Ep. 5357: Another day, another would- be assassin.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for  Monday, April 14th.

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




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Let's do this Monday on the Morning Show with Preston's
Guy in Morning Friends, April fourteenth. He's Jose I am
Preston Show fifty three fifty seven, and off we go.
We'll get to more historical notes for this date in
just a few minutes. But first, it is Holy Week
and it is the first of our we'll take a

(00:29):
little special deep dive into the chronology of the week.
And last week we talked about the triumphal entry of
Christ into Jerusalem, and the seeds of resentment of the
crowd started to get sown right there as Jesus comes

(00:50):
into Jerusalem, they're laying down cloaks on the ground. Why
because that's what you do for your king. But their
expectation was a warrior king, someone that was going to
finally put Rome in its place, that was going to
lead the nation in battle. And immediately you have a

(01:18):
conundrum the expectations versus the reality. They wanted a king.
Jesus came as a savior, as a messiah, bigger than
a king, more important than a king. And so we

(01:40):
get to Monday, the day after the triumph he enters
into Jerusalem. He spends the night in the village of Bethany.
He retreated from Jerusalem, went to Bethany, hung out at
the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Lazarus he had
just raised for the dead. Monday morning, a morning like this,

(02:14):
He's approaching Jerusalem once again, and he sees a fig tree.
It's out of season at this point for the fig
tree to have figs, but it had leaves, and Jesus
was using that tree to make a point, and he
cursed it. See figs have been representative of Israel for years,

(02:41):
and the leaves having the appearance of oh, look at me,
but no fruit. And so Jesus arrives in Jerusalem. And
the first place he goes, and this account is written
of in Matthew, it is written of in Mark. The

(03:05):
first place he goes is the Temple. He didn't go
to have a meeting with the Roman officials say hey, hey,
about this treatment of the Jews. He went to the
heart of worship of the Jews, the Temple, because that

(03:34):
was the place set aside for Jewish worship. And what
he found disgusted him, and he got angry. He came
to inspect the worship that should have been going on,
and what he found was a shopping mall, one that
took advantage of the poor among the use. Jesus still

(04:04):
comes to inspect the fruit of the vineyard, to check
the fruit on the tree. What does he find when
he sees you? And what are your expectations of him?
Has God not done what you expected to do? At
some point you've held it against him? Good luck with that.

(04:29):
It's Easter Week Monday, Jesus said, this is my father's house,
and you have made it a den of thieves. What
has happened to your house? You ten past the hour?

(04:51):
Use radio one hundred point seven UFLA. By the way,
my blog page reflects Easter Week and today I posted
the message from our church service yesterday that was exceptional,

(05:14):
a historical connecting of dots and a good way to
start your week. Check it out on my blog page
WFLAFM dot com or WFLA Panama City dot com. Just
look for my picture or drop down menu. You'll find
my name or just click or just go slash Preston
at the end of either of those. April fourteenth, eighteen

(05:38):
twenty eight first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of
the English Language It's published eighteen sixty five. It was
on this date, eighteen sixty five John Wilkes Booth assassinates

(05:58):
Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. I've been there. It is
really surreal to walk into because that particular day, the
suite where the President and the First Lady were sitting

(06:18):
with their guests where Booth entered in, was open, and
you could go in there, and you could walk into
where he was shot, and through the doorway that John
Wilkes Booth had had barricaded to make sure someone couldn't
get in. It's crazy. And then you go downstairs to

(06:44):
the museum and the gun and the clothes that Lincoln
was wearing, and it's just wow. Nineteen thirty nine. The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is published. Nineteen fifty six,
first commercial videotape recorder demonstrated simultaneously in Redwood City, California,
and Chicago, and then in nineteen eighty one, America's first

(07:06):
operational space shuttle, Columbia, completes its first flight. Well, I
remember those days. I was a mere lad. I was
twenty one years of age at that point. I was
twenty when Columbia had its first flight. It's crazy. National

(07:28):
Reach as High as you Can Day, some higher than others.
National National Pecan Day, National look up at the sky Day,
beautiful day to do that. National Dolphin Day. Dolphins just
look happy, don't They always look like they've got a

(07:49):
smile on their face, like they've got something to say.
National Gardening Day. I think I'll be out in my yard.
I'll be brushing my lawn. You heard right, brushing my lawn.
Little hair brush. I'm gonna be now. I'm never mind.

(08:09):
Uh Capital Conservatives. Tomorrow is the day John Dale will
be there Elks Lodge. Don't worry about the dinner. It's
too late if you haven't ordered your dinner. But you
can show up for the meeting. And membership's just thirty bucks.
I might need to jump up a little bit, might

(08:29):
have to talk to him about raising their rates, a
little bit, to do some mons to be a member.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Eh.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
But John Dale is gonna be just talking about what's
going on in the city. Maybe you'll get an answer
from him. Is he going to run from mayor again?
I don't think he will, pretty sure he won't, But
that that'll be that'll be a good part of the
discussion anyway. Capital Conservatives Tomorrow Elk's Lodge meeting probably gets
underway about six six fifteen, so that's where you'll want

(09:00):
to be. Across the street from Tallahassee Ford in the
Capital city, sixteen past the hour. I'm determined to maybe
be on time today. This is not a find at

(09:24):
a flea market, at a secondhand thrift shop. This is
a find announced by Cambridge University. This is such a
crazy story. It happened years ago. They discovered back in

(09:50):
twenty nineteen a manuscript in the Cambridge Library, tucked in
as buying for an old book. The manuscript is a
thirteenth century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and

(10:14):
Merlin the Magician. It is a manuscript part of a
suite vulged de Malene, which is a French language rendering
of the story of King Arthur. Now Arthur has been

(10:34):
depicted as a legendary king of England for centuries, his
existence doubted by most historians. The manuscript had survived the
centuries after being recycled and repurposed in the fifteen hundreds
as the cover for a property record from Huntington Manor

(10:56):
in Suffolk. So this incredibly rare manuscript was used in
essence as a book cover. And when you read into
this story, they use this insane amount of technology to

(11:20):
photograph it, scan it at all different angles, using all
different kinds of science available, to then piece it back
together digitally and create and figure out what it was.
Each copy was unique. These were handwritten by medieval scribes.

(11:46):
There are fewer than forty copies known to exist in
the world. This was written sometime between twelve seventy five
and thirteen fifteen.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
I just.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, this is this is like King Arthur Excalibur
the sword, you know, I mean this is this is this?
The movies have been made about this, dude, the Arthur legend.
Some really good movies, in fact.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Have been made.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I think one of my favorites was Is It Is It?
First Night? Richard Gear and Sean Connery. I want, I
think good movie. Anyway, Just once again, these these odd
little things that that get found in the strangest places

(12:48):
still being uncovered. I mean, this is going back centuries
and it was a book cover. You remember making book
covers in school? Did you ever make a book cover
in school where they you know, they would you would
get your books for the year. At least, this is

(13:11):
what we did when we were in school. You'd get
your books for the year, you'd sign out your books.
Maybe you'd buy a book here or there, and then
you made book covers and they would hand you these
large pieces usually it's like eleven by seventeen pieces of paper,
and you'd fold them a certain way and you'd tape
them up and you'd design on them and you'd draw

(13:33):
whatever you want because they were your and you'd make
book covers. They'd fold over the edges of the books
and it was like it was an art, but it
was It's just you're taking a document. It's like, I
just think to myself, did no one think that this
was important to keep? That's just that's just some French

(13:58):
document of some kind stupid thing. This is our these
are our property records here. We need to cover this.
So how did they have that document? See that's where
my mind goes. Where'd they come up with it? Where'd
they come up at the time? Was it just nothing?

(14:21):
Or was it because it was French? I'm guessing that's
what it boiled down to. Is you know, the English
and the French have not had a warm, fuzzy relationship
for many, many years. Even now there's a little bit
of back and forth, even though they're connected by the chunnel.
And yes, I said the chunnel. It's the tunnel that

(14:43):
goes under the English Channel. No, thank you. I have
no interest in ever writing in the chunnel ever. No,
but yeah, pretty cool story. All right, let's come back
do the big stories in the press box get started.
It's Monday, April fourteenth. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott,

(15:08):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one
hundred point seven WUSLA, thirty five minutes past the hour.

(15:30):
Good morning friends, it's Monday. Good to be with you.
Beautiful weather this week. I think the pollen's behind us,
which is wonderful because I can take the plastic off
of my screened in patio. Geez, I'm so tired of it,
but I'm grateful because it keeps the pollen out and

(15:51):
it's the smartest thing I ever thought of doing with
my screened in back patio. Okay, big stories in the
press box. Let me clear. I had a listener point
out that tax Day isn't exactly as an eat and
clean as you would think. All right, tax day is tomorrow.
But I look this up. The irs are there are

(16:17):
twelve states where there are automatic extensions to file and
pay your taxes, and so I've got the IRS document here.
I'm reading from this. Taxpayers in the entire states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and then selected parts of Tennessee

(16:39):
and Virginia have until May first for filing twenty twenty
four returns and paying any due tax. You've got a
couple extra weeks. There are parts of California, but what
do we care, right if you live in California, man,

(17:00):
that's your problem.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
No, I'm just.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
There are some wonderful people trapped in California, millions, probably
held against their will. But so yeah, it's look, if
it were me and you can get them done, I'd
get them done. I wouldn't flirt around with any of
that stuff. But that's just that's me. Second big story, Look,

(17:29):
tax day is a big deal. So I'm just I
am doing my job. I would feel as though I
really neglected something vitally important if I opened the door
for you to have trouble because you forgot I mean,
how many ads have you seen for tax services since

(17:52):
end of December? Even normally it's January first, but no, no,
they were rolling out those ads in December.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Jeez.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Two hundred and eight Democrats voted against the Save Act,
which is safeguarding American voter eligibility. Two hundred and eight
Democrats voted against legislation that would keep foreign nationals out
of American elections. Foreign nationals means they're not legal citizens

(18:26):
and not allowed to vote. It doesn't matter that well,
there's a law that already does it. It's toothless, so
this would tighten things up. Two four Democrats voted with
Republicans vough to pass it. Huh, all right, all right?
Ed case of Hawaii, Henry Quaar of Texas, Jared Golden

(18:51):
of Maine maybe, and Representative Marie glues In Camp Perez
of Washington voted along side Republicans. And then this this
makes the cut. Have you ever heard of Nico im
Malavia Mielajeva. He's one of those Hawaiian Samoan names, plays

(19:17):
quarterback for Tennessee. He didn't show up for spring drills
while they were renegotiating his nil deal. Coach said, peace
out Nico, you're gone. Good for Josh Heipel. But wait,
that's not the story. He was making two point four

(19:43):
million on a contract that was reported to be eight
million when he signed it. He started receiving payments when
he was still in high school. The total value of
the contract would have been closer to ten million over
the life the deal for a kid who hasn't played
a minute of professional football, and he was Apparently his

(20:09):
agents were requesting four million dollars from his two point
four million contract per year.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
This is where we are, Josh Hipel. Good for you, buddy,
he said. No one's bigger than the team, No one
is bigger than the program. Four million a season. I'm sorry.
This is this is what the NCAA deserves. This is

(20:43):
what college football. This is. This is the landscape that
they've created. Good luck and holding out because he wants more.
If I'm the school, I'm suing him for every penny
he was paid aid and demanding it back. Oh well,
we'll garnish your wages when you're working at the landscaping place.

(21:07):
Forty one minutes after the hour, another interesting development in
the news. We'll get to.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Next forty three passed.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Immigration judge has ruled that loudmouth, malcontent Palestinian activist from
Columbia University can be deported and removed from the country.
Immigration Judge James Commons found that, due to his involvement

(21:59):
in the protests that rocked Columbia, the presidence of Mohammoud Khalil.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Is a.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Potentially serious foreign policy raises, potentially foreign potentially serious foreign
policy consequences. Secretary of State Marc Rubio wanted him deported
under the mcarrin Walter Act of nineteen fifty two, which

(22:36):
allows the Secretary of State to make a determination that
a non citizen's continued presence in the United States poses
a risk, and that case was made. He's a resident
of the United States, but he's not a citizen, and

(22:56):
the fact that he married he thought marrying an American
would get him through the threshold, doesn't work that way.
He's not a citizen. And so because he decided to
act as a spokesperson in these Palestinian protests at Columbia University,
he has made himself the point man for the hatred

(23:19):
that is spewing out towards Jews. His lawyers made a
case criticizing the arrests. Deportation is plainly intended as a
retaliation and punishment for protected speech, Rubio said. The federal
government has no obligation to accept visitors who promote terrorist

(23:40):
organizations or participate in vandalism or riots on college campuses.
This is what made Rubio a unanimous confirmation to Secretary
of State by Democrats and Republicans alike. Listen, I don't
know when we've gotten it into our head that a
visa is some sort of birthright. It is not. A

(24:03):
visa holder is a visitor to our country, and if
you violate the terms of your visitation, you are going
to leave. This is the common sense enforcement of American
law that we have been missing for much of the

(24:23):
last twenty five years. We have the Bush administration leveraged
the Patriot Act to fundamentally abuse our rights in the
guise of terrorism. And it starts to make you question
some a lot of things. It just does. And I

(24:46):
really hate that I'm at that place, but I am
forty six minutes past the hour when we come back
a big fat, no period way period the Morning Show,
Preston Scott, it is Easter week and I'm gonna I'm

(25:13):
gonna do everything I can to direct some content towards contemplation. Now,
I don't know if you've ever read the Chronicles of Narnia,

(25:34):
the works of C. S. Lewis. His backstory is fascinating.
His becoming one of the great Christian apologists is a

(25:55):
story unto itself. But if you've ever seen the movies
the Chronicles of Narnia, and you know I love those movies,
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I mean, it's

(26:16):
just it's it's nothing but a story that is an
allegory about Christ. It's it's God's story told in a
form that young and old can embrace alike, but it's
designed for younger people. And the Narnia films I think

(26:41):
are exceptionally well done. Liam Neeson is the voice of Aslin,
aslyn is this Lion, that is just cool. I mean,
have you seen the Narnia movies? Have you have you
seen those?

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, yeah, yes, sir. I mean every part of those
movies is so wonderfully done and fairly faithful to C. S. Lewis.
And now comes Netflix they are going to do their

(27:18):
own interpretation of the Narnia franchise. These books have an
overt Christian theme and purpose. The movies carry that pretty faithfully.

(27:43):
Guess who's being considered for the role of Aslin Meryl Streep.
Of course we have to, we have to feminize the role. Now,

(28:06):
Streep hasn't officially been named the lead, but the fact
that she's in the running, that her name's being floated
tells you all you need to know about the Netflix series.
And I hope no one watches it. I hope that

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you who are Netflix fans and supporters and subscribers don't watch.
At the very best, the consideration of Meryl Streep says
they don't get it. They don't get it, they don't
understand what the whole point of the CS Lewis book

(28:50):
series is. At worst, they do get it, and they
are thumbing their view and sticking it right in your eye.
I I'm saving this story because I you know, Jerome

(29:15):
Hudson covers entertainment for Breitbart, and I know Jerome shares
our faith, my faith. I know that because we attended
the same church for years. He was not just an
intern on this program. Jerome was a and is a

(29:36):
brother in Christ and a dear friend and I want
to get his thoughts on this. So I'm setting this
story to the side and I'm holding it for our
next visit with Jerome sometime later this month. But just
making you aware. See, we've got our finger on the
pulse of pulp of pop culture. Huh. That's how we
roll around here, That's what we do. Back with our

(29:58):
number two of the morning show, Preston Scott and here
we go the second hour, Good Morning Friends. Salnuzo will

(30:21):
be with us. He'll be off for the next couple
of weeks, sALS taking the vows and uh, and so
he'll be Uh, he'll be away for a couple of weeks,
but we'll get an update here and then we'll kind
of recap the session when he comes back. The session
should be in the rearview mirror and we'll do an
exhaustive look over what happened during the legislative session's final

(30:44):
weeks and and just kind of a broad view. But anyway,
he'll be coming up in just a little bit an
hour from now. Uh. Doctor Joe camps later on this
hour with healthy expectations start with the release of seven
hundred pages. By the way, where are the Epstein documents.

(31:08):
Just just look, we're it's almost as if, and I
want to give the benefit of the doubt here, but
it's almost as if we're releasing other files, almost hoping
people forget about the Epstein documents. Now. This is me,

(31:35):
and I'm gonna stay up front. I could be completely wrong.
But the more time that goes by without the Epstein
documents being released, that list and so forth, that tells
me that there are likely more sitting lawmakers and perhaps
some Republicans on that list. I don't know that that's

(32:00):
strictly conjecture. I have no inside sources on this at all.
If I have sources, I tell you this comes from
sources that I have. When I'm just spitballing, it's just
me and I could be completely wrong. In fact, I'm
very comfortable with being wrong. It's quite all right. Though

(32:24):
it doesn't happen often, but seven hundred pages of Crossfire
hurricane documents are released. They are out there, turned over
to the White House Judiciary Committee chairman, emails, messages, interview summaries,
notes on the infamous Bogus Steele dossier. They offer a

(32:44):
detailed look at former FBI informant Stefan Helper, Pentagon consultant,
played a key role. The files show that Helper was
behind one of the most unfounded claims to justify this
entire probe that the Russian collusion probe, the allegation that

(33:04):
then Lieutenant General Michael Flynn had left a foreign event
in twenty fourteen alone with Russian British academic Svetlana Lakhova
while serving as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Listen.
Though the records reveal that agents found the claims about

(33:25):
Flynn not to be plausible and not accurate, it didn't happen.
Yet they continued to use him as a source, paid
him tens of thousands of dollars, and despite the doubts
inside the FBA, FBA, FBI, in twenty seventeen, a memo
affirmed his reliability as a confidential informant, that he was

(33:48):
to be trusted. They knew everything he was saying was false,
and they paid him over one million dollars. Where's Adam
schiff right now, Senator Shiff see, I would be calling
all of these people to testify. I would be asking Shift,

(34:13):
where is your smoking gun? To this day, you've never
presented it. Cash Pttel has also suspended a deep state
operative named Brian Auton. He is an analyst who pushed
the Trump Russia hoax. He's the guy who discredited the

(34:33):
Hunter Biden scandal that was true, and he was the
guy behind the raid of mar A Lago. He has
been on it, placed on administrative leave. We're slowly rooting
some things out. We're not getting everything they have to look,

(34:53):
Trump has been thwarted by by judges across the country.
I have to believe the cash Cash Pattel is a
very smart man. I have to believe he is doing
due diligence on everything that he's doing, making sure it
can't come back and blow up on him. So I'm
okay with that. But that's just a little bit of

(35:16):
an update. Ten minutes past the hour. We're just getting started.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Monday on The Morning Show, The Morning Show with Preston
Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA
or on NewsRadio double USLA Panama City dot Com.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Now. Now, now.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know, we find stories that illustrate larger points and
actually would be in a court of law, just a
pile of circumstantial evidences to show an overarching theme. And

(36:10):
one of the things we've noted over the years is
the disintegration of public education, and it is why school
choice has become so important in Florida and is growing
across the country. It's why private education is stepping up
in private schools, and it's a total breaking of a

(36:35):
mold and fashioning a new one for the educational process.
Because what we're seeing on college campus is today the
lemmings that are coming out of K twelve and then
being absolutely indoctrinated in their college years. How many of

(36:55):
you parents don't recognize the kid that came back from college.
You don't need to email me. I know because I've
gotten the email over the years. You just go what happened.
Illiberalism happened, and I want to give you an example

(37:18):
of how it's showing up still and it's not Look
this is this may take multiple generations to undo if
there's a will to do it, and I don't know
that that exists. This from WBFF Television in Baltimore. Student

(37:47):
at Parker named Parker Jensen at Townsend High School in Baltimore.
He wants to be a marine. His plan is to
leave high school and go straight to the United States
Marine Corps. God bless you, young man. He noticed that
his high school was not displaying the American flag. It

(38:08):
wasn't in the classrooms and as a point of fact,
according to the television station, Baltimore County school Board policy
and the Maryland Education Code both require the flag to
be presented in every single classroom. So Jensen shows up

(38:32):
at a Board of Education meeting and ask about the
lack of flags at the school. He didn't get answers.
What he did get was a call from the district
officials for police, and three police cars showed up and

(38:55):
escorted him out. He's a student. He went to the
district meeting and he asked, where you have a policy
that says the flags are supposed to be in the classrooms.
There are no flags. What's going on? Instead of answering

(39:15):
his questions, they called the police. Wait. School safety emergency
manager Richard Mooth told Jensen that he's been suspended, effective immediately,
for seven days. So the story here from Gateway Pundit

(39:41):
is because he asked about the lack of following policy
on the display of the American flag in Baltimore's high school,
he's been suspended for seven days.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
This is just.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Another example of the work is not even remotely done
in this country. Donald Trump got elected, you be, but
look around you look at the state of Florida where
most of us live who listen to this show. Republicans

(40:24):
are still being sidetracked from business. They can get done
and can get done in hours by silliness. Work has
to be done, and it starts at home. Don't rely

(40:46):
on schools. Teach your children well. And it goes far
beyond books. It goes far beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Seventeen past the own another day, another would be assassin.
Next twenty two minutes past the hour. I just well,

(41:31):
let me back up for a second. Way to go.
Rory McElroy now he had some He he made a
comment about Trump. He was scared Trump back a couple
of years ago and backed away from him and and
that was disappointing. But I think he's a good dude.

(41:55):
And he fought for his marriage and I will never
forget when he said that he and his wife had
you know, they'd separated and were allegedly going to get divorced,
and he said, we have and they've got a little girl,
and he said, we have decided that our life is

(42:17):
much better together than it would be a part. And
he finished the quest of winning the career Grand Slam
in golf, which means he's won all four of the
major titles. He nearly threw up all over himself and
gave it away yesterday. He had a massive lead and

(42:39):
he just he lost it all and had to go
to a playoff against another guy that you would have
I wouldn't have minded to see win. But if Scotty
Scheffler wasn't going to win, and Jordan Speeth my two
favorite golfers out there, Scheffler by far because of his
love of Jesus, that guy. But Scheffler did not play

(43:03):
his best game in fourth, my goodness. I mean, I
don't know how good that guy is. That he's just
off his game and he comes in fourth, you know.
But but McElroy won and when he did, just broke down,
lost it. And his wife and his daughter were there.

(43:25):
His little girl had a just an incredible moment at
the Part three tournament that I put on our ex page.
So happy for him. Got that got that monkey off
his shoulder, off his back, and so that's good. How
dumb do you have to be? I'm not I'm not

(43:46):
using the guy's name. Butler Pennsylvany. Butler Pennsylvania, who as
who took to YouTube as mister Satan, sought and obtained firearms.
Shortly after the inauguration, starts commenting on his own social media.

(44:12):
I've bought several guns, been stocking up on ammos since
Trump got in office. Eventually I'm going to do a
mass shooting. I've been buying one gun a month since election,
body armor and AMMO February just a few weeks ago.
Now we need to just start killing people. Trump elon
all the heads of the agencies Trump appointed, anyone who

(44:34):
stands in the way. Remember we're the majority. Uh no,
you're not. MAGA is a minority in this country. Uh No,
we're not. And by the time it's time to make
the move, they will be weakened. Many will be crushed
by these policies. They will want revenge to American Revolution
two point zero. In March, I'm going to assassinate him

(44:56):
myself March eighteenth. Ice are terrorist people. We need to
start killing them. April first. If I see an armed
ICE agent, I will consider it a domestic terrorist and
an active shooter, and I will open fire on them.
How stupid do you have to be? I mean, I'm

(45:26):
grateful that you're that stupid, But this is the world
we now live in. Just remember this. Not everybody who
hates Trump is on the other side of the political aisle.

(45:48):
There are people that hate Trump that are Republicans allegedly.
It's just it's a sign of the time. It's twenty
seven minutes after the hour. Let's do the big stories
in the press box. Get ready, Doctor Joe Camps will
join us in a few minutes as well.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah, and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Had no idea I had these musical skills, Now did you? Monday,
Pril fourteenth, on the program day before tax Day. We'll
get to that in just second. For most across the country,
Tennessee has moved on from its starting quarterback. And you

(46:38):
might say, why, how is this a big story in
the press box? Who cares about the volunteers? Well, first
of all, there are people that care. We have Tennessee
fans in this audience, and I'm proud to have you.
I'm proud of Josh Heipel. Josh is good, solid coach.

(47:01):
He's ripped the heart out of Florida State. When Oklahoma
beat FSU for a second consecutive national title that they
anyway it was because of Josh Hipel. It was it
was the defense. Bob Steeps's defenses crushed us. But Josh
Hipels turned into a very good head football coach. He's

(47:24):
at Tennessee and their quarterback nico Ima l Imma leeva
is is it was a no show at spring drills
because of his contract negotiations for nil. The kid was

(47:45):
getting money out of high school when he was still
in high school, making two point four million worth eight
million when he signed it. Apparently, when it was it's
all said and done, he would have made ten million dollars,
but apparently he wanted four million, not two point four million,

(48:08):
and so he was holding out. If you signed a
contract and see, I hope Tennessee, Susan. I wanted this
to be an illustration of how bad it's gotten. And
I warned you where this was going to go. It

(48:29):
was going to get ugly. It has, and I've told
you that the solution is very simple. You must put
everyone under a contract that obligates them to the school,
just like a professional athlete obligated to their team just

(48:50):
that simple tax deadline. I mentioned that just a moment ago.
This is important now and I'm just I'm reading. It's
got the IRS logo. I went to the government website,
I printed it out. So if this is the I'm reading,
taxpayers in the entire states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,

(49:14):
and South Carolina have until May first, twenty twenty five
to file and paying any tax due. So you've got
an extension for two weeks until May first. That's your deadline.
Get a little extra time because of the natural disasters.

(49:38):
That's all of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina.
It includes parts of Tennessee and Virginia. I'm just tax
days tomorrow. If I were able, I would file. I'd
just get that one little thing off the radar. Filing late. Yes,

(50:01):
you're eligible, but what I think it brings another level
of scrutiny. Wait a minute, wait, wait, bitute. This came
in after the fifteenth. It's look a little okay, Florida.
Maybe let's check and make sure they're in Florida. I'm
just saying. And then the last big story two hundred

(50:24):
and eight Democrats voted against legislation that would keep foreign
nationals from voting in American elections. Two hundred and eight
Democrats refused talk about not understanding the outcome of an
election was based in part on the immigration issues. Forty

(50:50):
minutes past the hour, Doctor Joe standing by next on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Forty one minutes past the hour. Joining us on Mondays
with some healthy expectations, Doctor Joe Camps, Well, are you
breathing any better? Because it looks like Paullen is pretty
much behind us.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
You know, I tell you I had my morning walk
and I was not sniffling and carrying on. So I
think hopefully we're getting past that. But you know, this
is a time I always think the spring and everything
is blooming. It's green, it's beautiful, it's cool, it's it's
just great to be here. But I thought about, you know,

(51:40):
what could I say this morning? It might help some
get out and get moving. I think that's going to
be my new phrase, just keep moving. And you know,
on the walk this morning, you know you sort of
have those aches and pains, but I thought about you know,
why am I doing this? And I thought about the
main thing for me is I really want to maintain

(52:04):
a healthy weight. You know, I tell you weight has
a lot to do in terms of your mental health
and your physical health. But walking and getting out and
getting it done also can reduce the risk of part
of your asking disease, and I want to talk about
that because that still is our number one issue in
the world today. And reducing this metabolic syndrome. Now you

(52:27):
might say, Joe, what is that. Well, metabolic syndrome is obesity,
and obviously it's a precursor to type two diabetes, and
so we can mitigate that risk. We can reduce the
risk of certain cancers, we can increase the lifespan. And
you know, I turned seventy and I was thinking, oh boy,
and the clock is winding down. So what can I do?

(52:51):
And certainly reducing that risk is quite great, increasing the lifespan,
improving overall mood and mental health. Know, we talk about
a lot of mental health issues and it is an
issue for us today. But certainly you can mitigate that
risk as well. Overall mood and the functionality of our bodies,

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prevent falls and disability, you know, as you age, you know,
obviously falls and disabilities can become a real issue. The
other thing I thought about was, you know, something that
goes unnoticed, but we increase our bone discanity, and you know,
I'm finding that I'm not moving like I did when
I was eighteen years old. But certainly we can improve

(53:37):
that as well, improving anxiety and depression, improving our sleep,
improving cognition. You know, when you sort of get semi retired,
you don't use your brain as much. It certainly can
help with that as well. The other thing I thought
about was it certainly just improves your overall calaltquality of life.

(54:00):
And I'm not talking about, you know, having to get
out and jog. I know that that's good for us
as well, but certainly just getting out and getting moving. Now,
I've noticed one thing, you know, over the years, I
used to see lots and lots of people out moving
about early in the morning, and not seeing that as much,

(54:21):
and so we certainly can't blame the heat for that.
I think it's a mental state that you just have
to get yourself past it. But certainly keep moving, keep
walking if you can jog, do that, but make sure
you have the ability to do that. But certainly most
of us can walk, some of us unfortunately can't, but

(54:41):
we can do other exercises to improve our overall quality
of life. And you know, as I get older, the
one thing I do think about is quality of life,
and that's important for us to try and enjoy every
single day. But you've got to start somewhere. If you
can't do it in the morning, do it when you're
done work. But certainly, my admonition, and you know, we

(55:03):
started this present I guess what, maybe eighteen years ago
or twenty years ago.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
It was twenty two years ago.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
I cannot believe that I'm still talking about these very issues.
But certainly, as you know, you don't have to go
very far to look around to see that all of
us could use the dose of getting up and moving about.
It's extremely important and I think it's very very beneficial,
and it only takes a mindset and some degree of effort. Now,

(55:34):
I know that there are those that can't, but you know,
do other things that just keep moving. So I'm afraid
that we've had to talk about this is year for
a number of years, but it doesn't take long to
look around to see that most of us needed here
to some of the device that we've given over the years.
But certainly I wanted to just comment real quickly. I

(55:57):
thought about when I got a scholarship, you know, I
thought that was the best thing in life, to give
me an opportunity to get an education and and play football,
something I enjoyed very much. But the kinds of issues
that we're dealing with today, I'm dumbfound that I just
cannot believe it that the worth that some people feel

(56:20):
that they're worth at this stage in their lives.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
So I.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Think that we're going to see some legislation come down
surrounding this issue. It is a contract. You're being paid
handsomely at a very very young age, and I hope
that we can learn from these events that we're seeing
unfolding today.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Thank you, Joe, all right, have.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
A good day, President.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Thank you all righty Doctor Joe Camps with us on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. So many requests that
you have, so demanding of us all here, just kidding now,

(57:14):
it's really it's really cool that you know, when we
float an idea we have, we have such great reaction.
Like we're working on trying to present a blog, not
a blog, a podcast of our morning devotionals. The fact

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that people are interested in that just I am blessed
by that, and I mean I get encouraging notes so frequently,
and so we're trying to find a way to do
that and to package it and make it make sense.
And then we've got people that are interested in a

(58:01):
good news segment that they can just pop up and get,
you know, all the good news segments for the month
in one podcast, you know, ones of daily ones by daily,
meaning it's a feature we do every day that we
would then package and put out every week. The other
is a package we would put out once a month.
And one of the things that's come up of late,
and I've had, you know, we've had a lot of

(58:23):
requests during What's the Beef. I've had email requests people saying,
could you spend some time, just a little time every
day noting what DOSEE is finding, what the Department of
Government Efficiency is uncovering. And I can't say that I
can carve out a specific time each and every day

(58:45):
to do that because the news cycle is just so
demanding of our time. But I will promise to try
to fit something in as often as once a show,
and this came from Epic Times. According to a post
put up by the White House, Customs and Border Patrol

(59:07):
has so far identified sixty three hundred individuals parolled into
the United States since twenty twenty three that are on
the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center watch list or with criminal records.
But wait, sixty three hundred parolled illegal immigrants with terrorism

(59:30):
or criminal histories that carry a social Security number. And
out of these, nine hundred and five collecting medicaid, forty
one receiving unemployment insurance, twenty two got student loans, four
hundred and nine received tax refunds of over seven hundred

(59:54):
and fifty thousand dollars in twenty twenty four a loon.
Others getting food stamps. These are people on the terror
watch list or with criminal records that have been identified,
are here illegally, yet are still accessing your tax dollars.

(01:00:18):
Back that up your wallet. Saying your tax dollars, I've
come to the conclusion doesn't impact you as much as
me saying they're reaching their hand into your wallet and
taking your cash. There's your doze. Update for the day.
Illegal immigrants on terror watch list receive medicaid, unemployment and

(01:00:43):
student loans.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
What do you do with that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
I'll tell you what I do with that. I lay
out and I tell you that. Next we will go
over the legislative session. Week number six is in the
rearview mirror. We're coming to a Is it going to
be a crash and burn? Is it going to be
a flaming landing? What's it going to be? Salnuzo joins

(01:01:13):
me next from Consumer's Defense, our three awaits of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, it's third hour

(01:01:34):
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's Monday, April fourteenth.
Great to be with you this morning. I am Preston.
He is Jose and this is sal Nuzo from Consumer's Defense.
And I mentioned earlier taking the vows this week. Congratulations, Yes,
indeed he did. Thank you very much. So this is
our final blow at the legislative session until it's done

(01:01:56):
and we do the recap in the second week of May.
So let's just start out here with the governor. And
really there's drama swirling and it seems to be coming
strictly from the House of Reps.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
In the midst of all that the governor is trying
to do navigating the session, he's also now dealing with
some drama related to one of his signature initiatives, in
the First Lady's signature initiative, Hope Florida, And so it's
kind of I would suggest, casting a little bit of
a cloud over his ability to kind of try to

(01:02:33):
get his priorities through sure, But first let's kind of
table set on what Hope Florida is launched in twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
It was an initiative kind.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
Of set up by the First Lady to help get
Floridians connected to non government programs that are designed to
move people out of poverty. So kind of a one
stop shop to say, yes, you can go to get
unemployment benefits and all of these other things that are

(01:03:02):
government related, but we also want to connect you with
nonprofits and church communities and things like that, and we
want to be able to do it in a way
that's easily navigable.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
It's a brilliant idea. I recognized it as a brilliant
idea when I first learned of it, because that's the
biggest obstacle that people have is where do I go
to get help.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
And not only that, it's one of the few items
designed by a government or a government instrument to actually
move people off of government assistance. You don't see this normally,
especially not at the federal level. So and to their credit,
they've helped tens of thousands of Floridians to date, just

(01:03:45):
in the first three four years of operation. It does
not have any statutory consistency to it, So if Florida's
next governor, whoever that might be, didn't want to continue it,
it would just go away. It's got no statutory authority
to no lasting power in law. If it wants to
be ongoing, then it needs to be codified in statute,

(01:04:06):
and then they can go through the traditional appropriations, regulatory
mechanisms and such, and it could be spun off as
a traditional nonprofit that doesn't know deal with the government,
if that's a direction that they wanted to do. And
so the governor is pursuing having it codified. You've got
HB thirteen twenty seven, SB eleven forty four. They are moving,

(01:04:30):
but very very slowly. Now you've got the background of
all of the drama between mainly right now the House
and the Governor's office. Reporters from a couple of different
out outlets reported the program received potentially an infusion of
money that may have been the result of a settlement

(01:04:51):
payment that was between a company that did business with
a state agency and they had to like pay a
penalty or something like that, and there may have been
a portion of that was line item for Hope, Florida.
The House has taken an interest in that and run
with it. There's now been some national stories. You even

(01:05:12):
had Matt Gates in his One America News program talking
about it, and so it's kind of going back and forth.
But then a really interesting exchange on X Rep Michelle
Saltzman said something about this and I can't remember what.
And then Joel Rudman, who had been a state Rep

(01:05:34):
but then resigned to run for the CD one race,
he replied to the post saying, you and I were
in that private meeting on November nineteenth with leadership when
they talked about they were going to attack the governor
and so all of this posturing a lot of fireworks.

(01:05:54):
You even had the House Speaker talk about the potential
for subpoenas over the weekend or on Friday and it's
really just casting a cloud over this entire legislative session.
And you know, the thing that I keep coming to
in this is how much good work is not getting

(01:06:15):
done because of all of this back and forth. And
as we've mentioned in prior weeks, this is how you
lose majorities. This is how you really sour voters on
what your immense accomplishments are.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
And it's just sad at this point. My last word
on Hope Florida for now is going to be this, friends.
It is a brilliant idea that is in its infancy,
and with anything new, it has things that need to
get better. To me, the best way for it to
get better is to present is to have oversight. Then

(01:06:51):
that comes through codifying the program and keeping it ongoing.
Ten past the Hour.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Morning Joe at Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
Mackersalnuzo of Consumers Defense. The legislative session week six or
three quarters of the way through, and really anything that's
going to be done is on the radar at this point, right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
Yeah, we really won't seem much in the way of
surprises where we didn't even know something was an issue. Now,
there certainly can be some surprises in the sense of
we thought this bill was dead and all of a
sudden it's resurrected. But that's a separate topic.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Let's get to the tax proposals because they are generating
a lion's share of the interest from the general public.
Because they touch the general public. Everybody in the state
is going to be touched by this in one way,
shape or for you got it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
And there are very different proposals, and again I want
to point to the gold nugget in all of this,
which is we are arguing and debating whose tax cut
is better. And that's something. Yeah, that's great. But so
you've got the House of Representatives, which their proposal is
to lower the base rate on sales tax from six

(01:08:23):
percent to five point two five percent, roughly a five
billion dollar if you know, using their math and fiscal analysis,
cut to the sales tax revenue. And then you've got
which actually came before the governor's proposal which started early
in the year, which was to completely eliminate property taxes.

(01:08:44):
Now that is a much bigger lift because it requires
a constitutional amendment. It also impacts local governments in a
way that the sales tax rate does not, and there's
just a whole lot of more moving parts to that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
I want to add something though, if they go ahead
with the sales tax reduction, that all but eliminates any
chance of ever doing the property tax elimination.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
I'm trying to never say never, but it would be
a monumental lift to try and do property tax reform
on top of that, on top of that at the
level at least which the governor is requesting.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
And the property tax thing has been an issue for
me since I started this program twenty three years ago,
because I've been advocating that you never own your own home.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Which is exactly what the governor has been saying as
he has marketed this proposal.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
And he's also as a glad listen to me when
he was in his twenties.

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
Apparently, so yeah, he's a young guy, right, That's sad.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
He was in his twenties when I was saying this. Ouch.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
Yeah, hitting fifty now hits harder, Yes it does. So
you've also got now the other chamber, which has got
a way in and they've waited until recently, and just
this past week, the Senate President finally weighed in and
their proposal is he's trying to be Solomon and slice them,
not slice the baby in half.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
But you never know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
So they want to completely eliminate im perpetuity the sales
tax for clothing, which is a big hit. And so
that would be something rather than a base rate reduction
across the board, just make it such that any clothing
you buy in the state is not subject to the
sales tax.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
And then if it's valued, it's seventy five dollars or less. Yeah,
something like that. So it's silly.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
They're trying to figure out the window within the fiscal
to make it work.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Shoes and clothing seventy five or less. So he's a
sales tax holiday for two items. Well, or you just
keep going back in and yeah, but I don't like it.
I digress.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Then you've got another part where he is suggesting that
he wants to do a big property tax cut. In
order to do that, we really got to get our
arms around how the constitutional amendment I completely agree with logistically. Look,
and so he's trying to put into the proposal. All Right,
the auditor General or a pago or somebody is gonna

(01:11:13):
do a study. We'll figure it out. And then put
that in the twenty twenty six legislative session priorities to
get on the ballot on the twenty twenty six election.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
I like that plan the best because I as much
as I love the tax proposal for removing property tax,
I do think it needs more time to work through
all of the different issues.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
I'm probably there with you. I've also got some concerns
about the base rate reduction with respect to tourism subsidization.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Let them let them pay. They use our roads, they
use our infrastructure.

Speaker 5 (01:11:44):
Which is exactly what the governor and others are saying.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
To consolute with that. All right, more with sound News
that we come back. We're going to talk about the budget.
That is the constitutional issue they have to get done,
and that's next twenty one twenty two minutes past South
Newzo with me from j Am I no more he is.

(01:12:10):
He's with Consumer's Defense and we're talking about the legislative session,
and we were just the budget. It's it's what they
have to get done. Everyone submitted their budgets, so now
we wait and see.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
Right, yeah, and we're kind of in the middle of
this process, and there's more to unfold at the front
part of this week. So a couple of things I
thought to highlight that would be helpful. One is in
the healthcare arena. So you've got some reports that have
come out about some of the cutting. And to bring
it back to the macro, the House budget is coming

(01:12:44):
in at about one hundred and thirteen billion, the Senate
at about one hundred and seventeen or so thereabouts, which
are actual cuts in the size of state government. And
so where you cut is important, and we've talked about
this in prior segments, wanting to make sure that the
pendulum doesn't swing so far that we're doing damage we

(01:13:05):
shouldn't be doing right. So, the House budget proposal does
implement some changes to what's called the Ease Grant Ease,
which is it helps state students in state students pay
tuition at qualified, independent nonprofit colleges and universities. It's been
a very successful program. If those changes do go through

(01:13:30):
in the final package, you would see you know, anywhere
from you know, eighteen to twenty two thousand students at
a couple of dozen Florida universities lose access to that.
And I think the acronym is effective access to student
education and when you have the ability to use that

(01:13:52):
money for tuition, and we've been targeting trying to plug
shortages in nursing and in other or healthcare areas where
technical and trade schools can and vocational education get be
brought to bear, and those scholarships have an impact on that.
That's one where I'm beginning to pay attention to this,

(01:14:14):
and I don't want to sound like a big government lefty,
but I still come back to the fact that you know,
Florida has the leanest state operation in the United States,
and if we're gonna do damage, it's going to look
like things like this, And so it's just a it's
a cause for a little.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Bit of concerns.

Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
Tuition will go up, well, tuition will go up, or
students won't be able to they'll have to withdraw. And
those are the types of residual impacts that I wonder about.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
And so it's the which side of that equation is
it on House or Senate.

Speaker 5 (01:14:51):
That's on the House proposal. On the correction side, I
took a look at their overall budget in the House proposal, which,
after sifting through every line item of one hundred sum
pages six point eight billion dollars. It's a five percent
bump over the current year, and the current year is
a nine percent bump over the prior year. But what

(01:15:15):
I'm trying to dive in more on, and it's just
going to take me a little time because it's a
lot of numbers, is the staffing figures. Last week, there
was a post that I saw from Senator Jen Bradley
and she was referencing always protecting correctional officers and it
was in a context of something related to budgeting. Now
I wondered about that. I looked back, I saw a

(01:15:38):
piece from February where correction Doc Secretary Ricky Dixon, he
was presenting in a precession hearing about his budget and
he was talking about the excessive overtime spending that's been
required because they don't have the staffing to staff at
the appropriate formulas.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
We had eight thousand more inmates and they've got the
same staff and that doesn't work exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
So he's having to pay overtime and that costs money.
And so I think as the budget process unfold, you're
going to see a little bit more light shed on
this particular thing. And that's something that I'm paying more
attention to I expect a lot more movement, especially early
this week as all of those committees, subcommittees begin moving

(01:16:23):
their silos through. Right now, it's just there's not a
whole lot more of god on that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
George Rodanoti said, any update on schools and phones?

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
Yes, the school the ban on school cell phone use,
which is House Bill nine nine from Demi Basada. It's
still moving. It is moved through all of its committees favorably.
It's ready for the House floor. The question at hand is,
and I got to investigate this maybe on one of
the breaks I can find out is does that companion

(01:16:53):
bill in the Senate, which is just a pilot project.
What I need to find out is has that been amended?
Are they looking to to replace the Senate version with
Demi's version in the House side and just.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
Move that they have been experimenting with it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
They have, there's a couple of school districts, Orange Counties
one of them. There was another one down in South
Florida that also has it and favorably. Yeah, and it's
been reporting favorably on the impacts of it. So I
can look that up and we'll find out from there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Yeah, And It's important for me to note Orange County
is a very liberal area, and the fact that they
embraced this and said it's worked wonderfully to improve student
performance and reduce discipline issues is noteworthy. Twenty seven past
the hour. More to come with Salnuzzo of Consumer's Defense.

(01:17:53):
Salnuzo with me thirty five minutes past the hour. Final
couple of segments here, and we're talking about now some
bills of note. So some things that we've probably mentioned
and talked about, just kind of an update were things.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
Yeah, and over the last couple of weeks, we've gone
through deep dives, and so I wanted to kind of
scale back for a little bit and give you a
rundown of some stuff that we walk through.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Can pass.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
So HB fifteen seventeen, it did pass the full House.
It allows for wrongful death lawsuits for fetus death, so
an unborn child's own mother could not be subject to
those lawsuits, nor would the medical providers giving lawful medical
care such as IVF and other reproductive treatments. The sponsor,

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Sam Greco, said wrongful death suits must involve negligence, breach
a contract, and other factors at play for the law
to apply. The Senate companions also moving. There's only one
stop left for that. You've got Senate Bill seventy thirty.
The school Choice program. It's through appropriations, it's onto the
full Senate. What they're doing is some tweaks to the
programmatic elements of it and kind of the back end

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of to make it easier for parents, some timelines on disbursements,
accountability on the state end for getting funds to parents,
as well as requiring and this is a good one,
requires the Auditor General to conduct an annual audit of
any organization that's involved in the money disbursement, what they
call the scholarship financing or funding organizations. Senate Bill one

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eighty four Housing. It would allow people to put up
accessory dwelling units on their property. So if you want
to build a poolhouse that you can rent out or
something like that, a small extension of your property, this
bill would preempt the local government in your area from
restricting that so that you couldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
So what about a.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
Good question. I would need to find out on that.
My guess is that Hoa's might be exempt from that,
but I am not certain. I need to look at
the bill language there. Senate Bill thirteen hundred HB eleven
forty three, it's moving without any position, requires the Department
of Environmental Production to conduct what's they're calling a balancing
test before graining a permit for oil and gas activities

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in areas within one mile of the coast or other
bodies of water.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Local Bill Corey.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
Simon, Allison Tant and Jason Show for all the sponsors
of it, and it relates to that what colors spreads.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
I was just going to say, that's got what colors
springs all over it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
HB five forty one minimum wage exemptions. It's ready for
the House floor after favorable Commerce Committee hearing. The Senate
version is moving into the Rules Committee for its final stop.
The employer and the employee have to agree to the
reduced wage and it's likened to an internship or training wage.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:20:41):
HB nine fifty five one you're paying attention to from
Rep Jackas closes one of the everify loopholes. However, I
got to point out three bills in the Senate. None
have been placed on any agenda. It's just one of
those ones where when we go through what's what they
should have done? But did it, and this will be
on there. Six seventy nine term limits for county elected officials.

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It's on the House floor. The Senate companion has cleared
one committee so they can take up the House version
they're identical, and move that through four thirty eight. On
the Senate side, Regulation of the hemp industry at passed
the full Senate. This is there are companies in businesses
in town where you can buy products that are They

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don't claim to be THHC, but they actually are. It's
a derivative. It's a bill that passed the full legislature
last year. The governor vetoed there were some considerations related
to the election and the amendments. This is basically the
same bill, and it would hit those businesses very very hard.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Okay. A couple that your viewers had asked about, especially
my listeners.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Listeners not viewers. Yeah, we got those. I got a
voice for radio or I got a face for radio.
HB seventy five. The Flag Bill, the Senate version was
withdrawn from consideration a couple weeks back, so that's dead.
Senate Bill eleven thirty two, the Consumer's Right to Repair
It made it through its final stop but interestingly enough,

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my old home JMI. They testified in opposition to this bill,
claiming that there are market based opportunities out there for
people who own John Deere's to get them fixed, and
there's enough out there that the government doesn't need to regulated.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
May I asked the Flag bill that was about flags
being made in America. No, no, it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:31):
Was the Flag bill was the display display of Yeah,
other flags, the display of other flags, gotcha government facilities.
So that's you've got the The other one is in
the transportation bill from Nick de Seglely Sentate Bill four
sixty two. The speed limit increases in there. It is
pardon the pun, moving ahead fast and I am excited

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because I have a heavy foot.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
I bet you are more to come with Sal Newzo.
One more segment on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with President Scott. Forty two passed

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the hour final segment with Sal Muzo of Consumers Defense.
Bring it in for a landing here. Senate Bill eight
forty six is interesting. Yeah, and one of your listeners
had pointed it out. I think it was in the
What's the Beef on Friday? So I took a look
at it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Yeah, So apparently there's this trend growing where if you
are a notary public and you advertise your services in
a language other than English and think, you know, make
the connection maybe to immigrants, when you translate the words
notary public into Spanish, it could very well be construed
as advertising that you are an attorney. So eight forty

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six this bill would correct it by requiring notaries who
are advertising to either avoid using certain Spanish words in
their ads or to declare on your ad that you
are not an attorney. So interesting bill. It had not
been on my radar until I heard it, heard the

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individual mention, it, looked into it, and I was like, oh,
very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Is it too much to ask for people that are
in this country to speak the language? Apparently it is okay?
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:24:22):
Now one I've been wanting to dive into because we're
in the last segment and it's my last one before
the intercession. It is in the alcohol arena, and this
is one it's been a personal passion project of mine
for many many years. That means he's a boozer. Yes,
it does, no HB four ninety nine. It's moving, it's

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a house priority. It may come up in the Senate,
but not sure. Now I know you don't partake, but
I'm going to take a leap of educated faith and
say many of your listening audience do probably, so Okay,
it's a regulatory we drive them to it. I know
more than a few that I do. All right, micro
breweries defined as under thirty gallons thirty thousand gallons per year,

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it would allow them to self distribute. Now, to give
you an idea scale proof brewering brewery on South Monroe
they do thirty thousand barrels a year, which is a
little under one million gallons. So we're talking small individual
you know, garage, really small. They're trying to get into
the business of building a small brewery more than you

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can produce in your garage. Trying to build something a
distributor contract is a huge hurdle to growing. So this
dates back actually to the abolition of prohibition. The federal
government pushed all alcohol regulation to the states. The first
regulation that came about with something called the three tier system.
Florida has it on the books, but in a very

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weird way. You have manufacturers, distributors, and retail retail. Under
this system, you can only have a license for one
of those. You can be a manufacturer but you can't
sell it. You can be a distributor, but you can't
make it, and so forth. So if you are paying attention,

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you would then likely say, well, you just mentioned proof brewery.
They make beer and they sell it on their premises. Well,
there has been this thing called the tourism exemption. And
if you can cast your mind back decades to a
beer manufacturer that wanted to open a theme park in

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maybe the Tampa area, and they wanted to sell their
own beer at their theme park, but they couldn't because
of the three tier systems. So they lobbied the legislature,
which is what you do when you have a lot
of money, and they got a carve out an exemption.
And so now we have Bush Gardens in Tampa, which
sells bush beer. So since then, any small brewery that

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wants to sell their own beer at their brewery has
to apply for this tourism exemption. Now there are interest
groups in the state that would want to keep it
that way. If you are a distributor, you like the
distribution system, but it's antithetical to the free market, and

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so the micro Brewery Bill four ninety nine would kind
of nip it that a little bit. It really should
get some more momentum because I would love to see
the three tier system go completely away. It has no
place in a free market economy. And so that's all
I have to say about that. The three tier system

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actually mimics the old school and still in some areas
and in some quote industries, the protection rack it is
it is, and there are elements of the law where
if you once you sign a distributor contract with a distributor,
you can never get out of it. It's what's called
a perpetuity, which should be illegal, but it's not. There's

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all kinds of little caveats to this that make it.
Once you dive into it, you get more and more hypertension,
and so which cauds to which makes me drink.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
So there you have it, Thanks, buddy, Always a pleasure
to be with you. Sound nears. It will be back
with us in May as we wrap up the legislative session.
Between now and then, he'll get married and stuff like that.
So forty seven past the hour. You ever thought about

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what you find in left luggage unclaimed baggage? I mean,
how long I don't know what the statutes are and
all this stuff. I guess it's close to ninety days,
but I came across a report retailer takes possession of

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unclaimed bags after ninety days of searching for owners, and
then they redistribute the items for sale for charity or
recycling they have found freeze dried chicken feet, a script
from the nineteen eighty five movie The Goonies. A toilet seat,

(01:29:37):
a glass eye, an uncut sheet of two dollars bills,
I spice chia pets, a replica suit of medieval armor,
a nineteen forty four letters signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, A

(01:29:58):
jar of whiskey, can preserved rattlesnake, cuckoo clock, silicone pregnancy belly,
cherry shaped toilet brush, an antique magician's top hat, and
an antique mustache curler. You were trying to curl your

(01:30:19):
mustache and grow it out and curl it. You stopped? Yeah, try, No,
I did? You tried, and you stopped. Most expensive fine,
A thirty nine thousand dollars diamond ring, a twenty thousand
Rolex watch, five thousand dollars pair of embroidered Levi jeans,
and a Louis Vuittona handbag worth ninety one hundred bucks.
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you may not have to submit your return and pay
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(01:31:03):
you do have till May first if you live in
those states. Just saying, check with the IRS though, and
your tax professional for legal advice. You know what I'm saying.
Don't hold me responsible. I'm just telling you. Okay, I'm
not telling you. I'm just telling you. Two hundred and
eight Democrats voted against the Save Act. That's a piece

(01:31:25):
of legislation that makes it illegal for foreign nationals to
vote in American elections. Two hundred and they still aren't
reading the room. Democrats still don't understand why Trump got elected.
It's mind blowing. That's how pride works. Pride gets in

(01:31:45):
the way. You don't see right and wrong anymore. You
see self. That's what pride does. Tennessee quarterback out head
coach moved him on because he was reading a good
Otiating his deal for an IL, he wanted four million
for a year. We covered a lot of other ground.

(01:32:07):
It was a good show. My thanks to Salnwzo. Congratulations
sal On your pending marriage. Good for you back tomorrow.
US Congresswoman Cat Cammick and more. Have a great day friends.
God bless