Good morning friends, Welcome to the Morning Show with Rust that Scott. It's Wednesday, June twelfth, Humpday and show fifty one seventy eight. John's over there doing yeomen's work yet again, not it's watching John do his job is a lot like watching the old Sometimes it was at Sullivan, sometimes it was
merv Griffin. But they had these guys that had these massively long sticks mounted to a base and they would put dishes on them and they'd start spinning one and then two, and then three and then four, five, six, seven, eight, and then one would start wobbling and there we go. Get it going, and then nine to well, two, three, four, get them going. You, sir, are a plate spinning full. Yeah. The key is to get that tempered glass coral war that doesn't break
when it's falls. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's that's it. Unfortunately radio stations don't act like that. No, they break anyway. Good morning friends, and thanks for joining us. Busy show, not as busy as tomorrow, but I'm very excited about today's program. We'll unpack it as we go. Psalm nineteen, verses one and two, The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork day to day, pours
out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. All right. I frequently reference and did this week what it says in Romans that God is revealed in all of creation, so that man, without excuse, I have always paraphrased that is to say, God's nature is revealed in God's nature. With all of the technology and the claims of science, they still can't make a blade
of grass without something that God made first. They can make synthetic things that look like it, they can't make a blade of grass that grows and spreads and without fundamental elements that come from God's nature. And man just sits and looks and goes wow. But with a presupposition that there is no God. And see, I come with a presupposition that there is a God, and
I look at creation and I see a common creator. I go to butterfly gardens, whether it's in Gainesville at the University, which is just spectacular, or at Callaway Gardens in Georgia or wherever, and I just sit and look at butterflies, and I just think to myself, Goodness, the perfection of the coloring, the markings. I mean, it's just I marvel at it. This verse says that the heavens, what we look at each and every
night, declare the glory of God. And I find myself sometimes on those rare occasions when I could be up at night, I find myself just going, Wow, that's just incredible. And man, still with all of our knowledge, is like, yeah, we don't know how this all happened. I'm reminded that God said that you can love him, embrace him with your mind. I took that challenge when I was younger. I really pursued it from an intellectual perspective, and just the mathematical odds of life happening by accident
here and evolving to what we are. Those mathematical odds. I once heard a breakdown in a thesis that went like this, The odds of life evolving as it is today are the same as taking the old Chicago phone book, which by the way, was probably when combined, about eight to ten inches thick, tearing it up, throw it in the air, and it landing in perfect order. Those are the odds, the problematic odds of this happening
by accident. So I just look at it. This way, it takes more faith to believe we're an accident than it does to believe in God. And we are people of faith. Whether you are an atheist, an agnostic, or a person who calls yourself a Christian, everyone is a person of faith. It just is a matter of where you place it. Ten minutes after the hour, let's do the deep dive into the American Patriots Almanac. Next. I can't wait to tell you about the show. I've already gotten
emails and letters. I gotta gotta share. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Okay, then there's that. Sooner or later I was bound to hit the right button. We're just making comments about this show train wreck. Yeah, well, humility comes to us all. Okay. This is
June twelfth, nineteen eighty seven. This is significant. Then President Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall, a symbol of totalitarian empire that robbed millions of basic human dignity and freedom, and delivered one of the greatest speeches in the twentieth century. More than a quarter of a century earlier, Soviet backed East Germany had built the wall to keep people from escaping the communist rule. Reagan who knew his words would be heard on the east side of the wall,
spoke directly to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. M Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers, it divide the entire continent of Europe. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar in the west. Today we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well being unprecedented
in all of human history. In the communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health. There stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion. Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comedy and peace. Freedom is the victor General Secretary Gorbachev. If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mister
Gorbachev opened this gate. Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Whoop, I still get goosebumps, I get all goose pimply. I just and I just love channeling my inner Reagan. It's just it's so much fun to do that voice. Less than three years later, the Berlin Wall did come down. I've been to the Reagan Library in California. It was one of the
rare times that I went without escorted guards through the state of California. But what's interesting is they have a massive piece of the Berlin Wall there at the Reagan Library. It's if you've whether you like Reagan or not, you gotta go. If you ever are in California near La, go to the Reagan Library. It's spectacular. It it's just absolutely spectacular. I've got a drawing here from the Gipper right there, right there, Ronald Reagan. Yes,
sir, let's see here. Sixteen sixty five June twelfth English colonists establish a municipal government in the fikidiky old Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, which they renamed New York. Seventeen seventy six. Colony of Virginia adopts a Bill of Wrights asserting that all men are by nature equally free and independent. Of course, we know they didn't necessarily mean all men at that point, Now did they a blot on our history? Baseball Hall of Fame dedicated to Cooper's town in
nineteen thirty nine. I have not been there. I've been to the Basketball Hall of Fame. I've been to the Football Hall of Fame. My dad's name is in the rotunda of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is kind of cool. He's in the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame now as a member. But I've never been to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and that's probably the one I really want to go to because of the historical nature
of the game of baseball. Nixon's daughter Tricia and Edward Cox are married in the White House Rose Garden in nineteen seventy one, and then, of course, in eighty seven, Reagan said, mister Gorbachev, tear down that wall. Yeah, that's good stuff. Sixteen past the hour, we come back. There's an interesting story bubbling about regarding Ebor City. Twenty two past the hour. All right, I've got self addressed stamped envelopes from a few listeners.
But I also Bob wrote in Now, Bob just sent me his address. Bob there in Panama City on a sheet of paper, and he said, thanks for sending me the cards, Bob brother. You did not send me a self addressed, stamped envelope. So you're asking me to dig into my wallet further than what I'll I'm already digging into my wallet to send you these cards. I got to pray about this, so I'll let you know what I decide. You'll you'll either get something in the mail or not,
so we'll see how that goes. Anyway. Yeah, just hang in there. We'll we'll post it social media blog page when you know when when I'm really wanting you to send some some envelopes and we'll send out those thank you cards that you give out when you get great customer service. Now have you ever been to Ebor City? I have not you heard of it? Yes, what have you heard? Good place to go for Cuban food. Colombia. Colombia is like my dad who did Tampa Bay Football when the franchise first
started. He was the radio play by play guy when John McKay was there, and it was it was a lot of good fun for him. But Dad fell in love with Ebor City and he fell in love with a restaurant called Columbia, and he brought me to Columbia a couple of times. And yeah, I mean, if you're into Cuban food, it's it's incredible. Now I'm not a huge fan of it. It's funny. I tend to think Cuban food is a little bland. I just do. Maybe I've just
not had the right dishes. But like a Cuban sandwich to me is like yawn, you know, I'll eat it, but it's like boring. That said, the thing I remember about Ebor City is cigars. I've never smoked, However, I grew up around country clubs, golf courses and my dad's buddies. Dad didn't, but my dad's buddies, oh man, they had a stogy almost all the time. And these guys were usually buying the very
expensive Cuban cigars. And I will tell you that that a really good tobacco leaf rolled into a cigar or pipe, you know whatever, That tobacco the really good stuff. It just smells different. It just does, and it's to me, it's a really enjoyable smell. Although I wouldn't ever put myself in that for obvious reasons, for any length of time, because I just think it's unhealthy. That said, it's just I can almost smell Ebor City
right now. It's back in the news because they are uncovering a network of tunnels underneath Ebor City. They started finding these things back about six years ago as they were doing some demo work and preparing to build a new office building. So they're digging down, putting footers and things like that, and they're like, whoa. And so they've been doing this investigation trying to find what what's the deal here? Because they're flat bottom tunnels, so it's not sewage,
you don't you don't do sewage with a flat bottom. It's you keep it rounded so things don't settle as much. And and so what they're what they've kind of figured out at this point is they've narrowed it down to bootlegging during prohibition, or the more likely is human smuggling, smuggling prostitutes into the area from China, because there were a lot of Chinese and Cubans settling into the area. Cubans of course, and so the theory is at this point
that it would because they're big enough for people. These tunnels are big enough for some of them are big enough for you and I to stand up in others got to kind of hunch over, but their bricks layers of bricks up. So these were these tunnels were done and they're they're like, okay, this it has to have been done with the full knowledge of city government officials, police and all that, because you can't do this level of work,
bricklaying and all that without someone knowing. And so the theory is that police were getting paid off. In fact, there are stories that float around of guys talking about their dads being arrested every so often by police and saying what name do you want to be arrested under this time? And they would announce these arrests for bootlegging to appease the public and say, see, we're doing our job, But in reality, they're paying fines to line the pockets of
police and then they just go back to bootlegging. And so it was all wink wink, nod nod, look the other way kind of stuff. But it's just kind of interesting because they're now trying to figure out exactly why these tunnels are there, but they're there, you bore city, Yeah, it's an interesting kind of convergence for me of memories, a place my dad really enjoy going in the seventies and eighties. But yeah, anyway, so we're caught up. Now when we come back, we've got the big Stories in
the press Box. It's going to zero in on one subject and everything that kind of flows from that. So stick around and then busy with stories. In the second hour, third hour, we've got Dan Hampton, author of the book Vanishing Act, which if you're a World War two junkie you will absolutely want to be listening in. It's not a novel, it is a nonfiction history book and you'll love it. Twenty eight past the hour. Now it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Big Stories in the press Box,
brought to you by Grove a creative marketing and digital expertise. Eight suspected ISIS terrorists who crossed in the United States from the southern border have been arrested in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. At least one of them took advantage of the bidens one app to book appointments to claim asylum. Two of them crossed the border mid twenty twenty three. FBI making a statement with the Department of Homeland Security. Ice Rage agents arrested several non citizens citizens. The
eight men were reportedly from Tajikistan. Tajikistan. First of all, you almost need to write down the names of the Eastern Bloc countries and a lot of those nations in the area in pencil because they change all the time. That said, how many terrorists do you think are in this country that we know nothing about? Given the flood, the invasion of the southern border. I
will remind you the movie Act of Valor. Two of the Navy seals that were in that movie, including the star Rourke Denver, have appeared on this radio program. And I asked Rourke Denver. In that movie Act of Valor, you follow one thread in its various developments, and it ends with people going through tunnels entering the United States and multiple points underneath the tunnel system. Did all of that happen? He said, yes, but they weren't connected.
He said, but that final scene, yes, it did happen. Yes, there were firefights in the tunnels stopping bad guys from getting into the country. I say that to say, tip of the Iceberg, my friends, Tip of the Iceberg? Can terrorists get in this country with a closed border, sure, but it's way more difficult right there with closing the energy production of this country down. What's happened on our southern border is in my
mind, almost traitorous. That's just my view of it. Speaking of the Biden family, Hunter found guilty on all three charges, three felonies, faces sentencing at some point, but they didn't announce when he has a tax evasion case in California in September. What's interesting is the predictability. Okay, it took years to bring the case. It took three hours for jurors. But the idea that that we're now creating some false equivalency here. See see I
was listening. I was watching the I liberal networks yesterday. See this is how you respect a verdict. You really you think these trials are the same, do you? I'm going to read the Trump statement this trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and ukraineok of Joe Biden's reign over the Biden family criminal empires coming to an end on November
fifth, and never again will Biden sell government access for personal profit. Well, I'm not so certain about that, but we'll see. But Republicans are out there saying, don't fall for it. People remember the Plea deal that was shot down because IRS whistleblowers got to Congress and testified and the judge shut down said wait what, no, we're not agreeing to this. He was not going to face any charges at all. He's gonna walk. Yeah, anyway, forty minutes past the are forty one. Some fyi is next.
It's great headline store clouds instead of storm clouds. Store clouds love it. A lot of financial analysts out there looking at the closure of stores by Walmart and understand that there's a there's a little finesse required to understanding everything here. It would be very easy to just say, we'll see that's what that's what's happening with the Biden economy. Bid nomics. Yes it's playing a role, and yes stores are closing in California, but they're closing in other parts of
the country too. But Walmart shutting stores down is troubling given its price points on any number of items that most Americans purchase, and the fact that Walmart is a go to nationwide for people that are stretching dollars. It just is, and so the closure of Walmart stores is a bit of a harbinger.
Now there are a few reasons for this. One is the economy. It still just boggles the mind that Democrats and members of the Biden administration continue to say, and I'm almost going verbatim to what many of the talking heads say on the shows, Americans just don't understand how good this economy is. In other words, we're just rubes and we don't get it. It doesn't matter that we get very few groceries for the same amount of money that we're spending.
It doesn't matter that we not only have inflation, we have shrink flation. It doesn't matter that interest rates are at twenty year highs. It doesn't matter that the cost of a home is basically unaffordable for anyone that doesn't already own one. It doesn't matter that we're being bullied into electric cars and they're sitting on lots losing money, but being subsidized by our dollars to be produced when we don't even have the infrastructure to support all of them. If they
all got plugged in tomorrow. We can't power them forgetting all of that, forgetting the bullying, on buying what they tell you to buy, and living the way they tell you to live. If you set all that aside, that's still not all of this. Some of this is people are buying things differently. They're buying things online. People are shopping online. They're not going
to brick and mortar stores as often. That's playing a role. Walmart's trying to compete with Amazon, just like targets trying to compete with Walmart and Amazon. Walmart's the one that's most likely to be positioned best to compete. But then there's crime. You know, the BLM stuff has left a massive wound in this nation's law enforcement and the results are all over the kind. And then there's bad laws that some states have. So all of this adding up.
I mean, stores, just look at the cost of employing people has gone up. And as I promised you, you can raise wages until the cows come home. It just spurs inflation and then the cost of everything goes up, and then the wages can't keep up with the cost of inflation. So what have you done. You've made things not just equally if not more
difficult for people of minimum means. But now they're making even less money because they don't have enough hours or they don't have the skills to warrant someone saying, well, if I got to pay you twenty dollars an hour, I want someone that has more skills than you have. I'm sorry anyway. The second little story here dealing with Walmart real quickly. New York has passed a law requiring panic buttons in large retail stores, for whom for emergencies where an
employee can hit a panic button. Walmart said, we're not taking part. They said, eighty percent of the time, what is a perceived emergency does not become an emergency. And then you have a massive problem because you're shutting doors, you're notifying police, you're you're in for nothing. And so but again, New York, we're going to tell you how you need to do you forty seven minutes past the hour's come back with a did you know it's
kind of an interesting one. I just see Ace Ventura walking. I was thinking Parliament Funkadelic. Okay, no idea, what you're talking about? Okay, George Clinton and the p Funk All Stars. I know George Clinton, that's that's Bill's brother. No, no, no, yeah, no, I know what you mean. Okay, fifty three past the hour, all right. You remember when Progressive came out with Snapshot. They were promoting this way of you showing them that you're an incredibly safe driver. Progressive Snapshot.
Now, when I first heard it, I was like, huh, what in the world is that? Are they putting a device on your car? Well, they are. They're plugging in a little device into your your computer terminal. You know, modern cars have a plug in that they put in there to diagnose engine problems. If you have a warning on your you know, an engine light come on or whatever, they plug it in and it tells the mechanic it's what it's sensing. Well, Snapshot reads far more than
that. It's reading RPMs, it's reading breaking, it's reading all kinds of things and it then now it uploads or you send it off or whatever, and they read the data and they determine what your rates are based on that. Well, you might be thinking, well, I'm not really interested in that. I'm not getting tickets, I'm not getting in res and I'm good
with where that leaves me. What you may not know is that there are apps like gas Buddy, which is very popular, my Radar Life three point sixty, and they are using analysis technology that is operated by a company called Rity Arity is owned by all State. And so unless you are paying attention, which most of us don't. I mean, when you download an app, Let's be honest, how many of us are reading the fine print? How many of us are reading the disclosures? Not many, We're not reading.
And so unless you opt out, some of these apps have opt in consent baked in. You have to dig to your settings to opt out, and so your data is then able to be sold, even if you're not an All State client, to any other insurance company out there, and they're going to determine your rates based on the intel that that you're providing with your app. So I'm just saying auto insurers are tracking your driving using your phone. So just you've been warned, all right, We're just here to help,
just here to help. It's what It's the least we can do. Hope you save a buck here and there. So I'm just making you wear all right, what you do with adds up to you come back. Hour number two of the Morning Show. How did this happen? We're already in the second hour. Goodness, gracious, hey, good morning friends. Thanks so very much for spending time with us wherever however. We appreciate it so very much. Ruminators, it's the Morning Show with President Scott. He's John
running the radio program for today. You're you're done today, right for the week? Now, you do know you're gonna have to edit that out? I do. I just created more work for myself. Yes, you did. You better make a note of that. Get a sued. I work so hard to keep anything like that out of this show. And then what my boss drops in the thing that's gonna get us sued anyway. Yeah, so I've never done, but I am you're done for the week. I am done in the week, at least on this show. Yeah. I
mean you're you're never done in Tallahassee. No, you're just done doing this show this week. Yes, so Jared's back in tomorrow on Friday. Yes, awesome, And ohfully, the new guy's coming zone. Yeah, we're saving that announcement. We do have someone selected. It's never mind. I'll just stop there next hour. Dan Hampton, New York Times bestselling author The book is Vanishing Act, the enduring mystery behind the legendary Doolittle raid over Tokyo.
I know a lot of you are history fanatics. I know a lot of you are are definitely focused on World War Two, especially in the wake of of the D Day honoring and the reminder, the memorial of what happened eighty years ago in France. So that's coming up. Do you remember when I was a kid in school. Let me back that up. Do you remember when I was a kid at school? No, do you remember when you and I were kids in school how much we looked forward to the book
fairs. Book fairs were awesome. Scholastic book Fair rocked And I'm glad you said it in the past tense. Yes, Scholastic has gone full blown one hundred percent LGBTQ in doctrination and friends. This breaks my heart. I always had money to spend for that book fair. I loved by books, subscribing the magazines, getting the I mean, it was awesome. Unfortunately, Scholastics Read with Pride Guide is now a thing. Just in time for Pride Month,
the Scholastic Publishing Company has released its Read with Pride resource Guide. Who's this for this for kids. They're directing kids to Everyday Feminism teen Vogue, which is one of the most vile publications on the planet. Rainbow book List, the Washington Post, a list of LGBT activist organizations and references a series of scare statistics provided by the Trevor Project. We are so far past the
days of discussing a household with two dads and two moms. Now kids are getting sex and gender options to choose from, including queer gender, queer, sapphic, pan, romantic to spirit. They get a new term that has been released for Scholastic books called and I'm going to try and get this right. Alo cisseht alo sis hat It is in the Read with Pride guide is
defining quote people whose gender and sexuality are privileged by society. It combines alo sexual meaning a person who is not asexual or cis gender, someone whose current gender matches the gender they were assigned at birth, and heterosexual, which they don't bother to define at all. Anyone not queer as pass positioned as a problem inside the guide. And I mean, where do parents go now? I want to circle back to this underlying issue that shows up time and time
and time again. What is the Scholastic book clubs and Scholastic books and book fairs are designed for newbies to eight years old and then kind of sort of up to twelve and maybe a little beyond. What are they doing? Why does this stuff need to be even pointed out, let alone highlighted in a resource guide for children. I'm just letting you know. What you do with this information is up to you. I kid you not when I say it breaks my heart. But that's the infiltration. That's where we are right now,
ten minutes after the hour, i'd say something interesting. I gotta type this. Sorry, got you gotta do what you gotta do. Did you tell me to say something interesting? Huh yeah, tell that joke, you know. Wow. I don't know if I have any jokes prepared that are ready for on air use. Okay, well I stalled just long enough. I got this note. It's important for those of you in the Tallahassee area.
Massive accident backing up traffic on Thomasville at the Itan West exit. So just and that is a major So keep in mind that you might want to try to figure out another way. If you're in that area, you might take the flyover depending on which way you're going, or head down Timberlane Road, go down Meridian, just stay away from the area. Just got that
from a very reliable source, So thank you, Eric Agers. We have forwarded that to the Traffic Department. Also lead research assistant of the Morning Show, with Preston Scott pointing out that as I predicted the Russians warships being photographed from cruise ships in the Caribbean. Yeah, we told you the story that the Ruskies were going to be doing war games and their fleet was coming to the Caribbean for exercises. They were going to go to Cuba, but they
were going to send I mean, they've got a massive fleet. And as I predicted what happen, I said, Man, people on cruise ships are going to be seeing this going whoa have we not been watching TV? Is there something we should know about? But yeah, the photos are coming in, the videos are coming in of Russian warships out in the Caribbean. I simply posited that maybe the Russians might want to think about the season in which they hit the Caribbean and Cuba. This might not be the best time,
but you know, God works some mysterious ways. You know, it'd be awesome if the fleet got sunk. I don't want guys to die, you know, they they can be now on them right, it's happening. That's the point I'm making. They are out there. So thank you, Lead research assistant of the Morning Show. Have you heard about the Nancy Pelosi clip on January sixth? Oh my goodness quoting this video has been released on x
Twitter by the House Republican panel that's looking into all of this. And and now, remember, I've looked at a lot of the video that's been slowly getting released. I've looked at the people that begged to testify that the January sixth Select Committee wouldn't hear from. And the video shows and I know a little bit about police tactics and all of that. Two brothers in law enforcement, Charlie and JD on this program, just a personal fascination with how you
know, you handle certain scenarios. It was it's abundantly clear looking at the video that that many of the quote protesters were allowed in they were escorted by Capitol police. I absolutely know for a fact that they that they were FBI undercover agents in the crowd, because they've admitted that. But you see them, they're egging people on. They're the ones that aren't being charged. I
know that the one shooting that took place was wrongful. Any other police officer, any other situation that officer would have been would have been fired and face charges and face jail instead. Ashley babbittt is dead. I've seen the video of the shooting. I've watched it. I've watched police fire tear gas into
their own people. Why because it caused them to draw back, which allowed the crowd to advance, and then the more tear gas got fired into their own people, and then they got and I mean, it's just one thing after another. Here's Pelosi on video. Here's what she says to her chief of staff Terry McCullough. We have responsibility, Terry. This is her on January sixth. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there,
and we should have. This is ridiculous. You're gonna ask me in the middle of this thing, when we've already been breached that we should call Capitol police. I mean, the National Guard. Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with? Yeah? Why, Nancy? Here's the thing A couple important points. President Trump documented offered to have the National Guard there.
That offer was refused. Trump said at his rally, let's peacefully go and encourage our brave lawmakers do Now. I personally think Trump had all the reason in the world to have questions about that election. Everything from the Supreme Court's orders being violated and ignored in Pennsylvania to affidavits meaning you go to jail if what you're saying isn't true, of postal workers bringing ballots across state lines from
New York to Pennsylvania onto the stopping of the county. These are legitimate questions. Now, maybe they have legitimate answers. I don't think so. But they're legitimate questions. But the fact of the matter is the entire narrative constructed by the January sixth Select Committee is blown up by all of this. Eighteen minutes past the hour, we're late. We're late for a very important date. That's the next segment. I try and stay in between the lines here
because I can't be running too late. We get too much to get through in the next forty minutes. But we were talking last hour about major retailers struggling in the environment, for a lot of reasons. Some of them are self inflicted. For example, Target and Dix looking at a story here in Fox Business, and we have the Free Enterprise project on this show repeatedly. They are what are called activist investors. They buy stock in major companies so
that they can speak at shareholder meetings. When businesses like Disney, like Target, like Dick's Sporting Goods take positions on things in society, and they have every right to except for this, they're publicly traded companies and so they have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. And when businesses like Target and Dix take positions on issues that hurt the company's business, well, that damages shareholder value.
And so there are pushbacks going on still because Target still has not divested itself of its ridiculous positioning on a host of issues, notably Pride Month, LGBTQ stuff and the agenda that's attached to it. Dick's Sporting Goods, of course, has taken positions on firearms that are just dumb. I'm not sure if Dix is in on the whole Pride Month agenda or not, but I mean, all you need to do is look at what's happened to Disney and bud
Light and their value in the marketplace anyway. Couple of other little things here worth mentioning. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a case Health Freedom Defense Fund versus Carvelho, and it overruled a federal judge, a judge dismissed, or a judge held that the mandate during COVID over employees school district employees was appropriate. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said, O contraire, fellow judge, you are wrong. But here's what's significant. We finally have a
ruling that states the mRNA COVID jabs were not vaccines. I've been arguing that, to some cost to me, a reprimand by the company. I've been arguing that fact since the beginning. We now have a court ruling saying that the evidence is overwhelming. It's just one of many therapies. It's not a vaccine. What's interesting about that is the court is rejecting the changed definition of vaccine that the FDA tried rolling out. The FDA inside its documents, I've
got it all sitting right here in a file. The FDA rewrote the definition of vaccine to accommodate these jabs. A vaccine offers immunity. These jabs never could, never did, are not able to ever offer that for a coronavirus. But now in court at the Ninth Circuit, which is one level below the United States Supreme Court, we now have it in writing. It's a
win. We're gaining on truth. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, Big Stories in the press Box are next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Boy. I could just I could take a lot of time on phones with this one, but I think that we'd hear a lot of the same things over and over, and so I just don't. I don't think it's it's
worth it. A jury found Hunter bideny of all three charges, it's kind of a yawn to me, I would be I would be lying if I said I'm not a little surprised at how quickly this happened, because it's Delaware. I mean, Joe's the boy right. Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grove of Creative Marketing and digital expertise. Three felony charges, gun trial. He's got another court date in California on tax evasion.
But we're not getting to the issue. We're not. We're not getting to what Joe did to enrich himself and his family at the expense of this country. We're not. I mean, I shared with somebody the other day who was like, not really clear on all of that. I said, he said it on television. What he admitted to is a crime, and he
said it on TV. And it reminds me of the guys, the common petty thieves that get away with shoplifting and they're never caught and they're never punished, and so they escalate, and then they get so brazen that they escalate beyond that. Joe was so brazen. He's out of office, He's made millions. Why do you think we keep giving money to Ukraine? Why is Joe this cheerleader of giving money to Ukraine? Because they have the evidence.
It was Ukraine where Joe Biden bragged about getting a special attorney, a special a district attorney in essence fired because they were investigating something. What were they investigating? Barisma? Who was in Barisma Hunter? He said, you're not getting the loan guarantees unless you fire this guy whose business is that of ours. That's why we keep sending money China. The saber rattling with China is
cover because she has evidence of that too. Is it a coincidence that Joe was running point for Barack Obama in China and his son was sitting on a board of a company he had no expertise in, same thing with Ukraine. I mean, it's just the Hunter Biden conviction is a bone. It's being thrown out there to try to and look, he was guilty whatever. I guess, I don't know, it's your It seemed that way to me. These weren't made up charges. Jury took three hours, for Pete's sake,
that's kind of quick. Took a few years to get to trial, three hours to convict. I suspect that we're just The point is, we're at the tip of this iceberg. It's not the same as what happened with Donald Trump. The conduct of the court was not the same, the conduct of the judge was not the same. I mean, if anything, the jury in Delaware would have been inclined to help Hunter. But so sufficient was the evidence. There's no such jury like that in Manhattan voted ninety five percent for
Biden. I mean, I just Anyway, the other big story in the press box I have to mention is the arrest of eight suspected ISIS terrorists in three cities, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. They all came in through the southern border since Joe's taken office. It's not part of a plan that Joe has. It's a reality of the bad policies and not following our laws and allowing our border patrol to do what they do, which is why we talk with a former border patrol agent every couple months. He Zeus
Rodriguez, retired work the border for two decades, still has connections. He tells us what's going on. We'll have him on in a couple of weeks, forty one minutes past the hour. It should come as no surprise that I get a lot of email. I get email from you, I get email from the research assistance of the program that are constantly, and I mean constantly. I have people sending me stories at two, three, four in the morning. They're up with the birds before the birds. But I also
get email from organizations. For example, Floridians Protecting Freedom set me a note yesterday on a state appeals court decision requiring a redraft of an accurate and misleading financial impact statement shown to voters alongside Amendment four. That's not what I want to focus on. I want to focus on the language of their press release. Now, this is a group that is wanting you to vote yes on Amendment four, which is enshrining abortion in the state constitution, which which would
be a bad, bad idea for a lot of reasons. I took Natasha Sutherland, the communications director for Yes on four campaign, to task and I wrote her back. She writes in here, voters deserve precise information on Florida's current abortion ban to make an informed choice regarding Amendment four. She goes on later to say, Florida voters have two clear choices to maintain the current extreme ban on abortions or vote yes on Amendment four to limit government interference. I
have a real problem with that. And this is what you're finding, as we have shown you in the polling that has been done. The polling inserts time limits when asking the question do you support Amendment four and the restriction of abortion to and they pick a time of what they twenty two weeks, twenty four weeks, twenty five weeks, where'd they get that? Here's the language I'm going to read it. This is what's going to be on the ballot.
No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health is determined by the patient's health care provider. This amendment does not change the legislature's constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion. Let's look at the ambiguity here and the issue that I have with this email. No law shall
prohibit, penalized, delay, or restrict abortion before viability. What's that I can demonstrate with factual cases in law that viability does not happen until a child is able to communicate and walk on their own. What's viability? Forgive me? What the hell is viability? If I'm a little yeah, I'm angry about this because the people who write this nonsense ironically weren't aborted, because the women's rights activists that are out there ironically don't care about the women that are
being aborted. I'm angry because they talk about precise information. Okay, would you define viability for me? You can't, just like you can't define an assault weapon, just like you can't define patients health, mental health, emotional health, physical health. Are we talking about the life of the mothers? Infit? What are we talking about? It's not defined this ballot And I'm reminding myself why I got so angry with the Florida State Supreme Court, the
four male justices. This is not single subject. This is multi subject, and it's not clearly defined. It's full of ambiguities, which is what they even said in their ruling approving it for the ballot. This is going to be litigated a lot. Well, isn't that what you're there to prevent making sure that the amendment is clear. I'm pointing out again I wrote them obviously did not hear anything back because I challenged them on their wording. I quoted
this ballot summary being totally completely void of certainty. I'm again I'm gonna keep doing this. I'm begging you don't support this, even if you support the idea of abortion at whatever. Fifteen weeks. This is no holds barred. This will allow no law to prohibit none. If we pass this, may
God have mercy on this state. Forty eight minutes after the hour, Florida Man Factor Fiction and National Day of Next play game Florida Man Factor Fiction in just a few minutes give you a chance to hear three headlines and discern for yourself which is the real one. Though, as we always point out,
they're all possible. It is Florida, anything can happen. But first, the national day calendar, National day of because every day is something or multiple somethings, and sometimes they're yeah, they're they're they're humorous and and amusing. For example, today is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. Oh yeah, Now, I will tell you I. I don't know if this would be a violation of it, but the best cookie on the planet is is a peanut
butter cookie with a Hershey's kiss dropped in the middle. Man, you put a tray of those in front of me, it's it's uh, they're gone, They're just gone. But does that violate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day? Because it's it's an addition to a peanut butter cookie. And and I and I will tell you that if you manage to make a peanut butter cookie that doesn't fall apart, you're special because the art of the non crumbling peen.
Because peanut butter naturally creates a cookie that crumbles. It just it's hard to keep it together. If you if you've got that figured out, you have solved one of the great riddles of mystery, one of the great riddles of cooking. I should say today's also National Jerky Day. I'm a fan of the jack Linx spicy sweet or sweet hot beef jerky. That's good stuff. I love beef jerky. Yeah, National Loving Day. Normal kind it has nothing to do with Pride month. And and this makes zero sense. And
this is why I mention it. It's National Red Rose Day. Come on, why in the world would that be January or June twelfth instead of February fourteenth. That just that, just that makes no sense whatsoever. All Right, it's time I'm Florida Man Factor Fiction. I'm gonna read three headlines and play along with John. Headline number one Florida man accidentally butt doals nine one one while cooking meth with his mom. Headline two, Florida man arrested while
trying to pick neighbors lock with his toenail. Florida Man. Headline number three, Florida man accused of sinking truck in Catfish pond. Now, as I say, all of them are possible, but only one's real. The toenail is a little gross. I don't understand Number three. Is he trying to get rid of the truck? Was it evidence? Hey, it's Florida man, buddy. Number one's got all the elements I want. Oh, it does, doesn't it? It does? I want number one to be true.
Florida man accidentally butt doals nine to one one while cooking with his mom. That's the best part, right, I guess. Welcome to the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show number five seventy eight. Because I completely you'd think i'd get better at this job by now, but because I totally mismanaged my time, the answer was headline two, Florida man arrested
while trying to pick the neighbors. Yeah, so anyway, So now you're not going to spend your day wondering which was the right headline, Preston. Anyway, we're going to transition to better things now. I have been looking forward to this for quite some time. Dan Hampton is not just a hero because he served our country in the United States Air Force, retired Lieutenant colonel
with a lot of distinguished accomplishments. But he's a best selling author and the book is Vanishing Act, The Enduring Mystery behind the legendary Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Dan Hampton, right now, Dan, First, thank you very much for your service to our country. How are you, sir Preston, Good
morning. It's good to be back. Thanks. I this is subject matter that a lot of people are fascinated in because I think a lot of us, whether it's through our parents that served in World War two, grandparents, World War two is just something different. It just it marks a different time in our country. What was it that drew you to this particular story, because I'll be honest with you, I didn't know there was an enduring mystery behind the Doolittle Raid. Well, that's that's kind of what it was.
I mean, I you study these things, you write books about them, and I'm always amazed, like you just said, about things that I find out I don't know. And you know, I was always I was always aware that one of these airplanes didn't go on to try to make it to China, that it, you know, kind of turned right at Albuquerque and headed towards the Soviet Union, but I always believed the cover story, and the cover story was that it was low on fuel and so they didn't have
any other choice and that was the reason behind it. But as a pilot, once I started to map it out and get some more specifics, it just didn't add up. And so to me, the writer part of me, anyway, that is like waving a red flag, and so I had to dig in and find out what exactly went on there. I'm always intrigued by where the push comes for a story like this, where the curiosity begins. For you, you mentioned you were a pilot, but but what drew
you to even looking at you know, play number eight? Where how'd you get there? Okay, So I I was. I was going through a couple of reports, old military intelligence reports from the from the Dolittle raid and and and then I read Doolittle's book. And these guys were very tight lipped about all this because that's just the way they were, but they inadvertently let
a few things slip. And the thing that caught my eye was that Doolittle had to replace a plane that had gone through all the training and everybody knew what they were doing, and the plane ran off the runway, and so he said, well, the pilot obviously isn't when we went along, and instead of using one of the six or seven trained backup aircrews that he had available, all of a sudden, Ed York finds himself flying the eighth plane. Now Ed York was like the operations officer for this group. He was
in charge of logistics and training. He was never intended to go on the raid. Why did he all of a sudden end up in the cockpit of that plane and not one of the other guys that had already been trained to do it? Dan tell our listeners, who may not be as familiar with the Doolittle Raid as others, just a quick snapshot. Why was it put together? And what was its purpose? Are you sure? I mean I got a whiny review the other day about somebody who said, everybody knows about
to do a little way, why write another book? Yeah? Well that person can never mind. Yeah, Okay, So here's the deal. This is four months after Pearl Harbor. So it's a really black time in American history. I mean, we're getting kicked all over the Pacific. The Germans are running wild in Europe, you know, everybody's The Allies are sort of reeling back on their heels, and no military, at least combat military officer
wants wants to do that. We always want to strike back if we can, and that that was echoed by President Roosevelt, who did not want to be on the defensive, and so he was looking for a way to strike back at Japan, which is good for a lot of reasons. It's good for morale for the United States. It's good to derail momentum on behalf of the of the Japanese, you know, get them to reacting, to get
them direct us, even in a small way. And so this raid, the Big raid, was dreamed up actually by a Navy sub mariner and then he took it to a naval aviator and the chief of Naval Operations and they said, yeah, it's a good idea. Check with the army though, because we don't have planes that can do this, which was true. The army did, but the Army didn't have any way to get the planes close
to Japan. So they compromised. They said, well, why not put army bombers on a naval aircraft carrier and get them close enough to launch against the home islands of Japan they don't have They can't land on the carrier, but they can land in China. And so that was the genesis of this
raid. And then somewhere before all this happened, right at the beginning, another idea was circulated amongst hap Arnold and a few other people, as long as those planes are going to be over there anyway, we have something that needs to be done in Russia, and let's get one of these planes to go to Russia. And that's the impetus behind the story. Vanishing Act is the book. The author is Dan Hampton. More to come eleven minutes past
the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott and women serving our great nation and our armed services, those serving communities as law enforcement officers and first responders. I say you are all essential workers. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott continuing our chat with author Dan Hampton. He's lieutenant colonel retired from the United States Air Force, and Dan, I want to kind of sort of use that as a springboard to my question. You know, you
flew one hundred and fifty one combat missions. Can you even relate to the decision I mean from a tactical and from a practical just an aeronautics perspective of taking B twenty five bombers off an aircraft carrier at the time. Yeah, I can up to a point obviously, you know, I flew jets now surest airplanes. But you know, a challenge is a challenge, and we tend to you know, if there is a problem to be solved, we tend to find a way to do it. And that's that's what these guys
did. They didn't have a choice, as I said earlier, the Navy didn't have anything that had the range that could do that, and the Army didn't have anywhere close to launch these bombers from. So the compromise was really fairly unique and it worked. You know, they just had to pick the bomber and then and then figure out how to make short takeoffs off of a carrier deck and then go do it. And that's what they did in pretty quick time as a matter of fact. So we learned that that You got
the tip on this by reading Doolittle's book. You get a little snippet of something here and there, But how do you find enough information to fill the story out? Because you know, obviously we're not going to give away the the entirety of your book here, but man, that's tough digging well. You know, that's one thing that surprised me about writing, at least nonfiction that I really enjoyed was the was the research, because it's a lot like
detective work. You know, you get you get a little bit here, a little bit there, and then you got to kind of put it into context and link them all together. What I found that usually works is I'll get a hold of survivors if there are any. I've done that with a couple of books, and I'll talk to them directly or their descendants because you never know what's what's hiding in dad's old trunk up in the attic and and things like that. And and that's what I did with this to get started.
I found a couple of descendants from from hap Arnold and actually the co pilot's son is still very much alive, and they were they were of tremendous help. And then there was a Japanese researcher who made has made the Dolittle Raid his hobby, and he spent years roaming around Tokyo finding out where these bombs really hit, Okay, not where you know reports said they were,
not where the movies said they hit, but where they really hit. And he also had been intrigued by this eighth airplane and he was able to help me considerably. Yeah. I was going to say, what other sources outside United States sources? Could you? Have? You mentioned a researcher or somebody at least a buff of history in Japan. But I'm curious where do you
go when the story is seemingly kind of almost a covert mission story. Well, and you know, that's an excellent point, Preston, because even more so than just a covert mission, this was one that had no documentation. There was there was nothing written down, you know, telling Doolittle go do this. It was all done verbally. I mean, these were those kind of guys. And even more so with this subset of the mission, which was ed York's you know, flight to Russia, that was all done verbally.
So there's no there's no smoking gun to find, per se as far as a document that said, yes, go to Russia and do this all right, there's a lot of circle circumstantial evidence though, which I again I had to dig through quite quite a few volumes, reports and other things to find a line here and there that made sense and kind of tied the story together. We've got one more segment to go. I want to save as much time for that as possible. Joining me is Dan Hampton. The book
Vanishing Act, The Enduring Mystery behind the legendary Dolittle Raid over Tokyo. More to come with Dan next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. The book Vanishing Act, The Enduring Mystery behind the legendary do Little Raid over Tokyo. Obviously you can get it at all the book outlets and of course on Amazon and Dan Hampton, the author, would love your reviews of it if you get that book, and I hope you will. Dan, let's talk a
little bit about this plane eight potential optional sets of missions here. I mean, did you narrow it down to okay? This is where what it likely was tasked with doing. Yes, yes, I did, because I eliminated some things that it couldn't have been okay, and then and was left with a couple of choices of what it probably was doing. And then with some extra information that I uncovered and learning a little bit more about the two pilots
involved in half Arnold I figured out what the plan had been. Take me through the process of kind of figuring out. Let's start with one of the most fundamental things that came to my mind, which was range. I mean, that was the whole issue here with these B twenty five's. They didn't have the range. They couldn't land back on an aircraft carrier, so they had to figure out where they could ditch these planes and try to get the crew down. What did you learn about plane number eight, Well, you
know, that's an excellent point. They intended the main group, I mean, and what was publicized was after they hit their targets in Tokyo and other cities, they were going to head more or less southwest towards the Chinese coast and overfly the part that was occupied by the Japanese and get to the part that was controlled by China. The problem was the aircraft carrier was discovered by a picket ship about six hundred miles off the Japanese coast, and Doolittle and
the navy guys decided, well, he's radioed in our position. We got to launch now. In fact, he hadn't, and the ship was sunk before he could do that. But they didn't know that, so they ended up launching even earlier than they had intended to, and fuel was already going
to be tight. These planes had all been modified with extra fuel bladders and some other things, and their carburetors, the part of the engine that actually meters the fuel more or less, you know, and decides how much fuel is being used for different throttle settings, those had all been specially modified.
And yet when these planes flew west and they landed in Sacramento before heading down to be loaded on the carrier, one of the planes carburetors was un you know, it was, for no reason at all on the surface, modified back to the original setting. And that happened to be Plane eight. Now, why would that plane be the only plane that had these modified carburetors,
you know, readjusted. And what that means is it's going to burn more, even more fuel, which means they're going to be even shorter of fuel than everybody else, which means they had a plausible reason to go to China or I'm started to go to Russian stead to China right from the beginning. So that was another thing that I latched onto and said, okay, hang on, I don't believe in coincidences. And if of all the planes to have this done accidental, heavily italicized there, why was it this one?
Well, it wasn't an accident. Okay, it was done on purpose so that they would have a plausible reason to go to Russia. Wow, plane eight pilots York and Emmons. What happened to them? You mean after the war. Did they survive the raid? Oh? Yeah, yeah, they survived the raid. All five guys in the crew survived the raid. Interestingly, the navigator who was not part nobody else in the crew was part of
it, just the pilots. The navigator always had doubts because he could obviously read a map, and he realized that these guys, oddly enough had maps of the Soviet Union, which he didn't have another big clue, and so he always had doubts about this, and for decades after the war he kept saying, hey, look, this wasn't accidental. Nobody listened to him. In fact, two weeks ago, right after the book came out, his granddaughter got a hold of me and thanked me for getting the story out because
it vindicated her grandfather which was kind of cool. York and Emmons both ended up taking careers in military intelligence, so you can read that, you know, for what it is, right. Did either of them ever talk write anything about this mission. Well, Bob Emmens wrote a book called Guests of the Kremlin, which is more like a travelogue. It was, you know, kind of interesting, especially as observations of the Russians and what barbarians they
are. He wrote that book, but they he never he stuck with the cover story. Okay, these guys never let on that there was anything else going on. They never revealed anything. They'd made a promise. I mean, they're serving military officers, and they took an oath and made a promise, and that's important, and so they stuck with it. They never said
a thing. Dan, last question without revealing what you believe the purpose, the motive, the reason, the destination was in your mind looking at it now from your view with what you know, was the decision to send Plaane eight to the Soviet Union a justified mission. At the time that they went, it was definitely justified. By the time they had gotten out, things
had changed considerably, so the original reason didn't necessarily exist anymore. But these guys, these guys provided a lot of behind the scenes information on the Soviet Union because they were deep inside of it while they were being interned, and that was an enormous help to folks. So it wasn't. It wasn't by any means of wasted mission. Great great book. Cannot wait to read the rest of it. Thank you Dan for the time today. I appreciate it,
my pleasure. Preston, as always, thanks, thank you, sir. It's Dan Hampton, and again his accolades are incredible. One hundred and fifty one combat missions twenty years as a member of the United States Air Force, retired as a lieutenant colonel and author of the book Vanishing Act, The Enduring Mystery behind the legendary Do Little Raid over Tokyo. I thought I knew about this raid. I'm a pretty good student on some of the World War Two stuff. This is all new stuff for me, and I cannot wait
to read it. I hope you get the book and write a nice review. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It was so hard to not read that book before doing that interview. I don't have time to read a lot of books because I read the equivalent of a book every week doing the show, just show prep. But there are certain books and certain topics, and the do Little Raid is just one of those. I mean, did you know that they practiced at Eglin Air
Force Base? They did. Yes, they did the practice where they painted a line marking the end of the aircraft carrier and they and they kept working and working and stripping down these planes to get them light enough with the fuel needed to get off the deck of an aircraft carrier. And they practiced at
Eglin. Cool little, Yeah. I mean, when you look at the history of our area, you've got Egglin in the preparation for that for the Doolittle Raid, and then you've got Carabell hour and a half from where we sit right now, where they practice the D Day invasion. It's crazy, crazy stuff. But yeah, not reading that book in advance was just I don't like reading books in advance of guests coming on because I find myself I
learned this early doing interviews. When I read the book in advance, I'm asking questions way beyond where the audience is because they've not read the book, and so I end up asking what equal to inside baseball questions and way in the weeds, And it's not fair to the audience. And so I try to approach interviews like you, like if you were sitting down with Dan,
what would be those fundamental questions to kind of unpack the thing? And of course understanding they're not going to give away the book, that's the whole point to tease anyway. Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grow with creative marketing and digital expertise. Eight suspected ices terrorists who crossed into the US from the southern border arrested in New York, Philly and Los Angeles. I'm asking one question, who don't we know about? When we interview Heeseus
Rodriguez, retired US Border Patrol agent. He frequently talks about the godaways, he said, the ones you don't you don't worry a lot a lot about the ones who turned themselves in. Now, one of these guys was using the Joe Biden one app to appeal and claim asylum. He's a terrorist. But as a rule, Hazus said, the gotaways are the ones you worry about because you don't know who they are and they're intentionally avoiding detection. He
said, that's the problem. He said, there's millions of them, and so out of those millions, you've got cartel members, you've got MS thirteen, gang members, you've got just rank and file criminals, and then you got terrorists and you know nothing about it. That's the problem. Hunter Biden gets convicted of three charges. I'll be honest with you, it's a yawn to me. It just is, Okay, when are we going to hear about Joe? When are we going to get there? And oh, by
the way, let me just point this out. I have not mentioned this earlier today, the laptop that was a centerpiece of this trial. Are there any apologies coming from the mainstream media that that laptop's of fake it's a ruse, it's Russian disinformation, it's it's it's there's nothing. Are we hearing any retractions, any apologies? Oh, we were wrong. That laptop's legitimate because it was a star witness against Hunter, and that laptop carries a lot more
than stuff related to coke U's prostitution and guns. I'm just saying, where where's the where's the apology? Forty minutes after the hour, some some more fyis here on the show. This is the ever changing landscape of collegiate athletics. And I know that a lot of you are fans of sports and you follow what's going on out there. This blew my mind of all the litigation that's out there. The nineteen eighty three North Carolina State basketball team, now
what's notable about them. That's the jim Valvano team. Jimmy V. You see him after they won the title, running around looking for somebody to hug. It's a classic scene of postgame celebration where the winning coach can't find anybody to hug. It was just it's hilariously funny, and Valvano made a shtick out of it. And of course Jimmy V the focus of the V Foundation. He died of cancer, and quite honestly, Jimmy V's foundation has raised
a tremendous amount of money. And if there's anything redemped about of ESPN, it's that it's the V Foundation, and so I credit them for that. But they are suing the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company seeking compensation for unauthorized use of their names, their images, and their likenesses. And they are seeking a trial by jury for reasonable compensation. If you're a fan, you
remember the game they won fifty four to fifty two. It was it was a misshot that turned into a pass and a dunk that led to the win. But they ran around and inside the lawsuit, it says for more than forty years, the NCAA and its co conspirators have systematically and intentionally misappropriated the
Cardiac Packs publicity rights. That was the name of the team they were known as the Cardiac Pack, including their names, images, and likenesses associated with that game and that play, reaping scores of millions of dollars from the Cardiac Pack's legendary victory. And it's filed on behalf of former teammates. They are striking while the iron is hot, and they're doing that because if you remember back last week, maybe the week before, I told you about a settlement
the NCAA made with former athletes that have sued. There were three separate federal antitrust cases listen to the settlement two point eight billion dollars. The settlement was significant because the cases experts believe could have yielded close to twenty billion dollars in damages. So a couple things to think about here for perspective. Number one, look where we're going with college athletics. It's de facto pro and I don't know if you know, but in the state of Florida now nil goes
to high school. High school athletes can now sign name, image likeness deals. But think about it. The NCAA is going to just pay out two point eight billion dollars and we're facing possibly twenty billion, and have agreed to starting the year twenty twenty five, paying twenty million dollars per year two each
school in the Power five conferences to distribute to their athletes. This is going to be so much fun to watch when the no offense, When the water polo team asked for their share, I was gonna say crew, but yeah, crew, fair enough. Beach volleyball. Look, some of these sports have fans and followings, but they don't generate revenue on most college campuses. Most sports do not generate revenue, they don't profit, they don't pay for
themselves. So I can't wait to see how the non revenue sports ask for and receive money out of that twenty million a year per school. But add that up, add that up, and it gives you an idea of how much money the NCAA is making. You think they're paying the price for a little bit of greed, just saying forty seven minutes after the hour, we come back a great viral hack that yes, I found stacks and stacks and stacks of stories. I do my best. Sometimes I just can't get through
all of them, but today not bad. I only set two to the side. We plowed through pretty good, all things considered. I mentioned I came across a viral sensation. Now I don't find these things on TikTok. Other people do. Because I refuse to go on TikTok. I just refuse. I won't. I won't go there. And again another area where I get in trouble with my bosses. But that's all right. They just shake their head and go, well, he's old. Just leave it right there.
But this is this just first, the name of this made me laugh. But its purpose is genius, enterprising. Smart people have taken a tackle box in various forms. Sometimes they're one level, sometimes they're multi level, but they're they're always secured and little compartments, and they've turned it into a
snackle box. And its primary purpose is traveling on airplanes and you you just you have these compartments full of snacks and and I mean someone like twenty different compartments with different snacks little you know, the goldfish snacks and and got a gummies and and mints and whatever. It's just it's first. How can you not love a snackle box? That's just that's brilliant. So I'm just I'm just saying, here, you go look it up. You'll find all kinds
of examples of a snackle box. And just remember, mister Trendy right here pointed you to it. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show on WFLA. Started the program today with a little word Psalm nineteen versus one and two. Good reminder if you're out and about, it's just it's yes, it's a good and it's a good way to start your day, which is why we start our day with it. Big Stories in the press Box today brought to you by Groove of Creative Marketing and digital expertise.
Eight suspected ISIS terrorists who crossed in the United States from the southern border have been arrested in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles wonderful jury finds Hunter Biden guilty on all three charges in the gun trial. He faces income tax evasion in California trial in September. Federal court, the Ninth District, Ninth Circuit sorry Court of Appeals has ruled that the mRNA COVID shot isn't a vaccine. You're kidding me, right, No way? Oh that's right.
I would saying that in the very beginning. Oh well, I guess that's why it's not really news to me. But at least it's illegal. Finding that will be very useful Later January sixth, clip of Nancy Pelosi quote, I take responsibility as she talked about the lack of the National Guard. Yes on four shared an email exchange there Scholastic books, the book fares. Yeah, not what we remembered. New York passing law requiring panic buttons at large
retail stores. Walmart's saying no, And speaking of Walmart, they're closing stores. Not a good sign. We'll be back tomorrow. Cannot wait