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Cyber Currency - Wawa - Rob Holbert from Lagnaippe - Mobile Mornings - Thursday 8-29-24
(upbeat rock 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. (upbeat rock music) - Anybody complaining about the opening of the wall wall? - In the traffic that is around that area, if it's a Ted Cottage Hill? - Cottage Hill and Solly. - Yep. - So if you're complaining about the traffic out there, you're doing exactly what's in the name of the store, and we're not gonna have it. And on the text line, a lot of people while lying, there's traffic out there. Also, you can imagine in Robert'sdale, what those poor souls are dealing with, they've never seen anything like this in Robert'sdale. (laughing) Think about it Dalton. When's the last big grand opening in Robert'sdale? - You're sure there's something. I mean, there's a lot of great things at Robert'sdale, man. - Your time is up, my friend. So this opening of the wall wall, I guess it's gotta be right there on 59, I'm assuming. So everybody have a great time in Robert'sdale. And right now, we're dealing with traffic in West Mobile at the new wall wall. - And not to hate on people that do this kind of thing, but I'll never understand the standing in line for a grand opening of something that will likely be open for. - Well, the business model would say 70 years. So it's gonna be around a while, but if you stand in line, the first 100, get the T-shirt. - That's right, yeah, where'd you get that shirt? Oh, you wouldn't understand. I was the first in line at the wall wall. That's how I got it, these are very rare. Yeah, Firedog says another wall wall. Be still my beating heart. What will be next, another buckies? Maybe a shell station, the excitement. Yep, buckies has taken such hold of the, I don't know if it's just the national scene, but around here, I've been seeing more and more buckies merch, which that's another decision that people are making. They're wearing the old buckies. - You're buying it, you're wearing it, you're pro-bucky. - Yeah, you're pro-buckies. - Because in this day and time, you're forever, you can't, right. And I would say, you know, I haven't given buckies really the chance when I went by it the other day when I went out to a Warrior Legacy Ranch. It's not far. - Which is in Robert State. - Right, it's not far from buckies, though. It's in the outer ridges of, it's outside the city. - Outer buckies, yeah. Outer buckies out of Robert State. But, and I just, it's always so crowded. And the getting in and getting out just seems like a bit of a hassle. And so, and they've got like a hundred gas pumps, I guess. - Yeah. - And then on the inside, so I don't, I don't know. I haven't been enticed to stop at buckies, maybe one time in my life, and did not necessarily, you know, revel in the experience. So, I think I'm a lot more of a wah-wah guy. - Okay. - Because it's small, it's a convenience store. It's nothing more than that. It might have, this one may, I guess the one in Fair Hope might have 18 pumps. That's a lot, but you know what I'm saying? - Yeah. - It's more like just dropping in somewhere, period. - Yeah, I don't know. To me, they're all just gas stations, man. And I'm sure there's very exciting things about them, but I'll just continue to fill up, you know, when I load gas or in my specific gas places that I go to. But yeah, how about, we were at the zoo during one of the many weeks I've taken off this year. (laughing) - And if it's not, by the way, y'all, if it sounds to you, like, I don't know, you know, just to bubble over your head. - Dan's there all the time. - Dalton's shirt does take a lot of it. Anyway, that may occur to you, but I think that, you know, the books are kept here and I'm sure everything is right down the line. - I'm sure. - Probably even Steven. - I hope so. - Yeah, I would look, that would reflect poorly on me, right? But one of my family trips we took down to Gulf Shores, we were at the zoo. A family is walking down the walkway and four of the five members of the family were completely decked out in Bucky's murder. - Oh, that's right, he talked about that, yeah. - So they'd been-- - I'm assuming. - They'd conquered, they purchased, and Donwell wanted to make sure you knew it. - Yeah, that they are Bucky's people, right? They have pro Bucky's. - Yeah, pro Bucky's. They had the, one of them had a hat on, one of them had a sweater on, and I don't know why. (laughs) July at the zoo, the hottest place in Gulf Shores. - Yeah. - But yeah, people love reppin' Bucky's, so maybe there's some wah-wah merch out there besides just the free t-shirts they're giving away today. Let us know, oh, we're gettin' so many texts on the wah-wah right now. - Look, just keep an eye on the traffic out there. - Yeah, seriously. - Seriously. - Be careful. So, a lot has been said these past few days, especially, about the arrest of this founder of the, I don't know if you'd call it a social media app, I guess you could, because you can join and follow these big kinda chat groups, the same way you kinda can on Twitter and Facebook, but it's also just encrypted messaging, telegram. And so often, actually, with these wars that are going on, you'll see insight that only comes on telegram. Now, I deleted my telegram a while back just because, I don't know, just kinda felt weird, I wasn't getting the information, I wonder from it, but like Zelensky will release certain statements only on telegram. And same thing with some of the higher ups in the Russian military, that they communicate via telegram to press, and so, and other people. - With the Trump assessment. - I think he, they talk about the encrypted messaging that he was doing. - Books. - Yeah, and I believe telegram was one of the things that he was using. - All right, so you, at one time you had a-- - So I had a telegram account, yeah, and so I would, this was especially for the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, because I was following these groups on there that were showing footage, or supposed footage, of the different things that were going on. But, of course, when you're talking about something that is encrypted, and its main selling point is that you can't be spied on, that invites a lot of nefarious things, yeah. But also, it provides good things as well, like a lot of the journalists who are communicating with sources, especially if those sources want to be anonymous, they use the telegram app, because sometimes people don't want to communicate with them on some of these other apps that they feel maybe being snooped on by the government, or maybe people they're trying to avoid in their country. So, this Pavel Durov, I believe is his name, the telegram founder, and he was arrested over the weekend. They waited until he got off the plane in France. I can't remember where he was coming from. - He's living in France now, and he's originally from Russia. - He was born in Russia. I think he's kind of, you know, I'm not sure where he's been living. - A dual citizenship in France and somewhere else, yeah. - So, the French authorities brought preliminary charges against Durov officially yesterday, I believe, and they're charging him for a host of crimes, but these include some major, major allegations, right? And stuff that you could imagine is going on on this app, complicity in distributing child pornography, illegal drugs, and hacking software on the messaging app. They called it a stunning blow for an entrepreneur who became a hero for internet libertarians over the past decade. The authorities also charged Durov with refusing to cooperate with investigations into illegal activity on telegram. So you have these intelligence agencies, you have police agencies who are asking telegram, hey, give up the goods, what do you have on this guy? Hey, tell us what's going on over here. What's going on in telegram? Just like, I think Apple used to be, until that shooting in California a few years back, involving the man and woman. I think it was that 2016, maybe even before that. Remember, Apple kept saying they wouldn't turn things over to the federal government. Well, telegram, that's kind of their main selling point, is they're not gonna turn your information over. Well, now they're going after Durov, said he refused to cooperate with some of these investigations. And this, according to the Wall Street Journal's reporting, they say these charges are the most significant test yet facing telegram and Durov, and they represent a major escalation by the French government in holding tech executives accountable for the content that appears on their platform. We're having that same discussion stateside, specifically with US laws, and we'll get into more of that here in a minute. - Yeah. - The arrest of Durov, who has for years resisted, government attempts to regulate telegram, has now thrust him into the center of debate about how far authorities should go. And he's had some free speech advocates and other tech titans come to his defense, including Elon Musk, who's been beating the drum for Durov since he was arrested this weekend. The decision yesterday means that French judges thought there was enough evidence against Durov to deepen their investigation into whether he violated French laws. Now, French and EU laws have been growing regarding tech moderation, at moderation, especially here over these last few months. These French laws require online platforms to limit harmful content and cooperate with authorities. If he's convicted of complicity in illegal online transactions, Durov faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of about 550,000 US dollars, the judges placed him under court monitoring for to bait him from leaving France and required him to post bail of about five and a half million US dollars. And while he's out, if he posts bond, which you shouldn't have issue with, he'll have to appear at a police station twice a week so they know he's not leaving the country. I'm just, you know, I'm for free speech, but when you bring up charges like child pornography, and you know, they may be just using that as a way to get him, right? Hey, these other people are distributing child pornography, drugs, they said hacking software on your app. You're complicit, we're charging you with this and we're gonna put you away for a long time. I mean, is it even possible going forward to have true free speech on online platforms that span the world? And, you know, because, you know, people have been doing terrible things forever. They just haven't been doing it online. They haven't been doing it on apps necessarily. If there's a will, there's a way, right? For good things and bad things. Yes, but how do we move forward? How do we have free speech if we're moving further into a digital world, further into complete connectivity from, you know, the jungles of Brazil to the Arctic, right? Everyone's able to communicate with everyone all the time that's only going to increase going forward. And each country has their individual laws. So, of course, here we talk so often about section 230 in the U.S. laws. And that was a, you know, Republicans have called for its repeal because they feel that tech companies are limiting conservative views, conservative speech and liberals have called for the repeal of section 230 in the past as well because they say that tech companies are allowing bad things to happen on their different platforms. So section 230 is from the Communications Decency Act of 1996. It says that social media companies really, at the time in '96, basically online companies are immune from lawsuits over content that it hosts. It's a federal law that offers broad protections to tech companies that host user-generated content. And it's back in the news. Of course, this week you had Zuckerberg writing the letter about being pressured. And I know the focus on his letter has been about the COVID-19 and removing posts and users for quote unquote disinformation at the behest of the government. - Yes. - But also a major part of that was the government telling them that there's a Russian hoax coming down the pipeline about Hunter Biden and that you need to snuff it out, which is exactly what they did with the Hunter Biden laptop. Another ruling that might be coming here in the next couple of years is about TikTok. And same thing here, a federal appeals court ruled that a mother's lawsuit could proceed against TikTok over the blackout challenge. This raises questions about section 230. It says social media companies aren't responsible for the content it's users post. - I mean, everything's gonna, everything's going to circle around section 230, pretty much. - At least here in the United States. - And here in the US, because anything that is a reaction or done terribly or content or whatever. Or and also I want to circle back around to the telegram. - Well, now back to when Zuckerberg caved and there was that letter that was signed by 50 members of the Deep State or the former CIA. - All saying that to, you know, talking about the hoax. - Yeah. - You want to legislate something, where's the, where is the court action or the prosecution against them? - Right. - Because that was obviously BS. - Yeah, and their argument has been that they were right and that it had had all of the hallmarks of a Russian hoax. It just ended up not being a Russian hoax. They're saying, we never said it was a Russian hoax. We're just saying it looked a whole lot like one. - Boy, that's hiding behind a very thin tree, isn't it? - It really is. So the appeals court said that TikTok, and this is about the death of a 10 year old girl, Nyla Anderson, they said TikTok is liable. And this appeals court said TikTok could potentially be responsible for her death because it exercised editorial judgment. Now, it wasn't just kind of like this telegram thing that they were hosting the content, but the algorithm recommended content that ended up on the girls 4U page had this blackout challenge where I guess kids and other people were choking themselves until they pass out, and that's how she ended up passing away. And so that's also in the news. You have TikTok, you have Telegram, you have the founder of Backpage.com. Remember all the jokes about Backpage over the years and how law enforcement, that's like the easiest trap of all time because prostitutes would use it. And it was used for even more illicit things and worse things than just straight up prostitution. But now the founder of Backpage.com, he was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison and fined $3 million. They said he was a sprawling case involving allegations of a years long scheme to promote and profit from prostitution through classified ads. That's a different kind of story as well. It's online, but it's an online marketplace. - Yes. - And they said he was running a scheme. So you have all these, it's one story after another and really trying to figure out where we stand going forward on what kind of speech should be allowed on platforms and who should be held liable for different criminal acts on this platform. - Yeah, and a question for you would be as the father of two young daughters, how do you, aside from the legal arguments about all this, who is going to be, who do I blame? Who goes to jail because of this? Kids are being fundamentally, their emotions and their minds are being terribly altered by everything online. And we're just beyond the prosecution of people involved in all this. Just the fact that the kids are dealing with this right now, parents are trying to figure out where the line is or how you pull the cord or how you keep your kids safe. I mean, that's an argument. That might be fundamentally the larger argument of all of this. - Yeah, I think it is. And I think it's a lot like AI, all of this online messaging, we're kind of just venturing into the darkness. And most of us don't have a real plan. - And we're venturing into it. We're not venturing into it as much as young people are. Much more technically savvy, I guess you would say. - Yeah. - And curious. And what is this doing to your minds? I don't know. Sad. 822, Dan Adalton, if I'm talking 106.5. - So it appears might take on Robert'sdale on the poor citizens, they're not being used to any, any kind of grand anything. Opening grand closing. They're not used to that. - They're not used to grand closing. - Anything grand, that's not Robert'sdale's style. So what I was saying was, I hope everybody there is okay because they're not used to this kind of-- - Excitement. - Yeah. - Yeah, the Wawa. - I think they'll handle it. - Let's just find that. And it turns out there is a lot of Wawa merch out there. You can just get it on Amazon though. - Yeah, you don't have to go to the store. - You're not a real Wawa-er if you don't get it from the store, it is. - Yeah, yeah. And so in Robert'sdale today, the Wawa opens. They're rolling that thing. They've got stuff going on at 11.30 in the morning for the grand opening. - Way past the opening time. - Yeah, well it has the opening time. - Jason asked, has Dan already talked about his paper mill road visit? - So I went to Baldwin, Canada yesterday, had dinner in Fair Hope and on my way over, went to paper mill road. And were they racing? They were not racing at 3.07 in the afternoon, no. But it's a long straightaway for sure. And if you don't know, paper mill road, once you're not quite on the African town bridge yet, but you're on an elevated, you're getting close to being on the bridge, it goes underneath there. So it goes from nearly downtown, I think, I didn't go that far down, nearly downtown and it's pretty, when they say it's a straight shot, that's the attraction of it. It's straight all the way out toward the paper mill. - Right, okay. Texture here, the answer in Robert's Dale may be Hammond's supermarket, and the Ben Franklin Five and Dime way back in the day. Go Bears this week. Yeah, they're looking to extend that winning streak. - Yeah, they've got a one game streak. - One game streak going. - Go Bears. - Go Bears. - Robert's Dale. Jimmy says, I wanted to tell you guys that earlier this year I went in a Wawa store down towards Orlando while we were on a universal studios trip. I hate to say it, but I was disappointed. And I think that was because of my Bucky's experiences. Wawa pales in comparison to Bucky's. - Well, it's not the same thing. If you're looking for the Bucky's experience. - Go to Bucky's. - Go to Bucky. (laughs) You don't have to slam Wawa, but I guess he was dissatisfied. He was a Wawa supporter. He said he goes once a week to the Wawa. Oh yeah, I said, do you like it? Good food, lots of choices on drinks. So anyway, and you can order it on the app. So he likes Wawa. - Yeah. I'm a Murphy USA guy. That's what I'm going with. - Okay. - Yeah. - Well, look at that. - How about that? I'm gonna get some merch for Murphy's. Joshua says there's gotta be a shamrock on it, right? - There's, or just the Walmart logo. There's no such thing as free speech in Europe. Free speech is called far right these days. The USA is heading that way too. This text are getting a good laugh out of me saying sprawling case about the back page guy who is arrested for the prostitution scheme. - That's kind of naughty. Like it or not, parents are ultimately responsible for their children. They're the ones that give them the phones. People need to quit blaming others for the problems. - Here you go. Good take, 8.30. (upbeat music) Good morning, get standing. Dalton, FM talk, 106.5. Mobile morning set, 8.30, 4. And Rob Holberg is with Laniac Mobile. The founder and publisher and all that stuff. I'd say he's with him. It's not like he's there to bring everybody lunch. How you doing, Rob? - We'll do that if we have to. - I know Rob has brought lunch to the office. - Yeah, he has, that's not his primary duty. - I'm probably, I'm probably the bad one about bringing lunch to the office. - Really? - Probably does that way more than they get. Tommy Hicks brings lunch to the office a lot too. - Yeah, so Tommy's a pleaser. He's a pleaser. And then Ashley's got the mother in her. And then Rob's just a cold dog. (laughing) - I mean, you know, I eat, you know, just gruel for lunch. I don't want, you know, the same thing every day. (laughing) Get back to your death. - Yeah, there's stories, there's stories to get to. - Yeah, and before we get into the stories from this week, a reminder with football. Now full swing heading into week two for a lot of these high school teams. Tommy did a great job as always, your whole team there, putting together kind of the football edition of Lan Yap. That was on stands last week. I'm sure folks, you still find that they look around. - Yeah, and we still have some copies of folks who want some, but yeah, he did, he wrote about 10,000 stories for that. It's kind of amazing. But he's out there covering everything. I think he wrote, I think he covered three different games last week. It's kind of... - How did he do it? - Seriously. - I'm pretty convinced he has twins. (laughing) - And by the way... - Just like him. - Will I see you at the JAGS game this weekend? - I hope so, I'm planning to be there. I'll go, yeah. - Okay, all right, so... - I'm hoping I'll be there. - Same spot there on the... - I hope so, yeah. - You know, it's about 105, in the 105, yeah. - Okay, all right, I'll... - That section. - I'm gonna get out there right after the Georgia Clemson game. I'll be out there with Joseph, so let's hang. - Yeah, absolutely. - Well, let's get him hanging out, just hanging out. Let's get into the... Some of the storage from this week and a pretty well-known Politico around these parts. So you guys wrote about him maybe getting back into the mix politically. We're talking about Steve Nodine here. What is going on with Nodine? - The hammer is saying he might make a comeback. I don't know. He's... Steve is throwing some... throwing some... - Red crumbs at him. - He's throwing against the wall. - Yeah. - Just see if it sticks, but he's talking a little bit about possibly running for a city council seat. He wouldn't be specific in which one he was running for. I mean, we know that Joel Davies has said he is not going to run again, so that seat will be open, but he has suggested there might be a couple of seats. He thinks may come open, so... And so, you know, he's talked about that. I mean, he's a former city councilman, obviously former county commissioner. He's obviously had some legal issues, and so it makes it kind of a surprising thing, but you know, this day and age, anything goes, right? - Right. You gotta live in the district, right, to represent that... - You do, but you only have to be there 90 days, so, you know, and you don't have to own. You can rent. - Okay. - I mean, it's... - Doable. - Yeah, it's doable for just about anybody. We're still a year away from anybody qualifying, so it's... I mean, it's not... - Amen. - I mean, nothing in there. - Yes, but it's an interesting idea, and I think he called one of the talk about it. (laughs) - Yeah. - Talk to him and write about it. It's gotten some interest, for sure. - Yeah, and if he is... - I'll look for my phone to ring. - If he is truly making this move into politics, you can kind of see the direction he's headed in with, as I said, in this story, he's been talking with, what was it, some former high-ranking former police and fire officials, and then he's also talking about this possible annexation of Big Creek Lake, which has been in those lately, so it kind of may be anti-administration thing you'd be running on, possibly. - Well, that and also possibly, he's got a big idea about having an occupation tax in the automobile. - For Baltimore County. - Hey, look, everything's going to ball and we need an occupation tax of people who work in the mobile, but live in Baldwin, and that's a... I don't even know if that's legal in Alabama. I've been told that that is not currently legal in Alabama, but to do something like that, but I don't know that those ideas, that's a controversial idea, for sure. - Yeah, you know, in these very divisive times, what we need here, along the Gulf Coast, is just to literally hate everyone involved from county. We need to have some more devices. - It's like, why don't you like me? 'Cause you're from Baldwin County, man. You're five on the license tag and everything. You think I don't notice that? - I don't know, I think that would have a... I mean, just me personally, it would be a really tough idea. Also, I think those of us in the area who are kind of against additional taxes and the people who didn't want tolls and all those types of things, it seems to kind of run counter to that thought process. - Yeah, it'd be a work toll. It'd be a toll on the work? - Yeah, it'd be a work toll, yeah. I mean, and once the bridge gets started, the people who live in Baldwin are gonna get a time toll. - Mm-hmm. - Get an actual toll, and they're gonna have the time that it's gonna take to get across the bay during the construction. It's probably gonna be difficult, I'd imagine. - Let's talk a little bit. Speaking of fire and police, which we mentioned earlier, that was part of the discussion this week in a, I believe it was a finance committee that started to really dig into the fiscal year 2025 budget. And with this lawsuit that's been going on for over two years now, involving a local firefighter group that said, you know, the incentives plan was not fair because you had police officers that had an easier time and were making more money on incentive-based programs than the firefighters were in this area. So the city comes back this year and says, you know, we're gonna do away with most incentives, not all of the incentives. We're also going to increase pay for, I guess, a lot in, or at least a few people in both divisions, police and fire, but the main thing here, starting pay, they plan to increase by about $8,000 per year. I don't know how much of an effect this will have on the lawsuit, if any, but it will probably increase the folks who join the ranks of police and fire. - Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, when you talk about an increase of that magnitude, and it is a big percentage increase when you look at the starting salary, it's a large increase. So certainly that should make it easier to hopefully recruit. You know, it's tough as anybody who does hiring knows right now, it's not easy to find good help a lot of times, and everybody's paying more for the people they're getting, even starting out, salaries are way higher than they used to be. So I think you're going to see that hopefully, that will be something that helps attract people to the police and fire departments in mobile. But, you know, the union says, hey, we're not sure how this is going to affect, or if it will affect the lawsuit at all, you know. So that may, that continues on, and I mean, nothing is etched in any way as far as the budget goes, but that's the proposal right now. So, you know, I mean, I think it's something that we need for having it, we're having a tough time attracting folks and gotta be more competitive. - Yeah, and I guess we'll see. I think they're going to meet on this again here soon. And then, so that fiscal year budget will go into effect beginning of October in the land app article. He wrote that I believe October 4th is the next hearing date for this lawsuit. So those two things will kind of almost happen simultaneously that same week. It'll be interesting to see where that goes, and we'll follow that on land app as well. Also, Rob, a story we've been talking about a lot this morning, Kyle Hammerk wrote it up about this Baymanet police involved shooting from two years ago this month. And O.J. French Jr. was the suspect in this case. He ended up getting shot by Officer Brandon Thompson. And French's family followed a lawsuit earlier this year against a ton of folks. But the city, the Baymanet police department, the officer and some other folks, and the city story and the French family story, not seeing eye to eye. And the city says they have the backup camera footage that would prove this and the dash cam camera footage that would prove that they're telling the truth. But they're also saying they don't want any of this. They want it sealed for the trial because they've had disturbing and dangerous conversations on social media about this case. - Yeah, well, I mean, as we know in Alabama, anyway, at this point, the release of body camera footage is something that they don't have to do. And it really, even by law at this point, only people who have a stake in it can really see it. That's family members, et cetera. - If you remember the story, it started out where the gentleman was pulled over, where French was pulled over, I think, for a break-light that the other people like that. - And that escalated into a fight and into him eventually being shot. And that's where this all comes from. Baymanet has been completely tight-lit about this thing from the beginning. They have been totally uncooperative in terms of, from a news standpoint, in answering any questions about it or doing much of anything. I mean, from the beginning, it's been very quiet. I mean, that's, in Baldwin County, everything goes before the major crimes unit, which is this, a mile of them, involve a different law enforcement agencies over there. And they sort of look into it and I think pretty much 100% of the time come back and face it, the officers did nothing wrong. So, you know, where this goes, it's hard to tell. I mean, I don't know how it started to mean, or how it happened to mean we don't have any definitive answers on that. We can't, if we don't get to see it, it's very hard to tell. I mean, the family has one story. The police have another story, but they're not talking a whole lot about it and I'm sure not providing a lot of information that is always proving that. - And, you know, in a way, though, I can also see the conflict in whether to release the body cam footage or not. And of course, if there was a law that was actually enforced that there had to be released, or couldn't be released, that would be a different story. But they're saying this body cam footage directly refutes what the French family's saying. They say they don't want to release it because of online and social media. I mean, we've seen in the past so many times where a clip is taken out of context and that results in, you know, sometimes nationwide protests. - Oh, yeah. - But definitely folks coming from elsewhere to come in protest, but also, I mean, if this footage does directly contradict what the French family's saying, it's like, why not put it out there so that we can see? It's a tough decision. - Well, I mean, you know, this is what, we'll go back once again, you know, we've spent millions and millions and millions of dollars on body camera for police and police officers and sheriff's deputies, et cetera. We've done this because we were told this would provide transparency. I mean, that's always been sold as transparency everywhere it's been done. And there is no transparency because nobody is allowed to see it. And it's only ever gets released when it proves it when it helps the police. And that's, I mean, you know, and a lot of it is ambiguous sometimes. I mean, I get that. But, you know, to say, well, because some people made some comments on social media, people make comments on social media about everything. So is that, you know, a reason for doing it? I mean, first of all, they ought to at least produce the comments on social media that are so disturbing and frightening to the police that they can't do this. I don't, you know, I don't know what that is, but it's just, it sounds to me like once again, just another excuse for keeping things out of the public eye. I mean, I think the, I am not saying that every police video should be released to the public immediately. I do think there should be some, you know, maybe an ombudsman, somebody who looks at these things, especially if you get into a lawsuit situation and you can end this early and say, okay, here it is. You know, this is what it shows and has somebody look at it. But this is what happens every time. Is it just dragged out, you know, it goes on and on for years. And I mean, we've been through this with so many different circumstances over there. I mean, you know, the Jonathan Victor case is one that we've covered a lot back in 2017 when he was shot on the side of the road. And you know, he was cleared by the major crimes unit and he was cleared by the, he wasn't indicted. I mean, the deputies weren't indicted, et cetera. But I mean, at the federal level, that case is still going through and the judge has looked at it. I mean, we've got the video, we eventually got it because it had been entered into civil suit. And, you know, personally, when I look at it, I see a lot of problems with it. The federal judge who looked at it had a lot of strong words about it. And the deputy who shot him does not have qualified immunity because of it. So, and I mean, even when we went to the Supreme Court to argue for those, and to see that footage, the sheriff's lawyer argued that if the footage went out was put out there, that the deputy might be charged with murder. I mean, that was what their arguments. I mean, it's got to be pretty tough if you're on that side of it, if you're on the other side of it, if you're in the family, if somebody got shot, you probably want to see it. And I mean, I think, you know, for in general society, we need to be able to have some transparency with these things because some of it does get taken out of context. And some of it is, it enables that to happen as well, you know, on the other side of things. - Yeah, I mean, it can inflame a situation, right? Because people see it out of context and they lose their mind for no reason at all, but emotion will play such a big role in it. Thanks for the conversation today. And I'll tell you, I know that you've got more in there, including Katie Britt acting like our South Alabama fairy godmother, what do you think? She keeps putting a dime's under our pillow, a lot of money coming this way. But more stories, what should people do if they want to go ahead and just get you every day online? - Well, you can go to lain@mobile.com and get signed up. It's $1 for the first month and it's $6.50 a month after that for regular subscription. We also have now, we've batted a day pass. So if you're just dying to read a story, you can read it for a buck and read for 24 hours if you want to do that. And it's not recurring, so no commitment. - No commitment. - No commitment. - That's that easy. Rob, we appreciate your time this morning, thank you. - All right, you guys, have a great weekend. - Got it. Rob Holbert, lain@mobile.com. Coming back, get to some of the rest of these texts. 2513430106 also lay out for you what's coming up on the Jeff Porsche. That's on the way. - 851, Dana Dalton, Mobile mornings. 2513430106, if you want to get a text in. (upbeat music) - It's an airline CEO that's trying to stop all these drunken fights in mid-flight, mid-air. And we'll get to this tomorrow, the airline is in Ireland. (laughing) They're the ones with the chronic problem of fighting. - Yeah, mid-air flights. - Yeah, a lot of fights. - Yeah, a lot of Notre Dame looking dudes up there. (laughing) Notre Dame leprechauns. - Yeah, I got you. - And there's a boxing pose there. Former President Donald Trump overtaken Vice President Kamala Harris among independents in the latest weekly survey taken right after the, she got a little bump you would have thought from the convention, but actually among independents from this poll taken by the economist Hugh Gove, Trump at 42%, Kamala Harris at 37%, 5% gap right there. And also Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the key swing state of North Carolina, according to an on-point red, eagle politics, SoCal strategy, folks, it should take a lot of people to ask a couple of questions. The survey taken among 612 North Carolina voters, you wouldn't think it would take five different organizations to ask-- - They each ask like 20 people. - Hey, Roscoe, who you for? - Yeah. That's a lot of people to do that, evidently. Trump, let's see what the word Trump has. - One point, is that what he-- - Yeah, I think it's one point there. He also leads in like who would be better for the economy. He leads by 49% to 42%, but yeah, it looks like a one-point lead in North Carolina. - Yeah, some of those swing states will be a real crapshoot. It looks like, and I don't, with these polls, I mean, there's so many different polling organizations. - Well, there's nine in that one, nine just together for that one. And then, you know, they wait them differently. It's so hard to tell. - Well, remember how way off they were in 2016. - Yeah, yeah, for sure. Let's see, Gene says on the text line, hate speeches against the law in Europe. They put you in jail. - Yeah. - That's been the most recent thing. I mean, where was it? There was like a, it may have been Ireland. I think it was happening in England as well, where basically mass protests against the immigrants. - Yeah. - And, well, you don't, I don't know if they're putting away the, some of these immigrants who were involved in organized crime and other things of that nature, they cracked down on a lot of the people who were protesting. - Yeah, the fact that the immigration. - Yeah, and they used that hate speech online law to go after them, and that just happened last week, I think, the week before that. - Last week or two in England and Ireland, it's bubbling up. Glenn says, unsure about the lack of free speech in Europe, but one thing I do know is they don't have thousands of people killed every year in gun violence and extremely high numbers of mass shootings. Gun violence is almost nonexistent there. Facts, I'm conservative and can also admit we have a serious problem in the US. I do travel to Europe often and there is a lot to like. That's from Glenn. - Interesting. - Joel in Summerdale says it's a typical money grab from that criminal's family. I guess he's referencing the French lawsuit with Baymanet. And in this texture, we have investigated ourselves and we did nothing wrong, trust us. I mean, it seems pretty clear in the discrepancies between the French family and what they're saying and then what the police department is saying. Basically, the main things here, French family is saying he was pulled over for a stupid reason, for not turning his blinker on. Baymanet says, "French actually passed the officer." I don't know if it was an unsafe way or not officer began following him. He had a broken rear tail light. The other major discrepancy here, French family says that they scuffled the officer fired his taser at French before shooting French with his firearm. Baymanet says, "No French stole the officer's firearm." I mean, taser during the scuffle used it pointed at the officer and then the officer fired the shots. But the city says this is all backed up on the body cam and on the dash cam footage. So you'd think it would be clear enough if they say that's the case, but again-- - But they have a reluctance to release it. - Right, and we noted the reasons why they don't want to release that. And so I don't know, we'll see where this goes. We may never hear of the story again until some lawsuit has settled or something of that nature. - Yeah, with a lawsuit now with lawyers involved, we'll hear about this story for maybe a long time. - I'm going forward. - Yeah. - 858 coming up, "The Jeff Poor Show." And he has Becky Garrison with the Eagle Form, April Marie Fogle and Riteside Radio's Phil Williams, joining him today. Reminder, fmsalk1065.com, the fmsalk college pick-em-challenge you have until Saturday morning to sign up. Great grand prize from spring to lace hardware. The directions are on our website, fmsalk1065.com.