Speaker 1: Okay, friend, Sorry distracted from mere moments. Five past the hour.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
Speaker 1: February the twelfth, Zach cast this afternoon at the Power
Speaker 1: Forward Speakers series. There are some sick seats still available
Speaker 1: if you are interested in going. You might remember the
Speaker 1: interview we shared it with you last week. When a
Speaker 1: guy can put on his business card futurist, that's just
Speaker 1: so cool. What do you do for a living? I'm
Speaker 1: a future and I think people just intuitively want to
Speaker 1: turn over their poems and say, take a look, what
Speaker 1: do you see. That's not what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: He's not pulling out a deck of cards or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But it's all about AI. He worked with
Speaker 1: the company behind you know chat GPT, I think it
Speaker 1: is Open AI for fourteen years. He was a strategist
Speaker 1: for them. Now he does consulting with businesses around the world.
Speaker 1: It was funny because when I spoke to him, he
Speaker 1: was on his honeymoon in Davos. He was speaking at Davos. Hey, honey,
Speaker 1: want to get married and then go to Davos because
Speaker 1: I've got a speaking engagement there. What a sweet gig
Speaker 1: that is anyway, that's today three point thirty downtown at
Speaker 1: the at the Ruby Diamond Auditorium campus of FSU, Wes
Speaker 1: Scott Fountain. Right behind Wes Scott Fountain. He just that's iconic.
Speaker 1: I mean they showed every time FSU plays a game,
Speaker 1: they got pictures of Wes Scott Fountain and right behind
Speaker 1: there is Ruby Diamond. Anyway, that's that's today. Let's start,
Speaker 1: as we do with some scripture. And Jose and I
Speaker 1: were talking about this. This is this is the love week, guys,
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow and then last minute panic end up
Speaker 1: you end up with a card for your wife that's
Speaker 1: probably meant for a five year old because that's all
Speaker 1: that's left. If you don't get out there and get
Speaker 1: a card sooner versus letter, and you'll be getting the
Speaker 1: the the daffodils instead of the roses because they'll be gone.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you'll be getting the chocolates with the
Speaker 1: fruit in them instead of the caramels and the nuts.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's what you want. You know, when fruit
Speaker 1: gooey get you end up with a bad chocolate left
Speaker 1: over too. Now, they'll never run out of chocolate, will
Speaker 1: they all right, here's our verse. Though it's from one
Speaker 1: Corinthians thirteen, this is six and seven. It does not
Speaker 1: talking about what love. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
Speaker 1: but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes
Speaker 1: all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love rejoices
Speaker 1: with the truth. Isn't that why we just beg our kids?
Speaker 1: Even if you mess up, just tell us the truth.
Speaker 1: At the core of that statement, kids, any early rising
Speaker 1: teenagers getting ready for school, at the core of that
Speaker 1: statement is love, because love bears all things. What makes
Speaker 1: a bad decision worse is trying to cover it up. Okay,
Speaker 1: you messed up. That's life, hiding it and compounding it
Speaker 1: with a lie.
Speaker 2: Ugh of.
Speaker 1: I used to tell my kids, and obviously, like all kids,
Speaker 1: there were times it was embraced and there were times
Speaker 1: it wasn't. But I would say, you know, the most
Speaker 1: important thing for you to understand about speaking the truth
Speaker 1: to me is that there's going to come a moment
Speaker 1: in your life where you will desperately need me to
Speaker 1: believe you. And in that moment, I do not want
Speaker 1: a shred of doubt that you're telling me the truth.
Speaker 1: Love endures all things. Ten past the hour Deep Dave
Speaker 1: into the American Patriots Almanac. Next, we'll tell you about
Speaker 1: the show. We'll have some fun today here in the
Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning Show with Preston
Speaker 1: Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA. Take
Speaker 1: a look here at this date in history. It is
Speaker 1: February the twelfth, two days, guys saying two, eighteen oh nine.
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth US President, born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Nineteen
Speaker 1: oh nine, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Speaker 1: INAACP is founded. And you know what, I think that
Speaker 1: organization had a very noble purpose. Then it's just not
Speaker 1: needed anymore. It's just a racist organization. It's a shame.
Speaker 1: I'm curious when nevermind, I don't need to do that now.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy three, Hanoi begins to release American POWs following
Speaker 1: the end of the Vietnam War. Nineteen ninety nine, senateor
Speaker 1: quits Bill Clinton on the charges of perjury and obstruction
Speaker 1: of justice. Yeah. Two thousand and one, the Near Near
Speaker 1: Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft touches down on AARROS, marking the
Speaker 1: first landing on an asteroid. Yeah, Bruce Willis was there,
Speaker 1: he was on that. He was on that flight. Ben
Speaker 1: Affleck I think was on that as well. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: very they's looking at me like you almost got me almost.
Speaker 1: I can't. All of a sudden, the name of the
Speaker 1: movie escapes meed. That's it. That's it. Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: a couple of movies that came out about asteroids coming
Speaker 1: to earth. I thought, uh, Deep Impact was pretty good.
Speaker 1: That was that was pretty good, not a not a
Speaker 1: terrible movie. Anything with Morgan Freeman in it is pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's among my faves. Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, I know
Speaker 1: his politics, but he's at least classy with his politics.
Speaker 1: He's not trashy because he understands where his bread is buttered.
Speaker 1: But put Tom Hanks in a movie and I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna watch it at some point in my life. Trying
Speaker 1: to think there was a time Meg Ryan would be
Speaker 1: a Meg Ryan movie would would get my attention. But
Speaker 1: then she had all that ridiculous surgery and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: poor Meg. Did you know she was in a super
Speaker 1: Bowl commercial with Billy Crystal. They were reenacting that scene,
Speaker 1: you know that scene I'm talking about from when Harry
Speaker 1: met Sally. It's a classic scene at kats Is Delhi
Speaker 1: in New York. In fact, I've been to that deli,
Speaker 1: that deli and that table is marked as being table.
Speaker 1: Is it the uh, I'll have what she's having? That's
Speaker 1: that's another table. But yes, it's that scene. That that's
Speaker 1: the scene right there where Meg is. Yes, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's an it's an iconic scene, but kats Is is
Speaker 1: an iconic place, kats Is Delhi, So I just thought
Speaker 1: it was funny. It's the first time I've seen Meg
Speaker 1: Ryan and they do a very very quick face shot,
Speaker 1: just enough that you know it's her. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of tough because she's had surgery and it's not gone. Well,
Speaker 1: why is it that people don't allow them? Look, I
Speaker 1: get it, if your egg your eyes get bags on
Speaker 1: them and they get to the point where you can't see,
Speaker 1: and I get you gotta you gotta do certain things.
Speaker 1: I get that, But man, pulling up your fast to
Speaker 1: the point where you can't talk, oh, my gosh. And
Speaker 1: we've seen it. We've seen that. Oh too much surgery,
Speaker 1: too much surgery. And usually what happens is It's like
Speaker 1: chasing the dog's tail. You just you are chasing all
Speaker 1: that didn't come out the way that I'd hope, So
Speaker 1: we got to do another surgery. Oh that didn't. Then
Speaker 1: you do the next thing. You know you are you
Speaker 1: are oh oh oh tough, real quick though, hanging on
Speaker 1: National Plumb Pudding Day. That's it. Sixteen past the hour,
Speaker 1: come back and yeah, stick around twenty two minutes past.
Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you? I'm not sure if I introduced,
Speaker 1: I'm Preston. How are you? That's Jose, Jose. Can you
Speaker 1: see at iHeartRadio dot com? And that is C A,
Speaker 1: N U S E. Simple can you see? But with
Speaker 1: just one E or without the I, depending on you know,
Speaker 1: your perspective on things. And then there's me Preston at
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio dot com. Today on the program, doctor Bob McClure
Speaker 1: joins us in the third hour. Much to talk about.
Speaker 1: We have so many things going. We are we are boy.
Speaker 1: We are juggling the rest of the month, getting some
Speaker 1: guests nailed down. That will be epic, very excited about that.
Speaker 1: Today's show lots to talk about the big stories in
Speaker 1: the press box. We're drilling down into one I just
Speaker 1: think it's a massively important story. It is huge, and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll get to that in just a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I I came across this. I I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of the website app All Recipes. If you're if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with that, chances are if you look
Speaker 1: up you want a recipe for fill in the blank,
Speaker 1: one of the things that will pop up is all Recipes.
Speaker 1: I think it's all recipes dot com. It's brilliant because
Speaker 1: it offers you recipes with reviews from other people. And
Speaker 1: these aren't necessarily recipes from one cookbook or one chef
Speaker 1: or one You'll find you'll find fifty recipes for French
Speaker 1: dip sandwiches. You'll find you'll find and and you'll you
Speaker 1: can get them with five star you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five star reviews, and you're like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: has some game to it. And then you go in
Speaker 1: and you read the comments and someone said, well I
Speaker 1: substituted a little bit of this for that, but the
Speaker 1: base recipe is incredible, and you just it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's a fun site to go to and it's real
Speaker 1: easy if you just if you've never made something before
Speaker 1: and you want to make it great site. It's got everything.
Speaker 1: One of the other things it has though, it has
Speaker 1: a news section. And I found this just fascinating. And understand,
Speaker 1: I'm not obsessed with much of anything other than Jesus
Speaker 1: and my family. But I'm intrigued, you know, I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: by the royal family. I'm intrigued by the history of
Speaker 1: I mean, even though he's kind of ah king, Charles
Speaker 1: is a direct descendant of the royal family going back.
Speaker 1: Now you can say what you will about all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and it is a little weird, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is, and there's a history involved there, through the
Speaker 1: good and the bad that's fascinating. It's just interesting. And
Speaker 1: part of that is the fact that Charles was married
Speaker 1: to Diana, Princess Diana, and I remember when she died
Speaker 1: there was an unbelievable mourning that went on in this country.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was tragic. And look, she was not
Speaker 1: the perfect princess. She had her issues as well, Charles
Speaker 1: was whatever, but she was the people's princess in every way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. So I come across this article and
Speaker 1: here's the headline, The Easy Dinner Princess Diana ate two
Speaker 1: to three times a week. Now. She couldn't cook. She
Speaker 1: was renowned for not being able to cook. She was dreadful,
Speaker 1: but she's the princess. So she had a chef that
Speaker 1: cooked five days a week and on the weekends he
Speaker 1: would leave meals prepared with microwave instructions how to reheat them.
Speaker 1: But if you're wondering what was the meal, her favorite
Speaker 1: dinner was bell peppers stuffed with veggies, rice and cheese
Speaker 1: with a smoky tomato sauce, zucchini, mushrooms, some rice, had
Speaker 1: a little carbs in it for the rice, little mozzarella
Speaker 1: in there, some parmesan, and then a smoked tomato pepper sauce.
Speaker 1: And so her chef has the recipe on the website
Speaker 1: all recipes. That's the name of the site, all recipes
Speaker 1: dot com. I guess, so yeah, I just thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting what the royals would it would be eating
Speaker 1: stuff peppers. She would eat some rainbow trout and some chicken.
Speaker 1: Now and then I can't say, look, I get it.
Speaker 1: If you're out camping and you catch trout and you're
Speaker 1: gonna cook it up. I'm not a big fresh water
Speaker 1: fish person. It's just so fishy. It's just it is
Speaker 1: a little it's it's a little gamey. It just is.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there you go like you care. Twenty eight
Speaker 1: minutes after the hour, I at least I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting. If not, you know, make it tonight for dinner.
Speaker 1: The Morning Show with Preston Scott our focus today. The
Speaker 1: big story in the press box is doge what is
Speaker 1: being uncovered. I want to point out that at this
Speaker 1: point this is just scratching the surface of looking at
Speaker 1: our federal government. In a little over two weeks, they've
Speaker 1: uncovered what could be one trillion dollars of wasteful spending.
Speaker 1: And that's just maybe in the last year, that's spending.
Speaker 1: Our buddy Lee Williams finds himself the focus of a
Speaker 1: big story with his writing See the guests that we
Speaker 1: bring you no one can touch at least in our
Speaker 1: you know, with what we do. It's just it's crazy
Speaker 1: the favor God gives us. Consider this. Lee is writing
Speaker 1: about how much of the USAID money ended up fighting
Speaker 1: against the Second Amendment. Lee has written about a group
Speaker 1: called Anyophilanthropy. Anyophilanthropy was getting money from USA d USAID
Speaker 1: usaid they are a middleman. Anti gun groups, anti Second
Speaker 1: Amendment groups don't want you to know where their money
Speaker 1: comes from. They do everything possible. So this is like
Speaker 1: a legalized let me make sure I say that clearly,
Speaker 1: a legalized form of money laundering. The United States government
Speaker 1: is taking your tax dollars, funneling it to this nonprofit
Speaker 1: group that then gives it to every town USA to Giffords,
Speaker 1: which is named after Gabby Giffords of another anti gun zelot.
Speaker 1: She was unfortunately shot and it was a terrible crime.
Speaker 1: She survived, but she's been an anti gun nut ever since.
Speaker 1: It's not the gun. It's like, so if you got
Speaker 1: hit by a car, are you now anti car or
Speaker 1: are you more concerned about the people behind the wheel
Speaker 1: of the car. See, this is the disconnect. This is
Speaker 1: the lack of honesty and intellectual integrity in their argument.
Speaker 1: We're talking about millions of dollars funneled to these groups.
Speaker 1: There's no telling how much exactly they've received of your money,
Speaker 1: but the trail is there. They've uncovered doge that fifty
Speaker 1: billion dollars has been annually sent to people without Social
Speaker 1: Security numbers. Americans delivered limited government, writing about this. Who
Speaker 1: decided not to worry about requiring ID to receive a
Speaker 1: government check? Is it also fair to ask what the
Speaker 1: US House and Senate Appropriations Committee have been doing over
Speaker 1: the last twenty years. This is fifty billion annual will
Speaker 1: lee in just social Security checks? Have I mentioned it's
Speaker 1: facing bankruptcy, it's facing running out of money. It's projected
Speaker 1: to imagine what that fifty billion could do if it
Speaker 1: hadn't been spent and hand it out to people that
Speaker 1: don't that don't deserve it. And now we get to
Speaker 1: the point of the big story. And we've heard it
Speaker 1: from US Congress when Kat Camick, we've heard it from
Speaker 1: other guests, justin Haskins. We have got to demand that
Speaker 1: Congress make these things permanent. This is your money. Forty
Speaker 1: one minutes after the hour, What do you think big
Speaker 1: story in the press box?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so the Morning Show, Preston Scott. This storyline
Speaker 1: cannot ever be allowed to get old. There needs to
Speaker 1: be a running total. There needs to be constant messaging
Speaker 1: with paid advertisements by the Republican Party, by the Freedom Caucus,
Speaker 1: by every state Republican Party. This needs to be hammered
Speaker 1: home over and over and here's what you do. You
Speaker 1: show all of these costs that have and bled out
Speaker 1: of out of out of your wallet, all this money,
Speaker 1: and then you you put next to it the Democrats screaming, frantically,
Speaker 1: calling names because they don't want it uncovered, they don't
Speaker 1: want it stopped. And then what you have to do
Speaker 1: is you have to remember how do you handle your
Speaker 1: budget When you get to a point where you just
Speaker 1: cannot buy anymore or do certain things. You have to
Speaker 1: get a second job, or a third job, or a
Speaker 1: side hustle. You got to find another way, or you
Speaker 1: cut costs, or you do both. You can't get another
Speaker 1: credit card because you're leveraged, you're maxed out the bank.
Speaker 1: The lending companies say we can't. I'm sorry. You've got
Speaker 1: to get your costs lowered, your liabilities lowered, your assets increased,
Speaker 1: your income streaming. You have to do something to change
Speaker 1: the math. The math says no more credit. This is
Speaker 1: the distinction. The government never gets told no unless citizens
Speaker 1: say no. A majority said no, and Trump's acting on it.
Speaker 1: You've got to support these efforts. Look, when you when
Speaker 1: you take out a cancer, most cancer surgeons will tell
Speaker 1: you they work with margins, and they'll remove a tumor,
Speaker 1: and then they'll remove a little bit outside that to
Speaker 1: create a margin, a buffer. And there's no doubt that
Speaker 1: some of these cuts are gonna hit where you and
Speaker 1: I live. There will be things that are impacted by cuts.
Speaker 1: There will be some things that are that are affected.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's it's okay. Another example the penny. Trump
Speaker 1: wants the Treasury to stop minting pennies. Why because it's
Speaker 1: worth one cent, but it costs roughly three cents to make.
Speaker 1: Where does that make sense? No pun intended with the
Speaker 1: word sense different different use of different, never mind? Why
Speaker 1: would you continue? And they've been doing this for decades,
Speaker 1: the cost of making it because it's now made with
Speaker 1: zinc covered in copper as opposed to made with copper,
Speaker 1: because we can't afford to make it with copper. Last year,
Speaker 1: the cost of making a penny was nearly four cents
Speaker 1: three point seven cents per penny. Of course we need
Speaker 1: to stop making it now. There's actually a group of
Speaker 1: people demanding that we not. It's it's the group. It's
Speaker 1: some group called People for Common Sense ce nts ah.
Speaker 1: That's clever. I mean, it's clever. But no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. These are the little things you have people.
Speaker 1: What difference does that make? It makes a difference. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much of one. If you've ever had
Speaker 1: to balance your budget and find ways to cut you
Speaker 1: know you buy this brand versus this brand. Why because
Speaker 1: if you do that enough times at the store, you're
Speaker 1: you're ending up saving twenty twenty five bucks. And that's
Speaker 1: half a tank of gas. That's some socks or underwear
Speaker 1: that you need. You get the point. It adds up.
Speaker 1: We have to be laser focused on this and keep
Speaker 1: encouraging Democrats, Republicans, all of them cut spending, even if
Speaker 1: it touches my life. Forty eight past the hour. More
Speaker 1: to come on The Morning Show, The Morning Show with
Speaker 1: Preston Scott on US Radio one hundred point seven double
Speaker 1: UFLA or on newsradiou WUFLA. Panama City dot Com got
Speaker 1: a note from jan It apparently costs fourteen cents to
Speaker 1: make a nickel. What's the answer to adjusting all of this? Well,
Speaker 1: I would say you continue to do away with until
Speaker 1: you come up with a way of making whatever you
Speaker 1: need to make that is less than the value of
Speaker 1: the thing. You're making I mean, isn't I mean? Or
Speaker 1: you do away with it. We're not talking about Best
Speaker 1: Buy and loss leaders. You know, Best Buy on Black
Speaker 1: Friday routinely offers what are called loss leaders. They what
Speaker 1: they do is they price some things they have a
Speaker 1: limited number. Let's say you got a thousand dollars sixty
Speaker 1: five inch high deft four K TV, and I know
Speaker 1: it's probably much less than that at this point in time,
Speaker 1: but let's just say that's that's your normal price, and
Speaker 1: you put it on sale for four ninety nine. You
Speaker 1: got five of them, your cost is say six hundred
Speaker 1: or six fifty. You're gonna lose one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty bucks on every TV you sell. What you're
Speaker 1: counting on is getting people in the store and buying
Speaker 1: other things. Or they came for that, it's not available,
Speaker 1: so they settle for that, and you're making the profit
Speaker 1: on that. So those lost leaders draw people in so
Speaker 1: that you then can expose them and get them to
Speaker 1: buy other stuff. That's why you know, if you even online,
Speaker 1: you buy something and they say, hey, would you like
Speaker 1: this before you check out? Well? How about this? How
Speaker 1: about that? All of those things you might have bought
Speaker 1: what you bought at a very good price. But all
Speaker 1: those other things are at a normal price, and they
Speaker 1: have their normal margins baked in and so forth. That's business,
Speaker 1: that's how it works. That's not what the government's supposed
Speaker 1: to do. They're not in business, and so there has
Speaker 1: to be a decision made on Okay, maybe we do
Speaker 1: away with nichols. I'm not in favor of digital currencies,
Speaker 1: only too much can go wrong, But there has to
Speaker 1: be a mechanism. And again I'm just I'm spitballing here.
Speaker 1: We've been talking for how long about recycling? What about
Speaker 1: a plastic penny? Too easy to counterfeit? Maybe maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just saying, and I think we'd all
Speaker 1: agree we don't need But maybe there's something else, another
Speaker 1: product we can make based on recycling. That's that's a
Speaker 1: nickel that can be made for far cheaper. I don't know,
Speaker 1: don't know. All right, we got our two coming, speaking
Speaker 1: of money and savings and the economy and your economy.
Speaker 1: All right, ruminators, welcome to the second hour of the
Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to share time with
Speaker 1: you and am grateful for you to share your time
Speaker 1: with us. That's Jose running the program, Doctor Bob McClure
Speaker 1: next hour. We've got a lot to talk about between
Speaker 1: now and then. Getting a lot of email Preston at
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio dot com. Relative to Doge, I understand what he's
Speaker 1: He's what Elon Musk man, he what is he?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 1: And just he's gonna get all kinds of information whatever,
Speaker 1: Like Elon Musk is gonna steal your social Security check.
Speaker 1: The dude could make a dent in our in our
Speaker 1: national debt, just a dent by himself. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to steal a thing. I think he's having the time
Speaker 1: of his life. This is this is what Washington has needed,
Speaker 1: an enema. I'm getting some email though on the whole Doge. Now,
Speaker 1: the pennies and and just the dollar figures that are
Speaker 1: being you know, I mean potentially a trillion dollars of waste.
Speaker 1: May be a year. I don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 1: Barry wrote in. He said, I don't know about you
Speaker 1: and my fellow ruminators, but the numbers you use, one trillion,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't resonate. Because I'm a public servant, I
Speaker 1: don't make very much. I saw a YouTube short the
Speaker 1: other day and put it in perspective for me. The
Speaker 1: guy said, how long is one million seconds compared to
Speaker 1: one billion seconds? A million seconds is eleven days. A
Speaker 1: billion seconds is thirty one years. Imagine what a trillion
Speaker 1: seconds is? Hold on, how long is trillion seconds? A
Speaker 1: trillion seconds is thirty one thousand, six and eighty eight years.
Speaker 1: Sweet goodness, gracious, one trillion seconds is over thirty one thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and eighty eight years. That gives you some
Speaker 1: concept of thank you Berry for that tip. That there
Speaker 1: you go. Now about the price of eggs, have you
Speaker 1: noticed the egg situation isn't getting better? In fact, we've
Speaker 1: got Costco more on them. In a few moments, Kroger
Speaker 1: and Whole Foods now putting limits on the number of
Speaker 1: eggs you can purchase. Video posted on TikTok claimed that
Speaker 1: an entire section of eggs at Costco has gone in
Speaker 1: less than ten minutes, so they're limiting three Well, like
Speaker 1: I think it's Whole Foods now three cartons of eggs
Speaker 1: at a time per customer. Now, I'll be the first
Speaker 1: one to say, I guess if you've got a big
Speaker 1: family or something, Okay, But I don't know why a
Speaker 1: family would normally buy three dozen eggs at a time,
Speaker 1: but you know, to each their own. But the cost
Speaker 1: is again bird flu or is it? I mean, isn't
Speaker 1: it crazy that we're now at a point where you
Speaker 1: just don't trust anything, you know, we had all of
Speaker 1: those fires in the Biden years at chicken corn, yeah farms,
Speaker 1: and it's like, and then you've got states with these
Speaker 1: silly cage rules. We only want free range chickens. Okay,
Speaker 1: waffle House is putting a fifty cent per egg surcharge
Speaker 1: on all of its menus temporarily till egg prices come
Speaker 1: back down. But yeah, it's a thing, you know. Please
Speaker 1: don't hoard, please, or go buy chickens and get your
Speaker 1: own eggs. Ten minutes past the own speaking of costco
Speaker 1: to what passed the hour warning show, Okay, you just
Speaker 1: got a call from somebody that asked, asked what.
Speaker 3: He said, why come eggs are around a doll comty
Speaker 3: And it's from a movie if you know, you know
Speaker 3: it's he said, the name of the movie Idiocracy. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, okay, go ahead, So he said, why are
Speaker 3: eggs in Mexico a dollar forty and eggs in America
Speaker 3: six seven dollars.
Speaker 1: There's something going on, he says, I'm guessing that the
Speaker 1: eggs in Mexico are salsa flavored. No stereotyping there. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would imagine they don't have ridiculous
Speaker 1: guidelines like they must be grown free range as they
Speaker 1: are in many states in America that you you've got
Speaker 1: to have chickens must have the freedom to wander. Hmm. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just I do not believe in cruelty.
Speaker 1: But here's the bottom line. The the there are animals
Speaker 1: that are that are strictly to feed us. We were
Speaker 1: given dominion over them. You know. You you well, anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go go down that road. I
Speaker 1: did mention that Costco boy, Costco just cannot get out
Speaker 1: of its own way.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: You see that sometimes it's it's kind of a contagion.
Speaker 1: You'll find teams get on losing streaks and they just
Speaker 1: lose confidence. In sports, you know, a guy boots an
Speaker 1: easy ground ball and next thing you know, there's drop flies,
Speaker 1: and there's wild pitches and pass balls and fumbled catches
Speaker 1: and it just it's uh. And then in stresses and
Speaker 1: it just gets worse. And basketball shots aren't going in
Speaker 1: and everyone just starts panicking because no one can make
Speaker 1: a shot, and football drop passes, fumbles, misstackles. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really crazy. And then business, I'm convinced that there's
Speaker 1: a similar type thing where just mistakes compound themselves. And
Speaker 1: Costco is starting to struggle because their wokeness is out.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what to tell you, those of
Speaker 1: you that are avid Costco shoppers and all that, I'm
Speaker 1: not telling you what to do. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: what Costco's all about. And Costco and several of its
Speaker 1: executives are affiliated with a group called Washington Employers for
Speaker 1: Racial Equity. Costco CEO Ron Vakris, Microsoft president Brad Smith,
Speaker 1: they all are part of this effort to support black
Speaker 1: washing Washingtonians, to build a future rooted inequity for all
Speaker 1: the irony of courses. All of those movements are not
Speaker 1: about equity. They're about preferential treatment. It's not based on meritocracy.
Speaker 1: And there's the problem. They don't they can't seem to
Speaker 1: understand they are perpetuating racism. They don't believe that minorities,
Speaker 1: blacks primarily are capable of achieving. So they have to
Speaker 1: lower the standards. They have to lower the gates, they
Speaker 1: have to lower all of the normal barriers that exist
Speaker 1: for anybody to get a job. You have to have
Speaker 1: this and this and this and this, and they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't think blacks can achieve those things. I would
Speaker 1: be incensed if I were confronted by a work environment
Speaker 1: that got me in the door because I'm an I'm
Speaker 1: an older white man who simply just he's not very smart.
Speaker 1: I like, keep your job. I don't want that job.
Speaker 1: I well, but you you've never faced what they've Okay,
Speaker 1: whatever you say, Just let me know how it's working out.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this crap since the sixties. How's that
Speaker 1: working out? Maybe instead of the rule of dominions expectations,
Speaker 1: we simply say what doctor Martin Luther King said that
Speaker 1: we judge people by the content of their character, of
Speaker 1: their heart, not by the color of their skin. We
Speaker 1: judge them based on their merit, what they can do.
Speaker 1: I would submit to you that's kind of how we
Speaker 1: do it in professional sports. It's a meritocracy. Otherwise there'd
Speaker 1: be a lot more white people, wouldn't there be on
Speaker 1: basketball teams. I'm just I'm pointing out the obvious, and
Speaker 1: I know it rubs some of you so wrong because
Speaker 1: you're so blinded with racism and bigotry. But that's a
Speaker 1: very factual statement. The least racist places in the world
Speaker 1: are in sports because it's a meritocracy. You just have
Speaker 1: to hit these numbers. You've got to run that fast.
Speaker 1: You've got to you've got to bench that much. You've
Speaker 1: got to hit that well. You've got to shoot that well.
Speaker 1: You've got to jump that high. You've got to be
Speaker 1: able to throw the football that far. You've got to
Speaker 1: be able to run certain things, certain distances at certain speed,
Speaker 1: or else you're just not good enough. We don't want
Speaker 1: to say that in business. Yeah, I'm late, like way late.
Speaker 1: All right, a little bit of a short segment here,
Speaker 1: but that's okay because the content matter cooperates very nicely.
Speaker 1: Because it's time for in the wild or in our homes.
Speaker 1: We love them critters large and small. Time for another
Speaker 1: edition of animal Stories on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Eh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the headline says it all. Wandering monkey blamed for nationwide
Speaker 1: power outage in Sri Lanka. Monkey in the wrong place
Speaker 1: at the wrong time was to blame for a blackout
Speaker 1: that hit the entire nation. The Energy minister told reporters
Speaker 1: at a news conference. The outage was caused by a
Speaker 1: monkey that came into contact with a grid transformer at
Speaker 1: the Panadura power station, located in the near the capital
Speaker 1: of Colombo. No word on the condition of the monkey,
Speaker 1: but my thinking is he's no more with us. Australian
Speaker 1: reptile wrangler called to Queensland. What would you do? You
Speaker 1: are you're about to open up the grill, But if
Speaker 1: you shrimp on the babby and you open the grill
Speaker 1: top up and you notice something moving inside the grill
Speaker 1: and a massive coastal carpet python is inside your barbecue grill.
Speaker 1: And so there's video on social media now showing when
Speaker 1: Stuart Mackenzie a reptile wrangler. That's just that reminds me
Speaker 1: of such a bad joke. Do I tell it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, not gonna do it discretion. Maybe some other
Speaker 1: day I'll tell that joke. It's a very funny joke.
Speaker 1: But can can you imagine? I mean, if you just
Speaker 1: look it up online, I guess reptile wrangler, But let's
Speaker 1: go back to the original question. You find a snake
Speaker 1: wrapped up like that in your grill, do you just
Speaker 1: turn on the girl and then stand way back? I
Speaker 1: just I. I once walked outside my before we had
Speaker 1: our screened in back patio. I walked outside my door
Speaker 1: and there was this massive snake above me on my roof,
Speaker 1: and his head was hanging over I've never gotten rid
Speaker 1: of that feeling that as I think of this story,
Speaker 1: I think of that and that snake hanging over my
Speaker 1: head that I didn't know was over my head until hey,
Speaker 1: take a, whoa, whoa. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: a rat, snake, treesa, it wasn't, isn't like a rattlesnake
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But he no said that whole serpent, snake, demon,
Speaker 1: devil thing. No, no, no, no, no. Twenty seven past
Speaker 1: the hour, come back, let's do the big stories in
Speaker 1: the press box. Getting ready for the next half hour
Speaker 1: of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thank you, Melanie, listener of
Speaker 1: the program, sharing that I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen it, the US debt Clock. Have you ever seen it.
Speaker 1: Do me a favor. Turn on your mic.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: I did this to grant from time to time. Turn
Speaker 1: on your mic and go online. Go on your computer
Speaker 1: there to US Debt clock dot org d e BT clock,
Speaker 1: Yes you do, or you can add a tab sir
Speaker 1: US debt clock dot org dot.
Speaker 3: For okay, US National Debt Clock real time.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh my yeah. But what I want to call
Speaker 1: your attention to upper left hand corner, the first box
Speaker 1: that shows national debt climbing above thirty six trillion dollars,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is not counting a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But do you see that little green section. What's that say,
Speaker 1: d og e clock dose clock. Yes, that's showing the
Speaker 1: amount of waste they're finding. Wow, or maybe money they're saving.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how they're they're they're
Speaker 1: doing that. You can click it. This is the real
Speaker 1: time savings objective and so I'm guessing that's the real
Speaker 1: time savings that we're seeing. Wow. But anyway, if you've
Speaker 1: never seen it, friends, you need to just check it out.
Speaker 1: I just posted it on our TwixT page. The big
Speaker 1: story in the press boxes is doge do you realize
Speaker 1: that fifty billion of your dollars are being sent every
Speaker 1: year in fraudulent Social Security payments. What do you mean fraudulent?
Speaker 1: They're being sent to people without a Social Security number.
Speaker 1: That's called fraud. As Americans for Limited Government point out,
Speaker 1: why hasn't Congress caught this? This is why you had
Speaker 1: to have someone like Donald Trump and someone like Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and the people that are working for him that
Speaker 1: don't come from government. They're not inoculated to the waste.
Speaker 1: They're trained to find it. Any One who runs a business,
Speaker 1: and remember government's not supposed to be a business, but
Speaker 1: you are taking people's money, so you need to account
Speaker 1: for it should be asking, okay, who are we writing
Speaker 1: checks to? If you get a comptroller into a business,
Speaker 1: one of the first things they do is they look
Speaker 1: at the income streams and they look at the outflows.
Speaker 1: Who are we writing checks to? All right, let's look
Speaker 1: at the places that are writing checks. Well, social Security
Speaker 1: writes checks all the time, all the time. Wouldn't you
Speaker 1: want to start there? Okay, are we getting the money
Speaker 1: that is owed to the people that we owe it to?
Speaker 1: And are we getting money to people that we don't
Speaker 1: owe it to? In other words, are all of the
Speaker 1: recipients of these checks. Are they in our system with
Speaker 1: a Social Security number? Well, they're in our system, but
Speaker 1: they don't have numbers. Well that's a problem. Fifty billion
Speaker 1: a year. Apparently this has been going going on for
Speaker 1: a while and adds up to roughly one trillion dollars
Speaker 1: in and of itself. We have to hold Congress accountable. Wasteful,
Speaker 1: potentially fraudulent spending must be stopped. You've got to support
Speaker 1: Trump in this effort. We have to usaid was taking
Speaker 1: our tax dollars and sending them to middlemen who then
Speaker 1: funnel them to groups that hate your Second Amendment right
Speaker 1: to bear arms. Your tax dollars are funding things that
Speaker 1: oppose you. There's no It is indefensible, and that's why
Speaker 1: it's the big story in the press box. It is indefensible.
Speaker 1: Forty one minutes after we come back a you can't
Speaker 1: make this up story, the heretic himself, the Pope, this
Speaker 1: is insane. Pope blast Trump administration over mass deportation plan
Speaker 1: directs Ire Advance's religious defense for policies. What is built
Speaker 1: on the basis of force and not on the truth
Speaker 1: about the equal dignity of every human being begins badly
Speaker 1: and will end badly. Pope Francis, you want to open
Speaker 1: up your gates, buddy, how about we send the migrants there.
Speaker 1: Since you feel so strongly, we'll send them to you,
Speaker 1: no problem. You have a sovereign land. He's a heretic,
Speaker 1: just as all right. And if you're offended by that,
Speaker 1: you don't know scripture, and I'm sorry for you. You're
Speaker 1: being led by a man who insists on people kissing
Speaker 1: his hand, who's a heretic, and I pray he spends
Speaker 1: a little time reading scripture instead of telling us how
Speaker 1: we ought to think and believe, as opposed to Just
Speaker 1: read the book, sir, just read it. And if you
Speaker 1: believe so strongly that we're doing the wrong thing by
Speaker 1: saying that only people that legally want to come in
Speaker 1: this country may, then you clearly have no problem with
Speaker 1: people breaking into the Vatican. And if you do, you're
Speaker 1: a hypocrite. And clearly you are willing to take these
Speaker 1: people in, So go ahead do it. Last time I checked,
Speaker 1: that's not what the Vatican does. The Vatican doesn't just
Speaker 1: say come on, anybody that doesn't have a home, come here.
Speaker 1: Do as I say, not as I do mmm. It's
Speaker 1: the leftist recipe for disaster and hypocrisy. Remember I said
Speaker 1: I had a story here. You cannot make it up.
Speaker 1: That was not it. It's this, you know, that Chinese
Speaker 1: spy balloon we shot down over the coast of Carolina.
Speaker 1: We let Biden let it come across the whole country.
Speaker 1: China said it weather balloon. It weather balloon, just looking
Speaker 1: over a weather What like you care about the weather
Speaker 1: of the United States. Your satellites can tell what the
Speaker 1: weather is. That's a lie. It was not about weather.
Speaker 1: It was a spy balloon. Of course it was. And
Speaker 1: Joe Biden obliged because he owes you literally you've been
Speaker 1: paying him when he was vice president millions. Well, we
Speaker 1: shot it down. And how about that the recovered balloon
Speaker 1: was not a weather balloon. It was a spy balloon.
Speaker 1: But here's the part that you've got to be kidding me,
Speaker 1: And I wrote in my notes, you cannot make it up.
Speaker 1: It had technology from at least five American companies on it.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to name the companies because I
Speaker 1: won't blame them. They put their products up for sale,
Speaker 1: people buy them. I'm just saying, Oh, the irony five
Speaker 1: US companies technology used in a spice sidellite that was
Speaker 1: spying on us forty six minutes after the hour. Oh
Speaker 1: more to come on the morning with President Scott, Doctor
Speaker 1: Bob McClure on the runway getting ready. You're joining us
Speaker 1: in the third hour from the James Madison Institute Florida session.
Speaker 1: Is the acrimony in the rearview mirror. They're all trying
Speaker 1: to make like it's no big deal. I think it
Speaker 1: was kind of a big deal. But we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Bob McClure get his thoughts. He's been following the Florida
Speaker 1: legislature for a long time. He's the president of the
Speaker 1: James Madison Institute, based in Florida's capital City. I did
Speaker 1: not see the halftime show. I wasn't interested in the
Speaker 1: halftime show of the Super Bowl. It just was not
Speaker 1: I generally don't watch the halftime show. It's just the
Speaker 1: game is at a time when it doesn't know it
Speaker 1: just doesn't fit my work schedule. I can watch a
Speaker 1: quarter of it maybe, and then I'm in bed now.
Speaker 1: I will tell you in total transparency, if the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers are playing in the Super Bowl, I'm watching it,
Speaker 1: and I will not work the next day. Just that's
Speaker 1: I will take the day off. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it would be. But the halftime show just you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't hold any interest to me. But apparently during this
Speaker 1: halftime show, a protester found his way into the into
Speaker 1: the performance. Now here's what's interesting. Either either the person
Speaker 1: that was in the show, he was a performer, decided
Speaker 1: he wanted to be a protester as well, or he
Speaker 1: had access to know what people were going to be wearing,
Speaker 1: someone tipped him off or whatever, and so he just
Speaker 1: kind of found his way in and mixed in with
Speaker 1: the performers. And in the midst of one of the
Speaker 1: final songs that the halftime performer, Kendrick Lamar He's a rapper,
Speaker 1: is doing, he rolls out this flag, a Palestinian Sudanese flag,
Speaker 1: and so he's protesting for the Palestinians and the Sudanese.
Speaker 1: All right, Sudan and Gaza were written in white sections
Speaker 1: of the flag, along with a heart and a solidarity fist.
Speaker 1: So they wrestle him, grab him, escort him off. Super
Speaker 1: Bowl said that he will not be allowed in an
Speaker 1: NFL stadium for the rest of his life. Don't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to enforce that, but whatever, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I just interesting little sidebar. And look the fact that
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper to be the headliner
Speaker 1: of a halftime show. Okay, that's fine. I would imagine
Speaker 1: I don't know his music, so this be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I would imagine he had to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to do the G version of his music. Most contemporary rappers,
Speaker 1: most not all, are remarkably vulgar and profane, and I
Speaker 1: guess the only saving grace and all of that is
Speaker 1: usually I have no idea what they're saying. I don't
Speaker 1: have a clue. I mean, I checked out a little
Speaker 1: bit of his halftime show on tape and watch the
Speaker 1: you know the videos. I grabbed a couple of YouTube
Speaker 1: clips just to check it out. I mean, he won
Speaker 1: five Grammys earlier in the week, so you know, he's
Speaker 1: got some game, I guess in terms of within the industry.
Speaker 1: But again, it's just it's not in my world. I
Speaker 1: like rap music. I just like that that rare rap
Speaker 1: music that's actually without profanity. I think it takes a
Speaker 1: remarkable amount of skill to do rap and and also
Speaker 1: to do it without dropping in words and profanities left
Speaker 1: and right. And that's another thing that's always been ironic
Speaker 1: to me is that in that culture, dropping the end
Speaker 1: bomb is is not a big deal, but yet it
Speaker 1: is for anybody else to say it, Oh whatever, okay,
Speaker 1: But I I just I would just ask this, if
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is gonna do this again, based on
Speaker 1: what the little bit that I watched, given that, I
Speaker 1: would say that a percentage. How big that percentage is,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Of the audience doesn't listen to rap music,
Speaker 1: Maybe subtitles. Maybe put subtitles so we know what in
Speaker 1: the world he's rapping. Because as I listen to it,
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not that curmudgeon that hates all
Speaker 1: contemporary music. I'm good with it. That's awesome, It's fine.
Speaker 1: I prefer Christian music and praise and worship and all that.
Speaker 1: But still I'm okay with different styles of music. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of different styles of music. But subtitles, Man,
Speaker 1: let me know what he's saying, because deck, Hey, what
Speaker 1: what are you saying? I don't know. Help me, help
Speaker 1: a brother out. We got back, got to come back
Speaker 1: to the programming. Here a Third Hour Coming up next,
Speaker 1: Doctor Bob McLure standing by with the James Madison Institute.
Speaker 1: Stick around, it's the Morning Show. It's the third hour,
Speaker 1: Good Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you.
Speaker 1: That's Ose over there at Studio one AM. Here in
Speaker 1: Studio one B and joining us, doctor Bob McClure, president
Speaker 1: of the James Madison Institute. Hello, my friend, how are you, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm great, Thanks for having me. I look forward to
Speaker 1: these visits all the time. As you're watching the last
Speaker 1: twenty plus days, what's your reaction to what we're seeing government,
Speaker 1: everything from the executive orders to doge at the.
Speaker 2: Federal level or at the state level. Federal level, Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's doing exactly what he said he was going to do.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Believe people when they tell you right. That's a term
Speaker 2: people use all the time. He's doing exactly what he
Speaker 2: said he was going to do. And the American people
Speaker 2: see it, and they realize it. In the und they
Speaker 2: understand it. What I find fascinating is that the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party got their hat handed to.
Speaker 1: Them on November fifth.
Speaker 2: Across the board, Donald Trump moved every single state, all
Speaker 2: fifty states moved more conservatively, meaning he won more votes
Speaker 2: than he did in twenty twenty all fifty states. He
Speaker 2: won the popular vote, which I thought was a critical,
Speaker 2: critical component to his mandate. And we still don't know
Speaker 2: three months later, we still don't know what the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party at the national level is four.
Speaker 1: What are they for?
Speaker 2: Who are they helping? Who do they want to work for?
Speaker 2: Is it the American people? Is it the common man
Speaker 2: or woman? Is it the forgotten man or woman?
Speaker 1: Who are you for? And what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's very clear He's going to lower the tax,
Speaker 2: lower our at taxes, reduced regulations, close the border, and
Speaker 2: have a strong military. Right, not more wars, but a
Speaker 2: strong military is pretty simple. There's a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: other stuff he's doing.
Speaker 3: We know what he's for.
Speaker 2: We don't know what the Democratic Party's for. All they're
Speaker 2: doing is fighting Donald Trump. And now they're setting up
Speaker 2: a snitch line and they're setting up a combat committee,
Speaker 2: a war room to combat Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: But what are you for?
Speaker 2: And so the American people are saying, I mean, I
Speaker 2: like this guy. This is guy's common sense. He's just
Speaker 2: common sense. So I would argue the Democratic Party is
Speaker 2: really on a really challenging precipice. Now we could talk
Speaker 2: about why they won't say what they're for. I have
Speaker 2: a theory that most reasonable Democrats are afraid of their
Speaker 2: left wing base, and they are afraid of being primaried.
Speaker 2: I would argue Chuck Schuber a little bit.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: I think Chuck Schumer in a normal day, in a
Speaker 2: normal during a normal time, can negotiate and work with
Speaker 2: He's proven that in many, many, you know, past years.
Speaker 2: It was the old Joe Biden, Right, Joe Biden used
Speaker 2: to be, if nothing else, pragmatic.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're virtuous, but I don't worried what
Speaker 2: politician is. But they are at least pragmatic. Okay, there's
Speaker 2: a difference between pragmatism and principle, right, and so, but
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer is afraid of his left wing base. He's
Speaker 2: afraid of being primaried by an AOC or a Letitia James.
Speaker 1: Or someone like that.
Speaker 2: And so are these House members, so are senators all
Speaker 2: across the country, other senators. They can't run from their
Speaker 2: left wing base, so they play to that base, which
Speaker 2: is a very tiny echo chamber. And then they want
Speaker 2: they can't win generals. That's I mean, look at what
Speaker 2: Kamala ran on. She ran on climate change, abortion and
Speaker 2: being from a middle class family, and I don't know
Speaker 2: what else. Okay, she ran on the issues that she
Speaker 2: cared about, not the issues the American people cared about.
Speaker 2: And so the Democratic parties on a real precipice here
Speaker 2: at the national.
Speaker 1: Level, Doctor Bob McClure with us, we're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back, we're going to
Speaker 1: pick up there. I talk a little bit more about
Speaker 1: I want to get his thoughts on Doge do Oge Doge.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that, but we're going to
Speaker 1: pivot then and get focused on what's going on here
Speaker 1: in Florida because the legislative session is coming like a
Speaker 1: freight train and it has announced its presence early. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that as well, Doctor Bob McClure, the James
Speaker 1: Madison Institute. My guest, it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Speaker 1: All right, eleven passed the hour, Doctor Bob McClure. I mentioned,
Speaker 1: We've been talking about it all morning. It's the big story,
Speaker 1: the amount of money that has been found by Doge.
Speaker 1: I've maintained it required somebody outside of Washington, outside the
Speaker 1: Beltway to come in and find it. And that's what
Speaker 1: we're seeing. What are your thoughts though of the unelected
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. I mean, he's not personally closing anything down.
Speaker 1: All they can do is say, here's what I've found, right, right.
Speaker 2: He's an auditor. I mean, that's all he's doing. He's
Speaker 2: auditing the books of the federal government. That's all he's doing.
Speaker 2: And then he's advising Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I mean, in theory, Bob, don't all of us in theory,
Speaker 1: wouldn't we all have a right to look at the books?
Speaker 2: Of course, of course we should. That's what we've been taught.
Speaker 2: How how for how many years, for my entire life, Preston,
Speaker 2: we've talked about, Oh, we're gonna get rid of waste
Speaker 2: for audited abuse. Right, We've been saying that since Reagan Carter,
Speaker 2: the days. I mean, come on, and so Elon goes
Speaker 2: in and he's auditing the books, okay, and we're finding
Speaker 2: out where all of this garbage is going in terms
Speaker 2: of the they're just lighting money on fire and the
Speaker 2: what what what is fascinating. What we've learned is that
Speaker 2: the money goes to in many, many, many ways, the
Speaker 2: left wing organizations who then launder it back to the
Speaker 2: federal government in the form of media, whether it's Politico
Speaker 2: or The Hill, or in forms of UH contributions to
Speaker 2: Democratic Party candidates or talking points, or organizations who hate
Speaker 2: US right supposed foundations right, and then money going across
Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, this is simply we're just getting started
Speaker 2: and we're finding out how much real waste, fraud and
Speaker 2: abuse there is. I mean when they say he's oh,
Speaker 2: he's unelected, he doesn't have a role, he's an advisor.
Speaker 2: Who do you think was running the country the last
Speaker 2: four years? Advisors? It wasn't Joe Biden. He didn't know
Speaker 2: where he was half the time. And I'm not being sarcastic,
Speaker 2: he literally did not know where he was. Advisors had
Speaker 2: been running the country the last four years. FDR during
Speaker 2: World War Two had a kitchen cabinet to advise him.
Speaker 2: They were not elected there. It was a kitchen cabinet
Speaker 2: to advise him during the war. Reagan had a kitchen
Speaker 2: cabinet during the Cold War. This is nothing new. Elon
Speaker 2: Musk just happens to be very visible, incredibly smart, and
Speaker 2: he's turning over rocks. So you're telling me that if
Speaker 2: you don't like Elon and notice what they say or
Speaker 2: what they don't ever say. They never talk about what
Speaker 2: he finds. Right to him, is nothing about what he finds.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing with Donald Trump. It's never about
Speaker 2: what he's doing. It's a constitutional crisis. That was the
Speaker 2: term of the day yesterday. Where's the constitutional crisis? We're
Speaker 2: auditing the federal government.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2: We're finding out where they're lighting money on your money
Speaker 2: and my money and your listeners' money on fire. Right,
Speaker 2: So that's what they're doing. There's no constitutional crisis. We've
Speaker 2: seen this kind of role played for numerous presidents outside
Speaker 2: of the traditional cabinet picks that are that are you know,
Speaker 2: signed off on by the US Senate Da da da
Speaker 2: Da da da. Who Who who are the advisors running
Speaker 2: the country the last four years?
Speaker 1: We still don't know. Right, let's pivot and go back
Speaker 1: to something you said in the opening segment. You talked
Speaker 1: about they aren't for anything, and this seems to be
Speaker 1: something that is going to bite Democrats in the d
Speaker 1: of Florida. They re elected Nicki Freed as their chair,
Speaker 1: and what are they doing.
Speaker 2: You've heard me say on this show a lot that
Speaker 2: good policy is good politics. Okay, when you and we
Speaker 2: just saw it rit large in the most recent election.
Speaker 2: In other words, Donald Trump said over and over and over,
Speaker 2: here are my policies, and he got elected good politics.
Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis said over and over and over what he
Speaker 2: was going to do, and he did it. And he
Speaker 2: went from eking out a thirty thousand vote win over
Speaker 2: Andrew Gilliam to winning his second term. He won Florida
Speaker 2: by more votes than Gavin Newsom won the state of California.
Speaker 2: Good policy is good politics. The Democrats in the state
Speaker 2: of Florida have no policy. We don't know what they're for.
Speaker 2: They were for weed, I mean, I guess right. I
Speaker 2: mean that was kind of Nicky Freed's thing, and DeSantis
Speaker 2: shut that down. They were for abortion. Okay, Maybe what
Speaker 2: about lowering the costs of daily living? What about making
Speaker 2: Floridians lives easier? What about health care? Reducing the cost
Speaker 2: of health care in the state of Florida for our
Speaker 2: elder population. There are a lot of things The Democratic
Speaker 2: Party could be four, but we don't know what they're for.
Speaker 2: We know what Governor DeSantis was for is for We
Speaker 2: know and most people don't know. Outside the four blocks
Speaker 2: of tallahassee the names of the legislators. They know they're
Speaker 2: old legislator, but nobody else. But at least we knew
Speaker 2: what they were for, what they were doing. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we could, you know, we could list the ten things
Speaker 2: they did, most recently universal school choice, which is critical.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party in Florida has the same problem that
Speaker 2: the National Democratic Party has. We don't know what they
Speaker 2: are going to do for me. And when I say me,
Speaker 2: I mean that in air quotes me the voter.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to go right there
Speaker 1: to the legislative session and what's next here in the
Speaker 1: Sunshine State. Here with doctor Bob McLure, the James Madison
Speaker 1: Institute and my guest on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Speaker 1: Time flies when you have great guests, and we are
Speaker 1: thrilled to have doctor Bob McClure with us. With JMI
Speaker 1: affectionately known as JMI, the James Madison Institute, I think
Speaker 1: tank and really focused on Florida, but you are certainly
Speaker 1: well versed on all things national right, and we appreciate
Speaker 1: the perspective. I'm just going to kind of turn you
Speaker 1: loose here. Your thoughts on the way that the special
Speaker 1: sessions unfolded and what you think the heavy lifting has
Speaker 1: to be for the regular session.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the governor had some very clear ideas
Speaker 2: about what he wanted to do on immigration in the
Speaker 2: special session. I think legislative leadership kind of said, hold on,
Speaker 2: we are a co equal branch. Unfortunate that played out
Speaker 2: in public and that it couldn't get those conversations couldn't
Speaker 2: be resolved in private, and then they go to a
Speaker 2: special session to get things done. The Republican Party owns
Speaker 2: everything in the state. They have supermajorities in legislatures. They
Speaker 2: have both US senators, they have all the cabinet officers.
Speaker 2: You have a Democratic Party that is kind of dying
Speaker 2: on the vine in the state to state. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: won Florida in twenty sixteen by one hundred thousand votes
Speaker 2: over Hillary Clinton, just barely beat her. Twenty twenty, he
Speaker 2: wins by about three or four hundred thousand. Twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: he wins by a million and a half votes. The
Speaker 2: Hispanic community African American men Miami Dade County, I mean,
Speaker 2: whatever metric you want to use, Florida is moving deep red.
Speaker 2: But with that preston, as you know, is that old
Speaker 2: biblical adage iron sharpens iron, and the Republican Party doesn't
Speaker 2: have anything to sharpen it right right, There's no competition
Speaker 2: at the moment, So they need to be careful. They
Speaker 2: need to stay focused on their principles. They need to
Speaker 2: get these things done for Floridians in the state and
Speaker 2: continue to move forward in that way, working out disagreements,
Speaker 2: not in a public spinning match, but in a more
Speaker 2: kosher kind of way.
Speaker 1: What do you expect has to happen? I mean, we
Speaker 1: know the budget. Yeah, it's a constitutional mandate. But for
Speaker 1: people listening right now, their everyday life, what has to
Speaker 1: happen in this session? Is it insurance? I think it's
Speaker 1: a couple of things. Yeah, I think it's auto insurance.
Speaker 1: It's insurance for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the demographic that the government,
Speaker 2: I mean, the infographic that the governor put out last week,
Speaker 2: insurance rates are either holding steady or increasing at the
Speaker 2: lowest rate in I don't know how many years, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five years. So the reforms are working Okay, saying
Speaker 2: hold on the reforms are going to work as not
Speaker 2: very good political policy, but they have to hold the
Speaker 2: line on the reforms.
Speaker 1: They have to enact some more reforms.
Speaker 2: On auto insurance, they have to beat back the trial bar,
Speaker 2: which is going to continue to come after the legislature,
Speaker 2: So insurance, property insurance, auto insurance, and then affordable housing. Okay,
Speaker 2: and I've talked about this a little bit on this
Speaker 2: show before. There's a difference between affordable housing, which is
Speaker 2: on what the city of Tallahassee wants built, and building
Speaker 2: housing that is affordable. Affordable housing to democrats and to
Speaker 2: the left is build cheap, lose money, and we'll put
Speaker 2: people in there. That's affordable housing to a lot of people.
Speaker 2: But building housing, if you even get that definition right,
Speaker 2: But building housing that is affordable is decrease weight times,
Speaker 2: allow permits, decrease regulations, and allow builders to build, you know,
Speaker 2: tinker with lot size, those kinds of things. Allow them
Speaker 2: who make money, they will build housing that people can
Speaker 2: afford its supply and demand. But it's almost always that
Speaker 2: government gets in the way of builders and construction folks
Speaker 2: who want to build housing that is affordable. So that's
Speaker 2: going to be another issue that they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: do with, and of course they always.
Speaker 1: Have to do the budget. Do you expect the acrimonies
Speaker 1: in the rearview mirror.
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about this off air. If there's
Speaker 2: an iceberg in the ocean, right the old adage, you
Speaker 2: see ten percent of the iceberg sticking out of the ocean,
Speaker 2: and ninety percent of the iceberg is underneath the water.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. There's a lot of jockeying over
Speaker 2: the next two years, with so much up in the
Speaker 2: air in terms of the governor's race and a newly
Speaker 2: appointed US Senator and cabinet offices and appointments and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Just think of the iceberg analogy. Just think of the
Speaker 1: next time we meet, the sausage will be in the
Speaker 1: process of being made. Yes, it will good to see you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, My friend doctor Bob McClure with
Speaker 1: the James Madison Institute, my guest j am I in
Speaker 1: the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Dude is so smart,
Speaker 1: doctor Bob McClure. His political acumen is just so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he you know, he correctly predicted that Trump was going
Speaker 1: to win the national popular vote. I think he was
Speaker 1: the only one I knew that was saying it. Maybe
Speaker 1: others thought it. I'd hoped it, but I certainly eh.
Speaker 1: And I just remember years ago election night where he
Speaker 1: was just picking on things that he knew, the numbers,
Speaker 1: he knew the breakdown of certain counties and spots inside
Speaker 1: Florida and where they were going to go and what
Speaker 1: this meant. And yeah, love having him on. Appreciate the
Speaker 1: relationship with the James Madison Institute and what they do.
Speaker 1: It's founding. If you don't know anything about JMI, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to just look it up because it's it's just well,
Speaker 1: as they like to say, in the South and in
Speaker 1: the Heartland, it's America. James Madison Institute, It's America. So
Speaker 1: that's about. It's America. Now this morning, we have been
Speaker 1: focused on one one big story and it's and it's Doge.
Speaker 1: It is the amount of money that they are uncovering,
Speaker 1: the amount of waste that they are finding money going
Speaker 1: from USAI D two for example, every Town for Gun
Speaker 1: Safety Giffords. These are anti Second Amendment groups. They hate
Speaker 1: you owning a gun. They want you to not have
Speaker 1: a gun. And to be not not to just they
Speaker 1: want it taken from you. They're so remarkably wrong. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess they can have the opinion. That's fine, whatever,
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of people are wrong about stuff,
Speaker 1: even occasionally me. But but the problem here is that
Speaker 1: those just finding that they're they're feeding this money through middlemen,
Speaker 1: so it's it's sort of almost dark money, and the
Speaker 1: dark money is yours, it's your money. It'd be one
Speaker 1: thing if you wanted to pick up your checkbook and
Speaker 1: stroke a check to every town USA which hates guns,
Speaker 1: every town for gun safety, I should say that's what
Speaker 1: it's called. You know what, if you want to stroke
Speaker 1: that check, by golly, go ahead and do it. But
Speaker 1: when they take our collective tax dollars and give it
Speaker 1: to causes that are anti US constitution, I would hope
Speaker 1: that even those of you that might agree with the
Speaker 1: cause are offended that your tax dollars go to things
Speaker 1: like that they just shouldn't. And that's tip of the
Speaker 1: iceberg stuff. Doctor McClure is talking about the ninety and
Speaker 1: the ten's that's the ten percent. That's what we're saying.
Speaker 1: We're not even finding it all yet. It's this is
Speaker 1: two three weeks in and I and I go back
Speaker 1: to I told you this was going to be difficult.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be messy. Fifty billion dollars billion with
Speaker 1: a B sent annually through Social Security to people without
Speaker 1: Social Security numbers. W we have to demand the Congress
Speaker 1: stop this. We just do. We have to support the
Speaker 1: efforts well. An unelected person, an unelected person can be
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Did you know
Speaker 1: that they're our books. That's what I want you to
Speaker 1: get in your mind. You need to If you are
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable with Elon Musk, that's fine. If you don't like,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I don't care. I really don't care, Margaret.
Speaker 1: What I can tell you, though, is this, you need
Speaker 1: to get in your mind that the books of the
Speaker 1: United States government, the financial ledgers, our ours. They're our books.
Speaker 1: And whoever our elected president appoints to look at the
Speaker 1: books and to audit them, as doctor McClure said, they
Speaker 1: are doing that to keep us from having to they're us.
Speaker 1: These audits are for us. They're our books. It's our money.
Speaker 1: You must get that fully understood. You do not have
Speaker 1: the luxury of saying they got no time for that.
Speaker 1: You darn well better. You better make this a priority.
Speaker 1: And that's why the big stories in the press box
Speaker 1: are things you're talking about, things you will be talking about,
Speaker 1: and the biggest category of all the things you should
Speaker 1: be talking about that you should be aware of. This
Speaker 1: is it forty one minutes past the hour speaking of
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Oh, you've got to hear what's coming from
Speaker 1: I'm already laughing. This is going to be an epic
Speaker 1: moment here on this radio program. This is blue Humor
Speaker 1: without profanity, and its courtesy of Elon Musk via CNN.
Speaker 1: Let me explain, Elon. Elon Musk has absolutely no reservations
Speaker 1: about just poking the bear, none trolling. He just he
Speaker 1: just doesn't care. And that's what wealth can afford you.
Speaker 1: Wealth can afford you the I don't care what anybody
Speaker 1: thinks attitude. Now, certainly principle does too. You can be
Speaker 1: wealthy in principle, in virtue and morality and have kind
Speaker 1: of the similar type of placement where hey, whatever, but
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm gonna play this, but I'm gonna warn
Speaker 1: you parents, though there is no profanity at all, you
Speaker 1: you will have to perhaps explain this to children if
Speaker 1: you choose to. And and this is this is almost
Speaker 1: frat boy stuff. That's where we're going here, and I've
Speaker 1: saved it to this. This is very intentionally placed at
Speaker 1: this moment of the show. Courtesy of town Hall. You
Speaker 1: can't make this up. CNN's Data Bash, in a very
Speaker 1: somber and serious tone, reports that Elon Musk has adopted
Speaker 1: an alias on X on Twitter. This was news. This
Speaker 1: was news on CNN And I'll let Dana take it
Speaker 1: from there now.
Speaker 4: The disruptor in Chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted
Speaker 4: the alias at least he changed his social media handle
Speaker 4: to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning, democracy in America is
Speaker 4: being destroyed by judicial coup.
Speaker 1: H A R R Y.
Speaker 3: P oh.
Speaker 1: With a little line over it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it's called, l Z. Let's just marvel at this one
Speaker 1: more time.
Speaker 4: Who apparently has adopted the alias. At least he changed
Speaker 4: his social media handle to Harry Balls.
Speaker 1: He tweets out the clip and must says made them
Speaker 1: say my name with the laughing till you cry emoji sideways.
Speaker 5: They're so obsessed with you know, doctor mclaurr said, they
Speaker 5: don't ever talk about the waist. They're talking about Elon Musk,
Speaker 5: they're talking about Harry Balls, They're not talking about the waist.
Speaker 5: It was brilliant, next level trolling at its finest.
Speaker 1: It's forty seven minutes after the hour. That segment reminded me.
Speaker 1: Dana Bash reading that story reminded me of the movie
Speaker 1: with Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, where he would
Speaker 1: read anything on a teleprompter, no, no ability to kind
Speaker 1: of go I shouldn't say that. I just I mean
Speaker 1: when they went to commercial break, did anybody just kind
Speaker 1: of giggle on the set? Did Dana Bash laugh? Did
Speaker 1: she got that's pretty funny? No, No, they were just
Speaker 1: they didn't get the joke was on them. He almost
Speaker 1: posts this changes his name, and his back there going okay,
Speaker 1: which network's gonna say it first?
Speaker 4: Come on?
Speaker 1: All the TV's recording, all the DVRs recording, and he's
Speaker 1: watching all of them. He's gonna be first, Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be first? Who's gonna be first? And then he hears
Speaker 1: Dana Bash, she said my name. It's like little kids
Speaker 1: making rank phone calls.
Speaker 6: Did you're a refrigerator running will you better get out
Speaker 6: there and catch it anyway?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show, doctor David Hart's scheduled to join us.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a road trip idea unless it gets
Speaker 1: look those that's one of those segments that could be moved.
Speaker 1: It's just if something happens, it gets moved. Steve Stewart
Speaker 1: will join us and actor Kirk Cameron Panama City. He's
Speaker 1: coming to Panama City. He's bringing his kind of family's
Speaker 1: tour to Panama City in March, I believe. And so
Speaker 1: we've got a visit with Kirk Cameron set for tomorrow
Speaker 1: that we will share with you. Actor Growing Pains, made documentaries,
Speaker 1: made some films. Good guy, really really good guy. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how he has prevented him. He's like
Speaker 1: Dick Clark, he just hasn't aged. And guys that are
Speaker 1: like that are just like, yeah whatever. So that is
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Speaker 3: Up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just good stuff today. We started the program with
Speaker 1: one Corinthians thirteen versus six and seven. That's where we went.
Speaker 1: Big story in the press box, doge. That is it.
Speaker 1: That is the story. It is the story of stories.
Speaker 1: Keep finding waste and support the effort. Friends talked about
Speaker 1: the Chinese by balloon. We now know two years later
Speaker 1: it was equipped with technology from at least five US companies,
Speaker 1: not saying they did anything wrong. Costco is still in trouble.
Speaker 1: Wokeness is going to be its downfall and downfall meaning
Speaker 1: profits and so forth. It's going to show up eventually.
Speaker 1: Eggs still a problem. Expensive pennies cost nearly forced sense
Speaker 1: to produce, so President Trump saying stop producing them. We're
Speaker 1: losing money. Huh. How about that more cost savings. We'll
Speaker 1: do it again tomorrow. Friends, have an awesome day.