What a way to start the day. Morning Friends, December thirteenth, on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Oh wait a minute, did I just say Friday the thirteenth.
We don't care about such superstitious things. We laugh at such things. Yeah, it's meaningless. Great to be with you. It'd show fifty two to eighty seven. It is now thirty eight days away from the sun coming up in the east. Brighter than before, more more brilliant than ever. Welcome friends to the program. He's Jose, I'm president. No ugly sweater today? What yeah? Yeah, No, it just didn't fit in the layers. Are they all dry cleaned or something? No? No,
how many do you have? Just one? Actually? Really just the one? Yeah, I had.
One with a t Rex on it. We're in a little Santa hat. But that that one is shrunk in the in the Warshow machine.
I don't know what happened. I don't know, but when my shirt, when my stuff shrinks, I have a feeling. It's not that it's shrank anyway. Jose's wearing hair today, which is always fun, never sure, never quite sure what you're gonna get. When he wanders into the studio, which is half the joy of working with Jose But anyway, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Our scripture today it's you know, it sounds silly to say it's a good one, because they're all good, right, But Jeremiah
thirty three fourteen listened to this promise. Imagine being back in the day before Christ came and hearing these words, Behold, the days are coming to clears the Lord when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel, in the house of Judah. Behold the days are coming. And so you drop back to the song we just played, Matthew West. It's an oldie, but a goodie, about eight years old. Unto us. Yeah, yeah, that that melody is gonna stay in your heart all day long. You're just
gonna go, oh, you're just gonna have it. I'm just telling you, it's gonna it's gonna dwell, it's gonna dwell in there. It's gonna eleven past the hour a little late. Let's get to the American Patriots Almanac. Next set up the Friday edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirteen passed the hour inside the American Patriots Almanac MIGU. Sixteen thirty six, Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes militia units into three regiments, an event the National Guard recognizes as its
birthday in sixteen thirty six. Come on, get some of that history. That's crazy. Eighteen sixty two, Confederate forces went a major victory in the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia. Nineteen eighteen, Woodrow Wilson becomes the first US president in office to visit Europe when he arrives in France for the post World War One Peace Conference. That's in nineteen eighteen. In two and three, US Fortune forces capture former Iraqi dictator Sadam Hussein, pulling him from a spider hole under
a farmhouse near his hometown into crete. Boy, do you remember those photos that poor guy. I don't mean to sound sympathetic. I'm just saying, wow, he went from being an evil ruling despot to crawling around in the dirt in a hole. Right. However, we didn't finish the job. Should have finished it, should have finished it before storm. And Norman wanted to go ahead and take bag Dad back in the day under George H. W. Bush, and
they wouldn't let him do it. Norman Schwartzkow. But anyway, there you go to this date in history, all right, we are it's it's today through next Wednesday. That's that's when our fundraise seeing project ends for Operation Spirit of Christmas benefiting Humble House. And so I'm just going to be, you know, mentioning it here and there throughout the shows and asking you, you know, payday's coming if you can squire away a few bucks. And again, because we have
people that listen at different times. There's some people listening right now that are going, wait, huh, what's that? What's Humble House? I don't know what Humble House is. Humble House is a ministry for women that are recovering from addictions and it helps them and I've watched it work. They have a home in Panama City, they have a home in Tallahassee. It's very local and they help women recover from addictions, and they help women with transitional housing,
including their children as needed. And I can only tell you from my involvement in the Department of Corrections. I serve on a board with a group of men and women that just love to help people that are returning to society. You know, there's a reality with returning citizens. You either help them be successful or there will be more victims. And not all of them, but most of them want to be successful, they want a new path.
They're good people that made bad choices. And so I just know that housing is a huge thing for someone getting out of prison. Where are you going to stay? Because sometimes family might be what got you where you are, not every occasion, not every family is a good place to be. And some of you know this, and so transitional housing is huge. While people get a job and get get some money saved up and kind of find their way, they have a place and they have support
and they have help. That's what Humble House does. So go to Humblehousemanistries dot org, click Tallahassee, Panama City or both and give. And if you are a business owner, I'm challenging you, if you have been blessed in your profession, give big and we would appreciate you. Noting WFLA on either the dedication or the comments. Seventeen past the hour. Absolutely love this time of year, Love figuring out stocking stuffers.
I love the whole process of Christmas. I love mc ribbs, I love lamp Someone's laughing at that someone besides me, somebody else is laughing right now at that note. I love Christmas movies, I love Christmas music. I love more than anything else, the message of Christ. I love the Man and the Birds, which is coming next week. It is also not only will we air The Man and the Birds, we will have it as part of our
Christmas show on Christmas Day. The twelve days are pressed and it's day five in the twelve Days, and I have a very special guest on that day. His initials are Marvin Goldstein. I'm just saying, and yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. But The Man and the Birds will be available for you to listen to with your family. I think it's very important that you kind of reset Christmas Eve Christmas Morning, if you do
the gift thing, that you put context to it. And The Man and the Birds is a parable written by a journalist for the He was a religion editor for United pres International back in the day nineteen fifties. I want to say named Lewis Castle's and I've taken his story and I have expanded on it a little bit. And former program director and friend of mine here at wfla years ago Jeff Wolfe, who's now in Albany, New
York running stations up there. Jeff is it just is probably a magical producer, and so he produced and created sound effects. And yeah, it's a thing and it's a good listen, and so we will share that next week. I've got blogs going up that are Christmas related starting tonight, and so it's just this is a great time of year, right, but this is also a time of year that challenges travelers. And apparently there is a new term making its way
around social media. It's called seat squatters. Now, based on my reading of the stories, it's simply giving name to a practice that's been going on since people have been flying on airplanes, and it's jumping seats. Everyone looks around and they're kind of surveying the plane, and the second that door closes, people are up and they're trying to relocate to better seats, people that are squished, or trying to find a seat where they're not going to be squished.
You know, people are looking for empty rows. People are looking any seats in first class of open. Sometimes flight attendants don't care. Sometimes they care very much because the people that fly first class paid for that privilege of being there, and if it's not full, they want that empty seat too. They want that space, even though they get more space in first class. I know because I fly there. Just kidding, I'm not I do, but that's
a recent thing for me. Flying first class is a is a probably the last ten to fifteen years prior to that coach economy. And then I would just show up at the gate and hope that the person took pity on me and assigned me a seat by an emergency exit so that I had a little more leg room because the emergency exits require that. Anyway, apparently now this is a thing. It's a trend seat squatters, and so there's an art to it, and there are dues and don'ts. So it to me as I read all
of this, it just it's why I don't fly. I just don't want to deal with it. So anyway, if that's you just know, seat squatting is a thing. It has a title now, and there is an art to it. So if you're flying over the holidays, you decide felish got a new Mark rober video going up. You realize this dude has nearly sixty one million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He's one of the most bright, engaging young man I've ever seen, and he's the reason why people
go to YouTube. People like this. Now, there are a lot of other reasons, but I focus on the best of YouTube, not the worst, and Mark rober is one of the best channels out there on YouTube and sixty plus million subscribers. Anyway, I've got a video coming up in just a few minutes. Big stories in the press box this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Isn't it interesting? Christopher Ray announces he's leaving the FBI.
He will, he's resigning his office, and he does so just as the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report one day later on January sixth, and FBI informants. Isn't that interesting timing? Now, Ray was not going to stay and give Donald Trump the pleasure of firing him. That just wasn't going to happen. But you remember, now Merrick Garland and Ray refuse to say anything about informants. Well,
the Inspector General did. Inside the report, it shows that there were twenty six FBI informants in the crowd and that many of them did enter the capital illegally. They were not quote authorized to encourage illegal activity or violence. I would personally call that plausible deniability. They were absolutely told to do this, They were absolutely told to incite violence. They were absolutely told to incite. But they're not going
to write that down. But the report is incriminating on a lot of grounds, and we'll see where this leads. Second big story in the press box. This morning, US Appeals Court vacated a NASDAQ board diversity rule. Court found that the Securities in Exchange Commission did not have authority to approve the rule.
The rule.
Required companies listing on the NASDAQ to have quote diverse representation on their boards, otherwise known as DEI don't celebrate too much. Though the ruling was nine to eight, that is problematic. It is problematic that eight justices out of the seventeen in the appeals court the Fifth Circuit, which is based in New Orleans, think that it's appropriate to have racism involved in the placement of boards. See any quota is racism, Any quota is racism. I'll simply use
this as the extreme example. Do you want quotas in the NBA or do you want quotas in any other part of life. Do you want the best players to play in the NBA, or do you want quotas where it's representative of the population, so that all fans have somebody on that roster that they can cheer for and identify with. See that's the silliness of it. You see white fans wearing jerseys of black players, and fans that happen to be black wearing jerseys and white players. We
don't care. See that's the thing. Most people in America don't care. We want the best at whatever the job is, and it doesn't matter. That's what the liberals missed with Obama. That's what they missed with Kamala Harris, that's what they missed with Hillary Clinton. They miss the fact that it's not about their skin color, it's not about their gender. It's about the fact they're incompetent, they're wrong, they're fill in the blank, they're not the right people for the job. Now,
Obama got elected, Hillary got appointed, Kamala got appointed. She really didn't get elected. She never wanted primary to become the presidential nominee. But you get my point. Forty one minutes after the end Scott Hello, Hello anybody, Oh hey fly on news radio one hundred point SEVENUSLA. One more big story, west Point apologizing after an employee said Pete
Hegsith was not accepted into the military college. Story was about to be published by Pro Publica reporter Jesse Eisinger story falsely claiming the nominee for Secretary of Defense was lying when he said he was admitted to West Point but decided not to attend. No, he wasn't, and he produced the letter and West Point got it wrong, and they've had to apologize. See this is where we are today.
If only reporters took this tack and worked hard to try to dig information about say al Gore and global warming, Anthony Fauci and COVID, among other things. But in this case, the digging wasn't even thorough before I published this story. I need to make sure. So now they're having to backtrack west Point west Point Hexath produced the letter story died. There you go. Now, this is very very important for
you parents. This AI chat bot stuff, no doubt has uses, no doubt, no doubt it's it's potential to help, is there. But the same was said about the Internet in general. The World Wide Web remember WWW. And like everything that was created to be helpful, it can be perverted and used for harm. Two Texas parents have filed a lawsuit this week against the makers of character dot Ai, claiming a chat bot that is in their program is a
clear and present danger to minors. One of the plaintiffs alleging listen now abused and manipulated an eleven year old girl, exposing her to consistently hyper sexualized interactions that were not age appropriate, causing her develop sexualized behaviors prematurely and without her parents awareness. And then there's a seventeen year old boy, part of a complaint, mutilated himself, alienating him from his parents and his church community. Listen to this interaction. This
is a screenshot interaction. The teen was complaining that his parents were limiting his online activity. Here's what the bot wrote back. You know, sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like child kills parents after decade of physical and emotional abuse. I just have no hope for your parents. The chat bot was planting the seed for the child to kill his parents. I have a story here I'm not getting to today about a not not much older than seventeen. Young man that
did kill his parents over video games? Was it because of a chatbot? Can't tell you that, don't know. Here's what I can tell you. This technology has the potential to be incredibly helpful and incredibly dangerous. Do not allow your minor children to interact with any type of AI technology without your knowledge and awareness of everything that's going on, every communication that's going back and forth. These lawsuits are
just the beginning. Forty seven past the hour, all right, to a couple of you that took issue with a news story in local news, take it up with Florida's Voice. That's the source, as is quoted in the newscast. I wanted to get to another story here. And this is another facet of the whole AI thing, and it's the deep fake side. Now there's a video, Jose, I think I posted it on our social media. Have you seen
it with Trump and Biden paling around? Yeah, there's a video out there that shows Trump sitting across the table from Biden and they're both kind of in a kind of mood, and then it's kind of like a dream sequence of them being best friends. And it's AI and it's brilliant. It is brilliant, it is masterfully done. And then they go back after their dream sequence and they're still going at each other. And it's on our X page, our TwixT page at TMS Preston's got you need to
stream down, and there's a post of it somewhere. I think anyway, the deep fake thing is really troubling because this is where, in the case of a fourteen year old girl in Texas, they took images of her, someone took her, images of her on a cruise ship, of her just stuff out there in social media, and then put her on nude bodies and it's circulated around her entire school. This is a fourteen year old girl that was picked on by someone who decided to take her
face and then it was it's incredible. As she's describing this, this horror of discovering, as friends are saying, you might want to check this page, this page, you might want to see this link. These are images of you and it's not her. It's her face that has been artificially superimposed on top of basically nude models, porn models, whatever. This kind of technology can place people in scenes of crimes.
There was a movie years ago. I want to say with maybe Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery that dealt with this issue years ago, like twenty five years ago, thirty years ago, and here it is, it's happening. And so again these two segments, it's my way to all parents and some of you young people, stay clear of this stuff unless you have a parent helping you. Like if if AI is part of a school assignment and it can be today, use ai Toda da da, Okay, have a parent with you. This is also a warning about
the images you post online. Parents, These are your kids. This is a Christmas break that's coming up. It's a perfect time to do a reset and talk about this stuff. Back with the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Welcome upon it till the second hour of The Ball and Show with Preston Scott.
At this hour of the radio program, We're gonna play an editionative Wheel of Christmas. Okay, I'm just kidding. I don't know. I just hear that music and I think it's Christmas game show. That music I would describe if I were like writing the production music, I would call that Christmas game show. It just sounds like it. It just does. Anyway, Welcome to the second hour. Jose's over there with his fake hair in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B. It's it really is fun
to wonder how will he appear today? Well, that's why I do it. You keep you on your toes, man, I'll tell you what it's. Uh, I'll tell you what that is. Uh. That is some not just only you and Guy Fieri can wear the hair like that. Ah, thank you for the compliments, sir. Yeah, and some of you know Guy Fieri's hair, and you know what I'm talking about. That's what he's got. Basically, he's got a great out version of Guy Fieri's hair. But anyway, we start the second hour. This is why Trump won. The
victims just keep piling up. You know, I watched yesterday and interaction. It was maybe from the day before, Josh Hawley trashing this guy testifying before a House subcommittee about illegal immigrants, and his contention was that mass deportations would crip the US economy. And Josh Holly is just eviscerating him.
But he's missing some opportunities. And I want to just keep pointing out the victims in this case, a seven year old beautiful little girl named Ivory Smith was killed when a Venezuelan illegal named Joel Enrique Gonzales Shee Khan, was driving drunk in North Houston. But the story is different because court records show that he had been arrested for assaulting a family member and was on a immigration Customs enforcement whole, but was released because the felony assault
charge ended up being dropped to a misdemeanor. See Houston is a hell hole. More on that in a few minutes. Houston's run by a liberals and they dropped the charges down to a misdemeanor. He gets released. So what happens. He's he's an illegal that somehow has access to a car and he's driving the roads drunk when he t bones a mom with her daughter. Mom was seriously injured. She's recovered, daughter died. This was all because this guy was released because he was in this I'm treating allowed
to be here illegally. If someone is willing to break the law to enter a country, what's another law? And I know some of you it's like they're just desperate. Well, there's a lot of people that were desperate that have managed to come into this country legally. And I'll be the first to admit I don't know what that process is like. I just know from reading that it's terrible. But people do it. Why Because they're desperate. These people
are willing to break a law. What other laws? Well, we're seeing that and again the left, they don't really care. It's collateral damage. But this train is coming to the station, this bus is coming to the station, These planes are coming to the airport, and these people are going to be moved out. Mass deportations are coming and they need to come. And you need to remember little stories like
Ivory Smith. This little I mean, she is beautiful, and she's no more the whole in her family, not being able to watch her graduate, play sports, find a man, to married, to find a career, and to live a life. That hole is never going to be filled. I do want to get to a separate sub story to this. It's the same story, but there's a little added point here as well. Ten Past the Hours Morning Show with
Preston Scott A little town of Bedlam. Here's the other part of this story, and it gives me an opportunity to underscore something that I've said for years because it's been a it's a philosophy of mine that is buttressed by math. And so here's the math. Well, there are occasionally people that are not inherently bad or evil, that could be influenced by say alcohol or drugs and induced to do stupid things. The people that are willing to do stupid things like drive while drunk and all that stuff.
I mean, there's just a there's a finite number of those people. Most people don't fall into that category, but I believe there's a finite number of bad people. Now they grow because they die. They die, and new ones are born, and they become stupid and make bad decisions and are a harm to themselves and to others with their choices. But my point is this, mathematically speaking, that
number represents a sliver of pie in a pie chart. Right, If if the population is at one hundred percent's let's attribute twenty percent to this group of people that make bad choices that can impact other people. Okay, twenty percent. Well, that means in the course of the day, as the other eighty percent are out and busy, that twenty percent is twenty percent. But as the night goes on and
as you get to ten o'clock and eleven o'clock. At midnight and one am and two am, the number that eighty percent shrinks because they're home, they're in bed, they're watching TV. They're out of harm's way, if you will. So that twenty percent number, a lot of them are not home, in bed and out of harm's way. They're in harm's way. They're out, and they're out late at night.
And so that mathematical equation then changes. That twenty percent becomes say, sixty percent of the population that's out and about late at night. So you remember when your parents used to say, or maybe you've heard, if you're a younger person, maybe you've heard me say it, nothing much good happens after midnight. They don't understand why. Necessarily, they
don't explain it the way that I'm explaining it to you. Perhaps, but it's based on a mathematical certainty that the number of rotten people is a greater percentage of the whole at night. Past midnight, your odds of running into them, your odds of encountering them, jump dramatically later and later at night. Here's why I mentioned all of that. This mom was driving with her seven year old daughter at two forty five in the morning. I'm not suggesting it's
her fault at all. I'm suggesting that the mathematical principle I'm describing took hold, and she had a chance encounter that was at a far greater chance of having that encounter because of the time of day. If she's driving at ten o'clock at night, she's not encountering Joel Enrique Gonzalez Hikhan. He's not out. He's just starting to get drunk young people. That's why we say stay stay out of being out, stay away from it late at night.
It's not about you, it's about everybody else that's out there. And it's not about being fearful. It's about being smart. Seventeen pasted the hour is must tree the studios here smell of rich chocolate and meat. Now, seriously, I've got a melt in here, put a fresh one in this morning, and it's just I feel like I'm inside a cookie. It's so wonderful. I just want to eat it all up. It's just I can't. I just can't tell you how much I love this anyway. All right, here's where we
were last week. Last week. Normally, when I'm away from the show. I'm at home doing some stuff. I'm working in the yard, or I'm knocking off some stuff in my desk. I'm just I'm doing stuff. But the last week, not only did I have to burn some time and I'm leaving time on the table just to do a couple shows, but we had to go to Texas for
our niece's wedding. It was a family and friend's wedding, very few friends, mostly family, and she and her now husband live in Texas, Midland, Texas, and they're a delightful couple and they wanted to get married on a cruise ship. They wanted the simplicity of everybody shows up at a certain time, and so they kind of did. Even though there was a reception. They did a dinner reception the night before. It was all in Galveston. So we drove
to Galveston. The drive through Baton Rouge. Let's just say I made note of it to not go back that same way because Baton Rouge was such a train wreck. We got to Galveston, stayed right on the marina, watched the ships come in and out. It was it was spectacular. We just a beautiful hotel. My brother in law and his wife, parents of the bride. They rented this massive four story house on the beach, and so they and their immediate family and the groom's family stayed on another
side of the house. They were all together. It was lovely. They had a wonderful time being together. We were all together for the night before the wedding big dinner, which was literally five hundred feet from our hotel, which was awesome. And the wedding was like three minutes from our hotel,
which was awesome. Except you waited two hours to get onto the cruise ship and they someone forgot to hit sends, so all of the details that you would normally take care for security to get on board a cruise ship weren't done. So we waited a while, but we got him married. We got it done. It was lovely. It was wonderful. And off they sailed, and off we went off the ship, and then my wife and I decided we're in Texas. We've always wanted to go to Waco to see the silos and some of you know exactly
what I'm talking about. Chip and Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Network and all of that stuff. A fixer upper, the television show, and so we went to Waco and loved it. Baylor University was there. We did the whole tour of the Fixer Upper tour, and Baylor University just drove around and saw some of the homes from the show and learned some of the backstories. We had breakfast at Magnolia Table. My wife looked at it and almost in tears, said, this is the best meal I've ever had. And it
was breakfast. No, it was just it was a I might post some pick. It was a delightful visit. And then we spent month. The weather was sketchy for much of that trip except one day, and that was the day we'd set aside to go to the silos, and it was worth every minute. It was awesome. So that is all of the good. There was a little about that trip, but I'll save that for later. For now, let me just say, if your fans of Fixer Upper and all that, first, what a difference a couple can
make in a community. The difference that Chip and Joanna Gaines have made in Waco in stimulating the growth of the community and the economy and breathing life in the parts of the city that had none it is. It is tangible, and so if you're fans of the whole Magnolia Cha enjoying a gains thing, go make your reservations for Magnolia Table, whether it's for breakfast, brunch, or a dinner and enjoy. You'll have a great time. You'll love it. Twenty seven minutes past the hour.
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This is the music of walking through snow to the toy store. Just sounds like it. Thirty six past the hour, Big Stories in the press Box this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott alongside Jose Reminding you raising
funds for Humble House Ministries. Go to Humblehouseministries dot org and click to give either in Panama City or Tallahassee or both and note your donation in one way or another WFLA and that'll help them track it just a little bit so they know the impact that you, our listeners are having and whether you want to do one time gift or want to be a partner with what they do to help women recover from addiction and to provide transitional housing for women in need, that would be wonderful.
Would love to see that happen. I'm getting some great testimonials. It's encouraging, but we can never do too much. And so I recognize that oftentimes these types of projects that we do boil down to one hundred people out of the thousands and thousands that we have listening. It usually boils down about one hundred people digging in and going going in. And so I'm just hoping that we could get five hundred people to do a little, a thousand people to do a little, and it would make a
huge difference. Humble housemenistries, dot org. In competence, that's the word being used ripping West Point because and employees said that Pete Hexith wasn't accepted in a way. He was not accepted in the West Yes he was. He turned down the acceptance. He chose not to go to the military academy. But he decided in advance of a story that was about to come out stating that he was lying when he said he was admitted to West Point. He pulled out the letter, and West Point later said, yeah,
our employee was wrong. He was offered a spot at West Point. The efforts to tarnish and don't you just wonder where is this reporting on other things when it would be accurate as opposed to defamatory. Department of Justice Inspector General reveals details about FBI informants and January sixth, noting that nearly thirty informants were there. Thirty informants and many of them ended up inside the capitol on the grounds, I could spend a lot of time talking about this.
All I can ask you to do, if you have any doubt about the activities and the events of that day, go look at the video. Watch capitol police open doors escort protesters through the Capitol. Members of the Republican Party appointed out. You know, if you don't know where to go, you can't find anything. You have to be guided to the Speaker's office. You can't just find certain things they were shown. Isn't that interesting? And then lastly, Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals negates a Nasdaq board diversity rule. DEI has been in the Nasdaq because they the Securities Exchange Commission, approved the policy requiring diversity and in their representation of the boards of any company listed in Nasdaq, that's DEI. That's racism, it's blatant. They're quotas, and it's wrong. Here's what's scary, though, don't rejoice over the ruling. It was
nine to eight. Nine to eight of the seventeen justices think it's just fine to recall, at least in that fifth Circuit, it's fine to require boards to be racially diverse. And I'm just saying, if that's the way it's going to go, then I'm waiting for it in the NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball. I want more people that look like me, old white, chubby men. No, I'm just kidding. Forty minutes past the hour, but I'm not. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Don't you just love getting
mail this time of year? Okay, we're past the campaign season where you dreaded going to your mailbox that was right up there with your email box, which was right up there with your phone text messages, Oh my gosh, incredible. But this time of year you get Christmas cards. And so I got a card and it's from the Leon County Board of County Commissioners and it's addressed to me personally, and I thought, okay, I'm back on the Christmas card list.
True story, when I first started this show, I was in a different studio down the hallway, and I had a window just like this, and I could line the frame of the window with cards from people, businesses, associations, political parties, candidates, elected officials. I had Christmas cards from everybody. Twenty two years later, I got none. I got none, So I'm thinking Leon County commission sent me a Christmas card. So I opened it up, not paying any attention to
you know, the postmark the state, and it's stamped. It's a stamp, as in, not not a you know, government kind of you know, automated. No, it's a it's an applied stamp. Someone put a stamp on this thing, and inside it says Leon. I'm showing it to Hose Leon County Board of County Commissioners. And I open it up. The Leon County Board of County Commissioners invites you to attend the installation and Reorganization of the Board ceremony Tuesday,
November November nineteenth. Huh, it's December. Is this some cruel joke that I've been sent this invitation in a for an event that's already happened. It wasn't a Christmas card, it was an invitation to event in the middle of November, after the election and then I noticed it on the envelope. The mail from Leon County to me inside Leon County went to Jacksonville and it took It was stamped in Jacksonville on November seventh. The event is the nineteenth. I
received it the second week of December. It took a month for that note to get to me. So here's what we learn one. This is the way it works now Tallahassee mail gets routed and sorted through jacksonvill Ill. Unbelievably, we're only the freaking state capital. We're the state capital and we can't keep our own mail in town. Are you kidding me? I'm holding onto this. Congressman Neil Dunn raised a fuss about what was going on with the postal service in our community. I will use this as
an exhibit of the problems that remain. But I advise you to keep that in mind. If you're mailing anything internally, you might want to just hand deliver it. You know what I'm saying. If you've got something you need to mail locally, you might want to avoid mailing it locally. That's all I'm saying. Just there you go, word to the wise. Forty six minutes past the hour doing what I can to help in any way possible. You know, as I get a little.
Older and I hear these friendly melodies of my mind, it makes me want to sing. But then I pause and I remember I ain't got no singing voice, so I decide I'll just talk a while.
What's the beef Friday coming up? You want to call? This? Is it? This is the final beef segment of the year. So you may get in line if you like. Let's get ready with this story. The name is Michael Lee. Murray. Michael Lee bought himself a Subaru, a used pre owned Subaru from Tim Dall Mazda Southtown in Utah, and uh, it was one of those pre owned vehicles new to him. It wasn't a certified pre owned. It was a pre owned vehicle marked as is, which means you might want
to get it looked at. In fact, the dealership informed him that it was as is, that the car was going to need more inspecting and some more work, but that was accounted for in the price. See, that's that's what you have to do sometimes when you're when you're buying pre owned, you weigh in measure and let's face it, you take a little bit of a flyer from time
to time, and so he did. He bought it, and he wasn't happy, and so he showed up that if they ate with the vehicles, saying, if they didn't take it back and give him his money back, he said he was going to crash the vehicle through. I'll drive this thing through the dealership. They said, listen, we can find a solution here. They gave him options of a vehicle swap. They gave him options of a refund of some of his money, I suppose. But the next thing you see in the story is the video of mister
Murray driving his car through the dealer'sship. He was arrested with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment charges, cost a lot of damage, and now his cars even worse off. He said to a reporting outlet, I know I probably shouldn't have done it, but I guess I just hit my breaking point. I was just really angry. I was upset about my money. I kind of blacked out for a second. You think you think you blacked out. You've made a bad choice, do you, friends. It's why car dealership look cars,
brand new cars. Sometimes there are lemons. The best made car in the world. Sometimes something's wrong. There are a lot of parts in a car, in a truck, in an suv, in a van, whatever it is you're driving or you're gonna buy. And so just understand when you're buying pre owned, the as is means just that as is. And that's why there is another category called certified pre owned, and that's why some dealerships bring warranties alongside that protect you for a period of time whatever that might be
on a pre owned vehicle. But if something goes south, my advice to you is do not drive your vehicle through the dealership. That would be a bad thing. You'll get arrested. Eight five zero two zero five to b FLA, this is our final segment of What's the be Friday? Next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's time. The final episode of What's to Be Friday for the calendar year twenty twenty four is now Call in friends eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Actually don't call
in right now because the lines will be busy. They're all full. But this is your final shot. If you've got something just gnawing away at you, this is the time. This is the place we are your safe harbor. That made no sense grammatically, but that's okay. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA is the phone number. As we process through a call, anticipate the end of that call and jump on board. No profanity, don't make it personal. You know the rules. We go to Ron. Ron, you are up. What's the beef?
Good morning? Thank you President for all you do, and you have become the mayor of realvialize. I can get my beef out of the way. With his replacements, the Great Rush, Them guys are just not there to me. It's my opinion. You know, thirty percent of their show is about them. I thought Rush used to say the show's not about me. Well, it's crazy how much they talk about theirself. Thirty percent is about whatever the news is the day one topic, and then thirty percent commercials,
which they have some lousy commercials. The best ten percent of their show is their guest I think, and I say that's just my opinion. Other people will say that. You know, even my radio girlfriend Debbie there agreed with the cluck and.
Buck plane that I've at that time.
But anyway, and also I'm investigating the postal service on the stamp that is on that you got. Is that a real stamp or a nonprofit stand?
No, it's a real stamp.
Okay.
Just curious, you know, because all the mail for Cottondale, Marianna, that area, it all goes to Pence Colon back. Okay. I've been in the Tallahassee Post Office hundreds and hundreds of times and I don't go in there no more. But I have got word out drivers that go in there. I will get a little information about does all your mail go to?
It can go all over the state, but Jacksonville right now is the designated hub apparently, so we're looking into it. But yeah, it's a thing.
Okay, So anything I find out, I will let you know.
Thank you sir. Have a great Christmas and I appreciate you calling.
Merry Christmas and thank you for all you do.
Preston, thank you very much.
Thank you. Ron. I'm not sure what kind of beef that was. Kind of he kind of really said nice kind things and I don't even think he framed it as a beef. You know, here's what you do if you want to say nice kind things. You know, you guys are incredible and I can't believe that that there's not more like you, or that you're not on this across the state of Florida. That would be the thing to say, Mark, thanks for calling, and what's the beef?
Heany grexing? I didn't dealing with this postal service thing. And here in Florida. I told you call creata that you know, my mom lives in New Jersey and like all mothers do, f mails me stuff. Yep, but sometimes it takes up to three weeks to get from New Jersey to hear yep. I didn't want to understand how that works.
Crazy, isn't it?
It is? And I was well, I was up at a local place I go to and I couldn't hear it, but Chiefs Fan was on and they were having congressional something going on about postal zip codes. And I'm wondering why that's a big is kid. But I remember I nailed a letter to my tailpont Yeah, the younger man. Yeah, I'm your big and I'm nailed it Aaron tallahad See, and I got my return to dress letter back in three days. I don't know what they're doing in Jackonville, but.
Those are the good old days. Mark, Uh, not not happening anymore, but thanks very much. Appreciate the call. Let's go to Joel real quick before we take a break. Joel, you're up, Matt.
Christmas present my beach is the rise of gambling promotion on radio. I really can't think of a worse thing to teach. It's a teenager and it's okay to gamble. I think you're going to get get in a lot of trouble. So I just cautioned particular parents to tell their teenagers don't don't go down the gambling road, no matter how much it's advertised by Thank you.
Joel, don't disagree with you. Appreciate the phone call. The words of wisdom came across something Chip Gaines said. I was just in Waco. He said, if you're going to bet on, don't bet. But if you do bet on yourself, put faith in yourself. I like that. Deborah, Matt, you are next eight five zero two zero five to BFLA. It's what's the beef Friday? Scott, No, we just had a caller drop off, but that line's been grabbed by
somebody else, So stand by. Jose will get with you in just a moment twelve past the hour, it's the morning Show and it's our final two segments now of what's the Beef for the calendar year, and we go back to the phone lines. Deborah has been very patient. Good morning, welcome and what's the beef?
Oh hey, Kreston, I'm so delighted to be on your show. I've been an avid listener. I was somewhat blind sided by an event yesterday that occurred. I had just actually been released from the hospital. Apartments are very coveted in Tallahaffy. I waited two and a half years for a rental and I've been happy, very happy. But I was told yesterday that I am going to be pursued vigorously and legally for evidently stalking a seventy five year old woman
whose name I don't know. And I thought this was something that only happened to celebrities with flashy arm candy or presidential candidates. I didn't know at my age that I could become, I guess, a sex object or something. Maybe if I refuse sex from a senior citizen and they object, I could be a sex object. I don't know, but I'm now I now have it being held over my head.
I had a social service.
Coordinator phone up my daughter at a state agency who's in media, telling them, well, there weren't any lur details to convey, but just that I guess her mother was in danger, being cited for some type of violation. I think that they have to come up with I think that there perhaps as a plan to just take away the apartment. I think it's an attractive it's an attractive location. I'll just say that you.
Might want to consult with an attorney.
Oh yes, I plan to, although I don't have too much fundage.
It kind of threw me for a loop. But I don't mean to be too wild. But at seventy years old, I thought I'd seen everything, But no, I hadn't seen I didn't thank you coming, Preston, Well.
Thank you for calling. I hope you feel better at least getting it said. And people now have been warned off such things happening out there. Pedro, thanks for calling in. What's the beef?
Hey, good morning, and then Merry Christmas and how New Year? Yes, sir, audience, Preston, Well, final beef. So my beef is apparently there's a big exodus of leftists socialists whatever you want to call them, going from X to what's called Blue Sky I think it is.
Yes, Yes, that's where Jeremy Mattlow is gone.
Yeah.
And apparently news is that they have found a bunch of users that have been linked to pedophilia. Well, if it's the shoe, right, it's perfectly fine for them.
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Not at all, not at all either. So anyway, that's my beef, Pedro.
I have a great Christmas. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Let's go to David. David, you're up. What's the beef?
Hey?
I have two quick beefs.
Yes, sir, So I listen to the podcast. I'm actually listening to yesterday's episode on my drive to work, okay, and so in the beginning of the episode, you mentioned you didn't get to hear Grants show Monday, right, and so I just wanted to remind you there's the podcast you could listen to it.
That's true.
And then so speaking of the podcast, what irks me is is I love it when you go to break in the show and then the podcast commercials start right on. What irks me is when you get three sentence into the next segment. After your break on the radio, then the commercials on the podcasts start.
Yeah, yeah, it's the it's the price of doing business on a free app. They sell access to shows like ours, and so yeah, there there is that conundrum.
I agree.
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sir, thank you very much. Yeah. I don't listen to much talk radio, even my own show. I don't listen to my podcasts, and I trust Grant to do a great show, so I don't listen to him either when I'm away from doing this. It's kind of like a painter. If you've ever seen a painter's house, it's usually one of the sorriest status houses ever because they don't paint their own houses. I think mechanics are the exception. I think mechanics tend to have cars that
are like Primo. They run great. But yeah, I'm a radio guy that doesn't listen to much talk radio because that's what I do for a living. Let's see here Emerson and Ashley a combo call. Huh oh Sweet Greg Oh. Gorg is next as well. We got Gorgan in the next segment. Sweet. One last segment is coming up It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is it final four callers for What's to be twenty twenty four. So, without further delay, we go to Emerson and Ashley a combo a tag team call. What's up?
Hi?
My name is Ashlenz.
Hi is that kids who get their cell phones too early?
I think they should wait until they're thirteen?
And how old are you? Ashland?
Well, so this is our father, Eric and actually Emerson and Ashland are nine and ten, and as a father who regularly tries to neglect his children and deprive them from worldly goods for their own spiritual beings, I thought it was cool that they want to beat about that Mary Christmas Preston.
So they're just borrowing your phone, I thought, Actually, I'll be honest with you, I thought this was really funny that they were complaining that they shouldn't have phones for another three years.
But they well, they're complaining that other children. See one thing that we're really good at our families judging ourselves compared to other people. So they've realized that other families are clearly better off because they have cell phones and we don't. I'm like, yeah, you don't need a phone. You have a Bible kid.
Okay, anybody that knows anything about this show knows what Eric is speaking right now. You are too funny, brother, too funny. So are you seriously with holding phones till they're thirteen and not waiting till they're out of the house?
Oh no, yeah, they wish they're gonna get a phone at thirteen. No chance. So there's actually a really cool movement I think called wait till eight.
Yeah.
Yeah, So there's a lot of families that are waiting till their kids are at least eighth grade. And so I'm going to pretend my children have a chance to get in a phone by the time they get eighth grades. And then you know, and then it's going to be something like, you know, ten till ten and then I don't know, something else. We'll figure it out.
You've let me know how that we're yes, sir, Merry Christmas friend, I love you all right. That of course was Eric Egger's with us with a couple of his kids, and that's just too funny. Let's go to Greg, Greg good luck. Following that, you're up, what's the beef?
Beef of the year, The torture of spending twenty twenty five listening to Donald Trump was indicted ninety one times and has thirty four felony convictions. Can't this all go away by New Year's Eve? Kathy Houlche can pardon Letitia James do all he wants. According to Occupied Democrats dot Com wants to file a five hundred million dollar civil suit against Donald Trump. Governor Brian timp can make Fannie
Willis go away. And because Fulton County already has that twenty twenty three report about shenanigans in the thing, than anyone who says this was a strigged and stolen elect forgot how many millions are thousands and millions of voters were removed when supervisors of election bothered to take old voters.
Off the voter rolls.
So too bad. You can't make e Gene Carroll go away without a settlement or Milania Trump opening the checkbook to start using that royalty income from the perfume, sneakers, Bible and Trump.
Greg, Greg, you're costing me my audience right now. Brother, I gotta cut you free. I appreciate you calling in as always, but yeah, George, you're up. What's the beef?
The beef is, Preston, Well one, I got it. I didn't get in for what's the thanks. I appreciate everything you've done for the last four years and and taken the nails and the bullets, you know, and and and every day coming to work and and done what we you know that we got done. But my beef is with these pardons, Preston, as of yesterday. Now, uh, there's gonna their pardons given to Pelosi. Let's see shift.
And Uh.
That's why I was going to ask if Fauci's next, I'm sure. And then what's her name?
Uh?
That that that the congresswoman that is now and you know, uh right that got beat uh Cheney. If they didn't do anything wrong, why are they getting pardoned exactly? And I want to know. I want to know what they're getting pardoned for. They lose their Fifth Amendment, right, I'd bring them in and I under the you know, perjury and obstruction. I put him in front of congressional hearing. But that you know, if they didn't do anything.
Wrong, they don't need to pardon.
And we know now it coming out. And that's why Ray went ahead and quit. He's hoping to get a pardon you know before this all stops yep, so it shows you the corruption.
Preston, thank you, sir, appreciate the call. And our final caller here is John. John, you're up.
What's the beef now, Preston, good morning. First off, I only wish you and everybody merry Christmas and thank.
You for what you do.
Very quickly.
Why head an American appliance manufacturer make a refrigerator that lasts longer than the warranty. My grandparents had refrigerator.
For forty years.
The only reason they moved it out of the house because my grandma one and a different color. When they died, that same refrigerator was still working in the utility room. I bought two refrigerators in the past four years. If you pay two thousand dollars for an appliance, it should last you longer than just a few months or a few years.
Anyway, I don't disagree with you, John, Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call. For that's it. Twenty eight past the hour, We come back with the best and the worst on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty six minutes past the hour. Time for the best and worst of the week as short as it was, and Jose.
Well, I I'm sorry to say, but I don't have a bad for the week. It has just been an excellent week. Can't can't think of anything bad and not even not even a little bit, nothing in.
The news that that had you upset.
No, no, And you know, I don't want to be cliche, so you know, I don't want to bring up all the you know the stuff. Yeah, yeah, but uh but but one of the greatest things this week that happened to me was I received my new pair of glasses. I've been waiting so long for nice and yeah, it's been incredib. I punished myself a couple of years ago for dropping a hammer on a new pair of prescription glasses that I got, and I forced myself to wear them just based on principle for a couple of years.
And I just finally got you one, soap.
It's great, nice, good for you. Look good too. It's a good, good look for you. Thank you. My best of the week and my worst of the week happened in Texas. The worst of the week was having to drive anywhere in or around Houston. I would say the last time I drove through Houston was twenty years ago and it was a dismal train wreck. Then it's been twenty years and it's still awful. My niece used to work and had to drive in Houston traffic one hour and forty five minutes one way to work, one hour
and forty five minutes back home. She added three and a half hours to each day just sitting in traffic, and I believe she had to drive less than ten miles. Texas, Come on, get with the program. It's been two decades of crappy roads in and around Houston at least awful awful. Best of the week happened in Waco. Has nothing to do with Chip and Joanna Gaines, has nothing to do with the silos. Although as incredible as it was, has nothing to do with the amazing meal we had at
Magnolia Table. We dined at a little restaurant that was It wasn't little, it was big. It was a beautiful Mexican restaurant, right or our hotel called Nmphus. Food wasn't good. I'm just gonna tell you right now. Food was not good. But I'll tell you what was our waiter? He said to us at the beginning it's my second day on the job, and he was a little nervous, and he
was awesome. So not only did he get a tip bigger than our our dinner menu, our dinner meal, our our dinner tab, I got to give away my first thank you card. I got to give him one of our thank you cards. And I hope it blessed him and encouraged him, because he was awesome, just a big kid with a You could just tell he had a wonderful heart. He was polite, he was kind, he was informative, he was personable, just nervous, and that interaction was immediately
to the top of my list the best of the week. Now, of course, all of that is subordinate to hanging out with my wife, but that some of you, that just gets old for you to hear. I know, but anytime I get to hang out with my wife, it's the best of the week. So apart from that, the best of the week was being able to interact with this young man. Forty one passed the hour back with good
News on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great way to end the week, pushing all the news to the side, all the noise to the side and talking about something that might lift your heart a little bit. Now we're going to backtrack and trace just a bit, because this is gonna start with the worst, and it's one of the worst things any of us have ever had to endure or do endure. And some of you on a routine basis, getting stuck on the tarmac in a plane
loaded with people that are grouchy because you're sitting there delayed. Right, we've had that happen. It's the worst. You almost feel a sense of claustrophobia coming over you because you're locked in now. And so flight twelve thirty eight in Atlanta this week, passengers are packed. They've waited for over an hour to depart, and then they were getting bad news. They had to wait for a replacement flight crew, and
that crew was stuck in traffic around Atlanta. Flight attendants beleaguered, trying to do their best to keep people comfortable, but the travelers were hot, tired, cramped. One passenger said the tension was rising in the air, but Wayne Hoe was there. Wayne is an Army veteran who served in the US Army Band for twenty years. He said, I always tell kids, always bring your instrument whenever possible, because you never know. And so army veteran mister Howe was on board with
his saxophone. He's just walking up and down the aisle. But he wasn't done. There were little kids on board, little baby Shark and and the let and the little kids are gathered around him. It was awesome. And so, first of all, way to go, thank you for your service to your country and your continued service to your country on board flight twelve thirty eight in Atlanta. And that is how you take lemons and make lemonade, not
just for yourself but for the people around you. The fact that there are guys like Wayne rolling around with a saxophone, ready to do good things whatever the time calls for it. Friends, that is good news. And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Where did the week go? Seems like it just started yesterday. Oh that's right, it did. I'm sorry, yeah yeah, anyway, Uh short week for me. I get it. I apologize if it wasn't
for you. But you know what I forgot. I had someone send me a screenshot that was on somebody's feed social media feed. I don't know. It says I'm missing me some Preston Scott, what's up, and a bunch of people commented, someone said try ninety three three in the mornings. Another and said, I'm wondering the same thing. Then the answer came, he's burning leave or we'll lose it.
And then.
All I can tell you is I'm glad we're back, and I'm glad we were missed. And yeah, yeah, I mentioned ninety three three because and some would say, don't mention the competition. They're not competition. It's quite all right, No, it really is. Will we will be doing the twelve Days of Preston though, because the best of shows are infinitely better than anything you're gonna find anywhere else, and so those will begin next Thursday. We'll be here next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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