Ep. 5484: Bill Gates does a 145 on climate change.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Turning Point USA. Event at all miss yesterday, better than
ten thousand showed up, acted, love it. It's not going away.
Friends one and welcome to the Thursday edition of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, Impressed and his Jose And
this is pretty cool I've got I've shared with you before.

(00:39):
I have two devotionals on my phone. They're not really devotionals,
they're just scriptures where one gives you a scripture of
the day and another gives you a scripture the day.
And they're from very different places, not theologically, but just
in terms of different apps. Right, picked up the one

(01:01):
and we're going to the Old Testament Malachi thirteen thirty sorry,
Malachi three thirteen through seventeen, and the heading is Israel
speaks arrogantly against God. You have spoken arrogantly against me,
says the Lord. Yet you ask what have we said

(01:23):
against you? You have said it is futile to serve God.
What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and
going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now
we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper. And even
even when they put God to the test, they get
away with it. It ends with verse sixteen, where it says,

(01:48):
than those who feared the Lord talked with each other,
and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance
was written in his presence concerning those who feared the
Lord honored his name. Now that's Old Testament Malachi the
exact day, October thirtieth. In my other devotional romans five

(02:11):
to one. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Those verses connect beautifully Old Testament. You've got this view
of the way that many to this day view God.

(02:36):
Look at that. Those people, those evil people, they get
away with this stuff. They're getting rich and they're doing this,
and they're doing that. We look at Congress, Look at Congress,
a bunch of cheaters.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
They're getting away with it.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
They're not getting away with anything, friends, nothing. You watch,
We're not going to prosecute any of these people. They'll
get away with No, they won't. We are looking, and
I fall guilty to it as well. We fall guilty
to looking at things through the temporal lens of this

(03:09):
side of eternity. We want our pound of flesh. See,
we want payback.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
None of that matters.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, we're gonna keep advocating for fairness and justice and righteousness,
and we're gonna continue to advocate for those that can't.
We're gonna we're gonna continue to fight for the things
of God. Sure, but but you can't let it derail
you to the point where you just throw your hands
up in disgust and forget that God is just. And
he says here, since we've been justified, we haven't. We're

(03:44):
not justified by things we do, things we say, good
deeds and works. We're justified by faith in Christ. Because
he reconciles us with God. He makes all things right

(04:07):
between you and God, between me and God. It's amazing
to me how these two verses, separated by thousands of years,

(04:31):
the very least hundreds of years, speak harmoniously about God.
And oh, by the way, tucked in those verses and
Malachi is this, he's listening and he's a watcher. Can

(04:54):
pass the hour Thursdays, Man, he just I told those
when we came in here. It's like, man, we got
another Thursday. Hope you're buckled in, my friends, get yourself
something to sip on, maybe some toast, or a bagel
or some eggs or some cereal. It's gonna be fun
this morning here on the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Scott, listening to the M a D Radio Network, where
you're challenged to make a difference each and every day.
Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(05:41):
Before we get to this date in history, Jose and
I have a system.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
And we kind of have taken the soccer yellow card
red card thing and if something you know, we've got
we've got very high standards we set for ourselves and
so if something goes wrong on the program, we give
ourselves a red card. And we have a little board

(06:07):
in Jose's studio that says X number of days since
the last dumpster fire, and it's a it's got a
cartoon drawing of a dumpster on fire, laughing and and so,
you know, we had the numbers up, they were they
were moving up, and then something happens and we're back
to zero. And uh, it's just it's a source of

(06:32):
of of focus but also fun but not you know,
I mean, it's it's just one of those things you
just try to measure yourself a little bit and try
to try to do what you do the best you can.
And I walked in today and I handed him the
rundown for the show, and he goes, uh, Wednesday. I said, no,
it's Thursday. Thinking he got off a day. He goes, no,

(06:54):
it says here Wednesday. And I looked at the rundown.
It was yesterday's rundown. So I walked in the studio,
I grabbed the red card and I gave a red
card to myself. I said, all right, my streak's over.
I'm starting to show zero five thousand, four hundred and

(07:15):
eighty four back to zero. How defeating would that be?
But since it wasn't on the air, and it was
just a mistake amongst ourselves, we don't count that as
a dumpster fire in any way, shape or form. But
it was still it was a point of funny, that's
for sure. John Adams on October thirtieth, in seventeen thirty five,

(07:36):
was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. I've been by his I've
been in his home where he was born or was
it where his where John Quincy Adams would no, I
think it was where he was born. And then we
went to Peacefield. Peacefield, I mean, the whole thing in
and around Boston is just Philadelphia credible. Now is it

(08:01):
enough to run the risk of losing your life because
of the violence in those Democrat run cities. You got
to pray about that, you know, I'm just saying, but
if you can get to it. The life of John
Adams is just is a spectacular study. The letters between
he and Abigail unbelievable. Let's see six seventeen sixty eight

(08:23):
the first Methodist meeting house in America, Wesley Chapel, dedicated
in New York City nineteen thirty eight. Many listeners believe
America is being invaded by martians. Orson Welles broadcast The
War of the World's Have you ever listened to that?
The original radio broadcast of I'm sorry, what was the
War of the World's? No, sir, oh brother, you got to,

(08:44):
I hear It's good. You've got to because if you
just sit down and you have no television on and
you listen to it, as Americans did back in the day,
radio was it. And here's the thing. They announced at
the beginning that this was a play radio theater. The

(09:07):
problem is the overwhelming majority of people never heard it.
People tuned in later and they never heard a reset
of that. They didn't announce it again, so they think
they're hearing a radio broadcast of the invasion of Earth
by Martians and he's in there laughing. It caused an

(09:29):
absolute panic across the country. It was brilliant. It really
was brilliant. And in nineteen seventy four, Muhammad Ali knocks
out George Foreman in the eighth round and the rumble
in the jungle boxing match in Zaire. It is It
is National Wicked Day. Okay, that's wicked, the musical okay,

(09:56):
National Publicist Day, Speak Up for Service Day, and National
can Corn Day. Here's what I have to say about that.
First of all, on Fox and Friends, first they had
a chef on there doing a candy corn pizza. I

(10:16):
have no objection to doing a candy corn dessert and
putting it on crust or whatever you want to do.
Then you call it whatever you want. But to call
it a pizza is blasphemous. That is absolutely heretical. It
is It isn't funny, it's not tasty, it's gross. That's disgusting.

(10:40):
And here's the second thing I'll say about it. Not
all candy corn is created equal the generic brands. I'm
sorry they are generic. You gotta go with Brox or nothing.
You gotta go with the Brox candy corn or nothing.
That's all i'm gonna say. Sixteen seventeen past the hour, No,

(11:02):
that's not all I'm gonna say. If so, this would
be a short show. I think we're gonna roll out

(11:24):
some new bump music at the beginning of the year.
We'll keep a few things around because they're just some
that I really personally enjoy. But we're gonna freshen things up,
as we try to do every year or so, try
not to get stale. Although the top of the hour
will remain constant because it's a riff on the on

(11:46):
a song that's called radio, which I thought was brilliantly
appropriate for the start of the radio program. Chests and
checkers just totally off the radar here of the show.
Donald Trump, Now we've allegedly got a trade deal worked
out with China whatever. Seven years ago, xiximping did not

(12:12):
do what he said he would do, which is cut
off the fentanyl out of his country. He hasn't done that.
It's seven years so we don't know a lot but
I've got to believe that something is contingent on that.
If Trump got the right kind of concessions from China

(12:32):
as it relates to trade, awesome, But here's how he
did it. Did you pay attention to where he was
before he met with Ji in South Korea? He was
in every nation in the Pacific, rim, every Asian nation,
striking deals. So what he did is he hammered everybody

(12:54):
that's been doing business with China, and he struck deals
with all of them, and he put China on an island.
China's not an island, but he made China an island.
And in doing so, he then said, now, it's kind
of like that scene from Indiana Jones and Raiders of

(13:14):
the Lost Arc. What shall we talk about? She knows
he struck deals with Vietnam, with Cambodia, with South Korea,
with Japan. He knows. He knows the run through thing

(13:35):
that he's been doing gone. So Trump sits down, What
shall we talk about? Yeah? How you doing? G You
look great, buddy. What do you want to talk about?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Trade deal? Will you remember seven years ago when we
sat down and talked about fentanyl. Nothing's done, Nothing's been done, hmmm,
what do you say we start their pal huh? Anyway,
chests and checkers. Biden's fumbling around where it depends, pooping

(14:15):
his pants, not knowing where he is, having to be
let around his own rose garden at the White House.
People covering for him left and right wouldn't talk to
the media, and Trump is giving press conferences all the time.
He will talk to the media all the time. I

(14:40):
don't know a lot of guys his age that are
doing what he's doing. He's crushing it. Are there things
I wish you'd do differently?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Absolutely, absolutely. No one bats a thousand, No one hits
it out of the park at every at bat. There
are certainly things that should be ought to be addressed
and are different. But I think of where we would
be had Kamala been elected. Sweet God, Almighty Jesus might

(15:17):
have petitioned God. I can't say this for certain, but Jesus,
if Kamala had been elected, Jesus might have looked at
God and say, what do you think. Come on, let's
let's let's let's push this up. Come on, come on, Dad,
let me go, because they're not going to last through
this totally blew the segment. But that's okay, that was

(15:41):
good instead of good observations. What's going on out there
with the president and the leader of the commists in China.
So we'll see where that all leads. Big stories in
the press boxer next twenty seven minutes past the hour
and pull. Dang, you gotta check these out, man. I'm

(16:14):
loving this. This segment is gonna be so fun, and
I am I'll say it for my ego because Bill
Gates is now the latest to fall off the cliff
of global warming hysteria. Let's go back in time. Bill

(16:43):
Gates in twenty twenty one wrote a book How to
Avoid a Climate Disaster. Climate changes, one of humanity's greatest challenges,
caused more deaths than the COVID nineteen pandemic, which killed
millions of people worldwide. Of course it didn't the vaccine
might have. But I digress. But he's written a new

(17:10):
little note written as a message to attendees of the
UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. I guess he's not going.
He said that though climate change will have serious consequences,
it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be

(17:32):
able to live and thrive in most places on Earth
for the foreseeable future. Well, now welcome to the club, Bill,
you fear hormonger. He was leading the charge buying up

(17:56):
all the farmland. This is fact, buying up farmland to
keep cattle from being raised on it. Because cattle we're
contributing to the methane that was causing global warming. We
are right now suffering from a short fall of CO two.
By the way, and in case you forgot high school science,

(18:23):
we need CO two pretty badly in our planet because
the CO two allows plants to thrive, which then create oxygen.
He has joined Ted Nordhaus, founder of the climate focused

(18:46):
Breakthrough Institute. He wrote in two thousand and seven, Listen,
if we continue to burn as much coal and oil
as we've been burning, the heating of the earth will
cause sea levels to rise in the Amazon to collapse,
and according to scenario's commission by the Pentagon, we will
trigger a series of wars. He wrote back in August,
I no longer believe this hyperbole. Oh you know who

(19:11):
else is quoted in this article. My buddy Greg Writstone,
frequent guest of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. When
something's up, he says, Preston, Can I get some time.
You're one of the few. Come on, Greg, We're gonna

(19:33):
get Greg. We're gonna get Greg. I'll let him give
his quote. So Bill Gates is backing off climate change, Well,
it's it's still a problem, but we're gonna be fine.
Second big story NASCAR champion Kyle Busch his wife Samantha.

(19:55):
They have filed a legal complaint against Pacific Life. And
this is important to those of you that might have
done something similar a Pacific Life and it's appointed agent
charging them with designing and promoting a series of complex
indexed universal life policies as tax free retirement plans that

(20:18):
were misrepresented as safe and self funding investment vehicles. They
paid more than ten point four million dollars in insurance
premiums and they lost eight point five eight of it.
So they're going online, they're telling people what they did
to learn from their mistakes, and they're filing a legal complaint. Perhaps,

(20:40):
I guess that's another way of saying a lawsuit. I
don't know the details of that. I'm just letting you know.
They named the company. It's in the news, not me.
And John Fetterman has committed Democrat I'm dismayed my party
is playing chicken with the food security of forty two
million Americans. I reject a political gamble that exposes a

(21:02):
vulnerable constituency to widespread deprivation and chaos. Kat Cammick among
those thanking the Senator for being one of the only
reasonable Democrats out there. More on that in a moment.
But here's the point. Everybody's starting to recognize, even Democrats,
that they are the party of the shutdown. Let there

(21:25):
be no mistaking this. I know of people that are
going to be harmed by this. You might know of
people that are going to be harmed by this. Imagine
what happens we said this yesterday. Air traffic controllers decide
we're not showing up if you're not paying us. And
you know what, I wouldn't blame them. Now. They might
not have a legal right to do that. They might
have to, but I don't know the details of their contracts.

(21:48):
What I know is usually if someone's not getting paid,
they don't have to work. So those are your big
stories in the press box forty one minutes after the hour,
More on that particular story next, get it off your chest.
You have a story you want to share.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Write him at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Despite members of the Democrat Party thinking they got us
over the barrel, we've talked about it. I'll go ahead
and roll out some names though, Chris Coons of Delaware,
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Catherine Clark of Massachusetts among

(22:50):
the Democrats that made it very clear that suffering Americans
is great political leverage. Yes, yes, okay. CNN admitted yesterday
that the Schumer shut down existed. It was theirs. ABC
News blamed Democrats. I'm not making this up. CNBC now

(23:17):
is joined the party and CNBC is not. CNBC is
the moderate brother to MSNBC, which is I guess getting
renamed or whatever. But who cares host on the program,
Joe Kernan asked Democrat Senator Peter Welch of Vermont. Are

(23:39):
you ready to vote with Republicans to reopen the government
at this point as a reasonable Democrat? Maybe others would
follow you. It's a great question. Welch replied, you know,
I'm not there yet because we've had literally, Joe, no
discussion whatsoever about how we're going to deal with the
spikes and premiums. Kernan cut him off. This is the

(24:00):
right way to do it, by people not getting paychecks
at TSA. This is extortion. You think this in your conscience,
you think this is the right way to do it.
Woo flames flames burning them, and it's being noticed by everybody.

(24:23):
By the way Welch's concerns over Obamacare premiums. Let's remind
you Democrats pushed Obamacare through in twenty ten on a reconciliation.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
They lied.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Remember the SoundBite. It was written in a tortured way
so that we didn't say taxes. Because so if we
say taxes, the bill dies. If we say Americans have
to pay more, the bill dies. Remember that Jonathan Grueber.
Jonathan Gruber, I'm convinced is the little kid from the
from the animated Christmas thing, Polar Express. Do you ever

(24:58):
watch Polar Express? Oh you've ever seen it? Oh my gosh.
He's a little annoying child in the glasses. It turns
around all the time. It says Jae that that's Jonathan Grueber.
I'm telling you it's Jonathan Rueber. So they promised in
twenty ten, remember and Nancy Pelosi, we have to read
it to know what's in it. They pass it, said it.

(25:19):
They promised Americans would save twenty five hundred dollars a
year on insurance premiums. Over the past fifteen years since
its passage, it has done the opposite. It has gone
up and up and up, and it's subsidized to eighty
percent if we take out the COVID added premium subsidies
with the we're talking about it being subsidized. It in

(25:43):
ninety three percent by taxpayers. It socialized medas sen forty
six minutes after the hour, if I mentioned that much,
I love my job.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
And always pointing out and correcting what is not the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
All right, before I get to the real story for
this segment, a little throw in from inside the Beltway.
House Oversight Committee has sent a note to the Department
of Justice asking it to review for potential criminal charges
the Biden White House over the auto pen. According to

(26:48):
James Comer of Kentucky, the Biden out open presidency will
go down as one of the biggest political scandals in
US history. As Americans saw President Biden's decline with their
own eyes, Biden's inner circle sought the receive the public,
cover up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with
the Autopen that are now invalid. Think of the potential

(27:09):
problems that are ahead of us with all of the
eos that he signed, the pardons that he signed that
they believe they have evidence he had no real knowledge
of and did not approve. Our report reveals how key
Age colluded to mislead the public in the extraordinary measures
they took to sustain the appearance of presidential authority. As

(27:31):
Biden's capacity to function independently diminished, executive actions performed by
the Biden White House staff and signed by Autopen are
null and void. Hole my goodness. So we'll see where
this leads. And I know, I know some of you
are saying nothing will come of it. Maybe not, but

(27:52):
it will. Something will come of it. It just might
happen before the throne of God, not you and me.
And I'm okay with that. I Am not going to
be in a twist over a pound of flesh. I'm
gonna do what I think I best can do to
call attention to and to fight for the good things,

(28:14):
and I will leave the rest and the results and
all of that to God. I'm going to fulfill what
I think I can do, and that's to me the
challenge for all of you. Do what you can do
within the law and more importantly, God's word. This is incredible.

(28:41):
I got this story from our website. I've never heard
of Coral Expeditions. It's a cruise line. Their ship, the
Coral Adventurer, was doing a sixty day cruise around Australia.
Sixty days around Australia. That's that's that's wow. So they

(29:07):
stop it at Cook's Look, which is Lizard Island. That's
what it's called. Lizard Island, part of the Great Barrier Reef.
It's the it's the highest peak on the island, Cook's Look.
So she's this lady is eighty year old Australian woman

(29:32):
is hiking with every bunch of people that are on
the cruise ship and at some point she's separated from
the group and the ship left without her. They realized
she wasn't there, major search operation was launched. They returned

(29:56):
to the island helicopters, search teams, torches meaning flashlights. Her
body was discovered the next day. She died. She died.
The Choral Adventure has one hundred and twenty guests. Don't

(30:18):
know how many went aboard or went on the island.
Here's what I wrote down on my notes. What will
her family do with a cruise line? Because if they
want to own it, they probably can. They can probably
take ownership of it. How do you lose somebody when

(30:39):
you've only got one hundred and twenty people on board?
How are you not doing account protocol? Now? Granted, cruise ships,
when they're at port somewhere on a they'll have a deadline.
You got to be back on board by this time.

(31:00):
But an excursion like that, I've got to believe they're
taking account of how many people are leaving and then
they're doing an account of how many people are back.
And they didn't. But she died in one day. So
did she dive exposure? Did it get really cold? I mean,
keep in mind, is it's getting winter here, it's summer there,

(31:23):
so you wouldn't anyway. Steve Stewart is next. Here we
go Thursday in the Morning show. We are in form today,

(31:44):
my friends, we are in form and you are about
to be informed. As we begin with Steve Stewart he's
the executive editor at Tallassi Reports, the website Tallasseireports dot
com and literally we have breaking news.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yes, Look, the FSU agreement and the move to an
academic medical center is probably one of the biggest decisions.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Reset in sixty seconds.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do here, is the
academic health center is one of the biggest decisions to
come before elected bodies here in decades. It's going to
determine how we deliver health care, how efficient we do it,
how we grow in one of the largest industry sectors
in the country.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
And so is it a merger between TMH and FSU,
or is FSU looked looking to or positioning itself to
take it over.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
FSU is looking to take over the assets and then
having a governance board that will help TMH remain have
some aspects of a community hospital in the sense that
it will continue to provide intigate care for the community. Now,
given that and people need to start paying more attention
to this, We've covered it. It's been mired in a
lot of political back and forth, a lot of rhetoric,

(32:52):
and now the rubber is starting to meet the road.
FSU and TMH has signed a memorandum of understanding to
move forward. However, it appears that well, clearly the progressive
wing of the City Commission is not on board. Commissioner
Mallow has been very you know, very vocal. We'll talk
more about that in the next segment. But the breaking
news is this is that the MoU was signed, and

(33:13):
there were some concerns about the MU, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Which is a member of memorandum of understanding, Okay.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
And it came out and they said, okay, look this
looks you know, most people said this looks good. But
you know FAMU is not involved with this, and neither
is TSC in the governor structure. You know, they they
have both have degrees in that are related to healthcare industries.
They're working with TMH already. We think they should have
some say in the governance. And so FSU they went
back and so they we had another meeting on October

(33:41):
twenty second, and the president of FSU said, hey, you
know what we agreed. We talked to fam you we've
got a memorandum of understanding with fam you that they're
going to have one of FSU's seats. FSU has eight
seats on the board and TMH has nine, and so
they're going to get FSU said, look, we've got an agreement.
Family officials stood up and said, we, yes, we do

(34:04):
have an agreement. We're on board with this, We're ready
to move forward. Excited, yes, excited. After that it sort
of went downhill. Some members of TMH stood up and
we're a little bit more reluctant to say that they
had worked out anything with TSC, that the TSC was
going to fall in their Bailey week wick of giving
them a seat. And so last night, yesterday, there was

(34:27):
a meeting with the board and there were TSC officials
there and I'm hearing and I'll get more confirmation of
that this morning that the board decided not to give
TSC a seat, the rationale being that TSC is controlled
by the state, which therefore is controlled by DeSantis. I
understand that TSC officials are livid. They have worked with

(34:49):
TMH for years to make sure that.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
All three schools are publicly taxpayer funded schools.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Look, this comes from the progressive side of the commission.
If you listen to the by and you hear people
get up and speak, they are they are concerned that
that you know, Governor of stantists and the Republican legislature
is gonna is going to meddle in the affairs of
healthcare here in Leon County. And so now look, President

(35:19):
mccull responded to this and said, look, we don't feel
any pressure. They are not meddling. This is you know,
and talked about the higher education across the state of Florida.
But this again is taking this ideology and having an
impact here locally. And so now it's to the point
to where a community college that has served this community
for decades and has a very good reputation.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
An excellent one even nationally, right.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
And then decided to work with Mark O'Bryant when he asked,
we need your help. Now they are being thrown to
the curb by the TEMH.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Board, the very board that in essence asked them to
provide a nursing.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
School, right, and it's the same board that signed this
MoU And so we get back after the obviously we
can talk about this, but there's some things going on
behind the scene that makes the question now is teammates
trying to scuttle this agreement or are they just negotiating
very hard to get something gets more favorable to them.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Well, they've just got FSU to give up a seat,
and they didn't give up a seat. I'm just trying
to understand, Steve, how FAMU, FSU and TSC are are
somehow different in terms of the governeur's potential involvement.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Now, yeah, it's not, and it's there is no difference.
So this will again, it is going to be a
big issue.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Suite Lord, that's just factually stupid. Okay, I gotta stop
and make a break. Come back with more. Steve Stewart
from Talas Reports, My guest, that's why you subscribe Talasreports
dot com.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
The relative you actually enjoy having around, and not just
at the holidays. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I'm just sitting here in shock and they're isn't much
that shocks me after and eighty four shows, But Steve,
you got me on this one. Well, I mean this again, TMH.
Turning their back on TSC is really a story because
of the way they've worked together that is so long backstabbing, betrayal. Well,
we'll see what happens again. This has not been there's

(37:25):
been no official statement released, so there's gonna be some
more phone calls made this morning, I think.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
And we'll see what happens. But on the second issue
that you would only get by listening here is we've
got a story reading tell Asti reports, right. So I've
been watching these meetings and Commission Mattlow has been Look,
he has hated this deal from the beginning, and he's
talked about how, you know, the DEI will go away
if if TMH merges with FSU because the Santus is

(37:52):
in charge of the board of Trustees of FSU, and
and all this sort of you know, trying to these
emotional rhetoric attacks calling you know, going again after going
after Mayor Daily and Reese Goad. And so I've watched
the meetings. But we wrote a story a while back
that indicated that he was getting some information from actually
the TEMH board that we're having these meetings, and all

(38:13):
of a sudden, Mattlow was showing up at the city
and asking questions that that nobody really would didn't know
about unless they were talking to someone on the TMH board,
And we wrote a story about that. We didn't know
who was leaking, but we were confident enough there was
information being linked to mattlow by the board. Well, to
move forward, they signed a m OU. So at that
point you've got some you know, you got some ethical

(38:35):
considerations here. When you sign an m OU, you have
to negotiate in good faith, I mean, and you know
we're looking into the details of that now. But on
October first, we had October Yeah, it was October first.
There was a there was a meeting where Jeremy Mattlowe
actually was discussing this issue with all the parties, and

(38:57):
then he suddenly called up Sally Brown, who at the
time on October first, her chairmanship of the TEMAH board
just ended on September thirtieth, so she had been the
chair through a lot of these negotiations. So there was
when you say, called her up, what do you mean.
So there's a table with President mccallaugh, Mark O'Brien and
a team officials, and then he was asking questions. Well,

(39:19):
then he wanted to speak to someone on the board
and he called up miss Bradshaw. Okay, which is not unusual,
she's the chair right, and so then he started asking
questions that really put FSU in a bad light, and
Bradshaw went down the road. Yeah, we felt pressure from
FSU to sign the MoU because of some money we've
invested in Panama City. They indicated that, look, if this

(39:41):
deal doesn't go through, we're gonna have to reassess our
relationship and so again. So then Mattlow took that to say, well,
you know you had a gun to your head, you
know when you signed this MoU. Well, at that meeting
on October first. On October first, nobody in that room
and the public did not know that miss Bradshaw had donated,
through her and her husband and her business, three thousand

(40:03):
dollars to Matlow's mayoral campaign. Nobody knew that because it
had not yet to been to be disclosed. We only
found that out and we're the only media outlet reporting
it on October thirteenth, when the documents, the campaign documents
were filed. So now you go back and look at
that meeting, in his back and forth with Bradshaw, with
the understanding that in August he got three thousand dollars

(40:25):
in campaign contributions and all of a sudden, wow, we're
gonna have a little discussion here. And then in the
next meeting October twenty second, again this had not been reported,
although it had been disclosed in documents if you looked
at him. Chrish reporter called miss Bradshaw up the talk,
isn't that interesting?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (40:42):
And so now we have a story up that shows
that the chair, when she was the chair of TEAMH,
in the middle of the negotiations after the MoU Well,
now you know, obviously.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
It's engaged in private conversations.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Donated money to the mayoral campaign of Jeremy Malllow. Now
the point on this is, look is completely legal. It
does it violate some ethical rules in terms of duty
of bargaining good faith. Hey, we'll look into that. But
I would think at a minimum that Mattlow should have
during the meetings disclosed that he had received contributions, major

(41:17):
contributions the limit from from TMH.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
He did not, And i'd be well from a from
an individual member of the board of TMP exactly.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
And I'd be interested to know if the members of
the board are okay with this.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I'd also be curious didn't didn't Sally Bradshaw if you
would make her name by being part of the Jeb
Bush family.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Well, that's that's the other thing that's a little the
political world, Jeb side down is that she was a
Republican and now all of a sudden is donating to
a socialist.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Uh commit, my words, my words.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
So anyway, we'll see how this this story was published yesterday.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
We'll say it unfolds. Mmmmmmm mmmmm. Sixteen minutes past the
holum what they say on the toy.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Story, someone's poisoned the water hole?

Speaker 1 (42:07):
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It's the old adage the truth is stranger than fiction.

(42:44):
Steve Stewart with us from tallasher Reports. Let's transition from
the hospital story, because that story has a lot of
meat on the bone and it will be ongoing exactly.
Let's go to the meeting. Your thoughts on what happened
at the school board meeting on Tuesday, because it was
remarkable on a lot of fronts.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Yeah, So, first of all, I was impressed by the
Sometimes you tune in to watch the unadgended speakers and
it's a train wreck, you know. And and again as
a reporter that I know. You know, obviously I know
a lot of the facts, and you hear people speak
and they get the facts wrong, and it's like, you know,
and the elected officials that are said over listening and
just don't respond. I will say that the level of

(43:21):
discourse was pretty high. Yeah, and so I was impressed
with the listeners of the.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Morning show.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Subscribers to t R. I mean, I'm just saying, yeah,
so there, Uh, you know, I can't say that I
was surprised by the response. And this happens a lot
in these meetings. The elected officials. Yeah, they just don't
respond when they don't want to deal with something. I
think that, you know, the Daryl Jones issue. He's not

(43:48):
doing himself any favors here. He thinks he is. He's
I got a sense watching the meeting that he feels
like he can do.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Whatever he wants.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
And as an elected official, you have a lot of leeway. Look,
we've elected people that have been convicted of crimes. Yeah,
so I mean removing him from office, he'd run again
and get elected. I mean, you can make you know,
you can make things difficult. But I think that from
a standpoint, the most disappointing thing is the lack of
someone in the community other than you know, a conservative

(44:18):
Republican recognizing that what he said was was reposted was wrong,
what he posted was wrong, and the fact that they
haven't put any pressure on him to you know, to
acknowledge that he's offended people in the community. That is
the most concerning thing. I think about removing him from
office and sanctitying all that stuff. You know, you know,

(44:40):
you can do whatever you want there, but I think
that's the most disappointing thing for me. I mean, look,
Lorie Cox is the only Republican elected in local government,
right and so for her to raise some concerns. But
you can see that that board, which is full of
members that are tied to the educational bureaucracy. In other words,
they've got friends, they've and this is just the way
life is. You have relationships for thirty years, it's tough

(45:03):
to to you know, to break those relationships. And so
it's a difficult issue from that standpoint, which which argues
that you should have some people that are not tied
to the bureaucracy on the school board. So that's for
another discussion. But so I don't know where this is
going to go. I think that one of the things
that I've said is that you know is he's a
representative on the Children's Services Council. He's very involved in

(45:26):
the community, and if he wants to have that kind
of influence, he needs to address this.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
I think.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
But if nobody, but if nobody sitting on a board,
if nobody on the Children's Services Council brings us up,
if nobody on the school board brings us up, it's
going to be left to people outside of this community.
Governor's saying is headed doe to intervene. I would like
for somebody like a doctor Marcus Nicholas or Roseanne would say, look,

(45:54):
these comments, you know, don't help us in our mission.
And you know, I think that that we need we
need to be clear that the board is not is
you know, is not in concert with this, because it
looks like.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
They are now they look complicit.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
They do. And so look, it's the biggest argument for
school choice and vouchers and uh.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
And that was a comment that was made. I think
that was very poignant, and that is that you know,
people will have their say because they'll continue to leave
the district and you'll continue to get less funding.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Wait, this is another example of why school choice and
these scholarships are so important. But listen, it comes after
a decade of the woke ideology being pushed on school kids.
And we saw it here with you know, the LBT
t QQ guide, you know, and the case with January
Little John. I mean this, So this is just another
reason for those people to argue that this is why

(46:44):
you got to have school choice, because I don't want
my kids being, you know, in a school system where
someone thinks just because you question things, or.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
That you're or whatever. Yeah, and so anyway, tell me
this what your reaction to the issues raised as it
really relates to the teacher union and pay you.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Know, listen, I've done some research on this from a
national perspective. Teacher unions are notorious for pursuing everything but
better conditions for teachers.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
I've said it for years, Steve, and.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
So we've I've looked at NASH, I've looked at this nationally,
the amount of money that's going to these you know,
politically active groups. So I think it's time to start
to look at where the teachers union's money, teachers money
that is being paid to you in here Leon County.
It's well over six hundred thousand dollars. Where is it going?
We know where we know mister Major's making six figures, right,

(47:39):
and so where's the other five hundred thousand going?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
And so I think it's time to look into that fea.
They've got a ton of people making over one hundred
and twenty five hundred and.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Fifty thousands that benefit teachers.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
It doesn't. It never does they It never benefits seventy.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Hundred dollars a year. If if a teacher that has
been in the business for twenty years have taken that
seven hundred and year one and every year invested in
the stock market, think about that.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
I love that argument. Thanks as always, Thank you, Steve Stewart.
Remember subscribe. It's the only place you're going to read
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Speaker 5 (48:13):
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Speaker 1 (48:31):
Next hour, the Commissioner of Education, anastasioskimmuts Us will join us,
so we'll talk about that Leon County school Board meeting
and and all the issues. Big stories in the press box.
The NASCAR Series champ NASCAR Cup Series Champion previously Kyle Busch,

(48:54):
his wife, Samantha. They say they lost over eight million
dollars in a life insurance scheme and they're calling out
Pacific Life. You can find their stuff online. They're coming out.
They're saying, hey, it's pretty sad what happened to us,
and we're hoping you can learn from what happened to us.
But they have filed a claim against Pacific Life. They

(49:18):
said that they were scammed, that the indexed universal life
policies were sold to them as tax free retirement plans.
They paid more than ten point four million in premiums
and lost over eight point five eight million of it.
Republicans are dubbing John Fetterman, US senator from Pennsylvania, a

(49:41):
voice of reason. He accuses his own party, the Democrats,
of playing chicken with this shutdown. If enough Democrats summon
the courage, it ends can end today, can end tomorrow.
Democrats have blocked the reopening of government thirteen times, and

(50:03):
they believe that suffering people are great political leverage. And
I want you to remember that when you go to
the polls in a year. I just want you to
remember that. You can darn well know that I'm going
to remind you but you need to share that with

(50:24):
everybody you know who's a Democrat, just you know, casually.
I'm curious, why does your party think it's okay to
publicly say that the suffering of people because the government
shutdown is good political leverage. Do you realize how that sounds,
what that means? And I mean, don't end your friendship.

(50:46):
I don't. I'm not one of those that things you
end friendships over things like that. They do. But I
want you to stay engaged because, honestly, I get notes
from people all the time on this radio program that say,
you know what, when I first started listening filled in
the blank years ago, I didn't agree with anything you

(51:07):
had to say, But man, you've opened my eyes. Remaining
in friendship, in relationship with people that who disagree with you,
you have there's hope. There's hope. Keep loving on them,
don't toss the friendship away because of it, but be

(51:32):
armed with facts. Obamacare.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
This is.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
All over Obamacare, and Obamacare has already been subsidized. They're
arguing about the additional subsidies that got put into Obamacare
during COVID. It's still going to be subsidized. It's still
a scam. It's just not as bad a one. And
then Bill Gates writes a paper. Now I guess he's

(52:02):
not showing up at the big climate conference, the Global
Climate Conference in Brazil. He sent a note stating people
will be able to live and thrive in most places
on the Earth for the foreseeable future. He's backed way
off the doom and gloom. You know what, I think
Bill Gates feels stupid, and he should because he bought

(52:25):
all of this. The guy's incredibly smart, but it just
shows you you can have all the degrees, you can
drop out and be a brilliant guy. It doesn't matter
what it is. You can be a smart guy and
be stupid void of common sense. I'm not particularly smart,
but I've got a master's degree in common sense, and

(52:49):
I can teach a doctoral class on it. Forty minutes
past the hour, do you remember the story this week?

(53:16):
Might have been even yesterday. I mean, forgive me, we
just we do so many stories. Howard University professor wrote
a paper telling folks that if you want to be
allies to black people, just be like John Brown. In

(53:37):
other words, shoot some people, commit some murders, commit some violence.
She writes this lengthy piece, and she's and she's a
professor at a HBCU, a private HBCU in Washington, d C.
Howard University. I remember years ago, I used to do

(54:03):
a radio program in Phoenix, on a Christian radio program.
I left a very big secular station, just felt kind
of a tugging in my spirit and went to work
for this small, little Christian radio station that played contemporary
Christian music. And my newsgal newsman newswoman went to Howard University.

(54:27):
She was a graduate of Howard. Just a bright, gifted
young lady. And don't know whatever happened with her, but
I think she went to work for NPR at some point.
Didn't surprise me. But at any rate, back to the story.
Isn't it interesting how the nation's capital had one of
the most violent weekends of the year. Twelve people were

(54:50):
shot in a span of nine hours, and most of
it right around Howard University. I just find that so coincidental.
I am not in any way, shape or form blaming
the professor. I just think it's interesting that in and
around Howard University, where this professor works, and where she

(55:13):
wrote a piece talking about the need for more people
to act like John Brown and commit acts of violence
to be allies of blacks. That we had all these shootings. Again,
just because somebody writes something doesn't give anybody the authority
to act. Can't blame that, but it is worth noting.

(55:38):
I think again, I could be you know, I could
be reaching in some straws here. But man, twelve people
in nine hours got shot. And this is you know,
the president rolled out the National Guard in DC, but
this was around Howard University. All these shootings in and

(56:01):
around Howard. Interesting. Interesting, interesting, all right, we come back,
got a road trip idea for you. The GOP in
the state of Florida continues to grow and uh And
then next hour, Anastasio kimutzas the Commissioner of Education for
the Sunshine State. He was in town, spoke at the

(56:25):
Leon County Board meeting, school board meeting. Sorry, and the
superintendent didn't like it. He called him a bully, you know.
He he talked about the fact that he didn't pick
up the phone and call him Rocky Hannah, that the
commission didn't pick up the phone and call him to
discuss anything. Well, he was there, and you had every

(56:47):
opportunity in the world to interact with him, But no, no, no,
you had to and you call him immature. He's young,
imature and a bully. Really are you? Are you the
one that's hill reacting to things and running to the
newspaper instead of talking to him because he was standing
right there. You had every opportunity to talk to him

(57:10):
and you chose not to. So who's the imature one?
We'll talk to the commissioner. Superintendent does want to, but
we will. They were listening yesterday when we talked about
the story and said, hey, he's got some time. I'm like,
come on, So that's coming up in just a few
as well. I told you this was going to be

(57:33):
a fire show. It was just going to be a
fire show. Flames forty six after the hour, It is
the Morning Show with Crusted Sky. Yeah, I gotta let

(58:08):
that play for a minute. Don't I on the road
again here on the Morning Show with Thrustin Scott Road
trip idea and we're going to take you to the
Midwest to Minnesota. Quick fact, did you know that the
Minnesota Discovery Center bills itself as the largest museum complex
in the region. Because if it's explore Minnesota's involvement in

(58:29):
the iron mining industry. An open pit mine is just
a trolley ride away tours of the miner available during
the summer. I lived in Minnesota called it home for years.
I did not know until I opened up my travel

(58:50):
guide here that iron mining was a thing in the
Land of ten Thousand Lakes. And if you go to Chisholm, Minnesota,
it is said to be the third largest freestanding memorial
in the United States, outdone only by the Statue of
Liberty and the Saint Louis Arch. Statue of Liberty, Saint

(59:13):
Louis Arch and iron Man not the Marvel character. No,
It's an eighty foot eighty one foot tall statue situated
on a one hundred and fifty ton red steel base,
and it reminds visitors of the origins of the country's
iron during much of the twentieth century. Made of iron

(59:35):
and steel cladden, bronze, copper, and brass sheathing, the Iron
Man stands across from the Minnesota Discovery Center at the
western entrance to Chisholm. So there you go. Who knew?
Who knew?

Speaker 2 (59:48):
I didn't know?

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Did you know? See? I hear iron Man and I'm
thinking one of the cool Marvel superheroes, or some of
them opened their mouths and became politically incorrect over political
correctness being an American. How ironic that Captain America was

(01:00:10):
un American. Unbelievable anyway, iron Man Chisholm, Minnesota. There you go,
and if you've ever been there, send me a picture.
I always love hearing from people that have been to
the places where I talk about, And inevitably I'll get
somebody that will listen to the podcast and they'll go,

(01:00:31):
I was just there here snapping pictures. It's beautiful, all right.
Florida GOP voter registration ready now at one point four
million more than Democrats. The historic gap keeps widening. That's incredible.

(01:00:59):
That's a swing of like two and a half almost
three million voters. In September alone, Democrats lost thirty thousand voters.
So while Republicans are gaining some Republican registration is mostly flat.

(01:01:24):
People are fleeing the Democrat party. M Yes, I don't
necessarily thank you to join the Republican party. If they
earn your allegiance, great, I caucus with Republicans. I happen
to be one right now, but I have left the

(01:01:46):
party before for up to I think about ten years,
they can lose me again. I never give to the party.
I only give to candidates. By the way, I am
asked that frequently, would do you support the No, I
do not because I don't think they're doing anything right.
There are candidates that I will support candidates, but they're gaining.

(01:02:12):
Republicans are gaining in Tampa, Miami, date of course has
shifted competitive in Palm Beach County, Duval County, it's getting
getting closer. We just need to see Leon County. Gadsden
Jefferson could be tough, but Leon County we come back.

(01:02:37):
The Commissioner of Education for the State of Florida, Anastasios Kamatsis,
joins us. Commuts us, joins us next in the morning
show with this is We Say radio program today that

(01:03:04):
is to borrow from Dan Patrick's days on ESPN Sports
Center in Fuego. Yeah, we are. We are dealing it today,
my friends, and it's great to share time with you,
no matter where, no matter how Thank you very much.
It's a privilege to be with you, and we thank
you for your time. We always want to make the

(01:03:26):
most of it, and we want to make the most
of the time of this gentleman, he is the Commissioner
of Education for the Sunshine State. Anastasios Kumutsas Kamutsas is
with us. How are you, sir, Good to have you
back on the program.

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
Good morning, Presco Preston, Thank you so much for having
me on the show. Looking forward to discussing on something
that impacts both you and I as Leon County residents.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Well let's start there now. Obviously, we've got listeners all
over the state and in fact all over the country
because of iHeartRadio, and so as I like to point out,
you can learn lessons by just paying attention to what
goes on in any local community. And I think that
what's happening here in Leon County as it relates to
education is a really great opportunity for people to learn lessons.

(01:04:15):
So let me start with this. Why did you choose
to come to the school board meeting on Tuesday night?

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
So the reason I was going is I know there's
been quite a bit of scrutiny on two major issues
right now in Leon County. The first as a school
board member Daryl Jones, who has engaged in social media
posts as it relates to Charlie Kirk that are totally
divisive and inappropriate, and so there's been some outrage in
the community. And I know there wasn't the only public

(01:04:45):
speaker that evening. The superintendent called me out, suggesting that
this was an intimidation tactic, but I think he fails
to recognize he is a public servant at the end
of the day that answers to constituents. I am, in
fact one of the constituent into Leon County, and so
I am allowed to be able to provide public comment
at a school board meeting, and I did that as

(01:05:08):
it relates to the Daryl Jones post. But I also,
as Commissioner of Education, wanted to show the school board
and the superintendent there is a pass forward as it
relates to these teacher salaries, and so I took the
time to address both issues, and they're very pressing issues.
I have continued to beat the drum and make sure

(01:05:28):
it's a priority that these teachers in Leon County are
receiving the compensation increases that they deserve. I am a
huge advocate for the educators and making sure that we
receive it in the timely fashion. Year after year, Leon
County has failed and paying their teachers these salary increases
that the governor appropriates in a timely fashion. And so

(01:05:50):
to this year, we're doing everything we can so that
they understand we're advocating for them to get those pay increases.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
We're talking about. Over the last six years, nearly six
billion dollars has been put in place solely to improve
and increase teacher pay. I'm curious, I personally think the
fault lies on both sides. What's your perspective?

Speaker 6 (01:06:17):
I don't disagree, I think, and then I said it
at the meeting. Leon County families and educators deserve better
and it's up to Superintendent Hannah and the Leon County
school Board to deliver. Leon County Schools continues to show
a lack of effective leadership. How is it a year
after year totally nearly six billion dollars over the past

(01:06:37):
six years, Leon County has repeatedly failed to deliver those
raises on time. Last year, teachers had to wait over
six months before they saw those pay increases reflected in
their paychecks. And what's interesting is that they continue to
criticize the governor as if he is not championing this

(01:06:58):
initiative to give teachers the paying creases. Let me remind
folks he had one point five billion dollars last year
alone recommended in his budget. The legislature landed on one
point thirty six billion dollars, which was still an increase
from the year before. That was an increase of about
one hundred and two million dollars, but again that's money

(01:07:19):
that is only dedicated for teacher salary increases. Let's also
talk about the highest ever per student funding at nine
one hundred and thirty dollars per student, which is an
increase of nearly one hundred and fifty dollars per student.
And so the district has the ability to be able
to utilize the flexibility you'll recall in the first year,

(01:07:42):
I think new teachers were prioritized to increase that starting salary,
and then there was full flexibility given to the school
district to be able to make sure that the veteran
educators were seeing similar pay increases in their salaries. And
so as it relates to Leon County, instead of correcting
half in the states and finalizing teacher pay agreements on time,

(01:08:04):
we see that the Leon County school is once again
dragging its seat. I also want to say that while
the state invests in teachers and classrooms, yeah, Leon County
is prioritizing executive staff and administrative paid, which is a
real problem.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
I want to get there. Commissioner hang that point. We're
coming right back. He's joining us for the half hour.
Commissioner of Education Anastasios commuts us with us this morning
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
We're talking about education here in Florida's capital city, County
of Leon County, and the Commissioner of Education for the state, Anastasios,
commots us with us. You touched on something here at
the very end of that last segment that I think
is worth expanding on. You know, it has long been
believed that though there are some fine people working in

(01:09:02):
the district, just like there are some great teachers and administrators,
but Leon County has long earned the reputation of it
creating high paying jobs at the district for people that
fail as principals or assistant principles in the school system.
It's where bad administrators go to be paid very well.

(01:09:24):
In your experience, if you look at the structure of
the county sta SI, is it Are we top heavy?
Do we have more administrative people at the district level
than most districts are size.

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
Yes, unfortunately that is the case, and I called it
out at the school board meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
I pointed out at Saint Lucie County School District for example,
Saint Lucy County has forty nine thousand plus students. Leon
County has about twenty thousand left students. Yet Saint Lucy
County has only two hundred and eight administrators and executives,
but Leon County has more at two hundred and seventeen.

(01:10:04):
It leaves me scratching my head thinking why have they
prioritized administration and executive staff over the teachers? And when
you look at some of these pay raises for those individuals,
you're seeing numbers increasing of over ten thousand dollars and
that's a you know, that's significantly more than what they're
offering the teachers who are in the trenches impacting these

(01:10:26):
students' lives. I want to make sure I make something
clear because I'm often attacked as if I was not
a kid who grew up with a single mom three kids,
struggling to make ends me, my entire life. I went
through the public education system, and I often rave about
the great teachers that had a significant impact on my life,

(01:10:46):
both inside the classroom and outside, whether it was basketball,
whether it was the math team. I mean, we have
great teachers who are doing great work. They deserve to pay.
I also want to say the president of the Leon
County Tea Teachers Association, who's a supposed advocate for these teachers,
Scott Maser, also has quite an insulated salary, making double

(01:11:08):
what a starting teacher makes, with a total compensation package
exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. And so the Leon County
District leadership and school board members wonder why teachers are
frustrated and are debating whether to leave the county. I
can tell you this is a big reason why.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Well, I mean, what's going on with the leadership of
the union locally is no different than what happens in
unions all across the country Florida. You know, FEA is
top heavy with a lot of people making a lot
of money. And of course Scott Maser, in his comments
to the local newspaper, was very dismissive of that, calling
it a distraction. No, it's very significant that he gets

(01:11:43):
paid more than double what the rank and file teachers
are making in this county. But this also dovetails into
the discussion on consolidation. To my knowledge, only one school
board member, Alvis Smith, has been raising the issue of
the need to consolidate school what's happening or not happening
in Leon County that is happening in other parts of

(01:12:05):
the state. I'm under the impression that, for example, Duval
County has been consolidating like crazy and shutting down schools
and opening schools where people are moving.

Speaker 6 (01:12:15):
That's exactly right. Look, many schools in the Leon County
School District are operating at half capacity, yet district leaders
refused to consolidate or manage resources efficiently. They choose instead
to complain about budget issues instead of actually solving the problem,
and I call them out at the school board meetings.
Like you said, We've seen not just Duval, but several

(01:12:37):
other school districts who are choosing to close and consolidate
schools in order to have more efficient operations. Broward has
done it. Heck, our neighbors just next door, Wikala have
even done some consolidations and have developed or implemented plans
for consolidation. So I think with the right leadership in place,

(01:12:57):
Leon Counties could certainly follow their lead. But that's just it.
I was at an announcement earlier this week with President
Richard Corcoran at New College and Governor DeSantis championing the
Civics and Debate initiative, and we were celebrating how many
students have participated. Originally it was only eleven school districts.
Now all sixty seven school district with over three hundred

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and thirty teens are participating. The hundreds of hundreds of
kids are doing this. Why because of great leadership? Yep,
we don't have that here in Leamanccounty.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Commissioners stand by. We've got another segment to go seventeen
past the hour. We're talking with the Commission of Education
Anastasios Kamutzus here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Final segment here with the Commission of Education for Florida,

(01:13:50):
Anastasio Kimutzas, and he goes by Stassi. Is that your preference?
That I mean? Is it just simpler for people to
just say Stasi?

Speaker 6 (01:14:00):
It's so much easier because my full name is a mouseful,
so YESTI were.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
We were talking in the break and I've and for
listeners that may not be aware, I talked about it.
Over the last couple days. There was a video of
an interview with Darryl Jones, school board member who posted
some hateful, defamatory comments about Charlie Kirk that were in
fact wrong. But in that interview he stated, when talking

(01:14:27):
about his career path that he did not like children.
He didn't like kids was the exact quote, and that
video mysteriously got pulled down yesterday, which I found fascinating.
But Stasi, the thing that concerns me is, you know, first,
I'd love to know when the epiphany happened. Suddenly he's
running for the school board and this was right when

(01:14:48):
he was announcing his run and now he's the chair
of the Children's Services Council. But to my knowledge, doesn't
like kids. And it just seems that he doesn't want
to talk about this issue with what he posted. What
are people to do because I'm guessing this doesn't cross
the line since he took the post down, but he's
not apologized of any action that the governor can take

(01:15:11):
against him in removing him from the board. So what
do you think the takeaway is here?

Speaker 6 (01:15:17):
I think people need to pay attention. That's why I
showed up to the school board meeting, and we need
to continue to raise awareness about the folks who are
in charge of making decisions that impact the health, safety,
and welfare of our students. That comment and the comment
related to Charlie Kirk are just totally unacceptable for anyone
who's entrusted with that responsibility. I can tell you at

(01:15:37):
the Florida Department of Education, I say it all the time.
We believe children are a gift from God and we're
going to do everything we can to maintain their innocence.
And so you've got two totally different views of children
in the education system when you just suppose how we
view it at the Department of Education thanks to the
leadership of Governor DeSantis, and how Daryl Jones views children.

(01:15:58):
But with his comment, I was really troubled. He almost tried,
I mean, he tried calling me out about my memo
that was reminding educators not to glorify, condone, or excuse
school violence in schools. I didn't really understand what he
found problematic with that, but it's clear to me that
he's choosing partisan stunts over leadership, and he's trying to

(01:16:18):
use tragedy to divide the community and distract from education,
and as a result, he's alienating a segment of the community.
And we're calling it out well.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
And that's the thing. Instead of at least owning it right,
he takes it down, but doesn't distance himself from it,
doesn't apologize for it, just takes it down, tells the
local paper, I got bigger fish to fry. It's in
the rearview mirror for me. I think the concern is,
if I'm not mistaken, Leon County Schools is lost ten

(01:16:49):
to twelve, maybe fourteen percent of its students in the
last few years. Parents are taking their kids out, whether
they're homeschooling, the private school and the charter schooling them,
virtual schooling, they're getting out of the local school system.
And I guess inevitably that's what they'll be faced with,
is less revenue to work with because parents are going
to vote with pulling their kids out of school.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
Absolutely, And I made mention of that when I posted
about the video, saying, how do you think a conservative
parent in Leon County Schools will feel? Hearing your comments
and your inability to at least walk back those comments,
apologize for those comments, recognize your flawed, not perfect, and
made a mistake. And how do you think that parent

(01:17:32):
is going to take that when they're advocating for their
child to receive the appropriate services but feel as though
they're being discriminated against on the basis of their political views.
What was even more shocking was when I was at
the meeting and I mentioned that an innocent man was
assassinated on a school campus. The crowd went wild and
they interrupted me from speaking. What did that show me?

(01:17:55):
They showed that shows that they believe Charlie Kirk deserved it,
that he wasn't innocent, and that as a result of
his political views, the school violence was justified. That's wrong.
We're never going to stand idly by when folks are
advocating for that, especially those who are entrusted with the health,
safety and welfare of our students, whether it's teachers, administrators,
or school board members.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Commissioner, awesome visit, Thanks for the time, and importantly, thank
you for showing up at the school board meeting and
reminding them that not only are you the Commissioner of Education,
but you're a resident of this community and it matters
on behalf of the rest of us. Thank you very.

Speaker 6 (01:18:32):
Much, absolutely, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
And Goubla, Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State. Anastasio
Kimutsus our guest here in the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Scott Running Show with Preston Scott Good on News Radio
one point seven UFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Okay, this is I want to wait to get all
the details, but here's the headline. We have a deal.
Trump secures fentanyl crackdown farm purchases from China. If we're
buying land in China, that is not okay. If that
allows them to buy land in America. Again, I don't
know the details. I'm just reading the headline. I'm just

(01:19:32):
saying I am not okay with that. I'm not China
shouldn't be buying it, allowed to buy any land at
all in this country, period and stop. I don't want
land in China. I don't care. We'll see he's still

(01:19:52):
playing chess. He surrounded him. She didn't have much chance.
Now what kind of deal. We'll wait and see. Will
they honor it? They didn't honor the Fedanel deal seven
years ago. See, I know these things big story in

(01:20:13):
the press box. Republicans are dubbing John Fetterman as a
voice of reason. Would we have ever said that when
he was first getting elected? Not a chance. But hasn't
he surprised us? And here's the thing I will say this,
I believe he's sincere. I don't think he cares one

(01:20:34):
bit about what anyone thinks of him. He's calling out
the Democrat Party for shutting down the government. He said,
we're wrong. They're owning it. That's what's happening. He's owning
it for them, even though some of them are out
bragging about it. Hey, we've got poor people struggling. This
is great leverage. Yes, suffering people. That's awesome. What political

(01:20:59):
capital we can we can spend money with. It's ridiculous.
Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha, NASCAR Cup Series champion
Kyle Busch, So they lost over eight million dollars in
a life insurance scheme through Pacific Life. Oh you know,
Pacific Life is not is not like Biff's Insurance. It's

(01:21:24):
not like Biff Insurance co. Pacific Life is a big
time player. This is a huge pr problem for Pacific
Life because the Bushes are like, uh yeah, we we
invested ten and a half million and we we lost
all but a couple million of it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Ouch.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
So they're they're coming public a because they filed acclaim
against Pacific Life. Good, we'll see where. You know, Pacific
Life has stay in court. We'll see where it all leads.
And then the final, the third and final big story
in the press box is the prediction of climate catastrophe
losses that whole world has lost one of its biggest advocates,

(01:22:18):
Bill Gates. Sweet goodness. I am getting our friend Greg
Wrightstone back on the program to talk about this because
Greg is quoted in this article of Epic Times, which,
by the way, we were one of the very first
radio programs to give Greg Wrightstone a platform years ago,

(01:22:42):
and now Greg Wrightstone is being sought out for quotes
by Epic Times. He's been a friend of the program
ever since. He writes me and says, hey, I'd love
to talk about this. Done, it's done. We put him on,
So I'm going to reach out talk about this. Bill
Gates has done a one sixty. He hasn't done one

(01:23:04):
to eighty. He's done one sixty, maybe one forty five,
maybe one forty five is better and so suddenly let me,
in fact get the quote, people will be able to
live and thrive in most places on Earth for the
foreseeable future. Oh so much for the doom and gloom
you wrote four years ago. We told you they are

(01:23:25):
all a bunch of liars. They're going to try and
distance themselves. Why because all of those dire predictions, going
back to the inconvenient truth of al Gore, none of
them have come true. None of them have come true.
None of them have come true. Forty minutes past the
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(01:24:04):
What was your favorite when you were a kid, when
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and I'll be ready. We also have what's the beef?

(01:24:30):
Best and worst? Best and worst? We have good news
headlines from the Bee and so Friday. I don't know.
I don't know if Friday can beat Today's show. Just
I'm laying it out there. I don't know, because even
though I'm not necessarily I'm Kurk Gibson in the World

(01:24:54):
Series back in the day when I was a little injured.
When he was injured and he cranked a home run
to win a game, He's like one of the greatest
moments in World Series history. He's limping around the bases literally,
he's dragging himself to the plate, cranks a home run.
That was me today. I'm not at my best, but
I've been at my best. Does that make sense? Today

(01:25:16):
has been just absolutely awesome. If you're just tuning in,
you need to go back to the very beginning, get
the podcast, and listen to the show. Because this show,
every single segment has been absolute gold. In fact, I
could just air this show as the best of show

(01:25:37):
for the entire month. I might do that. I might
take this show and make it the best of the
month of October. What if I did that, I'd have
to do some crazy editing to make it work because
the segments are different in the Best of the Twelve

(01:25:58):
Days of President. But I might do that. I might
do that, all right, I never do this. My and
another thing, the commentary airs. I do two commentaries a
week on most weeks, and it airs in our markets
and wherever, and I talked about the NAACP, the National

(01:26:25):
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, by the way,
really colored people. You're still saying that. Oh that's right.
It's okay for you to say things that are off
limits for anybody else. Okay, sorry, sorry about that talking

(01:26:45):
about politically incorrect anyway. The NAACP, though it's it's beginning
might have had some nobility to it, it is. It
has now reduced itself to one mission, fostering racism through
Democrat policy. That's it, period, end. I want you to

(01:27:06):
think about this. In Virginia's gubernatorial race, it has endorsed
a white female candidate, Abigail Spanberger, instead of a black
minority candidate who happens to be a conservative Republican wins
Earl Sears Lieutenant governor. So let me understand me. I

(01:27:27):
just want you to just get yourself thinking about this.
I'm massaging your brain, readying you for this. Okay. The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is not

(01:27:49):
celebrating and doing all it can to help elect a
black woman to the highest office in Virginia. What if
that does not betray the stated principles of the NAACP,

(01:28:16):
the lofty goals the NAACP. We are for the advancement
of colored people unless they think like a Republican and
then they're just an Uncle Tom. They're just whitey, They're
just whitey. It is mask off time. I highlighted this

(01:28:38):
because it appears that to the NAACP. Let me say
this with the proper the dialect of being black only
matters when chained to the Democrat plantation. It's shameful and

(01:29:03):
hilarious all at once. You're welcome forty six minutes after
the ownum told you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
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but the Conversations podcast. So there you go about that ballroom,

(01:30:37):
you know the ballroom we're talking about, right, Well, if
you look at it closely enough, there's there's something underneath
where they've demolished. That is the Presidential Emergency Operations Center,
the bunker that is built underneath that area that they
knocked down. And so the thought is that that they're

(01:31:00):
it's going to be doing some changes to the bunker. Now.
The only people that are in there are people that
have to be in there, and it's only been used
a handful of times nine to eleven when rioters were
in Washington, DC at different times. They moved President Trump
there in May of twenty twenty. So the word is

(01:31:25):
that the work has been described as security enhancements involving
the underground bunker built under the East Wing during World
War II, and so there's likely going to be some
reinforcement or modernization going on there. So just saying now,

(01:31:45):
keep in mind, Roosevelt put a pool in for himself
because he had polio and that's how he could exercise.
And Obama put on a basketball court where he never
took me up on the offer to play in one
on one, and I would have humiliated him at least
the ballrooms for more than John the President.

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Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
This program started appropriately with God's word. We went old
to a New Testament. We went to Malachi three verses
thirteen through seventeen, and we did a an amazing I
didn't tie it together. God did. It's in his combined word.
We tied it together though with Romans five to one.
So that's where we started the radio program. Great conversation

(01:32:30):
with Steve Stewart. There was a little overlap between our
guests Steve Stewart and our guests the Commission of Education
who showed up at the Leon County school Board meeting.
Anastasioskimutzas the Commission of Education went to the local school
board meeting and had just freaked out Rocky Hanner, and
so Rocky chakes some cheap shots in the newspaper. Instead
of just talking with him right there, which he was

(01:32:52):
perfectly free to do, he chose not to. He chose
to throw little insults at him through the paper. That's typical.
And I and here's the thing. I like Rocky I do.
He's a likable dude, and I think he does care
about the kids. He just it's interesting he calls h

(01:33:16):
kimutsis immature. Brother. I mean this and all the kindness
I can muster. You defined it during your term, as
so many times as Superintendent of Education with your reactions
to things. This was another one. You had a chance
to talk to the Commission of Education. Make him an ally,
not an enemy. And sadly you've made enemy of the

(01:33:37):
governor throughout your tenure. The governors and now another Commission
of Education talked about a lot of other things as well.
Check out the podcast tomorrow. I can't wait because we're
gonna do it again. If I mentioned I love my job, friends,
have an awesome day, Be blessed,