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Drag racing on Paper Mill Rd - Jeff Poor talked about prep for Harris - Mobile Mornings - Wednesday 8-28-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] 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. Good morning for Dan and Dalton, if I'm talking 106.5. Not seven minutes after 8 o'clock. Turning up your voice, 25-1-34-301, 0-6. Love to hear from you this morning. You can also text on the text line. We'll look over some of those texts as we go along here in the 8 o'clock hour. We'll wrap it up with Jeff Poor from the Jeff Poor show. He'll bat around some stuff. I guess we could talk some national politics with him, as well as things going on in the state of Alabama. And then Jeff will come on. He'll show-- he'll show-- he'll begin shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. Yeah, he'll have Congressman Jerry Carl on. Or as of yesterday, he was scheduled to have him on. So that'll be an interesting conversation as well. We got a couple texts about the street racing going on on Paper Mill Road after that shooting that happened early Sunday morning. And it is crazy when you look at stats of some of these shootings. And they said that at least one resident who was nearby and heard the shots ring out Sunday morning said they heard a bunch of shots. I don't remember what number they put on it, but it wasn't just a couple pops and done. But when six people get shot and none of them are life-threatening injuries-- I mean, I'm thankful. First off, let me start with that. But what's the plan there? What was there plan? Like whoever was firing that weapon, how do you hit six people and none of them are life-threatening? And then when there's hundreds of people out there, apparently, which they said there were, were they shooting into the sky? I mean, but still such a dangerous situation there. And we see it more and more. And a lot of these things are happening right under our nose. Some of them are happening in areas that we were not accustomed to, areas of town where they were suddenly, wow, that's a thing there. The video you had from back in the spring, I guess it was, the service station on Greelot, Wright, or convenience store, I guess. No wood and Greelot. Yeah, no wood and Greelot, where you would think would be one of the five years ago, you would never think of anything like that happening there. But all this stuff was going on that-- because this was 1, 2 in the morning or so. But it was like similar to what we're talking about here. Yeah, that was something else. That's like a half a mile, maybe a little longer from my house. But it's right across from those Ashford Place apartments where there was just another stick up over the weekend. Somebody was robbed of their cash there. And then you have apartments behind it as well that's across from the park there on Millwood, where you see stuff like that go down also. But this was over on Paper Mill Road. Yeah, this is in an area of work, right. On the way to Africa, town of this, basically. On the way to Prichard. And we've talked about the issues they have with speeding, going on to and coming off of the Africa Town Bridge. And remember those stories about people walking across the street to get to church. And that's just such a dangerous situation right there on that thoroughfare. But here on Paper Mill Road, I guess, they have racing fairly often, not just on the weekends. Now, Birmingham and Huntsville, you had street racing making the news quite a bit earlier this year. And they did some sort of crackdown on that. I know it happens around here. I think it happens most places. But I know a lot of people go out to the drag strip in Irvington to race, right. But this is happening on roadways. And I think the bigger danger here or how many people are out watching it. You can imagine probably some racing accidents could happen much less when somebody gets angry about one thing or another and pulls out a gun. It seems like it's all of the above going on with these things. Now, weren't they-- was this part of the story? We've been talking about it, too. Leanna, me, Dalton, have been talking about this thing during commercial breaks, just trying to sort it all out. But it seems that there was a group-- this might have been your story to me. There was a group that was at Springdale Mall. Yes, that was in this NBC 15 story. So they were there, they were dispersed, and then went over to Paper Mill Road. They showed back up on Paper Mill Road. Yeah, so Andrew Raimi with 15 has that update. And mobile police say they're planning to step up their patrols on Paper Mill Road after that shooting. They said the gunfire erupted after a big crowd gathered where the street racing was taking place. Plenty of residents from different media or from, you know, are the big three, right? 15, 5, and 10. They've had conversations with residents from that area. Most of them seem to be over it is what I'm gathering here. And Andrea with 15 spoke with Charles Williams, who lives there. And he said it's happening all the time, the street racing. His quote, "You do hear the street racing from 3 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning. It's not just one time on a Saturday night. It's all different times of night. You can hear those cars just racing, racing, racing." So here's that part of the story you referenced. Mobile Police said they had broken up an impromptu car show in the parking lot of Springdale Mall Saturday night. And then some of the folks who were there went over to Paper Mill Road. Williams, the resident who lives there, says there were hundreds of people out there. He said, "A cousin of mine, he rides his bike, you know, late nights." He said he had to get off his bike and walk up Paper Mill Road because so many people were blocking the street. It was like a big Mardi Gras. And the racing was over, but still a huge crowd of people that are just lingering around. He said he heard the racing and then he heard the gunfire shortly after midnight. He said, "That's what Africa Town, a lot of times, suffers from because you have people committing crimes or they come from other places and they commit crimes over here. But it's our community and we get stuck holding the bag." So Mobile Police, the race spokesperson, said they're going to patrol that area more frequently. Williams seems to not think that will make as much of a difference. He said that business owners there have in the past paid off-duty officers to be posted there, basically a security, but they would just wait till the officers left, their post, and then they would start. He said they'll just wait 'em out. Something's going to have to be really done with the street and make it not so attractive to racing. So that brings up how to fix this problem. And what have they done in Birmingham and Montgomery? I need to look, I'm sure the patrols have, and I think didn't they pass a law or two, this past legislative session regarding street racing and putting a couple more laws on the books, but you know, you could put speed bumps in and other deterrances to people from. - You could doctor up the road a little bit. You could, I guess you'd have a number of options there. I don't know exactly what you would do, but that's one way of deterring it all. But it seems like it's going to move somewhere else. That seems to always be what happens, right? And that, again, kind of stinks for the residents, right? I mean, I think for the most part, we don't, when you're the one driving, and if you drive the way you're supposed to drive through residential neighborhoods or what places where there's businesses and folks walking across the road, then really the speed bumps are just kind of a pain. It's like, well, I would drive relatively slowly anyway, but because they have these people coming from wherever and then racing down the road, then they put the speed bumps in and the people who are actually following the rules have to deal with another kind of obstacle, right? That seems to be the immediate fix to me. It would be putting speed bumps in. Joshua says, "Paper Mill Road has big potholes. "It's hard to believe people would race on it. "Maybe it was recently repaved." And I don't know if that was part of so many of the recent road fixes that they've been doing around here, covering up the potholes, but- - I'm going, I'll tell you what, I'm going to check it out today. I want to get out to "Paper Mill Road." Just look at all, every now and then, I think I would find myself on "Paper Mill Road," not a lot of reason for me to be there. - It's really an industrial area. - It's an industrial area, right? You belong there and you don't. But for whatever reason, they find it attractive to race. And there are some residents there. You know, that's the area where, for instance, Cleon Jones lives. The book's on exhibit today or tomorrow, but anyway. You could probably speak to that. There's a lot of older people that live in those areas that are, they've got nice little properties, cleaned up, they're prideful residents. And so, you like you say, it's really unfair for them. - Yeah, it is. And of course, I don't know if you've been on Twitter lately or there are so many videos online from different cities where they do either these street racing shows or just people whipping donuts out in the middle of an intersection. And someone, and it seems to be more often than not a larger person, physically obese person, ends up sitting right there in the middle of where the donuts are happening. - And so, he's part of the act? - No, like he just was too slow to move away like everyone else did. And then they end up getting, you know, whipped by the back end of some vehicle that's doing donuts and then absolutely fly a good 20, 25 feet. I feel like I've seen so many videos of that over the last few years. But that's, I mean, a real hazard, especially if you're bringing children out there, it's not a sanctioned race. And trust me, I don't have problems with racing. And I just have problems with it when this happens or when you put, I mean, little kids in danger situations. One of those was a children that was shot, thankfully, again, not life-threatening. But you could easily have someone accidentally drive into a crowd or something or they ended up with a much worse situation. - You say that it's sanctioned events where people, something goes wrong. And suddenly you have people are harmed by a vehicle or an air show or whatever, you know, you see that events that are secure. - Yeah, and then again, also, I'm like, if you're an adult and you decide to show up to watch a unsanctioned street race and you're close enough that you get hit, that's kind of on you, Matt. But if you're taking your 10-year-old, 11-year-old, 12-year-old, they end up in the mix. I mean, that's just awful. A lot of texts on this, this textor says speed bumps. Yeah, that seems to be the easiest fix, right? Mr. Plott says, "Is there any way to give them a place "to race safely other than the street?" Now, I've been to the drag strip out there by Mobile International. - They've got a drag strip once, but it was a long time ago. - Yeah, they've also, that's next to the speedway. You have the speedway and the drag strip. Two different things, two different businesses. - Right. - Right next to each other, though. But I think you've got a drag way up in that more, too. - Okay, yeah, and I think folks, regular people, if you have the vehicle, you can get out there on that drag strip at different times. And I have an old friend who I don't keep up with as much anymore, but he went to school with me. And that's something he got into during and after high school was fixing up cars and then going and racing them. And I know he would be down at the drag strip fairly often running his vehicles, which is a safer place than Paper Mill Road. I'll say that much, at least as far as the crowd is concerned. Summerdale Tony says cameras in some advantageous places could be good as well. Another texture. This is not street racing. They're out there doing donuts in the middle of the road. You could drive down Paper Mill Road today and still see the tire marks of what they're doing. I've seen it on Facebook. You know what they're doing and who's doing it. Another texture here, Paper Mill Road has been fixed. No more potholes as of about two years ago. - There's why it's become attractive to them without the potholes. I don't know if y'all recall, but all the crotch rockets used to consume the interstates on Sundays around Mobile. And as soon as the cops started chasing them, they would just turn around and go the opposite direction. Some of those videos are absolutely insane as well. Some of the folks who get on these motorcycles and hit 180, I mean, ridiculous. And that's pretty much one of the few ways that someone can flee police these days. And even then odds are you're going to get caught. But that's the only vehicle really fast enough to outrun some of these that they have in these police departments nowadays. - Thanks for the term crotch rockets for our whole audience. - Yeah, that's what they're called, man. Another texture, yeah, they repaved it a few years ago. They have a starting line and an eight mile mark spray painted on the road. They're not running eight miles, right? - Shout me out. - Like one mile or a quarter mile. Jason says for years, the street racing took place between the Cochrane Bridge and the tunnel on '98 between two and four in the morning. The shell chemical terminal there finally had enough and they had enough pool with law enforcement to get it stopped. Larry Daphne, Larry from Daphne says, give them a place to race that doesn't cost any money. Somebody gets hurt or killed and somebody gets sued. Whoever owns the property that is being allowed to use. Nobody wants to get sued so nobody's going to give a place including the city or county. Yeah, okay, they say it's an eighth mile is where they have that mark spray painted on the road. So they have a start line and a finish line there. - So I'll go check it out and then I'll report back in the morning about exactly what I saw out there. What, are there residents out there many? Like you say, it's more industrial than anything, but I will freshen up on my understanding of Paper Mill Road here this afternoon and figure it out. - Yeah, and resist the urge to see what kind of time you can put down on that eight mile. And if you pull up next to someone who gives you that nod, again, just resist it. Don't race them, Dan, you're just there for some research. - So, yeah, you know, my Camry... I think it's a four cylinder or six. - We might have time to soup it up before you go out there. - Yeah, we don't need to do all that. - We need Tom Clarkson here to get that ride working. - Oh, he's at the battleship today, right? - Yeah, a remote midday mobile from noon to one and then these scuttle wet boys take over one to two. They'll be out at the battleships. Go check that out today. - 821 Dan Adalton Mobile Morning's in FM Talk 1065. (upbeat music) Hey, what's going on? It's 825 FM Talk 1065 Mobile Morning's. If you're setting up a street race, Texas, 251, I want to watch this stuff, 251-34-30106. - Yeah, by the way, I watched a movie a couple of months ago that it's a Michael Mann movie. I actually showed you this clip, Dan, because I was so surprised by it during Ferrari. So you have, oh, what's his name? He's in the Star Wars movies, Adam Driver, and he plays Enzo Ferrari in this movie. And they talk about one of these long distance races that they still have, but they had this back in the day through the roads of Italy. And you would have in these different towns, people just show up on the side of the road. Like we're talking about here with these drag strips. And watches, they came through. And these cars are just flying and there's no guardrails, really, unless they're there for another reason, for regular daily driving cars. Oh, I don't know, there were a ton in this particular race that they're referencing, but during the race, it was one of the most violent scenes. It's a Michael Mann movie, so it makes sense. But so unexpected, one of the most violent scenes I've seen with a driver plowing into a crowd. And that, I mean, it was so surprising it to me, whenever I think of racing, now that's all I can think about. How did they pull that off? How did they... Imagine there was a lot of CGI, but if you haven't seen Ferrari by Michael Mann, and it's a pretty long movie, it's actually a pretty sad movie. The man went through a lot in his life and so did the family around him, but that one scene is absolutely insane. And Michael Mann, Michael Mann's the heck out of it. I'll tell you that much. This textor says, "I blame social media, TikTok. It's full of street racing and road takeovers." I think we've seen more and more of that really since the lawlessness took another step forward back in 2020, during so many of these different riots that were going on, that's really where I began to see more of these street takeovers and racing happening. Oakland was one of the worst places for this. And I don't know if they're still dealing with it or not, but then we saw it kind of filtered down the Birmingham and Huntsville more over the last couple of years. They're dealing with a lot of crime in Oakland. You see over the weekend somebody, they had to use the jaws of life to save someone. I missed that. And when the medics then sorted everything out, got the guy in the ambulance, the jaws of life was missing. There's still no way. They're stealing the jaws of life. I mean, you walk into a pawn shop with the jaws of life. I don't know. Anyway, that's when your crime is at quite a peak. - I don't endorse theft, but that would be a pretty cool thing to have. Like just, hey, you wanna play with the jaws of life a little bit later on? - Well, it's a pretty cool thing to say. - You're playing with it when somebody else really needs it. - That's the point, yes, you're right. This text you're like Ford versus Ferrari with Matt Damon. - Yeah. - And Christian Bale, that's a great movie too. Another text you hear has pictures. I'm guessing this is a paper mill road. Yeah, with the tire marks from the donuts, Bill says investigative reporter Dan on the scene. You do this a lot, Dan. Never, I mean, remember after, was it Sally or Zeta? You went over a while after to go check out. You just kind of rode around Baltimore County to see. - Yeah, I did that. I went to citronella after Zeta. I went to Baltimore County. It was two weeks after Sally, because we were here for Sally. We were very aware of the effects of Sally. I mean, I had a tree come through my windshield too, but that was like the end of investigator Dan, almost immediately. - There was one story, and fortunately I can't remember enough of it to pinpoint anyone in particular, but there was like a man that was in the news a lot for harassing neighbors. And I went to check it out. - He lived in a cul-de-sac, so he kind of stuck out like a sore thumb. - I just kind of circled around, like maybe I was starting a street race. - I wanted to get a, you know, I wanted to chat with a gentleman. - Yeah, but it was a cul-de-sac, so they see you roll up. But yeah, investigative reporter Dan, you are our man on the scene. Coming back on the other side, we'll keep going through these texts, two five one three four three oh one oh six, and phones, sorry, we missed one earlier, that somebody was on the line waiting for us, two five one three four three oh one oh six. We talked to some about Elon Musk and SpaceX going to save the day with the Boeing Starliner being stuck. - Yeah, the Boeing's out of it now. Let Elon Musk go grab those two astronauts. - Well, SpaceX has another major venture that I think they may have taken off this morning. They were going to try to take off with private citizens. - Yeah, I, on the text line, would you like to be part of something like that? - Yeah, I'll lay that out for you. Plus, RFK said he was gonna come off the ballot and some of these battleground states. What if the states don't allow him to? Seems to be what's happening more on Mobile Morning. At 835 FM Talk 106.5 in Mobile Morning's on a Wednesday. Right now it's time to talk with Louis Arretta from McConnell Automotive. Hey, Louis. - How you good morning guys, how are you? - Hey, we are great. And I know you already have a lot of vehicles out there on the lot at McConnell more on that in a minute, both new and pre-owned, but if someone out there has a specific make and model and color in mind and you don't currently have it on the lot, well, you spend a lot of your time searching for those vehicles and you can go find them. - That's right. I had a friend of mine call me yesterday. Won't a three quarter ton long wheelbase work truck and I got here this morning and founding one. So we can do that easy. I'm gonna tell everybody we're gonna be pulling the body graph floats at the South football game this weekend. So we'll have those brand new GMC trucks out there looking sharp and pulling those floats. So y'all go out there and say hi to everybody and watch a good football game. But we'll be out there this weekend and hey, you know, we got a great selection of vehicles. You can check those out online at mcconnellautomotive.com. Got some low interest rate on these GMC trucks over there. Like 1.9, how about that? - Yeah, it's nice. - But that's with approved credit and we're gonna be here all day. Love us, gonna be a nice little day. So come on by and see us. - All right, we appreciate it, Louie. - Hey, thank y'all. - It's Louie, go see him at McConnell Automotive. They're located on Dolphin Street, just east of I-65. And of course, the website, mcconnellautomotive.com. - Good morning from Dan and Dalton. If I'm talking 106-5-836, got some techs to get to, got some phones to get to where we want to be. - Yeah, let's start with line one and my good friend, Fireball. Good morning, Fireball, how are you? - Oh, but you know me, it ain't nothing to it, just like my paycheck. - That's it, bro. What's going on? So yeah, what do you want to discuss this morning? - Well, let's call it the Africa Town drag strip. - Okay. - I dare say there's probably between 100 to 200 big trucks that run that road every day. I drive a trifle dump truck, and I work for an asphalt company. And just like I think it was Monday, I went through there eight times. And three bumps ain't gonna work for big trucks. - Oh, got you. That's a good point. - Oh, y'all hang in there and I don't see you again. I see y'all the 13th. - All right, buddy, thanks, Fireball plan, Fireball. Let's go back to the phone lines and talk with Matt. Good morning, Matt. - Hey, how you doing? - Well, good. Hey, man, we're great. So you want to talk about these proposed raises, especially for starting salaries for fire and police here in Mobile. - Yeah, so in full transparency, I'm a fire captain with City of Mobile. I'm just crossing the 17-year mark there. - Thank you, by the way. - Well, I was asking that, I'm just giving context, but I appreciate the compliment. The one thing I wanted to touch up on is we could talk about this for hours, but with the firefighters here that I'm proud to be of, this litigation has been ongoing for two and a half years. And so when last week the city rolls out of the proposed new state plan, they met with the senior officers and staff of police empire, which included myself. And so they broke it down over three days presenting this plan. And so, and this is the mayor and Chief Arbor sitting up there leading the way. There's a lot of good things that come out of this plan, but there's a lot of unknown. And so, and we're still navigating that field. And that's why the litigation is still gonna be ongoing until all issues are resolved. I think, you know, it's been real ugly for the past two and a half years and on both sides. And it's something that you just can't solve in the span of two weeks before a vote comes up until everybody gets to see the full picture. And so, you know, I know people talk about, well, you know, this should be wrapping up litigation. There's a lot more to it about both. So this is a good step. It's in the right direction. And it really does impact the entry-level police and firefighters coming on. So that's a huge bump from 43,000 up to almost 52,000. Yeah, but there's a lot to work with. - Well, apparently there isn't, and just to say, I mean, when you're talking about a lawsuit that kind of says it all right there, there's a lot of contention. In your mind, where does this thing go now? How much time is it gonna take? When do you meet, what do you think is a fair resolution? - Well, the fair resolution will be when the city finally acknowledges their fault in all this. And I know that's a partisan statement. And as much as they're trying to deflect and say, well, you know, this is separate from the lawsuit. We decided to do this away from it. I'm here to tell you guys, and I know who listens to your show. Everybody listens to this station. So I know who's talking, and I'm this confident talking in front of you. This wouldn't be where we are today, guys, without the lawsuit, at least on the firefighter side. We would not be in this position that we are right now without having to force litigation. And so it's gonna resolve on them working with our attorneys to work out some kinks. There's a couple of kinks. And then the big elephant in the room is, you know, back wages for over two and a half years, 500 personnel. - Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask. Are you looking for, got a back pay here? Because the impetus for this lawsuit, right, was because of the incentive-based program and local 1349 said that police officers were benefiting more from the incentives than firemen were, right? - That's correct. And we were focused on one specific incentive. And the city's taken excerpts from our attorneys, and I mean, we've had multiple partial hearings, but we haven't had a full bench trial yet. We've gone in there, the judges heard bits and pieces. We've had junctions, temporary restraining order hearings, the smokesal hearings. I mean, we've been down that courthouse. I know I've paid enough important fees to cover a half a year salary, you know. But in all seriousness, yes, that's one of the big elephants in the room. The other thing you got to think about is this has been a 40-plus year incentive plan that's affected over 1,000 employees or more over the span of 35 to 40 years. So when you're talking about totally hidden reset and readjusting, there's people that fall in multiple cracks. And so, and that's on the police side and the fireside. And they've got to get those details ironed out and worked right before you hit the reset on, I think it's September 17th, is when the boats, for both of them go down. - Yeah, you know. - And the council support, that's the same when the council supports the budget and the board supports the motion to amend. So in the personal boards, probably more than likely gonna support it, it just depends on where the council is at that point. And because we're just one part of that budget. - And I guess there's a dismissal hearing for that lawsuit scheduled for October 4th, which would be- - Yeah, they're calling it the dismissal hearing, it was supposed to be a status hearing because the city has asked for two continuances back-to-back 60 days apiece to try to work this out. And the only reason they did that is because the judge untraditionaled it unexpectedly. Why not get to staffing our favor about three, four, about four or five months ago? And he hinted at them in a hearing, hey, you guys need to work this out. I don't wanna work this out. You guys need to work this out. But you can all this. He gave a strong sense of direction and which way he was leaning. And so in the city- - Put him on notice. - Well, he did. And I'm not saying, and I'm not sitting here spewing a lie or spewing false news narrative. That's the actual damn fact. And so he told him that day and he said, you guys worked this out before I have to work it out. Well, if we don't work it out, then he's gonna potentially hit reset on this one incentive. He wasn't aimed at all the incentives. They've been saying that all the time, that we're trying to go after all incentives. That's horse crap. I know we could do an hour podcast on that story and we ain't got the time. But if we were only focused on this one incentive and the judge knows that and has said that in previous hearing, he was only focused on this one. - And Matt, why don't we have you on the line? This is kind of a separate question from the lawsuit, but as they talk about increasing starting salaries across the board, we've talked so often about law enforcement and the difficulties in hiring over the last few years, that's getting better, it appears. What about you firefighters? How difficult has it been to bring new guys into the mix? Has it been similar to the law enforcement situation? - It's not as bad as law enforcement. I'm not gonna inflate those numbers. Law enforcement did have it worse. Their attrition rate was worse than ours. And so when they implemented this incentive, that had a huge impact on them retaining holding on to people along with bringing new people on board. At the time, it compounded our attrition rate and almost doubled it in one year. And then the subsequent year, I know it increased, but I don't know the percentage. But there's always been attrition problems within public safety police and fire. Police have had it worse, there's no denying that. But when this plan went into effect, it had a larger impact on ours, because our folks, you know, well, some just took it as a shot across the building. Okay, you know, this is where we go from here, you know, the hell with an amount of here. You know, involvement in county is always paying higher no matter what you're doing. It's always trying to chase a dream over there. But if you can be in the realm within a couple thousand dollars, it's not so learning to just jump ship unless you just live over there and have a better quality of life mindset. But we're always having to chase down our industry, you know, the plan. - Let me ask you something real quick, and this is kind of just something that occurred to me. The impact on lawlessness, we know what that has on police. You guys are also rushing to emergencies, you're rushing to places to, you know, maybe not necessary. Well, you're putting your life on the line because you just don't know what's gonna happen when you get there. What effect does that had on the Mobile Fire Rescue Department, individuals in that department, we know that police get overwhelmed and can be at sometimes feel under appreciated. How about you guys? And what impact do criminals have on what you do every day? - Well, I can't compare it straight to police because they're, I mean, they're the first on scene with regards to a violent scene or an unsafe scene based on their preparedness and level of training and equipment because we don't have all that. But it does take a toll because anything that's involving a violent act, there's normally medical care that needs to be rendered or you have to go assess the situation. And by that time, a lot of times family and that people are on scene and for the most part, we're all wearing the same color uniforms. So we're all being cascaded, you know, depending on the frustrations and the emotions. - Sure, the emotion, yeah. So it does have an impact on varied individuals, especially with those that, you know, or having deal, I mean, with our folks having to deal with the trauma, you know, just working through it, depending on what's going on. I do get credit to the city. We've just all been issued, I guess you'd call it, a ballistic vest for all first responders, for our paramedics and firefighters that when we do go on those type of scenes, you know, while we're awaiting to get there that we have a little more preparedness just because of the signs of the times where we've seen, you know, active shooting events or events where all first responders are being attacked. - Right. - And so the city has taken steps to try to help mitigate some of that or try to reduce some of the hazard with it. But the biggest thing is it's just, you know, having close colleagues of yours at work or your best friend or your loved one, depending on how you vent, everybody vents and processes things differently. If you have that avenue to vent after the scene or talk to somebody or have some peer support, which the fire department, I mean, the city as a whole does have peer support. Fire department has an inner connection with some of our closer colleagues that we can confine in if we want to. But you just got to have a route to vent it sometimes. You can't, I mean, if you bottle it in all the time, then it's going to get you, you know, at the worst time. - Good stuff, Matt. We really appreciate you calling in this morning for providing some extra insight into this story and don't be afraid to call back. We appreciate it. - Thank y'all for giving me the time. Y'all have a good morning. - You got it, Matt, that was one of our three big things. So that was very timely indeed. - Yeah, it was really good stuff there. Also text line, so this textor says, why do firemen think they should be equal to police? Police have such a much more dangerous job. And, you know, Matt alluded to that several times about police being the first on the scene in some of these dangerous situations. But it's just, it's the city bylaws. And this local 1349 felt that the rules weren't being followed with the extra incentives for police. So that's, and this lawsuit has been going on for some time now, I mean, two years. - At least, yeah. - And then you get the city's new plan kind of unveiled this week that will be voted on possibly by next month. So we'll see where that goes. I wanted to talk about the SpaceX thing. They scrub the launch here of their private flight that will go, I guess, further into the atmosphere than any flight that NASA's done since like the '70s. So we'll have time to talk about this tomorrow, but it's absolutely fascinating. They've got four private citizens, and they'll be doing a spacewalk, you know, outside, no, of the capsule. We'll break this down further tomorrow, but coming up, we'll have Jeff Poor. As he gets ready for the Jeff Poor show, he'll fill us in on what we're looking forward to today. - My hand is not raised to walk in space. - You don't want to do the spacewalk? - I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. It's 849 FM Talk, 106-5. Mobile morning's good to have you all along, thank you. (upbeat music) Good morning from Dan Brennan, Dalton. Or we get FM Talk, 106-5. (upbeat music) Jeff Poor shows straight ahead, deal. - We sure do, and on with us. 'Cause he is every Wednesday, Jeff Poor. Good morning, Jeff, how you doing? - Good morning. - Dalton, how are you? - And we are good. Let's start it with the guests you're going to have on today. And some good ones too. Who do you have coming up? - John Bradley, Jake, coming up. We're going to talk, I mean, we've spent a lot of time on presidential politics, but there's still a lot of down ballot races, a nationally set-at-house, a control to set-at-house, 'cause I know it's always, that's going to make or break everything. Also, Joey Clark, our Wednesday regular, and we try to get him on about once a month. State Auditor Andrew Sorel will be with us. - So, I wanted to talk some national politics with you. Specifically, RFK, and 18-19 with a story that he's yet to come off Alabama's ballot after he suspended his campaign last week. I think the plan, he said, was to take his name off of about 10 ballots, battleground states that really could go one way or the other, as far as Trump or Kamala are concerned. And I don't think him being on the ballot in Alabama will do anything to Trump's chances to win the state, but Michigan and Wisconsin, both saying that Kennedy cannot come off the ballot. And it's funny, you know, a lot of these states have been spending time trying to kick him off the ballot previously. - Now they want him off. They're saying nobody, you're staying on here. I guess Michigan is saying it's too late for him to be removed because he was the candidate chosen by the Natural Law Party and their primaries passed. So, the Secretary of State there in Michigan said, "Too bad, you're on the ballot." And then Wisconsin's Elections Commission voted yesterday to deny his request to be removed from their ballot. So, how much will change with him staying on some of these ballots? - I mean, how did not endorse Trump, how did not affiliate himself with Trump? He may have, it may have not mattered, but I don't know, it may have hurt Harris more, but now maybe it hurts Trump more. It's gonna be marginal at most, so probably. - Yeah, I guess the people who understand what he's doing will still vote Trump, but you see that RFK and the bubble next to it, imagine a lot of his supporters will weigh in anyway. And then you have the first interview announcement. - Yeah, Kamala said to be on air with Dana Bash from CNN, as I said earlier, a straight down the line, true journalist. - Who's it get? - Does he go one way or the other? But she's not doing it solo, Jeff. She's going to have her VP candidate in the room in the interview with her walls. - She don't think Dana Bash is a straight down the line. - Oh yeah, man. She's objective as it gets, right? I mean, didn't you see her interview with JD Vance? - Almost turned into a boxing match, I mean. She was so confrontational with Vance. We'll see how this squares up when we see her. Now it's going to be two on one. So if they want to get physical out. - I'm out of three on one, probably, but I think, well, the wall says, it's like an emotional support animal thing or something. - Yeah. (laughs) - I don't get it, 'cause this is what it tells me, and I know people don't read into this, probably as much as I do. Was she really that ill-prepared to run for president? I mean, she was an AG. She was, you know, a US senator and a vice president. And like, it feels like all of this silence and all of this, like, kind of fear of the media right now is like, they're either trying to break her bad habit of like giggling at everything or like, she really needs to be called up and they're trying to keep her from being a Sarah Palin maybe. - Yeah, I think my guess is this. She didn't take advantage of all this time to catch up on all the real stuff. And she just was like the prom queen, like Katie Britt was saying. Like she was, she's the vice president, but did really, she wasn't making any decision. So it wasn't so important for her to understand all these international matters that are really gonna matter. And she could really embarrass herself in an interview. - Right, but it's just, it's stunning it. Like, if this is really the case, how ill-prepared, she was when it comes to things. But I think there's something to do that. - I do too. - She's just never, she's never really shown any sort of, like high intellectual level about foreign affairs or anything like that. It's all been sort of platitudes and like left-wing bumper sticker sloganism. - By the way, a Politico headline yesterday. J.D. Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally. Like she's not the vice president. Like he's linking something that's completely unlinked. So okay, thank you, Politico. - The Twitter community, no, no, no, that's pretty fabulous. - It's great. All right, Jeff, we're ready for your show. I will let you get ready and we'll be listening just after nine o'clock. - All right, sounds good. Thanks for having me on. - Yeah, man, Jeff Ford, Jeff Ford Show, Dan and Dalton, back with you tomorrow morning to get 6 a.m. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)