Ep. 5296: Projection and Deflection for eight long years.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday, January 13th.

Our guests today include:
- Dr. Joe Camps
-  Sal Nuzzo

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Morning, Terminators.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's wet outside for most of you. Little chili man,
just ten degrees cooler, and we would be sitting in
a blizzard with the rain that's falling. But we welcome
you to Monday. Let's keep each other company. What do
you say? Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose just
celebrated his birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, sir. Did you have

(00:26):
a nice day. Did you enjoy your day?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It was it was incredible, wonderful? Come on, bring that
mic up. Wonderful day. Yeah, I want to hear your
dulcet tones. Yes, it was a wonderful, blessed day, sir. Good.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was a great day at church.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Then got home. Yeah, I just had a can work
work the basketball game? Oh you did? Yep, you had
to work on your birthday. Yeah, but I wanted to. Yeah,
It's like Jared told me to go.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Home, but I was like, no, We're doing this. But
we welcome you to the Monday edition of the program,
January thirteenth. That means we're seven days away, one week
from today, friends, and that'll explain a lot of what
we're going to talk about today on the program. Got
a good show waiting for you. Our verse today comes

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from Tewod Corinthians five, verses nineteen and twenty. In Christ,
God was reconciling the world to himself. You know, right
there is your explanation for why God sent his son.
In Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself. He

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gives you and eye a choice and a chance.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's up to us.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's kind of like a lifeline being thrown out.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's up to you.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Not counting their trespasses against them and intrusting to us
the message of reconciliation.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's the message that we share.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Appeal through us.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
You know that passage speaks of two distinct groups of people,
the ambassadors of Christ and everybody else. Which side are

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you in which group? No matter which group, you have
got choices to make. Ten minutes past the hour, take
a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac and more next
as we begin our program known as The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. This is The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Twelve past.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Some of you are, like, you're acting like you're in
a national syndicated show by not given the hour. Well,
we're in two different time zones in broadcast and via iHeart,
we're everywhere around the world, so it's twelve past whatever

(03:32):
whatever hour. So that's why I do it. I'm sorry,
and that offenses If that offends your sensibilities, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Don't mean to Oh that may not be true. Sorry, lord,
I actually might mean to offend on occasion.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, let's take a peek inside the American Patriots
on the Neck.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Seventeen seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
At Valley Forge, the Patriot Army attends to the construction
of makeshift hospitals for the sick. Seventeen ninety four, President
Washington approves a measure adding two stars and stripes to
the flag to represent Vermont and Kentucky. Honestly, that had
to be so much fun. We're going to add a

(04:24):
couple more stars, and we just kept adding them. That's
very cool, it really is. It's our flag is special
for that reason to me, because it represents the birth

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of our country, the original colonies, and then the.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fifty states that make up the Union. Love it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Nineteen ten early radio demonstration star en Rico Caruso is
broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York nineteen ten,
and in nineteen ninety, Doug Wilder sworn in as the
nation's first black elected governor. Now today is also national

(05:18):
I'm trying to do this daily because I think it's interesting.
You never know what you're going to get to celebrate
here on the morning show. Today is National Korean American Day. Now,
I'm not a big fan of that stuff, not the
Korean part of it, just the blank American Day. You're

(05:39):
either an American or you're not. You know, I are
we going to have a National Lithuanian American Day for
Pete's sake. No, I'm an American. I'm half a Lithuanian.
Probably didn't know that listening to these these tones, but duh,

(06:02):
I'm Lithuanian. And no, I'm just I'm just a big
fan of American, of Korean descent, American, of Irish descent,
American of man. I'm a HEINZ fifty seven, buddy, I
got it all in me, you know, I mean, whatever
National Sticker Day, Stephen Foster Memorial Day. We know Stephen Foster, right,

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didn't he write way down upon the Swanee River. He
was considered for America's first songwriter, the father of American music,
if you will. Interesting he died at like thirty six
or thirty seven, and there's some think that he died
by some form of tragic accident. Others sink he killed himself.

(06:55):
Fascinating story behind that, dude. But it is National Stephen
Foster Day. Today is also National Peach Melba Day. Do
you know what peach melba is? This is another one. See,
these are the nuggets, right that you carry throughout your day.
And so the next time you have peach melba, which

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is a dessert of peaches, raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream.
It was invented in the early eighteen nineties by a
French chef, Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel in London
to honor the Australian soprano Nellie Melba. So peach melba

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is a dessert that has lasted through time and it
honors a singer who knew. And today my friends take
a bath because it's National rubber ducky Day.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Seventeen passes the hour come back, and we're going to
help you feel better, not seriously.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
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Speaker 2 (08:28):
Lead Research Assistant of the Morning Show knows that we
are very health conscious.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
On this program.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
We dedicate two segments, Optimum Health Naturally twice a month
and our Healthy Expectations, which we do weekly with doctor
Joe Camps. And so this was flagged by the Lead
Research Assistant internally known as the LRA, and it is

(08:59):
the under appreciated berry. New study Washington State University found
that elderberry juice could be a potent tool for weight
management and improving metabolic health. Now that did not shock me,
because I have successfully used for the most part. I

(09:28):
just got bombed with too many sick people around me
on my Christmas break, my grandchildren in particular, and so
I got a little bit of a cold. Nothing terrible,
nothing that laid me up, nothing that caused me to
just have to sleep for two.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Days or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I just just had a little sniffle. But what I've
always done when I start feeling the scratchy throat and
then it starts to progress. It. It's the quicker you
do this, I will tell you that. For me, that's
how I've gotten to where I don't think I've missed

(10:08):
a day of work for sickness in now twelve years.
What I do is I take the zinc lousages and
they have a component in them of elderberry juice. So
when I saw this article, I was like, Oh, really,

(10:29):
so just the juice itself. Huh, Well, I've been looking.
It's hard to just find the juice. There's syrups out there,
they're pretty pricey. Finding juice has been problematic. I have
found concentrate, so that's something I'm going to nose around with.
But we're talking about six ounces of this stuff is

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the same as eating four cups of blackberries. But berries
do something else. It changes the gut microbiome, and that's
something that we've talked about a lot with doctor David
Harts over the years and doctor Matthew's Adaman. They created

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a group of overweight folks and those that consumed elderberry
jews had significantly increased amounts to beneficial amounts of beneficial
gut bacteria, decreased amounts of harmful bacteria. They had improved metabolism,
which of course is one of the key components to

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fighting off all kinds of things because it boosts your
immune system. But the metabolism also is key to burning fat.
Blood glucose glucose levels drop twenty four percent on average,

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indicating a significantly improved ability to process sugars following carbohydrate consumption,
nine percent decrease in insulin levels, significant increased fat oxidation
breakdown of fatty acids after a high carb meal and

(12:20):
during exercise, a person would have to consume four cups
of blackberries a day to achieve the same benefits as
six ounces velderberry juice. Now, during the experiment, they gave
participants twelve ounces each day. Another group was given a

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placebo that was made to look like and so they've
got definitive results from the blood work and so forth
indicating the benefits. So just saying you can find now
there's a mixture of cranberry juice, elderberry juice that's in
you know, ocean spray has a combo type thing. I

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don't know if that's as beneficial. And there are varying
opinions on its tastes. Some say it's awesome, some say
it's gross. I don't know, but I just thought that
was interesting. Elderberry juice, variety of health benefits. Twenty seven
past the Hour. Come back with the big stories in

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the press box. What's going on in socol We'll tell
you next. Always looking for the truth. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven. WUFLA.

(13:57):
All right, just a little clean up here, Charles raiding me.
You need to be careful preparing elderberry. They need to
be cooked because they contain some cyanide, so it can't
be consumed without preparation. Charles, First, they don't grow here
in America. They are they're over in Europe. I'm not

(14:19):
sure that anyone grows them here, but I could be
mistaken on that, but certainly no, I don't know of
anyone that grows them in their yard. Secondly, I never suggested,
nor would I ever suggest, just picking some off the
tree and munching them. I suggest you get elderberry juice.
There is a constant concentrate. There's syrups out there. There

(14:39):
have been syrups used for years, but it's not the
same as consuming juice. You can't just consume the syrup
because it's cost prohibitive to do that. But there are
concentrates out there that you can mix with, you know,
some mix it with apple juice, some mix it with water.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
They're different ratios depending on to concentrate you buy. But
at no point did I recommend that. But thanks for
looking out for me. I appreciate that big stories in
the press box this morning. That is not one of them,
though it could be. It could be I could go
ahead and pivot and say, your health is as big
as story as it could possibly be, right, I could

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do that. But the fires they're still going. There's the
winds are still blowing and we don't have containment. There's
still some that are barely contained, and the winds are
going to continue at least for another couple of days,
if not longer. Twenty four now dead, dozens missing. They

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expect the death told to go up, the stories of
people trying to save their home.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
It's I mean, I don't know what to say. It's tragic.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'd like to think that I would not ever value
property over my life. Or the life of my loved ones.
I'd like to think that. But man, but here's the
question that a lot of people are starting to ask,
especially uh, those who live in socol.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Is.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass Are they guilty of
negligent homicide? The argument is being made that they are
guilty of negligent homicide for the decisions that they made.
You know, the primary mission of government, friends, is our protection,

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our national defense, our protection where we live, police and
so forth, and fire. That's mission number one. The other
stuff follows behind that. You know, if you really want

(17:04):
to get to dissecting the largesse of government, all you
need to do is look at that.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Interesting little sidebar here.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
You remember how James Woods, the actor supporter of Trump,
talked about losing his home and someone wrote, oh karma
and got torched for it. Yes, we're chosen intentionally, his
home was spared. His home survived, as did the home

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of Jennifer Garner, she of the Capitol One commercial scene.
She's an actress and she's a business owner and you know,
by all accounts, pretty delightful gal. But I don't know
anything about her politics. But the both of them, their
home survived. They're dealing with guilt. Their home survived, others didn't,

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so they're both scrambling to try to help their neighbors
as best they can, but their homes made it. I'm
just wondering if that karma comment is still going to
be owned. Lauren Bobert, Representative from Colorado, along with Missouri Rep.
Eric Burlison, have introduced legislation to abolish ATF. Can't wait

(18:25):
to talk to Lee Williams about that one. And may
orcus Alejandro Mayorcis has granted amnesty to eight hundred and
fifty thousand illegals and is blaming bad weather for the
reason they deserve amnesty. Because of bad weather, Ladies and gentlemen,

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this is what a liberals do. They do everything possible
to burn down the house before they leave, and that's
what they're doing. Forty minutes forty one minutes now pass
the hour, you, Mayor of Realville, dispensing information at the
speed of sound.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Doctor Joe. Next hour,

(19:30):
Salnuzo in the third hour.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Will take a good bit of time to go through
things happening as we prepare for the legislative session. Sal
and I do our own legislative preview privately where I
share some thoughts and we kick around ideas on what

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legislation might be useful based on the stories that I
follow all year long. I make notes all year long.
I've got I have I have a note in my
phone on legislative ideas.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
That's just massive. And so we just, you.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Know, we try to distill what's been in the news
and say is there something that we can do to
affect that positively. Doctor Bob McClure said, good policy is

(20:33):
good politics, and so if we have really good policy,
you have good government, and good government leads to good politics.

(20:55):
So we'll talk about the legislative session that's coming in.
It's coming fast, I mean, before you know it, it's
going to be here. And during the legislative session, Salnuzo
joins US weekly to tell us what's going on. And
in fact, if you're new to the radio program, this
is one of those reasons why you listen because there

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is nobody in the state of Florida, and I know
because I check it out. There's nobody in the state
of Florida that offers the legislative overview and information that
impacts your life, might impact your life, might not you know,

(21:45):
what should be on your radar, whether you're a business
owner or just a worker resident of the Sunshine State.
There's nobody that offers what we do having Salin here, nobody,
it's I mean, it's not even close. And in all

(22:06):
the credit goes to him and the hard work that
he does because of what he does. You know, previously
with the James Madison, this institute, now with consumer's defense
in knowing what's going on in the legislative session, because
what happens in Florida, well, let me back up, what
happens in Tallahassee reverberates throughout the state, obviously because it's
the state capital. And what happens in Florida, because it's

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the third largest state in the nation, reverberates across the country.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
It matters.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Now real quickly. Jack Smith resigned a special Council. Why
I'm trying to understand, Judge I Leen Cannon is the
only one that's gotten it right. You can't. You can't
bring a case in front of me. You are not
properly appointed. Why is that low hanging fruit still on

(22:55):
the tree. Why has Why has that a simple matter
of we don't care what you have to say. We
don't care what's in your report, We don't care what
your opinion is on anything, unless you just want to
be a guest on a show because you have no
legal standing in a courtroom representing the United States, because

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you were not appointed according to the United States Constitution.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I don't Why do we just ignore stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
We don't ignore it when someone doesn't get read their
miranda rights, do we? If someone's not read their miranda rights,
that case is pretty much over. There are exceptions, but
there aren't many. It's pretty much that's a given. He

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wasn't appointed by the Senate, he wasn't confirmed. There's a
constitutional process for this. He's not out in the courtroom
as anything but an observer. I just I don't get it.
I do not get it. Forty seven minutes past, I'm

(24:11):
going to introduce a term. It was new to me.
I'm guessing it'll be new to some of you. Welcome
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Research team sent this to me.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Have you ever heard of the word hoose doom scrolling?
Oh yeah, dude, all the time. Okay, so you know
what that is. I'd never heard of it. Now I
knew what it was the second I saw the word,
but i'd never heard it before.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
You've heard of.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It, yeah, But to be clear, I'm not one hundred
percent showing what it means. I just think it means
you lost scrolling and watching useless videos.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Not really. Ah, okay, well that's what I do. It
could be right.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
But just like the word doom scrolling. This is interesting.
It's in a thing on Epic Health called mental health,
underneath the mental health section. And on average, the average
person with a smartphone your thumb travels fifteen thousand, three

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hundred and seven inches a day. That is roughly the
height of the Empire State Building. On average, the average
person spends one hundred and eight minutes scrolling over an

(25:47):
hour and a half. That's an hour and forty eight minutes.
Doom scrolling is a term that emerged during the early
days of COVID. So now think about this. This is
another detrimental impact of COVID, not just people wandering around

(26:14):
in this delusional state thinking a mask is gonna protect them.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I walked. I went.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
To Whole Foods the other night with my wife. There
was one thing specifically we were looking for. Found a
couple of little items that would be useful for her,
And there was this lady were enough talking into her
phone and she's got her mask on and she's talking
talking to somebody under her phone, and the person in

(26:43):
the phone corn her showing what she's sewing.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
And I'm like, please just stop.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
It doesn't impact me.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
It just embarrassed her. But she's totally oblivious to it.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
But she and her husband are walking around with masks
on and it's like, oh my god. Doom scrolling describes
the compulsive act activity of consuming negative news online doom
The behavior leaves us fearful, more than informed, and is

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a detriment to our health. Apparently this you know we
talk about lament negative campaign ads. They work negative news,
negative leads in news stories work. They get clicked on more,

(27:41):
negative articles, negative headlines get shared more, they get read
more because we have a natural negative bias. I want
you to think about that for a second. Now, we
have a predisposition towards the negative. How much does that

(28:03):
support the idea of our sinful nature? That we're born
with a sinful nature and so we are predisposed to
cling to negative things. Now news inherently you've heard me
talk about it is negative. Anyway, We're going to talk

(28:25):
more about this at some point. I don't know that
I'm necessarly going to talk to anybody about it other
than you. We might just have a phone discussion about
it at some point. Back with our two of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, twelve thousand, two hundred structures.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Destroyed. I may say that again, twelve thousand, two hundred.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
As of right now, we've got got a lot of
folks missing. Maybe some have just evacuated and have not
let anyone know they're all right. But the grim reality
is there are probably more more deaths fatalities that are
going to be listed in the coming days and weeks.

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Welcome to the second hour, Friends of the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Jose's over there and I am here,
and it's show fifty two to ninety six and the
fires in southern California. You know, there are a lot
of people that believe that these are the types of
events that really reveal the character of people. I think

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you see the very best of humanity come out when
it comes to caring for one another in these times.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Usually.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Politics get set aside and we just kind of collectively
say what can we do to help? That's that's the
best of humanity right there. Sadly, it appears as though
the leadership in California is doing nothing but projecting and

(30:43):
deflecting everything away.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's somebody else's fault.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Gavin Newsom is displaying to me, this ends his political career,
lack of leadership, because.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
The facade is off. You know, he's.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
He's been warmly received and embraced by the Hollywood elite.
But the Hollywood elite have lost their homes, a lot
of them. And while they can probably rebuild them far
easier than a whole lot of other people that have
lost their homes and businesses, the fact of the matter
is you talk about character being revealed in trying circumstances,

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and that's what we're that's what we're dealing with here.
We're dealing with an inability to lead because they don't
have it in them. They don't know how to take
ownership of responsibility of things. Then you've got people like
Senator Ed Markey, who's actually already saying that what's happened

(32:01):
in southern California. Is a preview of the next four
years under Donald Trump. What listen to what he posted
on x Trump has been bought for one billion dollars
by big oil just to payoff to kill the IRA

(32:23):
and the New Green Deal. We know what will happen.
More fires, more climate disasters, more death the LA fires
or preview of coming atrocities. Now, of course, he's one
of those that believes that the climate crisis is real.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's not. It just isn't. If you're among those that
believe in.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Man made global warming ruining the planet, you're just you've
been deceived. You have fallen and pray to the old adage,
repeat a lie often enough and.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
People begin to believe it.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
He's suggesting AI, which look, AI has some downsides, there's
no doubt about it. But he said that AI is
going to double data center electricity demand by twenty twenty six,
which means increased carbon emissions. It's so cosmically foolish. But

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if you take a look at the guy, he looks crazy.
He's one of those guys where the book really does.
The cover of the book really is reveals the contents.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
The truth is.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Under Donald Trump's first term in office, America became an
energy exporter. Oil prices were stable, relatively low, and we
dropped our carbon emissions the lowest levels in twenty five years.

(34:15):
So in his second term, hopefully we'll get more of
the same. We come back. You can't believe the transformation
that's going on at Meta. I'm gonna blow your mind
next now, really it's gonna go bom. Good morning, and
welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We've already

(34:43):
commented how Facebook Instagram will be changing their censorship policies,
which is just it's so funny that a guy who
went before and took an oath and said that, by golly,

(35:05):
Facebook wasn't censoring anybody has admitted by saying we're not
going to be censoring anymore, that they were censoring people.
But let's get to some really interesting stuff. He sat
down with Joe Rogan. He said, it's one thing to

(35:27):
say we want to be kind of like welcoming and
make a good environment for everyone, and I think it's
another to basically say that masculinity is bad. And I
think we just kind of swung culturally to that part
of the kind of you know spectrum now. That should

(35:47):
be pointed out that Zuckerberg grew up with only sisters
now has only daughters. He said he wants women to succeed,
don't we all, but doesn't think maskalinity needs to be
categorized as toxic for that to happen. He said when
he got into martial arts, it changed his attitude. He

(36:12):
told Rogan that having something to do with his male
friends where they can basically beat each other up, has
been a positive experience for him. I think having a
culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its
own merits.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
That are really positive.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
What Company reportedly cited changes in the legal and policy
landscape surrounding DEI a memo from the vice president of
human Resources, Janelle Gale, quoting the term DEI has become
charged in part because it is understood by some as

(36:50):
a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.
Understood by some sweet dear woman, that's what it means.
That's exactly what it means when you pick people based
on race or gender or misgender. When you do that,

(37:15):
you are discriminating against everybody else.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Why is that so difficult for liberals to understand.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
The term DEI has also become charged in parts, he wrote,
because it is understood by some as a practice that
suggests preferential treatment over some groups over others. What, of
course it does. They're going to remove transgender non binary

(37:48):
customization themes from its messenger app. They're going to change
its hateful conduct policies to allow criticism of gender identity.
Excuse me, really, but wait, listen to this. They are

(38:10):
removing tampons from men's rooms in their offices. No more
tampon dispensers in men's rooms. That means that women pretending
to be men will have to go to the ladies room.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
The simple things that bring joy in life sixteen past Ah,
this is fun.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Took a little bit of time, but it made the rounds.
Federalist has an article. There are other places the eight
findings in Florida's grand jury report on the COVID shots.
And I think that, you know, the write up in
the Federalist is, you know, it's fine, eight bombshell findings

(39:14):
in the Florida grand jury report on the big Pharma
COVID shots, and it's accurate, you know, just quickly listing
them premature emergency approval, disservice to pregnant women, failure to
complete safety studies, lack of info on safety signals, MYO carditis,

(39:34):
cover up, government censorship, deceptive advertising, risks and benefits not
properly listed. And then they have a series of recommendations.
They did not file any indictments though against any individual

(39:55):
or entity offered recommendations to state and federal officials. As
someone that's served on a grand jury, not this type
of grand jury. This is statewide grand jury. Here's what
I would say to this, whatever, if we're not going

(40:18):
to hold people accountable for lying and deceiving on something
as important as this, And I'm not saying you should
have gone into it with a predetermined idea that you
are going to find somebody to charge with something. But
here's what's missing in this. There are eight findings that

(40:41):
everyone seems to be zeroing in on, and that's fine,
but there was one huge miss And I don't know
who made the arguments, who presented the evidence. I don't
know did state prosecutors, did the Attorney General's office? Was
it a group of doctors that had ulterior motives? Was

(41:06):
a group of doctors that did not have ulterior motives
that had reasons to say this is this was the problem.
I don't know anything about who presented what, but here's
what I can tell you. There is not a chance
in the world that they that they properly understood the
most fundamental part of all of this. And some of

(41:30):
you are already repeating what I'm going to say, and
I repeat this stuff because the more that I repeat
this stuff, it becomes anchored in your mind. You take
ownership of it. Point number one. And to me, this

(41:52):
is where the deception was not a deception. These were
overt lies told intentionally to inevitably enrich these pharmaceutical companies
and perhaps patent holders, perhaps doctors with underneath and with
Anthony Fauci. Remember Fauci's a millionaire because of stuff like this.

(42:18):
He was the highest paid government employee the entire time.
But point number one, there still is not a vaccine
that stops a coronavirus. They said it did. That's a lie,
and they knew that was a lie. That was not deception.
That's a lie. There's a difference between elluding to and

(42:44):
stating they stated it. The most important part of that, though,
is before you even get to the shots, is that
they denigrated and ridiculed and marginalized much safer, more effective

(43:05):
treatments because you can't stop a coronavirus, you can only
treat it. But because we weren't going to be satisfied
with saying that, and you can't be satisfied saying that
if you're the government, because why because you're telling everybody
how people are dying.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
And they use this for the election.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
They use this in various states to throw out state
law and to just change how the election was done.
Isn't it interesting how four years later an election that
did not have that for cover was so different. But

(43:51):
the fact that the FDA said that hydroxychloroquin ivermectin that
these treatments we're not they don't work, they're useless.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
That's how they got the shots.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
And I'm betting right now no one presented this information
in that manner, and obviously you would expand on that
to the grand jury. So I find myself frustrated because
there are eight findings in one massive miss that did

(44:27):
not get discovered too Perhaps I remectin by the way
the FDA is backed up on They're saying, Okay, I've
Remecedin's pretty good, but it's too late. Twenty seven minutes
past the hour. Big Stories in the press Box coming

(44:51):
up next. Come to the m A D Radio Network,
where we challenge you to make a difference in your
world in a positive way, improving the lives of others.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Big Stories in

(45:26):
the press Box this morning. Obviously locally in the region,
we've got a lot of rainfalling. It's been raining here
since the early hours. Taking a peek here at something
real quickly, let's see here.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
No no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
No no wrong anyway, be safe as you're driving. You
know the roads that are gonna flood, and so just
be safe. But it's not like storming. We're just getting
a lot of rain, and honestly, we need a little

(46:17):
bit of rain. So that's not a bad thing. Because
stupid people, as we've learned, burned things. And I will
never understand why subdivisions allow anything other than a little
backyard bonfire in a barbecue in a contained space. I
don't get allowing burning trash. I don't get it. You

(46:37):
live out in the boonies, awesome, do your thing. But
if you're inside a residential subdivision. There is no way
in the world they should be allowing any kind of
burns inside neighborhoods now. But this is America. Well that's fine.
Go somewhere where burning stuff is not a danger or
a hazard to anybody else. But anyway, Alejandro Maorcis, Secretary

(47:05):
of Homeland Security, how does he have the authority to
grant amnesty to eight hundred and fifty thousand illegals Because
he just did it. It effectively shields them from deportation.
It's a it's.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
A thumbing of the nose, a flipping of the bird
to the rule of law.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
And this is what Biden and his people, this is
what the Obama you know, this is what.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Barack is ordered to happen.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
They're gonna do everything possible to get as many illegals
inside this country to make deportation a nightmare. But deportation
must happen. And honestly, the quicker the sooner, the better.
If you need to streamline and smooth out the process
for agricultural workers, you know, that's fine, do your thing,

(47:57):
But this is this is absurd. He needs to be prosecuted.
He's gonna get a I will I will bet that
he will be among those. Bauci's gonna get one. He's
gonna He's gonna get one.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
May Orcus is gonna get one.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
They're gonna give pardons out to people because some of
this stuff is criminal. The the fires are still raging
in southern California. Palisades fires eleven percent contained, maybe fourteen
percent by now Eating Fire fifteen percent, Kenneth Fire ninety

(48:35):
percent contained, Hirst Fire seventy six percent. They've contained the
Lydia fire, but it's not done yet, and there's still
much more danger. Twenty four dead, perhaps times two missing,
give or take. As of right now, twelve thousand, three

(48:58):
hundred homes in Billlding's destroyed. Twelve three hundred and the
last big story in the press box this morning, Colorado
Representative Lauren Bobert Missouri Representative Eric Burlison, along with reps
Andy Biggs, Mike Collins, Bob Bonder, Andy Auglas, Mary Miller,

(49:23):
Keith self Paul Goser, have co sponsored the abolished the
ATF Act of twenty twenty five. It's one page long.
It states the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
is hereby demolished. It's my kind of legislation. By the way,

(49:46):
a little sidebar note. We'll talk about this probably more
with J. D. Johnson later this week. Doctors recommending suppressors
be taken off the list requiring a tax stamp and
wait because they say they protect people. Hearing forty minutes
past the hour, Doctor Joe standing by next on the

(50:06):
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Start at the program talking
about your health, talking about the benefits of elderberry juice.
If you don't know how to prepare it yourself, don't try.

(50:27):
Just saying joining against doctor Joe Camp's a little healthy expectations.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Good morning, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
I'm sort of down the same road. And I looked
at some literature and reviewed over twenty five diets, and
I'm going to give you one chance to guess the
number one regular diet, that one all categories and appears
to be the most effective, and that diet would be

(50:55):
do you have any idea.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
The one that says eat less, drink more water, and
get some exercise.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Person, they all say that, come on, that's my diet.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Might say that my diet book is three pages long.
Those are the three pages.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Okay, they all do that, but again it was the
Mediterranean die. And you know, I think some of the
reasons they want is, you don't have to count calories. Okay,
the food is fresh. You can have bread with this
if you like. It's not forbidden. You can have all
sorts of spices that are involved here that really taste good.

(51:32):
It's easy to make yep. For those who drink wine,
you can have wine and you won't be hungry. And
so really they all pretty much fight the same thing.
This one's particularly interesting in that it seems to be
effective in helping relieve memory loss. And you know, I'm
seeing that pop up more and more and more. What

(51:53):
can we do to help us gain our memory and
retain our memory? And certainly most of all of them
have some type of antioxidant and anti cancer factor, but
this again remains number one. I like it. I love
Mediterranean food. Slow in protein, which is from the fat,

(52:17):
fat and involved protein. But you can get whole greens
being seeds, spawn and on and on, olive. All I'm
becoming more and more believing in that that's a part
of this diet, and it's low in sugar and fat.
That seems to be the two things that we always
know about. But I just want our listeners to know

(52:38):
that once again, the Mediterranean diet seems to be there again. It.
You know. The one thing I will caution you these
days is when you start to eat health you, it
gets more costly. And I don't know if you've encountered that. Sure,
I mean when you start going vegan and these types
of ideas get to be expensive, so get ready for that.

(53:02):
But you can't put a price on your health. And
so I know every year we all, you know, have
these resolutions and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna
eat better. We do need to just eat better. I
have seen just a ton of literature and refined sugars
and fats and what that does to our bodies. And
so look at the Mediterranean die if you don't know

(53:25):
what to do, if you can, you know, obtain part
of it, all of it, I think it will go
towards improving your health overall.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
The only thing you have to worry about is what
to do if your spouse hates the smell of seafood.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Well, are you in that position? President?

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I'm not saying nothing.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Okay, okay, okay, I can tell you've been married a
long time, so that that's very good. But really, President,
you can't get away from the seafood. You don't have
to have no.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
I love seafood. I love seafood. It just makes my
wife not feel very good to smell it.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Oh my god, it's the best.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
And I know, I know, lambs. Oh, tell me about it.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Well, maybe we'll have to get together this show. Why
don't we make that resolution and I'll eat a cook
for you. A wee can go out and have some
seafood for dinner. So luckily we live in a great
area in the country where it's plentiful and it's fresh
and it's good. So yes, sir, all right, Prestley, thank you,
jar and have a great week. I will be out. Unfortunately,
I'm gonna have to have some hip surgery. Oh yeah,

(54:33):
I'm hoping everything goes well and I'll be back out.
I'll let you know.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
All right, Well, we're off next week anyway, and maybe
the week after.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
So thank you, Joe.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
Okay, take care, President.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Best best wishes on your surgery friend.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Okay, my friend, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Doctor Joe camps with us this morning.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Some healthy expectations on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
This is the Morning Show with Preston's Scott. I don't

(55:17):
know if you noticed, but we are. We're now into
our second week of the new year, and there has
not been one bump repeated other than the top of
the hour in our special features the Morning Show band
just cranking out music, right, just a little fresh uh

(55:38):
huh uh huh. All right, So the college football playoff
is now to the final. Needless to say, there was
some happiness around my home because my wife's Ohio State
Buckeyes one fairly handily beating beating Texas Notre Dame one.

(56:06):
But complaint, man, how can they just screw over their
fans like they do, bringing the end of the college
football season to a Monday night where people have to

(56:28):
get up early on Tuesday and work, kids have to
get up and go to school. They're gonna play it
on Inauguration Day. They're gonna play it. You know, it's
Martin Luther King Day. We're off next Monday. But I
have long griped about the college football championship.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Game played on a Monday. It's just wrong. It's wrong.
And you know what it is.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
It comes back to greed by the NFL. This is
on pro football. Yeah, my beloved Packers just played garbage.
They just were terrible yesterday got beat by Philadelphia. Congratulations,
Eagle fans, you win. Jordan Love was terrible. The defense
played well. I'm really happy with the direction that the

(57:15):
defense is going there. But let's back away from that
for a second. Besides, I'm out. I don't if I'm watching.
It's just because I got nothing else to do from
this point forward, because I don't have a rooting interest
one way or the other. And because you know I
was talking about with my kids, well some of my kids.
The only reason I care about the NFL is because

(57:36):
of the connection that I have through my dad with
the Green Bay Packers. It's a family things. It's a
thing that brings us together and we love it. It's
it's awesome. But I wouldn't care otherwise because the greed
and the nonsense making people watch Amazon Prime. I'm to

(58:00):
watch a football game? Are you kidding me? That's just
that's sinful to me.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
It is.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
But here's why the college football playoff is played on
a Monday night, because the pro football playoffs are on
Saturday and Sunday. You know what I would say to
the NFL, to you, we're playing on Saturday, because we
play our games on Saturday all year long. We're playing
on a Saturday. How'd you like it if we played

(58:33):
on Sunday? But no, the NFL plays on Sunday. But
the NFL of this streaming nonsense is aggravating. I think

(58:53):
the Sunday ticket moving to YouTube as opposed to DirecTV
is brilliant because it's more accessible to people without putting
up adition.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
I don't want to satellite dish. They're flaky, They're not reliable.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Streaming is much more reliable when it comes to this
Sunday ticket. But for the playoff games, they should all
be on national television, and the college football playoff championship
game should be on Saturday. So my wife, I know,
will be up. I probably will not. I'll probably watch
a quarter of it with her. I have to go
to bed when we come back. The third final hour

(59:34):
of the radio program, Sal Newso joins us from Consumers Defense.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
We've got a lot to talk about, including is Matt
Gates really going to make a run? He? Is he
really for governor?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Cannot wait third hour coming up next, Stay dry, everybody,
drive safe, take your time, stay.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
With us, And so we begin the third hour of

(01:00:18):
the morning show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
You might not have noticed it, but we started changing
our count on the program back in the final weeks
of the show. Instead of talking about the number of
days we're being held to hostage, I started counting down
the days to deliverance. And so we are now seven

(01:00:43):
days away from inauguration.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
From the what's his name, Mel Gibson in Braveheart Yell
at Freedom. Yes, yeah, boy, we're a week away. We
will celebrate it when we come back after being off
next Monday. But it is inauguration day, and you know
the voice Sal Nuzzo with us. He is the executive
director of Consumer's Defense. And good to see again, sir.

(01:01:07):
Happy New Year, Happy new Year to you, although according
to Larry David, you're not allowed to say happy New
Year after the seventh of January.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
I was told this, so you know, and of course.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
I don't care what Lady David has to say, and
maybe either, Yeah, when I see somebody that I haven't
seen since before the New Year, then when I see
them and greet them, the first time after.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
That's my rule.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
I'm still doing emails with Happy New Year to you
if it's a first email.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Yes, yep, that's what that's called courtesy. Anyway, let's start
with some things that I think are maybe a little
bit outside the legislative world, even though we're fast approaching
the legislative session where we'll spend most of our time today.
But who's going to pick to be the replacement for

(01:01:53):
Mark Rubio? Who will govern around to Santa Select.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
It is definitely the sixty four thousand dollars question of
the week. Now, I just did say the governor said
he wanted to make the pick before the inauguration, So
we're looking at sometime this week. And I think if
you put all of the names in the mix, you
still got Ashley Moody, You've got Lar Trump, You've got

(01:02:17):
James Upmeyer's chief of staff. An interesting name popped up
over the past week, and that is Congressman Corey Mills
from over in the Atlantic side.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
He is a decorated veteran.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
He is getting a lot of notoriety, and he publicly
stated that regardless of who the governor picks, he plans
to run for the seat in two years when it's
up for.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Reelection, So that could go into the mix.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
I think if we set all of the politics aside
and just look at kind of the dynamics of Florida
and try to make an objective selection, I think if
I were making the choice or advising it would likely
be the Attorney General Ashley Moody a point her to
the Senate seat, which would open up the AG position,

(01:03:04):
and then the governor could put James into that role,
because James being James Upmeyer, his current chief of staff,
who had been the General Council and is a very
very good attorney in his own right. So there are
some dynamics at play politically that we'll go into this mix,
along with the impending appointment of a CFO because of

(01:03:30):
Jimmy Petronas's resignation to run for the congressional district out
that Matt Gates vacated. So but setting all of that aside,
that seems to me to be the logical selection.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Ashley Moody, then maybe you're your outside number two pick
would be a Corey Mills. Yeah, I mean I like
Corey election sets up another special election.

Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
It sets up another special election which would be the
third in Congress, because you've got Mike Waltz in addition
to Matt Gates, and so there's a lot of permutations
of how those dominoes could then fall. Because in addition
to that, if let's just say he were to do
Corey Mills, you have that special election, who from the

(01:04:14):
legislature might consider running for that, and then you'd have
even more dominoes. It's a dynamic time. It's fun to
be a Floridian right now. He said the name, he said,
Matt Gates.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
When we come back, we're going to talk about is
Matt Gates the viable candidate for governor that he thinks
he is. That's next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:04:56):
You said it first, you said it for Matt Gates.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I said the name, Yeah you did.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
So he sends out a note and he says, yeah,
I'm I'm thinking about running for governor. I made the
comment that I'm not sure that he can win a
statewide race with the luggage that he does have. He
does have some Oh he's I get some luggage. I
think he's a brilliant apologist for the conservative cause. I
think he's exceptional on his feet. I think he has

(01:05:24):
a great command of facts, but he's a lightning.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Rod he is.

Speaker 6 (01:05:30):
And to that end, I've mentioned in the past a
Democrat senator from down in South Florida, Jason Pizzow, is
kind of the what should be the new face of
the Florida Democrat Party, center left, moderate Democrat. He saw
that post from Matt Gates and he tweeted out or
posted with it saying he looks forward to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Kicking his mind.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
End And then on that our friend John Stay then
reposts the Jason Pizzo post saying, don't worry, Senator, you
won't have a chance. We're going to do it in
the primary, which made me chuckle. To that end, I
think a Matt Gates run for the Republican nomination for

(01:06:18):
governor in two years, and this is all as it stands.
Two years is a lifetime in politics right now, or
it's actually five lifetimes in politics these days. It's going
to be a dynamic in which you have someone who's
a lightning rod like Matt Gates, but who you are
exactly right. He is an incredible apologist for conservative movement principles.

(01:06:43):
If Donald Trump's agenda takes off and the populist movement
continues to gain momentum. I do believe it benefits mat
Gates for a potential run because Florida is a very
deep red populist state that it has shifted populist versus
the fiscal conservative socially socially modern or socially conservative to

(01:07:09):
slightly more socially moderate, I think, and I think that's
gonna benefit Gates in a primary.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
If Trump's agenda takes off, it'll be interesting to talk about.
And you and I discussed where we'll deal with that
in the soft season when we're done with the session.
But you think there's a possibility, and I've read the
governor's discussing a potential special session before the session tell
us about this.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
Yeah, So the session begins the second to the first
Tuesday in March. Prior to that, they do have some
legislative committee weeks, but the governor is announced that he
would like a special session to come for the primary
purpose that I'm reading and seeing on immigration legislation, largely
to make sure that Florida's ready to assist with any

(01:07:57):
federal efforts on deportations. So my guess is there could
be some state preemption language on locals, especially if you've
got areas like Tallahassee or other center left cities that
may try to fight back against some of that or
may try to Yeah, so my guess is it could

(01:08:17):
be somewhere along those lines. But I really would not
be surprised if another topic or two gets added into
a special session ahead of it. I keep hearing grumblings about,
you know, the possibility of tweaking the condo inspection law
that passed a year ago, because, as we've talked in

(01:08:37):
prior sessions when I've been in that the implementation of
that law is hitting hard on people who have longstanding
residencies in areas like South Florida or out on the Panhandle,
where all of a sudden they're getting hit with assessments
for multiple thousands of dollars that they just cannot afford.

(01:08:58):
You know, there's a ton of different things that they
could take up. I'm hearing, you know, the possibility of
either in a special or in the regular going back
to the open carry debates that we've had, There's a
ton of possibility, and I'm really starting to get my
intenta up on it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
All Right, We've got more to come with our guest,
Salnuzo with consumers Defense joins us once a month leading
up to the session, and then weekly once the session begins.
So we've got much to talk about still to come
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This might

(01:09:43):
be the first bump that's repeating itself. Twenty one minutes
after the hour. We've gone a full week without repeating
one bump. That's brilliant. The Morning Show band just killing it.
Joining us, Salnwzoh with personal Defense not personal defense.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Good grief.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
I've got Wednesday in my head all of a sudden,
for some reason, our legislative session preview, and we'll preview
it one more time before we actually get to the session,
and then we'll preview the session right then and there.
How quickly does the kind of the marching orders of
the session come out? I mean, and does it come
from the governor along with the new president and the

(01:10:22):
new Speaker.

Speaker 6 (01:10:23):
Well, typically over the course of the governor's I would say,
the meat of his term, which I would say is
the second two years of his first term, Yeah, and
the first two years of his second term. I would
suggest he did a whole lot of the calling the
plays on the priorities that, especially under Speaker Paul Renner,

(01:10:47):
that they took up, and to his credit, he got
just about everything he wanted policy wise and in his
agenda and mostly in the budget. I think what we're
going to see in Speaker Danny Perez and Senate President
Ben Albritton is not necessarily pushback, but a little bit

(01:11:11):
more of a level of independence on the legislature that
will kind of bring its own color and flavor to
the governor for some items that may not be in
the governor's you know, priority top five or top ten
priority list.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
How much consideration does experience tell you goes into this
two year window where okay, the final two years of
governor round the Santas match the two year term of
a Senate President and a new Speaker, and then everyone's
going to be new together. We're going to have a
new governor, we're gonna have a new Speaker and a
new president. So how much of that might modify what

(01:11:51):
the House Speaker and the Senate President do because at
least they know they've got a bonifid.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Conservative in the in the governor's office.

Speaker 6 (01:11:59):
Yeah, definitely, And I think there's going to be some
of that at play because it's not even a re
election year, it is a term out election in twenty
twenty six. You also have the dynamic of and I
know it is Speaker Perez's first session as Speaker, but
it's actually a dynamic where you have Speaker Designate Sam

(01:12:24):
Garrison beginning to take a hold of some of the
things in his committee chairmanships, and as an incoming speaker,
even though it's not for two years, he's beginning to
ascend and get more under his belt as well. So
you've got these things at play that take hold in

(01:12:45):
ways that do not really reflect in other states that
I've worked in over my years. And so it's a
fun dynamic because a lot of things are in flux.
As this first session begins to kind of of, you know,
kind of get played out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
We've got a couple more segments left, but we've got
a couple more minutes left in this one. Housing is
going to be a big part of the upcoming session.
Define that for us though.

Speaker 6 (01:13:14):
Yeah, excellent question on this, because I think what you've
got in the idea or theme of housing is you've
got the issue of property insurance, which has been kind
of the problem that does not seem to want to
go away. Right, You've got the issue of housing affordability,
which I think it is definitely worth us unpacking kind

(01:13:36):
of the root causes of it, because it's very different
from what we experienced about fourteen years ago during the
Great Recession. And then you've got the issue of condos,
which are in other states you do not have as many,
but in Florida it is a big, big issue that

(01:13:56):
I think is needing to be unpacked a bit separately
from your traditional single family homes, housing affordability, workforce housing,
things that kind of come into the policy reform mix.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
So when we say housing, then that's almost now an
umbrella term for a multitude of things that come underneath it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:19):
Yeah, and so on the affordability piece. Whereas you had
a massive housing bubble back in two thousand and eight
two thousand and nine, what you have now driving affordability
is two things, and neither of them are bubbles. They're
both kind of economics. One oh one, you had massive

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influxes of people from other states into Florida to live.
You had people at the rate of in some years,
one thousand a day moving to Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Now we they need somewhere to live.

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
They need somewhere to live, and oftentimes they are selling
their homes in Midwestern and New England states withinflatea money
and then coming down and you have bidding wars on homes.
You have a you know, it takes a while to
build new structures, so you have supply and demand driving
the prices up. And so that's where the housing affordability

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issue is a bit different than what we experience back
in two thousand and eight and nine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
More to Commerce, sal Newso Consumers Defense twenty seven Past
the Hour looking at a few policy related topic subjects,

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things that are likely to be things that you hear
about in the legislative session, and again we try to
focus on the things that really impact you the most.
When we talk about housing, when we talk about insurance,
when we talk about a lot of these things, there
is the mindset of let the market do its thing.

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There are those that say, yeah, but the government plays
a very significant role in how that unfolds. Sal Nuzo
with us from Consumer's Defense. What should the role of government.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Be in all of this?

Speaker 6 (01:16:18):
And that really should be the overriding question of how
policy is formulated and developed to impact individuals' lives. And
so when you see what we have seen over the
last fifteen or so years in Florida, we recognize that
ultimately it is a supply and demand equation. We need

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more supply and we need more supply of homes at
particular levels. So we need starter homes, homes that when
I can remember when my parents were starting out in
the nineteen seventies home values, they could buy a very
small home for thirty to forty or fifty thousand dollars

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back then, which then allowed them to build some equity,
which ultimately allowed them to ten years later buy a
bigger home when they had kids and so forth. So
what we're talking about is a supply of homes that
are affordable for workforce housing needs in that middle income stage.

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Now where the government comes in, and it's largely at
the not state, but local level, are on things like permitting,
user and impact fees and all of these things that
local governments do via the building codes and all of
the ways in which the local government levers are brought

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to bear that too often negatively impact the ability of
developers and home builders to get more affordable homes. I
hate saying an expensive home or cheap homes or low income.
It's really about making housing more affordable across the board.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
It's not all that different, as I'm thinking about at
SOL than what we've argued against the minimum wage, in
that the minimum wage hinders the people it's supposed to help.
It hinders entry level workers, and we need policy that
helps entry level homeowners exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
And if you look at what, for example, the left
is proposed in various pockets around the state, or Lando
and a couple of others, they see the problem affordable
or housing affordability, and their solution or their policy prescription
is rent control. And rent control does nothing but exacerbate

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the shortage of developers and builders building homes. And so
what that does is it creates more of the problem.
And so what I hope happens at the state level
is the state can make policy that trickles down a
bit to the locals through preemption, through whether or not.

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And I know incentives become kind of a bad term
among free marketers, but what are the things that the
state can do. Two local governments to maybe use the
carrot and the stick to try and get away from
these restrictive policies at the local level and move toward
things that actually incentivize builders to make homes and increase

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that supply, which ultimately puts downward pressure on the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Cost changing gears. We got about a minute left in
the segment. You mentioned immigration at the very beginning that
there could be a special session. But broadly speaking, is
there a place for Florida to kind of set the
stage and set the tone and create policy that works
with regard to good legal immigration.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
I hope so.

Speaker 6 (01:19:56):
And uh, you know, it's one of those things where
the federal immigration system is broken. And that statement is
something that both Republicans, Independents and Democrats across the board
just kind of they say it all the time. It
is a bipartisan statement. How much of that can be

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brought to baron state policy on top of what Florida
has already done. I think we're gonna see some things
via our agriculture industry that may dovetail into that. And
I'm really intrigued by what might transpire in that special session.

(01:20:42):
But at this point it's one of those things where
I'm questioning it as much as probably you are.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
At this point, sal news O with us one more
segment forty past the hour.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Let's break some news. Seriously, let's break some news. Let's
break some news.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
So what can we tell our listeners? And we always
use the idea of we want to inform people so
they are better citizens of this state, more informed about
what's going on. What are some topics that you're hearing
about that might pop up during the session.

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Sure, and kind of jumping back on the immigration question earlier,
there is one bill that I think is being considered
to be filed by Randy Fine prior to him resigning
to take that congressional election on and that would classify
bringing children into the US without authorization as human trafficking,

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and that would open up some penalties that would not
be considered if it weren't a human trafficking issue.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
See, that's the kind of thing I was talking about
when I said setting the tone for what the nation
might consider.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
Yeah, and it's definitely something that might translate well into
a couple of other states, But I don't know if
it's got the broad appeal that it would have outside
of maybe Florida and Texas. I don't anticipate Arizona, New
Mexico or California taken attack on this, but I mean,
I've been proven wrong many other times. You've also got

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Representative Bernie Jacks is looking to introduce a bill to
strengthen the ban on sanctuary cities, and he's also looking
at something on citizen verification on voting. But I'd have
to see the language because I don't know how much
more we can do. And certainly there's maybe increased penalties

(01:22:55):
for violating laws, but I don't know how much more
we can strengthen that front. All Right, Healthcare, healthcare. Alex Rizzo,
Representative down in South Florida. He's got a bill that's
gonna we talk years past, something called the eyeball Wars.
It's the ophthalmologist versus the optometrists.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:23:15):
His bill would expand the optometrists scope of practice and
basically it would allow licensed optometrists to prescribe some additional
meds and to perform this one specific procedure to relieve
inner corneal pressure. I'm not sure, uh, you know how
big of an issue it's going to be. I'm not

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sure how much the optometrists are going to push back
on it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
What's fueling this?

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
You?

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
Does he have vision issues?

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Oh, okay, well, no, I mean most so often we
see legislation that has brought about because of a friend
or a loved one or a newspaper headline.

Speaker 6 (01:23:52):
I don't know if there is a specific thing that
he's got, uh, And I'm I've known him for years
and I'm trying to remember if he even wears. But
with that in mind, Florida has generally been at the
forefront on this idea of expanding scope of practice in healthcare,
and what that means is allowing practitioners to perform all

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of the things that they get trained on in their
training or education. And what frequently happens in other states
is you've got where an individual gets trained on a
specific thing, but then the licensing and regulations in that
state prohibit them from doing it. So that's one of
the things they're on. The similar front, you've got a

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priority from the Speaker from all of his years in
the Florida House, which is expanding dental care to include
a new occupational category called dental therapists.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Rep.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
Cheney, who filed the bill last year, also has that
this year on the election front, I would be on
the lookout for tightening ballot initiatives.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
The twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:24:59):
Four cycle, we saw fourteen million dollars pumped into the
two big ballot questions from foreign nationals.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Now, they're not.

Speaker 6 (01:25:11):
Allowed to contribute to elections, but there's a loophole on
state ballot initiatives. So I believe that that loophole is
going to be closed this year. Florida would be the
second state to do it. Ohio did it last year.
The other big question is going to be guns. It's
flying under the radar right now, but there is a

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lawsuit that's working through the courts from gun owners of
America who are suing Palm Beach County both the sheriff
and the prosecutor to rule the ban of open carry
a violation of the Second and fourteenth Amendments. Now, the
fun little nugget in all this is the Biden administration
asked Attorney General Ashley Moody to help defend the sheriff

(01:25:55):
and prosecutor against this lawsuit. She refused. Basically, she's, you know,
kind of insinuating. No, she's almost in favor of And
I don't want to put words into her mouth, but
you would be able to read into this a little
bit that she may hope that this lawsuit is successful,
and therefore Florida and even other states, potentially all fifty

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states would then be open carry by way of a
Supreme Court ruling.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Potentially.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Well, it's mostly a non contact sport. The legislative session
is coming quickly, and thank you for giving us a
little bit of a preview. And I can't wait for
it to start.

Speaker 6 (01:26:32):
I cannot wait for our weeklies. It's going to be
a blast, and it is always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
To be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Thank you, Sir Salnuso with Consumer's Defense forty seven minutes
past the hour. With all the things we talk about
for salnwso there's still never enough time. It's almost like

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we need to do a one hour podcast where we
can just do this and not well, this is what
we got. But there's just so much. And I encourage

(01:27:24):
you to stay in the loop on what's going on
with our state legislature because this is what impacts you
the most. You live here, and it's where you have
the most amount of sway because the lawmakers live here too,
they live where you live.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
So and all I can.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Say is, if you're a state lawmaker, you work with
one people are paying attention to whether you're responsive. If
you're not really responsive to what your constituents are saying
and asking and talking to you about, they'll find somebody else,

(01:28:10):
all right. The iHeartRadio app. I've been talking about it.
I'm gonna continue to talk about it. You know it
as a scan button, not only presets, not only lyrics
to songs.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
If you're a music file, you know, an audio file,
you like.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
The different music formats and all that, you can set
up your own playlist.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
The paid one gives you more flexibility. But the non
paid one, which I use, I type in an artist
and it compiles a playlist of that artist and similar
artists and off you go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
But there's a scan button just like your radio. When
you do a scan, you type in the format you
want and hit scan and you're gonna get all kinds
of different radio stations across the country underneath that format.
It's a scan button. Boom next, boop next. So check
out the new redesigned iHeartRadio app, brought to you by

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That's where we began the radio program Our Big Stories Today,
fires in California continuing. I don't know when to dance

(01:29:30):
because here's the thing with those kinds of fires. When
you start getting in and around buildings in cities, there's
always more to consume. It's always more structures. So far
better than twelve thousand structures, homes, buildings, places of work.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
What do you do with schools?

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
What do you do when you're canceling classes for and
schools are getting burned down?

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
What do you do for those students? You just pass
them through?

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
You can't do that. It's incalculable the damage here. Some
are suggesting negligent homicide charges for the mayor of Los
Angeles and the governor of California. Security of Homeland Director

(01:30:23):
or Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorcis has granted amnesty
do eight hundred and fifty thousand illegals. Members of Congress
have introduced legislation to abolish the ATF.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Well, that's kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
We'll be back at it tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
Friends. Till then, have an awesome day. Stay dry,