train for the game you're going to play. So if you're going to be, if you're just going to the range to shoot paper targets and to plink a little bit, cool, that's fine. But if you're doing it for self-defense purposes. Train appropriately? Absolutely. With the holster and the equipment that you're going to use and, you know, the gun you're going to carry, the holster you're going to carry, the way you're going to carry it. That's how you practice self-defense. You don't carry a small pocket 380. If you carry a small pocket 380 pistol every day in your front pocket, you need to practice that way. You don't go to the range with a full size 9mm and a outside of the waistband. you know, Kidex holster. There is some training value because every time you pull the trigger and aim the gun pull the trigger, you're learning things. Right. You're practicing things. It's just, you know, that kind of be like FSU facing a pocket passing quarterback this Saturday and their defense's been working on stopping the wishbone all week. You know, I mean, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, it would be stupid for their, for their defense to practice stopping the wishbone offense when you've got to drop back passer that you're facing this Saturday. Make sense? It does. Does it make sense to try to artificially raise your heart rate a little bit before you shoot? I say absolutely, you know, and that can be done in different ways, safely, jumping jacks, jogging in place, that kind of stuff. It's hard to artificially duplicate a true adrenaline dump. Of course. And all the other physiological changes, you virtually cannot do that except by through stress inoculation and force-on-force kind of training. It's hard to duplicate that. And even then, if you... To me, it's always been with, and I've done, been in scenario training for years and years and years. And even with some munitions, stuff that the guns are real, it shoots a paint pellet that marks and hurts when it hits you, that's as close as you can get. to to that but even then somewhere in the back of your mind or at least somewhere in the back of mine was this ain't going to kill me if i mess up or this is not this is i'm still in a safe space here where i'm not the the risk of death or great bodily harm is negligible tell people about the basic

conceal carry course that you offer and what you do in it yeah so we've been doing this for as long as we've been around which is becoming a long time now um we've always done some type of force-on-force scenario-based training in our program. So our program, we go over all the law of stuff in the first half of the day to keep you out of trouble. Then we take you and teach you how to operate and shoot somewhat accurately a handgun. We have a system called laser shot. It's a... really nice, expensive video simulator where you're not looking at a small TV screen. It's projecting on the wall. Yeah. People you're interacting. It's very real. The people you're interacting with are the same size as you are, so you don't have all that. And we can adjust the program midstream if we need to. But you're interacting with a movie character. And it tracks your shots. It shows you where you hit or miss. And you get a reaction from the bad guy, you know, depending on what the instructor's doing. And that's, for some people, that's a very real experience. It just depends on, it just depends on the person and their background and all that to somebody like me. It's not even going to get my heart rate up because I know it's a movie. You know, my background is different. Yeah. So we see some legitimate stressful reaction, stress reactions out of this. And we do it. When we do those, you got sometimes you have your friends or other people watching. So at least you get the peer stress, the peer performance stress, if nothing else. Learn more. Get to Talonrange.com, find out about the courses, and get yourself trained. JD, thank you. Thank you. JD Johnson with a talent training group 47 past the hour. All right, by now you might have heard this story, Joe Bullard, who I know, Joe. like besties or anything like that. But we're colleagues in a profession. And Joe's been around longer than me in this market as far as radio. But he has been long time the voice of Famu Football. Very deliberate kind of style. And so Alabama State University is in town. This past weekend. And they have a dance troupe of young ladies that are, shall we say, slightly larger than what you might expect on a dance team. And they're called the honeybees. And so Joe is recorded. I mean, it's viral. It's everywhere. Joe is recorded.

as saying that, you know, welcome the Alabama State honeybees and joking that they are now the new face of O-Zempic. And in Joe's style with the delay and the drama. that is associated with Joe Bullard's style. Yeah, it didn't, I mean, you could hear there are people laughing like crazy and there are people going, oh my goodness, he did not just say that. And needless to say the crowd at Alabama State, not really happy with them with his comment there. But University is... going to do what the university is going to do. Joe has apologized for his part, but my man. Brought to you by Barano Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. The new face of Ozimpic. Pig. Stories in the press box today. Pete Hegseth, Torches, Fat Generals, Low Standards, Gender Delusions during his remarks yesterday. We played some of those remarks. We're getting the military right, ladies and gentlemen. We're getting the military right. President Trump announcing a big deal with Pfizer to lower cost of prescription drugs. It will. Pfizer's lowering costs because the United States will now be priced as other nations around the world. Pfizer announcing Alex Borla, the president saying, yeah, the United States has been subsidizing the cost of health care around the world. And it has to stop. You could have done it long before now, brother. I maintain this as part of Pfizer's reputation repair tour. So we'll see where that all leads. The government has shut down, although its impact on you and me, it's negligible. 85% of it, 90% of it is up and running and not affected. My apologies to anybody that gets furloughed over this, but the government's too big. A kid who claimed he was kidnapped by four Hispanic men actually made it all up, shot himself in the leg to make it more authentic. Caden Spate, our Florida man nominee for the year. covered a lot of other ground it was a truly an audio magazine show we're going to have another one tomorrow uh steve stewart pause for thought on the road again and uh a lot of us we've got a lot of stories a lot of things to go through and so uh remember the podcast uh check it out and uh have a blessed day everybody