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Ep. 5282: It's Turkey Time!!!

Nov 27, 20242 hr 33 min
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Good morning and welcome until Wednesday. I'm Grant Allan filling in for Preston. It is Thanksgiving Day Eve, episode number nine of the Morning Show Without Preston Scott. I am Producer Emeritus Grant Allen filling in for Preston here in Studio one B. Jose, who's normally over there in Studio one A, is also back again. Good morning, Jose, how you doing today? Good morning, grand Good morning everybody. I'm doing good. Thank you, how are you, sir? Doing great?

Glad to be here second time in a two week spam hosted last week filling in for Preston, taking some time off and doing the same again today, day before Thanksgiving. Happy to step in be a part of the show. Always enjoy coming back. It is, as I mentioned, episode number nine of The Morning Show Without Preston Scott Day four one thousand. Goodness. That's a big number, one four hundred and four of America held hostage and we are ready to get underway. There's lots of Thanksgiving related content

that you might expect. We've got the Operation Thanksgiving the Spirit of Christmas that we're going to be talking about that Preston has been plugging Humble House Ministries. I'll be talking a little bit about that throughout the course of the show, and an hour number three, we're not doing What's the Beef it's not Friday, but we will be doing What's the Blessing, the annual tradition of putting our complaints aside. You know that's normally for Fridays, but we're

not here on Friday. Instead, the day before we'll be doing What's the day before Thanksgiving, we'll be doing what's the Blessing? Taking time to think about all of the blessings, the positive stories that have happened for us and to us throughout the year. And so we're gonna be a little bit or positive. We're going to put the complaints aside, and we're going to be expressing our gratitude and thankfulness

to our friend's family good stories throughout the year. And I want to hear what yours are, so stay tuned for that. That's in hour number three, What's the Blessing. But in the meantime, our verse of the day Colossians three sixteen, Let the Word of Christ dwell in you, ritually teaching it, admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your

hearts to God, thankfulness being a theme of the week. Similarly, singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, these are incredibly important things a part of the Christian life. Not only do we gather on you know, Sunday worship to sing together, but even way back in the Old Testament, we were a singing people. Some of my most formative memories are of parents and grandparents hearing, you know, songs that we would sing in church just kind of rattle through your

brain throughout the week. I can picture my grandfather just singing the hymns that he grew up singing. I can picture these things, and they they mark me. And so now you know me being young guy, I'm twenty seven, you know, married with a family. That's one of the things that I most assuredly want to inculcate into you know,

my children as well. Is this just jovial, kind of mirthful singing in the household, where the psalms, hymns, spiritual songs of our faith are just commonplace on our tongue really at all times, like just any time of the day, regardless of the circumstance, we can start singing praises to God because that's who we are, and it truly is who we are in a sense that that you know, out of the heart, the mouth speaks, and these are the things that dwell on our minds throughout the day,

at least they really ought to. And so consider just inculcating your mind, you know, maybe you know, take a break from say, listening to any kind of music that you listen to. I'm not opposed to music, it's just, you know, when our our highest heavenly aims are Christ, I would want those types of songs to kind of be rattling around your head, you know, throughout the day. So that's Colossians three, six verse three sixteen verse of

the day. Let the Word of Christ dwell and you richly teaching and admonishing one another and all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Let that be a deep kind of culdultural building feature of you and your household. Ten minutes after the hour history segment and more coming up next.

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This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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I had to take my jacket off already. I'm getting warmed up. I'm just hot blooded that way. I'm just warm all the time, which is why I'm kind of looking forward to this, Like, let me pull up my weather act. This weather change. It's gonna get real, real knacks in the next couple days. Once we get through the kind of rainy weather Thursday and Friday, it looks like it's gonna be crisp, cool in the morning and only high right around sixty for a few days. That's

gonna be nice. I'm looking forward to that. I always feel like I can dress better during the cool weather. You know, you're able to layer like a sweater with the jacket or I don't know, I don't know, maybe that's just me. It just feels like during the summer months, especially here in the South, it's just like, well, gotta throw on my Columbia shirt to stay cool. You know you can. You can actually go out of your way to like incorporate different styles of your wardrobe and anyway, anyway,

this isn't a fashion show. What am I talking about? This day in history November twenty seventh. Today was actually the day of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving. We know very little about the first Thanksgiving the Pilgrims celebrated in Plymouth. We know it took place in sixteen twenty one, sometime after the autumn harvest. So I say that today was the day. This is just when the American Patriots Almanac designated it in their book. The actual

day could have been in September, October November. But William Bradford, longtime go ovenor of the colony, reported that after a sad and lament lamentable first few months that brought much sickness and death, the first harvest left them with all things in good plenty, including corn, cod, bass and other fish, waterfowl, venison, and a great store of wild turkeys. Edward Winslow, one of the Pilgrims, left us the only other eyewitness account of the harvest feast and a letter he wrote on

December eleventh, sixteen twenty one. So this is the letter he wrote after the fact. Through sparse in though sparse in description, it conveys some sense of the joy and gratitude that must have marked the occasion. Here's what he wrote, Our harvest being gotten in our Governor sent four men on fouling, so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors.

They four in one day killed as much foul as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among us, and amongst the rest of their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted. And they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor and upon the

captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful, it was at this time with us. Yet, by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty. So this is the point I when I hosted the show, I talked with kind of Jose about it, that the whole purpose of Thanksgiving is to be this expression of a Christian holiday thanksgiving. Who are we giving thanks to? It's

not the universe, it's the one who created it. So as we're considering, you know, thanksgiving, you know, just kind of remember those stories, especially the stories of our American heritage, the founding of Jamestown at Virginia, the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, in the First Thanksgiving. These larger than life myths. And I don't mean myth like it's incorrect or it's not a true story. I mean myth in the sense of its foundational to a way of life. It's foundational to

kind of a people's common nostalgia. And the story of the First Thanksgiving is really important for that. And so here we are, we're taking time to remember it. Also in this day, in eighteen oh six, President Thomas Jefferson Warren citizens of a conspiracy to make the Western Frontier a separate nation, a scheme that allegedly involved Aaron Burr. I got to read more on that. That sounds interesting. This day in eighteen thirty four, Thomas Davenport of Vermont

Blacksmith invents the electric motor. In eighteen thirty four, pretty early on this day, in nineteen twenty four, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City American tradition, and holy cow, wait, it's twenty twenty four. Is it actually the one hundredth Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Maybe they took it a couple of years off, and we're not quite to the year one hundred. I gotta

check that out. I'm gonna check in the break. But if they've gone every year continuously since nineteen twenty four, then this would be the one hundredth. But I'm not so certain it is. They may have taken some days off. Not sure. But on this day in two thousand and three, President George W. Bush spends Thanksgiving with the troops fighting in Iraq. And so we are sixteen almost seventeen minutes after the hour, we got more. I'm gonna talk a

little more Thanksgiving next. I got jeans, creams, potatoes, tomatos, lamp.

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Jeans, creams, potatoes, the meadest chicken craze.

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Potatoes, turkey time. Jose you bet me? Yeah? Oh you five bucks? Yeah? I was just say you only five bucks? He goes, I'll bet you if you don't see it. So, with Thanksgiving being tomorrow, I had, to, of course bring out the classic meme that's been around for forever. So it's not new, uh, but it gets me in the

Thanksgiving mood every time. Of course, of course, Uh, we talked about in the last segment, you know, the story of the first Thanksgiving, but the first Thanksgiving that was ever commemorated on North American shores didn't take place in the Plymouth Colony. Now that's the one that has kind of Uh, I guess won the day if you will,

we remember the story of the Pilgrims. I think that maybe in part because of it contributed because of the you know, like the Peanuts, you know, Thanksgiving special where they would have like the half hour episode of you know, Linus and Lucy and Peppermint Patty, and but then they would have like that was like the first half hour or the first twenty minutes was like them going to Thanksgiving dinner, and then the second half of the program

was their historical depiction of the first Thanksgiving and they would have Squanto there. And that's the kind of the thing that when we think of Thanksgiving, that that's the one that wins out. That's the most common story from American history. But I came across this piece for at this site entitled truth Script highly recommend it, good good site where they actually make the claim that the story of the First Thanksgiving actually took place in the Jamestown Colony.

So this is just another piece of history. I'm not trying to pit Plymouth versus Jamestown. I'm just saying that, Hey, we remember the we remember William Bradford, we remember the Plymouth Colony. Here's Jamestown. And the story begins eleven years after the Jamestown Settlement with four men from Gloucestershire who met in London in sixteen eighteen who were planning to sail for Virginia. The men were William Throckmorton, Richard Berkeley, George Thorpe and John Smith, not to be confused with

the other John Smith from the Jamestown Colony. His name was spelled Smyt. King James the First had granted a good amount of land and they called it Berkeley. Plans took shape for the Berkeley Settlement on September fourth, sixteen nineteen, and they had selected a man as their captain, and so they eventually make it to the shores of Virginia.

On November twenty eighth, they arrived in Chesapeake Bay. Two days later, they made their way into what is now Hampton Roads, Virginia, and then finally on December fourth, sixty nineteen, they arrived at Berkeley. As the men rowed ashore, the captain leading them knelt and prayed, saying, we ordained that this day of our ship's arrival at the place assigned for the plantation and the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept as a holy day of thanksgiving

to Almighty God. And thus America's first official English Thanksgiving had occurred. There was no food, there was no harvest festival celebration, however, only deep reverend prayers of thanksgiving to Almighty God for his protection over their voyage. This was to be perpetually kept as a day of thanks to the Lord. So there you go. Like I said, I don't want to cause there can be kind of a dynamic right between kind of the story of New England versus the story of Virginia. We know how that has

taken place throughout American history. I'm a fan of ret conning both. I'm a fan of both. I want to honor the men of Virginia. I want to honor the men of New England because they are both part of

our common folk way, our common tradition as Americans. That eventually you are founding fathers, revered these guys as their founding fathers, and so I want to take time to remember not just the Plymouth Plantation, but the Berkeley Settlement and Jamestown and the Virginia Colony and the land that was granted them by King James the First and all that came from both settlements, all of the good that came from both. Keep that on the front of your

mind as we head into Thanksgiving. But this is not just a Thanksgiving show. We still have some news to cover. Twenty seven minutes after for the hour, we'll get back to some news coming up.

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Next The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Thirty five minutes after the hour, I'm Grant Allen filling in for Preston. Got great feedback you got to hear from many of you last time I filled in on the show last week. So if you feel compelled you want to write me, let me know reach out. You can write me at Grant a l L E. N. Grant Alan at w f l A FM dot com. You can also follow us on Twitter, follow or x now at TMS Preston Scott and you'll be able to

get links and content over there. It's a great place to go to kind of get just one source of information for the Morning Show. Links to Preston's blog, links to the podcast, you name it, it's all there. Also, with it being the day before Thanksgiving and the impending Christmas season right around the corner, literally, you know, just after Thanksgiving,

we'll be in the throes of Christmas. Now, I wanted to remind you all of the Operation Thanksgiving and the Spirit of Christmas that Preston and The Morning Show does each and every year. Each year, and I know Preston's already talked about this, so I don't have to rehash everything, but each year, there's usually some sort of mission effort

charity work that The Morning Show undertakes to support. Knowing that there is a loyal, faithful audience that is highly generous, and we love to be able to support local organizations. Sometimes they are international organizations like Orphan Shade and you know the orphanages that they were able to build in Malawi. You all of you were so supportive of that. This year, we're directing to locals and this is actually for both the Panama City and Tallahassee markets, and that is Humble

House Ministries. You can learn more about the Operation Thanksgiving and Operation Spirit of Christmas and how we're supporting Humble House Ministries by going to Humblehouseministries dot org. And when you go to the website, you'll be able to see there a give Panama City button, give Tallahassee button. You click those links, follow the instructions and one time donations are fantastic. They have a thrift store, particularly here in town that you can support. But also the important thing

is developing monthly givers. So if you find it in your heart, if you feel compelled to join the work of Humble House Ministries, that's the place to do it. Head on over to humble Houseministries dot com and hear it from me too, right, I've seen the fruit of

Humble House in churches I've been involved with. I've seen the work that they do, you and helping people get through addiction, getting particularly ladies who are you know, maybe in a in a rough spot in their in their personal life, and you know, by God's grace that they're able to just get some ground underneath him, get started, get going, and have some stability in their life and kind of get things on track and that's what humble

House Ministries does. So go to humble Houseministries dot org. Big story in the press box. Judge grants Jack Smith the request to dismiss January six charges against Trump, an appeal dropped in the Florida Documents case. A judge has dropped the charges against President elected Donald Trump in the DC case against him, following a request that special counsel Jack Smith made on Monday. Jack Smith is pulling He's basically all of these appeals that were made against Trump.

These court rulings would side with Trump, and then Jack Smith would make these appeals. He's dropping these appeals Smith, the article writs from Fox News. Smith also filed a motion to drop his appeal in his classified records case against Trump, a case that was tossed in July by

federal Judge Eileen Cannon. Cannon ruled Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counseling you think the move comes after Smith earlier this month, after Trump's victory in the twenty twenty four presidential election, signaled he would begin winding down his

case against Trump. The filing went live on the Department of Justice Dockett on Monday afternoon, and Smith had already filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the twenty twenty election interference case against Trump in Washington, DC, and many people were widely expecting that to happen. Smith had said that his team planned to give an update report, and then he planned to give an updated report on

the official status of the case against Trump on December second. However, Trump pled not guilty to all charges in the case and took the fight to the US Supreme Court. That Supreme Court case, the one that went all the way up right, was the presidential immunity case that Supreme Court ruled in. So Jack Smith's just getting hammered in all of these rulings, and Trump's coming in He's being inaugurated

next month. I was at first, like, Okay, Trump may win the election, are they going to actually let him take the oath of office at inauguration day. It feels like they're they're running with the tail between their legs. They're losing, losing poorly, and it feels like they've got nothing left because they know it's going to be really not good when he comes into office and all of those characters are still are there, so they're they're winding

things down. They know that they have nothing, that they never had anything. And so here we are. The whole rigamarole was just forty one minutes after the hour. I'm late. This next story comes from American Greatness website. I like to frequent I know many of you too. Many of you do as well. Many of you likely already saw this survey. More than half of United's more than half of the US opposes sending more military aid to Ukraine.

The story begins. A new cbsugov poll shows that American public is tiring of sending military aid to Ukraine, with fifty percent of total respondence saying that the US should not send weapons in military aid to Ukraine. Survey was conducted with twenty two hundred adults and some change over the last couple of days, and there was a deep political bot divide. We know this, right, we see this.

According to the Washington Examiner, results were divided primarily among political parties and ideologies, with seventy two percent of Democrats saying they believe the US should continue sending aid, while twenty eight percent of Democrats said they should not continue. On the other hand, thirty six percent of Republicans said they supported sending more military assistants, while sixty four percent said they would not support continuing to send a to Ukraine.

So I don't know if you caught that. So on the left you've got the Democrats seventy four in favor, excuse me, seventy two in favor, twenty eight a post. On the right, the Republicans thirty six in favor, sixty four opposed. So the chasm on the left is actually quite wide, meaning kind of in order to be like a good democrat, right like supporting Ukraine is like the

pro democracy thing to do. But on the Republican side, the numbers are a little bit closer together, showing indicating that on the right we're still now right sixty four percent. You know, that's a that's a pretty significant number. Sixty four percent of Republicans are done responding. Republicans are are are done. They're through with it about sending military aid to Ukraine. Not our war, not our problem. I say that right, because that's where the right wing has kind

of shifted. We have, I think rightly looked at the rest of the world, like what Pat Buchanan said when the Berlin Wall came down back in the nineties, he was like, all right, guys, the Cold War's over, like, let's let's close it down, let's let's bring everyone home, like, And for thirty years that's kind of been the I guess you could call it isolationist. I don't really like that. I like the term America first more that has kind of been kind of on the fritz on the right.

Much of the right wing in Republican politics in America has primarily been, you know, an interventionist type. And you can kind of still see some of that lingering through as the numbers in this poll are a little bit closer together. There are a lot more Republicans who I don't know if a lot is the right term, but there are more Republicans who are willing to agree with their Democrat counterparts with more foreign intervention, more saving. I'm

talking about the Adam Kinsingers of the world. That's exactly who I have in mind here. And Adam Kinsinger is basically just a liberal. Now, he's not a Republican by any stretch of the imagination. He is just a Democrat. Look at his Twitter account. It is literally just Bill Crystal. It is the Lincoln Project, it is that's what the right wing has moved to, away from the Kinsinger type thought. Personally,

I think that's for the better. Forty six minutes after the hour, forty seven late again, I'll keep myself tight. Next segment the Morning Show, we pressed in scott trying to incorporate a little more holiday Thanksgiving themed content for the show this morning. Sometimes you get kind of fogged down with the news, and I don't know if it's been like this at everyone's workplace, but I just kind of like drive around town and I'm like, yeah, things

feel a little slower. I think it's imp because there's like, like the schools have the full week off, right, I want to say that the full week, and so people are just kind of like taking vacations. It feels like it was an early checkout for Thanksgiving this year. But we're still here, you know, Monday through Wednesday, Thursday and

Friday are the only days we're getting off. But article from Fox News talking about some Thanksgiving statistics here this Thanksgiving, nearly thirty five percent of Americans surveyed are turned off by Turkey, and their subheadline is kind of a wild one. Popular alternatives are duck Ham and oysters. Now, okay, I guess oysters like if you live in apple atchic Coola that that can be a very niche kind of local

expression of Thanksgiving. That can be cool. I'm not familiar with duck at Thanksgiving unless you're a waterfowl hunter and you've got, you know, duck breasts that you're gonna cook up. Maybe I suppose. And then they include ham, and I'm like, guys, ham is for Christmas, country ham is for Christmas and Easter, the article writes. A new survey shows that nearly thirty five percent of Americans consider turkey to be their least

favorite food on Thanksgiving. What The survey, conducted by the Vacation or Travel website, ask which traditional Thanksgiving foods they disliked, and turkey ranked at the top of the list, and thirty two said they did not like stuffing or dressing however you refer to it. I'm not particular about which one. I kind of use them interchangeably. Only about twelve percent of those surveys said they liked all the Thanksgiving dishes that were commonly listed. I'm part of that twelve percent.

I like them all, so most dis like Thanksgiving foods and here's here's the list. Coming in at number one is turkey. Number two is stuffing or dressing. Number three is ham again wrong holiday. Four sweet potatoes or yams, five cranberry sauce, six green bean casserole, seven mashed potatoes, eight coleslaw, nine pumpkin pie. Twenty percent of respondents said they didn't like pumpkin pie. This is communist subversion at its highest order. At eleven macaroni and cheese, I skipped

ten sorry, ten carrots, twelve corn, thirteen pumpkin pie. And then some people replied, none of these, I like them all, which was twelve percent. That's me, that's me, I like them all. Like my gosh. The data always suggests that turkey's prominence at Thanksgiving is fading because it is not liked by young generations. I don't know what they're talking about. Like I said, I'm twenty seven. These are these are

the things that I grew up with. Older Americans over age sixty are the least picky eaters, one of their interviewers said, noting that younger Americans have constantly had more choices throughout their lives, especially with food, so they don't feel obligated to eat something they may not like or even pretend to.

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Listen, I feel like I was Delta Mercy because I was told eat what's on your plate and be thankful for it. Where'd that go? Not to sound too much like a well back in my day, but like legit, like really eat what your mother made for you that those were the rules, and you didn't eat dessert until you got that done. Five minutes after the hour, I have pushed the chair away and I'm standing. I always think better on my feet. Welcome to the Morning Show

Without Preston Scott. I'm Grant Alan filling in for Preston. Great to be here. Episode number nine of The Morning Show Without Preston Scott and day one thousand, four hundred four of America held hostage Jose over there in Studio one A. Before we get going with the news, I wanted to you know, we've had a lot of Thanksgiving related content. We will continue to do that. Our number

three is going to have What's the Blessing? Now, many of you familiar with What's the Beef that usually takes place on Fridays, but the day before Thanksgiving is the annual tradition here on the show, where we push our complaints to the side and we look to the positives. We give thanks for the things in your life. So what is your blessing for this year? What has been the thing that you've been touched by, good things that

have happened to you this year. Thankful for friends, family, maybe a great job, maybe you know what it's maybe, maybe, just maybe it's been a little challenging this year to find those silver linings. I would argue though, that I bet you can. I bet you can, maybe just maybe not to dismiss the real struggles that people have, but today is specifically designed for what's the blessing? And that's coming up in our number three. One hour from now,

we'll be taking your calls, So get ready. Think about what you've been blessed by and what you're thankful for this year. That's coming up in our number three. This article, this story from Breitbart, because I still got to get to some news stuff, got to keep you informed. I didn't know who this person was. Sharon Stone. Basic instinct, Star Sharon Stone. What is basic instinct?

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I legit have never even your youth is showing. Yeah, okay, mister millennial well, what's basic instinct. It's a movie. Oh really, yeah, yeah.

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It's I've watched it once, many, many, many many moons ago.

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Huh. Sorry, Okay, I just quit Google. From nineteen ninety two drama mystery show Violent police Detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and okay, I see why I've not seen it before. But apparently Sharon Stone, who is an actress and a movie movie star, I suppose, has blamed president e like Donald Trump's victory and what she called uneducated Americans who don't have passports and have

never traveled abroad. That's so specific, that's so funny. Speaking recently at a press conference at the Torino Film Festival in Italy, Sharon Stone delivered a Kamala esque word salad lecture I like the right on the recent presidential election. At one point, she swerved her high horse onto a truly bizarre tangent about the importance of distinguishing good men versus bad men, a seeming attack on men who voted for Trump who were the bad ones in her view.

Stone kicked things off by comparing the incoming second Trump administration to fascism. Under Benito Mussolini. Of course they always do that Italy has seen fascism. Okay, I'm not going to read that quote. That's just ridiculous. I'm not gonna mostly because I don't want to use trigger words that might get the podcast. You know, I don't want to say, you know, certain kinds of words that might that might

get the podcast triggered. It's like, oh, you, they've got those algorithms right where they auto transcript audio files and if you like, say certain key words. So I say that and say I don't. I don't want to say all the words that she said here because it invokes well continental European style centralized axis powers in the Second World War. There you go. That's that's my way of

getting around it. I'm not gonna bring those topics up by name, because I don't want to trigger the podcast algorithm from getting you know, deplatformed or demonetized things like that. We haven't seen this before in our country, she said. So Americans who don't travel, who eighty percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete Is that even true? Do eighty percent of Americans not have passports? I mean, I have a passport. It's technically valid,

but I never used it. My wife and I when we were getting married in twenty twenty, we were thinking of taking a trip overseas for our honeymoon. But we were planning that trip in March of twenty twenty. So I'll let you figure out if we ever went. No, we did not go overseas. We did not travel abroad. Still have I've never been out of the country before, So I guess she's talking about me. I guess she says, because this is a time when we can no longer

look away when bad men are bad. She's really, this is just outrageously good. So yeah, there you go. So we support literally h I T L E. R. You know, we're supportive of that apparently, and fascism and we're misogynists and what else. When I hosted the show last Monday, I mentioned of what the time and place is for men in the Democrat Party, and I kind of want to revisit that because Sharon Stone actually gives us a brief glimpse into that eleven minutes after the hour here in the Morning Show.

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Thanks for joining us. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on news radio one hundred point SEVENBFLA or on news RADIOFLA. Panama City dot Com.

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Actress Sharon Stone says that the good men are the ones that are well. She doesn't say what actually they are, but she insinuates that the bad men that voted for Trump are truly bad, They are truly evil. And she said that while in Europe visiting Italy, and I would actually posit that a type of rootless cosmopolitanism is actually part of the problem, and the America First Movement is actually a reversion. We're reversing in the right way away

from this kind of rootlessness. Right, And so when I say rootlessness, Hollywood actors and actresses most assuredly are pretty much rootless. They travel across the world. Now I'm not

saying like people who travel for work. I'm not saying that, but by and large, we live in a very transient society where for a few generations now people just say, you know, get an advancement in a career, and they just pack up and they move and they just do that, and as a result, you know, the children that they're raising in that environment think that that's normal, and then they themselves do that I'd always heard. You know, when someone asks the question where are you from? Isn't quite

the right answer or quite the right question. Rather, the right question to ask is where are your people? Buried? When asking where are you from? Right? And so that's not to say that people can't move to a new place and become a part of a new place. That's of course absolutely true. But I'm specifically trying to hone in on that kind of rootless cosmopolitanism, of simply a

resource extraction living. Right, you only live in a certain place for a certain time, and then you know, you move away out of that home, you know, when you're a kid and you go to college and you don't come back home. And then those the parents who lived in that home, they sold the home for a vacation home like that entire And then now the children who have seen that, they're doing that. And so what is home? What is home? Where is your place with your formative memories?

Sharon Stone says that those of us who don't live that way are part of the problem, that those of us who are really tied to a people in place for multi multiple generations are part of well, the scourge and the impediment to progress when you live that kind of lavish lifestyle. Of course you can kind of think that way. But it doesn't surprise me, right that as soon as you like go take a walk and like you're in nature, you feel like, wow, I'm kind of

out here, I'm really a part of this place. Just imagine that for generations where you live in the same farmhouse, you know you're a part of this land, and you're a part of a place for a really long period of time. You can look over at that tree, it's like that was the tire swing that like my great grandfather built for us. We were a part of that.

The America first kind of maga movement is a reversal back to people in place over and above the rest of the world, like, hey, we can be friendly with the rest of the world, but our duties and obligations as Americans are to Americans. These are our people. This is who God has placed in our immediate orbit to look after. And so no surprise that Sharon Stone is averse to this. And you know her quip on the bad men, you know, being the maga men right in

the Democrat Party. The only place for really the male the male sex at all is to basically be a Tim Walls type of doormat figure who's just flailing around. He's just like acting a buffoon, flailing his arms, a background clapping like a seal. And that's that's your place in the Democrat Party if you're a male. No wonder the young guys skewed so far to the right for Trump. Sixteen minutes after the hour, I'm Grant Allen. This is

the Morning Show. Just a quick reminder Humble Houseministries dot org. That is the organization that the Morning Show is going to be extending their support to UH and commending to the listeners, UH, the audience to you. Humble House Ministries.

They are local in Panama City and in Tallahassee and helping particularly ladies who are struggling with things like addiction and just maybe in a challenging season of life, get on their feet, get established, and you know, be able to you know, just have some sort of stabilities, some some feet, you know, get their feet underneath them in a particularly trying time. That's when Humble House Ministries steps in.

So so go to Humble House Ministries dot org. Consider becoming a monthly partner that's one of the things that they're particularly looking for, so Humble Houseministries dot org. That is this year's Operation Thanksgiving and Operation Spirit of Christmas. Preston probably talked about it because he and I are both fans. Obviously we each Friday we do you know, the best headlines from the Babylon b but occasionally types of cultural commentary come up from their sister site, which

is not the Bee, and I saw this one. It broke. The story broke after I hosted the show last Monday, so I didn't get a chance to talk about it. But this is kind of a more of an Internet based thing that takes place now in our day and age, and it's the concept of doxing or outing someone who writes with a pseudonym or writes anonymously online and that's part of their career, right. So the Federalist papers, for example,

were originally written anonymously. There were a collection of papers, and it was eventually came out who the writers were. Many tracks of American history, especially in our earliest days, were penned under pseudonyms. So it's not a scary thing. It's just people typically want to push the ball forward down the field and they want some sort of extra layer of security. And the Southern Poverty Law Center admitted that they docked writers who were writing under pseudonyms in

an attempts to censor us. That was basically their attempt, and Joel Abbott writes over it Not the Bee, if you missed it, the ghouls over at the Southern Poverty Law Center docksed many of our anonymous staff. Last Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed the names, family relationships, and locations of these staff members who had chosen to remain anonymous so that they could exercise their right free speech without fear of being targeted by the quote unquote

tolerance and inclusion and mostly peaceful types. Seth Dillon, the founder and CEO over at the Babylon Bee, the parent company, They put out a statement admitting that their docks and smear campaign against Not the Bee wasn't act actually journalism, but an attempt to censor speech they don't like. Southern Poverty Law Center said, the SPLC is committed to transparency. I can't quite see the full screenshot there, it's cut off,

but the point is oh there. It is dedicated to protecting the safety of transingender queer individuals when they are publicly attacked. The SPLC said in the statement, hateful content like the material created by not the b writer's works to dehumanize transgender individuals, the entire LGBTQ plus in immigrant communities and people of color. This devisive commentary has no place in our society. It's just Southern Poverty Law Center

doing the work of demons, is all it is. But the point is is that in this day and age, it's not twenty seventeen anymore. It's twenty twenty four. People have been docksed before. Is Guya follow on Twitter? His handle is Lomez. He would he started this publishing house, and he would write under the pseudonym Lomez and post on Twitter anonymously. I know, pseudonym and anonymous aren't quite exactly the same thing. I'm gonna use them interchangeably here.

The point is is that when they when a journalist over at The Guardian docked the identity of the Twitter account formerly known as Lomas, sales for his publishing house went through the roof, I imagine traffic to not the Bee went through the roof as a result of this. I'm sorry cancel efforts and doxing just doesn't work anymore. In fact, if you're the subject of a doxing campaign,

typically you're over the target. I kind of want to follow you into battle a little bit more, you know, if you're the subject of a Southern Poverty Law Center smear campaign or some journalist hack at the Guardian who docks as individuals who are writing under pseudonyms. Now, actually I'm gonna follow them even more. Thank you for putting them on my radar. Thanks media. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, bottom of the hour, we got more coming up.

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Next, make a difference in the world with the Morning Show pressed in Scott.

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Half hour until what's the Blessing? So get in line the phone number. I'll give it to you again, but the number is eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two eight five zero two zero five to BFLA. Keep that in the back of your mind for what's the blessing in about a half hour. Not what's the beef, but what's the blessing? What are you thankful for? What blessings do you have to report on? Here on the Morning Show? And also Humble Houseministries dot org is the

place to go. Humble House has a Panama City and Tallahassee location. Panama City opened in twenty twenty, Tallassee opened in twenty twenty one, and the Tallassei location. You know, it's a it's a transition house for women who're working, and it's a long term faith based recovery program for women. The program focuses on all aspects of a recovery from you know, maybe a harder life, things like physical recovery, social, psychological, emotional,

and spiritual with the intent on discipleship. So go to Humble Houseministries Dot Organance, who the morning show is directing the audience to. Preston will continue to talk about it into December, but I wanted to bring that to the top of your mind. The big story in the press box. Judge grants Jack Smith's request to dismiss January sixth charges against Donald Trump. The appeal was dropped in a Florida

documents case. Donald Trump said that the law fair against him was a political hijacking, but says that he persevered and won a Judges dropped the charges against President elect Donald Trump in the DC case against him. You know, related to January sixth, following a request that Special Counsel Jack made on Jack Smith made on Monday. The decision concerns the investigation into the January sixth US Capital breach. Let's see. US District Judge Tanya Chutkin wrote, the government

has moved to dismiss the superseding indictment without prejudice. Defendant does not oppose the motion. The court will grant it. Smith also filed a motion to drop his appeal in his classified records case against Trump, a case that was tossed in July by federal Judge Eileen Cannon. Cannon ruled Smith was unlawfully appointed as special council. Smith had already filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the twenty twenty election interference case against Trump in Washington, DC, which

was widely expected. He pled not guilty to all charges and took the fight to the United States Supreme Court, which now famously turned into the U. S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity from over the summer. So this is all kind of expected now, right. All of the cases that we knew from the very beginning was law fair. There wasn't anything that they could really stick them with

they're now running. They're demoralized. Is kind of where where the left and they're legal and judicial advocates, activists, whatever term you prefer, the kind of tail between the legs going home because number one eight, I mean, they haven't had any standing. Things are getting tossed left and right, so much so that even Jack Smith is now he was like, yeah, you know, I know I was gonna file an appeal, but nah, I'm not gonna do that now. I mean, they're kind of seen where the temperature of

the room is now, like kind of look around. But this was something that we already knew from the beginning that by and large this was all just a made up, fraudulent effort to try and well, number one, keep him from the White House. But the election, and I think this was one of the mercies of the election being so wide as it was. It was such a you know,

such a hard right shift everywhere in the country. These activist types within the judicial and legal system have to be looking around like, huh, okay, so they really don't like what I'm doing.

Speaker 4

Huh.

Speaker 1

Like imagine being these guys right where they're like the villains now, like everyone knows you know, I just felt, what's the what's the guy's name in New York? That was all of a sudden, His name is escaping me. He was. He was like the district attorney in New York, name is escaping me. I know you're all yelling at me through the radio right now. I can hear it.

District attorney in New York. All of these activist types Jack Smith as well, well, they're just done the retail between their legs, demoralized, much of like how the mass, the masses of the left are particularly demoralized. They're there, they have no idea what world they're living in. Was it Bragg? Yes, Alvin Bragg, thank you, Yes, it was right there. But the name was escaping me. Forty minutes after the hour, got more coming up next.

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My news radio one point seven Double UFLA.

Speaker 1

I've titled this segment Cope and See, Cope and Seethe. It's a very hilarious video clip that I came across. You may have seen the story about the the CEO of the new site Axios. He's just going apoplectic, he's

just losing his mind. And what's really funny is this particular clip is mourning Joe and like some other MSNBC panelists who are reacting to the CEO of Axios giving this talk at it looks like the National Press Club, and he's speaking and he's melting down with what not the bee here showing support to our friends over it? Not the bee Elon derangement syndrome, and how when he purchased Twitter. All of the leftists have endured these trying

times of X becoming a right wing propaganda platform. Now they're all going to Blue Sky, which is everything that Twitter was in about twenty fifteen. It was just insufferable. It was awful. I've got some screenshots of horrible Blue Sky posts. It's just Twitter is great. X. I'll call it. I'll call it X right. I held out not referring to X using the old name Twitter, but that was Jack Dorsey's company. The X is Elon Musk's company. I will I will officially change to calling it X now.

But I don't know what you call tweets. Do you just call them posts? Or do you don't? I don't know what you call those. But here's the CEO of Axios. This is hilarious. Just wait for like the stupid little round of applause that the ms MSNBC panelists give them. It's just the saddest thing ever.

Speaker 6

Listen, everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or x today saying like we are the media, you are the media. My message to Elon Musk is both, You're not the media.

Speaker 1

Do you having okay, not this round of applause, just wait for it.

Speaker 7

Having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle in three hundred words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. You don't do that by popping off on Twitter. Don't do that by having an opinion. You'd do it by doing the hard work.

Speaker 1

Yeah, come, slow clap everyone. What a bunch of pitiful individuals. See. What they can't stand is just how most Americans are now highly distrustful of every institution that they once held dear. The lowest of those is the media, and in fact, you know the I'll immediately refute what the axios ceo said. I don't know what his name is. They don't report it based, but they made myself laugh. He said that having a blue check and an opinion doesn't make you

a reporter. It's like, well, okay, that's kind of half true when most of the press doesn't actually do anything and it's just like this big old you know, like therapy session. Everyone's just calling better help and they're just that's in essence, what most press rooms have become. And then you've got a guy, an anonymous account, the dude, you can follow him on Twitter. His name is Captive Dreamer.

He was the one that did the digging on the city council sessions in Springfield, Ohio, and citizens were launching complaints to the city council in Springfield, Ohio about Haitians eating the cats and eating the dogs. Captive Dreamer found that clip. It went viral, and you could say it

single handedly shifted the vibe of the entire election. When you had Donald Trump immediately like two weeks later on the debate stage with Kamala Harris saying, they're eating the cats, They're eating the dogs, that was in essence because of one anonymous poster on x on Twitter. It was one guy who did the digging and found it. One person, just an anonymous account on Twitter single handedly did the

job of what ostensibly journalists should have done. Now, local reporters in the spring Ohio area did some reporting on it, but it didn't gain traction like it did now. And that's the work of how X has become the new the new town Square. Really, that's the place to go

to get news, to get honest reporting. And it's not just report, it's like, here's what they say in its entirety, and everyone can now just pay for the blue check and post full length articles citizen journal like that's where it is now, and there they are having a meltdown over it. So there you go. Cope and see the axios cope and seeve. The phone lines are officially open for what's the Blessing? Call in to eight five zero two zero five UFLA. That's eight five zero two zero

five ninety three fifty two. We're pushing what's the be Friday to you know, another time. We won't be getting into that this week because that's a Friday thing, But the day before Thanksgiving we'll be going to what's the Blessing? Pushing away our our complaints that have just been stewing

up in us. In fact, we're gonna we're gonna put those to the side and we're gonna let you know the blessings, the things that we're thankful for this year be able to shine through in this day before Thanksgiving? What's the blessing is gonna continue on? Okay again eight five zero two year five ninety three fifty two call in hop in line. Will be getting started five minutes after the next hour, so in about ooh ten to twelve minutes from now will be we'll be getting started,

so hop in line. So here's an example of like our FK hasn't even like officially taken a post yet in the federal government, and we're all getting already getting great. Articles says is this piece Thanksgiving decision? Is butter or margarine a better spread at your feast? The article rights. So the article they interviewed a dietitian. I think most people assume that margarine or butter replacements are a better choice for health because they're lower and saturated fat, which

isn't necessarily true. Fats are often misunderstood and oversimplified, even by health professionals, which has led to a general demonization and fear of fats. The truth is that fats are highly complex and their physiological effects depend on their composition, source and more. Butter, a dairy product, and margarine is actually made from vegetable oil and water. It's not a butter product. It's just well fake. A California chef told Fox News that all margarine is just vegetable oil that's

been hydrogenated, which means that it is spreadable. So you're just taking vegetable oil and pouring it and spreading it all over your food, which I don't think most people want to do. Vegetable oil or any seed oil is going to be very bitter. It doesn't have any flavor to it. It's just fatty and greasy. So what are the health stats of butter? So here's how the breakdown goes. A let's see, a spread of butter is approximately one hundred two calories with eleven point five grams of total

fat seven point three grams of saturated fat. Okay, margarine eighty four calories, nine point five six grams of total fat and two point three four grams of saturated fat. So it's a little bit of a misnomer. While margarine is lower in total fat and saturated fat than butter, not all foods that are lower in fat are necessarily

better for you. Margin, for example, can be made with oils that are high in omega six fats, which, according to this piece, while omega three and omega six six fats are necessary for health, most Americans consume diets much higher in omega six. Omega sixes are concentrated in vegetable oils and can be more inflammatory, while omega threes are

anti inflammatory. So there you go. RFK hasn't even taken his post yet, and we're already getting articles about the health benefits of butter over the fake stuff like margarine. We're going to be making beef. We're gonna be making seed oils, beef tallow again. We're going to be making McDonald's an all American staple again. That is RFK hasn't even taken his post yet. And here we are. We've got the pro health MAHA Make America Healthy Again propaganda

campaign and I'm here for Okay, here we go. We've got what's the blessing coming up next? Again? Call in eight five zero two zero five WFLA. That's eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. What's the blessed day before Thanksgiving? What are you thankful for? What's the blessing? Our annual tradition on this Thanksgiving Eve where we push away our complaints, our concerns, our frustrations, our anger and we delve a little deeper. We're thinking more

positively today. What are we thankful for? After? You know, we're coming up on the end of the year. I know we're not. We still have the month of December right, But as we reflect upon the bulk of the year, what are we thankful for? What are the blessings and we have? Will? Will? What's the blessing?

Speaker 8

Good morning, Gran, How you been sir very well?

Speaker 1

Doing great? Thank you.

Speaker 8

I've we've spoke before the last few times that I called westle Breasts, and my last one was twenty twenty one. Unfortunately, to give you a quick update, I called Preston the first time in than eighteen to show my blessings of being on my return on my involuntary vacation from society. I had done five years inside and then had a good four years, and then in twenty twenty one I tripped up. I had an unfortunate situation that violated the terms of my agreement with the state, and they decided

I needed three more years to think about it. So I've returned now in May of this year, and it's been a wonderful year. I hit the ground running. I had a wonderful wife that stood behind me the entire time I was there, so it was very easy to get back on the ground running the job i'd worked before I had left. Gladly took me back on and in the course of the last six and a half months, I've really got myself in the position to where I

need to be. I've got myself spiritually aligned. I have, like I said, a wonderful wife that's helping me through this, and it's been a great year.

Speaker 1

Go ahead, go ahead, No, I just say it's been.

Speaker 8

A great comeback because of you know, God and my wife and everything that's been going on. And I'm I'm actually better than I was in twenty twenty one as far as financially and you know, spiritually and everything. So I believe that this was something I had to do to get where I am today.

Speaker 1

Absolutely. Hey will thank you so much for calling in for the good report. That's exactly the kind of things that we're looking for for what's the blessing, So happy for you. Hope you have a happy.

Speaker 8

Thanksgiving you too, Grant, Thank you very much, Thank.

Speaker 1

You will much appreciated. See yep, that's exactly where we're pushing away the complaints. We're reflecting on the year, being appreciative and thankful for the people in our lives. And we'll go to Gary, Gary, what's the blessing?

Speaker 4

Hey man?

Speaker 9

You know, when we were young, when I was a very young child, I felt like we were rich, private school, boats, horses, things like that. My parents divorced a middle school. We were skinned, bro I'm talking about back in the days of paper food stamps where you had to go to downtown to pick them up, and if you lived in the country, we were borrowing gas money just to get there to get them. So, you know, I mean today I have great job, good family, and good faith. You know,

I have way more than I deserve. And I'm just so grateful. You know, our pastor probably said at best last Sunday when he pointed out that you know, most of us who live here in America, even if we're low income, are still we're still in the top five percent wealthiest people in the world. You take a trip to Mexico, you take a trip to a lot of places,

take care of it. You'll see that we really, even if you're just living in a single wide trailer or an apartment in this country, nine times out of ten, you're better off than most of the people with other countries around the world. So I'm just I'm thankful for what we have. I'm thankful we got a better turn in the election and that we're going to have a chance to improve our economy, and just thankful for everything. I'm blessed.

Speaker 1

But really absolutely, hey, Gary, thank you so much. That's absolutely great perspective. Happy thanksgiving you too, man, Gary calling in, thank you very much, much appreciated. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, in putting things into perspective is incredibly important, especially this time of year when we so many charitable work that we do really brings to light like, wow, we are tremendously blessed. We really are just basic clothes, jobs, food.

We don't have to worry, by and large about a lot of things. I know things are tight, and Gary made mention of, you know, Lord Willing, it feels like there's a little bit of a rebound going to come. That's something to be thankful for. Absolutely, we're doing what it's the blessing call in eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. That's eight five zero two zero five WFLA. The phone lines are open for what's the blessing? What have you been blessed by this year?

What are you thankful for? On this the day before Thanksgiving? Here on the Morning Show, be back with more.

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He offers a state of the nation every single day. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1

It's what's the blessing? Here on the Morning Show. I'm Grant Allen. Phone lines are again still open. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. Laurie, You've been waiting very patiently. What's the blessing for you?

Speaker 10

Good morning, Grant. My blessing, I've got probably three. One is that we were able to dodge a bullet after what like three storms passed near here. And my husband makes a joke about the nag labs and stuff. That's really funny.

Speaker 1

But yeah, that's.

Speaker 10

Even with the tornadoes back in May. I was pretty close to him, I guess when I went to the office and then it was closed right after I got there. The other is that I'm grateful for the uh the election results turned out well, and that the Communists also known as the Democratic Party kind of lost their shirt and the election. That's great. Uh, it means that there's more job opportunities just toly for my son because he's

a welder. And my third blessing is that my family continues to heal from some things that happened a few years ago. And I haven't seen my daughter and her family for almost a year now, and they're coming tonight and they're spending Thanksgiving Day, the whole day with us.

Speaker 1

That's amazing.

Speaker 10

My daughter's son and my four year old almost four year old granddaughter.

Speaker 1

That's amazing. I know. That's got to be a tremendous blessing having family come to join you. Thank you Laurie for calling in. I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving and thank you for sharing.

Speaker 10

Thank you same to you.

Speaker 1

That was Laurie with what's the blessing? The phone lines are still open if you've been blessed by something. And I know, I know, I said just you know last hour as we were getting ready for this. Sometimes the squeeze in life can be real hard, right, I know, Like we've talked about it on the air before. Inflation, gas prices, interest rates. It's just it's kind of a kind of a perfect storm of brutal conditions for families right now. I get it, I get it. I'm right

there with you. And Laurie actually pointed out it feels like, you know, with you know, the tornadoes that were back in May, many of us knew people that were affected by those right in town here. You know, some homes were destroyed, and the storms that came through again more

people affected, land completely destroyed, homes destroyed. I know that it is possible still that in the midst of this kind of kind of dark season, it feels like collectively that we've endured a little bit to find the silver lining, find find the blessings in life, and I'd love for you to be able to share those with me. As we head into the Thanksgiving break, we've still got plenty of time. Eight five zero two zero five ninety three

fifty two. That's eight five zero two zero five WFLA, And we're going to be taking your calls through the rest of this half hour, right and so next half hour, the final half hour of the show, we won't be doing anymore. But if you want to share what you're thankful for this year, some of the blessings that have happened in your life in spite of tough times. Again, I get it. I totally get it right there with you. I've seen the number squeeze with my own grocery budget, right.

It's not friendly to the wallet. But there's so much to be thankful for. We've got more coming up next again, feel free to call in eight five zero two zero five w FLA eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. I'm Grant Dallen with what's the blessing? What's the blessing? I'm going to attribute that everyone's got to day off and maybe people are out of their routine.

Hoose brought a good point. You're like, you know, maybe maybe the phone lines are open, because you know, there's people are having a lot of people are state workers taking the day off, I think, and the schools are off this week. I'm fairly certain, so a lot of people are probably out of town traveling already. And here I am just, you know, doing the same old routine that I do every day. Or I don't do this every day, obviously, but it's a normal work day for me,

and it has been this week. But in the meantime we can discuss some of the things that we're thankful for, because this is, after all, What's the Blessing, the annual tradition here on the Morning Show putting away what's the beef Friday? Saving that for another time. Are complaints, concerns, and we're talking about the things that we're thankful for. If you want to call in, the phone lines are open eight five zero two zero five w FLA. That's eight five zero two zero five. I have ninety three

fifty two. But in the meantime, Jose and I are able to discuss some of the things that we're thankful for. For example, I was able to, you know, I know it was earlier this year that I took a step back from being the full time you know, producer here on the Morning Show, because well, it was getting to be I was working that I was working a full time job too. I was getting up working really really long hours, long days, and I just got to the

point where my health started to take a toll. And I'm thankful that there was an opportunity for me to be able to still remain on part time here at iHeart have an opportunity to come in and still be involved, like during hurricane coverage fill in for Preston. I'm so

thankful for that. My health has gotten better, I'm getting sleep, my fam I'm with my family now, and and so I'm just very very thankful that sometimes, you know, it can be a little bit of an odd kind of thing when job changes happen, when you have a public profile like that myself and Clue. But I've been so thankful and all of you have been so kind reaching out to me, saying good, good to hear your voice, things like that. It's good to hear from you all.

I'm very very thankful. But we've got some folks with us. We've got Tim, Tim. What are you thankful for? What's the blessing?

Speaker 11

Well, part of it is, I'm really blessed that you guys are working today and we're not listening to Gordon deal. So that's a that's a big blessing. And I'm also I'm blessed to have my family and my health and all the good things that are going on the country right now.

Speaker 1

Yeah. Absolutely, it feels I woke up the next morning with my spirits a little lifted. I don't know if you did too, like it, like it felt like the birds were chirping again. I agree, Tim, Thank you so much. Have a happy Thanksgiving. We're still taking calls for what's the blessing? Jose? What are some of the things that

you're thankful for? As we start wrap up here, We've we've only got a couple of minutes left and we'll probably just have to move on if you weren't able to get in, and I apologize, we're moving on, so Ose. Some of the things that you're thankful for?

Speaker 4

Uh?

Speaker 1

This year?

Speaker 5

Yeah, Well, one of the main things I'm just very grateful for been a massive blessing was this job, this position. You know, I own my own business, and you know, sometimes things get slow, you know, inconsistent, so it's nice to have some consistency around.

Speaker 10

Uh.

Speaker 5

Another thing I'm extremely blessed with is uh for about a year now, I've been in a walk with Christ and it's just getting better and better every day. And uh, you know, I see I see God moving and working, you know, and in the people in my life and people who are close to me. So that's that's just a huge blessing, you know, because a lot of people are like, Wow, you know, I don't hear or see God every you know, I just feel like just streaming bliss.

Speaker 1

Brother, it's hard to be down in the dumps when you see the fruit, you know, working like that in people's lives. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. What's the blessing? It's the annual kind of time to be able to reflect on the year and you know, get through and talk about

some of the things that we're most thankful for. Like I've said in previous segments, we know it's been rather challenging and sometimes we can, you know, lose sight of the things that we're really thankful for, and it's good to reflect on some of these things, especially when the holiday season slows us down kind of forcibly, Mark, I don't know if you feel the same way, but what do you think. What's the blessing for you this week?

Speaker 4

Well? The blessing for me exactly made it through this year. Been a horrible car wreck to press three vertebrates on my back, oh no. Spent two weeks in the hospital and luckily I can still walk and I got a mother. What I was doing. I'm a homeless guy, and it's been pretty hard, but it's getting better. And so I just thank the Lord. Get a little emotional air, but I thank the Lord well sixty two years old, and I'm just glad I can still get around.

Speaker 1

Absolutely, that is absolutely a lot to be thankful for. Thankful for Mark. Thanks so much for calling in on What's the Blessing. I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. Very sorry that you went through what you went through. But it feels like, you know, when people go through hard times in their life, you know a lot of people would say like, oh, I you know, I know it was tough and challenging, but I wouldn't I'm thankful I went through it because you know, God kept me

through that, He preserved me through it. I'm I wouldn't change a thing for the world. I don't know if that's Mark's case or not, but usually there's there's at least some sort of kind of awareness that all things do happen for a purpose. And that's the point of What's the Blessing? That times can be hard, life can be rough sometimes, but this week of Thanksgiving is a time to remember all the things that we really do have. So thank you for tuning in to What's the Blessing.

We'll finish up the eight o'clock hour here on the Morning Show. We'll get back to some news. We'll do a little more Thanksgiving talk, twelve things to be thankful for from a funny article at the very end of the show. It'll be good. So stick around twenty seven minutes after the hour here in the Morning Show.

Speaker 3

Try to make a positive influence upon others. You know, you know, be a good person.

Speaker 1

The Morning Shows Scott final half hour here on the Morning Show before we're on Thanksgiving break. The big story in the press box. Judge Fox News Rights Judge grants Jack Smith his request to dismiss the January sixth charges against Donald Trump, and his appeal was dropped in the Florida Docs case. Right so, Donald Trump says that the law fair against him was a political hijacking and that

he persevered. A judge has dropped to the charges against President elect Donald Trump in the DC case against him. The decision concerns the investigation into the January sixth US capital breach. I mean, what charges could they have possibly even like what did he do like instigating which we've known from the clip that has gone viral of We're going to do peaceably make our voices heard like that,

like it's it's been so debunk to there. All of these charges that were being brought, particularly related to J six, were all just based off of misnomers, lies, just things that were just simply not true. It was concocted and framed in a particular way. The dismissal of the charges comes after Jack Smith, earlier this month, after Trump's victory, signaled that he would begin winding down his case against Trump. Yeah, I imagine you would. The filing went live on the

DOJ Dockett Monday afternoon. Smith had already filed emotion to vacate all deadlines in the twenty twenty election interference case against Trump. Trumps spokesman and incoming White House Comms director said this, the American people re elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to make America great again. Today's de same by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump is a major victory for the rule of law.

The American people, in President Trump, want and immediate ends to the political weaponization of our justice system, and we look forward to uniting our country. Trump pledano guilty. Smith is expected to resign as Special Council before Trump takes office. Man, I'd want to be in the room if he was still there when Trump was sworn in. That would be like one of the most big and glorious You're fired you've ever seen. Just Trump posted to his truth Social

Monday afternoon that the case against him are empty. This is another example I've made throughout the show today is that there all of the momentum that the left had right which I admit felt like it was more in the first half of the year, and there were significant events that happened starting in June through the election that were just like absolute momentum. Suffocators like just Poof took

all of the momentum out of the left's sales. Again, I don't actually think that there was any chance that any of the Democrat who if it was Biden, if it was Harris, I don't think they really stood a chance against Trump, all of the momentum felt behind him. But these events right, so, Joe Biden's poor performance in the June presidential debate made every Democrat Democrat wake up and realize, have we been lied to about his health?

It's like we've been telling you that for years and then they basically coo Joe and they install Harris as the president, who everyone points out rightly, then nobody voted. Everyone voted for Biden in the primaries. Nobody voted for Harris. They just didn't stalled her two assassination attempts. They're eating

the cats, they're eating the dogs. Like all of these things over the course of like starting in June all the way through the five month span to the beginning of November with the election, just took all of the wind out of the sails of the left. And that's what I mean when I say that sometimes, you know, like the right kind of would roast, you know, the Harris campaign because they're going for joy. It's just vibes. It's like, okay, but real kind of like a palpable

unseen momentum is totally real. I kind of want to go more about this coming after the break forty minutes after more about vibes coming up next. So I was talking about vibes, right, and I know you're like, who did they give Preston's mic to? I know hear me. Yeah, I'm the young guy, right, I'm the under thirty you know online, you know kind of Zoomer who is bringing like the Zoomer and now Zoomer Lingo to the radio show. Now here's the thing. I don't actually use vibes as

part of my daily lexicon. I use it almost exclusively as like a joke or like a meme when I'm talking with people that I know, and because I think the phrase vibes actually has some terms that are rather influenced by a kind of like kind of New Age with some Eastern like oh, we got to align our chakras, our vibes are got to be right. That's where that kind of language has some overlap, and I think that's pretty cringe to use another Zoomer term. I'm not a

fan of that stuff. So as a rule, I try to articulate my thoughts with proper English and properdiction rather than just going off of whatever the on line world is sane. That being said, the online world is focused and goes off of a lot of vibes. The Democrats lost all palatable momentum over the summer when they kicked Joe off the platform they installed Harris Donald Trump has survived basically two assassination attempts, gets shot in the ear.

One time, Fight, Fight, Fight, and then he has this legendary line on the stage with Kamala. They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. All of these things were just this kind of unseen momentum, like can't you can't touch it with your hands, but you feel it. Right, Those are totally real, those things that you can't see, that actually guided decision making in their day in and day out of people is totally real. We on the right, we like to think that we're the very logical and

rational ones, and I would argue that we are. However, I don't want to think that it's like the nineteen nineties or the two thousands anymore, where it's like, well, we'll get our think tank and they'll do our best research paper, and this think tank will put out their research paper and may the best ideas win. No, we don't live in that world anymore. Of just like this kind of neutrality. People go off of like feelings and

they're eating the cats. Eating the dogs was citizen journalism that went viral on Twitter, that turned into memes that eventually turned into a TikTok dance. That's how culture is, like, it's like distilled from like the upper echelon the big idea of illegal migrants. They're you know, being dumped into small towns all across America, like Springfield, Ohio. That's the

big platform up at the top of the umbrella. And then by the time you distill it down all the way to the consumer, they consume it through tiktoks and Instagram reels and people doing dances to that. That's a vibe, that's a vibe shift. And the Democrats had absolutely none of it. All of the momentum, all of the fun all of the hilarious memes were on the right. That's what I mean when I say vibes. And so in a way, I know Ben Shapiro's famous phrase is facts

don't care about your feelings. But the reality is a lot of the momentum for Trump was a feeling. Nobody actually really cared all that much what his campaign website said about his policies. Right, It's like talking about the finer points of GDP and tax rates and this. All of those things are not unimportant, right, But people follow leaders because he was the one in the face of getting and of getting shot, was the one that said, let me get my shoe and then fight fight fight.

That's where people follow. People don't follow just pure like titles. They follow bravery, they follow courage. That's that's the vibe shift. And there's absolutely no any vision for the future coming from the left. It is all singularly destructive. But make America great again. That's a vibe that people can get behind. That's what I mean by vibes, and I'm going to really hope to not say vibes the rest of the day. Forty six minutes after the hour here on the Morning Show,

coming up next, we're wrapping up next. I can't believe word. I read it to the end. We had such a great show today. This will be my last exhortation to you to remind you of the Operation Thanksgiving Operations Spirit of Christmas effort that the Morning Show is undertaking this year, and it is in partnership with Humble House Ministries. You can go to Humblehouseministries dot org. And so what are

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from there. The instructions are pretty self explanatory. But before we wrap things up here, twelve things to be thankful for This post election Thanksgiving, courtesy of the Federalist competence is back in fashion after four years of bogus borders, ours dei hires and a mashed potatoes cognition. Commander in chief,

you could say, we literally dodge a bullet. We will no longer have to hear Kamala Harris tell us over and over again that she grew up a middle class kid in a middle class family with middle class roots. That was a tired old trope. Now only Minnesota is going to have to deal with Tim Walls looking at

four years free of men pretending to be women. And while we can't say the same for Congress, we're fairly certain there's some deep lore to this high end luggage is safe from pilfering by government employees at airport carousels. Sam Brinton, god Willing and the Creek Don't Rise will have a very few, if any pop ins from Vladimir Zelensky, Oprah, Michelle Obama, Beyonce and Taylor Swift are all going away.

Now we dodged four very long years of cringey world salad word salads and cackling culture is moments from Kamala Joe corn Pop will finally take a much needed rest and they've been working hard. Mayor Pete has been packing, has been sent packing to his maternity. We're free of second gentlemen Doug and first Gentleman Doug. And lastly, America will finally be unburdened by what has been brought to you by Baron No heating and air. It's the morning.

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Just a couple of funnies there from the Federalists with links you can go find it. It's one of their top trending articles right now with all the links to the context over the last four years, that has been wild. You had to had to have kind of a long memory to remember the UH airport carousel, governmental employees, you know, raiding luggage story that was That was a wild one. Sam Brenton remember that guy he was. He was like in the nuclear department. What a crazy guy. The recap

we talked about a lot. We talked a lot about Thanksgiving. Butter or Margarine. There's really no debate go Butter, Why Trump won. Hating Turkey is really kind of an anti American kind of you know, UH perspective. Remember it's Turkey for Thanksgiving and then you can have country Ham for Christmas in Easter. Those are the rules, and yes I make the rules. The big story in the press box was charges against Trump in the January sixth case dropped.

We talked about that at length. We talked about the media coping and seething. They're just having an absolute catastrophe. We've got more present wal comeback on Monday, have great weekend.

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