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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Five minutes past the hour. Morning Friends, Thursday, October ninth,
Show fifty four to sixty nine. In the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, he is Jose. I am Preston. Great
to be with you. Let's start where you ought to
start each and every day. That's what I've been I've

(00:35):
been nudgeing, I've been encouraging you, pushing you. I want
you to start your day with some scripture. I know
I can read it anytime I want, and it still counts.
Of course it does. But don't you think that if

(00:57):
you got up fifteen minutes earlier and crafted just a
little bit of time in your schedule to just soak
in some of God's word and to pray, don't you
think it might help you the rest of your day?

(01:27):
True confession. Even driving into work before most everybody else
is up, I encounter some weirdness. I do. I've seen

(01:47):
very sketchy things. I've encountered absurd drivers, like when there's
no one else on the road, people just being dumb.
I've watched people at mailboxes, like those big federal mailboxes,
you know, the blue ones. What are you parked in

(02:11):
front of a mailbox for? And I'm thinking, Oh, they're
fishing for checks, and I have thoughts that come into
my mind that And now, look, sometimes I call the
police or I call the sheriff's department. I say, hey,

(02:32):
there's somebody fishing around the mailbox here. You might want
to check it out. But I sometimes am thinking not
very flattering things about dumb drivers and so forth. And
it's like I just I was just praying, come on, now,

(02:56):
get your mind right. It impacts you, at least it should.
And this verse really really connects the dots well about that,
Just that nudge and your time in scripture could have
nothing to do with like this overarching point onest John

(03:17):
one nine says, if we confess our sins, He's faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. I think and believe, and I
think it would be supported by a lot of scripture

(03:38):
that you if you have that in your mind, if
you have that, whatever that devotional was, it's about God,
it's in his word. The Holy Spirit is kind of
wrapping you up, and your spirit is being fed, and
so your conscience is now connected a little bit better

(03:59):
to the Holy Spirit. It that that new life that's
in you. And so when something happens that can distract
you from where you ought to be with God Holy
Spirit goes, remember that you were just studying God's word
just this morning. Come on, come on, don't let this

(04:20):
get you. Don't let this win. Don't surrender the ground
you've gained. Does that make sense? And before you should,
you you might need to ask for forgiveness for whatever

(04:41):
it is you're thinking or doing. You can cut it
off with the pass and you know what, the next
time you'll be better you You you won't likely react,
you'll respond, and you'll be just that much further ahead.
And so the the idea here is, this is why

(05:01):
I start the show this way. I want God's word
to impact your entire day, all of your interactions with
your family, with your friends, with your coworkers, with your
your employees, your employer, with your your clients, with your customers. Right,

(05:27):
come on, why let's go.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Ten past the Hours Morning Show with Jose and me.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, oh yeah, this is gonna be a fun segment
here today.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Let's take a look inside the American pace. It's almanac,
it's what we do. We ease into the program we
start a little history lesson and we go to October
the ninth, sixteen thirty five. Religious dissident Roger Williams is
banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. You, sir, are banished

(06:19):
because you are a religious dissident.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
I don't even know what that means. How can I
be banished when I don't understand? Is that now that
it was Roger Whittaker? Sorry, no, it wasn't, was it?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Are you beautiful? I have let you dear there. I'm
going to figure that out. Uh, seventeen it's I just
I want to I want to say it's Roger Whittaker.
Ac music back in the seventies and eighties. James Fourson
in seventeen eighty one is held aboard the British ship Amphion,

(07:07):
where he refuses an offer of freedom if he will
go to England with the captain's son. Now that story
is much more than that. James Fortson was born in Philadelphia,
was the grandson of a slave, but the son of
a free man.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
He refused. Young man was black and had a rock
solid constitution. Come on, buddy. Eighteen fifty five, Joshua Stoddard
in Worcester Massachusetts patents the calliope, the new musical instrument

(07:48):
to be played with the agency of steam or highly
compressed air. Calliope has a really cool, very unique If
you don't know what a calliope sounds like, you can
look it up. It really is because they still exist.

(08:09):
Eighteen seventy six, Alexander Graham Bell and Boston, Thomas Watson
and Cambridge, mass hold the first telephone conversation over outdoor wires.
Eighteen seventy six. Nineteen thirty six, Boulder Dam begins sending
electricity across two hundred and sixty six miles of mountain

(08:32):
and desert to Los Angeles. It's now Hoover Dam. Remember
that's where we store the Decepticons and the occasional Transformer.
By the way, the last time I said that, we
had someone call in. What you mean by that?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
What was that we have stored in Hoover Dam Decepticons?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Hold on, now, we're gonna take whatever time we need here.
It is National Pro Life Cupcake Day, It is Pans
and Panda's Awareness Day. But this is my favorite. It

(09:24):
is National moldy Cheese Day. Now, hold on, I did
the same thing as Jose's doing Jose's just crinkling up
his nose, faking like he's urfing. Just listen. Not all
mold is created equal, it says here, your friendly neighborhood cheesemonger,

(09:45):
the guru who specializes in cheese can guide you through
this flavorful frontier. Think of them as a somalier for dairy.
Here's a quick guy to know which molds are friends
and which are foes. Moldy friends we celebrate today are
the artistic streaks of blue, gray, and green mold. They

(10:06):
are specific strains of penicillin that are intentionally introduced to cheeses.
They create the bold flavors and creamy textures we love.
The cheesy foes we need to be afraid of are red, brown, black,
or fuzzy green molds on hard cheeses like cheddar. Say

(10:26):
goodbye to these uninvited party crashers that can be harmful.
The golden rule is simple one in doubt throw it out.
But there are rock stars of the cheese world cheeses
you can celebrate for their unique and pungent personalities. Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Stilton,

(10:48):
may Tag, Blue Bree cameon Bear and so Today is
about celebrating those cheeses whose molds are intentional and flavorful
and healthy. Naha seventeen past the hour makes you want

(11:11):
to make a cheese omelet, doesn't it? Did you know?

(11:31):
There is going to be a big effort to solve
the Amelia Earhart mystery next month now, unless the plans change,
pretty significant exploration is going to go to Nika Maru

(11:55):
Nika Morauro Island, which is also called Gardener Island in
the South Pacific, halfway between Australia and Hawaii, and they're
going to try to find the airplane, the Electra that

(12:21):
Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were flying when
she went down. She said that she was losing fuel.
I believe she was trying to land on maybe it
was Moro Island, And interestingly enough, Moro Island is due
north that Navigationally she got misdirected and was south of

(12:46):
there and had to land. There are all kinds of theories.
One theory is that she just crashed into the water.
But there were people that picked up radio transmissions that
they believe in retrospect and even at the time were

(13:07):
from Amelia Earhart that would have come from her airplane
that she was still she landed it and was transmitting.
There was a massive search for her, but they didn't
have the technology we have today. But people swear they
hurt her. There are theories that she was captured by

(13:27):
the Japanese and died in a pow camp, that she
was a spy for the Americans, and that has largely
been debunked. Now. This particular island is interesting because it's
also been the site of some recoveries of some items

(13:49):
consistent with the items that Amelia Earhart was known to
have traveled with at that time, things that are very
period specific and time specif What makes this really interesting
because I've been fascinated with it in part because I
just I While I'm not a licensed pilot, pilots will say,

(14:12):
now you're a pilot because you've soloed. I don't claim
that I've soloed. I just love flying. I love every
part of it. I read about it. I'm not a nerd.
There are so many people that know so much more
than me, but I'm fascinated by it. I read accident reports.

(14:33):
I love to understand why someone with thousands of hours
gets in trouble flying and by that, I mean, you know,
where there's a crash of some kind taking off, landing
in mid air. I'm fascinated by different types of airplanes, experimental, light, sport,

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all of it. I just I'm a geek on that part.
And then there's the fact that this is a mystery.
It is one of the great mysteries that you know,
we found the Titanic. We meaning, you know, civilization, Bob
Ballard and the United States Navy, they were working together

(15:15):
kind of a secret mission. He said, I'll help you
find this. You help me find that, and they said okay,
And he found the Titanic. It's incredible, but we haven't
found definitive, definitive proof of Amelia Earhart's ending. Well, the
President of the United States ordered an internal message went

(15:38):
out Tuesday, two nights ago, two nights ago, high importance,
instructing them to examine quote any areas where papers or
physical media records may be stored, to include both open
and closed cases for records responsive to Amelia Earhart. There

(15:59):
are going to declassify, release all government records related to
Amelia Earhart or final trip, anything else about her. So
it'd be interesting. Now there are those that say, he's
just trying to distract from the Epstein funtain whatever. Do
you really think if there was anything linking Trump to Epstein,

(16:20):
it wouldn't have come out by Joe Biden and the
rest of the Democrats that were running the FBI, the
Department of Justice, the CIA. All I mean, come on,
come on now, they've been messing with this guy since
he came down the escalator. Twenty eight minutes after the hour.

(16:42):
Let's do the big stories in the press box up
next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty
six past the hour, Steve Stewart with us next hour,
Doctor David Heart's third hour. Anastasios Camutsas the Commissioner of

(17:06):
Education for Florida, chosen by Ron DeSantis to fill the
role left behind with the departure of the previous commissioners.
Now the president interium of West Florida University, whose name
suddenly escapes me. That's okay, the big stories in the

(17:26):
press box, little readjustment, all right, sorry about that, a
little adjustment. Hamas has accepted Trump's terms for peace in Israel,
ending two years of war. Okay, First of all, I

(17:49):
applaud the President's efforts. Nothing that I'm about to say
should be construed as denigrating or doubting the sincerity of
the efforts of President Trump. Trump doesn't care what you

(18:11):
and I think or anyone else about much of anything.
He's going to do what he thinks is right, even
if it's wrong. Now, in this case, any time I
see the leadership of Hamas smiling, I'm concerned. I'm just
being honest with you and transparent on what I see

(18:36):
is a problem. Now, I'm grateful if there is a true,
enduring peace between Hamas and Israel. The only thing that
I can reconcile in my brain is that the leaders
of Amas have come to the conclusion that if they

(18:57):
don't strike a deal, they'll be dead personally, individual they
will all be killed, and they've chosen life. My doubts
are rooted in my knowledge of And you can look
this up and your AI programs are going to feed
you a lot of things about the teachings of the

(19:20):
Koran and the Hadith as it relates to dishonesty lying.
If you look it up, it'll say the claim that
the Qoran teaches Muslims to lie as needed is a misconception.
Islamic teaching strongly prohibit lying, which is considered a major sin.

(19:42):
Just hold on now. The Koran and Hadith, the collection
of sayings and traditions of the prophet Muhammad, emphasize the
importance of truthfulness, though they allow exceptions in very specific,
limited circumstances to prevent harm or to achieve a great good. Okay, see,

(20:04):
now we're starting to get somewhere. Who determines what is
the greater good? Thereby opening up the circumstances for lying. Now, obviously,
I don't know if the leaders of a mass are

(20:26):
lying in this agreement. I just know what Islamics extremists believe,
and that it is a justified means to an end
that they believe is of the greater good. So I'm

(20:49):
willing to just step back and say, Okay, there are
specifics here that we'll get to, but I'm I'm gonna
take kind of a Let's be hopeful, but let's also
not forget what happened on October seventh, two years ago.

(21:11):
It was a brutal terrorist attack. It was not a
military invasion. It was a killing of eleven hundred plus
innocent people, men, women, and children, with no military attachment
at all. Were there some, Yeah, but the overwhelming majority

(21:34):
of people that died had no connection to the Israeli military.
This was not a military action. So we'll see forty
one minutes after the hour.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
One of the big stories in the press box.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
A couple other big stories that we'll just touch on
before we move on here. Greta Thunberg. You know, God
at the Greta Thuneberger, the climate activist that has suddenly
taken up the Palestinian cause. Doesn't surprise me. They actually

(22:33):
connect to together brilliantly. Anyway, the suffering of Palestinian prisoners
is not a matter of opinion. It is a fact
of cruety, dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective, Justice cannot have borders.
The post that she turned loose was made with in

(23:00):
collaboration with several other pro Palestinian activists, and so she
put a photo of a starving man being forced to
dig his own grave. Problem is that the starving man
is an Israeli hostage being held captive by Hamas and
starved to death. He's not dead yet. So she puts

(23:25):
up an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas and labels
it a victim of Israeli torture. She pulled down the
photo left the rest of it up as of press time,

(23:45):
No apology, just saying, friends, I don't care what side
of what argument you're on. Don't believe everything you see
and hear and read. You've got to go deeper. The
family of the man whose photo was used was livid,

(24:08):
and rightfully so. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that
he is launching an undercover operation to infiltrate and uproot
leftist terror cells in Texas. He's going after Clantifa, and
he's announced that he's going to infiltrate it. Friends, just

(24:31):
for a second, this is psychological warfare at its best,
because moving forward, Clantifa is going to be paranoid beyond
all measure. Now, just so you know, the funding of

(24:53):
Clantifa and other groups is now on the President's desk
thanks to our friends at the Government Accountability Institute based
right here in Tallahassee. Seamus Brunner was speaking with the
President yesterday at a big meeting with independent journalists that

(25:16):
have been attacked by Clantifa, and he and of course
Peter Schweitzer and the team at GAI have been digging
into and following the money trail, something they call riot inc.
The flow of money that's supporting these actions which could

(25:39):
fall under RICO. This could be huge. We're going to
try to get Seamus and or Peter on the program
to discuss in the next few weeks. Guy was arrested
for the deadly Palisades fire that killed twelve caused one
hundred and fifty billion dollars in damages. He was a

(25:59):
Newberg and they've got a lot of evidence on this guy.
My question is, how is it possible that he's only
facing a minimum of five years and up to twenty
years in federal prison when twelve people died. That's what

(26:22):
I don't understand. And of course I'm not naming this loser.
Some of the people he picked up just before the
fire was set said that there were some weird things
about the dude. The music thing he was listening to,
the stuff that he was talking about. That connect actually
and Uber places him where the fire started, at the

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time the fire started. And that's just a tip of
the proverbial evidentiary evidentiary. Iceberg forty seven passed come back
with some or here in the Morning show.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
Set off your mind, get it off your chest. You
have a story you want to share, write him at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Well, some of you will rejoice over this.

(27:36):
The IRS has furloughed, as of yesterday, roughly half of
its workforce. We're talking nearly forty thousand workers. Now they're
being told they'll get back pay, but the president's intimating

(27:59):
that not all furlow workers are going to get back pay.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Good luck with that. I don't you know. I won't
claim to understand the legalities of that. I know that
the president of the National Treasury Employees Union the Unions,
said that taxpayers ought to be ready for increased waight times, backlogs, delays,

(28:30):
any laws passed that impact next year's taxes, that'll all
be messed with through the shutdown. Look, I understand that
there are some incredible good people out there that are
CPA's accountants, and they make their living by helping people

(28:53):
with their taxes. I get it. But the way that
taxes are handled in this country needs to stop. It
needs to be overhauled and changed. I wish we could
just say, let's just do a flat tax, send in
a postcard and call it a day. Here's the problem.

(29:17):
That's how we got where we are today. It started
as a simple flat tax. Well, people that make more
money should pay more. They do under a flat tax,
they do. I mean, ten percent of fifty thousand dollars

(29:39):
is five thousand dollars, ten percent of five hundred thousand
dollars is fifty thousand dollars, they pay more. The argument is, yeah,
but there's a greater impact on the person not making

(29:59):
as much money as it relates to discretionary income and
what it can be used for for a person that
doesn't make as much money, and that could be twenty
thousand dollars, it could be thirty thousand dollars. You could
be fifty thousand dollars. That is a sliding moving target, right,

(30:19):
but it's a very fair argument. You know, the electricity
and groceries and the things that you have to do,
you have to put gas in your car. It impacts
the person making less money more than the person who
makes more money. Absolutely it does. That's why the fair tax.

(30:42):
The fair tax impacts people based on their purchases and
offers a prebate to every taxpayer regardless of how much
money they make, that's the same. But to the person
that is living close to the to the amount of
money that they're I mean their paycheck to paycheck, that

(31:04):
prebate keeps them from paying.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Taxes on a lot of stuff. Anyway, Steve Stewart is
next bypass the hour.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
It is the second hour of the morning Show with MOA.
Although that's not the official title, it'll do. He's hoase,
I'm precedent and this is the executive editor with Tallassi Reports.
We always ask you to go to the website Tallassi
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(31:52):
you what you really need to know. Hello, good morning President.
How are you? I'm doing good? Good should I be?
I mean, what are the crime numbers saying these days?
You know?

Speaker 8 (32:01):
All right, So obviously listeners know that we follow the
crime incidents, you know, on a daily basis, and so
we get to look at some things and we try
to look at trends. We're not trying to track every crime,
and so you know, the good news is the crime
incidents are trending, had been trending down.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Can I can I pause? Yeah? Sure, pause it you
you said we don't track every crime, but the numbers
are tracking the crimes exactly.

Speaker 8 (32:26):
And so we're not We're not trying to account for
every auto burglery. You know, some stuff, you know, falls
through the cracks, and you know, we get held to
that standard because when you start throwing stuff out there
and you start doing innovative things, then you get questions. Sure,
and so we're just trying to, you know, let our
readers know this is where things are going, okay, And
so clearly we had a you know, looking at the incidents,

(32:48):
we had a crime problem.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
A couple of years ago.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
We hired some more officers, we got the real time
Crime center.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Really that actually works.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
It started to work, okay, it started to work. And
so we've seen early on this year that you know,
crime was down and the overall trends when you look
year to date January to September compared to last year,
we start, you know, we see crimes down double did It's, however,
is not down as much as it was six months,
you know, three months ago, and that tells you that

(33:16):
something has happened in the last three months, and the
way we do the data, we can look at monthly.
You know, last month and over the last three months,
we've seen some alarming increases.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
And we've talked about this previously.

Speaker 8 (33:27):
Last time I talked about armed robberies. But what we're
seeing now is assault and battery, which sexual battery. You know,
gunshots would fall under assaults. They're increasing over the last
three months compared to the first six months through up
thirty forty percent.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Are they increasing in specific zip codes?

Speaker 8 (33:46):
I haven't looked at that yet, but I know we'll
have a couple in the northeast. Yeah, you know, we
had the sexual battery at the market district, we had
the shooting the IT ramp. So I'm starting to get
a little more concerned about what we're seeing. And you know,
this is when you look at these stats. Like I said,
the year to date is down double digit for property
and violent crime, but over the last three months we've

(34:09):
got some very alarming trends. Now before I one of
the things I do want to say is if you
look at this sigh ten shooting, there's a couple of
things that work here. Do you remember how quick they
caught the perpetrator of the suspect, seventeen year old kid, right,
they caught them that day because of the Real Time
Crime Center. These are the cameras that are around the city.

(34:30):
You know, they can track real real time. This car
just went through this intersection. And so that's a good thing.
And I think that continues to be technology continues to
be a tool that is being used.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
You know, at a very high rate.

Speaker 8 (34:45):
And however, you know, some things that you start to
see is we talked about the audit, the robberies being
sort of on the southeast side of town. But now
all of a sudden, you start to see this is anecdotal,
but it's going to start showing up in the data.
Looks like some of this violent crime is starting to
rear its head all across a community. Like you said,

(35:06):
a seventeen year old kid looks to be a targeted
shooting going after somebody specifically somebody got in the way,
which is what you what you fear, right, So then
you dig a little deeper. And Sheriff Walt McNeil, who
if you remember, the first report on the anatomy of
a homicide, actually is going to come out with a
second report. Look at the last four years and compare them,

(35:27):
which I think is a great idea, and we're going
to look at that. But he just published, you know,
he's in charge of looking at the schools, the high schools,
and they published an annual report of their arrest and
you know, there's some shocking numbers in that, which we'll
get a story up in the next couple of days, but.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You're gonna hear it first right here.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
How many how many arrests do you think there were
at Leon High School during one school year last school year?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Four or five?

Speaker 8 (35:55):
That number would be correct for most of the other schools.
One at Child's, five at Lincoln, thirty six arrest what
Leon High School? And listen, you know, and I mentioned
this because of the seventeen year old that was, you know,
arrested for the I ten shooting.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
If we don't start to get.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
A handle on what's going on with you know, the
kids between seventeen and twenty four, this is gonna this
is gonna booon into a really big problem. If it's
not already there was.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
It younger than seventeen though, I mean high school is
mostly under seventeen, well.

Speaker 8 (36:27):
Under yeah, mostly it is mostly under seventeen. But I mean,
and I have to look at the arrest but when
I saw that number, that's staggering.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
It is staggering.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
And we'll do some child's had won god be had sixteen,
you know, Rickords five, But thirty six arrest that's in
the heart of the city and that should be you know,
that should be something that we're paying more attention to.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
More to come with Steve Stewart on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
And always pointing out and correcting what is not the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right, I just asked you off air whether there's
any way to account for the crime numbers as relates
to the areas that's outside the city jurisdiction but inside
the county.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Yeah, and so again one of the things that you know,
when they put all that stuff together, that's what you
got to wait so long to get the data like that.
So what we're doing is looking at only the stuff
that's reported by TPD. And as we were talking, you know,
the city limits, it is not very clear, especially in
the northeast because of the way the annexation has worked
over the last twenty years.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Those tax dollars.

Speaker 8 (37:38):
Yeah, and so the responsibilities are really varyable when you
get to the north and it's you know, I guess
whoever can get there first. But we need to start
looking into more because then, like you said, Claren Lakes,
clarn Acres is they're big neighborhoods. They're not in the city,
and so what is happening in these areas in terms
of you know, crime numbers can be quantified.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
It can be quantified. So all right, you'll know there
that friends, this is a professional broadcasters segue. See how
I went city and county talking about the jurisdictions with
regard to law enforcement. But in reality there's a little
bit of a battle brewing. Now that's getting a little
spicier between the city and the county.

Speaker 8 (38:15):
Well, I think, yeah, so look, you know the two
major issues of local government are responsibilities priorities is public safety,
and you start talking about law enforcement and fire. Right,
So we just talked about the crime numbers, which which
don't give you a real sense of confidence over the
last two or three months, and you know, you got
bolts flying around on the interstate.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
You know, you got sexual batteries in areas where you normally.

Speaker 8 (38:36):
Don't have them. So you start likeking, wait, what do
we do? What's going on here? And so then you
move over to the fire services, and you've got an
all out war between the city and the county.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Okay, and so.

Speaker 8 (38:45):
Now remind everybody where this started. Yeah, So the city
provides fire services. The county has contracted with the city.
They agree to pay it. The city is the one
that sets the rates basically, and now the county has
had you know, they've and you could argue there's a
little policy here, but at the same time, their rates
are supposed to be adjusted every five years due to
some issues they have tried to they the city has said, look,

(39:08):
we need more money now, we can't wait till five years,
And the county has basically fought this and now they're
looking at you know, there's talk about them buying stations,
fire stations that are in the county and running their
own fire department, which is ludicrous to I mean, it's
just this is again about grown adults that can't get

(39:31):
together on a major priority in the community.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
So we can fight about.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
Some other things like where parks should be, right, we're
talking about fire and so who's to blame? Look, you know,
you know voters are going to have to decide that.
But if we are under one government, you know, if
it was under if we were consolidated, which we are,
we're supposed that was supposed to be sort of a
form of consolidation, right because you have one one government
providing all fire services in the county. Subcon's contracting in there.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
So that is one of the issues. But if you
look at the county.

Speaker 8 (40:03):
There's a charter amendment review coming up, and the county
is moving forward with an item that would take away
some of the authority of the city. There they when
the charter was set up, they gave the city or
that ordinances some I guess some authority to supersede county laws. Well,
the county now is looking to take that back. In
a four to three vote, they're like, oh, we want

(40:26):
to put this.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's rare in the county.

Speaker 8 (40:27):
It is, and that goes to show you how much
of an issue this is. In a four to three vote,
they're looking at putting that on the charter next year,
that were the county laws will supersed superseded city laws.
And so this is just an ongoing battle and I
think this is you know, time for some leaders in
this community to say, wait a minute, we need to

(40:47):
start looking at consolidation. We don't need this, so we're
seeing it, you know, we're seeing it in some areas
of law enforcement, definitely seeing it on fire service fees.
And then you know, the blueprint thing is in an
indication of some things that have gone awry. So we
need to start looking at maybe you know a different
way of implementing some of these top priorities.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
In local government. And we know you're covering it. Yes,
thank you, Steve. We've got more to come with Steve
Stewart Tallasse Reports remember Tallahassee Reports dot com. We are

(41:34):
literally tip of the iceberging today. I mean, all of
these stories have so much more beneath the surface. They're
just every one of these stories significant impactful to your life.
If you live in and around the capital city, and
if you don't live in and around the capital city,
you're listening to us in other areas, other parts of

(41:55):
the state, other parts of the country. These are issues
that you should be aware of that are going on
in your community and in our community. Steve, one of
the biggest issues, one of the most contentious issues from
time to time is the comprehensive plan.

Speaker 8 (42:10):
It didn't used to be that way, no, and you know,
things get in the weeds, and this is the sort
of our job to bring it up to so people
can say, oh, yeah, this makes this makes sense and
it's just like what we.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Talked about with the charter review.

Speaker 8 (42:20):
And who would have known about this four to three
vote right, this is this gets right at how you're governed,
and that's a big fight that's going on. The other
one is another three to two vote for the city
to send in their comprehensive that you guess the three
to two go ahead, a three to two vote on
you know, how you regulate growth in the community. And

(42:41):
the big thing here is the USA the Urban Services Area,
and what that allows is, you know, it's basically a
circle drawn around the county and here the City of
Talise to where you're going to be able to provide developers,
people who are building out, you know, homes, commercial developments
are going to be able to say, all right, look,
this is in the USA. So that means I'm going

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to have access to central water and sewer, which is
a big deal because that is its environmental issue. You know,
back in the day you know, you used to be
able to build put septic tanks exactly, and so now
what you want to do is get the USA and
then you sort of fill that in with development, understanding
that you're going to have central water and sewer. And

(43:22):
so what this comp plant tried to do was, first
of all, increase more infill.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
They we've talked about that.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
That ran into some some debate because you got people
in neighborhoods downtown that don't don't want infill, right, they
like what they've got, you know. And one of the
other issues was expanding the USA to include thousands of
acres on the north side of town around Lake Jackson.
So we're talking northwest exactly. And the issue here is

(43:48):
that is a big track of land out there that
was partly in the USA. And so the owner of
that land said, look, you know, if I can get
central water and sewer to you know, the first five
hundred acres, why can't they get it to the.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
The rest of the land that I own.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
And so they went ahead and changed the USA progressives
with bananas, okay, because they don't want any development and
so on the comp plan, does that include the county
commission at all. Yes, the County Commission also, they and
this is where it gets a little bit complicated. They've
they've gone, they've already transmitted what their changes are, and
the city has their own authority over regulating what's within

(44:25):
you know, what's within their purview, and so they'll have
to get together at some point and we'll see how
that goes. But this was voted three to two to
go ahead and send it to the state for approval.
Of state has got some jurisdiction over this also. But
the bigger thing again is this including the USA. And
it's an interesting debate because you hear a lot about
environmentalists in our community and so but they're they're faced

(44:49):
with this choice of do we expand the USA, which
guarantees no more septic tanks than any development that's approved
therefore is good for the environment, or do we fight
that and not extend the USA with the idea that
you know, there could be lawsuits because we want to
develop and then they develop and they're starting to use
septic tanks or whatever, and so this is a very

(45:09):
interesting debate. The city voted to go ahead and extend
the USA, and you know the other thing I want
to say about this, and you hear people get up
and you know, the people that are very emotional about this,
and they talk about, you know, unbridled growth. And if
you look at our recent reports on jobs, single family permits,

(45:30):
we are not, you know, we are not a city
that is experiencing record growth. And I think that that's
another thing to understand. Now you see some of these
projects being built. You look at the Willani development, it's
almost like they're just keeping up with just standard growth.
And right now, over the last three or four months,
if you look at some of the numbers, we were

(45:51):
really sort of regressing. And I don't know how they'll
look for the whole year, but jobs are down, permits
are down. We're starting to see old foundly a single
family pricing start to level off. And so that would
be more of a concern than actually, you know, making
sure that there's places to develop that are going to
be on central water and sewer.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
It's not really on topic, it's just maybe related because
you brought up Lake Jackson. Yes, what about Lake Jackson?
Lake Jackson used to be an iconic asset to this community.
And though I've seen projects over the years, dredging and
all of that stuff. It's really not much of one.

Speaker 8 (46:30):
Now, you know, there was that now that was brought
up and I think that that is on the county side,
and the city took a little bit of shot at
the county about Lake Jackson. Is again funny you should
bring us up. D were you watching the meeting by engine? Now,
So the county has well, that's jurisdiction. That's in the
that is in that's not in the city, right.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
And so how so the city is the property around
Lake Jackson, but not Lake Jackson.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
Because who provides who provides the urban services?

Speaker 1 (46:57):
The city does.

Speaker 8 (46:58):
So there's the again you're you know, there's this interactions
that's got to be between the city and the county
because the way our local government is set up, and
they're fighting with each other right now.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
So the Lake Jackson itself, the water and the lake
in the city is county, but everything around it's the city.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
Well there, when you start talking about urban services area,
you've got to involve the city because they're the ones
I get it, and so they've got to get along
and they've got to be on the same page and
they're not.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Right now, Well, I know, is I can't fish there,
neither can many other people. All right, Steve, thank you,
Thank you, President Steve Stewart. Tallassi Reports again. Subscribe Tellassi
Reports dot Com.

Speaker 7 (47:53):
Him as your uncle, Preston the relative you actually enjoy
having around and not just a holidays. This is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Would you trust Hamas in the deal with Israel? Or
has a Moss reached a breaking point because they've watched
so many of their senior leaders get killed. I need
to I feel a need to constantly remind, which I
do from time to time posting on our ex page.

(48:47):
When you pick a fight with a bully, Let's back
it around. If a bully picks a fight with you,
the bully doesn't get to choose how or when it ends.
When you start beating the crap out of them, that's

(49:08):
up to you. You choose when to end that fight.
He started it. Hamas started this with an unprecedented terrorist
act against innocent civilians, not military targets. And so if

(49:34):
this peace deal works, and it's a twenty point piece
plan that has multiple stages, and in their statement, Hamas
is lecturing everybody about what Israel better do, Let's remember
there is one group of people that have talked for

(49:54):
centuries abouting eliminate, eating Israel from the face of the earth.
So forgive me if I'm not just a little skeptical
that Hamas is going to honor this. They have to demilitarize,
they have to step down from power. They cannot have

(50:15):
any say or impact in the operation of the area
if Israel pulls out, which they are allegedly going to
do in response to collecting all of the arms. You know,
I mean I don't know all the specifics because they
haven't been released, and I don't even know of the

(50:37):
specifics that will be released if we will be privy
to all of them. I appreciate that. You know, if
you're a victim and you have a loved one that's
been held hostage, First of all, remember there are dead
bodies here. I understand the celebratory nature of this with
a I mean, I'm not in those shoes. I can

(51:00):
only imagine how horrific it would be to know your
loved ones were being starved, tortured, perhaps raped. But I
just I think it's important for all of us to
applaud any progress that is made, but be very, very
sober minded and realistic about the likelihood of this being

(51:24):
walked to the finish line. There has to be an
independent group governing that cannot involve Hamas Israel agrees to
not expand settlements into Gaza, we'll see. Dredath Thunberg used

(51:49):
an image of a starving Israeli hostage to post about
the Palestinian suffering. She posted a hostage and claimed it
was a Palestinian She didn't know. The moral there is
be careful what you believe. And the last big story

(52:11):
in the press box after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Texas is
launching an undercover war against Clantifa. They're going to infiltrate it.
And doesn't that change who you invite into the group
if you're a Clantifa. I'm just telling you paranoia is
going to be at epic levels and I love it.

(52:31):
Forty minutes past the hour, doctor David Hart's standing by
some optimum health naturally is waiting for you next WUFLA.
Forty one minutes after the hour, Doctor David Harts joins
us a couple times each month to talk about our health,

(52:54):
but we want to do it through the lens of
natural remedies. Things that will address causes, not symptoms so much.
And joining us this morning, doctor David Hart's good morning, sir.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
How are you good morning, Pressed, And I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I find this topic fascinating because people often pay great
attention to the genetic gene pool as it relates to
their health outcomes. What what what are we learning about
the role that genetics play in our health?

Speaker 2 (53:27):
You know, Pressed? And this is becoming a more and
more issue and a subject because in medicine they're starting
to use more and more genetics to try to predict,
you know, what we're going to be expressing as far
as diseases in our lifetime and so forth, and and
it is important we can get some information from gene x.
But one of the problems with this is, like, let's

(53:50):
use Alzheimer's. There's an APO E four gene that they're
running a lot now on people. And once you have this,
it's it's it's really a you know, a doomsday diagnosis,
and they basically send you home just to have it
and they just monitor it. And there's something called MTHF

(54:10):
FAR which has to do with methylation, which increases your
chances of cardiovasc disease and other diseases that you don't
detox as well, of course bracco, which we know about
with cancer, and these are all being run and the
problem is is that they're not telling people that your
DNA isn't a dictator. It's a library of possible endings,

(54:30):
and your daily choices are the narrator, which actually affect
how those things are expressed. And so what we're actually
saying to people is that because you have this, you're
going to get it. And that's not necessarily so. We
for many years thought that our genetic genome was a
distant was written in concrete that when we found out

(54:52):
we had this, we were going to get it. We'll find
out that there's tremendous different things that affect the ability
of this to actually ma manifest a disease in our body.
And see, carrying a genetic variant let me call them snips,
is not the same as expressing the disease. Right, you
can carry the gene, but it may not be expressed

(55:14):
in any way, shape or forming. And what causes these
genes to be expressed is what's really really important. And now,
of course the fact that they're there does increase the
chances and there's no doubt about that. But it does
not automatically assume that you're going to get it. It's
not a forked one conclusion that just because you have it.
There's something called epigenetics, which really is very very important.

(55:37):
It's what genes tendencies, they're not destinies, and what matters
is whether our surrounding environment, the diet, the toxins distressed,
all the things we've talked about for years and years
on the segment, those are what really affects how it's expressed.
So the things that we do like trying to eat clean,
try to stay away from inflammatory foods like sugar and

(55:58):
so forth. Things we've talked about for years, these things
are really really important because they affect how our genes
are expressed.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Tell me this is this why there's suddenly I say
suddenly and obviously almost in parentheses, there's so much attention
being paid to immunotherapies for all kinds of things triggering
our own immune system. The way God set us up
to start helping us with all manner of disease is

(56:25):
the immune system sort of an important factor in all
of this.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Oh, it absolutely is. And you know our immune system
is affected by orogen X, but it's also extremely affected
by these different factors that we talk about all the time.
And the killer T cells have become a big you know,
you know, topic of you know, thought and research at
this point, and they're extremely surely important. So all these

(56:51):
things affect our body's ability to kill a cancer cell
before whatever produces something that is a tumor or causes
a problem that's life threatening, and so we got to
get things small, We got to look at the big picture.
We can't just be looking at one individual factor or
a test and then trying to wait for it to
manifest and then treat it as a pathology. I mean,

(57:11):
that's all good, but keeping it from ever occurring, or
just keeping a body that can keep you healthy is
much more I think effective, and it works a lot
better in the long run.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
So whatever the gene pool may be, it's not necessarily
a determined destination for your health exactly.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
That's exactly correct. We have an effect upon it, and
if we keep working on it and doing the things
that we can to actually keep the bodies ability and
the immune system high, as you say, is extremely extremely important.
Epigenetics is a library to sides which books are open,
and which stay closed, and how loudly they're read, and
so we can affect.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
That good stuff. Doctor Hearts, Thanks for the time. We'll
talk again in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Okay, Preston, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Thank you, sir. Doctor David Hart's with US forty seven
Past the Hour Ning Show with Preston Scott. Do you
understand the words that are coming.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
Out of my mouth?

Speaker 1 (58:11):
On News Radio one seven USLA.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
Nerveless, pick up the.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Kids, get fin out, and get on the road. Road
trip suggestions here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
continuing a series that I just found a great diversion
from the typical trip suggestions, even though there's so many
good ones, and we normally come up with a little

(58:52):
out of the way places, little spots along the road
that you wouldn't know about unless you heard about it
on the show. Although as even though I say that
all the time when I talk about these little off
the beaten path spots, someone listening has been there and
maybe recently and sends me pictures. It's crazy. The spread

(59:16):
of this show never ceases to amaze me. We have
people traveling, driving, we had truckers across the fruited plane
listening to this program, which, by the way, if you're
listening outside the radio broadcast area of South Georgia, the
Big Bend and Panhandle, send me an email where you're

(59:37):
listening to me from on iHeartRadio. Just send it to
president at iHeartRadio dot com. Tell me how you found
us and why you listen. I'd love to hear from you.
But we've gone through eleven dude ranches. We're in the
midst of the eleven Dude Ranches for a Western inspired getaway.

(59:58):
And so we've traveled through Idaho and Colorado and California
and Utah and New Mexico. And this one is Marfa, Texas,
the Cibolo Creek Ranch. I bet they've got some great
merch And this is a Sobolo Creek ranch. Yes, Brados,

(01:00:22):
I've come through here. Now it's really it. I look
at this place and it's one of the oldest ranches
in Texas and it sits in the foothills of the
Chinnati Mountains. You can go horseback, you can go atv
going back to the mid eighteen hundreds, is this ranch

(01:00:43):
thirty thousand acres, thirty thousand acres in the heart of
a Big Bend country Big Bend as in Texas Native
American rock art. You can tour the on site museum.
You can see the dazzling Marfa Lights, a mysterious phenomenon

(01:01:05):
of luminous orbs that can be seen near the desert
town of Marfaoo. Then there's the Ranch at Rock Creek
in Phillipsburg, Montana. If you've never been to Montana, okay,
be careful of if you go to like you know,

(01:01:26):
Old Faithful and those parks, don't get off the paths,
stay on the boardwalks, don't approach the buffalo. They will
kill you. And grizzly bears can run faster than you
buy a lot. I'm just saying, ah, just I'm telling you.

(01:01:47):
But Montana is spectacular in its beauty. This particular ranch
remodeled nineteenth century barn National Park inspired lodge, a charming
log abode. You can glamp in a cabin and it's
been recognized. Listen to this the Ranch at Rock Creek.

(01:02:09):
Forbes Travel Guide five star award this for a dude ranch.
It is a historic homestead preserved in the spirit of
the Old West Western Montana. So there you go. Those
are my suggestions. Rody's I've got another week of dude

(01:02:30):
ranch suggestions. But when we come back, he is the
new Florida Commissioner of Education. Anastasio'skimutz Us Commissioner of Education,
joins us for ten good minutes. Next here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, friends, good morning, ruminators,

(01:03:00):
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, males and females only.
It is the third hour of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. I am Preston, he is Jose. It is
Show five thousand, four hundred and sixty nine. But who's counting?
Please dab with us for the first time. The new
Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State, Anastasio Kamutsas Commissioner,

(01:03:24):
How are.

Speaker 9 (01:03:24):
You, Good morning, Preston, Thank you so much for having
me on your show this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Hey, my pleasure. Give everybody just a quick little biographical sketch.
How did you get to the Commissioner of Education? Desk
oh Well, first.

Speaker 9 (01:03:38):
And foremost, by God's grace. It's been amazing the doors
that have been opened up for me throughout my career.
Went to Regent University School of Wall Conservative Christian law School.
From there, I went down to Miami to be a
prosecutor my hometown. Did that for a couple of years,
represented police officers a couple of years after that, and
then Richard Corkoran brought me up here to the Department

(01:03:59):
of Education, where I served in the General Council's Office.
I eventually ascended to General Council, became the chief of Staff,
went over to the Governor's office. That was Deputy chief
of Staff to the Governor over education, amongst many other
agencies in my portfolio for a couple of years. And
then when Many Diaz was selected to be the president
at the University of West Florida, I was recommended by

(01:04:21):
the governor and unanimously selected by the State Board of
Education to be the Commissioner of Education.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
That is no small honor when you were chosen. What
was your first reaction?

Speaker 9 (01:04:35):
Incredibly humbled. It was really awesome to see at the
State Board of Education meeting folks who spoke on my
behalf and not just for my career here in Tallahassee,
but I had my pastor's wife who knew me as
a twelve year old kid, that talked about how I
got to this point in life, and so it was
really remarkable. And she was a thirty year plus public

(01:04:58):
school teacher in Miami. A great perspective to share as
both someone that had tremendous influence over my life but
also who had intimate familiarity with our education system.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
I'm curious, you know, unless you're the very first commissioner
of education for a state, you're always picking up or
somebody else left off. So when you walk into that office,
are there sticky notes? Is there a whiteboard? I mean,
where do you begin to kind of assess priorities?

Speaker 9 (01:05:29):
Sure, I'd say, look, I don't think I ever really
left the Department of Education, even though I was at
the Governor's office and I was balancing quite a few agencies.
Education has always been my passion. I've always remained intimately
familiar with the issues that have been taking place here
at the department. I know the staff by name at
a building that has, you know, hundreds of employees, because

(01:05:51):
I know the folks and the great work they're doing
here and the impact that they're having across the state.
And so I was always very close with mission or
man ideas. I was as chief of staff and maintained
that close relationship over in the Governor's office, and so
I was pretty surprised of all the issues it was.
It was an easy thing to come in and pick
up the reins and keep it moving.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
One of the first things that you've kind of pushed
out of your office is something that you know, people
might see the initials FCD. I not know what Florida
Civics and Debate Initiative is all about, So break it
down for us.

Speaker 9 (01:06:26):
Yeah, No, the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative was, you know,
is an amazing program champion by Governor DeSantis where all
sixty seven of our school districts are participating in civic
dialogue and it really is an amazing opportunity for students
to not just argue one side, but to argue both

(01:06:47):
sides of an issue. And the Governor talks about this
frequently of how important it is that students understand that
there are always two perspectives of an issue, and we
have to respectfully approach you know, debate and and civic
discourse with individuals in a respectful manner so that you
are appreciating different perspectives. It doesn't necessarily mean, you have

(01:07:08):
to adopt those opinions, but you do want to encourage
in our students and appreciation from multiple perspectives.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
And this is going to be a competition that statewide
and it culminates with an awarding of a trophy. And
tell us about the naming of the trophy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Yeah, so we're.

Speaker 9 (01:07:27):
Naming the Civics and Debate Championship Trophy after Charlie Kirk
to honor his legacy of courage and conviction in the
public square. I think this shows students that true leadership
is about standing boldly for your ideas even in the
face of opposition, not tearing others down with cruelty or
reckless words. And so by attaching Charlie Kirk's name to

(01:07:49):
this award, I think we remind every competitor that debate
is about strength of character, respect for others, and the
responsibility we all share to preserve republic. His legacy will
inspire Florida students to lead with passion, principle, and respect,
which I believe are qualities that our death, our nation
desperately needs right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Now, no kidding. Anastasio kmutzas Stasi is Commissioner of Education
for the Sunshine state stays with us just another few
minutes here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (01:08:29):
He is Florida's Commissioner of Education.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Anastasios Kimutsis. I want to follow up on that Charlie
Kirk reference and I think the appropriate naming of the
trophy dealing with civics and dialogue. A local school board
member here Stassy Darryl Jones with the Leon County School
Board posted this on his social media before deleting it,

(01:08:53):
and it was the problem is that the Commissioner of Education,
from his lofty position, found it necessary to inform entire
profession that it should not comment on the murder of
a racist, misogynist, homophobic clansmen in negative terms. Now, I'm
gonna just set aside the foolishness of the comment itself

(01:09:13):
because it's uneducated, but the fact that he has not
apologized or been called to account for that as it
references teachers being held accountable for the posts that they
make relative to the murder and assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Your thoughts on this and this guy remaining on the
school board without an apology, Well.

Speaker 9 (01:09:34):
Thank you for the question. Unfortunately, we have repeatedly had
to call out school board officials across Florida for posting
reckless comments about public figures, including our president, Charlie Kirk,
and even our own governor. These are not slip ups,
These are not casual remarks. They are toxic, irresponsible, and

(01:09:56):
corrosive to the public trust. School board members are elected
to prote hecked children and serve families. When they indulge
in this kind of behavior, they betray that trust, They
create division, and they make students feel unsafe. I was
just at a Latchua County school board meeting where another
school board member made a similar reckless remark that had to,

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you know, reference the sparcon comments of Charlie Kirk and
his funeral service, but referenced him as an uneducated white boy.
And it just has no place in our school system.
It is divisive language that now may alienates an entire
population of students, of parents, of quite frankly employees of

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the school district. And so, you know, it's been problematic,
and we've seen it not just in school board members,
but we've seen it in teachers. In Clay County, there
was a teacher who openly celebrated Charlie Kirk's death on
social social media. We investigated that case. I found probable cause,
but that kind of conduct shows gross and morale of

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the and reduced effectiveness. Her statement was that it wasn't
the obituary she was hoping for, but it was a
close second for her, and it was attached to an
article that said Charlie Kirk had been assassinated on a
school campus. And so when teachers or school board members
cross that line, you know, to the extent we can
hold them accountable, we will. Teachers who are celebrating these

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tragedies are dangerous to children, quite frankly, as you're supposed
to be. These are supposed to be the role models
in the classrooms. Young impressionable minds are seeing educators that
they look up to post these statements because these posts
are going viral, unfortunately, and it's just not the kind
of message that we want to send to our students.

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There should never be the glorification of a school shooter
or a school shooting, and so on our watch, we're
going to make sure that there are consequences to pay
as a result of those statements.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
What if anything should happen to a school board member,
whether they you know, leave it posted or not. They
don't issue a retraction or a public apology. So what
does accountability mean there?

Speaker 9 (01:12:05):
I think the greatest accountability is going to be on
the voters. I think they need to understand that this
individual does not have the best interests of our students
or our teachers when they're making their public service about themselves.
This is a selfish act that's intended to draw attention
to themselves. Where our school board member Daniel folk Or
excusing our State Board of Education member Daniel fog and

(01:12:26):
Holy said it best that these are individuals who are
seeking attention by making these social media posts and not
retracting their apologies because they're gaining media coverage, and in
their minds, I think they think it's an opportunity for
them to chase the next political career opportunity for themselves.
It's not student focus, it's not parent focus or teacher focused,

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and as a result, districts are suffering negative consequences and
negative media coverage because one individual is making this issue
about themselves as opposed to unifying the student and trying
to direct them towards some positivity that can result from
such a horrific tragedy. And that's what we tried to
do with the Florida Civics and Debate initiative by naming

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the trophy after Charlie Kirk because he was a champion
for civic discourse and open dialogue, a champion for the
First Amendment and the importance of respecting other ideas, not
taking it upon ourselves to engage in violent acts with
those we disagree with.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
I know you got a role, but just to follow
up and put a bow on this particular topic, Commissioner,
But what if the board member is not just a
school board member elected, but is in fact an employee
of one of the municipalities.

Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
Well, look, I mean I don't know from our standpoint
that that would make a difference. I mean, I have
regulatory authority with a teap for a teaching certificate. So
if it's a school board member that has a teaching
certificate and there's a behavior that they engage in that
is thankable, then I would be able to investigate and
take action on that. But you know, as far as
a municipal employee, look, I mean, obviously I work in

(01:14:08):
the world of administrative law, but labor and employment law
has different standards, and sure you know, ultimately, if you're
a poor representative of your employer, then employers should and
you know, are encouraged to take action because it's a
reflection on the work that they provide.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
Fair enough, Commissioner, look forward to having your back on
the program whenever you like. Thanks for the time to day.

Speaker 9 (01:14:28):
Thank you, Preston, have a great one. Job blessed.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Nostasios Kamutsis. He is the Commissioner of Education for Florida.
I don't know if Vince Long, the county administrator for
Leon County, caught that, but it's on you now. I
don't necessarily think he needs to lose his job. I
do think he needs to be told to apologize, retract
the statement publicly, or lose your job. But he's paid

(01:14:51):
for he's he's an employee of taxpayers, not just as
an elected official as a school board member, but for
the county, Daryl Jones is an embarrassment and the school
board needs to summon the courage. The rest of the
school board, Rosemary Wood, Marcus Nicholas, Lori Cox, Alva Striplan,

(01:15:15):
and the superintendent. They need to demand a public apology,
or they need to sanction him in some former fashion.
Eighteen minutes past the hour. My apologies to Alva. It's

(01:15:39):
Alva Swapford Smith had a name change. I knew her
as Alva stripland so my mistake. My apologies. But they
need to collectively summon their courage and their decency. Can't

(01:16:00):
just ignore that. Oh it's just no. He didn't retract
the statement. He just pulled it down because he's embarrassed,
and he should be. It's an uneducated statement from an
allegedly educated man. I know, doctor Marcus Nicholas. He's vice chair,

(01:16:26):
Laurie Cox's chair. What are you doing You're in charge.
Demand a public apology. The myth about Charlie Kirk is
being blown up at every turn by people of color.

(01:16:51):
Shame on you, Terrell Jones, Shame on you. That is
the exact rhetoric that got Charlie Kirk killed. That kind
of crap. Take it down, Preston, No, I will not.

(01:17:14):
He is a school board member. He is supposed to
represent everybody if he's dumb enough to believe soundbites instead
of really looking into the content and what Charlie Kirk believed.
Listen to Van Jones, Daryl, how do you expect him

(01:17:35):
to represent students, teachers, staff that think like Charlie, that
love Jesus, that believe in dialogue and debate. He is
not fit for office. And when will the school board

(01:18:02):
stand up and say no? I don't know if all
of you've heard that are on the school board that
allegedly love Jesus, you know, sometimes you got to turn
over some tables, you call it out for what it

(01:18:22):
is and quit playing nice about this stuff. Truth light
illumination is the best disinfectant. Darryl Jones tried to hide

(01:18:43):
this without apologizing for it. I applaud him for taking
it down, but he needs to apologize. He needs to
say I was wrong, and yes he is wrong. He
was wrong, not just for this ridiculous post that that

(01:19:08):
slanders and libels actually in written form libels Charlie Kirk
and the fact of the facts about who he was.
Just go online, Darryl, just spend more than a minute.
If I'm the Leon County school Board at this point,

(01:19:30):
I'm embarrassed, and you ought to be. Don't write me letters,
don't write me emails. Well you know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
deal with it. And if you don't, shame on you.
Twenty eight minutes after the hour. No, I'm not sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:19:56):
Let's just start with the presumption that he's right. It
works around here. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 10 (01:20:18):
You gotta do what you gotta do, doing your keeping
your head on a twivel. You got to just address
the things that come your way. Baby, That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Yeah, getting a lot of emails saying way to go. Look,
it's it's it just pains me, it just does. There
are some positions you're not I mean, you literally cannot
take political positions because you you have students and parents

(01:21:00):
and staff that represent every part of the political spectrum.
You root out the violent extremists, the people that celebrate
the murder of people because of a philosophical viewpoint. Yeah,
those teachers need to be fired. This isn't hard anyway.

(01:21:28):
To quote the Reese's Peanut butter Cup commercial. Sorry, not sorry, no,
not sorry. Hamas accepting the peace plan, We'll see. I
hate to be Debbie Downer. And by the way, I'm
sorry for all the debies out there. You know, I

(01:21:49):
think it was just started however many generations ago as
an alliterative tool Debbie Downer. But I just I don't
think this is going to go to the finish line.

(01:22:11):
I'm letting history be my predictor. But I'm hopeful and
I believe in praying for the peace of Jerusalem. My
prayers at all would come to know Jesus. That's where

(01:22:33):
true peace comes. But the Hamas agreeing to the plan
of ending the two year war, Oh, I wouldn't call
it that. I would It's not a war. It was
a terrorist attack and retribution. It was a response. I
don't believe that's a war. I mean, would you call

(01:22:53):
it a war? What Hamas did is that an act
of war, as a terrorist attack, and with that comes
a reckoning, comes retribution. I don't call that a war,
but whatever. Greta Thunberg uses the image of a starving

(01:23:17):
Israeli in a post about Palestinian suffering. That insufferable little
brat posted a photo of an Israeli being held hostage
and starving to death, digging his own grave as an
example of Israeli torture of hamasent Ter and Palestinians. It's

(01:23:40):
literally an Israeli the family's beside itself and putting a
bow on the big stories. Today, Texas is launching an
undercover war on Clantifa. I love it. I love it,

(01:24:01):
and I love it the paranoia that is now going
to exist in this group, perhaps all over the country,
but absolutely in Texas. Even if Texas isn't doing it,

(01:24:21):
they're just doing a little psychological propaganda war. Bring it,
bring it. That is next level psyops. And I love it.
I absolutely love it. Can you tell that I love it?
Forty one minutes after the hour, we come back. We're
going to define.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
Poof Red Morning Show with Preston Scott Goo on News
Radio one hundred point seven Double USLA.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
If you don't know the name Katie Porter, video obtained
by Politico released yesterday shows the California Democratic gubernatorial candidate
former US congresswoman I think she served three terms, ran
for Senate, got beat by Adam Schiff. She's a DEM.

(01:25:29):
She's a way way weird left DEM. She is seen
speaking with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about energy and climate issues.
At one point, a staff member of hers walked into
the frame of the shot. Porter snaps on the live

(01:25:57):
shot and says, get out of my effing shot. She
scolded the staff member for having been in the shot before, saying,
you were in my shot before that, stay out of

(01:26:18):
my shot. It was edited out of the Department of
Energy's final version of the webinar because they didn't want
to embarrass a fellow lefty that was at the time,
Jennifer Granholm. But now we have this, that's twenty twenty one.

(01:26:44):
She hasn't matured. She's sitting down doing an interview with
CBS News investigative journalist Julie Watts asked if she needs
to appeal or if she can appeal to the millions

(01:27:06):
of Trump voters in California. Ye, this is how the
exchange goes. I can't air it. It's she said. Porter said,
how would I need them in order to win?

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Ma'am?

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
First of all, CBS is your friend, lady girl. This
is safe harbor for you. What are you doing picking
a fight with a CBS investigative reporter. Well, the reporter
wants to her credit, says, well, unless you think you're
gonna get sixty percent of the vote, And then porter said,

(01:27:48):
so you don't need them to win? Porter said, I
feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. I don't want to
keep doing this. I'm gonna call it. You're not going
to do the interview, said Watts as porter removes her microphone. Nope,
not like this. I'm not not with seven follow ups

(01:28:08):
to every single question you ask. When Wats reminded porter
that every candidate had answered the question, she said, I
don't care. I don't want to have unhappy experience with you.
I don't want this on camera at all, except that
it was it was on camera. Here's the here's the

(01:28:36):
lingering lesson here, this is the Left. If you don't
play by their rules, ask the questions they want with
no follow up. If they don't answer your question, poof,
they're gone, they're out, or they're attacking you, watching you.

(01:29:00):
You've seen some of the Charlie Kirk videos. People that
walk up to talk to Charlie open mic and they
start with needless profanities T shirt saying f you Charlie Kirk,
and he goes, oh wait, wait, why are you walking away?
Come on, let's talk. Sometimes they go okay, okay, fine, fine,

(01:29:23):
sniffling little brats. Others they go no, no, bleep, you
bleep you fingerfinger finger finger, and it's like, this.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
Is it, this is this is what the left does.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
They don't want to have substantive debate because their ideas
are bankrupt. They don't work. I and yes, I will
be a broken record on this point. You all need
to carry that around and share it as you're apologetic.

(01:29:55):
The left won't engage in thoughtful debate and reflection. Well,
let's consider that. I'll listen to a Democrat all day long.
If they're respectful, I don't have to agree and guess what.
We can shake hands, smile and go have lunch. But

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the left doesn't do that. The left divides families. The
left divides businesses. The left divides, divides, divides, divides, divides,
And might I point out who is the author of division?
Could it be? I don't know?

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
Say ten?

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
Yeah, forty eight minutes past? Come back? Got another record
to share, that's right, another Guinness record has been broken.
Don't have much time here to share. We gotta go.

(01:30:58):
But Australian body broke a Guinness World record stood for
nearly a decade when she completed seven hundred and thirty
three pull ups in one hour. Thirty two year old
Jade Henderson averaged more than twelve pull ups a minute
to break the record. I've seen a picture. This woman

(01:31:22):
is jacked. Now, I'm gonna be the first one to
tell you, I'm not down with that look. I'm not
down with that look on men. I'm not down with
that look on women. It's fine to be fit in tone,
I'm not. I get it. The I'm the best version
of me I can be right now, Okay, working at it,
but that that physique. When I say this woman is jacked,

(01:31:46):
I mean, OMG, jacked. But let's set that aside. Seven
hundred and thirty three pull ups in one hour. That
is staggering.

Speaker 11 (01:32:00):
Brought to you by Baron No Heating and Air. It's
the Morning Show on WFLA. My goodness, gracious, what a
show today was. I mean, they're all good, you know,
this was. This was like a plus material today, top

(01:32:26):
to bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Man starting with God's Word first, John one one nine, incredible,
great versus scripture, good little devotional start to the day.
My thanks to Steve Stewart, doctor David Herts, Anastasios Kimutsus,
the Commissioner of Education. Good ten minutes with him. I mean,

(01:32:50):
my goodness, gracious, what a show. What a show covered
the Israeli Jimasteel, Hey, we'll see. I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful. Look,
the piece deal is not going to rise or fall
on what I think, and what I think is largely

(01:33:14):
that I I don't know about it. But I will pray.
That's all I can do, right, I will pray. Talked
about a few other things. Did not get to everything
on the list, but we got to a lot of it.

(01:33:37):
Greta Thunberg embarrasses herself yet again, Texas going after Clantifa
saying we will infiltrate it. That statement alone is going
to mess with their heads and I love it. Tomorrow
Drone Wars Best and Worst of the Week, and of

(01:33:58):
course your calls during What's Beef cannout Wait. Friends, have
an awesome day, Be blessed,