Ep. 5137: Iran Launches Rockets at Israel

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Episode Transcript

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That's how we do it. Startinga Monday, It's text day, Sorry,
but it is. It's all right. This morning show with Preston Scott
is what it is. How youdoing, friends, Hope you had a
great weekend. I did. Hungout with my sweetheart. That's always a

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good thing. Got a few thingsdone in the yard, finished a little
project up, watched a lot ofgolf. Oh boy, that was great
fun. Sat next to my honeywhile she watched the Ohio State spring game.
It was so funny. She said, I get nervous in my tummy.

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Win it, and I'm like,spring game, Come on now.
She loves Ohio State football. Man. I love that she loves it,
so I just cheer right along withher. Anyway. It's it's a delight
to be with you. That's GrantAllen. I'm Preston. It is Monday
Show fifty one thirty seven. I'mgoing to talk about the masters here in

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a quick second, our verse today. Know this, my beloved brothers,
Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
For the anger of a man doesnot produce the righteousness of God.
Oh now, notice what it doesn'tsay, anger is not sin. You're
allowed to be angry at stuff that'snot sin, but it can lead to

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sin. It can cause you tostumble. That's why you get control of
it. That's why you don't letanger leads you in a direction you don't
want to go. You shouldn't go. That's why taking time to respond to
situations, not react to situations,matters. I'm going to be speaking to

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a group of men this Sunday afternoon, and it's going to be interesting.
It's gonna be very interesting. I'venot been told what to say, nor
would I accept a speaking engagement whereI was told what to say. I
will say this though. Scottie Schefflerwon the Masters, and he was talking

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about it afterwards and he said,you know, I was talking with some
guys, some friends before the Sundayround, and he said it was really
challenging. He said, because Iwant to win so bad. He said,
I just want to I'm a competitor. I want to win. I
hate losing. And he said.My friends just looked at me and said,

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Scottie, your victory secured. You'vealready won, you know Jesus.
And so Scottie Scheffler in the pressconference just talks about how and he does
it in such a soft spoken way, not being religious, just being real.
And he said, you can't imaginehow reassuring that is to have the

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perspective that, yeah, you're right, my victory is secured in God,
and that keeps me grounded. Thatis really awesome for those of you that
love Jesus, that there is aguy out there the best at what he

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does that honors Christ first and allthat he does. I love it,
I love it. I love itall right. Ten minutes past the past
the hour, Let's go inside theAmerican Patriots Almanac. Next, it's the
Morning Show with President Scott. Insidethe American Patriots Almanac, we take a

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peek. It's April fifteenth, taxday, eighteen fifty City of San Francisco,
incorporated by California's legislature. It wasonce such a wonderful place to visit.
Now it is an absolute toilet bowl. And it's a shame. The

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lawmakers, the politicians, by extension, the voters of that state. They're
responsible. They've allowed that to happen. It's a shame. Eighteen sixty five,
April fifteenth, Andrew Johnson takes theoath of office as the seventeenth president.
Few hours after Abraham Lincoln dies eighteenninety two. General Electric Companies established

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nineteen twelve. British liner Titanic sinksin a nineteen fifty five ray Croc open
his first McDonald's in the Plain,Illinois Wow Titanic Lincoln. Some stuff happened

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on this date in history, allright, before we get to the program
today, Gladiator Challenge this Saturday.It is an event that is hosted by
Christ Classical Academy. It's the tenthannual. It's a family adventure race.
Racers get to run and navigate overunder through different obstacles, fun challenging course,

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got other things going on. It'sat Phipps Park sorry, Phipps Farm
on North Meridian Road. And theregistration ends tomorrow, So if you're interested,
just look it up online Gladiator Challengeand uh and and you'll get the

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links to the race. Sign up. But they've got a junior obstacle course
for kids three to six, ayouth obstacle course grades K to twelve,
and then a five K obstacle raceages sixteen up. Could you do a
five k right now obstacle course race? No? I could do. I

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could do a one mile fund loiter. I could just loiter around for a
while. That's that. That wouldbe my contribution here. I'll pay thirty
bucks and I'll just stand at thedifferent obstacles. I'll encourage everybody, come
on, come on, no no, no, no, no, no,
go under this one, over thatone. That's that's that would be

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my contribution right there. Anyway,Gladiator Games coming up this weekend. Registration
ends tomorrow, which is why Iwanted to get it said today. Salnuzo
from Consumer's Defense will join us inthe third hour. We're going to do
some deep dive on the legislative sessionas well as look at kind of what's
been signed, what hasn't been signed, and where we are and a few

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other things. So stick around.A lot of news, big stories over
the weekend to talk about. Itwas an eventful weekend, especially in the
Middle East. We'll get to thatas well. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Show the hands who collectedor has collected the quarters, the state

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quarters. They have a collection ofthose things. I want to say that
some of our kids have those,but do you remember when that started?

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It has actually been twenty five yearssince the US Mint began producing what many
think are the most collected coins ever, and it's the fifty state quarters.
Got some interesting details here about itstarted in ninety nine. They were minted
until two thousand and eight. TheMint released five new quarters a year following

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the order in which states ratified theConstitution or were admitted to the Union.
Which is cool. It didn't dawnon me that that was how they were
picked for release. The first quarterwas Delaware. It features Caesar Rodney riding
horseback on the reverse, paying tributeto his eighty mile ride to cast his

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vote in favor of the first statesigning the Declaration of Independence. See that's
what I love about those quarters.They have a story. Each and every
one tells a story. The finalquarter was Hawaii. Of course, thirty
four point three billion quarters were producedand shipped. Now that immediately begs the

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question, well, how valuable canthey be if they produced so many?
During the program, the Mint averagedthree point five billion quarters, which is
one hundred and thirty five percent morethan the average production during previous years,
to fulfill rising demand. You willhave a better chance of finding a Virginia

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quarter than others. There were roughlyone point six billion produced, sporting the
three ships that brought the first Englishsenators settlers to Jamestown. Only seven other
state quarters had more than a billionissued Connecticut, South Carolina, New York,

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Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,and North Carolina here are the harder
to find ones. Oklahoma's the hardestdefined, followed by Maine, Wisconsin,
Missouri, and Alabama. Other statequarters with less than half a billion minted

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include Arkansas, Michigan, Illinois,Iowa, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico
and that interesting. They produced lessof some states than others, And if

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you need to finish out a collection, or if you want to start collecting,
you just got to start searching becausethey're not making them anymore. However,
there are some that are worth morethan the twenty five cents, So
this could be this could be amistake, because you're gonna be rating everybody's
little coin cans and looking for theseThose coins in mint condition marked with a

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D or a P meaning Denver Philadelphiamint could be worth as much as three
dollars and fifty cents each. Ohioquarters marked with an S produced in San
Francisco, carry the highest value atfifteen dollars because few were produced out of

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San Francisco. A mint condition Oklahomaor New Mexico marked with San Francisco's mint
and s could be worth up toten dollars. So you know, there
are different things that determine the ultimatevalue. But I just there you go.

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If you're a collector, see that'sone of those things. Those are
the types of collections that I thinka lot of people get in on because
they're easy to engage in. Firstof all, who uses who uses dollars
anymore? So coming across the quartersis going to be rare because so few

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people use dollars and get change,and so I'll be curious to see where
this all goes. Obviously, astime goes by, fewer and fewer in
circulation. But it's not like Imean when we're talking billions of coins out
there. It's not like we're talkingabout these things are going to be scarce
anytime in our lifetime. But stillsomething to keep hold of. Pass down,

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pass down, pass down. Itwill eventually be a very significant collection
if you manage to keep it intact. It's like the original teenage mutant Ninja
turtles if you bought an original setof those guys and never took them out
of the package, you managed totalk to your kid into not breaking them
open. They are worth something seriousmoney now, anything like that, that's

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what what happens, all right,come back with the big stories in the
press box next to the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Preston Scott sixty the
time. It works every time onNews Radio one seven double USLA. You

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got some sound this morning on theprogram that's gonna it's gonna knock you on
your knees. I mean really,it's it's just gonna blow your mind.
It's it's a funny weekend when Iknow what's coming. Obviously, the program

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changed a little bit when we foundout what was going on in Middle East,
not a lot, but a little. But some of the sound is
is just almost hey, pulled tothe side of the road before I play
this kind of sound. I'm notI don't think that's gonna be I do

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not think that will prove to behyperpole. Welcome to the Monday edition of
the program. He's Grant looking sportylike like you just came from the club.
Played played eighteen holes and you're nowready for dinner in the grill.
Yeah, yeah, that's a goodway to pay casual. But yeah,
still dressing a little bit, wearingthe the the navy jacket, yes,

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instead of the green jacket. That'sright, the navy one. We can't.
I can't be an imposter, No, I can't. I see guys
do that. They buy these greenjackets, and it's, first of all,
it's always the wrong shade green.The Master's Green, thankfully, is
so proprietary. They have their ownthing. They've got their own hex codes

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down to the thread count whatever.Yep, yep, no doubt. But
uh but I see these guys wearingthese fake Master's jackets, and it's like,
do you guys really chow up atAugusta National thinking that's gonna play?
It's all? They wear them atthe turn. Some some I know,
have tried to walk in the gateand or parade around acting like they're a

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member. And I just know,And there are facsimile jackets out there.
I'm just telling you, they're justI couldn't do that. I couldn't.
I could do like if it wasa like it was clearly not uh intended
to be like mimicry, but likeyou're like a fan of golf, so

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you wear your green sport code thatif you if you have a master's watch
party at your home. Yeah,and you've got your you've got like this
patterned kind of check jacket whatever oreven I'll take the facsimile there. Yeah.
Yeah, just don't take it tothe course. Don't act like you're
all that. It's just it's alittle goofy, Yes it is. What

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was not goofy, though, waswatching the best players in the world remind
us all that golf is a gameof imperfection, and that course just humbled
everybody. He just did it humbledeverybody at one point or another. Totally
off topic, does Tiger Woods decideI can't do this anymore, or does

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he decide I need to play moregolf to try this, to try to
do this, because he finished last, and Tiger's deserves better than that.
He did for two rounds, fortwo rounds, he was in the lead.
He was he was among the leaders. He's on you know, the
first third of the of the leaderboard. At one over after two rounds,

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I mean one over finish, Atwo over finish puts you in the
top twenty. I think I don'twant to see him struggle like that.
I just don't anyway. Big Storiesin the press Box Grove, a creative
marketing and digital expertise Iran. Iransends a bunch of missiles and drones at

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various sites in Israel and then announcedthe matter can be deemed concluded. Well,
yeah, it failed. Dudes.Come on, they shot down ninety
nine percent of everything you threw theirway. You just wasted a bunch of

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money. Money you don't have alot of, by the way. But
it's just interesting to me how Israelis in the United States to stay out
of it, and Joe Biden sayswe're staying out of course because he's a
coward. I'm not saying you goto war. I'm saying that. You
don't say you're staying out of it. I just it's bad leadership. It's

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just bad leadership. That's not howyou deter But that's that's a subject that
I'm sure we'll have time to expandon in the coming show as well as
coming days. A judge upholds Georgia'svoter citizenship verification requirements. Federal judge said,
yeah, the laws passed in Georgiato have an appropriate ID to vote,

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proving that you're a US citizen.Good, We're good and huge blow
to the to the cheaters. AndI explain how that's somehow wrong to make
people show they're a US citizen andhave ID to vote. Don't give me
this. It's not fair to peoplewho are minorite. Stop it. Oh,
stop it. You have to showidea to get a phishing license.

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For God's sake, you don't needthis is with that and UH, House
Speaker Mike Johnson showed up at marA Lago holding a press conference with Donald
Trump, announcing that they're going topush for a a bill to require proof
of citizenship to vote. Good goodfollow the world. You know the world

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pretty much does that? Preston Scotton news Radio one point seven double UFLA.
What a great representative for the bodyof Christ. Scottie Scheffler is humble,

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unchanged by success. He just likeswinning. I love it, but
not at the expense of losing hisdirection. Did you know that the guy
who came in second, Ludwig ObergApparently Lance just told me lives in makes

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Tallahassee his home. Really, Yeah, Apparently there's a story out there on
a website that I don't go tobecause it's not trustworthy, and so that's
why I would immediately say, reallythat it currently lives here. I would
love to know why unless he goesand plays out of legacy all the time
and they stretch that thing to eightthousand yards or something like that, and

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he just does that to test himself. He's a great player. Young Man
twenty four finished second all alone into Scottie four shots back Scheffler. Scheffler
was ahead the last time he wonthe Masters. He was up by five
shots before he had a four putnine. Because you're on eighteen. He

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just kind of lost his head,But not this time. Boy. Great
exhibition of how to play that game. A couple other things here, not
necessarily big stories, but worth beingon your radar. And I'm not sure
that I'm going to surprise anybody withthis. I got my insurance premiums and

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I am I'm with a company thatis a very highly rated company but very
low rates because I've been with themfor so long. Wow, my auto
rates jumped. There are no claims, no speeding tickets, none of that.
And I'm like, what in SamHill, So I made a call.

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I mean rates are almost up fiftypercent. Auto insurance the national average
for car insurance hit twenty three hundredper year, So you're one ninety three
a month, is what you're lookingat. Part of it the price of

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new cars, price of used cars, shortage of mechanics is factoring in costs
more to fix things. And thenthis evs, evs and new cars that
are reliant on computer technology, whichthey all are, all of them,

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not just new, fairly new recent. All of that raises the price because
crashes that might not be quite sobad, you start replacing motherboards and things
like that in computer systems that arerunning the car, and the price spikes.

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So add that now to the listof inflation victims, right your automobile
insurance. Then there's this all stagesof credit card delinquency thirty sixty and ninety
day past due rose in the fourthquarter of twenty twenty three, highest levels
since twenty twelve. What was goingon in twenty twelve? Who was president?

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Oh yeah, the big bo oldstinky was president. Then. Isn't
that funny? Isn't it interesting howcredit card delinquencies, prices and all that
always seem to be at their worstwhen the Democrats in charge. Uh uh
uh banks now as a result ofgranting fewer credit line increases, reducing credit

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lines more frequently, the APR rightnow, on average is twenty point seventy
five percent, which means if youowe five thousand in debt and at the
current levels, it would take twohundred and seventy nine months and eight thousand

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dollars plus of interest to pay offthe debt making minimum payments. Do you
know, let's just real quickly beforewe break here, quick math here,
two hundred and seventy nine divided bytwelve, that's twenty three years. Does

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that spell it out clearly enough?Forty seven minutes ouch, cabible, forty
seven minutes after the hour the battlebegins now to oppose the abortion amendment.

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Came across a piece in my emailfrom Matt Staber. Do you remember the
twenty fifteen undercover videos at all?Remember when or the subsequent video follow up
and playing Parenthood's suing? Oh yeah, I do remember that, and as
of right now I think it's DaveDalladan and Sandra Merritt had been found guilty

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in California. They've been I meanshe's been it's under appeal, but she's
been like finding absurd a sum ofmoney pay damages to play in parenthood and
is facing prison time. Liberty Councilamong those fighting for her, in fact,

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I think lead in that case.Folks, you realized that the heads
of playing Parenthood in parts of Californiaadmitted on camera while eating salad public just
publicly talking to dismembering babies just insidethe birth canal. Were just a portion

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of it was in the birth canalto keep it legal. Why because they
were harvesting the organs. They talkedabout it openly. Yeah, if we
do this, we do this differently, articulate the arm in such a way

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that we preserve this organ or thatthere's a black market they sell this stuff.
And I know for some of you, this is like, really,
at this hour of the morning,you're gonna hit me with this. Yes,
I am, because if Florida,if you pass this amendment, this

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type of procedure will go on andon and on without limitation because the amendment
prohibits laws stopping any abortion at anypoint, even beyond birth. You say
to yourself, oh, well thatwould never excuse me, of course it

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would. The battle begins now tomake sure that people understand how absurd this
amendment is. Shame on the fourjustices that allowed this to go on the
ballot. The only thing that willstop this is if down the road subsequent,

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when the legal challenges begin, weget to establishing a child in the
womb as a person deserving of protections, and then it becomes somewhat moot.
But we're not there. So whospeaks up on behalf of the unborn child?
Unless you do? Back with ournumber two of the Morning Show,

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Hour two Morning Show with Crestin Scott, Hi, I'm Preston, He's grand
I'm sending you a notice right now. What you are about to hear happened.

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It didn't happen ten years ago,didn't happen ten months ago, didn't
even happen ten days ago. Thisis a recording of the New York City
Council the start of the council meetingon April eleventh. Today's the fifth teenth,

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so we're talking about last Thursday.This is the beginning of the meeting.
I won't have been lacking in ashame to your Raji. Just me

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la your rough man, your rawhe iamduly la here on, Billy,
let me a rough man. You'rrahi man kill me d I kind of

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ham can stay if he didn't knowsenero totymost. They began their meeting by
praising Allah as the supreme Lord ofthe world, expressing their reverence in both

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Arabic and English. We're now aminute in. Let's skip in a little
bit. We're now two minutes in, We're now three minutes in. Everybody
in the room standing this meiful praisbe to a law a lot of the

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world, the most gracious, themost merciful Master of the day of judgment.
It is you we worship, andupon you we call for help.
Four minutes and forty four seconds ofthat. Is that shocking or not?

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And I'm just curious, as hasbeen noted by many comments, where the
separation in church and state wackos onthat one. See, that's the thing.

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They have nothing to say as longas it's not Christian or I guess
at this point Jewish. I justthought it was important for and look the

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dude that was invited there to dohis thing. Hey, that's your thing.
Cool, I've got nothing personal againstthat. This is a mirror being
held up to reflect to you wherewe are in this country. This was

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a country founded on Judeo Christian beliefs. That's a fact. It's uncomfortable for
some of you. It's uncomfortable forsome church leaders, Christian church leaders to
accept that reality. But it's true. But where are the Protestations? Ten

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minutes after the hour This Morning Showwith Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. You see Gallagherlater on the relays, great knees,
great drive. Gallagher of the victory. Here in section number one, Gallagher

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one the two hundred meter girls VarsityNeed for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon.
Gallagher won by basically the length ofthe track two hundred meters is roughly
half of a lap. Oh Iforgot to mention. Gallagher's a dude running

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as a girl. Blew everybody offthe track. Afterwards, No one came
over to congratulate him. No othergirls gave him a hug, no one
gave him a high five, noone gave him. But he advanced and

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we'd be running in the relays later. Wonder how that worked out again?
Where are the different organizations that windcried incessantly for title nine and then every

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right to wine and cry for Titlenine. It's more opportunities. It's worked
out well it should. I'm goodwith that. I'm good with girls having
chances to play sports in school.But this again, you can watch this.
I've posted it on our Twitter page. It's at TMS Preston Scott's.

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I mean, it is so clearlya dude. Anyway, Customs Border Patrol.
The numbers now four hundred and fourthousand that Biden has picked up in

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other countries and flown them in.Let me ask you a question, why
why did he go get them?These people are granted two years of basically
being allowed to just come into thecountry and work. They've been picked up
from Cuba. Don't know how wearrange that flight, Haiti, Nicaragua,

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Venezuela again, some of these countries. How did we do that? How
did we they hate us? Didthey just did they just send their best
and brightest to us? Just letthem go? But the numbers now are
growing. These are people that JoeBiden's administration has literally gone and picked up

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and flown into this country. Andmany of them dropped inside the state of
Florida. Their goal when it wasannounced in twenty twenty three, was to
provide safe and orderly pathways for thirtythousand illegal nationals from Cuba, Haiti,

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Nicaragua, Venezuela. It's four hundredand four thousand, four hundred and four
thousand. I keep sharing this withthe hopes that some of you wake up
to how destructive Democrat policies are,and that when you have no choice but

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to vote for Democrats, that youchoose wisely, that you look past all
of the noise and you look deeper, which leads to I'm hoping there's a
story Steve Stewart's working on. I'mhoping we get a chance to talk about

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it this week. It may bea while, but some local illiberals are
not going to be happy. Theyhave stumbled in a significant way. You'll
know them by their fruit, myfriends, you will know them by their
fruit. Do you ever heard theexpression politics makes for strange bedfellows, meaning

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sometimes the enemy of your enemy asyour friend, meaning sometimes to get things
done, you have to align withpeople that you might not normally spend much

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time agreeing with. You find acommon cause until you get things done.
This comes across as that type ofstory for me. I would bet that
there are some listeners of this programthat will be acquainted with the venue that

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I'm about to talk about. Here'sthe story. Some former employees are suing
their former employer. Plaintiffs In thelawsuit, it says were denied minimum wage
payments and denied overtime as part ofdefendant scheme to classify plaintiffs and others as

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independent contractors. Citing the Department ofLabor. The suit of ledges that the
scheme is found in a growing numberof US workplaces, quote as a means
to cut costs and avoid compliance withlabor laws. I believe that. See,

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if you put somebody under the headingof independent contractor, you don't have
to pay their Social Security You're cuttingthem a check, You're not responsible for
taxes, nothing that's on them.And so you're if you're an employer in
many or employee, and many ofyou are independent contractors in some form or

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another. You know the you are. You're paying thirty to thirty five percent
into the system until your tax formsare filled out and then you know who
knows where you are. But Iforgot to mention one thing. These are

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employees of Sammy's Strip Club in Birmingham, Alabama. In their lawsuit filed in
the Northern District of Alabama, clubowners forced a socialistic economic system on the
dancers, mandating they subsidized their coworkers. Now, as Grant shakes his head

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and discussed, and I get it, And I bet there's a few people
that have been there at one pointor another. Someone commenting on the story
just I went to Sammy's in Birminghamforty years ago. The dancers were attractively
challenged then, and probably the sameones are still there. Jeezee. Now,

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I've never been in a place likethis, but I know of people
that have frequented those places. Andand so here's what I can tell you.
They have a case. Here's whythey have a case because they were
all forced to put their tips intothe pot the tip jar, literally,

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and then it was split up andshared so that young ladies who were not
tipped as much got the same amountas those who were tipped a lot.
So is this objectifying women? Ohhugely? Like the big time? Well,
well obviously it is, But like, is there I don't know,
is there some sort of lawsuit ofyou know, the ladies who maybe a

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little more homely, you know thatthey felt they felt offended that they didn't
get the tips. So they weresupportive of this. That's the business they're
in. Here's what's interesting. Thisis not absolutely what a NAT's aid story.
Here's what's interesting. What's interesting isthe owners of the club also demanded

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kickbacks from the young ladies based onthe time of day, the later in
the evening it got. They demandedmore money for the privilege of dancing in
front of customers. And so they'resuing on all of this and it's going

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to be fascinating to see what comesof it. I just found it interesting
that strip club dancers were suing theiremployers over a socialist tip system. I
don't have words. I know,I know, and you know what,
most people don't. You're sitting therelistening to this, going you're kidding me,

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No, I'm not. And whatwhat's interesting is if you look at
just the merits, forget anything else. There are restaurants that do things like
this where they throw money in thetip jar and everybody divides it equally.
But most restaurants that do actual foodservice usually that kind of thing is done

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when there's not much individualized service rightwhere there's somebody taking the order and nobody
really serves it. They just dropthe food off at the table and leave
you to be. They're not backcheckingon filling up drinks or anything like that.
See, if I were a waiter, I would have a real problem
with sharing if I gave incredible service, which if I were a waiter,

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I would. I would have aproblem sharing my tips with somebody that gives
terrible service, wouldn't you. Imean, that's not fair, that's not
right. So I liken it tothat. Now you can decide for yourself
what somebody is worthy of, tipwise and things like this. I wouldn't

(45:06):
know, never been to a placelike that. But that said, this
is a fascinating case and it'll beinteresting to see what happens. My hunch
is the business is going to settle, but we'll see. Twenty seven,
almost twenty eight minutes after the artcome back with big stories in the press
box. Animal stories still come.The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News

(45:30):
Radio one hundred point seven WFLA boy, it's interesting. Fetterman out of Pennsylvania,
US Senator is a contrarian to Bidenand the rest, not the rest,

(45:51):
a lot of the Dems on thewhole Israel thing, it's like we
ought to be defending. We didhelp out with the shootdown of ninety nine
percent of everything that Iran's sent atIsrael. It's first time Iran's ever launched
a direct military attack on Israel.You know, I talked with a handful

(46:19):
of people over the weekend and it'slike this, just this doesn't happen if
Trump's in office at let me explainbig stories in the press box brought to
you by Grove of creative marketing anddigital expertise. That person that you think
is just a little crazy, youjust don't mess with, You, just

(46:45):
don't. Joe Biden is so weakand so feeble, and our military is
an extension of him. Yes,we have very good men and women that
are serving in the rank and file, but not all of them. Yes

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we have very good commanders in therank and file, but not all of
them. In leadership, I meanthe higher echelons, we have very weak
leadership. They've not been committed topreparing us for what may come our way.

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They've prepared them for having a politicallycorrect answer to diversity, equity and
inclusion. They they're not being taughthow to be fighters, how to be
victorious in the field of battle,wherever it may exist, on the land,
in the air, of the sea. And so because of our weakness,

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you have Iran saying not only we'regonna we're gonna go ahead and attack
Israel, because Israel carried out morethan likely an attack on an embassy in
Damascus, Syria. And I getit, you know, if you really
step back and look at it,Israel gave a very restrained response to what's
been going on. They basically targetedone area where they had intelligence that would

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indicate that some of the direction goingto Amas was coming from that area.
It was it was Iran dictating,arming, funding whatever. Israel sent a
message, we know where you're workingfrom. It was very specific, it

(48:45):
was very targeted. Iran just decidedto target Israel all over. Thankfully,
the US did help shoot down ninetynine percent of all the missiles and drones.
The one percent that got through,I know of no significant reports of
damage. I don't know what gotthrough, but you know, their drones

(49:07):
are slow enough that you could probablypick them off with a rifle. I
mean, I'm just saying, good, good, hearty rifle, take that
thing down. But Iron then comesback out and says, and don't you
dare America get involved in this?Joe Biden, Yes, sir, Joe

(49:30):
Biden immediately bowed. And I thinkthe more appropriate response is you best mind
your manners. That's all I'll sayto you. Probably should stop talking about
removing Israel from the face of theearth. That'd be a good start,

(49:52):
good step, and start looking atthe idea of live and let live.
If not, we will side withIsrael. It's just that simple come back.
Animal Stories on deck here on theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Preston
Scott, This is the Way onNews Radio one hundred point SEVENUFLA. In

(50:17):
the wild or in our homes,we love them critters, large and small.
Time for another edition of Animal Storieson the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All Right, dog Poo forced aUnited Airlines flight to divert and land
over one thousand miles away from itsintended destination. Flight from Houston to Seattle

(50:42):
had to make an unexpected landing aftera pet in first class had had quite
the accident and it's stunk throughout theairplane, the smell and the pooh or
the reason for the diversion good newsis, as a morning show research assistant

(51:07):
pointed out, is it was nota result of Boeing's failures as a company.
One person wrote, dog had messyaccident in the aisle right in first
class. Although if one of thoseBoeing doors flew open fresh air, no
kidding, right, you could airout the cabin pretty quickly, No doubt,

(51:30):
of course the dog might never mind. I do not understand unless it's
a legitimate service dog. And no, I don't believe that legitimate service dogs
are dogs that make you feel betterbecause you can hug them. I believe
legitimate service dogs are those who areare deaf or blind. That's me.

(51:51):
I'm old school that way. Buthere's my favorite animal story. Pet insurance
company inviting the public to vote onsome of the most animal unusual animal names
for its Wacky Pet Names contest.They had three categories, dog, cat,
and exotic. Here the finalists fordogs Boots with the Fur, Chug

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Chug, Pickles, Little Richard Simmons, Sweat into the Oldies, Lord Waddles,
Lulu the Conqueror, Molly from Corporatethat's pretty funny, Mister Pizza Puff,
One Love, Tiny Dancer, PrincessMargaret Rose Windsor Team, the Bandit
Player, and the News. Thoseare the names female or sorry. Feline

(52:39):
finalists Balsamic, Vin, Carl armItty, Bitty Kitty, Committee, Oh
Me meowin as Samsung Family Hub,Refrigerator, my Favorite, Steph Purry and

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Tony Scarface Belonia. Among the finalistsin the exotic category, a rabbit named
bees Beesel Bun Diesel that's good.A ferret named Boo Boo Bean, a
snake named Boop Noodle, a guineapig named cow Pig, a tagu lizard

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named frosted Miniwheats, a macawd namedMagic Nugget, a tortoise named mid Sized
Sedan, a ferret named Mumbo Jumbo, a pig named Snoop Hoggy Hog,
and another rabbit named thor Odin BunGod of Bunder. I'm sorry the winner.

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There's Steph Furry. That's for StephPurry. Sorry, Steph Purry,
although Steph Furry would be pretty goodtoo, So you go. Animal stories
here on The Morning Show with PrestonScott, have story you want to forward
to me Preston at iHeart radio dotcom. Come back, Was there really

(54:07):
a confession a story that floated aroundlast week at the end of the week
and came to me. I'll shareit with you next. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Right. This is probably the last time I

(54:42):
talked about him, and it becamerelevant when I got a text from a
friend who I would consider to bea definitely a friend of the radio program,
a friend of mine professionally, anduh just want to just a really

(55:04):
good person who is well connected.And the note that I received was related
to OJ. And what I receivedlate in the afternoon on Friday was I'm

(55:30):
told OJ's last words before he diedwere I did it. Had all visitors
sign NDA's non disclosure agreements, butsomebody leaked it. Now just I know,
I know, I know. Buthere comes the TMZ story. The

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TMZ has a habit of being rightabout a lot of things. It breaks
no deathbed confession about the the LAthing. OJ Simpson spoke to many close
friends, family, this is thestory from TMZ, but did not make
any confessions about the murders before sitcome into the cancer. We asked if

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anything like that happened. One sourcecalled it totally false. They added the
one source. Unless being thirsty,asking for waters a confession, or wanting
to watch the golf tournament, nothingabout the LA thing came up or was
even thought about. Of course,the LA thing would, I guess be

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the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpsonand Ron Goldman. But the source did
say that everyone had to sign NDA'sno one was allowed to bring phones into
the master bedroom where OJ was underhospice care. Obviously, none of us

(57:00):
know whether he did or didn't.Here's what I will say or ask.
I'm just curious why there would benondisclosure agreements required to say goodbye to family
and friends. I get the phones, I get it. Don't want any

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pictures floating around out there. They'resickos that look at that stuff. I
get it, absolutely. But theNDA part of this, and the one
source, if they're thirty people werethere one source. I mean, let's

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go back to grant stays in journalism, and I'll go back to my days
in middle school and high school,where I worked on school newspapers. You
didn't have to take a journalism toknow that you would base your news stories
on two sources. All I'm sayingis, I don't know because it doesn't

(58:15):
matter to me, because I believe, without a shadow of doubt he killed
his ex wife and her friend,there's no doubt in my mind, and
that he wrote a book explaining itnow that said, there's enough in the
TMZ story to confirm the note thatI received that tells me there may be

(58:37):
something to this. TMZ shooting itdown with one source doesn't get it done
because they're not asking the question,what do you need in NDA for that?
Just that? And I know thatsome of you are gonna email me
and they're gonna you're gonna give mereasons why I welcome those emails because I

(59:00):
haven't figured it out yet. Ihave not figured out why an NBA would
be needed when you're saying goodbye andyou're going to pass away, but just
saying, not saying, just sayingcome back. Salnozo will join us from

(59:24):
Consumer's defense. What does he thinkhappened? No, I'm not kidding.
I'm just I'm just kidding. Rather, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna
go there with him unless he wantsto. He wants to, I'll talk
about it. No, We've gota lot to talk about. What's the
governor signing? What hasn't he signed? Is there any indication that he's gonna

(59:46):
just waylay the budget. I haven'theard that he signed the budget. He's
got time. Budget doesn't go toeffect till July first. But what has
he signed? What is it?And we're gonna do a little deep die
into a few different topics, Sostick around. We'll talk about what's going
on in the Sunshine State. Next, Sal news of Consumer's Defense here on

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the Morning Show with Preston Scott,and we began the third hour of the

(01:00:35):
Morning Show with Prestin Scot. Goodmorning, He's grand. I'm Preston and
this is Salnwso with Consumer's Defense.Have you gotten used to it yet?
I have? Yeah, about twomonths in it's it's it's getting acclimated.
Was it took a couple of goodweeks? Sure, but really thrilled with
a lot of the work that we'redoing in other states. Really I have.

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I have gotten acclimated to how otherstates do their legislative processes. And
it's given me a new found appreciationfor how tight Florida has it and also
for a part time legislature. Ohyeah, absolutely, that meets once a
year. I was in the stateof Missouri, which is not Missouri.

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I found out that there is onlyone corner. Tell that to doctor ed
Moore. There is only one cornerof the state that calls it Missura,
and they are made fun of bythe other seventy five percent of course state.
And they have roughly a five tosix month legislature, and they're going
through some of the bills that Florida'sdone in a couple of sessions ago related

(01:01:45):
to combating ESG. They're doing itdifferently. Some are good, some are
not so good, and trying tonavigate that with them has been eye opening.
Our talk with Justin Haskins last weekleads me to leave that there's ground
being gained. However, Yes,indeed, what we're finding is that more

(01:02:06):
states are going on the offense tocombat Blackrock, State Street Vanguard and there
it's kind of battle tactics. Yousee them kind of retreating, countering in
different ways, calling different things bynew names. The state of Texas just
divested I think it's eight and ahalf billion dollars from their school system retirement

(01:02:30):
fund out of Blackrock. There's morethan a couple bucks. Yeah, yeah.
So when you go through those thingsand you see the impact that they
can have, and knowing that you'redoing a good thing by pushing it gives
it encourages even other states that maybe on the fields on some of these
things. One of the things weendeavor to do in our monthly visits now

(01:02:52):
is to kind of help Floridians peoplelistening to the program from the Sunshine State
understand what just happened or what justdidn't happen. Yeah, and we want
to start here with you know,we had Paul Renner on the show.
He did a post mortem on thissession and House Bill one that basically became
House Bill three. Correct, Solet's let's talk about where where does this

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now stand? Quote online protections forminors. So Governor DeSantis signed HB three,
which had been HB one. Hevetoed HB one because he was very
concerned about the litigation prospects of it. So HB three, what does it
do? What doesn't it do?So? HB three requires anyone in the

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state of Florida who is fourteen orfifteen years old who would like a social
media account, Facebook, Instagram,all of the things the kids are using
requires them to have parental consent inorder to open that account. It also
requires anyone over the age of fifteento prove that they are over the age

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of fifteen, and that is doneby age verification methods. How does how
does someone prove that the approval ofa parent actually came from a parent and
that junior didn't just grab mom anddad's driver's license, et cetera. And
this is where a little bit ofthe nuts and bolts of this are gonna

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kind of be challenging in both theenactment and the litigation over it, because
despite the governor vetoing HB one andsigning HB three, HB three is still
going to be subject to a federalcourt challenge. They're going to and it's
likely going to come from a groupcalled net Choice, which is the trade

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association for all of the major technologyplatforms out there. They recently were before
the Supreme Court on the social mediabill from three years ago. They're challenging
and claiming that require you'ing an adultto verify their age and submit to a
less than anonymous mechanism for social mediaaccess to protected speech is government intrusion in

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a way that violates the First Amendment, and so that is going to be
the crux of the litigation. It'slikely going to be stayed while it's being
litigated. So the bill, I'mnot sure is going to get fully enacted
in that until the Supreme Court kindof hears it and it goes through the
process. I'm going to talk moreabout that, move on to some other

(01:05:33):
things again, deep dive on acouple of different subjects, and then a
snapshot on others Sound News and withConsumers, Defense dot Com with me,
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, Hello, Hello,
anybody O bhy on News Radio onehundred point seven double UFLA. Talking about

(01:06:10):
House Built three that was signed bythe governor. We've talked about the challenges
and where it's going to come fromand why sure, what about the defense?
What is the State of Florida goingto argue in return? Yeah?
Absolutely, and that's equally as important. The state is going to argue that
they have a compelling state interest toregulate this form of technology. And the

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Supreme Court president from years ago doesallow for the state to step in when
there is a state when there isa compelling state interest. So they're going
to argue that social media as theyhave defined it in the law, and
they were very clear about defining thefeatures of the platform versus the platforms themselves

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exactly, and it may come downto something like this, which I think
would be incredibly savvy for the Houseas they drafted this bill. So the
compelling state interest is that the featuresinherent in these technologies are addictive to kids.
They are damaging to kids in thesame way that alcohol and tobacco are.

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And therefore it is a requirement ofthe state under the age of fourteen
to ban it all together, andthen at fourteen and fifteen because of the
way the courts have been ruling insome other states to allow it only with
parental consent. Let me ask youthis, and you might not have the

(01:07:40):
answer to this, but maybe youknow of people and what they've said regarding
the low hanging fruit. To meis in one we've discussed why not just
make it mandatory that kids can't pulltheir phones out at schools? And the
reason why I say that is atthat point, you can take what's already
been going on in Orange County withthe school system mandated across the state,

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and then you have data that youcan then use to present your argument that
if you go to court, youcan say we have done this at schools,
We've had a reduction of this,a reduction of this, reduction of
this, an increase of this,this, and this. Not only are
you one hundred percent accurate, Ithink that regardless of how the court's rule

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on this bill and other bills inother states, I think that it's absolutely
an absolutely pitch perfect bill for thetwenty twenty five legislator legislature to consider.
It's something that, as in mycapacity with JMI, as we were engaging
and talking with lawmakers about it,that was something that I continued to fall

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back on. They implemented a banon cell phone use during instructional time,
but it doesn't capture the between classtime when a lot of the problems are
happening. That's the majority of itis happen exactly. So if you go
that route and extend that ban,they've got to be in a sealed container.
You can allow them to have themin the backpacks for an emergency.

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That's the only time that it canbe used, or if they need to
reach a parent, they have togo to the front office something like that.
What you've done is you have capturedseven hours of awake time that these
kids are engaging in behaviors that aredestructive. Lastly, here something that was
I'll call it a legislative priority ofmind because I talked about it at nauseum.

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Squatting Florida kind of leading the nation. Yeah, exactly. The legislature
passed and it was a governor's priorityto kind of combat a lot of what
has been going on in the newsin other states where people would show up
to properties that they weren't necessarily abandoned, but they may have been kind of

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sitting idle for a few months asthey were trying to get them renovated,
or they were investment properties and findingpeople living there, and then the legal
procedures to try and get them outwere anti property owners. So the legislature
passed a bill. It's it's calledProperty Rights, and it is an anti

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squatting bill that basically asserts the rightof a property owner to kick periodbody out
if they come onto their property andfind someone who is not supposed to be
there. Regardless of the timeframe thatthat person has been there. Yeah,
Folks, in some states they actuallyconsider squatters as tenants and entitled do eviction

(01:10:36):
rights and all that. It doesn'twork that way. I remember a movie
back and I think it was theeighties called Pacific Heights. Michael Keaton was
I remember it. Well, scaredthat out of me, yes, exactly,
and it's just kind of you know, baby steps along the way.
Yep. But those types of scenariosare not uncommon now and people are dying,

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yeah, in states like California,New York and others. Yep.
More with Sal Newso next, allright, let's keep talking to Salmuso,
Executive Director of Consumers Defense with USFlorida Legislative Session. That was I will

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maintain till my dying days that whenGovernor Desand has left the campaign trail,
he returned to being a full timegovernor and it mattered. I think it
mattered potentially. I just do potentially. I mean just the sheer distance,
the level of focus required to mounta serious effort at well, we got

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back to micro not macro probably youknow, everything was through the lens of
Florida, yep, and not theother way around correct. Let's talk about
bills that have been signed for sure. So there were, Yeah, there
were a total of three hundred andtwenty five bills in total, past two
hundred and eleven of those are stillawaiting what they call presentation. Is that

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average? Yeah, about it's alittle lower than I've seen in the past,
but not much. How many ofthem are bills that correct things versus
bills that maybe break new ground?Breaking new ground is going to be the
minority. The majority of these aregoing to be things where they open a
statute up to kind of up tolanguage. One bill in particular, took

(01:12:30):
the labor reform bill from the prioryear and made some updates to it to
clarify intent for the agency called perkthat implements it in an AXIT. So
there's a lot of that going on. Okay, So some notable ones that
he has signed. The big healthcarepriority of the Senate President. There were

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two specific bills in there that justpump a ton of money into the healthcare
infrastructure and career development piece to tryand recruit a lot of doctors and practitioners,
not just doctors, but healthcare providersinto the state and kind of grow
our own. We are a heavygrowth state. We have to keep pace

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with that growth in terms of thenumber of providers or we're gonna have serious
challenges, right, And so that'sone big one. Like I mentioned,
we had some reforms and some cleanupon the big labor reform package from the
prior session. An interesting one collectingDNA samples of all inmates in Florida prisons,

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which apparently was a practice a whileago. It had fallen off,
and so they're just kind of makingit a statutory requirement. Now. Congrats
to my good friendship Lamarca. Fiveyears and he finally got the grapes freed.
Individual wine container sizes or the bandsare no more in Florida. Good

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job. Chip. Strengthening the lawsagainst human trafficking and aiding illegal aliens in
the conduct of crimes. That's abig focus of the Attorney General as well
as some other agencies that kind ofcame to bear on that issue. Would
we paraphrase that is making it moredifficult for people to help illegals be illegal,

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you got it? Among other things, but that's a big part of
it. A couple of big agencybills have been signed. The Department of
Transportation as well as the Department ofCorrections. Fentanyl. This is an interesting
one. Exposing law enforcement to dosesof fentanyl is now a much more serious

(01:14:42):
crime. But interestingly enough, andI had to look this up because I
had an immediate concern on this,it does include an exemption for individuals who
were actively seeking care for a possibleoverdose. So what you want to make
sure is you have a balance whereif someone you know ingested fentanyl, not
knowing that they were doing that,and realizes it and calls nine to one

(01:15:06):
one, you don't want to discouragethat because someone thinks they're going to get
charged with a crime. On topof any others, expanded penalties for organized
retail theft. This is a bigone because in kind of the push to
make sure Florida protects itself from otherstates that you know where you have these

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runs on CBS and we were goingthat way. It was happening in a
very limited environment, so kind ofa frontal assault on that kind of activity.
Three different bills at updated statutes relatedto violent crimes against children, including
one that I didn't realize that thiswas in a bill. It's a grant

(01:15:50):
program for local law enforcement organizations todo stings like the catch a predator thing,
So some money to go that routezone of protection around law enforcement twenty
five feet you have to kind ofif you're warned, you have to back
up twenty five feet or you canbe charged with a misdemeanor. I think

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this is a response to a lotof the BLM riots that have happened,
and employment regulations preempting the local governmentsfrom establishing crazy rules and regulations at the
local level for employers, including allowingminers to at the ages of I think
fifteen or sixteen and seventeen to worklonger than what the prior statutes had.

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All Right, those are the billsthat have been signed, and when we
come back, we're going to doa deep dive again into some other things.
Next month, we'll talk about someof the stuff that didn't make the
cut and go into some of thewise twenty seven minutes after the Irisell Newso
with me from Consumers Defense the MorningShow at Preston Scott back with Sal Muzzo,

(01:17:11):
Executive director of Consumer's Defense or goingthrough the Florida legislature. Do you
have a question if you have abill you want us to go over in
future episodes. We do this oncea month where we can take time and
explore things. We're happy to doit. If there's a bill you want
us to look a little deeper at, just send us the bill number.
That's all we need. You canoffer a pathy opinion on it if you

(01:17:33):
like, but all we need isthe bill number, and we'll do a
deep dive in a future episode here. But we're talking now about some bills
that did not get signed or haven'tbeen signed yet. Sure, so you've
got a few notable ones that willprobably unpack in future segments. Food delivery

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platforms, the school choice program,updates, the tax package, criminal history
for employment licenses as well as thelicensing reform package, the AI bills in
political advertisements, and then a fewlarge agency bills. Now there's a bunch
that were sent to him on theI believe April second, So he's got
until the seventeenth, which is thisweek. So expect a flurry of signatures

(01:18:23):
or vetos, get the press releases, and we'll get the press releases on
those, and there may be somesome you know, press statements or press
conferences where he does those as well. Also the budget. He has not
been presented the budget, and that'snormal because he still would have fifteen days
to sign and issue the line onthe veto. So if they've agreed to
a budget the legislature and adjourned,what are they waiting on? I think

(01:18:46):
they're likely waiting on the governor's budgetstaff, who are reviewing every single line
item in that to unpack it makesure that they're comfortable on everything that he
wants to issue line items for ratherthan because he technically it doesn't take effect
until July one anyway, so they'regiving the Governor's office some time to go

(01:19:10):
through and get their light on aveto set. Okay, all right,
the HEMP built, the HEMP build. This is an important one ahead of
the fact that we're gonna have theon the ballot in November recreational marijuana in
the state of Florida, and Iwould argue there is a better than average

(01:19:30):
chance that it is going to pass. The last pulling I saw on it
had it at around sixty eight percentin favor. Dreadfully bad move, but
can't stop stupid. I'm gonna youknow this is where and when we talk
off air about you know, Ido have some libertarian tendencies in me.
The libertarian in me suggests that tomy conscience that if we live in a

(01:19:57):
society that's going to allow but regulatealcohol in tobacco, that this is akin
to those I recognize and appreciate everysingle argument that others make in opposition,
but I'm that's just it's just yeah. So the Hemp Bill sets some limitations

(01:20:19):
on the levels of THCHC that aregoing that are allowed in both medical marijuana
as well as in any form ofnon medical marijuana. So it's kind of
getting ahead of it to establish aregulatory guide for when that kind of constitutional

(01:20:42):
amendment might pass. Is that practicallyapplicable though? In other words, who
gets charged with figuring out that someMary Jane it's someone's growing is hitting the
right numbers. Well, there's goingto be an entire regulatory framework for all
of this, in the same waythat it's done for medicinal marijuana. So
the milligrams of THC per ouncer andall of the things that they do,

(01:21:05):
so people still can't grow it athome. That's correct. As I understand
the way this is, the trueleaves of the world are going to be
thrilled. Oh, they are theyrolling in money? Truelys spent I think
forty million dollars just getting the thingon the ballots. You got to imagine
how much the windfall is going tobe for them if it goes active.

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We're going to talk more about thatwhen we come back here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, Mother, No you wear eth herdrepe
on News Radio one hundred point sevendouble UFLA. Time flies when you're cliff

(01:21:47):
diving. That's what we're doing here, deep diving with Salmuzo on legislative things
here on the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Anything more to talk about with
regard to him. Wait, we'realready in segment five. Yes, wow,
this is crazy. Yes. Sothere is a big effort on the
part of a number of business intereststo try and persuade the governor to veto

(01:22:12):
this bill. Ah, you know, the restrictions on it kind of are
a challenge to I mean, isthis I mean, is this a simple
thing of you know, this isnot your grandpa's marijuana. I mean,
it's a different level that we're dealingwith. Yes, but there are also
some provisions in the bill that Ithink would impact a number of established businesses

(01:22:35):
that are selling certain things that arecurrently legal, and now those things are
going to be outlawed. So youhave some concerned business enterprises that are urging,
and I think I've even seen somebillboards in Tallahassee related to that,
Okay, vaping vaping related topic.So the legislature passed a bill that would

(01:23:00):
require if you have a vaping cartridgethat accepts the oil or whatever goes in
it, that whatever goes in thatcartridge has to be approved by the Food
and Drug Administration. Apparently, andI'm not a vapor so I have some
limited perspective on this, but apparentlythere has been a market for non FDA

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approved material or liquids that go intothose things. Rich Marianos, who joined
US last week formerly with ATF,said that that is the overwhelming majority of
the products that are available. They'renot regulated at all, and likely a
huge chunk of these products are comingfrom China exactly, which is a problem

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not germane to this product, butfor the purposes of regulation, you've got
people getting products that are completely unregulated, coming from what many would consider a
political and strategic opponent of the UnitedStates, so then they're putting this stuff
into their cartridges and vaping it.Here's one of the concerns that's been brought

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to bear by a number of businessinterests as this bill has gone through the
process is that currently the products thatare approved by the Food and Drug Administration,
there's only a finite number of them, and they are all owned almost
all, if not exclusively, allowned by big tobacco companies. So as

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you could imagine the lobbying and sausagemaking on this, the big tobacco companies
were very much in favor of thisbill going through because it presents a potential
windfall for them, absolutely. Butthen on the other side, you have
businesses that are established solely to sellvaping products that would lose eighty ninety percent

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of their inventory or product availability andwould have to shift just over to the
limited number of products. And Ican understand both perspectives on this. I
think the challenge for me comes,especially in my role with consumers defense,
is the China angle. That isa big deal that, like I said,

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it's not just germane to the productin subject to this regulation. It's
something that we're seeing that we've gotto be combating on a number of different
fronts. More to talk about inthe coming weeks and months. Yeah,
we're going to have more bills beingsigned this week, so next month we'll
have a whole new list of stuffto unpack. Likely also have the budget

(01:25:45):
kind of signed in the line oneof veto so we can kind of go
through that as well. Compare thebudget and the veto list with the Turkey
list that tax Watch puts out.Yeah, I'm totally looking forward to the
tax Watch Turkey list and see kindof how the overlap goes on those.
As always, thank you, alwaysa pleasure, my friend. Yep,
Salnuzo with Consumers Defense our guest fortysix past the hour, fifty one minutes

(01:26:28):
after Boy that moves fast. There'sso much to talk about with our state
legislature. Good, bad, andindifferent. Maybe I don't know, there's
certain things that fall into that category. I don't necessarily have an opinion on,
but always appreciate Sal's breakdown of what'sgoing on. Tomorrow, Bob McClure,

(01:26:50):
Doctor Bob McLure, the president ofthe James Madison Institute, will come
in. He's going to be amonthly guest and we'll talk kind of broad,
big picture. You know, therewas there were a lot of write
ups in Florida that listed JMI asthe winner of the legislative session getting the

(01:27:12):
priorities through. Well. It's it'sinteresting because I think I think you and
I would probably agree that most ofthe time a JMI priority is kind of
ours. They kind of represent alimited government founder's view of the Constitution and
how it ought to work and operatein our day to day lives and how

(01:27:32):
government ought to do that as well. And so I'll be I'll be anxious
to get his take on the legislativesession from his chair, and so he
will join us tomorrow. So tomorrow, manly minute. But McDonald's has been
in our news a lot lately,and I don't know necessarily why I don't
go there very often. It wouldseem that I go there more often than

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not. If my wife is isjust Jones and for a coke Icy loves
her some coke ICs if the machine'sworking well, And that's the thing.
They've got that riddle solved anytime now, anytime I've gotten one in the last
few months, and it's probably averagingone a month. It's been working because

(01:28:16):
it's almost like the is the icymachine working? Yeah, you know,
you almost have to ask the questionbefore you make the order. I'd rather
take my chance at like a circlek or a gas station. Absolutely,
but I have found now those arethe ones most likely to be not working.
Really. Yeah, anyway, McDonald'sin this is really pretty crazy,

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first time ever in the Netherlands.And what do you call them? The
freaky diky Dutch that's one way oflooking at it. Yes, billboards that
are within two hundred meters of aMcDonald's. Okay, when anyone approaches the

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billboard? Now are they pedestrian orientedbillboards? Are they promotors? I can't
answer that question. I'm not afreaky diky Dutch dude. They are going
to emit the smell of McDonald's Frenchfries. Oh my gosh, the world's

(01:29:21):
first billboard which smells like McDonald's friesis coming to the Netherlands. Oh no,
think about it though. If itworks, people are just gonna be
you know, I mean, it'sgoing to work. I'm just surprised,
like in an EU country, right, like you would think like odorous emissions

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would run a foul of some sortof climate standard. Right, you'd think
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