Ep. 4919: Kansas Leading the Way

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, good morning, and welcometo the month of May. Who It's
Monday, May first, on theMorning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston.
That's Grant Allen Show, four thousandnine, nineteen day, eight thirty

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one of America all the hostage.It's great to be with you. Hope
you had a nice weekend. Itwas. It was rainy, but cooler.
It was beautiful weather to me yesterday. Yeah, I mean it was
just spectacular. I am loving thislittle throwback of coolness that's coming here and

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there, like this morning in thefifties. Come on, bring me some
more of that. Anyway, Ihope you had a nice weekend. NFL
Draft wrapped up, we'll talk maybea little bit about that. We've got
some as always, some news onthe Florida legislature. Salnuzo will join us.
Doctor Joe cam scheduled to visit withus. We have if you had

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just a ton of things to plowthrough, more than normal. I have
more stories plugged into today's show thannormal, And normally we talked through a
lot of things, but today today'sa little little extra spicy Colossians three eleven

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through thirteen. Here there is nogentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised,
barbarians, scythe enslave or free.But Christ is all and is in all.
Therefore, as God's chosen people,holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves

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with compassion, kindness, humility,gentleness, and patience. Bear with each
other and forgive one another. Ifany of you has a grievance against someone,
forgive, as the Lord forgave yougood wisdom there having a forgiving heart.

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As I've talked with people over theyears of my life, one thing
is absolutely abundantly clear. When you'reangry at somebody, mad at somebody,
when you have unforgiveness, the onlyperson being affected is you. There's nobody
else being affected you. It's allabout you. So as we have been

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forgiven our shortcomings and sins, weneed to forgive others. Ten minutes after
the hour, let's get started.Take a peek inside the American Patriots All
Manact. Let's see what the firstday of the month of May offers us.
Next ready here on the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Preston Scott,

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what are you doing? Freedom unUsed Radio one hundred point seven, tell
the UFLA. All right, birthdayboy, it was like three days ago.

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Yeah, but you had like youhad a long birthday celebration. Yeah,
I did. I had family comein town. So can you think
of a time when you were justgeeked up that it was your birthday?

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I mean, sure, yeah,I'd think when I was a kid,
but I don't have one particularly inmind. Okay, So when did it
become? Uh when? So Iwould answer that in two stages. Okay,
it became in my early twenties,twenty twenty one. Why do you

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think that is? I don't know. Okay, I graduated from college,
I had to go to work.I was just like, I don't know.
And now that I'm twenty six,anyway, he says to the sixty
two year old, I'm my myage is dyslexic to yours, twenty five.

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Last year was the first time whereI genuinely didn't even remember that my
birthday was coming up, just youknow, work and you know, like
hitting me. Yeah, I didn'tremember, and just double that for twenty
six, didn't care, didn't remember. Obviously, it was fun. I
had a lot of great meals andtime with family this weekend, and so

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that was great, But leading upto it, I did not remember a
thing. You could have was like, is that, well, it's not
like April twenty eight though that wasmy birthday. I mean forgot. Yeah,
but it's not like birthdays have alead up to it, you know
what I mean. It's it's like, well, yeah, right, all
right. But even then, itwasn't even on my radar, because I

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do remember as a kid thinking tomyself, who, April twenty fourth were
just a few days away? Apriltwenty sixth, We're getting closer. But
no, not I it was justanother date on the calendar. Didn't even
It's interesting because because okay, hereI'm sixty two and I can, for

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example, tell you that my birthday'sfifty two days away. Geez yeah I
couldn't. I've never No, yeah, that's not me at all. Yeah,
no, I'm just I'm just teasy. I did this. I did

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the quick math though. It's youknow, anyway, let's see May first,
what do we got? Eighteen eightyfour, Construction begins on the Home
Insurance building in Chicago. That is, that's like the first skyscraper in America,
that one right there. They arean American invention skyscrapers. By the

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way, thank you very much.You're welcome, Dubai, You're welcome.
What is it, Hong Kong?I mean all these places. Eighteen ninety
eight, squadron of US ships defeatsa Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the
Spanish American War. Squadron of ships. That just seems odd to me.

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I know, that's right, Itjust seems odd. I always think squadron
as aircraft. But anyway. Nineteenthirty one, the one hundred and two
story Empire State Building is dedicated OrsonWelles. Film Citizen Kane debuts on this
date. In nineteen forty one atthe RKO Palace in New York City,
John Whittaker becomes the first American climbMount Everest in nineteen sixty three. That's

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still the whole, Sir, Edmund, Hillary and and Everest. That still
makes me laugh when when you thinkof Hillary Clinton telling the story of she
was named after the great explorer,and the great Explorer was nobody that anybody
knew when she was born. Butthat's a story done to itself. The

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US population tops two hundred million innineteen seventy On this date, and it
was on this date in two thousandand eleven, Osama bin Laden went to
went to the other reaches of ofof Eternity sixteen minutes after the hour back

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with more of the morning show,Margaret Goldstein writing the radio program. For
those of you that do not know, Marvin is a kind of a fixture

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seasonally on this show. He's tryingto figure out when the five thousandth show
will be, and he has calculatedthat it's coming on July twenty first,
but it won't because I will betaking time off here in there, and
so yeah, we don't know exactlywhen it is. And I can't say

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that I'm going to spend a lotof time doing the math. I mean,
it's not quite as big a dealas my birthday. But you know,
um, but Marvin's pitching for amusical extravaganza program. You know,
I don't. I don't know whathe's thinking here, but could be sick.

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Well, that would be one wayof putting it, though I think
that's a little indelicate of you.I myself probably would say highly, highly
unlikely that it's going to be anythingother than a normal show. But we'll
see, we will see. I'mI'm not sure about this now. I

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am a big fan, although forpersonal reasons, I've not gotten a lot
of Papa John's pizza recently. WhenI can, I buy pizza from local
pizza places. It's just I likethat connection. And so you know,

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I know Grant for example here locallygotten a lot of Sally's pizza. I
think it's it's terrific. I likeDave's, Dave's Pizza Garage. I'm a
big fan of Dave's. It's avery and I think that's what I love
about pizza is that. And anddon't don't misunderstand me. There's a place

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for the chains. Here's why you'redriving through a city, you're you're in
a hotel, or you're on atrip, and you want a meal and
you want pizza. But you wantto know that you're getting good pizza because
it is a very very personal thing. And so knowing the chains you're gonna

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get pretty much you know what you'regonna get. There's value in that,
I understand. But I love thesubtle differences between individual pizza places that are
locally owned and operated. And Ithink that a lot of us that enjoy
pizza love the prospect of finding yourguy or your pizza place. I think

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it's enjoyable. I think it's kindof fun. That said, I do
like the papadias, and Pizza Huthas come out with their own called a
melt. Take a pizza across thesmall pizza crust, fold it in half,

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and stuff it. It's not quitea cow zone because a cal zone
is a totally different thing. Ilove cal zones. Great cal zones are
amazing, But a papadilla is thatstuffed kind of thing. I don't know
what I think about this. Forbeginning today, for a limited time,

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Papa John's is offering the Dorito's CoolRanch Papadia and so it's the normal dough
filled with chicken, beef, steak, whatever fillings you want, and normally,
like on a papadia, I thinkyou can pick two fillings plus the
cheese and whatever, and then youget sauce on the side and so forth.

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But it's dusted with the Cool RanchDorito's Cool Ranch flavoring. Keep in
mind that stuff's not baked into thechip. It's a it's a flavored dust.
It's a it's like a rub ifyou will that each of the Dorito's
chips gets a different version of ButI mean, does that sound good to

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you? The Dorito's cool ranch?I would think the only one that makes
sense to me would be to putthat with the chicken papadilla. Chicken and
ranch seem to work well together.In my brain. I can't think beef

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or sausage or pepperoni with ranch.But I know that there are people out
there that that love all that stuff. I'm just saying that's a thing.
So if you're interested, that's outstarting today, So we come back.
We got the big stories in thepress box. As we continue in the
Morning Show, It's The Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Hey, Hey,

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good morning Monday on the Morning Show. By the way, I've consistently heard
from many of you when I airedthe segment of the NBA halftime show on
t NT. It's Shack, ErnieJohnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley play

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it again. No, no,you just know you just have to go
back and listen to the show.It was funny, though as predicted,
we did cause some people to spittheir coffee, and I will tell you
that I take I got one commentin an email. That just really made

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my heart happy. Member of thelistening family. Remember the Ruminators sent me
a note and said, you know, with all the serious stuff that we've
got to hear about and know aboutand that you talk about, what we
enjoy as well is when you recognizethat everything so serious and you just do

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something else and you push away andyou just have a silly laugh. He
said. It was absolutely childish,and I loved every minute of it.
I call that a success. Yes, absolutely, emphasis on the SI c
K sick sess it's a success.All right, big stories in the press

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box. Back to seriousness. Now, this is good. Kansas Kansas lawmakers
are are are sending a message toa Democrat governor. Now explain that to
me. How do you have supermajoritiesin the House and the Senate but elect

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an illiberal governor? How do youdo that? Let me think, what's
the biggest city, because Kansas City'sin Missouri, but many of the suburbs
of Kansas City are in Kansas.Yeah, and there is a Kansas City,
Kansas there is, and then there'sTopeka, Wichita, Manhattan, another

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university town. So I'm just pickingup, picking up, like the supermajority.
Yeah, that just seems odd tome. Yeah, if it were
just a narrow majority, I couldsee it, sure, But I don't
see it. Anyone's a town calledLiberal Kansas. Isn't that amazing? I
think it's a really conservative town though. The ultimate oxymoron. They are the

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first state to adopt a definition ofgender. They have passed legislation that keeps
men out of women's bathrooms, lockerrooms, sports, and intimate spaces.
It separates inmates and restricts participation insports by biological by biological sex. Governor

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can't do a doggone thing about itbecause if she vetoes it, it's going
back to them, and they're passingit. It is um Actually, they've
already done it. It's it's nowthe Women's Bill of Rights. Females defined
as this is like, hello Floridalegislators, here you go. Here's your

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prep for next session, the committeemeetings coming up in the fall. Females
defined as an individual whose biological reproductivesystem is developed to produce OVA. A
male is defined as an individual who'sbiological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the

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OVA of a female. It definesgender words calling for woman and girl to
be used to refer to human females, man and boy to refer to human
males. It defines mother as aparent of the female sex, father as
a parent of the male sex.Boom, mic drop done, and that's

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how it ought to be well done. Kansas The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All Right, a couple March storiesin the press box. We now

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have people that are choosing to identifyas handicapped. I've seen that transablism.
Yeah, it does a matter oftime. Now they're claiming it's the new
term for something a condition called BIID, which is body integrity identity disorder.

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What this, Sam Hill, Justbuckle buckle your seatbelt here, pal,
Oh my gosh. This has beenaround a while. There are apparently people
who have a mental disorder and theymutilate themselves, oh or ask surgeons for

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an amputation or for the transsection oftheir spinal cord to become paralyzed, for
attention, for care for who knowswhat. And let me guess there have

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been some psychopathic doctors that have actuallyparalyzed people because they probably not probably not,
ok. Those doctors do those thingsbecause they're guilty of malpractice, and
they shouldn't be because now there havebeen evil doctors like that, true,
thankfully not many. One in turnis called this delusional disorder. In my

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opinion, both transgender transabled persons sufferfrom a delusional disorder. The oath of
the Oath of Hippocrates tells physicians todo no harm. Of course we know
this, But what's interesting is thisis where we're going. I can't even

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imagine how we have opened Pandora's boxwith this self identification nonsense. But if
someone, for example, there's athere's a state lawmaker in Indiana. I

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think he's a state lawmaker who hasannounced that he is a female, a
black female, as a joke.No, he is. He's making a
point, but he has gone togreat links to do it. Oh gosh,
he said, My prefirmed pro mypreferred pronouns are he and him and

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I will continue to use my normalname, Matt, but I identify as
a black female and he and andthen he came out and said, you
know I've been getting death threats.I've been getting and you know this,
this active group is attacking me andmy family. That activist group, he
said, isn't it amazing. You'resupposed to be allowed to identify however you

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want. But I guess there arerules to this. Of course, he's
pointing out exactly what we all know, but transableism. People sitting in wheelchairs
and there's zero, nothing wrong withthem, but they live in a wheelchair.

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Now we know there's an obvious andif you're going so far as to
amputate a body, but how differentis it than people seeking surgery to change
their biological makeup. It isn't anydifferent. Yeah, but this is an
extreme that points to the lunacy.One other big story in the press box

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that we will likely get to withSalnuzo later, Florida legislature clears the path
for rond de Santas to run forpresident without resigning. I'm not sure I
like that. If you're gonna runfor office, it's a full time job.
I don't know that you can begovernor. I mean, really,

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and do we do this because welike governor to say and right, I'm
a huge fan, But it seemsto me that if you can switch the
law around based on whether you likethe person or don't like the person in
office, that's a little problematic.For me back with more of The Morning
Show with Preston Scott forty six pastthe hour, Consider him your truth Detector,

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The Morning Show with Preston Scott onNews Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.
This is a story that on onehand can cause you to slout your
shoulders, just like in such defeat. But in reality, this is a

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story that causes you to lift yourhead, throw your shoulders back, and
see that there are some victories beingone, ladies and gentlemen, we are
in the midst of the greatest culturalwar in the existence of this nation.

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Yes, it's a reimagination of whateventually caused the Roman Empire to surrender.
Now we still have Italy, westill have Rome, but the scope and
the size and the domination of theRoman Empire ended for many of the things

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reasons that we are fighting right now, But at their core, they're all
spiritual. These are all things thatare birthed in the spirit realm and from
a lack of moral direction. Andso there's nothing there really is nothing new

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under the sun. Transgenderism go backto the days of Caligula. I mean
the nonsense, the the immoral action. I mean, there is now a
flag that has been made for thosewho are attracted to children, adults that

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are attracted to children. There's aflag people people wave a flag saying I'm
one of those perverts. Really,yes, And because it's under the banner
of inclusiveness and whatever, it's it'san effort to normalize this stuff. But

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no matter what we're talking about.Kansas, that's a win, right esg
And Florida that's a win. We'regetting some wins. Row Wade, that's
a win. Okay, the expansionof gun rights in Florida not exactly all
we want, but it's a win. We're getting some wins here and there

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on things that do matter, notthings that are inconsequential, things that are
very consequential. And so this isa story. On the surface, it's
the same old, same old crapuntil you go just a level deeper.
You might have heard of this prosecutorin Saint Louis, Kim Gardner. Yeah,

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she's a waste as a prosecutor.She's a human being that has value
like any other human being. Thatsaid, she's a waste because she was
put in office by duping the votersof Saint Louis with the money of George
Soros, money, money, money, blur the lines, change the imaging,

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change the messaging. Well, sheis now being investigated for criminal contempt
of court. A judge, JudgeMichael Noble, has announced he has appointed
a special prosecutor. Why because sheand her associates are not showing up to
court cases. Think about that.You've got criminals being brought in to be

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prosecuted. They don't show up whenthey do show up. For example,
a case of an eleven year oldgirl that was attacked wounded, Gardner was
supposed to show up the prosecutor.She sent an assignee who knew nothing about

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the case. And the judge waslike, Okay, I'm done with this.
This is happening over and over andover. So you're gonna get a
special prosecution and perhaps criminal contempt againstan elected prosecutor another George Soros. And
now you start linking these Soros prosecutorstogether across the country and maybe we'll start

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to see people wake up. Thatis good news. Our two's next of
the Morning Show, Good morning,and welcome. Second hour of the radio

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program effectually known as Common Sense Amplifiedaka The Morning Show with Preston Scott,
I am Preston. That is grandand it's great to be with you.
Monday, May first, Yes,May fet there is not a thirty first
day in the month of April.Thirty days half September, April, June,
and November. So the next thirtyday month is next month in June,

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and then we don't have another thirtyday month until November. No September
days, September, April, June, and November. Oh, I just
look at a calendar. I've neverbeen able to memorize that thirty days half
September, September, have September,April, June, and November. Who

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has September thirty days? There's thirtydays in September, April, June,
and November, and then of courseFebruary is just weird. But July has,
June's got thirty. July is thirtyone, July thirty one, August
has thirty one ye, September asthirty ye, October is thirty one yep,
November as thirty ye. December isthirty one ye, January thirty one

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February. So does it just alternate, No, it does not thirty because
July and August back to back thirtyone. Yeah, July and August are
backed back. So there you go, thirty days half September, April,
June and still not going to rememberit. But well, that was the

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song that my mom taught me,and so you should learn it. I
know everyone's learned it, but I'dnever understood it. Well, now you
do, sort of what's not tounderstand thirty days in those months? Yeah,
it doesn't make sense to me.Four months, four months of the
year have thirty or thirty one.Thirty days have September, April, June,

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and November. The others have thirtyone, with the exception of February,
which has twenty eight or twenty nine. Whether it's based on whether it's
a leap year, right, allright, this kind of a snapshot.
These are just random little stories herethat I grabbed that I didn't want to
take an entire segment on, butI just thought were worthy of headline status.

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Asheville. You remember we had DavidAllen on the program talking about Asheville
and the disaster that has become Ashevillewith Carolina because of illiberals and because the
citizens of Asheville. Well, apparentlythe citizens are fed up with the crime.
So they've announced a sixty day initiative. These there are complex circumstances contributing

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to the safety issues that Asheville iscurrently seeing downtown. It will take a
community response to address these complexities.What a bunch of rubbish. The complex
the issues, they're so complex.Whatever you guys, You guys took the
steam out of police and you're payingthe price. You've given room for homelessness

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and you're paying the price next.It's just so they're gonna try and correct
it. Here's my question. Sixtydays then what You're just pushing people out
and trying to take control of thecity and then in sixty days give it
back up. Silly justin Trudeau claimingthat he didn't force anybody to get a

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vaccine. He's forgotten about all themandates. Now, why would this be
taking place? Why would Trudeau suddenlybe saying I didn't make anybody get a
shot. Because it's going south,there are complications and people are waking up

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to it. A shooting in Texas, a Mexican nationals killed five neighbors.
You know what their crime was.They asked him to stop shooting his rifle
so their daughter could sleep, sohe killed them all. He's on the
run. We have no idea wherehe is. And the NFL trade,
the NFL draft rather is over.A record forty three trades took place in

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the three days. Never had somany. So now it's free agent time
and that's a lot of fun too, learning Joe with Preston Scott's they're gonna
get I'm just knockduck. Who's thaton WFLA Okay, got two people writing

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in saying to tell you to useyour knuckles to track the number of days
in a month. I'm not followingthat at all. And I've had two
people email me the same thing.How does that work? I have no

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idea what you're talking about. I'venever heard that either, and I have
no idea how you're feel free todemonstrate. But now I'm I'm sticking with
the I don't have count anything withmy way of mom. Dear old mom

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got it right with a simple littleand she wasn't the originator of it.
I know that that's been around forgenerations. I'm just saying I'm gonna stick
with dear old mom. I'm notgoing with counting knuckles. It's simple thirty
days have September, April, June, and November. It's a little limerick.

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It's just simple, not so simple. Gaining customers back when you lose
them. That's tough. And theFairfax Bar and Grill in Bloomington is learning
a very expensive lesson that sadly maycost them their business in Bloomington. Now

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it's interesting because if you don't knowthe story, this is the bar that
offered the sanctimonious spiel while saying,you know, we believe, and you
know that a bar is a placeof discussions and respectful debates where ideas can
be shared. But if you thinkthis way, get out. That's what

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they said. If you don't agreewith transgenderism, then pay your tab and
leave. They said that. Well, they've sent a few more messages and
they're struggling. Keep in mind thatthey started this. They picked a fight,

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telling everybody that didn't agree with thewhole transgender stuff to take their business
elsewhere. That's what they said.Suddenly they on Wednesday last week, it's
a now deleted statement that it washurting financially, warding off uncooperative customers.

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They needed new ones. Thursday,they posted another message with a little bit
of a different tone. Listen tothis. Now, keep in mind this
message followed the message of pay yourtab and get out if you share a
different viewpoint. And this after tellingeverybody about you know every viewpoint has validity

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that but if you have this one, get out. So they they post
this. A lot has been said, some correct and some incorrect, and
I want to clarify my stance.Hold on what's incorrect? You wrote what
you wrote. It's not like therewas a podcast that could have been misconstrued
if they put it on paper.That's the point. You put things in

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writing to avoid someone misremembering right,or taking something out of context or leaving
you put it in writing just you, and you take the thought I'm writing
this word that period comic and soyou are expressing and you don't have to

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hit post until you're ready, right, So he writes, I want to
clarify my stance. What I reallywant to convey as this, just be
respectful. Different opinions are welcome hereas long as they are delivered respectfully.
We no more want ugly, aggressiveor rude interactions about which sports team someone

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thinks is better than about societal issues. Then we do not and will not
censor opinions, but we do requirecivility in this establishment. So if you
can't play nice, then get outof the sandbox. That goes for everyone.
Let's remember why we gather at abar to enjoy each other's company.
Raise a glass, disavility, whata different message. Isn't an amazing what

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happens when you lose customers and youand you now can't pay your bills?
Hey, you gotta come back withyour tail between your legs. And isn't
that, in fact, what themessage should have been. That's the lesson
here, And here's what I wrotein my Rundown. Uncle Preston has been

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teaching this lesson for about thirty fiveforty years now. Don't react. Respond
React when you're saving your life orthe life of another. In all other

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circumstances, respond. This business reactedand now they're responding, and there's a
difference. And if you own abusiness, the difference could be your business
surviving or not. Twenty two afterthe bud Lights is going to be dumping

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a ton of marketing money out thereto try to recover. They're doing heavy,
heavy marketing in the wake of thedisastrous decision made by their head of
marketing for bud Light's brand. Reada few comments here on the story.

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Bud Light's problem is is that theyhave no product advantage over the competition,
just brand loyalty and habit advantage.Once that changes, it doesn't come back.
That's true. And you know it'sconfirmed by people that I talked to
that say, yeah, they itdoesn't. It's not a particularly good tasting
product. And again I'm speaking throughthe eyes and what other people tell and

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write me, because I couldn't tellyou. Again, I the beer I
use for cooking brots or you know, maybe occasionally boiling shrimp or something.
It's I wouldn't be using bud Lightto begin with. But the bottom line
is I wouldn't know one from another. I couldn't tell you. But it's

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interesting here. Yangling is America's oldestbrewery. Yep. It has remained fiercely
independent, family owned and continuously operatedfor six generations. So apparently a lot
of people kind of going there ifthey don't go the whole Dad's thing,
because you know that dad's beer thatwould conservative dads. Um right beer?

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Is that what it's called right beeror something like that. Yeah, it's
I mean, it's a political thing, and it's it's very expensive, but
it is you know, made inAmerica, and so you know, do
what you will with that. Butthis was interesting and something that we've all
thought or even said wid a corporationspends so much time and money, effort,
energy focusing on point zero zero onepercent of the population while alienating the

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rest. And that's really the issuehere. And I keep this is just
to businesses. And honestly, thisshowed up during COVID grant. Remember how
businesses were bullied into requiring masks.And that's where I come back to.

(42:35):
Actually the point that Tucker Carlson madeat the Heritage not Foundation at the Heritage
Foundation's fiftieth whatever the banquet. Yeahyeah, And he said, this is
like a theological argument that it onlyit doesn't make sense in practical political terms.
It only makes sense if it's likereligious in nature and people are like
trying to worship something, and peoplelike bud Light are so afraid or organizations

(43:00):
companies like bud Light are so afraidof committing a type of blasphemy that'll get
them canceled. They're much more fearfulof that than they are fearful of like
the you know, common red bloodedAmerican that consumes their product. So when
you think of it in those terms, it makes much more sense. I

(43:22):
just remember during COVID the number ofbusiness owners that wrote me saying, if
they don't require masks, the peoplethat walk in there wearing a mask won't
come back, they won't frequent thestore. So they got bullied into policies.
And I found that the companies andbusiness businesses here locally that did not

(43:45):
require all packed to the gills.People came back because they're like, thank
you, thank you for not makingme do this garbage. And it developed
a sense of loyalty. It hadlike there might have been a little bit
of upfront sacrifice, but in thelong term they were like they developed a
real sense of community and the loyaltyto their restaurant, to their retail store,

(44:08):
etc. To their church, totheir church. Yeah. You know,
it's interesting because if you are abusiness owner during COVID, you were
tested in a huge way. AndI admire all of you, But if

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you bowed to the crowd versus forexample, to me, the way to
thread that needle would have been tosay, we don't require masks if you
feel more comfortable wearing one by allmeans, but we don't require them.
That would have been how I wouldhave handled it. But anyway, come

(44:51):
back with the news, weather,traffic, the big stories in the press
box and more in the Morning Show. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Halfway through the Monday edition May firston The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(45:15):
Good morning, no matter where,no matter how, Thanks for listening.
Make sure that Alexa and Sirie knowwhere and how to find us.
You can search for w FLA PanamaCity, can search for w FLA Tallahassee
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(45:36):
and listen to the podcast whenever youlike, but make sure that your smart
speakers are smart enough to find us. The big stories in the press Box
this morning. I want to takea minute on this one because you know,
okay, we've got we've got Kansasdoing the smart thing they have set

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I think obviously now the the blueprintand what you know, We've called for
DNA, or at least I have. I've called for DNA. That settles
it. Kansas really kind of justwent common sense route without stating DNA,
they went reproductive organs, and thereyou go to the unbelievably rare person born

(46:27):
with both sets of organs. Ican't help you with that, but given
the genetic rarity of it, Idon't know that I am going to worry
about that. What I want totalk about is your thoughts on the Florida

(46:53):
legislature changing and carving out an exemptionon the state's resigned to run law.
It passed the House, had passedthe Senate. It allows Governor round to
Santis to run for office without havingto resign, and by running, we're
talking president or vice president. Now, to all of you that have been

(47:17):
out there saying, boy, ifonly, if only Trump and De Santis
could bury the hatchet and run together, they're unbeatable. I don't want to
Santis to be wasted as a VP. He can't, the constitution doesn't allow
it. They're in the same state. So that ends. That discussion's over.

(47:37):
So let's get back to the issueof the resign to run. I
get it. I know why they'redoing this, but I either want him
as governor or if he's going torun for president, that's fine, then

(47:58):
let's get another governor. It's gonnatake two years to run for White House.
He's gonna start running this summer wheneverhe declares. That's a full time
job. And I'm I and let'sbe candid. You're not going to know

(48:31):
whether he's the presidential nominee until whatAugust of twenty twenty four and his terms
up in November. I don't Iunderstand the philosophy behind this. I just

(48:58):
think that floor to should have agovernor focused on Florida. Am I wrong?
I was gonna happen anyway. Ijust don't want De Santist to run.
I don't think he should. Andso, but just get back to
the changing of the law to accommodategovernor to Santist because he's in favor.

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I don't know. I don't care. It was gonna happen anyway. I'm
kind of inconstant. It doesn't botherme. But but yeah, because someone's
going to change it, whether itwas De Santists, whether it was a
governor in the future. But theycan change it back, yeah they can.
Yeah. And I don't like it. To appeal that, I don't
like it. I think that youfulfill your commitment. If I decide to

(50:00):
leave iHeartRadio, I'm under a contractand those contract terms tell me if you
will. It's a law. I'mbound by law, and if I want
to violate that, that's fine.I have the means to do that,
but there are requirements that have tobe fulfilled. This is rubbing me wrong.

(50:29):
Welcome to the Morning Show with PrestonScott forty one minutes after the hour.
It is May first on the MorningShow, and we are joined by
doctor Joe Camp's Healthy Expectations on theradio program High Good morning. How are
you today, Preston, I'm good, sir. How are you? Yeah,
I'm doing great. You know thatTEMPERA two was getting into the low

(50:52):
eighties this weekend, and I thinkpretty soon we'll be into the dead of
summer. And I wanted to justchat about, you know, our hydration
status, and I sort of learneda little bit about a couple of things.
One, overall, females should getabout three and a half to about

(51:12):
three point seven leaders of fluid Nowthe advocates always want us to drink water
when possible, But that's about howmuch female she get. E mail,
she get about four leaders. Andso, as you know, as we
all have been accustomed with the cravingsof people watching and looking at social media,

(51:37):
sharing water recipes has become viral andon TikTok is referred to as water
talk. I don't know if anybody'sseen that, but they call it water
talk, and they're promoting those beveragesa lot to our children. And unfortunately
they're promoted as healthy drinks, butwhen you break them down, they basically

(51:58):
are adding unwaters and calories to yourdaily intake. And so guess what happens.
You drink water and you're consuming lotsof sugar. And certainly, as
you know, weight gain is somethingthat we always deal with. We all
fight that it can also cause somedigestive issues, and it can increase your
cravings for sweet food. And soas I think about this, and as

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I think about, you know,how children are being educated today, a
lot of them are being educated bysocial media. I know we don't want
to believe that or think that,but this is one way I thought that
was quite potentially damaging. And youknow the issue is that there are certain
artificial sweetness in these drinks that driveyour craving for more sweetness. And that's

(52:47):
what I really want to get attoday that you know, I don't mind
if you add a limon or alime or something fresh to your water,
but boy, we can't afford tohave these artificial sweetness and things of that
nature being ingested in large quantities.And that's what I'm getting at because once
you sort of get an addiction tothis, you think that that's the drink

(53:09):
that that you have, and they'resaying that it's water, but it's it's
water that's been laced with something else. So the idea for us is getting
ready to be summer here shortly,we need to stay well hydrated men and
women. And certainly I think weought to remember we ought to just promote
drinking water and you can have otherbeverages. I'm I'm not talking about that,

(53:34):
but we need to drive the ideathat we need to drink plain water.
So that's my message today, Preston, and I hope it will resonate
with some of our audience. DoctorCamps. Does this kind of consideration or
concern cross over to the older,more legacy sports drinks, shall we put
it that way? You know,whether it's the power aids, the gator

(53:54):
aids, those kinds of things.No, I think this is is a
lot therefentkay. And the reason isis because of the sugar content and so
and the fact that they're using alot of artificial sweetness. But you know,
Powerade and Gatorade have been around fora long long time, not seeing
too much in the way of negativepublicity about that. Let me let me

(54:16):
ask you this though, recently onTV we have seen a push for adults
to consume pediolite. Yeah. Idon't know if you've seen those ads.
I found that interesting that pivot.Is that a consideration as well for rehydration.
I think you can do that becauseone of the things you're going to

(54:38):
get impediolite is balanced nutrition in thatdiet and a lack of things like artificial
sweetness at the level that we're talkingabout in sugar. So that's mainly that
have amino acids and other things,sodium or potassium, those kind of things
that the body needs it gets fromfruits and other things in order to maintain

(55:04):
homeostasis and a ballot. So nice. I don't think that that that gator
rate fishing in this category. Thisisn't what I'm talking about is sugar Preston,
which is it's good and it tastesgood, but it's bad for most
of us. Thank you, Joe. I appreciate the time. Take care
all everybody to take care. DoctorJoe camps with us this morning. Some
good advice as we get to outdooractivities, whether it's working in the yard

(55:27):
or your exercises or whatever. Asthe summer heat and humidity builds. But
just not yet another week of beautifulweather. I love it. More of
the Morning Show with Preston Scott comingup and Joe with Preston Scott's go ahead,
make My Day on News Radio onehundred point seven WFLA, South New

(55:57):
Zoe in just a little bit withthe James Madison's Too Monday in the Morning
Show. May first, Does itfeel different because it's Mate that's just rolling
into May. I mean, it'sgonna beat May. Time's moving faster for
you, isn't it. Oh?Yeah, Oh for sure. I can't

(56:20):
believe it's I mean, I feltlike I just took down my Christmas decorations.
I realize that when you are myage, I'm more than likely will
not be on this planet anymore.That said, just wait a while the
time it's just gonna at sub pointmoves so fast, all right. We

(56:43):
talked often on the show. Wasn'tit just a couple of weeks ago?
We talked about a couple of kidsthat took their dad's car to meet somebody
they were and they turned themselves in. Yeah, to their credit and I
and I mean, oh my gosh, disaster averted. Alexander Sweet, twenty

(57:09):
eight years of age, is goingto spend the rest of his life in
prison. Now, I will behonest with you, I'm not sure.
I may not know all of thestory here, but it seems like,
boy, he's twenty eight, he'sgoing for the rest of his life.

(57:35):
Found guilty of coercion and enticement ofa minor, four counts of production of
child porn, receipt of child porn, possession of child porn. He targeted
and groomed a vulnerable teenager struggling withthe loss of two loved ones in a
difficult childhood, but she showed upin court and testify to her credit.

(58:02):
The predator thought he was above thelaw. He coerced the teenager into sending
him sexually explicit photos, tried toeven apply to marry the girl when he
was just when he found out hewas being investigated, thinking that he could
not be charged if the girl washis wife, and so he apparently attempted

(58:27):
to move to Arkansas so that hecould marry a minor child without the parents
consent. Hello, Arkansas, youmight address that if that's the situation there.
At that time, agents learned thathe had planned to leave the country.
He was arrested when he was leavingTulsa driving a car with just married

(58:51):
across the back window. The victimwas in the vehicle, her hair had
been bleached. Inside, agents founddoll clothing, electronic devices, a thousand
dollars in cash, more than applicationsfor a US passport for both Sweet and
the minor victim, and a Polishcitizenship application. During the search irrelevant accounts,

(59:15):
they discovered multiple videos engaged in sexualacts with the victim. Oh,
so he did end up committing Yes, provided the girl with drugs and alcohol.
It is believed that he groomed othersas well at different times. So

(59:36):
maybe life in prison is appropriate.But here's my point might be a little
soft parents. Parents, parents,Yes, it can happen to your child.
It can happen to your daughter.It can happen to your son.

(59:57):
It doesn't mean you put him ona leash. But I'm gonna borrow from
Ronald Reagan for good parenting advice.Trust but verify, it's it's it's a
very very different world than the oneyou and I grew up in. It's
a different world than the one Grantgrew up in. Sal newsos up.

(01:00:24):
Next, we'll talk about the FloridaLegislative Session as it's in its final week.
Next on the Morning Show May First. It's May First show number forty

(01:00:55):
nine nineteen of the Morning Show withRusty Scott. It's Monday. Good to
be with you, Dave already oneof amritled hostage. That's Grant Allen.
I'm Preston and with us of courseas always Salnuzo. It is the Legislative
Session as we now are in thefinal week of the session. How are
you. I'm doing good. I'mready for it to be Friday. I

(01:01:15):
bet you all you want to seethat handkerchief fall so badly right on time.
Please do not go over the weekend. Let me get your thoughts on
what I mentioned in the last halfhour. And it's one of the big
stories in the press box. Thelegislature offered a resign to run option here
by modifying it, and you informme of something kind of interesting. Florida

(01:01:39):
was outside the norm nationally speaking onthis subject, so help us. Yeah.
Yeah, most states do not havea resigned to run rule for a
president and vice president of the UnitedStates. So their governors their senators are
able to do kind of the campaignas well as serve as governor while they're
running. And so Florida's resigned torun rule, as we've talked in prior

(01:02:04):
shows, is a bit opaque.It do we know where it came from
and why it ended up the wayit did. Something had to bring it
about. Well, it's changed overthe years a couple of times, and
it changed around the time of CharlieChrist in one way or another. And
I had it in my head lastnight to try and figure out the direction
of the change. But it's nota super new law. So it's one

(01:02:30):
where the question of when qualifying actuallyhappens as a bit in the gray zone.
Yeah, it was very ambiguous.Yeah, and we've talked about that,
and so what they did in thisstate in this amendment to a broader
election bill was to state that ifyou're running for president or vice president of
the United States, you're set asidefrom anything here. The rest of the

(01:02:53):
offices had generally viewed kind of whenyou file as the date, but this
being a bit of a kind ofa different scenario assuming the governor announces in
some point in the next couple ofweeks. They just wanted to make sure
that litigation was you know, kindof forced. All. The Senate President

(01:03:13):
was very clear about that. Shesaid it should be the legislature's decision,
not the courts. What are someof the just briefly, the other things
in this law. It's not justabout the resign to run and amendments and
change is made there. There's broaderelection stuff inside. Absolutely. And so
this is the third year at arow for some pretty broad kind of reforms

(01:03:37):
to our election system. As we'vebeen involved in it at JMI over the
years, we've discovered that election integrityis something that's going to be dynamic.
You're going to have to continue toadapt your rules for technology, for different
methods and different things that happened,different strategies from the left to try and
gum it up and so this changeinvolves some things about like making it illegal

(01:04:01):
for someone convicted of a crime,or a non citizen of a felony or
a non citizen to handle completed voterregistration forms. They have to be turned
in within a certain amount of timenow, so you can't kind of like
collect them all and then tamper withthem and then try to turn them in.
A few things making it more consistentat the county level with supervisors of

(01:04:23):
election on how to maintain the listand consistency there. So a number of
broad things. But then kind ofin the tail end of this, they
amended the law or the bill withthe resigned to run piece. Staying with
a governor for just another minute,if I were to say to you,
the best way governor to Santis canrun, Yes, he's going to have

(01:04:45):
to travel the country if he decidesto do that. It's to just continue
to effectively govern Florida. Oh absolutely, And I don't think with technology the
way that it is now. Imean, we talk about the fact that
you know, most presidents are outand about around the country, around the
world, they are able to govern. The same holds true for a governor,

(01:05:08):
and so to the point about couldhe effectively governed while being on the
campaign. I think so. Imean, it'll remain to be seen how
much of it is impacted, butyeah, the idea of the prior sixty
day session then leading into his budgetline item vetos which will come and then

(01:05:30):
you know, kind of enacting thelaws that have been passed. That's going
to be the kind of the benchmarkof success that I'm imagining he's going to
use as a catapult for the campaign. Salneuzo, vice president of Policy with
the James Madison Institute, is ourguest each Monday during the session when we
come back, a couple of policyrelated things with the governor, then move

(01:05:53):
into things going on in the legislaturethis past week. We're going to cover
this past week, what's ahead andwill we in fact end on time,
And it's all about the twenty twentythree session here in Florida. On the
morning show, The Preston Show withMorning Scott what eleven minutes after the hour

(01:06:20):
sound news, it with us talkingabout the legislative session, the governor on
the road making some trips and inone special bill there was kind of a
meeting in Israel. Yeah, sohe's on the trade mission to South Korea
Japan. Israeli finished it out inLondon. So the legislature had passed House
Bill two sixty nine, which isan anti anti Semitism bill. It had

(01:06:44):
passed the day before. Basically,it creates some fines and penalties for intimidating
people or dumping flyers based on religiousbeliefs on their property or in public places.
Randy Fine, who had passed thebill along with Mike Caruso, the
co sponsor, flew to Israel tomeet the governor for him to sign it
in Jerusalem, and they got agreat photo op. It was just a

(01:07:05):
unique thing. I've never heard ofthis happening before, and it just it
was kind of a special kind ofa deal there. And it covers any
religious anti Semitism. Yeah, it'snot just anti Semitism, but anything that
denigrates or harasses someone based on apolitical belief got it all right, Disney,

(01:07:25):
what's up with that now? Yeah, this is getting dicey because what
you're seeing is not only the left, but now some folks on the conservative
side are saying this could be abit of a challenge to a candidacy given
what's transpired. So Disney is decidingto now push back. They filed suit
in federal claiming the policies that havebeen passed against them amount to a discriminatory

(01:07:53):
retaliation against their First Amendment rights.Now, what is intriguing to me on
this is that they're using many ofthe remarks that have been made by lawmakers
during the debate from the special session. So, pardon the pun. It's
going to be a wild ride asthis transpires because lawmakers, as were coming

(01:08:14):
to find out in the debates,they were making some claims that Disney is
going to use in an attempt tokind of make it bite back on their
claim of it being a retaliatory claim. Is Disney, though entitled to the
special considerations it was receiving, andthat's what the Governor's office and others and

(01:08:40):
I would contend are like me,they are not. It is a special
taxing district. And so the governor'slegal team and the New Tourism Board will
make the claim that they had noright to the special carve out to begin
with, which makes the triggering ofthe legislation mootventially, I mean, if

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you're either entitled to it or not, and the reasons why somebody decides to
take action become irrelevant. If thespecial considerations are not legal to begin with,
they will well they were legal becausethey were in statute. But what
the legislature giveth, the legislature cantake it the way exactly, and so
that's what they're going to claim.Now, I've said this many many times

(01:09:23):
on your show. I'm not aconstitutional attorney so or an attorney at all.
So this is going to likely takeyears to wind its way through the
courts unless they come to some kindof a detante and decide to figure it
out over a beer or something.A minute left in this segment. What
do we have in terms of whatpassed through the legislature last week. Well,

(01:09:45):
the big one is Senate Bill fourteenfifty five past the House, it's
now onto the governor. It isa massive reform of public sector unions in
the state. This has been apolicy priority of ours at JMI for the
last five six years. The majorthrust of the bill does three things,
and this is important because we havea lot of public sector employees and we

(01:10:08):
have a lot of union disinformation.They's been paid exactly. So it eliminates
dudes collections by the public sector agency, so the unions will develop a plan
for them to collect their own duesfrom members. They'll do a credit card
swipe or online form. It upsthe threshold for recertification from fifty percent to
sixty percent, so if a bargainingunit doesn't have sixty percent of the potential

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members paying, they got to standfor reelection. Now they can still get
reelected with a simple majority, butthat's one of the cases there. It
also requires each local union to geta certified financial audit annually, which was
surprising to me because I didn't realizeit wasn't already a requirement. So all
common sense stuff. Unions are notgoing away. They will adapt, but

(01:10:53):
they will have to do a lotof their own business on their own and
be a lot more transparent. Moreto talk about with Sound News on next
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, VP of Policy with James Madison Institute

(01:11:13):
sald Neuzo with US Morning Show twentytwenty three Legislative Review and look Ahead.
It's so week eight. We're there, right, we're here. You'd mentioned
that the union reform is perhaps thebiggest in the country. Yes, absolutely,
it is. The most transformational reformto public sector unions in the United

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States that we've been looking at overthe last ten years, without question.
What does that say that simply requiringthe unions to be somewhere north of fifty
percent and collecting their own dues isa massive reform. Yeah? Yeah,
And and that just strikes me asfunny. And the Dems tried to make

(01:11:58):
it out like it was the legitimatelyin committee and on the floor tried to
make it out like it was thesecond assassination of MLK. They referenced that
in objection to a common sense.Yes, public sector reformed. So all
right, some other big news.Sure, On the economic development front,
it looks like, after a numberof years of trying by the House,

(01:12:18):
Enterprise Florida is going away. Isthis a good or a bad thing?
Both? Yeah, a little bitof both. They only had a twelve
million dollars appropriation, but and theywere a public private partnership. But the
House has been saying they just donot provide enough ROI and the Department of
Economic Opportunity could kind of absorb alot of what they were doing. So

(01:12:43):
the compromise on this one is thegroup is going to fold some of their
operations into d EO and then closeup shop entirely fair. Is it a
fair argument that it was deplicative insome areas? Absolutely? Absolutely, Yeah.
There were arguments to be made thatthey raised a lot of money from
the private sector to do a lotof the things that they were doing to

(01:13:03):
supplement that twelve million, but stillit was a twelve million dollars appropriation.
So however, on the flip sideof that, the debate on Visit Florida
looks like it might have been acompromise. Visit Florida is going to continue
to receive state funding at the eightymillion dollars level, so I think they
were at seventy five this year,so they're bumping up a little bit.
The governor wanted a hundred million,but they only came in at eighty.

(01:13:27):
There was an attempt to make thelocal tourism boards pay the freight on Visit
Florida, but that's not going tohappen. I like Visit Florida for a
whole lot of reasons. I thinkit's I think it's good for the state
of Florida, absolutely, as doI and I think it only works.
The model only works in two states, Florida and Hawaii, and that's just
where statewide marketing of tourism. It'sone of our big three. It should.

(01:13:48):
You could argue that it is perhapsthe driver, along with maybe tax
policy, of the migration to thestate. Oh. Absolutely, planned seeds.
Yeah, it planned seeds. Itgets people here, it provides a
It's also the impetus for why wedon't have a statewide income tax, because

(01:14:09):
so much of the tax revenue iscoming in for people who don't live here.
And so when you're talking one hundredand twenty five hundred and fifty million
people a year visiting, I getwhy we need it. So all right,
give us kind of a lightning roundcheck of the other bills that have
passed. The short preemption of localordinances on landlords. So yet some cities
and counties enacting local tenants bills ofrights. Boat Chambers voted to preempt those.

(01:14:33):
It's onto the governor. This isone I'm watching to see how he
moves on it. He has vetoedsome laws and prior sessions that in his
mind went against local control. SoI'm paying attention to that one. Social
Media education a great bill from SenatorDanny Burgess and Representative Yeager requiring school districts

(01:14:55):
to offer either a short course ora seminar that outlines the benefits and risks
social media for kids. New testsfor colleges and Bright Futures. It looks
like they're approving a modification to thecollege entrance applications by allowing the use of
what's called the Classical Learning Tests inlieu of the SAT, as well as
allowing it for Bright Futures. CLTis based on the Classical Education model,

(01:15:19):
which is a kind of Socratic methodand the like great idea there. We've
talked about the bill banning any formof gender affirming care, and interesting development
transpired last week both the American Academyof Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association.
They actually endorse the procedures involved inthis care, which kids mutilating kids as

(01:15:44):
well as like putting these chess thingson them and all of that. The
House Speaker authorized the Health Committee ChairRandifying to commence an investigation of their policies.
Last week. They issued subpoenas toboth of those organizations to find the
underlying reasons why they're endorsing those things. So I am agree to be continuous

(01:16:05):
exactly HJR. Eleven fifty seven.It will be on the ballot for next
year. It enshrines the right tohunt and fish in the Florida Constitution.
Something will get to vote on SBseven seventy four, increasing financial disclosure requirements
for the local officials, which bringsthem in line with state officeholders. And

(01:16:27):
then a big state employee change fivepercent raise and boost to the pension benefits
that reverse some rollbacks from about adozen years ago right now retirement at twenty
five years down from thirty years,and an age drop from sixty to fifty
five. It also expands the windowfor the drop program to eight years from

(01:16:49):
five with a boost in the growthrate to four percent from one point four.
So some good stuff for state employeeswho I mean arguably have gotten the
short end of it over that dozenyears. We'll come back. We're gonna
talk about the budget. We're gonnatalk about some upcoming bills that are still
remaining. Will they cross the finishline with signatures or not? That and

(01:17:11):
more is still to come with SaltNews O the James Madison Institute. The
News is Now Morning Show with PrestonScott you're mocking me, aren't you.
Oh no, no, no,no, no no no. Unused Radio
one hundred point seven w FLA Backat It Morning Show with Preston Scott Salt

(01:17:50):
News. Oh, j Am,I with us talking about the legislative session.
All right, the budget, thebudget. It is the only con
institutional requirement. We say that,but for the sake of the hundreds of
thousands of new people in the SunshineState. Yeah, you have moved to
a state that requires a balanced budget, and g look what happens. Yep.

(01:18:13):
We pass a balanced budget every yearand we have surpluses. Yes,
we have surpluses, we have reserves, we have growing tax revenues despite not
having a state income tax, andamazing how that works. Conservative policy does
in fact work. So as welook at the budget and what you're hearing
right now and conferencing, how arewe it's coming along. They had said

(01:18:34):
that they thought they would finish upby Saturday, but they didn't. But
they have until Tuesday in order toget it to the chambers, to get
it to siny die on Friday.What do you make of the set aside
of three hundred and fifty million forschool districts that. I mean, I
look at school choice and I say, well, if they're leaving the public

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school system, there's a good reason. So what's the three fifty four This
is it's a couple of things.One I think is there's a policy argument
for it, and then there's apolitical argument for it. On the policy
side, you are going to,in fact, have a large number of
parents now choosing to do something differentwith their child than the traditional public school

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that, given the way that wefund education in Florida, will have an
impact on school district budgets. Sothey set aside three hundred and fifty million
to kind of help in the initialphases of this. It's not recurring dollars.
They don't get it every year.It's something that you know, if,
as we see it, it willhelp glide path and allow for public

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schools not to just kind of falloff the reservation, so to speak,
or fall off the cliff in termsof funding. By my math, that's
an allocation of what about five milliona school district. Well, yeah,
but it's going to it's not goingto be dispersed that way, I understand.
But but just from a rough perspective, so how far does that really

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go. Well, it's going todepend on how many how many students within
each district are shifting and the proceduresthat de comes in for how to access
that money. So a lot tobe said for where that goes. Is
it easy to misread bills that areremaining to say that, well, these

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must just be really contentious bills oroverly complicated. In some cases they are,
and in some cases it represents adifference of opinions between the chambers that
they just haven't worked out yet,and in some cases is just a timing
issue. They got filed, theywere going through committees later in the cycle,
and so they were put in kindof the choreography for how all of

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these go. At the tail end, what are the bills left to be
done? Sure, we've got SenateBill seventeen eighteen, which is the immigration
bill from Senator Angolia. It's beenvoted on by the full Senate, it's
through all the House committees. Butthe House version does not have a provision
in it making it a felony toknowingly transport an illegal immigrants. So there's

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a bit of a difference there.Yeah, that's a pretty big difference.
YEP. So twelve fifty nine moremoney for charter schools made it through the
House full chamber and all of itsSenate committee meetings were waiting to see on
that one. I think that one'sjust a timing issue. It kind of
came a little bit later. Howis that separated from money for the school
distric because charter schools underneath the schooldistrict, it is, but they got

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a lower portion of the pot inthe FEFP. So this kind of brings
that, which is why a lotof those charter schools only pay eighty percent
of what a teacher makes else correct? Correct? Okay? Does that right?
That wrong? Or does it help? It helps it a lot,
not necessarily one hundred percent. Yet, all right, we got a few
more bills to talk about. We'llalso tell you what's kind of iffy in

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the session that's next in the morningshow. All the fund doesn't stop here.
Find more on his vlog WFLAFM dotcom. Keyword preston. All right,

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trying to be responsive to listeners here, sal question why police and fire
unions were exempted from the union issue. It's a very good question. So
police and fire are what they callspecial risk categories there legislation impacting them is
almost always done in a very separatebill that has to get reference to specific

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committees. And so for those reasons, as well as the way in which
those collective bargaining agents bargain with theirwith their management, it's just a different
animal, and so you could seea bill specific to them, it just
wasn't one that they took up atthis point. Send in Bill fifteen fifty

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fifteen fifty, the big PBM reformbill PM Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and pass
the Senate unanimously. It is apriority of the governor. I believe the
House is going to take it upand send it to him. Did have
to go through committees yet, Nope, they've passed all of its committees.
It's just going to go. Ithink this one was a timing issue.
Eight ninety two living wage preemption,living wage whatever, unanimous through the Senate

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as well Houses looking to take itup. It would preempt any local governments
from establishing living wage ordinances, whichmeans if you want to do business with
our county, you have to payyour employees twenty five thirty fifty dollars an
hour. Things like that. Whatever. We were stupid enough to vote the
fifteen in so whatever we were.Senate Bill two fifty two ban on gender

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Affirming Care. Now each chamber haspassed a version. The Senate President does
not like the portion of the billthat bans private insurance companies from covering the
care. In her mind, that'sa bit of a potentially a litigation point
maybe where it could be viewed asa kind of the government imposing an undue
restriction on a private contract. Soso the governor, so an insurance company

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could say, yeah, we'll payfor it, but you wouldn't be able
to do it in Florida. Correct, Correct, Okay. Nine thirty one,
the Higher Ed Diversity Bill. Itwould be a ban on any employee
or speaker requiring the university from makingan employee or speaker sign onto a political
loyalty statement, something along those lines. I think this one's a timing one.

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It's generally been a party line,of course, But didn't see any
any kind of hurdles to this one. The one that I'm paying a lot
of attention to now is two fiftytwo, the ban on gender affirming care.
No, we talked about that one. I'm sorry. Twenty one the
bathroom bill. That's the one whereit's gone back and forth. I don't

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know that the Senate is really comfortabletaking this one up. Why And I
don't know the Senate President is sayingshe's not fully on board with it.
I don't know what her misgivings are. Yeah, so I'm paying attention to
is this something where we sometimes usethe term one chamber rolling the other where

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they might attach it to something elseand force them to take it or they
view something there. But I'm payinga lot of attention to see where this
lands. I was going to ask, do you see the legislature having to
take this issue up and expand itthe general issue like Kansas is done and
settling the whole thing, which Iwas listening to your segments articulating what Kansas

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did. And if this bill dies, I could absolutely see one or several
lawmakers wanting to take a look atthe Kansas model legislation and see how they
can comport it for Florida. What'sa coin toss out there? Yeah,
some stuff in limbo. There's abill related to credit card swipe fees.
Now, it's very wonky and inthe weeds, and if you're not paying

(01:25:58):
a whole lot of attention and understandit, but it's been bouncing back and
forth, and big retailers love it, the banks and credit card companies,
and a lot of small businesses don't. We've taken a position against the bill,
so I'm intrigued to see how itgoes in the last week and then
does the legislature finally get data privacyacross the finish line. Senate bill was

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amended heavily last week to address alot of the concerns from the small business
community. It's on the calendar,but it could be amended further, and
if it bounces back and forth,it could die because of the timing.
And then the last one that we'repaying attention to is the big higher ed
package nine nine from the Border Regents. It would it's kind of the ANTIDEI

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legislation. It's been softened a bit, and so I think it's going to
make it through, but still kindof a tolling cost coin toss because it's
late in the game. You know, it happens if you turn that bill
nine nine upside down. Though.Yeah, there was a House Bill six
sixty six and I said, ifI ever were to be elected, which

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will never happen, I would automaticallyrefuse to sponsor or vote for any House
bill or send a bill six sixsens. Thank you ah, that amen?
All right, maybe next week,it might be the week after.
We're gonna recap this whole thing.Absolutely looking forward to it. Thank you.
Always a pleasure. Saldos or theJames Madison Institute, he's vice president
of policy. Learn more about themonline. James Madison, It's James Madison

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dot org. Right, you gotit. Yeah, we'll have salon next
week or so back and we'll puta nice bow on this whole thing and
have some longer discussions about all theseissues them. Tomorrow the program Cat Cammick,

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US Congressional rep. From Florida's thirddistrict. She will join us for
a monthly visit well here from MattStabor tomorrow he will join us in the
third hour as well. So tomorrow'sthird hour is banging. As they used
to say, I am really goodwith old no longer used hip terminology lingo,

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yeah, which makes it no longerhip terminology, but the fact that
it's not makes it hip to me. So yeah, this is just incredible.
Dutch Court heard a case last weekabout Jonathan Jacob Meyer forty one.

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Mister Meyer decided that he would offerup his sperm through sperm banks for families
that could not conceive for whatever thereason for women who did not want to

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have a partner a husband to havea child, so he donated his sperm
to a sperm bank. A Dutchlaw covers the subject Dutch law for reasons
of not creating an imbalance in thepopulation that could create potential incestuous unintentionally incestuous

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relationships and potentially birth defects and allkinds of problems. Put, a limit
of twelve women can receive the spermof one donor and have maximum twenty five
children in total. So one childhere, three child children and there,

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but a total of twenty five totwelve mothers. Well, this man apparently
lied about his donations. Color meshocked, and has in fact fathered good
Lord over five hundred children. Whata disgusting creature. I'll just look at

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him. He's probably just a littlebit of a neanderthal looking down. That's
exactly what I was thinking. Andso a Dutch court has said, do
it again. We're going to findyou one hundred and ten thousand dollars US.
That's what it boils down to,in US money, those poor children.

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And he has been ordered to callall of the sperm banks he's donated
to and tell them the court rulingand to have his donations destroy. Brought
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