Good. I mats and welcome to Monday, February the tenth on the Morning Show with Prestin Scott's Show fifty three thirteen. Great to be with you. I'm Preston, He's Oaiah. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. And we begin with some scripture. I want you to This is really this is short. It's Isaiah twenty six to three, and it says you, Who's who's you? This is God? You God, keep him, who him, him or her, You, me, them, everybody, everybody. You keep whoever in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed
on you because He her, whoever trusts in you. It is so overly simple that I think we maybe sometimes miss it. We talk about the need to feed your spirit. Scripture daily, be in God's word in some form or fashion, to spend some time praying. You don't go a day without eating food. Usually you don't go, you know, without drinking water. You need to feed your body, feed your soul, feed your spirit, feed your mind. But think about this now. You want peace, if you give this a shot, Just
give it a shot. If you're right now in situations and circumstances and you have no peace, just spend time in God's word and in prayer every day, and see what happens to that lack of peace. Give it a shot. What do you have to lose? Ten past the hour, take a peek inside the American Patriots all gonnact next, and then we will begin to I mean, this is time to stretch a little bit. Get ready, we're going.
We're going today on the Morning Show with Preston Scott twelve past the hour, Oh my, showing a little replay yesterday of what happened at the Caesars Superdome when Donald Trump got shown saluting during the national anthem. Crowd went nuts during the Super Bowl nuts and then they would show Taylor Swift and they booed loudly. I think she felt a little. Yeah. Anyway, I won't be talking about the Super Bowl till the end. Well, no, I'll go
ahead and say it. Congratulations Philadelphia Eagle fans. I realized that those of you listening to the show are probably not representative of Eagle fans at Philadelphia games. You're probably good and decent people, as opposed to a lot of the fans at the games, which are some of the most vile, disgusting foul mouth fans and all of professional sports.
If you wonder how I really feel. I was willing to pull for Kansas City to win that game, even despite Taylor Swift because Philadelphia Eagle fans are the worst in professional sports. They just are. And it's really it's a shame, it really is, because it's a well earned reputation of being just vile. It's not funny, it's sick. And while I love Jalen Hurts, there's some players on that team I really love respect that team. And and
you'll lose your offensive coordinator probably. I mean, I don't know how you don't get Kellen Moore out of there and uh and get him give him a head coaching shot somewhere because he's a young guy who's a pretty good offensive mind. And it just shows you that Jerry Jones is a fool for letting Mike McCarthy get rid of him. And I love coach Mack, but he was wrong in letting go of Kellen Moore. He's a he's
a really smart young man. So Eagles earned it. They're the best team in football offensively, defensively, got the best defensive coordinator. Vic Fangio is just he's just good. Just is he made he made the life miserable for Patrick Mahomes in that first half. Second half, he changed his defensive scheme a little bit. I'm quite certain. I didn't watch the second half at all. I watched some some of the first half while I was laying down in bed.
I recorded it because I want to watch commercials, but I also want to see if Vic change the defense up in the second half. My hunch is he did. I mean, he was. I think they had a twenty four nothing lead. My goodness, yeah, you know so. Anyway, today in history, we've got forebr of the tenth Treaty of Paris, end seven year War. In seventeen sixty three. Eighteen sixty one, Jefferson Davis receives word that he has been chosen to be President of the Confederate States of America.
Nineteen oh three. Teddy Bear has begin appearing in stores early in the year. Great story behind the Teddy Bear still called a Teddy Bear named after Teddy Roosevelt, President of the United States. That's where the bear got its name, the Teddy Bear. Oh, it's a great story. Glenn Miller receives first ever gold record selling one point two million copies of the Chattanooga Chu Chuow. And in nineteen sixty seven, twenty fifth Amendment dealing with presidential disability and succession is
ratified and promptly ignored with Joe Biden in office. And what else we got today is National home warranty Day, National clean out your Computer Day, National cream cheese brownie Day, National umbrella Day, and National Football hangover Day. I'm not making any of that up. Sixteen past the hour, it's the Morning Show. You got long hair, You rock your head so the hair comes over your face. Twenty two past the hour. I told jose I would go ahead
and tell this story of history here. Every day, millions of children cross the country, around the world cuddle up to their favorite Teddy Bears. So how did the toy bear become so popular? And how did they become a Teddy Bear? We credit Teddy Roosevelt, as I mentioned, twenty sixth president, as well as a political cartoonist and some resourceful entrepreneurs. In nineteen oh two, Roosevelt, avid outdoorsman, went
on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi. The President was a very good hunter, but on this particular trip, no luck for several days never saw bear. Finally, one of his guides cornered a small black bear, wounded it, tied it to a tree, then called the President to come shoot it. Teddy the sportsman resolutely refused. He had eagerly shot grizzly bears in the Wild War, but he had no intention of taking unfair advantage of a terrified, trapped animal.
When Washington Post cartoonist Clifford Berryman heard the story, he drew a picture of the President turning away in disgust from the idea of shooting the helpless bear. The nation loved the fact that their president had spared the creature, and in no time it became the story of Teddy's Bear. By early nineteen oh three, two Russian Jewish immigrants named Morris and Rose Mitcham were making and selling stuffed Teddy
bears in their Brooklyn shop. One of the Mitchtum's original stuffed bears can be seen in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. About the same time, toy company Fao Schwartz of New York City began selling plush Teddy bears made in a German toy factory. A world wide craze began, which shows no signs of changing more than a century later. So the Teddy Bear is the story of Teddy Roosevelt refusing to hunt a bear that was
in essence captured. He insisted on a fair, ethical hunt, and so because he spared the bear's life, Teddy's Bear and there you have it. So to this day, it's an homage to Teddy Roosevelt, who was in some regards a socialist Republican. He was he leaned towards socialism. But still a cool story. And yeah, hey, speaking of yesterday, not yesterday, sorry Friday, during what's the Beef, we had a young lady call in. I believe it was a young lady that was complaining about a local playground and
money raised and going to ubber mulch. We now correct that story that is not accurate. And so I'm guessing that, with the best of intentions, the parent was trying to make a point. But unfortunately you didn't get the information. I heard from the president of the Gilchrist Elementary School PTO, who sent me a very lengthy note and welcomed the phone call from any parents that want to know more. They did exceed the goal of ninety thousand dollars raised.
Seventy five percent of the money goes to new playground equipment, not mulch. Hear me out. The remaining twenty five percent is going into the teacher accounts because if you don't know this, teachers go into their own wallets to provide paper,
construction materials, craft materials, and things for their classrooms. And so each teacher will get three hundred and twenty dollars deposited into their teaching accounts each one, and they can use it how they see fit in their classrooms, which, by the way, is a my wife used to teach in the school system and at Florida High and that money because we used to just fund stuff ourselves. We would just pay for it. We wouldn't ask our parents to do it in her classes. We would my wife
and I would. And so what's really cool here is the remaining seventy five percent of that ninety thousand is going to playground equipment. Principal Scottie Crow, who by the way, is outstanding soliciting bids and they're picking out a piece of new equipment for each of the four playgrounds on campus. The mulch came as a result of the purchasing of the equipment required the school to have the district bring the mulch up to code. It was beaten down and
that's what happens. You have to refresh the mult periodically to keep it to code. That was provided by the school district. So it didn't pay for any mulch at all. That money is going to new equipment that they hoped to have installed this year for the kids this year
to be able to enjoy. So I'm just letting you know that your some of you might have a wrong understanding and they say that the books are open, you're welcome to see them, but that that's the process that the unintended consequence in a very good way of raising the money was the school district raising the code, having to bring the codes up. It's sort of it's typical
code work. When you do something in the house, you do renovation, sometimes you have to update certain things to new code because you demolished that wall or you rewired that thing, so now you have to bring all of it up to code. Same thing. Adding the playground equipment required the bringing up to code the mulch, so they didn't pay for that. So I hope that helps, So I don't mind the beef. That's fine. Maybe a lesson read those emails that you get sent, because we all
dismiss emails that we probably should read. And maybe not have your kid call if you don't really know. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, This Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, we're going to do a quick little look into the big stories here. Anyone surprised that Joe Biden had his security clearance revoked? Normally ex presidents keep them. I don't know why. No, I'm serious. I don't care if it's Republican or Democrat. Ex presidents have no need.
If you feel the need, you know, for example, let's just say somebody's a foreign policy just they've just they're an expert, they got it. If you're the new president and your predecessor had a skill set there and I want to bring him in and get his opinion, I can share things with him right there by my choice. But blanket security clearances for classified in no, no now factor in. It's Joe, Sweet God almighty, No, But it's not just Joe. He has revoked the security clearances to
Anthony Blincoln, the former Secretary of State explain this. Why would Man District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James have national security clearances? Now, what I think I'll hear from some of you that know is that it would be limited security clearances on matters that were important to the City of New York or the State of New York because of its economic importance, etc.
I don't care. I don't care. If there's security that I think they need to be aware of, I'm going to share it with them. That's why I have an Attorney general. That's why I have a Homeland Security Director. That's why I have head of an FBI that shares domestics. CIA nothing to do with it. We need to get the CIA back being the CIA international period. End stop there. That's it. If we're going to have an FBI. I'm not opposed to the idea. We just need to rein
them in. Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, no more security clearances. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, attorneys Andrew Weissman, Mark Zaid, Normisen among those. So he's cleaning some things up. The last thing I want to touch on here briefly, and I'm going to upset some of you, and I'm okay with that because you know I love you. If you did not know, over the weekend, Boy Scouts of
America adopted its new name, Scouting America. Let's see, in twenty eighteen, they decided to let girls join Boy Scouts. They began allowing gay youth openly gay youth in twenty thirteen, and then they ended the ban on gay adult leaders in twenty fifteen and decided to adopt a gender neutral name. Now I've disassociated myself with the organization I used to MC events and so forth, I will no longer do that.
There are options out there, But I just I want all of you to understand because some of you are saying, well, but my Scout troop that I lead is great because I'm a man and I'm a man's man, and you know what, that's awesome. But you're affiliated with an organization that has no problem with allowing gay men to lead them, and I just want to I want to just remind
you of this. A court ordered payout of two point four six billion dollars to eighty two thousand former Boy Scouts who were sexually abused by officials and volunteers two point four six billion dollars. I would never take that chance with my children ever, because they've they've have they tightened things down or have they opened them up? I rest my case. I'm sorry. I would not be advising any of my grandchildren to be part of that program.
There are alternatives that are appropriate and safer that I would go towards if it were me. But forty two past the hour, running late, running late, You'll love what's next. Some sound you must hear. This is this is something that you really you just you got to hear it to believe it. This is in Cali, California, near Bakersfield. It is Heart Memorial Park the entrance Kern County, California. They got reports of someone trying to steal the U. S. Flag,
but they weren't trying to steal it. They were trying to throw it down the ground and replace it with the Mexican flag. And when law enforcement showed up, here's what they heard.
You're not gonna tell me.
What to do with.
Look at that flag because that flag isn't on the floors, is it? You can't?
Okay, my people kill you. I'm going to see when you're heurting me, and you're.
Gonna regret it when you could go, okay, got you when your kids died, When your kids die, you're squitching my hand and they already know you don't take me your We're.
Gonna thank me, thank me, thank you.
Right, I'm not gonna pay.
My dad's gonna kill you and all your family.
Do you think it's a joke until it's not.
You're I already told my dad, Okay, cool.
Hey do you think it's a joke?
Okay, cool?
You're gonna send me free? No, I said, you want to turn off my car?
Turn off my car? I get that.
That's Mexican, lamb.
That's Mexican lamb.
You want to put me in with all?
Okay, I'm gonna let my father kill you. I'm gonna let my father shake. So yeah, that's Crystal aguill Are, twenty four years of age, foul mouth. I don't know if she's here illegally or not, doesn't matter. She's out, she's gone. I'm deporting her, claiming this is Mexico's land, threatens to have the officers killed, their families killed, their children killed. Her people are gonna kill them. Her dad's gonna kill them because they dare touch her vile, little, profane,
spewing little girl. This is evidence. I wanted to play that because this is evidence of what we've lost by not requiring people to assimilate into this country and to be of like mind of not being a little picky. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of settlers and immigrants who agree with the society that the settlers set up. This is outrageous, believe it or not. Next hour, I'm gonna share something that's worse. Yeah, yeah, it's uh forty seven minutes after the hour, it's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I love my audience. I love you even when you say things like this. This is great, Dwayne wrote in might just be me, but your music on the show bites it is just you. No,
I have no idea what people think. Here's what you need to know, which I've talked about fairly regularly over the years, especially recent years, as recording companies have become very difficult, we have to use music that we have the copyright too, and so we have a production library that we use that has millions of songs and so we select music that is representative of the eras of
our audience from the seventies, eighties, nineties to thousands. And the reason why we can't play songs that you're familiar with is because recording companies are stupid. You know. All I need to do is point at Donald Trump's use of YMCA. Trump uses YMCA. He got permission from the guy who wrote the song. They said, heck, yeah, you use it, and it became number one on the Billboard charts forty plus years after it was released. I don't think it was number one when it was released. I
think it was top five, maybe the top ten. Village People, And because he used parts of that song, and of course it's been used in stadiums for how long now. And my contention has always been with our company is they need to make the argument that the playing of a song on a program like ours for fifteen to thirty seconds enhances the opportunity for their music to be heard by some people for the first time ever by others like, oh man, I remember that great song and
then you go download it and you make money. Dude that wrote the song for Village People, one of the artists was like man, I am rolling in royalties like crazy because people are downloading the song. So yeah, that's the point of the music selections being very generic and we try to touch on different styles of music. But don't blame me. Blame the recording artists and tell them they're idiots because they would sell more records if they allowed us to play their stuff. Because I'm not playing
an entire song. I'm playing twenty thirty seconds at the most. That's if that helps someone by their record, they I'll be like, heck, yeah, do it. Awesome, But whatever, can't fix stupid. But as far as your your emails, keep them coming. Preston at iHeartRadio dot com program I love it. Good to be with you friends. It's the second hour of the morning show with Preston Scott. We've got sal news on next hour. It'll be our final visit before the session starts, and then he'll be in here each
and every Monday. A legislative update, what's happened, what's happening, what's likely to happen, the fallout, reverberation, whatever, whatever it might be. So that's coming up later on in the program. This is from Laura Logan. This was shared by one of the research assistants, and I'm just going to post. I'm just gonna read what she posted, and she's a
to me. She's a very respected independent journalist making sense of what you're seeing around you from the perspective of an experienced law enforcement officer specializing in RICO conspiracy cases. So she's now listing a statement by someone who is a someone charged with handling RICO cases. Laura. What Musks Doge Team, Doze Team has uncovered is a money laundering scheme that shows how the Obama, Hillary Biden DNC conspiracy to transform America into a Marxist state was financed with
tax payer dollars. What Michael Schellenberger, reporting on Musk's USAID discovered is establishing the money trail and connection between USAID and the CIA. Schellenberger one hundred percent correct that the CIA was behind funding the first impeachment trial of Trump.
When you combine the reporting of Paul Sperry and Schellenberger with the investigative analysis, explains how they framed Trump as all the dots connect as it all comes together, Now you see why the need for the Department of Justice prosecutors to do a real conspiracy investigation, starting from the origins of reorganization of NSD by Obama and holder weaponization, the unmasking of American citizens, the formation of the resistance
movement within the federal government, the manufacturing of evidence of the Russian hoax, and impeachment trials leading to the bogus lawfare investigations of Trump. As they're all part of the plan to enrich themselves their supporter in promoting their leftist
agenda to transform America. It looks complex, but when you lay out all the overt acts and look at the evidence of the incestuous relationships of former and current members of the Department of Justice, the FBI, DNC, the CIA, their hatred of Trump, all comes together proving a pattern
of organized conspiracy at the highest levels of government. That's why I wrote two different prosecution investigative theories for the Department of Justice consideration using three hundred and seventy one conspiracy statutes of obstruction to defraud the public, the other u U seeing the election statutes for election interference, which both theories would lead to the same conclusions identify the
conspirators at the highest levels of government. Of those involved musk audit of aid also connects the dots to the Clinton Foundation receiving US AID funds, Hillary Clinton's role, and the sale of US uranium stockpiles to the Russians and US tech companies partnerships with Russia, and setting up a
Moscow version of Silicon Valley Center in Skalkovo. All the FBI investigations in the Clinton never came to fruit, despite a mountain of evidence, as documented by our friend Peter Schweitzer by the way the Government of Accountability Institute and in his book Clinton Cash S. C. Durham and his Findings found the Deputy FBI Director McCabe restricted the FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton in closing, if Hillary Clinton has had been elected president in twenty sixteen, the American public
would never know the extent and scope of how politically corrupt the system had become, or how close we came to losing our country. Methinks this is going to lead to me reaching back out to Peter Schweizer and getting him back on the program to talk about Clinton Cash and how all of these revelations of US eight are confirming his story and his sources. Crazy right, just thought that was worth sharing ten past the hour. It's only money though, right. I had a young man come to
the how uninvited. He was a solicitor, and that's fine, you know, young person got to make a living. And I've had a couple of them of late and nicest young man, just polite as can be, handled his business very very well, easy going, not pressured, but wanted to check my interest in solar and I just looked at him. I said, look into my eyes with a big smile on my face. I said I looked like someone that's going to be interested in solar and he goes, yeah, no, sir,
I don't think so. And we had a good conversation. I said, you do realize you're in a neighborhood with nothing but trees. He said, yeah, that's proving to be a little difficult. I said, but you know there are some roofs here that are exposed. I said, but he's said, you're worried that they're ugly. I said, well they are, but that's not the issue. He said, well, what is it? I said. The issue is that it's not efficient. It's
not cost effective. And while there are applications that might be useful to heat a little water here and there and help offset a power build. I said, here's the question you can't answer for me. I said, what's that? I said, where the panel's going to go in twenty years? I said, they degrade over time, right, they don't retain as much over time. They wear out and the batteries wear out. So we've got batteries and we've got panels. I said, where those panels going to go? And he
just kind of tipped his head to the side. He said, I'm not following. I said, it's hazardous waste. I said, California is learning that lesson right now. I said, I'm not trying to discourage you from doing your job. I said, you're you're very polite, and I said you're likable, and I wish you nothing but the best. I said, but i'd take your skill sets to another industry because California is learning right now. I said, feel free to look this up, and I would advise you to do so
since you're selling solar. California is twenty years ahead. They've been doing solar for a long time and they're reaping now a massive problem. They've gotten nowhere to put all of the solar panels that are going bad is they have to be replaced every fifteen to twenty five years. Twenty is the sweet spot. So they've got all of these solar panels that are having to come off of homes and be replaced. They don't know where to put them.
They don't biodegrade. They're hazardous material. And now what I said, for an industry that's allegedly environmentally conscious and friendly, it sure is unfriendly. I said. It's just I said, I appreciate what you're doing, but I'm a hard no. And then I came across this over the weekend. Back in twenty eleven, the US Department of Energy under Obama spent one point six billion in loan guarantees to Ivanpass solar green energy product in California, and it's now on track
to close ten years of federal subsidies. It's closing. Let me quote the head of Pacific Gas and Electric. They announced their plans to cancel its agreement fourteen years early, determining that quote, ending the agreements at this time will save customers money compared to the cost of keeping them through twenty thirty nine. It's not cost effective. It's being described like Cylindra as an energy quote boondoggle. In other words, we're burning more of our cash sixteen past the hour.
Wait do you hear this member of Congress, ironically from California. All right, this is tough. This is tough to watch for a lot of reasons. Now we have pointed out and the last two stories have pointed to the embarrassment the shame that Democrats should be feeling right now over the wasted money in just one sliver of government underneath the State Department, which remember was run by Hillary Clinton,
which was run by Anthony Blincoln. There's zero doubt that Clinton operated a pay to play scheme through the Clinton Foundation. You give money to the Clinton Foundation, you'll find favor with the United States government. And money was distributed through the State Department through Usaid, usaid. That's why these countries
are getting these absurd allocations of our tax dollars. That should be shameful that we're burdening Americans with the rates of taxation that we are for this to fund this. But no, no, they are. They are absolutely obsessed with the narrowing down of government scope, shrinking the size of government, of these programs being found out. One of our favorite incompetent souls in this country is Maxine Waters. She's a member of Congress though she should not be. She's an
embarrassment to the state of California. She's an embarrassment as a person. Listen to what happens as a security guard employed by the Department of Education is outside the building and she's there with her throng of supporters and fellow Democrats. Listen to what she does to this poor man. Put them in the eye. Come on, oh your face up, look at him. Let them see you're in your well, this is him.
Look at it.
What's your name? Give me that idea again? So what I showed you the idea? You do what I showed you? The'd you let me see the ID again? Will someone else ask him for the I D? Will you ask him for he won't let me see it again? You dan? She's what's her point? What is this crap show she's orchestrating? First of all, can we set aside the irony of a Democrat demanding to see I D? Okay, okay, can we just we'll put that aside. But we have an elected member of Congress harassing a guy doing his job.
So she's berating this guy. Look at him, look at him, look at him. He's just doing his job. Some of the reaction to this video online is amazing. The Democrats have octagenarians going around town trying to intimidate federal workers for some reason or another. Absolutely pathetic theater from house Democrats at the Department of Education down to claiming the security officer is a modern day police officer in the Deep South blocking school integration. Again ironic given that it
was Democrats doing all of those things. It was Democrat George Wallace standing in front of the University of Alabama. It was Democrat governors and legislatures stopping the integration of schools and maintaining segregation. It was Democrats. And to any of you that deny that, you simply don't know the truth or you're intentionally remaining dumb because those are the facts. They're uncomfortable and I get that. I've had it happen in my life where a truth has caused me to
be wrong. I hated it, can't stand it when it happens I was wrong. I don't like being wrong. But if you don't think Democrats were the authors of segregation, the Klan and all of that, you're just wrong and you're intentionally deluding yourself. But the quote from David Kennett of Daily Signal, three years ago, Democrats wanted to hear nothing from parents concerned about their kids' schools. They sent
the FBI after parents. Now they're claiming to represent parents with the shutdown of the Department of Education, which may or may not happen. I hope it is. But again the irony twenty seven past the hour, reset the big stories in the press box. If I mentioned how much I love what I do thirty six past the hour, Big stories in the press box. This morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott of Preston's OSEI SALNWZ own
just a little bit with Consumer's defense. Boy. Scouts of America changed its name over the weekend to be more inclusive, and I don't I mean, there are options for you if you are inclined to find an organization that instills great virtues, values and skills in young men. But I think it's important to remind yourself of a few things. And I and I know that for those of you that are and I know I've got listeners of this program.
They're Scout leaders and I'm sorry, as autonomous as you are allowed to be, which is somewhat significant and not lost on me, you are still part of an organization that is wrong on so many things. That's it's look, it's an now Scouting America. In twenty thirteen they allowed gay youth, openly gay youth to join. Well, but they were gay youth all the time. Yeah, maybe, but it wasn't openly paraded and made to be normal, because it's not.
Two years later they lifted the ban on gay adult leaders. Well, but they've always had gay adult leaders press and that's how they had problems with leaders assaulting young boys. That's my point. We've now somewhat normalized it, and then three years after that, we're going to just let girls join the program. I'm sure the Girl Scouts of America loved that. It's got its own issues, but I want to say laser focused here, the gender neutral name. That's their words,
not mine, more of a kind gender neutral name. Okay, Okay, all right, boss? What do you say? Parents? You rolling the dice when you put your kids in a program with leaders that you don't know like the back of your hand, And it might seem a little harsh, but it sounds to me not all that dissimilar to saying, you know, I like being a member of the Ku Klux Klan because I just love the color white. I'm not into that other stuff. You know that race is bigotry thing, but I just I've got this thing. I
like white. I like I like it. You know, forget about being part of an organization that is racially bigoted, discriminatory, hateful, and violent. Ah, I like white. So okay, you like teaching kids how to make a fire awesome? What are you part of? There are options, There are other organizations that are focused on what the Boy Scouts used to be. And just as a final little reminder, two point four six billion dollar settlement to some eighty two thousand boys
who were assaulted, sexually abused, assaulted allegedly. They're paying the settlement. The Boy Scouts have agreed to pay the claims. Eighty two thousand different young men are going, are receiving, or have received. It's court ordered. This isn't but that's just no. This is court ordered two point four to six billion. It had to declare bankruptcy. It reorganized under bankruptcy law. Yeah, forty one past the hour. Sorry, I know that upsets some of you.
That's okay, all right, Consider this.
A warning, guys. Valentine's Day is Friday. It's not even a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's a Friday, Fellas. I'm just telling you right now. I say it every year. If you've got a sweetheart, that means, if you're married, you have a sweetheart. Don't you dare forget Valentine's Day. I don't care how long you've been married. I don't care how often your sweetheart says, don't spend any money on me. Eighty two percent of couples in America will
give their significant other a Valentine's Day gift. The average ex spence is one hundred and seventy nine dollars, with men spending two fifty eight versus one zero six for women. Now, personally, if that doesn't include a really big meal at a nice restaurant, then that number is ridiculous. I get the occasional extravagant. It's Valentine's Day. It's a special year in your relationship, an anniversary years something you want to do,
something special that's cool. Spend the cash man, drop the dimes, that's fine. Thirty three percent may take on Valentine's Day debt. Thirty eight percent think it's worth it. Fifty six percent say they will skip the holiday if they could. Forty three percent who may take on Valentine's Day debt don't plan to tell their significant other. Many blame inflation. Sixty one percent say it's harder to afford Valentine's gifts. Well, no, no, lie there. Twenty eight percent say they'll spend less on
Valentine's Day this year. Separately, forty percent will skip the holiday to save money. Analyst says no one wants to look like a cheap skate to their partner, especially in the early days of a relationship. But here's the thing. Your partner probably doesn't want you to go into debt over Valentine's Day. So I underscore that. Now that's said, you better do something. There better be a card, some flowers. If you're chocolate givers and enjoy chocolate, some little chocolate
goes a long way. I'm telling you, a box of chocolates goes a long way. Just don't get the kind of chocolates that someone has to put their finger in it to see what it is. And then go no, make sure it's either labeled the box shows you what each piece is, or you just get the kind that are nuts and caramels, or you know what I mean, it's truffles and you know what each one is. It's just I'm just telling you, Fellas, I'm doing all I can to hammer home the point. It matters, she says,
it doesn't matter. It matters. Your sweetheart wants you to overcome her objections with something. Maybe you make a nice dinner Friday night. Maybe you rent a movie that you know she'd love to see and hasn't, and you rent it and you make arrangements to have a nice meal, pick up a nice dinner somewhere, bring it home, set the table. Maybe you send her out to get her nails done or pedicure, manicure, whatever, But do something, Please do something. Forty six minutes. I'm going to remind you
off and on through the week. But that's my big reminder. Constructing a new blog Pete Hesa's town Hall, at least a portion of it at the Pentagon. Share just a little bit of that on my blog page. I was just as I'm writing the blog, I'm just thinking, what a daunting task. DEI has a thirteen year head start on him. They've been implementing woke policies since twenty twelve when Obama got reelected. See, the elections have consequences, and
Obama believes in a small, agile military force. But we are unable as he left it, and Trump only had four years to turn it around, and he didn't have much help. Four years isn't enough to turn it around. These four years is not enough to turn it around. We have to elect someone that's going to keep Pete Hegsath in his post for at least twelve years. We need to follow Trump with a two term president to
have a shot at getting our military footing back. One of the stated purposes of Obama's realignment of our military was to be only able to fight on one front at a time. That's just patently dumb. I mean, it renders us so we are protected because of the Second Amendment. China, Russia, they want no part of the American citizenry because we're
armed and to the teeth. They're not fighting, just the military, and they know mutual assured destruction is right there for anyone that wants to go deep and go with nukes. It It ends badly for everybody in that case, everybody, So no one wants to go there. They know they can't fight it out on our continent. They can't. No one can. There's no country in the world armed like the citizens of the United States. But Hexas's got it. Just a brutal job, just a brutal job because he's
not only got a correct DEI and wokeness. Get it out. And that's gonna be tough because they're gonna go undercover. They're gonna do what the Kamis did at the end of the macar The era. They went undercover and joined the Democrat Party. That's where the communists went. They went to the Democrat Party. They were closely aligned. They could merge, blend in. They had their camo right there, the policies,
the beliefs of the party, the philosophies of the left. Anyway, we had I forget how long it's been, we had someone on the program. I want to say. His name is Chris Fisher. Ironic name for a guy who catches and tags great white sharks and sand sharks. His organization, I think it's Ocean Search all one word. And if
you go to the website. It's really cool because they tag these sharks they catch and release, they tag them and then whenever they surface, their buoys set off a marker, so we know where they are, we know where they're migrating, we know where they're traveling. And the largest great white ever caught has popped up off Florida's coast. M anyway. It's name Contender, a near fourteen foot, sixteen hundred and fifty three pound great white off the Georgia Florida border pinged.
It's pinged three times since the beginning of the year. I think I would cry if I saw a fish like that, that dwarf that made my boat feel small. If I were out fishing and I saw something like that come behind by me, I would I would cry. I would, yes. Anyway, it causes me to get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up just thinking about the size of that thing. That's taller than a basketball goal from the floor to the top of
the backboard. That's how big that is. Boy Ah, all right, friends, it is Monday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is Show fifty three thirteen. He's Jose, I'm Preston and it's great to be with you, and we are we are going to prepare you for the legislative session and joining us from Consumers Defense, where he's the executive director of sal Nuzzo. Hello, friend, how are you sir?
Don't you love it that we live in a state with it's so drama free, you know, the everybody gets along and it's just a it's it's it's you know, Kumbayah.
Is the governor? Are the heads of the Senate and the House leadership? Are they all aware of how they are hurting the Republican brand? And I mean, my email box on this rift between the two is very evident that people are siding with Governor desandis not the two of them.
Yeah, I think one is they're likely aware of the dynamic that's happening with public perception and the way that I would kind of differentiate.
I think if you.
For those who pay attention very in depth into the political and policy process in Florida and the legislature and have done so for a long time, while the degree of how it's all transpired maybe a little bit surprising, I don't know that anybody shocked that there was a little bit of kind of what's gone on.
I think that is this a case of something that's been simmering boiling over? Yeah? Yeah.
And so we've got new legislative leadership, there's a you know, an open governor's race, along with all the other cabinet positions. You've got the new administration coming in, and all of this together, I think is kind of Folks in the process are not surprised by this. I think, by and large, if you ask any of the you know, tens of millions of voters or residents outside of the political process, this may be a bit shocking surprising. And the question
might be, you know, wait, aren't these all Republicans? And yes they are. And so there is a dynamic at play, and I think you're probably right that the public perception outside of the legislative policy bubble is likely far more in favor of the governor's position.
Here. If you do a poll and you put the names of the leader of the Senate, the House, and the governor all on one page, I know who's winning that poll.
Yeah, And the governor's writing a very good popularity number in the polling as it stands right now.
He also has the bully pulpit. He has the ability to.
Leverage a whole lot of national media in ways that the Speaker and Senate President just don't. Now they're getting a little bit of it, but in the week that it all kind of blew up, the Governor was on Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, a whole bunch of those shows, and so that carries with it some ability to generate.
But Sally, the only reason the Senate President Ben Albritton and the House Speaker Danny Perez are getting any attention is for a negative correct Desantas has how many years now six years on positives, on building on policy and things happening.
Yeah, and I think there's an element of that six year built up political capital that Floridians know and are comfortable with, and so we gravitate toward that. And so for individuals, like I said, who don't necessarily pay a whole lot of attention to the nuts and bolts and the logistics and machinations of how the legislative process works, that's going to be It's going to carry the day. We got forty five seconds, So I'm going to ask
the question. Everybody wants to know why hasn't Governor DeSantis vetoed that immigration bill. And this is a very intriguing quirk because I had to low, I had to look this up. There is no requirement of a time window for the legislature to send the bill to the governor. It says in the constitution whenever practicable. Now there is a time frame for them to send the budget document, but not the bill itself. So they have not transmitted officially the bill to the governor, and therefore he has
not had the opportunity to veto it. Now there is talk about there being some kind of a deal worked out this week. They may do something where they come back in on midweek and work out the specifics of it and do a thing where they send it to him, he vetos it and immediately they pass something that meets his requirements and move forward. But that is the reason that he has not vetoed it.
We've got more to come with Sal news Oh, do not leave us, it's so juicy, we cannot wait more. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Look it up Consumers Defense dot Com and you'll learn about what that group does. His organization. Sal Newso is the executive Director of Consumers Defense and our guest, our legislative expert, and a lot of people may have forgotten because obviously immigrant
got the lion's share of the attention. But when the governor originally asked for the special session, there were some other things he wanted to have addressed.
Yeah, he wanted a bill on elections, mainly in tightening up ballot amendment provisions. And then he also wanted the legislature to come in and kind of tweaked the condo bills that had been passed in the last couple of sessions to address some of the side effects of those. When the legislature came in, and this is a weird quirk of the process, they came in for the special they gabbled it in, and then they gabbled it out immediately, so the governor's call.
There wasn't even time for a breath exactly.
So the governor's call was completed then, so any of the bills that were proffered or filed and whatnot were dead at that point. Then they gabbled in immediately their own special session, which allowed them to file and take up their immigration bill, which they called the Tackling and reforming unlawful migration policy. The Trump Act is.
There have been a lot of different things, and I don't want to get bogged down on this, but I just know where the listeners are. There's a lot of media saying, well, the President weighed in, he talked to the leadership, and this is his bill. A lot of people are saying, well, no, it's really not his bill. He weighed in, but they didn't necessarily do everything, and FHP certainly had a lot to say about it. What's the story.
Yeah, the governor or the president weighed in on principles and what he wanted to see from not just Florida, but any state that's looking to enact something to assist with their federal immigration policy. What this really hinges on now is the enforcement mechanism, and that is really the gulf between the governor and the leadership and the legislature.
And what it means is the legislature is looking to transfer the enforcement of all state immigration policy from the governor where it's constitutionally kind of stipulated now, to the Agriculture Commissioner.
Why that is so patently dumb sound, I don't know.
I don't pretend to understand kind of the mode of thought on why You've had a couple of members try to explain it over the last couple of weeks.
It made no sense.
I have not gotten a satisfactory answer for that in my opinion and my kind of deduction of what's transpiring. So the governor is dead set against that.
He is claimed, and he does have a veto proof veto on this. I mean he's or rather he's got an override proof majority.
In the Senate. In the Senate, he does in the House, they could vote to override, and it looks like there is enough votes that would override it. On the Senate side, there weren't enough yes votes on the bill to override his veto, so the veto would likely stand.
All right. Speaking of the governor, the governor's talked about the budget. He's proposed a budget a lot of moving parts and all of that as well.
Yeah, and even before the budget proposal from the governor, one other unique item that the legislature has decided to take up in this is the existing budget. They went and overrode one of his line item vetos from the current budget, and it involves some funding for legislative staffing
and things along those lines. But the Speaker has established some budget working groups that he's empowered to look through all of the governor's light items from the existing budget and determine if they're going to host or hold even more veto overrides votes in the coming weeks or into the run up to the to the main session.
We got more to talk about relates to the budget and a whole lot more. We're just warming up. This is going to be maybe one of the more interesting sessions because it appears, sadly to be a little bit more adversarial than we've seen in recent years. More to come with Sal Newso Consumer's Defense here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one past the hour, Sal Newso with me from Consumers Defense, before we deep dive a little bit into the budget proposal from the governor,
because that's where we are right now. The session starts in March. The status of the kind of shifting chairs on the deck of the ship.
Here the dominoes, Yeah, they continue to kind of fall a little bit. So Ashley Moody is officially a United States Senator. There is an acting Attorney General right now. The governor has indicated he will appoint James Uthmeier, his current chief of staff, as attorney General, but he has not done that yet. I think it likely he wanted James to help get him through this.
He has that clear authority. There's no other steps needed, no other steps needed. He also indicated that he will name Jason Wada, who is the current head of the Agency for Healthcare Administration, as his new chief of staff when James shifts over into the AG role CFO.
So Jimmy Patronis won the primary for CD one, so I believe his resignation is effective at the end of the month, And so you've got one.
Is the election for that seat? Oh? Is it April?
It may be April, but I think the resigned to run rule has a has a quirk in the timing or something like that. So the governor will have to appoint someone as CFO as well.
Can it Is it safe to say it's likely not going to be Joe Gruder's.
I don't necessarily think, I mean, just knowing personalities, I would be surprised if it were at this point. Okay, but you do have an indication from both Joe and another state senator blazing goolia that they both plan to run for it in two years regardless of who's nominated.
Let's take take a look at the budget itself. Sure, what stands out.
So the governor's budget proposal is one hundred and fifteen point six billion, and what stands out is that's a sizable reduction from the current year's budget. So you've got a largely the reductions are going to be in some federal pass through dollars and things like that, but you do have a nine hundred million dollar reduction in the general fund revenue. And that's that's sizable.
But isn't that part of a reflection of a predicted downturn in revenues that the state was going to receive.
Yes, you do have the Revenue Estimating Conference, which meets regularly along with some other forecasting that says, you know, we've enjoyed a huge urge in revenues because of tourism, in migration and whatnot, and that's going to slow down. So the governor is, in my opinion, rightly kind of concentrating on fiscal responsibility, and so you've got the general fund. He's kind of proposing a nine hundred million dollar decrease there.
He is setting aside eight hundred and thirty million to pay down some debt the general fund cuts that he's looking at about seven hundred and forty vacant state positions that they can just eliminate one thing that'll be notable for Tallahassee reducing the overall state university system spending by about two hundred million dollars total. But he does make up for it in some other area. Six hundred and nine million dollar increase in K twelve schools.
Is that is that pointed in any particular area in K twelve? It's a good question. I don't know the answer to that, but I'd be curious if there, if they're looking at it at being a little bit more robust in their investment and embrace of vocational it could be the case.
I'd have to dive in on the line items there, along with an additional half a billion dollars to combat a legal immigration three hundred and sixty some million to protect the coastlines. But he is increasing some of those sales tax holidays and some other tax cuts along the way. He said he wants the business rent tax to go to zero immediately as opposed to the glide path over several years. So bear in mind this is just a proposal.
The legislature has the authority to submit their own budget to the governor, which is what they do, so this is a part of every year's process. The governor submits something it reflects his priorities. The legislature then sends him something that takes in some of those priorities, doesn't include others. And given the drama, it's going to be intriguing to see.
How that all lays out. Do you give some context to this budget its size?
Yeah, And this is one where I'm puzzled by some of the legislative pronouncements about how Florida's government wastes money, and this is something where I think it's important to provide some context. Florida has the single leanest state budget in the United States when you look at it per capita, and so that one hundred and seventeen eighteen billion dollars
in the current year budget. The state of New York, with about a million and a half fewer residents than the state of Florida, their state budget is two hundred and thirty seven billion dollars, so it is more than double, more than double the size of Florida with fewer residents, and that is an important context as we begin to pick a part where the government is spending money.
Sal newzo with us from consumers to twenty seven pass. Come back after the news break and talk more about the legislative session itself, what we expect to to hear, see and have voted on runing show with Preston Scott. This is the way my News Radio one hundred point seven double UFLA. All we need is the required walker walk guitar there and we'd be rolling on our skates if you have a roller skate.
When I was young, but then took up rollerblading a little bit more in my teenage years and into college.
I've roller skated like twice in my life, thinking it was a ice skate, and it didn't end well for me.
Now see, I had a grown up in Connecticut. I had a lot of friends who played hockey in high school whatnot. In my high school had an amazing hockey team, both men and women's team. He Yeah, and I could never ice skate. I tried it a few times and it was not pretty.
But you could blade blade, Yeah, that's crazy.
I think it has to do with the sliding part, where in rollerblading you have a little bit more friction that helps my coordination.
All Right, we've talked about the special session sort of that wasn't so special. We've talked about the budget. But now we get to the nitty gritty the special sessions. In the rearview mirror, there may be something coming. But now we get to the regular session in March. What are we seeing.
Yeah, and a number of things are already coming out of bill drafting, getting filed, getting numbered, and so a couple of things that I think would be helpful to unpack that speak to a lot of the big picture priorities. You have a concerted effort to take a look at
the property tax kind of issue within the state. And we've talked about this in the past, where you can own your home outright, and if you do not pay your property taxes, the government can put a lean on your property and therefore, I mean, you really never own it. And so there's a whole lot of kind of tentacles to this, but one in particular that I think is important to unpack from Blazing Goolia. He would like to and he's working with someone in the House on this.
He's looking to file an amendment onto the ballot that would up the homestead exemption to seventy five thousand dollars of assessed value on the property. On the House side, Ryan Chamberlain actually has a bill HB. Three point fifty nine which would up the exemption to one hundred thousand dollars. It would also a property tax revenue growth at two
percent per year. And one of the things that he's claiming and he's got, you know, kind of the data to back this up is as our in migration and population surges happen, you have property values going up a whole lot as individuals move in, and some of that is not ported in the way that individuals migrating from
county to county can port homestead values. You have local governments that have seen their revenues go up a whole lot, and this is meant to be a check in balance on local governments, and so they need to be managing their own budgets effectively and providing the basket of services that are required and not go off and pursue a whole lot of the agenda that they tend to is there any discussion on unelected groups having the authority to tax, Not that I've heard late Lee, but we do have
a few weeks to go before before bill filing.
I mean, from a principal standpoint, that just seems to run a foul of what makes sense to me.
Yeah, Florida has so many I think at one point it was like over ten thousand special taxing districts that are in place, and they run from everything like a Community Reinvestment Act type of thing.
But all of those are done through an elected body.
Well yes, in some cases, but in others there are just these appointed bodies that are putting like the Children's Services Council and all of those things. And I would love to see some clarity and transparency and more accountability and an effort to kind of rain those in.
But that's one.
The other thing that Blazes got though, that I want to point out, is you have this situation with a state senator down in the East Coast, Debbie Mayfield. She was turned she ran, wanted to run for the House instead of the Senate because you've turned out of the Senate now, she wanted to run for the Senate. The state Secretary of state said you're disqualified because of term limits.
She's challenging that.
So he's pointing to an amendment to clarify term limits that would close it out after sixteen total years in office.
And that's it. Four terms in the House and how many terms in this cuse? Yeah, are the two year terms two year term.
It's four year terms, but they're staggered and if it carries over reapportionment, you can get an extra two years depending on when your term comes up. But sixteen years total. That would be the amendment. And so I'm paying a lot of attention to that.
Sal Newso with us more to come on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, final segment here Salnuzo with Consumers Defense, and we're kind of teeing up. The fund starts a month from now, roughly when the legislative session begins. So we've talked about term limits, We've talked about homestead exemptions and what they might look like. What are some other bills floating?
Yeah, a few fund items that I'm going to be paying attention to. Senator Nick de Segli has SB four sixty two directing money from the public, ev charging stations to a fund that could be used specifically for roads and infrastructure. And I don't own an EV, so I
didn't even realize this. But at a public charging station, a lot of them, you have to pay and it's like a time period is so that money, a portion of that would go in to the fund for transportation, because if you're not paying the gas tax, it's an important thing because you are using the roads and you're.
The argument is that you are putting more burden on the road because the vehicle are infinitely heavier.
Yes, there's a whole host of arguments, and even in my days a JMI, we wrote about the need to kind of do this, whether it's on miles traveled or something along those lines. This would kind of skin that cat in a different way ballot amendments. So the governor didn't get his proposal hurt in the special session, but
I do expect this one to come back. He wants to tighten up the rules on how signatures are gathered, who can gather them, where they can be gathered, and what the role of those individuals and organizations like the Supreme Court Court are in reviewing the language. And one in particular thing One thing in particular he wants to do is close the loophole on foreign nationals who are
able to give to a ballot amendment process. We had, I want to say it was thirteen or fourteen million dollars in foreign money propping up amendments three and four that would close out that loophole. Interesting from Joe Gruder's you mentioned him earlier SB five forty six, he wants to allow anyone with a medical marijuana card to get a permit to grow their own to plants per person out of public view, not accessible by children. But still an interesting take in how that is laying.
Out is is there any discussion in committee about just the public aspect of having to smell that crap?
Not that I've gotten wind of unintended lately, but I could absolutely see that topic coming up, especially given the fact that we fully expect that amendment to come.
Back in the ballot. Now they're already beginning.
They're already beginning, which is also kind of prompting the governor in wanting to make sure that we don't have a replay of what happened where you have one company bankrolling and engaging in a lot of potentially troublesome actions and trying to get the amendment through that. You know, I think that the Governor's proposals are kind of aligned with trying to make sure that this process is transparent moving into the next cycle.
Lastly, lastly, to appropriately.
Yeah, Toby Orverdorff file to build a unbanned bump stocks and the Governor's actually putting on a full push for a full open carry bill to get to his desk. Now, the Senate President has claimed law enforcement opposes.
That they don't, only the association does, and there's a distinction.
Well, yes, And I want to be very clear in this, because I looked it up. The Florida Sheriff's Association has said recently they do not have a position on anything right now. They will wait until language comes out and then they will provide their perspective on it. But historically they have been against full open carrey.
But shouldn't it be distinguished that it's the association because Wayne Ivy says the majority of sheriffs support it.
Yes, and Wayne Ivy has said that, and the governor is also intimated that a large number of actual elected sheriffs are in favor of this. So I expect this to come out, and in the context of all of the drama, it could bubble up a lot more than it has in prior years.
But historically Second Amendment issues they go to the Senate to die. Historically, that is correct. Cannot wait for March.
It's gonna be a far wilder ride than I had anticipated.
A month or two ago. Thanks for the time, Always a pleasure. Salderzo with Consumers Defense, our guest forty seven past. All right, we talked earlier about the Philadelphia Eagles. Congratulations winner of the Super Bowl. I know some of you that are Eagle fans are probably awesome and wonderful because
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