Twelve Day's of Preston: March

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning, friends, and welcome the twelve Days of Preston.
I'm Preston Scott, your host, and this is a little
bit different than the typical morning show with Preston, Scott,
Jose and I are taking a little time off, but
we're here with you in the next best way possible

(00:37):
by sharing time and going through the year that was
twenty twenty five was quite the year. And this being
the third day of the Twelve Days of Preston, we
are now going to look into the month of March,
what was going on in the news, various segments on
the show, special interviews and guests, so we'll be unfolding

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all of that as the program goes on. But as
always we like to we like to start the program
with some scripture, and so we'll do that today as well. Now,
one of the things that I love so much about
Christmas time is the merger between music and God's word.

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And there are great traditional Christmas songs that don't really
involve our faith in Christ God that are just fun
little songs to sing, but there are a great many
hymns and Christmas standards that do One is Oh Holy Night,

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and it says in the song fall on your knees.
Oh hear the angel voices, O night Divine, O night
when Christ was born in the midst of so much
imperfection that stands to this very day. Of course, the
night Christ was born can be considered one of the

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most perfect nights in the history of mankind if you
look at the circumstances where God used the ordinary things
of that day to do the extraordinary. He was in
a lot of ways announcing kind of his plan of

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how he would do what he would do. I mean,
traveling on a donkey with a very pregnant wife and
then a very uncomfortable location, and his perfect holy son
was brought into the world. God could have made Jesus'
birth literally visible to all in the sky, but he didn't.

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The way God brought his son into the world is
very much the same way He works within our lives,
oftentimes taking the imperfections of our lives and using those
imperfections to mold us, shape us perfect us. And so
in a lot of ways, our day to day life
really parallels the entire story of Jesus. In the birth

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of Christ. God loves to transform physical emotional scars and
use them to grow us stronger. He wants us to
take what we've learned and share it with others who
are struggling. Jesus came as a light to reveal God

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to all the nations. We have the option to reflect
that same light. Don't let our imperfections and we all
have them, hold you back. Instead, allow God to use
them to shape you into the person He designed you
to be, which is a light in a very dark world.

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Give God your weaknesses, let him turn those into strengths.
Listen to what it says in Luke two verses verse
thirty two, A light for revelation to the gentiles and
for glory to your people Israel. That's who Jesus is.

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A light. That's who we are to be. By claiming
that status as a Christian of people that have been
forgiven and redeemed by the blood and the work of Christ,
we're to be a light to the world, to be
a light that defeats darkness. Light is undefeated against darkness.

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Wherever you shine a light, there's light and the same
is absolutely positively true in a spiritual sense with the
light of Christ. So that's where we begin. We also
on each program we take some time to look inside
the American Patriots Almanac, and this is the twenty second

(05:05):
of December. In eighteen sixty four, Union General William T.
Sherman sends a message to President Abraham Lincoln from Georgia, quoting,
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the
city of Savannah. What an awesome note. Eighteen eighty two,
Edward Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison, displays the first

(05:27):
electric Christmas tree lights in his home in New York City. Okay,
that's sporty. Eighteen ninety four, the US Golf Association is
formed in New York City, otherwise known as the USGA.
Nineteen forty one, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a
wartime meeting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and during nine

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in nineteen forty four, listen to this. During the late
stages of World War Two, German forces mounted a fierce
surprise attack against the Allied troops in the Ardenne Forest
of Belgium. German tanks punched through the thinly stretched American line,
creating a huge what they would describe as bulge in

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the US defenses along the front. The fighting went down
in history as the Battle of the Bulge, American soldiers
in the town of Bastone found themselves surrounded, short on ammunition,
ill equipped to fight in the heavy snows that began
to fall. With bad weather grounding American supply planes, no
relief was in sight, so on December twenty second, a

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group of Germans approached under a flag of truce. They
handed the Americans a piece of paper demanding the surrender
of the town within two hours. American officers took the
ultimatum to their commander, General Anthony mccauliffe. McAuliffe US surrender
h Nuts. That seemed as good a reply as any.

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McAuliffe grabbed a pencil and wrote quote to the German
commander Nuts with an exclamation point. He set the message
back through the lines. The Germans set out to obliterate Bastone.
Artillery bombarded the town while tanks attacked from every side.
With no way to evacuate their wounded and medical supplies

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now gone, Americans hung on with grim determination. Finally, the
weather cleared, American bombers took to the skies. They came
by the hundreds, driving the Germans back. General George Patten's
army arrived to reinforce Bastone, and by late January the
Allies had pushed the Germans back to their original position.

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Battle of the Bulge saw the last major German offensive
and some of the most savage fighting of the war.
The Allied line had bent, but it never ever broke,
and the Americans had stood their ground. Oh yes, so
there you go, and we begin. The show is now

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officially on underway. So, my friends, what do we have
in store for you. We've got some great interviews. The
legislative session was starting and we catch you up on that,
and we've got some interviews with Riley Gaines. We've got

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Irish Chaffell. January, Little John was at the Trump inauguration
and she shared her story about that and then some
So don't leave us. We're just getting started. It is
day number three of the twelve days of Preston the
month of March. Merry Christmas. It's the Morning Show with

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Preston Scott. Let's get right to it. It's time for
our first interview from March twenty twenty five. It was

(09:15):
the beginning of the legislative session and we were joined
by Salnuzo of Consumer's Defense. How would you describe the
setting for this legislative session as opposed to the previous
say five or six when under Rohn Desantus.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, I think this one is shaping up to be
a very intriguing and probably a very interesting session to
pay attention to if you're in for the drama. You know,
in the prior five to six we have had a
very big concentration on policy issues, transformational legislative sessions, and

(09:54):
things along those lines. I think while policy is certainly
going to be in the middle of all of it
this year, it's just going to be downstream of the
real dynamic, which I think is the relationship or lack thereof,
between the governor's team and office and the governor and
the legislative chambers. And we saw that kind of brought

(10:17):
to bear publicly as they debated and dialogued on the
special session recently.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is it possible that important things don't get done because,
let's just say, the three headed beast of the Governor,
the House, and the Senate can't get along.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I think it's always the case that stuff won't get
done because of relational dynamics between chambers and the what
we call the plaza, the Governor's office and the other
cabinet officials. I think that happens every session, and that's
even in years when they get along. There's just the
dynamics of horse trading. What are one chambers priorities or

(10:58):
the plaza's priorities over the others, and how does that
all shake up. I think the relationships are going to
play a little bit more of a role between the
two chambers and the governor as opposed to the governor
in one chamber versus the other, which is sort of
what we have seen in not just run to Santis' term,

(11:20):
but dating back to Rick Scott and others.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
For those that might be new to Florida and for
those that might have forgotten, kind of break down the
makeup of the legislature, Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
So, kind of set the table here. You've got one
hundred and sixty members of the legislature. You've got one
hundred and twenty House members currently eighty six Republicans, thirty
three Democrats. There is one vacancy and that is Joel
Rudman Seed. He resigned to run in the primary for
the congressional district that Jimmy Petronis won the primary, So

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there is also going to be one more vacancy coming,
and that is Debbie Mayfield, who will resign to run
for the Senates that Randy Fine is resigning for to
be or run for Congress. On the Senate side, you've
got forty Senators, twenty eight RS, eleven Democrats. One vacancy

(12:11):
that's Geraldine Thompson, she passed away unexpectedly. There is going
to be one more vacancy coming, that's Randy Fine when
he has to resign for officially for the congressional race.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Given the margins the way that they are, the vacancies
are basically irrelevant. They are irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
And also the vacancies come in heavy art districts, so
it's very unlikely that any of those districts are going
to flip. And even in the off season, the flips
that occurred came the other way, so you had a
couple of Democrats that were elected actually flip parties and
are now Republicans. So Republicans have a super majority in

(12:53):
both chambers. There is one constitutional mandate, yet one pass
a balanced budget. So the budget for the current year,
the current fiscal year that we're in is a round
one hundred and eighteen billion dollars. The governor submitted a
budget proposal, which he does prior to the session each year,
and that proposal is an actual cut, and we're not

(13:15):
talking about a cut in the projected growth or anything
along those lines. It's an actual cut of three billion
dollars one hundred and fifteen billion dollar budget. The majority
of those cuts are coming in what we would call
the federal portion of that budget, you know, the stuff
that comes from Washington for Medicaid reimbursement and all of
those things. The general fund revenues come in at about

(13:37):
fifty billion dollars in his proposal, But that's just a proposal.
The legislature will submit a formal budget with all of
the line items and everything to him at the tail
end of session.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
We were talking about the budget, and I want to
I want to start theory on this segment as well.
Sal Some would say, if my memory serves me right,
it always seems as though the budget gets submitted and
it's a at the tail end of the session and
there's horse trading involved. Is that why we don't get
the budget done at the front end of the session
and it waits till the end because it's part of
the horse trading process.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh probably, and a lot of times. What they will
do is they will have the appropriations process begin, but
also recognize that it's more than just a like, all right,
we're going to spend ten billion dollars on education and
fifteen billion dollars on corrections. There are hundreds and hundreds

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of line items that relate to policy. So if a
particular policy bill passes and has a fiscal line to it,
a cost that has to go into the budget. A
member can submit an appropriation's request for a particular project
in their district and that has to go into the process.

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So that alone takes several you know, iterations in weeks,
and it has to run through the commit process, It
has to go before both chambers, it has to go
through a conference committee that usually takes a week, two,
a week and a half, and then they have the
three day cooling off period. So the choreography of that

(15:13):
just is something where it always kind of makes sense
to do it towards the tail end, especially when you
know your passing bills that are going to have an
impact on that budget.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Let's help listeners understand the cut that's proposed in the budget.
There are some economists that are suggesting Florida is going
to not have as much revenue in the coming years
for the rest of the decade, in part because of
migration numbers slowing down into the state, even though we
are seeing record tourism continue, which obviously keeps everyone happy.

(15:43):
But as well, there's a federal component to this as well.
So help us understand the proposal that the governor's making
where that money's coming from for the cuts.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, so you've got, first off, it is a fiscally
very conservative budget, and you're right. I know, Florida Tax
Watch and so others have put out numbers and analyzes
that show that not this year and maybe not next year,
but when you look at the three to five year
time horizon, the kind of stratospheric growth that Florida has achieved,

(16:17):
at some point it's going to plateau or EBB a
bit and that's going to have implications on the economy
of the state. And for something like medicaid. Let's look
at medicaid. So Medicaid is a half and half, the
state ponies up fifty percent and the federal government ponies
up fifty percent. Florida addresses this through what's called a

(16:38):
managed care program. If you're in the Medicaid program, you're
placed into a managed care program and the federal government
puts fifty percent of the cost in there. So if
those numbers are going to kind of ebb a little bit,
or we're moving people off of the Medicaid rules, the
amount of money that we're going to need from the

(16:59):
fas and it's not just Medicaid, it's transportation dollars and
other things. But that's just one example of where those
reductions generally seem to be coming from. There's also some
things in the environmental space where the governor has been
proposing that the state take control of some things that
the FEDS have just been just not doing, whether it's

(17:20):
the Everglades or the Herbert Hoover Dyke down at Lake
Ocachobee and some other elements there. So that's kind of
a little bit of a top level review there.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Sound News and with consumers Defense, my guest, the legislative
session starts tomorrow. The state of the state precedes at all.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, And to our point from the first segment, with
all of the dynamics at play, I'm very interested in
tuning in on you can watch it on the Florida
Channel dot com dot org, and I'm really intrigued at
the governor's positions on certain things and how the legislature responds.
Even in that context.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Bills they've spent a lot of time I'm in committee weeks.
Is this is the stage set or are there still
more bills to be filed?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, So the bill filing deadline was Friday, February twenty
eighth for the vast, vast majority of bills. So unless
it's a what they call a proposed committee bill or
the chamber what they call waves the rule, all of
the bills had to have been submitted by Friday. When

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I checked at the end of the day, there were
one eight hundred and twenty four bills filed. Now, they
can be very very general, a bill related to education,
and that will oftentimes become what they call a train bill.
A lot of stuff related in that field arena will
get added to it as it moves through committee. But
then there's like super super specifics one specific ones. I

(18:50):
saw one entitled Building and Plumbing Permits for the use
of on site Sewage Treatment and Disposal system, so you
could see kind of the disparity in how bills kind
of are you got one or two page bills? You've
got several hundred page bills. But one other thing that
I'll mention between the two chambers, which is important. Each

(19:11):
House member only has seven bill slots, not including their
appropriations bills, so they only can be the prime sponsor
on seven policy bills, while Senators can file as many
as they like.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Where would we be without salnwzoh breaking down all of
what happens in a legislative session for us? It turned
out that it was intriguing to say the least, didn't it.
Oh my goodness, eyes rolling All right, we got more
to come. First, some news back with more of the
Twelve Days of Preston. Here on the Morning Show with Preston,

(19:46):
Scott Air's Skitch Henderson and the band, The Morning Show Band.

(20:18):
Welcome friends, twelve Days of Preston. If you're just waking
up with us, we are recapping the year twenty twenty five,
and this being the third of the twelve days, this
is the month of March, and we just keep rolling out.
The guests joining me on the phone line is January
Little John. She is a parent advocate with the group
Do No harm medicine dot com and has been a

(20:41):
guest on this program a couple of occasions. Hello, January,
how are you hey?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Good morning, Preston. And that website is do you know
howmedicine dot org?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh, it's a dot org. It's a dot org location.
All right, fair enough. First, you were a guest of
the President of the United States. Those are words that
don't get said very often. Tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Gosh, well, I really don't even know where to start, Preston.
It was just such an honor, and I was so
humbled to be among so many Americans that truly had
tragic stories. I had the opportunity to meet you know,
DJ Daniel, who was just precious that little boy is
still fighting cancer and truly just brought joy to every

(21:25):
single person he encountered. He just has such a gift.
And then of course there were the victims of you know,
Lincoln Riley's family, Jocelyn's mom, Alexis was there, and then
of course Corey Combentary's family. So I just was very
humbled to be in a room with just incredible Americans

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everyday Americans who have stories to tell. But I think
God is using their pain for purpose. Just like he
did for me and my family.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
What does it mean to be a parent advocate for
do know how our medicine.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
So I am incredibly grateful to Do No Harm and
the really important work that we are doing. I serve
as their parent leaders on So any time a parent
contacts Do No Harm and is struggling with their child
who has distressed over their sex, I connect that parent
to resources to help them parents and walk their child

(22:23):
on the other side of that confusion, just like we
did with our daughter.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yet give everybody the thumbnail sketch january of what happened
with your daughter.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
So there are details that I cannot talk about right
now because we are still in litigation. But what I
can tell you is that this is pervasive. President and
gender identity ideology has infected every institution in our culture.
It's affected our schools, it's infected our medical profession, my
counseling profession, and even our judicial systems. And so it's

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going to take some time to I'm do the indoctrination
that's been done and pull it out root by root.
But until then, parents need to fully inoculate their kids
from this ideology because it's not a matter of if
they're exposed, it's whens. And so it's really important that
children know from a very young age that there are

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male and females, that no matter what one does to
their physical self, sex cannot be changed. Sex is not
a spectrum that is binary. And so these were truths
that we took for granted even ten years ago. But
it's really important that you ground your children and the
reality of their sex. You celebrate the sex that they

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were born, and you help them through, you know, often
times of puberty that we all went through, because right
now it's being pathologized and these transidentities are being normalized
and even promoted and celebrated.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
January Little John with Me Do No harmmdicine dot org
is the website just to kind of dovetail your visit
on Tuesday night at the President's Addressed to the Nation
into Congress. You know, you mentioned being humbled by being
around the families and some of the young people that
you were surrounded by January, but you also had to

(24:16):
take notice that half the room of the elected leaders
was not so warm and sympathetic to any of those causes.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yes, I did, and that was truly disgraceful. I don't
know how they could sit there and not applaud DJ
I mean that to me, that was just unforgivable. And
there has to be a time when we put partisan
politics aside, and they have shown time again if they

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are unwilling to do that.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
I know that you are in a situation with the
litigation where you cannot talk about specifics of the case.
What can you tell us about the status of it
and what are your goals?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
So in the appeal space, we are now awaiting the
elevens t Court of Appeals to rule on the judge's
dismissal of our case. That is the status of the case.
In terms of my hopes, I want to change the culture.
That is really what we need is a shift in culture.
We have to get back to where we are grounded

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in truth reality because the bottom line pressent, this is
a mental health issue that up until recently thankful you know,
I'm very thankful to Governor DeSantis and other states that
have passed laws restricting these barbaric mutilating surgeries and hormone therapies.
They should have never been allowed to do this to children,

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and so I really think in order to fully end
this medical scandal. We really need a shift in culture.
We have to get back to this being a mental
health issue perceived as a mental health issue, because that's
what it is. It's very similar to any type of
body dysmorphia and even anorexia. So that is my goal
is to educate people because the US is now an

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outlier and how we are treating, especially children experiencing this
kind of distress, and we just need to keep speaking truth.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Isn't it fair to also say that this is about
establishing lines of who's responsible for the well being and
welfare of a child, a school district or a public
school versus a parent.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, yes, and ultimately I hope that the court's rule
in favor of parents. I mean, that's really what we
need because parents have the fundamental right to direct the
upbringing of their children. That includes mental health care and
physical health care. And it's really important for parents to

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understand what their rights are and to stand up for
them when they have been violated.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
January. I've looked at the statistics. I know that it
is or just for me personally, I don't believe that
this has been anything other than a social contagion brought
about by social media largely. It tends to impact young
girls more than young boys statistically. But that said, as

(27:17):
a professional in the field, am I kind of on
the right track here? This is this is stuff that
kids sometimes they just question and they grow out of
most of the time.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
That's exactly right question, and that is what the research shows.
Just like with our daughter, if you give these kids
time to mature, go through their national puberty, you do
not socially or medically transition them. They will resolve their distress.
And this is a social contagion. There is no other
explanation for the explosions and the number of young people,

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predominantly girls, during their prebcent years when discomfort over their
body is high, suddenly experiencing this type of distress and
believing falsely that they were born in.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
The wrong body.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
So you have this perfect storm that came together during
COVID where these lives this gender identity ideology, this notion
that you have a gender identity that is separate from
your sex, that you choose to be a boy, girl,
neither or both. This was all intentionally pushed on our children.

(28:27):
And so you're right, social media played a huge part
of it. But you have to remember, prior to President
Trump taking the office BacT, this was also being pushed
through the Department of Education, through our own federal governments.
There were c these SE grants that were pushing gay
Straight Alliance, gender Sexuality Alliance clubs into our middle school

(28:50):
and high school. So this is still happening. Gender identity
ideology is still being pushed in the schools through these
types of clubs, through social emotional learning programs, and I
am still getting called all over the country. This crisis
is still happening for many families across our nation. This
battle is not over.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Preston is a good starting point for any parent listening
that's maybe dealing with this with their child. Do Noharmmedicine
dot org.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Absolutely. We put together a parent resource page that is
a fantastic place to start. They can also fill out
a tip line on the website itself and make an
appointment with me. Just put in there that you'd like
to be connected with me and I can help them
get the resources they need.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Look at us even here all these months later by
airing that interview again, maybe we're helping more people. That's
what we're all about around here, making a difference. Thank
you January. All right, we continue. It's the month of March.
It's the third day of the Twelve Days of Preston
and we continue with our program here on Monday, December

(29:55):
twenty second, here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston. This is
day number three, which is our gift to you the
month of March. So we're bringing you this stories, guests,

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interviews from the month of March. So we're taking the
year in chronological order. We're fortunate we have guests that
we get where we have them one time and that's it.
But we also have regular guests and one of them
that we lean on on all things Florida State in
the athletic program is Irishchafel. He's the managing editor at
war chant dot com. And there was big news in
the month of March. Remind listeners what the battle was

(30:43):
between Florida State and Clemson in particular and the Atlantic
Coast Conference.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, you know, I really think the heart of it
goes back. I mean the origin, the origins go back
over a decade, you know, Florida State and Clemson and
probably a couple other schools if that concerns about you know,
the revenue they get every year from the ACC and
their television contract compared to the other schools, but are
really heated up the last couple of years. You know,
when the SEC went out and picked up Texas and Oklahoma,

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two of the biggest names in college sports, and then
the Big Ten retaliated by going and getting Southern cal Andy,
UCLA and the later Oregon in Washington. You know, that
really just changed the landscape, and I think FSU realized that,
you know, these conferences are becoming kind of super conferences
and their TV deals are going to get so much bigger,
and so projections came out showing that, you know, the

(31:30):
schools in the Big Ten and the schools in the
SEC would soon be getting you know, forty thirty forty,
maybe more than that million dollars a year per school
per year, more than schools in the ACC. And you know,
for Florida State that was an acute concern because you know,
their chief rival is Florida, and Florida's in the SEC.
So you know, if you if the biggest school you
want to compete with, not just in football, but in basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, swimming,

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everything has another forty million dollars to work with every year.
They looked at that as a huge crisis. They went
to the ACC. They said, hey, we want more money.
We can't just split everything evenly the way it's always
been done. Some of these schools and the conference don't
spend as much on football as we do, and we
should be getting more of this TV money. They ended
up the ACC basically had no interest in that. The

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other school said, no, tough luck. You're in this contract
till twenty thirty six. By contract, you don't have anywhere
to go. You're stuck. And so fores State sued and
about fifteen months after their lawsuit, Clemson also sued. They
ended up settling a couple weeks ago, and I think
it was a huge settlement for Florida State and Clemson.
They're potentially going to be getting in Florida State's potentially

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going to be getting an extra fifteen to twenty million
dollars a year just off the top because of their
strength as a brand in terms of the television contract.
So that's going to be a huge boost for FSU.
And then also there's some other added incentives if forlorest
state does well in football and basketball where they can
make more money as well. So at the end of
the day, they're going to stay in the ACC for

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the time being, but they'll be bringing in you know,
maybe twenty or twenty five million dollars more a year
than they were before, which helps them compete against those
other brands.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Ara best as you know, is it a level playing
field for athletic programs across the country in that the
athletic programs the high price contracts nil to players. Now,
as an added wrinkle, that's not funded like the school is,

(33:30):
the athletics are funded separately. Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Yeah. In fact, in the state of Florida, the Board
of Governors has a policy that universities can't support athletics.
They didn't want state schools to be funding athletics and
you know, paying these coaches all this money out of
money that the school generates. So there's actually a policy
in place now that's there's a movement to get that
changed to a little bit. But because it's it's handled

(33:56):
to such an extreme, like right now, if football player,
a basketball player, any tennis player, whatever, attends classes at FSU,
the athletics apartment actually has to pay the university the tuition.
You know, they can't just sit in that classroom right
and get a free ride. The athlex apartment has to
be self sustaining, and so there may be a movement

(34:17):
at some point to where some of that gets relaxed,
but yeah, right now, it'll basically what supports athletics is
the TV contract, licensing deals, merchandise sales, ticket sales, booster donations.
That's how they fund all the athletics.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
IRA. You would briefly mention that a lot of this
negotiating power for Florida State and Clemson revolves around the
fact that they were able to demonstrate or were going
to be able to demonstrate that despite Florida State struggling
last year. Generally speaking, Florida State and Clemson put eyeballs

(34:53):
on television sets as opposed to most of the other
schools in the ACC. Is that accurate?

Speaker 5 (35:00):
One percent? And that was kind of the funny thing
about the argument. You know, I felt like a lot
of the schools in the ACC when objecting to f
SU's request, you know, it was kind of a straw
man argument. They were basically just saying that, you know, listen,
Florida State hasn't even won a lot of games lately.
They had the one good year in twenty twenty three,
but they've had a lot of down years either. You know,
the analogy I came up with, I think it's pretty accurate, is,

(35:22):
you know, Florida State is like in movie or in acting.
You know, Forlida State's kind of like the rock. You know,
he might not be the best actor in the world
in every movie, but he's the one that gets people
in the seats. He's the one that so he's going
to get the twenty five thirty million dollars per movie,
whereas maybe another actor or actress is a much finer
trained actor, and they might be doing better performances, but

(35:45):
they may not bring people into the seats. They don't
get paid as much. And Florida State's the box office attraction.
So it is Clemson. And as you said, they have
metrics that show even when Florida State's not playing well,
they draw way more television ratings than a lot of
these other schools in the conference.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Also be important to note that when this deal originated,
the ACC basically had its hat in its hand and
ESPN held all the cards, and the only reason the
ACC had any kind of of real argument here was
from a football perspective, certainly, was Florida State the Bobby

(36:22):
Bowden years earned the ACC the credentials, the panache to
even be considered. Isn't that accurate?

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Oh for sure. And you know, if you go back
to as I said, this all really kind of started
to bubble up over ten years ago and early in
twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and at that time, Florida State,
you know, was thinking about maybe looking at the Big
twelve or seeing if there were other conferences with an interest,
and ESPN went to the ACC and said, listen, we're
only going to give you a new TV contract that

(36:51):
pays you, you know, pretty well, if you can lock
in Florida State and Clemson for the long term. That's
when they end up signing that long term granted rights
for twenty years. It was in was it was a
way to lock in Florida State and Clemson and guarantee
ESPN that they would have those teams in their inventory,
and that was the only way they would do the deal.
I think if John Swapper, the former commissioner, couldn't get

(37:13):
FSU and Clemson to sign a long term granted rights,
they would not have given the ACC that deal. It's
certainly not those rates.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Before we move on to the new FSU basketball coach
Luke Laux, let me ask you this. I followed your
writing and coverage of this story as it as it
sort of evolved in the final few months before the settlement. Ira,
you commented that the settlement was just better than expected.
Was that because the ACC saw some kind of handwriting

(37:41):
on the wall they were going to lose this case
or what made it that this was so much better
than was even expected.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah, I think there was a little bit of concern,
well legitimate concern, I think on the ACC's point that
they could lose the case. You know, they really fought
hard to not let it be to play out in
Florida courts. They were really they had fired filed their
own lawsuit in North Carolina. In fact, once they kind
of caught win that FSU was going to file a lawsuit,
they actually filed their lawsuit a few hours before in

(38:12):
North Carolina, trying to get that to be the primary venue.
And when they lost all those battles and rost recently
they lost it up into the Florida Supreme Court within
the last couple of weeks, who said, you know, we're
not interfering with Judge Cooper's decision. Judge Cooper is the
local Circuit court judge and he's going to hear this case.
And there was a feeling the Florida case may go

(38:32):
through before the North Carolina case, and I think they
felt like, you know, the things might not go as
well as they had hoped. And I think the other
thing was man Florida State just stood very firm. They
were not going to back down. They were not looking
for State didn't go into that looking for a quick settlement.
I think they were once the as she realized Florida
State was going to take this to trial, it was

(38:53):
going to go the distance and there was a chance
they could lose. I think they felt like they had
to come back to the table.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
I Rischa fell Whether from war Chant dot Com, a
regular guest of the program, keeping us informed on all
things Florida State University athletics. All right, that's our number
one in the books. If you're just joining us, This
is the Morning Show with Preston Scott sort of, it's
the twelve Days of Preston, and that's our gift to
you as we are on vacation. We are leaving behind

(39:22):
the best of twenty twenty five in order. So the
month of March is Today's show back with more as
we move into our number two, more interviews, more segments,
great guests. Don't miss it. Merry Christmas, friends, It's the
twelve Days of Preston. Here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. It's the second hour of the Morning Show

(40:11):
with Preston Scott sort of. It's the twelve Days of
Preston and this is the third day, which means the
month of March. This is a look back at the
year twenty twenty five. It's our year in review and
a little gift as we're away on vacation. In this segment,
we discussed took calls on a fascinating article and your

(40:33):
response to it was well interesting. What prompted this was
an article in Epic Times and it asked why do
some people remember their dreams while others forget? And we're
using that as kind of our baseline to talk about
dreams in general, not specific dreams that you have. I'm
not here to interpret anything that's not no, but Ellen,

(40:58):
thanks for calling in. Do you remember are your dreams
or do you not? I?

Speaker 6 (41:03):
Well, obviously the ones I do remember, you know. Oftentimes
it's it's not when I'm under a lot of stress,
and I always I don't necessarily remember right away, like
some of the day will go by and then something
will happen and then all of it will.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Come into my head.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
Really right, It's.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
Really strange because I don't just wake up and think, oh,
I'm having a dream or I had a dream.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
It's a it's a really strange thing.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
And some of the time the dream feels so real
that a couple events will happen, I think, oh, that
didn't happen at all. But yeah, it's for me most
of the time, I seem to remember my dreams when
I'm under stress, and the dreams like people will be
in the dreams from my daily life, but not in

(41:57):
their normal positions.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Gotcha, you know? Yeah, tell me this. Did Do you
remember as a young adult, a teenager or child having
dreams and remembering them?

Speaker 6 (42:10):
Oh, gosh, I'm older, so I don't really remember a
lot from when I was a kid. Now, I can't
say for sure. Certainly when I was in college. But
I can't say whether.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
When I was younger or not.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
Oh you know what, that's a lie. So yes, I remember.
The only dreams I remember when I was a kid
was like the drowning dream.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Okay, but I was drowning.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
I never died.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
Though, right, So yes, I did have dreams when I
was a kid, and I did remember.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
It's okay. One more question for you. Do you do
you find that when you realize that you have dreamed
the night before that, even though you're suggesting that it's
stress related for you, do you remember whether you slept
particularly well or not at all?

Speaker 6 (43:02):
I know often types that's.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Not well, okay, that's interesting, right.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Okay, because but I think we dream when we're in
that deep sleep, So.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
I don't I don't know, yeah, because that's that's me.
I can. You know. I've got one of those sleep
number beds that tells you, you know, it gives you
some data on how well you slept. And I can
almost guarantee when I've slept in the nineties because I
remember my dreams, and I tend to know my to

(43:34):
dream and remember them when I've been in really deep
sleep and haven't moved hardly at all through the night
and so, but Ellen, thanks very much. I appreciate you
calling in this morning. Let's go to Lee. Lee, what
do you think about this?

Speaker 7 (43:47):
Well, Preston, you know, I mean, is there our spiritual war?
Our reality is a spiritual world, no different than a
Doctor Strange movie, and there's just different planes that we
can't see. Asked. I have some silly dreams, and those
seem to be the ones I don't really remember a
whole lot of and those seem to happen more on

(44:08):
nights where I don't sleep.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Well, Okay, I have some.

Speaker 7 (44:12):
I have some. Sometimes I have some some very I've
been married a long time, and sometimes I have some
very intimate dreams. Sometimes I I can dream something, wake
up and write it down or or voice a note
to myself and my phone, because I could pretty much

(44:32):
write a movie on it, really and yeah, and then
sometimes it's just the same old dream where the abominabal
snowman throws me off a cliff.

Speaker 9 (44:42):
And that's happened since I.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Was a child, and I'm an old man now and
I've probably dreamed that dream at least half a dozen
times in my life.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
That's funny, or maybe it's not, but it is. Yeah,
it is.

Speaker 7 (44:54):
But I'm not exactly going mountain climbing or or over
in India any times.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Since science has long been fascinated by the topic of dreams,
why some people recall their dreams in like high res
four K detail and others huh. Chinese culture has strong
thoughts on it, Egyptian culture strong thoughts on it. The
Bible has a lot to say on dreams. There's actually

(45:27):
going back to the eighteen nineties research on the subject,
actual research where people were literally in settings where their
sleep was analyzed. Jeff, what about you.

Speaker 7 (45:44):
Well, something I've always done, basically my whole life is
a lot of times I can direct my dreams. I
can actually make it go one way or the other.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
You're kidding, And no.

Speaker 7 (45:57):
Sometimes I will wake up and I will say, uh,
this is a good one.

Speaker 9 (46:03):
Close your eye.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
I mean, in other words, just just be real still
and my dream will resume after I wake up and
something else that I've I've done. And this is like
a just a mental thing. But sometimes if I'm having
a traumatic, you know, bad dream, I will actually consciously

(46:24):
make it worse to see how much I can endure you.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
You can intentionally make a dream worse.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
Yeah, like you know, a bad dream.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Really tell me this, now, are those dreams that are
traumatic based on real life experiences or are they based
on things that maybe you've seen or read?

Speaker 7 (46:47):
Hey, it's it's a mishmash.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Okay, So what does it leave you thinking when it's
all said and done. What are your thoughts on the
topic of your dreams?

Speaker 7 (46:59):
You know, like in the Bible, a lot of history
and a lot of a lot of decisions were made
based on dreams, and so there's got to be something
to it.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Okay, fair enough, Thank you. I appreciate you sharing that, Jeff.
Let's go to fran Hi. Fran thanks for being patient.
Are you someone who remembers your dreams each and every
night or every now and then or not at all?

Speaker 8 (47:23):
I generally remember them every night I dream in color.
Generally the dream has something to do about family, Okay,
it's it's something that gives me peace. Really, I've dreamed
since Yes, I've dreamed since childhood in color, things that
were just naturally built in for my abilities, my God

(47:47):
given abilities, And they were things I can remember floor
plans of dreams that I dreamed in fifth grade. I'm
in my mid fifties. I think there's a purpose in
dream going back to the Bible. I love the dream
Some of them are just enjoyable, like seeing my grown

(48:09):
child as a three year old and getting to relive
those times. And some of them are something where I'll
dream about somebody because I have a big decision to make,
but my family won't tell me anything. They're like in fact,
one of times I dreamed and I saw someone in

(48:31):
my family and I said, what should I do? And
my family member said, no, you need to live and
make your decisions as you make them.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Back with more of the Twelve Days of Preston. You're
listening to the Morning Show with Preston Scott Jog The

(49:00):
Lodies come. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
This is day number three, the month of March, and
back in March. As is always the case, we just
we have been given remarkable favor and so we get
some amazing guests here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(49:24):
Riley gains with us this morning, founder of the Riley
Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. She's been with us before.
In fact, the last time Riley was with us. She
Later that day was there when President Donald Trump signed
and signed an executive order trying to protect women's sports
and spaces. Riley, welcome back. How are you well.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I'm fantastic. It is so good to be on with you.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
I remember that day. I remember seeing your face when
he signed that document and handed you a pen. But
you knew deep down that that was not going to
get this thing done. Hence, the fight is far from over. Tour.
Tell us kind of your appraisal of where things are
right now in protecting women's sports and protecting women's spaces.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Well, you're so right. Being there for that signing was
just of course, it was an experience that I'll never
forget in the visual that came from it, where I'm
sure you saw the clips. I'm sure you saw some
of the videos and the images that surface where you
have President Trump signing this executive order surrounded by all
these little girls. I mean they're five, six, seven, eight

(50:34):
years old and they're wearing their jerseys.

Speaker 10 (50:36):
I loved it at a sports jersey.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Wasn't it amazing?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
I watched it all rive I was beaman.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
As the little girls were. Their faces were so joyous
and excited.

Speaker 7 (50:46):
But you're right.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
I went into that knowing that there would be states
number one that of course would not adhere, they would
not comply to federal law, to this executive order. And
of course that there are are just about half the states,
a little under half the states that have not passed
any sort of state law themselves. So that's of course

(51:10):
what we've seen. We've seen the unc double A. That's
another entity that is completely not fallen in compliance with
this executive order. We saw Congress, we saw passed the House,
but we saw this this bill that would codify this
executive order fail in the Senate, with all us Democrat
senators voting in opposition of this. So look, while it's

(51:34):
great that we have seen the decisive, swift action from
President Trump, you're right the fart the fight is far
from over, and the war on Wook it just hasn't
been won yet.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I'm curious where you think it is the most effective
battlefield for this thing. I have some thoughts, but i'd
like yours.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Well. What we have seen the most effective. It's public pressure.
It's amazing to me that we have had Democrats. Again,
I hate to make it partisan like that, because the
reality of the situation is, it's really not a partisan issue.
It's not polarizing at all. Actually, it's very unifying, and
we don't do that. In the numbers. They say it's

(52:15):
an eighty twenty issue. I think it's more jurassic than that.
But in terms of elected representation, how the media is
representing this issue, it really is partisan. So it's amazing
to me to see the elected Democrats doubled down. I
really thought on November fifth, when Donald Trump won, that
Democrats were going to to distance themselves from their voting

(52:38):
record acts like they never took the stance be totally
in alignment with protecting women and girls in their private spaces.
But that's not at all what we've done. So what
we know works is public pressure. We need people, we
need everyday, people who otherwise would have never been involved
in politics, people like myself. Look, I had no interest
in taking the position in stance that I did, you know,

(53:01):
being thrust into the limelight and the way that I have.
But it's a necessity. It requires men, it requires women, old, young, white, black, gay, straight.
It doesn't matter, None of those on dinufactors matter when
you're dealing with such an important and timely issue as
women's rights.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Regular listeners, ruminators of this radio program. No, I have
been talking about this topic for years, and it pains
me that we've had to devote the time we've had
to devote to it. But I'm doing this in part
because I have granddaughters, and I am determined to help
make sure that they have a place to compete, a

(53:42):
place to shower, change clothes. Riley. We're seeing stories. We
saw a story just this past week. We talked about it.
I know you posted on it in Oregon. A young
man beat women, young girls and took awards from young girl.
And it's it's absurd that we find ourselves even discussing this.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
That's the truth. I often think if our founding fathers
were still around and they saw some of these headlines
that are being published, they would be confused, like, wouldn't
you understand what is being communicated, what is being said?
They wouldn't understand what trans woman trans man seeing. She

(54:26):
used for a mugshot of a male who's imprisoned for
either murdering a child. We've seen some crazy stories when
the mugshot is very obviously a male. So yeah, what
we saw in Oregon it's tragic, but truthfully it's unsurprising.
This is a male who's competed for several years now

(54:47):
taking opportunities away from girls. I've talked to several of
the girls who's competed against, who of course recognized the unfairness,
but they, truthfully, they don't know what to do. And look,
I will tell you I don't blame them, they're so
young to have to to know how best to defend themselves. Really,
the problem is the adults, whether it's the parents, whether

(55:07):
it's the coaches, whether it's the athletic directors, the officials.
The adults have failed them and they're left to bear
the burden of defending themselves. It's really sad. But what
I do think we need to see in states where
this continues to happen, like Oregon, Maye, Michigan, Minnesota, California, Washington,
the list goes on. What we need to see is

(55:29):
girls ultimately boycotting. And that's what we've dubbed this. We've
dubbed it Project Boycott, with emphasis on the word boy.
And these girls they get on the track, they get
on the court, the field, and when there's a boy
on the other side of the net or a boy
in the lane next to them, they don't go and
look at you. Know that it's easier said than done,

(55:49):
but that is the most powerful way to send the
message that enough is enough. I'm not going to be
subjected to this type of discrimination.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Riley. I'm glad you said that. I want to run
two things by you and get your thoughts. Number one,
I've advocated that same thing for quite a while now,
just don't compete. However, I want to propose another idea,
because we're not getting the attention of enough people in
enough important places. What are your thoughts on organizing a

(56:20):
complete shutdown of girls athletics for one day sometime in
the fall or the winter. Give it time to be
organized where we get the attention of parents, and we
simply say it on this day, no girl's going to
compete in any athletic competition anywhere until we get this changed.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
Look, I think this is awesome. We've I've thought about
this for a while. Of course, as you could imagine,
it would be hard to coordinate, and it of course
be hard to get everyone on board, but again it
would be really powerful. And so the day that I
propose is October tenth and the reason why is because
it's the tenth day of the day, tenth month, which

(57:01):
in Roman numerals is x X, which of course is
the female chromosome. They's fifth grade biology. See you know that.
And it's again, it sends a it sends a message
that cannot be ignored. That's what they've done for years.
That's especially what they did with President Biden and offices.

(57:21):
They just ignored us. They stone walled us. They didn't
give us a seat at the table to even have
the conversation. Well guess what now, because of the current administration,
because of the political landscape across the country, because of
the shift in public opinion that we've visibly got to
see based on poll numbers, we do have a seat
at the table. We have a voice as women. It's

(57:44):
time we use it and we send the message again
that these regressive policies it's in the name of progress,
in the name of feminism again, it's taking our rights
to equal opportunity as women away.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
I think it's a brilliant idea. I love the date.
I support it wholeheartedly. I think it has to be
more than just when there's a transgendered athlete competing. I
think it has to be we're going to protect women's sports,
girls sports, and girl spaces. The second thing I wanted
to get your thoughts on, there are too many things

(58:19):
being kicked around about birth certificates. It can't be birth certificates.
It's got to be DNA testing.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
That's right. This is exactly what the NCAA is done
and why I said they're not incompliance. Yep, their new
policy that they have in place, it does it resorts
to birth certificates, which what we know is birth certificates
can be made fraudulent. They can be changed in all
but six states, and of course across the world. We've
seen some great action by Secretary of St. Marco Rubios.

(58:48):
It pertains to the Olympics. He says, look, we're not
going to consider fraudulent passports in the Olympics as they're
hosted in the United States in twenty twenty eight. So
absolutely ample cheek swab. People say it's invasive. The less
says it's invasive. Again, was the COVID test the swab
that touched my brain not invasive, if that's the standards.

(59:11):
Was the drug test we had to take in college
where you went into a bathroom. You have someone standing
at the stall door watching you. You dropped your pants
to your ankles, you lifted your shirt up, did the
three point sixty and then teeing the cup while they
continued to watch you. Is that not necessarily invasive? It's silly,
it's stupid to say it's invasive. It's a simple cheek

(59:32):
swab or saliva test.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Very fortunate on the Morning Show to have access to
some incredible guess please that we've had Riley Gaines on.
She's a friend of the program. Now what an amazing
young lady. All right, this is the Twelve Days of Preston.
We're covering the month of March, even though it is Monday,
December twenty second, back with more, don't you leave us?

(01:00:04):
Welcome back to the twelve Days of Preston. Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Day number three, the
month of March. This is an interview with Elizabeth Cole
of Solo Parent. We talked about the challenges of being
a single parent, and it starts with getting through the
initial stages of becoming one.

Speaker 11 (01:00:26):
What recovery looks like is kind of you know, you're
out of the triage stage, and that you can get
out of bed in the day. You know, you're putting
food on the table, You're moving through life. Your job
is more stable, you're emotionally more stable. You're able to
show up to your kids in a healthier way when
they respond and react. But you're not necessarily at your healthiest.

(01:00:49):
You know, you're still kind of surviving. Maybe you aren't
able to see what the future looks like yet, maybe
you haven't really gotten kind of fully back on your feet.
And let's be honest, after the death of a spouse
and after divorce, nothing's really the same ever again. But
you're able to kind kind of envision a future for
yourself and for your kids.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
And like I.

Speaker 11 (01:01:12):
Said, we've found that we really kind of usher people
from that triage into recovery stage. And then the third
stage is wellness. And this is where you are, i mean,
really able to use your story to help other people.
You're able to kind of be level headed, You're you know,

(01:01:35):
being more of a mentor to those around you. All
of us were human. You make mistakes, and you know,
two steps for one step back, but you kind of
know how to navigate life and show up in a
way that feels healthy and grounded and in a way
that you're able to just kind of be there for
other people. And like I said, use your story to help.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Others, I would imagine that helping other people based on
your personal experiences kind of takes a little bit of
the staying out of the personal experiences. It brings some
perspective to those and helps with the healing process, and
so it's sort of like a circle that happens there.

Speaker 11 (01:02:16):
Absolutely, I know for me, I needed to make purpose
out of the pain. And I went to Robert the CEO,
when I was kind of probably a year out for
my divorce. I went in and said, you know, I
just really feel like I need to be using my
story to help other people. And he was like, great,
let's do it. Let's put you to work.

Speaker 10 (01:02:36):
And so and it.

Speaker 11 (01:02:38):
Really has and really does for me personally. And I'll
say that I lead a group every Monday online at
eight pm Central nine pm Eastern, and you can find
that on our website as well, but I lead those
groups on Monday nights. And what I've seen time and
time again is it doesn't matter what phase of parenting

(01:03:00):
you're in or single parenting you're in. You have something
to offer to the group. And even for people who
are kind of in that wellness phase and using their
story to help other people, it's so amazing. How I know,
for me, I'll hear people's stories that are in triage
and they're right in the thick of it, and it

(01:03:21):
helps me kind of go back and discover things that
maybe I didn't think about before, didn't heal, and it
kind of takes me back there. And there's a healing
that happens even from interacting with people who are in
the triage stage, and then of course vice versa. The
triage stage are hearing from people who are in recovery
and wellness and they have a lot of hope and

(01:03:43):
you know, for where they're going, it kind of pulls
them along to say, Okay, I can get through this.
If they can do it, I can do it, you know.
And so it's just really the community aspect is so
so so important when we're talking about our single parent
life and just having people who understand.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Time moves fast. And so let's start talking some specifics
about the website with me as Elizabeth Cole with solo
parent and I know, I know we've got a ton
of single parents listening out there and Elizabeth go through
some of the resources that people will find on the

(01:04:21):
website to be the most useful.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:04:24):
So well at soloparent dot org, as you said, and
we have everything there from our podcast if you just
want to tune in weekly. We fifty two weeks a year.
We have a new podcast that relates to the top
issues that single parents deal with. Obviously, that's free. We've
got our groups online in person, you can check those out.

(01:04:48):
We really want to provide online groups for single parents
because you know, childcare and figuring out the timing and
all of that is really can be difficult for single parents.
So those online groups are great free resource in a
way to connect with other people. But we also if
you want to start a group in your area, or
maybe you're pastor at a church, or you know, you
lead a nonprofit organization that serves single parents in some

(01:05:11):
former capacity, we have all the resources that you need
to start a group. So all of that information is
there as well, of course, and then we've got our
online course that we've just launched earlier this year for
free for Florida State residents. The four Habits of successful

(01:05:33):
solo parenting and you'll find that there as well.

Speaker 10 (01:05:36):
For free.

Speaker 11 (01:05:36):
It's a seven module course. You can do it at
your own leisure, that sort of thing that it takes
you through kind of some four habits that single parents
can establish to kind of get through day to day
life and help become the best version of themselves, not
just for themselves in their communities, but also for their kids.

(01:05:57):
So we've got lots of free resources there, but definitely
come connect with us and learn more.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
I would again I'm guessing, but the financial component and
the childcare component have to be the most frequently talked
about or maybe the biggest hurdles for single parents.

Speaker 11 (01:06:21):
Absolutely. I mean, the financial strain on single parents is significant,
especially in the state of Florida. We have seen how
average income for single parents is around twenty seven thousand
a year for single parents in the state of Florida,
and that is significantly lower than the average household income

(01:06:44):
in America. And so the financial strain is real. And
then of course when it comes to childcare, I mean,
people are paying more in childcare than they pay for
their mortgage or for their rent payment, you know, and
it's just I mean, it's impossible for single parents to
cover all of those expenses, and so it is a
very real struggle. We don't necessarily we don't we aren't

(01:07:07):
a benevolence organization. We focus more on the emotional mental
health right of single parents. But you know, there are
the resources out there, you know, we can we can
try to make connections in any sort of way, but
for the most part, we're focused on that emotional and
mental health side of things. And so you need somewhere

(01:07:28):
to come and complain about your financial you know, straight
and all of that. We got to but we you know,
we aren't a benevolent organization.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Yeah, I mean, I think for many just knowing how
to navigate and knowing, for example, that there might be
programs that offer subsidies and help for childcare in certain circumstances.
I think just knowing you're not alone. You know, there's
an old expression misery loves company, and and I think

(01:07:57):
that that awareness is really helpful to a lot of
parents out there that find themselves in this spot.

Speaker 11 (01:08:04):
Absolutely, yeah, And do we do cover you know, in
our groups, we talk about a lot of the topics
that we're covering every week and from time to time
throughout the year. We'll talk about finances because we know
that you know how to make a budget even or
how to save when you can't make an end meet.
You know, talking about those sorts of things together is

(01:08:26):
really helpful and giving ideas. And we have some single
parents who have really found habits and things that they've
been able to do to help start saving towards retirement
again and you know, start to have a budget and
do these different things or how to make extra income
on the side. And our community is really robust and

(01:08:46):
that people are able to pull kind of pull things
together and say, hey, this is what I you know,
this is what works for me, maybe it'll work for
you too.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
That's where those shared experiences in that community that you've
talked about all morning, it matters so much. Elizabeth. Thank
you for what you and the others are doing with
solo parent. Appreciate the resources, and thanks for taking time
for us this morning.

Speaker 11 (01:09:10):
Oh thank you. I appreciate you having me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Thank you very much, Elizabeth Cole with US vice president
soloparent dot org slash Florida. And again, I think that
component we just hit on it there at the end.
Others and their experiences and ideas invaluable Elizabeth Cole of

(01:09:33):
Solo Parent. We tackle topics that matter, not just the
political stuff, which of course matters, but life as well.
All Right, we are in the midst of the Twelve
Days of Preston day number three, the month of March.
More to come. Here on December twenty second, Monday on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back to the

(01:10:08):
Twelve Days of Preston The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
This is the third of the twelve days, which means
this is the month of March. Now, I know it's Monday,
December twenty second, I get that. But as we wrap
up here the second hour, we are going back in time,
going through the the events, the news of the year
as it unfolded, and we're going to tackle the State

(01:10:31):
of the State and the State of the Union speeches
by Governor Ronda Santis and President Donald Trump. It created
some wonderful theater for yours truly, so let it be
known Tuesday, March fourth, with the State of the State
address by sitting Governor Ronda Santis in Florida. Totally different dynamics. Yeah,

(01:10:52):
there's a little maneuvering going on there. Little tug of war.
But it's I mean, it's a super majority for Republicans
in Florida's legislature and stuff gets done. Then you have
the President's Addressed to the Nation and Congress, where Democrats

(01:11:14):
did exactly what was predicted, even though many of them
were begging, they're fellow Democrats to not make a spectacle
of things because it just plays into Trump's hands. Here's
a bigger reality. It's not about playing into Trump's hands.
It destroys them nationally. The optics of this are almost

(01:11:38):
almost rest in peace Democrat Party because they looked just
totally and completely childish. Trump's speech was an hour and
forty minutes. That's a long speech. That's too long in
my opinion, that's too long by an hour on honestly,

(01:12:00):
thirty to forty five minutes. I think it can all
get done and said, and you just rocket, man, you
just go. But I have a very different view of
how these types of things ought to be done. Public
speaking is something that I've done literally since high school,
and I have a different view. It doesn't mean that

(01:12:21):
I'm right, it's just I have a different view of
how this type of thing ought to happen. I wouldn't have.
I wouldn't have even shaken hands, shook hands with everybody
as I walked in. I would have walked right to
the front. I'd have gone right after it. I would
not have waited. I would have said, we have business
to do, I have no time to waste. Da da

(01:12:43):
da da da, and gone right at it with great humility.
Trump's a little different. Sergeant at arms had to escort
Democrat Representative Al Green out of the chambers. He refused
to follow decorum. He was disruptive, and they had him removed.
He's fine with that. He has already filed articles of

(01:13:04):
impeachment because he is claiming that Trump is part of
ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Trump honored and noted some very
significant stories as guests of his He honored the lives
of Lake and Riley and Joscelyn Nungary. Nungary he named

(01:13:27):
a wild National Wildlife Refuge after her across Galveston Bay.
She lived in Houston. We won't go into the details
of how she died the illegal immigrants. Just like Lake and Riley,
he had January Little John as a guest. She sat

(01:13:48):
between the Vice President's wife and the first Lady January
has been a guest on this show. A local school
here in Tallahassee attempted to help her daughter trans position
change genders without parental knowledge or consent. She found out
about it. Her daughter's fine. We're now a few years

(01:14:11):
out from that. But this kind of crap is going on.
Trump announced that the terrorists behind the death of thirteen
members of the United States military behind Abby Gate. The
man behind that attack in Afghanistan has been caught and
arrested and is now facing US justice. Pakistan actually helped.

(01:14:36):
Now why would Pakistan? Oh that's right, there's somebody different
in the White House. And probably the high water mark
of the entire night was a thirteen year old boy,
DJ Daniel Lose, a cancer survivor. He stole the show.
He had brain cancer diagnosed in twenty eighteen. Doctors gave
him five months to live. That was six years ago.

(01:14:59):
He was presented with an honorary badge as a Secret
Service agent. He hugged the Secret Service Director. It was
brilliant standing ovation. Most of the crowds stood up for
the heroes that were greeted, but a lot of Democrats
remain seated. CNN MSNBC, all the media outlets are showing

(01:15:21):
a bitter reality. Trump is hitting the right notes. The
polling on for example, Ukraine, they thought it was a disaster.
What happen Friday? Polling that CNN rolled out showed Biden

(01:15:42):
in twenty twenty four was minus twenty two on the
war with you between Russia and Ukraine, his handling of
it minus twenty two. Trump is plus two twenty four
points and in the positive more people think Trump is
handling this proper one. Get your mind around that. That's significant.

(01:16:08):
Democrats don't know what to do. Trump acknowledged it in
his address. I look at the Democrats in front of me,
and I realize there's absolutely nothing I can say to
make them happy or to make them stand or smile
or applaud. That's some of what I would be doing.
And I think that's brilliant point out. As Americans are

(01:16:34):
in full support of Doge, they're holding up signs saying
musk stole, what what kind of disconnector you? And it's
and it was in the speech that the the Democrats
rolled out in response the rebuttal speech, the signs and

(01:16:59):
all that that you know, things around here, things have changed. Yeah,
you're darn right they have. We're celebrating it. I'm gonna
have more on that in just a little bit, but
I want you to hear what I think was the
single best moment in an hour and forty minutes. Now.
You can watch the whole speech on my blog page.

(01:17:19):
I've got it all there. You can see all the
pomp and circumstance, all of the drama, all of the pettiness.
You can see it all. But this was the best
moment of the night to me.

Speaker 12 (01:17:30):
Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping
border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly
achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crosses ever recorded.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Just wait here. It comes standing ovation from half the
room and about everybody in the gallery up above. But
just listen to what's coming.

Speaker 13 (01:18:03):
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept
saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to
secure the border. But it turned out that all we
really needed was a new president.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Boom mic drop. That was absolutely and the place. Obviously,
Democrats are just they are sucking lemons at this point.
They are all their faces are all contorted, they don't
know what to do. It turns out all we needed
was a new president. Brilliant, brilliant. Ah. Yes, the month

(01:18:49):
of March. That's what we're covering today. We've got another
hour to go. We've got some more great guests, some
interesting segments with you, and maybe an observation or two
thrown in there. This is the Twelve Days of Preston.
If you're just joining us, we're here, but we're not.

(01:19:10):
This is our Christmas gift to you. We're taking a
little time away to spend time with our families, but
we're keeping you company with the best of the Morning
Show with a look back at the year in order.
So this is the third day of the Twelve Days
of Preston, which means the month of March. We've got

(01:19:30):
much more to come, but first we're going to take
a quick check of news and more. Thanks for joining
us on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back

(01:20:09):
to the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day number three,
also known as the Month of March. As we look back,
I know it's Monday, December twenty second, but we're going
back in time, reliving the year in chronological order, and
most months we have a very special segment that a
lot of you look forward to. It's our a little

(01:20:30):
more history with doctor ed Moore. Doctor Moore, we wanted
to talk about the Spanish American War as kind of
an introduction to a series that we'll do talking about
wars that America has found itself in over time. Give
us the kind of an overview of what was going
on in the eighteen nineties that sort of set the

(01:20:52):
stage for this conflict.

Speaker 9 (01:20:54):
Yeah, that's what I want the listeners to think about,
because you got to think about the United States as
it was during that time time framed. By the end
of the decade, we had forty four states actually, but
most of the western states were very unsettled. There were
just not that many people there. The US was relatively isolated.

(01:21:16):
We were growing as a trading partner with a lot
of other countries. Big events of that decade like Yosemite
was created, the city of New York as we know
it now New York, Manhattan Borough annex the counties around
formed the Five Boroughs of New York City. The first

(01:21:36):
American car made in America was sold. It was called
the Winton was sold to a guy in Pennsylvania. Ford
built their first car in the eighteen nineties, Naysmith invented
basketball in the eighteen nineties. Just all kinds of things
we take for granted now we're beginning then. Then around

(01:21:59):
the eighteen ninety seven, seeds of war started being formed.
And think about it now, can you imagine Spain declaring
war on the United States now? But that's the way
the world was structured in those days. Spain, Great Britain, France,
Russia were big dominant powers, colonial powers that had spread

(01:22:22):
their tentacles all over the globe. And the United States
really had in the United States is essentially isolationists. We
didn't seek and there was a sentiment across the country
that not getting really involved in world affairs other than trade.
And our army was small. I think we only had

(01:22:43):
somewhere around thirty thousand people in an active US army.
You know, you're not really going to war on a
world stage, and that degree in scope with thirty thousand people.
So that's kind of where we were when around eighteen
ninety seven, revolutionists in Cuba were battling against against Spain

(01:23:09):
and Spain intrusion, and same thing was occurring in the Philippines,
and there was pressure on our country to get involved,
and we surely did. We go into the details in
a minute, but we were not. We didn't have footprints
all over the world. We have diplomats that we'd started

(01:23:30):
sending all over There's an interesting story of Guam that
I'll get into later. But when we actually invaded Guam,
which was a Spanish property, essentially there was one American
there that we could leave in charge. When after our
troops left one American Guam that now is a US territory,

(01:23:55):
it was a bloodless takeover of the island of Guama.
We sailed ships and there were ships into their harbor,
took over the island and no guns were fired. Interestingly,
we fired thirteen cannons at their main fort there didn't
really hit anything, which is kind of surprising, and they

(01:24:18):
thought we were just celebrating coming into their harbor for
trade and a delegation.

Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
We're not drawn into this in any way, shape or form,
were it not for the fact that Spain was in
our territory by way of Cuba at that point, right.

Speaker 9 (01:24:36):
Yeah, they had Cuba, they had Puerto Rico, and that
you know, they still were involved. Mexico was a sovereign
state at that point in time. Remember you got to
think back to the days of the explorers. For about
four hundred years, Spain had had a presence in our
in the area, even in the Greater United States Florida

(01:24:58):
for where where we lived with Spanish territory, so they
had the footprint here. But it got harder and harder
and more it was more difficult to maintain control. You
started having local revolutions all over South America, and Cuba
was one of them. It was getting relatively bloody, and

(01:25:19):
the pressure, this is the growth in the beginning really
of what became called yellow journalism, where the major newspapers
would headline all kinds of things going on down there
to try to build pressure to get us involved. It
was big sugar then, that kind of big sugar involved.
About ninety percent of the exports out of Cuba were

(01:25:42):
going to the United States, not back to Spain. About
forty percent of the inbound trade coming into Cuba was
coming to us. So essentially it was an economic ties,
economic ties that drew US closer and closer and getting
involved in this. And then then February to fifteenth we
had we had a huge amount of citizens in Cuba.

(01:26:06):
So the United States had decided to send the Maine
USS Maine into Havana Harbor. And that's probably the only
thing anybody remembers other than that in the charge on
San Juan Hill. But two hundred and sixty six American
troops sailors were killed when the Maine blew up in
the harbor shortly really after they would pull into January

(01:26:30):
and February fifteenth they'd exploded. And it took about a
month or so other forty days before they said, well
it was exploded by a mine. They tried. They blamed
the Spanish for a mind blowing up our ship and
killing the He gave us an entree, He gave us
the reason to go in interesting little tidbit you find

(01:26:50):
when you start reading on these things, like Tanny Oakley.
Everybody's heard who Annie Oakley is. She wrote a letter
to President McKinley is saying that she had fifty ladies
sharpshooters with their own guns and ammos that were willing
to go to Cuba. You know, imagine that happening now,
you know, Citizen Citizen group and it was really the

(01:27:11):
first time that there was any acknowledgement at all of
women getting involved in something. But on April the twentieth
they could remember that Maine was sunk on February fifteenth.
It took him too April twentieth for mcinley to sign
the declaration of war. Actually it got backdated April twentieth.

(01:27:31):
April twenty fifth, US Congress declared war and everything got
backdated April twentieth because by then Spain had already declared
war on the United States. So we had a big navy,
interesting for a country that wasn't really that involved around
the world, but we had been protecting trade routes, and

(01:27:54):
so we had enough navy and enough sailors to decide
we're going all in on this. So it was made.
The first commodore, Dewey, took a Spanish squadron into Manila Bay.
Now think about how far away the Philippines are also
Spanish controlled. So when we went to war with Spain,

(01:28:14):
we went to war with Spain. We not only invaded Cuba,
we invaded the Philippines. We took Guam, American who became
American Samoa, Puerto Rico. Each of those required invasions by
our troops. The biggest thing out of all of this
to me is that the United States, because of the

(01:28:35):
Spanish American War, as short as it was, we became
a world superpower.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Doctor edmore a little more history here on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. It's the Twelve Days of Preston.
Day number three continues here on.

Speaker 14 (01:28:48):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Doesn't this music make you want to just rush around
and do some shopping or wrap some stuff? Sorry, we
are just a couple days short of well, I mean
it's the twenty second, so get the twenty third, twenty five, Yeah,
a couple of days of actual getting things done before

(01:29:31):
Christmas Day. It's Monday, the twenty second. Here the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. This is the Twelve Days of Preston.
It's kind of our gift to you while we're on vacation.
We are leaving you with the year in review and
being the third of the twelve days. It's the month

(01:29:52):
of March, and this particular segment I really felt strongly
about and it's a positive segment. Just keep that in
mind as we go here. This is a positive segment,

(01:30:12):
one that in fact plays very very well this time
of year. But let's give it a listen and come
back here on the twelve days of pressed it. I've
been saving this, I have been saving this since since
April of last year, and I've not found the right

(01:30:40):
time to share it until today. And your question could
very easily be well, why today. I don't know. It
just it felt like the last several days it's just

(01:31:03):
been a little dark at times with some of the
news we've talked about. And even though Donald Trumps president
and things are better, we still are pulling ourselves through
and out of a giant hole, and I don't know

(01:31:24):
if we'll get out of it. I don't know that
I'm hopeful. But I gravitated to this because the title
of this article is six compliments that land every time.

(01:31:46):
But it's not enough for me to just take some
time to talk about complimenting others. This is about considering
others first. This is about what we talked some of

(01:32:09):
last hour, discernment, reading the room, knowing what's going on
around you. Now, some of you that are that are
on social media, YouTube, you know this dude. I've shared
some of his stuff on my blog page. His name's
Troy Hawk, and Troy Hawk is heads what's called the

(01:32:33):
Greeter's Guild. He's a He's he's a brit He has
turned complementing other people into an absolute industry for himself.
He dresses in a a purple smoking of like a

(01:32:54):
velvet or or silk smoking jacket, basically pajama bottoms and slippers.
And he's hired by major I mean we're talking huge
companies to greet people as they come into their store,
or into their gas station, convenience mart, or into their

(01:33:16):
golf tournament or fill in the blank. He travels the world.
He's actually kind of a comedian, but where he's really
made his living is by complimenting people. And he gets
hired to do these things. I want to share. Just
this is just a minute a half and some of

(01:33:36):
it might not be as clear as others because he's
in notting notting Hill in England and he's just walking
the streets of Notting Hill and he's going to explain
the process.

Speaker 15 (01:33:48):
I love your lavender blue Corloskin goes with the blueberries
as well. Clearly a man with an eye for detail,
of a very confident stride, very confident stride loved it.
I thought the way you laughed at that pigeon. Compliments
are simple, but not easy. Trust me, you have a
marvelous weight distribution between your feature good easy shift, especially
for US Brits present company included. I can give them

(01:34:11):
and do, but I can't take. Doesn't mean I don't
love it. A Yorkshire compliment that's cast in gold. Sincerely
appreciating something someone has made an effort on will make
their day. So you're an equal Marine blue jeans, Field

(01:34:31):
of dreams.

Speaker 9 (01:34:32):
Yes you are.

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
You're doing a wonderful job.

Speaker 15 (01:34:36):
It a tricky set of circumstances.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
You're welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:34:39):
You look like a painting and you're just sitting there.

Speaker 4 (01:34:40):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 15 (01:34:41):
The more unique, the more bespoke, the more devastatingly effective
Vivor's genius artist turned creative corporate legend. Safe and stylish.
You look pensive but also capable enough to deal with
anything that's worrying you. You have ski resort earning energy,
sweet vibe, sir human I beef in sunset. Get it right,

(01:35:03):
and it's like a natural high for the pair of you.
Do your head, sir, love it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
Wisdom should be cost in marble.

Speaker 15 (01:35:11):
See we both feel like we've had a coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Would we come back? Six compliments that work every time
we'll talk about complimenting others. I told you you got
to look this guy up. Troy Hawk h A w
k E. He's funny, but he's also brilliant, and we'll
talk more about that next here in the morning show.

(01:35:38):
In Preston Scott, a human epis on sunset, I have

(01:36:00):
ski resort owning energy. Aall guy walks by. You exude
wisdom that should be cast in marble. What his gift is,
which very few possess, is he is very quick. He's

(01:36:21):
observant of everything around him and everybody, and he picks
out people and something triggers him, how they carry themselves,
their look, their walk. He was talking about somebody demonstrating
great skill in a set of tricky circumstances. That was
a dude backing up a truck that he was going

(01:36:43):
to unload, and the reaction he gets is classics. Some
people just ignore him, but a lot of people immediately
just smile, ear to ear, Some recognize him, throw compliments
right back, and as you heard him say, I don't
receive them. Well, Brits are notoriously difficult to complement and

(01:37:09):
the behave and oh you behave, Oh you behave. It's
just so the point of this segment is what would
happen if you spent the day complimenting people? What if
you's then went about making it a personal mission to

(01:37:30):
find a reason to compliment coworkers, your spouse, your children,
your parents, colleagues, clients. What if you went about and
just did a little mind swap and tried to find

(01:37:50):
a way to compliment people around you. But the idea
of we are in a culture today were complimenting somebody
on their appearance, you better play that one close to
the vest sparingly, because in some circles today that's sexual harassment,

(01:38:15):
and it's a dog on shame that it is. There
used to be a time you could say if you
were working in an office and a lady walked in
and she had her hair done differently, you could say something,
you know, your hair looks great, good job or whatever.
And now it's it's looked upon weirdly depending on the person.

(01:38:37):
Your performance was brilliant. These are over the top compliments
to me, and if you receive one, say thank you.
Don't ruin it with self deprecation at that point. If
somebody's offering an earnest compliment, thank you. But I want

(01:39:01):
to just throw the challenge out. It's the Mad Radio Network.
Make a difference. What if everybody listening to me right
now found somebody in your day just be observant and
compliment them on something. Did you actually try it, did

(01:39:24):
you do it? Did you at least think about it
and put it into practice? And if you missed that
segment when we first talked about the topic of complimenting others,
what do you think now? Wouldn't it be awesome to
start the new year, to go through the Christmas season

(01:39:45):
and just find reasons to compliment people and make folks
feel better. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott, the
Twelve Days of Preston. Let's get right to it. We
don't have time to waste one of the many great

(01:40:07):
interviews from the month of March on the Twelve Days
of Preston. Here we're recapping the year. Here's us Senator
Rick Scott.

Speaker 10 (01:40:15):
I am great. However, we're part where it looks like
we might have this Schumer shut down. The day Democrats
are all saying they're gonna they want the government shut
down because they're mad and dolland Trump is reducing the
size of government. This is crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Yeah, I mean, on one hand, we've got to we've
got to get something done to fund government. But on
the other hand, there's a part of me, Senator that's
just a little disappointed we continue to have crs and
not a final budget.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:40:46):
Well, you know, well, you know why we're doing this
is because Schumer last summer, even though the Appropriate Approporations
Committee passed most of their their funding bills that passed
like ten ors of the twelve funding bills, he wouldn't
bring them up for a vote. So he's complaining about
something that he caused last summer because we're talking about

(01:41:06):
funding to start the last October one. So well, I mean,
this is folly pass a budget, you know. So now,
first off, I want to balance somebody. I mean, am
I going to get right now? Is everybody up here
where I am?

Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:41:20):
But yeah, at least give me the chance to make
my pitch. But the way Schumer does it is we
don't have to have When he was in the charge,
we didn't even have a conversation about it. Nope, all
we're doing is CRS, and we're going to wait and
we're going to screw the American public by having eight
thousand air marks and waste money. Like what's going out
of style?

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
Do you have to have sixty to get this CR done?
Or do you need fifty one sixty?

Speaker 10 (01:41:44):
So fifty three Republicans, we have to get seven Democrats? Democrats,
So what happens when call okay? So he's not going
to vote for it. So we got to get.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Eight okay, and Rand Paul's not voting for it because
it is another continue resolution.

Speaker 10 (01:42:02):
Yes, I you know, I agree with Rand. I mean
frustrating that we don't get some fiscal sanity, right, but
I don't want to get I don't want to shut
down government. So RAN's a good friend. I agree with him.
But that's that's his that's his position. I'm look, I'm
tired of this stuff, so I'm I'm pushing hard to
get a balanced budget. We could balance the budget. I
balanced pres when I became governor sort of had not

(01:42:25):
balanced his budget in twenty straight years. Increases not dead
a billion dollars year. We are going into fault on
some of our debt, right, I balanced about it. You know,
I did it similar thing you do. You say, what
are revenue's going to be? We're not spending more than that? Shocking.
We would allocate our dollars and you know what, we
would look at everything like he probably he might have

(01:42:46):
a credit card and you probably review your credit card
every month and say, well, that's not mine, or you say,
why did I do that? I'm not doing that again. Right,
So that's what we ought to be doing up here.
But that's not what they would I had the same
problem in Tallahassee. Most people did not want to go
through the budget. I went every line every year, four

(01:43:07):
thousand lines of budget written purpose for every line. We
need to be doing the exact same thing up here.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
So what happens then if the Democrats managed to sidebar
this thing and kill it. What happens the government shuts down,
They go on there, they go on their media campaign
and blame it on Trump and Republicans.

Speaker 10 (01:43:26):
Right, But but it's I don't think I think it's clear.
I mean, we passed it out of the House with
only one Democrat. If I think we'll have fifty two
Republicans vote for here, so if they Democrats are on board,
before it is clearly Schumer shut down and they said
they wanted to shut down they you know, they've been
cleared they want to shut down government, which I just

(01:43:47):
they've always wanted to blame us, but they've been cleared
that they wanted to shut down government because Donald Trump
is holding government accountable. How unfair?

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
Well, and that's the thing I have, you know, my
little normal polling that I do doing this program, Senator,
those is the most popular thing that's come out of
government since my in my lifetime.

Speaker 10 (01:44:10):
Okay, Chrest, let's think about this. Aren't you excited over
six hundred thousand dollars to study the.

Speaker 5 (01:44:16):
Minstra cycle of men? Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:44:22):
Try, I'm sorry, transitor man. How aren't you excited about
eight hundred thousand dollars to prove gardening in Al Salvador?

Speaker 5 (01:44:29):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:44:30):
How about sixty nine? I think it is sixty nine
million dollars for digital transformation in Europe? Right, let me
just go three hundred million dollars to build a submit
manufactory to help Hamas in Gaza three hundred What about
the peer that they built? But that wasn't what half
a half a billion dollars in a fell apart in

(01:44:52):
two days or something. You never heard anything about it
after that. They think about this stuff. This is just
it's just like every agency. I remember when I became governor,
people were shocked because I said I went through every line,
and they, well, we don't do it that way. I said, no,
we're going to go through every line. We are balancing
the budget. He said, well, we don't. We don't go

(01:45:15):
through it like this. I mean, you know we So
I said, no, we're balanced about it. We're going to
allocate the dollars just like a normal person does they
allocate their dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
Other than this imminent issue, because we're looking at a
Friday deadline, what is next? What's discussed most by Senate Republicans.

Speaker 10 (01:45:35):
But we're doing the nominations. So we've got nine hundred
nominations to do. So every couple of hours we're voting
on another Trump nomination. So that's what that's one thing
we're doing. Then after that, we've got the reconciliation, which
will fund the border, plus up military spending, extend the
Trump tax cuts, and my goal is traumatically re rerain

(01:45:57):
and wasteful government spending. We've got to get We've got
to this budget or will never get interest rates down
or inflation under control. So that's that's what we're doing
right after this. We're working at the same time. We've
got to figure out how to get fifty one votes
in the Senate and two or eighteen votes in the House.
So it's a it's going to be a lot of work,
but you know, I'm optimistic that we can get that done.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
I've spent a lot of time on the program over
the year, Senator talking about how poor Republicans in general,
whether it's state offices or the National Party or caucuses
inside the House and Senate do at messaging winning hearts
and minds. This budget issue and wasteful spending seems to
be one of those low hanging fruit issues that some
public pressure could be placed on Democrat senators and maybe

(01:46:42):
a handful of Republicans out there by simply you know,
you were talking about it. That's not how we do
it at home. We don't have enough money to get
another credit card. We have to cut spending at home,
and then we have to live within our means. Why
can't that messaging be done to show how government just
over the years just raises taxes and takes more money

(01:47:03):
as opposed to doing what you and I have to do.

Speaker 10 (01:47:07):
I just think people are they think given them stuff
away makes more friends. Just think about this. I people
when I came in as governor, people were shocked and
I balanced a budget. They just they were They were
the people that wondered wasteful spending were mad. People that
didn't want any accountability were mad. But guess what I
explained it. I went, I, you know, I constantly was

(01:47:29):
traveling around the States, and this is why we're doing
what we're doing. This is this is how we're allocating
your dollars. And people agreed with me because they saw
the results. They saw that the private sector out at
one point several million jobs. They saw that we were
able to continue to cut taxes, they saw they saw
the fruits of doing the right thing.

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
Right.

Speaker 10 (01:47:48):
We just have to we have to be very vocal
of why we're doing it. The public agrees with us,
But there's a lot of people that think, oh, you know,
we just like I'll give you example, last last week
at Foreign Relations Committee, they two people coming in and
talk about for an AID and I said, okay, so
how much is it? Well, of course they didn't know
the number. But they I said, okay, so I gotta

(01:48:08):
get voters back in Florida. I said, give me my pitch.
What shall I tell them that we got for all this? Usaid,
tell me, tell me they's their money, not their money.
What did I get for it? They can't explain it?
And then I was, I was, I was, I was.
You know everybody comes in and ask for money, right,
So I explained them. I said, I just went through

(01:48:29):
a campaign. I said, your issue never came up. I probably,
I don't know, did five hundred thousand events? I said,
I talked to everybody that could in Florida. So but
you know, people, people have gotten my away with with
just taking this. It's just you just can't imagine this
goes on, no worry, This goes on in state government,
local government, and federal government. Just waste, just things that

(01:48:50):
you would never spend. And you know, oh, we can't
tell the voters were doing that. Oh gosh. So there's
no transparency, there's no accountability that you know, voter don't
understand this. They do, they get.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
It, They do get it.

Speaker 7 (01:49:04):
Smart.

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
Senator, you have to you and your colleagues in the
House and the Senate on the GOP side have to
bypass the mainstream media to get your message out. You
need to buy the time. You need to buy the airtime,
put the messaging together, get on social media, produce packages
that share the message in common sense terms, and bypass
the media.

Speaker 10 (01:49:25):
It'll work, I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
Us senator from the Sunshine State, former Governor Rick Scott,
friend of the radio program. Here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. It's the Twelve Days of Preston. This
is month number three, so show number three, the month
of March, and we've got just one more segment to come.
So don't you leave us. You've made it this far

(01:49:49):
more to come on the Morning Show. Welcome back to
the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day number three,
the month of March, and I've saved a great interview

(01:50:11):
for the final segment. Jerome Hudson, former intern on the
Morning Show, now author entertainment editor at Breitbart dot Com.
He joined me back in March and we talked about
the topic of Disney. When a movie like Oh, I
don't know snow White comes out, do you go see

(01:50:33):
that movie? Do you get an advanced preview of it?
I mean, how does Disney first of all, Tree Bridbart
and secondly, just how much do you have to go
through to cover that kind of thing?

Speaker 16 (01:50:48):
So to your second to the last question. In the
last couple of years, Disney PR has been good about
reaching out to us on stories. It's not necessarily that
we made a mistake in our recording at right part,
but it's it'll it'll they'll they'll come to us with
a with a statement if you will, sort of explaining

(01:51:09):
their side of the story. And that actually happened a
couple of times with this movie. Yeah, we get screeners
all the time, sort of the lingo uh. They they
used to sing you DVDs, but now it's it's basically
digital copies. The PR team of a production company will

(01:51:29):
reach out, uh and you know, if we want to
interview casts or whatever, they'll send us a digital copy.

Speaker 10 (01:51:37):
Of the film.

Speaker 16 (01:51:38):
I try to see everything that I cover that includes comedians,
you know, actors, bands, UH, and obviously TV and film.
I really tried to find time this weekend to see
snow Light UH. And I because John Nolti, one of

(01:51:59):
the greatest writers on the Internet, usually reviews films and
he's been on a gene Hackman run of late because
obviously that tragic loss of him and his wife. But
John Notty saw the movie and he said, quote, it's
a bad film end quote. He said, it is. It
is incongruent with human human nature, and it is an

(01:52:25):
affront to the original film. And now that's not just
John Notlty right for our news saying it. That's not
just me agreeing with it. That is born out in
the numbers. Snow White should have been a movie president
that should have at least done one hundred billion dollars
easily here in the United States and somewhere between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred million dollars internationally. The

(01:52:48):
problems began early with this film. The budget was reportedly
two hundred million dollars that mushroomed to seventy because there
were there were disagreements in creative direction, apparently going back
two years ago. They finished the bulk of the film

(01:53:10):
two years ago, writer strike, actor strikes, and COVID protocols.
The budget just ballooned up to almost three hundred million dollars.
You tacked on another one hundred to one hundred and
fifty million dollars to promote the film, which they scaled
back because the star, Rachel Ziegler, is so toxic. It's

(01:53:30):
a four hundred maybe million dollar disaster, and Disney deserves it.
It is an anomaly in terms of multinational companies, specifically
their boardroom. I mean it is still filled, not wholly,
but a lot of the people who run Disney. Kathleen Kennedy,

(01:53:51):
who runs Lucasfilm, she hates Star Wars, she hates the franchise.
She thinks it's too masculine. She wants to girl boss
the whole thing up, and a lot of that wokeness,
if you will, led into Snow White. Rachel Ziegler bashed
and disparage the original film. It was a beloved film.
It was an international box office success. It was you know,

(01:54:13):
mostly critically acclaimed. It was a passing project for Walt
Disney himself, and it helped fun the Burbank Park in
southern California. You know, we may not have a Disney
World as we know it today if it were not
for Snow White. And to put this movie in the

(01:54:34):
hands of a person who is so vow, who's twenty
three but thinks she knows everything, and it's just further
destroyed an already toxic brand in Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
Back with Jerome Hudson at bridebard dot com, entertainment editor,
author of the Fifty Things book. So, is there any
chance while there are some little glimmers of hope in
an a around Hollywood since the Trump administration has taken over, Jerome,
is there any chance that a lesson has learned inside

(01:55:11):
the movie industry inside Hollywood from this fiasco with Disney
and snow White, that they become more careful about who
they hire for what roles, and how they handle, you know,
just all decisions moving into movie projects moving.

Speaker 16 (01:55:28):
Forward has learned since nineteen ninety four when the Canadian
style accon center structure sort of cross pollinated to California,
is that Georgia is now the Hollywood or Atlanta, I
should say it now the Hollywood of the South. So

(01:55:49):
the economic lesson in one part is we will go
where it is economically advantageous for US as an industry
to film movie and TV shows and commercials.

Speaker 1 (01:56:02):
But let me hang on, let me interrupt you for
a second there. But even if snow White is filmed
in Georgia, it doesn't change much of the bottom line
because of the toxic nature that you outlined so well
of the actress and everything surrounding the film. And that's
what I'm wondering. I'm wondering if this is just now
going to be look at the money they're going to

(01:56:23):
lose on this thing, all because of an idiot running
the studio and lead actress.

Speaker 16 (01:56:32):
Right, this was so snow Light was never going to
be a film that you know, males, I guess preteen
to the sixty we're going to go see right, So no,
Rachel Ziegler. Should they have known that Rachel Ziegeler guests
as a massive social media community and following in presence, Yes,

(01:56:54):
and they tried to trade on that. But what Disney
couldn't account for is that she's a very tight, sick
woman who is on the wrong side of the Israel
Palestine war. She's on the wrong side or gender issue.
She's on the wrong side of political issues. And by
wrong side of political issues, I mean you can support
Kamala Harris, but to damn all Trump's supporters and voters

(01:57:17):
to hell, which is essentially what she did in a way,
like Disney can't account for that. And this is the
new generation. It's like you talk to any sports coach.
The kids are just different these days, and so Hollywood
trying to navigate that is. You know, there are not
a lot of Rachel Zieglers, and I'm pretty sure lessons

(01:57:37):
will be learned. But the reports are president that she
ignored Disney executives who were trying to rein her in
trying to explain to her the simple math that you
cannot smear and captigate half the country.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
Well, she bragged people would wait in line to see
her in this movie, and no one waited in line anywhere.
There were previews where the theaters were empty.

Speaker 5 (01:58:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:58:02):
No, I I published the story yesterday of those, just
a collection of videos of how this snow white bomb
did real time.

Speaker 9 (01:58:14):
Again.

Speaker 16 (01:58:14):
Disney is a is a little bit of an anomaly
in the sense, you know, Warner Brothers has a president
and CEO Wanner Discovery in David Zaslov. This guy is
a slasher, he's a barner, he's no nonsense, he's about
good content, and he's canceled wope projects that are one
hundred million dollars in U and so over time these

(01:58:37):
we're this is gonna happen again, and it's it's gonna
happen outside of Disney. It's probably more likely to happen
with Disney. But the economics of this are are are
dismal because most of the theaters in this country are
owned by by people like you and me, but by
people listening in the audience right now. They're not allned

(01:58:58):
by mega corporation. It's not changing a little bit, but
Disney going woe is actually hurting the bottom line of
small business multiplex owners, and that is the part of it.
It's because so much of it could be mitigated. Preston
just make classic movies and TV shows, you know, like

(01:59:19):
he did for the first eighty five Gigures of your History.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Jerome Hudson from Breitbart dot Com. What a great way
to wrap up the Monday, December twenty second edition of
The Morning Show with Preston Scott, otherwise known as the
Twelve Days of Preston. Hope you enjoyed the show today.
We'll be back tomorrow with the month of April. See then,