Ep. 5140: 21 People Impeached by the House

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Episode Transcript

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Like a faithful alarm clock sounding thebeginning of a new day. So we
are here. Good morning, friends, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls, Welcome to the MorningShow with Preston Scott. I'm Preston,

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He's Grand Allan. It is Thursday, April the eighteenth show, fifty one
day, eleven eighty four of America. Possin get to this date and history
and just a little bit tell youabout the program. But first, Luke
not only authored the Book of Luke, but he authored acts. First.

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I think it's helpful to recognize thatwhen you hold a Bible in your hands,
you're actually holding a library. It'squite remarkable when you think of it
that way. You are holding anincredible story woven together by God. I've

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said to people over the years,for those that think that this harmonious story
that takes place over thousands of yearswas just made up by man, try
it seriously. Try creating your ownfaith in religion and let me know how

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that works out for you. You'llget about a page in and start throwing
away your scraps of paper. It'sjust it's utter folly. Luke, being
a physician, was very detailed heobserved things, he wrote things, He
recorded things, and the things thatstood out to him that he was inspired

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to write by God. The accountsthat he witnessed and recorded as a first
person testimony come from the perspective ofa man who was wired to be a
physician of the time. And beforewe get to the actual verse, I

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want to focus on for just amoment, I just want to ask you,
how do you know Abraham Lincoln?How do you know George Washington was
president? Were you alive? Nope? How do you know Napoleon existed?

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Were you alive? Did you witnessdid you see it? Nope? The
Bible records events that were witnessed,that were seeing that were not done in
corners or shadows, as the NewTestament records and challenges us. In Acts

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twenty, verse thirty five, Lukestates the following. In all things,
I have shown you that by workinghard in this way we must help the
week. And remember the words ofthe Lord Jesus, how he himself said,

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it is more more blessed to givethan to receive. So let me
first ask you to identify what itmeans to help the weak define the weak.
It's certainly not just talking about thosethat are unable to do for themselves

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because of physical infirmity. Weakness comesin a lot of different forms, and
so the first thing I want todo is expand your thought or thoughts of
the word weak and the idea ofweakness. The second thing is this concept

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of it's more blessed to give thanto receive. It is a lesson I
learned in my middle teenage years.I probably couldn't pinpoint the exact moment,
but it certainly has to do withmy decision to trust Christ with my life.

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When that happens for you, you'llknow it. You will absolutely know
it. Sometimes it happens after youhave kids and you want to just pour
into your child's life. Sometimes ithappens on a mission field when you see
people in third world countries that arejust I mean a meal like you,

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and I get oh, what theywould do for that perspective comes that way.
That's how we'll start ten minutes pastthe Morning Show with Preston Scott and
this is the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Scott Beacon the b Line Blog

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joins us. In the third hour. We'll talk about three different topics.
He's recently written on Steve Stewart NextHour, give you a road trip idea
we got. I have detailed informationsee in our audience. I never ever

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am surprised now by our audience talkedabout the FSU football stadium dope Campbell Stadium
renovation boom documents are forwarded to mes I'll be able to give you a
little bit of a breakdown on whatto expect if you've not seen anything about
it and the construction, play,the timeline, and so forth. I'm

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meeting with FSU athletics actor Michael Alford. He and I are going to sit
down and have a chat sometime inthe next month, and so I'm looking
forward to getting an update on what'sgoing on with the stadium and the renovation
timeline and how they feel like it'sproceeding, as well as other little various
subjects. We try to get togetheronce a year, it would seem,

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and he'll come on the program sometimein the summer and kind of give us
a state of the knowles big pictureof the athletic program and then preview the
upcoming season. But we are onApril eighteenth, seventeen seventy five. Paul
Revere makes his famous ride from Bostonto Lexington. Who are the other guys

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that rode with him though, thatwere equally important to the task. Do
we remember the names William Dawes andSamuel Prescott. There are actually people that

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were a little more successful than Paulwas. Paul gets the credit, but
he was far from the only andfar from the one that that saved the
Union. I mean, Paul Reverean important figure. We just don't have
the whole story correct. Eighteen sixtyone, as the Civil War approaches,

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Colonel Robert E. Lee offered commandof the Union Army. He turns it
down. That was always a greatcall, and that would be to the
great country of Virginia. Nineteen ohsix Great San Francisco earthquake sets off fires,
ultimately destroying most of the city,killing three thousand. Nineteen forty two,

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sixteen B twenty fives led by LieutenantColonel James H. Doolittle, takeoff
from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet andbomb Tokyo happened on this date. Nineteen
seventy eight, US Senate votes toturn the Panama Canal over to Panama.
By the year two thousand, it'sprobably a mistake. Should have just said,

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yeah, we'll keep hold. Andin nineteen eighty three is suicide bombing
by Hesballah kills sixty three at theUS Embassy in Beirut. Levin. They've
been scumbags for a long time,but we have our fair share of shortcomings

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as well. I've already set upthe program. If you want to share
something with me, it's president atiHeartRadio dot com. Simple as that.
But when we come back, it'sfunny what can fall onto your house?

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This story is just a little crazyto me. Now, for context,
I when I was a kid,we had a home that we stayed in
for spring training during baseball season andNew Smarter Beach, Florida, and every

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year we would go watch launches upat the Kennedy Space Center. Cape Canaveral
was. It was years later thatI realized that I had been towed out
into the middle of the ocean bymy brother and what would be shark infested

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waters. But I didn't know thatNew Smarter Beach was that at that time.
But we'll set that aside and I'llskip past the years of counseling that
I went through as a result ofthat trauma. But I mean, when
you're a little kid, the ideaof being an astronaut, it's like it

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was incredibly cool. I remember sittingon the floor in front of the television
watching Apollo eleven and man set footon the Moon, and I remember Skylab.
Skylab was so cool. It wasAmerica's first space station. It was

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not the first space station out there, Soviets put up salute in nineteen seventy
one. Skylab was larger and morecomplex, and it lifted off on May
fourteenth, nineteen seventy three, andit was components, modular components that they
would assemble and create living quarters,and they did three different crews of astronauts

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that were up there, initially fortwenty six days. I think it was
twenty eight days, and then theyhad two crews at fifty six and fifty
six each. They had a littleemergency escape vehicle that if something went south,
they could get in that and headback home. But it was a

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thing, and first I think thename is cool Skylab. It just just
had a cool ring to it.And you know, there we were doing
what we did better than the otherguys. It shocked me when and I

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don't know, I probably should know, But I don't know whether Skylab was
planned to just last six years,but it fell out of orbit and fell
into the Indian Ocean and Australia innineteen seventy nine. There are parts of

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Skylab on display, and I don'tyou know. I'm guessing that's going to
be in Australia, but maybe not. Skylab is iconic and so parts of
that are are important. It's notlike it was a mission disaster like Challenger,

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where parts of that are recovered andbrought back to NASA. Don't even
want to talk about Challenger, butNASA has confirmed that an object from the
International Space Station through the roof ofa Florida home last month. Now,

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this object would fit in your hand. They're trying to figure out why it
didn't burn up and completely because thisthing made a sound like an explosion when
it hit. It was two roomsdown from a kid living in the house
with his parents. Scared the jeepersout of all of them. The final

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weight of the object was just overa pound and a half. It was
part of fifty eight hundred pounds ofhardware that was dumped by the ISS after
it had new lithium ion batteries installed, and so I guess they took the
leftover hardware or mounting brackets or whateverand just literally jettisoned it. I don't

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know if you've ever looked at butthe amount of junk that's orbiting our planet
is unbelievable, to the extent thatthat is one of the biggest dangers to
men women orbiting the planet in spacecraft, our satellites is other debris and junk
out there. In this case,it was made of a metal alloy called

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in canal if that's how it's pronouncedI n COO n e L. And
they don't know why in the worldit survived, So it's going to be
it's going to be looked at,obviously and determined. But it hit a

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home in Naples, Florida. Ifthat hits you, I mean that is
that's almost past bolt of lightning oddsbecause it survived a re entry through Earth's
atmosphere. And I just if somethinglike that hit your home, would you

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tell anybody or would you just getthe whole patched and keep it and never
say a word and just say,hey, look what fell out of the
sky. News is next. Welcometo the Morning Show. With Preston Scott.

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Well, well, well what welearned from some testimony. Hello friends,
Big stories in the press box time, brought to you by Grover Creative
Marketing and digital expertise Grove A.Groova. It would appear that some testimony

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was recently had. It was yesterdaythat four whistleblowers for the National Guard.
And let me just set the stagehere by pointing out that testifying under oath

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command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks, ColonelEarl Matthews, Brigadier General Aaron Dean,
Captain Timothy Nick whistleblowers. None ofthem were interviewed by the House January sixth

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committee. You remember the Adam SchiffCommittee, you know, the one with
Liz Cheney, Adam Kinsinger. Theydidn't want to talk to these guys.
Their testimony was available, they didn'twant to talk to him. Why,

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well, let's consider what they hadto say. Then Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy
lied under oath. They claimed thathe made multiple false claims, including that
he spoke with the commanding General ofthe DC National Guard on two separate occasions,

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quoting Captain Timothy Nick under oath.At no time did General Walker take
any calls, nor did we everhear from the Secretary on any of the
ongoing conference calls or the secure videoteleconferencing throughout the day. This I know

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because I was with the Command Generalthe entire time recording the events. The
calls never happened. Why is thatsignificant? Because McCarthy claimed that he called

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and instructed the guard to be onstandby, except that that never happened.
He lied, he lied, andnone of these men who offered testimony about
what actually happened that day were evergiven the chance to testify to the prior

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committee. That, oh, bythe way, is the basis for all
of the arrests that have taken place. Ladies and gentlemen. This was a
complete setup, all of it.They orchestrated everything. I'm convinced looking at

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the raw video that they intentionally firedtear gas into their own Capitol police to
cause them to drop back so thatthe perimeter around the capitol was easily broached.

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Just anyway, second big story.For the first time in two hundred
and twenty seven years since seventeen ninetyseven, twenty one individuals have been impeached
by the House of Representatives. Trialswere held in every single instance except one

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when an impeached judge resigned from officebefore trial. Chuck Schumer has scuttled the
impeachment of Alejandro Majorcus, and everyeffort to get the trial to happen was
scuttled by a vote of fifty oneto forty nine by Democrats. There's more

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preston Scott boy. That escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out
of hand fast. On WFLA illustratingthat the United States Supreme Court has to
take on the issue of transgenders phonywomen competing against women. The Fourth US

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Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two toone. Then, obviously that is just
a part of the court. Idon't know if they will require or request
a hearing by the entire Court ofAppeals in the Fourth Circuit, But they
have struck down a West Virginia lawthat protects female athletes from male athletes who

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think they're women. Based in Richmond, concluded the state legislation violated Title nine.
Sweet God almighty, how is thatpossible? We now have a federal
court recognizing that because someone thinks there'ssomething else they are You know what I'd

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like to do. I'd like towalk into the chambers and put on a
robe and sit down next to them. What are you doing, sir,
I'm a member of this court.I'm a justice. I'm an appella justice
appointed by you, appointed by who. It doesn't matter. I think I
am. Therefore I am. Ibelieve that I'm a justice in the fourth

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District of the United States Fourth Circuit. Therefore I am. What do you
mean I'm not? Of course Iam, because I believe I am.
You have to be appointed. No, I don't. No, I don't.
I don't need a doctor's certificate.I don't need some appointment by some

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president. I think I am.Therefore I am. It sounds ridiculous,
except that's exactly where we are rightnow. If I sound a little toasty
on this, I am. Wewere gaining some ground that they would apply

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Title nine because some little guy whoseparents should be arrested for child abuse thinks
that he's a girl. Therefore heis. Just extend that to any other

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argument out there. Because you believeyourself to be fill in the blank,
you are, so am I goingto assert whatever status I want to protect

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my job. If I'm in theworkplace, I better go to the protected
status that is Vogue right now,whatever that might be, this this will
be appealed. It'll have to goto the United States Supreme Court, and

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the United States Supreme Court needs tosettle this issue. And honestly, I
don't have a lot of faith thatit will be settled properly, but we
need to get there so that thenwe can know what to do in response
to whatever that answer is. Weneed to get this settled and then go
from there. In the meantime,stop competing against boys. Tell us your

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report, Steve Stewart in just alittle bit. So City Commissioner Jack Porter
wants to talk about TPD, butshe won't talk about her own questionable activities.
And it funny, see, nowthere would be a time when media

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would be sort of resolute and theywould be unanimously saying, we need answers
to these questions. This is taxpayermoney. And until you answer these questions,
we have we have no interest inanything else you have to say.
And you just black her out news. You got nothing to say about this.

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We don't hear you about anything else. But sadly, we don't have
a mainstream media presence here that willdo the right thing. We have to
rely strictly on Tallassa reports. Ifat least the electronic media in town would
do the right thing, that wouldbe enough. But they won't because they're

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too busy wanting to be friends.And if you're in the news business,
you don't ever want to be unfair. You want to be fair, and
to whatever extent that allows you tobe cordial with those that you cover,
that's fine. But never do youbecome friends with those that you cover.

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Ever, you don't, that's theprice you pay. I remember sharing that
I might have written an op edyears and years ago in Tellassi Reports on
that subject. You cannot be friendswith the people that you're charged to cover.

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Not in the world of news,you can't do that. If you're
fair, even if they get theirfeathers ruffled, they respect the fairness,
and if they choose to be cordialas a result, that's fine. But
friendship, it's just not. Itdoesn't come with the territory. But today's

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leftist news organizations they want to bepals. Evidence by the reporting the Tallassi
Reports does. You don't need tobe pals with the elected officials to get
stories because the people that do everything, that know everything, they feed tips,

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they feed intel, They let youknow what's going on. I get
emails. Steve gets emails. SometimesI get emails that I forward to Steve.
I'm not an investigative reporter. That'snot what I do. I talk
about people that do reporting or don'tdo reporting. I don't know about you.

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I'm a red lobster fan. Idon't know. Maybe it's the seafood
lover in me. You're welcome.Apparently it's filing a Chapter eleven. It's
going to try to reorganize and stayafloat burden some leases and long term contracts

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and rising labor costs. Well,I would say that that's just the tip
of the iceberg. First of all, burden some leases. Ah, are
the leasing conditions more favorable? Now? Maybe they are. Maybe they are

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more favorable in the commercial world.I know that there's a lot of change
in commercial real estate. Realtors listeningto this program at nauseum. So maybe
any of you that do commercial realestate can send me an email and tell
me if I'm right or wrong.But my observation would be my guests would
be COVID changed the landscape of commercialreal estate dramatically. In particular, retail

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space that's leased out, downsizing andso forth. Absolutely, labor costs,
government intervened, interfered, but thecost of everything. Do you realize that
the average family now is paying elevenhundred dollars more per month for goods and

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services than they paid three years agowhen Joe Biden took over eleven hundred dollars
per month per month. Now imaginethat in the business world where you've got
multiple staff, multiple exposures to costsescalations, and then the regulatory full press

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that's on by the federal government onany number of areas. Good luck.
So I admire anybody out there doingbusiness in the world. You run a
business. Good on you, Proudof you, Thank you very much.
Our two is next. Welcome tothe second Hour show. Fifty one forty

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ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends and ruminators wherever you are.
Thank you very much for joining us. That's Grant Allen Leisure Suiting today.
Didn't think i'd see that after Ileft the seventies. Back with us once
again. Is the executive editor ofTellass Reports. He is the one and

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only Steve Stewart. Hi, goodmorning, how are you man. I'm
terrific. How are you. I'ma good newspaper're going to hit this weekend.
I encourage everybody to subscribe and readit. You've got some good stuff
in it. Yeah, I wouldimagine there's no just when you think we
could post corruption scandal, we couldenter into an era where things just kind

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of smoothed out and we got tojust it just doesn't seem to happen that
way now. I mean, we'restarting to see and we'll get into a
topic here that is an example.This, Yeah, starting to see the
importance of journalism in the media.And you know, we've been able to
a lot of the national talk abouthow the media is is not telling the

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truth to picks a side, andwe're starting to see that here unfortunately,
and starting well in a big way. Now. I mean, it was
you know, if it's making uslong for the days ten ten years ago.
You know, we were arguing thatit was bad ten to twelve years
ago, but at least when youhad documents, and when you had documents,
you would actually get you know,other outlets to follow up on stories.

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But this sometimes, yeah, andyou know, maybe you'd argue about
the context, but I only can'tget him to acknowledge the documents, I
mean, the story about Commissioner JackPorter traveling around the country. We found
another trip, and it's so interestinghow we found this trip. It was
a five dollars charge on a citycommission a city of tallahassee peak card.

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And so when I go through lookingat charges and I see a five dollars
charge in Timpia, Arizona, myimmediate question is what are you doing out
there? So you start looking throughother expenses, no other expenses, and
then you do a little research andyou find out, wait a minute,
the day of that charge coincides withthis conference with Local Progress, which is
the left wing progressive group that sheis participating in without telling anybody, okay,

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not disclosed anywhere. No, wecan't find it anywhere, okay.
And so so five dollars peak cardcharge turns into trying to figure out what
she's doing in Timpi, Arizona.And you say, well, why is
this you know, why is thisimportant? Well, first of all,
this is a third trip. She'sbeen to Saint Louis, she's been in
Washington, d C. And nowshe appears to have been in Tempe,

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Arizona at this local progress conference.And the issue is this, First of
all, taxpayers have paid for someof this travel, which is clearly political.
And give you an example, Lord, that's not allowed. Well,
I don't know. I'm beginning towonder what's allowed and what's not allowed.
You know the rules, can youknow, keep changing? President? I
give you an example. School boardLourie Cox, who was on the school

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board, attended an education conference puton by a group and Ronda Santa spoke
they're clearly a political political event.But she paid her own expenses. I
called her Master. You know you'rebeing criticized and you know in some circles
for this, did anybody who paidfor this? I paid for this,
I know, all right, andthat's fine. But she she gave me
the answer right well, with commissionreporter is she? I think she feels

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like that her her mission is soimportant that she can do whatever she wants,
and so she takes these trips,doesn't tell anybody. And in the
city she builds the city taxpayers forsome of it. But the concerning thing
here is it appears a third partyis paying for other expenses, which is
a no no, and she's notdisclosed it. She won't talk to us

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about it. She won't explain,won't provide any information. And this is
where it gets into the local media. Nobody. We've got Ben Wilcox,
who is president of in Tegery Florida, looked at this and said, look,
guys, Jack Porter needs to explainwhat she's doing here. Nothing does
Integrity Florida then file a complaint youNow, I don't I think that they

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would get into the They would probablygo and speak at the city commission or
an independent ethics board at some point, obviously, but that hasn't They haven't
done it yet. But anyway,it's not being covered other locations, other
cities have called elected officials out whohave done this. Are the news directors

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here at the Talles Democrat Jim Rossicahat feel they won't do it, and
electronic media is heywall. It's justthey will not ask the questions and so
we're going to continue to investigate butfind out what she's doing on these trips.
That's why you subscribe. It's justas simple as going to the website

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Tallasireports dot com. Ten minutes pastthe hour and this is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott eleven minutes after thehour. Those of you who care you
might think of sending a note toCommission Reporter and Commissioner Matt Lowe, say

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Commission Reporter needs to account for thesetrips and explain why taxpayer dollars are being
used to fund these trips in anyway, shape or form, and why
they're not being disclosed on our financialdisclosures. Steve Stewart joins us from Tallas
Reports put a bow on this.Yeah, one more quick thing is what's
amazing is three trips over a twoyear period and nothing on her social media.

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She's not talking about you know,oh I went to this conference when
she's proudly representing. She's not.She's using this to build up her,
you know, her her sort ofprogressive footprint for her next political move and
that that's the other troubling thing onthis. But again I mentioned Jim Rossika,
who is quote the news director atthe Talis Democrat. He used to
work for a outfit called City andState, which has a incredible reputation as

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a news outlet in the northeast.They tried to open something here in Florida,
which it failed. But if yougo ahead and look and we've linked
to this. City and State coveredthis issue in New York City when a
couple of their municipal their local leaderswere given gifts to travel to these local
progress conferences and they wrote an articleand said, listen, this is a
gift. You've got to disclose this. And so that's what happened. They

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disclosed it. It's amazing. Soit's amazing to see what has happened to
journalism here in terms of just basicquestions and especially with regard to the progressive
element of the City Commission. It'sbeen longer than I've been on the air.
Yes, anyway, just upon that, staying with the City Commission budget
workshop, Yeah, you know,it's it's not hard to imagine that they're

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running into some financial issues because ofinflation and what's going on from a national
perspective. So they have these budgetworkshops to every quarter to give an idea
of where we are moving forward.And we're talking about, you know,
a billion dollar operation when you addin all the funds, but the general
fund, which is about one hundredand sixty million, which funds roads,

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police parks, is running a deficit. We're seven months in, is running
about a three point eight million dollardeficit, and the budget workshop detailed that
that deficit is due to increases inhealthcare expenses, which clearly health insurances.
Al. Yeah. But the secondissue on there was Star Metro and we've
talked about this million million eight lotof money going away from Star Metro after

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federal money because of the you know, it's up during COVID. So there's
gonna have to be some decisions madeon exactly what they're going to do with
this because it will start chewing uptax money. Obviously, public transportation has
take a hit around the country.Star Metro wasn't doing a great you know,
it wasn't really uh, it wasn'treally flourishing before COVID and people.
Yeah, and so the COVID thinghas really had an impact. And so

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is this going to be a changethat they're going to have to really make
going forward because it's gonna start hurtingthe bottom line And so obviously with the
healthcare expenses, it's going to betough to deal with that. But this
is following a tax increase that theyput in, you know, to pay
for more police officers and so,and they want to brace that's the other

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thing. Three two vote, andthat was gonna mention that three two vote.
The timing on this could be worst, you know. And this is
again commission Mattlow and Commissioner Porter votedagainst this putting it on the on the
ballot, but Mayor John Day,Diane wims Cox, and Richardson decided that
it's time for the voters to decideif city commissions should be valued the same

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as county commissioners. I would arguecounty commissioners make too much money, but
anyway, that's me and so thatwill be on the ballot. Another thing
that they addressed about being on theballot was basically moving elections from August to
November. If you only had twocandidates right now the county, if you
have two candidates, that moves itto November. There's no primary. The
way the city does it is youcan decide a race in August and so

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bad idea bad idea that's going tobe on the ballot, which would change
well obviously will not impact this cycle, sure be in the next cycle.
Another thing that they're going to puton the ballot is they're going to look
at having a charter review every sixyears. Right now, the county has
it every ten years. The citywas just sort of why whenever somebody wanted
to call one never thought of it. Yeah, and so they're going to

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try to do it every six years, which is probably a good idea.
But you know the thing about thatnot having that charter review in you know,
in in law. Same thing onthese travel expenses. I had to
go back to this. You know, the county and the school board they
actually vote to approve travel and thecity doesn't do that. The city commissioners

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have a budget and they just havecarte blanchell and to spend it basically on
whatever they want to. And this, I think is something that needs to
change. Also brings back the olddays of deferred commy, it does,
doesn't it. Remember that one?You know some of you are going,
oh, I forgot about that,Yeah, wind fall for some All right,
it's sixteen past the hour, twentyone minutes after the hour, Wanting

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Show with Preston Scott covering topics withSteve Steward of Talhashi Reports. Subscribe get
the paper Talashi Reports dot Com,and we've seguey now to the DOI case.
That was a routine DOUI case.They got blown up by a political
activists. Yeah, fake news,I mean false news. I mean it's

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it's clear what happened here, andI am donefounded by how quiet again the
local media is. Can I askyou a question? Sure would it be?
Are we are we starting to goto the level of saying not just
quiet but complicit? Yes? Ithink that, Yeah, I think that
that would be a proper word touse, because look, this routine trial

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got thrown into a controversy because ofpolitical activism. City Commission mattlow the only
elected official that got involved with this, provided credibility to these false charges of
planning evidence, and he did itbefore the trial. A juror was removed
because you know, they saw this, this this fake story. During the
trial and after the trial the jurywas was smart enough to look at the

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facts and delivered it guilty. Veryand even after that, Commission Mattlowe talked
about TPD fabricating evidence. Just tobe clear, guilty on the part of
the person that was arrested on DUIcharges, not guilty on the part of
the officers. No, exactly,the DUI was a routine duik something the
police officer was doing her job attwo in the morning, on South Monroe,

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Okay, and it and the jurysaw this. But there was this
effort by selective editing by Commissioner mattlowin his political allies to basically, I
mean, to go after TPD andto try to turn this into a campaign
issue. And the thing that isamazing to me is how suddenly it's just
gone. There's no microphone in commissionMattlow's face saying do you regret you know,

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questioning this TPD officer when the juryclearly found that there was daring with
the trial Steve, this is almostan offense that would warrant the governor's attention.
And so again completely gone. Nowwe're going to cover. We got
our headline story in the newspaper comingout is going to detail this. This
was a coordinated effort, and itwas coordinated by Commissioner Mattlowe's allies, Max

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Hurley with this our Tallassee blog.You can't plant evidence. That's not evidence,
and they just started. This washis accusation. There was evidence planted,
right, And within three hours ofthat story, mattlow is on Twitter
offering credibility to the story. Andthen all of a sudden, we see
that a democratic local official starts togo fund me for the defendant, Calvin

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Riley, and he was found guilty, found guilty, And you go to
the go fund me and you lookat the three biggest financial contributors to a
GoFundMe that didn't really raise a lotof money was Commissioner Mattlow, Max Hurley,
who broke a story, and theDemocratic official who is responsible for organizing
the gofund me because they require youto put the name on that, Serenity

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Williams. And so you start tosee this and you're like, wow,
there's a bigger story here than justwhat's going on, and the media just
turns and runs away from it,no questions. And then Commissioner Jack Porter
gets into the party Wednesday after theverdict on Monday that convicted the defendant of
Dui. She at the meeting isthe only other elected official that comments on

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this, and goes after Chief Revelfor defending his police department and saying that
she doesn't feel safe with the wayChief Revel talks to her and her colleague,
Commissioner Mattlow. And you know,again, you can probably hear it
in my voice, but I havenever seen anything like this in the twelve
years that we've been covering local government, and we've seen a lot, but

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to see an elected official go aftera police officer based on a fake news
story generated by your political allies,and not to be called out about it.
What happens is almost like a teenagerPreston. They get away with this
and they just keep doing it.Keep your eyes open because what I'm hearing
in the political operatives, they're testingwhat they can get away with to try

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to create political issues that they canrun, you know, they can help
try to get their progressives elected inAugust and November. Just remember my first
rule of a liberalism. They arewhat they accuse others of being. They
accused Tallassee police of planting evidence.They planted a false story exactly. And
the thing is, we go backto the media and this is God also

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going to be in our story.There is an interview that was done by
of Calvin Riley the day before that. It was published the day before the
trial by WTXL, and there's avideo and it looks like he's sitting in
his home. The video reveals thatthere was a third person in that interview
room. Okay, and it's notvery obvious unless you really look at the
video. We called the news directorto ask who was in the in the

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room. Sources are saying that it'sthat it's Max Hurley, who turns out
if he's there at the room whena reporter shows up to interview Calvin Riley.
The reporters that's a bigger story ofthe interview in Calvin Ranle, the
news director at WTXL, will haveno comment on. We'll not verify that
there was a third person there,we'll not talk about who that person was,

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and will not always responsible for settingup the interview exactly. And so
this again is media sort of commiseratingwith the you know, with the people
that are publishing these fake news articles. And I'm telling you we've got to
be aware of this. Your listenershave got to understand when they read a
news story. Now you've got togo to other sources and figure out exactly

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what's going on. Well, it'slike I said, we're maybe crossing the
rubicon, an often used word wherethe media becomes complicit in a story.
And I will add, and Iwill add there is one news outlet here
was who was given a story ortried to promote the Democratic Party try to
promote a story trashing Talus Reports.They did their due diligence and found out

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it was misinformation and it ended there. Thanks as always, Thank you,
Steve Stewart Challasherreports dot com. It'sthe Morning Show with Pressed Scot on news
Radio one hundred point seven WFLA thirtysix Pass the hour Big Stories of the

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top military official, namely then ArmySecretary Ryan McCarthy, was among the senior
officials who did not tell the truthabout what happened on January sixth, According
to testimony by four different whistleblowers fromthe National Guard. This is incredible.

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McCarthy claimed that he was making phonecalls and was on top of everything that
was going on. It was justthe opposite. McCarthy made multiple false claims,
including that he spoke with the commandingGeneral of the DC National Guard on
two seven for occasions after official officialsrequested the guard be deployed. At no

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time did General Walker take any calls. How do I know, because I
was with the command General the entiretime. The four whistleblowers let me give
you their ranks because I think it'srelevant. Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks,

(49:32):
Colonel Earl Matthews, Brigadier General AaronDean, and Captain Timothy Nick also happened
to not be called by the HouseJanuary sixth committee. You remember the one

(49:54):
Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney at NoRepublican, real Republican was in that committee.
They put rhinos that hated Trump onthere. One of the whistleblowers said,

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I know if we were able todeploy immediately when General Walker made the
request, the National Guard could havehelped end civil disturbance and restore order come
quickly. The National Guard was readyto go. The request had been made
before the event. Ever happened tohave them standing by. Another big story

(50:44):
in the press box, Chuck Schumerupsets two hundred and twenty seven years of
Congressional history to spare Biden's Homeland SecurityDirector Alejandro Mayorcis, Secretary of Mayorcis will
not face impeachment in the Senate becausethey've just dismissed all the charges. It's

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the first time, the first timein two hundred and twenty seven years,
that House resolutions of impeachment were notfulfilled with a trial in the Senate.
The only exception of that was aguy who resigned already. He resigned as
a judge before the impeachment trial couldtake place, so was mood. Lastly,

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court overturned state law protecting women's sportsfrom transgender athletes. That was in
West Virginia, Fourth US Circuit Courtof Appeals. It was a two to
one ruling. I don't know ifthey will appeal. I think is it
called unbank and bank where they getthe entire panel assembled, the entire appellate

(51:55):
court. That has to happen orit has to go to the US Supreme
Court. And this has to getsettled if they say that men can compete
against women. Friends, the sportingworld as we know it is over over
over, as in over over,and women, you will rue the day

(52:22):
that you did not stand up inmass and stop this in its tracks.
Forty minutes past the hour, backwith more of the Morning Show with Chrestin
Scott. It's the Morning Show withPreston Scott. Well, this will be
fun to sit back and watch andsee how this works out for the city

(52:45):
of Los Angeles. I don't knowif you've seen what the Mayor Karen Bass
has done heard about the new campaignLA for la oh see. Apparently they
have over forty thousand homeless in LosAngeles, in the city quoting, we

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will not hide people, but whatwe will do is house people. The
crisis on our streets is nothing lessthan a disaster. Now we could stop
there for just a second and offerit a little analysis. Why is it

(53:31):
a disaster? I mean it is, but why See there's the problem.
Illiberals don't want to triage and findout what's the real problem here. They
just want to throw money at it. So here's her solution. Right now,

(53:57):
we're moving working to move past nightlyrentals. We're asking the most fortunate
Angelinos to participate in this effort withpersonal, private sector and philanthropic funds to
help us acquire more properties, lowerthe cost of capital, and speed up
housing. She's asking the wealthy tohelp speed up housing purchases for the homeless.

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I will just not accept this,and our city can't afford to accept
it. So she's asking the wealthyin Los Angeles to provide money so the
city can buy up private properties andturn them into temporary housing options for the

(54:44):
homeless. I'll be fascinated to seehow many of the wealthy Angelinos step up
to fund this. First of all, how do you know this is going
to work? Because evidence suggests thata large percentage of homeless people choose to

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be homeless. They choose to livethis way. Certainly, not all.
I've always believed that you roughly hadthree different groups of people. The first
the people that choose to live thisway, which I believe makes up the
majority. This is what they prefer. They do not want the responsibility of

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getting past whatever their issues are,if they have any issues. They don't
want the responsibility of having to paybills and have a home in any of
that. They like a rootless lifestyle. They like standing on street corners.
They like asking people for money,sometimes not so much asking, but pressuring.

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The second group are those that arementally ill. Those people need to
be diagnosed and given professional help.In the third group, that's the group
that I think we can help.That's the group that is just run across

(56:25):
a rough stretch of life. Theydo not want to live this way.
They want to be out of it. They need help with a permanent address,
long enough to find a job,and they'll work their butt off because
they're just wanting a break, achance help. Those are the people we
can help. But in my opinion, it is the smallest percentage of the

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pie. I'll be interested. I'llbe interested if the illiberals of Los Angeles
step up and fund this effort.We'll see forty six minutes after the hour,
thet FSU Stadium update and a roadtrip idea. Next Welcome to the

(57:14):
Morning Show with Preston Scott got totalking about FSU's renovation at Doe Campbell's Stadium.

(57:34):
Decision was made that they needed toimprove things. There were certainly things
that needed to improve from the standpointof safety, code and so forth.
That has evolved over the years,so I got some information. The first
phase one hundred and sixty eight million. The funding comes from Boosters. Boosters

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are paying for it. Construction hasstarted. Phase two starts this November after
the football season's over. The completionexpected to be the summer of twenty five,
so a little over a year fromnow. It's the remodeling of the

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west and south seating areas. Itwill introduce more diverse premium seating options on
the west side of the building includeFounder suites, founders, lows, boxes,
club seats, upgraded chair back seating, South End Zone Dunlap Champions Club
will be remodeled to expand seating optionsto include lounge chair seating, lounge chair

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seating. Wow, so you canrecline in the Champions Club now, oh
my wow, loas boxes, ledgeseating, standing, porch seating, and
club seats. Additionally, life safety, structural and code deficiencies will be addressed
in the area is impacted by theproject. Another project is kind of the

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infrastructure, and it's twenty million dollarsprovided by the blueprint money that taxpayers pay
in that construction has begun. Thisis all infrastructure of the stadium, life
safety, structural and code regulation deficiencies, and it's strictly items that were presented

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to the blueprint board. It doesnot include deficiencies incorporated into the Dope Campbell
prem Premium seating project. So there'sa division. The bulk of the projects
one hundred and sixty eight million providedby private funds. Twenty million is all
strictly the guts the undergirding of thestadium. That is blueprint money. I

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personally, I have no issue withspending the tax money on that I would
not have an issue with spending moneyat Bragg Stadium and don't because both of
those venues generate income for the community. Yeah, when people think of Tallahassee,
it's the capital and football like,that's what those are the events that

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we host. So yeah, andBragg Stadium has needed an upgrade forever and
it has it has needs absolutely,But just so you know, total one
hundred and eighty eight million of projects, one hundred and sixty eight of that

(01:00:40):
funded by private money. So theeconomy locally wins on this front. I
think I think this community gets backten times that money in the life of
this thing. So good on thatidea. Taking a peek inside the Unique

(01:01:07):
America book. These are road tripideas. If you're out driving around the
countryside and you're trying to find placesto go that might be a little bit
unique and off the beaten path.We take you to Cheshire, Connecticut,
or Connecticut, connect to cut Yeah, connect to cut Good Barker Character Comic

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and Minnie the Flintstones, Charlie McCarthy, Lil Abner, SpongeBob Founders, Herb

(01:01:50):
and Gloria Barker have accumulated over eightythousand items in their collection. Pez dispensers,
lunchboxes, Disney Ty, Beanie Babies, Pokemon, Lone Ranger, Roy
Rogers. They have some of theearliest toys that were ever made back to
the eighteen hundreds that still work.They're still working toys. They're like cast

(01:02:15):
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When we come back. Scott Beaconthe b Line Blog, All,

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welcome to the third hour of themorning Shore with President's gott great to be
with you this morning. That isgrand Allen over there in Studio one A.
I am here in Studio one B. It's great to be with you.
Thursday, April the eighteen, crazythat we are. We are already

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heading through to the latter half ofthe fourth month of the year, and
before you know it, summer isgoing to be upon us. It's been
a really fun journey. This showoffers us the opportunity to make really engaging,

(01:03:50):
enlightening, helpful friendships with people inthe most unique ways. Because one
of our research assistants, who's adear friend, Rob, we got introduced
to something called the bee line andyou can find it at bline blogger dot

(01:04:12):
blogspot dot com and it's the workof Scott Beacon. And I started referencing
a lot of Scott's research digging kindof number crunching, and next thing you
know, we get introduced to Scottand I look forward to having him be

(01:04:34):
at least a monthly visitor on theprogram. And we welcome back Scott Beacon
right now, Scott, how areyou, sir Preston, I'm doing great
and a fantastic back with you andyour listeners today. How's the golf game?
It could be better? But itisn't that always the case? Yes,
it is everybody except Scottie Scheffler sayingthat right about now exactly, You've

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written a lot of great content andI want to focus on three recent blogs
you've pushed out. Let's start withthe kind of the dynamics of what's going
on in the lead up to thetwenty four election, because there's a shift
that you've noted, especially with youngervoters. Tell us what you've learned.

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Well. I enjoy looking at thepolls, you know, I think there's
voice questions about how accurate they are, sure, but I think they show
some trends. And I think oneof the interesting trends that I'm noticing is
that the support of younger voters,particularly those eighteen to twenty nine, appears
to be eroding for Biden. AndI think it's very interesting looking at the

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data. For example, he wonthat demographic by some twenty four points in
twenty twenty. Compare that to Hillaryonly won that demographic by nineteen in twenty
sixteen, but a recent NBC pollshows him only up by aid over Trump
in that demographic, and a FoxNews poll actually showed Trump up by eighteen.

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So whether you believe those polls ornot, and they're probably both inaccurate,
but you look at the broader trendand it clearly shows a disillusionment of
the young with Biden. Whether they'llmove to Trump is a question, but
I think that's an interesting trend tokeep an eye on. You know.
One of the things we noted wecame across a story back a couple of

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weeks ago where a Democrat operative,a guy who is really highly thought of
as a consultant inside the Democrats circles, he was screaming at the top of
his lungs to party insiders to stopregistering kids to vote on college campuses.
He said, you're registering Trump voters. They're swinging. Yeah, very interesting,

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very interesting. Now, just onthe other side of that is the
thing that's a little concerning for theTrump supporters is we're seeing older voters who
have kind of been a lynch panof support for the Republican Party over a
number of years, seem to bemoving away from Trump. So's that's going
to be interesting to see both campshow they try to bring each of those

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groups back into the fold. Butyou know, those that don't believe this
younger voter moving, I mean,just look at what Biden is doing with
regard to student loans. I mean, he's already been told clearly by the
Supreme Court that it's unconstitutional right totry to forgive these loans, and yet
here he is out hitting that againand again. And I think that shows

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you how concerned they are about theyoung voters. I don't think it can
be viewed in any other way otherthan he's trying to buy votes, and
he's doing it in the only wayhe's got available to him, even if
it is illegal. Right. Well, it's very unfortunate too, because you
know, they know that any courtaction is not going to be done until
well after the election. So it'sit's really it's really sad to see how

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they're trying to use young voters thisway, because clearly this is unconstitutional and
it will be shown again, Ithink after the election, but at that
point it's going to be too latefor the young voters. Well, it'll
be it'll be interesting to pay attentionto see what happens. We're going to
cover a couple more topics with Scottagain. The website bline Blogger dot blogspot

(01:08:28):
dot com the work of Scott Beacon. He's our guest here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Scott Beacon my guestthis morning. Scott, you weighed in
on the Iran Israel I don't knowwhat we would call it. Where we
are with that right now? Itseems like every side has a spin to

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what's happening there. I know whereeye side, my allegiance is always going
to be with Israel. That said, observations, well, I think where
we are right now is trying tofigure out what the next move is for
Israel. I mean, they're ina tough spot here. They're obviously getting
a lot of pressure from the Bidenadministration to not do anything more, just

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to kind of take this and leaveit and not up the ante, so
to speak. But you know,I think you got to put some of
this in context. You know,they had the Israel had three hundred and
thirty one projectiles at their territories fromIran, you know, came in Saturday

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night, you know, sixty tonsof ordinance. Now to put that in
perspective, you know, we talkabout the Moab bomb that the US has
has dropped in Afghanistan. That's forperpective, that's eleven tons. So what
was coming to them was almost equalto six Moab bombs when you put all
those three hundred and thirty one missilesand drones coming at them. So to

(01:10:02):
ask them to stand down, Ithink it's a big ask with regard to
Israel, and it's going to beinteresting to see you know, where they
go with this. You know,the other thing I think it's been interesting
is how the mainstream medium plays thisand even what Iran's position has been.
Well, they were just retaliating becausetheir embassy was attacked. But if you
really look at what was going on, their embassy was fully intact. It

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was a building neck to their embassywhich they claimed to be a consulate.
But that constance so happened to havethe head commander of the Kods force there
along with six other high level commanders. So what it begs the question is
that really a diplomatic mission or wasthat really harboring you know, some terrorist
forces with regard to the IRGC,that really sows a lot of terrorism throughout

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the Middle East. Well, Imade the argument that is really intelligence is
about generally, I mean, everyonemakes mistakes, but generally about as good
as it gets. They clearly,you know, authored a very precise strike
at a very precise target, andit was meant to do what it did.
It was meant to send a message, and it was meant to target

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people that they believed and had intelligencewere responsible for some of what has been
going on in the region. ScottI've been making the argument, if you
start the fight, you don't getto dictate the terms on how it ends
exactly. And you know, thesad thing is is the Iranian people in
all of this. You know,I had a note in my in my

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blog post it was kind of interestingthat if you go back to nineteen seventy
eight, when the Shaw was stillin power, it took seventy one realls
to equal one dollar. That's nowsix hundred and sixty five thousand reawls.
I mean, it's an incredible amountof suffering economically that the Iranian people have

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taken with the Mullos in charge.There. Yeah, the endgame here,
I don't know where the endgame is, but wouldn't it be poetic justice if
out of all this we ended upwith the regime of Iran coming down and
the run and people could be free. That that would be marvelous. Scott
stand by. I want to askone more question relative to Iran and Israel

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and kind of broaden it into thethe problem this country's facing with regard to
oil and where Iran fits into allof that. And then we're going to
talk about something else that we mentionedbriefly and to look into the world of
cocoa, a product that my lifejust cannot live without in its various forms.

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That next, Scott Beacon with usthe bee Line. It's Beeline Blogger
dot blogspot dot com. On TheMorning Show with Prestin Scott Visiting with Scott
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And you can subscribe to the newslettersand trust me, you will really
really like the content. It's wellresearched, thoughtful, and it prods just
enough get you thinking. Asked whatyou might read in the mainstream media out

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there, Scott, I want tojust put a bow on the topic of
Israel and Iran. Clearly, oneof the first things Joe Biden did when
he took office was hurt our energyindependence. In fact, pretty much ended
what happens if Israel targets Iran's onlysource of revenue, which would be it's
it's oil. Well, you know, I think we live on oil.

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I mean that's the way it is. I mean a lot of people don't
want to believe that right now,but that is the reality in the world
today. And you know, Iwas around in the Arab oil crisis.
Back in the mid seventies, wehad gas lines that would extend for miles,
and you know, if things getdisrupted over there, either whether Israel

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attacks the oil facilities or you cansee Iran it takes retaliation and tries to
do something with the straights or movesor whatever, we can have a major
disruption in oil. And obviously thebiggest problem we have right now is we
prepare for that eventuality with the strategicpatrollum reserve. But Joe Biden has drained
half of that off in the lastover the last year, and we really

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don't have the reserves that we didat one time if we have a real
disruption in oil. He's kind ofused it for political purposes, which is
concerning, and that's a big concernthat I've had. I've written about several
times in bline. You know,what do we do if we have a
true disruption, a true emergency,and not a political emergency, which is
how he's basically used it. Yeah, it's been problematic. We've noted it

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as well, and it certainly hasn'tfallen under the the category that we've defined
as the purpose of having the strategicreserves. But it is what it is
and where it is right now.You wrote another piece back earlier this month,
just about six seven days ago,in fact, dealing with chocolate.
And I think a lot of people, you know, they look at what

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they spend at the grocery store rightnow, and buried within these prices are
these subplots, and one of themis coco. Share what you've written about.
Well, now we're into something reallyimportant, I think, so in
the chocolate, that's right, Andthis is how I kind of write sometimes,

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you know, you kind of getthese nuggets that you aren't aware of,
and I have no idea. Ihappened to see something that the price
of cocoa had risen to over tenthousand dollars a ton. So that doesn't
mean much if you don't have context, right, But the thing that really
amazed me was that it now ismore expensive to buy a ton of cocoa

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than it is buy a ton ofcopper. And we see these stories every
day where people are stealing copper offof houses and going into infrastructure to sell
it to recycle it because the priceof copper has risen as well. But
to think that cocoa is now moreexpensive than copper. You better lock up

(01:16:19):
your chocolate because someone might be comingfor it in the near future. Now,
the other interesting subplot about this is, you know, I always want
to delve in, well, whyis that? How could the price,
which has normally been about two thousanddollars a tone, how did it all
of a sudden rise ten thousand dollarsa ton, right, And it appears

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that it goes back to three quartersof the production of coco in the world
is going on in Africa, anda lot of those are done by small
farmers over there, and they've hadthree consecutive years of yields where they've got
met the production they've seen in thepast. And so immediately the other interesting
subplot in this climate alarm must comeout and say, well, it's due

(01:17:01):
to climate change. Obviously due toclimate change, and you kind of look
further at that and say, well, it's really not climate change. The
real reason is these farmers who arepoor, and we remember, with a
fertilizer price was really high in twentyone and twenty two, they couldn't afford
to fertilize their trees, and alot of the trees are older, so

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the yields drop because they didn't fertilizethe trees. And why was the price
of fertilizer high. Well, that'sbecause we had the natural gas fight,
you know, coming up, whichthat evil fossil fuel. So it's kind
of interesting the way all these thingskind of work, and sometimes it's completely
contrary to the narrative you hear.But I think eventually this will pass.

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I mean, you've got short cellars, You've got a lot of that transportation
goes to the Red Sea with thehoothys, so there's a lot of things
going into this thing. But rightnow cocoa is more expensive than copper in
the world. Come out markets.That's incredible. We could talk for a
very long time, my friend.I'll settle for having you come on next

(01:18:09):
month. I appreciate your time,Okay, I always enjoyed Preston. Thank
you, sir, Scott Beacon withus and again the website bline Blogger dot
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data. Twenty seven minutes after thehour, it's The Morning Show with Preston
Scott Man Friday already here tomorrow,we're staring it straight in the face.

(01:19:00):
Payscale and balance, real and imagine. There are some very real gender related
payscale imbalances. Sometimes they're absolutely positivelyjustified. And that's what I mean by

(01:19:23):
real and imagine. If they're justified, they're imagined. There's a reason why
men or women get paid more ina given profession. There's a reason there
are other occasions in certain professions whereit's not imagined. It's very real and
it's wrong. We'll get to thattomorrow. Compliments that work, How to

(01:19:51):
compliment somebody, how to receive acompliment? Came across a piece that one
of the in fact, the leadresearch assistant, sent my way and he
merited my attention. And I'm probablygoing to combine it with you. Do
you know who? I say,Troy Hawk? Do you know who that
is? I know Tony Hawk,the skateboarder. Nope, the greeters guild.

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I don't know these things. Iplayed a clip of it maybe a
year or so ago, about theguy greeting golfers at the Scottish Open.
Why sir, your shoulders are backing? You look like you're ready to take
all the day. Yeah, Ido remember that. Okay, Well,
this guy's thing, he's got hisown web presence. He's got he is
he is hired to go to bigevents. He volunteers apparently to go to

(01:20:36):
big events and small events, andhe greets shoppers or he greets people on
the street and he compliments them.It's it's genius, it's and it's really
fun to listen to. I wouldlove to find a way to get him
on the show. He's uh,he's apparently a comedian that does this as
a side gig. But at anyrate, we'll talk about that and and

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of course what's to be Friday andthe standard Friday Fair that's tomorrow on the
program. Big Stories in the pressBox brought to you by Grove Creative Marketing
and digital expertise. An Appeals Court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rule
two to one to stop a lawin West Virginia that protects female athletes from
male athletes who think they're they're girls. It's unbelievable to me. I'm getting

(01:21:27):
some great response to my monologue inthe first hour about well I'm a justice.
I'm going to go sit on thefourth Circuit, and I'm just going
to tell them that I have arobe. Therefore I believe I think I'm
smarter than you or as smart asyou. So I'm going to sit in
as a judge because clearly they're sayingthat if you think you are, you

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are. And so I've had acouple of entertaining emails on that one.
It's absurd. It's just absurd.Chuck schum upsets two hundred and twenty seven
years of congressional history. He killedThe votes were fifty one to forty nine.

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He would not allow the trial totake place of Alejandro Majorcis, the
head of Homeland Security. He wouldn'tlet it happen. Why because the truth
hurts, It sucks for them.There are articles of impeachment. They were
passed by the House, and theSenate is supposed to hold a trial for

(01:22:30):
the first time in two hundred andtwenty seven years. They are choosing not
to. The only exception to thatwas a judge that was impeached and the
trial didn't take place because the judgeresigned. We will not be so fortunate.
Myorcis will not resign. He willbe defiant, He will continue to
violate the law. He will continueto allow for the invasion of this country

(01:22:54):
with the hopes of getting enough illegalsto vote in the twenty twenty four election
to swing the election. That's afact. Just is and whistleblowers showed up
at Capitol Hill and said that ArmySecretary Ryan McCarthy lied about multiple things in
his testimony about what happened on Januarysixth, twenty twenty one, and they

(01:23:16):
called him out. They said theygave testimony under oath that he lied.
The truth is on their side.The truth is on the side, the
facts are on the side of thisbeing a complete setup by people like Mitch
McConnell, entrenched House Republicans, SenateRepublicans, almost all Democrats, Joe Biden,

(01:23:47):
Barack Obama, perhaps Hillary Clinton,anybody who is anybody played a role
in this. But they got thesupport of key people with Capitol Police,
with our defense mechanism, the Departmentof Defense, Department of Justice, the
FBI. It's shameful. Slowly thetruth is coming out. Of course,

(01:24:14):
mainstream media is going to tell youthat a tree falling in the forest doesn't
make a sound because they're not thereto cover it. They won't cover it.
They won't report what's being being testifiedto. They certainly did when Adam
Schiff was in charge, didn't theyIt was made It was a made for
TV spectacle. If you remember onPrimetime, it's The Morning Show with Preston

(01:24:36):
Scott. All right, this isthis is gonna be a little a little
bit of a splash of cold waterin the face. They what you will

(01:25:00):
about Bill Maher. Bill Maher,I respect him because he's honest about what
he thinks, his observations. Idon't agree with a lot of what he
thinks, but I respect him becausehis thoughts and views are well thought out.
I would love to get Bill Maheron this show. I think I

(01:25:27):
think we could have if he couldcensor himself. I think we could have
an incredibly good, productive conversation.Recent episode took aim at former President Trump
Republicans in general for the shift onabortion. He kicked off the panel discussion

(01:25:49):
talking about Arizona Supreme Court ruling thatupheld near total abortion ban. He told
the panel Republicans are quote the dogwho caught the car. Just listen to
the comments. For fifty years theytalked about getting rid of abortion. They
did it, and it's super unpopular, and now they have to basically lie.

(01:26:11):
I mean Trump some of his statementson this. It sounds like what
he's said about healthcare make both sideshappy. Fifteen weeks seems to be a
number of people can agree on.Can he lie his way out of this?
He goes on to talk about andhe says, this, this is
the part that's going to really slapyou in the face one way and then

(01:26:32):
back at the other. A lotof people think it's murder. That's why
I don't understand the fifteen week thingor Trump's plan. Let's leave it to
the states. You mean, sokilling babies is okay in some states.
I can respect the absolutist position,I really can. I scold the left

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when they say, oh, youknow what, they just hate women people
who aren't pro choice. They don'thate women. They just made that up.
He continued. They think it's murder, and it kind of is.
I'm just okay with that. Imean, there's eight billion people in the

(01:27:17):
world. I'm sorry, we won'tmiss you. That's my position on it.
The audience dead silent. There wasno reaction to that statement. He
doubled down. He said, isthat not your position when your pro life?

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Piers Morgan was there. Piers Morganis pro choice. He agreed that
Trump is vacillated on this, andhe agreed that it's a problem for Republicans.
But I just want you to thinkabout the comments of Bill Maher.
First of all, he said,what a lot of Democrats and the liberals
won't say it's murder, and I'mquite okay with that. Secondly, he

(01:28:05):
pointed out, well, wait,so what fifteen weeks is okay? It's
okay in some states but not others. It's an interesting set of comments,
thought provoking. Forty six minutes afterthe hour, It's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. I just wanted togive it a second to marinate. Did

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you know that being a serial recordholder is a thing? Not cereal as
in the breakfast food like. There'sa record for always having a record.
David rush On, a quest tohold the most concurrent Guinness World Record titles,

(01:29:19):
previously attempted to balance a lawnmower onhis chin to break a Guinness World
Record. He tried it four yearsago, but his time of three minutes
and fifty two seconds was disqualified.Because his lawnmower did not have a bag
on it. I'm not making anyof this up. The record was increased

(01:29:46):
to seven minutes in two seconds byfellow serial record breaker Ashrita Furman. So
Rush not Rush Limbaugh. David Rush, Idaho attempted again nine minutes and seventeen

(01:30:08):
seconds, short of his ten minutegoal, but enough to take the title
and earn another Guinness record that broughthis total concurrent titles to one hundred and
sixty five. Dang, he wantsto overtake Sylvio Saba. That sounds like

(01:30:30):
Ed Sullivan. It needs to bean Ed's we welcome to the stage.
Chilvio Shabah. Silvio Saba holds onehundred and eighty titles. There is no
set of records. I want tobreak bad enough to try to do something
like this. Man, how muchtime do you have in your hands?
Well? And is it a canyou make money doing this? Is?

(01:30:53):
I mean we've seen it happen withfood, you know, eating contest people.
If the guy just starts a YouTubechannel's it'd be super easy for him
to go viral and now he's monetized. You just let's just see David Rush
Guinness World Record. Okay, Guinnesshas its own channel. I'm looking for

(01:31:24):
record Breaker Rush. Is that hischannel name? He's got record Breaker Rush.
He's only got fifty thousand subscribers.Fifty k is a good number.
I don't know that you make aliving on that though, can you know?
But that's where you start, youknow. Yeah, but he's been
added for a while. Oh maybehe'll grow. You just got to keep

(01:31:46):
with the grind al He takes hisone video. A celebrity record breaker and
brilliant speaker. Okay, well Ihaven't heard him speak. Well, there
you go. Maybe we'll have toget him as a guest. Brought you
by Barono Heating and Air. It'sthe Morning Show one eight on WFLA.

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Our verse today came from Acts twentyVerse thirty five, The big stories in
the press box today. Top militaryofficial lied he was only the secretary of
the United States Army. That's yeah. Uh lied in his January sixth testimony
that, according to whistleblowers, fourof them ranking members of the National Guard.

(01:32:33):
Man, I'm telling you, betweenclimate change COVID and January sixth,
the things that our government has done, conspired to do, and is doing

(01:32:53):
Chuck Schumer blew off two hundred andtwenty seven years of Congressional president by scuttling
the impeachment trial of Alejandro Majorcis lookvery seldom if someone found guilty in the
Senate, why not hold the trial. It's that damning, The evidence is
that damning to my orcus. That'swhy court overturns West Virginia's state law protecting

(01:33:19):
women's sports from men. M mmm, la Mayor asking for the wealthy to
buy housing for the homeless. RedLobster considering a bankruptcy filing tomorrow. Busy
show. Don't you dare miss it? Until then, have a great day.