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This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, December 5th.

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- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steverson
- Jerome Hudson 


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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Man, that song get to me right there, right there.
I'm not crying, you're crying. Welcome Thursday on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Michael W. Smith's All Is Well
sung with Carrie Underwood back a few years ago at

(00:32):
the Country Music Awards Country Christmas. The latest edition of
that I think was last night. But wow, just anyway,
good morning, Hi, how are you. I'm going to compose
myself here. It's okay, December, the fifth Show, fifty two

(00:53):
eighty five and now just forty six days. Yeah. Man,
when we start getting into the twenties and the tens,
so nice. Let's begin with a verse of scripture John eleven,

(01:13):
twenty five and twenty six. This is the story of Lazarus.
And if you've ever read your Bible, I mean it
was a kind of a song that when I was
much younger, I would do in in our church, and

(01:35):
because it didn't require much singing. But the story of
Lazarus is an interesting story. The guy died and Jesus
said to Lazarus's sister, I'm the resurrection in the life

(01:58):
whoever believes in me. Though he died, yet shall he live?
And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.
Do you believe this? You know? Friends, when it's all
said and done, there's your question, yes or no. A

(02:26):
bunch of people went to their death, horrible deaths, most
of them never recanting what they witness Jesus do and say.
The disciples did not recant ever, just saying you don't

(02:53):
die for a lie. Leven passed the hour check the
American Paid sets all the nact. Next in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Thirteen. Passed the hour a little

(03:24):
late here heading into the segment, so we'll make it
quick and get back on track. On this date, December fifth,
seventeen eighty two. Martin van Buren, the eighth US President,
born in Kinderhook, New York. Eighteen thirty one, Former President
John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the US House
as a representative Massachusetts. Think about that, a former president

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came back to serve in Congress. Who's a brilliant litigator.
Eighteen forty eight President James K. Polk helps trigger the
eighteen forty nine gold Rush when he confirms the discovery
of golden California. Nineteen thirty three, the twenty first Amendment
ending prohibition is ratified nineteen fifty five, prompted by the

(04:07):
arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott begins, and
so there you have it. A couple of ladded items.
Number one, Humble House Ministries want to keep that in
front of you. Raising funds in Tallahassee and Panama City.

(04:28):
Would love for you to participate be a monthly donor,
but at the very least a one time gift would
be greatly appreciated. So do what you can learn more
at Humble House Ministries dot org. Learn about the organization,
pick one or both locations to donate to two it's
very simple right there, and dedicate in Panama City or

(04:51):
comment in Tallahassee that you're giving on behalf of WFLA
and that just helps them note what we're trying to
do for them. And I told them I never know
what's going to happen. I just said that I would
try to get the ball rolling, and so my wife

(05:12):
and I donated before we ever announced it. And invite
you to do the same. Also, just a quick note,
you know, sometimes it's fun when a community just says, yeah,
I'm gonna go to the local high school and listen
in on their Christmas concert and Child's High School is

(05:35):
doing theirs. It features the band, the orchestras, various orchestras, choruses,
and a guitar ensemble. They have a really cool guitar
program at Childs. They call it a holiday concert because
it does feature Jewish music as well. And so if

(05:55):
you are interested, it's Monday and Tuesday night next week
at seven. And so I just wanted to make note
and I will leave this for Grant to mention on Monday.
But it doesn't cost you anything. You are invited to come.
And that's a Child's High School Monday, Tuesday night, sixteen

(06:17):
past the hour Morning Show with Preston Scott. Next hour
on the program, we'll have a couple of road trip

(06:40):
ideas for you that you can take advantage of over
the holiday season. I've also got doctor Steve steveson with
us in our pause for Thoughts segment where we give
you some gift ideas for pet lovers and pets and
Steve Stewart next hour, third hour. Roam Hudson from Bright

(07:01):
Bart will join us. Busy Show Thursday always is it's
our final show of the week. Grant Allen Monday, then
I'll be back Thursday. So yeah, there's a few days
there were, but here's what's coming soon, the Twelve Days
of Preston. While we're gone for the Christmas break, don't worry,
we are not leaving you in a lurch. We are

(07:23):
even Christmas Day. I think you'll want to tune in
on Christmas Morning. It'll trust me, it'll be worth it.
It's gonna be the month of May we're recapping, but
I'm I recognize that it will air on Christmas Day,
so we made arrangements and you definitely don't want to

(07:47):
miss the final show of the Twelve Days, Day twelve,
because even though there are not a lot of shows,
you know, what are you gonna do it best of for?
When you got like nine shows for the entire month?
Oh you just wait and see. Oldpress has bagged a
few interviews that are pretty cool, and so we will
share those exclusive, never before heard interviews on the Friday,

(08:14):
January third show, Day twelve of the Twelve Days of Preston.
Lead research assistant sent this my way because well, it's
well known my interest in history archaeology, you know that
kind of thing. It's called the bronze cannon. It's the

(08:34):
oldest known firearm that's been unearthed ever in the United States.
It was referred to as a wall gun, and it
was part of the expedition led by Spanish conquista Dar
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. His expedition was looking for the

(08:57):
Seven Cities of Gold, and so they they came and
the town of San Geranum, sorry, San Geronimo the Third
or San Geronimo three, it's on us soil. It was

(09:22):
founded by the expedition.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Sacked by native peoples, the sobapari Otumn people came against
the Spanish settlers.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
And they fled. What's interesting is they left this cannon behind,
which was never fired. It has been found never fired.
What makes this canon interesting is it's likened to firing
a hornet's nest at You would just put loose projectiles
in it and it would shoot these projectiles like buckshot.

(10:09):
And because it spread was wide and there were so
many things coming, it was a very effective weapon because
you could nick a bunch of people and hurt a
bunch of invaders or attackers or you know, enemies, whatever
it was. But this particular gun had never been fired,

(10:30):
and it was basically tripped over by archaeologists. They tripped
on it and they've uncovered it in Arizona, and so
it's kind of cool. Previously, the oldest gun that they
believe canon, if you will, that came ashore, not gun,
but cannon, was colonial Boston during the Revolutionary War. However,

(10:59):
this suggests that nearly five hundred years ago, the Coronado
Expedition brought cannons to the continental United States, to North America.
It's just it's interesting. This kind of stuff fascinates me,
the things we uncover, right, You just you just never know.

(11:23):
That's why you rummage through attics. That's why people watch
what's that show on History Channel where they all of
a sudden Pickers, American Pickers. That show fascinates people. You've
surely got Jose of all people, mister dumpster diver himself.

(11:44):
Surely you watch American Pickers. Oh yeah, I used to
used to love it. You don't watch it much anymore? No,
not not much anymore. Time doesn't allow or just lost interest.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, there's just a lot of things that I just
don't watch anymore, you know now, it's just.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Is it a frank Fritz thing you just miss Frankie. Yeah, okay.
Do you go to flea markets? Oh yeah, love me
some flea markets. Yeah, you go to the secondhand stores
and the flea markets and oh yeah. And am I
lying when I say you dumpster dive? Oh no, you
are absolutely right on that. What determines whether you go in?

(12:19):
Do you just poke in when you drive by one?
It's just it's got to be the right time, right place.
It has to.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Look like it has neat things in it or around it.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
If it looks like it's just trash, you know, do
you go to like apartment complexes and look?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I had an uncle that that worked out apartment complex
and he got a lot of stuff all the time.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
So runs in the family at a boy. All right,
we're gonna come back with the big stories in the
press box and they're note worthy as always. Don't miss it,
coming back with more here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Good morning, ruminators, Welcome to the Thursday edition of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott Steve Stewart.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Just a little bit Jose wearing spenders got his spenders
on the many looks of Jose Can you see. We
were just talking about this story in the break ever
so briefly. Perhaps you've seen the video at this point,

(13:29):
the assassination of the CEO for United Healthcare. Now the
first When this story broke yesterday, I said to my wife,
there is likely a story of denial of claims, blame

(13:49):
of someone a loved one, a wife, a mother, somebody
close dying, and this shooter decided to target the CEO
of United Healthcare. Upon thinking about it further, there's another possibility,
and that would be somebody inside the company. But I

(14:11):
tend to think it's the former, especially now because they
have uncovered writing on some of the bullet casings. Marked
on the bullet casings, at least three of them, the
word deny, the word depose, and the word defend. This

(14:32):
was a targeted assassination. The guy had a suppressed handgun.
He trailed the guy. The CEO, Brian Thompson, who is
in New York in Manhattan for a conference, walked up
on him wearing a mask, hoodie, backpack, calmly shot him
from behind multiple times. Gun jam declared. The jam shot

(14:56):
him again, exited between a couple vehicles, got on a
knee bike in an alleyway and off into Central Park
he went. Now they're going to catch him. They're going
to catch him because they believe they've got his DNA
all over the place, even though he wore gloves. He
but this, you know, with the discovery of the bullets
with markings on it, this is this is as premeditated

(15:17):
a killing as there as there is. This is not
a serial killer. This is a guy who it would Again,
I'm just to me, it's the easiest of analysis that
he likely is a disgruntled patient. And now this United
Healthcare has the highest denial rate of any of the
healthcare providers. They deny claims over thirty percent of the time.

(15:42):
Now they're one of the largest, if not the largest,
healthcare providers. So that, I mean, you could say that
that comes with the territory United States Supreme Court taking
on the medical mutilation of minors fighting a sneeze here,
hold on. I listened to some of the arguments yesterday

(16:10):
in all seriousness, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson Brown, she's just
not very bright, and I get it, I mean she
but but you listen to the argument she's making. She's
making arguments on behalf of the United States Solicitor General.

(16:36):
The United States is fighting the State of Tennessee on
this and what and I listened to the arguments by
the A C.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
L U.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I listened to the defense by the State of Tennessee,
and what the the the plaintiffs in this case seem
to lose sight of we're talking about minors. The law
says minors, You're not going to put puberty blockers and

(17:06):
gender surgeries on children. Supreme courts having to deal with this.
It's mind numbing that that's where we are as a culture.
But it is we're falling people. That's the result of sin,
that's the consequence of it. These kind of outlandish, ridiculous absurdities.

(17:30):
And then lastly, Wall Street Journal was the source of
the rhon de Santas for Department of Defense Secretary storyline.
Trump calls it nonsense. He called Pete Hegsith and allegedly
told Hegsith, you keep fighting hanging there, and Hegsith isn't
going to back down. So we're going to at least

(17:51):
hear the hearings. We'll see what happens. Forty one past
the hour.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
A little town of Bethlehem, sad story.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
City of Piedmont, California, is as a community dealing with
a just a remarkable tragedy. Three recent graduates of Piedmont
High School, Soren Dixon, Jack Nelson, and Krista Shukahara. Good

(18:42):
looking young guys, beautiful young lady. Single vehicle crash. Don't
know who the driver was, but they were driving a
Tesla cybertruck, one of those angular, kind of weird looking vehicles.
And it is. It's a weird looking thing. It's not

(19:05):
good looking at all. I mean, it's good looking if
you like abstract avant garde art in an angular kind
of way. All right, that's fine, And I guess beauty's
in the eye of the beholder. But let's get to
the real issue here. There were four occupants of the truck.

(19:27):
The fourth, twenty year old Jordan Miller, seriously injured. He's
going to survive. I don't know the nature of injury,
his injuries, but I'm guessing they're pretty significant. But he's
gonna make it. The truck exploded and they burned to death.

(19:54):
What's and I say they burned to death? They had
no chance. If you know anything about the temperatures when
these lithium batteries go up in these electric vehicles. It's
it's not your normal fire. This is a this is

(20:19):
a metal melting melting heat. And I still I'm not
I'm not trying to throw shade here on Elon, Musk
and Tesla, all the technology whatever. I just don't think

(20:45):
this happens in any other truck. Do you realize how
many accidents take place regularly where a gas liane powered
vehicle doesn't go up in flames. They're wrecks all the

(21:07):
time and there's never a fire. I just and and trucks,
I mean, my gosh, trucks are they're trucks. I just
I there are so many reasons why I just think

(21:31):
evs are just they're not. It's the technology is not there,
for charging, for range, for use, for longevity, I mean,
the list goes on and on, and then you just
factor in the accident thing. Maybe these three kids die

(21:53):
no matter what in any truck. Maybe, but I don't know.
This is just another example. And then you see the
stories of the spontaneous you know, combustions of these engines
and what happens when they get hit with a little

(22:14):
salt water or I mean, it's just no thank you, no,
thank you. Forty six minutes past the hour, So so
Christmas Tree.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Upraising Spirit of Christmas underway benefiting Humble House Ministries in
Panama City and Tallahassee.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
And so I'm asking you to give dig deep. Go
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(23:10):
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you choose. But remember, these are places that provide recovery
help for women with addictions and transitional housing for women

(23:34):
with children, and women that are coming out of prison,
out of jail, being reunited with family, or just tough
circumstances and they need a place. And it helps get
people on their feet. And if I may be so bold,
you and I aren't doing it right. I mean, we're

(23:55):
not opening up a room in our home for people
like this. And I get it. That's why I'm happy
to support people that have the heart and the willingness
to create a space for these people to just land
and gather themselves until they they find their place and

(24:19):
some stability. It gives them an address. You realize how
hard it is to apply for a job when you
don't have an address. You're not going to get hired.
So it's a little thing, and I think we can
help them. And so it's not just about awareness. Yeah,

(24:39):
I'm talking about it every day. I want you to
dig in and help. And again, I'm going to remind
some of you that your business is prospered, you personally
are prospered, or the business you own as prospered, and
you could stroke a check for five thousand dollars right
now and not blink. I'm just asking you to carefully

(25:01):
consider it, just think about it, just pray about it,
all right, boy, count me in on this one. Delta
Airlines doing a little experimenting first class passengers and they
have partnered with shake Shack. Now I've never eaten shake Shack.
I guess it's kind of a regional thing, but it's

(25:27):
like in out Burgers. In out Burgers is a West thing.
For the most part. Shake Shack, I don't know, but
Boston Flights if you reserve early enough, you can have
yourself a staple angus burger, cheeseburger, whatever, with all the
fixings on the side. They're gonna serve it with a

(25:49):
caesar salad, not the crinkle cut fries that you would
be accustomed to getting at Shakeshack, because, come on, let's
face it, reheated French fries stink. They're just gummy and
nasty and gnarly. I've only been able to reheat fries
successfully on a couple of occasions. I'm guessing an air

(26:11):
fryer might give you the best shot at it. Maybe,
But if you ever nuked French fries after you got home,
I mean you might get away with it. If they're
sort of still warm and you just want to eat
them up a little bit. That's just awful. But they
give you a brownie as well, and a bag of
chips instead of the fries, which works for me. I'm

(26:33):
just saying, count me in, man, because I remember the
days when you got like a legit meal. When you
flew on any flight over two hours, you were getting
fed breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I can't tell you the
last time I got a reasonable meal on an airline flight.

(26:54):
But now I don't fly very often. I fly very
very little. However, I've reached that stage in life where
if I fly, I'm just not putting up with no
leg room. I'm I'm flying first class. It just it's
not about oh, look at you, No, it's about yeah,
look at me. I'm six four six five. Yeah, I
need space. Thursday on the Morning Show, December the fifth Show,

(27:27):
fifty two to eighty five. And instead of reminding you
how many days we've been under the thumb of Joe
Biden's administration, we're counting down the days till he's gone,
just forty six now, so let's rejoice and celebrate not
just the season, but the countdown as we get closer
and closer. And we're joined on Thursdays by the executive

(27:50):
editor of Tallassi Reports. We're happy around here, Steven. Biden's
been gone longer than that. No care, but I'll pop.
He'll be here all week. Folks leave, leave a tip
and the tip gywhich is on the piano. Yeah, no kidding,
how you doing good? Good?

Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, cold weather so brought the season in. So yeah,
a little bit of.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
A little bit of a wall together. I was just
gonna say, you know, it's the national news cycle is
a little bit different. Community by community, every little city,
every little hamlet, every village is different. Tallahassee, things have
calmed down some. I think what happens is you had
to run up to the local elections, you know, with
the basically think that you know, the thing on the bow,

(28:34):
with the progressive movement trying to you know, uh, get
in powerful positions to make major changes. And so everybody's anticipating.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
That, and I got to tell you behind the scenes,
very nervous people everywhere.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
You had in a in a in a boxing match,
you have the red corner and the blue corner. This
is two blue corners, and it was a brawl. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
And the thing is is if right up to the election,
there was rumors about how the Progressives had already you know,
started talking about who they were going to apply it,
you know, at city hall, and you're talking about a
billion dollar organization. So this is not you know, this
isn't some little small city government. And so after the
votes were counted, you know, they lost, and was almost
like this exhale and now there's this law for a

(29:15):
little while. Commission Mattlow came out and sort of trashed
everybody the tiles, the Democrat which was.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
That's hilarious to me.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, and sort of you know, canceled his account on
x and moved over to Blue Sky and.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, of course, because that's where the echo chamber is
for them.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Now. Yeah, So anyway, so there's a law now, although
you know, I will tell you there's an election for
the Democratic Executive Committee head, which is Ryan Ray here
late in December. And you know what I'm hear behind
the scenes is most Democrats don't want him, but you know,
it's we'll see what happens on that and.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
So you know, we're doing our research.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
We'll get back into making sure people are informed about
the politics of this. But there's a lot of things
going on, just nuts and bolts things here in the community.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
One of the stories that I've followed on Tallasti Reports.
It's been very intrying interesting to me because it sounds
as though some some other media outlets are getting on
this story, but they're like a daylight and a dollar short,
and that is the airport. Well, you know the thing
about the airport and the headline.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
I got a phone call and started looking at I
guess the local media outlet, uh this you always had
these You have these uh websites that post these things
that compare cities and they just go grab data and
sometimes it's bad data.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Tallahassee is the most most one of the most expensive cities.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
To fly in and out of, was the headline, right,
And it's based on Department Transportation data which is published
every quarter.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
And so the question is, well why now, Well, it's
a slow.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
News cycle, so let's bang on the airport because everybody
knows that Tallase has high airfares.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
So what so troubling was that other media outlets picked
up on this and then Commission Mattlot used it.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
As a as an opportunity to trust the city of Tallahassee. Now, look,
there's no doubt about the high airfares. We've my family's
experienced it the last year. The question is what's driving
and and if you look at the issues, I mean,
these are these are national issues that are driving. It's
the airline industry. You know, Jet Blue left and everybody
thought it was the city of Tallahassee.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well it's actually a failed merger and they pulled out
of eight or nine.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Locations and so The thing is is are we doing
something that is driving up airfares?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
You know here locally, and so it's a fair question
to look into.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
But to take this and say, you know, you look
at the top one hundred and fifty airports, you know
where we in terms of traffic, we rank one hundred
and forty six, So we're going to have.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
The higher rates.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
So they say, well, tell Haisie has the highest rates
in the top one hundred and fifty airports. Well, that report
had four hundred airports. We weren't four hundred, you know,
we were three hundred or something, you know. So my
point is is you can take this data and if
you don't start looking at the nuance part of it,
you lose the bigger story. I mean, Gainesville five hundred
and forty dollars forty two dollars was the average fair

(31:49):
tallhissee is five hundred and sixty. Baton Rouge, a state
capital in Louisiana, the average fair is five hundred dollars,
which is twelve percent lower, twelve to fifteen percent lower
than So the thing is is is there.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Something that we can do to change it?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sure, if it was down thirty or forty dollars, this
wouldn't be a story. So if I was a city,
I'd be looking at how can we get that down?
But the broader picture is, which is funny, progressives are
against growth and creation of more jobs, you know, by growth,
that's what drives down. Yeah, airline fares is more people flying,

(32:24):
and so you can't have both. And I think there
are very few people that choose Tallahassee because of the airport.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
They choose for other reasons.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Sure, and this is what happens now Again, I think
it's worth looking at. But to start to try to
blame the city of Tallahassee for things that they are doing,
and this is what Mattlow does.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
He just blames.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
He doesn't offer proposals, I think is probably a little
is a bridge too far.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Steve Stewart willis We're going to talk a little bit
more about the airport as well a few other stories
being covered Tallahassee Reports dot Com.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. How many of
you remember the airport. That was the postage stamp that
was here in prior to the building of the new airport.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
See. I remember that because that's when I first flew
in and when we flew when we landed, I was
looking at the passengers with me. I was is this
it is this the state capitol? Really? Where was that?
I don't said that. That was nineteen eighty seven, so
I didn't get here till eighty nine. So where was
the airport? Well, it's right there next to it. It's

(33:39):
the before they built the correct It's basically the FBO
and it's in that area. It's that other wing before
you make the turn to the international airport. But continuing on,
a lot of people don't understand. Well, the people that
are crying about it don't understand what makes up for rates?

Speaker 3 (34:02):
No, I mean, I think it's again, it's about growth,
having traffic. You look at I went back and looked
at this report that they cited. They have they have
rates back to nineteen ninety three. You know, in the
two thousands, it was the rates here were much lower.
And what's happened since then is consolidation of airlines, which
drives up rates because then they start saying, look, we're

(34:22):
not going to fly to these areas that are geographically landlocked,
don't have a lot of tourism, And that's how that's
why rates go up now. So again I don't want
to keep beating on this issue, but it is that
the mattload takes this opportunity to criticize the city instead
of saying, look, this is two things that we could
do that with lower rates. Do you think they haven't

(34:42):
been trying to lower rates. I mean, these are there's
a lot of factors that are out of their control,
and they're trying to develop around the airport, which development
is a horrible root ward in this community for a
lot of people. So there are things that are operating
and you know, in a position to each other. And
then if you look at public transportation, I don't hear

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anybody criticizing Star Metro.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I was going to bring that up.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
I mean, you look at public transportation. The amount of
money that we are sinking into a into Star Metro
and they've they've got ridership issues.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Is amazing.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
I mean, you could probably take that money and make
airfares a little a little cheaper. But anyway, there's these
issues we like to cover because they are nuanced to
them and you've got to understand them and study. Just
complaining about what's going.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
On, well, you could actually draw a really neat comparison
by pointing out, Okay, take a look at the lack
of writership on Star Metro. So what do we have
to do to keep it afloat? We have to subsidize
it huge, big time. Now put yourself we are in
essence then as a city like these aircraft. You know,

(35:47):
airline companies, if they don't have writers they have to
subsidize it somehow, some way, right right, And so it's
so easy to learn from one but they don't want
to do that now. And another thing, and this gets
really into the weeds.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Air You know, airlines now are going with bigger airplanes,
and so when you have bigger airplanes, you don't want
to serve smaller airports, and that is also become an issue.
But again the concern here if you look at our
jobs report that we have out, you know, we were
bit the last couple of years. We've noticed, you know,
recovering from the post COVID time, and over the last
year jobs are starting to stagnate the growth.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
And so we'll see if that continues and where those
jobs recovering from COVID, those those were basically the jobs
lost during COVID.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
They were and we we I think we did see
a bump from the Amazon jobs, but it is it's
been pretty flat over the last year. If you start
comparing the last two or three months to where we
were the last year had not added workforce or a
lot of jobs. And so the next three months will
be interesting to see which way we go. Is it
going to go down or are we going to start

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growing a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I'd be curious to know where when Amazon puts one
of these distribution centers. Our other larger merchants that feed
into the Amazon system, do they locate around those distribution centers?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, and I mean the answer to that is yes.
The question is how fast they do.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
It in a different, you know, economic environment that we have. Now, Yeah,
all right, more with Steve Stewart next sixteen past the hour.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Steve walked in this morning said two shows left, really
two shows left?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah? Today and next Thursday the last visits with Steve Stewart.
Next week we will cover the biggest stories of the
year in the Capital city. But first, crime numbers.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
You know, one of the first things I thought about
when we saw these headlines on the airport, which is
generated by numbers from the Department Transportation in Washington, d C.
You know, in some second rate magazine is why aren't
we talking about community things that you actually can see.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
On the ground. You know, you don't have to go
to the FBI or the FDL for anything for stats
on crime. At what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
And I again sort of brag about this a little bit,
taking these daily reports, putting in a spreadsheet and the
end of the month, totaling it all up and telling
you what's going on in your community from a crime standpoint.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
And nobody, everybody wants to report on the shootings, and well,
you have to, you have to, exactly right.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
But there's again, there's nuance, and there's context to what's
going on from a crime standpoint. Would you start talking
about crime? We divided up into violent crime and property crime. Shootings.
There's been twenty five shooting desks in Tall I see
this year, which I think last year there was twenty four.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
All right.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
We started out two months January seven shootings November.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
I thought we were going to get through this year.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
After the January five shootings and these shootings, as we've
said on this show before, domestic violence and drug related
they're not you know. They they are I think, an
indication of some issues that we have, but they're not
They don't define what we are from a quality of
life standpoint. If you start looking at violent crimes, assault
and battery, robbery, property crimes, you know, crime is down

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this year and that was after especially violent crime, after
a spike in twenty twenty three. And it's quantifiable, very
based on the crime incident reports that we get, which
now they're going to be revised, you know, at the
end of the year, but we're looking at them in
real time. These are people that call in and report crimes.
Violent crime is down twenty percent, and I don't know

(39:35):
that I've read that in any other news outlet than
tal has reports, and I think that it's you know, again,
most people in the profession don't like to brag about
that because as.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Soon as they do, you know, it's like airlines, you know,
bragging about safety. They don't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
But it is down, and I think we need to
start looking at making sure that when we report the
shootings that we're also looking at. Look, this is other
violent crime are down and the reasons why, you know
what we're seeing is that the real time crime center
which has been in is not unique to taile Izi,
but the cameras around town, the ability to use that

(40:13):
to solve crimes is is becoming known through the community
now and which becomes a deterrent. And then in addition
to that, more police officers on the street, more traffic enforcement.
I don't think we can have enough traffic enforcement based
on some of the things that you see. Pedestrian issues,
more traffic enforcement, more give it to me. I want

(40:33):
more traffic enforcement because that really affects a lot of
different things. But I think this is a story that
a lot of.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
People are missing.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
And again, we got one more month then we'll be
able to compare it. But you know the spike in
twenty twenty three violent crime the previous year twenty twenty two,
which was lower than twenty twenty three, right now we're
lower than that, So it is really headed down and
it's a good thing to see.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
You were talking about the surveillance cameras. We did a
story in the local news this morning about a conviction
of a guy that was caught because of surveillance cameras
in a park. And then the Dan Markell case, we
talked about it in the break that was largely solved
because of surveillance cameras. And when I read that story,
it wasn't just one camera. The first camera actually saw

(41:18):
the crime, but it was another camera that caught the
person leaving the scene. And so the point on that
is that when you start reading that and that starts
getting out, that becomes a determ effect and hopefully it
will start sinking in in terms of the shootings obviously,
but again it's something that we don't talk about enough.
You know, the property tax increase, which I was against
and I thought we could have done without to spend

(41:41):
more money on law enforcement. Having said that, the and
this is a you know, this is a killer for
the progressive movement, which you know they don't like law enforcement,
they don't want to spend money on law enforcement. It
really does look like it's having an impact. Well, of course,
you know, one of the things that you covered with
Tellhast Reports for years is said, under the reign of

(42:01):
Anita Favors Thompson, the spending on law enforcement was cut dramatically,
and we've paid the price in the aftermath of that.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
This is stuff you don't turn around in a very
short period of time. But what you're referring to was
something back in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, when exactly we
remember the county led the state in violent crime. Now
that has started to change, but it's because we're spending more.
And again, I hate to keep going back to the
progressive movement, but it's there on the record is believing

(42:30):
that more police officers do not deter crime.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Okay, that's there.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I mean they have said that, and now that's stupid, right,
and so I think that this is important to bring
this again. You know, it's something that you can look
at the numbers and say this is working. And so
hopefully we can move on to some other policy issues.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
And move the needle on those without the soap opera.
Probably not. Yeah, we'll see. Thanks so much, Thank you, Presting.
Steve Tellassi Reports Subscribe might be the best Christmas gift
you give or get. Tellassireports dot Com thirty five past

(43:21):
the Hour Shocking, big stories in the press box. I
guess you could argue nothing shocks anybody anymore, but the
shooting in Manhattan of the CEO of United Healthcare is

(43:42):
that's the next level targeted killing. Videos showed it all happening.
They've got you know, drinkers, coffee cups, They've got bullet casings,
they've got things this guy touched, perhaps drank from. They're
going to get his DNA. He appears to be not

(44:06):
necessarily an old person, I'd say mid forties down to
his mid twenties, somewhere in that range. White male, suppressed
handgun came upon Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare,
from behind, shot him multiple times, gun jammed, He cleared
the jam and shot him again. At least three of

(44:30):
the bullets had messages on them. One of them said deny,
the other said deposed, the other said defend. This was
a highly thought out, premeditated assassination, and they'll find this guy.

(44:50):
They'll get him. Interestingly, United Healthcare leads the healthcare industry
in denials. I believe the denial rate is somewhere around
thirty two percent. It is one of the largest healthcare providers.
The guy, after committing the murder, got on an e

(45:12):
city bike and disappeared into Central Park. They'll be able
to piece together his movements. Someone will you know, the
cameras that they have, they'll have seen him entering leaving.
They'll piece some things together. But you know, my immediate

(45:33):
reaction was, this is a disgruntled spouse son who lost
somebody due to what they believe is denial of services
because of United Healthcare. I don't know that. I'm just guessing.
And that was before I knew anything about you know,

(45:55):
these bullet casings with what was etched on them. But
you know, Steve and I were just talking about surveillance cameras.
The whole crime was on a surveillance camera. Supreme Court
of the United States hearing a case United States versus Gremetti.

(46:18):
It basically centers on a Tennessee law that prohibits pediatric
gender transitioning treatments on minors. It's Tennessee SB one Senate
Bill one, and it penalizes healthcare providers in the state
who continue to perform these procedures on adolescence. First of all,

(46:40):
it is unconscionable to me that there are attorneys, let
alone the United States Solicitor General, arguing to allow children
to be mutilated, to have their lives altered before they're
even an adult, by stupid, perhaps at times well meaning,

(47:00):
but nonetheless ignorant parents, sometimes without or against the parents.
It's just it's so hard for me to understand that
this is where we are in our culture, that we
think not we that there are people in this country

(47:24):
that think that ought to be normal. And then Pete
Hesath being told by Donald Trump keep fighting to sit
down with senators go through the process, and Hexith allegedly
is a lot of rumors about different things. Trump called
out the Wall Street Journal for the story involving Florida

(47:46):
Governor Ron DeSantis being a potential nominee should the Hexith
nomination fail. But we'll see forty minutes past the hour,
some holiday themed at Advice next forty one minutes after

(48:15):
the hour. It helps to turn the mic on. It's
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w FLA and either the dedication or the comments, time
for pause for thought.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
I stalled as long as I could, Doctor steveson how
you doing, sir?

Speaker 5 (49:20):
I'm going well, best thing. Sorry about that got a
little delayed.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
That's all right, I told Jose I'll do it. I'll
go it alone.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
I'll go it alone, and then I'll just read what
you sent me. We were talking about, well, I mean,
it's the season, it's our last visit of the year,
and thank you so much for all you've done this
year for the program and for pet lovers and pet owners. Absolutely,
But what what are the gifts that are kind of

(49:48):
trendy right now for pet owners and their pets.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
You know, there's a couple of things I saw Preston
and I've heard about this year that are really popular.
It seems like the one that everyboy's talking about this
year are the gep Yes trackers. And so there's a
collar that you put on your dog and it has
a little GPS transponder on it, so you can track
your dog to see where they are. Those are pretty
amazing technology nowadays. You know that wasn't around even five

(50:14):
or six years ago to much degree. And so if
you have a dog that likes to wander, uh, these
GPS tractors are outstanding to keep an eye on them
and know where they are. If you, uh, they come
up missing, you can track them to see where they
where they go. And there's a lot of posts on
social media of dogs where people put a camera with

(50:35):
their tracker and they can see where the dog goes
and the dog does throughout the day, which is quite interesting.
Sometimes we have no idea what our dogs do during
the day sometimes and it surprises us.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yeah, it's and it's amazing how often those videos go
viral online.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Yes, yes, sure. A lot of other things out there
this year too. There is one thing I thought I
saw for pet owners. I thought it was a great idea.
You know everybody has these. You have a lot of pets.
You have a little lint roller that you use on
your clothes to get all here or cat here off
of you before you leave the house. Yeah, they have
a new thing now called a Chom Chom pet hair remover.

(51:13):
This is like a roller, but it has an electrostatic
charge to it, so it's reusable and that's same thing
that it removes the pet hair very very efficiently. So
that was a really interesting idea for pet owners. Maybe
not for the pet, although you can use those on
your pets, but on your clothing. It looks like a
great idea, you know. The one thing that's been really
popular for the past few years now is the ferbo,

(51:35):
which is a little device you sit on your counter
or a coffee table, and it has a little camera
on it as well as a little space you put
treats inside of it, and this single rotate three or
sixty degrees so you can watch your pet. As a
two way microphone in it, so you can talk to
your pet and hear your pet, and you can we
can app on your phone. You can shoot out little

(51:56):
treats to your pet while you're talking to it. And
every year they come up with new features on this
little ferbo, so this is continue to be very very
popular item to have with your pet. If you're concerned
about your pet being home alone, you can watch it
with this furbo and keep an eye on it. So
that's another another idea that's really popular this year. Okay,

(52:18):
of course you always have you know, the soft and
plush treats, I mean toys for your dog, and you
got to be careful with those. It's got to make
sure you have the right kind of dog for those
kinds of things. You know, if you have the wrong
kind of dog, it could be a disaster. We had
a dog in the office just Monday. We had to
go into exploratory surgery and remove all kinds of stuffing
from the dog's stomach. Oh no, yeah, exactly. And so

(52:41):
you know, you have to make sure that your dog's
not one that's going to destroy a treat and try
and eat it. You know, if they want to carry
around and play with it, that's great. But if you
have a dog that's going to destroy it, be destructive,
maybe that's not the right Christmas toy for your dog.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Hey, we've got about a minute left. Let me ask
you about choose. A lot of pet owners put those
in it like a little stocking for their dog. There
are some chees that are better than others.

Speaker 5 (53:04):
Absolutely Preston, you know, the the dental chowes. There's a
company called Ceke and the Cet dental shoes I recommend
all the time. They're great, they're a good chew they're safe,
they do help clean the dog's teeth as they chew them.
They're healthy. So that's the one I typically recommend, but
stay away from the ones that are flavored to have
all the the coating on them. Sometimes you see these

(53:26):
treats that are out there that look a beautiful looking
treat and they take some type of almost like dried
barbecue sauce and paint them, and very very often those
are the dogs we see come in. They have some
type of gi upset, not necessarily from the tree, but
from the topic they put on the treat. Well, be
very careful what kind of treats you give your dog.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Lastly, what is the I don't know, the the gift
of choice for cats and cat lovers.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Yeah, I saw ones really cool this year and it's
a it's a cat scratching post, but it is designed
to look like a siguaro cactus and so and the
tan cycil rope has got the green cycal rope and
goes up in branches like a cactus does. And so
it's a little more creative, uh, cat scratching post to
put in the corner of your room rather than having
just a little, you know, standard cat scratching post over there.

(54:13):
I thought that was a very creative idea, doctor, So
that's a good one for your cats.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Doctor Steverson as a long time Arizona and I'm just
gonna I'm gonna throw you a bone the g is side.
It's soorrow ah Okay, yeah, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Well, you know the boy I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah. I lived among the Soaros for twenty years, so
I knew them all too well and ran into more
than one in my lifetime. Uh hey, Steve, Merry Christmas
to you and your your family and your your team
over there at Bradford Valanimo Hospital. And thank you for
wonderful content this year and I look forward to visiting
with you come January.

Speaker 5 (54:53):
Likewise, Merry Christmas, Preston, Thank.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
You, sir, Doctor Steve Steverson with us this morning talking
pet toys and gifts for all of the animals in
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Speaker 3 (55:31):
When we hit the road trip sound, we hit the
horn and we turn it loose.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
But hey, it's December, and of course my suggestions are
going to be based on the season. Now we have
been there a couple of times. Callaway Gardens and the
Fantasy and Lights. It's powered by Georgia Power. It's a

(56:00):
really it's it's fun.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
You do an outdoor trolley ride and you get real cold,
and so you bundle up and they've got hot chocolate
available and they've got What they've really expanded is the
stuff away from the ride around the gardens.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Calloway Gardens is spectacular, even in the winter. It's just
it's so enjoyable to go. The Birds of Prey shows
worth it, but the the stuff you can do around
the trolley ride is really good and worth it. So
Calloway Gardens is one recommendation, but now I've got another one.

(56:43):
The other one is the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the
Garden Lights holiday Nights. It won the Great Christmas Light
Fight in twenty twenty three on ABC. It was the winner.
It's it's supposed to be just spectacular. My wife and

(57:04):
I are definitely going to see this at some point
because we're all about gardens and never been to the
Atlanta Botanical Garden, but this is something. It's acres and
acres and acres of a show of lights. And so
those are your suggestions because they're all within driving distance

(57:26):
of everybody within the radio broadcast of my voice. So
check it out. Do something fun this holiday season. Take
a day, take a night, do an overnight, or just
just stop the noise for a while, unplug your brain
and just enjoy it. All Right, we've got We've got

(57:51):
Jerome Hudson joining us in the next hour. Cannot wait
to talk with Jerome. It'll be our final visit with
Jerome for the year, and it's always good to catch
up with my friend. And there's much to discuss. So
the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott
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(58:25):
Don't we sound Christmas Eve? Third hour of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott after today, just five live shows
left in the year, but we will leave you with
a gift. When we're on our Christmas break of the

(58:47):
Twelve Days of Preston and featured on many of those shows.
Best of Content for the year twenty twenty four, One
month at a Time is our very own Jerome Hudson, Hello,
my friend. How are you?

Speaker 6 (59:04):
Hello, my friend? I'm doing great. Just you know, blessed
and highly favored. God keep showing up in my life
as I know he does in yours, and I'm just
trying not to take that for granted, and particularly how
he's kept his loving and protecting arms around our president

(59:26):
elect and used that man not once but twice to
save this great country from pantsuit presidency two point zero.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Well, okay, then, so are you. I want to put
something to rest here.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
As I've told everybody, you are the author entertainment editor
at Breitbart dot Com. For those that don't know, Jerome,
you are also the author of the fifty Things books,
Fifty Things they' I Don't want you to Know and
fifty Things they Don't Want you to Know about Trump, which, oh,
by the way, talk about a book that needs to
get a re release.

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
Yeah right, yeah, talk about you know aging I've gone
back and read it. I've done a lot of media hits.
The interests in the book you know, is palpable, and
it makes a lot of sense. You know, I tell
people all the time that I promise you will learn
something new with just about every turn of the page,

(01:00:36):
because honestly, spending a year researching Donald Trump's first term,
I was blown away. I believe that I worked at
not only the best news company on the planet, but
I work with some of the smartest people in terms
of international coverage and some of the smartest legal minds.

(01:00:57):
And there was just no way for the less than
one hundred people that worked at the Bread Barton News
Network to cover all of the objectively good things that
had happened while the media was trying to smear Donald
Trump during his first term. And even even having a
year and leaning on those brilliant people, you know, I
couldn't get it all in. But yeah, you're right, and

(01:01:22):
it's it's just it's about perspective now. And you know,
I'm working on some writing things. You know, here's where
basically where the president left off. I mean, it's can
you imagine if the media just gave Donald Trump just
a little bit of breathing room, they won't do it.

(01:01:44):
And we already see them trying to smear his cabinet.
It would be cabinet officials, you know, out of the
running already. But you know it's this is this is
this is what we are called to do. This is
certainly the time that we are called to do it
to try to keep this country unified and single mindedly

(01:02:08):
focused on making it great in every aspect that we can.
And there are dark forces that have incentives to stop
the people who just want good, good lives for business
owners and parents and teachers and plumbers. But you know,

(01:02:29):
we keep our head down and we do the best
that we can every single day.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Joining us on the program is Jerome Hudson from Breitbart
dot Com. He is the entertainment editor of the author
of the Fifty Things books. I'm just going to make
a gift suggestion those of you that listen. You know
the catalog Spotlight that I do, the Christmas Catalog Spotlight. Okay,
this one doesn't come out of a catalog. You just
order the book Fifty Things they Don't Want you to

(01:02:54):
Know about Trump and send it to any illiberal friend
or never Trumper. You know you will blow their mind.
It's a great book. Jerome Hudson my guest.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
More in a Moment, Traffic, Weather, Sports, entertainment, and the Truth.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven w FLA. He is a dear friend,

(01:03:31):
Love him like a son. Jerome Hudson with me this
morning for Breitbart dot com. Do we have an official
count of the number of woke lefties that have left
the country officially because of Trump's selection?

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
No official count. But as as editor, all the editors
are sort of task basically with doing into year content
and so I am constantly gathering information and the best ideas, and.

Speaker 7 (01:04:04):
So dude, dude, do a counter, Yeah, do a counter
of the Well, the thing is, I don't know if
the number will be that high, because you have to
have a sort of outsize assumption of your importance.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
I think to announce to people dot com or to
the Hollywood Reporter that not only are you leaving quote
unquote America, but the reason that you're doing, And then
that ego has to be the size of Mars for
you to think that anyone actually cares that you're leaving

(01:04:43):
because Donald Trump was elected. I mean, I just I
got to tell you, brother, I marvel at the bubble,
just the sheer girth of the bubble that some of
these people live in. I mean, Donald Trump ran up
his numbers in just about every statistical voting block that

(01:05:04):
you can imagine. I think out of maybe sixty there
were like three or four that he didn't and he
ran up. He won majority Latino County's whole swaps. Alexandria
Carcio Court sees his district up there in New York.
It was a competition between her and Donald Trump who

(01:05:27):
would win the most Latino votes. But yeah, sure, if
you're if you like Eva Longoria, who by the way,
said that she's willing to come back for more Desperate
Housewives episodes. For all you fans out there, if you
if you think that anyone actually cares that, not only
have you have you left America as you've done at

(01:05:48):
for Donald Trump? Good written, thank you, good by?

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Is there any sensey? I think there's a bit of
an awakening with Joe pardoning Hunter with just some of
the stuff. I mean, Charlemagne, you know, one of our
iHeart brothers here calling out woop Be Goldberg with the quote,
why can't you say when Democrats are wrong? Jerome? That

(01:06:18):
stuff never happened, But it's happening.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
No, it's been a tough year for the ladies to
have view. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers,
because I mean, it's been about a year of this stuff.
They you know, they they bring Kamala Harris on if
you if you were cold? They give her the softball
question that right, there's no excuse for her to not
be prepared for asking her if there's anything that you

(01:06:43):
would change, anything that we might expect different from you
should you be be elected president and assume the officers like,
I don't think so. And then a few weeks later,
it rang Usher Raymond, who's been a pop icon for
three decades, and Joy Behart tries to bate him into

(01:07:04):
agreeing with her that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy,
and Usher was like, look, I'm your vote is your vote.
It's a very personal decision for a lot of people.
I'm supporting Kamala Harris, but I'm not going to sit
here and tell anyone else how to vote. I mean,
it's just one Haymaker after another to that that that

(01:07:24):
that genius panel over there on that Disney network, and
well what.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
About the three times in one week Sonney Houston had
had to make a legal announcement and she loathed every
bit of it. And she's a lawyer, she should have
known better.

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
Yeah, they're just handing out laud agrees. I couldn't get one.
I'm gonna get out for a state taking one law lass.
But anyway, No, it's it's glorious and so yeah, charlottage
Na God is not afraid to call a spade as
bad if you will. And I'm glad. I'm glad because
whoop you go for? She doesn't know how to pick

(01:08:02):
a lane.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Either the clown.

Speaker 6 (01:08:03):
Knows is on or the clown knows it's off. With her,
you never actually know what you're gonna get day to day.
And I think that given the magnitude of the Democrats
loss of how long WHOOPI Goldbert's been in the bag
with that party, it is she's sort of thrown in now.
And I don't know if that's just her role on
the show, But I am glad Charlemagne de got he

(01:08:25):
didn't have to just call her out like the pardon
was a decade long, which raises all kinds of implications
and questions, and.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
It was it was.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
It was a dirty, nasty political thing to do made
worse by the fact that Joe Biden himself and his
spokeswoman or spokesperson if you will, basically lied to the country.
Either she was being lied to you by Donald Trump.
The line happened, they all knew they were.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Lying, And I'm glad Charlemagne and God called out Whoopi
Goldberg on the number one the time talk show in
that time slot, despite the fact that they don't actually
the view cater the half of the country.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
And you mentioned that Korean Jean Pierre was lied to
by Joe Biden, not Donald Trump. Yeah, hang on, hang on,
we'll recover back with more with Jerome Hudson next on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Jerome Hudson with me,

(01:09:33):
you say, you know a lot of you might not
know Jerome's backstory, how he got to kind of where
he is, not just the professional side, but more importantly
just the philosophical side of it. And if you get
the first book, Fifty Things they Don't Want You to Know,
and read the beginning of that, I mean, you know,

(01:09:54):
I mean, frankly, that's a great two book set to
go ahead and get as a gift for somebody. But
before you give it away, peel off and look at
the inside the setup to the book, the fifty Things book,
the very first one, and you'll learn a lot. Jerome,
I'm just curious when you look at kind of the

(01:10:16):
landscape of what's happening in the media right now, because
that's part of your world, is covering entertainment, covering the media,
covering what's going on out there. I see a shift
that's starting to happen. I recommended that if Elon Musk
took up Joe Rogan on the suggestion to buy MSNBC,

(01:10:41):
I think the smartest programming move ever would be to
say to Rogan, you got to clean up your mouth
to do it, but I'm gonna give you from seven
o'clock Monday through Friday every night, you take as much
time as you want, whether it's forty five minutes or
two hours and forty five minutes, and you do and

(01:11:01):
you do you Is that brilliant programming or not?

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
It is it would be Donald Trump Junior suggested a
couple of weeks ago that my boss prank for a
news editor in chief be the news chief at MSNBC.
Should Elon Musk purchase the network a little bit of
cold Water though Elon Musk I believe he tweeted it,

(01:11:26):
but he said news divisions are competition to social media.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:11:33):
And so you know it's not likely that he would
buy MSNBC. But but my boss Alex Marlow, he who
has an amazing podcast that everyone should check out. He
suggested that you just cut the pain of the primetime
host You keep them in their slots, but you bring
on smart, particulate, passionate constitutionalists so that those horrible faces

(01:12:00):
have to defend their positions. It's it's a brilliant point
because right now, Rachel Maddow and you know, Joy Joy
Joy read they have They just get carte blanche to
say the craziest thing that they want as much as
they want, and they never and you know, Als Sharfton
never actually has to defend how he we must do

(01:12:26):
touch or whatever he said. And I think it's brilliant.
But to a larger point, you're right. I sort of
sit very very high and I look down and you
see seismic shifts happen every now and again, and and
this election sort of revealed and peeled back a lot
of that, and it is very good for those under

(01:12:48):
the sound of my voice to know that the culture
is shifting in a way that I don't. I think
you just have to see it to believe it. And
so one of the people running Kamala Harris's campaign went
on this very popular Democratic podcast called Pods of America
and admitted that the left, the Democratic Party, the organized

(01:13:11):
left in America are losing the culture war.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
And it is.

Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
Something that that that animated Breitbart News is founder Andrew
Breitbart in such a way that he risks everything to
take on not just the media, but the but the
Hollywood establishment, the communication, the massive multi billion dollar communication
organs in this country, and said, you people are biased.

(01:13:38):
You won't admit it, but your bias is leftward leaning,
whether it's your news or your movies, or your TV
shows or your magazine. And I am going to call
it out. And so that is that has been the path,
along with many others, certainly you in this space, and

(01:13:58):
the Rush Limbaughs and the Lavigne countless others doing the
hard and good work. And I do believe that we're
seeing the fruits of the labor. You cannot give people
a steady dose of lies and lies of omission and
expect for people to continue to tune in, even people
who would otherwise agree with you, which is why you

(01:14:21):
see MSNBC losing half of what was already you know,
comparatively a small audience share. It is the fruits of
very hard, years long labor, because it's just normal people,
my brother saying enough is enough. And not only did

(01:14:43):
they do it the ballot box. Maybe not enough to
our liking, but just enough. And so you see people
like Sarah Silverman, which is the lead story in the
entertainment page at Bright Part right now, saying that she
got less political because people don't want to hear from celebrity.
Califanakus of one are the movies anyway? He said the

(01:15:08):
same thing. Pharrell Williams, the super producer.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Said No.

Speaker 6 (01:15:11):
He was asked, you know, about politics during the election.
He's like, nobody wants to hear me talk about politics.
I'm a multi millionaire, I mean elite of the elite.
People are going to vote for the reasons that they
vote for and they're not going to be swayed by
what I have to say. And so the culture is shifting.
I put up a story yesterday from the Hollywood Reporter.

(01:15:34):
They talked to strategists, political strategists. They talked to professors,
media experts, and the resistance that you saw to Donald
Trump's first term with the with the pea hats and
everything else. It's not going to exist at least to
the same extent this time around because he broke He

(01:15:54):
broke them in many ways.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Yeah. Yeah, my friend, Merry Christmas. Thanks for joining me
and we'll talk next year. I love you, buddy, Thank you,
brother lovey. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Well, yeah, big stories in the press box.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Just take a couple of minutes here, real quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
There are there are a lot of things that are
going to have to get answered on this shooting of
the CEO for United Healthcare.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Brian Thompson. I'm just clicking a story here.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Stock moves made by United Health execs before CEO's deadly shooting.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
What's that all about. Executives reportedly sold millions in stocks,
but Department of Justice investigation went public. That adds another
wrinkle to this. A lot of things we don't know.
What we do know is he was targeted. He was

(01:17:14):
the only person targeted because there were other potential targets.
If it was just somebody looking to shoot and kill people.
He was masked. He's white male. My guess is he's
going to be in his mid twenties to mid forties.
He was well prepared, had a suppressed handgun close range,

(01:17:38):
came up from behind. He knew his target was going
to be coming. He knew who he was. See. That's
the other thing that's interesting to me as I'm thinking
about it. Just some random guy walking down a street.
How do you know that that's your target? I mean,
you know, so did he know him allegedly touched him

(01:18:08):
into at least three of the shell casings. The words deny, depose, defend.
Does that have anything to do with denials of claims?
Is it denying involvement or knowledge of something? Is it
you know you need to be deposed? I mean, they're
all kinds of psychological what ifs here. Bottom line is

(01:18:34):
the CEO is targeted. United Healthcare has the highest rate
of denials in the industry. I believe the number is
something like thirty two percent. So we'll see those are
among the big stories. I'll get to the rest of
the next forty minutes past the hour, all right, Despite

(01:19:04):
what you're hearing elsewhere, related to Donald Trump looking around
DeSantis as a potential Department of Defense secretary, which I
don't think is a good choice. Not because Governor de
Santis is a wonderful executive, because he's a great executive.
I don't think that you pick a JAG officer that

(01:19:24):
does not have direct military leadership command experience in the
field of battle and make them Secretary of Defense because ultimately,
the decision is a tactical one. To me, I'd be
looking at a tactical genius to be my Secretary of

(01:19:46):
Defense that has real time military experience that is not woke.
And certainly DeSantis is not woke. We know that. But
he's a JAG officer and he's a litigator. That's what
a jack officer is. Anyway, that's just my two cents worth.
But but Trump said the story is false from the

(01:20:07):
Wall Street Journal that he is in fact, according to
Pete Hegseith, He's told Pete to stay the course, stay
in this Supreme Court of the United States. I listened
to some of the arguments Sam Alito made, the ACLU
attorney and the Solicitor General. It's unbelievable to me that
the Solicitor General for the United States is actually arguing

(01:20:29):
on behalf of mutilating minors and miners getting puberty blockers
and all of this crap. That's sickening. It's it's so
twisted and evil. Anyway, sam Alito made him sound really funny,
as if the ACLU attorney didn't already sound funny, you

(01:20:51):
know what I mean, just weird, just like, wait, you're
an attorney. Really doesn't sound like an attorney anyway. A
Chase streng Yio or strang Geo or strange Geo is
the name of the a CLU lawyer arguing against Tennessee's law.

(01:21:12):
It's a huge case.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
It basically would green light states to say no, you
cannot do any kind of gender treatments, therapies, surgeries on
anyone who's not an adult, period, end stop.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
Can you believe we're having to legislate this, litigate this.
That's just insanity. And then this story, it's not a
big story in the press box, it's just funny to me.
Jamil Hill, Jamel Hill whatever, disgraced fired from ESPN. She

(01:21:51):
thinks she's something she's not. She's a bright young lady,
mind you. But after the election she did not have
a comment she said, she's gonna do what her critics
have Askedaverse stick to sports, but she can't help herself
because she thinks she's she's more than that. And that's fine.

(01:22:13):
You know, I think I'm more than you know doing
a sports talk show, which is why I did this,
and more does not imply better than It just means
I didn't want to talk about sports all the time
I do. I want to show just dealing with sports.
I want to talk about stuff that I think matters
more sometimes sports matters, which is when we talk about it.

(01:22:37):
But she said, I take the reelection of Donald Trump
quite personally because of the person themselves, the person themselves.
Are you a little confused on this whole gender pronoun
thing to see see what happens with gender pronouns people
lose all sense of grammar anyway. But also as a
black woman, and I think it's because for a lot
of black women, we can relate to Kamala Harris just

(01:22:59):
in the sense that some of us have been in
that position before where we felt qualified, if not overqualified
in many respects. Wait, are you saying Kamalo is overqualified? Oh? Jamel, Oh? Girlfriend.
She goes on to write.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
And I don't think it's by accident that both of
Trump's presidential victories have been against women.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
Okay, see, this is the thing. It has nothing to
do with women black. It has to do with qualified competent.
We put a white guy in the White House. Well you,
some of you put a white guy in the White
House for four years. That was grossly incompetent. It's not

(01:23:46):
about the color of the skin or the gender. It's
about whether they're competent to do the job. But see,
people at are not qualified, drop that card. If you're qualified,

(01:24:06):
you don't need to worry about that. You're qualified, You
don't need to go there. Forty six past the hour,
wrap up the program. Next let's listen to the kids
saying all right, got to take care of a little

(01:24:29):
business here. First of all, First of all, Humblehouseministries dot org.
Please help them.

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Panama City or Tallahassee click them both. Give to both.
Do your best. Second, no show tomorrow, I'm sorry, gotta

(01:25:07):
take a old time Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Grant Alan though, huh, g A'll be here. G A'll
be the dh no idea what he's got planned.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
He'll talk though, and he'll be very smart. Ose will
be here Monday with him. But then Tuesday and Wednesday,
I'm sorry, no shows, but we'll be back on Thursday
and Friday next week. A yeah, so there you go.

(01:25:45):
That's the rundown for the next week. When we come back,
we'll have Steve Stewart and doctor Ed Moore and get
caught up on all kinds of things. But don't forget Monday.
Grant will be with us, and don't forget all the
week weekend long Humblehouseministries dot org. The eighteenth of this

(01:26:06):
month is our final live show. That's when we stop
the Operation Spirit of Christmas project. And so I understand
if you need to wait a little bit see what's
going on. But I I like the idea of given first.
That's just me. That's that's kind of the way to
go about it. But you do you and just do

(01:26:29):
what you can and we will be very grateful. Brought
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show on WFLA. And then we just knife the whole
Christmas Spirit in the heart and roll this out right.
Ah right there, Look back at the radio program in

(01:26:51):
one hundred and eighty seconds or less. The video is shocking.
I'm sure at some point they'll release everything. It'll certainly
it out. The shooting, the targeted killing of the CEO
of Brian Thompson of United Healthcare. There's going to be
some layers to this, and they're going to catch the guy.

(01:27:15):
There's no doubting in my mind. It's just a matter
of when. But you know, when you etch words on bullets,
every letter you're etching, you are you are obsessed with
committing your crime and you're wanting to send a message.

(01:27:41):
This is this is going to be interesting. United Healthcare
thirty two percent rejection rate of claims. Is this a
a widow a widow, or rather, is this somebody who
lost spouse a loved one? Or is this a disgruntled

(01:28:03):
employee or is this a disgruntled executive? Did he know
this person? Did he know the CEO and knew who
it was that he was gunning down. There's some elements
to this that are just next level. Supreme Court of
the United States hearing arguments on a Tennessee law, Senate

(01:28:25):
Bill one that penalizes healthcare providers in the state. OH
I don't know, like Vanderbilt University, one of the chief
mutilators of children that do it for the pure profit
of it all. Hopefully, hopefully the right thing will happen.

(01:28:48):
That's all I can say. Trump told Pete Hegseeth's stay
with the fight, don't give up. Tesla cybertruck exploded in
a single vehicle crash, killing three three kids inside, high schoolers,
high school graduates. Sad. All right, friends, thanks so much

(01:29:10):
for hanging out with us today. We appreciate it. As always.
Till we talk next week. Have an awesome weekend.
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