Ep. 5292 The future of college

but they are. And then you're gonna be taking them to the doctor. They're gonna miss school because they're gonna get sick. Because they're stupid, all right, because that's what middle school high school boys often are. They're stupid because they're trying to impress by being it's not cold. It's cold, Yes it is. I grew my formative years. I shoveled snow in Minnesota. I shoveled snow in some of my high school years in Minnesota. I spent plenty of time

in cold, playing football in the cold. I went through all that. Don't let them do it. It's cold outside, all right. So I'm just just saying, we start with scripture as we begin show fifty two ninety two, and what a show it will be. And we are we are in Acts, chapter eight. And in this story, Philip is nudged by the Holy Spirit to go run up

to this chariot. And inside this chariot is an Ethiopian eunuch, And a eunuch is someone who had been castrated, and their job was to basically be a guard where there are women, and that allegedly would keep them from having natural urges, shall we say, when around women. And so the Holy Spirit had asked Philip to go see this guy because this guy was reading scripture, and he's reading one of the Old Testament prophets. I want to say

he was reading Isaiah I think it was. And the eunuch asked Philip about whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this about himself or about someone else? And then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture, he told him the good news about Jesus. This is such a meaty passage for a lot of reasons. First, you had the cultural issues of the time. You had someone from Ethiopia openly reading about God, the God of the Bible, reading scriptures, and the Holy Spirit says to Philip,

talk to this guy he wants to know. What I want to point out to you is forget the condition of the Ethiopian. You know what I mean? Which person are you in this story? Are you with the person that's openly reading scripture and try and understand it? Or are you the Philip in this story? You know what God's word says? Are you prepared to share the good news about Jesus? Do you know how to do it? If someone said to you, I'm reading this passage in Isaiah.

Is the prophet talking about someone else? Is he talking about himself? Can you explain it?

That's called apologetics. Ten past the hour inside the American Patriots Almanac. We go next. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good Morning. He's Jose running the good Ship Morning Show. I am Preston. Thirteen days friends, thirteen days. Oh, come on, get us to the twentieth and then brace yourselves. I mean, yeah, brace yourselves now. But anyway, we'll get to all that. Let's see here. Seventeen eighteen. Israel Putnam,

American patriot born in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Boy, what a story Israel Putnam is. If you don't know that story, you need to read and know that story. You need to know everything you can know about Israel Putnam. The book seventeen seventy six by David McCullough brilliant expose history lesson on the founding of this nation, and you are introduced to Israel Putnam, among many many others. Seventeen eighty two. The Bank of North America, the first US commercial bank,

opens in Philadelphia. Seventeen eighty nine, the first presidential election held as Americans vote for electors who A month later choose George Washington as the nation's first president. Weren't we fortunate that George didn't take office and go, You know, I kind of like this being in charge of everything reminds me of the line from the musical Hamilton when King George heard that George Washington stepped down, and King George famously says in the musical, I didn't know that

that was something one could do. It's a really good musical. Yeah, it takes license, but it's it's still good. Millard Fillmore born in Locke, New York. In eighteen one hundred. Nineteen twenty seven, commercial trans atlantic telephone service begins between New York and London, and in nineteen ninety nine, Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the Senate on charges of perjury

and obstruction of justice. Unbelievably, he was acquitted, which tells you all you need to know about Senate proceedings at the time. The guy lied about everything. Now listen here, I did not have sex with that woman. I'm gonna get back to right of this country.

Gotta give him a tip of the cap for that one. And also today is National Tempura Day, and I'm gonna I'm gonna educate you. Did you know that tempura? Where does tempura come from? Japan? Nope? No? Wrong? Yeah, I thought so too. It is actually Portuguese. Oh my. The belief is that Portuguese missionaries brought tempura to Japan between sixteen three and eighteen sixty seven, sometime in that window. Tempura comes from a Portuguese word tempo, which means seasoning.

And all you need for tempura is ice, cold water, flour, and eggs and it's a light airy breading. I personally think other than Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Lord's Chicken Chick fil A, it's the best breading for anything. It's far healthier for you, especially if you don't deep fry. If you pan fry tempura. It's a nice light breading for chicken and fish and shrimp and all kinds of things. So anyway, today is National temper a day, just saying

seventeen past the hour in case you missed it. Coming up next twenty two pass the Hour, The Morning Show, Good Morning Friends. On the blog page, we have New Year's resolutions advice from two very good dogs. No I'm not kidding, And we still have Christmas content up in case you missed it and you're still just kind of feeling a little bit of the vibe and you want to just hold on a little longer. For King and Country, They're special. That was broadcast live on YouTube back a

few years ago. I've got a link to it. It's so good. It just is just is. I've got the stereo version of our modern parable of The Man and the Birds, which gets a ton of downloads every single year, and it makes me so happy. Honestly, when I do retire from this show, I'm going to make it a requirement that whoever sits in this chair must re air that and make it avay every single year. You're not allowed to do this show. You cannot do this show

without agreeing to do that, can't. Sorry, you're fired, You're not accepted. You will not be hired now. That day's not coming anytime soon, at least I hope not. You know, God I am, but yeah, and then we've got Christmas light shows, flash mobs, I mean, just a lot of fun. So check out the blog page. The State departments Global Engagement Center has shut its doors. It was started at the end of the Obama administration. See a lot of people see twenty sixteen and go see Trump did that.

NOI didn't, Obama did it. Trump wasn't in office until twenty seventeen. It was started by the State Department to weed out out foreign disinformation. Now I'll tell you what it was. They put that thing together in advance of Trump taking office because they saw where polling was going, they saw the likelihood of Trump winning, and that was

delay the groundwork for the whole Russia collusion thing. And so from Russia Colusia collusion to COVID, anything that was contrary to the narrative, they would market and they would get it banned. Twitter was actively banning stuff. Facebook, any of the social media platforms that wanted favor with the federal government had to play by the rules of the

Global Engagement Center. And so there were some lawsuits filed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Daily Wire, the Federalists, They sued the Department of State, They sued Anthony Antony Antony, and so what was meant to counter foreign propaganda and misinformation ended up being used as a weapon against the United States, against Americans, against you and me. This kind of stuff is how I got banned from Facebook and got our company in trouble. A badge of honor, by

the way, I wear because I was vindicated. Ah no ah. Anyway, they didn't get any more funding, so they had to shut the doors. That's one right. Wouldn't it be lovely if over the next four years we just saw a gradual shrinkage. You know what it is. It's like a cancerous tumor that's being effectively treated and shrinking. That's the federal government shrinking back, shrinking back, shrinking backutting more, cutting more, cutting more, get it smaller and smaller. We need a

federal government. We don't need a year round legislature. They could take a they could take a lesson from Florida, no state. The federal government does not need a year round legislature. We need to slow government down, but we need to cut it back and we need to make it far more efficient. And by doing that, you choose my old business axiom, choose the most defective things for government to do and find the most efficient way to do it. If you reverse that, then we're going to

have a different problem. So come back with the big stories in the press box and more. It's Tuesday, January seventh. It's cold outside. Remember don't let those boys out of the house without being properly dressed. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Let's get to the big stories in the press box this morning. Thanks for joining us wherever. However, whether it's terrestrial radio or iHeartRadio across the Fruited Plain, chances are it's cold wherever you are. That's odds are

it's cold Central South Florida. Maybe not so much as we're getting up here, and certainly the rest of the country. This storm has created a travel nightmare across the country. Twenty seven states impacted by it. People are stranded all over the place. You've got you've got some people dying. I will simply tell you that you have. You have more disastrous effects from cold than you ever get from heat.

You are recommended to post any and all non essential travel as this period of heavy snowfall hits, especially the Midwest and northeast planes. It started on the West coast, start in California. Of course, you know we're global warming, is just anyway I will I'll do my best to avoid commentary on that. Just know that if you are traveling, make sure you phone ahead on your flights and connections

because you could find yourself stranded. And by all means, if you're driving and you're driving up into the north and northeast, know what you're doing before you take that on. It's called postponing a meeting if need be, make the smart choice because the weather is frightful and sitting around a fireplace is so delightful. And if you know, if you've got no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, Let it snow. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

announces he's resigning. Aw the little socialist is finally quitting. Thank the Lord. He said he needed to gather with his wife and kids and have a discussion, and I, to paraphrase, he basically said, well, kids, I've ruined the country the best I can and I don't think they'll let me get away with damaging it any further, so I guess it's time to leave it to others. Conservatives have dominated polling in Canada, which is very good news because we might get an Ally back. I don't consider

Canada under Justin Trudeau an ally, I don't. They're socialists and their brand of socialism is hurting Canadians. Do you remember what happened during COVID. He believes, of course, in preserving democracies. Stop it. Democracies are awful. Pure democracies are awful because they always lead to where you are, socialism, and then it's a very short nudge to communism. He bragged about fighting for the country to strengthen and grow the middle class. Yeah, and you do that by damaging

the country. And then what Here's what they don't tell you about socialism. They kicked ladder out from under you. So wherever you are, you're clinging to that spot. If you're low on the ladder, you've got nowhere to go because you have no mechanism to get higher if you're in the middle of the ladder. He wants to be everybody to be in the middle. That means bringing everybody up down unless they're in the favored stratosphere of socialism.

And then they get to keep what's theirs. That's the thing. The elite always keep theirs. Joe Biden doing all he can to hurt the country before he leaves office, and that means Joe's people, Barack Obama and his sick of fans banning new oil and gas drilling in six hundred and twenty five million acres of federal waters that will be undone probably the day that Donald Trump takes office, hopefully. And then the decision to resettle eleven Yemeny detainees from

guante atom obey. They have turned them over to the government of Oman. So we're turning terrorists back over to nations that are just going to probably let them go and we can't undo that. One forty minutes past, we get back details on the plan to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah,

this is this is interesting. We're not using the name, But do you remember when someone was arrested near the home of Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice June twenty twenty two. Came from California to Virginia, got into a taxi, instructed the driver to take him to a house in Maryland that was the home of Brett Kavanaugh and his family. Young man allegedly brought weapons with him. Was close to Kavanaugh's home on June eighth, received a call from his sister,

whom he had texted I love you. Inside an interview room at Montgomery County Police Department station, he said, I told her what I was doing I was up to. She told me that wasn't the way to go about trying to make the world a better place. And you know that she didn't want to you know, she wanted to have me as a sibling for the rest of her life. Now you know with that ending, he told police he was planning to break into the house, shoot Kavanaugh,

then shoot himself. Instead, he chose to call nine one one. Now listen, I credit the guy, but just bear with me for a second here, he told the dispatcher on the call, I need psychiatric help. Officers rushed to the scene, arrested him, scheduled to go on trial later this year, faces twenty years of prison if convicted. Officers illegally searched his belongings and failed to properly obtain a waiver of his rights before interviewing him. This, according to his lawyers.

Federal agents who questioned him did obtain his signature on a form waving his rights, but the waiver quote was not made voluntarily and intelligently. At the time, mister so and so was acutely suicidal, visibly exhausted, and had repeatedly expressed his need for psychiatric care. Because these latter statements were not preceded by valid miranda waivers, they too, must

be suppressed. He detailed his motivation for allegedly plotting to murder Cavanaugh, including the publication of a leaked draft of the Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade. All right, let me pause here, and let's delve into this for a couple of minutes. Number One, that leak was intentional, That leak was to bring about exactly this type of result. Do you remember the violence, Do you remember the protests in front of Supreme Court justice's homes?

Do you remember the threats being issued and offered? That was the intent of the leak, and in to my knowledge, we still don't know who that was. It seems as though Justice Roberts has covered for whoever it was handling it internally. Here's the second thing. Boy, this guy is going to make a plea of insanity or something. He seems to be really sane for a guy. He might need counseling. But think about it. He stopped. He said, you know, I need help in a funny, kind of weird,

paradoxical way. Doesn't that seem like a rational, sane person. I suppose it will be up to a jury, if a jury is used, If it could be a trial, a judge trial. I don't know to determine, because that would appear if I'm sitting on a grand jury. I'm really puzzled by this. I don't know that he's crazy. He seems rather aware of himself, his circumstances, his decisions. Thankfully, he made the decision, and I would credit him for that.

I mean, honestly, if the guideline is twenty years and it's let's say it's fifteen to twenty five, I'd be inclined to say, uh, fifteen years, let's get him some psychiatric help, or ten years, because he didn't do it, and he was sane and rational enough to say, you know, what I'm thinking about is just wrong. So it's it's look, I pulled this story because I just think this is so interesting. So I don't know where it'll go. I think the bigger crime here is the leaked the leaked

memo on the ruling. That's to me a huge crime because it was designed to do just what this did, get people stirred up and possibly cause the death of a Supreme Court justice or three. All right, we come back. I'm gonna ask this question, why is this allowed anywhere in this country? Forty seven minutes past the hour? Good morning friends, Stay warm. Use radio one hundred point seven double UFLA. They haven't checked out the new iHeart redesigned app. It's a thing of beauty. You can you can have

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Panama City. There you go. Oh, just put it in position one and leave it right there, and then personally I would load the blog page right behind it so that you know, if you miss the show, you can go to the blog page. I'm amazed the number of people that forget we have a podcast. You can listen to this show. I only get to listen to about thirty forty minutes of the show. I only get to listen about fifteen or twenty minutes. Yeah, yeah, and well I'm a busy person. I don't have all that time.

Tell me what's more important than listening to what happens on a given day, knowing what's going on, and secondarily gaining my insight? Okay, I could maybe put that down on the list to maybe third. But anyway, why is this happening anywhere in this country? Do you know the story of Christopher Scott Williams. You're shaking your head. No, you don't know who. That's his name, and he's in a women's state prison in Washington because he identifies as

a woman. Now, what you're not aware of is that in fact, besides being a biological male, he has a violent history of sexual assault molestation, and he is now caged with a woman who he is sexually harassed and attacked four years, who finally said I'm done being abused, and has filed a lawsuit against the State of Washington, depriving her of her constitutional rights, cruel and unusual punishment, failing to acknowledge the risks of putting a fully intact,

biological male with a violent history of sex assault in a cage with women. Prison officials were aware he was a biological male. He's not a good looking guy. He's not a good looking woman, not that that matters. What he is is violent and vile. How is this allowed in our country? How is this allowed? Why is Congress so slow dealing with things like this? Men playing women's sports enough? Hour two is next to The Morning Show with Me Don't be fooled. Second hour of the Morning

Show with Preston Scott. Let's let's let's just go do take two. Let's do take two in three two one.

Rush played. When he played it was a pretender's tune and Chrissy Hines gave him permission because her dad loved Rush Limbaugh, and so it just aggravated people to no end. But no, that's kind of like a cardinal rule of radio is when you do this type of show, you have an identifiable introduction to the show. And when we got word that artists were getting all weird because you were using their music, I just said, well, we'll steer

clear of that. And so we went to the production library and found something that sounds very much like something just saying, and it was appropriately titled, and so this is what we use anyway, Welcome friends. That was a lot about nothing, but you know, I I heard from an acquaintance through somebody else, and I'll just I'll leave it somewhat vague for reasons of protecting identities, I'll just

simply say it's nobody that lives anywhere near me. It's just I heard about somebody through somebody, and they lost their kid in college. And I don't mean in terms of they passed away. I mean they lost them. The young lady went to college having dated men and boys, and has informed the family that now she is dating a woman. And I decided I wanted to talk about this, and lo and behold, I came across the story one of the research assistants, in fact, I think it was

the lead research assistant. More than five hundred nonprofit private colleges have shut down on the last decade. According to the Wall Street Journal, schools are closing trend. Experts call it the enrollment cliff. The number of students enrolled in degree granting colleges and universities fell by fifteen percent from twenty ten to twenty twenty one. Only sixty two percent of high school seniors immediately go to college right now.

Sixty two percent. And I think what I wanted to just pose as a thought here and I'll continue it into the next segment, is how many of you would say that you lost your kids in college. And by that, I mean they went away being raised with a set of values and they got indoctrinated. They got politically, philosophically pillaged. They didn't find themselves. They found a new orthodoxy that was embedded in them by today's academics, most of whom I have zero trust for or zero trust in. Not all.

There's some wonderful professors and assistant professors and teachers out there, but I'm fearful that there are more of the other that view their position as one of indoctrinators, the keepers of enlightenment and truth. And so before I continue, just did you lose your kid in college? Did they come back? And you're like, who are you? And what have you done with my son or daughter? Ten past the hour,

More to come the Morning Show with Preston Scott. You factor in that more and more parents are less inclined to place their children in an institution that a pays no federal income tax and b pays no state or real estate taxes, and yet charges the type of money

that they charge for an education. You know, Florida's a bargain, but it's still expensive, and more and more parents are not willing to send their children to an indoctrination center and spend their hard earned money to watch their children's brains get turned into absolute trash. But I think there's even more to it than that. I have always been of the mindset that there are multiple paths to many things. I'm in a career where having a college degree is

useful maybe, but not necessary at all. You give me a young person out of high school that wants to be in the radio broadcasting industry, and let me find them into a building somewhere doing anything and advance four years, and then give me the college graduate coming in at that point, and that high school kid is light years ahead, light years and there are a lot of industries just

like that. Is exactly why vocational schools are growing. It's exactly why homeac and shop and some of these vocational tracks are coming back to middle schools and high schools because they're not indoctrinated with a political philosophy. They're taught how to wire or code, or how to lay bricks or do electric, or do plumbing, or do tile or

do carpentry. They learn fundamental skills, and I would submit that learning some of those basic disciplines are infinitely more valuable in almost any workplace than the head knowledge they're getting crammed with at a college. Yes, a degree is useful in certain settings. There are certain professions you have to have one. I get it, and there's a place for that. You cannot tell me that the price college is worth it today for nearly any profession you just

for nearly any profession, you just can't. You can't convince me of the amount of debt that's required to get through a degree and how long it's going to take to pay that off. But give me someone that knows how to figure stuff out, knows how to just maneuver their way through the land, minds of whatever it takes. I'm going to fix that, and I'm gonna just figure it out. That person can figure out anything in the business world. They can, they just learn how to do it.

Give them an opportunity to learn experience, be trained by the business itself, not by academics with a philosophy that has nothing to do with the real market, the real capitalist way of doing things, the way that a business or an industry works, is feeding them with these political philosophies that have no bearing other than to disrupt any path of success to put a bow on this. It explains why colleges are losing enrollment and why we have more and more people saying yeah, I'll wait on that,

and I'm gonna try some other things. It explains why entrepreneurism is exploding. It's gonna be interesting to see what happens over the next ten years. Sixteen past the Hour come back with a dubious set of honors. I'm sure you know by now that Joe Biden. And again it's not Joe. I'm not excusing Joe. He's a feeble, evil man. But these names that we're going to list as receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, there's some admirable people on this list. I don't know that any of them are

deserving of this. This is probably a reaction to Russia. Limbaugh being picked. I personally thought Limbaugh's selection was brilliant, given his place in our culture and his spreading the good news of conservatism brilliantly, I might add, But the highest medal given to a citizen Hillary Clinton. I mean, I'm okay with Michael Jay Fox, even though he's a liberal. What he's doing to advocate for Parkinson's awareness and treatments. I'm good with that man. He's brave. He's a brave dude.

And let's face it, he was a brilliant actor. He was hilarious. Tim Gill visionary entrepreneur whose work has advanced LGBTQI rights, inequality. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Lionel Messi soccer player, look good, dude, makes a great Lows commercial and he's got a wicked left foot. But Presidential Medal of Freedom. George Sorrows, George Sorows should be in prison. But you could make that same argument about Hillary Clinton. She got

to be in prison. What she did in Benghazi, what she did to try to be elected president, She and her campaign they should be in prison. Liz Cheney, Now a lot of confusion here. She did not get the Presidential Medal of Freedom, town Hall, Fox News, they all got that wrong. She got the Presidential Citizens Medal. It's one layer below. Liz Cheney should be facing charges of witness tampering. During the January sixth hearings. She engaged in

witness tampering. And one hopes that it's not about attribution, it's not about reckoning, it's not about revenge. It's about accountability.

She and the rest of the including Adam Schiff, now a newly minted member of the United States Senate, they should all face And this is why they're all scared to death the cash Betel being in charge of the FBI, because he may in fact uncover all that they did that violated the law in their attempt to keep Donald Trump from getting on the ballot and being re elected president. Liz Cheney engaged in criminal activities. Based on the evidence that I have seen now, she should have her day

in court to defend herself. But based on what I have seen, the House Republicans say that she engaged in witness tampering, and he should face an investigation here here I agree. All right, we're gonna come back with the big stories in the press box final hour of the show. US Congresswoman Kat Cammick will join us. We also have a manly minute still to come in the next half hour here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, let's take a peek here at some things that are popping online.

vows to restore free expression on Facebook and Instagram. Really, by the way, let's bring back the curly hair, the kind of the floppy college you know, frat boy look much better, even wear in the suit. This could be a game changer for The Morning Show with Preston Scott because that might activate our Facebook page again. Now we've never gone on Instagram, but it could happen. It could happen. But that's quite a development there. There's something behind this

is the Trump factor, no doubt whatsoever. Donald Trump making a play for Greenland. Personally, I don't think now's the time to acquire a nation. I'm not sure Greenland wants to be for sale. And then you've got the storm that is whipping the country. It's the first major storm of the year, obviously winter storm. And do you notice how the climate change loonies go real quiet when this stuff happens, they get very suspiciously absent from the news.

You never hear from al Gored during this stuff ever. And I have the same reaction to this as I do when it's hot in the summer. Huh, it's cold. How about that. My advice to you, based on what I'm reading, if you are traveling and flying anywhere to the north and to the east, northeast, midwest, you make some phone calls and do some checking before you get on that flight. That is a very very strong s congestion. Other big stories, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's resigning.

It's an interesting phenomenon what happens in these kinds of countries where they just lose the ability to govern and quit. But that's what happens in a socialist nation when people start to awaken to the fact that our country's turning to crap. Canadians, I'm pulling for you, and we actually have some Canadians that listen to the show. Not a lot, but we have some, and I'd love to hear from you.

What are your thoughts upon hearing that Trudeau is stepping down end of a reign of terror, worried about what may come. I mean, Conservatives are doing well in polling inside Canada as well they should. I mean, the the aftermath of COVID alone, the disastrous policies of socialism of Trudeau have just been just He said he had a consultation with his wife and kids. I mentioned last hour, He said, last night, over dinner, I told my kids

about the decision that I'm sharing with you today. I intend to resign as party leader, as Prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process. Last night I asked the President of the Liberal Party to begin that process. And so they're going to prorogue. That's the word prorogue or prorogue parliament, and that means they're just going to suspend it. Typical of Canadians. You can't say suspend. I can't say we're just going

to put it on hold. No, we're going to prorogue. Hey, prorogue Eh, anyway, just having a little fun the Conservatives. Pierre Paulivier. Paulivier leads the Conservatives. I don't know anything about him. I don't know if he's like crazy or not. I tend to think based on the little bit that I've read about him and words he's shared, seems like he's a reasonable dude. If conservatives get a chance at saving the country, then call this another Trump factor win.

This is a Trump factor. This is Trump talking tariffs. This is Trump getting things in the northern hemisphere in North America straightened out by just being elected and not even taking office forty minutes past the hour the Christmas gift tag next. Okay, this is not remotely surprising. And for youngsters, I'm sorry. My wife always accuses me of holding up a mirror that I just I have a a skill at reflecting whatever. Sometimes it's mimicking, sometimes it's

just repeating. Sometimes it's accurately portraying. Sometimes it's just the simple act of reflecting what's going on. And I have been warning millennials and gen zers about things that I have been seeing in them, and I've been warning about the certain, a certain slide in our culture since the first week of doing this show, Political Correctness Day one. Listeners will remember me outlining the core dangers, and political correctness has now evolved into wokeness and has evolved into DEI.

It has grown and expanded exponentially. I did point out its dangers at its very beginning, and it predated me to a certain extent in what I was observing in terms of because I just I got on the radio in two thousand and two, but I was observing it in culture. Does it surprise any of you that nearly half of gen Z and millennial consumers were planning to

buy gifts for themselves this past holiday season? But listen to the actual numbers during Black Friday and Cyber Monday gen Z shoppers gen Z sixty five percent last year, sixty nine percent, nearly seven out of every ten bought stuff for themselves while they were doing holiday shopping.

I'm not judging. That's between each person and their heart and where they are. I'm just holding up a mirror and that's what it is. By the way, those numbers courtesy of Deloitte, So do what you want with them. Forty six past the hour, manly minute coming up in just a few minutes. All right, I mentioned to you the iHeartRadio app has been redesigned their presets right now, just like your car. You can save your favorite stations, your artists, playlist, podcasts, and customize all the presets on

the app. Now. They are the simplest, most convenient way to find your favorite content. Whenever you want, you just add them to your presets. If you haven't been on your app in a while, and if you've not downloaded, My goodness, it's free. Yeah, there's an upgraded one you can pay a nominal monthly fee for if you want it. But man, I get everything I want out of this thing for nothing. No, they don't give it to me.

You'd think they would, right, you'd think, well, we're gonna give We're gonna give all the iHeart Air talent the freebie. We're gonna give them. I mean, not the freebie, but the paid one free. No no, and so I decided, well, because I'm cheap that way, I'm going to just see if I get everything I want out of the and Low and behold I do. So the presets when you open up the app now they just flash right across the very top of your screen and boom you just there you go. You know one of my apps is

playing right now. It's it's not finished yet. No, yes, we only have one camera angle there you go. It's Haunted Cosmos. It's one that I go to. So there's that. There's the scan button you can deliver, discover and find stations. Just hit and scan the live radio dial. What's playing right now? Boom, that's the You got fifteen hundred radio stations. You can listen to anything you want anywhere across the country whenever you want. You can find out what other

people are listening to, what's trending, and lyrics. Lyrics. It's the only digital app out there that gives you the lyrics to the songs that you are listening to on live radio. That is sweet because look, you're like sometimes going what did they just sing? I don't know, have no idea what they just sang? There you go, so check it out the new redesigned iHeart Radio app. Yeah, time for a manly minute. There's somebody in that other room's manning up right now.

not just for fat people. They're not just for people like me. I can't. I'm chubby in one area. It's contributed by a diasteses rective. But that's another story for another day. Altogether, I'm got to separation my abdomen. My six pack has turned into two three packs. It's gross anyway, teach your son one or the other. It's either suspenders or belt, but it's not both. Suspenders properly worn are cool in a suit as well, I'll add, they just are they just they look really kind of I don't know,

it's like a three piece suit. It's like a vest. It's just cool. Right, we're gonna come back. US Congresswoman Cat Camick will be joining us as we begin with the third hour, which is next of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Don't leave me, Please, don't to go please, so fired up as we begin the new year. It is show fifty two to ninety two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's ose, we are just thirteen days a wait. Remember we were counting the days we

were held hostage. Now we're counting down thirteen days till we have a transformational moment in this country. We just got to get their friends and joining us on the program, as promised US Congresswoman Cat Cammick from Florida's third Congressional District. Hope you out one for holiday? Kat? How are you, hey?

Caucus and we did all these things. And the thing that I have learned over the years of trying to take speakers out and whatnot, especially in a majority of two, which is what we have, it's virtually impossible to get all of the A type personalities on board because what it turns into is not a fight for the principles of certain policies and different positions. What it ends up turning into is people making demands for offices and capitals and an increased budget for staff and all kinds of

ridiculous things. And no surprise, that's what this turned into with Mike Johnson. And keep in mind, just a few months ago, no one stood up and voted against Mike Johnson in the closed vote, the closed doorge session where we make the decision of who we're picking for whip and majority leader and all that stuff. It was unanimous. But when there's a TV camera involved, all of a sudden, people stand up and they're like, oh, I have something

to say about this now. They'll say that it's because of this policy or that, But what they won't say is what they're doing behind closed doors. And there were demands made by people for office space in the Capitol, for money for staff, for committee assignments, for gabbles of committees, and it doesn't work that way. So when it becomes a personal thing, you know, for yourself, and it's not about the mission, it's not about the country, that's when I get really irritated. And so do I think Mike

Johnson is perfect. Absolutely not, no one is. But I think given the circumstances of what we're dealing with, he was the best choice. And we don't have any time to waste. We have very little time and a ton of work if we're going to do the America First Agenda the way it needs to be done. So I thought it was important that we get it done on

the first ballot. Both Nancy Mason and I we worked to get to get this done on the first ballot, working with the Parliamentary and Nancy called Trump and we worked with the holdouts and the Speaker to try to get to a place that was okay. But in the

end it worked out. But you know, it really doesn't matter who the speaker is ultimately because every single member of Congress this point is like a senator and can stop a bill, can do whatever it's at this point, the speaker is just trying to keep the wheels on the bus. For lack of a better day.

the border the chain reaction from Donald Trump's election. However, I have to ask you, because we've talked about it before. Donald Trump wants the debt ceiling lifted. Give me your thoughts on all of that, because that is the one weakness in Donald Trump's agenda, is not dealing with the debt.

you're not supporting the Trump agenda. Well, the Trump Agenda is the America First agenda, and America First means that we have to be strong militarily, we have to be strong economically. And if you raise the debt limit, what you're telling me is that you're not interested in cutting spending. Because never once in the history of the world has anyone ever said, well, in order to cut the debt, we have to increase the debt limit. It doesn't work

that way. And so what we had proposed was, listen, we know that there's going to need to be some flexibility here, but a blank check is not acceptable. And I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat. I'm a fiscal conservative, a constitutional conservative, and I'm not going

to watch as our country gets spent into oblivion. And so we met with Jade Vance the next morning after the vote with the Speaker, and we said, listen, how about we start doing for every dollar that you want this increase, we do two point five in mandatory savings, because it's the mandatory spending that is driving our debt. The interest on our debt has now outpaced what we see on defense, which is insane.

But it's ridiculous to think that if you give a blank check that we're going to be able to get these things done. It's just like putting a sentinel lace band aid on an open wound. It'll make you feel good for a little bit, but then you're ultimately going to kill the patient or og in that case.

scenes you know information that was never reported. You know. We sat there and we pulled out a sheet of paper and we lifted out five trillion dollars worth of things that can be cut. And we looked around the room and Jada Evans would sit next to me, and we all kind of looked at each other and we said there's gonna be a lot of pissed off people, and we all kind of gave ourselves a glance and each other a glance, and we said, yeah, but this is what we have to do. You know, I have

to lose weight. Does that mean that I want to, you know, stop eating pizza. No, But I'm gonna have to write like you have to make the difficult decisions. And if everybody's mad, then that might be an okay thing. Because if everybody's happy, then the person or the entity or the organization or in this case, the country that's losing is America. So everybody's gonna have to give a little something. And I'm talking like these different organizations and

associate we can cut five billion dollars. We can do it and really drain the swamp and take on the regulatory regime. But it's going to be difficult. It's going to be tough, and people are gonna have to really think critically about the long term goal here of getting our country back on track.

to do something like this. Yeah, why should the federal government tell me, as a future retiree when I have to take my money?

their pet projects. And so there's a lot of reforms that have to be made to get rid of ways, fraud, abuse, things that we can do to make these programs solve it. Because this is a contract that the government entered into with the American people, and the government has to honor them. So first and foremost, we've got to stop calling it entitlement. It's our damn money. Stop talking about it like it's

a gift. The second thing is we have to have the hutzpa to actually and I'm talking we and Congress have to have the hutzpa to actually get in there and make these reforms. And I think under President Trump, you're going to have someone who's a willing partner, who is we we all know he doesn't care what the legacy media media is going to try to do to him. He's going to move forward and do what he knows

is right. And so in order to get some of these programs reformed, which they never get touched because the minute that you say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna make this. I remember this so vividly. We were going to introduce a bill to make it easier to navigate the bureaucratic mess at Social Security Administration. And just because we said we were introducing a bill on social security, people lost

their ever living minds. I'm like, no, no, we're making it easier for you to actually get answers from the agency. We're cutting red tape. And they're like, oh my gosh, you're doing this. I'm like, you guys aren't thinking critically, You're not listening. And so we have to have the political courage and the moral courage to stand up and say, listen, there are ways that we can make these programs so much better and reflective of the very lives that the

people who have funded them are living. So it's just going to take some courage and your one hundred percent right. It's your damn money. You should be able to access it when you need it. And it's just a big mess right now.

spouse or their kids, that's up to them. It's no one else's choice. Who opposes that other than some members of Congress who.

that's always been the agenda of the left. It's the tendency and control, make you dependent on government, tie you up in so much red tape, sure that you have a mother may I for anything. That is the left in a nutshell. They don't want you making those types of decisions because they think they know better than you. That's what we're trying to bring Kat.

here this morning. It is a very comfortable seventy four inside Studio one B, seventy two inside Studio one A. And you don't care, but I can tell you I get a little crabby when I walk in here and it's cold. It's just like I mean, I don't mind it being nice and comfortable in the summer and a little cool and air conditioning. What a blessing, right, But and you know, maybe it's just because I'm an old guy. Now, I don't know, but I'm in my mid sixties now

and went cold. Radiating just hits the bones and it's just golly gee, this is one is sitting a hot soak. Anyway, the weather is a big deal across the country. We're gonna have temperatures at night in the twenties or thirties for all but one predicted one of the next ten days. So it's gonna be cold for a while at night and warming into the high forties lott fifties today, and then the temperature just kind of moderates. But again I

looked ahead. I only saw one night in the next ten that will be above forty forty or four or higher. If you are traveling, our advice to you is call a head. Make sure whatever you're First of all, whatever you're doing, it ought to be like essential. If it's not essential, it does not fit that criteria. Yeah, not be traveling. Just stay home. Because here's the thing. If something goes wrong, it's not just going to impact you, It's going to impact a bunch of other people. It's

like a series of dominoes. It's like when you go swimming in double red flags. Just you're not the only one jeopardizing yourself. You're jeopardizing others, You're jeopardizing the people that are going to have to come out and try and rescue you. So if you don't have to travel, don't all right? Justin Trudeau, he's residing as Prime Minister of Canada, he's done enough damage, he said, No, I'm

just I'm paraphrasing and embellishing a little bit. But there's so much turmoil within the liberal caucus of the government. They're feeding on each other. And that's what's happening here. Domestically, the left is feeding on itself and there's factions breaking off saying I'm just not going to be part of this. Sadly not enough. But in Canada they've had enough. Trudeau and socialism's ruining the nation. You saw the ugliness and

the totalian nature of socialism during COVID. Do as I say, not as I do, telling people how to live their lives while not following their own advice. And even if they followed their own advice, it was bad advice, it was wrong. It hurt the country. But this is the Trump factor. Trump gets elected and suddenly north and south of the border, the leaders of those nations are either changing or they're taking a very different attitude towards certain

important issues. And then and then there's this. I mean, well, I'm setting aside Joe Biden continuing to try to ruin the country through executive order, which we've talked about this morning. Social media meta aka Facebook and Instagram are they are ending fact checking. I will be fascinated to see how quickly this happens. I'm not venturing back until I know it's clear, and if it is, I will venture back.

I don't know that I will go Facebook Live again, because I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I want to deal with it because we just Facebook Live and it required me to be the producer and director of the broadcast while doing the shows, which cameras and everything, and I had four cameras, We had a camera in Jose's studio, we had three cameras in here, and it required me doing interviews and punching up shots. And I just don't think I want to do that,

So I may not go back to that. But we've never had an Instagram presence, and I don't honestly know what I would do with it. I might, I might take your suggestions on what we ought to do if we're going to venture out into the world of Instagram. But if they're ending the whole fact checking thing and understand this, I welcome fact checking. What I don't welcome is fact checking based on someone else's personal truth and how they define facts, because, as John Adams said, facts

are stubborn things. Forty one minutes past the hour, those are your big stories this morning here on the Morning Show. Yes, New Pump Music pulled some sounds from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and two thousands, all blended together a musical kaleidoscope, a virtual sound corn ucopia. Now the idea is to just kind of you go, that sounds familiar? Yeah, well I picked some riffs that are they know, they're just they're

legal ripoffs of familiar songs, is what they are. Just take you know, at quarter or two here or there, just saying the Morning show band just doing their thing. I feel like I feel like a kid really at Christmas with this. I have pictures. I have pictures obtained by America First Legal, you know what. I have pictures of then Vice President Joe Biden introducing Son Hunter to Chinese President Xi Jinping. I have pictures of then Vice President Joe Biden introducing his son Hunter to then Vice

President Li Yuan Chao. I have President then Vice President Biden introducing his son, or his son introducing Joe to his business associates at BHR Partners, including the CEO Jonathan Lee. I have pictures of Joe meeting with the director and managing partner of BHR, Ming Jhu. Guess who's in that photo? Hunter. These are all the meetings and introductions they claim never happened, and there are photos, dozens and dozens of them. I'm

showing Jose the photos. There they are. It's Joe Hunter, laughing, smiling, shaking hands with the people that Joe said I'd never met Hunters. I had nothing to do with Hunter's business. You're shaking hands with him. Brother. I said, I feel like I'm a Christmas opening up a gift just holding these photos because they they Once again, media is not touching this. There's a few write ups on this. This story comes from the two days before Christmas. These were

you had to sue to get these photos. They had to litigate the National Archives and Records Administration to prove the connection between Joe Biden then vice president and the business associates and the people that Hunter Biden was interacting with that they claim never happened. And do you remember a guy named Tony Bobolinski. I played some of his stuff talking about the introductions and the meetings and who the big guy was, and how there were absolutely meetings

between Joe Biden and associates from these Chinese companies. Everyone was worried about Tim Walls being the Manchurian candidate. Joe Biden has been the Manchurian president. And here's the proof. Come on, people on the left, what do you do with that? He denied it, just like he denied he was going to partner pardon Hunter, just like they denied that the Biden that the Hunter Biden laptop was legit, just like they said Russian collusion happened. They they're the liars.

What do you do with that? Democrats? What do you do with that? Well? How do you quiet your conscience enough to just ignore being lied to and being made a fool of over and over and over a possible world record? Next, I have to tell you when I saw the photos of this, I kind of fainted in a just a very non dramatic mouth swinging open kind of way when you see something that's just awe inspiring. California surfer Alessandro Alo Sleeper twenty three, Surfing with friends,

December twenty third, at Mavericks near half Moon Bay in California. Quote, you're going so fast on those surfboards. You're probably going thirty forty to fifty miles an hour. And the wave was so tall, it was sucking so much water back at you that it was weird feeling feeling the friction of the water underneath the surfboard. Never really felt that on any other wave I've ever caught. If the wave's height is confirmed by Guinness, he will break the record

for the largest wave ever surfed. That record is eighty six feet. Now just think about how high that wave is. At eighty six feet, now, consider this broke that record because it's estimated at one hundred and eight feet. When I saw the photos the videos of this thing, I was just I was in awe. It was, And I'll be honest with you. If I saw a wave like that and I'm just sitting on the beach, I'm running, I would, honey, we're leaving now. A sunscreen why lady,

I'm running. I've got my wife in my hand. I'm running. We're running, baby, because I'm thinking tsunami. Because that's just that is massive, that's incredible. Tomorrow on the show Animal Stories, I Cannot Wait, brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning show one on WFLA. Today on the radio program, we started with a scripture sort of, we told a story and we focused on a verse in Acts chapter eight, Verse thirty five. But really the devotional

today was around that scripture. So Acts chapter eight. Just read the whole thing and you'll you'll you'll get it. And if you listen to the to the show, you'll get that little devotional that we start program with and it'll just make a lot more sense. That's what we do here. Big stories in the press box today, meta Facebook, Instagram ending fact checking Mark Zuckerberg admitting, yeah, we went a little extreme on that. Oh you think, Mark, Now, if you go back to your normal hair, I'm gonna

feel much better about you. We'll see where this leads. It's not causing me to jump back into the Facebook world just yet, but honestly, if we go back, I will feel like a victor, I will feel like we won. No, seriously, we won, kind of like I feel right now about Twitter. It's not perfect, but it's I feel victorious. I do. Okay, nice Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quitting good. He's ruined the country the best he can. At least that's what

he told his kids. Now, okay, he didn't use those words, but Joe Biden's still trying to ruin our country with his little minions. Tomorrow we'll do it again. Cannot wait