National Men's Grooming Day: The Poets Who Can't Just Say "I'm Sad" Without Dragging the Moon Into It

(00:01) Here's today's B Team Redux. 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station. 73 degrees this morning. A high today of 90. It's the B Team Morning Show. Brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre. (00:17) Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. Back on the air after taking a hit yesterday. We'll call it a hiatus. (00:32) 92. Going to be our high tomorrow at 94 on Sunday. Just to give you a heads up on what happened yesterday. The storm took out the three-phase power electric panel at the tower site. (00:50) Getting that back up yesterday was the task at hand. That happened about 1 o'clock. Thanks for being patient with us as we navigate the challenges we deal with from time to time. (01:05) Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell, this Friday morning. We have made it to the end of the work week. We'll check your forecast in just a little bit. Give you an idea on what to expect here on the Emerald Coast this weekend. You're over there writing notes. (01:21) Boy, that's really good. That's really good. I had a jackass that was on the air in my hometown that really thought it was something that did that same thing. Good job. Yep, he'd do that too. Then he'd rattle the papers like he was some real important guy. (01:39) He really tried to make himself something. Exactly. Page two. I guess we're talking about reading and writing here. We can just jump into this national holiday. (01:54) It's Poets' Day. That's right. When people rhyme pain with rain and call it art. Like a broken jukebox wanting applause. I like how you picked pain and rain. Yeah, there you go. Poets' Day is that annual civic experiment where grown adults stare into the void and call it imagery and demand applause for rhyming pain with rain. (02:14) They just invented weather. It's a holiday in the same way a group project is a team building retreat. It's technically true and it's spiritually criminal. The idea is simple. It's celebrating poetry, celebrating feelings, celebrating the brave souls who can't just say I'm sad without dragging a moon into it. (02:33) So stick around because once you peel back the beret and the metaphor, well, there's a whole lot of human nonsense trying to pass itself off as art. I respect it just enough to be dangerous. There you go. It's Poets' Day. All right. 624 is the time. (02:48) We're going to take a break. We've got three more national holidays to get to. Last night, by the way, Choctaw Big Green Indians came home with a big L. That's right. Lost to Moseley over in Panama City last night. 15-13. (03:04) And the Indians will look to bounce back next Friday at home against Auburn at 7 o'clock. And we'll have that on 94.3 FTW. 15-13. That's one of those very traditional football scores. Yeah, where do you get that? (03:20) Is that like three field goals, a touchdown, and no PAT? I guess so. But, you know, that was the score at halftime. Nobody scored a damn point in the second half. Oh, wow. So, yeah, 15-13 was the score of last night's matchup. (03:35) It's like watching an Iowa game. Hey, we've averaged 30 the last two years. In the first half. On defense. (03:50) Yeah, the joke was there three years ago, Bobby. All right, a look at your marine forecast is next on 100.3 KROCK. Here's your destined Fort Willem Beach marine forecast brought to you by Marine Max, the area's exclusive dealer of gritty white boats. (04:06) Plenty of sunshine today, few showers and storms are possible in the area at times, and highs top out near 93 degrees. Around the water, winds turn to the southwest 5 to 10 knots by afternoon. Seas a foot or less. High tide, 523 a.m. Low tide, 528 p.m. (04:22) High tide, 634 a.m. With your omni-broadcasting marine forecast, I'm meteorologist Phil Jensko. Hey, everybody. It's time to check in with Frank the Bank again. Frank Bennett, now with Loan Depot. And, Frank, I've got to ask you, why the name switch? So, Loan Depot is one of the larger mortgage companies in the United States, and that allows me to offer many more loan options as well as much more competitive rates. (04:47) Not only can we continue to do FHA, VA, conventional jumbo financing that we've always provided, but now we have the ability to do no income verification investor loans. We have land financing. We have construction to perm financing. Many more diverse loan options available for you. (05:04) So, folks, it sounds like you're getting the best of both worlds. Four decades of local experience from Frank the Bank and personal attention backed by the power, pricing, and flexibility that Loan Depot offers. That's right. So, whether you're a past client or someone looking for better rates and more choices, I'm here to help. (05:20) You can find him online at FrankBennettHomeLoans.com or give him a call at 850-533-6122. Frank Bennett, now with Loan Depot. I'm Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden. Right now, Florida, including Okaloosa County, is losing lives to opioid overdoses. (05:35) Many of those lives are lost after just one pill. Never take pills given to you from friends, family, or anyone you don't know. One pill can kill. That's because counterfeit pills often contain deadly fentanyl. One mistake can cost you your life. Only take medication prescribed by a licensed medical professional. (05:50) Free Narcan is available through the Okaloosa County Health Department. This warning could save your life or someone you love. Stay safe and report suspicious activity to law enforcement. The Medical Minute, presented by Coastal Vascular and Interventional. 6.30 on a Friday morning. (06:06) Have a drink on us. That's right. It's not that early. It's Friday. The BET Morning Show is on the air. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. We'll check your forecast for the weekend. Are we going to have a good sunset tonight, Bobby? Yeah, yeah, man. It's looking... (06:21) Actually, it's probably the highest score that I've seen since we started kind of tracking it. But, yeah, it should be a 95 today. It was going to be high yesterday, but it was raining. Yeah. It was going to be high Wednesday. It was raining. Yeah. (06:36) There's rain, and then there was Wednesday rain. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we got almost 8 inches here in Fort Walton over the course of about four and a half hours. Yep. So that was nuts, but... But, yeah, we're scoring a 95 out of 100. Cool. So we got about 43% cloud cover through that golden hour window. (06:55) So that'll be 623 to 723. See, minutes are just falling off every day. I don't know if you notice that. Mm-hmm. Football season. Yep. We're losing about a minute, minute and a half every day. Are you sad about that? Yeah. (07:10) I really, really hate it when the sun goes down at four. Yeah. Welcome to Thanksgiving. Yeah, when it's dark at four o'clock. Yeah. Yeah, I understand that. Well, today on the National Day calendar, the second day we have to talk about is National Men's Grooming Day. (07:28) That's right, because nothing says alpha male like scheduling a face shave and calling it self-improvement. Yeah. Is that what they call it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. National Men's Grooming Day is that annual reminder that your face isn't rugged. It's just unattended. (07:44) You know, it's not about vanity. It's about basic maintenance, really. You got to trim the chaos, team the next situation, and stop acting like soap is a personality conflict with you. Okay? The whole point is to look like you're meant to show up, even if your life is held together with caffeine receipts and suspicious amounts of optimism. (08:02) Wow. That one kind of hit home. Consider it a public service announcement disguised as a holiday, because society can only pretend not to notice for so long. National Men's Grooming Day. Man, it's rare, but I actually zinged myself on that one. (08:19) You did. Boy, that one felt like I never called myself out like that before. The look on your face was almost like you just stabbed yourself in the heart. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't mean to say that one out loud. He won't do it again, folks. (08:35) Nope. Here's Russian working, man. It's Friday. This is the B Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. A beautiful sunrise is coming up over Chattahatchee Bay this morning, 645. It's Friday. (08:50) You're rocking with the B Team on the Classic Rock Station, 100.3 KROCK. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell, the B Team Morning Show, brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, as well as Okaloosa Gas and OutKast Sushi in Miramar Beach. 73 right now. (09:06) A high today is going to be climbing up to about 90 this afternoon. Well, today on the National Day calendar, Bobby, we've got to give it up for Mr. Jim Jones. National Kool-Aid Day. Oh, yeah. (09:21) Yeah, yeah. Because nothing says childhood nostalgia like drinking neon sugar and calling it a beverage with a straight face. Yeah, that stuff sucks. A little different with Jim Jones grew a bit. It is. Same thing. It's all killing you one way or another. National Kool-Aid Day is that special moment on the calendar where we pretend powdered sugar and artificial optimism count as tradition. (09:42) You know, it's a nostalgic salute to childhood summers and sticky countertops and, well, the kind of beverage that stains your tongue like it's trying to leave evidence. You know, folks will mix a pitcher and argue about the best flavor like it's fine wine and act shocked when the whole thing tastes like a chemistry set. (10:00) ...feelings. And sure, it's ridiculous. It should be. But so are most of your holidays, right? And at least this one comes with free lessons and consequences. Okay. Well said. National Kool-Aid Day there, folks. Which means we have just one more day to reveal this morning. (10:18) We're getting there. We'll do it after Jimi Hendrix. All along the Watchtower. You're rocking with the B Team on a Friday on the Watchtower. Don't forget, we've got a couple big events happening here in Fort Walton this weekend. Tomorrow, you've got the Drive Sober event with Fort Walton Beach PD from 9 to 4. (10:37) Down at the landing, get down there and use that drunk driving simulator. Yeah, sounds kind of fun. It's free. It's open to the public. There's going to be some kids activities, food and beverages and more. So don't miss out tomorrow with the landing. And Sunday is the Coastal Weddings Expo out at the Convention Center on the island. (10:55) Tickets for that event start at $10. If you are the parent of a Bride or Groom or a Bride or Groom-to-be, don't miss out on meeting dozens of vendors in the wedding industry Sunday afternoon. We've got all the details to those events if you go to thebteamshow.com and click on the Events tab. (11:14) Well, Bobby, this morning you've got one national holiday left to tell us about. This one's fun. It's National Sweet Tea Day. Let's celebrate turning water into syrup and pretending it's refreshing instead of a liquid hug from diabetes. (11:29) Yeah, and that's exactly what it's led to for you, Ed. Yep. National Sweet Tea Day is that annual reminder that we, as a nation, looked at water and said, not dramatic enough, then dumped in enough sugar to make a dentist start pricing yachts. (11:46) You know, it's a holiday for folks who want their caffeine polite, their ice aggressive, and their problems temporarily dissolved in a mason jar like bad decisions in a hot parking lot. You know, nobody's pretending it's sacred. It's just a sanctioned pause to celebrate a drink that tastes like summer, nostalgia, and denial with a lemon wedge. (12:05) And if you think this is where it stops, well, you haven't met America or a person with access to a gallon pitcher and zero supervision. I wonder how much sugar John Holguin puts in his sweet tea. Oh, man, at least four cups. (12:22) Per glass. Yeah. I mean, my mom made it two cups of sugar per gallon. I was let that set up overnight. It was pancakes the next morning, man. It was wonderful. It'd pour out of the jar slower than glasses. Yeah, it's no doubt I'm diabetic, and it's no doubt that John Holguin's going to be diabetic. (12:40) Hey, by the way, shout out to John and Carrie Holguin. They are now grandparents as of yesterday. Somebody to compete for sugar. Beautiful brand new grand baby girl. So congratulations. Congratulations, guys. It's 653. (12:56) We'll take a quick break and pay a couple bills. What are they? Mama and Papa now? I don't know what they're going to call themselves. That's right. I cannot wait to call Carrie Holguin. Meemaw. Meemaw. Granny. Nee Nee. Granny. (13:12) I don't know if she's a granny. Ah, yeah. Yeah, I don't think that one works for her. I don't think that one works for Carrie. Ah, let's see how it goes. Good luck with that. Let's see how it goes. Dan Diamond's got news. Just call John Grumps. Grumps, not Gramps? Yeah. It's time for local news on 100.3 KROCK. (13:31) The Grand Illusion. There's Styx on the Classic Rock Station 100.3 KROCK. It's Friday morning. The B Team morning show is on the air. I'm Schuyler Black. He is Bobby Dewrell. Going to be under a heat advisory today until 8 o'clock. (13:46) But quite honestly, this is going to be the mildest daytime high that we've seen over the last week plus, a high today of 90. So that full forecast, not only for today, but through the weekend coming up in just a little bit. Last night? High today at 90, but that heat index is still saying it should be around, feeling like around 105, though. (14:06) Really? Yeah. So they're going to keep it rather swampy out there. Yeah. No, it is 73 right now. I'm feeling like 75. It did feel nice last night after the sun went down and when I got back to the house after the Emerald Coast chapter of the Troy Alumni event. It was nice walking outside. (14:23) I was like, oh, yeah, this is kind of nice. It was nicer walking out yesterday evening than it was maybe Wednesday evening. This morning is still a little more humidity, but still didn't feel too bad. No, it didn't. It didn't. Not at all. Tonight, high school football will carry the Niceville Eagles on 103.7, the ticket, as they are on the road up in Prattville tonight. (14:46) Last night, Choctaw dropped their season opener against Moseley 15 to 13. Not a single point was scored by either team in the second half of that game. So next week, Choctaw will be hosting Auburn. (15:02) And to preview some stories that Bobby and I have worked up, Scallops are back in Choctahatchee Bay for the first time in years. Well, how about that? Three arrested and drugs seized in a Fort Walton Beach retail theft ring. (15:17) Yeah, Dan had that story. Did he? Yep. Former basketball player for Bama was awarded over $9 million in a lawsuit against the New York Times yesterday. Good. And a sinkhole popped up on Highway 98 by Marine Max. (15:33) Yeah, yeah. So all right, you idiots that want that 3% cap. How are you paying for it? It's going to be fixed now. What are we going to cut out? I don't know. But you got to cut something, because you can only go 3% over actual. And I'm guessing you didn't replace any fire hydrants last year. (15:49) So what are you going to do? I know. I know. Let's just not fill up the fire trucks with gas. Yeah, let's just, like, fill them to half tank. Yeah. That'll save half the gas money, right? Exactly. If you just fill them to half tank. Exactly. Or just disband the entire fire department and pay the 2.7% millage rate that the rest of us pay in unincorporated county that, oh, yeah, by the way, makes our taxes higher than yours in the city. (16:13) Isn't that awesome? Yeah, so y'all have some great ideas out there. Keep going. Friggin' idiots. It's the B Team Morning Show. It's a fired up Friday morning. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell. Here's Phil Collins. CCR. (16:29) Run through the jungle. On 100.3 KROCK, the classic rock station, Schuyler Black, Bobby Dewrell, Friday morning. B Team Show, as always, brought to you by Stripes Pub and Grill in Navarre, as well as Okaloosa Gas and Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. (16:50) Bobby, how are you? Yeah, that's where it is. That's the town. Yeah, you got there. You got there. Yeah. So you're just buffering. I was just trying not to give credence to any unincorporated area. Oh, well, there's no clear water around here, so. Oh. (17:05) Hey, speaking of water, according to Get the Coast, the annual Great Scallop Count in Choctawhatchee Bay provided the first confirmed evidence of bay scallops in the area in several years. 29 volunteers collected more than 200 scallop shells during the survey. (17:21) Now, the shells were empty, right, suggesting that the small population documented was just weeks earlier, may have experienced a recent die-off. But researchers say the findings are still encouraging because it shows that the bay can support scallops now, while follow-up surveys will help determine whether any survived in any identified condition affecting their population. (17:45) Yeah, and strangely, they found all the shells right behind Dewey Destin's. Now, I wouldn't say that. Somebody had scallops and threw the shells into the bay, and now we all believe that there's bay scallops. (18:01) Well, I mean- It's an archaeological find. It's not like they serve you with the shell. So, I mean, I'm not going to go there. Yeah. Not going to go there. Huge population of bay scallops. Concentrated. Now, they've had a die-off, but they were found right behind the edge. (18:19) Yeah. Oh, we're not going to do Chris and Heather dirty like that. Right after their big scallop fest. Yeah, ironically. Well, also yesterday, an Alabama jury has ordered the New York Times to pay nine and a quarter million dollars to former University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears, finding the newspaper defamed him in a 2023 story about a fatal shooting. (18:48) Now, Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on when the Times wrongly reported that he was in a car at the scene of the shooting that killed 23-year-old Jumae Harris. Spears wasn't there. The person was later identified as a team student manager, Cooper Lee. (19:06) The Times reporter relied largely on anonymous sources, including one who said the person was a white guy on the basketball team, but couldn't remember his name. On the witness stand, the reporter acknowledged, yes, the story had a mistake, no question. (19:22) So, Fox News reported that, yeah, New York Times has got to pay up over nine million to a former Bama basketball player. So, there you go. A few more stories to get to here this hour. Of course, next hour, I believe Fort Walton Beach High School's football coach will be joining us, talk about the Vikings' 2026 season and their opener slated for tonight. (19:47) So, we got lots to go here in the rest of the show this morning. Lots to get to. All right, stay with us. We'll take a break, pay a couple bills. Ask Uncle Bobby, just about 20 minutes away as well. Final piece of advice. After a look at your forecast. Coming up next on 100.3 KROCK. (20:04) You know, that song was kind of your lifestyle before you started doing this morning show with me. What's that? Up all night, sleep all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, no, I wouldn't sleep all day, but yeah, I am a night owl by nature. Not anymore! (20:19) No. We fixed that. Yep. It's 737. The B Team Morning Show is on the air. Brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre. Okaloosa Gas and OutKast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Previewing some of the high school football matchups that are happening this evening. (20:38) Baker's going to be on the road at Jay High School tonight. For Destin, they're going to be hosting Port St. Joe this evening. Niceville on the road up in Prattville. We'll have that one for you on 103.7 The Ticket. (20:53) David Marshall on the call for that. Crestview on the road at Lincoln tonight, 7 o'clock. Best of luck to the Bulldogs. And Fort Walton going to be on the road at Pensacola High School tonight. And, or no, home against Pensacola tonight, 7 o'clock kickoff. (21:10) And Fort Walton Beach High School football coach, Josh Pulliam, will be joining Bobby and I on the show here in about half an hour to talk about their upcoming season. Yep. So, there you go. There's a little update on high school football action across the area tonight. (21:28) That's right. And, of course, if you missed it earlier, Choctaw, well, they lost. Yep. They lost their season opener last night down at Moseley in Panama City, 15-13. And they'll be at home hosting Auburn next Friday. (21:43) And we'll have that one for you on 94.3 FTW. Well, Bobby, big old sinkhole emerged yesterday along Highway 98 here in Fort Walton right by Marine Max. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, there's a 3% cap on what can be spent. (22:00) So, you know, she's going to have to stay there, I guess. If we can close the library a couple more days, we can probably get this sinkhole fixed. You think? Yeah. Or just, you know, have the staff volunteer to not take pay for a few days. Oh! We could do that. (22:15) Yeah. Yeah. We could just have the taxpayers go out there and do the work. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, take the guys out of the city jail and have them go do it. Because what's the worst that could happen there? Right. Next to a million dollar Grady White boat. (22:30) Sure. Yeah. Sure. What's the worst that could happen? Perfect. Sounds great. Sounds great. We're at 3rd Avenue here in Fort Walton. After a vehicle crashed into a fire hydrant, damaging a water main beneath the roadway, and the incident forced the closure out of the outside eastbound lane, police urged drivers to avoid the area, use alternate routes, and obviously expect possible delays. (22:54) Well, that happened yesterday. Well, for the next, I don't know, 100 years or so. Because, you know, you idiots put in a 3% cap. Bobby, I'm getting some emotion out of you this morning. No, I just, I mean, how much is it going to take for people to realize that it was a bad idea? (23:10) Look, I'm all for, hey, you know, let's try to curb government spending. Let's put some caps on it. But what you did is you passed it on actuals across everything. Right. Even if they're enterprise funds. (23:26) Even if they're enterprise funds, which makes no sense. And furthermore, if the city came up with alternative ways to raise revenue, you're not letting them spend that money. Right. I mean, so it's idiotic. It's just the most idiotic thing ever done. (23:44) The thing is, if you are a property owner or a resident in Fort Walton Beach, the cap actually, you get less value for your dollar now than you did before. Yep. Because you're still paying the same amount, but they can't spend it. (24:01) Right. And to be clear, I own a significant amount of property in the city of Fort Walton. So I pay those taxes there. So before anybody wants to cast dispersions, maybe do your research. (24:17) And you're okay with the city of Fort Walton have fire and police? Yeah, I actually kind of like it. I get to charge more rent for stuff like that. Because it's an enhanced service. Communication breakdown. No, I'm not experiencing that this morning, Bobby. (24:33) You sure? I hope so. 747 is the time. It's the B Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. And that means, well, the time tells us it's time for your daily advice. Ask Uncle Bobby, all brought to you by Hard Rock Bet. (24:50) That's right. Nothing hits like a big fight night in Vegas. The halterweight world title is on the line when Romeo takes on Lopez on Saturday. Now, if you're looking to get in on the action, you can head on over to Hard Rock Bet. Back your fighter, pick the method of victory, and bet on how the fight goes down. (25:05) And do it all on Hard Rock Bet, Florida's only legal way to bet on boxing. Offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Must be 21 or over and physically present in Florida to wage or terms and conditions apply. Also, concerned about your gambling? Well, you can call or text 1-833-PLAYWISE. (25:22) All right, there you go. It's Ask Uncle Bobby right here on the B Team Morning Show. And today, Uncle Bobby, your question comes in from the Velcro Social Ghost. Dear Uncle Bobby, I am tired of being invisible at parties. (25:37) If I have to become the most hated person there just to be noticed, what should I do? Well, you know, look, invisibility is the cruelest social death, honestly. You know, people say they want to be liked, but liked is just another word for forgotten. (25:55) You know, politely. Hated. Hated is a spotlight. Hated is proof of life. Hated is your name getting passed around the room like contraband. See, you don't stroll into a party trying to be hated. (26:10) No, no, no. You've got to seize the party. See, you walk in like the event is a small country and you are there to change the government. First, you locate the music source. DJ booth, Bluetooth speaker, guy guarding a playlist like it's an heirloom. (26:27) And you don't ask. You annex it. Suddenly, the vibe now belongs to you. See, everyone is going to feel the shift in their teeth. Then you introduce an unnecessary, unstoppable public challenge. You fill them with rules that makes no sense and consequences that feel biblical. (26:45) Right? You announce that anyone holding a drink is now legally required to participate in a ceremonial toast to your personal greatness. And you make them repeat it. Correct their pronunciation. The key is to force choice. Join your ridiculous little regime or become your enemy. (27:04) Either way, they're going to see you. Now you go philosophical. I'm not talking normal philosophy here. No, no, no. You start a debate about potato rights. Not as a joke. As a crusade. (27:19) You demand to know why society tolerates the silent suffering of mashed potatoes and ask who benefits from fries being imprisoned in cartons. You accuse the nearest confident person of being pro-starch oppression. And you keep going until somebody tries to laugh and you calmly inform them that the laughter is how injustice survives. (27:38) And now, by the end, you're not going to be background. Oh, no. You'll be a weather system. People will leave early. People will text others. People will remember you for years with a tone that's usually reserved for minor natural disasters. (27:57) And congratulations. You've arrived. There you have it. That's your response, Velcro social ghost. And, of course, if you missed today's Ask Uncle Bobby, you can find them all online at thebteamshow.com. Or if you go to DewBob.com, you can get your exclusive Do Bob merch. (28:17) Yeah, you can even find yesterday's. It was not allowed to be aired, but it was still published. Yeah. Well, there was expletives in it that we couldn't say. Sure. Yeah. Or we were just off air. Well, that was the case, too. It's 751. (28:32) Dan Diamond has local news next. This is the B Team Morning Show on 100.3 KROCK. The Classic Rock Station, 100.3 KROCK. It's Friday morning, jumping into the weekend, starting the high school football season this weekend. (28:47) Of course, last night Choctaw had their season opener, a loss on the road at Moseley 15-13. And not a single point was scored in the second half of that game. It was the same halftime score as it was at the end of the fourth. (29:03) But sometimes you have that strange score. And Coach Pulliam from Fort Walton Beach High School joining us this morning. You watched it last night, right? Yeah, I watched a little bit of it. Good football game. Two good teams battling it out. (29:18) And it was some good stuff to watch. Very traditional football score, 15-13. Yeah. Moseley went for two, man. So they got it. And then you have to look at your chart and kind of make sure that you keep up with it as you're going through coaching throughout the evening. (29:35) So it makes you think with some stuff. So hats off to those guys. Kicking off the season on a Thursday night. And everybody else is going tonight, man. That's right. Yeah. Now, Coach, who are y'all up against tonight? So we got the Tigers of Pensacola High, a story program. (29:52) I've always thought that their stadium was so cool because you look at their scoreboard and it's an older scoreboard. And you can see like, their state championships from like 1908, 1910, like it's so cool just being under there. I remember playing against them in some schools I've been at where, you know, the visitor's locker room is right underneath the stadium of the home side so you can hear them banging their feet and stuff like that. So it's a storied program over there in Pensacola. (30:25) I think it's the first high school that was in Pensacola if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, those guys are coming over tonight, and we're excited to kick our season off against them in our home opener at 7 o'clock in Steve Riggs Stadium. And this is your second season? (30:40) Yes, sir. It's my second season, first full calendar year to be able to do it when I was hired. Not this past March, but the March before that, I had came in and hired staff and just, you know, trying to get everything organized the way that I wanted it to see fit. So I'm in a much better place, our staff, our players, everybody, because we've had a year in the system of the expectations, whether it be in the weight room, the locker room, or on the practice field or in the classroom and just how they hold themselves as a Viking. (31:14) It's really cool. Yeah, when you come in in March of 25, you get 90 days to put a staff together before summer practice begins. Yeah, it was it was interesting. You know, we brought in and interviewed. I got a lot of resumes and just a lot of people want to be around and be in this area. So you kind of had to filter through a lot of stuff, but came out with our office of coordinator and he's with me. He's now our head baseball coach to coach Sean Snyder, who comes from generational football, where he's from in Seminole, Oklahoma, him and his father coached over there. And he coached there for 29 years. And I'm thankful and blessed that he's down here with us now. And we got 14 coaches on staff and pretty much all of them have come back for this year. And we're excited to see what we got going on with all that continuity. (32:06) Well, what did you see coming out of the summer, coach? What did you work? Yes, sir. Bigger, faster and stronger. You know, those three words that you always hear and just building off of what it was, you know, in June, it's kind of camp season, seven on seven type stuff. We went to a handful of those things, took some linemen to some big man camps in Florida State and Troy and things like that. And we went to South Alabama and were able to win that tournament as a seven on seven crew, which we weren't. We kind of did the year before, but it wasn't necessarily the same because we didn't really have guys in positions that we we had them there, but we weren't sure we were kind of testing the waters and seeing with the new people that we had brought on staff to see where the guys were going to be at. But yeah, like this summer, you know, camp seasons in June and we still got a lot of the guys working out in the weight room and things like that. (32:55) And then max out right before Fourth of July break and and then rock and roll right into media day and things like that. Once we got back into July, there was only about two and a half weeks. So summer raid was well, we had 92 percent attendance throughout the whole summer and they'll actually celebrate that tomorrow after a big time win tonight. (33:17) They're going to get some steak and have a little fun and enjoy just some fellowship with each other tomorrow just to celebrate that success that they got. So little things like that are real important to us. Culture and buy in is where it starts, right? Yeah, no doubt. You see on the back of our shirts, it says Chopwood Carry Water, and that's a book. It's really awesome. And that's what I kind of tried to bring into the system when I first got there. And Chopwood Carry Water really just means falling in love with the process of what is going on, falling in love with doing the little things right, making sure that all those things matter to you. And if they matter, if those little things matter, like keeping your locker clean, any of that kind of stuff, setting your alarm, setting yourself up for success the next day, the night before, you know, you're not ending your day, you're trying to get ready to go for the next day. If you make that important, then all these other things will be very important to you. And, you know, we talk about tough people win. And, you know, that's kind of where we're at. We're going with the culture. I feel real good about where we're at. Details and discipline, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yes, sir. That's what that means. And you had a lot of returning student athletes. Did you graduate off a lot of people last year? Yeah, we graduated. So on defense, man, we graduated eight guys, so we're having to replace those. But I feel good about the ones because it's just the younger guys just falling right into where they got to be. And there's gonna be some younger guys on both sides of the ball that are gonna have to kind of step up in some places. We're gonna have some sophomores out there, especially on the offensive side of the ball. But I like where we're at, what we got going on with that. And we're excited for the challenge. Adversity is gonna hit no matter what. It's gonna be about how we handle those types of things in those situations, in those critical moments. And we've worked hard in the offseason to kind of put those guys in those positions to see how they would handle that kind of stuff. And I've seen more good than I have bad based on being there since 19. That's awesome. So sorry, Schuyler, but that's a good thing. Man, I hate to ask a hard question, so please don't say that you'll never come back now. But one thing that I watched, we talked before you came on here, we talked about both of my sons being there. And I used to play. And one thing that I noticed, and it's been a couple of years since I really watched, was in the stands and watching. But I would see these great explosive moments, but then I would see one small mistake. And then all of a sudden, and it happens a lot in high school football, you kind of see a team kind of crumble around that one big upset, that one big... So how have you been addressing that? I know that's got to be something that's forefront, right? With different types of mental and physical challenges and things that we've done in the offseason to kind of put them in those spots. Like, okay, here we are, you're at your tired, you're at your most tired moment or weakest moment, mentally and physically. Now, let's see how you handle this specific situation that we've done in the offseason with that. And our guys have responded. And then there's been some times where it didn't go good. And you learn from that. You can't tuck your tail. You got to figure it out and be able to move forward because football is a great relator to life, man. So you get knocked over, man. You still got to pay your mortgage. You still got to pay... Like, it doesn't matter. Get better. That's some of the things we talk about. Like, it doesn't matter what happens. You win that play, man, it doesn't matter. It's over. It's time to get better for the next one. You lose that play. It doesn't matter. Get better. (36:49) We got to figure it out from there. So it's going to be exciting to see. And it's going to be exciting to see when we got some adversity. Never too high, never too low. You got to learn that. Yeah, you have to learn that stuff with especially the younger generation in general, not just our team. You've got to learn how to be even-kiltered in a specific moment. And like you said, you can't get too high on it, man. You get a 40-yard gain, rock on. That's awesome. But we got to put that ball in the end zone, man. We got to get in there. We can't have some dumb, we're tired, and then we have a false start. Yeah, exactly. Or we're tired on that next one, so we don't run that route specifically right, or we don't block correctly. And you got 10 people doing the right thing and one guy not, and that screws up the whole thing. Well, that's like I was at an event last night and was listening to Troy's head baseball coach, and he was talking. And he got on his kick. You always hear it from the baseball guy. Well, our game is more cerebral. It's more intellectual. A football player will go run through a brick wall, but our guys, you got to explain. (37:51) And I'm sitting there, my feelers are getting up, and I'm like, no, dude, there's a lot of mental toughness in football. You got to grind it out. You got to go, and when it hurts, you got to keep moving. I mean, yeah, you're running into that brick wall that's the 300-pound lineman across from you, and you're going to do it multiple times over and over again until you get tired of hitting that guy, and then you got to go hit him again. 50, 60, 70 snaps a game. Mentally tough. (38:18) That's what they got to be, and that's what we're working on constantly every single day, because I think that may be a little bit more important than, I mean, obviously the physicality part is huge, but you got to make sure that you're mentally tough. I've seen plenty of those throughout my day, and I've been blessed to be a part of some good programs and stuff, but you can see some of that every now and then, but yeah, just being tough, doesn't matter how big or small you are, man. As you kind of go through this rebuild with Fort Walton Beach High School, what are a few guys that you're relying on as key leaders for you this season? Yeah, so defensively, we got Micah Johnson. He'll be our middle linebacker. He kind of sets the defense for us, and he does a great job. Actually, this summer, he went to some kind of doctor's thing up in Boston. He got to tour and see all these things. He's a very bright young man, and same thing on the football field. I'm trying to think of who else. Let's see. Offensively, our quarterback is Lavin McDaniel. He's going to be a junior this year, and he pulls the trigger for us, and he can deal the cards real well. He's mentally tough. We have a senior-heavy wide receiver group, and Eli Crozier, Dante Walker, and Cannon Wilber, and then we got some other guys that come in and fill in some spots, so those are the guys that are going to have to really bring up and hold our guys accountable to everything we got going on. Our offensive line up front, that's where we're going to be young, but we're excited. They're big. They're just young. (39:59) They can move. They got good feet. They're strong. I got one junior in Max Whitaker and then we got four sophomores across the board. It's going to be awesome, man. It's going to come at them fast. (40:15) There ain't no doubt. These guys can stay together and do what they got to do. A couple of them rotate in on the defensive line as well. It's good. Is your center the junior? My center is the junior. Carlos White is a running back for us. He also plays a little defensive line. He'll be a senior third year guy. (40:39) Running back and defensive line? Correct. That's a little secret that's popped out a little bit. That's a crazy kid that I love. He's the strongest guy in our program. He's squatted 585 for five reps. (40:55) We let him put over 600 on the bar and do it one time and he did it. I ain't letting him do it again. There's no need to put all that weight on your back and anything like that. I've seen what you can do. He's strong as an ox. He's 195 pounds. He gets parallel. (41:11) It's awesome. We'll rely on him with a lot of things. We got other guys in there too. I may have not mentioned but a lot of those guys that I did mention are seniors and four year guys. The expectations are high with what we got going on. (41:27) I'm excited and thankful to coach at Fort Long Beach High School. Any breakout fun special teams guys? Those are my other favorites. I just love to get in special teams and do something crazy. We got some special teams stuff. I'm not going to speak too much about it. (41:43) Oscar Gallardo is our kicker. He's a senior four year guy. Oddly enough, that sucker is in weightlifting class. Normally you just got to kick her. It's just like a soccer player. He shows up and kicks the ball and goes home. (41:59) Then he's like I got to go to soccer or whatever AAU thing or whatever they do. Oscar, he's there. He pretty much is a part of at least half of the practice if not more when we go through some of those things. He's done a really good job for us. I'm really proud of the things that he's done. He trained in Mexico this summer and got to go to a World Cup game. It was really cool. He kept me up to date with that. (42:23) The food was really good down there he told me. I told him to eat something for me because I love Hispanic culture and the food is amazing. We got some special team stuff that we do on all of our units that are going to be a little bit different. What are a few keys to the game tonight against Pensacola High School? Start off strong. (42:47) Go. Protect the football. Be sound. On defense we've got to make sure that we are where we need to be in our gaps. We have to be gap sound with that stuff and making sure that there's proper communication along the coverages and the front. Getting those two aligned based off of what Coach TJ calls. That's why it's so good and I'm so thankful that Micah is right there because all the eyes get turned. Coach makes the call. Micah makes the call and the coverage. Really those guys can call the defense themselves. They're all bright and smart across the board. Big time GPA's and stuff like that. That's what we have to do defensively. Make them snap it again. That's the biggest thing on defense. Special teams wise discipline and sound to what it is we got going on because there's definitely plays to be made in that based on some of the stuff that we've watched. Offensively just making sure that we are lined up and our hats are low as offensive line. We're firing off the football. Let those running backs get that ball and hit that hole and run. (43:55) Quarterback gets that ball and leads our offense down the field and get off and then be able to communicate. That's another thing we work with once we get off the sidelines. Even with some of the younger coaches that we got on staff is getting everybody over here. Now getting to the iPads. Now we've got to figure out every single play real quick. Process that real fast because we're either about to get the ball or something's about to happen. It happens really fast on the sidelines on Friday night. Coach, tonight your team kicks off their season 7 o'clock at home against Pensacola High School. (44:27) Fort Walton Beach High School the place to be tonight to cheer on the Vikings. We appreciate it so much for you to come in and spend some time with us this morning and we hope you'll come back and join us again. Any time is a blessing. So thankful that you guys took the time to reach out and get us on here. Would love to come back any time. Just let me know and we'll work that out. You guys are awesome. I'm very thankful. The community I know is very thankful whether you're on our side or the other side. It don't matter. We're thankful that you guys broadcast and showcase these young men. I know those guys appreciate that as well. We've got to always have always had a lot of talent in this area. (45:07) I think we still have a lot of talent in this area and I'm amazed by what all the kids can do and all of the programs here. That's the one thing we want to do is make sure that we're lifting everybody up and giving them a shout out. I want to see kids from here go and do big things. Absolutely. That's the goal is to make sure they move on to the next part of their life a better person. (45:27) Pass the program on better. It was handed to you, man. Head coach of the Fort Walton Vikings, Josh Pulley, I'm joining us this morning. Coach, thank you again and we'll chat with you again soon. Yes, sir. Skoll. Alright, it's 825. A Look at Your Forecast is next on 100.3 KROCK. (45:43) The classic rock station 100.3 KROCK. It's the B Team Morning Show brought to you by Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre as well as Okaloosa Gas at Outkast Sushi in Miramar Beach. Schuyler Black and Bobby Dewrell on the air this Friday morning. There is a lot of local events coming up over the next several weeks. Of course, this weekend you've got the Coastal Weddings Expo and the Drive Sober event put on by the Fort Walton Beach PD on Saturday down at the Landing but then next weekend you've got several more events like the Community Bike Ride Sunset Market at Freedom Tech Center as well as the Shields of Faith Missions Gala going on at the Convention Center next weekend as well. (46:31) All of those events are posted online at our website thebteamshow.com. Well, we got this yesterday. A retail theft investigation in Fort Walton Beach led to the arrest of three people on the seizure of suspected narcotics after police responded to a reported shoplifting incident at Academy Sports on the Mariester Cut-Off back on August 18th. Or as I'd like to phrase it, do something stupid and get caught for worse. What's the thing? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? Yeah. (47:07) There's an FAFO. That's right. Investigators later stopped the suspects on Highway 98 and determined that Meredith Ann Fuller allegedly attempted to steal about $628 worth of clothing while Charles Jefferson Posey was accused of knowing about the theft during the investigation. So let's talk about that. (47:27) Was the clothing with her? I would assume so. So it was no longer on the property. So I would say that's not an attempt. I would say she successfully stole it and got caught. (47:47) That was not an attempt. I want to find the full press release. Here we go. Just saying. Now furthermore, officers also recovered suspected meth, drug paraphernalia, and fentanyl from the suspects and their vehicle. So if you're going to commit a robbery, don't take your drug vehicle. (48:11) Exactly. Exactly. So between Meredith Ann Fuller, Charles Jefferson Posey, and a third suspect, Eric John Gonzalez, was charged with a possession of a controlled substance and Posey received a notice to appear for petty theft himself. So I'm wondering. So it says the suspects left before officers arrived. So I'm wondering if they were caught by retail security and maybe dropped the items and ran or something like that. Yeah. Anyway, that was released by City of Fort Walton yesterday. So good job, Fort Walton PD. Thank you for all that you do. All right. We're going to play. (48:59) I guess we got time for one more song, Bobby, and then we have to get ready for the encore hour. Also, you know, because I've been working on this little science project because we've heard from everybody about not getting enough news in the area and things like that. So one thing I want to say is thank you, Fort Walton PD and PIO, for actually putting this out on your website and not just shoving it in Facebook. Oh, yeah. Where it can actually be read by people that aren't a part of that private community. Yes. (49:31) Thank you, City of Fort Walton Beach. Because really, they're like the only agency around here that actually gets stuff out. Right now, I mean, this was actually put out yesterday and put out actually on their web page, which in my opinion fits a lot better under Chapter 119 than putting it on Facebook, who has a end user license agreement that says that you cannot scrape or take anything out of Facebook or that you can in any 100.3 KROCK, it's 849. And right now in Fort Walton, we're at 74 degrees. Now we're going to climb up to a high today of 90, giving us about a 25% chance of some showers and maybe a few popping up. (50:14) thunderstorms this afternoon. We also know what that 25% chance on Wednesday turned into. So never say never, but the overall forecast today looks pretty good. Tomorrow, 92 and about a 20% chance of rain. (50:29) And then the warmest and driest day of the weekend is going to be on a Sunday. But as we look into the extended forecast, 80s back in the highs starting next week. That's right. And hey, this afternoon, again, sunset, that golden hour. It is supposed to be one hell of a sunset tonight, folks. Scoring 95 out of 100 on our vivacity. (50:51) No, it shows to be a very promising sunset tonight. We're going to have about 43% cloud cover through the window that is sunset. You know, we like to look and we like to see it between the clouds. (51:11) But right now, the model was telling us it's not going to be a flat sunset. It's going to be a very vivid sunset at a 95 out of 100. So I encourage you to look at that sunset tonight around 723. Probably 623 to 723 is the golden hour. (51:31) I would say you probably want to be watching about 7 o'clock, maybe 710. 95 out of 100 score. 95 out of 100. It shows that it's going to be quite spectacular. Bobby in the classroom, they call that an A. That is true. You're welcome. That is true. I feel like I did something today. (51:57) Hey, we hope you all have a great weekend. The B Team Encore Hour is coming up. We've got plenty of local events, high school football, stuff to preview for the weekend, so stick around. We'll get to that here in just a little bit. We want to thank our sponsors, Stripes Pub & Grill in Navarre, Okaloosa Gas at OutKast Sushi, and Miramar Beach for joining us as the B Team sponsors every single morning right here on 100.3 KROCK. All right, enjoy your weekend, folks. I'm Schuyler Black. Bobby Dewrell, get us on out. (52:25) Hey, folks, thanks for listening to the B Team Morning Show, your leading alternative to quality programming right here on the Emerald Coast. Now, we know you have a choice in what you listen to each and every day. We appreciate the fact that you settled in on this wild ride that we call a morning show. But it's come that time of day, we've got to mosey on out of here. So you keep on rocking, keep on rolling, never settle for the ordinary. Until the next time, the B Team is out. (52:44) And that's a wrap on today's B Team Redux.