SWFL HS Football Coach Leaves Team Lock-In and Bad Things Happen, Religious Exemptions at Schools, Local Political Races Heat Up
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Every bit of hazing as hazing can be at a high school level is unacceptable. When I was in high school, they had this thing called Freshman Hit Day where freshmen would have to hold a tackling dummy, a little square tackling dummy, and then seniors would get 35-yard head start and be able to go knock the kid out, right? Knock the kid down. I've seen two players stop playing because of that, me being one of them, and the other one was injured. And that's why I stopped because I saw the- kid get injured. And I was like, I'm not doing this. And then they were like, cool, you're off the team. I was like, cool, have a nice day. I'm not doing this. The kid was injured. He was legitimately bleeding out of like two different spots of his face. And it was horrific to watch. And these parents were watching it. And the coaches allowed it to happen. And when it comes to these type of incidences where this coach is doing this hazy, what did he expect to happen? When you take kids, you lock them up, you're going to have the hierarchy, raise, the lower ones will get. punished and that's the way it is when they're unsupervised it's why we have teachers it's why you have administrators and and everyone in a school because if you put 40 kids in a room and lock them up the bad ones will wise to will become who they are and the smaller ones will get demolished and beat on Well, what's too bad is that this puts a shadow on the football team at the start of the season for one. Two, last I remember, team building exercises were doing practice together and, you know, maybe watching a movie as a team or something like that, not. ridiculous hazing. Now, a football team is a very, very complex machine with a lot of moving parts and a lot of positions, and that team has to be locked in to be successful. We've seen it in all of the best football teams across this country is... discipline, teamwork, and that positive team spirit makes a team go a long way. If you have any break or any rift in that machine or some separation between the players that did the hazing and those that received the hazing, what if that's one of your offensive linemen? Listen, the structure. What if that's one of your guys that's got to get in the way and protect you? He's going to, oh, sorry. Right. But the other side of this spectrum is that this story. is very much something that you will find from the parents. By the way, if you're one of the parents, you know more details on this story. I would love to hear from you. 239-479-5592. That's 239-479-5592 if you are directly connected or know somebody directly connected. Because from what I'm reading on the Internet is that there were injuries, there were kids being bullied and some serious hazing going on inside of this. And the follow-up question I would have would be, are any of these kids that haze these other kids going to be held accountable for their actions? And will they come to the forefront? Because the people that got hazed aren't going to say anything.
because they don't want to be retaliated against. They just want to be on the team. They're there because they want to be on the team. The strong kids that are already great athletes on a high school football team are on the team. Half of them have a great humble attitude about them and the other half of them have an arrogant, cocky attitude about them because they're high school teenagers and that's how they are. And when you have another kid who just wants to play football for whatever reason, maybe his brother was an athlete, maybe he has never played football and he's played baseball and did something. else. He wants to try it out. Or he's just always been that low level player throughout his entire life and he hasn't made it to excel to be one of these high level football players in high school. And those kids will beat on him and bring him down because they think he's a negative entity to the team. That's not the case at all, by the way. I remember a story where a kid who could barely play the game in sixth grade and there was a past throne that was like something out of high school for a sixth grader. And this kid. the most undeveloped kid on the team, caught that kid, knocked him down, to save the touchdown tackle. Every kid matters. And it's a shame that there wasn't a team leader in this room to prevent that from happening. Yeah, where was the team captain? Right. Is there not a team captain on this team that's in place to intervene and say, hey, hey, hey, hang on. Who can be the bigger one? Who's the real team captain? Obviously, none of them are responsible enough to come forward and do that. Maybe you threaten the eligibility of the whole team. Of the whole team. I don't know why you would want to start a season with such toxicity wound through your team, but maybe the whole team just ought to be ineligible. Now, before we getting further, this is being under investigation and everything that we've said has just been allegations according to what we've heard, and this guy could legitimately be back on the field within two weeks. because I've seen it before. It wouldn't be the only time that I've seen it where parents and other people or even the court system alleviates his issue and then boom, he comes right back to the field. You know, I would, I yearn for this. And by the way, I yearn for this in every aspect of my life. You know, to be a great leader, it takes being a great coach. No matter where you're at, you could be on the field. You could be at home as a dad. You could be anywhere you want. But it's about being a great coach. Taking your star player, taking your star employee, taking your star kid, and making them understand that they'll also be criticized, but at the same time, they're the greatest star that you could ever have. I think that's a part of it. You know, being a great coach is being able to say, hey, you played really great, but we got to work on these things. Or, hey, you're doing this, this and this. It's great, great job. Keep up the good work. Or, hey, listen, maybe you're just not cut out for this. And I have to be honest with you because being honest with you is what matters. And I think that's what I yearn for so hard when it comes to great coaching. And by the way, there are many, many. And I do mean many great coaches in Southwest Florida. So by no means. no means of my pigeon on one coach to all of them. But I will say, like, even my son's hockey coach, right? My son's hockey coach is the most...
understanding person I've ever seen. He goes out and looks for kids who work hard and not necessarily the kid who has the greatest talent because the kid who has a work ethic will work harder and eventually perform better than the kid who just has natural talent who doesn't put in the work. Work matters. Put in the work. Make it happen for yourself. And I think this coach is just diminishing that for all these kids. Yeah. And I think we need to take a very serious look at how our athletic programs in our schools are being operated. And we should be proactive in our response here. I would encourage school boards and I would encourage principals of these organizations to go and just, you know, check in on the football teams, check in on the basketball teams, check in on the baseball teams. You know, team sports are such an important part of that junior varsity and varsity educational experience. There's no way that you can take that out or replace that with anything else. Therefore, we need to make sure that those programs are sound. I'm a big believer in it for sure. The unintended consequence of this is that I'm pumped up from Friday night high school football to be back. I love high school football. We're about a month away. Boy, I love high school football. I love all football. I love going to it, watching it, being a part of it. Man, it's great. I'm just juiced about it. You know, some kids can't go to certain schools based on their vaccination record. The Attorney General is questioning that next on daybreak. Me too. The more your mailbox fills with campaign flyers, the more you need to listen to 925 Fox News. Primary election coverage for Southwest Florida.
Welcome back to daybreak here on 92-5 Fox News. Right all along, the Florida Attorney General warns Catholic schools on the vaccine exemptions and scholarship eligibility. The Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is telling the Catholic schools they must honor religious vaccine exemptions or risk losing access to the state's scholarship and voucher money. Now, uh... You're going to think that I'm like, yeah, parents' rights all day long, you're right? But listen, once a large amount of public money flow into the private and religious schools, the state inevitably acquires leverage over said school, and no one wants that when it comes to private schools. Although, just being fully transparent, the state does require, just so you know, the state does require public and private schools to have that voucher. But they don't... in order to receive the voucher. Florida law requires public and private schools to exempt students when a parent has a religious objection. That only matters if they care about the voucher program. And a lot of private schools, and I can name a couple right here in southwest Florida, that don't care about the voucher program. And I think when you think about religious schools being forced on a religious exemption, it almost seems like a double entendre. I, for one, think that the state, if it's a private school, they don't want your money. Then they can do whatever they want. If it's a private school and they want your money, then they got to offer the exemption. Now, that's how I look at this particular deal. Now, it has nothing to do. The core issue is the exemption itself, not the vaccines or the vaccines thereof. It's the exemption itself. And a lot of people will say parents' rights, religious liberty, take the public money and follow the public rules. I agree with take the public money, follow the public rules if you're going to take it. But places like Canterbury, you know, and I don't know their vaccine policy, but I know Canterbury doesn't take any voucher money. They don't even want your voucher money. So they don't take it. So they don't accept it. And I'm not sure. I do know that. Bishop Verro are Catholic high school in Lee County. It does not accept religious exemptions, but I'm also not sure they even take any of the voucher money either. So I'm not sure that these schools also will accept that voucher money that you could get from the state. And I think what effect does this have? This has the unintended consequence of the fact that you can, you now know the difference that you can get a vaccine exemption. I think this is what is. the bigger message. The Attorney General, 10 days before school starts, wants to say, hey, guess what? Don't forget, you can get a religious exemption for a vaccine thing if you like. And I think that's the thing. It's public knowledge, knowing that you can do that if you want to do it. A lot of people don't know that they can do it. It's what I use during the COVID vaccine mandates. I was like, well, I spoke to Jesus yesterday, and Jesus told me I didn't have to get the jab, so I'm not getting it.
And they were like, what? I said, yeah, here's a letter from him. He sent it to me. You can have it. And I gave him my religious exemption letter, made a copy, gave it to everybody at work and walked away. I wasn't the most popular person in the building, but irrelevant. I wanted everyone to be knowledgeable of their... rights. And I think that is the unintended consequence of this right here. Those who didn't know, they have the right to be exempt from vaccines and the vaccine requirement for public schools. You didn't know this, but you can ask for a religious exemption. It does require a couple of extra steps just so you know. It's not like you've got to go in. You're going to have to go through a couple of different processes, but you can't get it done. And I do know that for a fact. Well, I think the Attorney General's investigation or warning here is well-founded. And if you are going to take state money, there's probably, there are expectations that are tied to that money. That's how we enforce accountability. That's how we make sure that money isn't being wasted on fraud and abuse and just thrown away on bull crap. I mean, look at what the Lee County School District had done just recently about finding that missing, what was it, $40 million? Or something like that. So it's like, you know, that money is there and they need to look at their own systems. It's, look, it's okay if a school says, look, we don't want to accept private. We don't want to accept vouchers. Our school runs this way. That's their prerogative. Parents can pay for that. If you are going to take money from the state that's taxpayer funded, it inevitably comes with strings attached. Right. Don't take it. I'm going to tell you right now, the biggest fear of this is the fact that we could actually have our private and religious schools become extensions of the state policy, and I'm not into that. One of the things I love about my kid going to a private school is the fact that the education is different, the teachers are different, the policies are different. The days off are different. I'm not a... massive fan on that particular deal, but we do get a little bit more time off than most. And I, uh, because we get like a ski week, which is weird, but they still do it, uh, where everyone's supposed to go skiing. I guess it's what. That must be a private school thing. It's what the well-off people do, but I don't know if you look at me. You like to go and fly out of Park City, Utah. We go skiing during skiing during sundance. I'm not skiing, bro. Do I look like a guy that likes this? I don't even like cold. I'm freezing. I know. I'm freezing. I know. Because they don't allow snowboarders. I do check in on skiing, though. I do check in like we are skiing. So that anybody that goes there thinks we enjoy Ski Week. I make it look. We flew. We're in Colorado right now. We're in a private cabin so you can't come see us. Right? I make a whole big deal about it. Make it seem like we're actually doing it. I don't want to be looked at weirdly when I go to the gala's and things like that. Oh, you don't even participate in Ski Week? Oh, you're not a scale. What's got a person are you? I said, well, I've got a religious exemption from Ski Week. Thank you very much. I'll try that next.
year. See if it works. I don't know. We're, we're going to do, uh, jet. We're going to do water ski week. How about that? Ooh, that sounds like a better idea. That sounds more like my speed than ski week. You know, I don't know. Just doesn't sound my thing. It's just not my thing. Oh, man. Thank you very much to everybody who is watching and being a part of what we got going on right now. And we've got so many different ways that you can consume daybreak here on 925 Fox News. And one of my favorite ways is the fact that you can actually download the app and listen everywhere you go. If you're traveling, don't worry. You've got the app. You're traveling? Don't worry. You can listen to the podcast. You're getting on a plane? Download the podcast. Never miss a minute of the show. Miss yesterday's show? Don't worry. It's available on the app. It's all on the brand new 925 Fox News app. Go to your app store today. Never miss a minute of local news and local talk. All of it. Never miss a minute. Just go right now to your app store and download the 925 Fox News app today and be a part of the club because if you don't have it, you're not into Cool Person's Club and you want to be in the Cool Person's Club, right? You got it, right? I got it. All right. Just making sure. I don't know if I'm eligible for the Cool Persons Club, though. You are, just by having it. Everyone who asks, it's in the Cool Persons Club. It's a fact. Okay. I mean, you don't have to take my word for it. Coming up, we've got the 5.8.35, and then we've got some more details on some other things going on around the world, and we'll revisit one more story as well. More daybreak. Coming up next right here on 92. Fox News right all along.
Department at 92-5 Fox News have reached a consensus. The five at 835 is always happening. Listen on the daybreak podcast anytime, anywhere. Our scientists also want you to stop asking why it starts at 837. Welcome back to daybreak here on 925 Fox News right all along. I'm your host Jason Jay Jones along with Rob Stevens. And listen to me. 5 at 835 is presented by Southwest Florida, oral and facial surgery, specializing in excellent care. Number five. The truth of the matter is, you know, no matter what happens in whichever direction we go. People my generation have already made it, we're going to be fine. It's going to be your generation. All right. All right. All right. All right. Yeah, we're going to do a shift to Rooney here real quick and give you the appropriate one. Here we go. Here comes number five. As of today, almost half of all the immigration arrests done by state and local law enforcement across the country are in one state. the free state of Florida. So we're lapping the field in this, but part of it is we recognize that this is a team effort. You had to have all hands on deck and left to their own devices. Even some nominally Republican law enforcement folks, some of them don't want to be involved in immigration, right? There's just that they don't want to do it. We required it and the results have been great. That's right. We required it, and the results have been great. Follow what goes on here in Florida. We're the free state of Florida for a reason, because we believe in what is going on when it comes to immigration. And the fact that this is a policy that worked, it did its job, and Ron DeSantis goes on and represents it, it's what I love about being in Florida. It truly is. It's this spoken, it gets done. And it gets done that way. It's always been the thing that we've done, especially during the Ron DeSantis administration. We can only hope that the next administration does the same. Number four. The Democratic Party needs reform. Look, this is a party that hasn't delivered enough for working class Americans. We shouldn't have supported NAFTA. We shouldn't have supported China into the World Trade Organization. We shouldn't have watched wealth pile up in Wall Street and Silicon Valley while unions were decimated. I think the reform is good as long as it is for ordinary Americans who have been shafted in the current economy.
What are you hearing from Democratic Ro Khanna? You're hearing that they are not really ready to be socialist either. And this is becoming a thing. Let me tell you what I think. And I'm going to give you some optimism because a lot of you always say, I'm just a big cheerleader. And I'm like, we're going to win. We're going to win. Let me give you some optimism. All right. When it comes to the Republicans and the Trump administration, that's a top leader working his way down and everyone follows suit. That's the way it goes. It goes down that way. His policies, it goes. all the way down. When we're talking about the socialist movement in the Democrat Party, it is starting from, it's a bottom feeder movement that has made its way up and is now resonating with young adults, at least they hope for, but it is fracturing that party. It is not bringing that party together, and Representative Ro Khanna is proving that to the point, but he's not alone. There are other Democrats that are out there saying they're not going to stand with the socialist movement. So this bottom feeding movement is going to split before it ever gets to the top. They think, the left thinks they're doing the same type of concept. Young, vibrant guy going to speak it out is, do it out is, blah, blah, blah. That's not the case. This is a bottom feeder movement, Rob. I'm going to, I said it before, I'll say it again. Democrats, you want to take your party back, vote Republican in one election. In one election. And you will immediately get, you know what? We are a two-party system. Third parties never seem to succeed. But what I think could happen is one of the two-party systems and not the red one could be consumed. Just consumed. And then you are non-existent. You want it back to what Rob says. Number three. $1 a gallon or $8 a gallon? We wouldn't be able to do anything about it because they have a nuclear weapon. And a nuclear armed Iran could do whatever they hell they want with the straits, and there's nothing anyone would be able to do about it. And that's one of the many reasons, apart from like the massive loss of life and a nuclear strike, why Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. I mean, so this is an example of if they had a nuclear weapon, they closed the straits, and they would tell the world, what are you going to do about it? We have a nuclear weapon. So just one more example of why these guys can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. I don't even think that needs any commentary. I think that is a fact like a fact. It's a mic drop moment that he says right there. And I think we're starting to get this. So I think the administration has spent so many weeks just trying to convince America, especially the naysayers. What they're doing is the right thing. I think it kind of takes some of this common sense stuff, slapping him in the face with it and letting them go, see? That's exactly why. And it layers into the basic one we heard before. If you think Iran that is just tax- attacking everybody on the planet they can reach right now is bad. Imagine if they had nuclear missiles and how bad they would be. The gas would already be $8 a unit would never have no chance of ever going back down. They would hold us in a chokehold. At least that's my thoughts on it. Number two. In the next six to 12 months, we'll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody's completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex. But long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see in multispectral wavelengths. You could see an infrared, ultraviolet, radar, like a superpower situation.
I'm in. So my. I got good vision. All right, good. I mean, I wear glasses. It's not great vision, but it's okay, good vision. It used to be great. As I got older, it got bad. But I'm in. You're telling me, I'm like Superman. I can see through steel walls. I'm into this. I love all about, I can have a radar. I mean, imagine if you had a boop. There's somebody behind me. Oh, hey, what are you doing? Like, that is great. But the real thought of this, and it's the neuralink from Elon Musk and what he's put down there, which, by the way, he was in a division of SpaceX, sadly disappointing, because this just popped out. I was like, oh, this is going to be great. I was getting ready to kind of get ahead of the game, kind of think like an investor. But I see what is going to change lives, and it seems to be it's always one person. And I don't know if you've noticed this, but he's changed space travel. He's changed the way we drive. He has changed the way we communicate. He's now going to change the way the people that are handicapped and can't see. Now you can see. Can't hear. Now you can hear. Like, that's the way it's going to be. Go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say he has actually another groundbreaking company called The Boring Company, which is an entity that digs tunnels underneath big city centers in these, I guess there's some sort of wind control or something like that where you can basically drive through these tunnels at high speed because you face literally zero resistance. Like he's trying to revolutionize transport underground as well. Right. It's going to be, but listen, when you let an alien like Elon Musk join your population, great things happen. There I said it. Number one. Affordability is what the American people elected this president to do, and he is doing it, and you guys refuse to cover it, and you refuse to cover that the previous administration created the worst unaffordability crisis in American history. And I've been watching the TV all day saying that he doesn't want to talk about affordability. That's what he's working on every day, and that's what this administration is doing. But you know why they refuse to cover it? Because they're fake news, that's why. Can I get to hear someone? Sure. Caroline, the Prime Minister would like you to work for him in Hungary. Please consider it. You know what? That's a very good decision you just made. Please don't leave us, Caroline. Please don't leave us, Caroline. Matter of fact, I'm hoping the next administration picks her up. The next administration after that picks her up. She is every bit of a fierce, bold, an alpha female who will command a room of... any room of men, women, it doesn't matter. She will demand attention. She got it there so much that the Hungarian prime minister is like, can she come work for me? I mean, that's what, I mean, who doesn't want that, right? I mean, that was by far one of my favorites of the weekend that I truly enjoyed it. And I wanted to share with it. The five at 835. If you got quantum fiber and you're living in Lehigh.
Well, you don't have internet right now. 5,000 people are being held 5,200. Quantum Fiber customers and Lehigh Acres have been without service since July 20th. The outage is now on day 12. A third-party contractor damaged multiple lengths of fiber optic lines. Let me just tell you know that the third-party contractor that installed my fiber optic did a horrible job. These third-party contractors that they're hiring at quantum fiber are doing the worst job ever. And if you do, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to send you a picture today, Rob, when I get home of my horribly wired quantum fiber. It is legitimately, I could have done better. I've got loop-de-loops going up my pole. because they were like, what are we going to do with this extra wire? I had to zip tie the box at my house because they didn't screw it shut. Like there are so many issues when it came to that service. And I'm not trying to dog on them, but that is, I'm sure the third party contractor was the issue. Stop hiring unqualified people to install your quantum fiber. I do love it, though, just for the record. I don't want to knock it. I love the service. It's great. But. Just like you said, a couple minutes ago, there's a man that has solved this problem for you. Oh, that's right. There is, except for there's a $550 surcharge for our particular area for you to get it. Which sucks for you. Because I didn't have to pay that because I signed up early enough. We don't want to hear about your pros and cons, bro. All right? I'm sorry. I don't have it yet. I love my Starlink. I do. It's nice. I dig it. Which race is unfolding to be the most interesting race during this cycle? We'll discuss it coming up next. You're listening to Daybreak on 92-5 Fox News right all along.
term turnout for elections can be low let's prove them wrong southwest florida primary election day is august 18th listen decide vote 92 5 fox news election coverage done right on welcome back to daybreak here on 92 5 fox news right all along now I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine, and we were talking about the different races, and he's in politics. And I said, tell me what you think is the biggest race going on in Link County for this particular cycle, or in Southwest Florida for this particular cycle, actually is what I said. And he said, well, I think it's County Commissioner District 5. I think that's the biggest race to watch right now, or the most interesting race. He said it's the hardest one to call. And I said, well, I said there's a lot of people talking about that. And there's also a lot of people that think CD-19 are Congress where Jim Swartzel and Jim Overwise and Catalina Lov and everyone is running inside that race. And I see you just now. As you're sitting right there, Rob, you're looking through a bunch of mailers. As every Monday, we bring in all our mailers from the week and we add them to our stack so that we can kind of evaluate the mailers, see what's going on inside. mailers and who we think is the most interesting race. So which race do you think is the most interesting? You know, I would say originally I thought it was 19, and that is an interesting race, but I think the dynamics of CD22 might actually have more long-term implications than the result of this race in 19. But there is an interesting trend that I'm seeing here in some of these mailers, including candidates that are, because I'm getting mailers from two different districts. Right. make it clear. I'm getting mailers from 19 in my mailbox, getting mailers for 22 in my parents' mailbox. So I'm seeing both of these races. How unfair if you not to let your dad have his own mailers? My dad would throw these in the trash the second he pulled them out of his mailbox and would probably have told me to do the same thing. Mailers don't work for my parents. Sorry candidates. But what I'm seeing here is candidates being sent to my parents' address that aren't even on their ballot, that aren't even in their race. Mailer. companies that have dropped the ball and have not adjusted their zip codes based on that. And now our candidates are spending their money actually going over things. You know, the reason I'm going to tell you that I think the county commissioner number five with Amanda Cochran and Trish Petrosky is the most interesting race to me is that one has been appointed and one won her district against the... former county commission. So as already ran, this is the second time. Someone Amanda has run and Trish is first time running as she's been appointed by Ron DeSantis. And I've seen more mailers.
probably with those two in mind actually in my house than I have with any of the others. And there's been a couple of hit pieces that came out against Amanda Cochran. She went out and made a statement. We'll talk to her next week or something this week, maybe before we get to the actual day of the deal. And then you tie that up with... You know, the whole concept behind it. So I did the little thing. I'm going to ask a couple of questions, and I want to get your answers, Rob. I want your thoughts. I want you to think as a power voter, not as a conservative host with me. All right? You ready? You're ready? Not like a producer of the show. All right. I want you to just think as a guy who's never missed an election, okay? When you get a piece of mailer, a mail, do you read it prior to working here? Did you read it or did you just throw it away? No, I just threw them away. You never once looked at it. No, because it's why. Right. Prior to me running for office, I never cared. They went straight to the trash. A lot of times, they didn't even make it in from mailbox. They went right to the recycle bin. Next question. Have you ever seen a sign and said, that's my candidate. That's who I'm going to vote for. That's a cool sign. No. No. Now, do you think signs give name recognition to those who don't know who they're going to vote for on their way to the ballot box? Yes. So if you're on your way to the ballot box, you're like, I don't know. You know, you get to the ballot and you're like, I don't know anybody. I just saw that name. I just saw that outside. I bet that happens more than we like. More than we like, right? So you think signs work. Maybe. Maybe. You give it a maybe a five out of five. Although, to be honest, I haven't seen nearly as many signs in this cycle as I expected. Me too. Maybe signs don't work. I've only seen two candidate signs on my street at all, at all. I'm sorry, in my neighborhood almost. But that speaks volumes to those who knock on doors and those who don't knock on doors. The more candidate signs you see in a yard usually means that candidate has knocked that neighborhood. Because he's asked everybody, do you mind if I put a sign in your yard? Do you mind if I put a sign on a neighbor's sign than I do one, say, in the middle of an intersection or at a busy business intersection. If my neighbor has a sign, it makes me go, hmm, I wonder why my neighbor likes that person. You know, why is that person so important to my neighbor? And I think that's a part of it. But for the most part, I don't think mailers work. I don't think signs work. And I don't think hit pieces work either. But a whole conversation we'll have coming up again later on in this week. On behalf of Rob and Roger and myself, thank you very much for tuning in today. It's been great having you. We'll see you tomorrow. See you. See you. See ya. See ya.