Edit on my friends, welcome to that radio program. Great to be with you. It is Tuesday, September seventeenth. He is Jose, can you see? C an s U see?
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C an U s e? Can you see? Jose? Can you see? And if you have this sudden urge to just go by the God, you get the idea. Uh huh uh huh. Jose's over there running the radio program The Deft Touch in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B. I'm Preston. Hi. How are you Hope you had a good night to rest Hope you're ready to go, fired up and ready to go. I am, I am real ready to go. We start with some
scripture Bible study tip. Okay, this is a pro tip, all right ready, Because I used to be a vocational pastor, that doesn't mean that I know more or anything at all. Because the Bible wasn't written for only seminary graduates and doctors of theologian of theology. It was written for you and me, all right. When you study the Bible. For example, our verse today begs you to go backwards in scripture Ephesians five to one. Okay, you're getting a brand news.
Start of a chapter, right, And so you're thinking, we're going to read five to one forward. But if you start at Ephesians five to one, as this devotional tells us to the first word is almost demanding go backwards, because it says this, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.
Wait.
Therefore, that means there's something good that precedes that. See if I would just say to you, therefore, take that wisdom and do something with it, you would go what wisdom? Well, translate that for me. What are you talking about? See it hinges on what preceded. So as you read Ephesians five, verse one, it's saying there's some nuggets going backwards. And so if you look back at Ephesians four, you see Paul's writing just dropping some awesome scriptural nuggets of wisdom.
And if you go back far enough in four twenty five, it says therefore, which means what you go back further and what you find here is a heading. And keep in mind these headings are are just for us. The
headings weren't necessarily in the original writings of scripture. Translators took the following verse and put them together, and these verses Paul writes, and so this whole segment that continues into Ephesians five starts with Ephesians four, verse seventeen, and the heading is the New Life, and he writes, Now this I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as the gentiles do in futility
of their minds. There's so much that follows. We'll unpack a little bit of that as we go through the week. But now we'll go to Ephesians five. Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children. Children imitate their parents, where to imitate our Father? Hard Yes, absolutely, but the challenge nonetheless remains. Ten minutes after the hour, I got a little scripture, Goose pimples on me. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott coming up to twelve minutes past the hour, Tuesday,
September seventeenth. Yeah, yeah, I'll get to it. Hold on, just thank you. I need to say something here, and I'm gonna run a bit of a risk because one of the cardinal rules is you don't slam the other shows on your station. But friends don't listen to George Nori because the majority of that content is straight demonic No, I'm not. I'm not. This isn't sour grapes because he's national and I'm not. I don't care if I'm national.
I am. I am national because of iHeartRadio. No, this is this is about your soul and feeding your mind garbage that is straight demonic, and what he does is and by all accounts, what a guy, right, But but.
So what.
He's He's got people on the show that are talking to demons, that are channeling demons that are are dealing with, you know, the afterlife and they and and the way that he does it, it inevitably puts Jesus in the rankings with all these other weird things. I'm sorry, No, don't listen to it. Go to iHeartRadio and check out the podcasts that are amazing. There are podcasts galore into true crime. We got you covered. Personally. I love listening
to Haunted Cosmos. It's incredible. There's some golf shows that I listened to, there's shows on History that I listened to. I listened to some of the true crime stuff, but this I was just and I come in and have to hear that stuff when I first get in here, and I immediately just no, no, no, no, no no. So let's end at the psall right, it's September seventeenth. Take a look at the American Patriots Almanac. Sixteen thirty English puritans led by John Winthrop found Boston, Massachusetts. When you
love to know how that? I mean, there's got to be some simple story and I should just look it up on how Boston was called Boston? Was it named after the Lord of Boston, like the Lord of Baltimore. I don't know, Probably something like that. Seventeen seventy six Spanish explorers found presidio around which San Francisco will grow. So think about that. Okay, we are fighting for our independence.
Spain gets to the other side of America and in essence found San Francisco while we are fighting for our independence on the other side of the nation. Isn't that? I mean, if you look at a map of the United States and you're like thirty thousand feet, that's kind of crazy. All the way over here a nation is being born, and on the other side of that continent you've got Spanish explorers doing their thing. It's just weird.
Seventeen seventy six crazy. Seventeen eighty seven Constitutional Convention improves the final draft of the Constitution. More on that. In a moment, Union troops stop a Confederate invasion of Maryland. The Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War eighteen sixty two. Nineteen twenty American Professional Football Association is formed in Canton, Ohio, renamed the National Football League.
And in nineteen seventy eight is the White House. At the White House, Egyptian President of Anhar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Monoca Bagan signed the case David Accords, so that would end up being shot and killed for it. The assassination of the president of Egypt is actually something you can you can find the news clips of it happening. Brutal assassination. Anyway, Yeah, sixteen past the hour. There you go. Come back, what a day. We'll tell you what a
day it is. Next twenty two past the hour, It is going to be a busy day. We've got Harker Shepherd from Heritage Foundation can talk about a new feature. They have something they've worked out that kind of helps you see the economic policies of the current administration and their impact on our economy and our daily life. More importantly, it's really not about the economy so much for most of us, as it is the cost of living your life.
And I think sometimes we reduce things down to these terms the economy, Well, your personal economy is about the cost of living your life. You know. Yeah, there's a bigger, overarching picture we've got to be concerned about, and we do, we absolutely do. But but it still boils down to your wallet, and things are bad and there's no recipe on the other side to fix it. But we will. We'll talk about that with Parker in the third hour. Dr Bob McClure with JMI James Madison Institute will join us.
We'll talk about Florida and then Florida within the larger picture of the nation as it relates to November the elections. Lots writing on it, and I hope that none of you are I hope the audience of this program is not so sour as to just say I'm not voting, and you know, you fold your arms and you turn your head away and you just no, I'm not going to I hope you're not that that person. I hope you're not childish like that. This is this has grown up time. You don't have the luxury to say no
because I hate to be the bearer. Either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the president of the United States. It's not going to be anybody else. And going back to Biblical times, man chose to have man as leaders. That wasn't God's plan. God's plan was just being fellowship with him. Boom, Adam and Eve changed all that, and then we fell into the pattern we want somebody to lead us should be God. It's one nation under God. But this is where we are. And so it's gonna
be one of the two of them. And you will either have a say by saying or you'll have a say by not. Either way, you're gonna have a say. By not voting, you seed your constitutional right over to others. I don't want to vote for Trump. Okay, then if your conscience allows you to vote for kama I think it's a dreadful mistake and I think you'll rue the decision. I think you'll regret it. I think you'll you'll be tortured in your soul over it. But you have that
option anyway. Today is National Professional house Cleaner's Day, So for all the Molly maids and others out there. Thank you. My wife should be overjoyed knowing that today not only is it National Monte Cristo Day. I'm not a fan of the Monte Cristo because I don't like that stuff that you dip it in the jelly or jam stuff it's like, but it is an incredibly decadent sandwich.
It is.
It is like if it weren't, if they would have something else to dip it in, I'd probably be gay. If you've never had a Monte Cristo, it's a thing. Best Monte Cristo in town is probably Glory Days. It's National it Professionals Day, So to all of you, thank you. It is National Apple dumpling Day. Well, hello there, mcallisters, not McAllister's. Wow ah what uh? Brewsters? Thank you? Geez.
I don't know what I was thinking. I see I got brewsters in my bregers in my head, and then I my brain went over to mcallisters, Like what those are sandwich and bagel places? What are you talking about? Brewsters? Ice cream? They have apple dumplings seasonally that are incredible that they put with ice cream. If you like apple dumplings. Now I'm not an Apple Dumpling fan, but I know people that are. Hello, sweetheart, I love you, and and she'll tell you that's a good Apple dumpling.
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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, just the history segment we talked about it. Finalize the Constitution on this date, and today's National Voter Registration Day, going back to where we started. You gotta vote there. That's it. That's it. So okay, I'm done for the day. We're gonna have two hours and thirty minutes of silence next just kidding, all right,
thirty six past the hour the Morning Show. If I were doing the Johnny Carson Karnak the Magnificent, I might hold the envelope up and say he did he and then you open up the envelope and it would be what did Sean Combs do when he got arrested? Yeah, not planning to make it a big story in the press box, but I look, I had to look it up. I mean, obviously, I know who the guy is. What I've never understood is how we got from puff Daddy to p Diddy.
I just.
Maybe it's a generational thing. I don't know, I don't know. You don't have to explain it to me. By the way, I don't need an email on this one because I don't care. What I do care is for all of his words, and I can't judge his eternal soul. I can only say that they likely arrested him for good cause for trafficking. He was arrested late yesterday for trafficking. And he's claiming, of course, his innocence. He's innocent until
proven guilty. But if you look at the lifestyle, you look at his choices, you look at what we know on video he's done to women because he's beaten women on video. You've seen it. Yeah, good luck Sean. By the way, that was good. Come on, it was the Karnak thing. It was good. Other big stories in the press box you've probably never heard of. It might be Lockhell's. It's LHC h. E. Al Apostrophe S Bakery in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
Hatburro is just a little north of Philly, and every year, for about twelve years now, they crank out cookies that they sell and they box and sell across the country with the names of the nominees. And so they have a red cookie with Trump on it, and Trump kind of sprinkles, and then a blue cookie with Harris on it and blue sprinkles. As of now, as of Friday morning, I should say they've sold fifty two hundred Trump cookies
five hundred Harris cookies. So so Trump is killing Harris in the pre lim cookie pol but you can't read much into that because Trump killed Biden too the first
time around, so you never know. The United States Navy has launched quoting them their first gender neutral nuclear power to attack submarine USS New Jersey, commissioned at a ceremony in Middletown, New Jersey, the commander of the Submarine Force Atlantic telling media outlets that all nuclear power to attack subs and Columbia Class ballistic missile subs will be designed with gender neutral accommodations from the outset to increase privacy
and washrooms and sleeping areas for sailors. One of the research assistant supervisors on the team wrote these words with this story, what could possibly go wrong? And then I have one more big story that I absolutely need your attention for. Will do that next? Not that you're not paying attention, but I just you know, it's kind of like, really listen, and that's coming up next here forty minutes past the hour Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right,
more big stores in the press box. Yeah, they're there's too many of them. This one is as much a public service announcement because I think I think a lot of us now and then go thrifting. You know, you go to the thrift stores and you go to the flea markets and you get stuff and antique stores and all that, and we chronicle on the show The Fines.
You know that you just you'll get something and it's got something in a drawer or something in a little compartment and it's like, oh, look at this, this is cool, and it's an old something or another that you didn't expect that was there. But you just you never know, right, You just never know. And a family was in Indiana was at a at a thrift store and they had a little one who got a hold of a backpack and was just playing with the backpack while the parents
were right there looking at other things. And unfortunately in the backpack was suboxone, a suboxone pill. Now I may be mispronouncing that, forgive me if I am. Suboxone is a pill used by people being treated for opioid addiction in and of itself. It is it is no you know, lightweight when it comes to a drug. This particular one, unfortunately, was a chewable that had a fruit flavored coating on
it and the child ingested it. The dad, realizing the child had ingested something, basically induced vomiting in the child. But the little bit of whatever that was in the child and didn't come out ended up killing their daughter. They rushed their daughter to the hospital and four days later was pronounced deceased. My heart breaks for the parents. And here's the PSA of this. Always check right before
you turn anything over to a thrift store. Always check when you're looking at something at a thrift store, you know. I'm reminded of a story that we did in the last two to three years where a family went to an Airbnb and most airbnb rentals have either the owner or a crew that is hired for by the management
team come in and they clean. Well, not enough cleaning was done and there was residual powder of fentanyl from the previous renters, and a toddler got to the powder that was like at the edge of a wall or something and die. That's the nature of fentanyl. That's just the smallest amount can kill you a grown adult, let alone a child. And so I just it's a heartbreaking story. The family is donating the organs to and did donate
three different organs of their baby girl to others. But just the old ounce of prevention, right versus the pound of cure. It just takes a little extra time. But if you're thrifting and you come across stuff, really make sure, okay, just make sure forty six minutes after the out you're gonna plow through a bunch of stuff next. I'm sure
some of the criminators can help me with this. One of the challenges that we face, just you and me, just us, right, John and Q public, We struggle personalizing the massive waste of your money and my money it ought to be as I mean, what if your paycheck arrived to you in cash and your kids saw it, thought it was monopoly money, and for whatever reason had a joke, fun moment and decided to throw it away, tear it up, crumple it up, flush it down the toilet,
burn it. But that's your paycheck. It's gone, half of it, a third of it gone. There ain't no insurance claim it's gone. I feel as though we have to find a way to remember to make this personal when I share, for example, watchdog groups inside our government, from Congress, the CBO, Inspector General Offices in Spector General, with the SBA, the Small Business Administration. They're estimating roughly half a trillion dollars
in COVID relief. What did you think would happen when you started to pay people who were not working because the federal government and state governments closed businesses down due to this absurdity, this fear mongering that happened through COVID half a trillion dollars and that's an estimate. It could be worse. It has to be personalized to the point that you say, uh yeah, we need to change how we vote, and from locals to state to national elect
people that respect our dollars. Sadly, some choices aren't so cut and dry, you know. For example, for example, locally, you've got you've got a local candidate saying I wouldn't have raised taxes running against an incumbent who has raised taxes. And while they shouldn't have raised taxes, the fact of the matter is the candidate that's trying to win your vote is saying, well, I wouldn't have voted to raise those taxes. Okay, what would you have cut? No answer?
And now, for example, is saying, you know, the schools need to pay for fire ser of his fees to the city in this case Tallahassee. Well, but school districts are tax exempt from paying fire service fees. And if somehow magically you tax them, guess what happens. The school board extends that cost to taxpayers in the county. So this particular city commissioner just wants the county to pay for it's You have to personalize this and think deeper
about all the issues. All right, ruminators, welcome to the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is a show number five, two hundred and thirty six. We give you that number so that if you're disappointed in my performance on any given day, you can go to customer service and get a refund for what you
paid for the program. But thanks for joining us. We appreciate it no matter where, no matter how you are listening to us, whether terrestrial radio or iHeartRadio, we greatly appreciate you sharing your time with us, and we make it worth your while with outstanding guests. For example, joining us now is Parker Shepherd. Parker is with the Heritage Foundation. You know, Heritage is kind of a go to for
me when it comes to any number of topics. He's the director of the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation. Parker, good to have you with me. How are you.
Doing excellent this morning? Presson, How are you?
I'm doing terrific. Okay, this is kind of a fun little thing you guys have rolled out, though the news that you get as a result of it isn't necessarily very good. Tell us the reason for creating this tool and website myinflation dot Com.
Yeah, Preston, thanks a lot. I mean, it's always a bit of missed emotions when people use this tool that helps them calculate their personal inflation rate, and they they're both like surprised and shocked and disappointed when they see the results. So we know that inflation has been like the primary economic issue over the past four years, but people really don't have this hold on it because it's just kind of this thing that's happening in the background.
They look at reports coming from the government and so like the last CPI report said over the past year, prices went up two and a half percent, and they're like, no, that doesn't seem right. I go to the store. It seems like prices are going up much faster than that. So, you know, most people don't spend what is in the average CPI bundle, and we made this tool so that they can figure out if you're not buying the average bundle, what is your inflation rate could be different. So you
can put in your budget. You can do groceries, restaurants, your rent, you know, a couple other bills put in there, and you tell us exactly what you're spending and you will get a customized inflation rate of this shows just how much the cost of living has gone up for your spending over the past couple of years.
See, that's the thing I was just talking about it in the segment before we met here Parker, is that the big challenge for so many people is personalizing what's going on in the economy for them. And it's so difficult, I think, for people to understand how Washington is impacting their wallet.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's the really scary thing about inflation that it's this it's almost undetectable. When the government taxes you, when they send you a form you have to fill out, it's in the irs every year, you know what you're paying in income taxes. But the way that inflation works is this. It's it happens when the government spends too much and they need to print money to pay at the difference, and so you don't notice that the government has printed more money, which increases the
supply of money, which makes each dollar worth less. So you don't really notice when they reach into your pocket and take the purchasing power because those dollars, you still have the same number of dollars. It's just that each dollar doesn't buy as much when you go to the store.
Well, yeah, it's like a double barreled shotgun. You've got the actual inflation, and then you've got almost this little subsidiary of it called shrinkflation, where you're paying the same but you're getting a ton less product.
Well, it's another way that companies try to make the price changes not as apparent. So if you go to the store and you're still used to buying like your five dollars for a box of something, and then the same box as five dollars, but it's twenty percent smaller. That doesn't hit you right over the head. In the
same way. You have to pay attention. You have to notice when things like be like twelve slices in a packagcheese and now it's eleven, and they keep cutting it down a little bit every time that that gets incorporated
into some of the statistics on quality. So it's still twice the same per like per weight, but it doesn't register with you if you go in and use saying like okay, well it's the same price for me to get out the door, that that inflation doesn't really hit you until you see it all compile all at once.
Parker Shepherd with me, Director Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation. More to come on The Morning Show with Preston Scott one seven us LA. Final segment here with Parker Shepherd with Heritage Foundation. We're talking about a website, myinflation dot Com. It's as simple as that, and you can go as details you want to go and determine just the real inflation that is impacting your wallet. Parker, you guys at Heritage generally don't do much without trying
to get this in front of members of Congress. Have you gotten any reaction that you can share from anyone in the House of the Senate.
I know we've had very good feedback coming from Rand Paul and Mike Lee that have seen seen the results coming out of our tool, and they were kind of shocked by it as well, and they thought that it was something that their constituents needed to see, just because it really is for most people that are struggling to go paycheck to Patieck just to keep their heads above water, this inflation is something that it really sneaks up on you and you don't really see how much your cost
of living is going up over time.
Yesterday, Parker, we talked about a story Jamie Diamond talking to investors in New York. Of course he's the CEO head of I think it's Chase Morgan. He talked about the worst potential scenario facing this country is stagflation. Can you delve into that a little bit and how that might connect to what we're talking about here.
Yes, if you go back to old economic theory, used to say that there was a trade off between inflation and unemployment and it was just up to the government to pick and choose between the two. But we ran into this problem in the seventies where he broke the theory. He saw persistent high inflation and high unemployment at the
same time. And that happens whenever there's any kind of restriction on the supply side of the economy on firms' ability to go out there and reduce So if the government is running giant deficits like it is at the present, that's putting more money in the hands of people to go out there and buy things. But they can't buy things unless firms are figuring out how to produce stuff.
And right now firms are struggling under the weight of regulations, under things that where the government is getting more involved trying to make it difficult for them to create things for people to buy. So when you get this squeeze coming from the supply side but a juice coming from the demand side, you can see you get a potential stacklationary environment.
If you were to put on your your your turbine and do a little crystal ball for me, is there any scenario out there that begins to push this back or are these prices kind of here to stay now and we now have to just strengthen the economy so that more people can afford it.
Yuh, I really don't think that you will see, you know, prices come back down to where they were prior to the pandemic. Effectively, all of that pandemic spending went out the door and uh, and the government made no effort to trends spending elsewhere to try to pay for it. So effectively, that burst of inflation was was the inflation tax that was taken from everybody's savings and used to
pay for all that pandemic spending. Uh. You know, the best we could do it would be some kind of a return back to stable prices just on the on the new path that we've got h having people's earnings catching up to view this new established price level.
But it but people's earnings have to be done through the marketplace, not through government pressures, which sadly we're seeing because that puts inflationary pressure back on the market.
No.
No, you can see things like California was recently putting in a new increase in minimum wages.
Right and and right.
The spending side, the demand side of the stuff that comes after the fact money isn't isn't real, So you can kind of you can always like, create more, you can create this legislation, but you can't go in the government can't pass a law that makes somebody create more
more value. So when that happens, if you just make the minimum if you raise the minimum wage without making people more productive, that sets up this that shifts the ladder, and so all of the all the wayes eventually will shift and you end up right back where you were before. After inflation comes in and cuts away at the mandated.
Increase, and it's a vicious cycle. Prices continue to go up to and you never gain on the original problem. Parker, great sight. Well done, sir, and thanks for the time this morning.
Yeah, thank you. Everybody. Go to myinsflation dot com and you can find out your inflation rate just how much your cost of living has gone up.
Perfect, Thank you, sir Shepherd. Parker Shepherd with the Heritage Foundation, My guest, seventeen past the hour, twenty two past the hour of the morning Show, Doctor Bob McClure, next hour, manly minutes still to come this hour. One of the big stories in the press box in just a few minutes,
just joining us. We do our best to run this program as kind of an audio magazine where there's just constant turnover and you're flipping the page and there's a new story and a new topic and a new this that or the other, and we try to be very relevant to what's going on in people's lives. For example, a term that some of you, of course you know it, Others you hear it and you're not quite sure what it meant, A life hack, a hack? Huh what is
that it is? Think of mcguiver the television show mcgiver. Mcgiver was a hack specialist. He figured out a way to do X, Y or Z. Life hacks are routine things that happen in our life and someone creates or comes up with, or thinks of or tries out and it works kind of a shortcut, a way around, or way to make it better or easier, whatever the case might be. That's a hack. To those of you that fly with family, this particular mom who's popular on TikTok,
people still use that. I wish you wouldn't, but it's just surrendering our country's sovereignty to the chi cooms. But that's okay. Her name is Jess Darrington. She goes by the UH handle where is Briggs? She lives in Idaho travels with her family. She specializes in travel tips for parents with kids under four. Talk about niche marketing right now. I don't know how TikTok works in terms of, you know, paying somebody. I don't know if you make money on tick.
Do people make money on TikTok? Yeah, Jose's my junior by at least a generation and a half, if not more, and so I have to rely on him to be hip to those things. The video is a hack on traveling on an airplane to create as often as possible a whole row for yourself and your child. There are people going nuts online because they hate it, but she's
not proposing being a jerk about it. She's simply suggesting that when you book your seats, you pick an aisle seat and a window seat, and you leave a seat in the middle. You book one for your child in the aisle or window, and you take the other one, and you leave the middle open, and then you hope for the best that people go, yeah, I don't want to sit in the middle. I promise you I'm not sitting in the middle. That's why I just decided years ago I'm just I fly first class unless it's a
very unusual circumstance. I don't fly very often anymore, but when I do, I'm six four six five. I I don't no, not not not flying economy, just not gonna do it. Just not gonna stuff myself in there and be uncomfortable and be mad when somebody puts their seat back, though they have every right to. I have no problem with that. It's just, uh, my space is shrunk even more.
And and to her credit, old old Jess says, look, if someone ends up showing up and they're like, really, of course we're gonna We're gonna offer to let them have the window or of the aisle seat, it's not a big deal. And so see that's the caveat in all of this that if you're gonna go this route, which does work, she said, it's kind of a coin toss. You run the risk if it doesn't work out for you. The key is being a human being and going ahead and swapping out and not making it a big deal.
It seems as though the solo travelers that did not like this at all were those that experienced somebody who would not trade out. And that's like, Okay, you're a jerk. You did this intentionally to do this, Okay, sorry, fight flight's kind of full. I gotta sit here, so what do you think? Huh So anyway, I'm just look, we're here to help or not. But there's there you go, real life for you. Mom's a little viral airplane seating hack stirs a little debate, but it's there for you.
All right. Twenty seven past the hour, We're gonna come back do a quick reset of the big stories in the press box up on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you want to share a thought with us, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Jose can you see C A n U S E at iHeartRadio dot com. And that's how you reach us. We I. I can't speak for Jose. I do my best to write back if you share a thought, if you're sharing a link, probably not. Maybe give you a little thumb up or a emoji. Maybe a emoji. But I get a few email in the in the course of a week, so I just I do my best. I find a lot
of people are surprised when they do get a note back. Hey, we're we're friends. You you share time with me, I share time with you. We're putts, we're pals. Big stories in the press box. Puff Daddy, then p Diddy, then I don't know, Sean Diddy Combs. Did he do it? I don't know. Arrested following raids, human and sex trafficking are the charges, according to his attorneys, and it's until proven guilty. I would only say smoking fire right, where
there's smoke, there's fire. We'll see. You won't find me taking a lot of time on that. A lot of these people they just they they think they're above the law. And if he's guilty, I hope he spends the rest of his life in prison. Human trafficking is yeah, we'll just stop there. United States Navy has launched a gender neutral submarine. I really don't have much to say. The one of the research assistants at Senate, he's a research assistant supervisor, wrote the line, what could possibly go wrong?
I am of the opinion that there are certain jobs in the military that are highly appropriate for women. I am not a fan of mixing them in close quarters like this. I think it's a mistake. I think it's a horrific mistake because men and women are just wired a certain way. And you know, the last five to ten years have been a giant lesson in this gender dysphoria, that you're wired a certain way. God has created men
and women a certain way. And while nurture can change some of that, how you raise a child, the environment, the things the child's exposed to, can alter the thinking. The internal wiring just isn't changed, and this compromises the safety of the ship having men and women together. Personally, I think you'd be better off having all women in there than men and women. But obviously I would favor all men because look, there's certain tasks that old woman
cannot do there physically, just cannot do them. But anyway, Indiana Toddler dies after ingesting a pill found in a backpack at a thrift store. And the lesson there is parents, if you're a thrift shopper man, check what's in those anything, your mind anything. This child was just playing with backpack and there's this little chewable pill in there, and it, sadly was a pill used subox on, used to treat opioid addiction. It was fruit flavored chewable child ingested it.
The dad made the child vomit, tried to get it out, but it was too late, and the child died four or five days later. And then lastly, Donald Trump crushing Kamala Harris at a Pennsylvania Bakeri's election cookie pole fifty two hundred Trump cookies to five hundred Harris cookies. I didn't say hairy cookies because that would be a reason to not buy. I'm saying Harris cookies. Just say it.
Don't put much into that pole, however, because Trump won the twenty twenty bakery poll as well in this bake shop north of Philadelphia, forty minutes past the on back with more here in the Morning Show. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Here's a guy that some of you know very very well. His name and his m O modis anddi. A lot of you don't. You don't know the name, and I think it's fair to talk
about this because he's talking about it. He's a guy named Leonard Leo, and he's a conservative who is one of the rare conservatives who you could also call an activist. He is using his money and he is trying to quote, crush liberal dominance in corporate America, news, entertainment, the legal system. He gave an interview with Financial Times. I just want to share some of what was gleaned from that interview some quotes. He has a group called the Marble Freedom Trust.
He said, we need to crush liberal dominance where it's most insidious. So we'll direct resources to build talent and capital formation pipelines in the areas of news and entertainment where left wing extremism is most evident. Expect us to increase support for organizations that call out companies and financial institutions that bend the woke mind virus spread by regularly and NGOs non government organizations, so that they have to pay the price for putting extreme left wing ideology ahead
of consumers. Now, he spent more than a couple decades in charge of at the head of the Federalist Society. After Trump lost in twenty twenty, he kind of pushed away from the desk. He's still the co chair, but he founded a group called Marble with a one point six billion dollar donation from an electronic device manufacturing mogul named Barry Side, said to be a counterweight to what he says, is the dark money on the left. He spent about six hundred million in the first three years,
according to financial disclosures. His goal quoting find very leveraged, impactful ways of reintroducing seeing limited constitutional government and a civil society premised on freedom and personal responsibility and the
virtues of Western civilization. Have you heard anything yet you disagree with the group's now funding conservative mission against private institutions opposing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, DEI climate social concerns and investing in and the d banking of politically conservative customers that we talked about that where banks say, oh no, no, no, you manufacture farms, you may not do business here, you have no credit here, your money's
not good here. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no. He also confirmed that Marble has helped fund organizations since twenty twenty one that launched campaigns against companies that are embracing deiesg other initiatives like black Rock, Vanguard, Our, American Airlines, Coca Cola, State Farm, Major League Baseball Ticketmaster among the companies that are embracing all of that nonsense. So here's
my I wanted to bring this up because This is significant. Now, I've never I've never listened to an interview with the guy. I'd heard his name over the years, but I didn't. I'm just really glad that someone with deep pockets is fighting the Bill Gateses of this world, is fighting the Larry Finks of this world, is fighting on behalf of values that matter, on behalf of all of us. Oftentimes, conservatives just pocket their money. That's what a conservative does.
Conservative makes money, invests, it starts other businesses, employs other people people, and they profit. That's why it's supposed to work. But Leo's a guy of principle, and it's exciting to see a counterbalance begin.
Now.
This is a drop in the bucket compared to what the left is getting funding wise, but it's something. It's too bad the Koch Brothers aren't a little bit more. Well, never mind forty seven minutes after the hour, got a manly minute more coming up next.
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Okay, a couple things before we get to the manly minute real quickly. First of all, the cards are coming. They've been the thank you cards that we've talked about. Now. I have a few self addressed stamped envelopes here. I have people that send me notes, but no envelope that self addressed, and so I don't know what to tell you. Send me a self addressed stamped envelope here to the radio station and I will mail you twenty cards free
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play and it plays. There's no commercials or anything, and it's a special message for me to them that I hope is encouraging. And we're doing this so the cards will be in my possession next week, and I'm doing this at my expense and enabling you to make a difference in people's lives by just encouraging them. Everybody. I've played the message for has found it encouraging some even a little emotionally moving, and I hope God will use to really bless and lift up the hearts of those
that needs some encouragement. Good workers need encouraged, and going out of your way and giving this card is a way to do that. So self addressed, stamped envelope. You can email me. I'll reply, and on my reply there's the address. You can send me the envelope, but it has to be self addressed to you and stamped, and then I'll put those cards in the mail to you. All right, simple as that time for a mailely minute. You know what we say around here, mail by birth,
man by choice. This is about raising your son to be a man. I believe it requires nurturing. I think certainly there are some that are wired to be leaders, but I do believe there are qualities that can be inherently placed in all men. Now, this is a very overlooked and tip. Last week we talked about the need to carry an old fashioned handkerchief, keep one cleaned in your pocket, pressed to be available as needed for yourself
or for a lady. Obviously, if it's not been used, you don't have any You know, I would say you teach your son the different ways to tie a scarf. The winner's coming and a young person, a young man wearing a scarf. It I'm telling you it's very cool. It presents an image, but there are a lot of ways to tie a scarf. Look appearance sends a message. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hi, friends, welcome to the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I'm literally turning the page of the Rundown channeling my inner rush with that. Great to be with you this morning, ruminators. Thanks so much. It is the five thousand, two hundred and thirty sixth Show, and please d add back with me in studio the president of the James Madison Institute, Doctor Bob McClure. Doctor Bob, how are you. Good morning, sir, how are you You know? We were just talking. Yeah, you live here too, I do. And the elections, whether
it's state, whether it's national, or whether it's local. You know, Tip O'Neil was right, all politics is local. But the elections are going to be remarkably impactful. They really are.
I mean, you have some really interesting elections in the capital City and I know your audience extends far beyond the capital city, but it matters in the third largest state in the country what happens here in Tallahassee. So you have that at a state level, obviously, you have a presidential election in a US Senate race, and six amendments, of which three or four of those will be incredibly impact.
Full if they pass.
And then nationally you're looking at a US Senate and a House in a presidential race. Right, So you know, elections have consequences, as they say, and so what happens November fifth is going to affect not only the folks in Tallahassee, but also across the state and obviously nationally as well.
Let's kind of do that in order, and let's start with the rock and the smaller pond here in Tallahassee. Because I agree with you. I've not heard anybody else express that thought that what happens in the capital city of the third largest state in the nation echoes, it reverberates, it matters. I have suggested doctor McClure that the legislature needs to do a couple of things. One is, it needs to set a law that says any city that is above one hundred thousand in population must have districts.
Tallahassee is the only city in the state that doesn't have districts. Secondly, you can't settle an election in the primary. You can't have sixteen percent of the electorate deciding something as important as a city commissioner, a city a mayor county commissioner. If there's three people in a race, the top two vote getters, whether it's eighty twenty or fifty forty or whatever it is, go to the general election. Your thoughts, now, I agree with the districts.
I mean, there's no doubt in a city the size of Tallahassee we should have districts. It allows for each area to have a voice, a chance at least have a chance at having a voice, a bully pulpit in their own district.
I think that's very important.
I think we kind of know the history of the August elections and why they happen and driving turnout, and you know, it's a huge advantage for incumbents. And then I so because Tallahassee is the capital city of I would argue the most dynamic state in the country. We have a thousand people moving here today, Preston right. Very diverse, you know, along with Texas and California, the most diverse state in the country.
This is a melting pot. It is, it absolutely is.
And it's also a place where people come the state to chase their version of the American dream. I mean, it really is kind of that place where people decide to move to chase their version of the American dream. In Florida, you know, Palm Beach has become the Wall Street.
Of the South.
That is not my quote. That is from Forbes magazine. Miami has become the new Silicon Valley. That is not my quote. That is a national publication saying that. And so Florida has really become that way. Now we are trickling back towards Tallahassee, and you are the capital city leadership decision making. The things that happen here have national implications.
Bob McClure is the president of the James Madison Institute. Doctor McClure will stay with us for the rest of the half hour. It's ten past the hour. Doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute, long relationship with JMI over the years. You've sat in here once or twice election night. I have, I absolutely have.
It's one of my favorite things to do is to sit in here with you on election night and watch the returns come in old school.
I don't know if I have the stomach to do it this time around. I mean literally, I don't know if my nerves could handle it. Right Before we get to the national stuff, state of Florida has been in a good place. I think the state models a what a balanced budget can do, be what a consumption tax can do over a personal income tax. I think in a lot of ways, the idea of a state being a petri dish for how to work policy and refine it and make it better. Yeah, we've got our problems.
We've got issues to absolutely do. Yeah, what do you think is most important that's going to kind of be settled? Is it the constitutional amendments or is it the legislative makeup and kind of setting the table for who the next governor is going to be.
I think in Florida, the two most important constitutional amendments three and four, legalizing marijuana and the abortion Amendment are the two most impactful from a state standpoint for a couple of reasons. One, the left in Florida has been completely obliterated over the last twenty years. Yeah, okay, from school choice to election integrity to the tax and regulatory environment the left has They are completely boxed in with
nowhere to go. And that is a reflection of the Democratic Party, which reflects the values of the left generally speaking.
Okay, would you say that Florida's success has has enhanced that suppression.
There's no doubt and and and by suppression, you mean good policy is good politics, and that's what's happening here in Florida. We're not you know, Lord helps. Somebody tweets out that you're talking about suppression pressing. We're not talking about oppression or suppression. I'm joking with you.
Sure, yeah, yeah, but we know how people work.
Right, But good policy is good politics. There's a reason a thousand.
People are moving here today. There's a reason why. Uh.
I believe in the census Florida was undercounted. We should have gotten an extra congressional district. But that's another conspiracy theory. Uh we can talk about another day. But Florida has become the place you can you can chase your versus of the American dream. And so whether it's the regulatory environment in taxes, whether it's healthcare, whether it's election integrity, universal school choice, a place to retire, start a business.
Any index that you see in any Fortune magazine, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the state of Florida is always in the top five, and it's usually number one when it comes to the large states, like the top ten larger states. So that's what we see. Good policy is good politics. I tell people all the time, I don't care about being a Republican or a Democrat. To me,
it's about movement conservatism. That is that movement conservatism, that is the courage to make decisions like Jeb did as governor, like some of our speakers and our Senate presidents have done over the last thirty years to make Florida what it is today and what happens.
People are moving here. People are moving here and thus far leaving their politics behind. If they came from a blue state and we're thinking a little bit left, they've changed at it, they would Yeah, no, No.
I mean look at you know, from a from a quantitative standpoint, just look at party registration. Right, from a qualitative standpoint, just look at election numbers. Trump won and look, I'm not here to talk about Trump as you know, as this raging movement conservatism conservative. Trump won Florida in twenty sixteen by one percent. Barack Obama won Florida twice by one percent, Rick Scott governor's race one percent. All of those one percent one percent. Trump won twenty twenty
one Florida by four hundred thousand votes. Ron DeSantis beat Andrew Gillum by forty thousand votes the first time. The second time, he won Florida by more votes than Gavin Newsom won California. Now they may still be counting votes in California, but the reality is, yeah, the reality is that Ron DeSantis won Florida by more votes than Gavin Newsom. So anecdotally qualitative, qualitatively, and quantitatively, the state of Florida.
Is becoming more read.
And by red, I mean movement conservative good policy is good politics.
Because here's the last thing to preston.
Everybody in their private life is a conservative. Yeah, the most liberal left wing person in politics lives their personal life. They want the best schools for their children, they want the most money in their pocket, they want a future for their children and their grandchildren. Those are simple conservative policies. Everyone in their private life is a conservative. It's different in their public lives.
More to come with doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute, My guests here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with you, twenty one past the hour, Dtor Bob McLure, James Addison Institute. All right, November fifth, it's crazy, it isn't. I don't want to put all my cookies in the basket of the bakery in Pennsylvania that says Trump's gonna win, right, because they were wrong in twenty twenty. Right, But do you believe the polling
It would depend on which pole. So I struggle buying that. Suddenly Kamala Harris, who was the first one out in the Democrat primary, who is seemingly not very intelligent, Yeah, has suddenly become the flavor of the month.
No, I think if you look at twenty sixteen, you look at twenty twenty, Donald Trump underpolled by three to four percent, Biden overpolled. So if you look at the races by state by state, in every you know, the important swing states, Biden was up four points six points, six points, seven points different places like that. Okay, And as we all know, we can debate what happened, but it was very, very very close. Let's just leave it there.
Right now, they're basically even depending on the poll. There are polsters that I trust more than others. I think there are polls that drive the news. But I also think there are polsters that are very interested in getting it right, and I'd be happy to share with those with you. But I think today Trump would win, and I think he would win Pennsylvania. I think he would win Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina. I think he would probably
win Michigan today. Now tomorrow all bets are off. But today I think Wisconsin would be very close.
I don't know. I don't know about Wisconsin.
I think there'd be fifty two senators. I don't think they're going to get to fifty three. I think they'd end up with fifty two. They're gonna win West Virginia, that's a gimme. They're gonna win Montana. That puts you at fifty one. And why Maryland. Larry Hogan, former Republican governor of the state of Maryland, is running for the US Senate, and I think he makes it fifty two. Now caucus, Well, no, he's gonna caucus with the Republicans.
Yeah, but he'll be the Joe Mansion of the Republican bark. He will, he will. But that gets into fifty two.
I don't think if you look at Ohio, Bernie Moreno, or you look at Carrie Lake, they are what I'm seeing. They're polling behind Trump in those states. So and then the House, I think the Republicans hold the House with a slim majority today. This is all today. Things change.
If Donald Trump were to win reelection somehow overcome the landslide of opposition in the media in polling, does he face the headwinds in the Congress that he faced the last time or is it a different story.
I think it's a completely different story because this Republican Party, for good or for ill, is not the Republican Party that was caught off guard in twenty sixteen. So you still had the remnants of the Bush, Cheney, Romney McConnell model of the Republican Party. If we just continue to be nice to the media, right, if we just continue to oppose you know, you know, if we be nicer to illegal immigrants, will win and It's like Lucy and
Charlie with the football. They would always lose by three points. Oh, but let's try it again. Trump completely changed that model. He turned it on its head. That Republican Party no longer exists. And you see it by the two Cheneyese who just endorsed Donald Trump in the response on the part of the Republican Party, and so this kind of anger and great, you know, nobody cared. So I think the headwinds would be in the administrative state, not in Congress.
And that is.
Going to be the challenge should Donald Trump win, It's going to be the administrative state pushing back as opposed to a Congress, assuming he carried he has both houses pushing back.
There will be, in my opinion, a requirement for them to address the national debt. Is there a will in your opinion to do that because Trump hasn't talked about it, but it has to happen.
Yeah, we're talking about politicians, Preston.
So that's that's dicey. I mean, it has to be done. You talk about a massive topic that could be boiled down to everybody's home and wallet and credit card, right, and I mean that's a that's a that's low hanging fruit. It is it is.
I think, given this inflationary state, it is a historic opportunity that is a silver lining of what the spending we've been seeing out of DC in the sense that it is an opportunity to address that.
The question in Congress.
Is who's going to lead on it in that area, And the question is in the Trump administration who's going to lead on that? But I do think given inflation and all of the spending, Americans recognize this cannot continue.
Right.
Good to see you, Thanks for having me, Doctor Bob McClure, James Madison Institute. He'll be back with us next month, which will be our final visit before the election. That ought to be fun. We might carve out a little extra time. It's Tuesday here in the Morning Show.
Welcome to the Morning Show with President Scott.
Tomorrow on the program, JD Johnson will join us once again. Charlie will be back. Let me just say that up front, Charlie will be back. He's he's he is stretching himself even even more than normal. But Charlie Strickland will be back next month. But JD kind enough to come in and uh and visit yet again. So Charlie is going to take one more Wednesday visit away and then it'll be back in UH in October.
But J. D.
Johnson will be with me tomorrow and we'll talk personal defense, more stories, more things in the news, to talk about the big stories in the press box. I've been I've been doing everything from Old Karnak the Magnificent Lines to trying to understand how puff Daddy became P Diddy, and I I am betraying my my generational diss just disconnect from Sean Combs's world, and I'm grateful that I'm no part of his world. He's arrested, he's been arrested late yesterday.
You may remember raids of all of his mansions, homes and human sex trafficking, human trafficking, sex trafficking and friends. That is that's evil stuff. Trafficking young girls and perhaps young boys, that is next level evil. And so he'll have his day in court, innocent until proven. But look, you've seen the video of the way the guy beat up his girlfriend hotel right, dragged her literally beat her up,
dragged her down the floor by her hair. You didn't count on that video getting out us Navy launched a gender neutral submarine. Huh huh, As my research super heyer assistant said, what could possibly go wrong?
We are we're.
Facing the Chinese Navy ramping up production of everything from submarines to bases to warships at a historic rate. But we, by god, are focused on gender neutral submarines, not just the attack subs, but the ballistic missile subs. They're all going to be gender neutral moving forward. I have no objection to women serving in armed services in select positions. I have a big time problem because men and women
are wired differently. This is a terrible idea. Indiana toddler dies after ingesting a pill found in a backpack at a thrift store. I shared this because it's a lesson to all of you when you buy at a secondhand store, check every pocket and crevice. They weren't even This wasn't a backpack that was even bought. It was just being handled by their toddler while they were looking at stuff right next to the little girl. They had no idea that inside was this one little pill, suboxon that was
fruit flavored and a chewable. The dad did everything to try and get the girl to vomit it out enough was ingested and in the system that she started having severe complications, hospitalized and died four days later, five days later. Just a horrific tragedy and my heart breaks. But if you're a thrift shopper, cool, make sure before you hand anything to your children. Pockets are checked, backpacks like that, checked,
drawers in cabinets and things. Checked everything. And then, as I alluded to with doctor Bob McClure of the James Madison Institute, Donald Trump is crushing Kamala Harris in the Pennsylvania Bakery election cookie poll fifty two hundred Trump cookies to five hundred Harris. Yeah. Yeah, that's the kind of pulling we put our stock in. Now, I'm just kidding, but it's still fun. Even by the cookies. It's latchals Lockell's l occh e l apostropheas they ship across the country. Bakery.
If you want some Trump cookies, if you want a Harris cookie, whatever. Forty one minutes after the hour, back with more of the Morning Show with Preston.
Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.
If you have not heard, the thank you cards are in production. I will have them next week. You may email me and I will send you the a reply that has our address. You market to my attention and put in your envelope to me, a self addressed stamped envelope, and I will mail you twenty thank you cards that you can give out when you get outstanding customer service. And if you give them all out and you want
some more, you can email me. I ordered about a thousand of them and so, and I'll reorder at some point when I get them in and I'll probably actually play. I think I got to play the audio at some point, don't you, Jose? Should I play that on the air just a little or the whole thing? You gotta be ready. You gotta be ready. You can't ask for you to weigh in on this show and then have you come on. Come on.
So what happened was it is a tear jerker, So you know if you want.
Do you think I gotta play the whole thing or just a portion? I think just a little snippet. Yeah, I don't know where i'd stop it though, a.
Little snippet, you know, because you don't want to spoil it, I guess.
But you're gonna hand I mean, the people that you're giving it to probably aren't listeners of the show.
Yeah, as somebody who's worked in customer service, it was it's really really nice.
So yeah, if you want those, you can send them. Yesterday I did Doom and Gloom story Jamie Diamond talking about stagflation. Here's Bill Gates. Listen to this comment and this is just this is weird. This is weird, Bill Gates and I quote, if we avoid a big war, then yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next twenty five years. What hey, that's on CNBC. What does one have to do with another? If we avoid a big war, the topic was a lot of
unrest today could spark a war. If we avoid a big war, then yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely the next twenty five years. Boy, you sound pretty sure about that, now, don't you? Almost like Anthony Fauci. Well, before COVID rolled out, he promised another pandemic. Of course he ought to know he was funding the research that was creating it. And then he expressed disappointment the country that the world expected to lead during COVID and be
the model fell short of those expectations. Oh, shame on you, you sick, twisted mind. Do you realize that half the population is probably gonna get shots all over again this fall, this winter. I gotta stop forty six minutes after the hour, gout, stop wouldn't be period and keep going this morning show. A couple emails in response to my last segment, Sandy writes, in the connection between a major war and a pandemic
elimination of excess population, that's a good point. That's a very good point, because Bill Gates is a depopulation guy big time, and of course that never includes the people calling for depopulation ever. Ever, great point, Sandy, Thanks for that. Debra Walker wrote in saying high percentage of those willing to get the shots reflects the success of the indoctrination, absolutely,
and it reflects the success of the propaganda. Not just the indoctrination, but there are people that weren't necessarily indoctrinated, but just prevented from knowing the truth about the shots and about alternatives available for care. And it's still the science hasn't changed. There's no shot to stop a coronavirus. There is no shot to stop one it. There is no there is no shot to stop or prevent a coronavirus.
The shots only treat maybe, and if that maybe at the cost of your own oh, I don't know, DNA, your own immune system, your own health. In other ways, it's sort of like getting treated for certain types of cancer with chemo, and you're worry that the chemo is going to kill you. It's sort of like that can't prevent it, you just treat it. Right, Hey, this is fun. The one of the one million dollar winners of the
Mega Millions prize. We talked about the way that there were you know, we didn't have a winner that day, but there were some one million dollar winners that got five numbers, right, they didn't get the megaball. A group has been playing the lottery for three decades and what they did is they would fund their gambling habit with change they earned from aluminum can recycling. Now that's clever, recycling cans, getting some cash and using that to play
the lottery, not your own money. That's brilliant. Anyway, they won one of the one million dollar prizes. I don't know how many people they're subdividing it by, but that's pretty sweet.
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Gold, just gold. This has been a very good week on the Morning show. You know, I'd like to think they all are, but yeah, uh huh. Of course. Doctor Bob McClure with the James Madison Institute, He's always awesome, had her mainly minute segment. Talked to Parker Shepherd with a Heritage Foundation and the website my inflation dot Com. There's a calculator there. People are going nuts. I'm getting email from people that are plugging in their numbers and
they're posting it online and it's just it's awesome. My inflation dot Com. Trump crushing Harrison a Pennsylvania bakery's election key poll. Don't bake on it. I just said that. I'm sorry. US Navy launched a gender neutral submarine. All future nuclear power to tack subs and ballistic Columbia class ballistic subs will be Yeah, gender neutral? Uh puff? Did he? Daddy arrested human and sex trafficking charges, according to his attorneys, Indiana Toddler died after ingesting a pill found in a
backpack at a thrift store. Gotta be careful, Gotta be careful friends. Tomorrow on the show, I've got stories I never got to today, even though we plowed through material. So tomorrow we'll unpack that. We'll do the news of the day, of course, whatever's new, and Jad Johnson will join us from the Town and Training Group our personal defense segment. I offer you some training tips as well. So until then, twenty one hours away. Friends, Thanks for listening, Have an awesome day.