How good is that? A Lolcome MANO. Good morning, Tuesday, December the seventeenth, on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you on Preston He's Ose Show. Fifty two eighty nine, Day thirty four. That's right, thirty four days left before the sun rises brighter in the east, sets prettier in the west, at least we hope. Anyway. Welcome friends, good morning, and thanks for joining us on the radio program. We start with Micah five to two. Micah.
Micah is considered one of the minor prophets. I'm not sure how he would feel about being called that, but I'm just saying, but just think about this now, centuries before the birth of Christ, Micah is prompted by the Holy Spirit by God to write the following, But you, o Bethlehem, Ephratah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, who's
coming forth is from old, from ancient days. You know, if you consider the prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah, there's a couple that you could argue. Now you're in control of that you could announce yourself as this, that or the other. But do you have control of where you're born? Do you have control all of the lineage in which you were born? There were so many factors in the birth of Christ that he had that there was just there's zero control of other
than God's control. These are the things that settled the score. If Jesus fulfilled just eight or nine of the prophecies spoken of him in the Old Testament, the odds of it being fulfilled in one person one in ten to the seventeenth power. That's adding seventeen zeros to the number one in seventeen zeros, just saying, and that's just a handful of the prophecies he fulfilled them all. Two might drop eleven past the hour. Let's take a beak inside
the American Patriots Almanact. Next twelve pasted almost thirteen past the hour. Now, sorry, we ran a little long there.
It's okay, it's okay, it's all good. It's all good, man.
I'll tell you what my hopes. That just kind of cruising into the holiday season with some lighter stuff. Jeez, we're learning a little bit more about what happened yesterday at that Christian school in Wisconsin, and the chief might have tipped something off inadvertently yesterday and Oppressor and I picked it up and I found it for you. So we're gonna share that later. But the big story is what's gathering steam on, what's going on with the drones, and so we're going to get to that at the
bottom of the hour as well. So some of you, well, come on, it's didn't tell us now, No, I won't. Seventeen seventy seven, December seventeenth, France, America's most valuable ally during the Revolutionary War, recognizes our independence. It might have been one of the few things in its nation's history where it stood up strong and didn't wave a white flag. There are variations of this joke, but one of the ways you know a French gun when it's surrendered in battle,
as it's never been fired. Nineteen oh three, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur make the world's first successful motor powered airplane flights. Kitty Hawk. I have a my wife got me and I have yet to bring it in and put it on display. I have a Wilbur and Orville bobble from the I think it's from the Right Brothers Museum. Oh oh my gosh, yeah, big, big, so that's coming. But let me also say this, if you are an avid book reader, get the book by
David McCullough on the Right Brothers. It is special. What a wonderful journey through their life and how they did what they did. Let's see here. In nineteen oh six, Oscar Strauss becomes the first Jewish Cabinet member as Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and in nineteen sixty three, Linda Johnson signs the Clean Air Act, legislation designed to help prevent air pollution. So there you go, sixteen past the hour. We're back caught up. It's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. The things we come across the research staff of this program is just remarkable. This is from I didn't know this even existed. It's a website called The Daily Time Waster. It's Dailytimewater dot blogspot dot com. And it's just random stuff, nothing in particular, just stuff, just articles, interesting little tidbits.
And this.
Is cool. A role of I mean, thin silver foil found in a third century grave in Frankfurt has become the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. There are references to Christianity and Gaul and Germany and historical sources from the late second century, but the evidence of Christians living north of the Alps before the find here was dated to the fourth century earliest. It is so fragile that they didn't dare to unroll it, and
so what they did. The Leibnese Center for Archaeology unrolled it using X ray and CT technology. They were able to scan it in high resolution, create a three D model that could then be analyzed, and they could make the inscription legible. It's entirely in Latin, which is really weird.
Apparently no reference in the inscription to any other faith besides Christianity, which is also rare because up until the fifth century, a mixture of different faith can always be expected in any metal amulets or any different kinds of things that would be found referencing religion, but not this. So you're probably saying, okay, so what does it say.
They're not sure of this first part. Does it say in the name of But it says of Saint Titus, Holy, Holy, Holy, in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Lord of the world, resists to the best of his ability. All seizures set backs. The God grants well being admission. This rescue device protects the person who surrenders to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Since before Jesus Christ, bend all needs the heavenly ones
and the earthly and subterranean, and every tongue confess. Well, now, it's just I sent this. I sent this to my pastor. He said, I love reading things that just show the faith of Christ and Christians and the Word of God through the ages. Jose's offering a chef's kiss, and so that that's the whole point, is to just cause you
to step back and go, whoa. You know. That's the thing one of the most important I think revelations for all of us to make at some point in our life, is that the Bible is a book of history, not just a book of faith. The things die documented, they happened. I've mentioned this podcast before, Haunted Cosmos, and it's a couple of guys, probably a little reformed in their theology, but a pastor and a member of his church who's trained as an engineer but is now full time doing
this podcast. It's one of the most popular podcasts out there, and it's all about God. But it's called Haunted Cosmos, and they tackle the myths and the legends and the things of present day of history, and they point out that the things that are in the Bible are accepted by almost every culture out there. They just they document it in a different form, they refer to it in a different way. And so it's just it's important to remember that when we come across these little archaeological tidbits.
What I hope it does is it just boosts for you that if you call yourself a Christian today, you are literally among the billions that have been on this earth that have given their life to Christ, that have been convinced of the accuracy the veracity of scripture in God's word and place their faith in him. Twenty seven past the hour, O Christmas. Alrighty thirty six past the hour, Let's get to the big stories in the press box this morning. I'm Preston, He's Jose. If you're just joining
us for the very first time, thank you. When you're listening on to Ustrial Radio iHeartRadio, we try to make it worth your while to hang out for three hours. You can listen to music anytime you want. You can only listen to ME Live from six to nine Eastern, five days Central. Of course, you can listen to the podcast, so I guess you know you can listen at other times. But because of the nature of the show and what we do, I mean, look, the music's not going to change, right,
but the news will. So by listening live, you're getting you know what's going on, and we have everybody's been trying to sort out what's going on, and we still don't know emphasis k and ow. We don't know what the drones are all about. Right, Here's what's starting to piece together. This came courtesy of one of the research assistants the Next News Network on YouTube, and I just
it's kind of okay. And then I had the lead research assistant of the program do some digging and they found other stories that are out there, but they are not in mainstream outlets in any way, shape or form.
Yet.
I say that because you need to take that with you know, take that into consideration. I don't know if what I'm about to share is accurate, but tell me if it rings somewhat true in your heart, in your mind, in your spirit. The Office of Global Access is underneath the CIA. I've verified this, this part of the federal government, and it has deployed these drones. They are surveyed balance assets.
And what has been documented by people that are in various industries that know these things is that they are following a very specific grid like pattern. They they're brightly lit up. That causes many to think this is domestic, because if it weren't, what do the Chinese care if a couple of passenger planes run into these things? They don't care. But they're being illuminated very brightly, very visible, so that civilian aircraft and planes helicopters can see them
avoid them. And so the question becomes, what are they doing in these grid patterns? And there's no easy way to say this other than this is a theory. They're looking for a dirty nuclear bomb that intelligence has allegedly found there might be one in the United States somewhere. They're looking for gamma rays linked to these types of devices.
Sources with high level clearance allegedly are saying that these are sophisticated radiation detective detection platforms and they are desperately searching for a dirty bomb that is planted somewhere that they think could be detonated. The idea is that perhaps Russia might be smuggling stuff into the country because of our support of Ukraine. It could be Iranians, it could be globalists that want to disrupt Trump's plans and distract.
John Ferguson, CEO of Saxon Aerospace, the only reason they would be flying and flying that low is because they're trying to smell something. He believes they're trying to find radioactive material that may have entered the country. That's what a dirty bomb is. A dirty bomb blows up radioactive material. It's a different form of a nuclear bomb. It's very base, it's very rough, but it's devastating. So that is a theory that is gaining traction out in the in the internet.
How accurate is it, I don't know. But now consider that allegedly there are searches in increasingly larger areas in the Northeast, and I have been given photographs of some drones in Florida, South Florida. I don't know. I'm just that's something that is starting to percolate. So I'm making you wear forty one passed the hour.
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We've explained over the years, the founders of this nation put the Second Amendment in place, the right for you and I to bear arms. Socialists, leftists, democrats, illiberals want to take your guns. Why because that ensures government control of everything. The founders saw what happened in other countries in Europe, and they realize the dangers that existed when civilians did not have the ability to defend themselves. Now you might not know this, but one of the safest
countries in all of Europe is Poland. And what's happening in Poland right now is fascinating because it informs our founders wisdom in place in the Second Amendment, as part of our founding documents, as part of our constitution, the right to keep. There's an assumption of having the right to keep and bear arms. Despite being one of the safest countries in Europe, Poland is observing what Russia has
been doing. There are some inside of Russia that believe it's time for the old Soviet Union to come back. Poland is a nation adjacent to and with a history of understanding the dangers of that. You know what the government's doing in Poland. They are training students in all schools with firearm training. In fact, it started in twenty twenty three and it's continuing, teaching content related to state defense, acquiring shooting skills, preparing students to cope with threats caused
by hostilities. Students don't train with live ammunition. They train with ballguns, air guns, replicas of small arms, virtual shooting guns with lasers. The simulators that are out there, green lights signal a successful hit, et cetera. This is in eighteen thousand schools across Poland. They are prepping students, preparing them. This is the second Amendment. And notice what Poland is recognizing. Citizenry that's armed, citizenry that's trained helps keep a nation safe.
It's a fascinating little story just buried in the news that shines light on not just current events, but all the way back to the founding of this nation and the genius of our founding fathers. Forty six past the hour, all right, isn't it interesting how the news just it's like a turnstile door, the revolving door. You're in that news cycle for however long it takes you to go through the door and then boop, you're spit out. Brian
Thompson's CEO United Healthcare shot and killed. Hello. Story's gone because we got another shooting to talk about. We'll do that next hour. You're probably wondering why wasn't that in the big stories Because I wanted to take a little more time with it. I mean, the possibility of a dirty bomb being planted in the country somewhere is kind of a big deal. These drones. Something's up, Something is up.
I don't understand why they're not just saying something is it because they fear that that will trigger the detonation. I don't know. I don't know, but I would I defer two people knowing because you've got a surveillance network of millions of people that could see things. But who knows. Anyway, if you heard the story of Brianna Boston, she's been placed under house arrest. She was granted a pre trial release with bond. She's under GPS monitoring. She's in Lakeland, Florida.
She placed a phone call to Blue Cross Blue Shield and she was angry over medical claims being denied, and in the course of the phone call, she ended the call with these words delay, deny, depose. They arrested her for it. Now, in case you've forgotten or perhaps didn't know, those three three words were engraved on three of the shellcasings, the bullets, if you will, the shellcasings that contained the bullets by the shooter who killed the CEO of United Healthcare. Delay, deny, depose.
Anyone who's ever watched the movie Rainmaker, brilliant movie. It's an adaptation of John Grisham novel about the insurance industry and healthcare in particular, knows that there's an element to the disgrundled nature of where people are with healthcare that delay delay, under any circumstances, the paying of acclaim delay, delay, delay, because the mind set in the minds of many is that if the company delays enough, people quit. They just stop, They just give up. Now, I'm sure there's a more
articulate explanation of what deny and deposed means. But deny, I'm guessing, is the perspective of the insurance company. Just deny delay answering, then just deny depose, I guess refers to a lawsuit. You're going to be deposed, So I've never quite grasped the point of those three words. But here's my question, how do you arrest somebody for a threat for saying those three words? How is that a threat because someone else put it on some bullets? But
those three words in and of themselves. But she's been arrested for threatening violence Apparently. I'm going to be fascinated to see what happens because she's very heartfelt in her reds at over being angry over everything, but on the merits of that being reason to arrest her for threats of violence, I'm gonna be fascinated to see if this actually stands up. Time for Hour number two The Morning Show with Preston Scott Tomorrow. We will be one week away from Christmas.
Duh.
Today we're one week away from Christmas Eve and my annual pizza Christmas Eve Pizza. That's what I do. I've done it since I was a kid. Place in Phoenix. There still exists the guy. I don't know if he's still running it, but the guy who owned and ran Pizza Pharrohs in Phoenix moved out to I want to say Cave Creek, which is north of Scottsdale and Pizza Farrows.
He was still there and when I when I visited years ago, I went in and I said, you don't remember me, but and he remembered my Christmas Eve pizza thing. He said, you're that little guy. I said, yes, sir, I'm him. I'm not little anymore. He's like, you look like you've had some pizzas. So anyway, yeah, it's been a thing since I was a kid, pizza on Christmas Eve. So just something casual and kind of finger food esque,
but still, you know. Anyway, a little follow up, we got a call I was talking about the woman in Lakeland, ended a call with Blue Cross, Blue Shield saying delay denied to pose, I've gotten clarification. Depose refers to depose from power, to get rid of, but deposed can mean
a lot of things. Right, here's my point. And we had a caller that just disagreed with me that it is absolutely a threat of violence and so forth because of its connection to and so it doesn't change though those three words by themselves.
Do not.
Make up, in my opinion, a legally prosecutable threat. If I say, you know, Joe Biden over the last four years should have been removed from power that does not construe a threat. I think it's a it's a reaction. It's not a response. It's a reaction. What if the guy had put on the bullets one two three? Do now just saying those words, does that construe a threat?
Because over time the words one two three? I mean, I just I watched a video this morning of a guy in a wingsuit on top of a mountain jumping, and before he jumped, he said one two three jumping into a pool my grandbabies, Come on, buddy, go for it. One two Right, we have to be careful. I think it's an overreach. I do, and and and now if there's other things involved in that case, fair enough, we'll see. She certainly is regretful. I think they are going way
too far on this. But she's she's got the monitors and all that stuff. All right. We've got a shooting at a school, a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin. The shooters a fifteen year old girl. She killed herself, She killed a student, she killed a teacher, She injured six others, some seriously, and then killed herself. A couple of students are in critical condition. Happened at ten fifty seven am yesterday morning. That'd be just before noon our time. A
second grader called nine to one one. There's a lot to talk about here. We'll do that next ten minutes past the hour. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Now they're shooting at a private Christian school. Is interesting. My immediate reaction when I knew no details was I have a feeling this is going to mirror what happened in Tennessee at the Christian school when a woman who believed she was a man showed up at the school where I guess she attended and killed people. You remember
how quickly that story disappeared. We now know we have a female shooter. Do you realize how rare that is? No? Really, that's we're not talking about the serial killer chicks out there that you know, go seeking revenge on men that abused them. And no, no, no, no, no, we're talking about some and trying to commit a mass shooting. That's a female. That is so rare. Okay, so we have now a fifteen year old girl at a Christian school. Now listen
to something that the police chief said. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes, very articulate, had this to say at a press briefing yesterday.
I don't think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify. And I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this.
Why would a guy, now, granted he's a police chief Madison. Madison is an uber liberal city, home of the University of Wisconsin, and I could be reading way too much into this, but my immediate reaction was, wait, what, why would you not just say the shooter? We have a fifteen year old girl they've identified, they've named the shooter. I'm not naming the shooter. We have a fifteen year old girl, fifteen year old female. Where did the she he they thing come from?
What?
And if you dig a little deeper, there are reports circulating that there was in fact a manifesto, but that she did not make the document public and so they're having trouble getting it. Her father's cooperating. I'm heartbroken for the family and family members of this girl. And again we don't know, but it sure would seem again Christian school, probably teaching. There are just males and females, and someone didn't like it. Maybe we'll find out probably, you know,
there's a chance it could ruin tomorrow's show. To be honest with you, because if this comes out, I'm gonna talk about it. But there are some creepy similarities, and I just want to point out how that story in Nashville died. We've had some leaks of the manifesto. Police have sat on it. They're not they're not touching it. If this is a replication of that, First we get back to publicizing that crap. We've got someone mirroring it. Second,
mental illness. It's a mental illness. And by the way, this shooting is going to get a bunch of attention until we find out more and then it's going to go away. But did you know anything about the shooting at a Christian school in northern California on December fourth? Do you know about that? Did you know why? Because apparently the perpetrators set up the fake visit to the school to get in the school because he was upset
about the war in Gaza. Haven't heard much about that now, have you, because it got buried and that part of the story got buried even deeper. Seventeen minutes past the hour we come back.
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The difference having a true commander in chief at a press conference makes twenty two minutes past the hour. You want to know why things are shifting pretty dramatically around the world. Trump's election has sent a ripple through the world. I had an exchange with a family member yesterday that was pretty harsh in the sense that I sent this person a book and it was Jerome Hudson's book Fifty
Things They Don't Want You to Know. And this family members said, you know, after the introduction, I'm not reading it. And I politely said, politely said, in essence, what a year scared? And I said, look, knowledge is an important thing. I read the opposing viewpoints all the time. I do it because I want to know what they're thinking, why they're thinking it, and how to argue against it. If
you don't agree with it, defeat it. If you don't agree with the points made, there's fifty of them, prove it. But don't be afraid of facts. John Adams once said, facts are stubborn. I just don't want to discuss it anymore. Okay, but you're welcome, because us deplorables just saved the nation for now. I don't know what's gonna happen, but the impact of having somebody that I'm not gonna I don't. I still don't think Donald Trump's a great guy. He's a far better person than he's made out to be.
But I this sounds weird. He's matured since his first presidency. He has. But do you remember how Joe Biden wouldn't hold a press conference because he can't form a thought? What am I doing here? Contrast that with this against you? That would you?
I mean, it's a wonderful question, But how can I? Am I gonna do preemptive strikes? Why would I say that? Can you imagine if I said yes or no, you'd say that was strange that he answered that question. Am I going to do preemptive strikes or Iran? Is that a serious question? How could I answer a question like that.
In support of Israeli strikes.
On your How could I tell you?
How can I answer that?
That? Is a president first? Is that a serious question? It's not the press secretary walking off and storming off in a little hissy fit. It's the president of the United States number two holding the media accountable. Is that a serious question? Are you asking me to tell you what I think we ought to do militarily. What's important about this is number one, we have a commander in chief. Yes he's older, but he's got all faculties. Here's the
other thing, the media. Do you realize that the sports media knows not to ask the coach his strategy for an upcoming game. Now, I'm not asking you to do good because I wouldn't tell you in sports they know better. We're only talking about geo political things and the possibility of a world war. And this clown's saying, do you support preemptive strikes? Are you? Have you lost your ever loving mind? Why would I tell you one way or
the other? Are you? Is that? At first he was kind, Oh, that's a wonderful question, and then he was like, are you serious. I'm just demonstrating the difference. He'll take questions till the cows come home. Joe Biden's and his basement eating ice cream.
What a great way to end a segment, right right, And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All right, those of you driving around in the capital city, we have got some news. Could I say of a collar who's off of a little traffic detail. Who's it It's on you, alrighty.
So on twenty seven south past Lake Jackson towards Iten. Uh, it's backed up all the way going into town. So if anybody's headed that way, UH, take a detour. I heard the toll road is good.
So if you're trying to get into town, take Orchard Pond Parkway as opposed to just coming in twenty seven because of something. So it's backed up from town out of town if it's southbound. So yeah, okay, well there you go. Take it for what it's worth. Comes from a loyal listener, trustworthy source, I would say, I would say that. May not believe it, but I would say it.
I'm just kidding. Big story in the press box, not unlike the story at the top of the hour of the shooting in Wisconsin, where we don't know there are now multiple outlets, not mainstream outlets at all. I want to stress that this is fringe stuff. People have sources, sources, some names, some not named. That the drones are deployed under the auspices of the CIA and the Office of Global Access. Yes, it's a thing. They have radiation detection
devices and they're flying a grid like pattern. They are brightly lit drones for a reason. They do not want aircraft to run into them. They do not want there to be any harm. And what they're trying to do is detect either communications or gamma rays that are tied
to a dirty nuclear bomb. Is that based on intelligence that they've intercepted, and the chatter has gotten to the point where they're now frantically searching because it does appear that there is a very organized pattern to these drones floating around. Do they believe it's planted somewhere? Do they believe it's in the hands of someone and they're trying to detect I don't I don't have any of that. What I know is Trump's taking office in thirty four days.
What I know is that Russia's angry at our involvement with Ukraine. What I know is Iran hates us for our support of Israel, whether Biden actually supports or not we support Israel. What I know is China hates us. What I know is we have a compromised military, We've compromised borders, and we have a compromised commander in chief. That I know. I know those things. I don't know if this is accurate. But the question I asked an hour ago is the same question I ask now. Does
it ring true to you as a possibility? The public nature of the drones, the relentless nature of the whatever they're doing, their patterns, they're flying, they're there, They're not hiding the fact that the federal government is saying nothing about this. It just it. There's a little ringing of truth to me. But we'll see. Forty minutes past the hour.
By the way, with all this stuff going on with these drones, how stupid do you have to be to be one of the two men arrested in one being searched for that were flying drones near Logan International Airport in Boston. What idiots?
No?
Really, I mean, dude, talk about read the room. Jeremy folkchic and Robert Duffy forty two and thirty two Duffy forty two Fultschicic thirty two, both of Massachusetts flying drones around Logan Airport or Logan International Airport. How stupid are you? Two people? And the third got away on a small boat. Apparently not for long. He's he's gonna be arrested, trust me, he's His boys are gonna rad him out like yesterday's news man.
It's it's yes, sir, he was Biff, Biff was with us. Yeah, I'll take you to him if you want, buy your meal on the way.
Yeah. You ever heard of something called methan ethie al methan methaneth thee all and maybe I'm mispronouncing it. I'm gonna be close no matter what. I'm close. Methaneth the all, methanet the all. It's not the latest invention by the climate change you know, global warming fanatics. It's an actual thing. Sorry, I gotta catch in my throat here. It is a compound produced by emissions of marine life. Shellfish smell a little stinky. That's methanethy all. That's what that is. So
there's a new study. It has not been detected before because it's extremely hard to measure. Additionally, much research has been done on warmer oceans, while polar oceans are the emission hots. Microscopic plankton living in the seas surfaces emit a type of sulfur gas known as dimethyl sulfide. This gas is the one responsible for the stinky smell and shellfish. Once sulfur gas reaches the atmosphere, it oxidizes and produces
small particle particles called aerosols. These aerosols reflect solar radiation back into space, lowering the heat on Earth. Researcher at the University of East Anglia's Center for Ocean Atmospheric Studies, doctor sher re Ward, this is the climactic event with the greatest cooling capacity, but also least understood. We knew methanethiol was coming out of the ocean, but we had no idea how much and where. We also did not
know it was such an impact on the climate. What this important little detail is telling everybody is it explains why all of the climate models are wrong. It's why the global warming and sea level rise warnings are wrong. And do you remember us pointing out that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was trying to figure out why in the middle of hurricane season the oceans were cooling, the Atlantic was cooling. It was one to two degrees
cooler than it should have been. Just saying, just saying. Forty six minutes after the hour, got a manly minute. Last one of the year coming up next, our final show. Guest of the year doctor Bob McClure joins us in just a little bit. Lots of things to talk about with the president of the James Madison Institute. This is fascinating. This is from publication called World Sound Journalism, Grounded in Facts and Biblical Truth. Here's the headline. US Bible sales
boom as gen Z turns to the physical word. This is interesting. Bible sales are up twenty two percent. Book sales are up one percent. Bible sales are up twenty two percent. Consider how many Bibles have been sold over the years, how many how many people have owned a Bible? If not, I've probably bought thirty in my lifetime, different translations, different different versions. But it's not just the Bible. Books on on Christian living and Bible study books on specific
books of the Bible. Those sales are up as well. Americans bought more than fourteen million Bibles in twenty twenty three. There are more than thirteen million that have been sold in just the first ten months of the year. And consider how many Bibles get given at Christmas time. What's interesting is inside a Pew research study, it finds that young people who regularly read scripture have some of the
lowest levels of anxiety. Reading scripture lowers anxiety. Even though young people are digital over eighty percent of Bible users prefer to use an actual Bible in print, even if they use digital tools for about everything else. I think that's absolutely that is that is fascinating stuff. And and I think it's very important that you think about the importance of the Bible all right. Time for a manly minute mail by birth man by choice. It's my final
tip of the year. It's a bit controversial, okay, so just bear with me. If you have a little fella and he's not three four, five, little bit older later elementary middle school, have him be the last one opening gifts on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, the last one. Teach your son to find joy in giving to others and watching others receive gifts, not to just be when do I get to open mind? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, find joy in watching others be blessed. So and again,
I know it's controversial. I absolutely know it's controversial because oh, you know, Christmas is for kids. I get that. That's why I'm saying, as your son gets a little bit older, have him wait till everybody else opens their gifts. Make sure your son has a little skin in the game they've used some allowance to buy something nice for their mom or their sister or brother, that they've done some extra choe, and that they find joy in giving to
others and seeing them open those gifts. Have them wait. It will be one of the best lessons you ever teach your son. There's your manly minute, final manly minute of the year. As we spirit our way towards twenty twenty five here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Again, just a quick reminder, we are raising funds for Humble House Ministries. It's Humblehouseministries dot org and this is it today and tomorrow, final days of doing it now. Obviously you can sign up and give any time you want,
but where it's our final opportunity to draw attention. They help women recover from various addictions and they provide transition housing in Tallahassee and Panama City, So those are our two primary markets. You can go to the website Humble House Ministries and pick one of the two or pick both. And if you've had a good year with your business, if you've personally professionally been blessed. I'm just saying a little something passed along to others would be very very helpful.
Humblehousemanistries dot Org. Come back with our number three, Doctor Bob McClure standing by kind of weird third hour already volumes below your countertop there and so there you go. It's probably just needs to be turned up a little bit. Doctor Bob McClure is with me this morning here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good morning, sir, Thank you. Having a few technical difficulties that I have on myself, not you. A little rusty, a little rusty heading into
the hollow. Doctor McClure is going to be moving to Wednesdays starting in January. We're going to have time with doctor McClure monthly on Wednesdays. He's president of the James Madison Institute. No shortage of things that we were just kind of chatting up. What's in the news right now, the news cycle. What are your thoughts on the President elect grabbing so many nominees, so many key people, if
you include his chief of staff Floridians. Well, there's this huge, uh, you know, movement from the Great sunshine the Free State of Florida to Washington, d C. It's good for us at the James Madison Institute. I think it's good for the state for a number of reasons. I think it showcases how great our state is. You know, I've been saying for years that Florida is really the single most important state in the country when it comes to policy
and politics. Why, well, it really began to show up during COVID when the governor decided to keep our schools and our economy open. Yeah, but you knew it before COVID. We did. We did long before we did. So why let's go before COVID. R Well, what is it about Florida that it's gotten right, Well, if you want to go where it starts, it really starts. I would argue
with Jeb Bush. Okay, fair enough. When Jeb came into office in the mid to late nineties, he began this conservative and I say movement conservative not Republican, because we're nonpartisan. Republicans can be as bad as Democrats. Yeah, we've seen it.
This Movement Conservative nearly forty year effort to carry out the principles preston that we believe in limiting the role of government in our daily lives, giving people economic opportunity, giving people the ability to choose their version of the American dream, not the government's version, not Washington's version, but their version, whatever that looks like. Started with Jeb and
what we began to see. And if you remember, Jeb barely won okay, and then we had a series of George w. Obama, Trump in his twenty sixteen, Rick Scott twice, Ron DeSantis the first time. In every one of those races, Florida was the one percent state. The winner won by one percent or less. So going on were these very close elections. Florida was a purple state. But concurrently you had incredible policies, whether it was tax in the regulatory environment,
school choice, healthcare, whatever it is. These reaganesque principles were going on concurrently. And guess what. As those policies took hold, Florida became more and more red. It didn't matter what It doesn't matter what color you are, it doesn't matter what gender you are. We have every demographic here in the state of Florida. We are the most diverse state in the entire country. And we are deeper read today than we were forty years ago. And it's because good
policy is good politics. And we say that in Florida all the time. Now it doesn't matter. I mean, Donald Trump won Miami Dad County seventy percent Hispanic. He won Osciola County, huge Puerto Rican community. Remember the whole garbage comic. Yeah, ridiculous. Yes, he won African Americans, he won every demographic here in the state. And now you're gonna take a lot of that brain trust and you're moving it to Washington, d C. And they're serious. They're serious. This is not just clap
trap talk politician talk. They're serious. Now they're gonna be bumps in the road, and they're gonna be mistakes made. But these folks are serious about the promises that they made during the election. We got a break coming in just a second. But when you when you start talking about good policy leads to good politics, it sounds like a more articulate way of saying what I've said for years that if you win hearts and minds, the elections
take care of themselves. Yes, yes, yes, And the reason is because everybody in their heart wants what's best for themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and the policies that do that, that are articulated properly when they win elections. Doctor Bob McClure, I'm going to brag on him here as we go to break, so we can't say anything because I've turned his mic off. He was the first one that said, I think Trump's went in the popular vote ten past the hour, living passed the hour. Now
the mic is on, doctor Bob mcclob. That's crazy of the James battles, and he's the dude. No, it's true though. You nailed it. You nailed the fact that you talked about the multiple the thousands of data points you have to pull together. And I just take it from our years of knowing each other. You're just kind of a nerd that way. You like that stuff, love it. And so you felt like Donald Trump was going to win the popular vote and that it was not necessarily going
to be close and it wasn't right. That was significant. Well, thank you, I really appreciate that. I yes, it is not one poll, five polls, it's not even poles. Sometimes it's anecdotal. Sometimes it's qualitative, quantitative, whatever the list is. But if you go to ten thousand feet and you see what happened in the Bronx okay with that rally, and you see Madison Square Garden, and you see what he did in California, and they were making fun of him because he's not going to win those states. That
wasn't the point. It wasn't the point. There were two goals there by going to New York and going to California. One was the Congress House, to save the House, which he did, and two was to win the pop the vote. Yeah. And so by doing those two things, he has a mandate that had he won the electoral college and lost the popular vote, the left would still be saying, well, we actually won. You know, the electoral college is an archaic, you know, founding that outdata outdata, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
So so that's why he did it. And and so now his mandate not only did he win over three hundred electoral votes, his mandate with the popular vote has completely put the left an utter and complete disarray. And he's there. As I said previously, he's serious about doing this. Bob, you have said ever since we've known each other, when Salnwzo was with us. The James Madison Institute is laser focused on Florida policy and insomuch as it may impact
the nation great. But now let's reverse the outflow. You've got these people that are going to go to work in Washington. Some of them are members of Congress, so they effectively have been But you know what I mean, what impact would this will this have having some of these key people leaving the state. You know the thing about Florida and you see, yes, our bread and butter
is always the state of Florida. But because we run a think tank in Florida and it's not say Kansas or you know, Wyoming or Iowa, we have the opportunity to work in other states. Currently JMI is making Florida, making the rest of the country more like Florida. We call it exporting the Florida model, where we take all the great policies here in Florida and we're working in these other states. But that's not the question. You asked the question. The answer is, and we've talked about this, Preston,
and you know this. We have such a deep bench here in Florida. You look at let's take Jimmy Petronas here in in North Florida. He's going to move into that congressional seat. He's gonna obviously step down as CFO, which is a very important position. We've got five, six, seven, eight people that could fill that spot. Now I'm not gonna name names, but we have so many people who could fill that spot. House Speaker after House speaker after
House speaker has been tremendous. Now we get some birds every once in a while, but generally speaking, they've been great. The people who could be governor, there are a number of people that could be governor, so quality qualified people right. And for me, it's all about movement conservatism. It's not
about the Republican Party. There's plenty of Republicans in South Carolina, but they can't get school choice because the South there are no term limits and the Republicans there act like Democrats. You could name thirty states where Republicans and Democrats are the uniparty. The Mitch McConnell Republicans in DC and the
Nancy Pelosi that is the uniparty. I'm talking about movement conservatism, and we've built such a deep bench since Jeb that there are any number of people that could slide in there. Not only that doctor McClure, but the Democrats made an effort to change the balance of power, not to win it, but to just move it. And they actually lost ground, and they're gonna lose even more ground because a Democrat just switched to the Republican Party in the state legislature.
You've got supermajorities in the House, in the Senate, and you have a governor who everybody thought after his presidential run was wounded and weak. And he puts all his chips in the middle of the table on Amendments three and four, the Weed Amendment, in the abortion amendment, whether you agree with those or not, he said, here's where I'm going to make my stand. And he won millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, big corporations the trial bar
and he beat them. And so now you have a governor who is stronger, as strong as he's at the height of he was. He's become America's governor. You couple that with our deep bench, with party registrations and Florida and Donald Trump on Florida by one point five million votes. Yeah, he went sixty two of sixty seven counties. So much for the one percent, right, Yeah, More with doctor Bob McClure seventeen past the hour, Doctor Bob McClure, president of
the James Madison Institute think tank Policy. Yeah, and boy, the sessions already taking shape. Bills are being introduced by what is with all that's been done in these last few decades in Florida? Where is the ground still needing to be hoed a little bit and plowed out? It's in I would argue probably three specific places, and this is really these are kind of the areas where Florida could land in the ditch if they're not careful. One
is property insurance. Okay, they implemented these reforms two years ago on property insurance, and the lead up to the governor signing that bill, the trial bar filed nearly now hold on to your seat, preston nearly three hundred thousand suits, okay, knowing that the governor was going to sign these reforms,
those suits, those cases are washing through the system. And while we as Floridians don't fully understand that our insurance companies are coming back into the market, rates are holding sety generally, and we're starting to see the effects two years later of the reforms that were put in place. What's going to happen is the trial bar is going to go after not the law, They're going to go after the insurance companies. Now, nobody loves their insurance company.
They're not warm and fuzzy, they don't help themselves. None of that is. I'm not defending insurance companies. But the trial bar is going to go after the insurance companies and argue they don't play pay claims, they undercut, et cetera, et cetera. So property insurance reform, the legislature needs to hold the line on what they've done. They're just now taking hold. Let me let me ask you a question
on that subject. We're peninsula. What is it your There's not one spot in Florida that's not an hour and a half away from a coastline. Right? Is there a fix? Is there a solution to property insurance in a state that's a peninsula. Yeah, you got to, I mean there are several solutions. You got to charge market rates on the coast, and right now, if you're on the coast, you can be in citizens and the entire state of Florida is paying your is paying the rate? Is your backstop?
Excuse me for what you pay for your property? Insurance, So the people with the largest risk aren't paying for the risk, right, Yeah, so you've got to allow the market forces to take place fair enough. Yeah so, but the reforms are working. So the second issue that Florida is dealing with is how housing. Okay, Uh, there's a
and the left likes to talk about affordable housing. They love it, but they can't define it, right, which is code for mister developer, mister builder, build a bunch of houses that are cheap and crappy and lose money on them.
And that's not what needs to happen. Okay. There's a difference between building affordable housing and building housing that is affordable fair and the building housing that is affordable deals with permitting, wait times, bureaucracy, regulatory environment, and there are a whole lot of things that the legislature can do to make that better. JMI is going to be coming out with a series of three different significant studies that look at how to fix housing here in the state. Okay, Okay,
So that's the second thing. And then the third thing is as we continue to implement school choice across the board. You talk about good policy, is good poss school choice, parental choice, across the board is critically important, but there are some things that we still need some glitches, like if you homeschool your kids and you need basketballs or painting easels, should you have to come out of pocket
for those? Yes or no? So there are some glitches when it comes to school choice that we need to fix. So it's property insurance whole line, it's housing. Remove the regulations and the trouble and drive that down to municipalities in school choice. In the housing issue, should there be an effort to sever the word affordable affordability from that just housing, not affordable housing. Housing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know how the Yeah, the left always likes to
co opt the language, and so affordable housing. They also love conflation, right, right. Illegal immigration is not immigration, right, that's right. They're different things, of course they are. Housing has been turned into a cudgel, yes, as affordable housing without ever being defined. So you're addressing the issue of housing in Florida, right, And if you build it's it's a market. It's a market. Not to get too far
down in the weeds. So if you build housing that people will want to buy, then people buy those homes and then they continue the others continue to sell their homes and move and either move up the chain, and and and so it's it's building housing that is affordable. And that's very different than what the left.
Likes to say.
Nice, I can't wait to flesh all this stuff out in the coming year. It's gonna be fun. Bill gonna beat We've got to Does the later start for the legislature work to your benefit at JMI, Yeah, a little more time to kind of throw seed. Yeah, because they have all those committee weeks January to March. They're not we're not constrained by the holidays, and so it's not as much of a you know, goat rodeo. It's a
little more measured. You know, it's a little better. You know, it's a little more measured in terms of committee weeks and what we can do in the policies we can kind of line up ahead of time that promote freedom and economic opportunity and prosperity for all Floridians. Nice, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Let's say that around here. We do too, We say it all the time. Good stuff. Thanks for having me, doctor Bob McClure. James Madison Institute twenty eight
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add it all up, it makes sense. Here's another big story today.
I don't think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify, and I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this.
That's police Chief Sean Barnes, Madison, Wisconsin, in response to the shooting. But here's the problem, Chief, you just said, he they about someone who's dead, a biological female shooter fifteen years of age. And my question for you, ladies and gentlemen, is this what promotes that level of rage? What promotes that level of rage? We've seen it before. Now we don't know if this was a young girl struggling with gender identity. I don't know what there is
to struggle with. You're born a female or a male, and you settle on in. But we now live in a culture that affirms these types of dysphorious, these kinds of mental challenges that young lady needed help, not affirmation. The affirmation was, young lady, you are loved and you are adored, and God made you a woman, a female, and that doesn't mean you have to wear dresses and pink and purple and polka dots, but you're a woman.
You're a female. Now again, this is one of those When this story broke it was like, oh boy, this just smells like Nashville. I think it was Covenant Christian School. This is a Christian school. Forty minutes past the hour. Those are your big stories in the press spots.
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We shuffled things around, made sure that we had a final visit with Howard Eisman for the year before we take a break. Money talk with investment advisor Howard Eisman with enhanced financial services, securities and advisory services offered through NBC Securities Inc. Member Fender an SIPC. NBC Securities Inc. Is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC Bank USA, and opinions expressed are not those of NBC Securities Inc. Nay Nay or iHeartMedia. On appropriate matter, seek professional tax and
or legal advice, Howard. I have a feeling that the November election has caused some people to be a little bit more confident of the economic future of things in this country.
Correcto, Mundo, Preston Corecto Mundo. Yes, you know, we've really had two very very strong years in the US stock market, and so in November a survey was done of US consumers and a record fifty six point four percent said they fully expect the stock market to trade higher over
the next year. And if you go back thirty seven years, all the way to nineteen eighty seven, Preston, this November's number was only the fourth month in that entire period that a majority of consumers said they expected a higher prices in the market, and that's only again occurred a few times in this period. The last time it occurred was right after President Trump's tax cut bill back in
January twenty eighteen. So yeah, very optimistic right now as far as market participants and consumers are concerned.
You know, over the last year, we've talked a little bit about gen zers and how younger people are viewing the economy, viewing savings, viewing debt, and all of these things. What is the mindset of young people today as it relates to the future and their personal economy.
You know, the gen zs, And just to define them, we're talking about folks ages eighteen to twenty seven. A survey was recently dead and they asked them, in order to be considered financially successful, what kind of average annual salary would you feel like you need to make? Just under five hundred and eighty eight thousand for an annual salary would make that generation feel financially successful, and they said, well, what about your net worth nine and a half million? So goodness.
Talk about inflation.
Yeah, yeah, they're either expecting extraordinarily high inflation or their recent investment experiences have earned them very high returns and so they have some inflated numbers. And just just to put that into comparison, the Baby Boom generation ages sixty to seventy eight year olds, they think you'd be financially successful if you made one hundred thousand a year and you had a net worth of a million dollars. Quite a difference.
That is a massive difference one from the other.
Stunning to million, Yes, sir, stunning.
We were talking about confidence just a second ago. And one of the areas of our economy and even our culture where I think we overlook is just the soul of the earth people, the people that are farming, that are providing so much for our country. How are farmers feeling these days?
Well, I'd say, like the rest of consumers, very optimistic. Their sentiment on the farm has increased dramatically since May of twenty and twenty one, and in this November, the ag Economy Barometer, there is such a thing, Preston. It surged thirty percent or thirty points higher from where it was in October pre election to where it was after the election. So as a result, only nine percent of farmers expect an increase in environmental regulations, which they would
view as of course, you know, a headwind yep. And so again a very very dramatic change from what their expectations were just four or five years ago.
Boy, what a stunning difference. And obviously that has to do with who's coming in and taking over the administrative direction or rather lead in our nation the view of less regulatory action going on, and it shows up immediately in the surveying. Crazy Howard. As always, thanks for the intel for the year, and we look forward to next year very much.
So let me wish all of your listeners very merry Christmas and happy New Year as well.
Thank you, sir, be Well Howard, Thank you, San Howard Eisman with us, I love the little financial nuggets we get a couple times a month, just a little snapshot of what's going on. And think about it now, farmers immediately recognize less regulations come in our way in fact and easing of regulation. Maybe we're going to have a chance to me make some money. Now, we just have to stop the takeover of the small farms. Forty seven past.
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Tomorrow on the program, it's our Christmas Show sort of. I'm saving Marvin Goldstein for Christmas Day, just saying Christmas Day, because that's how I rolled bringing out the big guns for the fifth day of Preston. Twelve Days of Preston starts Thursday. So you will not be without at all. You will be hearing the best, most significant, important interview use interesting interviews of the year that sort of detail what happened each month of the year January February on.
So day one is January, day two is February, day three is March, et cetera. And day five is Christmas Day, and that happens to be May. So we only do a few interviews, but we mostly it's just mostly Marvin and me. By the way, do you notice what I did there? Grammatically? So many people Me and Marvin, me and jose me. No, you're never first, You're never first.
You're never first. The other person's always first. The only thing that question is whether you say me or I. And to determine which one you say, you take the other subject out of the sentence, and would you say I or would you say me? So at the start of a sentence, you would never say me went to the store. You say I went to the store, so it would be Jose and I went to the store,
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Two big stories today, trying to figure out the drones. One theory rolling around is the drones are searching for a dirty nuclear bomb. That's one of the theories that's floating around there. A dirty bomb, radioactive material that's encased and blows up goes yeah. So I'm just that's one theory that's floating around out there. It's coming from more sources, no idea if there's legs to it. The federal government is bringing this on themselves by saying nothing and not answering.
They know, they know what this is all about. Now. Their problem is that if they come out, then they're admitting that they've been lying all along. Oh well, and then, of course the shooting at a school, a Christian school in Wisconsin left three dead, two a student, another a teacher, and then the perpetrator killed herself her self, a fifteen year old girl. What cause a fifteen year old girl to be that angry about that? Tomorrow on the program,
no guests, just you. You're my guest because I'm gonna open up the phone line some I don't know when, but I want to find out what your favorite Christmas cookie is. I'll tell you all about mine now Tomorrow, hopefully, aside from a couple of segments, it'll be a little lighter. We look forward to joining you then. Humble House Ministries