Ep. 4932: Amy Coney Barrett Takes an L

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Episode Transcript

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Well, good morning and welcome.Five minutes after the hour, Thursday eighteenth,
on the Morning Show with Presley ScottShow forty nine thirty two, Day
eight forty eight of America held ahostage. I'm pressed him. That's grant
and our verse today Hebrews six ten. For God is not unjust so as

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to overlook your work and the lovethat you have shown for His name in
serving the saints as you still do. For God is not unjust so as
to overlook your work and the lovethat you have shown for His name in

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serving the saints as you still do. And we desire each one of you
to show the same earnestness, tohave the full assurance of hope until the
end, so that you may notbe sluggish but imitators, excuse me of

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those who, through faith and patienceinherit the promises, and those go back
to Abraham and move forward. Itis important that our faith in God is

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active in our works. You know, it's a tricky thing. We don't
find our way to heaven by doingthings. They're not enough good deeds that

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you and I can do in alifetime that earn salvation and grace. And
this is a big stumbling block forpeople that are just inherently wired and do
good things because they are in dangerof missing grace, mercy, and salvation.

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They think that just being a goodguy or a good woman is enough.
But all of our deeds fall shortof God's standard of holiness. So

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it's not works that get us intoheaven. What being a blessing to others
is evidence of the internal transformation that'ssupposed to happen when you become a Christian.

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So it's not it's not works thatget us there. But faith without
works is dead. It doesn't demonstrateanything. But those works don't in and
of themselves, do anything for you. And that's what I mean. It's

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tricky because a lot of people wantto think and I and I you will
oft to hear me say this thatif you go to church enough that gets
you that there you go. Butthat's a work, that's an act,
that's a thing. Years ago Iheard said that if being being in church

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makes you a Christian, then goingto McDonald's makes you a big mac.
That is not what does it.And so what this verse is reminding us
is to not grow weary in doingwell, and that the reason we do
well is to please God and toshow evidence of the change He's made in

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our life by looking for ways tobe different, in helping others, in
blessing others, encouraging others at times, in holding others accountable, starting with
ourselves. So there you go.We are grateful to have you with us

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this morning. Steve Stewart will joinus. We're going to hope for the
best that doctor Steve Stevers said willjoin us in our Pause for Thought segment.
But I'll explain more about that herein mere moments. It is good
to be with you. Thursday,May eighteenth, will open up the American

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Patriots Almanac. Next here on theMorning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning
Show, Preston Scott coming up totwelve minutes after the hour, May eighteenth,
eighteen sixty Republicans nominate Abraham Lincoln forPresident. Republicans public likins, Yeah,

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new party started to end slavery eighteensixty three. You let's see s
Grant begins the Siege of Vicksburg.In eighteen ninety six, The Supreme Court

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upholds separate but equal racial segregation inPlus versus ferguson what a bad see that's
an example of a court not adheringto the law, but engaging in their

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own activism. What's ironic here isone justice dissented in the view John Marshall
Harlan, who ironically was a formerslave owner. He was the only justice
with the courage to say, no, no, no, your opinion is

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wrong. And he said these wordsin view of the Constitution. In the
eye of the law, there isin this country no superior, dominant ruling
class of citizens. There is nocaste here. Our constitution is color blind,
and neither knows nor tolerates classes amongcitizens. In respect of civil rights.

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All citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of
the most powerful. The law regardsman as man and takes no account of
his surroundings or of his color,when his civil rights, as guaranteed by
the supreme law of the land,are involved. He goes on to state

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in his dissent the arbitrary separation ofcitizens on the basis of race while they
are on a public highway is abadge of servitude wholly inconsistent with a civil
freedom and the equality before the lawestablished by the Constitution. It cannot be
justified upon any legal rounds. Weboast of freedom enjoyed by our people above

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all other peoples. But it isdifficult to reconcile that boast with a state
of the law which practically puts thebrand of servitude and degradation upon a large
class of our fellow citizens, ourequals before the law. The thin disguise
of equal accommodations for passengers and railroadcoaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone

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for the wrong this day done whoand by the way, those words apply
to affirmative action to this very day, they do. It's an uncomfortable truth.
Also on this date, nineteen oeight Congress requires the motto in God

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we trust to appear on certain coins. And in nineteen eighty Mount Saint Helen's
erupts in Washington, fifty seven peopledead or missing. Well, I remember
that that was something. By theway, we endured a horrific lightning strike
apparently. And so we're on theair, thankfully, and grateful to our

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engineer and and some help that we'vereceived to get us where we can be
on the air today. But asof now our phone lines are a fatality.
So yours truly has been noodling onthis since I got word last night

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as to the predicament, and we'regoing to try to bring a guest to
the program that phones in normally viaanother phone solution. We'll see if it
works. We're just going to try, but barring some kind of miracle,

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we will not be doing What's theBeef tomorrow. We will we will instead
move to a different final hour ofthe show, final first half hour of
the final hour. So we'll justhave to wait and see how it all
unfolds. But my thanks to CharlieWotton and and we're anymore for helping us

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yesterday. But just so you know, don't bother calling in because we can't
pick up the lines there. I'vebeen working with them all morning. They
are a disaster, So just lettingyou know, we're just not going to
be taking calls on the phone linesat all, So just keep that in

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mind and trust me, we haveplenty to talk about. Forty two minutes
after the hour of the Morning Showwith Preston's gotta selling grand in the break
that lightning strike that we hit.You know, you have surge protectors on

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things right that are plugged in forthat purpose, so that it shuts off
the power, or you have somesurge protection even in some outlets where you
have like your laptop or your computeror whatever plugged into a big, expensive
television, so that you have somethingin between yourself and a surge of electricity

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like a lightning strike provides, andthe idea being that anything plugged in gets
interrupted and the power doesn't surge beyondwhatever it is that surge protection is so
significant was the lightning strike yesterday.I have what's called an atomic clock on

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my studio wall. See, Ihave the atomic time inside our software that
runs all of our stations, andso I can look to the side and
I can see that it's twenty threeminutes and forty seconds after the hour,
and that's an atomic time that issynchronized around the world. I have the

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exact same time synchronized in front ofme, so I don't have to turn
to the side to see the time. I can see it in front of
me. The lightning the lightning strikewas so sufficient that the clock on the
wall, which is not plugged intoanything. It's battery operated, was knocked

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crazy, as in wrong day,wrong month, wrong year, wrong time,
wrong time of day. It washilarious when I walked in. I'm
now that that tells you that thelightning strike was so strong that it sent

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a shock wave into my studio tothe wall where this clock is. Because
it's not connected to anything. It'sit's not plugged into anything in this system
electrically, so that that gives youan idea of how strong that particular bolt
of lightning was. Anyway, we'llfigure it all out. We'll have things

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back to normal. It just itmay not be helpful for guests until it
returns to normal. We're gonna trysomething today, but I'm gonna put guests
for the next few days on noticethat we could be canceling and rescheduling.
We'll just we'll just have to waitand see. This story it's not a

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six twenty five Central Time AM story, but it is because we have a
hero that's a thirteen year old bigbrother of an eight year old little sister.
Michigan State Police. The girl wasin her backyard and someone came out

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of the woods and put a handover her mouth, arm around the waist,
and was attempting to pull her intothe woods. When her big brother,
thirteen, saw what turned out tobe a seventeen year old male try

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to grab his eight year old littlesister. My man, my thirteen year
old man. You know what hedid. He grabbed his slingshot, and
while this dude has got his sitthis boy's sister and is trying to pull

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her back into the woods, thiskid unleashes a barrage and nails him the
multiple times. Oh my gosh.He let go of the girl and ran
off. Here's the best part.Police got him, and you know how
they identified him. Dude's probably gotmarks all over his head, thank you

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very much. He was marked upand wounded by the sling shot. Want
to go, come on, comeon. Dude pulls out a slingshot and
goes David on him. That isbrilliant. I love it. Love it,
love it, love it. Andthe boy seventeen, who was the

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attempted abductor kidnapper, admitted, yes, I was trying to get the girl
because my plan was just to beather up. He just wanted to beat
beat up somebody. And so youngman with a sling shot hit the guy
in the head and then as hebacked away, hit him again in the
chest. And he was having noneof it and was caught that goat,

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Yes, a goat with a sligshot. That's awesome. And this is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Well, we have a ton of big

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stories in the press box. Goodmorning, Welcome to Thursday on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, Grant Allenover there in Studio one A. I'm
here in Studio one B. SteveStewart. Next hour, hopefully we'll talk
to doctor Steve Steverson. It mightsound a little wonky, but we're gonna
give it a shot, see ifit's intelligible. And then in the third

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hour we're going to talk about thebudget and the deficit and the budget talks.
And I had sent to me afinancial analysis by pretty strong firm outfit
organization, and we'll do a littlebit of a deep dive into what's going

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on and why we just keep repeatingthis stuff and maybe some possible answers,
though don't expect Congress to grasp anyof them. This is a huge story
and I cannot get my brain aroundit. The Supreme Court is allowing assault
Weapons the Band to take effect inIllinois. The ruling allows a law that

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bans the sale a new possession ofsemi automatic quote assault weapons, and why
that should even stand in of itselfis just beyond me. It's ambiguous.
Those who legally own such weapons wouldnot have to turn them in. The
law bans the large sale of alarge capacity magazines, but the owners of

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those weapons would have to register themwith the state. No way, Nope.
Now, the cases in front ofthe US Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit, but an injunction wentto Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and
she declined it. She denied therequest for an injunction. And there's a

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problem. That's a huge problem.Here's why this is a constitutional right,
and the justice should have aired onthe side of no. We're going to
leave the constitution in place, andthen we're gonna have to see if the
state law passes the test. It'snot going to one would hope, but
in the meantime, people are damagedin the meantime that law takes effect.

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There's no comment. But she's theone that oversees the Seventh Circuit, which
means she by herself has the rightto say yes or no on behalf of
the United States Supreme Court. Itdoesn't matter what irrationalies in this, It's
wrong. It's wrong. Second bigstory, the House is going to investigate

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the irs for retaliation as well asa removal of a team that was investigating
Hunter Biden. Clearly they've been toldby the Resident of the United States to
stand down. There's no doubt inmy mind, none whatsoever. Florida Governor
round As Santis signed the bill outlawingthe mutilation of miners through transgender surgeries.

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It will not happen in Florida.He has several several pieces of legislation,
the ban on transgender surgeries, theend of diversity, equity and inclusion in
education, limits on sex, genderidentity, and sexual orientation lessons for K
through eight. Again, I'm ofthe opinion that public schools have lost the

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right to teach any of that.We've got a congresswoman that has filed a
resolution. Her name is Anna Lunafrom Florida. She actually did what I
suggested the other day, maybe itwas yesterday. She is suggesting that Adam
Shift be expelled from Congress, andshe has filed a resolution to that effect.

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Shift lied to the American people,used his position on House intelligence to
push a lie that cost American taxpairsmillions of dollars and abused the trust placed
in him as chairman. He isa dishonor to the House of Representatives.
But way do you hear? WhatSchiff said in response next to The Morning
Show, Welcome to the Morning Showwith Preston Scott forty two minutes after the

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hour. Remember now we do nothave working phone lines. Don't call,
it might ring, it might notring. You might be getting disconnected,
but we phone lines are trashed,So just keep that in mind. Adam
Schiff, there is finally a measurethat has been introduced to remove him from

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Congress as well they should he andthe NAD ought to be gone. But
I'd settle for Schiff. Remember now, he is the one that stated that
there is clear evidence on the issueof collusion. Quote. I don't want

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to go into specifics, but Iwill say there is evidence that is not
circumstantial. But as I've said allalong, there's plenty of evidence of collusion.
That's what he said, Meet thePress twenty seventeen. Is it interesting

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that with the investigation of Bob Muller, with the investigation of John Durham,
one would think Adams shift would presentthat information that he later would describe as
a smoking gun. You do realizethe analogy a smoking gun, as in

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a firearm still hot and smoking fromhaving just been fired to commit a crime.
Such was the evidence that he saidhe had never presented any of it.
He's a liar. Listen to hisresponse though, this is unbelievable.

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A maga Republican member of Congress justfiled a motion to expel me from the
US House of Representatives. I stoodup to Donald Trump and held extreme MAGA
forces accountable. Now I want payback. They'll go after anyone who defends the
rule of law. What a shameless, gutless liar. Prove me wrong.

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He's been proven wrong. Prove mycontention wrong. It sickens me that we
have people like this serving this countryin Congress. Then get ready for a
steady diet of this. And thisis going to be news repeatedly because as

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I suspect, Governor to Sandis isgoing to announce he's going to run at
some point He's heading to New Hampshire. Is the announcement gonna come tomorrow in
New Hampshire? I don't know todaya new hand, I don't know,
but he is now lambing Donald Trumpfor not taking a position on the Heartbeat
abortion band. Now Trump has saidthat he signed six weeks. Many people

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within the pro life movement feel thatwas too harsh. Trump is correct.
There are some that do believe thatDe Santas said, protecting an unborn child
when there's a detectable heartbeat is somethingthat probably of pro life or support.
It's something that other states like Iowaunder Governor Kim Reynolds, have enacted.

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As a Florida resident, Trump didn'tgive an answer about would you have signed
the heartbeat bill that Florida did thathad all the expectations that people talk about
that the legislature put in. Isigned the bill. I was proud to
do it. He won't answer whetherhe would sign it or not. I'm
just saying, I'm not You decidethat issue for yourself. But I'm just

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telling you this is a warm up. This is what we're gonna get a
steady diet of for a little betterthan a year. And this is the
Preston Scotch Show, Steve Stewart justa little bit. It is Thursday show

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forty nine thirty two. To wantto show Grant Allen over there not taking
your calls. It's got the morningoff from calls. I'm liberated. I
don't know what to do with myself. You didn't feel that way last night
when you were in here working withthe fellas. That is true. Oh
my goodness. Yeah, we gothit by lightning. If you do not

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know, our phones are trashed andbut but honest, then truly heartfelt.
Thanks to Charlie Wooten out there becausewe're on the air and everything's working great.
Phone lines that's kind of out ofour control. It largely, there's
just so much you can do whenphone lines get shredded like these did by

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the electrical strike. But at anyrate, I did a commentary on this
that you'll be hearing from time totime, and this once again is making
my case for cameras in the classroom. You may have seen the story.

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It's getting some national attention because she'sgoing on CNN because she's under investigation as
well she should be. Her nameis Jenna Barbie. She's a Hernando County
fifth grade teacher teaches earth science andshe decided to show her class the animated

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film from Disney Strange World, whichfeatures a gay character. Now, the
gay character doesn't take up a bunchof time in the movie, but it
is in fact part of the movie, and the movie is not on an
approved list of films that can beused for instructional purposes. She knew that

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she showed it anyway, So there'sthere's there's the one point here of faculty
activism that honest and truly it justhas to be snuffed out. But she
went further in defending her decision.I think she did it to pick a

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fight because that one student in herclassroom is the is the child of a
member of the school board that hasbeen very openly critical of the woke agenda
entering into the schools and a defenderapprental rights. Miss Barbie called parents ignorant

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and stated, let me quote,I'm stripping her rights as a parent.
Those rights are gone when your childis in the public school system because there
are students talking about these things.Parents' rights are gone. And she makes
the point that because kids have phonesand can have conversations, that they're going

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to talk about this stuff anyway,and therefore parents don't have any rights.
Well, she's mistaken, because parentshave the ultimate right to say no to
the phones. But in the broadersense she doesn't recognize you're a teacher.
There are rules. You expect yourstudents to follow rules in the classroom,

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but you're not following rules. Sowhy should anyone listen to what you have
to say? Why should anyone listento what a teacher orders a student to
do? If the teachers doing whatthey want, I'm going to drop a
name on you as an example ofwhat needs to happen here, and that
name is Andrew Warren. Rond desand has suspended him. In essence,

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he got fired from his job.Why because he stated he would not enforce
state law. Well, that's notan option. When you are a public
employee and a state attorney, youhave no choice but to follow the law.
I believe that this teacher should begiven a choice. You either publicly

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apologize, admit you were wrong,and keep your job with an in your
file, or lose your job.You're fired. It's that simple. If
she's not willing to follow the parentalrights in education law and follow the guidelines
of the district, she should loseher teaching certificate. Five minutes after the

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hour, It is the second outof The Morning Show with Crustin Scott.
The Morning on Preston. That's grantand again reminding you don't call, no
reason to call. The phone linesare dead. They might it might ring,
but that doesn't mean a thing onour end. Trust me, they
are. They are all woven together. It's like they've melted together, and
it's one phone line on one endand four on the other, and it's

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just it's like it's like the oldtime party lines, where back in the
day you could have more than oneperson on a phone line when they were
connecting phones in the old switchboard daysof phone service. Anyway, Welcome to
the Thursday edition and we are joinedby Steve Stewart. He is the executive
editor of Talash Reports, the websitetalash reports dot com. Good morning,

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Good morning, how are you well. I'm doing good, better than our
phone system. Yes, it soundslike he was ten can to the year,
No kidding, right, string therope the Northeast Park. We talked
about it some last week and maybeeven the week before. It seemed to

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me that they were putting a lotof emphasis on baseball and at the expense
of things that more kids are participating. Well, you know that has to
do with the ammenity side. Ofthe park. But the Thursday meeting on
blueprint where this was teed up byCommissioner Brian Welch, who basically got elected
because of this park. If youremember, I mean this commercial will go

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down in you know, political lawhere in Leon County. You know,
where's the park, dude? Andthe point being that we've been trying to
get in Northeast Park and you know, I've complained to the city that we
haven't. You know, we don'thave a community center in the Northeast I
mean, when you had parents haveto take their kids that they're want to
play volleyball or basketball, city runyou know, to community centers, sometimes
as far as fifteen twenty miles away. So the Northeast Park has been on

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the drawing board for a long time. Commissioned the Douloge you know, did
a lot of work to try toget it, but originally in a different
location was it got moved and nowthe one that has been where we really
got the momentum is just off theCenterville Road, just this side of Robert's
Elementary. So it's a fifty acreplot of land and they're going to put
the county is this is where itgets a little complicated. The county owns

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the land, but it's in thecity limits, so that's a bureaucratic nightmare
in terms of permitting and who's gonnaget what and things like that. But
so this was teed up for theBlueprint meeting and it came out, you
know, there was an issue withincrease in costs for all these blueprint projects
because of the national economic conditions,and so the items you know, has

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increased from about twelve million to eighteenmillion, which would catch anybody's eye,
right, I mean that's a hugeincrease, right, And so at the
meeting we had a little bit ofheads up that there was going to be
fired some fireworks on this, andCommissioner Wells made the motion to move forward
with this project, and he gotsome resistance on the cost and the scope

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and they but they couldn't come toany resolution. Mayor Daily wanted to cut
the cost down to cap it downto twelve million, to have them come
back with a new plan, andthat didn't pass. The original the way
was set up. Why didn't thatpass? It was just this couldn't get
the votes. I think they didn'tif everybody else got blueprint projects in their
district. They don't want votes oncap and you know the cost of those

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projects in their districts. So Ithink people were a little reluctant when I
say people elected official to vote onthat. So it was a very uncomfortable
situation. And you watched the meetingand it was it was, you know,
real nice theater. And so theyfinally what they finally did was decided
to push it off to June fifteenthand come back with a couple of different
options on cost. You know,we can have this mini baseball fields for

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eighteen million, we can have thismini for twelve and more volleyball and stuff
like that. But in the process, a lot of politics, a lot
of wounds were opened. UH.Commissioner Welch, who obviously this is his
top priority, um, you know, is blaming Mayor Daily for bringing this
up. Although Mayor Daily bringing upbringing up the scope issue, I think

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mostly saying that you know, look, you know this is uh, this
is a travel baseball facility, andyou know he took uh. I mean,
he was upset about how it wasbeing characterized. M and Mayor Deli
was very animated about this. Butthere were other elected officials who had some
concerns um the commissioner. Well,it's blamed Mayor Delhi for this, took
to social media. Mayor Dally hasresponded, boy, yeah, and so

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now we're trying to move forward andfigure out exactly what are we going to
get for a park. You know, in June fifteenth the vote on and
so you know, I've looked atthe documents just sort of as I do,
and so I've got some ideas whichI can share when we come back.
Steve Stewart with US Broadcast Professional thathe is as well as executive editor

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of talaster Reports, the website talastreports dot com on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, The Morning Show withPreston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven w FLA. Someone's got towatch all these meetings. I don't know

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that I could do it and maintainmy salvation. Look, I watched one
a couple of weeks ago. Itwas really interesting, because that's why I'm
watching more. Oh sure, SteveStewart with Talast Reports, and I'll quickly
little shadow looks out out to mywife, who is on our way now
to get n replacement. So shedid one last year so we'll finish the

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and it worked out very well,and so she's going to get that bless
you. Yeah, you know,the old to the time on the hard
court. She was a Division onebasketball player and you know, and she's
obviously very athletic. That's where mykids get their athleticism obviously. So anyway,
thoughts and prayers and yeah, yeah, but it hopefully it will go
as well as the first one.Good, yes, good, thank you,
thank you for that. You weretalking about the Northeast Park. It

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was it's an emotional issue for atleast one elected commissioner because he campaigned on
it. I mean, it hasbeen a source of contention for people that
pay their taxes in the northeastern partof town because they're not seeing some amenities
that other parts of the community have, right, And look, this debate,
you know, there's some politics involvedbetween the city and the county,

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and obviously the financial side of thiscan get very technical, and that's what
we have professionals that we pay alot of money to try to figure all
this stuff out right, Right,but on the issue of amenities, that's
something is very centrally located to thepark. The neighborhoods. I mean,
this is right our law. Right. Can I ask you a question based
on what you know? Did theother parks in other parts of town go

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through this level of scrutiny on amenities? No? And there's this is a
county park. And so when youthink of county parks, you think of
this is county. They don't doprogram sports like the city does. What
they do they build parks and thenthey lease them out, or they facilitate
Little League Peewee foot you know,peewee football, and the usually like improve
green spaces for running, walking andsome baseball fields. And so this is

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a county park. And I thinkone of the things, because it's on
blueprint people or I did. Istarted thinking, well, we want some
of the city amenities that are includedin some of these other parks. There's
a park in Southwood that's city thecity built, which I've went to,
beautiful park. They've got some baseballfields nowhere near not the not the with
the amenities did this this park willhave. But they've got volleyball courts,

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they've got pickleball courts. Is areally nice it's a fifty acre park too,
and that's what came up in themeeting. The city said, look,
we built up for four million andthis is going to be eighteen million.
So that's where they're having issues gettingacross the finish line. But for
me, living in Clarin States,and I'm biased, I'm mentioned in the
amenities and when you look at thediagram here, it is dominated by baseball.
Okay, and look, that's fine. I understand that there's you know,

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Meridian Park we have we have sixbaseball fields, we have nineteen tennis
courts. There are some things inthe northeast that we have. That's what
we have. What we don't haveis we don't have a gym, okay,
a community center from but that's thecity side. We don't have volleyball
courts, one of the fastest,sayd volleyball one of the fastest growing sports

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in the country. Now we havethem at Tom Brown, we have them
at the new park at four Oaks, and pickleball courts. There are no
pickleball courts north of ten That isagain one of the fastest growing activities.
And the city can't keep courts open. They have leagues and you have to
reserve them. So looking from thatperspective, what about soccer soccer? We
we have what fifteen fields on inthe Meridian Soccer Complex. Thanks for bringing

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that up. Okay, So thereare some things that the Northeast have,
but there are some things we clearlydon't. So I would look at this
as look cut back on some ofthe baseball fields. We need baseball fields
because it's very popular, especially forthe under fifteen with the t ball.
And then we also have baseball fields. We do, but you go down
Meridian Road, it's sometimes and theyare packed. I understand that. So

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all right, so we put two, two or three baseball fields at the
Northeast parking still at four and wehave Look, you got to have at
least three sand volleyball courts because ofhigh schools are now playing them. Okay,
and what happens is you've got fivematches, so you want to be
able to get it done in tworotations. They're proposing two courts, which
are useless for it'll take forever toget you know, high school matches done.

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So my idea is to the twofastest growing sports, sand volleyball and
pasketball, put some courts there,more than you have and leave room for
expansion. If the popularity of thesesports continue to grow again. Sand volleyball,
the city actually has leagues. Youhave to wait at Tom Brown to
go play sand volleyball, that's howpopular it's getting. And so I think

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that we need to relook at theamenities of this park, and hopefully that
will happen in the process of thepolitics and the looking at the cost.
But I'm interested in the amenities.Okay, certainly a topic we're going to
hear more about in the weeks andmonths to come, but maybe not too
many more months to come, becausethey've got to make some decisions. So
we'll have to see we come back. Anybody driving up and down Thomasville Road

(41:37):
every day on the north side,you want to listen in next on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty oneminutes after the hour The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Talashureports dot Com isthe website and Steve Stewart is the executive

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editor, and we are talking aboutwell, it's kind of a Northeast kind
of show here because not only arewe discussing the put the wrong headphones on?
Did you right after you call mea broadcast professional? Well, there
was that. Sorry, that's okay, glad you're talking to the right microphone.

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Staying with the theme of the Northeast, people traveling up and down Thomasville
Road, I would imagine don't necessarilywant another stoplight, but there's one being
discussed. Yeah, you know,it's one of these things. Part of
the political debate that we're in nowis we have a number of city commissioners
who well and county conisers right matter, who are fighting growth. And they're

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fighting it. It's not about whatgrowth would look like, it's they just
don't want to grow, and theyyou know, they use developer as a
dirty name. And so what happensis anytime a tree gets dad gets cut
down, like on Thomasville Road,an ox bottom man, if there's a
plan unit development there and there's somework being done, and I've I've read,
you've ridden by there, We've allridden by there, and you see

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the trees cut down, and youstart seeing the earth being moved, and
there's a lake back there, andpeople want to know what's going on.
And so I hadn't paid a lotof attention to the specifics, but there
started to be some rumors that theywere gonna there was a REQUI there was
a move to connect Veldadery that we'reat dead ends into thomas fol Roads the
bottom of the hill on the rightright to ox Bottom Road, which does

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the same thing a little further down. Yeah, And so I heard a
little bit about that, and soI had some friends, Actually, what's
what's going on here? You know, nobody seems to know is this of
you know, they're gonna fill inthat lake? Where are they building there?
And so I went and took sometalk about two hours, dug up
a twenty eighteen video of a citycommission meeting and I have now I have

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all the answers. Okay, okay, And it involves Nancy Miller, believe
it or not. I remember thatname. No way. Yes. So
the pud there is planning to developmentwas approved back in the two thousands.
The land was bought and there's somehousing back there. There's a assistant living
apartment complex as living, there's avet and so now they had waited to
develop the front part of that pudwell back in twenty eighteen. They wanted

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to increase the commercial acreage they weregoing to use, which lines Thomasville Road,
which is what you see where they'vetaken the trees down and they took
up before the Development Review Committee andthey approved a certain level of that would
fit within the comprehensive plan. Somoving forward. But the DRC said,
you know, we think you mightconsider connecting Veldideri to ox Bottom Road.

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And they just said, we thinkyou might consider okay. Well, so
after the DRC committee voted on it, they moved it up to the City
Commission and you get all the electedofficials that you know, get to pass
judgment on it. Well, that'sthe meeting that I watched. And what
they did is from twenty eighteen.They changed the language from the DRC that

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said we think you are too andthe staff said, you know, we've
been city staff, so we've beenlooking at this traffic issue at Carrie Forest
in thomas Holm. We think thatlining up Veldadery and ox Bodom would provide
some traffic relief to the stop lightup the hill. And so they changed
and made the recommendation that said theydidn't think the developers should consider it.

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They think it's required. When youstart building commercial office space there, you're
gonna have you have to connect thosetwo roads. And so that was a
condition for approval, and I havea video that we have linked at Tallesupports
dot com. We're Commissioner Nadson Millersays, I'm not voting for this unless
that is required. So what welearned from this is is not the developer

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looking to connect these roads, it'sa requirement by the city, by city
government planning to do it for trafficissues. Okay, Now it's not very
popular because if you think of itfrom an if you look at what they're
proposing, it even sort of looks, you know, looks like a PVC
elbow there that they're gonna well,and you have another stoplight because you'd have
to have a stoplight at that intersection, right, and you would have another

(46:05):
stoplight maybe less than a quarter mileaway, right, And so that's going
to be I think it's going tobe an issue that's going to come up
and be debated. FDOT is goingto be involved with it. But this
goes back to the whole because itinvolves a state road, thomas Ville Road.
This goes back to the whole thingof people and moving to the northeast
and trying to move traffic. Ifyou remember, they've tried a number of
different things. They are going totake Veldetderry through Klorna states, you know.

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And now what this would do wouldincrease traffic on Veldederry, Oh yeah,
you know, from the north.And so that's that's the issue that
we'll have to be dealt with now. On the developer side of this,
we heard, we've heard a lot. We've seen comments about, you know,
the developer building on wetlands in thatmeeting that I watched. This was

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just a side benefit from watching themeeting. Former City Commissioner Scott Maddox was
also in the commission at that timeand he noted and staff agreed. So
this is what I'm basing this onis that the lake actually back there was
man made and it was dug bythe property owner back in the sixties and
seventies, and so that adds alittle bit more context to what's going on.

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But that is a lot about thatdevelopment in the Veld extension. But
you know, it's documented. We'vegot a link to the planned the PUD
document and also to the video ifyou want to check it out. And
well, you know, we'll seethey don't have specific plans on what the
commercial development would look like they're gettingit ready for the development. Well,

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no doubt the developers investing a lotof money, because the earth movers alone,
a lot of money exactly been investedin that little parcel at this point,
no doubt. Thanks for the time, Thank you, Preston, Steve
Stewart with Tallahassee Reports again the websiteTalaskreports dot com. Subscribe get the paper.
You'll find out about all kinds oflittle gem gems of knowledge that you
wouldn't find any other way. Backwith more of the Morning Show with Preston

(47:51):
Sky. It's The Morning Show withPreston Scott thirty six minutes after the hour.
In case you did not hear thenews, It's not like it's it's

(48:13):
breaking news in our newscasts or anything, but our phone lines got torched by
a lightning strike yesterday, and sowe're gonna we're gonna try something a little
different to just get the call done, Doctor Steve Steverson pause for thought in
just a few minutes. But first, big stories in the press box.
By the way, did you seeKeith Olberman, what do you do now?

(48:37):
Olberman is demanding the termination of JakeTapper from CNN, that he should
be fired because he said that theDurham report is devastating for the FBI.
In other words, he's taking theword of the report, which one should
because they've spent three years doing itand since we've had multiple investigations showed nothing

(49:01):
to the Russian collusion thing. Butwe have a report saying that the whole
collusion story was garbage and a politicalattack on a sitting president, and a
guy from CNN actually says, yeah, this is bad for the FBI.
Olberman once him fired. He's sucha clown. Oh he is, And

(49:22):
it's so unnecessary because he's such asmart and talented guy. But it just
goes to prove what I've been sayingfor years. Some of the dumbest people
on the planet are smart, right. I mean, it's you can have
incredible book knowledge and head knowledge andbe utterly and completely dumb. Anyway,

(49:44):
big stories in the press box,and they're no shortage of them. Supreme
Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has refusedan appeal, and so the Supreme Court
will not listen to a challenge toIllinois's assault weapon band that's taking effect now,

(50:09):
it took effect yesterday. She overseesthe Seventh Circuit of Appeals, and
she said, no, I thinkshe's wrong. She should have intervened.
The court should have stopped it untilit was adjudicated fully. Because it's an

(50:29):
infringement of the Second Amendment. Youerr on the side of the Second Amendment,
you don't err on the side oflimitations. It's an egregious decision.
She cannot explain it. Now.There's no comment that she offers with it.
She's not required to give one.But the fact of the matter is
there is no explanation. She cannotjustify this decision. She's wrong. It's

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a bad decision. Congresswoman from Floridaand A Luna has filed a resolution to
kick Adam Schiff out of Congress,citing the Durham Report. Florida Governor Rohnde
Santis has signed a bill outlawing mutilationsurgery of miners over transgenderism. And thank

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goodness for that. Grateful Florida ornot Florida. The US House investigating IRS
retaliation and removal of the team thatwas probing Hunter Biden retaliation against a whistleblower
inside the IRS. That's scary stuff. And so those are the big stories

(51:38):
in the press box. That weare keeping you aware of here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, DoctorSteve Steverson, we hope next on the
show, it's the Morning Show withPreston Scott forty one minutes after the hour
the Morning Show, Thursday, MayAE, day forty nine thirty two of

(52:02):
the radio program. It's Thursday.It's the third Thursday of the month,
and that means time to talk aboutour four leg gets friends, and we're
gonna try to do just that.Phone problems notwithstanding, we're boldly going for
it and enjoining us this morning asalways Doctor Steve Stevenson of the Bradfordville Animal

(52:24):
Hospital, Good morning, Steve.How are you? Preston? I'm doing
great. How about you? IAm doing wonderful. I appreciate the time
this morning. We had decided thatand you know what, for me,
Steve, it was it was hearingadvertisements for fresh pet and fresh pet is
one of the popular pet foods outthere. But I thought it would be

(52:45):
useful to talk about pet food.We do that routinely. Are there advantages
to certain types of food? Arethey in fact healthier? Are those other
foods just terrible for our pets?You know? Press and about fifty years
ago, the cereal company's discovered thatthey could sell pet food if they process
it into this dry kibble, andit was very very profitable for them,

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so it became very popular and itbecame the wave that it became the way
we all feed our pets nowadays.Are these dry kibble dog foods. Those
aren't complete and balanced, but theyare full of preservatives and fillers. A
lot of times these new this newwave of food coming out now, the
fresh pet style of pet food thatyou keep in your refrigerator or your freezer

(53:30):
is doesn't have preservatives in it,so that's a plus. And it is
much fresher than the extruded kibble thatyou buy in the bag, so there
are advantages there. So yeah,there are a lot of advantages to the
fresh pet style of food. Notthe raw food diets, but the fresh
pet which are usually a steam ora steam cooked type of food. Those

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are excellent diets for your pet.You know, make sure they aren't completely
complete and balanced diet. You haveme questions, talk to your veterinarian about
that. That's a very in depthstuffect to talk to them about. Um.
But the advantages to the fresh pet. We just talked about the advantage
to the Kibl food. Of course, this it's so convenient to go buy
a big bag of food. Youhave your food for your dog for the

(54:14):
month, and it can sit ona shelf or in a closet. You're
in a rubber made container and youjust scoop it out each day. So
there's a lot of convenience with theKibal dog food, and dogs do perfectly
fine with it. There's there they'repposingcause of each one, Preston, Doctor
Stevenson, I'm curious, have weseen any kind of studies about the relative

(54:37):
health or are these fresh foods justtoo new in the marketplace to know whether
or not we're going to see abetter quality of life for our pets or
even a longer life for our petsusing these new types of foods that are
available. No, Preston, that'sgonna take years to determine that. We

(54:58):
certainly know that these fresh foods thatwe can feed our pets nowadays, because
they are preservative free and because theyare such a more pure source of food,
they aren't excellent for our pets wherethey're going to be superior to the
dry dog foods it's hard to say. Do you look at a dog and
you see they have a nice shiny, glistening coat and beautiful skin, bright

(55:21):
eyes, healthy teeth, and soyou think this dog's on a really good
quality food and that could be ona kibble, it could be on a
fresh pet style of food, andthey can process either one of those very
well to get the nutrients that theyneed if it's an appropriate diet. Doctor
Stevenson has always thanks for the timetoday. I appreciate it. I know
that that's useful to a lot ofour pet owners out there. Is the

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same true for cats as dog food, I mean our cats seeing the same
fresh foods as well. Yes,yes, there aren't pressed in the same
thing cats cats requirements are different.They require more protein than a dog.
But the same thing goes true asfar as the kibble food for any versus
the presson bet style of me forACAP. Very good. Thank you,

(56:04):
doctor Steveson. I appreciate your timethis morning, and we'll talk again in
a couple of weeks. Doctor SteveSteverson with us this morning forty six almost
forty six minutes after the hour onthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Next
hour on the radio program, We'regonna do kind of a deep dive into
the debt. I've never pushed asidetime to really talk about it. I

(56:28):
came across a piece of a friendsent it my way, and I thought
it was interesting and I thought itwarranted talking about, along with something else
that I found earlier this week thatI've saved to talk about the whole budget
stalemate that we're under. I mean, it's only the future of our economy,

(56:49):
right, So let's just talk aboutit a little bit, and we'll
do that next hour here on theMorning Show with Preston Scott, we come
back. We'll take you on aroadie, little road trip. It's Thursday.
Thanks for staying us. It's theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Fifty

(57:23):
two minutes past the hour of theMorning Show. Just got a video link
pulled up that one of the researchassistants sent my way, and it's unbelievable.

(57:45):
US National Guard soldier deployed to theTexas border by the Biden administration scene
on tape. I'm watching it happen, unlocking a gate and the allowing illegals
to literally flood in. She's followingorders, but she had to get a

(58:08):
key to that gate. One canonly assume that it was. It's a
gate locked by the Feds, notTexas National Guard Reserve or a Texas soldier.

(58:30):
She is called a Title ten soldier. She's there from Missouri's Auxiliary National
Guard or something. But yeah,this is incredible. Eagle Pass Texas.

(58:57):
I'm just we gotta do something else, all right, it's um, it's
time to take a road trip.Pack up the kiddos and give you an
idea of something to do. Andmaybe it's just you and the missus or

(59:17):
the mister and you just go offon little trips. Well, here you
go, North Conway, New Hampshire. You think primaries, I think the
Mud Bowl Championships, ladies and gentlemen. Obviously, football has deep roots in

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this country. This is our sportas much as baseball as our sport.
Football is our sport, not thekind played around the world that's a football.
This is football and and every yearthe Mud Bowl Championships take place each

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September since nineteen seventy five. Teamsgather in North Conway before the official game
begins, a pep rally, bonfireand yes, a drunk fest. Uh
yes, a drunk fest, nota dunk fest, a drunk fest.

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And there's actually there's a website forthis North Conway Community Center dot org slash
mud Bowl. This year, thetwenty twenty three Mud Bowl will be Friday,
Saturday Sunday, September eight, nine, and ten, if you're interested.
And in fact, one team,the Hogs, has been so dominant

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over the years they have constructed theHog Coliseum to host the event. If
they don't get rain, they turnon the sprinklers and and that gets the
job done. And when I saythey're playing in the mud, so it's

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just football in the mud. Thepicture of the last year's champions I'm looking
at and they are up to midshin in water and caked in mud covered.
So there you go, if you'reinterested, America, ladies and gentlemen,

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America. I was gonna say,that doesn't sound like very It doesn't
sound like a New England thing todo. That kind of sounds like a
southern tradition. Well, you know, New England was famous for the Kennedy
football games, the Kennedy family,but this has taken it to another level
down of course, but nonetheless,it is something to do if you're interested
in something different to do, andyou happen to be driving up in New

(01:01:55):
England to say, maybe see thefall chase of the Leave Colors. Never
Know. Come back with news,weather, little little traffics, some headlines,
what's going on, and then ofcourse we'll start talking about the national
debt and some interesting thoughts will sharefrom some folks that are maybe smarter than

(01:02:20):
us. Next on the Morning Showwith Preston Scott five minutes after the hour,
It's third hour, point to Showwith Preston Scott. On Preston,

(01:02:43):
that's great, he's been through itin the last twenty four hours along with
the engineering staff of iHeartRadio. Alead engineer came over here yesterday because we
got just drilled by lightning and soour phone lines are out, which is
why we're not taking any calls fromyou. Sorry, you can't call in

(01:03:05):
and talk to Grant, which younormally do frequently throughout the morning. I
always love my conversations with the people, the ruminators. Yeah, it's it's
a little weird, but it's okaybecause our show is not We're not based
on phone calls, never, neverhave been, never will be. I

(01:03:27):
am a little concerned that what's thebeef might bite the dust next you know,
the next edition, which is tomorrow. But you know, we're fine.
We are not short of things totalk about. And I promise if
we do that, I will makethe final hour a little lighter in general,
in some form or fashion. MaybeI'll tell that joke I know that'll

(01:03:47):
last thirty minutes. Huh. Well, I've got a couple of stories that,
yeah, that that have great punchlinesat the end, but take a
while. They take a while.But I could tell one or two of
those, But no, I won't. I won't do that. I think
that a lot of us look atthe national debt, and I think we've

(01:04:11):
been in a little condition to justalmost yawned without realizing the perilous nature that
this debt places our nation in.I came across something because of a friend

(01:04:32):
that sent it my way, andI'm not gonna read. I'm not going
to tell you who wrote what.I'll just I'm just going to share parts
of this because I'm honestly not sureif I'm supposed to share it. So
I'm just going to because I thinkit's it's interesting, it's thought provoking,

(01:04:55):
and it Basically, this piece issuggesting that we have a better way,
meaning some people that live in theworld of finances, the economy, and
so there are three general ways ofapproaching the debt ceiling in terms of proposals.

(01:05:18):
One is to just abolish the debtceiling, just because what's the point
we change it all the time.Other proposals center on how we measure our
debt, and to simplify that,it would be like saying, well,
you know, we measure our debtin the consumer world based on money coming

(01:05:41):
in and money going out, andthat if it gets to the point where
it's beyond a certain ratio, youcannot borrow more money. Now, that
doesn't always work for people, becausepeople get in debt, job changes,
and so forth. This particular entityis saying, we think we have a

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better way. It's not a hardproblem to fix. Budgets can and should
include a provision that authorizes the Treasuryto raise any debt necessary to fund the
approved and budgeted programs. It's assistantthat worked from the late seventies to the

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mid nineteen nineties. It worked,and by the way, it should be
pointed out that by the end ofBill Clinton's term in office as president,
were we were debt free. Wewe did not. We had a balanced
budget. We were not running ridiculousdebt free might not be a correct statement.
We did not run the ridiculous surplusesexcesses of debt that we are running

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now. Those surplus debts are justthey're piling on. George W. Bush
at the end of his presidency andduring his presidency, and then Barack Obama
big time time, and then DonaldTrump and then big time Joe Biden have
added to our debt, and theyclaim, and it's important for you and

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I to understand the difference between debtand deficit. If I'm spending one hundred
dollars but I only have fifty dollarsto spend, I'm I'm deficit spending.
I'm dipping into savings or something becausei only have fifty dollars, but I'm

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spending one hundred. That's deficit spending, reducing the deficit. It's still spending
too much, but instead of onehundred dollars, I'm spending eighty, but
I still only have fifty dollars ofincome coming in. It's a very simplified
way of looking at it now.Debt is money that we owe people.
We owe ourselves, we owe nations, we owe people that hold that paper

(01:07:58):
debt, we owe them money.And so any deficit is added to that
debt and it just grows bigger andbigger. So when you hear a president,
any president Bragg George W. Bushbragged about a reduced deficit spending,
he's not talking about the debt.He's saying we're still spending more than we're

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taking in. We're just not spendingas much. It's foolish. More on
the debt and the spending. Nextthe Morning Show at Preston Scott On News
Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.As we speak US Congressman Matt Gates,

(01:08:41):
who as Congressman Jim Jordan and othersgathered, they've got a hearing with the
FBI coming up, and apparently whistleblowersare going to be testifying and about the
weaponization of the IRS as well asthe FBI, I suppose. So these
are developments have opening right now thatare pretty significant, and we will of

(01:09:05):
course keep you up to speed onwhat's going on in all of this.
Back to the debt and the deficit. If you take default off the table,
because the consensus is we cannot defaulton our debts. It would be

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catastrophic. He said that they've they'vegot an idea that focuses on clarifying policy
trade off required to reduce us borrowing. Under the framework, reaching the debt
limit would require the House and Senateleadership to present the full Congress with sufficient
program cuts and or tax hikes tobring the national debt back to the prior

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limit. If approved, the plangoes to the President for signature, just
like any other bill. If theleadership plan is either rejected by Congress or
successfully vetoed by the President, thedebt limit is suspended for two years,
at which time the process repeats.If congressional leaders ignored their responsibility and failed

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to present a debt reduction plan acrossthe board, spending cuts would kick in
until the debt level is reduced tothe previous ceiling. The current national debt
is at thirty one point four trillionstatutory limit. Under the proposed structure,
House and Senate leaders would need topresent a plan to the full Congress with

(01:10:29):
spending cuts and or tax increases oftwo point five trillion. If enacted,
these would take the national debt backto its prior limit. This plan represents
a choice for government leaders a newdebt, a new debt reducing fiscal policy
for the United States, or growthe debt to fund business as usual.
From there, the normal legislative processtakes over. Now this plan would have

(01:10:58):
to me potential of a broken recordsyndrome. It would just continue to repeat
itself over and over and over.They close by writing. Many commentators,
in our view, look at thedebt ceiling to act as a magic bullet
that can solve the United States fromits own folly. We believe it's dangerously
unrealistic approach. Instead, we believethat political accountability for decision making is required.

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Reforms should be designed to force Congressto choose between specific spending cuts and
tax hikes on one hand, andallowing more borrowing on the other. Voters
would have the ultimate word at theballot box. Now here's the problem.
Have any of you seen any signthat voters will hold members of Congress accountable?

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Why is that? I think there'sa host of reasons. One disengaged.
What Congress does and says is whitenoise until it touches their wallets,
are pocketbooks or lives? Two uninformedpeople. Three people getting money from the

(01:12:09):
federal government. They don't care.Just keep the money coming, just keep
the entitlements just And that's one ofthe things that they acknowledge here is the
expansion of the entitlement program is huge. But there's more to this discussion.
There are other ideas, and we'llshare those next in the Morning Show with

(01:12:31):
Preston Scott. Are we talking aboutthe dead the dead limit? Short version
in that particular commentary is if Congressdidn't act over a two year period to

(01:12:55):
get things in order, it wouldtrigger spending cuts for five years. I,
of course am a simple minded guy, and so I immediately gravitate to

(01:13:19):
another piece that I've been holding ontoby a guy named David HARSANYI now I
either look him up. David Rsanyeis a Harvard educated journalist, columnist,
author, editor. Wrote for theDenver Post, The Blaze, edited for

(01:13:40):
The Federalist, became senior writer atNational Review, and now senior editor for
The Federalist. Oh yeah, Iknew, I followed. I knew I
knew that name. Follow him onTwitter. Smart guy. Yeah. He
writes for The Daily Signal, apiece at least picked up by the daily
signal, which is hair foundation Democratsdebt sealing position makes zero sense. If

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you buy a car, White HousePress Secretary Korean Jean Pierre explained the other
day, you are expected to paythe monthly payment. That's simple, He
writes, is it now? Obviously, those who argue that the president can
cancel millions of student loans by decreearen't in a position to offer lessons on
personal responsibility. The deeper problem withJean Pierre's analogy, though, is there

(01:14:29):
isn't a bank on Earth that's goingto keep lines of credit open when a
person is compounding unsustainable debt year afteryear. And that's the point we've been
making for years on this program,since the debt started spiraling out of control.
The federal government is not constrained likeyou and I are. They just
take money, but they do havethe ability to cut spending. He goes

(01:14:57):
on to write, speaking of which, the federal government and has already hit
the debt limit. The Treasury Departmentis now relying on quoting the Treasury Department
extraordinary measures that will sputter out byJune, at which time we will all
be forced to forage for food andbarter for medicine. The only thing that
can save us from this dystopian hellscape, Jean Pierre explains, is for Congress

(01:15:19):
to do its job and return toregular order. He then talks about The
New York Times pretending that Republican billsare apparitions. Does the Times not know
the GOP has already agreed to liftthe ceiling? It does? It pretends

(01:15:41):
it isn't real because it includes deepcuts and federal spending. Anyway, The
Times notes President Joe Biden has offeredRepublicans quote a reasonable path to resolve the
standoff, in which the GOP raisesthe ceiling without any conditions, as Democrats
demand. Biden will then separately negotiatemeasures to slow the growth of the federal

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debt. Harsanyi writes, Dear Lord, can you imagine the New York Times
editorial board urging Democrats to table theirpolicy concerns and simply trust a Republican president
will negotiate in good faith at someundetermined time in the future, And not

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any president but one who claims athree point five trillion inflation inducing bill costs
zero dollars. Remember that lie.If the debt ceiling is mechanically lifted without
any debate over spending, then itdoesn't exist. If you want to spend
without any limit, just say so. But even the Times concedes that Washington

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is living beyond its means. Sothen why is it more reasonable to negotiate
the slowing down of spending now whenthe ceiling is in view, then verses
a month from now or a yearfrom now, when there's no incentive to
do anything. Democrats spend their timeblaming GOP administrations for the preponderance of our

(01:17:12):
debt, most of which Biden hasvoted for as a Senator or helped Shephard
through in the executive branch. Noone is innocent on the front, but
most of our debt is propelled byconstantly expanding entitlement programs, which are treated
with reverence by the left that theConstitution can never attain. He closes with
this, But even if the GOPwere culpable for every single dollar of debt,

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and we're engaged in blatant hypocrisy,it wouldn't change the fact that there
are objectively correct today in arguing weneed to slow spending and mitigate debt.
The arguments used to oppose even amodicum of responsible budgeting do not make any
sense. And this is why I'mhaving this segment today. You must,

(01:17:59):
you must, you must reach outto your members of Congress and demand that
they run this country as you haveto run your businesses and your households.
Cut spending and don't raise taxes.Is the Morning Show with Preston Scott Wowsers.

(01:18:27):
Lots of things going on. Now. We've got FBI employees. We
had talked about that there were storiescoming out that FBI employees were getting punished
for speaking out about how politicized thebureau had gotten demotions, revocations of security

(01:18:51):
clearances. Folks, this kind ofstuff had better get rooted out. No,
I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but this is how Hitler got
started, this kind of control ofthe secret police. Woul't you have a
do it? Things? Are they? What else? I mean? Really

(01:19:16):
put the little mustache on and addthe accent, and that's what you've got
going on right now under Merritt Garland. The only thing missing is you know
something like that. That was theonly thing that was missing. Yeah,
it's incredible. I have no ideawhat I just said. By the way,
you probably just insulted the Austrians,all right now probably anyway, Um,

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so yeah, I mean that's noteven officially a big story in the
press box, but it might aswell be. So Congress is holding hearings
with the FBI now and about theweaponization. And this is this is where
the GOP is missing everything when itcomes to mess the conservative thing tanks,

(01:20:03):
the party. They should all besitting together, leadership from the Heritage Foundation,
from heartland media outlets, they shouldall be sitting together and saying we
have to we have to unify amessage here and and and put messaging out

(01:20:30):
that explains to the American people what'sbeen happening under Joe Biden, the four
year attack on Donald Trump? Howdid that happen? Will that happened because
of the deep state of Barack Obama? That's all Barack Obama, that's all
Hillary Clinton. That is the statusquo wanting no And you know what,

(01:20:54):
Mitch McConnell, are you going tosuggest that Mitch McConnell might not have been
aware of all this stuff? MittRomney, I guarantee you was. Now,
there's plenty of Republicans complicit in theattacks on Trump, and you have
to separate. This has nothing todo with Trump and his personal conduct.

(01:21:18):
That's a separate issue. This isit doesn't matter whether Trump is a great
guy or not. What matters ishe was singularly attacked and things were made
up and parts of the United Statesgovernment were in fact turned into weapons against

(01:21:40):
a sitting president. Now against anybodythat fights that narrative, the irs is
being turned loose. It's Supreme Courthas allowed an Illinois assault weapons band to
take effect. And that's because JudgeAmie Coney Barrett, just Barrett said no

(01:22:02):
to an attempt for relief while it'sbeing litigated. She made the opposite decision
of what she should have. Idon't there's no other way to view this
when you're talking about an enshrined constitutionalright that the Supreme Court, oh,
by the way, has ruled timeand time and time again in support of.

(01:22:30):
And you've got a law that isclearly unconstitutional banning a firearm that is
in popular, widespread, common usein America that, oh by the way,
does not have roots in military use, but was designed initially for civilian
use. It it's in common usetoday. That's one of the most important

(01:22:56):
definitions of the entire issue common usage. That's this is why the local sheriff
that you elect is so important,because when you can't trust the court systems,
your sheriffs will be the one onesdetermining whether or not they're going to
enforce what did they take the oathto the Constitution, And so when a
court system allows unconstitutional things to comethrough, your local sheriff can act as

(01:23:24):
a bulwark against that and will ensurethat his people, his or her people
are not subject to unconstitutional laws.That's why they call the sheriff a constitutionally
appointed or elected officer. That iswhy in a national emergency that unfolds in

(01:23:44):
a given state or a statewide emergency, the chief of police is nothing.
It's the sheriff. The sheriff callsthe shots within the county, and any
city jurisdiction falls under the guidance ofthe sheriff because the sheriff has the constitutional
authority. It's an egregious decision byAmy Coney Barrett. There is no excuse

(01:24:05):
for it, and we're not evenscratching the surface of morning show at Preston
Scott Boy. That escalated quickly.I mean that really got out of hand
fast. On WFLA if you arejust tuning into the radio program. The

(01:24:42):
phone line's got fried yesterday by alightning strike. Thanks to our chief engineer,
Charlie Wooden forgetting us on the airperiod working on the phone issue.
We are not expecting to have phonestomorrow. But it is why Grant,
if you've tried to call into theprogram this morning, just to share a
thought with Grant during the program,that's why we can't pick up the lines.

(01:25:04):
They're all kind of merged together.Just sort of think of it as
they melted together. And so whilewe have all these phone lines coming into
the studio, we have six differentlines coming into the studio, they are
all functioning as one right now,and that's not very good. They got
fried and congealed together. But hedid they ever, and so tomorrow we're

(01:25:25):
not expecting to do what's the beeftomorrow? I have a listener suggesting a
feel good Friday, my wife suggested. When I was telling her, she
was like, all right, everyone, email beefs. There's an idea.
Email the beefs and we just readthem. I was like, oh boy,

(01:25:46):
x nay on the ideas? Gay? I mean, however, you
would say that and pig Latin.Now now I need I mean, now
if we put voices onto them,but then we'd probably run the risk of
insulting the people wrote in with thebeefs. But potentially, yes, you
realize how some how long some ofthese beefs are. Yeah, now,

(01:26:06):
although we could edit them down,but yeah, No, I'm leaning towards
the field good Friday approach for atleast the final hour. But we'll see,
we'll we'll just kind of played byear see how things go. More
big stories in the press box.We're now leaking out that apparently next week
is the week that Florida Governor Ronde Santis is going to announce his candidacy

(01:26:28):
for president. That's what's being releasedright now, is that it's being reported
by the Wall Street Journal. Howabout that, No surprise, we knew
what was coming. Money's standing by. He can't receive or ask for donations
until he files the paperwork with theFederal Election Commission. But the money's standing

(01:26:56):
by. It's going to flood inand then it's going to it really interesting.
Back to the big stories in thepress, but I think they just
keep evolving. We've got video ofa National Guard being deployed by the White
House by the President to the Texasborder, unlocking a gate. That's the
solution, right there, welcome wagon, unlock a gate, and let immigrants

(01:27:19):
into a waiting bus. Florida Representativeto Congress Anna Luna has filed a resolution
to remove Adam Schiff from Congress,to expel him from Congress, and she
breaks down the reasons why. AndI completely agree, Adam Schiff is a

(01:27:43):
disgrace, an absolute disgrace. Iwould add three or four other names to
that list. I would add AdamKinsinger, I would add Liz Cheney,
I would add Eric Swalwell, Iwould add Jeric Nadler, the nad They
should all be out. Some ofthem already are governing around to stand us,

(01:28:08):
speaking of the future. Candidate forthe White House signed a bill outline
the mutilation of miners who transgender surgeries. That's now law in Florida. Good
good, it needs to be soyeah. Those no shortage of big stories
this morning, So many that wedidn't really have time to go in depth

(01:28:30):
on any any of them other thanmaybe a couple moments. On the Supreme
Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett lettingus down on the Second Amendment. It's
not the end of the world.It's an inconvenience to the people of Illinois
for a short period of time.It will not prevail. It will not.
I will say that with certainty.She just should be standing as the

(01:28:54):
gate keeper, as the as thekeeper of the constitution. Anything that attacks
it, she should say no untilit's proven otherwise. Fifty two minutes after

(01:29:15):
the hour, tomorrow, what's thebed. We will have good news like
a hurt cat. Thanks. We'llalso do some headlines from the be.
We will have an affordable housing discussiontomorrow on the program. So debt today,

(01:29:40):
affordable housing tomorrow. Yeah, we'retackling some big ones. And the
question on affordable housing, I thinkis this what is it? Define it?
And is it the government's job toprovide it. That's tomorrow on the
program. Well, we'll have adiscussion. Grant flagged an article back a

(01:30:01):
few weeks ago, and nothing getspast me. Hey, he flagged an
article and said this would make agood discussion. I completely agreed. It's
just finding the right time to havethese discussions. And it's what's called an
evergreen topic. It's not going away. It's not going anywhere, and it's
not necessarily something we have to talkabout that day. Those things do happen,

(01:30:26):
but not often, but absolutely.It's one of those puzzlers. It's
like, do you ever sit downand think you hear the term all the
time? Do you ever think,well, wait, what is affordable housing
and whose job is it to provideit? I don't think there's a real
clear cut answer, but I'm suregonna have fun talking through one through the

(01:30:50):
through the issue. So we'll dothat tomorrow. James Bond would be so
proud. That's how this article starts. Aston Martin is a review feeling its
new model next week. Oh really, yes, sir, It is the
dB eleven Grand Tourer. So,if I remember correctly, James Bond's famous

(01:31:11):
vehicle is the dB five. Perhapshonestly, I don't know. So they're
up to eleven, huh, whichyou would think they would be well past
that. But I think they're ratherdeliberate in their release of such things.
I imagine Aston Martin would would bedeliberate, and they only would have six
different models in the last fifty years. Well, they call it the Grand

(01:31:33):
Tourer, but it says that Grandis not enough to describe it all new
car start of an ultra luxury Britishbrand's next generation, the reveal shots or
shadowy. But here's the best part. It talks to you and it speaks

(01:31:54):
in a British accent. What kindof British accent? Oh, come on,
Oh, I'd probably got tar lefthere. I don't think so.
I think it'll be the more suaveone. Yeah, I imagine, Oh
man, that would be cool.Brought to you by Baronet Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. All right, we covered all

(01:32:15):
the big stories in the press boxjust moments ago, and there's just a
litany of them, and I supposeit would be wise for you to check
out the podcast. And yes,we will have a podcast again. Chief
engineer throwing hail Mary's and coming downwith touchdowns. We have a podcast,

(01:32:38):
Ladies and gentlemen, no small featgiven the damage we took. Had a
long discussion on the economy, justsharing insights from others through the lens of
a little common sense. And commonsense is how I think that the deep

(01:33:02):
thinkers want this to seem confusing,and it's utterly simple. The federal government
needs to operate itself the way youand I run our businesses in our homes.
We have a budget and we betterstick to it. And we have
a line of credit that we can'tcross. Whether you borrow money or not,
there's just there's a point of assetto liabilities you can't get beyond.

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And then the epic story of thethirteen year old that protected his eight year
old sister with a slingshot. He'sour hero today.