Ep. 5430: Where the bee's are.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, August 13th.

Our guests today include:
- Dr. Bob McClure 





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hata hi. It is Wednesday, August the thirteenth. Oh you
know what they say about Wednesday the thirteenth. Nothing? Absolutely not.
Just Welcome to the five thousand, four hundred and thirtieth
occasion that I have started this radio program known as

(00:35):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. How are you? I'm Preston,
He's Jose. Can you see Manning Studio one A. That's right,
he's in one A. I am in one B. Going
for the big number three Today is Jose, We're We're

(00:57):
We'll spare you. Today's program will feature is with doctor
Bob McClure from JMI. We will discuss a lot of
interesting stories today. You know, there are a couple of stories,
but most are just really you don't say, and one

(01:17):
is sneaky. I've got a story that is sneaky important
as in every single one of you needs to know
about it. I don't care who you are. You need
to know about this story. What is it? Well? I
guess you'll need to listen now, won't you. Let's start

(01:39):
with some scripture. What makes this particular passage in Nahom
one verse seven, and this again, this is one of
those read nay whom because one day an eternity, you're
gonna bump into them and it would just be brutally
difficult on you. Uh yeah, I meant, I meant, I'm sorry.

(02:05):
I've never read your book. Right at the beginning of
nahum Ie, God is just jamming on Nineveh. Now, if
you're thinking, wha wait, wait, wait wait Nineveh didn't didn't
Nineveh get preached to by Jonah and didn't they repent

(02:28):
and have this massive revival? Yeah? M h yep. Now
right now, I want you to start drawing parallels. Jonah
didn't want to go to Ninevah hated the ninav I,
hated them. God got his point across to Jonah and

(02:54):
said you will go. And so Jondah was like, after
a few coaxes from God, sounds like a good idea
to me. Lord and the Ninavites preached, received the preaching
and repented. Now Jodah was angry about it because you

(03:16):
didn't like them. We're about roughly a century later and
in the first six verses of nahum Ie, God is
just railing on Nineveh because they have backslidden. They have

(03:40):
gone big time backwards. So I want you to think
about that that context of a people that had surrendered
and said, yep, God is God, and we're going to
do things his way, and lived that way. And then
gradually over time, like the boiling of the frog with water,

(04:02):
that started out room temperature and then got a little
warmer and a little warmer and a little warmer. They
got used to their sin, and they walked right back
into it, and God was having none of it. And
then comes verse seven. This is what I want to
focus on. Ready, the Lord is good, a stronghold in
the day of trouble. Listen, Now, He knows those who

(04:27):
take refuge in him parallel to your own life. Do
you take refuge in him? Yes? Or no? Are you

(04:49):
trying to kind of work this all out your way
and doing things your way? And I'll show you and
whatever the case might be. Are you in a bat
sliden state and you're sitting around trying to figure out
why things have gone south? Really, God knows who is

(05:13):
taking refuge in him. Don't be fooled. Ten past the
Hours The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WFLA. I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take three of

(05:43):
my first half hour features and put them in this
segment because I want a little more time in the
next segment to talk about Greg guttfeld On Jimmy Fallon,
because it's phenomenal, The story is phenomenal. This state in history.

(06:04):
Thirteenth of August seventeen eighty four. Congress meets for the
final time in Annapolis, Maryland, temporary capital after the Revolutionary War.
Eighteen sixty. Annie Oakley born in Dark County, Ohio. I'm
guessing it's dark. It could be dark, but I'm guessing dark.

(06:24):
Opha May Johnson in nineteen eighteen becomes the first woman
to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve a Girl. Nineteen sixty,
the first two way telephone conversation by satellite takes place
via the balloon satellite Echo one, and in nineteen eighty one,
President Reagan signs a package of tax and budget reductions

(06:47):
that mark a historic change in the direction for the
federal government. See, yeah, we'll just leave that right there.
Didn't last now, did it? Today? Is this? Is it?
It's National Filet Mignon Day. Do you know what Filet
Mignon means? It is French for a cute filet or

(07:10):
dainty filet. It is in a French menu. Filet mignon
may also refer to pork rather than beef. It comes
from the most tender portion of the tenderloin, one of

(07:33):
the most prize cuts of beef, which is why it's
so expensive. It's from the smaller end of the tenderloin
of of a cow beef cow. I am not. It's
funny because I love a great steak. I just don't

(07:57):
eat them very often. And I don't know why A well,
a perfectly cooked steak is to me a thing of
just unbelievable goodness. That said, I can understand why a cook,

(08:24):
a chef, a grill master would be livid with somebody
putting a one or something or whatever on a steak.
I get it a seasoned rub butter, maybe some garlic butter.
Cook it in some garlic butter on a on a
flat top. Yeah, yeah, it's a filet mignon that's properly cooked.

(08:51):
Is just it's it's it's so hard to describe how
incredible it is. But that said, to me, I would
a great chef doesn't use one. I would have to
use a meat thermometer. I would have to. And if
somebody asked me to cook a filet mignon well done,

(09:13):
I would just refuse. I just would. I know. I
will not spend that money on that cut of steak
to have it absolutely obliterated and turned into just a
standard piece of meat. No, because flay that's properly cooked
literally melts in your mouth. I mean, it just does.
It's just different. Boy, Do I want a steak right now? Man? Mi?

(09:41):
Did you know see we're bringing it into this segment
here today? Did you know we've talked about it with
doctor Steve Steveson in our Pause for Thoughts segment. Never
feed your dog chocolate. Never, because it contains the potentially
toxic alkaloid theobromine, which they can't metabolize. Small dogs can

(10:06):
die from as little as fifty grams of chocolate. So
don't think it's cute. Make sure your kids understand, no,
do not feed your dog chocolate. So we've gone from
filet mignon to don't feed your dog chocolate. I don't
know how we got there, but we just did. Sixteen

(10:26):
past the hour, we come back a really fascinating story
twenty two past the hour. I've shared with you that
the reason Fox News exists is because of Rush Limbaugh.

(10:53):
Rush proved there was a massive audience of people that
wanted to hear conservative comment and get a counterbalance to
what the mainstream news media was feeding us. Fox Rupert

(11:17):
Murdoch smartly jumped on that, and they have crushed their
competition ever since. If I were to ask you what show,
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, which show is the

(11:42):
king of late Night, you would be shocked to learn
it's Greg Guttfeld on Fox. It is not any of
those other three. So it was fascinating when Gutfeld made
an appearance on NBC's Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Gutfeld

(12:12):
made an appearance, Fallen had the biggest show of the year.
In fact, the program had a fifty seven percent increase
of their normal average viewership. Fifty seven percent increase. But

(12:36):
even with that one point seven million viewers, even with
a guest host on the Gutfeld Show, because he was
there doing that, Gutfeld had two point seven million. Even

(12:57):
without Gutfeld on fire Box. Here's what makes this so significant.
Not only did Jimmy Fallon have his biggest audience of
the year. The key demographic for television is viewers twenty

(13:21):
five to fifty four. It was up thirteen percent because
of Gutfeld. It underscores what we have been saying for

(13:41):
years about what's gone wrong with Disney, what's gone wrong
with the Marvel franchise, what's gone wrong with brands that
decide to cater to fringe groups instead of their mainstream market.
It underscores is the genius of Michael Jordan's saying Republicans

(14:03):
by sneakers too. I wonder if the executives at NBC
are sitting around right now with Fallon and they're just
I mean, the day after or or when they get

(14:24):
the ratings back. I'm sure they gather and they say, Okay,
this resonated, this didn't resonate, blah blah blah blah blah.
And I know that there's a certain degree of creative
license that has to go into any show. It goes
into our show. My show follows a standard, tried and
true programming ideology of radio, where there is a singular

(14:50):
host and it is talk about the things that you
feel passionate about. Rush was the best at it, and
there's nobody even close. The Howard Stearns of this world

(15:14):
are irrelevant to me because they're so profane and so vile.
I don't care. I just don't care. And the fact
that he has this massive audience and he was making
this massive sum of money, I don't care. So what
if you gain the world and lose your soul whatever,
I don't care. It doesn't matter. Howard Stern's not my

(15:37):
competition or anybody I'm not. I don't compete with anybody.
I compete with myself. I try to do the best
I can every day. But I'm wondering if they're sitting
around a table at NBC going, well, you think maybe
we ought to diversify our our guest list a little bit. Look, guys,

(16:04):
we have. We had We had fifty seven percent more
people listening or watching our program, And that tells me
that there's a large audience out there that does not
routinely watch, but watched because of our content this night.
Now we can we can go ahead and pigeonhole ourselves,

(16:26):
or we can say, let's try to make more money
and broaden our audience a little bit. What do you
think now? There's probably gonna be pushback, but we need
to hold our standards. Whatever whatever, go back, go do
that into bankruptcy. I don't care anyway. What a what
an amazing, amazing little sub sub story there. Twenty eight

(16:50):
passed the hour. You will not believe the big story
in the press box, at least one of them.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You mayor of real dispensing information at the speed of sound.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Got some notes, thankfully about the missing podcast yesterday. Remember
I said yesterday, and if you were listening to the
program yesterday, and if you weren't, but you heard me
talk about I can't get this sound a load. Well,
we had a cable cut issue, and so the fiber

(17:55):
into the studio had had a problem. And my guess
is we had some work done in our back area
here where they finally mowed down the grass around our
all of our satellite stuff and our generator, and I'm
guessing they cut a cable. That's my guess, but I

(18:16):
don't know anyway. Either way, it doesn't matter. We got
it repaired, which means the podcast is up. Yesterday's podcast
didn't make it, but it is up and loaded. Now,
so there you go. Yesterday's show is available to you.
Big stories in the press box here Wednesday on the program.
I'll go ahead and get the newsworthy one out of

(18:38):
the way before we get to the one that's like,
oh yeah, gotta talk about this. Consumer price Index indicates
that inflation is cooling a bit more than expected. Consumer
prices still rose in the last twelve months since last July,
but but it came out a little better than was expected.

(19:03):
Even CNN was out there saying, wait a minute, energy
fell largely because gas prices fell in July. And then
food is flat, actually down just a tick at the
grocery store. Now, this cannot mask and should not mask,

(19:26):
the fact that we have a growing deficit and debt.
So I just I want to throw a little bit
of rain on that parade, okay, because it's Look, if
we don't maintain our objectivity here, we are, we're useless.

(19:50):
We have to deal with the debt and the deficit.
We are in an unsustainable path. We are going to
collapse under the weight of the debt. Now, let's get
to the other big story you ready, I'll take more
time with this next hour. Apparently Independence Day next year

(20:11):
is two hundred and fifty years of America. We're going
to celebrate two hundred and fifty years, and what better
way to celebrate it than with an MMA fight event
card on the south lawn of the White House. Data

(20:31):
White announced that there will be an event. He and
Trump are friends. Trump's a fan of MMA. He is
working with Milania on deciding how the venue is going
to be constructed on the south lawn of the White House.

(20:59):
They think think they can see twenty five thousand, and
they're gonna do it. It was announced it's gonna happen.
I'm sure at some point we'll talk about it more,
but I just I just want to take a moment
and marvel at that forty minutes past the hour, UFC

(21:23):
Cage fight coming to the south lawn to the White House.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Getting some email compliments on Jose's newscast, Our little minority
has come a long way.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
He's worked very hard on his news skills, and I'm
very proud of him. He's doing great. If you don't
get the local newscast, I understand, but it is something
to behold. I am so grateful that I do not

(22:16):
live in Michigan. I'm grateful. I don't live in a
whole bunch of states in this country. Well, there is
beauty and redeemable qualities in every state. There are some

(22:40):
states that have, from a political perspective, sold themselves out
to Satan. I don't know how else to put it. California,
New York, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon. But

(23:15):
Michigan is now distinguishing itself as being the poster child
for voter fraud. The Department of Justice is demanding Secretary
of State Joscelyn Benson, who now is running for governor,

(23:42):
provide documents related to the voter registration process. They want
her to explain duplicate registration which listen, Duplicate registrations make
up forty five point seven percent of all transactions, low

(24:03):
removal rates of ineligible voters, potential violations, and federal voter
ID laws, compliance with the National Voter Registration Act and
Help America Vote Act. She was given fourteen days to comply,
she said, screw you. She's not replying at all. So far,

(24:26):
three hundred and twenty thousand ghost voters have been identified
on Michigan's voter rolls. Middle aged women registered to vote
at Michigan State University at a all male fraternity house.
How's that? How's that? Possible votes being cast from addresses
that don't exist, dead voters, sixteen known foreigners who registered

(24:51):
to vote and voted in the twenty twenty four election,
and now this Israeli the addresses used to register multiple
permanent absentee voters. It all happened from one Detroit coffee shop,

(25:11):
and unfortunately for Michigan, one reporting outlet, Gateway Pugnan sent
a journalist to the addresses in Israel. They called the bluff.
These are permanent absentee voters claiming some form of residence

(25:37):
but living in Israel. So someone said, okay, fine, we'll
go to Leah's house. Oh, and then Leah's house, Oh,
and then Leah's house, all of these Leah's that registered
from the same coffee shop, from these addresses in Israel.
They went to the addresses, they sent a journalist there,

(25:57):
and no one lives there. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Michigan.
And don't anyone dare tell me there's not voter fraud.
Of course there's voter fraud. Of course there is. Every
time I talk about this there are people that say, oh,

(26:20):
there's no such thing as voter of course there is.
There's voter fraud happening across the country. And if you
don't know that there's voter fraud, you just are clueless
and I can't help you. I would question why you listen,
because this is a show for thinking people. Not necessarily

(26:41):
people that agree with me, but people that think because
someone that is if you don't think there's voter fraud
and you hear me make a comment like this, you
should immediately go check and see and don't look in
your traditional sources. You got to dig because the mainstream
media and the alphabet industry out there, they make sure

(27:03):
to filter these kinds of stories and make them very
difficult to find. But they're there. The unresolved questions from
twenty twenty are there. This, This is a fact. Why
isn't the Secretary of State responding to these inquiries by
the Department of Justice? If everything's on the up and up,
that's done the material forty seven to forty eight minutes

(27:26):
after the hour. Yeah, Colorado is also a state that

(27:46):
is declined in its stature beautiful state, but it has
surrendered itself. It used to be and may still be
a bit of a hub for the Christian publishing world.
Colorado Springs used to be the home of Focus on

(28:07):
the Family. Don't know if it's still there, but it's
now a cesspool of the left. Just look at what's
happened to the cake baker, Masterpiece Bakery. I think it
is had to go to the United States Supreme Court,

(28:29):
basically lost. I don't know if he's still in business
or not, because they've been his business has been targeted
by the extreme left LGBTQ community that demanded he make
them a wedding cake to their specifications, and he's like, no,

(28:50):
I don't do same sex wedding cakes. Sorry, You're welcome
to buy any cake here and have it decorated however
you see fed elsewhere. But I'm not doing it. And
it's it's it's an it's absolutely open and shut. Anyone
can shop there, but custom made products. No. No, you

(29:13):
can't make somebody make a T shirt that they don't
want to make. You can't make somebody paint a painting
they don't want to paint. You can anyone can buy
an existing painting. Anyone can buy an existing cake. Anyone
can buy an existing shirt and you can do whatever

(29:33):
you want with it, but you can't make content creators
create something they don't want to create. But in Colorado,
their governor, their court system, they don't see things that way.

(29:54):
Now we come to the Denver Post. There's a group
of citizens that have a website called Do Better Denver
and it's not really a website, it's social media presence
and three people that aren't the administrators of it, but
just are supporters of it and involved with it by

(30:16):
being being out there. They dug up public information records
and they started outing the deeds, not not personal information,
deeds of elected officials. Well, they didn't like it, so
the Denver Post docks them. They dug up their personal names,
to addresses and so forth and published it. And they're

(30:37):
actually defending themselves and doing so the Denver Post is
this is why the mainstream media, generally speaking, is horrible
and an agent of Satan. There's little decency to be
found anywhere in the industry, and it's why it's collapsing

(31:01):
on itself. Add the Denver Post to the list as
an example of a state that's gone wrong. Second hour
of the Morning Show with Preston. Scott is next, how

(31:36):
is it that we have a member of Congress that
says I'm a Guatemalan before I'm an American. Those are
grounds to immediately remove her from office. It's a violation
of her oath of citizenship. It's a violation of her
oath of citizenship. She has no right to be a

(31:57):
member of Congress. If well, if I'm not mistaked, well, no,
you can run. If you were, if you were born
in another country, you just can't be president, I think.
But regardless whether she was born here or not, no
right to be in Congress anyway. I'm sorry. I said
earlier that this is this is the second hour of
the Morning Show with President Scott Im Preston, and he's ose. Hey.

(32:19):
I mentioned earlier that I had a story that matters
to every single one of you, even if you don't
think it matters to you, Oh, it does. And I
came across a twenty five page report that I have

(32:43):
been pouring through for the last few days to get
the best handle on it that I possibly can to
be able to share this with you. The story comes
from Epic Times. It's a premium report. Here's the headline

(33:03):
record US honeybe losses and what might mite be behind them.
The sub headline is b colonies in the United States
are being decimated by mites that have developed immunity to

(33:24):
a key pesticide. I have commented and talked about, in fact,
even several years ago. You might remember Rick Flagg. Rick
Flagg used to do news for US years ago, was
involved in our hurricane coverage. A delightful guy. Tended to

(33:50):
wear his politics and his newscasts, but that's okay. I
really love and respect Rick. Rick also is a beekeeper,
and I remember talking to him about possibly putting a hive,

(34:11):
a colony a box in my yard. This story started
to get my attention back then when there were talks
that cell phone towers were disrupting bees in some form
or fashion. And cell phone towers were going up all

(34:34):
over the place, and they may play a role, but
that's not what's happening by and large across the country. Example,
Freeo Country Farms family owned, lost two thousand of their
three thousand beehive colonies in one year. The reason is

(35:05):
it's called a verroa might it has become immune to amatros,
which is the primary pesticide used to kill it. It's
become immune to it. You know, we talk about antibiotics.
Do you take an antibiotic too often? Your body just says, yeah,
it doesn't. It doesn't impact you anymore because you've taken

(35:27):
it too much. This is exactly what's happened. And this
is the second treatment that this might has grown immune to.
It is developed immunities to two different treatments now in
the last twenty five years. Viruses spread by this particular might,
which is described as like putting a plate on your

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chest that then burrows in. That's its relative size to
a bee. It's like a plate on our chest, burrows in,
kills the bee. It's blood, poisons, it spreads viruses among
the colony, decimates, it collapses the colony. Virtually every b

(36:13):
colony that's collapsing, virtually all of them traced to this might.
The importance of this I'm going to get to next
ten past the hour, It's Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(36:42):
According to the USDA, beekeepers lost one point seven million
colonies in six months ending this past January. That's a
sixty percent loss. Some be keep lost eighty percent of
their hives. Survey carried out by Apary Inspectors of America

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noted colony losses more than fifty five percent in a
twelve month period ending April first. Here is why it matters.
One third of food crops rely on bees to pollinate. Carrots, onions, blueberries, apples, cucumbers, melons,

(37:40):
almonds among the crops that must have bees for pollination.
This is why I said to you as the build
into this segment, this affects every single one of you.

(38:02):
If you take the crops out of the grocery stores
that are impacted by bees, the produce section starts looking
a little different, doesn't it. Texas has tried to get
ahead of the curve. They're offering tax breaks to landholders

(38:23):
that put beehives in acres larger than five five acres
or larger. There's some six thousand backyard beekeepers or medium
sized beakers, small businesses, commercial bee operators in Texas. Researcher

(38:44):
at Texas A and M University and homologist Garrett Slater,
he has one goal. All he's working on is this
to breed queen bees that produce bees that destroy the
Verroa mites within a colony. Because if the mites are
inside the colony. They don't just affect the bees that

(39:09):
are working and pollinating or trying to. They collapse the
colony by killing the larvae they feed on them. They're vampires.
These mites are vampire mites in the world of bees,
and so he's focused on trying to find a way to,

(39:30):
in essence, build immunity from within the colony by creating
a certain type of worker bee that's capable of eating
the mites and destroying them. Beekeepers have been using insecticides
to kill mites, but they became immune to that in
two thousand and five. It's a particular kind called kumaphos.

(39:54):
Then they switch to u amatros, but amatro they developed
immunity to, and that's the most prevalent pesticide used. Some
beekeepers use organic pesticides exalic acid, foamic acid, thymol. The

(40:16):
problem is in warmer Southern states, fomic acid and thymol
can't be used. Once the temperature rises above eighty five degrees,
it's useless. As for exolic acid, it won't kill the
mites that hatch inside the cells where they begin to
feed on the larvae. You're beginning to see now the problem.

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They talk about the five p's of this problem parasites, pathogens, pesticides,
poor nutrition, and poor management. One of the things that
happens is people spray pesticides in their yards or on
their crops, but they do it at a time when

(41:05):
the bees are out and most active, and they end
up by collateral damage, killing all the bees. So they're
now trying to get people to spray pesticides for their
crops at night or at times when bees just aren't
active to reduce the amount of kill from the pesticides,

(41:31):
which are designed to protect the crops, not kill the bees.
But they do kill the bees because that's what they do,
They kill bugs. And so it's a very complex set
of problems to deal with one singular issue. And now

(41:55):
we're seeing a global problem with honey bees. Now I
came across in this particular report some thoughts on ways
to battle this from people that use bees for one

(42:16):
purpose to produce honey. Obviously, this is decimating the honey
production of the country, but honey only accounts for a
small portion of the good that bees do in our
total food chain. We're gonna get to that next. This

(42:38):
is important and I'm gonna share with you when we
come back, some things to be aware of for you
in your home, in your yard, in your backyard to
just help keep the bee population alive because it's vital.
Get to that next year on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, we now come to what we can do

(43:39):
to try to help. We're talking about the decimation of
the honeybee population in our country. We're talking of losses
of fifty to eighty percent of the population of honeybees
that exist to pollinate crops that we depend on. You know,

(44:05):
when you add this issue up and some of you
might be out there going, really this is the story everyone, Yes,
when you put this in conjunction with China buying up
our farmland, with Bill Gates buying up farmland to stop farming.

(44:26):
Bill Gates is not buying up land for farming purposes.
He's buying up farmland to stop farming so there are
no cattle ranches because of methane and the gases that
they admit. He's doing this to cause problems with the
food supply. Now, factor in that a bunch of crops

(44:53):
are dependent on bees for pollination, and that being on
shaky ground in this country because of the collapse of
bee colonies nationwide. That's why it's important now. One particular
couple that's just a husband and wife. They produce honey.

(45:19):
Each high brings about one hundred pounds of honey that
retails for nine dollars a pound. They come from Romania,
I believe, to the United States years ago. They've been
doing it for eighteen years. They live in North Dakota.
North Dakota is great because of the abundance of wildflowers

(45:41):
canola crops. He says that verroa mites haven't hurt his
hives because he routinely treats for parasites, losing three to
five percent of his bees a year. He switches between
amatroz and exolic acid so the mites can't develop an
immunity to one or the other. He goes back and forth.

(46:05):
He checks every two weeks. I don't know how you
check a bee for mites. I don't know if you
just grab one randomly and look at it under a
magnifying glass. I don't know how you do it, but
he does it. But they manage their hives differently. They

(46:26):
leave the They leave the wax comb because it creates
a place for the bees to return to begin creating
honey faster, and he says, look, they work so very
hard to create those wax combs. We do everything we
can to avoid disrupting that. They don't use air to

(46:50):
blow the bees out. They use a smoke that they can't.
They don't they don't enjoy, so they leave. They pull
out the trays, they get the honey, put it in
their truck, put the things back in, and off they go.
But they also leave honey behind. They don't take all
of it because he said that leaving some behind allows
for them to have nutrition and keeping their immune system

(47:14):
active helps them fight the mites. Otherwise they get weak.
So here's what you can do. Consider planting things in
your garden that attract bees. They ask you to avoid
killing dandelions with herbicides in the early spring. Keep herbicides

(47:37):
and pesticides that are toxic to bees away from gardens,
but apply them late in the evening or when bees
are less active. Read the labels on pesticides that you use.
Make sure that you buy plants that aren't treated with
certain things that are harmful to bees, and then provide
bees with access to water in a shallow dish or

(47:58):
bird bath filled with pebbles or stones. Who knew? I
didn't know that. I've got a perfect bird bath for that.
I've got one in my backyard that we have a
little fountain in that's solar powered, and I have another
one in my side yard perfect. I'm gonna put some
pebbles in there, and that's what I'm gonna do. I'm

(48:19):
gonna make it accessible best I can do. Anyway, I
wanted this on your radar. I think it's a very
important story, and now you know how important it is.
Twenty eight minutes past the arm come back with the
Big Stories in the press Box in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Short segment here, Big Stories in the

(48:54):
press Box. Dana White, the the head of founder of
UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship, has announced that the White House
will host a cage fight and it's scheduled for Independence

(49:17):
Day next year, which is our two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
and one day we're going to talk about what we
ought to do to celebrate, what would be the best
way to celebrate, and how do you protect it from terrorists.
Terrorists are going to try to disrupt the two hundred

(49:38):
and fiftieth birthday. And here's the sad thing. Some of
them will be from within, some of them are members
of Congress. Anyway, the south lawn of the White House
is going to be the home home of a cage fight.
I would imagine we're going to see a multiple multi

(50:02):
card event. They're gonna build. Apparently Milammie and Trump is
going to be involved in the design of how they
lay it out on the lawn. Obviously it'll be it'll
be a temporary stands and so forth. I guarantee you

(50:26):
it's going to be under a tent. There's no way
it can be. It can't be. They've got to make
it weather proof. But look, there's a part of me
that's like, oh yeah, this is Trump playing it to
a big part of his base. But there's a part

(50:47):
of me that's like, really, we're gonna put MMA on
the south lawn of the White House. Head on the microphone,
I I just it. On one hand, it's like, oh yeah.
On the other hand, it's like, oh no, isn't it
It doesn't it? Does it hit you the same as

(51:08):
it does me? Kind of like yeah, I don't know.
I just don't know that the cool factor outweighs the
somewhat embarrassment. I have this image of Caesar and a
thumb up or a thumb down that Trump's gonna be

(51:30):
sitting at the at the Royal Box deciding whether the
man in the in the submission hold would be vanquished
or not. I don't know. There's this gladiator Roman thing
that is just I don't know if I'm if I'm
down with this, but it is what it is. Forty
minutes past the hour. Let just take a moment and

(52:04):
say thank you to Marty. He just sent me a
lengthy email here clearly listening to the program intently the
things we're talking about. Also reading the book seventeen seventy
six by David McCullough based on my recommendation and his
like amazing, outstanding book. Yeah, it is just about anything

(52:26):
penned by David McCullough is a very worthwhile read. Absolutely
this story is well. The lead research assistant of the
program said, there are so many things about this story
that make me sad and are wrong on levels, multiple levels.

(52:49):
Stories from the Daily Mail. It's a UK publication, but
it is a story from Chicago. One problem with this
story is it deals with the loss of life, and
that is first and foremost, and it's very very sad.

(53:14):
Second part of this story that's very very sad is
it apparently involves bullying, which again, I don't care which
way it goes, it's just it's sad. Third part of
this story is that it's it's the bullying of a

(53:37):
transgender that likely led to the suicide of the transgender.
He a bus driver making oh, by the way, sixty
one thousand dollars a year driving a bus in Chicago.
Not bad, but the cost of living is higher, and
you know, kept being called sir by not just coworkers,

(54:02):
which is bullying. If they're going out of their way
to say that, that's bullying. If it's just like the
convenience store video that we've all watched, where the convenience
store guy is, you know, he's talking to a guy

(54:25):
and the guy flips out because he insists on being
called ma'am or miss like, I'm sorry, I don't have
to play in your delusion. That's a different kind of
bullying there, right, it's not what we're talking about. But
apparently passengers were obviously mistaking this guy for a guy

(54:47):
when he was presenting as a girl. And so what
he did is he got off his bus and threw
himself in front of a train. Now apparently it happened

(55:10):
last year. More details are coming out about the life
of Ava Michael Hudson. Here's another sad part of this story.
The writers of the story insist on transgender bus driver
through herself in front of him, No, through himself, and

(55:32):
the writers keep referring to him as a her or she,
and it's wrong, it's just factually wrong. It's just. And
so the levels of sad in this entire story go
from obviously a loss of life, it's just it's tragic.
But for somebody to think that the public is going

(55:52):
to look at an obvious man and accept him as
a woman, it's delusional. Does that mean you bully? No,
there's a difference. Co workers allegedly were calling him sir
all the time and kind of going out of the way.
That's bullying. For a passenger on a bus to say, uh,

(56:16):
welcome on the bus, thank you, sir. They're looking at
a guy they're DoD that's not bullying. That's not bullying.
There's a difference. And so the sadness is on so
many levels in this story, from the loss of life
to the delusion, the contagion, the bullying, to the poor journalism.

(56:42):
It's everywhere. There's nothing in this story that's good or positive.
You can't spin anything good or positive out of this story.
But it's a snapshot. It's a snapshot of where we
are and why. I don't care how much they do it.

(57:02):
I don't care how many things they hijack, whether it's
the month of June or the rainbow or anything else.
Transgenders will never be accepted in society because people have
a wiring of male and female and they recognize that.
In others, it just is they're fighting nature, they're fighting

(57:26):
God on this, and this is a very sad consequence
of it all. Forty seven minutes past the hour when
we come back, changing gears, turning the page in the
audio magazine and again, now let me say up up

(57:53):
front here, Chick fil A is still missing it for
not taking my suggestion on a menu item that would
sell out a blackened grilled chicken sandwich. The way that
they cook a chicken sandwich, and let's face it, their

(58:15):
method creates almost always a perfect chicken breast sandwich. Perfectly cooked.
It's so hard to do that, but it is so
perfectly cooked. But a blackened grilled sandwich would be next level,

(58:41):
not a spicy no, no, no, not blackened would just
I still remember the refusal letter that I got. Chick
fil A doesn't take outside suggestions for its menu, thank
you very much. WHOA take it down. But here's the

(59:03):
Fall menu edition. They got a couple items coming beginning now.
I would take issue calling it a fall menu. They're
calling it fall, but it's not fall on August eighteenth,
even though technically fall doesn't come for a while. I
consider it fall Labor Day forward. Labor Day is the transition.

(59:28):
It's September. To call something fall in August is just wrong,
and we've got to call it out. We have to
stand for certain things here. Anyway, locations are going to
start serving new menu items on the eighteenth of this month,

(59:48):
which is Monday. They're going to be adding cherry berry,
the first ever seasonal soda at Chick fil A, cherry
berry and sprite. They're also going to be using cherry

(01:00:09):
berry in a lemonade, a frosted lemonade, and Sunjoy whatever
that is. What's Sunjoy? It sounds like the first name
of a golfer playing from Korea, Sunjoy Kim. I mean,
it just does. But here's the sandwich. You ready, the

(01:00:34):
pretzel cheddar club sandwich. Now you might be thinking, what
are you doing talking about this? Are you being paid
by Chick fili? No, I'm not. Chick fil A doesn't
need me. Besides, they don't like the fact that I
occasionally point out when there is bad service. I've said

(01:00:56):
it twice in twenty three years, and they've got rabbit ears.
I'm just saying they don't like it. Well, I'm sorry
when you make a mistake and it happens to me,
it might find its way on the show. But I
have long lauded Chick fil A as the finest of

(01:01:16):
the fast food providers. It's not even close. I've also
complimented Chick fil A on its customer service, that it
ought to turn it into a business teach others how
to do customer service. But the spicy or grilled Chicken
fil A that will come on a toasted buttery pretzel
bun with lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, and a side of
creamy Dijon mustard sauce. They're also doing waffle potato chips

(01:01:45):
in either original or Chick fil A sauce flavored. They're
gonna be in seven ounce bags coming to retail locations.
So there you go. Something to look forward to. Chick
fil Ayers. Huh. Come back. Doctor Bob McClure will join
us from the James Madison Institute. He's the president. We've
got things to talk about next on the morning show.

(01:02:22):
Here we go. It's the third hour already. I don't
know how in the world time flies when you're having
fun talking about lefties and MMA at the White House
South Law. My gosh, his world is getting strange.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
People ask me, do you love what you do as
much as you say you do? How could you not
love what I get to do? How I mean we
get to be Seinfeld without having to pay writers. We
just open up the news and so we are here
for the third hour. In joining us this hour is
one of our good friends, longtime friends. He is to

(01:03:01):
me one of the most gifted political analysts when it
comes to reading the map of Florida that I've ever
I've ever run across. Doctor Bob McClure, President of the
James Madison Institute, Hello, Hello, sir, How are you? I'm good?
Are you? I'm great? Truth a stranger in fiction and
MMA South Lawn? Was your reaction like mine mine? I
don't know if you heard any part of it. Mine was, Oh,

(01:03:23):
this is so cool, but I think it's so wrong. Yeah, yeah,
you know. I didn't grow up with MMA.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
I mean I grew up with Frasier, Ali Sugar, Ray Leonard,
Tommy Hearns. So I was a boxing guy. So when
MMA came out, I was a little older, my kids
were young. I wasn't paying attention. I felt like it
was just a bar fight, you know. And look at
where it is today.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
It's now on the on the south the south lawn
to the White House.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
Literally, I thought it was just a broken bottle bar
fight for ten years, and now it's on the south
lawn of the White House.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
It's crazy. Now, if Congress did that, if we just
put the representative from the left and the right, here's
the thing. I don't know that there's anybody on the
left that could stand up to some of the boys
in the right side of the isle in Congress in
these days. Not some of those veterans, some of those
former seals that are serving right now. All right, let's
talk about something that is going to impact every single

(01:04:17):
person listening to us, whether they own property or they rent.
Property taxes impacts everyone. The governor has taken a position that, frankly,
I've advocated for twenty three years on this show, find
a way to do away with property tax so people
can own their own home, own their own property, not

(01:04:37):
have to worry about losing it. In principle, before we
get to the specifics of that idea and what it
might mean and how it might look. Your thoughts on
the notion. I love the idea. I think it's important.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
I think you have been advocating it for twenty plus years.
Marco Rubio, when he was Speaker of the House when
he was a young buck, advocated the same thing, just
nobody listened to them. Do you ever really own your
house if you're paying government rent?

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Right? And so I love the idea.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
I would love to get rid of property taxes for
all the reasons that the flat tax user tax crowd loves,
you know, getting rid of the income tax. The reality is,
how are we going to do this? Because it's it's
a very large state. Local municipalities, the Floridians have said
they want to get rid of property taxes or at

(01:05:30):
least reduce them significantly, but they don't want to lose services.
I get it you and I know most of the time,
particularly the local level, but really at any governmental level,
it's rarely, almost never about revenue. It's almost always about spending.
So figuring out the spending needs at the local level,

(01:05:50):
eliminating property taxes and then what do you what do
you do instead? So there are a lot of options
on the table.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
So I like the idea. I think we need to
do it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
But we also live in a state Preston, where the
largest county in Florida is larger than many states Miami
Dad County has almost three million It's got like two
point eight million people. The smallest county in Florida's Liberty County.
It's got eleven thousand people in the entire county. There's
a big difference, right, So these rural counties also have
to be accounted for, no pun intended, and so figuring

(01:06:24):
that out is going to be an issue. Now you know,
this is a self serve service announcement. JAYMI is going
to come out in the fall. Four Committee weeks with
a huge study on what the options are, what we
can do as a state, and why we We're not
going to say do this one thing. We're going to say,
here are the options.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Pros and cons.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
Yes, but let's move towards getting rid of property taxes.
I applaud the governor for beginning the discussion.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Joining us doctor Bob McClure from the James Madison Institute.
We've got a couple segments to go to talk about things,
and we will do that next here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scotten. We're going a little deeper into

(01:07:18):
the topic of eliminating property tax maybe talking about Okay,
what does that look like in reality, doctor Bob McClure
with us from the James Madison Institute. Blazon Golia gets
named CFO to replace Jimmy patronis popular pick I think
you would say, yeah, yeah. And one of the first
things he does is he says, we're going to go
around the cities and we're going to look into how

(01:07:41):
everyone's spending the property tax money, the tax dollars that
are coming in in each community. Word is that the
city manager at Gainesville promptly resigned in advance of that
look in general, is your thought that this is being
done as a pre cursor to the discussion on property
tax elimination.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Well, I think it's good government for one thing, But
I also know that this governor and Blaze are very
interested in where the issues are at the local level
in a state like Florida. This is not always true
in every other state, but in a state like Florida,
we at the state level are very good about spending

(01:08:26):
less money, per se. I say very good. Where you
know it's a government, it's the local local municipalities where
the where the real spending and the phantom tax increases
are taking place. So for example, a Collier County, a
Palm Beach County, some of those larger counties, their budget's
double for no reason other than property values increase about

(01:08:48):
every six or seven years. They don't cut spending. There's
no change there, there's no tax reduction, there's none of that.
We know here at the local uh here in Tallahassee
and and County how the local government uses the utility
right to fund projects at.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
The local level.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
Yeah, So what Blaze I think is going to do
is to go in I don't know how many, and
I don't know where. Go into some of these local
municipalities and say how are you spending this money? And
if we're spending this money here, here, and here, we
can certainly.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Cut property taxes. Preston you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
And I know that most government issues are about not
about revenue, they're about spending. Sure, and it's almost always true,
God bless Rocky Hannah, but he's he's wrong about the
financial situation for the county and he backed off of it.
If you notice, it's almost always about spending, not revenue.

(01:09:50):
So Blaze and I'm not speaking for Blaze, but my
guess is the governor wants to have them open the
books and see where the money's going and then say
here's why we can cut property taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
And there are a lot of ways to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
You can raise the homestead exemption, you can eliminate it
and raise the sales tax. I'm not advocating for that
because that there are a lot of issues with that.
You can you can do like a levee cap, where
you essentially say to local governments, here's how much you
can spend. You can spend it on whatever you want.
You can spend it on. Pride parades. You can spend

(01:10:24):
it on libraries, you can spend it on children's services,
whatever you want. But here it's called a levee cap.
This is how much you can spend, and then you
index it to inflation and population growth. Okay, and that
way you know a lot of this preemption and I
understand it at the local level. People get very frustrated
about preemption at the state level, preempting a lot of
local level stuff. So put a levee cap on it

(01:10:45):
and say, here's what you can spend. I don't care
how you spend it. You spend it any way you want.
But you spend that money and then you index it
to inflation. Uh, with population growth the growth. The problem
is the rural counties. You know, like we said, you've
got a Miami Dade County of two point eight million.
Inflation plus population is going to mean growth. Liberty County

(01:11:08):
has eleven thousand people. Madison Counties, you know, in the
low twenties. You and I know we can drive twenty
minutes outside of Tallahassee and you're in these rural counties.
So there are allowances that have to be made for those.
I don't have an answer for you on that yet.
But we can't just say, eliminate all property taxes. Good
luck Madison County, good luck Liberty County.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Is it fair to say that what ought to be
taken completely off the table is the idea of lowering
the sales tax because to me, you know, I appreciate
let's have a bunch of ideas on the table and
make them all better. But the idea of lowering the
sales tax when we have so many visitors, not just
foreign visitors that use our infrastructure, that use our roads,

(01:11:53):
but people that visit from across the country, that pay
the freight for things that we do here in Florida,
seems silly to me. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
And the number that you know, when when Speaker Perez
was talking about it, you're talking about I think the
number he proposed ended up saving Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
It's like three hundred bucks a year.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
I mean, we're not I mean property taxes, your people
are paying thousands of dollars, right, So the sales tax
should absolutely we need to be careful about that. We
have one hundred and forty million tourists that come to Florida.
That's the entire country of Germany every year coming to
Florida using our services, buying our gas, paying our sales tax,

(01:12:34):
and then they go home, and so we need to
be very careful about reducing the sales tax.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
Why not let other people pay It's literally a love
offering to the stick of Florida by the visiting of
the state. We got more to come, Doctor Bob McClure
with me from JMI. We've got lots to talk about
left on the Morning Show with President Scott Factor, Doctor

(01:13:21):
Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute. So what does
your gut tell you is going to be the best
possible solution for moving forward?

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
I don't It's going to be interesting because the dynamic
is obviously this is no secret, the House Speaker and
the Governor really had a difficult time getting along in
the last legislative session. Right, we have a Senate President
who seems to be on board with looking at this

(01:13:57):
property tax. You know, they were supposed to have the
road show, the legislative road show was supposed to be
all summer and never happened, and then they were going
to start in September, and now they're going to just
stay in Tallahassee. Apparently and if anybody cares around the
rest of the state, you got to come to Tallahassee,
which you and I know how hard it is to

(01:14:18):
get here. And so I don't know, I don't know
what's going to happen, what we're gonna do with the
James Madison issues. We're going to say, here are your options. Okay,
here's what you can do. I think the cleanest thing
to do is the levy caps for local government index

(01:14:39):
to inflation and population growth, because it allows you just
spend the money the way you want.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Look where did they get the money to spend? Well,
that's that's that's the question.

Speaker 4 (01:14:49):
The governor, if I understand him right, has said, well,
you can do you can do a number of things.
You can raise sales tax the state. And I don't know,
don't quote me on this, but I think the governor
has said that there is like a this is my word,

(01:15:10):
not his, like they would float revenue to some local
counties at the state level. I think he said that, and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
The smaller counties that don't generate revenue, that don't have
a population base to support sales.

Speaker 4 (01:15:23):
Right, right, that's an option on the table. And so
it's kind of like, it's kind of like things have
to It's like a compass, you know, if you're if
we're going to do this, this is very different. We
have to have the data first, but you're at some
point the compass has to align to where you are
in the forest, right you have to. And at some
point you're going to have to have this notion that

(01:15:47):
if you cut property taxes, then those local municipalities and
I'm not talking about rural counties, but the ones who
have a lot of money, which are a lot of counties,
they're going to have to then align their revenues or
they're spending to the new reality. Right, And so I
think the cleanest thing to do is to raise the
exemption and to have levy caps, and you could give

(01:16:11):
them maybe there's a two or three year timeframe, so a.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Gradual transition period. Yeah, do you see something and I'll
just throw an idea out. Do you see something where,
for example, someone that has a mortgage continues to pay
property tax until their mortgage is paid off and then
it stops. Yeah, that's an option too.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
Absolutely, absolutely, I think that I think that's a very
very interesting idea, and I think you're going to see
probably five or six plausible options. Some people are saying,
let's just eliminate property taxes and allow counties to raise
the sales taxes high as they want. I think, I

(01:16:52):
think that's its struggle. I don't I don't trust that.
I don't trust that at all. Yeah, but some of
our more libertarian friends are saying, let's just get rid
of our taxes, you know how they are.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Let's just make it a user tax.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
And I'm not being disrespectful, I'm just that makes me nervous, right,
because what's that old line. Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
And so what you have is you have just like
and I'm not calling local delegation liars. Please don't get
it send pressed in any emails. But I go back
to the utilities. They use that as a piggybank. And

(01:17:24):
it's a de facto tax increase, and it's not just Tallahassee.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
And it's on the people they claim they want to
help the most, because it's a regressive tax. It's on
the people that you got to pay the utility bill.
The renters and everybody are paying property taxes not just
in their rent, but now they're paying them through their utility.
That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
So I think we are in the early stages of
pulling the data get together. I can't wait to come
back on and talk it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Through with you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
But I think there are a lot of here's the issue,
it's doable, we can do this. The governor threw it out,
you know, six eight months ago, and people thought he
was nuts, and now people are looking for ways to
do it. This is actually, yes, this is the way
we should conduct an audit of government.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
And that once again sets Florida up not just consumption
tax as opposed to an income tax, but now saying, hey,
you can own your own property here in Florida forevermore.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
Well, and that's a whole other show. Because what we
do in Florida, Preston has national implications. I can tell
you at JMI, we get calls every day from other states.
How can we be more like Florida? And then think
of this, what implication is there for the federal government.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
That's my point.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
Yeah, If the third largest state in the country, with
a thousand people moving here a day, with the most
diverse population in the entire country, can do this, how
many other states around the country can do this? And
what are the implications for the federal budget. I mean,
this is Florida lead is first in then I say

(01:19:02):
this all time. Florida's first in the nation when it
comes to policy and politics because everyone right or wrong.
That's why not rolling back the property insurance was so critical,
because the rest of the country is watching what we do.
We get it right here. It has national implications. When
you and I were growing up, it was California that
everything emanated from California. I was never California to me, right, well,

(01:19:23):
but like the Reagan Revolution.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Zone, I was close to it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Right But like the Reagan Revolution and sushi and Valley Girls, right,
it's Florida. Now. I'm telling you what comes out of
Florida has national implications. And if we can get this
right on the property tax, it's a game changer. I
cannot wait for our September visit.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
I look forward to it. Thanks for the time. Thanks
for having me, Doctor Bob McClure with me from the
James Madison Institute twenty nine past the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
I 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.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
How do you not embrace the idea if you're a
Floridian of a world where you own your home and
your property without fear of a government putting a lean
on your house. It's just and doctor McClure is correct.

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You have to cap what local governments spend. They spend money,
your money, your taxes, on things that should not be
your responsibility to fund and pay for. Local governments will
fight this tooth and nail unless they feel like they're

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made whole. But if you look at the city of
Tallahassee alone, and I've long pointed this out, if you
are a city of Tallahassee utility customer, you are subsidizing.
Part of your money that you pay for electricity is
going to the general fund in lieu of property tax.

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That's why their property taxes have been artificially low, because
they're just taking oh look at us, we have low
property tax rates. Yeah, but you're bleeding people by by
charging people more for their electric and oh, by the way,
for the poorest people, the people with the lowest income,
that's a regressive tax. Utility rates should be lower than

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they are, and they should pay for your energy and
the cost of providing it period rainy day fund for
improving utilities included in that absolutely little sinking fund in there. Yes,
but you're transferring roughly twenty million dollars a year from
your utility bill to the city coffers to pay for what.

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And then you've got things like the Children's Services tax,
which does what? And how is it that unelected people
can take eleven million dollars out of our economy. Add
those two up alone, that's thirty one million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
For what.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Then you live on the North side. And I know
this is Tallahassee centric for those of you that don't
live in Tallahassee, but it serves as an illustration of
a larger point. Let's say you live on the north side.
What are you getting? What are you getting? Do you
have a park garbage service? No, you pay for that electricity, No,

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you pay for that gas, No, you pay for that.
What are you getting for your property tax dollars? If
you're in the north side, what are you getting? You
have no representation. They refuse to allow districts so you
get representation. They just continue to grow their government. They

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just continue to employ more people. No, So, doctor McClure,
is right. There has to be a way of capping
what revenue. However, revenues are divvied up and distributed into
the cities and communities across the state, there has to
be a way to cap it so that it's on
the things that government is supposed to do, not the

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things government is not supposed to do. Forty one minutes
past the eye, not the intended big story in the
press box, But I just made it one.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Sing information at the speed of sound, and if you're lucky,
he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses. Today the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Here's what I wrote on my rundown. And for those
of you that are new to the program, or maybe
you don't know how it works, I took a formatic
that I used in television. TV newscasts have what's called
a rundown, where the producer slots every story where it's

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going to be to create kind of a flow. And
I thought, you know, and it's a long standing way
of doing things, and when I started doing this radio program,
I thought that was a pretty smart way to organize
the program. It allows me to handwrite some notes, it
allows me to look at the of the program on

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one sheet of paper, two sided, but it allows me
to see kind of what I'm doing. Where I'll jot
down instead of a story title, I'll put a thought
that I had while I was reading the story. And
then I organized my notes in chronological order for the show.
And so as I come to this part of the program,

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I wrote these words, you don't say, we are in
hurricane season, and I've I've compiled from the National Hurricane Center.
I've compiled a listing of the Saffer Simpson category storms

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going back to eighteen fifty one, and I plugged in
last year's data, which is a little wonky to kind
of figure out, and so I just generalized because some
storms reached a certain level but didn't reach that level
making landfall in the United States, or didn't reach that

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level making landfall anywhere, and so it's a little weird.
But let's just put it this way. Last year, there
were eleven hurricanes last year, and when you break it
down over a period of time, that's probably a little

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little higher than normal. These are named storms and hurricanes.
Some hit the United States, some didn't. But here's what
jumped out at me. The number of major storms in
the eighteen fifties, six, the number in the eighteen seventies,

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eighteen nineties, eight nineteen forties, ten in the most recent
full decade twenty eleven to twenty twenty four, four the

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decade prior two thousand and one to two thousand and seven,
or twenty ten seven decade before that, five. So in
this era of global warming, the evidence indicates storms that

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register at three, four or five on the Saffir Simpson
Simpson category scale. Decades long before the Industrial Revolution and
at the very beginning of it, before global warming could
take place, had far more major storms. Now, how is
that possible? Because after all, it's settled science, isn't it.

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So as you look at it, you just sort of
step back and you go, huh, You don't say. The
point is, there are some years where they're going to
be really bad storms and they're going to hit the country,
And there are other years they're going to be not
so many bad storms and they're going to hit the country.
There are other years where there's gonna be all kinds
of bad storms and they're not going to ever hit

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the country. It's the weather being the weather, and it
happens and amazingly, it happens the same rough time every
year from June to November. It's called hurricane season. Just
saying forty seven minutes past the album come back with
an amazing combo venture tomorrow, lots of topics already prepared

(01:29:11):
to talk about. Steve Stewart joins us doctor David Harts.
Will try to help you feel a bit better naturally,
we're shooting for optimum health. Mind you a road trip
idea and more. I told you about a joint business venture.
This is crazy dine brands do any as in eating

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dining out? Have you heard what they're doing and it's working.
They are combining Applebee's and I Hoop in one location.
One side of the store is red themed Applebee's, the
other side is blue themed I Hoop. They pulled together

(01:29:58):
a menu. It's one kitchen. It's open for breakfast, lunch, dinner,
and late night. They're making more money, they're turning more profits.
And what they've done is they've taken the best items
off of both menus and combine them into one menu.

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So if you want, for example, you want some you
want to go for a breakfast and have a hearty
steak and eggs, go for it. Someone with you might
want some baby back ribs. Boom, And it's working. It
is it. They are expanding the concept in more and

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more markets. They tried it on a test basis in Texas.
It was huge. They hope to have ten to twelve
dual branded restaurants by the end of this year, many
more in twenty twenty six, single kitchen, cross train, front

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and back of house staff, streamline combined menu one hundred
and five of the top selling items, So the menu
will have one hundred and five different items on it.
Those aren't necessarily main meals. Those are a combination of
appetizers and side dishes and main meals and all of that.
But it's interesting because they say that it allows them

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by combining the brands to lower costs but increasing profits,
which allows diners to come because their prices are lower.
Just saying outside the box thinking. I laughed at it
when I first read the headline, and then I was like, okay, okay,
let's do that. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air.

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It's the Morning.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Show one on WFLA baby back ribs on eggs.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
No, No, I wouldn't do that. This makes sense because
there are some people that want to eat breakfast for dinner.
And you know what, there are times I love the idea,
like on a cold day to sit down at dinner
time and have some eggs and bacon, some hash browns,

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some grits. Heck, yeah, that works for me. That ministers
to me. Dana White announcing the White House will host
a UFC cage fight. We're looking at the anniversary of
the country, the two fiftieth birthday July fourth. Next year.

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Trump inflation numbers yeah, not bad, not awesome, but not bad.
Chick fil A has got a new menu. We talked
about honeybees, went deep diving on the subject of honey bees.
We started the day with Nahum one verse seven, did

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a little backstory dive into nineve and a little historical
perspective on that covered a lot of topics today, great
visit with doctor Bob McClure. Friends, Thanks for listening. Have
yourself a blessed day.