Ep. 5352: Global Tariff Reactions

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday April 7, 2025.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's Monday, April seventh, show fifty three fifty two of
the Morning Show with Wrestling Scott. But who's counting? The
band is back together. Over there in Studio one A
is Grant Allen. Ladies and gentlemen, Hello, Oh my gosh,

(00:27):
look what the cat dragged in? Great comes smiling in
the door this morning, and I was I was left
a little bit in the lurch as to who was
going to be here this morning. But Grant, feeling a
little better. You've been a little little puky, no, just feverish.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I kicked it a few days ago, but I've
had a perpetual scratchy throat basically since the end of
February thanks to the pollen can.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I was just gonna say, is that a pollen thing?
Oh my gosh, it's killed me this year. And I've
heard a lot of people, like a church friends, saying
the same thing, that this year's been brutal. But I
think it's almost over. I hope the pollen is lightening
up quite a bit. On the cars. It's the car

(01:15):
wash measurement that I use. You run it through the
car wash and then quickly does it come back right?
If I go from the car wash to the grocery store.
I come out of the grocery store and I've got pollen.
We're still in trouble, but I'm now going longer. Our
verse of the day comes from Galatians to twenty. I
have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I

(01:37):
who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the
life I now live in the flesh. I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me. What I want to focus on
is that first part of verse twenty. I have been
crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,

(02:00):
but Christ who lives in me. And so my question, friends,
is that what we reveal through the course of the day.
And again this is directed to those of you who
call yourself a Christian. If you make that claim, then
it's not you who lives each and every day, it's

(02:22):
Christ living in you. Are you revealing Jesus? We use
this measurement all the time. If someone just watched you
go through your day, would they believe that you're a Christian?
Would they see it? Would they be drawn to it,
or would they be repelled by what they see? And

(02:44):
go man, I don't want any part of that. Ten
past the hour. Take a peek inside the American Patriots
All GONNAC. Take a look at what the National Day
of fill in the blank what it says, and let's
get started Monday on the Morning.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Show Preston Scott, what will you do with on Freedom
on US Radio one hundred point seven d wn UFLA.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is about twelve minutes past the hour. Inside the
American Patriots Almanac, we go eighteen sixty two. Union forces
commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederates the Battle
of Shiloh in Tennessee. Nineteen twenty seven. An audience in

(03:40):
New York watches Commerce Secretary Herbert read a speech in Washington,
d C. On the first demonstration of long distance television
transmission nineteen twenty seven. Shortly thereafter that, my dad did
the first sports broadcast at the age of eight. Where's this?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Where did that come from?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just dad did about everything. It seems like scientists at
Los Alamos, New Mexico, produced the first atomic generated electricity.
I think al Gore was there for that. I think
he invented it. And then in nineteen seventy John Wayne.
Huh hey, wins his only Oscar for his role in

(04:26):
True Grit Only one. Huh yeah, yeah, I think. And
there were some that believed that that was an oscar
given sort of as an homage to his career. Sure,
the Duke just he's the duke. But come on, let's
face it, not not a riveting actor. He just played.

(04:48):
He had a role that he would play and he
just did it so well.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's not like there was this massive character arc over
the course of two hours long, and like he was
this app that there really wasn't. It was John Wayne.
And he was gonna punch in the face.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, that's about it. Yes, he was gonna hit a
bad guy in the face for being a smart alec. Yeah.
And and he was. And and if if you just
can learn to say the word pilgrim like him, yeah,
well I'll tell you pilgrim. I mean that you got
John Wayne. That's John Wayne's acting in a nutshell. But no,

(05:25):
between World War two movies and westerns, and he's the duke.
Come on, he's the man, all right. What else do
we have here? It is national I E. P Writing
day hm, National Girl me to day. I wonder if

(05:47):
men are allowed in that, they'll just impose themselves in it.
That that's what that's what will happen. That even girl
me to Day is not safe from men like hashtag
meat too or like girl me too, girl me too? Okay,
recognizing the strength and endurance of women of all ages. Okay,

(06:09):
girl me too?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Good?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I see yeah yeah, and not to be mistaken for
hashtag me too.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
But it's it's going to be a it's they're gonna
dudes are going to impose on that space. National no
housework Day, National Coffee Cake Day. That sounds good. Now
do you like coffee cake? Yeah, I'm indifferent. It's okay,
But and then it's National Beer Day. Like when isn't

(06:40):
it National Beer Day? This is America? When is it?
Quick reminder here, the Capital Conservatives are continuing their information series.
We will be meeting with leadership. We had to reschedule

(07:02):
our meeting from last month, and we're going to try
to nail it down because one of them had to
go to jail. No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
He had jury duty in a federal trial and so he,
you know, couldn't get out of the jury duty. But
next week, next Tuesday, their next meeting at the Elks
Lodge dinner five thirty. I'm no, I'm not telling you

(07:24):
how to go buy dinner. It's it's too cumbersome. I'm
not doing that. But you can go to the meeting
and Mayor John Day's going to be there and he'll
be talking about maybe he'll answer the question whether he's
going to run for mayor again. He probably won't answer it,
but he'll talk about all things. And I think it's smart.
Capitol Conservatives now are bringing in some local leadership to

(07:47):
just take questions, and I think that's smart. Get engaged,
don't silo yourself. So if you want to, if you
want to show up for the for the meeting, I'd
say show up about six fifteen at the Elks Lodge
on North Magnolia, and again next next Tuesday. I'll give
you a reminder later on in the week. Sixteen past
the hour, get started here on the Morning Show twenty

(08:21):
two minutes past the hour. It is Monday of the
Morning Show at Preston Sky Morning Ruminators, Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, males and females only, Thanks for joining us.
He is great Allen granted for Jose. Today, Jose got
rained out of his plans. Had a buddy come in town,

(08:43):
and he was gathering with some others and they were
going to go camping, a little primitive style camping. But
the forecast, the weather, it was just too sketchy and
so I don't know what they've decided to do, but
at any rate, he was scheduled to take some time,
so he did. He's going to be gone Friday, but

(09:05):
changed it up a little bit, brought his buddy into
the studio here this morning. The bailiff, Matt was in
speaking of weather. The FSU Hockey Club charity golf tournament
has been canceled. Don't know if they're going to try
playing it again later in the summer, but as of

(09:26):
right now, because it's a ninety eight percent chance of
rain today, they just couldn't run the risk of putting
everybody out on the golf course and having it rain down.
So I'm very sad because I was very excited about playing.
Played over the weekend out at Wacula Sands, nice golf course.

(09:51):
It was fun seeing an alligator bathing himself on the
side of the one of the lakes. Little guy about
a four footer maybe five. Did not have my a
game shot in eighty four with two doubles, I four
putted for a double. Honestly a little unexpected that one was.

(10:16):
But overall, front nine, I mean it's first first eighteen holes.
I played all year long, and so a lot of
rust on the first nine. Back nine. Hit the ball
pretty good, played with a couple buddies from church and
had a good time. But it all, it all just

(10:38):
points to its Master's Week, and I am going to
devote some time to the Masters on my blog page.
It's up right now, the story of concessions at the Masters.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Are you referencing the Master's YouTube channel.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh, yeah, it's going to be posted.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
There are documentaries that they've been putting out on you know,
ten little fifteen minute videos about this aspect of the course,
the Hallowed Ground exactly. Yeah, I've been watching some of
those when they pop up in my feed.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
They're really good. Yeah. The concessions one is up right now.
It's a new it's one of these that he's talking about.
I will take the time to share with you the
price of concessions at Augusta National. It's going to blow
your mind, and you'll never go to a concession stand
at a college or pro event and feel anything other

(11:38):
than you're getting ripped off. But here's the difference. Augusta
National is loaded with money, and they believe that the
spectators are patrons and they're to be catered to. In return.
They ask you to know not bring a phone onto

(11:58):
the grounds, as in, you can't bring a phone onto
the phase. You will be asked to turn around and
take it back to your vehicle. No phone's on the grounds.
If you have a phone and you're seen with the phone,
you will be asked to either leave or surrender it
until the tournament's over. But the price what you get

(12:18):
for that is peace, the golf tournament and the concessions,
which again you won't believe the prices till I tell
them to you, and I have them all for the
entire menu. I've got some other features coming up. I've
got a blog coming up tomorrow sharing a couple of

(12:40):
little experiences that my dad shared with me. But I've
got the broadcast of the final round of the nineteen
eighty six Masters where Jack Nicholas wins it on the
back nine. I've got the original television broadcast. I'm gonna
share that. I'm going to share Scotti, Scheffler go hole

(13:00):
by hole of the golf course. We've got some great
stuff that we're going to roll out this week. So
it's Masters week and that's great because if I talk
about FSU baseball, I'm gonna cry. Twenty nine runs in
the final two games against wake Forest. Twenty nine runs. Now,

(13:22):
a starter is going to get shelled now and then
most of the time, unless you're Paul Skins. But for
everybody else, I mean Jamie Arnold struggled Friday for a
while and then righted the ship and it was lights out.
But the bullpen for FSU has been to disaster all

(13:42):
season long, all season and they got humiliated this weekend
at home, first series loss of the year to wake Forest.
A team they're okay, so link Jarrett and my Caposi
have them. I have some work to do because this
team will not compete in Omaha if they can't get

(14:04):
the pitching straightened out. So twenty eight past the hour,
let's come back and do the big stories of the
press box. Next in the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Doctor Joe Camps.
Next hour, sal newsoh a hour number three. So much

(14:28):
to talk about. Well, I'll tell you what this session
makes you really appreciate the previous sessions where we just
got crap done, and it segues really well into the
first big story in the press box this morning. Here
this morning on the program, and welcome to those of
you that might have stumbled on the Morning Show with

(14:50):
Preston Scott. We try to cover things that you ought
to be talking about or are talking about just need
to be on your radar in one form or another.
I leave it to Glenn Beck and Clay and Buck
and the rest to just abuse the topic all day long.
That's you know. I think it's great. The deep dives.

(15:12):
That's just not what we do. We try to make
it more of an audio magazine. But the State of
Florida is showing what can happen, the laziness that can
creep in when you get a little too smug about
being in control of a house or a senator in
this case in Florida, both both and the executive. I

(15:36):
just think they're being stupid self inflicted wounds all over
the place. Egos running unchecked in too many places. They're
just not getting the right things done, and they're fighting
and squabbling publicly. And you know what, fighting and squabbling
is just fine, you don't do it publicly. And here's

(15:59):
the day. It doesn't matter that the polling source is
maybe a little sketchy. It's data for progress and it's
the state of New York we're talking about. But AOC
is absolutely destroying Chuck Schumer in New York, in head

(16:25):
to head polling destroying. So if you remove ah, it's
a bunch of extremist libs doing the polling. If you
even remove that, she's still destroying Chuck Schumer. I share
this because the shift in controlling power in New York

(16:50):
shows that it's not going away. This extreme progressive i'll
cahol it, dangerous leftism, is not going away. And the
idea that we've tried to extend all these years is
that the liberal left is always what they accuse others
of being. They accuse Trump and the rest of being

(17:14):
the brown Shirts, the Nazis, the fascists. They probably can't
even define what a fascist is. And I'll explain that later,
but this is an example of no this is this
is where the left is. The left is the the
ones that are. They are the closest to fascism. They
are the closest to the intolerance of the Nazi left.

(17:38):
The Nazis were so far right they were left. You know,
it's almost like dry ice. Dry ice is so cold
it burns. You can get so far right that you're
left and you have far more in common with the lefties.
And that's where the left is right now. I wish

(18:00):
more businesses in America would take a page from Ford.
Ford is saying, mister President, what can we do to help?
And Ford is now rolling out a from America for America.
I don't know if you've seen the ads over the
weekend Final Four basketball. I mean they're everywhere from America

(18:25):
for America. They are highlighting their products. Eighty percent of
their cars, trucks, SUVs are made in America. That doesn't
mean that they're not without getting stung by the tariffs.
They're just pointing out it's the long term. The big
picture is it's better for America and it is more

(18:48):
to come. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's
The Morning Show with Preston Scott, Jupiter police arresting a
guy for threatening to kill Trump. Who goes on Facebook

(19:13):
and post the intent of killing the president of the
United States. I'll tell you who, a Florida man. I
think it's bad enough. Trump's got to dodge the Iranians,
dodge the Iranians. Now he's got to dodge Floridians. Senate

(19:38):
passes the budget blueprint. They had what's called a vote rama.
I'd never heard the term. A vote rama is a
process during reconciliation where all amendments have to be considered,
so they're voting on all things. And so they held

(20:02):
this on Friday night into Saturday morning and finally passed it.
I'd say party lines, but it's not because Susan Collins
of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky said no. And
I don't blame him now, Susan Collins, she's just a loon.
Yeah yeah, but Rand Paul is pretty pragmatic. Rand Paul's

(20:24):
standing on principle. And so now it's going to go
to the House, and the centerpiece of this whole thing
is trying to get the tax cuts permanent, to get
them back in there so that they can't just be
changed on a whim. They have to go through the

(20:45):
legislative process. So they're trying to get the tax cuts
that Trump put in place in the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act of twenty seventeen permanently in place. Under the
Bird rule, nothing in a reconciliation bill can be made
permanent if it cost the government money after a decade.
And here's the problem. They want inside the Senate budget.

(21:07):
They want to expand the debt by four to five
trillion dollars and that's just not acceptable. You know. Kat
Camick is the only member of the Florida Caucus to
Congress that has not once asked for pork for her district.
She said, it's it's inconceivable when we're running a debt

(21:32):
and we're running deficits to be demanding money to be
spent where you live, where I live. She said, I
won't do it. She said, we have a responsibility to
become fiscally sound, and we're not doing it. She's basically
standing mostly alone among Republicans. But it's it points to

(21:55):
to me one of the biggest flaws in the Trump agenda,
the unwillingness to speak to and address the debt. We
have to we have to at some point, and that

(22:17):
point was long ago. There has to be an understanding.
And I don't know why more people in America don't
connect their personal finances and say the government needs to
run the way my house has to run. Well. But wait,
some of you are overleveraged in your debt to asset
ratios off the charts. But that's the point. Because of that,

(22:42):
you can't get more credit, You can't borrow any more money.
The lender says to you, you have to get your
debt under control and pay it down. The federal government
has the advantage of saying, ah, forget you, We're just
going to take more of your money. That's not acceptable.

(23:05):
And so this is my big criticism of Trump. We're
not dealing with it, and this is the time to
deal with it while he's angering everybody. Get everybody all upset,
deal with it. Forty six minutes after the hour, You
know anything about The Mercury News The Morning Show with
Preston Scott fifty one minutes past the hour. Listener of

(23:33):
this program used to work for Gannette as a photographer,
and so he's really dialed into what goes on in
the news industry. He thinks like we do, recognizes the
inherent failures of the news industry, and he shared a

(23:53):
piece with me written by a guy named Pete Croato
with Pointer po y n Ter, and this article is
part of the Pointer fifty, a series reflecting on fifty
moments in people that shape journalism over the past half

(24:15):
century and continue to influence its future. Now. Pointer seems
to try to position itself as sort of the overseer
of media, giving evaluations and analysis of what's going on
in the media. And so in this particular article they

(24:39):
talk about the San Jose Mercury News, which is regarded
as the first newspaper to put its entire content online,
initially for free, and it was a very control in

(25:00):
view at the time. The media print in particular really
miscalculated what was going to happen online, totally missed it,
and so they found themselves, they meaning the mainstream print
media outlets, scrambling to find a way to recover. And

(25:26):
inside the article, it goes on to note Mercury Center
started charging readers for ninety five a month in April
nineteen ninety five, three months after the free site's launch,
so three months into the were giving it all away
for nothing. They said, ah, we can't do that. Mercury
News subscribers paid just two ninety five. Previously happy readers

(25:50):
bristled at paying for something they'd been getting for free.
Then another reversal, the site dropped the fee in May
of nineteen ninety eight. Bob Ryan, Mercury News Deputy managing editor, said,
we gave away pretty much all of the content, and
the subscription was for a premium relationship that really didn't
get you much more of anything. And so we move

(26:13):
on in the article where it says the gap between
online and print ad valuations was massive, we weren't in
the right business. Back to the deputy editor Ryan, we
weren't in the business of retaining and amassing a really
substantial audience. Everybody tried to find an answer. The competition,
he realized, wasn't smarter people figuring out how to package

(26:35):
content online or even produce better newspaper type content. It
was Google. So this particular news outlet said the competition
was Google. Notice, now they're trying to find a place
to shoot an arrow. Where's our target? So they've now

(26:57):
settled on Google. As years passed, readers didn't flock to
a newspaper's website, they headed to Google or Facebook. Mercury
News and its peers were built on a simple but
effective idea, bundle a mix of international, national, local news
and sell it as a digital, digestible product. And then

(27:18):
we get to this, could anything have been done to
make Mercury Center more resonant? I don't think there's an
answer to that question. Has anyone discovered it? And that's
where I wrote and highlighted that entire sentence and wrote lol.
And the article ends with Mercury Center set a precedent
the news industry has yet to recover. In this entire analysis,

(27:44):
Pete misses everything. All that was needed to save online
news content was true, honest, objective online news content. The
dirty little secret is the people that buy, the people

(28:07):
that advertise, the people that sell, the people that make
an economy work at least fiscally. They're all conservative. Now
they might not be in their politics, but you won't
attract anyone with principle with a product that is totally

(28:30):
and completely in the tank to the left. And that's
what's missing in the analysis. Objective journalism, or the lack thereof,
is why the print media continues to suffer in America
and that has yet to figure it out. Five minutes

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past Monday, April seventh, on The Morning Show with Preston's Guy,
Good morning. I am Preston and he is Grant Allen.
Back in the house. How are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
How you been I've been pretty good other than the
whole feversick thing.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah, Brud, what do you know about the fifty fifty
one movement?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I did. This is the first I've heard it.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, there are rallies happening around the country.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Is that what those liberals are doing in these streets.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
In the state capitol here in Florida.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Some clips online about it.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
But but yeah, it's it's it's an interesting phenomenon. If
you go to the fifty fifty dot one website, fifty
protests fifty states one movement, and it is a peaceful movement.
Violence of any kind will not be tolerated. Well, of course,

(30:08):
because you're gathering amongst yourselves. It's when you people show
up at other people's parties. That's when you create the violence. Anyway.
The point is they don't like Trump, they don't like
any part of it. And I came across a piece
by Matt Vespa town hall and talking about these rallies,

(30:32):
he said, it's another massive coping exercise for those who
don't understand why they lost the twenty twenty four election.
The reality is that all these protests were in deep
blue enclaves. Now think about it. If you look at
where they're holding these they're holding it in Tallahassee, not
Panama City. They're not going to any part of any

(30:54):
state anywhere where there's a chance that they're going to
get a lot of counter protests. Did they do one
here or at old Job? No? No, No, they did
one over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I missed that.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I am. Wow, It's okay, Now, trust me, it's okay.
I'm going to go back to Vespa's article here, and
in a few moments, I'm going to share a classic
example of what we're dealing with. He said. Even here,
there's not much except for recycled chants and slogans that
don't work anymore. Yeah, no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's a classic that's been around since I was in college.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
And then there's Elon's rich because he steals from people.
The guy who posted that said, yeah, they've run out
of bleep to say, Yeah, notice where today's protests happened
and where they didn't. They were in deep blue cities
like Chicago, New York City, d C, Boston, but in
working class swing state communities, turnout was weak. There isn't

(31:56):
a national movement. It's libs working through the five stages
of grief. In a city where one point nine million
people voted for Kamala Harris, they found ten thousand to
march against Trump. Really incredible work, guys.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
So which stage of grief is this? Is this depression?
Is this denial? Is this anger?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I think this is anger? Okay, that's my mind, soul,
this is all that anger looks like. Cause you know, well,
but like I said, remember the summer of love. But
that's the thing. When they're just a bunkst themselves, they're fine,
they're gonna just rant, rave and make each other feel
better and give hugs. Yeah, but let a counter voice

(32:39):
show up, or if they show up at a group
of people that want to do just what they're doing,
the violence is where. That's when the violence breaks out
because they don't know how to have that argument. Now,
when we come back, there's a piece of audio, Well
it's video, but it's audio that you must. You must

(33:02):
here to appreciate how empty these protests are. And you
may recall last week I shared some intel about how
eighty one percent of the people that are pinging at
some of these rallies showed up at the Kamal rallies
because they've they've been able to pull cell phone hits

(33:25):
and combine. And you know with AI today you can
do that in seconds. And so there are people being
paid to go to these things all over the country.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Well, it looks like not all USA money was snatched up.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But I need you to hear what some of these
people think. Next ten past the hour, check of weather
and traffic here on the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Scott, consider him your truth detector. The Morning Show with
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Looking at some video from a year ago at Stanford University.
Queers for a Free Palestine. Oh the irony. If only
they went there and were as visible in public about
their queerness as they are here in America. What do
you think would happen? Yeah, yeah, do that in some

(34:28):
of these Muslim places. Let me know how that works
out for you anyway, This is a dude that that
has his somebody's recording, maybe it's him, and he goes
up to somebody guy holding a sign. There's, of course,
there's a few people with masks. That's why, you know,

(34:48):
it's a gathering of just them if it's if they're
protesting another gathering gathering there bunch of them are wearing masks.
In this case, there's just a handful wearing masks. And
this is not one of them, though. He's got his
sunglasses on and he's got a sign that says the
fascist Trump regime must go. And we begin, So.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
What what makes Trump a fascist?

Speaker 1 (35:18):
What makes Trump a fascist?

Speaker 6 (35:20):
Just just thinks without yeah, talk loud, I don't want
my micro Oh I'm not really do anyto Sorry, he
just doesn't. He just does everything he wants and not following.
Here's a he's a convicted fella, you know, That's all

(35:41):
I know.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
But your your sign says he's a fascist, And I'm
just curious what makes him a fascist? The media? Another guy,
another guy walks up here. Narrative, How is he trying
to control the media. Doesn't every president try to control
the narrative?

Speaker 7 (35:58):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (35:58):
They try to control their own narrator. But one of
the things that Thump's has done, for example, is the
renaming the you know, the Gulf of Mexico and then
not allowing the Associated press to come into the White
House basically, you know, trying to get what.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Are your feelings about him renaming the Gulf of Mexico
as the Golf of America when a majority of the
golf is in fact on the coast of America as
opposed to Mexico.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
I mean, it's kind of pointless.

Speaker 9 (36:23):
Uh people, Yeah, people call it the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Don't you think it could have a positive tourism impact?

Speaker 8 (36:29):
Potentially, Tourism has been down heavily, So.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I don't want to get into a tourism debate.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
My question is the sign says the fascist Trumpet regime
must go. Yeah, and so I'm just curious what making
them a fascist.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
He pointed out that maybe something about his relationship with
the media.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
You want, now, I want to pause this for just
a second to point out that the original guy who's
holding the sign is just kind of him and back
and forth, and and it's this other guy that walks
up and starts taking over the conversation because the first
guy's got nothing to say.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I was gonna say he sounded.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Fried. The first guy's just got his sunglasses on. Man,
he's just you know, that's what I mean. Like, and
the other guy clearly saw he was in trouble. But
he's not doing a really good job of defending his
ground here.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
To control it.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
But yeah, how again, let's you're specific.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
You're calling him a fascist. Yeah, well, well it makes
you more fascist.

Speaker 8 (37:19):
One of the core tenants of fascists in this creating
an enemy right and blaming the Times.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
What's that gave me?

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Who gave you that? People gave me the sign.

Speaker 6 (37:29):
It's a free sign.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
So this guy who gets the sign pulls out a
paper that tells him all of the things he's there
protesting for or against. He pulls it out. He says,
they gave you this paper. You know where I got
the free Sidney.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Someone gave you the sign and then they gave you
the handout.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
So are you reading it now.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
To see try to answer the question.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
I mean, I hold that.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I'm just curious.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
You can have it, I can have it, you can
have it, all right?

Speaker 1 (38:01):
So this so, where does he get the sign?

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Oh, all the way and the gates.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Okay, yeah, it was just pits. And that's another one.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
They gave you two pieces of favor.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
And I have that one too, yes, okay, So what
brings you.

Speaker 8 (38:16):
Guys out here today?

Speaker 6 (38:19):
Because I saw people were hanging out with people.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
He was just looking for people to hang out with.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
I saw people hang out and you know, and that
gave me a sign.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
It was free, most honest protester, right. But this is
what you're dealing with this. People don't even know why
they're angry. Be mad at the previous presidents and congresses
that haven't addressed the trade imbalance. Be mad at the

(38:52):
waste of your tax dollars. I mean, look at the
amount of tax that is that is collected, and for
what waste. Be mad at that sixteen passed.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
It's for sure, man, all right, as politically incorrect and
unkind as this will sound, and it might reflect very
poorly on me, I laughed at this.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
There's another video on this page in this story from
Matt Vespa and he writes and calls it your palette cleanser,
and it's a dude that's counter protesting these people. And
he has one of those metal detector wands, and he's

(39:55):
holding it towards the camera and walking in front of
this group of people, and it's just going beep beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep beep. And on the side facing the camera, on
this wand is a sticker he had made and it
says retard detector. So as he's walking down the line

(40:20):
and they can't see that, only he and the camera
can see it and anyone who might be behind him,
and it's going beep, beep, beep beep. That's funny. And again,
I know it's a little insensitive because we're not supposed

(40:40):
to use that word anymore. And I would never use
it to anybody who's truly challenged in in in any
kind of way. But but when it comes to that
type of protest and those type that type of thinking,
I'm all in. So the Supreme Leader of Iran alik Haamene.

(41:03):
You know what, they can't get past the Iatola. How
many from back in the day, the late seventies. He's
the original Iatola. I had told I, don't do that,
and I had told you not to do that. He's
the original bad guy. And so they're all like taking
the name after him, modifying it a little bit to
try to give themselves a little identity. So this guy says,

(41:28):
according to a newspaper, his newspaper, the Khan, about Trump,
he's way out of line. Any day now, in revenge
for the blood of Martyr Solomani, a few bullets are
going to be fired into that empty skull of his
and he'll be drinking from the chalice of a cursed death.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Well, they're having a normal one.

Speaker 7 (41:55):
Now.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Hey, hey, buddy, simmerdown, take a chill pill. Now, keep
in mind, this is how they do things. This is
how they almost got Solomon Rushti killed. Rushti lost his
eye and has permanent I think liver and kidney damage

(42:16):
from a dude that listened to the rhetoric because the
Iranian regime was upset at Solomon Rushti's book these satanic verses,
I think it is, and put out a contract on him, basically,
And so some dude in New York shows up and
stabs him, nearly killed him. But there are allegedly Iranian

(42:42):
squads in this country that want to kill Trump. I
want to step away from that specific and look broadly
at this is the problem that the Iranians and some
hardline Islamas have. You can't just say things like that.

(43:05):
You can't say We're gonna wipe Israel off the map.
You can't do that and then say we think we
should have a nuclear program for the development of our
of our nation's energy grid. No, sorry, you have forfeited
the responsible to the adult cards. So now you get

(43:26):
to sit at the children's table until you show that
you can act like an adult. These kind I mean,
this is the head of a state threatening to have
murdered another head of state. Now you can say that
behind closed doors all day long. You cannot say that
publicly and expect that, Oh, I don't know, the United

(43:51):
States is going to take kindly to it. And so
I wanted this to be on your radar. I wanted
you to be aware when you read about the United
States taking very seriously the Hoho thies and taking actions
to shut them down and to bomb them into their

(44:11):
version of paradise, and you perhaps will see maybe a
covert action by somebody in Iran. You'll understand why you
can't say things like this. You just can't. There are repercussions,
and so it's just I just thought it was important

(44:33):
for you to be aware that the threat was made
and don't think that they're not trying to either inspire
or they in fact do have people that have been
in this country for a while that they got in
through the borders prepared to take the action. Twenty seven
minutes past the hour here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(44:56):
Half hour from now, sal Neuzo from Consumers to Fence
will join us in studio legislative look at the fifth
week of the session and a look ahead to the sixth.
Just a few minutes way back to Joe Camp's healthy expectations.
So we've got a Florida man arrested. He will remain
nameless for threatening to kill Trump. He's a Florida man

(45:21):
in two regards Jupiter, Florida and because it's a Florida
man thing to do to actually go ahead and write
down and post on social media your intention to kill
the president of the United States. What a rube? I
mean that that's just that's a level of dumb.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
That's what we call fed posting, the type of post
that'll get the FEDS on you. Okay, that's that's a yeah.
So word to the wise, don't go on Facebook and
fed post, never fed post.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Steer clear yep of fed posting. Correct that, ladies and gentlemen.
The familiar voice of Grant Allen Hey back here in
the in the program is in your mind? Is there
any bigger story right now than the amount of attention
that's being generated on the tariffs? That's the one. That's

(46:17):
everything I'm seeing yet, and it has to be because
of the the impact worldwide. Sure, I mean, you've got
the markets that are reacting and oh, by the way,
the markets needed something to shock it because it's the
markets have been overvalued for years. And I personally, I

(46:37):
don't think there's a drawback that's enough that we're going
to see to really correct the market.

Speaker 7 (46:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
I know that wasn't the intent of the tariffs, but
but we did discuss the reality that and I thought,
and I don't know if you've you get a chance
to catch much of the show. I've the more i've
I've gone into the year, I feel like the idea
of telling people that Trump is moving into a home

(47:05):
that has been gutted by squatters for four years, and
that we're in the process right now of dealing with
a disaster, and it wasn't going to be easy. And
I think the model, the analogy works. What is doge.
Doge is ripping the drywall off. We're exposing just how

(47:26):
bad everything is. Then you got to fix it, and
it's just not going to be fun.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I saw someone, particularly on the tariffs, say that, oh,
look that you know, in just a couple of days,
Trump caused two trillion dollars to evaporate, you know, from
the New York stock market. And one of the replies
to the comment was, did not occur to you that
potentially that these numbers were way inflated, potentially artificial, that

(47:56):
you can just poof two trillion dollars gone in value
overnight and by and large, you know, your life is
probably okay. Like that, like that's a degree of fakeness, yep,
And like the house built of fake materials that we're
dealing with here.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
I've got two posts that I reposted on our ex page.
One is liberals on X with seventeen dollars and eighty
six cents in their savings account, twelve credit cards, maxed
out a twenty three percent interest ten year car loan
with an eighteen percent interest rate, a thirty year mortgage
with no money down on a seven point eight percent
interest rate. Want you to know why the self made

(48:41):
billionaire president's tariffs won't work and why the richest man
on the planet doesn't know how to cut waste and abuse.
The second post is this the question no Democrat can answer.
If tariffs are so bad for an economy, why do
one hundred and seventy countries have tariffs on the US products?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
And as if they haven't been used historically rather successfully,
you know in the United States economic policy to keep
the home fires burning. It's it's a fact they've been
used before.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
And guess what Trump did it before. And guess what
happened After a little bit of turmoil, The markets jumped
right back up. This is so vitally important to correct
a one point two trillion dollar annual trade deficit. And

(49:33):
what I want you to think about is one point
two trillion that moves from our country to other countries
around the world, most notably China. That's a redistribution of wealth.
We don't mind people in America getting wealthy, but taking
the money from America to make the Chinese chi cooms wealthy,

(49:55):
not a good plan. Forty minutes past the hour, come
back with doctor Joe on the Morning show Preston Scott's
They're gonna get them?

Speaker 7 (50:07):
Which knock knock?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Who's that?

Speaker 7 (50:09):
On w f L A.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Forty one minutes past the hour, Doctor Joe Camps joins
us on Mondays with some healthy expectations. At least we
ought to have them, doctor Camps. I don't know if
we all do, but we ought to, well, we ought to.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
But I tell you what, right now, the big green
monster is in full force. So if my voice is
a little raspy, you can think that you can thank
the Parliament. I need a man of hist to means
of cortico steroids or something. But it's pretty thick out
there right now. But you know, like the world today,
I mean, we've got our challenges in healthcare. A few

(50:48):
things I thought about what's on the mind of our
audience and others that are living around us. Well, the
rising costs, I mean, healthcare is becoming almost unaffordable, the
financial challenges for providers. It's costing providers a lot more
money to deliver goods and services. Then there's also a
critical shortage of all types of professionals from positions to

(51:11):
nurses to technicians, on and on and on the need
for improve mental health and the increasing demand for personalized care.
You know, as the baby boomers are now starting, like myself,
starting a need assistance going forward, there's going to be
a large demand for that. And one of the issues
that we've dealt with it we start don't like to

(51:34):
talk about it is uncomfortable, but we've had issues even
locally with big data and cybersecurity issues. But you know,
the one thing that gives me a little bit of
a ray of hope and I'm really excited about it
is that there's a virtual healthcare revolution and we're looking
now for AI and other technologies to emerge so that

(51:57):
it may not be necessary to go to to see
the doctor at the office or spend time at the hospital.
And what I'm looking at is how we're going to
integrate innovation into healthcare now. A part of this, you know,
when I think about Sir William Osler and he says,

(52:19):
you know, first, do no harm, and you know, the
laying of hands, the touch, the human element of healthcare
certainly is very valuable. And as we look at technology
and the integration of that. I'm quite concerned to see
how healthcare is perceived in the future, if it's just

(52:39):
a commodity or if it's something that's going to be
something different. But I'm not sure we've established that. But
I'm certainly keeping my eyes and ears open. And things
are moving and changing very fast, so pressing. We got
to keep up. I don't know if I can keep
running as hard as I need to to keep up. Certainly,

(53:00):
we're meeting lots of challenges in the healthcare industry these days.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Joe, do you see a time when let's just let's
go ahead and target the Food and Drug Administration will
allow AI to prescribe somebody an antibiotic.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
I think it's it's it's it's possible. I'm not gonna
say it's not. I mean, if I looked at what's
happened in the atmosphere with all of the rockets, I mean,
I think anything is possible. But certainly it's I think.
You know, I think if you've got the database to
analyze this, that's going to be important, because you know,

(53:39):
healthcare is a changing environment. It's never the same, it's
always moving, it's fluid. So can you integrate AI with
the fluidity and the transition that happens in healthcare, sometimes
on a daily basis, sometimes sometimes on an hour and
an hour basis. So how that integration occurs, I think,

(54:00):
dear remains to be a challenge.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Doctor Camp, thanks for the time today, my friend. Uh,
I'm going to tell you right now, the pollen's getting better.
Though it's getting better.

Speaker 7 (54:08):
I'm loving the rain. This is the one time I
love to see it rain, to watch this stuff away.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
So there you go. Present, Thank you, Sarah, you as well,
Doctor Joe Camps with us. Could you imagine, you know,
if you got to a place where AI was allowed
to prescribe you certain medications, then the FDA is going
to have to turn certain medications into basically over the
counter because AI is just going to take what you
tell it to prescribe. And there's certain drugs you cannot

(54:36):
allow AI to prescribe based on just I'm feeling this way,
give me something.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
I think the projection of being an AI manager of
some sort is likely kind of the way forward exactly
how that goes. It's like if you're the pharmacist handing
out the drugs too. Uh, people, you've got to be
monitoring that close.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Boy, No kidd, forty six minutes past the hours The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. You know, I was all set to
talk about this article in The Federalists by Richard Cromwell

(55:23):
called if you're hysterical about Trump, Tariff's go touch grass,
and it's worth talking about, but it has been nudged
out by what has gone viral, and it's the video
of the charter boat captain. Oh yeah, and there's some
interesting little things inside this story. Now have you seen

(55:47):
the video. I haven't seen the video. I want to
say I saw it in my feed.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
I've heard people talk about it. I've seen some articles
about it.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
But it appears it appears as though a charter boat
captain with three dudes on the boat with him that
I guess ostensibly is taking fishing, apparently comes across a
boater that he thinks did something wrong or whatever. And

(56:16):
when the guy, this young kid, says no, it wasn't me,
you're mistaken, I didn't do anything like that, the charter
boat captain loses his mind, jumps on this guy's boat,
takes control. I mean just threatens. I mean, and it's
all on tape, and the guy crossed so many lines.

(56:39):
He got arrested and his facing multiple felonies. Now he's
losing his business over this. People are canceling reservations left
and right. It's it's a disaster for this guy. But
there's another little wrinkling here that could be very, very interesting.

(57:00):
And a listener just pointed out to me. Richard sends
me this note and he said, the focus of the article,
and so Fox News article was on the encounter, but
I saw something in the suspect attorney's statement that caught
my eye. And Andy, he said, and I read this statement,
but it didn't jump out to me. But now that

(57:22):
I'm seeing this, the guy clearly has PTSD to the
charter boat captain. But here was the little nugget. According
to his attorney, he's one hundred percent disabled. Uh oh,

(57:45):
you just put on video that you are one hundred
percent abled, that you're jumping from one boat to another.
I don't know what the claim of disability is, but
how does one become a charter boat captain if you're
quote one hundred percent disabled And if you're one hundred

(58:07):
percent disabled aren't you collecting something? Is this a side hustle?
I mean, my point is I don't have all the answers.
I just got a bunch of questions, like Richard who
wrote me. But it would appear that there's at least
the potential of some kind of fraud going on with

(58:29):
our charter boat captain. Yeah, that's wild, right, But it's this,
This is why you read the story. You read the
story because you sometimes find things and you remember this.
We sometimes wait on stories around here, right, because the

(58:51):
first crack of the egg doesn't reveal necessarily everything. It
doesn't get the whole egg out. It just cracked the
shell and you get a little bit of but you're
not sure if you got a double yoke in there
till you open up that egg and the and and
what's interesting about this story is and I feel bad
for the guy. He lost it and had a very

(59:13):
bad moment, very bad. I'm not minimizing or or making
small of what he did. He's going to face likely
some very severe punishments, and he's likely lost his business.
But is he also engaged in fraud? And did his

(59:33):
attorney just accidentally bust that open? Because it is fair
to ask, if you're one hundred percent disabled one percent,
what are you doing looking like? You know, Jack Sparrow
jumping from one ship to the other, right, but you

(59:59):
have heard of exactly. Oh my goodness, let's come back, Salnuso.
Hour three of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's

(01:00:22):
the third hour of the Morning Show with President Scott.
The band is back together. I'm Preston. He is Grand
Allen in Studio one A running the program today. He's
our he's our designated producer today the DP as opposed
to the DH which we hope to have him back

(01:00:43):
doing sometime soon. And joining me in studio is Salnuso
of Consumer's Defense And it's our legislative update. And we
are through five weeks now of the session.

Speaker 9 (01:00:53):
Yeah, we have passed the halfway point, and I'd like
to say it's all downhill from here, but I have
no clue at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
If I were to ask you from a productivity standpoint
grade at A through F, where are we at? It's
a great question. I'd probably say a C plus. Maybe
did we get spoiled from the previous few years? And
I mean historically speaking, were we spoiled or were the
last few years what they should have been.

Speaker 9 (01:01:23):
I would suggest that the last two years under Speaker
Paul Renner, we were incredibly spoiled, Okay, and we were
incredibly spoiled because we had a governor and a legislature
that were lockstep. They were aligned, and they were these
are the priorities, this is the agenda, this is the
direction that we want to move the state. We are
going to do it, and they did it, and we

(01:01:44):
have returned more toward the norm. Yeah, I don't know
that I want to call it the norm because we're
all in the same party and some of the dialogue
and so well, in some of the debate and dialogue,
I would push back a little bit because we are

(01:02:04):
in many respects, but the dialogue has become a little
bit more public than I would that I'm comfortable with.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
But yes, and.

Speaker 9 (01:02:16):
We'll get to this when we talk tax proposals, I think.
But yes, we are all in the same party. Yes
we are having what would traditionally be a very healthy
debate about agenda and pathways forward.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
And yes, some stuff falls off, some stuff gets put on.
But yeah, I would go a C. Plus, we are
dealing with the legislative session, but you still have to
kind of start with the executive and the governor.

Speaker 9 (01:02:40):
Yeah, and the really in the last week he's become
a lot more vocal in what I you know, some
may call he's gone on offense. I would say he's
kind of tactically playing a little bit more defense because
he's having to respond to what the House, in particular
the House is doing, and so he challenged him. There

(01:03:04):
was a press event or something where he challenged a
number of bills that were moving, specifically called out the
effort to reverse many of the tort reforms that passed
back in twenty twenty three. He also highlighted a bill
that is kind of in my purview professionally and is
really concerning to me, and that's to set up a
task Force on Carbon c Questration, which is like this

(01:03:26):
kind of pseudo technology to try and quote unquote capture
carbon emissions before they damage the climate. And it's really
kind of what I would suggest is something like that
is playing policy on the field that the Left dictates
the rules. And so those are the things where he's

(01:03:47):
kind of pointed out, and he actually had a pretty
pointed quote. He said, what I've seen so far out
of the Florida House or Representatives. They're not trying to
step on the left's throat. They're giving a lifeline to
the Democratic Party. They're giving a lifeline to the left. Now,
that's pretty forceful language. It's not something we would traditionally see,
even when you're having differences on policy between the chambers

(01:04:10):
and the governor's office and so, but.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
In this particular case, on that particular issue, he's on
the money on that particular issue, he's spot on one
hundred percent.

Speaker 9 (01:04:20):
That bill is a trojan horse and it's not something
that I would ever have envisioned a very conservative legislature
moving through. And it's it's gotten hearings in both chambers,
and so that's where you know, if it's moving in
one chamber and not another, and we expect it's just
going to die.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
You know, it's one thing. But that's definitely the case
with that one. All right, Salnwzo with us from Consumer's Defense.
We've got a lot to talk about this hour as
we catch you up on what's been going on in
the legislative session, and we're doing it here in the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with

(01:05:03):
Preston Scott Backwards sald Erzo eleven passed the hour. We're
taking a look at the fifth week of the legislative session.
So we're past the halfway mark. We all, I think
most people know, unless they're new to the state of Florida,

(01:05:24):
there is one mandate they have, and that is to
have a balanced budget. They've got to do that. The
rest is gravy. So where are they in the budget process?

Speaker 9 (01:05:33):
Yeah, so one constitutional requirement passed, not just a budget,
but a balance budget. The House Incentate both moved their
proposals through the Appropriations committee, and that's the kind of
the first step in getting to what we call the
conferencing process, which is where they come together and negotiate
out all of the details.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Let me ask you a question. They're four billion dollars
apart right now. Is put some historical context to that?
Is that about right? Is that normal? Is that different?

Speaker 9 (01:05:58):
It's a little bit more in how to look back
over the years, it's a little bit more than we've
seen traditionally between them. Sometimes it's it's two billion, Sometimes
it can it's gotten as highst.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Three.

Speaker 9 (01:06:09):
I don't know that I've ever seen a four billion
dollar gap. But I did take a look at where
they're kind of what they're looking at and why there
is such a difference, and so a couple of things.
First off, you've got the House at one hundred and
thirteen billion and the Senate at one hundred and seventeen
and some change. So one of the differences is the

(01:06:30):
Senate proposal would do away with about one thousand full
time positions in state government that have been vacant, and
I think they've been vacant for ninety days. And so
the House side is eliminating seven thousand positions that have
been vacant, but they've been vacant for I think one
hundred days or more. So you've got a piece of that.

(01:06:51):
The Senate's proposed a four percent pay increase for state employees.
The House doesn't have anything on that side. But the
big deal in this, and where I know we're going
to talk about the tax proposals, is the House has
the sales tax base reduction, the rate reduction from six
percent to five point twenty five percent in their budget bill,

(01:07:13):
and the Senate does not yet have anything in there,
and so that's creating this kind of big gulf between
the two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
If any discussion circled around the Department of Corrections, because
of all the agencies, there's an agency there that is
it's staffing is dependent on populations that they have zero
control over. And I know that Corrections has seven eight
thousand more inmates in its system, but they don't have
more positions and their concerns there. It's a real good question.

Speaker 9 (01:07:45):
The answer is right now, I don't know, but it's
absolutely something that will be subsequent to this week. Very
easy to kind of dive in on it and get
a sense of kind of unpacking where is the House
on Public Safety and Corrections? Where is the Senate and
where are the specific gaps there? And we can definitely
do that in a future maybe next Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Okay, So as we're looking at the tax proposals, now, sure,
what are you seeing?

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
So?

Speaker 9 (01:08:13):
Last week the House Ways and Means Committee did pass
the House tax plan, and that includes the Speaker's proposal
for a permanent reduction as I mentioned, from six to
five point two five percent. It does not include anything
on the local options. So like here in Leon County,
I think we have three of them, which takes our

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rate from six.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
It's a max. Yeah, it's at the max.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:08:37):
And the reason for that is they can those are
local options, so they would have to go to a
constitutional amendment to ban those, and they're not going to
do that. In addition, sales tax holidays are currently not
in the tax bill, so in the Speaker's proposal, which
is now a bill that's moving, they're shifting from from

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what we've traditionally done, which is out locating a month
forced back to school sales tax and all of these
other things, and they're just reducing the rate, which on
the whole I'm in favor of. So now I haven't
looked at the math on how much is saved in
those holidays versus what they're proposing and all of that,
but that does I like that part. However, it's a

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big contrast to what the governor's proposing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
I know that merchants hate the sales tax holidays, yep,
because it causes a disruption to the normal flow of
buying and selling. Absolutely, and when you compare that to
what the governor's proposing, it is a stark difference.

Speaker 9 (01:09:39):
It is a stark difference. And the governor wants to
eliminate property taxes altogether.

Speaker 7 (01:09:44):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
He also acknowledges that it would to get there, it
would require a ballot amendment. It have to be a
constitutional deal, which would be on the twenty twenty six ballot.
So in lieu of that, he's called on the legislature
to include in the budget and tax bills a thousand
dollar do rebate to all homesteaded property owners this year.

(01:10:04):
That is not currently in the House tax bill. So
you've got competing proposals. They're going to have to agree
on what goes to the governor. But really important in
this is the Senate President ben elum I was going
to ask. He did state in the press conference he
wants the best tax relief possible, but he did express

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some concern that the pace of the debate is going
in a direction that he thinks they may need to
pull back and in the yearn orm period, which is
shorter this time because session starts in January, we can
work through a big tax cut back both of them,
vet both of them. And you're also passing a huge

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tax cut in an election year, which I think is
a great political strategy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
Sixteen almost seventeen past the hour. More to come with
Sale news O Consumer's defense here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott twenty two minutes SALNWSA with me from
Consumers Defense. So we were talking about the different tax
proposals and that that really kind of swings us right
back to the budget in that in one way or

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another it addresses and speaks to what kind of government
we're going to have in its size. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:11:16):
Now, one thing I wanted to kind of point out,
You've got both chambers talking very aggressively publicly and in
committee hearing about the need to have transparency and accountability,
but also to cut the size of government and eliminate
wasteful spending and yes, absolutely laudable goals. We should always

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be looking to do that, and it really should be
an evergreen process. It should be something that the legislature
is doing all this. It's the philosophy of Florida governance,
lean and mean. However, I do want to point this out,
Florida's state budget per capita is the leanest in the
United States. We spend less per capita at the state

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level than any other state in the country. It's just
an objective fact, and so well, I think at the
federal level, especially when you start talking about Doze and
all the money going and the corruption and grift, and
it's at levels unfathomable trillions of dollars at the state level,
which at heart, I'm a federalist. The states created the

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federal government, the states create the local government. The state
should be, in my opinion, supreme in terms of governing
at the state level. I really hope we do not
get so hung up on cutting that we end up
excising more than just waste and fraud, and we end
up inadvertently doing even some political damage because we've cut

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money in ways that make state operations go in a
poor direction.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
I'm going to borrow from something that I learned thirty
five forty years ago, and it was if you put
efficiency in a front of effectiveness, you lose every single
time you find effective, then you find the most efficient
way to do it. What I hear you saying and
correct me if I'm wrong, is if we get too
focused on being efficient, we lose the ability to be effective.

Speaker 9 (01:13:16):
Yeah, And to their credit, I think you can't. You
can't deny the fact that we have done governing really,
really well for the last fifteen twenty years. As long
as I've been really in policy work, but that pendulum
can swing, and it can swing fast. Yeah, And that is,

(01:13:36):
to use a phrase that we've used a couple of
times in prior weeks, it's how you lose a super majority.
It could be eventually how you lose a majority. We've
got to do governing good as well as efficient.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
As much as Tariff's is a hot button topic in
the nation right now, insurance is the topic in the state.

Speaker 9 (01:13:56):
Yeah, And there are a lot of items going on
in that two things that I think I'm going to highlight,
one of which is something I've not seen happen in
all my years. So back in twenty twenty three to
the level set, we had comprehensive tort reform measures and
they passed because the governor put a whole lot of
political capital into getting the chambers to move on it

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because tort excessive litigation was driving insurance premiums up. So
you fast forward a couple of years, we've got a
couple of bills moving that would completely reverse that course.
So you've got HB fifteen fifty one, that's one of them,
and it's being carried by one of the members who
was actually elected as a Democrat. Then switched parties. She's

(01:14:40):
also an attorney who represents individuals suing insurance companies. Yeah,
it's still moving and only has one more committee stop
in the House. The Senate hasn't heard a companion in
a single committee, and normally, in a traditional year, I would.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Say, well, that means it's dead.

Speaker 9 (01:14:57):
You never know this year if there's going to be
some kind of horse trade that puts this one in
play late in the game.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:15:04):
The wild one, however, is HB nine to forty seven.
Now this is really wonky. It's about what evidence juries
can hear in assessing damages in some of that litigation. Now,
I don't want to get too granular, but it's It
definitely reverses course from twenty twenty three. It made it
all the way to the House floor, but then the

(01:15:25):
former Speaker, Paul Renner, he sends out a post on
X weighing in against this bill, and subsequently the House
voted to pull the bill back and send it to committee. Now,
I don't know if one caused the other, or if
there was something that may have been already in a
tight spot, but that one was a new one, even

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for me.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
When we come back We're going to touch on auto
insurance and what's going on in the session regarding to
auto insurance, some ballot initiatives, and some work behind the
scenes on how we get ballot initiatives. We'll get to
all that still to come with Sal Newso of Consumer's
Defense here on the Morning Show. It's the Morning Show

(01:16:10):
with Preston Scott. All Right, it's rainy in the region.
Be safe as you are driving, and it's gonna be
with us for the day, but it's gonna beautiful the
rest of the week. I'm personally excited that it's cooling
down a little bit. That's great. Master's week, got that
to look forward to. You've got some great blogs up
coming this week, including one today on the concessions at

(01:16:32):
Augusta National. It's a great blog. Check it out on
the website. Salnuso with me from Consumers Defense. And you've
been to Augusta National.

Speaker 9 (01:16:40):
I have not, I have got, but I have gotten
that rejection letter every year for about twenty years.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
On the show. You put yourself in the lottery. Oh yeah, yeah,
I've entered the lottery for the first time. I'm going
to do that this year. I hope you're okay with
rejection because it happens every year. What if I told
you I turned down an opportunity to play Augusta National,
I would say, you're probably clinically insane. I know, I know.

(01:17:07):
It's one of the it's one of the most depressing
things that I've I think about. From that, I don't
even want another story because it'll probably make me mad.
Let's talk. Let's talk about something instead that's that's equally infuriating,
but not just to me. Auto insurance. Let's spread the misery. Yeah,
auto insurance. Let's talk about something that that's yeah. Yeah,
So what can they do? What can the legislature do

(01:17:28):
to address auto insurance and its rates? Well, let's set
the stage on what the status quo is. So, we
currently have what's called a no fault system, which means
every driver has to have personal injury protection called PIP
PIP coverage to cover the medical expenses and lost wages
after an accident, regardless of who is at fault. And

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so you don't have, in Florida a way to sue
for non economic damages, pain and suffering. Most states don't
have the system, but most dates do not have the
issues with trial attorneys and excessive litigation and all of
the furmalist towards. You know, a lot of it goes
down to the rules on attorneys' fees and who pays

(01:18:13):
them and when and all of the little nuances within
Florida that have evolved over time. But they've evolved, and
so we have this system.

Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
And so there have been some efforts to move to
what's called a negligence based system, which is repealing PIP,
but they haven't really addressed the underlying issues on the
litigation and the attorney's fees and all of that. So
repealing PIP without that would, by necessity, those rates would

(01:18:44):
go even higher. So the legislature a couple of sessions ago,
I think they did pass a bill and send it
to Governor DeSantis, and he vetoed it. He said the
rates would go up if this bill were to go
in in its current form. But they are trying again.
So the House is moving a bill. The Senate companion
bill has not been heard yet, but I do believe

(01:19:06):
it will be. And this week I've seen a ton
of activity on social media from like big conservative Trump
influencer types trying to push this House bill across the
finish line, and so you have this kind of framing
and it's set up to be something where they may
try to push it toward the governor and he would

(01:19:28):
have to explain a veto again if he does, which
if it's in its current form, I would say he's
in the right on vetoing it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
But time will tell on that ballot initiatives.

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
Yeah, this is a big one because this is a
problem and it's always been the case as far as
I've been here doing policy work.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
And by problem you mean too easy to amend Florida's
constitutional exactly. Okay, So the full House did pass HB
twelve oh five from Jenni Person's malca. It would further
restrict that process, the citizen's initiative process, and I think
it's worth a deep dive. So Florida has more ways
to amended state constitution than any other state. It's five

(01:20:07):
of them that You've got, the citizens' initiative, the legislative initiative,
those two are the most common. You also have the
Constitutional Revision Commission, the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, and
you have the option for a constitutional convention. The CRC
and the TBRC. They meet every twenty years, so you
never have to really worry about them except in a
small setting. The citizen initiative process has effectively been hijacked

(01:20:31):
over the years. We did increase the threshold from fifty
to sixty percent into Florida Chambers, but it's still in
the kind of it's something where wealthy special interests are
able to hijacket and get initiatives on the ballot by
investing tens of millions of dollars. And so Jenna Person's

(01:20:54):
Malka's bill would tighten that. There is a proposed committee
bill from Senator Don Gates to kind of mirror that.
It's get its first hearing in the coming in this week,
and so I'm paying a lot of attention because this
is really a big deal. I just like that they're
tightening down on how and who can get signatures.

Speaker 9 (01:21:14):
Yeah, and so things like you've got to post a
million dollar bond, you can't hold on to signatures for
a month, You've got to round checks. There is one
piece of it that I worry about, the constitutionality of it,
and it requires you. It prohibits anyone from out of
state from being a signature collector. That gives me a

(01:21:34):
little bit of heartburn in terms of where litigation might
be concentrated.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
But all told, this bill is a good move for
a state to take morisal news Oh next twenty two
minutes past the hour sale Newso with me, we're going
to run a minute late here in this segment. But
that's just fine because it's important and you need to
know technology. What's being talked about in the session dealing

(01:22:01):
with tech that we ought to be aware. Yeah, so
there is a lot moving in the tech space.

Speaker 9 (01:22:05):
You've got a number of bills, a couple of that
I think are important to highlight. The most visible one
is HB seven forty three. It would it would provide
for further restrictions on social media for minors, particularly in
the fourteen and fifteen year old I think are the
thirteen and fourteen year old age rans. The new piece

(01:22:27):
would mandate that parents or legal guardians of miners under
sixteen years of age would have access to all messages
exchanged by their children. It would also perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Mandate that it's it's dicey. I mean that just seems unenforceable.

Speaker 9 (01:22:48):
Potentially, it would also permit law enforcement officers to access
a miner's messages relevant to any investigation, provided that they
have obtained consent from the conm pairent, a guardian or
secure to warrant. And it would also prohibit minors from
using or accessing messages that are designed to disappear or

(01:23:09):
self destruct. And you have these programs I think like
Snapchat and Signal and others that. Yeah, and so I
understand the intent. But to your point on enforceability, I
think there's also in the same way that HB three,
which was the one from last session or two sessions

(01:23:33):
ago that's tied up in litigation, I think this one
would likely also get litigated. It's a It's one of
those ones where I think I want to applaud the
legislature for taking it on, because you know, it's something
that we need to address.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
I just don't think the government should be addressing. I
just don't know how. And I'm and I'm with you.
I'm with you on this. I mean, yeah, the only
way this could be look dat sal and I hate
to belabor this, but would be for the kids' messages
to automatically appear on the parent's phone.

Speaker 9 (01:24:08):
And the tech companies and the folks who kind of
advocate for them and their trade associations would point out
that there are dozens of tools out there and they
advertise them to parents that will allow parents to have
controls over what their kids see. That would immediately allow

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them the ability to get all of those messages and
see them. And like I said, it's one where as
a parent, I understand the dilemma. I understand the intent
of the legislature wanting to figure out what the most
appropriate mechanism is. This one, it gives me a little
bit more heartburn.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
All right. Some other notable bills quickly.

Speaker 9 (01:24:52):
Twelve to fifty five Employment of Minors. It would allow
kids sixteen to eighteen to have more flexibility in the
hours that they can work. It's moving two thirty four
in the Senate side, increase penalties for killing a law
enforcement officer. Tom Lee could pull the bill from the
floor to address something called the good faith standard language
to help get it through. He had the votes before,

(01:25:13):
but he wanted more. It passed the full Senate HJR.
Six Seven to nine term limits for municipal officers. It's
moving closer to getting on the ballot in twenty twenty six.
Eleven four, codifying the Hope Florida Program, finally passed a
Senate committee. The House has moved it through one stop,

(01:25:33):
so they're putting it into a posture where they will.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
See getting a lot of scrutiny from the media in
the state.

Speaker 9 (01:25:39):
It is indeed, and like you said last week, the
best way to ensure transparency and accountability is codify it,
and so I think they're recognizing that in their moving it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
What's coming up this week?

Speaker 9 (01:25:51):
This week you've got today a big Commerce Committee hearing
at three o'clock a couple of the notable bills five
forty one the minimum way requirements where you would have
some training wage opportunities. I think it's really really needed,
along with nine fifty five closing at least one of
the everified loopholes. Bernie Jocks has got the bill there.

(01:26:14):
Good enough, it's a good start.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
I got good enough. Let's keep moving good enough.

Speaker 9 (01:26:20):
Tomorrow at eight am, you've got an Education Committee meeting
with House Bill one twenty three allowing the conversion of
low performing schools to be turned into charter schools. And
I really like this kind of innovative idea. You've got
the State Affairs Committee hearing HB six seventy nine on
term limits, So that's continuing to move. And then you've

(01:26:41):
got Tuesday and Wednesday the really big rules committees fiscal policy,
where you have all of those bills that have got
to get their final stop marathon length bills. Those are
starting to move, and some really really long floor sessions
where they're getting bills ready for what they call the
second and third reading where they pass them through with

(01:27:02):
full chamber boats.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
All right, we'll stop there, we will, we will continue
on next Monday. We'll adjourn on Monday.

Speaker 9 (01:27:10):
There are there are still days until the end. Thank you,
always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
Sunder's out with Consumers Defense forty eight pass. Final segment
of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
All right, Grant Europe, I'm fixing a fire this one
to eighty and just start recapping it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
I'm going to read a headline from one of your
favorite sites in the world, not the Beat. Okay, this
dude just got deported for the fortieth time. Man, No,
that is not a typo. Following a recent ice raid
in Texas, and illegal from Mexico ended up being deported
from the United States for wait for it, the fortieth time,

(01:28:02):
thirty six year old thirty six and he's been deported
forty times? How does that happen? How is it that?
I mean, look, I'm all about giving people chances. Hey,
you made a mistake, you paid your debt to society.

(01:28:24):
Now let's go forward, let's move on. But I'm thinking
if someone broke into my house forty times, he might
be categorized as a habitual offender and been given, oh,
I don't know, twenty thirty years to think about his
life choices. At this point, you know, I would be

(01:28:44):
all in favor of welcoming him into the United States
for a twenty to forty years stay in one of
our wonderful federal facilities. What do you think.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Forty times is hard to that's hard to, hard to top?

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
How do you fit it into your daytimer?

Speaker 7 (01:29:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
You know, April fifth must break into country thirty ninth time.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
I wonder what his like employer timesheet looks like?

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Yeah, zero is there's not again, there's nothing question marks. Yeah,
Jose Manuelda did not show up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
I'm from Is he a Mexican national?

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
Mexican? Okay, Mexican. He's just and he just keeps coming over.

Speaker 10 (01:29:33):
We there there can be other methods employed, but brought
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Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
I just figured that was the best way to just
cue the end. YEP, good to have you back today,
Good to be back. This was fun.

Speaker 7 (01:29:58):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
If I'd have known you were coming back, I would
have just crafted time to say, Graham, Allen Tallahassee go
just let me roll with it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely don't
need to reset the show. That's why we have a podcast.
And when I'm undisciplined and run segments along, there's just

(01:30:22):
no point in rewracking the show in one hundred and
eighty seconds. I will tell you, however, that we started
the program with Galatians two twenty. I sometimes I remember
to say that how we started the show. I don't
know if you know this. We got two new podcasts
we're rolling. We're going to roll a new podcast with

(01:30:43):
our devotionals that we packaged together called The Day Starter.
Then we're going to do a good news kind of
the brighter side of our good news segments each week.
But until that time, friends, back with you tomorrow, have
an awesome day. Stay dry,