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Morning friends Friday, October the 17th on the morning show with Preston Scott. Show 5475. That is a group called We the Kingdom and Sing wherever I go. And yes, I do. Terribly. But I do it anyway. Look, God's word actually covers for me. It says, make a joyful noise. Hello? That's what I got. I got noise. I don't have notes. I got noise. Our scripture today comes from Proverbs 1810. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous man runs into it and is safe. There is something so profoundly comforting about that verse. Years ago, when I was in vocational ministry, that was a song we used to sing. The name of the Lord is, a strong tower. The righteous run into it, and they are safe. Come on. You feeling a little vulnerable? The name of the Lord. The name of the Lord, the name, Jesus is a strong tower, and the righteous run to that name because it's a strong tower. And they are safe. Soak on that one and just bask in it. 10 past the hour. Take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac, start to unpack this thing. We call The Morning Show with Preston Scott. We have What's to Be Friday. We're going to talk about the property tax issue and give you some great information, courtesy of a report from the James Madison Institute. Cannot wait to get through today's program because we've got so much to share. So stick around.

All right, inside the American Patriots Almanac. 17th of October. 1777 British forces surrender to Patriot troops at Saratoga, New York, where they were watching a horse race. No, I'm just kidding. An American victory that helps win France as an ally for the rest of the war. France was like, hmm. We shall help them, man. Only later would we come to realize that France surrenders all the time. 1916 USS Arizona is commissioned at the New York Naval Shipyard. It now lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor as a memorial. 1933 physicist Albert Einstein fleeing Nazi Germany arrives in the United States. Yeah, it's hard to remember. Einstein was fleeing the Nazis. Come on. 1973, OPEC announces it will cut oil exports to the United States and other nations, supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. This battle's been going on since the Old Testament. And that's why. I think at the core, it's why I just, I don't see us until one remarkable point in history that the Bible writes about. I don't see us achieving peace. It is generational. It is biblical, the unrest in the region. And in 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hits Northern California, killing more than 60 people. So there's that. It is, it is National Edge Day. Living free from alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs. Okay. I can, I can get down with that. That's, that's pretty cool. Um, that's not all, of course. There's, there's more. It is National Mammography Day, ladies. Saying, National Mulligan Day. Oh, the only way you ought to be hitting a mulligan. is if you're just playing a game, just yourself, you're just working on some practice stuff. But in a round of golf, you don't hit Mulligans. And it's National Pasta Day. So we have that going for us. But at the request of, uh, of Jose,

He said, you know, FSU sports has been taking it on the chops. Football's struggling. Soccer has lost two in a row. Crazy. I'm not worried about soccer. Men's basketball. It was a sporty game. 109 to 105. Are you kidding me? Not a lot of defense played in the Alabama game last night. But it's a preseason game. Who cares? Still, He said, you know, we need a haiku with FSU dropping so many games of light. Failing light dims hopes. Another loss on the field. Tomahawk chops fade. It's 17 past the hour. 22 minutes past the hour. 22 minutes past the hour. Did you know the state of Arkansas has a law on the books that regulates how the name is pronounced?

I guess they got tired of people saying Arkansas. But there's actually a law on the books mandating how it's pronounced, which of course makes me want to go there and say Arkansas. See what they do. You arrest me? Huh? Huh? Huh. All right. Our X page, I have reposted this video. That is the sound of a Hot Wheels car with a camera mounted that is running inside, outside, back inside. with accelerators positioned in strategic locations. Now back outside, into the front yard, around the house, into the backyard, accelerator, accelerator, accelerator, accelerator, through fire, then through a water hazard, back around the other side of the house, into the front yard, a loop-de-loop, and then into the grass. It is so cool. Memories. Memories make us rich. And I remember and still, I have Hot Wheels tracks in my home because of my grandson. My grandson loves, well, one of my grandsons, the other one's not quite there yet. He's growing to that age. He loves to push cars and trucks around, but he hasn't yet reached that age of going to Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels when I was growing up, I was, I'm pretty sure that I was alive and a kid when Hot Wheels was born. The first little cars that I remember collecting were Matchbox cars. But I have to say, when Hot Wheels came out, Matchbox went, I hardly ever saw them. I mean, they were there. I'm just saying, I didn't see them because I was looking at Hot Wheels. Whoever made Hot Wheels made them. to roll effortlessly on their tracks. And what made Hot Wheels and still makes Hot Wheels so cool is, for example, I remember, you know, the last time that we played with the Hot Wheels set at the house was setting it up off the counter and creating this course with loops and jumps and and. You know, you'd put chairs underneath it so it didn't dip too much. And you'd, I mean, you, the beauty of setting up a track and a layout, there's something so remarkably fun about doing that and the creativity involved. You know, my grandson was like, oh, let's do this. I'm like, oh, yeah, let's do this.

And so now he's got all the cars. I've got the track. And he's got a few things that he plays with, you know, at we're at home. But when he comes to Papa and Grandma's house, it's a whole other story because we get the big layout out. But I have to, I'm going to say it. I'm looking for some cars. because I want cars around all the time in case we just have, and he doesn't have his car collection with him, we got to have cars, right? And now the cars are just crazy. But there are some that are not really for the track. And so I have to be very picky because I've come to realize that some of the Hot Wheels cars that are out there are not really track worthy. They're too big and heavy. to do loops and things like that. So I'm, yes, I love looking at this. So if you've never been to our X page at TMS Preston Scott, and you'll see the video clip right there and you can go down memory lane, have a good laugh and challenge yourself because how this guy did this, he improvised. It had to take him a day, two days, three days to put this track together. Add to. Because it is so detailed. 27 minutes past. Come back. We'll touch into the big stories of the press box. It's John Daly here. You know what day it is? Neither do I. I live life daily. That's why I only spend on Modo Casino. Modo's got daily free bonuses, daily tournaments, new slots out of daily. And the best part, guaranteed daily jackpots. You can't beat that. So today's the day you're gripping to spend it with me on Modo. America's Social Casino. Play for free on moto.us.

They're causing the shutdown, and they want another protected class. Government workers are now protected classes to these 18 Democrats. Demo-O-O-Crats. And then this, this is one of those, take it for what it's worth, comes to the business page of Epic Times. Surveying of 130 CEOs of major U.S. companies. 64% of CEOs say they expect a mild economic slowdown combined with persistent inflation for the next year, year and a half. They describe that as stagflation. Only 4% see a full recession. 22% see a balanced economy with trend growth. and gradual reduction in inflationary pressures, 10% sees solid economic growth accompanied by a notable increase in inflation risk. So that would add up to 32% seeing things a little bit more bullishly. But you've still got 64% of the CEOs looking at the economy right now and saying they're just a little concerned with where things are. 40 minutes past the hour. Come back, let you listen to something next here on the morning show. John Bolton.

Former Trump staffer in the first term, but became a Trump hater, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 18 criminal charges. John Daly here. You know what day it is? Neither do I. I live life daily. That's why I only spend on Modo Casino. Modo's got daily free bonuses, daily tournaments, new slots out of daily. And the best part, guaranteed daily jackpots. You can't beat that. So today's the day you're gripping and spend it with me on Modo. America's Social Casino. Play for free on moto.com. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-Ehart or go to iHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-Ehart or iHeartadvertising.com. Let me remind you, no matter how vindictive you feel Trump is or can be, and I said so before he was ever reelected. He said that it is a personality flaw that he has. If you disagree with him, you're an enemy. And I think that overshadows to many some very good things. Some wonderful qualities that he brings to the Oval Office. But we need to remember that no matter what you think about the arrests, if you will, of John Bolton, James Comey, the indictments, they were done by a federal grand jury. And it would be hard for me to buy into the idea that everybody on that grand jury loves Donald Trump. The evidence is there or it's not. And so a grand jury says there is probable cause to proceed. That's what a grand jury does. The grand jury does not determine guilt or innocence. The grand jury determines the likelihood of there being appropriate evidence to warrant the charge that is being presented. And in this case, in the case of John Bolton, 18 of them. Now, Bernie Sanders on a town hall on CNN.

was speaking with a student from American University, one of the more liberal college campuses in the nation. But unfortunately for Bernie, he was speaking with a Republican who is an intern for Americans for Tax Reform. The student, Rohan Naval or Naval, we'll go with that. It just sounds better. Rohan Noval. is the one with the microphone and is with Bernie Sanders. How do you think this shutdown reflects on Chuck Schumer's leadership? Well, I think it reflects more on Mike Johnson's leadership and President Trump's leadership. Now, when he said that, Rohan cracked a little smile and kind of went, eh, when Bernie said, it reflects on Mike Johnson's leadership. And President Trump's. And then it continues. This is a leadership which said it's okay to give a, well, how do you feel? Now, the reason why Bernie turned this around is the kid just shook his head. And Bernie couldn't handle that. So how do you feel? Tell me, I think it's a good idea to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in the country and then make massive cuts to healthcare for working class people. I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years, and he has the opportunity to vote for one again, but he's refusing to come to the table. He just schooled Bernie. Chuck Schumer's voted for continuing resolutions, just like the one being proposed 13 times in four years. What's the problem?

But you'll notice what Bernie did. Bernie immediately went the oligarchy route. You tell me. You think a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy. Stop with the class warfare. Bernie doesn't seem to understand or is not willing to admit that it's the wealthy that make the jobs for the rest of us. Because they own the businesses, the companies that we love working for. You know, the truth about, for example, I heart radio, it's not Bob Pittman and Rich Bressler. It's the guys who started Clear Channel radio years ago. It's a family that started a business and grew that business and took risk and grew it some more and took more risk. I don't know why we have this. hatred for people that are successful, but our tax code punishes success. You do better, you pay more to the government. You do better, you pay even more. Better than that, you pay even... Well, but they can afford it. That's all subjective. I thought we ought to be out for equal sacrifice, but again, that's... You get me going on a fair tax and we'll never stop. 47 minutes after the hour. Come back, take a look at the calendar on the morning show with Preston Scott.

All righty. All righty. We've got some events coming up in the area, and we're doing our best to keep you apprised of all things that are going on. Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. The Show and Shine Open Car Show. And the benefit, the event benefits, I should say, honor flight, Tallahassee, which sends veterans who have never been to our nation's capital but fought to defend this nation, served to defend this nation. Men and women who have been in our military armed services, it takes them on a one-day round-trip flight to and from. It is a day of days to go to our nation's capital and to see the monuments that honor them. And then they're brought back. That's what honor flight is. So the car shows tomorrow. No pre-registrations required. It is at the Moose Lodge on Capitol Circle Northwest. It's open for all modifies, classics, trucks, and motorcycles. And it's 15 bucks. Judging is from 1030 till noon. The show is from 9 till noon. And there will be door prizes, silent auction, 50-50 drawing, popular vote for best in show for car and bike. And so there you go. That's tomorrow. We have the Capital Conservatives. on Tuesday night at the Elks Lodge. So it's the Moose Lodge tomorrow. The Elks Lodge on Tuesday. Priscilla West will be speaking. She'll be talking about a new book, The New Face of Woke Education. And they do a dinner there, but it's a little late for you to sign up for that, and it's a little cumbersome. So we'll just tell you to show up if you want to hear Priscilla. And if you want to join the Capitol Conservatives, you can join right then and there. She was chapter chair for Moms for Liberty, works with Peter Schweitzer's Government Accountability Institute. And my guess is she'll start speaking around 615. So that's going on. We have the Will Graham Good News Tour. It's going to be at the antique car museum on the field. It's going to be an outdoor event on The 26th. So that's coming up. And then the 28th, we've got the Big Bend Hard Hats with Heart at Proof Brewing, raising funds and awareness for the American Heart Foundation, Heart Association, I should say. That's coming up on the 28th. As is the, that's a Tuesday, by the way. As is the... 14th annual remembrance dinner to help support Holocaust education and awareness. That's at the Champions Club at FSU on Tuesday the 28th. So a couple events then. We have, before that, sorry, on Saturday, one week from tomorrow, the Operation Medicine Cabinet, the medicine collection event. We've talked about it for a few years now. They do not accept sharps.

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And it's the second hour of the morning show with Preston's Guy. Good morning, friends. I'm Preston. We are an hour away from, hour away from your calls during What's the Beef. He's Jose. He is dressed and ready. What did you call that? What did you, Florida businessman? Yeah, yeah. I call it a business Florida. Business Florida. Instead of business casual. He's got a three-piece suit. And I mean styling with the vest and everything. He's got a very vibrant. We won't call it a Hawaiian shirt. We'll call it Florida Tropical. Fair? Yeah, that's fair. And then a black tie. And he is just styling. I almost feel bad that we're on the radio because you ought to see this. Maybe we'll post a photo on the X page. If you don't want to be as recognizable, we can go from the shoulders down. You know, not everybody in radio wants to be visibly seen. Yeah, and I have a face for radio. Oh, stop it. So we'll post the look and we'll say, is this the new hotness, even though that's old? Is this the new style? Florida business. Or is it Florida business or business Florida? Business Florida. Okay. Business tropical. Okay. Okay. I came across, came across, they sent it to me. The James Madison Institute sent their executive summary, their report. I pulled the executive summary. It's a very detailed report. If you go to their website at the James Madison Institute, JamesMadison.org, you'll find it. And it deals with the property tax. And I thought it would be worth taking just a little bit of time. Collections now exceed $55 billion annually in Florida. Assessments are growing faster than population growth and inflation over the last two decades. 72% of registered voters in Florida want some type of property tax reform, whether it's total elimination or limitations. And so what they did in this report, their researchers dug deep and looked at the various options that are available. Options on the table, incremental relief, such as homestead exemptions, appraisal caps, levy caps. It's short-term breathing, room, but it risks shifting burdens. Surplus-driven buy-downs can gradually compress millage rates when paired with discipline. Local spending. But there's the caveat, right? Disciplined local spending. Sales tax swaps could shift school property taxes to a consumption-based system, but that requires very careful design to avoid tax permitting. Hybrid approaches combine all of these tools with local flexibility under strict guide rails. We're going to get into some of that there.

Another option, eliminating school millages could provide meaningful property tax liability relief but would require strict fiscal discipline combined with a diversion of sales tax revenue to local schools. And then transferring taxes on property sales, which have been discussed in the house, it offers revenue potential but raises the questions of volatility and fairness. So in breaking this down, they look at the overall economy in Florida, which is $1.7 trillion. It's fourth in the United States. It outperforms most regions of the country. Yet there's an over-reliance on property tax, and now we get to the real issue. Since 2000. Assessed property values have increased by more than 370% in Florida. But population and inflation grew by 116%. It's more than tripled. And so the spending by local governments, Republican and Democrat alike, outpacing the real growth of Florida. And that presents a problem. Stick around. We're digging deeper. The future. What does it look like? Should we eliminate property tax?

We're looking at property tax. What is the way forward in Florida? And I'm looking at a report from the James Madison Institute. Florida ranks 21st among states on property tax competitiveness. Only Texas bears a heavier effective burden among the major competitors in the region. The rising collection of property tax into Florida's housing affordability crisis is obvious. It's feeding it. Miami-Dade, Orlando, Tampa, families often spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Renters then are faced with higher costs. See, that's the thing. Landlords are property owners. They pay property taxes, but they pass that tax on. They have to divide it up among the people that are renting from them. So if you rent, you're paying property taxes. And so the existence of property tax at the levels that we're seeing it puts more pressure on the cost of housing, whether it's ownership or renting. Local officials will argue that property tax revenue is essentially... Funding schools has to, public safety, infrastructure, yet government spending growth continues to outpace the ability of taxpayers to pay. And that's what Blazing Goley is doing. The state CFO is going around community by community saying, what do you spend in tax money on? And it needs to happen.

Property taxes are often defended as a very stable source of income, which they are. But stability for government writes the report comes at the expense of instability for families, renters, and employers. Because property tax functions like a recurring wealth or unrealized capital gains tax. It's a perpetual claim on property. It never stops. If you don't pay the sheriff of Nottingham, he'll come and collect your castle. There's something so, I have been advocating for the elimination of property tax since 2002 when I started this show. It's only been 23 years. And we're finally, and you know, I don't know, maybe the governor listened to some of my old programming. I don't know. But I've been advocating for this for a very long time. The smaller of Florida's municipalities have shown the highest growth in property tax levies. Now, for those of you that live in Tallahassee, it's important for you to note. The millage in Tallahassee is suppressed. It's not comparable to what they're spending. Why? Because they use the utility to augment their revenues. You're paying more for electric and water than you should because they're not just paying to operate and offer these services. They are transferring tens of millions of dollars from the utility to the general budget of the city. By doing that, they are able to keep their millage lower than it should be. But it acts as a regressive tax on the poorest people. Because you got to have power. You have to have water. Everybody has to pay it. So this is a tricky situation for the city of Tallahassee and other communities, both left and right, Democrat and Republican, because too many cities are spending too much money on things they shouldn't be spending money on. It's just that simple. So I encourage you to go there's a lot to this report. I only scratch the surface of it. My fellow American, this July, we're celebrating America's birthday at Moto Casino by giving away 1,776,000 in prize. And one lucky winner is going to take home 1 million SC. Happy 250th birthday, America. You're welcome. Download Moto Casino today. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino's the social casino board. We're prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details.

These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Call 844-844-I-Hart. Again, that's 844-844-I-Hart. JamesMadison.org. You'll find the report. Property tax. relief? What does that look like in Florida? You can look at the report and read it for yourself. 16 past the hour. Come back and talk some more here on the morning show. What's the beef? Coming up at just a little bit. We're gaining a few followers on Instagram and we're not even there yet. And that's fun. We are still refining. It's not like, you know, this is going to be some highly overproduced feature. We're going to try to drop daily the big stories in the press box in a very condensed format that hopefully. draws new listeners to the program and promote some discussion and thought on some of the things that we talk about here on the show. I'm keeping the content very limited in time because I know the way people are. People that are on Instagram are not going to probably sit down and watch five to ten minutes of video. They're going to check it out for a few seconds and see what they think. And if I can keep them hanging around for 90 seconds and then point them to the podcast, awesome. And then my hope is that we grow on folks. And then we're going to drop some and another things out there, just some observations, reflections, wisdom, maybe. You know, there's this deep hunger in me to try to help speak to... some of the issues that I think are addressed through just common sense. Obviously, it all runs through the filter of my faith in Christ. And I'm hoping that I'm able to convey that without seeming preachy. But the one thing is for certain. There is a move afoot in this country. There is absolutely an interest in the things of God because there are young people looking for moral clarity where there is none anywhere else in the world. They're looking for rails to run their race on.

You know, it's totally off what I was going to talk about, but this is where we are. I've shared this a few times over the years. There was a study done of young children. They packed them up on buses, and they took them to a playground that had no fencing around it. It was just an open field. Okay? All the kids stayed on the playground in the middle of the field. Then they loaded up the same kids and they took them to another playground with a fence. Playground in the middle of this massive field that had a fence. They went all over the place. Why? Sociologists will tell you the reason why is that people intuitively, instinctively are wired for boundaries and that freedom, true freedom comes when there are boundaries because boundaries provides safety. So now go back and think about that first example. No fence, no boundaries. Children instinctively, intuitively, without being told, stayed together in one place. Once they were in a massive open field that had fences, they explored. It's a biblical principle. True freedom comes with fences.

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Morning show with Preston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't you? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. Confidence of CEOs in the United States, slipping a little bit, two-thirds warn of stagflation. You might be saying, what? Stagflation. That is where there is economic slowdown combined with some inflation. Stagflation. A stagnant economy while there is some inflation. You know, I've had email people saying, what's going on? Prices are still up at the grocery store. Well, some are. Eggs is down. Eggs are down. Sorry. really bad grammatical error there. Eggs are down. But when you look at the conditions that brought about the inflation, those don't change overnight. Trump's been in office nine months. Now, there's some degree of relief that may not ever come. History tells us when prices reach a certain point, like, I grew up, and it was commonplace seeing gas for less than 30 cents a gallon. I remember that as a child, seeing gas station selling gas for less than 30 cents a gallon. We are to the point where right now, if you were to be honest, $2 gas would seem like a bargain. we've been conditioned. And sadly, there's a lot of that going on. Now, if you're a business out there and you're manufacturing, whatever, whatever food product there might be, and the regulatory environment shifts, and you have to suddenly do this, this, this, and this. Well, to accommodate those demands and requirements to lower your carbon footprint, you have to make changes, and that costs you money. And that goes into the cost of your good, whatever it is that you're selling. So a new president comes in, he says, we don't have to do that stuff anymore. Well, you've, you've already paid for it. It's already in the pipeline. You already have it as part of your pricing structure to pay for all of those manufacturing requirements due to regulatory demands. So I guess my point is, I'm not holding Trump responsible for the fact that prices aren't dropping at the grocery store. I hope that we, with tax reform, which we're not there yet, we just aren't. I'm grateful that we got the tax bill codified into law that keeps things suppressed. But 37%, why should anybody pay almost 40% of their income to the government? I don't care who it is.

Let me, and at the risk of blowing up the rest of these big stories, which you can hear the other stuff in the first hour of the podcast. Just for a moment here, I want you to think about what happens if people that are wealthy get to keep more of their money. At some point, that money makes its way back into the economy. And that's good for everybody. Maybe they invest in more businesses. Maybe they take a shot at a couple more startups, which what? Employees more people. Maybe they expand the business that brought them this wealth because they have the income to do it while protecting if they're a public company shareholder value. What if they just hoard it all? Preston, what if they just keep? So what if they do? It's their money. There is a difference between people just getting by and people that are just getting by because they've chosen to spend the money that they've made in a way that leaves them encumbered with debt. That's not anyone's fault, but the person who sets that up. Them, you, me, us. But let's take that wealthy person and let's say he keeps all of it or she keeps all of it or they keep all of it. Well, they might lock some away in an investment. An investment in what? Oh, in businesses that then give them operating capital to expand and to improve. What about? What if they just spend it? Well, they spend it in the supply chain then, right? They're buying stuff. And if they buy stuff, we benefit from that as well. Because all of that money then pays for somebody, some buddies, to have jobs. And then they make money and they spend money. And that's the trickle-down economy that people on the left and Democrats will never understand because they choose to not understand it. It is as obvious as sun in the daylight. The trickle-down economy works. It's the only way an economy can function. Money gets spent here, and by putting that money into the economy in any form or fashion, it moves its way into other people's salaries. And then they buy stuff, and that moves its way into other people's salaries and paychecks. And then they buy stuff. That's a trickle-down economy. Economics 101.

It just is, and that's why I love it, because it's based on math, and math just is. WFLA. I love this. FSU football this. FSU football this weekend. Stanford, 1030 kick. Brutal. That's just, that's just brutal. You can listen to the game here in Tallahassee on 94-9 TNT and Panama City on 94-5. Rock 94-5. Rock 94-5. Pre-game show two hours earlier, so at 8.30. I'll be honest with you. It's tougher for a team flying east than it is for a team flying west. Unless the team flying west is playing at noon. Or sorry, the team from the west is flying east. If the team from the west is flying east and playing at noon, that's 9 a.m. their time. That is a brutal time to play a game of football or basketball or any sport. That's awful. So maybe I just said that I was wrong what I just said. It's tough either way. That flight is brutal. I don't know when FSU left and got there, but if they didn't get there a couple days ago, and look, we need a win. Bad. Mike Norvell needs a win. Bad. So we'll be pulling for that. I had a listener send me this email, and I thought it was just fascinating. He did a Google search. And Steve sent this to me. He said, I did two Google searches asking the same thing. One, if you are making a movie about Martin Luther King Jr., can you interview only black actors? Two, if you're making a movie about Abraham Lincoln, can you only interview white actors?

Same basic question, right? And forget about the actual, well, of course you would be talking to all kinds of races because all kinds of races were involved in both of those stories. Absolutely. That's not the point. The point is what kind of answer did the AI of Google give back? To the first question, yes, a production can interview only black actors for a film about Martin Luther King Jr. as casting decisions are highly protected under artistic freedom. While many would find this a respectful and appropriate choice for authenticity, it's important to navigate the legal and ethical aspects carefully, such as avoiding discriminatory practices that could be considered illegal in other contexts. To the second question, interviewing only white actors for a movie about Abraham Lincoln is a legally complex and problematic issue. While a specific historical figure... Figures known race could be considered an element of artistic expression. A blanket policy to exclude all non-white actors from consideration is discriminatory and could be illegal. What an amazing distinction that the AI made for those two questions. Here's what you derive from that. The programming of the AI. has a built-in bias. At least that's what I take from it. It's not applying the same set of values. In other words, it's not applying a metric that is colorblind. It's applying... A metric based on a programmer's personal views. I just thought that was interesting. We've got What's to Be Friday coming up. Get ready to have your thoughts put together and placed into a phone call. We'll open up the lines in a little bit. We'll get you ready for what's to be next. 47 minutes passed. It's Friday here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Already got people lining up for What's the Beef. You're welcome to join in. The calls can come anytime you like, but I do want to share this with you. And this is a preliminary beef, kind of maybe warm things up a little bit, and it's a lesson in business. Now, for those who that say, what do you know about it? You've never run a business in your life. It's sort of true. It's sort of true. But that doesn't mean I don't know about it. How about this? You be the judge. So yesterday, for the second time, I went to a drive-thru restaurant that is not the traditional fast food that you would think of. Okay? I'm going to try to keep this a little bit. soft for the business, although some of you will figure it out. They have openly promoted, they have signs around their locations saying, now open at 10 a.m. And it was perfect because I was hitting it just after 10, about 5 after. And I'm thinking of bringing some lunch home to my wife and they make something very healthy, very good that we both enjoy. And I was all about getting it. And the last time I went to this place that promotes open at 10, I couldn't order what I wanted because they said, oh, it'll be about a half hour before the vegetables are done.

I was like, okay. And then I drove out. I said, well, then I can't wait. She has her lunch. She starts work very early in the morning. So she has lunch at, you know, 1045, something like that at the house. And I was really excited to bring home lunch for her because it's something she really enjoys. But no, no, couldn't do it. So I gave it another shot yesterday. Same thing. I'm sorry. We don't have it available. It'll be another 20, 25 minutes. And so I drove away. I said, okay, never mind, drove away, called into the restaurant, hoping to, because I wasn't going to get out. I needed to get home. I was hoping to talk to the manager and say, hey, just explain this to me. You say you're open at 10, but you're not open. You don't have all your food ready. Didn't pick up the phone. In fact, I called five times and no one picked up a phone. So I called another location where I got somebody to pick up the phone right away. I said, do you have the same ownership of, and I said, what's up with the vegetables? And the guy said, yeah, same thing here. It takes 20, 25 minutes because the workers don't show up till 9.30. To which I said, how about you just open at 10.30 then? when you have all the food. I think there are a lot of lessons there for those of you in business. 850-205 WFLA 850-205-9352. It's what's to be Friday. Complain about anything you like. The phone lines are open. Three are available. So call now. You ain't heard about Moto Casino? Moto has real Vegas slots. Any game you can find on the floor in Vegas, you can play it on Moto. I like my slots hot. Moto's free to play, like food stamps, in line at the grocery store, at a funeral, in traffic. Keep your eyes on the road. Hop on Moto Casino. Moto Casino got jackpots that are bigger than my belly. Moto, America's Hot is free to play social casino. Download the Modo Casino app today. Moto Casino is the social casino board where prohibited and purchase necessary visit moto.com.

All right, friends, we've got a line open. And for those of you that might have called in and gotten a busy signal, we had a caller drop when we informed them that we couldn't have any stand-up comedy. We just needed a beef. And so he dropped. That frees up a line. So if you had a busy signal, now's the time to call back in. We've got three lines taken, one line open. If you are new to the program, it's what's the beef Friday? Complain about anything your little heart desires, even if it's me. I'm a big boy. Just don't make it personal. If you have a bad experience at a business, tell us what happened, but leave the name of the business out of it. And by all means, no profanity. That's like, that's big time no-no. We encourage young ins to listen to the program. We want them to listen to the program. And it's one of the great joys that I have is running into people that are now in college or married with children that listen to this program when they were children. And they've grown up listening to this show. It makes me very happy. So let's do this. Joel has been waiting for quite a while. He called 850-205 WFLA. Good morning, Joel. You are up, sir. What's the beef? Good morning, Preston. Preston, my belief is that our federal government and even our state government, I think, do not articulate clearly and explicitly the benefits of legal immigration. I looked up on chat GPT last night, and over a million people came in legally in 2024. And that's a million stories. That's a million stories that need to be touted to the nation on how you do things correctly and why we do it. The left has gotten away with too much that we are anti-immigration. You know, we're obviously not. So I really hope that Descentes, you know, puts aside a large chunk of money to start advertising on legal immigration and that Trump does as well. You know, you raise a great point. It's one we've talked about from time to time, Joel, and that is the left have conflated illegal immigration with immigration, and they're very different stories. Couldn't agree more. Absolutely. Hey, thanks for being patient with us this morning, and thanks for calling in. You bet. All right, that frees up a line, 850-205 WFLA. Ted is up next. Good morning, Ted. Thanks for calling. What's the beef? Hey, sir, how's it going to think for taking my call? Absolutely. Yeah, I just want, you know, cars today are fantastic. I got a pretty, a decently new car. And my dim headlights are a beast. They're not modified. They're factory. If you want to check me at 50 or 60 yards, I get it. But if you wait to your ride on top of me, you're going to be real unhappy because I'm quick with that trigger. So are we talking about your headlights, right? Yes, sir. And people thinking they're on Bright? Oh, my God. You've never seen anything like it. I mean, I must get it 15 times a night in an hour. May I ask what kind of car you have? Yeah, it's a Chrysler 300. Okay.

All right. And now all the new LED lights, if I'm not mistaken, they do not have any adjustments in them. They're factory set and left and forgot it, right? You forget it. Yep, factory set. Yep. And I get it, man. I'm sorry, but maybe let's make some policy. Hey, if you're 70% sure, somebody's brights are on, go ahead and test them. If not, just let it go. Yeah, I hear you. You know what I find, Ted? I find that sometimes the hills in Tallahassee get the better of those lights. You come up a little bit on a hill and it looks like your brights are on, but it's just you're just getting the full brunt of those LEDs. I've found it easier to just drive with my brights on. And then shut them off so people know they're like, well, crap. Thank you, Dad. I appreciate it. Other than slipping in the D word there, you did good. You did good. Thanks very much for calling. All right, Dennis, you're going to be up next. Then Jan, then is that Deneen? All right. What about you? We've got one line open. Jump on it, friends. It's what's to be Friday. We do this just once a week. A little audio therapy. Let you get it off your chest, whatever it might be here on the morning show with Preston Scott. Yeah, that's keyword Preston as in P-R-E-S-T-O-N. We were just talking in the break. How in this day and age, People trying to take a common name and just spell it differently. It's like, I remember the first time I saw Michael with a Y. It's like, what? Okay. Hey, whatever floats your boat. Dennis, you are up, my brother. What's the beef? How are we doing this morning? Terrific. My things were Florida State. We were at the game this weekend and kind of watched that. Uh-oh. You know, the defense and this atrocity that we've been beat with for three weeks in a row. My thing is, you know, we haven't been won an ACC game in almost a year now. We're fixing to be facing 10 games straight. Do you think it's also time to kind of start moving or looking past Norval? A different one or? Well, I love Norville. He's a nice guy. My son's even been up there, talked to him with some of the football programs from the local around here. Delightful dude. Yeah, but nice that he doesn't win championships. It's not, you know, it's not working. You know, we're going to hit that same thing with Mark, like Mark Rick went up there in Georgia when he was up there for all those years. Yeah, Dennis, thanks very much. I appreciate you calling. I think I'll reserve comment because this is about beefs and I don't want to dominate a bunch of time with my thoughts. I'll just say this. There's been a big sample size now at six years and I expect that they'll need to be a pretty strong finish for a coach to be around. That's my guess. But I hope nothing but the best for him because like you, I just think he's a really good dude.

But is he the guy? Well, he's got the rest of the season to stabilize the ship. We've got two lines open. What's up with that? 850-205 WFLA. 850-205-9352. Jan, you're up. What's the beef? Hi, Preston. Hi. I want to start a new political party. First of all, let me say I'm a Republican. I'm a Trump fan. But things have gotten so out of hand. We need to start a new party called the Common Sense Party. Uh, you know, there just are no party lines anymore. I get so tired of the rhetoric from both sides. If you listen, if you really listen to both sides, we're saying the same thing, very same thing against the opposite party. And it's just getting, I mean, sometimes, you know, we sound as bullheaded as a Democrat do. And. I'm just so frustrated. I could scream. Yeah. I mean, I do not vote a straight ticket. I have voted for Democrats. I try to beef up on what's going on. I have in the past, not often. Yeah. But. My God, where's the common sense? Truthfully, I mean, is there a possibility of something like that ever happening? Because the way I look at it, we're on a road to nowhere right now. Yeah. Both sides are. Yeah. Jan, thank you. I'll give you the short version. A third party. I completely agree with all of your thoughts and reasoning, but it will elect Democrats for the rest of eternity. because it'll pull almost exclusively from the right. That's the only way I can put it. You will not get people on the left joining a party of common sense. There will be a handful, but not many. But thanks very much for calling in. Let's go to Deneeneen. Dene, thanks for calling. Good morning, Preston. Good morning. So my piece is the traffic in front of Child's High School in the mornings and afternoons. Oh, boy. There is no traffic light between Thomasville, Georgia and Bradfordville Bannerman Road. Yep. And it takes 20 minutes to get across. I'm hoping they're going to put some type of a light when they open up the Culvers and the Waffle House, even if it only goes during that traffic time. So that is my beef. Are you driving in from Thomasville? No, I'm coming out of Killarne Acres. Okay. And I can't get across Thomasville to pull into Child sometimes for 20 minutes. Because people are afraid to cut across Thomasville Road. Yep, yep. I feel your pain. Thank you. Yeah, it's frustrating. Thank you. There you go. We have accomplished our mission here for you, Dene.

And I appreciate you calling in. I could hear the lightness in her voice because she knew what was coming. She was purging. It's just what happens when it's like, well, never mind. I won't, I won't. I won't create some gross comparisons. But thank you. Let's see. We got Matt and we got Dave. And we have time for two more callers. If you've always wanted to be on the air and get your beef said, now is the time. I can guarantee four callers in the next segment. Five, I can't. Four, I can. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. From the ground up in just a little bit with Esposito Garden Center expert Jasmine Waite. But first, more of your calls. It's what's to be Friday. Here on the morning show with Preston Scott, and we have one line open, but we have three ready. And Matt has been waiting the longest. Good morning, Matt. Thank you for calling into the program. You're on the air. Every dating app swipe is another loss. Jimbros, fake CEOs, straight up losers. So now the only app I open is Moto Casino. Because at least there, I'm surrounded by winners. Real winners. Thousands of them. While everyone else is in the single swamp, I'm at home relaxing while stacking bonuses. Hit and wins and playing all my favorite Vegas-style games. Moto Casino, the only app worth your time. Moto Casino, the Social Casino. We're prohibited. No purchase necessary. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. Good morning, Preston. Thank you. I've just got a couple quick beeps. I'm very disgruntled with my company that I worked for. They made me come in to work today. I told them it was Saturday. They claim it's Friday and absolutely no proof. But I'm going to work and I'm disappointed about it. The other thing is, you know, people that, you know, get... Their lights are so bright that somebody brights them 15 times in a 10-mile radius why they can't adjust their headlights. I wish they would adjust their headlights or get the 400-pound dead body out of the trunk. Appreciate it. Thanks, Preston. Thank you. I appreciate the call. Yeah, whatever lifts that front end up. With the LED lights of today, any slight elevation of that front?

and you are driving blind if you're driving into it. No doubt about it. Let's go to Dave. Hi, Dave. Thanks for calling in. What's the beef? Hey, Preston. There's some things where we need to just stop accepting the premise, like when do you just stop beating your wife? And my problem is with the word controversial, because it's always stamped on the, it's always stamped on us. It's always stamped on the conservative side. of any argument. The news people do it. Even Fox News does it. I've heard, Jose, can you see do it when he's reading a news article, and I'm not trying to knock him. I heard Steve Stewart throw it out accidentally yesterday. He was talking about if you're a conservative student that believes the controversial Charlie Kirk point of view. And I just wish we would take a red pen. And like you guys, for instance, and I'm not trying to knock you guys, and you certainly can't do anything to your TV set, but us in personal conversation, and maybe you guys, when you're reading news copy, when you see the word controversial, we've all just come to accept that word, we should cross through it because it's always stamped on us. And, you know, if there's a bill that, you know, the left wants to stop on puppies and we want to, it's freedom of speech and we want to stop them, every news meeting in the country will be talking about our controversial bill to stop people from stopping on puppies. And that's it. I just wanted that word controversial. It's always on us and aggravates me. Well, that was a pretty controversial comment. You see? Thank you, thank you, sir. I just had to. You know I had to do that. I appreciate it. Yeah, good job. Yeah, see, that's why we're here. We are here to help. Let's see you here. John, you are up. What's the beef? No, good morning, Preston. First, thank you for what you do, you and Jose both. And after hearing the previous caller, I kind of wish I'd invested more heavier in Prozac, but that's another story. My brief is with people who do not understand irony, and I'll give you an illustration. Tesla passed me on the interstate the other day. Just to the right of the Tesla sticker on the back of the automobile, it had a bumper sticker that says deport Elon Musk. Now, doesn't that make sense? Deport the man who invented or perfected and marketed the car you're driving. I've seen it. Apparently, of automobile that you want. Anyway, you'll have a good weekend. Yeah, thank you very much, John. What those people are doing, and if you're one of them, shame on you. Those people are trying to keep themselves from having their car keyed or defaced. I think we're past that because Elon Musk isn't running Doge anymore. But all you had to do was just call the police on everybody because you had a record of everybody that was doing it because your car records it all. But for those of you cowards driving Teslas with the Elon Musk with the circle and the, you know, the slash across, it's shame on you. Shame on you.

First of all, you're a hypocrite. Sell the car. Get rid of the car. Or you're fine driving the fruit of his labors. Whatever. Stop it. All right, 27 minutes past the hour. We have, from the ground up, coming up next. We're going to help you with your yards. Jasmine Waite will join us from Esposito Garden Center. So stick around. We also have good news, dad joke, and some headlines from the B. Great half hour of radio still awaits us here on the morning show with Preston Scott. American Social Casino. Welcome to Modo Casino where the excitement never ends with thousands of the hottest free-to-play social casino games, fastest payouts, and the best promotions in the industry. No tricks or gimmicks. Owned and operated in the USA. Moto Casino is a free-to-play social casino. No purchase necessary 21 plus to play void were prohibited. Sign up today for a generous welcome bonus.

Come on, admit it. You hear that music. You immediately feel compelled to go out in your yard. It says, clip the grass. It says, water the plants. It says, head to Esposito and get a chameleon. Joining us on the program is Jasmine Waite with Esposito Garden Center. Jasmine, how are you? I'm terrific. Am I right? Doesn't that music just say, let's garden together? Oh, it's the cool morning for me that say let's garden. Tell me about a camellia. Why are they so popular? Because they're a one-of-a-kind plant. There is nothing else like a camellia. If you plant them right, you can have blooms from fall all the way to spring. It's evergreen and such little maintenance. You don't get any better than that. So are there certain varieties that are friendlier than others? And what's the best time of year to be planning a camellia? And are they perennials or are they annuals? They are definitely perennials, not annuals by any means. I have a camellia in my front yard that's got to be almost 20 feet tall. It is just gorgeous, and it's been there for well before I own the house. So probably 30 years. It's fantastic. And, yes, it just depends on the right place with the right plant. So if you were to plant this dine, you plant as a sangua. The two different types of camellia, it's as a sanguineca. If you have shade, plant japonicas. The same was are like more of a hedge shrub, gorgeous bloom to them. Joponicas are shade plants, and they're going to have a much larger bloom to them. So the one I have in my front yard is a pink japonica, absolutely gorgeous. A lot of people here want to plant peonies. You can't. They just don't live here. But they're a peony style blooming chameleas, and you get them for a lifetime versus a year. Tell me this. Can they be trained into becoming a tree, some of these? Oh, absolutely. Any Joponauts have to be trained into a tree. I knew it. And I had a lot of people who take the same blood and turn them into bonsai trees. I knew it because I've got something that I inherited when I moved into my home. At first, when I saw it, I thought, well, maybe this is some kind of weird magnolia because of the way it bloom, but it didn't have any kind of aroma or smell. Camellias generally don't have a smell to them, right? Oh, not true. There are quite a few chameleons that put off the most beautiful, almost rose scent. How really? A lot of them are like high fragrance. It is a huge pink bloom. I mean, about the size of my hand. That's how big that bloom is. And it smells almost like roses. It's so phenomenal. They come in shades of white to shades of deep, deep red.

They come in the peony-style blooms. They come in flat blooms. There is a camellia for everyone. And I just think the beauty of a camellia is that you can pull those blooms off and float them in water during, like, parties or if you're just trying to show off to a friend. They are a showstopper in neighborhoods. Oh, my gosh. And just last year, they released, I think, what everyone was waiting for. It is a yellow camellia. It's almost as off white towards the edges, yellow in the center. It's called juries yellow. Oh, it's just phenomenal. I would imagine this is almost like the perfect plant because you can find one that fits every kind of exposure to the sun that there is in most people's homes. How frequently do you need to fertilize them, if at all? And I'm guessing this is maybe one of the better times to plant them, or is there not a bad time to plant them? There's really not a bad time to play at Camellia. I would say the only time maybe is the dead in the middle of summer, and it's just because you have to water a little bit more. Okay. But I think everybody, when I say the less maintenance, the better. And the camellia is that low-maintenance plant. Very little diseases that are attracted by a camellia. And watering, they are drought tolerance, too. You could water the, you know, two out of them. They don't mind too much. But after they go into the ground, they need a lot of water, maybe the first three months. After that, let the skies take it. Bottom line, if you're walking in and you want to know the best camellia for your particular situation, you need to know like what kind of exposure. In other words, where you're planting it, you need to come into the nursery knowing that and the size you want, right? Oh, definitely. They come from two feet tall all the way up to 20 feet tall. So as long as you know, if it's sun or shade and how tall you want it, you can pick the perfect chameleon. Perfect. Jasmine, thanks for the time today. We appreciate it. You're very welcome. Have a wonderful day, guys. You as well. Jasmine, Wade, with us from Esposito Nursery, Esposito Garden Center.com.

Time to be continental. It's 42 minutes past the hour. It is the morning show with Preston Scott. Prestonio. Scotto. Good news segment here on the program. We shove aside everything else and give you something to just. And look, we're at that part of the little ground up, little gardening help, right? Jasmine, all about the camellias. See, I never got to really finish that. That's probably what I have. It was trained into being a tree. And it puts out the most amazing blooms in January and February. Just a tree full of blooms. But they don't smell. I wish they did. So I picked out a magnolia to plant nearby because I love the smell of a magnolia. I just, they're just. I grew up with gardenias. My mom was a big gardenia lover and roses and roses. And I have roses. Roses are in honor of my mom and our time spent in the garden together. And I'll probably end up getting some kind of gardenia somewhere. I did have one. It kind of got a little away from me. You know what I'm saying? But anyway, the good news story here today, Wichita Taco Restaurant, Tacos T.J. 664. That's quite a name. Massive line outside the restaurant. People Jay Jones and for their tacos. That's always a good sign when there's a line. And one particular family had come there. They were really wanting some fresh shrimp tacos. But when they got to the front, they're in line and they didn't know all of the checkout. electronic stuff was not functioning it was cash only they get to the front of the line after waiting and it was like oh we i'm we don't have enough money i'm darn it dudes overhearing them steps up presses a hundred dollar bill into the mom's hand says here go buy your dinner I cannot take the, yes, you can. Take the $100 bill. He refused Venmo. He said, look, dinner is on me tonight. And after they paid for the dinner, they gave him the change back. He walked right back in line and gave all the rest of the money to the staff.

Mom said, I could not believe that strangers like that exist anymore. People that would do something so kind. They then went on a search trying to figure out who this guy was because he didn't want his name out there, but he was found. He just decided to give them the name Jared. Jared asked about it. He said, when I was a young man, I grew up poor. A family took me in when I needed it the most. They ended up finishing, raising me until I turned 18. I moved out on my own. If they wouldn't have ever done that, I never would have to be in the place I am today. And frankly, I wouldn't be able to help out somebody like that. I owe everything to them, the people that helped me. Well, T.J. 664 got wind of what happened. They gave Jared an honorary certificate as the Wichita Taco Hero and has awarded him free tacos for the rest of the year. Friends, if you look for it, you will find ways to make a difference everywhere you go. And that is good news.

Okay. Time to put a cap on this thing. FSU football tomorrow. 8.30 pregame on your radio station carrying FSU football, which is 94-5. Rock, 94-5 in Panama City and 94-9 WTNT in Tallahassee. 8.30 because it's a 10-30 kick in Palo Alto, California. I believe it. Of all places. Take it on Stanford. Time for a dad joke. This is to help you out this weekend at church. Ready? I gave my handyman a to-do list, but he only did jobs one, three, and five. Turns out he only does odd jobs. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Time to end the week with some satire. Ladies and gentlemen, these are headlines courtesy of your, my, our trusted source for satire. These are headlines courtesy of. The Babylon B. Fair. Trump sets Letitia James Bale at $355 million. People who have been calling for a ceasefire for two years denounce ceasefire. Democrats vow to keep government shut down until somebody notices.

Man buys new TV so he can watch NFL refs blow calls in stunning 4K resolution. Sad Greta Thunberg asks if anyone else needs a flotilla. Democrats demand Trump stop fanning the flames of peace. Exhausted government employees hoping to go back to work soon so they can get some rest. Clarence Thomas gently explains to KBJ that not all black people are mentally disabled, just her. Democrats explain to young Republicans, they're supposed to engrave their messages on bullets instead. And Chicago police cut spending by just taping off locations that aren't murder scenes. Brought to you by Baranow Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. Those are some of the best headlines we've had in a while. You know, the best part is if you've never been to the Babylon B, the best part, is that all of those headlines have stories attached to them. You can read the stories, and the stories are hilarious. They also do some great videos. Speaking of, video content coming soon to Instagram. Just remember TMS, Preston Scott. It's the same handle, see what I did there, handle that we use on X. Only on X, it's at TMS Preston Scott. On Instagram, it's just TMS Preston Scott. Simple as that. I've had people say, will you ever go back to Facebook? I hope not. I know Instagram is a subsidiary of Facebook, but it's a totally different thing for very personal reasons. If I ever get through holding a grudge against Facebook, maybe. But as right now, I'm holding a grudge. So don't count on it. Talked about a lot of stuff today on the show. Went through the property tax discussion, what that looks like. Big stories in the press box today. CEO confidence slipping a little bit. Two-thirds are worried about stagflation. That's a stagnant economy with a little bit of inflation thrown in. Democrats are advancing a bill that would let federal workers skip paying rent while they are in a government shutdown. Of course, because that's what Democrats do. And as we mentioned there, Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that blacks are disabled and need voting assistance, much like people that are in wheelchairs. Friends, have a great weekend and go Knowles. Ten hours on my feet, traffic, noise, everybody needing something for me. My head is spinning. I just need the world to stop for one second. But then I get home, shoes off, phone out, and I open Modo Casino. Hundreds of slots. Classic table games. It's my instant reset. The variety I want and the quiet I need. Moto Casinos, the social casino board. We're prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details. Download the Moto Casino app today. Must be 21 plus.

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