Ep. 5180: Friday Beefs And A Chat With Jimmy Patronis

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Friday, June 14th 2024. Our guests today include:
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Episode Transcript

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Get some of that. Good morning, friends, Welcome to Friday on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. He'sJared, I'm Preston Lamentations three, twenty
five and twenty six. The Lordis good to those who wait for him.
There's a theme here this week that'sawesome to the soul who seeks him.

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It is good that one should waitquietly for the salvation of the Lord.
The message is so clear this week. These different devotionals are tying into
the same theme with different scriptures allweek long. Force be still and know

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that He's God. If you getoutside, just take it in. Take
a deep look at everything that surroundsyou, your family, your friend's nature,
and spend some time quietly waiting listening. You can hear God's still small

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voice. Ten minutes after the hour, It's Friday. Cannot Wait June fourteenth.
We'll tell you what that means.Next, it is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, and then womenwho serve our communities as first responders.
Thank you. It's the Morning Showwith Preston Scott, Rise and Shine Yeah

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Buddy. Twelve past the hour,It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
June fourteenth. Fly your flag today. I'm gonna go finally get out this
week and hit a few golf ballstoday. And I am in my red,
white and blue. I've got ared shirt, I've got a white

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belt, I've got a navy bluegolf shorts on. I've got my patriotic
golf hat ready to go. Andbecause it's Flag Day, we celebrate the
birthday of the Stars and Stripes.June fourteenth, seventeen seventy seven, during
the revolutionary work on metal, Congressin Philly adopted the stars and stripes as

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the official national flag. Resolved thatthe flag of the thirteen United States be
thirteen stripes alternate red and white,and that the Union be thirteen stars white
on a blue field, representing anew constellation. Congress gave no further instructions
as to exactly what the flag shouldlook like, such as its dimensions or

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how the stars should be arranged.Consequently, early US flags did not all
look alike. Some flags had starswith six points, others with eight.
Some flag makers sowed the stars ina row on a blue field, others
a circle scattered without an organized pattern. The first official widespread observance of flags
of The flag's birthday came on Junefourteenth, eighteen seventy seven, when the

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flag was over one hundred years old. Go figure seventeen seventy five. It
was on this date the Congress authorizesthe formation of the Continental Army. Eighteen
forty six. Group of settlers inSonoma proclaimed the California Republic. Nineteen hundred,

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Hawaii becomes a US territory. Nineteentwenty two, Warren G. Harding,
dedicating the Francis Scott Key Memorial atFort McHenry, becomes the first president
to be heard on the radio.And did I call it after the bridge
fell that day on this show?I said, you wait, they're going

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to fight to rename it. They'regoing to dump Francis Scott Key because they
don't like everything he wrote. AndI was right. There's a fight underway
to take the name away from thebridge when it's rebuilt. Nineteen fifty one,
UNIVAC won the first electronic computer forcommercial use. Is dedicated at the

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Census Bureau in Philly, and innineteen fifty four, Eisenhower signs a bill
adding under God to the Pledge ofAllegiance, One Nation under God, indivisible
with liberty and justice for all sortof sort of kind of there you go,
us open underway, but we leftout one thing. Do you know

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what it is? You know whohas a birthday today? I know,
yes you do because you pointed itout. Go ahead, break the news.
Well it's a huge birthday, isthat true? Donald is huge.
It's the best birthday of all birthdays. Nobody's had a more fantastic birthday than

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I have. I will say Grantdid a pretty good Trump. He got
the spirit of Trump pretty well.I can't do the voice. I can't.
I can mimic a lot of voices. Can't do Trump, although I
do. I have him his bibblehere in front of me. Just look
to him for inspiration. Yeah,it's the Donald's seventy eighth birthday today,

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and so yeah, my dad celebrateshis birthday on Monday, but I'll talk
about that on Monday anyway. Sothere you go, this date in history,
come back and an invitation to Destois. Is there a reason why anyone
would go to Detroit? We'll sharenext on the Morning Show with Preston Scott

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f La. On your phone withthe iHeart radio app and on hundreds of
devices like Alexa, Google Home,Xbox, and Sonos and Ihearts Radio season
twe are one minutes after the hour. My sister lived in Detroit during the

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very turbulent late sixties when there wereriots in the streets and it was man
craziness. I have no idea whyshe lived in Detroit for a season,
but she did. I've never beento Detroit, which is weird because the

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years I lived up in the TwinCities and then went back there as a
young adult. I mean, I'mI'm in the Midwest. I mean,
I was certainly in Chicago a lotas a as a kid, and beyond,

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made a lot of roadies with mydad to Chicago Soldier Field. Some
of the best hot dogs on thein the world were served in the press
box at Soldier Field. But thepress box moved. It would sway just
a little bit at Soldier Field fromthe wind coming off the lake. But

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Detroit, Detroit has been in afunk. You know, you may remember
that there there was a time,and I know that there are still pockets.
But each GTV's developed has a showa couple of dudes that are I
mean, they're you know, theirboyfriend and boyfriend you know what I'm saying,

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And and their whole thing, andthey're real likable guys. Their whole
thing is buying up homes for likea thousand dollars, homes, full homes
five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. And now the prices are up,
and there's still you'll find an occasionalhome that you can get very cheaply.

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But they would renovate them and flipthem for first time homeowners. So they
were completely furnished with furniture that wouldcome from secondhand stores and so forth.
But they would go through these neighborhoodsand I think the show is called Bargain
Block, And so that's what I'veseen of late of Detroit. I knew
of the the effort to try toget to get people to move back to

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Detroit into the suburbs and so forth, and they were making homes available for
first responders, anybody please move backto Detroit. Well Ford bought the old
Michigan Central station, which was thelegacy train terminal for Detroit, and at

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one time, you know, itwas designed by the same architects that did
Grand Central in New York City,and I've been there and it's it's spectacular.
I mean, it's just whoa.It's a beautiful facility. And the
one in in Detroit opened to nineteenthirteen. At one time it had four

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thousand daily passengers in and out ofthere, but they shuddered it in nineteen
eighty eight, rail travel pretty muchdeclined to the point where it was no
more, and then vandalism and weatheringand decay took over. Well. Ford
bought the thing and thirty acres aroundit, and they've spent the last several

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years pouring in tens of millions ofdollars and now Ford is moving its autonomous
vehicle team into the building. Theydid I think it was last thursday.
They opened it up for the firsttime in thirty four years, and it's

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going to be kind of a hubthey hope for a technological and cultural kind
of focus in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood.And so what they've done is they've taken
a few floors of the building.The buildings spectacular, it's it's a it's
a renaissance of an era of architecturethat is no more. They've they've they

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paid homage to it. They didnot raise the building. They left it
intact and just retrofit everything inside.It's spectacular. I gotta give them credit.
They put the money in there.It's interesting to me because you know,
Ford is is They're sitting there withtheir evs, and their evs are

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killing them, but they claim they'rethey're they're growing, and as long as
they're allowed to keep producing gas enginecars, you know, you know,
internal combustion engines, they'll be fine. Because they're a smart automaker. Ford
is the closest thing to a Japanesestyle automaker in America. If you did

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a deep, deep dive, youwould find out that that a few decades
ago, Ford sent their people toJapan and that's why the fit and finish
of Ford cars really mirrors a lotof the Asian makes and models. With
fit and finish, they just youknow, they don't rattle. That's been
my complaint with a lot of GMproducts, as GM products just tend to
rattle a lot. Now they've gottena lot better, but Ford is ahead

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of that curve. But they arerestaurants, shops, other high tech.
They're doing tech for kids. It'llbe interesting to see what they do with
that and what kinds of things theymake available to children. But it'll be
something to look at. And ifyou are in the Detroit area, check

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it out. It is a historicMichigan landmark, the Michigan Central Station.
So there you go. There's yourreason to go to Detroit is to see
this thing. And as they asthey build it out and as more and
more businesses come. It's a thirtyacre site and thirty acres is a nice
plot of land, and if theydevelop all of that, that'll be something

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special and so good for them.Twenty seven minutes past the hour, come
back with the Big Stories in thepress Box right after the news Here in
the Morning Show with Preston Scott,Running Joe with Preston Scott, Go ahead,
make My News Radio one hundred pointseven, Tell them UFLA thirty five

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thirty six minutes after the hour ofthe Morning Show with Preston Scott, Big
Stories in the press Box, broughtto you by Grove a creative marketing and
digital expertise. I got to admitit's a head scratcher. Mifipristone is the

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abortion drug. In the wake ofthe ruling by the Supreme Court striking down
Rode Wade it's just exploded in useand the FDA versus the Alliance for Hippocratic
Medicine, they filed a lawsuit readingfrom the opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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of the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs arepro life, opposed elective abortion, and
have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to mifipristone being prescribed
and used by others. Because plaintiffsdo not prescribe or use mifipristone, plaintiffs
are unregulated parties who seek to challengeFDA's regulation of others. Planets advanced several

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complicated causation theories to connect FDA's actionsto the planets alleged injuries. In fact,
none of these theories suffices to establishArticle three standing. It was a
unanimous decision nine O, and sothe availability of mephipristone will continue. According

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to the FDA, one in twentyfive women that use it end up in
the er. I'm just letting youknow of the ruling nine O, and
it's based on the fact that thedoctors don't have standing because they are not

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an injured party. How often haveI asked questions about this issue of standing,
not the issue of the legality ofwhat's being discussed anyway, different kind

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of Court of Arbitration for Sport.I've never heard of it. I'm sixty
three years old. I've never heardof it. However, it is a
ruling barred body. As it relatesto international sports, it is the international

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Rather, it was hearing the argumentof Leah Thomas. Why I affectionately refer
to as dude. Dude Thomas wantedto swim in the Olympic against other against
against women, not other transgenders.In March twenty three, we lauded the
decision the World Aquatics, the internationalgoverning body for competitive swimming and several other

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Olympic events, said that transgendered menor transgendered women men cannot swim against women,
and the Court of Arbitration for Sportupheld that and said no, you
will not compete against women. That'sa huge victory. Now World Aquatics established

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what they call an open category.Yeah, like, who's going to watch
that? Because who's going to bein it? Men who want to pretend
to be women. The open categorywill not feature women who want to be
men, because they'll be destroyed becausethere's still the biological difference between men and
women. And then the last bigstory. To some the leading vice presidential

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candidate is Marco Rubio Florida. Nowthat makes you know there are a lot
of people that say, well,you cannot have a president and vice president
from the same state. I've heardboth sides of that argument. I'm not
making that argument one way or theother. That'll get settled in due time.

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But the interesting point here is thatRubio is bilingual, and a lot
of analysts believe that he is theDemocrat's worst fear because he is very,
very very strong on policy. He'sin the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Trump
is gaining with Latino voters, andRubio would pretty much clinch it just saying

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forty minutes after the hour, wecome back a you gotta be kidding me
Wing Show with Preston Scott god Timeon News Radio one hundred point seven,
double USLA. Did you graduate fromhigh school class of two thousand and three?

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Yeah, I got you a littlebit, just a little bit,
but it actually works out very wellfor this question I'm going to ask you.
I routinely have asked or commented.I would never have thought we would

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be discussing, For example, aman winning an NCAA title, pretending to
be a woman, woman against women, winning setting records when I was when
I graduated school, no chance,did you did you think we'd be talking

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about the types of things that we'retalking about today. Not asking you to
necessarily weigh in on your opinion onthe issue at hand, but did you
think we would be here? Ithink a lot of things that my generation
would joke about kind of turned intothings that became more serious topics as we

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got a little bit older, wematured a little bit more, and society
changed a little bit. Things thatwe used to joke about became all right,
you really shouldn't joke about that,because this is a real issue with
people, and the number of peoplethat that is affecting is growing. And
I don't think when I was eighteenseventeen years old that I could predicted it

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would become such a common issue indiscourse today. I never ever could have
allowed my mind to go here.Case in Point Las Cruces Public Schools in
New Mexico got a ten thousand dollarsgrant from an organization called it Gets Better.

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It is a LGBT organization with afocus on children, children, not
youth. Youth's bad enough. Children. That's horrifying to me. And they
gave them the money to build andI'm quoting a Centennial High school. A

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closet in Centennial High School, sothey focus on children. But this grant
was for the high school to builda closet so students could have cross dressing
opportunities at school. Instead, theschool district bought two hundred chest binders so

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that girls could put them on andsuppress their breasts. If you don't know,
these things do cause injuries. Theyhave been known to snap ribs and
so forth. They're that tight,and obviously you're dealing with young people who
are going through puberty and can causedisfigurement and so forth. By the sheer

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pressure being put on these can causeThe studies show that in eighty nine percent
of those that wear them, theycause injuries. The remaining fifteen hundred dollars
was spent in the school library buyingbooks. Again, this is what people

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are doing in public schools across thecountry, the assault, and it is
a social contagion. You look atthe explosion of this gender nonsense over COVID
when kids were doing nothing other thanbeing online and if we're wired this way

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as they claim, then the numbersof people wouldn't be statistically any different.
Well, it's jumped off the map, which supports the argument it's a social
contagent, and we're attacking this completelywrong. But that's an argument for another
day that we've made repeatedly on theshow. That said, my point in
bringing this up is to simply alertyou that if your children are in public

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school, you better be invested inknowing what's going on in your public school,
because this is happening. And that'sjust one example. Forty seven minutes
after the hour, more to come, What's to be Friday. In the
final hour here in the Morning Showwith Preston Scott, The Preston Show with
Morning Scott, What went right byme? There were some pretty important primaries

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and races, special elections, etcetera that took place this past Tuesday.
Epic Times did a really good jobbreaking down seven races, and I'll do
my best to get through all sevenat the top of the hour because they,
I mean, one of them affectsthe balance the divide of power inside

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the House of Representatives. So we'llunpack that also next hour, talk a
little bit more about my visit yesterdaywith al Intenta of Alone and The List,
The Infamous List. The new seasonbegan last night two episodes first Step,

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and I have not watched. Irecord them on DVR because there after
I go to bed, and soit's just something my wife and I enjoy
the day after, two days afterthe weekend after they air. But I
got two and a half hours ofgoodness waiting on me. First episode was
a breakdown of the ten contestants forthis season, and then the first episode

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where they're dropping them. And usuallywhat they'll do is they'll pick five of
them and kind of focus on themin the first episode, and then the
other five and the second. You'lllearn that there's kind of a rhythm to
the show where you might see somebodya lot early on and you're like,
boy, they're showing that person alot and we haven't even seen four people

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or whatever. Oftentimes that's a cluethat that person's not long for the show
and might be tapping out pretty quickly, and you start to see the build
up of the reasons why and thefrustrations or the psychological battles that they're that
are being waged. But my visitwith Alan Tenta is on the blog page,

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and I think it's an outstanding snapshotof the show. He took his
inside and talked about some things thatdid not make it on TV but were
pivotal to the program and his eventualovercoming of what he was facing. So
that's good stuff. I came acrossthis thread from the lead research assistant of

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the program, and it's the SouthernPoverty Law Center. And these are all
posts from people posting on their Twitterpage because they announced that they are cutting
all kinds of positions and so theposts started from people that work there or

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are supporters, and so it's allreferring to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
which is one of the most dangerousevil organizations in this country today, an
organization with nearly a billion dollars inreserves, given an F rating from Charity
Watch for hoarding donations, gutted itsstaff by a quarter. You can see

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where this is going. First ofall, Charity Watch rates the transparency,
the relative administrative fees you give thisthis how much of it goes to a
charity versus administration. And when youhave an F rating from Charity Watch and

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you solicit donations, you're the worstof the worst. So the Southern Poverty
Law Center is among the worst ofthe worst. And a lot of people
claiming it's to try to break effortsto unionize, to cut union workers that
are in the union and part ofit. So it's just kind of fun

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to watch them feed on themselves.Back with our two the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. If I passed thehour, interesting development yesterday arrested near LaGuardia

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guy with a weapons board of ammunitionand if I heard the press conference with
the district attorney that was the assistantDA that was talking with the media yesterday,
uniforms that would match security personnel.Guy had obscured his license plate.

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Bad mistake, that's like calling attentionto yourself. But good police work there,
underfunded, of course, is NewYork City Police and not appreciated.
And the das, of course couldruin the whole thing and throw them out.
But this guy they're keeping. I'mcurious if part of that is because

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FBI director, I mean it's RobertRay has been talking endlessly about the heightened
threat to America right now from terrorists. Well, why would that be,
Well, the Southern border anyway,all right, I will try to get
through this. Tuesday primaries from Nevadato Maine and in between. Nancy May

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survived a primary challenge in South Carolinafrom an attorney, Catherine Templeton. Templeton
was backed by Kevin McCarthy. That'swhat makes this interesting, and she got
boat raced. Nancy May's the incumbent, won by twenty seven points, give
or take, which is just gettingwaylaid. Trump, of course supporting Mace.

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Another victory for Trump in South CarolinaRepresentative William Timmins. Here's what's interesting
about this one. Trump supported Timminsagainst state Representative Adam Morgan, who chairs
the South Carolina Freedom Caucus. Nowwhat makes this interesting is that Morgan was

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endorsed by Matt Gates, who's ahuge Trump supporter, as well as retired
Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, and Morgan, in an interview in Epic Times back
in February, pointed out that Timminslabeled the January sixth participants as insurrectionists,

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but Trump supported him. It's justit's and again, I'm just sharing what
happened. You form your own opinion. In Ohio, Michael Rooley, a
Republican took down Michael Kripchak, aDemocrat. This was a special election to
fill a seat. He'll finish theterm of Representative Bill Johnson, who stepped

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down to become the president of YoungstownState University. That grows the Republican numbers
in Congress to nineteen versus two thirteenfor Democrats. What analysts are looking at
though in this race is that Crypchakdid really well for a district that is
reliably read Now he won comfortably,really did, but it still drew the

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attention of a lot of observers thatthe Democrat candidate did so well. There
main second district Republican primary, AustinThiriault, former NASCAR driver, won comfortably
well ahead. And that's a districtthey're hoping to flip Republican and think they

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have a chance come November. SamBrown, I talked about him. I
got his name wrong. I thinkI might have gotten it right. Actually,
Sam Brown, the Afghanistan War vet, gravely injured for serving our country,
but won the primary of the GOP. And now we'll face incumbent US

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Senator Jackie Rosen in November. Now, she's been dominant in races. But
Trump is carrying Nevada right now.Sam Brown is endorsed by Trump. So
it's going to be interesting because Trumpcandidates are faring well. North Derek North,

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North Dakota Representative Kelly Armstrong won thegubernatorial primary against Lieutenant Governor Tammy Miller.
His lead was forty six points.That's a that's a blowout. And
so that's kind of a snapshot ofwhat happened in the primaries on Tuesday,

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ten past the hour. Come backand catch you up on another story that
has been sort of forgotten show withPreston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't
you. Oh no, no,no, no, no no no.
Unused Radio one hundred and point sevenWUFLA watching the US Open unfold the second

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round at Pinehurst and watching guys putthe ball three feet from the flag and
then it just start drifting off,off, off and rolling thirty yards off
the green. These greens are justso brutal. The carnage will get worse
every single day. The USGA isgonna let it get worse every single day.

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Scoring was as good as it'll be. That's my prediction. Yesterday will
be the low day in terms ofoverall scoring some really good rounds of golf.
Brooks Kepka at even five shots back, Parker Bell, Luke Clanton shots
seventy six, seventy seven, seventyseven to seventy six. So yeah.

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Remember the Nashville shooting incident, Nashville'sCovenant School, the transgender shooter. Do
you find it interesting that police havesaid nothing about it? I mean literally
nothing. More notes got released.Don't know how police never confirmed what was

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released by Stephen Crowder back in November. They never confirmed nor denied, but
it's widely believed that those were actualscan screenshots of the written notes from the
shooter, who we will not name. More pages have been released, not

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officially. Daily Wire Brent Sure reportsofficials have denied there was evidence suggesting the
Covenant School, a private Christian schoolthat the shooter attended as a child,
was targeted because of animus towards religion. Well that's just complete ridiculousness. Here

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are some comments from the shooter,who by the way, killed three children
and three adults and shot her waythrough a locked door. Something that I
will talk about the next time wedo our personal defense segment, which will
be in July. Wrote in herjournal, a lot of anger towards religion,

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a lot of anger towards her momand dad. She accused her parents
of selfishness for refusing to support herdesire to be a man. Seriously,
I personally think parents that support abiological male or a biological female pursuing the
opposite, I think they're guilty ofchild abuse anyway, She wrote, pain

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of losing a daughter, that's notpain, that's selfishness, just like the
rest, Just like any rest ofthe parents with that mindset, they're full
of bleep. How could they notever think of their own child suffering that
they hate their genders so bad theywant to cut to kill themselves. Bleeping
Parents like them who think of themselvesfirst, and their preference of conservative religion

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gay bleep make them believe that thechild they're given should stay that way.
I'd kill interesting choice of terminology,she wrote. I'd kill to have parents
who would let their child be happy, no matter how different it is to
their viewpoint, or don't agree orbe scared of it. I'd kill to

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have those resources. Two thousand andseven was the birth of puberty blockers,
newfound discovery for treatment for nonconforming transgenderchildren. And oh, by the way,
those treatments are now proving in instudies to be all wrong, damaging,
destructive. Aren't parents manipulative? Shewrote, It's total ignorance when parents

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step in to try to change theirchild's environment, spoken by somebody who doesn't
know what it means to be aparent or understand the responsibility. Make them
go to youth group, force Christianfriends in their life because the ones they
had were bad influence. Parents actuallybelieve religion can change nature. That could

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explain why I don't practice religion anymore. Let kids think for themselves. You
just hear the anger and the hate. And it's interesting to me that the
FBI told Nashville police don't release anythingnow. I just want to make this

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point in closing. I've argued sinceI started doing the show, stop using
the names of killers, Stop usingthese these types of events in publicizing them,
because they beget others. And we'veproven it over and over and over.
And of course I'm one of thevery few in media that believe this

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and share this idea and viewpoint.But I find it interesting that the media
just has sat back and not demandeddetails. But if the shooter were a
white male, conservative Republican or justa crazy they'd be all over it.

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But this shooter was transgendered, andthey won't touch it. The media will
not touch this story. You haveto ask yourself why. Seventeen minutes past
the hour Change Gears talk about somethinga little better next to the Morning Show
with Presten Scott. We f LAon your phone with the iHeartRadio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa,Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos and

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Iheart's radio station. Twenty two past. It's on social media, our ex
page Whoop do you do? Allfive followers, It's on my blog page,
my interview with Alan Tena of Alone. It's there now. I got

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to thinking about it yesterday because I'mgoing to keep this list because I'm going
to talk about it with friends,family over the next few days. I've
got the selection list what you canchoose from, and I went online and

(39:45):
I looked what are the VR survivalgames that are out there where you put
on the goggles and you got thehand things and you you do it,
And almost all of them are kindof survival of zombie stuff. It's like
come on man or Killer Bats,or you know, just like Bootstrap Island

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is one of the games, andit had potential until it got weird.
I was just looking. I waslooking at clips, but I mean,
there's a market for a loan aloneneeds to do their own virtual reality game
for people to go into these locationswhere they drop people. Create one giant

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area and people can be dropped randomlyin these spots and this is where they
are and they have to figure itout. You can stand in front of
the air conditioner to recreate the Arcticenvironment. You know, this is so
much you can do, I knowwith VR. But let me put you
in the situation here and just randomly, because you've never seen the show,

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you heard Alan talk about it alittle bit. He went with a different
structure in terms of he went small, didn't build a big kind of cabin
type thing. He did not expenda bunch of energy on his shelter.
He made it small to retain heat, he said, he cut a corner.
Though you'd think a minus forty degreesleeping bag would get it done,

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it didn't. It almost cost him. But let me put the food list
in front of you, keeping inmind you're a you're in a location where
you have to either trap hunt withbow and arrow, like you know,
quail or wild turkeys. Maybe ina certain location, there's there's a there's

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another bird that I can't think ofall of a sudden. And and fish
you can fish in a lot ofthese locations. But you may bring beef
jerky two pounds. You can bringtwo dried pulses or legumes or lentils mix,

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two pounds of hardtack military biscuits,two pounds of chocolate, two pounds
of pemmican, two pounds of gorp. Sounds like you're planning for the Oregon
Trail. A pound of flour,a third of a pound of rice,
a third of a pound of sugar, and a third of a pound of
salt. That's one item, apound of fat lard, that kind of

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thing, A three pounds solid brickof salt rock or Himalayan sea salt only,
and then of course pots and allthat. Would you bring any of
that or would you just rely onfinding what you can find and you either
find it or you don't. Eithercatch fish or you can't. I think
I would run through most of thosesupplies almost immediately. Yeah, But you

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can only pick one or two becauseyou got to pick ten items only.
So each of those things you haveto pick from, you have to pick
ten items from shelter, bedding andhygiene, food tools, hunting, and
there you go. If I wasconfident in my skills as an outdoors person,

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a skilled person, I would probablynot bring any food with me.
I would feel like that would bea waste of taking a tool that would
be more useful. Yeah, yeah, see, I'm with you on that.
I would be looking at and alot of people like build a smoker
and any food they get, theysmoke it immediately to try to preserve it.

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Because almost anything, unless you figureout a foolproof way to keep it
from the critters, something's gonna getto it because they'll smell it. And
so that's the other thing. Doyou save anything or just eat and you
eat and you eat, you know, you make a stew out of what's
left over and soup. And it'sa great show. You gotta watch new

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season of Loan is underway and checkout the ten item list and go through
it in your mind. What wouldyou pick? Twenty seven minutes after the
hour come back. Big Stories inthe press Box, a segment of stories
called, you don't say, andthen we'll get you ready for what's the
Beef Friday. Here in the MorningShow with Preston Scott. Sing Show with

(44:22):
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundredpoint seven double UFLA counting it down.
What's the Beef comes up in thirtyminutes, and we'll open up the phone
lines ahead of that in just alittle while. First, the big Stories

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in the press Box brought to youby Grova g ro o Va Creative Marketing
and digital Expertise, because that's whatthey do. Democrats are apparently a little
edgy at the prospect of Donald Trumppicking Marco Rubio. Now, Rubio's an

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interesting choice because he's not always beena staunch Trump supporter. However, Rubio
has become a defender of Trump,more so policies than anything else. Look,

(45:32):
Trump was brutal to Rubio the firsttime around in twenty sixteen, and
you may remember Marco struggled a littlebit with some water and that he was
memed into oblivion over that. Allthat aside, Marco Rubio is one of
the brightest minds out there. Idon't agree with every vote that Marco has

(46:02):
delivered, but I do believe thathe is principled. I believe he is
largely a very solid conservative, andI know that he's wicked smart and knows
policy like the back of his hand. He doesn't need notes, he owns
it. He also speaks fluent Spanish, and as a result, he is

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the only potential candidate to offer thathe would also be a young person relatively
speaking in that office and would setup whether he has presidential aspirations. Again,
I don't know. I'm trying toget him back on the show.
As he's continued his tenure in theUS Senate, we have not had access

(46:52):
to him as often as I wouldhave liked. But we're going to try
and get him back on the program. But that's an interesting possibility, and
you can sit and discuss the issueson whether you can have somebody from the
same state as the presidential nominee.You can argue that stuff. I'm going

(47:14):
to let that get settled separately fromme, because I've heard the arguments on
all sides of that Court of Arbitrationfor sport denied legal efforts by Leah Thomas
aka Dude Thomas, the biological malewho swims against women, and I mean
to see him standing next to hiscompetitors is a joke. It's just it's

(47:37):
like, stop it, no,just stop it. He wanted to swim
in the twenty twenty four Summer Olympicsin Paris. They said, no,
he's not going to good And theSupreme Court unanimously ruled that mif of pristone

(48:01):
is is going to remain available throughthe FDA's approval process. And even though
the FDA says one in twenty fivewomen end up in the er according to
the to its own label on thedrug, it's an abortion drug. I
just h I'll just stop there.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the doctors

(48:27):
that brought the suit did not havestanding because well, i'll paraphrase, they're
not victims. They can't claim injury. They didn't take it. And so
again the issue of legal standing,which I've brought up repeatedly, shows itself
again. All right, when wecome back, a couple of stories that
cause you to go, you don'tsay, and maybe it's a little more

(48:47):
sarcastic than that. Weather, trafficand the big stories in the press box,
the fastest three hours in media,and don't be surprised if you have
a chuckle here and there, justlike that, it's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. You don't say GM. We talked about Ford earlier and that

(49:24):
fit finish. I've always believed Fordmakes a better fit and finish product.
GM's catching up. They're doing better. But GM has approved buying back six
billion dollars worth of stock. Youmight be thinking, well, how is

(49:45):
that possible. The automakers are struggling. Well, it's true they're struggling with
the EV side of things. Butreading from the release, we're very focused
on the profitability of our ic internalcombustion engine business. We're growing and improving

(50:10):
the profitability of our EV business anddeploying our capital efficiently. This allows us
to continue returning cash to shareholders.So the profitability is coming from gas engines.
The demand for gas powered vehicles isforgive me fueling the buyback, and

(50:38):
they can wordsmith their way to inthis EV thing all the day long.
Evs are not going to be profitablein our lifetime, and I'm going to
say that to five year olds.It will not be profitable there and you're

(51:02):
going to eventually run into the problemof China controlling ninety percent of the market
for the components needed to create thosebatteries. Eventually when the first wave real
wave. We've had a few,but we've not hit the wave that's coming

(51:24):
of replacing those batteries in cars,and the cost and the need for people
to wait, I've got to getanother car loan. I paid off my
car. Oh no, no,no, the cost of replacing those batteries.
Yeah, And so you say,well, then I'll just sell it
to who who's going to buy it? And for what, knowing they got

(51:46):
to spend twenty to thirty grand ona new set of batteries that will last
them how long and what part ofthe country, because it depends on whether
you're in the north, the northeast, the midwest where it gets cold,
because the range gets totally incompletely buggered. It's the range just drops towing capacity.

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No, and then there's the infrastructureissue. Where are you gonna charge
it? You know what it coststo set up a charging station at home?
The other you don't say. JoeyChestnut will not be eating in the
annual Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog eatingcontest on July fourth, and he's actually

(52:36):
disappointed that he's not going to beallowed to compete. The contest is sponsored
by Nathan's and Joey decided to becomea spokesperson for Impossible Foods that makes plant
based hot dogs. You didn't thinkabout that, and why in the world

(53:00):
would you, Oh, my gosh, plant based hamburgers, hot dogs,
hot dogs plant based? No,No, that's gross. I mean,
regular hot dogs are pretty gross asit. No they're not. You get
the all beef. Get the allbeef hot dogs. They're incredible, the

(53:22):
big ones that you get at theballparks. Just don't ask how the sausage
is made. Well, I knowhow the sausage is made, but all
beef hot dogs are all beef.But yeah, regular hot dog. I'll
try to avoid a regular hot dog, but give me the all beef any
day of the week anyway. Ijust just the back and forth between Impossible

(53:46):
Foods, Joey Chestnut, and Nathan'sis pretty funny. I love competing in
the event. I love celebrating Americawith my fans all over this great country
on the fourth, and I've beentraining to defend my idol. Sadly,
this is the decision. Nathan's inthe major league eating are making. No,
it's a decision you made when youdecide to represent a plant based food

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product company instead of remembering that Nathan'sis the one who makes the contest anyway,
see you, Joey, I reallydon't care one bit about that stuff.
I don't watch it. It's gross. Oh the fun doesn't stop here.
Find more on his vlogu wu fl a FM dot com. Keyword

(54:30):
preston both lines you're open if you'dlike to call in, get in line.

(54:54):
It's what's to be Friday coming upin the next hour, and if
you don't mind wait, you're welcometo call. If you want to wait,
take your chances. That's fine.I'm sure lines will open up through
the half hour. But the numberis eight five zero two zero five WFLA
eight five zero two zero five ninetythree fifty two. Jimmy Petroni's CFO for

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the State of Florida joins us.Next hour also have some headlines from the
be Dad joke. I came acrossthe story. We were just talking about
Chick fil A locally, not notfar from where we are. They're gonna
level a Chick fil A and thenrebuild it. Yeah, The North Monroe
location is closing later this month.Yeah, it was one of the first

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locations, if not the first locationhere in town, and so I guess
they feel like it's antiquated and theycan They can do it better, bigger
and better. Probably get expanded drivethrough lanes like some of the more modern
Boy, if they've got more landavailable on that lot than what they originally
built out, okay, but ifnot, I don't know how you make

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it bigger. I just don't knowhow you do it. I believe if
I remember hearing word that the Lindy'son Monroe that location had been bought by
Chick fil A. Now I couldbe mistaken on that, but I think
I remember hearing something like that.Well that's a few doors down though,
I mean, that's not right there. They could, you know, build
a road behind Monroe Street for likethe drive through lane to loop people around.

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Okay, I'm gonna say I'm gonnabe curious to see how they do
it. Anyway, The franchise inHammond, Louisiana is hosting a Chick fil
A Summer camp. It's for kidsfive through twelve. Each session is about
three hours in the late morning justbefore lunchtime runs. A couple of these

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sessions are in July fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four. It's thirty five dollarsfor a parent to pay to have
their kid involved. Campers will meetChick fil A mascot team leaders, get
behind the scenes, look at thehospitality. They will, they will,

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I think, enjoy a meal.What's interesting is inside there. They're saying
from their perspective that the camp isdesigned to learn dining room hosts and customer
service skills. Learn how to takea guest order, learn how to bag
a guest order, toward the kitchen, box your own nugget meal, make

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your own ice cream cone or cup. Then the backlash started, you're exploiting
kids. Here's some of the posts. Hey, parents, pay us so
we can use your kids for childlabor. There I fixed your flyer.
Here's another one. Wait, you'rewanting parents to pay you to use their

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young children as labors. But theygot a free meal, snack and shirt
that will give you free advertising.Just because it's the twenties again, doesn't
mean we should bring back child labor. Didn't go great the last time.
Spoiler alert. I mean, thehate just flowed. I'm thinking to myself,

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these have got to be zoomers,maybe some millennials out there that are
just bitter and angry, and they'rethe ones giving us crappy customer service.
I love the idea. Parents,you want your kids exposed to how it's
done right here you go. Youdon't have to send your kid, No

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one's making them, but it's anopportunity. I think it's a brilliant idea.
Way to go Chick fil A,do do it in more locations.
Well done. I don't know ifthat was just a franchise choice or if
that's something that's available to all Chickfil A. I don't know, but
it's brilliant. Expose more people,young people to what it's like to work

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and provide good customer service, whetherthey ever work at a Chick fil A
for real or not. It's genius. But there's always going to be haters.
Speaking of what are you angry at? Eight five zero two zero five
WFLA. We got four lines,three lines are available eight five zero two
zero five WFLA. What's the beefis next? Let's do this, it's

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time. We've got one line openunbelievably. I'm sure someone out there is,
like, I'll just wait till hestarts back. Eight five zero two
zero five WFLA eight five zero twozero five ninety three point fifty two.
It is time our weekly sore intothe cornacopia of complaint known as it's the

(01:00:00):
Beef Friday. Whatever you want tocomplain about, you just call get it
off your chest. You'll feel better, trust me, you will because you'll
know that thousands upon thousands of peoplelive and later via stream are listening to
you. Get it off your chest, and you'll help others because there will

(01:00:20):
be people out there that are thatwill nod their head in agreement most likely
and agree with your complaint, andyou'll be helping them. So if you
want to do it, it's we'rehere for you. Just anticipate the end
of a phone call and dial onin eight five zero two zero five WFLA
quick reminder, no profanity, don'tmake it personal. George, you're up.

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What's the beef? Good morning,person. My beef is with our
esteemed city commissioners Jack Porter and Jeremymatt Roy and now they're teamed up with
dot Enman. I think there's alaw about them meeting in private, called
the Sunshine Law, and they're violatingit already. Of course it doesn't apply

(01:01:07):
to dot Inman yet, but uhuh Jack Porter and Jeremy are our meeting
and they're hiding behind this pack thatthey're you know, that he's doing,
and uh, they're they're they're evenreaching out to the potential people that are
donating to this pack to uh attendtheir meetings that at private homes. And

(01:01:29):
uh, I think somebody, youknow, ought to get in touch with
the Ethics Commission and you know worksdoctor Jackson when you need him. But
I'm pretty sure that's I'm pretty surethat's agaency. You know, the Sunshine
Law would state floor. Yeah,if they're talking about business of the city,
which it would seem would be difficultto avoid in that setting. Uh

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yeah, that is a that isa clear violation. But yeah, we'll
have to wait and see how thatunfolds. I suspect that and Commissioner Porter's
refusal to answer some questions will leadto some challenges her way. But thanks
so much, George, I appreciatethe phone call. Let's go to John.
Hello, John, you're up.What's the beef. Well, my

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beef is with the media, whichis no surprise, but it seems like
over the last two or three months, the only woman in America the media
wants to talk about is Caitlin Clark. They have shoved poor old Taylor Swift
into a closet somewhere. I haven'theard any news on her, and I
can't remember when it breaks the heart, doesn't it? Oh? It really

(01:02:36):
does. But I'm glad you letme get it off my chest because I
do feel better. Thank you,Thank you very much, John C.
That's why we're here. Let's goto Eric. Hello, Eric, thanks
for being patient. What's the beef? Hey, Preston, good morning,
and thanks for everything you do.My beef is with a certain we'll say

(01:02:57):
con man, ambulance chasing lawyer whois running ad throughout the day, incessantly
advocating for the passage of Amendment three, the marijuana bill. And all I
can say, Preston, I've beenin law enforcement for thirty years, state
and federal, and the claim thatthere are all of these people languishing in

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prison, languishing in jail for possessionof marijuana is an outright law. Did
they get caught selling marijuana. Sure, did they get caught with marijuana when
they committed another crime? Sure,maybe they got caught miking marijuana while they
were on probation. That's how theyended up in jail. And to claim

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that there are people sitting in jailbecause they simply possessed marijuana is an outright
law. And I just cannot believethat the people are so easily swayed to
believe that pass this bill. Andit always makes me wonder, Preston,
when you have to lie to makeyour point, maybe your point is really

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not all that great in the firstplace. Nks President, Hey, thank
you brother, appreciate the phone call. You know, I've I've long wondered.
And Gary, you're next. Andthen, folks, we've got two
lines open eight five zero two zerofive WFLA. Two lines are open.
Got Gary. The Nancy I've longwondered is John Morgan championing this stuff because

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deep down he knows he's got lawsuitsthat'll come as a result of it.
He's got people that'll be injured bypeople smoking weed, and he'll be on
the other he'll be able to makemoney on that side of this. He's
he's a personal injury attorney. I'mjust saying that's how they make their money.

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Am I crazy for thinking that?Really? Ten past the hour?
Phone lines open? We got twoof them eight five zero two zero five
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opened. Hey, five zero twozero five ninety three fifty two, Gary,
thanks for being patient with me.Good morning and welcome. What's the
beef? Good morning? And Isure hate that we lost Grant. I
thought he was a great assistant.Yeah, he did a great job.
But well, my beef is actuallylocalized this morning to just Wacula County,

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Okay, just the north north centralWacola County. Gotcha, And I want
to say I live down there,and I'm very proud of the work that
the people in our county do becausewe got some great people down there.
With that said, if you're familiar, we'll call a Springs the entrance to
the state park. That's Highway tosixty seven. It that is the only

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that is the northernmost east to westroad we have in Waculla County. But
yet, if you go down OldWoodville Highway down the bike path, there
are over a thousand residents living innorth central Waculla County. And if we're
waiting on it and only there's nopaved connection between the County Line Road,

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Maculla Springs Highway and Old Woodville Highway. Of course, if we're waiting on
an emergency vehicle coming out of Crawfordville, that emergency vehicle has to travel.
If it has to travel, pavementhas to come all the way down to
sixty seven past Williculor Springs to WaculaStation and then back north on Woodville Highway.

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So I'm just saying, if you'relistening guys in Waculla County, it's
time to do something about Ashley Hallbetween Downy Line Road and Bob Miller Road.
Thank you, Gary, that mightprove to be a very useful beef.
Appreciate you calling in this morning.That frees up a line eight five
zero two zero five to b FLA. Hello, Nancy, you're up.

(01:07:12):
What's the beef? Well, I'mvery disheartened. I don't even know if
I should bother to vote this year. Oh oh oh no, no,
no, no, Well I'll tellyou why. What have the Republicans done
about making sure that is not goingto be cheating going on like there has
been the last election. What arethe voices going to do? Well?

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You know that that's a state issue, right, I'm not sure? Well
it is. I mean, thestates determine what happens with voting inside their
borders. It's up to the individualstates. Well what happened, Well,
that means that our representatives you shouldbe doing stuff. But but by not

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voting, you're certainly not going tohelp anything by letting the bad guys win
if they're going to win, ifthey're going to win anyway, well,
but what if they won't. Whatif your votes, the people like you
that say I'm not voting, arethe votes that put us past the point
of cheating. You know, atthe very least, I will probably vote,

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but I am very disheartened at it. Of course, I feel like
I'm wasting my vote. You're not. At the very least, Nancy,
appreciate the phone call. At thevery least, your vote will cancel the
vote of somebody else by not voting, that vote stands. Look this this

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election again, primaries, you votewith your heart unless the primary is your
general. In the general election,you got to vote with your head.
You've got to vote with your head, and you have to vote. You
have to. If if conservative Republicanvoters sit out because they're dismayed, disgusted,
and I get it, then you'remaking it easier. You're helping load

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their weapon. All right, MelindaBrendan, You're next. What's to be
Friday comes up in mere moments,final session of Therapy on The Morning Show
with Preston Scott FLA on your phonewith the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of
devices like Alexa, Google Home,Xbox, and Sonos. So here we

(01:09:30):
go Iheart's Radio station Florida CFO JimmyPatrons at the bottom of the hour in
place of the big stories in thepress box, a big guest. But
right now you are our favored friends. You are the guests of the program.
Melinda, thanks for calling. What'sthe Beef? Good morning, Preston,

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Good morning. So this is justbouncing off your discussion about on Morgan
a little earlier. Yeah, youknow, he's putting off, putting off
a lot of money and a lotof time pushing this uh quote unquote law
down our throats. Yeah, andso do we get to hold him liable

(01:10:15):
in the future for those accidents thatare going to happen because people are driving
around Stone. So just just athought anyway, you know, John Morgan
for the people they released own peoplehave a great day. Thank you,
Melinda. The answer is no,because people will vote on this individually and
and it's up to them. Uh. He championed, if you remember,

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the medical marijuana. He also championedthe minimum wage, among other things.
But I'm still not past the ideathat this is all about more victims and
making more money. But that's justme. You know. He spends half
his half his time in Hawaii?Is it? Is it? Brendan?

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Brendan? Is this? Is this? You sir? You're up? What's
the beef in the morning? PrestonHappy Friday? My beef is not political.
But I experienced this in my dailylife on a somewhat consistent basis.
So, right right in the middleof my neighborhood, there's a park and
it's supposed to go one way.It's a loop and you park there and

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there's a you know, trail fishingplace. But anyway, nearly consistently I
experienced people going the wrong way,and I think one time I even had
to pull over off my scooter becausesomebody was going the wrong way. And

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this last time I saw a ladyact like it like it was a turning
section. Yeah, and it justit's very irritating when people don't know how
the park works. And that's someof the time the reason I have to
pull over, And I just thinkthat's kind of an irritating thing. What's
the park? What what's the nameof it? I forget what it's called.

(01:12:02):
But if any any Lafayette Heritage parkover in the area, Man,
Brendan, your voice it just changed. It just it just blossomed right right
in my ears. Thanks very much. Yeah, I'm familiar with the park.

(01:12:24):
Yeah, I mean it's it's there'sparts of town where people do just
ridiculous things. U turns where they'renot allowed and they run over barriers and
break them all the time. Thanksvery much. Lee, You are up
second to the last caller here.What's the beef? Hey, my beef
is actually follow up to the ladythat was so discouraged about voting. Yeah,

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I don't think we have any problemachieving a Republican, a good,
good red vote here in Florida.Unfortunately, our neighbors to the north in
Georgia have a real problem in theonly in an area with all the cheating.
Yeah, and the real question is, were you good old Georgia boys
going to do to make sure thistravesty that your governor allowed last time doesn't

(01:13:11):
happen again. That's a great question, Lee, and good call out too,
Thanks very much for the phone call. Yeah, there are some things,
but there are so many questions abouttwenty twenty that just never got addressed,
at least publicly. And it's afair question. Fair points made,
John, John, my brother,you are it. What's the beef now,

(01:13:36):
good morning pressing. My beef iswith those people whining about Chick fil
A and Hammon actual giving kids actualskill, life skills. Did I bet
these same people have no problems withsending kids to drag Queen story hours and
things like that. And while I'mon that, my beef is also with

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an organization since businesses or anybody whoregurgitates Pride Month, that is Pride Month
several times during the ad, duringevery break, during every commercial, all
morning long. But I suffer throughit for you, Preston, because that's
how much you mean to me.You all have a good day. You're
a good man, Thank you verymuch. Yeah, look, we have

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we have advertisers that want to reachall of you, and it's up to
you to decide whether you enjoy theirmessaging or not. But I know that
you all do understand because I readyour emails that we have little say.
I mean, if someone's content isjust like, yeah, that's just that's

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profane or pornographic or whatever, yeah, they get run. And that has
happened in the course of my doingthis show. We have said yeah no,
not from six to nine, andmy bosses have supported that every time,
every time. But yeah, Chickfil a good job exposing young people

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to skills and customer service and creatingopportunities. Yeah. But look, here's
what we're gonna do now. GroveCreative marketing digital expertise normally brings us the
big stories in the press box,but on Friday we do different things.
But today we even do different thingsfrom what we normally do that are different.
Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis joins us nexthere on The Morning Show with Preston

(01:15:32):
Scotting Show with Preston Scott. Igot bad thought my News Radio one hundred
point seven double UFLA and we areback the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty

(01:15:55):
five past the hour. It's Friday. We'll be back on Monday show short
week though I'm taking a few daysoff next week, but we will be
back Monday and Tuesday. But Iam pleased to have with us this morning
on the radio program. He isthe chief financial officer for the Sunshine State.
Friend of the program, Jimmy Patrona'schief How are you. It's great,

(01:16:16):
Thanks for having me. President.Tell me a little bit about your
reaction to the governor's budget being signed. His line item veto's just the overall
status of things, so one,I think it's great that we have got
a budget that has followed in theprevious year. The State of Florida is
in an environment right now where everybodyis paying more from everything from their cup

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of coffee to their carton of eggs. So as you're paying more, the
state is receiving more money. AndI'm just glad that Governor's saying this realizes
that that we need we can livewithin our means. The states to find
financially. And I love the factthat we pay down five million dollars worth
of debt and put seventeen billion backin reserves. That's an amazing number to

(01:17:05):
have there at the ready if needed. I marveled at the number that since
since you all have been together inoffice, that we have seen a thirty
six percent reduction in the debt ofthe state. And the debt ratio of
the state was pretty good to beginwith, wasn't it. It was very

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good. So it was funny thestate of Florida had not paid down a
single dollar of debt that Bob Martinezwith governor until Rick Scott became governor.
So you know, Governor Scott startedpaying it down. And I love the
fact that Governor saying its has justbeen non stop hitting the debt hard,

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and you know, it's a giftfor our children. It really is.
When you look at the reserves,I want to my memory tells me it's
about seventeen billion put into reserves.Explain what that money is there for?
So if you the best way Ican explain it is, let's go take
twenty twenty, the COVID year.That year we were probably sitting on somewhere

(01:18:11):
just close to five billion in reserves. And when you shut down the state
economy for the month of April,and in addition, you had everybody who
self imposed their own you know,social distancing and economic restrictions, the state
started burning through that cash. Soby the time we got to July of
twenty twenty, we were down toabout fifty million dollars in reserves. Two

(01:18:35):
fifty in reserves. So again,those are the dollars that we supplement our
sales tax with if something happens.Those are the dollars when a governor calls
emergency order, if they are needed, they can roll into action through some
oversight. Is any of that moneymoney that's used, you know, we're
in hurricane season obviously right now,Jimmy, Is any of that moneys for

(01:18:59):
that purpose as well? Or isthat a separate fund, separate fund,
separate fund? So you know,there's there's I think the other reason why
it's important to have these seventeen billionreserves. I think it's not if it's
when we might see some correction inthe stock market, we see some correction,
uh in the real estate market,and so you're going to see a

(01:19:20):
future legislature, maybe see a downturnWe've We've seen it before. It happened
with a foreclosure crisis back in nineAgain, it happened with COVID and those
reserves of what gets us through thatrough patch. If the state's economy does
have a little bit of a struggleeconomically, but right now, I will

(01:19:42):
take it all day long. Thatcontributes to our triple A bond rating.
That contributes that when we do borrowmoney, we're borrowing it cheaper thal in
Illinois or in New York or aNew Jersey or any of these other places
you're never going to live. Jimmypatrona States CFO with me this morning.
One more segment to go, acouple more things on the agenda I want

(01:20:04):
to talk about with him. Itis Friday. I'm really excited about that.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's traffic, weather, sports,
entertainment and the truth. The MorningShow with Preston Scott on News Radio
one hundred point seven WUFLA forty onepast the hour. Chief Financial Officer for

(01:20:32):
Florida, Jimmy patronis with us.I talked about this story earlier in the
week Jimmy, the discussion that you, other members of the cabinet and the
governor were going to have about thepurchase the potential purchase of a warehouse in
central Florida of f I four thatwould serve as an emergency distribution center.

(01:20:53):
First, brilliant idea. Tell usa little bit more about that. Where
are we in that process, sothat particular facility, we had some space
in central Florida, but there there'sdefinitely there's some opportunities where if you had
a little bit bigger location to workwith, you can stockpile water, you

(01:21:15):
can even go as far as stagingurban search and rescue there. But you
know, Polk County, make nomints, no words. It's it's a
million people in that county. It'sa booming county. But it's so centrally
located in the state and it's kindof great, great road infrastructure if you
needed to go northeast, south orwest to the bigger population centers in our

(01:21:39):
state if a storm were to hit. So again that that ball is underway,
and again just a much more robustfacility for the state to be able
to have a better commergency response.Is that a done deal? Is it
a likelihood, and then if so, the time frame for build out,
retrofitting and ready for use as theturnline of when the building will be operational.

(01:22:04):
I would have to talk to KevinGuthrie about that. He's our state's
emergency management director. Great guy.He's with the governor today in Broward County.
But Kevin briefed me on it lastweek. But if he told me
the timeline, it was me ready. I just forgot what he's doing me.

(01:22:24):
I sent you a copy of aninterview that I had with Justin Haskins
this week about something that's going onin the European Union that would have a
dramatic impact on the United States.United States businesses, businesses that do business
in Europe and then they're downstream suppliershere in the United States. I don't

(01:22:46):
know if you've got a chance tolisten to a Jimmy, but it sounds
as though what we've done in Floridato fight ESG is got to only be
the tip of the iceberg. Wehave to be really on our game to
try to thwart this, but wecan't be alone. What are your thoughts
on the subject in general? Yeah, I'm afraid in Europe, that ship

(01:23:10):
is sale. The only silver liningthat this is is, you know,
you've got all these elections taking placein Europe right now, and you're seeing
a conservative movement starting to bring conservativeleaders into power. You know, ESG
is some of the worst policy,and it's it's almost gotten in an environment
where it's become the law of theland, especially in blue states and those

(01:23:33):
that influence big corporations and big corporations, you find it at different levels of
participation. Some corporations put it intheir communications department, some put in the
legal department, some put in theirHR department. But make no worries about
it. Corporate America is not thrilledwith ESG, and it has been shoved

(01:23:55):
down their throat by the work ofthe wocal elite. It's it's not it's
an environmental, social and government.Those are all dangerous things when you're thinking
about the inflation that we're dealing withright now in our country. Well,
the scorecards that they're going to imposeon businesses. In other words, they're
going to say to Ford, they'regoing to say, if you want to
do business here, you're going tohave to do this. They're going to

(01:24:16):
say it to every company, andthose companies have their roots here in America.
If you listen to what Justin hadto say, I mean, he's
the expert on this, He's theone that brought it to everyone's attention years
ago, the Great Reset and allthat. It sounds as though this better
be a coordinated effort by the fiftystates along with the federal government to say

(01:24:36):
no, we're not gonna you're notgoing to do this period to end well.
And there's there's a lot of folksthat, you know, what,
they go to work, they goto their kids baseball games, they make
the rounds, they sew up atchurch, so ESG doesn't affect them day
to day. But what they don'trealize ESG is leaching into their insurance rates.

(01:24:59):
To your point, it is leachinginto the products that they buy because
it's driving up the costs of thembecause the ESG policies are massive cost drivers.
When you think about in the insurancemarket where they're applying this, they're
going to make it harder to getinsurance if a market isn't abiding by ESG

(01:25:19):
policies. It's just it's the worstof the worst. And those that have
unlimited money they live in this worldtwenty four to seven, because this is
some way they make themselves feel betterabout themselves. Chief thanks for the time,
have a great weekend, and we'lltalk again soon. Thanks Presden,
having a great weekend. All right, sir, Jimmy patronis with us this
morning. And folks, you can'tyou can't look at what we talked about

(01:25:44):
Tuesday with Justin, and I reallyencourage you. It's going to hit the
Conversations podcast today. Don't ignore thatconversation. If you missed it, go
back and listen. Because Justin isas well informed. Look, he's Glad
Beck's co authory and which basically meanshe writes the book. Glenn writes some
commentaries in each of the chapters,but Justin does the research and does a

(01:26:09):
lot of the writing, and he'sas well informed as they come. He
stated, this is the most importantissue in the last decade to Americans.
You decide what that means. Isuggest you listen to the interview forty seven
past the hour I Forget FSU Baseballpregame six forty five on this very radio

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station. Locally, if you're inthe local area, you can stream it
on one hundred point seven WFLA,Tallahassee. If you're outside the local area,
then you would need to stream throughthe FSU website site if you want
to listen to the radio broadcast,but the game can be seen at seven

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