Ep. 5548: Saving Private Property.

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And sufficiency is found in that. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. Look at it from a sheep's perspective. I got a shepherd? Sweet. I'm good. He's got everything under control. I don't have to worry about wolves. I don't have to worry about feeding. When my coat gets a little fluffy, he'll cut it down. It's all good. I'm living life large now. I think sometimes it requires us to embrace what that scripture is saying. I think at times it requires us to just take inventory of our life and say, okay. Are we being satiated by our needs being met? Sufficiency. Or do we always want more? One more. Where's your faith placed? Who's your shepherd? Easy to take an inventory and figure that one out. Ten past the hour. It's the morning show. 11 minutes past the hour. It's the morning show. February 23rd. 1836, the siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio. 1847 U.S. troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Santa Ana Battle of Buena Fista. 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington, D.C. amid reports of assassination plots. Boy. Yeah.

Raise the American flag atop Mount Surabachi. 1954, schoolchildren in Pittsburgh received the first injections of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. And on this date in 1997, my daughter-in-law was born. So happy birthday. Sweet one, we love having you in our family. What else we got? It is, oh, oh, National Tucci Row Day. That almost warrants a haiku, but, oh, you, you have a Tucci roll? Oh, that's just an underrated goody. It really is. Those minis, those mini tutsi rolls? They're just, they're good. National Tile Day, as in bathroom tile, back splash, floor tile. National Dog Biscuit Day. Once again, when is there not a National Dog Biscuit Day? Do you have a dog? And then, oh, here we go, National Banana Bread Day. Got to have Walnuts in it. I mean, a good banana bread, you just can't pass up. But a banana bread with walnuts? Come on now. That's something special. I don't know. Did you watch any of the Olympics? Holy smokes. Before I went off to church yesterday, I threw the DVR into record mode to get the U.S. Canada men's hockey gold medal game. It's crazy. The women beat Canada. We talked about that in extra time. Now, the women were the far better team, but Canada played big in the women's final. Ended up going to extra time where they go three on three. See, hockey is five on five plus the goalie. In overtime, they open up the ice and it's three on three plus the goalie. And the American women won gold. Well, the men's game was a little different because the more talented better team was the Canadian team. But it doesn't matter now, does it? If you don't win the game. Canada just, I mean, I don't know, they might have had 45, 50 attempts on goal. And our goalie, Connor Hellebuck, Mr. Hellebuck stopped all but one of them. Gave up one goal. He was under an onslaught. I mean, he was the Alamo. And he stopped everything except one goal. The Americans go to overtime. And during regular play, a four-minute penalty against a Canadian for high-sticking smacked one of our players in the, got under his face guard, broke two of his teeth. And he went out there and kept playing and scored the game winner in overtime. Jack Hughes. That'll add a little more sauce to this. These teams hate each other. Even though some of these guys are teammates in the NHL, when they play as nations, they hate each other. I think it's the nations of four or something like that tournament early last year sometime maybe.

The Canadians and the Americans were playing for the title. The officials just dropped the puck to start the game and moved aside, and they dropped gloves and started fighting right then and there before the game really even started. These guys don't like each other. But Olympic gold medal fight at limited. So the U.S. wins and the Canadians are out there sourpussing it, saying, well, we're the much better team. Anybody who watch it? Yeah, but it doesn't care, pal. It doesn't matter. You lost the game. And so once again, the Americans walk away with the trophy just like we've done the Stanley Cup for years. Boy, it's got to hurt. A bunch of socialists losing to capitalism. There's more to say about the Olympics. Maybe we'll get to some of it today. But congratulations to the United States won more gold medals in the Winter Olympics than they ever have. Congratulations. It's great accomplishment. 17 past the hour. Sorry, Canadians, you know?

A couple more things on the Olympics first. Men's hockey, first time winning the gold medal since the miracle on ice in 1980. And oh, by the way, that was that game against the Russians, if I'm not mistaken, was on the same day as the U.S. winning yesterday. February the 22nd. I also want to say something else. The trader, Eileen Gou, won gold medal yesterday in her favorite event. That's fine. Whatever. Here's the point I want to make about the trader. And in case you don't know, she was born here in America. Her mom is from China. But decided to represent her mom. Now, maybe being paid $23 million, most of all of that from China, literally from the Chinese government, had to do with her decision to represent. And here's the question I want you to answer. You know, in case, well, a lot of these athletes get paid. Whatever. I don't know many getting paid by the chikoms. that are from America. There's only one I know of. I promise you this. I don't think there's another athlete. Born in China, living in China, training in China, making 23 mil a year from China. She is a paid propagandist. I came to that conclusion after I listened to her slam America, slam Trump, and she has the gall to live in this country, and represent China? Yeah, see, I, I, yeah, no, I'm not okay with that.

You know, if someone like, for example, Johannes Kleibo, he won, he entered six events in Nordic skiing and won all six. No one's ever done it in the history of that event, representing Norway. He comes and trains in the United States. Because he can't train in Norway because he can't, he can't walk down the streets. He and Erling Holland of Manchester City and soccer are so recognizable as heroes in that nation. They can't go anywhere. You know what? He comes to train here. And then, but I believe he lives in Norway. But you know what? That's different to me. Although I'm not a fan of these college athletes that go to our university system, benefit from all of our training. You know, maybe it's time to say, hey, go train in your nation. Live and train in your nation. If you want to represent your nation, for example, in 2030, you need to spend the next four years in that nation that you're representing. Period. End. That's it. Let's see how it works out for you. You cannot train in another nation. Isn't that truly representative of the nation? But when you think of the number of athletes, That compete internationally, that train in America? It's astounding. It really is. I would love to know how many gold medals American trained athletes won. Because, for example, Yonis Clobbo, is amazing. And all credit to them. Nothing like him. But he trains here. That's six. That's six golds for America right there. Eileen Gou, there's another one. You get my point? I just... She's a paid propagandist, Eileen Gou. That's why China's paying her. She's an American that wants to represent them. Let her. See ya. 27, 28 minutes passed. Okay, no more Olympics.

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I don't remember reading of one attempt on his life. Good. There shouldn't have been. It's not how you conduct yourself in America. But this is how many that we know of and how many we don't know of. Now, the other big story in the press box is the Supreme Court ruling against Trump on tariffs. It was a good ruling. I have no problem with that ruling. I want to read a text that a buddy of mine who's an attorney sent me. And it really was a clue. It was, if I'm not mistaken, lifted from Neil Gorsuch and an article that he wrote for National Review. And, or rather, this is what National Review wrote. Here's the thing. Don't miss this. When Gorsuch asked him about the peril of future presidents, the Department of Justice lawyer, Trump's lawyer, agreed. If the IEEPA, which is the declaration of an emergency for tariff power, if the IEEPA allows Trump tariffing. Then a future Democrat president could use it also for whatever insane progressive agenda they felt like just by declaring a state of emergency. No one disputed that. Everybody agreed. And so. There are aspects of the dissent that notably Trump picked up on the dissent by Brett Kavanaugh calling him a hero. There are parts of that dissent that are spot on right. The president has other ways to go about this. If the court said the president did contain inherent powers to impose tariffs, why do you have to declare an emergency? Right? If he has these powers, then he doesn't need to proclaim a national emergency. And if he can declare a national emergency to invoke tariffs, what else can a president do? I don't have a problem with this. Well, then how is it that they cited with the three liberal justices, the activist judges? They hate Trump. They're going to rule against him no matter what he does. I mean, for the most part, so I don't necessarily think that, you know, Thomas Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, I don't think they see the broader implications of this. I think you might remember when Trump went this route, I said, I don't know that he has the power to do this. But I'm glad he's doing it. Now we know he can't. So he'll go about doing it other ways. Brett Kavanaugh's argument is solid. Wait, he can stop imports, but he can't impose tariffs. Yeah, because tariffs are part of the purse string, and the purse string belongs to Congress. Got to maintain the separation of powers. I think it was for the good of the country, a safe ruling.

Boy, we never run out of things to just chat about, do we? I'm kind of like a chef preparing the buffet table every day. Let's see. What shall we put out on the buffet table today? A little Olympic, huh? Let's talk about the swine. Who shall remain nameless, eh? We'll put a little swine on the buffet table, too. And speaking of, let's talk to Democrats. Tyler Redick here from 2311 racing. Victory Lane? Yeah, it's even better with Chumba by my side. Race to Chumpacasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Void were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. You know, we have to get our arms around so many things. And if you're not careful, this will, this, all of the news can overwhelm. And that's why you need to.

You need to not just put your head down and pretend it's not happening. I don't see it. I don't see it. You know, hear no evil, see no evil, speak, no evil thing. You cannot just shudder it and close it down. We are supposed to be part of preserving what our founders gave us. And I'm telling you now, I'm going to share something probably tomorrow. That takes all the mystery out of the whole Islam thing. They're out to conquer this country, and a dude in Chicago said it out loud. We're not here to coexist. Those are his words. We're not here to coexist. But one of the other issues is the size and scope of government. When you hear the Democrats saying, they just want to take your Medicaid, they want to take your Medicare, they want to take your money. No, no, we want to get the fraud. For example, former NFL player didn't play but a minute in the NFL, played for Yukon. Keith Gray convicted last week in a genetic testing fraud scheme that defrauded Medicare of $328 million. This is one case. Nearly a third of a billion dollars. One case. Here's what they would do. They build Medicare for unnecessary genetic tests to elevate and evaluate the risk of various... cardiovascular diseases. So what they would do is they would seek out Medicare beneficiaries and then they would doctor chase to uncover the identity of the beneficiaries primary care physicians. Once they found out who the doctor was, they'd begin pressuring them for these genetic tests. And enough went along with it. 328 million. The guy bragged about bathing in $1 bills. I got to fill out my bathtub with all the money.

One case, there is fraud in every one of these government programs. Personally, I think it's really easy to uproot it, get it out. Friends, you can be across the other part of the world. Swipe your card and it knows whether you've got money in your account or not, whether you've got credit available. This should not be hard. 47 minutes passed. There's more. Sal Nuzzo joins us with the unfortunate update of the legislative session, but we have tons to get through between now and then. Also this week, Peter Schweitzer joins us for about an hour to go over his book. New York Times bestseller shot to number one in hours, I think. I think it's the most important book he's ever written, but I'll ask him. Jerome Hudson this week, Mike Wolf from American Pickers. The news show debuted last night. History's greatest picks. History Channel celebrating the 250 for America. They've rolled out this program. Mike Wolf hosts. I've talked with him. Interviewed him on Friday. We're going to air that interview on Thursday. So, oh, and Lee Williams joins us Friday. So we are just, that's why you listen. The other shows don't do that for you. Certainly not in morning drive. We've just been given favor. And we get great guests that are incredible people that make time for us. What? History Channel? What are they doing with that? We've forged a relationship over a decade. That's why people on the History Channel do this show. That's why. We have guests like Peter Schweitzer for 15 plus years. We just, I mean, Justin Haskins is a bestselling author. Works with Glenn Beck, works with the Heartland Institute, writes his own books. He's got a new book coming out himself. He's a regular guest. Members of Congress, the U.S. Senate.

We talked about, well, I did a commentary last week about Germany. And a guy being asked for his ticket to show he paid for his ticket. A Greek national, 26 years old, he didn't like being asked. So what did he do? He did what anyone would do. He beat the train conductor to death. Killed him. So Germany's gone with this policy now. If the passenger looks scary, don't ask him for the ticket. I'm not kidding. If the passengers and a woman... or elderly, or looks harmless, compliant, go ahead and ask them for their ticket. But if they look like they're a ruffian, don't ask them for a ticket. What do you think is going to happen? They publicized this. What do you think is going to happen on the railway system? Bad guys are going to show up and ride the train for free, and they're not going to do a thing about it.

That's called stupid. First hour in the book, second hour coming right now here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Tyler Redick here from 2311 racing. The rush of racing, nothing beats it. But Chumba Casino comes close. Chumba's got fast spins, fun games, daily bonuses, and all the action you can handle. Now that's a run. Ready to hit the throttle? Get in the driver's seat and head to chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law. 21 plus. Terms and conditions apply. A massive winter storm moving into the northeast and nor'easter, and so if you're planning to travel up there, you better check your itinerary and make a few phone calls because it's bad in the northeast. Cold winter's not giving up, but we were warned. The groundhogs told us six more weeks, very beginning of February. We're in week number four. So according to the groundhogs, we got another couple weeks. And then some. I mean, usually you have another cold snap right around Easter, which is the beginning of April. And so it's, we'll get there. It's all right. It's so interesting how the news right now is following certain themes. Right now, really big is illegal immigration. By the way, did you see what happened in Mexico? Puerto Vallata. United States told all Americans traveling there, if you're in a resort, stay there. Don't leave the property. Not even sure that the resorts were safe. But boy, that just cemented. Why would you ever visit Mexico?

Not a chance. How well do you speak Spanish, Jose? Not very well. I understand everything, though. You just not, you can't necessarily speak it. Yeah, speaking is a little rusty and I get made fun of a lot. By other. Yeah, by better. Because none of us would know. People that don't speak the language. Yeah. But I mean, would you feel comfortable traveling in Mexico? Yeah, it's funny that you ask, we went many years ago and we stood out like sore thumbs. Everybody knew we were foreigners, even though we're Mexican ourselves. Well, I'm half Mexican. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But my mother's fool, and she stood out like a sore thumb. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Yeah, the cartels were mad because the military killed one of their leaders. And so the cartels just started blasting up the community. What more do you need to know? And I'll tell you why I think this happened, because Trump's been putting pressure on the Mexican government. This is going to get really ugly. I'm going to tell you right now, but there's no chance I would be a tourist in Mexico. I wouldn't get off a boat. If I were on a cruise, I wouldn't even go on a cruise that ported itself, that docked in Cozumel or Cancun or no way. No way. Anyway. That's not what I was going to talk about. Stephen Spielberg is leaving California. Now, maybe it's because California is planning to put the wealth tax in action. Do you know what that is? Now, I mean, do you know what the literal, what it is? They're not taxing income. However you have, however much you have in the bank, they're going to take 5% of that one time, a one-time tax. They say. We're only doing it once. You know what that? That's just like when they started the flat tax. It's only this amount. We're not raising it. And there's a true story. Guy in Congress said, no, what's going to stop the government from raising it? He was literally challenged to a fight. Dare you, sir, besmirch the government. We would never do such a thing. We're at 37%. So just let me put some context on this. Spielberg's wealth is estimated to be north of $5 billion. He would be asked to pay a one-time tax. of $265 million. So he moved. Guess where he moved to? Ha, New York. What's he going to do when Zohran Mamdani does the same thing? But here's what I find the most interesting of all of it.

All these people on the left supporting Democrats and they want to tax, tax, tax, tax, bigger government, bigger, and then when they're asked to pay for it, they leave. They avoid paying. They want you to pay it. There were so many replies online. Saving private property. Raiders of the lost wealth. They're thinking of even taxing you if you leave the state, which is, I think, would be just destroyed in seconds in the Supreme Court. Don't think for one second they're not plotting to do this stuff. They'll take your money however they can. Ten past the hour. Speaking of the Zohran Mamdani. Remember the movie Big with Tom Hanks, where he's a little guy, and he goes to the Zoltar machine. and gets a fortune card and wakes up and he's big. He's a young boy mentally, but he has now the body of a man. And it's a really fun movie. Tom Hanks is in it. And there's so many memes going around and, you know, AI videos turning Zohran Mamdani into the great Zoltar, putting him in this little box with a turban on his head and the whole nine yards. Washington Post editorial board. Socialist Utopia is expensive, but the new mayor didn't exactly inherit a frugal city. Zohran Mamdani is proposing a $127 billion budget up $5 billion from last year. That's a city budget bigger than the state budgets of 47 states. Even state government of Florida, population 23 million spends less than New York City. And the state still managed to attract hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in recent years. The reality is that Americans may like the idea of free stuff. It's how socialists win elections. but they are less excited about having to pay for it.

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Five different types of ID to shovel snow in New York City on an emergency basis, but by God you can vote with no ID at all. Were I in court, I would say, I risk my case, Your Honor. Hand it to the jury. Florida Chamber of Commerce, President Mark Wilson. We'll talk more about this. On Fox business looks like state is getting more than $4 million in wealth per hour from people moving here from high-tax states. We are now the 14th largest economy in the world ahead of Spain. Just jump past Spain. Don't bring your, don't, don't bring your politics with you. Don't you do it. Why is this so hard? I'll tell you why this is this so hard?

Because we've educated a couple of generations of young people poorly in public schools. And parents have not been invested enough in their child's education to notice. Oh, sure, they know. But they didn't do anything about it. We've got young people, and sadly, it might even be the way some of you think. You're younger. Maybe you're in their late 20s, 30s, and you don't realize how badly you were indoctrinated against America. This country... is where people want to come for two reasons, to have a shot at success and to take it from us, to use the freedoms we have against us. That's what Islam is doing. That's what socialists are doing. The inherent weakness of this country is its freedoms.

Again, I will continue to say it. I believe that our Constitution provides a way for us to keep socialists and communists from running for office and to prevent Islamists from running for office. Because to be an Islamist, to be an actual Islamist means you cannot support the equal rights that are afforded Americans because they're afforded women. They're afforded the LGBTQ community. And Islam does not tolerate that. Now the housing market is about to crash in New York. Because Zohran Mamdani wants rent controls. Founder of the Gotham Housing Alliance, guy named Umberto Lopez. I have people walking away. I have two people selling their buildings right now. I have more people selling the buildings and leaving for Texas and Florida. People are already coming to me. I have their buildings on the market. Since January, my business is real estate. I'm a licensed corporate broker. It is doubled the number of buildings we are selling. Here's the problem, though. Everybody knows. You know who the only buyer is going to be? The city. You watch, and then what happens? When the city owns it, it goes off the tax rolls. So you now crater the revenue that comes in again further. So what happens? The government takes over more and more and more. It's a black hole. And it just keeps soaking and soaking and soaking. The people that live there, they're going to leave. The businesses are already leaving. The wealth is leaving. And now you have people on the street saying, well, we need to not let them leave. Good luck. They're leaving. You ever see those Roadrunner cartoons where the Roadrunner leaves and Wiley Coyote is just sitting there and all that's left behind is that little dust devil? That's what you've got. People are leaving New York and all you have is the trail behind. That's it. Let's come back with the big stories in the press box. Here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Looking for a little Hollywood-style fun? Check out Ryan Seacrest 10K Ways exclusively at Chumba Casino. There's 10,000 ways to play. Get spinning for free at chumpacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Voidware prohibited by law. CTs and Cs 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. On News Radio 100.7. WFLA.

You know, Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse strings. I am leaning towards thinking that this was a needed ruling. I agree with Trump's actions. Just don't misunderstand me. I'm just not sure he had the authority to do it that Supreme Court said he didn't. There are things he can do. There are things he can do. Now, Brett Kavanaugh said, look. He can freeze importations from a country. He has that authority. So what's the difference? That makes no sense that he can't then assert tariff numbers. Now, I will say President Trump has a habit of engaging in hyperbole that I don't think helps him. I really don't. But the ruling has come. I am not certain it's a bad ruling. It may be. You know, Thomas could probably talk me into thinking I'm wrong. But on the face right now, I'm not sure that it is. You know, the liberals, well, you're citing with the liberal, the activist judicial wing here. Well, they hate anything Trump stands for, it does. So I'm willing to write that off as not necessarily sound legal reasoning, more just unbridled hatred. The other big story, of course, is that we have a knuckled head that tried to bring a shotgun and a gas can. And I guess in theory, he was going to try to set Mar-a-Lago on fire and maybe shoot anybody who was coming out. I don't know what the point was, but he got killed. 21-year-old kid. Come back with the, uh, Dr. Joe next. Doing it his way, like old blue eyes. Except he has a little more hair. Morning show with Preston Scott.

Time for some healthy expectations. And joining us is Dr. Joe Camps. Good morning, Dr. Camps. How are you? I'm great this morning and finished my walk. It was not too cold, Preston, once I got up to speed. But some interesting information, a bipartisan bill was filed last week in the U.S. Senate. And basically, this was dealing with methods to lower the health care costs. And so what it... Basically, it would eliminate or prohibit companies from being both the provider of health care service. And then the entity that determines how much consumers have to pay for them. So if you're driving both buckets, guess what's going to happen. The per capita spending is going to go through the roof, and that's exactly what happens. And so three of these conglomerates, the United Health Group, CVS Health and Cigna Health, basically... among the 13th largest companies by revenue in the United States. And these entities own not only the insurance aspect of it, but they own large pharmacies. They own middlemen. They own thousands of pharmacies, and they own doctors' offices. And so basically, they're playing both sides of the fence. And so what's going on here is basically... they've been able now to drive per capita spending from consumers through the roof. And so I think this is an important step towards lowering health care costs. And you can only imagine, if you own both entities, you can only imagine what that does to the bottom line. So I'm glad to see that our Congress has taken some action regarding this because, unfortunately, health care costs and getting access is becoming insurmountable for a lot of people. And I really, I feel bad about that. But that's where we are, and I'm glad to see that they're paying attention to some of these issues. As good as the legislation is, Joe, it just, it points right back to where you and I actually started these segments 23 plus years ago. And that was the single best thing any one of us can do is to be proactive about our health and not reactive. Exactly. And, you know, I think that that's probably starting to gain some traction. You just got to do it, Preston. I mean, it's like, I mean, no one wants to walk when it's cold or no one wants to ride a bike or you don't want to. turn away that pie or that piece of cake, but we really do need to get control of our health. And boy, if you don't, you're going to spend a lot of your resources on that. So keeping up with this stuff, Preston, you know, things are moving targets all over the place, but I'm glad that somebody's got some eye on because I can't imagine three of these insurers.

have the largest per capita revenue among the largest 13 countries, I mean 13 largest entities that deals with capital. So that just tells you that this is an insurmountable amount of money. And we need to take control of not only our spending, but much more our health, and so that we don't have to access these services. You know, what interests me, obviously I spend a lot of time talking about the political side of any issue, and this would be one that has a political side to it, sadly. While both sides of the aisle agree, affordability with medical care is a massive issue. One side believes in asserting more government control in a single-payer system. The other side believes in more competition, more free market solutions. Well, I certainly believe in the free market solution because... Once you have total government control of health care, access is going to be a problem, finding providers and people to work in that industry with all the regulatory activities and all the issues you deal with. And let's be honest about it, the pay is apt to be decreased, so you're going to have a product, I believe, would not deliver what it's intended to do. I'm like you, President. Sometimes when the government gets control of things, all bets are awful, what the outcomes are going to be. But I don't want to have to experiment with that. And I don't now. I'm retired. Sure. I'm accessing health care for myself when I need it. So I'm on the consumer side of this issue right now. Well, there's a reason why those single-payer nations have patients coming to America still. You go up in the northern part of the country, and they just flock over from Canada like you wouldn't believe because government-sponsored health care cost is not on the cutting edge and where it needs to be. Yeah, not just that, but wait times as well or just through the roof. I mean, some of these people wait. I mean, six, seven months to get access. I mean, six, seven months to get access. I mean... Can you imagine? And I can only imagine how many people suffer, and ultimately probably some of them die because they can't get access. And so we always talk about access, but you've got to be able to get into the system to access the care that you need. So we'll keep our eye on these issues and bring them up as we see fit, Preston, and keep our listeners informed as to some of the legislation that affects us all. So I hope... I hope things go well for us in this session of our state legislature. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate the time. All right, buddy. Okay, take care, Preston. Dr. Joe Camps with us. Healthy Expectations here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Sal Neuzo in just a little bit. Consumers Defense, the legislative session that is, it's interesting because even rank and file citizens of Florida, people that aren't necessarily invested are observing what a train record is. And are just embarrassed. I think there's, while lawmakers have to take ownership of it, I think there's one person that's really orchestrating all of this. And I'll save that for post-session. We'll do a post-session, post-mortem. And I'll give you my thoughts on that. But for right now, we'll give you a blow-by-blow what's going on. In the last week, what's teed up to happen this week and just how many special sessions might be coming our way, which, of course, digs into the budget because you've got to pay for it. You've got to pay for the special session. But... We've got plenty of time to unpack that. In case you missed tomorrow, Jerome Hudson and Breitbart, we'll take another run at that one. Last time was the day that our studio just went, and so we had to cancel all of our interviews that Thursday. So we've got Jerome set up. Wednesday, Peter Schweitzer's in studio with us for a full hour. Thursday, of course, we've got a busy day, but we will have Mike Wolfe, my interview with, yeah, that guy from American Pickers. Yours truly, Mike Wolf, together, one time, one place. No, I recorded the interview on Friday, and so we'll share that. And then Friday, we have Lee Williams, the gun writer. I came across this. I thought this was useful. It's called the 6-1 grocery shopping method. Six to one. Ready? It's a New York-based chef and cookbook author, Will Coleman. One, what you do before you head to the supermarket is you make sure you know what's in your pantry. What do you have? Okay. So once you've done that, you then employ the six to one grocery shopping method. Six vegetables fresh or frozen. onions, leafy greens, root vegetables, six vegetables. Five fruits can be frozen for snacks, for smoothies, whatever. Four proteins. Chicken, fish, beans, yogurt, whatever you use for proteins. Pick four. Then three starches. grains, carbs, pasta, rice, potatoes, then pick two sauces or spreads that you use as the pizzazz to your meal, the accoutrement. Now, of course, that doesn't mean you can't just use spices and save the sauce for just really special meals. And so you grab two sauces and then one fun item for the family to enjoy. 6 to 1, but go with a very intentional list. And most users of this list, if they're spending $85 a week on groceries, $100 a week, they're saving 30 to 40% on average. If their weekly bills, $85, $90, they're saving roughly $35 to $45.

By being intentional in planning out your week, that's six down. It's not six to one as in a ratio. It's six, five, four, three, two, one. So if you want to look at it, there you go. It's six items, then five, then four, then three, then two, then one. And you're controlling your budget. Just say you. And of course, you know, be seasonal. If something's on sale, take advantage, adjust your list maybe a little bit. When we come back, We will take inventory of something else. It's the legislative session in Florida. And despite supermajorities being controlled by the GOP, the grand old party is managing to embarrass itself. And we'll talk about that next on the morning show with Preston Scott. Hello, it is Ryan, and we could all use an extra bright spot in our day, couldn't we? Just to make up for things like sitting in traffic, doing the dishes, counting your steps, you know, all the mundane stuff. That is why I'm such a big fan of Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has all your favorite social casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere, with daily bonuses. So sign up now at chumbac casino.com. That's chumbac casino.com.

go the third hour of the morning show with Creston Scott I'm Preston he's Jose and I've just I threw a curveball at Sal when he walked in the doorway I said brother you got to go to a different chair and a different microphone I know it feels very odd right now yeah yeah we're squared up here I mean how many years have I been sitting in that chair over there to the right Quite a few. Yeah. So welcome. How are you? I'm a little off kilter. But other than that, I am great. How are you, sir? You know, I've been marveling at the number of people that are not engaged in the legislative session. Not, and I mean, no one is as you are. There are very few. I mean, there are people that that have to pay attention to what's going on. Okay, we accept that. And we're grateful you're on our side. That said, I'm. pretty engaged, not to your level, maybe not even half at your level. But when I start hearing from people that are not engaged, What's going on with the legislative session? Boy, it seems like it's getting really bad over there. Why aren't they getting anything done? When just people at the grocery store are feeling badly about what's going on? So let me just ask, Sal, what the heck's happening? Yeah, it is something that we have been kind of monitoring over the course of the last roughly year or so since we've had this. kind of transitional period where it's the last couple of years of the governor's final term, new leadership coming in, what is the tenor of leadership with the governor? And one thing that I landed on as you and I have talked about this over the course of the last several months even, we talked last week about a couple of the prior times where this has happened. And one thing of note is, While social media was an element of the discourse, it was not as advanced and the algorithms had not curated to the degree that they are now doing. And what I think I see is... We're now seeing it kind of seep out the drama into the rings around the process where people are not always paying attention, but they get news. And so they are beginning to see a lot of what is transpiring where, you know, 10, 15 years ago, it would have been contained within the bubble. Few people then recognized the weapon. potential of social media as it is today. Yeah. And so it's being leveraged. Yeah, it's being leveraged and you have a couple of things. And I know we don't want to necessarily get into a discussion of what.

goes into reapportionment. But over the last two reapportionment cycles, you have not just in Florida, but nationwide, this desire to protect districts. And I get it politically. But what it has done is it has created a situation where, coupled with social media and how cheap it is to get your word out on social media, you've got very, very safe districts where you only have to worry about someone coming at you from the flank, from your prime. primary position as opposed to the other party. And so you dig in heels and your middle kind of bends out and you have this bell curve. And so what's happening now is social media is leveraging and manipulating that and creating a scenario in which you have this intra-party fighting that is now seeped out into the broader populace of voters who are now paying attention. We've got an amendment left in this segment. So to try to keep this orderly, what's going on with the executive branch? Yeah. So the governor, a rather unique trip. I've never seen this happen in all of my years. He went up to Kentucky to give legislative testimony in a legislative committee on the state passing a balance or a call for a federal balanced budget amendment. So. I was wondering about this and I'm like, why is the governor of the third largest state going up to Kentucky and sitting in a committee room to give it, you know, remarks? And I can absolutely now see a scenario in which our governor, when he departs office, could either join an existing policy organization and make this, you know, fiscal sanity is champion cause or start his own thing up. where he kind of tries to advance the causes that Florida has taken on over his time. It's definitely worth pursuing. And I think given his wonkiness, it might be right up his alley. Sal Nuzzo with us, Executive Director of Consumer's Defense. More to come on the morning show with Preston Scott.

This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Living past the hour, the morning show. Sal Nuzzo with us talking about the legislative session, such as it is, and continuing with the executive. Yeah, so one other thing that's worth noting from the governor's office. So the issue at hand is with higher education accreditation. Most people, this is very in the weeds. They don't understand it if you're not in the policy world or in post-secondary education. If you want to access federal funds, student loans, and all of that, you have to have your school accredited by a body. And there are accreditation bodies around the country. And they concentrate on different types of schools and whatnot. Those accrediting bodies have largely been co-opted by the left. Even so far as when Florida passed its anti-DEI bill for post-secondary institutions for state universities. They had to exempt out the accrediting bodies because, for example, Florida's law school is accredited by the American Bar Association. It is the only accrediting body for law schools in the United States. And they require all of these crazy DEI measures. So the legislature had to exempt the accrediting body from the anti-DEI bill. Well. The state has now been trying to fight back on this. And so one thing that has transpired is a number of southern states have come together to develop their own accrediting body that would kind of compete with these woke left ones. And the Trump administration recently granted the governor a million dollars in the USDAOE budget to pursue this. Huge opportunity. There's a lot more coming out on this now. Okay. So that's worth noting. One thing from the Attorney General last week on Friday launched a public integrity unit to weed out corruption in the use of public money. This is a big deal and I think it's an effort that quite honestly, I was surprised the Attorney General's office hadn't had it for years. And so that's worth noting. The CFO, his lone primary opponent in the race, probably dropped out last week and endorsed Blaze in Goliath. So now Blaze has a clear path to the nomination for his own full term. And I don't know that the Dems have anybody that they're really putting up seriously against them. And then on the ad commissioner, he got his farm bill across the Senate. We'll have to see if the House takes it up. I'm assuming they will each agency. Bubba Wallace here from 2311 racing. You know what's slower than a pace car? Waiting at the car wash. That's when I fire up Chumba Casino.

It turns those slow minutes into fast fun. With new games every week, you'll never get bored. Next time you're stuck in the slow lane, speed up with Chumba. Play now at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, Ford, where prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. It has to have their bill, but yes. One week ago, we were talking about the theater that was unveiled between the House and the Senate and... who broke the protocols and the etiquette of releasing their budget before the other and without agreeing. Where are we on the budget? Yeah, yeah. We talked about that last week. They moved past that. Both of the chambers have... pass through their budget bills. They've named conferees. What that now triggers is we will probably next week get what we call the allocations, which are the general fund pots of money within each major spending category. And then the budget conference will begin taking up and they'll meet, they'll go through weekends in order to get the budget prepared on time. They would need to have it on the Wednesday before that. Friday when they signy die. That's going to begin transpiring. We may see them begin to meet this weekend, but at the very latest, I would think early next week is when the conference begins. How refreshing is it that they have to do this? They have to balance the budget. Oh yeah. And it's one where to the governor's credit, he's pushing this nationally. Wouldn't it be great if, you know, Lord willing, the federal government decided to take a cue from the states here? What has passed both chambers? Yeah, last week we talked about the fact that there had only been two bills that had passed the full legislature. They were both local relief bills. As of yesterday, we had five total general bills. None of them really major. 89 was a veterinarian prescription drug disclosure rule. 893 and 5401 were on trust funds. 7011 was on aquaculture. The only one that really made news was 99. on commercial services airports because it does rename Palm Beach International Airport to Trump International Airport. It just sounds like another hotel property, though. Yeah, it does. We're going to have gold walkways and people movers. And, of course, it'll be the best ever. It'll be the best ever. It'll be huge. More to come with Sal Nuzzo of Consumers Defense here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Tell you what, when the morning show band came out of the studio and they said, give this all a listen. We had six different folders of music. I was like, men and women, you did well. There could be a seventh folder coming, though. Joining us here on the program, as always on Monday during the legislative session is Sal Nuzzo of Consumers Defense. And we've kind of plowed through the... Nothing consequential has really been passed. Not yet. At least not by both chambers together. Right. Right. Yeah. And so we've got a budget process underway. Is property tax reform? Because I saw, we talked about on the show last week, the proposal by the House, I still think it's premature. I don't believe they could possibly have done the required studying of this issue. I'm all in favor of let's do something here. But. What are your thoughts? Are we going to see a special session on this? So the house did pass officially H.J.R. 203, which is one of the eight proposals that they had proffered ahead of the session. Is it likely the only one to get through the house? Yes. That's what I thought. They are putting all of their eggs in that basket. What it does is it establishes a $1 million homestead exemption. And it gets there over a period of 10 years. So each year, once it were to be voted in, so starting in 2027, an additional $100,000 would be added to your homestead exemption up to $1 million. So even the wealthy of wealthy will get a $1 million break over time. Correct. But it is only on the non-school portion of your property taxes, which is a big thing. I mean, it is not a complete elimination of your property tax bill. And so I looked and I had to go searching because I didn't pay attention when I got my trim statement. So in Leon County. Our current millage rate is 8.4 total. The school portion of that is 5.3 mils. So for every $100,000 of taxable value, it's $520 or something like that. And so if you were to purchase a home for, say, $300,000 and we'll say your baseline and that is your primary residence, you would have as that $300,000 taxable value, it looks like about. $930 a year at the you know once the entirety of that resolution were to be enacted you would still pay about $930 a year on the $300,000 home because in Leon County the school portion would still be 5.3 mills here to me and you tell me if this is being discussed the big issue is What happens if you don't pay it? And this is where there is not yet written in.

implementing language because it is a resolution that has to go to the ballot and be voted in. If it were to pass both chambers, and it's important to note, there is no Senate companion for this. So they would have to waive a bunch of rules and do some things creatively to get it through. And quickly. Yeah. So it would then go on the ballot if it gets to the 60%. And then the legislature would come back in and develop implementing rules, which would answer those kind of questions. Because you've referenced, and I agree with this, is one easy fix to help this is you make a person's primary residence where they cannot have it taken from them. No lien can be attached. No lien can be attached. Now, there are definitely... parts of that that have got to be unpacked and it's going to be a little bit more complex than that. But that's one thing where it would move. But as I mentioned, the Senate doesn't have it. And there's now talk of maybe an early April special session to come back in and do this. And to your point, Because there isn't a whole lot of meat behind this, it's allowed the left to come in and create the narrative. So I've seen articles this week where they're talking about how Republicans in Florida are defunding the police. And they're passing a $14 billion cut to services that local governments are just going to be destitute on. Because the messaging was not handled the way it should have been. Yep. And that's by design, in my opinion. We allowed the opposition to come in and dictate it and kind of define the story. And it's going to be a bigger hill to climb come November. Yeah, we've talked about the messaging for a long time on this program of the right being so pathetically bad. It's particularly annoying to me, Sal, when I believe it's intentional. I don't know that I'm there. I'm just not there. Because of the people involved on this particular argument in that particular chamber, that's where I'm at. I think there are absolutely probably pockets of... where some strategyry and manipulation of the arena might have occurred. I'm not there 100%. I think there is a lot of good intention, especially in, I think, the governor's office and the team will come up with that idea. Do you think this idea came from the governor's office, though? The specific House resolution? No. This is one where the governor rightly recognizes separation of powers here. And it's saying, look, there is a legacy idea. Here is where we should be tacking legislature. You're the policymaking body. We need you to come up with the plan. We're going to talk about bills that are moving, have some momentum, what might be done maybe next on the morning show with Preston Scott.

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Florida got, I think it was 14 million in the 2024 cycle for the two, the weed and the abortion amendments. This would close those loopholes big time. And so that's one that I think is just, it's one that needs to continue to move. And Aaron Grawl has it in the Senate. 905 is her other big one. It's the foreign influence bill. This is an issue that is on the radar for the governor, the attorney general, and others. It would require disclosure if you're working for any foreign country of concern. And that's an official list. It's China, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Russia, and North Korea. You'd be required to register if you are representing them in any way before the state. mirror federal what they call the FARA rules, a federal foreign agents registration act rules. How do they police it? There's an enforcement mechanism with a lot of fines and whatnot. They kind of mirror what the enforcement mechanism is at the state level. And you could actually kind of lose your ability to practice what you're doing in the state as well. So no more of these sister city agreements with countries of concern. What we had found is that you would establish these things. Then it would revolve into these kind of joint ventures and people are traveling. back and forth, and it just opens the door for espionage. Okay. Prohibits charitable organizations from accepting contributions from foreign organizations and terrorist organizations along with some protections for critical infrastructure. Is there any due diligence requirement on those organizations to find out more about? where that money's coming from, how it's getting to them. And therein lies, I've got to look this up because the other part of it I needed to compare it to was a law that passed by Wilton Simpson's office last year, the farm bill that also had some issues related to or some provisions related to accepting donations from foreign entities. So, oh, and it does also create some criminal offenses and penalty enhancements to your point in terms of how they enforcement. All right. We got more to come. One more segment with Sal News over Consumer's Defense. Next on the morning show with Preston Scott.

what we were talking about about 15, 20 minutes ago. Ask about derogatory speech against Israel being eliminated from the free speech as part of that bill. You have anything about that? I'll have to take a look at it. I do know that there was some language in the Agriculture Agency bill that was about disparagement, but it was in the agriculture arena and they yanked that. Yeah, it needs to be yanked. I will have to check on that. I know that there was a bill that passed a couple of years ago related to... defining anti-Semitism in the context of speech in particular in classes. But I'm with you there. I think there's a slippery. It is very slippery. I'll take a look into that and figure out where it's navigating. All right. So what else do we have? Yeah, we're kind of back into the realm of stuff that's moving in one chamber, but not necessarily the other. Last week, the Senate, the full Senate passed 840, which was Nick DeSegli's bill on recovery from natural disaster. This is a very good bill. It fixed some glitches in what they had passed last year. It's... It's a minor bill. It passed unanimously urging from the senators on the floor for the other chamber to take it up. The House companion not made an agenda. The House is moving a data center bill, but it's something on these hyper-scale data centers that is not linked to the Senate bill. And so I'm trying to figure out where the tea leaves are on that one. I found a bill I really liked HB665 from Kian Michaels. Sales tax exemption for disabled veterans when they purchase a new car. Now, normally I'm not a big like carve-outs and exemption guy. I kind of like this one because I think there's some room that we can go on this that protects the sales tax base for future potential bumps. And I have some strategy in my head there. It's moving in the House, but no companion in the Senate. SB 32 and 210. The full Senate pass these. It would expand out the protections for individuals who are impacted by violence from known attackers. And this is where I think I mentioned this a few weeks back. It's this like gray area where if you're a victim of domestic violence but you're not married to the person, there's some challenges with some of the ways that the statutes go. Great bills there and House Companion hasn't been on a single agenda. And you've got 1093 and SB 1362 on vertiports. Looking like it'll land, pun intended. Yeah. They did take out civil liability immunity from that bill. Tell everybody what a vertiport is. So a vertiport is imagine Uber or a taxi, but it's kind of like a helicopter. It's really a four-man drone. I know it sounds like the Jetsons, but in the last two years, I've actually been to at least a half a dozen.

policy events where they're not just talking about this like it's like they're demonstrating it they're demonstrating them they're ready to deploy them they just need the regulatory framework to begin pilot testing them and and that's not a pun that was intended yeah yeah All right. What's coming up this week? This week, you've got a really big Senate hearing for confirmation of a number of the governor's appointments. That's a big deal. And there's a couple in there that I'm paying attention to if they try to create some drama. On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee will begin taking up a bunch of the local land use and zoning bills that are really going to try and get at some of the parts of the affordability issue that we're facing. They've got a six hours. committee meeting, while the House Commerce Committee also has a pretty long one. One bill I'm going to take a look at and report on. I want to see how it transpires on advanced nuclear reactors. It's something that we have not really had a whole heap of discussion on in the state of Florida, but I saw this on the agenda and I'm like, ooh, I want to find out some more information on that. You've got the Speaker's health care priorities up in the Health and Human Services Committee. Wednesday, all day for House members on the floor. I stopped counting at about 75 bills that are currently on the special order calendar. The Senate gets their appropriations committees moving. The agendas for Thursday are not out yet. But if you are in the Capitol, it is Children's Week. It is one of my favorite weeks because they decorate the rotunda up. My wife, who's involved in that arena, has been a part of the decorating crew. So go check it out. Enjoy kids drawings everywhere. Kids drawings everywhere. It'll give you, you know, all the... good feelings for at least a day. Should we have any high hopes for much getting done? What I wanted to ask you is all these bills that don't have a companion in the other chamber. What percentage of them ever get one? 10%. Oh, less than that. Yeah. Less than that. It's one where you're going to see a lot of bills being touted as they've been passed by the House or passed by the Senate, and people will wonder, well, why hasn't the governor signed it? And it's because they didn't get passed through the other chamber. Now, to some of that. I often tell people there are a lot of times where you're just going to have to expect a three-year cycle to get something through. The problem is that we've been talking about a lot of these for well more than three years. Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure. Sal Nuzzo with Consumers Defense, our guest on the morning show with Preston Scott.

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