Ep. 5516: Venezuelan Dictator Arrested.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday, Janurary 5th.

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- Sal Nuzzo




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
The sound that you have been waiting to hear. All
is right with the world. We're back. Good morning, friends,
Welcome back to the live edition a new season of
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose. I'm Preston.

(00:27):
Great to be with you. He is back from a
successful hunting trip. I am back from a two and
a half week vacation which was just wonderful. More on
that in the days to come. But as always, we
start the program with what you should start with. Jose
came up with a good verse to start the day,

(00:49):
and I enjoyed it very much, so I'll go to
what I was gonna do anyway. No, I'm just kidding.
Let's let's put some context to this. When Jeremiah is
writing in chapter twenty nine of his book, and it's
one of those again you know, read Jeremiah. You'll bump
into them one day in eternity and it would be embarrassing.

(01:13):
I was gonna read your book. I'm sorry read it.
Here's the context. Jeremiah is writing while Israel is in well,
while the Israelites were in captivity in Babylon, and he
was promising a future. He was channeling God's words and

(01:38):
sharing them and encouraging. But those words, I think the
context of it is really important because for many, as
we start a new year, you're kind of in this
place of exile. You're in this place of captivity, in
captivity to old habits, in captivity to old ways of thinking,

(02:00):
captivity to perhaps addictions of different kinds. And Jeremiah is
offering some words of encouragement. He's speaking on behalf of God,
where God says, I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil,

(02:22):
to give you a future and a hope. Then you
will call upon me and come and pray to me,
and I will hear you. You will seek me and
find me. You will seek me with all of your heart,
and I will be found by you, declares the Lord.
We'll stop there. This is the start of a new year.

(02:45):
This isn't about New Year's resolutions, which end in days usually.
This is about a new year commitment to change your patterns,
to quit being in the slow learners club and advance

(03:07):
to Now. I'm gonna I'm gonna change how I attack things,
and I'm gonna do it by starting with God. God,
knows your plan, God knows your future. Doesn't it make
sense to tie into the guy who does all those
who does know all those things. It's ten past the hour.

(03:27):
Let's open the American Patriots Almanac gets started. Cannot wait
to unpack this day. Sal Nuzzo in the third hour,
Doctor Joe. Next hour, it is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Let's just start with the presumption that he's right. Believe me,
it works around here. This is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, buddy, what do you think got a few things
to talk about today? I was telling Jose I completely
unplug when I'm off, when I go on a vacation.
I owe it to myself. I owe it to my wife.

(04:19):
I owe it to my kids to be totally plugged
into them and unplugged from everything else. Now, the lead
research assistant for the program said, now, I'll keep you
plugged in, don't you worry? And so my email box

(04:39):
was what's loaded? But no, I get into my email
to clear it out daily, but I don't read anything.
So if you sent me any notes, for the most part,
thank you. If you got to reply, good, If you didn't,
don't worry about it. I just don't. I'm off, and

(05:03):
so I'm grateful to be back. I was excited to
be back, always am. And we do have some things
to talk about now, don't we. And we'll start unpacking
all of that this week January fifth. By the way,
most of the school districts are back in school tomorrow.
Not all, but most. That's the way it kind of.

(05:24):
They kind of give the teachers a day back I
think today before all the kids come running back tomorrow,
so the traffic will get weird again tomorrow, and then
I believe the college kids start back on Wednesday. So yeah.
Seventeen eighty one British force led by Benedict Arnold. They

(05:50):
spit on that name, bitt it Arnold. I mean, really,
what a loser. In Richmond, Virginia, nineteen fourteen, Henry Ford
introduces a wage of five dollars a day for his

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automotive factories five dollars a day nineteen fourteen. Nineteen twenty five,
Nellly t Ross becomes the first governor when she succeeds
her late husband as governor of Wyoming nineteen twenty five,
first female governor, and in nineteen thirty three, construction begins

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on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It is
a beautiful bridge. I will tell I've driven across that
bridge a few times. It is a beautiful bridge to
look at. Unfortunately, it connects to godforsaken cities and it's just,
you know, just is what it is. It is a

(06:54):
National key Doo Day for those of you into the
keydo diet. There you go, there's your day. Quit tomorrow,
National Screenwriter's Day, National thank God, it's Monday Day. Okay,

(07:17):
National whipped Cream Day? Where appropriate? Is there anything that
whipped cream doesn't make better? Somewhere? My wife is nodding
a very hearty assent. Yes, she doesn't call it whipped cream,
you know, she calls it. That's what she calls it.

(07:43):
Do you have any hey, honey, can you go to
the store and get us some? And it's National Birdday?
National bird Day. I think you've hit old age when
somebody gives you one of those portable camera bird feeders.

(08:04):
That's it's an Internet thing, and you put it up
and you stare at the birds all day long on
your phone. There's a funny story to share, and maybe
we'll share it later. But yeah, so I have one.
My son's got me one of those for Christmas, and

(08:27):
honestly I do I But in my defense, I have
always always, whatever that word is, I've always enjoyed watching
birds for his When I was a little guy, I'd
take Dad had always a backup pair of binoculars at
the house, and I would take those things and I'd

(08:47):
stare at birds. Maybe that's where I got my fascination
with flying. I have no idea. Seventeen past the hour,
Good to be back with you Monday in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, twenty two past the hour, Monday, Live back with
you on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I hope
you enjoyed the twelve Days of Preston. I did notice
the email box was full of very kind words about

(09:34):
the twelve days. Yes, we worked very very hard on
those shows and got a lot of people laughing. About
the Christmas Show with Marvin Goldstein. It was a fun
show and all of the shows are available on the podcast,
including December the December show is there as well. But

(10:04):
it was a lot of fun to do those twelve shows,
and we hope it helps take the sting out of
us not doing live shows for a couple of weeks.
Many of you have seen many of you, if probably
not most of you, have never seen at Hollywood Studios

(10:24):
Disney's Hollywood Studios the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. It's
a great show. If you're into the Indiana Jones movies.
It is a great show. But something went wrong on
one of the shows. If you remember the scene from

(10:44):
Raiders of the Lost Dark, the opening scene when he
gets that the head of that weird looking god, that
gold god thing, and he's weigh in the sand and
he's and he switches it out and he tips his
cap and all all of a sudden, everything in that
temple starts going nuts, and then the big boulders starts

(11:04):
rolling to seal the temple. Well, that boulder is part
of the stunt, and it came off the track and
started going to the audience. It it got somehow off
the rails literally, and one of the workers tried to

(11:33):
intercept the thing, and it is not light and he
paid the price. He helped keep it from hitting the audience,
and he was bloodied in the head over it. Finally,
some other employees got over there to help him, and
they were able to to get the thing away from

(11:57):
the audience. It had rebounded, It had rickish shade and
come back. It was crazy, apparently, But I just I
remember seeing that show years and years ago, and I
was just thrilled by it because obviously, you know, it's
special effects and all that that they're doing it, but
that they were able to recreate so many of the
key scenes from the Indiana Jones movies at this stunt

(12:21):
show is really was really fun. But the fact that
this happened is like wow. But yeah, so the guy's
gonna be fine, and so that's good news. Another little
tidbit here from Florida, because that happened at Disney World
down in Orlando. A Senate bill, we'll talk about the
legislative session a little. It starts next Tuesday, So next

(12:44):
week SALNWSA will be back, and with a couple of
exceptions when we're off on Mondays, over the next couple
a couple months, we will be doing every Monday a
legislative session preview and recap and Nick week we'll start
going through all the bills. But one bill that was
introduced Senate Bill nine fifty eight, identical House bill has

(13:07):
been filed twenty one ninety five, and it would limit
what cities and counties can do to regulate drinking straws
and stirs. Here's what's what's up. Independent university studies have
shown that most paper straws contain harmful PFAS chemicals. Now

(13:28):
those are the chemicals that they treat the straw to
keep it as moisture resistant as possible for as long
as possible. See, we went through this. We were supposed
to be doing away with paper back in the day,
no paper bags at grocery stores, no paper straws. Why
we're saving the trees, and now it's all anti plastic. Well,

(13:51):
it turns out plastic straws are better for a lot
of reasons. Notably, the chemicals used in most paper straw
don't break down ever ever, and they're not particularly healthy
for humans. So just saying there's a law out there

(14:13):
that we're going to try to ban those things, at
least in the Sunshine State and keep cities and counties
that are full of you know, good deed doers from
thinking that they know better and putting them, you know,
in place in local jurisdictions. Twenty eight past the hour,
Come back, The big stories are next and we're back

(14:50):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott on iHeartRadio. How you doing,
He's Jose, I'm Preston. Good to be back with you.
It just feels right to be back. It was not
right to be back last week. It just wasn't It
didn't feel right. This feels right, so good to be

(15:12):
back with you. Everybody wants to know. Okay, did we
do something we shouldn't have done in Venezuela. Heck no,
there is a backstory here that is really important. First
of all, you will find out despite all of the

(15:34):
Democrats ringing their most of the Democrats wringing their hands,
shocking development. Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz quote, the capture
of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, who
oppressed Venezuela's people, is welcome news for my friends and

(15:58):
neighbors who fled his violent, lawless, disastrous rule. However, cutting
off the head of the snake is fruitless if it
just regrows. Venezuelans deserved the promise of democracy and the
rule of law, not a state of endless violence and
spiraling disorder. My hope is it offers a passage to
true democracy and liberation. This action offers belieged Venezuelans a

(16:23):
chance to seat their true, democratically elected president at Mundo Gonzales.
She criticized the GOP administration for failing to notify Congress.
All right, number one, there is no way you notify Congress.
This is not a declaration of war. We're done. We're
going to oversee whatever elections, whatever they do, to install

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whatever leader they're gonna have. But it ain't gonna be
the vice president. She's not gonna have. It's not gonna
be her. She is to borrow a word from an
expert who has Venezuelan, who has written about the corruption
in Venezuela, she is feckless. No, what you should know
is Nicholas Maduro has gone from being a lackey for

(17:10):
the cartels to running a cartel. He was the head
of a cartel and his comments. There's there a lot
of videos rolling around out there of this guy. Basically,
you know to clean this up. Yeah, screw around a

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little bit and find out what happens. Pal He's out
there saying.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
I am here, coming get me.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, we did. About two am. We showed up, said hello,
before you could get to your safe house and your
Jammy's and and the reality is there. He was indicted
years ago. He was indicted by the Biden administration. We

(18:00):
just went ahead and did it. Biden wouldn't do it.
We did it. Trump ordered it. Yes, go get them.
This was not a military action. This was a law
enforcement action supported by military. All of his braggadocio didn't

(18:22):
didn't match, didn't mean one thing. And so he and
his wife have been extradited. They will be making their
court appearance likely today. Good for them, they've done their
purp walk. That's awesome. But no, this is and what
you should know is, within minutes, not hours, minutes of

(18:49):
this action happening, there's this socialist Marxist communist network inside
the United States that started blasting this war on there's
no war, the attacks on Caracas. No, we took out
specific sites that would have protected Maduro. That's it came

(19:13):
and went gone done, might have left the palace a
little messier than we found it. Okay, that happens. And
then the other big story, so you're gonna find that
this was exactly what needed to happen. And oh, by
the way, about ninety percent of the country thinks we

(19:33):
need to stop this trafficking of drugs into our nation.
And Maduro's out there saying, we'll negotiate drug travel, negotiate
drug trafficking. You lost your ever loving mind. We just negotiated.
That's what Trump did. Trump negotiated. Here, you'll sit in

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our courtrooms. And then you're gonna have a nice stay
in prison like your buddy Manuel Noriega Panama. You might
have heard of it. We kept him in prison too.
It's been done before. And then, oh, by the way,
Iranians are tired of the Ayatola I Hadtola. They ever
gonna get sick of you, buddy, and they have, and

(20:17):
so a lot of unrest in Iran. Two massively huge stories,
obviously the biggest one right now is Venezuela forty one
minutes past.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
The hour, decades of doing morning drive radio differently, doing
it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has
a little more hair. The morning show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I shouldn't be laughing at New York City, but I am.
This is this is gonna be grabbed the popcorn and
watch material for a while. Zorn Mamdani took his oath
of office on a Quran. I wonder what women of

(21:19):
New York City are thinking right about now. The LGBTQ
community who helped usher him into office, Wonder what they're
thinking right now. You know what's inside that book for
you people? Do you know what's inside there? Do you
gaze understand that in the Islamic world, you get thrown

(21:45):
off buildings, you get stoned to death, you get mutilated.
You I've just lord, what do you be pole thinking?
He's in office now, and guess what his first actions was.

(22:08):
He appointed as city attorney a guy who has defended
Al Qaeda terrorists, Ramsey Cassem. Sharia is coming to New
York City. Oh it might not be called that. They'll

(22:29):
just do it without calling it that. Imagine all the
terrorists in downtown Manhattan hearing the calls to prayer five
times a day. This is horrifying. But this is what

(23:00):
New Yorkers deserve. We are who we elect. This is
what you want. You wanted a democrat who boldly said
after his inauguration, you elected a democratic socialist. I will

(23:21):
govern as a democratic socialist. And you know what's so
interesting to me is if you look at Venezuela and
you look at New York City, just go back to
what New York now. Look. New York City has been
run by Democrats for years. New York has been run

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largely by Democrats for years. Venezuela was amazing, one of
the top economies in the world, and too Hugo Chavez
came in with his socialist agenda, which was, as it
always is, everybody's going to benefit from the wealth of
the nation, everybody until the rulers then get into power

(24:10):
making these promises and then they say these words paraphrased, well,
but you don't need that, and you don't need that. Now.
Of course, the leaders, the power brokers, they need that
and that and that and that, but the rest of

(24:31):
you don't need that. We're gonna share everything else. And
next thing, you know, food wages, hm, the dollar nothing,
I mean, it's just the the currency of the nation disintegrates,
inflation explodes. That's what's happening in Iran. But this is

(24:56):
this is what's coming to New York City. New York's
gonna have a lot of people move there, but they
won't have anybody that can afford it because the people
that would pay the taxes, they're gonna leave. They haven't
left yet, they will. Forty seven minutes after the hour
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Speaker 2 (25:22):
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Eight minutes away from the top of the hour. Jose
did some hunting. He was off before I was did
some hunting.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
We had Grant, Allen and Jared in for him the
final three days of the year before we did the
Twelve Days of Preston. So tell us about the hunt
in Virginia. Oh, it was incredible. How many days did
you actually try to bag a deer? Two days?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
And on the third day I got me a nice
sized dough.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
So you went hunting for three days. Was it one
of those deals where once you bagged one you're done
for me? Yeah, I mean the week was just flying by.
So if you'd have gotten a deer on day one,
your hunting is done, you'd still go hunting with your
buddy or yes, yeah, yeah, we still would have went hunting.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
They were trying the whole entire time to make it
my hunt.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Sure, I appreciate your failures for that. Okay, yeah, I
ended up getting one. So you were in what part
of Virginia? Lou Rey? Okay, Virginia. So as a visitor,
you get a special license to hunt.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, you have to purchase a oh got an
apprentice license?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, but you have to go with with someone who's
a licensed hunter. Yep, yes, okay. So it was your
first ever hunting experience.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
My first real hunting experience.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Okay, So what was it like the very first time
that you sighted a deer. Did you have any hint
of buck fever what they call buck fever? Oh no,
what would that be? Well, that's where you get so
worked up that you blow the shot that you just
I mean there are people that literally they they see

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and I mean some people literally freeze, some people throw
their gun, some people don't load it, some people leave
the safety on. I mean, it's different for everybody.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
I just missed two shots. It was the first day
hunted in the mountains on a tree stand and saw
a couple of deer. Shot at one, it kind of
stayed there. One ran off, a shot at again, it
ran off. We searched for blood, didn't hit anything. So
but on day three, on day three one, okay, and

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now have you tasted any of the meat you harvest?

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
No venison fill in the blank. Yeah, yeah, we're we're
letting it sit in the freezer. What's the first dish
you're gonna cook out?

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Oh, that's a tough one. I've been trying to figure
that out.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
You're looking up recipes.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
I got a bunch just in my head, you know,
I want to make some piccadillo, maybe.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
A deer cuban sandwich. You gotta be doing moho venison, right.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Yeah, moho venison fur.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
That was God.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
I apologize to the Italians, but I think it's pronounced
brick y'all venison, brick yall or whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, it's an Italian. Yeah, it's not a that's not
a thing in my world. I was telling you about
cracker barrel cracker barrel did not serve the black eyed
peas on New Year's Day. That is a Southern tradition
and they did not do it, and there are people
hot about that. It's a thing. It goes back to

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the Civil War, it goes back to you know, the
early days of America that dish, and it's got a
historical reason for it being served in the South. But
they ditched it without warning. And it's like people, they
keep shooting themselves in the foot. Talk about finding every

(29:21):
way possible to insult your client base man. All right,
we're gonna come back. There's actually some good news for
Florida State football. We'll touch on that, some Trump stories
we cannot pass up, and a superbug that you might
want to be aware of hitting hospitals across the country.

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One hour away from welcoming cell News as our guest
consumers Defense get ready for the legislative session. We're not
going to do a real detailed dive today. I'm going
to take a little broader look at some issues, talk
about some other things as well. Pierces that I'm gonna
have to buy some new headphones and that's gonna be
painful for me because I am so picky, but mine

(30:24):
have finally seen I think their final days. I have
so desperately tried to find replacements and it's so hard
for me. I don't like the big things like Jose's
wearing the traditional headphones, but I might have to go
there because they hurt my hairstyle.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Just kidding, I'm.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Just being a jerk. Anyway, let's start this hour with
some news about FSU football. Now. Over the break, I
did reach out to Florida State Athletic Director of Michael Alford.
I said, can you make some time for me this month?
He said happy to, So we're working on getting him
in here to talk about what's happening inside the football

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program and then broaden it a little bit because I
think the college football playoff has been a train wreck.
The twelve team thing is just bad. It just is
How would you like to be one of the four
top seeds in the college football player? And I know
some of you are like, I'd love to be no
and not get a home game? What you gotta go

(31:35):
on the road. You're one of the top four and
you don't get to play at home the but four
of the other teams do. That's just so bogus. Anyway,
Florida State has hired a guy named John Garrett as
the general manager of player personnel. Now, before you throw up,

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I just need you to understand and and this just
it is what it is. I hate it. The NCAA
is the responsible party for how this has totally gotten
out of hand and where we are today. It is
their responsibility, along with the way that we have allowed
coaches' salaries to go just crazy. I believe there needs

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to be a reset on all of that, the way
contracts are worked with coaches and so forth. But John
Garrett general manager player personnel. He's spent the last two
seasons at Duke in that same role. And what has happened.
Duke won the ACC title, not Miami Duke. And oh,

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by the way, Duke won its bowl game. Big Duke
is a good football program in large part because of
John Garrett's ability to identify players. You need someone in
full time, just the same way that professional teams have
a general manager that they've got scouts all over the

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country and they're evaluating talent. College football programs now in
this era until it changes, and even when it changes,
they're going to still need to be managing a salary cap.
They're going to be managing where players are going into
the portal from what schools, What are their skill sets,

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what are they culturally as far as do they fit
the culture of the program, and the coaches can get
back to coaching. There's no way a head coach and
their top assistants can do this anymore. Can't be done.
And so it's also important to note that Garrett has
familiarity with f FSU. In twenty two and twenty three,

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he was the director of scouting for the Florida State offense.
Those were the years that Florida State went twenty three
to four. Oh really, this guy knows players. And we're
already starting to see some key reversals, some guys that
said we're hitting the portal, then they went, ah, I've

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changed my mind. I'm going to stay at Florida State.
And we're getting some interest from players that we might
not have had interest in before. So it seems as
though this hiring, along with a couple of other changes,
stemming the tide of departures from the players that we
want to keep. There's some players that you want to
see go. And the way it is right now it

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just is what it is. The solution for college football
is here. Players have to be under contracts, whether they're
being paid cash along with their scholarship or scholarship only.
It is a contract and they stay and they honor
that contract unless they buy their contract out the next
school buys them out. Just like professionals, they want to

(34:58):
be paid. They are profess at this point, they need
to be in a contract. If the coach leaves, and
that's another issue. They NCAA has to change. Coaches can't
leave in the middle of a season. They just can't.
They have to change the portal windows, they have to
change all of this stuff. But until then, if a
coach leaves, players stay. Sorry, the players are obligated to

(35:20):
the program, not the coach, just the way it is,
and that's where college football needs to go. So this
is good news for Florida State. This is something we
will talk about with Irischeffel at some point in the
next few weeks, as well as fshu's director of athletics,
Michael Alford. It is uh eleven past. Stay safe as

(35:40):
you're driving. I know you're back at it a little bit.
We were as crazy out there.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
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Speaker 1 (36:08):
All Right. President of the United States announces the Patriot
Games for high school athletic competition to commemorate the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the nation.
Love it. I think it's awesome. Here's how it's going

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to work in the fall. This coming fall, we will
host the Patriot Games, four day athletic event featuring the
best high school athletes in the nation, one young man
and one young woman from each state and territory. He said.

(36:54):
No men will be playing in women's sports. You're not
going to see that, but you'll see everything else. I
love it. They're going to begin construction of the National
Garden of American Heroes. I love that too. He's look
for all of the things he does well, for the

(37:14):
things he does that are and we're gonna get to
one in a second. He's got some great ideas the
National Garden of American Heroes. I think that's great. Statues
are the greatest Americans of all time. He wants to
construct a triumphal arch, he said, every great city has one.

(37:36):
Why don't we Why doesn't Washington, DC have a triumphal arch?
So we're gonna They're gonna do that. And then they're
organizing the Great American State Fair, exhibits from every state
on the National Mall June twenty fifth through July tenth,
a national Great American State Fair. I love it, love it.

(38:01):
And then there's this. The board of the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts voted unanimously to change the name
to the Trump Kennedy Center. Bad form. No, that's bad form.
You don't do that. It was named in honor of

(38:29):
a president who ohed by the way, was assassinated, probably
by the government. The least you can do is leave
his name alone on the building. I just think that's
bush league. I really do bad form. It just speaks
to the ego of Trump. Yeah, the board unanimously did

(38:50):
it because they replaced the board. And then he's issued
his first vetos of his second term. He's vetoed two
bipartisan passed voice passed last signed by Congress pipeline bill
known as the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. It

(39:11):
was about bringing clean water to Colorado. He vetoed it.
This is a little vengeance he and I don't blame
him for being mad at Colorado lawmakers. They're a bunch
of losers. But the bill passed, and now he said,
enough is enough. My administration is committed to preventing American
taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies, ending the massive

(39:34):
cost of taxpayer handouts, restoring fiscal sanity. That's great. As
long as we do that equally. I'm just I'm waiting.
And then one that hits Florida, the Mikasuki Reserved Area
Amendments Act. It would expand the Mikasuki Reserved Area in
Florida to include parts of the Everglades National Park known
as Osceola Camp. It passed Congress by a voice vote,

(39:56):
which means it was it was almost unanimous, and Trump
accused the Mikassooki tribe of seeking you quote, obstruct reasonable
immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when
I was elected. Okay, anyway, so that's what's going on

(40:18):
with the president. Now. When we come back, a superbug,
a fungal disease, is spreading in primarily American hospitals. It
is resistant to antibiotics. We're going to get to that
next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott seventeen

(40:40):
passed the hour. Hey, what would a show be without
some kind of medical emergency.

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Speaker 1 (41:06):
Twenty two past. It is a drug resistant, deadly fungus
requiring anti fungals, not antibiotics. But you'll understand why I
made the mistake here in a moment. US hospitals world
wide as well hospitals dealing with Candida rus c rus.

(41:28):
Is how it's described. It is called a superbug fungus.
It is spreading globally. It has been found in seven
thousand cases across the United States last year. It has
been identified in at least sixty countries. The CDC is

(41:49):
calling it an urgent anti microbial threat. Here's why I
threw out antibiotics mistakenly. The problem there having diagnosing this
thing is that it mimics a standard virus. The symptoms
are the fever, the chills, the things that you get
with a virus. It was first discovered in Japan in

(42:14):
two thousand and nine from a patient's ear sample. It
is since spread to dozens of countries, causing some ICUs
in hospitals to close. Here's what makes it really difficult.
It poses the greatest threat on people who are critically ill,

(42:36):
particularly those on ventilators or with weakened immune systems. Once infected,
half the patients die. Unlike other fungi, curus can survive
on human skin and cling the hospital surfaces of medical equipment,

(42:57):
and so because the aches, the fever, the chills are
so commonplace in other viruses, sometimes people don't even know
they have this fungal condition causing the problems. There are
only four anti fungal drugs available in the United States,
four major classes, and CRAS shows resistance to most of them.

(43:25):
Three new anti fungal drugs have been approved are in
late stage trials. Researchers wearing the drug development has struggled
to keep pace with the evolution of the fungus. It
keeps changing because that's what they do. Immediately, as I
talked about this, Jose's over there going. This is how

(43:46):
the attack of the zombies begins. This is it mushroom heads,
they develop armor, mushrooms pop out of people's bodies, and
then they spread and then can't defeat it except with
what I carry. Because he pulls out his machete, brandishes

(44:12):
his firearm, pulls out the fifty cow.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
Man.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
It's just and here's the thing, Okay, I'm going to
say it for some of you, do we believe the CDC.
Is there really a super fungal thing out there? Are
they just scarin us? Because of course, inside this story

(44:43):
tucked away is that they're working on vaccine protocols. Sure
they are, But do you see my point? I told
you back with COVID The biggest problem that the medical
community is going to face because of all the lies

(45:05):
they told. They've lied. And I know for some of
you doctors, it's not on you. You did what you
had to do to survive and keep your job and
help patients quietly directing them to other treatments. I get
it absolutely, and I know for a fact I'm right
about that. I know that's what happened with many physicians.

(45:29):
The fact of the matter is that broadly, the medical
community has a massive trust issue. So when you see
a story and you hear the CDC saying, oh, this
is a problem, and you know we're working on protocols
and different vaccines. Were like, yeah, sure, you are working
on vaccines. Because do you trust I'm not there, I'm

(45:52):
not trusting. Are you trusting? I'm just saying twenty seven
minutes past the hour, the big stories in the press box.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Next, Welcome to m a D Radio Network. It's the
Morning Show with President Scott.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Thirty five minutes past. As we speak, Nicholas Maduro on
his way to New York City courtroom. Here's my question,
is there any chance he gets released? Because the judge says, no,
what Trump did was illegal? Do you put it out

(46:42):
of the realm of possibility. First of all, I'm going
to tell you what he did was perfectly legal. It
is within Article two of the Constitution. This was a
law enforcement action. There was a there's a sitting federal
indictment under the Biden administration. I'll remind you Democrats are
just wringing their hands and joining in with the communist, Marxist,

(47:05):
socialist pr machine that is at work in the United States.
And by the way, just let me put some names
to this, because within minutes, then hours of the action
in the wee hours of the morning of getting Nicholas
Maduro out of Venezuela because he's running a drug cartel

(47:26):
and he's out there. He's out there saying we've offered
to negotiate on drug trafficking. What's the negotiate, brother, negotiate?
What are you talking about anyway? The illegal bombing campaign

(47:51):
in crime, there was no illegal bombing campaign. It was
a military action in support of a law enforcement indictment,
federal indictment. Nicholas Maduro is an active participant. He ran
a drug cartel. So you have the People's Forum based

(48:12):
in New York. You have the Answer Coalition, co founded
by proud Marxist Brian Becker. You've got nevill Roy Singham,
United States born technology executive who relocated to Shanghai. He
is he's married to Jodi Evans, founder of Code Pink.

(48:37):
She's they're out there talking. Code Pink's out there, the
International People's Assembly. These are all groups, most of them
funded by Singham, all spewing out all the propaganda that
you are hearing from the Democrat Party. They're using the

(48:58):
talking points in this case of no war on Venezuela.
It's not we conducted an act an operation. It was successful,
of course, and we left. We're gonna now help stabilize
things until they figure it out, and then we're gonna

(49:22):
strike a deal and we're gonna get some oil, and
we're gonna stop the flow of drugs out of Venezuela.
And if the Vice President thinks she's getting the gig,
that ain't happening. That's why she was in Russia. When
a country doesn't cooperate with the United States indictment, the

(49:43):
United States has the opportunity, or if it has the opportunity,
it will exercise its legal rights. And in this case,
there was an indictment against Maduro and his wife and
end of subject. But could you imagine if if a core,
if a judge in New York City that hates Trump

(50:03):
decides to turn this guy loose. Oh my goodness, this
will be interesting. He's on his way to a courtroom
right now. I'm watching it happen. Iran is a powder keg.
This is all sprung up in the last few days.
So I don't feel the least bit bad about not
being on the air for two weeks because this has

(50:24):
just all happened over the weekend out there are a
lot of stories that happened over the time we were gone.
That's what that's what happens in the news. But look,
when we come back from an extended break like this,
we just will get caught up. We'll ease our way in.

(50:45):
Got a legislative session coming up starting next Tuesday. We'll
prep you for that. We'll start prepping you next hour
Cell News, Oh joins us. But when we come back,
Doctor Joe Camps is standing by making a triumphant return
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott for the new
season called twenty twenty six. That's next. Don't you leave
me serious. I'll hold a grudge.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Show with Preston.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Scott sixty percent of the time.

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It is every time my.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA. It's a
new year.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
And joining me for another year as he has for
the previous twenty two and a half years of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, Doctor Joe Camps, Good morning, sir.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
Hey, it's been a long time, Preston. How are you happy?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
New year?

Speaker 7 (51:43):
Had a great time just like you, enjoyed the grandkids.
But back to work a little bit, really, you know,
when I was growing up, sort of drinking coffee had
sort of a negative connotation, and I don't know if
people were reflecting on the caffeine and that kind of thing.

(52:05):
But there's some recent studies that have highlighted the potential
benefits of this, and really wanted to talk about it
because I actually was struck by this. But it has
an influence on longevity of life, and it also reduces
numerous chronic diseases. And there was a study recently that

(52:25):
showed that consuming three to four cups a day could
increase your lifespan by five years. I was floored when
I saw that. I just said, oh, come on, you
can't further. It suggests that three to five cups a
day could decrease mortality and also lower the risk of

(52:49):
certain diseases. And you know, when I looked at it,
I thought, I'm not sure about this, And as I
read further, it does seem to have these effects. So
other than sort of as a pick me up for
many of us who relied on it for years, we
find that it actually may increase our lifespan. So I

(53:13):
also saw that it certainly decreases a number of diseases.
I don't want to get into that aspect of it
because some of that still speculative, but a positive spin
to start the new year. Didn't want to talk about
cancer or anything like that, but I'm going to be
focused this year primarily on disease prevention and new breakthroughs

(53:38):
that can curtly impact health and looking forward to it.
There's so much going on. I mean, there's just the
literature is just astonishing to some of the things that
are happening, and we'll be bringing you that information and
we'll be talking particularly I want to focus on gut health. Yeah,

(54:00):
this year a little bit because most of us don't
think about that, but our gut health is one of
the most important things as it deals with our health,
and it's something that we're going to focus on a
little bit this year. But glad to be back. I
can't believe it's been twenty two years but we're still

(54:22):
going strong.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Doctor Joe. Let me just ask you, broadly speaking, does
it explain why the caffeine hit from coffee or what
about a coffee a drink of coffee why it works?

Speaker 7 (54:38):
No, it hasn't, but I am going to explore this further.
I was just really I was just stunned by this,
and I actually looked at three or four sources for
this that it couldn't expand my life. Man, So I
will get back. I really needed to do more research
on that to bring that to you, But we'll certainly

(54:59):
follow up on that and find out exactly what this
is because I was just floored. Yeah, I came across this.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
There are some very happy people right now.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Well, you know, approximately two billion cups of coffee is
served worldwide, and I can't be the only one that's
happy about this, but I am. And it also sort
of picks me up. And then it doesn't taste bad either,
So a lot of positive benefits.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Yeah, I'm going to be fascinated to hear more because
I'll be curious whether we're talking just black coffee or
whether some of these flavored coffees have the same benefit
or not, or whether they even studied.

Speaker 7 (55:38):
That they haven't. But again, this is new, But I
will get into this because I, you know, my colleagues
and I, over the years, it seemed like we couldn't
survive without coffee. When I saw that it might be beneficial,
because you right, remember it it sort of had a
negative connotation. Sure, but it's totally flipping now. So I'm

(56:01):
going to get into that and bring it to our
listeners because it's fascinating. It's as fascinating as when we
talked about sending glue tide and no one knew what
it was, and now everybody knows what it is. Jiro
and all these drugs to lose weight and that kind
of a thing. So boy, there's a lot out there, Preston,

(56:22):
and we're going to try and stay on top of
it this year.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Good stuff, Thank you, Joe.

Speaker 7 (56:26):
Okay, buddy, have a good week.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
You as well. Doctor Joe camps with us for another
season of healthy Expectations here on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Downing Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
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Speaker 1 (57:06):
One of the things that I get asked a lot,
where do you get news? I get news where you
get news. I might look at the story a little
differently than you do, but I also get news from
a lot of other places. I yes, I look at MSNBC, CNN,

(57:30):
USA today. I use what I call the dark side
of the force, you know, those places that I don't
consider to be necessarily trustworthy. But I read stories from

(57:51):
there the way that you would read a scouting report
if you were a coach for the opposing team, because
it helps. It helps to understand number one, the mindset
of the left, because the mainstream media by and large

(58:12):
is still doing the bidding of the Democrat Party and
increasingly of socialists and Marxists and communists of Islamis. You
know that they That's how you explain the election of
people like Mamdani. But back to where I started, I

(58:39):
think one of the places that would be very worth
following if I were you, even though the name would
suggest that you're you're going to have to go to TikTok. No,
you can find this This lady's efforts and she probably
has a team of people at this point lives of TikTok. TikTok.

(59:01):
They boiled down their top five stories of the year,
and I think these stories exemplify why I think it's
a source for you, because what they're doing is they're
doing investigative journalism on a national scale. Back in October,

(59:22):
they published a series of reports highlighting the epidemic of
child sexual grooming infesting the streaming of Netflix programming. We
talked about that story, how so many of the programs
have LGBTQ all through them, and so as parents are

(59:43):
letting video baby sit their kids, they don't realize they
might have isolated and put a parental control where the
kids can only go to the Kids channel. Well, but
they're getting programmed, they're getting groomed. Second big story the
number of leftists that got fired because Libs of TikTok

(01:00:04):
highlighted their celebrating of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, once
again doing the work of investigative journalism. There are people
in certain positions that need to be held accountable when
they celebrate the murder of somebody, they shouldn't be in
that position. Teachers, administrators in schools, they have no professors,

(01:00:27):
they have no right to that job teaching young people
when they hold those types of views. They exposed it.
Democrat officials exposed doxing ice agents. Again, that's a Libs
of TikTok story. They were behind it. Racist tiring at
Coca Cola was exposed. David applied for a job at

(01:00:51):
Coca Cola. On his application, he cited twenty years of
experience in the industry. His application was rejected. The next
day he sent in another application, changed his name to Deshaun,
and his work experienced to five years. His application was accepted.
Those are big stories. Libs of TikTok is a trustworthy
source for you. You can follow him on X and

(01:01:14):
while you're maybe on X at TMS Preston Scott follow
us at TMS Preston Scott. All right, when we come back,
Salnowzoh joins me. We got a lot to talk about
as we get ready for the legislative session, and then
some he began the third hour. I was telling Jose

(01:01:49):
everything just seems right in the world when we're back
on the air, doesn't it. I mean, it's just the
birds are singing a little more loudly, that the sun
shines a little bit more, chrisp It.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Just everything just.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
It's just a deep breath. I know, I know what
you're feeling. I just everything felt out of sync, even
though I was loving my time with my family and
my wife and I had a wonderful getaway. We'll talk
about that later in the week. It just we're back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
It's a great Drake White song. If you ever all
would be right with the world. Yeah, if beer and
fried chicken. Didn't you know, try their best to kill me?
All would be right with the world. Okay, I've never
heard that song.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
A great song, familiar voice of sal Newso from Consumers
Defense with us.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Good Christmas holiday, great to be with you, great holidays.
Also really glad to be back and kind of gearing up. Yeah,
we've got about a week before the session begins. Lots
of stuff going on, not just in Florida but nationwide.
This is going to be a crazy midterm cycle. But
what you're looking forward to it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Would it be overstating it to say this is a
critical midterm election.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
I don't think it would be an overstatement. I think
we buy and large have over used certain terms in
the electoral process. One of them is the most important
election of our lifetime. I think it's every cycle critical election.
I definitely think it is a benchmark election in a

(01:03:23):
critical way for the direction in particular of the conservative
movement in the United States. A lot has happened, just
even in the last several weeks since our last time together,
that are kind of exposing the internal debates and dialogues
among different factions.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
In the movement. What about inside the state of Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Well, you've got this question of what will the governor's
final year look like? In terms of policy dynamics. It's
not an overstatement that the governor is arguably the single
most successful and accomplished executive of a state in a

(01:04:07):
conservative direction in our lifetime, just policy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Went out agree.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
So what does that last year look like? What does
he do after? And how do those kind of factions
internally of this kind of quote unquote pro DeSantis faction
versus the ones who have been kind of more of
the traditional Trump Maga crowd and those do those riffs

(01:04:36):
continue or expand or do they come together in the
in the electoral process.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Give us a snapshot in a couple of minutes of
the governor and the you know, lieutenant governor, the different
cabinet officers, what the last few weeks have been like.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Sure, so you've got a lot, especially in the cfo's
spot blazing Golia has continued to kind of be the
John the Baptizer sort of out in the counties, pointing
out the direction that local governments in particular have gone
with respect to revenue, and he is doing his best

(01:05:13):
to lead the way for Governor DeSantis coming down the
pike and trying to push for that elimination of homesteaded
property taxes, which would have to go on the ballot.
And we've talked about that initiative over several months, and
that's going to continue because you don't necessarily have the
legislature with him on this completely.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
What about the attorney general age.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
If you are in the business of the of the
corporate woke agenda, or you're in kind of the child
sex abuse, you better leave the stay. It is just
that man is singularly focused, it seems on a couple
of different big items. One is going after people who

(01:05:58):
threaten or harm children, and if you are involved in
the corporate woke kind of agenda, you're going to hear
from him very quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Lastly, the Lieutenant Governor, Jay Collins, very visible, came on
this show almost every other week for a while. It
seems like things are quieting down.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
We still have not had an announcement one way or another.
When he has publicly been asked about it, the Lieutenant
governor has been a bit cagy. He asked about right
for governor running for governor. Okay, Well, an announcement maybe
coming in the near future. Announcement will be coming in
the near AEO never teases out what specifically that might be.
It is the big question, but every day that passes

(01:06:42):
is kind of makes it more and more challenging to
mount a real financial campaign that's going to be required
to take on Byron Donalds.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
He's the executor of Consumer's Defense. Sal News our friend.
We'll talk about some other things before we circle back
to what's going on inside Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Next say of sensibility, communicator of common sense amplified.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
It's the Morning Show at Preston Scott. Now, many of
you know that we have relied on the Heritage Foundation
for years for experts on a wide range of topics,

(01:07:37):
and that may or may not change as things changed,
I mean things just you know, there are times that
our guest list evolves and we drop guests and we
pick up others and we are introduced to new people.
But there has been if you have not known a
seismic shift at Heritage Foundation, and Sal, I know that

(01:07:58):
you for your involvement with the James Madison Institute. Now
with Consumers Defense, you have a lot of intersection with Heritage.
Tell our listeners what happened broadly, and then go as
deep as you want in your analysis of it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Yeah, sure, because I do think it does have an
impact on the direction of the conservative movement nationally and
in Florida. What's kind of happened in full disclosure, As
you mentioned, I have done quite a bit of work
with Heritage over the years. I continue to do quite
a bit of work with Heritage on our various issues.
Heritage Foundation is massive. It is a one hundred million

(01:08:35):
dollar a year operation run by Kevin Roberts, who, prior
to his role here, was the head of the Texas
Public Policy Foundation, which you mentioned JMI. JMI is the
Florida version of TPPF. So what happened mechanically was Tucker

(01:08:56):
Carlson did an interview on whatever platform me does his
interviews to a gentleman by the name of Nick Fuentes, which,
if you're not familiar, Nick is a rabbit, anti Semite,
is kind of just a miscreant, a misguided youth, but
has a massive following. Tucker gave him what many called

(01:09:21):
a softball interview and an amplified Nick's message. Tucker has
a long standing connection with Heritage, going back to when
I think he started as an intern when he was young,
has known Kevin for a long time. Kevin released in
a video from Heritage where he not only didn't disavow

(01:09:44):
Nick Fuentez in the interview, but actually praised Tucker in
a sense for having it. Now, as you might imagine,
if you have any kind of a love for Israel,
or you are fighting anti Semitism in the United S,
this is going to be a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Well, I wrote Heritage Foundation, and I wrote their pr people.
I said, until I get some better understanding what's going on,
I'm cutting off Heritage.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
And it started out with things like that in a trickle,
and then Kevin in Heritage, or at least Kevin sort
of doubled down. They tried to clean up a little
bit of the mess and the drama that was transpiring
on Twitter and X and doubled down in some other respects.
As a result, you had a number of board members

(01:10:32):
from Heritage who resigned, some scholars resigned. And then last
week it was kind of like, well, the roller coaster
may have kind of ridden its course. He might have
ridden out the drama. Well, last week, an entire section
of the Heritage Foundation, it was the ed Mese Center. Yeah,
that's big yeah, named after Ronald Reagan's Attorney general who

(01:10:55):
had been a longtime Heritage Supporter board member.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
The whole bit.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
That whole section parted en mass like twelve individuals, including
a couple of senior members for another think tank. They
departed and planted their flag at the it's Advancing American Freedom,
which is Mike Pence's think tank, and that created another

(01:11:21):
wave of all of this. And so you had two
senior members not in that center, one Hans von Spakowsky,
who's on your show all the time. They also resigned.
They didn't go to Advancing American Freedom, but they're going
to land somewhere. And this really does expose kind of
this debate that's popped up, and it's been over the

(01:11:42):
last three to four years in the conservative movement. And
you've got on one side what you would describe probably
as old guard establishment, the very pro Israel in many
respects pro interventionists globally grew up in the Reagan years,
fought and beat communism, global war on tarror, the whole bit.

(01:12:04):
And then you have this new faction that's evolved sometimes
it had been called alt right, and then it kind
of got some other monikers generally younger, not exclusively male,
but definitely a majority. They've used social media as an
organizing tool. They're far more isolationists in nature. They're not
a fan of intervention. They're not a huge fan of

(01:12:25):
everything Israel does. Are they a fan of a Nick Fuentes? Yes,
And that is this this movement. They are embracing various
pieces of people like Nick Fuentes and others, and the
old guards see that in you know, it's like they
want no part of that. And so there's this big

(01:12:49):
fisher right now.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
All right, more to come with SOULD News of Consumers Defense.
He's the executive director here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

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Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Oh we do here the things we're talking about sal
Newso with us from Consumers Defense, we're talking about the
blow up at Heritage Foundation. I think it matters. I
think it matters a lot. But does it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
Yes, absolutely, this matters for the future of the conservative movement,
for conservative policy and for conservative principles, and because Heritage
is more than fifty years old, and they have been
kind of the apex organization for so long. Like I

(01:14:00):
mentioned in a prior segment, they're more than one hundred
million dollar a year operation. They carried a brand identity
as the flag bearer for conservative principles in policy in
the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
From my chair, which is not nearly as detailed in
involvement with Heritage and its policies as yours. I looked
at Heritage as being above the fray. They were just
you know, more idealistic and expressing it in here's why
we hold these views, Here's what the Constitution says about it.

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You figured out from their type thing and not getting
into the weeds when they start working in where I
think Tucker Carlson has gone wrong. I feel like they've
lowered themselves into an area that they just have always
been above.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
And there is an argument to be made that you know,
Tucker interviewed Nick foint As not at the Heritage Foundation.
He did it on his own show in his capacity
as a private person, and had Kevin Roberts and Heritage
not come out with a video either way, if they
had just done nothing, would all of this have happened

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in the way and transpired in the way that it did,
And I don't know that it would have which kind
of brings you into you would have we would have
thought that there might have been a better crisis management plan, yeh,
laid out here. But with that in mind, I think

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Heritage is absolutely going to continue to be a major
player in in policy. Yes, this is a bit of
a realignment of sorts. Oh gosh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
mean they well, they have new leadership. Now there is
a big question now the leadership of Heritage. Kevin serves

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at the pleasure of the Boyard, and as board members
have been rolling off, they will appoint new board members
and Kevin will play a role in that. And so
I like a little bit of the dust has got
to settle in terms of waiting and seeing how the
board composition looks.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
I see cracker Barrel in their future. I see them
rolling people onto that board then that are going to
align with Kevin's view of things, And I'm not sure
it's going to work out well long term, but we'll see.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
Yeah, it's certainly a possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
All Right, We got a minute left in this segment
because we ran long in the last one. So what
does this all mean to Florida.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
Well, you know, as I expressed to you a bit
off air, you know, this kind of exposes kind of
the JD. Vance new right conservative mission and principles versus
the kind of Reagan Revolution, Mike Pence and kind of
establishment that's going to have a face in Florida as

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we continue to move forward, not just in twenty twenty six,
but also looking into who really becomes the standard bearer
for the conservative movement for twenty twenty eight. And you've
got folks saying whether it should be JD. Vance or
Marco Rubio. And then back to the question, what does

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the future look like for Ronda Santis after twenty twenty
seven when he leaves the Governor's mansion. He's only forty six,
forty seven somewhere in that realm, the young man, he's
got a lifetime ahead of him.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
Boy, there's so much to talk about. Twenty seven past
the hour, and we'll do just that next.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
Some subjects will just make you furious.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Don't worry. We're here to make it all better. It's
The Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Scott with sound News of Consumers Defense. Here on The
Morning Show, so the legislative session starts a week from tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Yeah, it begins on January thirteenth. A week from tomorrow
lasts sixty days or so they tell us at least
at this point. One requirement, as we say, often pass
a balanced budget. I believe we were one of forty
eight or forty nine states that have them in the constitution.
But there will be a couple of thousand bills filed.

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There are particular processes and procedures and timelines that will
go over next week as we begin diving into this,
but the one that is relevant for this week is
January seventh is the bill filing deadline for the House.
So all non appropriations bills. If you're a member, you

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get six or seven slots to file bills that are
not appropriate creation's projects. January seventh. This week is well,
is that tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Ye?

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
No, Wednesday? Wednesday is your deadline for getting that filed.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
What are the big questions?

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
There are several, and I was kind of spending some
time kind of unpacking where are we going to go
over these eight weeks as we gather together on Mondays
and begin analyzing this. And so first off is what
does the relationship dynamic look like after twenty twenty five,
there was a lot of raw emotion, a lot of

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political emotion spent up and we all saw it play out,
even if you weren't paying attention to legislative affairs. It's
something that got a lot of national headlines. What does
it look like this coming year compared to last year?
What I said earlier? Second, what is the governor thinking

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post twenty twenty six, post his eight term and how
does that translate into what he does politically and legislatively
this session? And just as one example, the governor has
been big on a push to do property tax elimination
for homesteaded properties. He's been calling for that to be

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tackled in a special session. How does that look and
does he try to push for it in the regular
session because he's not as confident they'll do it in
a special So something there. Third, what does the House do,
in particular the House with Hope Florida. In twenty twenty five,

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you had Alexandrade chairing a committee that really dove in
and investigated some of the concerns that he had there.
What does that continue to look like in this upcoming session?

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Do you think Hope goes beyond the dessantus.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
It's a great question. I think if it does, it
would have to be really re engineered in a way
that I think is that's going to be a function
of the incoming administration in the Governor's office, working with
the incoming leadership in the House and sentive to try

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and make sense of the maza spaghetti that it's created.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
I think it's a wonderful idea that needs some significant refinement.

Speaker 4 (01:21:26):
Yeah, and again, in full disclosure, I've got some tentacles,
not just professionally but personally into some of our safety
net programs in the House, in the state rather and
so I can speak to yes. If Hope Florida, I
think is going to become something that other states really

(01:21:47):
want to emulate. And I think the intent is there.
There does need to be some kind of figuring out
of how it plugs into a lot of these.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Other what does your intuition tell you are going to
be other significant issues. They've got to deal with.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
A few, in particular, the property tax issue, which we've
been talking about, artificial intelligence a couple of months ago.
We spent almost an entire hour talking about that. You've
got healthcare. That's going to be the House Speaker's big priority.
And if there is a word that will be coined
as the word of the year for twenty twenty six,
it will be affordability. That's nationally, they're going to have

(01:22:27):
to figure out what their role is in things like
housing costs and the continuing trends in the insurance market, education,
the threats from foreign adversaries, and how the state kind
of takes a leadership role in combating that, which we've
been doing. So those are some of the big, big
buckets that I think we're going to see some action in.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
All Right, more to come with Seal News on next
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Of the days when times were good and life was simple.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
He's still lives there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
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Speaker 1 (01:23:15):
Final segment for today because starting next week, the gymnastics
really begin. Oh yeah, I asked you in the break,
do lawmakers have to define affordability before they start talking
legislatively about it? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I think it is an amazing question. The answer is absolutely,
But I would also contend that they've got to define
a bunch of these buckets better in order to make
the sale in certain areas. And so, for example, on
the affordability issue, it was something I mentioned to you offline.

(01:23:53):
One of the challenges that we face is the professional left.
The advocacy class that has been built up over the
last twenty five years by folks like George Soros and others,
has created this kind of advocacy class where they do
this for a living. Republicans and Conservatives, we're managing the economy,

(01:24:18):
we're building businesses, they're innovating, they're you know, they're so
messaging is not always the primary focus when conservatives enter
a policy debate, and it needs to be. And so, yes,
defining affordability, defining artificial intelligence is going to be a

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big issue.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Well, I was going to ask, perfect segue the President's
executive Order on states not being allowed to do X,
Y and Z as it relates to AI. What does
that do now?

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
Well, honestly, there's an element of nobody really knows the
force of scifix within some of these executive orders and
whether or not abiding or not abiding. And this goes
to really I hate to kind of throw the patriotic
flag on but really the beauty of the framers when

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the system works according to the way that they designed it,
which is, Congress passes the laws, the House of Representatives
starts all the appropriations and budgeting pieces, the president's duties
are clearly defined here, and nobody strays off of their lane.
It works well, It works better than any other system

(01:25:36):
of governance that history has seen. However, it's not completely
the case that an executive order should have the weight
of policy on other states, and so there's going to
be some figuring out on this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
When it comes to the affordability issue, obviously the big
one there is housing. Yeah, what can the legislature do
about it?

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Well, a number of things. One is they've got they've
got carrots and sticks at their disposal, and those are
going to be in the forms of and I know
they're in some years. The words incentives have gotten a
bad rep but I want us to think about this broadly,
not just like tax incentives, but incentives to getting smaller,

(01:26:23):
more affordable homes profitable with in development spaces, because that
is one of the big challenges where if a developer
has a bunch of space and the most profitable homes
are going to be eight hundred thousand and above. That's
a challenge. So how do you create this? And you
do this by zoning, by land use law, by all

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of these things that local governments have been kind of
going crazy with over the last couple of generations to
establish a whole lot of obstacles to actually getting smaller,
more affordable homes built. Those are the types of things
where the legislature can and likely will play a role
in how local governments kind of manage the types of

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homes that are the most profitable to get bilt.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
I think too often people assume affordability means cheap, and
affordability to me is we have to recognize that a
builder must make a profit because that's how a market
system works, and you create that by creating a marketplace,
you create enough housing so that pricing can become more appropriate.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Yeah, Ultimately, at the end of the day, housing is
an economic good like anything else it is. It is
something that's going to be subject to the laws of
supply and demand. Now, over a period of twenty five years,
the state did a lot of things, right. What they
got a little bit crazy with, mainly at the local level,

(01:27:57):
is managed development, and so they created a whole ton
of land use restrictions and zoning laws and all of
these things mainly at the local level, which restricted the
supply of smaller, more affordable, less expensive homes being built now.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
Which is mismanaged development.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Which is mismanaged development. Now you've got hundreds of thousands
of people, maybe even a couple million people migrating into
the state looking to find homes the only things they
have available, or things are going to bid the price
up on yep. And that gets us into where we are, all.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Right, and where we are now is counting down seven days.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
Monday of next week we kick off sixty days of
just fun and excitement. Can't wait to.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
Unpack all of this with You couldn't think of anybody
better to guide us through the storm.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
I mean I could, but you know that's all.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
You kept it to yourself. Then yeah, yeah, no, we're good.
Thanks a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
I appreciate it always.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
All right, Sala news and with Consumer's defense. He will
be joining us on Monday and mostly Mondays through the session.
There will be a Tuesday thrown in here and there perhaps,
but the legislative session begins a week from tomorrow, and
we will be ready for it and we will keep
you informed. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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(01:30:49):
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Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Look back at the radio program in one and eighty
seconds or less. Our verse today came from Jeremiah twenty nine.
We read verses eleven through fourteen at the suggestion of
jose Can you see we went to the Old Testament

(01:31:20):
to start the devotions for the year. I'm gonna do
something different at times this year. There will be times
I'm gonna try to teach you how to study the Bible,
offer you some some tips, sounds weird, some thoughts on

(01:31:42):
ways to be a little bit more efficient in your
in your study time, and try to help you get
over some humps in some areas of scripture. I haven't
quite figured out how I'm gonna do that, but I'm
gonna do it at some point this year because I
feel like just pushing the envelope a little bit in

(01:32:04):
all that. The big story in the press box obviously
the capture of Nicholas Maduro and his wife. They're in
a New York City courtroom. The Democrats can wring their
hands and you know, gnash their teeth all they want.
It doesn't matter. What we did was legally, it was appropriate.
Is what needed to happen. We gave him chances, we did.

(01:32:26):
He was indicted under Joe Biden, but Joe Biden did
nothing about it. Donald Trump did, and our thanks to
the military for making it happen. US Army Special Forces
went and got him. Iran is blowing up. That's a
good thing as well. This is a bad day for
Russia and China what's going on there, But we're safer

(01:32:49):
in the Western hemisphere because of it. Tomorrow US congress
Woman Kat Camick, we'll have a manly minute Florida. Man.
We'll have a lot to talk about that we didn't
get to today, so I cannot wait. Friends, have a
great day.