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What's It Like To Be Osceola For FSU Football? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Second hour.
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  Speaker 2: Friday Edition Morning Show with Preustin Scott, November fourteenth, Hello Show,
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  Speaker 2: fifty four ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: That sosay, I'm Preston.
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  Speaker 2: me in studio is a friend. He's a client, but
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  Speaker 2: first a friend. Drake Anderson is with me, and Drake
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  Speaker 2: is along with his family, owner of Sentinel Fencing.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later. How you doing. I am wonderful, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Let's set this stage up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Let's set the story and go back to your day.
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  Speaker 2: We were just talking about how in the world did
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  Speaker 2: you get to become, for lack of a.
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  Speaker 1: Better way of putting it, a horseman.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it was just something that God put
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  Speaker 3: in me from the beginning because my family history, they
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  Speaker 3: grew up you know, hunting, fishing, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But my grandfather had a forty acre small cattle farm,
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  Speaker 3: but never had any horses. I didn't grow up with horses.
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  Speaker 3: I just came out of the womb wanting to be
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  Speaker 3: a cowboy diapers and cowboy boots from the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember, like when your love of horses even started.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a picture, was it a movie?
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  Speaker 3: Was it just I don't remember a time when I
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  Speaker 3: did not want to be a cowboy. That's how far
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  Speaker 3: back it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So when does the relationship with horses begin.
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  Speaker 3: I had the opportunity at right at ten years old.
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  Speaker 3: He had moved to a horse farm in central Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: and the guy that owned the property was a cutting
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  Speaker 3: horse trainer. It's a type of event that you do
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  Speaker 3: with in western horseback riding. And I had the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to start. And he was a rough and tumble, old
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  Speaker 3: gruff cowboy, and I had to earn my spurs. I
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  Speaker 3: cleaned stalls for about six months, scooping, scooping all the
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  Speaker 3: stuff to earn the right to ride. So I started
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  Speaker 3: at the bottom and started to work my way up
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  Speaker 3: to be able to just get on a horse there.
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  Speaker 2: And you didn't care what you were asked to do.
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  Speaker 2: The end goal was getting on that horse.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, That's all I wanted to do. I was
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  Speaker 3: homeschooled at that time. I was actually homeschool until I
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  Speaker 3: started high school, and so I would I would wake
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  Speaker 3: up at six o'clock every day and I would do
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  Speaker 3: my book work and be done by noon, and I
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  Speaker 3: would be sitting at his barn waiting on him to
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  Speaker 3: come back from lunch so that I could start whatever
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  Speaker 3: he wanted me to do, so that I could eventually
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  Speaker 3: get on a horse.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you got on a horse.
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  Speaker 3: No, I remember the first time that I got to
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  Speaker 3: ride a cutting horse and I actually trained. It was
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  Speaker 3: at that time, you know, fifty thousand dollars finished horse,
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  Speaker 3: and I got the opportunity to ride him. That was
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  Speaker 3: probably the nicest horse that I had sat on, probably
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  Speaker 3: the top two nicest horse that I've ever sat on,
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  Speaker 3: two or three at least, and I remember that vividly.
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  Speaker 3: But first time, No, it was probably when I was
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  Speaker 3: very very young, k pony at camp, some kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about smoky Smoky.
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  Speaker 3: So I learned from a very young age saving money
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  Speaker 3: my parents. I SI had a bank account, and I
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  Speaker 3: worked and I earned money. By the time I was
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  Speaker 3: ten years old, coinciding just after I had met the guy,
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  Speaker 3: the cutting horse trainer. I bought my first horse ten
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  Speaker 3: years old, my own money. My dad made me negotiate
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  Speaker 3: the deal. I went and met with him. I shook
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  Speaker 3: his hand and told him I could offer him a
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars and he took it, had a bill, a
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  Speaker 3: safe rode it out, did the whole deal. Okay, brought
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  Speaker 3: Smoky home.
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  Speaker 1: How big was Smoky? What do he look like?
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  Speaker 3: Smokey was a smoky black color, black, kind of a
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  Speaker 3: black bass coat, kind of faded out in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: A little charcoal, that's right, okay, little charcoal.
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  Speaker 3: I rode him for about six months and ended up
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  Speaker 3: flipping him for I think it was forty three hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Why why were you able to do? Was he just
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  Speaker 2: developed skills or were you that good at selling?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: I think that was just a very fortunate deal, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he had some ability that was untapped.
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  Speaker 3: We fed him a little bit better than probably where
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  Speaker 3: he was, got him looking really nice and pretty, and
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  Speaker 3: found the right buyer and it just happened that way.
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  Speaker 3: That was my first horse trade deal. Over doubled money,
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  Speaker 3: well substantially.
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  Speaker 1: More than doubled. Was that the start. That was the start.
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  Speaker 1: I was bitten at that point.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, And we gave you a little hint there
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  Speaker 2: living past the hour, Drake Anderson with me and we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the career path and we'll bring you to
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  Speaker 2: current day in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But so you get to high school.
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  Speaker 2: What was going on in high school that would land
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  Speaker 2: you on the radar of Florida State University.
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  Speaker 3: So after a year or so of tutelage under the
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  Speaker 3: cutting horse trainer, I found another born locally. We had
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  Speaker 3: moved from that property and I found another born locally.
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  Speaker 3: I was eighth grade going into high school when I
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  Speaker 3: met Terry Dinard and he became like a mentor to me,
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  Speaker 3: and that is where I really learned the majority of
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  Speaker 3: my horse training. I started riding with him and he
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  Speaker 3: did team roping, and so he fixed and trained horses
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  Speaker 3: for team roping.
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  Speaker 1: This event I.
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  Speaker 3: Started with him, started riding, started roping, became very successful
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  Speaker 3: locally there.
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  Speaker 1: I did not compete in the High School Rodeo Association.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of like a junior pro doing local
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  Speaker 3: jackpots and other USCRC events that are team roping events.
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  Speaker 1: The Durham family.
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  Speaker 3: They contacted Terry looking for someone to come in, so
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  Speaker 3: they knew him. They knew of him of him. He
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  Speaker 3: was at an announcer for the high school Rodeo Association,
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  Speaker 3: so they contacted him looking for a replacement, and he
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  Speaker 3: of course brought me to mind. So that's how the
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  Speaker 3: connection was made.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know the Durham family, Bill Durham is
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  Speaker 2: credited with being the founder of the tradition we now
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  Speaker 2: know as Ostiola and Renegade. The family raises these horses,
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  Speaker 2: acquires these horses, and they are responsible for I guess
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  Speaker 2: the recruitment of the whoever would be Ostiola. Now at
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  Speaker 2: the time, did you even know of the Florida state tradition.
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  Speaker 1: I had heard of Bobby Bowden before, that's about the extent, But.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't know anything about Oh, they use a horse
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  Speaker 2: and a rider, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 3: So my skill set became team roping and I was
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  Speaker 3: training horses. I was making eight hundred dollars a month
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  Speaker 3: with three to four horses at a time throughout high
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  Speaker 3: school and so I actually ended up having a heated
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  Speaker 3: discussion with my father about why I did not want
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  Speaker 3: to go to college because I was making a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money training horses and if I could do it
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  Speaker 3: full time, I can make even more. So I ended
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  Speaker 3: up getting a scholarship offer from Mississippi State and from
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  Speaker 3: Troy University for rodeo. So they have rodeo collegiate teams
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  Speaker 3: there and I got a scholarship offer from them. I
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  Speaker 3: was a week away from signing with Troy State when
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  Speaker 3: I was contacted by the Durham family and I had
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  Speaker 3: never heard of FSU or heard of the tradition, and
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  Speaker 3: had only ever heard of Bowden and FSU.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. Why did it win? Why did you
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  Speaker 1: decide to come? And oh, by the way, become at
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  Speaker 1: the I'm the longest tenured Osceola writing at Florida State
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  Speaker 1: football games bowl games for five years.
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  Speaker 3: So initially he showed me a video, showed me what
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  Speaker 3: it was about, and I was like, man, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: What changed for me and what made me realize that
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  Speaker 3: this is really what I want to do is when
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  Speaker 3: I had to read a book, and I had to
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  Speaker 3: read a book about the life of Osceola, the life
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  Speaker 3: of the Seminal tribe and the Seminal Wars, and write
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  Speaker 3: a report about what it would mean to me to
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  Speaker 3: represent that individual, And in reading that and learning about
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  Speaker 3: the history of the of the program and the history
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  Speaker 3: of who they are representing, that's that's what sold me
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back, Are you surprised you did it? Surprised as
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  Speaker 1: in that.
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  Speaker 2: You took that path after going through that, because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's that's some hoop jumping. Oh yeah, reading the book,
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  Speaker 2: writing a report to get a chance to do this
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  Speaker 2: where you got standing offers a two universities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you surprised you did it?
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that. No, I don't think so. That's where
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  Speaker 3: I needed to be. That's where the path that God
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  Speaker 3: laid in front of me, and I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: that's where I needed to be. So no, I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 2: What would people be the most surprised to know about
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  Speaker 2: being Osceola and writing in front of seventy plus thousand
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  Speaker 2: fans on a horse like that.
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  Speaker 3: I like the anonymity there's when I'm out there, You're
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  Speaker 3: we're portraying a fierce warrior with all the regelia and
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  Speaker 3: the wig and the makeup, and no one really knows.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of flying under the radar. I never was
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  Speaker 3: braggadocious or really said anything. I've only ever had one
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  Speaker 3: person recognize me out of out of character that I
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  Speaker 3: did not know already. Sure so that I enjoyed being
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  Speaker 3: able to do that as a gift to the university
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  Speaker 3: and to the tribe and not have the spotlight on me.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recognize what it means to people now? I
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  Speaker 1: do after the fact, I mean, looking.
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  Speaker 2: At it now, does it change how you view whoever
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  Speaker 2: is Ostiola riding Renegade?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely? I know the troubles that they're going through. I know,
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  Speaker 3: I know the woes and the issues that they have sometimes. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, it is hot the first part of
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  Speaker 3: the season.
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  Speaker 1: It is very od.
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  Speaker 2: What you may not know about Drake and I'm if
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  Speaker 2: you observe Ostiola from the stands, you're probably thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a rather diminutive young man riding the back of a horse.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a small young man.
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  Speaker 2: Drake is a very big guy and riding that horse
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  Speaker 2: at six five six six and I'm guessing about two
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  Speaker 2: forty that's right. Yeah, I'm thinking when you get on
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  Speaker 2: the back of a horse, it goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They have.
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  Speaker 2: Back with more with Drake Anderson here on the morning
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  Speaker 2: show with President Scott back with Drake Anderson Osciola for
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  Speaker 2: five seasons and some change.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You got called back into duty when someone
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. I did so.
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  Speaker 3: My Typically it's a four year gig. You intern two years,
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  Speaker 3: you ride for two years. I got brought in as
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  Speaker 3: a freshman and I rode starting. That's actually a fun story.
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  Speaker 3: I was not actually supposed to ride the first game
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  Speaker 3: because in two thousand and nine, the season that I started,
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  Speaker 3: our first game was Labor Day Monday against Miami. I
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  Speaker 3: had never seen a college football game before, so I trained,
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  Speaker 3: I graduated high school, started riding three weeks later. Our
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  Speaker 3: first game is Monday night starting that season, and I
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  Speaker 3: had never been on the field at Dope Campbell on Renegade,
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  Speaker 3: and I had never seen a call this football game
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  Speaker 3: in person. So he's like, all right, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: bring back our rider from the last year to ride
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  Speaker 3: this first game. Second game is Jacksonville State. That's a
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  Speaker 3: perfect game for you to start with. The previous rider
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  Speaker 3: came back the week of the game, got the flu.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, So by Friday, Alan.
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  Speaker 1: Said, you're up, buddy, Alan Durham. Alan Durham, he was
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  Speaker 1: my boss there. Yeah, I ran the program.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to call parents and call everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, I'm actually riding Monday, so let's
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  Speaker 3: find some tickets and y'all get down here to Tallahassee.
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  Speaker 3: So that was my first collegiate football game that I
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  Speaker 3: ever saw in person, was on the back of Renegade
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  Speaker 3: against Miami.
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  Speaker 2: How much practice is required to get that down to
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  Speaker 2: where because it's an art. It's an art to ride
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  Speaker 2: that horse to the middle of the field, get it
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  Speaker 2: to rear up so that you can plant the spear
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  Speaker 2: as it comes down. Oh yeah, how much practice had
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  Speaker 2: you had before that first game?
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  Speaker 1: Doing that? The entire summer five six days a week,
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  Speaker 1: you were planting spears.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, but riding with the horse and getting
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  Speaker 3: acclimated to the program, figuring out the routine, and just
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  Speaker 3: practicing to get ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: How do they prepare for the crowd? There is no
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  Speaker 1: preparation for it. Yeah you can't. You can't simulate that, no, sir.
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  Speaker 1: But they do prepare the horses by sort of they
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  Speaker 1: bring one in while the others getting close to maybe retirement.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, acclimating a backup horse as needed to the
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  Speaker 1: crowd noise, right, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: They've typically got a backup renegade and a and a
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  Speaker 3: backup Ostiola. They're at the games at all times. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of the general rule of thumb, and that
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  Speaker 3: that that backup horse rider is learning and growing to
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  Speaker 3: take over the position when their time comes.
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  Speaker 2: So you were Ostiola at the end of Bobby Bowden's career.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: And you have a fascinating story about how your life
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  Speaker 2: and ancestry intersects with coach Bowton.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So my grandfather played football at Samford. Bobby played football
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  Speaker 3: at Yes, he did. So when I came down in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and nine, the first chance that I got
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  Speaker 3: to meet Bobby in person, I introduced myself and I
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  Speaker 3: asked him, do you remember Charles Anderson from your Sanford.
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  Speaker 1: High school days?
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  Speaker 3: And he kind of scratched his head and he slapped
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  Speaker 3: me on the shoulder and he said, you mean Slim
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  Speaker 3: and that was my grandfather's nickname. I said, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 3: that was my grandfather. He played football there. He said, well, heck, can.
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  Speaker 1: I remember him? He bumped me out of my starting
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  Speaker 1: position at quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: So my grandfather bumped Bobby out of his starting position.
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  Speaker 1: At quarterback at Sanford University of University. That's hilarious. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first time I met Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: All right before we go to break the top three
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  Speaker 2: memories as Osceola on the back.
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  Speaker 1: Of Renegade in no particular order.
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  Speaker 3: The Oklahoma game, which one that would have in twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 3: I believe leading up to our national championship.
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  Speaker 1: Both top five yep, both top five.
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  Speaker 3: The loudest that I've ever heard dok Campbell in person
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  Speaker 3: ever when Bobby Bowden retired in Jacksonville at the bowl
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  Speaker 3: game I think that was the Champs Bowl in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Why does that stand out? West Virginia And a cool
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  Speaker 1: story about the mascot they are in some interactions we had.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and then but you handed the spirit to coach
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  Speaker 2: Bowden because I remember he planted the spirit at that game.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: We hand the spear off to certain people for certain events,
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  Speaker 3: and his retirement.
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  Speaker 1: Of course met the bar for that.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely handed the spear off to him and he planted
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  Speaker 3: there and number three National championship twenty thirteen. You were
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  Speaker 3: there on the horse loud and proud Rose Bowl. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 3: did you ride in the parade.
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  Speaker 1: I was not in the parade. No, they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, did they know?
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  Speaker 3: With that environment and with it being so far out
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  Speaker 3: of our home tier to kind of deal was it
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  Speaker 3: was too much to coordinate and too many variables. So
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  Speaker 3: we just wrote at the game, which was a very
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  Speaker 3: fun and very complicated event.
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  Speaker 2: The Rose Bowl is a special place, a special, great
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  Speaker 2: set of memories, absolutely too much to talk about. So
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  Speaker 2: I asked Drake Anderson to stick around. He, of course
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  Speaker 2: Osceola and part of that incredible college football tradition. It
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  Speaker 2: is one of it is one of the most unique
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  Speaker 2: college football traditions out there. But you were there for
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  Speaker 2: the national title game you leave Florida State University. You
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  Speaker 2: and I first met because I got a mail an
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  Speaker 2: email from I don't know if it was a Bureau
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  Speaker 2: of Land Management or something affiliated with a wild Mustang makeover.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you get roped into that?
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  Speaker 1: So? I, uh.
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  Speaker 3: When I graduated college and my wife and I we
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  Speaker 3: bought our place in mont Solo, I was on the
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  Speaker 3: side trying to kind of hustle and get back to
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  Speaker 3: training horses, which is what I love to do, and
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  Speaker 3: to do that. I had had a friend that competed
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  Speaker 3: in the Extreme Messtang makeover before, and I decided that
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to try that as well, so I signed
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  Speaker 3: up and got selected. Okay, it's a whole process to
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  Speaker 3: go through that. You have to have the facility to
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  Speaker 3: hold the mustang because it's a wild horse. Up until
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  Speaker 3: the point that it gets to your property, it's probably
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  Speaker 3: only been touched by force one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: They've been roped or or.
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  Speaker 3: Uh or shot with a with a trank gun. Yeah, sorry, tranked,
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  Speaker 3: And so you have to get selected. And I finally
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  Speaker 3: was selected for it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, that's where you and I met.
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  Speaker 2: You came on this show, you came in this studio
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about that experience.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like? That was a blast.
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  Speaker 3: It was the first time that I've ever trained a
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  Speaker 3: horse from the ground up that no one else has
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  Speaker 3: ever interacted with.
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  Speaker 1: And was that the challenge of it for you that
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to take on? Yeah, I wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to see what it would be like to
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  Speaker 3: take a wild horse, because even a horse that's untrained,
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  Speaker 3: that is that is tame, is way different. Mustangs have
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  Speaker 3: lived their life scrounging out of living on the land,
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  Speaker 3: and they have an innate distrust for humans and you've
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  Speaker 3: got to overcome.
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  Speaker 2: That from a horse perspective. Is that the most rewarding
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  Speaker 2: experience you've had.
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  Speaker 1: One of them? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I would say that's definitely one of them. To take
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: that horse and to mold her into something. I actually
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: ended up buying her back from the program after it
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: was done, and then I gifted her to my my
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  Speaker 3: my brother in law he'd fallen in love with. Her
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: name was honisi Oski, which means wild rain in the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Seminal language. And when we went to pick her up,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: we almost got blown off the road by a tornado,
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  Speaker 3: and so I just felt it was fate to call
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  Speaker 3: her wild Rain.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and the horse and your brother in law
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  Speaker 2: are coexisting wonderfully.
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  Speaker 3: Happy as could be. She's fat as a butter ball
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  Speaker 3: here in Tallahassee. Just doing kids lessons. Actually, you're kidding me.
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  Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: So you are you still doing any horse training? Not
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  Speaker 1: so much training.
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  Speaker 3: My wife and I we've got property out in Montslo
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  Speaker 3: We've got horses, cows. I think I've got twenty five
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: head of cows and we've got seven seven horses. I
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: think so do a little bit of a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of cowboy riding. I've got a couple of friends that
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: have large ranches and try to try to get on
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: horseback as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But with a new business, it's yeah, oftentimes not as easy. Well,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and not just a new business and a child there
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  Speaker 1: we go.
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  Speaker 2: That changes everything everything, And we're not talking about a horse,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: by the way, later and gentleman, which to a horseman
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you could consider a new horse child, you could do that,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: but that's not what we're talking about. More to come,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Drake Anderson with me for one more segment here on
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the Morning Show with Drake Anderson, and we're sharing a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: little bit of our long and complicated history together here
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: on the on the program. So you moved to Monticello,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you're married, you've got a family starting here, and you've
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: got some cattle, a few horses. But then you recently
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: opened up a business. I did tell us a little
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: bit about that. What got you into fencing?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get off roofs. That's where it actually started.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I why not, I'd rather not climb on a roof
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  Speaker 3: every day I did. I did sales and estimating for
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: local contractors and roofing for years, started in the fence industry,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: got the opportunity to work with a local company, worked.
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  Speaker 1: There for eight years.
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  Speaker 3: Decided that I wanted to take an opportunity to build
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: something for myself and for my family. So January of
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: this past year, I losted Sentinel Fencing. And my father
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: works for me as an estimator and a vice president
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  Speaker 3: of sales, and then my wife works as office manager
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  Speaker 3: and operations manager.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a family owned and operated business.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm waiting on Sadie to start at talking so
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I can get her.
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  Speaker 1: On the phone. What do you enjoy about that?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I enjoy lots of things about it. Being able to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: help people build something. So we do fences, we do decks,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: we do paper patios Pergola's outdoor space type. Just being
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: outdoors outdoors, Being able to help somebody turn an idea
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: or a dream into reality in their backyard in their home.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: That's fun. Being able to help design something. They're like, man,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: this is kind of what I think. What can we
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: do that that's fun?
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  Speaker 2: And fencing now is very different because a lot of
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: people they're just I mean, yeah, the dog ear, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: wood fence is kind of the common thing. That's what
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you saw at my home, but we wanted to do
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: something different that might have a little more lasting integrity.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, And there are a lot of options now
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there are. There are a lot of options.
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  Speaker 3: You've got composite, you know, materials like Treks and some
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: other manufacturers. You've got vinyl fencing right there, there's a plethora.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I actually just found a new privacy fence system this
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: past week through one of my suppliers. That is a
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: wood grain steel privacy fence and it is comparable cost
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: wise to vinyl, which I was very surprised with. It
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: being steel galvanized powder coated finish, so it's gonna be
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: very durable. But lots and lots of different options.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that I love about, and full disclosure, Drake
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: and his company did part of we're doing a phased
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: replacement of our fencing. He did the first part of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: that phase. We'll move into phase two next year. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I was impressed by the fact that you don't face
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: wood rot with some of these.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Fully composite vinyl, lots of different things where you don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: have to worry about painting, staining or anything rotting.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what does what does the future look like
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: for you? Obviously, Sentinel Fencing people you can you can
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: find that online Sentinel Fencing dot com. But what does
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: what does the perfect world look like? Grow in this
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: business and fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 3: Man growing this business and continuing to follow God's path.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: From my family, my wife and I are very very
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: fortunate to have what we have.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Are do you want to be a cattle rancher? I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: would love to.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Is that the idea of growing the herd to that
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: point to do that as well?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, If I could get to the point in the
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: next five to ten years where I could purchase a
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: large parcel of land and have a operational cattle ranch,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: small operational cattle RANCHU, I would definitely love that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: The type of cattle that you're raising, what kind of
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: cattle are you talking?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: So, I have Brama influence cattle. I've got mostly Brangus,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: which is angus and brama mix. I've got a The
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  Speaker 3: first brama that was ever brought to the state of Florida.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: My friend Keith Whaley and his family came here from
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Central Florida. They brought the first Bramer cow to the
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: state of Florida. Before it was a state. Seven generations
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: of ranchers in central Florida, and I have purchased and
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: purchasing a bull from them that is from that heritage.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: So I've got a Brama bull on my herd this year.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: With all of my brain gus cows.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Seven generations of ranchers here in Florida brought that that
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: cow to Mana, that bull to Monticela.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun having you in here today.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Thanks for making the time. It is senior weekend for
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Florida State football, so we thought this this is a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: perfect time to talk a little nostalgia with with Drake
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Anderson about your time as Ossiola.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, sir, appreciate it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Sentinel Fencing dot com if you'd like to reach out.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's it's a tradition that is
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: unlike any other and he played a huge part in
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that tradition and fun to have him here on the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Morning Show with Preston Scott