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Midday Mobile - T Bruce MacKinnon joins the show - August 30 2024
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All right. Good to get this man on the air. I said last hour, you hear his voice on this radio station now to get him in studios. A lot of fun. He and I were hanging out at the business Expo. A few weeks ago, T Bruce McKinnon from Bay Business News. Thanks for coming in. Yes, sir. Glad to be here. So are you, are you in the college? You've got your thank you. So you got your script day, got your Bama shirt on today. You got to get in the college pickum challenge. You got to get in there. You can win fantastic prizes for just being able to pick successfully 10 games a week. I'm in. I'm ready to do it. OK, I'm so desperate. I said that I was so desperate for college football. I found myself last night watching Colorado and North Dakota state on two teams. I don't think I've ever watched the game from, you know, except, you know, a match up with Colorado with somebody that was interested in. But I was that's how much I wanted it last night. I've watched way too much news. And so yeah, I'm thrilled to death that football football is finally on. So I enjoyed the Olympics and back to news. And yeah, so ready football football time for sure. OK, you're not talking about this a second ago, but so and we'll get into Bay business news and what y'all do online, which do in print now. But you come at this from a publishing world from elevator, elevator world, right? Correct, which is a global publisher for the elevator industry. And it's comes out. We have seven publications that cover the globe. So we've we've been in 71 years and so, yeah, we really track what's going on in the elevator sector within buildings, you know, in the fastest growing markets in the world, India, Turkey, Middle East, all over the world. It's the above this one. I meet somebody who has an expertise in something that I am so ignorant of. The only thing I know is funny. You came in today. I was talking to my mother about something today. And she said it was the industry, something about it was called elevator called vertical transportation. Yeah, so she said, did you know that? I said, I don't, but I know in the radio business with our towers, they call them vertical real estate. Oh, OK. And I tell the people like, I'm calling from the vertical real estate department. I said, are y'all the ones with the tower? And they're like, yeah. So yeah, so in that world, like elevators, people use them every day. But I don't think other than looking at the thing that's printed, that has been inspected in there, right, or seen if there's a lot of all the inspections, you know, sheets aren't even in there. They're in the office somewhere. So, you know, I joke all the time about elevators is it's, it's like a secret business. Nobody thinks about an elevator. Nobody cares about others getting there, push the button. Right. The thing works. The only time you hear about is when somebody gets hurt. That's right. I mean, this is one of these things in life, right? That are, they're used daily that people really, I mean, don't know anything about other than the places that don't have a 13th floor. Right. Don't have a 13 button on there. But you mentioned those markets, I'm thinking, you know, I was just thinking about United States, but as second world countries become first world countries and move on, that must be a big growth in elevators out there. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, anywhere where, you know, cities are growing, urbanization is happening, you know, you look at places like Dubai, you know, many, many other places in the Middle East that we don't even talk about that much. I'm going, I'm actually going to Dubai middle of this month for an event that we're putting on, you know, so that, that place is literally transformed in the last 20 years from desert to skyscrapers everywhere. And, and probably one of the most technological places in the world. And they get the budget for it too. Yeah. I think it was in Dubai seeing so that I don't know where it stands. But one of those skyscrapers there was just incredible. I don't know if it's one of the biggest in the world or something like that. It was, it was crazy how tall this was. Yeah. Yeah. The birds, Kalafi, I believe is the, is the name of it. They've changed it a few times. So it depends on what chic is owning it or whatever. But, but yeah, that's the tallest. And I think they're trying to build another one that's even dollar. So it's good for elevator business. Good for the other business. It's complicated though. Elevators are much more complicated when, you know, when you're talking about a standard building like we're in, you know, five, six floors or something like that versus, you know, hundreds of floors. It gets very complicated. Or I mean, okay. And I know we're going to get into big business news, but it's not every day I got somebody who knows what you do about elevator. Are they like, is an elevator an elevator an elevator? Are there, is there the, you know, just the base model elevator? Is there a luxury elevator? Are there different brands that people? Are they brand like loyal? Like, oh, I'll only run a, would Otis is one I've seen, but you're like, whatever it is. Yeah. Certainly there are people that are brand. I mean, you know, just like anything in the world, things are based on price and performance. But yeah, elevators are pretty much a box. And there's not a lot of differences. There are some technologies out there that are, you know, kind of interesting where it can kind of pre-know where you're going, destination dispatch, that type of thing. And again, in the taller skyscrapers, there's multiple, you know, you know, main, the main elevator goes all the way to the top, then you'll have other ones that all have different places it stops and, you know, analyzing the traffic of the building. That's a big deal with consultants in the industry determining how many people are going up and down or I mean, just how many people are actually accessing that building because buildings have different purposes. If you take a hospital or you take a multipurpose building that has, you know, shopping, you know, residents and office all in one, well, the traffic of people is going to be different. So you have to calculate how many elevators are needed or basically it's bad customer service within that building for people to be waiting around forever for the elevator. Sure. Particularly in a big city, you know, here, maybe, you know, move Alabama, it's probably not a big deal, but in a big city, it's a big issue. Yeah, I just think too. I mean, in the design phase, I mean, it's got to be, you know, probably over-design it for elevators because once the building's built, I don't know how big a challenge it would be to say, "Hey, we're going to put an elevator in here." Yes, not that easy. Imagine it. For sure. All right. Not to mention they want, you know, you know, developers and architects. I mean, they've got a, they want every space they can to sell. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So in fact, some, some, some, you're taking away my square feet. Exactly. Some architects completely forget about the elevator and they're like, "Oh, we've got to cut out space for an elevator." Yeah. Well, yeah, get the people up and down. Hey, we're, come right back. We'll actually get into business news a lot more with T. Bruce McKinnon when we return right here on "Midday Mobile." This is "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. 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But you've been doing this for a specific industry, 71 years, elevator world. But now this is not for just elevators moving this for everybody. Sure. Business not only B2B, that's where my background is, is business of business publishing. And I just really always wanted to do something locally. But you know, I didn't want to just, you know, make up something. And so as kind of over time as I kind of served on some boards, I realized that, you know, some of the smaller organizations, their news really wasn't getting out, particularly if you signed up for say AL.com, for mobile news, business news, you would get Huntsville news or you, you know, and that really kind of bothered me. And, and so I had this idea before the pandemic, but we just didn't have time. All of it, we're all quite busy and a lot of, I do a lot of travel for the company. And, but when the pandemic hit, you know, we have a lot of extra time. Yeah, man. I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. And, you know, we've got time to do things. And, you know, you rearrange the office, you do these things or whatever. And we decided, you know, let's, let's try it. Let's do it. So I surveyed some, some business people asked them if it would bring them value. And I really wanted, I wanted, I wanted to, I wanted to bring value to me personally. I wanted business news all in one place for Mobile and Ball and County. I've lived here my whole life. That's all I really, you know, I mean, yeah, I care about the world. I got a page in the world because I led a world, but, but I live here. I'm not moving. Right. I want to know what's going on in Mobile, Ball and County. And, and they're one and the same in my mind. Mm hmm. And I knew that there would never be, you know, a Birmingham business journal or something like that, the land here, because we have this big body of water that splits these two counties apart. Right. So we said, let's do it. And we hit the ground running and it, it, it was a hit. People love it. And I've made lots of friends, very few enemies that I'm aware of. Mm hmm. Well, yeah. And to get information out too. So I've talked a lot of times to nonprofits about they'll have me come speak to them about how to get their information out. And I kind of go, I said, all right, you're probably used to people that are, you know, well refined in their delivery. I tell them, I said, quit making it complicated, get the information, let's talk about it in regular people language for these nonprofits. So when you send an email out or you send a press release out, put it in the language of the people reading it, not your own language. It can be easy to read. And that's the thing about Bay Business News. It's easy to read. I don't have to know the intricacies of whatever widget manufacturer it is. I get the news in a way that I get it as a radio guy. Yeah. I don't claim to, I don't claim to be the smartest guy in the world. I want things simple. I want things quick. I think we live in a world where everything is shorter and quicker anyways. And so yeah, that's, that's the way we did it. We actually modeled it after an email that we, we do for Elevator World that has been around for a very long time, so long that it used to be a fact. So, okay. All right. So, you know, we-- Hey, kids, there used to be a thing called facts. Yeah. Right. Right. No one knows what that is. You know, these teenagers and stuff. But, but yeah. So yeah. Simple, brief to the point and categorized. That was really the goal too. So that we would, you know, not miss any, any kind of business, business, you know, sector. And as you look at that, I mean, you're now, you know, I talked about during the news break, you are really at the narrow part of the funnel because here comes all this information that is coming through you to come out and pay businesses. So if I thought I was going to look for somebody who could see trends or what's happening around here, it'd be you, Teabro. So, I mean, like, everybody's coming and putting that information through you. So you get a unique perspective. Well, sir, you know, I don't claim to be, you know, the smartest business guy on, you know, in town here, but certainly the content's coming to us. We're reviewing the content, we're choosing what we think is best to go out, you know, in terms of trends and things like that, that are kind of happening in this area. You know, obviously we've had, you know, a huge growth spurt with, you know, with the administration that we have with Sandy Stimson and, you know, I don't think that's going to change. I mean, there's a huge amount of money that's been invested in the area. You look at, you look at Airbus, you look at, also you look at these type of organizations. I can remember traveling for elevator world 10, 15 years back and you would never hardly see a foreigner coming to Mobile, Alabama. Right. And now, yeah, I mean, there's just so much traffic coming to Mobile, it's unbelievable. And so it's exciting, you know, and has a lifelong mobility and it's exciting to see that. But at the same time, it's a little scary, you know, you don't, I kind of don't want my small town mobile to change too drastically. Right. But there's all, you and I are the same in that. So we play this, you know, the leavers here, because I want growth, I mean, if you're not growing, you're failing, right? And if you're not going forward, you're not neutral, you're falling back. At the same time, yes, I don't want to become not Mobile. I have a place called Mobile, but it is the generic American city. Correct. Correct. Now, how we regulate that? I don't, I don't know. Yeah. I don't, I think we're past that point actually, but, but, but I do think things are, I think things are going in, in a really good way. Certainly lots of opportunities here in Mobile. So yeah, I don't know, I don't know how, you know, I think this is probably happening in many cities as, as you look at, you know, you mentioned these big players and they come in, you know, an Airbus or something like that, but what is, and that gets the headlines and we'll talk about it, but looking at business of business in ways, it's got to be the secondary or tertiary people that supply those people. I think that, you know, everybody knows the Airbus comes in, everybody knows the big thing, but who's supplying them and who supplies them that supplies them? Right. Right. And that's really key because those are going to be smaller entities that are employing 10, 15, maybe up to 50 or something that are supplying those big guys and, and maybe even a startup, you know, which is really exciting. And so it just depends, you know, entrepreneurs out there, you know, looking, paying attention to the, you know, to the landscape. Yeah. So that's what I was getting. So who, so who reads the business news? If you're, if you're analyzing who's reading, whether you're doing the online or we'll talk about the actual good old fashioned published version as well, who, who in our area is reading it? Well, our target from the very beginning was to target seasoned business, C executives, CEOs, you know, entrepreneurs, those type of people. And that's, that's who's reading it. And primarily our readership is about 98% mobile in Baldwin County. I was just actually talking to someone on the phone about it today that we do actually have some from the Mississippi coast that paying attention to what's, yeah, sure, because it's really a, it's a prospecting tool. Yeah. I mean, if you're looking at who's got a new office or an expansion or whatever and you're selling whatever, then hey, you're using this as a prospecting tool. So, so yeah, our top readership is CEOs and entrepreneurs, you know, top level management, but, but we also have a lot of salespeople and people that are, you know, hustling. Yeah. I can imagine, I mean, instead of having to drive up and down the roads and say, at that place looks new, maybe they need a widget that I sell. Here's one place where they can see if it's a place that needs a widget that they sell. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Let's talk about this before we wrap up the website, the published version. How do we get our hands on this? Sure. You can subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter at baybusinessnews.com comes out every Friday, 7 a.m. We've been very consistent for the four years we've been doing this to every week, 7 a.m. No change. The print, the print, you can subscribe on the website as well. It's currently free. This first issue we did was our fall winner edition, and we produced 5,000 copies distributed to more than 500 businesses in both Mobile and Ballon County. And our next issue will come out in January. Okay. So this is, that's the one that the top of the business reads and then ends up. They keep people can read it when they come into the waiting room on that place. That doesn't, I mean, well, I like digital most, but there is some value in that that it stays there and stays in front of people. Yeah. Prints not dead. Print is dead. But you know what, what we saw was there was an opportunity, yeah, to be on that coffee table. There's a limited amount of print on a coffee table today. Yep. So why not be there? One is great branding for us, but it also highlights, you know, the amazing businesses in the Mobile and Ballon County area. And that's really what I wanted to do. Hey, it's great to have a ribbon cutting and start a new business, but I really wanted to highlight seasoned business owners and businesses who have been around 5, 10, 15, 50 years, because the fact of the matter, if you've made it through that digital transition, I mean, it's, it's, it's amazing. Yeah. So I think those businesses sometimes get forgotten and that's really what we're trying to highlight in the print. All right. Good stuff. So to get subscribed, once again, go to baybusinessnews.com. All right. Check it out. T. Bruce, people are asking, are you, they said, well, T. Bruce will be running for office anytime soon. Um, I have no idea. There you go. Thank you. They think you got a great political name. I need to work on my responses to those political questions because I'm not fully trained yet. Well, they're just, they're, they're going off that you have a great political name that T. Bruce and Kenan's a great, they can see it on. So they're just pushing. I'll put you. Hey, we'll put them together with you and get the campaign started, you know, be, be a business. Right. A side business. Right. Yeah. Something like that. Like you need yet another one. Thanks man. Appreciate you coming by. Good news or yes, coming right back more Midday Mobile 343 0106 kitchen through. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan. On FM talk 106 five one thirty five FM talk one of six five Midday mobile Friday. Y'all. I was going to say it's like the start of college football and earnest, but we hadn't, you know, we've had games for like a week now, whatever that week zero thing is, but a real deal gets started tomorrow, I got Auburn coverage here at FM talk one of six five in the game and the post game and all that good stuff. And of course, on Thursday nights, you get Tiger talk and Tiger talk over time, all football season long speaking of the big weekend ahead. Let's do this right now. As I pause to see if people jump the gun. Yeah. Let's do this right now. My buddy, Joey Mason and Mason Hills Farm has given me these hundred dollar gift certificates for great meat from Mason Hills Farm and each Friday during the football season, we're going to give these away. So you have the meat to cook, I guess, next week at your tailgate or your, your gathering. I'm looking for color number six right now at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, color six could hook you up with that hundred dollar gift certificate to get that great meat from Mason Hills Farm. And by the way, he is a smoke on the farm event coming up very soon as well. We'll talk more about that going forward. But right now your chance to win and looks like you're all in on it. All right. Good luck. And I'll come back to the text line in a second. Here's a story I pulled earlier in the week and didn't have a chance because I was at the battleship to have Erica Thomas from 1819 news on the show this week. But I think it made the WK or G newscast as well. And I know it made the 1819 news update yesterday morning and this morning. I just find this interesting. So here we are. How many decades of the video bingo and gambling discussion have we been in in the state? Which by the way, still, you know, couldn't get it done again this year for gambling and I didn't like the bill. I didn't like it. And I don't call it gaming. The gambling bill. I didn't like it. And I'm not my issues are, and I do agree with Jeff, I pointed out that if you say there are no societal wills that come from gambling, you're lying. But if you say, Hey, I believe people want the, you know, want the liberty of gambling. I also agree with you there. We have this Byzantine system of, you know, you have the law of the state, then you have the law of counties, right? You have the Supreme Court makes a decision. Then people are openly flaunting the fact that they're not following the law. Then I've talked to the attorney general about this Steve Marshall several times about enforcing it. But this story has a nuance. You have an illegal bingo parlor, I love the word parlor too, anything you, other than grandma's parlor, you put parlor on it makes it sound dirty. The, the bingo parlors. And in this case, you don't just have the bingo parlors, but you have theft within bingo parlors. Here's the story from Erica said, several people were arrested this week in connection to illegal gaming machines stolen from a location recently shut down by Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall. So he's been on the show, said he's going to start shutting these places down. He's been doing it for a while here. So you get him, he says, according to the documents, so they, they shut down this one parlor. So according to court documents, William Patrick Humphreys, 55, Eric Daniel hurt, 39, Michael Ray, 56, Charles Allen Robinson, 52, and Charles Vandiford, 61 are all charged with third degree burglary of an unoccupied building. Okay. So how does this play? So they shut the, they shut down the Selma charity bingo parlor. I'm adding that word. It said the five are accused of breaking into Selma charity bingo on Monday and taking machines back in the day when they, they would show the video, the video of where they had stored all these machines, talked about this a lot on the show where they would seize the bingo machines and go take them in and keep them in a like a warehouse or something and have these machines. Well, this is where, so they didn't get a chance to do that here yet. It says the five are accused of breaking into the Selma charity bingo on Monday, taking machines. Machines were found later at Jay's charity bingo in Lipscomb, Alabama with over a hundred more illegal machines. All right. So these dudes, these suspects, these dudes break into the Selma charity, Selma charity bingo gets shut down by the AG. Okay. So it's, you know, locks on the doors, whatever sticker shut down by the state of Alabama. So the apple dumpling gang here goes and breaks into Selma charity bingo steals the machines and they then took them over to old Jay's charity bingo in Lipscomb. So the next raid happens at Jay's charity bingo in Lipscomb where they found these stolen machines in addition to a hundred more illegal machines. Selma charity bingo was shut down locked up by the AG's office last week during the execution of a search warrant for the facilities were also shut down. By the way, no word. If they've been robbed or not, AG's office obtained a temporary restraining order to force the businesses to cease operations. So they're, they can't be in there, but somebody in the, I wonder if T. Bruce could put something together for illegal bingo parlors in the States where they could get their news together. Somebody figured out from the apple dumpling gang that these machines were sitting there and of course they wanted them, Attorney General Marshall said the property of the facility could not be used for access until further orders from the Circuit Court of Dallas County. Machines were tagged in state evidence and left inside the building, but then they were liberated. I'll use it. They were liberated by the apple dumpling gang here and taken to old Jay's charity bingo. By the way, speaking of Jay's the AG's office also rated Jay's charity bingo, but that was last year, 2023 along with 11 or 13 other illegal gaming operations in Jefferson County. It is so silly. Where we are, one of two things, you know, even in this year's, in this year's gambling bill that they brought up, but they were discussing it. Remember they would say, and they've said this with Del Marche's bill in the past as well. They need to get a gambling bill or they call it gaming bill through so we can enforce the laws against illegal gambling in the state. And once again, I'm somebody, I'm not a, I'm not an anti, uh, for the gambling. I'm anti for the bad deals that seem rolled out here, but are you telling me legislative members that the only way we can enforce the stinking law that's on the books now is to pass gambling so you can enforce the laws that are on the books right now, it just, it leaves me slack jobs. So good for the AG's office. And once again, it's not because I care about your bingo parlor. I'm just saying that if it's against law, then it's against law. We don't have to pass gambling to then enforce the laws that are already on the books. So it was an interesting story about, uh, shutting down one charity bingo parlor and having somebody steal those machines going somewhere else. Congratulations to Randy, the winner of dot week one or week zero. This see, this still confuses me with, I'm calling it week one. So week one of our tailgate giveaway from Mason Hills farm. So is it, if it's week zero, you can correct me. That still confuses me, but this is, I'm going to call it for now week one. So congratulations, Randy. You picked it up and next week you'll have another shot at, uh, what in the same thing? $100 gift certificate from Mason Hills farm. All right, uh, textures here, uh, to, to, to, to Ben said, uh, back to the, uh, elevator discussion, the Riverview Plaza during Mardi Gras is a big elevator wait time. So a, yeah, but do they, do they, do they get the elevator infrastructure to serve us then during Mardi Gras and then, uh, pay to run at the year round? I don't know. That's the only time I've ever stayed there. Right. It's during Mardi Gras. Uh, let's see here back to the, uh, text from earlier. Okay. Kamala Harris said she would have pointed a Republican to her cabinet. There are plenty of rhinos to choose from here, you know, and having Republicans come out the other, the Republicans for Kamala and they featured, you know, however many of them there are, uh, at the DNC, I just don't know how you square, square that. There are other Democrats that I have seen in the past that I would say, you know, um, quite possibly you could find some way to have, I mean, RFK junior, right, endorsing Trump, they line up on what 30 to 40% of the platform. I would say 60% between them is, is, is a separation, but they found a way to come together on certain things. But with the Republicans for Harris come together with her on other than disdain for Trump, but that's not a policy, right? That's not a policy that you could, I don't get it. And there's, so the Republican, I mean, what position were they and what kind of Republican texture were they put in there? You say rhinos, but even a rhino, there's, you could say, okay, well, they're socially liberal, socially conservative or they're fiscally liberal, fiscally conservative. They're Republican, but they're not on all fronts. It would go contrary to, to being a Republican with what's being rolled out on the fiscal side. How any fiscal conservative Republican would get on board with the Harris administration? I don't know how that's possible. This texture says, isn't the reason why black rock is buying up all the houses because Trump deregulation is because Trump deregulation, the real estate industry, deregulated, maybe the real estate industry, that deregulation, if you look back and go on for quite a while and black rocks move, look at who black rock donates to. I mean, you get asked this question too, how many times you see Wall Street donating to donating to, to, to, to the Democrats and wonder why that is because what the Democrats are saying, what, what Kamala Harris is saying on the campaign trail is, I would say anti-business. What I've heard, and we talked about this the other day, I have no proof of its ferocity, but the word is that in fundraising meetings that are off the record or not publicized, she's telling them, but don't worry, it's not going to be that bad. So, you know, they, that I'm saying this to the people out there, but I don't really mean it Wall Street. So Wall Street still gives them money. Let's see, well, you're a good point. Jerry and Fort Morgan said, recycling the machines, they sound like they're good minded environmentalists. That's Jerry. I don't know why I did not think that through that you've got the apple dumpling gang that stole the liberated the bingo machines from the one bingo parlor and took it to their own. It was about recycling. David said, I used to work in the Riverview Plaza. Those elevators are slow year round, including the employee ones. And by the way, earlier too, we had somebody check in. I think and if it's gone past me, so if I missed it, say the numbers wrong, local 124. So people check it in from the elevator union. Cool. I'm fascinated by things like that that we ride every day or use every day that I have no idea how they work. So it's pretty cool to get T-boost to talk about that as well. All right. More of a day mobile 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. I've got 152 FM Talk 1065 Midday Mobile on this Friday. Time to check in with my buddy David McCraery at LCM Motor Cars. We've got the extended weekend ahead of them. How's your inventory look at? Is it holding up my man? Barely. Well, we've been busy. We've delivered three this morning, believe it or not, already, and we've got a lot of customers on. We're still working. So we're going to be heading back out to buy more cars. I mean, we've had, I think, eight come in this week. So the inventory is still good. We've got plenty of trucks, plenty of small trucks, small SUVs and cars that just to find out for sure, get on the website and call and make sure it's still there and come see us. Okay. And also, financing. How are you looking right now? This is fantastic. We've got a lot of our lenders, you know, I told you they turned the screws. I think they've not been doing as good as our area has been doing because I'm not southeast. Been doing perfectly well, but there's a lot of lenders that are loosening up a little bit and trying to get some more business in. I like it. All right. So inventory and loosening on the interest rates. So tell folks how to find you. We're at Highway 90 in Plantation in Theodore. It's one mile south of ITN exit 15A. You can call at 251-375-0068 or just go to the website, LCM MotorCars.com. Thank you, David. Have a good weekend. All right. You too. There goes David McCraery from LCM MotorCars. Yeah. He was talking about heading up for the Auburn game. Of course, coverage of Auburn tomorrow right here at FM Talk 106-5 and reminder to of course, Tiger Talk on Thursday nights and Tiger Talk over time at six o'clock, Tiger Talk and a seven o'clock, Doug Holton with Tiger Talk over time. Let's get the, we'll come back to the text. I did say, except this one, Randy said eastbound tunnel traffic's backed up on ITN to Virginia Street already. It's going to be a long weekend. Yeah. You got the traffic today, right? People heading to eastward and heading down to the Gulf that way. You're also going to have, what do you think? Probably noon-ish on Monday, one o'clock on Monday. It'll be backed up as well, just even though I'm not going to be here, taking the day off. On Monday, I'll have a great show for you on that day, but I can go ahead and tell you ahead of time traffic-wise, about noon to two o'clock is going to start getting slow westbound ITN on the Bayway. So I'm doing advanced traffic. Don't get jealous, Kane. I just have this ability. All right. Tuskers earlier asked about the owl story that Dana Dalton were talking about this morning. Yeah, it's over. It's a pretty petri story over at landnetmobile.com, and it's the story of several people here who've been attacked by owls, right? It talks about several people here. It said, "For the past decade, Faye Dawson has been spending the majority of her mornings running across Midtown Mobile, doing so while remaining aware of her surroundings and any potential threats. However, while on her daily jog earlier this week, Dawson was a repeated target of an owl hell bent on keeping humans out of the area. Dawson said, "It's always been a very cautious runner. Personal safety is something that's important to me. I don't run with headphones or anything like that because I want to be aware of what's going on around me." It's because she's a smart person." That was my quote. It said, "While on her jog near ravine woods," so she's getting spring hill. It says, I guess she mostly does Midtown, but I would say ravine woods. She's in spring hill. On her jog near ravine woods early Tuesday morning, nearing the three mile mark of her run, Dawson said she felt a tug on the back of her head and screamed, which prompted the culprit to let go. She said, "While thinking another human possibly was trying to kidnap her, Dawson saw an owl flying over her head. Panic," she turned around the opposite direction, but the owl then swooped down towards her head not once but twice more before she was able to reach a friend's house for safety. Thankfully, the owl did not cause Dawson any physical harm, but the emotional distress was overwhelming. They talk about this. They talk about other runners. See, there's just another reason not to be outrunning, right? Other runners that get been attacked by owls. The similarity here, and we heard Dan and Dalton reading some of the texts they got this morning for people to run in with the owls. Owls are cool. You sit and hoot at them and watch them light up in the trees around you. That's always a thing we like to do on the banks of the river, get owls to show up and then they're illuminated by the bonfire you have. It's kind of cool, but they have one person here, Guy Oswald, and I don't know if he has a ponytail or not. If not, my theory is they're trying to attack the ponytail because they think it's like a squirrel that's riding on the back of your head. In the story, they quote, "My buddy here, Keith Golden, actually his wife, who's even better, Mariana. She is the natural resources education coordinator for the state of Alabama. It says owls are not attempting to attack humans, but rather are defending their nesting territory as they prepare for mating season in the coming months." Okay. Mariana, I need to call her this weekend. She says that they're defending their nesting area. I think they think there's a squirrel in the back of somebody's head. All right. I got just a second here. I got about 35 seconds here. You got an owl issue. You got a problem with owls? What's going on? No, no, no. I got a story. I was fishing one day with a game pole. Okay. And I was pulling a brim out, and I keep you not. The owl came down. Soon as I pulled a fish out of the water, snatched the brim right off of the foot away with it. Okay. It was, it had to have been watching you and waiting for you. I've never seen anything like that in my life. I don't know how he got it off the hook like that. I don't know. It was like a jet lead move or some crap. Well, okay. So now, so now it's not just joggers. You're saying I got to worry when I'm going to catch some bull brim about an owl taking that. That's a fear I'll take into the weekend. John, thank you for the call. You'll have a great Labor Day weekend. I'll find Bob's show on the way next. (upbeat music)