Ep. 5206: The Day They Want You To Forget

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Let's do this, let's end the month of July together.
What do you think, Huh, it's July thirty first. It's crazy,
But yeah, it just seems like time's moving faster. It's not,
of course, it's moving at the same speed it was

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when we were four years old. It's just a year
of your life when you're four is a quarter of
your life, and a year of your life when you're
sixty four is one sixty fourth of your life. So
it seems because the memory bank is getting full of
things that we spend so much time thinking about memories

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and looking backwards that we don't we don't keep our
eyes as as focused ahead. Do you remember when we
were kids, how a summer vacation seemed like it would
take forever to get there, Christmas forever to get their birthday,
forever to get there. And as we age, it seems

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like birthdays come around a little quicker than they did
when we were kids, and vacations get there a little sooner.
And I mean, it's simply a fact of how we
process things as we age. And Scripture is really clear
about stuff like this. Paul said, forgetting what is behind,

(01:40):
I press on you learn from the past, but you
move on. But that's not our verse today. Good morning,
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Prestony's Ose.
Our verse today comes from John one, Verses twelve and thirteen.
But to all who did receive him, who Jesus, who

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believed in his name, he gave the right to become
children of God, who were born not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God. Whoo that makes me all
goose pimply. Yeah, it's a really amazing thing. And unfortunately,

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because we are who we are, we complicate. We make
Christianity all about us and what we're doing and what
we think and how we interpret. It's not about us,
it's about him. The only part of this that is

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about us is our your my response to him. I
had a good friend once say if I have a
gift for you and I wrap it in a box,

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it's not a gift unless you receive it. It's just
sitting here, wrapped in a box. The act of giving
only becomes a gift when it's received. Right, it takes two.

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And so to all who did receive him the gift
Jesus the son of God who believed in his name,
He gave the right to become children of God. A
gift is offered to you and I. We have to
kind of symbolically in our heart, reach out with our

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hands and receive it. That's the process you receive. Otherwise
it's just sitting there wrapped and there are people this
kills me that the only thing preventing them from being

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a Christian is the willingness to receive. That's it, because
it's not about you and what you've done. It's about
Him and his grace. That is sufficient. Well, but I've
you don't think he doesn't know what you and I
have done. We confess our sins, not for God. God

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already knows. He knows what you did, what you've done,
what you're doing. It's about you knowing. You coming to
grips with Yeah, I've kind of fallen short, and I
thank you that despite that, you've made away for me.

(05:15):
Ten minutes past the arm come back with more of
the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Subjects will just make you furious. Don't worry, We're here
to make it all better. It's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Eleven minutes past show fifty two oh six
and day twelve eighty eight till twelve eighty eight. You know,

(05:45):
it's so funny. I can't tell you how many times
when I get to the days we've been held hostage,
that I stumble over those sit It's it's like it's
become a subconscious kind of tick, because it hurts my
heart to that we've been under the rule and reign
of Joe Biden for twelve hundred and eighty eight days.

(06:08):
Thank goodness, those days are coming to an end. Hopefully
I won't have any more of that now. I'll be
able to move past that. January twentieth. Next year, I'll
be able to say to all that he won't show up.

(06:30):
Bet you right now, he won't show up. If Trump wins,
he won't show up.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Better that way. July thirty first, eighteen forty six, a
band of settlers known as the Donner Party left Fort Bridge,
or Wyoming, on their journey to California, electing to take
a new, untried route recommended by a promoter named Lansford Hastings.

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The Hastings cutoff is said to be saving three hundred
and fifty or four hundred miles, wrote party member James
Reid in a letter that day it did not work
out well. The nucleus of the immigrant party consisted of
the families of George Donner, his brother Jacob, and their
friend James Reed. It set out in April from Springfield, Illinois,

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with dreams of new lives in California. Others joined them.
Eventually the party grew to eighty seven people twenty three wagons.
Within a few days of leaving Fort Bridger, they were
in trouble. Hastings cutoff proved to be a tortuous route.
The men had to chop a trail across the Wasatch

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Mountains in Utah. They ran out of water, crossing the
deserts oxen began to die. Some wagons were abandoned. The
immigrants were way by hind schedule when they reached the
Sierra Nevada. Then came snow, twenty two feet of it,
trapping them in a mountain pass in northern California. They

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set up camp, hoping to ride out the winter, but
provisions were dangerously low. Fifteen of them, calling themselves forlorn hope,
set off across the mountains for help. Only seven survived.
Four relief parties went after the stranded settlers. When the
first rescuers reached their camp and called out, a few

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bony figures crawled out of holes in the snow. Are
you the men from California? Or do you come from heaven?
One emaciated woman asked. Some of the starving settlers had
been forced to eat their comrades dead bodies to survive.
Only forty six of the eighty seven Donner Party members

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lived through the cold and hunger. Their ordeal is a
somber reminder of the fortitude of thousands who crossed the
mountains and plains. I remember hearing about the Donner Party
when I was in school. That was part of history,
the frontier and moving west. I can't even imagine. You know,

(09:16):
you drive in the West and you drive through some
of the mountains and some of the hills and some
of the forests, and you think to yourself, where and
how did they make these roads? It's just crazy, all right.
Seventeen ninety the government grant's the first US patent of
Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for the process of making potash
and pearlash ingredients to produce soap. Nineteen fourteen, New York

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Stock Exchange closes for four months due to World War One.
Nineteen seventy one, Apollo fifteen astronauts become the first to
ride a lunar rover on the moon. Yes they did.
Nineteen ninety one, George H. W. Bush Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev's signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty the Start Act

(10:00):
to reduce long range nuclear weapons stock piles. Two thousand
and eight, I was on the air. It's crazy when
you look at things in the history books, and I
was doing this radio show. Now so announces the Phoenix
lander had confirmed its presence of water on Mars. What
win not now? And in twenty twelve, the London Games

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swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Eighteen gold to silver, two bronze. Can you imagine swim
in twenty two races and one eighteen of them in
the Olympics. That's nuts. Sixteen past the hour, Back with

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a big fat oops. Next to the morning show yesterday,
we talked about Google making it a little different to
search for information about the attempted assassination of the assassination
attempt of and how you'll get stories on the Trump

(11:07):
assassination attempt. But it doesn't auto feel like it does
for other things. I had a few people push back
on that and I just send them screenshots. No, this
is what it's still doing this. But to further add
to the credibility of Google manipulating things, the Google AI
chat bot will not answer questions about the Trump assassination.

(11:33):
Has nothing to say. I can't help, is what the
chatbot will reply. It's just interesting. It further cements something
that we talk about routinely and have for twenty two hears.
You have to be very careful in the mainstream media,

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and that includes sites on the right side of the
aisle to You need to go back to the way
reporting used to be. Listen, you you need to remember
that if something comes from multiple sources, you verify those sources,

(12:17):
you place credibility on that, and you form an opinion,
and if it doesn't, then you take it with a
grain of salt, you know, remain open whatever, and you wait.
And that's why sometimes we wait on stories. I'm not
interested in breaking news here. It's probably happened fewer than

(12:38):
five times in twenty two years that we've broken the
news story because that's not what we do. We react
to the news because I'm you, you're me, I mean,
we are. We get the news from others who that's
their job. Their job is to report the news, and
we react to that. And what I try to do

(13:01):
is offer my perspective on that. And sometimes my perspective
is useful because I have been in that world. I've
been in a television newsroom, i have worked with reporters,
I've written news. The Florida News Network back in the day,

(13:22):
tried to hire me as a newswriter because I was
really good. I could write news. But that's not what
we do. We help you kind of decipher and wade
through it all. And so we'll try to keep things
on your radar that matter and break it up a

(13:42):
little bit, like, for example, this story. This is kind
of interesting to me because I joke about my lack
of phishing prowess. How terrible I am. It is funny.
I mean, the stories I could tell, the stories I
could tell. When I tell you about the ones that
got away, you can believe every single one of them.

(14:05):
Because I'm terrible at catching fish. I've caught fish, I
have I've caught snapper, I've caught trout I've caught, and
I mean by trout meaning like rainbow trout, whitefish, that
kind of thing. I've caught sea trout. This is a

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story of a New Hampshire guy. He was fishing and
guys that were watching him fish said you can't do
what you're doing, and so he fled and he got
tracked down. See in New Hampshire there is there's a

(14:58):
striped bass limit of one one per angler, and they
have to be between like thirty one and thirty four
inches something like that, twenty eight and thirty one inches.
He had fourteen between thirty seven and forty seven inches.

(15:23):
All of them were too big, nearly four feet long.
These are big fish. These are saltwater, these stripe bass.
He was going to try to sell them under his
commercial strapped stripe bass permit in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The problem is that New Hampshire has a very different

(15:44):
set of rules and regulations, and so he got busted.
They've got all the fish in a freezer. If he
pleads not guilty, they're going to roll all fourteen of
them out. And oh, they take this stuff seriously as
well they should. And it's so fun to me to

(16:08):
see other fishermen rat out a guy who's cheating. I
love it, rat them out, absolutely do it. I'm just
thinking to myself, Man, if I caught one, if I
caught one, I would be so happy. I'd catch more,

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but I'd put them all back because I caught one.
I got one. I told you my goal Still, I
want to catch a selfish or a marlin. Selfish easier
probably to catch than a marlin. Marlin are big boys.
Selfish not as big, but they're still sporting and they're cool.

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Loved I just catch one, get a photo, call it
a career. Never fish again. Twenty seven, twenty eight minutes
after Big Stories in the press Box. Next on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
For the days when times were good and life was simple,
he still lives there. The Morning Show with Preston Scott
on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thirty six minutes past Good Morning Friends six am in
the Eastern time zone, five in the Central wherever however
you are listening, we appreciate it. Wednesday on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, who was a running the program,
and we get to the big Stories in the press
Box federal regulatory costs. You know, we talk about the
inflation levels which have been ridiculous, But did you know,

(17:46):
according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute and their annual report,
that households are averaging an additional fifteen thousand and seven
hundred and eighty eight dollars a year in annual costs
because of regulatory expenses put in place by the Biden administration.

(18:15):
Executive Order fourteen zero nine to four it's called Modernizing
Regulatory Review, signed by Biden, it raised the threshold for
rules considered significant enough to warrant extra scrutiny from one

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hundred million to two hundred million. Simply put, regulatory changes
don't have to go through additional review if the total
impact is deemed less than two hundred million. Before it
was one hundred million. They're nickel and diming us to

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the tune of fifteen almost sixteen thousand dollars a year.
And that's in just four years under Biden. Federal employees
they calculated spent ten point three billion hours completing federal

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paperwork in twenty twenty two alone. According to the omb's
Information Collection Budget, the equivalent of fourteen thousand, eight hundred
and eighty three human lifetimes. That's how much regulatory strangulation

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has been underway. Young adults still living at home with parents,
the highest rate in nearly eighty five years. The nineteen forties,
young adults were leaving. We're staying at home because they
were saving and they were preparing to find the right
man or woman to marry. Right now, young people live

(20:11):
at home because a rat infested one bedroom costs about
sixty hours a week of a normal job. And it's
getting worse quickly. At age twenty five, fourteen percent of
the Silent Generation lived at home. It was fifteen percent
for boomers, twenty percent for Gen X, twenty seven percent
for millennials, now thirty percent of Gen Z. And what's

(20:37):
amazing is young people aren't connecting the dots. This is
all a result and what happens when Democrats run an
economy always and the FEC, the Federal Election Commission has
received a complaint by Citizens United plus a number of
state Republican parties. They are claiming, I told you it

(20:59):
was going to be a question the campaign resources of
Joe Biden being flipped over to Kamala. The complaint is
pretty clear Joe Biden's never filed the paperwork. She can't
take the money. A lot of people will say, well,

(21:21):
what different, No, it matters, the same people that say, oh, whatever,
he's out, it doesn't matter. No, no, no, no, no no.
It's the same issue with why you should have photo ID.
It's the same issue behind why you sign a contract.
It's these things matter. This paperwork matters. Joe Biden, Kamala

(21:46):
Harris have pulled an inside switch and it's illegal, and
that's why the complaint has been filed. We'll see where
this leads. Forty one minutes after the hour, see what
we did there with the big stories in the press box.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Sang show with Preston Scott. This is the way on
Youth Radio one hundred point seven UFLA.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Did you see what I did then? That is a
really good snapshot of how we select big stories things
that you need to know about. You need to know
that forget all of the simple things that we pointed

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to time and time again as it relates to the
causes of inflation by Joe Biden exerting control Democrats as
well and some a few deep state Rhino Republicans by

(23:12):
controlling our life in every decision we are trying to
make and forcing it through the needle, you know, the
eye of the needle that they have selected. We're we're
spending sixteen thousand dollars a year on average more. Now

(23:33):
some of that is covered in inflation, some of those
costs because regulatory pressures put pressure on prices. Because I
can't I can't explain this often enough. Businesses don't pay
regulatory costs, they don't pay taxes. They pass it on

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to you. They have to. It's a cost of doing business.
And so these regulatory costs that businesses are enduring, they
might be able to endure a few things here and there,
but eventually the costs become prohibitive and they have to

(24:22):
maintain margins, to maintain profitability, to keep people employed, to
pay additional social security because of the enhanced wages, to
pay for the increased cost due to regulatory issues, due
to just inflationary costs of doing business. They have to
raise their prices on whatever the good or service is.

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And so I'm desperately trying to help all of you
better understand the reasons why things are the way they
are so that you can share it with others. You
have to take ownership of this stuff. You can't just say, well,

(25:09):
you got to listen to this guy, whether it's me,
Glenn Beck, Claire Buck, whatever your sources of info de
jure might be. This is about you taking ownership of
the information and to be able to explain to people
in your circle. Well, this is the reason most Republican

(25:36):
states run by Republicans are better financially than Democrat run states.
It's just a fact. Many early adopting EV owners around
the world are now going to switch. Nearly thirty percent
are going to go back to internal combustion engines. That

(25:56):
number is going to grow. I predicted it would take
about ten years of mainstream EV use for people to
wake up to the realities that, yeah, maybe this wasn't
such a good idea. Now, if Kamala gets elected, that

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race is over. Back to combustion engines, internal combustion engines,
gas powered vehicles and so forth. They will try to
make the Green New Deal the thing, and they're going
to outlaw gas. They're going to do everything they can
to squeeze it right out of the economy. And we
can't support, we can't sustain electric. Keep in mind, they

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know this and The reason they're going to go through
it anyway is because if they can't. If you can't
charge your vehicles, what do you have to do? You
have to use public transportation. That's part of the whole
goal of this, anyway, to make you lose your ability
to be independent. Independence is a threat to socialism. Independent

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is independence is a threat to communism. And so part
of this is an absolute calculation to get us out
of our vehicles and force us into electric buses and
so forth, because they'll find the power to charge them.
But we don't have the power to charge everybody on

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an ev It doesn't exist, and the technology doesn't exist,
and the batteries don't work for beyond a certain period
of time. They don't haul I mean, I you know,
forty seven minutes after we come back, speaking of transportation, Wait,
do you hear what.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Pete had to say? He won years and still growing.
So tell a friend both of them. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Dresden Scott. Another consequence.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Of our open southern border Venezuelan gang gives green light
to attack you as police officers. That's now a thing,
and we're talking shooting, killing, doing whatever. And they're here illegally.

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I'll remind you. This is why you keep your right
to bear arms. This cannot become a third world country,
though we're well on our way. But this is ridiculous.
This is absolutely obscene. If you don't vote in massive numbers,

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they will cheat. They will cheat. There are enough voting
systems out there that can be hacked and manipulated. I
believe that some of them were. But the fact of

(29:20):
the matter is it happens. It just does. And that's
why you go with an optical scanner and a paper ballot. Backup.
But anyway, back to uh, Pete, Pete Bootages US Transportation secretary,
and how has he kept his job? He was a

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inclusive higher You know, we need to we need to
hire mayor Pete because he's gay and totally unqualified for
the job. So he he's in a zoom meeting. White
dudes for Harris. We talked about that. I suppose that's

(30:08):
where we are now, right, Black dudes for Trump, white
dudes for Harris. Okay, whatever, quoting, I'm so glad she's
made Harris has made freedom the theme of her campaign.
Now let's pause for a second. Yeah, because anything else
is a direct reflection of her record. How'd she do

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on the border? She was the borders are she was
their title, not mine. Yes, women's freedom is exhibit A
after Donald Trump demolished the right to choose. I'm sorry,
I thought the Supreme Court did that anyway. But of
course men are also more free in a country where
we have a president who stands up for things like

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access to abortion care. Wait, what did Mayor Pete just
suggest that men are more free if women can have abortions,
so they can just have sex, father a child and
then have that baby aborted and killed. Do you realize

(31:12):
how sick that thinking is. Even if you agree with
the idea that abortion's okay, that mindset is absolutely hideous,
Mayor Pete, all right, we come back and interview Admiral
Bob Harward and his book The Gouge. Welcome back the

(31:45):
Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is a really special
visit here. Admiral Bob Harward forty years highly decorated in
service to our country. US Navy Navy Seal. He served
on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush.
Deputy Commander of US Central Command under James Mattison, served

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President Trump as his national security advisor, and he's written
a book called The Gouge, How to be Smarter than
the situation You are in. Admiral, how are.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
You good, President? How are you today?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm terrific. I Uh, first, let me get this said
up front. Thank you for your service to our country. Sir.
It's a it's an honor to speak with you.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Oh, my friend, thank you, but it's almost embarrassing. It
was the greatest honor and privilege and the greatest adventure
no known. So I loved every day of it. So
I appreciate people saying that, but they don't understand. It
was like women in the lottery. So I'm just grateful
for all the support. And the people who pay taxes

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are not enabled me to so, but I say that
it's an important point. I'd like to say, Well, all
the Navy and Army is having a hard time meeting
recruiting goals. I just find that unbelievable because it is
such a great adventure and for any young person to
have the opportunity to serve.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
But thank you the Gouge. I'm fascinated to know the
backstory first and foremost behind the title. How does a
book get called The Gouge Great Question.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
The gouge is a very infamous military term, predominantly in
the Navy, but it's permeated to other stuff. It's a
famous term that originated World War two. So the book
describes the history of the term, where it came from,
how it supplied with stories and illustrations, and why it

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is so important. So the term itself indicates what if
you ask the maybe guys are if you're even google it,
they'll attribute it to the inside information, the scoop what
you really need to know. And that's true. But it
came up in War two when we went to war
and we were building hundreds of ships. We needed to

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man all those ships, and experienced mariners and experienced navy
people were few and far between. So all these ships
when they we threw all these guys. And my father
was one of those guys, a kid from Brooklyn and
who went to the Merchant and Marine Academy so they
could afford to go to school and graduated in summer

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forty three. So he was flown on the ship with
all these other people. And what they did was they
trained and educated each other. They passed that experience proactively
to everyone because they were going into war, they were
sporting the landing of Flat ten, they were being shot
at torpedoes Toma Cozi's, and so they knew the ship

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could be hit at any time and who knew who
would survive, So you could end up having that junior
seamen running the ship. So they were very active and
focused on making sure he knew everything that he needed
to stay alive and run the ship. And they came
up with the term called the gouge, and then that

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permeated throughout the Navy for decades on end. Hey, here's
what you really need to know. Here's good gouge, or
here's thumb gouge. But more importantly, and what the book
is really trying to illustrate is not just the term
or that inside information, but really that culture they inculcated
during World War Two on those ships. How do you

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proactively educate, invest in each other to make sure you
can accomplish the mission or build the business and grow individually.
So it played across both the professional and personal objectives
of each other. So if you're on a team, you're
in a business, you're in any organization. We've always struggled

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with this balance of growing the business, winning the football team,
but at the same time growing your people, making sure
they're goes sixty personally, just as you all do professionally.
So that's what the Gouge in the book is all
about pressing.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
He's speaking to us from Ukraine, traveling to Poland. Admiral
Bob Harward with us, author of the book The Gouge.
We'll talk more with the Admiral next on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Hello, Hello, anybody home Hive.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
On News Radio one point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Let's get right back to our visit Admiral Bob Harward.
The book The Gouge How to be smarter than the
situation you are in. Do you remember the first time
the gouge imposed itself on you as a military professional.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Without a doubt. Now, my father, because he was a
naval officer, he growing up as a kid. Okay, here's
the gouge and he called me dumas, which was short
to them that you know as a young kid. You know, Okay, Dumas,
here's what you need to know. But we're really and
so in my family, my father kind of incucate, but

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when I listed in the Navy. I grew up in Iran.
I never had a job. When I graduated from high school,
my curer counselor said, hey, you need to think about
what you're gonna do. Let's go to college. So I
applied to colleges and I was accepted at Colorad Estate.
So I was gonna go be a ski bump because

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I loved ski in Iran has some of the best
skiing in the world. And I went to show my
father i'd been accepted. He said, that's wonderful. I'm so
proud of you. And he let that sink forli and
they said, how are you gonna pay for that? And
I thought, well, I never had a job going up
and iren you couldn't work because hell, dad, don't you
pay for those Oh no, no, no, you're seventeen. Now

(38:09):
you're on your own. But they have these wonderful things
called Joe's. I go, what's the job?

Speaker 1 (38:15):
You know?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Someone asked you to do something and you do it
and they give you money for it. Oh a job
you Oh well, we don't use that work. But so
he kind of said, but look, if you're listening, the
Navy I could. You could go to this Naval Academy
prep school, and it's seem right. Now, you go to school,
you'll do your sports, but they're gonna pay you. So

(38:36):
I ended up on that course. Well, I show up
at the Naval Academy prep school in Newport, Rhode Island,
and you know, when you first and listen to shave
the head, they're putting all your uniform. Here's how you
make a pat, here's how you march. Here's all this
information's coming at you real quick. And one of the
seniors from the Naval Academy who's running our training, pulled

(38:57):
us all into the room and he said, okay, people,
here's the gouge. And when he said that word, I thought,
oh my goodness, this guy I believe in. He's gonna
tell us something important here. And he did. He said,
here's the gouge. You need to know. You're gonna do this,
loving You're gonna do all this, but what you got

(39:17):
to focus on is grades. If you get the good grade,
you'll be able to go to the Naval Capty. So instantaneously,
when he used that word the gouge to me a
few things, I said, ooh, this is important, he's gonna
tell us stuff they need to do. But number two,
it built trust and confidence in him. He took enough

(39:38):
time to synthesize all this stuff that was coming up
and here's what you really need to know. So I
had instantaneous trust and confidence in him and the institution
because they were focused on me and me developing and
succeeded personally. So that was my real first experience of

(40:01):
the gouge in uniform, and then it's played off my
career for over four decades. So yes, but that was
it just reinforced the principles and their culture and that
trust and confidence and individuals and leaders when they used
a gouge.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Admiral Bob Harward with me, the gouge is the name
of the book, How to be Smarter than the situation
you are in. When did you decide or what was
it that inspired the idea that you could take these
principles and then apply them after you left the military,
and that they would be transferable to a civilian life,

(40:40):
to the business world.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Great question, and it was you know, I just said,
lived it, used it all my life, and it was
a different journey. It was a different purpose and I
saw leaders in the defense industry who had no co
a stuff of this, and so that's what reinforced it.

(41:05):
But more important to me and learn of the reasons
I really did this book and stuff that just still
concerns me today. You know, since nine to eleven, we
lost over six thousand men and women in combat over
the fifteen years, and each of them was tragic, but
more tragic than that. At the same period, we dealt

(41:27):
with one hundred and twenty five thousand suicides of active
and retired and individuals of service. And this is why
I think the gouge is so important. I still don't
understand how any of those happened. I think sometimes transition
from a close knit family and the different environment is

(41:51):
a challenge. I think sometimes they lose their purpose. But
the purpose of the gouge, I hope will contribute to
driving down those numbers that we invest in our people,
not just professionally but personally. So these transitions, these challenges
in life, they can look through this a different lens

(42:13):
and they have hope and belief in their futures and
then as individuals to prevent this, I believe cultures, the
culture of the gouge and sharing our proactive leadership to
develop our individuals is a critical component of preventing these suicides.
So that was a big rational and reason why I
want to do this.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Admiral, I promised i'd get you out on time for
your next visit. I appreciate you making time for us
today and safe travels in the Ukraine, and again, thank
you for serving our country, sir. It's been an honor.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Thank you very much, really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Thank you, sir, The Admiral Bob Harward. And the book
is The Gouge How to be Smarter than the situation
you are in. It's a really good read, little edgy
in places, but the guy's resume deserves the respect that
we show and the book is definitely worth picking up.

(43:09):
The Gouge and my guest, Admiral Bob Harward. Yes, he
was speaking to us from Ukraine traveling to Poland. Go
figure here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Imagine that headline suspect and deadly carjacking in the US illegally.
H the way. Wow, by the way, the Biden Harris administration, Yes,
we now tie them together because after all, josen not

(44:04):
been running the country since really the beginning. But I digress.
They're planning to try again. The Supreme Court said you
do not have authority to cancel the debt of student loans.
He doesn't care. Why everybody together? Everybody together because Democrats

(44:28):
don't care about the law and the constitution. They don't care.
So they're going to try to do it again. Thirty
million student loans. They're going to try to cancel this fall.
You know what. That's called bribery. I understand for those

(44:57):
of you that have existing student loans, the temptation if
they're handing out that money, But you have to I
keep saying this, You've got to you gotta be more nuanced.
They're buying your vote, and that's your loan. It is

(45:25):
not the responsibility of everybody who pays taxes to pay
for your education. And I can only pray that deep
down you get it, that, deep deep down you know
I was not made to go to college. I chose to.

(45:48):
If you buy into the idea that I and we
and the rest of America is responsible for your college education.
Then you we'll buy into the idea that we should
buy you your car and your house and everything else.
And you know what that's called. That's called socialism, communism

(46:12):
when the government pays for everything and bills everybody else
for it. Friends, that is not the world you want
to live in. Anyway, they're going to do it. They're
gonna try again, just spitting at the Supreme Court of
the United States every chance they get. We do have

(46:36):
more on July thirteenth. It's just unraveling. We will update that,
but I chose not to make that a big story
in the press box because, quite candidly, I'm kind of
over it. But I'm going to continue to update you

(46:57):
daily as it's warranted on what's going on, because it matters.
They tried to kill Trump. Yeah, I do believe it
was a day. I think it's a very small group
of day, but it's a day. But we will have
the big stories in the press box coming up next.
We've got Florida Man stories coming up in the next
half hour. In the third hour, it's going to be

(47:19):
a unique visit. Daniel Stanley is Clerk of Court and
comptroller in Liberty County. Now, why would he be making
the drive to Florida's capital city to come onto the
Morning Show with Preston Scott? Why would he do that?
Why would he inconvenience himself to that degree? I'll let
him explain. He'll join me in the third hour twenty

(47:41):
seven minutes past. Take a break, weather, traffic and more.
And the Big Stories are next.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
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Speaker 1 (48:04):
Tamala's rally. Apparently a lot of people came from Megan
the Stallion because when she quit singing and it was
Kamala's turn to talk, they left. Oh Man, all right,
So I guess one new story in the press box

(48:26):
of the big stories is the Biden Trump or Biden
Biden Harris family crime family. They are planning to try
to violate a Supreme Court order again and continue to
find ways to give away your tax dollars to pay

(48:47):
off student loans, and it I don't need to comment
on that anymore, right, I don't. Speaking of the Biden
Harris campaign, citizens United a lot of the state Republican

(49:07):
Party chapters have filed a complaint with the FEC. The
complaint filed pursuant to code and a ninety six million
dollar violation of a specific code. Importantly, Biden and Harris

(49:30):
were not their party's nominees for president and vice president, respectively,
for the twenty twenty four general election at the time
this all happened. Notably, there's no record on the FEC
website that Biden filed any paperwork with the Commission announcing
that he was no longer a candidate for president, as
other candidates do when they withdraw from a race. Inside,

(49:51):
the complaint says, in fact, while Harris filed paperwork with
the Commission announcing she was no longer seeking reelection as
vice president, Biden did not file well any corresponding paperwork,
and that would present a problem. It's a violation of
the law now, but they're just laws, right right. This

(50:14):
is what happens when someone gets away with shoplifting. They
become emboldened and expand their operation. They decide to go
from little shoplifting to just outright theft, to outright burglary
to outright robbery. It escalates, and Biden and Harris have

(50:37):
gotten away with so much, especially Joe. They don't think
the laws apply to them. They just don't. Laws are inconvenient.
Remember what Third Good Marshall once said, the originator of
activists judicial action. I do what I think is right,

(51:00):
and I wait for the law to catch up. See
that's not how it works. What's supposed to happen is
that Supreme Court justices are to interpret the law however
it is, and if the law is bad, then the
legislature fixes. It's not a judge's job. But you see,

(51:23):
Biden and Harris don't care. They just don't care. They
do what they want. They pay no attention to the law,
to the rulings of a court, and so forth. Another
big story in the press box. Households have lost more
than fifteen thousand dollars a year thanks to regulations put

(51:46):
in place by Joe Biden and his administration. That's part
of inflation, but that's not all. So that's fifteen thousand dollars,
almost sixteen thousand dollars of hidden costs every year to
the average household, simply because regulatory changes Joe Biden has made.
And then, lastly, young adults still living at home with

(52:08):
parents at the highest rate in nearly eighty five years.
Think about what was going on in our country eighty
five years ago, and then consider why in the world
are we in this spot again where kids are having
to stay home, having to live at home with moms

(52:30):
and dads. Just saying, forty minutes after the hour, come back,
Big stories are now over.

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Forty one past the hour, Good Morning Show fifty two
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Scott to be with you. We're polishing off the month
of July unbelievably moving into August Tomorrow on the show
Tomorrow Program Boy, we'll have Steve Stewart, of course with

(53:12):
Tellaski Reports, We've got Jared Ross. Jared is with Justice
for Dan and we're gonna kind of expand and advance
what Justice for Dan is all about. That, of course,
Dan is Dan Markel, the FSU law professor that was

(53:36):
murdered in a family arranged hit. And I can say
that because we've had two convictions and three convictions now
in a pleading and we have another trial coming. Donna Adelson,

(53:59):
the former mother in law of Dan Markel, is now
going to be facing trial for being a co conspirator
in arranging. There's no doubting in my mind, but we'll
let the court system play out on that. But we'll
be talking with Jared tomorrow about his relationship with Dan,
as well as the Markell family and their efforts to

(54:23):
raise funds for a scholarship honoring Dan for students. We'll
talk about that also tomorrow US Senator Tommy Tubberville from
Alabama will be joining us. Once again. We'll have pause
for thought and road trip idea July thirteenth. Right the
Trump attempted assassination, We have heard that the reason why

(54:50):
the Secret Service drone wasn't operational. Get this was bandwidth.
They didn't have the BA and with to run their
drones because they rely on public Wi Fi. How is
that possible? How is it possible that the agency responsible

(55:15):
for the security of the President, the vice president, members
of Congress, former presidents. How is it possible they do
not have their own system. I mean, at any large rally,
everybody there is going to be using a bandwidth. So

(55:38):
that's now the latest wrinkle in this. But what's really
interesting emails have been forwarded to members of Congress from
a counter sniper with the Secret Service. Quoting from the email,
you can consider this guy a whistleblower that the agency

(56:01):
should uppercase. Letters should expect another assassination attempt. This agency
needs uppercase, needs to change, If not now, when uppercase
the next uppercase assassination in thirty days. Sadly we have
fallen short for years, he writes, we just look good

(56:26):
doing it. I have conveyed these thoughts not only to supervisors,
to include the current captain of CS counter Snipers, but
to those responsible for training US, only to be brushed
off as those with less experience somehow know more than me.
The team I was once proud to be part of

(56:47):
is something I have to somehow hide as I move
into my next career. Who wants to hire a US
Secret Service counter sniper guy who failed? That's the public
perception I'm now faced with the United States Secret Service
counter Sniper team is a stain I will never be

(57:09):
able to cleanse. The motto of the US Secret Service
CYA and every supervisor is doing it right now. Apparently
that email was deleted by the agency. They wanted no

(57:30):
record of it, so the email has been obtained by
members of Congress. Now I could play some of the
grilling of the acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe. I
feel bad for the guy if he's not complicit in

(57:51):
their failures. Josh Holly, US Senator, who I love because
he is just got game on top of game. He said,
who's been who's been fired? Anybody? No, sir, we had

(58:11):
someone murdered, and we had a former president shot and
no one's lost their job. How is that possible? We
need a thorough investment. Wait, thorough investigation. It doesn't matter
what the investigation shows. The people in charge failed to
do their job. They should at the very least not

(58:35):
have the opportunity to do another bad job and get
someone else guilled until the investigation's over. Please tell me
you you remove them from serving that at least they're
on the sideline that they're doing something else. And oh,
by the way, just one final note on this, be
aware they're they're they're really trying to work hard to

(58:57):
turn the shooter into something. He's probably not. They're digging
up social media accounts from when he was fourteen and
fifteen whatever. Forty seven minutes after the hour, come back
change gears talk about something else. Florida man standing by

(59:18):
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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If you read something insane, I probably did it.

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In other words, right now, I'm father photo Bogs. Go
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no to the sins I have committed. And we all
when we have somebody everybody. Yeah, And because we are

(01:00:08):
so focused on equality, we we have not just a
Florida man story today. We have a Florida won't man
story today. But we start, as of course, with Florida
man destined Florida, Okaalusa County that's in our listening area.

(01:00:29):
Come on, can I get a what what? Yeah? I
don't get stories like that very often from the Okahusa
County area. Homeowner awakened at five thirty in the morning
on Saturday, saying a man forced his way into a
home through a bedroom door. The lady was able to

(01:00:53):
lock herself in a in a bathroom inside the house,
called the sheriff's office. When deputies showed up, they found
twenty seven year old Harrison Lee. Remember we use names
whenever possible to inflict as much embarrassment as we can.

(01:01:15):
Twenty seven year old Harrison Lee was found taking a
shower inside the master bathroom. Now there is no word
of whether he was on drugs. My sense is he
probably was decided, for whatever reason, that he wanted to

(01:01:39):
take a shower in somebody's home, and so he felt
it was important enough to break in. And a photo
of his arrest shows him being led away in handcuffs,
wearing a towel around his waist. And as much as
that really speaks to the spirit of Florida man, Florida
woeman Lauren Riley, forty one, arrested charged Saint Petersburg, fifty

(01:02:08):
fourth Avenue in Haynes Road. The traffic stopped. She had
a bag and the bag was labeled, and the bag
was labeled bag of drugs. I'm not kidding. So that's

(01:02:29):
called probable cause. And so she had a bag with cocaine, crack, cocaine,
meth hydromorphone, alprise, lamb, al prose lamb. I don't know
what that is, other amphetamines and drug paraphernalia. Nothing like

(01:02:56):
making it easy. She also had a metal spoon for
glass vipes, plastic bags with the white residue, a full
needle with something. It's this bag of drugs. You gotta
love our Sunshine State. All right, we come back. It's

(01:03:18):
our number three. We're going to explain why a man
would make a drive from Liberty County here. Next, it's
the third Hour, the last, the last show in the

(01:03:39):
month of July. That's still really difficult for me to
get my brain around. And I haven't even start a
Christmas shop. Christmas is my shopping season begins in July,
and so here we are almost through July and I
haven't even begun. So I feel like I'm a little
behind the eight ball. Anyway, Welcome friends to the Third Hour.
Jose over there in Studio one Am here in Studio

(01:04:00):
one beat, and I'm joined by It's this is this
is gonna be interesting to unpack. Daniel Stanley is the
Clerk of Court and Comptroller with Liberty County. First, welcome,
how are you? Good morning, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Thank you for allowing me to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Stop it. I I want to unpack this the way
that I had to unpack it. You sent me a
note a few months ago. Yes, sir, what prompted it?

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
To be honest? I saw your interviews that you had
had with the City of Tallahassee and the Leon County
candidates on your website.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Yeah, I was blown away.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
I loved them. I listened to about half of them.
I love the conversation and kind of the sharp questions
that they were asked. And I think that all local
candidates should have to be asked the same things. And
I think a lot of folks, a lot of voters
are not really thinking about the impacts that local elections
have on their lives.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
So that stirred something in you. It did, Yes, sir, personally, professionally.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Both both yes for the clerk accord and comptrol. Are
a lot of questions that I've had and that I've
been asked, is what are your roles and duties?

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
A lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
Folks don't know the five Constitutional officers crafted out of
the Florida Constitution and Section eight, and then of that
on the clerk side particularly, have a lot of questions
on judges races. You know, how do you know anything
about a judges race?

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
Well, that's one of the biggest conundrums in the entire
state because unless you turn to a group like the
Florida Family Policy Council Florida Family Action CRAIG is their
political wing, there is no way to really get useful
information on making decisions about judges.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
That's right, yes, sir, yeah, you know so. I think
that what I have heard over and over in my
short time in office and over my lifetime is that
there are very few people that are die hard partisan folks.
Most folks are engaged in politics because they want to
believe that there are good folks, good servants and stewards
that are representing their best interests in office. So how

(01:05:59):
do you ask questions of those local candidates who are
either running for office seeking re election, and then the
judges that impact our lives on a daily basis.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
But the motivation for you reaching out to me was
really circling around discussing the importance of local elections. Sir, absolutely,
Why does that matter so much to you?

Speaker 5 (01:06:18):
I think that for folks. You know, we're focused on
a lot of state and national politics, but when you
break it down, the impacts that a local school board, county,
board of county commissioners, and your constitutional officers have impact
on your life. They probably impact your life on a
daily basis more than anything else. Just like the legislature.
The legislature has ninety percent of their job is to

(01:06:39):
pass a budget. The same with the school board, the
same with the border county commissioners. What is going into
that budget? Is it provide good roads, is it good
public service? What programs and services do they have? Is
it a balanced budget? How much is debt on and on?
You need to know. Folks need to know what they've
done as if they are seeking reelection again, and what
their vision for the future is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Daniel Stanley with me, Liberty County Clerk of Court Controller.
We're going to talk more about local elections as broadly
as we can because, let's face it, you know, Tip
O'Neil was right, he said all politics is local, and
we're going to talk about that and how it impacts
your decisions in the coming weeks because some of you

(01:07:21):
are going to settle some races in the primaries, not
the general election. More to come a little early, but
we're getting out ten minutes past the hour, sort of
kind of morning show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
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Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Yes, I use it.

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All the time. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
We got through that break a little early, which means
we're going to get a little more time on this
side of it. Daniel Stanley with me with Liberty County.
We were just talking about the fact that it's tough
to get people to understand that the races that we
vote on locally, and it can be different from city
to city, county to county, but there are some races

(01:08:16):
that because of the makeup of the race, it'll be
settled in August, not in November. Correct, yes, sir, So
people that hold out are going to miss their chance
to voice their opinion on the race.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
That's correct. Historically and statistically, usually voter turnout is lower
at primary elections. That changed a couple of years ago
when the legislature made open universal primaries. So if you
have a race that you have a partisan or nonpartisan race,
then that is going and all the candidates in the
partisan race. Give example, my race, I have two Republican challengers.

(01:08:51):
I'm a Republican, so my race is going to be
decided on August twentieth. There's no non partisan or a
no Democrat. So if you only have fifty to sixty
percent of Liberty County voters, those are going to come out.
That's a lot of folks that's missing out on a
chance to hea their voice heard.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Now, in that setting, you say there are just three
candidates in the race, that's right. Is it a plurality
that wins or is there a runoff? Then if no
one gets fifty plus one, no runoff, so it's a plurality.
Could win that race, yes, sir? Or will seletly potentially could?

Speaker 5 (01:09:20):
That's right. Somebody can go in with thirty five percent.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Of the vote. That seems weird to me.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
I agree, yes, sir. Thirty five percent voted for you,
but the other sixty five percent did not.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
So it enhances I guess what I'm driving at here is, Daniel,
there is nuance to how races are scripted and the
local parties, be they Republican or democrat can oftentimes manipulate
things by simply putting a name on the ballot.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
That's right, Yes, So I think it's important for folks
to ask those tough questions. For me and other local candidates,
there shouldn't be anything that's all fl I think it's
okay to ask folks what is their moral basis, what
values do they have that they bring forward to begin with,
what's their moral code, what's their spiritual beliefs, what do
they believe? Because if from once you go off from there,

(01:10:13):
then it doesn't matter if you know, if they're not
fiscally conservative or they are, they have a mindset for
a budget or whatever, the roles that they're seeking, whether
their professional experience, their personal lives, all those things that
come into play. But I want to ask some personal
questions to begin with with a candidate, whether it's the
incumbent or someone that's seeking office. Just because someone hasn't

(01:10:35):
been an elected official before, it doesn't mean they can't serve.
But do their life experiences, their professional experiences, what management,
what mindset do they bring, or if there's a particular
education background that they bring or something that they are
trying to do in order to serve in that particular role,
they need to be able to project that, and people

(01:10:56):
need to be able to ask those questions. Whether it's
visiting with folk folks, whether it's going.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Does it need to ask those questions or be willing to,
because what I observe is so many people are content
with not really engaging.

Speaker 5 (01:11:11):
I agree. I agree they need to ask those questions.
I don't avoid them, I don't mind it, and I
think that they should be asked to folks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
What drove you into this? I mean, quite honestly, I
admire anybody, whether I agree with their politics or not,
for getting in and running any kind of race for anything. Yes,
because it is not for sissy's it just is not.
But what motivated you to want to do this?

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
For seeking the clerk a court and comptroller's role. Again,
I'm one of the five constitutional officers that serves. I've
been in public servant my whole life. Work with a
Department of Agriculture, with a Florida Forest Service, agwar policy,
Northwest Florida Water Management District, vice president of my dad's
construction company for twenty years, worked hard my whole entire life.
But I have lived in Liberty County. I love my county,

(01:12:01):
love where my family is, my church, kids go to
school there, engage in my community. I love Liberty County.
And so when an opportunity came up several years ago,
the Clerk of court who was there was going to retire,
really prayed and sought about if it was God's will
for me to be able to run. Because in small counties,
clerks work really closely with border county commissioners in a

(01:12:23):
number of different ways. And so I just prayed and
asked the Lord, mainly because of a connection that I
had twenty one years ago. I had a brother who
was hitting killed by a drunk driver, and I'll never
forget the experience that I had, and I always prayed
and I said, Lord, if there's ever an opportunity for
me to be able to help people to be able
to navigate the judicial system, I want to be able

(01:12:44):
to do that. So I do. And it's something that
has been a proud moment for me in my life
that no matter who you are or what side of
the courtroom that you're on, me and my staff are
going to be there to confidently and confidentially be able
to help you and to help you through your process,
says in.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Time, it's just one of many offices, though it is.
Do you have, you know, a lot of government. There's
sort of a then diagram here in the capital city,
you've got the city and then you've got the county.
Is ce Liberty County made up in a similar way?
Is there a city jurisdiction that you have to worry about?
And oversea as well?

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
We have one city, the city of Bristol, that is
there and then the rest of it is the outlying
counties areas that we have.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Yes, Daniel Stanley with me. One more segment to come,
sixteen minutes past the hour. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

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Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
And Iheart's radio station, talking about local voting. And I
want to drill down to something that I probably get
more emails about every single election cycle than anything else.
And with me is Daniel Stanley. He's the Liberty County
Clerk of Court and controller. We're going to zero went

(01:14:05):
on that Clerk of court side though in the remaining
time judicial candidates. Yes, sir, It is the most difficult
thing for most voters to ascertain. And so the pattern
is retention.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
They just check yes, yeah, yes, sir, that's right. So
get a lot of questions about judicial retention. What does
that look like? How do we find out? How do
their names even get on the ballot? Well, by Florida's statute,
your Supreme Court judges as well as your Appeals Court
judges are there for life until they're termed out by
age seventy in it depends on when they turn seventy

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in when their next term comes up, but they will
be there for retention. Vote. You have two on the
ballot this year to Florida Supreme Court judges, and then
in the first District Court of Appeals, which covers our
area that we have, you have three, and so they
will be up for judicial retention. A lot of folks
ask how do I even find out anything about them? Well,
a couple of diferent ways. One you could go to

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the Florida Supreme Court page, read their biography, hear about them.
I be real wary of judicial scorecards unless those judicial
scorecards are tying together cited cases on which ways that
those judges voted. Okay, And I think that there's different
misconceptions that folks just google somebody's name and they find
it out. Their Google is a great tool, but find

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out about them, find a biography, find out if those
individual scorecards are cited by judicial rulings on those well.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
And Google, as we're learning, can be weighted. It can
be waited for or against a given candidate or in
this case, judicial judge.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
Absolutely so, judges rulings, of course, are going to be
tied to two things. They're going to be tied to
statute and as well as previous case law, previous rulings
in cases, So all the way up through from the
lower court of the court, Circuit court, appeals judges all
the way to the Florida Supreme Court. If there's something
that is outside of the norm, either in law or
previous ruling, then they can those case and situations can

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be appealed all the way up. So they're real tight
about what they can and can't rule on. But I
tell you another thing, if you have, if you're one
of the outlying counties that you have a judge that
is on the ballot this year, a lot of the
local candidates. You know judicial candidates are available. You can
talk with them, you can call them. Their campaigns by
Florida statute are designed to be vanilla. The Florida Judicial

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Qualification Commission if you looked up Florida JQC dot com.
Judges have cannons their ethical standards about what they can
and can't do when they campaign. Can in number seven
specifically prohibit certain political activity of a judge. They're supposed
to have a vanilla campaign. That way, when they are
in a judiciary role that they are seen as fair

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and impartial. But it is okay to ask and look
what their work experience is. Did they come up through
the ranks as a law enforcement officer, prosecutor, and then
now they're seeking judiciary where they a defense attorney. Go
to the Florida Bar Florida Bar, look up the attorney's
history and you can see if they've had previous disciplinary action,

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if they've been if they've been given any awards in
a part of any committees. See what firm it is
that they work for and their experience that they're bringing
to the bench. That's important, But you can also ask
judges questions. You can ask them, do you have what
is your personal connection do you why are you seeking
this office? What is your goal in becoming a part
of the judiciary. Do you have military experience? Do you

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have any spiritual beliefs? What are your hobbies? What church
do you attend. They might not be able to give
you specific components of you know whether they are a
pro life candidate or not, but you can you can
discern some of that information by what they put out
about who they are.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
I've always wondered why the state doesn't require all of
the courts throughout the state to put some kind of
publicly available summary of every ruling that every judge makes
on every case, to give us something with some meat
on it to evaluate their rulings on cases.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
I agree, and what you're referring to as a judicial scorecard,
and a lot of folks ask that, and it's not
going to be a left or a right leaning I
have had my eyes open to our judicial rules. I
have a lot of respect for judges and the rulings
that they make sure and they have a lot of
different rules, if you will, in their playbook that they
have to go by and do their judicial rules of

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procedure and if it's a criminal proceeding or a civil
proceeding and they have certain rules of procedures that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
They don't want to be appealed.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
You're exactly right here that all the time, you know,
and the sidebar conversations and in the back rooms when
the jury's out, you know, that's what the judges say. No, no,
this is something that could be good no matter what
goes on today, could be up for appeal. So they are.
They're thinking about those previous case law, even something that's
cited by an attorney, and emotion hearing that's going on

(01:18:56):
with a ruling. A lot of those things are taking
place for the judges to be able to think about.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
But if you ever, in your role as clerk of court,
ever been told why we don't have any system of
getting summary rulings and being able to read them, because
I don't read that as a scorecard.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Yeah, I read that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
I mean a scorecard is assigning a value to those rulings.
I just want to know, Okay, let me see some cases,
let me see how you ruled, and I'm going to
get a feel for this judge's rulings, whether they're appropriate
with the law, whether they're activists.

Speaker 5 (01:19:25):
Yeah, yes, from no, sir, I have never heard of that.
And if you think about a lot of the rulings
that they're doing on the lower levels, either on the
county judges or the circuit judges levels, they're really following.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
What a jury would do.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
So the jury is the one that brings the verdict in.
A judge has certain elements that he will do after
that verdict takes place. And so you know, for some
of the lower courts, they don't have a wide discretionary
of ability that a lot of people think that they do.
The higher that you go Appeals Court and Florida Supreme
Court judges, they absolutely do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Final word here is don't blow off primary elections.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
Absolutely, get to know your candidates, ask them the tough questions,
know what it is and an impact that they make on.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Your daily life. Thanks for coming by, absolutely, thank you
for having me. Daniel Stanley, Liberty County Clerk of Court
and Comptroller. At seventeen thousand pages of notes, we got
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Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
At least the city is for the rest.

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Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Tomorrow on the program, we will visit with Steve Stewart
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Justice for Dan. The Dan is Dan Markel. Dan Markell,
former FSU law professor who was murdered less than five
minutes from our studios here in his driveway. It was

(01:21:12):
a contracted hit and it was organized by at the
very least his former brother in law. He's been convicted
and oh, by the way, he listened to The Morning
Show with Preston Scott while he was in jail, which
was just one of my highest marks ever is hearing

(01:21:34):
him on a recorded phone call talking to his mom,
who's now facing trial for being a co conspirator. Hearing
Charlie Aedelson talk about listening to me on a recorded call.
It's a high water mark, man. It is. He's been
transferred to North or South Dakota. And that tells me

(01:21:56):
that the gang that he tried to roll under the
bus and blame for the murder put a contract out
on him. And I don't know this at all, but
my guess is they decided for his welfare to move
him out of the state. And you can't get much

(01:22:16):
different from Florida than North or South Dakota, so Charlie's
no longer there. But I've long thought, how fun would
it be if, like some random guard, if some random
guard put my show on like his cell phone or

(01:22:38):
on a portable speaker or something, and played it where
Charlie was in North or South Dakota. Would that be
just epically fun? Ah, I thought I got away from him,
he's everywhere. That would be so good. Anyway, we'll talk
to Jared Ross. He's with the group just for Dan

(01:23:01):
and US Senator Tommy Tubberville will join us tomorrow. Also
Pause for Thought and some other things, of course, big
stories in the press box. Young adults still living it
at home, with their parents' highest rate in nearly eighty
five years, and it's getting worse. At age twenty five,
fourteen percent of the Silent Generation that's the generation that

(01:23:24):
preceded boomers still lived at home fifteen percent for boomers,
twenty percent for Gen X, twenty seven for millennials. Now
it's thirty percent of Gen z ors are living at home.
Why because, as has been noted, a rat infested apartment
right now costs you your wages. It's just absurd the

(01:23:47):
cost of things. US households now are spending fifteen thousand
dollars a year more on average due to the Biden
administration regulatory environment, just since Joe Biden has taken over
the costs of an average household up over fifteen thousand

(01:24:11):
dollars a year. That is separate from the inflation. Now
it it's rolled into some of the inflation, but that's
a separate number. And then, lastly, an FEC complaint Florida
Federal Election Commission alleging unprecedented violation of the law by
the Biden Harris campaign. Is anybody remotely surprised? All right,

(01:24:34):
forty minutes past the hour? Come back going to the movies? Yeah,
interesting movie suggestion.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
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Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
All right, forty one minutes after the hour. I think
it's Universal Studios that has the Twisters, or had at
least the Twisters attraction where you walked in and you
got a simulated tornado and it's kind of it's kind
of kind of intense, the flashing lights, the wind, the
way that they rolled that out. I mean, I'm not

(01:25:19):
a big fan of fear, but little kids got scared.
It's like, oh, it's just yeah. The movie though, with
Bill Paxton rest in Peace and Helen Hunt. Philip Seymour
Hoffman another guy that that was like one of his
early movies and he became a thing. Anyway, that movie,

(01:25:47):
it had its moments that were a little corny cow
you know, if you saw the movie, you know what
I'm talking about. But it was overall, it was It's
a good movie to watch. It's a it's a fun
hour for five right. Well, when I saw that, there
was another movie called Twisters, and it stars one of

(01:26:09):
the guys that co starred with Tom Cruise in Top Gun,
Maverick Glen Powell. Glenn Powell's doing a lot of promos
for the Golf Channel now and Professional Golf, and he's
apparently quite a thing in the movie world. They have
released this as a standalone sequel, Twisters, and it's getting

(01:26:29):
rave reviews from critics. And here's what's interesting about that.
It's safe for twelve plus ages twelve plus, and even
though there's a little slow burn romance in the midst
of it, there's not even a kiss. I've read some

(01:26:53):
reviews on the movie, and what's interesting is one of
the reviewers a woman, a female reviewer, and said, it
hit me. It's the first movie I've seen in forever
that left me just wanting more. Where they didn't go
too far, where they didn't put just ridiculous simulated sex
scenes and unnecessary profanities. They just did a movie that

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you can go to with most of your family. I
could probably argue that you could bring your kids that
are younger as long as they can handle tornadoes right
on a screen and not get weirded out by it.
But just the idea, and oh, by the way, it
has grows so far two hundred and twenty million dollars.

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If there is a message being sent to the world
of movies, make a movie that families can go to
and they will, even with the inflated prices of going
to a movie these days, is what the average tickets
running what now fifteen bucks maybe for just a seat.

(01:28:03):
You go to the upper level, you know, the D
box and the surround sound, special sound stuff. You're going
to run twenty twenty three bucks for a seat probably,
so you're looking at if you're going with a family
of four, you're looking at one hundred bucks to go
out to a night at the movies. And so the
last thing you want is to go to a movie

(01:28:25):
that then is filled with scenes that you just are
embarrassed that your kids are with you, or that you
have to explain this gender identity nonsense in the middle
of an animated movie, which has no place. So it's
so refreshing to know that there's now another movie out

(01:28:45):
there now at this now, while I extol the virtues
of this now, I have not seen the movie. I've
just been reading the reviews, and the reviews have been
so positive. It caught my It just got my attention.
And then the fact that we didn't have any gratuitous ridiculousness,
no political correctness, just a good old kind of quasi

(01:29:06):
action movie really because tornado tornadoes are the action element
of the movie, so it's kind of an action movie, right.
It was so refreshing to see that it was doing
well at the box office. I was like, okay, okay,
that's that might be a movie worth seeing. But then

(01:29:26):
at the same time, I'm wrapping the segment with my confession,
and don't think less of me. Daniels still over there
in the other studio, just turn off my I don't
want him to hear this because he'll think less of me.
I want to see the movie Wicked. I want to
see the movie, which is kind of the prequel to

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the Wizard of Oz. I want to see it because
I think it's fascinating the journey that led to the
Wicked Witch. How they fashioned that story. Look, it's an
iconic story. Even if you were like me and you
got scared just ridiculously by those monkeys. Those flying monkeys

(01:30:10):
terrified us, right, Okay they did. They're worse in this movie.
They are worse, I will tell you, because they're more lifelike.
But the journey is really interesting to me. So I'm
just look, I'm just being honest. I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna see the movie. I don't know that I'll go
to the theater. That's my sweet wife goes out of town.

(01:30:30):
Then I might go to see the forty seven minutes
after the hour come back with a special segment. You
better pay attention to okay my audience. John just writes
in I saw Twisters with a family who have an

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eight nine year old boy. It's a great movie, great story,
no woke stuff, perfectly fine for their child. At the
same time, a New York Times columnist is complaining the
movie doesn't address climate change. That is precisely why it's
a good movie. Just a movie with reliable characters and
good plot without an agenda. Come on, see there you go,

(01:31:16):
There you go. And this might keep the movie in
your local theater for another week. Just the fact that
I talked about it here on the show today, See
there you go. That's thank you, John for your personal review.
What does that mean, Hey, that means it's time for
a beach warning. We're still in the summer, we still

(01:31:40):
have people getting caught up in rip currents. And so
what I have done for you is I have reposted
on my blog page recognizing and surviving rip currents helpful

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trust me on this. It can literally save your life
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Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Started the show in God's Word. That's where you need
to start your day. John one versus twelve through thirteen,
John one versus twelve through thirteen. That's where we started
the radio program today. Mixed stories in the press box
and no particular order. US households lose more than fifteen
thousand dollars a year. Thank you Joe administration regulations that

(01:32:56):
he put in place starting in twenty twenty two. That's
just in two plus years. It's I'll stop there. Young
adults still living at home with their parents at the
highest rate in nearly eighty five years. Federal Election Commission
received complaints official complaints filed by the Citizens United Group

(01:33:19):
as well as state Republican parties alleging that Kamala Harris
and Joe Biden haven't followed the law on the transition
of the campaign money. And it may seem a little
thing to some of you, but Joe Biden hasn't officially
resigned his campaign. Laws matter, rules matter, Any of you

(01:33:40):
that you're in white collar business and you have people
sign contracts, sign agreements. Let me know how that works
out for you when they don't sign. Let me know
what happens if your insurance policy goes to underwriting without signatures,
without eyes dotted and t's cross. Let me know how
that works out for you. These guys think, Ah, that
stuff doesn't matter, it's just the law. Florida woman allegedly

(01:34:07):
caught with drugs. Allegedly she was caught in a bag
labeled bag of drugs. Yeah, Florida man was spectacular. Today
FBI were learning more about the July thirteenth assassination attempt.
Drones They couldn't run them because of bandwidth, really really,

(01:34:29):
and the counter sniper secret Service agent that is sent
out an email that the Secret Service deleted. Problem is
Members of Congress got it anyway. Had a great visit
with Admiral Bob Harward his book The Gouge Guy's Resumes
Out of this World. Great great visit. Daniel Stanley joined
US Liberty County Clerk of Court and Comptroller the Importance

(01:34:53):
of local voting. Tomorrow a massive show loaded with guests.
I'm going to try to be remote. It's remotely interesting
as well, so I can't wait to talk to you
then