Ep. 5040: Why Am I the Only One Saying This?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thurs. Nov. 2, 2023.

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Episode Transcript

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Five minutes past six am in theEastern time zone five in the Central bright
eyed and bushy tailed. Here weare, Thursday, November the second,
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I impressed in that his grant show
fifty to forty. I don't know, there's just something fun about say that
show fifty forty not so fun sayingday oney sixteen of America held hostage by

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the current resident of the White House. But we move on. Good to
be with you this morning. Moreon this date in history and mere moments.
But we start where you should start. Focus with God early in the
day. Start with him first.John three twenty one. Dear friends,

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if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God. If
you are If you are a personthat wrestles with feeling inadequate, and that

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can stem from a lot of differentplaces. It can come from how you
were raised. You just you didn'thave parents that encouraged you that much.
Maybe you had people constantly just doubtingyou. Maybe you made mistakes. Maybe

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you just kind of cut corners andyou've just held that against yourself for years.
Maybe you're walking in self doubt andself condemnation. Because you are under
a little conviction. Have you shortcircuited God's grace? First of all,

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if this stuff comes from other people, you have to run that through the
filter of who you are before God. You know, how someone's raised,
how their parents speak to them isa huge thing. And maybe somebody said
something to you mom, dad,or even a teacher, a friend,

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and it's just been stinging. It'sjust sitting there and you've just been dealing
with confidence issues forever. It doesn'tmatter what the source is, whether it's
somebody else, you forgive them yourself, forgive yourself to your friends. If
our hearts do not condemn us,we have confidence before God. Refusing to

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forgive, even yourself is a problembecause refusing to forgive only burdens you.
If it's somebody else, you needto forgive, and that's causing you to
have problems. You're not hurting thatother person by harboring the unforgiveness. You're

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hurting yourself and yourself only if thatperson's you and you've just you're just walking
around feeling like the weight of theworld is on your shoulders because of how
you view yourself. You got toforgive yourself and move past it. Listen
to what it says in Psalm seventyone, verses one through five. In

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you, Lord, I have takenrefuge. Let me never be put to
shame. In your righteousness, Rescueme and deliver me. Turn your ear
to me and save me. Bemy rock of refuge, to which I

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can always go. Give the commandto save me, for you are my
rock and my fortress. Deliver me, my God, from the hand of
the wicked, from the grasp ofthose who are evil and cruel. For
you have been my hope, sovereignLord, my confidence since my youth.
Wooh, that's good, good stuff. Good way to start Thursday. Here

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on the Morning Show with Rustin ScottBusy Thursday. As always, Steve Stewart
joins us. We'll talk to CarlSteinbeck. Get an update on the Charlie
Aedelson trial. Day five. Watcheda lot of it yesterday again, just
furiously write notes. Fascinated by someof the analysis I heard going on around

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around the testimony by experts, wellalleged experts on court TV. Fred Lucas
joins us. The book The Mythof Voter Suppression, talk about that as
well. Of course, you getthe big stories in the press box and
much much more. Stick around,Get yourself a cup of coffee, some
hot tea little hot coco. It'schilly outside, and it is the Morning

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Show with Preston Scott. The MorningShow with Preston Scott on news Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA. Coming upto twelve minutes past the hour here on

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the Morning Show. I can't believeit. The Resident and the Vice Resident
kicking off a strategy to combat Islamophobiain America. Are you seeing a bunch

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of attacks on Islamis mosques and businesseshere? Because I'm not. I'm seeing
Jewish synagogues and businesses being attacked andvandalized. I'm seeing Jews being threatened with
their life. What the heck?Before we get to this state in history,

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you realize we are witnessing what itwas like just before Hitler started to
massively focus on Jews. This isthe same kind of stuff that was bubbling
up. We don't learn. Weare stupid people as a race. I

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don't know why God just doesn't justgo It's start over. Seventeen ninety five.
James K. Polk, eleventh USPresident, born in Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, North Carolina eighteen sixtyfive. Warren Harding twenty ninth president born

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in Morrow County, Ohio, oras well, I won't make fun Ohio,
Missouri, Ohio, Miami eighteen eightynine, North Dakota and South Dakota
become the thirty ninth and fortieth states. How cool is that? On the

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same day twins born on November two? That's cool. On this date in
nineteen twenty and one of the firstradio reports of a presidential election, Katika
Pittsburgh reports that Warren G. Hardinghas defeated James M. Cox. That

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would be like the ultimate set oftrivia questions. Who came in second in
presidential races and didn't win? Icouldn't listen many. Howard Hughes in nineteen
forty seven pilots his gigantic spruce goose. He called it to Hercules. It
was dubbed the spruce Goose by themedia and he hated it. It's only

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flight lasted about a minute near LongBeach. There's video of it. It's
pretty cool because of the sheer sizethat was. Imagine a football stadium in
length as the width of the planewingtip to wingtip roughly imagine that taking off

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like turn dope Campbell sideways, ifyou will, And that's the wings and
that size take. It's just it'sI've seen it in person once when it
was in Long Beach. I wantto say it was. It was right
by the Queen Mary. I thinkthe Queen Mary one or two we married

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the second maybe the ship and whichwas converted into a hotel. The Spruce
Goose was just awe inspiring. Justit's like seeing Noah's Ark in northern Kentucky,
the arc. It's it's like seeingthat it is. It is odd,
it jaw dropping on inspiring. Andthat's not even our road trip idea.

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Maybe it ought to be. Idon't know. Fifteen minutes past the
hour, get started here on TheMorning Show with Preston Scott. Twenty one

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past the hour. I need someoneto help me out here. Hit me,
Oh, hit me. I'm readingan article here by Sky Sherman with
Travel and Leisure. It was flaggedby the lead research assistant of The Morning
Show. Everything you need to knowabout writing Florida's bright Line train from Orlando
to Miami, and the headline isFlorida's incredible new high speed train now goes

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from Orlando to Miami, and Iwas one of the first on board and
sky guessing it's a She describes thetrip, which terminates inside the Orlando International
Airport. So you're going from Miamito Orlando, or Orlando back to Miami.

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And it used to, I guess, stop at West Palm and now
it moves on to our Orlando.Allegedly it's gonna go to Disney, maybe
even to Tampa. I don't know. And as I look through this,
the premium ticket is one hundred andforty nine dollars for the whole route,

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one way, and that gets youan exclusive lounge in the station and a
designated car on the train. Premiumgets you free food and drink in the

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station and on board priority seating,complimentary checked bag. If you don't have
premium, it costs you twenty fivedollars a bag to bring a bag with
you. Cars are sleek fast.They run about one hundred and twenty five
miles an hour at the most.Takes two hours to go from Orlando to

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West Palm Beach and three if you'regoing to Miami. Now here's my question.
They're running fifteen round trips a daybetween Orlando and Miami hourly northbound and
southbound to departures early in the morningto late at night. One way fairs
started seventy nine dollars for adults,thirty nine for kids. Premium fares start

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at one forty nine. So here'smy question, how can this make money?
How can this be profitable? It'sthe same amount of time I just
clocked it on Google Maps here fromOrlando International to Miami driving driving is three

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hours forty seven minutes. And that'sif you're going to absolute speed limit,
right, if you're going the thequickest, shortest route. That's what I
mean. What's Orlando to West PalmOrlando two West Palm Beach two hours thirty

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five minutes? Factor in, okay, parking at Orlando International Airport or wherever
you get parking in Miami waiting loading, going unloading. And here's my big
one. And then what yeah,So let's just say you're going Miami to

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Orlando. All right, You're nowin Orlando, you're at the airport.
Now what you're renting a car?Why would a Florida resident pay whatever?
Certainly, I mean, even ifyou buy the single one way ticket,

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that's twice as much as you wouldspend on gas for two to three hours
of driving time. And then whatsee that's my point. You get there
and then what you're stuck. Yougotta get a car. You gotta get

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an uber, you gotta get ataxi, you gotta rent a car.
Who the heck is gonna do that? This would only be valuable if they
were going one hundred and fifty milesan hour or faster, and you cut
off like an hour of time.But even then, See, this is
what honestly, this is what RickScott got right. We subsidize all of

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our rail ways across the country exceptone place, the North East. Why
because everything's so condensed. Yeah,the rest of America is too spread out
for us to have rail travel likethis. You get somewhere, you get
on a little metro and off yougo on another train or subway or mass
transport, and you walk to whereyou go. You not, you don't
drive in the Northeast much by comparison, This isn't the Northeast. This is

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I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you now, I hope this works out. I
need to know who's paying for this, because I don't get it. I'm
open to be proven wrong. Imean, look, bullet train, I
mean cool, high speed rail fun. I mean, wooo, you know

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it's the monorail at Disney Straight whatever, only a whole lot faster, probably
six times faster. I don't know, It's just this doesn't make sense to
me. Am I alone. Youknow anything more about this? President Atiheartradio
dot Com, Preston Scott, door do not? There is no try.

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On news Radio one hundred point SEVENBUFLADemocrat mayors begging Biden for help with
migrant surge Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York. They

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want more than one point four billiondollars. They want five billion dollars.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I am Preston. That is Grant
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Uh. Democrats, man, yougotta love them. Let's not try
to solve the source of the problem. Let's just spend money on the problem
in each individual city, and let'sdo all we can to try to turn
them all into into legal voters.That's what That's what Eric Adams is doing

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in New York. This is insanityanyway, good to be with you.
I mentioned earlier the Resident and theVice Resident announcing a plan, a committee,

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a group. Maybe she's the czar. Maybe maybe Kamala Harris is the
tazar of of this new plan tocombat Islamophobia. You know, Grant watches
the news. Grant, am Imissing stories here of Islamic mosques under attack

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and being vandalized and Islamic owned businessesbeing attacked and vandalized. Am I missing
it? Yeah, I'm I'm uncertain. I don't know. I mean,
seriously, is it happening? Isthis a thing that we need the Resident
and the Vice Resident to appoint acommittee and a group, a task force.

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We need a task force, SweetLord almighty. Meanwhile, it would
appear the Democrat Party is tearing itselfasunder only for the worst of reasons.
Half the party, it would seem, once to attack Jews in Israel.

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The other half wants to defend them. It's it's insane. The left is
gone nuts. All this is doingis exposing it's it's bringing to light the
reality of how intolerant the left is. Joe Biden out there is apparently enraged

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over the New York Times coverage ofwhat's happening over in the Middle East,
enraged over the coverage of the Gazahospital thing, which wasn't. Other big
stories in the press box. Americansfalling behind on their auto loan payments on

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a record pace. Repossessions have tickedhigher, skyrocket prices up for used and
new cars. That's what's interesting.Normally, when when new car prices,
when when used car prices are up, used are are down, and vice
versa. But apparently the price ofnew car ours is so high that forces

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demand on the used car market,and so it's it's now. But the
percentage of OTTO borrowers at least sixtydays late or more on their bills,
according to Fitch, is six pointeleven percent. It's the highest default level
in nearly three decades. Cars aregetting repolled all over the place. And

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then there's this a shooting at anapartment complex in the center of Brooklyn Flatbush
Gardens. A step father and hisstep son came out. A dude was
banging on the door because apparently theywere playing music loud inside their apartment.

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Dude pulls a gun and shoots himin the back and kills them both.
They caught the guy. He's beenshot and killed by police. He pulled
a knife on on them. Myquestion is this is a classic example of
black on black crime. And BLM'sgot nothing, Barack Obama's got nothing.

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No one's saying anything about it.Am I wrong? See? I'm that
guy that believes all lives matter,unborn lives that are alive, that's a

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life. Everybody's life matters until youforfeit it by doing something heinous like taking
the life of another, and thenit's up to a jury of your peers
to decide your fate within the frameworkof the law. But you know,
I thought black lives were supposed tomatter. Why isn't Black lives matter speaking

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out and why haven't they spoken outabout black lives being snuffed out through abortion,
through black on black crime? Becauseblacks overwhelmingly target other blacks. They
are exceptions. But that I mean, if you really want to preserve black

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lives, that's what you start dealingwith, right. But see that that
whole movement's based on lies and it'sfull of cowards, and so that's that's
what happens. They ignore the obvious, They ignore where you can make the
biggest impact. Bobby Knight, Hallof Fame basketball coach passed away yesterday,

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age of eighty three. Mercurial,no doubt about it, But what a
coach he could coach. He wastough, no doubt about it. Old
school Army, started army, thenbuilt a dynasty in Indiana. There's a

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whole other side of Coach Knight thatI was fortunate enough to know about because
when my dad was having some veryvery difficult times physically with his health,
Bobby Knight reached out to my dadand was like incredible in offering help and

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encouragement. And when I wrote toCoach Knight thanking him, he wrote a
very kind note back, and I'llnever forget it. It's just like I
said, Mercurial had some tough moments, but allim coach absolutely brilliant coach A

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couple of the lodges and ends.The Pro jiu Jitsu League American Brazilian jiu
Jitsu. The North American Grappling Associationhas banned men competing against women, So
if you have male DNA, you'renot doing jiu jitsu against women. Thank

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you. It's a start. It'sit's not a huge league, but it
is a league. And it ispro and it does matter. It's a
start. Just say no. AdamKinsinger, he's got a new book out
called Renegade. He of course isa CNN Republican. That's another way of

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saying a rhino. Interesting. Hisbook entitled Renegade, and he's trying to
portray himself as as a rebel tothe Republican orth Doxy it's interesting. In
this article by Tim Graham, renegadeis defined in some dictionaries as a person
who abandons a cause or organization,usually without right, like a mutineer.

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That kind of sums it up,doesn't it. Adam Kinzinger, ladies and
gentlemen. And then there's this holdon case breakers, the case breakers.
I've had some of those guys onthe show over the years. The disappearance
of Amelia Earhart and some other stories. They think they know where Jimmy hoff

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is buried. They believe they havethat nailed down. I'm going to share
the rest of that story tomorrow.Where's Jimmy HOFFA No, it's not in
New York and where they claim heis, and they're trying to exoom dig
up the location will surprise you.Get to that tomorrow the rest of that

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story in the morning show with PrestonScott Thays. Gentlemen, right here on
our stage. Who's you welcome Today'sday? If you missed the announcement yesterday,

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Today I'm the Glenn Beck Show teno'clock Eastern, nine o'clock Central.
Glenn will play the last Beatles songever recorded for the first time. It's
a little bit of a misnomer tocall it the last Beatles song. It

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is now a Beatles song. Itwas originally written by John Lennon, written
and recorded and feature George Harrison onguitar. But what they've done is they've
added John's widow granted permission for thesong to be released, and with Ringo

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playing the drums, Paul McCartney doingthe keyboards. I don't know if they're
doing added vocals. I don't knowif George did any added vocalists. The
vocalists were always John and Paul,and then George would kind of sing in
with them as well, but thelead vocalists were always John and Paul.

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I don't know if there are addedvocals, but it's a thing. It's
the first song of the Fab fourtogether in Forever I mean, yeah,
So there you go, and don'tforget. You can listen to the entire
Beatles catalog whenever you want on theiHeartRadio app. Just look up Beatles,

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simple as that. Start listening wheneveryou want, like right after the show,
not now, if you're just tuningin. This is an audio magazine
format, so we don't really stickeraround on a stick on one subject all
day long. That's not that's notour thing. I find that boring,

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and so we try to jump arounda little bit. We've been, I
guess, picking off and on onon general gen Z's Zoomer, Yeah,
Zoomers. You know, I've gota story sitting over here in a stack
about gen Z's actually now seemingly areanti woke. They're going the opposite direction.

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They're they're over it. I'm justsaying there's a story out there that
that that that the generation known asZoomer's gen Z hate all this political correctness
by a pretty significant margin. We'llsee, we'll see does the pendulum push
back. I don't know. Onething is pretty consistent though, is stories

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about gen Z and working. Gotanother one here Washington Examiners Kaylie McGee,
White Agen zer On with Charles Paingen Z's discovering the real World. It
never gets old. And I saythis as someone who is gen Z,
and they're shocked at the idea youactually have to work a full time job

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in order to make money. Andshe focused in on a TikTok video that's
kind of gone viral about a younglady stressing despairing over the fact that she
doesn't have time to do anything afterworking her nine to five job. I
want to shower, eat my dinner, go to sleep. I don't have

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time or energy to cook my dinnereither. Like I don't have energy to
work out, and that's out thewindow. Like I'm so upset. Nothing
to do with my job at all. But it's like the nine to five
schedule is just crazy. That's aquote from the viral video. McGee calls

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them COVID kids. Last couple ofyears of high school, even college was
all remote and so they don't knowwhat to do. They don't know how
to develop a work ethic. Soand she said, what's government, what's
everyone doing? Student loan forgiveness,just teaching people. According to Resume Builders,

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seventy five percent of managers business leaderssay gen Z anyone born from ninety
seven later more difficult to work withthan other generations. Forty nine percent of
business leaders and managers surveyed said itwas difficult to work with gen Z all
or most of the time due tolack of communication, skills, effort,
motivation, even technological skills. Socome on, zoomers. I know zoomers,

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listening to this show, you aremore than likely guaranteed to be the
exception to that rule. Why well, because you listen to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, You're engaged,your mind is working. It's good on
you back with our two of theMorning Show with Preston Scott of the Morning

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I don't have no idea why Idid that. It's it's November two
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You subscribe and get that paper.You will be better for it.
You'll just be a better person becauseyou have it. We're going to just
tank the whole segment, right,here because we're going to start with sewage.
We're gonna gett this out of theway, We're gonna put up Is
that what we all want to dowith sewage, get it out of the
way, to put a bow onthis. Okay. So this started back
actually October first had a major spillon the Northeast Capital Circle Northeast in Mayhe

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Okay, define spill. Okay,there's a break and a pipe. Okay,
thousand gallons. It was a milliongallons of wastewater. Okay. So
what happens is, look, we'vegot watchdog groups around, which are great.
Hey, you know, it's somethingthat you've got to have for accountability.
And so when these things happen,you know, these are opportunities to

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make this issue, you know,in the forefront, people focus on it
and so but what sometimes happens toois people go a little you know,
too far. They start talking aboutthe underground utility infrastructure, you know,
how it is just being neglected.Then you get the progressives to say,
this is the result of all thegrowth in the northeast part of town,

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you know, and so they startthey and so what I like to do
being in it, former engineers gogather numbers the way, does Leon County
really have a problem. Now,look, we don't want any wastewater system,
all right, but comparably speaking,where are we They only want that
in New York City exactly. Andso the I'm wrestling with my earphones here,

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Yeah, I can tell which it'sreally struggling here today they were good,
We're good now, snug snug.But so anyway, I found the
data that there's great data that thattracks every county in the state of Florida
in terms of the volume of spillsthey have on a basis. So we
got it. We have TALIS reports, got a chart up. We went
looked at the counties that were comparablein size to Leon, five other counties,

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and we found out that basically we'rein the middle of the pack,
if not a little bit better thanthe middle of the pack in terms of
the volume of spills. Now again, if you look, what we did
is we compared to you know,obviously counties that are same in population,
and we looked at the annual spillsand you and then we then we also
measured so we have an average overthe last eleven years which you can see.

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And then we also looked at thenumber of years you had over a
million gallons and number of spills,and the number of years you had over
five million. Well, thankfully talaHassi or Lean County none over five million,
but four over a million. Andthen you can see the average where
we're in the middle of the pack. Now, all this does is give
you some context to talk about this, because there are some concerns about transparency

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in the sense of notifying people whenyou have problems. The other thing is
the amount of money you spend onthis issue. Everybody has the set priorities.
Now we haven't looked at that yet, and we may we may be
the next issue we look at.You see that Alachua County, which is
Gainesville, does the best in thatgroup, and so you might want to
look and try to figure out why. But again, this puts it in

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context. And I never really wetalk about the responsibility of local government and
public safety comes. Well, ithas to be first. Public safety is
first. You look at it.But you know something that we've overlooked and
this is not part of the generalfund. This is a separate business unit.
But under you underground utilities is veryexpensive. I mean, there's a
the budget. The capital budget everyyear for underground utilities is like near one

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hundred million dollars a year that they'respending up maintenance, upgrading pipes. You
saw the Beton Hill project right wherebeent Hills was closed from US year.
They go in there and they're replacingpipes. So this is a very big
part of what local government does.And so I want to make sure when
you hear these things. Oh youknow we had this the underground and utility
is being a system, is beingignored, is causing all this environmental damage.

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I mean, you want to putit in proper context. And so
we'll continue. You know, wewe've had articles where we've interviewed both the
Watchdogs and the City of Tallahassee managerof underground utilities. And look, it's
a challenge. I mean, you'retalking some pipes here in Leon County.
You're seventy eighty years old, andso you have to keep an eye on

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it. Do you think terminology semanticsplays a role, Steve, because it
seems to me that when I hearspill, I think trucks, I think
tanks as opposed to leaks. Yeah, breaks in pipes, yee. What
I'm saying I think you know,a pipe burst is sort of how they
report this, and then that arethere are leaks too. I mean,
you look at the size of thesespills. A million Gallonsville is a major

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pipe burst, right, you knowyou have other things that are not as
I guess I wouldn't call that aspill though, I guess that's my point.
I would call that a leak.And I think there is a difference
because spillage is is something that youdo on purpose. There is a well,
I mean, if a pipe breaksin our in our kitchen back here,
that's one thing versus it overflowing fromthe sink because it's backed up,

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right, I guess is what I'mgetting it. And I guess I'm bringing
that up because I just I'm curioushow how counties, cities even manage to
observe and know that do they knowthat there's a leak. We're gonna pick
that up, picking up on thatwhen we come back. More sewage to
come on the Morning Show. It'sThe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Some

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of you know that I specialize insewage. This was going to be one
segment, Preston, and now we'veleaked in. We've leaked into two or
have we spilled We'll be spilled overinto two. Okay, charter review.
Look, this is the charter reviewprocess. We've talked about a couple of
times. It's something that doesn't happenvery often. A little concerned about where

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we're headed on this, and I'mnot sure. I've tried to get a
couple of answers. I've watched ameeting so nobody else had to. And
this is the city. This isthe city. The charters, the you
know, it's the constitution for thecity, and it only gets changed by
ballot initiatives, and ballin isias cancome from the elected officials or can come
from citizens getting signatures like the IndependentEthics Board. And then what happens is

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every now and then you're supposed toalthough it's not prescribed in the city charter,
they're trying to change every ten years. You put together committee to go
out and say, hey, look, anybody think that the charter should be
changed because things change over years.Methods of elections was one of the big
issues. Now, the one ofthe things I'm a little concerned about,
and I'm not sure I understand.I'm trying to get to the bottom of

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is that this. It seems likethey took a vote on some issues that
they want to address. But Ithought that the whole reason for a citizen's
Review committee is to get input fromcitizens and if you see an overwhelming need,
they report back to the City Commission. City Commission has the ultimate authority
to put it on the ballot becausethis is not a citizen led initiatives.

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You're going through this committee. Butit seems to me that the progressives on
the City Commission are fighting with theother three commissioners about the scope of this.
And I don't think there should beany constraint on the scope. It
should be, Hey, we're goingto get input and then eventually the politics
of it's going to work out becausethe City Commission has the ultimate say of
what they're going to do. ButI'm a little concerned that they're they're that

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it seems like the majority is tryingto limit what the Citizens Review Committee can
The majoritator, Yes, that wouldbe Mayor Daily Uh. Diane wims Cox
and Curtis Richardson voted three to twoto sort of limit to define the scope.
Well, the scope should be whateverthe citizens are talking about what do
they want it to be. Well, they're talking about methods of elections,

(39:22):
the primaries, you know, thenumber of commissioners that change from five to
seven. The one concern, andthis is a great segue here that I
saw, is that nobody is interestedin talking about city districts, which I
think is a major problem. Andthis has becomes this again misinformation. You
know, as we've talked I thinkwe've talked about here previously, is that
the Leon County Democrat Party, whichis headed up by the progressives Matt Lowe's

(39:45):
aid as the chairman, they calledthe city districts, wanting city districts a
right wing talking point. And againI know this gets in the weeds,
but city districts is where you haveIt's like the county, you have districts
where you elect people. The citynow alects everybody at large, which is
out of the ordinary. It's theoutlier. We're the only alleged large city

(40:07):
in Florida that does it this wayexactly. But they and they don't want
they don't want to change it becauseit dilutes power, it distributes power around
the city. Progressives would never tohave a shot at controlling the City Commission
if you had districts. The problemis that Curtis Richardson is against it.
Diane Williams Cox is against it becausethey view it is maybe limiting minority seats,

(40:29):
and that's what Commission Mattlow is feeding. Bill Proctor would argue against that.
All you got to do is goright across the street and look at
Leon County where you have five districtsand two at large and you have three
African Americans. What it does onthe City Commission is it dilutes geographic diversity
and ideological diversity. And so I'mreally frustrated, as you can tell in
my voice with this. And ultimatelythe only response to the Northeast has which

(40:53):
does not have representation on the CityCommission is either d ANX, which is
the first step, or to createanother news I know, and I again,
I you know, it would beeasy just to do the right thing,
but it looks like we're coming upagainst it again, Preston, and
we're gonna have to, you knowagain fight misinformation and then move from there.

(41:16):
So am I to take it?Then that Commissioner matt Low and Commissioner
Porter don't want any limitation to whatthe citizens review. They want to Their
issue is they want to open upthe Independent Ethics Board. They want some
stronger language on ethics in terms oflobbying. I'm in the process of looking
at this too, because look,a lot of the stuff that they talk
about is, you know, it'semotional stuff. They're trying to make issues

(41:38):
out of. The Independent Ethics Boardhas an issue with the lobbyist and trying
to define when someone is a lobbyistversus a consultant, and they want to
deal with that more with Steve Stewartnext on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
this is where we should in thelight. The darkness caused the roaches

(42:04):
to flee. Steve's do her withme? Executive editor of Tallassei Reports.
Do you really want to know what'sgoing on in town? This is what
you read tallasse Reports dot com.Subscribe to get the paper. Let's talk
about local races. Yes, acouple of elections. They're raising money now,

(42:25):
people are raising money, they havefiled to run. It's early,
it gets early and earlier. Theelections are next year. City Commission.
Obviously we've talked about this. Twoseats that are going to be in the
you know the focus. Jack Porter, she's got a couple of opponents good,
and then Curtis Richardson is running andhe uh dot Edmund Johnson, who

(42:46):
is a former mayor of Cruise.That's the name change. Okay, yea,
But she's the one that is hasalready stated she's the third vote with
Jeremy matt Low and Jack Port rightexactly, So again, raising money are
going to be again very very instrumentalin the direction of the city, County
County so District four Commissioner Brian Welch, who upset longtime commercialer Brian Dolos.

(43:12):
I guess it would be four yearsago next year at the time the election
has got a challenger and you knowhow to pronounce the name, Isaac Montia,
right, and he is a chiropractorin town. Has raised I think
the last I looked, thirty fortythousand dollars. Yeah, he's done really
well in a very short window.Right now, Commissioner Welch has raised probably

(43:32):
seventy eighty thousand. Obviously an incumbentmakes it a little bit easier, but
he also started raising money last spring. Well, no exactly, I mean
again, the power of the incomeand see what we all know about that.
So look, this is campaigning haschanged since you know, I got
involved, you know, twelve thirteenyears ago with a social media Now you
know remember walking neighborhoods post COVID,That's not really a thing anymore. And

(43:55):
so a lot of this is donefrom social media. And so it'll be
interesting to see what happens in Districtfour, the lone moderate to conservative voice
supposed to be on the un CountyCommission because of districts, represents that area
that is that is east of Meridianin the northeast. I'm in the county,
so it's a big area. Andso we'll we'll see what happens with

(44:16):
those with those races. Anything withthe school board, school board, we
did a story on absenteeism. Westill and this is this is but anyone
running? Oh running, I'm sorry, And when we segue to it,
yes, so Lorie Cox has gotto run again because she took over an
unexpired term of someone who resigned.And then also uh, because Roseanne Wood,

(44:38):
Yes, Roseanne Wood is up.She's running for election. She is
running well, I since her finalterm. No, there's no term limits,
so I assume that she will berunning again. I thought school boards
had term labit she got to getgranted. I think their grandfathered in if
you're in office. Yeah, butwhat I'm saying is, uh, there
there is a limit now, right, and so her last term would be

(45:00):
her first, wouldn't it now?But I think the way they worked that
is that if you're already in office, it starts with the next election.
Okay, So we don't know ifwe have challenges for her, No that
I haven't seen any there. AndLorie Cox, the Democratic Party is obviously
recruiting heavily on social media trying toget someone to run against her. Okay,
So anyway, all marks wasn't available, so they're going. As it

(45:22):
relates to the schools schools ABSENTEASM,we did a story that I think is
going to get a little bit moreexposure. Uh. And it's funny how
the story came up. I waswatching the school board meeting and someone commented
about absenteeism a speaker and it sortof piqued my interest because the numbers that
she said really alarming, alarming,and I verified them and we did a

(45:45):
story and so I'm starting to diginto this, and this obviously is a
national problem. But if you lookat the story that we did leon you
know, I always talk about movingthe needle and comparing things. So back
up, back up to about twentyseventeen, we were tracking state average on
attendance, but it started to gohigher than the state average, and then

(46:08):
COVID hit and it went obviously,it went from like ten percent to twenty
two percent, and now we areabove the state average in terms of absenteeism.
And so it's something to look atbecause they track the number of days
that are missed and present. Ifyou're missing, you're we're paying teachers to

(46:29):
teach, and if students and ifstudents aren't showing up, then we're paying
people we're paying to teach students aren'tthere, and so it becomes ineffective.
But the bigger question is why,you know, why are we all of
a sudden above the state average?Do we did we chase being done about
this exactly? I will I willsay it's on it's on the radar since
this story came out, and we'redigging into specific schools because if that's on

(46:52):
average, you've got to look atsome of these schools. They may have,
you know, they may have fortyfifty percent absenteeism. So anyway,
we're gonna continue to dig into thatbecause I think that's an important thing that
just think about this, you know, grades, graduating. How do you
graduate if you're missing more than twentyone days a year? Not supposed to
be able to? Yeah. Well, On a related note, Leonncounty Schools

(47:13):
is advertising for truant officers. No, I'm just kidding, no sense.
Nobody knows what those are. Yeah, what is that? Thanks for the
time, Thank you, President SteveStewart. Tellassier Reports, Subscribe Tellassrreports dot
com. We come back. CharlieAedelson Trial, Day five. I Love
summary with Carl Steinbeck. Next onthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's

(47:40):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.Thirty five minutes past the hour, It's
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.On Preston Show number five and forty.

(48:00):
That's Grant Allen over there, andwe are joined today to take a look
at the trial of Charlie Edelson.Day five by Carl Steinbeck, private practicing
attorney. He's been a prosecutor,state public defender, military defense counsel.
But most importantly he's been our guest. Hello carl Good morning, Chresten.

(48:22):
What surprised you yesterday in day five? If anything, well, I think
everything went really well. What probablysurprised me the most, which really defeats
this whole extortion thing, probably asgood as anything, is the fact that
Charlie we heard him on these wiretaps saying that he has a birthday gift

(48:45):
for someone, and it was prettyobviously he was talking about Sigfredo and a
correspondent like around two days of hisbirthday and the night surprise inside of it
probably could have been the five thousanddollars that was demanded by the undercover don't
know that for sure, but itjust totally shows that there was not any

(49:06):
extortion attempt by any of the hitmanthrough Katie against him. So the government
just has an absolute rock solid case. I mean, the defense has even
admitted that he's paid for the hit, although he's saying it was atter fact
and extortion. I mean, you'rethat close to it already. So all
the jury has to do is lookat everything he's said, all those hours

(49:28):
and hours of wiretaps and easily concludethat this is not any kind of extortion
or blackmail attempt and that he isin fact guilty. Charlie Aedelson is the
former brother in law of Dan Markel, who was murdered nine and a half
years ago, just about five minutesfrom our studio. Carl And for those
that may have missed some of theopening segments we've done, the defense has

(49:52):
been claiming that Charlie and Donna,but focused on Charlie has been a victim
of extortion. And I feel likeGeorgia Kappelman and maybe she was prepared for
that defense, maybe she wasn't.All I know is it seems as though
she has been systematically absolutely crushing thatnarrative, and it's allowed her to introduce

(50:16):
all these opportunities that Agolsen's had toreport it to law enforcement and contrast it
with what they in fact have done, so that if the fence goes there
moving ahead, she will she'll havethe opportunity to reinforce the notion that that's
garbage a second time on jurors,won't she. Oh? Absolutely, I

(50:37):
mean it is total farcicle. It'sit's total total garbage, comes across as
totally fictionalized because they have nothing towork with. It's really pressing her.
Like a DNA case. It's liketrying to argue against DNA. The best
way to prove something if it's notDNA is through the defendant's own words usually,
And here we got hours and hoursthat him talking like a criminal under

(51:00):
over to his mom, talking incode to his Katie as well. So
why would you talk in code ifyou were bumped and you're innocent. People
only do that when they're actually thecriminals and they're suspicious of law enforcement having
eavesdropping on them. So it's soabundantly clear anybody can easily cease through this.

(51:21):
And I think the jury's only goingto be out, you know,
probably less than an hour ninety minutesand come back with a guilty verdict on
all charges. Yeah, to justkind of finish up that point. You
don't have kind of almost at timesplayful exchanges with Katie meg Banua if she's
extorting from you, and that's whatI heard tell her, I love you.
There's flirtatious and this going on intheir conversations. She's talking about,

(51:45):
hey, maybe you can adopt mykids, and anyway, it was it
was just so abundantly clear that thereis zero extortion. There's no behavior that's
consistent without any of the parties.Carl Steinbeck with us, and he's got
a private practice in McKinney, Texas. Tried nearly one hundred cases to verdict.
Served as lieutenant colonel with the USJudge Advocate General Corps. And again

(52:12):
our guest analyst here on The MorningShow with Preston Scott mortcom The Morning Show
with Preston Scott on News Radio onehundred point seven WFLA attorney Carl Steinbeck with
us a few more minutes this morningas we talked through day five yesterday,

(52:36):
the happenings in the trial of CharlieAdelson. I was a little surprised.
I know that you make appearances,carl on Court TV. I was surprised
yesterday Judge Ashley Wilcott, hosting afternoonsegments, kept saying, the State's not
there yet with regard to all thistestimony. And I'm trying to figure out

(52:57):
where in the world she's seeing ahole in the case. Yeah, I'm
not. I'm not tracking that atall. I don't I don't know who
that person is, but they mustnot be following the case in enough detail
because the evidence is overwhelming and it'sit's abundantly clear, and from what I'm
hearing of folks in the uh inthe room there as spectators, the jurors

(53:21):
are getting it too, and justalso seeing some of the stuff that Charlie
has said on those wire taps,the way he's disparaged women that are single
with kids and saying that nobody wouldwant to date on they're not dating material
and whatnot. There was even someresponses by some of the single mothers on
the jury. I know I wastold, so it's it's not going good

(53:45):
for Charlie, and I think theevidence is going to bear out with a
guilty verdict as soon as today perhaps, So no, no, no doubts.
In my mind that's what the outcomewill be. At times, speaking
of Charlie, you know, thecamera is on him almost all the time
in the coverage of this. It'sa split screen. There are times it's

(54:06):
as if he's displaying what i'll callmisplaced confidence, almost enjoying this kind of
smiling, and I think he's hisworst enemy. Yet there are other times
that he looks overwhelmed by what's mountingup against him. Carl have you ever
had a client get to a pointand a trial where they lean over and
say, we need to cut adeal. No, I've never had that.

(54:30):
But it's not too late. Youknow, if a client realizes that
they're about to face impending doom,the state would cut him a deal.
I think, get them something inthe range of twenty five to thirty or
something like that. But I don'tsee from my experience somebody like Charlie who
thinks he can talk his way outof everything. I mean, he's been

(54:52):
able to basically get out of everythinghis whole life through money and connections.
I think he's thinking that he cayou know, pulling over on the jurors,
and they're going to have They're goingto buy into this Outlandis theory,
and it doesn't matter what the truthis. All that matters is that he's
talking and he wants you to dowhat he says and think about it.

(55:13):
He's groomed Katie from October of twentythirteen, and within two weeks or so,
he's asking her, do you knowanybody that could put the hurt on
somebody? And then he has thisrelationship with her, and then as soon
as the murder happened within that samemonth of July, they stopped dating,
So is that a coincidence? Thetiming of how he came to a doctor

(55:37):
as a girlfriends so that it lookedlike it was grooming, just like it
would look like jeff Licos was groomedas well by Wendy. Let me ask
you this, as a public defender, have you ever been in a situation
where as the case is unfolding,Let's say you're Charlie's advisor at this point,
you're his attorney. At some point, are you leaning over to him

(55:58):
when the day is done and saying, Charlie, this case is going the
wrong way for you, buddy,Well, I think a good defense attorney
is going to talk about that wayin advance, and a defense attorney will
be able to predict this kind ofoutcome. So I think there should not
be any surprises from a good attorneythat knows how to size up evidence and
then has that candid, blunt aconversation with their client to get them to

(56:22):
see the light. But I thinka guy like Charlie, he just doesn't
want to go there, and soI don't know how much his attorney would
have told him it's like, doyou realize how much you got against you
here? So, yeah, itall depends on individual attorneys. You know.
I think it's who's an attorney toat least say, you know,
do you want to plead guilty?But there's how much the attorney goes into

(56:44):
laying the case against him in sortof like a mock scenario. Well,
here's what the prosecutor is going tosay, and here's how they're going to
nail you on this, and here'show jury's going to interpret what you did
for this, that and the other. So it's really it's really comes down
to style of the attorney. Okay, let me ask you. This is
good to be the last question ofthe day and maybe the most delicate one.
You're in private practice, but youalso served as a public defender.

(57:07):
Is is it more likely that aprivate practicing attorney says, hey, we're
just going to carry this through becauselet's face it, he's being paid.
A public defender might be more likelyto say, honestly, you're in trouble.
That's a very insightful statement there atpressing, because I think that's exactly
how it works out in the reallife. He stopped to go back and

(57:30):
think of who first flipped. Itwas Lewis Rivera, who had a court
appointed attorney who was on like aflat rate fee, right, So there
was no there's no financial incentive tokeep the thing going. So I'm not
saying that happen to this particular case. I don't think it really matters,
because a guy like Charlie you cannothandle and get him to see the light

(57:52):
and want to roll over on others, especially when it's Stanley membership. I
think that'll change Preston once he getsconvicted and maybe after his parents pass on,
assuming that happens and Wendy's solive,and I think he'd be willing to
roll over on Wendy because they're noteven talking. She wouldn't even look at
them in the courtroom. It's goingto be a fascinating way this plays out.
I suspect we'll talk again tomorrow.Thank you, carl Yes, sir,

(58:15):
thank you. Forty seven minutes afterthe hour on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. This is the MorningShow with Preston Scott. Come on,

(58:38):
let's pack up the kiddos, orif they're grown, let's just go a
little road trip idea here on theMorning Show with Preston Scott. You might
remember last week we talked about kindof a Christmas village kind of place Helen

(58:59):
George Well. Staying with the themeof getaways that are sort of kind of
in the realm of the drive.One day drive, half a day drive,
less than that. Jacksonville, checkthis out, Florida. Jacksonville,
or Alabama. Jacksonville, Florida,the Flip side of Florida, as they

(59:24):
call it. So they call it, you know that they do. Yes,
I'm reading it right now. You'venever heard that Jacksonville the Flip side
of Florida. Now, I've heardthem say the first coast because of the
history, but I've not heard theFlip side of Florida. They take the
eye in Florida and turn it upsidedown, so it's an exclamation point.

(59:46):
Oh so it's a marketing thing.Huh huh, the Flip side of Florida.
I thought he was like a missJacksonville. Okay, jvill the Flip
side of Florida. Anyway, holidaysare coming, of course. They have
the Saint John's Town Center Holiday Spectacularthat begins on November eleventh at the Saint

(01:00:10):
John's Town Center Mall from one toeight. They've got Colors of the Wild
Zoo Light Lantern Experience. It startsNovember nineteenth and goes through February eighteenth.
Wow. Yeah, it's experienced.One of the largest Asian lantern events in
the country. This winter see theZoo in a whole new light. Fascinating

(01:00:34):
fusion of lantern's wildlife and wild placessounds like fun. Seventy different displays throughout
the Jacksonville Zoo Deck the Chairs tenyears now, more than forty American Red
Cross Lifeguard chairs will be decorated witha coastal theme design and lights for Deck
the Chairs in Jacksonville Beach. I'vebeen there, I've seen that. Dazzling

(01:01:00):
Nights. From November twenty fourth throughDecember twenty ninth, the Jacksonville Arbitorque are
arbor I don't know what that's.Arboretum are burretum and gardens transformed into Florida's
version of a winter wonderland. DazzlingKnights is what it's called. It runs
through December twenty ninth, and thenon November twenty fifth, the Jacksonville Light

(01:01:24):
Boat Parade Saint John's River It runsfrom at six o'clock. All kinds of
vessels adorned with lights, and theytravel north and the north and south banks
of the Saint John's River. Seenot far away. You can just take

(01:01:45):
you drive there in two and ahalf hours and you're back, simple as
that arboretum, arboretum. I haveno idea. It sounds fun to say.
I feel like I'm going to aMexican restaurant and having a burrito.
Yeah, our britam Man, I'man idiot. All right. We will

(01:02:09):
come back to Another guest joining usis author Fred Lucas. The book The
Myth of Voter Suppression, The Left'sAssault on Clean Elections books available right now.
We'll talk to the author of itnext on The Morning Show with Preston
Scott, and it's the third hourradio program we affectionately refer to as common

(01:02:52):
Sense Amplified. How are you?Morning Show with Preston Scott Show five thousand
and forty But who's counting day?Oney sixteen of America held hostage. It
is November two Thursday. That's GrantAllen. I'm Preston Scott. Great to
be with you this morning. FredLucas, his manager of investigative projects for

(01:03:15):
the Daily Signal. You might hearme refer to the Daily Signal frequently on
the program because it is kind ofthe news outlet of the Heritage Foundation.
And of course we have had guestson from the Heritage Foundation for well the
full twenty plus years of me doingthis radio program. And he joins us
now only as author of a book, The Myth of Voter Suppression, the

(01:03:37):
Left's Assault Unclean Elections. Fred,Good morning, How are you, sir?
Oh I'm doing great. Thanks forhaving me on. My pleasure.
You know, I always love talkingto authors about that that moment, and
I refer to them at times asPopeye moments. You know, I stood's
all I can stands and I can'tstand no more. What was it that

(01:03:57):
you finally said, Okay, I'mgoing to put some effort into doing some
digging and writing about this topic ofmythical voter suppression. Well, much of
it was in twenty twenty one.You had almost half the states in the
in the country past election reform laws. Most of the common theme was restricting

(01:04:21):
ballot harvesting, which has been abig problem, and extending voter ID requirements
to absentee voting, and the leftwent crazy over this. You remember President
Biden, the chorus started saying,this is a well he called it Jim
Eagle. Other Democrats call it JimPro two point zero, just like a

(01:04:44):
really you know, slanders things aboutthese pretty common sense laws that really ultimately
most Americans supported, they continue tohave had voter suppression, voter suppression,
voter suppression. The groups that weresaying on the left were typically some of
the familiar faces, like our organizationslike a Fair Fight Action, which was

(01:05:09):
started by Stacy Abrams, who isdefinitely and fits the definition of an election
denier. Then the Brennan Center,based out of New York had had always
claimed that there were called voter suppression. That you dig into this a little
bit more, not only do thoselaws not suppressed voting, but there's really

(01:05:33):
no evidence in modern times of votersuppression of any any type going on out
there. There's a what for.What I've said pretty much is where is
the plaintiff? Because various organizations likeBrennan Center, Fair Fight Action so for,
have presented, what they say ordisparate impact studies of how this law

(01:05:56):
would affect one group over another,or one inc level over another, and
so forth and so on. Uh, there's not been anyone, uh discern
them able to come forward that saysI tried to vote and I was stopped
from doing so by this locality orstate or jurisdiction. And and and that's

(01:06:17):
that's that's really where why voter suppressionin modern times? Of course, I
mean it's it has been a problemin this country in the past, but
in modern times, there is nosuch thing as voter suppression. Fred Isn't
it wouldn't it be fair to saythat it's not any government's job to make
it quote easy to vote. It'sthe job of government to make it equally

(01:06:41):
accessible to vote. I think that'sright. Uh. The but I mean
one thing is that when when stateswere passing these laws, a lot of
them said that they want to makeit easy to vote, hard to cheat.
Uh And and I think that's mostlywhat was accomplished. And in these
laws. I mean, voter IDpretty much has about eighty percent support among

(01:07:04):
all demographics. Yeah, I thinkrank and file democratic voters don't understand why
it's supposed to be controversial. Minorityvoters don't understand why it's supposed to be
controversial, but it makes a verygood talking point for democratic politicians and maybe
like insider hardcore parts. Fred standby. Fred Lucas is with me this morning.

(01:07:26):
The book you can get it allover. It's the Myth of Voter
Suppression, subtitled The Left's Assault UncleanElections. Fred Lucas my guest, he's
the author, back with more onthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The book is the Myth of Voter

(01:07:48):
Suppression and the author of Fred Lucasis my guest with me this morning for
a couple more segments on the MorningShow with Preston Scott. How is it
possible that the messaging is just solacking on the simplicity of the arguments that
you're making, Fred, I've I'velamented for years how the right, how

(01:08:12):
conservatives are just so poor at messaging, and you talked about it. The
numbers say voter id makes sense,but yet this messaging persists that, oh
it's discriminatory, and somehow it haslegs. Yeah, I mean I think

(01:08:34):
you hear that a lot more,maybe in the media, maybe amongst prominent
politicians. Was so worth but Idon't know if that necessar has that has
legs with the general public. Yeah, man, as I said, voter
ID is very very popular, justbecause I think it makes common sense to
people that they feel like they needan ID for everything. In fact,

(01:08:56):
one thing I lay out in thebook amidst voter Suppresion is that as far
as other constitutional rights, a lotof constitutional rights require the use of ID.
If someone wants to do a FirstAmendment rights even someone else, have
a parade or a demonstration or something, they often need to get some type
of permit ahead of time from thecity that that requires ID. Obviously,

(01:09:21):
buying a firearm, I don't thinkany anybody on the left would say you
shouldn't have to show an ID tobuy a firearm. That's that's that's also
a constitutional right. It's on afirearm. So yeah, we look at
almost every other country virtual era countryin Europe requires some type of voter ID.

(01:09:47):
So this is our primas is theone area where the Left doesn't want
America to be more like Europe.About half the stage give or take,
addressed voter laws in some former fashionpost twenty twenty, which to me is
an indicator that there were huge issueswith election integrity in twenty twenty. But

(01:10:09):
having said that, what are thenumbers? Tell us Fred, what do
we know about voter participation with voterID and similar laws going into effect,
Well, we don't. And thebook details this pretty thoroughly. Is really
over the past two decades, asvoter ID laws started getting passed in states,

(01:10:31):
we saw an increase in turnout inthese states. And we saw,
even as we were hearing from Democratsthis was that the twenty twenty one laws
were Jim Crow two point zero andso far, and you know there were
a big turnout in twenty twenty two. So, I mean, we've never

(01:10:53):
ever seen these dire predictions come tofruition from some Democrats. And one thing
that the book really help to historyabout some of how these various laws are
passed. Our election reforms were passed, and there's a lot of parallels between
voter ID as a common sense electionreform and even the secret ballot which replaced

(01:11:17):
voice voting around in the nineteenth centuryearly twentieth century and mostly democratic big city
democratic machines that were corrupting the electionprocess and using voter intimidation and so forth,
which we see nowadays with ballot harvesting, but mostly Democrats were arguing against

(01:11:42):
having a secret ballot, claiming thatthat benefits the wealthy more so. And
it's very similar now, don't whatwe see with voter ID. So I
think these kind of the Democratic Partyhasn't changed that much over time. Brad
Lucas with us, the book isthe myth of voter suppression. We got
one more segment left with Fred.We will continue sixteen minutes past. Get

(01:12:03):
you caught up on weather, trafficand more. Next in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Wherever you buyyour books you can find it. It's
the myth, the voter suppression,the lefts assault on clean elections. Yeah,

(01:12:23):
why in the world would we wantan election that just kind of worked?
And you have to wonder anybody thatopposes voter ID has gotten to be
supporting voter fraud. That's just mypersonal contention. Fred Lucas the author with
us, Fred, why is JoeBiden? Why is the Department of Justice?

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Why are they so intent on attackingthese laws that are put in place
by states to create more voter integrity? And I guess fair elections, Well,
I think what you said is probablypretty pretty well true. They don't
want anything that's going to stop themfrom getting their groups out. I think

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Democrats just have a long history ofbeing a machine of machine politics, uh
what, and getting their people outto vote and sort of manipulating election laws
in order to make sure Democrats winelections. And that's something I go through
chapter verse in the book, andwhich is this whole Jim Crow two point

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oh smear. One it's absurd,but two it's also ironic because of course
it was Democrats who were behind JimCrow two or one point oh. So
the real Jim Crow. Uh thatuh, that was in the South,
but also in the northern industrial statesyou had Tammany Hall uh and and other

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big political machines in which you marryessentially married the state with the Democratic Party
in order to pass laws and changechange the system to get desirable election outcomes
in order to continue controlling government.And that's offentially I think what we're still
seeing in a more sophisticated modern form. I'm going to ask you the question

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I asked Hans von Sbarkowsky, acolleague of yours at Heritage Foundation, back
about ten days ago. Do youhave confidence in the twenty twenty four election,
because while there are certainly states thathave made reforms and they're good ones,
we still have problematic states that wereproblematic in twenty twenty, and I'm

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not sure that things have changed allthat much there. And while I'm not
prepared to say that it cost DonaldTrump the election, I am prepared to
say we did not have a fairelection in twenty twenty. I think what
you can objectively say about twenty twentyis that election laws are changed in some

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cases and almost a legal unconstitutional way. And I think our point to Pennsylvania
for the most part in that absolutely, and it was done in a way
that benefited one candidate over another.And to what degree that affected the outcome,
we can't say with absolute certainty.But as for twenty twenty four,

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I think it's going to be betterbecause of the election reforms that were passed
in a majority of states in twentytwenty one. However, one thing that
the book does point out Democrats havethey adapt and they evolve to the changing
environment. They often find ways tocheat based on what the laws are in

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the system. I mean, theyresist any election reforms, but they find
ways and one thing. It's ashooting back again, it's Jim Crow two
point oh smeer. But I prettymuch say it's what democrats art today is
Tammany Hall two point zero, andit's done at a national level. Absolutely.
Fred, Hey, thanks for thetime this morning. I appreciate it.

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Best of success with the book.Oh, thanks so much. I
appreciate Fred Lucas with us this morning. And again, the book is the
myth of voter suppression. You thinkthere's voter suppression. I don't think there's
voter suppression. If anything, thevoter suppression is in places like Philadelphia where
the Black Panthers were sitting out therewith baseball bats and literally intimidating voters.

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I mean that that happened. Weknow that happened. It was recorded,
it happened. It's a thing.But I mean the idea that voter id
is somehow suppression. You buying that? No, No, let me ask
you the question I've asked him andnow, Hans, do you have confidence

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in the twenty twenty four election?I don't. Yeah, me either.
I'm just on elections. There arecertain aspects of the world we live in
where I'm kind of glass half fullthat's a glass half empty kind of take.
I go back and forth and somebut when it comes to elections,
I am afraid I'm a little morepessimistic about things being clean. See I'm

(01:17:21):
I guess you could say I'm inconsistenton this because while I think that the
federal government doesn't need to nationalize federalizethe way that people vote, there's some
wisdom to me to saying, Okay, everyone's going to use an optical scanner
with a paper ballot backup. Everybody, you're going to fill out a paper

(01:17:45):
ballot. You're going to run itthrough an optical scanner, and if there's
a question, we have a paperballot backup and we're going to count.
That works really well where it's used. That's what we've gone to here in
flow. That's what we use inLeon County. It's brilliant, no hanging
chads, optical scanner, fill itout. No, but it filled out

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outside that circle there, Well,it's the circle colored in Thank you.
If they went outside the lines,I'm not worried about it. We're counting
it, you know. I justto me, there's just there has to
be a way because we get resultsimmediately here in Florida almost immediately. Why

(01:18:30):
can't we do that nationally? Iand I know we can't do that.
We can't mandate that. I justthink we should Preston Scott's boy. That
escalated quickly. I mean, thatreally got out of hand fast on WFLA.

(01:18:51):
That's what we do. We escalatequickly. Thirty five minutes past the
hour. Willing to share? Whathad you kind of laughing and smiling in
there? Anything in particular? Oh? Yeah, I was watching a interview
Tucker Tucker Carlson. Oh. Ithought it was gonna be me interviewing Fred

(01:19:14):
or something like that. That wasfantastic. Of course. What's Tucker talking
about? Oh? He was talkingabout how he uh, in our modern,
modern world, in our modern world, what he kind of has that
little crack voice thing he does.Yeah, he does, got a little
high pitch kind of crackers when hegets laughing, Yeah, a little bit.

(01:19:35):
Yeah? Really is that really whatit is? The elites don't want
you to know this, But hewas talking about how when he goes like
hunting and fishing, Yeah, hegoes to these small towns, and these
small towns have beautiful county courthouses,but nothing beautiful has been built like in

(01:19:56):
a hundred years, and like modernityhas been boiled down to like, you
know, like small towns having dollargenerals, you know, like like big
box stores are so intentionally ugly,and modernity not to be confused with moderna
although, which is a scary thing, he says, and he shots.
They may have lots of things incommon. Modernity does jab at us.

(01:20:20):
But anyway, I thought that wasa really great quote from that interview.
Is good enough, fair enough?Big stories in the press box, brought
to you by Custom Care dry cleaning. Police fatally shoot. It's not a
suspect. Good god. There's videoof this guy unloading and listen. He

(01:20:41):
shoots these this stepfather and his stepson in the back and then pops him
in the head. It's an executionshooting suspect. He's not a suspect.
He's on tape. He's not asuspect. He did stop it. Anyway,

(01:21:02):
Please encounter the guy. He pullsa knife and charges and they end
his life. His name is JasonPass. This was all over loud music
or loud noises in the apartment nearby. This is a black on black murder,

(01:21:29):
and I'm asking where are all ofyou blm apologists? And this is
just the latest of oh, Idon't know a few thousand examples of black
on black murders that you people havenothing to say. You got nothing because

(01:21:50):
the BLM apologists out there, andI know that most of you listening,
you're not down with that at all. We have a large percentage of listeners
who, oh, by the way, happen to be black, that agree
with me. How do I know? Because they stop me in stores,

(01:22:10):
they call the show, they sendme emails. But there are a few
out there, and your cowards,your cowards because you don't care enough about
your people. I care about allpeople. I care about the abortion of

(01:22:33):
all people. I care about themurder of all people. I don't care
who pulls the trigger. Whoever pullsthe trigger is a murderer. But since
we're all focused on this stuff,where are you BLM apologists? You got

(01:22:54):
nothing to say? You never havehad anything to say about black on black
crime. I guess it's okay forblacks to off their own people and nobody
say anything about it. Why isit that I'm the guy saying something about
it? Why is it that peoplelike me are the ones saying something about
it, and why is it thatblacks who pointed out get crickets in return?

(01:23:17):
They get ostracized. Why. I'mjust asking why and where you said
the other big stories in the pressbox brought to you by Custom Care Dry
Cleaning in just a few minutes.Have you been hearing some of the chatter
about the main shooter. Maybe differentchatter than what you're referencing, but I've

(01:23:45):
heard bits and pieces of different things. I've heard everything from there are discrepancies
where he was found dead, Washe here? Was he here? I've
heard that there was a scrubbing ofthe story that said he had two bullet

(01:24:06):
holes to the head, which youcannot have in a suicide. Some have
said, well, is that becausesomeone wrote a report and just inadvertently forgot
that the bullet entering one side ofthe head is likely going out the other.

(01:24:27):
I don't have the answer to that. I'm just saying these are questions
that are out there and that thatreport existed and now it's gone. So
was it just a mistake and they'vecorrected it, maybe could be absolutely or
was there a report and they've correctedit? You know what I'm saying?
The most I won't say interesting,troubling chatter out there is that this guy

(01:24:58):
was manipulated and this was a psyopsoperation. Guys in the military are talking
about this has all the signals ofa guy manipulated to do a crime for
a political purpose. They're asking truckquestions about what drugs he were on,
They're asking questions about why is itthat when police visited the guy just ahead

(01:25:21):
of this terrible crime, they didn'tconfiscate his weapons when he'd been hospitalized,
when he openly admitted that he Imean, he filled out a form for
a suppressor apparently and said, yeah, I've been in a mental hospital lately.
Well that's a that's an immediate andyou don't get it, and it's

(01:25:45):
an immediate visit. Where are yourfirearms? There are this is this is
something that's just out there. Inormally don't pay much attention to it.
But when you think about how Bidenis trying to leverage every one of these
silliness crimes, and then you lookat this guy specific background and just the

(01:26:12):
nature of what he did and wherehe did it, and it just it's
weird. It's just weird. That'sall. That's the chatter i'm talking about.
You heard any of that chatter?Yep, I'm gonna just s leave
it there. Yeah, I've heardit too. Yeah. And when I

(01:26:34):
say an operation to develop a politicaland we're talking about the efforts to disarm
people to take your magazines that carrymore than ten rounds, I mean I
got a stack of stories over herein my personal defense, stack of multi

(01:27:00):
pull people breaking and entering into ahome that are stopped because someone had a
larger than ten round magazine. Right, I'm not naming the guy, of
course, and whatever they And here'sthe sick thing about where we are today

(01:27:23):
in our culture. It's possible.This stuff is possible, and I hate
it, and she hate it,Yeah, hate it. And whatever conclusion
the official investigation comes to, youcan't help but feel like, is that
really true? Regardless of what theconclusion is. Yeah, Like, let's

(01:27:45):
say it confirms your suspicions, you'relike, wait, my suspicions were confirmed?
Hold on wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. This can't be right
then, or if it's exactly whatyou expect the investigation to say, you're
like, I've seen this before,Like this doesn't add up either way,
it just feels like nothing is reliable. We're three weeks away from the sixtieth

(01:28:09):
anniversary of the assassination of a presidentof this country that likely had the cooperation
of the government. They killed him, they played a role in this killing,
and they silenced everybody that was partof it. I'm just saying,

(01:28:30):
I hate myself. Tomorrow, daysix of the Aedilsen trial, Carl Steinbeck
will be with us. Jerome Hudsonwill be here in studio. Wow,

(01:28:54):
what a treat. Huh huh,hot dang. Bright Birds entertainment editor and
author of the Fifty Things books,will be seated in this very studio.
My friends, what a Friday.I believe you say lit either lit or
that's a banger or something along thoselines. How do you stay up with

(01:29:18):
that? I mean, how doyou know? Because you don't really run
in those circles. No, Idon't. Instagram helps a little bit,
okay, you know, watching acouple of reels a day to get my
daily zoomer dopamine drip. Well,now the drip is is club drip is
different? Yeah, I mean soanyway, Also, tomw of course,

(01:29:40):
what's the beef best and worst ofthe week? Dad joke and so much
more. Today at ten nine o'clockCentral, Glenn Beck, the last Beatles
song recorded for the first time.It's called Now and Then for the first

(01:30:00):
that's brilliantly worded. It is.I didn't write it, of course,
otherwise it wouldn't be nearly as good. It's been sixty years since the Beatles
right here on this stage at SullivanShow changed music certainly impacted. Bunches of
you, bunches of you. Youknow, I was a little guy when

(01:30:24):
the Beatles were a thing. Mysister was more of an Elvis fan.
My brothers, I suppose my onebrother, Mike might have been a Beatles
fan. It's not something we necessarilytalked a lot about. We were separated
by twelve years thirteen years of age. But this song was recorded and written

(01:30:45):
by John Lennon, and it featuresGeorge on the guitars on guitar, Ringo
on drums, and of course Paulplaying the keyboards. Don't know if they're
vocalizing. I'm gonna I'm probably gonnagive it to us man. And of
course that's today ten o'clock Eastern,nine o'clock Central, Glenn Beck. There

(01:31:05):
you go, it'll be interesting.I can't wait to hear how he frames
all of this. And then don'tforget the iHeartRadio app. Come on,
need I say more? You canhave all the Beatles you want. You
can have all of Preston Scott youwant. You can have all of Talent
Outdoors that you want. Spin offof the morning show with Preston Scott Talent

(01:31:30):
Outdoors. You know. Think ofme as all in the family, and
Jad and Charlie is the Jeffersons.We are Cheers, they are Fraser.
Okay, Fraser was a spin offof Cheers, wasn't it. I don't
know. I've never watched Cheers.That's another show I've never watched, and
I've never watched Fraser, so Idon't know. I'm fairly certain Fraser's a

(01:31:51):
spin off of Cheers. See Itold you he's older than me. Wrong
one give me a second. Broughtto you by Baron No Heating and Air.
It's the morning show on WFLA.Are you're paying attention? Sometimes I

(01:32:13):
do this intentionally to see if you'repaying attention. No, you don't.
No, that was a mistake.That was great. I got nothing.
I can't follow that. That's justtoo good. It's a fun show.
Today we got we covered a lotof ground. Fred Lucas you know,
talked about his book, Carl Steinbecktalked about day five of the Adolsen trial.

(01:32:41):
Steve Stewart talked about everything that's goingon around here, and we battled
over the word spilling sewage versus asewage leak. I still think I'm right.
A spill doesn't fit for a brokenpipe underground. I can see that.
I just think a broken pipe communicatesbetter because a spill is surface level.

(01:33:11):
You spill something on the carpet oron the table, versus you've got
a broken pipe that's in your slabor in your cabinets. That's a bigger
problem. That's all I'm saying,And of course I think I'm right.
Anyway, go back and listen tothe show. Tons of content as always,
and we're already getting ready for tomorrow. So in twenty one hours we're

(01:33:35):
going to do it all over again, and I look forward to having you
join us. Then, have agreat day. Thanks for listening.