Isaiah nine, verse six says, for unto us, a child is born, to us, a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. My final devotional for the year. Right here here it is Mary and Joseph knocked on dors. No one let him in. Jesus would say, I stand at the door and knock. Are you letting him in? Yes? Or no?
You're gonna turn him away. The most important gift this season is the one that isn't under the tree, but the one that was on it. Ten past the hour. Good morning friends, It's Wednesday. It's our final live show of the year of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Today is going to be not as much fun as I wanted, but it'll be a little fun. Good morning. Fifty two ninety. What a great white hand, right fifty two ninety, nice round number. That's jose He's dressed up today.
You're not in Christmas gear, You're not You're not wearing the ugly sweater. You're you're in a blue blazer. And I mean, I was just kind of like I won't say I was disappointed. I was just surprised. You have to try and keep you on your toes. So so tell me now, is actually to start your day and pick out your wardrobe? Does it happen the night before the morning of Absolutely not. There is no thought put into it at all. So you're not thinking about what
can I wear? That would cause Preston to scratch his head. No, this is really I'm just him the truth, and this is just really who I am. Eclectic, Yeah, just yep. I'm like a five year old whose parents are like, hey, you pick what you want to wear. Over there, it's Studio one A. It's uh. We're thirty three days away from the end of the regime and the rising of the sun brighter than before. We just got to get
their friends. We've just got to get there. And I wish I could tell you that I'm full of confidence in that. I'm not. The Democrats are Biden. They're doing everything they can. They're I'm gonna, I'm gonna I will be shocked. Do you remember what happened when Bill Clinton left How Clinton's staffers raided the White House and basically took almost anything that wasn't nailed down. They stripped the place. Yeah, they had to leave the historical stuff, but they trashed it.
What do you think Biden's folks are gonna do? I can almost see Jill Biden, Jill grabbing paintings off the wall. They're they're like, nailed there, They're I'm taking right, I should be staying another four years now. I think it's going to be ugly. But we'll, you know, we'll be we'll be around to talk about that. Back with the live shows. On January sixth, All right, this date in history,
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the first ever NFL playoff game. I don't think the Bears have won a playoff game since now. I'm just kidding. I'm teasing Bear fans. It's been a tough time, even though you've had four thousand first round picks. Nineteen forty three, the ninety ninth Fighter Squadron, you know, a unit of TuS Skeigee Airmen flies almost every day during December nineteen forty three and support of Allied bombers based in Italy. You should read the story of the Redtail pilots Man.
I'll tell you what those guys could fly that the Skegee Airmen, their status as legends is well earned. Good stuff. All right, this is our final day for Humblehouseministries dot Org. Go there give. This is my last reminder today, so please kind of one of those Okay, while I'm thinking of it, I'm gonna go do it now. Please Humblehouseministries dot Org, Tallahassee, Panama City or both, and just make a note WFLA in your giving sixteen past the hour.
I'm going to stay on time. What are the stocking stuffers that are go tos for you? You know what we do, and you know I am k Kringle, but I'm just everybody has a different way of going about it. You know, we'll get a random amount of candy and just you know, little snack sized stuff, and we'll stuff some of that. Every now and then we'll specialize. We know what everyone likes and enjoys, and every now and then we'll just put a big bag of whatever in there.
Stuff it in that stocking. Mindful that our stockings are hung by our chimney with care. And I don't want chocolate in the too early for the obvious reason because there's a fireplace underneath that's like the worst. So the chocolate, if there's any, goes in at the very end last, so it's up and away from any heat or anything like that, any warmth to make it all like just nasty. But we just like finding a little silly, stupid stuff.
Sometimes it's funny stuff. Sometimes it's you know, it's got a little practicality to it that's just really a cool little gadget or gizmo. But there is a go to that I enjoy, and it's lotto tickets, not necessarily lotto. I've done lotto tickets where I've just had the computer do the quick pick and I've given everybody a random pick. But scratch offs I thinks are fun. But here's the problem. I don't want to just get like eight scratch offs
in a row from one single game. I feel like, oh man, what are the odds of like having two or three people win something in that line of tickets? So in my mind, I'm thinking, Okay, get one of those, one of those, one of those, you know what I mean, We're just just pick different ones. And then here's the other crazy thought that I have, Like, drive to some weird little town outside of wherever you live, because you
so often see big winners in these little towns. It's like, how often do you really see a big lottery winner in a big city. It happens, but it doesn't happen often. It's so often that those winners come from the tiny little towns where the little store that sells it gets a cut of the you know, gets a bonus prize. And I just like, so I overthink it. So I'm thinking to myself, Okay, I'm gonna go to this store and buy one ticket. I'm gonna go to that store
and buy one ticket. I'm gonna go that store and buy one ticket. And I'm just gonna randomly go around and get different games at different stores and take my chances, and honestly, that's probably what I'm gonna do, because I'm an idiot like that. This dude in Kentucky, he won forty dollars from a lottery ticket. By the way, that would be cool, right, You're not, you go have a
steak or something, right, I mean whatever. He took thirty of his forty dollars and he bought a bunch of break fort Knox scratch off tickets at a Krger store in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Now, I don't know how many tickets that buys you. Is it a two dollar ticket? Had a one dollar ticket? Did he get fifteen tickets? Did he get ten? I don't. I have no idea what the game is. But that thirty dollars that he took, he won forty on a scratch off. He took thirty
of it, bought scratch offs one game. It paid off. His thirty dollars investment paid off. I had to do a double take, a triple take. I pulled up the app and scanned it. It said, congratulations, you won three million dollars. My man took his thirty dollars. Winnings parlayed that and see that's to me, that's smart. Go all in, man, don't go broke playing. It's like, don't take your bread
money to play the lottery. That's foolish. But if someone for give you an example, if Jose owed me thirty bucks and I've been waiting four years for it, I've written it off, right, no big deal. Or if I owed him fifty bucks, he's writing it off, he's never paying me. And then one day I go, you know what, I remember, I owe you fifty bucks. That's found money. If I'm Jose, I'm taking I'm taking forty of that and I'm buying lottery tickets because I never expected to
have that money. That's what this guy did. He didn't think he'd win forty bucks on a scratch off. He did, took thirty of it, bought lottery tickets. Boom, three million dollars just saying that's that's you know.
I don't know, I don't know what.
I'll do this year, but I'll I'll do something and it'll be fun and we'll talk about it when we come back. Twenty seven past the hour, Come it, en joy the Morning Show with Preston Scott all Right, got to do the big stories in the press box. I wanted them to be more fun. So maybe we got it wrong. Well I got it wrong. I wasn't alone, but I'm certainly the one who I thought, Okay, maybe the shooter at this school was trans Apparently not. Fifteen
year old girl had a boyfriend. That's going to be interesting because he has released the manifest Oh, the manifesto, and this little girl was screwed up six ways from Sunday. Hated her family, hated her mom and dad, and I mean hated. Here's what she had to say in part, I hate seeing people on a daily basis. Just being so sensitive gives me one more reason to take off my glasses. The human scum is color and the way
people are raised. I've grown around people who do not care or give one single care in the world, smoke their lungs out with weed, or drink as much as they can, like my own father. I've grown to hate people and society. It's truly not my fault, though it never was. See there you go, no personal accountability for whatever her detachment is, whatever circumstances are. Now. I'm not saying that she might have outrageously horrible parents. I don't know.
She might have incredibly wonderful parents. I don't know. But all of you in the world have done this have done to me is pick and tease me. You push me into a corner with no help whatsoever. Humanity is filth and I don't like filth, nor do I want to live in it, nor should anyone else. And I know it follows me and how it has followed me and will follow everyone because of how the world is run. And she goes on from there, And what's going to be interesting is when did the boyfriend have this? And
I'll be honest with you. I know that you know you don't judge a book by the cover. But if you look at the picture of this little girl, she's a cute, average looking fifteen year old girl. She's cute. I mean, she's It's not like she's got something that would cause people to just pick on her in her appearance, you know what I mean, Because kids can be cruel, especially girls can be cruel with a capital C, actually
a capital crew wickedly evil cruel. There's nothing on the surface that you would look gat and simply say, oh, yeah, she doesn't present herself as you know, a goth or anybody that's like an outcast at least just.
A picture.
But you read her, and I read her thing. I read it last night. I was, I was, I wanted to I wanted to understand more. I'm still never using her name. This is a angry, mean as a rattlesnake little girl. What formed her? PolitiFact came up with its lie of the year. The lie of the year is eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. Really so, the grabbing of geese and animals and throwing them in the trunks. And you know a little didn't. How about Joe Biden.
I'm not pardoning my son. No, forty minutes past the hour. I'm staying on time today, forty minutes past the day. I'm staying on time today. Merry Christmas. I'm gonna start watching more Christmas movies starting today. Can't wait. By the way, we're settling the whole Diehard. Is it a Christmas movie or a movie at Christmas? I'm settling it. I'm settling it today. You can shake your head all you want. You know who's settling it. Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis is
settling it. With all due respect, He's not doing so well. I understand that he settled this years ago, and the tape has become available to me thanks to a morning show research assistant. I have Bruce Willis settling the matter in front of millions of people on television. He settled it. I'm gonna settle it today. Also, next hour, Christmas cookies. What's your favorite Christmas cookie? I would be so hard pressed to pick one, but I would love to hear
your favorite Christmas cookie story. Maybe, so, Yeah, we're gonna talk about some of that stuff. And don't forget the twelve Days of Preston coming up starting tomorrow and on Christmas Day it'll be day five the month of May, and my special guest is Marvin Goldstein on Christmas Day, sharing stories, memories and great Christmas music from Marvin brought his piano in full eighty eight key weighted key piano. I tell you what fitting a grand piano in here
was tough. Jose had to put it on his back. I'm just saying. But now we brought into digital. Thank you music masters for helping out once again. But yeah, I cannot wait, cannot wait, start watching the movies. And yeah, I'm binge watching stuff. Man I am. I am going to town football, Christmas movies and food. I'm gonna come back weighing four hundred pounds. No, I'm not. I'm working. I'm gonna. I am. I have already worked so hard
to steer clear of things. It's like I told my precious daughter in law, I said, you make an incredible tray of cookies every year, Lee's don't bring one. Bring it on Christmas morning so that everyone could enjoy it. Because of that thing's sitting there for the next two weeks, It's all in my bellyt I don't know if you saw Joe Biden's clemency list. Let's put some context to fifteen hundred plus pardons and commutations. You know how many that Donald Trump did over years, one hundred and forty
three pardons, ninety three sentence commutations. Joe Biden did fifteen hundred in one day. Who did he pardon? He pardoned h He pardoned Rita Crundall. Crundwell, she stole fifty four million dollars from Dixon, Illinois as the comptroller, fifty four million tax dollars. How about New York law partner Paul Daggard ass fifteen years in prison for his role multimillion dollar tax fraud scheme. Prosecutors said, largest criminal tax fraud
case in US history. Toyoti a La Titche. He was a caretaker for patients with severe mental deficiencies and physical disabilities. He used their personal information to file fraudulent tax returns and kept the money. There's Michael Cotahan, a former judge who imposed harsh sentences against juveniles in exchange for two point eight million dollars in illegal payments. It was known
as kids for Cash. Those are the type of quality people that Joe Biden pardoned, and he didn't pardon any of the January sixth, people who have been wrongly imprisoned for a couple of years now, some of them shameful. Forty six past the hour, Back with more of The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Ah the staff. Christmas parties. They are special times, aren't they. Every work environment that I've been in has
been just a little bit different. I've been in the work environment in very secular settings and very you know, Christian faith based settings, and then back to secular settings, and it's just I haven't had a Christmas party where I've just kind of gone uh oh for a while. We've all had those, haven't we. And for some of you, you've been the uh oh, you've been that person. I've never been comfortable in settings where the flirting in the
office takes form at the party, you know what I'm saying. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with stuff like that. But the Christmas parties, inevitably there's some kind of little game. Maybe it's the gift exchange numbers are drawn and you know, you swap around and then you you know, it can become if the group's big enough, it can become pretty pretty sporty, pretty contentious. Yes, I believe the game was called white Elephant. Yeah. That you're like, you're hoping you
get the number that allows you to draw last. And then you're looking around and some people are kind of like hiding theirs, hoping that in the in the massive number of gifts, you'll just forget. And so there's and and then there's the person that's like they've got the puppy eyes and they're looking at you like, please don't take my gift, please please, I really this is for my child. I want it for my child. Wait, your child drinks vodka, my adult child, my my adult child,
you know, I mean, it's just it's it's always interesting, right. Well, I had something happened that has never happened before at our little staff gathering yesterday. And you know, iHeart has contracted a little bit where we don't have near the numbers of people, and there's people working remotely still, and and there's satellite locations, and so we have a bigger staff because we have people in a market one hundred
and fifty miles away that's covering our market. And so the people on hand eight or nine, I mean, that's what you got. And so when we used to have forty fifty, we now have eight or nine. And so our boss has, you know, they arranged a very nice gift for all of us that we can enjoy at Christmas time a meal that's just a I mean a really nice gift. And I mean that's sincerely, just a really nice gift, or we can use it anytime during
the year. And then our boss wanted to just give us something personally, and so he got us the holiday tins with the shortbread cookies inside. And so we all got those I said, oh, thank you. The tin's really cool. They're all different and so mine special. I'm holding it because it's special. But then he says this, well, you know, I I tried the shortbread. They're just not very good. Merry Christmas. I've never I've never had anybody say here's a Christmas gift for you. It sucks, but go ahead
and enjoy it. So I tried to enter the white Elephant contest with my shortbread cookies. I was ruled in eligible because I didn't know they were doing the white Elephant thing. Trust me, if I'd have known they were doing the white Elephant thing, I would have had the gift that everyone would have wanted. I would have I absolutely because I love those challenges. I love finding that thing that's just so odd and bizarre. It's either hilarious and you've got to have it, or it's useful and
incredibly cool for ten bucks are under or whatever. I think it was a twenty dollars limit it seemed like. But anyway, so I don't know what your Christmas party was like, but that was ours yesterday and good food from Tasty Pastry. Thank you so much, deb and team for providing that Christmas cookies. What's your favorite? Eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Call now picking new bump music for the new year. Excited to roll out. We freshened things up and so yeah, try not to ever
stay the same. Welcome friends to the second hour here of our final live show of the year, and we're taking calls eight five zero two zero five to WFLA. And I really expect to hear from some ladies out there, because quite frankly, you're the ones doing most of the baking. I'm just look, that's not I'm not being sexist. It just is the way it is. I don't have a name on the call screener, sir, and so eight five zero two zero five w FLA. I want to know
what your favorite Christmas cookie is? Is there is there one that you just it's gonna it's gonna be made, You're gonna eat it, You're gonna go get it, whatever it might be. Eight five zero two zero five wfl A. Brian, thanks for calling in. What's the go to cookie for Christmas season?
The go to cookie is the pecan balls. With the pecan balls they're around and they got pecans and the buttery though I guess with the confection of sugars rolled in.
Okay, are there are there? Is there brown sugar, honey, that kind of thing mixed in as well.
No, I don't think so. Yes, they're just I don't know what the ingredients are. I just know I love them. A lady at work brought them in a long time ago and when I was younger, okay, at work, and they were delicious, and ever since I've always got to give them. And my story recently is as I knew I wanted some, and I didn't think I had anybody bringing them in my new work, so I ordered some online and I've been waiting for him, watching the mail
where they're at and reference to they're route. And they finally got the Crawferville, Florida, and then they didn't quite make it, and I was disappointed. But now I'm going to work and I get to Now the excitement starts all over again because when I get home tonight, they're supposed to be there, hopefully.
Okay, so you found you found a place online that can make the ones that you enjoy.
We're gonna find out the five star reviews. And they are online. I went on Amazon and Amazon has just about everything you can look for almost.
No kidding, Brian, thanks very much. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, thank you, sir. And by the way, you can say Merry Christmas around here. Eight five zero two zero five wfla for me. My mom was a baker. She loved baking, and she did and we did. We I helped her out. I loved the whole process. My mom came up with some of the most unique dessert recipes. But I'm gonna
stay laser focused on Christmas. We did all of the typical little cookies that have the sprinkles on them in the shapes of snowflakes and ornaments and you know, Santa Claus and stockings and all that stuff. And she did the frosted cookies. But there was one cookie in particular that over the top. I'll get to that in just a minute, but tell me, thanks for calling into the program. Your favorite Christmas cookie that you you just have to have.
I actually have to have three. Okay, make them each year.
Okay, I do.
A chocolate chip, I do a simple chocolate chip cookie. But I also make something I call special k squares and Hello dollys, and those are my three favorites. Okay, give me those of my friends and family.
Give me the overview of the special k squares. What are the main ingredients besides the obvious?
Well, yeah, that's you crush that up on the bat based layer with a lot of sugar, corns, krote corn syrup and all of that. And then the top layer is chocolate chips and butterscots chips and you bake that off, and uh, you melt that together and put that on top of the special Case squares of the special Case cereal with the sugar in it, and then you that that. You don't even bake that after you heat the different ingredients.
And the last yeah, what's that about.
That's a you.
Melt butter in a pan and then put crushed ram cracker layer. Then you put a layer of sweet and condensed milk on top of that, and then you put chocolate chip cookies, butterscotch cookies and coconut and you bake that.
Okay, all right, it's almost like a seven layer bar.
I think that may be what some people have called it.
Gotcha.
I got this recipe from my mother and she called them Hello dollies.
Sounds good. Wine, Well, but that's the charm of it, all right, that it's from mom and resolutely absolutely Telvin, thanks very much. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas to you. Deborah. You are next ten past the hour eight five zero two zero five WFLA. What's your favorite Christmas cookie? Feel free to give a recipe. We're all here. It's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Christmas cookies. I love the fact that, probably as much as any other time of year, these tend to be things handed down, and you know, sometimes you're fortunate to have a recipe card or some kind of notes to work from. Sometimes you have to just kind of figure it out. More on that in a minute, but Deborah, thanks for calling in. Good morning, Good morning. What's your favorite Christmas cookie?
My family's favorite we call candy case cookies. They're basically a sugar cookie short kind of cookies, and you've flavor it with peppermint. You dye half of them satter with read food coloring, and then you roll them in long strands and twist them together, shape them like a candy cap. My family absolutely loves them.
Do you put any kind of like crushed peppermint or candy cane on top of them, or it's sort of woven into the dough.
No nothing, no candies in it. It's it's a peppermint extract and then you just you shape them like a candy cap. They kind of melt away in your mouth. They've got a great sandy texture. They're just they're lushings with a cup of coffee.
Nice Deborah, thanks very much. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
All right, Let's go to Mike. Mike, thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. What's your favorite Christmas cookie?
Yeah?
I was gonna say, you know, it's not a cookie, but fudge.
Man.
I always remember that when I could spell my mom cooking fudge at Christmas time. Man, that just really took me back.
Man, do you still do it? Or I mean, do you act? Do you get it somewhere?
Do you?
How do you handle that at Christmas time?
I have a couple family members that make it. It's not as good as my mom's, but but it's definitely it hits the spot.
Man.
Like I said, it really takes me back when I get a taste of it.
Great stuff. Thank you, Mike, I appreciate that. Let's go to Dale Dale thanks for calling in this morning.
Hey, Merry Christmas pressing. My favorite cookie probably of all time, is Trader Joe's Gingerbread people. It's a gingerbread cookie that's got real bits of candy ginger in it, so it's kind of spicy and sweet with the wow a little bit of a white fudge on one side.
Really okay, And it's only.
Available this time of year of very limited quantities are kind of hard to come by. And if I could combine a beef with it, they used to be called gingerbread men.
Of course they were. That's brilliant. Merry Christmas tale, Merry Christmas, sir, Thank you very much. I appreciate the phone call. You're welcome to call in eight five zero two zero five to WFLA. Now I will share.
What I mean.
I could eat an embarrassing number of these. First, just your standard chocolate chip cookie. It's hard to call that a Christmas cookie except for this. For some people, that's just they make that at Christmas time, and they've got a bunch of them laying around and they're just so chewy, and they're, oh yeah, I could I could go to town on those. But I have two cookies that are my my Christmas cookies because of my mom. One of them is a peanut butter cookie with Hershey's chocolate kiss in
the middle. Those are and I know that for many that's not a Christmas cookie. Christmas cookies means that it's colored or decorated, or it has peppermint and that and I get that, I absolutely do. But for me, Mom only made those cookies at Christmas time, so it was something that I looked forward to because it was only available at Christmas time. And so the peanut butter cookie, you know, it's and they're tough because peanut butter crumbles,
So getting that cookie right is really hard. But then to put that, you pull them out of the oven and you put that chocolate kiss in the middle, and then it basically melts, but it doesn't melt into like goo. It holds its shape incredibly, but when you bite into it, it's just soft in. Oh my gosh, Leslie, you're gonna be You're gonna be first when we come back sixteen past the hour, and then I've got the Christmas cookie story from my childhood. Got two more callers, I'm gonna
share a little Christmas cookie story here, but Leslie's been patient. Leslie, what's the go to cookie for you?
Good morning, Preston morning. I was very blessed to have been gifted a recipe twenty five years ago from my best friend who's all her relatives were from Italy, and it was an Italian lemon cookie that is very time consuming because it's all done by.
Hand each cookie.
But I was the only one that was allowed to get the recipe before she passed away, and I was swore. I had to swear that I would not pass this recipe on until my days were coming to an end. So I make this recipe every year. It makes about three hundred cookies and they're just a delightful round ball of lemon lusciousness that has this blaze on top. And now everybody in our family who lives all over the country has to have me mail them to them every Christmas.
Le's just say, I'm still working at retired age, so I can afford to mail these cookies. But it's such a blessing and a gift and everyone loves them, and I make them.
Every year, Ok, Leslie, Leslie, this story begs this question, Yeah, do you have the recipe written down and in a safe and directions on what to do should you die without notice.
I do it's funny on a piece of paper, lined paper in my friend's handwriting, and I use that piece of paper every single year, and my children and my grandchildren know exactly where it is and what's to be done with it. And I've never even rewritten it. It still has stains on it and it's kept safe every year.
Okay, so which child.
Gets it, well, that's to be determined because my daughter is not a baker. My son is not a baker. But my granddaughter, who's fourteen now, has been helping me since she was tall enough to reach the counter. So you're going to be my granddaughter, Madison.
Yep, skip the generation. Give it to the kid that wants it, absolutely, Leslie. Merry Christmas, Mary Preston, thank you so much. I appreciate. What a great story, Randy. Good luck toop and that one. What's your favorite Christmas cookie?
Wow?
That was a great story. First of all, Merry Christmas, Preston, Chris, Yes, have a great one. My sister's mother in law, who lived on a farm up in Illinois, every year would make these cookies called Springley's and they're about an inch and after two inches square, and they turn out to be rather hard once they're done, and they're interlaced with annis. It's a German cookie to my understanding, and you basically have to dip it in something hot like tea coffee.
But man, they're really good. So after she passed, my sister started sending them to me at Christmas and on my birthday. And my sister passed away a couple of years ago, and now my brother found them on Amazon and he sends them to me every year on my birthday, which I am anticipating some arriving soon because my birthday today.
Nice happy birthday.
Oh thank you.
That's a cool story. Enjoy those cookies when they arrived. Sir, all right, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to you as well. And Deborah. All right, my mom made what she called Hungarian horns. And it's dough that's wrapped up almost like a crescent roll. It's just wrapped, but it's stuffed with walnuts and brown sugar and I don't know what else was in it, and then it's covered
in powdered sugar. And she called them Hungarian horns. Now, my mom was one hundred percent Lithuanian, so it was something she grew up having made for her by her mom. And my understanding was it was a family recipe. The recipe never existed. Mom just knew how to make them, and so I described them, and my incredible daughter in law a few years ago made a batch. She said, let's see if I can get close. And when I bit into it, I'm this true story. I started crying.
I'm tearing up thinking about it because it was just as close to my mom's cookie as I could possibly remember it to be. And it was as if my mom baked them and they were perfect, and it's one of the kindest things anyone's ever done. And that's the
thing about this, you know. I brought this up and I was curious to see where this would go because to me, those are the things about Christmas that obviously Christmas is about Christ, but I gotta tell you, these family things that keep families together, these recipes that are handed down and entrusted in all of this stuff that you know, Randy's going to get a shipment because it's a reminder of that, you know what I mean, that's
that's what this kind of holiday does as well. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, I'm going to ruin this entire mood in just mere moments. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott Man. We are halfway through our final live show of the year. Twelve Days of Preston begins tomorrow. Every day we're gone, we're here. We've heard you. I have heard you loud and clear over the years. You do not like it when we miss the show.
You enjoy Grant filling in and being the DH. But the Twelve Days at Preston is a recap of the year. So the first show is January, the second show is February, and so forth. The Christmas show on December twenty fifth, we will have a show just like normal. New Year's Day, we will have a show just like normal. We're counting down all the shows. Twelve shows, our final show, a little bit of December, and a lot of special guests like Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, Peter Schweitzer and Justin Haskins.
Dropping bombs friends, that's what we're doing. Great stuff. But today we will end the program with our annual offering gift to you of the Man and the Birds. It will be available on our Christmas show, and it will be available on my blog page for you to listen to and the differences on the blog page. It will be in stereo. I have a mono version which we air on our show. The stereo version's just kind of cool. If you've got a stereosystem or you want to listen
to it on earbuds or headphones, it's really cool. It's well done and I think you'll enjoy it. And we'll end this show today with that big stories in the press box. Though I was wrong, the shooter was not transsexual. Shooter in Wisconsin, fifteen year old girl, just angry, bitter, hatred that runs through every pore of her body. I'm not going to waste the time reading parts of her manifesto that are out there now. Her boyfriend has published them,
has released them. Law enforcement interviewing the parents. Apparently she hated them, she hated her father, hated her mother, she hated people, and she clearly wanted to be famous. This was one of her things. So once again we're not using her name. I'm one of the only people that gets it, and I'll be honest with you. There are things and I joke about never being wrong. I believe in what I believe my views and opinions. If I don't have a well founded opinion, I'll say I'm not
really sure this is what I lean towards. But when I know something, I believe in it and I know it, and I know I'm right, and I know I'm right about this. We shouldn't be using the names of these shooters. I know I'm right. Almost all the mainstream media, the press, they're wrong. They should be showing restraint, and we just if they're out and loose, we need to find them, put their name out there. But they're dead, they're caught. Whatever. Anonymity. Sorry,
I mean, I know that hurts. But this little girl something went way wrong in her childhood because she's fifteen fifteen. The other big story in the press book press Box politifacts lie of the Year is absurd. It is eating dogs and cats in Springfield. Well they were, and they were eating geese and they were pulling, you know, they were eating everything they could put their hands on, and they still probably are. But why they didn't name Biden saying I'm not pardoning my son is the lie of
the year. I whatever. Maybe it's because Joe told so many forty minutes past the hour. I told you I'm staying on time. Okay, I said I was staying on time. Well maybe not. This one might run a little long. NCAA President Charlie Baker called to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They're talking about legalized sports gambling, and then they talked about trans athletes. Senator John Kennedy, why didn't you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand.
I'm sure the NCAA is a good organization. I just can't figure out what you folks are good for. Why don't you just take a position on transgender biological males competing against females. You just told me it wasn't fair. Why don't you do it on your own? It didn't go well, especially when Senator Josh Hawley got teed up.
But let me just ask you this. In a total of five teams, five women's volleyball teams, Wyoming, Southern Utah, Utah State, Nevada, and Boise State all forfeited had to forfeit seven games in their conference play NCAA conference play this past year women's teams because a biological male under your rules was playing on a rivals team. How is that not denying them the benefits of the sport? Why is this fair to women?
And when that issue went to federal court, the judge sided with participation.
No, the NCAA did not go to court. No, that is not true.
Federal judge made the decision with respect to the issue you just raised.
Your rules have not been tried in federal court. And your rules explicitly permit biological males in women's sports. And I am asking you why is that fair to the women. All of these women on these teams had to forfeit games and therefore a chance to compete in the championship because of your rules, And I want to know why is that protective of women? That's my question.
So far, the federal government on the court side has issued decisions several.
About the courts. I know what the court have done. Not one of them's this is your policy, which you will not defend because, frankly, it's indefensible. Why are you, mister Baker, why are you allowing biological men to play in women's sports?
Because we believe that's consistent with federal policy.
It so we're right back to your compel. Your testimony. Is you believe you're compelled to do it by federal law, you would change it otherwise.
I said in my opening comments to Senator Kennedy, the clarity on this issue at the federal level would be very.
Oh that is such a cop out. In other words, somebody else, please do it for us. Keep sending us the money, We'll go to court. Argue doesn't even apply.
We do not take a dime in federal money.
Is that why you're arguing Title nine doesn't know?
Yes, part of it.
Yes, you honestly think you shouldn't be subject to Title nine.
We don't believe. We currently are in court.
Federal court is amazing. Federal court is absolutely amazing. You're you have an appending lawsuit right now from email athletes who are suing you because you allow biological men not only in their sports but also in their locker rooms. Why do you do that, By the way, why do your guidelines allow biological men into women's locker rooms without the women's consent, without the women's foreknowledge.
Listen to that.
That's not what our guidelines say.
They do say that. I've got them right here. Your guidelines say that transgender student athletes should be able to use the locker room, shower, and toilet facilities in accordance with their gender identity. And there they are right here.
And then everybody else should have an opportunity to use other facilities if they wish to do so.
That's okay. So listens on the women. So if the women then want to move to a different facility, in other words, that if they want to abandon their own locker room, you're saying that that they should have to do that. So, in other words, it's it's their problem. No, we do.
We put a fre We put a significant amount of emphasis on what the locals plans are, and we make sure that.
Everybody does that mean the locals plans, whoever it is, whoever it is.
It's toasting the event.
You have guidelines that that instruct them what the best practices are. And your guidelines say that biological men can go in and use the women's locker rooms if they want to. What the women want has nothing to do with it. They're not mentioned in here at all. Correct correctness right here. You just reaffirmed them in May of this year. I've got them, I'm reading them.
Believe our guy, I believe our guidelines give people optionality with respect to how they choose to use their facilities, and many.
Said many optionality. What it says is transgender student athletes will be able to use the locker room, shower, and toilet in accordance with their gender identity. That means men will be able to use the women's locker rooms. And as Riley Gaines and others have testified before this committee, that means if a man, a biological man, wants to use their locker room, they just have to accept it, or else they have to they the women have to go somewhere else. They've got to go find an alternative.
Why is that fair?
We told the local folks who've hosted our tournaments they need to create accommodations for the people who are playing.
You know, is that incredible? What a spineless coward. He's the grinch that stole sports. Forty seven minutes after the hour, a little town of Bedlam. Fifty two past the hour. Next hour on the program, we're going to share thirteen habits that make you likable instantly, or so say some there's a caveat or two, but we'll go through that. We want to help holiday season, got a a great, great story of they were listening, they were they were
listening to me. And of course we also have The Man in the Birds coming up next hour on the show, something that if you've never heard it before, it's a Paul Harvey classic that when when Paul passed away, it just went away, and many many years ago I resurrected it because I was a big fan of it, and we have put a great deal of time and effort into it over the years, and I think you will. You will enjoy it. It's a modern day parable. It's my favorite modern day parable about the Advent, and uh
so we'll share that as well. Now, while we're on the topic of Christmas, please give Humblehouseministries dot org. Humblehouseministries dot org, Tallahassee, Panama City are both greatly appreciate you giving. Just go to that website, pick one or the other or both and give and note WFLA so they they know that you are a listener of the program and are helping out because we asked you to. Now, I also want to take this time to settle something I
had an emailer one of my research assistants. He wrote, Preston, you're right of course, I didn't need anybody to tell me that, but he sent the following clip, and this came in response to my monologue about the Bruce Willis movie Diehard, which my father is in, not as an actor but as a voice in the movie. Has got a couple of segments in the movie. It's great fun for me that my dad's in this movie. And I've
shared that story before. But Bruce Willis was before he started to have his problems physically mentally, was at a roast. And this is edited together to just make it brief. Here's what he said.
This rose for one reason, and for one reason only, to settle something once and for all. Die Hard is.
Not a Christmas movie.
It's a Bruce Willis movie.
There you go.
It's a Bruce Willis movie. That was AI. That was AI voice over. I don't believe it, but you can look at it. You can. You can look at the whole roast. Yeah, nice tripal that's what losers resort to, ah assaulting the veracity. No, it's it's again. Bruce Willis said it. It's not a Christmas movie, and he obviously jokingly said it's a Bruce Willis movie. And of course he's right. But more importantly, there's a big difference between a Christmas movie and a movie a set at Christmas time.
You know, I mean, honest and truly. Home Alone is a coin toss. It's set at Christmas. It's sort of a Christmas movie because it has to do with Christmas trips and vacations and the decorating of the tree and all of that stuff. So you know, but I'm just saying, you can argue with me all day long. I had someone send me a book saying, you know, Turner Classic Movies devoted six pages of a book about the thirty five classic Christmas movies to Diehard. Yeah, and they're wrong.
It's not a Christmas movie. It's a movie set at Christmas. The lead actor set it himself. Just say, all right, when we come back, thirteen habits to make you likable.
This is it.
Sorry, I need to wait.
This is it.
Final hour, my friends. If I'm a whore, the feeding trough is right there, and I can't wait. Now. I love I love what I do. But I told my wife last night I am ready. I am ready to just unplug my brain. I'm just gonna tell you right up front, right now, don't send me any email. I'm gonna read them. I'm just I'm not replying. I'm not looking at stories. You can send me all the stuff you want.
I am.
I am unplugging my brain. I'm gonna enjoy my grands, the littles. I'm gonna enjoy being around my kiddos. I'm gonna enjoy being around my wife. I am going to enjoy not being around news. I'm gonna watch a lot of football and soccer and golf and yeah, I am just ready. So in this final uh final hour, I'm not doing I'm not even doing the big stories. In the press box, it says on the run, now big stories,
I'm not doing. I'm going to do a They listened, someone was listening to the show when I said something the other day and I've got yeah, we've got the Man and the Birds coming up. But I wanted to share with you thirteen habits that make you instantly likable according to psychologists. Now, oftentimes when I read these things, and this was sent to me by my lead research assistant, and the lead research assistant of the program just knows me and understands how my brain works, because it works
differently it just does. It's not that it's special or anything. It's just, oh, he's a special little guy. It's just it's the way it works. And she knows the things that would catch my eye, and and so she knows that. I will go through this list and decide if it's because it's from psychologists or not. This one's okay. Everything in here, as I mentioned, there's some caveats, but everything in here has some value. Number One, instant likability. Remember
this is the goal. We don't want you to walk around the holiday season, is Scrooge the Grinch. We want you to be liked instantly. Number One smile.
Smile.
A smile disarms, A smile says approachable. It makes us likable when we smile. I see people at rest trants, like husbands and wives, and they're like staring in different directions. It's one thing if you're like looking at pictures together and you're showing back and forth and you're trying to find something because you want to talk about it on your phone, but generally put the phone away and look
at each other and smile and talk. But you see misery on so many people walking through a parking lot. I just see scrooges and sour patch kids everywhere. Number two, show up and on time. That was something, and maybe this is an old school thing and maybe it'll come back. Man, my dad, You be on time, and that means being a little early. You need to sit in the parking lot for a few minutes, that's fine, but don't be late. Don't be late. Now, there are circumstances. It just happens.
But that's the exception, not the rule. Number three, make eye contact. Look people in the eye and occasionally break eye contact just staring somebody down. No, there's an art to it. And gen zers millennials, I'm sorry, you guys are terrible. How ironic. The era of social media has bred unsociable people because they don't know how to do anything but look into a phone. Eye contact is intimidating. Oh spare me, no, no, no. Instant likability comes, especially
at a job interview. You don't look people in the eye, You're not getting hired. I'm just telling you right now, Uncle Preston is bailing you out with your next job interview. Look your perspective employer in the eye and smile. Oh, and be on time. More tips to come Morning Show with Preston Scott, Cove and Joy It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Number four thirteen habits make you instantly likable. Number four. If you mess up and the joke's on,
you have a laugh. Having a good sense of humor, a little self deprecating humor goes a long way. But if something, you know, if you mess up and you can laugh at yourself, it is a very likable trait, Admit it. Don't you like it when someone can laugh at themselves? It's disarming. Number five. Admitting your mistakes. It makes you likable. And here's the thing. Not only does it make it likable to your co workers, your employees,
your employers, it makes anything that follows more credible. When you admit, yeah, I was wrong, you show a side of your personality that, well, you know, he he can admit when he's wrong. She can admit it when she's wrong. So when you kind of stand firm on your ground, they're going to say, well, you know, he can admit it if he's wrong, so he must he must have reasons for his you know it? It It actually helps being direct. This is one that a lot of people
struggle with, but people that bs all the time. They they're not helping themselves. Being kind but direct is a very useful habit. They're reliable at communicating, They're honest when it's all said and done. The person that's direct, not mean, just direct, is the person that others go to for advice because they trust what they have to say, because they're not going to give them fluff. Naming names when it's appropriate in a conversation. When to use names and
when not to. It's an art. Being the first to say hi when you walk in a room, be the icebreaker you're going to diet at hearing this. I struggle with that, not because I walk into a room thinking everybody knows me. No, it's just I. No, that's not it at all, And I have to push myself. When I was at an event for my niece in Texas, I made myself go over and say hello to people
that I have never met in my life. Everyone was sort of segregating in this dinner gathering, and I went over to a couple that was sitting by themselves and I said, you are welcome to join us for dinner, and they said, thank you so much. We didn't want to intrude, but we do have guests coming awesome. Just wanted to know you're welcome to come join us anytime. Sit with a view of the wall at the restaurant. Now this has the caveat. Here's the caveat for some
of us. We want to sit against the wall so we can see everything that's going on around us. For safety purposes. Just remember eye contact you are sitting with others. Don't be distracted by you know, be aware, but engage the people at the table with you, your spouse, your kids, your friends. We've got a few more tips to come stay with us. Sixteen past the hour final live show
of the year Humblehousemenistries dot Org. Give all right, we are going through the thirteen habits that make you instantly likable. Number eleven reflecting emotions back. You don't want to go too far with it, but what that means is if somebody's excited, show excitement restrained, not phony, warm and genuine.
If someone sad, commiserate, show empathy, show concern. You know, some of this is really about being a human and really listening to what someone has to say, which which gets into you know, one of the other skills here asking questions. I don't often when I do interviews, have a list of questions. I do occasionally to kind of keep me on track because there's certain things I want to touch on, but usually I follow a piece of
advice Larry King gave. Larry King was brilliant as an interviewer, and he said, I have one question I start with, and then I listen. All of my questions are derived from listening to the answers. It's a great way to view things. When you talk about interactions with people, remember the details. If a client tells you about an upcoming vacation, next time you see him, ask him how it went. I want to get better at some of these skills.
That's one. Oh Preston, you're getting old. You're gonna forget.
I know.
That's why I want to make a note it's okay. Years ago, a smart boss that I worked for, he had a rolodex of all of his employees and he had the names of their spouse, the names and ages of their kids, their interests, everything on a rolodex. And when someone came in for a meeting, he popped that rolodex up before they came in there and he refreshed his memory. Well he should just know. Okay, But if you've got one hundred employees, it might be a little challenging.
But how refreshing is it when your boss says, Hey, how's your wife? How's your husband? You were dealing with something at the hospital last time we talked, how's that working out?
What's going on?
Your daughter was trying out for the basketball team. Did she make it next year? You know what I mean? There's just these are little things. And then nailing the art of a compliment and saying thank you. A lot of us struggle receiving compliments. I've struggled with that a lot in my life, and so I've learned to just oftentimes say thank you. It's very kind of you. I think the art of giving and receiving is sort of in that, isn't it. Don't just be a giver, be
a receiver. Don't rob people of a blessing that want to bless you. These are habits that make you instantly likable. All right, Before we take a break, we got about a minute. Texas is preparing to buy the border wall materials being auctioned off by the federal government. Remember when I said something about that earlier this week that they were going to sell Biden's selling off this stuff. I was like, you know what, Texas needs to buy it, just buy it and store it. That's what they're doing.
Come on, Merry Christmas.
Ho ho ho.
That's so good. All right, we're gonna come back. We're not doing the big stories in the press box to do something else. And then we've got still to come The Man and the Bird, So don't miss it if you've never heard it. All right, it's seven past the hour. The news is next. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty five minutes after the hour, This Morning Show, Man and the Birds coming up in just a few minutes. You want to hear that. Talk to you a little
bit more about Humble House. But first it's a story that our lead research assistant sent my way. Tina Willetts, now fifty three, was given two years to live. She's Florida woman. She felt a lump in her breast in late twenty twenty one, just months after a normal mimography
was conducted. In March twenty twenty two, she discovered that she had HR two positive breast cancer, which is a very aggressive form of the disease, the cancer cells grow at an normally high level protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor II. Her too, is responsible, she said, I still remember the doctor coming in telling us it was
in my lymph nodes, ribs, spine, sternham bones. She said she had golf ball sized tumors and the disease was too advanced for amystectomy, and so she was given an end of care chemo and told to enjoy the time you have left. Doctor told me, we will try to stop the progression. She said, He said, that's the best we can do is maybe offer you twenty four months. She said, I want it gone, and so she determined
that she was going to do some research. She learned about an alternative treatment called to meinotherapy, which uses the body's immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells. Now, for decades, the go to cancer treatments have been chemo, radiation, surgery, but now a lot of experts are leaning into immunotherapy as the fourth pillar of cancer treatments. She came across doctor, you might want to make note of this, doctor Jason
Williams of the Williams Cancer Institute in California. He offered a new cancer therapy that uses cold gases and the bodies owned cells to freeze and fight tumors. He said. Immunotherapy teaches the immune system to attack the cancer, so like a vaccine, it can give you a long term, durable response. This is what is needed to achieve cures. He said. She was physically in good condition even though her cancer was advanced. He said, I was confident, but cautious cancer is a very challenging foe.
She said.
The doctor gave her something she didn't have before, Hope. He was just unbelievable. After seeing all of my tasks, he said, I can cure you. You don't get those words very often. As a stage for a patient. Six weeks after receiving a course of immunotherapy treatments in conjunction with supplements, you hear me talk about those optimum health naturally to ramp up the immune system and cryoablation, a procedure that uses freezing temperatures to destroy cancer cells. Pet
scan revealed the cancer was gone, gone stage four. You got twenty four months, get your AFFAARS in order. Two. It's gone. Obviously, every cancer is different, every person is different,
Their health going in is different. But I wanted to share this because this circles back to a theme of our show, whether it's Doctor Joe Camps and we talk about weight loss and different advancements on a more clinical side of medicine traditional or doctor David Hart's and Doctor Matthews Aidaman where we talk about alternative care, health care options that are revolving around clinical nutrition, nutrients targeted to
boost your immune system. There's something in this, friends. I'm going to give you the name again just to make note of just in case, Williams Cancer Center Institute, sorry, Williams Cancer Institute in California, Doctor Jason R. Williams. There you GotY, and it's passed the hour. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Short segment here so we can leave time for the Man and the birds. Remember the stereo version of this will be available on my
blog page, I believe, tonight and we'll run through. It's available to you through Christmas, and I just really encourage you to use this before you open any gifts, to just bring a little perspective and check out my blog surrounding it. But I also want to remind you here this is the final literally right this moment is the final reminder for Humble House. Now, I wish I knew how we were doing, but I've not been getting that information. So I'll simply tell you that we're raising funds for
Humblehousemenistries dot org. It is an organization that helps women with addiction and helps women that need transitional housing. You can read all about what they do, how they do it, why they do it. But they have a location in Tallahassee, and they have a location in Panama City. It started in Bay County in Panama City, and we had the founder on the show as we kicked off this campaign. So we're trying to raise funds to just help them out, just a little extra cash in their coffers for the
needs that they have helping women. And so I'm challenging you to give and to be generous. I'm challenging if you own a business and you're looking for a last minute tax write off, man stroke a check for five ten grand, one thousand, twenty five hundred, give a thousand to Panama City, a thousand to Tallahassee twenty five hundred and twenty five hundred whatever. I can't do anything more than just say dig deep, and do what you can and pass the blessings you have received on to others
who would really benefit from it. So it's Humble Houseministries dot org, click Panama City, Tallahassee do both and note w F L A and I would greatly appreciate it and my thanks to you for supporting it. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. This is bonus content, ladies and gentlemen. Jd around for one more little short segment here. Got an email from Terry. What training and talent is good for women to get comfortable handling, loading, shooting and carrying a firearm.
There's two things you can do. You can get a private lesson from an instructor. You're looking at about forty bucks an hour two hour session to.
Be good to cover just those And is there a two hour minimum? Yeah, two hour minim the uh or put them in a class.
The class is an eight hour class and it covers a lot of stuff. It's it's a full full eight hours. They're going to shoot real guns that we provide. They're going to be put on a simulator. We've got to is that the concealed carry course, Yeah, that's a concealed carry course license at the.
End of the day, if you want to get your license, you can do that.
Absolutely, you don't have to, but you you get a certificate that that allows.
You to do that. And the benefits of having a license is reciprocal carrying another.
States carrying thirty eight states right now, and there is talk of a national carry license or a talk one of the things that President Trump or soon to be President Trump again has talked about is having a national right to carry or at least states being forced to process prosody. Yeah, like we do with the driver's licene.
We had a caller called before we even started this segment early in the show that asked, what about training for seniors that might not be able to get to the range very often.
You know that there's a lot of stuff you can do at home, just have to be really careful with you know, make sure that the guns completely unloaded and that you're not you're still pointing it in the safe direction. One of the best home training you can do is dry fire, unload the gun practice, just manipulating the weapon.
What about those laser programs that allow you to put a laser cartridge in there.
There's there's numerous ones of those Manux. There's there's some other ones out there that allow you to safely train at home. You just have to be very careful. You're still dealing with a gun. There's probably still ammunition in the house for the gun, so you have to be sure that all the ammunition and that the ammunition and the gun are very nowhere near nowhere near each other, and double triple check to make sure there's not around
the chamber. We see it just about every day at the range where people bring a gun in to get looked at or worked on or whatever else. Oh it's unload it it's not. We have a bucket of bullets, a jar full of bullets that were in unloaded guns, and it's just you know, if you're not handling guns all the time, you need to be really careful with that or you'll end up hurting someone or damaging your property.
Thanks for coming in my pleasure. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Brought to you by Baron No Heating and Air. It's the morning show on WFLA. But back at the radio program in one hundred and eighty seconds or less. We started the day with John eight twelve. That was the verse. We started the day with So just for those of
you that might have missed it, there you go. Remember our admonition if you're going to call yourself a Christian act like one the big stories in the press box today, we pointed out the difference of an election can make.
Not only do we have the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals telling soon to be re elected in occupying the office Donald Trump, that the federal government does have jurisdiction on deportations, that local communities cannot stand in the way of the federal government deporting people that are in this country illegally, which is bad news for Denver's mayor. Oh woe is them? Yeah, what a shame. Mexico has already shut down and disbanded two caravans attempting to make its
way through Mexico into the United States. See, that's what happens when you have a president that says you allow this to continue. We're going to slap a twenty five percent tariff on every stinking thing you make. All of that nasty, ugly all those chess sets that are tacky made of onyx, We're taxing all of them, I mean, all of those ugly hacks, all of those ugly pottery things that you ship. It's all getting taxed.
See what happens.
You get compliance, you get reasonable behavior. We had Challenger flipped California's thirteen congressional districts, So now we know, assuming Republicans hold any seats lost to nominations by Donald Trump, it'll be two twenty to two fifteen for the GOP in the Congress. Not enough, but we'll be back tomorrow. We'll do it all over again. Thanks for listening.