Ep. 5354: Why they are so disliked?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for  Wednesday, April 9th

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- Dr. Bob McClure




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Morning Friends Wednesday on the Morning Show with Preston. It's
gott On Preston. He is Jose. Great to be with
you this morning. The like to share time as always,
show fifty three fifty four, and we will begin with
some scripture. We'll get into the program in just a
little bit as we as we look ahead to time

(00:38):
with doctor Bob McClure in the third hour, lots of stories,
talk about some sound for you to listen to this
morning that I think will be interesting. We have more
and more people asking for us to pull these segments
out and do a podcast, and so we're going to
endeavor to do that. Create some kind of day starter

(01:00):
that if you miss one or two you can go
back and catch the podcast and get the entire week
all at once, recognizing that there will be two that
are a little brief Monday and Friday, and three that
are little meteor Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because we do God
Bless America to start the show on Monday, and so

(01:23):
it's a short devotional then and then we do a
praise and worship song or a Christian song on Friday.
What I write in my notes is God's tune on
a Friday, and then we do a short devotional there,
but the two in the middle are a little meaty,
and I'll probably create just carve out a little more
time next week because it is Easter Week and I

(01:44):
think it's important, and what I'm doing this week is
kind of laying this set in the stage for Easter Week.
From a historical perspective, we talked yesterday about how before
Palm Sunday, Jesus brought Lazarus out of the grave, and

(02:07):
I'm always reminded and that's in John eleven, and so
we recommended that you spend some time in John eleven yesterday.
And I'm always reminded that you know when Jesus said
greater things, and we've talked about this, greater things will
you do? Because I go be with the Father and
he's he's talking about the works of salvation. He's talking

(02:27):
about revealing the things of God. And this is a
great example, the healing of Lazarus. Jesus healed Lazarus because
his heart broke for Mary and Martha, his sisters, Lazarus's sisters.
He also healed Lazarus as a sign. But there's this subtle,

(02:49):
little reminder, greater miracles than that. Well, what's a greater
miracle four more, five more, six more, twenty more, twenty
more years on earth or eternity in heaven. What's a
greater miracle that our sins can be washed away by
the sacrifice of one or that someone has spared something

(03:12):
and they get a few more years. Granted, it's a
miracle what happened for Lazarus. But Jesus said, you'll do
greater miracles. And I suspect that in Jesus's mind, the
greatest miracle of all is that we should have the
opportunity to spend eternity perfected, whole, healed before God, with

(03:41):
God for eternity. Yeah, but after that happened, you go
to John chapter twelve, and in John twelve we see
this was it for the Pharisees had enough. Jesus is

(04:05):
having dinner with Mary and Martha and Lazarus and his disciples,
and they're they're in this setting where Mary anoints Jesus
his feet with this very expensive oil, and Judas, of course,

(04:27):
the guy who did everything for a buck, was livid
and Mary was showing just this incredible love. Jesus said, hey, Judas,
back off. And it was after this, after Lazarus had

(04:53):
been healed, the Pharisees actually plotted to kill Lazarus as
well as Jesus. They didn't want this guy who had
been dead but brought back to life walking around testifying.
And so it's in John chapter twelve that you see
this encounter, you learn of the plot to kill Lazarus,

(05:14):
and then it gives way to something else, the entry
into Jerusalem on Sunday of Easter Week, And we'll get
to that in the next couple of days. Ten past
the hour, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. You're
reading is John twelve The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(05:44):
I always believe a chronological study of the ministry of
Christ his life is really useful because the gospel writers
all write about these events, and some notes some things
and some note others because of how they are. They're wired,

(06:06):
how you know, like Luke is a doctor. Luke is
very precise in how he writes his account of the
life of Christ, and of course all of it is
inspired by the Holy Spirit. But I think it's useful
for Christians to do a chronological look at the life
of Christ, and especially the final weeks and days leading

(06:31):
up to what a lot of people I think have
a better grasp of, which is the chain of events
of Easter Week, of the Holy Week that led to
his death, burial, and resurrection. I think a lot of
people have that one, but I'm not sure that everyone understands.
And I think the chronology of how he did, what

(06:51):
he did, when he did it, where he did it
is really important because you can track him, you can
see the intention now of what he's doing and where
and why. I just I strongly advise a chronological Bible
as one of your study Bibles, and strongly advise you

(07:12):
know you can look up and find online a lot
of great resources on chronological studies of the life of
Christ and his ministry, and I think it's really smart
to do it that way. It is April the ninth,
sixteen eighty two. Sier de la Salle claims the Mississippi
River for France lived a fonse, but of course they

(07:34):
would surrender it. Eighteen sixty five. Roberty Lee surrenders his
Confederate army Ulysses as Graham nineteen thirty nine. This is
a great story, and again it's April because it's April.

(07:56):
This doesn't get mentioned in Black History Month because we
relegate Black history to February. What have I been teaching
you for all these years? Black history is American history,
it's part of It's like Irish and Asian and Hispanic,

(08:16):
and I mean that it's we're one. But this is
one of those stories that gets left out. Nineteen thirty nine,
Marian Anderson, who happens to be black, performs for seventy
five thousand people at the Lincoln Memorial after her concert
at Constitution Hall was canceled because she's black. This is

(08:41):
a brilliant illustration in support of my argument that you
teach American history and this is a story that's found
in April that we forget about because we're too focused
on doctor Martin Luther King only in January instead of

(09:02):
a civil Rights Day, and make that part of the
fabric of history. This is an incredible event. She's refused
the opportunity to sing. I'm quite certain that's in Philadelphia,
and so she says, Okay, we'll turn this into a
quasi protest. I'll sing outside at the Lincoln Memorial. Seventy

(09:25):
five thousand people showed up. You realize there are professional
football stadiums that don't hold seventy five thousand people. And
you didn't know that nineteen some of you didn't know that.
Nineteen thirty nine, April the ninth, nineteen forty two, seventy

(09:49):
five thousand starving American and Filipino defenders at the on
the Baton Peninsula surrendered to the Japanese, leading to the
Baton March. I've interviewed man who was in that death march,
who survived it, met him a couple of times, and
had him on the show once. And in two thousand

(10:10):
and three, in Baghdad, US soldiers celebrate the fall of
Sadam Satam is saying by toppling a giant statue of
the dictator. So that was that was on this date.
And let's go here to April the ninth. It's National
unicorn Day. Don't get stuck on it. Yeah, I did that,

(10:35):
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. Boy, no kidding.
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day. Okay, if it has cookie
on it, as long as it doesn't have gross fruit
in it. Unless I'll make an exception for a good
oatmeal cookie. A good oatmeal cookie with some raisins that'll work.

(10:58):
National Winston Churchill Day, National Name Yourself Day, Oh please,
like we need that. National Cherish and Antique Day, all
about antique shopping, love going to antique stores. National Library
Outreach Day, National Education and Sharing Day. So kind of
a yawn today Today was kind of a yon day.

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Seventeen past the hour, The cutest donut yet, next.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
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Speaker 3 (11:36):
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to twenty three minutes past.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
We'll keep this short, get back on time. Maybe maybe
you know the years flying by, when when the crispy
cream donut collections blur together. Now, I don't eat crispy

(12:13):
cream donuts very often now and then someone will bring
some into the station and out munch one or two.
But I boy donuts. It is. It takes incredible willpower
for me to walk by a donut. And and I

(12:39):
don't know, you know, if you're into the filled donuts,
maybe of a Bavarian cream now and then, but I'm
not into the fruit filled you know me? And yeah, no,
but you know a glazed, a powdered I'm good with
an occasional powdered donut. I'm good with the cinnamon sugar donuts.
The chocolate glazed maple though, a maple glazed donut is

(13:04):
just it. It's so comforting to me because it brings
back memories of getting donuts as a kid. And they
used to have what are called long John's, which are
these long, rectangular, kind of shaped oblong donuts, and they
would be covered with maple. So it's it's just a

(13:27):
different way of making a donut. Instead of it being
round with a hole, it's just oblong. And anyway, a
maple donut is something else. But you know, we had
the chocolate the Chocomania collection with Hershey's that they rolled
out for a while. You had the Fruity Pebbles milk

(13:49):
glazed donuts. First of it's kind that they talked. They
had that out just last week. You had the Saint
Patrick's Day Taste a Luck collect But now the Easter collection.
I'm not trying to blaspheme Easter, Okay, I'm not. I'm

(14:11):
just pointing out that there is a collection of donuts.
There's the Bunny Basket donut. It's an original glazed dipped
in chocolate icing, decorated with butter cream and a confectionery bunny.
There is the Marshmallow Bunny donut, unglazed shell donut filled

(14:33):
with marshmallow cream and dipped in pastel yellow icing, decorated
with a bunny face with ears. The Bouncing Bunny donut
dipped in blue icing and sprinkles, topped with a bouncing bunny.
The Strawberry iced doughnut with sprinkles, dipped in strawberry flavored

(14:55):
icing and pastel sprinkles. And you can buy them individually
or in in a dozen. Be strong, I I'll be
honest with you. Krispy Kreme, They're fine. I don't Krispy Kreme.

(15:20):
To me, it's it's not quite the same as a
duncan donut or a I think, what is it kingdom
donut kingdom or even publics for that matter. They're just
they're different, and and I think I could categorize Krispy

(15:41):
Kreme as a as a food group donut. They are
by themselves as a food group. It's like I want
to spell their donut differently than a regular donut. I mean,
I don't I don't know, but anyway, twenty seven past
the hour, I will be on time. It's the Morning
Show with Frein Scott.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know if there's a scoreboard tracking all this,
but we know now that what the Democrats are going
to do for the next four years is engage in
lawfair They won't be able to pull the same game
they did last time and hijack the House and the

(16:35):
Senate because they don't control it and antagonize Trump that way.
So what they're doing, and in fact, four times lawsuits
were filed on the very day of his inauguration. They've
been fighting since January twentieth. They were just waiting for
him to become president, and then the lawsuits started to

(16:57):
be filed again. He's taking his share of ls in
the lower courts, but he got a huge win in
the Supreme Court yesterday. The President, I would say, we did.
And I know that there are people upset because people
are losing their jobs. I get it. And while I

(17:21):
would have tackled this perhaps a little differently from a
sequential standpoint, you still had to get it done. And
Trump as opposed to just you know, getting the water
and warm water and slowly moving the band aid off
and so that the hairs don't get pulled out of
the skin. He's just ripping it off, and that's what

(17:42):
he's doing. But the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration
to win when it blocked the lower court's ruling that
the White House had to reinstate sixteen thousand probationary workers
it terminated earlier this year. The judge at the time said,

(18:03):
and it's US District Judge William al sub you will
not bring the people here to be cross examined. You're
afraid to do so because you know cross examination would
reveal the truth. I tend to doubt that you are
telling me the truth. I'm tired of seeing you stonewall
on trying to get at the truth. That's what he
said to the attorney representing the United States government. Supreme

(18:24):
Court said, yeah, No, all the groups that you listened
to had no standing to listen to be heard. And
so this is how you know. There are ten to
fifteen legal actions right now against Doze, and at some

(18:47):
point the Supreme Court's going to have to settle that
the executive branch of government has authority to conduct the
business of the executive branch of government may not be
able to get rid of entire departments without congressional action.

(19:08):
And I think this is important to remember. We're going
to be shelling out how much money in taxpayer expanse
on these lawsuits because we have to defend them. And
so to me, what's significant is the importance of the
midterm elections here to give Republicans even more room in

(19:31):
the House and the Senate. We have to break the
conventional way that this goes, which is at midterms it
swings back to the minority party. We have to stop that.
We have to we have to gain momentum. And again,
the messaging of the Republicans and the splintering of the

(19:52):
party at different times over different issues is not helping.
All I can do is continue to offer to help
help with their messaging and to sit down with them
behind closed doors and say this is what you need
to do to win hearts and minds to then win elections.
But my offer has gone unheeded. Cleveland Clinic has found

(20:15):
something very interesting. I had a doctor share this with me,
and I had I came across the story independently. Cleveland
Clinic gave vaccines to fifty three thousand employees give or
take the annual flu vaccine for this season twenty four

(20:36):
to twenty five flu season. Now here's what's interesting. People
vaccinated had a greater risk of getting the flu. Here's
also what's interesting. In their own study, this is the
Cleveland Clinic study, they found twenty six point nine percent effectiveness.

(20:59):
Put another way, it was ineffective seventy three percent of
the time. Now, you do what you want to do,
and you do you I am I am not a doctor.

(21:21):
But forty three, eight hundred and fifty seven of those
fifty three thousand employees got the influenza vaccine, and over
the course of the study, the incidents of influenza increased
more rapidly among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. I just

(21:45):
think that's significant. Forty one minutes after the hour This
Morning Show with Preston Scott, forty two minutes past Master's
week new blog up. Earlier was was it this week

(22:12):
or last week? We talked about that Nashville shooter, the
unnamed killer of kids and others that was a tranny.
I believe that was last week, and we talked about
how the official report, no manifesto that all it was
was her ranting about wanting to kill her psychologist and

(22:33):
her dad and how she wanted to be famous. Well, now,
Cash Patel gave Megan Kelly exclusive rights to the documents
from the shooter, at least what the FBI had. Here's

(22:54):
Megan Kelly.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
I just want to tell you what happened there. We
received an exclusive on the Nashville shooter's manifesto from the FBI.
We exclusively had permission to report on it, though not
to post the documents.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Now, I want to just pause for a moment and
point out she never uses the name of the shooter.
Thank you, Megan.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
And we spent the weekend reviewing the over one thousand
of them. What we concluded, and it's outlined in Morning Update,
which is on YouTube and on our podcast feed, is
that we were misled by Nashville authorities last week who
said there's not one document called the manifesto. So we're

(23:38):
just going to tell you, based on our reading of
visit these thousand plus documents, what the motives here were
and guess what didn't make the dance the shooter's trans
ideology at all at all. So we read through the
documents and again, we've been misled. This woman was obsessed

(24:00):
with trying to trans herself, wanting to trans herself trans ideology.
I mean, it was like reading a leftist playbook on race,
gender and hatred for America. And now it's becoming really
clear why this wasn't shared with us for two years. Well,
we've seen it, and we don't have the same agenda

(24:22):
as the people making those decisions. And thanks to Cash
Battel and his transparent efforts at the FBI, we will
bring you the full report.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Okay, first of all, I think on that front, we
shared the same agenda as says Megan. She's she's a
little saucy when she when she bailed from Fox, she got,
she got, she got pretty fired up, and she stayed

(24:57):
that way. She's a smart lady. If you look at
her background, she's got some chops that said respect for
the fact that And I told you she's one of
the only people in media. I'm the other that will
not use the names of these people despite the overwhelming

(25:23):
evidence that it inspires other shooters. So the trans ideology
that is laced throughout these thousand pages plus of documents

(25:43):
that this woman wrote was nowhere to be found in
what Nashville police released. Hmmm mmmm mmmm forty six minutes
after the hour, This Morning Show with You and.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Me and him, Good morning, and welcome to the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Fifty one, almost fifty two minutes past the hour. Remember
we talked about Corey Booker's philibuster. You're in the US
Senate twenty five hours. Well, he may be in some

(26:34):
trouble over that speech. In a letter addressed to Senators
James Langford of Oklahoma and Chris Coons of Delaware, Chair
and Vice chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, Ethics Wait

(26:55):
a Minute, a filibuster that raises questions for the Ethics Committee,
Fact Executive director Kendra Arnold has asked the committee to investigate,
quoting now Senator Corey Booker to determine whether he violated
Senate Ethics prohibition of directly linking official action to solicitation

(27:20):
for campaign contributions on X before his marathon speech began,
he posted both during and after Sorry. In the letter,
she mentioned that what he posted on X both during
and after his speech, he sent a series of emails

(27:41):
and text messages that campaigned and fundraised off his speech,
These messages specifically discussed his speech on the Senate floor
and requested the reader's sign up for his campaign list,
included links to his campaign shop, and requested campaign contributions.
One of the I'm heading to the Senate floor because

(28:02):
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown complete disregard for
the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of
the American people. You can tune in on c SPAN,
YouTube X and Facebook. In one particularly noteworthy message, she
pointed out with the subject line, we must speak up.

(28:23):
I may be tired and still a little horse, but
as I've said again and again, this is a moment
we cannot afford to be silent. We must speak up
bold type if you are inspired by what you saw today,
split a contribution between Corey Booker and the DNC and
a contribute link immediately followed the email. And this was

(28:45):
sent us a text message as well. That's a violation.
The difference between official representational and legislative duties on the
one hand, in police medical activities on the others long
been recognized in Congress. Senate ethic rules specifically prohibit senators

(29:07):
from soliciting campaign contributions based upon any action taken in
their official capacity. The Senate Ethics Manual is clear that
a senator quoting should never use the prestige or influence
of a position in the Senate for personal gain. Oh yeah, yeah,
let's turn doge loose on that one. In the House

(29:27):
and the Senate, this provision was intended as a broad
prohibition against members, officers, or employees deriving financial benefit directly
or indirectly from the use of their official position. Campaign
fundraising tied to official action. It is clear that Booker's
floor speech had a campaign purpose before he even began speaking.

(29:51):
He announced it on social media. During his speech, he
sent a series of emails that campaign and sought valuable
support or information and campaign contributions. Inter Note, she says
Senator Booker violated the basic requirement of the Senate Ethics
Rules that every Senator must endeavor to avoid the appearance

(30:11):
that the Senator, the Senate, or the governmental process may
be influenced by campaign contributions. In essence, by employing this tactic,
Senator Booker indicates to potential contributors that his official actions
can be influenced by campaign contributions. Well, now, it would

(30:39):
seem that the good Senator has perhaps crossed the line.
It'll be interesting to see what happens. We have enough
weak need Republicans that it might not gain traction, but
it might, so we'll see. Remember we're tearing away the drywall.
We're exposing, but is compromised in the House and the

(31:04):
Senate and the White House for that matter. Come back
with the second hour and a set of examples that
illustrate we can do better. Welcome to the second hour

(31:35):
of the radio program affectionately Monitored Common Sense Amplified this
morning show with Preston Scott. He's Hose. I'm Preston. Great
to be with you. We love to share little factoids
and bring your attention to things that might not be
on your radar all the time. Did you know that,
for the first time ever this week on the Wheel

(31:58):
of Fortune, a lowercase letter was used? Tell me that
your day has not just been made infinitely better by
knowing that you now know when you go into work
this morning? Hey, do you know that on Wheel of

(32:21):
Fortune this week they used a lowercase I, first time ever,
first time, It's never happened before. Now the question becomes
for what praytale? Did they use the lowercase I. Well,
where would a lowercase I appear that makes it notable.

(32:43):
Perhaps the iHeart Radio app or perhaps the iHeart Media Company,
or perhaps you didn't know. It's iHeartRadio Week on Wheel
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(33:09):
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(33:33):
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markets all over. So I'm just saying that might be

(33:54):
something for you to consider. iHeartRadio Week on Wheel of Fortune.
Lowercase I. That's brilliant now think about it. It's it
really is the fact that I Heart uses a lowercase
I is brilliant. By the way, someone brought that in
front of the boys and they said, what do you

(34:15):
think of this? And they were like, oh, I like that.
The lowercase I that looks good. And if you've ever
seen iHeart written with an uppercase I, it doesn't work.
It just doesn't work the same the lowercase I makes
it work because it emphasizes what we all want emphasized,

(34:38):
and that's our heart. Okay, I told you that I
was going to talk about something where we we just
we can do better as just human beings. We can
do better. I have. I've mentioned the fact that women
the perfume at church, back it down, shopping, back it down, restaurants,

(35:11):
back it down. Save the bouquet of perfume for your
for your sweetheart, for your for your husband, if you're younger,
for your boyfriend. But chances are if it's for your boyfriend,
you're going out, so back it down. Came across a

(35:33):
story where people are getting fed up with vapors vaping
on airplanes. Vaping is smoking. I I hate to break
the news to you. Vaping is smoking. You're not doing
yourself any favor. In fact, you're you're not helping yourself

(35:56):
at all unless you're you're literally get off of smoking,
and then you're putting away the vape. You're throwing it
away because you're done. You're off the addiction to nicotine,
and I beg you to do it. Man. The symptoms
are everywhere, but vaping. It's becoming a really big concern

(36:17):
for airline travelers. People trying to, you know, take that
hit before they get on the plane, and even try
to sneak it on the plane. It's like, no, no, no,
not supposed to smoke unless you're in a designated smoking area.
And that's never on a plane. It's never at a
airport terminal unless they have a designated smoking area. But

(36:42):
there's another area we can do better. I'm want to
talk about that next ten minutes past the hour. This
inspired by a listener whose name will be kept anonymous.

(37:07):
Got a note from a listener. His name is unique
enough that I'm not going to use it in any way,
shape or form. Just returned from Walmart and Crawfordville. While
I was shopping, a man had a poodle in his
shopping cart. Dog was barking, which was not a lot
of fun, I would imagine. I got talking with another
customer that did not have a dog with him, but

(37:28):
he advised me that having dogs in any grocery store
is legal in Florida. I will address that in a moment,
I did not know that pets are legal in grocery stores.
In order, I think that pets should be legal in
grocery stores unless they are service dogs, actual service dogs,
not support dogs. I'm adding that this barking dog got
me to look at other customer carts, and I did

(37:50):
find two other carts that had dogs in them. Three
dogs in shopping carts, one person with a dog on
a leash. It seems that dog hair in the air,
dog sitting in the carts makes it a health issue.
Am I right? Or am I just a misguided soul.
Seems to me that if a person only uses a

(38:11):
certain grocery store and gets some kind of animal transferred
illness or disease, they could hold the store responsible for
their illness. When was Florida law changed. It isn't, it hasn't,
And you can't bring a dog in a grocery store
or a cat. It's not just state law, it's federal law.

(38:34):
Can't bring them into a grocery store. Now, this is
gonna really upset some of you get over bringing your
dogs in the stores. I personally hate the fact I
don't have any allergic issues with animals at all none,

(38:57):
but I hate it. It doesn't belong in the home
improvement stores. It doesn't belong it absolutely, by law, doesn't
belong in a grocery store, and that includes support animals.
Support animals are not service animals. They are not allowed

(39:18):
in stores. Oh but it's my precious look sorry. Sorry,
Take advantage of the delivery services of the grocery stores.
Have them deliver your groceries to you in the car
park in the front. Let them bring them out. This
is where I wrote we can do better. This is

(39:40):
the height of inconsideration. There are people who are alert.
Oh but it's just a poodle. Poodles aren't. Yes, people
are still allergic to your hair fur pet because they

(40:04):
have dander. They still have allergens. It's not fair because
those are not spaces for you to bring your dog.
So to all of you that go shopping with your pets,

(40:24):
first of all, most of you have your pet unrestrained
while you're driving through the parking lots, and so your
little dog's jumping on your lap. Oh, it's just a
little cute little dog. No, it's not cute. It's stupid,
it's dumb, and it's illegal. I understand that police and
sheriff deputies don't want to waste their time telling you

(40:47):
put the dog in a harness, in a kennel, latch
it down, get it off your lap. But it's a fact,
it's against the law. The second thing is in grocery stores.
It is a health issue, and I will be the
curmudgeon that if I see it, I'm going to the manager.

(41:08):
I'm gonna be that. I'm happy to take the darts
on this one because I'm over the inconsideration. Seriously, if
you can't go anywhere without your beloved pet, then you
need to arrange for things to be delivered to you.

(41:31):
Just because you require a pet for your emotional well
being doesn't mean that you have the right to impact
the health of somebody else. It's not fair. It's not right.
And oh, by the way, set aside fairness. It's not legal,

(41:53):
so we can do better. And again, I love dogs.
I can't say I like cats. But I'm never going
to be mean to an animal. Never, It's not in
my DNA. But I will be mean to animal owners
that are rude and inconsiderate and are abusive by trying

(42:18):
to bring their dogs and bully their way in by
putting some kind of badge on it. Stop it, stop
it get a teddy bear, you know. I mean, I
don't know what to tell you, but to our listener

(42:40):
that wrote in, you are in fact correct sir, it
is against the laws. Seventeen passed the hour four in
one store at one time, Crazy got a call from
us said, I'd rather be in Walmart with the people

(43:03):
with the dogs rather than the people, well some of
the people, because after all, you're in Walmart, aren't you.
You know there's another problem. Have you ever seen a
fight break out between dogs and the stores. I've watched
it happen. Yeah, that's exactly what you want. A couple

(43:28):
of dogs on leasha to sniff each other butts and
then their fight breaks out, or the one dog that's
in the cart doesn't like being around people and starts
just it's like, oh, please stop it. Anyway, you won't
have to worry about that if you go to the Masters.

(43:49):
No pet's allowed there. It's a master's weak, beautiful thing.
Today's the Par three tournament, which is so much fun.
Little kids running around in their caddy uniforms and players
bring their families with them. Sometimes they've got their wife
hitting shots and sometimes their kids, their grandkids, and it's

(44:10):
it's really it's a delightful time. And there will be
holes in one. I can almost guarantee you at least
one hole in one. So that'll be fun to watch
this afternoon. But then tomorrow it begins the Masters. It's

(44:31):
pretty cool because Scotty Scheffler got to bring past champions.
I think it is get to bring any guests they
want to play on the Sunday before the Masters, and
Scottie Scheffler, the defending champion, brought his mom. Mom teed
it up. Cool family. But if you want to go

(44:53):
to the event, here's what stub hub rates are as
of this week and they met it might have changed.
If you want a week long pass twenty one thousand dollars.
The practice round Monday was thirteen eighty three Tuesday, which
was washed out fifteen seventy two. Imagine buying that pass

(45:16):
and then it gets rained out. Part three contests two
thousand dollars. Round one twenty seven hundred, Round two on
Friday twenty eight hundred, Saturday's Round three thirty four hundred,
Round four, two thousand. If you want to buy tickets,

(45:37):
to rounds one through four. It will cost you twelve thousand,
five hundred dollars for one ticket. But let's put some
context to that. Let's say you put your name in
the lottery each year and you get selected to buy tickets.
You know what a practice round ticket will cost you

(45:58):
one hundred dollars. You know what a tournament day ticket
is one hundred and forty dollars. That's it. So one
ticket from the Masters. Remember we talked about their concession prices.
A ticket to a day of the tournament is one
hundred and forty dollars. If you buy it online, the

(46:21):
lowest you'll pay is two thousand. The markup is fifteen
times minimum. So I'm hoping for a lottery one day
so that I can bring my wife to the Masters,

(46:41):
because she wants to see it in person. I'd rather
watch it on TV because you see more golf, But
I will admit walking the grounds of Augusta Nasher would
be pretty sweet. If I were smart, I would try
to get my way in as a member of the
media and offer to do reporting for iHeart across the
country because the guy they've had do the reporting for

(47:01):
years I don't even know if he does anymore, was
not very good. I would do a great job because
I know golf, and I respect the game, and I
know the history of the game. But the best part
of it is by being a member of the media.
You put your name in the lottery to play Augusta
National on the Monday after the tournament. Boy, that could

(47:26):
be incredible. Twenty seven minutes after the hour. Let's come
back and do the big stories of the press box.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
You have a story you want to share, write him
at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Well, it's getting a little messy.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
You've got a bipartisan group of Senators Ran Paul Ron Wyden,
one Republican, one Democrat, signed on to by Chuck Schumer,
Tim Kaine, Janie Shaheen, Peter Welch, Elizabeth Warren all Democrats.
I might add, tariffs are taxes, and the power to

(48:23):
tax belongs to Congress, not the President. Our founders were
clear tax policies should never rest in the hands of
one person. Abusing emergency powers to impose blanket tariffs not
only drives up costs for American families, but tramples on
the Constitution. It's time Congress reasserts its authority, restores the
balance of power. Now, Paul has been consistent, but he's

(48:47):
got to look around and look at who's supporting him.
Not sure how many Republicans are signed on to this.
China has announced that it will raise tariffs on US
imports from thirty four to eighty four percent. Do you
think that that's going to harm Americans? I'm asking, I mean,

(49:14):
how much are we really selling to China? That's the point,
isn't it That what we're taking in from China is
dwarfing the amount we're sending. That's the whole problem. So
the game is on. You've got one person on a

(49:35):
tricycle on one hill, You've got another person on a
tricycle on another hill, and they'll meet in the middle somewhere,
and someone's either going to play chicken and call it
off or not, or there'll be a collision. I don't know.
It's it's going to be interesting. China Central Bank is

(50:04):
not going to allow a significant decline of the wan
Yuan Yuan has urged the state owned banks. Has urged
the state owned banks talk about a weird statement the
Chinese government has urged, the urged the banks that it owns.

(50:27):
What do you mean, urged told them they're they're banks.
The banks are owned by the Chinese. I mean the
statement in and of itself reveals the inherent problem to
scale back on US dollar purchases the Chinese currency facing

(50:48):
a ton of pressure. And see, this is this is
where we are. This is this is what happens when
you tell someone addicted to anything. I think it's helpful
to look at this in terms of an addiction. It's

(51:08):
an addiction on the Chinese end that they've been bullying
the US and they're being told no. It's an addiction
for US consumers and government officials who are used to
buying cheap crap from China, letting them rip off our
patents and steal all of our ideas and have no

(51:29):
punishment for it. And then we are we're told no,
I'm sorry, you're gonna have to purchase that stuff at
an exorbitant rate. Now that one dollar widget now costs
ten bucks? You want it? Go ahead? Is it worth
ten bucks? Probably not, it's worth a buck. It's actually

(51:50):
worth less than that because it was produced for less
than that. But you get my point. The tariff raises prices. Now,
it doesn't raise it to it raises if we're putting
a tariff of say one hundred percent on something, it's
raising a one dollar widget to two dollars. It's doubling
the price. But you get the point, and that's where
we are. Cleveland Clinic has found that employees who received

(52:13):
the flu vaccine this year at Cleveland Clinic, working for
Cleveland Clinic had a significant higher rate of flu And
in fact, I think the number is seventy three percent
who got the shot. Actually because Cleveland Clinic finds twenty
six point nine percent effectiveness for influenza vaccine. Well, if

(52:35):
it's effective at twenty seven percent, that means seventy three
percent of the time. It isn't just saying forty minutes past.

Speaker 6 (52:42):
Now Audio Magazine, a journey into whatever is left of
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Speaker 1 (53:03):
Forty two minutes past and doctor Bob McLure in just
a little bit, we're gonna we're gonna get doctor McClure's
view of this tariff situation, get maybe a little bit
of a historical perspective. If you've ever sprayed weed killer
in your lawn or use the granules. I think we

(53:26):
look at it like we look at weed killer. We
spray that stuff and if you read the directions, it
says two to four weeks. Some of the bottles say
you'll see results in four hours. I don't know about that,

(53:48):
but I think we look at this tariff situation sort
of like that and like, why isn't it working? Well,
it's it's just it's been just a few days now.
You know, in pro sports there's an old adage they're
paid professionals too. When you talk about the other team.

(54:08):
In college sports, you know they're they're good athletes over
there too. Sometimes it just doesn't become a victory immediately.
You gotta you gotta, you gotta let it play itself out.
And I have faith that eventually China and Look, everything's

(54:34):
going to be done to save face for everybody, But
at some point there's going to be a meeting and
they're gonna say, Okay, what do we need to do
to resolve this? At some point, now here's your challenge,
and we're happy to help on the program with the

(54:56):
vast team of research assistant on the show The Hill.
And I'm using this as an example of why you
have to be careful because the media hates Trump and
the media hates you. I mean, there was a dude

(55:22):
on MSNBC or CNN or something ranting that the millions
upon millions anyone who voted for Trump as a racist,
what a jerk. The media foments this stuff The Hill.

(55:42):
President Trump planning military parade through DC for seventy ninth birthday.
Excuse me, Trump planning military parade through DC for seventy
ninth birthday. Administration planning a June fourteenth military parade through

(56:03):
the streets of Washington, DC to mark the seventy ninth
birthday of the president. The Washington City Paper reported on
the parade, noting it'll stretch four miles from the Pentagon
in Arlington to the White House. An Army official confirmed
the parade's length. Plans for a parade that will involve

(56:25):
the Army nothing solidified yet, so now the posting everyone
goes nuts. Based on the reporting of The Hill, Trump
plans ninety two million dollar parade honoring himself. I'd like
to report an inefficiency to doge. We could feed a
million starving children for an entire year for ninety two

(56:45):
million dollars. How about we do that instead? Who's with me? Context?
June fourteenth marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of the United States Army. As Faye would
have it, it's Trump's birthday on the fourteenth of June.

(57:08):
It's not his fault. He was born on the day
that the United States Army was born. Somehow. There's something
kind of almost poetic about that. By the way, but
the purpose of the parade is to celebrate the United
States Army. It also happens to be Flag Day, and

(57:35):
so the Trump's Trump administration. The White House replies. The
White House says, no military parade has been scheduled to
mark Trump's seventy ninth birthday. It's a prey to honor
the army. But here's the point. There's a big difference

(57:57):
between He's doing this to celebrate hisself and I mean,
for example, Axios, Axios reported Trump is planning a military
parade through Washington on DC Washington, d C on June fourth,
coinciding with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Armies.

(58:18):
Founding and his seventy ninth birthday. DC City leaders say,
at least Axios made the effort to point out that
it's the Army's birthday. At least there was a small
little smidge of intellectual integrity. My point in bringing it
up is and connecting it to the big stories in

(58:39):
the press box. You have to use discernment when picking
what you read and then digesting it, otherwise you'll get
it upset tummy. Forty seven minutes past the hour.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
Back with the Morning Show, Uncle Preston, relative you actually
enjoy having a round.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
And not just at the holidays.

Speaker 6 (59:05):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
All right, I'm just talking about the media and every
now and then you find a moment a respite from
it all. And I came across a piece in Red

(59:43):
State by word Clark, and the headline is even CNN
has to admit Trump is killing it and it's killing them. Eh.
And so this is a segment on CNN featuring Harry Enton,

(01:00:04):
considered one of the more honest representatives on CNN, and
this is this is an exchange with the host of
the segment, Kate Baldwin, and just listen I think there.

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
Was this concern among some folks that Donald Trump would
come in for a second term and kind of be
a lame duck. He ain't no lame duck. If anything,
He's a soaring eagle. What am I talking about here?
Let's talk about trump executive orders in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
He's already signed one hundred and eleven so far.

Speaker 7 (01:00:42):
That is the most at this point in a presidency
and at least one hundred years. In fact, it's the
most in any single year, more only in April, since
Harry S.

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
Truman in the early nineteen fifties.

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
The bottom line is, whether you like Trump or you
don't like him, you can't say that he's comment and
not try to deliver on what he at least believes
was his promises on the campaign trail, and he's doing
so in historic fashion.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
How are people reacting to and feel about Trump's approach?

Speaker 8 (01:01:12):
Yeah, okay, so Trump's approach here?

Speaker 7 (01:01:14):
What are we talking about? Trump's approach to presidential power.
I think the American people recognize what he's doing here
is completely different. We're talking Get this, eighty six percent
of the American public believes that Trump's approach to presidential
power is completely different from past presidents, compared to only
fourteen percent who believe it is in line with president

(01:01:34):
and we're talking about at least seventy nine percent of Democrats, Independents,
and Republicans. So again, you can agree or you can
disagree with Donald Trump, but what you can't disagree with
is that he's doing things very differently.

Speaker 8 (01:01:48):
I have used the Frank Sinatra quote before.

Speaker 7 (01:01:50):
He is doing it quote unquote my way, and that
is what Donald Trump has done throughout both of his
presidential terms, and he's certainly doing that cape boldwin in
term number two.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
There you go. It's it's a fair evaluation. He's approaching
it differently, and if you take the approach that everyone
else has taken, you will get the same results. I'm
not sure I fully appreciated the importance of that, you know,
to just kind of merge a couple of things that

(01:02:21):
are that are going on at the same time. We've
got this tariff situation and then you've got this alternate
universe called the Masters. And so in the world of golf,
if you do things the same way, just like sports
it's sports in general, if you do things the same
way you'll get the same result. Donald Trump's taking a

(01:02:42):
different approach. We'll see if we get different results. So far,
maybe a five minutes, five minutes after the hour, It's

(01:03:11):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good to be with you, friends,
and welcome to Wednesday hump Day, and we are joined
by doctor Bob McClure of the James Madison Institute. Hello,
my friend, how.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
You doing, Preston, How you doing, my friend?

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I'm doing well. I want to step back for a
second and get we have been talking at nauseum, as
has everybody, about the tariffs. From your chair, and I
know that James Madison stays largely focused on Florida centric issues,
but you do take a broad look at a lot
of those issues. And from your seat, give me some

(01:03:49):
perspective on tariffs and what you think is happening here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
Well, we do, because we are a think tank in Florida,
have tremendous opportunity to do a lot of work nationally.
If we were you know, no no disrespect to anybody
from Kansas who may be listening, but if I was
running a thing taking Kansas, we would not quite have
the national footprint that we do. So we do weigh
in on a lot of national issues with Congress and

(01:04:16):
with this White House. Having said that, Preston, this is
a negotiating ploy by President Trump, you know, he he
This is classic Trump. If you've if you've watched him
in the past, if you've read the Art of the deal,
he goes way beyond and then he tax back inward. Uh.

(01:04:37):
And you're already seeing Uh. I think it's up to
maybe ninety countries that are coming to the table h
to rework these teriffs. Now, in the short term, you
have a lot of instability in the market, which I
totally understand. You know, I'm not at the age where
I have to really, you know, worry about out that

(01:05:00):
on a day by day basis. I'm not at the
retirement age. I get all of the volatility and how
that makes people nervous. Certainly Republicans in Congress are nervous.
They are a bunch of nervous nellies anyway. They're always
ready to cut and run. And so hopefully we have
some leadership that may hold them steady. But this is

(01:05:22):
classic Trump, and I think what you're going to see
over the next sixty days is major movement in a
reduction in tariffs because Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, India, China, these
countries need access American to the American markets. And China

(01:05:45):
is really in no position from an economic standpoint of it.
We have debt, we run deficits, but China's economy is
incredibly brittle because it's being propped up by government money.
And I think what you're going to see over the
next sixty days is these people are going to come
to the table. They're going to drop their tariffs. America
is going to lower theirs and limit and or eliminate them,

(01:06:08):
and we're going to restore this incredible global economy without
it becoming globalization in the classic sense of the word.
I think it's a win win for everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
I have mentioned over the years that you know, the
research has shown me that China is not capable of
being a consumer economy. They can't consume what they produce.
They don't have enough people making money in any type
of of at any type of level to allow for
discretionary spending. Whereas the United States is capable of of

(01:06:42):
consuming eighty percent of what it produces. We are a
consumer nation as well as a producing nation. Doesn't that
place the cards clearly in the hands of the president.

Speaker 4 (01:06:53):
It absolutely does. And so if you think about it,
if we get this tax bill pass which is critical
not yet it passed, is a no go. You're gonna
see corpor rates continue to lower. You're gonna see individual
tax rates continue to go down. Corporations are You're already
seeing manufacturing in corporations willing to invest in America. China

(01:07:15):
is propped up by the Chinese government. If you remember,
years ago, they tried to implement market reforms, and those
reforms kind of worked and you had some establishment of
small middle class in China. But the reality is Yujiping
has clamped down on on that kind of market reform

(01:07:38):
in China, and they do not have the consumers. You're right,
they do not have the ability to consume what they produce,
much less consume what other countries around the world produced.
China is an economy, is incredibly brittle, and they're at
a very very They're in a very very difficult position
right now. It's just gonna take some time.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
Joining us. Doctor McClure, Bob stand by, he is with
the James Madison Institute. My guest more to come on
the morning Show with Preston Scott Tell the UFLA back
with doctor Bob McClure of the James Madison Institute. Let's

(01:08:20):
turn into some Florida politics and policy and one of
the big big areas of debate which impacts so many people. Well,
it impacts every Floridian in one form or another, and
it's the discussion going on right now between the proposals
on tax here in the state. Bob, let me first,
I want to work this backwards. Senate President Ben Albritton said,

(01:08:43):
you know, before we jump on either a sales tax
change or a property tax elimination, maybe we need just
a little bit more time to study both of these
plans and make sure that we fully understand their impact,
cause and effect, how this trickles down to local cities
and counties before we do anything. I am of that approach.

(01:09:06):
What do you think about that approach first, before we
get into the specifics of the proposals, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
I think I mean, first of all, integrate to live
in a state that has two coequal branches of government
competing to lower our taxes. Even more like the debate
is over tax cuts, not overspending.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
It's just.

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
I mean where do you see this New York State
has double the state budget we do with fewer people,
and they're constantly looking for ways to pick your pocket. Right,
there's a reason why a thousand people are moving to
Florida a day. So isn't it refreshing that the Speaker
and the Senate, President and governor are competing over how

(01:09:54):
best to cut our taxes? Having said that, President, there
are things that must be worked out if we eliminate
the property tax, and I get the governor's philosophical point
of view, He's right, do you ever really own your house?
What replaces that? Is it a higher sales tax? Is

(01:10:14):
it raising the homestead exemption by one hundred thousand dollars?
I don't know the answer to that. Conversely, you have
the Senate or the Speaker of the House talking about raising,
you know, cutting the sales tax, and so I think
we need to we need to have serious conversations, and
we need to have some serious data on this to

(01:10:36):
understand it. But the momentum is the only thing, you know,
you know, politicians are notorious for, you know, blue ribbon
panels and appointing committee this committee that, and we lose
the momentum to actually do something significant, that would be
my only concern. But I think you're right, we have
to understand the ramifications because there are very real ramifications.

(01:11:00):
One more thing on that present is that it's the
local government and local municipalities that are the primary problem.
So if we cut property taxes or we do something else,
we have to make sure those local municipalities don't try
to claw back by raising a tax somewhere else in
these local communities.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
And at the same time, you have to find a
mechanism for the local communities to fund their operations obviously
focused on, you know, protecting citizenry and infrastructure. You know,
I would argue that there are communities in Florida that
waste a lot of taxpayer money, but they tend to
be blue counties and blue cities that do that. And

(01:11:42):
so I guess my thought here is do we need
to just hit the tap the brakes a little bit
on this and take another year to look at them,
or is the momentum factor, as you mentioned, more important.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
I know I'm always hesitant to tap the brakes, but
I don't know if we can get all of the
data in and understand fully the ramifications, because what you
don't want is the law of unintended consequences? Right. The
other area that will be heard that has to sort
this out are the rural communities, and Senator all Britton

(01:12:23):
has made the centerpiece of one of his legislation is
protecting and promoting rural communities. I mean, gosh, in North Florida,
all you have to drive is ten minutes in any direction,
and you're in a rural county. And so we have
to be very careful about how we do this. Can

(01:12:43):
it be done before the end of session? That is
very ambitious. I don't know if they want to give
it a shot, give it the Old College. Try sure,
but we have to have the data before we just
start doing these things because there would be tremendous unintended
potentially intended consequences in a lot of these areas.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Joining us, Doctor Bob McClure, the James Madison Institute just
reminder everybody that next year's session is early because it
would be an election year, so the session would start
earlier than this year's session, so it's it would come
back around a little quicker than normal. Seventeen passed the
hour more with doctor McClure. Next twenty two minutes past

(01:13:36):
where with doctor Bob McClure, always a great conversation, the
head of the James Madison Institute, And it is a
great point that you make, Bob, that, boy, what a
problem to have that we're talking about different ways to
reduce taxes for the people that live in this state.
Understanding the property owners that rent their properties out their
renters hopefully would benefit. There's no guarantee of that, but

(01:14:00):
it certainly relieves some pressure on housing in the state
if property owners are no longer paying property taxes. But
without the data, just on the surface level, which of
these two proposals do you lean towards?

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
Oh, gosh, Preston, I think both have pretty good merit.
I like the elimination of property taxes in some way
because people can see it how much. I mean, if
I were to say to you, how much sales tax
do you pay a year? You probably don't know. I don't,
I don't, I don't know what I pay, And I
think you know. There is a philosophical component to the

(01:14:38):
point that do you really own your home if the
government can flap a lean on you for not paying
your property taxes? So I like that it's simple. I
mean it's not simple. It's it's it's simple, but not easy.
Let me say that it's people can see it. It's
significant because it really not so much. You know, North Florida.

(01:15:00):
We're not talking about Gason County or or you know,
Madison County, but in some of those areas in Calluer
and and Browered and you know, some of those places
that are fast growing. I mean they property taxes are
just just unsustainable. And when you talk about affordable housing
and you talk about property insurance, you know, all of

(01:15:21):
this combined makes it really hard for people to buy homes,
and you know, particularly younger people. And so I like
that we just the Devil's into details, as they say.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
You know, for me, I mean, I have been advocating.
It's so funny. I've been advocating this issue on property
tax since I started the show in two thousand and two.
I've been a champion of this idea. And I'm of
the mindset that the governor put out, and that is
that you know, we do so well with tourism, and

(01:15:56):
we had a record tourism year last year alone. We
have the largest of tourism visitors of any state in
the nation. We get fifteen percent of all the tourists
that come to America come to Florida, yep, and so,
and then when you count the people that are just
visiting from other states and the migration factor. I like

(01:16:17):
the idea of leaving the sales tax where it is
and letting all of those visitors help pay for our infrastructure,
help pay for our governance, and maybe, if anything, maybe
carve out a portion of that sales tax to then
go back to cities and counties to replace the property
tax revenue that they would lose.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
Sure, I mean, there are so many different ways to
skin that cat. I think that you know, we're having
this discussion with our policy team yesterday, you know, and
I'm not I'm not advocating for this, but the old
bed tax and the you know, the all these different
different ways that we could skin this cat to make
sure that local communities are protected in some way, There's

(01:16:57):
no doubt. I mean, you know, we we have roughly
the equivalent of the entire country of Germany coming to Florida,
just Florida every year and then going back. Germany's the
largest bipopulation country in Europe. It's just amazing how many
people come here. Let them pay for it. Not to
mention super Bowls and Final fours and concerts and Taylor

(01:17:21):
Swift and all of the things that happened in Florida
all the time. I think that makes sound. That sound logic.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
Preston, what do you think we've got about a minute left?
What beneath this issue is bubbling on your particular burner
right now?

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
You mean in terms of other issues, yes, this issue.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Other than this issue, my there too.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
One, the trial lawyers are trying to roll back the
reforms that were put in place two years ago that
are driving down the cost of proper to you insurance
in a good way. And the trial lawyers have lost
their edge and they are they are trying to roll

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those reforms back, and everybody's blaming insurance companies. Look, nobody
loves their insurance company. They're not warm and fuzzy. They
never help themselves. I understand that. But those reforms, those
tort reforms, are driving down the cost of property insurance
and will continue to do so over the next year
or two. Secondly, affordable housing, affordable housing. I've said this

(01:18:31):
one hundred times. There's a difference between afford building affordable
housing and building housing that is affordable. And we have
to build good housing that is affordable by reducing permitting
and wait times and the cost of doing business for builders.
Those are the other two issues. But we really have
to push back on the trial bar. All those billboards

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and all those buses that we see, they are attacked
on Floridians on an annual basis.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Bob, thanks as always for your time this morning. I
appreciate it. And we'll talk again next month and we'll
know a little bit more about what happened in the
session by then.

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
Thanks for having me, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Thank you, sir, Doctor Bob McClure with me from the
James Madison Institute, twenty seven past.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
The hour, My News Radio one hundred point sevenbufla, Oh.

Speaker 9 (01:19:37):
My uh, I'm just laughing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Federal judge rules the White House's associated press ban is
unconstitutional for viewpoint discrimination. It's not viewpoint discriminate nation. It's
because they're jerks. Uh no, see that they're going to

(01:20:12):
have a problem with this ruling and not the White House.
Under the First Amendment, if the government opens its doors
to some journalists, be it the Oval Office, East room,
or elsewhere, it cannot shut the door to other journalists
because of their viewpoints. You can't allow every journalist that
wants in the Oval Office in the Oval Office. Now

(01:20:37):
what I would do is I would shut them all out.
I say, Okay, then we won't do it anymore. We
will go on the lawn of the White House and
any reporter from anywhere is welcome to come. No briefing
room with a sign, seating, none of that anymore. You

(01:20:57):
all have to you guys that think you're or the
privileged few reporters that get to cover the White House,
you're going to be among the thousands that are going
to be allowed in. Okay, that's fine. You know. I
got a note here from a listener. Ray wrote in
he said, Donald Trump is a disruptor. And I don't

(01:21:20):
mean that in a negative way whatsoever. He's doing pretty
much exactly what I voted for. By disruptor, I compare
him to other disruptors, most recently AI. But in the nineties,
we had the technology revolution. In the seventies and eighties,
we had women going to work, we had World wars,
we had industrial revolution. Disruptors are good things. They changed

(01:21:42):
the status quo and move us forward. To go right.
You had deep thinkers. See, that's why you're a ruminator.
I need a hat. I need a hat that says ruminator.
That's what I need. That's the hat that I need
to give away, just as the Morning show logo on
the back, ruminator on the front. That's it done. Maybe

(01:22:12):
Supreme Court hands Trump a Doge victory, but there aren't
enough of them. We're not getting enough done soon enough.
The Supreme Court is not settling broad, big issues. And
I get it they have to take a case that's
within a scope. But it frustrates me because this is

(01:22:35):
just going to keep dragging out. And so I would
advise Trump to do exactly what democrats have been doing
for how long? Now, just do what you're going to
do until the Court says no. I don't know what
to say. It's just it's frustrating. I get it, I
you know, but Cleveland Clinic lastly here employees that receive

(01:22:59):
the flu vaccine from the clinic, about about fifty forty
nine thousand, and fifty thousand of their fifty three thousand
got the vaccine. They had a higher incident rate of
the flu. The vaccine proved to be a magnet now,
what is a flu. It's a virus. See, you can't

(01:23:21):
you can't vaccinate against viruses like a coronavirus. We know
this already, and so this is just a different variant.
And wow, it didn't work. Huh, you don't say it
was the effect This is the Cleveland's Clinic study of

(01:23:42):
their own vaccine program. They found it had a twenty
six point nine percent effectiveness, so one in four roughly
one in four, so three and four times it wasn't effective.
Let's rewind and go back to the days of COVID

(01:24:05):
and the mandates and the science. I'm not mad at
it anymore. I'm just I have to fight being a
little smug because I was right, and all of the
doctors and all of the professionals in the medical profession
were wrong. And I'm just this little flunky out here

(01:24:32):
with a microphone and I was right. And again I
didn't make the science. I just read it. I just
knew it. It's just sorry, it's just childish of me.

Speaker 8 (01:24:47):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Forty one minutes after we come back, nothing like talking
a little Disney. The Morning Show with Preston Scott might
have heard me fumbling around with papers there in the break.
I don't know. This is really kind of funny. This

(01:25:09):
is so good that of most people, snow White certainly
bombed because Rachel Ziggler is one of those wokies that
can't help herself. She doesn't know what she doesn't know. Now,
understand that is a function of being young. We were

(01:25:31):
all there, we were all younger, and we didn't know
what we didn't know. Heck, I'm sixty four and I
still don't know what I don't know. There's still a lot.
I talked about it earlier this week. I'd learned in
all the time, and it's not going to stop. I

(01:25:52):
would imagine that I'll learn something the moment I die.
I'm dead, I'll learn that. I'll probably have that thought
in my mind for just a brief moment before I
close my eyes for the last time. Uh huh, my
heart stopped. I guess I'm dead. I'll learn something right there.

(01:26:20):
You know, snow White has just been a miserable failure.
It's gonna cost Disney money. But when you look into
the story here a little bit, there's something just so
fun about the failure of Disney and this movie. You

(01:26:44):
see there's a thought out there that the reason the
movie bombed is because it's because of its climate footprint.
Now Jose's over there, bent over, laughing. Here's the thing.
Hold on. It would appear that Disney, for all of

(01:27:06):
its dei and woke nonsense, doesn't give a rat's rear
end about carbon emissions. How do I know? Because part
of snow White was filmed in the UK, and in
the UK any motion picture filmed on its soil must

(01:27:29):
release their total carbon emissions for the film. Hold on,
it's coming. Just hold on, snow White's carbon emissions were absurd.
The film's theme of being one with nature seems not

(01:27:51):
to have extended to the real life environment. With company documents,
company documents showing the making of snow White generated more
greenhouse gas emissions in the UK than the latest Fast
and Furious film, despite the latter's reliance on gas guzzling cars.
So with all that CGI computed stuff, they burned up

(01:28:17):
and emitted more carbon than a movie that was about
cars using cars that was filmed in the UK. Just saying,
just saying. I wonder if Disney's board of directors would

(01:28:37):
be offended by hearing this news, if this would upset them,
that as woke as they've allowed the company to become
that they have been such a bad, bad partner with
the bad Disney. Disney needs a time out. Forty six
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(01:31:24):
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didn't really read it. We talked about it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
We went from John eleven yesterday to John twelve today,
and we're focusing on the events prior to the final
week of Jesus's ministry before he died on the cross Man.
Next week's devotionals. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah. So today

(01:32:49):
was John twelve. So read John twelve. That's your signment. No,
you can do it, come on big stories in the
press box. Supreme Court gave Trump administration a bit of
a win for the administration and Doge in particular. It's
a win, We'll take it. Cleveland clinic finds employees who

(01:33:12):
received this year's flu vaccine had a significant higher rate
of flu. No way, this is just so funny President Trump.
Even CNN is admitting that he's doing exactly what he
told voters he would do. Isn't that refreshing? The parade

(01:33:32):
for June June fourteenth is not celebrating Trump. It's celebrating
the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the United States Army.
The Masters Part three today blog on my blog page.
Gotta check it out. We'll be back tomorrow. Friends. Have
an awesome day. God bless