Ep. 5364: Flying taxies and no more cashiers, the future is here.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, April 23rd

Our guests today include:
- Leonard Hamilton





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
One of friends, neighbors, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
males and females only welcome to the morning show. He's ose,
I'm preston a show fifty three sixty four. This will
be a very interesting program, as they all are. But
let me not get sidetracked on that. We'll get to

(00:36):
this date in history in just a few moments. Today
we're going into Romans fourteen. Now. Romans fourteen is summarized
as a chapter on judging others. But I want to
share a concern because it starts out with who are

(01:01):
you in verse four to pass judgment on the servant
of another? Earlier it talks about one person believes he
may eat anything while the weak person eats only vegetables,
and they're talking about what why are you judging this stuff?
So this is addressing. That's not a sin stop it.

(01:26):
Those are preferences. But later it gets to weightier matters,
and I want to go to verse ten eleven, where
it says, why do you pass judgment on your brother?
Or you? Why do you despise your brother? For we

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will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For
it is written as I live says the Lord, every
knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess
to God. And in verse twelve it wraps up saying,
so then each of us will give an account of
himself to God. I want to caution you because this

(02:11):
is part of where people who want to continue to
sin and want you to rubber stamp it or to
just be quiet about it. That's not what this is
talking about. The judgment being referred to here deals in

(02:34):
two things. It deals with those aren't sins. Those are preferences.
When it comes to food. You could contemporize that to say,
music of I like singing out of a hymnal well,
I like slides on a screen. Well, I don't like
instruments that make noises that are too loud. Those are preferences.

(02:58):
We're not talking about preferences. Is that deal with, for example,
same sex marriage, because that's sin. We're talking about different
kinds of things here, we're talking about minutia. But then
it pivots and it talks about judging others' souls. Because

(03:20):
Scripture throughout gives Christians the responsibility to look at each
other's lives and to hold each other accountable to the
standard of Christ and not trying to be perfect, but saying,
for example, if you've got a friend and you know
your friend has kind of got eyes for a coworker

(03:41):
and he's married, you address that friend, you say something
about that. If you have a friend that's looking at
stuff that's inappropriate, doesn't matter whether he's married or single.
It's inappropriate, it's porn, you address that friend. If you've
got a friend that uses language that's just wrong, you

(04:05):
address that friend. Those are things that we're supposed to
hold each other. You're supposed to judge that. Oftentimes in
scripture we try to kind of boil it down to
being a fruit inspector. You're supposed to look at people's
lives if they claim to be a Christian. Now if
they don't claim to be a Christian. There's a different
set of standards there, and there's a different way of interacting.

(04:28):
The judgment that's being referred to here in Romans ten,
Romans fourteen, ten, eleven and twelve is a judgment where no, no, no,
we don't judge one's eternal soul. That's up to God,
and that's between that person and God. That's what Jesus
reminded us judge, not lest you be judged. He wasn't

(04:51):
talking about looking at each other's lives. He was talking
about eternal judgment. That's not our place. So, like anything else,
you read this scripture, but you read what God says
about the subject, and you'll find balance. And that's what

(05:13):
I'm encouraging you to do. But our verse today is
from Romans fourteen, ten past the hour. It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(05:38):
It is April twenty third inside the American Patriots Almanac,
seventeen eight nine Act. It's April twenty third inside the
American Patriots Almanac. In seventeen eighty nine, President elect George

(05:58):
Washington and his wife Martha move into the first presidential mansion,
the Franklin House, in New York City. That's part of
a tour if you do tours in New York City.
I kind of like the double decker bus that's open
air on a beautiful day. That's kind of cool it is.

(06:18):
There's certain times I don't mind being a sardine in
a can. And as long as it's that kind of
thing where you can look around that that's kind of
cool being inside the bus where you just you got
people and you can't really look around as well. But
those open air buses are pretty sweet. Seventeen ninety one
James Buchan and fifteenth US President Board near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.

(06:41):
Nineteen oh eight, President Theodore Roosevelt signs an act creating
the Medical Reserve Corps, the beginning of the US Military Reserve.
Nineteen fourteen. Wrigley Field, originally the home of the Chicago
Federals now the Cubs, opens nineteen fourteen of those venerated

(07:01):
old places of Sports, and in nineteen sixty two, Ranger four,
the US first US spacecraft to reach the Moon's surface,
is launched. Sure, sure, we did. Yeah whatever, I'm just
I'm just never mind. Today is National Administrative Professionals Day.

(07:24):
It's the Wednesday of the last full week of April,
so it floats, but I'm just there you go. It
is National Loss Dog Awareness. The picture for this one
shows an adorable little dog holding a stick that has

(07:50):
a sack on the end of it, and he's just
sitting there staring at the camera. I mean, it's beautifully staged.
It's adorable, but that isn't a loss dog. That's that's
a runaway. The dog has a stick and a and
a sack sack tied to it with his belongings like
you know, a couple of biscuits and a chew and

(08:12):
you know that that's a runaway. But anyway, it's National
cherry cheese take Cheesecake Day. No no, no, no, no,
no no no. On the cherries and cheesecake. Fine cherries.
No no cherries belong in a Coca Cola. That's it.

(08:34):
That's it. National take a Chance Day. See I hear that,
and you know what immediately comes to mind the Swedish
singing group Abba, take a change, stake a change, take
a chance. You know some of you know what I'm
talking about. Take a chance on me, take a change.

(08:55):
Dick it chains, dick it chain chains. It's a national
picnic picnic Day. And it's and this is appropriate given
our interview, national talk like Shakespeare Day. That that's that's
a chore. Now talking like Shakespeare.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Today's program we are we are scheduled to have FSU
basketball coach recently retired from coaching basketball. I suspect this
is this. This dude is like a renaissance man. He

(09:36):
has so many things going on. Leonard Hamilton is scheduled
to join us today in studio for a sit down.
I'm holding him to a conversation we had years ago
in a grocery store. We we occasionally would bump into
each other at the store and just chit chat for

(09:57):
a few minutes, and and he said to me once
we were probably close to frozen foods. You know, sometime
when I'm finished with all this, I'd like to come
in and just talk. Okay, let's do that. So I
gave it a little bit of time, and I reached out.
I said, coach you once said, he said, come on.

(10:22):
And so I'm hoping we talked over the weekend. I'm
hoping this is gonna happen. I do have backup material
in case. I'm just saying, but I'm fired up about
having Coach Leonard Hamilton with us today on the program.
So with that said, we have a lot of other

(10:45):
things going on, a very unusual set of stories in
the press box today, So stay with us seventeen past
the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston's Guy. All Right,

(11:06):
I can't tell you about everything that's going on in
our in our area. But if you have something you'd
like me to mention, you certainly can send it my
way and I'll do my very best, whether it's in
the Tallassee area, the Panama City area, if you're in
that broadcast range. I don't necessarily talk a whole lot

(11:28):
about what's going on in Poughkeepsie or any other parts
of the country because the number of listeners we have,
though we have listeners in forty five states and a
few countries around the world. It's like I've got some
listeners in in Europe, but you're not likely to hear

(11:53):
me talk about an event going on in Saint London,
and it's just not quite probably the best way to
spend time. But if you have something you want to
share at preston at iHeartRadio dot com. These are things
that iHeart is behind. This is coming up on Monday,
April twenty eighth. It is the Rolling Remembrance Sunrise Ceremony

(12:19):
Refreshment Services PEPSI stepping up big thank you very much
in honoring veterans. It'll be at the North Florida Fairgrounds
Monday at eight am and it's to support the children
of fallen Patriots Foundation, and so I want to just
draw your attention to that. You can learn more. Fallenpatriots

(12:39):
dot org is the website Fallenpatriots dot org. And maybe
you'll feel inclined to do something and help give a
little something terrific, but at least find out what they're doing.
And if you can show up eight am Monday, sorry,
eight am Monday at the Fairgrounds. All right now, this

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weekend is Operation Medicine Cabinet. We talk about this every year.
It happens once a year. It's going to take place
at the Costco in Tallahassee. On langap. Yeah, you didn't
know how to pronounce that. If you if you l
a g n i a ppe, Come on, l I

(13:25):
l a g n i a ppe. How many of
you knew how to pronounce that? You didn't know how
to pronounce it, and neither did I. Here's why I
knew that. I knew that because of a story that
I came across years ago. Because it's a Cajun term.

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It's a Cajun word lanyap, which means something extra. So
for example, if you're at a at a fruit market
and you're you're buying fruit and Let's say you buy
six apples. Sometimes the person that's selling you will will
pick out another apple and put it in there. That's lonyap.

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That's a little something extra. You paid for six, you're
getting seven. That's the that's the lonyap anyway, lonyap is
how it's pronounced. Costco on lonap a way From ten
to two, it's it's a medicine collection event. It's in
partnership with us dea National Prescription Drug take back Day.

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Everybody has prescriptions that are expired or you don't take
or you don't and and it's you don't throw them
down the sink. This is not for sharps or medical
waste or thermometers. This is strictly for medications. Keeping the
water quality pure, prevents misuse, someone grabbing them, trying to

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repackage them, sell them whatever they ask you to keep
medications and original containers. If there's any personal information which
there will be on the prescription, take a sharpie and
cross through your personal information on the containers and then
just bring it all. Just just bring it and again
ten am to two on Saturday at the Costco. Again,

(15:21):
no sharps, that's like no, no, no, no, no, they're not
going to take those. And then a quick reminder that
also this weekend is the simultaneous Bible reading at the
State Capitol in preparation for National Day of Prayer, which
is next Thursday. Will remind you of that. But the
Bible reading, if you want to read, just show up.

(15:43):
Assignments are going to be given out at nine thirty,
so show up at nine thirty and it begins at
ten ten to eleven just reading scripture boom, and they'll
they'll take like you know, Psalm, so probably to buy
that in half. There'll be some books that you know,
they need as many people as possible so they can
divide it up and no one gets horse. Twenty seven

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minutes after the hour, come back. Very interesting, big stories
in the press box. Next, Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Controversy erupting on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. But then it ain't call call Lenya. You

(16:32):
got the wrong information. Well maybe I did, and maybe
I didn't. Maybe you're wrong. I'm just saying I talked
to people born and raised there. I said, I'm curious
because I came across it in a book. So I
was curious, how do you say I got lanyap? Now
if you want to say lan yap or Lean yappi

(16:54):
or lan yappy whatever, I don't you do you, brother?
It's all good. It's all good. Coach a gator, choot it.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm just having some fun.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I appreciate the effort to try to correct me, but
I can't take your word for it anymore than you know.
I know these people, they're my friends. This is what
they said. So that's what I'm going with. Lan yept's
say it all right? Now we got another thing, earthquake
in Turkey? Is it Turkey? Where is it? Istanbul? Is Stanbul? Turkey? Yep,

(17:29):
that's Turkey. Oh yes, yes, I believe. So now for
us to not Turkey, it's an Istanbul? Oh thanks, there's
uh yes, So keep that region in your prayers. And
then there's can I bring a gun to the day

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to the prayer thing? Well, I I don't see why
you can't. You can't open carry in Florida, so you
know it's concealed carry. You're outside the state capital, you're
on the grounds, you're just you're they're praying, so you
do you it's obviously from a tactical perspective. I will

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never ever allow anybody to know. But that's just that's
tactically the best way to approach it. Some of you
think open carry is tactically better. You're wrong, but that's okay.
You're allowed to think that the issue of open carrying
Florida is that we should have the right to, not

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that we we should do it from a tactical perspective,
but we should just have the right to. And I
agree with you. Okay, the big stories in the press box,
I'll that ought to generate some more calls, and that's
not my goal because, like Jose has things to do. Okay,
it's not my goal to generate phone calls other than

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when I want to. I'm not wanting to. Sam's is
phasing out checkouts. This is interesting. Costco is saying now
now we want the human touch. We will continue to
have cashiers. Sam's is going automated in all of their

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six hundred plus stores across the country. They are going
to a system known as scan and go, where you
use your app to scan products and you're paying for
it as you go, and so they have giant scanners
when you walk out of the place. It's going to

(19:39):
kind of survey what you got and out the door
you go. So Sam's is betting on AI technology. They're
betting on the tech to to merge the shopping experience
with all of this new technology. I think it's fascinating

(19:59):
the costco's doing and the other thing costcos say no,
we want people, Sam's saying no, we want automation. I
like the idea. I'm not sure I trust the idea,
but I like it. I just I envision cheaters, you know,

(20:19):
walking around with devices that read your whatever when you're
scanning stuff and get your credit card info or whatever.
I'm just I'm not certain about all this. And then
our other big story technologically oriented as well, Archer Aviation
is teaming up with United Airlines and they are going

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to debut this year in I believe, Abu Dhabi and
then next year in New York, as well as other outlets.
Air Taxis to fly people to the airport to catch flights.
I don't know if you're able to bypass security. I

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don't know any of it. It's going to be. It's
gonna be high end for business, first class travelers. As
an add on service. Another company's working with Delta on
the same type of idea, and that same company is
working with Uber flying taxis. Would you they're safer than helicopters,

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But we're still talking. Would you do this? Their their
plan is they think air taxis will will eliminate needing
rights to the airport. Catching a train to the airport,
a subway to the airport, a taxi to the airport.
You just call one of these bad boys and it

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to and it comes and drops, and you bring your
luggage and it automatic. It's automated. It's just pilotless. Off
you go. I don't know a fuck that forty one
minutes past the hour. There you go. You're caught up
big stories in the press box, all right, Pete Hegsith,

(22:10):
Defense Secretary back in the news. Does it occur to
you what's going on at the Pentagon that there are
some deeply embedded in liberals that want no part of
getting the trainees out of the military. They want no

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part of getting rid of DEI, They want no part
of turning the United States military back into a lethal
fighting force, which is the job of the military. I mean,
what we've done to a certain extent is we've taken

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a forty cow handgun and turned it into a squirt
gun that, oh, by the way, skirts water so that
it has a little panache with a splash. Obama started this. Obama,
I mean, unbelievably said out loud, we want to reduce

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our ability to fight on two fronts. What. Yeah, he
publicly stated we had no need to fight on two fronts.
What a cosmically stupid thing to say, even if you

(23:42):
think that that's part of Barack's ability to capitulate to
the world and lower America. So what HEG Sith is
doing is he's putting lethality back into our military and
people don't like it. So we've got leaks, and HEG
Sith dealt with it head on, and he wasn't having

(24:03):
any of it.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
They've come after me from day one, just like they've
come after President Trump. I mean, I've gotten a fraction
of what President Trump got in that first term. What
he's endured is superhuman.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's not hard for me to do this job.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I know exactly why I'm here, to bring war fighting
and the war fighting ethos back to the Pentagon, to
rip out the insidious ideologies and not compromise and not
back down. To bring in new press voices into the Pentagon,
which we've done, to re establish standards and accountability, to
not tolerate leakers, to treat one hundred percent operational control

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of our border, to get rid of trans lunacy in
the military. We haven't backed down. So here's the thing.
A lot of people come to Washington and they just
play the game, and it's punch their ticket and get
along to go along, and you know, start doing meet
the press and go into the Council on formulations and
spending time with all the new cocktail sipping crowd.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
That's not why I'm here.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm here because President Trump asked me to bring war
fighting back to the Pentagon. Every single day, that is
our focus. And if people don't like it, they can
come after me. No worries. I'm standing right here. The
warfighters are behind us. Our enemies know they're unnoticed, our
allies know we're behind them.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
And that in this.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Dangerous world for the American people, is what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yesterday on Fox and Friends, the Secretary of Defense clear
once again giving information on a signal chat he communicated
with his wife and a couple other people. He's not
giving war plans or details on anything. He's not that stupid,
my god, Now does he need to be more thoughtful about? Okay,

(25:47):
why even go there? Why even open up that? I mean,
let's stick with grocery lists, dinner plans and meetings with
others that my wife and I need to attend. Let's
not even talk about who the's Iran, North Korea, South Korea, China, Israel.
Let's not even talk about any of that stuff on

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these little messages back and forth with family. He'll clean
that up, but he's not giving out details of attacks.
For God's sake. It's just absurd. But this shows the
resistance to change embedded in even the Pentagon. That's how
deep this infection has gotten. This is like when you

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think you've got something going on in your body here
and it's here, here and here and here and here
and here. It's not easy to clean up, but you
gotta do it. Forty seven minutes after the hour when
we come back. It's a win every now and then.

(27:01):
You just need to spike the football and get a win.
It's like that team that's zero to ten and finally
wins a football game, or they're a baseball team that's
on a massive losing streak and they get a win,
and it's yes, it's nice getting some wins. You may

(27:25):
recall the World Health Organization was trying to usurp the
authority of the United States, the sovereign authority of the
United States on health related matters within the borders of
this country. Like who are you just go away? Bunch

(27:46):
of globalists who think that they ought to have the
authority on whatever. And so Trump said, we're out, you guys,
And so they are desperately trying to win us back.
This is the equivalent of sending a box of chocolates
and a card with some flowers to make up. They

(28:10):
announced last week that its member states have reached a
pandemic agreement after years of intensive negotiations. The treaty the
draft includes provisions to guarantee the countries that share critical

(28:30):
virus samples receive any resulting tests, medicines, vaccines, who keeps
twenty percent of such products to ensure poorer countries get
the supplies? And I would say to World Health Organization,
whatever will take care of that ourselves, if we want
to send some to Malawi or wherever, will do that.

(28:53):
We don't need you look, we got ups and FedEx two.
We don't need you to handle the shipping. But here's
what's key. Under the proposal, countries will have their own
sovereignty to deal with public health issues within their borders.

(29:13):
Quoting nothing in the draft Agreement shall be interpreted as
providing who the World Health Organization any authority to direct, order, alter,
or prescribe national laws or policies, or mandate states to
take specific actions such as ban or accept travelers, imposed vaccinate,
vaccination mandates, or therapeutic or diagnostic measures, or implement lockdowns.

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That is huge, You know what that is. That's what
you get when you have a president who's a leader
who learned from his mistakes, not gonna do it again.
Wonderful news. Now do we become a member of it?

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I don't think we ought to. We're big boy. We
can just say, okay, good to hear from you, Thanks
very much. Now, we'll just do what we think is right.
We'll help who we can help. We'll we'll do what
we do. We don't need the World Health Organization. We
just don't anyway. All right, we come back. I have

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devoted time to help you Catholics out what's next? I
am gonna explain it all, and I'm gonna give you
the list that I've compiled of the likely candidates to
become the next pope. I could only hope that they

(30:38):
wouldn't do it anymore. That's not gonna happen. Church doesn't
need a pope. They need somebody to administrate. That's fine,
but we don't need a person as a religious leader
head of the church. That's Jesus. But it is what
it is. So we're gonna help. Next here in the

(30:59):
Morning Show with Preston's got I'm going to avoid the
temptation to wander over to Politico and illustrate the bias

(31:23):
in alleged reporting. But I'm not going there. I'm not
going to do it. All right, Welcome friends, second hour
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Prestons Osey.
I think the subject of the pope is a really
important one because it gives us a great opportunity to
point out to everybody, especially Catholics, Jesus Christ is the

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head of any Christian church. Now, I believe that the
Catholic Church equently moves into the realm of religion. Understand
that does not mean all adherents and congregants and members

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and Catholics are quote religious. There are many that love
Jesus and are solid Christians, But I believe that it
is a religion steeped in idolatry and things that are
just not biblically sound. And I believe the Church, because

(32:33):
of the leadership of this particular pope, most specifically, has
been led astray and has engaged in heretical teachings. And
I will detail that in greater length, maybe tomorrow or Friday.
But we get now to the process of choosing a pope.
It is a fascinating process, to be sure. The funeral

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is going to begin the Novedaandale Dale, which is a
period of nine days of mourning. Special masses will be
said for the repose of Francis's soul. Now even that right,
there is a problem, but I'll stop. In about two weeks,

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the College of Cardinals will be gathered for a conclave
where a new pope will be chosen. They'll meet in
the Sistine Chapel, they will discuss they will vote by
secret ballot. Only cardinals under the age of eighty are
eligible to vote. Two thirds majority required to elect the
next pope. They remain in isolation of conclave until someone

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carries two thirds, and then the ballots are burned with
an additive that turns the black smoke to white. If
they have a choice. If it's undecided, the smokes black.
So every time there is a vote, there is a

(34:06):
cloud whether it's If it's black, they are undecided. If
it's white, they have a decision. So that's that's how
you see it. They they burn the ballots each time.
Ostensibly no record. I guess, you know whatever. Now I
just have to mention before I start going through the

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names here, and for totally childish reasons, how do you
not consider Cardinal bier Bautista Pizza Bala any dude's name
that has Pizza Bala in it? Come on, can I

(34:54):
get that man a vote? I don't know anything about
his theology, but a pope Pizza Bala. It sounds like
a chain, doesn't it. But no, seriously, He's fifty nine
year old, served Jerusalem for over thirty years, made cardinal
just before the Hamas Israel War broke out in twenty

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twenty three. He has offered himself an exchange for hostages
during the war. Some think he's on the list. He's
not on most lists. What I have tirelessly compiled for
you is a list that breaks down the most likely names,

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and I'm going to give you the one that is
right now probably taking money in England and in some books,
there's betting, trust me, there's betting on this. There are
people making money on betting on who the next Pope
is going to be. And if you were so inclined,

(36:07):
I'll give you what the summary of my research yesterday
showed me as the potential likely leading candidate. But there's
a list of names. We're gonna go through them and
give you a snapshot of what they're all about. We'll
do that here this hour. This not the whole hour,
just the next couple segments here on the Morning Show

(36:28):
with Preston Scott. Ten Past the hour, quick check of
weather and traffick. Back with the names at the Morning Show,
Preston Scott, all right, let's start.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
With the.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Names here. These are the candidates that most are listing.
And again I went through a lot of lists and
then I looked at, okay, what names are common in
these lists? Now I just tossed in, you know, pizza

(37:12):
Bala because I just love the name, but here we go.
Cardinal Pietro Powerlin of Italy. He is currently the Vatican
Secretary of State for the Papacy, holding the second highest
position in the Church. He's also a member of the
Council of Cardinals, architect of the church's very controversial appeasement

(37:34):
with China. He is a moderate when it comes to bureaucracy,
but he is an absolute globalist. Recently pushed Europe to
rediscover itself, which is kind of a European Union rhetoric

(37:56):
right out of their playbook. Then there is from France,
Cardinal Jean Ain. I just have this Avealelen sorry. Multiculturalists
love the guy. He is a Francis style reformer, his
champion immigration, interfaith outreach. He believes that, much much like Francis,

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that all paths lead to God, and so he's all
for this. Listen now, listen now. End Times theology teaches
of a one world church. This guy believes in bringing
Muslims in and everybody getting along and can't we all
be friends. He doesn't understand that Islamis don't want to

(38:44):
be a friend. You're either an Islamist or you are
an Infidel, and you are, you are targeted. But his
leanings theologically mirror the secular French view of things. His
inability to speak Italian may be a problem for him

(39:05):
because Vatican politics require some skills. There there's Cardinal Mario
groc or Groch from Malta. He's formally a conservative, but
he's changed. He's now a big time reformer. He's called

(39:25):
for the church to move beyond nostalgia and embrace LGBT acceptance.
He has helped Francis in the restructuring of the Sinata bishops.
Conservatives look at him as someone who is diluting the church,

(39:49):
not strengthening it. Cardinal Juan Jose Omela of Spain social
justice believes in compassionate Catholicism, which is another way of
saying yeah, embracing sin. He would he would continue the
erosion of church structured theology based on the Bible and

(40:13):
worry more about political activism. Cardinal Joseph Tobin of America.
He is totally embraced LGBT inclusivity, open immigration. He's a radical.
And then there's Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Italy, very much

(40:34):
into the Francis style of church. He's downplayed the church
sex abuse scandals while pushing for inter faith compromise, once
again opening the door to you know, all paths lead
to God, which is completely anti scriptural. Those are some
of the names. Now we're still not identifying the leading candidate.

(40:57):
I'll do that next sixteen minutes past the hour, We'll
get may be the more traditional conservative hopefuls. Next. All right,
before we reveal the inside track guy who is likely
to be or many consider to be the leading candidate

(41:20):
to become the next pope we are, we're now going
to touch on some names of some that are considered
more traditionally aligned theologically conservative in their views. I may
mispronounce some of these names. Cardinal whim ejak or Ike

(41:42):
from the Netherlands. This is rare because Euros don't generally
defend Orthodox scripture. He challenged Francis over civil unions and
the Eucharist, and he believes in restoring Catholic theological teaching

(42:09):
that is clear and scriptural based in what is described
as an era of moral confusion. If we put it diplomatically,
there's Cardinal Friedoling Mbongo Bassungo of Congo. This is an
interesting dude. African cardinal rejected francis endorsement of blessings for

(42:34):
same sex couples, resists secular infiltration of the church. If
he were to be elected, it would be an absolute
shockwave through the liberal wing of the Catholic Church. There's
Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary. He is an ally of

(42:59):
traditional values, resisted pressure pressure to liberalize the church communion,
and defended the Christian roots of Europe. He's considered pragmatic, diplomatically,

(43:21):
complement competent, and fluent in multiple languages. He's considered a
bit of a build bridge builder without compromise on scriptural truth,
which is interesting. Cardinal Raymond Burke of the United States,
he has long challenged. We've talked about him a couple

(43:43):
times over the years. He has challenged Francis on a
ton of theological issues, marriage, sin, sexuality, and so Francis
retaliated by stripping him of his housing and salary, and
that tells you all you need to know. To the left.
And then there's Cardinal Peter Turkisen of Ghana. Now he's interesting,

(44:11):
but he has kind of flirted with the whole climate
change thing, and he could be considered trying to be
appealing to all sides of the coin at once, and
that may not be a good recipe. So those are
your more And if you're thinking, well, there's more liberal
leaning candidates, you're exactly right. And we haven't even gotten

(44:34):
to the person who may balance the scales liberal conservative
traditional doctrinely versus progressive doctrinally, which means heretical, I would say,
doctrinally sound versus heretically doctrine doctrinely heretical. The leading candidate

(44:54):
to many is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagel, who is from
the Philippines. Here's what makes him interesting. Besides the fact
that he is known as the Asian Francis. That's not
my name, that's the name he's known as. He is

(45:16):
a very liberal, progressive, anti traditional doctrinal cardinal, which makes
him one of the leading candidates. And here are two
other reasons. He would be the very first Asian pope
and interestingly enough, he would be the first fluent in English.

(45:44):
He thinks the church out to soften its stance on
same sex unions on a host of other topics. So
there are your names. Those are the people that are
considered to be the leading candidates. Again, in closing, I

(46:04):
remind all of you Catholics the idea of leading, of
having somebody be anything other than an administrator, is wrong.
We don't need a high priest. We have one. His
name's Jesus. We don't bow to any man. We bow
to Jesus. We have a Bible that speaks God's inerrant word.

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We don't need anyone interpreting it for us. We certainly
don't need quote the head of a church to water
it down. So with that said, there you go. I
am going to speak to the theological heresies of Francis.

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His judgment before God is between he and God. I'll
not judge his place and eternity. There's no doubt that
he gave much of his life to trying to serve
the Lord, and what God thinks of that service is
up to him. It's not my call. I will speak
to the fact that from a doctrinal position he was
a heretic, and I will point out why Tomorrow or

(47:18):
Friday here in the program twenty seven minutes after be ont,
let's do the big stories in the press box kind
of tech related next on the Morning Show at Preston
Scott thirty five past the hour it's so interesting to
hear the news and for example, to hear doctor Marty

(47:38):
McCarey of Johns Hopkins a guest on this show. You
just it's so fun to hear people that are in
the news are sought after and they're just guests of
the morning show with this little old host me. It's
just fun. God gives a favor. I don't understand it.

(48:01):
I'm grateful for it. Big stories in the press box
this morning. Would you take an air taxi to the airport?
The goal of air taxis, and this is in the
wake of Archer Aviation air taxi network in New York
City partnership with United Airlines. The goal is to fly

(48:24):
passengers to their flights within minutes. Now these are piloted
air taxis. I thought they were autonomous. Some of them
are going to be. It's designed to carry four passengers
and you'll eventually be able to book these flights on
top of your United Airlines flight as an add on.

(48:46):
It's usually it's going to initially be for business and
first class passengers. Delta is working on a similar type thing.
They say a helicopter has two to three hundred single
points of failure once you go electric, you can add
a level of redundancy you can't get with a piston
or combustion engine. So, for example, the Archer aircraft called

(49:11):
Midnight has twelve different propellers, so even if an engine
or propeller isn't working, it continue to fly. What if
two aren't working. I can't answer that. I don't know.
It also has fixed wings, which, depending on your altitude,
gives you the potential glide path of up to twenty miles.

(49:33):
Now I have to believe that that glide path has
to be at certain altitudes. Based on my limited flying
experience as a pilot, though I never got my license,
I soloed. I always because I don't consider myself a pilot.
I have people write in that are flight instructors. They say, look,

(49:54):
you soloed, you're a pilot. No, I didn't get I
didn't finish the job. Joby Aviation is working simultaneously with
Delta and Uber to do its own flying taxi electric thing.
But back to Archer. Its company value is three point
nine to four billion. The only thing I'd ever heard

(50:18):
about Archer is the Archer aircraft that I you know,
I've flown. It's a Piper Piper Archer. It's a nice airplane,
but it's like, I don't know where I'm at on this,
That's all I'm saying. Now, there's another piece of technology
that I think is a big story. And the reason

(50:38):
why I think these are big stories is because they
intersect with culture. This one more so. Sam's is phasing
out checkouts and they are betting big on AI shopping. Now,
I've already gotten emails from people that's saying, scan and
go is brilliant. No lines, you're bagging it yourself as
you go, and you're scanning and you're paying and out

(51:01):
the door. No, just out the I mean we're doing
it all for the most part. Now anyway, right, how
often are you even using the checkout line? They're fewer
and fewer now. The redesign of a Walmart near me
has been pretty clever and they've done a pretty nice
job of providing ways to do it. But how interesting.

(51:22):
Costco is saying, No, we're not gonna do this. We're
staying with cashiers. We're staying with the human element. Sam's
is saying, uh, we're gonna use people for other reasons.
We're gonna make more pizzas. Even that, though, is automated.
They've got a robotic pizza maker. So I don't know
where that's gonna go. I hear it's awesome. Never used it.

(51:44):
I'd be worried about people wandering around as you're checking things,
getting your You're just finding a way to get your
card information or whatever through there. Just they're just walking
by scan it's your scans. I don't know. I don't
that's it. My reticence goes there. But anyway, forty minutes

(52:04):
past the album, those unique big stories in the press box. Yeah,
uh huh.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Come on, take that for a ride.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Okay, this story intrigued me on the surface. Listen to
the headline Gorsic Roberts side with left leaning Supreme Court
justices and immigration ruling. And originally I was like, oh,
come on, Neil Gorsic, John Roberts. Absolutely I get it.

(52:58):
But gorsicch and then you read into the body of
the story a narrow ruling. This is the Fox write
up that could portend the court's future thinking amid a
flurry of legal cases centered around immigration. I completely disagree.
They put that summary at the beginning of the story,

(53:19):
and I disagree listen to why see if you come
to the same conclusion. The five to four ruling Monsalvo
Valasquez versus Bondi centered on the government's interpretation of a
sixty day voluntary departure deadline, which authorities can use to
allow certain immigrants deemed to be of good moral character

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to depart the US on their own terms within that
time frame. The Supreme Court ruled that any voluntary departure
deadlines for immigrants under the sixty day departure timeframe that
fall on a weekend or on a legal holiday in
the US should be extended to the next business day.

(54:04):
What That's what this was about? Okay, I absolutely could
be missing something here, but I've done a little reading
on this, and I'm trying to figure out why was
this even in court? Is the United States government? I mean, God,

(54:29):
bless you, Pam Bondy. I'm with you, I'm for you.
But are we really fighting over whether someone departs themselves
in sixty days versus sixty two? It deports themselves? I mean,
what you heard the ruling. Any voluntary departure deadlines for

(54:50):
immigrants under the sixty day departure time frame that fall
on a weekend or on a legal holiday in the
US should be extend ended to the next business day.
What's wrong with that? I mean, so let me go
back now. Now, even though there were the descents were

(55:14):
like three different descents from Thomas Alito and Amy Cony Barrett,
and it's like, so they were all picking on it
for different reasons the ruling. But I'm like, well, what
I mean of all the I'm not expressing this very well,
which sucks for a talk show host. How is it

(55:38):
with the mountain of important issues that need to be
litigated and settled? Are we worried about whether someone who
is of good moral character that we've determined that, in
other words, they're not bad people, they're going to self deport,
They've got sixty days to do it. Why are we
hassling over whether they do it in sixty three days

(56:01):
or sixty two days? Do you see what I'm saying?
Does it make sense bigger fish to fry? Why are
we taking up? And then what is Fox doing saying
this ruling could give us insight to how the court
is thinking about immigration. No, it's not. The five to

(56:26):
four in this one is saying, Eh, what's the big deal?
The four saying that's kind of a big deal. You
got to get it done in sixty days or less
they know whether a holidays coming or not, and the
others are saying, oh, come on, what's another couple of days,
And I'm like, I don't care either way. This shouldn't

(56:48):
be litigated before the highest court in this country when
we have issues of real immigration importance and and transgender
intrusion into athletics and women's lives, safe spaces sports. I mean,
there are cases just the Second Amendment and the First Amendment,

(57:14):
not a couple of days on a self deportation. So
when I saw this story, it just hit me totally
differently than maybe I guess it'll hit anybody else. I
don't know. I think as I'm looking at this, I'm
just not seeing why in the world this was even there.
So look, I'm loving what the president with Pam Bond

(57:38):
You're focused on, but this one, I think is a whiff.
Forty seven minutes after the outBut when we come back
speaking of illegal immigration, he is the record holder most

(58:02):
wins in the history of Florida State University men's basketball,
Leonard Hamilton. He will be joining me shortly here in studio,
we're just going to chat. And I've been around the
FSU program for Coach his entire tenure. I was working

(58:31):
for ABC Television when Coach got hired, and so I
had a few years covering his predecessor. But I've been
in the community since the days of Pat Kennedy. Coach
won more than everybody and and I remember running into

(58:55):
running into him at the store and we just chatted
up for a few minutes and always just a pleasant,
pleasant visit. And he's always been very kind. And on
occasion I had the opportunity to speak to the team
and met some of the players'. Biggest hug I've ever
had in my life was Michael Ojo. Michael one of

(59:19):
the kindest young men I've ever known or met my life.
And Michael passed away tragically of I believe, a heart attack,
very young, but what a wonderful young man. And I've
met a lot of really good young people. Got to

(59:41):
meet and get to know a little bit. The Vetus
Delcas who was a Lithuanian playing for Coach Hamilton, and
so the Vetus and I hit it off because I'm
half Lithuanian, and of course a prodigious shooter as he was.
But coach Ham will be joining me in just a

(01:00:02):
little bit. We'll have a good visit. Looking forward to it.
I've been looking forward to this, I really really have. Look,
if you're you always got to remember that what you
post online. Look, if I if I were giving a
talk to young people entering the professional world, it would

(01:00:23):
be everything is is remembered, Everything is remembered, and and
so it would do. And here's an example. Chris van Holland,
the Senator from Maryland. He's been talking about the Maryland man, right,

(01:00:44):
the uh, the illegal immigrant that was deported to kill
Armando at Brego Garcia. And he's gone out of his
way to go to El Salvador to meet with him,
to you know, referring to him by his first name.
And that's fine, you know whatever. I think it's a waste.
But he forgot that social media is forever. Here's a

(01:01:09):
post from twenty seventeen, shame on President Trump for tearing
apart hard working immigrant families. We should be focused on
MS thirteen, not scholarship winners that didn't age well now
did it? He's getting just destroyed. In response to that,

(01:01:32):
thank you, member, of the White House. Thank you for
the vice Senator, We've deported MS thirteen gang members from
your state. Awaiting your applause on that. Wait, aren't you
the guy that just went to try to save an
MS thirteen guy? Yeah? I mean the responses are brilliant.
I guess the point is just remember what you post
on social media lasts forever. Okay, so if you post

(01:01:55):
it on it. He's struggling with this, right. We put
an end to the second hour. We now moved our
number three of the Morning Show with Christin Scott. All right,

(01:03:04):
here we go. We're just letting the band play a
little bit. Welcome to the third hour of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Show, five thousand, three hundred and
sixty four. And this has been a long time this
is this is a guest appearance. It's been a long
time coming. I don't know if Coach will remember, but

(01:03:27):
I've shared the story a couple of times that every
now and then we would run into each other. It's
usually at the grocery store and in frozen foods. I
don't know how it was frozen foods, but it just
seems to be. And we just, you know, we always
just chat for just a couple of minutes, and you said,
you know, sometime I'd like to just come sit in

(01:03:48):
the studio and let's talk. Do you regret saying that
to me? Coach Letter Hamilton with me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
I'm excited to be here. Oh yeah, I mean I've
always admired you. You'll ability to engage your audience, You
never lost for words. I hope I get a word
in XYS in this conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Oh, trust me, you will. I'm one of those rare
show hosts that asks questions and actually lets their guests
answer them. Let me ask you this. Let's just kind
of broaden this discussion a little bit in the sense
that if you had not become a basketball coach, what
would you have done?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Well, that's an interesting story and an interesting question, and
maybe I might give you a long story, you know. Obviously,
growing up in the sixties was somewhat of a challenge,
and my father made it very clear to me that
I need to get my education. My mother went to

(01:04:53):
the seventh grade, my father went to the ninth grade.
My father was always challenged by the fact that he
was extremely intelligent man. He was always training college graduates
how to do their job, and he always said I
wanted to just be paid the same thing for doing
the same job, and he didn't want me to be

(01:05:13):
caught in the same situation. He was always emphasizing getting
your education, and that meant an awful lot to me.
But because he said I have no money to contribute,
I thought it was best for me to join the
army and then I would get my education through the
GI bill. But as faith would have it, Gas and

(01:05:35):
Community College was really starting up at basketball program which
is in the county that I live in, and I'm
two weeks away from joining the Army, and the coach
there was running around the area trying to find the
best basketball players. And I was a standout basketball player
and football player, but I just thought the best way

(01:05:58):
for getting my education paid for. So I really didn't
know what I was going to do. And probably two
weeks before I joined the Armory, the coaches running around
the neighborhood knocking on the doors trying to find me,
and I actually would be in out in a house
at friend's house and he'd be He'd found out where
where I hung out, and he'd be knocking on the
door and I tell him I'm not here. And I

(01:06:20):
avoided him for a long time because I just had
made my mind up.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
You were joining the army.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I was joining the army. But once he caught up
with me, he convinced me that I needed to get
my education, which was obviously I always tell people my
steps been ordered. I always had had the protection around me.
And he taught me to go on to gaston Community College.
And once I got through the junior college, and I

(01:06:46):
scored fifty four points in one game, and so he
was he was taking me around the colleges and I
wanted to get as fall away from Gastonia as I
could get. And so now I go to new T
Martin and I finished money degree. I finished school, and
my college coach said to me, they have a graduate
assistant position at Austin p if you want to get

(01:07:09):
your master's degree. And I interviewed and got the job.
Now I still don't have an idea of what I'm
gonna do with my life, but as a result of
being a graduate assistant. This is what's very interesting in Preston.
The full time assistant coach had a nervous breakdown at
Christmas and he had to retire. And I'm all the

(01:07:30):
head coach had I'm twenty three years old, so I
took on all the responsibilities of a full time coach
at twenty three, married with a kid, and in graduate
school and had adopted a brother. And so there I
am now in school and as face well, having again
my first recruiting trip. Recruiting trip, I signed Fly Williams

(01:07:54):
the first time I ever been in New York, a
kid named Danny Older, and Danny broke the cars assists
record as a conference as a freshman then and Fly
average twenty seven and ten. So my point to you,
I didn't know what I was gonna do, but I
just fell into it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
We got more to come. He's gonna spend the hour
with us. Did you know you're gonna spend the hour
with me? Hey, I got plenty of time. I'll retired.
Leonard Hamilton with me on The Morning Show with Preston Scott,
The Morning Show, Preston Scott. FSU basketball coach Leonard Hamilton.

(01:08:35):
He just said he's retired. I don't believe that for
one second. You are as I read more and more
about you in the span of your coaching career and
knew some of your interests and we'll get to some
of that. You are as close to a renaissance man
as I know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Wow, why would you say that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Because you have so many unique interests that a lot
of people don't know about. And I guess that's my
way of saying, you know, there's some people that when
they retire, they don't know what they're going to do
with themselves. I just don't think that's you. Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
Absolutely not. I'm a dreamer, yeah, and I've always been
fascinated with a lot of things, and I'm interested to
see where my interest lies. But I do feel that
I want to be able to do something to contribute

(01:09:28):
to people less fortunate because that has been my journey
and the fact that I've been able to accomplish what
I've been able to accomplish it. I just feel like
I owe it to since, to my people and to
people in general, because I've been blessed with so many
people who've helped me along the way, and I think

(01:09:49):
it'd be almost sacrilegious for me is to retire, go
sit in the corner and drank kool aid. I want
to do something meaningful, and I'm sure I figure.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
I feel as though, because even though I spent time
in vocational ministry for twenty years, I've taken that learning
path which a lot of lessons, and have applied it here.
And I believe God has given me this platform for
a purpose and a reason. And I don't take that
for granted. And you alluded to the fact that you

(01:10:22):
felt your steps have been ordered and ordained and paths
illuminated for you. Yes, and so every step along the way.
So retirement doesn't fit because for someone that I think
is serving.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
God, well, there's no doubt about that. Is I've had.
My journey has been extremely challenging, but I've always felt
that I had the mindset the work through all challenges,
and I think that comes from God. You know, the
thing that we don't realize that as we're going through

(01:10:56):
life's challenges is that you're learning and ruin and improving it.
I do believe the fact that I've never lived more
than thirty yards from my church and every time the
door open, I think I developed a moral compass that
has allowed me to think things through and have faith
that I could overcome the challenges. That has given me

(01:11:19):
an opportunity to be fairly successful.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
You have also been someone that I've observed to have
a ton of relationships. Just before we take a break here,
I've just I'm going to draw you back to you
and I cross paths in New Orleans. Once I was
doing games for Fox Sports at the time. You looked
up and you said, what are you doing here? Because
you recognized me from Tallahassee. And then your team's doing

(01:11:45):
a shoot around preparing for a game later that day
that I was going to call, ironically, and you were
on the phone. You are always on the phone when
you're not coaching. And so here's my question. Do you
have any idea how many phone numbers you have in
your phone?

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
I think I have about seven thousand in one phone.
You know I have one. I guess you can look
in the phone and probably tell me who it is.
I'm technologically challenge.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
But there's a week or a day go by without
you hearing from a former player.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
No, no, and managers and gratifying. Is that well, that's
probably one of the more satisfying things that you enjoy
as a coach. When they call you on Father's Day,
they call you on their birthday, they want to wish
you merry Christmas, I have a text that no text,

(01:12:39):
a voicemail that Michael Ojoe left me that I'll never earrase.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
I talked about Michael the best hug I've ever gotten
in my life. I mean, I'm not a small man,
but I've never felt so small in all of my
life than when I got hugged by Michael.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Wonderful human being.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Absolute beth More with Leonard Hamilton. He's gonna be with
me this hour, seventeen past the hour, and this is

(01:13:18):
one of those occasions where the confines of the format
just not me. But it is what it is. We
have to take the breaks and in the breaks reminiscing
with FSU basketball coach Leonard Hamilton, the winningest coach at
Florida State men's basketball of all time. You were just
talking about and it's an incredible tribute the photo of

(01:13:40):
your teammates from nineteen sixty eight that showed up when
you coached your final game at FSU and brought their family. Yes,
and they're all there. Yes, that's incredible. Did you know
they were coming.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
It's such a blessing to have relationships like that because
those were interesting times and where there still was some
restaurants I couldn't eat. In some hotels, I couldn't stand
only a few years were moved from using the colored
water fountain and the colored bathroom and setting up in

(01:14:16):
the in the balcony at the movies. And those were
trying times. But I just feel blessed the fact that
I had parents who then teach me hatred or disrespect.
It was all about love and respect and doing things
the right way. And my father never made any excuses

(01:14:39):
for the challenges that we had, and those things, those
days actually prepared me for my journey. You know, in life,
you don't realize it, but the things you hear at
the dinner table when you're five, six, seven, eight years old,

(01:15:00):
when when you when you in the church all the time,
and getting getting things put into your head, into your
spirits that allow you to utilize those challenges to motivate
you and inspire you and to encourage you, as opposed
to adjusting negatively or being angry and being netive like

(01:15:27):
so many people do. I've often wondered, how can you
dislike me and you don't know me, you haven't been
around me. Give me at least give me a chance.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
Let me.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
But but but a lot of that's because of how
we were raising, what we've been exposed to, and the
things that go into our mind at an early age.
And I never I never had any of those negative
thoughts going into every situation. As matter of fact, present,
I didn't even know that I was going to be
the first black player at UT Martin until I showed

(01:16:01):
it up. I had no idea. No one ever told
me that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Did it occur to you then? I mean, but I mean, seriously,
was it or was it just I'm here to play basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
I was here there to get my education, okay, and
I happened to have an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
But you wouldn't have chosen UT Martin. No, had it
not been for the connection to basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Absolutely not. My coach put me in the car over
the Christmas holidays and drove me to schools and asked
me to work out in front of the coach. As
matter of fact, a U. T. Martin. I went over
to Christmas holidays and I was the only athlete. I
don't care because of the Christmas break, So I worked
out in front of the coach by myself.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
And now look at it nineteen sixty eight to this
past season, and those men and their families are there
to honor you. Yes, what a moment. Wow, it really was.
I mean, and you would think that we have missed
a beat. We were still laughing and joking that we
were sure in the door. Is that a good thing?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Oh my god, I hope that's not gonna be in
my book.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Okay, all right, I've got a lot more I want
to try to cover with you, So we're going to
take a break. We've got some news we got to do,
and then we'll be back more with Leonard Hamilton, FSU Basketball,
the dean of FSU men's basketball Forever in a day.
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Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Welcome back to radio program with Leonard Hamilton, FSU Basketball.
The names are synonymous FSU Basketball, Leonard Hamilton. But I'm
gonna say six words, and I just want you to
react to these six words, all right, reaching the world,
touching the heart.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Well, how I would respond to that is that you
do that by doing one step at a time. You know,
you take one youngster and you help him reach his
full potential. People recognize coaches for wins and losses, but

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in reality, they're taking teenagers and urging them into young adulthood.
And the impact that the coach has on youngster, there
are things that they'll take have for the have with
him for the rest of your life. So you know,
in order to make a significant improvement, it's got to
take one at a time, and then that one will

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impact his brothers and sisters, and they impact their children
and it grows them more and more.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
We were just talking about that. It's changing a family tree.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
No doubt. I mean, when you think about the one
individual that you put them on the right path, the
not only in his family, immediate family, his friends, his
friends' children, and all the other people that look up
to him. So it's important you just take care of one.

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I mean one could grow to one hundred, and that
one hundred grows to a thousand, and it goes on
and on and on. So you have to you have
to be take it seriously with each in every individual
that's you, that come under your your tuolage.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Why you're a coaching, let's pie chart your time now,
you're not coaching basketball day to day right now. If
we set aside family time, because that's family, that's that's first,
your your family and your relationship with God, and then
we take the rest of the time and we put

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it in a pie chart. What does that look like
for you moving forward?

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
Well, right now, I'm getting ready to get ready. I'm
organized myself so that I can get organized.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
How much of it is five oceans? Oh well, I
tell you, tell everybody about five oceans. I know about
five oceans.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
No I have I have a gospel music label. I
have two artists that record on my label. I have
released one album.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
Is one of them? You? Oh no, oh, no, I
hear you can sing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Well, let's say this. I don't know how to sing.
I think I got a decent voice, but I don't
know how to use it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
Wait a minute, that's not what I'm what I hear now,
I'm not going to ask you to sing because we
don't have a piano here. Right now. Now. If I
had Marvin Goldstein in here, we'd probably do something about that.
But I make a joyful noise. Scripture covers me with
with the song that talks about making a joyful noise.
But you, sir, I'm told to have some dulcent tones singing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Well. The truth is God said make a joyful noise.
He doesn't concern himself if it's awful. Sometimes I'm really
good in the shower. Yeah, And I tell people that
I'd be a great singer if you don't just don't
turn my microphone on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
So is the label something you're going to put more
time into now?

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
What does that look like?

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Well, what I've done a couple of albums, and it
was trial and error. I thought I had good people,
and for what I know about the music industry, I
think they turn not to be excellent. But I realized
moving forward that I'm not a music executive. I'm a
basketball coach. So I want to have an organized system

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where I got professionals that know exactly what they're doing,
and I don't have people ask me what about this
coach and what about that? Because I don't feel like
I'm qualified to make it successful in the long run.
So my next attempt will be to have people surrounding
I'm gonna surround myself with the kind of people that

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I know can take this to something special. I don't
want to do anything that's not with a plan to improve,
to be the best.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
Imagine that a basketball coach who wants to have a
plan to be the best.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
No way, that's the plan.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Pull another way. I'm just tall enough. All Right. We
have more to come with Leonard Hamilton here on the morning. Yeah,
and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Final

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a couple of segments with FSU Basketball's Leonard Hamilton, and
so we were getting into the time allocation moving forward.
So we've got some time in the pie chart dedicated
to five oceans. So what else? What intrigues you about
what may lie ahead? What possibilities?

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Well, I have several things that I dream about. Was
I wanted to find myself finding nis from a ministry
standpoint that contribute and I don't think that's be a
problem problem. I used to always work with the youth department.
I mean like I used to always go to youth
Bible study every Thursday night as a male. Sometimes it's
hard to get guys. I was a head coach at

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Miami and I always went there on Thursdays. But so
I'm I want to find a niche here. You know,
I've been actually do gospel concerts all over the country.
That might be something.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
Well, this bringing the Word of God through gospel and
concerts at different places.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
So organizing picking artists to come and do an event, yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Yes, I have plans. Maybe I might do one here
locally once I get settled and organized on what we're doing.
I'm trying to find a niche on the educational peace
and my vision is I like the thought of private
school church related where you can educate kids on stuff

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that's life applicable as opposed to all reading, writing, arithmetic,
is is is excellent, There's no doubt about that. That's
the base of how we grow. But there's more but
conflict resolution. I just think that we have so much
disrespect for each other and so much hatred. I think
we have to learn how to get along. And I

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think we have so many diet related illnesses so our
kids don't grow up learning how we need to eat.
I want to have my visions that have a garden
and where the school has to raise crops, and then
and then to understand the nutrition, of value of of
of of why they should eat certain things and avoids

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other things. I think a lot of our a lot
of our illnesses are self inflicted. I like to find
my nes I think that with young people and the
eagerness for them to learn, you should be able to
have kids before they start school first grade speaking two languages.
I think they absorb whatever you teach them. And I

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think one of the most vulnerable and the eager is
when we lose that that period of intellectual growth. And
I think I mean things like that, I'm I'm intrigued
by and and and how you can do something, create
something that's better than what we're doing. Not to be
critical of the system we have now, but enhance it, Yes,

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enhance it. You know that that's that's something that that
that I think about a lot so. And I want
to learn how to play the piano.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
It's so funny you say that. I was going to
ask you if you play an instrument.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
No, I want to learn how to say.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
I've always wanted to play the piano, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
I bought it my family bought me a guitar about
twelve years ago and I haven't tested yet.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
I know that for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
But I think that my goal is to number one,
continue to keep serving God and take care of my family.
I want to make sure that the sacrifices that my
family has made for me to allow me to do
what I do and what I've done, you know, I
owe them a lot of time, you know. I want

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to spend time with my kids, my grandkids. I want
to you know, I want to try. I can't make
up for lost time, but least I want to uh
in my lot of years here, I want to be
more of a family man. I have relatives all over
the country that only know me from watching me on TV.
You know. I would love to meet them and in person,

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in person, you know, And I want to try to
do more of.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
That basketball consulting, coaching as in camps. Is that part
of your future?

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Well, To be very honest with you, I've realized now
that I shouldn't do when it takes considering how blessed
I have been and fortunately to have been successful in
some at some level, I think it would not be
right for me to walk away and not make myself available.

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It's in some capacities with with with some of the coaches,
up and coming coaches or some of the experienced coaches.
So I haven't decided on what that piece is gonna be.
I've been asked to do several things, but right now
I want to get organized. So I can get organized.
I understand, I'm want to get I'm trying to get
ready to get ready.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Leonard Hamilton with me for the closing segment which is
coming next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All Right, we've already agreed that there will be at
least a part two of this visit because there's a

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whole bunch of other stuff we want to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Talk about, oh, part three, Part four.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
And maybe beyond.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Absolutely, I do want to ask you this. I'm going
to assume because it was my personal reaction because I'm
invested in Florida State. It's not where my wife has
one of her degrees from there, but that's our family's school.
I love Florida State University, so I would imagine. So,

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how did it make you feel when Luke Laus was
selected one of your former players and a really good one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Well, Luke has a basketball, I q from a player
standpoint where he understood his role and he was kind
of a coach on the floor. I've been very blessed
to have guys him Tony Douglass and you know, gosh,
this Trent Forrest guys, Yeah, who made the difference. And

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to see one of the former players coming back and
taking over the Ranns, I felt, you know, I felt
a sense of pride and I know he's gonna do well.
He has his own idea how he wants to do it,
and he's done so well since he's left here. I

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have a lot of fun stories about him. But at
one point in this time, he was a little impatient
and we had a very man the man conversation. And
I think he has allowed hisself to focus on things
that he can control, and I think he's been very
good and he's learned, he's grown. He's surrounded hisself with

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good assistance, former player people that are seminoles, and I
think you can expect great things to happen under his rant.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Thank you for making time this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Thank you very much for having me, And don't be
a don't be a stranger man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Right right, Well, it's that way to the grocery store,
but now you know how to find the building, as
opposed to when you first try.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
To find this it was a sallenge.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Thanks again, Coach, Thank you for having me Leonard Hamilton
with me this morning, and there will be more visits
with Coach ham here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one on WFLA. All right, how do you
follow that up? Right? You don't? You just say thank

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you and you move on to show five thousand, three,
one hundred and sixty five. Tomorrow We've got a little
history lesson Tomorrow. Doctor Ed Moore will join us. We
are going through kind of a little history series of
America at War. Talked about the Spanish American War, which
will lead into the It was called the Great War.
We only named it World War One because there sadly

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became a World War Two, but at the time it
was the Great War. So we're going to talk about
the history of the Great War. Also tomorrow, doctor David
Harts will join us. Try to help you feel a
little bit better without all the meds, making better choices
with your diet and so forth. Steve Stewart joins us
tomorrow from Tallasti Reports. We'll give you a road trip idea,
and of course today the big stories in the press box.

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Today's big stories were kind of fun. We talked about technology.
Sam's is going to do away with cashiers and everything
scan and go. Sam's nationwide is going to be you
pull up the app, you scan what you're buying, and
you bought it, and you just walk out the door.
You don't check out. It's all automated. That's what they're

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going to across the country. Costco just the opposite. Costco
is saying nay, nay, we will stay with a human touch,
and so they're gonna ramp up their human touch side
of things. We'll see who wins that battle. It's gonna
be very interesting to see how the two big ist
of the big box store warehouse sellers compete. The other

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automated big story that we talked about this morning Archier
Aviation teaming up with United Airlines. They're gonna start at
Abu Dhabi, but by twenty twenty six they plan to
have it in most of the New York City airports
and the surrounding area. Air taxis that pick you up
and bring you to the airport in an electric airplane

(01:32:46):
slash vertical takeoff kind of hybrid helicopter plane thing. The
question I asked, you're gonna do it if you? I
mean if you if you have the option of doing
the add on with your first class or business ticket.
Are you taking an air taxi? Are you going to

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let other people be the experimental passengers on that little
journey to the airport. So those were our big stories
this morning. We started the show going into into scripture.
We went into Romans fourteen and we broke apart what
judgment looks like through the eyes of God and contrast
that to how we judge people. So that's where we

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started the show. Friends, have an awesome day, Thanks for listening.
God bless