Ep. 5438: Petitions signed for killer truck driver.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
John Wayne and a celebrity on Sumble God Bless America.
That is from nineteen seventy. How about that nineteen seventy
from the John Wayne television special called Swing Out Sweetland. Ah, Hey, friends,

(00:24):
welcome to Monday. It is the final Monday of the
month of October. October August. Dear goodness, where did that
come from? We are just days away from Labor Day.
We will be off next Monday, of course, and then
it's September. I don't know what happened. Where'd the year go?

(00:51):
It's crazy? And then we are in the final final
third of the year, September, October, November, December. And so anyway,
you know all that it is August twenty fifth. More
on that date in a moment. It is show fifty
four to thirty eight of The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I took a suggestion one of my good friends that

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I've known for many, many years. I was fortunate enough
to officiate the wedding for he and his lovely bride,
and now all these years later, he's a longtime listener
and supporter of the program and one of the deepest
thinkers I know. He sent me this and he said,

(01:36):
this scripture speaks to the notion of wokeness that affirms
lies and wickedness, and a biblical conclusion. Let me rephrase
that the Bible is addressing our culture as it does,
but specifically the culture of repackaging things that are just

(01:59):
wrong and evil and saying that they're good. Listen to
what it says in Proverbs twenty four, verses twenty four
through twenty six. Whoever says to the wicked you are
in the right will be cursed by peoples abhorred by nations.
But those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and

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a good blessing will come upon them. Whoever gives an
honest answer kisses the lips. We have watched for a
decade or so the effort to homogenize God's word into

(02:40):
Oh Jesus's love and forget that. He says, go and
sin no more. Friends, You can't take a shortcut on
this good scripture. Today, Start the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Go inside the American Patriots Almanac, August twenty fifth. In
seventeen eighteen, French colonists found New Orleans named for Philippe
the second, the Duke of Orleans. There Go New Orleans.

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Eighteen thirty. The Tom Thumb of the B and O
Railroad loses a race to a horse. Hey, it takes
a while to get a train going. Eighteen forty. The
first practical seating machine is patented by Joseph Gibbons of Michigan.

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Nineteen forty four. The Allies liberate Paris after four years
of Nazi occupation eighteen eighty one. Eighteen God Dog Take
two nineteen eighty one photos sent by Voyager two spacecraft

(04:18):
revealed the complex structure of the rings surrounding Saturn. Have
you ever seen Saturn with your own eye in a
telescope unless you have like a crazy expensive telescope. It's
small because it's so far away. But I remember the

(04:40):
first time I saw Saturn in a telescope. It was riveting.
I mean, it was like, oh my goodness, it's incredible.
Why are those rings just around Saturn. It's like God

(05:02):
just wanted to play with a frisbee. I got stuck there,
I don't know. Nineteen eighty one, crazy, and then going
back in time just a little bit in nineteen twenty two,
on this day, Ida Bickner was born, she would become

(05:23):
my mom. This would have been my mom's one hundred
and third birthday, but she passed away back in twenty eighteen.
Missed my mom. But I remember my mom every time
I see a guardena, every time I make cheese quesadillas.

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My mom made them before i'd ever. I'd never heard
of anything like it. When I was a kid. My
mom would make what she called cheese crisps, and it
was on a tortilla and she'd with the shredded cheese
and put some hot sauce on it, folded over, bake it.
It's like, this is crazy good Mom. It's just yeah.

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Family loves it when I make them. It's a tip
of the cap to my mom. My rose garden in
my backyard. That's my mom. So a lot of great
memories I have of my dear sweet mom. It is.
It is also National Kiss and Makeup Day Husbands Wives

(06:34):
m National Secondhand Wardrobe Day. Nothing wrong with that repurposing
some clothes making it useful to people. National Banana split Day.
I have never enjoyed a banana split. No, it's no,
it's just not not no, not a thing I enjoy

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National Park Survey Founder's Day. So there you Go's what
you got all right? Today is Monday, a couple more
weeks before Doctor Joe Camps will be back with us.
But we do have the start of the football season.
Had a few college games over the weekend, but the
season starts in earnest this Saturday. Notably Dope Campbell Stadium,

(07:26):
Florida State hosting a La Baba and we will talk
to Irischaffelowarchan dot Com. Our weekly visits talking little FSU
football begin today. Cannot wait. We've got a bunch of
stories in the press box. We have a lot of
other things to talk about, so stick Around promises to

(07:47):
be a good program. Sixteen past the hour, It is
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Did you know Nevada

(08:07):
still holds the top spot in the US with the
state with most casinos? That makes sense Nevada, Right, what's
number two? What state do you think has the second
most casinos in America? Florida? No, dang. Off the top

(08:32):
of my head, I would have guessed either New Jersey
or Mississippi. It's Oklahoma. Oklahoma, Yeah, casinos all over the state.
In fact, at last count one hundred and thirty four.

(08:55):
Vegas has three hundred and thirty four. That's crazy. How
about that? Now, I don't know if anyone would have
taken I wonder if anyone's bet on the accuracy of
al Gore's book Inconvenient What is it? Inconvenient truth? Is

(09:18):
that what it is which is full of convenient lies?
The movie nothing came true, none of the predictions, none
of them. You don't hear al Gore talk about his book,
his book, or his movie very much. All they did

(09:41):
was they now they push everything out to the future.
When they're dead. They'll all be dead and gone and
sitting on a family fortune that they've handed down at
your expense and my expense. Evidence. Did you know that

(10:02):
beneath the waves of Key Largo Staghorn Coral have had
a massive spawning. Who knew it was such a well,
hi there kind of event. But that's the way it
is with Coral. Apparently it is a once a year

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phenomenon that can only happen on a few select days.
It lasts a few minutes, mixture of temperature, tide and
lunar phase. Here's my point in bringing it out, not
just off the coast of Florida, but Honduras, the Maladives, Australia,
the Great Barrier Reef, all the coral reefs that we've

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been told are they're done. Temperature change, ocean's getting hot,
corals are dying. Really, it's just there are so many
fabrications that we fall for. I remember the story of

(11:09):
National Geographic sending a film crew to the oil rigs
and the golf, you know where they sink those deep platforms,
and you know, there's like a little city on top
of a platform in the middle of the golf where
they're drilling for oil and they bring crews over for
I don't know, four six months at a time, and

(11:31):
they I mean, it's a village. It's on top of
these platforms. Very dangerous work, no doubt. But the National
Geographic video team was going underwater to show the destruction
of the sea life. They had to totally change their
documentary because wherever these structures are, it is teeming with game,

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fish and life. Because these structures eventually attract coral, and
where there's coral, there's fish, and where there's little fish,
there's bigger fish. Where there's bigger fish, there are really
bigger fish, and so wherever these oil rigs are, it's

(12:19):
a great place to fish. It was the divers found
that it was just the opposite of what they were
being told. Add it to the list, right. The story
is interesting to me because look at this reef resilience state.
They they'll write, well, despite the warming temperatures, these these
reefs are Yeah, but we were told they were going

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to die out. They were going to just die no
chance done gone. It's just not true. Just remember the
sage wisdom of Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park. Life will
find a way, saying doctor Malcolm smart Man. Twenty seven

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minutes past the hour. Let's come back after the news
with some big stories in the press Box.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Morning Show with Preston Scott's how will you Do Without Freedom?
On US Radio one hundred point seven Tell the UFLA.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Thirty five minutes past the hour with Jose Can you
see in Studio one Am Preston Scott, Welcome friends, Ruminators
the Morning Show, August the twenty fifth. I'll go into
more depth on this story tomorrow, but I just want
it on your radar. Some two and a half million

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people will have signed a petition asking Governor Ron DeSantis
and authorities in Florida to go easy on the truck driver.
It was a terrible, tragic accident. Sweet God. He knew

(14:25):
what he was doing was illegal. He knew he couldn't
read signs, he knew he can't speak the language. Was
it premeditated homicide? No? Was it negligent homicide? Yes? Not

(14:56):
a scheduled big story, but one that yeah. Joan Powell,
the current chair of the Federal Reserve, hinted that the
Central Bank might cut interest rates in September. His job
can't be saved. This isn't about that. Look, the Fed

(15:18):
printed money like confetti during COVID. In fact, that is
really the basis of the inflation trigger, is the absurd
money that was being printed and handed out. Inflation spiked

(15:44):
nine point one percent in twenty twenty two, according to
the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Should rates come down?
People I talk to think probably so, But I don't know.
Will it make a difference in economic activity? It always does.

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Low interest rates spurn purchases of homes and cars, primarily.
They also lower the base rates for other major lending activities.
Zach Smith, our friend from Heritage Foundation, rights a week
without murder. Trump's crackdown has restored safety to Washington, DC.

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Carjackings have dropped eighty three percent compared to the same
period a week earlier. If you look at what happened
and see. I'm bringing this up because this is a
warning to all of you who live in the capital city.

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We may be the most listened to program by adults
in this community, as we have been for most of
the last twenty three years, it does not mean that
all adults are listening. The crime in Washington, d C.

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Was a result of the City Commission, in their case,
the council, And now keep in mind they are this
separate little entity, whereas in Tallahassee, the state capital must
conform to certain extent to the laws of the state.

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So we're we're a little limited here, thankfully, from the
stupidity that has happened in Washington. But the patterns the
election of illiberal extremists, the defunding of police, which is
how Tallahassee got to be the leader of violent crime

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in the state of Florida until they restored funding. But
you have people that are running for mayor that want
to be in control of the City Commission, that want
to defund police and they will send Tallahassee back into
that spiral and being a capital that leads the state

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in murder. And then the FBI raid of John Bolton.
Apparently the CIA had information suggesting Bolton engaged in some
activities that needed to be looked at. There were warnings
by if I'm not mistaken, even judges warned him of
writing his book The Room Where It Happened, although they'll

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say that that's not the point. The point here, apparently
is that he sent highly sensitive classified documents to his
wife and his daughter on a private email server when
he was serving in the first Trump administration. The previous administration.
Biden shut it down. The investigation. It's being revived forty

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minutes past the hour. These these are your Big Stories.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Morning Drive version of an audio magazine and keeping you
company as you prepare for your day. It's the Morning
Show with President Scott.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Lachua County tellass he's not alone in being an illiberal bastion.
There are a few other parts of Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville, Florida.
Teacher who nominated a student as most likely to become
a dictator has been suspended probable cause has been found

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apparently allegedly to sanction the teacher for his teaching certification.
We're not naming the teacher at this point. Havn't seen
the name. James Uthmeyer weighing in at last Wednesday State

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Board of Education meeting Electro County parent, doctor Crystal Morel
Moreul said her son's history teacher at Gainesville High School
nominated him for a superlative. She believes he was targeted
for his conservative views. She said the teacher also let

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her son be labeled Nazi fhile for his interest in
history and participation in the ROTC. Sounds like the kind
of kid I'd like. James Uthmeyer, the Attorney General for Florida,
said this teacher violated Florida law, the school board's policy,

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and no less than six ethical principles. Her teacher's certification
must be revoked. This is years ago now. Doctor Morrell
is probably waited till her son got out of school.

(21:18):
I don't know, but she raised the issue with school
board members. She got a letter from the teacher. I
do apologize that so and so was offended by the
class superlative. Class superlatives are an activity I've been doing
with my classes for the last four years. I give
students the option to change or add superlatives to the

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list from previous years, and then the class nominates students
and votes on the winner. I was not aware that
your son was upset that he was nominated for that
superlative what most likely to be a dictator. To my knowledge,
he did not ask to be removed when he was
nominated or when the class voted. When I passed them
out today, I reiterated that they were just for fun,

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They were not meant to be offensive. I do apologize,
to which doctor Morale wrote back earlier in the year,
you allowed the class to refer to him as a
Hitler file. Now you are letting them label him a dictator.
Not only that, but you orchestrated it, signed off on it,
and promoted it. It is truly reprehensible. Well then really

(22:27):
threw the spike into the ground. Here, she said as student,
her son's history class had a sixty nine percent failure
rate on the district end of course exam. Only my
son and one other student scored in the category of
excellent understanding. You'd think she would have awarded AI a
certificate of achievement instead, but no, in Alachuas schools, such

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an achievement is branded as fascism. Lest you think that
everything in our schools has been put to rest and

(23:10):
things are right normal, they're not, and I'm not sure
they ever will be. There are still subversives, communists, socialists,
haters of this country teaching in our public schools, and
they're teaching your children. There are some incredibly good, gifted,

(23:36):
kind hearted teachers out there that really want to help
your child learn to think critically, but there are enough
that are not. That it's problematic, and superintendents and school
boards across this country and around Florida are scratching their
heads wondering why are we losing so many students? Sweet God,

(23:58):
wake the crap up. It's not hard and well, we
don't know what teach, Yes, you do. Every principal knows
who the good teachers are. Every student knows who the
good teachers are. They know, and it doesn't mean easy.

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Students will say things like, yeah, they're tough, but they're fair. Yeah,
make you do a lot of work, but he or
she's a good teacher. They'll be grudgingly admitted. Everyone knows
who the good teachers are so stop being cowards, principals,
Deans of departments, school board members, administration, stop being cowards.

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Deal with this stuff. When we come back, we're gonna
uncover exactly what's going on and why Cracker Barrel is
in a free fall. Next on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
If you go to our X page at TMS Preston Scott,
you will find a post that I reposted and a
video attached to it from Robbie Starbuck. Now, Robbie Starbuck
has personally gone to war against corporate entities that have

(25:44):
gone woke, and he's won. He's brought companies to their
knees with information, just putting information out. And this is
a full blown blow by blow report on what Cracker
Barrel has done. And he's got a fifteen minute video

(26:07):
attached and he said listen, He said, I don't care
what you do with the video. He said, take it,
use it, monetize it, do all you want. Get the
information out. He said, you have permission to use all
of this however you see fit. But I reposted his

(26:28):
post and broke down some things. But I'd done some
digging on my own before I came across this, before
a listener sent me some intel. This is so much
more than a logo and a redesign and bad food.
This is more than Uncle Herschel being exercised from the logo.

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This goes back about a decade or more. Company has
been knee deep in the DEI push and the embrace
of the LGBTQ plus experience. And now hear me, hear me,
this is not about a business saying all are welcome.

(27:19):
Of course, all are welcome. This is about a business,
an organization, a corporation that has supported child sex surgeries,

(27:39):
puberty blockers, men and women's bathrooms, Pride experience activities. They've
got LGBTQ rocking chairs displayed, in fact in their corporate headquarters.
Their their rocking chair is an LGBTQ one. One of

(28:05):
their pillars is Pride. One of their corporate pillars sponsored
the Out and Equal Conference, presented seminars on the subject
at the conference that have won awards, been acknowledged. It

(28:27):
is steeped in this stuff. And with all due respect
to the good workers that used to sign up to
Cracker Barrel because of the old values that's gone. I
for one am never setting foot in a cracker barrel
again until all the corporate executives and board members are
gone and they change direction.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Not going back.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's just me though, if I passed the hour, it
is the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
oh Zach and you see is at the helm of
the good Ship Morning Show. How are you? I hope
you had a nice weekend. It was a there was

(29:16):
plenty of rain to go around. I'll be it. Look,
we're in it for a little while longer, but I
will be very glad when we get to the fall
and the air starts to dry out just a little bit.
I won't mind cooler temperatures, but I never do. That's
just yeah. Anyway, we thank you for joining us lead

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research assistant of the radio program.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Who Oh.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
By the way, I've got to figure out a way
to give to give our lead research assistant a race.
And when you consider the lean budget that we operate on,
that could be tough. But maybe a happy meal or

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something like that. I don't know. It's just the material,
you know.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
We have.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
A lot of diverse interests among the research staff and
The thing that I've charged everybody with is this, I
want this program to not just be a show for
a bunch of angry old guys. I want this show

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to have diversity of content, to enrich all kinds of
people's lives, young and old, men and women, and to
cause us to think about some things that we might
not otherwise think about. This story was interesting to me,

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and it was marked by the lead research assistant headline
deeply concerning reading for fun in the US has fallen
by forty percent over the last twenty years alone. It
has dropped forty percent. It is a survey, American time

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use survey, and it's not one thousand, eleven hundred nine
hundred people. It's two hundred and thirty six thousand Americans
took part, so this would represent a very solid sample
of this country. It was a combined research project by

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the University of Florida and the University College London. And
it's interesting because reading for fun this can be dissected
in a lot of ways. Right For example, you could

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look at that number forty percent decline. All groups saw decline.
The biggest drops were Black Americans, people with lower incomes
or education levels that would make sense. People in rural areas,
more women than men continue to read for fun, So

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men aren't reading much for fun. And so if you
step back and look at this, I would submit that
this could be very easily explained if you look at
it through the lens of the last twenty years. First
of all, people's perceived free time to just sit and

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read a book. Who has that? Who in the last
twenty years would say they have more discretionary free time
to just sit and read for fun, not because it's

(33:23):
work related, not because you have to. It's like, I
read the equivalent of a book every week, but I
have to. It's part of my job. Reading for fun. Well,
my next level of reading would be some scripture. And

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then I've got books that I read parts of in
advance of doing an interview. For example, I've got Mark
Levin on the show tomorrow, Mark's going to join Me live.
I'm not reading a lot of his book. I wait
until I do the interviews because I don't like reading
books from inside the weeds, or asking questions from inside

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having read the book. I like to approach interviews with
authors and guests from the perspective that you would have
having not read the book. But when you look at
the combination and then you combine it with our literacy
level is at seventy nine percent, which is thirty sixth globally,

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our literacy level is thirty sixth. What that tells me
is that people don't read for fun. They read for
amusement online. They don't sit down and read a magazine.
They don't read a book. They just read this, they

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read that, they read a post. They do. People aren't
sitting down to consume a subject or a topic or whatever.
More on this next eleven past the hour. It's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Dispensing information at the speed of sound, and if you're lucky,
he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses today The Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I think the feeling is we don't have time to
sit and read a book. Only a few do. I
think the feeling is that a lot of people's attention
has been distracted away from reading a book to consuming

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bits and pieces of information online. I mean, just for
a second, imagine if everybody you saw holding their phone
at lunch was reading a book. That'd be crazy, right.

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Reading a book requires an investment, an investment of a
degree of time, and if not a lot of time,
an investment of consistency of commitment that you're going to
spend fifteen twenty thirty minutes a day reading the book

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and you're just going to commit to that so that
there's some ability for continuity, that you're retaining the information
that you read the day before, and you're building the
story that needs to be told. Now. I have told
people that have sent me, Hey, I'd love to talk
about this book. It's a fiction work, and I'm like,
I don't do fiction interviews on this show. I just

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I don't have an interest in fiction. There are exceptions. Jaws,
I've joked about. Jaws was the first book I ever
read other than the Bible. It just was cover to
cover boom Jaws. Yeah, when I was a kid before
I think that was before high school when that book

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came out. Forget the movie.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
The book.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
The number one book last year, The Women by Kristin Hannah.
It's a novel. But what's fascinating about this is this
is the story of a woman in nineteen sixty five
when her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam. She

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serves in the Army Nurse Corps to follow his path,
and it's about her being sent to Vietnam. And I mean,
it's it's fascinating possibilities. But I wouldn't read it because
I don't have time for fiction. I just I want
to read about truth, I want to read about people's stories,

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and I want to read about history. Right so I
pulled up the New York Times bestseller list right now.
On the nonfiction side, the Anxious Generation about the mental
health that a phone based life has on kids Cuddy

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by kid Cutty Miscuti or Miscuddy Grammy Award winning artist
describes as obstacles. There is the Semi Well Adjusted Despite
literally Everything by Alison Stoner. There's Mark Levin's on Power

(38:59):
so he's on the New York Times bestseller list. He'll
be our guest tomorrow. There's the Fort Braggcartel. In a
Rock War veteran investigative reporter delves into the unsolved murders
connected to drug trafficking at a special ops base Fort Bragg.
A book on the murder in Idaho, The Idaho Four

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with James Patterson, who normally does not write nonfiction but
he is in this case. And then it goes from there.
It's just it's an interesting snapshot of where we are culturally.

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What I will tell you is as early as you
possibly can read to your children and your grandchildren and
get them hooked on reading, I think you will find
commonalities with people that feel like they don't know is
much as they should. They didn't read much when they
were kids. Seventeen past the hour when we come back

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an amazing story. Yeah, I ran a little long in

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the last segment talking about lists and reading, and I
would bet that most of you don't read much other
than the bits and pieces the news articles, the information
that you might want to dig up and find more on.
And you know, that's one of the joys if you

(40:54):
know how to do a good search, is if you
know how to do a good search, and you understand,
for example, that Google is going to suppress, you know, Chrome,
they will suppress most of the browsers are going to
be set up with an algorithm that will suppress searches
on certain topics, or they're going to guide you to

(41:15):
other things. I mean, for example, if you ever searched
for a very specific item and then it pops up
Amazon on Amazon and you go to Amazon, and they
don't sell that product at all. They link you to
a bunch of like products, similar products, not that product
that you're looking for, not that brand, but you know

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something that's close. Yeah, but that isn't what I looked for.
The same thing happens with general searches on all kinds
of topics. So as long as you know that, you know,
you can find a lot of information about a lot
of things. Now this I just had to attach to
that story on reading, I'd never heard of third Way?

(42:02):
You ever heard of third Way? Third Way is a
it's considered at least a prominent center left think tank,
and it is it is author of a memo directed
to quote all who wish to stop Donald Trump and MAGA.

(42:24):
So on the front end, there's your focus. The organizers
write in the memo that democrats should quote think about
conversations with persuadable voters in your own life, especially friends, family,
and coworkers, and consider whether the use of the language
above would help or hurt your cause. The language above, well,

(42:47):
let's take a look. They are creating and have created
a blacklist of words and phrases to avoid. Stop saying
these words. Stop saying birthing person, stop saying cisgender, Stop
saying the unhoused LATINX. In reality, most Democrats do not

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run or govern on wildly out of touch social positions.
But voters would be excused to believe we do because
of the words that come out of our mouths, words
which sound like we are hiding behind unfamiliar phrases to
mask extreme intent. This is where they are totally disconnected
from their reality. Their words are for the first time,

(43:34):
matching up with their radical intent. Of course they want
to rule with radical intent, of course they do. Policymakers
are public facing, and the language we use must invite,
not repel. Start a conversation, not end it. Provide clarity,

(43:55):
not confusion. Recognize that much of the language reading from
the memo.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I have it.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Recognize that much of the language above is a red
flag for a sizable segment of the American public. There
you go. But here's where they delude themselves. It is
not because they are bigots, but because they fear cancelation, doxing,
or trouble with HR if they make a mistake, well
that's true, that's all true. Or they simply don't understand

(44:28):
what these terms mean. And become distrustful of those who
use them. Oh no, no, no, we know very well
what those terms mean. Again, you're just finally saying what
you want, what you believe. You know, Democrats, We've heard
it said democrats don't have a message. Well, they don't
have a message because their message is disconnected from where

(44:52):
most people really are in their heart of hearts. They're
just not down with this. Men can be women, They're
just not. Here's what Third Way's final advisory is to democrats.
These are words that people simply do not say, yet

(45:13):
they hear them from democrats. Over the years, We've conducted, read,
and analyzed hours upon hours of focus groups, and we've
yet to hear a voter volunteer any of these phrases
below except as a form of derision or parody of Democrats.
And then they go on to list those phrases twenty
eight past the hour, Big stories in the press box

(45:35):
coming up next.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Don't leave me, consider him your truth detector. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
So what's the over under for wins this year for
Florida state? Seven six eight. I think most people would say,
even with the disaster that was last year, the over
under would be seven, and I'm gonna take the over.

(46:18):
How much over is based on game one. Wouldn't shock
me for FSU not to win that game. It wouldn't
shock me for FSU to win that game. It would
shock me to c FSU get blown out, not just
because Alabama's not the Alabama of old. They're good, They're

(46:38):
gonna have great athletes. Word is that a lot of
players really prefer Kaylin de Boor over Nick Saban on
a personal level as a coach. But you know, when
you're turning out pros, you're going to tolerate, and so
Nick Saban was tolerated his old school ways, which I
personally admire. They produced results. I have very high regard

(47:02):
for Nick Saban as a head coach. That said, we'll
talk to irishchaffelowarchand dot Com next hour. Big stories in
the press box. Jerome Powell fed Reserve might cut interest
rates in September. If he's on his way out, This
certainly wouldn't be a parting gift, and he can't make

(47:24):
that decision. It's got to be made by the board
of governors. All the FED chair, all of the FED,
you know, heads of the regions. They vote on it.
But it would be a huge boost to the economy
at a great time of year, heading into the holiday
shopping season. Not that it affects holiday shopping. It affects

(47:48):
major purchases like cars and houses, and it has it
has eight trickle I know people don't. There are a
lot of people out there that don't believe in trickle
down economics. It's impossible for it not to be an
existing thing. It absolutely is economics, good or bad, trickle down.

(48:09):
They just do. It's just it's it's it is a
it is a It is like a stream going down
a mountain. It just does. You can't stop it, good
or bad. Washington, d C. Seeing results of the crackdown

(48:30):
on crime, huge results. Went a week without a murder
that hasn't happened in a while. Sounds crazy to say that,
doesn't it, But it's I mean, carjackings are down eighty
three percent week to week FBI rating Former National Security

(48:50):
Advisor John Bolton's home. Apparently the CIA had information that
he had revealed highly classified documents to his wife and daughter.
Were they to get them off of his server, don't
know off of his computer. I don't know, I don't know.
He's not been charged with a crime. They're just looking.

(49:11):
And nearly two point five million people have signed a
petition supporting the truck driver charge in that fatal crash
on the California Turnpike. What is wrong with people? I'm
gonna take some more time on this story next hour
because I want to. I want to share just a
little bit of the petition. Absolutely lunacy, Absolute lunacy. Sorry,

(49:34):
forty minutes past the hour, come back with just something
to think about as you find lunch today.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Now now, now, now, now, now, now now Now.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
A lot of people enjoy food trucks. I feel like
you're a food truck guy. You're not afraid of eating
at a food truck. No, I love me some food trucks.
Oh yeah, why, Well, you know, the menu is always different,
very creative. A lot of these people that have their
food trucks small time operators looking to kind of just

(50:40):
maybe a little side hustle or maybe maybe just you know,
create a brand. And because I don't I don't know
that there's a way to get rich running a food truck.
I don't even know how comfortable a living you can
you can provide yourself and your employees with a food truck,
because food margins are so thin. I mean, if you're

(51:05):
not serving beer and wine and booze restaurants, the margins
are just razor thin. And there's the challenge. I don't
want to hurt anyone's food truck business. I wish you
nothing but the success. I admire anybody that does it.

(51:27):
I'm sharing this story because it is a thing. In
this case now, it is a foreign country, and I
don't know to what extent Italy pays attention to its
food truck sanitation. And I don't know. I mean, even
in America, how much is how many inspections are going on?

(51:48):
How much are you paying attention to the sanitary conditions
of the food truck? But two people died and fourteen
were sent to the hospitals because of botulism from one
food truck in Italy. One victim was fifty two, the

(52:08):
other was forty five. They ate sandwiches made of sausage
and rappeenie. Fourteen others hospitalized. Two dead food trucks. Obviously

(52:31):
they're limited in space for cooling, keeping foods properly refrigerated
and or frozen. Limited prep space, which sometimes are you mixing?
Are you prepping one food? And then are you adequately
able to clean because there's limited water unless you got
a hose hook up, there's limited water for washing disinfecting.

(52:56):
So is food prep for example, are you cutting up
sausage uncooked which is a very big risk. Any meats
uncooked have risk. And are those surfaces that you're let's say,
cutting your sausage on, are they being used for something else?

(53:19):
And so those uncooked parts of whatever that stuff gets
transmitted from one thing to another. And again I don't
care to harm anybody that's in the food truck business.
I admire your hutzpah. But botulism shows up in home

(53:40):
canned vegetables and meats, garlic, vegetables as well stored in oil,
potatoes wrapped in foil, smoked or fermented fish, certain sausages, cheese, sauces,
and it shows itself within twelve the thirty six hours.

(54:04):
So I guess I wanted to bring this story up
because food trucks can be very cool, and like Jose
was mentioning, the menus are oftentimes really creative, not just
a little creative, and they go to the same places.
What I'm challenging you to do is just just pay attention.

(54:29):
You know, if the truck is looking pretty gross and
dingy and not kept up, you might want to stick
your head over the counter and take a look at
the kitchen. And to those of you that run a
food truck, if you happen to be listening, man, I
love you. I want nothing but success for you, but

(54:51):
don't take short cuts. Serving good food is awesome. But
if you take shortcuts, people can die, people can get sick.
All you need is one person to get food poisoning,
and your reputation is trash. So protect yourself, protect your reputation,

(55:13):
your business, your business model. And man, can you imagine
what that the owner of that truck's facing. Forty seven
minutes after the hour, Irisha Fell, We're gonna talk to
FSU Alabama football next hour. Amazon Autos Okay, I will

(56:06):
tell you. Online shopping has been an interesting phenomenon to
watch unfold. Even in my own life. I try to

(56:32):
buy at local shops stores whenever possible, but there's just
limited selection in a lot of occasions. There are broad

(56:52):
categories where it's like, where where do you go? Wouldn't
I mean, wouldn't you in there? Part of you that
would just like to shop at a place the size
of an Amazon warehouse and pick out everything that's stored
in there that gets delivered to your home in the
next day. Just buy it, pick it up. And so

(57:22):
the brick and mortar I love it. I think you
better be niche oriented and really good at evaluating that
niche if you're going to survive with a brick and mortar.
I don't know, for example, how some brick and mortar

(57:44):
women's fashion stores in a town survives if you don't
have a massive population. I don't know how they survive
because how many different types of fashion are there? How
much selection can a small strip mall store carry to

(58:07):
satisfy all the different styles that are out there? But
Amazon Autos, I didn't know there was such a thing.
Did you know that there was such a I didn't
know that there was such a thing, hurts. The rental
car business has signed a deal with Amazon to reimagine

(58:31):
the car buying experience, and so they're going to be
selling their cars that they pull off of rent the
rental market and sell them. I would imagine they'll sell
cars that are two years old. That seems to be
about the turnaround. Now, I'm not saying that that's a

(58:52):
good thing. Hurts Car Sales has forty five locations nationwide.
They're offering a twelve month, twelve thousand mile powertrain warranty,
which is kind of pidly in this day and age.
A lot of a lot of dealers are offering far

(59:14):
better warranties than that. But yeah, I just I, if
I had the chance, I would always when it comes
to purchasing a vehicle, work with a local dealer. But
I also recognize that the automotive industry needs a real

(59:35):
makeover in terms of how they handle themselves on the lots.
But anyway, all right, we're gonna pause here, take a
time out. When we come back Switch Gears, It's Game
week break out the Gear fsu Bama at Doe Campbell
this Saturday. We'll talk to Irish Chafell next on the

(59:56):
Morning Show with Preston Scott turning the page on the
Rundown Friends. It is show five thousand, four hundred and
thirty eight of the Morning Show with preuss'sky. Good morning.

(01:00:18):
He's Jose. I'm Preston, and this is the managing editor
at war chant dot com. It's where you go to
get all intel on FSU athletics. It is war chant
dot com unvarnished appraisal of what's going on within Florida
State University's athletic deportment department. And he is Iris Schaeffelle.

(01:00:39):
Good morning, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
How are you Ira?

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It seems like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
It was just yesterday that we were just sitting commiserating
and basking in our misery of a horrible football season.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
I don't remember that at all. I don't know what
you're talking about. The last time I remember Florida State
football playing was the drive it against Georgia Tech and Dublin.
Everything else after that, I've kind of blocked out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Tell me this, is there a discernible difference in the
preseason to this than the preseason to that?

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Yeah, I definitely think there is. I mean, I don't
know that the emotions are any different. You know, you know,
fans and probably even media, you know, you just get
excited as the year starts, so you can always find
a way to reason, uh, reasons to be optimistic really,
no matter what the circumstances are. But I do think
when you look at the facts and what we're talking about,
the substance of it, you know, there's a lot more

(01:01:37):
to go on with this team than there really was
last year. You know, I think a lot last year,
a lot of the you know, the excitement or or
the hope for fans particularly was about guys, and the
coaching staff too, was about the potential of certain players.
You know, you signed some really highly recruited transfers Marvin
Jones junior and guys that, uh, you know, had big

(01:02:00):
aims coming out of high school but maybe hadn't done
much in college. This team, this recipe is much closer
to what they had did with Mike Orvella and the
staff did two or three years ago, when they went
and got a bunch of players who were maybe from
smaller schools but had done a lot. You know, had
guys who had had seventy eighty tackles last year, Guys
that had fifty sixty cashes within the last year or too.

(01:02:21):
So I think from that standpoint, there's more substance behind
these transfers. And again, this is another year where the
transfers are going to make the make up the bulk
of this team.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
I know that we're looking at Florida State University, but
through that lens, how would you describe to people that
don't get to watch what you see day to day
and now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Year to year?

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
How can you tangibly describe how different the world of
college football is now with what basically is, for the
most part, turnovers of rosters that are almost complete every year.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
It's really it's really indescribable in terms of the difference
between the college football we all grew up with, and
it's really all happened now in just the span of
you know, two or three years, because you know, the
transfer portal has been around for four or five years.
That's when you know, Mike Norvela and this staff really
jumped into it first and had some success when a
lot of schools wouldn't get involved. But now everybody is involved,

(01:03:24):
and every team that you're playing has thirty or more players,
some less. You know, Clemson still doesn't do it a ton,
but most of the teams you're playing have twenty thirty
forty new players just in the transfer portal. That doesn't
include the twenty or twenty five. You signed out of
high school. So yeah, it's it's it's it's almost like,

(01:03:44):
you know, the free agency we've seen in pro sports,
but even compounded because at least in pro sports, the
vast majority of those free agents you sign, you sign
them to long term contracts. Right now, a lot of
these guys that signed with schools in college are only
there for one year year and then they go back
into portal the next year. Now that likely is expected
to change going forward. This is the hope with revenue

(01:04:07):
sharing and the changes on that front, there's gonna be
more long term contracts and players will at least be
at your school for two or three years. But it
is they have completely turned the sport on its head
in the last three or four years.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Irischafel is the managing editor at war chant dot com.
We've got a couple segments left. We're getting you ready.
Alabama FSU Saturday at Dope Campbell. It's officially sold out.
It's gonna be it's gonna be a great afternoon, and
we'll talk about it next i Rischadfel joins me from

(01:05:00):
war chant dot com, where he's the managing editor, talking
FSU Alabama this week. I want to tag onto that
last segment. Okay, the world of college football is just
totally transformed. Now we add to that a largely flipped
coaching staff under Mike Norvel. How's it all come together?

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
From your observation, you know, excuse me, I think I
think one really smart thing that they did was it's
not just a new coordinator on each side of the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Which it is, but they also added in a couple
assistants that were very familiar with each coordinator. So on
the offense, you know, Gus Malzhan, the former Auburn head
coach and ucfad coach, is now the offensive coordinator, but
he brought with him two assistant coaches who were with
him at UCF, Tim Harris Junior, the receivers coach, and
Herb hand the offensive line coach. They both have worked

(01:05:52):
for him for several years, so they know exactly what
he wants. So in Gus malzan when they went to
practice in the spring, it wasn't just him trying to
explain what he wants to do to everybody. Three of
the coaches on offense now know exactly what he wants
and that really helped I think the transition the same thing.
On defense, Tony White is a new defensive coordinator. He
was in Nebraska the last couple of years at Syracuse

(01:06:13):
before that. He coaches a unique style of defense. It's
much more versatile than just hey, we play a four
to two five or we play a four to three.
It's the base is a three to three five, but
they'll go to four man fronts. It's very sophisticated, very
versatile defense. But he brought two assistant coaches with him too.

(01:06:34):
The defensive line coach, Terrence Knighton was with him at Nebraska,
and Evan Cooper, the safety's coach, was with him in Nebraska.
So I think that was really smart, and I think
it's helped the transition because they do have brand new
schemes on both sides.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
All right, everybody focuses on the quarterback, right or wrong,
But the fact of the matter is you're not going
to win a bunch of games, even at the college level,
without the right kid behind center. That said, it still
comes down to the defensive line and the offensive line,
and those have been problems in recent well last season
they were. It was a problem, and I think you

(01:07:10):
could say that the defensive line play has been a
little bit sketchy for the last several years for Florida State.
What are you seeing so far?

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Well, it's on offense. It's completely different group. I mean,
you know, and again this is when we go to
talk about the transfer portal. There's a lot of things
people don't like about it, but it was the only
way you were able to go from a team that
had one of the worst offensive lines in college football
last year. So this year they brought in four transfers
including you know, all four of them have started for
several years of college football, two of them in the SEC.

(01:07:41):
Mikeah Pettis at one tackle started at Ole Miss for
the last couple of years. Gunnar Hansen will start left tackle.
He's been starting at Vanderbilt for the last couple of years.
And yeah, granted Vanderbilt is not the bell of the
ball in the SEC, but he played against the Alabamas.
In fact, Vanderbilt beat Alabama last year. So you know,
those two guys. And then the center is a multi

(01:08:02):
year starter from wake Forest, Luke pettibone who was a
captain for them. And then one of the guards, Adri Medley,
was a transfer from the UCF. So you've brought in
a bunch of older guys that are all basically fifth sixth.
Medley's a seventh year senior, and so you've got a
bunch of older guys now on the offensive line. I
don't think that they're gonna be the most talented offensive
line in the country by any stretch, but I do

(01:08:24):
think that that experience, the fact that you've got grown
men on the offensive line who've played a lot of
football for different teams, I think that's gonna be a
much improved group. What we've heard out of the camp
has been very promising about that offensive line. The defensive
line is kind of a mix. You've got some of
the homegrown guys, guys that've been in the program for
a long time, like Daryl Jackson and Daniel Lyons, kJ Sampson,

(01:08:46):
some of those guys who've been around for a while,
and then you've mixed in a bunch of transfers. They
brought in a defensive end from Nebraska that played for
Tony White, James Williams. You've brought in a couple other transfers,
excuse me, Deontae McCrae from Western Kentucky Diamonte Diggs from
Coastal Carolina. Then you also have some other young players

(01:09:06):
that have come up in your system, So that's going
to be a mix. It's going to be some old,
some new. I don't know that it's I'm not commenced.
This defense and line is going to be a strength
of the team, but I will say they've got great numbers.
They'll probably have three or four guys that they can
rotate at every position on the defensive line, and you'd
like to hope that somebody hits, but we just it's

(01:09:27):
hard to know right now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Iras Chaffelle with us one more segment. We'll talk about
the quarterback and the schedules, starting with Alabama this week
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Final segment

(01:09:52):
with Iras Chaffell, Managing editor at war Chant dot com.
And been just so blessed to have Ira on the
program for the last several seasons, offering us his insight
on not just FSU football, but the athletic program. In
generally jumps on with us a couple of times throughout
the year outside of football season. But I were, let's
go back and talk about what's coming this week but

(01:10:14):
let's take a moment. Thomas Castellanos, the new quarterback. I've
heard people describe him as he's not Jordan Travis, but
he's a pretty good athlete and he's a great fit
for what Gus Malzan loves to do an offense.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Yeah, I think that's the number one key is when
Gus Malzan and Mi Norvel decided to do this, for
Gus to leave UCF were he's the head coach to
come be the offensive coordinator here, they immediately I think
part of the attraction to it was, Hey, we can
go get Tommy Castellanos because he played for Gus at
UCF for a year when he first got into college
before he transferred to Boston College. And because he you know,

(01:10:54):
he's very familiar with that kind of system and he
fits it really well. So that was kind of the
first piece of this puzzle. Then they went yet out
and got a bunch of receivers and off at the
lineman and running backs to go around him. But he's
kind of the heart of the offense. And yeah, I mean,
he's not going to be the most accurate passer in
the world. That's not his greatest strength. But two years
ago he ran for eleven yards as a quarterback. He's

(01:11:15):
really dynamic and in what Gus Malzan wants to do
in terms of stretching defenses horizontally and then vertically. I
think Tommy Casalanos is a really good fit. The one
concern a lot of people are going to have is
can he handle the physicality of running the ball so
much in this offense because he's going to run it
a lot and he's not a big dude. But if
he stays healthy, I think he's going to do a

(01:11:36):
lot of really good things for them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Perfect segue to the backup position. I can't speak for everybody,
but I'll tell you what. I'm impressed by the fact
that brock Glenn has stuck around, no question.

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
And he's a guy that they love. Is a guy,
I mean, just a character guy, hard worker, really good
guy in the program. But at the end of the day,
it's going to be about production and he's going to
be challenged this year. It's going to be interesting. They
really love a freshman quarterback. They brought in Kevin Sperry
similar to Castalanos in terms of just being an exceptional runner.

(01:12:11):
He's the young guy, is a true freshman. I don't
know that they're gonna put him in games if games
are still in the balance this year. But going forward,
Brooklyn and Kevin Sperry, that's gonna be a big battle.
Broucklen has learned a lot, He's been through a lot
of tough times. They give him a lot of credit
for sticking around. But at the end of the day,
Kevin Sperry, if his talent is better, that's going to
be a really good battle.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
I told you in the break, I've looked at the schedule.
It is a front loaded schedule in terms of a
ton of games at home. Seven out of the twelve
are at home, but a bunch of those games are
in the first half of the season. I've set the
over under at seven wins for Florida State. If they
win seven games or if I set it over under,
are you taking the over of the under?

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
I would take the over. I don't know how much
I'd put on it. I think it's more likely that
they win eight than it is they win six, but
seven is going to be in play. I mean, the
reality is that schedule at the end of the year,
as you said, gets really difficult. You start having You've
got road games at NC State where they always struggle.
You got the road game at Florida. Florida's supposed to

(01:13:16):
be very good. You got a road game at Clemson.
All in those last month and so you could be
feeling pretty good about the season and still have to
get through that last month and need one more win,
maybe to get to eight games, so or maybe get
to nine games. We'll see. It could go better than that.
But they're going to be underdogs in four games, so
if everything went according to Chuck, it would be eight
and four. So I would go with the over. But

(01:13:40):
I don't know. If anything goes wrong in terms of
injuries or just some bad luck, I could see them
getting down to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
They had arguably the two best specialists in the nation
last year. What do they have kicking the football this year?

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Very new names, but very talented guys replacing them. A
kicker Jake Weinberg, a red shirt freshman, is going to
take over, and he sat behind Ryan Fitzgerald last year,
came in as the one of the top kickers in
the country of the year before. He's got a huge leg.
He had a sixty three yard field goal on one
of the Scrimmages. Ray Vin Cherl had a good leg.

(01:14:15):
This kid's got an unbelievable leg. The question is going
to be can he be as consistent as Fitzgerald got
to later in his career, where he really didn't miss
much those last couple of years At punter. It's another
guy with a huge leg, mac Chimento, who actually has
been Austin Alex Mastromano's back up for the last three years,
and in practice the same thing. Chimento would hit kicks,

(01:14:36):
would hit punts that were longer than the Mashremondos. But
he wasn't always quite as consistent. So that's gonna be
with the key of those two guys. They definitely have
huge legs, but the question is can they be as consistent.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Alabama's coming to town there, obviously in the second year
of a new coach and a new regime. As they
like to say, what are your expectations of the Crimson Tide.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
There's a a lot of the unknowns about them too,
you know. They do have They have a brand new
starting quarterback, a guy Ty Simpson, who had a competition
there with a couple of younger quarterbacks. He's been at
Alabama now for three or four years as a Red
Yer junior has not played much at all. It's kind
of throwback to the old Florida State Red cher junior
quarterbacks finally getting their chance. So nobody really knows. He's

(01:15:20):
only thrown fifty passes, so we'll see what he looks like.
He's pretty athletic for a quarterback. And then defensively, you know,
they've got a lot of talent. There's no question they've
got Their defensive line is going to be very, very good.
It's gonna look like a traditional Alabama team. A lot
of those guys were there when Nick Saban was there
before he retired. They're very talented, but they also lost,

(01:15:42):
you know, a few games last year. They were not
the same Alabama. So it's gonna be interesting to see
what they do in killing the Boar's second year. If
they if they can kind of get back to what
they used to be, or if they don't, the pressure
is really gonna mount because the Alabama fans are not
going to tolerate it. If Kevin the War loses three
or four games every.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Year, what's your expectation Saturday afternoon at Doe Campbell Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
I think it's gonna be a really good game. I
think Alabama, especially because they have a new quarterback who
has not played a lot. They've got great talent at
wide receiver. But I don't know that they're going to
come in trying to air it out. I think they're
going to try to establish the run if they can.
On the downside for them, they did lose their starting
running back to an injury a couple of weeks ago,
so they'll and they've got a bunch of other four
and five star running backs behind him. But that's a

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little bit of a blow for them. But they've got
a great offensive line, so my guess is they're going
to really try to run the football. Florida State is
going to try to load up to stop the run,
dare them to throw it, and then we'll see what
happens from there. But Florida State's offense I expect to
have success. You know. I don't know they're going to
go up and down the field, but I do think
they're going to hit some plays. I think it's going
to be a really good game. The question, you know,

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to me, it may turn on whether or not Florida
State has any issues with turnovers. If they do, it
could get away from them. But otherwise, I think Florida
State's going to hang with them and they'll be a
pretty good game.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
IRA will be off next week, but we will We'll
talk in a couple weeks. Thanks so much for the
time this morning. Thanks pressing taking Irishaffell, Managing editor at
warchant dot com. That's where you go and get all
kinds of great intel and great features, great columns from
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the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
Guy, do what you're talking about. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Help you enjoy our visits with Irishchaffell. I find his insight,
his access to the program is exceptional, and so he's
able to offer us a really good broad view. I
recognize that not all of you are nerds like I
might be, and so I try to keep it a
little more broad as we look at the football program,

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specifically the big stories in the press box. Here's the headline.
Nearly two point five million people sign petition singular supporting
illegal immigrant truck driver charged in fatal crash. This was
a tragic accident, not a deliberate Act. While accountability matters,

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the severity of the charges against him does not align
with the circumstances of the incident. Oh of course they do.
He and his buddy fled the state the day after
the wreck. He got the crap out of here. If convicted,
the petition requests that sing receive proportionate and reasonable sentence,

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that pearl eligibility be granted after a part of his
sentences served, and that alternatives to an incarceration like counseling
and community service be considered. Okay, let me take this
first of all, here's how long I'm going to consider it. Yep,
that's it. He illegally broke into this country. It's not

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his fault. He was given a CDL. We have to
hold the state of California, the state of Washington responsible
for that. I have to ask what are way stations
across the country doing, if not checking basic things. When
he was pulled over across the country at different places,

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why wasn't anyone trying to do any sense of language assessment,
which is a requisite to driving a commercial truck in
this country. There is no federal CDL. But there's another
part of this story. I want to take issue with
I just I had a hunch, call it being old

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old guy. You know that besidas in the elbow started
to quiver. I started to get this radiating feeling that said,
wait a minute, here, your hip, my elbow. What's the difference?
So I went two point five million? Huh? So I
went through the first article. No link to the petition,

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just two point five million. So I went to a
different article, different same number, different source, no link, just
change dot org. So I went to change dot org.
Got it right here in front of me. I did
a a search of the name of the guy, because
it would be in any petition, the leading petition. And

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now look, if one person outside his family signs it,
I'm like, you're you're an idiot. But two point five
million now the largest, and it says petition, not petitions,
because there's a bunch of them. There are a bunch

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of petitions. Some have five signatures. There's a petition wanting
to port to deport anybody who signs the petition to
give him leniency. But the leading petition advocate for leniency
and hard gender sing sentence has seventy five, six and

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twenty signatures. Where's the two point five mil Where did
that number come from? Did they? Now I'm not saying
it's not it's it's false. I'm saying I don't know.

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Is it is it been pulled? Is it been stopped?
Did they? Did they end the effort? I don't know.
It's just an opportunity for me to share the links

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that we go to to try to be as accurate
as we can be. I don't have the answer whether
that two point five million is legit. Is it possible
that that number has been used to inflame things? And
there's a reason why they didn't put the link to
the actual petition. I don't know. I don't know. God

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it sucks sometimes being me because that's more work than
I wanted to go through about this. Forty two minutes
passed the Yeah back with more.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
Regular listeners ruminators of this radio program will remember that
I have had Derek Van Orden on my program. I
only had him once or twice. We helped, in our
small way, get him elected to Congress from the state
of Wisconsin. I loved this guy when he played a

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role in a movie. But he's not an actor. He's
a former Navy Seal chief. He's the guy that did interrogations.
You would rather be operated on by a surgeon with

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a dull scalpel than be interrogated by Derek Van Orden
when he was a Navy seal. He basically played himself
in the movie Act of Valor, and we were fortunate
to have the lead actor in that movie who was
the leader of a Navy Seal team, Rourke Denver. We

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had him on the show with Derek Van Orden on
the show. But here's the headline. Ex Navy seal congressman
saves bleeding eleven year old with makeshift tourniquets after Iowa crash.
In an interview, Van Orden said, I'm watching a Dodge
Grand minivan disintegrate. It seemed to drift off the road,

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like at about seventy miles an hour. More so on
the passenger side of the car. My wife Sarah was like,
what happened. I looked at it. I said, someone just died.
He and his family were driving through Iowa on a trip.
He said, he pulled his car over and rushed back
to the scene. He's a former Navy seal. Ran to

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the passenger side where all the damage was and there
was an eleven year old kid, and I looked at him,
and his calf, which was about as big as my thigh,
was completely ripped apart. I could see his tibia and
his fibula and just a big chunk of him bleeding,
and he had an artiller arterial bleed in his right wrist.

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By then, probably ten people also pulled over to help.
I'm like this, somebody have a knife. They're like yep.
So I cut the seatbelts and made tourniquets out of him.
Some big old Iowa farm dude, probably sixty something, rips
off the windshield wiper for his arm. Another lady said
she was a medic. She wound up grabbing a piece
of metal and made a tourniquet on his leg. All

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of us packed him up and got him into the ambulance.
It took ten to fifteen minutes. He would have bled
to death, he said. If they had not responded, and
if the paramedics had not gotten there, he would be gone.
He has visited the young man in the hospital, not

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naming any names. Apparently, it happened when a minivan struck a
semi truck that was trying to merge onto the highway.
No fatalities were reported, but man baby seals baby, and
he was the senior chief. He was, like I said,
he was an interrogator, but he had all the training.

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I love having these guys in Congress, I really do.
This is just that other side of this guy. But
we're getting more and more of these types of men
and women in Congress, and I'm all for it. Forty
seven minutes past the arm come back. We'll tell you
the significance of the number one hundred and sixty two.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
It's more.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
On the radio program, we will have Mark Levin. It's
just you know, we don't have Mark Levin. We will
have mainly men. Of course, we expect to do a
little money talk. And moms are quitting their jobs and
just deciding, yeah, I like being at home raising my kids. Now,

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let me be the first to say that's a job.
But you know what I mean by a job, I'm
talking about you know, the nine to five whatever. So
we're gonna talk about that phenomenon as well. So that's
tomorrow on the program. Pretty good show already, and we've
gotten to me and what I'm going to say, all right,

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I said I would tell you the significance of the
number one hundred and sixty two. South Carolina man took
a big gamble buying one hundred and sixty two tickets
for a single pick four lottery drawing. He had a

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good feeling about the numbers one, seven, three, one, so
he spent three hundred and thirty nine dollars to buy
one hundred and sixty two tickets bearing those numbers for
the August seventh Pick four drawing. He won eight hundred
and eleven thousand dollars, largest ever payout for a single

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player in a pick four drawing. Another guy at the
store decided to play the same numbers because he overheard
him talking about his lucky feeling. So another guy picked
the same four numbers one ticket twenty five four hundred
dollars for him, So the numbers hit times one and

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sixty two. I'd say that was an investment that paid
off that time. I just I'm not advising that strategy.
I'm just saying that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
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Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
That dude's married.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
You did what.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
On the same number? That is? That's nuts. I could
understand five five tickets with the same I just think
that these are things are gonna hit five of them.
But one hundred and sixty two? Who you know what
that tells me he had just enough money available to

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spend for one hundred and sixty two tickets. Big stories
in the press box, your own Powell said. The Fed
Mike cut interest rates in September. Crack down in Washington,
d c. On crime is working. No murders in a week.
Apparently classified documents were sent to family by John Bolton.

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That's why they rated his home looking for stuff. People
are signing a petition asking for leniency for the immigrant
truck driver who killed three people cracker barrel. Yeah, there's
a deep story. Check out my ex page. And reading
is declining a lot in America just reading for fun

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and that's not a good thing for us. Tomorrow we'll
do it again, my friends, have a terrific day, and
thank you for sharing time with us. Be blessed.