Ep. 5468: What's happening to our country music?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, October 8th.

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-Dr. Bob McClure





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, yay, yay, let's up. Everybody. Welcome Wednesday on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I happen to be Preston.
He is Jose Oh that can you see? And together

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we join you Monday through Friday for three hours of
clever rep our Day and sharing what's going on, just
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
It's kind of an audio magazine format. If you've never
joined us for the program and you just stumbled in
here this morning, stick down, take some time. Just let

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us have the opportunity to love on you a little bit,
give you a little encouragement, some information, maybe a laugh
or two, and a guest here and there. Today, doctor
Bob McClure joins us from the James Madison Institute. Some
fascinating polling from the Sunshine State. We will discuss and unpack,

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but first we always start with what matters most, God's word.
Moms and dads, what do you think you would communicate
to your children the as Rush would say, Ute of America,

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by starting your day with them with God's word? And
I get it, it can be intimidating. When he is start.
It's a big library. And that's the thing. The Bible
is in fact a library. It's a library of books,
all bound together as one. And that's why I do

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these segments to kind of point in a direction, give
you something to talk about if you don't have something
you want to share or read, discuss, pray over together.
And this is this segment was started because of that,
to encourage you to spend a little time with your kids,
praying over them, loving on them, hugging them, letting them

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hear the words I love you and seeing you with
your eyes locked on theirs as you say it. They
didn't do what they were supposed to do, you got
the rest of the day to deal with it, but
send them off with a love, a hug, and most

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importantly God's word John fifteen twelve. This is my commandment
that you love one another as I have loved you.
We have this tendency to just boil that down to

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one specific type of love, the warm and.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Fuzzy and awe kind of love. Let's hug it out,
you know, let's hug. Come on, Come on, everybody, they
just shall hug.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Come on. Can we be frank and just love? That's
part of it. But tell me, are you showing love
to your kids if you let them do anything they want.
Are you showing love to your kids by never saying no?

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Love takes many forms, and just remember the the the
basis of that love one another, as I have loved
you Jesus. So what did Jesus do to demonstrate his love?

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He spoke truth. He spoke to the hurts, He spoke
to the heads, he spoke to the hearts. He spoke
things that weren't always comfortable. He said to the to
the woman at the well, I'm not condemning you. Everyone

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had fled, No one was throwing stones at her, nothing,
he said, Now don't do this anymore, sin, no more.
That's love. So remember love takes different forms, and the

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Bible gives us a description of what love is. It
defines it. It's patient and kind, never boasts, And the
list goes on on ten past the hour. There's a
good start for your day, John fifteen twelve. Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Warning Show with Preston Scott.

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You're mocking me, aren't you. Oh no, no, no, no,
no no no.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Un Used Radio one hundred point seven Tell them UFLA
October the eighth.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Eighteen sixty, telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco
opens up. You know, when you think about it, that's
that was a remarkable first step at communication, communicating with

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basically electronic clicks and signals over hundreds of miles. Eventually
it would be thousands. It's crazy. Eighteen sixty If I
understand correctly, President Lincoln got updates on key battles of
the war through the telegraph. Eighteen seventy one, the Great

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Chicago Fire begins, reportedly when Missus O'Leary's cow kicks over
a lantern. The blaze destroys downtown, kills two hundred and
fifty leaves ninety thousand homeless. Eighteen seventy one. Same day,
a massive forest fire burns through Wisconsin and Michigan, killing

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twelve hundred people wow same day as the Chicago fire.
And in nineteen eighteen, Alvin York almost single handedly kills
two dozen German soldiers and captures one hundred and thirty
two prisoners in France's Argonne Forest. The story of Sergeant

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York is singularly one of the best stories of an
American hero. Thirty years of Age, Backwoods, Tennessee farmer only
recently gave up his hog wild days of drinking and carousing,
asked his sweetheart to marry him. He had embraced the

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Pacifist Christian faith of his widowed mother. He would later say,
I loved and trusted old Uncle Sam. I always believed
he did the right thing, but I was worried clean
though I didn't want to go and kill. He'd grown
up hunting. It was discovered that he was an astonishingly

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good shot. In October eighth, nineteen eighteen, his marksmanship saved
American lives. His patrol ran into a German machine gun.
Nest our boys just went down like long grass before
the mowing machine at home, he recalled. He went on
the attack, picking off twenty five Germans with his rifle

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and pistol before their commander surrendered. By the time York
and his companions got back to headquarters, they had a
long line of prisoners. Well, York, I hear you captured
the whole German army, and officers said to him. He replied,
now I only have one hundred and thirty two promoted.

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The sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor, greeted in New
York City, with a ticker tape parade. After the war,
he declined to grow rich off his fame. He returned
to Tennessee, married his fiance, established a school for mountain children,
and farmed the land as he had before. Thus the
story of Sergeant Alvin York. The only thing that would

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make that story any better is if he invented the
peppermint patty, but he didn't. American Touch Tag Day, there
are some school yards that have banned the game of
tag true story, because no child should be it. The

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fear is that the the chubby kids end up being it.
And I will categorically tell you no, unless they demand
to be it, They're not it. They're never it because
it's no fun. No, it just isn't. It's no. The

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person who's it has to be an elite athlete for
it to be a fun game. And then there's strategy
cornering the person who's it so you can tag them.
It's National fluffer Nutter Day, National Parogi Day, and National

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Hero Day. What's fluffer nutter that is? Do you know
what it is?

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, yes, sir, It's a marshmallow cream and peanut butter sandwich.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So instead of jelly it's like a marshmallow spread. Okay,
it's pretty good. In nineteen thirteen, during World War One,
Emma and Amory Amory Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, invented snowflake
marshmallow cream published a recipe for a peanut butter and

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marshmallow cream sandwich fluff or nutter. All right, well, all right,
all right, seventeen passed the hour. I'm a better person
for knowing that. Bow your gamers out there. You know

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the first video game available for home computers? You know
what it was? Any idea? Pong? Huh ope? Space War.
It was developed in nineteen sixty two by programmer Steve Russell,

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and it was the first video game available for home computers.
Though when you say Pong, man, I remember I remember
the days atari the little the paddle and you just
spin it back and forth. Poo Pong was awesome. Some
of those early games so simplistic, but at the time

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we marveled at him. It was crazy. What's the first
video game you remember playing? I would have to say Frogger. Okay, yeah,
I was at a good.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Game a baby at a dentist office and they had
a Froger on this ancient computer, and uh yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Great that there are just there are some some of
those original games. I want to say, it's like Atari
in television or something like that. Might have been the
game maker, I don't know, but that was ridiculous. And
I remember when the first Nintendo came out see that.
I mean, I've watched this stuff evolve. And I remember

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playing for me the first video game and it was funny.
I just talked about it at lunch the other day
after church, the first video game. A buddy of my
dad's named Bob Bernie invented a football video game. It

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wasn't video so much as it was video might not
be the right name. It might be the first computer
game that I had ever heard of or knew of.
This guy developed this thing in nineteen sixty two, and
I don't know if anyone was had home computers at
that stage. Bob's invention involve those cards that used to

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be computer program cards where holes would be punched out
and would direct the computer to think or do certain things.
And he had this massive football field underneath a dome,
a plastic dome, and I mean it was a table.
It was the size of a small table for four

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It was rectangular in shape, like the shape of a
football field, and there was a set of cards for
offense and a set of cards for defense, and you
would just switch sides if your team had the ball,
and you'd put your card in, they'd put their card in,
and then it would read their defense against your offense,
or vice versa, and give you the result, and then

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the ball would move. There would be lights on the
field that told you where your ball was, and then
there weren't kickoffs or anything like that. You'd start at
your own twenty and then you'd hand over the cards.
If you scored, you'd hand over the cards, and if
you didn't score, then they'd get the ball where you are,
you'd hand over the cards. They'd hand over the cards,
and you'd switch and you're calling the best defense against

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what you think they're going to run on offense. It
was great fun. Never found out what happened to that game,
but to be around during that time when video games
started to become something absolutely amazing. Hey, guess what restaurant

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chain is putting up the biggest, tallest American flags at
all of its locations across the country. Just think about that.
Twenty seven minutes past the hour. I'll tell you about
it next, the Big Stories in the press Box here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one point SEVENUFLA.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Big stories in the press box, Big flags in the
press box. But first let's polish off a couple of
other stories. Is this the best Democrats can do? The
Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones allegedly he did conversation

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about public policy and pain involving qualified immunity for police.
The guy who wants to be the attorney general for
the state of Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia said allegedly,

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but if more police officers were killed, they would shoot
fewer people. It excuse me, now, Remember this is about
qualified immunity, which protects police officers from personal liability in

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the line of their duty, the line of their work,
doing their job. And he thinks that if police got
killed more often, there would be fewer people shot, meaning
that somehow qualified immunity prevents that, and that they would

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then hesitate if they didn't have qualified We saw what
happened in the wake of some of the publicized things
that happened nationally police officers. I predicted it would happen
because I talked to law enforcement personnel hesitated, and those
moments of hesitation cost many of their lives. But that's

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not all hes said. He texted, this is not in dispute.
Quote three people, two bullets. Former Virginia House Speaker Todd
Gilbert Hitler and Paul Pott, who was a ruthless leader

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in what Vietnam maybe or Korea or something like that.
Gilbert gets two bullets in the head. Spoiler. Put Gilbert
in the crew with the two worst people you know,
and he receives both bullets every time. When the person
he was texting pushed back, he said he hoped that

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Gilbert's wife, Jennifer, for Gilbert's children would die. He said,
only people. Only when people feel pain personally do they
move on policy. Calling these young children little fascists, and
he wants to be the attorney general. He now is

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apologizing for this stuff, regrets ever saying it. But this
is the person that they've got rolling out as the
attorney general candidate for Virginia. DHS arresting a guy yesterday,
at least it was announced yesterday who put a hit
out on US Border Patrol Chief Greg Bavino, member of

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the Latin King Street gang. They have they have monetary
fees being paid out if anyone gets information about some
leadership in ICE or Homeland security, and even more money
if they kill them. He was arrested because they then

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after hearing about it, did surveillance and obtained all of
his record, screenshots and everything, And yeah, what are these
things have in common? Democrats? This is all because of Democrats,
not just the liberals. Democrats, where is this off the

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hook violence coming from. It's coming from Democrats. It's coming
from their policies, It's coming from their rhetoric. It's going
to be interesting to see what happens to Steak and
Shake because Steak and Shake is the franchise that wants
to put the biggest, tallest American flags at restaurants nationwide.

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They are putting the largest flags up that local ordinances
will allow in every one of their three hundred and
ninety seven Steak and Shake locations. Now, the President of
the United States is wrong with his executive order banning
flag burning. Look, I wish it didn't happen, but it

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is protected speech. The Supreme Court has ruled on it
in nineteen eighty nine. You can't. It's a flag, it's important,
it's symbolic. Absolutely. But if someone wants to burn it
in a protest, fine, Now, if they burn it where

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and when they're not supposed to, that's a problem. You're
going to arrest them for that. But that's a side story.
Steak and shake, salute that flag, and go have some
beef tallow fries loving it.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Forty minutes past the hour, it's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Go Jose says the email. You get the prize this morning.
If you use Smuckers all natural crunchy peanut butter, you'll
save a few calories, it will taste better and you
can use more marshmallow fluff and maybe feel less guilty. Lol.
That's from Linda. It is national. What is it fluffer Nutter? Yeah?

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What it's called fluffer Nutter Day? Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah,
it's one I probably won't remember, but yeah, absolutely you
remember the story of the guy put a ten up
outside Saint Matthew's Cathedral before the Red Mass event. Red

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Mass is an annual event where the Supreme Court justices
many of them, if not all show up before the
fall term. This from the Washington Post. The guy apprehended,
who we will not name, head over two hundred handmade

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bombs in his home, bottle rockets, Molotov cocktails, and quoting
the story, he had hundreds in the tent on the

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steps of the Capitol or the cathedral. According to court records,
he expressed animosity toward make a list the Catholic Church,
Supreme Court Justices, the Jewish faith, and US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement. When officers asked him to leave, he said,

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you might want to stay back and call the Federalis.
I have explosives. So this encounter continues, he says, if
you just step back, I'll take out that tree. No
one will get hurt. There'll just be a hole where
the tree used to be. He then told officers, quoting,
several of your people are going to die from one

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of these. In an attempt to de escalate this again
from the Post, the sergeant agreed to read what he
had written down. He unzipped a flap of a tent
and handed over nine pages torn out of his notebook,
written negotiations for the avoidance of destruction of property via
detonation of explosives. That's what it was titled. Nine pages.

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Sergeant noticed he had a buttane lighter and an unknown
white cap shaped object clenched in his hand. Shun zipped
the rest of the flap, which angered him. He began
reaching into a dark bag. According to Torque court documents,
told her, all right, if you want to do it,
we'll do it now. He said he was the only

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one who wrote the notes. As he spoke, he began
pulling out multiple capped vials containing a yellow liquid with
the illegal explosives explosive devices taped to them. He hovered
his right thumb over the but taned lighter top pose
to ignite it. He said, you better have these people

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step away or there's going to be deaths. I'm telling
you now, so this guy was seriously preparing to kill people.
I want you to consider this though, because this jumps
off of our last set of stories animosity toward the

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Catholic Church. Who was spying on the Catholic Church over
the last four years, Joe Biden his administration, the Department
of Justice, Homeland Security. They were spying on the Catholic Church.
Who's been trying to kill Supreme Court justices leftists, who

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hates the Jewish faith and stands up for hamas Democrats? Ironically,
a bunch of Jews vote Democrat. Go explain that to me.
There are some Jews though, that live with that same
kind of guilt thing that some white illiberals have, and

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they think they're evil. If I could stop being Jewish,
I would whatever. And then who hates ice? US customs enforcement?
Customs and immigration enforcement? Who the left is? This is
just a continuation. It's the same same song, different verse,

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forty seven minutes past the hour, speaking of songs and verses?
Who hour from now? No way, Jose, let me tee
you up our our broadcast producer, Jose, can you see

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the stories that have stood out to him and why
it's coming up next hour? But first I said, I said, boy,
talk about songs and verses. Zach Bryan, this is a
classic double entendre. I wrote this down yesterday in a
moment of inspiration. What has happened to our country? Not

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just our country, but our country as in country music?
What has happened to our country? Zach Brian is not
a closet illiberal. Zach Brian is frequently critical of police

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and look he has every right to be a jerk.
That's fine, nothing wrong with that. But what he wrote,
his song bad News, and his reaction to the reaction
to it. Listen, listen to some of the lyrics, and
I can't. I can't even repeat them word for word.

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My friends are all degenerates, but they're all I got
to generate story of dropping the plot. I heard the
cops came cocky, bleep bleeps, ain't they And I'm talking
about the MF word. And ice is gonna come bust
down your door. Try to build a house. No one builds,

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no more, but I got a telephone. Kids are all
scared and all alone. The bar stopped bumping, the rock
stopped rolling, the middle fingers rising, and it won't stop showing.
Got some bad news, the fading of the red, white
and blue. He is getting blistered rightfully, So it's trash now.

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I couldn't pick out a Zach Bryan's song. If there
were five songs, unless four of them were Tchaikovsky, I
could pick him out. He writes, This shows how divisive
a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through
social media. This song is about how much I love
this country. And everyone in it. More than anything. When

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you hear the rest of the song, you will understand
the full context that hits both sides of the aisle.
Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving
how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find
our way back. You think your lyrics are about finding
a way back from the division. I served this country,

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and if he did, God bless you for it. But
you forgot the lessons you learned and why you served.
I love this country and the song itself is about
all of us coming out of this divided space. Really,
that's what this song's about. Have you read your own lyrics,
young man? And look, I have no illusion Zach Brian's

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not going to hear a word I have to say.
I wish you would. That's so condescending calling him a
young man, Well he is. He's a young man who
hasn't lived enough life and he's writing nothing but divisive nonsense.
And this extreme right he refers to in the rest
of his post, Please share that with me. I'd love

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to know how this extreme right is shaping America like
the extreme left is. If I passed the hour of

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the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and we're gonna take
a little time on this, just not the whole half hour,
but we're gonna take a few minutes. We do have
Florida Man coming up. Got a segment of No Way
Jose third hour, Doctor Bob McClure, JMI joins us Matt Vespert.
Town Hall summarizes a remarkable development. CIA Director John Radcliffe

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has dusted off and declassified a report we can now
all read. Now I'm going to give you the headline.
The CIA compiled a report of what Joe Biden was
doing in Ukraine when he was vice president. They had sources,

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they talked to people in the government, they had their
own surveillance going on. And it wasn't a very flattering report.
It was a report from twenty sixteen, the tail end
of the Obama Biden administration. You know what happened to

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the report, At the demand of Joe Biden, it got dumped.
They did not release the report, but the report remained.
Ukrainians thought that Joe Biden's leadership skills were questionable, and

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as a nation were amused by the fact that his
family's alleged corruption ties to the country even existed. The
fact that Hunter Biden sat on the board of this
company called Barisma, which was widely perceived as a pipeline

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for government access for a handsome fee. All of this
was going to be in a report compiled by the CIA,
but the problem was that would have destroyed the alleged
skills of Joe Biden as a foreign statesman, so Biden

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and his office moved to have it squashed. The report
exposes all kinds of things. At the specific request of
then Vice President Joe Biden, the CIA buried an embarrassing

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intelligence report detailing the poor view the Ukrainian government took
of his diplomatic efforts in the business dealings of his
own family in that country. Biden had traveled to Kiev
or Kiev in December twenty fifteen, ostensibly to meet with
leaders of that fledgling democracy and to deliver a warning

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against the cancer of corruption, and during an address to
the Ukrainian Parliament he did condemn the pervasive poison of cronyism,
corruption and kleptocrossi, whatever that is. But behind the scenes,
Ukrainian officials expressed bewilderment and disappointment that the Vice President

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had crossed the Atlantic almost exclusively to deliver a generic speech.
Officials close to then President Petro Poroshenko had hoped for
guidance in support of or against specific officials within the
Ukrainian government. They discovered instead that Biden had no intention
of discovering discussing substantive matters. After Biden returned Stateside, members

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of the Porshenko administration privately mused at how the American
media treated the alleged ties of his family to corrupt
business practic this is in Ukraine. In their minds, it
was evidence of a double standard within the United States
government towards matters of corruption and political power. That was

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the determination in the report. That comes from the report.
So Biden orders the intelligence community to bury it because
it put him in a bad light, and they obliged.
Oh but there's more to this story. Ten past the hour,

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don't you dare leave me? All right? So let's put
this into some context here. Barisma was was It was

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dissolved in twenty twenty three. Interesting huh. When Joe Biden
was President of the United States, the company that his
son was on the board of with no expertise and
energy at all, Hunter Biden had expertise in cocaine and prostitutes.

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That's his level of expertise. And he's sitting on the
board of Barisma, this massive energy company in Ukraine. Interestingly enough,
a guy named Victor Schoken, Ukraine's prosecutor General, was investigating Barisma,

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was investigating corruption, was investigating everything to do with this company.
This was all all testified to and laid out by
a guy named Tony Babbolinski, who was a business partner
of the Bidens, who gave intimate details documents to Congress.

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He testified, he has spoken clearly. I've shared his testimony.
He outlaid, he outlined and laid out the entire thing.
He was distressed because what he thought was an honest

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business arrangement was corrupt and it was all about funneling
money to the big guy, Joe Biden. But remember now
there's an investigation underway. Biden is the chief leison from
the United States to Ukraine. How did he get that
assignment the same way he got the assignment to China.

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His son was on a board of a company in
China as well that he had no knowledge of their business.
This was all about funneling money for favors for gaining
access to the United States, the government of Barack Obama
and Joe Biden. So Biden catches wind of the investigation.

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It's going to be bad. He goes over. He asked
Obama for permission to go over there because there were
allegedly going to be loan guarantees for the government of Ukraine.
In twenty eighteen, a year and some change after being

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out of office, Joe Biden is on television at the
Council for Foreign Relations in twenty nineteen, and he says this.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
I remember going over convincing our team, our others to
convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
And I went over, Now, why did he convince our
government to give them loan guarantees? Because he needed leverage?
Let it go, it continues.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
I guess the twelve thirteenth time to Kiev, and I
was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar
loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Porshenko
and from Yachtsnyuk that they would take action against the
state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they said they were
walking out to press compt I said no, I said,

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I'm not going to or we're not going to give
you the billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Excuse me, this was supposed to be a quid pro quote.
We're going to give you the loan guarantees if you
fire the prosecutor doing the investigation of corruption of Barisma,
which involves his son. Now just for a second, and
I know we're going to run along here. Imagine if

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this were the other way around. Imagine if an official
from China says to the President of the United States,
you fire that state attorney or that US attorney in
such and such a district or else. Excuse me, you're

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telling me how to conduct business in my own country. Continues.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.
The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm
telling you're not getting a billion dollars. I said, you're
not getting a billion. And I'm going to be leaving here.
And I think it was what six hours. I look
as I'm leaving the six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired,
you're not getting the money.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
The prosecutor investigating the company, his son was sitting on
the board of directors.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
Oh son of them got fired and in place, someone
who was solid.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Solid, meaning someone who stopped the investigation and would not
look into his son. Ask yourself this, why were we
so intent when Joe Biden was president to give money
to Ukraine? Ukraine has receipts. That's why receipts of what

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you just heard it Joe Biden, I believe in that
admits to a crime, brags about a crime because he's
Joe Biden. And remember what Barack Obama once said about Joe.
Never underestimate Joe's ability to bleep up a situation. Seventeen

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past the hour? How bad was he? There?

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Speaker 5 (43:24):
Well, if you read something insane, I probably did it.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
I'm fine of food. The block is go ahead and
google my name. Now there is some into the sins
I have committed, and we all feel bad. Way we
have somebody.

Speaker 7 (43:46):
Ever man?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh yeah, Florida man. Here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Wit, witnesses told investigators a forty two year
old Florida man showed up at a nearby gas station
trying to trade an alligator for a six pack of beer.

(44:15):
When that failed, he reportedly drove straight to jail, burst
through the lobby, and proudly announced that his reptile was
his legal counsel. He shows up shirtless, holding a live
alligator and then demanding that they release his cousin immediately.

(44:40):
What staff asked him to leave, he slammed the animal
on the counter and shouted this gator pass the bar
before attempting to climb over the reception desk. Deputies wrestled
him down, confiscated the gator, charging with resisting arrest unlawful

(45:01):
possession of an alligator. I would think animal cruelty for
slamming the alligator down and trespassing on jail property. We
don't have any more details. I can't verify the story
other than it's out there all over the place and
he was booked with a bond set at seven thousand
dollars not payable in reptles. A picture, a mugshot of

(45:23):
him is out. If it's him, it's classic. This dude's
a meth head. There's no way around it. Then we
have a Florida man story that is actually a Florida
whoa man story Port Charlotte. This confirm from WBBH Charlotte

(45:44):
County Sheriff responding to a public store on Tammiami Trail
in Punta Gorda at ten twelve in the morning. So
you're thinking, okay, I mean seriously, at ten am, you're
normally not dealing with intoxicated people. Right, You're just not,
though it happens, you're not dealing with much of anything.

(46:07):
But at this stop, we have a report of a
stolen motorized shopping cart and it was seen driving south
on Tammiami Trail from Airport Road. So they tracked down

(46:29):
and they find forty two year old Robin Zick, She
of Punta Gorda, at a Circle K gas station about
a mile from the publics. She told them she took
the cart to go to a medical appointment she had.
She told deputy she planned on driving the cart to

(46:50):
her appointment then bringing it back to publics. Well, here's
the good news. There was definitely not going to be
a high speed chase. She was in fact arrested on

(47:12):
charges of grand theft and brought to a hospital for
further evaluation. Ah the legend of Florida Man now crosses
over to Florida Woman. Twenty seven past the hour, come back,
Big Stories in the press Box a stunning statement by
the leading mayoral candidate of New York City and no

(47:35):
way Jose still to come this hour on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
I got thought my news radio one hundred point seven dousla.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Big Stories in the press Box here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. More than one hundred and twenty
one thousand students have reached out to Turning Point USA
to start or join a chapter at their college or
high school. One hundred and twenty one thousand. I told you,

(48:48):
I've got an email. I already booked my first speaking
engagement at a Turning Point USA chapter. Just a reminder,
if you have a TPUSA chapter and you would like
me to come and it's within a drive, I can
do it. As long as I can make it, for

(49:09):
as long as it's a lunch meeting, I can do it.
So let me know how I can help. If you
want Big Stories in the press Box, Burger chain, steak
and Shake, installing the tallest and biggest American flags that
local ordinance will allow. At three hundred and ninety seven

(49:32):
Steak and Shake restaurants across twenty four states and territories
in and of the United States, the post the flag
installations have begun at Steak and Shake. Every Steak and
Shake is getting the tallest biggest American flag that local
governments will allow. Steak and Shake proudly supports American values

(49:55):
and traditions. Has garnered six point four million views, two
hundred thousand likes, that's all. Will they be targeted? My
bet is yes. My bet is that the chain will
be targeted by violence, by vandals, by protesters because that's

(50:22):
where we are. Because this is what Democrats want, not
all of them, but I'm going to keep saying Democrats
because until the rank and file Democrats cut off the
extremists that are fueling this violence and this rhetoric. Like
for example, Jay Jones, the Attorney general candidate for Virginia,

(50:46):
this is really the best Virginia has to offer from
the Democrat party, is an attorney general candidate that at
one time said that more police need to die in
order for police to shoot fewer people and then said
that if he had two bullets, he would shoot and

(51:06):
kill a former colleague in the Virginia Legislature, or at
least the former speaker. I'm not sure if he was
in the legislature at any point, he would shoot him
in the head. If it were between Hitler pol Pott
and the former Speaker of the Virginia Legislature who was

(51:26):
a Republican, he would shoot him in the head. If
he had two bullets, both would go to him. And
then later texted that he hoped that the wife of
the former House speaker that her children would die because
they're quote little fascists even though they're children. This is

(51:47):
what she got. And then, fueled by the Democrat insistence
on protecting illegal immigrants and the illegal immigrant health care
legal immigrants remaining in this country criminal elements, we now
have hits being put out on members of the United
States Border Patrol and ice immigrations. Custom enforcement agents contracts

(52:14):
between two thousand dollars to kidnap ten thousand dollars to kill.
This from the Latin Kings because these street gangs are
now being impacted by the deportations. Those are your big stories.
Forty minutes past the hour as long as it's a

(52:40):
lunch meeting, I can do it. So let me know
how I can help. If you want big stories in
the press box. Burger Chain, Steak and Shake installing the
tallest and biggest American flags that local ordinance will allow.
At three one hundred and ninety seven Steak and Shake

(53:02):
restaurants across twenty four states and territories in and of
the United States. The post the flag installations have begun
at Steak and Shake. Every Steak and Shake is getting
the tallest, biggest American flag that local governments will allow.
Steak and Shake proudly supports American values and traditions. Has

(53:26):
garnered six point four million views, two hundred thousand likes,
that's all. Will they be targeted? My bet is yes.
My bet is that the chain will be targeted by violence,
by vandals, by protesters, because that's where we are, because

(53:52):
this is what democrats want, not all of them. But
I'm gonna keep saying democrats because until the rank and
file Democrats cut off the extremists that are fueling this
violence and this rhetoric, like for example, Jay Jones, the

(54:12):
Attorney general candidate for Virginia, this is really the best
Virginia has to offer from the Democrat party is an
Attorney general candidate that at one time said that more
police need to die in order for police to shoot
fewer people and then said that if he had two bullets,

(54:34):
he would shoot and kill a former colleague in the
Virginia Legislature or at least the former speaker. I'm not
sure if he was in the legislature at any point,
he would shoot him in the head. If it were
between Hitler pol Pott and the former Speaker of the

(54:54):
Virginia Legislature who was a Republican, he would shoot him
in the head if he had two bullets, both would
go to him, And then later texted that he hoped
that the wife of the former House speaker that her
children would die because they're quote little fascists even though
they're children, this is what she got. And then, fueled

(55:21):
by the Democrat insistence on protecting illegal immigrants and illegal
immigrant health care and illegal immigrants remaining in this country
criminal elements, we now have hits being put out on
members of the United States Border Patrol and ice Immigrations
Custom enforcement agents contracts between two thousand dollars to kidnap

(55:47):
ten thousand dollars to kill this from the Latin Kings
because these street gangs are now being impacted by the deportations.
Those are your big stories forty minutes past the hour.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It's traffic, weather, sports, entertainment, and the Truth the Morning
Show at Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm curious to see what happens when New York elects
a socialist mayor. If businesses begin to leave in greater
numbers than they already have because of the tax policies
of New York City. But when you hand over control
to socialists, let me tell you something, the recovery from

(56:57):
that doesn't just happen with another election. It takes decades
to undo the damage that's gonna come. City owned grocery store,
city owned housing, city owned business. You don't just pry
that stuff free. And then there's the dangerous, racist, bigoted

(57:31):
rhetoric that comes from his mouth on the anniversary yesterday
of the terrorist attacks by Hamas, which to his credit,
he condemned Hamas carried out a horrific war crime. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no no, it was not a war crime. It

(57:53):
was a terrorist attack, killing more than one thousand, eleven
hundred is kidnapping two hundred and fifty more. I mourn
these lives and pray for the safe return of every
hostage still held, and for every family whose lives are
torn apart by these atrocities. And then he goes here.

(58:16):
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister net yahoo In,
the Israeli government launched a genocidal war, a death toll
that now far exceeds sixty seven thousand. First of all,
that is a blatant patent lie. The lie comes from
the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is lied about everything. Remember,

(58:40):
the people of Gaza elected Hamas knowing full well what
Hamas does. Hamas uses schools and hospitals and mosques as
bases of operations, knowing that targeting their military apparatus means
the the lives of people who are in fact innocent. Ohthough,

(59:04):
are you innocent? If you're covering for Hamas and its
terrorist activities. You could make the argument, And he said
that our government has been complicit through it all, meaning
the United States government. The occupation and apartheid that must
end the last two years have demonstrated the very worst

(59:26):
of humanity. You must answer it by modeling the very best,
the relentless pursuit of our higher ideals, in an unwavering
commitment to universal human rights. I'm curious how Mam Donnie
would reconcile his Islamic faith with the LGBTQ movement and

(59:49):
about that apartheid. He is right. The last two years
have shown the worst of humanity. Hamas has killed women
and children. They've blown up families in their bomb shelters.
You remember the stories. You remember what happened, raped and

(01:00:09):
murdered babies or women at a music festival. They strangled
babies to death, They held hostages and starved them to death.
And the only place where there is apartheid is where

(01:00:33):
Islamis hold control a site that is holy to Jews,
Christians and Muslims. But only Muslims are allowed to go
onto Temple Mount. No one else dare go there. Yeah,
apartheid out of end end it right there. But I

(01:00:57):
don't think that's what he's talking about. This is what's
coming for New York. I am of the mind that
this is what New York deserves. But mark the words
of not me, of our friend Justin Haskins, the election

(01:01:26):
of Zorn Mamdani will send a message to the socialist
and Islamis terrorists of the world that America is collapsing,
one city at a time. Forty seven minutes after the
island when we come back. No wait, Jose started counting

(01:01:52):
shows at the beginning because we weren't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Sure how long he'd last. Now we're just proving to
everyone that week in count This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Time to tee up, Jose, can you see with another
edition of No Way Jose.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Buenos dias, everybody, Good morning, Glad to be here with you.
So I picked these stories because I had a really
I've been having a really holy spirit filled week.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
So what what do you think leads to that? I mean,
what causes that?

Speaker 7 (01:02:37):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
What is it that not so much leads to it?
But what is it that's going on that? It's something's
just different being in my purpose?

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
Okay, yeah, I found that, you know, doing that has
really just I mean I could go on for like
three days telling you what happened this past week, but
we don't have enough time for that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
But I would love to put but but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
I'm probably gonna make enemies with this one. Tell me
sorry FSU, but the University of Pittsburgh who we're going to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Be playing this weekend. Pitt Panthers. Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
The football players turned their athletic spotlight into a spiritual beacon,
hosting the Pit for Jesus event on campus. Okay, Nearly
six hundred attendees heard the gospel, which beautiful, with tight
end Jake Overman emphasizing we do not want this platform

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to build to build up our name. We want to
build up the name of Jesus. And you know, well done,
young man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
You know this started at Ohio State last year. We
remember that, Yes, I remember that. And then the University
of Tennessee has got a big revival going through its
football program and on campus and now Pitt Panthers, Pit Panthers. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
And I'm hoping, yeah, I'm hoping there's some seminals out
there listening.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
And well, I know, Jordan Travis was a big you know,
if you looked at the Jordan Travis merchandise and I
bought one of his hats, it was it was all
about Jesus. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
So you know, fellas, come on, yeah, pick up the torch.
So so revival.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah you know what, say absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
The event led to sixty five commitments to Christ, eighty
baptisms nice, and forty five football players publicly declaring their faith.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Beautiful, beautiful YEP.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
Pastor John Howard or excuse me, Jason Howard highlighted the
hunger for deeper meaning among the students, and I love
this quote here he says, there's a hole inside everyone
that only God can fill. I've been learning that a
lot recently.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Okay, what else you got? Uh So?

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
We also have some in a in the the Holy
Land soil. Some archaeologists in Israel they uncovered about uh
one six hundred year old horde of bronze coins uh
in a in a.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Town called huk Uck.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
I believe I'm saying that right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Okay, just three miles from Capernaum, which is cool. Yeah,
it's just really neat. So the significance of the coins
is what uh So? They they they.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Came from a a one of the last revolts from
from the Jewish people called the Gallas Revolt, which is
the final uprising under Rome the Roman rule in three
point fifty one and three fifty two.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
A d oh wow, because that's that's then after the
destruction of Jerusalem, which happened in seventy eight d.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Yeah, that's pretty wild. And then being so close to Capernaum.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Yeah, pretty awesome. There's a theme to your stories here, yeah, yeah, yeah,
very kind of biblical. Little Jesus action here. Add one more,
but it's a little spicy. Probably good. We didn't get
to it, well, no, I mean you got thirty seconds.
Uh yeah, yeah, don't. I think we'll.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
I'll fly the plane up before we crash.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
I'm flying it right now, buddy, I got it. When
we come back, doctor Bob McClure will join us from
the James Madison Institute. They did some polling in the
Sunshine State. Rising cost of living, accessing housing making it affordable,
sound familiar, plus vaccine mandates. Some interesting reaction to the

(01:06:24):
vaccine mandates being removed here in the Sunshine State. So
we got a lot to talk about with doctor Bob McClure.
Next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, it means

(01:06:53):
we are here for yet another hour. Friends. It is Wednesday,
October eighth, on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I
am Preston Show fifty four sixty eight and thrilled to
have back with us doctor Bob McClure. He presides as
president of the James Madison Institute. Hello, doctor McClure, how
are you.

Speaker 7 (01:07:13):
I'm doing fantastic. How are you, my friend?

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I am doing well. I am overwhelmed with the data
that James Madison released in this polling of Florida voters.
I'm curious when you see something as wide and as
broad and as deep as this, you a data nerd
and a guy who drills deep and into the details,

(01:07:39):
what stood out to you is the most compelling story
out of all of this polling.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
You know, there were a couple of things Preston. One
is that we live, as you and I talked on
and off air many times, in the greatest state in
the country, the freest state in the country. It has
so much going for it. But yet seventy five percent
of the people in this state are worried about the
cost of living. They're worried about housing, They're worried about groceries,

(01:08:09):
they're worried about property taxes, insurance and those kinds of things.
And so I think despite the place that we live,
this is called the Sunshine State, there's some worry, not
some there's a lot of worry about making ends meet.
I think the second thing that's really interesting is the

(01:08:29):
governor's poll, which we can talk about more. You know,
if people don't know that Byron Donald's has been endorsed
by Donald Trump, he's basically running, even with Casey DeSantis
not saying she's gonna run. I have no knowledge one
way or the other. But once they know that Byron,
and this is not reflected in the poll, but once
they know that Byron has been endorsed by Donald Trump,

(01:08:51):
he's typically up twenty to twenty five points. So the
Donalds campaign pay needs to do a better job of
letting people know because when you go into the booth Preston,
it's not going to say next to his name endorsed
by Donald Trump. Those are the two things that stuck
out to me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Let's circle back to the economic part of this, and
let's start with the housing. Is what is crystallizing on
the issue of affordable housing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
Well, I think the issue for now you and I've
also talked about this. There's a huge difference between building
affordable housing and building housing that's affordable. Typically, bureaucrats and
elected officials when they say affordable housing, they're telling the
builder to build cheap housing that they can't make money

(01:09:41):
on and will they can just essentially kind of give away.
What we argue at JMI and what the data shows
is that you need to build housing that is affordable.
And what that means is typically it is the local government,
and boy, we've seen it here in tallahas in Leon County.
It is a local government that drives off, drives up

(01:10:03):
the cost of housing. Wait times, permitting, pay go, you know,
all of the different things that the permitting fees, all
of the things that go into the cost of building
a home, getting approval from some bureaucrat. Those are the
things that drive up the cost of a house. It's
not that builders are mean and they're trying to price

(01:10:27):
scouts people. They will build houses that people want to buy,
but government officials and bureaucrats too often get in the way.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Is it important? Kind of taking a page from those
on the left that I think are exceptionally good at
playing the long game and using semantics with ambiguity riddled
through it to keep people sort of confused. You know,
you just you just hit on it. Affordable housing, Okay,
let's define that. Does there need to be an effort

(01:10:57):
Is there an effort needed by those on the right
side of the aisle, those that believe in limited government
and so forth, to define what affordable housing is housing
that is affordable?

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:11:12):
Absolutely. The left has co opted the English language for years,
and we know that, whether it's things like the Affordable
Care Act, which is neither affordable, or does it care
for patients, the Inflation Reduction Act, it does not reduce inflation.
The term progressive, I don't like to use the term

(01:11:32):
progressive because that implies that they are progressing forward. Progressive
as we know them in this country actually are taking
us back. Their stated they want us to rely on government.
That's not progress, that's not human progress. I call them
the left, and so yes, they have co opted the language,

(01:11:54):
and we on the right have to do a much
better job of And I think Donald Trump is a
great example of speaking in terms of the average American
who doesn't care about politics, can understand what are you
going to do for me? How's it going to affect
my life? And Donald Trump and Rod de Santis look
at the governor with this whole property tax debate. When

(01:12:15):
we first started this. You know what did he start
eighteen months ago? Everybody kind of thought, oh, that's a
nice idea, that's never going to happen. Well, it's something's
going to happen. I can tell you that. And the
governor has done a great job of making it simple
for people in their everyday lives. And those are the
two gentlemen who are really doing it the best.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Doctor Bob McClure withers from the James Madison Institute. More
to discuss here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
Being told what to believe by the liberal media. Get
a refreshing dose of truth. It's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott's on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
You know the buttress, the point that doctor McClure was making.
You may remember we we started using the term illiberal
about a decade ago because classic liberalism. You know, you
hear about a liberal arts college and a degree and
all that. I mean it, there's there's some commonality. We
can talk to people that are classic liberals because they

(01:13:22):
believe in liberty. But but that's changed today, doctor McClure.
Let's let's take a little step further into this economic
tax issue here in the state of Florida James Madison Institute,
you were looking at what what policy might look like.
Have you gotten any closer to what the proper steps
might be for moving towards elimination and property tax.

Speaker 7 (01:13:49):
Well, I think there. I think no. I think it's
going to depend upon kind of where the governor and
the legislature want to go. So there are several different
ways one can go about out this, and it doesn't
have to be an either or it can be a bull.
And so you know, I heard the governor, I think
it was yesterday, say that if they eliminated property taxes,

(01:14:10):
particularly you know, rural counties rely on these uh you know,
these these local property taxes taxes tremendously that the that
he felt like the state with its revenue could cover
some of that, could cover a lot of that. One
of the things you can do is roll back spending
to pre COVID levels, you know, in places like Palm

(01:14:32):
Beach County. I was in Orlando at a press conference
with the CFO talking about this very issue in Seminole County,
you know, uh, and and many of these counties you're
talking about spend. Spending has gone up fifty percent preston
in in five years since COVID. These people at the
local level are surfing the wave of property values going up,

(01:14:57):
property taxes going up, and then they say, hey, we
know we never increased your property taxes. Well, they didn't
increase the milite rate, but they your property taxes went up,
and we see that here locally as well. So there
are a lot of ways to go about that. One
more thing, and I'll throw it back to you. You
can put a levy cap on local spending, roll it

(01:15:18):
back to say, twenty nineteen spending levels. Let's just take
Leon County, roll it back to twenty nineteen spending levels,
cap it, and then index that to population growth in inflation.
You're not telling them how they can spend their money.
You're not telling them where they can spend their money.
But you are saying, roll it back, this is how
much you have to spend, Go forth and do good things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
How many of the counties that are really overspending compared
to twenty nineteen are governed by Democrats? Hmmm.

Speaker 7 (01:15:52):
I don't know the answer to that, but I think
it's really important. And the CFO made this point yesterday
that this is not a Democrat publican issue. For example,
we were in Seminole County yesterday, which is wholly owned
by the Republicans at the local level, right, and yet
their spending has gone through the roof about fifty percent

(01:16:13):
since twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
I think that's what thats that's shameful.

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
It is shameful, it is, but that's what we're seeing
at the local level. And so it's just not and
this is what's refreshing. This is not Democrats or Republicans.
This is about cutting spending and returning those dollars to
the taxpayer in the form of real dollars, because the
cost of living in Leon County, in North Florida, in

(01:16:43):
Seminole County, in Broward County has gotten out of control
in large part because of local government spending. It's not
the state. The state for capitis spends is one of
the lowest in the entire country.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
It is at the local level where we are seeing
because of this exponential growth here in the state of Florida,
where we're seeing this abuse take place.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Doctor Bob McClure with us for one more segment talking
about some polling done by JMI and of course you
can find it at their website. Yeah, if you're the CFO,
you lead with the Republican counties and cities, lead with them,
use them as the example, and then just let it
fill in there. That just dulls the criticism of it

(01:17:26):
being a left or right attack. Back with Doctor McClure.
Next on the Morning Show on.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
Your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of
devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
So here we go in Ihearts Radio season. Back with
Doctor Bob McClure, the James Madison Institute, talking about some
recent polling and among the topics the twenty twenty six
s gubernatorial race, and we touched on it, ever so briefly,

(01:18:06):
Doctor McClure, I am of the opinion that Jay Collins
was picked as lieutenant governor because Casey is not going
to run. I don't think governor desaying this puts him
in that office. And he has been very very visible,
his people booking him on my show all the time.
Kind of your thoughts on the long race here that's ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:18:28):
Well, I think that you know, if you're reading kind
of the white smoke or black smoke from the Vatican.
It certainly appears that Jay Collins is going to run.
Good man, great guy, great legislator. You've got Paul Renner
in there, who is also fantastic, was probably a historic

(01:18:50):
House speaker if there ever was one in terms of
getting good conservative policy through. Agreed, You've got Byron Donald's
who is excellent, would make a great governor, who has
the Trump endorsement, has you know, tens of millions of
dollars in the bank, and would appear appear to be
the odds on favorite. We have a long way to go, obviously.

(01:19:12):
And then in the Democratic side, I'm not sure who
inspires you. Is that David Jolly kind of the Charlie
Crist of the twenty twenties. He's been a Republican, he's
been a Democrat. You know, really, I don't think so.
Jason Pizzo mart Well, he's not a Democratic guy. No,

(01:19:33):
he rejected the Democratic Party because they had gone so
far left, and now he's running as an independent. So
there's not the infrastructure. Maybe the fundraising component is much
more challenging, so you know, it's it's all in the republic.
And then you add in Preston that there is now
a one point three million registration voter edge for the Republicans.

(01:19:55):
Think about that, one point three million more people identify
Republicans in this state then they do as Democrats. That
makes whoever comes out of this primary, and you got
to believe it, Byron, with the pole position, has got
to be the odds on favorite to be the next governor.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
The problem that Congressman Donald's has is that at this
point in time, his ground game in the state is
very lacking. I don't know if the people advising him
aren't just recognizing how poor it is, but they're struggling
with the ground game in Florida, and they're struggling getting
him local exposure in places like this program. And I'm

(01:20:38):
just curious if that's if having Trump's endorsement is what
they're they're banking on, because I think I like you
like him very much, and I think he'd be a
terrific governor along with a couple of other people. But
if he doesn't do a better job of connecting, you know,
he's going to struggle.

Speaker 7 (01:20:57):
Well, that was what was interesting about the polling. So
we did a polling back in the winter where we said,
you know, do you know that Byron is endorsed by
Trump because it had just come out? No, I didn't.
If if I did, it increases he's up by twenty points.
But this most recent poll was just like it would
appear in the ballot box, on the ballot box and

(01:21:20):
it's who would you vote for? Straight up positive negative?
We you know this is not this is public. We
caught some flak from the Donalds campaign because we didn't
include it the Trump endorsement on this most recent pulling.
But it's not going to be in the polling booth
when you go in to vote. It's a coment upon
them to make sure everybody knows that he's been endorsed

(01:21:43):
by Trump. So when you just show it as you
show it as it's going to be on the ballot,
it was pretty even. So that tells me there's work
to do now. I have no inside knowledge. I don't
even pretend to. Don't want to know. Are they holding
their fire till January? They have a lot of money
in the bank. I don't know, that's not that is
there there. They've got a lot of smart people running

(01:22:05):
their show. So maybe that's just holding their fire until
January and then they're going to push the ground game,
push the other I don't have an answer for you
on that, but it is an interesting thought that most Republicans,
most Floridians have no idea he's been endorsed by the president.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Last question, what are your expectations And we can talk
more about this next month, but what are your expectations
in short for the final session with Governor Rohn de
Santas at the helm.

Speaker 7 (01:22:37):
I believe the governor is going to get something very
significant on the ballot in terms of property taxes, and
I think it's going to be a really, really important
issue for Floridians. Can you imagine if you eliminated property
taxes or you reduce them seventy five eighty percent, that

(01:23:00):
would mean for Florida's economy and putting money back in
people's pockets. I'll say this about the governor. He has
run through the tape man. He is not coasting in
these last two years. He is driving and pushing. You know,
you go back to the weed Amendment, to the abortion amendment.
He put all the chips on the table. He won there,

(01:23:21):
and so he is pushing. I think the second component, Preston,
is that the trial bar is going to continue to
try to claw back what they lost when we put
in those reforms toward reforms primarily focused on insurance two
years ago. And I think we're going to have to
play a little bit of offense on the property tax issue,

(01:23:43):
a lot of offense and some defense to keep in
place the reforms on property insurances that are working.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Good stuff. As always, doctor McClure, thanks very much. We'll
talk again next month.

Speaker 7 (01:23:54):
You bet, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Thank you, sir, Doctor Bob McClure with us this morning
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Thought or story you want to share, write them at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes, he knows how to read. Well,
actually his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
A very good friend who is very politically astute in
the Sunshine State. Send a note reminding me. If you
ask pundits in the spring of twenty eighteen who is
going to be our next governor, most would have been
sure it was Adam Putnam. Is to lose was the
most common expression. Most would have given Rond de Santus

(01:24:57):
little to know odds of winning. Byron Donald's needs to
remember that that's true. You know, I can only offer
thoughts based on my own interactions with his campaign staff.
And to give you an example, they reached out to

(01:25:18):
have Byron on the program half a year ago. I
replied immediately, absolutely love to have him. I've had Erica
on a couple of times over the years. Would love
to have Byron on. Here are the dates, and they
were dates for the next week. I wouldn't get a
response for seven to ten days. Those dates then become dead.

(01:25:42):
They're already filled, we already have guests, we already have
a show booked. So I give another set of dates.
Another week to two weeks goes by before I hear
anything back. They're not responsive, and maybe they'll get better.
I certainly would love to have any of the candidates,
Democrat or Republican independent that are credible. The list of

(01:26:03):
people you ought to see, the list of candidates that
have officially filed to run for governor. It's it's silly. Now. Look,
I get it. You have every right to run, and
that's fine, but there's got to be a degree of
practicality to a decision like that. I mean you can
only ask family and friends for money if you think

(01:26:26):
you're gonna win. Don't you can't you. And that's the
thing I've had to say to people so many times
over the years. Don't do it. No, I've been asked
what do you think of my odds of and I
would go I wouldn't do it. You're gonna stand in
front of family and friends, they're gonna feel guilty, they're
gonna give you money, and you don't have a chance

(01:26:48):
of winning. You don't have any organizational structure. There's no
social media following, there's nothing. There's no win that you
sales well. I just feel God telling me, run well, brother,
then you do what God's telling you to do, or sister,
you do it. But I'm just telling you just remember

(01:27:14):
your families and friends, your family and friends. I just
you look at the list of people running Democrat, Republican
and independent and it's like, oh my goodness. We reset
the big stories in the press box throughout the first
two hours of the show. That just interrupted us my

(01:27:37):
little rant on the governor campaign. Hopefully we'll hear from candidates,
and again I welcome democrats running for governor to come
on the program. And as I told Gwen Graham years
ago when she was running for Congress, if you can't
take questions from a little fuzzball like me, how am

(01:28:00):
I supposed to believe you're going to stand up to
anything in Congress? And I was proven right. She would
not come on the program and take questions publicly. She
has no interest in having to have a good, robust
discussion on issues. She didn't then, she wouldn't now. I
don't know what her plans are moving forward, but that's

(01:28:23):
the thing. They don't generally want to have any pushback. Generally.
Forty minutes past the hour, let's talk about Memphis when
we come back in show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn't exist.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
On news Radio one hundred point seven double USLA Memphis.

(01:29:12):
It's going to be interesting to see if the President
ends up with the authority to send the National Guard
in areas of this country where and I think this
is key, where the ability for the federal government to
do its job is hindered by local elected officials. Federalism,

(01:29:38):
we're all for it, right, but if your local government
is not looking out for your welfare and your protection.
You know, what do you do? I found this piece
in the Epic Times. Memphis residents Welcome the arrival of

(01:30:00):
federal agents is the headline, and I wanted to get
to some of the quotes here. Now. They announced yesterday
that authorities have arrested more than three hundred and seized
eighty illegal firearms in the first week of The hundreds

(01:30:22):
of individuals Epic Time spoke with between October second and sixth,
the vast majority in favor of Trump's order to help
mitigate crime. One local woman who works two jobs at
a restaurant on the iconic Beale Street and as a
home healthcare provider, it's really good to have the National

(01:30:43):
Guard coming here, Daphne Carpenter thirty seven. Crime is harming
the community, she said, recounting multiple shootings that occurred in
the area and including one where a newly graduated eighteen year
old female was killed. She said Trump deserves credit for
prioritizing communities across the country. He's the only president that
ever ever looked out for us like that, she said.

(01:31:07):
Courtney Winners of Memphis. I definitely feel safer because I
know they're doing fugitive ops. They're looking for people with
open warrants. Memphis police are busy doing other things like
solving murders, investigating robberies. So getting these agencies to come
and actually go find these people, that's what they need.

(01:31:27):
Business owner told Epic Times, the drug dealers that wouldn't
leave my storefront alone are nowhere to be seen. He
was a convenience store. He decided to keep his name
in business name anonymous. He said, My customers tell me
it's the safest they've ever felt walking into my store.

(01:31:49):
There was no fear of the law. They were stealing
everything and making things very hard for me. Cassandra Neely,
longtime Memphis teacher. It affects the life of my care.
It affects people. I just have not seen it on
the scale that everybody's talking about that don't live in Memphis.
They say that. She says that this city's not as

(01:32:11):
dangerous as it's been portrayed. If you want to find good,
you're going to find good. If you want to find
down and dirty, you'll get the down and dirty. And
I guess to that, I would say, well, then don't
you want to get rid of the down and dirty.
I mean, doesn't that make some degree of sense? Others say,

(01:32:33):
situational awareness keeps them safe, and we preach that all
the time, But do you really want a community that
has to live in the world of situational awareness at
all times? And look, I preach that, right, I try
to live that. But do I really want my children

(01:32:56):
and my grandchildren to have to live where situational awareness
must be at the top of everything they do. The
answer is yes, but with the caveat, not because it's needed,
but just because it's wise. In these communities it's needed.

(01:33:21):
There are places that you just don't want to be
and do you really surrender those areas over to the
criminal elements? Anyway, this is going to end up in
there's no way this avoids the Supreme Court. President can't
have the National Guard deployed indefinitely. There's a limit to it.

(01:33:44):
And so we'll see what happens long term. Forty six
minutes past the hour, fifty two minutes past tomorrow, busy day,

(01:34:07):
first time ever, the new Commissioner of Education for the
State of Florida, Anastasios Commoostas, comutsus commutsus. That's it, Kamutzus
I got it. He will join us tomorrow along with
Steve Stewart doctor David Hart's Little road trip suggestion. I've

(01:34:32):
mentioned that when I'm not feeling well, I drive my
wife crazy because I just want to be left alone.
I appreciate the nursing, I appreciate the love and the
care that she offers, and on occasion I might say, yeah,
it'd be great to have a cold drink or a

(01:34:54):
warm tea or something. But generally speaking, man, I'm just yeah.
But you get to a point and I can't remember
the last time. For example, I can't remember the last
time I missed a show because I was sick. Because oftentimes,
even when I'm feeling a little under the weather, I

(01:35:14):
still come in and do the show because it's just me.
I'm just sitting here in the studio. Jose's over on
the other side of the glass, literally on the other
side in another room completely. But I can imagine I
remember days when I was you know, when those occasions
when I was like sick for a few days. Man,

(01:35:35):
when you're over it, you just want to get out
of the house, out of the bed, out of the house,
breathe some fresh air, just go somewhere get away. One
lady in Cooper County, Missouri. She had been home for
a week and was just she was done. So she
went out and she made a stop at the Murphy

(01:35:59):
Old Oil on Main Street in Booneville, bought a soda
and a triple cash crossword scratch off ticket, and she
won one hundred thousand dollars. See where Booneville, Boonville, Missouri.
I have long believed that the best places and times

(01:36:22):
to buy lottery tickets are in these small little communities
wherever you're traveling. Don't buy them in a big city.
I am in those small little communities because you always
see that stuff anyway. Good for her.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Try to Take two started today's program with God's word
just loving others as Jesus has loved us, and we
talked about the importance of what that means to love
as Jesus loved. Loving someone doesn't mean turning your head

(01:37:06):
to sin. Loving someone isn't turning away from mistakes. It's
it's encouraging them to do better. That's what true love is.
Why would you want someone to keep doing something that
puts them in peril or in a place of not
being protected or blessed by God. I'm just saying, so

(01:37:27):
that's where I mean we started there. Some could argue
we went straight downhill from that point forward, because I mean,
you know, you start with God's word and you're dropping
a hammer on everyone with I mean some good scriptures
as a wham. That's scripture so powerful. It's like, what
do you say after that? Well, I tried for another
two hours and fifty five minutes, fifty minutes. Two hours

(01:37:51):
in fifty minutes, had doctor Bob McClure with us talked
about the plot to assassinate America's top border patrol official.
That's where we are, huh. Virginia Attorney General candidate Democrat
suggests killing cops with lower shootings. He also wish the
college a former colleague somebody knows that if their kids died,

(01:38:15):
that would be a good thing too. And he's the
type of guy. The Democrats are rolling out there but
steak and shake, putting the tallest, biggest American flags possible
in places all over the country. So that's a good thing.
Back with you tomorrow, friends, have an awesome day,