Ep. 5459: "Should Kirk's Assassin Apologists Be Allowed to Teach?"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Against Welcome to the first hour of The Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Wednesday, September twenty fourth. It is show
fifty four fifty nine. He's Jose, I'm Preston. Good to
be with you, great to be with you in fact,
and guess what, it's just us today. We'd hoped to

(00:37):
have State CFO blazing Goolia with us. Got a note
late yesterday afternoon saying I am so because this has
been a little bit of a challenge getting him nailed down.
He's traveling the state and so they said, could we
do it Thursday? I said, sure. These opportunities don't happen

(00:58):
very up. Normally we are kind of booked and being
flexible is not always easy. But we will have Blazon
Goolie on the show tomorrow. But today it's just us,
and it's a good thing because there is no shortage
of things to discuss, and so we will. But as always,

(01:19):
we start with scripture. We're gonna stick around into in
Galatians six. We're gonna go to verse seven. Do not
be deceived. God is not mocked for whatever one sows
there that sorry, will he also reap. Now I think

(01:46):
the most useful way to really hammer this point home
is to use another scripture that talks about the fact
that God is revealed in creation. For example, pine cones

(02:10):
that fall to the ground, especially this time of year.
Do they produce oak trees? Do they produce marigolds? Do
they produce viburnum or azaleas or cherry trees or magnolia trees?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, no. Pine cones produce pines. Plants reproduce after their
own kind. Mustard seed produces a tree that produces more

(02:57):
mustard seed. There's a really cool story about mustard. But
and the seed of a mustard which is teeny tiny,
and out of a tiny seed can come this massive tree.
But you get the point. So, why is it that
we think that we're not going to reap what we sow.

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Whatever that seed is that we toss out is what
we're going to reap. Now, we're not responsible for what
happens once that seed goes out. It's going to If
you sew, for example, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, maybe

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you'll be called to water it. In other words, maybe
there's somebody in your life that you will sow that
seed into and then by your constant presence in that
person's life. You'll water it and you'll continue to help

(04:14):
it grow. But it's God that brings the increase. It's
God that's responsible for that. But think about this, Are
you sowing that? And if not, what are you sowing?
I think it's impossible for anyone to not sew something.

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How we live our lives, the things that we say,
our conduct, our looks. Boy a look has broken up
a lot of marriages because it's led down the path
of who knows what the bottom line is that make

(05:04):
sure you're paying attention to what you're sowing in your
day to day actions, your day to day walk, your
day to day life. Because whatever a man sows, that
is what he or she will reap. God is not mocked.
Ten past the hour inside the American Patriots Almanac, will

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dive into next on the Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Wednesday already FSU football two days away? Friday night game?
How about that? September twenty fourth, though is is today?
Seventeen eighty nine, Congress passes the Judiciary Act, establishing the

(06:05):
US Supreme Court and Federal Judicial system. We need it,
but not the way it's functioning now. The federal court
system is a train wreck because it's been abused, because
judges have become too often political operatives. Honestly, it's not hard.

(06:32):
How do you view the Constitution? Well, I think it
needs to, you know, be updated for the times. You're out, No,
it doesn't. We have an amendment process. And if it
needs to be updated for the times, there's an amendment process.

(06:54):
Our founders were brilliant. Sorry, didn't mean to get there.
Sixty nine, gold prices plummet, causing financial panic after financiers
Jay Gould and James Fisk try to corner the gold market.
Don't try to corner commodities, precious metals or bears, just

(07:21):
saying or mountain lion, maybe a Bobcat, Bob Cattill, scratch
your eyes out. Nineteen oh six, President Theodore Roosevelt establishes
a Devil's Tower in Wyoming as the first national monument
by signing a bill. Devil's Tower was made incredibly famous

(07:44):
in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind with
Richard Dreyfuss. I remember it seeing his first time. I
was like, what, there's a place like that. Yeah, it's
a real place. Crazy and nineteen fifty seven, Brooklyn Dodgers
play their final game at Ebbottsfield before moving to Los Angeles.

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What else do we have here today is National Cherries
Do you believe day? No? No, I have to confess.
I love the flavor of cherries. I do not like

(08:27):
a black forest cake because there's something about cherry and
that in chocolate. And some of you it's like, oh,
come on, they go together. I get it. Not to me.
I like cherry and my coke. I like cherry and
my PEPSI I even like the hint of cherry and
a doctor pepper. That's how you say it in the South,

(08:49):
doctor pepa. But and I'll even occasionally eat a real
cherry that's in an old school coke. Back in the day,
you'd order a coke, it would come in a glass,
and if you were at a golf course that had
a bar, they would take real cherries, not those phony

(09:12):
candied things, and put a couple of cherries in there.
It'd squeeze them and put the cherries in there. I
would eat one of those. But aside from that. Now, no,
don't new new new new National Punctuation Day, National Women's
Health and Fitness Day, and this one now is it's

(09:37):
a little touchy. It is World Dense Breast Day. Here's
what this is about. Dense breast can hide cancers on
a mammogram and also increase a woman's risk of developing
breast cancer because both dense tissue and tumors show up

(10:00):
as white on a mammogram. And so it's about raising
awareness and recognize the need that coming up in October
is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so this is kind of
a prelude to that.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
So just.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
You know, ladies, be diligent on that. Okay, That's why
I was kind of ahead of the thing, making it
a little bit of it touchy, because you should be
self exit. Never mind seventeen minutes past the hour, I just.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, I have a feeling I'm a I'm in for
a rude surprise here.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
In a couple of minutes, I heated up a sausage,
a little breakfast sausage biscuit. It's not really a biscuit,
it's just a little and I wanted to put just
a little pepper on it. And thanks just went bush.

(11:15):
I'm a feeling I am just gonna go why my
mouth's gonna blow up here in a few minutes. You
ever heard of a guy named Ralph Teeter t E E.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
T R.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Let me give you a little story, because just about
every single one of you has had your life impacted
by Ralph Teeter, and I'm gonna prove it to you
in a second. He was born in a small Indiana
town in eighteen ninety lost his vision before his seventh birthday.

(12:03):
He he injured his eye with a knife an accident.
Doctors had to remove the damaged eye, but within a
year a very rare condition caused the loss of his
remaining vision, and so by the age of seven, he
was completely blind. His family took the approach of treating

(12:30):
him as if he wasn't. They weren't at all mean
to him in any way, shape or form. They just
they treated him as if he did not have a handicap. Obviously,
they were aware of his limitations, but he learned to
identify tools by touch. He mastered lathes, grinders by feel.

(12:53):
He developed a very instinctive grasp of mechanical processes into
He was a fixture in the family business, railway cycle
manufacturing company. By the time he was ten, He and

(13:15):
his uncle Dan built and automobile powered by a discarded
gasoline engine. Newspapers wrote about it, not even mentioning that
he was blind. It was that routine. In nineteen twelve,
he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the University
of Pennsylvania. Soon returned back to his town hometown of

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Hagerstown to contribute to the family company. They eventually supplied
engines for McFarlane luxury vehicles. By nineteen thirteen, the firm
was renamed Teeter Hartley Motor Company. Nineteen twenties, he patented
a hydraulic gearshift nineteen twenty four, which is now today

(14:03):
called an automatic. This is this kid, this young man.
But I and you might say, well, everyone's driven an automatic.
You could say that, but I'm going to take it
a step further. He focused on developing stronger, longer lasting

(14:24):
piston rings. He worked on a different type of fishing
rod where the handle of the rod was literally a
pistol grip. Now it didn't take off, but he's the
guy who invented the fishing rod that has the pistol
grip handle that made it easier for some people to cast.
The rod never took off because of storage problems, more

(14:46):
than likely because of the angle of it the pistol grip.
During World War II, his innovation supported both civilian and
military needs. But in nineteen forty he patented what was
eventually called the speed as stat He was granted the
patent in nineteen fifty. Cadillac was the first to really

(15:14):
integrate it. It's called cruise control. He invented it because
of a time when it was rationing and it was
hard for people to maintain the speed. The government asked
people to maintain a thirty five milli an hour speed
to reduce use of gas. So he invented the device

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and then improved it Cruise control. Ralph Teeter, who was blind,
is the guy who engineered it and developed it and
patented it. And now you know the rest of the story.
Isn't that crazy? All right? Six thirties coming up, five

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thirty Central, Check of news and we come back with
the big stories you will not want to miss. So
the nameless man who tried to kill Trump in Florida
got convicted of five counts. The amount of evidence that

(16:22):
this guy was not just he just showed up that no, no, no no.
He had surveiled Trump like seventeen times and was completely
setting this thing up. So after he's convicted, he tries
to stab himself of the neck with a pen se.

(16:46):
Uh so the uh yeah, he was stopped. All right,
big stories in the press box, that's not one of them.
He's gonna die in anonymity. I will never use his name.
I haven't yet. The big story in the press box.
There are a couple and they are connected. But the

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big story here is is what Jimmy Kimmel had to
say last night.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't think what I have to say is going
to make much of a difference.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
If you like me, you like me. If you don't,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Light of the murder of a young man.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
I don't think there's anything funny about it.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I posted a message on Instagram and the daves killed,
sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and
I meant but.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
I still do.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group
for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply
disturbed individual that was really the opposite of the.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Point I was trying to make.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
But I understand that to some that felt either ill
timed or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who
think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset.
If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd
have felt the same way. I have many friends and
family members on the other side who I love and
remain close to, even though we don't agree on politics

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at all.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
I don't think the.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
This was a sick person who believed.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Violence was a solution and it isn't it ever, And
also selfishly I am I am a person who gets
a lot of threats. I get many ugly and scary
threats against my life, my wife, my kids, my co
workers because of what I choose to say. And I
know those threats don't come from the kind of people

(18:50):
on the right who I know and love. So that's
what I wanted to say on that subject. But I
don't want to make this about me because and I
know this is what people say when they make things.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
About them, But I really this show, this show is
not important.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
What is important is that we get to live in
a country that allows us to have a show like this.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, all right, he clearly doesn't remember what he said.
I think I don't believe he's acting. But did you

(19:31):
notice what's missing? He never apologized. There is no apology
in there at all, and he said it was never
my intent to blame any Well, let's go back to
what he said, which was on a teleprompter. It was written.

(19:55):
It wasn't extemporaneous chatting, which is what I am usually
doing on this program, where I wish I had said
that differently, and I'll say that or I'll stop in
mid sentence. No, it was on a teleprompter. This is
what he said on a teleprompter. We hit some new
lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying

(20:18):
to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything
other than one of them and doing everything they can
to score political points from it. Of course, you were
intending to make a political statement, and so do I

(20:42):
believe he was heartfelt and what he did there I do.
I don't think he rejoiced in the murder of Charlie Kirk.
I've never ever thought he was rejoicing in the murder
of Charlie Kirk, at least not publicly. But to say
that that was never my intent, that's just a falsehood,

(21:07):
that's just And he still couldn't apologize. He couldn't do it.
Forty minutes past the hour. There are more big stories
we'll get to the next Now. A guy that I

(21:36):
refer to as the former Keith Olberman, the former desk
anchor at ESPN and partner do a great broadcaster Dan Patrick,
and the former host at MSNBC, and the former fill

(21:56):
in the blank. His hate in vitriol is evident virtually
twenty four to seven, and I feel so very sorry
for him. Two weeks after the Charlie Kirk assassination, Olberman

(22:23):
is posting things taking on CNN commentator Scott Jennings, who
we've played a lot of what Scott has to say.
He's the lone sane voice at CNN. And because Olberman
is not capable, though he is a very bright guy,

(22:45):
he was a terrific sports guy. He was witty, smart, pithy.
But his hate of people like you and me, and
it is hate could not be contained in the sports world,

(23:09):
and so he had to leave it. He tweeted out
your next mother bleep, but keep mugging for the camera.
Two weeks after Kirk is assassinated. Who's a Christian and
a Conservative and Scott Jennings is out there defending the

(23:31):
conservative cause? Your next bleep bleep? It got the attention
of a lot of people. He's allegedly apologized. He said
that he wasn't referring to that. I apologize without reservation.

(23:51):
Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted two responses about him
to Kimmel, about Kimmel, to him about Kimmel because they
could be misinterpreted as a threat to anything besides his career.
I immediately replaced them with one specifying what I actually meant,
and so at least he said, I apologized. Good for you.

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He is a bitter, mean, disappointing person. This will be
the last I talk about Keith Olberman for the day.
Third big story, which will now move into the second spot,

(24:42):
the House Judiciary Committee announced yesterday Google has made multiple
admissions to the committee. It confessed that the Biden administration
quote pressured Google to censor Americans and to remove content
that did not violate YouTube's policies. So after years of

(25:02):
you and I being gas lit and saying, oh, no,
one's censoring you. Oh stop it, Google has admitted no,
we did. The largest search engine in the world admitted

(25:25):
under oath because they had the documents. The House Judiciary
Committee had the documents. So I want you to spike
the football, everybody. I want you to go back onto
the channels that you've been banned from, and I want

(25:46):
you to spike the football. Now. I'm not returning to Facebook.
It's just not going to happen. Do we show up
on Instagram, maybe maybe maybe another plat form or two,
But I'm not going back to Facebook because Zuckerberg and
I know that Instagram is Facebook, but it's not. And

(26:10):
we've not been there, and so if we go there,
there will be a reason why we go there. But
just know this, you have been vindicated. They have admitted
you got censored. It happened, and you did nothing wrong.
Forty seven minutes past the hour, come back. We're going

(26:33):
to tell you about the phone segment coming up in
a little bit. I I've kind of circled this story

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in this day and this hour to take some phone
calls and get your opinions on this. I know that
there is a mixed set of feelings on the issue
of censorship and the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. You
had Ted Cruz saying, hey, Jimmy Kimmel should not be

(27:19):
canceled over this. Well, if you view it cancelation because
of speech, I'm open to that argument. But if it's
a business decision that people make because what he said
was inappropriate and wrong, well that's where I disagree with
Ted Cruz and others. There's a thing called the seventeen

(27:43):
seventy six Project Pack and Stefano Forte or Stefano fort
is executive director, and they have a new form live
on their website where people can flag teachers administrators who
have justified Charlie Kirk's killing online, quoting many people are

(28:07):
essentially happy that Charlie Kirk has been killed, and these
people are in charge of the next generations. No one
is saying they can't talk. They can post whatever they want,
but there are consequences. If you're openly celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk, you shouldn't be teaching children. That's not
about free speech, it's about judgment and character. These are
cruel people and it's dangerous to have them in the classroom.

(28:34):
Went on to say it also points to something bigger.
If you're okay with Charlie Kirk being killed, then you're
likely okay with people who agree with him, or people
further to the right of him being killed too. That's
a serious problem. So, yes, we're amplifying their speech. They
chose to make it public. We're just making sure people
know what they said. I think that that's the point.

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You can say it, but there are repercussions. There are
certain occupations where it matters. Teachers, doctors, pastors are among
the occupations that immediately come to mind, police, military EMTs.

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But my question for you is focusing on teachers, but
you can broaden it to those other categories. Should a
teacher be allowed to teach if they are publicly celebrating

(29:51):
the murder of Charlie Kirk? Should they be teaching in
public schools? Should they be teaching in private schools? Do
you want your child in their classroom or no. Press,
that's free speech, It's uncomfortable, it's messy. That's just the
way it is now. If they bring it into the classroom,

(30:15):
And I would ask you, how do you know that
they're not How do you know that they're not grading
your child on a curve? Does it in fact chill
the speech or the ability to have free speech in
the classroom. So I want to get your thoughts. Should

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apologists of the assassination of Charlie Kirk be allowed to
be in the classroom at any level? Eight five zero
two zero five WFLA. I'd love to get your opinion.
I need someone to break the ice. Eight five zero
two zero five ninety three fifty two. I know you
have opinions. I've been reading your emails. Eight five zero

(30:56):
two zero five WFLA. Okay, here we go. It's the
It's the second hour of the morning show Wednesday. Just

(31:19):
us meaning Jose you and me, just us, and I
want to get your thoughts on this simple question. Should
teachers who celebrated and rejoiced over the killing of Charlie

(31:40):
Kirk be allowed to teach in classrooms? I don't care
at any level. And let me preface this before we
start the phone calls here. Let me preface this by saying,
one of the things that I hope comes out of
Charlie's assassin nation is that that mantle of debate and

(32:08):
dialogue falls on all of us to a greater measure
than ever before. You can consider the opportunity to call
into a program like this as a chance for you
to sharpen your ability to express yourself and your thoughts.
I'm serious when I say that now we have callers

(32:29):
standing by. This isn't about begging for calls. I don't
ever beg for calls unless it's what's the beef, because
we've kind of set aside that time. But this is
about refining the rhetoric of getting better at offering an
apologists defense of whatever is at issue. And in this case,

(32:52):
why should or why shouldn't teachers be allowed to be
in the classroom? Why should they lose their job? So
why should they not lose their job for celebrating the
murder of someone in the middle of giving an answer
to a question? Jeff, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
Yes, good morning. I think it's entirely appropriate to fire
teachers who do that. And the reason I say that
is because radicalization is a fact, and from what we
know about what happened to Charlie Kirk, radicalization is exactly
what happened to the shooter that fellow knew nothing about

(33:35):
Charlie Kirk, not really. And I don't think of defamation
and slander as being particularly free speech. They're dangerous. You
got to be careful with rights, come responsibilities, and at
least attempting to be truthful. Many of the people who
defamed and slandered Charlie Kirk knew exactly that they were

(33:56):
lying at the time. And other people who were impressionable,
and children are impressionable, they will become radicalized. I mean,
we're talking about a human being here. I noticed on
X the other day a particularly prominent leftist account asked
what would happen if we voted on the people that
were shot and killed in Minnesota? And I pointed out,

(34:19):
and many others did that the Republicans unanimously condemned that.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yes, there was no hold up.

Speaker 7 (34:25):
Everybody said that was wrong, no matter what. And so
I think it's extremely important that people who help children
learn how to deal with life. They shouldn't teach them
to gloat over another person's death, especially considering the circumstances.
We're not Charlie Kirk was not hitler. I mean, he
wasn't a mass murderer or anything of that nature. It's

(34:47):
absolutely insane to me that there are people that talk
as if he were.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
That's a great point, Jeff. I listened to Charlie this
morning answer a question. Someone said, what do you think
of being called a fascist? And it wasn't an accusatory
question in this sense. He said, tell me who's the fascist,
the guy sitting under a tent smiling in the sunshine
saying I'll answer any question, or the five hundred people

(35:12):
demanding that he'd be kicked off the campus. Thought it
was a brilliant answer, Doctor Diesel, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 8 (35:22):
Good morning, Preston, how you fella.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
I'm terrific. Tell me what you think.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
Preston. You pulled me right into the radio this morning.
I love listening to it. I love you and Jose
thank you, sir. It's so informative. Let me tell you
I thought about it. My youngest sister is a tenured teacher.
We just had this conversation on the way home yesterday
from work. We set the example, we set the bar

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as a teacher. She says, you blur the vision of
the child. You blur the vision of a child, whether
it's a first grader or twelfth grader, and you produce
the next level of of the loss of consciousness, the
disbarment of Christianity, leading, I mean leading, leading the next
level and the next section of kids into a darkness.

(36:12):
You know, I summarize it. It's terrible. It has no meaning,
it has no place. And I say this why so
I have friends and you, and I hear you every Friday,
and I love it. I have great friends that are
Florida fans very relevant to what we're saying. I'm a
big Florida State seminole. I've been caught under my breath

(36:33):
in the years past saying some very not good things
when Florida issues a womping on us in that stadium,
that's fine. But me and people I disagree with and
I agree with young and old. I would do this
in front of my kids. My kid, my youngest son
would jump up and say, Daddy, why did you? I'm sorry, son,

(36:54):
Dad just gets a little bit excited. But you impressionate
a student teacher to lead the next generation, in the
next set of kids and my grandkids that it's okay
to commit certain which I will not even say that
on the radio. That is a boundary. That is an
untouchable boundary. And you're absolutely right. It's there is no

(37:14):
place for teaching us that we should kill. Jose and
I talked about it before. I call thou shall not kill.
I'm ex military. I don't go around preaching we should
kill people. Thou shall not kill. Why in the world
with a Christian based nation or a teaching capability of
people in any county or any city, teach our children

(37:35):
that we're gonna do that to somebody because we didn't
like the football team they like, or we didn't like
the way that guy looked. There's no reason. There's no
place for me.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Doctor diesel Well said, thank you very much for letting
me draw you into the program. Good. Let's keep polishing
our apologetic folks. Whatever your belief is, that's fine, but
just have a reason. Randy, you're up next, twelve past
the hour, a little late, but that's okay. Your calls
eight five zero two zero five WFLA.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yes, he knows how to read, well, actually, his producer
reads him. He doesn't know how to read. Welcome to
the Morning Show with Preston Scott eight five zero two
zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero five ninety.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Three point fifty two. We are taking your calls and
we are asking a very simple question. Should teachers who
celebrated the murder and assassination of Charlie Kirk be allowed
to teach in classrooms? This isn't about free speech. This

(38:57):
is about repercussions. This is about the care character and
the type of person that we want or don't want
teaching children the next generations. Eight five zero two zero
five to b FLA, Randy, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 9 (39:15):
Hey, Preston, good morning. How you doing.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
I'm good, sir, how are you friend?

Speaker 9 (39:19):
Good? Good? First of all, I'd like to say I
think it's established, even by law that any employer has
the right to terminate anybody's employment if they don't uphold
the standards and the principles of who they work for.
So in that light, then on an individual, case by

(39:40):
case basis, I would say, any principal or school superintendent
has their right to terminate that teacher's employment. However, I
also want to say this could also be an opportunity
for conservatives. That can be an opportunity for a Christians

(40:03):
that are teachers that you know, why can't they then
say to a classroom, something like, you know, the Bible
is the most read and best guide for morality that's
ever been written. My personal savior is Jesus Christ. Uh,

(40:26):
you know, on and on and on. I think that
that that also can can be freedom of speech that
can be used in the classroom without fear of repercussion.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
So are you arguing that celebrating the death of Charlie
Kirk is across the line or not across the line?

Speaker 9 (40:51):
As I said, I think yes, I believe that cross
the line. But you know, I believe it's up to
every local entity wherever that happened, to make that decision. Okay,
I would support that decision to terminate the teacher, okay
on that specific thing. But we've got to watch it

(41:11):
because you know, the clamp can come down very hard
the other way, as it's already been proven. You're you know,
you're led by talking about Google. Well, you know, then
if teachers are being fired for saying that they you
support or whatever the killing of Charlie Kirk, then teachers

(41:33):
can be fired by saying, you know, Jesus Christ is
my personal savior.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Well, they have been right, and and now there's certain
situations Randy thanks so much. Good to hear from you, friend.
There are certain situations where that speech has been protected
by teachers and coaches. There are other occasions, and I
think it's basically based on whether it is inside an
instructional period of time or not, when courts have ruled

(42:02):
that it's either good or bad. But I also think
that those cases certainly are a case by case basis
as you mentioned. But I you know, I, for example,
I wouldn't have any fear of a teacher getting in

(42:23):
trouble for saying the Bible is the most read book
in the history of publication. That's a factual statement. It
would be up to a teacher to open the door
to why that might be. Let students figure that out.
But you know, staying focused on the topic here and Roger,
you're up next eight five zero two zero five to BFLA.

(42:46):
Should teachers be allowed to teach in the classroom? Should
doctors be allowed to practice medicine? Should EMTs, police military
that think it's fine to shoot and kill somebody for speech?
Is that? Should that person be employed? We can expand
it past the classroom, but I'm really interested in teachers.

(43:09):
Eighteen past the hour, let's get some more thoughts on
a very fundamentally important question. I think I think it's

(43:33):
a very important question because everyone's talking about this cancel
culture that suddenly sprung forth from the right. No, it's
not about canceling someone for having a different view. It's
about canceling people that have character issues. You know, should

(43:55):
Palestine have a nation? I don't think so. Welcome to
that view, but we're not talking about that. We're talking
about celebrating the killing of a person. Roger, thanks very
much for calling in. What do you think should teachers
be allowed to teach it to celebrate the death of
Charlie Kirk?

Speaker 10 (44:15):
No, I don't. Good morning my teacher. My wife was
a teacher for thirty years. This might be hard to
get out. She passed away in June of this year.
And we always discuss the morality clause in their contract
they have to sign each and every year. She was

(44:36):
always very cautious of what was on our social media
page because students and faculty and administrators were kind of
on there with it. You know, they were all together,
they knew each other, and there's a morality clause in
the contract that they have to sign each and every year.

(44:57):
Or each and every school year when it up. So yeah,
she was always cars We talked about it quite a bit,
not being able to put certain things up on Facebook
or any any type of social media schaus. You know,
teachers are always under the under the watch of the

(45:17):
students that are on that social media with as well
as administrators, So yeah, you can't. She was always careful
about that.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Roger, thank you for calling in. I'm so sorry for
your loss. I appreciate you taking time to share your
thoughts and the discussions with your wife. Thank you so
much for adding to the program today. Let's go to Cindy,
our final caller. Here. Cindy, what do you think?

Speaker 11 (45:42):
Well, I feel like it's time to clarify the First Amendment,
just like they have. You can't say there's a fire
in a movie theater. They need to clarify because some
of the young people are using it everything. And of
course the teachers should not have saying those things in

(46:07):
the classrooms. Their job is to teach. But my biggest issue,
and I know you didn't bring this one up because
you're talking about the teachers, is the flag. The flag.
To me, burning the flag is not a speech, It's
an action, and it's time for them to clarify that
because I'll tell you, I know I'm talking too long,

(46:30):
but because it hurts me every time they do that,
because all I can think about is the young men
coming off the ships going to Normandy that never made
it out of the water, and they didn't just die
like a body, they were body parts. As an old person,
I remember things like that. So it hurts, and it's

(46:52):
time to clarify the First Amendment.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Thank you very much, Thank you, Cindy. I appreciate you
calling in. You bless me by doing so, and you
honor us all by sharing your thoughts and whether you
agree or disagree with me by engaging in the dialogue.
It's good, it's healthy, it's okay. The one thing I'll say,
as an addendum to what Cindy was just talking about

(47:16):
it and I would say to is, Cindy, we are
clarifying the First Amendment every time someone is removed from
a position because they just went too far. We're clarifying
it when someone loses their job because they cross a line.
We point out the things that are just not protected
and we're not protected in the Constitution from the repercussions

(47:38):
of our speech twenty eight minutes past the hours the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, and thanks for the calls sharing.
I really want to try to focus our phone segments

(48:00):
moving forward in the spirit of let's create a bunch
of Charlie Kirks males and females alike. And I have
more to say on that specific subject in just a
few moments, but let's let's take a moment here and

(48:21):
let's listen to Jimmy Kimmel's comments upon his return last night.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
I don't think what I have to say is going
to make much of a difference.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
If you like me, you like me.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
If you don't, you don't.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind, but I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make light of the
murder of a young man.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Okay, the applause is coming. I believe that I do.
I don't believe he was. I never heard him make
light of the murder. Thousands, perhaps millions of others did,
but I never believed that that was Jimmy Kimmel's intent.
So you know, I think we kind of go there.

(49:06):
Let's pick up.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
If you don't, you don't.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind, but I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make light of the.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Murder of a young man.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
I agree.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
I don't. I don't think there's anything funny about it.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
I posted a message on Instagram and the daves killed,
sending love to his family and asking for a compassion,
and I meant it.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
I still do.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group
for the actions of what it was obviously a deeply
disturbed individual.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
I completely disagree with that statement. We have hit a
new low over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately
trying to characterize the kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as
anything other than one of them and doing everything they
can to score political points from it. That's what he said,
and I want to point out to you that's what

(50:06):
was written and prepared, which means it was considered whether
he personally wrote that, which I think he writes his
own monologue, or didn't. Those are written, prepared words in
a teleprompter, unlike what I do every morning, which is
talk off the cuff. So that is a false statement.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
That was really the opposite of the point I was
trying to make. But I understand that to some that
felt either ill timed or unclear.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Notice no apology for those who.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Think I did point a finger. I get why you're upset.
If the situation was reversed, there was a good chance
I'd have felt the same way.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
I have still no apology, and.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Many friends and family members on the other side.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Who I believe that, and I believe that's.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Close to even though we don't agree on politics at all.
I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone.
This was a sick person who believe violence was a solution,
and that.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Is a statement disconnected from reality. I don't blame him
for that statement. That's just utterly foolish. We're gonna just
stop right there. Of course, it represented. It represented the
dozens of people that the FBI is investigating for whether
they had knowledge of the event in advance. It represented

(51:27):
the trans community that's out there celebrating, the LGBTQS community
that's out there celebrating a handful of blacks who are
uninformed and stupid, who claim that Charlie Kirk is a bigot.
And let me tell you, there are millions of blacks
that know otherwise that are out there defending Charlie Kirk.

(51:47):
And I've got him on my blog page right this moment.
For every pastor that's out there slamming Charlie Kirk is
a racist and a bigot, there are dozens, and I've
got one on my blog page that are saying just
the opposite. But to say that nobody he didn't represent

(52:08):
any group, Jimmy, did you not see the celebrations online?
The underscore point at all of this, And this is
where I'm going to be interested to see what Sinclair
and Next Star do. Next Star joined Sinclair yesterday. So

(52:30):
a third of the ABC affiliates across the country are
dark to Jimmy Kimmel, They're not airing it. They want
an apology. There's no apology in here at all. Do
I believe he sincerely is hurt at the idea that

(52:52):
people think he celebrated the death of Charlie. Yes, I
believe he's hurt, and I don't believe he did celebrate
the murder of Charlie Kirk. I don't believe that. I
do believe he made the statement he made intentionally. I
do believe that was his intent, and I do believe
the shooter does represent a group of people, and it's
that group of people that are represented, that are sick,

(53:13):
that are evil and need Jesus. Forty one minutes past
the hour, WHOA, do I have an exciting announcement?

Speaker 3 (53:27):
VAC You want him on that radio America can handle
the truth.

Speaker 12 (53:31):
You need him on that radio nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Chris writes in I disagree with you. I think he
was openly mocking Charlie Kirk. He's known for his hatred
and his fake tears. I'm not buying them. He cried
over a lion in Africa and laughed at Charlie, calling
it a joke. I don't believe a single word he said.
He just wants to keep his program, period. He is
the representation of evil. Fair enough. I obviously people know

(54:13):
my thoughts. I appreciate yours. Thank you very much for
writing me, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. You know who
else wrote me. I'm not going to go any I'm
not going into specifics. Listen to this. I got a
note from a high school student listening to the show.

(54:35):
She and her mom listen most every morning. They looked
into starting a Turning Point USA chapter at their local
school at her local school, and she found out there
isn't one. Ah, she said, so I'm going to start it.
Come on, Come on, she said, I need to know

(55:02):
as soon as possible. Would you be willing to come speak.
You would have to commit to a lunchtime and to come,
I said, one hundred percent. So let me take it
a step further. First of all, yes, Second of all yeah. Third,

(55:27):
any of you parents, if you've got high school kids
that listen to the show or want to start a
Turning Point USA chapter, do it. And I will make
this commitment if you are within driving distance for me.

(55:50):
If you want me to come and be a speaker
at one of your meetings, I commit and pledge to
you I will do it at any school in the region,
public or private. I make that promise and that yes,

(56:11):
in the Central time zone, absolutely, I will do it.
It's best if it's around lunchtime, it just is. But
if not see lunchtime, you're gonna have better participation. If
you do it after school, you're just not lunchtime. You

(56:33):
have the captive audience. They can't leave campus, or they
wouldn't leave campus because they'll just bring their lunch in
or eat lunch that day there, bring you know whatever,
and they'll be there there. Lunch is your best bet.
I commit to you, I'll do it if you want me.
I'm not you know, there are all kinds of incredible
people out there that you can invite. But if you

(56:55):
think I can, I can help. I can. I pledge
to you I will do my very best to do
just that and help start those things. Do it. Do it.
Young people are looking for moral certainty, not this wimpy,

(57:21):
water down version of Christianity that is being preached in
too many churches. Well you know, whatever you do, who
am I to judge? Well, you know that's not what
scripture says. Young people are looking for moral clarity. They're

(57:42):
looking for points to anchor their life, to seize the opportunity.
Forty seven minutes pass the hour. I told you that
was good news. When we come back, no way, Oz,

(58:11):
Chris writes in I disagree with you. I think he
was openly mocking Charlie Kirk. He's known for his hatred
and his fake tears. I'm not buying them. He cried
over a lion in Africa and laughed at Charlie, calling
it a joke. I don't believe a single word, he said.
He just wants to keep his program. Period. He is
the representation of evil. Fair enough. I obviously people know

(58:37):
my thoughts. I appreciate yours. Thank you very much for
writing me, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. You know who
else wrote me. I'm not going to go any I'm
not going into specifics. Listen to this. I got a
note from a high school student listening to the show.

(58:59):
Sheer mom listen most every morning. They looked into starting
a Turning Point USA chapter at their local school at
her local school, and she found out there isn't one. Ah,
she said, so I'm going to start it. Come on,

(59:21):
come on, she said, I need to know as soon
as possible. Would you be willing to come speak? You
would have to commit to a lunchtime and to come,
I said, one hundred percent. So let me take it
a step further. First of all, yef. Second of all, yeah, Third,

(59:51):
any of you parents if you've got high school kids
that listen to the show or want to start a
turning Point USA chapter, do it, and I will make
this commitment if you are within driving distance for me.

(01:00:13):
If you want me to come and be a speaker
at one of your meetings, I commit and pledge to
you I will do it at any school in the region,
public or private. I make that promise and that yes,

(01:00:34):
in the Central time zone. Absolutely, I will do it.
It's best if it's around lunchtime. It just is. But
if not see lunchtime, you're gonna have better participation. If
you do it after school, you're just not lunchtime. You

(01:00:57):
have the captive audience. They can't leave campus, or they
wouldn't leave campus because they'll just bring their lunch in
or eat lunch that day there, bring you know, whatever,
and they'll be there there. Lunch is your best bet.
I commit to you, I'll do it if you want me.
I'm not you know, there are all kinds of incredible
people out there that you can invite. But if you

(01:01:18):
think I can, I can help. I can. I pledge
to you I will do my very best to do
just that and help start those things. Do it, Do it.
Young people are looking for moral certainty, not this wimpy,

(01:01:45):
water down version of Christianity that is being preached in
too many churches. Well you know, whatever you do, who
am I to judge? Well, you know that's not what
scripture says. Young people are looking for moral clarity. They're

(01:02:05):
looking for points to anchor their life, to seize the opportunity.
Forty seven minutes past the Hourum, I told you that
was good news. When we come back, no way oz.

Speaker 13 (01:02:22):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 14 (01:02:32):
It's time, folks, which roughly translates to good morning, hell
when you speak German.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:02:42):
I got a couple of interesting stories here for you
today which I'm just going to get straight into it.
One is imagine if you can being thirteen years old
and desperate enough to climb into the landing gear of
air an airplane.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
No no, no, no, no, no no no, Well well yes,
c CC.

Speaker 14 (01:03:03):
That's exactly what happened to an Afghan boy who reportedly
did that, and he survived a flight of over one
thousand kilometers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Which insane. He climbed into the nose gear, no, the
rear of the landing, the landing, but the same basic principle, okay.

Speaker 14 (01:03:22):
Right, right, yes, and a thousand kilometers roughly translates to
six hundred and twenty one miles.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But at altitude, yeah, yeah, and he survived. Yeah, he survived.

Speaker 14 (01:03:35):
And which is crazy because I don't know if everybody
knows this or not, but landing gear compartments aren't pressurized, right,
and they're freezing cold. The oxygen levels dropped dangerously low.
And despite all that, the young man survived. No way, Jose, Yeah, absolutely, Si,
signor and folks. And then story number two, which is

(01:03:58):
very interesting. I learned this one from my mother. Apparently,
Napoleon Barnapartes Bonaparte's nephew, Charles Lewis Napoleon Achille Murat packed
up his royal baggage and headed to Tallahassee, Florida, back
in eighteen twenties. Okay, yeah, so he came to the

(01:04:20):
backwoods here in Florida. Uh, and he met himself. I
believe it's George Washington's great grand niece. And they got
they got married here in here in Tallahassee. Achilles' father
was Marshall ja Kim. Murat, once crowned King of Naples

(01:04:40):
by Napoleon himself Naples, Florida, of course, yep, Naples, Florida.
That's right, absolutely, yeah, they love him some Florida. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, he was, you know, a very brilliant man,
apparently according to mister Ralph Wardrow excuse me, Waldo Emerson, right, yeah,

(01:05:02):
he said that the young man was very brilliant.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
So so a descendant of Bonaparte, Napoleon, the guy with
his hand in his in his jacket and all the
famous paintings that the ruler of France yep. Ended up
married to a descendant of George Washington yep. And they're
both buried.

Speaker 14 (01:05:23):
Him and his wife are both buried here in Tallahassee
at Saint John's Episcopal Church or piscol Church.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Really yeah, absolutely, that's crazy.

Speaker 14 (01:05:33):
Yeah, I learned that myself. I don't know if anybody
knew that out there, but that's that's uh true story.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
To that, I say, no way. Jose Is Wednesdays here
on the Morning Show, we we have jose pick a
couple of stories that just stood out to him for
whatever reason in the course of his week. Now that's
not to be confused with the best and worst of
the week, which is oh, by the way, coming on

(01:06:03):
Friday's program. Speaking of Friday FSU football Friday, is it
a seven o'clock game? How do you believe?

Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
Seven pm. That means the pregame will be at five
and so for those of you listening here in Tallahassee,
you know the pregame will begin at five o'clock on
ninety four nine WT and T. For those of you
in Panama City, it's Rock ninety four five. That's where
you will get FSU football, and that would be at

(01:06:33):
four o'clock Central time, the pregame show. All right, we
come back our number three. We've got a lot of
fascinating stories. One of them is why does it now
take two incomes to even come close to buying a house?

(01:07:05):
All right, let's get to a series of other topics
here this morning on the radio program effectually known as
Common Sense Amplified. Good Morning Ruminators, it's yours truly, Preston Scott,
that is Jose can you see And this is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, and it is show fifty
four fifty nine Wednesday on the program. And I came

(01:07:26):
across a headline that I found very interesting. It was
written by Paul Stone and Dave Ericson. They have authored
a book nineteen seventy one how all of America's problems
can be traced to a singular date in history. What

(01:07:50):
what happened on what day? In August of nineteen seventy one.
President Richard Nixon didn't just make a routine economic decision,
they write, he pulled the rug out from under the

(01:08:10):
middle class by severing the dollar's link to gold. The
government unshackled itself from fiscal discipline, and Americans lost their
last safeguard against runaway inflation. Overnight, your family's savings became vulnerable,
and the future was mortgaged for short term political gain. Now,

(01:08:36):
if you dig deeper into this and again this particular
book and what they're writing, there's a strong argument here.
Before nineteen seventy one, and even in the months subsequent
to the decision, but not for long, a single breadwinner's

(01:08:58):
salary was enough to buy a home and provide for
a family. After nineteen seventy one, it all changed, and
they claim it was not by accident. Wages stagnated, the
cost of living blew up, the price of housing shot skyward,
and then families got into the two income trap. Now

(01:09:23):
they quantify this. This is not just an assertion of
Nixon haters. This is an assertion based on mathematics, which
is what I pay attention to win a story like this. Okay,
show me what you mean. Don't tell me what you mean.
Show me, because, as we've long argued on this program,

(01:09:44):
mathematics offer a certainty. That's why statistics matter. While statistics
can sometimes be manipulated to a certain extent by various
means of of eliminating certain factors, at their core, statistics

(01:10:05):
offer a good reflection of whatever is being shown. Listen
to this. The median price of a home at that
time was twenty three thousand dollars, which was four times
the average household income in nineteen seventy. So the average

(01:10:29):
household income in nineteen seventy was just under six thousand
dollars a year. A home represented four times that. So
you take that, you put it into a mortgage, and
you can understand why houses were affordable. Right. You're taking

(01:10:51):
let's say you're putting ten percent down, twenty three hundred
dollars down, you're financing just over twenty thousand dollars over
thirty years affordability right, listen to this today, the average
cost of a home is eight times what most two

(01:11:18):
income families earn. There's a metric that you cannot do
much with. You can't peck that one away. So when
you hear people talk about, as we heard salnwsoh, Look,

(01:11:38):
there's a way to talk about affordable housing. That's a
buzz term. It's like, whatever, please define that for me.
But there is a real discussion to be had. But
how many of us would have tied this discussion to
a decision made in nineteen seventy one to sever the
dollar from the gold standard. That is incredibly insightful and

(01:12:07):
I think remarkably important to have any future discussion of
what it looks like to create more affordable housing. You
have to expand the power of the dollar, not lessen it.
Government has to be rained in, you have to reduce

(01:12:29):
the tax burden. You have to create more power behind
the dollar to ever get that genie back in the bottle.
Ten past the hour a story next that actually connects
perfectly to this one.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio
one hundred point seven WFLA. So we're talking about how

(01:13:10):
difficult it is to buy a home. I mean, it's
it's not just it's not just the price of a home,
it's it's the price of rent as well. I mean
the price of rent has uh has skyrocket. And we'll
get to that here.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Because this isn't this a totally separate story, totally different location.
I found this opinion piece written by Paul Stone and
Dave Erickson about their book. They're using their book to
to buttress their argument that this is this is the
moment that things really fell off off the hook. Now

(01:13:53):
at town Hall, Jeff Charles writes, half a million Americans
have traded homes for RVs. Not because they want to
retire and to see the world or see the country.
I should say no, because they can't afford a house.

(01:14:14):
And this is the next best thing. Half a million
Americans are now living in RVs, moving from place to place,
and in reading into this, it's incredible, it's doubled since

(01:14:37):
twenty twenty one. A third of these have children. Most
earn less than seventy five thousand a year. Yeah, you
can buy a thirty foot airstream for about thirty grand,
spend about ten grand doing it up. Having luxury with
minimal costs, not tied down save up by property and assets. Okay,

(01:15:02):
maybe here's what's happening in reality. Inside the piece, he
writes the challenges of living in RVs. Unlike a traditional home,
RVs depreciate quickly. Loan terms can be spread out over

(01:15:22):
long periods to lower payments, but that can quickly leave
homeowners or RV owners borrowers underwater, owing more than their
RV is worth. See that's the thing. You spread it
out over too long to lower the payment, you are
going to be underwater. You're going to still owe more

(01:15:43):
money than your RV is worth. At a certain point.
Median home prices have risen by fifty percent since twenty twenty.
Rent prices have increased by twenty to thirty percent. Why
because housing prices are up. Housing prices are up, which

(01:16:06):
means fewer people are buying homes, they have to rent.
And when you have more people that rent than the
market has room for, the prices of rent go up.
So it's a vicious little cycle that's at work here.
What some people do is, for example, I read the

(01:16:28):
story of a family that's living in their trailer and
they go from place to place if they have the money,
if they you know, through remote work and all that
they're able to scrape together the money to pay for
a berth. It costs twenty five to forty five dollars
a night. They park otherwise on remote federal lands which

(01:16:53):
are free for two weeks, but no water or electricity,
spotty service. Families bathe and wash their clothes sometimes in
rivers nearby. Is that how you want to live and
raise your family? Mosey's not in his head. They do

(01:17:20):
online school, but that then you got to have good
sell signal. So the affordable housing challenge has got to
be looked at in a very different way than we've
looked at it, and not through the lens of giveaways.

(01:17:43):
But I think that the argument being made here and
the evidence that we're seeing is that there is a
need to look at it through the lens of long
term fiscal policy. Seventeen minutes past the hour. Have you
ever heard of the S and P five hundred Christian
Values Index? All right, this is this is just one

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of those stories that I think is interesting. I don't
I don't have necessarily an opinion about it, And some
of you are like, yeah, whatever, liar. You have an
opinion about everything. I really don't. I have an opinion
on most things. And for those of you that are

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new to the program, let me save you the trouble. Yes,
I always think I'm right. That saves you from writing
the email man. You always think you're right. I yes,
and you should too. Now I advocate thinking that you're right,

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but being open to the fact that you might be wrong.
I say that because I firmly believe that we ought
to establish our guiding principles of life on things that
we believe we're right about. I know I'm right about
God of Jesus, the Holy Spirit. I know I'm right

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in following Christ. I know I am, and that influences
my opinions on a wide range of subjects. Though I
can be wrong, it doesn't happen often because I'm pretty thorough.
I didn't arrive at sixty five years without sixty four

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years ahead of it, and all of those years taught
me things. A lot of you you know exactly what
I'm talking about. Life teaches lessons, and so I'll give
you an example. This is a story I don't have
an opinion about, but I think it's something that is

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worth you knowing about. There is a faith based investment
firm that partnered with the S and P down Jones
Dow Jones Indices to create a new index and exchange
traded fund that's called an ETF that will cater to
evangelicals Christian investors. Now, their definition of Christian is pretty broad,

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but it is limited to businesses investment opportunities that do
not support things that would be in the minds of
most of us anti Christian. For example, the Christian Values

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Index Fund, and this is what it's called. It's called
the S and P five hundred Christian Values Screened Index.
It screens out companies based on their involvement in abortion,
stem cell research, adult entertainment, predatory lending, recreational cannabis, gambling, tobacco,

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and violent video games. If any business is involved in
that at all, they're not in the fund. They're out.
And so if it's not in sync with traditional values
of faith, it's not part of the fund. Now, if

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you look it up, its return is pretty solid. But
let me say this US, that may be something to
consider for you. You also need to know that there
are a lot of investment advisors out there that don't

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give a rat's rear end about any of that, but
there are some that do, and if you ask the
right questions of your investment advisor, you will find whether
or not they are sophisticated enough to understand your values

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and your desire to stay away from investments that support
those types of things. So my advice would be a
know that this fund exists, and that might be a
fund for your investment advisor to look at, but to
also maybe be a little inquisitive about your investment advisor
and finding out just how in sync they are with

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what your values are, if that matters to you. If
you're like, hey, the wealth of the wickeds laid up
for the righteous brother. That's what proverb says. That's what
I'm all about. I don't care if it's gonna make
me money, fine, understand that your capital supports those businesses,
though your investment supports those businesses. So it's just again,

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it's something you need to weigh and measure. I just
thought it was interesting, it was out there. I'd never
heard of it before. Twenty eight minutes after the hour,
We're gonna come back. Big stories in the breast box.
If you missed it, you must stay with.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Me dispensing information at the speed of sound.

Speaker 13 (01:23:38):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
I could maybe do that in a band. Hit the block,
that might be it. Maybe do percussion, the two beats
at one time thing. My wife looked at me. She said,
you could be a very good drummer. She said, you
have incredible rhythm. Well, no, no, no, no, no, I

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have good primary rhythm. It's that secondary stuff. You're gonna
either get one or the other. You're not gonna get both.
Drummers are amazing and great drummers can almost keep four
different rhythms at once. And I'm just dumbfounded by that.
But anyone who's a musician, I don't care what the

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instrument is. I'm like in awe of you because I
know that there's a natural gifting, yes, but I also
know there is an incredible amount of work that goes
into that. I mean, if you're gonna be gifted at anything,
it takes work. It just does. No matter what your
natural gifting is, you gotta work at it. Sorry, just

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not very good at many things. I'm not sure I'm
good at anything, but that's okay. I'm very comfortable with myself,
all right, Jimmy Kimmel last night had this to say.
You tell me what you think if you were Sinclair
or Next Star executives looking for an apology, what do

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you think.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
I don't think what I have to say is going
to make much of a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
If you like me, you like me. If you don't,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
Light of the murder of a young man.

Speaker 11 (01:25:35):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
I don't think there's anything funny about it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
I posted a message on Instagram when the Daves killed,
sending love to his family and asking for compassion, and
I meant but I still do. Nor was it my
intention to blame any specific group for the actions of
what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual that was
really the opposite of the I was trying to make.
But I understand that to some that felt either ill

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timed or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who
think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset.
If the situation was reversed, there was a good chance
I'd have felt the same way. I have many friends
and family members on the other side who I love
and remain close to, even though we don't agree on
politics at all. I don't think the murderer who shot

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Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who
believed violence was a solution and it isn't it ever,
And also selfishly.

Speaker 5 (01:26:36):
I am I.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Am a person who gets a lot of threats. I
get many ugly and scary threats against my life, my wife,
my kids, my coworkers because of what I choose to say.
And I know those threats don't come from the kind
of people on the right who I know and love.
So that's what I wanted to say on that subject.
But I don't want to make this about me because
and I know this is what people say when they
make things about them.

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
But I really don't know this show. This show is
not important.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
What is important is that we get to live in
a country that allows us to have a show like this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
All right, what do you think? I'll tell you what
I think next. Forty minutes past the hour, It is
The Morning Show with.

Speaker 13 (01:27:27):
Preston Scott, and women serving our great nation and our
armed services, those serving communities as law enforcement officers and
first responders. I say you are all essential workers. Welcome
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
By the way, if you're wondering what you haven't even
you've hardly mentioned or so far, I've not heard you
say anything about the conviction of the attempted assassin of
Donald Trump. Yeah, you're right, he's a nobody. He tried

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to stab himself in the neck with a pen when
the conviction was was read. Whatever back to Jimmy Kimmel.
And this is about as much as I've ever spoken
about him and ever planned to speak about him. I

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don't hate him, don't care for him. I don't care
to spend time around his show, watch his show point
number one and Sinclair and next star of third of
the ABC affiliates will have to decide. Was that an apology?
Did you hear an apology? Ose? Did you did you

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hear anything that even resembled an apology? Ope?

Speaker 14 (01:28:57):
I heard crocodile tears through the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
And now do you believe those tears were sincere? There
are many that email me that say he fakes tears
all the time. I don't buy it. Okay, all right,
fair enough, it sounded heartfelt to me. But I'm a
sucker that way, I am. I'll throw the guy a
benefit of the doubt bone on that one. But here's

(01:29:21):
where I'm not gonna throw any bones or any benefit
of the doubt because I know the business. I've read
a prompter. I know how a teleprompter works. I worked
for years behind one, and by the way, I was
good at it. Okay, I'm good with a teleprompter. There

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are a lot of people that you can tell they're
reading a teleprompter. Good on teleprompter fools people into thinking
they're just talking. It was not my intent to blame
any particular group, he said, Ah, but it was, Jimmy.

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It was absolutely your intent because that's what you wrote
or had written and read. These were not extemporaneous comments
where you made a mistake. You just the emotion got
the better of you, which happens to people that speak extemporaneously,
which is something that happens in our industry and radio.

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It happens sometimes in television. When Greg Gettfeld is doing
a monologue on his show, he's likely reading a teleprompter.
When he's on the five, he's not he's got his
notes and he's just going and he'll say things at
times that caused me to cover my ears and blush
a little bit, and it's like, uh, yeah, that's not good.

(01:30:49):
But he said, and I quote, we hit some new
lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying
to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything
other than one of them. That was intentional. And yes,
that's that's trying to blame a group. So that's disingenuous,

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that that's not honest, that's not accurate, that is that
is none of those virtues we were hoping to recognize.
He then said that the shooter doesn't represent any group
that again is divorced from reality. Of course, the shooter

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represents groups. He represents extreme leftists and illiberals, and the
LGBTQ community at large, definitely the transgender group that has
become more and more militant, who we can continue to
add to the list of people that are responsible for

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violent crimes in this country. Of course, he represented that group.
Did you see the celebrations were you not aware of
the numbers of people that were all transgender or transgender supporting,
or transgender identifying or bisexual identifying or LGBTQ identifying that

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said something was going to happen on September the tenth,
that knew something was going to happen. Did you not
see the celebrations by the thousands and thousands, likely millions,
of the death and murder of Charlie Kirk? Did you not? So,
of course he represented a group that's asinine to say

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he didn't. And so I will let Sinclair and next
start you do you whatever? If I were asked, do
you consider that an apology, I would say absolutely not.
I would also say that, in fact, they'd say rewriting

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of what he in fact did and said, and that
his comments once again do not reflect reality. But it's
up to you on whether you want to. I'm not
watching Jimmy Kimmel no matter what they do. It doesn't
matter to me. I don't. It doesn't It matters that
there are people that still think Jimmy Kimmel's bright and
witty and funny. He's not. But remember what I said

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when Charlie was originally assassinated. I think that question was
remarkably insightful on my part. And I don't say that
patting myself on the back. I say it more as
a well, that's unusual, because it's remarkably insightful. What's worse

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the assassination of Charlie Kirk or the celebration of it. See,
I still believe, and I think I think the last
two weeks have proven the celebration is far worse because
when people like the Minnesota lawmakers who were shot and killed,

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when those types of events happen, and someone quote on
the right, although I don't know that that guy was
on the right, but let's say he was, it doesn't
matter to us. It's wrong. We don't celebrate the death
and murder of people that we disagree with. We don't
do that, and that's what needs to be considered. Forty

(01:34:38):
eight minutes after the hour, just wrap this thing up
and put a bow on it. Trust me, I got
a bow. Well, I'm sorry. My hopes of putting a

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on this in a kind of a light kind of
way gone. We have a shooting at an ice facility
in Dallas, Texas. The shooters killed himself. White male ice
officers approached him. He put a gun to his head
and shot himself. Don't know if he was shooting at ICE.

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ICE employees are all accounted for, allegedly. Don't know how
many fatalities, if any, But we don't know if he
was aiming at detainees that were being offloaded and if
he hit any of them, or if he was aiming

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at eight don't know, don't know, so we'll have to see.
If this was somebody shooting at ICE dies, odds are
it's going to be somebody quote from the right, and

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they're sick in the head. If it's somebody shooting at
ICE officers agents, then it's somebody on the left and
they're sick in the head. The difference is all of
the talk from many of the politicos on the left

(01:36:28):
about how Ice is evil, awful, a bunch of Nazis
should be fought at all costs. There you go, But
we don't know yet, so we cannot lay that assertion
out there. I'm just saying, we'll have to see, and
I'm sure by tomorrow we will.

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I'm not kidding. I true story fat bears. Instead, we
remind you Jimmy Kimmel did not offer an apology. He
is misrepresenting what he said. There's yeah Google admitting to

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the House Judiciary Committee that Biden forced them and pressured
them to censor even though people did not violate their
terms of use on YouTube, et cetera. Took your calls.
Should teachers be allowed to teach if they celebrated Charlie
Kirk's assassination? The answers from all, No, I don't have

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any problem with that. We introduced you Ralph Teeter and
a blind visionary who, by the way, changed how you
drive your car. Let's talk to you tomorrow.