Ep. 5499: Religion, Politics, and Infiltration

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, November 20th.

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steveron
- Commissioner Anastasios Koumatsa, Fl. DOE
- Blaise Ingoglia 


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey, good morning, friendly voice here on this side of
the conversation. How are you this morning show with Preston
Scott Im Preston, He's Jose, great to be with you.
It is Thursday, November twentieth. More on that date in
mere moments. But we will begin as we do with scripture.
And we have been going through Genesis three and the

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encounter between Eve and the serpent at their wife's known
as Satan. And and it's and and we're we're pointing
out how Satan works, and it's never changed. His methods

(01:03):
are the same as they were in the garden. Think
about that for just a second. He's still pulling the
same fast one. Now, in this case, God had given
direction to Adam, see this garden, See all the fruit

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and trees. See it's all yours, bud, except don't eat
from that one. And it was referred to as the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam clearly
tells Eve because when Satan is approaching Eve with the temptation,

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did God actually say you shall not eat of any
tree in the garden, She correctly said, no, that's not
what God said. God said, you can't eat from that tree.
So we know because she wasn't there when God spoke

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to Adam. That was a conversation God had with Adam.
Adam fulfilled his responsibility, told Eve he correctly told Satan.
Satan then starts to question, you will not die. Come on,

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you can eat all of these trees, but that one
tree really, come on, and we talked about the importance
of the knowledge of good and evil. Like, it's not
as if that fruit possessed the eternal wisdom and knowledge
of God. No, it was about obedience. God simply asked

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for obedience. You can do all of this, just don't
eat of that. That's what we do as parents. You
can do this, just don't do that. But then this
encounter goes on. Satan had said to Eve, you're not

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gonna die. Come on, who you kidding? He made you?
Is that could kill you? He continued, for God knows
that when you eat of it, your eyes will be
opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
Oh boy, see what he's appealing to. It's kind of

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that pride of life thing. Wait, I can be like God.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food and that it was a delight to the eyes.
Isn't that the way sin is? Yeah, it looks good.

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And then the tree that it was to be desired
to make one wise. She took of the fruit and
ate it. Oh, she got wise, all right, She got
wise to the fact that she and her husband who
she gave the apple to, and he was like, okay,
he surrendered his responsibility and role right there. Okay, I'll

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take a bite. And all of a sudden, yeah, they knew,
they knew they were naked. All of a sudden, they
realized they didn't have any clothes off. They didn't notice.
It wasn't a thing. It literally was not a thing.
It was disobedience at the core that opened the doorway

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to the problems the knowledge of good and evil. Got
didn't want us to have knowledge of good, because good
is nothing compared to God's best. And at that before
this encounter with Satan and God gave man the right
to choose. All they knew was God's best. And that's

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all that would have been experienced except for that, And
we are born that way as a result of the
fall with sin. What are you gonna do about it?
That's the point. Ten past the Hours of the Morning show,

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The twentieth of November sixteen twenty pair of green White.
The first child born of English parents in New England,
is born aboard the Mayflower off Cape Cod seventeen eighty nine,
New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill

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of Rights. Oh how Wayward, New Jersey has become. Eighteen twenty,
the Nantucket whaler Essex is attacked and sunk by a
sperm whale in the South Pacific, an event that helps
inspire Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Call Me Ishmael.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Nineteen forty three. One of the bloodiest battles in Marine
Corps history begins Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific. US prevails
with the cost of a thousand dead nineteen fifty three
flying at Douglas Skyrocket at Edward's Air Force Base, Scott
Crossfield becomes the first to break mock two. Who oh man,

(07:05):
that's moving. And it was on this date in twenty eighteen,
at eleven thirty seven at night, that my oldest grandson
was born. And I'm going to celebrate him today. Don't

(07:31):
tell anybody, but I'm going to bring him a surprise
birthday party to his classroom. Yes, So that's gonna be
a lot of fun. Today is National Absurdity Day. I
set in death just today different than any other day.

(07:54):
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day. Peanut butter by itself as fudge,
I'm not no, no, uh uh. It's gotta have chocolate
and the ratio has to be right. You gotta if
you just have, if you just overwhelm with peanut butter,

(08:15):
it's just it's too much. It's a great American smokeout.
That means for those of you that are smoking heaters stop,
come on stop. First of all, you're killing yourself literally. Secondly,

(08:36):
you smell really bad. You may not think you do,
but you do. Thirdly, because of your smoke and it
permeating your body and your clothes and everything else, you
give headaches to people around you. I'm just being that
guy who's being honest with you. I'm that kind of friend.

(08:59):
I'm willing to lose the friendship to be a friend,
because that's what a friend is. A friend is. Look
at Proverbs. Take all of the things that Proverbs teaches
about friendship, add them all up, and here's what you get.
A friend is willing to lose the friendship to be
a friend. To say things that others will not say
because they're scared to. I'm not scared. Stop smoking. You stink,

(09:29):
your breath, smells, your teeth, yellow, your clothes reek No,
stop it. It's bad for you.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Bad.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
So there you go. Yeah, that'll do sixteen past. Now
we have a busy show and I'll tell you about
it next here in the Morning Show. Another loaded Thursday.

(10:02):
We've got Steve Stewart next hour, doctor Steve steveson. If
you're thinking of a pet for a present, you want
to listen. There are considerations that you really need to
have front of mind before you make that decision to
get a pet for somebody. Okay, so we'll talk about
that in the third hour. We've got the Commissioner of Education,

(10:27):
Stasse kamutsas he is, he's going to join us. Then
we've got the CFO at the bottom of the hour
of the third hour, Blazing Golia, Florida CFO will be
on the program. So it is. It's a busy day
here on the Morning Show. Quickly, Orphan Shade, we are

(10:49):
just short of twenty thousand dollars. A little better day yesterday,
thank you. We're pushing trying to raise fifty five thousand
dollars between now and December seventeenth. That's our sign off
for the year. And then we get to the twelve
days of Preston special shows recapping the year in review,
taking you through the Christmas holiday, New Year's and then

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we'll be back with live shows on January fifth, on Monday.
But we have until the middle of December to raise
this fifty five thousand dollars. So if you can help
Orphanshade dot com and in the drop down menu after
you push the donate button, you simply pick the amount
you're going to give in the frequency and build a

(11:31):
house and in the comments put house number six or
WFLA or my name, whatever you want to do. That
would be great to get that money to build a
home for orphan children. You know, one of the things
I've been reminding us all is that Jesus said, whatever

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you do for the least of these, you do and
to me. And I can't think of a group of
people that would be categorized as those in the greatest
of need, but a young lady, a young child five
to ten years of age who has been orphaned, no mother,
no father, both have died and so we helped with

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Home number three in twenty twenty two, and now we're
looking to do Home number six and the costs are
up a little bit. So whatever you can do to help,
we would greatly appreciate it. It doesn't matter the amount.
But again, if we can get some big gifts, it's
going to move us along really, really well. And we've

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had some of those and so we thank you though
for every single dollar that you can put together in
and give to help make this happen. And we'd love
to get some new people involved in the project. You
will not regret it. You will be in the loop.
As far as Jay does an amazing job. The co

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founder of this program, Jael, he will join us in December.
He does an amazing job keeping up to date with
his supporters and those that are are are tied together
with Orphan Shade in the mission. And I think that's
why so many people that gave before are giving again,
because what I've said about Orphan Shade is a ministry

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and a program, and the integrity and the transparency of
the finances and how much money gets to the source
of what we're giving to. It's people give to the
things that they have trust in and he's proven trustworthy.
And this ministry has been around for a while. So
Orphanshade dot com donate, give what you can in the comments.

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We're built. You click drop down building a house house
number six. That's what we're doing. Government has released nearly
four thousand, six hundred pages of documents related to Amelia Earhart,
her last communication, which was documented on July second, nineteen

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thirty seven. They did an incredible search for her. They
searched two hundred and fifty thousand square miles. They came
up with four areas that they thought most likely to
be where she was. One of the transmissions of the
four that were that were marked four different radio transmissions.

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The last one was on the day that she disappeared,
July second, and she's giving what she can determine to
be her location. It seems Purdue University has delayed the

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expedition searching for the plane at Nuka Morero Island, which
is Gardner Island, until next year. They're having some issues
getting permits and some concerns over hurricane season, which now
that we're in the Southern Hemisphere, is just starting to
ramp up. So there's a delay in trying to find it.

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But they definitely they had seven sorry, seven credible distress
signals detected between July second and July sixth. Now, I'll
be the first one to tell you that unless they
were hurt and they crashed as they landed, that would
seem to be a pretty quick end of transmissions except
for this. How long do you think batteries are going

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to last back in those days, the nineteen thirties. But
they were logged near Gardner Island. They calculated the endurance
of the Electra, of the Lockheed Electra at twenty hours
and thirteen minutes, and she went roughly forty minutes beyond
what the Navy estimated her range was. So she was

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milking it for all it's worth. They think she missed
her target. Howland Island, she flew over it, she went
past it, and that led to the problem. So more
information out there on Amelia Earhart. If you're an interested party,
you can probably access some of that stuff. But that's
forty six hundred pages of documentation. Twenty seven minutes past

(16:18):
the hour. Let's do the big stories in the press box.
Next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Morning Show with Preston Scott, do you.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Understand the words that are coming out.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Of my mouth?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
On news radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right, thirty five almost thirty six minutes past. So
we get a call someone's really mad at me because
I said that smokers stink. I love you, but you do,
and perhaps no one's telling you don't be offended. See

(17:01):
that's the role I play. I'm gonna say what other
people aren't gonna say. That's good for you to hear.
Don't be offended by it. Quit smoking. I'm reminded of
George Carlin's classic line about smoking weed. He said, they
say smoking weed is addictive. I've been doing it twenty years.

(17:24):
I'm not hooked. I'm look. I recognize that quitting smoking
is hard to do. I think that's why it's called
an addiction, but I could be wrong. I just it's

(17:45):
not possible to smoke cigarettes and not have it affect
your smell on your clothing, because your clothing absorbs it.
They're just if I'm seated by somebody who's this, I
have to move because I get a headache within minutes,

(18:07):
and I'm just I don't have to do that. I
can relocate. And I'm just telling you for your own good,
not a big story in the press box. Here's a
big story in the press box. Sizzlers are making a comeback.
Sizzler Steakhouse, the uh, the chain is making a comeback.
Now they have eighty They used to have seven hundred

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Sizzlers across seven hundred across the country. They have eighty.
But they're they're they're we'll see if they're gonna spread.
They they are redoing those eighty stores, giving them facelifts,
making them look nice, and profits are up. I wouldn't

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go to California, Illinois, and New York, but still that's
that's good. This goes with my commentary. A Global research
center Institute for the Study of Global Anti Semitism and Policy,
released a two hundred page report pointing out that it

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is a multi general campaign by the Muslim Brotherhood to
transform Western society from within, and they have infiltrated the
United States and they are calling for the United States
to make them a terrorist organization as Texas has Hello
here here, megadetto's all of those. Yes, it should be

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a terrorist organization and so should care. The Council of
American Islamic relations. These organizations are out to destroy this nation.
I made a statement in my commentary that's up right now,
and it goes something like this, practicing Muslims should not

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be allowed to run for office in this country. An
ardent supporter of the Qur'an is diametrically opposed to most
of the United States Constitution by virtue of faith. Whereas

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the United States Constitution was largely birthed through Judeo Christian
principles found in the Bible Old Testament anew Our system
of government, the judicial, the legislative, and the executive, comes
from the Bible, the Old Testament. If you're not paying

(20:45):
attention to what's going on in Dearborn, it is about
to get unbelievable. I watched the city council meeting where
the guy who brought out the Qur'an with tried to
burn it and then put a slab of bacon on it.

(21:06):
Someone stole it. He went to the city council meeting
and he basically told him to get the f out
of our country. Sharia law, he said, doesn't belong in
this country. You don't belong here. There's all kinds of
Islamic nations for you to go to quit trying to
change this country. And that's the essence of it.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I may not agree with the words and the way
that he chose to attack this situation, but I agree
with the overarching sentiment. And friends, everybody listening, you better
wake up to this third big story. We'll get to
next forty one minutes past the hour because it has
an addendum that that I was going to share in

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the next segment.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Anyway, whatever you may be, from Florida Sunshine State to California,
a scratch that California is hopeless. For the rest, We're
your Morning show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
What do you mind? Just send me this story. Surge
in LGBTQ rabbinical students reflects a long delayed access and
a changing model of spiritual leadership, raising questions about a
possible queering of the non orthodox rabbinant. The transformation that's

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happening in our culture is picking up speed, even though
there is an embrace of conservatism and Christian culture in
certain parts of this country. The speed of transformation's incredible.

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Want you to think about what's happened in Charlotte. Did
you notice over the weekend. What happened as ICE was
going out into some of the outlying areas of Charlotte
trying to find the illegals, because there are massive numbers
of illegals in Charlotte, North Carolina. At a friend of

(23:23):
the show said, all these protesters that showed up at
these things, y'll get that bleep out, I mean the
violence against ICE officers agents. But he said protesters should
consider sponsoring an illegal alien, provide for them sign an
agreement that they are legally responsible for any crimes committed
by the illegals. Yeah, it gets I mean, it's the

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same idea that we've talked about for years. All the
people on the left talk about this, you know, welcoming
policy that we ought to have towards people breaking into
our country. Well, then open your freaking doors up and
let them stay with you. They don't view breaking into

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this country like they do breaking into a house. So
in the wake of all these protests, listen to this,
Charlotte School District attendants plummets after the raid as they

(24:28):
began this operation. Charlotte's web in North Carolina. Listen to this.
School attendance was down on the following Monday, twenty one percent.
Now to put some numbers on that, that's more than
twenty thousand students miss school and most all of them

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were marked unexcused. How many illegal students are we educating?
And I'm not mad at the kids, hear me, I'm not.

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This administration's finding these children that have been lost and
could be being trafficked living who knows where, like pharaoh,
cats or dogs. This is not the children's fault. But
at the same time, allowing illegal parents to remain in

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this country is a crime against those children. I'm sorry.
We can't just fix everything. It starts with a fundamental
rule of law, and I want the bleeding hearts out
there to open up their doors before you lecture us

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or me. Don't lecture me until they're living in your home,
under your roof and with your children. Forty six minutes
past the hour, a very sordid tale to share with you.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Next, let's just start with the presumption that he's right.
Believe me, it works around here. This is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
You know, I don't personally care whether it's a D
or an R. You know that there should be a
standard for any elected official, and there's some troubling things
bubbling out. It's ugly, and it's it's going to hurt
the Republican Party. But that's okay. You know, I had

(26:53):
someone email me that said, you know, why is it
that the Republicans are fine censuring their own but they
won't do to Democrats. Well, first of all, they're not
fine censuring their own. They didn't. There are questions being raised.
Representative Nancy Mace out of South Carolina forced the House
to vote on whether to censure Representative Corey Mills out

(27:17):
of Florida, Mills's former army and her allegation as he's
operating under stolen valor. He did serve, but not to
the distinction that he's claiming, according to her and the
record she cites. Additionally, there are questions about his personal

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life relationships, marriage to a devout Muslim, and a ceremony
officiated by an unindicted World Trade Center bombing co conspirator.
I mean, if you're a sitting member of Congress, do
you think maybe that's a little problematic. But what's interesting

(28:03):
here is the vote to censure failed three ten to one.
Oh three. Of course, Democrats joined. Democrats joined because they
don't want their people censured. They don't want plaskets censured,
they don't want to ill how omar censured. And so

(28:24):
the assertion now being made by Representative Ana Paulina Luna
of Florida and Tim Burchett of Tennessee is that leadership
in the House cut a deal. Okay, we'll kill any
effort to censure your person as long as you don't
support the censure of ours and see. To me, the

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issue isn't, well, why are Republicans willing to censure their
own but never Democrats? The issue is, I don't care.
If you've got people on your side that should be
censured or face discipline, then do it. Clean your house.
It should be pointed out. Seven House Republicans voted to

(29:16):
move the censure vote forward. It's instead going to go
to the ethics Panel, where it's likely going to go
to die. We'll see. But you know who one of
those votes was one of the brave Republicans to say, yeah,
he needs to be he needs to answer for this stuff.
Kat Camick. Kat Cammick was one of the few Reps

(29:47):
that actually said, yeah, we need to go ahead with this,
and we need to hear from Representative Mills and let
the process play out. They believe that there's reason to
move ahead. But it's troubling. This is the kind of crap.

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And and Mike Johnson's a good man. What's he doing
if this is what he's doing cutting backroom deals? Okay,
we won't, we won't, we won't censure, We won't bring
up ilhann Omar or this lady who was taking questions
the lady during in the twenty nineteen panel. First of all,

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she's not a voting member of Congress. She's representing Puerto
Rico or something like that. She's texting back and forth.
She claims that that Epstein was a constituent of hers
at the time, and and and and what they've been

(30:57):
able to show is that he was sending her questions.
He was he was manipulating the panel discussion on his
crimes through a member of Congress. By the way, you
got to hear what Jasmine Crockett had to say. What

(31:18):
a flaming fool that young lady is. Oh my gosh,
Maybe we'll get to that tomorrow. Steve Stewart is on
deck from Tallasse reports our number two already here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, good morning,

(31:44):
welcome second hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott. He SoSE,
I'm Preston at show fifty four to ninety nine. Tomorrow
show fifty five hundred. Wow, I said it wouldn't last.
Actually the person who said would last with me, So
I prove myself wrong. We are joined, of course, on Thursdays,

(32:07):
by Steve Stewart. He's the executive editor at Tallaski Reports.
But but before we talk to Steve, let's listen. In
last night City of Tallahassee Commission meeting. This is Commissioner
Jack Porter.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
I pulled the item because while I support our efforts
to you know, secure funding, grant support for some of
our stated goals and plans and our strategic plan, you know,
hiring more police is just not a sustainable or evidence
based way of addressing crime.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
She actually said that, and we just heard it, and
that's unbelievable and it will be it will not be
reported anywhere but talas Reports. And so I think you
know that I was shot.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I was.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
I was actually looking at the meeting. Now, look, this
is low hanging fruit. People will say if you look
at this clip though it's low hanging fruit in the
sense that, look, we all understand the idea that and
Sheriff Wall m'neil's talked about this. They're aspects of the
criminal of crime that have to be addressed from a

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social standpoint. Absolutely, But to argue that a six hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars grant from the federal government
to be used to help a community pay for police
officers is an issue.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
To make this type of argument is unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
And again this is something that needs to be played
for a week so that everybody can see exactly what
we're on the edge of. You know, we're not Portland,
but we got a little Portland in US.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I want folks to hear the end of that.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
You know, hiring more police is just not a sustainable
or evidence bay based.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
When of addressing crime, and there's not.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
That's just patently wrong Steve.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
And again this is about an issue where the Feds
are giving money to help defer the cost of five
new police officers over five years, six hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, and again to make to take this
issue and so the vote.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Was for one. She voted against it.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
But she couldn't even pull a commissioner Mattlow along on
this one because he's running for mayor. And but again,
is an insight. And if you watch these meetings, and
I've always said this, and if I had more time,
I'd watch them all the time because you can get
these snippets of tell it tells you where people really are.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
And you know, she again, are you a surprised she
said that out And now, seriously, are you surprised she
said that out loud?

Speaker 6 (34:45):
I would have I would have been surprised if it
was closer to her to just getting elected. But right
now she feels like she's bulletproof. She's been elected, she's
been re elected, and so she has the ability. Look,
we've exposed her for who she is in terms of
going to these left wing meetings conferences, and so you
got a point for that statement.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
There, and so again not a surprise from that standpoint. Surprise.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
I mean she's like, basically, hey, I can say this
had get elected, So here I go. And the point
is is that I think that the guy sitting next
to her feels.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
The same way.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
But he's just he's just oh he said it in
the past, but now it's the election. Look, there's some
more applications here. Right after this, there was a vote
to reorganize the City Commission UH, to re elect the
new pro mayor pro tem, who is in charge when
the mayor is out of.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Town or you know, sick or whatever.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
And there's a motion by Mattlow to a point porter
which failed. And then so then there was a vote
to put Curtis richardson and and she made it very personal,
you know, in terms of why you know, this looks
this makes it look like I'm being targeted.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Mattlow had said that.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
But Mayor Daily's response was, look, you have routinely given
Rescoed a rating of his ZO, which is actually just
a symbolic gesture saying I won't work with you, and
if I'm gone, I can't trust you to be in
charge of the City Commission.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
I mean, he said that.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
And so it's a very good point, Yes it is,
and so but again so it went back down into
back and forth. But this is again a snippet of
what we're having to deal with, and it's a three
to two one vote margin at the city or you
get policies that are not far away from what she
just talked about, which is basically defunding police. Don't want

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to use the police to enforce laws.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Portland, Seattle, any number of Democrat runs cities, and I
want to remind everybody, every single person's up there is
a Democrat. This is a fight amongst themselves, no doubt,
Steve store with us stories you will not find get
anywhere else. It's Tallahassee Reports dot.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Com show Preston Scott mon on News Radio one hundred
point seven double us LA.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
He's the executive He's the executive editor of Tallassei Reports.
I could say that Steve Stewart with us this morning
as he is on Thursday mornings. The growth of the
community as it relates to certain areas that are considered
by some to be real sensitive from a I don't
know the ecology of the area.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
Yeah, so there's the debate about where to grow, you know,
is front and center, and we've sawt We've seen a
debate first of all about you know, extending, extending what
is called the USA Urban Services Area, which basically defines
where we want to grow because it provides it provides
urban services, central water and sewer, electric utility, road infrastructure,

(38:04):
and so every now and then you try to you
look at growth. You need thirty thousand new homes in
the next twenty years, and you change the tallhassee Leon
County Tallise comprehensive Plan.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
So you can so there's a place to develop. You
sort of use this as a way to direct it.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Well, there's a debate going on obviously between the progressives
and people who want some growth.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
And they want more infill.

Speaker 6 (38:27):
But they turned they found out recently that the neighborhoods
downtown really are interested in phil So you have to grow,
and you've got to And I would argue if you
look around the country and even even this state, if
you go to some cities like Orlando and Jacksonville, Saint
John's County.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
You know we have grown pretty responsibly.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
So the debate now is expanding to the USA in
the northeast area around the Lake Jackson area. And so
if you have in your mind Meridian and Bannerman Road
and the Orchard Pond Toll Road.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Which connects over to the northwest part of the community exactly.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
There is a you know, the request to expand the
USA so that that land has access to urban urban
services on the east side and the west side of
Meridian Road. And so the debate has come on the
west side because of the sensitivity of Lake Jackson. And

(39:21):
so the state has reviewed this expansion and they've made
some arguments, Look, you got some environmental issues, and you
got some traffic issues on the west side, and we
probably would not like to see this expanded right now
and if you And so what has happened is staff
took those comments and changed the recommendation to say, look,
we're going to expand the USA on the east side

(39:44):
of Meridian, which is east and north of Bannerman in
that area, but we're going to put a little bit
of which is Lake Ammonia, right, We're going to put
a hold on the west side. And then you know,
the person that owns that land, which is one property
owner there, can reapply make the argument in the future.
But the issue being I think the bigger issues transportation,

(40:06):
the environmental. One of the reasons why you do the
USA is because of environmental impacts, you go ahead and
get hooked up to central source so you don't have
to deal with septic tanks. You know, you go ahead
and put things in place to protect Lake Jackson. So anyway,
that's the big debate that's going on right now. The
traffic issue is a tough one to deal with because
Meridian Road is not going to be widened. It's you know,

(40:28):
it's a canopy road and that area that's where that
traffic's going to be a lot of it's gonna be dumped.
And so anyway, that's the debate. It was a five
to two voted the Leon County commission. It is not
consistent with what the city passed, so they're gonna have
to get together on that. The two commissioners have voted
against it only voted against it because they wanted more

(40:50):
more limits on growth, and that was Rick Minor and
David O'Keefe. Brian Welch said, hey, look I can take
this compromise.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
It provides some.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
More room for growth, but you know, we've got to
be we have got to understand that this community has
got to grow. We've got to have more homes built.
And so that's where the debate is. And again it's
something worth watching. It's in the weeds, but people are
you have to local government has to look twenty years
down the road. These things just don't pop up. Are

(41:19):
you running too the issue that you got with Bannerman
Road right now, which should have been widened ten years ago,
if not more, if not more, And they're playing catch
up now because somebody got in the way of widening that.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
And it is a slow, slow process. But now imagine
if you developed the east side of Meridian north of
Bannerman Road, and as you mentioned, Meridian is not an
artery for traffic flow, it's not, and then you are
going to run head head on against the Canopy Tree crowd. Definitely. Now.
The other thing is is the toll road will get

(41:52):
you to northwest talle.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
I see at a price, at a price, and then
Bannerman when it gets widened, that'll open up there.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
But yes, Meridian is going to be an issue. Boy,
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Speaker 6 (42:51):
Yes, yes, I'm always uh, you know, you're putting it together.
It's a work of art. After it's done, and it's relieving.
This says, Hey, this is awesome. We got a lot
of stories in there.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
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Speaker 6 (43:03):
We've got a child's swimmer. Yeah, I saw that first meet.
I mean, he was already a standout. And he's got
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(43:23):
and so unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
We've got this story out. It's just anyway, no one
else has that story. All right, Hey, let's let's let's
set this up for just a second. As the kids
said a few years ago, because I'm always behind the curb,
things are getting a little saucy at TMH.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Well, look, so this is a TMH FSU merger update.
Negotiations are going on behind the scenes. You know, and
it's tough to ascertain. You know, FSU was working with
the city. There's two two negotiations going on. Fsh's working
with the city for the transfer of the hospital assets,
and then you got FSU working on TMH.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Was holding the cards. Yeah, FSU in the city are
holding all the cards. Okay.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
So TMH is decided to hire a bunch of pr
people to try to get more leverage, and they had
a town hall meeting last night on the South Side.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Fifty sixty people showed up. And the thing that's starting
to the they that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Tyle has the NAACP and a group called Tallacy Alert, which.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
TMH had a representative there.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
And it appears to me that TEMH is really not
on board with the MoU they have signed, and they're
more interested in sort of stalling this for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
So are they having seller's remorse?

Speaker 6 (44:39):
I think they are. I think that you know, you know,
the the context that we're getting, you know, from Chittram
Mattlow is that FSU was holding a gun to tmh's head,
which is another way of saying that you don't that
they have the leverage. And they have the leverage because
tmh's has not been run well financially, not an embarrassing thing.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
This environment of.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
Community hospitals standalone have a tough time financially. Sure, that's
why you're seeing this move across the country of mergers
and consolidations, and so let's just get along, get on
with it. You know, we're behind the curve already. I
think some indications. We did a big story about compensation,
the CEOs compensation. You got a lot of traction, a

(45:23):
lot of response from TMH on social media trying to
you know, trying to explain why so much money is
being you know, paid out under CEO compensation. The issue
I have right now is the lack of transparency that
we're running into. F s U is a is a
state entity which has to abide by public records law.

(45:46):
City of Tallahas is the same way TMH, you know,
is fighting releasing public records, which I'm trying to deal with.
It's gonna take a little bit of help their reputation.
But I mean the simple request to provide the salary
of the CEO, you know, because everybody else knows the
salary of you know, FSU. People in this negotiation to

(46:08):
say no tells you the lack of transparency that's involved.
So then it piques an interest of a journalist like me. Well,
if you won't talk about that, you know, we've got
conflict of interests policies for all the board members kind
of get copies of those, they're not going to provide
them because they feel like they're exempt. And like I said,
I disagree with that. There's it gets into some legal

(46:28):
definitions and we're going to follow up with that. But
the city subsidizes TMH to the tune of probably ten million,
if not more a year in free rent, which is
basically a tax. In other words, you know, this is
money that could be offsetting property taxes if we were
charging rent and we're not.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
And so it's comingling with Temah.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
But I I think there should be more transparent transparency
about what's going on, how the hospital's being run, and
so we'll continue to ask those questions and try to
get the information out to the citizens who have to.
You know, again, this teammate is looking at this as
a pr battle a lot city and FSU is looking
at as a negotiation to move the community forward within

(47:17):
with an academical medical center, which is not some wild
haired idea.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
This is going on all over the country. Am I
somewhere in the back recesses of my mind. Have always
been under the impression that a nonprofit organization, because they're
granted status that gives them those benefits from a tax perspective,
they are required to provide information publicly.

Speaker 6 (47:40):
So a private nonprofit has to file with the IRS
nine ninety information and that is public information is not
to the detail that you would get from public records.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
And so the but the issue here, though, is that
they are in business with and have agreements with a
public entity, the city.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
And it's being so that's the argument that they should
provide public records. Problem is is they never been They've
never been challenged. Yeah, so we'll see what happens with that.
Thank you, Thank you prece have a great Thanksgiving. We'll
talk in a couple of weeks. Yes, I'll see after
the after Thanksgiving holiday.

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Speaker 1 (48:57):
Thirty six minutes past the hour, The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. He's ose. We got pause for thought just
a few minutes. If you're thinking of a pet at Christmas, listen,
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(49:17):
six is what you can put in there. Big stories
This morning, a scathing report calls on the US to
label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. It is an
international group that says it is infiltrating every part of
your life. Yes it is. I'm gonna say this with

(49:43):
my last breath. Islam is playing the long game and
they are one city, one community, one state at a time,
trying to take over. Do you realize listen to this.

(50:03):
The largest population of Somalis anywhere in the world outside
of Somalia is Minneapolis, Minnesota, ninety thousand. And if you
look at what's happening in Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan is ground zero.

(50:26):
I'm telling you, I'm not I don't want it to happen.
It's gonna happen. There's going to be violence in Dearborn
because the Islamic mayor turning a blind eye to I
mean some fundamentals. Fundamentally, being a practicing Islamist is not

(50:49):
compatible with running for office in this country. They should
not be allowed. They meaning Islamist, should not be allowed
to run for office anywhere, any level of office, any
elected office. None. That's no, it's not bigotry. It is
a reality that this country is based on Judeo Christian

(51:13):
values and is organized underneath those. It is put together.
Its system of governance is based on that, and the
Bill of Rights is in direct opposition to the teachings
of Islam. I want you to think about this. The

(51:34):
Bible is banned or restricted in North Korea, the Maladives,
Somali A, Libya, Eritrea, Saudi, Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmanistan, China, Brunei, Morocco, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Yemen, Pakistan, Oman, Egypt, Syria, Iraq,

(51:58):
or Sudan. You know where the Quran is banned Nowhere.
There are all kinds of places in the world. If
you want to be in an Islamic government, go live there.

(52:18):
But I am telling you now loud and clear, we
need to have two uncomfortable discussions. That's one of them.
The second is that communists, socialists and Marxists cannot run
for office in this country. We'll but preston, they'll just lie.
That's fine, they might get elected. But the second they
enact anything that is in a violation or an affront

(52:40):
to our constitution, they're out. They're thrown out. They're not
voted out, they're thrown out. How do you swear an
oath to uphend and help uphold and defend the Constitution
against foreign against all enemies, foreign and domestic when you're
one of the enemies, you can't do it because those systems,

(53:01):
those forms of government are diametrically opposed to ours, a
constitutional republic. Forty minutes past the hour, just some of
the big stories in the press box this morning. Forty
past that means doctor Steve Steveson is on deck.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Next, oo's weather, traffic and the big stories in the
press box. The fastest three hours in media, and don't
be surprised if you have a chuckle here and there.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Just like that.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Thanks for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Next hour, Commissioner Anastasios Kumatsis Kamutsas. I'm'll get that right.
He's the Commissioner Department of Education and Blazing Golie CFO
for the State. Next hour here on the Morning Show.
But first it's time I am for some good advice.

(54:02):
It's Pause for thought here on the Morning Show with
Presto Scott with doctor Steve Steverson of the brad Porville
Animal Hospital. Good morning, doctor Steverson. How are you sir?

Speaker 7 (54:13):
Hey Preston, I'm doing great. How are you?

Speaker 1 (54:14):
I'm doing well, But I'm not going to be trying
to buy a pet over the holidays. I've already got
I've already gotten email from people that are interested in
this topic. So I'm curious what kind of advice would
you give somebody considering any kind of pet as a
gift at Christmas time?

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Absolutely, you know, the very first question I have to
ask is does the person really want a pet? How
they expressed a desire to get a pet? You know,
don't just think, oh, this person really needs a pet
and I'm going to get them one. Make sure they
really are they really desire a pet, and then you know,
you can think about what's their lifestyle they're capable of

(54:53):
caring for a pet. If they live in a downtown
apartment or they have in a spawling estate, determines what
kind of pet may be suitable for them. Some pets
have very unique needs, so you got to consider that.
And you're just trying to decide what kind of pet
you want to get for a person. You know, if
you're getting a pet for your children, that's a great thing.

(55:16):
Every child you grow up with a pet in the household,
and it's a great experience for them. But you know
who the responsibility for caring for that, Yeah, buddy, So
you know, be prepared if you're buying a pet for
your children. That don't think that little Johnny who's seven
eight years old is going to be feeding that pet
every single day without some some prompting probably, So you know,

(55:40):
consider that when you're doing it. One thing that's a
great idea, Preston, is to give the gift of an experience.
If you want to give somebody a pet, you know,
maybe for the gift for the how they give them
a leash and a collar or some supplies for a
cat and have that under the tree. Then say you
and I are going to go together to the shell

(56:00):
and we're going to pick out a pet that's right
for you. Okay, that that makes a very good idea. Otherwise,
you know, this person in the mind seems they want
a dog and their picture of a lab dooor retriever
and you come in with a Chihuahua. You know, they
might not be quite as excited. And this is a
lifetime commitment when they when you give somebody a pet,
they don't just get this one fuzzy for the holidays
and it's over. That's a lifetime commitment. So something you

(56:23):
got to consider.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
You know, you say commitment and things that pop to
my mind. Are you know, takingto account how often do
you travel? Who would be there to help take care
of the pet if you were away on work or
or or a vacation or something. I mean, there are
a lot of considerations here.

Speaker 8 (56:41):
Yes, there are, there are a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
What about the cost of owning a pet? I mean,
the fact of the matter is it's it is adding
a family member. You there, doctor Steveerson. Hello, oh oh
we have we have lost contact with doctor Stevenson. His

(57:07):
phone has h has gone dead on us. I can't
stand that. Here's the bottom line. Don't spring it on
your on your child or what have you unless you know,
like if it's your kid, you know you know what
you're doing, right, Okay, so you know you're likely going

(57:30):
to be taking care of this dog. Now you can
use it to leverage some things. Now, if you want
a pat you have to a B, C and D.
But my point in this segment is be very very
thoughtful about this and look into the breeds. Not all

(57:51):
breeds are meant to be in an apartment, not all
breeds are appropriate for a rental. So just keep that
in mind, all right. Forty six minutes past the hour,
it's Morning Show at Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
The questions you want the answers to the Morning Show
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Speaker 1 (58:28):
Just because my pride was hurt. Next hour, Commissioner Anastasio
Kimutzis will join us from the Florida Department of Education CFO.
Blazing Golia next Hour as well. Yeah, I just I
butchered his name so many times it's like, come on now, focus, focus.

(58:54):
My apologies to those of you that might be waiting
for a road trip suggestion. I just sat at my
desk yesterday as I was looking at the show and
looking at the number of guests, and I was like, no,
not gonna happen. I can't, I can't not talk about
certain things and I and even as it is, there
wouldn't be a way for me to fit everything that

(59:16):
The amount of stuff that I am I'm pushing to
tomorrow's program is staggering. It just is. And tomorrow we
may I don't know, we may have us. Senator Rick Scott, I, yeah,

(59:37):
this is hilarious. Michigan, Michigan's, Michigan's going to hell. Ohio
State fans are like, really, just you're you're just learning this.
This video of Michigan's Chief Deputy Superintendent, doctor Sue Carnell

(01:00:04):
from October is making the rounds and has gone viral.
And here's why October. Yeah, it's it's sometimes sometimes stupid
things take a while to percolate. State Representative Jay de
Boer asked the following question, how many genders are there?

(01:00:33):
She smiled and paused without answering, so he asked again,
how many genders are there? Different people have different beliefs
on that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Michigan State Senator Eric Nesbitt said, three quarters of Michigan
kids can't read a grade level, and you realize that
there are these people in charge of education in Michigan,
that number begins to make a lot more sense. Different
people have different beliefs on that. In a statement to

(01:01:23):
clarify her comments to Fox, listen to what she said,
Listen to this. This was her effort to bail herself out.
What I want people to know about gender identity is
what's in the update to the Michigan Health Education Standards guidelines.
It's not about gotcha questions. It's about providing local school

(01:01:45):
districts with research based information about health topics and including
a few standards about gender identity areas for consideration by
local schools. Wh what what you didn't say? This was

(01:02:05):
her effort to try to help, and she's like, this
is all made abundantly clear in the guidelines provided by
the Michigan Department of Health. No, there's two genders, male
and female. Next how hard is this? And if anyone
is in charge of education anywhere and making that kind

(01:02:26):
of ridiculous statement, they should be thrown out of their
office in seconds. The governor should be saying, I'll have
your resignation in five minutes. You can have the rest
of the day to collect your things. You're out of
your mind here, let me finish that. You're out of

(01:02:48):
your mind. Why are we still debating this. We shouldn't
need a Supreme Court ruling. We should be laughing at
anybody who suggests otherwise. There are two sexes, male and female. Next,

(01:03:16):
I'll tell you what's next, Florida's commissioner of Education. I
don't think he'd have that problem. I might ask him.
I might ask Anastasios Kimutsus his thoughts. We'll see. It's
our three next. Having more fun than any human being

(01:03:49):
should be allowed to have while getting paid. Good morning, friends,
and welcome to the third hour of the Morning Show
with Preston's Got We're one show short of Show fifty
five hundred. It is show fifty four ninety nine. It
is great to be with you this morning. Remember raising
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(01:04:11):
second time we've done this. We built a home in
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All right, please to have with us. He is the
Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State. Anastasioskimmuts Us. Good morning, sir,

(01:04:33):
how are you.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Good morning, Preston, how are you. It's great to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Okay, before we start to establish some credibility for our
audience here, Okay, I'm gonna give you a little quiz,
all right, Okay, how many genders are there?

Speaker 8 (01:04:52):
There are two sexes? Thank you, don't even we don't
even play into the gender game because that's where they
go into the fluidity argum. There are two sexes, one male,
one female.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Hight very good. You can stay on the show. We
just covered the supertenitive education in Michigan. Refusing to answer
the question because you know, different people have different thoughts
on that. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
And I understand that there are some items that have

(01:05:25):
been adopted by the state board in recent days. And
first tell us what the Phoenix Declaration is.

Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
Yeah, the Phoenix Declaration is an affirmative statement that really
sets a framework for our educational system and what we'd
like to see as far as principles that are of
value to our state board. Parental choice and responsibility, transparency
and accountability, truth and goodness and objective truth, character formation,

(01:05:54):
academic excellence, citizenship. These are the guiding principles of the
Phoenix Declaration.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
How will that impact a local school district across Florida.

Speaker 8 (01:06:06):
Well, I think you're going to continue to see what
we've been doing all along. I mean, these standards really
reinforce what has been taking place in the state of
Florida under the leadership of Governor DeSantis. When you talk
about parental choice and responsibility, I don't know of any
other state that has empowered parents more than this governor,
particularly since everything we uncovered during COVID and so passing

(01:06:27):
a parental Bill of Rights, passing curriculum transparency, passing and
making sure that there's legislation that protects the innocence of
children and what topics they're going to be exposed to,
ensuring that it's age and developmentally appropriate, ensuring that it's
based in objective, factual truth. All these policies and principles
that you're seeing articulated in the Phoenix Declaration are what

(01:06:50):
we've been doing all along and what we will continue
to do. It's been wild the amount of controversy that
we've received as a result to folks who just don't
like the Heritage Foundation and its affiliation with the principles.
But not a single criticism has gone towards the principles
articulated in the Phoenix Declaration. And that's because objectively, everyone

(01:07:12):
can agree these are good things to value and education.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
What does that say that they're just mad at the association?
You know, the same thing happened to President Trump. You know,
the Heritage Foundation put out a thing on what they
think ought to happen in the future of this country.
Whether anybody embraces it or not as up to them,
but they put out some guidelines and they tried to
hammer Trump with that. It's the same tactic.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
That's right, And.

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
We just received the letter yesterday from ten Democrat members
of the Florida Legislature I believe it was in the
Florida House saying that this Phoenix Declaration is somehow racist
in nature, and I'm just befuddled by the letter just because,
as I articulated these principles, these are pretty unapologetically across

(01:07:58):
the board, straight forward. I mean, who doesn't value academic excellence.
Who doesn't want our students to understand civic virtues and
the knowledge necessary for self government and civil disagreement? Who
doesn't believe in character formation and making sure that students
are understanding personal responsibility and self discipline. These are all

(01:08:19):
great things that we should be valuing in our education system.
And I'm thankful to the leadership of Governor DeSantis, but
also the chair of the State Board of Education Ryan
Petty and former Commissioner of Education Many Diaz, as they
were both original signatories to the Phoenix Declaration when it
was signed into existence close to a year ago. And
so this is a document that all kinds of educational

(01:08:41):
experts from across the nation poured into and signed off
on it, and we're proud to stand by it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Good stuff. Commissioner Anastasios kamuts Us with the Florida Department
of Education, We've got more to talk about. I want
to just remind listeners, this reveals the disconnect so some
Democrats in the state, as Lee decide to go ahead
and send a note like this, not remembering that the

(01:09:07):
first time governor around to Santa Scott elected. Perhaps the
single issue that pushed him across the finish line that
first election was school choice. With black voters. They just
they don't get it. I want to talk about here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Welcome to m a D Radio Network. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott, Florida's Commissioner of Education with us
for just a few more minutes. Anastasios Kamutsis Stasi. Listeners

(01:09:48):
of the program know I have been long advocating that communist,
socialist Marxist shouldn't be allowed to run for office in
this country. I believe it's a direct opposition to the
oath of office to the to defend this constitution. But
this really points to a bigger issue, and that is
the lack of knowledge and understanding of what communism is

(01:10:11):
and its failures across time and history. You all have
addressed that tell us about these new standards.

Speaker 8 (01:10:20):
Yeah, Look, it dates back to twenty twenty two when
the governor signed the Victims of Communism Day that required
at least forty five minutes of direct instruction on the
history and atrocities of communist regimes. And then he built
on that in twenty twenty four when he signed Senate
Bill twelve sixty four that required a comprehensive instruction on
the history of communism starting in the twenty six twenty

(01:10:43):
seven school year. And so just last week, the state
Board of Education adopted those standards, and it just continues
to show why Florida continues to be a leader in
civic education. These standards are going to show, you know,
specifically the atrocities that are related to communism. Many people
know I'm Greek by my name, but I'm also Cuban

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on my mother's side, and I was fortunate that I
got to hear directly from victims of communism through my
grandparents who fled communist Cuba in nineteen sixty. And so
what this does is it gives students that same education
and foundational knowledge that I had as a kid growing
up to understand the atrocities committed under communist governments. That
includes mass killings, political prisons, for starvation, suppression of speech.

(01:11:28):
I mean, it's just horrific the end result and It
also exposes students to something that we're seeing increasingly become
romanticized and popular, which is versions of socialism, which we
all know are the beginning frameworks and steps for communism.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Well, you know, I talked just last week about the
fact that you know, in Governor William Bradford's documents with
the first Pilgrims, the settlers that came on the Mayflower,
they used communism his word, not mine, and found it
to be an abject failure. Are these lessons going to
go back that far to point out how the people
that came to this land so many centuries ago learn

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that lesson fundamentally early on.

Speaker 8 (01:12:10):
It's going to cover all kinds of topics. I mean,
it's going to talk about the rise of communism globally
and in the United States. It's going to do the
comparative study of communism into palitarianism and the principles of
freedom that are foundational to this country and what makes
this the greatest country on earth, you know, the political, industrial,
and economic conditions that sparked communist revolutions. It talks about

(01:12:33):
Cuba and generally Latin America and the spread of communist movements.
So you are going to see a wide array of
the history of communism throughout the world.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Who's going to write the curriculum? Where's it? Where are
we going to get it?

Speaker 9 (01:12:46):
So it's already been written.

Speaker 8 (01:12:48):
Florida educators and content experts, quite frankly, who graciously spent
all kinds of time helping develop these standards to ensure
that history was taught in a clear, on its an
unfiltered way, are who put these standards together. And so
that is what the board voted on. So you're going
to see there's going to be professional development over the
summer so that teachers are taught what these standards are.

(01:13:11):
Because they are going to be implemented for the first
time in the twenty six twenty seven school year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
How do you make sure the teachers are going to
embrace it and teach it fairly and accurately.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
I think that's why professional development is so important. We
provide that at the Florida Department of Education because we
want to make sure that our educators understand the standards.
Gives them an opportunity to ask questions, to let us
know if they have additional feedback. But the reality is
that's how this generally goes Ultimately, if the bad actor

(01:13:42):
is going to stray from the standards, as we saw
in Florida Southwestern State College with a sociology professor who
was literally part of our work group that put together
the standards and decided to run afoul the law and
teach a gender ideology contrary to what the law allows.
Accountability that was brought towards that professor and teachers can

(01:14:03):
expect the same as they're going to stray away from
the standards.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Well, parents, now you've heard it from the Commissioner of
Education himself, and you'll know to look for it starting
next year. And Commissioner, thank you, appreciate your efforts on
this stuff and look forward to having you back. And
until then, have a great Thanksgiving.

Speaker 8 (01:14:20):
Thank you, God bless you and have a great Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
He is the Commissioner of Education, Anastasio Kimutzus. See what
I did there? I did mind job? I pronounced his
name right? Yeah. Now, I mean, how wonderful is that
that we're going to teach communism and how awful it

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Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Yeah, they say, as you get older, time just seems
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that we've we've talked about. All I can't can do
is I can't I can't explain that well, but I
certainly can't explain why time just goes by some fast
on this show, and here we are, we're in the

(01:20:51):
final half hour, but we are bringing you know, in
the music world, they would say we're bringing the hit
makers and joining us is the CFO for the state
of Florida. Blazeing Goolia Blaze. How are you, I'm great?

Speaker 9 (01:21:05):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
I'm you know, I'm doing well, although I'm I wish
I could say I'm surprised at the things that people
try to get upset about. Why and who's upset about
the proposed Trump Library.

Speaker 9 (01:21:22):
Well, I think there were a bunch of liberal, leftist
activists that are upset about the Trump Library, and you know,
they filed a lawsuit trying to stop it, and we
filed a brief in court yesterday saying that behalf of
the taxpayers. We think that the judge was wrong because
they got they got a favorable ruling. Look, there's the lawfair.

(01:21:44):
The same lawfare that we saw happening with Donald Trump
as he was president the first time and as he
was a candidate the second time, we're seeing now and
we have a leftist activist filing trying to keep the
Trump Library to happening in the state, and the state's
not going to stand for it. I'm not going to
stand for it. We're going to fight it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Okay, So if you don't mind who specifically filed this
opposition lawsuit.

Speaker 9 (01:22:14):
I forgot the gentleman's name. I don't have it with me,
right with me, but he is a longtime a Democrat,
leftist activist that is saying that the way it was
done was improper, and a judge agreed with the person,
although the judge also hedge and said, look this even

(01:22:35):
I don't think the judge believed in a rule. And
here's the problem. The problem is that they said that
the and this would set really bad precedent across state
government and local governments. They said that they they did
not give the people enough notice that this was going
to happen, that the that Miami Dade College was going

(01:22:57):
to transfer this out of its power and basically give
it to the Trump Library. Everyone knew that this was coming,
everyone knew that they were voting on they discussed it,
they transferred it. But the lawsuit says that there wasn't
enough specificity in the piece of property they were transferring. Now,
this is the problem with that is that specificity is subjective,

(01:23:20):
which means that anyone can follow a lawsuit at any
time when they think government isn't doing what they want
to do, and they can point to something as subjective
as well, I didn't have enough notice. I didn't know.
So just to give an idea, if let's say that
there was.

Speaker 8 (01:23:40):
A new park that.

Speaker 9 (01:23:41):
Was going to be gifted to a county or states,
and let's say that they had the address, they had
the legal but they didn't have the zip code. According
to this lawsuit, they can actually file and prevent a
new park from going in an area because they didn't
have a zip code, and the judge agreed with that,
which is just ridiculous. Now behalving taxpayers. I'm saying, are

(01:24:01):
you kidding me? The state or a local government is
going to have to spend taxpayer money defending frivolous lawsuits
like this, and we're gonna have to pay higher taxes
because a judge made a poor decision off of a
law that was filed by a leftist activist.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Joining us on the program, State CFO blazing Golia in
the Department of Financial Services filing a brief in support
of Miami Dade College in the lawsuit the transfer of
land for the Donald Trump Presidential Library. We're going to
talk a little deeper, a little more. Next on the Morning.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
Show Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one
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Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
He's Miami activist and quote historian formerly with Florida International
University Marvin Done. He filed a lawsuit and joining us
to talk about the lawsuit against Miami Dade College is
a CFO blazing Golia Blaze. Let's back up just a
second and talk about the library in general. Correct me

(01:25:14):
if I'm wrong here on these facts. Isn't Miami Dade
College part of the state university system?

Speaker 9 (01:25:22):
It is the state college system.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
Yes, sir, So, how in the world is it somehow
improper even to be part of a discussion that something
that is part of the state university system cannot transfer
this land over land over And oh, by the way,
it's going to enhance the college, is it not.

Speaker 9 (01:25:40):
It's not only going to enhance the college. It's going
to hance the economics of downtown. It's going to revitalize downtown.
It's going to be relatively close to Freedom Tower. Look,
this is as much as an educational opportunity as it
also is a presidential library. Not only do we get
to have a Presidential Library here in the state of Florida.
But the area is going to be is going to
revitalize that area and continue some economic growth. It's going

(01:26:04):
to be a draw. So there's the only negative to
this is in the minds of leftists like Marvin Dunn.
I did look it up while I was while we
were on break, who is a longtime leftist activist, former
professor at FIU, as a history of doing these things.
It's only in the eyes of people who just have

(01:26:25):
Trump derangement syndrome that this is not a good thing.
Everyone else thinks this is a good thing, except for
the left, and that's why they're using lawfare yet again
to try to stop something that most people want.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
So what happens now you filed a brief on behalf
of the college. What's the process.

Speaker 8 (01:26:44):
We have to go through the court.

Speaker 9 (01:26:45):
We're going to make our arguments. It is going to
be held in the third District Court of Appeals, and
we're just gonna wait and it's just delaying it. Look,
there's nothing substantive about the lawsuit that was filed that
is going to block it because in a worst case scenario,

(01:27:07):
if we get another poor judges ruling with Miami Day
College is going to have to go back and do
it again, which meant this whole exercise was for nothing,
and they'll waste of taxpayer dollars, which is the primary
reason why I entered this, because my job as CFO
is to be a taxpayer advocate and protect the taxpayers.
Not only is this a law fair, but it's wasting

(01:27:30):
a ton of taxpayer dollars, which we're not going to
stand for.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
In your mind, is this just simply delaying and inevitability.

Speaker 9 (01:27:38):
It is delaying and inevitability, but it's also inevitably going
to her taxpayers.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
On that subject, If you don't mind, let me just
ask this question broadly thirty thousand foot view, because we've
only got a minute or so left in the segment.
How is it going your look into the finances of
municipalities across the state of Florida broadly? What are you finding?

Speaker 9 (01:28:02):
We're finding a lot of excessive, wasteful spending. We are
seeing that government is growing much, much, much faster than
what inflation and population should allow. We have found so
far in ten local governments a total of one point
five billion dollars billion, with the big dollars of excessive
and wasteful spending just this year alone. By the end

(01:28:26):
of the year, we are going to be close to
two billion dollars. So local governments are taking your money,
property tax dollars, wasting it, spending it frivolously, and sending you,
the hard working tax payer Floridians the bill. That's what
we're going after. We're showing that there is a path
for true property tax reform. On a November twenty twenty

(01:28:48):
six ballots, do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
You feel as though you're going to have a handle
across the state by a certain date and if so, when.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
This is the good news.

Speaker 9 (01:28:58):
I'm planning on being in this job for nine years
and I'm going to hold them accountable every single year
we're doing this. We're not going away, but to answer
your question, we are going to hopefully get to every
calculation and every city in every county across the state
of Florida by summer of next year.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Wonderful place. Thanks for the time this morning, Join us
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(01:31:29):
a good news segment headlines from the Bee and AI music.
I am so troubled. I shared this with Jose. I
came across yet another one of those phony collabs between
in this case Jelly Roll and Celine Dion. No, they

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didn't sing a Christian song together. It's AI and it's shameful.
It's disgraceful that a quote Christian group would co op
to big names. They they're gonna get sued, it's just

(01:32:11):
a matter of when. And this stuff is everywhere and
you see the comments, Oh, God is just so faithful
through No, God has nothing to do with that. That's
just wrong. That is it is wrong on so many levels.
I don't know where to begin. But there's a great

(01:32:32):
conversation to be had about AI music. There's a song
out there that's number one of the Billboard Country charts
talking about soul. The artist doesn't exist, he's not real.
Soul really can't wait tomorrow.

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Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
We continued our chat in Genesis three. We picked up
with verses five, six, and seven to conclude our Genesis
three devotional for the week. We'll doing tomorrow with the
with a God tune at the beginning of the show.
But anyway, our guests huh, let's work backwards blazing Golie

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Cfo Anastasioskimuts US Commission of Education doctor Steve Steverson, albeit
briefly had some phone difficulties talking about buying a pat
as a president, and Steve Stewart would Tellassi reports and
then oh, by the way, big stories in the press

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box Charlotte. The weekend after the raid on illegals in
Charlotte at Monday, twenty one percent decline and attendance in
Charlotte public schools twenty one percent over twenty thousand students
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(01:34:19):
a problem in America? Friends? Scathing report warning US Muslim
Brotherhood should be considered a terrorist organization. They are infiltrating
and covertly attacking this country from within, using the freedoms
of this nation against US. I am mega dittoing that call,

(01:34:46):
and oh, by the way, making a little bit of
a comeback as the Steakhouse Sizzler. M how about that.
I'm good with that back tomorrow. Can't wait. Friends, have
an awesome time.