Hey, good morning kids, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, males and females, ruminators, near and fire. Welcome Tuesday in the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston produce her to be named later running the broadcast this morning alongside his trusty mentor for the day, and that's Jared. Good morning. How are you. We're making sure that the show runs as smoothly as possible. How's your padawan? He's taking it in. We're letting him drive
today. Yeah, I'm co piloting, making sure nothing goes off the rails too much. Yeah, he was driving a little yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there. The training wheels will soon be off. I love it. I love it. Anyway, we welcome you to the second broadcast day of the week, and as always, we'll tell you about the program. I just have to pause for a moment and marvel at John Kirby's spokesman for the Pentagon, who has the stones to say that
our adversaries don't think anything's wrong with Joe Biden. Hey, they think he's on top of his game. Okay, let's start with Ephesians three, twenty and twenty one. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. To him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. What does a men mean?
You know what amen means? We've heard it, but we say it, and I think we say it without fully grasping what the word means. It means truth. When you say amen, you are declaring that the words that were spoken just there, just prior, those words are truth. Listen to the truth once again. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. To him be the glory in the Church and in Christ
Jesus, throughout all generations, forever and ever. Truth. That's what amen means. Truth. We've kind of been programmed to just say that. If you go to church, pastor says something, amen, and we kind of think that what we're saying is well done. Yeah, good, good, that's very good. And what you're really saying is what was just spoken is truth. And the Bible's full of truth. And always remember this. I came across a guy named Josh McDowell forty years ago, maybe longer, and
he wrote a book called Evidence that Demands a Verdict. And it's not easy reading. It's it's written almost like a college thesis, and it's massive, and the subtitle is basically paraphrased. When you read the evidences, you have to decide Jesus is either a lunatic, he's a liar where he's lord those your three choices, and in that he sets about presenting truths. And one of the things that I came to a conclusion of is it's not whether I
can or can't. It's whether I will or won't. Will I or won't I believe it's not that I can or can't because every single person, even the person that claims to be an atheist, it's no such thing. There is no such thing, because every single person that lives lives by faith. It's where they place their faith. Every time every one of you gets in a car and you put your foot on a brake pedal, you have faith
that those breaks are going to stop you on time. You have faith that the other drivers on the road are going to obey the laws and not broadside you. Sometimes you're a little weary or wary, but you're you're walking by faith that most people are going to follow the law. When we go to a restaurant, we have faith that the cook isn't spitting in the food. We have faith for all kinds of things all day long. It's all a
matter where you place it. So to the people that are out there saying I don't believe this rubbish, and I get email from people saying this is ridiculous. I'm an atheist. No, you're not. You're a humanist. You have faith in yourself. Okay, if that's how you want to live your life, that's fine, But understand it's about will and won't. It's not can or can't. You can because you do. You live by faith all day long, all day long. And that is what the Bible presents
is truth. Amen. It produces evidences that demand a verdict. Lunatic liar or Lord Jesus is a person of history. He split time in half. You decide eleven past the hour, head into the American Patriots Almanac. Next year in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Twenty one years and still growing. So tell a friend both Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Twelve past the hour. Take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. See we got July the ninth about to hit double digits for the for the month. During the French and Indian War in seventeen fifty five, General Edward Braddock mortally wounded in the Battle of Manangahela, manoga HeLa Man. I had to say that like three times before the show started to just get that in my head. That's now Pittsburgh, and if I'm not mistaken, one of the
three rivers that converge there is the Monongahela River. If I'm not mistaken, I should know that far better than I do. But I've only been to Pittsburgh once since I was born there. Born in Pittsburgh, left six months later, went back years later when I made a trip to Connellsville, where my dad went to high school, and they have named the press box at
the football stadium at his high school after him. Dad and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lujack went to the same high school and are both honored there, which was pretty cool. Eighteen forty six, during the Mexican American War, American troops under Commander John Montgomery raised an American flag in Urba Buena, later renamed San Francisco. Eighteen fifty, Zachary Taylor, the twelfth US President, dies
after serving only sixteen months in office. I hear that, and I still shake my head realizing, Okay, that's the twelfth US President, Zachary Taylor. I still marvel that we have a living grandson of the tenth US president in America today, alive. That blows my mind. Grandson, not great great, not great, not great great great grandson. That's technically one generation. It's incredible, it really is. His grandfather was the tenth president.
That's insane, insanity, all right. Fourteenth Amendment design a grand Citizenship protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves is ratified in eighteen sixty eight. Nineteen twenty two, Alameda, California, Jhanny weis Muller becomes the first person to swim the one hundred meter freestyle in less than a minute. Was it Johnny weiss Miller that that that filmed a Tarzan movie in Wacula Springs or was it
a successor to him? Two movies have been filmed at willculor Springs that that that are classics in terms of you know, pop culture, and one is Tarzan and the other is Creature of the Black Lagoon from the Black Lagoon. I don't have the answer for you, Preston, but I promise within an hour someone's going to email you that answer. Fifteen minutes. I give you ten minutes, that fast, fifteen yeah, yeah, that listeners you're going with an hour, within an hour, okay, I'll say within fifteen yeah.
Was it Johnny weiss Miller weiss Mueller who who filmed at Wacula Springs Tarzan movie? Or is it one of the many Tarzans along the line, just not him? I don't know. And then in nineteen fifty five, on this date, Rock around the Clock reaches number one on the Billboard Charts.
Bill Haley and the Comets sixteen minutes after the hour come back with the development on a local story FLA at WFLA FM dot com, on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos and Iheart's radio station. Yesterday I mentioned that Leon County was trying to find the name for a mascot for EMS. They have a bear
mascot and they're holding a a competition, if you will. That's kind of polling county residents asking you to vote, and you can vote through Friday, July nineteenth, So you've got a week from this Friday and all ages invited to vote celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Leon County Emergency Medical Services. And so the names to be chosen from are Benji, Benny, Bow, Sonny and Teddy. Now what I did not know when I wrote. I wrote back, I said, I said, and why isn't Leon the county MS
baron option? Lol? And I got a reply. I said a note, thinking no, it's going to see this, and I got a reply. Uh. Keanu writes back, Preston, You're so right, so right in fact, that Leon is already taken by our other EMS mascot, Leon
Lifesaver. Who knew it could be Leon Jr? Well, first of all, that might be useful to know, because I think most well I think a lot of people would pair names, you know, they would They would go, Okay, we've got a Leon and and she she goes on to say, he's been rolling around for years could really use a buddy in the field. Hence the introduction of our new bear mascot. We hope one of
the five names presented will get your vote before the survey closes. I wrote back, I said, who knew, Lol, I always favor alliteration, myself Leon and Lenny, leon Or and Louis Or. And then I just said, I'll see myself out. And so they're not going to add any names. So here's what you got. You got Leon and Benji, Leon and Benny, Leon and Bo, Leon and Sonny, Leon and Teddy Teddy
bear. Is just don't do that. Don't don't do that. We no. I feel like Benji Benny are gonna be one of the two likely choices. But do you like any of them? See, I still like alliteration. Is there no writing option for Benji, Benny, Bo, Sonny Teddy? I just Sonny the bear, h Bo the Bear, Benny the Bear, Benji the Bear. Yeah, I mean eh. I still think if Leon's already used, I still think you need to go with a literation. I think you scrub all this, but they're not going to do that.
So there you go. You can you can look this up on the County Uh, well, let me let me tell you where to go. I mean, I'll just describe it to you if you're so inclined. No, it's an online form. It doesn't have a it doesn't tell you the website. My guess is if you if you go to the Leon County website, you'll be directed to there'll be some kind of link. There's got to be something there. But hey, I'm all look, I'm all for it.
I'm all for anything that puts first responders in a positive light before children. And if a bear mask got running, you know, some some person running around inside a mascot and handing out stuff to kids and making them laugh, is is I'm I'm all for it. Lord knows we have. We have made first responders kind of like public enemy number one. We're not paying them what we should pay them. Look at me taking this story and turning it
into a political statement. We're not paying them what we should pay them. We're not paying the MS, we're not paying firefighters. We're not paying police or sheriffs deputies. We're not paying any of them, FHP, any of them what they should be paid for putting their life on the line literally all the time. So Anyway, that said, there's a contest underway, and you can take part twenty seven past the hour, come back, Big Stories
in the press box and start unpacking the program. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Runing Show with Preston Scott. Hello, Hello, anybody O. Hi? Thinkly on News Radio one hundred point SEVENBUFLA five minutes, five minutes that fast six twenty am timestamped East Time. Johnny Weismuiler. Yes, the several Tarzan films have been filmed there. Creature from the Black Lagoon Night
Moves Airport seventy seven apparently had some stuff there. Go figure. I didn't know that, but yeah, Johnny Weissmailer, who was in Olympian by the way, filmed in nineteen thirty eight, and then Tarzan's Secret Treasure filmed in nineteen forty one. Creature from the Black Lagoon is an underrated creepy movie. It's it's you've never seen it. No, I've seen it. For the time it came out, I'm sure it seemed creepy, but now it just seems silly by today's viewpoint. Take that back, Oh, you take that
back. The same issue that Jaws has Okay, don't go in the water. You're not gonna die. Movies over. Yeah, it's still This was an era where you had the Wolfman, you had Frankenstein, you had an Oh, by the way, Frankenstein was played not just by Boris Karloff, but Boris Karloff, if I'm not mistaken, also played the Mummy, and Frankenstein was also played by Lon Cheney Junior, who also played the were Wolf wolf Man. Then you had Dracula Bello Lagosi, the Classic, and I
mean that whole genre of horror flicks. There was a strange series of movies with Abbott and Costello. Oh yeah, meeting the Yes, horror Creatures. They were awesome. Those are great movies. Those are hilariously great movies. Anyway, Sorry, big stories in the and I'm sure I got something in that little run wrong, but I don't think I did. I feel like Boris Karloff did play Frankenstein, and I know he played a mummy in one
of the original Mummy movies. That's another one of those. That's just kind of and they remade a lot of these things, if not all of them, in different forms. Yeah, that's a universal is trying to make that like their Marvel Universe, but with monsters and remaking the movies. Unfortunately, the first one they did was like the Tom Cruise Mummy movie, and it did really terribly at the box office. Thankfully, I did not see or
hear of any of that. Well, not a lot of people did, good, good big stories in the press box, Van Jones, former advisor to Barack Obama, CNN commentator, is saying Kamala is gonna run. It's it's interesting because now you've got the inner circles starting to talk very openly, and you know they're trying to Joe's got a big ego, and that's the problem. They're not getting Joe to cooperate with all of this. He said.
Democrats are not discussing whether to replace Joe Biden. They're discussing how to replace Joe Biden. So, for better or worse, they feel like they're gonna put Kamala out there because quote, well, to paraphrase, she can defend herself better than Joe can. The polling Trump versus Kamala is tank worthy. Well, you know, it's all about the significance of the passage of time. Of course, it is absolutely it is que the SoundBite, which
I just I'm I'm not going there right now. I have them all there. Platform by the RNC has come out. They're adopting Trump's position on everything, including abortion, which is interesting because Trump is not making abortion a national issue. I'll be honest with you, I think that's the right position for Trump because the Supreme Court took it from being a national issue and said it's a state's issue. And I think it's It's not smart from a political perspective.
I think that you have to lobby this thing at the state level until you get a personhood amendment. Personhood is the big issue. But we've got the rest of the platform as laid out, and I'll make some points about
that. And then lastly, the I is saying it had nothing to do with the Dutch Olympic team, the Netherlands picking a convicted rapist for their beach volleyball team, a guy named Stephen van Derveld four years in a prison in Britain following the rape of a twelve year old girl two years earlier when he was nineteen, and so they you know, I think it's an interesting story for a lot of reasons. I mean, come on, twelve. Are you kidding me? But if you paid your if you you know, he
didn't control his sentence right, and you paid your debt to society. I have mixed feelings about that one. That one probably would fall under the morality clause that a lot of jobs have. I would think, well, yeah, but it still goes back to Okay, he went to prison, he served his time. We can argue about whether he served enough time, but I just I think it's in. I'm not advocating one way or the other on this one. I just think it's an interesting story, which is why
I wanted it on your radar. Beach volleyball. Yeah, Freaky Diky dutch Man forty one minutes after the Hour back with the big stories in the press box, plus next decades of doing morning drive radio differently doing it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has a little more hair. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. All Right. Lon Chaney Junior not only played Frankenstein in Ghost of Frankenstein, he played Count A Lacarde Dracula backwards in Son of Dracula, and then of course was the Wolfman and all the various crossovers of that movie. But that's crazy. These guys just got it. I got it. I've got to see Boris Karloff here. Yep, Frankenstein, The
Mummy. And of course he was the voice in The Grinch, the classic animated movie The Grinch How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which won him a Grammy. Amazingly crazy. Anyway, sorry, I just had to. Did you know the person who sings the year Amine one, mister Grinch, was also the original voice of Tony the Tiger. Yes, I did, of course you would, I did, thorough Ravencroft. Yes, yeah, they're Yeah, he's and if you really listen to that song, you can hear Tony
the Tiger. And what really messes with your mind is if you think Tony the Tiger while you're listening to that song, you're just seeing Tony the Tiger sing the song. Also the voice of the ghost hosts at the Haunted Mansion at Disney World and Disneyland. Now I did not know that, well, the original one. I don't know if they've updated it now since he's passed away a number of years ago. It might be a diffres for script. Well, you know, at this point you can take that voice track in
AI. It and you can have thorough ravenscroft all day long. I just I wonder if you have to pay the estate or something like that for it. But yeah, one of the great voices of a voice work out there, and US radio guys, we are all about the voices behind some of this stuff. Matt Vespa town Hall. Who is running the White House? Is the headline as this article spills some disturbing details. It's an article in Semaphore. I've never heard of it. It's one of probably a gazillion sites
out there, and listen to the quote from the writer. Midday on fourth of July received a call from a government official with regular access to the West Wing who said they had reached a breaking point and wanted to sound the alarm.
The person insisted on careful ground rules, no details on specific policy areas they'd worked on, et cetera, et cetera, And they said the assertion this person would like to get across it's unclear, even to some inside the West Wing policy process, which policy issues reached the president and how major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes the chief of Staff, who talks with the president regularly. In return, concluded that this person who works inside the
White House is like, we don't know who's running the country. Now here's what's interesting. We talked about a story last week in Axios that was saying it was this inner circle of this person, this person, this world, this particular one is listing a different set of characters, but it's the same theme. Remember what I said last week, This is all smoke and mirrors. I'm telling you, trust me. They're now floating out all of this
stuff. The President's not in charge. The president's not in charge. Who's running the country. Who's running the country. Isn't it interesting how they've been denying this for three and a half years. Now suddenly after the debate they're admitting, okay, he's not running the country. But here's what they're doing. They're floating out all of these different scenarios to create confusion. I'm telling
you it's Obama. Obama's running the country. You mark it down. Every policy that's rolled out of this White House since day one has been Barack Obama's complete platform. When he ran for president, he just couldn't get it all done, and I would surmise he didn't want his fingerprints directly on much of it either because it's bad stuff. What's happened in this country? Come on?
It is forty seven minutes after the hour. Back with more here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Ring Show with Preston Scott Does Mother No? You wear eth herdre on News Radio one hundred point seven dousla fifty two minutes after the hour. Good morning friends. If you are a person who relies on the postal service and you send a lot of things via the mail, and you use stamps, you might want to buy a bunch of them right
now because the price is jumping. They are raising the rates for first class mail on July fourteenth, So you got five days, Well you have four days, and stamps are going to be costing seventy three cents each. Its current price is sixty eight cents, so it's jumping five percent. So you might want to buy a book, a roll, or whatever it is you buy sooner versus later to save just a little bit of coin. If you go back to January of twenty twenty three, the price of stamps was sixty
three cents. It increased to sixty six in July of that year, then sixty eight January of this year. If you go back even further, in twenty twenty one, stamps for fifty five cents, So we're going to be going from fifty five cents to seventy three cents in roughly four years. Ou chacabibble. That's that's pretty significant hike. Now. I have long believed that if you really think about it, postal service is a bargain. And when you think about okay, you write, put a card in the mail,
and it goes from your mail carrier to whatever sorting process. Those processes get it to wherever it's going and start that And I mean, how many hands is that note going to cross and get get handled by? And you're paying right now sixty eight cents to get it from here to across the country. That I mean that, that to me has always seemed like a pretty incredible deal when you look at it in its context. But at the same time, I back up and think to myself, okay, well, the postal
service has not necessarily been the most efficiently run. I mean, US Congressman Neil Dunn called for an audit of the Tallahassee operation, and it found the Inspector General's Office apparently found quite a few issues with the delivery of services. And and always it's not the rank and file mail people that deliver our mail. The problems are elsewhere. I mean, you know, I feel that that's a brutal job. But I got to think, how much of the
mail that I get is actually mail that I keep? And I would say less than ten percent, maybe even five percent of the actual things delivered to me are things that I want or need. It's a bill, or it's a you know, some notification from a doctor or from the insurance company, or whatever it might be. And I'm thinking to myself, what if the US Postal Service simply delivered packages entrusted to it and delivered mail once a week, mail mail once a week. I don't know. I don't know if
that would work or not. All right, let's get to the second hour of the program. Much to talk about an hour two here on the Morning Show with Preston scotten Man. A minute coming up later this hour. Tell you about ways you can help make a difference with seniors in our communities in the Panama City area and the Tallahassee area. You're just joining us. Welcome to Tuesday. I'm Preston Scott, Welcome to the radio program. This is
the five ninety first time I've hosted this show. There have been other shows, I just haven't hosted them, so I only count the ones that I've shown up for. That's Jared over there, and alongside running the program today is the producer to be named. Later, we welcome you Justin Haskins.
Next hour. This story really and I'm hoping that we've got some young people listening that you're out of school, not running around, you're up listening because you're getting ready to go to your summer job, or maybe your parents have you up or whatever, or maybe moms and dads you can share this. We've talked about the in local news, the fact that three young men in Maryland were killed in a car crash a few days ago. One of them
was a rookie draft pick for the Minnesota Vikings, Kyrie Jackson. He's dead. Two of his high school teammates are dead. One of them, aj Lytton, played twelve games here at Florida State before transferring to Penn State to finish. He was in the car as well. Now by all accounts, Kyrie, who was I guess driving? He didn't make any mistakes. I don't know whether they were wearing their seatbelts or not. But what I wanted to point out in the story is how it happened. The other young man
who died Isaiah Hazel. So we've got young man twenty two, twenty three, twenty four dead. The photos of the vehicle are total devastation. Here's what happened. Apparently Hazel was the driver of the car, and the car's not recognizable. It's flattened three fourteen in the morning, So lesson number one man. The old adage much good happens after midnight is really one to remember. There are a finite number of people in the world, and there are
a finite number of people who just don't make good choices. Now normally, say until midnight, that number of finite number of people that make bad choices is a real small piece of the pie. If you wedge it out into a chart, a pie chart, that number makes up a sliver of the total numbers of people out and about. But as you get later and later into the evening and then into the early hours of the morning, that pie, that finite number stays the same, but the percentage grows exponentially. Does
that make sense. Your likelihood of running into people that are stupid goes up as the night goes on. Your likelihood of running into someone that makes bad choices goes up as the night goes on. That's why we tell our kids, please stay home, get home. We try to put these guidelines. So here's what happens. They're at three point fifteen in the morning. Three vehicles involved in a crash. A Silver Infinity Q fifty, a Chevy Impala,
and the Dodge Charger driven by these young men. The driver of the Infinity Q fifty, twenty three year old Corey Klingman, attempted to change lanes at a high rate of speed when she struck the Dodge Charger, then struck the Chevy Impala. Point number one, being out at that hour puts you in contact with more people likely to be making bad choices. Point number two aggressive driving. Was it influenced by alcohol? We'll find out if she's charged.
I don't know, but three young men are dead, dead because of aggressive driving. And this is a memo to all of us. Stop it. Stop driving stupidly running up on people's rear, ends on interstates, on roads, give it some space, and if there's space, don't fill in with a dumb, stupid lane change. That runs the risk because you don't have good depth perception of clipping somebody, let alone at a high rate of speed. There was no recovery. When I I'm gonna show the guys the
photos. This car was destroyed because of it flipping and hitting tree stumps. Two rules to lessons, sorry to learn here. Get off the roads at certain hours, get away from get be home. Just stop it. Number two, stop aggressive driving. And some of you listening right now you're aggressive drivers. It's not worth it because you could be like this, this little girl's face in jail time and a lot of it totally unnecessary. Take it
down. Eleven passed The hour Morning Show with Preston Scott. See from the spin, don't know what to believe? Clear the Fog The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA showed the photos to the guys in the studio known as one A. Your reaction when you saw Jared as brutal. The car was completely flattened, looked like it had gone through a junkyard and been squashed down into a cube almost that is just prior to
being pulled onto the back of a flatbed tow truck. I mean, it's You're exactly right. It looks like it has been those things that level roads, those giant rollers. It looks like it's been pancaked by one of those things. But I hope I've described this because I've used that pie chart thing with young people for a long time, and it's usually pretty effective. I beg of you parents, first of all, if your kids are living at
home, I don't care how old they are now. Seriously, if they're at your home, sorry, I want you own by midnight, it's my house. I don't want people in and out of my home after midnight. Sorry, just the way it is. I think that you need to explain to your children, in particular, this pie chart analogy, because it works. It's absolutely factually correct. Your ratios change throughout at every hour. More and more dumbness is out there. Anyway, short segment here because I went
long on that one. Pulling from Gallup shows that Americans confidence in higher education has dropped twenty one points since twenty fifteen. Thirty six percent of US adults have confidence in our higher education system. Nine years ago, fifty six percent of Republicans had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence. Now it's
twenty percent. Top reason across all Democrat, Republican and independence political agendas, followed by colleges who have the wrong focus and do not teach the right things, followed by costs political agendas. You would think at some point the presidents of colleges and universities would look at this and they would react to that by saying, you know, guys, when it's all said and done, this is a business. We've got to keep students here and we're losing we're losing
ground. We need to change the way that we function and the image of
this university will follow. But we'll see if they do it. Sixteen minutes after the hour, how can you make a difference, I'm gonna show you tell you next USLA on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos and Ihearts radio season mainly minutes still to come about a half hour away where the beach reminders still sorry, still seeing stories of people drowning right off of beaches from rip currents
all up and down the East Coast, Gulf Coast, so avoidable, so avoidable. It is. It is like the story we talked about in this half hour avoidable. It's avoidable. Leaving a kid in a hot car avoidable. There are ways to make sure that you don't let these things happen, totally in your control, totally one anyway, we strive to find ways to make a difference. And Jerry brought this suggestion up and I just I thought it was terrific. It's hot, it is. It's a funny thing.
It happens every summer, but this summer is unseasonably hot. We knew it was going to likely be that way. The weather patterns, La Nina, El Nino, all of those things determine what happens out there, what storm systems do, what when they form, where they form, how they grow, and we knew this was going to be a hot one that said, there are senior adults on fixed incomes and they'll just turn the air conditioning down
because they cannot afford the flexibility that comes with a utility bill. You know, my utility bill jumped quite a bit last month. My water bill jumped quite a bit last month. Trying to keep my grass alive. For senior adults on a fixed income, they do not have that option, so they
go without. And a fan makes all the difference in the world. Unlike you know, a lot of different situations and circumstances, you can actually turn a fan on and create some level of comfort just by circulating the air. And you're kind of allowing evaporative cooling because you're perspiring a little bit because you're warm, but then that perspiration then cools from the flowing of the air,
so it makes a difference. So we are tag teaming with Eldercare Services in Tallahassee and the Bay County Council on Aging in Panama City, and we're asking you to bring in a new unopened boxed box fan, hey box box fan and drop them off at our studios here in Tallahassee and in Panama City on
Wednesdays. This is the important part for us. Now, you can deliver them directly, that's fine, Just donate them directly to Eldercare Services, Big County Council on Aging, or you can let us take care of that. We will, but you have to We have two windows at the same time on Wednesdays, in both locations, you can look up the addresses, but
tomorrow Wednesday. Each week for the next several Wednesdays from noon till five local time, so noon to five in Tallahassee, then Central time noon to five in Panama City Wednesdays from noon to five, just drop off your box fan, brand new, unopened, and we'll deliver them. We will take them all over there. Now, if you want to stroke a check, we would prefer you give those directly to them. We're not going to accept any
cash. If you do want to leave a check we made out to Elder Care Services or Bay County Council on Aging, we will take those checks and hand them to them, but we would prefer you just to directly donate to them because you can probably do that online very easily and not have to run the risk of anything, you know, a check getting lost or anything like that. That's our preference. We will not accept any cash period end.
You can do that there. If you send the check, make it designated for box Fans, and if you want to put WFLA, that's Fineignated giving always must go. It's required that it goes to what it's designated for. But this is a really big need. I regret that we didn't think of it sooner, but we'll try to do that next year in the month of May to try to get ahead of it. No number has been given to
us. My thought is there can't be too many box fans now. Really they're just can't be because there will be new people that need them all the time. So if you can do that, it's just another little way to try to make a difference and help improve somebody's life. Twenty seven minutes after the hour tomorrow noon to five, bring them to the iHeart locations. You're surprised if you laugh, We suggest you use the restroom before you listen, or invest in the thirty foot catheter. Yes, I use it all the
time. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Interesting collection of stories and the UH and of course the big story in the press box is will he or won't he be the candidate? Now. I made it official years ago that Joe Biden was not going to be the man, that he was going to be jettisoned. I thought it would be the Hunter Biden scandal.
They and all indications were that the press was starting to fold and cover it and I've had people, you know, write me and suggest that you know, right now, the media is is trying to spin this in such a way that they're making themselves look like they've been deceived and lied to this whole time, all other ulterior motives behind the media is suddenly taking an interest in
Joe Biden's mental state of mind. It's none of that. The mainstream media is ninety five percent Democrat, and out of that a large percentage are the elitist, progressive, super uber illiberal part of the party, not old school moderate Democrats. These are the These are the Dems on steroids. That are that that believed in the the COVID vaccine, that believed in masking, that believed in climate change, that believe in controlling your life and every decision you
make, that believe in to do unto you, not unto them. The mainstream media is they are simply feigning their outrage. They're trying to figure out what to do. And so this is all right, now cover while we sort out behind the scenes, we meaning they while they sort out who's replacing Joe, because I'm telling you, Joe's not going to be the guy running for president. Now they've got all kinds of legal hurdles in front of them,
but the convention hasn't happened. There are states that present problems to them if they change out. And then the wild card of all of this is Joe didn't get the memo when he signed up to run that he's serving at the pleasure of Barack Obama. Might say, well, he was vice president of Barack Obama. They're buds, No, they're not. Barack Obama famously said, never underestimate Joe's ability to bleep up a situation. That's a quote. He has no regard for Joe Biden. He's been running this country.
If you look at every bad policy that's rolled out in the last three and a half years and go back to when Barack Obama ran for president, they are all what he wanted to do, all of it, all of it. There might be a little difference in how he might have handled China, because look, Obama was smart, sophisticated, well spoken, and he's not the great orators some think he is. But overall, this sharp guy. I could sit and have a conversation with that guy. But the bottom line
is that that's the story Democrats are trying to sort all this out. They've got now doctors coming out saying okay, yeah, there was a Parkinson's expert coming in once a month for eight months, but no sign of the whatever. Biden's been a train wreck for years. He's just gotten so bad over the last three and a half. No one expected that kind of decline. They're gonna jettison him. The rumor now is it's going to be Kamala Harris, that's the word. It's going to be Kamala. Republicans sorting out.
They they have an agenda that they're going to be rolling out, Sealing the border, ending of inflation, make the American dream, affordable tax cuts for workers, keeping men out of women's sports. That's a winning topic because that cuts across political borders. Only the extra dream nutjobs think that men should be
competing against women. Preventing World War three, get us out of places we don't belong, play a part in bringing peace to the Middle East by supporting israel I, would hope deporting pro Hamas radicals, deporting in general, along with the ceiling of the border. That's an agenda that a lot of Americans are going to get behind. Forty minutes past the hour, come back and a first time in a year plus. Yep. For you may be from Florida, Sunshine State to New York's forget New York. Scratch that, New
York's now hopeless. At least the city is for the rest. We're your morning show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott forty two minutes past the hour, get me and them producing to be named later run in the radio broadcast today doing a fine job. Jared over there right next door, he is, he's his master. Later it would be the Padawan, yes, little jedi term. Yeah. Hey, would you volunteer forget what you're doing for
a living. All right, let's just say if you had the opportunity job wise, career wise to volunteer to be part of an experiment to isolate yourself with three others for more than a year to simulate what it would be like on Mars, would you do it? Am I being compensated for this experiment? Well, you're volunteering to do it. I will assume that there's compensation. Yes, but the idea four people, two men, two women isolation completely. You're not leaving the place for more than a year. Would I
have contact with the outside world only via video. I think if I had an Internet connection, Well, you wouldn't necessarily have an Internet connection because you're not getting Wi Fi up on Mars or would be heavily delayed. Yeah, I mean you might be able to, you know, bring a collection of DVDs or digital movies or something that they've uploaded. But yeah, would you
do it if it was a total stranger. I don't think I'd be likely to do it, just because you don't know how you're gonna mesh with total
strangers over the next year. Well, Nathan Jones, Anka Celario, Kelly Haston, and Ross Brockwell are now back to normal life after spending more than one year confined in a NASA simulator at the Johnson Space Center, seventeen hundred square foot enclosure that was three D printed and built, and they entered it in June of twenty twenty three the Crew Health and Performance Exploration ANALOG project.
They participated in simulated spacewalks, experiments, and other activities intended to take place on the Martian surface. And this past Saturday, they walked out at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to the applause of staff and they were visibly out side for the first time in better than a year year. The condition simulated to be as realistic as possible, communication delays, limitations on resources, and of course the isolation. They did not report any major issues during the three
hundred and seventy eight days spent. Of course, Mars is on average one hundred and forty million miles away, and so a round trip mission and stay would last several years if they ever actually do this and pull this off. But I think it is going to happen eventually, do you Yeah, I would venture say you think we went to the moon? Oh? Absolutely. Don't be that guy, Forreston, don't be that guy. I'm poking the people that are listening that are that guy, because I know there are people
that think we just faked at all. I don't quite know how we faked the splash down and you know, all that stuff, but hey, whatever, if that's what floats your boat, cool. That said, the movie The Martian is one of the best movies. I won't call it like my top ten, but it's a top twenty five movie for me. I think that's an outstanding movie. That movie's good enough that I bought it in four K so I have it in my four K collection because it's Have you ever
seen The Martian? Yes, the Matt Damon producer to be named later. Have you ever seen The Martian? No? Oh, my man, you have. Look, this is one of the things you're gonna have to do in being in this role is you will have to watch some movies that I particularly enjoy it for no other reason to be able to converse back and forth with me about said great movies. You don't have to agree with me that they're great, but you have to have watched them so that we can have
the discussion. It's a great movie. Yeah. I love that they showed his perspective on Mars, but also the perspective of people back on Earth trying to brainstorm how to get him back. And Jeff Daniels was perfectly cast as the jerk NASA administrator. Yeah, is the guy that has to be the bad guy for everyone else? Yeah yeah, yeah, because he's normally not that kind of role. But he pulled it off great. And look, I don't like Mad Damon's politics, but he's quieted that down if you've noticed,
because he realized it's not good for the box office. But Matt Damon. To me, he's an outstanding actor, so you know, he's like Tom Hanks, he's calmed it down. But I'm a big Tom Hanks fan. I'm a big Denzel Washington fan. So there's eclectic taste. Forty eight passed the hour. We're running way late back with a manly minute, I promised next and more. I forget to subscribe to the Conversations with Press and Scott podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
You know what this means. Don't go in the water ever. Not just kidding, This is just a reminder. Please, if you're new to the Sunshine State, if you're in here visiting the beaches, have flags. Those flags mean something. Purple flags mean marine life that is dangerous is in the waters in your area. That could be sharks, it could be jellyfish. Pay attention. A green flag means low hazard, but you still need to be aware that there could be rip currents even in green flag weather.
Yellow flags mean medium hazard, just like driving caution, red high hazard, double red waters closed. We are watching story after story of people drowning all on the coasts of America because they're not paying attention and they don't know what to do. Win and out. Go to my blog page because I have a blog up on how to spot rip currents and what to do if you're caught in them. All right, thus endeth the lesson time for many minutes.
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Weeding means pulling the weed out and getting the root, just breaking it off at the surface. It's coming back. Get the root out. Teach your son how to properly weed. He'll come to a point in life where he's going to have a law to maintain and he's going to feel really good about himself because he'll know how to properly weed. You'll feel good because you'll be sitting on the lemonade saying, son, you got a nice yard. You, sir, have turned into a man. And part of that equation is
that he has learned how to properly weed. I'm not talking about smoking the ganji, you know what I'm saying. I'm talking about weeding the yard. All right. Coming up next, we've got We've got Justin Haskins joining us from the Heartland Institute. Much to discuss here on the world. Oh. One of my favorite half hours of each and every month on this program for
the last several years, Good Morning Friends. It's Tuesday, July ninth, show fifty one to ninety one of The Morning Show with Preston, Scott and Preston. There's a producer to be named later running the broadcast. Jared's standing by and joining us on the phone line is Justin Haskins with the Heartland Institute. Welcome back, friend, how are you. I'm doing great, Preston,
how are you? I am sitting back Justin, and I'm I'm half marveling, half laughing at what's happening in the wake of the debate and the Democrats and all that's what's going on. I now am seeing stories leaked on everyone's theories, Axios and now this Semaphore article. Who's running the White House? You know, I believe that Barack O has been running the White House from day one? But what do you make of all of this? I
call it subterfuge that's going on now in the wake of the debate. Well, I think that Joe Biden hasn't been running the White House since he got there. I think that was pretty obvious. Really. I think it was also pretty obvious that he never had the mental capabilities to do this job the entire time he's been there. I think that was also pretty clear. It's the reason why they hit him in his basement when he was running for president
in twenty twenty. I mean, why did they do that? Why wasn't he out on the campaign trail with Donald Trump for much of that period of time. A lot of it had to do with there were too many slip ups, too many problems, too many things they've had to concealed. Of course, things have just gotten worse and worse and worse over time. He's
probably gotten less and less involved. But there's a whole gigantic, as you pointed out, Obama connected political apparatus in DC that's within the Democratic Party and within the White House, and they're the ones setting the policy agenda, and Biden is just blindly signing off on a lot of this stuff. So I don't think any of this is really a secret. The reason why we're seeing the media react the way they are now is not because they're just learning that
Joe Biden is mentally incompetent. They've known that. That's one of the reasons why they've picked him in the first place. The reason why they're going crazy is because they think he might lose now, and before they didn't think he would lose, and so now they're they're terrified of Trump getting back into the White House and rolling back everything that this Obama administration two point zero has been putting into place. And that's what this is all about, the elites and
the big donors and the Obama political machine. I don't care what Barack Obama that says publicly. They don't believe Joe Biden can win anymore, and Joe Biden, they're clearly trying to push him, and Joe Biden is saying I'm the president, I'm not leaving, I don't care. And that's being driven largely by his ego, by his family, by money and things like that, not by anything for the good of the country or the good of the
party or anything. And I think that this is We're just watching an unprecedented civil war within the Democratic Party and it is beautiful and glorious to watch. I wish it was like us all the time. I commented back a couple of years ago, maybe longer, that I didn't think Joe would be the nominee when it's all said and done for twenty twenty four. But I thought it was going to be the Hunter Biden laptop, and I saw signs that the media was starting to crack on that story. But now they got handed
to gift. It's not all that dissimilar, just in too, they got handed the gift with COVID. COVID was a gift that just kept giving to the Democrats and changing the whole election. And I feel like now Biden's performance in the debate is giving him that gift. So here's my question, when the smoke clears, who's going to be on the ticket, because now it
sounds as though everybody's saying Kamala Harris with Gavin Newsom as her VP. Right, has to be Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket because that's that's the only way that they get to keep the Biden Harris money that they've raised so far, which is a ton of money. So the only way to keep that and use it for this presidential election cycle would be for Kamala Harris to be at the top of the ticket if it's not Biden. So it's not going to be Gavin Newsom at the top of the ticket or anybody else
for that matter, It's got to be Kamala. I don't think that Joe Biden at this point in time unless the elites within the Democratic Party framework, and they very well might do this, but unless they go to Joe Biden and really turn the screws on him. I don't mean run op eds talking about how old he is and how he may have, you know, had plastic surgery, which is when I saw the other day, I think in
New York magazine or something. But like they need to they need to go to him privately and say, hey, you know all that Hunter Biden laptop stuff that we've been ignoring, you know, all the corrupt stories, the investigations. Remember all those things Joe that we said were conspiracy theories. Well, yeah, maybe they're not conspiracy theories. Maybe there's actually truth to those things. Maybe we need to look a little harder at some things. And
I think that's the only way they get them out at this point. Justin Haskins, whether it's justin stand By ten minutes past the hour, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott, decades of doing morning drive radio differently, doing it his way like all Blue Eyes, except he's not one of the great decomposers. You know, it's not six feet under Hey, the Morning Show.
We pressed in Scott to pass the hour. I mentioned to Common Stormancac Camick last week that there were a handful of guests that get paper clips where I bind stories together. And in this case, Justin hask is that other person other other than members of Congress, that I do this for. And it's always stuff that I either need to ask him about, get his thoughts on, or that he's written. Justin we never talked about the Uniform Law
Commission. Give us the thumbnail version of that and its importance. Right. So, the Uniform Law Commission is one of the most powerful far left wing organizations in the country. Most people have never heard of them, but they're highly influential in especially in state legislatures. It's a group that's been around for a very very long time. They're officially sort of a nonprofit organization of lawyers and academics and people like that that advise states on what to do with the
with various uniform laws. They're trying to get uniform laws passed in all fifty states. The biggest uniform law that they are involved with is something called the Uniform Commercial Code, which regulates commercial laws, real estate, all sorts of
different things in economic policies in all fifty states. So the idea was they started rolling this out fifty sixty years ago something like that in all the states with the idea being we want the commercial code to look relatively similar in all fifty states, because if you don't have it the same or close to the same, you're going to run into all kinds of problems with interstate commerce and businesses who operate in one state and then they want to move to another state,
and so. On the surface, it just sounds like a really boring organization, but over the past ten to twenty years they have become increasingly more radical, and now they're openly advocating for very far left wing policies, which is something that they were not known forever. They are funded by your tax dollars, which really shocks a lot of people, but the Uniform Law Commission
and gets official funding from state appropriations in all fifty states. Republican lawmakers have a very high opinion of the Uniform Law Commission, as do Democratic lawmakers.
And to give you a sense of just some of the kinds of policies that they've been pushing recently, there's this Emergency Public Health Emergency Authority Act, which would essentially turn governors in all fifty states into many dictators in the event of another public health emergency, which of course the governor gets to declare, and there are really no rules or clear definitions of what a public health emergency is right, and it would give him the power or her the power to regulate
literally almost every part of your life. It could even kill They could even kill livestock and shut down public buildings and take control over public services and all kinds of crazy stuff, all without needing to pass another law. This is the kind of thing that they're pushing at the Uniform Law Commission. So an incredibly powerful organization that needs to be stopped. We need to stop funding them,
we need Republican lawmakers stop listening to them. And it is a huge uphill battle to get states to understand just how dangerous this group has become. What happened in South Dakota has that been finalized one way or the other. So in South Dakota it's complicated, but essentially in South Dakota, the bill that there was a Uniform Law Commission backed bill that was important that the government there for the first year. So two years ago they shot it down and
that was a victory for our side. Then this past year they ended up passing a version of that, so that was a defeat for our side. And then there was another bill that was being proposed in South Dakota that was opposed by the ULC that would have increased property rights for citizens and things like that, and the Uniform Law Commission was successful in that regard as well,
So all kinds of issues and problems. It shows how powerful the Uniform Talk Mission is because a lot of Republican legislators listen to whatever whatever they say because they don't know how radical of an organization it is. Justin Haskins with us this morning, and you can find his work on Fox News website, town
Hall website and of course Heritage Foundation, in Stoppingsocialism dot com. Prolific writer, commentator and research analyst, and our guests here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott f La on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos. Yes, and iHeart Radio station does a lot of work with Glen Beck, co authors books with Glenn routinely. Justin Haskins just one of the best guests we've ever had on
this program. And that's eight thousand some odded interviews I've done over the years and just really thrilled to have Justin with us. Justin you opined recently about some changes with the electoral college that could be useful to the former president. Explain, Yeah, this is really incredible. I don't know why it's not getting it. It's more of an interesting thing as opposed to a proposed law
or something like that. Right, But every ten years, the electoral college changes because the electoral college is the vote the way that apport the electoral college votes are apportioned among the states. The reason for that is because the electoral College is directly tied to the number of representatives that are in Congress in the different states. So every ten years, when they do the census, they reapportion in congressional apportionment, and as a result, they do the same thing
for the electoral college. So when they did it this last time, it didn't take effect in twenty twenty it's the last presidential election, but it now will take effect in twenty twenty four. There were thirteen states that experienced small
changes to the electoral college vote count. Seven of them lost to state California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, five gained one state Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon, and one state Texas gained two votes, And when you add all this up, what it amounts to is a four vote electoral vote swing for quote
unquote red states. Now, the reason this matters so much is not because four votes is the biggest number in the world, but when you actually start playing around with the electoral map and how things might turn out, what you realize pretty quickly is that Donald Trump's path to these or any Republican path to the White House in twenty twenty four is going to be a lot easier compared
to twenty twenty because of these small changes. So one illustration of this is that in twenty twenty, had Trump beat Biden in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia, which is all states that Trump lost, Trump would have still been one electoral College vote shy of getting to two seventy. Under twenty twenty rules, now he would have enough to win. So he only needs to win
those three states that he lost last time. He went all the same states he won last time, and he recaptures those three states which were really really close, he would win outright easily. Another good example is that all other states being the same, if Trump won Georgia in Pennsylvania in twenty twenty, Biden still would have won. But under twenty twenty four, in the same
scenario, if Trump wins Georgia in Pennsylvania, then he wins outright. So there's just these small, little and there's a million different variations of this, of course, but the point is this is going to have an impact. It's already having an impact on the strategy of both campaigns, but it's going to have potentially a huge impact come twenty twenty four in November, when we
have this really close race. It's a big advantage for Trump and it's looking really really good for him because of this and also because of Poland generally. But he only needs to win either Pennsylvania and Georgia or take back those three states that he lost last time that were super super close Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia, all of which combined were decided by less than fifty thousand votes combined less than fifty thousand votes. If he wins those three states, because
the new rules, he wins out right. Justin I'm going to throw out my last question. I'm gonna switch to this if we assume that Kamala Harris is going to take the top of the ticket and Gavin Newsome is the vice presidential nominee with her, How crucial is Trump's vice presidential pick given questions about Biden's age and Trump being all really not that much younger but certainly much better health. Yeah, you know, I don't I don't know that it's a
huge I don't know that it's a huge factor. I think all the all the people that he's looking at are much younger than he is anyway, So I don't know that's a huge, a huge thing. I think it would be helpful to have an African American on the ticket because I think there are a lot of African Americans that feel like Republicans don't care about them. And it's silly to say that picking an African American on the ticket automatically means they
care, but it will send a signal that they care. And I think Republicans do care about African Americans. I just don't think they've done a very good job of expressing that always. I think having a vocal person on the ticket, like like Byron Scott, I mean there's there's a bunch that we could that we could look at, right, I think would be a really good Ben Carson, et cetera. Would be really good for the Republican Party in general, but also for chances. As always, my friend, thank
you for the time, and we'll talk again next month. Okay, take Grett, thank you, thank you. Justin Haskins with us this morning twenty seven. Pass the hour, Big stories of the press Box, money talk and more. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, or listening on an old radio in your car, truck, or streaming on one of those other things, yes, even that John Deere tractor. Thanks for joining us. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven
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topics. We cover tremendous amount of ground on each and every day, and so we do have the big stories that repeat hourly, just once an hour, and even those we spend a little more time on one story versus another. We've talked about the president who actually is the resident of the United States. He's not the president. Joe Biden has not been running this country since
he walked in the door. And all you need to do again is go back to Barack Obama's stated platform when he ran for office the first time and when he ran for office the second time. And look at what Joe's done. Check check check check check check check across the board. It's Broos, it's brox agenda. We talked a little bit about the Republican platform. They're
not They're not saying anything about abortion because I mean correctly so. I think the art human to make relative to abortion is to discuss the personhood of a child in the womb. I believe a child in the womb is a person. It's it's not a bald eagle. It was pointed out to me that in Florida's constitution there are more protections for pregnant pigs than there are human beings, and that that should have that should concern anybody with any side of any
kind of conscience. That said, the whole point of Roe v. Wade was getting the federal government out of the question. And so that Trump has taken the position that it's up to the states to decide. I think is consistent with the court ruling. The platform as it stands right now is ceialing the border, stopping the migrant invasion, ending inflation, making America, affordable tax cuts for workers. No tax on tips. I don't think that's the
answer, because tips are income. I just think you do it is simplify things. You just you know, if you're going to tax income, tax income, I still think the fair tax is the better tax because it's a consumption tax and you don't tax any income at all. But that's an argument for another day. Keep men out of women's sports, prevent World War three, hello, good idea. And deporting illegals in this country, especially pro hamas radicals. The third big story in the press box, the IOC is
out there International Olympic Committee saying it wasn't us. Now they've been cowards for not taking a position on men competing as women in the Olympics. That said, they claim they had no role in the Netherlands Olympic team selecting a convicted rapist young man's four years in prison in twenty sixteen following the rape of a twelve year old girl that happened when he was nineteen, they put him on
the Olympic team. I just think it's an interesting story. I think it is an interesting story because it pokes at the issue of crime and punishment and how long does punishment last? Is that the person that you put on an Olympic team. Surely there were other people that didn't have a conviction like that. But has he paid his debt to society? I think these are fair
questions. I think they're worthy to kick around and think about. Forty minutes after the hour, Money Talk Standing by Howard Eyeshiman, next to the Morning Show. It's Themad Radio Network where we challenge you to make a difference in your world. With the morning show, Preston Scott time for money Talk with investment advisor Howard Eisman with an enhanced financial services securities and advisory services offered through NBC Securities Inc. Member Finra and SIPC. NBC Securities Inc. Is a
wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Bank USA. The apings expressed are not those of NBC Securities Inc. Or iHeartMedia. On appropriate matters, seek professional tax and or legal advice. Do you the power? Good morning sir, Good morning, Preston. I could not help but notice that gas prices are staying elevated and energy is still elevated. Yes, in the last few weeks, Preston, we've seen the price of WTI crew to oil move higher from about eighty
dollars of barrel just under eighty four dollars a barrel. So this is the most recent high point. And think that's indicative of the fact that globally, the projections are the global economies going to grow by three to three point two percent, a lot of demand for travel, both in the air in vehicles, and just look at the July fourth weekend, we had a record number
of cars on the road. So yeah, I think unfortunately, the big mo at least in the short term, would be in favor of oil and energy prices staying elevated, and of course we have sacrificed our energy independence in recent years, which is not helpful. I'm surprised by what's gone on with the S and P five hundred, are you? Are you surprised that's hanging in there as well as it has? Yeah, frankly, Yes, valuations, as I've shared with you on the show, are historically elevated or in
the upper one to two percent of the highest they've been. Market as we speak closed it in all time, yes, Hi, yesterday. So Preston, we've actually had three hundred and forty five trading days in a row where the S and P five hundred has not had a single day where we've seen a decline of two percent or more. And that's really pretty unusual if you look back over the ups and downs of the market over the last particularly decade
or two. So this happens to be the fourth longest street since nineteen ninety was such low volatility. So yeah, I'm surprised about it, but I guess folks want to buy stocks. Let me ask you, as it relates to stocks, we hear the term market cap. First quickly, what is that? And then explain how that might relate to, for example, the
US stock market. Sure, so market capitalization. And if you take the market value of one company and then you multiple and then you add that company in with all the other stocks, and say the will Shore it will Shire five thousand stock index, which covers small cap, MidCap, and large cap stocks. That's how you get the market capitalization of the US market. And now if you go around the globe and do all the same thing, and
these are just in publicly traded not private companies. We have a market capitalization worldwide of over one hundred and eighteen trillion dollars as of the end of this past month, and interestingly, the US stock market alone makes up almost half of that. President forty eight percent of that one hundred and eighteen trillion is the good old US of a stock market. And that number of forty eight percent is twelve percent higher than the US share of the total stock market.
You know, in the last ten years, it's twelve it's gone up that much, and so it's it's at a very elevated level. Taking into account that the US economy, and we are by far still the number one biggest economy in the world, but the US economy represents about twenty four percent of global production, but double that in terms of the value of US companies. Always good Intel, Howard, thanks so very much for the time this morning.
I appreciate it. Absolutely, have a great day, Preston, Thank you, sir Howard Eisman with us this morning Money Talk on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Oh, my back is chi from my sunburn. It doesn't hurt, it's just I'm all right. It be calm. You are in Georgia. You fish in Georgia, especially off the coast. The uh Janice campechanas otherwise known as a red snapper, big fish, very important to the economy, very important to those of us that like seafood. A crusted,
blackened red snapper is a thing of beauty. It just is a sautee filet of red snapper with some some garlic. Oh, just spectacular. Anyway, in Georgia, they are asking anglers to donate red snapper carcasses. They will be examined by the Coastal Resource Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to gather data on age, size, growth, and shared with regional federal partners in the fishery management. So they're asking you to consider donating. Take
your filets and donate the rest of the fish. I've caught snapper years ago. But as anyone that listened to this program knows, I'm terrible at fishing. I don't get it. You'd think I had the hands of a blacksmith. I don't. I have great hands. My golf game testifies to that I have great hands around on the green, but catching a fish, I don't know. I've just been terrible at it my entire life. I'm okay with it. It's it's not a source of pride, It's just a source
of a laugh. I mean I hook fish trolling sideways. True story. I'll tell that story. Thought I had the biggest fish in the world on the line. It was actually some poor fish women along got hooked on the side by the lure while I was trolling. Just you gotta be kidding me. All the other fish laughing at this fish. That story to come brought to you by Baron No Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show on WFLA look back at the radio program in one hundred and eighty seconds or less.
We started today with Ephesians three versus twenty and twenty one. Big stories in the press box inside the White House. Now are reports asking who is running the country. Seriously, there are people inside the West Wing and their stories are leaking out. Just trust me when I say this, There is nothing leaking out. It's intentionally being leaked out, and there's a reason for everything that they do everything. Kamala Harris looks like she's going to be the one
that has to take over. The ticket is Justin Haskins explained, great visit with Justin as always stellar. It'll be not just in our regular show podcast, but that'll be on the Conversations podcast in a little bit. This morning, the Republican National Committee, the Platform Committee, has released what the platform of the party will be for the upcoming races in the House, the Senate,
and presidential race. In essence, they've come to hammer out a platform with President Trump's people that will mirror his platform, and that's what they're going to run on. Smart strategy if they can execute it. IOC played no part in a Dutch decision to pick a convicted rapist for the Olympic team. Yeah, Americans confidence in higher education dropping twenty one points in the last nine years. Four person crew leaves the Mars simulator for the first time in more
than a year and a bunch more stuff. Go back to the podcast and listen back tomorrow. Have an awesome day.