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Resturant owner using slur - Scott Johnson from Lagniappe Gang Violence and Violent Rap - Midday Mobile - Friday 8-02-24
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He's got the cover story to this week's Land Yap, and I mentioned it yesterday when we were talking to Rob Holbert when Dan and I, I've been filling in this week, if y'all didn't hear, I've been filling in yesterday, and today from the morning show, we'll be back on Monday on the morning show as well for Dalton, but we talked to Rob a little bit about this story and wanted to dig further into it, so we'll get the author on it. It says, "Can Alabama change the tune of violent gangs connected to the music industry?" And this goes from the world of drill wrap into the world of gangs in our community. What was said for so many years, what they're saying now about gang activity, and it's a really in-depth look at this, and we'll talk to Scott about that. So if you've got questions, remember, you can hit us up on the text line even while I'm talking to him later on in this hour. All right, to start off, I want to kind of revisit a story from earlier this week. And just mentioned it a little bit, maybe on Tuesday's show, somewhere back earlier in the week, but there's more to this. Now, somebody sent me the video the other night of this, I guess on Monday or Tuesday's show. I talked about this, what went down at Nick's in the sticks, right, outside of Tuscaloosa. And the video that I felt, I mean, I went viral, I guess I could say that, went viral over on Twitter, where you got a guy who's at dinner with some friends, he's white, his friends are black. And they're a dinner, so one of the proprietors, I don't think the owner, but the husband of the wife who owns mixing the sticks, comes up and says a couple of different things, and says, and bombs, the people that were with him, who are black, and this dude's white. And they had the phones on, but he goes on, and it goes on for like two minutes in this video. You've probably seen it already, where he goes, would you say to me, you know, why did you say that? These are my friends. And I thought it was really an interesting moment as we were looking at, you know, what the mainstream media tries to paint people in this country is being so divided and, you know, all black people are this way, all white people are this way. And here's, you know, maybe I, maybe I liked it even more coming from this guy, because he looks like, could look like me, a lot of my friends, so he's just a regular dude. And kind of got a, you know, again, a little beer belly, he has got his ball cap on his short sleeve button down shirt, I mean, just normal guy. And really gives this guy Jack Moltz the, the, the what for about it. I was very interested in the story, but I did, as always, when you do this long enough, have a percentage of me that said, is this actually what happened? Cause they don't have a recording of this guy using, using the N word. But in watching the video, you're pretty sure about the guy, the way the guy reacted that he did use him. Well, then there's been more to this story now as this Jack Moltz has come out and admitted that yes, he did. And there's a video out where he apologizes for doing that. You can, a lot of people have this thing up right now. You can go watch it. It's about two minutes or so where he makes an apology here for doing it, which to me, circling around was, was important because like always, I mean, I saw what I saw, but we live in today's world where you don't know, did you see everything? You know, the guy comes out and emits doing it when he came up and talked to the other white guy and said that. So, it's, it's, Moltz uses a slur and he's talking to the guy who's in the video, the other white guy referring to the black customers who were with him at the restaurant and actually have the details he was celebrating one of his friends, 22nd birthday, who's the black guy? Okay. And so, and you've probably seen that video by now. So, Moltz comes out in this two, two minute video and says he sincerely apologizes. He said, sincerely apologizes, sorry to every customer. So it's all in the video, apologized to all the people who quote here, to all the people in the community from our reprehensible use of the N word and to just exclusively sue or dispatch to the situation, which I don't know what, TPD had to be there, but they probably had nothing else to do on that night. So, okay. And then he goes on and he asks for apology and he falls on his sword, which is, you know, I guess admirable in that, but I think we can learn two lessons here. The easy lesson in the lesson, NAL.com story and all that is a lesson that I believe in, actually. It's quit being bigots out there, quit being a bigot, okay, just judge everybody individually. But it's actually a two-parter in prejudice. So this guy and Boltz who apologized had prejudice towards people because they're skin color, but I think the prejudice goes both ways because number one, this guy assumed whatever he assumed about these people, they're at the restaurant with their buddy because they're black. I mean, he uses a racial slur. The same time, the secondary, and it's an undercurrent, it's not where near as important as the first one, but the undercurrent is interesting to me too, and maybe because I'd take this, this exists in my world. There was prejudice in this one guy going up to another guy who he didn't know, didn't know, but he figured he could say what he was saying because he said, you know, they're both white guys. And like I said, you look at the guy that he said it to, you know, don't assume, I've said that, yeah, don't assume because I drive a pickup truck, I wear car hearts and ball caps and, you know, there's a combination of butt on my truck and salt, you know, salt foam. I mean, then I'm cool with your bigotry. So the Moltz guy, I said, you know, I said this on Twitter, I think earlier in the week was prejudice on both sides. He was prejudice against people because the color of their skin and at the same time, he prejudged right where prejudice, he prejudged that this other white guy was going to be cool with what he was saying. I think there's a, I think there's a, I think there's a lesson in that. And so interesting, and yes, in that story kind of coming full circle with this guy admitting that he did do it. But like I said, the whole earlier in the week, I held out some part that said, maybe that's not exactly how it went down. Let's get, let's get the full story, but there goes little stories out. All right. So comments on that we can do that and 343 0106 also will get to the, the school stories here. Jeff talked about one of them with, I think it's Randolph County talking about banning phones in the classroom. It seems like a no-brainer to me, but we'll get into that. And also some of the changes that are rolling in for a dress codes and what you can bring with you to school and not bring with you to school this year at school gets ready to get kicked back in here in the next, what is it? This next week, right next week for a Baldwin County and Mobile County. So we'll get to that. But before that, this is interesting. Now this story is from out of the Atlanta general constitution, okay, that paper, which is the very liberal AJC. But this story is about money here and it's something we've talked about for a long time. So this is focused on the Southern company, okay, Southern company, which is a parent company of power utilities here in Alabama, like Alabama Power, but Georgia Power, others in this. And we talked about this last week, I think, and I know, Latin apps reported on this as well, really looking at the numbers of how much it costs to get electricity in the state, how much the cost of electricity is risen. And I think I've told y'all before last year, some pretty shocking stuff because it takes a lot of electricity to run a 50,000 watt transmitter for this radio station. So it's the if something goes up 30% when you see your bill from Alabama Power in my world, it's significant. You don't have to be somebody who's a bean counter to notice it, it's pronounced. Well, now this story called, let's see headline here, Southern company profits soar as summer heat scorches to South. And that's one thing Alabama Power said is like, hey, you know, profits are going up because it's hot and people are, you know, people are using their ACs more. So that that's what's happening here. Yeah, more of this going on, therefore the profits go up. Well, that would make sense. But here you go, it said profits to the Southern company, the parent of Alabama Power rose to $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2024. An increase, this is second quarter y'all, second quarter. So we're not even made warm, but not the hottest, you know, I'd say, you know, third quarter of the hottest here, okay, they increased more than 43% year to year. So 2023, not like it was cold in 2023. It rose more than 43% compared to last year as the company benefited from a series of utility rate increases. There you go. High temperature and an influx of data centers into service territories. The Atlanta, I'm reporting it looked at some of the colleges in the state and what they were paying year to year. I think it was it. I think it was a, was it UAB, so it was like up like over a million dollars year to year of what their power bill was there. So the company reported yesterday, Thursday, that it's earnings across the first half of the year are also up. So two quarters combined, up 35% compared to 2023. They claim from $1.7 billion to $2.3 billion, operating revenues in the first six months of 2024 were 13.1 billion, an increase of 7% compared to last year. Alabama powers net profits in the second quarter were $369 million more than an 18% increase from the same period last year. The $369 million represents about a third or 30% of the total profits for the southern company. Now mind you, that Alabama power just one of the companies within the umbrella of the southern company and it represents 30% of the total profits for the whole thing coming out of Alabama. So is Alabama powers operating revenues in the second quarter were 1.87 billion, nearly a 11% increase from the 1.69 billion in the same period in 2023. Okay, so yeah, hotter, but let's see the key there. How much of that is because the rates went up that significantly and they did. In a comment here from the southern company president, so their side of it CEO Chris Womack said he was pleased with business fundamentals adding that it continues to see quote customer growth and robust economic development in its service territories and quote, well that who wouldn't like returns like that. Oh, by the way, they're a utility, right? Yeah. Just checking. They said second quarter, 2024 operating revenue, 6.5 billion compared with 5.7 billion for the second quarter of 2023 up a billion dollars. So they're spending a lot of this and says, well, it's just because it's not that much hotter in 2024. It's hot. It's been hot. No doubt. But going from 2023 to now, those numbers are significant, but we got the public service commission, right? They're watching it for us. They're taking care of things. How much have you all seen your bills go up percentage wise, hit me up on the text line at 343 and 0106 coming right back more of this very program, the debobial. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 106.5. By 2024, FMTalk 10065 midday mobile, glad to have you along on this Friday. I'll run through some of these texts quickly here. Brandon, is there more to the story? Because I mean, Brandon sent me a link, you know, earlier in the week because, no, I guess it was yesterday. I did the story on the morning show about the spider being, you know, the story, if y'all heard the other. Okay, here's the story. Okaloosa County woman arrested Monday. Yeah. I had that story because it was so thank you for the link, but I thought there was maybe a new update. You have a story of a roommate who drowned her other, her roommate's spider. I thought it was odd. So I was a jumping spider that was drowned in some ginger ale, but yeah, so I think Brandon said that's, you and I were both drawn to the same story. That's why I did it yesterday. Alright, Joshua said, I'm white, half white, half Moa, my white friend sometimes asks, shouldn't you have more black friends since you grew up in a black ghetto? The answer is I don't hang out with anybody that uses the N word. Keep it simple. Well done. And that's, but y'all following what I'm saying about the double prejudice in that guy up at Nix on the sticks, Nix in the sticks, the fact that not only was he prejudicial against the black people that were there, he pre-judged old boy there, old white boy and said, hey, man, I, you know, I'm going to say this to him. And well, if y'all have seen the video, he didn't take to it very well. Alright, let's see. Paul says my power bill last summer was $100 more a month than in 2022. 2024 summer is $100 more a month than 23 and 23 was a hotter than this year. I don't know. Wasn't. But either way, for them to be spending a lot about, oh, was it? Well, it's the, it's the hotter temperatures. Okay. It's not that much harder. It's the rate increases. I mean, y'all these numbers are substantial. I mean, yeah, my gosh, it's billions of dollars of increase in revenue. That's not from, that's not from it being a couple degrees higher and it does say in deference here to what the Alabama power said, there are more people coming online, I guess some data centers and some stuff like that, that contributing, all these things are contributors, but they're not the numbers I just read out in that story, which you can go up, put up on the Twitter or the X feed for FM talk one of six five at FM talk one of six five. Monty says Alabama power is a crime syndicate and Twinkle Kavanaugh is the mouthpiece for those blanking crooks. The PSC thing, I have been long on this, right, Monty? I mean, I've been on this for 15 years. It's see, there are some members of the PSC when they campaign. The rhetoric is all about how they're fighting Washington and I kind of throw my hands in there and say, y'all, we're not, we're not electing y'all to hire a fight Washington. We got people in the federal delegation to fight Washington, have out y'all keep our bills as well because our bills are higher than Georgia power, which is also another southern company rate to rate. I remember I mean, my buddy Ben Raines, when he worked for the press register back in the day, did that story 10 plus years ago and compared side by side rates, we pay more than they do in Georgia. Bob from Foley says very interesting about the electric. They have no competition. I wonder what it would be like if they had other electric companies competing for the customers. Bob, you're singing my song, but you know, that's how we went with utilities out there. It's been a thing I've talked about why I've actually talked to Rob Holbert about it off the air the other day. I said, remember when I wrote, I used to write for Laneyep. I said, remember when I wrote a column, there was all about why utilities are sending me like magazines and doing fun things and all that. That's advertising. That's marketing. Why they're buying billboard, you know, and jumbo trons at stadiums and stuff. It's not like you have a choice. Now, there is a part of the construct that they have to live under as utility. They have to give a certain amount back or into programs there. Why? How about you reduce the rate? You're not competing. Pat says, I'm on budget billing and they raise the rates on me twice last year equaling an extra $1,240 a year and you're on the budget billing, some budget, huh? I mean, this, you can look at your regular power bill and see it. So just look at what you were paying before and I probably pull maybe I'll pull one of our station power bills like I did a few months ago and read the all year to year what we're doing. Marty says Alabama power can take their 78 degrees recommended thermostat setting and shove it. That's crazy. James is sad troll. Well, the PSC is ran by Republicans. I am I supposed to believe they're not profiting for this, Sean? I don't know, it is an entwinkle cap and all, you know, a real entrenched in the Republican party in Alabama. I don't know that they're profiting by like that. Sometimes I get a base by simplistic corruption, but I don't think it's that simplest. I don't think people are handing them bags of money, but there's politics all wrapped up in it. I would like to see the public service commission their one job and their one allegiance be to the people who pay utility bills in the state, and it's okay. I mean, Alabama powers guaranteed a certain amount of profit and that's part of the deal. They're operating within the lines there, but these numbers are huge here. Coming back, we'll get some more text also. Scott Johnson from Land Gap joins us. Lots to talk about with him. Straight ahead on the day mobile. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. We're at 1235 to FM Talk, one of six five bid day mobile, going to have you here on this Friday. Talking to Scott Johnson with Land Gap in just one second, first let's check in with our intrepid reporter live at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. Ron. Hey Ron, what's going on today? Yes, sir. How you doing, Sean? I'm good, man. What's precious metals? What have they done this week? I've been up and down all week. It's been kind of crazy, but they are up to date gold at $2,475, which is near another record high and silver is still right under $30. So silver is really a great buy right now. I mean, gold and silver is still creeping up, or you know, it all depends on who's going to win the election if the Dems win, we're in trouble for the next four years. And I think gold and silver will be a great, great investment slash hedge for you. 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This is the connection with the rap scene, but also you get into this detailed discussion about the gang scene here as well. So I mean, what prompted this story? Where did you start on this? I've been following the gang reporting since I started at Laneyap. It's always been very interesting to me. But in actually, it's more surprisingly easy to follow than you think it is. If you know the right social media accounts, the right Reddit threads, it's all out there and then open. If you know the artist names, this is all on YouTube. And yeah, so what sparked this story was the arrest of Isaiah Kelly, which would have been last week by the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. He's being charged with murder for the death of a 24-year-old last year where he allegedly shot him during a late night at a gas station. So the weird component about Isaiah Kelly is that he's a rapper. So his rap name is K-F-N-Spec. I think K-F-N is his gang name. But he publishes music, actually released an album probably a week before he got arrested. So he's been making music for three years but actually released under a music label a week before he got taken in. So despite the kind of high profile incident that happened last year, it took the Mobile County Sheriff's Office about a year to actually get enough evidence. I mean, despite there being dozens of witnesses on the scene, despite him presumably alluding to this incident and media that he's put out. And despite that he had this long history of drug-related offenses, shooting-related offenses, he's a convicted felon. And so it kind of culminated last week into his arrest with the Sheriff kind of giving a hard line, "We're coming after gang members." And that in itself is a pretty distinct thing. The law enforcement city officials have long avoided talking about gangs and mobial. They always add caveats, loosely defined. So there's been a lot of what they're not. And this story I feel like is the first time I've actually been able to hear someone say what it is. And they've basically said this is these loose street gangs have scaled into these essentially criminal enterprise organized crime groups that are basically so entwined with the music labels, with the music, with the video production, all that stuff where it's a criminal enterprise. And he likened it to the YSL group, the YSL label in Atlanta, it's a big case. And I think a lot of people saw the judges' conduct with Jeffrey Williams, Young Folk, who owns the label that made it kind of high-profile with what was going on over in Fulton County. But that's the same case. But basically that this music label is a front for the criminal activity all behind. The music itself is acting like this marketing arm. That was one of the most chilling things I've quoted that a couple of times since your story came out about that, because you mentioned how, if you know the right places, this stuff is all out in the open. It is like you would think like even though one part of the gangster world is snitches get stitches and nobody's saying anything, but these are, in drill wrap songs, I'm no pearl clutcher, I'm a rap fan, but in drill wrap, you're not just saying I'll shoot anybody tries to take my money and I make money, it's I'm going to shoot so-and-so. And then you go shoot so-and-so and you told everybody you're going to shoot so-and-so. It seems it would make police work a little easier to fly to your suspect. It's chilling stuff. Not only I'm going to shoot you, but this is who we've shot. A lot of times you'll see people flash pictures of somebody they shot or killed or they're bragging about the way someone died. I mean, it's chilling. It's really upsetting stuff to listen to, and you know, but you got this issue, you got several issues. One is, you know, those admissions are either, you know, they're explicit, ranging from explicit to just kind of hinting at it, and, you know, what is it, middle, missable evidence? You know, what is, you know, is it a confession? You get into this, you know, one of the YSL cases was one of the lyrics that one of the songs put out was, "I put 50 rounds in your top," well, their defense attorney is kind of piecing that part, piecing that apart, well, 50 rounds, what? We're taking 50 rounds around the block because it's like music, this art form, you can kind of hide behind it and say, you know, basically, you know, they'll do this. They'll be like, "Hey, all those guns, we're props," and all, you know, that's how they get around it. And it is out in the open, you can watch them, all his videos are up, and, but then you get into the legal aspect of it, and that gets even more challenging because Alabama doesn't have an, up until recently, hasn't had a strong framework to address this. They've not had a, we just passed a criminal enterprise law last year, which is a sentencing enhancement, other parts of the country that have dealt with organized crime longer, California and Atlanta, Georgia, they've got more kind of pinpointed structures that dealt with it longer. I think California is like a sentencing-handed enhancement, but I think Georgia actually has a, an actual charge if you are involved in one of these criminal enterprises. It's a separate, it can go up to 20 years just for being apart under this criminal enterprise of umbrella, and you are a member, and they can prove it. So, I was really appreciate the local gang intelligence unit. You guys are really impressive, and... Yeah, you talk a little bit about, I mean, you have a, you know, you talk about going into Mobile's Local Intelligence Unit for Gulf Coast Technology, and you talk to, what, Lieutenant Cook, and then Sergeant Corley? Yeah. Yeah. Both great guys. They, they, and I wish I could have written everything we talked about, because it was just really great, and they're, you know, they're not, they're very concerned about, you know, the constitutionality of what they do, and that's, they, they made that really clear, and then that's kind of what the, the issues is when you get, get into some of this is, you know, if you make a law, can you overstep and make it unconstitutional? But it was really encouraging to hear them say that they're not, they're not just, you know, randomly targeting people, but they've, they're building up cases with intelligence, and, you know, it, yeah, it's, it's really, really cool stuff they're doing. Yeah. You know, the, when the law was, when they're talking about the law, in the first place in Alabama, I'll be frank, I was picking on it a little bit. Now, I can see need for it, but it was some of the, some of the parts, right? The, if you, if you wear, you know, have in front of me here, like wear gang clothing. Oh, yeah. Here it is. Well, that shouldn't mean it, or you have a tattoo, or you use a hand, you know, hand sign. I mean, that, those to me seem like, that doesn't mean, I mean, people who could dress like they're in a gang or had a hand sign or something like that, that to me doesn't rise to the level of investigating people, but that's all in this law. Yeah. Yeah. And there's, I think, I think when, you know, some of that might be outdated, I don't think anybody's going around wearing gang affiliated t-shirts or something, you know, maybe that's the thing of the past where you have red handkerchiefs or something, but I think we, you know, so you have to actually meet multiple of this criteria. Okay. You got to check off more than one box before you. Yeah. I think you have three or four before it can actually be used as evidence. So, so this great discussion, because as of up to now, and this is a new law, so it's still untested, like they haven't put anybody in through a sentencing where they've actually added on years, but up until now, gang affiliations have basically, and they do this in the Mobile County District, attorneys office very well in collaboration with the local gang unit as they present gang evidence as just contributing factors in bond hearings, preliminary hearings for probable cause, and that's the only way it's been brought up. It's not, you can't actually point to and prosecute a gang affiliation or a participation in a gang group. This new law provides that framework, both in now that you, now you're going to have a sentencing hearing after a conviction, then you're going to go to sentencing and then you can actually, you know, then you're going to have to say, Hey, look, these are the frameworks. This is our evidence that this person is a part of this criminal enterprise of gang group. It's like a multiplier, you get a, you get, you get sent, you get, you know, convicted of murder and then the, the, you know, whatever the crime is shooting somebody and the sentence is this and then you add this on to make the sentence longer. Is it like a, you know, does it, okay, it increases the sentencing schedule by a class, so class B to class A, class C to be. So even if you had a class C felony conviction, if you can prove beyond a really reasonable doubt or with evidence that this was a gang related or gang activity and he was part of it, then you can increase that sentencing schedule to the next level and sentence them under a class B schedule, which the goal is to take these people off the street to remove them from the equation. And so that's on the, the back end, however, and this is really cool because there's now a legal framework for evidence of what a gang member is. This is actually giving law enforcement tools for how to basically investigate and kind of construct cases because now they have this, now they have a criteria, set criteria, now law enforcement in coordination more effectively to identify these people, to link things to actual gang groups into, you know, and maybe some of these things that if so, let me take a step back. The anti-gang, gang law enforcement has been prosecuting and celery crimes, and I think that we're right. - Ancillary, yeah. - Ancillary, just in fact, it's on different syllables. Yes, ancillary. - Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. So, you know, they're not, they're not going after the organized crime aspect. They're going after how you stole and shot or murdered this person. That's the direct, most direct path typically, and you'll see this with the Glock switches. A lot of gang, a lot of gang activity involves the Glock switches you attach it on, you have an automatic handgun, and it's a common trait for gang violence. Prosecutors, federal prosecutors will come in routinely, pick up the cases out of the local, move them to federal, and just in the land of four or five years sentence right up to that. I mean, so that's their goal, is to try and get these people off the street the best, as fast as possible, and so they can't, you know, continue or, you know, continue or the cycle or retaliation cycles. - Yeah, and it's, you know, you mentioned it here a couple of times, and you quote Sheriff, Mobile County Sheriff Perch in the story, when he says for a long time, law enforcement denied there was a gang problem, and Mobile was starting to see the results of that. And I know you've been watching this since you've come to work with lane yet, but I've been watching this a long, longer time, Scott, and that absolutely was true. I would have people in law enforcement in who were good men, but I'd like, "Hey, this is a game." And they'd be like, "Well, it's not, you know, it's just a, like you said, loose affiliation, and it's not really a, you know, charter gang." And I'm like, "Well, it seems like it's a gang shooting each other, you know, this gang shoots that gang, shoots that gang." Well, it's not really, now we've, I mean, you can't fix a problem to identify what it is and give it a name. We have a gang problem. - Right. Right. Yep. Yep. And I think, I think that is, I mean, when they, I remember the press conference where they changed it. It was 2021. I mean, it was, there was a Friday where it was like back-to-back incidences, two, two or 16, 15-year-olds got killed over on Cottage. - Ew. - I can't remember the road. But it was just back-to-back. And it was all that Friday, Mayor Stanney Simpson has a press conference. And that's almost like what broke through when they started changing that. And, you know, just basically openly let's acknowledge this. And yeah, yeah, how much, you know, now they're acknowledging it in Montgomery, they're acknowledging it in Birmingham, and then you've got, you know, I mean, the high-profile incidences everywhere, two New York-yves shootings involved gang members. One of those, I don't know, I haven't confirmed this, but I think one of those, one of those guys involved, I think his grandmother got killed and they drive by Wednesday. - Mm-hmm. - You know, it's crazy stuff. - It is. - You know, so high-profile incidences over and over again, the Stockton shooting ended up being gang-related. And it's happening and it's happening in the open and they're, you know, they're hiding out in the open and they've got all this stuff and they're, it's almost like they're flaunting it. And that's one of the- - It's not almost like they're flaunting it, right? I mean, when you make it, you know, and once again, it's not like I'm like, all that rap, I like that rap, but drill rap, my God, I mean, it's, it's like I'm laying out what I did and coming get me, okay, well, come and get them then. And if they make a song about how many people they killed before and who they're getting right and who they're fixing to kill, okay, all right, then we'll take that and investigate it. - Right, right. - I'll tell you what, it's a, it's a, it's a heck of a read here. Y'all, it's the most in-depth story I've seen in a long time or ever on this subject here from Scott. Scott, if people want to get this story, of course, the cover story, the new land nap or if they want to go online, tell them about that. - Yeah, finder, finder purple boxes around town, we've got a search tool on a website, you can find one, but pick them up for free or, this is like what we like is you go to lanyatmobile.com, you subscribe and join us. - Good stuff. Scott, we'll get you back on soon. A heck of a story here. Well done. - All right, thanks, Sean. - All right, there, good Scott. John, so we're coming right back. More mid-day mobile. - This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 10065. - All right, that's 1256, FM Talk 10065, mid-day mobile, let me give you a quick head what's up as we get into the weekend, too. Monday is like a day most people like to get something planned, started, those kind of things. Well, maybe make Monday your appointment day with 1-800-GOT-JUNK to get that junk out of wherever you got it. The trunk, even if you would have junk in the trunk, but inside your house, outside your house, storage unit, business, wherever you got junk that's in your way, it's this cool thing about garages, too, that you can put cars in them when you get the junk out of them. 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Let's see, y'all, give me homework. I won't be out of town a lot next week, but maybe I'll have some time to do the homework. Squirrel Vereen says, "I'd sweat like crazy with three fans on me before paying 200-plus a month like I did last year for three months." Yeah, it's, I mean, the number, go look at the story. It's up there, I mean, it's the numbers are significant here and the rate increase. James, I'm gonna say James the Jeff Portrol, but James, just James, on my show, said when the poor states in America, the power bills are theft, but saying this falls on deaf ears because it won't matter, Republicans are deathly afraid to question their own. Nah, not all of them. Some people in a little circle around my gumbria are, but nah, I think a lot of people will question this. All right, we'll keep questioning and keep answering when we come back.