Ep. 5515: Twas The Show Before Christmas

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, December 17th 2025. Our guests today include:
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Morning Friends, welcome the final live show of the year,
The Morning Show with Preston, Scott Jared in there in
Studio one A. I am here in Studio one B
at is show fifty five fifteen. What an appropriate thing
to end at a nice number, fifty five fifteen, and
we welcome you to the December seventeenth edition of the

(00:28):
radio program. Today is going to be a little bit lighter.
We'll explain that as we go, but we always start
with a little bit of scripture. It says in John ten,
I want to carry on the theme of God's sending
angels to shepherds. The shepherds were the lowest of the
low to announce the birth of his son, and so
Jesus later would take on that role of being the

(00:53):
good shepherd. He says in John ten, verse fourteen, I
am the good shepherd. I know my own and my
I own no me, just as the Father knows me,
and I know the Father, and I lay down my
life for the sheep. He's prophetically speaking about what he
would eventually do. And it goes on and he says,
and I have other sheep that are not of this fold.

(01:15):
I must bring them in also, and they will listen
to my voice, so there will be one flock, one shepherd.
For this reason, the Father loves me because I lay
down my life that I may take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I lay it
down of my own accord. I have authority to lay
it down, and I have authority to take it up again.

(01:38):
This charge I have received from my father. Come on,
there you go. So there's the challenge for you this Christmas.
If you don't know the shepherd's voice, take a little time, friends,
get to know it. This season ten Past the Hour

(02:00):
back with a look inside the American Patriotomanac subjects will
just make you furious. Don't worry. We're here to make
it all better. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott
keeping it festive this morning. It's the last show of

(02:21):
the year, and as I told Jared, this is going
to be white today. There is so much heaviness in
the news, as always, because that's by nature what news
is right and we will talk about some things with
Jerome Hudson. Jerome my final guest of the year. Couldn't
be happier to have Jerome as the final guest of

(02:42):
the year. He'll join us in the third hour. But
today I'm not talking about any of that stuff. And
if I disappoint you, I'm sorry, But I wanted the
final show to be the final live show, to be
just a little bit well later, not so burdensome. Starting tomorrow,

(03:07):
the Twelve Days of Preston, we go back to the
month of January and we recap all of the news
of January, then February, then March. Each day is another
month until we get you through the entire year, and
then we're back. So we're not going to really be away.
We're just not going to be here doing the show.

(03:28):
But the show is going on three hours every day,
Monday through Friday. Yes, even Christmas Day. We have a
Christmas special. It will not be news other than the
top and bottom of the hour. We have a Christmas special.
And on New Year's Day we'll be here on the
air doing the Twelve Days of Preston. So we're not

(03:49):
going to leave you with Gordon deal. Because I know
how you feel about that. I heard you years ago,
and so we developed the Twelve Days of Preston. I
love it because I get a lot of time away.
I take a good two and a half weeks off,
so it makes my heart happy. Let's take a peek
inside the American Patriots Almanac, seventeen seventy seven. On December seventeenth, France,

(04:12):
America's most valuable ally during the Revolutionary War, recognizes the
young nation's independence. In nineteen oh three, at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the world's first
successful motor powered airplane flights. Now there's controversy, there's something
that say they weren't first. Well, I will leave it

(04:36):
in the hands of the to me the greatest historical writer,
David McCullough. David McCullough did a book on the Right Brothers.
I have the right brothers Bobbles sitting in front of
me here and he settled that question. So check out
the David McCullough book. That's my biggest regret is that

(04:59):
I didn't Getvid McCullough on the show. I say I
came so close. A couple of years, maybe three or
four years before David passed away, I had corresponded with
his daughter and she said Dad would love to do it,
but he's writing a book. Okay, if you don't know

(05:19):
who David McCullough is just check out his books and
if you've ever seen the movie Seabiscuit, he is the
narrator on the voy on the book, and he narrated
a bunch of stuff back in the day on television
for I want to maybe maybe National Geographic or something
like something I don't know. Oscar Strauss in nineteen oh

(05:42):
six becomes the first Jewish cabinet maker in Theodore Roosevelt's
cabinet maker Cabinet Member Secretary of Commerce and Labor. In
nineteen sixty three, Lynnon Johnson, then President, signs the Clean
Air Act, first important US legislation designed to prevent air pollution.
Oh what that led to? Real quickly? Here it is

(06:03):
national say it nowaday. Seems like Donald Trump like lives
that daily by the moment. No filter on that man,
none godly And it is National Maple Syrup Day. I
can't think of many things that maple syrup doesn't make better.

(06:24):
It's just one of the greatest things of nature. Absolutely
sixteen past. When we come back, we're going to talk
a little Christmas tradition.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh Christmas treet.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now if you're interested. We opened the program with something
from the group for King and Country, and on the
blog page right now is the Christmas special that that
song came from. You might have heard what sounded like
a breeze in the midst of the song. It was
part of a live special that they did literally outdoors

(07:07):
with just the group, and they went from location to location,
literally on the hills of California. I think it was
at the time when they recorded it, and it was
really pretty cool. But this special itself is available, and
it's kind of a tradition that I do things like

(07:27):
this at Christmas time. I put on some Christmas lights
that light shows on the blog page and I will
be loading up for Christmas Day The Man and the Birds.
I'll probably have it up Christmas Eve and we will
end the show. That's a tradition. The last show before Christmas,

(07:48):
we air The Man and the Birds. And we'll talk
a little bit more about that later. But Christmas traditions,
they are to me very special. I know that for
many that might be away from family during the holidays,
Christmas can be a challenging time. Absolutely get it. And

(08:11):
so as we talked for just a couple of minutes, Jared,
do you have any Christmas traditions that stand out to
you going back to when you were a kid.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, as long as I can remember, on Christmas Eve,
my mother would make a few batches of chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Come on. That was always a favorite of the family.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
In one particular year, she was very upset with herself
because she felt like she messed up the baking. She
did something different and she thought she messed it up.
And I am not lying to you when I tell
you those messed up cookies were the best cookies she
ever made, really, And so that became a running joke
in our family, Mama.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Can you mess up the cookies again this year?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Please?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
She did she ever figure out what she did to
mess them up?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
No, she tried to replicate it many times, but she
could not replicate the mistake.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's great. So is that something that like, do you
crave chocolate chip cookies every Christmas Eve?

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Now?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, I crave chocolate chip cookies every day. I didt oh,
but especially Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Feel like my first Christmas Eve when I don't have
chocolate chip cookies is going to be very disappointing.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, so you do you make sure that that doesn't happen?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Well, if I'm going to be making the cookies. They're
going to be the breaking bake. The Pillsbury, Well.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
There's nothing wrong with that. Get a little scoop of
that stuff and eat the rest out of off the spoon.
I mean, that's yeah, but it's not the same as homemade. No,
it isn't. But it'll do in a pinch. Yeah, that'll
have to be how I do it. It's interesting because
baking is a huge part of a Christmas tradition that
I grew up with with my mom, and I've shared

(09:46):
this story that my mom made these things that I'm
guessing it's not necessarily a Lithuanian cookie because they're out
there and I think they're primary. I think my mom
called them Hungarian horn and it would be rolled up
like a croissant and stuffed with something like a brown

(10:06):
sugar and nuts, probably walnuts, and maybe a little bit
of season like a cinnamon or something, and then powdered
sugar over the top of them. And I remember that
I described this to my daughter in law, and I
remember the first year she made those for me, I
just sat and cried because they were so similar to

(10:29):
what I grew up eating as a child, and Mom
did the chocolate chip cookies. She did all that ridiculous
baking with the different patterns and the decorating, and some
of them frosted and some of them with sprinkles and
different Christmas shapes of snowmen and Santa Claus and snowflakes
and all of the stars and whatever, and so that

(10:52):
baking was certainly a thing somehow. When I was a teenager,
like twelve and then thirteen on up, every Christmas Eve
we had pizza because I loved a place in Phoenix
called Pizza Farrows. And the guy that started that all

(11:15):
those years ago when I last visited Phoenix was still
running the restaurant, only in a new location out in
Cave Creek, Arizona. He moved it to kind of a
ritchy little area, but it was the same pizza. It
was incredible. But I would get a pizza every Christmas
Eve from Pizza Farrows and we would have pizza, and
I carry that tradition to this day. Pizza on Christmas Eve.

(11:39):
Now it's challenging because not everybody stays open on Christmas Eve,
so I sometimes have to sacrifice and accept a pizza
that might not be what I would normally enjoy. But still,
pizza on Christmas Eve is a thing, no doubt about it.
And then presence on Christmas Morning is my go to.
I still can't get the idea of what my mom

(12:01):
did to make sure that I believed in the big
fello up north for as long as humanly possible. And
I still believe I just might be the big fella
up north. Now I'm just saying it just could be.
But Christmas traditions are the best. Twenty seven past the hour,
Come and enjoy this field. I'll be dated away. Yeah,

(12:42):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I am
your host, k Kringle. That's Jared over there at Studio
one A. I'm here at Studio one B. No big
stories in the press box. We're just gonna make this
a lighter show. We will talk about some more new
things with Jerome Hudson later in the program. But and

(13:05):
and we're gonna We're gonna take some calls next hour,
another tradition before we take a break at Christmas time,
I want to hear your your favorite Christmas movie and
your favorite Christmas cookie. And I'm not gonna fight with
you about Diehard. I'm not gonna fight with you. It

(13:26):
is not a Christmas movie. It is a Bruce Willis movie.
That's what he said. That's not what I said. That's
what he said.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
There is a difference between a Christmas movie and a
movie that happens to take place at Christmas.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's what I think, Jared. But boy, do people get
upset and my dad's in the movie. My dad's in
the movie. Oh yeah, I remember this story from last
year's Yeah. So, but I'm not fighting with you about it.
That's your thing. That's fine, favorite movie, favorite cookie, and
maybe a short reason why on both. We'll take some

(14:00):
calls next hour on that. But you know, Christmas obviously
is a very special time. I believe it's a time
that gift giving can be really representative of God's view
that he loved us so much he gave his son,
and I believe that gift giving, whether it's a card,

(14:25):
or whether it's a hug, or whether it's doing something
nice for somebody as a gift or an actual tangible gift,
considering others first. But no matter what, Christmas is special
for children. And I don't have a problem with whether
you do Santa or whether Santa doesn't necessarily visit your home.

(14:48):
I don't have a problem about it either way. It
doesn't bother me either way. But there's something special, and
I believe that's why, For example, you gave fifty five
thousand dollars to build a home for children in Malawi.
Eight little girls are going to have a home and

(15:09):
a family that did not have either. And it's going
to happen because of you. When I saw this story
about five year old Brent Allinger in twenty twenty four,
she was isolated in a child cancer ward, having been
diagnosed with a precursor B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and

(15:36):
it had a rare aggressive mutation that rendered standard chemos
and surgeries ineffective. That was it. She was. That was it.
Five years old and in a cancer ward. At Christmas,

(15:57):
her team at Roswell Park Oishe Children's Pediatric Care Cancer
and Blood Disorder Program presented with an option to the family.
A Nobel Prize winning car T cell cancer therapy is
an option. It defeated the cancer and she is celebrating Christmas.

(16:26):
It's not in remission, it's gone. The pediatric oncologist at
Roswell Park said, chemotherapy is so toxic. We're trying to
make it so that patients have a better quality of
life even after they're done with the treatment. And I
feel so strongly that that approaches that can change the
immune system. Approaches like car T cells can actually do

(16:50):
this without causing long term side effects. And what it
involves is extracting T cells, a type of immune cell,
from a patient's blood, and then taking them into a
specialized lab and from there scientists engineer the cells to
recognize and kill cancer cells. The cells are then duplicated
by the millions and replacing the patient's body through an IV.

(17:15):
Once back in the body, they go about killing the
cancer wherever it is. And this little girl celebrating Christmas,
healthy and six years old and a bright future is
waiting for her. I love it. It's great. Great stories

(17:38):
like that that just boost us. And the fact that
she's now going to enjoy time with her family, not
in a cancer word, but at home where she should be.
It's just special. It's good news type stuff. Here in
the Morning Show with Preston Scott, if you want to

(18:11):
share your special Christmas tradition. Got a note here Strawberries
with a heavy cream Christmas breakfast. Okay, Merry Christmas back
to you. Yeah, Merry Christmas. We say that around here,
and we'll be taking calls on your favorite Christmas movie,
the one that you must watch, and your favorite Christmas cookie.

(18:37):
It could be one that goes back to when you
were a kid. It could be one that you just
enjoy baking now. It could be one that forget who's
baking it, you just want it. Whatever you like. We'll
take some calls in just a little bit. We will
also share our final gift giving website, our final suggestion

(18:58):
and if you want the list, it is been updated
and corrected because there was one mistake, and I'm happy
to send it out. I've sent out dozens of these things,
dozens and dozens and dozens of requests for the shopping list.
And these are all websites that you can file away.
I mean, you can probably still get some stuff from
some of them. You're just going to pay for extra
shipping to get it in time or to get it

(19:20):
sent to whoever in time. But you can still check
it out. The list is available. Just send me an
email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. All Right, this is
a Christmas song that I wanted to play. And the
reason why I'm able to play this in this part
of the show as opposed to the beginning is the
ones in the beginning we have to edit out because

(19:41):
we don't have permission to put it in the podcast.
What follows the rest of the way can go in
the podcast because I have permission from the creator of
the music. And in this case, this is an AI
Christmas song written by Glenn Beck, but produced by Glenn
Beck and AI. He used his own AI program and

(20:08):
it's called putting the Christ Back in Christmas and it
is used with the permission of Glenn Beck. Just wanting
you to note this is Glenn Beck with AI.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Well seasons here and the legs are bright.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
But they tell me I can't.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Say marry Christmas tonight.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
They want round a Hanna Kwins.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
That's all in one breath, buddy, that phrase is going
to bomby today. So Grabs and Coco, let's proclaim this Blams.
It's the birthday of the baby. Yeah, remember who that is?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
So get Christmas. So Michael regression here, my friend.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
If words can break you unless your hearts, that's a batter.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Week cant and Yeah, putting the Christ back in Christmas.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Let com send some folks out with the new, in
with the old, levery Christmas, let the truth be told.
And hey, baby, it's cold outside.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Relax.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
It's flirting not a federal crime. We used to laugh
and dance in snow. Now the fact check missiletoe. They say, intend,
don't matter what Sure Rip does.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
That's Santa.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
He's judging hearts, not Twitter buzz.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
You can keep your outbreage walk. If every jingle is problematic, buddy,
that's a real snowstorm.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, putting the cryds back in Christmas. Not find what
they sow. Out with the new, in with the old.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Merry Christmas. Let the truth beat.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
So they say that greeting is oppressive, well, bless my soul.
Who if Merry Christmas makes you tremble? The problem made
the phrase it's you a question with morments, all reason
with graces, but don't read my holiday A main need

(22:25):
a safe space.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
So here's to the major of the star in the sky,
the angels who sang of that Holy night. Here's to
the story that still brings hope, eat amen, cultures.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Loss, the remote, raise your voice.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Let the bells all ring.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
This season was always about one king.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
Yeah, put the Christs back at Christmas, the real good
news on Folk.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
The world may taste the rapping paper, but the manger
holds the gold.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Sf courtesy of Glenn Beck putting the christ back in Christmas.

(23:22):
That is so good, uh Ai, full disclosure, that was Ai.
I can play it. I got permission from my bosses
at iHeart because I'm a news program. If this were
one of the music shows, that would be a big
no no playing that song. But what are they going
to do. Since Glenn Beck's on a ton of their
stations and he's playing at nationwide, they can't do anything

(23:44):
about it. So they were like, yeah, play that dang whatever,
all right, we come back. We'll get you ready for
the second hour here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Well,

(24:15):
good morning if you're just joining us. Wednesday on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty five point fifteen.
He is Jared. I'm Preston. Heard from Jose yesterday. He
sent me four thousand pictures and I noted that not
one of them was with a deer. And he's out
there trying, but he has not bagged a deer yet.

(24:39):
Jose is the definition of well, I'm just happy to
be here. Oh my goodness. Yes, what a delightful guy.
Just a big, good hearted dude. I mean, big heart,
good heart, and just as easy to get along with
as they come. And so he's on his first ever
hunting trip. He's with a buddy of his in Virginia

(25:02):
who is an experienced hunter, and he's put him on
some deer but he hasn't bagged one yet. And I'll
just leave it at that for right now. But he's
having a great time. I told him, like, man, you
don't have to go all the way to Virginia. There's
plenty of deer around here. Yeah, but he gets the
experience of little snow and I mean it's I'm happy
for him. He's having a great time. Will deserve vacation, yep. So, Jose,

(25:27):
we'll be back on January fifth when we start the
live shows. We start the twelve Days of Preston tomorrow
with the month of January. But you know, we were
talking about Christmas traditions in in the last half hour,
and one of mine is to watch Christmas movies. I
and In fact, I've started a new tradition. I listened

(25:49):
to Scrooge. It's an iHeart podcast that you can get
on the iHeartRadio app featuring Sean Aston. You never would
have thought the dude that played Rudy in the movie
among a lot of other roles. He's a really talented actor,
but he plays Ebenezer Scrooge and it's really brilliantly done,

(26:13):
and it's just a four part series. And so I
listened to that. But I always watch a Christmas Carol,
various versions of it, including the Muppets. The Muppets Christmas
Carol is a little bit less intense if you happen
to watch you with people that are sensitive to that
type of thing. And I don't want to get scared

(26:33):
because the Jim Carrey one is my favorite. It's all
you know, I mean, it's all animated and it's just
it's intense.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Though there's a great one with Patrick Stewart that was
done by the BBC. Yeah, Jean Luke Bicard for.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Those who are Live Star trek Ye a great and
then there's the George she Scott version, and so there
are a lot of versions. I wouldn't list it as
the one that if I were only going to watch
one Christmas movie, it would be the one that I
would watch. But anyway, and I've got a new movie
here from twenty thirteen. It's obviously it's not new, but
one that i'd not heard of that I might check out.

(27:14):
It's called The Christmas Candle. Critics blasted it, but Jeffrey Tucker,
it's a movie about a Max Lucato book, and Max Lucato,
if you don't know, is an outstanding Christian author. Really good.
We're taking your calls though, favorite Christmas movie and Cookie
eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Welcome friends to

(27:49):
the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I will save some of the email comments I'm getting
on shopping lists and Christmas movies. We're needing help. Now,
let me say this up front. This is as close
as you'll ever hear me beg for phone calls because
I got nothing. I did not prepare to talk about news.

(28:13):
I did not prepare to talk about anything serious until
I get with Jerome Hudson next hour. I don't want
to talk about anything depressing. I want to just hear
from you your favorite Christmas movie and your favorite Christmas cookie.
It's a combo call eight five zero two zero five WFLA.
We just want to know what it is and why,

(28:35):
and so the lines we got three lines open. Pat
is standing by. It's eight five zero two zero five WFLA.
Jared standing by to take your calls. Favorite Christmas movie
and favorite Christmas cookie. Pat, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Hey my pleasure, longtime listener, first time caller, love the show.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
And I got to say a friend of mine turned
me on to this.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Last year.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
It's called eight Bit Christmas. It's not the feel of
like a you know, an older movie, and it's a
generational connection movie. But I think it's just absolutely hysterical.
Are you familiar with it at all?

Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, Here's why I went nuts when you said that.
I recorded it last year on Christmas Day because I
had someone tell me about it. I have not watched it.
I've been saving it to watch this year. My wife
saw it on the DVR and said, what's this eight
Bit Christmas? I said, I have no idea, but I've
been told it's a wonderful movie.

Speaker 7 (29:33):
So you're confirming that not only wonderful, it's very heartfelt
and all that, but it also has a lot of
the classic, you know, Christmas storylines, but it honors like
the you know, I'm approximately your age, I'm fifty seven.
It's about the first guy on the street who got
the eight bit Nintendo and how bad everybody else wanted it.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
But it's a dad trying to explain to his son
how this was the bomb, and the kid, of course,
you know, has his Christmas wishes and all that, and
it just goes to show that the things that we
thought were important were not really that important, right, and
are going to be outdated someday, But yet your Christmas
connections and your memories and your family are the things
that really endure.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
All right.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
It's funny and it's a kind of a tear jerker,
and it's a total surprise.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
I would have thought the movie is twenty years old
the way is made, but it's just out from twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Love it bumbs up.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
And your favorite Christmas cookie, well.

Speaker 7 (30:31):
I'm not a huge sweet person, but I got to
say that a nilty chocolate chip, you know, when they
first come out and they're still a little bit gooey
and maybe you burn your finger on a little bit
of the chocolate, trying to get it down. You know,
it's hard to beat. The problem is they become addictive
and then pretty sen there's five gone and you can't
believe it.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
There you go, Pat, thanks for calling in. Good to
hear your voice, and I appreciate it very very much.
Eight five zero two zero five to be a a
let's go to John, John, your favorite Christmas movie and cookie?

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Favorite movie is the Original Miracle on thirty fourth Street. Yes,
Maureen O'Hara, yep.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
And favorite cookie, hands down is oatmeal raisin okay, gives
you pleasures you tell me and keeps your record.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Tell me this. Do you watch the movie on Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day or any time during when it's on? Or
how do you handle the movie thing?

Speaker 7 (31:27):
We'll watch it several times during the Christmas season.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
You'll watch it more than once.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh it is okay? Good enough, John, Thanks very much.
I appreciate it. Merry Christmas. Thanks for calling in. Let's
take another call here, Elizabeth, thanks for calling into the program.

Speaker 9 (31:45):
Yes, sir, so my favorite cookie is the sugar cookie,
of course.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Hold on, hold on? Is it decorated or not decorated?

Speaker 9 (31:53):
Sometimes with the sprinkles is okay, but I like it
just playing just a plain old sugar.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Cookie fair enough, okay. And your favorite Christmas movie?

Speaker 9 (32:00):
Favorite movie is It's a Wonderful Life, the original version.
My grandma's name was Mary and my grandpa's name was James,
which was Timmy, and he would walk around sam on
the Last of the Moon for you, Mary.

Speaker 10 (32:13):
It was great.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
I watch it all the time when I miss them,
I bet do you now?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Is there a specific time you watch it?

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Well?

Speaker 9 (32:21):
When I miss them? And then definitely Christmas, even Christmas
Day and sometimes the day after. Can't get enough of it.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Wonderful, great memories, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (32:29):
Merry Christmas?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Merry Christmas, Elizabeth? Thanks so much? All right, Ray, Chuck
stand by eight five zero two zero five WFLA your
favorite Christmas movie and your favorite Christmas cookie and why
ten past the hour in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah,

(33:01):
the only hard news today top and bottom of the hour.
We're keeping it lighter today just because, and we're asking
your favorite Christmas movie and Christmas cookie. Ray, thanks for
being patient, tell.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Me all right?

Speaker 11 (33:16):
And the Grandchild era, the favorite Christmas movie has got
to be Elf, Okay, just tradition. We watch it every
year to kick off the season, and he absolutely loves it.
As far as cookies are concerned, any of them, I
just cannot be trusted around Christmas cookies.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Ray does not discriminate against any cookies.

Speaker 12 (33:38):
I do not.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
I do not.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
I am an equal opportunity cookie eater.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, the cookie trays when they come out, Man, it's
so tough, it is.

Speaker 13 (33:47):
So Do you have a favorite though, No, I don't
because they all have just redeeming quality. Some are gooey
and some are crunchy, and so.

Speaker 11 (34:00):
Were chocolity and just oh, you're gonna get me spun
up about cookies now, And yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
That's okay. Ray, it's for a lot of reasons, for
a lot of reasons that you and I both know.
It is really good to hear your voice. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Absolutely, Merry Christmas, buddy.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Thank you, uh, really really good to hear from Ray.
Let's go to Chuck, Chuck, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 14 (34:23):
Well, thank you for making this opportunity available, sir. Yeah,
I want to do I want to do a shout
out to Canopy Roads Baptist Church or their annual movies
in the park this year with the ones they selected,
they hit it out of the park.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Okay, they had they had.

Speaker 14 (34:39):
Charlie Brown Christmas.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Love It.

Speaker 14 (34:41):
They had the Original, the Original Grinch with Borls Boris
Karloff narrating. Yep, they had Mickey's Christmas. They had Pluto's
Christmas with Chippendale. Just I mean, all my favorites there
the only one. Sometimes they have mister mcgoo's Christmas with
you know, Jim backis doing the absolutely they're doing and

(35:02):
you know that's also one of my old time favorites.
I hope they bring that put that back in the
agenda in the future. But yeah, those are my faves
right there.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
And I don't have a.

Speaker 14 (35:13):
Favorite Christmas cookie, but Pillsbury Orange rolls. Those are our
family tradition for breakfast on Christmas morning. And I'll give
a shout out to Pillsbury on those. Those things really rocket.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Pop and fresh still has game, doesn't he? Oh yeah,
awes man Jack, thanks so much, and Merry Christmas to you.
Let's go to Tim. Hi, Tim, you're up. What's your
favorite Christmas movie? And cookie?

Speaker 10 (35:38):
Good morning? Well for a movie, I was tempted to
say die Hard just to generate some whot calls. Actually,
I'll show my age and white Christmas is my favorite, okay,
And I think part of that is my father served
in World War Two and that came out when he
was still in the military and I was young, and
I just thought, wow, you know that's special.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
And I mean it produced one of the most, if
not the most iconic Christmas song ever.

Speaker 10 (36:06):
Oh, absolutely, I still like to hear it. Yes, and
my favorite cookies. I have two, both of which I
make that I got the recipe from my mother. I
call them Special k Squares and Hello dollies.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, nice, And you're making them again this year?

Speaker 15 (36:26):
Oh, I.

Speaker 10 (36:28):
Had to do something and stop eating them. But yes,
I make them and put in tins and hand out
to all my friends.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Nice.

Speaker 10 (36:36):
So I make Si malready made several batches. I've got
one more to go. Tim. I have to go see
my grandson at Christmas, and I have not made enough
of his favorite to take to him.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
There you go, Tim's tins. Everybody looks forward to Tim's
tins at the holiday season. Merry Christmas, Tim, thanks for
calling in. Let me fit one more caller here, Mike,
you're up. Favorite Christmas movie and your favorite Christmas Cookie.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Hey, Preston, Hey.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
Favorite Christmas movie.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
I'm an eighties guy and retired military, so it's got
to be nineteen forty one with Belushi and Ackroyd.

Speaker 12 (37:12):
Christmas cookie would be.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
It's a toss up between Chocolate Chip and.

Speaker 14 (37:20):
I'm with the other lady, Sugar Cookies.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Nice, nice, Mike, Thanks very much. I appreciate you calling
in adding your thoughts to it. George, you're gonna be
up next. We've got two lines open eight five zero
two zero five to WFLA eight five zero two zero
five ninety three to fifty two. Here's the question, your
favorite Christmas movie and your favorite Christmas cookie and why?
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Final set

(37:53):
of callers.

Speaker 7 (37:53):
Here.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
We're going to take three more calls and then I'm
going to get to some emails that have come in
on the subject of favorite Christmas movie and cookie. George,
thanks for calling. Good morning, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Merry Christmas, Preston, and thank you for what you guys
do all year. Uh, you know, you keep us between
the lines and and and then the gracious things that
you do, uh, facilitating building these houses and in the
in the Giving season. So thank you so much that
that just means the world to us, but it means

(38:26):
the world to these little girls as well. So, but
favorite Christmas movie, Preston uh is the Christmas Story with
the Red Rider b begun. It's just got to watch it.
I've purchased it. You know, it has everything in it,
you know. And and then when he gets the beat

(38:48):
beat up Scott Farcas that just you know, it's the
zenith as he says, there's a distinction between the favorite
cookie and your favorite Christmas cookie. Favorite cookies chocolate chip,
the thin home may, but the favorite Christmas cookies are
the sugar cookies that are shaped like the Christmas tree

(39:10):
with the green sugar sprinkles.

Speaker 10 (39:12):
On it, you know, and.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
And then the one that shaped like a star with
the red on it. So that's favorite Christmas cookie. And
then then the side note here on the die Hard,
the one that you know your dad is in. I
actually was watching that game on ABC when it took place.
I was about eleven. It was USC against Notre Dame.

Speaker 12 (39:34):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
I watched the entire game with a couple of college
dudes that live next door, and so I got to
hear your dad's voice.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
That entire game fun stuff. George, thank you for sharing that.
I appreciate it, and Merry Christmas. Let's go to Jim.

Speaker 16 (39:48):
Jim, you're up, hey, Preston, good morning morning. Before we
start that, let me just say that I've been listening
to you for an hour about right at ten year
years and your spot on your instincts are wonderful. And
keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 16 (40:08):
Favorite movie of all time has got me. It's a
wonderful life. My wife is actually a sour dough bigger,
so I have I get all kind of things all year.
But favorite cookie I believe is going to be the
oatmeal heic. Okay, she makes all of her cookies and

(40:29):
everything out of sour dough.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
So it's just wonderful, wonderful, great set of memories there too.
Enjoying that movie and enjoin it with those cookies. Thanks
so much, Jim. Let's go to Jeffrey, our final caller. Here, Jeffrey,
your favorite Christmas movie and cookie?

Speaker 15 (40:43):
All right, Christen, Merry Christmas to you. I saw it
with the cookie first. My children always got together and
make those sugar cookies and design them in the Snowman,
the Christmas Trees and what have you. And now they
do it with My Gate Grand Show. So when you
eat one of those cookies, you're eating your kids as well.

(41:05):
So I enjoy that cookie, okay.

Speaker 17 (41:07):
But but the movie that this is a movie that
probably very few people have ever heard out there. But
you know, we hear these days about the wealthiest people in.

Speaker 15 (41:18):
The world, the Chinese and some of these American guys.
But if you want to see a movie that shows
you who, in fact is the wealthiest man in the world,
what's an ancient movie called It Happened on Fifth Avenue.

Speaker 17 (41:34):
This movie was made.

Speaker 15 (41:35):
Right after the World War Two and it features veterans
in it. But it's called It Happened on Fifth Avenue
and it will show you in your heart who are
in fact the wealthiest people in the world.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, Jeffrey, thanks so much,
and thanks to all of you for calling in. Let's
see Richard's writing in can't call in he's at work.
Favorite Christmas movie is The Grinch with Jim Carrey. Favorite
Christmas cookie either chocolate chip or Scotch shortbread, all that
butter and sugar, yup. Nice Okay, let's see here. We've

(42:15):
got doctor written in said his mother was from from
White Russia. Now which is Poland? I guess favorite cookie ruglak?

Speaker 4 (42:32):
All right?

Speaker 1 (42:33):
And nothing on the movie there, but that's the Christmas cookie.
Let's see here. Oh, by the way, we've got people
requesting the shopping list. Feel free Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.
White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life. For the two
movies that Scott enjoys, I love watching The Nativity. That's

(42:54):
one movie I'm going to watch for the very first
time show Christmas with the chosen Holy Night. I got
that movie so that I could watch it this year.
But Miracle on thirty fourth Street is up there pretty
high for me personally as a as a go to
gotta watch it. And I've got a bunch though, There's

(43:16):
a bunch of movies that I enjoy watching at Christmas time.
Twenty seven minutes after the hour and back with another
good news story here on the Morning Show with Preston.
Scott sounds like a interlude from a Christmas movie. This

(43:46):
is a good xylophone. This is when the decorating of
the tree happens, only in fast time where they speed
it up to just get you through that part of
the decorating of the tree. The ornament anyway, Sorry.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
A training montage in an eighties movie, okay, or that too,
but Christmas theme.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
That's Jared over there. We're in the final hour and
a half, the final half of the program, and it's
the final live show of the year. Let me say
this to spare me the email. No I haven't been fired. No,
I haven't been let go or replaced or moved or

(44:33):
I'm taking a break. And so the twelve Days of
Preston kickoff tomorrow and we will be back with live
shows on Monday, January fifth. But we have you covered
with a show every single day, including Christmas, including New
Year's Day. While we're gone, why because we love you

(44:58):
and because we know you hate go deal, so we
will be here for those of you that are really
upset that I'm coming back. I'm sorry. In fact, my
contract is such that I'll be back for quite a while.
So you know, the only thing that's going to alter
that is God, and we'll just leave it at that.

(45:21):
But today I just you know, we're going to talk
about some more newsworthy things with Jerome Hudson in about
a half hour. I just couldn't do it. I started
looking at the news yesterday and I just made an
editorial decision. I overruled the research team and I said,
you guys are off for a few weeks. So the
research team is taking time away. And I just said

(45:45):
to the executive staff of the program that, uh, you
mean you stop it. I said to the staff of
the program, no, we're not We're not doing news, and
they they objected, and I said, no, it's my show.
And so we're just doing some lighthearted things and some
good news. And this is a story that I was

(46:07):
attracted to because a it involves animals, though it's not
an animal story. This is more of a good news story.
We have animal stories coming up. It all started with
a Corgi and a backpack. Brian Reiseberg noticed that his dog, Maxine,
had a way of cheering people up during their daily commutes,
and so he decided that, you know, he and his

(46:31):
Corgi were onto something. New York City residents starting started
the post videos of him with his dog and his backpack,
and soon it went viral online. She was known as
the dog in the backpack all over the world, he
told The Washington Post, and that tells you something right

(46:52):
there at the Washington Post, this is now his story.
He ended up quitting his job and created a dog
backpack brand. You can find the brand. It's called Little
Chunk ccho NK. A friend encouraged him that maybe he

(47:13):
could help homeless shelter dogs too, so he met with
people at the best friend's Animal Society and they came
up with an idea. Every week, he picks up a
shelter dog and takes it into the city in a
backpack that has a label on it that says adopt me.
He shoots videos with the dogs, adds a little professional

(47:34):
polish to it. At last count, his content has over
seventy five million views and dogs are being adopted. In fact,
they credit more than one hundred dogs being adopted versus
the same time last year, more dogs because of the backpack.

(47:55):
The eleven dogs he's featured so far, ten have been adopted,
eleven have been adopted. A one dog wasn't because it's
got ongoing medical issues. But here's a guy who has
become a content creator and has turned it into a
business venture, not just through the content but with creating

(48:17):
backpacks designed to carry dogs around, and then he combines
it and has the brilliant idea of working with an
adoption a local animal shelter. It's a win win win
for everybody. He's making money, they're getting dogs adopted. People
are laughing and smiling at his videos. It's that that,

(48:39):
to me, is the perfect online content, online influencers story.
No one's offended, no one's harmed, no dogs were harmed
in the filming of that video, and everybody, everybody wins
on it, so they see think of ways and you
can make a difference in people's lives. Don't know what

(49:05):
to believe. Clear the fog. The Morning Show with Preston
Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA.
I'm on the website. They have the different carriers, they

(49:27):
have Little Gulp drinkers that go with these things. They
have accessories and merch.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
A portable Little Gulp. Little Little Gulp is a portable
doggie water bottle and it literally you store the water.
You flip open the carrier, the cover to it, and
it turns into a trough that fills with water and
the dogs drink out of it. It's brilliant. See the

(50:04):
creativity and ingenuity of people is just astounding in the
wild or in our homes. We love them Critters, large
and small. Time for another edition of Animal Stories on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Dog disappeared from his

(50:27):
California home in twenty twenty one. Patricia Orosco's wired haired
docs and mix named Chocko vanished from their Sacramento home
in twenty twenty one. Since then, she and her husband
have had two children. She said, when you have a

(50:50):
pet disappear, everything races through your mind. Is he alive?
Is he okays? He'd be treated well. Then early December,
just a few days ago, Rosco received a text message
from a microchip company claiming Chaco had been found in Lincoln.
So she thought, okay, Lincoln, California is not bad. It's

(51:14):
thirty miles north of where they live. Except it wasn't Lincoln, California.
It was Lincoln, Michigan, two thousand miles away. Somehow, whether
someone found him and then traveled or Chocko Chocko had
a habit of wandering, but Choco ended up two thousand

(51:37):
miles away and was tied to a fence outside the
Lincoln Park Animal Shelter. So someone just put a lee
show on him, took him to the shelter, tied him there,
and left him with the animal shelter. According to a
nonprofit group Helping Pause and Clause, they tried to the

(52:00):
range is Safe Return Little Reunion. Former animal control officer
board member of Helping Pause and Clause, Cindy Walden said,
let's see what we can do to help cover Chaco's
airline fare. So they raised money and then Penny Scott,
no relation, a local animal rescue volunteer, offered to make

(52:22):
the trip to make sure of safe transfers and so forth.
Her airfare was paid for by somebody involved with the
board that had a stockpile of airline miles that they
just donated to her. So Chaco's back home. Of course,
now she's putting a double gate on the back keep

(52:45):
Chocko from wandering away. He's now eleven, he's aged a bit.
Chacko went on quite the walko, no kidding, right, And
then there's this. Cleveland Metro Parks announced a fissure and
animal related to weasels and ferrets had been caught on
camera in a city wildlife area. Here's what makes it significant.

(53:09):
There has not been a sighting of a fissure in
more than a century. It just goes to show you
the things that science thinks they know and have. It's settled,
and oh they're extinct or are there not? Just saying
you never know. That's animal stories. Here on the Morning

(53:32):
Show with Preston Scott Or we get to another special
Christmas song and we get to Jerome Hudson. Next hour

(53:56):
The Man and the Birds will end. The program got
sent to all of our webs our email boxes here
inside the station. Some Christmas trivia before turkey was common,
what meat was often served at Christmas in England? It

(54:18):
would be goose or boar's head. Okay, Which of Santa's
reindeer come from? Weather phenomenon? That would be donner, thunder
and blitzen lightning. What holiday drink is also called milk punch?

(54:39):
Do you drink eggnog? Are you an eggnog guy?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I every Christmas be like, I haven't had eggnog in
a while, and I have half of a glass of it,
And then I realized, no, I hate eggnog.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Have you ever had spiked eggnog? I've had spike just
about everything, Preston. Okay, well, I don't want to assume
I obviously I have not. I've never had anything like that.
I just wonder if that makes it more palatable or
less palatable.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
I don't know, if you're wanting to chug a lot
of dairy, Probably not a good idea to spike it, Okay,
probably not a good idea. Is eggnog like there's something
always on the top of it? Is that like cinnamon
on top?

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah? Okay, okay. The first string lights for Christmas trees
were invented in which decade I would have to think
of the fifties, maybe eighteen eighties, like electric string lights. Yes, yes,
first string lights for Christmas trees invented in the eighteen eighties.
I was shocked when I saw how early electricity was

(55:43):
being used in parts of the country, which US president
declared Christmas a federal holiday. I do know this one.
Tell me it's Grant Ulysses s Grant. That's right. How
many towns in America are named Christmas? I know there's
one in Florida. I don't know about the other states.
Christmas Michigan and Christmas Florida. There are two in total,

(56:07):
how many gifts were given in the twelve days of Christmas. Now,
I think this is a trick question, because if you
just add up the gifts given on the twelve, the eleven, right,
you get one number. They're totaling it as if you
gave them all each time you did it, And so

(56:27):
they categorize they they add the number to be three
hundred and sixty four, three hundred and sixty four gifts.
What beverage company has use Santa Claus and it's Christmas
marketing since nineteen thirty one. Well that's Coca Cola. There
you go, there you go. He's been he's been Ai Santa. Lately.
They've been getting a lot of flak for that, No
kidding as well they should. Their Ai stuff has been ridiculous.

(56:49):
All right, this is not the president of the United States.

Speaker 8 (56:55):
Tis the season to deportum fa la la la la
la la la la.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
We love ice and we support them.

Speaker 8 (57:06):
Falla la la la la la la la.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Send them on one way vacations.

Speaker 8 (57:13):
Fa la la la la la la la la.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Ramp up those mass deportations. Falla la la la la
la la la.

Speaker 8 (57:25):
We've deported millions so far, faala la la la la
la la la. Next will deport il han Omar Fla
la la la la la la la.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Look at how those dogs are acting.

Speaker 8 (57:42):
Faala la la la la la la la.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Let's send those bead ambres packing.

Speaker 8 (57:50):
Folla la la la la la la la. As your
favorite president who gets along very well with Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Our gift to you, who is mass deportations. Thank you
for your attention to this matter.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
There you go, Sean Farrash and it's special Trump Christmas Long.
We are efforting to get Sean on the program. Don't
know if we'll be successful, but he has given me
his permission to place his content on our podcast, not
just broadcast in the show, so we're good there. Leaving

(58:26):
that one in the podcast so you can share that
with your friends when we come back. Jerome Hudson from
brightbart dot com will be our final guest in the
live shows for twenty twenty five. One of my favorite
people in the world, brother I love so very much
in christ and a former intern. Here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Next on the Morning Show, and

(59:01):
here we are the third and final hour of the
live shows of the Morning Show with Preston Scott for
the year, and I am pleased to have with me
a dear friend. He is the entertainment editor at Breitbart
dot Com. He is the author of the fifty Things books,
Fifty Things They Don't Want You to Know and Fifty
Things they Don't Want You to Know About Trump. He

(59:22):
is Jerome Hudson. Hey buddy, how are you, Oh, my brother,
I'm doing great. I'm going to throw you a curveball
right up front, a couple of them, of course. What's
your favorite Christmas movie and your favorite Christmas cookie?

Speaker 12 (59:36):
You know, I watched Diehard last night, and yeah, it
vaulted to the top of the list. The list that
before I watched the movie didn't exist, and if it did,
I would say Home Alone two is far superior to

(59:57):
the original Home Alone. But yeah, die Hard top of
the list. And I also got to take a photo
of Robert Dovey in the movie as he arrives on
the scene no spoilers, and he texted me back and
quoted the film.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
You know my dad's in that movie, right.

Speaker 12 (01:00:18):
I feel like this is a fact about you that
I learned over a decade ago. It's just barrowed in
the repository.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Okay, of my mind. We'll talk about that someday. I
will forgive you for crediting die Hard as being a
Christmas movie as opposed to a movie at Christmas. What
about Christmas cookie?

Speaker 12 (01:00:40):
You handle that well, by the way, Yeah, maybe a
gingerbread Okay. I just also just had some twenty four
hours ago, so.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
It's fresh on the mind and fresh on the palette.

Speaker 12 (01:00:53):
Yeah, that's what you're getting today, baby nice.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
I'm gonna throw you my second curve ball. Okay, give
me your appraisal of what's gone wrong with Candace Owns.
Is she a victim of herself?

Speaker 12 (01:01:12):
Where where does one begin?

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Here's how I categorized it. I remember Ann Coulter used
to be a regular guest, you may remember on my
show years ago. I quit having her because she became
a caricature of herself. I feel like that's what's happened
to Candace. She has seen herself as being so important
and so self important and so cataclysmically knowledgeable on everything

(01:01:39):
that that she has lost sight of who she is.

Speaker 17 (01:01:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:01:44):
I I no longer regularly speak to Candace, and haven't
for a few years. You know, looking back, I've been
asked this question now a few times, so that's good
looking back though now on the last the better part
I guess of the decade, since she sort of burst
on the scene, I'm not actually sure how much Candice

(01:02:07):
Owens was about.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
The duty.

Speaker 12 (01:02:11):
And taking on the role of stewardship of you know,
doing whatever she could to save the country, right that
is to say, from people who want to just completely
mangle and alter the relationship that is between the government
and citizen. You know, I know that she has aligned

(01:02:36):
herself obviously with Turning Point USA. She stood up Blexit,
which had an absolutely laudable goal of trying to convin
Black Americans that the worst thing that they could do
was vote for Democrats. But then she sort of walked
away their allegations of of of money being you know,

(01:03:02):
money being misused, if you will, And I just go
back to a conversation that I had with the colleague
at Brettbart a few years ago when Candice Owen's left
a Daily Wire, and my answer to that question at
the time was, I think she likes the spotlight and
the attention that comes with her being the personality driving

(01:03:26):
the conversation and the narratives. I don't know necessarily if
it's so much the money that drives her, and you know,
she's reportedly getting twenty to thirty one thousand dollars an episode.
I don't know if she does many speaking engagements, but
she's she's she married into wealth, and so I continuously

(01:03:49):
press and go back to just a gut filling, but
it is it is one that that informs me, given
everything that she said, the outlandish takes that she has,
and also like sort of the brilliant points that she makes,
But she doesn't she doesn't campaign, you know, for congressmen,

(01:04:11):
like like the like we had the race in the
seventh congressional district in Tennessee. I don't hear her standing
up for you know, those those parents whose children are
trapped in horrible school districts and on and on and
on and so yeah, I just think she's a celebrity
and she likes to throw bombs and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
All right, hang on, Jerome, I don't think she's going
to be aligned with turning Point USA much longer. I
think whatever that conversation was, I think she already backed
off of trying to lower the tensions with what she
said in the last day. But more than come with
Jerome Hudson here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott

(01:05:00):
and back with Jerome Hudson of Breitbart dot Com. He's
the entertainment editor and I shared with you, Jerome in
a text. Yesterday, town Hall did a story Hollywood's diversity
bubble pops. Half of LGBTQ TV characters set to disappear
next year. But yet I've got another story here from

(01:05:21):
the Federalist. Nearly half of Netflix's kids shows exposed children
to LGBT propaganda. What's happening out there.

Speaker 12 (01:05:31):
The same thing that's been happening, particularly at Netflix at
least since the better part of the last decade. I
think it's interesting. Disney sort of owns a lot of
the spotlight when people think about a Hollywood studio creating

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content that is wildly appropriate for children, you know, transgender
cartoon characters and transgender characters in content specifically for very
young audiences. But Netflix has been up to that that
that game for about as long as Disney. I guess

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Disney for fifty years was known as a family friendly studio,
and so it comes off maybe as a little bit
more egregious, but there's you know, there's very powerful media
and public relations firm called Glad, and it's basically just

(01:06:35):
a pro lg LGBTQ pregnant man emoji outfit, and they
apply pressure Preston on studios, who then apply pressure on
their producers and their writers and their directors to put
as many queer characters in as many movies and TV shows,

(01:06:58):
regardless of the targeted age audience age for the movie
or the cartoon or TV show. And they do this
with great regularity. They put out reports counting how many
queer characters was in a Netflix movie in twenty twenty five,

(01:07:19):
and how many queer characters had speaking roles, down to
the words it's it's it's just that tiabolical. But you know,
studios exist in a market, and the market has clearly
shifted away from wanting to see so many damn queer

(01:07:39):
characters on the TV screen. So many of these shows
Preston that come out from Vulu and Paramount and Netflix
and Disney get canceled in the first season because so
many of them they just shoehorn queer characters into the
plots and they often only make any sense. And isn't

(01:08:03):
to say that a lot of this content is just
completely inappropriate. Again, and you're talking about TV shows on
Disney Plus where you have the protagonist is in high
school and he's showing up at a strip club and
there's transgenders and drank queens on the stage. It's it's

(01:08:23):
it's it's laughable. And so anyway, you know, will there
you know, be a complete definition of queer characters in
the in these movies and TV shows now, But over
the last decade there's just been this explosion so much
so to the point where you have people like Dave
Chappelle just sort of just making like just jokes that

(01:08:51):
you can hear the laughter around the world.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
It's so absurd joining us on the program, Jerome Hudson.
I brought that up, parents, so that you know that
if you turn the kids loose on Netflix, to let
Netflix baby sit your kids, half the content is going
to be LGBTQ stuff on the kids channel. So even
if you said quote safe Harbors, that's what you're going
to get. More to come with Jerome Hudson here on

(01:09:14):
the Morning Show Final Moments, our last guest of the year.
You could say I saved the best for last. Jerome
Hudson joins us, What immediately did you think of? I mean,

(01:09:37):
your world, what you cover, and obviously you are you're
as close to a renaissance man as I know. You
are into every part of the news cycle, and you
you follow all of it. But when you heard about
Rob Ryder and his wife being stabbed to death and
their son immediately was thought to be the culprit, well,

(01:09:57):
what went through your mind?

Speaker 12 (01:09:59):
I was on the Breitbart News Sunday on Serious XM
Patriot one five. It was the final thirty minutes president
of the last hour of the show, and it is
my duty and obligation as a broadcaster to give live updates,
and the news was reporting that there were deaths matching
the ages of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle, and

(01:10:23):
the details were slowly coming out, but I had enough
to tell the audience and and sort of massage in
my own brain that this wasn't good, and in fact,
this was probably the worst case scenario, because investigators were
already on the scene LA Fire and LAPD and their

(01:10:43):
gang and robbery unit, which told me that the scene
was probably gruesome, and the suspected individual the police had
probably already had him in custody or knew exactly where
they were, and they didn't. They didn't They in the
gang and robbery unit is only brought in when they

(01:11:05):
suspected the suspect. They have a drug or violent history
about them, and so as we learned, it was their son, Nick,
who had struggled with substance abuse and mental disease since
the age of fourteen. Reporting to Rob Reder, this is
something that Rob Reiner said while he and his son

(01:11:27):
Nick were promoting a movie that is basically an autobiography
of Nick Ryder, and it's been a horror show. The
more details that you learned about it, the worst it got.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
I think that the other thing that stood out to
me Jerome. You know, obviously, with all the resources Rob
Reiner had, he was unable to help his son, and
he clearly loved his son and wanted to help him.
But there's something else that stood out. And I'm not,
you know, as uncomfortab as it might sound. I couldn't

(01:12:02):
stand Rob Reiner's politics. I couldn't stand any of his philosophies.
But I first acknowledged that he was a really good filmmaker.
I enjoyed him in all in the family as a
very good actor. And more importantly, there was no celebration
of his death, and there is nobody, nobody on the

(01:12:26):
conservative side. The strongest comment I heard was Donald Trump
saying I didn't care for him very much, and I
thought that was yeah, yeah, but you didn't see any celebration.
And if there's ever a situation that points to how
different right the two quote sides are, it's that there

(01:12:49):
is an element on the left that celebrates this kind
of thing and there's no element of that on the right.

Speaker 12 (01:12:56):
In the summer of twenty fourteen, Adrian Crawford delivered a
sermon and the sermon was largely about grace. And obviously
that sermon stuck with me because I'm talking about it now.
And the point that I made about Rob Reiner is,
you know, he called President Donald Trump a Nazi even

(01:13:18):
before Trump won the election, and Rob Reiner stood up
this organization called the Committee to Investigate Russia after Donald
Trump won the election and basically just called Donald Trump
not only a Nazi and bigot and all the worst
vile things you can imagine, but but he said that

(01:13:38):
Donald Trump's election was as illegitimate as it could be.
And that extended two people who voted for the president
not once, but twice, and Rob Reiner never relented. The
last uh one of the last he was was a
documentary along with his wife, talking about Christian nationalism and

(01:14:03):
how if you are a Christian and you happen to
be a patriot, you happen to love the country and
it's founding in the principles that made this country exceptional.
You are also a danger to the democracy. And so
for a decade, Rob Reiner extended zero grace, not just
to Donald Trump, but to the tens of millions of

(01:14:23):
people who again voted for the man, not once but twice.
And so I think you can separate the fact that
Rob Reiner may be one of the greatest Hollywood directors,
certainly his run between eight nineteen eighty four to nineteen
ninety two, of the few good men, but there was

(01:14:44):
also that part of him. If you were older than
forty years old, you've seen a horrific change in this man.
And again it's the lack of grace that Rob Reiner
ever shown. I mean, he was the most grateful I've
seen Rob Ryder in the last decade.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Preston was his response to Charlie Kirk and that's it.

Speaker 12 (01:15:08):
And I'm like, so is this a role that you
were playing, Rock because he became so cartoonish, as you
said before, like the caricature was if you saw it
in a movie, you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 13 (01:15:20):
The role was real.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
Jerome, I got a role, brother. But Merry Christmas. Thanks
for the time, and we'll talk again on the other
side of the new year.

Speaker 12 (01:15:30):
I love you, dearly brother, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Jerome Hudson with us this morning on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. All right, final half hour here. We've

(01:16:04):
got the Man and the Birds coming up in just
a little bit. But I promised you I'm still getting
a boatload of requests for the Christmas list. We have
done thirteen days of shopping for the last thirteen days,
and I consider myself a bit of a shopping expert,
and I find places and sites that you might not

(01:16:29):
normally think about. And I've gone through this list and
it is now the thirteenth day of it, and I've
been sending this out if you want it, Preston Atiheartradio
dot com. One of the emails I got earlier is
the guy said, well, I procrastinated, so it's going to
cost me shipping. Send the list. There you go. We

(01:16:52):
started with Kevin's Catalog, one of my clients, Kevin's Catalog
dot com is a brilliant website. We went to seventeen
seventynited dot com, Patriotic Gear, Little Obsessed dot com. It's
all little things as in small Men'sgear dot net. Dudes,
it's all about dudes. There Signals dot com something for everybody.

(01:17:17):
Kingdomancountry dot co. That is faith, God, Jesus and love
of country. A husbandwife, couple veterans started this site. You
will love it. Everybody has loved that website. Uncommon Goods
dot com is another that a lot of people don't

(01:17:38):
know about. Yes, there are some products that come from overseas,
but there are a lot of products made by mom
and pop shops. People working out of their garage or
out of their den and they put these They make
this stuff and it's incredible. I love the site. I
shopped from there all year long. There's Nemo Equipment dot com,

(01:17:59):
Unique Camping Gearfolio Society dot com, Slash USA that's for
the book Lover. The book's high end expensive classics reproduced
with custom illustrations and drawings. And a binding that is
next level. It is for a collector. Touch of Modern
dot com that had one category, one place on there

(01:18:22):
that is for couples, not for kids, you know what
I'm saying. Then there's gourmet baskets, Gourmet Gift Baskets dot com,
food related snacks, that kind of thing, and just it's
just a it's a it's at a next level. Then
we went with the Norman Rockwell Store, the Norman Rockwell Museum.
It's NRM dot org and there's some very cool Norman

(01:18:44):
Rockwell stuff, including prints, including signed prints if you're so inclined.
And then Today's Niemanmarcus dot com. For me, it's all
about just checking out the fantasy gifts. I mean, I
don't know what's on there this year, but they'll have
submarines on there. They'll have cars like you know Ferraris

(01:19:05):
that are just tricked out and next level jets. They'll
have vacations, they'll have things that are just totally you
gotta be kidding me. So if you want the list
and send me an email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com,
I'll check the email for the next couple of days
and send you that list. Forty minutes past the hour
here on the morning show Chrimas. We are watching the

(01:19:34):
clock here because we got a time the end of
this show perfectly, so let me just take a couple
minutes because that's what we got here before we do
our annual presentation of The Man and the Birds. Tomorrow
we start the Twelve Days of Preston. We start with
the month of January and we will take you through
the new year and beyond and be back with live

(01:19:56):
shows on Monday, January the fifth. Salmuza will join us.
The legislative session will start the following week, so we're
going to hit it wheels down and off we go.
Kat Camick will join us on that Tuesday. Talent Guys
on Wednesday, and we're going So we're going to take

(01:20:18):
this time to recharge our batteries. We'll be loading some
great content on the blog page. Christmas related it's up
there now. There's more that we'll be coming, and then
we'll hopefully be polishing ourselves up for the new Instagram
content to roll out. Whether there's still some things we're
ironing out on that front, but I'm really excited about

(01:20:39):
a new year, very grateful for the year that we've had.
So thankful to all of you you choose to share
time with us, and so many of you have done
this for twenty three plus years, if you can believe it.
Come March, we will celebrate our twenty fourth anniversary of
doing this show and sitting in this very chair, which

(01:21:01):
is kind of interesting, and thank you, thank you very much.
That's just the staff by the way. Anyway. Yeah, And
in this line of work, longevity is not always attained,
and so I don't look at it as a reflection
on me or us. It's a reflection on God's favor

(01:21:24):
and his grace. And I'm very very grateful and I'm
humbled to be able to share this time with you
each and every morning. But lastly, I just want to
say thank you for your support of the projects we
do each Giving season and this year for Orphan Shade,
fifty five thousand dollars plus were raised by you people
in less than a month, and so thank you, just

(01:21:47):
just a heartfelt thank you so very much for your
generosity and your kindness. All Right, when we come back,
the Man and the Birds will wrap up this season
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (01:22:00):
Enjoy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
This is a Christmas Parable written in December nineteen fifty
nine by Lewis Castle's, an author and religion editor for
the United Press International. It is a simple but beautiful
explanation of the mystery of Christmas, the Man and the Birds.
Our dramatic presentation is based on mister Castle's story. Imagine

(01:22:50):
a Norman Rockwell portrait of winter in any of the
small towns that make up America in the nineteen fifties,
It's Christmas Eves are busy getting last minute Aaron's done.
Some weary shoppers pick out gifts for the hard to
shop for at the Olsen Brothers five and die for others,
there's cooking to be done, so it's a walk through

(01:23:12):
the brisk winter wind and a stop at Jerry's to
pick up a few groceries. But by six o'clock in
the evening, everything is closed. The roads are calm, save
for the occasional loved one making their way back home
for the holidays. While many look forward to the annual
Christmas Eve service at community Church in at least one home,

(01:23:33):
there is a story that is about to be told. No,
it's not that story, the one that starts with twas
the night before Christmas. No, this story is not yet written.
It begins with a short drive outside of town to
a farmhouse, a modest home, warmly decorated for Christmas. The

(01:23:57):
children's pony is stabled for the night, and it's a
good thing, because that winter wind is growing colder, and
it's bringing with it the promise of snow. Inside, the
sound of crackling wood can be heard. The kids are
playing checkers one minute, getting ready to take a bath.
The next, Mom is busy finishing tomorrow's cookies and treats,

(01:24:20):
and there bringing in one last load of wood for
the night. His dad, he looked upon Christmas as a
lot of humbug, But he wasn't a scrooge. He was
a kind and decent man, generous to his family, upright
in all his dealings with other men. In fact, when
advice was needed, folks in town always knew to come

(01:24:42):
to the farmhouse up the road. But he didn't believe
all that stuff about incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas,
and he was too honest to pretend that he did.
I'm truly sorry to distress you, he told his wife.
But I simply cannot understand this claim that God, God
becomes a man. It doesn't make any sense to me.

(01:25:04):
It's Christmas Eve. The kids are now dressed and ready,
the hair is brushed or combed, and his wife and
children prepared to head to church for the midnight candlelight service.
They were hopeful that this might be the year. He
said yes. However, he declined to accompany them. I feel

(01:25:27):
like a hypocrite, he explained. I'd rather stay home, but
I'll wait up for you, honey. Shortly after his family
drove away in the car, the expected snow began to fall.
He went to the window and watched the flurries get
heavier and heavier. If we must have Christmas, at least

(01:25:50):
it'll be a white one. He put another split log
on the fire and stoked it up just a little,
then went back to his chair by the fireside and
began to read his newspaper. His eyes grew tired. A
few minutes later, he was startled by a thudding sound.

(01:26:13):
It was quickly followed by another, then another. He thought
that someone must be throwing snowballs at his living room window.
But that made no sense, not at this hour, not
with such heavy snow falling and strong wind. Blowing. When
he went to the front door to investigate, he found

(01:26:33):
a flock of birds huddled miserably in the storm. They
had been caught in the winter weather, and in a
desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his
picture window. I can't let these poor creatures lie there
and freeze, he thought. I told you he was a
kind and decent man, But how can I help them?

(01:26:54):
Then he remembered the barn where his children's pony was stapled.
It would provide a warm shelter, he thought. He warmed
his hands one last time and put on his coat,
trying to capture some warmth before buttoning it bottom to top.
Then came the galoshes and he trampled through the deepening
snow to the barn. He opened the door wide and

(01:27:14):
turned on a light, trying to create an illuminated guide
for the flock, But the birds didn't come in. Food
will lure them in, he thought, So he hurried back
to the house and grabbed the loaf of bread and
quickly shredded it for bread crumbs, which he then sprinkled
on the snow to make a trail into the barn.
To his dismay, The birds ignored the bread crumbs and

(01:27:36):
continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. Realizing the
cold was overtaking his new winged, but confused charges, he
tried shoeing them into the barn by walking around and
waving his arms. They scattered in every direction except into
the warm lighted barn. They find me a strange and

(01:27:58):
terrifying creature, he said to him, And I can't seem
to think of any way to let him know that
they can trust me. If only I could be a
bird myself for just a few minutes, perhaps I could
lead them to safety. If if only I could become
one of one of one of them, If only I
could become one of them, they'd understand. Just at that moment,

(01:28:29):
the wind fell calm, and the new glistening snow reflected
the glorious radiance of the night. Then church bells began
to ring. He stood silent for a while, listening to
the bells peeling the glad tidings of Christmas. Then he

(01:28:50):
sank to his knees in the snow. Now I do understand,
he whispered, Now I see what you had to do it.
He remained for a while motionless but filled with emotion.
Hands lifted, hard, moved. Soon the headlights of his family

(01:29:15):
arriving home revealed a most unexpected but long hoped for gift.
Christmas was never the same for the family and the
farmhouse outside of Tyler. How could it be the man

(01:29:36):
and the birds