Ep. 5138: Polling Stats Galore

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Episode Transcript

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Come on in Friends Tuesday on themorning show with Trustle He's God, I'm
brusting, He's grand. Great tobe with you. Show fifty one thirty
eight of the radio program known asCommon Sense Amplifier. How I Am.
Begin with some scripture. This isa very familiar passage and it comes from

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the Old Book Lamentations three, twentytwo and twenty three. Says, the
steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning. Greatis your faithfulness. That's look.

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God's word is epic, absolutely epic. But there are verses that pop up.
Now let me let me do thisfor you. Let me combine this
verse as an example of what wewere talking about a week or so ago
when we were discussing the armor ofGod that we wrestle not against you know,

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flesh and blood, but against principalitiesand powers. Our fight at its
root, at its core, isagainst demonic forces that are trying to influence
impact our day to day decisions,our lives in ways large and small.

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Oftentimes it starts as just it's Idescribe it as as a chip in a
windshield. You get a little chipin the windshield, and that in and
of itself is kind of annoying,but you just sort of move on.
But oftentimes driving your car, youhit a pothole or you you know,
you hit a bump, and thatlittle tiny chip in the windshield develops just

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a small sliver of a crack,and then over time it that crack grows
and grows and then its spider veinsout and next thing you know, you
got a windshield it's fallen in.That's the way addictions work. It starts
really small. You think I gotthis, it's no big deal, and
next thing you know, you areaddicted to fill in the blank. It's

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not necessarily alcohol and drugs. Itcan be it can be all kinds of
things that distract you from your callingas a Christian, what you're supposed to
be focused on. That's how Satanworks. That's that that's the way that
a principality and power works. Sowhen we talk about the armor of God,

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we then get to the sord ofthe spirit, which Paul says is
the Word of God. Except whathe says there is the word rama see
Word of God in scripture is writtenof in two different ways. The logos,

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the entirety of God's word is logosrama r h E. M A
is sayings and utterances of scripture.In other words, this would be a
sort of the spirit use of God'sword that Paul's referring to. Because he's

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not talking about the entirety of God'sword. He's giving us this idea that
when we're fighting for let's say peacein our heart and in our mind,
because we're feeling like God does notlove us, We're feeling left out,
we're feeling beaten down. This versein Lamentation says, the steadfast love of

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the Lord never ceases. Imagine justthat portion of it as taking that small
sword and to the spiritual forces thatare coming against you, and you thrash
it with that, and you gofrom there. His mercies never come to
an end. Whack another one.They are new every morning, Whack another

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one. Great is your faithfulness.It's the vanquishing moment there. I mean,
what Paul's describing with the sword ofthe Spirit is knowing enough about God's
word, planning enough scriptures in yourmind that when the enemy fights against you,
you pull these things out as weapons, offensive weapons, not defensive offensive

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because in the Roman world, thatsword that they created, that small lethal
sword, while while other swords guyswere wielding with two hands and trying to
sling it over their head to delivera blow. The Roman soldiers had these
short, small swords and they wereexercising lethal punishment while that guy's trying to

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wield his massive weapon, the swordof the Spirit. Lamentations Today, Chapter
three, Verses twenty two and twentythree. There's a weapon for you right
there when you are feeling defeated andlike you don't matter that you've messed up,

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and you don't God doesn't love youanymore. Remember that. Ten minutes
after the hour The Morning Show withPreston Scott on news Radio one hundred point
seven WFLA taking deep dive. HarrietQuimby already at yourjournalist, theater, critic,

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photographer, screenwriter when she convinced anaviator to teach her to fly in
nineteen eleven, eight years after theRight Brothers first eight years after the Right
Brother's first flight. Put some contexton that that would be like twenty sixteen
is when it happened. So eightyears later, she became the first woman

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in the United States to earn apilot's license. On April sixteenth, nineteen
twelve, she became the first womanto pilot a plane across the English Channel.
Amelia Earhart later described Quimby's fragile craftas quote hardly more than a wing
skeleton with a motor. That's incredible. Quimby wrote about her first flight from

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Dover to the French coast in Leslie'sIllustrated Weekly, quoting in a moment,
I was in the air, climbingsteadily in a long circle. In an
instant and I was beyond the cliffsand over the channel. Then the quickening
fog obscured my view. Calay wasout of sight. I could not see

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ahead of me or at all below. There was only one thing for me
to do, and that was tokeep my eyes fixed on my compass.
Can you imagine no altimeter, noway of knowing if you were just slowly
going down or going up. Myhands were covered with long Scotch woolen gloves,

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which gave me good protection from thecold and fog. But the machine
was wet, and my face wasso covered with dampness that I had to
push my goggles up to my forehead. I could not see through them.
I was traveling at over a milea minute. The distance straight across from
Dover to Calais was only twenty fivemiles. And I knew that land must

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be in sight if I could onlyget below the fog and see it.
So I dropped from an altitude ofabout two thousand feet until I was half
that height the sunlight, sunlight struckupon my face, My eyes lit upon
the white and sandy shores of France. Can you imagine? That is surreal

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to me? Quimby's daring flight helpedearn her the epithet America's first Lady of
the Heir. Tragically, three monthsafter her historic flight, she died in
a flying accident near Boston. Wow, that happened on flying across the English

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Channel happened on this date in nineteentwelve. Let's go backwards a little bit.
In seventeen eighty nine, President electGeorge Washington leaves Mount Vernon for his
inauguration in New York. Eighteen sixtytwo, Abraham Lincoln signs a bill ending
slavery in the District of Columbia.Nineteen forty seven, much of Texas City,

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Texas, is destroyed when a shipcarrying fertilizer blows up in the harbor,
killing nearly six hundred people. Nineteensixty three, Martin Luther King writes
his letter from a Birmingham jail andin two thousand and seven school shooting at
Virginia Tech. We'll leave it atthat. Today in the program Big Stories

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in the press Box. Got somea lot of polling numbers today, and
like all polling numbers, you takethem with a grain of salt, but
they offer us a little snapshot.As I've told you, I will be
paying more and more attention to pollingas we get closer and closer to November.

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I think it's it becomes more relevant. So we'll look at some polling
numbers today. Apparently the word isaccording to Golf Digest, one of the
Masters runner up is it Tallahassee.Resident Ludwig Oberg apparently lives in Tallahassee.

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Little backstory on that. We've gota manly minute and in the third hour,
doctor Bob McClure from the James MadisonInstitute will join us and we will
talk about all things James Madison aswell as Florida. What's going on in
the Sunshine State. The priorities ofJMI as it relates to the last session
and looking ahead. Sixteen minutes afterthe hour, it is The Morning Show

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with Preston Scott. Katie Couric claimsMAGA movement driven by anti intellectualism. Of
course you are the harbinger. Youare, sorry, not the harbin You
are the You are the poster girlfor intellectualism, right, Katie, Oh

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give me a break. You willlead a snob anyway. I just got
heartbreaking news here as a flying enthusiastwho doesn't fly very much. And I'm
not talking about being a passenger.I'm talking about actually flying an airplane.

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I love flying, absolutely love it. I look up in the sky multiple
times a year and see the beautifulblue skies and the cool temperatures, and
I think to myself, what agreat day to fly. I'll look at
my wife, I'll say, youknow what this is, right, She'll
say, beautiful day to fly?Yeah, yep. I. In fact,

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I had one of the executives forIcon the A five on the show
a few years ago. It isa it's a seaplane for two. It's
a sports seaplane almost. I thinkit might even be an LSA, but
it's just it's a cool airplane,it's versatile, not meant for cross country

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trips, though you can take itcross country, but it's real pricey.
And they just filed chapter eleven twoweeks ago, and I'm just sick about
it. Ah ah. And andthat's happening in the industry. Biden administration

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has made things very, very difficult, and the cost of manufacturing has exploded,
even though they have orders waiting.The cost of fuel and everything,
it's just it just it breaks myheart. Anyway, That's not what I

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was planning to talk about here.This is sort of an unofficial food segment
of the program. I didn't knowthis. You know what Smart Food is
snacked, the Smart Food snack nopopcorn. It's a brand Smart Food.

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Oh it's popcorn. You see iton the shelves, you'd recognize it probably,
And they apparently have done some collaborationsand they have a new one and
it's available at least now. Idon't know if it's out in all the
other stores, but it's available atSam's Club. I don't know that means
it's now at Walmart as well,because they're affiliated. But apparently Lays and

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Smart Food have just dropped a SmartFood popcorn. It's the Lay's sour cream
and onion popcorn. So it's flavoredpopcorn, which is why it's called smart
Food because it's a low calorie,crunchy kind of snack. Of course,
popcorn is awesome. It's a limitedtime offering right now. It's Sam's.

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Ah, just about a sixteen ouncebag costs you six forty eight. It's
actually quite a bit of popcorn sixteenounces. But here's what I didn't know.
I didn't know that Smart Food haddone other collaborations before. They have
done a Dorito's Cool Ranch popcorn.Now does that interest you? Most popcorns

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I'm uninterested in? How about that? How about like the classic cheese popcorn.
It's not really the flavor, it'syou're not into the texture and all
that. No, that's fine.It just gets stuck in my teeth.
Yeah, that enough. That aloneis like Yeah, and then there's the
inevitable one that didn't fully pop andyou almost break your molar on Yeah,

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and I've just avoided it because ofall that. I get it, I
understand. Okay, So let's setthat aside. Flavor profile, Yeah,
sour cream and onion that's good.Go cool Ranch, Dorito, cool Ranch,
full send Um, Buffalo, wildwings, parmesan, garlic, I'd

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do it. That's interesting, Frank'sred hot. Yes, so all of
these kinds of popcorns if it weren'ton popcorn, if it weren't the nature
of what popcorn is. Yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah totally. What
about do you ever, like,if you're going to a baseball game,

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do you do the cracker Jacks?The caramel popcorn? Just because you're at
a baseball game, you do todo it? I would I would break
down and do something like that.Yes, okay, So which would be
your favorite? The cracker jack,caramel popcorn or one of these flavored popcorns
if you were at the ballgame.Hmm, that's a good question. I'd

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have to be at the ballgame tokind of get a feeling for what you've
been eating. What what main foodyou've been eating along with it? Yeah?
Okay, So what would if Ihad if I just a hot the
flavors that I've mentioned, what wouldbe your go to? Doritos, the
cool Ranch? Yeah, okay,probably, okay, that sounds good.
I have a cheddar cheese popcorn fanatic. If I get it. The bag's

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gone now, it's it's it.There are a handful of things like that,
Honey Barbecue, Twisty Free does thecorkscrew fre Dos and Honey Barbecue.
Hand me a bag of those.You will not get the bag back.
They're gone. They're just they're gone. The only thing that I would say,
I don't just demolish it's in thatniche would be hot fries, because

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that can only take so many beforemy mouth is just on fire. Anyway,
Like you all care, but I'vemade you hungry. This is the
Morning Show with Preston Sky. Thirtysix minutes past Warning Show with Preston Scott.

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He's Grant Allen looking very spring andsummer. Yeah, there's the semi
dad there. Not quite a doubledad, but a double dad will do
you anyway. Welcome to the program. Big Stories in the press Box brought
to you by Grove of Creative Marketingand digital Expertise. Early polling, very

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early victory insights. US Representative ByronDonald's gets a plurality of support among twelve
hundred registered Republican voters for a twentytwenty six primary for governor of Florida.

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Here's the breakdown. Now, notall these people have announced or will announce
necessarily. According to the polling,Donald's leads the field. Gates Matt Gates
is second. Donalds has twenty onepercent, Gates at thirteen. US Congressman

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Michael Waltz at five percent. Again, not all of these people have announced
or even indicated their interest in.Jimmy patronis at three percent, Wilton Simpson
at two percent. More than fortypercent of the voters are undecided. Another
fourteen percent said they would support someoneelse, So no one on that list.

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Endorsements from Trump or DeSantis would mattermore than half of the respondent's value.
The former president's take three to fivewould consider Governor DeSantis' blessing on who
the runner up would be. Youknow what name is missing that surprises me?
Is not on there. Our occasionalguest to the Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Unez,

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I think she wants to run.This is I'm just saying snapshot polling.
There you go, another poll.This is USA today IPSOS fifty seven
percent of Floridians favor the abortion amendment. It's got a plus minus of four

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percent. It was on thy fourteenFlorida adults. April five through seven,
thirty four percent of Republicans voted polledin favor of it, sixty three percent
of independence seventy eight percent of Democrats. However, this is why I love
what I do. I read alittle deeper. See that's where people stop.

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The question specifically referenced allowing abortions upto twenty four weeks. The amendment
doesn't say that it is unlimited.I think it changes the numbers pretty dramatically
when you put in front of peoplewhat the ballot now, why would they

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not do that? They know whatthe ballot amendment is. Why would the
pollsters not say unlimited access to abortionup until and including just after birth.
Why would they not say? Becausethat doesn't poll. That doesn't poll well.
So again, the fight is underway. Now, messaging matters, more

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polling coming up. Got a lotof polling to go through today on the
program. Oh and the Baltimore Bridgecollapse. It's officially an FBI investigation.
Now for the rest, we're yourmorning show, The Morning Show with Preston
Scott. All right, let meadvance one thing here. If in the

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course of listening to the program inthe Tallasse area, Hey maybe for that
matter, in other areas as well, if for some reason the signal gets
a little funky on you this timeof year. There are seasonal atmospheric things
that will impact radio signals, notjust ours. We're running one hundred percent.

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Our engineers kill it. They're ontop of everything. But there are
things that happen. It's a phenomenonthat is referred to as ducting, and
so on occasion there will be othersignals that will bleed into and over hours
and there's we just we got tolive through it. My suggestion to you

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would be to to just flip overto the app. If you're able to
do that, just listen on theapp. The iHeartRadio app doesn't cost you
anything. Just sign up, getthe account. Again. There is a
free service and that's I use thefreebie and I love it. And you
can listen to us very easily live. You can listen live. You don't

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have to wait for the podcast tocome out. So I'm just saying,
if it gets to an annoyance overthe next you know, a few days,
week or so, there you go. There's there is your answer.
Hey, real quickly, did youknow I did not know this The twenty
some odd dudes on that boat arestill on that boat. Apparently they are
foreign nationals and as such they cannotjust be allowed off the ship. Think

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of the irony. We have millionscrossing our borders illegally, and these poor
guys are stuck on this ship becauseof their international status. They can't even
get off. They have to justbring them supplies. They're just living on
board. I mean, come on, honestly, maybe these guys deserve a

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night at the movies, you know, I mean, just something. Get
them off the ship. Anyway,the FBI is now looking into it.
Speaking of bridges, the anti Israelipro Hamas, pro Gaza, pro whatever
idiots have shut down the Golden GateBridge at least they did for quite a

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while yesterday, as well as Interstateeight eighty in Oakland. What would you
do? What would you do ifconfronted with demonstrators blocking your way to work,

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to wherever you're going, whatever you'redoing, what would you do?
I fault the people in front forI'm not saying run them over. I'm
just saying just ease on by,I think, And obviously they're arresting a

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bunch of them, But you gotto arrest them all, and you got
to keep them in jail. Andthis whole pro Palestinian nonsense has gotten out
of hand. It just has gogo live there, Go liberate your land
whatever. Don't sit here and burnflags in America. Don't take advantage of

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the free speech that you have hereto make life difficult for everybody who's just
trying to live in peace. Andalways remember who started this fight. October
seventh, just saying that's what everyoneneeds to remember. This is this is

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going to get interesting. There's alot of rhetoric back and forth. Iranians
saying, oh, we just sentour our cheap old drones in our crappy
old missiles. Uh, we werejust we were just testing you us,
and it's allies are saying, uhno, uh you you tried to launch

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an attack. You you you launchedan attack on Israel and we shot it
down. Because your stuff's pretty badand you're trying to spin it and make
it look good because you failed miserably. Again, it's uh, who do
you believe? I don't know.I certainly don't believe them, but I
don't necessarily believe us. How's thatfor a state of the world. Forty

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six after the hour, Welcome tothe Morning Show with Preston Scott. I
say, Claudine Gay, You saywho you know who I'm talking about?

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Yeah, the recently ousted Harvard presidentbonus points for using the word ousted,
but still on staff with like asalary of nine hundred thousand dollars bingo year.
But it gets better. You're thinkingto yourself, how can that get
better? She got a bonus?Nope, nope, nope, nope this

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fall, guess what she'll be teaching. Let me see black queer sexuality in
early colonial America. If I said, actually, worse reading and research.
No, yes, the plagiarist isgoing to be teaching reading and research.

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That's so funny Harvard. First ofall, the shortest tenured president in Harvard's
history. Do you know how longthat history is Harvard's history, And she
owns the record for the quickest outof office. Why well, among other

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reasons, forget the anti semitism thatshe's allowed to go on that she allowed
to go on on campus. She'sa plagiarist. Her work features other people's
work. You could make the argumenther entire resume is on the backs of

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other people. Because that's how sheadvanced cheating, borrowing others research, and
so forth. It's hilarious the collegefixes out there reporting that she will teach
a section of reading and research coursedespite the fact that she has virtually no

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personal scholarly work on her own,and the work that she does have she
took from others. Harvard. Atany point, do you think any of
the well to do IVY League parentsout there are going to wake up and
say, yeah, maybe we needto not send our kids to these schools

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now. Because it still is incrediblybeneficial for all of them to go to
Harvard because they end up getting jobsas these like middle management, you know,
government bureaucrats, and then they ascendthe ranks. I don't know if
you see those those tiktoks or Instagramreels videos of like these young people that

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have these absolutely fluff jobs. Theywork maybe three hours a week, but
it's at like Lockheed or Apple whateverthose are. The Harvard grats, they
get these jobs that are absolutely nothinglike it's just this middle management type kind
of thing where they get avocado toastfor breakfast. And I know, I

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sound like a boomer making fun ofmillennials in their avocado toast. But there's
an entire culture around there. There'slike a pipeline of if you play the
leftist game, you get rewarded withthese fluff jobs in Chicago and New York
and Boston. Let me, letme, let me throw this idea at
you, and where we need tostrive towards. Okay, who's just laying

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Maxwell Epstein's friend, right? Sheshe worked for Epstein, right, Okay,
and she's in prison. Right.We need to make the Ivy League
schools the Jeffrey Epstein of education,just like basically by association your your scum.

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I don't disagree, actually, andgiving creating a new elite kind of
institution for kind of like our folks. Kind of what Hillsdale is branding themselves
as is just gonna say Hillsdale,and what DeSantis is doing with New College
basically wanting to turn New College ofFlorida to the Hillsdale of the South.

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Yeah, that's brilliant. That's thekind of elite institutions to counter the Harvards.
Yeah, and I'm not saying thatall of you Harvard grads or Ivy
League school grads are irredeemable. There'ssome really good people out there, no
doubt. But you know exactly whatI'm talking about. You need to be
our torch bearers for our new mission. Our two's next. Okay, ok

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there, welcome to the second Hour. Such an idiot, He's not.
That's Grant Allen. I'm preston,doctor Bob McClure. Next hour, busy,
second hour this morning. Lots ofdata or do you say data?

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I'm a data guy, Tomato andtomato data or data. I will say
data, but I suppose it dependson what what I'm saying around it.
Anyway. Polling is interesting only casuallyuntil we get near the election, but

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it becomes more and more accurate asyou get closer. However, it does
offer a little bit of a lookinside what people are thinking at a given
moment in time. Daily Signal,which is the news outlet for the Heritage

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Foundation survey from Echelon Insights twenty fourhundred and one registered voters in six battleground
states. First of all, whenyou love to know, oh, the
scientific reason for twenty four hundred andone, it's like twenty and eleven.

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I just anyway, it is whatit is. These are the numbers.
These are swing voters that they've identifiedsegment of the population not strongly aligned with
either political party they can go eitherway allegedly feels kind of self explanatory for

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that one of swing voters in battlegroundstates, of which they've identified six of
them. Percentage of those who saythe Biden administration is a total failure.

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Sixty five percent of swing voters saythe Biden administration is a total failure,
breaking down sixty two percent of Hispanicmen fifty eight percent of Hispanic men under
fifty, sixty nine percent of Hispanicmen over fifty, college men fifty five

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percent, college women forty six percent. Young voters sixty percent eighteen to thirty
five called Biden's administration of failure.Married women fifty six percent, moms sixty
percent, dad's sixty four percent areyour Those are people that, for polling

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purposes, identify themselves as swing independent, not Democrat, not Republican, just
independent voters. Here's what's interesting.Even if you throw the idea into the
mix that well, people lie,well, then they got a bunch of

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Republicans that lied or Democrats equally knowalmost equally know that Biden has been a
failure, and they went ahead andallowed themselves to be registered as an independent
voter, even though it looks asan anonymous poll, right, You're not.
They're not disclosing who said what.They're not gonna they're not gonna swing

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this thing to favor Trump in anyway, shape or form. Swing voters
blame Biden for the border and inflation. Not quite as much for violent crime,
but absolutely they blame him on inflationand what's going on at the border.
There's more polling data. We're gonnaget to it next here on The

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Morning Show with Preston Scott. TheMorning Show with Preston Scott, looking at
some polling numbers. Here. We'vegot a headache right now for Joe because

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the annual inflation rate topped the estimatefor the fourth consecutive month. It's three
point five percent. You know,I got an email here. This is
pretty funny. One of our researchassistants, one of our longest tenured research
assistants in fact, send a littlememe on the inflation calculation that somehow we

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were supposed to think that, oh, things are just so much better if
you gained ten pounds three years ago, eight pounds two years ago, six
pounds, last year, but onlythree and a half pounds this year.
Have you only gained three and ahalf pounds or have you gained twenty seven

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and a half pounds. The leftwould have you believe inflation's up only three
point five percent. Sorry, darling, you are fat, and since twenty
twenty one, inflation is up closerto thirty percent. Nice try leftists,
see that's the point. You're lookingat three and a half percent, but

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three and a half percent over whatit has exploded to over these last three
years. Inflating inflated numbers. It'sjust context. You just got to keep
it on everything. Trump leads infive of the six swing states. Interesting

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that Wisconsin is the one state wherehe's still trailing Biden. What is Wisconsin
thinking? But again, I've toldyou my utter disappointment in the city of
Green Bay. But what's interesting is, and this is why I have repeatedly

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said, you have to message apartfrom candidates if you're the Republican Party.
Again, I understand we're ever closerto a uniparty and it almost kind of
sort of doesn't matter, but conservativesneed to message conservative ideals, conservative agendas,

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conservative plans. And here's a perfectexample proving my theory. When asked
to rate conservative governing agenda compared toliberal agenda, swing voters in all six
states favored a play in that growsthe economy, reduces the cost of living,
cuts government spending, secures the border, and implements tougher penalties for violent

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criminals. You know where it performedthe best, Michigan, where Gretchen Whitmer
is running that state. If youmake it a personality contest, this candidate

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versus this candidate, you lose.You have to base it on agenda,
and that is if you want tosee your party get elected, because what
you do is you message the agendaand then the candidate comes alongside and aligns
him or herself with that agenda.We've got it backwards. We try to

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elect people. We need to electagendas and then elect people that will be
beholden to said Agenda's see, that'sthe mistake the unions make. That's the
mistake here in Tallahassee firefighters made.You don't pick winners and losers out of

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people. You lay out your agendaand you let candidates to come alongside.
You don't endorse anybody. For example, the Teachers' Union has yet to learn
Republicans are dominating the Florida legislature andthe cabinet, and by endorsing their competitors,

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you just shoot yourselves in the footover and over and over. Firefighters
didn't learn that lesson because they allowedtheir union to endorse a candidate here locally
bad mistake. Your candidate better win, and you're learning that lesson. You

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shouldn't have to do that. Ifyou have the right agenda, you let
the candidate line up with it.Because it's a popular it's a right agenda.
Sixteen minutes after the hour, it'sThe Morning Show with Preston Scott Well

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golf segment here because I did notknow until Golf Digest reported it, and
apparently they reported it sometime back backin January at least, and so I'm

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not exactly certain that a local newsoutlet got their news themselves. They might
have gotten it from another source anddidn't credit it. I don't know that
that's the pattern of the news outletis to not give credit where credit is
due. That's a long standing almostpolicy that they have, which is an

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affront to professional journalism. You routinelyget leads on stories from other sources,
and then you credit that source,and then you advance the story. You
get new information, you advance it, but you credit where the sources come
from. You know, that's whatwe do. You know, we we

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credit sources for things, and youknow where the polling came from and so
forth. This case, Golf Digest, you know we had talked about,
you know, Scotti Scheffler just beingnot just potentially that golfer, a generational
golfer. He's showing signs of beingthe next Tiger Woods, only a better

(42:52):
version because he's got his head screwedon straight where Tiger didn't back in those
days. And while I think Tigeris matured dramatically and I'm I'm happy for
him and I really want nothing butthe best for him, Scotty has his

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and it's fun to watch the commentatorstalk about how his life is so grounded,
he has so much peace and stabilityin and around his life. They
see him being able to continue toplay at the level he is because golf
is so mental, it's so mucha game between the left and right ear,
and he's after like a generation ofTiger. It's almost as if the

(43:42):
athletes that are, or at leastin this case, Scotty Scheffler like he's
he's just a phenom. Right,We've had Lebron and basketball, We've had
the Mannings and the Brady's, andyou know, Tiger in golf, and
now we've got potentially the newest phenom, the guy that dominates the sport,
who causes zero headlines. Yeah,no social media. Yeah, just loves

(44:07):
his wife, can't wait to bea dad, right, you know,
his sisters come running up to him, his mom and dad, his grandma.
I mean, it's just it's awesome. Anyway. I listened to Max
Homa yesterday in an interview and hewas asked about Scotty. Homa had a
really nice tournament. He's a reallydelightful guy. He's very social media active.

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He said, you know what reallystinks, He said, what really
stinks is I really like the guy. Yeah, he said, I want
to compete against him and want tonot like him, but he said he's
such an authentic good person. Hewas waiting outside the clubhouse, yes,

(44:51):
to give Scheffler a hug outside ofbutler cabin, and that's the way everybody
feels about him. Yeah, segue, Now the guy who came in second.
Who is the closest to challenging fourshots off. Ludwig Oberg, who
played at TCU. Apparently he's aroommate with a guy and calls Tallahassee home

(45:15):
right now, he is. He'she rooms with Vincent Norman, who's a
fellow countryman. Was He was fromSweden as well and played at Florida State
University. Yeah, so they Ipaid him four hundred a month. I've

(45:36):
never leaved cheaper than I do now. I started by saying five hundred.
Then then you go, how aboutthree hundred? He said of Norman.
So I said, okay, let'sdo four. So they negotiated four dollars
a month and and so, Yeah, he's technically a tallass. He resident.

(46:00):
When he got his PGA card,he ate a big meal at Chipotle.
That was his thing, going toChipotle. And apparently after his second
place finish at the Masters, hedid exactly what you would expect him to
do. He went to Chipotle.It was pretty funny because in between nines

(46:22):
he was munching on a snack andhe's fisting people and he's got his snack
in his hand. I saw thisand a guy fisted him, really bumped
him, fist bumped him hard,and he dropped his snack and he just
looked and he dropped his shoulders andhe dropped his head and then he laughed
about it. It was pretty funny. And so making up for the drop

(46:44):
snack, he decides to head toChipotle. I mean, just that's a
good dude. I'm sorry, andI hope he stays that way. He's
likable, he's got an amazing golfgame. But give me the Americans any
day of the week. Thank youvery much. Ware to go, Scottie,
but uh Ludwig O bird shout out, Tallasse resident. Come on the

(47:06):
show. It's the Morning Show withPreston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven double UFLA or on NewsRadio doubleUFLA, Panamacity dot Com thirty five past
the hour Morning Show, Big Storiesin the press Box brought to you by
Grove Creative Marketing and digital Expertise.More polling here. Proposal that would provide

(47:34):
more funding to Ukraine but no fundingto the southern border. Would you favor
or oppose this proposal? Seventy fivepercent of swing voters would either strongly pose
or somewhat oppose such an idea.That may be polling that is in fluencing

(48:00):
the breaking news right now, whichis US House Speaker Mike Johnson saying that
there will be separate votes. Ukraineaid is going to be different and separate
from what's going on on the southernborder. And why this is even a

(48:21):
question, I don't know why theobsession with funding Ukraine. I don't know.
Trump would have sent money to Ukrainesome, but he would have demanded
NATO nations step up and provide equalshares. Is it more important to secure

(48:49):
the border or provide funding to Ukraine? Fifty percent of swing voters say secure
the voter or the border. Elevenpercent say fund Ukraine. Funding. Ukraine
is just not moving the needle withthe American people, and that's that polling
is likely impacting the House Speaker's proposalhere on how he's going to move forward.

(49:15):
Other big stories in the press boxas it relates to polling, in
particular, Byron Donalds leads an earlyfield of potential gubernatorial candidates for Florida in
twenty twenty six. It's the waytoo early poll. What's interesting though,

(49:36):
is that it lists Donald's Matt Gates, Michael Waltz, both members of Congress,
Jimmy Patronis who's the CFO, andAGG Commissioner Wilton Simpson. If Wilton
Simpson runs, he's making a mistake. He's not going to win. He
would be the weakest potential candidate thatRepublicans can put out there. What's also

(50:00):
interesting is that not on this listis Jeanette Nuniez, the lieutenant governor.
I would be shocked if she doesnot run. More polling, and this
is a kind of an inner lookat the way polling works, because on
the surface, you see USA TodayIPSUS poll on the Florida abortion amendment,

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fifty seven percent of Floridians favor thestate ballot initiative, which would indicate that
it's an easy pass. If it'sat fifty seven percent now with a plus
minus of four and we're not evennear November, imagine what happens after Dems
throw a hundred million into it.Here's the problem with it. In their

(50:43):
polling question they listed abortion up totwenty four weeks, which is ridiculous.
The ballot initiative does not have anylimitation. That is a very important issue.

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I cannot stress the importance of ifyou are pro life, of you
taking ownership of this issue, beingabsolutely as well versed on what the amendment
says, what it allows, whatit doesn't say, what it doesn't specify.

(51:32):
You need to know it as wellas you know anything that you speak
of regularly, because you need tobe able to just say to people,
not, well, you know Iread that, well I heard that.
No, here's what the amendment states. There are no limits. That's a

(51:53):
fact. It's not even arguable.All of the Supreme Court justices, the
four and the three, the fourthat said put it on the ballot ridiculous,
and the three women who voted againstit said no and gave their reasoning.
They all agree this is going toend up in endless litigation. Why

(52:14):
because it's confusing. It doesn't fitthe requirement of a single subject, simple,
straightforward language amendment. It's at leastthree different things inside of it,
with no limits on abortion at all. It's just up in the air by

(52:37):
law. If it passes, childrencould be aborted after they're born. That's
a fact. No one would dothat, really. You share about that
with the Morning Show Preston Scott,all right, sadly, we are at

(53:05):
a stage where you just have torun everything that you hear from, say
the FBI, through our government,through your discernometer, your discernment filter,
and you you personally have to assigna value to this. The FBI now
as officially decided to look into theBaltimore Bridge collapse and what happened with that

(53:31):
ship. Now, interestingly enough,the the crew on that ship has yet
to be allowed off the ship.They're still on there. We have millions
flooding across the borders, and thesepoor souls are stuck on the because they're

(53:51):
in some international limbo as to whetherthey'd be allowed to leave the ship or
not. So they're just stuck there. So they're setting supplies and things to
them on that ship. But nowyou have to decide, Okay, is
the FBI they're saying that they arelooking into, at least in part,

(54:15):
whether the crew left the port knowingthe vessel had serious systems problems. Do
you believe the FBI? What ifthey find out that there were no serious
systems problems, but that something jammedor shut down the power plant at a

(54:39):
specific time, I e. Wasa cyber attack of some kind. I'm
just saying what if will we betold, is it possible? Anyway?
I have to give a bit ofan award to Bill Hemmer over at Fox

(54:59):
News. Now, a lot ofpeople don't know Bill used to be at
CNN. He came over to Foxyears ago. He was at CNN when
CNN was still doing fairly reputable news. To his credit, he left.
He does a good job. He'spretty direct, as was the case yesterday

(55:25):
when he talked with Pentagon spokesman JohnKirby about Joe Biden's shall we say,
shortcomings in foreign policy? And here'show it went. You got your hands
full. And I was looking backat the track record for President Biden.
Here's what sticks out. The Afghanistanwithdrawal was a mess. We failed to

(55:45):
stop Putin from going into Ukraine.The war with Israel and Hamas has been
absolutely dreadful and destructive. Again,it's the first time Iron has aimed at
Israel. China's military build ups issubstantial. And that was just this morning
where I came up with, canyou argue that American strength and persuasion is
better today than it was four yearsago? Globally? Oh yeah, yeah,

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one hundred percent. I can,Bill, and I can do that
very comfortably after serving for as longas I did in uniform. I'll tell
you this is a president who understandsAmerican leadership on the world stage. He
has devoted additional resources, not justmilitarily but diplomatically economically around the world to
advance our national security interest. Didyou note did you pick up Hemmer's question

(56:30):
where Kirby said, oh, yeah, one hundred percent. Hemmer, where
did you hear an answer? Neveranswered it. There is no example of
success. There is no example ofus being stronger or in a better place.
And Hemmer just pulled a list outof his hat. I mean,

(56:52):
he said, I just grabbed thisthis morning. This is just what popped
up. We're not even doing adeep dive. It just well done,
Bill, and and John Kirby isa is one of those probably you know,
thank you for serving our country,John. But John, you're now

(57:13):
an agent of evil. And here'sthe thing, why isn't he the press
secretary for for Biden. He doesthe better better job of kerrying Biden's water
than Korean Jean Pierre by a mile. But he's still wrong. All Right,
we come back, We've got amanly minute. We're gonna tell you

(57:36):
about eight point fifteen in the morning. First Preston Scott on news Radio one
hundred point seven double UFLA a pollpolling Today, I Guess on the show.

(58:05):
Of two thousand brit adults, thirtyfive percent typically experienced stress during the
first part of the day, withthe most stressful time being eight point fifteen
in the morning. Fifty one percentsay they feel often overwhelmed after getting out

(58:30):
of bed the prospect of the workingday, Running to leave the house on
time, oversleeping are the common earlymorning challenges. Getting kids ready for school,
looking for lost keys, figuring outwhat to wear are common anxieties as
well. Add to that that thosepolled typically claim to lose twenty minutes and

(58:57):
twenty eight seconds to morning stresses.It was commissioned by the yogurt brand onkan
right. I'm sorry, a yogurtbrand did this pole. It was commissioned
by them. They did not dothe poll. They commissioned a polling group

(59:19):
to do the pole, and sothey've come up with five ways to make
your day less stressful. Number one, prepare the night before. Number two,
establish and stick to a routine.Number three get up before the kids
oh yeah, yeah. If you'renot waking up before the kiddos, you
are prepped for problems. Delegate responsibilities, age appropriate tasks for your kids and

(59:47):
uh technology free. Limit the distractionshelps people get focused. So those are
the five tips. Eight fifteen amhigh stress. Do things to declutter your
mourning and you will find that youwill be more successful navigating those hours.

(01:00:13):
I keep telling you, you getup with me six am. We'll start
with a little word together and we'llease on into the day. It will
work. You're just waking up rightnow. I challenge you join us as
we start the program. You willfind it a habit that is helpful.

(01:00:36):
And taking this as a queue,we now do manly minute. These are
tips, ideas, virtues, skillsto develop in your young son so that
one day you can look at himand say, you, sir, are

(01:01:00):
a man and I'm proud of you. Now. Look, we always tell
our kids we're proud of them becausewe are there are kids, we love
them, we want to encourage them. And this skill set connects to what
we just talked about. Help yourson develop age appropriate habits to make the

(01:01:25):
morning less stressful for you, whetheryour mom, dad, the family unit.
It will make a difference and itwill help them the rest of the
day. This is more than justmake your bed, because I think making

(01:01:46):
the bed is a huge way tostart your day. But teach your son
to look around and help him findthings, again age appropriate that can help
lower the stress level of the morningcrunch. Trust me, you are handing

(01:02:13):
skills to your son that will becoveted as he becomes a man. Third
Hour Next Dtor Bob McClure from theJames Madison Institute is on deck here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Why don't we do this the third and

(01:02:50):
final hour at least for today ofThe Morning Show with prest Scott. No,
I'm not trying to be any kindof profit of doom here. I'm
not going anywhere at least I'm notplanning on it. Ultimately, I hope
that's just strictly up to God nobodyelse. But we welcome you to the
third Hour. Grant Allen over thatrunning the radio program in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B andI am joined by It's been,

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as the kids say, a minutesince he's been back with us in Studio
doctor Bob McClure, President of theJames Madison Institute, Hello, my friend,
how are you, Preston? Howare you? My friend? I
think the last time you were inhere it might have been you, me
and doctor Ed Moore and we mighthave been punching numbers. Was it twenty
twelve? I think maybe it wasn'tthe Trump No election. I think it

(01:03:38):
was the second election of Barack Obama. Oh my gosh. You were breaking
down numbers and you were just youwere reigning threes from you know, I
mean you were everything you were predictingwas going on, and in Florida you
nailed everything. And I think thatwas the last time you were in studient.
I can't believe it. I knowI've done the show a number of
times, just not in studio.Yes, oh well, I'm glad to

(01:04:00):
be here. The studio looks fantastic. Love all the bibbleheads and the pennants.
Man James Madison. Absolutely, yes, this is fantastic for someone tuning
in that that you know they hearus talk about James Madison. Sure they
remember your former colleague and uh,you know, now working in another group

(01:04:21):
with another group. Salnuso represented JMIso well joining us over the years,
and we thank you for allowing salto join us, of course and give
us those insights legislatively. But forthose that are new don't really have an
idea. They hear James Madison,they know he's a founding father. Sure,
what's James Madison Institute about? Andwhy is it based in Tallassee,

(01:04:43):
Florida. You know, as manyof your listeners will know, James Madison,
the man was responsible in large partfor many of our founding documents that
we have in our in our nation, with our nations founding h and those
documents, as you talk about allthe time, are designed to protect us

(01:05:06):
from an overarching, overreaching government.And the founders understood the power of government
and what it could do and howoppressive it could be because they came from
that. And so the James MadisonInstitute, founded in nineteen eighty seven,

(01:05:28):
was founded by Stanley Marshall, formerpresident of Florida State University. Stan was
president from the late six from aboutsixty seven to seventy six, some turbulent
times here in Florida, but handledit, I think from every angle,
and I think both sides would agree. While he may have been tough,
he was fair. He allowed civildisobedience. In the mid to late sixties.

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Florida state at the time was consideredthe Berkeley of the South. That's
a direct quote from a national newspaper, and Stan handled that as well as
one could possibly handle. In thelate sixties seventies. Fast forward to about
nineteen eighty seven, Reagan's second term. Everything coming out of the Academies was

(01:06:18):
focused on higher taxes, more government, the use of government to advance policy,
to advance whatever the leadership chosen was. Reagan turned that tide, and
when he was elected in nineteen eightybut even in nineteen eighty seven, coming
out of the Academies, there wasthis notion that more government was better.

(01:06:40):
So what happened was there was theestablishment these think tanks that popped up around
the country. JMI, which isalso the shorthand of what we're called,
was one of ten and the statethink tanks focused on returning to the principles
of the founding, which is tolimit the role of government in our daily
lives, to allow for free enterpriseto happen, for markets to move,

(01:07:05):
for people to chase their version ofthe American dream. Whatever that is to
them within the the boundaries of thelaw and the protection of private property.
Those were in the late eighties,you know, Reagan articulated those that that
that's so that's that's the founding ofthe James Madison Instute. We're based in

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Tallahassee because we're in the state capitoland this is where things happen, and
so we have to protect and promotethe ideals that our nation was founded upon.
Doctor Bob McClure with us this morning. We're talking about the state of
Florida, the legislative session that was, those that will come and much more
as we continue here in the MorningShip with Preston Scott, The Morning Show

(01:07:55):
with Preston Scott on News Radio onehundred point seven wuf LA. Back with
doctor Bob McClure from the James MadisonInstitute. He's the president, he runs
it and been a long time friendof the program. We've taken calls with

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Bob over the years and talked abouta lot of different things that matter.
You know, a lot was writtenup about how the legislative session. I
thought it was interesting. One riteup said the winner was the James Madison
Institute. First what's your reaction whenyou see a headline like that, Because

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here's how I boil it down.That means that the citizens of Florida one
right. You know, when you'rea principally based organization, the ideals of
the founding, and you're not worryingabout lobbying or you're not worrying about propaganda.
To see something like that, Prestonis a tremendous feeling because you understand
that our state is winning, asyou just said, and we live in

(01:09:01):
such I love the state of Florida. I'm a seventh generation Floridian. It's
so diverse, it's so dynamic.And the fact that quote we win,
it's not us. You know,my philosophy is just you know, it's
like Nick Saban says, it canbe rat poison. You got to keep
moving forward, You got to keepadvancing the ball in policy because there are

(01:09:21):
always things to do. But inthat moment, in that glimmer of a
moment, you understand that our stateis winning, the free hashtag free state
of Florida. And one thing thatreally matters is that the rest of the
country is watching. So when thesekinds of things happen in Florida. You
see other governors other legislatures around thecountry go, huh, I can do

(01:09:44):
that. I can do that ineducation reform and school choice. I can
do that in certificate of need healthcare repeal. And that's really really important
and critical. You know, Grantand I talk about the fact that Florida
is a lesson that number one,you can do just fine with a part
time legislature. Right. Secondly,we're consumer tax state, right, and

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I think that those two really standout as examples of this might be a
better way for governance to operate.You agree, I absolutely agree. And
you see other states starting to competewith Florida. So you're seeing Iowa lower
their income tax. You're seeing Georgialooking to gradually lower their income tax over

(01:10:30):
the next two to three years.Alabama's looking at doing those same things.
And what I love about Florida isthat we've been told for as long as
you and I have been alive thatas the nation becomes more diverse, more
brown, more this more, thatit's inevitable that the left is going to
win everything. Well, Florida givesa lot of that. We have every
demographic in this state. We haveyou know, almost twenty percent Hispanic,

(01:10:56):
twelve to fifteen percent African American rural, urban, military retiree, every demographic
the left loves to kind of pluckout right, and yet Florida has become
more and more red. And whyis that. It's not because of politicians
per se, although we've had somereally good ones. We've been very fortunate.
It's your point. It's policy.It's good policies. The good policy.

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We say it, j Am.I good policy is good politics.
And so what happens is when youhave good policies and they are put in
place and executed properly. Taxation,education, those kinds of things, you
see that people go, Okay,I get it. It doesn't matter what

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color you are, it doesn't matterwhat your demographic is. Everybody has the
same goal in that almost everybody toachieve their version of the American dream.
They want their children and their grandchildrento have a shot at their version of
the American dream. And you seethat happen in Florida, and the left
can't stand it. When we comeback, I'm throwing as low fastball in
the middle of the plate. I'mjust going to tee him up. We're

(01:12:03):
going to talk about the things legislativelythat have happened that doctor McClure thinks are
most important in this last legislative sessionthat have been accomplished. And we'll do
that next year in the Morning Showwith Preston Scott, Doctor Bob McClure with

(01:12:35):
me President James Madison institute so manywins in the legislative session? Where to
it begins? So I will justsimply tee you up and ask you what
is the most important set of winsfor the Floridians of this state in the
last legislative session? From your chairas head of JMI, I think there
are really two, Preston, thatare really important. You know, two

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years ago we had what are Salnuzo, who used to be at JMI,
called the Session of the Century.We got tort reform, we got DEI
reform at Higher ED, we gotESG reform, we got paycheck protection,
universal school choice, and universal schoolchoice is very simple. It simply means

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that the money follows the child.Right. Parents get to choose what the
best needs are for their children andor grandchildren, and the money follows the
child. It's very simple. Nobody'sstealing from the public schools. Nobody's doing.
It's none of that. But therewere some glitches there. You could
pay for transportation, but you couldbuy an easel for art if you were

(01:13:45):
a homeschooler, but you couldn't buypaints. You know, you could buy
a basketball goal, but you couldn'tbuy basketballs. And so there we was
some what they called a glitch billfor universal school choice in the use of
those dollars, and so one ofthem for parents and grandparents is that now
they fix that so that the dollarscan be used more properly to allow for

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education, homeschooling, podschooling, thosekinds of things. That was a huge
issue because it was very, veryhard. The second thing related to education
pressing is that the funding they streamlinethe ability to get those dollars, so
you can't take let's just say it'sten grand to educate a public school child.

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You can't take that ten grand togo to Vegas. You can't do
that. But it was really hardinitially after the bill to get the state
ramped up to get those dollars toschools that are taking the money, the
scholarship money, and also to homeschools. They streamlined all that so the dollars
are now flowing properly so that youcan do that. That's a huge issue

(01:14:53):
because if you have universal school choice, but you screw up the execution,
the unions are going to come andsay see aha aha, just like the
Samas says, right, uhha aha, this isn't working. You know,
we got to go back. Sothat was a huge issue. Second issue
that is a huge win for UHFloridians is this notion of reciprocity. So

(01:15:15):
we have almost a thousand people movingto the state of Florida to day.
They're gonna need doctors, They're gonnaneed uh barbers, they're gonna need cosmetologists,
they're gonna need all kinds of differentservices. And yet if you are
a doctor moving from New York toFlorida, it was it was really really

(01:15:39):
hard to get the licensure to practicein Florida. And so what they've done
is, again I won't get toofar into the weeds, is they have
allowed entrepreneurs and and doctors to moveto Florida and if you are licensed in
another state, the ability to practicemedicine in Florida is now completely streamlined.

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The ability to open a barber shop, the ability to you know, and
we don't have it so much inNorth Florida, but think about Sarasota and
Naples where people are just pouring inPalm Beach, Miami. They need you
know, as people come, theyalso need services. And the legislature did
a tremendous job of streamlining the abilityto work and be an entrepreneur and a

(01:16:27):
business owner. If you were inanother state, now in Florida, if
I were to ask you, whatis one thing that didn't get across the
finish line that is going to behigh on the list on your notes for
next year? What would that be? I think? I think there are
two issues that could could move Floridainto the ditch if we're not careful.

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And the legislature, to their credit, has really tried to address both of
these. I wish they would bea little more bold. One is this
this notion of affordable housing. Okay, the left. You know, as
as people pour into Florida, yousee it every day in the Wall Street
Journal, you see it everywhere.You know, buying a home is becoming

(01:17:10):
less affordable. Okay, right,it's very hard, right, but it's
it's what But what what we haveto understand is building affordable housing and building
houses that are affordable are not thesame thing. So typically local governments want
to say, hey, you needto build more affordable, more affordable housing,
mister builder, right, Well,that simply means build, build,

(01:17:35):
achieve house, under price it,and you lose money on the house,
and then we'll give you the restof the development to really make your money.
That that's that's not the way itworks. Affordable housing and houses that
afford are affordable are two different things. Houses that are affordable eliminate uh,

(01:17:56):
permitting process, wait times, impactfees, ease all of the things that
local municipalities use to make tons ofmoney. Yeah, that's different, and
waiting time costs builders money. That'sthe one issue. The second issue is
property insurance. Okay, but that'sgonna take time and we have to address
that more fully. Can't wait forour visit next month already. Thanks for

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coming in, all right, thankyou, doctor Bob McClure. Will join
us monthly and we will chat aboutsuch matters on the third Tuesday, I
think it is of every month.Ready here on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. This is the Morning Showwith Preston Scott back at it final half

(01:18:50):
hour and very important Supreme Court casegoing to be argued today, and we'll
talk about that in a few minutes. But first, the big stories in
the press box, brought to youby Grove Creative Marketing and digital expertise.
Go figure Baltimore is now an FBIinvestigation. Huh, no, way,

(01:19:12):
you don't say. And then howabout this irony of ironies. The crew,
the crew of that ship that crashedinto the bridge is still on the
ship. They cannot leave the shipbecause they're internationals. We have millions flooding
across both borders, but these poorguys can't get off the ship. They're

(01:19:35):
being kept on the ship. It'shilarious to me. But what's also interesting
is that the FBI now has officiallystarted an investigation into what happened. I'm
not laughing about what happened because peoplelost their life. I'm laughing about the
fact that suddenly it's not so outlandishnow, is it, that it was

(01:20:00):
something maybe more than just an accident. I'm just saying. Polling shows that
the Florida abortion Initiative is three pointshort of the required sixty percent. However,
the polling doesn't disclose the most importantfacet of the amendment. The poll

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references allowing abortion up to twenty fourweeks. That's a lie. The abortion
Amendment is open ended. It doesn'thave a time limit. That's where see
this is evidence of USA today.They were involved in the crafting of the

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questions for IPSOS, which did thepolling, and so by crafting the question
in such a way, they ah, I'm trying to express this. This
is how you frame public opinion,and you start to form habits of the

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mind. If the mind is outthere convinced that this amendment sets abortion limits
in twenty four weeks. To manypeople, that's reasonable after twenty four weeks.
No. Now for many of uswere like, that's ridiculous because that
goes back to that whole canard,which is viability. And we've talked about

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that and I will talk about itagain in the future. But USA today
is about passing the amendment. Themainstream media wants the abortion Amendment to be
passed. To do that, theyare starting now in April, well ahead
of the November ballots going out,which will happen when the end of October.

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Right, they start framing the mindsetof the voter to believe that the
amendment says twenty four weeks. Itdoesn't say twenty four weeks. It doesn't
limit it at all. So thequestion elicits a fifty seven percent support rate.
But I bet that rate drops byat least ten to twelve points if

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you say it is unlimited abortion atany time in the pregnancy and even in
the hours days thereafter. Because theamendment does that, it has no cap
It has no limitation in theory,because Planned Parenthood taught us this, if

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a baby has its foot still inthe birth canal, it technically isn't born
yet. That's the way many doctorsview it that perform abortions. So a
baby fully delivered except for that footis still able to be aborted. Don't
think I'm just making stuff up toscare This is what's happened in Planning parenthoods

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all over the country. They talkedabout it on tape. What's important to
understand this is how media giants likeGannett take an issue and try to advance
it on their own by framing thequestion dishonestly, But it sets in the

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mind of the people being asked,Well, that must be what the amendment's
about. No, it's not.It doesn't limit I just gave you a
class on how the mainstream media usesa polling question to shape public opinion,
which then leads to votes. I'masking you to think about it, take

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ownership of what this is really about, and fight it. Forty minutes after
the hour of the Morning Show withPreston Scott The Morning Show Preston Scott,

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all right, As promised, ourfriends at Liberty Council sent out a notice
about a very important issue here.Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments
Fisher versus United States, where threeJanuary sixth defendants are appealing the government's use

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of an evidence destruction law to criminallycharge them for entering the US capital to
exercise their First Amendment rights to assemblespeaking petition. Now I'm reading from Matt
Stavers release. December twenty three,High Court granted a petition of Joseph Wayne
Fisher and two others who've been chargedwith corruptly obstructing an official preceding, namely

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the Joint Session of Congress. Thedefendants say they briefly entered the US capital,
but after Congress had recessed. Currentlythe Justice Department has charged nearly three
hundred and thirty individuals, including Trump, under this law for obstruction of Congress
Liberty Council filed an amicust brief tothe High Court which argues that one section

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of the two thousand and two SarbainesOxley Act quote, a document shredding prohibition
that grew out of the collapse ofthe Enron Corporation, is being used in
an unprecedented manner to criminalize large swathsof constitutionally protected expression and runs rough shot
over the First Amendment. Now,what's interesting here, Fisher contends, the

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federal government is exceeding the scope ofthe law, which is designed to prevent
the fraudulent destruction of corporate financial records. Does it surprise you that the federal
government is twisting a law to tryto hurt American citizens. The second part
of the statute also applies to anyonewho quote otherwise obstructs, influences, or

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impedes any official preceding the law authorizesup to a twenty year prison sentence.
Now inside of this, they arethey're pointing out that what the justice is
or what the federal government is doingis they're misapplying the law, and at

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the same time they're infringing on therights of Americans to have a problem with
what government's doing to protest. They'repunishing protesters, you know. And that's
the thing. What the federal governmentis engaged in is not that much different

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than what the chi Coms and theNorth Koreans and the Russians do to political
dissidents. They throw them in jail, they lock them up, they break
into homes, they threaten people.This is yet another example of how our

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government is is just it's off thechain. And you know, you look
at what happened to that airport executivein Little Rock, ma'am was shot and
killed after ATF broke into his homeunannounced. That's what they do in these
other countries. It's not supposed tohappen here. So we're gonna keep our

(01:27:50):
eye on this. We will,of course have Matt Staber on the program
as needed, but it'll be interestingto see what happens. We're going to
get a release, i'm sure afterthe arguments made, but this could really
put a dent in what's happened upto now with the January sixth defendants because
most of them are wrongly prosecuted fortysix minutes after the hour when we come

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back, what can happen in justtwenty one seconds? All right? This
is this is a lesson that waslearned in twenty one seconds, or wasn't
learned in twenty one seconds. IfI say Patricio Manuel, it means nothing

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to most of you, not athing. Don't know the name. He's
a she is he a fighter?That's her, that's a that's a woman.
That's a woman. She's had thesurgery, she's had the ins had

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it for years. She was afive time female amateur boxing champion, even
competed in the US Olympic Trials intwenty twelve for women, about out due
to an injury. One year later, began to transition into a male.
By twenty fourteen, had undergone fulltransgender surgery. And I just showed Grant

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the results. Looks like a dudefully had me fooled. Full beard,
mustache, muscles, no hint ofbreasts as we would see them on women.
You can see the cars where thedouble mistectomy was done. As a

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male boxer, a female boxing asa male had won three fights in a
row, was undefeated, but JoshuaRez stepped into the ring and ended fight
in twenty one seconds, defying onInstagram manual saying I'm not one to hide

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my face and no matter the outcome, I lost last night, but I
trained my off and great sparring cutno corners. But sometimes things don't go
your way. It's a risk weall take when we step in the ring.
That's all true. I'm healthy,deeply disappointed, and to be honest,
my ego is bruised, but Irefuse to bow my head in shame.

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So there you go. The onlyfemale boxer to compete against men.
I would submit, had had threeset up fights and then had a stiffer
competition and it ended. Because youcan take all the injections you want,
you're still a female. Just sayingnature wins every time. It just not

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every time, but most times,and the law of averages, it'll be
absolutely a landslide. The question becomes, when will sporting entities learn twenty one
seconds? Do you realize how howquickly twenty one seconds goes by in a

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boxing match? That's like dance dance, dance, dance, dance, dance,
little poke jab, little poke jabdance dance cover up, dance,
dance pow. Good night, Senior. It's over. It's over. You're

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seeing the little birds that they showin the cartoons. Sweet yeah, yeah,
the whistles, the little tweets.It's over. When will the lessons
be learned? Brought to you byBaron No Heating and Air. It's the
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I would say, in a waytoo early. Poll Byron Donald's leading
listed potential candidates not named candidates forthe Governor's office in twenty twenty six in
Florida Byron Donalds, followed by MattGates, Michael Waltz, Jimmy Patronis,
and Wilton Simpson. Interesting the namenot there is the lieutenant governor. I

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wonder if they did they just forgetabout it. I mean, lieutenant governors
can be a little you know,invisible at times. Poll finds Florida's abortion
initiative three points short of the requiredthreshold, but the question that was as
to generate the result was false.It was a lie. It is not
what the amendment says. That's howit works. I'm keeping a hold of

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this. I'm going to keep ahold of this. This, this is
gonna be. It'll come back forsome reason. Trust me, of course
it will, because I'm one whodecides whether it comes back or that.
Polling shows that people are very muchopposed to giving Ukraine money without dealing with
the border. Did a lot ofother polling info as well. Tomorrow,
Personal Defense and more. Don't youdare miss it.