Ep. 5182: Beeline Blog and JMI Interview

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Tuesday, June 18th 2024. Our guests today include:
- Scott Beekin with the Beeline Blogger
- Dr. Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute
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Episode Transcript

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Hoday hi Hoday, Hodi, Hodiwho Good morning friends. Welcome, It's
Friday on the Morning Show. Itfeels like it. Sorry. My wife
just looks at me and rolls hereyes. I said, oh, it's
been a long week. Thankfully it'salmost over. I am taking some time

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off. I will be off tomorrowthrough next Monday. Go and enjoy very
extended long weekend and celebrate my granddaughter'sbirthday and okay mine, but not really,
I've kind of already did that.But my wife and I will probably
just have a pizza or something.I don't know. Anyway, Welcome friends.

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Tuesday. On the Morning Show,it's June the eighteenth. Shoe eighty
two. John Lund when he sitsin there, he says, what's that
other number represent on the rundown?I said, those are the number of
days we've been held hostage by theBiden administration. And he goes, oh,

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we'll just leave it there. Yeah, And that's going to become a
pretty big point in the program today. We'll explain in mere moments, but
we start with scripture. Luke twelve, listen to verses twenty five and twenty
six, and this is Jesus speakingand you know, being God has this

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knack of speaking to us across generations, in which of you, by being
anxious, can add a single hourto his span of life. If then
you are not able to do assmall a thing as that, why are

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you anxious about the rest? Whocan add an hour to your life by
being anxious about things? And anxiousnot in the sense of anticipation, anxious

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as in the sense of anxiety,worry, fear. Jesus is speaking so
plainly to his disciples and to thosearound him, but they're not understanding.
They don't get it. It onlylight bulbs start going off for them when

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Jesus appeared on the night of theResurrection. That's when they became Christians.
If you will. But those wordsof encouragement help you prioritize your day,

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because you'll find yourself being distracted bythings you have zero control over. Zero
When I used to when I wasin vocational ministry, and I would sit
down and just listen to people,And sometimes folks just want an ear.

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Sometimes they want a view of theforest without all the trees in the way.
And one of the things that Iwould do for them is I would
make this recommendation write down on asheet of paper, aligned sheet of paper,
all the things that are just upsettingyou, cause you anxious thoughts,

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that cause you fear, that causeyou hurt. Just it could be a
name, it could be one line, not a paragraph or anything. Just
boom boom boom, boom boom,and turn it into a checklist. Put
a check mark next to the thingsthat you actually can do something about.

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For example, do you need toextend forgiveness. You can do that,
that's on you. Can you changemaybe your work habits so that things don't
pile up at the end of theweek on you. You can do that,
But there's going to be probably eightypercent of your list. It's not
gonna have a check mark. Sohere's what I advise people to do.

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Take the things with the check markand write them on a separate list.
There's your to do list. Thoseare the things that you work on the
rest one by one. Go throughthat list and cognitively speak out loud,
I can't do anything about it.I'm giving this to you God. And
then at the end, tear upthe paper, burn it, crumple it

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up, throw it away. It'sdone, it's gone, and you'll have
to remind yourself for a while.But that list is that. That's what
that Why are you worrying about thisstuff? You can't do anything about it.
But those are the things that distract, and those are the things that
weigh us down. It'll work,I know because I've offered this advice for

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better than thirty years to people andthey've told me it works. It works
because it's biblical. It's a biblicalset of principles. So there you go,
ten minutes past the hour, thisstate and History will set up the
program today. I made a statementyesterday about couple guests on the show,

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and lo and behold, we haveschedule. We'll tell you about all that
and more. Busy day stick around. It's gonna be a fun one Tuesday
here in the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Show with Preston Scott. Do
you understand the words that are comingout of my mouth? On news radio
one hundred point seven doubufla? Twelvepast June eighteenth, eighteen twelve, United

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States declares war against Britain in theWar of eighteen twelve. Well, now
so there eighteen seventy three suffrage asSusan B. Anthony fined one hundred dollars
for trying to vote in the eighteenseventy two presidential election. She refused to
pay the fine. You believe us, Oh, well, we've grown tight

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and then we've regressed. Amelia Earhartbecomes the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic as a passenger on a flightpiloted by Wilmer Stutz. She later becomes
the first woman to make the soloflight. Nineteen forty eight, Columbia Records
unveils the latest audio technology, along playing thirty three and a third rpm

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phonograph record. I've had people sendme YouTube clips explaining it. You've not
heard me talk about this, butas an audio file, I consider the
phonograph record and the ability to takea diamond stylus and faithfully play back.

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Some say with the best audio quality, surpassing even digital music and sound how
they embed so and I know there'sa process, and it's explained on these
YouTube clips that you send me.I appreciate that. Yes, I understand

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the technology, did the explanation.It still boggles my brain that an entire
symphony can be embedded in the groovesof a vinyl record and faithfully played back.
Through a diamond stylus that blows mymind. I just wanted to say

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that I feel better. Nineteen eightythree, Sally Ride becomes the first woman
in space, blasts off aboard theSpace Shuttle Challenger. Who just say the
word challenger and it causes me tojust kind of go wow. Man.
Yeah, all right, today's program. I said yesterday I've got to get

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Scott Beacon Androme Hudson and booked backon this show. Well, guess what.
Scott Beacon will be on the showtoday. He happened to release some
data yesterday that was like, uhwhat, just remarkable the impact that illegal

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immigration is having on our nation.He has done some digging and quantified some
things. We'll talk with Scott nexthour, and then next week Jerome Hudson's
scheduled to join us, and ofcourse we always enjoy our visits with Jerome,
the entertainment editor from brightbard dot comand the author of the Fifty Things
books and former intern on the MorningShow with Preston Scott. So that's how

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we roll fifteen almost sixteen minutes nowpast the hour, lots to cover today.
You're gonna enjoy the program. Stickaround, weft la on your phone
with the iHeartRadio app and on hundredsof devices like Alexa, Google Home,
Xbox and Sonos and iHeart radio station. So we're going to perhaps require young

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people to register for the draft again, Huh, what does that tell you?
Well, men have to do itif they want college financial aid that's
still required. Yeah, they're goingthrough the reauthorization of all that. Here's
what's interesting about all that they're lookingat making women do it. But there's
also there's also this laying in thebackground. They can't hit their recruiting numbers

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because the military has gone woke,and that should not be lost. It's
not really been a thing until now. The recruitment numbers, I believe,
are not as high as what wewould need even thirty years ago because of
the prevalence of drones and electronic warfare, and we're still not hitting the marks.

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I mean, it's horrifying how lowour recruiting numbers are. And you've
got multiple factors. You've got theyoung men and women who are inclined to
be patriotic saying uh, yeah,I'm not going to be led by them.
The types of woke leadership that wehave in our military now the top

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of the top brass are woefully compromised. Secondly, what are we going to
be learning? Excuse me? Andlastly, you've got just this sense of

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why would I do this? Soyou've got people saying I have no interest
in fighting for this country. Yougot people saying I'd love to fight for
this country, but I'd be betteroff fighting for this country without being underneath
that leadership. So if we're invaded, yeah, I'll take up arms myself
as a citizen. Anyway, It'sjust it's bad. This article is from

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the American Thinker. One of ourresearch assistants, Lou sent this to me,
and this capsules something that is ina journal, a very prestigious journal.
It's a peer reviewed paper that's beenpublished in Near Eastern Archaeology. And
here's the headline. An archaeologist hasapparently found Senecaab's twenty seven hundred year old

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camp outside Jerusalem. Now, withoutgetting into a lot of the biblical connections
here that are vitally important, you'vegot an account in the Bible, and
there are two accounts of this story, one in the Bible, one by

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Assyrian Syrian historians, and it's duringthe reign of Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem.
Sinakarab is the leader of Assyria.The Bible talks about the Assyrian kingdom

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attacking Jerusalem. There is the divide. The Biblical account shares one ending,
the Assyrian account another. That ithappened is not disputed. The one time
Assyrian capital of Nineveh was found aclay prism. And before you go,

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you know, trying to assigns andhow we understand that word, think of
this multi sided almost cylindrical thing,tablet if you will, that's multi sided,
that records these events of history,and it was found intact, and
it's incredible. I've seen it,not with my own like in person,

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but I've seen the photos of itand the descriptions of what contains what it
contains. And what's interesting is theBiblical version of that attack was adopted by
historians from other nations. The Babylonianhistorian Borosis Herodotus the Greek historian both adopted

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the Biblical account of what happened.What matters is in the Biblical account,
it says that Senecrab king of Israel, and all his forces besieged La Chiese
or Lakeise Lakeish. He sent hisservants to Jerusalem with a message for King

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Hezekiah. It is an area nextto near Jerusalem. That is what has
been found, that encampment, establishingthe account of the Bible being accurate yet
again. Gee, what a surprise. But it's a fascinating deep dive.

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But here's what it establishes. TheJews were in that land. First,
the Biblical account establishes historical record ofthe land being the land of the Jews

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and predating any occupation by Muslim nations. It's just it's a very interesting development
that speaks to issues of today thatseemingly are questioned. Twenty seven minutes after
the hour, big stories in thepress box. They're LULUs for you.

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Maybe from Florida Sunshine State to California. He scratch that, California is hopeless.
For the rest, We're your Morningshow, The Morning Show with Preston
Scott Wan. Dude. They canjust put me in a band and give

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me a faux instrument to pretend I'mplaying, and I can do the countdowns.
That's what I can do. Youknow they have like a World Air
Guitar Championship. Yeah, it's afun competition. I would imagine but I'd
rather have a real one and pretendthan an air one. I used to
play an air saxophone though, ina band that's pretty good. I used

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to play the Triangle. Yeah,yeah, Usually when I had to summon
the family to at dinner, I'dplay the triangle ding ding ding ding ding
ding for real or the air Triangle. No, it was a terrible joke,
Preston, Oh sorry, yeah.The big stories in the press box

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Six more states have had the Bidenchange of Title nine blocked. Federal judge
said a rule that compels speech andengages in such viewpoint discrimination is impermissible.
So now we have I think atotal of ten or eleven states. US

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District Judge Danny Reeves filed on Juneseventeenth at the US District Court, Eastern
District of Kentucky, Covington Division opened. There are two sexes, male and
female. I think the I thinkthe the The Biden administration immediately knew where

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this was going when he said thatit is opening salvo Judge Grant's a preliminary
injunction blocking enforcement of the new rulein Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee,
Virginia, and West Virginia. Thereare five other states where it has
been blocked, and those states arelet's see, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,

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Montana, and Idaho. There aresuits filed across the country to get
all of it once again. TheBiden administration doing what it wants until a
court says no. But even then, as we've learned with the Supreme Court
ruling on student loan forgiveness, eventhat doesn't stop Biden. I just want

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to remind you the dangerous precedent thatestablishes if we ignore the highest court in
this country. What if we alldo that? What if we all do
what Joe's doing. It's a dangerousplace to be, my friends. That's

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that thin line that keeps a nationfrom anarchy. Respect for law. But
when you're president, alleged the residentof the United States, disregards the law
and the ruling of the court,why should anyone be beholden to any law.

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Kansas is suing Pfizer over misrepresentations andadverse events from COVID nineteen's shots.
I will not call it a vaccine. If I do it's a mistake.
The jabs. The Attorney General ChrisKobac is filing a massive lawsuit because they

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claimed that their vaccine was safe eventhough there were serious adverse events early being
recorded myocarditis, paracarditis, among others. We knew a blood clotting. We
talked to whistleblowers in the United StatesArmy on this program. One being literally
held under house arrest a doctor forthe United States Army in Fort Watchuca,

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Arizona, because they saw the dataof what was happening as a result of
the vaccine pretend vaccines being administered andforced on members of the service academies.

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They saw the data. Surgeon Generalcalling for health warnings on social media.
Literally, it's time to require aSurgeon General's warning label on social media platform
stating that social media is associated withsignificant mental health harms for adolescents. And

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then lastly, Wells Fargo fired adozen people because they faked they were using
their keyboards when in fact they weren't. The idea here is that some were
using what are called a mouse jiggler, which you can buy online that just
mimics or mouse being moved around whenit's not to make it look like you're

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busy, but you're not side ofthe times or what forty one minutes after
the hour, back with more inthe Morning Show. Just start with the
presumption that he's right. Believe me, it works around here. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.When a Hollywood A list actor, actress,

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singer, songwriter, performer makes commentsabout the oppressive nature of America and
how awful we are, how bigoted, misogynist you name it, we are,
I think we would generally agree.It gets headlines, it's picked up
by everybody. The view wants totalk about it. The networks want to

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talk about it in their b orC segments. It's not necessarily a news,
but it's b or C news.It's a story. It's a thing.
Unless the message doesn't fit the predeterminednarrative on filling the blank, whatever

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the topic may be. At thatpoint, then we have to WHOA put
the pump the brakes. And sothis story comes from the Daily Wire,
and the Daily Wire is picking upon an interview with Variety. Now,
Variety magazine is a trade magazine,if you will. It's read by people

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outside of Hollywood, but it isby many accounts kind of like Talkers magazine
in our industry or Billboard in themusic industry. Variety is kind of the
entertainment journal, if you will.For the Hollywood Group. He was discussing

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remarks he made about past projects,including the Civil Wars series The Gray House,
and was asked about Black History Month. I detested the mere idea of
it. You're going to give methe shortest month in a year. You're

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going to celebrate my history. Thewhole idea makes my teeth itch. It's
not right. My history is Americanhistory. It's the one thing in this
world I'm interested in beyond making money, having a good time and getting enough
sleep. If you don't know yourpast, if you don't remember it,
you are bound to repeat it.Do you know this song to everything?

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There's a season? It really reallyworks in show business you're trying to sell.
I mean, didn't you have aproject some time ago? Do you
still have it? Life is likethat in this industry. You've got something
you think is important, but tryingto convince others is the difficult part.

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You may remember that he was havinga problem with Black History Month and as
well as being called an African AmericanI don't just subscribe to that title.
Black people have had different titles allthe way back to the end word.
And I do not know how thesethings get such a grip because everyone uses
African American, what does it reallymean? And proceeds to describe himself as

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an American. Here's my point.I've been saying these exact same words since
two thousand and two, in fact, March eighteenth, two thousand and two,
when I started this program, Andevery now and then there's an imbecile
that comes along and ascribes to methe moniker bigot. Because I believe that

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Black History Month is ridiculous and it'sa tragedy, and that I believe that
Martin Luther King Day should be CivilRights Day, and because I believe that
we shouldn't be describing people based onanything other than their Americans who happened to
be from I'm from Lithuania in myheritage, along with England, Germany and

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Sweden, and I guess Scotland.Imagine that, Preston Scott. But when
Morgan Freeman says it, it's ignoredas well. On the other side,
they don't want to talk about fortysix minutes after the hour. Got an

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event coming up this weekend, wantsyou to know about show with Preston Scott
Morning on News Radio one hundred pointseven double USLA. Because we are out

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the rest of the week, decidedI was going to do my best to
make those of you because I mean, the show airs at different times in
different time zones. In other words, as you go west, anyone that's
listening to this show live, andwe actually do have people listening live on
the West, it's real early inthe morning. You know, We're starting

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at three am for them, soit's a you know, so I try
to just kind of take into account, Okay, where are the bulk of
the listeners listening at certain times?And so for those of you in and
around Leon County the thirty third annualTallahassee Model Railroad Show and Sale, that

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announcement is best kept in the firsthour of the show to make it the
most useful without boring other people.But it is maybe worth checking out if
you're in the surrounding area and makingthe drive in town this Saturday and Sunday.
It's from nine to five Saturday,nine to four Sunday. It is
the it's where you're going to seeI mean, you're gonna see some layouts

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that are like forty feet long.They're massive, and they're really cool.
And some of them are the sameyear after year, but with subtle modifications,
adjustments, enhancements. Some of themare brand new. All of the
booth displays are sold out, soyou know it's right now. If you're

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in the model railroading, there's nomore room for you to sell your wares.
But if you want to show upand see the show, they will
have folks outside the North Florida Fairgrounds. Admission for adults and children thirteen and
overs ten bucks. Scouts in uniformas well as children twelve and under are

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free, and they do take creditcards, debit cards at the ticket booth,
and of course cash. But that'snot all my friends. As I
mentioned yesterday this year, Andy Zimmerman, who kind of heads up the organization
of this event with the the localrailroad people. I don't know what all

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these initials stand for, the BigBen Model Railroad Association. Maybe anyway,
they've come to learn that a lotof the women whose husbands are into model
railroading while their husbands are geeking outand working on the railroads. They're quilting,

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and I guess the term is longarm quilting. I don't know.
I don't know. All I knowis that I did look online for Lauren
Jackson, who is nationally known,and she is. She's got all following
out there in the world of YouTubeand quilting and sewing and all of that

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stuff, showing off her techniques andskills. She will be at the show.
So ladies, there you go.See if you bring your you say
to your husband, Hey, there'sa railroad show. Want to go.
He's gonna think what happened? Really? You want to go? Okay,

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let's go. And meanwhile, youprivately know you're gonna check out the long
arm quilting prowess of Lauren Jackson.Everybody can be there for their own reasons.
But I've been to the show severaltimes over the years and it's always

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enjoyable to me. The biggest thingI have to not do is buy train
sets. I want one of thosemany, many, many train sets that
I can put in a very smallspace, but I can't bring myself to
do it just yet, because Idon't have my office where I want it
yet, and by where I wantit meaning the development stage. I've still

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got some things that I've got toget done, all right when we come
back. Scott Beacon, the bLine Blogger, joins us next on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott Our twoThe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good

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morning, that's Jared running the programtoday. I happen to be pressed in
at show five and eighty two,but who's counting. Great to be with
you this morning, final show ofthe week. Taking a little time off,
but thrilled to have back with usthe b Line Blogger. In fact,
you can subscribe and get his emailsdirectly to your email box. It

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is absolutely one of the best decisionsyou'll make because you're going to get data
information as opposed to just opinion.We've got plenty of opinions, but having
data to support what you might thinkor believe is really important wherever you fall
on the political spectrum, and youcan you can subscribe. Just go to

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Bline Blogger dot blogspot dot com.Simple as that. And Scott Beacon joins
us this morning. Hello sir,Hello Preston. Great to be with you
again. Always delighted to see youremails. Although I will I will confess
that sometimes I'm like, oh mygosh, there is so much data here.

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I'm curious. How how do youdecide where you're going to begin tackling
a topic like illegal immigration, becauseit reminds me of when Mom told me
to clean my room when I wasa kid. I had no idea where
to start. How do you start? Well, a lot of time it's

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a factoid or a data point thatI find interesting, and then I kind
of dig underneath the covers there alittle bit and find out a little more
context to what's going on on theissue. And yeah, one of the
things, for example, on illegalimmigration, I used to live in New
Jersey and we had a lot offriends come into visit US and Metro New
York, and everyone wanted to goto the Statue of Liberty and go to

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Ellis Island. And it always amazedme how few number of immigrants actually came
in in the sixty years that EllisIsland was open. It was only about
twelve million. And to put thatin context, that's about how many illegals
have come in the last three orfour years. And we had that and
that was considered the great wave ofimmigration in the United States. So that's

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the kind of thing that I findinteresting and putting that in context, and
then that's where you go from there, is to say, what is this
going to be in the future,the compound effects of illegal immigration. I
don't think anyone really has an ideawith regard to what the compound effects of
this mass amount of immigrants that havecome in illegally is going to mean to

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the country over the years into thefuture. I think that that's the word
that really stood out to me,Scott, was the word compounding or compounded
effects. As you've just put itthere, Where do we start to kind
of get our arms around this,start to work through the information you uncovered.

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Well, I'm a finance guy originally, and we all look at compounding
effects with regard to interest rates,et cetera. But it has a lot
of effects with regard to life ingeneral. You make good decisions and those
things compound and great results. Youmake bad decisions, and we know those
compound of bad results, right,and the same thing goes with other things

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in life, you know, andillegal immigration when you look at it.
I mean, we have a generallypretty good idea in this country with regard
to birth and death rates. Youknow where things are going, and so
that goes into a lot of planningwith regard to infrastructure, roads and the
electric grid, and schools and policeforces. But when why do we have

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immigration laws is to provide order sowe don't have chaos. So when you
bring in a bunch of people thatwe're not expected to be here, it
puts strains on everything that you havein society. It disrupts the social order,
and it puts strain on everything inour society. Our water, our
sewer system, our roads, theelectric grid, the infrastructure, congested urban

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sprawl, the schools, the healthsystem of rents, housing costs, and
law enforcement, the justice system.I mean, it just goes on and
on and on, and these thingscompound over time and it gets to be
more and more of a problem forsociety. So that's the reason they put
immigration laws in to begin with,to provide some order for society. But

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when you disrupt that, who knowswhat this brings over the long term.
Scott Beacon with it, Scott standby, We're going to pick up right there.
He starts detailing in his latest blogsome of the compounding effects that we're
beginning to see and can just Iguess from an actuarial perspective to plot ahead

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and look at what's going on intothe future. But right now, despite
what the President did what ten daysago quote executive order all but closing down
the southern border wrong. Talk morewith Scott Beacon next decades of doing morning
drive radio differently, doing it hisway like old Blue Eyes, except he

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has a little more hair. TheMorning Show with Preston Scott Bline Blogger dot
blogspot dot com. Sign up,get the emails directly to your box.
You'll be better for it. Trustme. Scott Beacon, the writer,
the author, the researcher, thedata guy on all this, Scott,

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I want to start picking off someof the things you put in this latest
blog. Let's start with that costof transportation and care estimated at one hundred
and fifty one billion between veteran statecosts. Yes, that's a number reported
in Newsweek. I was kind ofcurious to get back to where you were
saying before, how much was allthis costing? And I came up with

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a number. One hundred and fiftyone billion was reported in Newsweek, and
to put that in context. Andthis is one of the things that I
find interesting. You know, progressivesare all in favor of open borders,
et cetera. But when you lookat the other side of the coin,
they're also concerned about sustainability, andall of the things with regard to illegal
immigration is against sustainability because it's puttingmore pressure on everything in our society.

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And to put that one hundred andfifty one billion in context, that's more
than we spent on Social Security disabilitypayments this past year. It's more than
we spent on veterans programs, whichwas one hundred and forty eight billion.
It's more than the entire food Stampprogram. It's more than all of the
new highway and street construction in theUnited States in the past year, which

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was one hundred and thirty two billion. And we talk a lot about student
loans. The thing I find incredible, one hundred and fifty one billion is
more than all we spent on telgrants this past year for lower and middle
income students, which is about twentyfive billion. And all the new student
loans provided in twenty twenty three wereone hundred and fourteen billion. So we
talk about you know, student loandebts and cancelations, et cetera. We're

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spending more on legal immigration than ayear that we're spending with regard to student
loans and tel grants in a year. It's incredible when you look at the
cost. And that's another compound effectwith regard to what's going on here because
it takes away resources that we coulddo for other useful and priority projects in
the United States of America. Well, that's what I wanted to touch on

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for just a quick second, Scott. Not only are these numbers dwarfing,
does this number dwarf the other numbersthat you mentioned, but you're talking about
limited number, finite resources available topeople in need in this country that I
think most of us would say,there are some that have legitimate needs that
we want to help. That said, it's totally unfair to those people to

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run out of resources, which happensroutinely in states across the country, because
those resources are going to people thatare here illegally exactly right, exactly right,
and that people don't understand the secondorder effects because the pressure this puts
on rents. For example, whenyou bring twelve million people into this country

(40:29):
in the course of three or fouryears, they have to be housed someplace,
and the apartment rents ways we knoware going up substantially. Housing costs
are going up. Part of thatis supply and demand. I mean,
there's only so much construction you canhave, and a lot of those plans
were made with regard to demographic trends, not expecting another twelve million people to
be here and to be housed.And you have that same situation going on

(40:52):
in New York City right now inhotels. I was going to ask you
we got about a minute left inthis segment before we go to the next
one, but just a snaw apshot compounding effects of illegal immigration, the
prices of hotels that are actually stillallowed to be hotels versus those that have
been converted into basically migrant shelters andhousing. What's happened to the hotel prices

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in New York City. Well,twenty percent of the hotel rooms in New
York City right now are being usedto house illegal immigrants. Now we know
what happens. Will you take twentypercent of the hotel rooms in a market
off, It's going to increase pricesfor everybody else. And we've seen that
in the prices of New York Cityhotels, I mean anything in Midtown Manhattan.

(41:36):
You're talking five six hundred dollars anight, and that's before twenty percent
taxes that you have in occupancy,et cetera. It's pricing regular Americans who
might want to go visit New YorkCity out of the market with regard to
how do you go visit New YorkCity. It's killing the city from that
standpoint, not only the cost ofhousing these people, but it acts as

(41:59):
a great deterrent for people to dobusiness, or tour or do anything else
in New York City. Yeah,I was just going to say, you're
not just limiting hotels, you're limitingthe compounding effect. To borrow your term
of those people that are visiting thecity and they're using their discretionary money to

(42:20):
buy tickets to Broadway, to goon those tours to visit the restaurants,
they're not spending that money. SoNew York City's losing again, right,
those people are supporting New York Cityand the illegal immigrants. Immigrants are costing
New York City money. Morris ScottBeacon next sixteen passed the hour in the
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Scott, of all the information youdetailed in this report on the compounding effects
of illegal immigration, I don't knowwhich one is the most important, because,
like you say, they all kindof feed off each other. But

(43:30):
I found the information on jobs andemployment pretty telling. Well it is,
and I think that's the most troublingthing to me. And looking at the
data as well. I've been followingthis for some time. I mean,
if you look at the last fouror five years, there's been probably a
net increase in employment of non nativeborn Americans of about four to five million

(43:55):
jobs have gone to native born foreignborn workers, whereas the native born it's
basically level. So in effect,all the net new job growth in the
United States over the last four orfive years have gone to foreign born workers.
Now, there's no question that weneed foreign labor for some sectors,

(44:16):
of the economy. But that's alsoa troubling thing with regard to this illegal
immigration, because we know that mostof those people are low skills, and
as long as the economy is good, there are jobs out there and they
can fill those jobs. But thething I'm concerned about on the compound effects

(44:37):
is what happens when we hit theinevitable recession. What happens when AI is
replacing a lot of these lower skilledjobs which we know is coming right and
are going to be Are we goingto be left with a permanent underclass that
are in need of services, socialservices, wellfare, et cetera. At
the same time, if we havea recession, we have a fewer and

(44:59):
fewer taxpayers fear of fear people pullingthe wagon, if you will, and
we're going to need the one hundredand fifty one billion dollars a year we've
been sitting on a legal immigration tosupport all these people. And that's what
my biggest fear is right now,is where the compound effects go with regard
to the labor market and what thatmeans for the future. And it's not

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a good forecast when you look atwhere we've come from the last few years
and where we're going, Scott.I know that every now and then you
might get a chance to listen toa few minutes of the program thanks to
iHeartRadio. But the fact of thematter is, I have asked this question
to members of Congress for the lastseveral years, and they won't ever say
it on the record, But I'mgoing to ask you the question I've asked

(45:45):
them. I believe our country isbeing invaded from the southern border, and
I believe there's a purpose to it. I believe the current administration wants it
that way. And the question I'veasked is if this is not intentional,
what is it. Where do youstand on the answer to that question,
Well, it has to be intentional. I mean, there's no other explanation

(46:07):
for it, because you know,it's a violation of the law number one.
I mean, the laws are onthe books. Now, maybe people
don't like the laws, but thelaws have been on the books for a
long time. And you know,I really hold both parties accountable. I
mean, this illegal immigration thing shouldhave been solved a long time ago.

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Agreed, Yeah, there should bea guest worker program. In fact,
I read a blog probably ten yearsago that you know, we all know
about the Green card, but weneed a red card. And my view
was a red card basically would allowsomeone to come in and work for that
limited purpose where we had specific skillsneeded. They would get a red card
to come in for a temporary time, allow them to go back to get

(46:51):
no benefits, et cetera. Butthey would have legal status to work.
But in order to do that,then you've got to enforce the border,
because you know, if you're goingto have a system, you're going to
have a baseline and if someone's nothere legally, they have to they have
to go home. Unfortunately. Imean, that's just the way they have
to work. That's the only wayyou can have order in society. But

(47:13):
I think that it has to bea calculated plan by the Democrats to have
a permanent underclass. That's the onlylogical argument argument to have people here that
they can eventually get to be votersor et cetera, uh and get the
votes to maintain a majority long term. That's the only explanation that you can
come up with. Scott. Asalways, I appreciate you carving out some

(47:37):
time for us. Look forward toour next visit. Always look forward to
your emails. Thanks very much.Okay, thank you so much, and
enjoy the time off. Thank you. Sir Scott Beacon with us this morning.
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(48:23):
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(48:45):
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Scott Beacon. Next hour, DoctorBob McClure, James Madison Institute. You
know, maybe I'll throw them alittle little deuce, little curveball, ask

(49:05):
him his thoughts on what's going onin the Southern Border. Big Stories in
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(49:31):
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(49:52):
I don't, I don't. Whyis it hard for so many people to
understand how intentional this is the invasionof our nation? I appreciate Scott Beacon
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Did I mention Grove a creative marketingand digital expertise and the proud sponsorship of
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(50:45):
Wells. Fargo fired a dozen peopleaccused of faking keyboard activities, making themselves
look like they're busy but they're not. How many people do you think could
be fired for that in all kindsof lines of work in the public sector,

(51:06):
private sector, for really not working. Come on, be honest.
Productivity tanked after the novelty of workingfrom home. War off because you're at
home, most people are not focusedand able to stay because most people don't

(51:35):
have an inner kind of a compasssaying you're being paid, do your job.
Title nine changes by the Biden administrationblocked by a federal judge at least
in six more states. So that'sa total of eleven states where a federal

(52:00):
judges said no, you can't changeTitle nine. This judge wrote, there
are two sexes, male and female. And then, lastly, the surgeon
general who was wrong about COVID isnow saying, quote, it is time

(52:22):
to require a surgeon General's warning labelon social media platforms. It will make
no difference, but it'll make themfeel better. Seriously, will it make
a difference. Most parents don't havethe backbone to keep their kids off it,

(52:46):
So your best bet is to neverlet your kids get on it,
and to make sure that you informthem of why and that they can make
that decision when they're older, likea lot of other decisions that you don't
let your children make for themselves.Forty minutes past the hour, Yes,

(53:09):
stick around King the questions you wantthe answers to the Morning Show with Preston
Scott on News Radio one hundred pointseven WFLA forty one minutes past. I

(53:31):
do not know all of the specificsof this case, but I just want
to point out the disparity in sentencingfor this crime air quotes and others.

(53:58):
May thirty, first Judge Colleen ColarCotelli sentenced Paulette Harlowe to two years in
federal prison. She was found guiltyof violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic

(54:19):
Entrances Act with a pro life demonstrationand an abortion clinic in Washington, d
C. In twenty twenty, tellingher that I would suggest that in terms
of your religion, that one ofthe tenants that you should make the effort

(54:39):
to during this time when it maybe difficult in terms of for your husband,
make every effort to remain alive,to do the things that you need
to do to survive, because that'spart of the tenets of your religion.
Those are comments from the judge.I personally think that those were patronizing comments.

(55:00):
Others do not. Fine, butwhat struck struck stuck out to me
and struck me was that previously thirtyyear old Lauren Handy was sentenced to fifty
seven months in prison, John Henshawtwenty one months in prison, Others twenty

(55:24):
seven months, thirty four months,twenty seven months, twenty four months,
twenty seven months, twenty four monthsbecause they prayed in front of an abortion
clinic, and I guess they wereon the sidewalk. I may be wrong.
Best that I can determine. Theydidn't lay their hands on anybody,

(55:46):
they didn't do anything, but theywere on the sidewalk praying. And we're
sending people to prison for up tothree years in the case of one,
five years, five and a halfyears really, or four and a half

(56:07):
years really for praying in front ofan abortion clinic. Juxtapose that to the
sentences that were I mean to peoplejust being being released, not being charged,

(56:30):
people here illegally, people being involvedin acts of violence. I'm just
I don't have any words for you. This is just wrong. And this

(56:53):
is why elections matter. Every singleone from superintendent to school board, to
city to county to state to federal, every single office matters because elections have

(57:22):
consequences. When you think of whatthe damage Joe Biden has done to this
country in just three plus years.If some of you don't wake up,
you're going to get exactly what youvoted for, and it's going to be

(57:43):
too late because by the time youfigure out you were wrong, it'll be
too late. Forty six minutes afterthe hour we come back. We've got
got a manly minute. But first, have you heard about the Super Bowl

(58:04):
rings given to the Kansas City Chiefsand the front office staff. I think
they left some people out myself,but I'll make that argument next year in
the Morning Show. Twenty one yearsand still growing, So please tell a
friend. All what three four,It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on

(58:27):
News Radio one hundred point seven doubleUFLA or on NewsRadio double UFLA Panama City
dot Com. All right, beforewe get to a manly minute, and

(58:58):
then before then after that, wehave doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison
Institute. The Super Bowl rings arealways they're getting bigger and some would say
gaudier. This year's Super Bowl ringsfor the Chiefs has a compartment that you
flip open and it actually has theplay that they ran that won the game

(59:22):
for them. It's called Tom andJerry and it's got the play diagram Andy
Reid's notes on the on one side, it actually has a hinge. And
it's crazy. They gave him theplayers, coaches and front office employees.
You tell me the training staff didn'tget them. Not the coaches, but

(59:45):
I mean the people that you knowwork in the building and take care of
the uniforms and make sure that thewater's in the jet jacuzzi's and you know
what I mean, they've got toget something. Well, but if you're
going to give the rings to frontoffice staff, come on, well,
it's front office staff. They doa lot of important work too. I'm

(01:00:07):
not saying they don't. What I'msaying is, if you give them to
them, you should include everybody.You should include everybody that's on the team's
payroll. Anybody that gets a checkfrom the Kansas City Chiefs, not the
stadium, but the Chiefs organizations shouldget one. Check this out. They

(01:00:30):
made more than four hundred of thesebad boys. Jostin's made them five and
twenty nine diamonds in each, thirtyeight rubies total carrot weight of the gems
fourteen point eight carrots. That isa that is a sporty ring of course

(01:00:54):
they are going for their third straightSuper Bowl. No team's ever done three
in a row. No team hasdone three in a row. Well,
the Bills went to forid a row, but they lost them all, exactly
a dubious distinction, to say theleast, and one that Buffalo is well
aware of. Kind of like theMinnesota Vikings close but no cigar frequently,

(01:01:17):
unlike, of course, my GreenBay Packers. But I digress. It's
I mean, congratulations again. Theygot their rings, and that's cool,
and they're very cool rings. Butat any rate, Yeah, the Tom
and Jerry play embedded inside the rings. When you flip it open and you

(01:01:38):
see it there is hilarious. Itis. It is absolutely hilarious. If
you've not seen, there's video,there's photos floating around. You got to
check out the ring and you gotto see the ring opened up, the
Chief super Bowl Ring. All right, my friends, it's time, right

(01:02:06):
now, it it's time. Sorry. I was on the phone with our
guest who just a ride for thenext segment, so I did, and
now I have my headphones on andI did not hear it's a single thing.
You said, it's time. Whatis it time for? Never mind?
We'll we'll skip it today. Wewere going to do a manly minute,
but we I thought it was good. No no, no, no,

(01:02:28):
sorry, no no no no.I didn't hear anything with my headphones
off. Yeah yeah, I II never mind. Just one of those
things that happens when we come back. We've got we got doctor Bob McClure.
He is the president of the JamesMadison Institute, and and we're going
to talk over just did the budgetreflect the priorities that were most important.

(01:02:53):
We've got a pass budget now.It is the constitutional amendment that that must
be carried out every year by thelegislature and the governor. Where are the
focuses appropriate? Not just that,but we'll talk about the presidential election that's

(01:03:14):
coming up, Florida's role in allof that. Does he have a high
degree of confidence that we will havea fair and just outcome? I do
not. And it's not been helpedby a story that I've got here.
Dominion Voting has totally screwed up PuertoRico's elections. And this is a recent

(01:03:39):
development. And this is the samecompany that handles voting in a lot of
places across the United States, andthere have been questions about dominion and its
ability to be hacked for a veryvery long time. That and more coming
up next hour. Do you notmiss it? Our three final show of

(01:04:01):
the week of the Morning Show withPreston Scott, and we entered the third
hour, last show of the week. Don't get your hopes up the week.

(01:04:25):
I'm not leaving. Some of youwould be rejoicing over that, but
you listen. Yeah, you doTuesday on the Morning Show with Prestin' Scott.
Great to be with you. Jaredrunning the program over there, you
better pull that closer. Doctor mcluyDoctor Bob McClure joins us. He is
president of the James Madison Institute.Friends of the radio program. Doctor McClure

(01:04:47):
and I go back a number ofyears. We've covered an election or two
over the years, and now talkingabout another election coming up, among other
things. How you doing, I'mdoing terrific. Thanks for having me.
How are you I'm I'm good.I almost feel like I have to sometimes
get an inoculation because of the thingsthat are in the news. You know,

(01:05:09):
I don't know where you are agewise, but I gotta believe we're
sort of close to each other.I never would have imagined the things that
are in our wheelhouse today that we'retalking about, that you, as president
of James Madison are kind of keepingan eye on it as well. I
would imagine. Yeah, yeah,just turned fifty nine June thirteenth, so

(01:05:31):
you know, even five years ago, it's just moved so fast with some
of the issues that you and Iand probably many of your listeners scratch your
heads about that, like why arewe even talking about this? How is
this coming up? And so it'smoved rapidly. I believe there's a I'm
not a conspiracy theorist, but Ibelieve there is a movement afoot. Some

(01:05:55):
of these things are being funded andthat has been found. Unfortunately, under
this now national administration, nobody's willingto dig into it. The House is
trying and has tried on a numberof things, but it's just crazy some
of the things you and I thinkabout what our children and grandchildren may have
to face at this rate, Iasked our guest last hour, Scott Beacon.
I've asked members of Congress broadly speaking, if the things that are going

(01:06:19):
in the direction that they're going nowaren't intentional, what are they right,
because you know, human nature wouldsay, Okay, that's not working,
let's do it differently. But they'recontinuing. This direction continues, and so
it kind of feeds your thought process. Oh, there's no doubt about it.
If we're talking about, you know, kind of some of the economic

(01:06:40):
policies and some of the decisions madeemanating from this White House, I believe
it's purposeful to kind of change andtear at the fabric of the great civil
society that is America that Tokeville talkedabout. If it is this kind of
all of a sudden pro gaza,anti sematism on college campuses, some of

(01:07:02):
the other things that we're seeing that'sbeing I think also driven not by this
White House, I'm not necessarily sayingthat, but by other folks call it
Soros, call it China with fundingto again tear at civil society because basic
basic things that we have taken forgranted for our entire lives, for all

(01:07:26):
societies throughout history have taken for grantedor being challenged, and we are supposed
to be the crazies for responding insuch a way saying, wait a second,
what that's not That's not the waythings work. And we're all of
a sudden the crazy. So Ibelieve at different levels. And again now
I'm sounding like this crazy conspiracy conspiracytheorist. I really believe that there is

(01:07:48):
a push from Washington, d C. In the White House specifically to tear
at the fabric of civil society interms of many of the things that we
believe. It just doesn't matter whatparty you're in, doesn't matter where you
are politically. You may be apolitical it's just common sense. You know,
this this um no consequences for anyform of crime. Uh, this

(01:08:13):
this idea that uh men and womenshould be in the same you know,
compete in the same Olympics or sameathletic competition. It's crazy, that's crazy
stuff. And then you have thisthis idea of this whole pro gaza,
anti Semitism, anti Israel. There'salways been a strain of that around the
world, of course. Yeah,but but there is a funding mechanism the

(01:08:36):
fentanyl coming into this country that iskilling so many people. There is a
there is kind of a soft push, and Peter Schweitzer talks about that quite
a bit. Uh, he hasa term for it. I don't know
if it calls it the soft gloveor something. But it's a drive funding
by China to kind of weaken Americafrom within without ever having to fire a

(01:08:58):
shot. Doctor Bob McClure withers,the James Madison Institute ten past, they
we're gonna come back. We're goingto take that and kind of pivot into
I sort of as I look atFlorida, I sort of view James Madison
Institute the state of Florida kind ofpushing dirt against the border to just create
a little bit more of a bufferhere in the Sunshine State. We'll talk

(01:09:18):
about that next. Welcome to ma D Radio Network. It's the Morning
Show with President Scott, Doctor BobMcClure with me, President of the James

(01:09:43):
Madison Institute. Would it be fairto describe JMI as an organization focused on
Florida, but with federalism running throughits blood? Absolutely? You know,
the James Madison Institute is really focusedon I. We drive policy, We
drive policy debates. We have aset of principles. We believe in free

(01:10:04):
markets, limited government, allowing freeenterprise to flourish. It's that Reagan ass
again Toqueville view of it is civilsociety that can manage our problems far better
than government. You know what wasit Reagan said, you know the worst
words. You know, I'm herefrom the government. I'm here to help.

(01:10:24):
I just butchered it. But that'sour view. Free markets, limited
government, and protection of private property. But given the fact that we are
in Florida, I would argue Floridais the single most important state in the
country Preston when it comes to policyand politics, one of the fastest growing.
We have a governor who presidential ambitionsnotwithstanding, really kind of became America's

(01:10:45):
governor during COVID, much like RudyGiuliani after nine to eleven. And so
Florida really is kind of first amongequals. Hashtag free state of Florida is
a real thing on social media.You don't say hashtag free state of even
Texas. You don't even do thatanymore. It used to be kind of
Texas was, you know, Texasproud. Florida has really come into its

(01:11:06):
own nationally and historically. We're ayounger state, had no population really before
nineteen sixty and now third largest statein the country, a thousand people moving
here a day. We cleaned upBush v Gore. We have two time
zones, we have every demographic thatyou can think about, and yet we

(01:11:26):
know by midnight now who wins everyelection. We cleaned up that Bush v.
Gore were the free state. Weweren't no vaccine mandates, we reopened
schools. I mean, we reallyare kind of the vanguard nationally. And
what we see at JMI Preston isYes, our bread and butter is policy
in Florida always, But we haveso many people saying, how did you

(01:11:47):
do that in Florida. Come toWyoming, or come to Arizona, or
come to Missouri, or come toAlaska, which we have met with the
governor of Alaska and help us becomemore like Florida. Well, I was
just going to ask, before weget to the specifics of the legislative session,
the budget and a few things Floridacentric, is there is there energy

(01:12:12):
to putting James Madison institutes in otherstates? There are versions of the James
Madison inst in other states. They'renot called by our name. Every state
has a state think tank. Someare to varying degrees of influence and size.
Sometimes it's just called by the state. The South Carolina Policy Council.

(01:12:34):
In Michigan, it's the Mackinaw Centerafter the island, the Mackinaw Island.
In Washington State it's the Evergreen FreedomFoundation after kind of the Evergreen. We
talk about Pilgrims in an unholy linkdoing that stuff over there, can you
imagine? But then in Texas it'sjust the Texas Policy Foundation. So there

(01:12:55):
are state think tanks in every state. JMI is unique because you're in again,
I would argue the single most importantstate in the country when it comes
to set It used to be California, right, you know, that set
all the trends. It's now Floridathat sets all the trends. And so
we have people, well the positiveTrendswifornia are still set in the other kind

(01:13:15):
right right, right. So wehave a whole aspect of what we do
at JMI, which is just nothingbut helping the rest of the states around
the country. You talk about federalismbecome more like Florida, and that is
one of the that is a wholearea of what we do at JMI.
How often you get a call fromthose other states saying talk to us every
week? We get a call everyweek. What about lawmakers from other states

(01:13:38):
every week, really every week,yes, or we'll have a Florida the
legislator say hey, I met soand so from You know, I don't
know Michigan. Who's trying to dothis, that or the other. Could
you connect with him or her inMichigan and help them? You know,
Michigan's a perfect example. When Whitmergot rid of right to work. Right

(01:13:59):
now it's back to being a unionpro union state. We knew we were
gonna lose, but we were calledin to help fight that fight on behalf
because Florida is the right to workstate sure, and so we worked with
dozens of groups. We put billboardsup in Michigan talking about moved to the
Pleasant Peninsula as opposed to this peninsula, I mean Michigan because we have right

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to work. We get those callsevery week. Bob McClure with us.
He is the president of the JamesMadison Institute. When we come back,
we're going to focus on Florida.It said that if you look in your
checkbook, you'll see what you careabout. Does Florida's checkbook with relate relationship
to the budget show its values?We'll talk about that next La on your

(01:14:47):
phone with the iHeart Radio app andon hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google
Home, Xbox and so Noos.This is Chrysler and Ihearts Radio station.
Back with Doctor Bob McClure. Anothersegment with the James Madison Institute. He's

(01:15:11):
the president, Doctor McClure. Imentioned the checkbook reflecting values. Your thoughts
on the budget. I mean wecan always. I mean, at the
end of the day, regardless,even the best politician you know, you
know, they they have their wantsand desires, right, I mean we
all have clay feet, we getthat. But big picture, this is

(01:15:32):
great a budget. I mean youlook at what the governor did. We're
a billion dollars less less. Didyou appreciation that? Who does that?
Right? Right? In a statelike Florida again where we have a thousand
people moving here today, we haveevery demographic it's a very complicated population.
It's not a static population like someof the states in the Midwest. And
you have the governor you were goingto come in roughly in round numbers,

(01:15:55):
about one hundred and sixteen billion dollars. It's a billion, one hundred and
fifteen, it's a billion dollars lessthan last year. That means a billion
dollars more back into our pockets.They're going to continue to cut taxes.
They're going to continue He's continued tocut taxes in a number of different ways,
whether it's rolling back fees on yourproperty, insurance, roads, toll

(01:16:19):
roads, the sales tax, weeks, all of those different things. There,
they continue to cut taxes. Andso this leadership in the House of
Speaker Renter, Senate President Pasadomo,and Governor DeSantis are to your point,
if you look at their checkbook,they are make they are prioritizing Florida taxpayers.

(01:16:42):
And so we've seen this this moveover the last year. And look
at it this way. In thestate of New York that has probably two
million fewer people than we do,their state budget is twice hours. It
is twice hours, it's two hundredand thirty and forty two and fifty.
It's insane. And so what we'reseeing is that this governor and this legislature

(01:17:08):
has decided to prioritize the Florida taxpayer. And oh, by the way,
Florida's economy is booming, Okay,it continues to grow, People continue to
move here, and it's that lighthand of government that we talk about.
It is the role of free enterprisethat allows for people to kind of chase

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their version of the American dream.And that's what we're seeing from that state
legislature. It's incredibly refreshing. Ifyou were to estimate the importance of Florida
as it relates to November, howwould you quantify it? You know,
it's interesting. Usually it's absolutely critical. It's critical. I mean, Donald

(01:17:55):
Trump can't win the presidency without it, but he's going to win Florida and
he's gonna win it relatively handily.Can I ask this with and this is
this might be you decide if youwant to go here. It has been
suggested that Donald Trump will have towin by a almost landslide margin to overcome,

(01:18:17):
shall we say politely, irregularities thatmay exist in votes around the country.
Fair statement. I think it's afair concern. Okay, I think
it's a fair concern because what yousee in the media. And they started
this and Senator Rubio had a greatresponse. They're saying, will you accept

(01:18:41):
the results of the election, Well, what results are we talking about?
Right? Do you feel we've everanswered twenty twenty. I don't. I
don't think we ever have. Yeah, I don't know. I don't.
I don't think, and I don'tthink. I don't think we ever have.
I think that well, we couldsay what happened in twenty twenty or
nine, I don't think we haveanswered it. I think the secret key,

(01:19:04):
though, is to look at whathappened with Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.
Okay, nobody thought, well,not many people thought he was gonna win,
even Terry mccauliffe, the buffoon thathe is. And yet Younkin won
Virginia. And they had pole watchers, they had lawyers, they had tons

(01:19:26):
of people at the ready, particularlyin northern Virginia, particularly in Richmond,
areas of concerns, shall we say, And so Youngkin was able to win
that election because he had folks atthe ready in twenty twenty. Nobody was
paying attention to what might happen.It was COVID. It was chaos,

(01:19:48):
both personally and professionally in all ofour lives. Who wants to deny anyone
the right to vote? We wouldn'twant to do that, right, And
so what happened was we just kindof let it happen, and then post
election, we said wait a secondand started, you know all of these
court cases, well, all judgesare loathed to get involved in elections unless

(01:20:12):
they absolutely have to, and mostwell, okay, fair point, yeah,
fairpoint right, Pennsylvania Supreme Court,you're excuse from this discussion, right.
But the simple answer to what happenedtwenty twenty is that a number of
states simply violated, in the nameof COVID their own state constitutions. That's

(01:20:33):
all. That's all. If youhad simply followed your own state constitution in
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan,then let's see how the vote turns out.
That's it. Just follow your stateconstitution. And yet they were violated.
They were allowed to be violated inthe name of not denying anybody's right
to vote, those kinds of things. So, having said that Trump wins

(01:20:59):
every state he won last, whichI believe you will, He's way ahead
in Georgia, they're about to takeit off the board. We'll see this
is today. Now, you can'thold me to this tomorrow. He's way
head in Arizona. They're going totake that off the board. In terms
of toss up and then he's justgot to find one more Midwestern state Michigan,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or he's gota cobble together in New Hampshire with

(01:21:21):
a Nevada. Sure it's over.He's ahead in Minnesota, he's tied in
Virginia. His map, I'll saythis, his map is expanding and the
current president's map is not. Andso you're seeing, i mean, whether
it's the Bronx or California. Notthat he's gonna win those two states,

(01:21:43):
but that's where Donald Trump is going, Joe Biden is not. Can't wait
to sort of flesh this out overthe next couple of months as you come
back and visit. Thanks for thetime, Thanks for having me, my
friend, doctor Bob McClure with usmonthly visitor here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, with the James Madisonin Wing Show with Preston Scott sixty the

(01:22:05):
time. It works every time onNews Radio one hundred point seven double USLA

(01:22:30):
sit and talk to doctor McClure allday long. We just sit here in
chat chat, chat, chat chat. Who's going to be governor? Yeah,
we'll see, we'll see. Tryingto figure out the bench for both
teams. Is interesting, you knowit Just I've talked about the there is
no bench on the Democrat party.They just don't have one. The Republicans

(01:22:51):
have a bench. And we'll we'llwatch all that flesh itself out before we
weigh in a hole lot on it. But we'll see who officially enters the
race in uh, maybe about ayear from now. We'll start an idea

(01:23:13):
anyway. Big Stories in the pressBox brought to you by Grove of creative
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(01:23:34):
States is saying social media is badfor children? Does that matter? The
Surgeon General has said cancer cases smokingcauses cancer for how many decades? Now?

(01:23:54):
Is this about plausible deniability? Idon't know. I don't disagree with
the idea that social media is amind numbing, growth stunting thing. I
just don't know what good it'll do. Federal Title nine transgender rule changes blocked

(01:24:15):
in six more states. Federal judgesaid that Biden administration can't do it.
Cannot change Title nine. That's legislationand by executive order. You can't change
legislation. We've been well anyway,Kansas suing Pfizer over misrepresentations and adverse events

(01:24:38):
of COVID nineteen shots. Boy,someone sitting around here is feeling really vindicated
by all this. The truth iscoming out, not over seventy five years
as Pfizer wanted, but it's comingout a lot, a lot slower than

(01:25:00):
I would want, but a lotfaster, I guarantee you than Pfizer and
the rest of them won. Andthen I just found this funny. Wells
Fargo fired a dozen people for fakingkeyboard use, making it seem that they
were busy doing work when they werenot. So they say, you know,
we'll see forty minutes past the hour, come back with a warning and

(01:25:26):
an observation show with Preston Scott oneuse radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.
It goes in waves in your personalemail, maybe at work, but

(01:25:51):
usually it's your personal email. You'llget these official look email from for example,
they've got the logo the USPS,the US Postal Service. Dear customer,

(01:26:14):
we regret to inform you that yourpackage which arrived at our facilities on
June fifteenth, twenty twenty four hasbeen placed on hold. This may happen
when the receiver's address was entered incorrectly. To submit a redelivery request for
this package, please complete all formsbelow. You do not update your address
within forty eight hours, the packagewill be returned to sender. And and

(01:26:34):
I've got two of these, andso here's what you do. The first
thing you do is you look atwho sent this. The address on this
one is nine three two two twotwo one six eight nine six at bu

(01:26:57):
ee N thirty six dot com.That doesn't sound like the United States Postal
Service official email account. By golly, it sure doesn't, Jared. And
then I got another one, andthis one is from three three two three
eight six three four five two atYGA thirty two dot com. Exact same

(01:27:18):
wording, exact same thing. Andwhat they're they're counting on you not looking
at the actual little address where's comingfrom. They're counting on you being wooed
by the logos, by the officiallooking nature of it all, by your
curiosity. Oh, I have apackage, and that you'll click and it's

(01:27:44):
over. Once you hit that click, you're done. They also try to
instill in you a sense of urgency. Oh yes, we're replying forty eight
hours. Or you also notice thatthey never refer to you by your actual
name. They'll say dear guest,our dear customer. Or or there's this
one that came with a US UPSpackage notification high comma capital P lowercase R

(01:28:14):
huh per per right per. Andthis is from F two I G six
U one z l K V JI two A E K five at bears
dot n W H E R Al D dot com. Definitely not the

(01:28:36):
US Postal Service, not UPS.But that's not all. Here's one from
Exfinity. Your bill account requires review. Your Exfinity Payments account service is problem.
See misspells bad language. This tellsyou it's from China, North,

(01:29:00):
it's from you's Beka Stan, It'sfrom India. I mean your Exfinity Payments
account service is problem. On Juneseven, what sounds like a caveman?
And where is this one? From? No reply at AA dot Frankkerner dot
com. But that's not all.That's from Exfinity. I got another one

(01:29:26):
and and that this one's best buy, and the list goes on and on.
I'm sharing this this one Exfinity paymentsdeclined. Huh see, they're playing
a game of roulette. They're countingon a handful of people that they blanket
these things through being Exfinity customers orUPS customers, or USPS customers, or

(01:29:53):
Big best Buy customers or Walmart customersArizona. Amazon is a big one Amazon.
They're banking on you, you beingin one of these worlds and going,
huh, well, I am missingsomething. Click and you're and you're
compromised. You hover your mouse,you check, and if you're in doubt,

(01:30:15):
go to the site yourself without touchingone of the links, type in
your information, make a phone calland ask if there's an issue. I
promise you there won't be one.So I'm sharing these. I print them
out every now and then, andI'm sharing these for a bit on the

(01:30:36):
show and to warn you don't fallfor this stuff. A specially sorry,
especially you older folks. They're countingon you. Just I just don't want
to deal with it. Click.They're counting on that. Don't do it.
Don't answer the spammer's phone calls,don't go there. Just don't click

(01:31:00):
when you when you get the phonecall and it's and it's a recording.
Hang up. When you get thephone call and there's this peep and you
hear the boiler room in the backgroundand all the voices, and Bapoot is
on the other line saying that he'sPhilip. Hang up, it's they are

(01:31:20):
they are going to try to scamyou out of money. Forty seven minutes
after the arm now I can goon my little brief break in peace.

(01:31:40):
Summer. Brain drain for the kiddosdoesn't matter the age. I think it's
it's certainly natural. It's I mean, if if you didn't do your job
for two two and a half months, you'd lose some efficiency. See when
you got back, you'd forget somestuff, oh I need, You'd forget

(01:32:04):
passwords. It'd be all kinds ofthings that you would lose in that interim.
It's one of the reasons why I'ma big fan of year round school.
Three week breaks throughout the year giveparents families a chance to take vacations

(01:32:25):
in seasons, not just in thesummer. I think I love the idea
of your round school less brain drain, but there is brain drain. When
we come back from our break onTuesday, the twenty fifth, I believe
it is. We're back. ProfessorMichael Erman has written a book on on

(01:32:48):
brain drain and ways to help avoidit. So parents were going to try
to help you out before we getto the halfway point of summer. So
that's going to be what we're goingto focus on. Wanted to take a
second here and just give a publicshout out because we celebrated my birthday this
past weekend on Father's Day, andso we got most of the kids together,

(01:33:15):
not all, but most got thegrand kids together. It was awesome.
But my wife made the most incrediblechocolate layer cake. I am a
sucker for chocolate layer cakes. Theonly things she didn't make were the walnuts.
It was everything from scratch. Alittle espresso powder. Never i'd heard

(01:33:39):
that that enhances chocolate flavor. Sheput a little bit in there. It
was incredible. It was so moist, the icing was incredible. Just wanted
to publicly say amazing. Yeah,studio audience of the morning show even moved
by my testimonial. Here for mysweet wife. But thanks, honey,

(01:34:00):
what an amazing cake. I wouldsay, I wish you could have some,
but no because that would be lessfor me. And on when it
comes to my cake, I amI am selfish. Absolutely. We served
some to everybody and then I keptthe rest, and so I will be
enjoying a piece of that cake everyday while I'm away. Just wanted to

(01:34:23):
say that. Brought to you byBarono Heating and Air. It's the Morning
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(01:34:44):
you can't change it. Another federaljudge. That's two federal judges have
said to the Biden administration. Kansassuing Pfizer over misrepresentations of the shot,
Surgeon General calling for warnings on socialmedia, Wells Fargo firing a dozen or
so because of faking keyboard use,got into a little biblical archaeology. At

(01:35:05):
the beginning of the program, twogreat guests, doctor Bob McClure of the
James Madison Institute and Scott Beacon,talked about his research on illegal immigration and
its compounding effect on our country.Folks. Will be back a week from
today, So until then, rememberFSU Baseball locally here at one forty five

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pregame go Knowles, thanks for listening.