Ep. 5475: Property Tax, JMI Summary.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Friday, October 17th.

Our guests today include:
- Jasmine Waite





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't do Morning Friends. Friday, October the seventeenth, on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty four seventy five.
That is a group called We the Kingdom and sing
wherever I go and yes, I do terribly, but I

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do it anyway. Look, God's word actually covers for me.
It says, make a joyful noise. Hello, that's what I got.
I got noise. I don't have notes, I got noise.

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Our scripture today comes from Proverbs eighteen ten. The name
of the Lord is a strong tower. Righteous man runs
into it and is safe. There is something so profoundly

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comforting about that verse. Years ago, when I was in
vocational ministry, that was a song we used to sing.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The
righteous run into it and they are safe. Come on you,

(01:40):
feeling a little vulnerable. The name of the Lord, the
name of the Lord, the name Jesus is a strong tower,
and the righteous run to that name because it's a

(02:04):
strong tower and they are safe. Soak on that one
and just basking it. Ten past the hour, take a
peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. Start to unpack this
thing we call the Morning Show. With Preston Scott. We

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have what's to be Friday. We're going to talk about
the property tax issue and give you some great information
courtesy of a report from the James Madison Institute. Cannot
wait to get through today's program. Guess we've got so
much to share, so stick around all right inside the

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American Patriots.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
On mac.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Seventeenth of October seventeen seventy seven, British forces surrendered to
Patriot troops at Saratoga, New York, where they were watching
a horse race. Now I'm just kidding. An American victory
that helps win France as an ally for the rest
of the war. France was like Ui ja leptain man.

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Only later would we come to realize that France surrenders
all the time. Nineteen sixteen, uss Arizona's commissioned at the
New York Naval Shipyard. It now lies at the bottom
of Pearl Harbor as a memorial. Nineteen thirty three, physicist
Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany arrives in the United States. Wow. Yeah,

(04:08):
it's hard to remember Einstein was fleeing the Nazis. Come
on nineteen seventy three, OPEC announces it will cut oil
exports to the United States and other nations supporting Israel
during the yam Kapur War. This battle has been going

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on since the Old Testament, and that's why I think
at the core, it's why I just I don't see
us until one remarkable point in history that the Bible

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writes about. I don't see us achieving peace. It is generational,
it is biblical. The unrest in the region, and in
nineteen eighty nine, an earthquake measuring seven point one on
the Richter scale hits northern California, killing more than sixty people.

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So there's there's that. It is It is uh National
Edge Day living Free from alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs. Okay,

(05:33):
I can, I can. I can get down with that.
That's that's pretty cool. That's not all, of course, there's
there's more.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
It is.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
National mimmography Day, ladies saying National mulligan Day. Oh. The
only way you got to be hitting a mulligan is
if you're just playing a game just yourself, you're just
working on some practice stuff. But in a round of golf,
you don't hit mulligans. And it's National pasta Day. So

(06:17):
we have that going for us, but at the request
of of Jose, he said, you know, FSU Sports has
been taking it on the chops football struggling. Soccer has

(06:42):
lost two in a row. Crazy, I'm not worried about soccer.
Men's basketball. It was a sporty game, one o nine
to one oh five? Are you kidding me? Not a
lot of defense played in uh in the Alabama game
last night, but it's a preseason game. Who cares? Still?

(07:02):
He said, you know, we need a haikup with FSU
dropping so many games of late.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Failing light dims hopes, another loss on the field, tomahawk
chops fade.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
It's it's seventeen past the hour, twenty two minutes past
the hour. Did you know the state of Arkansas has

(07:59):
a law on the books that regulates how the name
is pronounced. I guess they got tired of people saying
ar Kansas, But there's actually a law on the books
mandating how it's pronounced, which of course makes me want

(08:24):
to go there and say ar Kansas. See what they do?
You arrest me? All right? On our ex page, I
have reposted this video. Why that is the sound of

(08:49):
a hot wheels card with a camera mounted that is
running inside outside, back inside, with accelerators positioned in strategic locations.
Now back outside into the front yard, around the house,

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into the backyard accelerator accelerator, accelerator accelerator, through fire, then
through a water hazard, back around the other side of
the house into the front yard, a loop to loop,
and then into the grass. It is so cool. Memories.

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Memories make us rich and I remember and still I
have Hot Wheels tracks in my home because of my grandson.
My grandson loves well, one of my grandsons. The other
one's not quite there yet. He's growing to that age.
He loves to push cars and trucks around, but he

(09:59):
hasn't yet re that age of going to hot wheels.
Hot Wheels. When I was growing up, I was I'm
pretty sure that I was alive and a kid when
Hot Wheels was born. The first little cars that I
remember collecting were matchbox cars. But I have to say

(10:24):
when Hot Wheels came out, match Box went I hardly
ever saw them. I mean they were there. I'm just
saying I didn't see them because I was looking at
hot wheels. Whoever made hot wheels made them to roll

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effortlessly on their tracks and what made hot wheels and
still makes hot wheels so cool is for example, I remember,
you know, the last time that we played with the
hot Wheels set at the house was setting it up
off the counter and creating this course with loops and

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jumps and and you know, you'd put chairs underneath it
so it didn't dip too much, and you'd, I mean
you the beauty of setting up a track in a layout.
There's something so remarkably fun about doing that and the
creativity involved. You know, my grandson was like, oh, let's

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do this. I'm like, oh yeah, let's do this. And
so now he's got all the cars, I've got the track,
and he's got a few things at that that he
plays with, you know, at we're at home. But when
he comes to to uh Papa and Grandmama's house, it's

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a whole nother story because we get the big layout out.
But I have to, I'm gonna say it, I'm looking
for some cars because I want cars around all the
time in case we just have and he doesn't have
his car collection with him. We got to have cars,
right and now the cars are just crazy. But there

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are some that are not really for the track, and
so I have to be very picky because I've come
to realize that some of the hot wheels cars that
are out there are not really track worthy. They're too
big and heavy to do loops and things like that.
So I'm yes, I love looking at this. So if

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you've never been to our X page at TMS, President
Scott and you'll see the video clip right there and
you can go down memory lane, have a good laugh
and challenge yourself because how this guy did this. He improvised.
It had to take him a day, two days, three
days to put this track together. Add to because it
is so detailed. Twenty seven minutes past, come back, We'll

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we'll touch into the big stories of the press box.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, brace

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yourself friends, big stories in the in the press box.
Time spelled with one s, not two as in Preston.
During oral arguments this week major case that could put
it into race based jerrymandering, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson suggested

(13:44):
that race should be considered when drawing congressional districts because
black people are systematically or sorry, are systemically disabled. I'm
gonna get to the whole quot vote. She drew comparison
between a couple of redistricting cases that are in question

(14:08):
and compared them to the accessibility under the Americans with
Disabilities Act. She implied that minorities like black people are
systemically blocked from access to voting, which of course is absurd,
and compared this to disabled people not being able to
access a building. I guess I don't understand why that's

(14:31):
not what's happening here. We're responding to current day manifestations
of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make
it so that they don't have equal access to voting system.
Right they're disabled, we say that's a way in which
these processes are not equally open. So a black woman

(14:56):
who is a United States Supreme Court justice is saying
that blacks are disabled when it comes to voting. If
you're black, you have got to be unbelievably offended by that.
And to compare being black with being disabled and somehow

(15:20):
voting for a minority today is like someone in a
wheelchair not being able to get access into a building
is patently false. Second big story in the press box,
Democrat Brian Shatz of Hawaii and seventeen of his colleagues

(15:42):
in the Senate have introduced a bill that would relieve
federal workers and contractors from their obligations to pay rent, mortgages, insurance,
premium student loan payments during the shutdown. The bill would
stay eviction and foreclosure proceedings thirty days after the shutdown ends.
Anyone who tries to carry out an eviction or foreclosure

(16:04):
on a federal worker or contractor during that time would
be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject defines or even jail.
They're causing the shutdown and they want another protected class.
Government workers are now protected classes to these eighteen Democrats,

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dem Mocrats, and then this this is one of those
take it for what it's worth. Comes from the business
page of Epic Times surveying of one hundred and thirty
CEOs of major US companies. Sixty four percent of CEOs

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say they expect a mild economic slowdown combined with persistent
inflation for the next year year and a half. They
describe that as stagflation. Only four percent see a full recession.
Twenty two percent see a balanced economy with trend growth
and gradual reduction in inflationary pressures. Ten percent see solid

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economic growth accompanied by a notable increase in inflation risk.
So that would add up to thirty two percent seeing
things a little bit more bullishly. But you've still got
sixty four percent of the CEOs looking at the economy
right now and saying they're just a little concerned with

(17:32):
where things are. Forty minutes past the hour, come back,
let you listen to something next here in the Morning show.

(18:01):
John Bolton, former Trumps staffer in the first term but
became a Trump hater, has been indicted by a federal
grand jury on eighteen criminal charges. Remind you, no matter
how vindictive you feel Trump is or can be, and

(18:23):
I said so before he was ever reelected, said that
it is a personality flaw that he has. If you
disagree with him, you're an enemy. And I think that
overshadows to many some very good things, some wonderful qualities

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that he brings to the Oval office. But we need
to remember that no matter what you think about the asks,
if you will of Bolton Komi, the indictments, they were
done by a federal grand jury. And it would be

(19:11):
hard for me to buy into the idea that everybody
on that grand jury loves Donald Trump. The evidence is
there or it's not, and so a grand jury says
there is probable cause to proceed. That's what a grand
jury does. The grand jury does not determine guilt or innocence.
The grand jury determines the likelihood of their being appropriate

(19:34):
evidence to warrant the charge that is being presented. And
in this case, in the case of John Bolton, eighteen
of them. Now, Bernie Sanders on a town hall on CNN,
was speaking with a student from American University, one of

(19:55):
the more liberal college campuses in the nation. But unfortunately
for Bernie, he was speaking with a Republican who is
an intern for Americans for Tax Reform. The student, Rohan
Nabel or naval will go with that just sounds better.

(20:18):
Rohan novall Uh is the one with the microphone and
and is with Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
How do you think this shutdown reflects on Chuck Schumer's leadership?

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Well, I think it reflects more on Mike Johnson's leadership
and President Trump's leadership.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Now, when he said that, Rohan cracked a little smile
and kind of went yeah. When when Bernie said it
reflects on Mike Johnson's leadership and President Trumps, and then
it continues, this is a.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Leadership which said it's okay to give a t Well,
how do you feel now?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
The reason why Bernie turned this around is the kid
just shook his head and Bernie couldn't handle that. So
how do you feel?

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Tell me, I think it's a good idea to give
a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people
in the country and then make massive cuts the healthcare
for working class people.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing the resolutions
thirteen times in the last four years, and he has
the opportunity to vote for one again, but he's refusing
to come to the table.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I think he is schooled, Bernie. Chuck Schumer's voted for
continuing resolutions just like the one being proposed thirteen times
in four years. What's the problem. But you'll notice what
Bernie did. Bernie immediately went the oligarchy route. You tell

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me you think you think a trillion dollars in tax
breaks to the wealthy the stop with the class warfare.
Bernie doesn't seem to understand or not willing to admit
that it's the wealthy that make the jobs for the
rest of us because they own the businesses, the companies
that we love working for. You know the truth about

(22:11):
for example, iHeartRadio. It's not Bob Pittman and Rich Presler.
It's the guys who started Clear Channel Radio years ago.
It's it's it's a family that started a business and
grew that business and took risk and grew it some

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more and took more risk. I don't know. I don't
know why we have this hatred for people that are successful,
but our tax code punishes success. You do better, you
pay more to the government. You do better, you pay
even more better than that, you pay even well. But
they can afford it. That's all. That's all subjective. I

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thought we ought to be out for equal sacrifice. But
again you get me going on a fair tax and
will never stop. Forty seven minutes after the hour, come back.
Take a look at the calendar on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Alrighty, we've got some events coming up

(23:30):
in the area, and we're doing our best to keep
you apprized of all things that are going on. Tomorrow
looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. The
Show and Shine open car show and the benefit the
event benefits. I should say Honor Flight Tallahassee, which sends

(23:58):
veterans who have never been to our nation's capital but
fought to defend this nation, served to defend this nation,
men and women who have been in our military armed services.
It takes them on a one day round trip flight
to and from. It is a day of days to

(24:19):
go to our nation's capital and to see the monuments
that honor them, and then they're brought back. That's what
Honor Flight is. So the car shows tomorrow, no preregistrations required.
It is at the Moose Lodge on Capital Circle Northwest.
It's open for all modified classics, trucks and motorcycles and

(24:44):
it's fifteen bucks. Judging is from ten to thirty till noon.
The show is from nine till noon and there will
be door prizes, silent auction fifty to fifty drawing popular
vote for best in show for car and bike. And
so there you go. That's tomorrow. We have the Capital

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Conservatives on Tuesday night at the Elks Lodge, so it's
the Moose Lodge tomorrow the Elks Lodge On Tuesday, Priscilla
West will be speaking she'll be talking about her new book,
The New Face of Woke Education, and they do a

(25:25):
dinner there, but it's a little late for you to
sign up for that, and it's a little cumbersome, so
we'll just tell you to show up if you want
to hear Priscilla, and if you want to join the
Capital Conservatives, you can join right then and there. She
was chapter chair for Moms for Liberty, works with Peter
Schweitzer's Government Accountability Institute, and my guess is that she'll

(25:47):
start speaking around six fifteen. So that's going on. We
have the Will Graham Good News Tour. It's going to
be at the Anti Car Museum on the Field. It's
going to be an outdoor event on the twenty sixth,

(26:10):
so that's coming up. And then the twenty eighth, we've
got the Big ben Hard Hats with Heart at Proof Brewing,
raising funds and awareness for the American Heart Foundation Heart Association.
I should say that's coming up on the twenty eighth,
as is that's a Tuesday, by the way, as is
the fourteenth Annual Remembrance Dinner to help support Holocaust education

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and awareness. That's at the Champions Club at FSU on Tuesday,
the twenty eighth, so a couple events. Then we have
before that, sorry, on Saturday, one week from tomorrow, the
Operation Medicine Cabinet, the Medicine Collection event. We've talked about
it for a few years now. They do not accept

(26:58):
sharpsical waste or thermometers, but any of your prescriptions that
are expired and no longer in use. This is a
safe way to get rid of them. It is done
in partnership with the us DEA National Prescription Drug take

(27:21):
Back Day, and we are proudly sponsoring the event. It
will be at the Costco on Lanyap Way in Tallahassee.
It helps protect water quality and the environment by not
flushing stuff. You don't flush your prescription drugs down the toilet.
This is how you safely get rid of them, all right.
And then lastly, just a couple of weeks away now,

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two weeks from tonight, Jose can you see, will be
a celebrity judge at the Halloween Night fundraiser the Bowls
and Booze Chili Cookoff. And by booze meaning ghosts as
in boom, not booze as in a.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Doing.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
And we'll tell you more about that in the coming days.
All right, let's get ready for hour number two of
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. And it's the second

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hour of the Morning Show, and Preston's got morning friends.
I'm Preston. We're an hour away from hour away from
your calls during what's the Beef? He's OSEI he is
dressed and ready. What did you call that? What did you?
Florida businessman? Yeah? Yeah, I call it a business Florida,
business Florida instead of business casual. He's got a three

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piece suit and I mean styling with the vest and everything.
He's got a very vibrant I we won't call it
a Hawaiian shirt. We'll call it Florida tropical fair. And
then a black tie, and he is just styling. I

(29:14):
almost feel bad that we're on the radio because you
ought to see this. Maybe we'll post a photo on
the X page. If you don't want to be as recognizable,
we can go from the shoulders down. You know, not

(29:37):
everybody in radio wants to be visibly seen. Oh stop it.
So we'll we'll post the look and we'll we'll say,
is this is this the new hotness? Even though that's old?
Is this the new style Florida business or is it

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Florida business this or business Florida business, Florida Okay business
tropical Okay okay. I came across, came across. They sent
it to me. The Madison Institute sent their executive summary
their report. I'm pulled. I pulled the executive summary. It's
a very detailed report. If you go to their website

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at the James Madison Institute Jamesmadison dot org, you'll find
it and it deals with the property tax and I
thought it would be worth taking just a little bit
of time. Collections now exceed fifty five billion dollars annually
in Florida. Assessments are growing faster than population growth and

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inflation over the last two decades. Seventy two percent of
registered voters in Florida wants some type of property tax reform,
whether it's total elimination or limitations. And so what they
did in this report, their researchers dug deep and looked
at the various options that are available. Options on the

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table incremental relief such as homestead exemptions, appraisal caps, levee caps.
It's short term breathing room, but it risks shifting burdens.
Surplus driven buydowns can gradually compress milage rates when paired
with discipline local spending, but there's the caveat right disciplined

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local spending. Sales tax swaps could shift school property taxes
to a consumption based system, but that requires very careful
design to avoid tax pyramitting. Hybrid approaches combine all of
these tools with local flexibility under strict guide rails. We're

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going to get into some of that. There another option,
eliminating school millages could provide meaningful property tax liability relief,
but would require strict fitscal disciplin combined with a diversion
of sales tax revenue to local schools and then transferring
taxes on property sales, which have been discussed in the House.

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It offers revenue potential, but raises the questions of volatility
and fairness. So in breaking this down, they look at
the overall economy in Florida, which is one point seven
trillion dollars. It's fourth in the United States. It outperforms
most regions of the country. Yet there's an over reliance

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on property tax And now we get to the real issue.
Since two thousand assessed property values have increased by more
than three hundred and seventy percent in Florida, but population
and inflation grew by one hundred and sixteen percent. It's

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more than tripled. And so the spending by local governments,
Republican and Democrat alike, outpacing the real growth of Florida.
And that presents a problem. Stick around. We're digging deeper

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the future. What does it look like should we eliminate
property tax? We're looking at property tax? What is the

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way forward in Florida? And I'm looking at a report
from the James Madison Institute. Florida ranks twenty first among
states on property tax competitiveness. Only Texas bears a heavy
your effective burden on among the major competitors in the region.

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The rising collection of property tax into Florida's housing affordability
crisis is obvious. It's feeding it. Miami, Dade, Orlando, Tampa
families often spend more than thirty percent of their income
on housing renters than are faced with higher costs. See

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that's the thing. Landlords are property owners. They pay property taxes,
but they pass that tax on. They have to divide
it up among the people that are renting from them.
So if you rent, you're paying property taxes, and so
the existence of property tax at the levels that we're

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seeing it puts more pressure on the cost of housing,
whether it's ownership or renting. Local officials will argue that
property tax revenue is essentially funding schools, has to public safety, infrastructure.
Yet government spending growth continues to outpace the ability of

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taxpayers to pay. And that's what Blazing Goalie is doing.
The State CFO is going around community by community saying
what are you spending tax money on? And it needs
to happen. Property taxes are often defended as a very

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stable source of income, which they are, but stability for
government writes the report comes at the expense of instability
for families, renters and employers. Because property tax functions like
a recurring wealth or unrealized capital gains tax. It's a

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perpetual claim on property. It never stops. If you don't
pay the Sheriff of Nottingham, he'll come and collect your castle.
There's something. So I have been advocating for the elimination
of property tax since two thousand and two when I

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started this show. It's only been twenty three years and
we're finally and you know, I don't know, maybe the
governor listened to some of my old programming. I don't know,
but I've been advocating for this for a very long time.

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The smaller of Florida's municipalities have shown the highest growth
in property tax levies. Now, for those of you that
live in Tallahassee, it's important for you to note the
millage in Tallahassee is suppressed. It's not comparable to what

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they're spending. Why. Because they use the utility to augment
their revenues. You're paying more for electric and water than
you should because they're not just paying to operate and
offer these services, they are transferring tens of millions of
dollars from the utility to the general budget of the city.

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By doing that, they they are able to keep their
millage lower than it should be, but it acts as
a regressive tax on the poorest people. Because you got
to have power, you have to have water, everybody has
to pay it. So this is a tricky situation for

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the city of Tallahassee and other communities both left and right,
Democrat and Republican, because too many cities are spending too
much money on things they shouldn't be spending money on
It's just that simple. So there, I encourage you to go.
There's a lot to this report. I only scratch the
surface of it. Jamesmadison dot Org you'll find the report

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property tax relief. What does that look like in Florida?
You can look at the report and read it for yourself.
Sixteen past the hour, come back and talk some more
here on the Morning Show. What's the beef coming up

(38:43):
in just a little bit. We're gaining a few followers
on Instagram and we're not even there yet, and that's fun.
We are still refining and it's not like you know,
this is gonna be some highly overproduced feature. We're going

(39:06):
to try to drop daily the big stories in the
press box in a very condensed format that hopefully draws
new listeners to the program and promote promote some some
discussion and thought on some of the things that we
talk about here on the show. Uh. I'm keeping the

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content very limited in time because I know the way
people are. People that are on Instagram are not gonna
probably sit down and watch five to ten minutes of video.
They're gonna they're gonna check it out for a few
seconds and see see what they think. And if I
can keep them hanging around for ninety seconds and then

(39:49):
point them to the podcast, awesome. And then my hope
is that that we grow on folks, and then we're
gonna drop some and another things out there, just some observations, reflections, wisdom. Maybe.
You know, there's this this deep hunger in me to

(40:11):
try to help speak to some of the issues that
I think are addressed through just common sense. Obviously, it
all runs through the filter of my faith in Christ,

(40:32):
and I'm hoping that I'm able to convey that without
seeming preachy. But the one thing is for certain, there
is a move a foot in this country. There is
absolutely an interest in the things of God because there

(40:54):
are young people looking for moral clarity where there is
none anywhere else in the world, looking for rails to
run their race on. You know, it's totally off what
I was going to talk about, but this is where
we are. I've shared this a few times over the years.

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There was a study done of young children. They packed
them up on buses and they took them to a
playground that had no fencing around it. It was just
an open field. Okay, all the kids stayed on the

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playground in the middle of the field. Then they loaded
up the same kids and they took them to another
playground with a fence, playground in the middle of this
massive field that had a fans. They went all over
the place. Why, sociologists will tell you the reason why

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is that people intuitively, instinctively are wired for boundaries and
that freedom, true freedom comes when there are boundaries, because
boundaries provide safety. So now go back and think about
that first example, no fence, no boundaries. Children instinctively, intuitively,

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without being told, stayed together in one place. Once they
were in a massive open field that had fences. They
explored it's a biblical principle. True freedom comes with fences.

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Think about that for just a second. It has been
played out time and time again in our lives. And
so one of the goals that we have is to,
through the Mad Radio Network, explore that idea of rails,

(43:31):
of fencing, of boundaries. And I believe God words. God's
word offers us that we impose that sense of boundary
on ourselves and we find true freedom because the reality is,

(43:53):
when you get outside the fence what you think is freedom,
you are actually a prisoner. In a slave twenty seven
minutes past. Reset the big stories in the press box.
Get you ready for what's the beef next morning show

(44:13):
with Preston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't you. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
I'm used radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Confidence of CEOs in the United States slipping a little
bit two thirds warrn of stagflation might be saying what stagflation?

Speaker 8 (44:43):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
That is where there is economic slow down combined with
some inflation. Stagflation a stagnant economy while there is some inflation.
You know, I've had email people saying what's going on?
Prices are still up at the grocery store. Well, some are.

(45:06):
Eggs is down. Eggs are down. Sorry, really bad grammatical
area there. Eggs are down. But when you look at
the conditions that brought about the inflation, those don't change overnight.
Trump's been in office nine months now. There's some degree

(45:31):
of relief that may not ever come. History tells us
when prices reach a certain point. I grew up and
it was commonplace seeing gas for less than thirty cents
a gallon. I remember that as a child, seeing gas
station selling gas for less than thirty cents a gallon.

(45:58):
We are to the point where, right right now, if
you were to be honest, two dollars gas would seem
like a bargain. We've been conditioned, and sadly, there's a
lot of that going on now. If you're a business
out there and you're manufacturing whatever whatever food product there
might be, and the regulatory environment shifts and you have

(46:22):
to suddenly do this and this well to accommodate those
demands and requirements to lower your carbon footprint. You have
to make changes, and that costs you money, and that
goes into the cost of your good, whatever it is
that you're selling. So a new president comes in, he says,

(46:43):
we don't have to do that stuff anymore. Well, you've
already paid for it. It's already in the pipeline. You
already have it as part of your pricing structure to
pay for all of those manufacturing requirements due to regulatory demands.
So I guess my point is, I'm not holding Trump
responsible for the fact that prices aren't dropping at the

(47:07):
grocery store. I hope that we with tax reform, which
we're not there yet, we just aren't. I'm grateful that
we got the tax bill codified into law that keeps
things suppressed. But we're thirty seven percent. Why should anybody
pay almost forty percent of their income to the government.

(47:29):
I don't care who it is. Let me and at
the risk of blowing up the rest of these big stories,
which you can hear the other stuff in the first
hour of the podcast, just for a moment here, I

(47:51):
want you to think about what happens if people that
are wealthy get to keep more of their money at
so point that money makes its way back into the economy,
and that's good for everybody. Maybe they invest in more businesses.

(48:12):
Maybe they take a shot at a couple more startups,
which what employs more people. Maybe they expand the business
that brought them this wealth because they have the income
to do it, while protecting if they're a public company
shareholder value. What if they just hoard it all preston

(48:33):
they What if they just keep well, so what if
they do? It's their money. There is a difference between
people just getting by and people that are just getting
by because they've chosen to spend the money that they've
made in a way that leaves them encumbered with debt.

(48:55):
That's not anyone's fault, but the person who sets that
up them that you me us. But let's take that
wealthy person and let's say he keeps all of it,
or she keeps all of it, or they keep all
of it. Well, they might lock some away in an investment,
an investment in what oh, in businesses? That then give

(49:19):
them operating capital to expand and to improve. What about
what if they just spend it, Well, they spend it
in the supply chain, then right, they're buying stuff. And
if they buy stuff, we benefit from that as well,

(49:42):
because all of that money then pays for somebody. Somebody
is to have jobs, and then they make money and
they spend money. And that's the trickle down economy that
people on the left and Democrats will never understand because
they choose to not understand it. It is as obvious
a sun in the daylight. The trickle down economy works.

(50:05):
It's the only way an economy can function. Money gets
spent here, and by putting that money into the economy
in any form or fashion, it moves its way into
other people's salaries. And then they buy stuff, and that
moves its way into other people's salaries and paychecks. And

(50:26):
then they buy stuff. That's a trickle down economy. Economics
one oh one. It just is, and that's why I
love it because it's based on math, and math just
is WUFLA too. I love THISFSU football this weekend Stanford

(51:09):
ten thirty kick brutal. That's just that's just brutal. You
can listen to the game here in Tallassee on ninety
four nine TNT in Panama City on ninety four five

(51:30):
Rock ninety four five Rock ninety four five pregame show
two hours earlier. So at eight thirty, I'll be honest
with you, it's it's tougher for a team flying east
than it is for a team flying west, unless the

(51:51):
team flying west is playing at noon or sorry, the
team from the west is flying east. If the team
from the west is flying east and playing at noon,
that's nine am their time. That is a brutal time
to play a game of football or basketball or any sport.
That's awful. So maybe I've just said that I was wrong.
What I just said. It's tough either way. That flight

(52:13):
is brutal. I don't know when FSU left and got there,
but if they didn't get there a couple days ago,
and look, we need to win bad. Mike Norvell needs
a win bad, so we'll be we'll be pulling for that.

(52:33):
I had a listener send me this email and I
thought it was just fascinating. He did a Google search
and Steve sent this to me. He said, I did
two Google searches asking the same thing. One, if you
are making a movie about Martin Luther King Junior, can
you interview only black actors? Two? If you're making a

(52:55):
movie about Abraham Lincoln? Can you only interview white actors?
Same basic question? Right, and forget about the actual Well,
of course you would be talking to all kinds of races,
because all kinds of races were involved in both of
those stories. Absolutely, that's not the point. The point is

(53:15):
what kind of answer did the AI of Google give
back to the first question? Yes, a production can interview
only black actors for a film about Martin Luther King Junior,
as casting decisions are highly protected under artistic freedom. While
many would find this a respectful and appropriate choice for authenticity,

(53:35):
it's important to navigate the legal and ethical aspects carefully,
such as avoiding discriminatory practices that could be considered illegal
In other contexts to the second question, interviewing only white
actors for a movie about Abraham Lincoln is a legally
complex and problematic issue. While a specific historical figure figures

(53:57):
known race could be considered an element of artistic expression,
a blanket policy to exclude all non white actors from
consideration is discriminatory and could be illegal. What an amazing
distinction that the AI made for those two questions. Here's
what you derive from that. The programming of the AI

(54:25):
has a built in bias. At least that's what I
take from it. It's not applying the same set of values.
In other words, it's not applying a metric that is

(54:47):
color blind. It's applying a metric based on a programmer's
personal views. I just thought that was interesting. We've got
What's to Bee Friday coming up. Get ready to have
your thoughts put together and placed into a phone call.
We'll open up the lines in a little bit. We'll

(55:09):
get you ready for what's the Beef next forty seven
minutes past It's Friday here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Hard You got people lining up for what's

(55:36):
the Beef. You're welcome to join in the calls can
come anytime you like, but I do want to share
this with you. And this is a preliminary beef kind
of maybe warm things up a little bit. And it's
a lesson in business. Now for those of you that say,

(56:00):
what do you know about it? You can never run
a business in your life. It's sort of true. It's
sort of true, but that doesn't mean I don't know
about it. How about this, you be the judge. So yesterday,
for the second time, I went to a drive through

(56:24):
restaurant that is not the traditional fast food that you
would think of. Okay, I'm going to try to keep
this a little bit soft for the business, although some
of you will figure it out. They have openly promoted.
They have signs around their location saying now open at

(56:47):
ten am. And it was perfect because I was hitting
it just after ten, about five after and I'm thinking
of bringing some lunch home to my wife, and they
make something very healthy, very good that we both enjoy,
and I was all about getting it. And the last

(57:10):
time I went to this place that promotes open at ten,
I couldn't order what I wanted because they said, oh,
it'll be about a half hour before the vegetables are done.
I was like, okay, and then I drove out. I said, well,

(57:31):
then I can't wait. She has her lunch. She starts
work very early in the morning, so she has lunch
at you know, ten forty five something like that at
the house. And I was really excited to bring home
lunch for her because it's something she really enjoys. But no, no,
couldn't do it. So I gave it another shot yesterday,

(57:55):
same thing. I'm sorry, we don't have we don't have
it available. It'll be another twenty twenty five minutes, and
so I drove away. I said, okay, never mind, drove away.
Called into the restaurant, hoping to because I wasn't gonna
get out. I needed to get home. I was hoping
to talk to the manager and say, hey, just explain

(58:17):
this to me. You say you open at ten, but
you're not open. You don't have all your food ready.
Didn't pick up the phone. In fact, I called five
times and no one picked up a phone. So I
called another location where I got somebody to pick up
the phone right away. I said, do you have the
same ownership of And I said, what's up with the vegetables?

(58:40):
And the guy said, yeah, same thing here. It takes
twenty twenty five minutes because the workers don't show up
till nine thirty, to which I said, how about you
just open at ten thirty then when you have all
the food. I think there are a lot of lessons
there for those who you in business. Eight five zero

(59:01):
two zero five WSLA eight five zero two zero five
ninety three point fifty two. It's what's the b Friday?
Complain about anything you like. The phone lines are open
three or available, so call now. All right, friends, we've

(59:23):
got a line open. And for those of you that
might have called in and gotten a busy signal, we
had a caller drop when we informed them that we
couldn't have any stand up comedy. We just needed a
beef and so he dropped. That frees up alive. So
if you had a busy signal, now's the time to
call back in. We've got three lines taking one line open.

(59:45):
If you are new to the program, it's what's the
beef Friday? Complain about anything your little heart desires, even
if it's me. I'm a big boy. Just don't make
it personal. If you have a bad experience at a business,
tell us what happened, but leave the name of the
business out of it, and by all means no profanity.
That's like, that's big time. No.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
We encourage young'ins to listen to the program. We want
them to listen to the program. And it's one of
the great joys that I have is running into people
that are now in college or married with children that
listen to this program when they were children and they've
grown up listening to this show. It makes me very happy.

(01:00:29):
So let's do this. Joel has been waiting for quite
a while. He called eight five zero two zero five
to WFLA good morning, Joel, you are up, sir. What's
the beef?

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
Good morning, Preston, Preston. My beef is that our federal
government and even our state government, I think, do not
articulate clearly and explicitly the benefits of legal immigration. I
looked up on chat g GPT last night and over
a million people came in legally in twenty twenty four.

(01:00:59):
That's a million stories. That's a million stories that need
to be talented to the nation and how you do
things correctly and why we do it. The Left has
gotten away with too much that we are anti immigration.
You know, we're obviously not. So I really hope that
that the scientists, you know, puts aside of a large

(01:01:21):
chunk of money to start advertising on legal immigration, and
that Trump does as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
You know, you raise a great point, and it's one
we've talked about from time to time, Joel, and that
is the left have conflated illegal immigration with immigration and
they're very different stories. Couldn't agree more. Absolutely, Hey, thanks
for being patient with us this morning, and thanks for
calling in. You bet all right? That frees up a
line eight five zero two zero five to b f

(01:01:49):
l A. Ted is up next. Good morning, Ted, Thanks
for calling. What's the beef?

Speaker 8 (01:01:54):
Hey, Sarah? How's it going to Thanks saying my call?

Speaker 10 (01:01:56):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:01:56):
So yeah, I just want you know, cars today are fantastic.
I got a decently new car, and my dim headlights
are a beast. They're not modified there factory. If you
want to check me at fifty or sixty yards, I
get it. If you wait till you're right on top
of me, you're gonna be real unhappy because I'm quick
with that trigger.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
So are we talking about your headlights right?

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
And and people thinking they're on bright oh, my god.

Speaker 8 (01:02:26):
You've never seen anything like it. I mean, it's I
must get it fifteen times a night in an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
May I ask what kind of car you have?

Speaker 8 (01:02:33):
Yeah, it's a christ the three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Okay, all right, and now all the new LED lights,
if I'm not mistaken, they do not have any adjustments
in them. They're factory set and left and forgot it right,
you forget it?

Speaker 8 (01:02:46):
Fact yep, factory set yep, and uh, I get it. Man,
I'm sorry, but you know, maybe let's let's make some policy. Hey,
if you're seventy percent sure if somebody's brightes a wrong,
go ahead and test them. If not, just let it go.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yeah, I hear you. You know what I find, Ted,
I find that sometimes the hills in Tallahassee get the
better of those lights. You come up a little bit
on a hill and it looks like your brights are on,
but it's just you're just getting the full brunt of
those LEDs.

Speaker 8 (01:03:13):
I found it easier to just drive with my brights
on and then jump and then shut them off so
people know they're like, well crap.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
I thank you, Ted, I appreciate it. Other than slipping
in the D word, there you did good. You did good,
Thanks very much for calling. All Right, Dennis, you're gonna
be up next then jan Then is that Dineen? All right?
What about you? We got one line open jump on
a friends, It's What's to be Friday. We do this

(01:03:42):
just once a week, a little audio therapy. Let you
get it off your chest, whatever it might be. Here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. That's keyword Preston
as in p R E S t O N. We

(01:04:03):
were just talking in the break how in this day
and age, people trying to take a common name and
just spell it differently. It's like I remember the first
time I saw Michael with a y. It's like, what okay, Hey,
whatever floats your boat? Dennis? You are up, my brother?
What's the beef?

Speaker 11 (01:04:24):
How are you doing this morning? I had my things
with Florida State. I you know, we were at the
game to.

Speaker 12 (01:04:31):
Speak in and kind of watch that uh oh, you
know the beat defense in this atrocity that we've been
beat with for three weeks in a row. My thing is,
you know, we haven't won an ACC game and almost
a year now we're fixing be facing ten games straight.
Do you think it's also time to uh kind of
start moving or looking past norval one or well, I

(01:04:56):
love novel.

Speaker 11 (01:04:57):
He's a nice guy. One of my son's even been
up there. Talk to him with some of the football
programs from the local around here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Delightful dude.

Speaker 12 (01:05:05):
Yeah, but nice that he doesn't win championships. It's not
you know, it's not working. I mean we're.

Speaker 11 (01:05:11):
Gonna hit that same thing with Mark Mark great when
up there in Georgia, when he was up there for
all those years.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Yeah, Dennis, thanks very much. I appreciate you calling. I
think I'll reserve comment because this is about beefs and
I don't want to dominate a bunch of time with
my thoughts. I'll just say this, there's been a big
sample size now at six years, and I expect that
they'll need to be a pretty pretty strong finish for
a coach to be uh, to be around. That's my

(01:05:40):
that's my guess. But I hope nothing but the best
for him, because, like you, I just think he's a
really good dude. But is he the guy? Well, he's
got the rest of the season to stabilize the ship.
We've got two lines open. What's up with that? Eight
five zero two zero five WFLA eight five zero two
zero five ninety three fifty two. You're up. What's the beef, hi, Preston.

Speaker 13 (01:06:03):
I want to start a new political party. First of all,
let me say I'm a Republican, I'm a Trump fan,
but things have gotten so out of hand. We need
to start a new party called the common Sense Party.
You know, there just are no party lines anymore. I

(01:06:26):
get so tired of the rhetoric from both sides. If
you listen, if you really listen to both sides, we're
saying the same thing, very same thing against the opposite party,
and it's just a.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Case we're right.

Speaker 13 (01:06:39):
I mean sometimes, you know, we've found as bullheaded as
the Democrats do. And I'm just so frustrated I could scream.
I mean, I do not vote a vote a straight ticket.
I have voted for Democrats. I try to beef up
on what's going on. I have in the past, not
often I have, But my god, where's the common sense? Truthfully?

(01:07:05):
I mean, is there is there a possibility of something
like that ever happening? Because the way I look at it,
we're on a road to nowhere right now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Yeah, both sides are yep. Jan thank you. I'll give
you the short version. A third party. I completely agree
with all of your thoughts and reasoning. But it will
elect Democrats for the rest of eternity because it'll pull
almost exclusively from the right. That's I'll just that's the

(01:07:34):
only way I can put it. You will not get
people on the left joining a party of common sense.
There will be a handful, but not many. But thanks
very much for calling in. Let's go to Daneen. Deneen,
thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (01:07:48):
Good morning for us, then good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
So, Mike, is the traffic in front of Child's High
School in the mornings and afternoons?

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Oh boy?

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
There is no traffic light between Thomasville, Georgia and Bradfordville
Bannerman Road.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yep, and it will.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Take twenty minutes to get across. I'm hoping they're going
to put some type of a light when they open
up the culvers and the waffle house, even if it
only goes during that traffic time. So that is my beast.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Where are you driving in from Thomasville?

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
No, I'm coming out of Kolarin Acres, Okay. I can't
get across Thomasville to pull into child Sometimes for twenty
minutes people are to cut across Thomasville Road.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Yep, yep. I feel your pain.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Yeah, it's frustrating, but I feel a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
There you go. We have accomplished our mission here for you, Deneen,
and I appreciate you calling in. I could. I could
hear the lightness in her voice because she knew what
was coming. She was purging. It's it's it's just what
happens when it's like, well, never mind, I won't, I won't.

(01:08:58):
I won't create so gross comparisons. But thank you. Let's see,
we got Matt and we got Dave, and we have
time for two more callers. If you've always wanted to
be on the air and get your beef said, now
is the time. I can guarantee four callers in the
next segment. Five. I can't four, I can. It's the

(01:09:20):
Morning Show with Preston Scott from the ground up in
just a little bit with s Posito Garden Center expert Jasmine. Wait,
but first, more of your calls. It's What's to be

(01:09:42):
Friday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and
we have one line open, but we have three ready
and Matt has been waiting the longest. Good morning, Matt,
thank you for calling into the program. You're on the air.

Speaker 14 (01:09:54):
Good morning, Preston.

Speaker 12 (01:09:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:09:55):
I've just got a couple of quick beefs. I'm very
disgruntled with my company that I worked for. They made
me come into work today. I told them it was Saturday.
They claim it's Friday and absolutely no proof. But I'm
going to work and I'm disappointed about it. The other
thing is, you know people that you know, get their
lights are so bright that somebody brites them fifteen times

(01:10:18):
in the ten mile radio why they can't adjust their headlights.
I wish they would adjust their headlights or get the
four hundred pound dead body out of the trunk. Appreciate it,
Niks present.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Thank you, I appreciate the call. Yeah, whatever lifts that
front end up with the led lights of today, any
slight elevation of that front and you are you are
driving blind if you're driving into it, no doubt about it.
Let's go to Dave. Hi, Dave, thanks for calling in.

(01:10:51):
What's the beef?

Speaker 10 (01:10:52):
Hey pressing. There's some things where we need to just
stopped accepting the premise, like when do you just stop
beating your wife? And my problem is with the word
controversial because it's always stamped on the It's always stamped
on us. It's always stamped on the conservative side of

(01:11:12):
any argument. The news people do it, even Fox News
does it. I've heard Jose can you see do it
when he's reading a news article. And I'm not trying
to knock him. I heard Steve Stewart throw it out
accidentally yesterday. He was talking about if you're a conservative
student that believes the controversial Charlie Kirk point of view,

(01:11:38):
and I just wish we would take a red pen
and like you guys for instance. And I'm not trying
to knock you guys, but and you certainly can't do
anything to your TV set, but us in personal conversation,
and maybe you guys, when you're reading news copy, when
you see the word controversial, we've all just come to
accept that word. We should cross through it because it's

(01:12:02):
always stamped on us. And you know, if there's a bill,
but you know, the left wants to stop on puppies
and we want to s freedom of speech and we
want to stop them.

Speaker 14 (01:12:14):
Every news meeting in the country will.

Speaker 10 (01:12:16):
Be talking about the The our controversial bill was stop
people from stopping on puppies. And that's it. I just
wanted to that word controversial. It's always on us and
it aggravates me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Well, that was a pretty controversial comment.

Speaker 12 (01:12:34):
You see.

Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
I just had to you know, I had to do that.

Speaker 10 (01:12:40):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Yeah, good job.

Speaker 12 (01:12:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
See, that's why we're here. We are here to help.
H let's see here, John, you are up. What's the beef?

Speaker 10 (01:12:51):
Now?

Speaker 15 (01:12:51):
Good morning, Preston. First, thank you for what you do
and who jose both and uh, after hearing the previous color,
I kind of shut and invested more heavier in prosact.
But that's another story. My thief is with people who
do not understand irony. And I'll give you an illustration
of Tesla passed me on the interstate the other day. Uh,

(01:13:14):
just to the right of the Tesla sticker on the
back of the automobile, it had a bumper sticker that says,
deport elon. Now doesn't that make sense, deport the man
who invented or perfected and marketed the car you're driving.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
I've seen it.

Speaker 15 (01:13:31):
Apparently of automobile that you want anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
Yeah, a good weekend, Yeah, thank you very much. John,
what those people are doing, and if you're one of them,
shame on you. Those people are trying to keep themselves
from having their car keyed or defaced. I think we're
past that because Elon Musk isn't running Doge anymore. But

(01:13:58):
all you had to do was just call the police
on everybody, because you had a record of everybody that
was doing it, because your car records it all. But
for those of you cowards driving Tesla's with the Elon
with the circle and the eck, you know, the slash
across a shame on you. Shame on you. First of all,

(01:14:22):
you're a hypocrite. Sell the car, get rid of the car,
or you're you're fine, You're fine driving the fruit of
his labors. Whatever, stop it. All right, twenty seven minutes
past the hour, we have from the ground up. Coming

(01:14:46):
up next, we're gonna help you with your yards. Jasmine
Waite will join us from Esposito Garden Center, so stick around.
We've also have good news, dad joke, and some headlines
from the b great half hour of radio Still Away
hates us here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:15:14):
Come on, admit it, you hear that music? You immediately
feel compelled to go out in your yard. It says
clip the grass, it says water the plants, it says,
head to Esposito, get a camellia. Joining us on the

(01:15:37):
program is Jasmine. Wait with Esposito Garden Center, Jasmine, How
are you?

Speaker 15 (01:15:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
I'm doing wonderful. How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
I'm terrific? Am I right? Doesn't that music just say
let's garden together?

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Oh it's the cool morning for me that say let's garden.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Tell me about a camellia. Why are they so popular?

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
Because they're one of a kind plant. There's nothing else
like a camellia. If you plant them right, you can
have blooms from fall all the way to spring. It's
evergreen and such little maintenance. You don't get any better
than that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
So are there certain varieties that are friendlier than others?
And what's the best time of year to be planning
a camellia? And are they perennials or are they annuals?

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
They are definitely perennials, not annuals by any means. I
have a chamelia in my front yard that's got to
be almost twenty feet tall and is just gorgeous and
it's been there for well before I own the house,
so probably thirty years. It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
And yes, it just.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Depends on the right place with the right plant. So
if you were to plant the time you plant as
a sink one. The two different types of camellias, the
sank wood and japonicas. If you have shade plant, Japonicas
the same blood are like more of a hedge shrub,
gorgeous bloom. Town Japonicas are shade shade plants and they're

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gonna have a much larger bloom to them. So the
one I have in my front yard is a pink Japonica,
absolutely gorgeous. A lot of people here want to plant peenies.
You can't, they just don't live here. But there are
peanties style blooming camelias and you get for a lifetime
versus a year.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Tell me this, can can they be trained into becoming
a tree? Some of these?

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Absolutely, Any Japannas that's can be trained into a tree.
And I have a lot of who take us the
sangwoods and turn them into Bonsai trees.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
I knew it because I've got something that I inherited
when I moved into my home. At first when I
saw it, I thought, well, maybe this is some kind
of weird magnolia because of the way it bloomed. But
it didn't have any kind of aroma or smell. Camellias
generally don't have a smell to them, right, Oh not true.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
There are a few camellias that put off the most beautiful,
almost rose scent. A lot of them like high fragrance.
It is a huge pink bloom. I mean about the
size of my hand, that's how big that bloom is.
And it smells almost like roses. It's so phenomenal. They
come in shades of white to shades of deep deep bread.

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They come in the peony style blooms, they come in
flat blooms. There is a camelia for everyone, And I
just think the beauty of a camellia is that you
can pull those blooms off and float them in water
during like parties or if you're just trying to show
off to a friend. They are a showstopper in neighborhoods.

Speaker 13 (01:18:45):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
And just last year they released I think what everyone
was waiting for is a yellow camellia. It's almost as
off white towards the edges yellow in the center. It's
called Jerry's yellow. It's just phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
I would imagine this is almost like the perfect plant,
because you can find one that fits every kind of
exposure to the sun that there is in most people's homes.
How frequently do you need to fertilize them, if at all?
And I'm guessing this is maybe one of the better
times to plant them, or is there not a bad
time to plant them?

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
There's really not a bad time to play our chamelia.
I would say the only time maybe is the dead
in the middle of summer, and it's just because you
have to water a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Okay, But I think I see.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Everybody when I say the less maintenance the better, and
the camelia is that low maintenance plant, very little diseases
that are attracted by a chamellia and watering. They are
drought tolerance too. You could water the you know, two
out of them they don't mind too much, but after
the you know, after they go into the ground, they

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need a lot of water, maybe the first three months.
After that, let the skies take it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
Bottom line, if you're walking in and you want to
know the best camellia for your particular situation. You need
to know like what kind of exposure you're in, other words,
where you're planting it. You need to come into the
nursery knowing that and the size you want, right, Oh, definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
They come from two feet tall all the way up
to twenty feet tall. So as long as you know
if it's under shade and how tall you want it,
you can pick the perfect cameleon.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Perfect Jasmine, thanks for the time today. We appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
You're very welcomes wonderful day times.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
You as well. Jasmine Wade with us from Esposito Nursery,
espositogardencenter dot com.

Speaker 16 (01:20:50):
Time to be Continental. It's forty two minutes past the hour.
It just didn't want to show with Preston Scott Presdonio Scuttle.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Good news segment here on the program, we shove aside
everything else and give you something that just and look
we're at that part of the little ground up, little
gardening help, right, Jasmine, all about the comilias see, I
never got to really finish that. That's probably what I
have is it was trained into being a tree and

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it puts out the most amazing blooms in January and February.
Just a tree full of blooms. But they don't smell.
I wish they did, so I picked out a magnolia
to plant nearby because I love the smell of a

(01:21:52):
magnolia just there. Just I grew up with gardenias. My
mom was a big guardina lover and and roses and gardenias,
and I have roses. Roses are in honor of my
mom and our time spent in the garden together. And
I'll probably I'll probably end up getting some kind of

(01:22:13):
gardenias somewhere. I did have one, it kind of got
a little way from me, you know what I'm saying.
But anyway, the good news story here today Wichita Taco
restaurant Tacos TJ six sixty four. That's quite a name.
Massive line outside the restaurant, people jones and for their tacos.
That's always a good sign when there's a line. And

(01:22:37):
one particular family had come there. They were really wanting
some fresh shrimp tacos. But when they got to the front,
they're in line, and they didn't know all of the
checkout electronics stuff was not functioning. It was cash only.

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They get to the front of the line after waiting,
and it was like, oh, we don't have enough money.
I'm darn it. Dude's overhearing him, steps up, presses one
hundred dollars bill into the mom's hand, says, here, go
buy your dinner. I cannot take Yes, you can take

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the one hundred dollar bill. He refused venmo he said, look,
dinner is on me tonight, and after they paid for
the dinner, they gave him the change back. He walked

(01:23:45):
right back in line and gave all the rest of
the money to the staff. Mom said, I could not
believe that strangers like that exist anymore, people that would
do something so kind. They then went on a search
trying to figure out who this guy was, because he

(01:24:06):
wouldn't he didn't want his name out there, but he
was found, and he just decided to give them the
name Jared. Jared asked about it. He said, when I
was a young man, I grew up poor. A family
took me in when I needed it the most. They

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ended up finishing raising me until I turned eighteen. I
moved out on my own. If they wouldn't have ever
done that, I never would be in the place I
am today. And frankly, I wouldn't be able to help
out somebody like that. I owe everything to them. The
people that helped me well TJ six sixty four got

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winto what happened. They gave Jared an honorary certificate as
the Wichita Taco Hero and has awarded him free tacos
for the rest of the year. Friends, if you look
for it, you will find ways to make a difference

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everywhere you go.

Speaker 17 (01:25:11):
And that is good news.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
Okay, time to put a cap on this thing. FSU
football tomorrow eight thirty pre game on your radio station
carrying FSU Football, which is ninety four to five ROCK
ninety four five in Panama City and ninety four WTNT
in Tallahassee eight thirty because it's a ten to thirty

(01:25:54):
kick in Palo Alto, California. Me believe it in all places.
Taking on Stanford time for a dad joke. This is
to help you out this weekend at church. Ready, I
gave my handyman a to do list, but he only
did jobs one, three, and five. Turns out he only
does odd jobs. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Tim

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to end the week with some satire, ladies and gentlemen,
These are headlines courtesy of Your My, our trusted source
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Trump sets Letitia James bail at three hundred and fifty

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five million dollars. People who have been calling for a
ceasefire for two years denounced ceasefire. Democrats vow to keep
government shut down until somebody notices Man buys new TVs
so we can watch NFL refs blow calls in stunning

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four K resolution, sad Greta Thunberg asks if anyone else
needs a flotilla. Democrats demand Trump stop fanning the flames
of peace. Exhausted government employees hoping to go back to
work soon so they can get some rest. Sorry, Clarence

(01:27:33):
Thomas gently explains to KBJ that not all black people
are mentally disabled, just her. Democrats explain to young Republicans
they're supposed to engrave their messages on bullets instead. And
Chicago police cuts spending by just taping off locations that

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aren't murder scenes.

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stories attached to them. You can read the stories, and
the stories are hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
They also do some great videos. Speaking of video content
coming soon to Instagram, just remember TMS Preston Scott. It's
the same handle. See what I did there, handle that
we use on X only on X it's at TMS

(01:28:50):
Preston Scott. On Instagram, it's just TMS Preston Scott. Simple
as that. I've had people say, will you ever go
back to Facebook? I hope not. I know Instagram is
a subsidiary of Facebook, but it's a totally different thing
for very personal reasons. If I ever get through holding
a grudge against Facebook, maybe, but as of right now,

(01:29:13):
I'm holding a grudge, so don't count. Talked about a
lot of stuff today on the show. Went through the
property tax discussion. What that looks like. Big stories in
the press box today, CEO confidence slipping a little bit worried.
Two thirds are worried about stagflation. That's a stagnant economy

(01:29:33):
with a little bit of inflation thrown in Democrats are
advancing a bill that would let federal workers skip paying
rent while they are in a government shutdown, of course,
because that's what democrats do. And as we mentioned there,

(01:29:54):
Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson suggested that blacks are
disab volt and need voting assistants much like people that
are in wheelchairs. Friends, have a great weekend and go Knowles.