Ep. 5421: What Kash Patel found has some people sweating in silence.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey, good morning, and welcome. Welcome to the Thursday edition
of The Morning Show. It's the final day of the month,
which means for many it's Mayday, which is a lovely thing.
Great to have you with us. Friends. It is July thirty,
First show, fifty four to twenty one. I start out
laughing because a couple of our boys came over last

(00:39):
night and we watched a movie, had some had some food,
and I stayed up a little bit later than I
normally would so they could come over after they worked.
And then long after I had gone to sleep, my
oldest son sent me a video and he said, this

(01:03):
will this when you need a laugh, and oh my goodness,
just yeah, I'm going to share it tomorrow. I will
let you in on it because you don't have to
see it. Seeing it is good, but you don't have
to see it to appreciate it. So just throwing a

(01:26):
little bit of enticement out there on tomorrow's show already
we will we will start the day with one Peter
three And it's really good when God's word just sometimes

(01:57):
we get we feel a little disconnected from old time
Testament stuff, right, and even New Testament. It's such a
different world, but I would contend it isn't It really
isn't that different. It's more technologically advanced. But people are people.

(02:23):
Sin is sin, and God just has a way of
speaking to us about what's important. And so we're in

(02:46):
Firs Peter, and God's word just says, beloved, do not
be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon
you to test you, as though something strange were happening
to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings,

(03:12):
that you may also rejoice and be glad when His
glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name
of Christ, you are blessed because the spirit of glory
and of God rests upon you. It it buffers things,

(03:34):
doesn't it. We will be hated if we're a Christian
and you're living it. You'll be hated for it by some.
But understand this standing around watching will be people who

(03:56):
do not hate, who simply do not know, and watching
your reaction will speak to them. The Holy Spirit will
use that, and so I want to just don't be surprised,

(04:18):
it says, by the fiery trial when it comes upon
you to test you. I constantly get email from people
that are really worried, and I get it. There are
a lot of things going on in our country and
the world, but when you boil it down, it's no

(04:42):
different than anything we're reading about in God's Word, the troubles,
the difficulties, the efforts of God to get the attention
of people. He used profits. We're listening and learning about
the profits of the Old Testament, the minor prophets. God
just screamed, come to me, and he's still doing it.

(05:09):
Ten past the hour. Take a peek inside the American
Patriots on the NEC. Next in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, let's take a peek of July thirty first.

(05:33):
In seventeen ninety, the government grants the first US patent
to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for the process of making
pot ash and pearl ash ingredients used to produce soap.

(05:53):
That was the first patent the government ever issued. I
believe you have a good idea. I mean, I just
nineteen fourteen, so better than one hundred years goes by
before the next event that is memorable. New York Stock
Exchange closes for four months due to World War One.

(06:15):
Nineteen seventy one, apile of fifteen astronauts become the first
to ride a lunar rover on the moon. Whatever nineteen
nineteen ninety one, President George H. W. Bush Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev's sign these Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Start

(06:35):
Act to reduce long range nuclear weapons stockpiles? Did we
do it? Did they do it? I mean, do anyone
Do people actually do what those things say? Or we
just uh, yeah, we threw them away? Not really. NASA

(07:03):
in two thousand and eight announces that it's Phoenix lander
has confirmed the presence of water on Mars. I was
on the air. I was on the air when that happened,
talked about it. And in twenty twelve, in London, swimmer
Michael Phelps becomes the most decorated Olympian of all time.

(07:23):
Eighteen gold, two silver, two bronze medals during his Olympic career.
That's incredible to be an Olympic champion eighteen times. That's crazy. Okay,
over there, let's see here. It is National Raspberry Cake Day.

(07:49):
I've never acquired a taste for raspberries, and the idea
of fruit in a cake just it's like a black
forest cake with cherry in it. No no, no, no
no no no no no. That is a ruination of
a good chocolate cake. I've been known if someone serves
that like a banquet or whatever, I've been known to

(08:10):
cut the cherry part out and just eat the chocolate
around it. I'll do that, cannot. No, and raspberries would
be one of those things. I would eat them in
a survival situation. I'd be like, Okay, I know they're
not terrible for me. I would just think that it's
a really natural gummy. National Mutt Day. MutS are incredible.

(08:37):
A mud, of course, is a mixed breed dog, and
I'm all about it. MutS are adorable. National Chili Dog Day.
Mmm mm hm oh yeah yeah. So's here's the game plan. Kids,

(09:06):
It's It's Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day. So what you
do is you head over to DQ. You buy yourself
your blizzard or your group of blizzards. Dollar goes to
the Miracle Children's Network, and then you buy some chili dogs.
They have a decent chili cheese dog. You didn't know that,

(09:30):
Oh yes, sir, the Grill and Hills. Yeah, I'm celebrating
today for sure. They have chili cheese dogs. You can
have them throw onions on it if you want, but
they do. And it's National Avocado Day. Okay, fair enough.

(09:53):
Don't you make guacamole with avocados, don't you? Yeah, just
squeezing some guy avocado on a sandwich doesn't work for me.
I can take fresh sliced avocado on a chicken sandwich,
a grilled chicken sandwich. I can tolerate that some. But

(10:13):
for me, avocado and guac, that's that. I'm good. There,
that works. And it is a National Intern day. So
if you have an intern there, you go sixteen past
the hour, come back with it? Did you know? And
Fort Hood is back? Sort of flight from Salt Lake

(10:44):
City to Amsterdam. Let me just say, really, from Salt
Lake City, Utah to Amsterdam, that's all now? I mean
that just surprises me when you expect a flight going

(11:06):
to Amsterdam to leave from somewhere east, not west. It
had to divert to Minneapolis Saint Paul because of unexpected turbulence.
Twenty five people needed to be hospitalized. You know, when

(11:28):
some turbulence exists but some you don't, and that's horrifying.
But think about this turbulence so bad that twenty five people,
perhaps not you know, they had to divert to Minneapolis
Saint Paul. They weren't buckled in their seatbelts. Maybe I

(11:51):
don't know, but turbulence that bad didn't destroy the airplane.
That's incredible. I mean when you really think about that,
the forces at work there and the airplane is fine.
Crazy anyway, did you know this just shocked me. Have

(12:15):
you ever played around with a whip, just like, I mean,
not to make a play on words, but just horse
around with one witch? Do you realize that a whip
has to travel faster than the speed of sound to
make the cracking noise? The whip goes seven hundred and

(12:36):
sixty seven miles per hour when it's cracked. The tip
of it is going that fast. Whoa And I was like, oh,
come on, I looked it up and sure enough, that's true.
Didn't know that, I said, ford Hood is back sort of.

(13:00):
You may remember. One of the things that the Obiden
administration did. I have to remember to say that all
the time, O Biden is they went fully woke on
all kinds of things. And one of the things they
did is they started renaming battleships. They started renaming fort's,

(13:23):
you know, army bases. One of them was Fort Hood.
They named it to Fort Cavazos. Now, I have no
idea who that that's named after. I don't care because
if a woke administration picked the person out, I have
no interest no matter what. I just apparently John bell Hood,

(13:44):
the original namesake for Fort Hood, fought in the Confederacy,
and we can't allow that, of course. So what Trump
did is they they decided to honor Colonel Robert B.
Hood ends this born officer who distinguished himself in World
War One. He was born in eighteen ninety one, commissioned

(14:07):
in nineteen seventeen, earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his
heroism in battle. And so his daughter, a retired captain,
received the first ceremonial cannon round as part of the
tribute to her father's legacy, and they unveiled ford Hood.
It's back. It's just not named after the original John Bellhood.

(14:34):
It's named after a Canson that has the same last name.
I saw this story in Not the Bee, and they
all the writers give themselves fictitious names. This one Edward
Teach and Edward I think that's Blackbeard. I think Edward Teach,

(14:59):
I think is black Beard. They still avoided the Confederate reference,
so he wrote, woke might need a little more strangulation here,
but I'm glad to see they restored the name that
the Wokies went DEI with a new name, a name
that lasted just over two years. So it's a restoration
sort of kind of not completely, but it is still

(15:24):
back to being ford Hood and that's a good thing.
When we come back. The big stories in the press
box wowsers one in particular. You're gonna want to stick
around for this. Twenty seven minutes past the hour, Good
Morning Friends, The Morning Show with Preston Scott on NewsRadio

(15:45):
one hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio double
UFLA Panama City dot Com. Let's get to the big
stories in the press box and this is the biggest

(16:09):
of the big to me for the day. FBI Director
Cash Patel found a massive load of sensitive documents related
to the origins of the Trump Russia controversy buried Listen

(16:30):
in multiple burn bags in a secret room inside the FBI.
Sources have told Fox the burn bag system is used
to destroy documents designated as classified or higher. Multiple burn

(16:52):
bags were found and filled with thousands of documents. There
are classified documents directly connected to the Trump investigation that
were set to be burned. They didn't get to it.

(17:14):
The documents are going to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair
Chuck Grassley. Some of the contents including that the US
intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI
would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump Russia
collusion narrative before the Bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire

(17:38):
Hurricane probe. It was already being put in place and
organized before the investigation, the source said, quoting mere days
after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane.
It's hard to see how Brennan Clapp Comy are going

(18:00):
to explain this away. Patatel, in an interview in June
with Joe Rogan, said, and I quote, just think about this. Me,
as the director of the FBI, the former Russia Gate guy.
When I first got to the Bureau, found a room
that Comy and others hid from the world in the

(18:22):
Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that
no one has ever seen or heard of locked the
key and hid access and just said, no one's ever
gonna find this place. Well he found it. I will

(18:43):
tell you now that I think privately they are there
wetting themselves. They might publicly post all of this rhetoric
that suggest ah, there's nothing to see here, uh huh. Whatever.

(19:07):
The other big story the Fed is leaving the interest
rate unchanged, but for the first time since nineteen ninety three,
two Fed Reserve officials dissented from the decision. Those two
are Trump appointees. However, you need to keep that in mind.

(19:32):
The next two day meeting is in September. It's mid September.
The reason why this is a big story is the
FED rate matters. It does it, It keys a lot
of lending decisions. It triggers the rates that the private

(19:53):
sector banks and credit unions offer on mortgages and loans.
But I also think that this is a big story
because Trump needs to not just fire Drome Powell because
he doesn't reduce the FED rate. There needs to be cause.

(20:17):
Now what happened with this building renovation, that can be cause.
But just because he doesn't do exactly what Trump wants
when he wants it, it is an independent body. Now
we can have the argument should it exist, should we
be following. That's fine, have that argument. But this idea

(20:40):
that Trump's just going to fire anybody who gets in
his way that's independent is bad for the president. It's
bad for the presidency, and I think that there needs

(21:04):
to be a distinction. Just because he doesn't lower the rate,
that's not enough reason to fire him. It just looks
like bullying to me. And again, being honest, that's Trump.
He wants it his way, and there's a lot to

(21:25):
say about his way that's worked wonderfully well, but there
are Let's put it this way. Maybe the time to
have that happen is after the midterm elections. I think
right now the president needs to be not fueling the

(21:49):
dictator narrative that is out there. He just wants to
be a dictator. Some of the things he says and
does just gives ammunition for that stuff. Forty one minutes
past that come back and Tom Terrific in the news.

(22:10):
You don't know who that is, I'll explain. Tom Terrific
otherwise known as Tom Brady. He is actually questioning Scottie

(22:36):
Scheffler prioritizing his family over golf. But he's of course
missing the most important ingredient here now. Scotty Scheffler is
the best golfer in the world, has been for a
couple of years, but he doesn't really care about that.

(22:56):
He wants to compete and beat anybody that he whether
it's a twenty handicapper that he's given twenty five shots
to at his home course, or the other best players
in the world, it doesn't matter. He wants to win.
But he famously said the week of the British Open,
this is not fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from the sense

(23:21):
of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a sense of
the deepest places of your heart. That's why I talk
about family being my priority, because it really is. I'm
blessed to be able to come out here and to
play golf. But if golf ever started affecting my home life,
or if it ever affected the relationship I have with
my wife or my son, that's going to be the
last day that I play golf out here for a living.

(23:45):
Brady then decides to jump in on this and he
wrote that he places each priority of life into a pyramid,
placing himself at the top. Followed by his partner, children, work,
extended family, friends, hobbies of greater community. He said. The

(24:07):
key is knowing when one should take precedent over the other.
He said, and I quote Scotty said he'd rather be
a better father and husband than a good golfer. My
question is why not both? Why are those mutually exclusive?
Sure they are different blocks on the pyramid, they're part
of the same pyramid. They're connected. For instance, I think

(24:28):
part of being a great father is being a great
example of doing what it takes to take care of
your family. I chose to do it by playing football.
My dedication to the sport, the hours of practice, the
moments that I when I was laser focused. Those are
times when I believe I was doing the best possible
thing for my family and my kids by prioritizing my
profession and teaching by example what it takes to be

(24:49):
really good at your job, what it takes to follow
through on commitments, what it takes to be a great teammate,
showing them also by example that work is a big
part of our lives. Didn't it cost you your marriage?

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Tom?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
And is anywhere in that block of blocks for your
pyramid is God? In there anywhere. Did you notice who
he put first on his pyramid. At the top of
his pyramid is him? You know who Scotty puts at
the top of his pyramid? God, God is first, His

(25:30):
wife and children are second. He's behind those three. Scotty's
down the list. And that was his point. And that's
what people who don't know Jesus don't possibly understand. They
can't understand it. I will make a prediction, Scott He's

(25:54):
going to stay married to Meredith for the rest of
their lives. I won't be around to see it all,
but to have Brady, who's now a part time parent,
questioned Scottie Scheffler's priorities of faith and family and then work,

(26:20):
Spare me Tom. I didn't ever really like Tom Brady.
I respected his accomplishments as a quarterback. But now I
really don't like him. But I'll pray for him. I

(26:40):
don't blame him. He doesn't understand. He doesn't get it.
Forty seven minutes after the hour, everybody can learn from
Scotty Scheffler's priorities in life. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Oh, what is the world coming to?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
You know?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
We talked at the beginning of the show, how sin
is sin right? Technology has changed that. You know, we
think we've we're such an enlightened culture in society, and
yet the depravity of man is just evident all the

(27:31):
time we're watching it. This week, there's just this rise
in these ridiculous crimes of incredible violence, crimes against children.
But there have been crimes against children for centuries. Danville

(27:56):
City Council Member Lee Vogler, thirty nine year old dude,
who you know? It's a part time position. He worked
at a Showcase magazine office. I think he's the local
sales manager. Guy walked in at eleven am yesterday, forced
his way into the office carrying a five gallon bucket

(28:16):
of gasoline, threw the gasoline on the guy and lit
him on fire. Had nothing to do with politics, had
nothing to do with business. These two had a personal
issue and Shatzi Michael buck Hayes twenty nine decided to

(28:44):
take it out whatever the beef was, by dumping gasoline
and setting him on fire. Personal matter twenty nine. I
bring the story up because I just want to illustrate

(29:12):
I pointed out twenty three years ago, not just the
political correct culture. What it was going to lead to,
but that we were raising generations of children that could
not take no, that could not take things not going
their way, that could not take disappointment, that could not
take coming in not just second, but third, fourth, fifth,

(29:35):
or just barely finishing. Instead of saying, well, you don't
get a ribbon today, but keep working and maybe next
year at the school games you'll you'll win a ribbon.
You know, when I was a kid in school, when
most of us were children in school, you didn't just

(29:55):
win something for showing up. Now you might get an
award for being part of the team. Hey, here's a
photo of the team, But you didn't get trophies for
coming in last or fourth, or fifth or sixth. Here's

(30:20):
a twenty nine year old. The only way he could
resolve his issue was to bring gas and a torch
and set somebody on fire. What the heck is that?

Speaker 3 (30:32):
I know?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's sin now, It's not just that, it's how this
young man was raised, his inability to cope with something
not going his way. All right, before we end the hour,
it is dairy Queen Miracle treat day. Head to your
latest favorite closest dairy queen, and get yourself a blizzard.

(30:53):
A dollar or more will be donated to the Children's
Miracle Network hospitals. So get yourself a blizzard. And let
me tell onto that if you go at lunch or
dinner time, get a chili dog. It's Chili Chili Dog Day.
It's National Chili Dog Day. When we come back, Steve
Stewart will join me from Tallahassee Reports. Our two of
the Morning Show with Preston Scott is next. All right,

(31:17):
five past the hour, second hour, already final show of
the month, not of the week of the month. It's
July thirty. First here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
He's Jose, I'm Preston, and this is the executive editor
of Tallassee Reports. Joining me on the phone line this
morning is the one and only Steve Stewart. Good morning, Steve,

(31:39):
Good morning, Preston. Are you I'm terrific. Let's get some
insight here. We heard a poll say that seventy five
percent of this community is all in favor of raising
property tax, right.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
That's you know, And the sad thing is is that
you know there is a track record to.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
That.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
That poll was pretty accurate. So the background is the
at the Leon County School school Board Agenda Review, which
is the pre pre meeting that took place on Monday.
I watched the meeting and they had Steve Vancoor, who's
with a Clearview Research, and they you know, he does
a lot of polls around the states for things like
around the state of Florida for things like this. You know,

(32:22):
he did the polls for the Children's Services Council and
it passed. And that came back when he you know,
did the poll before people put that on the ballot.
It was you know, sixty five percent of the people
you know would support it, and that passed. But I
think over sixty percent of voters. So you know, right
now was we heard Superintendent Hannah talking about the budget challenges.

(32:46):
He's kinded around about military increases, and so the Leon
County Teachers Association, who has a bit of a vested
interest in you know, more money in the process, commissioned
this poll and the Leon County School Board got a
presentation for mister Vancore and he said he was shocked
they've never seen such a strong, such strong support for

(33:07):
increase in property taxes. And so again people you know,
we posted this story a lot of traction on talents
reports with comments like what you mentioned, Well, you know,
I didn't, I didn't wasn't in this poll. You know,
this is you know, this is a biased poll. But
this is consistent with what our community supports. Preston.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Again, the CSC was created, you know, overwhelmingly, and so
it will be interesting. And now this also the half
penny sales tax, which goes towards capital structures are capital
funding for schools is up in twenty twenty seven, so
that was also supported in the poll. So next year

(33:49):
on the ballot there could be a couple of measures
that will be raising taxes.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
And if if you.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Recall, we've talked about this the last couple of weeks
about how we needed and more time looking at local spending.
And I don't know, from a community standpoint, I think
that these taxes you know, again are supported. It's more
about I think the media or the you know, moderates
who don't support taxes. It's about how the money gets

(34:16):
spent is sort of where you need to be looking.
Because again we voted to give raises to city commissioners.
Did everybody sort of laugh?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
About that.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
When it was on the ballot it passed. Preston, Steve,
let me ask.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
You how was that question worded? How is the property
tax question worded? What what was said? No?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
And that is that that's the uh A good point,
and it was not provided. I will tell you what
I think it's said in terms of I watched the
presentation is would you support a property tax for a
military increase to support more money going to the expenses
related to teacher salaries and public safety?

Speaker 1 (34:56):
And that's so that's not really accurate. The teacher pay
is I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't.
Isn't that somewhat of a state issue as well? The
state provides funding to the local schools, And.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, I mean it's a it's a it's a combined effort,
and obviously local, right is a large percentage of you know,
I think it's one hundred and the property tax raise
one hundred and fifty six million dollars for the upcoming year.
But you know, again the money is the money going
to go directly to teacher salaries in public stations?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Course not?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, that is a that's how you word it is
a lot. And they get to choose. I mean it
gets approved and put on the ballot. The language is proposed,
so you know, you can imagine it'll be appealing to
the heartstrings of the of the taxpayers.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Well, yeah, public the safety of the schools, and we're
gonna we're going to continue talking about the school system
in the next segment with Steve.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
But but the.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
The nuts and the bolts of this is to drill
down deeper and say why is the school district suffering financially?
Some of it is fair, some of it is by
not acknowledging some realities. And we'll get to that next
year in the Morning Show with Preston Scott The Preston

(36:21):
Scott Show Back with Steve Stewart, Executive editor Tellassi Reports.
You can subscribe and get the paper just go to
tellassar Reports dot com. Steve I contend that you know,
the Feds were doing away with the Department of Education.
At least we're trying to counting on that federal money.

(36:44):
It always came with strings attached anyway. But to me,
the bigger issue is in Florida, parents are voting by
moving their kids. And the reason one of the bigger
reasons why the school district's challenged financially, is kids are
leaving the district.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, they're not leaving the district, they're leaving the school system, right, Well,
that's what I mean charter our private school.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
I think this is the budget issue, which was the
topic of the Tuesday meeting, which we also watched. So,
you know, we heard a couple of weeks ago superintendent
it came out and you know, talked about a twelve
and a half million dollar budget gap, you know, and
then he went to the Children's Services Council and got
some help. If the federal funds weren't released that were frozen,

(37:32):
those funds did get released. In addition, it appears like
now things weren't as dire as they once, you know,
as Superintendent had it made them out to be a
couple of weeks ago. They're plugging some holes with some
other money. For example, they're getting about eight million dollars
of money that is was used for capital projects can
be now used for transportation issues. So that's going to help.

(37:56):
So the six hundred and forty five million dollars school
budget h was tentatively approved and then there'll be some
public hearings coming up. So they've plugged those holes. But
I think, you know, the point is that the Feds.
Not only do the FEDS fund some of the education budget.
It's not a lot, but it is, you know, it's some.

(38:16):
But the during the COVID era era, the FED sent
more and more money here, and I think that that
is a transition that local governments are having to make
because that money is going away in constant with a
more uh a more critical eye of where is it
being spent.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Well, I mean, you never you never put in your
budget non recurring revenues.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Exactly. But and and they're and they're making some adjustments there.
They're cutting positions that were there because of COVID You
had money pressed and there was FED there was money
coming from the FEDS for learning loss and so they
were hiring more people to deal with that. So that
that requires just as you you know, as you built
up for that, then you've got to wind it down.

(39:00):
And governments aren't good at winding things down once you
get once they get the money. And so you know, again,
living in a conservative state, a state that's run at
the state level with conservatives, there's going to be some
tension here. And Superintendent Hannah was very critical, Uh, you know,
state funding. But to your point, there's a couple of
things going on here. There are people leaving the school

(39:20):
system and going to private and charter schools, and the
money is going with them. So that's costing you know
that that's taking money out of the traditional public schools.
But also there are demographic changes within the county. One
of the items is they're you know, they're planning for
a new school in the Wallane development. You know, people
with families are starting to you know, coalesce in certain

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parts of the county, and and the schools that were
built thirty or forty years ago are losing people and
and the reality is that some of these schools are
going to have to be closed. Nobody wants to do that.
It's you know, elected officials on the school board don't
want to rezone and don't want to close schools. But
if you look around the state, and I've used Daval
as an example, Daval County in Jacksonville, you know, the

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demographic changes there are not even are not only within
the county, but they're out of the county. And they've
closed thirty year to forty schools and so that is
something that that Leon County is going to have to
grapple with. But you know, my guess is superintend to
handed his last term. He you know, he said he
was going to support this, try to you know, rally

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the troops to implement this property tax increase. I don't
think he wants to close schools on his watch, and
so we'll see what happens. But like I said, the
new the plan for a new school in Wahlawney, the
developer there is already you know, is going to contribute
twenty four acres for a new school near the I

(40:50):
ten Mayhand Exchange. And so as you can see that
is that's a shift of where people with kids are moving.
And we need to we need to sort of, uh,
you know, realize these realities. Not it's not about downtown
Tallassee anymore.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Steve Stewart with us from Tellass your reports. More to
come here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott m
putting a cap on our discussion about Leon County schools.

(41:30):
A lawsuits.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Steve, Yeah, you know, this is an issue that is
very convoluted. The bottom line is a charter school went
out of business. The law says that the school board
owns the assets if a charter school closes down, because
you know they've bought those with taxpayer money, right, so
the charter school closed down it and you know the

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problem is is that you get lawyers involved in there's
threats and and the school and superintend a hand.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
It was very.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Very gun hoed go after this. However, I think that
they have decided not to. I think that the assessment
of the assets now are a little bit lower than
they thought and they don't want to get caught up
into this legal battle. And again, this is one of
the I think the negative side of the charter regulations

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of how they use taxpayer money, which is fine for education,
but when they go south, the taxpayer does get left
holding the bag and little a few people know that.
But this is an example of that happening here in
tallahassee on this.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
But on this particular issue, Steve isn't Superintendent Superintendent Hannah correct,
those assets belong to the county and they should have
been returned yees.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
However, the charter school, which is a national corporation with
a lot of attorneys and a lot of money, are
arguing that they shouldn't have to turn it over because
the school closed in debt, and there's leans on it.
It gets very complicated, and I think that the school
board now has decided that they're not going to pursue
this from a legal aspect. Maybe they'll do it politically

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behind the scenes, but they're not going to do it.
And they're afraid they're going to get caught in. They
are afraid they're going to get caught in a legal
battle and spend you know, one hundred thousand dollars in
get nothing.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
But this is kind of a pattern thing where schools charge.
Some charter schools run by outside organizations do just this.
They run for a few years, shut them down, and
then they use that land, that area for something else.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah, that's the critique of these corporations to get involved
with this process. Definitely.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
All right, let's talk about the development here the Greater
Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. Sue Dick is leaving. Who's replacing her?

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah, this is sort of breaking news. So I don't
have a lot of information other than the gentleman's name
is Michael Dalby, as I think how you pronounce it.
The applicants, this was pretty much under the radar in
terms of who decided, I don't and you know, just
suddenly press release. He has economic development experience. I think
was a chamber official in Naples, Florida. His last job

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was a University of Texas in terms of commercialization, so
you know, I think the first thing is he's obviously
an outsider, which is big for this community in terms
of making hires and positions like this is usually he
doesn't follow this course. So that is one interesting thing.
The other interesting thing is, just based on our discussion

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this morning, he's going to get sort of baptized by fire.
Next year he's going to take over. And you know,
the big thing that we've talked about is trying to
have the business community creating an identity that's separate from government.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
And that's been a problem over the last thirty or
forty years. And you know, for example, the Chamber came
out and supported the Children's Service Council tax. So he's
going to have an opportunity. I don't know if it's
an opportunity, but he's gonna be faced with some challenges
next year. If you know, the school district is looking
at increasing property taxes if the Children's Service Council is

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looking at increasing the militar rate. You know, what is
the business community going to do? Are they going to
take stands against these things? Our support them? And you
know another example is the t m h FSU issues,
which is what I is, what I think is one
of the bigger economic issues the community faces has gone
completely dark and the Chamber has not taken a position

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on it. Obviously, they're in a year of transition, but
the new leader is going to have a lot on
his plate at the very beginning in his first year
in terms of how to deal with local government. So
I think we're going to get we're going to get
a very good idea of where the Chamber goes. Now, listen,
this isn't all about him. This is about the board

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of the Chambers saying, look, this is where we want
to go and then he's going to have to be
the leader to do it. So when you see the
positions of the Chamber on these positions on these issues,
is going to be again still driven by this people
that are in charge. Is this going to be a
different face trying to carry out their mission. But we'll
see if their approach changes with a change in leadership.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I was going to ask you, Steve, there are pluses
and minuses of bringing in an outsider. There are pluses
and minuses of hiring somebody that knows what's going on
in the community. What's your hunch. Is your hunch it's
good to bring in an outsider, a fresh set of eyes.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
No, especially from the economic side, I think it is.
I think that it will be good for the business
community to get a perspective from somebody that has been
in other communities like Naples in Austin, Texas. University of
Texas is where he was, Yeah and so, and they'll
have then they can make their decisions. But again, I
don't think people should jump to the conclusion that this

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guy's going to come up with all these brand new
ideas and it's going to basically change things. I think
he's going to have an input to the board and say, look,
you know, when I was here, this is how it
was done, and it's different. You know, it's done differently there.
It's going to be up to the business community to
chart a new bath. You know. I never thought that
that tu Dick was driving the you know, the decisions

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on a lot of these things, that her role was
to give the options and then go ahead and implement
what the board wanted. So it'll be interesting to watch,
and it will be there'll be a lot of big
decisions in the next year.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
This is one of those where the members need to
drive the board, not the other way around exactly. Steve
is always thank you.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
All right, we'll talk next week, all right.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Steve Stewart with us from Tallahassee reports here on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston
Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA.

(47:54):
It's kind of catchy up here. Big stories in the
press box. Time will we'll just touch on what we
mentioned last hour. Cash Ptel literally nosed around the FBI
building and found thousands of sensitive Trump Russia probe documents
inside burn bags in a secret room. He told Joe

(48:19):
Rogan last month that they must have thought that we'd
never find it, but we did. Sources have told Fox
News it's hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comy
are going to be able to explain this away. More

(48:40):
to come fed leaving the interest rate alone, two officials
on the board dissented with the majority decision. That's the
first time that there has been descent on a board
decision since nineteen ninety three. So as the kids say,
it's been a minute. They have arrested a man for

(49:09):
murdering that couple in an Arkansas park. We don't have
a lot of details yet, but my initial understanding is
that somehow the couple was able to protect their two girls.
I don't know how that all unfolded. Will learn more,

(49:30):
but significant arrests. There a city official in Cincinnati celebrating
the brutal attack, celebrating and then this lead research is

(49:56):
never are the research assistants of this program off to
this morning? I was asked, did you know this? I said, nope,
did you know that we have been The United States
military has been carrying out bombing missions in Somalia. We

(50:22):
are going after terrorists in Somalia. You know, Trump said
he wasn't going to play around. He was going to
eliminate threats to this country. And we are on pace
to set a record for the most bombing strikes in
Somalia in history. We are targeting ISIS and El Schabab

(50:44):
military targets, terrorist targets, not military. Fifty two airstrikes so
far Smallia has been a hot Somalia has been a

(51:05):
problem since the nineteen nineties, a huge problem, and so
apparently Seal Team six has had a heavy presence in
small as well. So that's now on ear radar. Turning

(51:29):
back to the burn bags, why didn't they just burn them?
Patel said, they thought we'd never find it the room.
Is this one of those cases where the ashes would
have been evidence enough. I don't know. I'm just trying

(51:52):
to understand why in the world didn't you burn that stuff? Boys?
This is getting worse and worse and worse for Obama,
you could say, indirectly Biden, but certainly for Komy, Clapper, Brennan.
And our contentions and our feelings and our intuitions about

(52:14):
these men is being proven correct. And there are a
lot of people right now that are feeling really silly.
Have you noticed there's not a lot of defense going on.
Everyone's gotten real quiet. Adam Schiff isn't making any statements.
Jerry the nad nadler isn't making any statements. It's just

(52:39):
it's almost eerie how quiet it has gotten since Tulsea
Gabbard started releasing stuff. On the other side, Quiet forty
minutes past the hour, A couple other interesting things. Next,

(53:16):
Today is the day. I'll leave that music out. I'm
playing off the beat. Go to dairy Queen, get us
never mind, I just kind of messed it up. I'm
one of those guys that's start over, but I can't

(53:37):
start over. We'd get a different song there. Today is
a Miracle Treat Day, a dry queen participating Dairy Queen's
and hopefully it's the one nearest you ask before you buy? Hey,
is if I buy a blizzard, are you donating a
buck or more to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals? They say, yes,

(54:01):
Go well, what shall we get? Shah? You know, so
I would I would think that today's the day to
buy a bunch of blizzards for you and the staff,
maybe everybody in the office. Come on, boss, come on boss,
do the right thing. Buy a bunch of blizzards.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
And then.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Combine that with the fact that it's National Chili Dog
Day and Dairy Queen the grills and chills, the grill
and chill. Dairy queens almost all of them have chili
dogs available. You don't have to make it a meal deal.

(54:49):
It's it's yeah, and they're decent. It's a it's a
decent chili dog, proper carrier. You can have it with
cheese and onions if you want. I'm not a new
on the raw onions, but yes, so I think today's

(55:10):
a day to get a chili cheese dog in a
blizzard or five something like that. So there you go.
This was a news story for us here in the
Tallassee area a couple days ago. Florida and Texas. But

(55:31):
Florida definitely has been screwed by the Census Bureau and
we should have more congressional representation. The question becomes as
Ron de Santas has asked how many seats would California
lose if it excluded illegals, quoting they should count people

(55:53):
that are legally allowed to be here. How many seats
would California lose if you only counted lawful citizen they
would lose a lot of seats because it's a sanctuary state.
You know, they do a census once every ten years.
I think because of the importance of it, you could

(56:15):
argue maybe every five. But there is no way that
you should count anybody here who's not here legally and
a permanent resident. You should even if you've got a

(56:35):
a visa that allows you to work here, you're not
a resident here, you're not permanently here. By law, you
should not be counted. And so if you think about
the representation that California has and you think, I wonder

(56:57):
if someone's done the math, how many seats would they lose? Five? Ten?
It's an interesting argument. Forty six minutes past, we come back,
a road trip idea and six hundred and forty five
million dollars. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott, the

(57:27):
most unusual on the road again segment I've ever done. Ready,
this is the next to the last weekend before the
start of the school year here in the region. Okay,
it may be off a week or two depending on

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South Georgia or other parts of the Panhandle, Big Ben,
But roughly we're there. Ready, here's your road trip suggestion.
Go somewhere, pack up the kiddos and go do something,
because to them it'll be an adventure. It could be

(58:12):
a trip to a campground fifty miles away. It could
be a stay at a hotel where there's just something
fun to do the next day, go playing putt putt
and video games and whatever. Could be a day trip
to the beach. It could be a drive over to

(58:33):
Jacksonville to see the zoo. Go somewhere, do something, get outah,
because we're going to start the school year, and then
you know what happens. It's cool. There's always something going on,
FSU football starting back. You've got your schedule's gonna get

(58:58):
from from now till the start of the year. Crazy
because before you know it, you're going to actually be
planning for family and friends to come in for the holidays.
Before you know it, you're gonna be thinking Thanksgiving and Christmas.
This is it because you're likely not going to go

(59:18):
out of town the weekend before the start of school.
You're likely not going to go because there's you just
got to kind of get ready for the start of
the school year. Get your ducks in a row, get
everything labeled, all the supplies and all that stuff. But
this might be the one chance you've got, So I'm
just I'm encouraging you to just go somewhere, do something.

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These are memories, you know, kids remember stuff like this. Obviously,
when they're little, little, little they don't remember a whole lot,
But as they get into their early elementary years. They
remember these things, little things that you think are insignificant,
They remember and it matters. So there's your suggestion, I said,

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six hundred and forty five million dollars. Get your mind
around this for a second. A three hundred and ninety
foot super yacht designed to run entirely on liquid hydrogen

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for sale for six hundred and forty five million dollars
at the Monaco Yacht Show, and oh, by the way,
owned by Bill Gates, who, oh, by the way, according
to reports, has never set foot on it. Now apparently

(01:00:50):
someone's in line to buy it. I don't care. Here's
what I think is interesting. Okay, So he wanted to
do this liquid hydrogen thing. Sweet cool, good for you,
and it's incredible. This boat is like incredible ought to
be for six hundred and forty five million dollars, don't

(01:01:10):
you think. But with all of the talk that build
offers on changing the world, you think six hundred and
forty five million dollars would have changed the world for
a few people. He could have given that money to
different charities, different I'm just saying, Hey, it's his money,

(01:01:31):
he can do what he wants with it. I'm just
I'm just offering a perspective here. You know, he he's
of the opinion that it's okay for him to fly
private jets all over the country. You and I just
shouldn't do that because he's changing the world, is he? See?
That's the thing is he he built a six hundred

(01:01:54):
and forty five million dollar yacht that he's never been
on because he could. Is that changing the world? I'm
just asking, that's all. When we come, Zach, when we
come back, when we come Zach, when we come Zach,
when we're back on our number three here, the Southern
Baptist Church is theological commitments. Anyway, we go into the

(01:02:31):
third and final hour at least for today of the
morning show at Preston Scott iss Oasiam Preston. It is
July thirty first, friends, and we thank you as always
for joining us, whether you are listening on terrestrial radio
or iHeartRadio ruminators. We appreciate it and we are thrilled
to have back with us. One of our faves, Zach Smith,

(01:02:53):
works with the Heritage Foundation, and he's written a piece
entitled the Southern Baptist Conventions. Theological commitments are worthless if
they can't be in the public sphere. And Zach, welcome
to the show again. How are you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
When I saw this as a former vocational pastor and
knowing the Southeast as the Bible belt that it is,
I was fascinated by this piece. Before we go back
into some of the digging that you did going one
hundred years or so back, let's go to what prompted this,

(01:03:30):
why the decision to write this piece.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Yeah, So I am a Southern Baptist. Attend to Southern
Baptist Church and over in Pensacola, and I was able
to attend. I was blessed enough to attend the Southern
Baptist Convention in Dallas, Texas this year, and I was
able to see some of the debates that took place
on the floor, able to hear some of the disputes
that have been taking place, and you know, with my
work at the Heritage Foundation as well, I'm able to
see why it is happening both in Tallahassee and in Washington,

(01:03:57):
d C. Here and how Southern Baptist having age with
some of the very important issues that have been coming
up over the past several years, and so I thought
now was a good time to talk about what Southern
Baptist police are and how Southern Baptists have engaged with
the political world in particular, if if.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
I were to be overly broad, and of course I
am notorious for painting with a very big paint brush, Zach,
it would seem to me that the SBC has found
itself in some rough waters in the last couple of decades.
Is that fair?

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
I think it is a fair statement.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Look, I don't want to be a doom and gloom
too much, and I think there is good news and
maybe some areas for improvement coming out of the convention
in Dallas. The good news, and I talk about this
in my piece, is that Southern Baptists seem by and
large to be on the same page about their core
theological convictions. Obviously sharing the Gospel across the globe, helping

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to play churches, affirming God's good design of two genders,
pushing back against things like pornography, sports betting. Some of
the Baptists are overwhelmingly on the same page about confronting
those issues, saying they're bad. Where things get a little
more tricky, and I think where you're seeing some disagreement
is about how to translate those theological convictions into the

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public sphere. What is the best tactics, what are the
best entities designed to do that? That is where we've
seen a lot of disagreement over the past several years.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Let's for the we got a couple of minutes before
we take a quick break here, Let's where does the
Scopes monkey trial fit into this arc of research that
you did impending this piece?

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Yes, I look back. You know the Scops monkey trial
took place one hundred years ago last week, and obviously
that was the trial that was purported to put God
against evolution. It was by William Jennings. Bryan and Clarence
Darrow were the attorneys. And I teed that up is
the intro to my pleat piece because shortly after that
cross started, Southern Baptists met in nineteen twenty five, and

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just like this past year in Dallas, Texas, in nineteen
twenty five, Southern Baptists were confronted with one finalizing and
formalizing what their core theological convictions were going to be
as an entity, and then also how to translate those
theological convictions into the public square, and so you know,
many of the issues that were being confronted one hundred

(01:06:31):
years ago, Southern Baptists are still having to confront in
a new way today.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Well, it's interesting because we were on this topic. I
do a devotional to start the show every morning, and
one of the things we talked about is that though
technology changes and we think we are more enlightened today,
in reality, nothing much has changed since the Fall. Since
the garden. Sin is sin and Jesus called up us

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to engage the culture without compromising our faith.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
That is absolutely right, and I think you know the
form that some of the issues we're confirmed today is
a little bit different. I doubt the Southern Baptist in
nineteen twenty five could have foreseen the rise of technology,
things like iPhones I've had had, the Internet, and the
unfortunately the omnipresent scourge of pornography that's so prevalent in

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society today. But you're absolutely right, fundamentally, many of the
issues are the same.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Joining me on the program as Zax Smith with the
Heritage Foundation. We're talking about a piece he's written and
we will continue our discussion next on the Morning show.
This is a very interesting and I think important topic
because there are so many that are And if you've

(01:07:54):
listened to this program at all, you know that my
constant challenge to you is to not make church attendance
like you're paying your fire insurance premium. Don't treat it
like you're checking a box. It's much greater than that, Zach.
Is this discussion maybe debate inside the SBC about how

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to go about being relevant in culture. Is it about,
you know, whether you're going to be a street preacher,
or whether you're going to be a lifestyle evangelist, or
is it far more nuanced than that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Well, I think there is some of that debate happening.
And look, I'll echo what you said just a minute ago,
preston the Southern Baptist Convention. We are the largest Protestant
denomination in the United States today. A Historically, Southern Baptists
have been active in politics and have influenced the culture
in an outsized way. And so I think what happens

(01:08:49):
in the SPC, You're absolutely right, does affect certainly everyone
who cares about many of these same issues, regardless of
whether or not you're a Southern Baptist yourself or not. Yes,
part of the debate we're seeing in particular stems around
how to engage with some of the political battles we're
seeing today. Obviously, I think we can all agree prayer,
having conversations with family, friends, and neighbors, those are vitally

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important things to do. But one of the entities of
the SBC itself is called the Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission the e ORLC, and that's been a very controversial
entity within the SBC because by and large it has
taken positions over the past several years that do not
align with where a majority of Southern Baptists are on

(01:09:34):
certain political issues, or they haven't agreed with how Southern
Baptists think that we should translate certain of those theological
commitments into the public square. The leadership has been somewhat controversial.
Is formally headed by doctor Russell Moore, who has since
left the Southern Baptist Convention and has taken, from my view,
some theologically problematic positions in his new role. So these

(01:09:59):
are the type of the bates that we are having,
and I think you'll continue to see that, particularly unfortunately,
some controversies surrounding the e ERLC over the coming year.
In the lead up to the next Southern Baptist convention
in Orlando, Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Zach is it Look, I have long wrestled with these issues,
not just in invocational ministry, and you might well could
guess that I was pretty direct in the pulpit about
stuff like this. I don't necessarily think that we ought
to be worried what a majority of Southern Baptists, or

(01:10:36):
a majority of Christians, or a majority of Church of
God or anybody thinks. What does God's words say about this?
Is the problem with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
a matter of quote interpretation of scripture? Or is it
just kind of the watering down of what God's word says?

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Well, I think it may be with both. It may
be a matter of interpretation in some ways. And so
one of the flashpoints in recent years has been over immigration.
What does the Bible say about immigration? How should we
deal with many of the issues we're facing the day.
And unfortunately, just in recent weeks, the eROC has that
come out and publicly backed a bill that would essentially

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grant amnesty to many individuals. Now, I think you can
have disagreements about whether that's good or bad. I personally
think that is a bad thing. I do not think
we should support amnesty, but to come out and say
that in some ways the Bible would compel certain positions,
particularly on these very controversial issues surrounding immigration and other entities.

(01:11:44):
I think that is what is frustrated many Southern Baptists,
because I think you can make a case in the
opposite direction that in fact, we need to have secure borders,
we need to enforce our laws, and I don't think
there's anything unbiblical about taking that position. I think that
tension is what many in the Putho Raptist Convention have
found particularly troubly and particularly problematic.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Zack Smith with me, and again, if you want to
look up the Peace, it's good read the SBC's theological
commitments the Southern Baptist Conventions. Theological commitments are worthless if
they can't be in the public sphere. We're going to
talk about that impact what that means next here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Fact with Zach Smith

(01:12:37):
talking about a piece about the Southern Baptist Church and
the theological commitments and their relative expression if you will,
in the public square. We talked earlier this week in
a sort of the start of the week devotional about
you know, hugging close to Jesus because if he's the
light of the world and we're living in a dark world,
you can't really go wrong if you hug right there

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to his hip, because he's going to illuminate the path
for us. And the Old Testament had something to say
about that. But Zach, it gets muddy sometimes when politics
and personal opinions start to take maybe precedent over what
God says simply in his word. And I want to
circle back to the ERLC, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

(01:13:24):
There are there have been some concerns there and a
bit of a lightning rod is developing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Right, Yeah, that's right. And look, I think we talked
about the immigration context specifically. One of the major controversies
around the ELC is they have partnered with groups that
have taken money from George Soros and other very left
leaning individuals who unfortunately are not followers of Christ and
who unfortunately have pushed policies that are in direct contravention

(01:13:49):
to what the Bible requires. And so I think many
Southern Baptists, once they understand that asked why has the
LC partnered with these other organizations? And now, certainly in
some areas, you know, there may be opportunities to partner
and work with non believers to provide you know, good
services or support to communities, particularly during times of crisis.

(01:14:12):
But on many of these important public policy debates where
you know, this ELC is trying to invoke Biblical authority
in sometimes questionable ways and then partnering with these other organizations. Again,
I think that's why so many Southern Baptists are asking
questions and are so concerned about the direction the ROLLC
has taken in recent years.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
So did the last convention really settle much? And what's
left on the table for the next one on this issue?

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
So it's good news and bad news. As I mentioned
at the top of the show or the top of
the segment, the Southern Baptist did pass very good resolutions.
Andrew Walker, he's a professor at one of the seminaries,
Southern Baptist Seminaries. He was in charge of the resolutions committee,
and he passed a number of excellent resolute again on
things like affirming God's good design related to marriage, affirming

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things like the two biological sexes, affirming scriptural and errancy.
Many great things happening. The bad news again is that
how to translate this into the public sphere. There is
debate on that. So I think in Orlando we're going
to see potentially conversations about the ELC against over forty percent,

(01:15:26):
almost forty two percent of Southern Baptist messengers actually voted
to abolish the EERLC at a convention in Dallas, Texas.
That's an astounding statistic, and so we'll have to see
if that conversation continues in Orlando. There's also conversations about
whether bibility women can be pastors and how to respond
to churches that have ordained women pastors in their poolpits,

(01:15:50):
And so I think those types of conversations are still
going to have to be had when the next convention
happens in June of next year in Orlando.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Are you going?

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
A year is a long way away, and certainly, if
God is gracious enough to let me go, I'll plan
to be there when.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
You step away from it. Now you've written the piece,
you said, the feedback to this has been generally positive.
Has the issue crystallized for you? The issues? Have they
crystallized for you at all.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Well, I think they have in some ways. I mean, look,
I think many of these issues, as we were talking
about earlier, the Bible is clear how to address them.
You know, it may sometimes be uncomfortable, it may sometimes
not be easy to follow through with the Bible's commands,
but I think that is what we are called to
do it. And look, I think it's important to understand

(01:16:48):
as well, Preston, keep in mind that there are many
battles we can agree on, things that we agree we
need to confront, you know, across the political spectrum. In
my hometown in Pensacola, Florida, for example, our city owned
local theater has decided to host a drad show mocking
christ two days before Christmas last year, the Sancor Theater, Pensacola, Florida.

(01:17:12):
And so I think all Southern Baptists, all Christians, and
frankly anyone who cares about just having respect for others
in the community should be willing to come together and
push back against those types of events.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Zach, thanks for writing what you wrote, and I appreciate
you joining me to have the conversation this morning. I'm
sure it's one we'll revisit again down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Be well, Thanks so much, Preston, take care.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Zack Smith with us this morning. Heritage Foundation, right guy,
And oh, by the way, a member of the board
of Trustees University of West Florida and our guest, what
if that's on the top of his resume? Guests to
the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty seven minutes past
the hour. Oh my goodness, big stories in the press

(01:18:08):
box this morning before we lighten the load and call
it a day. Tomorrow, school supplies. I want to talk
about school supplies. Have we gotten over our skis a
little bit too far on those lists. I have mixed

(01:18:28):
feelings on it, and we'll talk about that tomorrow, but
you know, you'll be we'll welcome you to chime in tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
But I.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
There's a delicate balance here, and I think there's some
things inside or behind the push on these school supply
lists that might be useful for you to know. And
so we'll get into that tomorrow tomorrow as well. What's
to be from the ground up Tomorrow, we'll uh, we'll

(01:19:05):
cover some some topics dealing with our yards. This heat.
It's a challenge. It is a challenge in this heat.
We've also got some headlines from the Bee we are compiling,
as well as a good news segment which may or
may not be just a chance to laugh. I shared

(01:19:29):
something with Jose that was shared with me. I started
the show with it and it just made me laugh,
and I may may share it with you. We'll see.
We'll see how it sounds. The sound quality has got
to be just right. But big stories today. Cash Pateel
found thousands of documents connected to Trump Russia inside a

(01:19:54):
secret room at the FBI. And all this material was
in what are called burn bags. And let me tell
you something, you can't make up memos from a previous administration.
They either exist or they don't. And one of the
sources speaking to Fox News said, it's gonna be tough

(01:20:16):
for them to explain this away. Mm hmm. And this
is corroborating the Tulsi Gabbard release. This is trouble you
you know, MSNBC, CNN, USA today, all these other news outlets, ABCNBCCBS,
they can all ignore it all they want. But I'll

(01:20:39):
tell you what's interesting is Obama and Brennan and Komy
and Clapper, even Hillary, they got nothing to say. Obama
clapped back briefly at the very beginning of Tulsi Gabbard's release,

(01:20:59):
this is just distraction. He's not saying anything now. I
think that's telling. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think I am.
If the FED leaves interest rates unchanged, there was some
dissent for the first time since nineteen ninety three. It
was not a unanimous decision on changing the FED rate

(01:21:23):
one way or the other. I just don't like the
the public pressure that Trump's putting on Powell to do
what he wants. I think it's appropriate for the President
to say, through his economic team, we think the FED
rates ought to be here, We're going to there. You know,

(01:21:46):
as long as we have the FED, you need to
let them function. Now, if you don't want the FED anymore,
then Congress needs to do something about that and deal
with it. I don't know that it takes a constitutional
amendment or not. I don't know about that. What I
do know is the perception of Trump being a bit
of a bully when he doesn't get his way is annoying,

(01:22:08):
and it's distracting from his messaging and the important things
that are happening that are good. US military quietly, quietly
carrying out a bombing campaign against terrorists in Somalia. Did
you know about it? Nope, neither did I. Some of
the crimes being committed now are just ridiculous, and they

(01:22:32):
lean towards our personal defense segment really hard. We are
going to have a lot to talk about with JD.
It's interesting. We have not had stories like this in
a long time. We have a bunch of them, and
I think there are lots of things to learn. Forty
minutes past the hour, a story that is so troubling
and funny all at once. I'm just going to read

(01:23:10):
the headline hot stuff. Brazil's erotic love motels are getting
ready for UN Climate Change summit. Report says this. According

(01:23:30):
to The New York Times, Brazil's love motels, in Quotes,
known for dance poles and leopard print walls, are preparing
in case they have to house attendees of this year's
UN Climate Change Conference as organizers struggle to address lodging shortages.
The erotic motels, normally reserved for lunch hour trists, clandestine affairs,

(01:23:55):
and passions struck lovers seeking a few hours of privacy
away from cramped family homes, are now getting ready for
hosting diplomats and climate scientists, civil servants, and environmental activists
for the November UN Climate Conference twelve day Summit. Okay,

(01:24:16):
so that's just that's just one part of the story,
and you can go, oh, come on. One of the
hotel owners, a guy named Ricardo to Chera. People think
it's like a brothel, but it's just like a space
like any other. They're saying. These love motels are just

(01:24:41):
like any other hotel or motel. They're not so different, Okay,
aside from the sex toy rentals. True story truth. Other
owners of these motels are not so sure about catering
of the conference attendee. But here's what I want to

(01:25:02):
get to this part of the story. Local officials fay
scrutiny earlier this year for paving over tens of thousands
of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to build a four
lane highway aimed at easing traffic to the climate conference.

(01:25:22):
The deforestation undermines the very purpose of the summit. Critics said,
let's do a climate change conference in Brazil, and to
show how important the climate is in our environment is
let's bulldoze thousands of acres and Amazon rainforest. What do

(01:25:46):
you say? And at the end of this story they
have tags. You know, the stories have little tags on
them where you click that tag and it takes you
to story worries about a broad subject. Here are the
tags for this story, Brazil, climate Change, United Nations, Sex

(01:26:10):
What a mixture? Huh? Lead research assistant sent me this
story with the attached note. There are so many things
wrong with this story on so many levels. They pulled
those tens of thousands of acres for a climate change
and then they paved it. What's the CO two level

(01:26:34):
on that one? Huh? What's the carbon footprint on all
that asphalt, the production of it, all the trucks that
brought it. You cannot make up hypocrisy like this, You
can't do it. You would think that the the UN

(01:27:00):
Climate Conference would be telling them, the organizers, let's make
sure we pick a place that's very green, where the
infrastructures in place where we don't we don't have to
worry about our footprint. And of course you know that
in November there will be hundreds of private jets flying

(01:27:22):
to and from and we'll have all of the red
carpet esque moments, the paparazzi taking photos of all the
near dwells that are that are posing for the cameras,
talking about theirs, their consciousness towards social and environmental sorry

(01:27:44):
for for environmental and climate related things, all the while
they flew there, and then we're brought there in limousines,
in private cars and in private planes, and it's just
it's and we let them get away way with this
by buying into these policies. Thankfully, at least right now

(01:28:05):
we have a respite. Some of it's being turned back.
Wouldn't you love Trump to say, make some incandescent light bulbs,
give people a choice. If there's a market for them,
sell them. By the way, there is forty six minutes
after the other. It's getting chiley in here. I told

(01:28:49):
you was getting chili in here cold and getting cold
because today is National Chili Dog Day, and today is
Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queen. Now it just so

(01:29:13):
happens that you can get a chili dog at a
dairy Queen. I'm just saying you can do that. I
talk about fates colliding. Today is the day where when
you order your favorite blizzard at a participating dairy Queen

(01:29:35):
which should be all of them, but I can't swear
to that a dollar or more will be donated to
the Children's Miracle Network hospitals. That's awesome. So, my friends,
order yourself some blizzards today, and I'm not just one.

(01:29:57):
Get a bunch of them, Get every flavor, and then
slurp one of them. There's your dessert, right. Put the
rest in the freezer. They're fine. You freeze them up
and then you pull them out one at a time.
Give them a little time to get to you know,
to slush up a little bit, not slush, but you

(01:30:18):
know what I mean, soften and you got your blizzard again,
stir up and away you go. But here's the thing.
You order a chilly cheese dog. Now you don't have
to have cheese, but you order a chili dog. There's
your meal. So it's chili m blizzard. See what I mean.

(01:30:38):
It's cold in here. Yeah. That is high end professional
radio at its finest, brought to you by Barono Heating
and Air. It's the morning show on WFLA. And yes
I'm gonna do it, Yes I am, Yes I am.

(01:31:01):
I am going to go hit golf balls and I
am going to have the lizards like a bunch of them,
and I'm gonna have cheese dogs with chili smothering it.
Don't worry how I'm not gonna eat that night. Big

(01:31:24):
stories in the press box today. Cash Betel's found thousands
of sensitive Trump Russia documents and burn bags in a
secret room at the FBI. He's turned them unless you say, oh,
it's just He's handed all the material over to Senate Subcommittee,
Judiciary Committee, and things are getting real quiet from the

(01:31:50):
other side. FED leaving the interest rate unchanged. Some late
breaking news here that the UH, the inflation gauge that
the FED really leans on, is showing increased inflation. Not heavy,
but it's there. US military quietly carrying out historic bombing

(01:32:17):
missions against terrorists in Somalia. Who knew, well, now we
do because of the lead research assistant of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, I didn't know. Great visit was
Zax Smith Heritage Foundation talking about what's going on with
the Southern Baptist Church. Great visit with Steve Stewart. Find

(01:32:38):
out what's going on in Florida's capital city. Tomorrow We're
going to see it up all over against Friday Show
you just Friday's show is just a little different, and
I can tell you it will live up to that.
Cannot wait twenty one hours away. Friends, have a great day.