That's how we do it. Starting a Monday, It's text day, Sorry, but it is. It's all right. This morning show with Preston Scott is what it is. How you doing, friends, Hope you had a great weekend. I did. Hung out with my sweetheart. That's always a good thing. Got a few things done in the yard, finished a little project up, watched a lot of golf. Oh boy, that was great fun. Sat next to my honey while she watched the Ohio State spring game. It was so funny. She said, I get nervous in my tummy.
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 with her. Anyway. It's it's a delight to be with you. That's Grant Allen. I'm Preston. It is Monday Show fifty one thirty seven. I'm going to talk about the masters here in
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 does not produce the righteousness of God. Oh now, notice what it doesn't say, anger is not sin. You're allowed to be angry at stuff that's not sin, but it can lead to sin. It can cause you to stumble. That's why you get control of it. That's why you don't let anger 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 a group of men this Sunday afternoon, and it's going to be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting. I've not been told what to say, nor would I accept a speaking engagement where I was told what to say. I
will say this though. Scottie Scheffler won the Masters, and he was talking about it afterwards and he said, you know, I was talking with some guys, some friends before the Sunday round, and he said it was really challenging. He said, because I want 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, Scottie, your victory secured. You've already won, you know Jesus.
And so Scottie Scheffler in the press conference 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 imagine how reassuring that is to have the perspective that, yeah, you're right, my victory is secured in God, and that keeps me grounded. That is really awesome for those of you that love Jesus, that there is a guy out there the best at what he does that honors Christ first and all that he does. I love it,
I love it. I love it all right. Ten minutes past the past the hour, Let's go inside the American Patriots Almanac. Next, it's the Morning Show with President Scott. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we take a peek. It's April fifteenth, tax day, eighteen fifty City of San Francisco, incorporated by California's legislature. It was once such a wonderful place to visit. Now it is an absolute toilet bowl. And it's a shame. The
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 the oath of office as the seventeenth president. Few hours after Abraham Lincoln dies eighteen ninety two. General Electric Companies established nineteen twelve. British liner Titanic sinks in a nineteen fifty five ray Croc open
his first McDonald's in the Plain, Illinois Wow Titanic Lincoln. Some stuff happened on this date in history, all right, 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 tenth annual. It's a family adventure race. Racers get to run and navigate over under through different obstacles, fun challenging course, got other things going on. It's at Phipps Park sorry, Phipps Farm
on North Meridian Road. And the registration ends tomorrow, So if you're interested, just look it up online Gladiator Challenge and uh and and you'll get the links to the race. Sign up. But they've got a junior obstacle course for kids three to six, a youth obstacle course grades K to twelve, and then a five K obstacle race ages sixteen up. Could you do a five k right now obstacle course race? No? I could do. I could do a one mile fund loiter. I could just loiter around for a
while. That's that. That would be my contribution here. I'll pay thirty bucks and I'll just stand at the different obstacles. I'll encourage everybody, come on, come on, no no, no, no, no, no, go under this one, over that one. That's that's that would be my contribution right there. Anyway, Gladiator Games coming up this weekend. Registration ends tomorrow, which is why I wanted to get it said today. Salnuzo
from Consumer's Defense will join us in the third hour. We're going to do some deep dive on the legislative session as well as look at kind of what's been signed, what hasn't been signed, and where we are and a few other things. So stick around. A lot of news, big stories over the weekend to talk about. It was an eventful weekend, especially in the
Middle East. We'll get to that as well. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show the hands who collected or has collected the quarters, the state quarters. They have a collection of those things. I want to say that some of our kids have those, but do you remember when that started? It has actually been twenty five years since 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 it started in ninety nine. They were minted until two thousand and eight. The Mint released five new quarters a year following the order in which states ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the Union. Which is cool. It didn't dawn on me that that was how they were picked for release. The first quarter was Delaware. It features Caesar Rodney riding horseback on the reverse, paying tribute to his eighty mile ride to cast his
vote in favor of the first state signing 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 final quarter was Hawaii. Of course, thirty four point three billion quarters were produced and shipped. Now that immediately begs the question, well, how valuable can they be if they produced so many?
During the program, the Mint averaged three point five billion quarters, which is one hundred and thirty five percent more than the average production during previous years, to fulfill rising demand. You will have a better chance of finding a Virginia quarter than others. There were roughly one point six billion produced, sporting the
three ships that brought the first English senators settlers to Jamestown. Only seven other state quarters had more than a billion issued Connecticut, South Carolina, New York, Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and North Carolina here are the harder to find ones. Oklahoma's the hardest defined, followed by Maine, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Alabama. Other state quarters with less than half a billion minted include Arkansas, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico
and that interesting. They produced less of some states than others, And if you need to finish out a collection, or if you want to start collecting,
you just got to start searching because they're not making them anymore. However, there are some that are worth more than the twenty five cents, So this could be this could be a mistake, because you're gonna be rating everybody's little coin cans and looking for these Those coins in mint condition marked with a D or a P meaning Denver Philadelphia mint could be worth as much as three
dollars and fifty cents each. Ohio quarters marked with an S produced in San Francisco, carry the highest value at fifteen dollars because few were produced out of San Francisco. A mint condition Oklahoma or New Mexico marked with San Francisco's mint and s could be worth up to ten dollars. So you know, there are different things that determine the ultimate value. But I just there you go.
If you're a collector, see that's one of those things. Those are the types of collections that I think a lot of people get in on because they're easy to engage in. First of all, who uses who uses dollars anymore? So coming across the quarters is going to be rare because so few people use dollars and get change, and so I'll be curious to see where this all goes. Obviously, as time goes by, fewer and fewer in circulation. But it's not like I mean when we're talking billions of coins out
there. It's not like we're talking about these things are going to be scarce anytime in our lifetime. But still something to keep hold of. Pass down, pass down, pass down. It will 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 set of those guys and never took them out of the package, you managed to talk to your kid into not breaking them
open. They are worth something serious money now, anything like that, that's what what happens, all right, come back with the big stories in the press box next to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott sixty the time. It works every time on News Radio one seven double USLA. You got some sound this morning on the program 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 I know what's coming. Obviously, the program changed a little bit when we found out what was going on in Middle East, not a lot, but a little. But some of the sound is is just almost hey, pulled to the side of the road before I play this kind of sound. I'm not I don't think that's gonna be I do not think that will prove to be hyperpole. Welcome to the Monday edition of the program. He's Grant looking sporty like like you just came from the club.
Played played eighteen holes and you're now ready for dinner in the grill. Yeah, yeah, that's a good way to pay casual. But yeah, still dressing a little bit, wearing the the the navy jacket, yes, instead of the green jacket. That's right, the navy one. We can't. I can't be an imposter, No, I can't. I see guys do that. They buy these green jackets, and it's, first of all, it's always the wrong shade green. The Master's Green, thankfully, is
so proprietary. They have their own thing. They've got their own hex codes down to the thread count whatever. Yep, yep, no doubt. But uh but I see these guys wearing these fake Master's jackets, and it's like, do you guys really chow up at Augusta National thinking that's gonna play? It's all? They wear them at the turn. Some some I know, have tried to walk in the gate and or parade around acting like they're a member. And I just know, And there are facsimile jackets out there.
I'm just telling you, they're just I couldn't do that. I couldn't. I could do like if it was a like it was clearly not uh intended to be like mimicry, but like you're like a fan of golf, so you wear your green sport code that if 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 or even I'll take the facsimile there. Yeah. Yeah, just don't take it to the course. Don't act like you're
all that. It's just it's a little goofy, Yes it is. What was not goofy, though, was watching the best players in the world remind us all that golf is a game of imperfection, and that course just humbled everybody. He just did it humbled everybody at one point or another. Totally off topic, does Tiger Woods decide I can't do this anymore, or does he decide I need to play more golf to try this, to try to do this, because he finished last, and Tiger's deserves better than that.
He did for two rounds, for two 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 leader board. At one over after two rounds, I mean one over finish, A two over finish puts you in the top twenty. I think I don't want to see him struggle like that. I just don't anyway. Big Stories in the press Box Grove, a creative marketing and digital expertise Iran. Iran sends a bunch of missiles and drones at
various sites in Israel and then announced the matter can be deemed concluded. Well, yeah, it failed. Dudes. Come on, they shot down ninety nine percent of everything you threw their way. You just wasted a bunch of money. Money you don't have a lot of, by the way. But it's just interesting to me how Israel is in the United States to stay out of it, and Joe Biden says we're staying out of course because he's a coward. I'm not saying you go to war. I'm saying that. You
don't say you're staying out of it. I just it's bad leadership. It's just bad leadership. That's not how you deter But that's that's a subject that I'm sure we'll have time to expand on in the coming show as well as coming days. A judge upholds Georgia's voter citizenship verification requirements. Federal judge said, yeah, the laws passed in Georgia to have an appropriate ID to vote, proving that you're a US citizen. Good, We're good and huge blow
to the to the cheaters. And I explain how that's somehow wrong to make people show they're a US citizen and have ID to vote. Don't give me this. It's not fair to people who are minorite. Stop it. Oh, stop it. You have to show idea to get a phishing license. For God's sake, you don't need this is with that and UH, House Speaker Mike Johnson showed up at mar A Lago holding a press conference with Donald Trump, announcing that they're going to push for a a bill to require proof
of citizenship to vote. Good good follow the world. You know the world pretty much does that? Preston Scott on news Radio one point seven double UFLA. What a great representative for the body of Christ. Scottie Scheffler is humble, unchanged by success. He just likes winning. I love it, but not at the expense of losing his direction. Did you know that the guy who came in second, Ludwig Oberg Apparently Lance just told me lives in makes
Tallahassee his home. Really, Yeah, Apparently there's a story out there on a website that I don't go to because it's not trustworthy, and so that's why I would immediately say, really that it currently lives here. I would love to know why unless he goes and plays out of legacy all the time and they stretch that thing to eight thousand yards or something like that, and he just does that to test himself. He's a great player. Young Man
twenty four finished second all alone in to Scottie four shots back Scheffler. Scheffler was ahead the last time he won the Masters. He was up by five shots before he had a four put nine. Because you're on eighteen. He 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 being on your radar. And I'm not sure
that I'm going to surprise anybody with this. I got my insurance premiums and I am I'm with a company that is a very highly rated company but very low rates because I've been with them for so long. Wow, my auto rates jumped. There are no claims, no speeding tickets, none of that. And I'm like, what in Sam Hill, So I made a call. I mean rates are almost up fifty percent. Auto insurance the national average for car insurance hit twenty three hundred per year, So you're one ninety three
a month, is what you're looking at. Part of it the price of new cars, price of used cars, shortage of mechanics is factoring in costs more to fix things. And then this evs, evs and new cars that are reliant on computer technology, which they all are, all of them, not just new, fairly new recent. All of that raises the price because crashes that might not be quite so bad, you start replacing motherboards and things like that in computer systems that are running the car, and the price spikes.
So add that now to the list of inflation victims, right your automobile insurance. Then there's this all stages of credit card delinquency thirty sixty and ninety day past due rose in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty three, highest levels since twenty twelve. What was going on in twenty twelve? Who was president? Oh yeah, the big bo old stinky was president. Then. Isn't that funny? Isn't it interesting how credit card delinquencies, prices and all that
always seem to be at their worst when the Democrats in charge. Uh uh uh banks now as a result of granting fewer credit line increases, reducing credit lines more frequently, the APR right now, on average is twenty point seventy five percent, which means if you owe five thousand in debt and at the current levels, it would take two hundred and seventy nine months and eight thousand
dollars plus of interest to pay off the debt making minimum payments. Do you know, let's just real quickly before we break here, quick math here, two hundred and seventy nine divided by twelve, that's twenty three years. Does that spell it out clearly enough? Forty seven minutes ouch, cabible, forty seven minutes after the hour the battle begins now to oppose the abortion amendment. Came across a piece in my email from 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 Dave Dalladan and Sandra Merritt had been found guilty in California. They've been I mean she's been it's under appeal, but she's been like finding absurd a sum of money pay damages to play in parenthood and is facing prison time. Liberty Council among those fighting for her, in fact,
I think lead in that case. Folks, you realized that the heads of playing Parenthood in parts of California admitted on camera while eating salad public just publicly talking to dismembering babies just inside the birth canal. Were just a portion of it was in the birth canal to keep it legal. Why because they
were harvesting the organs. They talked about it openly. Yeah, if we do this, we do this differently, articulate the arm in such a way that we preserve this organ or that there'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 type of procedure will go on and on and on without limitation because the amendment
prohibits laws stopping any abortion at any point, even beyond birth. You say to yourself, oh, well that would never excuse me, of course it would. The battle begins now to make sure that people understand how absurd this amendment is. Shame on the four justices that allowed this to go on the
ballot. The only thing that will stop this is if down the road subsequent, when the legal challenges begin, we get 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 who speaks up on behalf of the unborn child? Unless you do? Back with our number two of the Morning Show, 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.
It didn't happen ten years ago, didn't happen ten months ago, didn't even happen ten days ago. This is a recording of the New York City Council the start of the council meeting on April eleventh. Today's the fifth teenth, so we're talking about last Thursday. This is the beginning of the meeting. I won't have been lacking in a shame to your Raji. Just me la your rough man, your raw he iamduly la here on, Billy, let me a rough man. You'r rahi man kill me d I kind of
ham can stay if he didn't know senero totymost. They began their meeting by praising Allah as the supreme Lord of the world, expressing their reverence in both Arabic and English. We're now a minute 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 prais be to a law a lot of the world, the most gracious, the most merciful Master of the day of judgment. It is you we worship, and upon you we call for help.
Four minutes and forty four seconds of that. Is that shocking or not? And I'm just curious, as has been noted by many comments, where the separation in church and state wackos on that one. See, that's the thing. They have nothing to say as long as it's not Christian or I guess at this point Jewish. I just thought it was important for and look the dude that was invited there to do his thing. Hey, that's your thing. Cool, I've got nothing personal against that. This is a mirror being
held up to reflect to you where we are in this country. This was a country founded on Judeo Christian beliefs. That's a fact. It's uncomfortable for some of you. It's uncomfortable for some church leaders, Christian church leaders to accept that reality. But it's true. But where are the Protestations? Ten minutes after the hour This Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. You see Gallagher later on the relays, great knees,
great drive. Gallagher of the victory. Here in section number one, Gallagher one the two hundred meter girls Varsity Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon. Gallagher won by basically the length of the track two hundred meters is roughly half of a lap. Oh I forgot to mention. Gallagher's a dude running as a girl. Blew everybody off the track. Afterwards, No one came over to congratulate him. No other girls gave him a hug, no one gave him a high five, no one gave him. But he advanced and
we'd be running in the relays later. Wonder how that worked out again? Where are the different organizations that wind cried incessantly for title nine and then every right to wine and cry for Title nine. It's more opportunities. It's worked out well it should. I'm good with 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.
I mean, it is so clearly a dude. Anyway, Customs Border Patrol. The numbers now four hundred and four thousand that Biden has picked up in 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 the country and work. They've been picked up from Cuba. Don't know how we arrange that flight, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela again, some of these countries. How did we do that? How
did we they hate us? Did they just did they just send their best and brightest to us? Just let them go? But the numbers now are growing. These are people that Joe Biden's administration has literally gone and picked up and flown into this country. And many of them dropped inside the state of Florida. Their goal when it was announced in twenty twenty three, was to provide safe and orderly pathways for thirty thousand illegal nationals from Cuba, Haiti,
Nicaragua, Venezuela. It's four hundred and four thousand, four hundred and four thousand. I keep sharing this with the hopes that some of you wake up to how destructive Democrat policies are, and that when you have no choice but to vote for Democrats, that you choose 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'm hoping we get a chance to talk about
it this week. It may be a while, but some local illiberals are not going to be happy. They have stumbled in a significant way. You'll know them by their fruit, my friends, you will know them by their fruit. Do you ever heard the expression politics makes for strange bedfellows, meaning sometimes the enemy of your enemy as your friend, meaning sometimes to get things done, you have to align with people that you might not normally spend much
time agreeing with. You find a common cause until you get things done. This comes across as that type of story for me. I would bet that there are some listeners of this program that will be acquainted with the venue that I'm about to talk about. Here's the story. Some former employees are suing their former employer. Plaintiffs In the lawsuit, it says were denied minimum wage payments and denied overtime as part of defendant scheme to classify plaintiffs and others as
independent contractors. Citing the Department of Labor. The suit of ledges that the scheme is found in a growing number of US workplaces, quote as a means to cut costs and avoid compliance with labor laws. I believe that. See, if you put somebody under the heading of independent contractor, you don't have to pay their Social Security You're cutting them 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 of you are independent contractors in some form or another. You know the you are. You're paying thirty to thirty five percent into the system until your tax forms are filled out and then you know who knows where you are. But I forgot to mention one thing. These are
employees of Sammy's Strip Club in Birmingham, Alabama. In their lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Alabama, club owners forced a socialistic economic system on the dancers, mandating they subsidized their coworkers. Now, as Grant shakes his head and discussed, and I get it, And I bet there's a few people that have been there at one point or another. Someone commenting on the story just I went to Sammy's in Birmingham forty years ago. The dancers were attractively
challenged then, and probably the same ones are still there. Jeezee. Now, I've never been in a place like this, but I know of people that have frequented those places. And and so here's what I can tell you. They have a case. Here's why they have a case because they were all forced to put their tips into the pot the tip jar, literally, and then it was split up and shared so that young ladies who were not tipped as much got the same amount as those who were tipped a lot.
So is this objectifying women? Oh hugely? Like the big time? Well, well obviously it is, But like, is there I don't know, is there some sort of lawsuit of you know, the ladies who maybe a little more homely, you know that they felt they felt offended that they didn't get the tips. So they were supportive of this. That's the business they're in. Here's what's interesting. This is not absolutely what a NAT's aid story.
Here's what's interesting. What's interesting is the owners of the club also demanded kickbacks from the young ladies based on the time of day, the later in the evening it got. They demanded more money for the privilege of dancing in front of customers. And so they're suing on all of this and it's going to be fascinating to see what comes of it. I just found it interesting that strip club dancers were suing their employers 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 there listening to this, going you're kidding me, No, I'm not. And what what'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 the tip jar and everybody divides it equally.
But most restaurants that do actual food service usually that kind of thing is done when there's not much individualized service right where there's somebody taking the order and nobody really serves it. They just drop the food off at the table and leave you to be. They're not backchecking on 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,
I would. I would have a problem sharing my tips with somebody that gives terrible service, wouldn't you. I mean, that's not fair, that's not right. So I liken it to that. Now you can decide for yourself what somebody is worthy of, tip wise and things like this. I wouldn't know, never been to a place like that. But that said, this is a fascinating case and it'll be interesting 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 art come back with big stories in the press box. Animal stories still come. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA boy, it's interesting. Fetterman out of Pennsylvania, US Senator is a contrarian to Biden and the rest, not the rest, a lot of the Dems on the whole Israel thing, it's like we
ought to be defending. We did help out with the shootdown of ninety nine percent of everything that Iran's sent at Israel. It's first time Iran's ever launched a direct military attack on Israel. You know, I talked with a handful of people over the weekend and it's like this, just this doesn't happen if Trump's in office at let me explain big stories in the press box brought to
you by Grove of creative marketing and digital expertise. That person that you think is just a little crazy, you just don't mess with, You, just don't. Joe Biden is so weak and 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 we have very good commanders in the rank and file, but not all of them. In leadership, I mean the higher echelons, we have very weak
leadership. They've not been committed to preparing us for what may come our way. They've prepared them for having a politically correct answer to diversity, equity and inclusion. They they're not being taught how 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, you have Iran saying not only we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and attack Israel, because Israel carried out more than likely an attack on an embassy in Damascus, Syria. And I get it, 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 targeted one area where they had intelligence that would indicate that some of the direction going to Amas was coming from that area. It was it was Iran dictating, arming, funding whatever. Israel sent a message, we know where you're working from. It was very specific, it was very targeted. Iran just decided to target Israel all over. Thankfully, the US did help shoot down ninety nine 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 got through, but you know, their drones are slow enough that you could probably pick them off with a rifle. I mean, I'm just saying, good, good, hearty rifle, take that thing down. But Iron then comes back out and says, and don't you dare America get involved in this? Joe Biden, Yes, sir, Joe Biden immediately bowed. And I think the more appropriate response is you best mind
your manners. That's all I'll say to you. Probably should stop talking about removing Israel from the face of the earth. That'd be a good start, good step, and start looking at the idea of live and let live. If not, we will side with Israel. It's just that simple come back. Animal Stories on deck here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, This is the Way on News Radio one hundred point SEVENUFLA. In the wild or in our homes, we love them critters, large and small.
Time for another edition of Animal Stories on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, dog Poo forced a United Airlines flight to divert and land
over one thousand miles away from its intended destination. Flight from Houston to Seattle had to make an unexpected landing after a pet in first class had had quite the accident and it's stunk throughout the airplane, the smell and the pooh or the reason for the diversion good news is, as a morning show research assistant pointed out, is it was not a result of Boeing's failures as a company. One person wrote, dog had messy accident in the aisle right in first
class. Although if one of those Boeing doors flew open fresh air, no kidding, right, you could air out the cabin pretty quickly, No doubt, 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 better because you can hug them. I believe legitimate service dogs are those who are are deaf or blind. That's me.
I'm old school that way. But here's my favorite animal story. Pet insurance company inviting the public to vote on some of the most animal unusual animal names for its Wacky Pet Names contest. They had three categories, dog, cat,
and exotic. Here the finalists for dogs Boots with the Fur, Chug Chug, Pickles, Little Richard Simmons, Sweat into the Oldies, Lord Waddles, Lulu the Conqueror, Molly from Corporate that's pretty funny, Mister Pizza Puff, One Love, Tiny Dancer, Princess Margaret Rose Windsor Team, the Bandit
Player, and the News. Those are the names female or sorry. Feline finalists Balsamic, Vin, Carl arm Itty, Bitty Kitty, Committee, Oh Me meowin as Samsung Family Hub, Refrigerator, my Favorite, Steph Purry and Tony Scarface Belonia. Among the finalists in 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 guinea pig named cow Pig, a tagu lizard named frosted Miniwheats, a macawd named Magic Nugget, a tortoise named mid Sized Sedan, a ferret named Mumbo Jumbo, a pig named Snoop Hoggy Hog, and another rabbit named thor Odin Bun God of Bunder. I'm sorry the winner. There's Steph Furry. That's for Steph Purry. Sorry, Steph Purry,
although Steph Furry would be pretty good too, So you go. Animal stories here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, have story you want to forward to me Preston at iHeart radio dot com. Come back, Was there really a confession a story that floated around last week at the end of the week and came to me. I'll share it with you next. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Right. This is probably the last time I talked about him, and it became relevant when I got a text from a friend who I would consider to be a definitely a friend of the radio program, a friend of mine professionally, and uh just want to just a really good person who is well connected. And the note that I received was related to OJ. And what I received late in the afternoon on Friday was I'm told OJ's last words before he died were I did it. Had all visitors
sign NDA's non disclosure agreements, but somebody leaked it. Now just I know, I know, I know. But here comes the TMZ story. The TMZ has a habit of being right about a lot of things. It breaks no deathbed confession about the the LA thing. OJ Simpson spoke to many close friends, family, this is the story from TMZ, but did not make any confessions about the murders before sit come into the cancer. We asked if anything like that happened. One source called it totally false. They added the
one source. Unless being thirsty, asking for waters a confession, or wanting to watch the golf tournament, nothing about the LA thing came up or was even thought about. Of course, the LA thing would, I guess be the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. But the source did say that everyone had to sign NDA's no one was allowed to bring phones into the master bedroom where OJ was under hospice care. Obviously, none of us know whether he did or didn't. Here's what I will say or ask.
I'm just curious why there would be nondisclosure agreements required to say goodbye to family and friends. I get the phones, I get it. Don't want any pictures floating around out there. They're sickos that look at that stuff. I get it, absolutely. But the NDA part of this, and the one source, if they're thirty people were there one source. I mean, let's 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 to know that you would base your news stories on two sources. All I'm saying is, I don't know because it doesn't 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 it now that said, there's enough in the TMZ story to confirm the note that I received that tells me there may be
something to this. TMZ shooting it down 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 that some of you are gonna email me and they're gonna you're gonna give me reasons why I welcome those emails because I haven't figured it out yet. I have not figured out why an NBA would be needed when you're saying goodbye and you're going to pass away, but just
saying, not saying, just saying come back. Salnozo will join us from Consumer's defense. What does he think happened? 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 wants to. He wants to, I'll talk about it. No, We've got a lot to talk about. What's the governor signing? What hasn't he signed? Is there any indication that he's gonna just waylay the budget. I haven't heard that he signed the budget. He's
got time. Budget doesn't go to effect 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, So stick around. We'll talk about what's going on in the Sunshine State. Next, Sal news of Consumer's Defense here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and we began the third hour of the Morning Show with Prestin Scot. Good morning, 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 two months in it's it's it's getting acclimated. Was it took a couple of good weeks? Sure, but really thrilled with a lot of the work that we're doing in other states. Really I have. I have gotten acclimated to how other states do their legislative processes. And it's given me a new found appreciation for how tight Florida has it and also for a part time legislature. Oh yeah, absolutely, that meets once a year. I was in the state of Missouri, which is not Missouri.
I found out that there is only one corner. Tell that to doctor ed Moore. There is only one corner of the state that calls it Missura, and they are made fun of by the other seventy five percent of course state. And they have roughly a five to six month legislature, and they're going through some of the bills that Florida's done in a couple of sessions ago related
to combating ESG. They're doing it differently. Some are good, some are not so good, and trying to navigate that with them has been eye opening. Our talk with Justin Haskins last week leads me to leave that there's ground being gained. However, Yes, indeed, what we're finding is that more states are going on the offense to combat Blackrock, State Street Vanguard and there it's kind of battle tactics. You see them kind of retreating, countering in
different ways, calling different things by new names. The state of Texas just divested I think it's eight and a half billion dollars from their school system retirement fund out of Blackrock. There's more than a couple bucks. Yeah, yeah. So when you go through those things and you see the impact that they can have, and knowing that you're doing a good thing by pushing it gives it encourages even other states that may be on the fields on some of these
things. One of the things we endeavor to do in our monthly visits now is to kind of help Floridians people listening to the program from the Sunshine State understand what just happened or what just didn'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 this session and House Bill one that basically became House Bill three. Correct, So let's let's talk about where where does this
now stand? Quote online protections for minors. So Governor DeSantis signed HB three, which had been HB one. He vetoed 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 state of Florida who is fourteen or fifteen 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 in order to open that account. It also requires anyone over the age of fifteen to prove that they are over the age of fifteen, and that is done by age verification methods. How does how does someone prove that the approval of a parent actually came from a parent and
that junior didn't just grab mom and dad's driver's license, et cetera. And this is where a little bit of the nuts and bolts of this are gonna kind of be challenging in both the enactment and the litigation over it, because despite the governor vetoing HB one and signing HB three, HB three is still going to be subject to a federal court challenge. They're going to and it's likely going to come from a group called net Choice, which is the trade
association for all of the major technology platforms out there. They recently were before the Supreme Court on the social media bill from three years ago. They're challenging and claiming that require you'ing an adult to verify their age and submit to a less than anonymous mechanism for social media access to protected speech is government intrusion in a way that violates the First Amendment, and so that is going to be the crux of the litigation. It's likely going to be stayed while it's being
litigated. So the bill, I'm not sure is going to get fully enacted in that until the Supreme Court kind of hears it and it goes through the process. I'm going to talk more about that, move on to some other things again, deep dive on a couple of different subjects, and then a snapshot on others Sound News and with Consumers, Defense dot Com with me, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, Hello, Hello, anybody O bhy on News Radio one hundred point seven double UFLA. Talking about
House Built three that was signed by the governor. We've talked about the challenges and where it's going to come from and why sure, what about the defense? What is the State of Florida going to argue in return? Yeah? Absolutely, and that's equally as important. The state is going to argue that they have a compelling state interest to regulate this form of technology. And the Supreme Court president from years ago does allow for the state to step in when
there is a state when there is a compelling state interest. So they're going to argue that social media as they have defined it in the law, and they were very clear about defining the features of the platform versus the platforms themselves exactly, and it may come down to something like this, which I think would be incredibly savvy for the House as they drafted this bill. So the compelling state interest is that the features inherent in these technologies are addictive to kids.
They are damaging to kids in the same way that alcohol and tobacco are. And therefore it is a requirement of the state under the age of fourteen to ban it all together, and then at fourteen and fifteen because of the way the courts have been ruling in some other states to allow it only with parental consent. Let me ask you this, and you might not have the answer to this, but maybe you know of people and what they've said regarding
the low hanging fruit. To me is in one we've discussed why not just make it mandatory that kids can't pull their phones out at schools? And the reason why I say that is at that point, you can take what's already been going on in Orange County with the school system mandated across the state, and then you have data that you can then use to present your argument that if you go to court, you can 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, I think that regardless of how the court's rule on this bill and other bills in other states, I think that it's absolutely an absolutely pitch perfect bill for the twenty twenty five legislator legislature to consider. It's something that, as in my capacity with JMI, as we were engaging and talking with lawmakers about it, that was something that I continued to fall
back on. They implemented a ban on cell phone use during instructional time, but it doesn't capture the between class time when a lot of the problems are happening. That's the majority of it is 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 them in the backpacks for an emergency. That's the only time that it can be used, or if they need to reach a parent, they have to go to the front office something like that.
What you've done is you have captured seven hours of awake time that these kids are engaging in behaviors that are destructive. Lastly, here something that was I'll call it a legislative priority of mind because I talked about it at nauseum.
Squatting Florida kind of leading the nation. Yeah, exactly. The legislature passed and it was a governor's priority to kind of combat a lot of what has been going on in the news in other states where people would show up to properties that they weren't necessarily abandoned, but they may have been kind of sitting idle for a few months as they were trying to get them renovated, or they were investment properties and finding people living there, and then the legal
procedures to try and get them out were anti property owners. So the legislature passed a bill. It's it's called Property Rights, and it is an anti squatting bill that basically asserts the right of a property owner to kick periodbody out if they come onto their property and find someone who is not supposed to be there. Regardless of the timeframe that that person has been there. Yeah, Folks, in some states they actually consider squatters as tenants and entitled do eviction
rights and all that. It doesn't work that way. I remember a movie back and I think it was the eighties called Pacific Heights. Michael Keaton was I remember it. Well, scared that out of me, yes, exactly, and it's just kind of you know, baby steps along the way. Yep. But those types of scenarios are not uncommon now and people are dying, yeah, in states like California, New York and others. Yep. More with Sal Newso next, all right, let's keep talking to Salmuso,
Executive Director of Consumers Defense with US Florida Legislative Session. That was I will maintain till my dying days that when Governor Desand has left the campaign trail, he returned to being a full time governor and it mattered. I think it mattered potentially. I just do potentially. I mean just the sheer distance, the level of focus required to mount a serious effort at well, we got back to micro not macro probably you know, everything was through the lens of
Florida, yep, and not the other 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 and twenty five bills in total, past two hundred and eleven of those are still awaiting what they call presentation. Is that average? Yeah, about it's a little lower than I've seen in the past, but not much. How many of them 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 are going to be things where they open a statute up to kind of up to language. One bill in particular, took the labor reform bill from the prior year and made some updates to it to clarify intent for the agency called perk that 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 healthcare priority of the Senate President. There were two specific bills in there that just pump a ton of money into the healthcare infrastructure and career development piece to try and recruit a lot of doctors and practitioners, not just doctors, but healthcare providers into the state and kind of grow our own. We are a heavy growth state. We have to keep pace with that growth in terms of the number of providers or we're gonna have serious
challenges, right, And so that's one big one. Like I mentioned, we had some reforms and some cleanup on the big labor reform package from the prior session. An interesting one collecting DNA samples of all inmates in Florida prisons, which apparently was a practice a while ago. It had fallen off, and so they're just kind of making it a statutory requirement. Now. Congrats to my good friendship Lamarca. Five years and he finally got the grapes freed.
Individual wine container sizes or the bands are no more in Florida. Good job. Chip. Strengthening the laws against human trafficking and aiding illegal aliens in the conduct of crimes. That's a big focus of the Attorney General as well as some other agencies that kind of came to bear on that issue. Would we paraphrase that is making it more difficult for people to help illegals be illegal, you got it? Among other things, but that's a big part of
it. A couple of big agency bills have been signed. The Department of Transportation as well as the Department of Corrections. Fentanyl. This is an interesting one. Exposing law enforcement to doses of fentanyl is now a much more serious crime. But interestingly enough, and I 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 possible overdose. So what you want to make sure is you have a balance where if someone you know ingested fentanyl, not knowing that they were doing that, and realizes it and calls nine to one one, you don't want to discourage that because someone thinks they're going to get charged with a crime. On top of any others, expanded penalties for organized
retail theft. This is a big one because in kind of the push to make sure Florida protects itself from other states that you know where you have these runs on CBS and we were going that way. It was happening in a very limited environment, so kind of a frontal assault on that kind of activity. Three different bills at updated statutes related to violent crimes against children, including
one that I didn't realize that this was in a bill. It's a grant program for local law enforcement organizations to do stings like the catch a predator thing, So some money to go that route zone of protection around law enforcement twenty five feet you have to kind of if you're warned, you have to back
up twenty five feet or you can be charged with a misdemeanor. I think this is a response to a lot of the BLM riots that have happened, and employment regulations preempting the local governments from establishing crazy rules and regulations at the local level for employers, including allowing miners to at the ages of I think fifteen or sixteen and seventeen to work longer than what the prior statutes had.
All Right, those are the bills that have been signed, and when we come back, we're going to do a deep dive again into some other things. Next month, we'll talk about some of the stuff that didn't make the cut and go into some of the wise twenty seven minutes after the Irisell Newso with me from Consumers Defense the Morning Show at Preston Scott back with Sal Muzzo,
Executive director of Consumer's Defense or going through the Florida legislature. Do you have a question if you have a bill you want us to go over in future episodes. We do this once a month where we can take time and explore things. We're happy to do it. 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 can offer a pathy opinion on it if you like, but all we need is the 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't been signed yet. Sure, so you've got a few notable ones that will probably unpack in future segments. Food delivery platforms, the school choice program, updates, the tax package, criminal history for employment licenses as well as the licensing reform package, the AI bills in
political advertisements, and then a few large agency bills. Now there's a bunch that were sent to him on the I believe April second, So he's got until the seventeenth, which is this week. So expect a flurry of signatures or vetos, get the press releases, and we'll get the press releases on those, and there may be some some 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's normal because he still would have fifteen days to sign and issue the line on the veto. So if they've agreed to
a budget the legislature and adjourned, what are they waiting on? I think they're likely waiting on the governor's budget staff, who are reviewing every single line item in that to unpack it make sure that they're comfortable on everything that he wants to issue line items for rather than because he technically it doesn't take effect until July one anyway, so they're giving the Governor's office some time to go through and get their light on a veto set. Okay, all right,
the HEMP built, the HEMP build. This is an important one ahead of the fact that we're gonna have the on the ballot in November recreational marijuana in the state of Florida, and I would argue there is a better than average chance that it is going to pass. The last pulling I saw on it had it at around sixty eight percent in favor. Dreadfully bad move, but can't stop stupid. I'm gonna you know this is where and when we talk off air about you know, I do have some libertarian tendencies in me.
The libertarian in me suggests that to my conscience that if we live in a society that's going to allow but regulate alcohol in tobacco, that this is akin to those I recognize and appreciate every single argument that others make in opposition, but I'm that's just it's just yeah. So the Hemp Bill sets some limitations on the levels of THCHC that are going that are allowed in both medical marijuana
as well as in any form of non medical marijuana. So it's kind of getting ahead of it to establish a regulatory guide for when that kind of constitutional amendment might pass. Is that practically applicable though? In other words, who gets charged with figuring out that some Mary Jane it's someone's growing is hitting the right numbers. Well, there's going to be an entire regulatory framework for all
of this, in the same way that it's done for medicinal marijuana. So the milligrams of THC per ouncer and all of the things that they do, so people still can't grow it at home. That's correct. As I understand the way this is, the true leaves of the world are going to be thrilled. Oh, they are they rolling in money? Truelys spent I think forty million dollars just getting the thing on the ballots. You got to imagine how much the windfall is going to be for them if it goes active.
We're going to talk more about that when 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 seven double UFLA. Time flies when you're cliff diving. That's what we're doing here, deep diving with Salmuzo on legislative things here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Anything more to talk about with regard to him. Wait, we're already in segment five. Yes, wow,
this is crazy. Yes. So there is a big effort on the part of a number of business interests to try and persuade the governor to veto this bill. Ah, you know, the restrictions on it kind of are a challenge to I mean, is this I mean, is this a simple thing of you know, this is not your grandpa's marijuana. I mean,
it's a different level that we're dealing with. Yes, but there are also some provisions in the bill that I think would impact a number of established businesses that are selling certain things that are currently legal, and now those things are going to be outlawed. So you have some concerned business enterprises that are urging, and I think I've even seen some billboards in Tallahassee related to that,
Okay, vaping vaping related topic. So the legislature passed a bill that would require if you have a vaping cartridge that accepts the oil or whatever goes in it, that whatever goes in that cartridge has to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Apparently, and I'm not a vapor so I have some limited perspective on this, but apparently there has been a market for non FDA
approved material or liquids that go into those 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're not regulated at all, and likely a huge chunk of these products are coming from China exactly, which is a problem not germane to this product, but for 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 United States, so then they're putting this stuff into their cartridges and vaping it. Here's one of the concerns that's been brought
to bear by a number of business interests as this bill has gone through the process is that currently the products that are 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, all owned by big tobacco companies. So as you could imagine the lobbying and sausage making on this, the big tobacco companies were very much in favor of this bill going through because it presents a potential
windfall for them, absolutely. But then on the other side, you have businesses that are established solely to sell vaping products that would lose eighty ninety percent of their inventory or product availability and would have to shift just over to the limited number of products. And I can understand both perspectives on this. I think the challenge for me comes, especially in my role with consumers defense, is the China angle. That is a big deal that, like I said,
it's not just germane to the product in subject to this regulation. It's something that we're seeing that we've got to be combating on a number of different fronts. More to talk about in the coming weeks and months. Yeah, we're going to have more bills being signed this week, so next month we'll have a whole new list of stuff to unpack. Likely also have the budget kind of signed in the line one of veto so we can kind of go
through that as well. Compare the budget 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 kind of how the overlap goes on those. As always, thank you, always a pleasure, my friend. Yep, Salnuzo with Consumers Defense our guest forty six past the hour, fifty one minutes after Boy that moves fast. There's so much to talk about with our state legislature. Good, bad, and indifferent. 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's going on. Tomorrow, Bob McClure, Doctor Bob McLure, the president of the James Madison Institute, will come in. He's going to be a monthly guest and we'll talk kind of broad, big picture. You know, there was there were a lot of write ups in Florida that listed JMI as the winner of the legislative session getting the
priorities through. Well. It's it's interesting because I think I think you and I would probably agree that most of the time a JMI priority is kind of ours. They kind of represent a limited government founder's view of the Constitution and how it ought to work and operate in our day to day lives and how government ought to do that as well. And so I'll be I'll be anxious to get his take on the legislative session 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 would seem that I go there more often than not. If my wife is is just Jones and for a coke Icy loves her some coke ICs if the machine's working 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 averaging one a month. It's been working because
it's almost like the is the icy machine working? Yeah, you know, you almost have to ask the question before you make the order. I'd rather take my chance at like a circle k or a gas station. Absolutely, but I have found now those are the ones most likely to be not working. Really. Yeah, anyway, McDonald's in this is really pretty crazy, first time ever in the Netherlands. And what do you call them? The freaky diky Dutch that's one way of looking at it. Yes, billboards that
are within two hundred meters of a McDonald's. Okay, when anyone approaches the billboard? Now are they pedestrian oriented billboards? Are they promotors? I can't answer that question. I'm not a freaky diky Dutch dude. They are going to emit the smell of McDonald's French fries. Oh my gosh, the world's first billboard which smells like McDonald's fries is coming to the Netherlands. Oh no, think about it though. If it works, people are just gonna be
you know, I mean, it's going to work. I'm just surprised, like in an EU country, right, like you would think like odorous emissions would run a foul of some sort of climate standard. Right, you'd think it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. We are, we are, We are venturing into bold new territory. Brought to you by No Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA Big stories in the press Box today, brought to you if I Grove a creative marketing and digital expertise, including
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