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Midday Mobile - Sean talks Kamala's housing policies and John Sharp joins the show - August 16 2024
There will be no personal nor direct attacks on anyone and I would ask that you please try to keep down the loud cheering and the clapping. There will be no booing and no unruly behavior. With that, this is painful and it will be for a long time. After all, these are a couple of high-stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper. No step too high for a high stepper. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 106-5. Well Sean's a tough guy. I mean I think everybody knows that. Sean, he took some licks, he hangs in there. Yeah what's wrong with the deal we got? I mean the deal we got drank pretty good don't it. Did you hear what I said? So this is a bade council. I had no doubt about them. That doesn't suck. If you don't like it, you're bad. Last question. Were you high on drugs? Last question, kiss my ****. Right away we go, FM Talk 106-5 at midday mobile. Glad to have you here on this Friday to the couple hours of live local talking how to get through to the show. 343-0106 that puts you through on a text or a phone call and if you have the FM Talk 106-5 app you always hit that up for one of those talk back messages. Emails the show with your message. It's got a microphone icon right there on the front page of the app. If you'll press that, let's your record and then it just sends it right along the way. All right, remote location today. I was thinking about this too. So yesterday we were at the business expo, remote location today at a remote location. Now I thought about the people who have done this in the past, right? That broadcast like Jeff does from a different studio, like a home studio a lot of the times. What is it? Like I was going to come on today and say I have remote secret location somewhere east of Mobile. What is it with talk? I mean from like George Norrie and the people in Art Bell with a coast to coast AM that were always in some secret bunker which they really weren't. They were at a local radio station there in Las Vegas or like some of the other there are from the bunker deep beneath the saw that are hidden in the north woods. I mean, I'm just I'm in a trailer somewhere in Florida. So that's how we do this show. All right, mid-day bovial for today. John Sharps here about 1235. Marie Fogle and hour number two and of course your calls and text. I want to start off with first of all, let me do this because Leanna reminded me to remind you all of this. And then Dalton said he already reminded you all of this that the pier at Gulf State Park is going to be open. I guess it opens on Monday according to the story of her dayo.com. My buddy, head of DCNR for the state Chris Blankenship said the pier would open on Monday. Now and the pier has been close since since Hurricane Sally and with repairs that started back in November. I got to call Chris on this. Why Monday? We trying to do to people. Why not? Why don't we bump it up and make it a Saturday opening? Is it a soft opening? Is that what we're doing with the pier? But that word is out that the pier opens on Monday. So if you're ready to go pound it at the pier, you're good to go and come come Monday. But not today, not tomorrow, not Sunday, but Monday. Also, Jeff responded to this text at the end of his show and I want to clear this up because a texture and I think unnamed texture here had said something about that they heard yesterday about the number of people that were let me get the quote because the problem was yeah, this person said the illegal illegal immigrants that were registered to vote in the state of Alabama, that is not the story. And if you listen yesterday, well, I went back several times and said what I thought was interesting about the story in this investigation that Secretary of State West Allen came out with. It was 3,215 or some number there close of legal immigrants. I've told you all before. I think I mean, I welcome aboard legal immigrants. You come in legally. I think it's good. I think it's a good thing. Be part of it. Be part of the process. But you don't get to vote unless you're a citizen. And so while we're trying to get the Secretary of State back on the show to talk about it, what to me is the biggest question is how that happened that you got a got on the voter rolls without a social security number. Now, people can get driver's licenses for non resident driver's license, but how do you do that and get a social security number and get on the voter rolls? So to the person, I don't have the text now. It's bumped around here. It's not in front of me. But somebody said, the illegal immigrants that were registered, that is not the story, the story. And I think it's more nuanced and even more interesting, actually, is these are legal immigrants. So we have there, you know, we know who they are. They've come in the country. They're working in the country doing whatever. They're legally here. But they somehow move from that status to being on the voter rolls to vote in federal elections. And back when the Republicans moved the Save Act in the House, remember a couple of months ago, and there's this big pushback of like, why would Republicans move this? It's just a messaging bill. Why are they doing this? There's no need. This thing doesn't really happen. There's no real risk of this. There's nothing proving cases. Here in Alabama, we're looking at over 3000 legal immigrants, but non-citizens are on the voter rolls. So, you know, we got in that discussion yesterday and when Bradley Byrne was on, he was looking at it more pragmatically talking about the AL2 race. I'm more on the idealistic side and wondering how the heck, where did the system break down? There's somebody who is not a citizen, does not have a social security number or legally didn't have a social security number. How are they on the voter rolls? So that was, you know, just to clear that up from yesterday. So you can look at the story on WKRG. I think several places have the story. Like I said, I'm working at getting Secretary of State, West Allen, back on the show to talk about, yeah, 3,251. Thank you. That's the number that he came out with. All right, that's on our list. Also, let's, this one here, coming out, I mean, people talked about this earlier in the week with the idea of possibly ideas floated out the Harris Wall's campaign of price controls in the American market. Do you remember back when, maybe you weren't around, but just read up when Nixon did that, the Republican did that, when he kept prices, what that did. Here's the newest part of this is coming out. And let's see today, about 35 minutes ago, it says Democrat presidential candidate, Kamala Harris wants to use big government to increase home ownership and fight so-called price gougers. This is from big league politics.com says, according to announcement made by ABC's senior White House correspondent, Selena Wang, Harris plans to roll out a proposal for the government to provide up to $25,000 in down payment support for first time homeowners. First generation homeowners will receive even more generous benefits from the government per campaign officials. Harris will also announce a plan to prohibit corporate price gouging on groceries. Right. So we, I think Jeff earlier in the week talked about the grocery part, but I'm going to stay with the housing thing because you think, okay, part of the American dream is owning your own house, right? You own your own home, builds wealth, builds communities. That's a good thing, right? But we've watched this happen before. You've seen it with tuition. When we back tuition, when the government comes in and offers more and more money for college loans, what did the universities do? Let's just look here at home in Alabama. We've researched this a couple of times on the show and looked at the numbers of what it costs for the University of Alabama, what it costs to go to Auburn, and what the jobs that you will normally get will pay. And where that ratio started really going awry, 1990s. And it tracks exactly with government making it easier to secure those government, those federal loans. So instead of saying, hey, this is going to help out these kids and get them money to get in college, what did the schools do? They raise the amount of tuition commiserate to what is the guaranteed money coming through the Fed. Don't you know the same thing will happen in housing? You come out and you say, okay, there's going to be this guaranteed amount of money for first time homeowners. Well, whether they're a big company like a DR Horton or they're just individual people selling, they're going to plus up the price of houses to meet that. So you're not going to end up helping anybody in that. You're going to end up moving the whole price point that much further ahead. And you gave them $25,000, but the house now costs $25,000 more. Says further the story says on top of that, Harris plans to roll out a $40 billion fund to assist local governments in finding solutions to address housing supply issues. It builds upon a similar $20 billion fund that the Biden administration proposed. What Harris wants here is a large scale economic interventionism. Most of the ruling class still does not get that easy money and government policies extended the mortgages to economically suspect individuals causing the crash of 2008 talked about that when die tech was out there telling you they loan you 125% of the value your house and even communications and English major like me said, hey, math there doesn't work. Well, what happened after that? What do you think it does here? We'll get your text on that and calls three four three zero one zero six coming right back. This is midday mobile. All right. Welcome back. FM talk one oh six five midday mobile Friday style glad to have you long and I would check in with Anna at Mobile Bay coins and find jewelry or get to the text line here. Hey, Anna. Hello, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. How are y'all lying? Like what last time we talked, you were getting another shipment of collectibles in here and you were telling people ahead of time to get ready. You kind of gave them a heads up. What came in and do you have any left? Yes, I do have a lot of things available. So it was a battering and they are finally in the first battle. What is that again? You say it all the time like we like this is a bat a what a bat battering battering. Yeah. So what that is is that like the one of the weapons that Batman would use kind of like a Japanese knife, you know, the ninja knife. So you throw right in the shape of the Batman symbol. Okay. And so they came in or they are you have any left? Yeah, there I have some available. The first batch sold out pretty quickly, but we were able to get a second one and, you know, people are coming in and buying them. And then there's also we got in pop culture coins for kids, I think. It's like a SpongeBob goes busters, you know, Wonder Woman. We have some of those available and I think baby yodas are back in stock because we sold out of those. Now, are those the ones you can have engraved as well? You can't have a lot of the pop culture coins engraved and I wouldn't do that because it would take the value away if you personalize them. But on the batarangs, if you wanted to, you could possibly engrave something on the front. All right, make some even more special. And a tell folks how to come find y'all. We're at 2204 government streets at Midtown Mobile, just a block west of Blue Pop Catholic School in church. Thanks, Anna. We'll check back soon. Thank you. Bye bye. All right. There goes Anna from Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. Hey, Mrs. went a little bit earlier on the text line, but cheese wagon said the intersection at New Bay Bridge Road and Telegraph Road is blocked. So let us know when that clears up. But that's a heads up. Thank you. And if you all got traffic issues out there, you can always let us know on the text line at 3430106. All right, Sean, when is asked the sheriff? So because of the travel schedules and me not being here on Tuesday, coming back from taking my daughter to college, we moved it to this coming Tuesday. So ask the sheriff with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Virches on this coming Tuesday, Jason. And then what's my take on the potential of the Big Creek Lake annexation? Well, the way I've seen the story, Jason, is it's it's incorporating that buffer area, you know, if you look, you can pull a map up and see the buffer area around Big Creek Lake, the fact that you can't have, you know, private property right on the lake, you know, to have that buffer there. I don't know how it changes much. I know there are a few looks like there's a few homes right there. If you're coming, let's see, if you're coming from Mobile heading like Tanner Williams, there's some houses there that are close to that line right up there by the the main spillway. I don't know if the map incorporates them or not. But if it doesn't incorporate homes, I don't know how you gerrymander that back into the city. If there's a what, you know, just a wooded area or something that's not, that's not homes out there, then maybe you just go ahead and do it. I mean, the idea having the buffer area around Big Creek Lake stay that way. I think it's a good thing for water quality. We'll see how many houses I'll have to go and look and see how many houses are incorporated in it. The only ones I could guess with those right there is you're coming as you're heading westbound right before you get to the main spillway there on the right. All right, Michael said, I wonder if illegal immigrants illegally registered vote came through on work visas or if they're Biden and Harris's illegal crossers that are to be given government documents. Once again, Secretary of State West Allen's story is about legal immigrants. This is not illegal immigrants. These are legal immigrants. So people have a green card work visa of some sort, right? And so let me say that those folks can get a social security number if you're certain certain categories. But to be then put on federal voter rolls is a problem. It's a real problem. So these people are here legally. They're here. They can work. They pay taxes. You know, we talked about the past. It's a net gain to the to the country, somebody who's not a citizen paying taxes. Thank you. Um, but you don't get to vote unless you're a citizen. This is just so all right. Um, let's see here is that Martha peak in the opening dialogue for Sean show. Now the voices you might hear that you have Mobile City Councilwoman Gina Gregory in there. And of course, our esteemed governor, Kivie in there as well. And then a bunch of other voices. Let's see here, dirt digger says if Kamala Harris does that prices of homes will go up. If they raise minimum wages, the cost goes up on everything we need to stop all the spending. So the value of the dollar will go up more value, less you have to make. Okay. Well, that on the, I have a kind of asymmetric opinion on the minimum wage. Minimum wage situation is, I think it's way artificial because companies that pay low low rates, low low wages are subsidized by taxpayers. If the government wasn't supply, supplying the safety net programs for these people, these businesses couldn't get away with paying what they do on the lower end of minimum wage. So in that, it's kind of skewed as well. Because the only way they could get people to take these jobs is they can take these jobs while getting other assistance and be able to stay alive taking that job at that that rate. But dirt digger, I agree 100% with you when it comes to the home prices and it comes to it's the college tuition the same. When you come in there, and you know, the Harris campaign has talked about saying, okay, we're going to come in and give everybody $25,000 for first time home boner buyers. If you looked at that in a very narrow view, and you believe like big government economics, you say it's a good thing because home ownership leads to all kinds of good things in communities. We've talked about it at so many levels. The problem is, eventually the market just eats up that $25,000 and that becomes a new normal. And we've not achieved anything. Let's see here. This texture says legal immigrants are usually Republican. Too bad they're going to lose their green cards. But I don't think and I don't, this is what's going to be interesting with Secretary of State. Did these people actively try to get on the federal voter rolls or is it something in the system that ends up when they sign up for this and get it like a non-citizen driver's license that they get added to the voter rolls? All right, here, long text. I'll get the long text later. These are Tufter King of all one named texture says he's on the way to check out the batter rang. Listen, they got stuff at Mobile Bay coins, like my pop culture and knowledge of the Batman and the Superman and the whatever man is limited, but theirs is not. So they know all the stuff that's I know that Batman had a batter rang, boomerang thing. The Batman experience I have is in the Lego Batman Lego movie. That's about the extent of it. All right. Michael says there's quite a few houses off Brandon Road and I assume that there's a good bit on the Wilmer side too on Big Creek Lake. Okay, well, you know what, Jason and Michael Webster just look at the map on that and see where it lays. But it's if the idea is to annex and incorporate the area that's the watershed around Big Creek Lake. In other words, the drainage area that they've already if you look at the maps, malls controls this band of property around the lake. Obviously, for reasons of keeping, you know, filtered the water filter going the lake, I think that's a that's a good thing. I mean, check the number of houses. So yeah, Michael, if you got a map there or something, you can let me know. I'd appreciate it. All right, coming up in a few minutes, it's john sharp from AL.com. He's going to join us lots to talk about with him. One of the stories that has a lot of people talking from yesterday's show and john's got a story up about it, a mobile police officer. Now this is mobile police sergeant who is in Baldwin County in an unmarked car when the story first came out. A lot of us were wondering how that happened. It was an unmarked police vehicle, but was arrested in Baldwin County by an undercover sting for buying drugs. So john's got a story up about that details on that coming up. Also, we'll look at AL to the latest in AL to. What does it mean? What happens at a national level? We talked about how much of this would be driven by what happens who shows up to vote for Trump, who shows up to vote for Biden back then. Now, what about when people show up to vote for Harris? Does that move the needle at all in the L2 race? We'll talk about it. And john's got a story just came up. And one I had been looking at today, Lieutenant Governor Will Wainsworth, who is his big push has been widen 65 wide and 65. He's pushed back against the West Alabama corridor that governor Ivy had really kind of been her signature. He said we should be spending that money on widening 65. But now there's a billboard campaign going up to back the widen 65. John, I will talk about it. I will point out as I go to the news here, the story over at Yellow Hammer news did say this. And I know I'm picking on them, but here's a sentence. It said the campaign's launch is accompanied accompanied by billboard advertisements that can be seen from the Tennessee state line to the Florida state line all along I 65. Hey, somebody at Yellow Hammer news. Let them know that I 65 doesn't touch the Florida state line. Just heads up on that. All right, John Sharp's next. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk one oh six five. All right, here we go. FM talk one oh six five Friday style midday mobile glad to have you along three four three zero one zero six three four three zero one zero six gets your text through and reminder to the FM talk one oh six five app. He can send us one of those talk back messages emails it directly to the show. All right, it's it's been too long. It's my buddy John Sharp from al.com joining us. Hey, John. Hey, Sean, happy Friday to you. Hey, happy Friday to you as well. Let me ask you the most important question as we get rolling. Did you get that that that text I sent you? Did you get signed up for college pick them? I haven't signed up yet. I will sign up this week and though I fall to I will be back. I had a dismal year last year but it's a new start. We're all zero and zero. So let's go ahead. You see, you see people like here's who it's funny. So people like John adult and who know a lot about college football. When I was beating them last year because I was just picking like remember the old thing if you all remember where they get chimps to throw a dart at the back of the newspaper days on stocks and they would pick those stocks and they would beat Wall Street. Sometimes I was I was those chimps last year. So I did get to beat you all for a while and I enjoyed it greatly. I don't know if this year will happen again that way. Well, we'll soon find out. I mean, that's right around the corner. But yeah, I think if you rely on that dart throwing theory for a while, yeah, eventually that bubble will burst. Yeah, I wrote it long enough. Hey, y'all. And by the way, just a side note, go to our website and get signed up for this year's college pick them. Your chance went fabulous prizes and talk trash with John Sharp, John Sharp and hundreds of other people in college pick them. Hey, when we get started here, I want to start with your latest story up at AL.com and it's the go wide campaign. Okay, the go wide campaign. Now, this is what Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth. I think every time a discussion of adult funding in the last years come up, he's talked about widening 65. At some point, it was pretty different too because he had the governor talking about the West Alabama corridor and Ainsworth talking about widening 65. So what is this push? Who's behind this? Is it all Will Ainsworth? Does he have other people with them? What's happening? Yeah, so this came came about earlier today. A news release was sent out just announcing the efforts of placing billboards along I-65. Now, I have yet to see an image of one of these billboards, but the claim is that they're going to be installed shortly. So we'll wait and see where they're going to be and if there'll be any down this way or not. But yeah, this is an effort by a nonprofit group. They got a website up and going. They're asking for financial contributions and support for this effort as well. Again, it's not directly connected Will Ainsworth, but certainly supports Ainsworth and even has a link on this website that says, "Find out more about the Ainsworth Plan." This is no secret. I mean, the Lieutenant Governor has been supportive of six laning I-65 from the Tennessee Alabama line all the way down the mobile for years. I mean, it's just been kind of quiet though lately. It was fairly noisy about this time ago. This time last year, there was a lot of discussion about it. I remember a meeting in Thomasville, in which Mayor Sheldon Day had some officials to discuss the US-43 West Alabama Highway Project. And at the time, there was some headbudding or butting up against Ainsworth and some back and forth going on, but the Lieutenant Governor and Mayor Sheldon Day both got together. They had a meeting and I think things went well and it kind of quieted, you know, that little dispute, US-43 or I-65. I think even the Governor came out with a statement saying this is not an either or proposition, folks. It's, you know, these are two separate projects. But the argument from Ainsworth all along has been our priority should be focused on this road. And he also had an ally down here in Senator Chris Elliott. And these were issues that were widely discussed about this time ago, this time last year. And also at the time President Donald Trump came in and spoke to the Alabama GOP and a meeting in Montgomery in which he avowed to make this a priority on the first day, if he's elected president. He said it, you know, and we'll see. So I know there's a lot of skepticism about that, but that's what was said, that was remarked. And, you know, so that's what we're at right now. And so we're at with this billboard campaign is that I think they're trying to generate awareness of for a project. And also there might be a little bit and maybe some political behind a scene maneuvering. We're getting the 2026. Yes. So you're saying this could be a proxy, this could be a proxy gubernatorial run at the same time it's an ad for a widening 65. You don't dare. Right. Well, I think we're going to have a very energetic governor's race in 2026. And a lot of this will be, we'll know who the candidates are next summer, for sure, and probably before then. And that's kind of where we're at. So this is a big, this is the big policy issue that Lieutenant Governor Will Layne's worth is locked into. And so, you know, here we go. You know, I've heard some other names floated out there as possible candidates for governor. Nothing confirmed, but let the jocketing begin. Okay. Yeah, I want to get around here in the next week or two to talk about some more of those names, but mentioning that not one project versus the other, I think there's a nuance to it. And you mentioned Senator Elliott and he was on with us several times. And one of the discussions was the way this West Alabama corridor project was financed, right? That if the way the state allocated the money, it kind of ate up a whole bunch of money without getting matching federal dollars, if they would have done it differently, maybe there would have been that money for the West Alabama corridor project, but then there would have been additional money for 65. And that was one of the pushes. I don't know, where's the money kind of does out out say that there's money for a 65 widening? Have you heard anything to that end? The way the approach has been so far as to take it with its segments, there's a seven mile stretch between alabaster and calera that's been working on. And last time I asked how much that was going to cost, I got a figure, it's been a little while ago, but the figure I got back was around $200 million. I mean, this is a massive, massive expense. It's not cheap to do this project. This do from the Tennessee line down the mobile is almost mind boggling, how much that might cost when you consider the bridges that are going to be involved as well. So there's really no even, there's not even a loose estimate yet on how much, you know, we're talking about here. So it would probably make the I-10 project look like chum change. And the I-10 project is right now the most expensive infrastructure project in state history. So, you know, it's a major, major, major project that, you know, when we start talking about going all 366 miles from Don Spill area all the way down the mobile and when you consider the bridges and whatnot. So I think the approach has been all along and it probably will be too. No matter who's elected governor to kind of look at the areas of highest need and tackle from that point. There's a lot of question marks on how much attention needs to be done on I-65 between Montgomery and Mobile. There's certain areas that, you know, I drive on quite, quite often. I think a lot of our lawmakers do as well and you yourself and, I mean, there's nowhere near the traffic is when you get north of Montgomery. So that those are all questions and issues that need to be addressed and this thing goes forward. Oh, I'm pointing out too, just as I mentioned before John came on, you read John's stories because, you know, in his story, he points out that the Billboard campaign would be on 65 from the Tennessee line south to the Mobile area. Other news stories in the state said it would be from the Tennessee on 65, John, from the Tennessee line to the Florida line. Like, well, maybe y'all should get out some and see how the roads work in Alabama, but we'll leave it at that. It did with 65. Hey, if you're listening, if you're monitoring us up in Montgomery or Coleman or Marshall County or something like that, 65 does not touch the Florida line. So. Well, I don't know how successful a 65 Billboard would be on I-10 somewhere in Florida. So that's right. Yeah, but they wrote the way they wrote the story elsewhere is they're like, yeah, the Billboard campaign would go from the Tennessee on 65 from the Tennessee line to the Florida line. It left me scratching my head some of what I would I would get to another one of your stories here as we watch AL2 and this headline here GOP congressional hopeful takes sides in political drama over the Alabama Democratic delegates. And we talked about that story some this week, but Caroline Dobson, the Republican here, is, is commenting on this. What's you saying? So she jumped right in right right away sided with Chairman Kelly, Randy Kelly on this with regards to the question of delegates. She thinks that, you know, the DNC who, you know, the DNC is involved in the national Democrats are involved in this congressional campaign. So right away, there's there's friction there, but she's coming out and saying, you know, the the the Democrats ought to have the priority here of selecting what delegates they want to take to to Chicago next week. Now, there's a lot of, you know, there's, I mean, there's there's Supreme Court law that gives the national Democrats, you know, the the authority to pick who they want and and to supersede the state delegates on on this. But, you know, she's side with Randy Kelly in this dispute. It's very complicated, you know, but but, you know, she decided to jump right in on this, you know, it's a Democratic squabble between the state Democrats who for years that, you know, we know there's there's some dysfunction there and the national Democrats. And so, you know, she jumped right in. That came up with Joe Jones too, right? I mean, this squabble between Alabama's Democrat party and what the national DNC wants. That's correct. This came up in 2017 also during that that Senate race. And right now, you know, this is a very heated race between Democratic candidate Shamari figures and Republican Caroline Dobson. So, Dobson knows that she decided to weigh in on this. There's probably some strategy here involved as well, you know, that's, you know, which in order to win this congressional district, she's going to have to peel away some some black voters. It's a majority black congressional district. She's got to try and peel away some of these, you know, traditional Democratic voters who, you know, otherwise would not, you know, get a way, you know, vote for a Republican in this type of a race. And so, you know, that's, you know, maybe perhaps that was some of the thinking on this and order to jump right in on an issue that typically Republicans would stay out of. I mean, that's, I think, the unusual aspect of this is that you have a Republican candidate wanting to weigh in on a Democratic squabble. What she was trying to do is to get Shamari figures the way in on this. Well, that's why I was wondering. So Dobson, yes, or Dobson chimes in on this Republican. What does figure say figures is gone, but he really did not take sides. I mean, he's kind of he's come out and what I mean, you know, all the statements are up in the story, but you know, he, he blasted Dobson called her the Marjorie Taylor Green of Alabama and laid out several position points in which he disagrees with with regards to her policies and why he thinks she would not be a good representative in Congress for the Second Congressional District. That's been redrawn as a result of the US Supreme Court ruling from last year. So yeah, it was, he didn't really come out and say whether I was siding with Randy Kelly or the DNC. But, you know, in the, if you take a look at it in the, you know, Joe Reed, who's an ally, an ally of, of Randy Kelly, has in the past endorsed and not necessarily endorsed everybody, but figures. Well, no, he did come out. Yeah, he did come out and door some, I think, before the run off. But, you know, before Andy was, he was, he was, he endorsed Bracy and, and attacked figures and Daniels for what he claimed ahead of the prime. They were taken Republican, remember, they were taken Republican money or whatever you put out in that letter with Joe Reed put out. That was, but, yeah, that was the claim. So there is friction there as well. So a lot of, yeah, inner, inner party squabbling going on. Third story to talk about here for you, rap. And this one, when it broke yesterday, I had a bunch of people asking about really overnight, this is giving me more emails than any of them. This story about a mobile police sergeant that's on administrative leave now. The story is what that he was arrested in Baldwin County. Yeah, it was a undercover drug operation. You know, I think it's pretty cut and dry. And he got arrested in Fair Hope and, and by a drug task force over there and immediately was placed on administrative leave. He, uh, been with the agency, will be a police department. Uh, and he still is on leave, but, you know, he's been there since 2012 and, uh, it's been part of the domestic violence division. So yeah, not a, not a good, uh, not a good thing at all, but, you know, that's, that's what happened. And so no other than being on administrative leave, nothing else today coming out from MPD on this. No, I haven't, we have not received any updates on that. The only update I've got today from MPD and, um, that I've checked in the last hour or so that, uh, shooting yesterday at a gas station, Westville, Bill, Chevron station. Yeah. And they've got some images up now online of trying to ask the public's help on identifying the possible gunman in that, um, incident and, uh, very tragic. We had a death involved. Um, details are still a little sketchy on what happened, but it's still under investigation. All right. Well, people want to obviously follow your work over at AL.com, or if they want to find you directly, uh, on X or Twitter, how do they do it? Yeah, at John Sharp 99. All right, John. And I wish you good luck, but we're too close to college football pick them. So, uh, just hello and how are you? Yeah, get the darts out. That's right. We'll do it. There he goes. John Sharp. Thank you, brother. All right, then. All right. Coming right back. More of a day. Mobile three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk one oh six five. All right. Welcome back FM talk one oh six five and midday mobile. Glad to have you here on this Friday before you get into the text line. So, uh, my buddy Devin Walsh there on the KRG news update talking about the sale of the last man go to. So, uh, one of Jimmy's boats. And it says, uh, from business wire, famous boat owned by Jimmy Buffett has been listed for sale with S I yachts. And it is a 42 foot ribovitch, which are beautiful boats and is a custom ribovitch. And I guess in the story, they're like, it's going for 999,000 dollars. Like boat people. And I know I got a lot of y'all in the audience. That's not, that's not that bad deal for for that boat, let alone if you're a buffet fan for the fact that it was Jimmy's boat. But it's just a pictures I've seen here on the listing because that's what I was doing instead of investigating other things during the news break. I was investigating this boat. It's gorgeous boat. Gorgeous boat. And if you go look at the prices of things, a 42 foot ribovitch, it's custom made and gorgeous and well kept for a dollar less than a billion dollars says, I don't think it's that bad a deal. I mean, I mean, if I'm short, 998,000 dollars, but if I, you know, if I had the rest of it, I might be in the market. All right. And thank you. I choose wagon says that that Bay Bridge Road is back open. That intersection is open. So thank you. All right. To the text line more here at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, dirt diggers says the state needs to turn another interstate path to connect 65 to 10 to the beach express. It would be cheaper than widening 65 river bridge and take all the commercial trucks off 65 and mobile. Yeah. But what about stuff that comes from the West and the, you know, that's not coming from the north, the 65 widening and John made a point. I mean, it's not that big a deal between here and Montgomery, but I just came through coming and going. I was gone last week, you know, doing the East Coast tour. That section, like, you get north of like Bratville, like Calera, all that up there, get it before 459 kicks off. That is like more times, more times than not, when I get to that section is when I'm putting on the brakes, coming off the cruise control and driving 46 miles an hour for it seems like forever. Jason said, Carolyn Dobson should take the figures comment as a compliment and bring in the MTG campaign for her. Carolyn can use the attention. I don't know if you want MTG in for in AO2. I don't think that I don't think the I don't think that's a smart move. But I would say that it's interesting though that and and it's more figures is going to be on the show. I think right after Labor Day, I think he's booked that that first Tuesday after Labor Day. There's the interesting inside Alabama Democrat politics there where he is not siding with the Alabama Democrat party and not signing with the DNC. This came up and, you know, when he was then Senator Doug Jones, he'd come on the show with me and talk about it this friction between what the national DNC wants and what the state Alabama DNC Alabama Democrat party wants. And I would say just the raw politics of it, I know that you've got to get Monday. If your figures, you got to get money from Washington and outside the state, but just the homegrown politics, I would side with the state party and I would probably be loud about it. Even though I'd probably tell folks that are donors that are coming from nationally like, Hey, just let me do this. It'll be cool. And I'd make a fuss about it. This Alabama Democrats and I don't care what the federal Democrats say, but it's been at least as a time John wrote a story. He has been mum on that. Let's see. Jerry, I'm going to put you down on the side of Jerry and Fort Morgan said the coward Alabama AG. So Steve Marshall, you're saying should have found a good reason to investigate and prosecute figures on what? So I mean, you say this seat is very important. Well, I mean, but but on on what? Give me that. This texture says, yeah, well, there is that this texture, Jimmy's body is hardly cold and the vultures are already selling everything he owned. I don't know how he had built this will. I don't know. But that's probably a fairly good deal for the last man go to out there. All right, coming right back, more bid day mobile hour number two.