Ep. 5495: The Illogic of Education.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Friday, November 14th.

Our guests today include:
-Drake Anderson, Chief Osceola 
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Nice way to start the show. We'll go to Romans
eight verses thirty seven, thirty eight, and thirty nine. Know
in all things we are more than conquerors through Him
who loved us. For I am sure that neither death
nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor

(00:27):
anything else in all creation will be able to separate
us from the love of God in Christ, Jesus our Lord.
That'll do. That'll do. I don't need to add anything
else to that boom, not like I ever need to
add anything to anything God says in his word. But

(00:48):
just a little reminder that what God says about you
is not what the enemy says about you. You know,
there's a little discernment that I think we need to
develop in our life. Conviction that the Holy Spirit brings

(01:10):
and condemnation that the enemy brings. There's a difference. Holy
Spirit taps you on the shoulder and says, come on, now,
you can do better. I'm here with you. Let's go
the condemnation. The voice of Satan and his demonic hordes
say things like you stink, You're never going to do it,

(01:32):
You're never going to be successful. You're never going to
fill in the blank. Just remember what God says about you.
Eleven past the hour inside the American Patriots Almanac. We
go next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right,

(01:53):
Brunn in just a moment laid here, twelve past the hour.
Let's see. November the fourteenth, eighteen fifty one, one, Herman
Melville's novel Moby Dick is published. Call Me Ishmael.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Some years ago, never mind how long, precisely, having little
or no money in my purse and nothing particular to
interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about
a little and see the watery part of the world.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's how it began. Call me Ishmael.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Woof man.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, what a what a what a book man? That
that is a read. It's not quite war in Peace,
but it's right up there. Nineteen ten, Eugene Eli becomes
the first pilot to take off from a ship, the
USS Birmingham, anchored off Hampton Roads, Virginia. That was a
converted UH cargo ship. I believe that they put a

(03:01):
platform on and that guy said, okay, I'll try and
look at what an aircraft carrier is today. A city
on the water, an absolute city on the water. I've
been on one aircraft carrier, a retired aircraft carrier. Incredible.

(03:25):
Nineteen thirty five, FDR President declares the Philippine Islands to
be a self governing commonwealth. And in nineteen seventy two,
the Dow Jones Industrial closes above one thousand for the
first time. And look at where we are now. That's crazy,
and Pelosi beat it. Look at where the Dow is now,

(03:47):
and Nancy Pelosi beat it, she and her husband. It's
just it's insane. It is National seat Belt Day. Let's
just say seat belt Awareness Day, because come on now,
you gotta be wearing your seat belts. Yeah, but I
don't have to. I shouldn't have to. Oh, get over yourself.

(04:18):
I shouldn't be made to have to wear my seat belt. Well,
taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for your medical bills if
you need taxpayer help on your medical bills because you're
not wearing your seat belt. And insurance companies shouldn't have
to pay for the extra injuries because you weren't wearing
your seat belt. I'm gonna make people mad with that.

(04:42):
You call in during what's the beef? Probably National Family
PJ Day, National Spicy Guacamole Day. There's such a thing,
National pickle Day. Could you have little Spicy Pickle Day.

(05:03):
I'd be all about that. I have a great recipe
for spicy pickles. My family loves them. Jose's actually eating
my spicy pickles. Yes, they're great, love them. You offered
one of the single greatest critiques ever when you had
one of my spicy pickles. Jose years ago said, ooh,

(05:27):
there's a lot going on here. That just made me
laugh so hard. Yeah. My uh, it's funny because I
can't stand pickles. I sweet, relish sweet pickles, okay, but
pickle pickles, uh huh. Chick fil A. Give me the remnant,
the pickle juice, A little bit of pickle juice on

(05:48):
the bun that I'm okay with that. But the pickle
Oh no, no, no, no, no no no. If I
bite into a pickle on a sandwich, it's coming off.
I'm like that. I'm like that little kid nikkd get
off my tongue. Yeah, and I'm spitting it out. Oh

(06:11):
eh no, no, no, no no. But I love making
spicy pickles for my family. Haven't done it in a
few years. But yeah, so there you go, sixteen seventeen
past the hour, come back and catch you up on
a few things here on the morning show. Did you

(06:35):
know we are in our giving season. Operation Thanksgiving is
underway and our total right now is just over fifty
forty five hundred dollars. Forty five hundred dollars and we're
raising funds for Orphan Shade, and we built a home

(06:56):
in twenty twenty two. We're going to try to build
another one. The price tag is higher inflation cost of
getting materials to Malawi. They do as much building on
site as humanly possible. And this is not a home
that gets blown away with the seasonal weather. This is
a home that will last for decades and decades and decades.

(07:18):
It's made of cement, cinderblock. It is not opulent. It
does not have electricity other than solar. It does not
have air conditioning. It might feature water from a well.
But it is a stable home for little girls that

(07:39):
have lost their moms and dads, and so it is
a home for orphaned children girls and they form a family,
eight girls volunteer parents. They set a mom and a dad,
a husband and wife, a church family comes alongside, and

(08:02):
that's Orphan Shade raising a generation to change a nation.
If you want to take part, our goal is ambitious
and we can't do it without some significant gifts. I'll
just say that up front. We had one three thousand
dollar donation come in this week. We need that to

(08:24):
make this happen. We need that. It's tax deductible. Perfect
time of year. If you own a business, you've been
blessed personally as a business, Now tax right off helps
come on. It's okay, there's nothing wrong with that. Take
advantage of it. And if you can stroke a check

(08:47):
for five thousand dollars or more, the first one to
do it, to give a verified donation to Orphan Shade,
you would get a one hour private concert with Marvin Goldstein.
Marvin is offering a one hour private concert to anyone
who gives in in the listening area of the capital city.

(09:09):
You have to be in Leon County or one of
the counties that touches Leon County, and you just provide
a piano that's tuned or an eighty eight key digital keyboard,
and then you just set up the time, whether it's
a Christmas party or something. After the first of the year,
a special gathering for your staff, or for your family
and friends, whatever you want to do. It's a one

(09:30):
hour private concert with a world renowned concert pianist, Marvin Goldstein,
and he's just got such a big heart, and so
the first five thousand dollars donation will get that concert.
All you do is go to Orphanshade dot com. That's
Orphanshade dot com. And once you're there, you'll see all

(09:52):
the information. Any question you have will be answered right there.
I will tell you that the co founder of this program,
it's co founded by a gentleman and his wife here
in the States and they work with an itinerant pastor
in Malawi, and that pastor comes to the United States

(10:13):
a couple months a year to earn money that he
brings back to support these programs. He doesn't keep any
of the money that he earns. And so Pastor Prince
Compolo and Jay Shirlow and his wife Stacy, they are
the backbone of this ministry. And my wife went to

(10:40):
college with Jay and they both graduated from Oral Roberts University.
He and his wife love Jesus their family and this
is about helping others that you will never see on
this side of eternity, and so you go to Orfinshade
dot com. I will tell you that the people that

(11:04):
supported a lot of the people that supported the first
effort are digging in for this one too. They've been
so impressed by Jay's communication and integrity of ministry. And
so I'm just saying that to give you confidence, go
to the donate button. After you feel comfortable with what
you're doing, decide what you want to do, and in

(11:26):
the drop down menu build a house and in the
comments put number six WFLA Operation Thanksgiving Morning Show with
Preston Scott TMSPS. Whatever you want to do that will
denote that we're building for Operation Thanksgiving home number six.
Do what you can twenty seven minutes past the hour,

(11:47):
come back with the big stories in the press box
here on the Morning Show, his job to keep you informed.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven. LA.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Let's do it again, man, I'm the most frustrated musician
on the planet because I'm no musician anyway. Hey, welcome Friday,
November fourteenth, show fifty four ninety five of the Morning

(12:29):
Show with Preston Scott remember Orphanshade dot com. Orphanshade dot com.
Hose's over there. He'll be taking your calls in about
an hour and a half for what's the Beef Friday?
Next hour, Drake Anderson will be joining me in studio.
If you don't know the name, if you're a Florida

(12:50):
State football fan, I guarantee you you know him. We'll
explain big stories in the press box. This is a
report from you. You see San Diego, and they saw
a problem that I've been talking about and others have
been talking about for a few decades now. Freshmen coming

(13:15):
in for classes that you see San Diego couldn't perform.
They were so woefully behind. They started to crank out
remedial classes. And all colleges and universities are doing it.
They have to because kids are leaving public education ill

(13:36):
prepared for college, not even remotely close. Now, the numbers
they cite I think are generous. I think they are
amazingly generous, but to them alarming. Give an example. They
they did a bunch of testing, and for example, for math,

(14:01):
they put this problem seven plus two equals blank plus six.
Seven plus two equals blank plus six. The answer is easy,
it's three. Here's the problem. Twenty five percent of college
freshmen missed it. Five percent. The study shows twenty percent

(14:31):
of students cannot meet entry level writing requirements. That's one
in five. I think that is woefully low. I think
the number is far higher. I think it's far closer
to fifty percent. Nineteen percent of students could answer eighth
grade mask questions correctly. I'm just I'm just giving you

(14:55):
the numbers. Just we're quantifying what we have intuitively known
for a long time, and I have observed for decades
far more than I've been doing this show. A high

(15:15):
school diploma in the early eighties, back as far as
you want to go, was worth more educationally than a
college degree today general studies college degree today. High school
kids graduating back in the day knew more. They were

(15:40):
far more rounded in history, sciences, writing, mathematics, et cetera.
Texas can enforce laws banning sexually suggestive drag shows from children.
As a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

(16:04):
It struck down a lower court ruling that said, no,
Texas can't do that. No, in fact, it can. Parents
were actually allowed bringing their children to these drag shows
and so they showed the videos of all this stuff
that kids were seeing because they showed the kids in

(16:25):
the audience to the court with their parents. And then
the final big story in the press box, the Supreme
Court of the United States will hear two cases combined
on men competing as women in athletics. Finally, but it

(16:46):
won't be till next year. Those are the big stories
in the press box. Forty minutes past the hour.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Come to m a d radio network where we challenge
you to make a difference. And this is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
All Right, I promise I would get to this by
the end of the week. It's a piece by Virgil Walker,
named one masculine man in the Democratic Party, and he says,
you can because the men they celebrate act like women. Now,
before you roll your eyes, hear me out. This isn't
about politics. It's about what happens to a nation when
they forget who they are. It's not a coincidence. It's

(17:59):
a coup, a slow, deliberate effort to replace men with
soft imitators, those who trade courage for compliance, strength for
sensitivity training. You don't have to I'm Parafra I'm not paraphrasing.
I'm picking and choosing from this. I'm editing as I go.
You don't have to like Trump to see what's happening.

(18:19):
This isn't about one man. It's about a culture trying
to erase every reminder of strength, conviction, and moral clarity
that once held it together. The real war isn't over politics,
it's over design. God made men to lead, protect and provide,
to take responsibilities, shoulder risk, and face danger so others
don't have to. And that kind of strength, whether found

(18:41):
in a construction worker, a soldier, a father, or a
former president, terrifies a culture built on weakness. Virgil quotes
First Corinthian sixteen thirteen. Be watchful, stand firm in the faith,
act like men, be strong. If you want to understand
why they hate masculinity, go back to the beginning. In

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Genesis one, God created man and woman in his image,
distinct in role, equal in value, united in purpose. Adam
was formed first, given a mission to work, guard and cultivate.
Eve was created as a helper suitable for him, a counterpart,
not a clone. From the very start, manhood carried order
and authority, not dominance, but direction. That's the design the

(19:25):
world now despises. When men embrace biblical masculinity. They declare
that God, not culture, defines who they are, and that
is precisely why modern society cannot tolerate it. Even the
secular data can't ignore what's happening. America is confused about manhood.

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Forty three percent of young men say they don't know
what it means to be a man today. Thirty one
percent of Americans agree that society is hostile toward masculine values.
Nearly half of US adults believes Societ I now views
masculinity negatively. The numbers don't lie. The culture has lost

(20:07):
its confidence in what manhood is supposed to be. We
traded strength for softness, conviction for confusion, leadership for silence.
Here's the basic truth. Without men, civilization collapses. We build
what others depend on. We do the jobs no one
wants to do. We carry the weight no one else

(20:28):
can bear. Men dig ditches, wire cities, fight the wars,
guard the walls. We live the lives. Women don't want
to lead because those whose lives demand risk, strength and sacrifice.
And while a woman can climb a corporate ladder, deep down,
she still longs for a man who will work hard
on her behalf so she can raise the next generation

(20:51):
of warriors who will do it again. Goes on from there,
what do you think pretty accurate? It's a piece called
name One masculine Man in the Democratic Party. It's by
Virgil Walker. Might want to check out the rest of it.
Forty six minutes after the hour come back, Marco Rubio

(21:13):
had something to say.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Thought or story you want to share? Write them at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he knows how to read. Well, actually,
its producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, just fewing its way from the top of
the hour. I have all right it is I somehow
managed to delete myself. I found it. This is the
problem when you get so many email and it's just
it's hard for me to Some of you get a

(22:22):
lot of email. I get it, But for me, in
my eyes, the number that I get is just it's crazy.
And sometimes I do a mass deletion and I pick
the stuff that I know I want to read from you.
I always read email that you send, and I've done

(22:42):
my best to try to weed out junk and block
it and keep it from coming. But you know how
that works. So anyway, US Secretary of State Mark or Rubio,
former senator from Florida, former frequent guest on the Morning Show. Yeah,
I might take a shot. I might take a shot

(23:03):
of getting him out there and tug on the old
all for old time sake thing, you know, and see
what happens. But but he he decided he'd had enough
of what the Euros were complaining about. They're mad at
the US for these military strikes on narco terrorists out

(23:28):
there speeding their drugs to our country on boats out
of Venezuela. And he's like, you know, well, I'll let
him tell you.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
I don't think that the European Union gets to determine
what international laws, and they certainly don't get to determine
is how the United States defense national security. The United
States is under attack from organized criminal narco terrorists in
our hemisphere, and the presidents responding in the defense of
our country. I do find it interesting that all these
countries want US to send, you know, and supply, for example,

(23:59):
nuclear capable Tomahawk missiles to defend Europe. But when the
United States positions aircraft carriers in our hemisphere where we live.
Somehow that's a problem. So I would say that the
United States is and this Presdent has made very clear
his job is to protect the United States from threats
against the United States, and that is what he's doing
in this operation.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
There you go. You want our tomahawks, you want us
to do all the defending for you, We're going to
defend ourselves. Go sit in the corner. There are questions
about the legality, according to some US lawmakers, and of
course the allies not all allies. The United Kingdom has

(24:39):
stopped sharing intelligence on drug traffickers. If I were Trump,
and I'm not, I would be a far more eloquent
version of Trump, far more measured. But I would say
to the UK, really, okay, we'll make note of that.

(25:03):
That's all I would say, because I promise you the
UK needs intelligence from the United States on something about
every week. Okay, fair enough. You want to not help
us deal with drugs, perhaps we'll make sure that it

(25:26):
flows freely to the UK. We got what's to be
Friday coming up in the third hour. Whatever you want
to complain about, you can do that. We have Drake
Anderson coming up in just a few minutes. Drake will
join us in studio. I hope that's the plan. I

(25:48):
don't think he'll be riding a horse, hint, hint, Just
saying now we have known each other for a number
of years. The backstory on how I got to know
Drake was the Wild Mustang Makeover. He was involved in

(26:12):
a competition taking horses that were wild mustangs captured by
the Bureau of Land Management and breaking them so that
they could be useful. Keeping control of the wild mustang
herds in the wild is very important to preserving them.

(26:33):
And I got to visit and see a couple of
the horses that he had trained and successfully broken, and
I think he placed in the top three or four
something like that. Maybe he wanted I don't know, but
that's how I got to know him, and then a
friendship formed. And now he's a businessman. He owns a

(26:54):
family owned an operated business. We'll talk about that a
little bit, but his career revolved around being Osceola for
Florida State University. And that's next. The second hour, Friday

(27:21):
Edition Morning Show with Prestin' Scott November fourteenth, Hello Show
fifty four to ninety five. That's Osey. I'm Preston. Remember
Orphanshade dot com raising funds to build a home for
young girls who are orphans in Malawi. We're looking to
build our second home with them and their sixth home overall.
So it's Orphanshade dot Com. I have had this on

(27:45):
the calendar for a little bit. Now joining me in
studio is a friend. He's a client, but first a friend.
Drake Anderson is with me, and Drake is along with
his family owner of s and offencing. We'll talk about
that later. How you doing.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
I am wonderful, sir. How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I'm doing good. Let's set this stage up a little bit.
Let's set the story and go back to your days.
We were just talking about how in the world did
you get to become, for lack of a better way
of putting it, a horseman.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
I think that it was just something that God put
in me from the beginning because my family history. They
grew up you know, hunting, fishing, all that kind of stuff.
But my grandfather had a forty acre small cattle farm
but never had any horses.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
I didn't grow up with horses.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I just came out of the womb wanting to be
a cowboy diapers and cowboy boots from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Do you remember, like when your love of horses even started.
Was it a picture? Was it a movie?

Speaker 6 (28:55):
Was it just I don't remember a time when I
did not want to be a cowboy.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
That's how far back it goes.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yep, all right, So when does the relationship with horses begin.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
I had the opportunity at right at ten years old.
We had moved to a horse farm in central Alabama,
and the guy that owned the property was a cutting
horse trainer. It's a type of event that you do
with in Western horseback riding. And I had the opportunity

(29:30):
to start. And he was a rough and tumble, old
gruff cowboy, and I had to earn my spurs. I
cleaned stalls for about six months, scooping, scooping all the
stuff right to earn the right to ride. So I
started at the bottom and started to work my way
up to be able to just get on a horse there.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
And you didn't care what you were asked to do.
The end goal was getting on that horse.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
That's right, That's that's all I wanted to do. I
was homeschooled at that time.

Speaker 6 (29:57):
I was actually homeschool until I started high school, and
so I would I would wake up at six o'clock
every day and I would do my book work and
be done by noon, and I would be sitting at
his born waiting on him to come back from lunch
so that I could start whatever he wanted me to do,
so that I could eventually get on a horse.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Do you remember the first time you got on a horse.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
No, I remember the first time that I got to
ride a cutting horse, and I actually trained. It was
at that time, you know, fifty thousand dollars finished horse,
and I got the opportunity to ride him. That was
probably the nicest horse that I had sat on, probably
the top two nicest horse that I've ever sat on,
two or three at least, and I remember that vividly.

(30:37):
But first time, now, it was probably when I was
very very young kid pony at camp, some kind of thing.
Tell me about smoky Smoky. So I learned from a
very young age saving money my parents. I sat had
a bank account, and I worked, and I earned money.
By the time I was ten years old, coinciding just
after I had met the guy the cutting horse trainer.

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I bought my first horse ten years old, my own money.
My dad made me negotiate the deal. I went and
met with him. I shook his hand and told him
I could offer him a thousand dollars and he took it,
had a bill of sale, rode it out, did the
whole deal. Okay, brought Smoky home.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
How big was Smoky? What do he look like?

Speaker 6 (31:19):
Smokey was a smoky black color, black, kind of a
black base coat, kind of faded out in the summer.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Little charcoal, that's right, okay, little charcoal.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
I rode him for about six months and ended up
flipping him for I think it was forty three hundred.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Why why were you able to do? Was he just
developed skills? Or were you that good at selling? Man?

Speaker 5 (31:43):
I think that was just a very fortunate deal.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
I think that he had some ability that was untapped.
We fed him a little bit better than probably where
he was, got him looking really nice and pretty, and
found the right buyer, and it just happened that way.
That was my first horse trade deal. Over doubled money, substantially.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
More than double. Was that the start?

Speaker 5 (32:06):
That was the start? I was bitten at.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
That point Okay, okay, Drake Anderson is with me. As
the music tells you, there's a transition coming coming his way,
and we're going to talk about that a little bit
ten past the hour here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, and we gave you a little hint there

(32:34):
up past the hour, Drake Anderson with me, and we're
talking about the career path and we'll bring you to
current day in a little bit. But so you get
to high school, what was going on in high school
that would land you on the radar of Florida State University.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
So after a year or so of tutelage under the
cutting horse trainer, I found another born locally. We had
moved from that property and I found another born locally.
I was eighth grade going into high school when I
met Terry Dinard and he became like a mentor to me,
and that is where I really learned the majority of

(33:14):
my horse training. I started riding with him and he
did team roping, and so he fixed and trained horses
for team roping.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
This event.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
I started with him, started riding, started roping, became very
successful locally there.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
I did not compete in the high school rodeo association.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
I was kind of like a junior pro doing local
jackpots and other USCRC events that are team roping events.
The Durham family, they contacted Terry looking for someone to
come in.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
So they knew him.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
They knew of him of him he was at an
announcer for the high school Rodeo Association, so they contacted
him looking for a replacement, and he of course brought
me to mind. So that's how the connection was made.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
If you don't know the Durham family, Bill Durham is
credited with being the founder of the tradition we now
know as Ostiola and Renegade. The family raises these horses,
acquires these horses, and they are responsible for I guess
the recruitment of the whoever would be Ostiola. Now at

(34:28):
the time, did you even know of the Florida state tradition.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
I had heard of Bobby Bowden before, that's about the extent, But.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
You didn't know anything about Oh, they use a horse
and a rider, not at all. I had.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
So my skill set became team roping and I was
training horses. I was making eight hundred dollars a month
with three to four horses at a time throughout high
school and so I actually ended up having a heated
discussion with my father about why I did not want
to go to college because I was making a lot
of money training horses and if I could do it
full time, I can make even more. So I ended

(35:02):
up getting a scholarship offer from Mississippi State and from
Troy University for rodeo. So they have rodeo collegiate teams
there and I got a scholarship offer from them. I
was a week away from signing with Troy State when
I was contacted by the Durham family and I had
never heard of FSU or heard of the tradition and

(35:23):
had only ever heard of Bowden and FSU.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
That was it?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Why did it win? Why did you decide to come?
And oh, by the way, become at the time the
longest tenured ostiola writing at Florida State football games bowl
games for five years.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
So initially he showed me a video, showed me what
it was about, and I was like, man, that's really cool.
What changed for me and what made me realize that
this is really what I want to do is when
I had to read a book, and I had to
read a book about the life of Ostiola, the life
of the Seminal Tribe and the Seminal Wars, and write

(36:03):
a report about what it would mean to me to
represent that individual. And in reading that and learning about
the history of the program and the history of who
they are representing, that's what sold me on it.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Looking back, are you surprised you did it? Surprised as
in that you took that path after going through that,
because I mean there's that's some hoop jumping. Oh yeah,
reading the book, write and a report to get a
chance to do this where you've got standing offers it
to universities. Yeah, are you surprised you did it?

Speaker 5 (36:36):
I'm surprised that.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
No, I don't think so. That's where I needed to be.
That's where the path that God laid in front of me,
and I think that that's, uh, that's where I needed
to be. So no, I'm not surprised.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
What would people be the most surprised to know about
being Osceola and writing in front of seventy plus thousand
fans on it or like that.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
I like the anonymity there's when I'm out there, You're
we're portraying a fierce warrior with all the regelia and
the wig and the makeup, and no one really knows.
It's kind of flying under the radar. I never was
braggadocious or really said anything. I've only ever had one
person recognize me out of out of character that I

(37:25):
did not know already.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Sure so that I.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
Enjoyed being able to do that as a gift to
the university and to the tribe and not have the
spotlight on me.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Do you recognize what it means to people now?

Speaker 5 (37:39):
I do after the fact, is I mean.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Looking at it now? Does it change how you view
whoever is Osceola Renegade?

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Absolutely. I know the troubles that they're going through. I
know the the woes and the issues that they have. Sometimes, man,
I can tell you it is hot. The first part
of the season is very odd.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
What you may not know about Drake And I'm if you,
if you observe Ostiola from the stands, you're probably thinking,
you know, a rather diminutive young man riding the back
of a horse. This is not a small young man.
Drake is a very big guy. And uh riding that
horse at six five six six and I'm guessing about

(38:23):
two forty that's right. Yeah, I'm thinking when you get
on the back of a horse, it goes.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, they have.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Back with More with Drake Anderson. You're on the Morning
Show with President Scott. Back with Drake Anderson, Osceola for
five seasons and some change, right right. You got called

(38:54):
back into duty when someone got hurt.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
I did so.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
My Typically it's a four year gig. You intern two years,
you ride for two years. I got brought in as
a freshman and I rode starting. That's actually a fun story.
I was not actually supposed to ride the first game
because in two thousand and nine, this season that I started,
our first game was Labor Day Monday against Miami. I

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had never seen a college football game before, so I trained,
I graduated high school, started riding three weeks later. Our
first game is Monday night starting that season, and I
had never been on the field at Dope Campbell on Renegade,
and I had never seen a college football game in person.
So he's like, all right, I'm going to bring back
our writer from the last year to ride this first game.

(39:43):
Second game is Jacksonville State. That's a perfect game for
you to start with. The previous rider came back the
week of the game, got the flu.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Oh no.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
So by Friday, Alan said, you're up, buddy, Alan Durham.
Alan Durham, he was my my boss there. Yeah, ran
the program. So I had to call parents and call everybody,
and I was like, Hey, I'm actually riding Monday, so
let's find some tickets and y'all get down here to Tallahassee.
So that was my first collegiate football game that I
ever saw in person, was on the back of Renegade

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against Miami.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
How much practice is required to get that down to where?
Because because it's an art, it's an art to ride
that horse to the middle of the field, get it
to rear up so that you can plant the spear
as it comes down. Oh so, how much practice had
you had before that first game? Doing that?

Speaker 5 (40:37):
The entire summer five six days.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
A week, you were planting spears.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Not only that, but riding with the horse and getting
acclimated to the program, figuring out the routine, and just
practicing to get ready for it.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
How do they prepare for the crowd? There is no
preparation for it. Yeah, you can't simulate that, but they
do prepare the horses by sort of they bring one
in while the others getting close to maybe retirement. That's right,
acclimating a backup horse as needed to the crowd noise, right,

(41:11):
that's right.

Speaker 6 (41:11):
They've typically got a backup Renegade and a backup Ostiola
there at the games at all times. So that's kind
of the general rule of thumb, and that backup horse
rider is learning and growing to take over the position
when their time comes.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
So you were Osciola at the end of Bobby Bowden's career.
I was, And you have a fascinating story about how
your life and ancestry intersects with coach Bowden. Yes.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
So my grandfather played football at Samford. Bobby played football
at Yes, he did.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
So.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
When I came down in two thousand and nine, the
first chance that I got to meet Bobby in person,
I introduced myself and I asked him, do you remember
Charles Anderson from your Sanford High school days? And he
kind of scratched his head and he slapped me on
the shoulder and he said, you mean Slim and that
was my grandfather's nickname. I said, yes, sir, that was
my grandfather. He played football there. He said, well, heck, can.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
I remember him? He bumped me out of my starting
position at quarterback.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
My grandfather bumped Bobby out of his starting position at.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Quarterback at Sanford University of University. That's hilarious and yep,
that was the first time I met Bobby all.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Right before we go to break the top three memories
as Osceola on the back of Renegade.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
In no particular order.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
The Oklahoma game, which one that would have been twenty twelve,
I believe, leading up to our national championship.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Both top five.

Speaker 5 (42:38):
Yep, both top five.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
The loudest that I've ever heard Doe Campbell in person
ever when Bobby Bowden retired in Jacksonville at the bowl
game I think that was the Champs.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Bowl in twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Why does that stand out?

Speaker 6 (42:52):
West Virginia And a cool story about the mascot there
and some interactions we had, okay, and then.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
But you handed this to coach Bowden because I remember
he planted the spirit at that game. That's right.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
We handed the spear off to certain people for certain events,
and his retirement of.

Speaker 5 (43:08):
Course met the bar for that.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Absolutely handed the spear off to him and he planted
it there. And number three National championship twenty thirteen. You
were there on the horse loud and proud Rose Bowl. Yes, sir,
did you ride in the parade?

Speaker 5 (43:24):
I was not in the parade.

Speaker 8 (43:25):
No.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
They didn't want to do that, did they know?

Speaker 6 (43:28):
With that environment and with it being so far out
of our home territory kind of deal it was. It
was too much to coordinate and too many variables. So
we just wrote at the game, which was a very
fun and very complicated event.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
The Rose Bowl is a special place in a special,
great set of memories. Absolutely, we got more with Drake
Anderson coming up next twenty eight Pass the Hour, little
news and more on the morning show with Preston, Scott.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
And Beck.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
You want him on that radio America can handle the truth.

Speaker 9 (44:07):
You need him on that radio nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Too much to talk about, so I asked Drake Anderson
to stick around. He, of course, Osceola and part of
that incredible college football tradition. It is one of it
is one of the most unique college football traditions out there.
But you were there for the national title game. You
leave Florida State University. You and I first met because

(44:42):
I got a male an email from I don't know
if it was the Bureau of Land Management or something
affiliated with a wild Mustang makeover? How'd you get roped
into that?

Speaker 7 (44:55):
So?

Speaker 6 (44:56):
I when I graduated college and my wife and I
we bought our place in mont Solo. I was on
the side trying to kind of hustle and get back
to training horses, which is what I love to do,
and to do that. I had had a friend that
competed in the Extreme Mustang Makeover before, and I decided
that I wanted to try that as well. So I

(45:18):
signed up and got selected. Okay, it's a whole process
to go through that. You have to have the facility
to hold the mustang because it's a wild horse. Up
until the point that it gets to your property, it's
probably only been touched by force one hundred percent. They've
been roped or or uh or shot with a with

(45:39):
a train gun. Yeah, sorry, tranked. And so you have
to get selected and I finally was selected for it.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
And uh, that's where you and I met. You came
on this show, you came in this studio and we
talked about that experience. What was that like?

Speaker 5 (45:55):
That was a blast.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
It was the first time that I've ever trained a
horse from the ground up that no one else has
ever interacted with.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
And was that the challenge of it for you that
you wanted to take on.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Yeah, I wanted to.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
I wanted to see what it would be like to
take a wild horse, because even a horse that's untrained,
that is that is uh tame, is way different. Mustangs
have lived their life scrounging out of living on the land,
and they have an innate distrust for humans and you've
got to overcome.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
That from a horse perspective. Is that the most rewarding
experience you've had h one of them?

Speaker 6 (46:34):
Yeah, I would say that's definitely one of them. To
take that horse and to to mold her into something.
I actually ended up buying her back from the program
after it was done, and then I gifted her to
my my my brother in law he'd fallen in love with.
Her name was honisi Oski, which means wild rain in
the Seminal language, and uh when we went to pick

(46:56):
her up, we almost got blown off the road by
a tornado, and so I just felt it was fate
to call her wild Rain.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
So yeah, and the horse and your brother in law
are coexisting wonderfully.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Happiest could be. She's fat as a butter ball. Here
in Tallahassee, just doing kids lessons.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Actually, you're kidding me. That's hilarious. So you are you
still doing any horse training?

Speaker 5 (47:21):
Not so much training.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
My wife and I we've got property out in Montslo
We've got horses, cows. I think I've got twenty five
head of cows and we've got seven seven horses. I
think so do a little bit of a little bit
of cowboy riding. I've got a couple of friends that
have large ranches and try to try to get on
horseback as much as possible.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
But with a new business, it's yeah, oftentimes not as easy.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Well and not just a new business and a child
there we go that changes everything everything. And we're not
talking about a horse. By the way, when a gentleman,
which to a horseman, you could consider a new horse
a child. You could do that, but that's not what
we're talking about. Mortal. Drake Anderson with me for one
more segment here on the Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Welcome to m a D Radio Network, Make a Difference
Radio network, and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
With Drake Anderson, and we're sharing a little bit of
our long and complicated history together here on the program.
So you moved Monticello, You're married, you've got a family
starting here, and you've got some cattle, a few horses.
But then you recently opened up a business. Did tell

(48:49):
us a little bit about that? What got you into fencing?

Speaker 6 (48:54):
I wanted to get off roofs, that's where it actually started.
Why not I'd rather not climb on a roof every
day I did. I did sales and estimating for local
contractors uh in roofing for years. Started in the fence industry,
got the opportunity to work with a local company, worked
there for eight years.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Decided that I.

Speaker 6 (49:17):
Wanted to take an opportunity to build something for myself
and for my family. So January of this past year,
I lonched Sentinel Fencing. And my father works for me
as an estimator and vice president of sales, and then
my wife works as office manager and operations manager.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
So it is a family owned and operated business.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
Okay, I'm waiting on Sadie to start at talking so
I can get her on the phone.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
What what do you enjoy about that?

Speaker 6 (49:47):
I enjoy lots of things about it being able to
help people build something. So we do fences, We do decks,
we do paper patios Pergola's outdoor space type.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Just being outdoor outdoors.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Being able to help.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Somebody turn an idea or a dream into reality in
their backyard, in their home. That's fun. Being able to
help design something. They're like, man, this is kind of
what I think. What can we do that? That's fun?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
And fencing now is very different because a lot of
people they're just I mean, yeah, the dog ear, you know,
wood fence is kind of the common thing. That's what
you saw at my home. But we wanted to do
something different that might have a little more lasting integrity.
That's right. And there are a lot of options now

(50:37):
there are.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
There are a lot of options.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
You've got composite, you know, materials like Treks and some
other manufacturers. You've got vinyl fencing right there. There's a plethora.
I actually just found a new privacy fence system this
past week through one of my suppliers. That is a
wood grain steel privacy fence and it is comparable cost
wise to vinyl, which I was very surprised with it

(50:59):
being steel galvanized powder coated finish, so it's gonna be
very durable. But lots and lots of different options.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Yeah, the thing that I love about and full disclosure,
Drake and his company did part of what we're doing,
a phased replacement of our fencing. He did the first
part of that that phase. We'll move into phase two
next year. But I was impressed by the fact that
you don't face wood rot with some of these.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Fully composite vinyl lots of different things where you don't
have to worry about painting, staining or anything rotting.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, So what does what does the future look like
for you? Obviously Sentinel fencing people you can you can
find that online Sentinel Fencing dot com. But what does
what does the perfect world look like? Grow in this
business and fill in the blank.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
Man growing this business and continueing to to follow God's path.
From my family, my wife and I are very very
fortunate to have what we have are.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Going to be cattle rancher. I would love to is
that the idea of growing the herd to that point
to do that as well.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Absolutely, if I could get to the point in the
next five to ten years where I could purchase a
large parcel of land and have a operational cattle ranch,
small operational cattle ranch, I would definitely love that.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
The type of cattle that you're raising. What kind of
cattle are you talking?

Speaker 5 (52:23):
So I have Brama influence cattle.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
I've got mostly brangus, which is angus and brama mixed.
I've got the first brama that was ever brought to
the state of Florida. My friend Keith Whaley and his
family came here from Central Florida. They brought the first
Bramer cow to the state of Florida before it was
a state. Seven generations of ranchers in Central Florida, and

(52:51):
I have purchased and purchasing a bull from them that
is from that heritage. So I've got a Brama bull
on my herd this year with all of my brain gus.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Callous wowep Okay.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Seven generations of ranchers here in Florida brought that that
that cow to Mona, that bull to Mona, Sola.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
It was a lot of fun having you in here today.
Thanks for making the time. It is senior weekend for
Florida State football, so we thought this is a perfect
time to talk a little nostalgia with Drake Anderson about
your time as Ossiola. Thank you for having me, sir,
appreciate it Sentinel Fencing dot Com if you'd like to
reach out. But you know, it's it's It's a tradition

(53:30):
that is unlike any other and he played a huge
part in that tradition and fun to have him here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Well. Got a

(53:57):
note here. One of the big stories in the press
box today is the status of education in America. We
pointed out a report from UC San Diego should be
a wake up call for America's education system. It won't be,
but it should be. And they were talking about the
number of freshmen that needed remedial math, and I used

(54:18):
this as an example that twenty five percent of incoming
freshmen missed seven plus two equals blank plus six. One
out of four missed it. Got a note here from
a listener. It's been fifty years since I started my

(54:43):
first classes at Tallasse Community College now Tallassee State College.
By the way, my Tuesday class was writing in Communications.
I was one of thirty three students. Day one, we
were instructed to write a three page essay introducing ourselves.
Upon completion, we were allowed to place our papers on
the instructor's desk and quietly leave. The following week when
class started, there were eighteen of us sitting in the desks,

(55:06):
eighteen out of thirty three. The instructor announced that we
were the students who at least knew how to structure
a sentence and could spell. She said the others were
dismissed from her class and had been rolled in the
new remedial English and reading class. And it goes on
from there. There you go the numbers that they share

(55:33):
in this you see San Diego report, and it's, first
of all, kudos to you see San Diego for having
the courage in the communist state of California to admit
that public education is failing. Now, really that don't overlook
that in the state of California and the college and
university system of that state. That's huge. But there's sounding

(55:56):
the alarm. I mean, and I think their numbers of
students having to take remedial coursework just to be prepared
to take normal freshman year college rigor, I think those
numbers are woefully low. I don't think they're nearly what

(56:19):
they're purporting them to be. I think they're much higher.
I think the number of students that are truly ready
for college out of high school is probably less than
fifty percent. If that, it might not even be twenty
five percent. I've been told since I started this program

(56:43):
how colleges and universities have been quietly moving kids into
these remedial courses. They call them different things, to try
to put a band aid on it and not make
it look so embarrassing. We're passing kids out of public
education beginning early on, in kindergarten, first, second, third grade,

(57:07):
that do not have the skills mastered, and then we
start to dumb those skills down to get them through,
and it starts this ugly chain reaction in education. That
was one of our big stories. In the press box.

(57:28):
Supreme Court, we'll hear gender ideology and female sports cases,
two of them in twenty twenty six. Can't happen soon enough.
I don't know why it's taken this long. I don't
know why it has to go to court, but it does.
All right, It's what's to be Friday. Phone lines are
open eight five zero two zero five to BFLA. Jose

(57:52):
is waiting eight five zero two zero five ninety three
fifty two. The lines are wide open, and it's time
for you to call in what's your beef? What do
you want to complain about? It's fair game and it's
next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right,

(58:29):
m's shocking here, got manished eating my protein? Bark, Yeah,
you card me, that's fine. I'm stuck in my teeth.
All right, here we go, It's what's the Beef? Friday?

(58:54):
Final hour here of the Morning Show with Preston Scott
for the week. Eight five zero two zero five w
f l A. The lines are packed, so anticipate the
end of a call and jump on in. We do
have four lines, just like Rush. A lot of people
think he had like eight to twelve line. No, he
had four. We have four. We're just like Rush. Well

(59:16):
not just like it. Russia is special category all his
own anyway. Don't make it personal, don't use profanity, don't monologue,
all right? Eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Eight
five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. Hey, Mark,
thanks for hanging on this morning. What's the beef?

Speaker 8 (59:35):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (59:35):
It's more of a story around Osceola. I can't remember
the dates, but I'm an old gator, okay, and in
seventy nine and I remember We got beat by FSU
at Florida in the late seventies, seventy nine, I think,
and that was just unheard.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Of, right.

Speaker 8 (59:53):
It was a large group of us said.

Speaker 10 (59:56):
We're going to Tallahassee. And when we came to Tallahassee
for a game, we were always put in the end zone.
They were wooden bleachers. It was very uncomfortable. But we
remember Ostiola was on the field and right in front
of us, Ostiola decided to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 7 (01:00:15):
Oh come on, so guess what.

Speaker 10 (01:00:18):
We just started raising Caine making fun of this, and
the support team had to come up and clean it up.
The guy gets down and cleans it up, puts it
in the bucket, and we're all screaming at him and
pointing at him, and he looks at us. He looks
at the bucket, He looks at us. He grabs the
bucket one hand on the tip and went on the

(01:00:40):
bottom and runs at us like he's going to throw
it in the crowd. I got to tell you, it
was like the parting of the seas. We all ran,
dove everything, and then for a second he just got
quiet because he didn't throw it, and he just stopped
and we all looked at and then we started clapping.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta tip your cap on that one.

Speaker 10 (01:01:07):
And so everybody, you know, everybody just laughed and the
whole the whole stadium started clapping. And then he just
walked away with his bucket and like we're done. So
it's a great story. I've always remembered it. Always had
a lot of respect for that team.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Good stuff, man, thanks for sharing that. And it's sort
of a beef kind of I'll take the beef as
like splinters on the wooden bleachers something like that. That'll work.
But Mark, you're a good man for sharing that. That's good,
good stuff. Let's go to Tim. That opens up a
line by the way, eight five zero two zero five
to WFL A, Hey Tim, what's up.

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Good morning.

Speaker 12 (01:01:44):
My beef is with the president. Okay, he's gotten rid
of all these ridiculous Biden things that Biden introduced, but
the one he has not done anything about is these
led light bulbs. I am so tired of blue light
and want to buy of the old fashioned bulbs, but
you can't do it because they banned them or something.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Bring back the incandescent bulbs.

Speaker 12 (01:02:08):
That's the word. I couldn't remember.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent. Well,
I hope you feel better getting that what ball bothers
you the most? That you've had to change.

Speaker 12 (01:02:18):
Over the regular sixty watts seventy five to one light bulbs? Yeah,
just you know, the three light fixtures and over the
bathroom and things like that. That blue tinted light just
drives me crazy, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Tim, Thanks very much. I appreciate the phone call. Eight
five zero two zero five to BFLA. We'll go to Roger,
then Greg, then Moses. That means there's a line open.
See I gave three names. I need a fourth. Come on,
come on audio therapy standing by the couch is empty.

(01:02:55):
It's what's the Bee Friday in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
You mayor of Realville, dispensing information at the speed of sound.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Remember be patient eight five zero two zero five to WFLA.
It's what's the Bee Friday? Here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. If you're new to the radio program,
this is where people call in and complain about whatever's
on their heart, whatever's stuck, whatever's occupying space unnecessarily that
they've got to get out of their system. We're here
for you. You'll feel better, Roger, thanks for calling in.

(01:03:41):
You're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Hey, I'm Preston morning, sir morning.

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
I believe you spoke about giving illegal aliens, the criminals
that crossed into this country one hundred and eighty six thousand.
Am I correct in saying that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Yeah, give or take a little bit? Yeah? Jury in
New York? Uh huh.

Speaker 7 (01:04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:04:03):
I worked my whole rear end off, my whole adult life,
did everything right, paid my taxes, you know, obey the laws,
and where's mine? I want mine? Okay, yeah, in the world.
But what do I have to be a criminal to
get anything?

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
Don't I don't want nothing. It's just nuts that they're
going to do this for a criminal seventy four of them, Yes,
one hundred and eighty six thousand dollars, steak. I can't
make that in two years? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:04:40):
It's crazy? Okay, Now I feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:04:43):
That's my beefy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:45):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
You a little homage to a caller last week. Well done.
Thank you, Roger. That was that was very well delivered
by the way. That frees up a line. Let's go
to Greg Hi, Greg Europe.

Speaker 13 (01:05:00):
Unanswered questions related to the government shutdown conclusion. One, will
the discharge petition that will extend Obamacare subsidies for three
more years get two hundred and eighteen signatures as quickly
as they Eppstein discharge petition? Second, will the friends of

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Charlie Kirk put up a candidate in New Jersey and
Virginia to replace the two governors elect? And finally, will
someone please tell HGTV that Christmas decorations are not subject
to the DOGE budget cut and go ahead and book
a special in December.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Thank you very much, appreciate the phone call. Greg. Let's
go to Moses Hi. Moses, thanks for calling in. You're up.
What's the beef?

Speaker 7 (01:05:49):
Hey? Good morning to a lah A Sin, Good morning
Tase love beat. We want our reprisations now, we want
them to give all Israel hall and all these all
over the world. Bob will say that the agent of Baby,

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he said, was brue Wool. He was bet they was bet.
We all belt we will now reperation.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Now all right, Moses, you're not gonna get him, but
I hope you feel better screaming about it. Uh, let's
go to Lane Lane. You're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 14 (01:06:30):
Hey, Preston, So my beef is with whoever is writing
the promos for your station. I don't know the initials.
I don't know who it is, but I suspect the
initials of Preston Scott. The promo says Twitter is a
buzz and I just I feel like it's a real

(01:06:50):
missed opportunity because it should have been X is a
Twitter and I would have worked even better than Twitter's
a buzz.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
As my By the way, you sir, are wrong. I
didn't write it.

Speaker 14 (01:07:06):
Oh you didn't write it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
No, I didn't write it. But yeah, we got some
dated stuff floating around out there that we're going to
be moving on from. Thank you for pointing it out,
because no, seriously, because it helps me. It helps make
to make my case of updating some things, if you
know what I mean.

Speaker 14 (01:07:23):
Yeah, Well, I appreciate you hearing it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Yeah, brother, thank you. There you go, and I hope
you feel better now. See that's the whole point of
what's the beef? You call in? Get it off your
chest and you feel better. Ray, you're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 15 (01:07:37):
Good morning, Preston. I have a friend and she's going
through a lot of stuff and a lot of times
I use the songs that you put on the first
thing in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Yeah, but you.

Speaker 15 (01:07:49):
Failed to say the name of the song and the
artists sometimes and like this morning, So that's my beef.
I'd just like for you to be a little more
conscientious of saying the names of the artist in the
song and what was it this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Well? Can I explain why?

Speaker 16 (01:08:04):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Yeah, because we're not allowed to put it on the
podcast because it violates copyright. We can play it live,
but because we record the show, I can't. I can't,
I can't use it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
So what I can say?

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Ok, Well, no, no, no, no. You can write me
and I'd be happy to tell you or you can.
For example, there there may have been a moment where
a song by Lauren Daegel called you Say might have
been played at some point in the broadcast. I don't know,
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:08:44):
Okay, very good, all right, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
You very much. Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for tolerating
us on that front. We've lost all of our names here.
We're gonna go back and get all the names and
and we're gonna put you all back on. We've got
one line open. We're gonna get to all of you.
Stand by your calls. Are there? Our call screener just
went blank. It's okay, you're there. Day five zero two

(01:09:09):
zero five to WFLA one more segment of therapy on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Now, there's a chance,
sorry for I agree, there's a chance. I'm going to

(01:09:29):
fit in a fifth, maybe even six caller, but I
guarantee four callers are in this segment. It's what's the
Beef Friday? Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Pat has been patient, Good morning, Welcome. What's the beef?

Speaker 17 (01:09:41):
Mine is with the EBT card shopper since they're balanced
at zero. I've been in four stores, two which are Walmart,
A Pigley, Wiggy and Harvey's, and there's nothing but nice
people shopping in. They're not to insinuate that the EBT cardy,
but I'm saying it's been remarkably more without them, and
I think the stores out to have a day when

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EBT cards aren't accepted in a Walmart. A day where
you can't call in an order, You've got to pick
it up yourself. Anyway, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Interesting observation, Very interesting observation, Pat, thank you appreciate the call. Barbara,
thanks for calling. What's the beef?

Speaker 16 (01:10:23):
Well? I excuse me. I am just sick and tired
of hearing tax the rich, tax the rich, the rich,
and Dallas Hospitals, universities, they donate to charities. So if
they have three homes, they have to hire construction workers.

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Then they have to buy furniture, and then they have
to hire household help. And if they have cars, okay,
so they have to pay insurance. Blah blah blah. So
tax the rich is just turning me off.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Do you feel better?

Speaker 18 (01:11:01):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:11:01):
I do feel better. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
You're welcome, Barbara and I completely agree. It is a
foolish complaint. Let's go to Jim, Hi, Jim, taxing the
rich is just dumb. It just is. Any of you
that think that you don't understand an economy, you just don't.

Speaker 11 (01:11:20):
Jim Europe, Hey, Preston, Hey, I have a couple complaints.
One that we have to listen so hard from Panama City. First,
they took us from one strong radio station to two
that I have to guess and maybe try and figure out,
or I have to do w FLA and listen on
the online. Here all the wonderful ads. But my second

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main one is that we are so slacking. And you know,
Panama City is trying to lead the way for the
orphan shade with a chunk of donation and I'm challenging
the rest of the world to get that off, and
I'm just disappointed that we're so far behind already on
it that I'm going to challenge. If I get a
tooth dollar donation a collective out of Panama City, I'll

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match that.

Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
Thank you for orphans it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Jim, thanks for
the phone call. Yeah, I hear your frustration. On the
split signal. We run ninety six three FM and one
O two five FM. It's ninety six to three Panama
City to the east, one oh two five Panama City
Beach to the west. Yeah, I know, but also remember
this about commercials. They make it possible, They make free

(01:12:30):
programming possible, and we love our clients, love them all. Katrina,
you're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 18 (01:12:37):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:12:37):
Preston. My beef is on Highway twenty between I'm from Hosford,
the rural area west of Tallahassee. From my place all
the way into Tallahassee on Highway twenty, there's these hundreds
and hundreds of sign posts of these yellow arrows on
every curve from here to there, and now it's even

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spread out into the rural areas around you know, my area,
And I get so aggravated that how much money their
state of Florida has wasted putting them signs up. Like
people couldn't travel Highway twenty for one hundreds of years now,
or maybe that's the exaggeration, but for a long time
without those yellow signs point of arrows on a curve,

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and there's so many curves it's literally dotted all the way.
I know somebody system got some contract with the State
of Florida to put them up. They're useless, they're in
the way. If somebody did run off the road, it's
just an object to hit. And the people that mowed
the roads must really have a headache.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
They got to get around.

Speaker 19 (01:13:37):
All the way down. And I'm just get so tired
of it every time I look at it. It's just a
waste of money. Somebody got a contract and got a
lot of money out of doing a problem. It really
made a problem, it's said, and it's just a clutter
on the side of the road.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Thank you. Katrina got to go to Dan's final caller,
what's the beef?

Speaker 18 (01:13:57):
Are you doing good? I'm the beef I have is
It is basically a battle between good and evil, and
until we get the mainstream media off of the evil side,
I don't know how we're going to It takes the
problems that we have right now as a nation.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
You feel a little better though, just getting it well.

Speaker 18 (01:14:20):
When changes are made, I feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
I understand, Dan, Thanks very much. At least we're here
for you. At least we're here to counterbalance the best
we can all of the nonsense in the garbage. And
we pointed out to you too, because not everybody can
discern the garbage that they're listening to. Twenty seven past
we come back the best and worst of the week,
Good news, Dad, joke to be and more what more,

(01:14:48):
I don't know, but more on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
And women serving our great nation and our armed services,
those serving communities, as law enforcement officers and first responders.
I say you are all essential workers. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Back on the radio program. Monday ought to be interesting.
Monday on the show, we're going to talk obviously with Irishchfelle.
FSU final home game of the year in football, as
soccer starts the postseason tonight at home against Samford at
the Soccer Complex. FSU men's and women's basketball. Men's basketball

(01:15:48):
looks improved and a lot of fun to watch. I'll
tell you that Luke Lous has them going up and
shooting the ball, which has been a bit of a
challenge over the years for issue the offensive side of
the game. But the final home game, which means senior
Day for FSU football. Also on Monday, we're gonna take

(01:16:11):
a cue from Joe Rogan. He asked this question and
I thought it was brilliant. On a scale of one
to ten. How close are we to a second civil
war in this country?

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
I mean literally a civil war? So we're gonna talk
about that Monday. So that's coming up. Time for the
best and worst of the week, Jose.

Speaker 20 (01:16:35):
Alrighty, So the best for me for the week is
a medium, mister Drake Anderson. That was super super cool.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
We've got a lot of email from people that really enjoyed.
And I had a hunch that taken a little time
on that was worth it. And it was.

Speaker 20 (01:16:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, knowing that he was the chief ostila
that planted this spear the rose bowl. That was so cool,
very fond memory for me personally. And then the worst, well,
first world problem.

Speaker 16 (01:17:03):
Uh.

Speaker 20 (01:17:03):
I went and got a pizza, opened.

Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
The box and check it.

Speaker 20 (01:17:06):
The cheese a little, a little.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Toasty, no worries, baked. Yeah. I took it home. Uh,
got to it. It was.

Speaker 20 (01:17:14):
It was all burnt, the whole thing, the bottom. It
was like eating cardboard.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
But praise the Lord.

Speaker 20 (01:17:18):
I had some Lighthouse Ranch and you know you you
put that stuff on anything, and it'll make anything delicious.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
No it won't.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
Oh yeah, no it won't.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Yes, it will to make chocolate cake delicious. Excuse me,
it won't make chocolate cake delicious. Changed my mind. That's
the worst of the week for me. It won't, it won't.
It won't make an ice cream Sunday delicious. Pretend it
won't make a Coca Cola delicious. What a ranch? Ranch?

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In a Coca Cola. It won't that won't maybe just
my uh, my worst of the week is is moms
and dads who don't cause their children to mind in
waiting rooms. It was a waiting room and the kids

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are destroying the place, destroying it. Mom is oblivious. I
was just I was. I literally if she'd have looked
at me, she probably would have seen my mouth literally
hanging open, like you are kidding me with this? Could

(01:18:39):
not believe it. My best of the week actually goes
back a little bit to last week and First Commerce
Credit Union last Friday concert at Cascades Park Talassu Symphony.

(01:19:05):
Their their conductor is hilarious. He's he is awesome. But
they did music that was an ode to John Williams
and this is actually recorded off of my phone. It

(01:19:31):
was amazing. That's live. Oh yeah, now you gotta hang
in there. Here we go, Here we go. Come on,

(01:19:51):
break out those lightsabers.

Speaker 21 (01:20:00):
Luke, I am your father, search your feelings.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
You know it's true. I mean it was incredible, and
so hats off to First Commercedit Union celebrating their eighty
fifth anniversary and the Tallassee Symphony Orchestra Cascades Park. It
was a beautiful, beautiful night. The Amphitheater was incredible. It
was packed and the music of John Williams come on.
It was great. So that was my best even though

(01:20:38):
it's just pasted a week so of the best and
worst of the last couple of weeks. Come back with
good news here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Give it like a fine wine.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Ah, excuse me, man I please have some more water
the Pellegrino.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Yes, sparkling, this breathe very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
Good morning and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Yeah, okay. The good news is Operation Thanksgiving is underway.

(01:21:50):
That's our good news segment. We're raising funds for Orphan
Shade a Jim who called in. We'll match any single
or group donation of two thousand dollars from Panama City
to Orphan Shade. So if you are listening to us

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in and around Panama City and want to put a
group together raise two thousand dollars. You want to do
a two thousand dollars donation, he'll match it. So when
you give to Orphanshade at Orphanshade dot com, click the
donate Okay, this is important. If you're gonna take part

(01:22:36):
in this match. If you click the donate button in
the drop down, you give to House number six build
a house, and then in the comments put this Panama
City match for home number six. Put Panama City match,
and then we'll know and we can announce that. Okay,

(01:23:00):
now that's one offer that's out there. Here's another for
anyone in the Capital City region in Leon County or
you're touching Leon County, your county touches Leon County. Marvin
Goldstein offering for a the first five thousand dollars or
more donation to Orphan Shade, a private one hour concert.

(01:23:24):
Details will work all that out later, but Marvin is
offering a one hour private concert the holidays or later
in the year next year. Do it for a staff
party or a special gathering, or maybe for clients. If
you've never been around a concert with Marvin. It is delightful.

(01:23:46):
You'll love it. You will love it. So those are
a couple of offers. Orphan Shade provides a new home
for little girls five to ten years of age that
they will spend their years until they're adult, el living
as a family with a new set of parents. They

(01:24:06):
are without parents. They've been orphaned. They're dual orphans, they've
been orphaned by mother and father dying. And so if
you can take part in that, we'd love to have
your support. And so just go to Orphanshade dot com,
click the donate button, learn whatever you need to learn

(01:24:27):
on the website, and then give and remember how to
market home number six WFLA operation thanksgiving Preston Scott if
you put any of that in that comments section, to
build a house, so you're gonna be good. All right,
forty six minutes past the hour, come back and share
a dad joke. Give you some headlines from the b

(01:24:48):
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right,

(01:25:17):
time for a dad joke. This came just this week.
Pat sent this in. I was so confused last night
as my printer started playing music. Turns out the paper
was just jamming. That's a good one. Thank you, Pat.

(01:25:43):
You can send me a dad joke Preston at iHeartRadio
dot com. All right, time for some sad tire ladies
and gentlemen. This is satire courtesy of the Babylon b
Let's Let this build for dramatic purposes. Auschwitz guard explained
he doesn't hate Jews or anything, just Zionists. Democrats agree

(01:26:09):
to end shut down in exchange for fifteen percent off
coupon to cracker barrel. Congress prepares to pivot from doing
nothing because of the shutdown to doing nothing because they're Congress.
Latest Tucker guest, Bigfoot, reveals how mind controlling chemtrails are
sprayed over the flat earth by the Jews. Freshman at

(01:26:36):
Bible College getting worried as he still hasn't found a wife.
Spirit Airlines hires Joe Rogan to commentate midair fights, Saint
Peter getting tired of answering questions about in a filum,

(01:26:57):
Banks now requiring your grandkids to co sign your fifty
year mortgage. And Dave Ramsey in critical condition after learning
a fifty year mortgage. Brought to you by Baron No
Heating and Air.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
It's the Morning Show on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
All right, Monday, We're going to talk about are we
on the brink of a civil war? If so, where's
the rating one to ten? Ten being We're there? One
being nah, I mean literally a civil war. Also Monday,

(01:27:41):
Little FSU football, do they win their final home game
of the year, get their fifth win and level their record.
They have to travel to NC State in Florida to
finish the season. Neither of those are guaranteed wins in
any way, shape or form, but they're not guaranteed losses either.

(01:28:02):
They could finish seven and five. Can you believe where're going?
They could like, that's hey, maybe it'll get to seven
and five. Ug after starting three and zero. Big stories
in the press box. Texas wins at the Fifth Court

(01:28:22):
of Appeals. Fifth Circuit Court says that it can enforce
laws banning sexually suggestive grad drag shows for kids. Kids
shouldn't be at that stuff. What are parents doing bringing
the kids to that? I would have some serious questions
for the parents. Liberty Council letting us know that it

(01:28:47):
has filed an amicust brief on a couple of cases
the Supreme Court will hear in twenty twenty six. It's
going to finally take on gender ideology and female sports. Finally.
If woman can mean anything, woman means nothing. You hear that, ladies.

(01:29:11):
Twenty five percent of incoming freshman surveyed at UC San
Diego could not answer the question six plus two equals
blank plus six twenty five percent failed. Yeah, our education
system is stellar. Heard from Marco Rubio. Had a good

(01:29:31):
visit with Drake Anderson, formerly Osceola at Florida State football games.
Little background on what it's like to be Osciola learned.
Just a good sit down. That's one of our conversations. Friends,
have an awesome weekend. Enjoy the weather.