Ep. 5530: Florida Nurse Gets What She Deserves.

Hey, good morning. It's going to be cold. Oh, boy. Yeah, the colder weather is going to blow on in, and it's going to be chilly for the next several days. So bundle up, get yourself. Do not let your kids leave the house dressed inappropriately, especially teenage boys and girls. I don't know what it is about knucklehead teenagers. It's like, I'm tough. I don't, I wear shorts and sandals. You're a fool. It's going to be cold. Anyway, and check their bags, because they'll do the old switcheroo on when it comes to clothes. You know about that. Anyway, we thank you. Hope you had a good weekend. It's, it's Monday, January 26, show 5530. here of the morning show and let's start with some scripture Psalm 8 verses 3 and 4 when I look at your heavens by the way I've got a story coming up this half hour that's going to blow your mind lead research assistants sent it my way and said this is incredible and it ties with our script I didn't this is just in the devotional okay when I look at your heavens the work of your fingers The moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him? In other words, who are we? I'll tell you who you are. You're God's image bearer. And Satan hates you. And all of his little minions, demons hate you. They hate... all mankind because whether you acknowledge Christ as your Lord and Savior whether you acknowledge the God of the universe or not you are his image bearer and they hate you for it but all you have to do is turn your your head to the skies to nature to just kind of look around what is man that thou art mindful of him Thank you, God. Ten past the hour. Monday. Morning show. Going to be a good one. Stick around, kiddos.

By the way, for those of you that are golf fans, Scotty Sheffler, come on. Come on. Only Tiger Woods has reached 20 wins in professional golf faster. Only Tiger. He ended last year winning the final tournament of the year that he played in. He won the first tournament that he played in this year and smoked the field. He got careless and won by only four shots instead of six. Guys just, and I love that he loves Jesus. That's the thing, man. He's made over $100 million in golf in the last. four years, three and a half years or so. And he's probably going to Home Depot to get a tractor or something. I mean, the dude is just so down to earth. Love him. Absolutely love him. He's a credit to the kingdom of God. January 26th, what do we got here? 1784, Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin writes to his daughter that a turkey would be a better national symbol than the bald eagle. I'm looking at his bobble over here. Ben. Ben. Ben. No. You are incredible. But brother, you are wrong on that one. Thank goodness he did not prevail in that argument. 1837, Michigan becomes the 26th state. Louisiana secedes from the Union on this date in 1861. 1945, Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II wounded while holding off a German attack in eastern France. That is one of the great, great stories of the war. And in 1970. Listen to this. Navy Lieutenant Everett Alvarez Jr., the first American aviator shot down over North Vietnam, spends his 2,000th day as a prisoner of war in 1970. Talk about surviving hell. Dear goodness gracious. You don't know what that was all about. Check out stories about like the Hanoi Hilton and all that. Insanity. What do we got here? It is National Green Juice Day. I can't think of a green juice I would ever willingly voluntarily drink. It's just something about looking like you're about to drink algae sludge. That just, no, no, couldn't do it. However, it is National Peanut Brittle Day. When we were at the Sandals Resort, after Christmas, my wife and I disappeared for a little bit. And the concierge at a sandals resort is not your typical hotel concierge where there's a desk that there might be somebody at. No, no, no.

There's always multiple people in the concierge sweet. So you walk in there and they've got cold drinks in a refrigerator, help yourself, whatever you want. They have fresh, home-baked cookies, and they had homemade peanut brittle. I was looking for an excuse to go into the concierge. You know, I think we need to find out where the... The restaurant is. That's right. It's right there. I don't know. I think I need to go into the concierge. You just find any reason at all to go into the concierge. I wonder where the weather's going to be like, well, it's beautiful. It's sunny. Yeah, but it could change. Bet the concierge knows. I'll just help myself to some more peanut brittle and some homemade oatmeal cookies. National Spouses Day and National Bubble Wrap Day. Who invented bubble wrap? Whoever invented bubble wrap, thank you. On so many levels, just thank you. All right. Come back with an amazing story. Do not miss it. It's really cool. Really? Really?

This story was pegged by the lead research assistant of the morning show. And it's a piece written by Michael Gion. Listen to the resume. Ph.D. in physics, math, and astronomy. A doctorate in all three from Cornell University taught physics at Harvard is the former science editor for ABC News. He's currently producing a movie based on his bestselling book, Believing is Seeing. He gets into this, and I'm going to shorten it. He gets into this discussion on, where's heaven? Where is heaven? The Bible contains a lot of verses. looking up at God in heaven, God looking down on us at Earth. He writes, imagine being a nuclear-powered rocket traveling straight up into deep space. Will you ever reach a point far enough up into space that you finally reach heaven? Before you laugh at the idea, he then goes into explaining something called Hubble's Law. You've heard of the Hubble telescope up in space. It was named after Edwin Hubble. In 1929, the attorney-turned-aturned amateur astronomer discovered the galaxies are rushing away from each other, like shrapnel from a bomb. Hubble discovered there's a definite pattern to how galaxies are rushing away from each other. Namely, the farther up in space a galaxy is located, the farther away it is from Earth. It's faster moving away from Earth and everything else. It's called Hubble's Law. This is where it gets good. Theoretically, it's called the cosmic horizon. It means you can never reach the cosmic horizon. The only light and certain other non-material phenomenon can travel at the speed of light. So, where is heaven located exactly? It's entirely possible. Heaven is located on the other side of the cosmic horizon. Here's why. One, according to modern cosmology, An entire universe exists beyond the cosmic horizon, but it's permanently hidden from us because we could never reach it, let alone cross over the cosmic horizon. Two, our best astronomical observations and Einstein's theories of special and general relativity indicate that time stops at the cosmic horizon. At that special distance way up there, in deep, deep, deep space, there is no past, present, or future. There's only timelessness. Three, unlike time, however, space does exist at or beyond the cosmic horizon, which means the hidden universe beyond the cosmic horizon is habitable, albeit only by light and like light entities. And four, according to modern cosmology, The cosmic horizon is lined with the very oldest celestial objects to the observable universe. That means whatever exists beyond the cosmic horizon predates these oldest objects, predates the so-called Big Bang, predates the beginning of the observable universe. That's why it's entirely reasonable to speculate that, one, heaven is indeed located up there.

way above our heads and way beyond the visible starlit universe just as the bible indicates two heaven is inaccessible to us mortals while we're alive just as the bible indicates three heaven is inhabited by non-material timeless beings just as the Bible indicates. And four, heaven is the dwelling place of the one who predates the universe, the one who created the universe, just as the Bible indicates. Let me read his resume again. Dr. Michael Guillen, Ph.D. in physics, math and astronomy from Cornell, taught physics at Harvard. His book, Believing is Seeing. It's a bestseller. What a fascinating possibility that science as it just continues to learn more is simply doing what we take by faith, validating God's word. I'd never heard of the cosmic horizon, but it makes sense that you can never get there because its location is at a place. where you can't reach because of the expansiveness of the universe. You can't ever get there. Traveling at the speed of light doesn't get you there. It somehow fits. 27 passed. Look at me. I did all that and stayed on time. Decades of doing morning drive radio differently. Doing it his way. Like old blue eyes. Except he has a little more hair. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. 35 minutes past. Good morning. If you're just joining us, Monday on the morning show, it is show 5530. He's Jose. I'm Preston. It can be cold. Bundle up because by the end of the day, the temps are going to be dropping. And it's going to be chilly this week. But let's get to the big stories in the press box. And again, these are stories that just need to be on your radar. They're not always going to be the stories everyone's talking about. This story underscores two Florida stories. This first story really underscores why what a teacher posts matters in whether they can keep their job. what their philosophies are. It just does. This is a story of a Florida nurse, Lexi Mike Lawler, former labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital. She decided to comment on a video. that she posted on TikTok, as a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear. I hope you bleeping ripped from bow to stern and never bleep normally again, you bleep. She was fired. She should have her nursing license stripped?

and never be allowed near a doctor's office or a hospital again. Forgiven? Sure. Absolutely. She can seek forgiveness from God, and that's between her and God. Job, that career should be over for her. The same way it should be over for teachers that celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder. There are certain positions in our society. that require a personal code of ethics how could any any expecting mom trust this woman to care for her and her baby What if she goes online and looks up the personal profile of the mom that's in the room? Well, let me just see what kind of care I'll give her. You see, you can't allow those types of questions. You just can't. It's a field that, well, I'm sorry, you know, some dude digging a hole in your backyard, whatever. The guy picking up your garbage? Whatever. But there are certain professions where, no, no, doctors, judges, judges, teachers don't have that luxury.

Second big story is Indian River County. There is a massive effort by community residents to stop something called Epic City from being developed. It's a land acquisition company named Epic Estates. And the claim is that the group has ties to Epic City. Sorry, it's Epic Estates. And that the community thinks they have ties to Epic City. Now, we've talked about Epic City. That's that Islamic community in Texas, in Josephine, Texas. They don't want any part of it in Florida, in Indian County, Indian River County. What's interesting is the company says, no, we have no affiliation with them. It's a land investment group comprised of Hindu and Christian families with no affiliation to the Texas development. That's what some are saying. Here's the point. You might want to change your name if you don't have any ties. What's interesting is they would not respond to a local media outlet. CBS 12 requested to get information from the investment company. They got nothing to say. They won't give a comment on air. Here's what's interesting. There are people awakening to the danger of Islamist invasion of this country, the infiltration of this nation. It is a very real problem. And before you say, well, man, you sound like you're an Islamophob. Yeah. I am. I still believe that Islam should not be allowed to hold office in our government. And I still believe that socialist and communists should not be allowed to run for office or hold office in our government. I firmly believe that. And I believe the Constitution supports it because you have to, you have to. swear that you will uphold and defend the United States Constitution. And I know that some are saying, well, but you really don't if you're taking oath in a city or a state. Yeah, but it's sort of the presupposition that it's underneath the U.S. Constitution because everything still falls under that. A city can enact a law that if it runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution ends up there. It ends up before the United States Supreme Court. So I kind of say, no, I'm sorry, it does matter. And so I'm grateful that there is maybe this company is being wrongly attached to Epic City. Maybe. Fair enough. If it is, sorry, change the name of your business. I just, that's what I would do. Well, that's not fair. Well, neither is life. 41 minutes past the hour. 42! Yeah, yeah, I know. Everything I did right before. I'm now late. Proceed from the spin, don't know what to believe? Clear the fog. The morning show with Preston Scott on News Radio 100.7, WFLA. That was the discussion yesterday around the table. Had I seen the video of the shooting of the man in Minneapolis, Alex Preti? Yes.

Do I think it was justified? I don't know. I do not know. Was that a phone in his right hand? Was he reaching for a firearm in his waistband as ICE agents were trying to detain him because he was doing what these knuckleheads do? His father, of course, is saying a mixture of things. First said, don't get involved in these stupid protests. You know, appreciate what you're doing. He's a, you know, guy that has a moral compass. And dad said, you know, he thought it was terrible. You know, kidnapping children. Who's kidnapping children? Stop it. See, that's the media. That's the governor. That's the leadership. That's stupid. Dad, in case you didn't know, there are hundreds of thousands of missing children in the United States that were smuggled in or allowed into this country without guardians. So stop it. Okay, this is saving those children. But you're grieving. You lost your son. I told my son, don't get involved. He said, you know, dad, I know that. Well, apparently he didn't know that. Look, here's what needs to be said about this. One, we'll find out. And I believe we'll find out if that was a justified shooting. I don't know. I don't know what was in his waistband, and neither do you. We don't know. It could have been a wrong shooting, wrongful death. But here's the thing. If he's not there... impeding the work of ICE agents, creating a situation where agents have to make a split second decision. We're not here talking about him, just like, just like Renee Good. We're not here talking about her.

I saw a post by a guy who happens to be black. He said, I carry a gun in my waistband at all times. And guess what I don't do? I don't show up in the middle of a law enforcement action trying to get in the way. And if I'm asked to do something by a law enforcement officer, you know what I do? I do it. I cooperate. I don't add confusion. I don't sow discord. I don't cause there to be an escalation intentions. So no matter what, Alex Preti put himself in the position to lose his life. I'm not saying that the shooting was justified. It might have been. I don't know. Renee Good. Do I think the officer with Renee Good maybe could have gotten away from the front of the vehicle? Maybe. Would I have stood in the front of the vehicle? No. But I'm not the officer that's there. She did hit him. Legally justifiable in that case. This one, I don't know. But guess what? If he's not there, it doesn't happen. Guess what else? You ought to check out the manual that these people have that they're working under. It's been discovered. Someone got a copy of the manual that these protesters are using. There's a manual, a training manual. And you also ought to learn, we'll spend time on this in the next couple days. You ought to learn what else happened in that church in St. Paul. You know, like I think that they are, they could now hold some of those protesters on charges of kidnapping. They prevented people from leaving. They stopped children in the hallway saying, do you know that your parents are going to hell for what they're doing? They terrorized and tortured children psychologically. There's a lot more to this. And I'm going to make another point, courtesy of Ann Coulter next. 48 past the hour. Surprise if you laugh. We suggest you use the restroom before you listen. Or invest in a 30-foot catheter. Yes, I use it all the time. This is the morning show with Preston Scott.

53 passed. Seven things that happy marriages seem to have in common. And then maybe an eighth. Just saying, I might just do a little ad on. You know what I'm saying? I told you, Ann Colter, listeners shared this with me. Ann used to be a regular guest on the program. I was one of the few small shows that she would do. She once signed a book and personalized it to me. She said I had a big brain. I, well, I'm one of those rare hosts who allow guests to talk. So I'd ask a question. And she's written a piece that lead me to believe that maybe she's coming back to reality, which is good because she's brilliant. She is a brilliant mind. She just, anyway. And I'm going to summarize this. And it was the centerpiece of my and another thing. She's challenging Trump to just declare the insurrection, to invoke the insurrection act. And I would simply say to all of you libs and lefties and Democrats, this is what insurrection looks like, not the president of the United States saying march peacefully and encourage lawmakers to be brave and to do the right thing, which I'll have more on that next week or this week or next. But here's what history tells us. Do you know that presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act from Eisenhower to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? In fact, John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invoked the Insurrection Act three times when he was president. Why? Because of Brown v. Board of Education, the Deep South kept insisting on segregation. Guess who was running the Deep South? Democrats. So a Democrat president sent... Eventually, we sent the 101st airborne or something like that. No, seriously, we sent the big bad guys. And they stayed in one community for over a year because Democrats weren't following the law. Guess what's going on right now? Democrats aren't following the law. There is every reason to send the military into Minneapolis, St. Paul, and to put an end to this. And anywhere else for that matter. Just saying, there's precedent. And it is an interesting history. Once again, it's Democrats. Sorry about the squeak there. Five past the hour. It was...

The boom stand for the microphone here. It's the second hour already Monday here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you. I teased over the weekend and mentioned this morning that I wanted to take a little time and talk about the seven things that most happy marriages share what they have in common. Now, I will point out at the front end that this list is compiled by a psychologist who specializes in relationships. He is the lead psychologist for a wake therapy at telehealth company. They do psychotherapy, counseling, and coaching, and that's all fine. And as I went through these lists, it was like, okay, all right. But I want to just add a thought to it when we're all done. This is what couples do that most neglect. Couples that are happy. Number one, they resist the urge to rush past each other.

Acknowledging the other person your husband or your wife is vital. Don't rush past them. This is your partner for life. This is your spouse. Your one. Skipping those times, those interactions makes your spouse feel a little. invisible you don't like that that's not good no one no one no one likes to feel invisible nobody two they sink before they speak meaning at the start of the day don't abuse each other with big in-depth conversations take a minute Just kind of get in each other's space a little bit. Now, I understand that there are people that have, for example, my wife and I have a different schedule in the morning. I'm up before 4 a.m. She's not. But there are other days when we're more on a similar schedule and just having a little time to just kind of coexist. in the same space is really useful. Three, remember, these are traits that happy marriages have in common. They exchange one honest sentence about how they're feeling. For example, you're at the start of the day, you're with your husband, your wife, they're heading off to work, and you know there's a big meeting. Maybe it's, these are examples. I'm feeling a little anxious today. I'm tired, but I'm excited about the day. Or I'm not there yet. I'm just a little honest. Here's where I'm at. Four, something they do is like a morning ritual. Something. It might be just sitting, sipping a cup of coffee, cup of tea. having a piece of toast together, whatever it might be, five, they use touch to regulate, not just say goodbye. A little hug, a little kiss, a little, just a quiet embrace.

They treat mornings as a shared system, not a solo sprint. Recognize all that the other person's doing. And if it's heavy, the load, share the load. If you're a family that has a bunch of kids getting ready to go to school, weigh in on that and help out. All alleviate one another just a little bit. Number seven. No matter what, when someone goes out the door and heads off to work, whether it's at the same time in two different directions, encourage. Have a blessed day. You got a meeting coming today. You got this. You're prepared. You're going to be awesome. Now I'm going to add to this in a second, 10 past the hour. you may be from Florida Sunshine State to New York's. Forget New York. Nah, scratch that. New York's now hopeless. At least the city is. For the rest, we're your morning show. The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Let's augment all of that with how do you do it? We're inherently kind of self-centered. That's just kind of where we are. And God says you need to think of others before yourself. It's kind of the opposite of where we're wired. And the reason we're wired this way comes from here. In Genesis 2.15, it says the Lord God took man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded man saying, you may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. For in the day that you eat it, you shall surely die. Now, people for years have thought, man, there was some bad fruit there, huh? Like the fruit contained some thing. And see, Satan played on that. He went to Eve because Eve wasn't there. Eve hadn't been created yet. That was something that Adam told his wife.

God said, don't eat of that tree there. Satan comes in in question. See, that's what Satan does. Satan did God really say? Is that what he really said? And at first, Eve, was cool. Yeah, no, we can eat it. We just can't eat of that tree. Oh, you can eat at that tree. God knows that if you eat it, you're going to be like him. You're going to know stuff. It was the knowledge. I want you to hear this now. of good, underline good, and evil, underline evil. But notice what you underlined, good and evil. It was God saying to man, you have all kinds of freedom, but there are rules, there are boundaries. It wasn't that the fruit contains some... secret ingredient it was the act of eating of something that God said don't what was on the fruit was irrelevant it didn't matter what the fruit was what was at issue was obedience here's what that has to do with this entire discussion on marriage God did not plan for you and I to have knowledge of good. Why? Because good pales by comparison to God's best. So my challenge to you is to not settle for a good marriage. My challenge to you is to have an awesome marriage, to have an awesome relationship. If you're dating somebody, keep it in the boundaries that that status of your relationship says to keep it in, which means avoiding promiscuity, honoring what a covenant is between a husband and a wife and not going there when you're not husband and wife. And if you're wondering why things are just kind of weird, look, God will let you do what you want to do and you will reap what you sow. But if you want a great marriage, don't settle for good. That's my point. We were not meant for good and knowledge of good. We always focus on the knowledge of evil. But did you stop to think God didn't want us to have knowledge of good? Because good is just settling for. There's better than good. That's what God wants for you. 16 past the hour. On your phone with the IHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Dude, yes. And Iheart's radio station.

Yeah, it's a little cold out. But it's not as cold as it's going to be. The temperature has dropped 10 degrees since I woke up. And I could feel it coming. Literally, from the time I got in my car and got to work, I could feel it. I could just feel it. And it's now down to 41. It has dropped 10 degrees in an hour. So. You know, it's interesting. Jose and I were just talking about the snow that's covering the country. And we're going to seemingly miss it this time, which is fine by me. But I was just sharing, and my wife shared with me last night. You know, she's from the farm country of northern Ohio. And back in the day, her dad bought a surplus snowplow from the county. You know, with the flashing lights and the whole nine yards. And they would use it to plow their driveway, their roadways, and to help neighbors out. Out in rural Ohio. And now what they have is incredible. They have this device that hooks on to a pickup truck and is a snowblade. that they can lift up and down and they push and so I was watching them last night push snow around it was starting to drift in front of doors and stuff like that it's like crazy crazy crazy crazy so while it's going to be cold it's not going to be snowing like we had a year ago remember that when we were basically locked out of work for some time because the roads, we're not ready for that kind of weather here. We're just not. I'm not mad at anybody. Why doesn't the county, county's not going to have snow plows and salt supplies and all that? You people who live up north, you know what's involved in keeping roads clear. You can't expect the county in Florida to have that. You just can't. And so, you know, there you go. By the way, Zohran Mamdani does not believe in snow days. And so as the mayor, he's ordered, he's, I'm telling you now, there are historic parallels to the election of this guy. And so he's ordering an end to snow days as the mayor. And that kids will be required to work remotely, virtually.

Dufus, you just add days to the calendar. And then pay attention. Listen to what happened day one in Virginia with the election of Abigail Spanberger, who is an absolute socialist. She ended cooperation with ICE on day one. She reduced mandatory minimum sentencing on day one. She raised taxes. She prioritized DEI in government contracting. And the last step of action she took was to enshrine abortion rights in Virginia's state constitution. Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the governor's office. Good luck, Virginia. No, seriously, Virginia is in deep doo-doo. Other notable decisions? There will not be hand counting of ballots that can be read by a scanner. Hand counting? To ensure accuracy? No. Signed a bill to regulate gas powered leaf blowers. Because that's, of course, a priority. And other electric landscaping equipment.

On that video, she said, as a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear. I hope you bleeping rip up from bow to stern and never bleep normally again, you bleep. She was fired from the hospital. Spokesman for the hospital said, while we respect the right to personal opinions, this is great. Listen, there is no place in health care for language or behavior that calls into question a caregiver's ability to provide compassionate, unbiased care. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is the entire point I've been making about health care professionals, about teachers, professors. about any number of other professions, I'm sorry. You do not have a First Amendment right to not suffer the consequences. She absolutely was allowed to post what she did. But she doesn't have protections for her job. If you remember, we've talked about stories. where ICE officials were denied hotel rooms because someone in the front desk looked them up and looked up the personal profile of the person making the reservation and said, oh, no, no, no. Well, what happens if I book a room and someone decides to look up my personal profile and realizes that I'm not necessarily a fan of illiberalism and Clantifa and Democrats in general? Am I going to get a crappy room? Am I going to get a room at all? What about at the hospital? What if someone finds out? You see where I'm going with this. There is no place in our society for this type of thing. This nurse should have her license, her certifications ripped from her.

Doctors who espouse this level of animosity or any level of animosity. I'm sorry you shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine because I don't trust you. We're already dealing with issues of trust after COVID. But now you start factoring this kind of thing, a labor and delivery nurse? This is just one expression of sin. 40 minutes past the hour. Come back. Let's talk a little healthy expectations. Meet him. The morning show with Preston Scott. 41 past the hour. Joining us, Dr. Joe Camps. Another edition of Healthy Expectations. Good morning, Dr. Camps. How are you? Good morning. How are you today, Preston? Awesome, sir. Getting ready for the cold. Yeah, I know. I had my morning walk already, and I was expecting it to be a little bit colder, but I think on Wednesday it's going to be very cold. But... One of the interesting things I came across this week was that colorectal cancer. Now, I haven't really talked much about this, but it is now the leading cause of death due to cancer for Americans under 50. So I'm talking about the younger populations, and, you know, a lot of death from other types of cancers have diminished, but colorecta cancer is moving on an upward spiral. And three out of four young adults are diagnosed with the advanced stages of this disease, which tells me that we're not getting the screening done that we need to do. And people that are above average risk. should probably start to have screening tests before the age of 45. Now, what do I mean by screening tests? Obviously, you can get a rectal Eric Swalwell, and certainly if your physician feels that you need to have colonoscopy and those kinds of things, that can be arranged. But if you begin to notice certain change in bowel habits, And what tends to happen is younger people in general tend to dismiss the symptoms, and so therefore you don't get in to get the proper screening. So I thought this was really reflected that this is now the leading cause of death due to cancer for Americans under the age of 50. And so I want to emphasize that this is happening in our younger adults. So if you have not had colorectal screenings, you need to get started and get it done. Because obviously it's preventable in some instances if it's detected early. And certainly there are definite therapies out there to alleviate this issue. So I just want to send that out to our young folks.

You know, we tend to, when I say young, Preston, as I've turned 70 now, young to me seems like it's growing every day, but certainly we need to do our regular screening problems to avoid potential dreaded diseases that can certainly have a profound effect on our health and our lives. Joe, is there any, and I'm going to go ahead and say it out loud, there is a degree of reticence, I think, for people getting colonoscopies because of the process involved in that. And you and I've touched on that once or twice over the years. Are there any breakthroughs coming to make that process maybe a little bit more, shall I say, palatable? Well, here's what I would always suggest, and I think I told you this a few years ago. If you know that you're going to have a colonoscopy, I would probably move toward a more of a liquid diet over probably about three or four days prior to your taking the go lightly to have the prep. So I would go to a clear liquid diet or either just more of a liquid diet. so that you reduce the amount of residue. And I think you can get through the program or the process a lot easier. Joe, we're losing your phone. It's breaking up a lot, so we're going to let you go. But thank you very much. I appreciate it. And here's the big word here on a lot of this stuff, screening. Just screening. There are screenings available that are not intrusive, and I just can't advise enough to just know your risk factor, know your family's medical history, and what mom and dad grandparents might have dealt with, and apply that to your own regimen and protocols. 46 minutes past the hour, it's the morning show with Preston Scott.

Well, this isn't warm and fuzzy. Story from last Saturday, not this past, but the one before. Three guys who were attending the Meekam Car Show, they was in Orlando. They were staying at an Airbnb. And two brothers, Robert Kraft, 70, Douglas Kraft, 68 of Columbus. His brother was from Holland, Michigan, and a buddy, James Pushan, 69, also from Columbus. They're there for the car show, right? Just let's do this. They're car junkies, always wanted to do it. They had problems with their rental car and were waiting outside for the replacement rental car. And the guy who lived in the home next door just came up and shot him dead. The suspect Ahmad Jihad Bouget lived next door. Multiple prior encounters with the criminal justice system, 2021 case. charged with attempted first degree murder with a firearm aggravated battery, allegedly shooting at a person in random vehicles in Kissimmee at a gas station. He was found not guilty because of insanity. This is Orlando. This is a very liberal part of the state.

James Uthmeier, the Attorney General calling on the legislature to narrow the insanity defense to ensure violent offenders stay confined either to prison or a mental health hospital. See, this gets to the mental illness thing. We do not have enough mental hospitals that are secured. This guy never should have been out. And now three guys are dead. Now, it would be very easy to look at the guy's name and say, well, now, Ahmad Jihad, really? His middle name is Jihad. Bojay. There was no interaction between he and the name, between this guy and the folks next door. Now, look. I know that many of you are, you are loving Airbnb's. You get it. You think they're great and a lot of them are. But this is why I don't do Airbnb's, because I don't know who my neighbors are. If it's an Airbnb in the middle, and it's like a very, you know, gated community, neighbors are two acres or three acres away, okay, I'll look at that. If I'm on a mountain, sure. If I'm on an ocean side, no neighbor. Okay, I'll look at it. But this is exactly why. And I know that's casting a very broad net. I get it. A lot of you have traveled the world and stayed in Airbnbs with no problems. I'm happy for you. But I'm not doing that. This is why you don't know the loon that is right next door.

But the question becomes, how is a guy who is acquitted of murder by reason of insanity? Was he treated? Was it ever a condition of the verdict? And I've struggled with that. No, guilty, but insane would be the better verdict. No, he committed this crime, but he's insane, so we're going to handle him differently. Not guilty? Because he's insane? No, no, I don't like it. Do not like it. But anyway, hey, just a quick little heads up. We've got Sal Nuzzo coming up next. Talk about the legislative session and reminding you if you're new to the show. During the legislative session, we take time every week and talk about what's going on that impacts you that you need to know. It might be the most important segments we do all year long because what happens in state government has more of a direct impact than anything else. So Sal Nuzzo joins us in just a little bit. Michael Alford, FSU Athletic Director, will join us tomorrow. Wednesday, Chad Gray from Joint Strong. We're going to talk about some things to help you. deal with some conditions that like maybe what's going on in your hips, your knees, joints. And Thursday, Secretary of Corrections, Ricky Dixon will join us. So we've got a busy week for you.

In The Immortal Words, Batman from a television show, we haven't a moment to lose. It's third hour of the morning show with Preston. Scottie's Jose. I'm Preston. This is Sal Nuzzo, Executive Director of Consumer's Defense. He joins us on the phone line today. Sir, how are you? I am good. bit cold like everybody else is today. I am calling in from the great state of Utah where it is currently seven with a wind chill of minus 10. So glad to be with you. Thought it was cold. I forget. You're a Green Bay guy. Sort of kind of. All right. Let's get right to it. Let's pick up what's going on in the executive level. Yeah, so a couple of things. At the governor's level, it's a little bit quiet. There's a lot more going on elsewhere. But this past week, the governor did, in fact, have in Tallahassee, the German ambassador to the United States. And they had a press conference, they signed a letter of intent to expand trade and investment opportunities. Just another example of where the governor is taking kind of the status of Florida and making it a national brand. You've also got the Attorney General continuing to make a lot of national news last week. We talked about he and his counterpart in Texas pushing to untie the American Bar Association as the gatekeeper for regulating and licensing who gets into law schools in the state. This week, once again, his actions probably bigger and more notable. He's just issued opinions galore, the one this week asserting that many DEI and affirmative action measures in both public and private sectors constitute unlawful race-based discrimination under federal and state law. That's a big, big deal. And he's right. It is discrimination. Anything that's based on the color of one skin or ethnicity is inherently discriminatory. Well, 100%, and this also kind of pertains to a lot of relevant cases that are before the U.S. Supreme Court, some that they've heard and were expecting rulings on and others that are going to be coming down the pike in this current term, I believe. If you were to broadly just kind of give us an overview of the legislative week, how would you describe it? I would say, I mean, as far as a week two goes, it was definitely one of the most, seriously, just one of the most jam-packed ones I've seen this early on. Now, if we kind of think about the session, almost like a horse race, you've got those first two weeks, and I would analogize those as kind of the horses getting out of the gate, jockeying for position, heading into the first turn. But it's also typically kind of a chess game between chambers. These are your opening moves. What does one chamber push ahead on? What do they signal priorities for? What do you think the other is going to horse trade on? And do you hold back or do you pull triggers on things? This all unfolds with the choreography of the first two weeks. But based on this past week, the committee work alone was just, I mean, it was enormous to try and track. Anything stand out.

A couple of things, one in particular on the budget that I wanted to highlight before maybe we go into break and then pick up on kind of the specific activity. Now, we all know the budget is a big thing. It's their one constitutional requirement. Florida does a great job on this budget, but something very interesting that was noted, and it's been prepared for, or at least dialogues about... And it's related to SNAP. That's the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. You used to call it food stamps. Right. Two parts of the One Beautiful Bill Act. Reforms to SNAP are going to shift costs to the state, and they'll penalize states that have an error rate on SNAP that's too high, over 6%. Well, ours we just found out for last year was 15%, which if we do not improve, it could improve upon it, could result in up to a billion dollars. in fines that the state would have to pay to the feds. Real quickly, does the state have any idea why their mistake rate was so high? That's what they're looking into right now, but relatively speaking, and this is sad, it's not something where Florida is an outlier compared to other states. I've been doing a lot of work on this in my current role, and this is something where a whole host of states... are doing really poorly when it comes to managing SNAP funds and being able to keep an error rate down low. You talk about waste fraud and abuse across the board. That's just what happens. Florida may have a high error rate relative to what we would want, but sadly, it's not as high relative to other states. Joining us, Sal Nuzzo, Executive Director of Consumer's Defense. I'll tell you, one of the big issues with SNAP is what happens getting off of it. There, it's just not a lot of wisdom there. And we learned that maybe 10 years ago on this program, and it's not changed. 10 past the hour. It's the MAD Radio Network, where we challenge you to make a difference in your world with the morning show Preston Scott.

As you can imagine, there's a lot to cover and we try to focus on the things that impact you the most. Sal News'o from Consumer's Defense with us, Sal, what passed the house last week? Actually, nothing passed the House last week. I'd made an exhausted look, and I was wondering, and it turned out they did not have a floor session last week. They were something that agended on the calendar, but they didn't do anything there. But the Senate did pass a couple of notable bills that I think are worth mentioning and diving into because they're also going to portend what the chambers do down the road in a couple of weeks. First off is Senate Bill 320. It's actually Cory Simon's bill. Now, this is the big education package for Florida. Removing red tape in the public education system. The bill itself is 86 pages. Yes, I did read it all. I'm not saying I understood every element of it, but it's a beast. Now, the staff analysis alone is 30 pages. Now, typically on a bill, a staff analysis is going to be a couple, two, three, four pages. Tons of reforms like things to reforming the uniform assessment calendar, which is how they evaluate teachers and schools in districts. You've got school improvement plan changes, how they administer the salary schedules for the districts. That's a big deal for teachers. The teacher apprenticeship program, that is a huge need to improve upon and continue to grow in the state. I did find it interesting, the companion bill in the House, HB 943. It's referenced to four committees. Now, normally you would look at something like that and say that's not a good sign for how the House feels about a particular idea. My guess is they may get it through one committee in the House, use the Senate's bill, and then go back and forth on the negotiations to pass it to the governor. The other one that I'll point out is Senate Bill 7010. This is a proposed committee bill, a PCB. It does allow for state employees to contribute to a Roth IRA through their deferred compensation plan. This is real important. We've got a lot of listeners that are in state government, their employees. This would be a big boom to them. It passed 36 to 0. It's being sent over to the House, what they call in messages. My guess is that this is one that's going to sail. It's not going to cost the state anything. It allows the employees to generate more investment returns over the course of their time in service. They passed a few other things, just kind of cleaning up outdated or expired statutes to get them off the books officially. But it was kind of a lighter week in terms of what the chambers have passed and where they're going. But that kind of begs the question, what are they going to be doing in the coming weeks to get things through the chambers? Well, let's just, we've got about a minute or so left in this segment. Let's start with what is moving. And you point out House Joint Resolution 203.

Yeah, that's the big one. H.J.R. 203, it's the tax, the property tax bill that would go on the ballot. It's the one that eliminates all non-school property taxes for homesteaded properties. It passed the full house. It has a 10-year implementation phase. What it does is it adds $100,000 to the homestead exemption each year for 10 years. And effectively, over the course of those 10 years, your property tax bill, the non-school portion, would be reduced each time until all of that goes away. It's got to pass the Senate, though, and the companion bill for that, well, we're still waiting to see it. So it's kind of a little up in the air, and I've also read some things really early this morning from... from sources that are kind of questioning the status of it, and it's definitely something we're going to have to dive into over the course of the next couple weeks to kind of monitor the progress. Joining us, Sal Nuzzo from Consumer's Defense, when we come back, other bills that are moving on either the House of the Senate side as we continue our legislative look here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

And on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Hey, so here we go. And IHearts Radio Station. As we remind you, what happens in state government is the most impactful to your life. Yes, the federal stuff can help and hurt, but really it all comes down to what happens in the state. And so we follow that very closely. Sal Neuza with us, Sal, what else is moving? Oh, there's a ton. So one of the big pushes in at least the Senate and from the governor has been identifying what are the artificial intelligence, AI reforms, regulations that need to be put in place to protect Floridians. We know that the president and the one big beautiful bill, some back and forth on who would be responsible for that, the feds of the state. Right now, it's a free-for-all. So it's kind of a tight-lock, the tightrope walk, because, you know, Trump did not want states doing it, but the one big, beautiful bill act allows for it so far. You've got a huge bill from Senator Tom Leeds, Senate Bill 482 that's moving in committee. It was approved unanimously. There's a ton of provisions in it, but mainly it's stuff like protections for privacy and other, and some disclosure and transparency. You've got provisions like the chatbots that we see. Chatbot platforms would be required to post pop-up warnings and messages to appear so that people know that they're not necessarily talking with a human. They would have to be done every hour. Children would not be allowed to communicate with chatbox without parental permission. Parents would have to control what their child are seeing, which, you know, we would say is a pretty good idea. The bill would also require minors to be reminded to take a break at least once every hour. I thought about this as like, I get these in the rental cars where I get a notification, like, you might want to stop for some coffee. I don't know how much I like this, but with minors, I think it's a great idea. I did mention unanimous, and this is something where I think we may want to unpack this as it moves through committee. It could be a really good lesson because Senator Leake has been adamant about each committee stop. He's going to be tightening up the language to make this bill better and better. And I think we want to kind of keep an eye on this one to, and at the very least, educate listeners on how the committee process shapes and improves legislation. You've also got related to that two bills from Senator Avala, Senate Bill 44 and 1118, which are on the data center issues, which are kind of prevalent in almost every state this year. Right. The bills there would prohibit state and local agencies from signing nondisclosure agreements. It would require the Florida Public Service Commission to hold existing ratepayers harmless for any added demand, and it would establish a water permitting framework. for these large-scale ones because in order to generate the energy, they need a ton of water. The other bill is a public records exemption, and there's a little bit of back-and-forth on that one, but it's right now only a 12-month window for that, and we're going to have to see how it goes as it moves along. What other things do we need to pay attention to before we take a break? We've got about two minutes.

All righty, so 657 from Juan Carlos Perez. Last week, you would ask a really good question about how a particular bill would apply when there are HOA covenants. Well, he's been, for several sessions, he has been on HOA reform. So 657 would create a state-funded court process to address condo and HOA disputes. It would replace existing pre-lawsuit mediation procedures. It's moving in the House. We'll have to see on the Senate. One that I think is great. HV. 127, restoring cursive writing to education. Thank you. Overdorf has been doing this. It's on to the full chamber. That's wonderful. We're going to actually have kids learn to write again. Yeah, it's one that he's been pushing for a couple of years now. I think it's fantastic. Senate version SB 444 is making its way onto the agenda. And that's one that I just think is like little things that go a long way. So that's one. You've also got 743 on the House side. It would give the Attorney General more power to investigate and sue health care practitioners who give puberty blockers, hormones. other prescriptions to minors, or perform surgical procedures. Now, I know the question is, like, didn't we outlaw this previously? Well, we did, but this establishes penalties. It could bring up to $100,000 fine. Senate Bill 1010 from Senator Yarbrough. I think I mentioned this one last week. Have this provision in there as well. So it's one that I think is just really one that's... It's a compliment to what they did last year. Sadly necessary are the words that come to my mind. Yeah, that's a, you know, I often say when I testify or speak, you know, it's a shame that we actually have to pass a law for this, but we do. And here we are. 27 past the hour. More to come with Sal Nuzzo here in the morning show with Preston Scott.

35 minutes past the hour. We are trying to be mindful of the clock so we can get as much in with Sal Nuzzo. He is the executive director of Consumers Defense. Sal, let's pick up with what is moving in the legislative session. Yeah, and I'm going to try to run through and talk as fast as I can because we do have a lot. You got Senate Bill 216 from Stan McLean. Florida's unemployment compensation system. I know we had problems back in COVID. They're continuing to tweak that. It would disqualify individuals claiming unemployment insurance benefits. If they also find that you failed to do the number of calls you need to do each week to try to find jobs. to appear for your interviews and kind of return to employment when you're recalled after a temporary layoff. The Senate version's a little bit different, but that's also moving as well. You've got regulations on e-bikes. That's coming down the pike, HV-243 from Evetero. She's in her first term as a new member. It establishes a task force to see if... the state should establish some set of consistent regulations. HB.105 from Robbie Brackett making it easier for businesses to sue local governments when the local government does not follow their own rules regarding business regulations and the like. Stan McLean has the companion. It moved in committee in the House 16 to 0. Last week we talked about the bill on rounding to the nearest nickel. Again, one of those examples where I can't believe we have to pass a law for this. Senate Bill 1074 is now moving in the Senate, so I expect they'll probably get that through. Last year, they passed a pretty innovative program to provide swim lesson vouchers for low-income families to get kids swimming lessons when they're real young. The Senate is moving a bill that would ban that to kids up to seven years old. Senate Bill 986, Senator Joe Gruders, you know, we do know they are going to try to put another recreational marijuana amendment on the ballot. He's trying to get ahead of that, no smoking or vaping weed in public spaces. Now, that would apply even to medical marijuana, but so that's there. Hey, hang on a second, Sal, Sal, is there any discussion that you're aware of? that expands that into subdivisions where let's say the housing density is such where you don't have large acreage where someone could ostensibly smoke their weed and not affect their neighbors but you know i i think that that's going to have to be addressed It is, and it's one that you've actually referenced a couple of times like last year when the amendment was going through. It's one, I'm not aware of any direct discussions on that, but it is something that, as this moves, it may be one where their kind of dialogue on it in committee and tighten it up or expand it out depending on how it proceeds.

Okay. Lastly, on the things that are moving that I kind of got on my list, 840 from Senator DeSegley, tweets to the rules and regulations governing local governments and storm recovery. It's a big issue for Florida, ongoing conversations every year on this. Legislature passed Senate Bill 180 last year. The intent of that was to make it as easy and painless as possible to rebuild after a natural disaster. This is doing more to that. The house version is 1465. I'm watching that as well. Before we get to what's coming up, let's get to some things that you are specifically watching. Yeah, and what I thought would be interesting is last week we talked about what each chamber had passed out of their full chamber. And so I thought it would be interesting this week to highlight the bills that one chamber had passed in week one and see what the status of them was in the other chamber. As of yesterday, there were only a few that have some early momentum. Everything else is kind of stalled in the other chamber. So on those, HB 289 from Sam Greco, this is the bill that would allow parents to file wrongful death civil suits when an unborn child is killed. Senator Graal has the companion bill in the Senate. It's moving, and so I think this actually has some momentum behind it. It's going to get contentious as it gets closer to the full chambers. 121 from Overdorf, nursing education. That's the one that they're going to try and tighten up the regulations there. Gail Harrell has a companion in the Senate, but the House bill was referenced to the Rules Committee, which indicates to me they're going to pass that bill in the Senate and send it right to the governor. And then you've got Senate, House Bill 355 from Oliver, minimum standards for providing pediatric emergency care in the BRs. Again, Senator Harrell has the companion bill, and it's got a favorable hearing pre-session. Nice. All right. When we come back, what's coming up? Again, we're kind of recapping what's happening, what's happened, and then what's to come. Next, on the morning show with Preston Scott. This is the morning show with Preston Scott.

Well, he said at the beginning in a note to me that if he got through all of this, he deserves some kind of awards. Sal, you've got the light at the end of the tunnel, buddy. You're going to do it. What's coming up? Yeah, I know. This is crazy. As I'm looking over this, I was like, there's no way we're going to get through this in five segments. But here we are. Today, you've got a ton of action in the House Criminal Justice Committee. You've also got the Senate Judiciary Committee taking up the land use and natural disasters bill. You've also got Senate regulated industries taking up the Data Center bills from Senator Avala. In addition, a lot of the bills that I talked over in the prior segments are going to be moving in their committee stops. But really, the big day comes in, oh gosh, it's on Tuesday, I believe. You've got marathon bills coming up that are just going to be a total marathon. Criminal justice, let me back up. Let me start over. Today, nothing for the House. Senate's got a number of committee hearings. The Criminal Justice Committee has got 11 bills on their agenda. It's really packed. Government oversight and accountability has got 10 bills, including the cybersecurity, Bill 692 from Tom Leak. Tuesday is a huge day for committee hearings. On the Senate, you've got a massive rules committee. They're the final gatekeeper for bills before it goes to the full chamber. They're going to try and get 22 bills. through in a two-and-a-half-hour committee hearing, and the Senate does not allow you to extend the time. You've got the housing bill from Don Bill Gates, 48. In addition, you've got judiciary, environment, natural resources, education, community affairs, and that's just the Senate. The House only on Tuesdays got education and employment, judiciary, state affairs, commerce, health and human services. Ways and Means, Agriculture, Elder Affairs, Regulated Industries, Transportation, and the Budget Committee. That's it, huh? That's just, that's it. Like, you know, other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln? These guys and gals are going to be running around. crazy on Tuesday. They're going to be hearing one of the other major property tax proposals. This one's 213. It would reform the assessment process to once every three years instead of every year with a 3% cap for the three years, not a 3% every year, which is what we have now. There's so many bills up on Tuesday. It's just I didn't want to kind of highlight some and not highlight others. But I'm really looking forward to next week. I'll be back in studio. We can really dive into some of those that are picking up steam and see where the House is landing versus the Senate, where we expect there to be some fireworks versus where they're just going to get stuff right to the governor.

I got to say I'm a little concerned that they're moving other property tax proposals because, as the governor mentioned, if there are multiple ballot initiatives on property taxes out there, really it's going to result in voters being confused and nothing passing. Tell me this. When you say the Senate has a rule that does not allow them to extend, we're talking about literally they allowed X amount of time and they don't take a minute longer. That is it. And in fact, later in the session, they'll remind everybody who are coming up to give remarks or testimony that, you know, bills are dying. We've got more on the calendar. Please give your remarks, you know, please keep them brief. Because they will gavel it out. And if your bill is not heard, it's, you've got to try and get it on another committee agenda. That's just stupid, Sal. It's a rule that's different for the Senate than it is for the House. Now, there are procedures, but it's got to go through the Senate president in order to waive that rule to be able to extend the time. And historically, Senate presidents are not real keen on extending the time frame for committee hearings because they don't want it to be a habit. They meet once a year. They need to get it right. And if it takes a half hour, 45 minutes to get it right, take the time. I get it, and it's something where I think they're thinking on this is if we, it's a slippery slope. If we start doing that all of a sudden, we're allowing committee hearings to go, you know, several hours. Now, later in the session, there will be six, seven, eight hour committee hearing agenda times because they've got to get all of those. fiscal items through, especially when it comes to any bills that are going to have an impact on the budget. All right, friend, you be safe and stay warm, and we'll talk next week. I will do my best to stay safe. Stay warm is going to be questionable here in this climate. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, Sal. Always a pleasure, my friend. Sal Nuzzo, Consumer's Defense, legislative update, only found here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Thank you.

on here pounding out of text all right told you about tomorrow's show Michael Alford FSU athletic director will be joining us we're going to talk about the new alignment of FSU football. And we're not going to just beat that up. I mean, there's a lot more that's still likely to come. But I do want to talk about what he thinks is the future. I think Michael's position perfectly because of his experience in pro football to kind of help FSU get ahead of the curve because the college landscape has to change in college athletics. It just does. Kids are going to have to sign contracts. They're going to have to be buyout provisions and the whole nine yards just like pro because they're paying them. Not everyone. Whatever happened in the days of a value of an education. And oh, by the way, as Coach John Caliperi mentioned, these guys that are transferring school to school to school to school, are they ever getting a degree? Most of the guys that are doing that, most aren't going to go pro. So what do they have to fall back on? Because they never finished a degree at any one of those schools. See, there's a lot to this. Anyway, Night to Shine. Those of you in Tallahassee, they need buddies. 18 years or older to register to be a buddy, a buddy's volunteer who is paired with a guest for the entire night. It'll be at Emmanuel Baptist Church, the event on Friday the 13th of February from 6 to 9. And if you can help. If you're willing to be a buddy, go to Night to Shine, Tallahassee.com and sign up. Night to Shine, Tallahassee.com and sign up. And then finally, Marcus Limonis, there's still a few tickets available. He'll be the keynote speaker tomorrow. Tomorrow's the day. Power Forward Speaker Series. Go to Tickets.fsu.edu. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. Look back at the radio program in 180 seconds or less. We started the day with Psalm 8 versus 3 and 4. And in fact, had a really fascinating look into heaven. Not as part of the devotional, but one of the stories in the show was a guy who's got three doctorates taught at Cornell who said, you know, There's a lot of reason to think that what the Bible says about heaven is spot on the money, and here are the reasons in science. Pretty cool stuff, to be honest with you. Big stories in the press box, a nurse fired for a vile TikTok rant targeting press secretary Karoline Leavitt. She's probably sitting there going, why did I lose my job? And someone's probably saying, we'll sue. Good luck. I loved what the health care provider, in this case, a hospital in Boca, Baptist Health, Boca Raton Regional, well done you. There is no place in health care for language or behavior that calls into question a caregiver's ability to provide compassionate, unbiased care. You are darn right. And they fired her rear, and that's good. That's good.

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