Scott LoBaido | Artist & Activist | 03-11-26

Scott LeBato is a brilliant artist. He's a great American. He is a relentless picture,

which is a great movie. He may not love it, but it's a great movie. And he's doing some

really great patriotic things in our own backyard. And he's a tremendous Wednesday morning

guest every week. Scottie, what's going on, Powell? How are you?

Hey, everybody. I just want to give the audience a little taste of reality. I know all you guys

are talking about playing this ball game. And I'd actually be honored to be on this team. But

when good, good, because I used to play a lot of ball, believe it or not. Yes, I know you guys

are making fun of me. I was going to paint on the field. But I want the audience to understand

that, you know, you've got to use your imagination. And I know the audience does because they hear,

they can't see. But I want the audience to know that I have been in that studio. And there isn't

an athlete in the room. So I just want people to understand.

Walking about, I played high school basketball. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you're 60 now,

bro. So am I, all right? I know we're not. And the other guys, I love everybody in there,

but I don't see it. And I just want the audience to know, you know, what's behind the scenes.

It's fair. Now, now what position? Because you do look like an athlete. I mean, you smoke a lot,

you drink and you paint, but you look like an athlete. Where would you play? Where do you want to

play? I was pretty good at pitching on Southport. Okay, good, good. And, you know, a little of

everything. I played a little bit. You'll be a starting pitcher. Okay, you're the starting

pitcher. Scott Lebede. And I'm all about starting. Well, I got to practice. I got to practice.

Yeah, right. Anyway, listen, last week I was, I had so much stuff going on. I had no idea what

was actually happening. I had no idea. I was like, it took me days after this whole stuff went

down with you to realize what happened. And then I'm trying to figure out being who I am,

the relentless activist who's obviously been arrested so many times. I've been beaten and attacked

and property destroyed and sent on fire and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, well, I'm still trying

to figure out what you said that made this thing go insane. And then it kicked in. And because

that's why I love you because we have very much alike different methods, different paintbrushes

per se to be the activists that we are. And people, by the way, just, you know, the feeling is

neutral. I love you too, because you're right. Even though the methods are different, you may paint,

I do this already. Although you're good on radio too. You, you've done some incredible work

over the years. Incredible. Yeah. And people still say to me, Scott, what the hell are you doing in

that city? Move to a red city. You would be so welcome. You would blossom. You would prosper.

And I just keep, I keep telling them like, the fight is not there. The fight is here. I am

needed here. Sid is needed here. Vicki Paladina is needed here. That's why we stay here. That's

why we get the abuse. That's why we get the labels and the threats is because of the fear,

because we're the only, you know, I mean, there's many and most of the people on your show are these

fighters like us. But there's some of us that go above and beyond. Like, I'm not afraid.

You look, I have nothing to lose. That's what really separates me for most people. I am an artist

first. I was always an artist. I don't care about consequences or repercussions. I am here to

express how not only I feel, but how the people around me feel. So I will call him the terrorist

G. Hardy Gypsy that he is. You know, hey, if your boss wants to say, hey, Scott's got to stay

off the air because I don't want him saying that. I'm fine with that. But I'm no one's going to end

the, you know what the best thing about what you did was that you apologize. Now, hear me out,

hear me out. I rarely apologize. But when it is time, what makes a man is when he feels it in his

heart, not from anybody else. No, Scott, you got to, don't tell me what to do. When that, when I feel

it in my heart to apologize, and I think the last time I apologize was I called too many people

the P word unnecessary. Really, and I stepped back in that policy. But anyway, I want to commend

you on that. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because there was so many people, including a

God, these be a friend of ours and other people, um, that say that I was forced to do with that

catch my titties was going to fire me. I swear on the father, my dad, the memory of my father.

I swear to God on my children that firing me has never come up in conversation. Never, never,

with John, which had nobody, nobody threatened me. I think they were happy. I did what I did to be

honest, but there was none of that. That was me talking to six or seven people the night before

and coming to the realization that I had to do it. And I would do it again. A lot of people

are angry with me because I did apologize. I would do it again, but it has nothing to do with the

fact that I feel exactly the same way about this guy that you do both could be true. I could have

gone a little too far in my language. So I apologized, but I still think this guy is the most dangerous

man in America. Yeah. And look, you're going to, you're a superstar now. And when I mean superstar,

I'm not talking about a celebrity. I'm talking about your superstar in the battle. You're one of us

generals in the battle. Frontline generals might say, thank you. And you know, you're going to get it.

You're going to get it. You're going to get beaten. You're going to get it slapped around and

that's what happens when you're on the front line. I mean, I use the time front line not

no way comparing to our military, you know, but our citizens and this is our battle. This is how

we serve, you know, as minimal as it may be to others. And it's not Islamophobic. We're not Islamophobics.

We are radical. It's called radical Islamophobia. And that I do have. And that is what everybody should

have. Okay. We know, let's, let me tell you something about this war right now. And you know,

you saw the movie. You know about me. A lot of people don't know the extent of what I've done with

veterans in the PTSD veterans in this amputee. They came back working with the great tunnel

to Towers Foundation for 20 years and so on and so on. I've seen the casualties of war. I think

it's disgusting. War is disgusting, but like we know war is like, you know, it's like surgery.

Nobody has been one surgery, but in order to get rid of the trauma, he got to go to surgery.

That's right. And I honestly think, this is important. I honestly think I don't want one soldier

to die, but it's the Hornet's Nest. You know, you let the Hornet's Nest grow and grow and grow.

And then by the end of the, you know, down the road, it'll be so bad because these radical

Islamists just want everybody dead. It is, that's the way it is. And if we just let this

Romania, let his crew keep going and going, there would be tens of thousands of soldiers dead

down the line. You know, no one wants to see. So in my opinion, I think this hear me out on this

and I'll be done is that Donald Trump is going to be on Mount Rushmore. Maybe it's 100, 200

years from now. And one of the things is, is that this war is going to unite. I noticed

it's hot for people to understand Islam and the West because there was tons of Islam Muslims

who don't say anything and we get angry with them. I know you're like, but we say something,

stand up against the radicals and they can't because of retribution. But once this

cleans house, we clean house with the radicals, the last of the last, the communists. And you know,

the Iranian people come and become free again. And that's just one major aspect. That's going to

open up these arrest in the Muslim world. The majority of them to say, hey, I just want to be part

of society and assimilate in countries like America. And I really think that is going to be the

outcome of this situation we're running right now. I agree with you, Scott. And there's always

amazing appearance. I'm really happy with us every Wednesday or United private conversation. But

you are a very, very valued friend and guest on the program. People love you closing out

on Wednesday shows every week. They really do. And I agree with you. I do think that in the end,

this will be viewed very well for President Trump. Right now people are freaking out boots on

the ground. Seven people dead. I get all that. I get all that. I don't like it either. Can't

stand it. Dead Israelis also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. But to Scott's point, libato is a very smart guy.

I think in the end, it'll be viewed as heroic, smart, and the right thing to do. And he will be

on Mount Moshmore. Scott libato, great job.

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