Ep. 5415: They laughed... Remember?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, July 23rd

Our guests today include:
- Dr. Bob McClure





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, I bess, I I bass, good morning, and welcome
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I guess it's
best that I go ahead and bring the microphone to
my mouth and begin. I was trying to say, good grief,

(00:36):
How are your friends? It's Wednesday, July twenty, third show
fifty four fifteen of the radio program He Is Jose.
I am Preston Jose. Can you see by the dawn's
dearly light? How are you? How is everybody? How are you? Sir?

(00:57):
Better than I deserve? Yeah? Yep, and I can't see
without mcles really yep, No, I mean really case if
anybody was wondering, really you you? What are you? New? Sighted?
At first sight? Near sighted?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's not as bad as I joke, but uh it's
it can't get bad.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay, especially at night. I was going to ask, how
how fuzzy are street signs without your glasses? Oh? Very Yeah?
What what's the distance in which you could see a
street sign one hundred feet? I would say about less.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Like less than that, fifty okay, about fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
So without your glasses you could like end up driving
the whole wrong direction. Yeah, if I'm not careful, it's
it's possible.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, well, well you know, I won't know that I'm
going the wrong direction. Tom right up on the sign
and they're like, well darn, do you turn?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Boy? That would be that would be tough if you're
going well, I mean, if you're driving seventy on the interstate,
that'd be brutal. Do you have like a backup pair
of glasses? Uh? I had a backup glasses used to
h I crushed them by accident. So you don't have

(02:15):
a backup not anymore pair? That's right? Is do they?
They don't make like they do readers. They don't make
glasses and just generic prescriptions to help someone in an
emergency who needs to see at distance. Do they?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I can't answer that question, honestly, because.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
They make readers and all kinds of prescriptions for people
that just need a little help reading fine print or
reading you know, a book or whatever, and you can
just buy a generic pair of glasses for like ten
bucks or something. But I wondered does that not? I
wonder if does that work with far sighted or near
sightedness where you need help seeing distances? Huh? Hey, we

(02:58):
might have an invention right there. We could be talking
about ourselves and did you know in a few years.
All right, here's our scripture for the day, Joshua one nine.
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, do
not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the

(03:18):
Lord your God is with you wherever you go. You know,
when you look at a verse like be strong and courageous,
I think we limit those words to kind of a
prototypical application of a situation that promotes fear and you

(03:46):
need to you know, kind of okay, step into it
type thing. And I think that while that's absolutely true,
I think that situations where we need to be strong
and courageous apply a lot more often than we want
to leave. For some people, it's just having the strength

(04:13):
and the courage to put a hand up in a
meeting and offer an idea, right to be with friends
who are talking about something that's really inappropriate, be strong
and courageous and say, hey, guys, come on, let's talk

(04:34):
about the ball game or something like. You know what
I mean. I think being strong and courageous applies almost
every day in some form or fashion. And God is
the provision because He's with us wherever we go. And oh,

(04:58):
by the way, that also includes if you're going places
you shouldn't be going. You know what I'm saying, God's
with you wherever you go. Oh yeah, ten past the hour.
Let's take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. We're going,

(05:19):
We're rowing. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This

(05:41):
would be one of those bumps that would be perfect
to hear with people walking down the street because somebody's
gonna be walking to the perfect rhythm of this song walk. Uh,

(06:13):
have you ever been in a stoplight? It doesn't happen
as often now. This was a routine thing when it
was just radio. And you're living in a city with
a handful of radio stations, not a bunch, and there's

(06:33):
only one or two Top forty stations the AC state, whatever,
and you just happen to be next to somebody listening
to the same song you are, and they're singing and
you're singing, and your eyes meet. It's happened once in

(06:54):
my life. It happened. It happened one in my life
in Phoenix, Arizona. It was so funny. I forget what
the song was, but it was like and then you
kind of you're you catch each other, it's like oh,

(07:15):
and then you just sort of go yeah, and we'll
just keep on sleeping. I also have I and this
still does happen, but not very often. If I'm stopped
at a stoplight and someone's just cranking the music. Now,

(07:35):
let me be the first to say, I really do
wish those of you with the subsystems would recognize pain,
because if it's rattling your car first, that's not good
for your car or your speakers. But it's it's it

(07:56):
can cause pain for some people. But I have been
known to roll down my window and usually if you
roll down your window and look at somebody, they'll roll
down their window and I have been known to say hey,
and then they reach over and turn down their radio.
Just second, Now what you take requests just being a

(08:21):
stupid and then I'll have a laugh, you know. Just anyway.
July twenty third, there wasn't much. That's what I just
decided to yeah. Seventeen fifteen, Massachusetts authorizes the building of
the Boston Light, the first lighthouse constructed in America. Seventeen fifteen.

(08:43):
The Boston Light Wow eighteen eighty five, ulysses as Grant
dies in Mount McGregor, New York, eighteenth US President. His story,
there's a kind of a docu series. It's sort of
a biopic kind of thing that the History Channel did.

(09:09):
It's exceptional. US Grants is underappreciated. First as a tactical general.
He was brilliant. Might have won the Civil War because
of it. But fascinating story. And in two thousand, Tiger

(09:29):
Woods wins the British Open at age twenty four to
become the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam.
I was wrong about Tiger, I said, when his world
blew up and he was caught you know, porn stars
and all that stuff. I said that he'd never win
another major. He won one, and I credit him, and

(09:51):
I pull for the guy. He just want him to
know Jesus. There's just I marvel at how he corrected
his course. Really, I admire him for doing so. He
did what I did not think he could do because

(10:12):
golf is such a mental game. It is such a
game between the left and the right. Ear and his
world had fallen apart between the left and the right.
Ear lost his family for a period of time. You know,
his wife divorced him, and you know he just boy,
what a fall, but he survived it and has come

(10:32):
back strong, and I admire that. Well done. Let's see
here it is National Lemon Day. My mouth pucker's just
a little bit thinking about that tart lemons. It is
Gorgeous Grandma Day. My sweet wife is gorgeous grandma. Oh yeah,

(10:57):
oh yeah yeah. And it's National Vanilla ice Cream Day.
Can't go wrong with a good homemade vanilla ice cream,
can you. I mean, in its simplicity, it's perfect because
you can do anything with it. It is the perfect

(11:18):
perfect accompaniment to pies, any pie cake, any cake. Vanilla
goes with everything. Vanilla ice cream is just incredible. Seventeen
past the hour, come back with more as we begin
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is

(11:45):
another one. Walk down the sidewalk. You could even do
a jog to this one, all right? Did you know?
Some of you don't? I bet, I'll bet Jose doesn't

(12:05):
know because he's too young. I'm an old man. Yeah, whatever,
Come talk to me in thirty years, bucko. Do you
do you know of pet rocks? I used to have one,
multiple actually really and everything. Yep, official pet rocks. Yeah, okay,

(12:29):
how did you know about it? I don't know. I
think I did you find him at like a yard
sale or a flea market or something.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I believe it was out in the wilderness. I found
a very smooth black rock, and I kept it, And
I didn't know it was a thing until many years.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Later, mid seventies. It was when I was I was
starting high school. Pet rocks became a thing. Kids had
him at school, they'd bring him, they'd set them on
their desk, they'd have people had him at home at offices.
It didn't last long. But the guy who I hesitate

(13:09):
to use the word invented But he's the guy that
turned him into a thing, Gary Dahl. He made millions
pet rocks. America is not a great country. Are you
kidding me? A man could make millions with an idea

(13:31):
called pet rocks. That's awesome, it really is. Did you
know I hold him? Of course, you don't know. I
have in my hands the new Mark Levin book on Power.
That's what it's called on Power. Many have written about

(13:55):
and debated the issue of power, including the ancients and
modern philosophers, scholars and statesmen alike. Why because powermine. I
need to do this, like Levin, because power determines your
social arrangements, quality of life, and more to the point

(14:15):
of this book, whether you are free or enslaved, or
some degree of either. In short, it determines your personal fate,
the fate of your community, the fate of a nation.
Mark Levin will be joining me on the program next
month to talk about on power. And did you know

(14:44):
the bunch of someone's buying up a bunch of very
very expensive real estate in Palm Beach. One buyer. We
don't know exactly who. There are some guesses it might
be someone connected to Bill Gates, don't know, has acquired
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate. You

(15:12):
think about what could happen if New York City goes communist,
I mean outright full blown if they elect this not
you know nincompoop. Now, a lot of mainstream Democrats and
even Democrats well left are scared of this guy. And
and I mean we'll get to something later in the
program that illustrates why they're scared of this guy. This

(15:35):
guy's ideals vision is horrifying. There's a part of me
that I understand. Zach Zack Smith from Heritage, who said,
you don't want a city like New York City to
fall to socialism. You just it's bad. I get it,

(15:58):
But there's this little part of me that like, nah,
give them what they deserve, they vote for it. Give
it to him, give it to him. Guy's bought. Whoever,
Guy Whoever's bought has bought two ocean front lots, two
to adjacent Holmes. I mean we're talking two hundred million

(16:23):
for the lots alone. They were owned by Cosmetic Air
William Lauter, Este Laud. Same buyer purchased an eighteen million
dollar home across the street trying to buy John bon
Jovi's home. He paid forty three million for it. What

(16:48):
it is, John doesn't want to sell, But hey, money talks.
But why why? What's this about? This is gonna look
real estate prices in Florida will skyrocket if New York City,
not all of Florida, but by extension, all of Florida.
Twenty eight minutes after the album, New York City goes

(17:09):
socialist communist. You watch what happens here. Every big story

(17:36):
that I had selected gone ejected. Enough changed, all right,
I just have I had to change because of the
nature of these stories. Guy in Manhattan, I will not

(17:56):
name him. Fifty five year old dude charged yesterday with
manufacturing at least seven IEDs improvised explosive devices using chemicals
he bought online. Clearly, we have to stop all of
those chemicals from ever being sold, right, and that what

(18:17):
we need to do. In fact, there's a photo in
here he threw one of the explosive devices onto subway tracks.
Thankfully it did not detonate. They were able to track

(18:41):
this guy down. He was arrested June fifth with a
device on him. On Instagram, the day he was arrested,
he had written, who wants me to go out to play?
Like no tomorrow? So't get into trying to get into
the head of this dude and what causes people to

(19:05):
think this way? But here's a domestic terrorist ready to
blow up New York New York City with these devices.
They're smaller, but they could have done enough damage to injure.
I mean, you blow up a subway track as the

(19:26):
subways running, you kill few hundred people, if not more,
depending on where it happens. Donald Trump has secured a
five hundred and fifty billion dollar trade deal with Japan.

(19:47):
Quoting from Truth Social we just completed a massive deal
with Japan, perhaps the largest deal ever made. Of course,
what would a Trump post be without a little hyperbole. Huh,
Japan will invest at my direction. What ever? He just
had to say that, didn't he? He just had to
say at my direction? How about just being gracious? Japan

(20:10):
will invest five hundred and fifty billion dollars in the
United States, which will receive ninety percent of the profits.
The deal will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. There's
never been anything like it. Japan will open the country
to trade and things like cars, trucks, rice, and other
agricultural products. Opening our trade for cars and trucks is

(20:35):
no big deal because they don't really want what we make.
They want what they make. The products that Americans enjoy
the most, well, I can't say that a lot of
the things America enjoys Japan just doesn't care about. They
don't care about big, huge SUVs and trucks and stuff like.

(20:56):
They just don't. Still, it's a good deal, it's jobs,
it's revenue. And basically said, look, make a deal and
we can get this to zero tariffs zero. They did

(21:17):
boom there you go, art of the deal forty minutes
past the hour. Also in the news, Coca Cola going
to cane sugar in some of its products this fall.

(21:39):
That's good. Okay, let's see what happens there. I like it.
We are. This is moving the needle, and this is
about companies simply because best as I can tell, they're
not being ordered to, they're not being regulated into it.

(22:03):
The case has been made by RFK Junior and they're
going okay, And there's some momentum being developed right now
to healthier artificial dies things like that, just just subtle,
simple changes. See. I would maintain that if someone believes

(22:33):
electric cars are the thing, make them and let them
stand on their own. No government subsidies, no tax credits.
If you want one, buy one. I get frosty when
it's our tax dollars paying down the price for someone

(22:54):
to buy an electric car. I have a problem with
that because I know the backside problems facing any electric
car owner, and hopefully you do too. Ot if you've
seen the story an American citizen from Oklahoma who is
as Syrian as well dual citizenship, Hawsam Sayah, one of

(23:20):
eight in a family of men who were taken out
of their home where they live and executed in Syria.
This is sectarian fighting at its worst. This is Bedouins
and Drew's. Drew's a little different. Bedouins kind of a

(23:45):
nomadic tribal group of people. In looking into the history
of the two factions, Drew's kind of a little mysterious
twist to them from a religious standpoint. But this started

(24:10):
back in uh maybe a week or so ago. Drus
and Bedouins have had this back and forth get along,
not get along, get along, not get on, and this
has now become very violent. Siah, if you remember, is

(24:30):
a bit of a train wreck, has been for years,
but under the iron fist of the Asad family. Then
they got deposed and now the uh, I mean you
kind of sort of have some jihadis running the country anyway,

(24:51):
but this pay attention to this story because this could
get complicated. But the guy, I mean, these dudes were
literally marched down a sidewalk, put on their knees and shot.
They took all the male members of one of a
family and executed them all. And this guy was visiting
the country to help take care of his ailing dad.

(25:12):
Turkish teenager honor killed. It's become news because it's just
the latest in an example of several young females. In fact,
it's the two hundred and seventh case of honor killing
in Turkey of a young lady this year. This year.

(25:35):
She had been raped and had been impregnated from the rape,
and she had been pledged to another guy. Not some
old dude at least there wasn't that, but a younger
guy who found out she was pregnant and then just
instead of understanding she had been raped, just killed her.

(26:01):
And he's pleased about it. That is sick and twisted,
my friends, that's what that is. Forty six minutes past
the hour, is still marry her, dude.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
And women serving our great nation and our armed services,
those serving communities as law enforcement officers and first responders,
I say you are all essential workers. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, it looks like Gislaine Ghislaine Maxwell is heading to Washington.
She'll get out of the Tallassee Federal Prison if she
hasn't for at least a few days. House Oversight Committee
has proved emotion to subpoena her. She's serving a twenty
year sentence for her role in the Jeffrey Epstein's sex

(27:01):
trafficking prostitution thing. She is expected to discuss high profile
individuals who allegedly took part. This is interesting. If you
haven't noticed, there's been a bit of an about face
by the White House. I don't care what Trump's saying publicly,

(27:24):
here's what's happened. They have put their finger up into
the wind, wet it and determined which way the wind
is blowing. And the wind is blowing the wrong direction
from the way they were going. And so now the
Deputy Attorney General excuse me once to sit down with her,

(27:45):
I would guess members of Congress, and this will be
now very interesting. Allegedly, now the terminology that is being
used around the case is credible. President Trump has told
us to release all credible evidence. Therefore, at the direction
of Attorney General Pam Bondy, I have communicated with counsel

(28:08):
for Ms Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing
to speak with prosecutors from the Department, and she will. Well, now,
isn't that interesting. Here's the thing understanding that Trump will
never admit he's wrong, Well, seldom, I'm sure he I

(28:33):
was wrong. He's a good guy, you know. I'm sure
I can hear words like that coming from him, can't you.
He's the type of person I would say what my
brother used to say, I was wrong once. That's when
I thought I was wrong, but in fact I wasn't.

(28:54):
My late brother would say that I laughed every time
he did. But I can. I can absolutely see now
the power of the public coming to play in this
because Trump fans were saying, uh, what's up here now?

(29:19):
And he's seen the social media, he's read the commentaries.
He knows. That's why there's a change, because you made
it clear. You want to know what's happened. Who did what? All?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Right?

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Now, phone screener turned on. We are going to take
some phone calls and I'm asking a question and I
will just listen what you have to say. It's Wednesday,

(30:04):
which for some it's not as big a deal as
it used to be Wednesday Church, but it used to
be a thing. I want to know what is the
cutoff before you say the morning has gotten away? I'm
not going to church today on Sunday morning? Is it

(30:28):
how much church time needs to be left? Is it
when praise and worship ends, and you want to hear
all of the message or none of it, or you're
gonna get there for whatever you can get there for,
whether it's ten minutes, fifteen minutes, whatever. What's the cutoff?

(30:49):
What's that time where you say I just can't do it?
Or do you plow through anyway? Eight five zero two
zero five wfl eight five zero two zero five ninety
three fifty two. I just want you to weigh in
on what the cutoff is for when you say no

(31:12):
to church. On Sunday five minutes past the hour, second

(31:35):
hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Wednesday Show,
fifty four fifteen. That is Jose, I'm Preston taking your calls.
Elizabeth stand By eight five zero two zero five to
b FLA. I observe everything. I make notes all the

(31:55):
time of the things that I observe, and I've observed
something over the course of time, and it just it
kind of reached a point where I had observed it
enough that I formed a question that I thought would
be fun to talk about because I think there's something

(32:17):
here to mine out of it. The observation surrounds church,
and I'm curious, what is the point where you say
I'm too late. I'm just I'm having one of those mornings.

(32:41):
Could be the kids, it could be you, it could
be the family, it could be just you just got
up late. You've finally got a good night of rest
and you just oh and you're sleeping and you're oh, no,
it doesn't matter. Why how much time does there need

(33:04):
to be left in a church service for you to go?
And why? I'm curious, what's that point that you say,

(33:24):
I just the juice isn't worth the squeeze. I'm gonna
read my Bible here at home, I'm gonna listen to
a little praise or not whatever, but I just would
I'm curious what is that mark for you? And why?
Eight five zero two zero five to b FLA. This

(33:47):
is a Life session here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Elizabeth. Thanks for joining me, Yes.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Sir, and good morning. So our church has three services
and it's also streamed on TV, so there is appssolutely
no excuse unless I have been kidnapped and my son
has not found me. On Life three point sixty we
are attending.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
So at no point, I mean, can you take me
to a point in your life where you weren't attending
a church that had three services. Was there ever a
point where you said, ah, too late.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
We would have to be out in the middle of
nowhere with any kind of internet access to then also
stream it if we couldn't physically attend, So if you
could always attend by watching YouTube or a live stream.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
So if you're let's say you're a late service attender.
Let's say the services are at nine, ten, and eleven.
I'm just grabbing times for the sake of discussion, and
you're an eleven o'clock service person, but something's come up.
You're running late, the stream isn't available to you. What's
that timeframe where you say, eh, i'll catch it next week.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
I will say probably twenty minutes before the actual sermon starts.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Really, because if you're running hour long services, because you're
running so many services, your sermon is gonna have to
get going. I mean that eliminates I mean, wow, twenty
minutes before the start of the sermon is your deadline?

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Then it is. You gotta find a good.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Seat, gotcha? Fair enough, Elizabeth, Thanks for calling in. I
appreciate it. Eight five zero two zero five to b
FLA I don't. I think I think Elizabeth is a
bit of an exception to the rule, but I could
be wrong. As I watch people coming into a church

(35:54):
service and they're coming in late, a lot of times
there'll be words like, well, better late than never, or boy,
I had a morning, just glad I got here. So

(36:15):
I'm just I'm again, I'm I'm curious as to what
the mindset is that you carry. I know most of
you go to church. I'm not sure what the fear
is in talking about it, if you think I'm gonna
hammer you or something. I'm just asking questions here now.

(36:35):
I'll share an observation what I think is at work
in a lot of people, but certainly not everybody. So
it may or may not apply to you. If you're
you know, if you are, I don't let me put
it this way. You're welcome to call in. I don't
need calls to talk about it, because I know it exists.

(36:56):
I know that there's a point that people say yeah
or no, I'm getting there. It doesn't matter how much
time I miss. I'm getting there. Ten past the hour
eight five zero two zero five to BFLA.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Nice good morning and welcome to the morning. Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Lead research assistant of the Morning Show, texting me in
the broadcast because the research team may always text me
in the middle of a show. My guess is you'll
get a very different answer based on the type of church.
I don't see Catholics roaming in really late. Interesting observation.

(37:50):
Is it church based? Type of church? Huh, deb what
do you think? Good morning morning.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
We are extremely faithful in our family. We attend Sunday morning,
Sunday evening, and Wednesday evenings faithfully. If we're not there
we are sick, or we are out of town, and
even when we're out of town we try to find
a church that's like minded and attend church on vacation.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Do you ever run late?

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Pardon me?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Do you ever run late to a Sunday morning service?

Speaker 6 (38:25):
No, sir, we said an alarm. We do not run late.
We are there when we are expected there. If something
would happen, like say we had a flat tire on
the way or something right, then we would we would
walk in late, okay, and everybody.

Speaker 7 (38:42):
Would say, hey, we're glad to see you, and we'd
say we're glad to be here.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
So is there a point where you'd say, Okay, we're
going to be We're not getting there till the final
twenty minutes, so we're going to just pack it for
the day.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Yeah, we probably if the sermon had already started, probably
would just send a text to the pastor's wife just
to let them know that we're okay, because they would wonder, okay,
everybody would be concerned, but we just it just doesn't
happen in our family. We attend faithfully.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Gotcha, thanks very much, deep appreciate it. Let's go to
uh Paula. Hi, Paula, Hey there, what do you think?

Speaker 7 (39:22):
Well, I guess I have a little different twist on that.
I have a bad back, so I have a hard
time standing during the worship service. So I'll sit outside
in the lobby and then as I see the pastor
walk up on the on the monitors, then I do
go in and it is late, but I try to

(39:44):
get in between the pastor and the worship team.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Do you so you feel like with your physical condition
that it's disrespectful or dishonoring to not be standing during
praise and worship, that it wouldn't be okay.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
Yes, that does not feel right to me, but if
I'm not within the service, if I'm in the lobby,
I guess in my mind I've made that.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Okay, Okay, let's say you're having a bad morning, the
back is really acting up, and you're out the door
really late. What's the point in which you say, I'm
staying home for the day.

Speaker 7 (40:18):
I think once he's started teaching, I'm really uncomfortable going in,
so that would be the point.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Okay, thanks so much. I appreciate Paula, appreciate the phone
call Chris had to drop. I'm not sure what Chris
was going to share with me. Sick just about sixteen
past the hour. We will take a couple more calls.
If you want to call in, you're welcome to. I'm
going to offer a couple thoughts worth considering because I know,

(40:48):
I know that this is something everybody faces at one
time or another. Maybe you get to a place in
life where you you're just so disciplined about waking up.
It's like for me, I get up at four am,

(41:08):
and on the weekends it's hard for me to sleep
past six. I mean, just is so and my wife
she wakes up at five. So we're not sleeping in.
We're not gonna miss it. We're just at a stage
in our life that has nothing to do with age.

(41:29):
It has to do with lifestyle and what we do
professionally where we're not gonna be late because of time now,
flat tire or something like that. Okay, but I do
have some thoughts based on observation sixteen minutes past the hour,
where is this going? I wonder you gotta find out

(41:52):
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Speaker 1 (42:36):
All right, let's get back to the phone line for
we'll take these two calls. Get your thoughts on running
late to church. What's the deadline? Michael?

Speaker 9 (42:45):
Hello, Yeah, hey, Preston, good morning, going in the morning. And
my view is we have four little ones on the five. Oh,
we get there when we get there.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
You get there when you get there.

Speaker 10 (43:04):
Yeah, we are pressing.

Speaker 9 (43:05):
We're trying so hard, like you mean, like because two
of them are filling diapers by the time we get
to the car. I know, God knows we're trying so
we get there, and then sometimes people are the parents
that know they're just not their head because we just
walk in with the four little kids and two of us,
you know, so I know we are trying.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Do you ever think of leaving giving yourself another fifteen
twenty minutes on the front end?

Speaker 9 (43:33):
Yeah, we do, And sometimes you know that you know
these kids, you know, like and sometimes I wake up.
I'm an early bird, right, wake up around four am.
I get their clothes and everything ready, and just yeah,
we just try, and the kids are just in your
own world. And I think once we get to the house,
I know they are in your father's house. So that's

(43:55):
what's important, you know.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Thank you, Michael, I appreciate it's always good to hear
from you. Let's final caller here, Carl. What's up, Hey,
good morning, how we're doing good?

Speaker 4 (44:06):
All right? Well, here's my my thought process on the
church is some people get it a little confused. Church
is not just about worship, and it's not just about
the message, but it's also about fellowship. So if you're late,
you're late. But hey, you know, even if it's halfway
through the message, you know, the sermon at the very

(44:27):
end might be just the very word that you need
to hear. So if you can get there, as long
as the doors are open, you'll get there. And that's
that's the way I feel about it.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Carl, thanks a lot. I appreciate you calling in good way.
To end the callers segment, here's the thing that stands
out to me, and it goes back to it. It
actually kind of dovetails real nicely what Carl was just saying.
But I think that for many it reveals a need

(45:00):
to check a box. And again, this is that fine
line that's between you, each person and God, not for
anyone else to sit back and judge or worry about.
But I think that there are some that, like Carl said,

(45:23):
are motivated by I don't know what. God knows what's
going on in my life, why I was running late.
I'm gonna believe that there's something in this for me
in these final twenty five minutes. Fair enough, But my
experience as a Christian, as a vocational pastor and a

(45:49):
church attender and just a person, just a you know,
a guy who is like you, I fall short. I'm
not perfect. My hunch is not many are at that
maturity level. That's my hunch. My hunch is that a
lot of people now hear me, and this is not

(46:14):
just people running late. People running late just kind of
reveal it a little bit. But I think there are
a lot of people sitting in church that think that
this is paying their fire insurance premium. Okay, I paid
my premium for the week. And so I think that

(46:37):
this just provides an opportunity for every one of us
to just step back, reassess, remind ourselves. It's like, going
to church is about worshiping God, not you, not each other,
not the pastor. It's about worshiping God. It's about learning

(46:59):
more of His word. It's about that under construction process
that we are all in to try to be closer
to who He wants us to be. And so I
would just challenge everybody listening to make sure that you're
not going to church to check a box that makes sense.

(47:26):
I admire people that say I don't feel like it,
but I'm going. And I hope that if you're going
to check the box, it matures into I'm going because
obedience blesses God, and I know that He's going to
meet me there. I know that I just I found

(47:53):
the opportunity to talk about this topic through my observations
culminating into a question too good to pass up. I
just thought it was fun to have this discussion, So
hopefully it's useful. I don't know. If nothing else, it's
got you thinking about it. Twenty eight minutes to pass

(48:14):
the hour. Come back with the big stories in the
press box. Next hour, Doctor Bob McClure, James Madison Institute
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Speaker 1 (48:49):
What didn't get done in the legislative session from a
policy perspective, which the James Madison Institute leads needed to
be tackled, and what has to be a priority in

(49:10):
the twenty twenty six legislative session which begins right after
the new year. It's an early session because it's an
election year. They alternate early late later, early later, and
so it's an early session. We'll talk about that with
doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute. Focusing on

(49:30):
things that matter most to Floridians. One of the other
big stories in the press box we did not touch
on last hour. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
otherwise known as UNSCO. According to the State Department, the

(49:53):
United States yesterday informed the Director General of our decision
to with draw from UNESCO yes quoting continued involvement in
UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States.
UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and

(50:16):
maintains an outsized focus on the UN sustainable development goals,
a globalist ideological agenda for international development at odds with
our America First foreign policy. UNESCO's decision to admit the
State of Palestine as a member state is highly problematic,
contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of

(50:37):
anti Israel rhetoric within the organization. Guess who's really upset
about this? The French. The French Emmanuel macronvoys thoughts for you.

(51:01):
Nest GO is universal guardian of science, the ocean, education, culture,
and world heritage. The withdrawal of the United States well
not weekend, our commitment along those who lead this fight. Whatever,

(51:24):
we're out. And you know what that does. It saves
US sending money through UNESCO to all of these ridiculous,
absurd things that are being funded. I mean, you remember
some of the lists from USAID, USAID. It's just it's

(51:45):
embarrassing that we spend money on that. Your dollars going
to absurdities. Does homosexuality exist in Guinea pigs? Let's look,
I mean, just dumb stuff that we fund because and

(52:07):
some of it is uh is UNESCO scientific cultural. Why
do we need what? What? Nevermind? UH five hundred and
fifty billion dollar trade deal with Japan gonna bring a
lot of jobs to the United States. Here's what Here's
what Trump's saying to nations. Build here. You don't have

(52:31):
to pay any tariffs. Invest here. It's a win win.
You save shipping. You actually can create better margins because

(52:52):
you're not paying for shipping and tariffs. You're not paying
for the cost of having to to build. Whatever you're
building wherever you're building it. You just build it where
you're selling it, development, manufacturing, point of sale, all in
the same country. To win, we get jobs, taxes to

(53:17):
win and uh Manhattan Bob bomb plot foiled. Fed's charge
a guy in New York building stashing IEDs across the
city man forty one minutes past the hour. We will
not use his name.

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It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Friend of the
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(54:04):
a referral, a criminal referral on the Russian hoax. I
thought this might be fun to play. I held it.
I held it. It's like playing cards. You just hold
it is hold now is the time? Lay down the hand.

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Speaker 11 (54:33):
Trump has been saying that he will run for president
as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed
he was running as a joke.

Speaker 10 (54:46):
I think if he becomes a president, him make it great,
because the States is already.

Speaker 12 (54:50):
I think that man will be president of the United
States right about the time that spaceships come down, Bilbood
dinosaurs at redcaps.

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I'm not like Tom, but how about that.

Speaker 11 (55:03):
He had a really good chance to be different and
really have a chance to change you.

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But he doesn't do the work.

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He's lazy.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Donald Trump. Just last week he confirmed the National Review
that he is again considering a run in twenty sixteen.
Do it, do it, look at me, do it. I
will personally brought you a counterbine.

Speaker 11 (55:24):
Check now on behalf of this country which does not
want you to be presidents, but which bodly wants.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
You to run.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
He's not going to be president.

Speaker 7 (55:34):
Donald Trump is not going to be president of the
United States.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Take it to the bank, oh guarantee?

Speaker 1 (55:39):
All right, hi, and we better be ready for the
fact that he may be leading Republican ticket next.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
I know you don't believe that, but I want to
go on.

Speaker 12 (55:49):
And which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning
the general election?

Speaker 1 (55:54):
And culture the declared ones right now, Donald Trump on
Bill Maher's program, everybody on the panel.

Speaker 11 (56:05):
It just and so right now, mister Trump, to answer
your call for political honesty. I just want to say,
you're not going to be president. All right, it's been.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Fun, it's been great.

Speaker 9 (56:18):
I love you, but.

Speaker 11 (56:22):
Come on, come on, buddy, all let's say cow poopoo aside.
There is zero chance we'll be seeing you being sworn
in on the Capitol steps with your hand on a
giant golden bible.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president
in the history of the United States. Exclamation point at
real Donald Trump. Well, at real Donald Trump. At least
I will go down as a president.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
We'll stop right there. How interesting. Trump absolutely torched Obama
yesterday when the news of the criminal referral came out.
Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right

(57:13):
there with him, so was Sleepy Joe, Biden and the
rest of them, Komi Clapper, the whole group. They tried
to rig an election and then they got caught. Obama
himself manufactured the Russia Russia Russia hoax. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe,
numerous others participated in this. The crime of the century,
irrefutable evidence, a major threat to our country. Who has

(57:40):
the laugh? Now? Forty six minutes passed the hour.

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Would you do that for us? Please?

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Speaker 1 (58:21):
I had mentioned communist socialist Marxists. Whatever he is. It's
like a Neapolitan ice cream. It's ice cream, right, It's
different shades, different colors. Zorn Mamdani, Democrat nominee for mayor

(58:41):
of New York City. He loathed, loathes law enforcement, hates
law enforcement. He's called NYPD wicked, he's called NYPD racist,
calls it a major threat to public safety. Wants to
outsource policing to social workers. Oh yeah, yeah, imagine how

(59:05):
that's gonna work. And here's what you have to think about.
He knows how that's gonna work. He knows exactly how
that's gonna work. When New York City becomes de facto
Gotham City from one of the Batman movies, totally run

(59:28):
by criminals, where citizens can't walk on the streets, and
when they make a phone call, what they get as
a social worker responding to a crisis with what xanax
instead of a firearm? A pointed finger. Now stop that,

(59:51):
I'm gonna ask you again. Stop that. He has this
idea of literally getting homeless people into the subway system. Oh,
that's going to help with the number of people relying
on subways and the number of people that are mentally

(01:00:14):
ill and dangerous that are in the homeless population. And
he does all of this with a smile on his
face most of the time. But he said this about
prisons in jails, what purpose do they serve besides making
people feel good, referencing that it makes people feel good

(01:00:38):
about putting other people in prison or jail. He wants
to abolish prisons in jails. He has not deleted any
of this stuff from his social media chain, town Halls
Matt not Matt vesper Guy. Benson said, the guys is zealot.

(01:01:05):
He owns it. At least he owns it right. It's
not hidden, and that is a marked change in where
we are as a nation. They're not hiding anymore. You know,

(01:01:26):
when when the Communists were caught initially in this country
trying to subvert the nation during the Cold War, in
the wake of World War Two, they fled to the
Democrat Party. That's a fact that's not even debatable. They're

(01:01:48):
no longer doing that because it's splintering the Democrat Party,
and that's just fine. He believes in abolishing private property.
He believes that, and I'm going to read his quote.

(01:02:09):
I'd prefer if we abolished private property. He thinks it
should all be owned by the government and distributed on
a as needed basis government run grocery store. Has he
checked other places? Chicago abandoned the idea. In Kansas City,
it's been a disaster, losing upwards of a million million

(01:02:29):
and a half a year bare shelves crime. It's funny.
Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York, said that if
the guy wins the election, he's going to move to Florida.
The Santus responded, don't New York our Florida. What's the point, right,

(01:02:50):
what's the point of prisons? What's the point of jails?
He knows that's one of the ways socialist communists take
an iron fist to things. They let chaos ensue and
then they come with an iron fist. Doctor Bob McClure's next,

(01:03:24):
and we begin the third and final hour already, How
is it possible? I'll tell you how it's possible, because
there's a lot to talk about. That's how it's possible.
And time flies when you're chatting over things going on
in the world today. I am Preston. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Moah Prestin Scott. That is Jose can
you see And this is doctor Bob McClure. He's the

(01:03:48):
president of the James Madison Institute. Hello, my friend, how
are you.

Speaker 10 (01:03:52):
Good morning, sir, how are you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
I'm terrific. I was just noting that Ron De Santis
is begging Andrew Cuomo, man, don't move down here.

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
Yeah. I thought that was really funny. And for Cuomo,
who is the epitome of you know, every aspect of
his DNA is New York, to even utter those words
is just kind of apropos for what we're seeing happen
across the country. People are leaving states that overregulate, that
have crazy taxes and that you know, won't allow you

(01:04:26):
to run a business or do anything like that, and
then moving to states like Florida. I thought that was
really funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
One of the things that I think is worth reminding
listeners is JAMI, the James Madison Institute is focused laser
focused on policy. You've long said, Bob, that good policy
makes for good politics. As you look at the twenty
twenty five legislative session, now that it's done, there's a

(01:04:54):
rearview mirror. Now we can look back and take a
peek at it. In your opinion, what are the high
water marks of the legislative session. What are you most
pleased with?

Speaker 10 (01:05:07):
You know, with this session, the issue for our state
preston across the board, broadly speaking, is the cost of living,
and they're you know, the only thing that can drive
Florida's economy, if you will, into the ditch, is the
cost of living and the future of property insurance. So

(01:05:29):
last session, we as a state, and we at the
James Madison Institute, worked on two really important things. One
was offensive and one was defensive. On the offensive side,
we did a lot in housing, really focusing on trying
to drive down the cost of owning building, buying a house.

(01:05:50):
And on the defensive side, you know, the trial lawyers
have infiltrated parts of the Republican Party, if we can
be candid, and the trial lawyers aren't interested in what's
best for the state. They're interested in getting their own bread.
And so there was a very significant element that wanted
to roll back a lot of the insurance reforms in

(01:06:12):
the name of the protecting the people. And we were
able from a defensive standpoint to stop that. Those property
insurance reforms are working, presdents slowly, not fast enough, but
they're working Florida is leading the nation as property insurance
rates come down. Now we're going to see during hurricane
season how things roll out, but they continue to come

(01:06:33):
down because market forces are at work, not government regulation.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
You mentioned that the cost of living in Florida is
something that just has to be constantly monitored and looked at.
Earlier in the program, first hour of the show, we
talked about this buy up of property in Palm Beach.
One person is buying up literally millions, hundreds of millions

(01:06:58):
of dollars worth of property. And the comment made by
a local realtor down there is property values because of
purchases like this are going to go up in the area. Bob,
does that impact the state when you have a kind
of a pocket, if you will, where billionaires are dropping

(01:07:19):
money and raising prices.

Speaker 10 (01:07:21):
Yeah, it does, and in fact, it impacts the state
in a couple of different ways. One is the role
of local governments, in other words, how much money do
they spend? And Palm Beach their budgets are doubling Preston
about every seven years they have, their property values have increased,
their tax roles have increased. They continue to track government

(01:07:47):
local spending doubles about every seven years. And so that's
one issue we as a state need to look at
what are local governments doing. You know, as well as
I do. Our own government here in town uses our
city owned utility as a piggy bank, and it is
oftentimes a backdoor tax increase on folks who use our

(01:08:09):
city utilities. And we're small comparatively speaking to these municipalities
in South Florida, and so yes, it impacts at that
level local government spending, but also the role of taxation.
And here's the thing. People can move and that's the
important component, is the ability to move around, much like

(01:08:31):
people are moving to Florida for different reasons. You know,
we need to cap local spending and allow people to
have better opportunities because the cost of living is a
real issue. I mean, local government spending right now is
the big problem across the state.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Joining me, doctor Bob mcclurey. He's president of jm I,
affectionately known as that's the acronym for the James Madison Institute.
Here on the Morning with Preston Scott.

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Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Doctor Bob McClory joined us monthly from the James Madison Institute.
Dr McClure, I think the discussion over it ended up
being a stalemate where Florida's revenue streams are gonna go
or are we gonna pull away from property tax and
the property tax model. I've been advocating since I started
this program, literally for twenty three years, that with the

(01:09:45):
property tax system you never really own your own home,
your own piece of property. But at the same time
you had House Speaker Danny Perez want to cut the
sales tax down a permanent lowering of that. I thought
that was lacking wisdom. That discussion will have a lot
to say about local government revenues and what that might

(01:10:08):
look like moving forward. What from a policy perspective is
JMI thinking on this front.

Speaker 10 (01:10:16):
We're really excited about the possibility of elimiting property taxes.
I mean, you you have been talking about this, Preston,
as you said, for two decades plus, and people don't remember,
but Marco, when he was very young and Speaker of
the House, actually said something very similar. And he was
just a baby back then when he was our speaker
and it's the truth. I mean, if you have a

(01:10:38):
medical condition or you you know, you have you you know,
get disabled or something like that, you still have to
pay the government or they'll take your house. And so
this idea of eliminating the property tax is I think
very intriguing. As I just said, local municipalities or riding

(01:11:01):
a surfers wave of revenue. And you look across the
state and they these local governments continue to grow at
unchecked levels, and so not not all of them. I mean,
you have a lot of listeners. Listeners in very rural
areas of our state. I'm excluding those. You're not seeing

(01:11:21):
Madison County ride a wave of revenue. Uh, but you
are in many places. So if we if we emphasize
the sales tax, guess who helps pay that. Tourists, business
folks who come here. Uh, people who want to go
to you know, do different things around the state. We
have so many conferences and and and people coming from

(01:11:44):
across the country. We have, you know, almost the equivalency
of the entire population of the country of Germany vacation
in the state of Florida. Every year. They'll pay the tax.
Governor Santeus has talked about Canadians allow them to pay
the tax. Let's eliminate the property tax, either through some
sort of raising the exemption or you know, just something else.

(01:12:08):
But we're on that side because owning your home is
the American dream. But to your point, do you ever
really own it if you're continually paying property taxes that
are skyrocketing along.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
That same line, What then, is the answer for counties
and cities that rely on property taxes, school boards, et cetera.

Speaker 10 (01:12:31):
I think there's a couple of options, and I don't
have an answer for you upfront, but I think there
are several different options. One that's been floated is allow
local governments to raise their sales tax to not whatever
level they want, but to increase the sales tax to

(01:12:51):
a certain up to a certain number. Let's call it
like some sort of cap up to fifteen percent, based
on inflation and population, those kinds of things. That's one
idea that's been floated. The other idea is that the
state helps with the transition in terms of revenue. I
can't remember the exact number the governor talked about, but
he was talking about allowing the state to help with

(01:13:15):
the transition in terms of revenue. The you know, as
tax excuse me, as property values continue to increase, maybe
it's not total elimination of property taxes, but it's raising
the exemption. You know, there's been talks about the number
seven hundred and up to seven hundred and fifty thousand,
raising the tax the homestead exemption up to a certain

(01:13:37):
number based on that. So there are lots of different options.
One of the things we're doing at the James Madison
Institute is we're trying to figure out what the best
options are, and you're going to see us roll out
some policy recommendations by the fall, well in time for
committee weeks, because we have to get this right. But

(01:13:57):
I think it's a really important discussion have and the
data is there. We just have to get it right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Doctor Bob McClure with us for one more segment that's
coming up next here on the Morning Show to fla
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Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Radio station twenty two minutes past the hour, Doctor Bob
McClure with us, and doctor McClure, I can feel it
from my audience, so I'm going to try to intercept
an email that I know is coming. You had mentioned

(01:14:43):
before we transition here that as an option something that
you know, we're just spitballing here on the whole property
tax elimination thing and ways to offset that with revenue streams.
Locals being able to raise their local sales tax right now,
they can raise it a to one and a half percent. Correct, Yes, okay,

(01:15:05):
so you would have said fifteen percent increase. Are we
talking about a fifteen percent overall rate? Are we talking
fifteen percent on top of the one and a half max?
Leon County's at the max at one and a half percent?
What it just kind of dissect that just a little more,
just again throwing the idea against the wall.

Speaker 10 (01:15:23):
Yeah, okay, Now, to be clear to your listeners, this
is just these are these are things that are being floated.
You know, you could, for example, have one sales tax
in Gadston County a different sales tax in Leon and
it would be overall. We're talking about overall. We're not
talking about fifteen percent on top of what is already there. Now,

(01:15:45):
it could be thirteen, it could be you know, some
other number. But the devil's in the details, but that
is one way to mitigate these issues with property taxes.
It's a user tax. It's it's what you know, people
say when they want to get rid of the income tax,
and you know, and turn things into a user tax.

(01:16:08):
And so that that's what that's that's what we're talking about.
Think about it that way. Think about it. If they
eliminated the income tax and they didn't go with the
flat tax, which is a whole separate hour discussion with
you and me, people talk about going to a user
tax and and and so that's what we're talking about
at the local level. And each county could be different.

(01:16:29):
You know, you started this whole segment, Preston with Andrew
Cuomo being driven out of New York because of taxes
and regulations. Well what about people in Palm Beach County?
They could, they can't. You could. You could do the
same thing in the state. People can move from county
to county. I'm not suggesting this, and I'm not saying
Joe Biden saying well they need to learn to code.

(01:16:51):
That's not what I'm saying at all. But what I'm
saying is the sales tax increase in return for eliminating
the property tax is one way of doing this, and
it's at least a discussion.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
What if we eliminated it once a mortgage is paid.

Speaker 10 (01:17:11):
Yeah, yeah, uh huh, you know there's there There would
still be in some counties. Obviously, it have to The
devil would be in the details of the math in
terms of for you know, these local municipalities that look,
the Floridians struggle. They want to eliminate property taxes, but

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they understand the need for services, fire, police and funding.
I put that in air quotes local public schools, so
that that is certainly an option.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Tell me this what would be most important? What are
other than what we've just talked about where you guys
are kicking around some proposals to uh to put in
front of lawmakers policy wise for the next session on
this issue of revenue for the state and for local governments.
What is issue one B? What is the issue that

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they either did not tackle, did not tackle appropriately, and
must tackle in the next legislative session.

Speaker 10 (01:18:16):
I think really one I think there's one B in
one C and one is offense and one is defense.
One B is the trial. Lawyers are coming back for
another bite at the Apple, and we have really got
to keep them at bay. We've got a number of
Republicans in the legislature that have become beholden too comfortable

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and too cozy with the trial bar, which is not
interested in what's best for the state of Florida. So
that is issue one B. We have got to keep
them at bay for a while longer to allow you're
talking about driving up the cost of living, the threat
of a lawsuit for every business, small, medium and large.

(01:19:00):
What drives up the cost of living. There was an
estimate by the Florida Chamber of Commerce that it was
essentially to facto tax of about five thousand dollars a
year on every single Floridian in the state before these
performances were put in place. So that's issue one B.
Keep the trial bar at bay. See is housing. We
have to continue to work on how to decrease the

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cost of housing through permitting times and fees that are
not called taxes at the local level, impact fees that
impact fees. Yeah, so that's the other issue that's going
to be a continually evolving issue. But I can't emphasize
enough to you that at the local level and in

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the lots of areas of the state. The spending and
the government regulation component is what's driving up the cost
of living in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Doctor McClure always enjoy our visits, looking forward to our
next one. Already, Thank you sir for your time.

Speaker 10 (01:20:02):
Thanks for having me, buddy, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Doctor Bob McClure with us President of the James Madison Institute,
the best guests. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Stunning drive version of an audio magazine and keeping you
company as you prepare for your day. It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
Tomorrow on the program Hurricane Preparedness. Try to remind you
of some dos and don'ts, some things to make sure
that you are prepared for. And this is really useful
for those of you that are new to the state.

(01:21:04):
And as we were talking about with doctor Bob McClure
from the James Madison Institute, there are lots of new
people in Florida. You don't know what to do when
it comes to preparing for a hurricane season, and we're
in it. The likelihood of a hurricane expands as we
get closer to the end of it. It is backloaded

(01:21:26):
for the most part, historically speaking. We'll get to all
of that tomorrow on the program. Also tomorrow, on the program,
Pumpkin lattes really really, Yeah, we're going to talk about those.
I just think there needs to be some seasonal sensitivity, Okay,

(01:21:48):
and we're not. We're not respecting the seasons. It's like
walking into a store right now and seeing the Christmas
stuff going up. It's just, look, I'm all about Christmas
in July, but you know what that is, just a
little shopping, just a little personal Yeah. But I don't.
I don't need to see Christmas stuff up in July.

(01:22:10):
I don't. I just don't. I don't mind listening to
Christmas music as I'm driving around. I'll put on a
CD that has some Christmas music on it because it
makes me happy. All right, Big stories in the press
box bomb plot foiled in Manhattan. Dude had manufactured at

(01:22:32):
least seven improvised explosive devices otherwise known as IDs. In fact,
he tossed one on subway rails in New York City.
There's photograph of it stored him on a rooftop and
soho I mean domestic terrorist. No, I will not use

(01:22:56):
his name. No, I will not give him fame. I
would rather him live in shame than for me to
ever use his name. Big Stories in the press Box,
brought to you by doctor Seuss. Trump secures a five

(01:23:19):
hundred and fifty billion dollar train deal with Japan. Trade
deal with Japan. The negotiating of this was simple. This
is the tariff that we're looking at. However, if you
do this, there don't have to be any tariffs done done.

(01:23:46):
And that's what we're doing right now. Us also out
of UNESCO. It is the un educational, Scientific and Cultural
organization otherwise known as a sieve for our tax dollars,
ideologically totally opposed to what we believe in as a country,
and so we have pulled out of membership. Good good,

(01:24:10):
Secretary of State. We're making good changes here. The problem
is that we've got to find a way to put
these things to cement them in place, so another president
doesn't come and be a jerk and put us back
into this stuff. Just remember, anything we get back into
we're spending money. We don't have it. Forty minutes past

(01:24:32):
the Houbum come back a shocking development. Guy, Do what
you're talking about. What you will be talking and most importantly,
what you should be talking about. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. It's a cultural war that you can

(01:25:05):
choose to engage in or not. Right, they're all around us.
Wokeness is everywhere, so you have to pick and choose.
Some people vote with their dollars, their foot traffic where
they do commerce Target learned that Lesson still learns it

(01:25:28):
from time to time depending on what it does. Walmart
has learned that other businesses Ikea now in the in
the bullseye. Now, I'm all about Ikea. I think they
are innovative in what they do and how they do it.

(01:25:50):
Their furniture is really cool. It's Scandinavian obviously, which I'm
a minimalist by nature. That's just kind of my style.
But it can be a little cheap, it can and
assembling some of their stuff can be a little challenging.

(01:26:12):
But they're facing a lawsuit for unlawfully firing a Christian
who refused to use trans pronouns. I'm not remotely surprised
that Ikea is a store that on the page of
their on a page on their website, they describe how

(01:26:35):
to be an everyday ally and make safe make space
for the LGBTQ I A plus community whatever. But apparently
this guy refused to use the them pronouns related to
a trans employee and he got fired for it. Can

(01:27:01):
I I'm trying to just go through how that even matters. Okay,
let's just for a second, say that Jose's a tranny
and he insists on me using they them, it's ma'am, Well,

(01:27:27):
but you want the they them versus the the he.
So I would have to be talking about him, not
to him, right, No, I mean, under any forget the
grammatical nonsense. Even in any setting in which they them

(01:27:50):
is relevant, I would have to be talking about him,
not to him, wouldn't I. Now again, I'm asking the
question because I could certainly be wrong about this. In
what setting would it be appropriate to use the pronouns
they them when I'm talking about they or them? You

(01:28:12):
know what they say? You know what what? You know
what they think? I suppose in a staff meeting, if
we're sitting around the table, well, you know, he's always
believed and see, I would get around that by using
their name. I would just use their name, and then

(01:28:33):
I'm not stuck in the personal pronoun thing. But If
you really step back and think about it, why would
he be fired for not using they them because he's
never using the He's likely never using they them in
front of him or her or it or whatever. Right,

(01:28:53):
So this is an interesting position that Ike has put
itself in. I that's again, at some point we've got
to get the Supreme Court to settle this stuff. You

(01:29:14):
cannot force somebody else to engage in another person's delusion
or illusion. I don't think I could be wrong, but
I don't think I am so just man, It's it's

(01:29:37):
the Morning show, right, this is what we do. We
talk about the things in the news and try to
make sense of it all. And if we can't, we just.

Speaker 9 (01:29:50):
Well you can do.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
Jose was already take an issue with this final segment
of the program a half hour ago. I wrote in
the rundown, no jeords. It's true. Jeorts are back in style.

Speaker 13 (01:30:39):
Oh my gosh, I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
I'm just reporting the news. Jeorts our jeans and shorts. Okay,
they're blue jeans, but they are hemmed. They're not cutoffs.
They're shorts that are knee length. They are officially back

(01:31:11):
in style. They were common in the nineties. They were
absolutely a thing. I've never looked at clothing through the
lens of a fashion statement. I'm very utilitarian when it
comes to clothing, and my style doesn't change. Really, It's like,

(01:31:33):
if in a perfect world and I were the same
size I was when I was thirty, I'd wear the
same clothes I wore when I was thirty. I just
there wouldn't be any change. But we're not talking Daisy Dukes.

(01:31:56):
We're not talking those short, short, short cutoffs. But but yeah,
and I'm reading into this article here that's from Epic Times.
There's no age limit. From the fashion perspective on George, Longer,
looser styles are popular now, excellent choice for the fifty
plus women. I believe fifty women over fifty are gravitating

(01:32:18):
toward longer denim shorts because it's simple, comfy and meets
cool style. They give off that effortless vibe while still
keeping you covered and comfortable. Okay, look, I can't think
of a better way to end the Wednesday edition of
the Morning Show than to tell you go ahead and
buy yourself some Geordan. Brought to you by Barno Heating

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and Air.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
It's the Morning Show on WFLA like you need.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
The fashion police of the Morning show to tell you something. Right.
Our verse today comes from Joshua one verse nine. That's
where we started the program. Little command from the Lord.
It's a good kind of command. It's a look. None

(01:33:10):
of the commands are bad, but this one is a
encouraging one that makes any sense. It will if you
read Joshua won nine. Big story in the press box today,
the trade deal with Japan. Good for America, good for Japan,

(01:33:31):
to win, win win everybody we win, they win to win.
French are really angry at us for jumping out of UNESCO.
You don't know what UNESCO is. Listen back to the program,
you'll learn. Manhattan bomb plot foiled. Dude had seven, at

(01:33:51):
least seven IEDs. He had targeted various parts of Manhattan,
and in fact dropped one into intentionally onto a subway track.
Zoorn Mom, Donnie speaking of New York City. Yeah, yeah,
that's exactly what New York needs is a guy who
thinks that prisons. What's the point of having prisons in jails?

(01:34:17):
Trump went scorched earth on Obama.

Speaker 9 (01:34:21):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Presidents have a tendency to over you know, be it
same functions. Cannot wait. If they are in the same
space again, they aren't gonna be laughing like they were
earlier this year. Tomorrow we got a great show already
lined up. Cannot wait. Friends, have an awesome day. Thanks

(01:34:42):
for joining us.