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Pot Smell around town - Rob Holbert from Lagnaippe about oysters - Mobile Mornings - Thursday 9-05-24
(upbeat music) - News, sports, weather from Dr. Bill Williams, traffic info from Kane, and one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's Mobile Mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. - Morning from Dan and Dalton FM talk, when there's 35 Mobile Mornings. Good to have you longer. Spent seven minutes after eight o'clock, something you had the story last half hour, the local story about residents on 181, and need more stop lights. - Yeah, I think Daffy Mayor Robin Lejeune, so they're over the next couple of years, putting in three new lights, including there. And maybe all are on 181, but definitely a couple of the neighborhoods where people try to turn out new four lanes. - So you have the four lane, which encourages faster traffic, or it's wide open, and people are really moving and hustling. And then you have these neighborhoods that maybe were built there when they were, some are new neighborhoods too, but others were built maybe when they, it was just the two lane road. So now they feel almost entrapped in their neighborhood, trying to safely get out. And that's a real concern, some reaction on the text line about that as well, but I get it, that's tough. - Yeah, this texture said, let's see here. Good morning, guys, Austin Road and 181 need to light now. Many wrecks, some deaths, life light going 181 and 64 is not better. We do not have safe options in this area, unless travels at five a.m., or after eight p.m., says the mayor does not understand or really care. Aldot made big mistakes at that light, 181 and 64 turning into the gas station. I haven't been following this closely, but we did have that Mayor Robin Lajoon talking about, putting those lights in and trying to make things better. And then you have that new school that'll be going in, I guess in a couple of years that he was talking about. - So yeah, and so 181 and 64 certainly has a light. I don't know if there's a problem with the light, but that definitely has got a light at that intersection. It's too big an intersection. - Well, yeah, but I mean, it's not just the eastern shore, either. I mean, Baltimore County in so many different municipalities is just growing, growing, growing. And that means more road work and more lights put in. And where was I, oh, on Scholinger? They have, I don't know if they've activated the lights yet, but they're, if you're going towards airport and you're on Scholinger, before you get to the Home Depot, they've got that, I guess it's kind of a condominiums or apartments or little homes and they put a light there. It's before you get to Target, but it hasn't been activated since I've been driving. There's pretty much, there's so many new construction, so much new construction going on. And then these lights are going up as well. Can you remember a time? There's been as much road work going on in our area as there is right now. - No, and including the one major one that everyone's had to kind of work around, the McGregor between Dolphin and Airport, that's been just a big snafu for a lot of folks. - I'm so ready for that to be open, which I guess it won't be long. We've gotten, we're pretty far into that schedule that they laid out. - Is it spring of next year, though? - I'll have to look that up. Yeah, I guess it would be, but we're not that far from spring of next year as we head towards the end of this year, but I know a lot of the neighborhoods there that people are using as cut-throughs are ready for it to open up to. - Also, you have the cut-through, this neighborhood is being affected by that. Landfair is being used as a cut-through, and the people in Landfair do not appreciate that. - Of course not. - At all, but you can get from Dolphin 2 out to airport in the area of one shopping center or another. But anyway, they don't appreciate that, but that's what's going on because people are trying to find the right option. - Tim from Foley says it'll be like the beach express very soon, adding lights doesn't help the situation at all. So there you go, a little traffic talk for you this morning. I wanted to discuss, it's been interesting, and I don't know how much stock you put in to promises made on the campaign trail, but while we watch Kamala Harris pivot to the middle, on a lot of her policies that she had taken a different position on previously. - She's gonna be like the number one fracker in America, herself. She flips so much on that one, it's kinda like, I'm gonna do the fracking. - Yeah, I'm gonna understand. - I'm personally looking forward to doing some fracking. But, you know, Trump has been making, I guess you could say, a little bit of a turn as well. Now, with the abortion thing, and a lot of Democrats, did you see Vivek Ramiswami on with CNN yesterday morning? - No, I have a job in the morning. - You do, but you know, I do too. So I went back and watched it. He was destroying this host with CNN, who was trying to say that Trump kind of flip flopped on his abortion comments, and Vivek, and he was telling the truth, Trump has been pretty straightforward with abortion, that it was something he thought should be a state issue. The state should vote individually on that. And when his comments came about how he would vote in Florida, now they're trying to say he's flip flopping on that, but he's been pretty consistent on that. The IVF comment, totally different situation, where he was saying that he likes IVF, but that he wants the government or the insurance companies, basically to pay for IVF procedures for people. And those are very expensive. That would fall back on the taxpayer. It's not a very limited government or fiscally conservative stance. - Sounds like a left idea, actually. - Right, but Trump's never really been a fiscal conservative. We know that well. I think that, and we said it, I said it earlier this week, he's trying to make that a non-issue for the election. He's trying to take abortion and IVF off the table, because Democrats did so well after Roe v. Wade was overturned in the midterms, and then they've made this IVF issue such a big deal going into this election. I think that's Trump's move on that, but he also made some comments last week that upset some Republicans, and especially Floridians, that's where he votes, and he seemed to come out in favor of legalizing personal marijuana use. He made the claim Saturday on Truth Social, declaring he would take back, let me see, let me get to the full quote. In Florida, like so many other states that have already given their approval, personal amounts of marijuana will be legalized for adults with amendment three. So he's saying, we're voting on it, but it's basically gonna be legalized. Whether people like it or not, this will happen through the approval of the voters, so it should be done correctly. We need the state legislature to responsibly create laws that prohibit the use of it in public spaces, so we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go, like we do in many of the Democrat-run cities. So in that specific statement, I don't know if he took a side on whether he'd vote yes or no on amendment three for legalizing small amounts of marijuana, but he brought up something that's become more and more of an issue, especially in places like Colorado and California, I believe Michigan, some of these places where personal marijuana use, not just medical marijuana use has been legalized for so long, where you hear from people there that maybe don't smoke or smoke occasionally, they say it just reeks all the time. Apartment complexes, condos, neighborhoods, stoplights, and we're not beyond that here, even though weed has not been- - We're not there though. - We're not where they are. - No. - But you can smell weed a lot around here too, and Sean talks about that a lot on mid-day mobile, stopping at traffic lights on airport, where the smell's just overpowering sometimes, or you come out of a restaurant or a business that you're shopping at, and someone's smoking weed there on the sidewalk, or you just smell weed, right? Happened to me yesterday. - Oh, really? - Yeah, I don't want to get into the location at all, but it was a little, it surprised me, but it's like, you know, there's no doubt what that is. - Yeah. - Who smoked where, I don't know, but it was at a restaurant. - Yeah, so Trump, I thought those comments were interesting. The state legislature needs to responsibly create laws that prohibit the use of it in public spaces, so we don't smoke marijuana everywhere we go. And remember Sheriff Birch, when Sean brought that up a few months ago, the smell of marijuana around the city, and he was talking about getting tough. - Yeah, and they did, I guess, with what was it, up in smoke, operation up in smoke. But I have a lot of questions about that. You know, I'm not a fan of the weed smell everywhere either, but now there are so many different kinds of hemp products out there, and you have people smoking everything from the weed that'll put you into a coma, basically. You know, the real weed that's still illegal in Alabama. You also have a lot of these Delta 8, 9, 10, 11, and I don't know how far up they've gone now. And you've got the vapes with the weed in it. You've got the joints, you've got the pre-year-old joints. There's a lot of different forms. There's also cannabis that's completely non-psycho active or whatever the term is. It reportedly doesn't really mess with your brain so much, kind of the CBD stuff that's supposed to reduce inflammation and this and that. So I was talking about this with Sean a little bit yesterday. How do you go about this? Is it, we know it's illegal to drink a drive, right? Can you have a non-alcoholic beer and drive around? Is that legal? If someone caught you riding around with a Heineken 0.0. - I would say that you're good. - Is that you think? - Yeah, I would think if you're not being penalized because you have a beer, you're being penalized because the beer has alcohol in it. You're drinking a beer that's got the same alcohol as a Dr. Pepper. I don't think that, no, if they understand what you have, you might get initially arrested, but I think that won't stick. But you're right about a little disconcerting when you're in the middle of a traffic jam and you're at a lighted airport and whatever. - You see a guy with a Heineken. - Well, no, when you smell that smoke. - Oh yeah. - I mean, being that high on the road, there should be some circumstances to that, right? There should be some, I mean, you could get pulled over for driving under that influence, I do believe. - And I guess they can test the weed. I don't know if they have to do it on the spot or if they send it off and have it tested and then what happens with the suspect in the meantime. But if you could drive around and maybe some law enforcement clarification on the text line would be great. If you could drive around with a non-alcoholic beer, what's the difference in that in smoking weed while you're driving around that maybe doesn't have the same compounds that like would, doesn't have the THC in it that would make someone high. - I don't know why you'd smoke that. Why would you smoke that kind of weed? Why would you smoke weed that doesn't get you high? - Well, I think some people do it for the CBD. If they just get CBD weed. - Okay. - For, you know, they say it like helps with inflammation and this and that. - Well, I mean, why? - Anxiety. - And, okay, but you have the (chuckles) okay. Cannabis Commission, we've got this going on, we're not, they can't quite get their act together yet. And you have people who are in need of some of the, you know, I had a friend give me one time out of curiosity I had to do with maybe I could get to sleep better and a friend of mine just said, "Hey, try this." And I was at Woodstock for about five hours. I couldn't get off the sofa. - You weren't driving. - No, I could. - You weren't driving. - If I had plans to drive that day, they were quickly, they were quickly snuffed out. I was not able to function as a person for about five hours. Now there's other quote unquote legal drugs that I've had a problem with for a very long time. How many people do you think out there driving with pharmaceutical intoxicating pharmaceuticals in their system? - Many, many, many, many. - Right. And of course that's illegal, but these things are so hard I would imagine for law enforcement to enforce. And that was just kind of my thought process. If we're gonna make this big push to disallow smoking in public, specifically weed smoking. And I guess they've done, you know, that's that the other day only like 11% of Americans or maybe less smoked cigarettes, it must be much less than that. After that big push to get rid of cigarettes, pretty much everywhere, I guess they could go about that the same way. But I think that would be incredibly difficult to enforce. I mean, first off, you don't always know who's smoking. You just kind of smell it, right? Especially I would imagine if a cop shows up, no one's gonna make it obvious that they're the ones that it lit up. But also, if this is gonna become federally legal, and I really don't have a whole lot of a problem with marijuana use, especially if it's a responsible adult, using it occasionally. But when we have entire generations who are high off their ass all the time, that's not a good thing. - No, it's not a good thing. And you're right, there's all these pharmaceuticals out there that people are taking this medication for this and this and this and anxiety and sleeping and whatever. But here's the thing, if you have a strong cent of marijuana and you're around six people and a seventh has just entered the room or whatever, when you're high as hell, socially people can judge you as such, don't you think? - I would think so. - So it's like, I think it's Ernie over there in the corner. You're looking around like, where did the smell come from? I don't think it takes intense detective work to figure out who's the one that just smoked the joint. - Gene asks, "Is Trump allowed to vote?" Yes, I looked that up yesterday. He is allowed to vote in Florida. - Not sure about going forward. - Speaking of marijuana, listen to this song, we have... (laughing) - How about that? - How about that timing? - They were clean. - A lot of text on this will get to two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. (upbeat music) - Hey, 25, FM Talk 106.5 and Mobile. Mornings, a segment brought to you by Tobias and Comer Law, the local personal injury law firm. It's helped a ton of people right here in our area, along the Gulf Coast get fair compensation. They've been doing it for decades from their office down on Dolphin Street. I love that team there, Desi Tobias, Brian Comer, and Lacey Smith, and they'll help guide you through your case from the time you first talk until it's all over. They don't pass that responsibility on to some lawyer you've never met who might not even be from the area, just 'cause they have their face on the billboard. It doesn't mean they're from here. From car to boating accidents, defective products, to workplace accidents and maritime injuries, Tobias and Comer Law has seen it all, and their website's great. It's full of plenty of useful information TobiasComerLaw.com, including our Law 251 podcast, all the episodes there. You'll also find the phone number there for a free consultation any time of the day, that number's 251-432-5001. Check 'em out online, TobiasComerLaw.com. - Of the text line, "Hey Dan, why would someone drink beer "that doesn't get you drunk?" You asked why someone would smoke, something that doesn't get them high. I don't know, I don't know that I'm, okay, I guess that's a fair point, I suppose. I don't know, you could like to taste a beer, or you could be recovering alcoholic, or whatever. You could find beer that doesn't get you drunk, recreational anyway, it's a beer in your hand, whereas when you're smoking a joint, I mean, if you go to that trouble, not that you roll it, but you roll it and then you smoke, it seems to me that the point would be for it to affect you in some way. But this text are saying that this argument is one-sided. - Well, yeah, it could be enjoyable. - The text are saying you can compare it to someone drinking an alcoholic beer. - I guess that's fair, but to me, it's still not the same, it still seems a little disjointed. - Yeah, nice, and-- - They didn't even mean that. (laughing) - And yet this conversation, kind of focusing on two things here. First off, how hard is that to enforce after Trump said, we wanna make it illegal to smoke weed in public places. If these laws are gonna pass in these states, like they have been, how hard is that to enforce? 'Cause there's so many different types of hemp, marijuana products that can be smoked, and not all of them get you high. And the second one is, okay, there's been a big push to legalize marijuana, and I understand the benefits of it. Not just medically, but people trying to unwind after a long day, maybe they are an alcoholic, or they had a more serious drug addiction, and that's kind of their thing. They get home, light one up, watch Netflix. I much prefer that to some of the other, you know, intoxicants that people are taking that are harmful for them and the people that are around them. But the weed smell is a problem. I think legalizing marijuana on a massive scale like we've seen, I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for America as a whole. You know, you've seen those memes that America was built on alcohol and nicotine, and now you've got weed, and you just don't see the same, you know, not great buildings being built, and this and that, that America was built on uppers, rather than these downers, it makes people lazy. I mean, there's no doubt about that, especially if you began at such an early age, you're not, you know, there's some people that can smoke weed all day and, you know, maybe host the Olympics, like Snoop Dogg did. There's people that can get things done on it. The vast majority of people who are smoking weed are not nearly as successful or efficient if they weren't smoking weed, and I think that's pretty good fact. - Like if they were to build a new office park in Denver, it might take 26 years, right? - Exactly. - Like, when's it gonna be ready? What are you doing? - Yeah, this text just says, I moved from Colorado back in 2019. You couldn't go anywhere without smelling it. Couldn't go to the reservoir. Couldn't go to 16th Street Mall, nowhere. Go back to visit. There's grow buildings all down I-25, the whole downtown Denver reeks. Jerry says, what if you were to use a non-alcohol? (laughing) What if you were to use a non-alcoholic beer can as a homemade pipe to smoke weed? (laughing) Jerry has to be important questions. - I'll tell you a lot. Jerry is, he's an inventor. Mike says, well, I don't like the smell of lines of portable potties, but hey, you gotta ban them. Yeah, but are they putting porter potties right outside of every store that you go into or every stoplight on airport? If they were, there'd be people saying, we gotta do something about all the porter potties. Duckman says, try passing a drug test for a job. Textor says, I'd rather 50 people be on the road high on weed than one drunk driver. I agree with you. I agree with you. You know, I'd rather catch one of my daughters smoking weed than drinking Jack Daniels. Doesn't mean I want to catch your smoking weed, right? - No. - There's references, but. - Especially 'cause they're six and three. That's disgusting. - That would be a problem. (laughing) - I'm gonna talk with Ralph from Land Yap. He's on the way next on FM Talk 10065 and Mobile Monings with Dan Brennan and Dalton Orwick. (upbeat music) Morning from Dan and Dalton. If I'm talking 10065, Mobile Monings at a 34. Temperature's gonna be cooler. - Yeah. - Rain is down along the coastline now. You've got a better chance of that this morning. You have a better chance of that if you go down by the coast. But anyway, this has been a break from the 102 and sunny that we've had for about four months. Rob Holbert with Land Yap Mobile joins us on the line this morning. Rob, good morning. How are you? - Good, guys. How are y'all doing? - We are doing good. - Great and understand you guys at Land Yap, paying close attention to the college. You're doing picks. Have you been doing college football picks every year, Rob? Or is this the first year that you've joined the team there? I'm doing that. - That's the first time they've let me join. Yeah, I don't know. So week one was good. I did great. No, I do what I'm doing. I was eight and two, man. - That's what I was reading. You're the leader in the clubhouse. They're at the Land Yap offices. So, I really want to bring a chimp in and see how he does compared to the rest of it. I feel like we're probably, I'm about on that same level, I think. - Yeah, I'm Tommy Hicks prep picker this week. - Yeah. - Yeah, so I don't know where that, I'm looking at Land Yap online right now. - Do you have to do the Kirk Herb Street thing where you're not allowed to pick the game you're calling? Or does that matter? - You know, it matters for Kirk Herb Street. I am not Kirk Herb Street. And I went ahead and picked the Sarah Land Gulf Shores game. I didn't think there was going to be a big social pushback on that. - Rob, another great. - Now you stepped into it now, you stepped in it now. - I know, somebody here brought it up. - Just threw my co-host under the bus. So, I apologize for that. Dan will be calling the Sarah Land Gulf Shores games that are Friday night. Anyway, let's move on to the latest issue of Land Yap and something I love seeing on the cover. And I love it more when it's on my plate. And that's some raw oysters, especially from right here on our coast. And you got a good cover story there from Kyle Hammerkin Dale East this week. - Yeah, the story is about, you know, our efforts here locally to farm oysters. And, you know, specifically those oysters that are being grown, you know, like the Isle Dauphines and some of the others that are being grown off the bottom, you know, they're being, you know, they're not laying there in the mud. They're not wild caught oysters. They're farmed and most of those are being sold out of the area. - Yeah, higher quality. - They're very good. I mean, if you've ever had them, they're fantastic. And, but what the oyster farmers are saying is, hey, you know, we hope there's more desire for them locally. We're hoping there are more restaurants here that will serve them and people will come in and ask for locally grown oysters. Of course, the issue with that is they're also expensive. So, you know, there's an issue there coming down to a price point that locals are willing to pay for oysters. And I mean, there are some restaurants around here that serve these oysters, but, you know, there's some are saying, hey, you know, got to come down to a level that we can, that we can afford, that we can serve, that people will buy. So, you know, we all grew up spoiled here. You know, most of us can still remember that oysters were, you know, 50 cents in oyster or whatever it was. And, you know, now they're well over two or three dollars and in some places, you know, other places they could be getting as much as $4, $5 or $6 per oyster. - Yeah, yeah. It's become a real financial decision. Sometimes when I go out, I'm like, man, I really want some. But am I going to, and no, it's also, when no one else in the family eats them. And so they're looking at you with your 20, $25 plate of oysters. Yeah, it's a tough decision for a lot of folks, but... - It is. It's a big difference when back in the old days, it was like a, it wasn't afterthought. You're like, yeah, sure, well, I don't know oysters. You know, that's not the thing. Now you're like, well, that might be the most expensive thing we order. I don't know. - Yeah, I mean, and if nobody's eating them except for me, then I look like the pig, right? - I had five years ago, so I had a conversation with the head chef for the Zach Brown band when they're on the road. He also owns a seafood restaurant in Atlanta. And he loves the oysters down here. They're willing to pay for it at the restaurants in Atlanta. They're willing to pay for it because they say they're so good and the people have got the money and they look at it like week, you know? This is great stuff to us. Like you say, we're so down here spoiled with oysters of any kind, but it's like, no, Atlanta, New York, Boston, those are gourmet. - It's the new Southern caviar, man. - Yeah. - That's the way it is. - Yeah. - We just have to accept that. - Yeah. - But it's a cool story. It's interesting what we're doing and the hope is that they're up to the scale now that they're growing so many of them, that there is an opportunity for them to find a price point that works here locally. - And yeah, right. - They're sort of calling out and saying, hey, you know, asking people, look, if you want local oysters, tell your restaurants, hey, buy them and we'll try to work with them on price. So hopefully that'll come in the past. I'd love to see more of them in the places I go. And of course, oyster farmers playing a role in this discussion about the maintenance dredging with the port. So that's before you even get into that and what changes that might make to our oyster population down here. Rob, another important story you've been covering and I know you wrote up about that this week. The Alabama Ethics Commission received a complaint from the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs who said that the state's Department of Mental Health basically did away with funding for veterans and blamed a personal vendetta. Talk a little bit about this story. - Well, it's pretty fascinating. You've got the head of the Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs who wrote a filed an ethics complaint against the head of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and said that she had essentially torpedoed a deal that would have put $7 million for the federal funding in the hands of organizations around the state that helped veterans and that she did so, according to this complaint. She did so because she doesn't like one individual, the guy who runs our local vets recover, which I got on Spring Hill, which is a detox, I mean, it's an amazing place that he's put together. Veterans who are struggling with substance abuse and other issues. And so the claim is, I mean, he said this is why she did it. And as a result of that, the Department of Veteran Affairs had to go into its own pocket for the $7 million. The federal $7 million got sucked into the abyss by the Department of Finance because of all of this and was delivered to someone else. So who we can't even figure out who it is. But the biggest issue of all of this is that the ethics commission simply turned around and said, we're not going to get this because we don't, we're possibly criminal. And they didn't do anything with it. So you have the head of a department, an agency, state agency, filing an ethics complaint against the head of another state agency with documentation of, you know, and there's witnesses that they claim saw these things happen. And once again, you know, this ethics commission that we have in the state, clean with it. And it just ties into all of the issues we've been writing about for the last three years with the ethics commission. And I'm just kind of dumbfounded that there at least wasn't going to be. I'm not saying that this actually happened. I don't know that. But this seems so bizarre to me to not actually conduct an investigation over this because I mean, they're claiming there's nothing that would have been unethical. I don't know how it's not an ethical. Someone destroyed the pathway for $7 million federal funding to go to veterans in this state out of personal animus for someone. - Yeah, that's, I mean, that's-- - That's really what happened. That's a dereliction of duty, in my opinion. - Yeah, this ethics committee is like the state patrol on tricycles. I mean, it doesn't surprise me because of the coverage you've had on the ethics commission and the Mabel Amos and all of that. It's disappointing, it's wrong, but sadly, it's not all that surprising to me. - Well, I think the thing that people need to realize or think about is that when you look at Alabama politics and you look at corruption, one of the keystone elements to having corruption is having a completely dysfunctional ethics commission because when there's unethical behavior going on and you can count on the ethics commission to not do anything about it primarily because the ethics commissioner, the director, is himself ethically compromised as we've written about a million times with the whole issue with the Mabel Amos Memorial Fund and getting his own kids over $120,000 worth of scholarship money from a charitable trust he sits on the board of. So, I mean, you've got that issue, you also have the fact that there's still two vacancies on the commission itself that the governor will not fill. And in this circumstance with the veteran's situation, the head of the Alabama mental health department is a member of the cabinet for KIV. And as soon as this was, the ethics commission kicked this thing out, KIV came along and said, basically, all this still fattel, we don't need all this trouble. You know, it's, I mean, it's basically, you know, it's everybody's just moving in a circle. - Yeah, you there, Rob? We lost. - See if you're-- - In general, went this past week and asked the Alabama Supreme Court to grant an emergency stay against, no order of the judge put in to have an audit done of this trust of this fund. - Right. - And guess what, this guy turned around and did it, once again, second time in a row, they've done this for him, gave an emergency stay and stopped any kind of accounting of what's going on with this fund. - Imagine that. - And, you know, it's just why, why? What is the point? You know, I mean, we just don't need to know what goes on with this. We don't, you know, it's like, it's not important to our attorney general that the people of Alabama know whether the head of the ethics commission is spreading money around from this thing to his buddies, which we know he did. I mean, that's not a question of whether he did it. We know at least one of his childhood friends who is a current, Covington County Circuit Court judge received money from that fund for his kids to go to college. So, I mean, it's not a question of whether it happened. It has happened and there's a lot of allegations that it happened more than it happened several times. There's $3.2 million that it was handed out that nobody knows who got. And, you know, it's just, to me, this is, it's all hand in glove. All of this stuff works together. - I'd love to go back and I don't know how far you'd have to go back to find an instance where the ethics commission did something. I don't know, what's their day to day like when they-- - I've been doing this 22 years and I haven't seen it, but this is the worst it's been. I mean, I didn't think they were that great before Tom Aldrich and became the executive director, but they're absolutely worthless now. - Yeah, and, you know, this was coming up this last legislative session with one of our local representatives, Matt Simpson, and trying to overhaul some of this. I believe he's going to, I guess, try to bring it back up this next session, but he got a lot of flack for that actually from both sides. Some said that it didn't go far enough and that he was just trying to actually make things easier. I, well, where do we stand with that, you think? Do you think we'll ever pass? - You know, as I pointed out when all that was going on, you know, the issue, the main issue in his legislation, I don't necessarily agree with every single thing in his legislation, but I think the main point of his legislation was that there needs to be an overhaul of the ethics commission. And it needs some oversight. I understand the concept is that they need to be independent, but they're not, they're not independent at this point, you know? - Yeah, it's a- - I didn't know if that was walk off music or not. - Yeah, that probably should not have played it there, but before- - I didn't know if that was shut up or off music, but yeah. - Well, no, the music says on it, shut up, Rob, you're actually right, but I played it at the wrong time. - Yeah, it's just, you would expect an ethics commission, any state, any locality to be the most transparent of organizations, okay, this is the complaint we've received, this is why we've thrown it out, or this is why we're investigating further, and we just don't get that at all, it's the opposite. - It's the exact opposite. - When you have an ethics commissioner, a director of the ethics commission, who is hired by the ethics commission, and when the ethics commission is missing two or three people, or always has people who are expired in their terms, and all these things that they don't keep up with the term, I mean, it's very clear the governor doesn't care about it, she has it where she wants it, because at any given moment, she can put two new commissioners on there, and fire Tom Albritton, so he's got the axe hanging over his head all the time, you think he's gonna go after her, or anybody in her administration, or anybody she doesn't want him to go after. So I mean, it creates a circumstance that we see, this is it, and now you have Steve Marshall, who is working with, I mean, in my opinion, it looks like he's working to cover all this stuff up, he's doing everything in his power to keep this from coming out, I don't know why, he hasn't ever explained it, but it sure doesn't look like he's interested in transparency in this issue either, so. - Well, I know a lot of problems with it. - No doubt, land yabs can keep hammering away, keep digging on that, and one of the many reasons we appreciate you guys, and every new issue on Stanza, let folks know how they can sign up online. - Yeah, you can go online at landyapmobile.com, you can sign up for a subscription, it's $1 for the first month, it's $6.50 a month after that, if you're a subscription phobic, we have a day pass for a dollar, you can read for 24 hours for a buck. I don't know how much cheaper we can make it, but if you wanna read it, that's how you can get on there and help us out too. - Okay, we didn't even get around to the fact that 80% of our friends and neighbors have been attacked by owls in the last week. (laughing) - I mean, that's a bigger issue, that's the biggest. - When the world is going on there, thanks Rob, we'll catch you up next week. - All right, take care guys. - Rob Holbert, landyapmobile.com, and we'll come back and wrap things up right here on Mobile Warnings. (upbeat music) - Hey 55, FM Talk 10065 at Mobile Warnings. This segment brought to you by 1-800-GOT-JUNK, making junk disappear in Mobile and Baldwin counties. This is what they've been doing for over 16 years now. Trey Bennett has assembled a great team over those years, and they worked fast, they are professional, and they're very kind. 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It's like a club or it's like a semi-monthly or I don't know who makes that the counter of the supper club, but after two sessions, I called it "suffer club." - "Suffer club." - That's what it felt like. - For some reason I've never been invited to a supper club. - Yeah, that's fine. (laughs) - You've been granted a great wish there, so. - That's fantastic. Angry Patriot, he says traffic on I-10 at the tunnel westbound, almost a dead stop. He says, "Consider water street or African town bridge instead." Thank you. Let's see this texture. Speaking of bad smells, we were talking about the smell of weed everywhere earlier, something I've been seeing more of in the downtown area, homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk with a shopping cart full of their belongings, with the push to revitalize downtown Mobile, this type of thing is going to keep people away. Is there anything that can be done about this type of thing? Well, I'm sure that eventually law enforcement will move in and move them out, and they'll end up in West Mobile. - Yeah. - They'll go out and move them again. They'll end up South Mobile County, go out and move them again. They'll be, you know, same on. There's only so much they can do, none of law enforcement, but yeah, it continues to be a bit of a problem. - It's a bit of a problem in most major cities. You have a city like Nashville that is fabulous city and so much is happening there and so much growth. And at the same time, that problem in downtown Nashville, you know better than I do, is real. - Yeah, I'll see it here again in a couple of weeks in Nashville when we're talking about the smell of weed everywhere. I mean, you can't go anywhere downtown without it smelling like that all the time. - It's just Blake Shelton by himself. - Yeah, that's right. 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