Ep. 5433: Shut it down!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
And so we begin another week of what we hope
will be broadcast extents. Thank you Brush Monday, August eighteenth.
More on that date in a moment show fifty four
to thirty three of the Morning Show with Me Preston Scott.
I'm Preston, he is Ose and we start with Psalm

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eighty four, verse five, where it says Blessed are those
whose strength is in you. And here's where it gets interesting,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion? Zion would

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be in this context a reference to the place of
God and whose heart are the highways? That is such
a cool expression, isn't it is your heart a highway

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that leads you to God's presence? Or is your heart
cluttered by the things of this world? Easy to have happen,
I would maintain it happens to all of us multiple
times a year, if not a month, a week, a day,

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and so providing a bit of a checklist and going
through that. When I used to meet with people in
my time as a vocational pastor, I would frequently recommend
an exercise that is based on biblical principles, and it's
an exercise of just going through routinely a list of

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things that just really eat at you. And I'm not
talking about bad drivers, although if bad drivers put you
in a place where you are sinning with your anger
and hate and maybe you're flipping birds and using profanity
and all that stuff, well so be it. But you

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make a list and you look at those things through
this lens. How much of this is totally outside of
my control. I can't control any of it. And I've
maintained that oftentimes eighty percent or more of a list
of things that upset people you have no say over,

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give no control, but yet it's just chewing you up
and spitting you out. Well, your highways not leading you
to Zion. Your heart, your highway is blocked, obstructed and
causing all kinds of issues for you. So you've got
to deal with that. So you get rid of the
things you have no control over. You surrender those to God,

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and you say, I'm done with being mad about this stuff.
And then what's left over is that ten to twenty percent,
and there's your to do list. There's your list of
things to work on about yourself. Blessed are those whose
strength is in you, whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Ten past the Hours The Morning Show with Preston Scott

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in aside the American Patriots on the nec eighteenth of August.
Huh it was in fifteen eighty seven, Virginia Dare becomes
the first child of English parents to be born on
American soil on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. That's part of
the whole lost colony of Roanoke crow Atoan, that whole thing,

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you know, that old chestnut. Wouldn't it be cool, and
this is like outlandishly crazy. Wouldn't it be amazing if
there was like something that contained the DNA of her grandfather,

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you may remember, was the original I think, governor of
the territory and went back for supplies and never came back,
John White. Wouldn't it be amazing? Just think about this now,
with where we are with DNA right A imagine if

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there's something that has the DNA of John White on it,
and somewhere there's a there's a hit on one of
those ancestry dot Com sites, and you find great great

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great great great great great great great great descendants of
John White, and you work backwards and you try to
figure out whatever happened to that little girl, Virginia dare.
There are all kinds of possibilities that she was adopted

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by the Native American tribe, the Crowatoins, that she was
swept off her feet to Spain and became the queen
or a princess or whatever. I mean, there's all kinds
of possibilities. But imagine if you could find the DNA
of Grandpa and then you could go down and someone's
got just threads of that DNA somewhere in their string today,

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and then you could work backwards to try to figure
it out. I mean, that's that's like, you've got to
be kidding me. Territory, I get it. But still it
was on this date three years later, in fifteen ninety
that John White returned from England to find the settlement deserted,
only three years gone, never to be seen again. Although

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the stories of English dressed settlers among the Crowton and
Indian tribe do exist, is it urban legend? I can't
tell you. Eighteen seventy two, Aaron Montgomery Ward of Chicago
issues the first mail order catalog in single sheet price list?

(06:57):
Does that sound Familiargomeryward? Montgomery Wards? Some of you that
are not so young, you remember Wards? It was a thing.
It was a huge thing in that mail order catalog. Heck, yeah,
nineteen thirteen Veterans of Foreign Wars organizes in Denver, And

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in nineteen twenty the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women suffrage is ratified.
Women will say, we've been suffering a lot longer than that. No,
I'm just it is. It is National Mail Order Catalog
Day in honor of Montgomery Wards. But now we get

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to it. It is National ice Cream Pie Day. An
ice cream pie, oh yeah, tough to cut because you
have to keep it frozen, right, It's like a frozen
ice cream cake, getting it at in such a way

(08:01):
that it melts just enough that you can cut the thing.
And I know the drill, Well, just run hot water
on your knife. Yeah, every single time you make a cut.
That is so annoying. But there's an art to just
letting it thaw enough to cut it and then put

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it back in the freezer. And that's what makes ice
cream cakes and pies annoying. Is just it is. That's annoying.
It just is. Now they taste good, but it's annoying.
But here's my fav not my favorite meal in the world.
If I had one meal. I'd be going pizza every
day every time. Maybe, I mean, there's a possibility I

(08:44):
could go with some shrimp and some crab, but it
is national fa heat to day. Is there a protein
other than turkey that doesn't taste good on fajetas? Okay,
maybe sausage, pork, but beef, steak, steak, chicken, and shrimp
fajita is our next level. And yes, I would eat

(09:05):
one that had steak, shrimp and chicken in a minute
later that thing with salsa, Wrap it up and gone seconds,
gone seventeen minutes past them. Hey, pretty cool? Did you know?
Next chugging a little electrolyte and fused water. Here, it's

(09:49):
so hot. Oh, it's so hot in my studio. I
can't breathe it. It's clusterphobic.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Mighty air.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
That's it's not that bad, but it's pretty bad. Imagine
that the air conditioning in our studios is out again.
No way, I'm like, what in the world. It's terrible
for our equipment. But half the studios are roasting right now,

(10:32):
mine most of all because I can't prop my door
open when I'm doing the show. I can only prop
it open for two or three minutes in the breaks,
and even then I'm getting the air is blowing. We've
got a fan in the hallway where there's cool air
circulating air. Jose's comfy, He's comfy. Yeah, I'm fine. I

(10:57):
don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, you don't know
what you're doing, boy, and truer words have never been spoken. Jose,
I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, right, yeah, anyway,
so getting air in here because it's at a ninety
degree angle from where he is, so the air, you know,
doesn't necessarily just swoop its way into here. But it's like,

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how hard can it be to keep this from happening?
And I know what some are thinking, this is so
unprofessional you to be complaining about your student. No, it's
not unprofessional at all. It's very professional. I'm doing it
in a very professional way. It's just flaming hot inside here.

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Did you know rock em Soccer Robots? By the way,
did you ever play rock em Soccer Robots?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Who?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
What?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Boy hasn't? Now? I know there's some girls that played
it too. You got forced into it by your brother
who said I gotta fight against somebody. You're doing it?
Game was made by Marx came out in nineteen sixty four.
It's had different versions since the nineteen sixties, but that's

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a classic rock them sockem robots and you just catch
someone on that spot on the chin. So much fun.
The hard part was not scratching up the table because
it's the basis all over the place. I wonder if
they ever started making that with like cushions on the bottom. Anyway,

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here's another did you know only this is right out
of the news. Another archaeological dig, this right next to
Temple Mount in Jerusalem, has unearthed a two thousand year
old coin. It was announced on July thirty first, just

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days before Tisha Baav, the Jewish day of morning that
marks the Roman destruction of the Temple, which is ironic
because this particular coin was made, minted if you will,
between sixty nine and seventy eight D. And it was
seventy eight when the Roman general Titus ransacked Jerusalem, leveled

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the temple and Jews were dispersed to the four corners.
It was a fulfilling of prophecy. Prophecies said it was
going to happen, and Jews were there was no homeland
until nineteen forty eight. Now I take the view that

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it took the Holocaust before the world said Israel needs
to be reborn, and the Jews migrated back to Israel
the very day it claimed it independence as a nation.
Back in its homeland, it fought against six seven border

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nations without an organized military and survived. So Israel exists
to this day from not just its ancient roots, but
from May fifteenth, I think it is nineteen forty eight.
This coin validates because it was made by Jewish rebels.

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The coin was made by people that knew what was
You know that Israel was in Jerusalem in particular, was
in trouble, and so the finding of this coin, who
was found near the southwest corner of Temple Mount, is remarkable,
to remarkable, find, very cool, and to be unearthed right

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before the day that Jews mark the destruction of the
temple in seventy eighty is remarkable. According to the Jewish calendar,
of course, twenty eight minutes past the hour, let's get
back with the big stories in the press box, while
I put ice on my forehead.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Delaying coming back on the air as long as possible,
laying on the floor, getting the cool air, because cool air.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Falls to the ground. Alrighty, hope you had a nice weekend.
Go knowles FS you women's soccer after putting a beat
down on Florida beatu f Iu was a little sporty
last night. But Nole's won two nothing. And before I

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go any further, I've got to just take a moment
and highlight Mason Howell. I think that's the young man's name, Mason, right,
Mason Howell. Is that it from Thomasville, Georgia. He was
the sixty third seed I believe, coming out of stroke play,

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and he's now going to enter his senior year as
the reigning US Amateur men's golf champion for the nation.
That is a staggering accomplishment. He's the youngest to do
it since two thousand and nine, third youngest ever younger
than Tiger Woods was when he won and he throttled.

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I think it was Parker Herring who was in the
final with him from Tennessee. This tournament's being dominated by
young people. I mean, there used to be a time
when a thirty forty year old could take a shot
at winning. There was a sixty one year old that
qualified but didn't make match play. Top to sixty four

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made it to match play. Mason just got in and
then promptly swamped everybody. He won seven and six yesterday,
which means he was ahead seven holes with six to play,
which means the match is over. There aren't enough holes
left for the guy to tie him even if he'd
won the rest of them, So seven and six is

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a resounding win in there were six holes remaining, which
means after thirty holes. So it's just it's just a
congratulations and a tip of the cap to Glen Arvin.
Glenn Arvin's private golf course up there. That Bill Colony

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Well Conley sorry, is the head pro, and that's where
Megan Schofill spent time developing. She worked with Kenny Knox's
Friend of the Shows. She also worked out there at
Glen Arvin. Glenn Arvin's produced a bunch of USGA champions.

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The little course that could very exclusive course, expensive of course,
but congratulations. I know all of you up in Thomasville
should be very very proud, and for good reason. Sorry
that those weren't the schedule big stories, but I just
had to say well done, because that is an amazing accomplishment.

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It really is, and so Mason. Well done, sir, well done.
If anyone knows Mason, He's welcome on the show. Ed
Megan Schofield on Megan won the US Women's Amateur also
won I think Augusta and now I think is probably professional,
but I would welcome Mason on the show for a

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chat a little bit about his his tournament. That's just
an amazing accomplishment. Talk about being a man on campus.
Golf will be cool on that high school campus all
year long because of him. Forty minutes past the hour,
we will get to the big stories.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
In the press box next here on the Morning Show,
journey into whatever is left of journalism and always pointing
out and correcting what is not the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
All right, let's get to the real big stories in
the press box, not to diminish those that we talked about,
just that I know there's a limited audience for that stuff.
I know a lot of you don't care at all
about golf. That's okay. I mean I could get sidetracked
talking about Scotti Scheffler winning again yesterday, but I won't.

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I will, in fact tell you that Hurricane Aaron has
gone back to a category three. It was a five.
It like blew up. It became a five. Then it's
a three. I'm gonna bet it's gonna get bigger again.
But the good news is, as you're looking at it
right now, it is unless something really weird happens, it

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is not a threat to Florida's coast at all. It's
not a threat to Georgia's coast. If I bump up
the simulator to Wednesday, it begins to approach North Carolina Virginia,
but it looks like it's gonna be steered. There's gonna

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be weather along the eastern coast, and there will be
severe weather. So if you're doing any traveling flying, just
keep that in mind. It could disrupt plans because this
is going to be a humongous storm. I mean, it's
footprint as it approaches the US on on Thursday is

(21:14):
bigger than Georgia and Alabama combined. It's huge. And so
if you go to Friday, it's moving quickly off the
coast into the North Atlantic. Now at that point there's
some that are saying, Okay, well there's a storm that's
right behind it. Yeah, I'm looking at the simulator of
that as well, and while there is something that looks

(21:38):
like it's going to develop on over the weekend Sunday,
you'll start to see it develop in earnest Monday. It's
probably going to be a storm that's going to be named.

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It's not nearly the size of Erin, and it looks
like it's going to spin off the same way that
Aaron did. It doesn't look like it's going to touch
the United States. So two down right, So that's good news.
The point in talking about it is we're paying attention.

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You need to pay attention because these storms can change.
They're out there, they're forming. It's the time of year.
It happens. Interesting report that now Beyond Meat, the company,
the plant based company, Beyond Meat, is saying it's there's
note we're not planning to we haven't filed Chapter eleven.

(22:41):
There are a lot of reports floating around Wall Street
saying that they're going to file Chapter eleven. The company
reported about one hundred and seventeen million in cash with
over one billion dollars of debt. That's not a very
strong position in the business world. This is not when

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your debt to income, when your debt to asset ratio
is ten to one in the negative, you get trouble.
And then the other big story, which we'll spend more
time on next hour, is cash Pattel FBI director is
uncovered a memo written in twenty seventeen showing that agents

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in three different cities we're told to shut down quote
shut it down, an investigation into Hillary Clinton. They had
found evidence of problems when she was Secretary of State,
and they were told to shut it down, do not investigate.

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That's obstruction of justice and it comes from named sources. Here.
We're gonna we're gonna, like I said, we're gonna unpack
that in the next hour, next minutes past Monday, busy
day here on the Morning Show with Preston's got the.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Relative you actually enjoy having around and not just at
the holidays. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I'm sorry to close the door to my studio, continue
my slow roast. In case you missed my whining earlier
in the hour, our air conditioning system on this side
of the building is broken again, and I just want
to whine about it.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
Okay, it's a little bit, just.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Just a little I'm just little sweaty pockets on the
back you know, you know where you get those just
above your crack. It's awful. I'm looking at Fox News
how to avoid getting caught in a rip current? Gee,

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where do we hear about that? Oh yeah, on this
show over and over and over and over and over again.
But that's not where we are right now, in the rundown.
I just had to have some fun with First of all,
can we just take a moment, and if you missed it,

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when President Trump shows up with Air Force one, it's impressive, right,
Russian President Vladimir Putin shows up in his big jet
and you got them right there. But this is they're
arriving in Alaska at a military base. That's it's staged

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and as they're they're walking, it's brilliantly choreographed. I don't
know how they did it. As they're walking down the
red carpet to the stage for greetings and introductions and
all that before they go off to have their meetings
their summit, a a B two bomber with some F

(26:34):
thirty fives on either side come flying overhead. Trump's looking like, oh,
well you look at that. What a flex? What an
absolute flex. Now there's a part of me that's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
that's the bomber that that visited Iron recently. Vladimir and

(26:56):
came and went and they never knew what was happening.
And oh, by the way, that's the new F thirty five.
That's our newest fighter jet that you don't have, just
saying look at that right there. Now, here's what here's

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what amused me. Axios, CNN all kinds of other outlets
at Trump Putin's summit. Flex of F twenty two B
two warplanes. Those are not F twenty twos in the air.
The F twenty twos were parked and they walked by them.

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The F twenty two raptors were on the ground. They
were just sitting there in the air were F thirty fives. Now,
the fact that the mainstream media may not know the
difference whatever, I can only tell you that I have
been in the air when F twenty twos fly by.

(27:58):
I've literally I've been piloting an airplane with my instructor
in the right seat, and we're just doing patterns and
some touch and goes, and we're in the pattern. We're
in the downward leg of the pattern, and air traffic

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controller says, be advised you got F twenty two's coming in.
This was years ago, the very beginning of the F
twenty two raptors, and we're both like where and he
said look again, and there they were. It was its
dex level to be up in the air. When they're
up in the air, it's just very cool. So that

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was a lot of fun. No deal has been made, apparently,
Zelenski and several of the NATO European Union European Union
leaders are coming in town for meetings today. We'll see

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where it leads when we come back. I think it's
important to spend a little time on this. I've done
it once before, but the lack of attention to this
detail in the Russia Ukrainian War conflict, and I think
historical context matters, and we're going to dig into that

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a little bit next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hey, friends,

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welcome to the Slow Roasted edition of the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's ose good to be
with you. Second hour of the show. I want to
put some context to what's going on here, and this

(30:14):
isn't This has nothing to do with Trump, This has
nothing to do with you know how the media is
spinning this summit and they're using it to try to
attack Trump, and you know, I whatever I mean. It
seems as though the left is completely in favor of
handing money over and over and over to Ukraine. And

(30:41):
the Dems are supposedly they hate war, but man, you
look at Obama. Obama drop bombs on people all the time. See,
it's it's all about who's doing the what right. It's
there is no conviction on the left. So I want
to divorce ourselves from all of that. I want to
go back and offer some context because the mainstream media

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is just not offering it, and I don't think we
do a very good job of it in general, of
understanding first the historical arc that is Russia. You know,
you may remember Kamala Harris explaining Russia is a big

(31:26):
country and it is but missing in all of this.
And trust me when I say I am not a
fan of the Russian way of governance. They're communists. They've

(31:49):
tried to open it up a little bit to make
it seem like they're not so hard line. But let's
face it. Putin can't stand the US media because he'd
he don't want to open questions because in Russia they
control the media, and so when he's disarmed by the way,
the media is allowed to ask questions here in America.

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And you know, I had to laugh when Trump and
Putin were giving their remarks after the summit. Trump talked
about the Russia collusion and what a fabrication it was,
and he looked at Putin and he said, I'm sure
you deal with things similar. And I couldn't help but think, well,
except that when he has an opponent in Russia, he
just hasn't killed. I mean, there are stark differences here. However,

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documents were declassified in twenty seventeen, published in December, and
the subject was NATO Soviet US relations and the Warsaw Pact,
and a panel discussed who promise what to whom on

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NATO expansion and so what they did is they dug
through and they found documents that paid a very very
specific picture. There are some that would have you believe
there's some ambiguity here. There really isn't any What was

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said is recorded, it's written down, it's noted. Is there
a formal agreement. No. But I'd like to think that
we used to be a country that honored our word.
But we've learned right that that ship sailed long ago.

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When exactly it started to do that, I don't know.
Early nineteen hundreds, perhaps late eighteen hundreds, I don't know.
But US Secretary of State James Baker said in his
me with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February ninth, nineteen ninety,

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NATO would not expand one inch eastward. That's a quote,
not one inch eastward. These were assurances being given about

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Soviet security by Western leaders to Gorbachev other Soviet officials
during the process of German reunification. You may remember it
was East Germany and West Germany. For years, we used
to joke about the fact that you could tell them
and tell the difference because in East Germany the women
didn't shave their armpits and they were steroiding up and

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looking like men. This comes from documents from the US,
from the Soviets, Russians, the Germans, the British, and the French,
and it's inside the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

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But there's more. You get to it next, and we're
going to get to what was promised and what has happened,
and then ask one question. We'll get to that eleven
past the hour. Good to have you with us. Monday,
August eighteenth, during the morning show WUFLA. Talking about a

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little context. The documents that we're talking about reinforce former
Director Robert Gates's criticism of quote, pressing ahead with expansion
of NATO eastward when Gorbachev and others were led to
believe that wouldn't happen, and that is a phrase that

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is used in the documents repeatedly, led to believe, led
to believe. Not once, but three times did Baker say
not an inch eastward to Gorbachev in the February ninth meeting.
Three different times he agreed with Gorbachev's statement. In response
to the assurances that quote NATO expansion is unacceptable, Baker

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assured Gorbachev that neither the President nor I intend to
extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place. Remember,
the process is taking place was the reunification after tearing
down the wall of Germany. Germany was East Germany, Soviet
controlled West Germany, or of a some would say US control.

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But it was really about freedom and democracy, not a
constitutional Republic. But it's important to understand the Americans understood
that quoting not only for the Soviet Union, but for
other European countries as well. It is important to have

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guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in
Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of
NATO's present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.
I would say that's significant, wouldn't you. So now let's
look at what's happened. Keep in mind involved in these

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meetings are Helmet Cole of West Germany, Margaret Thatcher, then
President Bush who succeeded Reagan. Reagan was the one who
said famously, mister Gorbachev, tear down that. I mean, you know.
When NATO founded itself in nineteen forty nine, initially comprising

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of twelve nations, the alliance has grown to thirty two.
First enlargements involved Greece in Turkey in nineteen fifty two,
West Germany in nineteen fifty five. After the Cold War,
NATO expanded further, incorporating the Warsaw PAC countries in post
Soviet states. And this expansion is the problem. Listen to

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the list joining NATO, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro,

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North Macedonia, Finland, Sweden. And then all of a sudden,
Ukraine says we're joining the southern part of the Ukrainian territory.
And left of this, out of this entire discussion, is

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the ethnic heritage of Russian people that may or may
not have wanted separation from Russia and control of key
shipping areas and access to shipping to the south, which
is what this Ukrainian territory I think is largely about.
And let's also remember this Ukrainian Ukraine is a corrupt nation,

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has been for years. They were bankrolling the Biden family.
Remember that Biden went over there, will son of a gun.
They fired the guy who was in investigating the company
that was corrupt, that was paying my son. How about
that there's still corrupt. They're still losing billions of our

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dollars that we've sent over there, quote for military aid
and help can't find it loop. Sorry, we'll do better
with the next installment. Here's the question that I said
I would leave you with. What if Canada and Mexico
entered into agreement that involved military support from China. How

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would we react to that? How would you react to that?
Would you see that as an incursion into your sovereignty
even though it's not touching your border? But it's I mean,
come on, I'm just pointing out Russia is now all

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but surrounded by NATO nations and Putin's had enough. And
when Ukraine started saying we're joining NATO and that door
was opened up by Biden, that was it, just saying
context matters eighteen passed the album. I'm sure she's being

(41:44):
mocked in some circles because, for whatever reason, the left
hates Milania Trump, largely because she's married to Donald. Were
she married to anybody else and was the first lady,
they would be fawning over her. She's elegant, she's appropriate,

(42:05):
and I just think she is the classic. She's the
epitome of a first lady. To me, I thought in
her time, Laura Bush was a wonderful example of a

(42:26):
first lady. I'll reserve comment on Michelle Obama knowing that
it triggers many of you. It's not a woman, She's
not a first lady. I know it's something you thinking,
I got it. I'm just not going there. I wasn't

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a fan of Nancy Reagan, too weird into spiritualism and
seances and stuff like that. It's like she got into
weird stuff. But Melania Trump handed Putin apparently an envelope,
and in it, said, dear President Putin. Every child shares

(43:12):
the same quiet dreams in their heart, whether born randomly
into a nation's rustic countryside or a magnificent city center.
They dream of love, possibility, and safety from danger. As parents,
it is our duty to nurture the next generation's hope.
As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond

(43:35):
the comfort of a few. Undeniably, we must strive to
paint a dignity filled world for all, so that every
soul may wake to peace, and so that the future
itself is perfectly guarded. A simple yet profound concept, mister Putin,
as I'm sure you agree, is that each generation's descendants

(43:55):
begin their lives with a purity, an innocence which stands
above geography, government, and ideology. Yet in today's world, some
children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by
the darkness around them, a silent defiance against the forces
that can potentially claim their future. Mister Putin, you can

(44:17):
single handedly restore their melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence
of these children, you will do more than serve Russia alone.
You serve humanity itself. Such a bold idea transcends all
division in you, mister Putin, are fit to implement this
vision with a stroke of the pen. Today it is time. Sincerely,

(44:42):
Milania Trump the White House. There you go. Psh, Come on,
how much of that did she write? Honestly, I have
no idea, but equally honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if

(45:02):
she penned every word. What will happen? Don't know what
does the media say about it? I don't care. Anyone
who is looking for the mainstream media has suddenly become

(45:22):
noble and virtue laden is just mistaken. It's not going
to happen. It's lost, Its soul is lost, it has
been forfeited. I don't care. I know that there is
more to this conflict than we have been told, and

(45:44):
I am sympathetic to what the Russian government is feeling,
regardless of whether I think the government in and of
itself is evil doesn't matter. It just doesn't. These actions
have been provoked by us allowing our word to be broken.

(46:06):
So how much different are we?

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Right?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Twenty seven to twenty eight minutes past the up come
back with the Big Stories in the press Box.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Next in the Morning Show with Preston's Goot Think Show
with Preston Scott. Do you understand the words that are
coming out of my mouth?

Speaker 5 (46:22):
On News Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
The twelve three thirty Weight Loss Program coming up in
just a few minutes. Doctor Joe Camps will be back
with us in September, but still throwing in some health
related nuggets here and there in this segment as I
I mean, you could say that the twelve three to
thirty weight Loss Program must have something to do with

(47:00):
being in this studio because it is like a sauna.
But it's not. That's not what it's what it's about.
We'll get to that in just a second. Big Stories
in the press Box. I told you I'd spent a
little bit of time on this. Obviously one story. Hurricane
Aaron is down to a three. It's not going to
be I mean, some raine's going to hit North Carolina Virginia,

(47:23):
maybe north into Washington, d C. Pennsylvania, but it's likely
not going to make landfall. Another storm behind it by
about a week to ten days not likely going to
be a threat either, but we'll be watching. Beyond meat,
there's a report out there saying that the plant based
company making fake meat and laboratories is going to file

(47:45):
for bankruptcy. Don't know, I just know that that's just
that whole concept just grosses me out. It just does. Now,
if you want to have a turkey burger or a
chicken burger, whatever, man do your thing, but don't tell
me that's a hamburger when its plants. That's just gross
all right. So when you're carrying around a billion dollars

(48:07):
in debt and one hundred and ten hundred and seventeen
million in cash, you're in a bad spot. You're in trouble.
The biggest story of all is the bombshell FBI timeline
exposing political interference in the Clinton corruption probe. You say,
what probe? Exactly? There are documents now unleashed by FBI

(48:32):
Director Cash Patel memo written in twenty seventeen, chronicling the
extensive political obstruction that career agents in three different cities
faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department
during the twenty sixteen election as they probe to whether
Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay to play corruption scheme

(48:54):
involving her family foundation. Of course, she did shut it down.
Then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding
in a detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in
New York, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, DC reported. I'm

(49:17):
reading here from a story in Just the News. Agents
tried to get help of federal prosecutors to determine whether
or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary
of State, most notably because at that time her family
foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and

(49:37):
US interest with business before her department. I will point
out to you once again that those donations disappeared when
she left government. If these donations were all about the
causes of the Clinton Foundation, they would have continued. They're not.
They weren't, they never have been, and so they stopped.

(49:58):
The timeline written by a Department of Justice lawyer assigned
to the FBI under former Bureau Director James comy was
recently secured by top aids to Patel, along with several
corroborating internal emails obtained by Just the News. Together, they
make it clear that both the Department of Justice and
former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments front

(50:21):
in front of agents believed who believed they had evidence
to justify public integrity criminal case. The declassified timeline will
finish with this revealed that as early as February twenty sixteen,
the Justice Department indicated they would not be supportive of
an FBI investigation. That's a quote. The timeline also shows

(50:43):
that in mid February twenty sixteen, McCabe ordered that quoting
no overt investigative steps were allowed to be taken in
the Clinton Foundation investigation quoting without his approval, a command
he repeated multiple times. Dirty dogs and that evidence, I

(51:04):
bet is still out there. There's some people that should
be facing trial and likely prison forty one minutes after
the hour, not Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Oh heck yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
The twelve three thirty treadmill trend has become viral. It
has been popularized by an influencer named Lauren either Giraldo
because it's spelled g I R. Otherwise I might go

(51:51):
with Heraldo, but it could be HAROLDO. Promising fat burning
low impact fitness walk at a twelve percent incline three
miles per hour for thirty minutes. But there's an interesting
twist here. Researchers sought to determine just how many calories

(52:16):
a twelve three point thirty self paced thirty minute walk
versus treadmill running. Not just how many calories each method burns,
but how the body burns fuel, specifically whether body uses
carbs or fat as fuel. I mean that matters, right

(52:40):
cause a lot of us would love to burn fat.
Check this out. The study looked at sixteen healthy young
adults male and female, participating in two workouts, one session
twelve three thirty, one session running at a pace that
could maintain for twenty two twenty five minutes. Both workouts

(53:03):
were adjusted so that when they burned x number of calories,
the workouts stopped, so one of the workouts might last
a different time than the other to achieve that same
calorie burn right, running burned calories faster roughly thirteen calories

(53:23):
per minute versus ten for the twelve three to thirty
but that's not where the interest is. The interest, as
I turned the page, is found here. The twelve three
to thirty method has benefits, particularly for bigger beginners, people

(53:44):
that are not adept at running necessarily, or who have
concerns over joints. I mean, it's just it's a less
stressful thing to walk. But walking at an incline with
a set pace, now here's where we get to the
real meat of the matter. The twelve three point thirty
method used more fat as fuel forty one percent of

(54:08):
energy came from fat compared to thirty three percent during running.
Running also relied more heavily on carbs for energy. So
the moral of the story of the study is, though
you might be walking for five to ten minutes longer,
you will burn more fat roughly twenty to twenty five

(54:32):
percent more fat by doing the walk with the stress
of the incline. Isn't that interesting? My hunch is because
you are exerting your muscles differently because of the incline.

(54:53):
But I mean, I'm not an expert on this stuff,
but it makes sense. And it also makes sense why
walking in a neighborhood where there's some change in elevation
not necessarily high or low. But just you're going up
a hill, you're going down a hill, you're walking in

(55:13):
for example, walking a golf course. If you're playing golf
and walking a golf course, you're going to lose weight.
You just are. It's one of the things that I
plan on doing it once the weather cools down a
little bit. I'm walking as much as I can. I'll
walk probably nine holes of eighteen whenever possible. If I'm
in a group of four and everyone's in carts, I'm

(55:35):
not going to hold everybody up. But if it's just
me or me and a buddy, I'm walking at least
nine holes, if not more. I'd love to get one
of those electric carts that follow you. That's a cool
story to itself that I can someday share with you.
But twelve three point thirty twelve percent incline, three miles

(56:00):
per hour for thirty minutes, give it a shot forty
seven minutes after the hour, come back with a big,
hard fast Nope, This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(56:25):
Got an interesting visit coming up in just a few minutes,
Christine Bawling Institute of World Politics, and she wrote a
piece we promised democracy by building playgrounds in Columbia fifteen
years ago. When I returned, I found lives forever changed.
The timing of this was interesting to me. It was

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July ninth, and given the opportunity to have a chat,
I thought it'd be fun to do. She may represent
a different mindset than many, but it's still worth listening to,
and so we'll have an interesting conversation coming up in
just a little bit. I would say that most would

(57:11):
describe me. Certainly, my wife would describe me as having
a relatively picky palette when it comes to food. Now,
in most restaurants, I'm gonna find something eat without difficulty.
It may not be my favorite thing, whatever it is,
but I'll find food. It's that's not it. I know

(57:32):
that when I was younger, I was exceptionally picky. I
was spoiled. What can I tell you? Dad had some
cash and I had the choice, do I want a
salad or do I want a shrimp cocktail? Come on,
shrimp cocktail? I I you know, it was just that

(57:56):
was life for me. And so so I can't even
remember if I ate a salad before I was twenty,
because I don't think I did. I think it was
something where I was like, huh, that looks kind of good.
Let me try it. And I'm not like a huge

(58:18):
salad guy, because most salads I consider a waste of
space in my stomach. I'd rather save it for food.
I like, well, but you need the roughage. Okay, that's
what you say. But there's no nutritional value that they had
to lettuce. It just isn't spinach. Spinach has some value

(58:41):
to it. Tomatoes, eh h. The skin and seeds of
a tomato not good. They're not good for you. They're
just not the rest of the tomato. Yeah, it's okay,
but are you gonna skin your tomato? I made some
guacamole last week. I skinned the tomato because the tomato

(59:06):
skin has lectins in it, which are not good for us.
I took the seed out, the core not good, left
the rest of the tomato. It is awesome, but this
is something I had to developed. But there is one
thing that I can tell you right now is a
hard fast nope, and that's dog. I'm not eating dog.

(59:28):
A London Vietnamese restaurant was shut down. The restaurant faux Nah.
Don't go there if you're heading off to London after
inspectors found suspicious meat labeled goat wrapped in leaves. It
was dog, it was dog meat. Health inspectors, which we

(59:53):
can laugh at now, also found cockroaches and mice droppings
in the restaurant. The other the owner denied health code
violations in court, said he was unaware of his dog meat.
Forty percent of people in Vietnam eat dog meat. The
dog meat trade kills five million dogs a year. It's

(01:00:16):
illegal to sell dog meat in the United Kingdom, but
if it's legally killed humanely, it may be eating No. No, no,
that's a hard no. Huh uh nope, not eating dogs,

(01:00:37):
not eating cats. No no, no, no, no no, back
with a third out. Welcome to the third hour of

(01:01:00):
the Morning Show with Prustin Scott. Great to be with you.
I'm Preston. It's ose sweltering inside the studios of the
Morning Show here, but it's great to be with you
as we start our week show five four hundred and
thirty three, And as promised, joining me on the program
is Christine Baling. Christine's resume kind of looks like this

(01:01:24):
short version. Senior vice president of Professional Affiliations and a
faculty member specializing in Latin American affairs at the Institute
of World Politics, located in our nation's capital, and Christine
joins us on the phone line this morning. Christine, how
are you.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
I'm doing really well. Great to be with you, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
I appreciate you making time for us. The piece that
caught my attention. We prompted democracy by building playgrounds in
Columbia fifteen years ago. When I returned, I found lives
forever changed. Before we get into the details of that,
what prompted you to write this? When you you did.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
Well? I wrote this piece because I made a trip
back down to Colombia a few months ago in April
to visit with the well now adults, the kids with
whom I had worked starting back in two thousand and nine.
So I had been concerned about the cuts to USAID,

(01:02:28):
although obviously some of them were warranted, and I kept
thinking to myself that, well, I think that what I
did made a difference. But then I thought, well, how
can I possibly say that if I don't actually talk
to the people themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
So you went back there, now, before we pick up
that story, I think it's useful to go back in
time let's go back to this particular project. What was
its purpose and when did it all take place?

Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
Well, it's started back, as I said, in two thousand
and nine, my late husband was running for Senate in
an area of Columbia where the Marxist gorillas were very active.
And so during a campaign stop, a group of kids
came up to me and started talking about what their

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very poor village needed. One of the things was a playground.
So on the way back home, I was thinking, well, now,
how expensive would it be to build a playground. But
instead of just giving a gift, and I was probably
inspired by being on a political campaign, I thought, while
the kids should need to use the democratic process to

(01:03:44):
determine where the playground goes and why. So I contacted
the village's mayor. I asked him to give me two
or three candidate sites. Went back a month later with
a group of kids. We toured the sites, We held
a public debate with kids representing each site, followed by

(01:04:05):
a vote, and then we built the playground where the
majority of kids had voted for it to be. It
was very moving. They picked the poorest section of this
very poor village. I took a video of the inauguration.
I got it to some folks that are embassy in
Vogata and ended up having a meeting with USID and

(01:04:32):
members of Special Operation Command South. I said, if you
all were to give me five thousand dollars, I take
a group of kids from that first village, bring them
to an even more remote village, have the first group
of kids, teach the second group of kids this democratic model,
and I would start creating a network of kids. And

(01:04:56):
the motto I use for this entire project Latin non city,
which is Latin for not for self. And it grew,
it grew, you know, one visit to our embassy at
a time, I was constantly begging for money, and I'm
sure you know a lot of folks who were involved
with non profits understand that. And we went town by town,

(01:05:20):
playground by playground. We added medical brigades, we added marches
for peace because just so your listeners understand, this timeframe
was when the Colombian government was negotiating with the Marxist gorillas,
and it was it was incredibly moving because the kids

(01:05:40):
right away took ownership of the of the project. They
they got a sense of dignity and pride, not only
experiencing what it's like to be a citizen of a democracy,
seeing democratic rights and action, but also being able to
help the even less fortune. And it's the little kids

(01:06:01):
in their respective communities.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Christine Bawling is with us. Christine standby. We got to
take a quick break a little weather in traffic. Nod
Here Institute of World Politics is where she works, and
we're talking about a project that's dated but maybe having
lasting impact. We're going to get more into this story
next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's a

(01:06:36):
project she's spearheaded years ago in Colombia, and I'm with
Christine balling. Christine, give us a little snapshot of you
mentioned the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia may be better
known by some who are well read as FARC FA
RC and then the Colombian government at that time. What

(01:06:58):
are we talking about in terms of the makeup of
the government. What kind of government was going on there
that your husband was running for office.

Speaker 7 (01:07:05):
Well, it's a republic, so a functioning democracy. They I
think a lot of folks have heard of Pablo Escobar,
the famous drug pin. When I was operating this was
after his reign of terror, but The bottom line is
is the FARC was trying to overthrow the government, and

(01:07:28):
also they were very deeply involved in the cocaine trade
and constantly trying to undermine national security to make the
Colombian government, which again is functioning to seem illegitimate and
out of control history.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Particular, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
I've got particularly disturbing was the FARC would recruit kids.
That's the bottom line. They would They would be recruiting kids,
often forcibly or otherwise tempting them, saying that they would
be part of a family and empowered, recruiting kids as
young as nine years old.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
I was going to say, frequently, these these types of gangs,
if you will, or groups or military organizations, they prey
on the poverty, They prey on young people that are
stuck in those circumstances.

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
That's correct, and so my initiative, not that it was
my intention on the outset, really became some very modest
alternative because the kids who were so used to war,
so used to these these these the terror that the
FARC would inflict on their respective communities, suddenly saw something.

(01:08:43):
It was a glimmer of hope, and perhaps even more importantly,
as far as I know, not one of the kids
with whom I worked closely ever joined the FARC.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
That is a remarkable accomplishment in and of it self.
Before we get to the I guess your recent visit
and what led to kind of this retrospective article that
you've written, and maybe an attempt at answering what difference
did it make. I'm curious when you held those first meetings,

(01:09:17):
what was the reaction when young people gathered together and
not just maybe learned about the ways of determination by
way of vote and debate and discussion, but they actually
sought an action.

Speaker 7 (01:09:37):
Well, it was remarkable. I mean again, it caught fire
in a great way because I very quickly and by
the way, Preston, this is the only reason at work.
It's the only reason, in my opinion, were one of
them that the FARC never fought back and harmed me

(01:09:57):
or any of the kids. They immediately seize the the
entire project for themselves. And I think that you know,
those some all of us here in the United States,
were so blessed. We look at a violent third world
country and somehow think that they're the kids there are

(01:10:19):
different than the kids here at home.

Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
Well, they're not.

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
Give them a chance, give them a sense of mission,
of dignity, as I said before, and it and they're
just like American kids who are you know, taken seriously
and they really jump on it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Christine Bowing with the Institute of World Politics talking about
a project she's spearheaded as part of a campaign with
her husband that well, what what is the end result
of some playgrounds? We'll get to that next. Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty minutes past the hour,

(01:11:09):
Christine Bowing is chronicling a story that she wrote for
us on the show today. She wrote the article for
Real Clear Policy, Real Clear Politics, and it says this,
we prompted democracy by building playgrounds in Columbia fifteen years ago.
When I returned, I found lives forever changed. And so

(01:11:31):
we're talking about that process. And Christine, let's go to
that recent trip, fairly recent trip, and tell us how
you determined what the impact was of those playgrounds.

Speaker 7 (01:11:47):
Well, I ended up meeting a group from the First
and Second villages where I had worked and had over
the years done several projects. They were all adults. This
was fifteen years later, and they all was I met

(01:12:07):
with about ten former participants. They all went to great
lengths to meet with me number one, which certainly spoke
to But the most important thing was what had happened.
Not only did no one join the FARC. One woman
was so motivated by the democratic process that she ran

(01:12:29):
for a councilwoman in her village and served as a
councilwoman for two years. A pair of sisters decided that
they could really achieve goals, etc. Etc. And became accountants.
A fourth young gal went to college, which is a
rare thing, and became a lawyer, advocating for the rights

(01:12:53):
of victims of violence. So that's just an example. And
they also, by the way, they had were very skeptical
about the United States of America is as close as
Columbia and US has been in the past, because the
FARC says only bad things about what we Americans stand for.

(01:13:17):
So they're certainly so. So there their their minds a
term as to what it means what an American is,
and that we're you know that I were not horrible imperialists.
I mean that's another thing. They they got even more
interested in the United States and going online and finding

(01:13:37):
more about it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
What's happened to the playground since then?

Speaker 7 (01:13:42):
Well, most of them have gone into a state of
disrepair because I had to stop my I came back
to the United States. But there are a couple that
the kids, as best they can, have kept up by
painting over the years. So even if they're not in

(01:14:03):
great shape, the symbolism remains.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
I would be curious to know. I mean, obviously, those
young people that were impacted by it, they know the
important role it played. Do you think it's about restoring
those playgrounds or is it about doing the process again,
gathering groups together and saying where should we put a
new one?

Speaker 7 (01:14:30):
Absolutely pressed in both of them, and in fact, these
kids who are now in their early thirties and have
a couple kids their own, they said, if I were
ever to come back, they would like to teach the
next generation about the meaning of non sibby and the
importance of democracy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
I mean, well, I'm curious what would it cost to
restore those playgrounds?

Speaker 7 (01:14:58):
Oh, jeez, Louise Playground A couple thousand bucks, well maybe more,
now maybe three four These were modest wooden playgrounds. Yeah,
I'll tell you this. Of over the course of the
five years, I built. We did twelve playgrounds, medical days,
you know, marches for Peace. Total number of donations I

(01:15:20):
received three hundred thousand dollars. That's it, So, you know,
a lesson again with a modest amount of US government aid.
It's if the you know one can achieve a lot
of great things. And I want that message to come through,
you know again, just in the midst of all the crazy,

(01:15:41):
silly projects that were highlighted in the press. You know,
American public diplomacy works and it doesn't have to cost
a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
I think you and I are going to end up
chatting a little bit more off the air about this project.
We do a we we do something every year. We
call it Operation Thanksgiving and Spirit of Christmas, and we're
kind of looking for a project this fall, so maybe
you and I can talk.

Speaker 7 (01:16:10):
I think that'd be fantastic. I've in fact, just resurrected
my foundation legally in Colombia, and as I said, the
Nansby team members are raring to go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Christine, thanks for the time this morning. We'll be in touch.

Speaker 7 (01:16:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Christine bawling with us now when she was able to
document that not one of those kids that took part
in that whole process became a member of the Marxist rebels,
and some were inspired to do these other things. I
got to think, and why in the world would we
not we meaning us, you and me? Why would we

(01:16:53):
not see if we can encourage that, if it would
only take a few thousand dollars to resurrect those playgrounds.
I'm thinking there's a few playgrounds that we might resurrect.
We'll see. Well, I mean, you tell me, what do
you think? Send me an email. Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.
Twenty minutes past the hour. I don't know if I've

(01:17:30):
mentioned this morning, but it's it's kind of hot in
here in our studios. It seems like it is a
biennual happening. I can't get my brain around it, but
it's happened again in our half of our studios here
at the iHeart Broadcasting Megaplex are without air conditioning and

(01:17:55):
so but given that ours are the only studios that
are occupied at the moment, I don't care about the
other studios. I care about our studios, and and it's
it's I'm just whining about it because I can't big

(01:18:16):
stars in the press box shut it down. That's uh,
that's that's the memo. Deputy Attorney General at the time.
Sally Yates is quoted in documents by detailed and handed
out by FBI Director Cash Pateel demanding demanding that any

(01:18:38):
investigation into Hillary Clinton not take place. Shut it down.
FBI agents in three cities, New York, Little Rock, Arkansas
because that's where Hillary's from, and Washington, d C. Agents

(01:19:00):
in all three cities were told to shut it down.
This is criminal. It is actionable, and Comy Andrew McCabe,
Sally Yates, they should all be brought up on charges

(01:19:21):
and prosecuted. Obstruction of justice, criminal cover up. I don't know.
This is We're now getting some real meat here, and
of course the mainstream media is not going to talk
about it at all. Documents are out there. Hurricane Aaron

(01:19:44):
was a five like that and then became a three
and now is a four. It'll it'll, it'll waffle a
little bit, I'm certain, but it's going to be probably
a significant storm that will dump some rain on eastern
part of the United States, North Carolina, Virginia, maybe the

(01:20:06):
DC area, perhaps into Pennsylvania gonna get get smacked around
with some rain. But this behemoth is going to spin
out to the north east Atlantic and die a painful
death out there. But it's a significant storm. Now there
is one behind it, but it too. As of now,

(01:20:30):
it's about ten days behind and by the time it forms,
the modeling shows that it will be shoved up north
and east as well. What this all means is it's
storm season. Wait a minute, is it hurricane season? No way? Yeah,

(01:20:54):
yeah it is. And so what this means is two
storms will have come and likely not have impacted good.
I don't want it to impact anywhere. I don't even
want a hurricane to hit California. Boy that's hard to say,
but I really don't want it to happen. Now, I
really don't. And then the third big story here is

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plant based company Beyond Meat might be filing Chapter eleven.
According to a report from the Street, it is denied.
It posted on x recent media story suggesting that Beyond
Meat filed for bankruptcy here are unequivocally false. We have
not filed, nor are we planning to file for bankruptcy.
Here's the problem plaguing Beyond Meat. Besides the obvious that

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those lab grown meat products stink, they're awful. Now, if
you're gonna eat you know, tofu hamburger. Hey, that's on
you cool whatever you know, it's tofu. But this beyond
meat thing, No, not lab grown meats. No, thank you,
eat the real thing. But here's the cash position that

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they're in. They have one hundred and seventeen million in cash,
according to reports earlier in the year that the company released,
and they got over a billion dollars in debt. Now,
I don't know how you acquire a billion dollars in
debt when you're sitting with that much cash. I don't
know how you do it. I don't know how you
go ten to one upside down where you're getting your money?

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Did you? Investors? You just spending regardless of what your
growth curve looks like anyway, No, no, thank you, nope,
not me. Now, if you want to eat a turkey burger,
chicken burger, whatever, it's disclosed that way, it's turkey burger,
it's ground turkey. Cool, that's awesome, do it, but don't
tell me it's a hamburgers. I've joked about for years.

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It's like low fat oreos. Call it something else. Don't
put oreos next to it, cause it's not an oreo.
And I'll be honest with you. I don't think a
diet coke is a coke. It's something else just shouldn't
be called a coke. We think of the confusion we
could eliminate with the diet, the zero that all of
that stuff. Now it's not a coke, it's different. Low

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fat oreos are cardboard painted black. Forty two minutes past
the hour, Taste buds set aside. We now moved to
the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
Thanks for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
Well. We've got some interesting response to our idea on
perhaps revitalizing playgrounds in UH Colombia. One is one question
I had. If the people in Colombia that had experienced
the play project had such success, did they see the

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project as helping them? If they saw the benefits, why
haven't they revived the playgrounds and move forward with this
project themselves. It's a fair question. Why did they let
it get beaten down? My guess is poverty. When you're
trying to find food to eat and to pay for it,

(01:24:24):
basic fundamental necessities, you don't have the excess money to
do something like that. But then you could say, well,
why hasn't the community done it in terms of its
local government or something. I don't know. I don't have
the answer, but that's a good question. Then I got
a text from a buddy who said, love the story.
I'm in for the first one hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
We'll see, We'll see where this takes us. I've had
two different organizations that I reached out to, one last
year about doing a year long thing that just dropped
the ball. Went another one recently, same kind of thing.
The projects that they gave me were just like no, no,

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and then they missed deadlines. And so I'm gonna find
something that works, and I'm gonna believe that God's got
his hand in all of this. The NFL just can't
help itself. Now I've explained my hypocrisy on this subject.
I'm a hypocrite when it comes to the NFL. I am,

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I am. If you know my story, you understand it.
Whether you agree with it or not doesn't matter. You
at least understand it. I have deep ties to the
Green Bay Packers, deep ties, and so my family and
I remain very attuned to the Green Bay Packers. I

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don't care about much else. But I saw over the
weekend the Atlanta Falcons owner it's now out back to
Kamala Harris. Arthur Blank comes off as a really good dude.
I don't know how in the world he can be that.
How can someone that wealthy be that foolish? But yeah,

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we do a lot of work in democracy today. Democracy democracy.
We're not a democracy, we're constitutional republic. Anyway, that was
bad enough that he supported Kamala Harris even though no primaries,
no primary votes, nothing whatever. Falcons don't care if they

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lose every game. Sorry, I just don't. And then apparently
all thirty two football teams will be using stencils to
put an end zone message of their choice at each
home game throughout the season. Hopefully it's not in the
end zone, but down there somewhere end racism, Stop hate,

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choose love, Inspire change once again, it takes all of us.
Will be stenciled in the opposite end zone for all
games forty seven minutes after the hour. That's all I got.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
I don't know if you know, but.

Speaker 6 (01:27:41):
Air conditioning in the studios that's been working this morning.
We tried the tough it best we could just hot,
especially with all this equipment in here. You know, we
both have equipment in our studios. So what we've had
to do is we've had.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
To rig this intermittent airflow because when when I'm broadcasting,
I got to have my studio door shut. And so
we've got a fan out in the hallway. Because the
air conditioning and the rest of the building's fine, it's
just this studio OSE studio and uh, the studios two
and three. In our building, we have five studios, and

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so we've got a fan, a box fan that sadly
we have to use twice a year for like eight years.
And and so it blows air from the cooler hallway
in the in the studio one, a OSE studio, and
then in the breaks he positions his door at about

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a forty five degree angle. And then I opened my
door all the way and I can feel a bit
of a breeze on my on my legs. That's how
we've survived today. I just want to let you know,
because miss he loves company. I want to share my misery.
It sucks, just does I wish I were at the

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Mardick Bridge in the Netherlands. Police there firefighters paramedics responded
to an attempt at suicide on the bridge. It was,
in fact a trucker that just pulled over, jumped out
of his truck and jumped in the water to cool off.
That where the story really goes south is he didn't

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realize how how strong the current was in the in
the river, and so he was getting swept away and
he started panicking and needed help. And so yeah, he
he got the attention of a passing boat and got rescued.
But he wasn't jumping to off himself. He was trying

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to cool off. I can understand why someone might think, oh,
he's done driving a truck. I guess, oh, there he went.
Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the
Morning show on WFLA. Started today with a terrific verse.

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They all are Psalm eighty four, verse five. Psalm eighty
four verse five is where we began big stories in
the press box. We have a storm out there, but
it's not gonna affect us to any degree. It just
it just isn't. The storm that's behind it likely won't
unless some weather patterns shift pretty dramatically from what I'm

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expected now. The simulator program that we use shows we're
in the clear for a couple of weeks at least.
More will develop. We'll see what happens then. Beyond Meat
says it is not filing for bankruptcy, but there are
multiple reports saying that it's inevitable, or it's going to happen,
or it has happened, depending on the report you read.

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It's sitting with one hundred and seventeen million dollars in
cash at least earlier this year, and of over one
billion dollars. That's irresponsible running of that company with their
lefties shut it down. That's the comment of Deputy Attorney
General Sally Yates. Back in twenty sixteen, three different offices

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of the FBI wanted investigations into Hillary Clinton. They refused
to let it happen. They shut it down, and it's
in writing and cash. Pateel has the documents. We talked
about the twelve three point thirty weight loss craze, and
we talked about NATO and the Russian side of the story. Tomorrow,

(01:31:39):
cannot wait, cannot wait,