Ep. 5240: FSU Wins and Florida is staring down the barrel of another hurricane

go back to Romans four. And at the tail end it's it's about the faith of Abraham, and it begins in verse thirteen of chapter four ward it says the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. And then it goes on from there. And so where I want to pick

up here is in verse sixteen. That is why it depends on faith in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring, not only to the adherent of the law, but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us. All that is as it is written, I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the

things that do not exist. In hope, he believed against hope that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, So shall your offspring be. Faith is where we start this week on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. From twelve past September twenty third, American Patriots Almanac. Let's do a little deep dive here. Sixteen forty two, Harvard College confers upon nine graduates the first Bachelor of Arts degree given in America. Sixteen forty two.

We were handed out degrees even though we weren't a wee we weren't a nation yet, But there you go. Harvard was a thing. Then we go to seventeen seventy nine. September twenty third, seventeen seventy nine brought about one of the most storied battles in the history of the United States Navy. It happened during the Revolutionary War, Captain John Paul Jones. By the way, I had an English teacher who was the dean of the department in high school. His name was John Paul Jones. It was just so

cool because back then we were taught history. Okay. In command of an aging vessel, the Bonnheim Richard, it was cruising off England's coast when he encountered the Therapists, a British ship of war. Jones engaged the enemy as night was falling, with the opening broadsides. However, two of Richard's old cannons exploded, killing crew members, ripping away a chunk of the ship's side. The Syrapis fired broadside after broadside into the stricken Richard.

With a ship hit below the waterline leaking badly, Jones knew his only chance was to run into the British vessel and board her decks. He managed to lock the two ships together, but the Syrapists kept blasting away at the Richard's side, setting its old timbers on fire. It only seemed a matter of time before the American ship would go down. The British commander asked if Richard was ready to surrender. It was then that Jones flung out his famous reply, I have not yet begun to fight.

The British shook their heads in disbelief. The Americans fought on. One of them managed to toss a grenade into an open hatch of the Serrapists deck. The grenade hit, some gunpowder explosions ripped through the British ship. Both vessels were now drifting wrecks. Still, Jones refused to give in. After more than three and a half hours of savage battle, by moonlight, the British commanders surrendered. The victorious Americans boarded

the Serrapists and watched as the Richard disappeared beneath the waves. Today, when it gets tough, Americans remember the words of Captain John Paul Jones. I have not yet begun to fight. What a great story I wonder. I mean, surely it's not preserved, right, I mean, somewhere off the coast of England, there is not sitting the remains of the Richard, the bun hum Richard. What a great story. Seventeen eighty John Andre, British spy captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was

planning to surrender West Point to the British. That is part of the story that Brian Killmea and Don Dieger tell in The Spies Washington Secret Spy Ring. I've told you about that book. You've got to read that book. In fact, I might reread it. Got a stack of books as tall as this room that I haven't read,

and I might reread that one. Lewis and Clark Expedition returns to Saint Louis on the Pacific Coast on this date in eighteen oh six, and finally in eighteen forty five, the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York, the first baseball team is organized. Eighteen forty five. About that sixteen after the hour, Well they won. Yeah, we're going to get

to the big stories in the press box. And things have been juggled due to events that we kind of started to see late last week out in the Northwest Caribbean the golf area and things have developed and we will adjust accordingly. But we'll get to all of that and due time. Anyone who's been through a hurricane knows the nature of what happens around here. There's there's a lot of repetition, so that'll come. We'll sort of set the table in the big stories today and uh and

go from there as the week unfolds. But some other things FS. You gotta win. It was not a thing of beauty, but what difference does it make? Right? You gotta win. So congratulations to the FSU football team.

was going to be. I did not know the nature of the injury that had him wearing a cast the first few games of the season, and he said in the postgame press conference that yeah, he ripped that thing off ten days ago or so, which makes sense because if it was hindering him, he became the guy that everyone was expecting a week ago. I mean, the defensive line was disruptive, but this past week against an undefeated

Cal team, the defensive line was dominant. Now, they still have plenty of issues, but the defense did its job. The offense is still in a world of hurt. And here's what I'm gonna put on your radar as that goes. FSU travels to SMU this weekend. They will play on Saturday night. SMU traveled to TCU this past weekend and put sixty six points up against what is traditionally a pretty good defensive team Texas Christian Now TCUs not the defense they were a few years ago under Gary Patterson.

But sixty six points in a college football game is scary. And I'm not trying to tamp down anyone's expectations here this early in the week after finally getting a win, But have you seen anything out of the FSU offense that would lead you to think you can outscore a team that just puts sixty six on the board. Now, they're not going to score that many against fshu's defense. They're just not They're not going to maybe score half of that. However, they will likely score. And now we

get to the the problem. FSU's offense has put up what five touchdowns in four games something like that. They're one of the lowest scoring teams in the foot in college football, and with a coach like Mike Norvel, that's hard to reconcile. But like I said, I think I've come to the conclusion where the mistake was made, and I know I know how we ended up with DJ, and I'm not mad at DJ. Unga U. Yeah, whatever, I'm not mad at him. He's he's trying. All these

guys are trying well for the most part. Some are dogging it, but most of them are trying. By the way, welcome Patrick Payton to your college football season. Good to see your effort.

They have to go straight pro style where they've got two backs in the backfield and one or an h back or a tight end in there blocking, and you got to do old school run game where what they do in the pros. Because in the Pros, the guys like Lamar Jackson and before him, Michael Vick and occasionally Jalen Hurts now and you know, the Packers back up Malik Willis is a running quarterback. You can run option plays now and then, but the pros don't do that.

They run the football with good old fashioned run game where the quarterback's not a threat to run. That's Norville's mistake. He's staying with his offense. He didn't adjust it enough for DJ. So we'll see what happens moving forward. I'm glad they got to win. Those kids needed it, and I'm happy for them. I'm just tempering my expectations. Twenty seven past the hour, we will get to the big stories in the press box. It's kind of one sort of next thirty six past the hour, let's get right

to it. Jose running the program in Studio one AM. Here in Studio one B. Good morning France. President Scott here. If you are in the broadcast area, meaning radio transmission, you need to listen very very carefully, because we are we are facing the possibility of a significant storm late this week. Now you might be saying, what do you mean we get like a week two weeks of notice on things like this. Here's what's happened. It's really kind of crazy. You've got a hurricane, Well, it's about to

be a hurricane. It's a tropical storm. John, that's in the Pacific, on the other side of Mexico. But it's at that point of Mexico that you know, narrows down Honduras and all that. And so you've got the jet stream that's dipped a little south. You've got this storm that's spinning up in the Pacific, and so you've got winds that are coming from the west and the north and going south. Then you've got the typical trade winds that come off the African coast that push storms towards us.

Now you've got that counterclockwise movement, and then you've got this massive amount of moisture coming up from Tropical Storm John on the other side of Mexico, and it's sucking it into the southern part of what will eventually become we'll just call it the Gulf eventually. And so by the end of the day today early tomorrow morning, you're gonna see this form. It's gonna form off the coast of Honduras. It's gonna just barely touch the tip of

Mexico as it sticks out there. And I what is that? That's plaid deel Carmen. And so you're looking at it just touching there, running right between Mexico and Cuba. And by then you get to early Wednesday, this thing's going to be a storm. And if you look at it historically late September storms forming in this little area not off the coast of Africa. Now just weather developing, a bunch of moisture storm cells just getting pushed together by these

two wind currents coming together. The odds are it's going to be somewhere from Louisiana to the Big Bend. That's the statistical odds. Now, this model that is coming together is basically going to be determined by a weather system to our north in the Midwest. If it pushes down, down, down, there's a chance this thing could get pushed into Central Florida, into the Peninsula. It's not likely to happen that way though, as of now, and listen very carefully. As of now,

it could change. But as of now, this could become a major hurricane reaching Landfall and Appalachic Cola, with the eastern wall of the storm being in the Tallahassee area and to the east we would be on the bad side of this storm. Now, I don't have to tell you veterans of the capital city what happens in that scenario, because we are a tree canopied community. This storm has the potential to be devastating. I'm not prone to being over dramatic on this stuff. This one better have your attention.

There are a couple reasons. Number One, it's gonna form very, very quickly. We won't know exactly what's gonna happen until you might have a twenty four to thirty six maybe forty eight hour notice. Max, I'm getting people saying, where do you evacuate? Do you go to Jacksonville? Personally, I would head west. That's just if I had to evacuate, I'd go west as of now, But that could change. The whole thing could change, and it's gonna change quickly if it does. And that's the part that's a little

creepy about this storm. We're not quite sure yet. Most of the models show we're gonna get hit, and by we, I'm talking about where we're based in the Capital city area. So yeah, we're gonna have to devote time to this. There are some of you that have never been through a storm like this. Here's my advice. Don't screw around with this. You are far better to overly prepare or evacuate and go oh well, then be stuck and caught. So that's what we're gonna do forty one minutes after

the hour. That is the big story in the press box this morning on the Morning Show. Now it's not fool proof, but the model that I use is a website called windy dot com. They have a mobile app you can put on your phone. I recommend it. The desktop app gives you just obviously because it's desktop, laptop, whatever, you're seeing a bigger screen so you can zoom in and see a little bit more detail and so forth.

Right now, you will have storm surge in the Big Bend, which is like the worst possible scenario because it just has nowhere to go. It's just it's riding right up the coast and we're looking at a landfall Thursday afternoon as of right now, and it's gonna I mean, this storm is going to be dropping severe weather all along the western coast of Florida from basically, and I would

I say severe the word. You know, rain bands are going to cover the state obviously, but like from from Northport, Cape Coral, Sarasota north all along that coastline with again right now, a projected landfall just to the west of Appalachicola, which puts Appalachicola, Carabelle, Crawfordville in in the worst of this if you if you play it forward and then and obviously this also means that the bands are spinning counterclockwise.

So those of you in the Panama City area, Panama City Beach, uh Wiwa, Hitchka, Rosemary Beach, you're gonna be getting storms pulling from the north and the east. They're gonna come from from the opposite side and push down. So you're not gonna see see the storm surge necessarily unless the wall moves. If the eye of this storm moves and jogs to the west, well then things change. But you you all know, you understand how this all works. You've been through it, and I don't want any of

us to go through it. But it is what it is. And so as of right now, a projected landfall roughly around five o'clock Thursday, and so that means it's time for you to get out today and get to the stores. Get yourself some bottled water. Please use restraint. There are a lot of people listening to the program. There are a lot of people that live in this community. Batteries, get yourself a transistor radio if at all possible, that runs off batteries. If you have power sources for your

phones and laptops, whatever power those bad boys up. Get those bricks charged up. Every source you have for backup power, get it. Got a standby generator, get it out, get it ready. Know the rules of operating that stand by generator. Get a can opener, changes of clothing. If you've got a baby, get everything your child will need. If you have medications, get your medications. If you have important papers.

If you can't think of a wa if you don't have a safe, you don't have a waterproof place to put them, tip pro tip put them in your dishwasher. Just don't run dishes now, think about it. Your dishwasher's waterproof. Make sure that you have duct tape, tarps, first aid kit, flashlights, ways to stay in touch with this radio station and following up on what's going on. If this storm hits as heavy as it could, you will need to know

what's going on around you. You will need to know if you can go anywhere, if it's safe to go anywhere, if you can get supplies anywhere, what's open, what's not. But again, I we'll prep more as we go, But I mean, think of your pets. You know, supplies, any medications for your pets, start going through that. You know me, I'm not an alarmist, but I do take this stuff seriously when I see reason too, and this is a

reason to. I don't think we're gonna miss this one by much, if at all, so we at least have enough time to do some fundamental preparing, non perishable foods, ways to prepare some foods if you lose power, you know, all of that stuff. Remember the rules of running those generators not in an enclosed space, not not in your car port, not in your garage. You know, don't don't. Don't run those things where there's a danger of that carbon monoxide getting into your home because you'll never know

it's there. So we'll reset all of this as we go forty eight past the hour. Gonna get you ready, folks. But we'll also talk about some other things here on the morning show. Yeah, everything related to this storm. And we don't even have an aim for it, because it's not form that tells you all you need to know how quickly this is gonna happen. Everything rides on what

happens to the north of US. If the weather system produces enough wind sheer that'll keep the thing from forming happening, and whatever is there will steer off to the central southern part of Florida. But the models right now say otherwise, and that means you've got the peak of the warmer weathers. You've got you know, this this is storm season and that's what happens. So we're going to keep an eye on it. We will be paying attention, and we will

keep you informed. Please please please prepare. You know, the old adage better to have and not need, the need to not have really applies here. If I had again, if I had to evacuate, I would be betterdding that that I would head to the west northwest, I would I would go that way. But that's just that's that's just a barely educated guess at this point. There are some other big stories and so let's touch on them because as this week goes on, the focus is going

to be on this storm. Okay, that's just just is what it is. And so we're gonna we're gonna balance as much as we can with with that reality as we do the show. But understand this, my first responsibility as a host of this program is to do everything possible to make sure you're as prepared as can be for the whatever comes, and to make sure that you know whatever announcements we have, whatever information we have, we

pass along. That's that is so so much bigger, more important than any other topics at this point, even the election. So I guess I just kind of killed the whole segment. I'll reset some other things next, like promise.

whether you use the US model or the European model. Now, as I have told you over the years, the app that I rely on that has proven itself to be the most accurate to me, is based primarily on the European models, and that's the default programming in Windy dot com, which is the online program and app that I use.

But this is significant. If that model is right, we're going to have a fast developing major storm impacting our listening area, the entire listening area, with the eastern side of the storm eye being in the Tallahassee, Wacula, Crawfordville, Carabelle, Apple Atchicola areas, and then obviously the east side of these storms gets the worst of the weather. The west side of these storms is no picnic right however, it could jog a little further to the west. The US

model has it going much further to the east. The US model has it north of clear Water in the Homosa Springs cedar Key area, where we've already experienced a storm this year that would dramatically change the impacts of the storm in our listening area. So there's not agreement or consensus between the two models, yet they will come together.

Right now, the US model is placing more emphasis on a weather system that's pushing the stream a little further south and a little bit more wind shear that can direct or even eliminate a storm depending on the levels of wind. The US model gives that system more punch and a little further south. The European models lift that system up move it north. Therefore, there's not this resistance to the pending tropical storm hurricane to move ashore and to come up towards us. I hope that all makes sense.

I'm trying to paint a picture of words here. Just know this weather's coming. We don't know exactly much beyond that at this point. But it is not too early to get your supplies. It is, you know, we've talked about this since June first, for Pete's sake. We do it every year. It's not too early to gather you need. One of the things that I think is really important to do, and this is one of those duties you gotta do. And if you don't need it, awesome, you've

got it done. Videotape everything in your home with your smartphone and load it in the cloud or on a thumb drive that you can keep in a safer in a waterproof bag or something. Videotape your possessions, what you have, the condition of your home inside and out, clothing, electronics, furniture, everything. Show the condition of your home. If you have damage,

that will be invaluable the before and the after. So that's another little piece of advice, lessons learned over twenty two years of actively doing hurricane coverage on this radio station and others. All Right, So ten past the hour, I promise other things, next drive version of an audio magazine and keeping you company as you prepare for your day. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott Our entire systems Frightened to death, scared to death of the potential of

this storm. Good morning, friends, I say, big stories in the press box. You go, I'm so confused, you know those at the bottom of the hour. What are you doing? It's only twelve after Well, everything's different today, okay, just is. It'll be all right, We'll be together. We'll be together. There are other big stories. Florida Congressman Gates says he's got a whistleblower from Homeland Security telling him. Get this, there are as many as five different assassination teams hunting

Donald Trump. Five This comes from a whistleblower inside Homeland Security, Quoting Gates, I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before the second assassination attempt saying that he has assessed that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by their governments, two that are here that are known domestic assassination teams. You may remember we bagged a guy trying to leave the country from Iran the day before, or

the shooting that hit Trump mercifully, just barely. But the July thirteenth shooting was preceded one day earlier by the arrest of an Iranian national. Now, we don't know if this kid had offshore accounts that are tied to Iran. Yet we don't know that stuff. We do know that at a rally in Arizona in Tucson, which by the way,

is an exceptionally illiberal town. A rally held in Tucson, six people who attended that were seated behind Trump suffered eye injuries from some gas spray something that was released. No word on Trump being impacted. Don't know, but we're talking people ended up in the emergency room. Physician assistant asked, are you sure you didn't get sprayed with something? Your symptoms look like you got sprayed. Do we have people out there trying to poison Trump that way? It's craziness.

But Gates now out there saying that if whistleblowers told him, and look, he would have no reason to make this up. We've already had two attempts on Trump's life, albeit the second one was a little disjointed, But the second one leaves all kinds of questions unanswered. That fence line once again not being properly and it's the known vulnerability in the golf course. It's the one area that's the closest to the golf course. Trump's on this golf course. It's

not part of his announced schedule. How in the world does a guy show up twelve hours early and end up at that location. It's a fool's errand unless he's just taking a chance, and Trump will be out there playing golf. But at that point, where was the Secret Service? That's the area closest to a roadway that has public access. That's what you lock down. Another one of those are we allowing this? Are these flaws in security protocols allowed? It's I hate that we have to talk about this

stuff this way. Don't you hate this? That we are so distrusting of our own government. This is where we are. Honestly, if Trump wins, it'll be a miracle because they will not have cheated enough to make it happen, because they're gonna try. They're gonna try and jip him and ergo

us this country. But here's the other part of it, he'll have to spend four years worrying about his own secret Service detail, worrying about his own safety, as will jd Vance and his family sixteen passed the hour back on time here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, maybe a little comedic relief here, maybe not. I don't know. I could laugh and I could cry. I don't know. I how can I do this in such a way that I don't roll a business under

the bus by name. Let's just say that I had a sizable order to pick up somewhere, and I went and picked it up up on Saturday, and and I'm checking out. I'm wearing my my wife's Ohio State gear because not like her clothing she's I'm wearing her team gear because Ohio States on TVFS you would play later in the day. So I'm supporting my wife's team. So I'm picking up this sizable order and the person checking me out says, do you have Do you have the

app so you can get points for this purchase? I said no, would you be interested in downloading the app?

didn't earn those points. It's not your money. And I got to thinking of a couple things were There was some friends of mine that were with me at this time, and they're like, you know, you need to say something to the manager because this kid could be doing worse than that. If he does that, he could be doing other things. And so I did say something with a

manager and left it with him. Whatever this s on you. Obviously, I'm not going to be going there and buying anything if I see that kid there, because he's the type that if look, here's the thing, if you do that, you're doing it to every other person that doesn't have the app, right, no, I don't want the app boop. And so he's racking up all kinds of free food Now there's part of you, some of you might say, Ah, he's a kid, what difference does it? No, no, no, no,

that's a that's how crime starts. The kid lifts the bubblegum in the store, doesn't get caught, so the next time he lifts something else and doesn't get caught. Then the next time he gets something a little bit bigger, doesn't get caught, and it just escalates from there. So no, I'm sorry, I'm kind of old school that way. You don't borrow things and not return them. You don't take stuff from your mom and dad thinking I'll never notice.

And you don't steal somebody's points because they don't have the app, and you do and rack up all these phony dollars on your account when it's not your money. That's unethical, it's wrong.

WFLA FM dot com slash preston. That's WFLA FM dot com slash preston. It's there that you'll get all the intel how it all came about, how it works, and you can participate if you like. Not going to take any time giving the address and all that stuff over the air. All the information is on my blog page, and it's on our Twitter page as well, twigs page at tms Preston Scott twenty seven, Pass the hour, come back.

And how this is happening is that you've got a tropical storm maybe we'll be a hurricane in the Pacific just south of Acapulco, Tropical storm John, and it's just feeding moisture onto the other side of Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, that whole region there, and so it's feeding all this moisture and the winds are pushing to the south and east.

And then you've got winds that are typical coming off the coast of Africa that normally send the storms to us, that are going to the north and west, and that creates this counterclockwise little vortex, and you've got all this moisture being trapped inside this spinning set of winds, and we're going to have a storm spin up. And if you miss the announcement earlier, we will have a storm developing.

It'll start forming later today and tonight, and if you move the simulator up to tomorrow morning about this time, it may be called a actual organized tropical storm Helleene. By then it may not. It might have a number, but it's going to form. And then if you move the simulator ahead, it's gonna move right in between Plaidil Carmen and Cuba and really intensify by Tuesday night. Move to Wednesday morning at this time, and it will be an organized storm and start growing off the coast of northern

Plaodil Carmen. And so from Wednesday morning until Thursday at around five in the afternoon. This is going to become potentially a bit of a behemoth, and it will likely be Hurricane Helene. Now there are a few things here to keep in mind. It could all change based on a weather system to our north and how far it pushes to the south. The American model shows it pushing further south, moving this storm system to the central part of Florida, basically where the storm earlier this year was

it Francine? Is that what it was Francine where it hit earlier in the year. The European model has it zeroing in on the eastern portion of our broadcast listening area and landfall coming at about five o'clock Thursday afternoon, just to the west of Apalachic Coola, which puts Appalachic Cola, Carabelle, Crawfordville, Wacula, Tallahasse, Quincy, Monticello, Monticello. Golly,

I get that wrong every time. All on the eastern side of this wall, and that I don't need to tell you is the place you don't want to be. But the storm's going to move quickly. So here's what all this means to you. Prepare now there is a chance that this thing might not impact us very much. If I were to put a number on it, based on all of the forecasting models I've been staring at all weekend long and all morning long, I'd say it's a seventy percent chance that we're going to get hit.

It could move a little bit to the west, which puts Panama City on the wrong side of this. Right now, Panama City will be hit, but it will not necessarily be facing storm surge. It would be on the other side, which means winds and rains coming from the north and the east. It could change. It's gonna form quickly. It's gonna move fast. You're not gonna have one week of notice. You're gonna have twenty four forty eight hours max. That's why I'm telling you now, because this gives us four

days to prepare. Don't go crazy, just prepare. We'll talk more about that later on in the program. Forty minutes past the hour, Doctor Joe Camps standing by. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with you this morning. Time for a little healthy expectations. Dr Joe Camps with us. Good morning, Doctor Camps, how are you.

it from time to time. But if you start to get to feel overwhelmed, you have obsessions with tasks, you start to sweat, you have a lack of interest, your work performance seems to be changing. Your manager or supervisor might be reminding you of that. You certainly can be dealing with workplace stress now. It is fairly common, but how to manage it? And you know, I looked at

some of the things that talked about it. It started to tell me that maybe you should it should structure your workplace environment that you're working in smaller pieces in terms of your work related activity, set small goals. You know, a lot of times we all set these big, large goals that we can never attain, so that does produce a certain amount of stress. One of the things that was intriguing to me when I was reading a little

bit about this. It was talking about expressing your emotions, and I think this is an area where a lot of us really don't really feel that we have someone we can confide in, a friend or a family member or someone to talk about this. But you sort of have to get this off your chest, if you will, and if you can find an outlet for that, that would be something that I think could be useful. Another

idea would be to start with healthy habits. And you know, this is something that we've sort of talked about over the years. You know, some kind of exercise routine, if you like thissen to music, maybe you'll walk in the park, do some of this, and then ultimately you might have to limit your work. Now in this environment that we're dealing with today, some people seem to have accomplished this because the work performance, in my opinion, suffers to some degree.

But certainly if this becomes overwhelming, you ought to think about it, express it, talk about it, look for ways to reduce the stress related to this. Eat healthier, and exercise. I think pressing will go a long ways towards dealing with workplace stress. Now. I know you don't have to deal with this because you love your job, I can tell, and so maybe it might calls for a chance to pause and think about what you're doing and if it

really is the right fit for you. But certainly, workplace stress is something that I think sometimes we ignore, and I hope that you can find some positive way to deal with rather than dealing with it to the degree of involvement of medications, alcoholism and those kinds of things which a lot of people turn to to deal with their stress. So hopefully this will be a more helpful and useful approach to deal with the problem that we all deal with.

to you. Men, where is your faith placed? God doesn't call us to be stupid. He calls us to live with faith and trust in God. But he also gives us and discernment. He gave us a brain, he gave us the ability to think. Now we're supposed to use some wisdom in that thinking to inform our choices. And so what I want to stress to you is that what you're going to be modeling for your family, husband's wives. Are you a person who lives by trust in God? Or do you occupy the throne of your own life?

You know what I'm saying. It's not just who's going to be your savior, it's who's going to be your lord? Are you? Are you the lord of you? If you become the lord of yourself, If you're occupying that throne, not Jesus, not God, ultimately you will be misled because you're human and we all have a nature that is prone to sin. Living a life of faith is accepting to borrow from the movie Rudy, that there is a

God and you're not him. It's allowing God to be not just Lord, not just savior, but to be the king of your life. Ultimately, that's where faith originates, in that fundamental decision on who's going to occupy your throne. So there you go. That's the gentle nudge of the day here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Now we have a storm. It will likely be called Helene. It will likely form very quickly sometime late today tomorrow, but it's going to become a booger of a storm

Wednesday Thursday, with a potential landfall Thursday late afternoon. And so you need to be making plants. You need to be going through the checklists. Batteries, bottled water, non perishable food items, ways to eat, medications, valuable papers, protected waterproofed videotape, your household possessions, the condition of your home inside and out. Make sure you've got a little bit of cash on hand. What if the electronic systems are out, You can't buy

anything unless you have some cash. You have cash, You have some cash. Do you have a radio and batteries for that radio? Do you have your your your power sources charged up. All those power bricks, are they fully charged up? Time to charge them. If you use candles, get some candles out. Be smart about your use of anything that could cause a fire or could cause harm. Your portable generators. You don't run them in the midst of the storm. You run them when the storm subsides

and the power is out. And you don't run them when the storm's going on. And you don't run them in your garage. You don't run them in your house. You don't run them in your car port or in your patio that's enclosed even though it's well but it's out. No, it's going to go right into your home. Be safe, be smart. We'll keep you advised. We come back, change gears a little bit. It's Monday. That means we're gonna talk a little FSU football next five minutes past the hour.

It is the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston'scott. Great to be with you this morning. Obviously we're paying attention now. It's a whole new world because of the likelihood of a storm impacting our region by the end of the week. But that is something we will certainly be talking about with increasing frequency throughout the coming days. But now we get to reflect on something else. Ladies and gentlemen FSU want a football game and to talk

about it as irishefellow war chant dot com. It sounds so odd to put it that way, but it really was a big deal that they found a way to win.

more from the defense, especially the defensive line. That's the defensive line we've all kind of been expecting to see all season. So that's a positive. The offense is still, you know, kind of a train wreck. That had two nice drives, but other than that, it was it was

really rough. So you know, to me, it's it's incremental growth, it's some improvement, and it's a win which could help these guys because listen, I mean and you played sports and covered sports, and you know, winning changes just the mindset of the whole program. So I think it opens up the opportunity for more players to improve because they're in a better frame of mind.

he played with that for the first two games. I think the plan was to play aff season with it and after the second game, he just felt like it was really kind of limiting what he could do in terms of grabbing offensive lineman, and so he took it off. And in these last two games, as you said, I mean he had he had five total tackles and no tackles were lost in the first two games this season.

In the last two games, I think he's had about nine total tackles but seven tackles for lost, six or seven tackles for lost in the last two games, and a lot of times he opens things up, you know, a lot of Patrick Peyton had three sacks in that game Saturday, but at least one or two of them were sprung by Josh Farmer, putting pressure and forcing the quarterback into Peyton.

fired up. But so many other times it's really just about who's are guys willing to put their body in the line, or are guys will to really just kind of sell out for the team, And if one or two or three or five guys do that, and then it becomes contagious. And I feel like that is I think that's very perceptive, and uh, you know, I think that that's something It felt like this team, it seemed like this team wasn't really kind of going over that line. But maybe you're starting to see that.

I can't get my brain around the fact that at this point, here's what I've arrived at with our offense. We're asking a kid who is a prototypical pro style quarterback who cannot run, to run an option offense in the running game, and we have no option. Why didn't Mike change his offense up either pare it down? But there's he doesn't he can't run. Why are we faking a dive and hold pulling it out when he can't do it.

the receivers more time to get open. So if you if you do run the play action or you know, whether it's a zone read or it's just just a normal play action, I'm guessing he's thinking that at least put some of the linebackers maybe safeties in conflict and that'll help these wide receivers get up. And that's my theory.

I can ask him. But at the end of the day, I just think if you're if you're an offensive football team with a quarterback who's not very good and DJ has not played anything close to very good, and you don't have very talented receivers, I just think passing is going to be difficult. So you can rearrange the chairs on the Titanic, I don't know how much better it's

gonna be. That's why I think leaning more into the running game, which they did effectively early this game, and really for most of the first half they ran the ball well, they just didn't perform well when they got towards the red zone. You know, I think that's going to be the only real ticket for this offense.

I mean, you know, a defensive tackle can run him down.

a great chance to win. If Florida State hadn't gotten that early lead and it kind of felt like they were in position of control of the game early on, I wonder if you would have gone to Brocolyn at least see what it looks like. But then once you have a slim lead, I think you probably don't want to take a chance that maybe he does something to cost it. So I still think there's a chance Broclyn gets into one of these games and we'll see what it looks like if he does.

from war chant dot com. Twenty one minutes past the hour The Morning Show with Preston's got talking a little FSU football and joining us Iris Schaffel from Warchan dot com, IRA, your colleague Corey Clark wrote, I thought a really fascinating piece on the offensive line and just taking more of a I guess thirty thousand foot view of it and going back and looking at some numbers, it seemed to point out that short of Jordan Travis being the incredible

athlete he was running the football, the offensive line and dodging rushes when he's throwing has been weak for years now improved under Alex Adkins. But what's your takeaway from that piece and what points do you think he made that are valid?

not just about Jordan Travis. But then we started kind of looking at Alex Akins' track record as the offensive line coach, and honestly, before he came to Florida State, he had never been at this level. He'd been in a group of five level, and even when he was there, he had really mobile quarterbacks that obviously can help your offensive line. And then for most of the time he's been at Florida State at Jordan Travis, who was one of the most dynamic, mobile quarterbacks you'll ever come across.

So you know, now you start asking yourself, Okay, well, does Alex Atkins can he build an offensive line that helps a more stationary quarterback, which, as you said earlier, is what dj Ue Ungila is, And maybe that clouded their perceptions of what this team could be. So again, like this is you know a lot of times you can just make rash judgments and decisions based on one

piece of evidence. I think what we're right now is we're just kind of all the data and looking at Okay, maybe this is the problem and the reality is, you know, if you haven't coached at the highest level of college football, maybe you don't realize exactly what you need from those offensive linemen, and that could color some of the recruiting decisions they made. So again, I don't think we're ready

to say that Alex Aklins is clearly the problem. But without a mobile quarterback, they have not had any success.

And then defensively, you know, that was the best game of the season. It's really two good games in a row for the defense and uh, you know that SMS a couple a lot of points, but they have not played a lot of great defenses. And you know, I think TCHU turn the ball over some. So this is the game where I think Florida State just has to play a clean the past to big victory for Florida State to me is you know the defense team that keep them in it, not make any mistakes and just

try to keep it close. But but uh, you know, they're gonna be an underdog on the road and they have not fared well as favorites so far, so it's hard to say that they're definitely going to go get a win on the road.

thirty eight yard line. I thought the mistake was not trying to get a few yards on third down to set up the field goal. Instead they threw it. It was a complete and then now it would be a fifty five yard field goal. He decided to go for it, which it felt like there was slim chance of that happening, and there was, so Yeah, I think playing for more field goals might be the answer, because, like you said, you have one of the best kickers in the country, maybe the best.

of US by a significant amount. Right now, Obviously those two models are gonna come together. We just right now don't know which one will be the accurate one. This storm system is not coming through the typical path where you get a week two weeks of notice. This storm is forming late today tomorrow off the coast of Honduras, for lack of a better way of describing it, and so it's pulling moisture off of a tropical storm John that is in the Pacific on the other side of Mexico.

So it's pulling all this moisture up. The winds in that part of Mexico are pushing to the south and east. The winds that normally bring storm systems into the Gulf come from the Rather that wind is coming from the north and the west, pushing southeast. The winds from the normal Atlantic basin are coming from the south and the east, pushing north and west. So those two winds move in such a way that they create a counterclockwise rotation, which

is typical. Nothing new in that. But what's happened is this this hurricane that's off the coast of Mexico near Acapolco, about to be a hurricane's tropical storm. Now, John, it's just pulling a bunch of moisture and that's being brought in by those winds and then it's being steered back up by the other winds, and that's what's going to form this storm. It's going to happen quick and we're not gonna have much lead time, maybe forty eight hours. So we're putting it on your radar now out of

an abundance of cautions so you can prepare. And we're going through some of the things that you need to make sure that you take care of and do you need to make sure you've got the requisite amount of bottled water? You know, one of the things that's smart to do if you need is you fill up your washing machine with water. Just don't put any sop in there. Fill it up with the water. Fill up your bathtub

with water. Use any source that you can for what would otherwise be drinking water, right, I mean the water that feeds your washing machine. That same water goes into your faucet you drink from. Maybe you're running through a filtering system. That's fine, but you've got water available. You've got water available to scoop from and use the flush

toilets if need be. Charge up your devices, get your backup sources of power, gather together, get get your non perishable food items together, get your standby generator fueled up, ready to go. Know the rules of using that will remind you of all of that as we go, But these are the things you think about. Get your batteries. Get a battery operated radio. It'll be very important for you to be able to stay tuned to this radio station. If history is any judge, we might be the only

outlet up and operating. But then again, if this storm makes the potential track that it could, Tallahassee, where we are based, is going to be on the east side of the wall of this storm, with the storm making landfall just to the west of Appalachicola, and it could be a two, three or even four level four hurricane, Category four, it could be a major event here. Some of you remember the last major storm that came through

here in eighty five or eighty six. I think it was just before I moved to Tallahassee, and I still saw the storm damage because we got trees. Trees and storms of this magnitude don't mix very well. And so this is not about frightening anybody. This is about making sure you're prepared and I have your attention. Again. One model shows it's gonna hit our area, give or take fifty miles one way or the other. The other model shows, cedar Key, we'll get rain, but not nearly the damage

we'd be looking at. So there's a big variance there. That's a big, big difference in outcome. So we'll hopefully know more tomorrow. Forty one minutes after the hour, start preparing today, all right, just because we got to talk about something different. We talked about a few things today. Obviously, talked to Little Lefsu football. Talked about the report by Congressman Matt Gates that there are five assassination teams, three

from foreign governments to domestic that are hunting Trump. That's according to a whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security. According to Gates, this story is kind of a I mean, it made me laugh. And I will admit I have at times a sense of humor that might be on the edge of that's not funny, but it's funny to me. Let me tell you the woes of thirty nine year

old Felix della Rosa. You see, Felix found himself on the wrong end of the law because he took off his ankle monitor and so the Texas Anti Gang unit was looking for him, and they found him at the day he's in in Lubbock, Texas. He decided, rather than just except that he's been caught, that he would fire shots at officers. He didn't hit any, so he locked himself in his room after firing those shots and refused to leave a little bit of a standoff. Swatt was

called because he was firing shots. They nicked him, didn't take him out, but they hit him. He was still refusing, so they sent in the bomb robot armed with teargas. This little bad boy on treads breaks the window of the hotel, nails the guy with tear gas the guy. The video is breathtaking. You might even find it on our website. The guy dives out the window, eye's face just burning. So what does Wally do I'm just calling

him Wally the robot. The robot runs him over. I don't know how much this thing weighs, but ran his treads up on him and pins him. What's so beautiful. So not only is he neutralized by a robot, he's wrestled to the ground and pinned for a three count. That is gonna go down so bad in prison? Are you arrested? Man? I'd rather not say. All of a sudden, they're gonna start looking and the videos out there, old Felix getting bumps. He's gonna be bum wrestled down by

a robot. Talk about insult to injury. Oh my gosh, it's bad enough you got gased in the face, but then to be taken down and pinned by a robot, that's just that's next level bad. He is gonna get ridiculed. Oh my stars, isn't gonna be bad for him? All right, forty six minutes after the hour, we're gonna wrap this thing up next. All right. Obviously, we will give as much information as we have to you, for example, the

school systems and all that. Just send a note to the superintendent for Leon County Schools because it's most likely going to be pretty dramatically impacted. I would expect that any school system in the wake of the in the path of this storm, in any way, shape or form, is going to shut it down on Friday. That's my expectation. But we'll see. But Leon County Schools the only government

entity that does not email, press releases, it's lunacy. But whatever asking for information so we can pass that along, we will do that to the best of our ability. So that's what we will be focused on. You know, up a couple levels from me will be decisions on how we do what we do. We will bring you coverage of the storm. How we do that is an ever changing thing. You know, the company changes and evolves, and and Hurricane Michael was a lesson learned to a

lot of folks. They're not likely going to ask us to write out the storm in the building. If it's a direct hit, we'll we'll figure out a way to broadcast from a remote location. But you never know, you know, I have maintained that this is a pretty safe location because of how our building is built, where it is built, and kind of the configuration of the hillside that surrounds us. But we'll just have to wait and see what happens. We just we don't know at this time what is

going to come. What I can tell you is we will be preparing you the best we can over the next couple of days and reminding you of some things that you should know. We'll bring folks on the air as need be and try to get as much accurate information as possible to give you as much lead time as possible as it relates to this storm. All right, So that's where we are at this time, brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. And of course what will be tropical

storm slash Hurricane Helene is the big story. I cannot state to you enough. What's out there now is nothing. What will be there in twenty four hours to thirty six hours is going to be significant. It's going to develop quickly, and it's going to move in such a such a direction and speed that it will be a

threat to us if one of the models holds. If the second model holds, that means that the weather system to our north from the Midwest is pushing the jet stream down and it's going to steer this thing away from US to Central Florida. It's bad news for Central Florida because it likely could hit the cedar Key area

where the last storm kind of blew through. So keep in mind, it's just something we're going to pay attention to, and we will do our dead level best to go through all the checklists to make sure that you have crossed every T and dotted every I and you've got

as much prepared as you possibly can. And then as the storm comes and blows through, we will do all we can to keep you informed on what's going on and in the aftermath of the storm, what's happening, where it's happening, where you can find whatever things you might be looking for, even if that's just a good cup of hot coffee, whatever it may be. So thank you. As always, we did talk about a couple of other things. They're relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, so

we'll just leave them out. You can check out the podcast and and you'll get a couple of other stories that are in the news. Obviously, it's just going to be a balancing act friends this week. That's just what the week's going to look like. We're going to do our best to walk that tightrope and have you ready, because that's job one, to be your companion in storms like this. Job two is the rest, all right. So thanks as always for listening, giving us your time sharing

it with us. We greatly appreciate it. Check out the blog page to have to date, keep this radio station dialed in, have a battery operated radio ready to go,