Ep.5426: Shooting at Fort Stewart in Georgia

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, ruminators, friendly boys. Once again in
your ears on a Thursday morning, August the seventh, More
on that date and Mere Moment Show fifty four to
twenty six of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose,
I'm Preston, and much to discuss today.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
We've got a lot of guests. We've got Steve Stewart
joining us, Doctor Steve Steveson talk about an alert in
the area of four pets.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And then in the third hour, Michael Alford, director of
Athletics Florida State University, will join us for the annual
State of the Knowles visit here. Well, we'll talk through
everything Florida State Athletics in the third hour of the program.
But we always start with scripture. That's kind of a

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thought suggestion starting your day with some scripture. Romans five
eight says, but God shows his love for us in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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I just want you to think about that for a moment,
in the context of Jesus at the Last Supper, raising
his cup and giving thanks that what he was about

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to do willingly for mankind, that whosoever would choose to
believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life.
He's about to offer his life for sinners, and he

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lifted a cup and gave thanks. I mean, I think
it's very difficult for us to really comprehend that gesture.

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Was he giving thanks looking across time as God, Man, God,
God in flesh. Was he looking across time and giving
thanks that what he was about to do was going

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to make a way, It was going to make it possible.
I got into a very lengthy back and forth with
a friend yesterday of this program, longtime listener, good good guy,
good brother in Christ, about predestination, and I believe scripture

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in dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens. I mean,
I told him, you made me break open my notes
from teaching in sermons years gone by. I reject Calvinism.
I reject the notion of predestination. You can take a

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scripture and cherry Pickett and make it say anything you want.
I mean, literally, you can't. The totality of it speaks
very clearly that we have a choice to make in
our life, and fundamentally, it still comes back down to

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if we do not have a choice, then explain the
presence of sin. Satan and a third of the angels
chose to rebel against God.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
He gave the angelic host free choice. He gave man choice.
The predestination narrative blows up in the garden, and it's

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important for you to understand and accept the responsibility that
you have in choosing Romans five eight. But God shows
his love for us in that, while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Ten past the hours of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Taking a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. On this date,
August seventh, seventeen eighty two, George Washington creates the Purple Heart,
which of course makes this Purple Heart Day. Seventeen eighty nine.

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Congress establishes the War Department, now the Department of.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Defenseeen forty two troops land a Guadalcanal, marking a shift
by Allied forces from defensive operations to an offensive campaign
in the Pacific in World War Two. It is so
interesting to study the unique theaters of operation.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Europe and Asia the Pacific. It really is is fascinating.
I highly recommend, though it is rough if you've not
read the book Band of Brothers by Tom Ambrose. At

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least take the time to check out the HBO mini
series because it's spectacular. It's based on people, and they
do cutaways either before or after, of the real people
being portrayed in the movie, but they never revealed who
they are until the end of the series, and so

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you've been listening to this person in this and now
you're like, oh, that's that guy from the show.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But it is.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It is a compelling view of the war in Europe.
And then there is there's another version of the war
in the Pacific. It's not quite as well done. It's
still okay, but Band of Brothers is really worth worth
looking at. Nineteen fifty nine, United States launches Explorer six,

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the first satellite to photograph Earth from orbit.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Sure whatever, yeah. Nineteen ninety eight Al Qaeda explodes bombs
at US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dara Salam, Tanzania,
killing two hundred and twenty four people, including twelve Americans.
Nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Today is National Raspberries and Cream Day. I I just
raspberries have no flavor to me. Maybe they do and
I'm just missing it, but they just bland to me.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Today's National Sea Serpent Day and National Lighthouse Day. Who
doesn't enjoy seeing a lighthouse? A lighthouse by the coast
is just I mean, with the white and the red right,
the little stripe action there, especially if it's working, a

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working lighthouse, even if it's old and it doesn't really
serve much of a purpose, there's just something so nostalgic
about it all. I think it looks I think it
looks great. So and then National Sea Serpent Day. Apparently

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this is this is birthed from an August eighteen forty
eight event. Several men aboard the HMS Datlus couldn't believe
their eyes when they looked out upon the South Atlantic.
Several passengers and officers on the voyage to Saint Helena
spied a sixty foot long creature bearing a peculiar maine

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head above the ocean water. With so many accounts of
what they saw, it's hard to believe it didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
And so.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Was it a was it an ancestor a descendant of
the Kraken?

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I don't know. I don't know what it was, but
you know, lock nests, do you believe in NeSSI do?
You think NeSSI exists.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
No, not a prehistoric creature trapped in the nests in
the lock the lock nests. You would think they'd find
it with the efforts they've made, but sixteen.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Passed the hour, come back with it? Did you know?
And a sorry to one of my sons. Did you know?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
The modern word tattoo is derived from the Polynesian word
tattoo tATu. Although many cultures throughout history practice tattooing, eighteenth
century British sailors brought the word into English when they
witness Polynesian artists practicing their art. I know that many

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of you have a tattoo. All I'm gonna tell you
is the ones visible at some point in your life
are gonna look so trashy because you're gonna be old,
and your skin's gonna sag and whatever that word is
is gonna be what is that? And you're gonna have

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to stretch your skin to see it, and you're gonna
have to, you know, you'll start wearing long sleeves or whatever.
I just against a you do you It's just not
my cup of tea, never has been, never will be.

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I begged our kids. First of all, I know most
of them have listened. One did not. I said, at
least wait till you're an adult. Most listened, one did not.

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But yeah, I just I.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Think as you age, they just looked gnarly. I do,
even if it's you know, it's fine when you're younger
in the sense that you can see it. As you age,
it's just going to look anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Whatever. Just an interesting did you know now? My apology
to my oldest son.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
I think it was.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Somebody brought him to iraq nophobia when he was young.
Isn't that the name of the movie iraq Noophobia, and
iraq noophobia is fear of spiders, and he came out
with one and he's never ever gone past it.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Now. Look, I'm not a fan of them, but he
can be thankful to the God of Heaven that he
doesn't live in Arizona anymore. Because it is migration season

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in the Southwest.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's what it's called in certain parts of the country Texas, Arizona, California, Oklahoma,
New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, even in Missouri, but definitely the Southwest.
It is mating season for tarantulas and they are everywhere.

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And here's the thing that I did not know. Male
tarantulas live five to eight years. They have one mating
season their entire life, and when they finish, they die.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
They're done. So right now through roughly the fall September October,
this is tarantula. Male tarantula is coming out of the

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burrows where most of the time they live down underground.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
And they get busy. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now we hear the typical they're more scared of you
than you are of them, to which my son would say,
want to.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Bet, No, I'm serious. You want to get punched.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Play a joke involving any a fake spider or anything
around around that, boy, you will get punched. Here's the advice.
Don't panic. Tarantulos are not aggressive. I just remember that
scene from Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Dark.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
When Pepido, who was oh, the actor Alfred Molina, it's
like his first role. He's playing this bit role and
he's covered in tarantulas. And these were real tarantulas. They

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rarely bite. If they do, it's defensive. If you find
one in your home, you trap it in a large container.
You don't you don't know, you don't uh uh, don't
touch it in uh.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
In La Junta, Colorado, southeastern part of the state, there
is a tarantula festival. No thank you, no, no, look,
I'm not I don't have a rachnophobia.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
But no, no, m nope, not going to that festival.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not going to find that on our road trip suggestion
later in the show twenty seven past the hour. All
I can say about this segment, because I know he's listening,
is sorry, Jamison.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
We're your morning show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
What it mates if you're new to the program, The
big stories in the press box, unless we have a
guest that takes up an hour or something a special
guest or feature or something the bottom of the hour,
we do the big stories in the press box. And
these are just the stories that I think we ought
to be talking about. They could be a reflection of
things that you are already talking about or will be.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I tend to lean to things that you should be
I think this sort of is one of those that
it's like everyone probably was aware of it, and some
feed they get some newsfeed, heard it.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
On the news, saw it on the news. Shooting at
Fort Stewart in Georgia yesterday. How do you account for.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
A guy shooting his comrades, his fellow soldiers? How do
you account for that?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
I can tell you what you ought to be thinking
about here, but let's get to what happened. About ten
fifty six yesterday morning, the notices went out, law enforcement dispatched,
shooter was apprehended. About thirty nine minutes later, the shooter

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was tackled by fellow soldiers. I want you to underscore that.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Tackled.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
He shot five people. It's an army base. Isn't it
fascinating that, except for MPs, generally speaking, a military base

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is a gun fore zone. Isn't that amazing? Soldiers aren't
allowed to have a firearm. This guy did. He brought
his own. Wait, how does that happen? He's we know
who he is, and I'm gonna I'm gonna use his

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name one time. He is US Army Sergeant Comelius Radford,
second Armored Brigade, Combat Team, twenty eight years old, Logistics sergeant,
served since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
He's been on the.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Base, He's been in the service, never been deployed. He
was arrested by Georgia Department of Public Safety back in
May of this year for driving under the influence and
failing to obey a traffic control device. In other words,
he ran a red light. He claimed he had to

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find a restroom, so he ran a red light because
it was DUI. But he used his personal weapon. At
least that's what the indicated reports say. So the question becomes,
other than having a crappy first name, what's his problem?

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But I think this underscores a bigger issue gun free zones.
His victims had nothing to do to defend themselves. Perhaps
this guy ran out of AMMO, he was changing magazines

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and that's when he was tackled.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I don't know. I don't know how. I don't know
if a group just said enough and rushed him. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't know if of the five some of them
rushed him and got shot while doing I don't know.
We don't have that information yet. What I can tell
you is it is insane to me, and it's a
perfect illustration that once again, rules don't stop bad people

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with evil intentions. Laws, ruled, signs, policies, they don't matter. Golly,
why is this so hard for people to understand? Second
big story in the press box, little better news. Forty
one planned parenthood facilities are closing, with more set to close.

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As many as two hundred are closing nationwide. Perhaps next
hour will bust the bubble on the claims of planned
parenthood and all of the healthcare it provides women. Really,
it's an abortion factory. It kills babies. That's what it
does professionally, that's what it does. That's its purpose, and

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I will document that next hour.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
So those are your big stories in the press box.
Forty one minutes past the hour Thursday.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
In the Morning Show with Preston Scott, This is the
More Warning Show with Preston Scott, I mentioned that he'd
never been deployed because I just wanted to underscore that
the shooter at Fort Stewart can't claim PTSD.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Apparently he took out his co workers. He was none
of them died, praise God for that, some more serious
injuries than others. I'm reading comments about, well, the reason
why guns aren't in the hands, you know, mutiny is
a serious Oh shut up, you're in the military. You

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got to trust these men and women with firearms anyway,
stop it. I guess gun free zones just don't work right, schools, military,
bass movie theaters. Where were that simple is of a
firearm and a circle with a red slash across it. Yeah,

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invitation for a shooter Florida State University, other universities. It
just it doesn't matter. Bad people don't care about your signs.
I mean, think about.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Every every arrest every day.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
They don't care about the law, they don't care about signs,
they don't care about Well, it's just not good form
to rob people.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Okay, give me your money.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
I mean, what what are we thinking here?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
And that's why we do segments like we did yesterday,
where we take apart these stories and we say, okay,
what can we learn from it?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
JD?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Charlie, What is there to learn for us to be
better prepared for whatever happens?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Recognized not everybody has the fortitude the constitution personally to
carry I get it. Don't if you don't.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
But anyway, speaking of yesterday's show, got a note from
Gunny who calls into the program.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I won't I won't use his full name because he
doesn't use it on the shows.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
So he said, how to refer to a marine no
longer on active duty? I've never known how to say that?
Thank you for this, he said. In twenty ten, Marine
Corps General James Amos, thirty fifth Commandant of the Marine Corps,
directed that there is no such thing as a former
or ex marine. I agree, that's I know. I was
just I know my brother served in the Marines. Once

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you're in the title of marine, you're a marine for life.
We refer to each other as marine. However, the best
I had to distinguish a marine no longer on active duty.
It's a lot of words I'm just saying, used to
call him or her marine veteran.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Fair enough, fair enough? He said. You also brought up
how to be prepared for a possible attack. We were
just talking about that right with Fort Stewart.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
He said, I was brought up to treat everyone you
meet with dignity and respect and to have a plan
to kill them if you have to. And then he said,
I brought up lieutenant governor marine win some seers choice
for future president. Actually I was more thinking vice president,

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but future president eventually, yes, he said, I'm a big fan.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
But she was born in Jamaica, not eligible.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
Hm.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
He then said, I don't think we could pull off
the fake birth certificate thing again. Ah a brilliant, Gunny, brilliant,
and then he dropped a gopac go here, well done,
Well done. Forty six minutes after the hour more to
com before Steve Stewart joins us here on the Morning.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Showing Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven Double ufla.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Georgia Peaches, you have to be ashamed of your former
Lieutenant governor Jeff Duncan. I mean, everybody's leaving the Democrat Party.
He's going to the Democrat Party.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Now. He's still relatively young, he's got a full head
of hair. Maybe he's hiding the lobotomy scars. I don't
know why in the world he he he said it.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
His journey started long before Donald Trump tried to steal
the twenty twenty election in Georgia. Dude, you you removed
all doubt about what you're thinking is But he went
on to say that he's criticizing immigration policy, gun policy,

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medicaid in essences for growing government, making sure people get
killed with guns, and that the nation's invaded. I mean,
what kind of rube is that?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Anyway? Sorry, it's just that's tragic. That really, that really
is tragic.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
This is uh. If I were to ask you the
transgendered killer at the Nashville private school, Covenant School, she
attended the school.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
She hated the school.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
She decided she hated life, like a lot of transgenders
angry thought being a transgender was your pathway to contentment
and peace and enjoy. If I were to ask you,

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how many pages do you think the man manifesto is
that she left behind?

Speaker 1 (28:42):
What do you think? What do you think? Take a
guess how many pages? One hundred and fifty?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, the Judicial Watch through Freedom of Information Act just
received another four hundred and eighty five pages, previously obtained
one hundred and twelve an additional two thirty one back

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in June. So total they've got eight hundred and twenty
eight pages of the two thousand and fifty six paged manifesto,
two thousand fifty six pages of anger and hate and

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an attempt to justify killing children. No, I'm not using
this loser's name.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I want her.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
To to fade away from consciousness after we learn the
lessons that are to be learned, shot her way into
the school, killed three children and three adults. Biden didn't

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want to let any of this out the new sheriff
in town. The current Department of Justice is releasing information
two thousand and fifty six pages of hate and justification.

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I have no interest in reading it. I'll let the
you know, the forensic psychologists and analysts have at it.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
I'll take everything they say, and I'm gonna boil it
down to this sin. I'll give you one word analysis
sin unredeemed souls that act out their cardinal fleshly shortcomings
and decide to harm other people because they're mad at

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who they are.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Whatever. I don't need to read it. It doesn't matter
to me.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
When we come back, we will turn the page. We
moved to the second hour of the program. Steve Stewart
will join me here from Tallassie Reports. Next on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. And here we are the

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second hour Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Do ragging all over there in Studio one a is.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
It'd say, always a treat to see how he's coming
dressed for the day.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
And here in Studio one B joining me is the
executive editor of Tallastan Reports.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
He's our friend Steve Stewart. How are you, Bud? Good morning.
I'm good. Got a new paper being printed this morning,
so we'll get it out this week. Hey, good stuff.
But real quickly, what are your thoughts on the New
York Post moving west and printing a California Post and
that they're going to do a print edition.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
Look, we've we have talked about the Yeah, exactly it
was good. Is like, sorry, I got I got chills?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Are they multiplying? Are losing control? Sorry? So on that
real quick.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
So the landscape, you know, we've talked about the media
landscape changing over the last and so, uh, we're starting
to see that.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Now that this alternati and I called alternative media.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
You know, there's moves like this, and you're starting to
see we've got actually we've gotten we have field of
phone calls from groups that are understanding that local media
has gotten hit through the technology and the political ramifications.
Here you saw the money cut from uh, you know PBS,
w FSU, which is.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Going to hit here the nets rolling out hundreds of
millions of dollars. Still, so the issue being is that look,
from a local standpoint, they need more. You got to
have more reporting to hold people accountable.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
And so yeah, it's good to see there is you
know a lot of people who are legacy media, they
view this obviously this is their world is being upset.
But where there is disruption, there is a lot of
opportunity and so yeah, so we're excited about it.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Nice crime numbers here locally.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yes, So as you know, if you're a frequent listener,
we tabulate the daily.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Numbers that come in from TBD.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
And one of the reasons we do it is we'll
talk about a little later, is because you can't get
really good crime numbers. You have to wait forever to
find out what's going on. And so we tabulate these
every day and then we give a monthly report. As
we reported in the last year, crime was headed down
last year. The seven months in it's it's violent crime
and property gram are down double digits and high double

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thirty percent. These are crime incidents within TPD And again
we're measuring trends more than we are actual numbers.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Can I ask, is there a reason why counting numbers
aren't as readily available.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
Yeah, because there's two different there is two different organizations.
TVD makes it a much easier to follow how they
are doing their incidents. So again they send out a
report every morning. It's there for journalists.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
To take into The Sheriff's department does not.

Speaker 7 (34:12):
They send out a booking report, and it's a little
bit more difficult to go through, and that covers the
whole county, and so there are some jurisdictional issues there
separating out.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
TPD again is two thirds.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
Of the county and probably eighty eighty five percent of
the incidents agreed. So yeah, so anyway, the numbers are down.
The one thing that is starting. You know, we've talked
about the shooting fatalities and the murders.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
We're down a little a couple this year.

Speaker 7 (34:37):
But it's you know, it is an issue that we
I think are and I even do this, we brush
it off in the sense that the crimes that affect
quality of life, robbery, assaultant batteries, property.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Crime are all down.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
I mean, if you look in north of northeast Tallahassee,
and I'm saying, like north I ten hasn't seen a
robbery this year, So I mean so in certain parts
of town that crime is no issue from a quality
of life standpoint. However, what you do start to see
is these shootings and again certain areas of town and
they are at a level that are you can brush

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them off and say, look, you know, these aren't hold
ups at case stores while you're getting gas. They're not
home invasions, all right, you can say they're not that.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
These are targeted where they know each other, but they're
at a level to where it is getting concerning. And
so we last year we had twenty six murders or
twenty six fatal shootings.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
This year we're at about thirteen, which is two or
three less than the pace of last year. So we
could finish up blow where we were last year. But
segueing into the reason why we look at these numbers
is the FBI finally released the crime numbers from twenty
twenty four, and now you can imagine this job of
gathering all the crime numbers across the country and trying

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to make sense of them. There's been issues with this.
I've been following it pretty closely. They're journalists that fall
it really close. One of the obviously, murder is a
crime that doesn't fall through the cracks. So what you
want to first do is look at those, and then
you know, we can look at other trends. Murder is
down is down to low's not seen since twenty fifteen,

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and that is a little different than what we're seeing here.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
And then we can look at the other trends when
we get back. I guess back with Steve Stewart, radio
professional right there. He's been with me all these years
as a show of his own you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Look at this, look at what I look what hath
but got? Yeah, twenty ten past the hour, it's the
Morning Show.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Doing it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he
has a little more hair.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott back with Steve Stewart
talahas he reports website, tellasworeports dot com. You heard the
papers coming out another edition, and so subscribe you'll get
it delivered directly to you, and more importantly, you'll be

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supporting true independent journalism here locally.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
So on the FBI numbers, again, this is probably not
a good week to be talking about national numbers and
how they, you know, are the credibility and reliability. However,
like I said, on the murder numbers, they're down to
those not seen since twenty fifteen, and so that's good news.
On the other part, on the violent crime and the

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property crime, two things here. Violent crime is also down,
is down about four percent. And these are the FBI numbers.
You're looking at these FBI numbers for twenty twenty four.
We saw about a twenty percent decrease in violent crime
last year nationally, about you know, four percent. Now, violent
crime will be another thing that I think would be
you would say, okay, look, not a lot of violent

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crime falls through the crime it's not reported. I mean,
if somebody, you know, you're talking about rape, murder, assault,
and battery, a lot of that gets reported. However, there
would be some situations and fights and things like that
would they would not get reported. Again, I would probably
believe those numbers, those would be a little bit more reliable. Again,
not a big drop four percent here, bigger drop, which

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what I would argue is is due to some of
the things that increase staffing and control exactly real real
time crime center.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Now, property crime.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
Is where it really gets dicey because there's just you know,
the amount of crime that's not reported, retail theft, things
like that. It's really tough to look at those numbers.
They report an eight point nine percent decrease in property crime.
We only had a three and a half percent decrease
last year, but this year it's it's like twenty eight
percent so far. So I think again, from a trend perspective,

(38:48):
Leon County or the City of Tallahassee from violent crime
and property crime is headed in the right direction. But
with the caveat that these these shootings which are tied
to domestic islands drug deals gone bad. Yeah, game membership,
they are starting to take a toll in the sense
of the level of the numbers that we're seeing. And

(39:09):
I'm not sure what I'm not sure what the answer
is to trying to deal with that.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
There are other numbers you follow. You follow local job
numbers as well as the airport.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Yeah, airport is starting to really feel the repercussions of
probably the national economy and losing two carriers last two
or three months.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Traffic is down. We you know, look, we.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
Report every month, the only local media outlet to report
these number every month, every month. So when they're good,
you know, it's like, oh, we're you know, rah rah rah.
And when it's bad, we report those numbers. Two and
the last couple of months have not been good. Numbers
eight down eight and a half percent in June when
compared to a year ago. And so the question now
is when is the decline going to stop? But the

(39:50):
bigger question is we keep hearing that there's some good
things that are in progress. We've talked about Mayor daily
trying to push incentives which fits, you know, given our
location and the size of our airport, if we're going
to be any somewhat competitive to other areas that have
the same issues that we have, and we've talked about this,
we've got to provide airline incentives if that is a desire.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
For this community to.

Speaker 7 (40:16):
Help out the airport, because what's going on at the
airport is driven by things.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
That we really have little control over. We have about
thirty seconds in the segment job numbers.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
Job numbers, as we talked about, the last two job
reports we had here locally were not good. That was
before these revisions that were just reported, and so now
we're going to have to we'll get the numbers probably
in a couple of weeks to look at them. But
I'm looking for something else, like the incident reports, so
they can give us a better idea of what's going
on here locally. You look at tax wile sales, which

(40:47):
gives an idea of economic activity. We're only up one
point five percent a year over year on tax wile sales,
and so you would have to be up about five
or six percent to keep pace with inflation and such.
I think we're facing some headwinds here locally in the
next couple of months, and we'll try to we'll try
to get some numbers here that can that well, you know.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
That we'll give the the broader trends and not rely
on federal numbers.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I would maybe posit that we're starting to see the
results of so much money be taken count out of
the local economy through the additional taxes being paid to
the children's services counsel and so.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
And we talked about that, and I think it's only
going to get worse next year.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
More to come with Steve Stewart of Talalasta reports again
Tallasti reports dot com bag with Steve Stewart, Tallasha Reports
twenty one minutes past the hour of man. When we're
off the air, as it gets saucy, I just.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
Like saying that, all right, we have some political announcements, Yeah,
just a little you know, it's a little bit like
what's going on politically. We haven't really heard anything and
usually if you look at previous cycles, I think it's
the lull after the last two cycles which were so
mean spirited and nothing really changed rast snuckle fights, and
so I think everybody's sort of taking a deep breath.

(42:11):
But it's going to be interesting to see what happens now.
First of all, there was a kickoff campaign for Dine
wims Cox. There's three city commissioners that are up for reelection,
commission Mattlow, Commissioner UH Diane Williams Cox, and then Mayor Daily.
So she used the first of the three to formally announce, said, look,
I'm running for election. If you remember, she has been
in a fight to hold under her seat last cycle.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
But she's fought against her colleagues, Commissioner Porter.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Commission Matlow went after a hard and so now you know,
Commissioner Matlow started the year with this sort of more
friendly approach. However, we've seen sort of some breaks in
that in that approach. First of all the TMH issue
where he went really hard into Mayor Daily. But this
was all what was happening when he thought Mayor Daily
wasn't going to run for re election. Daily's running for reelection.

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And now from what I'm hearing. It looks like Mallow is,
you know, an intent on running for mayor.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
So which means his seat will be open. His seat
will be open.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
So you're going to start to see some Domino's fault
when you when you see these open seats when you're
no incumbent, you're going to see four or five people
get in and so that'll be interesting from that perspective.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Diane Williams Cox is a two term incumbent. She won,
She won without going to the general.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
Last time, you wonder if anybody's going to be able
to muster any kind of, you know, a campaign against
her because it's tough to raise money when you when
you see that this is really not a good cause.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
But we'll see now Commissioner Maloe has a decision to make.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
You know, when you we say you're going to be
friendlier because you're going to run for mayor, and you're
thinking that the current mayor is not running, all of
a sudden, now wait a minute, I got to be
friendly and Mayor Daily is running because commission I mean
Mayor Daily has a little bit of he has a
couple of issues that he can run on. I mean,
you know, we've got a lower crime rate. Things are
he supported the police. Yeah, he supported a law enforce,

(43:56):
which is a big deal. When you look around the
country and some of these other cities it is like
Seattle and New York. They've got some pretty left wing
people running for these local offices.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Portland, which is Tallahassee of the West.

Speaker 7 (44:07):
Yeah, and so so anyway, that's going to be all
interesting to uh, to see what happens with all this.
You have the Chamber conference coming up, and you've got
a new leader, president and CEO of the Chamber which
will take over January. But it's going to be introduced
at the Chamber conference. And so the guy that's coming
into this has a lot of experience in dealing with
things like this. But we'll see, if you know, if

(44:29):
he goes wow, I've never seen this before.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
I mean next year. But is it the president of
the Chamber? Is it the board? Well, it's both right,
the board.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
I mean you know that if he's persuasive in making arguments,
he could lead a board if you're there just to
do verstand.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yeah, so we'll see you we'll see where what cloth
he's cut out of?

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Yeah, but I will tell you listening to local governments
in these meetings. Next year is going to be interesting
for any kind of business group because there's going to
be all kinds of attempts to raise property taxes, be
it the Children so Bers Council, the Leon County school Board.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
You've got this fire services.

Speaker 7 (45:03):
Fee which is going up twenty twenty two percent, which
is going to be in mediation. And you really haven't
seen the Chamber take any position on any of this stuff.
You know, the merger with TMH and FSU, which I say,
which I hear you know, well, yeah, it's moving forward.
That should be front and center. It should be one
of the biggest issues that we're talking about. There should

(45:24):
be pressure on these two entities to get this done. Yeah,
because as we've talked, we are behind on this. If
you you know, suddenly people woke up and said, oh
TMH is looking at being you know, bought by FSU
or you know, needs to sell. If you go around
and look at other communities, they've dealt with this issue
five years ago, and we are behind on this and

(45:45):
and so, but you don't hear anything. So there's a
lot of things coming up in the next year from
on the business side of things, and from the political uh,
you know, from the election standpoint. The one thing I
won't mention because I I've been very critical of this
in the past of these progressives, you know, using taxpayer
dollars to go to these conferences and things and then

(46:06):
not going to the Chamber conference. David O'Keefe, who is
on the Leon County Commission, who is a left wing progressive,
his name is on the list for heading over to
the Chamber conference. And so again the Chamber Conference gets
a lot of it gets a lot of criticism, you
know on social media, which a lot of things do.
But the bottom line is there are a lot of

(46:27):
people over there that it's a good place to go
and get a lay of the land of you know,
where the community is headed from government to business and
so it you know, it did trouble me to see
these progressives going to these conferences you know that are
nationally focused, right and then skipping.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
The local the local uh, you know, the local.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Confat It's going to be very interesting because these tax
increases do nothing but take discretionary income out of the
pockets and wallets out of people that live here. Yeah,
without them getting without them getting increases in salaries exactly.
I mean the school board got an extra ten million
dollars without changing the military.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
And why because values went up.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
And then it's like, but they're not rolling it back
and they're losing students and they're it's masking the problem
student exodus.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Right, but the COVID money helped mask that is going
away now. Yeah, government will never roll back tax rates,
just doesn't do it. We'll see. Thanks all right, appreciate it.
There's always more to talk about, Steven.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
You've always got more to talk about, but we're sadly
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Speaker 1 (48:19):
I love the sound beat, has a bit of a
continental flair.

Speaker 8 (48:30):
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Speaker 1 (48:42):
Thirty six minutes past the hour.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Sorry I said I was going to spend a little
time big stories in the press box. Obviously, the shooting
at Fort Stewart. Why are we Why are wire military
bases gun free zones? We've had a few shootings, you
know where unbelievably people don't follow the rules and they

(49:05):
bring a personal firearm onto the grounds and they shoot
somebody or several somebodies. Is that how in a liberal would
talk about this on the radio? Can you believe the sky?
I mean, there are rules, there are signs posted all over.

(49:25):
Don't bring a gun. It says it right there. What
a moron? Who's the moron? People that believe signs, rules, posters,
policies matter to people that.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Want to commit a crime. It just doesn't matter. Five
were shot. They'll be fine. Some more fine than others, perhaps.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
But.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
No reason at this point. And he took out coworkers.
Apparently in his second Armored Brigade combat team. He was
a logistical specialist, automated logistical specialist. We don't know motive
at this point, planned parenthood, closing facilities, more closing all

(50:21):
the time. I've got a fascinating email I received. I
will not share that today. I will share it at
some point. What I wanted to get to. Is this
notion they claim, Oh, we provide health care to women.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
No they don't. They're an abortion clinic. That's what they do.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Cancer screening prevention services have gone down fifty four percent,
including a sixty one percent decrease in breast exams, fifty
four percent decrease in PAP tests. Prenatal services dropped sixty
three percent. Contraception has gone down thirty eight percent. Isn't
it interesting? Why has contraception gone down? Is it because

(50:58):
you don't recommend it?

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Because he kind of sort of one babies to aboard
because that's how you make money.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I'm just saying these are numbers, and these are numbers
since twenty thirteen. And oh, by the way, in uh
twenty two, twenty twenty three, four hundred and two, two
hundred and thirty babies were aborted were killed. I'm just saying,

(51:26):
the idea that this is a women's healthcare, women's healthcare
is going to sell it.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
They don't do women's health care. They abort babies, that's
what they do. I have a testimonial letter from someone
that sought women's healthcare in two separate planned parenthood locations
in Florida in two different cities and was turned down

(51:53):
both times because she didn't want to have an abortion,
because she wasn't pregnant. She just want a healthcare. She
didn't have insurance. I think is what I read at
the time. I just, you know, gave it a cursory reading.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
But it's like, stop, stop the facade, stop it. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Forty minutes past the hour, come back, doctor Steve Stevers
and joins us. Pause for Thought on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on
News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. Twenty five minutes
away from a visit with Michael Alford, Athletic Director Florida

(52:38):
State University, our annual State.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Of the Knowles visit with with Michael looking forward to
having him join us, but first talk about our poor
legged friends. Time for pause for thought here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott joining me, Doctor Steve Steveson
with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Hello, doctor Steveerson, how are

(53:01):
your friend?

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Hey Preston, I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
How are you good? I had I had sent you
a note? I said, Hey, let's talk about dental choose
and you said, well, that's fine, we can do that,
but you might be aware there's a rabies alert. So
tell us about the rabies alert and how regional this is.

Speaker 6 (53:23):
Yeah, so there was a excuterestion. There's a rabbit raccoon
found over on the west side of Tallahassee a couple
of weeks ago, and that's a in the United States.
That's a very big deal. Rabies is a very deadly disease,
and when they find a rabbit animal, they will kind
of animal control will kind of cordon off an area
and go through that area looking for any other abnormally

(53:45):
behaving animals. Rabies is deadly to any mammal, including humans.
So it is a very very serious problem. And fortunately
it doesn't effect all of Tallahassee. It was just that
one area on the west side of town. But I
want to be aware of and this happens from time
to time in tallahasse To. We'll find a rabid animal
and it kind of reminds us of how dangerous this

(54:08):
disease is. And it's pretty much one hundred percent fatal
if someone gets raby. So so it's taken very seriously.
You know verty Lucky.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Well, I was just going to say, yeah, it's this
is Leon County. But you know, we've got listeners all over.
Raby's is all over, It's it's it's prevalent all across
the country.

Speaker 6 (54:26):
Rabies is preston. Then through vaccinating our pets, we kind
of have created a barrier between wild animals and us
as far as transition to rabies. It's so it's when
you see an abnormally behaving a raccoon or a fox
in your yard in the very day, stumbling and staggering around,
one of the big concerns is that that animal may
have rabies. So you definitely want to stay away from it,

(54:47):
do not touch it, and contact animal control and they'll
take care of that situation. Get that animal checked out.
I think if it is a rapid animal or not.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
I have always been told that one of the other tells,
even if they're not stumbling around or acting really weird,
is wild animals are just kind of intuitively wired. They're
instinctively wired to run from humans. And that if you
have a raccoon, a fox, that type of an animal
and you're outside and it doesn't run, it sort of

(55:19):
stays engaged with you. That is a tell that maybe
there's a rabbit animal there.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
Absolutely, wild animals should run away from you, and if
they're not that some only raises a lot of concerns.
So you're exactly correct there. You know, we see rabies
rarely here, like I think the last reported death from
rabies in the United States was in twenty twenty one,
maybe twenty two, Okay, so it's very rare in the
United States, so we kind of get immune to it,

(55:47):
don't even think about it anymore. But worldwide, there's sixty
thousand deaths by rabies every year, so it's just this
remarkable number. And we've done such a great job here
for having this barrier because of vaccine that are that
we don't really see it like they do in other countries,
you know, where there's a huge wild dog population. India
is in our one country in the world because they

(56:07):
have a huge dog population problem, and so rabies is
all over the place in India and so thankfully we
don't have that here. It is transmitted by a bite
or just by the saliva from a rabbit animal. If
it gets on a cut or a scratch, it can
get into you and then from there it can travel
up the nervous system. That's why it's transmitted from the
rabbit raccoon to your dog as well. So if you

(56:29):
see it, I'm normally behaving wildlife in your yard and
your dog goes and attacks it, you may make sure
get your dog into the bat make sure they're a
current on the rabies vaccine. That's a very effective vaccine
and that can prevent rabies, and have them checked out
to make sure we don't have a problem developing.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
I'm guessing then that the real back story here is
make sure your pets have their rabies vaccines and that includes.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
Cats absolutely, yes, yes, and ferris. Actually we can dive
vacinate ferris as well. Preston, cats and dogs and ferrets
are all can be reservoirs of rabies and can't pick
it up outside from another animal. Okay, so the all
should be vaccinated for sure.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
All right, doctor Steverson, thanks for the heads up. I
appreciate it very much.

Speaker 6 (57:14):
Great thanks pressing, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Sir, Doctor Steve Steverson with US Bradfordville Animal Hospital.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Rabies, I'll mess around with that.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
I'm telling you I saw a raccoon once and it
was like try me, pal, that's what he was saying.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Try me.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
He took one step towards me, only step another step
towards you. Watch this? What are you gonna do? You're
not gonna do nothing, are you? Watch this? Another step,
another step, and next thing you know, I was setting
up traps. That's exactly right. Okay, maybe it wasn't exactly

(57:54):
like that. It might have been the pool party that
raccoons threw in my backyard. That's a true story. Six
minutes after the hour, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yeah, let's do it road trip idea on the road
again here on the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Now, this is a preview of an attraction that's supposed
to finally open. It was supposed to open last year,
but it's been delayed a few times. They're now scheduled
to open sometime between now and the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
And it is the Mattel Adventure Park. You heard me right,
Mattel as in the toys. Oh yeah, Glendale, Arizona, and
they're going to be opening one in Kansas City, Kansas. Now,
for a lot of reasons, I would recommend Glende, Arizona,

(59:02):
but I have no idea what The cost is in Glendale.
It is real close to State Farm Stadium, the home
of the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. It is on
the Viai Resort Grounds. It sits on nine ten acres itself.

(59:23):
It's not a typical theme park, but.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
It does have roller coasters, it does have rides, it
has It has most of the attractions indoors, which in
Arizona is very helpful because it can be hot in
the summer, so it's air conditioned. The Adventure Park will
feature roller coasters based on hot wheels. That's pretty cool.

(59:53):
The hot Wheels Bone Shaker, the Ultimate Ride, and the
Hot Wheels Twin Mill Racer. I like the sound of that.
Barbie fans, You're gonna have the Barbie Beach House. Visit
full sized Barbie Beach House. So if you've got a
little girl into Barbie's boom. This is like the Barbie

(01:00:15):
movie come to life. It's huge. But that's not all either.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
There are other notable Mattel brands that will be featured.
There's Thomas and Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine. I mean,
how iconic is Thomas the Tank Engine. It's a smiling
little chair of face in the front of that engine.
Come on, there's seven different kid friendly rides and attractions.

(01:00:44):
Master of the Universe, Castle, Gray Skull, You kidding skeletor
come on, Laser Tag goes on there. They've got a
climbing structure made out of Uno cards, mini golf holes
with matge with magic eight ball and pictionary elements. So
they're grabbing all of the the different elements of Mattel

(01:01:11):
And it's a trend. New theme parks popping up across
the country. You've got the Epic Universe in Orlando at
Universal Studios. You've got in Texas a Pecca Pig Pig
theme park. My wife is going to be demanding we
go there sometime. Pepa the Pig, Are you kidding me?

(01:01:35):
There's the one thousand acre American Heartland theme park that
is being constructed in Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
So I'm all for it. Places for the family. Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
So there's your road trip idea. All right, let's segue here.
We are just over just a smidge over.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Three weeks college football season, Florida State hosting. I Love Bama,
so it's gonna be epic to talk FSU athletics. Michael

(01:02:34):
Alford will join me next. He is the director of Athletics,
not just football.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
We've got soccer starting up, We've got volleyball starting up,
got all the seasons to follow. What's the state of
everything on I fish US campus with the different facilities
and so forth. We'll get a preview next with Michael
Alford on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
All right, it's the third hour of the Morning Show
with Russell's guy. Good morning friends, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Thursday, August seventh, it is show fifty four to twenty sixties,
Ose and Preston and this is the Director of Athletics
Florida State University once again with our state of the
Knowles visit Michael Alford.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Hello, how are you, sir? I'm doing excellent. How you're doing?

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
You look great? Yeah, thanks, appreciate it. I'm much it's
been good to you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
You got a nice tan.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Yeah, well that's golf. That's getting out on the golf
course a little bit. But thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
You've been busy, you've been traveling around a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Solve the world of being a collegiate athletics and I'm
sure we represent the Knowles well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Before we drill down into Florida State for a second,
just kind of broadly speaking, do you think we're going
to finally get some things so with NIL and some
of the controversies that surround collegiate sports right now. Well,
I'm a firm believer in the settlement something some of
these guard rails. It is something that we presented in

(01:04:12):
twenty nineteen to the NCAA and what we're implementing now
of the exact same guardrails we wanted put in place
back then.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
One thing we're missing is registration of agents, and we'll
touch base on that a little bit later. Define guardrails
for listeners, Well, you wanted parameters, you wanted set of
rules that everybody was to play for. You wanted a
cap and we talked about that, and you wanted a
third what I would refer to as a TBA, a
third party administrator. And we have that Deloitte that is

(01:04:43):
now looking with their algorithm looking at these arrangements that
student athletes have with corporations and evaluating them to make
sure that they fit the fair market value as we
call it, range of compensation, So making sure that you
don't have donor a who also owns a Toyota dealership

(01:05:05):
paying a quarterback a rate that is not correct in
the marketplace just to give them money. And I'm a
believe in Deloitte's algorithm because I'm accustomed to it. I
worked with it for twelve years in the NFL. If
I was going to do a Tony Rome little starter
deal with that company Starter and he promoted them, we

(01:05:27):
had to run it through the algorithm, and Deloitt was
one of the companies we would utilize to make sure
that we weren't in the NFL cheating the cap, discounting
our arrangement and our assets that we were providing starter
to cheat the cap to pay Tony more as it
stands right now, broadly speaking, because we could take an
entire show three hours to drill into the specific details

(01:05:51):
of this one topic alone. Broadly speaking, how much money
does each d one school have to work with twenty
point five? Working with twenty point five, you can do
two point five in scholarships, which that is something that
I really wanted to do because that allowed me to
give more student athletes the opportunity to leave college debt free. Okay,

(01:06:13):
and so we're maximizing the two point five. You have
a choice, but we are maximizing us above and beyond
what we were currently doing. And what it's great about
our situation, it allows me to give more student athletes
the opportunity because the cost of attendance of Florida State
is at the price where it is if you take
the University of North Carolina for example, let's just take

(01:06:35):
our two soccer programs, I can give three scholars full
scholarships to their one moving forward because of the great
cost of attendance and what the BOG and the state
has done tuition and by BOG you're referring to the
border governors and keep that down here in the state
of Florida. So it gives us an advantage be able

(01:06:57):
to offer more scholarships full rides and maximize that two
and a half than other institutions, even within our own conference.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Before we get into Florida State specifics on facilities and
the upcoming seasons, which is really exciting to talk about, Michael,
do you see a scenario coming as an inevitability where
student athletes are going to be required to sign some
form of a contract to stay at a given school

(01:07:25):
and not jump ship.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Yeah, that we're doing that right now. We have a
contract as much I have a great experience in the NFL.
As you know, I have Bruce Warwick on our staff,
who was Sean mcvay's chief of operations for fifteen years
on our staff and he's our chief of staff for football.
So the NFL experience, we were able to work with
our council on campus and develop a contract that's very

(01:07:49):
professional and that's something that we're doing rolling out right now.
Student athletes going through their agents. Some have great agents,
but it limits the jumping around. We're seeing buy out
that all of the coaches are looking at and saying
this is this is going to hurt athletics in collegiate sports.
There's a buy of Hile State wants to come get

(01:08:10):
our quarterback, there's a buyout at our quarterbacks claus. Okay
that Ohio State not only would have to pay us
that buyout, but then that buyout also counts against their
cap gotcha of what they could do, So it's almost
double whammy for them, which disincentivizes good stuff. All right,
Michael Alford with US Director of Athletics Florida State University.

(01:08:31):
Lots to talk about here on the program this morning.
Here in the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Skuy never get tired of hearing it, especially this time
of year as we start a new school year, academic
school year at Florida State University and universities across the country.

(01:08:57):
Michael Alford, director of Athletics, with me from Florida State Facilities. Obviously,
let's start with the big one, and that's Doe Campbell Stadium.
I asked you before we even started, what are you
most happy about. The things that people will see are
the things that most people won't see.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
One undercent what people won't see, Okay, what's what people
are going to see is going to be breathtaking when
they first walk in, just the comfort, the size, you
can walk around, the concourse, be able to see the
difference between the old stadium and what is there now.
But what really excites me is just the opportunity to
provide the fan experience, and that's things behind the scenes,

(01:09:32):
the kitchens, we were able to put in, the concessions,
the number of bathrooms and everything here. That lady's effort.
If you have a problem going to the bathroom, now
we've got issues because there is so many and we
wanted to make sure of that sure, but just you know,
we talked a little bit about it, but in the

(01:09:53):
old stadium, seventy five year old dog is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
But we had ninety seven suites in the stadium.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
We had no kitchens in the facility. That's hard to
get your brain around, so to service our fans. And
we had no burners because it wasn't a fire It
wasn't up to fire code, so we couldn't fry anything
in the stadium. So just the ability now to go
through and provide an upscale service, regular concessions to founder

(01:10:23):
suites is going to be a different experience. What are
you most proud of that the fans will see when
they come to Dote Campbell for the opening kickoff against
Alabama on the thirtieth. Just the size of the concourses,
the freedom to walk around to see things. I highly
want people to get there early and be able to

(01:10:44):
walk around the stadium and see the changes, even on
the east side. You know, last year we put in
those caps, so everybody had to find eighteen inch seat
because it was a sixteen inch before. And I don't
know about you, but no one could fit in a
sixteen inch seat eighteen inch to find cap apps we
had put it installed the handrails for safety. This year,
we've gone and put a coding on the concourses, kind

(01:11:06):
of like you do your garage. You're going to notice
that we redid the ramp. So there's been a lot
of life safety changes made on the east side as
well as the west, and that's just something that we're
really proud of of getting the stadium to modernize because
it's it is beautiful, it's historic, but we need to
keep the update every year. Now, well, I was going

(01:11:29):
to ask you if making those types of changes is
one part of it, then you get to the real
challenge of maintaining those investments correct. And that's something that
we were lacking in previous years because there was times
before games, before seasons, we had structure engineers go through
there and that we were spending a lot of money

(01:11:51):
on deferred maintenance to keep it standing. And now this
gives us the ability to keep it more regulated and
making those change especially on the east side in the south,
and we did a lot of work on the south
as well, but it just allows us to go in
and be more proactive in making sure we're on top
of all those We got about a minute left in
this segment, Michael, what's left to do at Doe Campbell

(01:12:13):
and what is next on the list of things that
are going.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
To get done?

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Oh boy, you open up a whole kenn of X
last here at Dope is you know that we're in
the finishing touches right and regardless of what anybody says.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
Somebody sent me something on on X.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
The other day that says we're playing in Jacksonville and no,
we're playing right here. The stadium's ready that I've actually
already turned it over to us. We're going through and
putting the finixing touches on it right now, burning the ovens.
We have an event on the sixteenth, kind of a showcase.
I'm really excited about to get our fans in it
for the first time. So just getting that off finished,

(01:12:52):
and then we have a list of projects coming in
the future at one point right now, we're looking we're
going to touch every program over the next five years
on some major renovations, Trump projects.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
We're going to pick up right there when we come back.
Sixteen past the hour. Michael Alford, Director of Athletics Florida State,
my guest this hour here on The Morning Show twenty
one past the hour.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
It is Thursday here on the Morning Show, and Ad
Michael Offered from Florida State University with me in studio
and we're talking about the facilities, and I kind of
nudged you and made you speak a little too quickly
on things that take a little more time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
So let's continue talking about where we are a facilities.
You said, dok is pretty much done. There's very a
little bit left to do. Football facility. Where's that at?

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Oh? One thing about dog before we transition into football facility.
I don't know if people realize we're putting all new
video boards. Oh really nice bright video board. So it's
going to be like a brand new place top to bottom.
Now when you say putting up, when exchange it. They're
going in right now. They're going in as we speak
in Okay, North end zones going in right now. Nice

(01:14:09):
big crane there. I love cranes and hard ads. Yeah,
it gets me excited, it makes me nervous. I love
cranes and hard ads. What's the status of the football
facility right now? Is going perfectly as planned. We're planning
to move the team in the second by week and
the building will be ready before then. But we don't
want to disrupt the operations of football. Moving into that

(01:14:32):
facility would be a chore sure during the middle of
the season and disrupt practice, disrupt routine. But it also
gives us the opportunity to to walk some fans through,
walk donors through the facility without football being in there,
so they can see it, touch it, see what it's
like before if the chaos gets in there and runs
a day to day. You mentioned that your goal is

(01:14:54):
to touch every program with some form of facility improvement
or adjustment or what have you. What's tops on that
list of other programs. When we're doing a shade structure
for soccer, we're putting chair backs in at soccer this
this upcoming year. There'll be in about mid season just
to deliveries new shades, certain portions or the whole thing,

(01:15:15):
certain portions of Okay, we'll get through. You know, we've
done a lot of softball already. You're looking at making changes.
I'm putting out an RFP for doing things at Houser.
What can we do to upgrade Houser and get it
more competitive with our peers across the country. What do
you think that is? Because you're a baseball guy, you

(01:15:35):
love the game. Got to change the seats down the
line they get right now you sit there in your
angle towards center field. You got to angle those and
put a chair back on them. Looking at home plate,
just little fixes I want to put investigating putting something
in right field fence.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Wise, I was just going to wise, are we looking
at bleachers around the circumference of the outfield.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Yes, we want to enclose that stadium and then the
left above the bullpen, do some very fan friendly different
areas that really brings a different atmosphere, and then redo
the seating them in the whole bowl. So there's a
lot we want to do there. Some office stuff and
so that project's going to be going out here pretty soon.

(01:16:17):
You're looking at totally we play in Totly, which is
pretty old for volleyball, looking at changing what can we
do there, and we have some concepts and looking at
working with campus on that new lacrosse is getting built
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
So there's a lot going on. I want to touch
on Tully. Tully is as you said, it's old. That said, boy,
when when there's a crowd in there, it's rocking. It
is a great atmosphere for collegiate sports. It just is, so,
are you looking at replacing Tully or renovating Tully?

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
A little bit of both.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Okay, well, coming in and looking at what can be done.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
But if you were to ask me right now, I'm
going to say, we'll be looking to a place and
find something. But we would make sure that we bring
that atmosphere. It's any same location or different location, but
we would bring that same environment and create that with
what we build that you have that fifteen hundred seat
environment that can really compact things. Yeah, like when you're

(01:17:17):
getting there in a good volleyball matches rocking, Yeah it is,
it is rocking. It's a fun place to be. So
we would make sure we've kept that environment.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
You know, Michael, You've got to be proud because if
you just step back and let's set aside the last
football season as an anomaly, because I think even people
that don't necessarily care for Florida State seminoles would admit
that that's just that's not going to happen. The bottom
line is, overall, the sports programming at Florida State is
remarkably successful. Every single program, well, we have.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
The greatest set of coaches in the country, and I
firmly believe that. I go around the country and look
and study other programs, put analytics to them. But you
see how much they pour into their programs and how
much success they have, whether it's the Brian Pinsky's in soccer,
the Brook White off, some women's basketball, lot of anime

(01:18:08):
on what she does in softball, Chris pull I mean
you look Brook Niles and Beach Father. I mean you
just go pra Amy Bond. Yeah, you keep throwing out names,
just keep throwing the very best in their profession. I
think it allows me to go attrack at Luke Laws back,
go a track of Brian Love that's higher. Get here. Yeah,
because our coaches have a culture amongst each other that

(01:18:31):
a second to.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
None would be. Would I be stretching things to say
that that culture was really maybe the most complete legacy
of Bobby Bowden.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
That's you would not, because you know he touches everything.
His core value is still a little.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
I just remember his interaction with the coaches of all
the other programs and how much they looked to how
he did what he did and the way he went
about executing his job.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Yeah, and you see that the Camrodderie, the way they
communicate with each other. They there are none of our
coaches are in silos. Yeah, it's a great culture we have.
They work together, they support each other. When I go
hire Luke Laws, when I go hire Bron Penske, you know,
one of my main goals is to make sure they
come in and fit the culture we have.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
I can't be.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
Hiring someone who's going to come in and disrupt that
I'll come in and disrupt and want to be on
a site looe and not work with the other ones.
And so that is a big tool that I have
to evaluate when I'm bringing someone in that they're going
to fit what we currently have doing because we do
it so well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
More to come with Michael Alford from Florida State University
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
On News Radio one point seven Double UFLA.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Having to laugh here with Michael Alford, director of Athletics FSU.
The seminoles and your adulca tones are just are not
projecting loud enough, sir, So we're gonna I'll speak up.
There we go, there we go. So thanks for the
phone call, But I know you could hear him football season.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
How's the team look very well? I went to practice
the other day, you know, so many different changes, and
you and I have talked about this before, just going
into the past about you know, it was a great
lesson of how you always, no matter what success you're
having and how you feel, you need to self evaluate
and make sure you're preparing yourself for the next year.

(01:20:36):
And I think we were able to make those changes
this upcoming year and do some better self evaluation on
what needs to keep the program moving forward. I love
what Gus been able to go get Gus and one
of the most prolific offensive coordinators in the history of
the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
And to those of you that don't know Gus Malzone,
former head coach at Auburn and UCF.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
Being able to come him and get him here and
just concentrate on the offense and to see that he
is really pouring into that, and just work with him
day by day and talk a little football with him
has just been just been great. You've seen Mike kind
of kind of grow in my opinion. He's he's working
with the special teams, he's out working with the defense,

(01:21:19):
he's he's around being the CEO.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
And speaking of Tony White coming to Florida State, did
the biggest favorite of the Big Ten the conference has
ever seen because they are glad to get that guy
out of the Big Ten and be able to go
get Tony Yeah and talk to him about coming to
Tallahassee and Florida State and what it means. And you know,
I love the three three five. It creates problems. You
don't see it that often. But what I love about

(01:21:44):
it is the type of athlete we have at Florida State.
You're going to have that six two six three two
thirty five.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
We got a lot of them, and in that scheme,
it really allows us to get the best athletes we
have on the field. To see the pressure that it's
going to put on the quarterback. I'm a big believer
in making the quarterback uncomfortable. Always making that guy uncomfortable,
whether it's a read or with his feet, you've got
to make him uncomfortable to have success. We weren't able

(01:22:13):
to do that last year and now with this, they're
going to be coming and you don't know where they're
coming from, and it's a pressure defenses, which I think
gets back to what Mickey had at Florida State. In
the history of Florida State football, we always had pressure defense.
We set a tone on defense, and we're getting back
to that style and I think that's something our fan

(01:22:34):
base is really going to love when they see it.
August thirtieth, as the athletic director, how do you measure
a successful season? For this upcoming season? Always growth? You know,
I get that question to find crime you look, you're
going to look at it as wins and losses. You're
going to look at culture now that you're going to
look at how the young kids are doing us the

(01:22:57):
Charles Lester's, the ki Baits. Are those kids growing? Are
we prepared true freshman? True for a retro freshmen? Are
we prepared for the next phase of Florida State football?
Kind of projecting your lineup a year ahead? And where
are we are we getting our guys ready that are playing.
Maybe you're not a household name right now, are we

(01:23:19):
getting them prepared to they developing the right way? And
that's something we didn't think we were developing. We weren't
developing our offensive line like I thought we should, weren't
developing some of our defensive backs like I thought we
should and getting those guys ready for the next step
a year ahead is something I'm always looking at. Is
it fair in this modern era to measure culture by

(01:23:43):
how many kids transfer in or out? It's tough. I
think we're now with the house settlement, that's going to change.
You're going to have less kids going into the portal.
But I think you'll be able to get back to
what we used to have. But it's tough to measure
that culture because it was a it was a money situation. Yeah,
it wasn't a culture sit We had a lot of

(01:24:04):
kids leave, didn't want to leave, they left finances. But
it's also what I measure the type of kids we
bring in also, does that fit our culture? Are they
yes or no? Ser guys like Mike requires, Are they
taking their hat off when they enter the building? Sure
that that is a staple of our program, a staple
of koshn or Veil kinds of the kids he's bringing

(01:24:25):
in are those type of young men that fit Florida State.
More to come.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
One final segment with Michael Alford Here on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Final segment with the director of
Athletics at Florida State.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Michael Alford.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
All right, so we've got soccer starting up, We've got
volleyball starting up. I would imagine there's the fall golf
season starting up. What are you most excited about outside
of football? You know, this is getting the kids back
on campus. Now, you kind of kick off my.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Year every year when I know how to come on
this show, it's go time, it's time to go. But
getting our student athletes back on campus and just getting
around them, and do you ever meet with all of
them at once? We have, Yes, we bring them back.
So the Sunday night before opening day, open the day
of classes, we have what we call the Fear of
the Spirit games. So we bring them back, get all

(01:25:20):
five hundred plus athletes in the same building, get out
of here in the REALPF. We have dinner, I talk,
I welcome them back, and then we have contests. Okay,
football won it last year, women's volleyball one at the
year before. Go online and watch it and we're going
to cover it live on the Unconquered.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
App this year.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
But be able to watch what they do, and you
talk about competing and marshmallow throwing and everything else. Then
we give them ice cream and we go. But it's
two times a year that in the Golden Oll at
the end of the year that we get them all
together and get them around each other other than the
training table. You know, we're expanding our training table. You
and I were talking and we're moving it into day
stadium go Campbell Stadium right now, and it's going to

(01:26:03):
be in the West Side Club Monday through Friday when
there's not football games going on, and that's going to
allow more student athletes to eat together. The fig was
so small, Yeah, you've had lunch with me there before.
It's as small. We can only get about seventy five
people in there at one time. We got five hundred athletes.
Now we're going to be able to feed them all
together and get that camaraderie, not that it wasn't there,

(01:26:24):
but just expand well, it enhances, it enhances it correct.
So you've got a change in the basketball program. Luke Loux,
we talked about him being hired. Shortly after he was hired.
What are your early reflections on how things are going there?
Going great? You see the type of young man he
brings to the table. He's going to follow that Leonard
Tree you know, the same core values. And that's something

(01:26:46):
that's really attracted me to Luke. But his personality, how
much he loves Florida State. But his analytical part of
the game. I mean, it's amazing when he breaks it
down for me on Okay, if you're taking an eight
footer from this corner, your thirty seven percent chance nbat.
But if you could take a nine foot or you're
thirty five percent, So we need to get the ball

(01:27:06):
right here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
You know, it's just amazing to see.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
Him break it down in his whole staff and what
they're doing, and the young men have really bought in.
You go to practice up tempo. They know that they're
just really bought in to making the program better. And
that's something that's really exciting right now. With and then
we got Lonnie. They're over in London right now playing
some games. Yeah, and taking a foreign tour. How is

(01:27:30):
she She's doing great. I check on her all the
time and make sure we're providing everything we need for
prognosis she's dealing with she's been dealing with the breast
cancer is good. Good everything we hear. Same with Brooke. Doctors,
same with Brooke. Wonderful coming on the back end of it,
and she's doing just great, wonderful. Let's kind of end
with what's coming I think in everybody's radar first, and

(01:27:51):
that's a national game with Alabama on the thirtieth. It's
a big weekend of college football. There's some big games.
This game, though, is a very very interesting kind of
has a curiosity factor to it. A lot of people
wanting to know is Florida State back?

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
Question mark, exclamation pot, question mark? So what are your
what are your expectations for that first game? Well, you know,
anytime you play in Alabama, it's a coin flip game.
You got the great athletes of Florida State, you got
the great coaches.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
You're going to have dope.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Campbell's going to be electric with with the new west Side. Well,
you wish it were a nighttime game. I wish it
always Uh Doke and Knight. Dokat Knight is the most
special place ever, But I don't I'm not worried about that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
It's going to be electric. Absolutely fans of the greatest
in America, and.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
That's something we can't wait to showcase everything that we've
put in this offseason into that game. You know, at
the end of the day, it's Florida State, and the
brand will always live on.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
And the brand is the brand, The standard is the standard.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Any surprises for the pregame or halftime, there may be
a few things. I'm not gonna ask for it. I'm
just curious building up the suspense. Thanks for coming in.
Always a pleasure. Appreciate it, truly appreciate it. Kicks off
my year every year and go knows absolutely. Michael Alford,
Director of Athletics, Florida State, My guest, it's the morning show.

(01:29:28):
All right, you're caught up on all thanks Flora State.
Uh huh, I you know I could sit and talk
sports all night long. I love it. I just love
Florida State. I'm very optimistic about the season. I'm a homer,

(01:29:55):
I admit it. I am. I've always been a homer.
But my thanks to Michael Alford for making the time
to join us as he does each and every year,
and he'll come anytime to talk about FSU and what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
But he's always been willing to make an hour available
to us this time of year to kind of get
a lay of the land. And I can't wait to
see Doe Campbell. That's going to be fun to see.

Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
As we closed the program today, I did not know
who Brandy Glanville is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Apparently she's a former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, former
Big Brother reality star, top fifteen Google trend as of
a couple mornings ago, and here's why. She's fifty two
and decided that she was going.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
To give her skin a phase of a special treatment.
And so she took nare and applied it to her
face liberally, shall we say, the hair removal product. She
had a facial parasite apparently that she gave a name to.

(01:31:09):
She named the facial parasite she was dealing with Caroline,
and it's been plaguing her for a couple of years,
a year and a half or so, and so she
just decided to give herself a complete chemical burn on
her face. Don't take beauty advice from Brandy Glanville, is

(01:31:30):
my suggestion to you ladies. Don't go burning your face.
It does not help your complexion. I'm just gonna say,
I am not a cosmetologist. I am not an expert,
but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to put nair
on your face. Okay, that's just that's yeah. So just

(01:31:51):
letting you know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one on WFLA. Lots of topics covered this morning.
Of course, we had Michael Alford from Florida State. We
talked with doctor Steve Steverson. Rabies in the area doesn't
appear to be significant, but it's there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
Be advised see some raccoons saying, hey, punk.

Speaker 8 (01:32:21):
You feel lucky.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
I'm just saying, walk away, Just walk away. Raccoon might
charge you, bite your face off and leave you with rabies.
By the way, doctor Steverson wanted me to mention if
for any reason your dog has any kind of encounter,
wash the dog. In fact, the email.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
Said, if your pet comes in direct contact with an
abnormally behaving wildlife or even ones not acting oddly, bathe
them to remove any saliva and then take them to
a vet make sure they get rabi's booster. Okay, talk
to Steve steveson this morning Pause for thoughts segment about rabies.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Talk to Steve Stewart this morning from Tallassi Reports.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
We did not talk about rabies, but we did talk
about local politics, which could sometimes be.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Mistaken for a discussion on rabies.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Talked about some crime numbers, talked about job numbers, talked.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
About all kinds of things related to the capital city.
Big story in the press box shooting at Fort Stewart
in Georgia. No idea why this guy decided to try
to kill five of his fellow soldiers. Playing parenthood shutting
down a bunch of facilities nationwide. That's nothing but good news.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Tomorrow's Friday, friends already, and we will have a great
show for you. I promise cannot wait to share time
with you. Thanks for listening.

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