Ep. 5639: Grant Ep. 10 What is an American.

Good morning and welcome to the morning show. I'm Grant Allen, filling in for Preston today. It is 607 Eastern 507 Central, and it is a pleasure to be with you all. That is God bless America from John Wayne Bing Crosby and a number of... The 20th century's finest, and it's a pleasure to be with you. It's been a minute since I've been in the studio. It's a real pleasure to be back. I'm usually in studio around the holidays. Filling in for time. There's some more time off. But anyhow, it's nice to be in during the dog days of summer. And you can say they are the dog days of summer. It's been toasty. It's been muggy. And it's a pleasure to be back with you. We've got, there's a lot of overnight news developments for the big story in the press box, as you might imagine. And there's a lot that I'd love to be able to cover today. But first, as always, we start with the word. This is Philippians chapter 2 verses 9 through 11, wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. One of the things about modernity, that's a blessing, but it's also a little bit of a curse, is the access of information. And you can investigate the claims of the various religions of the world. And they're quite accessible now. There are audiobooks, there are articles, there are full religious texts online, and even Amazon, you can purchase various different religious texts. rather affordably and easily, and get it in two-day shipping. But there is no claimant quite like the claims of Christ, that he is the way the truth in the life, that all, in order to get to God the Father, the only medium is Christ's the Son. And this is a promise from the Lord that... In the trials of seeing a fraught and fallen world, we can take solace in knowing that every knee will bow and every tongue should confess that Christ is Lord. That is a promise. That is a reality that will come to pass. Obviously, it is not occurring right now, but it is a promise that it will come to pass. One day when every wrong will be righted. Christ will be proclaimed king. He is king. And every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. Ten minutes after the hour, let's keep it going here on the morning show. Still serving as the mayor of Realville and dispensing information at the speed of sound. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

Monday, July 13th, Year of Our Lord, 2026. Pleasure to be with you all. I'm Grant Allen. This day in history on July 13th. The History of the Northwest Ordinance on July 13th, 1787. Well, this book is really falling apart. It's been little pieces. It is a well-used piece of morning show. Well, a morning show artifact. This is this, this American Patriots Almanac here. Preston always mentions how it's been rebound through various rounds of tape and he ain't kidding. On July 13, 1787, Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance, one of the greatest achievements of the early republic. The legislation provided for the government of a huge region, then called the Northwest Territory, which includes the current modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.

As part of the Northwest Ordinance, slavery was banned in those lands, and the lands were divided into townships, six miles square and subdivided into 36 sections of 640 acres each. And if you travel to that part of the country, you'll notice that, like, here in the south, right, you don't, once you're outside of the city limits, you're just in the county, right? Here in Leon County, when you're outside of the city limits of the city of Tallahassee, you're just out in Leon County, right? But you travel to this part of the country, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois. You've got city limits, but then once you're outside of the city limits, you're in various townships. So that is something that the founders put in place for this kind of region that you still see today. That's how they divide it up the parcels. One of these sections, one of the townships, had sections in it and one of the sections was donated for the purposes of public education religion morality and knowledge being necessary to government and the happiness of mankind schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged congress said what did they mean by that religion morality and wow congress said it that's bizarre it's almost as if the first word of the first amendment is a prohibition of Congress endorsing a national state. But states and territories could. That's interesting. I can't believe they snuck that in here. I figured they wouldn't allow that. The Northwest Ordinance treated each new territory as a state in embryo status. Settlers in the territories could establish free governments and right constitutions in once they had achieved 60,000 inhabitants that could apply for admission to the Union as new states. Each state would be admitted on an equal basis with all previous states. And this was the first time in the history of the world that the principle of equality was so recognized, American territories would not be colonies held in perpetual subordination to the mother country. They would be admitted. As states, once they reach that 60,000 mark that threshold of citizenry. Also in this day in 1863, rioting against a civil war military draft erupts in New York City. 100 people were dead as a result. This day in 1865, and in New York Tribune editorial, Horace Greeley advises, go west, young man, and grow up with the country. Very famous words. This day in 1923, the famous Hollywood sign is dedicated on the hills above Hollywood. It originally read, I did not know this, by the way. The Hollywood sign originally read. It didn't say Hollywood. It said Hollywood land to advertise a real estate development. And Preston added this note in here on this day in 2024 was the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. I can't believe that was two years ago. I'm surprised there's, I can't believe in Mike. I completely just missed that. I'm glad he put that note in here because I would have completely forgotten about that. Insane. 16 minutes after the hour here on the morning show, we'll keep it going.

22 minutes after the hour. Welcome back here to the morning show. I'm Grant Allen. Pleasure to be back with you. Jose and I, Jose is also there in Studio 1A. I'm in Studio 1B. By the way, got to get that out there. Follow the show, by the way, at TMS Preston Scott on X or Twitter. And you can head to the website, WFLAFM.com and WFLA Panama City.com to catch all things related to the show. But I was talking with Jose before the show because he's looking at my rundown that I provided that we kind of share as our guide for the show. And he saw the segment for this one that I was going to give my kind of brief overview of my thoughts of Young Washington. Because I went to go see it last week. And like most historical films nowadays, as a history buff, I read this kind of stuff for fun. This is how I choose to spend my free time. Is reading pieces of historical nonfiction. I was a little nervous. I just wasn't sure. I don't think I had ever really seen anything from Angel Studios either, who was the studio behind the production of the film. So I was just entirely uncertain of, you know, what I was going to find, especially because it's obviously apparent that any film... in the 21st century, in 2026, feels like any film that was going to be a historical period piece, especially about the 18th century, colonial America, that it was going to be apologetic in some form. And I don't mean apologetic in meaning like Christian apologetics, like you're making a defense. No, I mean like apologetic like, we are sorry, we exist kind of thing. That's what I was kind of expecting. I was just keeping my expectations low. And I guess because of that, I was pleasantly surprised. I had seen a lot of people give reviews on social media. Of course, if you go to like, what's the Rotten Tomato score? Which are the two scores I can't ever remember? which score is like the audience score and which one is the critics score. You can almost reliably know whether or not it's actually a good film. If the critics say it's a bad film, it's probably awesome, honestly. Or vice versa, right? If the critics are raving and reviewing, you can almost assuredly, like, see that the audience review is like kind of mid. Kind of meh. But I went to go see it. And also, first time I'd been to AMC here in Tallahassee in years, like years. I remember just walking around that mall as a kid, you know, because I grew up in the area. So that's where we would go see movies with friends. And then you'd walk around the mall and, you know, that whole thing. And so seeing that in its present state.

It was just bizarre. As they say, the world you grew up in no longer exists. But the film itself, I thought, was really good. It was a PG-13, and it was not very gory or bloody. And they depicted battle scenes. Sure, you know, they would depict sometimes there was one close-up scene on the historical figure, General Edward Braddock. And he had, you know, had some, probably some ketchup or tomato juice around his face because very famously in history, Braddock's expedition was not a good ending for General Edward Braddock, but that is where General Washington or then Colonel Washington kind of received a lot of fame because even in the midst of defeat. He rose to the occasion and saved a lot more men than otherwise would have been and eventually regrouped, leading to the, you know, him leading the Virginia regiment in the provincial forces and the French and Indian War. All of that was historically accurate. They showed Washington's failure at Fort Necessity, and they showed kind of his upbringing with his older brother Lawrence. The passing of his father when he was so young and how that impacted him, I thought they did a great job. Obviously, I've got two little girls, so I'm not showing them this film just yet. But if you have a son that's between like 10 and 15, right? Like, this would be a great film to show them because it shows that ambition. A young, ambitious Washington, ambition is good. It's good that you've got drive. It's good that you want to achieve. It's good that you want to succeed. It is incredibly important that in the midst of all those things, you fashion yourself a gentleman in all of your conduct, in all of your dealings. It was really good. It depicted Washington's rules of civility that I remember hearing about and reading those as a kid and those were kind of applied in kind of my own sensibilities as I... As I grew up, I kind of maintained some of those things. And it was very cool to see that put to film at a period in time that doesn't get a lot of interest. Pre-independence colonial America has like 150 years of history with so many stories to tell that this is like, of pre-independence colonial America, Washington's battles in the French and Indian War are probably the most common. But have you ever heard of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia? Have you ever heard of, you know, King Phillips War in New England? There are so many things ripe for the picking. And I like what Angel Studios did. So I recommend it. Go see the film if you haven't.

Remember, wherever you travel, across the fruited plains or around the world. You can listen to the morning show with Preston Scott for free on the IHeart Radio app. 637 here on the morning show time for the big story in the press box stay tuned by the way 7 o'clock hour Dr. Joe Camps will be joining us. And in hour number three, in the 8 o'clock hour, a conversation with Justin Haskins from the Heartland Institute. He's got a new op-ed out at Fox related to the rise of the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, and particularly young voters and why they're flocking to this. He's got some interesting thoughts on it. The polling numbers are actually rather surprising at how high they are. And if, I don't know, if you've, if you've been around young people, maybe this is surprising or not surprising to you. It just kind of, kind of depends on your personal orbit. As a, I don't know, relatively young person. I'm still in my 20s. I'm still in my 20s. So I think I technically qualify as like a young person according to like polling research, probably. I think so. I think someone will probably qualify me as young. Frankly, I'm not terribly surprised by this. But that's our number three. The big story in the press box. You heard it in the national news. You probably saw it over the weekend. The passing of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. He passed at 71 years old Saturday evening on the 11th at his Capitol Hill home. His office said that it was a brief and sudden illness and asked for privacy and prayers for friends and family. He had just turned back a primary challenger, Mark Lynch, who got 29% of the vote. you know, a month ago and was set to face Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews in November for a fresh six-year term. Trump, obviously, won South Carolina by double digits, and so he was almost certainly going to be the runaway, you know, re-election candidate in November. His final hours, we're getting more details. It's more, it's interesting. DC fire and EMS were dispatched to his South Capitol Street home around 8.30 Saturday after he had just gotten back from a trip to Ukraine to Kiev. They were able to force their way in. And radio traffic confirmed CPR on a cardiac arrest patient. And interestingly, Graham's father passed away.

of a heart attack. And Fox is reporting as of 5 a.m. today. So this is pretty fresh info. Heart condition tied to Lindsey Graham's death can strike without warning. And as you heard in the national news, preliminary findings cite aortic dissection due to arterioschlorotic cardiovascular disease. So if he's got a family history. And he himself was reporting to some staffers, I believe, according to the reporting, that he was feeling unwell coming back from the Ukraine, coming back stateside. So symptoms, warning signs may have been there. But Senator Lindsey Graham, 71 years old, passed away over the weekend and creates a bit of a odd political circumstance. I'll break that down next here in the morning show. Show with Preston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't you? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA.

Continuing the big story in the press box, the passing of Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is hoping for a full toxicology and autopsy report. He also noted of Graham's own father passing of a heart attack. Wall Street Journal editorial board also urged for an autopsy. implying political circumstances. This is a quote. They said, I ran Russia and other adversaries benefit from his death, given that historically he was such a... I don't mean this as a pejorative because I don't want to speak ill of someone as they pass, right? But he was definitely one of the loudest voices for American intervention, a bit of a war hawk. That's just a fact. He's kind of of that mold that you'd see with John McCain and a lot of the, a neo-conservative wing of the GOP. They definitely believed in exercising American force frequently and often around the world. So I just, I've, okay, so first of all, I've seen, I've been on Twitter and I've seen the, let's call them the conspiracy theories. Let me just say, it is rather odd that he was just in Ukraine. It is very odd. Graham spoke with President Trump by phone around 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, fresh up a trip to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky himself and briefed him on a Russia sanctions bill that he wanted the Senate to vote on soon. And then he passes away. I've seen the conspiracy theories. I hear you. I see you. I'm not convinced this case. There's something that happened that I think broke a lot of us in 2020, right? Preston talked about it a lot on the show. Whole shows dedicated to... The, well, frankly, lies in deception of trusted, vaunted institutions in 2020 with COVID and the medical establishment. And how you just didn't believe what you read, see here anymore. And I understand the inclination to kind of have a questioning. or a curious mindset behind what you're hearing and seeing, and then you're starting to pinpoint connections and things like that. I understand that instinct. I'm just not certain about this. I think this is pretty much how it seems, frankly. His father had a history of heart issues. This type of heart disease can't strike at any moment. Sometimes the most logical. and plausible explanation is the one that's right in front of you. So that's just my thought on the matter. But related politically, how this is going to work in case you're curious. So now there's a vacant seat on the GOP side in the Senate. So here's how it's going to work. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster will appoint an interim senator to serve for the rest of the year. State law in South Carolina does not set a deadline. However, governors often move quickly here. However,

Republican voters will have a special primary to pick the nominee for a full six-year term this year, this year. Candidate filing opens July 21st and will run for one week, and then the primary is on August 11th and a runoff on August 25th if nobody clears 50%. And the winner will face the previously mentioned Dr. Andrews, the Democrat, in November. So there's a number of names being floated around. Lieutenant Governor Pamela Yvette. close to Henry McMaster and Trump endorsed. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, I am no fan of hers. She's polling an exploratory bid. Congressman Ralph Norman is interested. Representative Russell Fry. These are some of the names that are being pushed around rumored to fill the seat. So it's all going to be handled this year. The governor will fill the slot immediately and then... South Carolina voters will fill that slot in a primary later this summer and in the general election in November, almost assuredly going to go to whoever the GOP nominee is, whoever the voters decide on. And now, mind you, it might not be the same person. Whoever the... governor of South Carolina Henry McMaster appoints very well might not be the same person who runs in the election against Andrews in November. So that's the succession politics of that. 46 minutes after the hour here on the morning show.

Unlike a lot of talk show hosts, he's admitted to be wrong. That's when he thought he was wrong, but in fact wasn't. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Hour number one, almost through already. 6.52. After the hour, almost 7 o'clock Eastern, almost 6 o'clock Central. From American greatness, this is obviously a rather notable figure, Secretary of State Marco Rubio. There's a bit of a, you know, we as Floridians know him quite well. And there have been times where, frankly, I think anyone, there's a time to be, you know, critical of any public figure, but you have to give credit where credit is due and praise the good. If there's a critique, you offer the critique. No one is above critique in that case, especially serving in a public capacity. But when there's a good thing that is done, you have to give credit where credit is due. Say thank you and say, more of this, please. So this is from American greatness. Marco Rubio. steps in to facilitate the removal of an illegal alien child rapist pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. I'm... There are just some figures where, like you say, their name, and you just kind of want to spit. Tim Walz is kind of... Like, just... There aren't very many figures in leftist politics that truly caused me to just, because with the left, you kind of just know what you're getting. And so as someone on the right, you spend actually, I feel like a lot of time is where my mind is a lot. You spend a lot of time trying to coach. coax and kind of guide the right out of kind of kind of this hapless controlled opposition sometimes that I think the GOP has been in for a long, long time. And so every now and then you get these moments though where you're like, oh yeah, the left is truly insane. Not only are the insane, they're guided by ideological and likely monetary reasons. So Tim Walz, here's the story. A Laotian National was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual assault after assaulting a 10-year-old girl between 2002 to 2004, multi-year offender. He reportedly tried to justify it by citing cultural norms. and offered the victim a grand total of $10 to stay silent. He pled guilty, and an immigration judge issued a removal order back in 2006, and despite that record, Minnesota's Board of Pardons under Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison granted this individual a pardon last month.

DHS publicly called the decision disgusting. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded by revoking his legal status directly. And in Marco Rubio's words, this week I revoked his legal status in the United States. As a result, federal agents took him into custody. And as of today, he has been removed from the United States. He added, Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals. Yeah, yeah, kind of a basic thing, right? But no. That's apparently our future. Is that if you live in a blue area, right? Foreign sex criminals have a human right to live in your neighborhood and they get pardoned. Thank you to Marco Rubio for stepping in. But just never forget, right? This is what the left wants for your neighborhood. It's true. They do. They would have it see fit that this would be right next door to you. Eastern 605 Central. I'm Grant Allen in Studio 1B. That's Jose in Studio 1A. Welcome to the morning show. Hour number two, pleasure to be with you this morning. Yeah, Jose brought up the big story in the press box. I'll get to it, right? But I just have to acknowledge, too. When I saw the news break over the weekend about Senator Graham, my first thought was that is not the senator I expected to see in the news. who passed. I definitely feels like everyone, everyone was kind of waiting on the impending news around the, um, the infirmed Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, but I just, I didn't expect Lindsey Graham. Um, just very surprising. There's, um, topic change now here. There's been a lot talked about if you watch Fox, if you, catch any of the kind of the conservative media atmosphere there's been a lot that has been said about particularly the phenomenon that's happening on the left and it does the right does have its counterpart but they look very different What am I talking about? I'm talking about the rise of DSA-affiliated candidates in the Democrat Party, particularly the phenomenon that's taking place in New York. The Zohran Mamdani endorsed candidates winning their primary, just staving off some challengers. And I know you're probably thinking, what do you mean? There's a counterpart on the right. It kind of is. There is a little bit of a counterpart on the right. It is nowhere near as forefront, but it does exist from time to time, where you have outsiders who do not receive the endorsement of the main party establishment victorious. That happens sometimes. More frequently, the victor in Republican politics is the MAGA or the Trump endorsed candidate. But what happened in Iowa with Zach Lane, the gubernatorial candidate, barely eeked out a victory over the Trump endorsed candidate in the GOPP primary.

The GOP gubernatorial primary in Iowa, Zach Lane, outmanned the Trump endorsed candidate. That's unusual in today's day and age. And I think it is hinting at something that there's something about a torch or the mantle that's being passed along, right, that is either not being passed to the next generation through kind of through the mega world. Or it's just being advocated for by himself. Zach Lane was a candidate. He wasn't seeking the president's endorsement necessarily. He was just running as an Iowa first guy talking about the vast usage of corporate dollars in Iowa's main industry that is agriculture. But the Democratic Socialists of America are a different... It's just an entirely different bird. And I've talked some about this. And for me, it's kind of hard not to see the rise of socialism as part of the populist left frustrated with the democratic establishment paired. With this other thing, and that is, well, large-scale immigration over the last 30 years has completely changed the demographics of Democratic voting base, the Democratic voting base. Because when you have large-scale immigration coming into waves, coming in waves to a city like New York City and others like it, it's rather unsurprising then. When the Zohran Mamdani coalition of various recent arrivals, they import their politics and impose it on the American system. I'll kind of explain that a little bit more. Next segment, 10 minutes after the hour, here on the morning show.

validating your feelings or perhaps helping you come to terms with the fact that you have been wrong for so much of your life. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Kind of breaking down a little bit of what I've seen from. Different outlets that are talking about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA wing of the Democrat Party. And I mentioned right before we went to break last segment that I have a hard time not seeing how the rise of the DSA is almost coterminous, necessarily linked to large-scale immigration over the last 30 years or so, transforming cities. For example, the story that we saw at the end of last week was when the city of New York, Zohran Mamdani City, released their ethnic enclaves kind of map. They did not have... Little Italy, and I don't think they recognized the historic Irish community either. So you had Irish not represented, the Italians not represented, but you had like little Yemen, you had like little Baghdad or little Iraq or something like that. You had, obviously, that did not exist 50 years ago, 60 years ago. That is recent. Take another example, Compton, California. Like, you do realize that the city of Compton, has had multiple waves. California historically was almost kind of regarded as like the middle class kind of utopia. Like if you couldn't quite figure out how to make it work in some place like California was always like one of the most peak American cities. It produced Nixon and Reagan for goodness sake. And the city of Compton was like where the bushes lived. for a time, right? And then it became a heavily black populated with high crime. And then it became, now blacks don't even live in Compton anymore. They have completely been driven out. And it is entirely a Mexican community now. It has had multiple waves of, well, discontinuity, multiple waves of migration. And that's obviously happening in New York. However, It's obviously true in this piece from American greatness that the Democratic parties flirt with socialism does predate large-scale immigration, obviously. It's important to know that Democratic Party operatives thought they could maintain control. And for a while, they succeeded. The efforts of aggressive, progressive partisans succeeded and taking over the DNC in 1972. That was just, you know, seven years after the Hartseller Act, which revoked lots immigration quotas. And so now you just had... Well, you had no more immigration quotas, and so it was increased immigration from there on now. It was just a few years later. They promoted progressive George McGovern for president and the Democratic National Committee embraced some of the most radical left-wing positions.

This piece argues that saying, thankfully, such communistic madness was duly punished the same year. Relatively popular incumbent, President Nixon, routed McGovern and forced the Democrats to regain some sanity if they wanted to win future elections. Nixon listened to the silent majority, restored public order, and brought love of America into the mainstream. Democrats needed to tap into that sane sentiment to improve their chances of winning. In the future, Democratic establishment leaders reasserted control shortly afterwards, then nominated a plain spoken evangelical. Governor from Georgia, Jimmy Carter, as the 1976 presidential nominee. However, immediately, obviously I was not here, but this is obviously recent history for most of us. Then candidate Carter, eventually President Carter, veered to the left, entertaining gay rights and abortion and enacting the Department of Education as a sop to the teachers' unions. Democrats have spiraled downward towards socialism ever since, even after the President Bill Clinton's sharp pivot to the right. after the Republican Revolution of 94. He had this ebb and float, give and take. So why is Zohran Mamdani growing popular? Well, there are threats on the horizon. There's a real fear among young people that this might be the last job they ever own because of the AI revolution. They have a hard time affording a home. And I would attribute it more to the fact that they're like spending $8 on Starbucks coffee and avocado toast. I think that's a bit of a caricature of young people, to be honest. That exists. I don't deny it. I've seen it with my own eyes. But far in a way, young people, if they feel that there are no... routes for them within the two-party system, they're going to start seizing control of either the, you know, one of the two parties, and those who are inclined to be of the progressive mind are going hard left, unsurprisingly, left to... To the left of, I'm not saying I agree with them. I'm just saying that if you're hopeless and you don't feel like this, there's any way that you can break into a system that it actually works for you, not to mention that they are exclusive, particularly tapping into ethnic grievance politics influenced by the Marxist school of thought. Basically the man, the white Christian man and the pinch gray. pinstripe suit is Satan himself. If you buy into that, it's rather unsurprisingly that you find Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and much of the Democratic establishment rather stale. And you find Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez much more appealing. Again, not saying I agree with it. I'm just saying it makes sense.

If the demographics of the city of New York no longer reflect Democratic Party establishment, they're going to tend to band together. Again, not endorsing it. Not saying I support it. I'm just trying to explain it. Kind of explains human behavior in a way. 17 minutes after the hour 18. I'm long. Sorry about that. We'll be back. UFLA. On your phone with the IHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. And free! An iHeart's radio station. Coming up, later this hour, Dr. Joe Camps, the expectations, will be joining us. Got news overnight, actually was updated earlier in the show. Justin Haskins will be unable to join us. That's all good. Something came up, unable to join us, but we are prepared nonetheless. As I mentioned in the last segment, kind of doing a little bit of a breakdown on the DSA, why Democratic Socialism? So the seed of... Socialism has been in the Democrat Party for quite a while, actually. Most of the post-war era has been spent trying to stave off these types of influences in kind of both parties, frankly, much more so on the progressive left. And my view that it's, it makes sense that when American cities,

Well, when there are thousands and thousands of, say, new Venezuelan voters and they come from Venezuela, a socialist state, unsurprisingly, they vote for the socialist. As they say, import the third world, become the third world. That's just what happens. It's just true. At the same time, a large contingent of the kind of Zohran Mamdani phenomenon is what you could call... kind of the white native-born democratic socialite laptop job workers. That's true. You know, that is absolutely true. But the coalition doesn't quite exist in the same fashion as when there are large-scale swallows of immigration. But obviously, you'll have a rather homogenously kind of racially homogenous state like Vermont. which is still overwhelmingly white majority. And they vote for Bernie. Explain that. Vermont's just weird that way. So that is an organic thing that we as Americans kind of do have to deal with while recognizing the kind of twofold aspect of this, that there is a, there is kind of this seed domestically grown and imported worldview that has kind of this made this concoction of the rise of the DSA. And why I still feel like immigration really is kind of the issue of the day? Because immigration is inherently tied to national identity. Is it not? Who are we? That's the question that we are facing. I think this decade, especially post-Trump, Trump, Trump really kicked it off when he came down the escalator 11 years ago. And he was talking about building the wall, you know, shutting the tap off. Building the wall. Of which, I mean, it's been 10 years. I'm still saying build it. Yeah, you know. But the story out of the BBC is covering this. South Africa says more than 53,000 foreigners deported in a migration campaign. And South Africa, mind you, is not like a right-wing hyper-nationalist government at all. 53,000. South African government says more than 53,000 foreign nationals have been deported or repatriated since launching a migration management campaign five weeks ago. Most were from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Officials say the number is likely to rise as repatriations and deportations continue. South Africa is carrying out one of the biggest crackdowns on undocumented migrants in years following weeks of anti-immigration protests that have seen violence intimidation in looting. Protesters have demanded tighter border controls and mass deportations accusing migrants of contributing to high unemployment, rising crime rates, and collapse of public services. Yes, it is a destabilization tactic. You want chaos in the streets? Come on in. Or we can have an ordered society that prioritizes like helping those in need. Yeah, absolutely. but not at the cost of those who are, if the nation is a type of household, and I've said this repeatedly, the nation is a type of household, sometimes you've got to lock the door. Like, at the expense, like your own children, those who are dependent upon you suffering, if you just keep the door wide open. This is just kind of the old Christian principle, the Ordo O'Mores, applied at national scale.

That you don't just completely forsake your responsibilities elsewhere. But what you first have to do is you have to prioritize what is closest and immediate to you. And that is those who are in your care. Americans. That's how that applies. 27, 28 minutes after the hour here in the morning show. I am fair. I am good. I'm a happy example. Glenn is on 9 to noon. I am stronger every day. On WFLA. Halfway done with our number two here on the morning show. I'm in Studio 1B, that is Jose and Studio 1A. And the big story in the press box is obviously the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham passing away at 71 years old. Passed away Saturday evening in his Capitol Hill home where DC fire and EMS were dispatched to his house after a report of chest pains. They performed CPR. And initially some of the comms between the different emergency responders were... Saying something related to cardiac arrest. And as it turns out, Senator Lindsey Graham died of an aortic tear examiner says. This was posted as recently as one hour ago this article. US Senator Lindsey Graham died of an aortic dissection caused by cardiovascular disease according to prelim findings by the DC medical examiner. In case you're curious, an aortic dissection is a tear in the main artery that carries blood to the heart. So rather severe. Graham's spokesperson said the death certificate would be pending until all toxicological and microscopic testing was finalized. Graham had just completed a trip to Kiev, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday talking about a sanctions bill that Graham was hoping to champion. And so this immediately puts the GOP in a political... It's temporary political bind in the sense that they're down another member. And crazily enough, Mitch McConnell has made his way back into public life. There's a picture of him with his wife. After she had just met with CCP officials, by the way, super weird, right? There's a lot you could say about that.

Volodymyr Zelensky posted that he was deeply saddened by Senator Graham's death, saying Lindsay was a true defender of freedom and the values that make the world safer. Graham was known for his interventionist stance on foreign policy, and it strongly supported the war in Iran. So the succession political game now is that the South Carolina governor, Henry McMaster, will appoint an interim immediately. Very, very, very soon. Most are expecting him to move rather quickly on this. But there will be an open primary later this month, or excuse me, primary filing opens this month. The primary will be in August and then general election. And there are a number of names that are floating around the current South Carolina governor, or excuse me, current South Carolina lieutenant governor, Congresswoman Nancy Mace. are some names that are being floated around as potential not interim picks, but candidates who would want to enter. Nancy Mace was recently running for office there. It's probably going to be a crowded field, but that's how it goes. So the GOP, while in a temporary political quandary, losing another seat is vacant. A voting seat is vacant, especially a ranking member, senior ranking member like Lindsey Graham, who'd been in the Senate for so many years. That seat will be vacant. That's going to have an impact. But temporarily, it will eventually be filled and likely will go to a GOP candidate in South Carolina. Trump won double digits. Lindsey Graham. has won all of his elections rather easily in recent election cycles where that seat was up. So it's probably, it's almost surely going to be filled by another GOPC. So that's the quick update, bit of the political succession. Dr. Camps and healthy expectations is coming up next.

Your sense of sensibility. Communicator of common sense amplified and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. 41 now, 42 minutes after the hour here on the morning show. And we are. Happy to welcome Dr. Joe Camps back to the morning show, Dr. Camps. How are you, sir? Dr. Camps, you there? Yes. Sorry about that. How are you, sir? I'm doing fine. How are you today? I'm doing very well. Take us through kind of what's on your mind, but what you've had on your mind recently, what the listening audience would need to know for their own personal health today. Well, you know, sometimes we seem to notice that we've gained weight and we don't understand why because nothing has really changed in our routines. And, you know, that's always plagued me a little bit. And I says, well, I'm exercising. I'm doing this, blah, blah, but I'm still gaining weight. I came across a new study that noted that adults who shortened their sleep for six weeks gained an average of one pound. Oh, wow. I'm going to go back through that again because I don't want the audience to miss this. It says that adults who shortened their sleep for six weeks gained an average of one pound, and this suggests that mild chronic... sleep deprivation may contribute to gradual weight gain over time. So I've always had this plague. I haven't changed anything. I'm eating better. I'm doing the same thing. I'm exercising, but I'm still gaining weight. What is one of the issues? Another study showed that sleep restriction increased the sedentary behavior by an average of 17 minutes per day and in women 30 minutes a day. So that sedentary behavior is something that sort of creeps into all of our lives, and we don't really pay attention to it, but it can cause a weight gain. And so in the same analysis, the participants showed that they had an increase in insulin resistance in women. And whenever you have insulin resistance, you know what's going to happen. you're going to be on the path to weight gain. And finally, this study basically suggested that adequate sleep alongside a healthy dietary plan, regular physical activity, could reduce the risk of weight gain and the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes. And if you look at one of the number one health issues today, it's that. weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and ultimately heart disease. And what is the number one killer in all medicine is heart disease? So I thought this was interesting that sleep deprivation really plays a critical role in our lives. And I think sometimes we often...

overlook that or just want to bypass that thought. Yes. And then sometimes it sort of helps me in my thinking about this, understand why when I've done all the things that I'm normally asked to do and I'm still gaining weight, what could possibly be one of the answers to it? And I think this is something that... that it's in medical news today. You can just look up sleep deprivation and weight gain. See what it has to say, but this really gave me food for thought because it helped sort of answer one of the questions I've always had. I'm doing what I need to do, but I'm still gaining weight. So that's my pitch this morning. I hope that it's useful for our listeners. That's incredibly informative. Thank you, Dr. Camp, so much for sharing that. Really appreciate it. We will see you next time. Very much appreciate it, Dr. Camps. Yeah, you know, that makes sense, right? And especially today, where there are more studies coming out, and Dr. Camps didn't say whether or not this contributed to it, but I imagine the effect of blue light, screens, digital hygiene right before bed probably affects that, doing one more episode. Listen, I admit, Digital hygiene, I probably have some terrible digital hygiene, just being on my phone. I readily admit that, okay? I don't doubt that. But that's amazing. Even when you do everything right, but you got that one little thing, couldn't throw you off. Great stuff from Dr. Camps. That was Dr. Camps and healthy expectations here on the morning show.

Welcome to the morning show with Preston Scott, guaranteed human, and covering what you're talking about, what you will be talking about, and most importantly what you should be talking about. WFLA Panama City.com is where you can find everything related to the morning show. Here, I'm Grant Allen and Preston today. Jose over there in Studio 1A and we're almost to hour three. I had to get this story on your radar. There's a lot of talk about, well, kind of the thing of the day right now that is kind of captivating a lot of people is the rampant expansion and use of AI in everyday life, right? That's a thing that people spend all day thinking about. And this piece from the American Rifleman brings up some privacy concerns that there's a new piece of technology that is a new surveillance tool. that you just got to be aware of. So this is how the piece frames it. I'll offer my thoughts. So there's a company called Leonardo. This is actually the first time I've heard of it. Some of you are probably familiar with this piece or you're in the industry and you're familiar with this kind of stuff. But this is the first time I'd heard of it. And if first time I've heard of it, I'm sure someone's hearing about it for the first time. So I feel... You know, obligated to mention it. Leonardo, a company that holds multiple surveillance-related defense and government contracts, recently introduced an L-SAT, excuse me, a product called El-Sag signal trace, and its hardware is being offered as a bolt-on supplement to the more than 110,000 flock cameras. There's a lot of news about flock cameras. Taking and storing photos of vehicles on public roadways. Nationwide, the technology contained within that hardware could, again, this is speculation, but it's entirely within the realm of possibility, could conceivably track who has recently purchased a firearm in where they're taking it. The Signal Trace webpage states and explains that the system can detect cell phone manufacturer and make, audio system in the vehicle, smart watches, wireless earbuds, and other things, including... Your car's tire pressure, monitors, laptops, iPads are also included as part of the electronic fingerprint. This even includes popular microchips used to reunite lost pets with their owners. A lot of pet owners get their animals chipped just in case. This is included in that potential tracking technology, along with RFID signals from tags used by many retailers for inventory convenience. So that's kind of the setup. Years ago, the National Shooting Sports Foundation published a best practices bulletin before Leonardo ever came up with this product. This is how they said it. This is how they framed it. This was years ago, mind you. They said that the gun that you're taking home from the store could ostensibly be identified and included in your digital fingerprint. Consider inspecting the firearm in all packaging after making a purchase and before ever leaving the store to be sure you've removed all possible identifying information.

information collected by signal trace is transmitted into the cloud. And there it undergoes AI analysis and digital fingerprint is assigned to that vehicle for law enforcement use. If a license plate or other identifying features are captured by a flock camera, including bumper and window stickers, they are noted. Now, law enforcement agencies state that vehicle data collected by flock cameras is deleted after a certain period, usually 30 days. And the signal trace data sheet, on the other hand, plainly says that all data collected may be uploaded to the EOC server and archive for future queries and analysis. Here are my official thoughts. The surveillance state is going to come. It's probably going to happen in my lifetime. And we're just at the cutting edge of this. And this is why it's so important that we cannot just retreat and head to the woods. We have to be, as Teddy Roosevelt said, the man in the arena. If we're going to have a surveillance state, it has to be for our ends and not for others' ends who are going to capitalize on our rights and freedoms, which are already under threat anyway. We have to win the battle.

number three here on the morning show. I'm Grant Allen. Thank you so much for tuning in this morning on your drive into work. Really appreciate it. And for Preston, Jose over there in Studio 1A and I'm in Studio 1B. Justin Haskins not able to join us today. Something came up and so he is, we'll reconnect with him sometime soon. But there's so much to discuss in the meantime. and there's so many different stories that can be covered that I wanted to put this one on your radar as well. And I need to start with the question first. What are we doing? What are we doing? Maybe for different reasons. I want the Trump administration, first of all, to be the best that it could possibly be. I'm rooting for them. I want them to do well. But it's really kind of becoming challenging. And again, maybe not for the same reasons that some of you may feel that way. For example, like, I've never had a problem with his kind of bombastic rhetoric. I've never, it's never struck me. Um, sure it's, uh, you know, especially when he was on the campaign trail saying things that were just like insulting to other people. It was, it was irreverent, definitely. But frankly, I just, the, the moment in the hour is so late, it did not bother me. Still, still doesn't, really. Especially because he's aged. And he is significantly more toned, toned down in a lot of his rhetoric. But what are we doing? Like, not to use the moniker that was so, has been so overblown, but it was authentic and real. I voted to drain the swamp. I wanted, not like a libertarian dream end to the administrative state, but I wanted the bloat, I wanted the excess fat, gone, and I wanted a trimmed up administrative and bureaucratic state that answered to the president that advocated for Americans as Americans. Not whatever we have now, this bloated... you know, like DEI hiring regime, right? Where if you just happen to live in northern Virginia or southern Maryland, you can get a laptop job working out of federal agency with a pension and you're taking care of for the rest of your life doing largely very little. That's what Doge was intended to do and revealed a lot. And that was just a drop in the bucket. But President Trump, and now mind you, I actually don't know the validity of this thing that he's endorsing. Trump embraces Australian retirement system backed by Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. Okay. I just admittedly saw the headline, saw Australian retirement system backed by Larry Fink.

Aussies are having a bit of a tough one right now. What are we doing? Riding high off public enthusiasm for Trump accounts for children. Trump last week renewed his focus on their parents and grandparents, and he said he's looking to Australia's private pensions known as superannuation funds. I think that's how you say that, for inspiration to reform the alien U.S. retirement system. President has repeatedly praised the country's employer-funded privately run system in recent months. They have a plan in Australia, which people really like. It's really worked out well. Trump said on July 6th, this was quite old actually a week ago, when he also met with BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, a vocal champion of Australia's model for several years. We're going to be talking about that with Congress and see if we can implement it. It's kind of like a quick temperature check. If Larry Fink and Black Rock is in favor of something, it's probably not going to help you. So what are we doing? Why is the admin cozying up to... Because the admin's got to know that whenever there's a public sentiment shift by way of an election... coming, you know, from a left-wing government in the Biden admin to a, I wouldn't even call it right-wing, I call it center-right admin, like the Trump admin. These types, the Zuckerbergs, the Fink's, the Peter Teals and the Palantir Network and all that stuff, they go wherever the wind takes them. They need these kinds of government contracts, they need a friendly ecosystem, they need a friendly environment, so yeah, they're going to cozy up to you. You got to know that. Why are you entertaining these people? They're chameleons. They're going to say exactly what you want to say. I don't know. Maybe it's 5D chess and political bargaining, but it just feels like once again, I don't know. I want an America first anchor. I want Americans first. And there's nothing about Larry Fink and anything that he says that is going to be America or Americans first. Sorry. Guests, the other shows can't book topics they won't talk about and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

I mentioned last hour that kind of immigration national identity has become kind of one of the main things that I just, I feel like I keep coming back to. I was going on a trip earlier this year and I was in Orlando. And I was just blown away at the amount of new housing that's going up just miles and miles of clear-cut, you know, like cookie-cutter homes built by one of those, you know, like large-scale housing development companies. Apartment complex is just as far as the eye could see. It was just unbelievable. And I said, who's going to live here? Where are the people? And like, can anyone afford this? I'm totally convinced that we have enough houses. Totally convinced. We have, we have about. potentially 20 to 40 to 30 to 40 million people who shouldn't be here. And I'm not some making some talking point of some far right extremist. I'm literally just the RNC platform, which was mass deportations now. Remember those signs at the RNC in 24? Mass deportations. It is untenable.

Frankly, I just, sure, maybe there are some regions that, some communities that could afford to have some new builds done tastefully. That's not what I'm talking about. I can't help but get the feeling that when I see these large-scale developments, you know who's going to fill those? The people that are being brought here. Similarly, The Indiana lieutenant governor, Micah Beckwith, demands a ban on mosques, blaring the Islamic call to prayer. He said, yes, I 100% want to ban mosques in America from blaring the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers five times a day. You can fix that. Just run on the RNC platform and do it. You can just deport. There are very few Islamic communities that have been here for more than like 30 years. Right, very few. You have some. But largely these are recent arrivals. And you don't have to just send them back. Same thing applies to how basically Dallas Fort Worth has turned into like New Delhi West. Calcutta West? They've got these massive, literal gods of monkey statue. Like, you don't have to deal with this. You don't, it is so foreign, and it is just such an affront to your own sensibilities as like an American, as a Westerner. It's just like, we don't do that here. You don't, we don't have to live this way. And I don't even think you have to, you know, have a ban on the Islamic cult of print. You just run on the RNC platform that you ran on back in 24. because there's easily 20 to 30 to 40 million people here, and it's going to fix the social cohesion issue that the United States is facing. It's going to fix housing issues. It's going to fix labor issues. It's going to fix a whole lot. I think it's quite simple. That's why it feels like immigration is really the only issue. National identity is kind of the only issue anymore. Everything kind of really, when you get down to the brass tacks, it feels like everything is kind of anchored on that. 16 minutes after the hour. 17. Here on the morning show. FLA. On your phone with the iHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Dude, yes! And IHeart's radio station.

trial for the Charlie Kirk assassin is continuing to go underway. I've seen some analysis. It's kind of, well, hopefully justice will be served. That is obviously at the forefront of people's minds. This is this is incredibly important. I've mentioned everything seems to tie back to national identity. If that can be just over, like, who are we? Who are we? If there can be one overarching theme that I could convey is that we have to remember. And we have to be unashamed of what being an American is. An example. Congressman Riley Moore is a headline from Breitbart. H-1B visa program abused by large corporations to displace the American worker. This is why I'm just highly skeptical earlier in this hour when I mentioned Trump meeting with Larry Fink and BlackRock. And talking about, wow, what a great pension system. The Australians have. Because the minute you start entertaining, you know, these large scale, Black Rock's more than just megacorpore. Like that is, it's like international. It's an internationalist entity. Globalist entity, you might say. But a lot of these big corporations are guilty of displacing Americans. Congressman Riley Moore raised attention to how the H-1B visa program is being abused not only by some applicants but by large corporations using the program in order to displace the American worker. Moore said, while speaking on a show over the weekend, he thinks most people don't understand the levels at which the H-1B visa program is being abused. Moore cited an example of how the CEO of Xbox. has laid off 3,200 employees and has applied for thousands of H-1B visas. The H-1B visa program is being abused at levels I don't think most understand, not only being abused by people who are applying through H-1B, but in particular, specifically of these large corporations who are using the H-1B visa program to displace the American worker. This isn't just in skilled labor, he says. This is also white-collar jobs. You can look up these companies that are applying for H-1B visas, and many times it can be for computer programmers, accountants. The only difference is between the computer programmer or the accountant that they give from India and the one who has been educated here in the United States is the amount of money that they're willing to pay. He continued saying that the program has been abused for a long time, adding that a lot of applicants... education is sometimes fraudulent and their qualifications are not real on the documents they use when applying for the program. In the case of California, sometimes these H-1Bs get expedited CDL licenses and then they come into the state of Florida not knowing how to drive on our roads, not knowing how to obey our traffic laws, not knowing how to just obey kind of the unwritten social moors that are baked into who we are.

And then they end up killing people on the interstate. And that's happened here in Florida, very famously by championed the justice of this particular case by Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier. We don't have to live this way. It's very simple. It's very simple. Who is this homeland for, right? Can the West be a homeland at all? I mean, India is obviously the homeland for Indians. China is obviously the homeland for predominantly the Han Chinese. But we can't, no, no, no, no, we can't. We're not allowed. It's very frustrating. This is going to be the moment that's going to define our children and our grandchildren is whether or not we can just assert this. That when the founders said, when asked, what are you doing? Why are you undertaking this project of independence, asserting your rights as Englishmen? They said, we're doing this for ourselves and our posterity. What is posterity, descendants? It was not a project for the whole world. The whole world is not an American just waiting to step onto our soil. No. It is hundreds of years of memory. of loves, of extended families. That's what it is. The whole world is not just waiting to become an American. No, no. You have to be tied to a place for a certain period of time and have it form you and shape you and you shape it. We're Americans. I think we should assert ourselves as such.

Features to keep you entertained. Guests and experts so you stay informed. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Final half hour of the morning show. Here as your guest host, I'm Grant Allen, filling in for Preston. And the big story in the press box is the big, obvious news over the weekend and some newer, newish information. That has come out this morning, and that is the passing of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. He passed away Saturday evening on the 11th at his Capitol Hill home. The office initially had said that it was a brief and sudden illness asking for privacy. Washington, D.C. fire, and EMS were dispatched to his house on South Capitol Street just before 8.30 on Saturday on a report of chest pains. Crews were able to make their way in. And they were forced entry, actually, because... Deadbolt was secured and there was no answer despite repeated knocking on the front door so they made their way in. Radio traffic confirmed that CPR was administered on a cardiac arrest patient. Cardiac arrest patient. Graham was never named, but cause of death has since been identified as an aortic dissection. which is a tear caused by cardiovascular disease. So some of the reporting, and not all of it is mentioning this, but some of it is, like, Lindsey Graham's father apparently passed away from a heart attack. So seems like hereditary, and it's kind of a... A thing that can strike at any moment, I know, I know, yeah. After just visiting Jose stroking his chin over here, like, hmm, is there such a thing as a coincidence? No, like, honestly, that was my first thought immediately when I thought that, you know, he was just in Ukraine. I was like, there are a lot of foreign entities that benefit Mr. Graham no longer advocating for. American intervention in foreign conflicts. There are lots of entities that benefit from that. You wonder. However, seems to be obviously toxicology, you know, medical examiners are looking and it seems to be a, well, natural, natural causes. And then do they refer to like cardiovascular stuff as natural? I feel like it is because it's not imposed on you. It's kind of from within. That makes sense. The succession mechanics, here's kind of how it's going to work. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is going to appoint an interim senator. So the seat will be filled probably relatively quickly. Most are expecting him to move pretty fast. And then a primary is going to be opened up because there's a Democrat that's already become the Democrat challenger to Graham's incumbency.

Now that his seat is vacant, due to his passing, there will be a primary. Various names are floating about in South Carolina politics of who will come out of that primary. That person, if they get 50%, they don't give 50%, there will be a runoff. But if they get 50%, then they'll go to the general, and then it's South Carolina. It will almost assuredly be a GOP seat. filled. So it's not, it's a temporary setback in just in terms of political numbers for the GOP. It's a voting seat that is that is vacant. Those are some of the immediate political impacts. But over time, it'll eventually be, you know, through the rest of the year, it will be settled into almost certainly a GOP seat. But that's kind of the quick breakdown. And the tributes to Lindsey Graham have been coming in from all across the political spectrum. But 40 minutes after the hour here on the morning show, that's the big story in the press box. Unlike a lot of talk show hosts, he's admitted to be wrong. That's when he thought he was wrong, but in fact wasn't. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

So far, I think the kind of craziest part of the passing of Senator Graham is this note, as Axios puts it. Graham spoke with Trump by phone Saturday night and briefed him on his recent trip to Ukraine and the Russia sanctions bill he wanted the Senate to vote on. Trump told Graham he was preparing to launch fresh strikes against Iran after another attack on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which I'm sure Graham probably was thrilled at. A person who spoke with Graham shortly afterward said the senator complained that he was feeling unwell. When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he would do so Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. Graham joked, saying, I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudy normalization. He literally said, good Lord. He literally said, can't die now. I still need to do the Russia, et cetera, et cetera. I don't, there's, there's so much to, like Lindsey Graham has always kind of been those of us who, I consider myself America first, I have kind of come around to the idea that our foreign intervention into vast parts of the world needs to be scaled back. I think this, this whole kind of 20th century post-war consensus of. Like never again. There might be another Gaddafi. There might be another Saddam Hussein. There's just another one on the horizon. We have to act now. We have to fight them over there before they fight us here. Well, what do you do with the fact that Dearborn is a gone city? Minneapolis, St. Paul? Gone. It's Little Mogadishu. Dallas Fort Worth? It's entire, not entirely. I'm being hyperbolic. It's entirely South Asian. What do you do? What do you do when you say that we have to fight them over there before we get them? They're here. They're here. The barbarians are in the Bill Gates and what do you do? We have to keep. I didn't really want to like go too hard out of respect. It's kind of very, I.

There's a lot of critiques that could be levied against the political history of Senator Graham, but I still find it to be rather, well, low IQ and kind of trashy to immediately on someone's demise, just immediately pivot to the hot take. But I will say there was one very funny clip I saw on Twitter. Fox News was covering Graham's passing, and then they cut to a story. They interrupted the coverage on Graham's passing and pivoted to President Trump launching a new set of strikes on Iranian targets. And one of the comments was, would Lizzie Graham have wanted anything else? Honestly, kind of a bad joke, but like legit, that's probably what he wanted most. Probably. But his passing leaves a little bit of the succession questions, the political questions. And now the interventionist wing of the GOP has, well, lost another voice. So it's going to be interesting to see how the political dynamics of the Senate shape out because that guard heavily influenced by a 20th century, you know, post-war consensus politics. heavy intervention, a heavy war hawk. They're just becoming fewer and fewer, especially on the right. There's still some on the left, but they're becoming fewer and fewer on the right. So it's going to be interesting to see how this all shakes out. 46 minutes after the hour here on the morning show, we got one more segment to go.

Holy smokes, where does the time go? It has been, again, an absolute pleasure to sit in the captain's chair and guest host The Morning Show. Good to be back, Jose. As always. Thank you, sir. Great to have you. Yeah, good to be back. Great work, as always. Leon County, voters, heads up. Vote by mail ballots, approximately 28,000 of them have been mailed out. So be on the lookout for those hitting your mailbox, wherever you might be. Maybe you're away from Leon County, but still registered to vote here. So you'll get one at your location. And you just happen to tune in to the old hometown radio show and you catch this, so be on the lookout. It's July. Gosh, it feels early. I mean, I guess they do this, right? You have to do it quite early in order to account for delivery time, ballot to get to mailbox, voter to... You know, actually fill it out, have a little bit of time, some wiggle room, and then mail it back. And that takes time, especially as Preston as noted before, the true insanity that in order to mail anything around town, it's got to go to Jackson fill him back. That is insane. That is insane. I heard him talking about that, and I was just like that. It was the first time when I got a piece of mail. It was like from a local address. It was from someone I knew. It was like a wedding invite or something, friends of ours, baby shower, something like that. And it was a Tallahassee address to us here in town. And then the stamp from said Jacksonville, I was like, no way. No way. It's like if you're mailing something out of, you know, North Georgia, it goes through Atlanta, right? That makes sense. But no. That is truly kind of crazy. By the way, in case you're curious, data from the State Division of Election shows Democrats account for approximately 59% of Leon County vote by mail requests so far, while Republicans account for 25% of requests. According to Florida politics, those figures roughly track with the 2024 primary when 63% of the county's vote by mail ballots were cast by Democrats and 25% were cast by Republicans. And Democrats make up 47.5% of registered voters in Leon County, while Republicans are 30% of the electorate here. In case you make sense, kind of tracks with what we expect. I just wanted to throw that out there. In case you were curious of the... the actual numbers. Those are the actual numbers here. And it'll be a quite contested primary, especially for the gubernatorial race. If you're voting in the GOP gubernatorial race, it is quite the crowded primary for CD2.

Yeah, there's a lot. I'd have to do another show on a lot of that. But yeah, it's going to be quite loaded. So be on the lookout for those vote by mail ballots that are probably going to be coming to you soon if you're voting by mail. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. And one final time here on the morning show, the big story in the press box, the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, some of its political ramifications. And I spent a good chunk of the second hour breaking down from my vantage point because there's been a lot of ink that has been spilled. over the topic of the rise of the DSA wing of the Democrat Party. A lot of people have got a lot to say about it. And I felt like the big missing component out of all of that is like this feels explicitly tied to immigration. Take Mom Donny himself. Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani himself. Like he is, his mother is like Indian. He was born in Uganda and is religiously Muslim. So he is like everywhere. He is the man of the world, but like nowhere at the same time, that affords these like kind of recent arrivals, ethnic enclaves to really cling to that kind of policies, those kinds of policies. And as you come from a socialist country, you vote like a socialist. It just, it's hard for me to not see that as being tied to immigration. Appreciate you. Jose, thank you. We will see you next time.