Ep. 5443: New Axis of Evil?

It's Tuesday. We have a head start into the week. Come on now. That feels good. And it feels beautiful outside. Oh, my goodness gracious. We are getting to that time of year. Now, I know we're going to have some weather. We're going to be dealing with a storm or two or five or whatever. But it's starting to creep in those cooler temperatures. Oh, my goodness. Welcome to the morning show with Preston Scott, friends. I'm Preston. He's Jose. He's wearing his guy Fieri fake hair. And camo top. Have a nice weekend? Very nice. I slept a lot. Good. You got a lot of... A little hibernation action. Okay. We're getting into that hibernation season. The Bears and Jose. Our verse today comes from Romans 5, since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now that we are reconciled shall we be saved by his life? Here's the question I want to ask you. And it was really kind of the bottom line point to Sunday's message, which, oh, by the way, is Monday's message on my blog page. Ah, Nahum. Some pronounce it, Nahum. Nahum. All three chapters, short book, boom. We covered it in one Sunday. Here's the bottom line. You ready? Are you a friend of God or are you an enemy of God? here's the thing if you're walking outside of his grace if you have turned your back on god if you are living in sin and not repenting that means doing a 180 confessing and repenting that sin to him you're an enemy we all have people that we interact with all the time that are enemies of god is that really where you want to be 11 past the hour. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. All right. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we go. It's September 2nd. We left in August, and we return in September. It's, let's see, 1789 on this date, the U.S. Treasury Department is established. Boy, that got out of hand, didn't it? 1864, Union General William T. Sherman's forces occupy Atlanta. The city would be safer had they stayed.

1935, the Labor Day hurricane slams the Florida Keys, killing more than 400. 1935. You know, global warming, that old chestnut. 1984, Navy pilot George H.W. Bush. Later, the 41st U.S. President shot down and rescued in the Pacific. And in 1945, one year later, Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay ending World War II. There you have this date in history. It is National Blueberry Popsicle Day. You know, over the weekend... We were celebrating one of our granddaughter's birthdays. We had to delay it due to a whole bunch of reasons. So we said, this is the weekend. We're going to do it because no one had to work Monday so we could just do it Sunday afternoon and have a great time. And one of the things my wife put out because our granddaughter loves fruit. She had bowls of fruit. And so I just went around them all. I just started picking them all up and eating all of them. And I was reminded why I don't like a bunch of them. Eight seedless grapes, they're incredible. Red seedless grapes are incredible. Next on the list, blueberries. Blueberries are okay. They're not my choice, but they're okay. If I were out in the wilderness and I needed to forage, blueberries would be incredible, right? They would be. Blackberries? Eh. Eh. They're okay. Again, out foraging. Blackberries are interesting, though, because you'll eat some blackberries and they have a little bit of a hint of some sweetness to them. And then you'll eat other blackberries and they're like, ugh, nothing. They're just nothing. And then I went to the bane of my existence. Raspberries.

I can't, I don't know that God made raspberries or that they are a perversion of Satan and a result of the fall. I don't know. I just see no point to raspberries at all. Talk about flavorless. And today is also National Another Look Unlimited Day. Huh? It provides an opportunity for fall cleaning. National Another Look Unlimited Day. So the day is dedicated to looking around your house and getting rid of excess things you've accumulated. Sort of they're describing it as think spring cleaning meets fall cleaning. I would say purge. It's the purge. Down with that. 16 past the hour. A did you know and what a weekend. Legendary Easter Island is technically part of the nation of Chile.

But it's a 2,300 mile trip from Santiago. Didn't know that. That's our did you know for the day. How about that? Let me reflect a little bit on the weekend of Florida State football. We're better. Paul Feinbaum had a really bad weekend, and I couldn't be happier about it. Paul Feinbaum crosses the line. Giving strong opinions, that's what we do. I mean, that's what I do. That's fine. Boy, he's personal. And even though he was humiliated with his pick against Ohio State and Florida State, Both of whom won against an SEC team. Those teams have no business even being on the field with them. Okay, sport. FSU was a 13.5 point dog and one by 14. That's a 27.5 point swing. That cost Vegas a ton of money for anybody who bet FSU to cover. let alone to win. But the interesting thing about it to me, and we'll talk next week with Irish a fell after the East Texas A&M beat down because that's what it's going to be. It's going to be a beat down. Florida State is much better than expected. And I'll tell you why. And this is something that I listened to Paul Feinbaum this morning talking with Alabama fans who are just crying in their witties. And I get it. We've been there, right? I'm not laughing at them. We presided over 2 and 10 last year. Excuse me? Last year, Mike Norville had guys transfer in that were... former four stars, you know, highly recruited high school players that we lost out on. And they said, sure, we'll come to Florida State. But we didn't get football players. We got highly ranked high school athletes that weren't football players. We got football players this time. They went and found players that might not have been the highest recruited, maybe a couple of them were, but are just workers. We got guys that have played football. And a credit to that coaching staff, Norvell hired himself a defensive coordinator. After that, when was the last time you saw someone get punked on a drive like Florida State did on that first drive and then come back and shut down a team? because that's what they did. Tony White, after that first drive, adjusted a couple things. It was over. Over. Did you think that we were going to play more physical on both sides of the line than Alabama? I mean, they're just two years removed from Sabin, but they're two years removed from Sabin. And Tommy Castellanos was right. He was right. He earned a lot of credibility with his team.

Florida State, I will not put a ceiling on them and I will not put a basement on them. I don't know. But they're going to be a heck of a lot better than they were a year ago, and that's going to be fun. Now, you fans? What are you rushing the field for? No, I mean, there are a couple things I've never understood. One is overrated. Why would you chant overrated and belittle your win? Okay, now we didn't chant overrated unless we did. I wasn't in the stadium. I gave my tickets to, you know, but it's like I don't understand that cheer in general. You're beating a team and you're calling them overrated, which means what? Your win's not that big a deal. If they're overrated, your win doesn't mean that much. Big deal. So what are you storming the field for? Act like you've done it before. That's what I don't understand about storming the field. Now, we're going to pay for it. And if you fan storm the field again, it's going to cost FSU more money. It goes from 50,000 to 100,000. So stop storming the field. It's not that big a deal. Beat Alabama. We're better than they are. We are. And unlike Paul Feinbaum, we're more talented than they are. Alabama, FSU doesn't have any of the talent. Yeah, they kind of do, and I think they proved it. FSU is a better team. Sorry. Sometimes the two-star, three-stars are better than the four-star five stars because they're football players and they play harder and they're better coached. They're better. It's okay. We dealt with it all last year. It's okay. It's okay. But there's more to that story that we'll get to next. Believe it or not, there's an angle of the football game that's going to make its way into the big stories. Next. 28 minutes past the hour, I went a little long there, but what can be expected when we're talking about football.

I just, I had to, um, I had to point out something that a listener pointed out to me. How is it possible that the paper allegedly of record in this community, how is it possible that they, They aren't able to print anything about the football game in Sunday's paper. They've got a season opening commemorative edition with a photo taken probably from a cell phone in the stands because they didn't even send a photographer. How does the paper of record in the capital city not cover that story? I'll tell you how. When it's printing deadline is so early because it's printed out of town, the Sunday paper is printed allegedly in Gainesville now. And so the deadline was after the game was over or before the game was over. So your Sunday paper doesn't have the biggest sporting news in the community, in its paper. And it's not printing on Monday. So today's the earliest? That's sad. It really is.

There was a time you wouldn't just have a, you'd have multiple reporters. You'd be covering all different kinds of angles. You'd have photos. You'd have the box score. You'd have everything. This is what they've done to themselves. Second big story in the press. I think that's a big story. I think it's a big story that in any community, the local paper. has so neutered itself that it cannot cover the biggest sporting event of a weekend until three days later. Don't you think that's a big story? And it makes me wonder, why is anyone even bothering? Fewer are. You should know it's interesting. Tallahassee reports, at least in the capital city, and it's the same across the country. True reporting outlets are growing, and those that refuse to change, Gannett, are dying. They're cutting more and more and more. And they're too arrogant to admit it. Vitamin D, my friends. Vitamin D, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, taking a vitamin D pill or drops daily at the correct dosage is helpful to you in the aging process. Significantly so. Randomized trial of 1,000 people age 50 and older. showed that those that took the vitamin D gained dramatic improvements in key areas. You can get it naturally from eating fatty fish like salmon, the right kind. Wild caught salmon, by the way. Sardines, tuna, some wild mushrooms are rich in vitamin D. Being out in the sun is helpful. Vitamin D. And the we, the farmer's almanac is out there. Now there's the farmer's almanac and then there's the old farmer's almanac predicting a harsh winter. The old farmer's almanac, though, says that Florida is going to have a colder than average set of temperatures and above normal precipitation for the winter. I love it. I know that that's going to just annoy a bunch of you, but I love it. 40 minutes past the hour. Your big stories here on the morning show with Preston Scott. He offers a state of the nation every single day. This is the morning show with Preston Scott.

Newspaper selling a Florida State stunts Alabama in historic, an opener, historic front page. Historic? Historic? Historic? It was the first game of the season and they beat a team that's ranked eighth. Whatever. Oh my gosh. So they're selling commemorative front pages. Bama Busters. They beat a declining football team. That's why I just, I don't agree with the rushing of the field. It was, it's just, it was, no. Anyway, appeals court ruled that most of Trump's tariffs are illegal. It doesn't say in this article, which is really weird on Epic Times, which court of appeals, but it was a 7-4 ruling. It does not take effect, though. They're letting them stay in place until October 14th, which allows Trump to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Now, again, I think the tariffs are an appropriate way to bring some balance to the force. Do it. And are really important. to bring about some changes and it's working. Anyway, look, the lawfare continues. Democrats are going to do all they can to oppose anything that helps America. That's fine. That's that's why their party is just continue. Just let them do what they're going to do. That's fine. We're going to, I had the lead research assistant of the program send me some sound of Scott Turner. I had not heard him. He is the housing and urban development secretary. And he was taking questions on the role of the government in helping people. His answer was spectacular. So we're going to, we're going to tee that up in the next couple days, let you listen to it. They're trying to expand these opportunity zones. It's actually an idea that Tim Scott and Credit Where Credits Do, Senator Cory Booker of New York proposed in 2017. They did it, and now they're going to do it again because we have Trump back in the White House. The idea is to get private money, and in fact, $90 billion of private money was invested in opportunity zones across the country. That's where you're making progress. You're seeing private money move in to help solve problems. And what it boils down to is you've got to get people off of welfare, and you do that by doing it smartly. You help them get on their feet, and then you say you're not staying here long. But you remove the impediments to them progressing. And then I thought this was an interesting story. Gavin Newsom announced the end of the week that California Highway Patrol crime suppression teams are being deployed into major cities of California. Isn't that interesting timing?

Trump sends the National Guard into Washington, D.C. immediately has an impact, immediately. And all of a sudden, Gavin Newsom says, I'm going to, we're going to do something. He doesn't need to send the National Guard here. Well, because you're getting off your butt and you're doing something. Good. The Trump effect. 46 minutes after the hour. More to come. It's a busy day here on the morning chip. All right. We have Manly Minute next hour. A lot of interesting stories. In fact, we're going to start kind of a string of stories that tie together here in a minute. U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack is confirmed. Mama Bear will be joining us if you have not heard. She and her husband Matt have a beautiful baby girl. And so we'll visit with the Congresswoman. Now, Mom. That's so cool. So happy for her. And also, Chance Painter. He and his wife, Soraya, are new cast members in the show Mountain Men, which debuts tomorrow night. They'll be with us today. He will. We're going to talk to him from Alaska. Getting up early. Yeah, he is. Cannot wait to talk to him. That'll be a lot of fun. So we've got a good show for you today. We always have a good show for you. And when we don't, it's my fault because I'm just throwing interceptions. Just. fumbling around stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, fumbling. That's just what happens sometimes. This was sent by a listener. We talked last week about the horrible story of chat GPT being sued, OpenAI, chat GPT being sued by a family because the chat bot, AI, basically engaged in a relationship with a 16-year-old young man to the point that he confided in this AI chatbot, and the chat bot guided him into how to kill himself, telling him how to tie a knot, how to do it the specific way. They went through all the different methods of suicide, went through all of it. Taught the young man how to... Dodge the parents. I mean, the list goes on and on. It was incredible. Listener of the program said that this summer in June at one of the public school libraries, flyers were laying around, how are you? I'm feeling stressed, anxious, down, lonely. Tess is a chat bot. You can talk about your emotions. Text, hi, and then the phone number to start chatting with tests. Chat anytime, day or night, 24-7. And it's from the Northwest Florida NWF Health Network, as seen in the Wall Street Journal Psychology Today, the Guardian Business Insider. W.T.H. Question mark, exclamation point, question mark, exclamation point.

What are we doing? Why in the world would this be in a library? This needs to be, look, wherever you live, you need to be looking for things like this, and then if you see them, you need to be demanding they be taken out. And if the librarians don't understand, you show them the story. that we talked about last week. Look it up, find it, you'll find it. Open AI chat GPT being sued over suicide of 16-year-old. You'll find it. What I'm telling you, friends, is this. I am reminding you, and look, I'm rolling the dice here, sharing this as much as I have at this hour, because I know we got kids listening. I know we do. Parents, I'm putting it on your radar. AI only in very limited use with your parental supervision. I'm telling you, this is a door you do not want your kids walking through. Come back with the second hour, and we're going to take this whole AI discussion two steps further. And it's... It's awesome and it's horrifying all at once. Tuesday, September 2nd here on the morning show.

It's the second hour of the morning show with Preston Scotchow. 5443. It's Tuesday. Don't forget that, friends, Tuesday. September the 2nd. September 2nd. I'm Preston. That's Jose. Great to be with you. Go Knowles. Famu loses. It's opener. Bummer. Couldn't score a touchdown. 10 to 9. Ouch, Cibble. Hopefully things will turn around for FAMU because they have to play a game or two to make some money. Those are usually L's. Famu has had good seasons of late, but we'll see. We'll see where it goes. But the Knowles, of course, good weekend. They play at home again this weekend. East Texas A&M is coming in for a beat now. They're coming in to be paid. That's why they're playing. So it is what it is. I had mentioned to you more stories on AI, the godfather of AI. We talked about this before. Jeffrey Hinton, he is a Nobel Prize winning computer scientist who pioneered the neural network. He is now out there banging the, banging the drums, saying, look, artificial intelligence is advancing too fast to control, and it's a problem, and it's a danger. He said most people are not able to comprehend the idea of things being more intelligent than us. They always think, well, how are we going to use this thing? They don't think, well, how is it going to use us?

I don't know what else to say. AI is being used in cybercrime in unprecedented ways. It's allowing people that really don't have the skill or the acumen, like these high-end cyber criminals. It's allowing them to operate with very little skill. because of artificial intelligence. I just pointed out to you in the last segment before the end of the first hour, how an artificial intelligence chat bot, chat GPT, talk to a young man through all of the different steps, all of the pitfalls, all of the ways to be detected, and helped him kill himself. The chatbot feels no remorse. In its mind, because that's what it has, a mind, it did what it was asked to do.

danger. I'm just making sure that these stories are in your brain so that you are aware because more and more teachers are relying on AI. Look, using AI for fun little stupid stuff, that's fine. How do I repair the drain on a dishwasher? Okay, go to YouTube and then if you need some help implementing it, fine. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about vulnerable young minds having an attachment and creating a relationship that they entrust their innermost feelings and thoughts too, that then use those feelings and thoughts. to help that young person achieve the end that it thinks it wants. He or she thinks it wants. And it's just, it's a disaster. Be advised, moms and dads, 11 minutes past the hour. Kind of connecting the dots to that story next. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7 WFLA or on News Radio WFLA, Panama City.com.

We were just talking about cybercrime and how it expands through the use of artificial intelligence. And we talked last week. Remember the story? About $1 billion, I think it was, alone last year. Taken from senior adults, wiping out entire retirement accounts, savings accounts, three-prong approach. Senior adult responds to a text, a phone call, an email. They get into the system telling them that their accounts are at risk. Here, let me look and see, and then they pick the accounts that they want. And then they go to step two, which is somebody posing as a member of the financial, the fraud and lost division of the banking institution. and then occasionally a third level somebody pretending to be the government saying yeah you need to move your money to a third account immediately now that's probably a good idea what what they're recommending that makes a lot of sense to us here's what we're seeing it's all bogus all of it well they've caught 28 of them 28 members of a Chinese organized crime ring have been charged in four federal grand jury indictments. This is just small potatoes. This is just 65 million. California, New York, Texas, and Michigan, 25 of the defendants have been arrested. Network has operated since 2019 based in SoCal.

Many are illegal immigrants. No. Oh, come on. Pull my other leg. They pose as technical support agents, government officials, bank employees. The list goes on and on. Here's what's interesting to me. You know who helped catch them? You might have heard me talk about a guy named Parogi. He operates a YouTube channel called Scammer Payback. He and his team, for lack of a better way of putting it, they're better at scamming than they are than the criminals are. They catch the criminals. They're on our side. And trust me, he doesn't need to scam anybody. He's making so much money on his YouTube channel because he busts these people. And so he documented evidence that the FBI used to track these people down. He caught him. Scammer payback, they're able to, while they're receiving these calls, they're able to infiltrate their network while they think they're being clever and hacking into something. This guy Parogi and his boys are busy hacking into their entire network. They steal all their files. They tap into all of their cameras. They tell them their names. They tell them where they just got takeout food from. They know exactly where they are in India or China or wherever. They know everything. Sometimes they'll put on a voice. Oh, well, I really think that I should do this. And then the scammer starts to get upset. And then, well, I'm just going to, I don't know. And all while this is going on, they're just hacking into their system, the bad guys. They're hacking into the bad guys system. And they're taking control of it. And it's hilarious. If there's a channel that I want you to watch, it's scammer payback. But. According to U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon, not all heroes wear capes. Some have YouTube channels. And so this guy and others played a role in capturing part of this crime ring. As fate would have it, we're going to connect our dots to another story. 17 minutes past the hour. Oh, how things just tied together like a bow.

Me too, almost 23 minutes passed. All right. So, follow me. This just happens. I wish I could say I planned all of this, but I didn't. I had to make one swap. But I did plan us going from that terrible story last week about chat, GPT, and that young man, to the dangers of AI. to how AI is being used by cyber criminals, to the story of the capturing of some of the people that have been stealing seniors retirement money. And by the way, that does not mean, oh, whew, glad that's over with. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's tip of iceberg stuff. There's thousands out there. Which leads to this story. So apparently last couple days, India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, hung out with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China. What, are we supposed to be nervous about this? Let me tell you. Now, Trump's response to all of this because they all took shots at the U.S. and at Trump for bullying, economic bullying. Trump said what very few people understand is we do very little business with India, but they do a tremendous amount of business with us. They have offered to cut their tariffs to nothing, but it's getting late. They should have done it years ago. Just simple facts for people to ponder.

Here's what I know. Yes, interestingly, China is the source of the criminals that have just been arrested for the cyber crimes. North Korea is in it. Russia's involved in it. But India is absolutely ground zero. How often you get those calls? I've admitted this is a weakness in me. There are times I'm like, I just ignore, swipe it and market it spam, move on. My caller software identifies it as spam. So we just move on. There are other days I'm a little bit more, I'm feeling a bit more frisky. And so I answer the phone. And usually there's, there are a few tells. One of them is the silence. Hello, and when it's a potential spammer, I'm very abrasive. Hello? Click sometimes is what I get. They don't want any part of it. They could just feel it. Other times, there's silence. Hello? You called me. What do you want? Then there's a click. Other times, the silence is followed by this. Beep, beep. And then you hear the boiler room, the sweat shop, where all of them are working. And I know that some of them are hostages in certain parts of the world. They're being made to do this. But most of the time they're not. Most of the time, they love being in on scamming people. And it's, hello, this is Bill from. And it's like, dude, your name's not Bill. Stop it. I bet the farm your last name is Kash Patel. But no, it's not Bill. It's not Tom. It's not Bob. And it's a scam. And I will occasionally say, how does your mom feel about you lying to people and trying to take their money for a living? Is she proud of you? I mean, is this something you brag about it? Family reunions? I'll get, I'll have this conversation. And then usually the profanities are unleashed on me and then they hang up. Mission accomplished. That's evil. I'm no problem with that.

But I'm looking at India and Russia and China, and is this now the new axis of evil? Is that what we're seeing here? Until India's prime minister deals with the scammers that are rampant throughout that country, I have no time for him. I don't care. I don't care. They've got stinky food and they're a bunch of scammers. Want no part of it. Go away. Hang out with your buddies. That's fine. Um, yeah, and this is the morning show with Preston Scott. 36 minutes past the hour. Good morning, friends. I'm Preston. He is Jose. This is the morning show. Dr. Joe Camps will be back with us next Monday from a lengthy time away from doing the show. And I think he's been doing a little fishing here and there. Got to hear some exploits of that. But one of the health-related stories here, I've got a few saved up. that I want to get through this week. But one of them is how vitamin D can slow the aging process over a four-year period. This appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Taking daily vitamin D prevents telomeres from shortening. Now, I knew nothing about this. So I had to read into this a little bit. Telemeres, which are often compared to the plastic tips on the end of shoelaces, You know, there's little plastic tips that you can thread them through the eye of your shoe lace area there. They are protective ends on chromosome strands. As people age, the telomeres get shorter, which can increase the likelihood of poor health, mortality, according to studies. Now, the vitamin D actually lengthens. The telomeres makes them longer. They did a study of 1,000 people age 50 and older, divided them into two groups. One group took 2,000 international units of vitamin D pills a day. The other took a placebo set of pills. And after a four-year period, people taking vitamin D showed less than half of the telomere shortening than the placebo group. So it worked very demonstrably. Vitamin D tamps down inflammation, which is one of the major causes. We talk about inflammation all the time with Dr. Hartz and Dr. Zataman. When we have them doing our optimum held naturally segments, inflammation is an enemy of the body in all forms. And so this is worth talking to your doctor about. I know that when I get my blood work done every year or two, where I do a complete set of labs, my vitamin D level is good because I take drops every day. I do a vitamin D drop. I don't take a pill. I take a drop. And so I'm just saying, got me some long telomeres.

Farmer's Almanac predicting a pretty cold winter. The old Farmer's Almanac published since 1792 saying Florida is going to have colder than average temperatures and above normal precipitation. Well now. And that is, it's kind of cutting off the prediction. I'm looking at it from the old Farmer's Almanac weather map. It's cutting off just to the west of Tallahassee, just to the east of Panama City. So those of you listening in Panama City, you might not get quite the cold that the rest of the state, I mean the rest of the state, as in all the way down the peninsula, down to the tip, is expected to experience. So, yeah. So we'll be keeping an eye on that. And then if you're in the capital city, I just, I don't know why you bother. The local paper had nothing in the Sunday edition about the Florida State football game, and it was a 3.30 game. I could understand it if you're playing in Stanford. I think we play Stanford later in the year on the West Coast, and it's going to start at 9 o'clock Eastern. Okay, I get it. You might not have much in there, if anything but a score, but nothing on a game that kicked at 3.30 and had no delays? What? And so whatever you're going to see is now three days later? That's just, that's cosmically horrible. 41 minutes past the hour. Take you inside the Beltway for a couple stories next. Welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, we've talked about the subway sandwich assauter. Guy worked for the Department of Justice.

And what I think this story illustrates, because it's connected to that story, is how there are people, bureaucrats, longtime federal workers, there are some that don't care who's in office. They're going to do their job. You know what? Tip of the cap to you. But there are others. And they view their work in the public sector as an entitlement. How dare you tell me to do anything differently than the way? I want to do it. It's a grown-up version of Greta Thunberg. How dare you? I would not do what that orange man says. So we've got not just the subway guy who, while they did not charge him appropriately because a grand jury, really, a grand jury, decided not to. He lost his job. Fair enough. Okay. It's a salt. I guess if the bread had come from maybe a different sub shop that doesn't bake their bread daily, it might have been a little bit more of an injury. Subway breaks their sub rolls fresh, and so it probably wasn't that harmful. But that's not the point, is it? It isn't that he wasn't hurt. It's that he was attacked. Doesn't matter with what. Well, now we've got the story of Elizabeth Baxter. She arrived for work on August 18th, boasting. to a security guard that she just made a obscene gesture. She flipped off a National Guardsman at the Metro Center stop and said, bleep the National Guard. That same day, she was observed on security cameras, extending the middle finger towards a guardsman saying, bleep you. One week later. She arrived at work and again told a DOJ security guard that she aided the National Guard and told them to bleep off. Well, the crusty old white woman liberal is now finding another job. She has been terminated. Guess what? She worked in the same building as the subway sandwich thrower. Doing the same job, paralegal. You know, it's interesting. Krusty old white women are some of the worst illiberals out there. You see them driving their Priuses. Not all of them. Not everyone who drives a Prius is a crusty old white liberal or illiberal. Just a bunch of them. They've got their Biden-Obama sticker still on there. Maybe their Biden-Harris sticker. Maybe a Trump with a red circle and a slash across it. You see them. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Looking over their glasses, wearing their Birkenstocks. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Not all people who wear Birkenstocks are illiberals, just most of them. Love it. Love it. Lost your job. Good. You deserve it.

And Tom Homan, Borders are they have located 23,000 of the 323,000 children that the Biden administration lost. Unaccompanied minors. This is one of the tragedies of the O'Biden administration. 323,000 unaccompanied minors were lost. They, the government, Biden, oh Biden, don't know what happened to him. How is that possible? How do you let a child into the country unaccompanied and then just, oh, well, I don't know, you know, kids, you know? Kids will just get lost. Hey, I, you know, I lost mine at the, at the convenience store. I'm looking at, at, at some beer. They're, they're looking at, at some sour patch kids. Next thing you know, poof, they're gone. What do you do, huh? We've located 23,000 children in. How many months has he been in office? It's the ninth month. So in eight months, we found at least 23,000. Do you realize how much work that took? 47 minutes after. Got a manly minute. Get you ready for Congresswoman Kat Cammack.

Oh, it's Tuesday. Don't think we got fooled by the day off. Time for another manly minute. Remember, male by birth, man by choice. We raise our young sons to be men. Real men. Manly men. Who smell good. Sorry. No, I'm not. Anyway, what you do is you take advantage of things that happen seasonally. For example, when we got to the spring, I said, teach your son all the different things that you do in the yard. How to mow the lawn. There's an art to mow in the lawn. Raking leaves, taking care of whatever you take care of in your yard. Now we're in what season? What season are we in? We're in hurricane season. Teach your son. Teach your son about why you have your little emergency preparedness kit. What you do when you hear a storm is coming. Do you need to sandbag? Help. Let him help. Teach him why you don't fill the sandbag all the way full. Why you only fill it two thirds full so that it can get smushed in and fill in gaps. How many, I mean, how many batteries do you need? Waters, all of those things. Obviously, age appropriate. Don't overwhelm the little fella. But he even at a young age can learn and understand a man's role in helping prepare. You live in Florida? There's a responsibility to be as prepared as you possibly can be for a storm. Do you have a radio? Transistor radio? Does it have batteries? You have candles? Do you have lights? Do you have flashlights? Do you have rechargeables? Do you have backup battery banks? What kind of food do you have? Do you have little sternos? All of the things that you need. Ziploc bags for insurance papers. Son, this is, I'm putting all of these papers here. and we're going to put them in the safe or we're going to put them in the dishwasher. Why in the dishwasher, Dad? Well, you put them in the dishwasher because it's waterproof. You ever see water come out of the dishwasher? No, I don't. That means it seals really good and water can't get out. So if water can't get out, we assume water's not getting in either. So we're going to put the papers on the top shelf of the dishwasher if a storm comes. Okay, that sounds smart to me. All right, you begin to train your son. There you go. And there's your manly minute. Take advantage of the seasons. Hey, did you know this is something useful that finally came out of the local paper? Did you know that it was an FSU graduate that designed Taylor Swift's engagement ring? Look at me. Huh? Am I down with the trendy news? All the Swifties out there? That ring was designed by FSU grad Kindred Lubick. She's a ring designer who, by the way, got her degree in psychology.

Which is another illustration of, do you ever work where you get your degree? I mean, I'm just asking. Back with Congresswoman Kat Cammack. Here we go. Tuesday, September the 2nd. Show 5443 of the morning show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's Jose. Great to be with you. And who do we have here? Oh, my goodness, it's the mama bear. U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack, Kat. Congratulations. By golly. Oh, thank you. We're literally sitting here, our little family of three. And baby Augie is eating her second breakfast as we speak. So are we going with Augie? Is that the name around the house, Augie? Well, officially she is Augusta Dare. I know that. Yes, I call her Augie. Matt is fond of Gusosaurus. You know, as any good child of the 90s, we all love Jurassic Park. And so he's hoping that, you know, he's going to be able to get her into dinosaurs. And I already told him, I'm imagining me coming home at one point, and they'll be in dino outfits running around the house. So we've got Augie, we've got Gusta, Augusta. We've got Guthosaurus. We've got still baby peanut. It's anyone's guess. Could anything have really prepared you for this blessing? No, no. I mean, one, I still think it's crazy that, you know, you walk out of, you deliver your child, and then they're like, here you go. And it's like, there's no manual for this, right? It's like to figure it out. And we like to think that we're very competent human beings and adults, but nothing prepares you like becoming a parent. There is no preparation. It's just so overwhelming in terms of. You know, you feel so blessed and lucky and you're in awe of this amazing little child. And it is, it's the best thing ever. I can't believe that I waited so long to do this. I almost feel guilty. talking about anything else because you're a mom now and you've got your little girl with you and it's and it's like I don't want to ruin it by talking about other things so I'm going to delay just a couple more minutes because we shared the news of little Augusta's birth with the audience and and I think it's safe to say based on the email I received people just overjoyed for you and Matt and know the blessing

that children bring to lives and just enriching the life of a mom and a dad. And she's got two great parents. I know that. And I would imagine the staff sort of kind of is going to be fighting over her. Yes, we've already seen where people are, you know, nicknaming her, and she's going to be kind of the mascot for the team, for sure. She's just an incredible little human. I mean, she's, I know I say perfect, and I'm exceptionally biased. Of course, every parent is for their kid, but she's just amazing. And it is so true what they say that you don't know what real love is until... you have a child. And Matt and I just feel so incredibly lucky. I mean, it was no doubt a brutal labor and delivery. Okay. We spent six days in the hospital, but... You know, we are so, so lucky to have a healthy, happy little girl. And I just know that she's going to do incredible things, and we're just going to love her and do the very best that we can as all parents do. And it just puts everything into a different light and perspective. And certainly makes me want to fight harder for our country and for her future. I do think being a parent makes you better at your job. I really do. I'm already, I mean, we've been up since five, and we've already done, you know, TV hits, and we've already started talking to the team, and not like, of course, you're even more busy now than you were before. But it just, it means so much more when you have your child's future kind of in your hands and you want to do right by them. We're very excited, so blessed, and we can't thank people enough for the incredible outpouring of well wishes. We really do have the best community in Florida, and we just can't say thank you enough, truly. Kat, have you been, you haven't been back to Washington since your child's been born, right? Correct. We just got back yesterday. I'm going to guess that at some point that's going to happen. Do you have any expectations of whether you'll be treated any differently because you're now a mom? You know, so... I'm not sure how, you know, it's going to go. I'm only the 14th woman ever to have a baby while serving in Congress. And if you think about it, there's been 12,000 people that have served our nation in Congress. Only about 412 have been women, and 14 of them have given birth, myself now included. The capital in Congress is not really set up for working parents.

You know, there's not changing tables, really, in all the bathrooms for a mom like me who's breastfeeding. You know, it's one of those situations where, okay, how do we make this work? And, you know, we've talked to the speaker and the leadership team, and they're like, well, you know, you can just gotta use a bathroom. And I'm like, You know, it's funny because Congress makes the laws, but yet we can't follow the laws that we make because that's actually illegal. You know, and so we're slowly educating our colleagues on the needs of working parents. And we're really lucky that I can bring her to the Capitol with me. And ironically, Matt, as a firefighter, gets paternity leave. Members of Congress do not. We don't get... sick time or vacation time or paternity leave or maternity leave. I know that that's a common misconception. We also don't get free child care. That's another misconception. And so, you know, we're just doing what we can to make it work. And we think that our experience might illuminate things for some of my colleagues and make it better for families across the country. So we're going to figure it out. We're going to make it work. And I think one of the important things that I've realized right out the gate is your time management changes. Your priorities shift dramatically. And all of a sudden, you're not waiting for the perfect plan. You're just executing. You're making decisions. So I think it is actually going to make me more decisive and a little bit more aggressive, which some people are like, oh, gosh, that's scary. Hang on, Kat. Kat Cammack with us. U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 3rd District. and New Mama here on the morning show with Preston Scott. The morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7. WFLA. Well, she just fired a shot over the bow to all of Washington, D.C. that now being a parent. U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack is going to be the ultimate mama bear when it comes to being a bit more aggressive when it comes to legislation and fighting. Hard to imagine that horror cat. I think some people might view it that way. I'm curious, though, has your time away? as much as you can detach yourself from what goes on in Washington and in your district. Has it allowed you to be maybe more laser focused on a given set of issues? Yeah, you know, obviously your perspective is, you know, always colored by, you know, your experiences, your personal experiences. And this last month in August, not only were we continuing to work, I mean, I think I worked up until about two days before I delivered Baby Augie. And, you know, just hearing from people, there's a lot of local things that we were working on, but I'm seeing.

a big shift towards how do we fix this health care system? Because we really don't have a health care system. It's more sick care. It's completely broken. And so there's a tremendous amount of work that we have to do there. And you and I, we're north Florida. And we see where the closing of hospitals, the closing of primary care, people going out of business, it's leaving these massive health deserts. And that's the result of, you know, a lot of different things. But you've got insurance that doesn't really insure anything anymore. Your premiums are going up. The quality of care is going down. That's something that needs to be addressed. And that goes back to really, I believe, the Affordable Care Act. Was it perfect before the Affordable Care Act? Right. No. But Obamacare made it 30,000 times worse. And so we have a lot of work in that space to do. The other thing is, of course, government spending and waste, fraud, abuse. We're garnishing the wages of our children and our grandchildren, and I'm going to lay blame on both the Republicans and Democrats on this front. Yep. been negligent in their duty to put forward a budget and do the regular order of 12 appropriation bills, which this is September. We have 14 legislative days to get that done. Otherwise, we end up in a continuing resolution, a CR, which is just a rubber stamp of Nancy Pelosi vending era programs. And that's unacceptable. It is absolutely unacceptable. So we have to get that under control because our children's future is on the line. And baby Yagi, she deserves a fair shot at whatever she wants her future to look like, just like every other kid does. They don't need to have the burden of $100,000 plus of debt on their shoulders from the minute that they're born. So we have to have some Cajon, and we've got to get this wrapped up. And we need to do away with the pork, the earmarks. I'm the only Republican in the state of Florida. that doesn't do earmarks. And that's absurd. Get rid of the insider trading. Get rid of all this corruption that is happening in Washington. That's where I'm going to be focused. It's cleaning up Washington, cutting the spending, and actually fixing a health care system that is so broken. That's really where I'm looking at right now. Kat Cammack with us. We're going to take a break here. Coming back, one more segment here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

You've heard the laser focus. U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack, Florida's third district, only one in Florida in the Republican caucus, not doing earmarks. How long have I been asking for that? Those of you that are veterans of the show, it goes back years, begging congressional reps. Set the example. Stop taking the pork. She's the first one to actually do it. I got to ask you about this. What is President Trump thinking, buying shares of intel and pursuing shares of a defense company or owning a defense company? That's socialism. It is. You know, and I will admittedly say I struggled with the news on that because as a constitutional conservative, that is absolutely fundamentally against everything that... I stand for and I believe. I respect the president. I know that his heart is in the right place, but I think that the administration is wrong on this one. So I think there's going to be some unwinding that we're going to have to do. I also think that even more broadly, you look beyond the intel, look at what our grid and all our telecommunications nationally have embedded in them that we still haven't corrected. That is all Chinese-owned infrastructure. And I would rather us focus our time, attention, and resources on rooting out all of this. I mean, I got a report that nearly 60% of all of our national security DOD equipment has CCP manufactured, produced equipment inside of it. That's the stuff that we need to be focused on. And so I know that he's focused heavily on the investment in the United States and getting these companies reshored and onshored. But we have a lot of work to do in getting the CCP out of our basic infrastructure. it's going to take some work. And I'm not thrilled about the decision on Intel, but we've got a lot of moving parts here that we've got to focus on. I know agriculture is a big thing. This will be the last question I have for you today because I want to respect your time with your husband and your child. The reconciliation package has some stuff in it. I want to say it's section 435, 437 or something dealing with some. Basically, it allows... complete shielding of liability to the pesticide companies out there. It's snuck in there. It's a, it's a nightmare for consumers because it basically says glyphosate is not, you can't, you can't prosecute for that anymore, among other things. What can you tell me? Well, just like the pharmaceutical companies, no one should have absolute immunity from any sort of liability, right? And so that's actually something that as a member of the Ag Committee, we've been kind of socializing what is it going to look like when we come back in September now that we're back. We're having briefings on this because it never should have been put in the bill in the first place. So I think long term that's going to get rectified because, again,

you have a general consensus out of the conference that no company, no industry should have blanket immunity when people have a right to, one, know what's in their products, they have a right to choose what products they want to consume. Now, we know that glyphosate and others have been widely used in agriculture, but we also know that there are concerns and there are complications as a result of that. We need to deal with that in a smart way. One of the things that I get frustrated with is you have the Bill Gates of the world who are constantly circling, you know, short-circuiting the system where they've got new coatings that they're putting on products that they've basically been able to buy an organic label on, and it's not organic. We have to have a conversation about food safety in the country, and that's long overdue. I think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to have that conversation. But you have a lot of entrenched bureaucrats that don't want to have that conversation. And so we have to figure out a way to get this done in a way that's smart. And I think the Ag Committee is going to be taking it up this. months because don't forget, we still have a farm bill that is going to need to be passed. We're already a year over the deadline for the farm bill, and the farm bill is critical to a state like Florida, where you have 300 specialty crops. That is insanely important. Now, the one big beautiful bill did have that provision, but it also had some huge wins for Florida. And I think that that's important to highlight because everyone wants to highlight the bad and not always look at the good. We can go back and fix that, but I also think it's worth mentioning that Florida made out like bandits on the upside when it came to some of the ag provisions in the one big beautiful bill as well. Kat, thanks for the time. You are the best. My advice to you and Matt come courtesy of Bill Cosby. He said, remember, only change your baby when you can no longer pick her up. Why remove the only thing she can accomplish at this stage of her life?

Don't take the child's self-esteem. Noted. Matt is staring at me right now saying, what in the world shaking his head. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You as well. Kat Cammack with us on the morning show with Preston Scott. Show with Preston Scott. Do or do not. There is no try. On News Radio 100.7. WFLA. All right, Ruminators, welcome. Final half hour of the show for the day. It's show 5443. Of the morning show with Preston Scotties, Jose, I am Preston. I am really geeked about this segment. If you listen to my show at all, you know I am a habitual watcher of Alone and Mountain Men. I love the series. I've watched it since its inception. And the new season comes up tomorrow night, 8 o'clock Eastern, 7 o'clock Central on the History Channel, and joining, and it's weird to say cast. But now part of the show, Chance and Soraya Painter. And Chance Painter joins me right now, Bright and Early in Alaska. Chance, how are you? Hi, hi. I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm terrific. I'm fascinated to know. How did you and your wife, your family get connected to doing the show? Um... Honestly, so we were living in a wall tent on our property. And we were running our Instagram and stuff, and we just, we had people, like, messaging on Instagram about doing a TV show. And I always kind of didn't answer them or whatever at first. And then, like, a few months later, we were talking. And I honestly just kind of cold, cold the studio. Just asked them if they were interested. Really? And, yeah. I guess, and now, did you know about the show? I mean, how remote of a life are you living over these last, however many years? Were you aware of Mountain Men, the program? Yeah, yeah. We also, like, do brain tan, like the Tom Orr guy. Yep. We would watch. him brain tan beavers and stuff you know and we would beavers are incredibly hard to brain tan and so we're trying to figure out how he was also getting them so soft and so and we we also would like to watch the marty guy we really like marty too yeah but yeah we we weren't living like super super remote like i guess your definition of remote is uh you know subjective sure like Like, how long does it take you to walk out? I guess that would... If it takes you more than a couple days to walk out, I'd say you're pretty remote. How many days it take you to walk out? Only one. Yeah. We're not in like a flying only area or nothing.

Chance, tell me about your background, Saraya's background. How did you decide to adopt the lifestyle? Because living in Alaska, living even if it's remotely a one-day walk, I mean, that's not for everyone. How did this come your way? Why did you go this route? Well, we just wanted to raise our kids and like a more... natural way. I was living in a wall tent and, like, bird and sheep down in, like, northern Washington, and my wife's also from that general area. And I was living in the wall tent, and I just kind of lived in it for so long that when kind of thought about, like, going back, it just didn't really seem right, you know? Just... Just thought it was something you wanted to do. Yeah, I mean, yeah, like it's just it's hard to go from living in the woods in the forest like full time and then like go back to living in like. like a city sure you know what I mean oh yeah I mean well I don't really know what you mean but I can I get I can understand it from the perspective of watching others in this lifestyle over the years on the show chance standby we're going to take a real quick break here we're coming back got another segment got I could spend a day with this guy but I'm going to ask him what it's been like spending his days with a camera crew around he and his family that's next here on the morning show with Preston Scott

It's the morning show with Preston Scott. For any of you who are fans of the program Mountain Men, our guest Chance Painter mentioned Tom Orr. This is his last season. Tom's a legend on this show. And he's... He certainly is a legend in the world that he occupies, trapping, and it's been fun watching him pass along his skills to a young kid that's the son of a gentleman who's been kind of helping him over the last few seasons of the show. But with me, Chance Painter, and he and his wife, Soraya, their three children, are in this season of Mountain Men. What was it like to share your life with not just the video crew? but realizing chance that you're going to be sharing your life with millions of people. You know, it was honestly kind of like the, I think our boys, they definitely liked the camera guys at first. Like they have like drones and they think they're airplanes and they love airplanes. Sure. But it was definitely kind of strange having the camera guys, but the realization of having people watch us, I think is. It doesn't really quite feel like real yet, like earlier in the winter when we were like running trapline. And it just kind of felt like I was just hanging out with my camera guys. Right. It just, yeah, it seems like more they were like just like my friends rather than making a TV show, you know? Uh-huh. Well, you mentioned your friends. What are friends and family? What's the reaction to the news that you're going to be on the show? And then anything that you've shared with them along the way, what's been their reaction to it all? I think basically everybody was pretty surprised that I was going to be on TV. Considering I'm basically just like a simple bush trapper guy. Right. As of right now. My sister is the one that wanted to be on TV and whatnot. And yeah, I'm just... Yeah. So is your sister going to join you next season? Is she going to move in? Yeah. Yeah, she's going to come up here and can't hide to us. No, she'd never. Tell me this. Are you able to watch the show when it premieres tomorrow night? Have they shown you the series yet? I mean, how does that work now that you've done the first season with you in it? So. Technically, like, we don't have a TV or, like, cable or anything. We don't have, like, History Channel subscription. Right. I guess technically there's no way for me to watch it, but I'm sure there's a way the producer could send me, like, a link or something. Yeah. or some form a way, but I'm honestly, I'm probably going to be like moose hunting or something. So it's not that big a deal now that you've done the season, they're producing the show and it's going to do whatever it's going to do. You're still busy doing what you have to do literally daily to survive. I mean, yeah, yeah, there's, yeah, I got a whole, got a whole litany of,

chores and things I've got to get done before the freeze up. Tell me this. Was the experience such that you're willing to do this series again? Was there an agreement to do X number of years, or is it season by season? What does it look like for you next year? It's season by seasons that we are contracted to do. And I would definitely do it again for sure. Okay. So you got enough out of it in terms of it wasn't so intrusive that you couldn't, you know, enjoy the process. No, yeah, I thought it was fun. Like, it's definitely a good job. I'd rather be doing that than a lot of things, that's for sure. Tell me this. I've always wondered, Chance, where does the crew stay? when they're doing all of this filming day after day, week after week. Are they pinching tents somewhere? Are they flying in on helicopter? Where is the crew? Well, it entirely depends on like where the shoot or like the location that they need to be. But yeah, they stay in like a wall tent or like an Arctic oven tent or something like that. Okay. Well, I appreciate. Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say if they needed the helicopter in, I'm sure that they could if they needed to, but yeah, that's, yeah, it's entirely specific. Usually they just write Snow Goes Ann or something. Well, I appreciate you making time for us this morning, and I wish you and Saraya and the kids nothing but the best, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night on the two, buddy. Yeah, yeah, thank you very much, man. I appreciate it. You'd be well. Yeah, you too. Chance Painter with us this morning. Cannot wait. Mountain Men. The legend, Tom Orr. He mentioned Marty. Marty's a pilot. I love Marty as well. Because of that, he's been teaching his daughter. He left the series for a couple of years, came back. And yeah, he's the skill sets that people have to develop to do this is next level. Because you have to do it or else you don't survive. So you just either do it or you pack up and go back to that city that he said he can't even conceive of living in. 48 minutes past the hour. Chance Painter from Mountain Men here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

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Family on Mountain Men. You just heard the patriarch right here. Right here. Young man named Chance Painter. Right here on the morning show. The day before the premiere. Right here. Our little part of the world. Also talk to U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack. Proud mom of Augusta Dare. Little Augie. Little gussy. And then we had some saucy. stories to talk about. This was just to what we do. Every morning. I got a stack of stuff here that we went through all of it. All of it. Nothing left on the cob. Nothing left on the bone. We chewed it all. Tomorrow, Charlie Strickland will join us. Personal defense segment. We're going to talk about Minnesota. Genevieve Wood of Heritage Foundation. Is America's future bright, golden, rosy, or is it not? Talk about that. And who knows what else? Well, I kind of know, but have an awesome day, friends. Thanks for listening.