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>> 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. >> Good morning from Dan and Dalton at Pimtock, one or six, five, seven minutes after eight o'clock. Mobile Mornings weekend, highlighted by some gold medals, some big shots by Steph Curry, some big wins by the US teams, and then, then wrapping up the Olympics, a lot of people are talking about, which I didn't see. I guess I'll find it on YouTube. Tom Cruise is part of the, you said it was about five hours long closing. >> Well, maybe not five hours. I saw that it was set to start at 2.30, and I was thinking, "Oh, if I'm around, I might check it out." But I ended up going out to a restaurant with the family in around 4.45, 5 o'clock. It was still going on, so I guess they were passing the torch. Well, pun not intended in that case, passing the torch to the 2028 Summer Olympics, which will be in LA, so I saw Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre performing up there, but yeah, I didn't watch much of the closing ceremonies at all. I really didn't watch much of the opening ceremonies until the controversy, and then I checked out what everyone was saying, but I enjoyed the games in between. I'll say that much. Very, I mean, the U.S. as a whole, 126 total medals. That is the third most ever for Team USA. >> Yeah, they were great. >> Most since the 84 Summer Olympics, and I can't believe I didn't realize this until WKRG posted this story this weekend, but Gabby Thomas, who is, I think it's fair to say, the fastest woman in the world. She won the 200-metered gold. That's usually the race that they call the fastest person. Her grandfather on her mother's side lives here in Mobile. He's a pastor at New Hope Baptist Church on Dauphin Island Parkway, Stanley King, and Gabby Thomas is his granddaughter. She ended up winning three gold medals for this year's Olympics. She had the 200-meter dash, also the 400-meter relay and the 400-meter relay, golds and all of those. And she seems like not only is she the fastest woman in the world, but she went to Harvard. I believe she's a medical student. She ended up getting her PhD at a university of Texas Science Center in Houston or something like that. >> I mean, and this is an Olympic gold medal winner born in '96. One of the, I mean, smartest and best athletes in the world, and her grandfather lives right here in Mobile. How cool of a story is that? >> And I know a little bit about that church, too. No need to get into it here, but the New Hope Baptist Church on DIP, a friend of mine was the pastor there for many, many years, many, many years. So I don't know that this is happened before. This is the third time in LA. That'll be the third time the Olympics have been played at one stadium, as far as the track and field. >> Oh, really? >> The LA Coliseum. So it was born as an Olympic stadium in, you know, way before the Rams or USC ever thought about running up and down the field. >> So that was a long time ago. >> And then it was 32. >> And then 84 would have been their next one. >> 84, next up, and same building. >> Yeah, same building. >> Wow. >> Same outdoor venue. I'm sure. >> I made my wife very sad last night. As we were watching that part of the closing ceremony at that restaurant, I said, wow, how old is everyone going to be in 2028? And I said, well, I'll be 36. I said, I guess I can just add four to everybody's age, right? And then my daughters, and once I got to their age, she was like, oh, no, quit talking. I don't want to think about them getting older, but- >> Because you'll be 11. >> Is he will be nine, nine going on 10 in four years. >> Oh, four years. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, so we're far away from five. >> So there's a picture of the LA Coliseum. See the makeup of it? Did you ever notice the way it kind of looks like an Olympic stadium? >> Yeah, I guess I didn't really think about it. >> Yeah, I mean, all these years watching USC play out there, you just think, well, that's the design of the stadium, but it was designed that way because it held the Olympics. >> Yeah, well, that'll be cool. And did you see the mayor is trying to go completely car-free for the 2028 Summer Olympics? >> Don't surprise me. >> And I know they're going to say it's all about the climate and everything like that. I guess they're saying it was easy to get around in Paris with mostly public transportation. I think it has more to do with security than anything, or at least it would help with that. It was such a big threat going into the Olympics and it looked bad day one in the day before the opening ceremony where you had the train stations being realized and all kinds of threats. They ended up, I guess, holding it all together for the three weeks, but that's going to be an issue in LA in 2028 as sure as any Olympics going forward. >> Yeah, when you're in Europe, though, boy, that's a powder kick, right? So yesterday I noticed, so Joe Biden gets interviewed by Robert Costa on CBS Sunday morning. And I just want you to -- I have the interviewer in these cuts, so you can hear the way the questions are posed to Joe Biden as opposed to JD Vance who got on with Dana Bash and CNN. >> He was on, I think, three different ones. >> He was on three different ones, right. I think the most hostile was Dana Bash on CNN. Anyway, here is -- that sounds so naive talking to Joe Biden about, let's start with the decision. Here we go. >> Let's begin with your decision. You're at your home. We're home with Beach Delaware late July with your family, and you make this historic decision. Tell me the story. >> Look, folks, we had showed that it was the neck and neck race would have been down to the wire. But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate just thought that I was going to hurt them in the races, and I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic. >> I would be interviewing him about why did Nancy Pelosi say why did so? And I thought it would be a real distraction, number one. Number two, when I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can't even say how old I am. It's hard for me to get out of my mouth. >> All right, that's enough of that right there. But you noticed the way they walked into that conversation. And then anything could have happened. For all we know, he could have been knocked over the head. I mean, he made it sound like this was this historical moment in time when some of us think it was almost like a criminal act, but he's treating it in that way, visiting his grandfather at the home, being just as sweet and kind as he can be. And here when he talks, asks him about his family. Again, I have the interviewer in this clip for a reason. >> I saw those images of your family in the Oval Office sitting just over to your left as you address the nation. They came up to you after the speech. What did you say to them? >> That's what they said to me. They said, my grandchildren call me Pop. My children call me Dad. And they said they're proud and it mattered to me a lot. >> There's a sweet story time. And where in the world is he? I mean, it's almost like he's retired. He's still the president of the United States with a lot going on in the world. >> Right. And I think they're saying that he's spending most of his time focusing on the Middle East and trying to lower tensions there. And I guess if you ask the interviewer, hey, why are you treating them with such kid gloves? He and others would say, well, there's really no need to be hostile. He's not running for president anymore. This and that he's, you know, we don't need to dig in any deeper because after these next eight months he'll be done, or however many more months we have six months, five months. But the Biden team is saying, hey, he's still hard at work. He's still getting it done. And I think last week they said they had lined up his four pillar strategy for the next six months where he will be a lame duck president, more or less. >> Yeah. Jake Sullivan said you can expect to see very busy months of activity of summits and trips to ensure that we do everything we can to leave it on the field. Yeah, there would be high level summits both here and abroad. I mean, he was, he welcomed the Texas Rangers, I think last week for a World Series. You know, they do that where they go to that. And he at one point said, what do I do now? And he was just as lost then as he has been time and time again. >> I don't know, he needs to be on the World Series. >> That's what I'm saying. If he's at these high level summits, we can't handle the Texas Rangers coming to the White House. Before that Sullivan said Biden's most urgent priority is to quote, avoid escalation to a larger war in the Middle East, deliver a ceasefire and hostage deal, and, you know, several others, several other pillars of the Biden lame duck strategy over the next six months. But yeah, we really haven't seen much of him. He was in this interview this weekend. I think he'll be speaking on the first night of the Democratic National Convention coming up. >> So we haven't seen much of him. We haven't seen any of Kamala and Waltz unless they're reading off a teleprompter, basically. >> Right. >> So JD Vance does the opposite. He's on three separate Sunday shows. >> And he's out and about more than Trump is right now. Trump's going to campaigns and doing the campaign thing, but Vance is hitting the media cycle. >> And he's, so anyway, the one I wanted to watch was with CNN and Dana Bash, she was definitely the most combative. You know, she was like saying, so you're out here to take shots at the, no matter to tell the truth, you know, she just started out very, very hostile and really never, never really changed in that way. This is Vance talking about Kamala Harris and Bash, the interviewer, seems steadfast on defending her and her new vice presidential candidate. >> But I think Kamala Harris clearly owns the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, especially when we consider the fact that as we've all learned over the last few months, Joe Biden clearly isn't capable of doing the job. And so I think that drives home that Kamala Harris really has been the one calling the shots. I mean, how could she not? I think Joe Biden doesn't really know where he is. >> Kamala Harris has been calling the shots as who? >> Well, I think she has to have been, right? Because if she's not calling the shots, Dan, then who is? For months, even years, the argument was that Joe Biden was sharp. He could clearly do the job. And the minute that he performed poorly on that debate and he became political deadweight, you have Kamala Harris and everybody else trying to throw him overboard. But I think the more troubling question is, why did so many senior Democrats, including the vice president, cover for him, shoot? >> There's no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard, but I want to move on. >> All right, so she's not interviewing. She's defending. She's accusing him of giving the wrong answers in the middle of the interview. >> This is exactly why Kamala Harris and Tim Walts don't need to do interviews. They don't need to do press conferences because it's the Biden-basement strategy 2.0. You bring her in with three months left until the election. You get the honeymoon phase and they're going to stretch that honeymoon phase out as long as they can. She's now saying her team is saying they're not going to try to do any interviews until at least Labor Day. >> Right. >> So the beginning of next month. >> Crazy. >> College football already had a couple of weeks in. >> Yeah, and also, I think some will be early voting. Maybe. I'm not 100% sure on that, but votes will be coming in before people really get to know the true Kamala. And I don't think people will or care. I think a lot of our voters don't care who the true Kamala is. It's about they're making it seem like, hey, what's the deal with these stodgy old losers on the other side? They're so weird. They want to do all these. Hey, we're just having a good time, man. And that's, I guess, enough. And we've seen it in the polling that this is going to be a really tight race. >> And not only, so she talks about the abortion bill for about seven minutes. And JD Vance is like, we've got to move on here. She gets her, she can't wait to get into the weird thing, right? So she talks about them being categorized or him being categorized as weird by Walt's, what a brilliant strategy this was. It really took off is what she says. Listen. >> I'm too, something that Governor Waltz has called you in Donald Trump, and that is weird. >> Sure. >> And it is taken off. >> It is a little bit of projection, Dan, if you think about, you know, just take a couple of days ago. Tim Waltz gives this big speech. He's been announced as the VP nominee. And I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave him my big speech. And I saw my wife and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife, and I think that's what a normal person does. Tim Waltz gave his wife a nice firm, Midwestern Handshake, and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it. So I think that what it is is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz, who aren't comfortable in their own skin, because they aren't comfortable with their policy positions for the American people. And so they're name calling instead of actually telling the American people how they're going to make their lives better. I think that's weird, Dana, but look, they can call me whatever they want to. >> You're saying Tim Waltz doesn't have affection for his wife? I don't even understand that. >> I said that he acted weird. >> He said he gave about a 40 second answer with a lot of good points in it, and what she couldn't wait was to come back on the -- >> Oh, you're saying he hates his wife? >> He hates his wife. She didn't even listen to his answer because she was ready. Once he said that, you could see she was locked and loaded and ready to attack him on that. >> Yeah, and that's -- it's no surprise. And Jerry, texting in, it's CNN, and she's a communist. Well, it's no surprise that that's the battle now. The Trump campaign versus press releases from the Harris Waltz campaign and the media, because the media is going to go to bat for Kamala and Waltz. You know, at one point, they had to face the reckoning that Joe Biden was not fit to be president, and certainly not fit to be president for another four-year term. And you could see when the media finally made that decision, okay, it's time to change course here as far as the president is concerned. But with Kamala Harris, they're all back on board. And if you criticize her, then you don't know what you're talking about. Or you're making up lies, or you're being racist or sexist. And that's the way the game is played. So you can either complain about it, or you can find a way to win against everything you're up against. And I saw someone texting earlier, "Trump, what was it?" Trump is worried about who has larger crowds at events. He should attack Kamala on her liberal policies, the border, fracking, et cetera, not personal attacks. And, you know, Trump is just going to do his Trump thing. And I think it's having Vance out there and doing this is great as well. He's critical of them, but making specific points of criticism. And I kind of think that's what the line of attack was here. "Let Vance be the attack dog. Let Trump talk policy." I'm not sure that Trump is getting the policy talk done, or at least in his focused manner as he was back in 2015, 2016. Yeah, and so I heard Carvel on a podcast talking about, "There's more to come with Jay the Vance in terms of there's more to unearth weirdness or whatever." I would say the opposite, and I've told you that, too. I don't know if I've said it on the air, and I won't get too far into it. But this waltz put him under a microscope. A lot of years in a lot of interesting positions. Yeah, and, you know, Vance talked about the stolen valor thing again, and that CNN interview will play a part of that also when we get back. Good morning from Dan and Dalton, 826 FM talk, 106-5. Mobile mornings, good to have you along. And just regarding these Vance interviews, we'll get to this one last one, then we'll get some text and some other stories making news this week. But, of course, the stolen valor claims against Democratic VP candidate Tim Waltz took over last week. We had, of course, the usual line of defense with the media coming out to protect him quite a bit from some of these. But, you know, Vance actually came out pretty strongly against waltz, and what he was calling stolen valor claims last week. Well, CNN's Dana Bash, and that interview that Dan was just playing there, she also asked him about that same thing about waltz's retirement before he was set to be sent over to Iraq. Here's what Vance had to say about that yesterday. He said CNN's ignoring their own scoop. And on the question of when he left the National Guard, he filed his election paperwork February 10, 2005, that was a month before the National Guard even announced that it was possible that they would deploy to Iraq, and it ended up being two months. He retired two months before they actually got the paperwork. But on CNN last night, Dana, one of the people who was actually in charge of him said they knew they were going to deploy to Iraq in February of 2004, so it was the fall of 2004. So he knew he was going to Iraq. He decided to quit, to retire, whatever word you want to use, because whatever, because he wanted to run for Congress. He lied about that. He said that when he decided to retire, he did not know that he was going to Iraq. That is another untruth, as even his senior military officer said. So just the night before this Dana Bash interview, CNN aired an interview with retired National Guard Sergeant Major Doug Julin. He was Waltz's superior. He has been a longtime critic of Waltz, just to point that out. He claimed that Waltz knew about the scheduled deployment to Iraq before applying for his honorable discharge. He was a leader. I mean, before the official announcement, okay, but they could read the tea leaves. He said, people don't really understand the sequence of events here. In 2005, we were notified that we were going to Iraq. Get your team ready. Get your people together. Right. He described a February of '05 meeting, including National Guard Commanding Officers at which Waltz was present, where those plans were discussed further. Julin then claimed Waltz informed him of his plans to run for Congress immediately after that meeting. And with full knowledge of the plans for combat, Waltz filed the paperwork saying he was exploring running for Congress on February 5th of 2005. And then you have Dana Bash with Vance the next night, you know, still saying, "Well, no, your line of facts doesn't line up with the actual facts." And Vance says, "No, yours doesn't line up with the interview that you just had last night." Yeah. Now, whether all this makes any major difference in the election, I think it's so strange that all of our focus right now are on the VP candidates. Is it? I mean, were we spending all of 2019 talking about Pence versus Kamala? No. We spent very little time on it then. No. I'm trying to figure out how all that happened, how we ended up in this spot. But it's weird. Sorry. It's eight-thirty with Dan and Dalton and Mobile Morning's. Morning from Dan and Dalton, if I'm talking one of six-five Mobile Morning's eight-thirty-five. And we'll be joined next segment, Desi Tobias with Tobias and Kamalaal, as we talk about taking the kids back to school, making sure you're safe and keeping the children out there safe, so we're looking forward to that discussion. You see the strange story. You know, you have all these stories going on right now where immigrants being sent back to the country or volunteering to go back to the country. And you have nations or portions of nations, which they're in upheaval because everything has changed so much with the migrants. Many of them anti-where they live migrants, you know, not making it easy on themselves. So you have a lot of pushback there, Sweden, England, Ireland, places like that. North Alabama. You've got busloads of Haitians and they're trying to figure out, I think the story's coming up in 1819 news. They're trying to get to the bottom of it. Maybe we already had the story. No. Yeah, we did. Dale Strong up there is trying to figure out where they come from. Where they had to get here, where they come from, where they're going. I think they're employed by some of the chicken plants, things like that. But anyway, it's really strange and they're making people in some of those communities up there a little uneasy, suddenly all these non-English speaking folks in busloads in their towns. Well, it's really a powder keg over in Europe right now. Really is. That's why I was amazed. Nothing happened. Well, you talked a couple weeks ago about the whole transgender surgery for minors thing and how that was, you know, Europe was ahead of the game in that. And because of that, they're saying this is all a bad, bad deal, bad idea and banning transgender surgeries for minors. Maybe kind of the same thing with massive third world immigration that a lot of the people in those countries are saying, Hey, this isn't going to work. We didn't have to be pushing back hard. Looking to the text line, which you can join 2513430106. Terry says if they are talking about the VP, they don't have to talk about Harris and let the cat out of the bag. Gardner says, I believe liberal media is directed by whoever is actually running the Biden administration, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, maybe Soros, the liberal media starts repeating the same attack phrases when given their marching orders. Yeah, we've seen, you know, the bullet point lists of how to respond to certain Republican attacks that are sent out en masse to a lot of the media and then you see them use it, you know, hook line and sinker that word for word. Dana Batch, you were called weird and that really took off. Well, how did it take off? Because people like you keep repeating exactly. The text here says you can vote your way into socialism, but you can't vote your way out of it. King of all unnamed textor says Trump is going after Harris's policies. There's a whole video he does that one textor may be experiencing social media censorship. Another text you hear, Philonius Don is stuck on crowd size and race. He has cornered himself with Project 2025. Well, they are distancing themselves as much as possible from Project 2025 and I think that that was a bad idea. You have a lot of Trump loyalists. Now, remember this Project 2025, it wasn't the Trump campaign saying this is what we're going to do when we get into office. It was more of a Republican playbook from Heritage Foundation led the project, but over 100 different groups, NGOs, think tanks, all kind of came together for this nearly 1000 page tone basically of a playbook for whatever the next Republican administration would be, whether it was a Trump administration or a Haley administration or what have you. And I actually agree with a lot of the Project 2025 policies. And I don't think if you can spell it out for me, the ones that you're most concerned about. I went to what was it? Katie Couric.com where they had a breakdown of the most, the scariest proponents of the Project 2025 Trump playbook. And I read through them and I went, this is normal conservative ideas, especially normal in many ways. The populist ideas that Trump has kind of heralded and become famous for trying to reduce the size of federal government. Now, he doesn't reduce the size of federal spending. That's a major problem, but reducing the size of federal government. I think most conservatives are on board with that. The abortion policies in Project 2025 line up pretty much with everything that Republicans have been saying for the last 50 years. So I think that was a bad move for Trump to distance himself in the way that he did so with Project 2025. He didn't just say, Hey, that's not our plan. He said to hell with him, we need to get rid of whoever's in charge of this. He called it the far right. I didn't like that from the Trump campaign. Jay says, JD Vance is the candidate that mows your lawn. If you break your leg, Tim Waltz is the guy that reports your overgrown lawn to the HOA. Boy, who did that? Who said that? That was Jay. That was brilliant. Good line. That was brilliant. Joe says Trump told 16,582 lies in just 64 minutes. That amazing accomplishment alone ensures he has my vote. Very impressive. I'm not sure what you're referencing there, Joe. And Mark says the Austria. Okay, back to Olympics talk. The Australian break dancing PhD was a real treat at the Olympics. Did you see her? No. You didn't see the Australian female break dancer? No. Okay, you have to. Okay, maybe I'll find I'll find this and I'll put it at the top. I'll leave the room when you have the Tobias think I'm up here. And I go find that because so she has like this PhD and gender studies and break dancing and all kinds of different things. She somehow is the best female break dancer in Australia. And if you watch her performance, it was do you think that maybe I'll walk away thinking she's the worst break dancer? Yeah, it's possible. If you watched her break dancing, you could say, "Why the hell is this in the Olympics?" But then I actually turned on the male break dancing for a few minutes the other day while one of my children was in the room. That is amazing. Some of the stuff that the male break dancers are able to do. Still, I'm not sure if it should be an Olympic sport or not. But this also, you know, Secret Service has been going through it to say the least over the last few months, at least. They're now being forced to apologize to a Massachusetts salon owner after using her building's bathroom without permission ahead of a Kamala Harris fundraiser last week. Alicia Powers is the salon owner. She says Secret Service agents put duct tape over her security cameras, then picked the lock into her building to allow various people to use the salon's bathroom over a two-hour period. She said she was aware she had to close her salon because the fundraiser is coming up for security purposes. But she had no idea they were going to do that. Yeah, she didn't know Secret Service would do that. And she said, "I believe once they left, they left her door unlocked and left the tape over her security camera, so they didn't even clean it up correctly." You know, if you hit somebody in your house and they did a job for you like that, you'd leave a bad review. You'd sue them, probably. There were several people in and out for about an hour and a half using my bathroom, the alarms going off, using my counter with no permission. And then when they were done, they left the building completely unlocked and did not take the tape off the camera. It's crazy. Secret Service said they'd been in contact with Powers following the incident. She said she did receive an apology from the Secret Service's Boston office. I don't understand. I don't either. I don't know. You know, sometimes it's hard to separate or figure out what's stupidity and what is arrogance because it sounds like both of those mess together for that action and that poor lady's salon. Secret Service spokesperson quoted as saying, "When you got to go, you got to go." No, he didn't really say that, but I mean, if you can pick a lock, think of all the times you've had to go to the bathroom. And if you were able to just pick a lock and go on inside to one, why not? I guess. Secret Service says secret. So the Secret Service, they're peeking out at picking locks now, salons. That's as good as they can do. Oh, not good. It is 843. Welcome back FMTalk1065 and Mobile Mornings. And I'd like to welcome him in to Studio Once Again, Desi Tobias with Tobias and Comer Law for another edition of Law 251. Good morning, Desi. Thanks for coming in. Good morning, Dalton. Good to see you again. Yep. And, well, we know what time of year it is, don't we? It's that time of year where the children, they've gotten all the swimming in. They can handle all the fun with friends and now back to the grindstone. It's time for school officially here on the Gulf Coast. It is. It's a huge point. You know, summer's over. It seems like it's always too early. Some good things about it. College football won't be too far away. We always want to think about tips to how to help the child go back to school. I was just talking to my wife this morning. She's a teacher at McGill-Tulin and I ask her certain things. There are things that certain kids can have that they're eligible for. They tested their accommodations. They may have an individual education plan. And something to do is to check with a school guidance counselor or ask if your child qualifies. It can really help them and assist them in school, in particular to what their needs are. She also, you know, there are things about reading and important for the kids. You know that on YouTube, almost any book a child's required to read could be found in an audio form. And if you're struggling with them to get through it, like some of our kids this summer had summer reading and you can at least present it that way. I love that idea actually and that's something I've been focused on with the little ones I have is making sure I read to them or for the five year old she can read what word she can read to me, which is growing by the day. But I didn't think about that. I've listened to my audio books on YouTube but I didn't think children's audio books are all over that website. Yeah, it is. Whatever the reading is for whatever their level, particularly as you get into high school and stuff like that. But you know it's important to put your phones away sometimes and just listen to the child. And I'm not so great at that sometimes. I'm always looking at stuff for work. But just to hear what they have to say and respond to them and some kids may still be out for a few more days. They'll have a few days left with them in the summer to make the best of it and make the best year for them possible. Yeah, and then of course continuing it right through the beginning of the school year here is that homework starts to roll in and I love all of these great tips and the phone one that hits home with me. I think so often when I break the phone out and I'm looking at whatever breaking news is out there or some score on the ESPN app that what message is that sending to the children? If my head's buried in a phone all the time, but also what am I missing? What cues might they be putting out there that they're having a problem with this or that? We talk so often about the kids at school need to put down the phone and pay attention, but the parents at home and if you make sure the kids have their phones put up at home, that interaction between family members is so, so crucial. It really is crucial and you're setting the example form as well and sometimes we still have children at home and when all their friends will come over and that's great, but they're all in a room watching their phone. The best time to do, to learn and to grow as people is to interact and so it does set a good example and it's amazing what you can find out if you pay attention. For sure. Desi Tobias with the Bison Commodore Law and Studio with me on mobile mornings and let's talk about safety. That's obviously top of mind. As people get back into that school routine, more school buses out there on the roads, school bus stops and of course crosswalks in front of schools and let's start with school buses because that's a crucial one. It's a crucial one and we were talking just a minute ago about some of the statistics that you get for how often they are violated, but it's so important. It's a cardinal rule and it should be strictly enforced. I think it is that when that arm swings out, when that red light stops or red light goes on, you stop and you wait for that. But there's always something happening and it's awful when you think about it. A kid with a school bus, they're blind sides, 10 feet in front and back where the school bus driver can't really see them. So he doesn't know they're there. You as a motorist with these pedestrians out there have a duty and it's very important to follow that because that's where the injuries are. It's, you know, school bus rides are very safe, but it's when the kids try to get on and off. And of course, you know, you have some younger children who just don't aren't aware. So you need to be aware is the motorist stuff that and be the adult, right? Exactly. You have, of course, the children that are getting off the bus, they may be all kinds of amped up and have been messing with their friends up there and they hop off the bus. Well, you're the adult in the vehicle. You need to make sure that you're following the law and stopping behind these buses or in front of these buses. And just earlier this year, so last semester, I think it was around March, a student in Alberta student, eight year old, I believe, hit by an SUV illegally passing a school bus. So it does happen. It happens right here in our own backyard. Right. It does. And one of the things, they always have a yellow flashing light that will go on, you know, before they stop and put out the arm. So you should always be aware of that. And until that red light goes off, you know, you can't move. You need to be stationary. But, you know, if we could just eliminate that, the pedestrian issues, and you see that even not with kids, but whenever there's a pedestrian out there, whether in a crosswalk or not, sidewalk or whatever, it's very important. And, you know, one of the things I always like to bring up when we talk and how important it is, is talking about uninsured motorist law. No, yes. It covers a lot of things, doesn't it? It does cover a lot of things. And all the time, when we have clients come in that call about an accident, you know, the first thing is, do you have uninsured motorist coverage? The legal limits on the other side, somebody can be legal. And it's interesting how the Department of Insurance has really been enforcing that. Your registration of your vehicle has to have a current liability insurance. And I've had myself where they check on that, and they will follow up to make sure that it's still valid. And I've been hearing about Department of Insurance violations going out. But anyhow, they may only have as little as $25,000. And a pedestrian or anybody else may have a catastrophic injury. And you can, only thing you can do is buy as much uninsured motorist coverage as you have, but it's very broad. And one of the, the law is that it endures to a person, not a vehicle. So a person is somebody, you know, walking. They don't have to be in a vehicle. So, and family, correct me if I'm wrong on this. We've talked about it quite a bit, but that's stackable too, right? Is that correct? Right. It's the insurance companies have to follow what the statute says. And the statute is very clear. And so they can't, they can't exclude it away. But it's stackable. So if you have, say, 50,000 on per vehicle, which I would say is low, it's not a really expensive coverage. But, and you have three vehicles that will stack to 150,000. But I would always recommend to get as much coverage as you can to anybody within your household. It may be a child who is not a driver, but they're within your household. And so it applies to the household. It stacks. It applies anytime. There's an injury, whatever it may be, arising from a motor vehicle. And there have been a, there was a case once where somebody swerved around a vehicle bench seat that came out on the highway. And they said, well, that was, that could be a motor vehicle. So, you know, again, it's very broad. It's very consumer oriented. And it's a great coverage to have. Yeah, well, that's one of the many tips you've come in and given me that I've taken your full advice on that for sure. And I always learned something when you come in or Brian or Lacey, you're so full of great information. And all of these tips that you've laid out here, plus much more. I know at the website to biascomerlaw.com like tips for maybe it's your first year and your kids going to a bus stop how to make sure that you're as prepared as possible for both dropping off and picking up there. All of that at to biascomerlaw.com. And I know you'll, well, you walked me through this uninsured motorist coverage again. You guys give such great advice. And I know if someone's calling, if they want to call you and get a free consultation, that they can do that 24/7, right? It's free. Yeah, absolutely. We do have the stuff in the website. Like there's some NHTSA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommendations about school safety and bus safety. But we have that. We have that there. But just about any topic, you can go to the website and find information. And so in any consultation, we're always happy to talk, especially in this area where there's been some kind of an injury or something with an accident. You know, I've been doing that for 37 years. It's like, I always say, I've had that case. I can tell you, at some point, nothing, I've had them before. So I'm always willing to share that. And so are the other lawyers on our firm, Brian and Lacey, the knowledge that we have to assist and perhaps, at some point, represent you in regards to that matter. Well, I know safety is at the top of mind for you and your entire team there. And it's easy to see why you are part of this community, a major part of the community. You care about the children that are walking across these crosswalks, just like your own children. So really appreciate you coming in with some more of these great tips, Desi. Looking forward to talking again and have a great day. Okay, thank you, Dalton. Good to see you. Alright, Desi Tobias with Tobias and Comer Law. The latest edition there of Law251. Remember, all of our podcasts we've done, we have them on our website, also TobiasComerLaw.com. 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