Ep. 5428: Postal service raising rates for the holidays.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
There's you were much.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome friends. Monday, August the eleventh, that's the morning show
with Preston's got great to be with you this morning
as we begin another week only this is a special week.
It is the first day of school for most of Florida,
at least our part of Florida. For certain Georgia got

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started last week, which is it just doesn't seem right
to me. I'm sorry, it just doesn't. I don't accept
that they're making these kids if you're gonna just have
two months of summer break year around school. I'll talk
about it later. We got to begin where we are

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to begin. Second Thessalonians, Chapter one, Paul, Silas and Timothy
hanging out and Paul's writing to the Church of the Thessalonians.
He says, grace and peace to you from God, the Father,

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the Lord Jesus Christ, and he goes on to end
this portion with this, We constantly pray for you, that
our God may make you worthy of his calling, that
by his power he may bring to fruition your every

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desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.
We pray this so that the name of the Lord
Jesus may be glorified in you, and you and him
according to the grace of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here's what I want to underscore, that he may bring

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to fruition your every desire for goodness and every deed
prompted by faith qualifiers two of them goodness and faith.

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We don't define goodness through our own value system. We
define goodness through the value system of God's word and
faith as in our faith in God. And I think
that's something that we miss sometimes is that God's not

(02:47):
going to prosper you just because what are you doing
that is worthy of God prospering. Those definitions should be
guiding us in our conduct and our thoughts. Those are

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the things that God prospers. Ten past the hour, Take
a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac, start to unpack
the week known as The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
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Speaker 1 (03:49):
August eleventh, eighteen sixty The first successful American silver mill
begins operations near Virginia City, eighteen seventy seven. Astronomer Asaff
Hall discovers the two moons of Mars. That's no small feat.

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But if you really think about it, go back to Galileo.
How do he do it? I mean, yeah, I don't know.
I'm fascinated by that stuff. Nineteen twenty four, the first

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newsreel of the United States presidential candidate, showing Calvin Coolidge
and Robert M. La Foulette, filmed in Washington, DC. Nineteen
twenty four. You move forward to nineteen sixty five, you
got several days of writing in the Watch Neighborhoods of

(04:58):
La underway, And in nineteen ninety two, the Mall of America,
the largest shopping mall in the United States, opens in Bloomington.
That was a bittersweet day the day that I visited
that place. Now I don't remember exactly when I did
a because they tore down Metropolitan Stadium, which is a

(05:23):
large part of where I grew up as a kid
hanging around the Minnesota Twins in those days. And so
they tore down the met and they build this mall.
It is very difficult for me to explain to you
how big this mall is the Mall of America. Now,

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I don't know if they've solved their gang problems, because
eventually it was it was hurt by gang activity. There
they have an indoor roller coaster at this mall. It

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is at I believe at least three levels. It is massive.
The footprint, it would take you a full day to
walk the entire mall one floor of it. So you
can imagine now if you're walking each section, each floor

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of the mall. You're talking about a tourist destination. To
go to all of the shops in the mall, it
would take you a couple of days, two to three
days to see everything. It's it's again, it's it's very
difficult to put your brain around. Today's Playing the sand day. Okay,

(06:55):
it's Global Kinetic Sand Day. I had to look it up.
Do you know what kinetic sand is? You do? Really?
How do you know what kinetic sand is? I have
a lot of useless knowledge, and that's one of them.
See I did, I guessed what I looked at the picture?

(07:17):
Is that what that is? So it's sand like you
you buy it to play with it indoors. It never
dries out, It holds its shape and they call it
kinetic sand. Okay, it's it's along the lines of floam
and stuff like that, these products that kids play with,

(07:39):
the mush and smush and and it holds it. Only
in the case of kinetic sand, it just it doesn't
dry out. You just play with it endlessly. National Sons
and Daughter's Day. Every day is National Sons and Daughter's Day.
Come on National Presidential Joke Day and National raz Berry

(08:00):
Bomb Day b O mbe. I should point out that
we clearly have a raspberry theme to the month of August. Right,
Good Grief sixteen minutes past the Hour, Back with more
of The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Favorite memory from

(08:37):
your day's going to school? The first day of school.
What did you enjoy the most about getting back to
school today? Is the first day? So first, sorry, first day. First,
Please slow down. If you live in the Capital city,

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remember they got cameras reading your license played in every
school zone basically, and they are gonna ring you up. Now,
there's part of me that I get it. Slow down,

(09:24):
But if the if they're running these things outside of
school zone hours i e. When the kids are coming
and going from school and they're still running these things
I've got. I got mixed feelings about that. They're gonna
give you ten miles per hour. But if the kids

(09:46):
are president see, I don't even like that. If it's
when the kids are being dropped off and they're walking
across the street, I don't think you gotta have ten
miles an hour at all. But point of the matter is,
remember their kid's going to be heading to buses. It's

(10:08):
going to be dark for you know, in certain areas
it's gonna be darker than others. Some of the bus
stops are going to be You've got to be kidding me.
Who thought of this? Immediately call the schools. Call the
school Your kid's safety is the most important thing. Let

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me also remind you parents code words. Make sure you
give your son your daughter a code word if you
pick them up. If anyone ever say, look, I'm not
picking you up. I will not send anybody to pick
you up unless they say this. And make sure your

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kids have that memorized and they do not share it
with anybody. You've got to keep your kids safe. They're
your kids. You live in an apartment complex, they're your kids.

(11:23):
Code words. Teach them what to do if something goes wrong,
keep them safe. They're your kids. But first days of school,
I remember some people got freaked out if they didn't
have new clothes, and some still do. I was like

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the dead opposite. I did not want to wear new
clothes the first day of school, or the first week
of school, or the first month of school. I didn't
want to. I didn't want any of that. Just let
me wear my clothes.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Pictures depends on the year. There are some parents that
think we've got to mark every single start of the
school year every year, new picture. That's good. If that's
a tradition for you, snap a photo when Junior and Missy,
you're getting ready to head out the door, when you're
ready to drop them off, before you drop them off,

(12:26):
get them before they even get in the car at
the house. But that's another thing that's changed. Kids riding
bikes to school, riding the bus. Riding the bus is
still a thing in certain places, but not many ride
the bus, parents pick up drop off. I get it,

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but boy has that changed. I remember in elementary school
riding my bike four or five miles one way to school,
up a mountain, down a mountain, up a slight grade
and then on the way home it was down a
slight grade and then up a mountain, and I mean

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up a mountain. Who that was brutal certain times of
the year in Arizona, climbing a mountain when it's hot. Yeah,
I pedaled about so far and then it was like, yeah,
I'm walking my bike the rest of the way. No way,
this is ridiculous. I'm not into mountain climbing with a

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bike anyway. First day of school, Let's make it a
good one. Don't yell at your kids. Don't yell at
your kids before they go to school. Ever, It'll wait,
it'll wait. Make sure they have a good day, Bless them,
Pray with them. That's why we do these segments at
the start of the show. Pray with your kids to
start the day. Twenty seven past the hour, Big story

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in the press box coming up next.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's the m A D Radio Network where we challenge
you to make a difference in your world with the
morning show Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Bright Dining and push it down. Let's start a morning
show at Preston Scott, how are you? He would say,
I'm pressing. Hope you had a nice weekend, got some
stuff done. Whatever it is you wanted to do or
not do, Maybe just laid around and just chilled. That's cool.
Big stories in the press box this morning. Postal Service

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will be temporarily raising rates again this holiday season, so
be prepared now. They raised prices seven point four percent
last month alone, And what we don't know is the
exact dates they're going to raise these prices. They're calling

(15:03):
it peak season pricing, otherwise known as holiday shopping season,
when you're mail in packages and stuff. They will be
raising prices for Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage,
and Parcels Select. No other products or services will be affected.

(15:27):
Prices will be up between forty cents and seven dollars,
depending on the zones, and that is for Priority Mail,
USPS Ground Advantage. Priority Mail Express prices will be up
between a dollar ten and sixteen dollars, depending on again

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the zone. So there you go. I'm just making you
wear I got I got nothing. The Postal Service is
now starting to get to a point where I fear.
What's happening is they've gotten to that point where the
service is, in some regards obsolete not all. A lot

(16:13):
of people are being billed via email paperless billing, quote unquote,
and so what three quarters of what you get as
junk mail now maybe more? And so because of that,
and then the rate increases, it's gonna they're going to

(16:33):
make themselves less attractive. They're not gonna help themselves. But
they're gonna have to figure that out. President Trump considering
an effort to I don't know how a president does this,
reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, trying to remove

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marijuana from a list of scheduled drug Schedule one controlled substances,
make it a three drug. I think it's a huge mistake.
Here's what stood out in the story. Guests at a
Trump fundraiser where he discussed it included Kim Rivers, chief
executive of True Leave. The research is overwhelming. The THC

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in today's marijuana is remarkably more potent, powerful, ergo devastatingly
damaging to people. The research is undeniable that secondhand smoke
hurts children and teenagers. It hurts their brain formation. That's

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not even debatable at this point. Third, the states that
have legalize it have regretted it. But anyway, Mexican's president,
Mexico's president, I still struggle with Claudias Shinbaum being the
president of Mexico, it just doesn't fit. It would be

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like the Prime Minister of Israel being Carlos Alvarez. I mean,
it just doesn't fit. But anyway, apparently there's a report
floating around that Trump has signed a classified directive authorizing
US military to take action against cartel operations inside the

(18:35):
Mexican border. Now here's what I would be saying to
the Mexican president. You have thirty days to deal with
this problem. If we have intelligence that tells us where
cartels are, we will strike. Just going to tell you
we're done. I've long believed in that mode of operation.

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If you're not going to fix the problem inside your
border that is plaguing our nation, we will. It's just
that simple. And if you don't like it, take it
up with the UN by the way they meet in
our country. Just saying, and I just thought this was interesting.
UH socialists mam Donni Zoora and Mamdani running for UH

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mayor in just two months spent almost thirty four thousand
dollars on private security. This is the guy wants to
defund police and the group he hired get this brands
itself as quote a proud employer of New York Police officers.
So they hire off duty NYPD officers for their security team.

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And that's the group Mam Donnie wants to defund. Now
he's out there making commercials trying to say that not really,
he just wants to reorgan it. No, no, no, uh huh no.
And it's also interesting that he had security guards, masked
security guards and cell phone jambers at his wedding at
is you gonden compound his family's uganden compound. There is

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no way, man, you let this snake in. It's all
on you, New York. There's a part of me that
kind of hopes you do it really is forty one
minutes past the hour, said train Wreck Syndrome.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Beyond on news radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
We are going to take some calls next hour, and
I just I'm gonna let you weigh in if you want.
I think most law enforcement officers and most doctors that
work in an emergency room will tell you full moons
something happens to people a lot of people, not everybody,

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but a lot of people, a lot of people. All
I know is we were in a full moon cycle
over the weekend. OMG, we were almost to full moon
on Friday. We got to it overnight. I think it was.

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The evidence was everywhere, the stuff I watched, the things
I observed. I looked at my wife. I said, I'm
talking about this. I'll clarify in a little bit. Got
a note here. First day of school, of course, Dave

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writes in Rode The bus bus stop was across the
street from our house. The bus came from the right,
picked up the kids, and proceeded on its way. Remember now,
the US came from the right. As far as I
could see, there were no doors on the bus because
I could not see one. I I agonized over how

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to get on the bus, so much so that I
remember it sixty five years or so later. Well, when
you think about it, the bus is coming from the right,
so it pulls up in front. There are no doors
on the left side of a school bus. How do
they get on? How am I supposed to get on
the bus? That's great observation. Anyway, just reminding you kids

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are out this morning, and oh, by the way, around
the high schools there are first time drivers driving to school,
and they'll be driving from school later, and I mean
just it's look it was when I was driving this morning,
four thirty this morning, it was busier than normal. It

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was busier. I'm just telling you, everybody, slow down. Speaking
of schools not good news, but update. Remember May twenty two,
the uh school shooting rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
They still haven't released those records, and so ton of

(23:27):
media organizations sued the district in the county. You know,
nineteen students were killed, two teachers were killed, and police
basically just sat there. It was surreal to learn what happened.
Texas Appeals Court upheld in July a lower court's ruling

(23:51):
that the records have to be released. They're still going
to fight it. Nearly four hundred officers waited more than
seventy minutes. That's unconscionable to me. The district is expected
to release police records and nine to one one call records,
evidence logs, body warn security camera footage, all of it.

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So hopefully they'll learn more. I just don't care to know.
We don't need the name. We just learn what happened,
learn from it all, right. Forty seven past the Hour, The.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Morning Show with Preston Scott on news radio one hundred
point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Why are local tracks not open to the public. The
problem is spreading. Will Color County Now writing about it?
Why has the Wall Color High School been closed this summer?

(25:15):
Part one of a two part series. Steve Steiner, inter
Managing editor, writing about it for the Chronicle Online. There
is no reason for the grounds to not be open
when school is not in session, When school's out, the

(25:44):
track and field team's not out there on the track,
football team's not out there practicing. People ought to be
allowed to run the track. When did this become an issue?
Why Leon County schools? It's been a long standing problem.

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People that want to train. There are young people that
want to train. They don't want to just run when there's,
you know, something going on. They want to run in
the summer, they want to run year round. They want
to run and people want to run. And oh, by
the way, the taxpayers pay for it. We're just asking
why what is unreasonable about leaving these these tracks available

(26:32):
for people to jog around. I don't get it. I
do not get it. So I signed a petition. I
don't know that it'll make a bit of difference, but
It's like, whatever, come on, just stop it. Guy in Wacolla,
the superintendent schools is his statement is just nonsensical. Richard Meyer,

(26:58):
It just doesn't make any sense. It's anyway, we're keeping
an eye on that. We're just we're gonna keep an
eye on that. All right. Here's my question, what is
your opinion? Does the full moon affect people's brains and

(27:23):
cause them to act weird? I've you know, I spend
time looking at this over the weekend. I looked it up.
AI says, Nope, no strong evidence for behavioral effects. Whatever.
That's AI. Course, artificial intelligence. The brain of artificial intelligence

(27:45):
isn't surrounded by water.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I mean, look the moon, the lunar cycle impacts tides, right,
am I? Right? Of course, I'm right. We pay attention
to high tide and low tide based on the lunar cycle.
The word lunacy comes from it. Hello, if you talk

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to JD. Johnson and Charlie Strickland, they will tell I
know JD will pretty sure Charlie would agree. There is
absolutely something that happens to people, now, not all people.
That's something my wife and I talked about this weekend
as we watched weirdness unfold. I want to know what

(28:39):
you think does a full moon cause some people to
behave weirdly, strangely, stupidly unusually? Emergency room people will tell you.
They'll tell you it's different, full moon different. What do

(29:01):
you think does it in? Why? Why do you think
it happens? What have you observed? I'm just be curious.
Eight five zero two zero five to b FLA. You
don't have to call in. I've got plenty to share,
but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Does
a full moon cause people to act weird? It's the
first day of school. Drive safely out there, everybody. Take

(29:23):
your time, second hour here. It's August eleventh, Monday, and
the first day of school for most of the kids
in the listening area in Florida, Georgia started last week,
depending on the county you're in in Georgia, depended on
determined the day. But today's the first day for most

(29:46):
of Florida. And I'm reminding you just take your time
back at day un a notch and remember their kids
going to be around, kid's going to be driving on
the roads. That in and of itself is a game changer.
The question I'm taking calls about is this, Does the

(30:12):
full moon change people's conduct and behavior and not everybody?
There are some people doesn't change affect them at all.
There's some some evidence to suggest that the full moon
does impact people with bipolar disorder. The fact of the

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matter is that our bodies are made up of, you know,
depending on each person, fifty five to seventy eight percent water,
and given that the water is impacted dramatically by tides
because of the lunar site, there's a lot of belief

(31:05):
that it's got to have some effect on people. But
what do you think before I get into what I've
experienced in the last lunar cycle, which was Friday Saturday, Sean,
what do you think does it impact people and why
do you think it?

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Hey, Preston, thanks so much for taking my call. I
have a different theory and I can go into why
I believe this, But I think it's more that people
are just able to see easily at night, so you
get larger crowds out and the more people congregate, especially
at night, the more likely something weird happens. Sallve this
a little bit with the military, you know, and the

(31:41):
other side of it, is just rule of correlation. Crime
goes up during summer, so do ice cream sales. The
two aren't correlated. It just happened to be more people
are out during summer.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, but it's not just the summer. I mean full
Moon's happened year round.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yeah. No, that was just my example. Like correlated. I mean,
it's like at night time with the full moon, there's
more light out, more likely people will be out because
they can see better.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
But that doesn't necessarily mean behavior. See JD. I'll tell
you to till he turns blue, that there is an
absolute change in the conduct of some people during a
full moon.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Yeah. I wouldn't have an answer to him.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Maybe.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
I know you said it just before I jumped on
that it's potentially tied to some mental change like EHD,
But I can't say that I've actually seen it firsthand myself.
But you know, my great assault, I'm not a great
point of reference.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I guess I got you. Sean, thanks a lot. I
appreciate it, and uh, thanks for calling in. Let's go
to Patricia. She called eight five zero two zero five
to be fla. What do you think?

Speaker 7 (32:52):
Hey, Well, I'm not really sure either, Like Sean, that.
I can tell you that years ago a doctor told
me that they had a lot of bleek quote bleeders
on in full moon cycles, that there was a lot
of that going on. So I think that has a
lot to do with emergency room issues. On top of
the fact that I do think that there are more

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people out because it's brighter outside and more likely that
they're going to get into trouble. But I think that
it's possible because of what you were saying about the
tides in the water, that all of that may have
to do with the mental things that are going on
with people and with bleeders.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Okay, Patricia, thank you, appreciate you sharing your considerations with us.
We've got more calls coming in right now. Eight five
zero two zero five to b FLA. You are welcome
to join me. I can tell you that over the
course of years, I'll find myself driving on the roads,

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and it's not necessarily at night. It's in that time
period where it's like Friday morning, I came to work
and I was like, Okay, we're almost in a full
moon here, and so Friday afternoon and early evening to
the full moon cycle which was that night and into

(34:17):
Saturday morning. There was absolutely a change in the behavior
of people on the roads. Driving is impacted to me
dramatically to the point where I can look at a
given day and go, there's got to be a full moon,
and then sure enough, I'll look and yep, full moon.
It's just anecdotal to be sure. But we'll get to

(34:42):
Kim and then Mark and then Jimmy. What do you think?
Ten past the hour? Full moon? Does it mess with people?
But not all, just some?

Speaker 3 (34:54):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Does a full moon affect humans? I just want to
know your thoughts, anecdotally or not. Kim, thanks for calling.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Good Morning pressedon start off. First of all, yes, one
hundred percent it does. I have worked in long term
care nursing rehab for thirty four years and it's kind
of an ongoing I wouldn't say joke, but running understanding
that when there's a full moon or one that's about
to be a full moon, like within like twenty four

(35:40):
to forty hours a day or two, patients and residents
will become unsettled, agitated. Those that are diagnosed bipolar it's
even worse. Okay, so we kind of out prep ourselves
and pay medical attention to medications because one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Tell me this.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
In your profession, do you mark, like the work calendar
for the week when a full moon's coming, do you
make a note of it?

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
We're hyperaware and vigilant with behaviors, residents that may wander,
those that become combative or agitated, we keep a closer
eye on them. So yes, and my and my experience
was just thirty four years in long term care and
rehab centers. Yes, it does.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Thank you so much. I appreciate hearing that. That's that's
that's good observational data. That's how I would qualify that mark.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
What about you, I'd say one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
The moon can affect people, affects our emotions. We you know,
we we see how the moon interacts with the tide,
with the water your body is made up of, you know,
sixty to seventy percent water for some people. And you
know that that moon is interacting with your biology and
it's it's affecting your motions that I've seen it in

(37:01):
people and and myself. So yeah, that's where the word
looting comes from from the lunar cycle.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, I mentioned that earlier. That lunacy dates back to
the fifteenth century, and it goes completely with the lunar cycle.
So yeah, I agree, Thank you, Mark, I appreciate that.
Let's go to uh, Jimmy, who's standing by. Good morning, Jimmy,
Come on, President.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
Absolutely. I worked sixteen years in Department of Corrections out
at the prison, about half that time with a night shift,
and we probably had twice as many disciplinary issues during
the loonor cycle. Like it was crazy. How the moons
affected them.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Was it primarily the I don't know how to put this.
Was it the people that the inmates that kind of
had emotional issues, mental issues?

Speaker 9 (37:56):
I think it was a more broad okay, because even
when you made your rounds at night, they were just
more inmates up, more inmates active, you know, and the
more activity.

Speaker 8 (38:07):
Had of course more problems you had.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Gotcha.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
But you can ask anybody in law enforcement or anybody
in corrections and they will tell you that on the
full moons, they are busy. They know they're going to
have a busy night at night.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Jimmy, thanks very much, I appreciate it. Let's go to
Dave Hi, Dave.

Speaker 10 (38:25):
High, President.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
I was in law enforcement, but that's not why I called.

Speaker 10 (38:29):
I was very good bipolar woman that destroyed my life,
and I wish I would have kept the record because
I didn't think of this then. But that's not why called.
My mother worked in Miami in the seventies. In the seventies.
She was the secretary for five doctors in the psych
ward to Jackson Memorial Hospital in the seventies, and she

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would come and tell me stories about the whole lunar
cycle full moon thing when I was ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen years old, and I didn't believe her, but she
told me these stories routinely about how busy it got
throughing the lunar cycle. That's my comment.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Thank you, Dave, I appreciate it. We have two more
callers and that's it. We're going to take two more callers,
and so if you're on hold right now, stand by
because I have to share what happened. What happened besides
the crazy drivers, which I dealt with, and I mean

(39:31):
nuts nuts, I had something happen that just I looked
at my wife, I was like, what was that? Got
to share that? But we have we got Michael or
is that Michael online? Four? And is that Lee Online three.

(39:52):
Oh perfect, All right, you guys are next and that's it.
No more calls. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott,

(40:15):
most law enforcement and apparently corrections as well as emergency
room personnel. We'll tell you that things tick up quite
a bit when there's a full moon. And though Lee
had to ditch us, Michael's still hanging on. Michael, what

(40:35):
are your thoughts on the topic here?

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, just like you, Preston, I noticed in the traffic
I mean you don't even have to look at the
face of the moon. You could say, okay, he gonna
tallerans can't drive it begin with. But they're like ten
times word. But also personally, I can tell when it's
full moon. You know, after I work hard all day,

(40:58):
take a shower, go to bed, but I can't sleep.
I know it's a full moon. I mean I'll go,
I'll look out the window. Depths full moon. So I mean,
I don't know what's going on, but every time it's
a full moon, I just have trouble sleeping during.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
All right, Michael, thanks for hanging on with me and
uh and sharing your thoughts on this. Let me tell
you what brought this all up. Friday, my wife and
I are running some errands, and I'm noticing the drivers
are just beyond crazy. Now again not all so clearly,

(41:39):
some people, in my opinion, are impacted by a full moon,
while a lot of others are not. Why. I don't know.
Is it because the water in the brain and all
of that gets affected differently in certain people that are
wired a certain way or have a certain predisposition. I
don't know. I do not no. But then this happened.

(42:03):
We're leaving the grocery store. We're shopping some pleasure. I'm
walking towards my car. I hit the remote start, get
the air conditioning running. A little early park next to
me is I'll say, a woman in her thirties. She

(42:24):
was clearly befuddled by the fact that my car remote started.
That happens. People are befuddled by that. I was befuddled
by that when I first did it. So she's loading
up for groceries. I my wife said, I'm going to

(42:48):
take the cart and put it in the cart caddy
while you put the groceries in the back of the car.
So I'm putting the groceries in the back of the
car and the ladies on you know, were parked, and
she's to my right, and she's got her doors open
in the backseat to load her groceries on that same
side where my wife would normally get in, So there's
no interaction of any kind. No one's doors are back, nothing, nothing.

(43:12):
I get in my car and she shoots me a
look and mutters profanities. And it was to the point
where I was like, excuse me type interaction. I'm getting
the side eye and a bunch of profanities for what

(43:36):
I'm trying to figure out. And I mean, it was
just and all of a sudden, it was like remember
now press full moon. It was just so bizarre and

(43:56):
over the top. She never got a good enough look
at me for me to think that she's in a
liberal who hates my radio program just happens to know
who I am and hates me. She didn't look at
me enough for that. She just it was like, you know,

(44:18):
there are there are urban legends and myths that state
that were wolves come out during full mood. Maybe she
was in the beginning of her transformation. I don't know,
But the only way I could describe the look that
went with the profanities was and I didn't even do

(44:45):
anything to deserve it. I didn't. I got inside my car,
is what I did. That's all I did. I was
just dumbfounded. Anyway, appreciate the phone calls. I think we
can safely say that observationally, most of the people that

(45:07):
have called this morning believe there's something to it that
I mean. Now, you could say, well, that's far from
you know, an academic study. Well, of course it's far
from it, because you didn't have anybody who disagreed. Well,
no one called who disagrees. I don't know what to say.
It would appear that there is, at least based on

(45:29):
people and their professions and their own personal experiences, there's
something to the observation that, yes, some people are impacted
by a full moon, and not in a good way.
Twenty eight minutes past now here reseat the big stories
in the press box. We have some clarification of one
story as well. That's next.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
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Speaker 1 (46:05):
The Morning Show. Preston Scott, a selfless USPS worker, has
informed me that, pending a favorable review by the Commission,
the United States Postal Service Commission, the rate increase for

(46:31):
the holiday season. Listen to this. We'll go into effect Sunday,
October fifth and run through January the eighteenth. We're not
talking Thanksgiving to Christmas. Oh no, no, no, We're going

(46:54):
first of October to the two thirds mark of January.
Is she missed at the big story one of the
big stories in the press box Postal Service raising rates
during that timeframe for its package service delivery. You know
the way things are going right now, you're gonna see.

(47:19):
I mean, stamps jumped up to seventy eight cents last month.
In fact, since twenty nineteen, postal stamps have gone up
thirty six percent. And again, my fear here is that,
you know, I'm to a point now where all I

(47:41):
care about is if I need a package regular mail,
you can bring it to me once a week for
all I care.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
No.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Really, it's it's getting to the point where so much
is junk mail. Because I don't I think I get
one bill in the mail, maybe two, and I can

(48:12):
easily get those online. Another big story, Trump considering reclassifying marijuana.
I don't know, does he have the authority to do that. Regardless,
it would be a bad decision. I know that I'm

(48:32):
fighting against an unbelievable current here. I'm just telling you
with every fiber of my being, legalizing marijuana is wrong.
It's just going to backfire if Florida does it, If

(48:57):
Trump pushes buttons and pulls levers and somehow gets this done,
it will be a mistake. Make it more accessible to adults,
and it will be more accessible to kids. More kids
will be exposed to it, and kids are being harmed

(49:19):
by it now, and it is absolutely positively proven. Mexico's
president rejecting Trump's military plan, no troops on our soil, Well,
then you better deal with the cartel problem. And of
course the challenge that she's facing, the Mexican president is

(49:44):
that she has a bunch of her own people on
the payroll of the cartels. The cartels have become the
tail that's wagging the dog in Mexico, and Trump, in
my opinion, is right now. I would approach it with

(50:06):
a very simple private channel communication. Deal with it, or
we will, and we'll deal with it the way that
we deal with things, and you'll never know what happened
until it's over. It's just that simple. Forty minutes past
the hour. Come back with Animal Stories next on The

(50:30):
Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio Double UFLA
Panama City dot Com.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
It is the first day of school in Florida, Georgia
began last week, So I beg of you slow down.
If you don't slow down in the school zone when
the lights are flashing, it will cost you and that
you will get in the mail just saying.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Ah, in the wild or in our homes, we love
them critters large and small. Time for another edition of
Animal Stories on The Morning.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Show with Preston Scott. Sometimes this show scripts itself in
such a way that I can take no credit for it.
It just happens. We were just talking about the cartels,
right well. This story comes from Lancasshire Constabulary. Constabulary Yeah

(51:46):
announced charges against fifteen people linked to a gang allegedly
trafficking drugs across Blackpool, England for better than a year.
Year and a half. Group was by a thirty five
year old Adam Garnett, who was already serving a sentence.
When the operation was uncovered the investigation. Don't worry, there's

(52:08):
an animal hook here, don't the investigation McGann. After prison
officials searched Garnet's cell and found multiple mobile phones and
a Wi Fi routers in his cell, discovered that his
suspected associates, which they list. They raided the homes of

(52:28):
all these people. Found heroin, crack, cocaine, ketamine, cannabis, large
sums of cash, mobile phones, allegedly tied to the drug trade.
But now we get to the animal story hook here.
One of the videos on the guy's phone showed a

(52:51):
parrot belonging to Shannon Hilton, one of the suspects. Parrot
was named Mango, and Mango kept saying two for twenty five,
two for twenty five, which is a drug deal reference.

(53:12):
Another clip showed the bird playing with cash, tots some
money around and so in part because of the parrot,
they were able to make the case. The website for
the Lancashire Police in a post what's the most talented

(53:36):
thing your pet can do? Sit give a paw? How
about speak? One drug dealer's parrot learned to say two
for twenty five, a phrase picked up as part of
a common language used by organized crime gangs run by
her boyfriend. Not a phrase you want your parrot squawking
when the police come looking. Speaking of crimes, A burglar

(54:01):
bear broke into a home in British Columbia. Woman's security
camera recording the moment. She had propped the door open
because of high heat in the house. She was trying
to get a little air circulation, so in came a bear.
She propped open the door. A bear comes in and
started eating their dog's food in the bowl. Their dog,

(54:23):
a teeny six pound Pomeranian, came screaming around the corner
because the bear was touching her food or his food.
The dog's name was Scout. Scout scared the bear out
of this bear. I mean the bear is seen on
the video running for its life out the door and

(54:45):
Scout chasing six pound Pomeranian chasing this bear out into
the woods. They're just there are some lines that even
in nature, you do not cross. Forty six minutes after
the Hour, Animal Story is an exclusive presentation of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I have shared with you

(55:29):
for many a year that my go to app for
following what's going on in the Atlantic and the Gulf
is Windy Windy dot com. You can pay for the
premium service. The free service I find incredibly useful. It
is to me largely based on the European models. You

(55:52):
can run a simulator that shows you the expected development
of whatever or lack of development. You can click a
day for example, this this Thursday, you're going to start

(56:13):
to see the beginning of the formation of a storm
out in the Atlantic off the well, off the coast
of Africa. That's where this stuff forms. It forms off
the coast of Africa, and by the time you advance
it to the weekend, this thing's getting pretty big and
it's going to move north. It's it's looking like it's

(56:34):
not really going to be a thread at all to
Florida or Georgia, though you might get some rain in
Georgia South Carolina. But this is going to probably develop
into a storm. But it's changing now. It was going
to affect Virginia, Pennsylvania and literally come ashore there, but
now it's showing that it's going to be steered away,

(56:57):
but that could change. Tis the season, and so these
tropical waves are going to begin developing, and so one
of the things that I would advise you to do
is they have an app for your phone. Windy is
the name of it. You can look at look for
it in the Apple Store or the Google Play Store,

(57:21):
and download it to your Apple phone or your Android device.
And I think it's invaluable. I've got mind set up
to look at the weather at certain levels and to
show me wins and wind direction and so forth. You

(57:41):
can set it up however you want, whatever layers you
want to see, and you can zoom in, you can
zoom out. I can see by zooming out, I can
see the entire continental United States, South America, Europe, Africa,
and just a little bit of a Australia all on
one screen. That's how far out you can zoom. And

(58:04):
then you can zoom on in and you can see
the development of everything. So you've got one storm that's
going to be, you know, come this weekend, going to
be pretty strong off the coast of the Atlantic, the
eastern coast of the country in the Atlantic, and the
formation of another system off the coast of Africa is
going to begin right about then. But as of right now,

(58:24):
we don't have anything that's going to impact us. How
long that's going to last. We're now getting into the season. August, September,
October is the meat of the storm season. And so
it's just something you know, I wrote in the Rundown
tis the season it is? This is where we are.
And if you are new to Florida, I strongly advise

(58:47):
you to get a hold of a few lists and
acquire things. You don't have to go spend five hundred
dollars today, but I would acquire some batteries. I would
acquire a transistor radio, a weather radio that has the
ability to get you some FM bands so that you

(59:08):
can listen to us in the case of a storm.
We will be on multiple stations in the Panama City
and the Tallahassee region. We are going to be on
the air and we provide information that's useful depending on
where you live. Do you need sandbags? There are limits.

(59:28):
Do you know how many sandbags you need? You ought
to know the math. There are things you should start
acquiring in terms of water, some jugs of water. Do
you have a source of water? You know the tricks
to have water on hand, Filling up the bathtub, filling
up the washer. Your washer may not be real easy

(59:52):
to stop and hold water. It might have a cycle
that it goes into where if you hit the pause
button and there's water in there, it's going to just
automatically drain itself. Do you know how to short circuit that?
Does unplugging it short circuit that? Or does it open
up to drain automatically? Is the washer feasible for you?
Do you have a safe Is it waterproof? What about

(01:00:16):
your dishwasher? Did you know that it was waterproof? It is?
It's a safe place to keep documents if a storm's coming.
But do you have a plan. Do you know what
things you need? And have you videotaped your stuff in
your house, in your closets, in your garage in case

(01:00:38):
there's storm damage. These are things to just always keep
in mind. All Right, sal Newso joins us next in
our three of the Morning Show. All right, welcome third
hour already of the Morning Show, with President Scott reminding

(01:00:59):
you the kids are going to school, you know by
now if you're on the roads with the buses and
the multiple stops and the school zones, just take your time, everybody,
just relax. What is it? Aaron Rodgers said years ago.
R E. L A X relax. Everybody joining me on

(01:01:22):
the program is Salnuzo from Consumers Defense the website consumers
defense dot com. Hello, good morning to you. How are you.
I'm doing great. It's a fantastic Monday.

Speaker 11 (01:01:32):
The kids are off to school, headed to des Moine,
Iowa in a little bit to do some work, and
apparently they got their big state fair. So yeah, get
to try out a I think it's called a brown
sugar pork belly on a stick, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
You can't go wrong with pork belly. I mean, yeah,
my wife might have some words to say about that.
But tell me, is this time of year for legislative
wonk and observer is the Is the off season more
interesting to pay attention to than the nuts and bolts
of the session itself.

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
Yeah, I think it's a really cool time right now.
Just normally you have this period in which kind of
the emerging themes are coming up for the next legislative session.
But what's really really unique about right now is that,
against the political backdrop and the dynamic of it is

(01:02:27):
the governor's last legislative session as governor, he turns out
and the election season will hit up. You have the
question of the prior drama with the House of Representatives
and leadership. How does that look? You have all of
these different things. You've got an appointed Attorney General who

(01:02:48):
will have to run for his first political office, a
ton of different things, and all of these are happening
at a time where we're now beginning to play out
what gets tackled in the twenty twenty sixth session which
starts January. I think it's thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
What's the bigger liability for Rhonda Santis being a lame
duck or having political adversaries in his own party?

Speaker 11 (01:03:14):
I would say the latter. I think he has shown
himself a formidable policy and political force, so I think
that his policy heft has gone nowhere. So I wouldn't
put as much on the quote unquote lame duck status.

(01:03:35):
I think the bigger challenge is, by all intents and perfect,
we don't have an opposition party. They're they're the Florida
Democrats just they're in disrest. Yeah, they really just don't exist.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
So we do have it. But we do have an
adversarial party, it's just the same one.

Speaker 11 (01:03:50):
Yeah, we have the various factions within the Republican Party
that as we saw in twenty twenty five's session became
a little bit more public, and there's always debates and
dialogues within different you know, kind of coalitions within the party.
You've got, you know, Republicans who represent different constituencies, different

(01:04:15):
parts of the state. They have different priorities. So that
has always been the case, but it always happened kind
of in at least one or two layers under the surface.
This year, this past session, it did not what's the
bigger issue property.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Tax tax reform, if you will, How Floord is going
to get revenue, how communities are going to get revenue
if there's property tax reform or insurance reform.

Speaker 11 (01:04:43):
I think on the insurance reform side, and there was
a great op ed piece in the Miami Hera from
former Speaker Paul Renner who talked about the fact that
on the auto insurance side, we're now seeing rates begin
to fall a little bit and they will continue to
do so. I think as long as the House, Senate

(01:05:07):
and the Governor resist any urge to tinker with the
reforms that were passed when Renner was Speaker, I think
we're on the right track. I would say the affordability
problem and the tax, in particular the property tax piece
of that is still driving a big wedge in between

(01:05:28):
kind of the haves and have nots. And a lot
of this has to do with the massive in migration
we have had as a state, particularly over the last
five years. Somewhere in the neighborhood of two and a
half million people moved in to the state with inflated money.
We had a you know, we don't have the inventory

(01:05:49):
of homes. They get bid up, property taxes go up
as a result, and there's your problem.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
I want to talk more about that migration and its
impact and some of the ancillary issues that connect to it.
More was ol Newson next on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Wealthiest member of Congress US Senator Rick Scott

(01:06:18):
from Florida famously flew a banner behind an airplane recently
in and around New York City saying, basically to paraphrase,
you don't like socialism, moved to Florida. And you know,
you brought up immigration and its impact state immigration, people

(01:06:39):
moving from one state coming here. And I always make
sure people understand when I say immigration, I'm talking to
legal kind. Anyway, did they leave their politics behind. It's
a great question.

Speaker 11 (01:06:52):
And yeah, to piggyback on that, I try to articulate
it very in an enunciated in migration, which is the
people moving state to state. And the answer is yes,
by and large. So when you look at the numbers,
and I'm a data nerd at stats Hound, yeah, one
of the more remarkable ones anywhere I go, and I

(01:07:13):
tell this in people's eyes bug out. In twenty twelve,
when Barack Obama was running for reelection, there were I
believe it was roughly eight hundred thousand more registered Democrats
in the state than Republicans. Fast forward thirteen years, twenty
twenty five, there are now one point four to one

(01:07:35):
point five million more registered Republicans than there are registered Democrats.
That's a net two million swing. That is a remarkable swing.
I don't know that any other state in history has
seen that kind of shift. And it shifted Florida not
from a blue state, but from a purple state into

(01:07:56):
probably the deepest red state that exists given its size.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Are other potential candidates for the governor's seat save Casey
Desantus aware of why that's happened. Does Paul Renner understand
why Florida is deep red. Does Byron Donalds understand why
Florida is deep red? Did they get it?

Speaker 11 (01:08:20):
I would say yes, at least on the Republican side.
And I think anybody who is plugged in enough to
the political atmosphere in the state to be considering a
run for any office in Florida statewide, House, Senate. You know,
those numbers, they are a testament to the ground game

(01:08:43):
of the Republican Party of Florida over that period of time.
That is door to door knocking, that is getting people registered,
that is monitoring where people are moving and getting your
local state committeemen and executive committees in those counties out
and about in getting folks registered. That is a credit
to Evan power. That is a credit to Joe Gruder's,

(01:09:05):
that is a credit to blazon Golia. All of those
guys were chairs of the party that moved those numbers
over that period of time.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
So let's circle back to the biggest issues here. We've
got insurance, We've got property tax ballot initiative.

Speaker 11 (01:09:21):
I mean well, and they kind of hit upon a
theme and it really dovetails from what we were just
talking about, and that I see from the governor and
from many others as you watch him in particular with
media work, press conferences, this theme of protecting the state

(01:09:41):
from backsliding.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
We have achieved great gains. Yeah, we have not.

Speaker 11 (01:09:48):
Only achieved a supermajority in both houses and all for
statewide elected offices as well as the US Senate, but
we improved upon those supermajorities in the next cycle after
achieving them, making sure that we do not kind of
leave anything on the field and allow the opposition a
toe hold or a crack to plant something in where

(01:10:10):
they can begin to get progress.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
What of those big issues are the most vulnerable.

Speaker 11 (01:10:16):
Well, and you kind of touched upon them. I think
the big one that's going to be telling is the
debate that happens on property taxes. That is a heavy,
heavy lift to eliminate them all together. I'm really paying
attention there. The other two are what we talked about
in kind of rolling back any of those insurance reforms.
But one I want to get to is that redistricting

(01:10:40):
piece that's been in the news. I think that there
is a vulnerability there that I don't know that folks
are considering. But then you also mentioned the ballot initiative process.
So we've got a lot kind of going on that
we can kind of unpack.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
We'll do that next sixteen past the hour Syle Newso
with Consumer's Defense here on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott twenty two minutes past sal Newso with me from

(01:11:17):
Consumer's Defense and we follow the legislative action. And this,
to me, this is sort of like when the storm forms.
You know, it's paying attention to the nuts and bolts,
the committee weeks and all of that that intrigues me.
We've talked about some of the issues that really deserve
a lot of attention, and let's start with insurance reform. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Sure, So if you can recall back in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
And if you may clarify for us, there's health insurance,
there's auto insurance, and there's property insurance.

Speaker 11 (01:11:50):
Yeah, and so in the insurance realm, you we're generally
talking about what's called property and casualty, so homeowner's insurance
and auto insurance as being some of the bigger cost
drivers for Floridians, in particular because of the runaway litigation
environment that we had had. So twenty twenty three happens

(01:12:12):
they pass a series of very big reforms under Speaker
Paul Renner and Senate President Pasadomo. Those reforms inevitably take time,
and so I think Floridians by and large were expecting
a quicker turnaround. The markets are what they are. We

(01:12:32):
need new insurance carriers to come in. They have been
doing that, and now we're beginning to see a little
bit of fruit from that. However, in this past legislative
cycle or season, you had even members of the Republican
Caucus in the House moving bills that would have turned
back on those reforms, that would have said, no, we

(01:12:54):
gave the insurance industry everything they wanted. They didn't come through.
Therefore we got to hammer them. The governor, wisely, in
my opinion, wisely saw that as a bad idea, came
out against it and really hammered home the points that
I was really just making. Those weren't necessarily just mine.
And so I think one of the things that we're

(01:13:15):
going to need to pay attention to is does the
House of Representatives in particular take up something along these
lines again, or do they see the data and begin
to tack toward Okay, the reforms are working. We've got
to stay the course. I know the incoming Senate President,
Jim Boyd fairly well, and he is an insurance broker,

(01:13:38):
and he is somebody who has seen it firsthand in
his employment capacity as well. And he's even said that
that the reforms are working, it's just not as fast
as we all want.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Okay, when we move then to the next topic, and
that's the property tax. Yeah, is there going to be
enough data to really make a compelling case for you know,
Governor DeSantis's plan to eliminate property tax.

Speaker 11 (01:14:06):
I think you can get the data. I think the
question is going to be where do in particular, local
governments make up the revenue that they need to perform services?
And I emphasize need as opposed to want. And what

(01:14:27):
we're seeing now and I would love to kind of
dive in a little bit on our new CFO and
a you know, kind of a little bit later today
is what we're seeing is this juxtaposition of the governor
and the cabinet looking very specifically at local governments, saying,
all right, you have been living high on the hog

(01:14:50):
for a long time as property values have been bumping
up and reassessments have been happening, and people have been
migrating in no roll back rates. And think about this.
If a home is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
and someone from New York comes down and bids up
that home and now buys it at five hundred thousand dollars,

(01:15:13):
that increases the property tax revenue of that local government
and it avoids the three percent save our homes trajectory.
So local governments have been getting far more fattened, so
to speak. And we're now seeing that analysis and that

(01:15:34):
effort go public on all right, what can we do
about this to make that property tax elimination more feasible?

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Well, and then you have municipalities I don't know how
many are, like the capital city, but where they also
in essence are taxing people through their local utility as well,
and they're transferring massive sums of money and that becomes
a de facto property tax too.

Speaker 11 (01:15:55):
And what I do know there are a number of
municipal utility around the state. What I don't know, and
there may be data out there, is how many of
them are doing what the City of Tallahassee does, where
they send money from the utilities into the general fund.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
And that artificially has been masking property tax issues for
years in the local government.

Speaker 10 (01:16:18):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Absolutely, we got more to talk about. We're never going
to have enough time in these segments. Ever, twenty seven
Past the Hour Salnuso with me in the Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
And this is the Preston Scott Show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Thirty five minutes. The things we talk about past the
hour here on the Morning Show with Presdent Scott Salnuso
with Consumers Defense. Consumers Defense dot com is the website
to learn a little bit more about all of that.
We were talking about the different big issues, and we
talked about the ballot initiative thing, and I just want
to bring up that, you know, I know what they passed,

(01:17:09):
and they said that, you know, they're making it more
difficult to get ballot initiatives on the ballot, and as
well they should.

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
I would say, they're making it more secure and ensuring
that the ballot initiative process is not thwarted by a
number of nefarious actors out there. Well, you got Kim
Rivers smooching it up with schmoozing it up with Donald
Trump at a fundraiser, and of course she wants to

(01:17:36):
get his help and he's lending it to getting marijuana passed.
But sal I've observed personally on three separate occasions, people
collecting signatures for the marijuana petition, and in none of
those cases has anyone been asked to provide a driver's license,
an identification, or the last four of their social They
were simply asked to sign, They signed, and they walked away.

(01:17:57):
That's against the law.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
That is a big problem. That is against the law.

Speaker 11 (01:18:00):
The House passed in just this past legislative session, House
built twelve oh five which required one of those things.
And so if any petition signatures are signature gatherers are
out there collecting signatures and they are not getting that,
there will likely be a challenge of a certain number

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of signatures.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
Isn't the idea to make sure that they are able
to sign that petition as a resident of the state
of Florida and they're an eligible voter.

Speaker 11 (01:18:29):
Yeah, I mean there it is a check and balance
system to ensure that everyone who is signing a petition,
and it's not a small number of signatures that are required.
At some are approaching nine hundred thousand, I believe at
this point, and so they we need to ensure that
all of those nine hundred thousand signatures are actually people

(01:18:52):
who are voters and eligible to vote in the state
of Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Let's talk about the CFO appointment of Blazing Goalie.

Speaker 11 (01:18:58):
Yeah, so big news in between when we were last
together and now the governor finally made the appointment for
Florida's Chief Financial Officer. Reminder, the prior CFO, Jimmy Patronis,
ran successfully for Congress, and so the governor made that appointment.
And there was a little bit of political dynamic there

(01:19:18):
because you had had State Senator Joe Gruders had already
announced that he was going to run in twenty twenty
six for that role. He's a Republican, The senator had
the endorsement of President Trump for that role. The governor
has a stalwart ally and blazing Goalie in the Senate.

(01:19:40):
But Blaze had been kind of made it known he
was interested in the role, and the governor and him
got along very well, and so what do you do?
And kind of news went out very early on or
mid July. I guess it was Trump all of a
sudden came in and endorsed Joe Gruders to be the
head of the Republican National Committee. The RNC because the

(01:20:03):
existing chair was vacating that role to run for the
US Senate in North Carolina. So Joe Gruders is now
the only candidate. He's running with no opposition for RNC chair.
And it looks like, unless something crazy happens, that Blazing
Golia will have the kind of the role and the
only path forward on the Republican side for reelection or

(01:20:27):
election in twenty six. De facto incumbency, Yeah, de facto incumbency.
Same thing with the Attorney general. Yeah, you also have
our appointed Attorney General, James Uthmeyer. He's been making all
kinds of news since taking on this role. He took
action against a number of ESG players, which, as you

(01:20:50):
can imagine in my role, is music to my years.
He's going after a lot of these asset managers that
are using factors for making investment decisions that lead to
poorer returns to the taxpayer into the public pension program.
He's gone after target. He's suing a couple of kind

(01:21:11):
of shadowy groups called the Climate Disclosure Project and another
related to it. He also last week announced he's taking
on a lot of the companies, the tech companies that
run these adult sites because they're violating the age verification laws.
And I believe kind of politically there's a dynamic here

(01:21:33):
where he absolutely I expect he will run for election.
Is what would be his first election to public office.
He's got to establish some name recognition. And so I'm
not sure if there's any other individuals on the Republican
side that are looking to challenge him. I haven't heard
of any. I know they'll be a Democrat challenging. And

(01:21:55):
so he's going out there tackling via his print those
issues that are going to be important to Floridians. And
so those are two state level cabinet posts that you
know are doing a whole lot. And with CFO and Golia,
he is taking on local governments via the Doge audits

(01:22:17):
and he's bringing the Doge teams in and he's been
to Orlando, to Jacksonville's plotting Miami Hillsboro. They're tackling that
local government revenue issue like I've never seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Buy I'm a happy meal if he comes to Tallahassee.
All right, we got more to come with sald News
on next.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
The Morning Show at Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Redistricting is an interesting topic in the news right now,
and even Democrats are pointing out that they have no
moral authority on this subject because they've redistricted Republicans out
of existence in multiple states. You've got the debacle going
on with Texas where they're threatening to arrest Democrats in

(01:23:11):
Texas as well they should they are abdicating their responsibility
as elected officers. Well, they're leaving the state.

Speaker 11 (01:23:18):
They're abdicating their responsibilities by leaving the state, and so
where they're considering going after them and bringing them back.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
So where is Florida and all of this redistricting talk, well,
very intriguing. Just in the last week or so, the
governor has put out a desire to have a mid
decade reapportionment just of congressional lines. We're not talking the
State House of the state Senate. And right now the
breakdown is we have twenty eight members of Congress. There's

(01:23:47):
twenty Republicans and eight Democrats. There was a challenge to
the lines that were drawn after the twenty twenty census
related to District five that was tossed. We eventually want
or the governor won, and so.

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
There's talk about can they do a reapportionment that better
reflects population boundaries where people are moving to And you know,
the political dynamic at play is, would it necessarily be
better for Republicans running for office? Would they potentially pick
up a couple of seats. But the thing that you know,

(01:24:27):
kind of is in the back of my head is
I always wonder if and when a particular party, Republicans
or Democrats, overplay a hand. And that's the one that
I wonder where folks begin to say, well, I'm not
really comfortable there. I think that maybe a little bit

(01:24:48):
too much of it. Maybe it's a power grab, maybe
it's you know, uh, you know, a kick somewhere. I
don't know, but that's something that I'm wondering about. Do
they have to settle the issue about the sense of
first and the undercount that likely took place. No, this
would be completely separate and apart from that, this would
be a mid decade reapportionment basis.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
Doesn't that but congressional seats all base itself on that census.

Speaker 11 (01:25:13):
Yes, so this would only be on the lines that
are drawn for the existing twenty eight seats.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Okay, so we would not be.

Speaker 11 (01:25:21):
Adding any now when they redo the census in twenty
thirty and they release the results and do reapportionment, which
would arguably give Florida another minimum one congressional seat, maybe
even two depending on how the path goes. We would
then redraw the lines again to add those seats. But

(01:25:41):
right now, this would just be shuffling deck chairs. Not
on the Titanic. Sure, it would be shuffling deck chairs
among the existing twenty eight seats.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Is there ever any argument that can be made, I
know it has been made, but that if you factor
in race at all. We were talking with Hans von
Spakowsky about this just last week, that any time you
factor race as a consideration in districting, you have violated
the law.

Speaker 11 (01:26:11):
Yes, and I remember talking with Hans not long ago
when we were at an event, And I do believe
the Supreme Court is going to take up a case
I believe out of Louisiana. Yeah, it's this fall in
the coming term that will likely decide the answer.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
To that very question.

Speaker 11 (01:26:33):
So much intrigue it is, And like a funny little
anecdote you mentioned, it's not confined to just Republicans or Democrats.
California's redoing their lines Texas is considering.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Are they allowed to include illegals?

Speaker 11 (01:26:49):
They would say yes, and they will get challenged on this.
But in the greatest anecdote of this, the governor of
the state of Massachusetts decided she needed to get in
on this action. They want to redraw their congressional lines.
But guess what, there are nine members of Congress in
the state of Massachusetts. They're all Democrats. They have nobody

(01:27:10):
to reapportion out.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
So you know the state that gives us, Elizabeth Warren,
you gotta love it, Focahontas, Yes, indeed, gotta love it
all right, Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure to be
with you. Salnuso, he'll be back in September as we'll
catch up on all things legislative and political and governance
in the state of Florida. We could do a whole

(01:27:56):
show with Salnuso, but I don't think anyone wrong to
hear that he's listening right now. That's exactly what he
and uh Jose were discussing as they walked out. So
I just thought i'd pair it that. Have a little
fun now. Always enjoy our visits, and the time does
go way too fast because there's just so much and

(01:28:17):
he's so smart. He just knows stuff about the Florida legislature.
It's why we have him. I don't know why we
didn't plug into having Salon years before we I mean,
we've been doing this for years, but we could have
had him for years before that. And that makes me

(01:28:39):
feel stupid. All right, here we go. We always like
to end with a kicker. Kicker meaning a story that
you go, huh or there's something like that. Right. Indiana
man unofficially a world record breaker Fort Wayne in Alex

(01:29:01):
Babbage previously attempted to break the US record with a
sunflower that he grew last year, but it fell short.
A documentary named Bloom chronicled his efforts. The crew returned
to his home this week filmed the moment his sunflower,
named Clover, unofficially beat the Guinness World Record. And it

(01:29:33):
is at thirty feet seven inches one sunflower growing alive,
thirty feet seven inches. He's got scaffolding holding it up
three stories Fort Wayne. The city of Fort Wayne provided

(01:29:55):
him with a cherry picker to protect the clover from
protect clover from squirrels. And I've seen a picture of it.
It's incredible brought to you by Barono Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Run a little
late here, but you get me talking sunflowers. I'm just saying,

(01:30:18):
throw the clocks out. We started We started the program
with Second Thessalonians one and got to talking about what
God blesses versus what he doesn't. Talked about the big

(01:30:41):
stories in the press box today. Postal service weighing, not weighing.
They're gonna they're gonna raise prices temporarily through the season.
The holiday season. Yeah, that holiday season is going to
run from early October through mid to late January, so
package delivery service costs are going up. Just be advised.

(01:31:04):
President Trump considering reclassifying weed as a less dangerous drug
a terrible, terrible decision that would be Apparently Trump's considering
sending troops or taking some form of action against cartels
and Mexico. Mexican presidents saying, don't you dare. We'll work
with you, but don't you send to your people. I'm saying,

(01:31:26):
we won't send a person, send a drone. That's all
I'm saying. Tomorrow, Justin Haskins and more cannot wait have
an awesome day