Ep. 5142: Ukraine First, America Last

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Episode Transcript

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Unbelievably, here we are yet again, latter half of the month of April.
Before you know it, we're goingto be heading into the summer,
and then you know what that means, Christmas shopping. Hope you had a
nice weekend. Weird weather weekend,it's a morning show with Preston Scott ninety

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and then yesterday it just started totonight we're going to be down in the
forties, just crazy weird. Anyway, great to be with you. Hope
you enjoyed your weekend. FSU Baseballdidn't enjoy its weekend, boy oh boy.
Well, anyway, we'll talk FSUwith Irischaffelle. The spring showcase was

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Saturday for the football team. We'llget to all of that, plus the
big stories in the press box,plus so much more. But we begin,
as we always do, with somescripture Romans one twenty. I have
referred to this scripture all the time. I there's a scientific reality that atheist

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agnostics just have to deal with,Where did all this come from? These
planets? And this one in particularpositioned just right. Scripture accounts for it

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by saying for his invisible attributes,namely his eternal power and divine nature,
have been clearly perceived ever since thecreation of the world, in the things
that have been made so that theyand men women are without excuse. God's

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nature is revealed in God's nature.Look at a blade of grass, look
at a flower. Man can't makeit without the building blocks provided by God.
No matter what man tries to do, it still requires things that only

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God provided. It's amazing. GoGod. Ten minutes after the hour,
take a peek inside the American PatriotsAlmanac, and we will begin shout out
to the men over there at SaintPeter's up early. Some of you listening,
thanks for having me out yesterday.Enjoyed my visit with you. It's

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now show fifty one forty two ofthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston
Scott, go ahead, make myday on News Radio one hundred point seven.
Tell the UFLA all right. Twelveminutes past April twenty second, eighteen

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sixty four, Congress authorizes the useof the phrase in God we trust on
us coins. Eighteen seventy six,Baseball's National League begins its first season with
the Boston Red Stockings defeating the PhiladelphiaAthletic sixty five. Yes the Oakland A's

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were the Philadelphia Athletics the same eighteeneighty nine, the Oklahoma land Rush begins,
with thousands of homesteaders hurrying the stateclaims on unassigned land. Eighteen ninety
eight, in the first action ofthe Spanish American War, the USS Nashville
captures the Spanish ship Buena Vista offKey West, Florida, and in nineteen

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seventy Earth Day is observed for thefirst time in our country. That was
a mistake, I'm telling you now. I was in school. I remember
it, and I remember thinking,this is weird Earth Day. Well,
for sure, get some sandals andsome tight I shirts and like, wow,

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you know, sitting the earth nowif you want to if you want
to b asking God's creation, cool, If you want to respect and display
great stewardship for what God has made, absolutely sign me up. But worshiping
Earth as a deity, and that'skind of what Earth Days has evolved into.

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That's this whole climate thing. It'sall about. Just anyways, silliness.
I got a couple PSAs here.One a little more fun than the
other, but the other is veryuseful in its operation. Medical cabinet here
in Tallahassee. It's coming up thisSaturday from ten until two at the Costco

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on Lannyap which is on the eastside of town. They will not accept
Sharp's medical waste thermometers, but theywill accept all of your unused, unneeded
medications. It prevents it from endingup in the water table and being processed

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in waters. It's kind of important. And so if you have any medicine
and again not Sharp's medical waste orthermometers, but if you have prescription medicines
that are defunct, they're old,or you've just come across stuff in the
drawer and you're like, I don'teven remember what this is for it,
take it and get rid of itsafely. All right. That's this Saturday,

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and just we'll talk more about thismight get somebody from fish and wildlife.
But coming up May seventeenth and eighteenth, it'll be here before you know
it, the tenth annual Lionfish Festivalin the destined Fort Walton Beach area.
And so if you are into spearfishing, this is your thing, because this

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is all about an invasive species thatis dominating reefs and off Florida's coast and
they've got a lot of different categories. We'll talk about that again a little
bit more later on, but it'sMay seventeenth and eighteenth. There's a week
of special dining at restaurants featuring lionfish, which, oh, by the way,
is an incredible fish. I'm toldfish lovers are saying that lionfish is

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an amazing tasting fish. I've nevertried it. I'd certainly be gaining too.
But this spearfishing event is part ofa larger deal, so again,
fish and wildlife. You can lookit up real quickly. The website is
Emeraldcoastopen dot com. Emeraldcoast Open dotcom. Sixteen passed the hour back with

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more as we get started here onthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Nelly

(07:54):
Nellie corda American golfer. Her dadformer highly ranked professional tennis player. I
think her mom as well. Shehas a younger brother, maybe older brother.
Younger brother who's a very good men'stennis player, Sebastian. Nelly's sister,

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expecting her first child, is notJessica is not playing on the tour
right now. Nelly, the goldmedalist, returning, probably most likely to
defend her gold medal in Tokyo thissummer. Battled injuries the last couple of
years and has now gotten past thoseinjuries. I'd say she won her fifth

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straight tournament yesterday, winning the ChevronChampionship, which is the first major of
the Ladies Professional Tour. So aboy, not some context here. She
joins Nancy Lopez and Anika Sorenstam asthe only players to win five in a

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row. She's I don't know ifshe's playing next week. I don't know
what the schedule is, but thenext tournament she's in, she'll be trying
to do something that's never been donein women's golf to my knowledge, not
even in the era of the greatMickey Wright. Wow. Just impressive and

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oh, by the way, Headinginto the finale the final three holes of
today's round in the Men's Tournament atHilton Head at Harbortown, Scotty Scheffler has
a five shot lead. I don'tknow what to say. Out of his

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last five tournaments, the only tournamenthe lost, he came in second when
he misread a five foot putt tosend it the playoff. He's the first
guy to win after winning the Masterssince Bernard Longer in eighty six. Maybe

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I've invited somebody from Golf Died Golfmagazine to come on the show to talk
about why he believes Scottie Scheffler's tooboring for TV and hurting golf ratings.
I'm not buying it. I thinkmedia is hurting golf ratings with how they're
writing it. But I think golfis its own worst enemy right now.

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But I just I just want tostep back and Marvel Scheffler hit a played
a par five yesterday. Hit hissecond shot in the water. Mud was
on the ball and it just nosedived left into the water, so he
dropped. So he's two in threeout hits four. This towering shot over

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the trees, over the water,hits a hook that has hook spin,
puts it ten feet from the hole, makes the putt after hitting it in
the water. It's like, yougotta be kidding me. And it was
in near pitch black darkness when hedid it. I mean, I just
if you love the game of golf, you're watching something that has not been

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seen since Tiger Woods, a levelof dominance that is even surpassing Tiger in
certain categories. Anyway, came acrossthis story working on a home's curb appeal.
A landscaper was digging a shrub nextto a home and came across something

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a Civil War era cannonball. Theycalled the Virginia State Police bomb technicians because
they were worried that it was stillactive. And I'm trying to were there
such things as exploding bombs back then? I mean, I guess, I

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don't know. I mean, youfired the thing out of a cannon.
I thought the weapon was the cannonball. I didn't know that the cannon
ball was explosive per se. That'smy lack of understanding of early, you

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know, war projectiles. I justI assumed it was just a giant iron
ball, but I guess not so. I don't know what the disposition of
it was, but I just couldyou imagine you're digging around and you're finding
something like that. My first inclinationwould be due pick it up, but

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it's like, oh no, no, no, no, those things could
be literally live ordinance. Okay,twenty seven after the hour, let's go
into the big stories in the pressbox, and you might want to be
sitting down. Preston Scott, WhyYour God? At the time on News

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Radio one, hundred point seven doubleUSLA. Well, hi, what shall
we talk about thirty five minutes pastMorning Show with Preston Scott. That's Grant.

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I'm Preston. Big Story is broughtto you by Grower Creative Marketing and
digital Expertise. When I read whatpassed the House, I'm I'm I'm excited

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that congress Woman kat Camick's going tojoin us because I'm going to give her
a chance to explain her view ofall of the different votes. It was
a mismash of nonsense. They votedon individual aid bills in the House and

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then they threw it all together.They gave money to Ukraine, They gave
money to Israel, Gaza and theIndo Pacific. They adopted the TikTok bills

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company that the parent company has tosever ties with the Communist government or cease
operations in the US. They passedall of that, and then they threw
it all together one and handed itto the Senate as one bill and it
passed. This is the fifth timeCongress has approved funding to help Ukraine.

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However, the vote Saturday was thefirst one under Republican quote leadership. So
we're sending sixty billion dollars more toUkraine at a time when you're struggling paying

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your gas bill, your groceries,et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Now I've got it. I'm Democratswere waiving Ukrainian flags in the House
chamber, gleefully. Now more Republicansvoted against it, but not enough.

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About one hundred and sum odd votedagainst it, but not enough. Oh
did you notice what was missing fromall of that money that we don't have
that we're gonna borrow? And getyour head around that for a second.
It's like me saying to Grant,I'm gonna lend him fifty bucks, but

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I gotta go borrow it from somebodyto lend it to him. What See,
when you personalize it like that,you begin to maybe better grasp the
weightiness of this. But did younotice what's missing? Nothing for the border,
Nothing for the southern border. Howis it possible, boy, that

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Mike Johnson's a shrewd negotiator. Ihad such high hopes, such high hopes,
they have been dashed. Biden addsmore protections for the trans class in
Title nine. I don't know howhe can just add it, change it

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We'll see where this goes. AndPolly and Florida. Late last week,
Florida Atlantic found less than fifty percentsupport for not just the abortion amendment,
but for weed, which is interesting. According to the Sun Sentinel, the

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Jalen Candelario abortion amendment is lacking somesteam. We need to keep it that
way anyway. Forty minutes after thehour, come back with weighty stuff Preston
Show with Morning sk not what blogpage. Have a hearty laugh while we

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can at robots, because soon they'llbe taking over the world, peeling skin
off of us for laughs. Whatare these humans are? I don't know.

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It's actually it's a it's a cutevideo from Boston Dynamics about Atlas.
I've been following Boston Dynamics for yearsand posting just every now and then updates
on their their robotic technology. AndAtlas was like their guy, uh that
they were teaching to run and andand do all kinds of different tasks,

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but mostly lifting packages and so forth. And and it's just a it's a
three minute video that just shows thetime span and the developments and some of
it's just really funny hum. Andthey retired Atlas, and they have a
new a new one out, anew atlas and uh and I've got a
short teaser clip on that as well. So that's all on the blog page

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as well as Climate the movie.It's still available, so so check it
out now. Grant flagged this thingbecause I know how much you love food
stories and food related the developments andmergers and splits and ooh did you see
this collabs? Yes, exactly,because that's that's what we say now right.

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It's a collap Yeah, it's notrenovation, it's reno. It's a
collab. There are other words likethat that we've just sort of convo convo,
m h whatever. What was itthat that drew you to this story?
Or are you a Crocs guy?Or are you a Pringles guy?
Yes, we're going to come.Yeah, I have a pair of crocs.

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Do you wear around the house?Do you? Yeah? It's just
the ones that like if I takethe garbage out, Okay, you're just
slipping them, just slipping them on. Yeah, yeah, that's it.
That's all I use them for isjust quick run outside sometimes run around the
house. What would you be caughtin public wearing them? I mean I
have worn them in public before,Like, if I like, oh,
car needs a quick you know,top off with some gas, I'll run

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up to the corner real quick andget some gas. So I just throw
my crocs on hotge car, Okay, wearing T shirt and shorts whatever,
that's it. Yeah, see forme. And then I'm not judging.
I'm just I'm not. Yeah.No, I no, no, no
no, no, I just Ican't. I can't super comfy. I
get it. I just can't docrocks. I'm I'm surprised at how they

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stay on people's feet. Oh that'swhen you go into four by four mode.
You gotta they've got little straps thatyou can wear them that you flip
around and put them on the back. Yeah, that's all wheel drive mode,
right, And I get that.And how many people I feel like
there's a ton of people that don'tknow that that that strap moves over to
the back, don't you. Idon't know. Maybe, I mean I

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just kind of assumed. I'm Ijust there's something in me that says so
anyway he sends me this post.Pringles has teamed up with Crocs for an
ankle holster for your potato chips andlo and behold I found a good story

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there. Croc boots, Oh yeah, you've seen those with a holster that
you slide your your Pringles chip canin and it's it's labeled with the Pringles
logo on the side. And andso Pringles has has not just released the
Pringles X crocs, which is Kringlestimes crocs, They've also included a one

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hundred dollars boot in both men's andwomen's and a limited addition croc Tail Party
Pringles chip which is watermelon chili lime. WHOA, that's wild. No,

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that's gross. Now I know someof that. They've got the whole line
of Pringles where they've got like crocsthat have Pringles on them, not the
chip itself, but designs and colorsand different things branded Pringles crocs. Yeah,

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with the mustachioed Pringle's chip logo onit. There's a whole niche market
there is among I said the youngerkids. It's like parents listening may know
more of this than I do.I don't know too much, but I've

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seen like you can get little addedlittle pins, like you know how you
go to a game and you canget like a pin for your hat.
Sure, something like that. Andit goes in the air vent holes kind
of thing. Same thing for Crocs. There's all different kinds of accessories.
How do you put your foot intoit? Yeah, that's what I don't
know. I'm like, doesn't thatimpede your foot if you've got all these

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little you know, do hickeys attachedto your crocs? But this is the
next development Pringles Holsters. Here's allI must say. Well done, man,
I mean they're sold out. Theholsters are gone, the Holster crocs
are gone. Good luck and Crocsas a brand has managed to make itself

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cool by doing in this collab withwith Pringles. I don't know how.
I don't know why. I meanwho thought of that? I mean someone
sitting down in their design, theirtheir brainstorming session. Is it somebody's sitting

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around I love imagining this is someonesitting there just munching on some pringles and
someone's there go and they put liketheir their feet up on the desk as
they're just brainstorming and they're munching onsome pringles and someone goes, you know
what we need, right? Weneed these attached to our ankles or with

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someone doing one of those Aaron Rodgersthings and doing hallucinogenic mushrooms or something.
Anything's possible. I don't know,but it's a thing. Maybe they'll make
more and you can find them forChristmas next year for somebody. But the
Pringles Holster crocs are there for you. Just saying I got nothing. Fifty

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two passed. I found this storyinteresting because I had Sidney Powell on this
radio program. Do you remember her? Yeah, she was the one who
was during the whole twenty twenty kerfluffle, particularly about the election, not the

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Summer of Love, but about theelection. She was the release of the
Kraken Lady, if I remember correctly. She was file in lawsuits she asserted
and believed that that there was cheating. Sidney was one of the most prominent

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attorneys to file lawsuits alleging that therewas enough fraud in the twenty twenty election
in battleground states that swung it infavor of Joe Biden. A federal judge
in Detroit sanctioned her and other lawyersin twenty twenty one over the lawsuits.
The sixth US Circuit Court of Appealslargely upheld those sanctions. Sadly, the

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US Supreme Court would not listen tothe case, and that just blew my
mind. So she did what shefelt like she needed to do. She
pled guilty in Georgia in twenty twentythree, took a plea deal. Under
the terms of the plea deal,get this, she had to write an

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apology. The district attorney, FannyWillis, who presented charges to a grand
jury, said the letters needed tobe to include real contrition, like who
yeah, I just gotta stop.I gotta stop there. Here's what's interesting.

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As a result of all of this, the Texas Bar Association tried to
get her disbarred. The Fifth DistrictCourt of Appeals in Texas dismissed the bar's
accusations against her. The bar employedquoting from the ruling. The bar employed

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a scattershot approach to the case,which left this court and the trial court
with the task of sorting through theargument to determine what issue had actually been
raised. Having done so, theabsence of competence summary judgment compels our conclusion
the bar failed to meet at summaryjudgment burden. Previously, a separate court

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sided with Miss Powell, finding defectsin the evidence presented by the state Bar
for the Texas Commission on Lawyer Discipline. Court also found the bar couldn't provide
evidence that she filed frivolous lawsuits underthese circumstances. And on this record,
we conclude the trial court did notair in granting Pile's no evidence motion for

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summary judgment. In other words,these two courts found that Sidney Powell had
reason to file her lawsuits. Ijust think that's an interesting little sidebar to
this story. We'll switch to ourtwo next a five minutes after the hour.

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It is Monday Morning Show with Prestin'sgot great to be with you.
That's Grant Allen. I'm Preston.I hope you had a nice weekend.
It cooled down a little bit.Does it bother me in the slightest.
I am just fine with a littlemore spring weather before we lock it down

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for the summer and get into theheat and humidity for the rest of the
year. But welcome to our numbertwo. Doctor Joe expected to join us
in just a little while, abouta half hour from now, maybe a
little bit more. But first tosort of back onto the discussion on Sydney
Powell, let me remind you thatwe have hundreds of January fourth, political

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prisoners that could use some encouragement.And there is a project set up,
the Patriot Mail Project, And ifyou you just go to patriotmail project dot
com, a lot of you arelike, well, what can I do?
There are lots of things you cando. You start by going to

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the site and finding some people tosend letters of encouragement to. Yesterday I
had a chat with a group ofmen and I diagnosed the problem in America
is I mean, a lot ofit is just sin. You know,
we elect people that represent us,and they're representing us, right, I

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mean, if you look at it. I made this statement back a few
months ago. I've come to theconclusion that the the real sincere churches out
there are representative by percentage of thenumber of really sincere believers that are really
trying their best to walk out theirfaith. Not perfect, none of us

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are. We all fall short thosethat say they are versus those that really
are really trying. Not the ButLord, I did this, and I
did this, and I did this, and I did this, and Jesus
is going to say, I don'tknow you. You were performing rituals.

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You don't know me, and Idon't know you. You know of me,
but you don't know me. AndI am of the opinion that we
elect people that represent us, andso out of those that are elected,

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the people that are really trying todo the right thing are so few in
number. It's tough. It's toughto do it. I mean, the
story, one of the big storiesin the press box, just demonstrates how
brutally tough it is. But Iwanted to just make sure that it was
on your radar that there are stillhundreds that are falsely imprisoned. They just

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are to be honest with you.Based on the video that I've watched and
what I know about what happened Januarysixth, I think the worst that most
of these people should face is abouta fifty dollars fine. That's about it.

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Misdemeanor. I mean, what doyou do if a Capitol police officer
opens a door to you and sayscome on in. Anyway, I've got
an interesting survey here, and itit's sort of dovetails off of what we

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were just talking about where we arethe state of our country, And it's
a Gallup survey that found that forover a decade, one variable has consistently
predicted whether people describe themselves as thriving. So before we take a quick check

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of weather in traffic, let mejust ask you to think about what do
you think that is? What isthe one thing that that is the common
denominator in people that believe that theyare as a person thriving according to Gallup
for better than a decade. Now, that's next, Preston Scott on News

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Radio one point seven UFLA. Whatdo you think it is? What is

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the one thing that over a decadenow has shown the people that take this
survey have circled in on as theone common link to thriving quote thriving people.
And I would say that they Gallopclassified people into one of three groups
thriving, struggling, or suffering,and it was based on raiding their home

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lives and their likelihood of future happinesshappiness in general. What do you think
it is? There's so many answersthat I think I could justify in my
head. Probably that may have somebacking, probably, but the one overarching

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I guess it's the most potentially commonanswer, and that's just financial independence,
financial longevity. Money, People feelcomfortable with money. It's it's just the
reality. I guess maybe that's myguess. Marriage. Really, marriage isn't
that interesting, that's refreshing. Ididn't. I didn't see that one coming.

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Now did you know exactly? Thesurveying data was compiled over fourteen years.
Gallup found that married couples consistently ratedtheir current lives and their likelihood of
future happiness better than those who livedoutside of marriage or had a committed relationship

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without living together. Happiness differential raninto double digits inside the survey, It
says this, Within the US,it is clear that married adults rate their
lives more highly than others that havedone so. For the past fifteen years.
From two thousand and nine to twentytwenty three, married adults aged twenty

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five to fifty were more likely tobe thriving by double digit margins than adults
who have never married. The sixteenpercentage point gap between married adults sixty one
percent and those who have never marriedforty five percent is within the range of
ten to twenty four points. Whydo you think that is? It is

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not good for man to be alone? Score one up for the Good Book.
Lawfully wedded husbands and wives also experiencedgreater closeness with their children. Eighty
three percent of married couples with childrenbetween the ages of three and nineteen say
they have a strong and loving relationshipwith their kids, compared to sixty nine

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percent of domestic partnerships and sixty onepercent of non domestic exclusive relationship. Whatever
that means. Mary Jones also linkedto another predicator of happiness having children.
So there you go. It's it'sinteresting because all of these little things circle

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back to you know, Grant wasjust kind of making it a point in
passing about score one for the GoodBook. In almost every area of life,
God's values, God's way is proven, proven to be what works.

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It's it's kind of crazy, youknow. We we always we talk about
science, science, you know,settled science on all manner of things,
and science. Data crunching, numbercrunching always points back to you know,
if you just do kind of whatGod says. Ted Copple famously said when

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Moses came down from Sinai, hedidn't come down with ten suggestions, and
his address at Duke University suggested ata commencement that if you actually followed the
ten commandments, you would stake yourselfout to have a pretty good life.

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Crazy, Huh, the recipe forsuccess still found inside God's word. Maybe
it's a faulty memory, but Ican't remember the United States Supreme Court issuing

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so many rulings before the sessions ended. Normally, Remember how we always get
these unbelievably important cases being ruled upon, and you get the ruling in June

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before the court recesses for a periodof time. We're seeing cases turned away
that I'm just shocked that they're sayingno to without reason. I feel like
the court does itself a disservice bynot saying why something was turned away.
You know, this court, thiscase was turned away because we don't believe

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that this case presents a broad enoughissue for this court to decide, or
don't believe that this has that thelitigants have standing, or whatever it might
be. Give us something to understandwhy you said no. However, there
are two rulings that happened here thatcould have profound impact on millions of Americans

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at different levels, and they're interestingbecause they're not getting much publicity. One,
and I've been kind of following this. It was the case of a
homeowner named George Sheets. He purchaseda vacant lot in twenty sixteen. The

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idea was to put a small manufacturedhome on it and his wife were He
and his wife were going to atsome point retire there. That was going
to be their home. Eldorado Countyin California wanted him to pay a trafficked
impact fee of twenty three thousand,four hundred and twenty dollars. Impact fees

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are what are charge developers for theimpact. I put quotes around that.
You couldn't see that on the radio, the impact of that development on roads
and infrastructure. All right, howthis affects of retired couple driving in and

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out of their home to the extentthat they and so he sued. He
said, I'm not paying that.The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that
California's Eldorado County violated the landowner rightswhen it demanded the impact fees. The

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ruling really hits at the power oflocal governments to force property owners to pay
development fees. It's one of aseries of court rulings in recent years that
strengthen individual private property rights. Sofirst that was fascinating. He won,

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and he not only won, hewon a unanimous Supreme Court decision that's that's
crazy. But there was another ninezero ruling that has even broader impact.
Muldrow versus the City of Saint Louis, female police officer alleged she was transferred
from one department to another because ofher sex. She argued it transfer it

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violated Title seven of the Civil RightsAct, which forbids race, color,
religion, sex, or national organorigin discrimination with respect to employment, compensation
terms, conditions, or privileges.She lost in the lower court because the
court said that it didn't cause hersignificant harm, didn't result in a diminuation

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of title salary benefits, only onechange, minor change was her working conditions.
A unanimous Supreme Court where they allsigned on to Elena Kagan's ruling,
her writing for the court, itdoesn't matter whether there was significant or insignificant

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for it to satisfy Title seven abuses. The takeaway is that she can sue,
and so do a lot of people. A lot of people can sue,
not just over sex discrimination or transfers. It applies to all compensation terms,
conditions, privileges of employment. Ifyou've been fired, transferred, denied,

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a bonus, forced to attend orexcluded from a training program, mentor
program retreat on the basis of yourrace, sex, or religion. You
can sue and you don't have toprove you suffered any significant harm. WHOA,
that's huge, that's huge, Andthat again it was nine to nothing.

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Speaks to the abuse. You wonderwhere this is gonna go. That's
just remember this case muldro versus Cityof Saint Louis. I am betting that
this is gonna show back up realsoon in litigation across the country because people
have been getting jammed for years.It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott,

(44:37):
hi Rischafell. Next hour from morechan dot com, catch up with FSU
football. Talk a little bit aboutthe stadium, hearing some grumbling from season
ticket holders that are no more andas FSU tries to improve its facilities,
hearing from other people saying they're reallygrateful for the improvements in the in the

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seating that will take place. It'sa mixed bag. Also talk a little
bit about FSU basketball baseball with Irawho follows FSU athletics. Again for war
Chant, where's the managing editor?Big stories in the press box brought to
you by Grove of creative marketing anddigital expertise. Republican opposition to Ukraine funding

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is doubled in two years. Sixtybillion, though was approved Saturday, the
vote three eleven to one twelve.All Democrats supported it. All one hundred
and twelve voting against it were Republicans, which means one hundred and one Republicans
voted for more money going to Ukraine. They believe that it's it's vitally important

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to keep Vladimir Putin at bay?Who else is paying? Do you know
of any other nations that are painting? Is the UK? Like in France?
Are they doing stuff? I feellike they would be. But NATO
nations, where are you? I'mand maybe they are. I don't know,

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but you know, it's nowhere nearwhat we're doing now, that's nowhere
near. It's got to be notonly sixty point eight billion to Ukraine.
Separate bills approved twenty six to Israel, twenty six billion Indo Pacific and the
twenty first Century Piece through Strength Actgot eight point one billion, sorry Indo

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Pacific eight point one The Strength throughPeace Act. It would impose sanctions on
China, Iran and Russia. Theyadopted a measure requiring TikTok's parent company to
sever ties with the commedies in Chinaor cease operations in the US. So
this ended up getting bundled together asone package and it was passed. It

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was passed. Heritage President Kevin Roberts, Doctor Kevin Roberts said Ukraine's Minister of
Defense was fired for questions around militarygraft billions in USA to float economic aid
rather than lethal weapons. More importantlythan as now, Biden has presented no

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coherent strategy or plan for victory orpeace in Ukraine, and so the American
people are funding this. Now weget to the Senate. Mike Lee,
US senator from Utah said, ninetyfive billion doesn't have to pass. It
only takes forty one senators to stopit. There are forty nine Republicans more

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than enough. Where do your senatorsstand? What do you think will the
Senate Republicans have the courage that theHouse Republicans didn't have. Oh, by
the way, did you notice whatwas missing? And all that funding not

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a single red literally read sent forour southern border. You could have a
good hearty debate on sending money toIsrael Gaza, Ukraine. If we're fully

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funding stopping what's going on at theborder, you could debate the merits of
that, but there is no debatingthis when nothing's being done on our southern
border. Mike Johnson failed. Republicansthat voted for this entirety without getting anything
for the southern border failed. Andtomorrow is going to be an interesting chat

(49:00):
with Kat Camick she scheduled to joinus. I believe she voted against the
Ukrainian bill, but I believe shevoted for the entire package. Neil Dunn
voted for all of it across theboard. Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, I got nothing. I'm sorry I got Doctor Joe camp

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standing by. Next find more onhis vlogu w u f l a FM
dot com keyword preston Well he wasstanding by. Get back to more big

(49:53):
stories in the press Box, broughtto you by Grove, a creative marketing
and digital expertise. When when thatbill passed to fund the Ukraine war to
the tune of another sixty billion dollars, Democrats were waving Ukrainian flags? What

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the heck to be? Start callingCongress like occupied Capitol Hill. Maybe because
they're beholden to seemingly every other globalinterest except ours. Yes, they'll proudly
fly every other nation's flag and fundevery other nation's issue, including flags from

(50:40):
things that aren't nations. Right,and what do we get who advocates for
Americans? Who advocates for us?Nobody? Seemingly much of the Republican Party
doesn't even do that, So what'swhat right? Yeah, Congressman Clay Higgins,
all Democrats waving Ukrainian flags on yourhouse floor when a bill passed sending

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another sixty billion of your treasure tofund the war machine, one deficit,
money borrowed on the backs of yourkids. Wake up America, Lauren Bobert,
such an embarrassing and disgusting show ofAmerica. America last politicians, you

(51:22):
love Ukraine so much, get yourbleep, she spelled it out over there,
and leave America's governing to those wholove this country. She went on
to say, our country deserves somuch more than just to be the world's
ATM. I don't see other countrieslining up to send up cash. Who
takes care of America We're borrowing frommoney, money from China to give to

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the rest of the world. Isforeign aid. What in the world.
And then there's this polling here inFlorida released by the Sunset in the late
last week. A poll by FloridaAtlantic University. Less than fifty percent support

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the passage of the marijuana legalization aswell as the abortion amendment. It's interesting.
Here's what's significant about the abortion oneamendment. Four forty nine percent of
those surveyed supported nineteen of pose.Thirty two percent are undecided. That is

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a massively large number. So itis very important that the truth of the
amendment gets out there, fact factfact, And if you don't believe me,
you make sure to go read theamendment before you say that I'm being

(52:55):
dishonest. I'll have no tolerance forthat. You write me and say I'm
not being honest. I'm reading youremail, I'm reading your name, and
I'm reading your email address. I'mgonna put it out public if you tell
me without reading that amendment, becausethe amendment does not say there is any

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limitation on abortion. In fact,the amendment says there can be no laws
limiting it. So these polling questionsthat are going out in many quarters,
not all, but USA today slashGennett slash tallasse Democrat Slash the newspaper in
Panama City Gannett. It asked thequestion deceptively. It said, do you

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support or oppose an abortion amendment thatputs a twenty four week There is no
twenty four week limit. Twenty fourweeks? What the heck are they talking
about? Doesn't exist. This islimitless, no restrictions on abortion amendment.

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And friends, you need to beout there messaging on this. You desperately
need to be out there, andnow, not in the summer. Now
this is the this is the lessonon a chic memory. You need to
remind people there are there's ambiguity throughoutits complications. It's going to be litigated

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endlessly. It's wrong. It's justflat wrong. Shouldn't be on the ballot.
Supreme Court of the State of Florida, let us down. Thanks fellas.
Welcome to the Morning Show with PrestonScott. It's Monday, boy,

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It's Monday, fifty one minutes afterthe hour of the Morning Show. Hopefully
Irish Chafelle will join us next hour. We're batting zero for two. I've
got two stories on job numbers.One from CNBC. Something strange has been

(55:29):
happening with jobless claim numbers lately,CNBC. The subplot points here. Most
of the past several weeks have shownthat first time claims for unemployment benefits haven't
fluctuated all, as in zero stringof weekly reports showing exactly two hundred and

(55:50):
twelve thousand initial claims. As startingto raise a few eyebrows on Wall Street.
Labor Department spokesman noted that while thestring is oncommon, it can be
attributed to a consistent jobs picture reflectedin seasonal adjustments to the data. I'm
calling bull hockey on that one.Now we come to the second article.

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How is it possible that initial joblessclaims have been exactly the same for five
of the past six weeks. It'snot statistically possible. Jim Bianco had of
Bianco Research first to call attention toit. How is this statistically possible?

(56:38):
Initial claims for unemployment insurance or stateprograms with fifty state rules, hundreds of
offices, fifty websites to file.He's right, something's not right. And
so we get to a deeper lookand more data, and if all the

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layoffs that we've been reading about thatcompanies have been issuing, how is it
that they're not even making one achange of one thousand in the jobless claims,
Bureau of Labor says, actually unemploymentwent down. Now we get to

(57:35):
the numbers. Either you were classifiedas unemployed according to labor statistics or not
in the labor force. According tothe most recent numbers from the Bureau of
Labor, six point four million Americansare considered to be officially unemployed, but
another ninety nine point nine million areconsidered not in the labor force. When

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you add that together, one hundredand six US adults don't have a job
one hundred and six million. Duringthe Great Recession of two thousand and eight
two thousand and nine, the figurenever reached ninety we're at one hundred and
six. But we had a horrifyingcrisis in two thousand and eight, in

(58:28):
two thousand and nine. Today everything'sjust fine. We're being gas lit again,
we're thirty four trillion dollars in debt, and the actual unemployment number is

(58:51):
one hundred and seven million, notsix point four million. That starts to
make things make more sense, doesn'tit. And what's Bureau doing? They're

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just trotting out the exact same employmentnumber week after week after the exact.
That's just that's nuts. We arewe are, we are in we are
in waters that are that are reallydifficult to navigate, murky, dark,

(59:35):
scary, awful. And those aretwo stories saying the same thing, only
one says it with a little moredepth and clarity. We come back change
gears. Are gonna talk a littleFSU sports f s U football in particular.
Then we're gonna branch out, talka little bit about what the future
is for FSU basketball. They losta ton of players, and then baseball

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having a great season, but thebullpen, oh my goodness. All right.

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Five minutes after the hour, itis the third hour of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Show fifty one'sGrant Allen. I'm Preston, great to
be with you. Let's get toit. Joining us is the managing editor
of war chant dot com. Heis the one the only Irish Offel.
Good morning, sir, how areyou? I'm great, Preston, how
are you? I'm terrific. Now, for those of us that were not

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at the FSU Spring showcase, tellus what was this? What was the
format for the event. It wasbasically like a scrimmage. You know,
they didn't keep score. It wassome situational things like they did a couple
of series, maybe they're down insidethe red zone or backed up on their
own side of the field or buta lot of it was just basically one

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offense would take the ball, goas far as they could, then punt
if they didn't get you know,if they couldn't score, then the other
team would. The other side wouldget the ball, and basically the two
sides were led by Mombas juy Ungoley, who's you know, should be the
starting offense, but sometimes he wasout there with the twos. Trevor Jackson
is the only other quarterback available becausethe two young kids were dealing with minor

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injuries, so he would take theother offense, and he was sometimes with
the twos, sometimes with the threes. So it was kind of a mix
and match. It was more likea practice than a real game. Do
you like that. I've not reallyfound a whole lot of reason to look
at something like that. Yeah,I mean it's really more of for your
diehard fans or somebody that's just hey, I want to be out there,

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I want to go see my friends. We haven't tailgated in a few months,
so this is the opportune I'll gettogether and have a good time,
or the die hard and who justdesperately want to see what this new Jalen
Lucas looks like, or what doesMarvin Jones Junior look like? But in
terms of yeah, competition and acompelling sporting event, it's not that I

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don't love it. I miss theold days, But I also understand coaches
look at it like in this processoriented coaching world where they've got, you
know, the standards they've got tohit, they want to take that advantage
of that practice more so than seeingyou know, maybe you know what fans
want to see. You know,it can be argued Mike Norvel has done
the best job of any college coachof navigating the transfer portal and the recruiting

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wars, and you know, you'rerecruiting your own team every year. It
would seem in to your eye,test Ira, what did Saturday show you
again? Because you know, MikeDorvel does allow the media to cover practices.
There weren't a lot of surprises forus. But the challenge for us

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in the media is to try toyou know, understand that you know,
the fans haven't seen all these practices, so you try to put some context
into things. Uh. DJ didn'tlook great on Saturday. He hasn't looked
like all American this spring, butbut I think he's looked better than he
looked Saturday at times. Uh,there weren't a lot of things open.

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I thought the pass rush was prettygood. The defensive secondary, I mean
honest with you, sometimes I wonderif you know you hear about it in
practice where the defense knows what playsare coming because they've seen it so much.
I felt like there was some ofthat. There were a couple of
plays where maybe they were in ascreen and you would see a linebacker trigger
or a safety go immediately to thatspot before the before the ball was even

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snapped. In cases where maybe adefensive end keels off and goes gets into
a zone, you know, Andagain maybe that's just good coaching and great
playing and great recognition, but Ifeel like there was some of that also
where the defense kind of felt itfelt like the defense knew what was coming.
So DJ definitely didn't blow anybody awayby his before, but I would
say that over the last two weeks, I thought he's looked very, very

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good in practice. He's been accurate, He's made really good throws. They
made a lot of big plays inthe passing game, so that that was
disappointing that fans didn't get to seethat, because this is the only time
they've really seen him until you know, we go to Dublin in four months.
So defensively was what I expected.I mean, this is a this
is going to be a big,strong, athletic defense. I think they're

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gonna that's going to be the strengthof this team. And truthfully, in
the second half of last season,that was the strength of this team.
And now a lot of new faces. They brought in some new portal guys.
But I really like this defense,and I think the offense is may
be better than it looked on Saturday. Before we take a break, Ira,
the second portal is open. Anyexpectations, any needs that you think

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that the coaches are going to goafter. I think there's definitely a couple
of needs, and then after thatit'll be basically if a great player is
available and is interested and they canmake it happen, I think they will.
I think an obvious need is adefensive on the de defensive line.
They and it's not a need wherethey don't have good players. They just
need a little bit more depth onthe defensive line. So I could definitely

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see them going maybe get defensive tackleor an end and then you move one
of them. They have a bigdefensive end that they can move inside the
defensive tackle, so I think areally good defensive lineman would help them.
I also think a receiver. Goinginto the spring game, I thought they
a spring showcase. I thought theyprobably needed another receiver. A Malik Benson,
who is their best receiver, gotinjured in that game. We don't

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know the extent of it, soI think, yeah, there's definitely a
need to probably go get a receiver. And then after that, I think
it's you know, if they founda great linebacker, if they found a
great safety, I think those areor maybe even a tight end. I
think those are positions they would consider. But to me, the big needs
are defensive line and receiver. It'sfunny how all of a sudden, with
the transfer portal, we're talking aboutcollege football teams like they're in NFL franchise.

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It's crazy. Ten minutes after thehour more with that Rashappelowarchan dot Com
Coming up, Preston Scott, Igot bad Thought My News Radio one hundred
point seven Double USLA back with Irishafelof war chand dot Com Ira. I

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have heard from some FSU season ticketholders they love the perspective of the improvements
coming to Doke Campbell Stadium. I'veheard from others that are really really unhappy
that they in essence, had theirseats ripped out from under them. What
is your sense on the stadium improvements? Certainly some things were needed, but

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your thoughts, Yeah, No,I think it's you summed up perfectly.
I think there are definitely some peoplewho are furious, even you know,
the people that have had the sametickets in their family for decades and they
don't want to move, and theydon't want to be separated from their friends,
and they don't want to be forcedto move because the price has gotten
higher for their location. But thenI also talk to plenty of people who

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are like, thank goodness, I'mtired of sitting on a metal bleacher,
I'm tired of not having Wi Fi. I'm tired of not being able to
get decent concessions or whatever it is. They want to be more comfortable.
So I think it's definitely what experienceyou're looking for. And then I think
Florida State, like you said,they had to make some improvements. The
stadium was not ada compliant. Theyhad a lot of structural issues. They

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had to do something about some ofthose things. And I think the way
to pay for it is to kindof go with this more modern approach where
they're more comfortable seats, people havea better experience. At the same time,
you know, I look at itfrom a pragmatic standpoint of They're taking
out a two hundred and fifty milliondollars bond to pay this off, and
I wonder, you know what ifthe team doesn't do well over three or

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four years. Now, those arebig ticket seats that are sitting open and
unsold. That's my bigger concern.But you know, I'm not sitting in
the stands or you know, I'mblessed. I sit in the press box.
Preston to tell me about what isgoing to be ready come fall.
What seating is going to be available. Yeah, it's gonna be so that
one half of the stadium, basicallythe student side, which is the sunny

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side, is basically going untouched,so you know, those all be there,
and then they're gonna put I heardI think the number seven thousand.
There's a number of temporary seats,several thousand temporary seats that are going to
be on the old shady side,the alumni side, and so the capacity
of the stadium is going to besomewhere in the fifty thousands. I heard

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fifty five thousands the number I've heardmost recently, so as opposed to eighty
thousand seats or seventy eight thousand,you're gonna be down to fifty five thousand
this season, and then in twentytwenty five they'll be back to a bigger,
full stadium. It will be totallyrenovated. But even then it's gonna
be around seventy thousand. I believeit's it's never going to go back to
the eighty thousand seats of yesteryear.So they hope to have the entire renovation

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project done by the seat the twentytwenty five start of the season. That's
correct, and a lot of immature contractors that I've talked to saw the
stadium on Saturday and wonder if that'sgonna happen. But we'll see that's the
play of you this Before we takea break here real quickly, just because
I want to take a little timetalking FSU basketball with you. What are

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your impressions on baseball? It lookslike link Jarrett has turned a significant corner
in a very short period of time. Now, if you can just find
a bullpen, well, yeah,unfortunately you can't do free agency during the
season in college baseball yet because yeah, that's been a problem. Look,
they had two huge road series sofar. They've they've want the bullpens come
through in some games in certain situations, particularly at home, even though it's

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a good competition. But you know, they went to Clemson, the bullpen
collapse in a couple of games,they lost all three and then Wake Forest
they had a chance they could have, you know, easily won that series,
and the bullpen betrayed him again.And I just think it is what
it is, you know. Now, one thing that really hurt them more
than usual this past weekend, WellI think could get better is they do

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think Cam Lighter, who was theiropening day starter, has missed the last
few weeks with maybe some tenderness inhis arm. He's supposed to be getting
back really soon. They also makeanother picture Ben Barrett back soon, So
that would lengthen out your arms,you know, in earlier in the series,
and so that that could definitely helpthem once you get into regionals and
things like that. Yeah, it'sclear to me that in a three game

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series we need six starters. Butthey can really hit Preston, they can
really hit. Yeah, there yougo. Hang on a second, Ira,
We're gonna talk FSU basketball. Wecome back. Irish, a Fellowarchan
dot Com final segment with Irishafel ofwar Chan dot Com talked a little bit

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about FSU baseball. There link Jared'sdone a wonderful job in turning that program
around. But now that's a taskfacing Leonard Hamilton with the basketball program.
He had it going on and thenCOVID hit Ira and then the real landscape
of college athletics changed. Is itthat coach Hamilton and the staff just haven't

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quite gotten their footing yet on thenew landscape or what's gone south? I
know they're not the only team thathas lost everybody. I mean, Duke
has turned into a turnstile program allof a sudden. What should our expectations
be as fans. Who I mean, honestly, I love coach Hamilton.
He's a delightful man. Yeah,you know, it's impossible to know what

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the roster is going to look like. They are going to it's going to
look completely different. When Jalen Worleywent in the transfer portal last week,
their point guard. That's the sixthplayer that's gone in the transfer portal,
and they had four other guys whowe think have exhausted their eligibility. Maybe
one of them could still come backfor another year, but you're looking at
least ten new players for next season. And it wasn't a very good team

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last season. So on the onehand, you can say, well,
at least at least we're not goingto watch those guys again. But I
think from a big picture standpoint,But from a from a big picture standpoint,
you don't know how well positioned theyare to go get another talent and
roster. And that's the problem.You know, there's so much that goes
into that nowadays, beyond just coachingrelationships. The strength for Leonard Hamilton throughout

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his career, especially the last twentyyears, was his relationships. He had
been in the business for fifty years. If there was a player that he
heard about in Topeka, Kansas orShyamne, Wyoming, it didn't matter where.
I guarantee Leonard Hamilton knew somebody thatknew that kid, and he could
get on the phone with them withinthree minutes and build a relationship. And
he was so good at that.But now in the nil landscape where these

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kids, so much of these conversationsstart with how much am I gonna make
there? Well, I mean,it's just a different world. Does Florida
State have that kind of financial supportfor basketball? I don't think they do.
They have some support, I don'tknow if they have that level of
support. So it's going to beinteresting to see what he can pull together.
I mean, it's clear Leonard Hamilton'sgot one more year on his contract.

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They haven't made any move there.He's going to be coaching this team
next season. But it's anybody's guesswhat this team is going to look like.
They did have a transfer commit thispast weekend, a nice forward from
Hampton who had a nice season lastyear ten points, ten eleven points,
four or five rebounds, and helooks like a player a Leonard Hamilton type
player. They've got some junior collegekids coming in, so they're rebuilding this

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roster. But if you were abetting man, it's hard to say,
yeah, I think this team's goingto be good this year, just because
you know, it seems like alot of things are stacked against them right
now. Leonard Hamilton's blind spot tome has always been point guard. Why
why do they struggle finding a pointguard? I can't think of the last

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pure point guard they've had. Yeah, I mean, Trent Force is probably
close to it, but he's notnecessarily a true point right he convert it
like yeah, yeah. I thinkit's a combination of two things. I
think one is he really loves theidea of having big lungs, strong athletic
kids. They can guard several positions, and you know, and so if

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you have a six foot point guard, you know he's gonna have a tough
time sometimes in some of those situations. And then it becomes a self fulfilling
prophecy. You're sitting in there wonderingthe last time they had a good point
guard. Don't you think every collegerecruiter is telling every point guard that,
yes, he doesn't want to pointguard he's not, you know, so
I think at some point it's gotto be difficult to sign a point guard

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when everybody else can use that againstyou. So I think it's just been
one of those things. He hasnot put a value on it the way
you feel like he should. Ithink his argument would be he likes what
they do on the defensive end,and he and he's not so worried about
somebody setting up plays. He wantsto play a motion offense anyway. So
it's just a philosophical thing. ButI also think it's certainly a fair criticism.

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Well, I mean, the bottomline is, I just I don't
think college basketball has changed that much. I think it's a college guard game,
and I think you have to havea point guard. Yeah, And
you know they've had windows where wherethey were so skilled athletically and so skilled
basketball wise, like that run youknow three or four years ago, like
you said during COVID, when youknow that that team may have won the

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national title. Agreed, you knowwhere they were they had a good enough
point guard, Trent Forrest, whocould handle that role, but you were
so good everywhere else that you hadso many other guys that could get shots
for themselves. What they don't have, what they haven't had as much of,
and you know, is when youdon't have somebody who can create for
everybody else, and then you don'thave those other worldly players you know that

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are going to be first round picksor lottery picks, which they had Patrick
Williams and Terrence Well. Terrence Manwasn't a lottery pick for his first round
pick, and then Devin Besel andthose guys who can make their own shot.
That's when the point guard becomes moreimportant and it exposes it. Some
last question related to f as YouBasketball. Has Leonard Hamilton earned the right
to leave on his own terms ordoes he get one more year to turn
the thing? Well, he getsthis year. I think they don't have

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an appetite to make a change rightnow. Right hard to hire a coach
when you don't know what conference you'regoing to be in. But listen,
man, Bobby Boughten didn't get toname his own terms, So no,
Leonard Hamilton doesn't get the name hisown terms. But I do think they're
going to go with it because itmakes sense of the situation right now,
with the fight with the conference andall that. It would be a weird
time to try to go hire abasketball yeers Ira, unless something weird happens,

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I'll talk to you in the fallwhen we got a new football season
to discuss. Thanks for the time, brother, Thanks Prestin taker Irischafelle,
Managing editor Warchant dot Com. Myguests on the Morning Show with Preston Scott
The Morning Show with Preston Scott onNews Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.

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To show you how social contagions work. Protesters are now being dragged by police
away from Yale. Columbia University hasshut down the school for the day.
And this is all over a bunchof ill informed, socially motivated by their

(01:17:12):
media malcontents, a bunch of snivelinglittle brats that are going to school on
their on their parents' dollar, oron hours. Boy, that's annoying.
Granted, a lot of these schoolsare private schools. Whatever, It's just

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I don't know. Can can someoneattend a private school and receive a government
student loan? I don't know.I don't know the ins and outs of
that. All I know is what'shappening on these Ivy League campus is shameful.

(01:18:02):
The anti Semitism that is turning intoviolence and intimidation against Jews and Jewish
students faculty. Mm hm, mhm. Are people? Are people just
ignorant of the nineteen thirties in Germany? Are they just bring dead? Not

(01:18:30):
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found less than fifty percent support forthe marijuana Amendment and the Abortion Amendment on

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abortion. The measure would enshrine abortionrights in the state constitution. It's Amendment
four. It has forty nine percentof support, nineteen percent opposition thirty two
percent. About a third of thevoters say they don't know. That is
crucial. The nineteen percent they're votingno. I would say out of the

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forty nine percent, there's up toten percent of that that don't know what
they're doing. And I'm not talkingabout forgive them for they know not what
they do. I'm not talking aboutthat. I'm talking about they don't know
what this amendment is going to allow. They're in favor of choice. But

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I would say about about a quarterof that group, maybe a little less,
maybe a little more of the fortynine percent, they would not support
unhindered abortion. They wouldn't they wouldnot support doesn't matter up until birth.
I don't believe that you'll get sixtypercent of the state of Florida agreeing to

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that if they know that's the key. Some people say six weeks is unreasonable.
It depends, I guess, onhow you define life. That's a
debate that we can have. Now, you know, we can have the
debate as far as public policy asit relates to how God views it,

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there's no debating that. But asa matter of public policy, fine,
you can debate that. But equally, there should be no debate on the
extremism of this bill. This amendmentwould would enshrine abortion to the very end
of term and maybe beyond. Andthat is a hard fact. It can't

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be argued that's what it says,because it doesn't say any limitation at all.
This is the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Did you see the story

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of the Maryland teenager that had aone hundred and twenty nine page manifesto and
the main figure of his manifesto,which was sort of a real plan to
do something, but with a maincharacter that was trans This young man's plan

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was to shoot up an elementary school. He was arrested. He wrote that
he wanted to become a serial killerinstead of a mass murder because serial killers
are romanticized a lot more, butdecided he was going to target his former

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elementary school because quote, little kidsmake easier targets. Had mental health issues.
Former student at a local high schooltargeting elementary school for a mass shooting,
was hospitalized in December of twenty twentytwo after threatening to shoot up a

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school. Following month, clinicians reportedthat the teen was talking about suicide by
cop. The individual wanted to befamous by shooting innocent children. I have
written and once again I have.I have reached out to everybody that I

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know. I've written letters to editors, I have posted things I have I
have tagged on a post on XFox News, MSNBC, New York Times,
Washington Post. Stop using these people'snames and photos. Kid at Parkland

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or Stoneman Douglas. He he wantedto be famous. You don't know me,
but you will this guy. We'veromanticized serial killers, We've we've made
these kinds of shooters pop figures.They want to reenact school shootings like Columbine

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because the media has made them celebrities. We have a right to know.
I don't give a crap what youthink. You have a right to know.
Journalists used to have some self restraint, and I get it. They're

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they're going to come back with theargument, the public has a right to
know who these people are, andsomeone's going to release that information, so
it's going to be a trusted newsoutlet. Whatever you are, you are
creating more of these people by continuingto use names, by publicizing their manifestos.

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Look, study it, give itto the forensic team, give it
to the behavioral psychiatry, give itto all of the criminal behaviorists out there,
and let him study this guy's writingall day long. But if the
news media will simply stop talking,tell us what happened, leave his name
out of it, leave his pictureout of it, let him go into

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the annals of time anonymously, wewill have less of these over time.
He just said it, I wantto be famous, and the media doesn't
understand. They keep talking about weneed to do something to stop this.
Well, why don't you start bydoing what you can do. I'm gonna

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keep saying it. I'm gonna keepasking sheriffs to get on the bully pulpit.
I'm gonna keep asking lawmakers. I'mnot telling you to legislate anything.
I'm telling you to use the bullypulpit to tell the media to stop.
There's only a handful of media outletsthat think like I do. If everybody
will send that Messa, you willbecome a pariah for being out there in

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the industry and using names and faces. Stop publicizing these people. Back with
more of The Morning Show with PrestonScott tomorrow scheduled the US congress Woman Cat

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Camick manly minute money talk, animalstories, and whatever the news delivers to
us between now and then. Mentionthis earlier. For those of you in
the Central time zone, this isin your world, in particular the tenth
annual Lionfish Festival May seventeenth through theeighteenth in DestinE. This comes from Florida

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Fish and Wildlife. It's it's goingto be at aj Seafood and Oyster Bar
whatever Harbor Walk Village in Destin,free, open to the public. But
then there's the the spearfishing tournament whereyou're going to go after lionfish. Sounds

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kind of fun, to be honest. You know what kind of fish?
You know? The fish they are? Oh yes, yes, I'm seeing
them. They're very stark in theirappearance in beautiful fish. Yeah there,
but man not good invasive squeezing andspines and they eat up a lot of
the other fish and take over aterritory. The categories for one hundred thousand

(01:27:45):
dollars worth of prizes which are upfor grabs most lionfish, the largest lionfish,
and the smallest lionfish. Now youknow what that says, Kill them
all, kill the kids, thekiddy lie and fish, kill them all
nothing. This is like Old TestamentGod's wrath kind of stuff. Yeah,

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just wipe them out, Yes,destroy the whole, the whole bunch of
them. Tournament rules registration Emerald CoastOpen dot com, Emerald Coast Open dot
com. Local chefs are going tobe preparing dishes with lionfish that entire week
leading up to the event May tenth, at the boat House landing of Aalparizo

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Harbor LAPAs Restaurant and Cantena on Mayeleventh, the Crab Trap on May twelfth,
Jasmine Tie on May thirteenth, BeachWalk Cafe May fourteenth, Harbor Docks
on the fifteenth, the Harbor Tavernon the sixteenth, and then AJ's Seafood
and Oyster Bar on the eighteenth.So there you go. Lionfish are an

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invasive species, bad for the environmentand the water out there, but really
good eating. I'm told I've nevertried, but I'm told that the meat
off a lionfish is spectacular. I'mwilling to give it a go. Yeah,
I would, absolutely, So thereyou go. Something to sign up
fork brought to you by Barono Heatingand Air. It's the Morning Show one

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on WFLA. Yeah, our verse. Today we started the program Romans one
twenty God revealing himself in all ofcreation. So the man is without excuse,
big stories in the press box today. Boy that Mike Johnson. Yeah,
boy was I wrong? I washopeful. I was wrong. I

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thought this guy, this guy ison a mission. Like the Blues Brothers,
we had a mission from God.No, not really. It wouldn't
seem all the money that was thatwas allocated in this spending bill that can
only be stopped in the Senate.Now, forty one of forty nine Republicans
in the Senate have to have abackbone and they can stop it. Not

(01:30:04):
one penny for the southern border weyto negotiate, Mike, Well done,
Well done, buddy. Democrats whenthey voted for the funding in the House
for Ukraine cheered and waved Ukrainian flags. Think about that now, Ukrainian flags,

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and we're sending more money that wedon't have. Biden administration adding protections
to Title nine for transgenders. Pollingshows that there is not sixty percent of
support right now. It's below fiftypercent for both the marijuana amendment and the
abortion amendment. Got to defeat themboth. I have a hope for one

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that is infinitely more important to methan the other. But both are bad
for the state to be in theSupreme to be in the state constitution.
Two good rulings by the United StatesSupreme Court, both nine to zero on
limiting government power locally and anti deidiscrimination lawsuits. Good stuff there. Tomorrow
we'll do it all over again.Have a great day, folks, Thanks

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for listening.