Ep. 5379: A bug straight out of Revelations.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, May 14.

Our guests today include:
- Dr. Bob McClure
- Jamie Arnold




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, we are on time and ready to go. Wednesday,
on the Morning Show, the sas say, I'm President, how
are you?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good morning?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
You did a nice dear, a friendly voice. Huh, always well,
almost always ebulliant as we start the day. It is
a show fifty three seventy nine. More on this date
in mere moments. But first let's get into some scripture.
We talked about this on Monday. I believe psalmone thirty nine,

(00:44):
So we're gonna pull from Psalm one thirty nine, where
it says, for you formed my inward parts, you knitted
me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are you? Or works?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
My soul knows it.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Very well that Psalm one thirty nine verses thirteen and fourteen,
and it's a glorious, majestic song, and it speaks to
so many things on so many different levels, notably the

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importance of life. And this is why abortion matters. What
I have long argued to people that have said, oh,
it's just sells, it's just it's it's it's just tissue.

(01:48):
If you take a picture of a newborn, because most
everybody agrees that a newborn child has a right to life.
Even abortionists, most of them say, okay, once the child
is born, although remember Virginia and all that. We won't

(02:10):
get political here. But if you take a picture of
that child right after birth and fast forward eighty years,
that child right after birth looks nothing like the person
eighty years later, even fifty years later, probably even twenty

(02:35):
years later. And so if you just simply back up
and take that newborn baby to the moment of conception,
it's a similar change. The development of features and so

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forth hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
But in that DNA, God.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Has fearfully and wonderfully crafted a human, a human being
with gifts and talents, with traits and likes and dislikes

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that are just woven inside who they are. And what
this scripture tells us is the Psalmistice is writing, I'm
fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. I'm a work,

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I'm a handiwork of God. My soul knows it very well.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
In us.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Is an innate created desire to worship. My soul knows
that there is a God. And here's where it gets
very important to consider that created vacuum that we have

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that can only be filled by worship. If you think
about it, we are inclined to worship things, and if
we're not careful, we worship the wrong stuff. But part

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of our nature, apart from our sinful nature, we were
created to worship. Our soul deep deep down, recognizes.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
God.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
You just have to strip the stuff out of the
way that we tend to worship in place of God.
Remove that, and all of a sudden our worship begins
to change from the horizontal to the vertical. We're not
worshiping things out from us. We're worshiping something up from us.
Ten past the hour, So one thirty nine, verses thirteen

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and fourteen. Just read the entire psalm.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
You'll love it. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. In the
American Patriots Almanac for May fourteenth, seventeen eighty seven, delegates
begin gathering in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I've been in that room. It is od firing. It
just is to walk in where they were.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
On May fourteenth, eighteen oh five, Lewis and Clark expedition
pushing up the Missouri River, squall hit the sail of
one of their boats, swamped it. Captains Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark Ashore at the time, looked on in horror
as quoting our papers, instruments, books, medicine, a great part
of our merchandise, and in short, almost every article indispensably

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necessary to ensure the success of the enterprise threatened to
float away. While the men struggled to get the boat
to the land. The expedition's only female member quickly calmly
picked up the supplies from the icy river. Her name
Sakagawea icon icon on.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
She has icon status and a cool name. Socket Jewey,
just Socket Jewy.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Eighteen ninety seven, in Philadelphia, John Phillipsus's March the Stars
and Stripes Forever performed for the first time. That had
to be thrilling to hear that for the first time,
because that is an that is an epic piece of
music to this very day that you hear. Every fourth
of July nineteen oh four, the first Olympic Games held

(07:32):
in the United States open in Saint Louis. I'm just teasing, Randy,
I'm teasing nineteen seventy three. Skylab first US base station
launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I always thought that was really cool until it came
down fell on the drink. Just Skylab. It just has
a cool name, doesn't it. Skylab.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
It is National Decency Day, National Third Shift Workers Day,
National Buttermilk Biscuit Day. That might tip the scales. I
might go with little little buttermilk biscuit chicken bites this

(08:17):
morning for my breakfast. Little oooh yeah. National Underground America Day,
all right, National dance like a chicken Day, have at it.
And it's National Receptionist Day. Receptionists are so undervalued. I'm

(08:41):
not saying that to kiss up to anybody. I'm just
saying they are because they are. Anyone who still employs
a receptionist, that is your first impression person. I would
be paying a receptionist far more than most are paid
because we suggest and we demand very little from them.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay, just answer the phones and you know great people.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now, no, no, no, no, they are making a first
impression for your business. You need to expect more and
you need to pay more. A great receptionist sets the
tone for the entire whatever, the entire appointment, the entire meeting,
the entire encounter that person, male or female. I'm not

(09:27):
funny on that stuff. I'm okay with a male receptionist.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
They're good at what they do. Pay them.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
By the way, the Great Battery Roundup is coming up
Saturday ten to two at Costco Helps the Environment.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
This is all.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
About your rechargeables, your lithium, your nickel metal hydride, your
alkaline batteries, even any rechargeable devices with batteries in them.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
But we're not talking.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
We don't want automotive batteries, we don't want vappens, and
we do not want batteries heavier than five pounds. But
you can bring all of the other to Costco Saturday,
tend to two. All right, gotcha sixteen past the album
come back and I'm going to help you. Wow, some

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daughter of some crypto ceo or something. They tried to
kidnap her off the streets of Paris and she resisted
and people in the area stopped to help her and
she was not kidnapped, and it's all recorded on video.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
It was intense.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Who man, fight, You gotta Fight's why we have these
personal defense segments. People you just don't know some of
you are like.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, I'm not the daughter of a crypto person.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Doesn't matter. There creeps all over, creepers and stalkers and man,
all right, I said it was going to help you.
This is an interesting little tidbit. According to a study

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University of Derby, grip strength is associated with positive health outcomes.
Whether you're measuring for a risk of diabetes depression, it
doesn't matter. Grip strength is indicative of someone that has

(12:06):
an edge health wise. This is just fascinating. It's not
necessarily about opening the stubborn pickle jar. Grip strength is
an efficient proxy for total muscle conditioning, which itself is

(12:29):
a great proxy for overall nutrition, physical activity, and disease profiles.
The report cites studies that found grip strength to be
an effective predictor of sarcopenia, which is the decline of
muscle conditioning associated with aging, which is strongly correlated to mortality.

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And so grip strength is, if you will, a harbinger
of other things.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's what's interesting about this is my wife routinely laughs
and or that not makes fun of She's just I'm
that guy that can carry like eight bags of groceries
in each hand.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I just you know, you weave your fingers through the
holes in.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
The plastic bags, and I'm like, man, one trip to
the house. I don't need two trips or three trips.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
One boom.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
And my hands have just always been pretty strong. And
I don't know if it's it's from playing golf, racket
sports for most of my life in one form or another,
just working in the yard.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know. But I looked at this and was like.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, okay, give me another bag of groceries in each hand.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Let's go nine.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
But I guess this connects indirectly to tomorrow's show, because
tomorrow I'm going to introduce some of you. I've had
Chad on once before. Chad Gray is co founder of
a place that's kind of being branded Joint Strong, And

(14:37):
what Joint Strong is all about is helping people recognize that.
I'll use this as a summary statement. If you simply
are diligent at maintaining the flexibility in your back as
you age, you can have the same flexibility when you're
ninety that you did when you were eighteen.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
One.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
And as you watch people age, you see sometimes them
start to hunch over and perhaps that's you. You can
reverse that, and if you don't reverse that, it's going
to keep getting worse. And we're going to talk about
all that and more, because there are people getting surgeries
that don't need surgeries. When surgery is necessary, we've got

(15:28):
the best in the world, but it's probably not necessary
ninety percent of the time. As a result, Chad's business
model is finding its way and his clinicians are finding
their way into Fortune five hundred companies because it's saving

(15:52):
the money and people are not having to have surgeries
and they're getting healthier and they're feeling better, and things
that you think are attendant or something torn, probably not.
And we're gonna talk about all of that tomorrow. I
can't wait. It's gonna be so helpful to you. So

(16:12):
make sure you're listening or you circle back and grab
that Conversation podcast. But it's in the third hour tomorrow.
We're gonna take most of the hour to talk about it.
Twenty seven past. If I didn't mention fsu Pitcher, Jamie
Arnold will be joining me today.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
All Right, some big stories you might expect, some you
might not welcome to Wednesday on the program. Federal grand
jury has indicted that Wisconsin judge accused of helping an
illegal immigrant. EVA Ice Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted

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yesterday by a federal grand jury. So to anybody that says, oh,
this was just to a show, no, when a federal
grand jury gets a case, when a grand jury gets
any case, they are responsible for saying, yes, there's probable

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cause to move ahead, Yes there's a likelihood of conviction.
We don't when we serve on a grand jury. And
I say that because I did a county grand jury
versus a federal but the basics are the same. They're
looking at in this case, a crime committed by a judge.

(17:49):
It's not murder or anything like that. I was involved
in capital cases involving murder and the chance that the
perpetrator could face the death penalty. What we did as
a group of jurors is we determined whether or not
the prosecution had enough evidence to warrant the charge and

(18:09):
to proceed with a trial. We did not render a verdict.
We said, yes, you seem to have your t's crossed
and your eyes dotted the evidence that you're presenting to
US is warranting of those charges, or we say no,
not that charge, but maybe these charges, and then they

(18:30):
do what they're gonna do. But there are certain things
you cannot proceed without a grand jury. In this case,
a grand jury has codified the decision to arrest this judge, and.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's bad news for her.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
They're gonna win. She has no choice but to enter
a plea at this point. I mean, I'm just going
to tell you when a federal prosecutor gets a grand
jurors recommendation, the case is done.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
It just is. They don't lose anyway.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Second big story in the press box this I'm just
reading this headline and you're gonna think where we are.
We are in a CS. Lewis book or we're reading
revelation in the Bible. Flesh eating New World screwworm could
pose health risks to cattle in humans. It is not

(19:25):
something new, it is something old that is back. It
has been eradicated from the United States since nineteen sixty six.
It's called the NWS fly and it has triggered a
complete shutdown of cattle, horse, and bison imports from Mexico. Apparently,

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these little boogers, these flies are capable of laying eggs
in an open wound on an animal or even a
person potential. And then the larva are shaped like a
screw and they have these like hook type jaws that
burrow in and they start consuming the flesh of the animals.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
What I tell you, C. S.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Lewis end of the world stuff right crazy. And the
US Postal Service is raising at shipping rates by over
six percent they have it has reported a three point
three billion dollar net loss for the second quarter. So
things aren't getting better. They're trying to write the ship

(20:37):
Priority mail up six point three percent, USPS, ground advantage
up seven point one, Parcels Select up seven point six
Priority mail Express, stay in the same. I already got
some interesting thoughts yesterday via email from listeners on the
subject of the Postal Service. I'll share a couple of

(20:57):
comments next forty minutes pass the hour. Those are your
big stories, and I think we degree are pretty big.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
On news radio double u f l a Panama City
dot Com for.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Two minutes past the hour, it's gonna do a follow
up on something there.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
What in the world was it the sick moves you're busting? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
What was the last story we were talking about on
Oh the Flies? No, it was postal rates. Uh reaction
from from as the news broke yesterday. I got some
interesting email as you related to the postal service in general,
and one of them was.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Why don't they just deliver mail twice a week?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Most of everything we get is junk, And so if
you really analyze it, the Postal Service right now is
largely largely a media company. They're running advertisements into our mailboxes.

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That's what they're doing. Most of the mail is crap.
Wouldn't you say? Ninety percent of everything you get in
the mail is crap and you throw it away. So
the suggestion was two days a week. They don't have
to work so long days that rotate those days. So

(22:53):
like garbage service, someone gets service on Mondays and Thursdays,
somebody else on Tuesdays and Fridays, you know, and somebody
else Wednesdays and Saturdays, and that's it. And so the
mail people don't have to work as many long hours
and they can augment by doing deliveries and packages. And

(23:14):
if there's really important mail, then people use services like
FedEx and ups to send legal documents or whatever the
case might be, in a more timely, direct fashion. I
don't know it would it surprise anybody if Amazon got
in the business. Amazon delivers everywhere anyway, what if Amazon
started delivering mail? I'm just saying there are more ways

(23:37):
to approach this situation. But I feel bad for I mean,
postal service has been the butt of a lot of
jokes for a long time, and that is not an
easy job. You want that job at Christmas time? You
want that job dealing with dogs. I mean, look, your

(23:58):
neighborhood might be just fine, but there are some other
neighborhoods that are janky and the dogs are off the chain.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Literally, no thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Do you see what the Saudis did when Trump showed up? Okay,
what did cutter do? Qatar? What did that nation do?
They gave him a seven forty seven? What did the
Saudis do? They rolled out a McDonald's food truck. Which

(24:29):
is the better deal for Trump, the McDonald's food truck.
Trump loves himself some McDonald's. It's a legendary the guy.
First of all, you remember the campaign last year showing
up doing fries at the drive through, cooking fries and
then showing up at the drive through in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
That was epic.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Could you imagine driving through, picking up your coffee and
your egg McMuffin and seeing Trump apparently he loves egg mcmuffins.
In his first term, when Clemson showed up after winning
the national title, he served them Hamburger's, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches
from McDonald's with fries and all that.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
They loved it.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I just, I just the Saudis have a actual McDonald's
food truck. It's branded and it rolls out to special
functions and it serves McDonald's. And so they brought they
brought the president McDonald not as a gift, but the
food as a gift, you know, serving the president. I

(25:40):
just think that's so epically cool that we got a
president that likes Mickey D's.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's great. Forty six past the hour, come back.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Talk about something that's sad in a funny kind of way.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
This is sad, but in a funny kind of way.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I got this note from regular listener of the program
who sends me some really good stuff, and so he
kind of walks that line between regular listener and research assistant.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
And this is the Tampa Bay Times. Maybe is it
the Times of the Tribune. I should know that.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Me check just because it would annoy me to be
wrong about this. I'm wrong about stuff, but not stuff
like this. Tampa Times. Yeah, it's the Times. They're doing
a fundraiser and their goal was to raise one hundred
and seventy five dollars and one hundred and seventy five

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thousand dollars during the week to pay for three journalists
in their eighty person newsroom.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
So they.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
They need to resort to doing outright fundraising. Would you
please give money so we can employ these three people,
and they've got a staff of eighty all right, So
let's do the math here. And this is obviously they're
not all paid the same. But if we've got one

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hundred and seventy five thousand dollars and we divide that
by three, that's fifty eight thousand, three hundred per times eighty,
that's four point six million dollars to pay for everybody
at that rate. That's and again, we know some make

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more and we know some probably make less. But so anyway,
and it occurs to me that there's there's such a
simple solution to the problems plaguing the print media. I
think they've They've used the digital world as a scapegoat.

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Tellassi Reports is proof that you can grow your paper
in print by doing just one thing, reporting news. I
don't know why it's so difficult for news operations to understand,

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and the reason why it is so difficult for them
is because they have a and agenda that takes precedent
over a shareholder value and profitability and the welfare of
their staffs and their mission. Their agenda has trumped everything else,

(29:36):
but their agenda has cost them everything else. I can
fix any newsroom in this country, and I can do
it with a degree of pain and suffering overnight. Objectively
report the news, and the readers will come back. Do

(30:02):
the job of an independent journalist, reporting the news, leaving
your opinions out, and it will take you a year
to cleanse yourself of that, and it will take some
really good editors to cleanse the paper of it. But
profitability will come back because conservatives don't want to buy

(30:24):
and they don't want to patronize. They don't want anything
to do with unobjective news. They do not mind criticism
in the op ed page. They mind it in the
headlines and in the random reporting that happens in every
part of a newspaper. They're tired of it. They don't
want any part of it. So you know, I tried

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to warn the a couple of different publishers of the
local paper here of that, and they all just.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Dismissed me.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
And none of them are in the newspaper business anymore.
And here I am still doing what I do. Time
for the second hour, I.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Passed the hour. I'm such a child, the things I.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Think about President Trump is on his way to Qatar.
I'm just thinking he had a troll them and and
show like a fictional post of a seven forty seven
on sale for three hundred.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
And eighty million dollars brand new flown once? Is that
the worst?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
When you give somebody a gift and you know they
regifted it or sold it or whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
I mean, just make me laugh anyway. Good to be
with you, friends.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
It's the second hour of Wednesday. Here on the program,
Doctor Bob McClure James Madison Institute joins us. Next hour,
they've got some polling out on Florida. I don't think
it's going to help matters that the House speaker decided
to call Governor Ron de Santis the seventh grader. Dude,

(32:26):
shut up, friends. This round of leaders in the Republican
Party in elected office is a train wreck. And it's
so interesting to me that by and large, whenever Matt Ball,

(32:52):
who you'll never find a photo of, m Atbahl and
Matt had deep connections at Florida State University and has
had for many years. It's so interesting how some of
the worst speakers in recent history have all had him
as the chief of staff.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I don't know what the deal is. I've never met him.
I don't know him.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just know that there's a common denominator here, and
I know that Danny Perez is burning bridges everywhere he looks,
and he is fitting exactly what Joseah Leva said. He
was a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is living up
to it. He's making Josea Leva out to be nostradamus.

(33:37):
Do these people that are elected in individual little pockets
of the state not recognize that Ron DeSantis was elected
statewide by over a million votes. That's a landslide state wide.

(33:59):
You're from Danny, You're from one little piece of the puzzle.
It doesn't mean that you don't have importance as a
member of the of the state House. But Son, someone
needs to tell you to check your ego. You're hurting

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the state of Florida. You're not gonna win getting into
a match with the governor. You're just not People don't
know you. They know Governor Ronde Sandis. He's the most
accomplished conservative governor from a policy perspective that this country

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may have ever seen.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Is he perfect? No, no one is.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
But seriously, The Tampa Times Tampa Bay Times, quoting Danny
Perez as calling Rond de Santas a seventh grader. I'm
guessing I didn't read into the article. I'm guessing it's
because he's not sitting down for this budget workshop that
Evan Power, the chair of the party, wanted to put together.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
I wouldn't either.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's your job to get a budget done, Fellas, it's
his job to look at what you do. Get the
job done. Do your job this out of silence.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Any of you that think I'm a partisan hack, I
am not.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Do I tend to caucus with the Republicans, Yeah, because
their values are closer to mine. Democrats couldn't be further
away from the values of me. And oh, by the way,
even if I said I wouldn't be a Democrat, they
wouldn't let me be in there because I'm pro life.
I don't believe in gay marriage. I don't think it

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ought to be you know, I mean, do what you want,
but I don't think it's it's a lifestyle that's conductive
to are productive to any kind of you know, set
of values and norms that I think this country will
to live by. I'm not going to treat anybody different
because they are. That's fine, that's their right. It's coal.

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But if I my thinking would never be welcome in
the Democrat Party. That tent is so small and it's
shrinking anyway, totally off topic, then me get back on topic.
Ten minutes past the hour, let's get you caught up
on weather and traffic. But at least you now know
what's going on in state politics. I was just informing

(36:42):
Ose that May thirtieth and June second, I'm leaving the
car with the keys and a full tank of gas for.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
He and Grant.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Grant Allen will be in hosting for me, and so
the two of them will be running things, just going
to take a couple of days. I'm not going anywhere,
just out. So yeah, okay, I told you I was
going to get it back up on the blog page.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
It's up on the blog page.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
What What's what got me to just get it done
was this Florida rip current nearly drowns three kids during
te ball team's beach day. Help me, help me, That's
what officers heard from a young boy caught in the
rip current. Moments earlier, deputy saw a beach goer carrying

(37:33):
a small boy and girl out of the water. They
had to perform resuscitation on them. Everything, everything's fine. The
eight year old girl was unconscious, she was recovering, grateful.
Three kids are fine. Everything's good. But man, I know

(38:00):
it's a lot to ask that that a little blog
on my page would get pushed all over and get everywhere,
But boy, it needs to. It's not from trying to
be self serving. Hey get a bunch of clicks. I
don't care about how many clicks a blog of mine gets.

(38:22):
What I care about is that we continue to have victims.
In this case, nearly three but not but nearly three
kids lost their lives because people aren't recognizing rip currents.
They are relatively easy to spot, even in rough water,

(38:42):
but rip currents exist in calm waters. Rip currents go
in any direction. Rip currents are improperly called undertow. They
don't they don't pull you under. It's not a rip tied.
It's a rip current. It's very limited in what it
does and can do, and rip currents take advantage of

(39:06):
people that don't know how to get out of one.
So on my blog page, I have a video that
shows you what they look like, what a rip current
looks like in calm waters, in rough waters. My blog
explains the flags that you'll see at a beach and
what to do if you don't see flags. And my

(39:28):
blog also has a video from the perspective of a
dude in a rip current. He put himself in one
to show how to get out of one. He's a
lifeguard in Australia. They got rip currents there. It's an island.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
They got them all over the place.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
And so he dropped himself in the middle of a
rip current and he pointed out what to do and
he shows you. When I say this blog can save lives,
I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's a fact it can and will save lives.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
You ought to if nothing else, bookmarkt on your laptop,
your desktop. And if you have people visiting from out
of state, when family come together and you say, hey,
we're going to go to the beach, make them watch it.
Make them look over the blog as a form. It
fifteen minutes. Friends, like an orientation that you know if

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you're going to use the jet skis, here's what you
need to know. It's it's like, it's orientation to go
to the beaches of Florida. And so please go to
my blog page WFLA FM dot com or WFLA Panama
City dot com slash Preston.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
That's it. You can click an old, dated photo of me.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Actually, it's ironic that I'm saying old because I'm old
now compared to that photo. But my wife says all
the time, why did you put an updated photo on there?
Because I look like trash.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
I'm old. Ah h. Now your hair is just grayer.
Well there's that too. Anyway, it's a laziness more than
anything else.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
We come back Animal Story sixteen past the hour. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Not a ton to
talk about yet, but O'Keefe Media Group James O'Keefe interesting developlopments.

(42:01):
One his recent video had O'Keefe Media Group over his
left shoulder and Project Veritas over his right shoulder. He
called attention to it at the end of the video.
It tells me something's up there. Don't know what, but something. Second,

(42:27):
they've been inside Epstein's island and mansion. They got video,
not of anybody, but of the place. Somehow they got access.
I don't know how, but they have it and they're
going to start dropping. They did a little bit on

(42:48):
a recent video. You can just look them up o'keef
media group, you can find them online, you can find
them on YouTube, and there's some interesting things just in
what they've shown so far in and around the kitchen.
Kind of creepy, but this all opens up the door

(43:09):
to what's taking so long. Pam Bondy was recorded by
O'Keeffe Media Group saying that the videos have so many
children involved, they're having to just take time to make
sure they're protecting victims and so forth.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I suspect there's more to it than that, but that
certainly is part of it.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Jeffrey Epstein is a sick pud. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Anyway, a story to follow O'Keefe media group. I would
make sure they are on your radar.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
In the wild or in our homes. We love them critters,
large and small. Time for another edition of animal stories
on The Morning Show with Dressed in Sky.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Did you know that Florida ranks tenth overall as the
best state for animals? We're fourth in share of state
land designated for parks and wildlife. We're seventh in animal
protection laws. We are second in animal charities per capita.

(44:22):
We love our animals. Now, we're not so good with
veterinarians per thousand, pet owning households or share of no
kill shelters. We're twenty eight there, so we need a
few more of those. I'm not a big fan of
euthanizing pets. I'm just not. But I'm also not a
fan of going out buying purebreads. If you can go

(44:44):
to the pound and get yourself a great dog, anyway,
that's good news. Florida pet friendly. Head to New Zealand
for this animal story. Cyclist competing in Europe's Zero de Tahlia,
writing in Albania, had a near disaster. Stray goat came

(45:07):
running across the Now, these cyclists are motoring, they're moving,
and you know you're thinking while dogs dogs off the chain.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Just you know, playing one on the running round.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
No, this was a goat that got free from our
herd and came running across clipped the guy. Thankfully he
didn't lose control of his bike. Amazing, absolutely amazing, but
he did finish one hundred and twenty fourth. Might have
heard his time just a little bit Texas Town of Leander,

(45:41):
Tarvin Elementary School. The video is pretty funny, to be
honest with you. They have found a flock of sheep
with no known origin. They have no idea where the
sheep came from. The social media post hilarious. Leand Police Department.

(46:01):
Do you e we know where your sheep are? We
called little bo Peep. She said she found her sheep
and these are not part of her flock. We're hoping
they will lead us to their home wagging their tails
behind them. These sheep were found near Tarvian Elementary. Contact
Leander Animal Services with any information and I'm I mean

(46:24):
we're talking fifteen eighteen sheep just standing around.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
That.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
No one knows. Here's my thought.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
My thought is someone has a herd so large that
they haven't noticed they're missing a few.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
That's just a guess.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Twenty seven minutes past the hour Animal Stories always fun
on The Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
Scott, Making Sense of It All The Morning Show with
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA
lots of things.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
To talk about today, and we've talked through about half
of what we're going to talk about, which works out very,
very nicely because we're halfway through the show. Next hour,
doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute. There's some
polling that they have done which is I think very
very interesting, and we will talk with doctor McClure about

(47:32):
all of that. Then an hour from now, fsu Ace
Pitcher Jamie Arnold will join me live on the program.
Jamie is very very dedicated to helping end cystic vibrosis

(47:54):
and is part of a plan raising funds and awareness.
It is National Cistic Vibrosis Month, and a lot of
you don't know that Jamie has has dedicated his efforts
to that end, and we'll talk with him about that,
and we'll talk a little baseball, of course, but more

(48:16):
to Jamie than just pitching and pitching brilliantly. He's on
the Golden Spikes watch list. I think he's a ten
to one of the ten finalists. He's projected to be
the first or second player picked in the draft. A
lot of a lot of promise for his professional future.

(48:39):
But good guy. So we'll talk with Jamie as well
next hour. Big stories in the press box. Postal Service
raising shipping charges. We're not talking postage. We've seen that
go up. I still think that postage is very, very
budget friendly, but there's some realities that I'm not sure

(49:02):
people want to acknowledge with regard to postal service on
the on the delivery end and the reception end. One is,
I don't think that residential, and maybe that's the answer.
Businesses you need mail every day, that's fine, residential twice
a week. Emailer sent me that suggestion, I don't need it.

(49:23):
Most of what I get is junk anyway, which led
me to say, well, you know, the Postal Service is
kind of a quasi media delivery company now because they're
they're they're they're bringing junk mail, and I don't I
don't look at much of it, but I think twice

(49:47):
a week would get it done. Let them deliver on
Mondays and Wednesdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, or
something along that lines. Twice or twice a week. Mail
carriers continue to get their job done. They do package
delivery on other days whatever I mean. However they want

(50:08):
to factor that. But postal service charges are going up
for shipping. The only thing that's staying the same is
overnight express mail.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
What do they call that? Priority Mail Express? That's staying
the same.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Priority Mail, USPS, Ground Advantage, and Parcel select all going
up at least six point three percent, but as much
as seven point six percent effect of July thirty thirteenth,
So rates.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Are going up.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
They lost three point three billion in the last quarter.
That's that's not sustainable. So I think there has to
be a rethinking of all of that. Have you heard
of the flesh eating New World screwworm? How's that for apocalypse?

(51:00):
My gosh does that? It's the fleshheating New World screw worm.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
That's the actual title of it. It's called the NWS fly.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
And it has triggered an emergency shutdown of cattle, horse,
and bison imports from Mexico. It is prevalent endemic if
you will, in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republican, some South American countries.
It is now apparently crossed in and in through Mexico.

(51:36):
It's called a screw worm for short. It's a species
of parasitic fly known for its larva maggots that eat animals,
living tissue. They burrow in and can be deadly. Female
flies lay eggs in a wound or orifice of a live,

(51:58):
warm blooded animals, and that can include people, and they
can be found in South America and the Caribbean as well.
So yeah, that's another big story. And then the third
is that a federal grand jury has in fact indicted

(52:21):
Judge Hannah Dugan from Milwaukee. She's been arrested accused of
helping in the legal immigrant EVDE immigration customs and enforcement.
Last month we talked about the story she got arrested,
she should have been arrested, and she has been arrested,
and she will be charged and she will go to trial.
My suspicion is there will be a plea and she's

(52:44):
probably done. She probably ended her career forty one minutes
after the hour, come back with something cool, very cool.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Mayor of Realville. He offers a state of the Nation
every single day. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Okay, I also got to note that the Forever stamp
is going to increase to seventy eight cents.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Effective July thirteenth. It's five cent increase.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Now we're getting a little sporty.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
You know it.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
I've always thought about it, but I've never just gone
and done it.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Shouldn't we have all bought like hundreds of dollars.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Worth of stamps when they were Forever stamps at what
forty nine cents or something that would have been a
hedge against that inflation. Anyway, all right, I said I've
got something cool.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
I know.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I guarantee you that I will be right when I
say this statement about Jose. I guarantee you that when
the newer Christian Bale playing Batman movies came out, that
when Morgan Freeman rolled out the Tumblr, I guarantee you

(54:25):
Jose saw that movie and wanted a tumbler.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Oh you better believe it. I think we all did
almost instantly.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Oh you wouldn't want that Morgan Freeman. Oh yes, I do,
and it comes in black. It was so cool. Well,
it's for sale. You can buy a replica Batman Tumblr,
not that one. They're making them right now. A life size,

(54:58):
drivable replica of the Batman Tumbler, tank like off road
vehicle featured in Dark Knight trilogy. Only a finite number
were made. There are ten available for purchase, sanctioned by
Warner Brothers Discovery, two point nine nine million dollars, each

(55:23):
sold exclusively through Get This the Wayne Enterprises Experience. It's
a luxury brand. I never knew it existed. I have
got to check out that website. I will be doing
that in the next break. It's the first time the
Tumbler has been made available for purchase. If you don't
know about the Tumbler, it is just a bad to

(55:48):
the bone vehicle that is so cool. Joe Burrow apparently
has bought one of them. Quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Features black paint, five hundred and twenty five horsepower engine,
fully functional and drivable, but they're not street legal. Each

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vehicle custom built to fit its owner, appointed with a
unique personalization option set of options. Each owner receives a
proof of authenticity from Warner Brothers, stainless steel headers, advanced software,
smoke screen delivery system, jet engine simulation without the flames.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Jet engine simulation.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Are we talking about something worrying out of the back
of that thing and a noise?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
How cool would that be? You can't drive it on
the street.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Combination of kevlar, carbon fiber, sheet metal, fiberglass, weighs fifty
five hundred pounds, seed, five point racing seat harness, authentic interior.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
And more.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Three million And you can't drive it on the street.
But there's a part of you that's like, would you
drive it on the street? If you would? You would
you drive? Would you take it out with these people?

Speaker 2 (57:24):
You would need to the way these people drive, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Forty six minutes after, I don't know about that one.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, be a good person with the Morning show, Preston Scott,
all right, let's get serious and talk about some box fans.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
And by the way, they can be bought in a
lot of places. Now, if you're in Panama City listening
to me, we ask you to go to the Ace
Hardware stores because they've stepped up to support the effort
your bay and Walton Ace hardware stores are able to

(58:27):
sell you a box fan and you can just leave
it there for delivery to Bay County Council on aging.
Our goal is three hundred and fifty box fans in
Bay County, in Walton County. So the idea here is
that you buy a box fan and it helps senior

(58:47):
adults that are about to get hit Today it's ninety
we're gonna be in the nineties and it's going to
start getting hot a lot, and when you factor in
the humidity. What we try to do is help seniors
keep their thermostats at a reasonable number so their utility

(59:10):
bill doesn't go crazy because they can't afford it if
they're on a fixed income. There's some seniors that have
retired with all the money they need to live comfortably.
There are others that are on fixed incomes and they
can't afford a spike in their energy bills, so they
will go without. They will turn that thermostat up to

(59:31):
eighty five degrees and they're not going to get the
air conditioning turned on until it gets to eighty five.
Some will go ninety. Well, I don't need to tell
you how difficult that is. So the box fan provides
a breeze and allows them to remain cool. I mean

(59:51):
very simply put, that's the evaporative cooling that our body
affords us. And if they have pets, a breeze is
imperative for a pet. So box fan donations are huge.
And so if you're in the Bay County, Panama City area,
please go to an ACE hardware store and get a
box fan. And if you can't get one there and

(01:00:13):
you just want to drop one off, that's fine, and
then Bay County Council on Aging will pick them all
up and drop them off at the end of the month.
Now Here in Tallahassee, Westminster Oaks is teaming up with
us as well as Refreshment Services PEPSI on Pensacola Street.

(01:00:38):
So we're going to ask you to secure a box fan.
There are a lot of places you can go. You
can go to a Dollar General. They've got them at
great prices. I got a listener that sent me that
and dropped off a couple. But you can drop them
off at thirty nine to nineteen West Pensacola Street. That's
Refreshment Services PEPSI. If that's not convenient, you can drop

(01:01:04):
them off here at the radio station on John Knox Road.
Just come around to the left side of the building
during normal business hours and ring the bell, and we
would love to have your cell phone, don't or cell
phone your box fan donations.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
We are working with Elder Care Services of the Big
Bend and we're looking for three hundred and fifty box
fans as well. We had Nicole Ballas on the program.
She told us three fifties about the number that they
need and she's so excited. We did this last year,
but last year we were late to the party.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
This year we are.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Ahead of it, and so I'm asking you to do
what you can. If you can buy one fan, that
would be awesome. I said it a few times here.
If everybody listening buys one fan, we're done and we

(01:02:05):
have all kinds next left over for next year. So
do what you can. If you buy two, three, four,
that would be awesome as well. When we come back,
Doctor Bob McClure will join us from the James Madison
Institute here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. And

(01:02:34):
it's the third hour of the Morning Show with Me.
Not the official title, but it'll work. I'm Preston. He's Jose.
Great to be with you, friends. It's a show fifty
three seventy nine, and it's time to visit with our
friend from the James Madison Institute. He's the president. He
is doctor Bob McClure, Doctor McClure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
How are you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
I'm doing well, my friend, How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I'm doing okay. I you know i'd be lying to you,
Bob if I said that. I'm not getting a little
angry at our lawmakers because I think they're really hurting
all of the progress made in Florida. And so I'm
just curious what your take is of where we are
with the session. My views are well known to the listeners,

(01:03:18):
but I'm curious what yours are.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Well. You're definitely correct on at least the damage to
the brand, and by brand, I mean the movement conservatism
that has blessed this state for the last thirty years.
There's real damage there. I don't have a crystal crystal ball, Preston.
I'm not sure where it ends up. But we have

(01:03:43):
a governor who has been very clear about what he
wants to do and how he wants to do it.
But we have three co equal branches of government. But
my concern is we have a House that has decided
side with maybe some non traditional conservative constituencies like trial lawyers.

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And that's the concern, that's the real concern, presson. And
it happened so quickly after the great two years of
having Paul Renner as Speaker of the House and the
speakers before that, and so we have to really, we
and the Senate and the governor really have to hold
this house hold them accountable for doing the right things.

(01:04:32):
We didn't get here by accident. As a state. This
is a thirty you know, we were over took us
thirty years to become an overnight success. And side saddling
up to trial lawyers is what you know. If you
remember the Republicans of DC before Donald Trump always used
to say, if we could just be nicer, if we
could just be you know, coexist with the left, they'll

(01:04:54):
like us more and then we'll be able to work together.
That's not how this works. And we're seeing the same
thing happen in the state.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
You know, it was interesting I read a short piece
from the Tampa Bay Times where they quote Danny perez
Is calling Governor Round de Santas a seventh grader, ostensibly
for not being willing to sit down and talk about
the budget when it's really their job along with the Senate,
to deal with that and then present something to the governor.
It's it's it's so unbecoming, and it's I'm let me.

(01:05:23):
Let me use this to segue into our topic, which
is the polling that you guys have just released, which
is fascinating. Do you think that a year from now,
if the Republicans continue on this slide in the House
and Senate, that this polling will be very different?

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Uh? Yeah, I mean I think there's always that issue
because here's the thing that has gotten Florida to where
it is today. And I've said this before on your show.
Good policy is good politics, right, it's And so you
look at the presidential race, that was a policy driven race.
You didn't have to vote for Donald Trump, but you
knew exactly where what he was going to do if

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he was elected. Three or four things. Nobody could ever
tell us what Kamala Harris was going to do. She
was from a middle class family, something about she was
really proud of her lawn when she was growing up,
and you know, nobody else knew what she stood for,
and people made a choice. Donald Trump wins the popular vote.
He wins all seven swing states, which is like winning

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seven different governors race. It's very hard to do to
sweep that same thing has happened here in Florida. The
Republicans because of their policies, universal school choice, the tax reduction,
fewer regulations, easier to start a business, those kinds of
things have moved from a minority party twenty years ago. Preston,

(01:06:48):
think about this. Susan McManus, who's a great friend of mine,
University of South Florida political scientists, one of the brilliant
Florida mins twenty years ago said the Republican Party was
in danger of becoming a third party behind no party affiliation. Today,
because of policy, they have one point five million more

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Republican folks registrations in this state. Yeah, there's a chance
that they could blow all of this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Bob and Clure with us. Doctor McClure is president of
the James Madison Institute. Doctor McClure stand by more to
come here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven dou WUFLA or on NEWSRADIOUBFLA, Panama City
dot Com.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Eleven passed the hour, Doctor Bob McClure, President James Madison Institute,
Doctor McClure, is this polling that we're going to talk about.
Is this an annual set of questions that you throw
out or what triggered this?

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
We do a series series of polling, series of poll
excuse me, three or four times of year, and our
polling questions are driven by primarily current events. So in
this poll we did, we asked questions about what concerns
you the most, what worries you the most, what issues
are most important to you. We did polling on the

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governor's race, both in the Republican primary and the Democratic primary.
So really, Preston is driven by what is happening today,
because our effort at JMI is to get a snapshot
of what are Floridians thinking about at this moment, because
it allows us then a bit of a roadmap to
continue to move forward as a think tank.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Let's take the broad view, the macro view. Before we
drilled down a little bit from your chair, when you
got the results back from the polling, what was the
overall message that you took away from.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
It from the policy active, the overall message was that
people are still worried, very much so about the cost
of living. It's a real concern for Floridians. Now we've
seen this addressed by the governor and the legislature and
Donald Trump, and we see the numbers inflations coming down.

(01:09:19):
Property insurance is stabilizing in the state, but Floridians are
still you know, that's kind of a you know, people's
opinions are kind of a lagging indicator, and we have
issues like the expense of housing and things like that.
So people are very concerned about the cost of living
in the state. That has to continue to be addressed

(01:09:40):
on the governor side. What I'm found fascinating is that
Byron Donalds and Casey DeSantis are relatively even in the
Republican primary until primary voters see that Byron Donalds has
been endorsed by Donald Trump, at which point he's up

(01:10:01):
twenty five on Casey DeSantis, and most Republican primary voters
don't even know he's been endorsed by Donald Trump. Those
were kind of the two most fascinating things I saw.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
What do you what do you make of it in
terms of let's let's work backwards now from the Trump
endorsement is I mean, the power of Trump is pretty remarkable.
But is it more remarkable because he's a Floridian.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
No, I think it's well, I think it's the power
of Donald Trump. Love or hate this guy. He is
a once in a lifetime generational politician. I mean, you know,
my hero is Ronald Reagan. And Donald Trump has transformed
this Republican Party in a way that is just unbelievable.

(01:10:52):
Uh and his impromater is gold to Republican primary voters.
I'm sorry to people candidates who are running in a
Republican primary.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Do you think it matters that Casey Desantas has not
officially declared?

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
I do. I think that matters. I think it matters.
And look, we're a year and a half out, and
you know how things go. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta declare, You've got to run campaigns, You've got a debate.
I mean, they're the the The history is littered with
candidates who end up winning that no one gave a

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chance to win. So there's a long way to go
on this. Again, this poll is a snapshot of what
we're seeing today in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
I want to drill down even deeper into the JMI
component of this moving forward. But before we do that,
and as we wrap up this segment, doctor McClure, what
does Jason Pizzo's exit from the Democrat Party do for
the Democrat gubernatorial races?

Speaker 5 (01:12:01):
Well, I think it continues to be a disaster for
the Democratic Party of Florida. Go back to our early
you know, early discussion this morning present. Good policy is
good politics. Can you tell me what the Democratic Party
stands for in Florida? I can't weed. Maybe weed, maybe
radical abortion, I don't know. And and here's the thing.

(01:12:24):
Here's the thing as as a as a the James
Madison Institute, as a truly nonpartisan organization, the Republican Party,
the Democratic Party, it makes no difference to us. For us,
it's a set of principles. It's a set of principles
that embody free markets, limited government, personal responsib responsibility, and

(01:12:45):
the protection of private property. So to say, you know,
the republic to the extent that that those principles reside
in Florida's Republican Party and basically have for the last
thirty years that's where we land. But I'd be happy
for a seconds strong party in the state of Florida.
But now this party, the Democratic Party, is really in

(01:13:06):
danger of becoming a third party in the state of
Florida behind the Republican No Party Affiliation MPAs and the
Democratic Party. And with Jason Pizzo vocally publicly leaving the
Democratic Party, I'm not sure where they go at this moment.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Doctor Bob McLure with us, I know in this moment
we're going to take a break and then we're going
to come back and talk more. Next on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott talking with doctor Bob McClure. He
heads up the James Madison Institute. You talked about that

(01:13:46):
the polling gives your organization, doctor McClure, a leg up
on understanding where the voters are, what they're thinking, what's
most important to them. Now, how does that impact you?
For example, we have a budget stalemate right now, which
which is a little embarrassing. I would think to lawmakers, well, JM,
I use this data to maybe share with them anything

(01:14:08):
that's useful in their budget negotiations.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
Absolutely pressed, and I would go a step further, one
of the things that we know to be true. Two
major issues came out of this polling. One is property insurance,
which I've already referenced. We put in these reforms. We
being the state of Florida, put in these reforms two
years ago with Paul Renner as the Speaker of the

(01:14:33):
House and basically at the fifty thousand foot level, it
rained in lawsuit abuse, aob abuse, and you know trial
lawyers that come in after every hurricane. And so what
they've done is it has brought down the cost of

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property insurance for consumers. That's what we should be focused on,
is Floridians not a spit match between the two houses
in the legislature or a spit and match with the governor.
So we would use this. People are worried about property
insurance and the cost of housing. Well, jam I rolled

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out two consecutive studies in the last month. Everybody can
see them at James Madison dot org on why housing
is so expensive and lo and beholds surprise, surprise, it's
more often because of government. I mean, look, we live
in the capital city, Leon County. Try getting a building
permit within a reasonable amount of time, right, So it's

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impact fees, it's permitting, it's land used, it's zoning, it's
all of those kinds of things. And there's a lot
that the legislature can do in the property insurance space
and in the housing space that the governor wants to do.
The great debate preston about should we eliminate or reduce
property taxes that would help tremendously with the cost of housing.

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That's a complete major discuss that came out of this bowling.
By two to one margin, Floridians would rather cut or
eliminate property taxes than reduce the sales tax, which is
what Speaker Perez has said he would rather do instead.
So there's a lot of information here on housing, on
property insurance, and on that great property tax debate that

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we can then use to go to the legislature, go
to the governor and say here's what we're seeing, here's
what the data shows. How can we help.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
What does your intuition tell you about the next session?
I mean, other than the budget and waiting to see
what the Governor signs in or vetos that's presented to
him from the House and Senate from the session. This
session is largely in the rearview mirror. Now looking ahead
to twenty twenty six, Bob, what do you see as
maybe one or two priorities that James Madison will maybe

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maybe you're not prepared to say what you'll advise or
what you'll suggest, but what you're looking.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
At, well, I think there's probably three areas, two on
offense and one on defense. One is the governor has
made it a point to enact a Doge style look
at the state budget, and we're going to work, you know,

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we we we are working with him and with his
folks to hopefully find ways to continue to make government
more efficient. So we will have a whole series of
recommendations over time, over let's say, pressed in the next
six months to help help with that effort. The governor

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has set up a Doge effort, which is really important.
And look, I say this all the time, Florida is
the single most important state in the country when it
comes to policy and politics. When our governor has the
vision to set up something like Doge in Florida, guess what.
Georgia looks at that, Arizona looks at that, Missouri looks

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at that, and they say Florida can do it, then
we can do it too. This is the story written
large on school choice on eliminating the income tax. When
Florida does it, opening the economy during COVID, Sure, Florida
does it, Other states follow. That's number one. The second
issue is the trial lawyers are coming back. They're going
to come back. They don't sleep and they've lost their bread.

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It was taken away from two years ago in the
way that Renter and the governor, Paul Renner, Speaker and
the governor worked to eliminate frivolous lawsuit abuse, which was
essentially about a five thousand dollars tax on every Floridian.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
Okay, we got about thirty seconds left defend against that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
We got about thirty seconds left. What's the third The third.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
Is there are a lot of things that can be
done at the state level to bring down the cost
of housing. We really need to have this discussion about
the reduction or the elimination of property taxes because cities
are coasting on property values and increasing their budgets magically
as property taxes increase, and we can't continue.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
To have that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Doctor McClure, always a good visit. Thanks so much for
the time. We'll talk again next month.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Thank you, sir, Doctor Bob McClure with us from the
James Madison Institute.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Ever you may be from Florida Sunshine State to Washington State.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
No, no, not Washington.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Sorry, Washington's also hopeless for crying out loud? Is this
the only bastion of physical wealth and mindset?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Goodness?

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Yeah, let's chee it up and do it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Great to have with us on the program this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
On the More Show, Jamie Arnold, he is throwing darts
once again for Florida State Baseball and joined us lab
on the program.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
How are you, sir, really good?

Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
I'm terrific, Jamie. It's a delight to talk with you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
I've watched you pitch now for a few years, and
I gotta say it is a gas watching you throw
the ball because you just get it and go. I
am curious. You know, FSU's been in the World Series
seemingly all the time and they just have never gotten
it across the finish line. Is that something that you

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and the guys talk about very much.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
It's definitely a thing like just within the program since
I've been here is like we talk about it during
meetings and stuff, but you know, it's something that every
team hopes to do every year, so it's definitely a
talk of the talk and locker room.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Yeah, I'm curious. You're on the Golden Spikes List, and
that is a list of baseball players considered to be
the best in the country. The scouts say you could
be the first or second pick in the upcoming Major
league draft. I'm curious, Jamie. I've been around a lot
of athletes in my lifetime. When did you know that
you were good enough to have this type of career

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in front of you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Didn't really hit me until last year, like right before
the season, around Christmas break. I kind of I started
throwing a little harder then, and like I kind of realized,
Hey if I if I pitched it to see I
could make this happen. So that that was really the
moment for me.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
You you determined that you needed to get a third
pitch as well. You've You've always had a great slider
in fastball, but that change up is making a difference
this season.

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
I would think, yes, sairh has that was a big
thing for me. Going into the year was to devolve
that third pitch and college coach posey on that and
we made it happen. So it's been huge for me.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
You I've loved throwing it, you know, besides being a
gifted pitcher.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
One of the things that I mean, the people that
I watch games with, we always comment when you're on
the hill, and I think you've impacted your teammates a lot,
is you might be the fastest pitcher on the mound
I've ever seen. And I'm not talking velocity, you know
what I'm talking about. You get the ball and you
get the pitch and you go. You don't waste any time.

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You're not walking around the mound, You're not doing a
bunch of gymnastics out there. When did you develop this
fast means of pitching?

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
That's just all I talked though, And I think I
get in a good rhythm that I roll with it.
So ever since I started throwing. I mean, that's how
I've That's how I've operated out there. So so that's
how I pitched.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
I'm curious. You know, teams are doing what they can
to disrupt your rhythm. Step out of the box, take
as many breaks as possible, get a talk from the coach,
whatever they can do. Does it make you a little
angry or does it make you laugh?

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
I mean, it's kind of a little bit of both. Honestly,
I think I laugh it off and then you know,
it kind of just gives me an ash to that
next pitch. So it's a little bit of both.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
When we come back, Jamie standby, We're gonna come back.
Were going to talk about something that is very important
to Jamie. Jamie Arnold is with us. He is the
ace of the FSU pitching staff. He gets the ball
first on Friday nights. This week it's Thursday against North Carolina,
Big Series. We're going to touch on that real quickly
as well. But Jamie's involved with the Cistic Fibrosis Foundation.

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It's Cistic Fibrosis Awareness Month. We're going to talk about
a dear friend of his as well. Next here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
And seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
So we've been doing this a little while and it's
my first time having an FSU player. I've had the coaches,
of course, we had eleven on all the time, but
having Jamie Arnold, the ace of the pitching staff on
the program is a real delight. Jamie, thanks for sticking
with us a little bit longer. Curious you've got North
Carolina coming in. It's a very important series to the

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potential hosting of a not just a regional, but a
super regional in Tallahassee.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
What does a.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
Week look like for you? You pitch on a Friday.
Now you're prepping for a really good team. Take us
just a snapshot through what that week is like.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
Yeah, so we finished pitching this week, or I finished
pitching this week. We were in California, so it was
a little different. We flew back and got back on Monday.
We flew back Monday, got back here. So yesterday we
had a light day and then honestly, like I do
the same thing every week, just getting ready for my
uh get ready for the start. I left like three
times throughout the week and then just get my mind prepared,

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drinking a lot of water and uh, seeting healthy and
you know, just doing those things.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Is there a scouting report that you look through and
try to figure out with Micah and link how to
pitch the team?

Speaker 4 (01:24:56):
Yeah, we uh suppose he does a good job going
through all that with a and he'll make a complete
report and I give it to me a couple of
days before that I can look at and just kind
of get a read on what they do. But you know,
I've like I've watched you and see enough to kind
of know their tendencies this year and like what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
I could sit and talk about this all day long,
but I think it's more important that we talk a
little bit about cystic fibrosis. Tell us about your good
friend Bradley.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
Yeah, so Bradley's an eight year old he battles sistic fibrosis,
and you know, his family has been huge fans of
Florida State for a long time, since before I've been there,
and you know, I've got to know them over the years.
But my mom especially got close with their parents, or
Bradley's parents, and luckily I was able to start this

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foundation and start raising money for Bradley because you know,
what he goes through is very tough and it's not
something you expect an eight year old to have to
go through every day. And you know, you seem at
the field and he's the happiest kid ever. But yeah,
it's it's a very hard thing that they're dealing with,
and I'm just lucky that I'm able to help them
in any tell.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Us about K time for cystic fibrosis.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Yeah, so I donate twenty five dollars for every strikeout
and it goes directly to the West Florida Citus Fibrosus Foundation,
and Citius Fibrosus has no found cure yet. So everyone
he struggles with it is deal with it, and everybody
that deals with it battle like it's different for everyone.
So Bradley has it a little worse than most people. So,

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you know, I'm just trying to do anything I can
to help them.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
I would imagine that there are ways that people can pay,
maybe join up with you and help support the cause.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
How can they do that?

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
Yeah, so there's a link on my social media whatever
that you can directly donate to the foundation. I think
we've raised we just reached the ten thousand marks. Nice
you get huge. I think I've donated a two thousand myself,
so we've got a lot of money just from other people,
which is awesome. It's a blessing that this has been
able to come to this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
He's being Humble is social media. I'll tell everybody. I've
already linked it on our social media page. It's underscore.
It's at Underscore Jamie Arnold, thirteen, and that's on the
X page.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Jamie.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
I don't want to just like blow you up here,
but dude, there are not a lot of guys in
college sports in this era of nil thinking outside of themselves.
And I am really proud that you're a seminole, and
I'm proud more importantly of your concern for others and

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Bradley in particular, and I just wish you nothing but
the success that I think is coming your way. And
thank you so much for all that you're doing to help.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
That young man. App you share that, Jamie.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Best of luck this week, and maybe we'll talk again
as the season unfolds and raise a little bit more
money for your buddy and for cistic fibrosis.

Speaker 4 (01:27:57):
Thanks very much, thank you, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
My pleasure, Jamie Arnold with us this morning. And again
I want to just I wanted to take a second
on the other side here to make sure that you
get that it's at Underscore Jamie Arnold thirteen on X
and there are links there to the it's right there
underneath his photo. Now let me go back to baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
He is a nasty pitcher, and it is so much
fun to watch him pitch because the pace in which
he throws.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
It rattles hitters.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
He catches the ball, he looks for the pitch on
his wrist. What pitch are they calling? And he throws
There is no time wasted, and batters hate it, hate it.
He's throwing at this. You know, I'm a lefty, and
so he throws at this kind of sort of three
quarters arm slot and the ball stays a little behind him,

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a little longer. They can't pick it up. When he's dealing,
it is fun and he's raising money. How cool is
it to hear that he's taken his money out of
his pocket and giving it for this in honor of
this young man. That is a relationship with so support it.
Seminal fans and even those of you that might not
be forty seven past the hour, all kinds of opportunities

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to make a difference, not really all kinds. You can
help us with box fans. You can help Jamie Arnold
and help about cystic fibrosis. You heard there is no cure.

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It's about continuing to do the research and finding out
what causes it. Is it a genetic marker, and then
how do it achieve some level of success in maybe
changing that curing it once the symptoms become present. But

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you can take part. Okay, time for cystic fibrosis.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
What a good cause. That is, what a good guy. Man.
Just it was a.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Little tough getting him to talk about himself because it
just you know, and honestly it surprised me a little bit,
not because I'd heard anything other than the fact that
he was a great dude. Just guys that compete at
the level he does, and then that he's outwardly focused.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
That just impresses me. Man, in this era, are you kidding? Huge?
So that's another cause.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
So we got box fans, We got that, We've got
Chris and Lacy Ryan missionaries heading.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Off to the Czech Republic.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
You can support that, I mean hello, So in the meantime,
grab yourself some box fans, make a donation to k
time and pray about supporting Chris and Lacy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
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Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
You never know what's going to get people and their
their their wallet, indoor purse strings to just part with
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
That's it's all gods.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
My wife and I were having that discussion the other
day about you know, different things that we we try
to help with, what we've been blessed with, and we
just looked at each other and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
It's like, well, it's all Gods. It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
It's not ten percent. That's God's. He just asked for that.
One hundred percent is his. He just gives us stewardship
of it. And wonders, you're gonna give a little bit
back so that my message can go, so that I

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can do things to help others, so that you know,
just wondering.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
I don't. You know, I don't have to have it.
But it's up to you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
If you want blessing, you don't give to get though.
See there's this fine line out there. I was just anyway,
today we talked about a lot of things, and the
things that that generate email is just astounding to me.
The New world screw worm got some got some email,

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postal service changing, raising shipping rates, that got some email.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
See that just tell I'm just I'm dialed into you.
I got you, got you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Tomorrow, Steve Stewart to tell us your reports, give you
a road trip. And Chad Gray from Joint Strong if
you're achy, if you've been suggested to have some kind
of joint surgery of some kind, maybe even back surgery,
I'm just going to ask you to get to the
radio tomorrow eight o five Eastern, seven oh five Central.

(01:33:27):
Don't have surgery unless it's an emergency until you listen,
because it's all about flexibility. It's all about joint health
and being the best.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
You can be as you age. Can't wait for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Until then, friends, thanks for making us part of your morning.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
You have yourself a terrific day.