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Midday Mobile - Sean talks politics with Cameron Smith and local news with Erica Thomas - September 4 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. Baby, that's right. This man knows what's up. 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 FMTalk 106.5. Well, Sean's a tough guy. I mean, I think everybody knows that. You know, 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 main 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, FMTalk 106.5 Midday Mobile on this Wednesday. And good to have you all along. Next couple hours, making more of those live local talk hours, 56 hours a week. Here's another two of them coming your way. 3430106, how are you getting in touch with us? 3430106 for a phone call or a text and a reminder too. If you have the FMTalk 106.5 app, you can use that talk back feature, which is hidden there behind the microphone icon. If you see it on the page there, if you'll hit the microphone icon, let's record a message. And then it emails it here to the show and we can play it back here as well. So some of the ways to get in touch with us, there's three. There are more, but I'm just going to delineate those three as we get into today's show. As I bring my friend on and our Wednesday guest at noon, I'm going to set this up. Did you just hear the national news there? There are two jail stories in the national news. People being let out of a Bella Russian jail, what that must be like. And the people that jailbreak, did their jailbreak out of a jail in the Congo. You want to make a, you want to make a thing like scared straight, pretty, pretty tough here in Alabama in the prison system. But what must it be like in Bella Russian jail? Or what's the situation in jail in the Congo? You're talking about scared straight. Uh, buddy, Cameron Smith, AL.com and the Triptych Foundation joining us now. Uh, Cameron, Bella Russian or Congo jail, you got to choose one, which one? Oh, hold on. I have to press another button. I, I do this every week and I've made a colpa. Um, let's, uh, let's press this. And then, uh, there we go. Now Cameron, uh, Bella Russian or Congo jail, which one for you? I have to go with the Bella Russian because I think the weather might be a little cooler, but that's about it. I mean, those two stories just stood out to me. I'm like places you don't, I mean, you don't want to be in jail anywhere, but Bella Russian jail or Congo jail, neither of them are a vacation spot. They are not. And I would not recommend doing anything to find yourself in either of those locations. Right. So if you're in either of those places, uh, make sure to mind your P's and Q's, whatever those are. Uh, talks from presidential politics with you today and looking at that, polling, you can find your poll out there that says what you wanted to say. Uh, you get the, uh, the, the six or maybe seven battleground states, but it looks like Pennsylvania is, uh, probably the crux of this. So with that, to go back to what we talked about last week on the show and you had a column come out, uh, while we were talking there about, uh, after the DNC, Harris remains burdened by what she has been, of course, nice play on that. You and I talked about it on the show you talked about in your column. I've said it this way many times. It seems like the Harris walls campaign is running against a incumbent Donald Trump, not one that's not been in power for three and a half years. Well, what did we learn about Joe Biden's campaign? His track record, the Biden Harris administration's track record on critical issues, such as inflation, immigration and foreign wars are, are nothing for the Democrats to be excited about that. We've seen it though on the issues, Democrats are underwater. So they took the recipes from the past two campaigns that have been successful. That's Joe Biden's campaign and then Barack Obama's campaign before that. And I like to describe Harris's campaign as change in hope hides in the basement. Because that's the tactic they're using is positivity, moderation. We're not crazy. They're weird. That's the messaging campaign. It's selling a vision. The problem is with Harris, that vision is decidedly attached to an administrative track record. And they are simply Democrats are acting as if she's not the current vice president in the United States right now. And if you believe the polls and look at the polls, it's helping Harris. It's OK, but that's sad because people need to do a little more critical thinking. It is interesting as well to see the information that comes out from the Harris campaign. But more importantly, what comes out from mainstream media, that if it's something that would benefit vice president Harris, then she was, you know, she's a VP. She's there shoulder to shoulder with the president working on these important things. The second, it's something that is a weight on her. Oh, she's a vice president. She didn't have anything to do with this. It's amazing that these people can report the same thing and not be embarrassed for themselves. That's true. But we knew this wasn't going to be a fair fight in the media. And we can complain about that and say, well, the legacy media, when I say that, I want to say what I mean. I mean, old school news outlets, you guys know the channels and whatnot that Lean left. You know the ones that lean right. And what's happened is that media narrative has decided that, well, if Harris hides in the basement, which is part of her strategy, she knows where she's weak. And that's off the cuff answering questions that awkward interview with walls and Harris's great evidence of that, then you hide them. You don't put them in situations where they're not going to be successful. Meanwhile, the media is taking everything that Trump says and saying, how can we possibly bludgeon him with this? And to Trump's credit, he's saying, I'm available. I'll talk to you. What do you want to talk about? And then it hurts him and the media isn't really doing much to draw Harris out. And Harris says, well, why would I? I'm actually going in the right direction. The status quo is working for me. And I think we're going to see more of it. And by the way, Trump will do about any interview now. Although maybe I'll see if I can get it back on the show. I mean, I think he does. He's doing cable access if they call him to be on him. He is not scared sitting down off the cuff, people from all different kinds of angles on this. And he shows himself to have some dexterity to do an interview with a different kind of, this one's more of a mainstream journalist, this person, maybe a comedian, this person, a social media person influencer out there. And he can kind of craft it to each one. So he's not shirking away from that. But the hiding forever part of it, I mean, we've talked about this in the past when you don't debate when you're way ahead, right? You don't have any unforced errors. But I don't think the Harris campaign's far enough ahead that they can hide from it in the basement the whole time. I mean, they eventually have to come up for air. Sure. And then they'll say empty platitudes that they're inoffensive. And I think, for example, when she sat down with walls and Dana Bash, and it wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. It wasn't Joe Biden debate level bad. Right. And what she's trying to do is get through the required tasks, get through the debate, for example. I think she's spending a week in Pennsylvania heading into the debate. Just so she's very prepared, feeling very good. And then all she has to do is buy, I think what he's hoping literally is the vision sells itself, not the track record, not holding to policies. She's flip flopped on everything. She's indeed a chameleon. But what's working against Trump is the more that he talks, the more he basically is reminding folks, I'm the same. I'm the same as I've been in his mind. He says, you like me. Well, a lot of independent voters, a lot of those people that are on the margins, aren't so sure about him. This is a call between, I don't love Trump, but man, Harris is a radical progressive. I don't think I like her either. And they're going to kind of have to make a call here. Harris is trying to reimagine her entire career. Walls is trying to act like he's a high school football coach. The goal is we'll sell you Americana and apple pie and hope that you look at Trump and say, he's an old weirdo. We'll side with them. I don't know if it's going to work, but right now it's a toss up. You talk about some of the things that are leveled against Trump that he says the thing, he starts it, but the inverse is also true. He is absolutely distanced in himself from this agenda 2025, which what Heritage puts this out every time. This is not something brand new. And it's not Trump said there's not my talking points. Those are my things. I'm not bound to that. But I watched the ads that ran during, which by the way, 63 to nothing. Was that enough of a win or not? Do you think you think Bama should have scored some more points in that game? Well, I noticed the defensive coordinator was disappointed that we didn't take away the ball more. So I like to see that. I do too. So I asked that question yesterday of Shabari figures that he didn't know me like you do, and he kind of didn't know what I was asking. You know exactly what I'm asking. It's not enough. Bama fans like 63 to nothing, not enough. Well, I want to know if fans of the opposing team cried, and if they did, we're getting closer. So with that side bar there, but I watched the ads that ran during the game, Kamala Harris ads. They were running and they were or it was a pact. It may not have been a candidate, you know, add. They were absolutely saying, here's Trump. Here's again to 2025. Here's what he wants to do. I mean, I guess they think people who haven't paid attention to what Trump's saying are going to buy that. I don't get this obsession with Project 20. Project, not yet. Project. It's Heritage Foundation's been doing this forever. This was a Biden campaign ploy to try to say, ooh, look at the scary thing that the conservatives have put out. And yeah, it's a lot of people that have worked for Trump. I'm confident that Trump is aware of it, even though he says, I have no idea. But again, it asks for a lot of things that conservatives ask for for a long time. It's limited government, personal responsibility, rule of law. It's pro-family, pro-life. I understand why Democrats wouldn't like it, but I don't know with swing voters that they're going to say this mysterious document from the Heritage Foundation that's 900 and something pages long is going to determine my vote. I think what it's going to come down to is do independent voters have enough confidence that Trump is going to bring back the good stuff of his administration without all the negatives? And is Harris going to be that progressive liberal or this ecumenical team builder? Because right now, I hate to say it because I want this to be about policy, but it really comes down to who do people like more? Who do they connect with more? Who seems more like somebody that is going to be for them and for their families? And that's what this is going to decide on. That's the hinge point. So I don't think Project 2025 is going to make a huge difference here. Okay. So let's talk about this other thing that hit on Thursday and got all the talk over the weekend saying yesterday, this is these places where I go. I point out that Trump has, he's a populist, not a conservative. Now it could be conservative populism, still a populist. When he rolls out this IVF thing in an attempt to, I guess, distance from the road decision, you know, the bad outcome on that for Republicans, at least that's the idea that the road decision led to some big Democrat wins. But he rolls out not only that he's pro IVF, okay? He's fine that we the people and the insurance company, but we the people are going to pay for IVF. I'm pro IVF. I'm fine with it. It's just, is that something that one taxpayer should be subsidizing another taxpayer for? I'd say no, that's not conservative, that's growing government. Yes, Sean, when I heard that I wanted to scream words, I can't say on the radio, because what are we conserving? I'm old enough to remember when we said government health care mandates were communism, that they were, they were taking us down this road to status run economies. And then we've got the president saying, a Republican president saying, well, you know, mandates, those are good. We're going to have mandates from the government on these issues and vice president backing it up. And then to make matters worse, he was in Florida and he's saying, oh, we need abortion up past six weeks. We need more than six weeks where abortion's available. And then his campaign had to walk that back and explain how what he said wasn't what he meant. And my concern for him is with stuff like this, if we're not conserving anything, if we're not being conservative in the fiscal sense and the government mandate since with life, what are what exactly is there to get excited about? And I'm not suggesting that Republicans are going to look at Harris and say she's a better alternative. But this is how you depress your own turnout. You make that pro life, pro fiscal sanity crowd say, I'm just not that excited. And this is rough. This was an unforced error from Trump. And again, he said what he said, I'm not going to try to make excuses about it. All right, tell people want to continue that discussion with you online. Where do they find you? You can find me at D Cameron Smith on X. You can go to ale.com slash opinion. I'm everywhere. Just come and join the conversation. Tell me why I'm wrong. So you would at least have scored another touchdown, right? I mean, 70 to nothing would have looked better. The 70s just got a nice round. Yeah, I agree with you, man. All right, roll time. We'll talk again next week. Real tight. All right. There he goes. Cameron Smith, and we're coming right back for a bid day mobile. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 10065. I talk 25 FM talk 10065. Grab some text here. Also got they got North Korea in the news. Always look at North Korea in the news stories. David says so the Democrats have deployed one of their October surprises a little bit early. The over under for the first question of the debate next week being a gun control question is 110% chance. You're talking about the tragedy there in Georgia. Yeah, David, I wouldn't bet against you on that. I wouldn't bet against you. Let's see here. Oh, yes. Talking about the prisons earlier. This texture said Turkish prison is famous for a reason. Of course, the fantastic line from the fantastic movie airplane, which I have not watched that movie in a long time. I'll go back. There's some movies like you go back and watch and they don't hit the way they used to. Like it happened to me with Red Dawn. The original Red Dawn. I love that movie as a kid. Love that movie went back and watched it. And I'm like, it's not it's okay. It's just what is cool as I should think it was. But airplane, I think we'll still live up in the line. Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison? So you can add that one in there. I was just thinking that prison stories, Bella Russian prison, Congo prison, both bad news. Skrull Vereen said, I have smart parents buying into all this Harris happiness nonsense. It makes it easier for me to stay home for Thanksgiving. There are no undecided voters anymore. I think when you, when you exist in a world like what we do and talk radio or you're, you know, you're over on Twitter, those kind of places, it seems like everybody absolutely has got their mind made up. But I still think that the people we're talking about there, Skrull Vereen, aren't talking politics all the time, right? So they're going to, they're going to make a decision. They hadn't even, I mean, there are people in the country still hadn't made a decision, you know, and it's September. What percentage of them? I don't, I don't know, Skrull, I still think there are undecideds for sure. I mean, I know there are. Hey, what said regarding Project 2025, the web chatter is it's a Christian nationalist, something of another fear mongering. Yeah, you know, it gets in Trump, like the, what Heritage puts out Project 2025 is more to a real core idea of conservatism, right? I mean, fiscal and social, but shrinking over the side of the fiscal side and shrinking government, that's not been a hallmark of the Trump presidency and campaigning. And so this IVF thing to me is, it's populism, right? But it's, oh, well, people will like it, and they won't, I'm not saying he doesn't believe it. But Trump will say, well, people will like it if I say that and people will not think that, you know, I'm attached to going for a national ban on the abortion, whatever. If I say I'm going to pay for, just say you support IVF, but the idea of one taxpayer paying for the other taxpayer IVF treatment, I did listen to the interview this morning on just show. I thought that was compelling and talking about that IVF is not like something that people do right away. They go, you know what, we didn't get pregnant last month, so we'll do IVF. They go through a bunch of other stuff first. So I do realize that facts are important. But still, should it be the job of the government to pay for it? I want more babies. I want more Americans. As long as they're not next to be in the seat on the airplane. But is that the job of the government to take money for one taxpayer and give to the other for that? I don't think so. Thank you. Joshua says airplane one and two still rock. Excuse me, miss. I speak Jive. Great moment. That movie is so good. Okay, that's going to be a weekend, weekend deal. And Maxima says Harrison Vols would make "ideocracy a reality show." How is it, Maxima, said that movie? And like Judge Genius movie keeps coming back into our conversation. The further we get away from when "ideocracy" the movie was made, the more it seems like not a comedy but a documentary. Okay, come and fight back, more "Midday Moby." This is "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. Right to 1235, FM Talk 1065. Midday Mobile, the text line and the phone line have turned into a little bit of people quoting the movie "Airplane," which is okay by me, which is okay by me. Actually, we'll get back to those texts on that in a second. But this person was a quote near plane lines too. It's Eric Kitomas from 1819news.com. You said that was a big... Your dad enjoyed the movie "Airplane," and so therefore you had to deal with it. Yes, my entire life. My mom would say, "Okay, go clean your room," and she would shut the door, and she would put a timer on the door. And then over the door knob there was a belt. So if that timer went off and my room wouldn't clean, I got the belt. That always, always, always made sure my room was cleaned quickly. But he would come in jokingly, constantly, and open the door and say, "This wants you to know we're all behind you," or, you know, one of the lines that they would say when they walked into the cockpit. So, yes, it was a running joke. He still does it, and I'm a lot older now, so it was one of his favorites. Yeah, I just remember it so fondly. I think I would have come back to it. It's probably been 10 years, but I probably want you at this weekend. I want to see before we get in the other stories too. Thank you for writing the story about the birth of my eldest. You're writing last week talking about the Hurricane Katrina anniversary, and you and I were just talking. I said, "Well, I always remember the anniversary because it's my daughter's birthday 19 years ago." And yeah, you and I got to talk a little bit about the one time I did not work a hurricane. I'm famous for working the hurricanes, but the one time I didn't, it's because that baby. Yeah, that was, I was, you know, honored to be able to tell that story, and I'm sure you've told it a lot of times, but we have people all over the state that have never heard that story, and it was so interesting. And it was a lot of detail, obviously, I couldn't put in there just because of space, but it was just a great story. And as a newer resident of Lower Alabama, you know, I've never been in a hurricane before, and I probably would never be in a hurricane, because I would hot-till it up here to Wood Alley, where I am now with my parents and get away from my own safety. But the fact that you every time, like hurricane after hurricane, stay there, just to keep your listeners informed and safe, I think that that's very honorable. And I'm sure they appreciate it very much. That's what we're supposed to do. That's what we're supposed to do. And also talking about your new home down here, I was very excited too, when I saw the headline, "A Damn Good Marine," because I knew you were talking about E.B. Sledge, and remembered on the victory over Japan Day. Not only just the amazing patriot, veteran, a person that tells, I mean, his story tells the story of somebody, even though he was from Opiel, and he and Sidney Phillips from Opiel, and their journey, but they told the regular-person story of World War II, better than anybody. And with the old breed, it's one of my favorite books ever. Yes, and I started my session with World War II, and I was probably third grade when I started going to the library and getting books. I always wanted to get World War II books for some reason. And I've never really read an account like this one, and it's very, it's the kind of book that you just get you immerse yourself in. And so it was amazing for me to be able to tell this story. It's been told hundreds of times there's documentaries about Eugene Sledge. There's it's on Netflix now, the Pacific. That focuses on his story in the latter episodes. He actually kept notes in his his New Testament Bible that he had with him. And so that's why this account is so specific. And and so real, it really puts you in that, in that place where he was, you can kind of feel what he was doing. I'm sure we would never actually feel, you know, that tear that he probably had on. But it was a blessing. Thanks to you. I got the contact information for his son, Henry, who has really done an amazing job keeping his father's legacy alive. He travels all over the United States and recently he went to Pennsylvania because they unveiled a figurine of E.B. Sledge. And so that will be available soon for purchase. They named an airstrip after him. Yeah, that was, I remember talking about that, talking about with his other son, John, who will come on with me a good bit, John Sledge, would an honor that was to have that airfield that his dad's feet have been on to be named for him. Yes, I mean, since I've done this story, I've just been walking in a different world. It's kind of given me the feeling of pride and appreciation for not only World War II veterans, but all the veterans that have been through any type of war. It's just they went in so young and I can't even imagine a lot of people have said, you know, I can't imagine my child going into that. But something interesting about this fellow from Mobile, not only did he get to tell the story to his generation, but generations and generations following are listening to this story and they are inspired by him and his patriotism. So I think that's another interesting thing. One of my friend's sons is a student at Montevalo. Yeah, where he taught. Yeah. Yeah, he's a student there now. So never met him. You know, wasn't even born when he passed away, but he knows all about him. He's read the book. And he's just very proud of what Eugene Sledge did for the United States and definitely for Montevalo. Absolutely. By the way, too, I got him. You pointed out the story. I did not know that figurine was being made. That's really cool. That's the thing I gotta have. I don't do a lot of figurine buying, but I think I'll buy that one for sure. Yeah, that would be a neat one to have. It's very detailed. You know, Henry Sledge said he got to see it. They haven't started mass producing it yet by the W. Britain Company, which they do a lot of heroic figures from history. And so we'll be looking for that to come out. It's going to be it's going to be incredible. I'm definitely going to get one myself. If you're just joining us on to Erica Thomas from 1819 news. Also, this story, I will not I mean, your job is to tell the story. My lament is my gosh, this has taken a long time, but headline here, Mobile Holding Public Meeting, considering the future of opioid settlement funds. I'm not just saying for mobile. I'm saying from the time that the the Sackler family, you know, put the money out in their settlement to getting the money to the places needed. It seems like it's just taken forever here. And you talk about this movement on this in mobile, though. Yeah, and this is a large settlement of $2.2 million, but those funds will be split up, you know, between different different departments. And so they have to figure out in different organizations, really, just any public organization that that is interested in getting these funds can can find out more about how to do that. But they held a meeting last night or or this morning. Today, when say yes, this morning. Sorry. I don't know what day it is when I'm in noise alley. But yeah, so when that this morning, they they held a meeting and and they were asking anybody that's interested in these funds, let us know because we're going to tell you what that process looks like, what you need to do to apply. And it's not too late if you missed the meeting. You can still contact the city to figure that out. But something interesting that the city of Mobile did in several large cities across the nation have done this is they hired the Helios Alliance, which they will kind of manage the allocations of these funds to make sure that they're they're done the right way. Because if any of these municipalities or counties are organizations in Alabama, distribute their funds in a way that is not set up in the settlement, then Alabama can lose every bit of that money. It's very important that we follow this to a T and make sure we're crossing all the T dot and all the I doing it the right way because you don't want to be the city responsible for getting all of that money revoked. You know, oh, I didn't realize I didn't realize it. So one mistake, then the money gets called back. I do hope whether this Helios group or some of the group out there, we'll make sure they're not duplicating. You know, sometimes you see these things come in and they're rushed to spend money. I mean, the story out there, the Russians spend money for schools right now before a deadline, but they rush to spend money. And just as a non-government person, just a citizen, I go, hey, that's kind of duplicating that maybe that could have been more efficient. You know, I hope, I mean, we got to get the money to the people it's taken too long to try to help people here that are that are addicted or keep people from being addicted. But let's not it's not waste it. Let's let's squeeze that and make it work. Yeah, that's very true. There's several towns and cities in Baldwin and Mobile counties that have already, you know, started to use that money. Fair hope is a good example. They already have training for the Narcan spray, which is a no spray that's anti opioid. It reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. They already have those out and about. They've trained people already. So yes, Tom, you know, Mobile, let's get with it. And I think that this meeting will be very helpful or it probably was very helpful for those who are interested because there are so many nonprofit programs in Mobile and in Mobile County that are trying to tackle this battle or be a part of the battle against the opioid crisis. And there's just so many people that care about others in Mobile. That's one thing I love about that area. Yeah, we hope to. You don't met these groups. And that's the problem where this all gets lost. But if there's a group that's already doing it, right, that they know how to do it, they have best practices to do this. I would rather, instead of starting some new entity, say, look at these people. They've been kicking butt on this small budget. Hey, how many more people could you help if we if we fund that? I can see that happen. I'm sure that some of these larger groups that do have that experience will be able to benefit from these funds. All right, folks want to get in touch with you. Read more of what you're right and how do they find you? You can go to 1819news.com and see my stories, but also the stories from all of my amazing co-workers who work day in and day out to tell the stories for the people of Alabama. And so go to 1819news.com. You can also email us at news@1819news.com. I'll always enjoy Bull Erica. We'll talk again next week. Tell everybody in Waddalia I said hi. We'll be. Thank you. Right there goes Erica Thomas. We're coming right back. More bid day mobile. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. But 1250 FM Talk 1065. Midday mobile. You know, I was watching something live. So I'll be talking with chat GPT the other day, asking that question, that question. Like I've got mobile bank coins and find jewelry GPT. I can do this. Y'all listen. Okay, here it goes. Here's the application. Hey Ron, what's what's gold trading at today? Gold is trading right under $2,500 and silver is trading right around $28. So a little bit of a dip. It was based on the unfavorable economic data and the unemployment data from Friday that was released late in the day. And there was a lot, everything was a big sell off yesterday. You probably know it's a stock market and everything else. But it's been on the upturn today, ticking back up. So it's still a really good time to add your hedge or start stacking or to create an investment with gold and silver platinum on palladium. See, so I don't even need GPT. I just I just ask Ron, he gives me the information I need to know. You talk about this, you know, where gold is now, where silver is now. And if you look at it over the weeks or months, that's one thing. But I've been, you know, buying precious metals from y'all long enough to know you look in the rear view mirror a few years that we've had some major appreciations. Oh, yeah, just lambing this year was under 2000 earlier in the year, fact it was like $1,800. So it's a quite a good increase in the year, which doesn't speak favorably for the economy, obviously, and how people feel about the economy and everything else. I mean, whatever Kamala and Biden are telling everybody, I mean, you believe that you're kind of crazy just based over the last three and a half years. So people need to protect their investments in the retirement portfolio and taking a great way to do it. Yeah, you've never gotten on here and said everybody put all your money in precious metals. I've never heard you say that ever. You always just say this is part of a healthy breakfast, you know, part of a variety of things you do for investment. Oh, yeah, you know, as well as I do, Sean, if anybody ever suggests you put all your eggs in one basket, it's a bad idea. They're trying to take advantage of yourself along those lines. So always diversify. Right. Somebody wants to get the education at the same time, the opportunity to pick up some precious precious metals. How they get in touch with you? How they find you? Think give us a call at the shop 251725 59 year come by the shop at 2204 Government Street or just check us out on the web at mobile Bay coins.com. Hey, thanks, Ron. We'll talk soon. You're welcome, Sean. There goes Ron GPT at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. Let's see here to some more airplane. Move the airplane talk. Uh, score for instance, airplane's still funny. Red Don got me into playing with toy guns and attentive to the Russians. I think it was similar for me too. Although I was a little older at that point, I guess Democrats want to accuse Republicans of flaunting guns, yet they have nothing to say to the average hoodlum showing off guns and pictures and using them. I'd tell you what that people was showing the guns in the social media posts. The policing is a hard job, but at least that one thing may help policing a little bit like, Hey, uh, look there. Uh, there you were with the gun that we see was used in the, you know, makes a little bit easier. Uh, Bill says, Sean, do you think IVF creates a return on investment? Basically the baby will become more than likely a future taxpayer paying in way more than the cost of the IVF. Let's see what you're doing, Bill. You're trying to grab you on some fiscal things. I see which is still not a reason for government to be paying for that. This is what happens. So this move from Trump, I'd be pro IVF. This is great. It's not, it's not, and I look at the text line. People sometimes have the, don't have the ability to understand that you can be for a thing. You know, you think it's fine. I mean, people want to do that, but you're against government paying for it. I mean, I'm against it. I just don't think I'm against government paying for it. The, uh, this, uh, this texture, one of this come in here. Um, okay. Yeah. Unnamed texture said, uh, what about the people whose kids were harmed by physicians prescribing opioids and had huge personal out-of-pocket expenses? Do we get a settlement? Of course not. Screwed the citizens who were harmed. Just give the settlements to the local governments. Daughter had five free habs and almost died. I'm so sorry for you, uh, a name texture. That's a horrible deal. And I, you know, I can sense your frustration. You're on the front line. I'm not on the front line other than being a citizen. Uh, but this is, how long? I mean, it takes here's this money from the Sacramento family and they didn't get the fact that the SACRA family members of SACRA family aren't in prison is a sad, sad statement, but that money gets, you know, the settlement money and it takes years. And I know you have to have it. You can't just like ride by and say, here's a million. Here's a million. I don't want that. But he should have been like a Manhattan project to apply this money. On another side here for, uh, Alabama's medical cannabis commission, we can sit and have all the discussions I have over the show about all the, the, the missteps and the remiss steps and the step on the misstep and all that. But what happens here, and this doesn't mean don't have this Byzantine system that was set up instead of just copying Florida's system, right? We came up with our own deal here in Alabama that net result is the people that needed it to buy legal cannabis. The whole reason for the Senator Nelson's bill and all that movement, they're still not getting it. So yeah, it leads to some frustration. All right. I mentioned I would have a Kim Jong Un update here. So we like to update you what's going on in the Hermit Kingdom. This headline here, North Korea's Kim Jong Un reportedly ordered dozens of officials executed after deadly floods. This story from Fox News. Here we go. It says Kim Jong Un blamed public officials who had neglected disaster prevention for causing the casualty that cannot be allowed. I guess it's lost a little bit in translation. The casualty that cannot be allowed. So, they have a flood. Maybe this is a V of note, right? People here in the States, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered 30 officials be executed over their alleged failure to prevent massive flooding and landslides in the summer. They result in the death of some 4,000 people. An official under Kim's regime said between 20 and 30 leaders in North Korea have been charged with corruption and dereliction of duty with state sentencing them to capital punishment. Says it's been determined that 20 to 30 countries in the flood, stricken area were executed at the same time late last month. So, it says reports of executions were not immediately verified by independent outlets, North Korean Central News Agency previously reported Kim ordered authorities to strictly punish the officials. It looks like he had them executed. So there you go. They didn't do their jobs. It's probably hard to get people fired up to be the next person taking that job. Talk about corruption here in our system, right? And drain the swamp and corruption in our system, which is alive and well. Where do you see the most corruption? I think you see it in autocratic regimes. I mean, look at, start going through the list. I don't know. I can't pierce exactly what goes on in Iran, right? But let's look at Russia. I mean, the whole thing there is a corruption hustle, right? Oligarchs and corruption hustle. North Korea got the corruption. They got 30 less of them now, but they got the correct. You just look at it. I mean, look at what, I don't think any system is above it. That is for sure, but it seems to be on a bigger display than where autocratic replace is. And then Jerry says, I think we should put the Supreme Leader in charge of regulating the sewage spills in Mobile Bay. That would change things, wouldn't Jerry, if they came out and said, well, they spilled X number gallons today. Well, get the firing squad out.