Ep. 5377: Left- Handed Heresy.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday, May 12th.

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- Dr. Joe Camps
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
That's how we start. Sixty seven thousand people applauding, or
maybe one or two. Welcome friends to the Monday edition
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I know what
some of you are thinking, When are you going to
take a day off? Preston, You and Jose have been
working just endlessly, well mostly you, Jose's been here for
most of it. But I know you're like, take a day, brother,

(00:34):
I will, I will. Don't you worry about that. Hope
you had a nice weekend. It's been wet, my goodness, gracious,
can we dry out a little bit please? I was
hoping to go out and watch them golf today. Anyway,
it's Monday. On the show, we'll talk about this date
in history and mere moments. He is Jose, I'm Preston.
Ephesians two ten says this, for we are His workmanship

(00:59):
created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them. Okay. Now, Psalm one
thirty nine talks about you and I being fearfully and
wonderfully made, and that all of our days were ordained

(01:24):
by God before one of them came to be. Now
understand that God knows the choices we're gonna make. He
didn't program us. He just knows what our free will
will lead us to good or bad. The importance of
this is we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus

(01:48):
for good works, which God prepared beforehand. If you merge
those two scriptures one Psalmon thirty nine, and you look
at this verse in Ephesians two, and you recogni eyes
that you were created with gifts and talents to impact

(02:08):
the people that you come in contact with. It could
be in a circle of friends, it could be in
a circle of work relationships, it could be in just
your travels day today. We are created with a purpose,
and tapping into that is critical for you to walk

(02:32):
in a measure of well peace, because when we do
what God's created us to do, there's an inner fulfillment
that we're wired to have. We're wired to worship. It's
all about where you're going to worship. We're wired for
faith where you're going to place it. And we're wired

(02:53):
to do things for a purpose beyond ourselves. And that's
what Ephesians two is teaching us. Past the hour inside
the American Patriots Almanac, we go next here as We
start Monday, May twelfth on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Just about twelve past the hour, May the twelfth, What
do we have here? Seventeen eighty Patriot General Benjamin Lincoln
surrenders Charleston, South Carolina and more than five thousand troops
to the Brits General Sir Henry Clinton. Eighteen sixty four.

(03:50):
Some of the bloodiest fighting in the Civil War takes place.
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia, nineteen forty three. World
War Two. Excuse me, Access troops in North Africa surrender
after advances by Allied forces. Access troops bad, Allied good.

(04:14):
So that would be a layman's guide to World War
II terminology. That would be how Kamala would would describe it.
Hitler was a bad person. Hitler was a mean person.
We needed to beat him. Thank you. Come on. Nineteen

(04:39):
forty nine, Soviet ends the blockade of West Berlin, which
the United States and Britain had to overcome with the
Berlin Airlift Blockade. Okay, we'll just drop it over top
of you, duh. Today is National saf Fire. What segular day.

(05:06):
What in the world is that? It's gratitude for single
parents of special needs kids? Okay, now I got it.
Sapphire's segular e s E g U L A H man.
I'll tell you what, parents of kids that have some

(05:26):
special needs challenges. God bless you, and I know that
you are finding unbelievable joy and blessing in those children.
Well done, Well done you. I had never heard that
sapphire course means precious, segular means peculiar treasure. Okay, it

(05:47):
was like, what in the world, Now I know, Today's
National Women's Checkup Day, National Odometter Day, National Limerick Day.
Me laughing at Now? What made you laugh at that?
I thought you were gonna bust out in a limerick?

(06:09):
Oh no, I I'm okay. This is This would be
a limerick by Edward Lear. There was a young lady.
There was a young lady whose chin resembled the point
of a pin. So she had it made sharp and
purchased a harp and played several tunes with her chin.

(06:33):
So there you go, lovely, sir, Yeah, thank you very much.
What else do we have? Oh, come on, it's National
nutty Fudge Day. Now look fudge is good. Fudge is good,
but fudge with walnuts in it is next level. It's

(06:57):
just next level it is. I have to say that
there's not There are very few things that I don't
like that have chocolate one of them. I'm not a
black forest cake fan. I don't like cherries in my
chocolate cake. No, no, but man, it's just yeah, sixteen

(07:30):
past the hour, come back and tee up a few
different things next. A lot of things popping out. There's
Zolenski Bouten allegedly gonna sit down this week face to

(07:51):
face talks. They're not talking ceasefire, they're talking end of war.
And that's not even one of the big stories in
the press box. I'm just saying that's We've got sald
Newso coming in in the third hour explaining what the

(08:12):
heck has gone wrong because the legislative session has just
turned a crap on a shingle. I mean, it's just awful,
and it's so interesting to me how no lawmakers have
come on the program this session isn't that interesting. I

(08:35):
gotta believe they're embarrassed. They ought to be, they really should. Anyway,
the lead research assistant of the program flagged this story
and sent it to me, and I wrote down on
the rundown left handed heresy. Here's the headline. Left handed

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people could be at higher risk for some neurological disorders,
according to a study. Whatever I am like, I am
so attacked by I'm triggered by this. I am absolutely

(09:21):
triggered by this story. I'm just going to read parts
of it. Left handedness and certain neurological disorders go hand
in hand. A new study revealed, though the researchers and
others acknowledge potential limitations, Oh you think, well, about ten
percent of the people in the world are left handed.

(09:42):
I would point out that those of us that are
left handed are the only ones in our right mind.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
People with autism were three point five times more likely
to have the trade of being left handed, data from
over two hundred thousand individ Jewels International team of researchers.
The study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin. People who
have been diagnosed such as schizophrenia, autism, and intellectual disability

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appear to be either left handed or mixed handed. More often,
mixed handedness refers to a situation where people may use
their left hand for certain tasks, their right hand for others.
So what's wrong with that. I'm a natural left hander,

(10:35):
but I use my right hand for certain things. I
play golf right handed, I bat right handed. I can
bat left handed. I can swing a golf club left handed,
but I prefer to do it right handed. I shave
mostly right handed, though I can shave left handed and
do depending on the angle in which I need to shave.

(10:58):
Correlation doesn't imply causation. Being left handed does not mean
someone will develop autism or schizophrenia. Well, finally, some sensibility here,
not all neurological conditions showed a link to people's dominant hand.
You know what I'd say, see this is this is

(11:20):
this is me little sensitive because this is left handed. Heresy,
it just is. I would say, Okay, so you're saying autism, schizophrenia,
and maybe some intellectual disabilities are tied with being left handed.
Huh you know what that means? That means all of

(11:45):
the other mental conditions that are out there are connected
to being right handed.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Ha ha ah ha ah.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know these are these are and here's when you
say that one out of ten are left handed, It's like, wow,
I mean I feel really more special. I don't remember.

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The only time I ever faced a difficulty being left
handed was being taught how to play guitar. I was little.
I started with a ukulele because it was little, and
my instructor could not teach me because I was left handed.

(12:48):
I was naturally left handed, and so he just got
totally frustrated and said I can't do this, and I
was like, okay, thanks for making me feel crappy, jerk, loser.
Be mad at me because you can't teach me, like

(13:10):
put me in a mirror, goober.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
It was uh, that's the only time though, was learning
and I obviously I stopped right then and there. It
stunted my what would have been my burgeoning musical skills.
Because I have deeply woven into my spirit and soul music.
I love it. I'm just I guess I'm just not,

(13:40):
but I'm okay. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, Back
with the Big.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Stories Storting Show with Preston Scott Tom on news Radio
one hundred point seven WUFLA thirty.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Five minutes past the hour. We always appreciate hearing from you,
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Is the email address. Every
now and then Jose takes a phone call. We had
a gentleman call in very angry that we were talking
about God, and there's no there's no proof, there's no evidence.

(14:26):
All angry, sir are, you are under conviction, and the
evidence is all around you. God has revealed himself in
creation so that you, sir, are without excuse, as we
all are without excuse. And I can only assure you

(14:47):
that when Jesus challenged us to love God with our mind,
there are ample opportunities to do just that. By just
seeking the truth. You'll find it if you're willing. If not,
that's fine. I would say to you what I've said
to others over the years that have denied in existence

(15:10):
of God, that as the final evidence of God's wisdom knowledge.
Your name is in the Bible because it says that
only a fool says in his heart there is no God.

(15:36):
But the beauty of God is that you don't have
to believe. It's your choice. But I would challenge you
versus picking up the phone and attacking Jose or me,
because your fight's not with us, it really isn't we

(16:00):
love Jesus. Your fights with him and We'll be praying
for you. Big stories in the press box. US and
China have announced a ninety day reduction in tariffs. They

(16:24):
got some things done over the weekend. That's good, it's
very good. Under the deal, reciprocal tariffs for both countries
would be reduced by one hundred and fifteen percent, which
means that the US is going to lower tariffs on
Chinese good from one hundred and forty five percent to thirty.

(16:48):
China will reduce its levees on American products from one
hundred and twenty five percent to ten and they're going
to try to sit down now and establish a long
term They describe it as a mechanism to continue discussions
on economic and trade relationships. Whether that's in the United

(17:12):
States than China or a third country, don't know. Some
might say, well, what have we gained anything, Well, we're talking.
That's good. Still have to deal with a fentanyl issue.

(17:33):
Still have to deal with stolen intellectual property. Another big
story in the press box an earthquake in Georgia and
Tennessee that was felt into North Carolina and South Carolina.

(17:54):
Yes Saturday morning. A four point one earthquake fifteen miles
south of Merryville and was felt in Atlanta, in Knoxville,
in Asheville. My wife was telling me, boy, if she'd

(18:16):
have been on the road, she would have she would
have been in that area at that time. Now, what's
interesting is the reaction people had. There's no reports of damage,
but there's video all over of shaking dishes, rattling, drawers rattling.

(18:36):
But when you think about it, our homes aren't built
for that, and so if it got much bigger than that,
we're not We're not geared to that. We're geared for
hurricanes down here. But it's just a boy who knew.

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But there are these little tectonic plates all over. I
guess I'm always surprised when an earthquake hits this country
somewhere other than California. Anyway, forty minutes past the Hope,
big stories in the press box, more to come, stay
with us. I'm not picking on Virginia, even though it's

(19:44):
purple and not red. It ought to be a red state,
it's not. But at least they've got a decent governor. Lego,
the Lego Group is continuing to bring jobs and its

(20:06):
footprint into America, but it's doing so in Virginia, which
is interesting to me. They are investing just south of
four hundred million dollars to build a new two million
square foot warehouse in Prince George County, Virginia. This is
on top of, and I didn't know this, a factory

(20:29):
that's being built in nearby Chesterfield County. That was a
deal struck in twenty twenty two, scheduled to open in
twenty twenty seven, a one point seven million square foot factory.
It's going to employ seventeen hundred people. The the warehouse

(20:56):
will employ I guess another three hundred, So that's two
thousand jobs in the Lego company. Now, of course, don't
walk around there barefoot. What whatever you do, do do that.

(21:16):
But now let me go back to I don't understand
why anyone would move a business to any state other
than states that do not charge a personal state income tax.

(21:39):
Why would you hamstring your employees and not put them
in states where they're not going to pay income tax? Now,
Virginia's beautiful, but Virginia's got a fair size woke population.

(22:01):
Now Florida could head that way real quickly. Florida right
now looks a lot like Texas. Unfortunately, in a better
place legislatively, but it could go the way of Texas
like that. I mean, just quick, and we're watching it
happen in real time. We're watching what happens when you

(22:28):
get leadership focused on self and personal agenda over the
welfare of the state. This is this is all about
a battle of egos that we have going on here
in Florida right now. This you and I have. It's

(22:49):
like it's like when a couple guys start fighting and
their families are all around. They don't care about their families.
It's all about their personal machismo at that point. It's
that the children are scared and that people are are

(23:09):
just disgusted by it. All doesn't matter. It's about them.
It's about their ego. And that's what I feel like
is happening right now in Florida. So you know, kudos
to Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas. States with no income tact
should should be getting these kinds of of of deals.

(23:31):
We just should. But anyway, when we come back, we've
got some interesting news inside the Beltway, a series of
stories we'll catch you up on next forty six past
the hour, Monday. Good morning, everybody, Welcome to the Morning Show. Yeah,

(24:00):
when I dedicate a jumbo paper clip, and when I
say jumbo, we're talking about a good three to four
inch paper clip to a set of stories. You know,
there's a lot going on inside the Beltway otherwise known
as Washington, DC. Supreme Court said that at least as

(24:25):
of now, there's no reason to suspend the decision by
the Trump administration and the Secretary of Defense to start
removing transgenders from the military. And so, according to the Pentagon,

(24:46):
a thousand troops who identify as transgender being discharged. It
needs to happen. Those are the current diagnosis or history of,
or symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria, out they will, They'll

(25:17):
be gone. Armed forces have about two point one million
in it. This is a thousand. Yes, it matters. There
are standards the military, especially once it got past the

(25:39):
absurdity of the racial barriers that existed. Let's set that
argument aside because that was wrong and it's been righted.
So that's done. There are always going to be standards
required to serve, just like there are stands to serve

(26:02):
in a fire department, police there are just there are
certain jobs that require things there are standards to playing
professional sports. I thought when I was a kid, I

(26:25):
was going to play in the NBA, and then I thought, well,
then I'll play professional golf. And then I realized I
wasn't good enough. I could not meet the standard. Oh
that's not fair, Well, of course it is. There are standards.

(26:51):
When you apply for a job, they list qualifications. Now
they may waive them, but they would waive them for
someone that they perceive as worth waving them for that
you bring other qualities. For example, there are minimum educational
equalities qualities that are required. You need to have, let's

(27:14):
say a master's degree or a four year degree, and
maybe you have a two year degree, or maybe you
don't have a degree at all, but you have work experience,
and then you have an incredible attitude and you're just smart.
You know how to do They look at that qualification,
they say, we're going to wave those things. There are

(27:35):
times and places where people can do that, but not
because oh, he's an old fat white guy. We don't
have enough old fat white guys there. We need to
hire more old fat white guys. So I guess we
got to hire him. No, No, that's stupid. Trump wants
to dissolve three different federal agencies, the Institute of Museum

(27:56):
and Library Services, the minority Business to Development agency in
the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. District judges won't let
it happen. This is how deeply entrenched all of this
crap is. Supreme Courts apparently poised to rule on all

(28:25):
of this ridiculousness of district judges with nationwide injunctions. So
this is going to get interesting. Trump's pushing the boundaries
and he needs to in order to shrink this government back.
That's what has to happen. Our two is next. It's

(28:45):
already hour two Monday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(29:11):
Yeah boy, here we go, second hour of the radio
show known as The Morning Show with Preston Scott. In Preston,
he's Jose, I hope you had a nice weekend. It's
wet out there. It'd be dodging some weather. Don't know yet,
I have not heard. Perhaps somebody in the no can
tell me if they're going to try playing golf today

(29:34):
out at Seminal Legacy Golf Course for the NCAA Regional
Tallassie Regional Florida State is the second seed in the
men's golf regional. I was planning to walk around the
golf course today. I mean, there's the best amateur male
amateur golfer in the world is playing for Florida State,

(29:56):
Luke Clinton, who will be joining the PGA Tour probably
in June. So really was hoping to get out there.
This was my only day to do it, it looks like.
But anyway, if you know, shoot me an email Preston
at iHeartRadio dot com. This is These are the stories

(30:18):
that you know. I'm a big fan of dumping TikTok
as long as it's in the Chinese hands. I understand
that for some TikTok is a really important part of
their marketing and their branding and all of that stuff.

(30:39):
But the TikTok challenges have cost a life again. You know,
we went through the tide pods, eating tide pods. We
went through swallowing spoonfuls of cinnamon, which is absurdly stupid,

(31:02):
Sticking metal objects into the charging ports of a laptop,
I mean, just unbelievable stupid stuff in the quest for
TikTok immortality, and we have talked about this particular challenge
before it goes by the name Ding Dong ditch challenge.

(31:29):
You know, for years kids have rung doorbells and run off,
and it's on the heels of prank phone calls. You know,
when you you'd get a silly phone call on your

(31:50):
home phone from some kid that would say something, sometimes
it would be vile, and then they'd ah hang up.
In this case, a group of kids three am in
a neighborhood in Virginia kicked on a door so hard
the homeowner thought someone was trying to break in. Now

(32:16):
here's where it gets really dicey. He fired shots and
shot two of the three kids. One of them's dead,
and he's been charged with murder because there is no
castle doctrine in Virginia. The kids claimed the surviving kids

(32:39):
that they were running away, and if they were, and
if he went outside his home and fired shots at
kids retreating and leaving and he was not facing any
form of bodily harm or imminent death or danger, he's
got a problem. There are people that are saying, no,

(33:03):
you've got to you gotta show leniency. He thought his
home was being broken into, and anyone would. Anyone would.
So there are a few things here. Number one, this
is why you don't do stupid things. You don't try

(33:23):
kicking on someone's door in the middle of the night,
especially in states with a castle doctrine. But this also
speaks to something that we talk about in our personal
defense segments, wisdom and discernment and knowing the law. Unless

(33:47):
he was facing an obvious threat, and if there was
no one at the door and they were fleeing, he's
going to have a tough time arguing his case even
with the extenuating circumstances. So this story has so many

(34:09):
levels to it. It's TikTok stupid, it's kids being stupid,
it's a state without a castle doctrine, and it's also
someone a homeowner who, while maybe possessing all the justification
in the world to draw firearm and be concerned, probably

(34:31):
didn't have cause to fire rounds out at those kids.
Knowing the laws, knowing what you can and cannot do
if you possess a firearm is vitally important. Eleven passed
the hour You'll ready for this to a past girls

(35:14):
track meet in California turned into a little bit of
a quasi political rally over the weekend due to a
dominant athlete who won the girls high jump, long jump,
and triple jump, who, of course is a guy. So

(35:40):
this dude took three Blue ribbons, gold medals, first placed trophies,
whatever they're awarding away from three girls. It's incredible that

(36:07):
we are still here. Gavin Newsom famously said on the
Joe Rogan podcast that yeah, it's it's not something that
I think ought to happen. It's deeply unfair to girls.

(36:29):
But if Gavin Newsom thinks that they're they're justified in
empathizing with the trans community, solid majorities of this country
believe that this is wrong. And here we are. Now

(36:54):
there's a second story here, and I want to point
out the Supreme Court not always, but oftentimes uses what
is a historical standard, what is widespread in acceptance, and

(37:15):
what is widespread and acceptance is that boys compete against boys,
girls compete against girls, men compete against men, women compete
against women. We're not talking about the job front, although
there are occupations where the same is true. There are
certain occupations that women cannot do and vice versa. There

(37:41):
might be an individual woman that can do an individual
task and an individual man that can do an individual task.
But by and large, there are certain jobs that men
hold that women don't, and women hold that men don't
based on their biological differences. But what I've told you
is it has to get to a place where we

(38:01):
go with DNA. In Minnesota, there is a story of
Marissa Rothenberger, who switched genders at nine years of age.
He is now seventeen and pitching for Champlain Park High
School in Minnesota, northwest of Minneapolis. Is apparently one of

(38:24):
the most dominant girls softball pitchers in the state. And
it was allowed because the mother, who ought to be
brought up for child abuse, applied in district court to
alter her child's birth certificate, and so Charlie became Marissa.

(38:57):
What happens when he heads to pitch in college softball?
Supreme Court has got to deal with this. Sixteen minutes
after the hour. This was an interesting story because it

(39:35):
deals with Florida and alligators. I do not have a fear.
I have a healthy respect. I'll tell you you don't.
You don't really think of Florida as having these a predators.

(40:03):
You think of it outside the state, in the waters,
outside as in like sharks. Right, you think Florida's sharks.
That's the gym, right, But we are a hub for alligators,
and alligators are apex predators. University of Florida appropriately did

(40:25):
a study, published the results in the journal Human Wildlife Interactions,
and the topic was alligator attacks. They found, going back
to interactions with alligators all the way to the seventeen hundreds,

(40:52):
that ninety six percent of quote alligator attacks are caused
by you and me. And what's interesting about all of
this is that alligator bites, attacks, deaths related to alligators

(41:14):
occurred reading from the study following moderate risk behaviors such
as swimming or wading in areas known to be inhabited
by alligators. The highest proportion of fatal bites occurred after
high risk behaviors, such as deliberately entering alligator inhabited waters.

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In contrast, low or no risk behaviors like walking near
water or simply being present on land rarely resulted in
attacks rarely, though it did happen, overwhelming majority of bites
stem from some level of humans engaging in risky behavior
in places where alligators live. Researchers say these should not

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be called all gator attacks. They are they are lobbying
for a different terminology. Many of bites can be prevented
if humans are aware of their surroundings and minimize their
risky behaviors, such as walking small pets near bodies of
water or swimming where alligators are known to be present.

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Some of you are like, duh, but do you remember
just a few years ago. It wasn't that long ago
that Disney at one of its resorts had, I want
to say, a young kid killed by an alligator at
one of their resorts. Now, clearly Disney's in a swamp,

(42:48):
there's there's there are alligators all over the waters in
and around Disney. And I don't know if they eventually
put up perimeter fencing, and I know signage went up.
I do know that, but it's like dog gun again. Fearful,

(43:10):
no healthy, respect. Yes, And I also know that if
you're running from an alligator serpentine, do not run in
a straight line unless you can motor. The best way
to get away from an alligator is to run sideways,

(43:32):
back and forth, because they don't turn very well. But
they can climb a chain link fence. They use their tail.
They grab hold of the chain link and use their
tail to kind of prop themselves up as they go.
That's how sometimes they end up in people's backyards or

(43:53):
swimming pools when there's a chain link fence because they
can climb that thing. I I there are just certain
circumstances that I choose. Yeah, no, I maybe it's because

(44:13):
I read too much. I don't know. It's like they're
just certain times you're just not gonna find me in
ocean water, certain locations just not gonna happen. I know
there are sharks all over They're all around us when
we go in the go to the beach and wander
into the water. I know they're everywhere. I get it,

(44:35):
But I still think there are just certain times that
I don't know. I'm getting little things on the back
of my neck just talking about this stuff right now,
twenty seven minutes after the hour, Let's come back Big
stories in the press box next year in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Show with Preston Scott Morning on News Radio one UFLA.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Go in just a few minutes to Joe Camps and oh,
by the way, doctor Camps will join me next Monday
in studio. We're gonna have a long sit down with Joe,
talk about all things medical, what's going on in the profession,
his thoughts on the past president future looking forward to that.

(45:30):
We had long talked about that that we would one
day get him in here for a long visit, and
that's what we're gonna do next week on Monday, Salnuzo
comes up next hour and we'll talk about the legislative
session and the train wreck that it has become. Give
an update on where things stand. We thought the session
would be over a budget agreed to, but Nana, no, no, nope,

(45:54):
not gonna happen. Blog page. We have our Monday message.
It's start your week a little bit better off. If
you're without a church home, there you go. You've got one,
sort of at least you've got a place to get
some good solid Bible teaching. Big stories in the press box.

(46:14):
US and China have announced reduced tariffs for ninety days
so to the first of June, July, August, and then
we'll see what happens. They're cutting back tariffs a good bit,

(46:37):
not completely, as they try to work out deals. Now
China's got to come to the table and agree to
play a role in stopping the fentanyl trade and they
can because they provide a tremendous amount of the ingredients needed,

(47:00):
the support needed to make the stuff. Understand, in China
their way of looking at the world, that's just fine
to have a bunch of drug addicted people around the world. Remember,
they play the long game, so this is a real challenge.

(47:25):
The second part of this is obviously not stealing, not
using other nations as pass throughs. It's played by the
rules chi coms and everyone's gonna be fine. If I'm
walking in that room, I'm pointing out some economic realities. Okay,

(47:49):
let's just cut the crap and let's let's let's establish
a few baselines here. Your population is in ruins because
you went with that silly population control and you don't
have enough workers, and your workers are aging out, they're dying.
Your country is literally dying out. So you have a problem.
We know this. The second problem that you have is

(48:09):
that you keep so many people poor with your way
of governing i e. Communism, that you can't buy this
stuff you produce. We can, we can buy the stuff
we produce. You can't do that. So with these factual understandings,
now let's move forward in a constructive dialogue that makes

(48:30):
sense for both of us. That would be how I
and it's like you'll insult it. I don't care. Really,
this is this is big boy pants time time. It
doesn't matter. We're gonna talk factually with each other. We're
gonna put on our silicone coats and our teflon coated

(48:54):
egos and we're gonna just whatever. We're gonna talk plainly, honestly,
and if we can make a deal, great. If we can't,
oh well, I guess we'll just live on without China anyway. Atlanta,
Knoxville the surrounding area had an earthquake over the weekend

(49:14):
four point one. M Okay, that's sporty. Didn't do any
damage that we know of, but it's still an earthquake
in our part of the world. Crazy weird, right, forty
minutes past the hour, Doctor Joe Camp standing by next

(49:43):
time for some healthy expectations. That's what we do. We
start your week getting you thinking about your health. Than
we are joined by as always doctor Joe Camp's good morning. Doctor. Well,
oh he got lost, he got hung up on I
think when he got put on hold. I'm not sure

(50:05):
what happened there, but yeah, or something happened to the line,
So we're gonna have to hope he calls back in.
While we're waiting on Joe to call back in. Start
times for the NCAA Tallahassee Regional and Men's Golf delayed
thirty minutes. Florida State will hit the first t at
eight a m. And so they will be playing golf.

(50:30):
How about that. I'm a little surprised that they're playing,
given the amount of water. I thought it might require
a day's delay. But I guess they're going to try
and stay on schedule as best they can. So the
event is scheduled for today, Tomorrow and Wednesday here in

(50:51):
town at the Seminal Legacy Golf Course. But I wonder
what happened. You know, it was weird. Is Friday and
much of Saturday. Some of the cell phone carriers were
down in the region. Down down as in nothing. It

(51:17):
was crazy. And then you might get intermittent service and
when you called, you'd say, yeah, it's gonna be three
to six hours and there is an outage. We'll have
it fixed. And that was like Friday, and then Saturday
it continued. So I don't know. I don't know if
we've got something going on with phone lines here. I
hope not that would be that would be troubling. But yeah,

(51:44):
I don't have a text from John. Don't know what happened,
but perhaps something has come up and he had to
take another call and move on. All right, we'll catch
up with Joe. Well, look, like I said, Joe will
be joining us for a full almost a full hour
because there's a lot of things I want to talk

(52:05):
about with him. I want to get Joe's thoughts on
not just his background and profession, but which is oncology,
but kind of an expanded discussion on where where the
healthcare system can go to make improvements and so, well,

(52:26):
we will definitely do that on Monday. We can squeeze
in two minutes and so we'll try again. Joe, we
got about two minutes left in the segment.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry. Well, I was going
to talk about prescription drug costs, the fact that Americans
pay about ten times more than other countries, and the
President's addressing this, and you know, three out of four
adults feels like our cost of prescription jugs is tremendously expensive,

(52:58):
and if you compare us to England, Germany and other countries,
we pay about ten times more for the price of
drugs than they do, and so the Inflation Reduction Act
is about to be introduced, and the pharmaceutical industry always
is that, well, you need to blame the pharmacy benefit managers,

(53:21):
and those are people that negotiate the prices of drugs
with the government and with the insurance agencies. But I
see no reason whatsoever that we should be paying ten
times what countries like Germany and England and those types
of countries are playing. So I was going to expand
on that more. But that's the message. We're going to

(53:42):
address this issue. The President is and I'm hoping that
he is successful, because there is no reason for the
same product that we should be paying that kind of
a differential. So I think that's quite disturbing to men.
I'm glad it's being addressed.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
You know, Joe, you and I are set to have
a long visit next week. You're coming in studio with us,
I think, and that'll that'll be one of the topics
we can tee up and talk a little bit more
in depth about.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Oh, that'd be great. I would love to talk about
it because it's certainly one that just you know, there's
certain things in life that just chaps you. I just
don't know what from the same product that you would
pay ten times more. So, clearly there is something going
on in that industry that needs to be exposed.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Thank you, Joe. We'll talk again next week.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Okay, Preston, take care.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
All right, Doctor Joe camps with us this morning, and
there you go. There's there's one of the topics we'll
dive into next week. President Trump is attacking this problem
head on. That's kind of what he does. I'm good
with that. Forty six past the hour, It's the Morning Show.

(54:51):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
This is my second story to deal with animals. But
they did not make animal stories because I didn't want to.
Animal stories are about cute, cuddly, funny interactions with animals.
They're not about attacks, dismemberments, maulings. So we've got another

(55:31):
week and another gruesome bear attack fatal. Only we're not
talking Alaska, we're not talking Montana. We're not talking about
Wyoming or Colorado, Idaho, Canada, Florida. I am not kidding you.

(56:00):
Apparently this is the first recorded killing of a human
being by a black bear in Florida ever Jerome, Florida,
about seventy miles south of Fort Myers. Guy was walking

(56:21):
his dog, eighty nine year old man and about a
three hundred pound black bear. Granddaughter called nine to one
one seeing a large black bear and dragged away the owner.

(56:47):
The dog was dead, The owner was gone. His remains
were located one hundred yards from the camper where they
were camping. Florida Fish and Wildlife found some of the
killer bears DNA inside the camper. They found three bears

(57:14):
in the area, fatally shot all of them, using DNA
to identify which one's responsible, and they found remains of
the man inside one of the bear's stomachs. FWC receives
an average of sixty three hundred bear related calls annually

(57:39):
forty two documented incidents where a wild black bear made
physical contact with people. Now, this story that I'm reading
is is not well written because it says at the
end of the story that it's the second bear mauling

(58:03):
in the state in twenty twenty five, but earlier in
the article it says it's the first. Anyway, it's a
tragedy no matter what. But it's a reminder even black bears.
You know, bear experts will tell you if you encounter

(58:26):
a black bear, you get big and loud. If you
encounter a brown bear, you get small and as needed fetal.

(58:47):
You don't trigger predatory actions. But the two bears are very,
very different generally. So what triggered this one? I don't know,
but you know, you look at him at a zoo
and there, oh, aren't they? No no apex predator. And

(59:08):
even though black bears are most notably vegan, they're not
one hundred percent vegan. And yeah, so Florida, South Florida,
but still Florida, we have we have black bears up here.
We have black bears all over the state. So just

(59:29):
something keep in mind. All Right, we come back, Salnuza
will join us, and I'm just going to ask him,
how did we get here? How did we get to
a legislative session that a lot of people I talk
to say it's the worst they've seen in decades. And

(59:51):
are any of the lawmakers taking ownership for this? Any
of the leadership? Third hour coming up next? An here

(01:00:13):
we go, it's the third hour already of the morning
show with Preston Scott Monday. It's gonna get better, folks.
A lot of rain and we're gonna keep getting a
little bit of rain. But they're playing golf as of now,
allegedly out at Seminal Legacies. So the NCAA Tallahassee Regional
for Men's Golf is underway. But here in Studio one B,

(01:00:36):
I am joined for the first time since taking the vows.
Taking the vows, Sal Nuso Consumer's Defense, congratulations, Thank you
so much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
I am a happily married man for going on twenty
three days.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, they said it wouldn't last. They said it would last.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
The locks have not been changed, although ten of those
were a honeymoon, so you know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
It's Sal was kind enough to invite me to the ceremony.
I attended. It was it was beautiful, and I commented
on many aspects of it, and very happy for you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
I appreciate it. I definitely married up and am thrilled.
Got now two wonderful step kids in addition to my
two daughters, and they all, as you saw, all get
along really well. They have a lot of fun together
and so it's a beautiful thing. Nice thank you. Now
that we've got that out of it. I said before

(01:01:28):
the half hour, I have been merciless on this legislative session,
and I think I'm fair when I say.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
This has been a disaster. And it has been a
disaster strictly because through the lens of a super Republican
majority and perhaps the single most conservative governor this state
has ever had, who is delivered on one after another
after another conservative legislative accomplishment. How did we get where

(01:02:01):
we are right now, where it's so dysfunctional.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
It really is a good question, and I think it's
kind of part of the dialogue on trying to figure
out how to move forward because at its core, politics
and policy are ultimately relational in relationship minded engagements, you've
got to have trusts between parties, regardless if you're talking
about Republicans or Republicans or Republicans and Democrats. And in Florida,

(01:02:29):
we really don't have an opposition party. I mean, as
Jason Pizzo said as he was exiting stage left, he said,
or stage right, actually he said, the Democrat Party in
Florida is dead. So I think it may be helpful
to kind of unpack how we got from where we
are to here because I think it may help us
understand how we might get out. But level setting one

(01:02:53):
constitutional requirement pass the balance budget.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
There is no budget.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
We are now about a month or a half away
from the fiscal year ending, and the legislature sine died
at the end of it's sixty day term on May
whatever it was, without a budget, and so they were
going to extend. They had an agreement in principle to

(01:03:18):
come back in a couple of weeks and pass the budget,
and I believe it was on Friday, late Thursday Friday,
the entire situation blew up, and I mean by three
four days ago, and so we've got a lot of
egg on our face collectively. I think it is a
byproduct of things that have been going on for a

(01:03:39):
couple of years now, and happy to kind of dive
in and unpack and talk about kind of the sequencing
of that and maybe see where it takes us.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Well. I was going to say, when you say we,
are you really referring today, because I feel as though
that the lawmakers are broken up into a few levels. Here.
We've got the governor, we've got the legislature, and then
we've got the leaders of the legislature. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
And when I say we, I mean the collective universal
we I mean we as a state, but really we
as a party and a governing supermajority. And so let's
take us back to twenty twenty two. So the governor
won his re election in twenty twenty two, and he
went from the twenty eighteen race of thirty four thousand
vote victory to a one point five million votes, huge

(01:04:33):
in a victory, and that put in place a massive
mandate to govern as a strict conservative, and that is
what he did. So you saw the twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four legislative sessions, which were presided over
by two very constitutionally conservative leaders. You had the governor,

(01:04:54):
but then you had Speaker Paul Renner and Senate President
Kathleen Pasadomo. And the governor wanted it to become the
single most conservative term of legislative action that maybe even
Florida's history had seen. And that's pretty much what he got.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
I was going to say, that's what was delivered, all right,
that's where we are. We've got we've got lots of time,
and this to me is vitally important for all of
you to understand how we ended up where we are
right now, ten past the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven w FLA.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
All right, we're back with Salnuzo of Consumer's Defense, and
we're we're going through because honestly, all of the other
legislative things that did and did not get done take
a backseat to the old only thing that is constitutionally mandated.
The boys and girls have to get in the sandbox
and they have to play nicely and get a budget done,
and they didn't do that. Yep, you are correct, and

(01:06:10):
so here we are.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
So let's kind of continue to cast back and walk
ourselves up to the present day. So, back in twenty
twenty three and twenty four, you had Speaker Paul Renner
his and Senate Presiding Pasadomo's principles and policy goals aligned
with the governor almost if not one hundred percent, and

(01:06:33):
Speaker Renner really wanted his legacy as well to be
one where conservative policy, both economic and social was the
hallmark of those two years that he was a presiding officer.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Well, it's interesting because your colleague, doctor Bob McClure famously
says good policy is good politics exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
And so you delivered on that or they delivered on
that policy for two years. And at JMI, we published
an article calling twenty twenty three the most accomplished legislative
session of any state in the last one hundred years,
and we rattled off all of the policy wins. And

(01:07:16):
what happened as a result of that, twenty twenty four
happens and they in the election cycle, the Republicans increased
their super majority. So but now a couple of those
were a couple of legislators flip parties, but they maintained
and advanced on the conservative agenda. They maintained and advanced
in their political successes.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
And this is on the wave of Dessanus upping his
win margin by more than one million votes yep, which
is staggering in Florida politics.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
It's unbelievable because when I was a JMI, we used
to do these analyzes of you know, as we had
such massive in migration from the Midwestern states and New
England states of kind of political refugees what we can
called him. The big fear was would those individuals come
down and then vote the way they voted to turn
their own states, you know, in terrible directions, and they didn't.

(01:08:10):
They came down, they recognized what they are, refugees exactly,
and so they they voted for more Republicans. Now, you know,
did the governor pull some you know kind of factions
of the legislature along in specific votes, did some of
the more moderate Republicans from maybe some of those swing

(01:08:33):
districts have to be you know, persuaded in certain ways
to vote certain ways.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Sure, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
And what I have you know heard over time and
have come to know the governor a little bit, is
you know, is he the most touchy feely relationship minded
governor politician out there? No, that's his strength is in policy, Yes,
details his he is a wonk. Now as a fellow

(01:09:02):
nerd and wonk, I love this and I would rather
have that. But you have a dynamic between the legislature
and the governor where relationships do matter, and so relationship
building is something that you know, the many would argue
in the House that did not occur over the term.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
There's always going to be a need for a relationship
between the executive branch, whether it's federal or whether it's
state and the legislative branch. And there's no doubt that
Governor DeSantis's biggest shortcoming is that that's not his skill set,
is those relational types of parallels.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Absolutely, and yet and yet I still come back to
he pulled them along on policy, He got the agenda
that everybody was just kind of in awe of, and
then went out and the legislature increased their margin. And
so you have that, and with that, Speaker Renner and

(01:10:04):
Senate President Pasadomo kind of turnout of their time. However,
I think it may be helpful as we come back
on to talk about the way that Florida designates their
presiding officers, because it's very, very unique.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
We're going to get to that next and kind of
then what went wrong following Pasadomo and Renner's leadership. That's next.
Salnuso with Consumer's Defense on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:10:45):
Back with sal Nuso of Consumers Defense. He's been a student,
and I would argue, even a teacher in and around
legislative things in the state of Florida for a very
long time. So explain to listeners that may not understand
how the process works in the House and the Senate
and the Republican Party and how they choose their leadership.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Yeah, this is a very important thing to dissect because
Florida does it in a way that I've been to
almost every state in the country and talk with political
leaders and advocates. Florida designates their leaders in a way
unlike any other state. Now, part of this is a
byproduct of term limits, because you only get eight years

(01:11:28):
in the House and eight years in the Senate.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Juxtapose that, what do most states do well?

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
Some states who do not have term limits, they will
have a speaker until that speaker is voted out by
his colleagues or whatnot. Other states with term limits will
designate a speaker for a period of four years in
some cases, or a House or a Senate president. Others
will elect a speaker at the last moment of an

(01:11:57):
individual's term. So the way that Florida does this is
when the freshman class is a senior class, they have
the ability to designate as the class who they want
the speaker to be. Now, that sounds in theory reasonable.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
One of the.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Challenges is when they do this. They do this when
that freshman class are freshmen, so before they even really
know each other precisely, and so we now know the
lineup of speakers for the next eight years. So after
Danny Perez, it is going to be Sam Garrison. After

(01:12:38):
Sam Garrison, it will be Jennifer Kennedy. And after Jennifer
Kennedy we just learned last week looks like Mike Rodondo
will be the speaker. Designant, designant designatet and so, as
you can imagine, this presents a series of potential problems
and problems that have borne out over the twenty some

(01:13:00):
years that Republicans have been in charge. Ray Sansum, prior
to becoming speaker, was indicted and had to leave the legislature,
although important to note the charges were dropped, but they
had to designate somebody else. A number of years back,
Chris Dorworth lost his election right before becoming speaker, and
so they had to designate somebody else. I believe it
was Steve Cristal fully, so Danny Perez was designated the speaker.

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He actually was what they call a red shirt freshman,
which means he had one year of additional service on
the front end because it may have been a special
election or an open seat or something along those lines.
So he had one additional year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
He filled out a term somehow, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
And because of that and then generating goodwill in whatever
the process is for cultivating your classmates, was designated speaker
long before he became speaker.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Does the Senate do it the same way largely?

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Yes, it's a little less form in terms of I
don't know that they have actual pledge cards in the
way that the House does it. But there have been
some back and forth battles, the most notable one being
Jack lat Vala and the guy that ended up becoming

(01:14:17):
a Senate president that I cannot even remember. That is
how my brain wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
John Thrasher was no.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
No, John Thrasher was the House speaker back in the
early two thousands or late nineteen nineties. I cannot remember
the man's name who was a Senate president back then,
but his leadership priority was the reservoir for the Lake Oguchobee.
And so Danny Perez has been in line to be
speaker for a number of years, and over that time

(01:14:51):
you begin to learn the protocols and processes. You become
part of the leadership track. You begin to take over
specific committee chairs and earn how the process kind of
works itself out enough prior to becoming your designated speaker
term of two.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Years, we may not have time to peel this apple completely.
But the House Speaker, Danny Perez, rolled out a videotape
where he highlighted previous speakers, but he left the speaker out.
What it was sad about it. This was a pretty
bold snub in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
So we have had Republican Speakers of the House for
twenty five years, and so in kind of celebrating that,
the Speaker had the House Communications Office prepared this really
really wonderful video celebrating twenty five years of House leadership,
and he had segments for each speaker over that time,

(01:15:50):
and it featured them in the video, their name, the
years they served, really really touching. Interestingly enough, he went
from Richard Corkoran to Chris Sprows and left out the
two year term of Speaker Josea Leva, And there was
no way that that was not deliberate. There was some

(01:16:13):
contentiousness between the two. UH Speaker Aliva had been vocal
in his concerns about whether or not Speaker Perez was
actually conservative, and in a reply actually on x SO
It's public actually called him a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
Interesting. More to come with Sal Newzoh of Consumer's defense
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with

(01:17:00):
Salnuzo Consumer's defense, and we're kind of talking through how
we are where we are, and we now come to
I mean, quite frankly, I have pointed out that, you know,
the indicator is that the House Speaker with the tax
proposal really scuttled everything in the budget process. Yeah, yeah,

(01:17:24):
that's a good Well, I'm sorry. And you pointed out
that there seemingly was an axe to grind in that
little video that they rolled out that didn't include if
one speaker one. Yeah, and so, but that's not all
that's happening. No, And I think it's important to point out.
So Speaker Perez comes in and he really wants to

(01:17:45):
in his mind, re establish the legislature's identity is a
coequal branch of government. And there may have been some
in the caucus that felt like the governor just rolled
over them, and that may be a point of contention
in there may or may not be truth to that. However,
he comes in and he's younger, he's from Miami, he's

(01:18:08):
Cuban a little bit more aggressive than prior speakers might
have been, comes out guns blazing immediately. The governor called
this for the special session to deal with immigration policy,
the Condo safety issue, ballot initiatives. The Speaker and the
Senate President immediately said, no, we do not need this

(01:18:29):
special session. We can tackle these issues in regular session.
But it's not as if the governor blindsided them. He
met with them privately before this was ever even an
issue publicly. That is correct, and so, but then it's
telling what they did do. So they're required to come
in because the governor did call the special session, So
they gavel in, immediately gabble out, and then they gavel

(01:18:54):
back in their own special session, which to me indicates,
as an observer to this, it's all theater. It's all
theatrics designed to set a tone, and that tone took
us all the way through the remainder of the session.
And that's the way a policy guy like yourself would
look at it. I more of a people or lay

(01:19:17):
person view of this, looked at it and said, this
is childish. You say theatric fair. I called it childish,
and I maintained that it's childish and it was indicative
of where they were coming from. You know, it's telling
to me, sal that for the first time. I mean,
is there a more conservative person on radio in Florida

(01:19:38):
than me? I don't know of one. Maybe there is,
But the fact of the matter is I'm in Florida
State Capitol and this is the first time I can
remember where I didn't have one single lawmaker agree to
come on this program.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
That to me is is shocking. I will say, because
I've been with you for many years, you have always
had members who have come on and talked through their bills,
their committee chairmanships, the speakers and so forth. So yeah,
it's a let me tell them, let.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Me let me run this observation by you and get
your position, your thought on this. If I'm just someone
advising the House and the Senate, I would remind them
ever so gently, or maybe not so much. Each of
you were elected by a very sliver of this state,
and the governor was elected by the entire state and

(01:20:30):
represents the will of the people of this state far
more than an individual lawmaker. Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
And you would not be the first to make that claim.
And I don't discount it at all. I would say
that there is an assessment by many in the legislative
chamber that they have not been viewed as a coequal

(01:20:56):
branch as they are designed to be, and therefore this
is all a part of their strategy to become one.
I disagree with it, and I think from a policy side,
we have suffered because of yes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
So yeah, And that's the bottom line. It doesn't matter
whether you like the person or don't like the person.
Is the idea good and is it in keeping with
conservative ie Republican party ideals? You got it. That's all
that should matter. Yep, not who the inventor of it is.
You are, in my opinion, one correct. Someone once said

(01:21:32):
great things can happen if no one cares who gets
the credit. Maybe that's something some lawmakers need to think about.
Forty minutes past the hour, more to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Come on news Radio one point seven ufla.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Final segment with Salmuso of Consumers Defense. So we're at
a budget stalemate between the House and the Senate. Yes,
and then we've got the governor sitting out there where
We're not sure where they are, but as of right now,
the Senate is closer. It would seem to the governor.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
Well, at one point, about a week or two ago,
we had an agreement in principle between the House and
the Senate to finalize a compromise budget that would cut
the sales tax rate, that would include some things from
the Senate. It wasn't as robust as the House had
initially proposed, and they would appoint a special task force

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to study property tax relief for twenty twenty six. The
Governor began holding some roundtables, I believe, last week, and
in his very first one, he said that he considered
the sales tax cut Florida last policy, and any Florida
last policy would be da upon arrival, which means he

(01:23:07):
would veto the budget when it got to him. And
that now I'm going to speculate at this point, because
I don't know. My thought is is that the House
probably had enough votes to override that. I don't know
that the Senate did, And it could very well be
the case that the Senate President polled his members, discovered
that they did not have the votes to override the veto,

(01:23:29):
and therefore realized, all right, well we've got to do
something different. And so now it looks like the Governor
and the Senate are at least temporarily aligned against it.
And I say against, but against the House on the
specifics of the tax part of the budget.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
What kind of time frame that we're looking at before
they sit down and actually figure it out.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
And this is very important because the fiscal year ends
June thirty, the new fiscal year begins July one. They
have to have a budget set and approved and signed
and enacted by then, or we have a Florida version
of a government shutdown. And I that would be so
embarrassing and I don't know how that would even look.

(01:24:18):
But I have no doubt there will be a number
of articles coming out in the next week or two
talking about what to expect should this happen, because they
have they're going to vote on a extension of the
session to June thirty, just to be able to come
back whenever they need to. And then what they're going
to do is somehow negotiate something that will end up

(01:24:42):
being what they land on.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
I did read somewhere or hear that the Republican Party
of Florida and the chair Heavan Power are kind of
inviting all of the leadership in the Governor's office to
come together for a kind of negotiation strategy to figure
out the exit ramp for this. We're definitely in our
unchartered territory. I mean we've had delays on the budget,

(01:25:07):
they'd have to come back a week later or something
like that. We have not had something like this in
my time in Florida policy, which is coming up on
thirty years and quite possibly in modern history.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
If you were to make a educated guess on where
you think this lands, where does it land?

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
My guess is that they will arrive at a budget
that is closer to where the governor wants it to be.
If there is a sales tax cut, I do not
see it being anything that the House Speaker would be
able to claim success on my government.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Sales tax cut is not smart.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
I don't believe it to be the smartest use of
a tax cut, given Florida's specifics, the fact that we
are a heavy tourism state, that we are a state
that I believe it's somewhere between twenty five and thirty
percent of the sales tax revenues are paid for by
people who are not residents.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
And we don't have a personal income tax, and we
will buy stuff. Yeah, and we don't have a personal
income tax. So my guess is is that we do
not get anything in this budget that is going to
be a monumental or transformational shifty, but that it may
tee up something very big for twenty twenty six, which

(01:26:32):
I've been arguing for a while. If you're going to
do a big tax cut, you might want to consider
doing it in an election year cycle anyway. And so
that would be my educated guess. But as I have
come to find out this year, educated guesses are heavy
on the guests and light on the educated. Thanks for

(01:26:54):
the time, always a pleasure of my friend sal News Oh,
Consumers Defense my guest on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
I haven't a moment to lose. Great battery roundup is Saturday,
So just collect your lithium ion, nickel, metal high dride,

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No automotive batteries, no vakepens, no batteries every more than
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fans in Panama City. Wants you to go to an
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fan and leave it there. Bay County Council on Aging
will collect all the fans at the end of the
month and distribute them to senior adults that have need
Here in Tallahassee working with Westminster Oaks and WFLA combining

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along with Pepsi Refreshment Services. So you can donate a
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(01:28:24):
end those out all right tomorrow on the program, Justin
Haskins will join us manly minute money talk, and of
course a bunch more.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
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Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
All right, look at the radio program in one hundred
and eighty seconds or less, China us they're going to
kind of cool things down for about ninety days. The
stock markets are jumping. I don't put any stock in that.
I I want to see us hold strong. Trump will

(01:29:03):
this is about giving China time to really think about
its choices. That's just my view of it, obviously, you know,
I'm not. If I were in there, I would be
bringing donuts and I would be bringing a notepad, and
I would sit down with a couple fact sheets and

(01:29:24):
I'd point out exactly what we know about China, and
I'd say, now, you let me know when you're ready
to talk. I'll be here eating donuts, and I just
let them think about things. Earthquake over the weekend Saturday morning, Atlanta, Knoxville,
everywhere in the area. It was four point one far away.

(01:29:47):
It was felt as far away as North and South Carolina.
Sheesh earthquake, Yeah, black bear muls a Florida man and
his dog happened down in Jerome, Florida, which is south
of Fort Myers. University of Florida. Studying the reasons why

(01:30:08):
alligators attack people, They say ninety six percent of the time,
it's our fault. Of course, the home of the Florida
Gators would blame everybody else, just saying talked about trans
athletes once again taking medals, awards, trophies, platform placements from girls.

(01:30:32):
When is this insanity going to stop thousand troops who
identify as transgender being discharged from the military. That's from
the Pentagon Supreme Court getting ready to tackle nationwide injunctions
by district courts. This will be good Lego spending some
money in Virginia and left handed people at higher risk

(01:30:55):
for neurological disorders, and I call that left handed heresy.
We'll be back tomorrow. I have an awesome day.