Ep. 5260: Walz on, "The View". and much more.

And some of you people are about to legalize marijuana in Florida for recreational use, and without that, one in four fatalities involves someone driving who has weed in their system, and you're about to codify that and make it worse. Well done. Ah, all right, nothing like a good side portion of guilt to start your morning. Anyway, Great to be with you this morning. Let's start with some scripture here Romans twelve twelve. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation,

be constant in prayer. There's three parts. Obviously, Rejoice and hope no matter what is going on, no matter how and when I say base. I'm not talking about the way that people use that word today. I mean, today he's so based, it's like supposedly a good thing. Historically, not really being base is a very bad thing. We're not talking bass as in base Mama's pop pop sings,

bass Mama sings. No, we're not. No, we're talking about we live in a culture right now where if you do not cling to and find joy, rejoice is rooted in the word joy. If you don't find joy somewhere, you're in trouble. I don't know that people can live without hope. If you find me people that are downcast all the time, negative all the time, angry all the time, those are people that are not rejoicing in hope. Hope is what allows us to rise above our circumstances, and

that hope is in that was our verse yesterday. Be patient and tribulation, Oh, that's hard because we want it to end. Nobody wants to go through tribulation of any kind. Yes, we can back up and say, well, but that's where lessons come true. Absolutely. I don't know of many things that are learned on mountaintops. They're learned in valleys. And it's interesting because and you perhaps have heard me refer to this before. Scripture tells us that God has revealed

himself in all of creation. God's nature is found in God's nature. And what do we know? Where is growth? Where do farmers farm in valleys? Where's fertile soil in valleys? You don't fire my mountaintops very often or very well, So the cultivation of good soil for growth comes in valleys. Be patient in tribulation those valleys provide fertile soil for growth. And be constant in prayer. I think that the first two r are contingent on the third. Being constant in

prayer allows you to rejoice in hope. Being constant in prayer allows you to be patient in tribulation. So if you want the key to those two first factors, it's found in the third prayer. Ten past the hour, Time for the American Patriots Almanac and a quick look at what's going on in history. Remind you of an event coming up this week you might want to take advantage of, and much much more. It's Wednesday, and we have a busy Wednesday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Twenty third. Can you believe we are almost to November. Oh my gosh, yeah, it's the twenty third and let's see here. Eighteen twenty four, seventy six year old John Stevens of Hoboken, New Jersey completes the first US steam locomotive to pull a train on a track. Eighteen twenty four. A dude in his late seventies. Uh huh, Yeah, I'll be doing this show for a while. I'll be pulling my own train for a while. You know, say, I'm saying,

uh huh, Now, that's pretty incredible. Eighteen sixty four Union forces prevail in the Battle of Westport near Kansas City, one of the largest Civil War engagements west of the Mississippi. I didn't know anything about that near Kansas City. Crazy things you learned on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Nineteen forty four. The three Day Battle of Lete Gulf, the largest naval battle of World War Two, begins in the Philippines, ends in an Allied victory. Nineteen eighty three

suicide truck bombing Marine Corbarracks, Beirut, Lebanon. The terrorist group has Blah kills two hundred and forty one Americans. We need to keep a very long memory. See, when you allow this type of thing to go unpunished, it just continues. Israel's over it, Go get them. Nineteen ninety three Statue of Freedom returns to the top of the US Capitol Dome. Nineteen and a half foot bronze statue, made by Thomas Crawford, depicts a woman in flowing drapes, clasping a sheathed sword

in her right hand. With her left hand, she holds a thirteen striped shield of the United States along with the laurel wreath of victory. Come on and get some of that, all right, Let me get to the reminder. This Friday and Saturday the Greek Food Festival at the Holy Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church, Phillips Road here in Tallahassee. I have been once over the years, now, Jose said. When I first mentioned this last week, he said, Oh, I'm going. I'm going. You will definitely find yourself some

authentic heros there. And if you want to make everybody laugh at you, just call him a gyro. Just go ahead, I'll I'll have a gyro. He's in there laughing. You never know because he's just laughing. But yeah, get yourself an authentic hero and then chase it down with some baklava. Now, look, you take one look at me. You know I like desserts. The excess twenty five pounds, I might be carrying twenty pounds,

that's all dessert. I got rid of thirty a couple of years ago, maybe longer, but I've still got more to go. But yeah, boy, put some baklavi near me. Here's the problem. They cut that little triangular piece of baklava. And my first inclination is to say, no, no, no, you can keep more for yourself. I want the rest. I want the entire rest of it. It is layers of flakiness and brown sugar and honey and nuts, and it's

just incredible. If you have never had a b aklava and you have any kind of sweet tooth, yeah, go it is. It's this Friday and Saturday. And if you want to learn more tallahassee Greek Foodfest dot blog dot blog. That caught me off guard. I'm like, no, that's not no dot blog. Greek Foodfest dot blog. You can learn more there. And again it's it's open free. You pay for your food of course and whatever. But but yeah, now you'll have a great time. Seventeen past the Hour.

A bit of an epilogue coming up next. Oh yeah, green Bay Packers coming to Jacksonville this weekend. There will be a PEP rally on Saturday night. Friends. Green Bay is the closest the pro the pro team the pro game has to a college franchise. It's just green Bay,

even though the town is hopelessly liberal. And it sickens me that the government has gone that way because they suck and it and it's evident in the fact that, if you can believe this, the mayor of Green Bay is not returning the calls or the correspondence of the team on a new lease agreement. What excuse? What put some context in this? Green Bay does not take any tax dollars from the City of green Bay or its citizens. None. And Green Bay doesn't have a singular owner. That's a jour.

The team is the only team in professional sports owned by the fans, my sons, my daughter, my grandson. They have stock in the team. They're shareholders. They can vote on team matters once a year when they hold their annual shareholders meeting. No, it's beautiful because instead of fleecing the citizens, if they need to make improvements on the stadium. They just they sell stock in the team. Then the

shareholders hire a president that runs the team. Mark Murphy, who is a friend, is just done an incredible job. He's stepping down next year. It's a mandatory retirement at the age of seventy, that's what the bylaws require. They've already selected their new president and things will go on. But the city, the mayor being a jerk, But what do you expect. The City of green Bay is responsible for so much economic development and good things in and

around green Bay. Hospital programs, medical programs, education programs, athletic programs. I mean, the development of Title Time. I could go on and on and on. It's why I'm a fan of green Bay. I'm not a fan of the NFL. I'm a fan of the green Bay Packers means a lot. My dad's connection to green Bay is well documented and so it's a thing. So anyway, Packers coming to Jacksonville. They're doing a PEP rally the night before. And if you live in Jacksonville, oh my way, do you see

what happens at the PEP rally? It will be massive and the number of fans at that stadium that are representing Green Bay, that will be wearing the green and gold huge and two of my sons will be among them too. My boys are going to the game. Got them hooked up. Thank you, I heart and yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun for them to go. But this is the other side of sports. Remember we told you the story of the Ravens fan that after they beat the Commanders. This guy is on video assaulting

random Commanders fans, screaming, I don't bleeping lose. You didn't lose, you won the game. But he's apparently being egged on by his buddies to just beat people. He hit one person one punch side of the head, knocked him down, hit his head on the car that he was standing nearby. Two of the assaults are on video. One of them is not. He's turned himself in. He has been arrested. His name's Mark Callous, sorry John Callous, John Callous, twenty

four And he's the typical bro. He's the typical not quite grown out of his college bro days, who's a big dude who thinks he can beat people up. He's facing twenty five years in prison. My man is going to learn a lesson in toughness. If he ends up spending one week in prison, now, seriously, what's going to happen is word's going to get out that mister brow who thinks he doesn't lose, is in and somewhere there's some Washington Redskins commanders fans in prison, and they'll be

they will know he's the guy. He's the guy. He's the guy that just picked on people that in a fair fight might be a little bit different, but he blindsided people. I'm not wishing anything bad to happen to him. I'm just saying there's a law. It's it's part of

God's nature. It's called sewing and reaping. And he is going to find himself even if he spends a week looking over his shoulder every minute of the day, because there's always somebody tougher, there's always somebody bigger, there's always somebody more more bad than you, and that somebody happens to find mister callous and reminds him that you just don't go picking on people. That's the law of sowing

and reaping. And if that happens, so be it. Twenty eight past the hour This Morning Show at Preston Scott. All right, let's get some big stories done here and in no particular order. Irs new income brackets for twenty twenty five, meaning it's for the next year, which means they don't take effect on your return until twenty twenty six.

It's the twenty twenty five return. Highest rate is sitting at thirty seven percent ten percent for singles with incomes of eleven nine hundred or less, married couples twenty three to eight or less, but you get all of that back, so that's not a real rate. Twelve percent incomes over eleven nine and I'll just stay with singles twenty two percent, income over forty eighty, twenty four percent, income over one oh three, thirty two percent income over one ninety eight,

thirty five percent income of over two fifty. It is unconscionable. Any rate above twelve percent, in my opinion, is unconscionable. Any rate above ten percent. There's no way that the state should be taking more than God asks. But I digress. They are increasing the standard deduction. The new deductions will be fifteen thousand dollars for single filers, which means that ten percent twelve percent likely even twenty two percent is

going to be wiped out by the single deduction. Yeah, so I'm just telling you what they are, all right, That's that's there. You go. We have a growing theme here in big stories, and these are stories that outline the efforts to steal the election. You got to make it too big to rig. That's the line, too big to rig. The margin for Trump has to be too

big to rig. We have now courts in Michigan and North Carolina that have ruled that citizens who live overseas listen to this and have never resided in Michigan and North Carolina can cast ballots in those states by mail. Now, there's certain requirements, but under what condition should someone who has never lived in a state be allowed to cast a ballot in that state? There should be no conditions

you don't live there. It is confounding. Judges are saying even if they even if I wouldn't, I wouldn't rule in favor of these plaintiffs because it's too close to the election. No, it's not. You just throw them out and then this is just jose. Remember what we talked about yesterday. We spent that half hour talking about the purge of the cabal. Oh yeah, and the entertainment industry and how P Diddy's arrest was going to start sending shockwaves. I don't know if this is part of it. I

don't know one way or the other. But Mike Jeffries a name you probably don't know. His partner's Matt Smith. There's a third man, Jim Jacobson. He's the former CEO of aber Crombie and Fitch arrested in connection with sex trafficking. Is this the first set of things that we're going

to here? This is an FBI arrest. If you missed yesterday's show, second hour, first half hour of the second Hour was at the very least fascinating, at the least fascinating, thought provoking, conscience nudging, just saying, forty one minutes after the hour Morning show at Preston Scott interesting development in the case of a leaker inside the Department of Defense or is it a leaker? This is getting strange. First, don't let my use of the word strange offset the

importance and seriousness of this. This is treasonous. Somebody inside the Department of Defense has leaked information about Israel's planned retaliation on Iran. Katie Pavlich reporting that the Iranians have infiltrated the Biden administration for years, that there are high ranking members of the Department of Defense that are Iranian descent, and I mean the list you just see. This is the danger of diversity. We can't say no because they're he yeah, you can now. I'm sorry. You might be

the most awesome person in the world. There are a lot of other places you can work, but you're not working near sensitive intelligence. Sorry, that's just stupid to let anybody with a connection to China. Oh wait a minute, we've got someone running for vice president anyway. This from the Washington Post, the FBI is investigating the alleged leak of classified documents. Then we get to John Kirby, who

is the national security spokesman for the White House. He is a yeah, we're not exactly sure how these documents found their way into the public domain. Is there anybody else a little unsettled by that? I can understand not being sure who did it at this point, I can

understand that, although I find it a little challenging. In this story from Newsmax, it says the documents appear to have been prepared by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency describing US interpretations of Israeli Air Force and Navy planning based on satellite imagery. H but how is it possible that the intelligence divisions inside the United States Department of Defense. We're not exactly sure how these documents found their way

into the public domain. W Now again, I this is I'm not even I couldn't even classify myself as knowledgeable on computer stuff, programming, et cetera. But it occurs to me that it could. It shouldn't be that hard to know something by backtracking the posting of these documents. Okay, post it under the handle of what, post it on the website of what? How did it get posted? And I would think they could hack into that trail and figure it out. I mean, isn't that how we learn

about guys who are into pedophilia? Anyway? I don't know. I just I got notes written all over this thing with question marks and exclamation points and question marks. It's like, huh, huh, what it's crazy? Forty seven passed a jaw swinging moment. Next, Hang on, I'm gonna sound mean here, and I don't mean to sound mean. I'm just gonna WNBA players opting out of the collective bargaining agreement and the potential of a work stoppage if they don't have a deal done

by the end of next season. I'm just reading they are seeking, quoting a business model that reflects their true value, encompassing higher salaries, enhanced professional working condition, expanded health benefits, crucial investments for lung teed. Opting out isn't just about bigger paychecks. It's about claiming our rightful share of the business we've built, improving working conditions, securing a future where the success we create benefits today's players and the generations

to come. We're not just asking for a CBA that reflects our value. We're demanding it because we've earned it. Whoa little missus, Okay, couple things. First of all, Number one, Caitlin Clark, you don't matter in the grand scheme of sports entertainment without a couple of reality checks here. Number one, you have been kept afloat for years by the NBA and its guilt conscience. It's it the guilt that the NBA carries with it has forced it to fund the WNBA,

and it has lost money for ever. The reason why things have shifted slightly. Is Caitlyn Clark the biggest attended games all year long? Had Caitlyn Clark in them, the WNBA finals might have benefited from a little momentum from Kitlyn Clark and drawn good crowds. And I'm happy for him, But talk about getting big breeches here a little quick. Caitlyn Clark changed everything for the league. And oh, by the way, it had nothing to do with her being white.

She bawled differently than every other player that's preceded her. Differently. She's a different player, and fans dig it. That's why I loved Angel Reese. She's the loud mouthed little snot brat from LSU. The league doesn't even pay my rent. You're spending eight thousand dollars a month on rent, little girl, that's your choice. Your salaries seventy three thousand dollars a year. But oh, by the way, you have deals with Reebok,

Beats by dre Airbnb, Tampas and others. Can I tell you why you have those, Angel Caitlin Clark, had you not talked smack to Caitlin in college and created this rivalry you've been You're a decent rebounder. That's what you are. You're and good for you. You're like the Dennis Rodman of the WNBA, only you're much prettier. Dennis Rodman's an ugly man. But the reason why you're relevant and anyone cares is because of Caitlin Clark. And there's just this idea.

We want our value, your girls, your value. You're overpaid for the value that you have brought for the years. The fact that some of you are cashing in with endorsements awesome. Fact that some of you want to go play in Russia and make more money, good for you. Why do you matter because of what the WNBA is getting from the NBA propped up? Here's here's the bottom line. Work stoppage. I dare you because if you went away, sadly,

nobody but yourselves would care. All right. Second hour of the Wednesday edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose, I'm Preston. Reminder here from Pat, if you go to the festival cash home, only bring cash. They do have an ATM on site, but they it's cash. I did not know that. That's a good reminder. Thank you, Pat, appreciate that you can always send me notes preston atiheartradio dot Com, links to stories and so forth, a thought,

an opinion, whatever I have. It's occasionally that I get a rebuke. I don't get them very often, but when I do, it's fine, it's okay. I can take it. If you get personal, eh, you might find yourself in the never to be read again ben, because I just don't have time for it and I just don't think it's necessary. But that said, feel free to share your opinions. For example, I was rebuked once for saying that I believe the twenty twenty election was compromised. Why are you

undermining confidence me? Need? I remind you of the call desk, the decision desk at Fox News in twenty twenty calling the pivotal Arizona race before the polls, even before the voting even stopped. How the heck do you do that based on exit polling? Whatever? The reason I bring that up is the same guy who's behind it. A Fox News poster named Ammin Michigan said now that the over under for determining the winner of the race is the

Saturday after the election. Explain to me why suddenly, in this era of new technology, where you can put your debit card or credit card in a gas pump in Europe and within seconds know whether you have money in your account or you have credited to spend. Why in the world would we be waiting five days to find out who won an election? That in and of itself is a damnable statement speaking to the lack of integrity in our electoral process, that we really won't know. This

is the problem. This is why you have to get to that too big to rig thing, because what happened in twenty twenty I believe is that they stopped the count in several key states. They did it in a coordinated effort to know how many votes they needed to win. And for everyone who says, oh no, none of that's proven because we never got a fair shot at proving it in court. What about the affidavits of the ballots

being brought from New York to Pennsylvania. What about the Supreme Court Justice sam Alito that said to Pennsylvania, don't destroy those ballots, but they did. What about the suspension of the laws in states? You can't do that, you're not allowed to, and they did it. So here we go again. Pennsylvania State Secretary of State Al Schmidt told reporters last week that would likely to take days to complete the counting process in Pennsylvania. Why they need to know,

here's what's going to happen. These states with questionable people running them need to know if their state matters. If their state matters, they'll take the time. If it doesn't, you watch how quickly the counting gets done, and then they'll be saying, look at us, see we told you we cleaned up things. No, it will only be based on whether it matters. In Wisconsin right now, Swing state, there are thirty one thousand mail in ballots that have

been requested at ineligible addresses. The question people are asking this from the Gateway pundit is, who the bleep is requesting the ballots in locations that are undeliverable. Who's requesting ballots for people who have moved? Who's your questing duplicate ballots sent to an address? Who is requesting a ballot

sent to an undeliverable address? Legitimate ballots in the mail thirty one thousand of them likely going to be collected and harvested and filled in by other people other than the person that's supposed to that allegedly's requesting them thirty one thousand. Why does no one seemingly care about this?

In Wisconsin? Eleven minutes after the hour when we get back election related kind of sort of got a note from a listener back a few days ago, and I was like, no, no, really, if you're wondering why there aren't a whole lot of vote no on three signs threes the marijuana bill, and you ought to be voting no. Can't let it get to sixty plus plus one vote We can't. And I don't know if it's sixty plus one or if it's just flat sixty percent. I don't know.

Thank god, the Florida Chamber of Commerce changed it from fifty. It used to be just over. If you got past fifty percent, you passed it. Could you imagine? And it's something we'll talk about next hour. Is salnwsoh Sally and I might disagree. I don't know where he'll end up on this. I don't disagree with the overarching argument that this stuff doesn't belong in the Constitution, but the fact is it's going to be there or it's not, and so that issue goes out the door. It doesn't belong,

but you gotta fight it it just anyway. I got told that you can't just ask for request signs vote no on three. You gotta pay for him. Ose. What do you think a sign? Just a yard sign? It's that that corrugated kind of you know, you slide the little metal thing through it and you stick it in your yard. Real cheap basic. What do you think that's running on the vote no on three? Shop? All right, I'm gonna say around thirteen fifty four dollars for one

sign for one twelve bucks. Well, you know you gotta you know printing and you know the sizing and everything. But why should why why should it be anything other than I'm assuming the vote no on three people bottom and balk. They're not paying twelve dollars in bulk per paying about a buck buck fifty maybe h they're selling them for twenty brother, Oh wow, twenty dollars.

seven dollars. It's corporate greed, not freedom. Voting no on three sign twenty dollars. That's just that's bad for him. The commercials have been terrific, but if you want to really win, you you have to. You can't. You can't sell it your hard sign for twenty bucks. So whoever's behind that campaign man? Great job on the TV commercials, terrible job on grassroots marketing, terrible. Sixteen past the hour, It's been a minute. Florida Man's story coming up next FLA.

shows with my wife. I think she's great. But at the same time, if you're gonna be an artist and you're gonna put that endorsement out there, you have to be ready to take what goes with it. And so he hired a plane to tow a banner overtop the Taylor Swift concert in Miami and it said Trump twenty twenty four, Ready for it, cat lady, question mark maga exclamation point. First of all, yes, Taylor Swift of course

posing with her cat making her an endorsement announcement. And again even that sort of connects to our story yesterday about the Great Cabal and people with you know, I mean, she can write a good song with a good hook, and that's but I mean, she's not like a great singer. She just isn't. She's not She's not Celine Beyond, She's not Whitney Houston. Anyway, I don't want to get off

on that. I My point here is here's a guy who I don't know if he if he like puts some money together with some buddies, or if he funded this all by himself. I don't know. But that's what you do. See now, we oftentimes do Florida man stories where we're just left going, oh, Florida Man, oh man, and you just you're wishing he wasn't and that he didn't. This is a Florida Man story to be proud of. Yeah, yes, that's a Florida Man there. See, it's the two sides

of the same coin on this one. Florida Man good Kyle, Florida Man evil. Well, most of the Florida Man stories we do venture into that world. But I just I thought it was it was great fun, all right. When we come back, Florida Correction Secretary Ricky Dixon will join us. He asked if he could come on and talk about Amendment three. Wants to offer some clarity from the perspective of the guy who oversees Florida's prison system, and so we'll talk to Secretary Dixon. Next, we've got a check

of weather, traffic, and of course the latest news. It is The Morning Show with Preston Scott, thirty four or thirty five minutes past the hour. It's Wednesday on the program. Halfway through the show, that's Jose Can you see in Studio one am here in Studio one B. Preston Scott, good to be with you. And please to have with us the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. It's the third largest such department in the nation. Secretary Ricky Dixon with us. Good morning, sir, how are you.

and I'll be as clear as I can be. There's a myth out there that our prison is full of inmates for simply smoking marijuana. So if you want to talk about inmates in our prison system for smoking marijuana,

there's nothing to talk about. If you want to talk about inmates in our system because of smoking marijuana, and because of the impacts that's starting with marijuana, of committing crimes under the influence, committing crimes to continue their drug habits, or the drug use that was predicated upon the use of marijuana and led to higher level drugs, there's a

great to talk about. So, as you know, Preston, we've got a very comprehensive of that and research arm here in the department, and we had them do some homework

and just to see what the facts are. And what we found was there actually only thirty seven individuals today we've got eighty seven thy five hundred and fifty two individuals in our custody, and we found that there are only thirty seven that are in our custody right now for the primary or secondary or tertiary offenses of marijuana possession.

Now that's over twenty grams. And what's interesting about that is those thirty seven are not in our system strictly for that charge, but their sentences were enhanced by either an extensive criminal record or severe accompanying crimes like grand theft, battery, child of book use, possession of other elicted substances, and so on and so on, so on. So preston, that's the facts as it relates to those in our prison system for marijuana use.

as a result of the death penalty. And there's a common theme that I hear, and it is the regret of the association with their drug use, often most often starting with marijuana that led to their subsequent life in prison or prison sentence. It's just such a common theme among those that I've talked to again for almost three decades.

or identified with mental health needs. So the association of drug use and the mental health needs that we have to meet in our system is difficult, and it's it is so frustrating because it almost reverses all the hard work we've been doing. You know, right now, many people may not know this, but we've got a twenty one percent recidivism rate. That's one of the best recidivism rates in the country. And that means that folks that get out of our prison only twenty one percent come back

to prison within three years. That's something to be very very proud of. We work very hard to under the governor to sciences leadership to get down to that level. And that's the cause of the treatment and programs and all of the things we do to better the success of those getting out of our system and to reduce victimization once they're out and back on the street. And it just feels like a reversal of all that hard work.

And I know it, and the people that work in this profession knows it as well.

Even though there may be some initial arrests or citations for marijuana use, it usually results in an appearance before judge and a pretty immediate release unless they're accompanying crimes, So right the same within the jails, it doesn't normally end up in and of itself. Possession of marijuana or smoking marijuana doesn't usually result in extensive jail sentences.

with that. So any you know, any touting of those that are four Amendment three and any of those that we talk about the tax revenue it generates, I would argue it will be off set two to four times by the social cost the prison costs, not to mention the human you know, impacts. I think a lot of people that vote for this may have not all but may have some self serving desire want to access it.

But when you think about as I just heard Chef Grady Judge speaking the other day, so so well, it doesn't matter until it matters, and I think some people will second guess their initial opinions, initial opinions when they recognize the loss of life that occurs on our highways and just some of the impacts that passing this would have on our state.

programs since nineteen eighty three or four. Every single one of them had weed in the starting point. Everyone. And you're going to try to and you're going to legalize this, and that's going to make it more readily accessible to young people. There's nothing positive about this. Nothing. And I'm not even getting to the monopoly that one company is going to have, which is the company that wrote the thing. They've set it up for themselves to profit and benefit.

You can't grow weed in your backyard, you can't go down to the corner and buy it. But it's going to create a market, just as there is one now, there will be a black market because people aren't going to want to go to that store. They're not gonna want regulated weed, They're gonna want the non regulated weed,

because that's the nature of addiction. How do you know you've never done any of that, because I've talked to people and met with people, interviewed people, and sat across the table from people that have for better than forty years of my life. Forty seven minutes after the hour, we're doing the best we can to help you make a smart choice. Fifty two minutes past the hour, Jose's got his shades on. Do me a favor with your mic turned on. I want you to google Almost Famous.

Oh yeah, I've actually I googled it the first time you mentioned it, and yep, I'm just missing the hair. Just the screenshot of Kate Hudson on the promotion poster for that movie. You are wearing her shades, Buddy, you are wearing her shades. They're not perfectly circular pretty much. Anyway. That's what I'm looking at, folks. I'm looking at Jose's version of Kate Hudson and Almost Famous, which is an interesting movie. Tim Walls was on the view and Alissa

Farah Griffin, they can't help themselves. Listen to how she introduced the question. I want to ask this about a number of misstatements you've made about your previous military record and travels you've been on and instead of going into the questions about Tim Walls being a liar, she says this, I want to be unequivocal. Nobody lies as much as Donald Trump. Nothing that you've misled is on anything on

the same level. She couldn't help herself. I almost think they're at the like these people, these Trump arrangement syndrome women from the view, like they go to a restaurant. Yes, I think I'll have the U S Cargo. Of course, nothing is as slimy as Donald Trump. There. They're like they're at the home improvement store. I need a number eight screw. Of course, there's no screw on any shelf here that'll screw you as much as Donald Trump will

screw this country up. They just can't help themselves. Go to the doctor. Yeah, I've had this pain in mind, you know what, There's no pain in my like Donald Trump would be if he gets re elected. They're just they can't do it. They can't say anything without e merging. So Wall says this in response, I think you have to be careful about this if it's stating, you know. In Hong Kong and August of eighty nine and thirty five, years ago. I think people do separate that between a

pathological liar like Donald Trump. They get it out there. But I do think it's important that we were careful about how we speak, and something for me is I think being a teacher, being a coach, I just speak from my heart. I speak honestly, I speak in the moment. Dude, you're a liar? How about that. My favorite though response to this is a headline from the Babylon b You know, there's five women on the View. When Tim Walls showed up.

They put a picture of Tim Walls with the five of them and said the View adds sixth woman to the cast. That was so good, so good. All right, sal Muzzo is on deck. Lots to talk about, including the amendments, So stick around, and we're off. Third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott with Jose almost famous Conseko No can you see over there? It's just it's unbelievable. The striking resemblance between Jose can you see and Kate Hudson is just mind boggling.

are you feeling right now? Big picture sixty thousand feet big picture?

on her individually. But I think that is leading into Trump beginning to get a little bit of window room or a cushion in states like Wisconsin and Michigan, and in Pennsylvania. There was a concern about North Carolina because of the candidate for governor there maybe being a drag. But I don't believe that's going to be the case. And I saw one thing that said Arizona's leaning red, not even a toss up anymore.

and so that's what we're seeing. But I would not, and I may generate some hate mail on this one. I just don't see him articulate himself more presidential than he did in twenty sixteen.

so the governor's cabinet not cabinet agencies. But agency heads have been articulating this, and I believe it was maybe Department of Health or one of them actually sent some cease and desist letters to the TV kind of stations that are running these ads, saying you're you're running the risk of some charges here if you continue to do this. So that's something I haven't seen, and I'm happy to articulate what I think about it.

from the left. It's not about only these two amendments. It's about finally pushing back against a very coordinated media establishment aligned with the left that is completely okay with lying to promote their agenda, regardless of how radical it is. So that's my take right now.

deal with cut to it. Yeah, because once it's in there, you've got to pass another amendment at sixty percent to alter it or remove it.

Attorney General, maybe Department of Homely and Security. I mean, Florida's a border state. We've done a lot in immigration policy over the last He's a JAG officer, He's a JAG officer. So I was even thinking like, maybe veterans affairs. Is that possible? Oh No, I don't see that one being attractive enough. Nor do I see the other one that logically, for me, I would love to see him,

and that is Department of Commerce. I think with his record of regulatory reform in the state and what he's done to continue Florida's progress and prosperity in the face of all of this in migration is remarkable. And he's done it without having to address or implement any new taxes. We've cut taxes every year or so. For me, I'd love to see him in Commerce, But again, I don't think it's one that would be attractive enough to get

him out. Tantalizing though, Yeah, but watch out for Attorney General shortlist as well as Department of Homeland Security should Trump take the election.

with Sal Newzo Salmuzo with Consumers Defense. My guest, always keeping an eye on what's going on here in the Sunshine state that he calls home Florida Tax Watch every year does a pretty good job of going through the Florida budget identifying what they call as turkeys, which you know, from a grand scale of things, is just talking about things that they think might not need to be there. Your impressions of their release, Yeah, so in October so real.

about projecting around two billion dollars in surplus funds. But and this is a big one that I did not see coming before I read it. They're suggesting there could be some budget headwinds by twenty twenty eight. I've read that elsewhere. Why And that's the intriguing part. It's almost like Florida is potentially having some challenges being a victim of its own success. So the areas that they highlighted, and they all make sense to me as I unpacked them,

are education and medicaid. And the reason that these make sense is as you expand population, as more people seven hundred and fifty eight hundred one thousand a day or are moving to the state, you have an increased stress on those two areas, in particular because you base your budget number for what they call the FEFP, the Florida Education Financing Program or plan, on the number of students. So more students means you've got to allocate more money. Secondly,

is Medicaid. Now most people associate medicaid as a federal program, but it's actually a fifty to fifty match. The state ponies up fifty cents on the dollar the Fed, and there's some nuances to that, but generally speaking, the state is on the hook.

for more. Then you also have this idea that's still floating out there about Medicaid expansion, which is possible under Obamacare, but would need to go through a citizen's initiative because the legislature is isn't going there.

and medicate for the safety net. But they're recommending at minimum that the legislature really take a hard look at the member projects. So last budget cycle they pointed to a number of two point eight billion out of the one hundred and ten twelve, whatever it was budget that were just member projects. You want some money for a

particular park or some importment might be yeah. So I would venture a guess that if the revenue estimating group, which is called the Revenue Estimating Conference, begins to align with tax watches, predictions, or projections, you might see this legislature come back in and say, all right, we might need to tighten a little bit in this area because they're certainly not going to raise taxes anywhere.

for Harris, Florida's just solid red. Now, the statistic I think needs to be paid attention to is will Florida. Will Florida give Trump more of a win than DeSantis got two years prior. Now, remember that was a nineteen and a half almost twenty point victory, a million and a half votes. I think Trump the polling suggests he's going to underperform compared to DeSantis. I think he's going to overperform compared to the polls. So we'll have to

say how that which then lands it right in the middle. Yeah, lands it right in the middle. Now, the Dems are likely going to claim anything short of DeSantis's margin is progress from them. It's a victory. They're on the road to being relevant again. But I wouldn't lend that much credibility before we talk about the state legislature and that makeup.

Let's talk about the federal offices, the House and Senate. Sure, in Congress, I think we've got what's a twenty eight or twenty nine congressional seats up, all of them in the state. The largely they're going to go the way they have always gone. One in particular, I'm paying attention to is Anna Paulina Luna. I can't remember the district number, but it's down in the Tampa area. She is a very Trump like candidate. She's what you would call like

a maga you know, Republican. And according to the polls, she's in a pretty challenging race with her competitor another young feet I cannot remember her name, but the polling has it some of them are even within the margin of error. Okay, And if that one goes for the challenger, If if Luna loses her seat, I think the Republicans are going to have a very tough time maintaining control of.

to see if it shifts. There's a bunch here that I suspect we can visit next month after the election to see who goes where may be yes, Ord definitely, all right. We've got more to come, including the amendments.

are nonpartisan. It would make school board races partisans. So if you vote yes for this, you want the school board races in your county to have an R, A, D, and I whatever on them.

legislative proposal the homestead exemption. It pegs it to inflation. It's currently pulling at eighty percent and it's solid for passage. Amendment six also, the legislative initiative repeal of campaign public financing. Yes, it's polling at fifty. It could get to sixty, but I think a lot of ballot fatigue is going to happen down there. Amendment three recreational marijuana.

not a constitutional decision, in my opinion. And so the legislature can authorize and decriminalize and allow for recreational marijuana. They've chosen not to. They like the status quo, and they can't at any at any time. So for that reason, I'm a know on this one.

change from the existing law. And as I've heard, the governor even said, you can be a pro choice Floridian and be very scared of the implications should this amendment pass, because it would effectively allow any healthcare provider not.

the turnout. If the voter turnout is big for Trump and he wins the popular vote, as doctor Bob McClure predicts he might, it'll be electoral landslide and they won't try to cheat him. We'll get quick election results in the swing states. And that's how it's going to be. If it's close, be careful. Then we're gonna brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA Hey tomorrow on the program Panama City Folks,

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