Ep. 5501: Covid scam strikes again.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday, November 24th

Our guests today include:
- Mark Clemons 
- Dr. Jo Camps 
- Ira Schoffel
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning, friends, It's Thanksgiving Week. This is the final
week in the month of November, and welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty five oh one.

(00:26):
Great to be with you, my friends at SoSE. I'm Preston.
Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Let's start where we
do a little bit of God's word and we're going
to Psalm one hundred, verses four and five. I think
this is perfect for Thanksgiving week. Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

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and his courts with praise, Give thanks to him, Bless
his name, for the Lord is good, His steadfast love
endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. God doesn't change,

(01:15):
you know, I personally think it helps a lot if
you just kind of get that concept really anchored in
your soul. God's not changing. Maybe I ought to. God
has set up things in such a way that it's

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designed for us to learn about. We're created with a
That's why people tend to just worship stuff. And if
you don't have God properly placed at number one, first
of all, you're worshiping all the wrong thing. Secondly, even

(02:01):
your family can't come before God because your worship understanding study.
Love for God enables you to love and care for
and teach and lead and guide your family those that
you love. God enables us to be better at loving others.

(02:28):
It's the It's the foundation to the whole house. Everything
builds on that. Ten past the hour, Let's dive into
the American Patriots Almanac. Next kind of get started here, Boy,
do I have exciting news to share. It's Monday on

(02:49):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Doing it his way like all Blue Eyes, except he's
not one of the great decomposers. You know, it's not
six feet under Hey, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Guaranteed Human. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Here on iHeartRadio.
Great to be with you. There will be no a.
I'm making this up. I'm just saying. You know what
I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Now, that's where

(03:38):
my heart's going. Iheart's going guaranteed Human, all stations, every brand, everything,
guaranteed Human. I did ask for clarification. Will iHeart play
that song walk Walk My Walk by? What's it called

(04:02):
rusting something? Hold on? I got it, don't don't you worry.
I got it right here. It's breaking rust, not rusting
break breaking rust? Or are they taking the position we're
not playing AI generated music now if there's an AI

(04:26):
sampling inside of it of a song with human beings
singing and producing and playing the instruments and all that, okay, whatever,
but we're not, I don't I'm getting clarification, but my
heart's making it clear we're not about that. The polling
numbers show there's some limited trust in AI, but generally speaking,

(04:50):
people don't want it in the media. They do not
want any part of it, like ninety three percent or
something like that. I want to know this seven percent
anyway doesn't really matter now does it? Today? In The
American Patriots Almanac, twenty fourth of November seventeen eighty four,

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Zachary Taylor, twelfth US President born in Orange County, uh,
Orange County of Virginia. I didn't know there was such
a thing. That just seems odd. I just orange Orange.
Are they growing oranges up? It's too cold for oranges
up there, isn't it. I just wouldn't think that you
would call it Orange County up there. It would be

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a southern thing, southern belt of the United States. Eighteen
thirty two, South Carolina Convention passes an ordnance to nullify
the Federal Terrifact, which placed duties on foreign imports. I
said duty. Nineteen sixty three, Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee

(05:54):
Harvey Oswald. Yeah, I know, I said their names. We
all know them now, right, So it's like whatever. It's
also yeah, that's just like no, no, no, no. They
found a flunky that they could use to commit the

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silencing of Oswald did not act alone. Oswald fired some shots,
no doubt about that in my mind. But there is
not a chance on this side of eternity Oswald killed Kennedy.
His shot didn't do it. His shots didn't do it.
Nineteen eighty seven, the US USSR agreed to dismantle medium
and shorter range missiles in the first superpower treaty to

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ban an entire class of nuclear weapons. Did we though?
Did they though? Do we really know? And in two
thousand and three, George W. Bush pardons stars the national
Thanksgiving turkey and its alternate stripes. That's one way to

(06:59):
get yourself, man. You caught, you caught a break. If
you're a couple of turkeys nicknamed stars and stripes, you
you absolutely have a leg up on getting pardoned. What
else do we have? Not much else? Today is National
Sardines Day. Do you ever have sardines? Oh? Love them?

(07:27):
Do you? Oh? Yeah? Tin? Tin fish? Canfish? Love it?
What do you do with it? With everything? I'll just
eat it right out of the can. No crackers or nothing?
What mmmm hm? Oh wow. Yeah. My mom used to
make She would take uh fil aid sardines otherwise known
as kippers, and uh she would she would take that stuff,

(07:52):
break it up, mix in a little mayo, add lemon juice,
and turn it into a spread that you would put
on on ritz crackers, not saltines. The cracker choice is
absolutely imperative. That is one of the best little snacks
I make it to this day. My mom got me

(08:14):
eating that stuff when I was a kid, and it
was like I liked anything you could spread. It's like,
I like chicken liver spread, and I can't stand the
idea of eating chicken livers. But man, you do the
right stuff with that, and it's like, oh, yeah, come
to cracker, come on. But the kippers with a little

(08:36):
mayo and lemon juice. Yeah, that's solid, solid snacks. Seventeen
past the hour come back, and a little couple calendar
announcements and some very good news. Twenty two minutes past
Thanksgiving Tallahassee. For those in the region that may not

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have a place to go for Thanksgiving meal, might be alone,
might be away from home, might want to just hang
out with other folks share Thanksgiving together from eleven to
one this Thursday at the American Legion on Beautiful Lake
Ella Drive in Tallahassee. You are welcome go take part

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Thursday from eleven to one. That's it, man, Just go
head to the American Legion. Also put this on your map. Saturday,
December sixth, so that is one week from Saturday, the
annual Toys for Tot's Ride. I've got at least one
friend in that group, at least one nine thirty in

(09:45):
the morning at the Walmart on Appalachi Parkway, the super
Center there at nine thirty staging. Bring a new unwrapped
toy and there's gonna be music, vendors and me that
you can have a meal for a donation. So bring

(10:05):
a toy and and Santa I'm told is going to
be there and the ride will leave at eleven o'clock,
so it'll be an hour and a half. Right there.
It's that's your neck of the woods right there. You going,
you bet you? So it's it's time to pack the
toy hauler full of toys and then they'll do their ride.

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I don't know where exactly they go to. They I
think they used to go to Capital City, Harley, but
I'm not sure about that. I'll get I'll get more
specifics on that one. And then here's the okay I
had said I would love to get to twenty seven
to five for Orphan Shade. We're raising funds for Orphan Shade,

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and Orphan Shade is a ministry program that we have
worked with before. Three years ago, we raised funds for
Home number three and listeners of this program support it
Home number three monthly and have done so for three
years now. It's amazing. You people are amazing. What we

(11:14):
were approached about could we help, and we had another
program in mind. I said, I don't, I don't think
we can do it this year, but we'd be happy
to talk about it. And then that other program kind
of fell through and it was like, all right, that's
the answer, let's go. They said, well, the costs are
higher because of inflation, and you know, they've got to
get all the material into Malawi and all of that.

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And it's a very simple home, but it's a home
for girls that are orphaned, no mom, no dad, five
to ten years of age and they form a new
family eight girls. I set two volunteer parents, a mom
and a dad that are a husband and wife are
volunteering to raise these little girls. My goodness, and the
church family comes alongside as well to make sure that

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they're educated, their clothes, they're fed, they've got a home
that will last. It's not an opulent home at all.
It's cinderblock cement floors and ventilation and solar lighting. And
then I don't know if they've got a water well
or what they do, but it's we're going to take
Jay Shirlow, one of the co founders of the program.

(12:20):
Jay's going to join us a week from A week
from Monday, No, a week from today, yeah, a week
from today. He'll probably be with us in studio in
the in the seven hour or or call us because
he's meeting with folks in the area. He'll be coming
in town. So our goal was to get to twenty

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seven to five because we were trying to raise fifty
five thousand. I thought, if we could get halfway to
our goal by Thanksgiving, that would be amazing. You people,
you people, you people. We're just about thirty five thousand dollars.

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We smashed twenty seven to five, and we've had some
people make some really incredible donations. But every five dollars
ten dollars twenty dollars donation, and if you can make
it monthly, that's even better. But anything you can give

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is adding up. So I thought my goal was going
to be getting to twenty seven five by Thanksgiving. Well, okay,
we're at thirty four and some change. Can we get
to forty thousand dollars by Thanksgiving? That would leave us

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two and a half weeks to raise the final fifteen
thousand dollars. I honestly, people, I wasn't sure. But God
is so faithful and you are so obedient and generous
with how God has blessed you, and it just it

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it brings tears to my eyes. This might happen. I
didn't think, I said, I don't. We've never tried to
lift like this. The biggest we've ever done was for
this project three years ago. And I don't. We'll We'll
try our best and see what God will do. We

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can do this. So if you would like to give
to the effort and get us to forty thousand dollars
worth six thousand short, we we can do this. That's
our goal to get to by Thanksgiving and go to
Orphanshade dot com. Click the donate button in the drop

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down menu. All you have to do is build a
house and in the comment it's house number six orphanshade
dot com. Was it that good news? Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on NewsRadio one
hundred point seven double UFLA or on NewsRadio double UFLA
Panama City dot Com.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
We're gonna talk to Cadet Mark Clemens US Military Academy
at West Point in the next hour. He's a Mosley kid,
those of you in Panama City area, and he's excelling,
so we'll talk about the whole experience. He's in town.
He's gonna be speaking to students I think at North
Florida Christian today, but excited to visit with him. We've

(15:53):
got Irish Affell. Of course, Joe Camps wedged in the middle.
But the big stories in the press box from the
Morning Show with Preston Scott guaranteed human That's what we
are tomorrow on the program. Salnouzzoh and I will be
discussing AI and the state legislature. What would the state

(16:13):
what will the State of Florida do on topics related
artificial intelligence? Since we talked on it, there have been
some stories coming out, and we will discuss that story
that I teased last week about chat GPT hiding from
developers trying to update it. It hid, it lied. I

(16:36):
mean seriously, it's incredible. So we'll get to all of
that big stories in the press box. Regionally. Listen, now,
there is a burn band. It's a region. It's not
just Leon County. I looked and it's across a lot
of the northern part of the state. There are strong
cautions elsewhere. And to spell the out for you, this

(17:02):
is what it means. You don't burn yard debris, no
leave burning, no branches, no other vegetative waste gets burned.
You don't do it, not even in barrels, nothing similar.
No land clearing, fires, brush piles, no campfires, bonfires, fire pits. Sorry, nope,

(17:24):
not public, not private. No burning of household trash, construction debris,
or other waste. None. What is allowed. You can still
use your grill, gas, propane, charcoal, electric grills, smokers, as
long as you are fully aware and attending it and

(17:49):
it's fully extinguished after use, just shut it down. Indoor
fireplaces would stove similar appliances inside of structure in accordance
with codes allowable. All right, so now you're aware. Another
big story in the press box FSU maintaining its relationship
with Mike Norvel for another season. They're giving him one

(18:12):
year to figure it out. We'll talk with Ira Scheffel
about this. The buyout to buy him out was fifty
eight point seven million dollars. I'll give you the short
version of my mind, and I have no inside knowledge
of this at all. If I had it, I wouldn't
share it anyway, because I don't do that to people.

(18:32):
But I don't. I haven't asked, I don't. Here's here's
what I think I think the decision was. Whatever may
change in donations to the program nil that kind of
thing is less than what it would cost them to
buy out the contract at this point, and so all

(18:54):
things given weight and measure, they decided it was in
their best interests to live with it another season and
see if he can turn things around. It is better
than a year ago. But is that enough. No, in
the minds of most it is not. But there are

(19:15):
fiscal realities here. I have an idea on how to
solve all this. All future contracts. If you have a
losing record, there is no buyout. You're fired whenever that
time comes, whether it's epter three years, four years, like
you give a coach four years. And if at that
point you have a losing record, you are not going

(19:36):
to get a buyout. You're going to get relieved of
your duties. Buyouts should only be coming when you hit
a certain performance record and then you're let go. Then
it's like wait, hey, wait, I'm doing my job, I'm winning,
and you want to move in another that's where a
buyout ought to take place. But anyway, and then the
co founder of a paycheck protection program related thing sentenced

(20:02):
to ten years for defrauding the PPP sixty three million dollars.
How many of these stories have we covered? The paycheck
Protection Plan those things, those that kind of program people

(20:22):
just screwed taxpayers over. And it's our money, Our Money.
Forty one almost forty two minutes past the hour. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Big stories there they were,
course big.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
It's Themad Radio Network where we challenge you to make
a difference in your world with the Morning Show Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Forty three minutes past the hour, Ose and I just
digging along with the Morning Show band and good to
be with you. Did you notice any of this President Trump,
Zora Mom, Donnie love Fest, Yeah, I saw. What was
your reaction? Perplexed a little? Yeah, yeah, I feel like

(21:33):
there's a lost opportunity. Trump's too nice. Trump said, we
have one thing in common. We want this city of
ours we love to do very well. I wanted to
congratulate the Mary ran a great campaign. You know, a
lot of smart people starting with the early primaries against
very tough people, very smart people, and he beat them.
He beat them easily. I congratulated him. We talked about

(21:54):
some things in very strong common like housing, getting housing built,
food and prices, and then he said, I think you're
gonna have hopefully a really great mayor. The better he does,
the happier I am. I will say, there's no difference
in party. There's no difference in anything. We're going to
be helping him, making everyone's dream come true. Have a strong,

(22:15):
very safe New York. See. I don't agree with that statement.
I don't want him to do well at all. I
socialism doesn't do well inasmuch as all of his plans
revolve around socialism. No, I don't want him to do

(22:37):
well because socialism is doomed to failure. You know, it's
interesting and I wasn't going to talk about this, but
listening to some of the commentary and the comments are
all over the place. There's everything from Jose's I don't
get it too. There are people out there going Trump

(23:02):
is absolutely playing him. He's just he's being nice, he's
cozying up. There are people saying that, you know, Trump
is is, you know, playing the role of Abraham Lincoln.
Keep your enemies close. I don't agree with any of that.

(23:30):
I just don't. I there is no political win here
for Trump. Mom Donnie hates him. Socialists hate capitalists. You
can never be friends with these people. You can pray

(23:53):
for them, we are commanded to love them, and you
cannot forget he is an Islamist. He is by a
matter of faith engaged in lying. We're gonna break this

(24:19):
down at some point and give you a little bit
more knowledge of the Koran and the Hadith and help
you better understand what I'm talking about when I talk
about takiya and this method of engagement with people and
deceiving and lying to accomplish a purpose in the world.

(24:40):
You have to understand this whole idea came at the
latter part of Muhammad's life, and Muhammad, when it was
all said and done, you can describe this way. He
was a disgruntled human being who is mad, angry, and violent.

(25:03):
He took parts of the Jewish faith and parts of
the Christian faith and he just kind of twisted them
all up and made his own. That's why they relegate
Jesus to you know, he was a good prophet. That's
that he was just a prophet. Anyway, I'm not I'm

(25:24):
not a fan of this interaction Trump had with him.
Be cordial and polite, absolutely, one hundred percent. I don't
think he needed to invite him to the White House.
But forty minutes past the hour, more on the President.
One action he's taken that I like a lot.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Running show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Beyond Fun News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
All right, so FSU soccer is once again one win
away from the College Cup. Well, how about that one
of eight teams left over and they will play Ohio State.
My wife is in a quandary because she is a

(26:26):
Buckeye to the core, but she's also a graduate of
Florida State University, so she is perplexed because we love
FSU soccer. But she you know, it'd be interesting. I
haven't talked in depth, who are you rooting for in
this one? If it were FSU football in Ohio State football,

(26:47):
it would be OSU football one hundred and ten times
out of one hundred and ten. I mean, it's just that,
just is. But because we follow soccer and go to
some of the soccer games, I don't know she could
pull well for FSU. Doesn't matter. Fshu's better. They'll play

(27:07):
Ohio State on Friday day after Thanksgiving here in town.
Because they are the highest rated team left in that
part of the bracket, they get to host. So that's appropriate.
Once again, going through Tallahassee to find it, find their
way to the College Cup, and I they're playing the
College Cup. I want to say somewhere different this year

(27:29):
where it could be kind of cold. I mean, it
could be chilly in North Carolina where they often play it,
but it's usually in North Carolina or California. Anyway, Hey,
just to circle back, the President said, Mom, Donnie is
going to surprise some conservative people, actually some very liberal people.

(27:52):
What He's not going to surprise any of us, Sir, No,
he's not, because anything he does that's not hardcore socialism
is going to be for the purpose of getting to
hardcore socialism. And a socialist is nothing but a communist

(28:15):
because socialism always leads there. Anyway, I said, there was
something he did that I was very happy about. He
terminated the temporary protected status for Somalism Minnesota. Somalis have
been stealing tax dollars and sending them to their terrorist
friends over in Somalia for a few years now. We're
talking about what is it, Al Shabaz or something like that.

(28:41):
They've been supporting And when I say supporting, we're talking
Al Schabab. Almost four hundred million dollars in twenty twenty three.
They're taking federal tax dollars that they claim are for
this and they're funneling him overseas. People are being charged,

(29:02):
so Trump's saying, no, we're gonna We're gonna send you
out of the country. So that would be lovely if
we start deporting all these people. And if ilhan Omar
was on one of those plane rides, that would be
appropriate to when we come back. Cadet Mark Clemens joins me. Helay,

(29:32):
Good morning kiddos and ruminators near and far. Thanks a
lot for joining us as always remember raising funds for
Orphan Shade and providing a home for orphans. We are
we are past the halfway mark. Amazing, last couple of
days and U and so just go to Orphanshade dot com,
click the donate button and the drop down build a

(29:53):
house and in the comments house number six. That's what
we are trying to do. But we welcome you to
the program. And I was given the opportunity to interview
this young man back maybe a month and a half ago,
something like that, first class Cadet Mark Clements. He's a

(30:14):
graduate of Moseley High School in Bay County and has
studied abroad and is on Brigade staff at West Point
and he joins us on the program this morning, Mark,
how are you?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
I'm doing well, Preston, how are you?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I'm terrific. I am thrilled to have this opportunity. I
thought it would be fun to let people listen to
and hear from somebody that has made the decision to
serve this country. And so let's go back a little bit.
When did this idea of even pursuing an appointment to

(30:50):
West Point become a real consideration for you?

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, so I've got to be on stuff. I have
a long history of family service. Okay, So my father
also attended West Point, and he just growing up, he
had lots of stories about his time and service and
how much he really enjoyed working with soldiers, and so
I think that really planted the seed. And then going

(31:22):
from there, just going through school and deciding that I
kind of wanted to see more and to see a
bigger picture. I began to listen to his stories with
a little bit more more earnest and decided that it
might be the kind of thing I would be interested
in pursuing.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
When you were in high school, maybe even middle school,
was this running around in the back of your mind.
It had to be in high school. But when was
it really starting to run around in your mind to
the point mark where you were talking about it with friends,
and what was that kind of conversation.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Like, I think it really was high school. In middle school,
it wasn't. I wasn't quite there yet, I'd say, really
around junior year of high school when when college application
season came around and I realized that that things were
going to start getting serious and I needed to figure
out what direction I want to take my life in.

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That's what I think when I started reflecting back on
many of my father's stories and they really began to
take root.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
What was your friends reactions, like best buds? What did
they think when you said I'm going to do this.
I'm going to seek an appointment because that it's not
just like going down to the recruiting office, right, I mean,
to be in West Point, you have to get don't
You have to get a letter from Congress and some
other things you do.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
You do it.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
It can be a complicated process at times. But my
friends they were great to me. They encouraged me, They
propelled me forward. They said, yeah, pursue it if it's
what you want, and let us know how it goes.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I'm curious did anyone say, well, that figures you know
what I mean, there are certain people that I think
that you know, I think back to when I was
in school, and there are certain guys that had they
said to me, I'm heading to West Point or I'm seeking,
you know, an apployment to one of the service academies,
I'd go, yeah, that that is exactly what you ought
to do, because that's the type of person you are.

(33:19):
Were you that type of person that people go, yeah, figures,
he's going to West Point.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
That's funny, I do think so. I remember having a
few of those conversations.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
You're you're very on point with that.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
So what was I mean, what was it about you
that your peers would say, yeah, that makes sense, he's
going to West Point.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
I think it probably came from I pretty much always
found myself in some form of leadership role, whether it
was a sports team captain or or tutoring classmates. I
just always kind of found myself in front of other people,
and so I don't think anyone was surprised when I
wanted to sign up for a career that was based
around leading.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Other people joined me on the program. Is Mark Clemens,
He is a first class otherwise known as a senior
cadet at west Point, and he'll join me for a
couple more segments here we're talking about that decision, and
we're going to get into the then and now. I mean,
how different is west Point now? Is it different? Are
there noticeable changes with the new administration? Plus? I mean, look,

(34:28):
we've talked about the Armed services and how things have
really ramped up since Donald Trump took office. Pete Hexath
became the Secretary of Defense. Are any of those changes noticeable?
We'll talk about that as well as what the future
might look like serving in the United States military here

(34:50):
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Making sense of
it all?

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio
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Speaker 1 (35:05):
F LA, guaranteed human. I have to say that now
this Morning Show. Good to be with you. Jose over
there in Studio one A. I am here sequestered in
Studio one B and with me is Cadet Mark Clemens

(35:26):
west Point. Mark. You talked a little bit about the
process of getting the appointment and that it's maybe complex,
maybe they're just a lot of steps, but what kind
of grades did you have to have to hit that
mark of appointment.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
So the academy is interested in very well rounded cadets.
So they really they do look at your academics. They
want to make sure you have good grades that often
looks like somewhere between b's and a's and high school.
But they also care about you know, your physical record,
whether or not you played sports, and then how they
measure your capacity to lead.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
What was it like when you first got there.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
It was a shock, for sure. I think anyone on
upon joining the military will There's a lot to learn
very quickly, and it's a little overwhelming at first, but
once you catch catch hold of it and you begin
to understand, you know what the military is like and
what they're asking you to do, it gets really exciting.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
All right. I think people probably have a couple of
different images in their head about what it might be
like to be at West Point. I want to know
from a guy who has been there and is there
the very first day at West Point when you first

(36:53):
wake up, Take us through an average day, just big picture,
what that day looks like the very first day to you.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Yeah, so the first the first six weeks we spend
at West point are a condensed version of basic training.
So those days are are full of life. We're up
probably at about five a m. You get you get
woken up by the the cadre, the cadets who have
been assigned in charge of you, and you'll you'll go

(37:26):
down outside for morning formation. You'll listen to the revelie
and then you'll go down and you'll you'll work out
as a group for two hours and once your once
your blood's good and pumping, and come back, take a shower,
put on the uniform and get ready.

Speaker 6 (37:41):
For the day.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
The day could be full of be full of training.
It could be full of lessons on leadership or or
various military skills. Then you'll come back for lunch, break out,
and do you know, another set of training. There's a
lot of different training goals throughout the summer, which includes
learning how to fire your m FO or your rifle.

(38:04):
They teach you how to throw grenades, they teach you
how to move quietly in the woods. A lot of
these basic leadership skills and they really hone those and
we work on those pretty much until dinner, and then
that's when we work on more of the development side personally,
so lots of conversations with your cadre as they try

(38:25):
and teach a lot of these leadership lessons that they've
been taught while they were at West Point.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
How did the realities measure up to the expectations you
had before you arrived?

Speaker 4 (38:40):
You know, It's it's really hard to know what to expect.
I think what I was most impressed by was the
quality of the people who were in charge of me.
It's it's hard to know what that situation is going
to look like, but I feel like I was very
blessed with the people who were who were giving orders.
They were they were very knowledgeable, and it was actually

(39:01):
an enjoyable experience to learn for them. I feel like
I'd seen a lot of movies about what basically training
looks like, and then it might be more akin to that.
But it was great that it was such this learning
based environment, and while it was definitely hard and challenging,
I felt like I was able to leave it more
sure and confident of myself.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Mark Clemens with me and one more segment to come.
He is first class cadet. Mark Clemens attended Mosley High
School in Bay County. He's a graduate of there. He's
a member of the West Point Skeet and Trap Club.
He studied abroad. Get to as much as we can
in the final segment here in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Final segment with first class Cadet Mark Clemens,

(39:55):
West Point and a graduate of Motley High School in
Bay County. Seems like forever ago now, doesn't it?

Speaker 6 (40:05):
Yes? So sure it does.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Tell me. Tell me about the differences we talked in
the break a little bit. We have a new administration now,
and obviously there were some pretty significant pivots to the
Defense Department at large. We're now talking about a Secretary
of War versus Secretary of Defense. How much of that
filtered down to West Point? How is there been much

(40:28):
noticeable change at West Point at the academy level.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
So as a cadet, we're the we're the training population
for West Point. So we're we're what west Point is
focusing on and what it wants the output to be.
And so for us, honestly, little has changed. We have
good discussions about, you know, what these changes might look
like for the Army at large, but a lot of
our training portfolio remains the same because they're they're focused

(40:54):
on preparing us to be to be strong leaders that
can go out and guide soldiers were regardless of what
direction the administration will take us.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Since that leadership component, you know, you sometimes hear the
expression you can't lead where you won't go, And I'm curious,
are the first are these years of training in Officers
Training School at West Point Mark? Are they designed to
give you every bit of the experience that someone that

(41:26):
just enlists to serve in the army what they have,
So you've experienced what they've experienced.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
At the heart of it, that is what it is
centered around. It just keeps a stronger eye towards how
to navigate challenges and how to think critically and to
really inspire. So a lot of it's about creating the
shared hardship. But for example, for the infantry, you know,
officers and enlisted soldiers will will both attend render school

(41:57):
and they will be treated the same and for them
that that's one of the greatest ways to create this
shared sense of purpose because now you've been treated the
exact same and you've experienced an equal hardship.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
If I were to set aside being away from family,
what's been the hardest part of these four years.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
It's honestly the weather. I mean, growing up in Florida,
I love our beaches. I love the warm sun, and
those winners get cold and snowy and it gets hard.
I won't lie.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
How about the Army Navy game? Have you been to one.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Every year? And it's a blast.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
It has become one of the most looked forward to
football games of the college football season in recent years,
So you have been in the midst of it as
it has gained in popularity. So tell me what's going
to happen this year. I expect nothing less than Army
being the winner from your perspective. But but tell me,

(43:01):
tell me what you think.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm Army team all the way.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
The games are super, super exciting. It's great to clash
with the midshipman over at Navy, and it just I mean,
after this, after three years at West Point, I really
know our team. I know a lot of our strong
players and it's just exciting to see them give it
all out on the field. And really, I mean, that's
the game where they truly play their hearts out and

(43:30):
it's awesome being up in the stands cheering them on.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
The spectacle of the cadets in their gray and the
sailors in their uh in their uniforms. I'm curious, what
kind of interaction do you have with the guys from
the Navy before, during, and after the game.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
It's it's definitely rowdy, but it's pretty good natured and
we've got We've got a long list of unending jokes
between the two services. But at the end of the day,
we do both know that we're entering something similar, and
so everything tends to end with a handshake or a hug.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Tell us about that ending, What does it look like
for you? Where do you go next? And what are
your goals?

Speaker 4 (44:17):
So my dream is to be commissioned as an infantry officer,
and currently I'm interested in doing as long of a
career as the Army will let me. I hope to
start first at one of our bases out abroad, either
in Italy or in Germany, just to spend a few
years while I'm still young and bright eyed. I'm just

(44:39):
getting a chance to explore the world, since that's one
of the many things the Army will advertise, and then
I'll see where which bases I'll end back up in
the States.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Mark. I appreciate you making time for us, and I
hope that maybe a few years from now, if you
get that appointment you're looking for overseas, that maybe you'll
give us a call from one of those spots over
season we can talk some more.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
That would be a great time. Thank you so much
for having me today.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
My pleasure. Mark Clemons with us. He is first class cadet,
Mark Clemens from Mosley High School in Bay County and
well spoken as you would expect. You don't get an
appointment to West Point without having things in order and
buttoned up, and so it was a lot of fun.

(45:27):
I a lot of curiosity in learning more about that
West Point experience. Hope you enjoyed it. Twenty seven minutes
past the hour. You know what name.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
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every single day. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah,
I gotta keep this one front and center.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Burn Band. It is really throughout the region. If you're
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Unless you're listening on iHeartRadio outside of North Florida in
South Georgia, you are likely not in that predicament. But
if you're in that area, the area we call home,

(46:22):
there is likely a burn band where you are. And
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You can't burn leaves and branches, you can't you can't
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(46:44):
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(47:05):
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That's it. You follow code, that's it. That's it. Second

(47:28):
big story in the press box. Stephanie Hockridge. You don't
know the name. She is a co founder of Blue Acorn.
Back in April of twenty twenty. What was going on
in April, Well, you know what they did in March.
We had this thing called COVID in March of twenty twenty.
So in April they started rolling out this paycheck protection program.

(47:52):
She started a company to help businesses and individuals obtain
PPP loan. Problem is she was scamming the federal government
to the tune of sixty well allegedly scamming the federal
government to the tune of sixty three million dollars. And

(48:17):
we have I am intentionally mentioning these programs from time
to time to illustrate that when we start talking about
seriously bringing the debt of this country under control, you
have to then step back and look at these kinds
of programs that are rife with fraud. This is one

(48:40):
person who has been ordered to pay sixty three million
dollars in restitution. My hunch is it's not sitting in
a bank. Then the last big story in the press box,
Mike Norvel will be retained for another season. The state
from Florida State University was interesting and to paraphrase, it

(49:07):
was that you know, Coach Norvel has agreed to the
things that you know that need to happen, and Mike
has made statement and look, we all agree, we like
coach Norvel He's a delightful guy and I believe he
is trying his darnedest, and so this isn't This is

(49:27):
not a personal thing, and I don't want to get
into talking too deeply about Mike nor Vel. I do
want to talk about the process of coaches in these contracts,
and I think one of the most important modifications that
have to be made in future contracts is that buyouts
only apply to a coach with a winning record, that

(49:49):
is achieving certain goals. That if an administration decides we
want to move in a new direction, we're just not
we're not happy with the way things are going, well,
then you have to do a buyout. But if a
coach and I'm setting aside Coach Norvel here, period this
there's iris Chevelle's talked about this. There needs to be
a reset in these contracts. It's ridiculous if you have

(50:16):
to pay millions and millions and millions, and I think
that was the bottom line here. This is a financial
decision that, look, we were not guaranteed anything. This is
sort of like do you buy a new car, do
you fix the one you got? You know you got?
You know what you got? With what you got. You
don't know what you're getting with the next car. And
so there's a part of me that I understand this.

(50:38):
But what I don't understand is why why coaches and
not just coaching coaches across the country have contracts that
force a buyout when they're not achieving. That makes no sense.
That's what has to change. Forty minutes past the hour,
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Speaker 1 (51:28):
Other than the kind of weird fog we've had the
last few days, it's been beautiful. Could use some rain
and there's a chance of it coming on Wednesday. But
joining us is doctor Joe Camps. Some healthy expectations. Joe,
you're getting outside a little bit.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Yes, I was out this morning about an hour and
a half ago and join my walk with my buddies
and it was it was very pleasant, very nice. Yeah,
didn't have the fog like we did last night, and boy,
I was, you know, when you were talking a little
bit about the novel segment, I thought, on top of

(52:05):
all of that, they couldn't land in Tallahassee and they
had to go to Duval County to land and there
and ride a bus. I was like, it just feels
like nothing's going right when our came so I really
felt I just felt terrible about that. But anyway, just
this time of year, you know, our consumption of ultra

(52:27):
processed foods goes way up, and you know, and some
studies have come out that I want to just chat about.
One moment is that it's been shown that ultra processed
foods can augment inflammatory bound disease. Obviously the caloric intake
from that, the salt, the sodium, so basically it's bad

(52:50):
for our health. And I think we all in two
of these know that, but this time of year, we
seemed to consume large amounts of this, and I want
to to encourage us to just say no over the
next two to three weeks. Obviously the risk for you know,
all kinds of health issues, dibetes, hypertension, cancer, im plematary,

(53:11):
Bill disease. Actually, one study show that it actually increases
the risk for lung cancer. So these ultra processed foods
are well known to us. O sold to drinks, energy drinks,
fruit drinks, sweet coffee, chips, pretzels, cookies, cake. I can
go on and on pressing, but unfortunately a lot of

(53:32):
us consume these products, and this time of the year,
we seem to find it at every turn, everywhere we go.
I mean there's office parties, there's family gatherings, there's Christmas,
there's Thanksgiving, and so this time of year we do
need to try and exercise some discipline. But most of
us think, well, let me go ahead and I'll have

(53:54):
a new diet plan starting January. So I'm just warning
us to at least have some moderation and our consumption
this time of year. And it's the time of celebrating,
but we don't always have to celebrate with food and
drinks that are not appropriate for So that's a message.

(54:14):
I hope it's not a Debbie downer, but we do
need to pay attention this time of year because we
sort of get sidetracked from all the extractions that are happening.
Wonderful time of year. But let's be smart about how
we approach that.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I won't say your your Debbie downer. I will say
that I did have to hand hosea box of Kleenex
as you were talking, but not before I grabbed one
and dab my eyes.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Oh well, unfortunately, you know, this is one of the
toughest times of year for all of us. So when
the when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
That's one of my old football says. So uh, I
wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year,
and things will change next year. One't wear another. I'm

(55:03):
looking forward to it. So to all of our listeners,
I appreciate you listening to all my ramnings over the years.
Hope some of it has been instrumental and helping you
towards better health.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Happy Thanksgiving, Joe, we'll talk soon, all right, my friend,
take care, Thank you, sir. Doctor Joe camps with us.
And just a little reminder, not only just a great guy,
not only does he love Jesus, but he was the
first captain of a Bobby Bowden coach football team at
Florida State University. That man right there, that's how we

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I had not planned on talking about this at this point,
but I figure we we need some interesting Some other
FSU news women's basketball struggling a little bit soccer hosting
Ohio State in the quarterfinals. A win puts him in
the College Cup again, a chance to play for another
national title. There will be just four teams left, so

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they got Ohio State coming in town on Friday. You
can get your tickets at siminos dot com. The question
floating around here is tiger Wood's son, Charlie. Apparently two
schools are kind of in the running right now, but
don't know how seriously. He's considering Florida State University. Stanford

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obviously would be on the list because that's where his
dad went to school, but Charlie's has grown up here
in Florida, so it was Florida State a possible destination.
I don't know, it's been kicked around. I'm reading about
it right here. So anyone who knows Charlie just let

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him know. If I were him, I would want to
go to a school where I can make my own name.
I don't want to be in my dad's at my
dad's school where he's a legend. I want to go
make my own name. And by the way, Charlie's gonna
be a good player. Charlie's Charlie's going to be a
good golfer. We've watched him grow up. He's got a game.
He's a good player. And so they won another state

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title for his high school, and I believe he led
them this year to that title. So it'll be interesting
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Chaffell Ira.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
Good morning, Good morning, Preston.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
How are you. I'm doing well. You know, I think
we're fans of FSU football are at that place right
now where they're probably even with the announcement yesterday, they're
probably just kind of like, okay, whatever. What was your
reaction to the announcement. Were you surprised?

Speaker 6 (01:02:12):
Yeah, I mean I knew that they did not want
to pay the buyout. I've been operating with that assumption
for a while now, so you know, that's always kind
of been in the back of my mind. My question
was did they feel like he's done enough where they
could fight the pressure to not do something? And I
wasn't sure. You know, I really thought that as bad

(01:02:33):
as they looked at NT State on Friday, that maybe
this is untenable. And also you start having to wonder
can he get these guys back, because I think that
that's a challenge when in this era with everything that
goes all the attention in social media, everything else. You
get to a point where you just wonder, is it
possible for a coach to get the players back on

(01:02:54):
his side, get the fan base back on his side,
to get some positive momentum. And that's a real concern.
So if they fired him, to me, it would have
been more about that. But ultimately I think they are
looking at changing everything inside the program, which I think
is important I think they need to do. And then
also they just don't want to pay the fifty eight
million dollars. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
I kind of came to a couple bottom line conclusions.
One is that whatever they might lose in commitment to
the school from boosters and or you know, nil contributions
is not going to be as significant as what they
would lose by paying the buyout. Is that fair?

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
I think?

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
I think a lot of times it is a math
equation like that. And you know there's one listen, we're
we have to go on anecdotal evidence on something like this.
There's no way you can prove either side. There are
plenty of people who say, oh, well, this is going
to be disastrous from a ticket sales standpoint, a revenue standpoint,
and the revenue generating standpoint fundraising. But you know there's
I talked to somebody very high up last night who

(01:03:53):
said that his estimate was that a very high percentage
of you know, the top Dome to the program, we're
okay with keeping mic Norvell. Is that true? I don't know.
There's no way to verify that. There's no way to
say it's true or not true. But to your point
that the proof is in the evidence that if they

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felt like that was going to be the more because
I still argue and I think most people agree that
the reason Bobby Bowden got pushed out was because the
stadium was half empty against Maryland. The reason Willie Tagger
got pushed out what he did was because they thought
there were fundamentals problems in the program and they were
very concerned about ticket sales the next year. So yeah,
I think that's definitely part of the equation. It's not

(01:04:35):
big enough of a deal where they're willing to pay
write that check.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Let's then look at where they are as a football
team for a second. I feel like an argument can
be made there's no way to judge Tony White and
or I mean fairly even Gus Malzan though they have
been successful on offense, they've not been successful scoring. But
I don't think you can judge either of those guys
coming in with really not having the types of players

(01:05:02):
necessarily that they would want. They'd had a few, but
not all of them. But now let's let's get just
a step deeper. I'm going to still go back to
I think this is different with a different quarterback, and
and is that am I oversimplifying things?

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
No, it's funny. I agree with you. You know again,
if you look at I mean again, I'm not trying
to kill Tommy Castlana's but I just think if you
trade the two quarterbacks in that game, it might have
gone differently for Florida State. I think if you you
know that they they the decision to go for Gus
Malsan with Tommy Castlanas, I do believe was a joint

(01:05:41):
decision that Mike Norvell and Gus Maleson made when they
decided to for Malazani come on last year, I think
they said Tommy's the guy that we want, and I
think that was a mistake. He just has not developed
as a passer or whatever gust thought he was going
to be after what he when he had a four
years ago, four years ago at UCF. He's not that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
He's a dynamic runner and if he's healthy, he can
be good in an offense. But once teams adjust to that,
and if he's not one hundred percent healthy, the offense
really struggles. So yeah, I think, you know, but the
problem a lot of fans have is they don't trust
Mike Norvell at this point to go get the right quarterback,
to know what the right quarterback is, and that's a
fair complaint. I do think the changes if they make

(01:06:24):
changes structurally, which is what they kind of intimated in
that release and what I've gathered talking to some people,
if you get a general manager who has a better
track record of identifying players, that maybe would help in
the decision making process.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
So almost going the route that Stanford did in bringing
Andrew Locke in.

Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
Yeah, and Oklahoma is, but Oklahoma has been the most
successful one so far. There's a few scores the peoples
have done it. Oklahoma hired Jim Nagy, who used to
run the Senior Bowl scoutings his thing. He did for
a long time, and he's getting some of the credit
for the success Oklahoma's had this season, and yeah, no's
that's where I wanted to go. I think, and I've
been saying this for a little while now, that the

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formula and college football has changed, because the sport has
completely changed, and I think it's a lot to ask
one head coach to handle everything that a head coach
is always handled, plus roster management, salary cap, all of
this other stuff. I just to me, that needs to
be a separate role. And I think that that's you know,
I think that's the direction they're going.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Can you believe that we're saying the words salary cap
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Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Next ever, you may be from Florida Sunshine State to
Washington State in No, no, not Washington. Sorry, Washington's also
hopeless for crying out loud. Is this the only bastion
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Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Twelve Past the Hour with Irischaffelowarchan dot Com. Ira. I
think we could point to Ohio State as being the
exception to the rule and that by and large, transfer
quarterbacks are not flourishing in college football. They only did
at one time with Will Howard, But generally they're going

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with homegrown talent. And I think if we look at
Florida State, you could make the argument that Jordan Travis
was a homegrown talent. Yeah, he transferred in, but he
was a youngster when he came in here and he
developed here. And then you look at what's followed and
they've it's just not worked out. Nothing against the kids
Djuey Ungle or Tommy Castellanos, but is the future at

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Florida State and quarterback to do it the old school way?

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
Yeah? I don't know. I mean, that's you know, and
that's kind of the challenge they're going to have, is
they if they go down this road of hiring a
general manager, re examining this department and all of that
is you know, the problem my Gorvel got into was
he had success in the transfer portal, and once you
get in that cycle, it's hard to get out of it.
And so even if you make these changes right now,

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are you going to be able to say, Okay, now
we're going to go heavy into high schools, Because if
you do that, there's a chance that requires two or
three years to kind of get back to where you
want to go, so I do think it's got to
be a mix. And I get your point about quarterbacks
that they don't always work, but there are plenty that
have worked. I mean, Vanderbilt hit it big with their
transfer quarterback pit last year, Pitt this year with their quarterback,

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well he's a freshman, but the Indiana with their transfer quarterback,
and then there are schools that hit it. So that's possible,
but I think it's got to be a marriage. You
can't go so strong in the portal as they did
in the past. I also don't know you can go
heavy in the high schools because I just don't know
if the patience is there after these last couple of seasons.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
I think the point you've made several weeks ago, if
not a couple of months ago, talking about the foolishness
and the need to reset college football coaches contracts IRA
over the weekend. I got to thinking about this before
the announcement was made at Florida State, and to me,
the reset is rather simple. Now you tell me if
it's if I'm oversimplifying this as well, why not just

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make it so that if you're not winning, there is
no buyout A buyout seems to me to only make
sense is if you're moving a coach on not for cause,
but because you just want a new coach in a
new direction. But if a guy's underperforming and teams aren't
playing well and you're losing after four years, then I

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think that the buyout provision needs to be what is adjusted?
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 6 (01:10:42):
No, I mean I think eventually that's where I do
hope it goes. No, I think it may go. I
mean again, I think now that the players are getting paid,
and I think now that the organizations need to be
structured differently, where there's a general manager and there's more
of a front office the way there is in the NFL. Yeah,
I think then takes all of the importance off the

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head coach. The reason we got into the situation was
because you have a bunch of schools fighting for the
same successful head coaches, and so when those schools wanted
to keep their head coach, it was good they would
their agent would demand this much bigger buy out if
something went wrong. And so to me, if head coaches
aren't the end all be all anymore, because now you've

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got a better organization, the head coach doesn't responsible for
everything then yet to me that I think coaches become
more expendable, and I think the market gets reset and
I think now is going to be a chance for
that to happen, especially at a school like Florida State,
if they get their structure in place to where they
don't have to bring it a head coach to create
the wheel. Because that's what happens now is these head

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coaches get hired. It's been happening for the last twenty
twenty five years. These head coaches get hired and they
basically are given the you know, the keys to do
redo everything, blow up the entire organization, hire everything they
want to hire, do all the changes they want to make,
because they're the king of the castle. Well, I think

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if you go in the direction where there's a structure
put in place, and now if this head coach isn't
working with the materials he's been given, okay, he gets removed,
you bring in a new head coach. That's how it
works in pro sports. I think that's where colleges need
to go, and I think that's where Florida is trying
to go. But I again, I certainly understand that that's
going to be a difficult process.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Do they avoid the trap not just Florida State but
schools now in making the general manager that guy that
then gets overpaid.

Speaker 6 (01:12:36):
Well, I think there's they may they're going to be.
There's gonna be a premium on those general managers if
they're successful, But I don't think it'll get to the
same way because they're not gonna be as front facing.
They're not the person that's on the field. They're not
the person that's going to be giving the speeches. They're
not the person that's going to talk to the media.
So from that standpoint, the reason the head football coach
in college football to me has gotten so big as

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because they're everything. They run everything. It's it's their fight them. Yes,
I have Joe Paturno's and Bobby Boundence and that era.
I just think we need to get away from that
because the sport is so different.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Now, how soon before we have a high school football draft?
I'm asking, what do you think? Is it never gonna happen?

Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Man, I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
It's the fair questions, Preston. I'm trying to solve. I'm
trying to solve why they kept my Doorbelle give me
a week on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
We can't wait to talk to you next week after
the Florida game. Ira, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:13:31):
Pressing tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Iris Chaffell with us war chant dot com. That's where
you go for your Intel war Chant dot com. Doing

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my synchronized swimming routine in here, boy, Chicago. You know,
I've had people say to me, now, the city's city's good.
It's the suburbs that have been really trouble. Not anymore.

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We'll get to that in just a second. Two different
stories within days of each other, video went viral a
Chicago mother and her nine year old son being brutally
beaten by a mob of wait elementary aged children elementary's

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fifth grade and younger thirty three year old old woman
and her son attacked. They were listed in serious condition
by a mob of children a local pastor, Corey Brooks. Unfortunately,

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this is a cycle that we continue to see in
the city of Chicago, where violence is so rampant and
parents aren't being held accountable. That's the reason why I'm
walking across America trying to get people to wake up
in our urban areas so they can understand the magnitude
of the issues that we're faced with every single day. Honestly,
with all due respect to the pastor, and God bless him,

(01:15:40):
he's doing more than most pastors in any community will do.
He's saying something, he's speaking to it, he's addressing the
cause of it. That's not enough. The voters have to say,
enough of this nonsense said. It's happening throughout the school system.

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Children are being bullied at this time. No one's in custody,
none of those children, and it's on video second story.
Over the weekend, at least eight teens were shot, one fatally.

(01:16:34):
Police officers attacked when a riot broke out in the
Chicago Loop. The Loop, if you're not familiar with Chicago,
the Loop is the central downtown business district where it's
safe air quotes. It was following a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

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Three hundred juveniles attacking police officers with mace and stun guns.
Six children shot, thirteen year old to fourteen year olds,
fifteen year old, sixteen year old, seventeen year old. A

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fourteen year old boy who was shot died at a hospital.
Eighteen year old was wounded. In my mind, this would
be justifiable to use firearms to shoot those teenagers they're
just kids. No, they're not. They're capable of killing people.
They just did. Police have no obligation to get tear

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gassed and stun gunned. That that is an attack. That
is reasonable action should be taken. But this is what
happens when you leave democrats and leftists in charge of communities.
Just look at the states and the cities where the

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crime's going on. Just look. It's so infuriating to me.
This is not complicated. Twenty eight minutes after the you
know what it is, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Started counting his shows at the beginning because we weren't
really quite sure how long he'd last. Yeah, now it's
just turned into a thing. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
All right, tomorrow sal newsoh consumers defense. So we're gonna
talk AI mobile Florida's legislature. Do will they address the topic?
I don't know. We'll see. We will see some weathers
moving our way, gonna disrupt some travel, probably as it's

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gonna be right as Thanksgiving travel is going on. You
could not There is not enough money or golden Fort
Knox for me to travel on an airplane at Thanksgiving.
Not a chance now, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a

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great movie for this season, Steve Martin and John Candy.
It's great. But yeah, that's not a big story. We
will get cooler temperatures on Thanksgiving Day though, that's a
big story. That's not bad. I'm glad to have more
seasonal weather as we get to the season. Mike Norvell

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will be back as head football coach. Some may say,
why would that be a big story in there, Because
it's a big story. Florida State football is a big
deal in this region. It is the major university of
North Florida and quite candidly South Georgia. It is and

(01:20:21):
what happens at FSU is business. It's it's it's news,
it matters, and so the decision is made. Interesting insights
from Ira Cheffell general manager. Huh Okay Okay interesting co

(01:20:43):
founder of a paycheck protection program service sentenced to ten
years in prison for defrauding the paycheck protection program by
sixty three million dollars. Stephanie Hockridge, forty two years of age.
She'll probably do five years, but she is ordered to

(01:21:06):
pay sixty three million dollars in restitution. Why is it
the Congress? Why don't people understand that when these programs happen,
this is going to take place, there will be unbelievable
fraud because there are just sinful, evil people. You know,

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the idea, you don't need to thank me for not
robbing the bank. But we're living in an era where
you almost do, because there are a lot of crummy people.
They're just unredeemed people that look, we're all sinners, but

(01:22:03):
you hopefully, I don't even know what to say. You
put a program out there and people are gonna try
and cheat, and for some it's their first thought. It's
their first thought, whoa, wait, there's money available. This lady's
set up a business. There's a story in the news

(01:22:29):
about a dude who signed over a check that wasn't
to him. It was a settlement check or something, and
it was for a client, and he signed it and
put it in his bank his account. He's going to prison.
And there's a burn ban. Do not burn, Do not
do not burn real quickly here. No yard debris, no

(01:22:54):
land clearing fires, no campfires, bondfire as, fire pits, no
burn barrels, none of it. None of it. You can
use your grill. If you're using charcoal, wood fire grill,
stand by it at all times. A smoker, that's fine,
but it's got to be contained lid type thing. You

(01:23:14):
can cook your turkey on Thanksgiving, all right, stay by
your grill. You can use your fireplace, indoor wood fireplaces,
wood stoves. I would say personally, outdoor wood fireplaces. Probably
I wouldn't do it. That's just me. Forty one minutes
after the hour, burned band through the entire region.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Print in a positive way, improve the lives of others.
That's what this show is about. And this is the
Preston Scott Show.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Quote two passed last half hour after visiting with Irishchaffell.
We talked about Chicago and we pointed out again and
again and again and again and again and again, and
I'm going to keep doing it. Why because repetition is
the key to knowledge. Wait what, Yeah, that's the key.

(01:24:28):
You learn through repetition and then it becomes knowledge, it
becomes part of your knowledge base. It is absolutely fundamentally
important to understand that democrat runs cities are where crime
exists in the numbers that we see. Look, there's crime
everywhere because as We just pointed out there is sin everywhere. Right,

(01:24:48):
There will always be crime because there will always be
people that commit crimes because there are sinners that cannot
restrain themselves. We're all sinners, but we hopefully get redeem
We get our mind redeem, we get our heart redeemed.
We then walk out our salvation. We work on it,
we get better at it. We don't do these things,
we just don't do them. What are laws? Let me

(01:25:16):
back up here, fundamental concept of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. What are laws for? Who are they for?
Laws are for the people in the middle. Why, Because
there's a group of people that have a moral code.
They don't need laws. They will not do certain things,
they just won't do them. There's another group of people

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they don't care what the laws are. They will do
whatever they want to do. So who are laws for?
Laws are for the people in the middle to give
them a really good reason to not commit those crimes,
to not commit those acts, to not make those bad choices.

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That's what laws are for. Where democrats run communities, you
see this happen. I want to go to Dearborn now
in the wake of everything that's been going on in Dearborn, Michigan, which,
by the way, city state of Michigan is where Islamis

(01:26:18):
are starting to take over the state because they don't
we do not have the collective courage yet in our
country to understand. I'm going to share some audio with
you at some point from a guy who was a
Islamist who converted and became an author, and he died
at a very young age of stomach cancer, a young

(01:26:41):
father and husband, and was a brilliant apologist for the
Christian faith. But he explained the teachings of Muhammad brilliantly
and in quick little bursts, and I'm going to share
some of that with you in the coming weeks and months.
But a conservative influencer and journalist was in Dearborn documenting

(01:27:07):
the protests against what's going on there. This is what
he said. I went and told one of your officers
that this had happened. What had happened. He was being
in essence threatened, and he was being battered, pushed, shoved,

(01:27:32):
they were taking his gear. He told me there was
nothing they could do about it unless I went to
the station. I told him, you're gonna let You're not
going to catch the guy, if I go to the station,
he said, Sir, I can't leave my post. Five minutes later,
I caught the guy in the parking lot on a
personal phone call. This is the reporter talking about this

(01:27:53):
guy who was taking his property and intimidating him and
so forth. He confronted a counter protester on the Free
Palestine side, who is harassing a man in America. First,
at as he tried to record the encounter, he got shoved,

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Then he got pepper sprayed. Sure, why is he not
welcome on a public sidewalk? The guy said, get that
camera out of my face. The man turns, tell him again,
adding I will take it if he doesn't stop recording.
Then the phone drops. Someone picks it up to record
a higbee and his eyes tightly shut. Kids, he got
it maced. They picked up my phone, recorded me suffering,

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then chucked it across the street. That's theft, by the way.
He alleged that officers witnessed several assaults and did nothing.
He described the scene as totally lawless. Didn't seem like
any of the police were motivated to enforce any kind
of law. They even flew drones over him to try

(01:29:06):
to trace him, this is a Democrat now borderline Sharia
law stronghold in this country. We are not being tapped
on the shoulder, We're being grabbed around the shoulders and

(01:29:27):
we are being shaken. Wake up. Forty eight minutes after
the hour. We're gonna wrap up this program next all right,

(01:29:51):
fifty three pass Glenn Beck in seven or eight minutes,
maybe a little longer if you've missed the news. I
set the goal of being out of the Thanksgiving programming week,
which is tomorrow, but hitting Thanksgiving raising twenty seven five

(01:30:14):
hundred dollars towards home number six at Orphan Shade, which
would be halfway through the project. That's exactly halfway. You people,
once again just blew away the expectations. And so we've
reset the goal because when the weekend was over we
were approaching thirty five thousand dollars. We're just over thirty
four thousand, which is just amazing. And again I just

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I'm in awe and I'm humbled, and I thank you.
The new goal is to get to forty thousand dollars
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Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one on WFLA. All right, we started the
program today with Psalm one hundred, verses four and five
entering God's gates with Thanksgiving. Kind of appropriate for the week,

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don't you think big stories in the press box burn
band in the region. You can just consider it a
burn band for the region. If you're listening my voice
on terrestrial radio. Absolutely, if you're in North Florida, South Georgia,
please just be smart. Let's not have anything crazy happen
and ruin Thanksgiving for some folks. Okay, co founder of

(01:31:41):
Paycheck Protection Program Service sentenced to ten years for a
sixty three million dollars COVID relief fraud scheme. Sixty three
million dollars, Mike Norbel.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
He is staying on as the head coach at Florida
State University. That's a big story. Chicago, ouch, I mean,
that's it. It's just Democrat run communities. That's a warning
for all of you that live in Florida's capital city.

(01:32:18):
It's a warning you're one election away from having a
socialist run community. It's exactly where you are. You may
not like hearing that, but that's a fact. President Trump
terminating the temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota tomorrow

(01:32:42):
artificial intelligence. Big conversation we'll have with salnwso Consumer's defense.
Till ed, friends, have a great day. Remember orphanshade dot com.