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Rob Holbert from Lagniappe - Mobile Morning - Thursday 7-18-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] News, sports, weather from Dr. Bill Williams, traffic info from Kane, and one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's mobile mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. Morning from Dan and Dalton, FM Talk, when I was 6'5", mobile morning. 8'07", it's crazy what I'll do. Here with the convention for big speech happens at night, and I'm already night, night. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night, use my phone to find the recording. And then the political speech is like a lullaby. Because I'm up 2'0", like 1'30" or something like that. You know, a couple hours earlier than I want to be. And so then I'll say, well, I'll catch up. And I'll also have a better idea what happened and know what kind of clip to try and find when we get to the newsroom. And I'll listen to last night JD Vance. Do you think you retain any of that information once you've falsely? I do. I do. And then this morning, we've been so overwhelmed with all kinds of information. I just remember having-- getting an impression of Vance's performance last night. We'll get into that, but I know you do have some audio. And also the fact that people were surprised, including let leaning news organizations. I don't know why you would be surprised. Because I guess if you have yourself made JD Vance out to be a monster already, you've missed the boat on him. Maybe some of his political leadings or policies, obviously, he mirrors Trump in a lot of ways. And he also, his rhetoric, I guess, has been kind of-- he had to win a race. So he had to be very forceful. But he's a very thoughtful, very brilliant guy. And I think that's kind of the intent behind him being chosen. I think also, Trump Jr. is friends, very much friendly with JD Vance. And with his age, I wonder if Trump, of course, he's looking at it politically. This is a guy who can win the Rust Belt for me. But also really take Trump's overall message and put it into sound bites that are easy to understand, I guess. He could kind of relay the Trump MAGA message to more people. Amen. He had it being considered toxic by one side or the other. And it's a populist message. It's one of the things CNN said was that all of the blue-collar Clinton voters in many ways advanced speech last night echoed some of those thoughts and ideas and feelings. Like, hey, what happened to our jobs? Where did our jobs go? They went overseas. Anyway, I thought Vance did a great job. He spent a lot of the beginning of the speech talking about Trump and the assassination attempt. And we were saying early in the RNC they didn't seem to be talking about it much at all. Like they had already written their speeches and they weren't going to deviate from that at all. And while obviously the former president almost lost his life, we'd be in a completely different America. I don't know what it would look like right now, but it would be very strange. But they didn't capitalize on it. They didn't capitalize on day one that the president was almost killed two days earlier. And I thought they weren't quick enough on their feet. Right. And I thought Vance, he did a great job laying that out. Then he got into his story, which so many people know of from Hillbilliology, the book, and then the movie. And he had some really good moments. I think this was one of his strongest as he was talking about, he's 39 years old. Biden has been a politician for longer than he's been alive. And he kind of laid it out like this with a lot of those populist messages. I'm sorry, I have it paused. Give me just a second, I mean, I'm muted. Let's unmute and try this again. All right, here's JD Vance with a part of his speech. I thought it was very strong yesterday. - When I was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of Joe Biden, supported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico. When I was a sophomore at high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle class manufacturing jobs. When I was a senior at high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq and at each step of the way. In small towns like mine in Ohio or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war. - That was, I think, a very strong moment in the speech late last night from Vance. He also had his mother there who he said in December, or soon, she'll be 10 years sober. She had opioid addictions. And that's a big part of the story, a massive part of the story. So he was raised by his grandparents, grandparents. And he told a great story about his Mamaw, as he calls her. And I think this is the thing. I could relate to a lot of this, not the, I didn't have this hard scrabble in my life, is he in so many in Ohio and Pennsylvania and in so many other places. But this story about his grandma reminded me about my grandma on some stories we have of her. Here's Vance telling a fantastic story, there we go. - And our movement, ladies and gentlemen, it's about grandparents all across this country who are living on social security and raising grandchildren they didn't expect to raise. And while we're on the topic of grandparents, let me tell you another Mamaw story. Now my Mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005. And when we went through the things, we found 19 loaded handguns. They were... (crowd cheering) Now, the thing is that they were stashed all over her house under her bed and her closet in the silverware drawer. (crowd cheering) And we wondered what was going on. And it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, Mamaw couldn't get around so well. And so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she was with an arm's length of whatever she needed to protect her family. That's who we fight for, that's American spirit. - I think he did a great job throughout of using his age. And so many people that are around that age, like me, and you really, I mean, you have your mat gazes. You have people that are around that same age. On the other side, you have the AOCs, you have a lot of people that are millennials or near it. But he did a great job of saying, "Hey, that Iraq war, we were all in." But we were led to it in many ways about that. And he said, "The housing crisis." Just one thing after another, and I think there's so many people that can relate to growing up and seeing all this happening and feeling one way then, and then realizing how big of a whole so many of these massive bureaucratic decisions made by the federal government has put our country, and the country that is now being passed from the boomers on down, to X, and then to millennials. And they were, regardless of what party your allegiance is to, there have been massive, massive mistakes made in just the last few decades, to say the least about before that. And he is a smart enough person, and because of his upbringing, he's not disconnected like we hear so many of these elites when they try to talk to the American people. I think he was a fantastic choice, and I think last night he put on a really strong speech. - Well, think about this. You can eliminate a job from the people around him, and that job would be speech writer. He doesn't need a speech writer. He is a speech writer. He's a writer. - Yeah. - He speaks from the heart. He knows how to write. He knows how to affect people. He can be strong when he needs to be strong. Ex-Marine, fought in Iraq. So he's got the credentials of one of them, you know, he's a very talented guy, but I think that the side of him that people are going to see going forward, Dalton, is going to be more of the compassionate side of him. And he's compassionate because of the way he grew up, but he's able to express that. When he was on his book tour for the-- - Hillbilly, all the time. - And he was getting some likes. There was some pushback about Hillbilly being in the name of the book, and that was a no-no for whatever reason. But his interviews on every platform, 60 minutes, CNN, it didn't matter. People loved him because the story was heartbreaking, but it was inspiring because, look how far he's come. And at the same time, he was able to express himself as just a real person. It was a little more talent than you and I in his ability to tell the story. We can have certain feelings. Can we always express them? He can. - And, you know, that was a good moment last night, of course, and maybe there's some detractors. I was surprised at CNN and their response. Now, they did have a little bit of pushback, but for the most part, they were like, "Wow." And they did the CNN fact check. They only hit him for one thing. And that was when he referenced the Iraq War. And the CNN fact checker said, "Well, actually Trump was, it's not proven that he was for the Iraq War in reference to Howard Stern interview that came six months after the war began. And Trump at that time said, "Well, I think they should have done it right the first time." The Gulf War, of course, before going in the second time. And then Howard Stern apparently pressed him on it again. And he said, "Listen, W either needs to do something or not do something." So he's kind of non-committal in that interview. And he knows if he was even going on to speak politics there. But then by '04, and CNN's fact checker admitted it, by that time, Trump was on the other side of that of the Iraq War, which was much earlier than a whole lot of other people. So that was the one fact check they got with him. But this is probably, he had the night last night. If they do a vice presidential debate, that'll be a big moment as well. But really the effect that the vice presidential candidate has on the ticket, I think just like Trump said, and so many others, it's pretty minimal, especially when you consider that it's Trump at the top of the ticket. And for now, Biden, at the top of the other ticket, good insurance, sure. Maybe shows how much of an up-and-comer Vance is, but I'm not sure that it will have as massive an effect on November as maybe some of these other elements. - I think it can have an effect because of this, because this is a setup for the next presidential election. This is a chance for Vance to show himself, acquit himself, prove himself, and then when it gets to 20, what are we talking about? - 28. - 2028. He'll be the GOP. - The heir apparent. - He'll be the heir apparent. - Yes, you can say. - So I think people will look at this, if they like Vance, if Vance passes their smell test, and their Republicans or their even independents, I think Vance can appeal to a lot of that group. I think that some people got it wrong on him. Now, we're early, obviously, and that was the honeymoon last night. I get it, but his ability to communicate and his compassionate side and the fact that he's got it all. Again, no speech writers need it. In, you said they weren't ready on Monday to address the shooting and all of that. Well, he gets nominated and here comes Wednesday, like a freight train, and he's ready. - He's ready. - He's ready because he's a writer and because he's smart and because he can express his feelings. - Yeah, I thought he did a great job. And you forget, and you watched so many of these people who got up on the stage. And another powerful moment was the Bronze Star Families and reading the names of the 13 who died at Abbey Gate. - Yeah. - So powerful. I'm sure Sean this afternoon will talk about the 98-year-old veteran who got up there on the stage after that and spoke, but you see how hard it is. And we were just cracking, cracking fun about, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, whatever you think about her politics. She was kind of her, the way she was on stage, kind of a little off. - Yeah, that was a couple of nights back. - Okay. - Matt Gates, a little bit of Botox before his speech last night. And when they get up there and Gates is a pretty good speaker, but you can see it's not easy and Vance did a pretty good job. When we get back, I do want to talk about the latest on them, the shooter in this investigation. But as far as Biden, it might be coming soon. He might be dropping out soon. You have Pelosi now telling him he can't win privately, quote unquote privately, that leaked everywhere. But I said, "Paul showed not only will you probably lose, but also the House and Senate. Then Biden has that interview with BET come out that says, I'll step out if a doctor tells me I have a serious condition. Then he tests positive for COVID. More embarrassing parts of the BET interview come out. What if he drops out today before Trump's speech? How much of that Trump speech for tonight is written about specifically Biden and his policies? I don't know, maybe that'd be an extra little curve ball. - Yeah, I think Trump would be nimble enough to navigate all that. 820, Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 1065. (upbeat music) 25, Dan and Dalton, FBI, concluded, conducted, I should say 200 interviews. I know I think we've got the same story. It's hard to have the same story, Dan. There's so many of them. That is, they all just don't know. And maybe you read it, try to read as many stories as we do, but there are a million stories, and the other thing is, I will listen to an interview as far as the Biden thing. I will listen to an interview like I did this morning on America or this morning. And I can tell you, that was pre-recorded. That was like two days ago. Her response, her overview of the situation, that's changed. And it keeps changing flip-flop and "Oh, they're gonna let it go." No, Biden, no, they're gonna push him out. No, they're gonna let him go. - Oh, yeah. - One side to the other. - Exactly, and so you've got to be in the moment, and that lady either wasn't in the moment, or Gordon Deal conducted that interview like on Monday. You know, putting a show together that sometimes happens. - It's tough to pre-record this week more than any other week. - Exactly. Yesterday was only Wednesday. Today is only Thursday, it's been a long one. - So they conducted 200 interviews, combed through 14,000 images. I think John Barrasso from Wyoming kind of, this is how people are, this is how elected officials are feeling. - The FBI and the Secret Service knew that there was a suspicious person in our advance of when the shooting occurred. - Very frustrating. - Yeah, and I'll go through this timeline here in a second. I just wanted to play this. The Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheetall, she actually showed up at the RNC last night. She said she'd be there. She was hounded by a bunch of the same Republican senators we heard talk yesterday. They shut down a lot of these Republicans on the call, didn't allow them to ask questions, further questions, during that all hands on deck call yesterday. But there was a CNN interview, and after they put out that news that there was a reportedly a serious threat, an attempt on her, a threat on Trump's life from Iran, they said, "We beefed up Secret Service." And all of us went, "What?" That was beefed up. - Exactly. - And a CNN asked her about that. And remember, she's gonna speak with Comer next week in the House Oversight Committee. - Every element, every part of his from the intelligence to the counter assault team, to the detail agents, the shift agents, I mean, every element top to bottom of the advance in the operation was every element increased after you learned of this credible threat. - What we increased was what we felt was appropriate for the former president and for that particular event on that day. That sounds like a no. I have not seen a no at all. - So let's talk about this timeline and basic order of things from yesterday. It sounds like about 3 p.m., three hours before the shooting. That's when Crookes first tried to pass through security, the screening there with a rangefinder. So they're like, "Hey, this guy tried to get in." But they didn't detain him at that time. 5 p.m., around an hour before the shooting. There's a video from a rally goer, seeing him Crookes or someone who looks a lot like Crookes. It's very grainy walking around the building that he would eventually climb to the top of. - Kind of just surveying it. - Surveying it. And then 5.30 p.m., 40 minutes before the shooting, Crookes is photographed by security crawling around on the ground. That's the picture you could see from up top where his jaw is kind of jutting out. That was taken by Secret Service from above him. 20 minutes before the shooting, he was noticed by law enforcement on top of the roof. He was, and then just a few minutes before the shooting, the rally goers see him up there and start pointing. I think that was about a minute, 40 seconds. And then of course, 6.11 p.m., the first shot is fired. Also a report that came out that his parents, let me see here, I thought I had it pulled up here, they called police early on, like three hours, I believe, when we pulled it up. - They might call it like the local police saying that they were worried about their son was gone and could be in harm's way. - I don't know. - Right, that's exactly what it was. - They called the local police in Bethel. - They contacted law enforcement hours before he opened fire. The mother and father said Crookes was missing. This was local police. Crookes was missing and they were concerned about his welfare. And police have not said what actions they took after being contacted. So this, I mean, this timeline, it doesn't make things look better for the Secret Service. Especially if they saw him on the roof, like these reports are saying, he had been spotted maybe without the rifle on the roof. I'm not sure, but 20 minutes before the shooting actually occurred. And that he was trying to get in three hours earlier with the range finder, and it's unbelievable. - Hey, it is. - Yeah. So you count three or four times when you're thinking that things should've been snuffed out, right? - Mm-hmm, at least, yeah. - 8.30 with Dan and Dalton. If I'm talking 106.5, hit us up on the text line. 25.1.3.4.3.0.1. 0.6. (upbeat music) What if I'm Dan and Dalton, if I'm talking 106.5, 8.35, good to have you along? If you chose not to come along, it would be literally just wasting our time here, Tony. (laughs) We could just be in one of the other's living room. - Yeah. - No microphone. That's still probably dark here, yes. (laughs) But our message would not be amplified. Like we amplify Rob Holbert every Thursday morning from Lanyamopial, good morning, Rob. - Good morning, guys. - And this isn't just any Thursday, Dan. I think we needed more pomp and circumstance. This is a nappy Thursday. As it's official now, the 2024 Lanyamop nappy award winners and a big party coming on the way. But congratulations, Rob. I know that it's a lot of hard work that you and the entire team put into getting this out there and then collecting the votes, counting them, and congrats. - Well, the hardest work is done by Ashley. Ashley tries to do most of the hard work. I just kind of get dragged along the way. - Yes, it's always an amazing program to get through this. It's a lot of fun for a lot of people. And I'm really happy that after 22 years, other people still enjoy it. - I think that some people that don't win wish that Secretary of State, Wes Allen would get involved in the look of it. (laughs) But we don't have time for all of that. We trust the nappies as they're presented to us, especially when we win, like that. - Do you catch much flack throughout the year, Rob? I mean, do people come up to you and they're like, "I want to punch you in the face." I can't believe I didn't win this. - Well, I'll get that. They didn't usually get that carried out later. There are definitely some people who are upset, you know, and who think that they've been ripped off in some way, shape, or form, but that's rare. I mean, most of the people who win are really happy that they want and feel the love from the people of Mobile. It's a lot of votes, and so, you know, it's a cool thing for folks to be recognized, and that's the thing I always try to focus on is the positive of it, and even just, even those who are nominated, it's a great recognition. You know, if you're in the top five or six people doing what you do in this area, that's a great thing. - Yeah, and we thank everyone who voted for FM Talk 106.5, pulling home four awards, so we appreciate that, but I'm not joking. I think this is a really good, you know, service for the local community, but even people who've vacationed and come down because I can't tell you how many times a decision has been made for me whether I want to go get something done here or there or go eat here or there, and I see that they won a Nappy. Well, they're clearly good, so I use the Nappy as kind of a guide map for a lot of what I do around here. - I absolutely do, too. I mean, if I need a service and I don't know anybody and have it used them before, and I look at who the finalists were, and then I'm like, okay, well, you know, they've kind of been vetted by the community to some extent, you know? - Yeah, and I really love when I see like a first time winner there, maybe it's an organization or it's a doctor's office, or whatever it is, and they're there, and then they're able to take in that evening. It's not far from the SPs. I mean, it may have surpassed the SPs, it is a really fun time. It's a chance to see, for me, a lot, you know, I wake up zero, you know, 10 past zero. So I don't, I'm not like a guy in the town, but I get to run into people, see everybody on a very celebratory night, correct? - Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's very, the vibes are very positive, it's a lot of fun, and people are there to be recognized and, you know, and celebrate winning and are just having fun, you know, and to be celebrating the city. It's a positive evening, and it's always been, you know, something we look forward to, and I mean, it's the end of the nappy, so it's a lot of work has been put, you put in, and it's kind of a great thing for our staff as well to be like, hey, it's over. - It's over, yeah. - We kind of move on for a little bit. It's over for about three months. - Yeah, and then the cycle-- - Don't even feel much. - Then the campaign-- - All over again. - Yeah, exactly. Well, folks, check it out. All the winners are in the latest edition and also at lanyatmobile.com. You mentioned positive vibes, I guess you could say, some positive vibes back for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. Since we last talked with you, the announcement Friday, that $550 million in a federal, it's from the infrastructure project, which I looked it up, makes up 0.000, 4% of the infrastructure project, $550 million. - Right. - But now you combine that with grants and state money and we're at about $1 billion towards the $3 billion, maybe $3 1/2 billion cost. - Yeah, we're getting, you know, maybe close to 40%, funded, but I mean, it's a big step. Yeah, it's a big, big step. And, you know, I mean, I've always said that I think the federal government should take care of this bridge, it is a federal road. And so, you know, federal highway, it should be taken care of, I said. So, I think it makes sense that that money came in from them and I'm glad that that was there. Hopefully, you know, hopefully there'll be more coming. As you said, that infrastructure bill is a large one and there's a lot of, they can throw us a little bit more money as well, but yeah, at least it's getting it to be a much better spot. And hopefully we're gonna get this thing started. - Yeah, that's what this seems to me. The news came out and suddenly the momentum started back up again. Is that how you saw it, Rob? - Yeah, I think so. I think that's, I think you're gonna see the momentum move at this point. Everybody kind of said, "All right, we can go now." You know, this is, I kind of feel it that way. And, you know, hopefully that's what'll happen 'cause it's time for it to happen. - And kind of a side story. - It's time for it to happen. - Yeah, a long, long time ago. And kind of a side story in this is Senator Katie Britt's involvement. And once Senator Shelby, you know, called it a career, that was a big question regarding Britt. And how much time she's been around Shelby, but his ability to bring federal money down to our area and down to the state is a pretty big win for Katie Britt. And I know Ivy kind of taken a victory lap as well, but I thought it was notable that Britt was the one who was kind of bringing this news to the area. - Yeah, I mean, I think she's, you know, obviously an up-and-comer in the Senate. I don't think there's any doubt about that. You see her face everywhere. I think she's going to be, I think she's gonna be a good Senator for the state in regard to getting, getting funding and doing those things that we expect. We've come to expect from our Senators, or at least from one of them. So it's a good thing that she is involved in that. You know, everybody, what do they say, you know, success has a million fathers, it's like everybody. Everybody came out and said, I did this. - Yeah, yeah. - We got 15 press releases within 30 minutes saying that, you know, so-and-so did this, I did it, you know, but it's good for her to be involved in it. - You know, Rob, part of my career in the city of Mobile, for sure, since 1995, has been not just on the air, but off the air and emceeing things or trying to give my time to community events and stuff. - Yeah, things that you look at it and you, well, I know this person's on the board and I'll help him out and I'll emcee this. A lot of the things I did early on were drawdowns. And now the idea is, well, Dalton even talked about it on the air the other day that he wouldn't mind seeing me get hauled off in the middle of a, by law enforcement. - I was gonna say, and I don't know what the statute of limitations are, you may not wanna make this confession over their way. - I never thought that emceeing a drawdown, talking about it would be a confession, but now I would be advised by an attorney that it is. - Oh, dirty Dan Brin, you're all off, yeah, it's, I mean- Yeah, I mean, we've got this, you're obviously referencing this, this drawdown or autism in at, you know, in at the, I wish the bar pirates code. - I told him. - And, you know, and so all of a sudden our attorney general has gotten involved and says it to illegal to do this. I'm just sort of dumbfounded by it. I don't, I didn't, I thought he didn't have time to do something like that. He was too busy signing on to other lawsuits in other states to be involved in putting like this. - Well, and it sounds, Rob, like Embrady Petrie kind of following up on that, that he did change his mind after state Senator Chris Elliott reached out to him. So I think that's exactly what happened. I don't think he took a single look at this thing. Like, he got some complaint from someone that they were doing this lottery for a jeep, this drawdown for a jeep, and then just kind of like a stamp it and send it out, you're not allowed to do that. And then Elliott calls it and changes his tune. - Yeah, well, I think that he, I think he probably realized how idiotic he looks. And I mean, this is, you know, if you talk about, talking about press releases, that's all, you get spewed, all press releases all day long from the Attorney General's office about his comments on this and the lawsuits he's joining in on this and all these other things, most of which have nothing to do with law and order in our state. Most of them have to do with what I would consider his political future and going, you know, fighting a drawdown to help autistic children probably not a great move if you're running more often than public office. You know, yeah, I mean, you might want to beat up Santa Claus next, I don't know what else you've got in mind but it's just not a good look. Yeah, I think that one was sour, the second it hit. I mean, it's a real sour note. - Yeah, a bad move for sure. I would start with maybe some of the other actual illegal gambling that's going on before you hit the autism charity. - I mean, that's the thing. You know, it's, I mean, it's not like Alabama's not full bingo halls and things like that that are not legal gambling and he's busy worrying about a drawdown and, you know, it pirates code for autism. I mean, what are there not better things to do? I can think of a lot of things that I would love to see our Attorney General's office do and investigations they might get involved in that actually have something to do with millions of dollars being wasted in taxpayer money. That would be cool if he would do that, you know, but this is a real waste of time and I'm sure he tucked his tail pretty quick and ran back. - Dalton, the question is, who was the Alberta screechy Karen that called this one in? - Great question, who was the one that they drawdown for the fight against autism was just too much for her and she had to contact, I don't know, the Attorney General of the state. - Yeah, somebody just couldn't take it. I know, it's a strange world we live in but I thought that was kind of dumb sounding for him to do that. He's, I mean, I don't, I don't see very many politicians more transparently always running for something other than him. I mean, Steve Marshall is always looking, I mean, he looks like he's running for office all the time for something else, you know, he's turned limited out as AG, so, you know, it's kind of, I don't, again, not a good move. Whoever advised him on that one, probably not a smart one. - He's like a runner in the, in the starting blocks. He's poised and he's waiting for that gun to go off. - It's, don't get between him and a camera, you're gonna get hurt, that's how it is. - Rob, I mean, I don't know how you guys cover it all in as in depth as you do, even just this last week and a half, you had news on the bridge, news on the Civic Center, news on the airport property, and then plenty more. It's all covered in the latest issue of land yap, along with, of course, the Nappy Award winners. If folks wanna pick that up on stands or find it online, how can they do that? - Of course, you know, all of our purple boxes, they're out there right now. This is a great issue to pick up. It's, you know, as thick as your wrist. So there's lots of stuff in there. The, going online, you know, land yap daily online. That's where it is. I mean, we are doing a lot of news. We're doing probably 50 stories or more online. You know, news stories and sports stories a week that, and we can't get everything in the paper because, you know, it would be that sick every week and a print bill would be astronomical. So, you know, check it out online, help us out, keep us going, it helps us pay our folks and continue to do the work we're doing. - All right, John, we appreciate Rob the job that you do do, and we appreciate the fact that you've joined us on Thursday so we can sort it all out. Thanks a lot and have a good day. - Thanks, Dan. We appreciate it. You guys have a great weekend. - See you at the nappies. Rob Holbert, landyapmobile.com, and we'll come back and wrap it up with the texts, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, plus MSNBC comparing Biden's COVID and Trump's wounds shooting. We'll play that when we come back. - That's too good. (upbeat music) This is typical of me, I think. - Thank you, thank you. Dalton comes over here and straightens out my text line and improves the font where I'm more comfortable reading it right on the air. And I pretty much have just ignored it ever since. But I do see that there are those out there in FM talk 106.5 land that think that the COVID, the COVID excuse. - Yeah, excuse our announcement. - Yeah, the doctors saying that he's got COVID Biden. They're not buying it, or some of you are saying like, well, how would we really know? He was failing at this and that. He had the Latino thing coming up. He kicked around the interview on BET a little bit, had his moments there. And then he had another group coming up that he's gonna speak to live. And his people were saying nothing good can come from any of this. - Yeah, maybe that's the case. There's so many conspiracies. This has been maybe the conspiracy theory week of all conspiracy theories. - Yeah. - Weeks. - Yeah. - Trump shooting. - Trump shooting from both sides. I mean, you hop on Twitter and see how many people believe that this was like all planned out by the Trump team to have him. - Right down to his ear being here. - Right down to the ear being. - I mean, come on. And then of course to the other side, like conspiracies as well. But that BET interview and this clip, so the clip people were talking about yesterday was where he said, "If I get medically diagnosed "as having something or other, "then I'll probably step out." But he, I couldn't believe this when this audio came out last night. He's doing an interview on BET. And he has one of the patented Biden brain farts, right? Where he starts to forget things. And he couldn't remember the name of his defense secretary. Lloyd Austin. - Born in Mobile, Alabama. - Born in, and maybe he couldn't remember his name 'cause he's been gone the whole time. He's been either in Israel or Ukraine or wherever. He's been in a lot of places. - And Lloyd Austin was gone for a while and then nobody even-- - That's what I mean. - Oh yeah, but he was gone off the job. - That's right. - He was hospitalized and nobody even knew it. - It seems like that was ages ago. Just a few months ago. How in the world was that no slap on the hand for that? - So two nights ago Biden says he had, when asked if he had spoken with the Secret Service Director, he says, "Yeah, I've spoken to him." - It's a shooter. - It's a shooter. - And then you get this BET interview. You can't remember Lloyd Austin's name. Lloyd Austin's name, he says the black man. - And so it's all about treating people with dignity. It's about making sure a woman coming, for example, look at the heat on getting it because I named the attorney in the fence, the black man, my name, Katanji Brown. I mean, because of the people I've named. - That started making the rounds last night. - Black Entertainment Network, by the way, is what BET stands for. And that would be classic pandering. And not only do I see this pandering, I'm sure black people see this pandering. Like, this fool is just, you know, he's talking about his appointments of African Americans and we get it, okay? You're a Democrat. You had, now a new pool friend has emerged, suddenly after, I guess, 60 years. He did talk about corn pop back in the day. And now he had, he spoke and we got a new friend from the, when he was a lifeguard in the project. So yeah, he had, you mentioned corn pop. - Corn pop we knew about. - And then the new guy was-- - So let me play, it's mouse, by the way. But I'm pulling the audio right here 'cause I had just sent it to Sean yesterday. Maybe we'll get to that tomorrow morning because I did want to play this before that. All right, here we go. Here's, no, I'm not gonna get to the mouse audio on time. So other than that, MSNBC was talking about Biden's COVID diagnosis and Trump being shot at on Saturday. And here's Joy Reid yesterday, comparing the two. Listen to this, hold on. Let me get this fixed. The mouse thing threw me on a, all right, here we go. Start over. - Here's the question that I have on that. These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op during an active shooter, the situation. Weird situation, we'll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of straight. This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days? Doesn't that convey exactly the same thing? That he's strong enough older than Trump to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. - So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same? I mean, it's not exactly the same. It's not the same incident, but it's an elderly man coming through out of an illness. - It should. - First of all, okay, a sniffle to being shot. Sniffles for three days which COVID can be due to being shot. And also she's dismissing all of what Biden has been showing for it's not even the COVID. It's not bouncing back and being regular again. Regular Biden in so hot. So he's gonna bounce back to what degree? I mean, she should clarify that. Is he gonna bounce back and become Biden when he was 65? No. - Yeah, maybe they'll blame long COVID. I don't know. Doesn't have medicine. I had the flu once by Joy Reed's view. I'm practically a Navy SEAL. It's Paul said, "Notice Democrats never say it's about competence or effectiveness." Texture here, I think they're using this COVID thing with Biden as a sympathy plot for him. Nobody including him wore masks when he was shown getting out of the truck. Yeah, that's what, you know, the New York Times is supposed to be running a chart of how many people he got sick and how many people those people are gonna get sick. That's how it works when you walk around without a mask, right? - Always times, yeah. 859.