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Midday Mobile - South Alabama Veteran of the Year Tom Claxton - Tuesday, September 10, 2024
There will be no personal nor direct attacks on anyone. And I would ask that you please try to keep down the loud cheering and the clapping. There will be no booing and no unruly behavior. With that? - This is painful and it will be for a long time. - Don't fuck, baby! That's right, this man knows what's up. After all, these are a couple of high stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper. No step too high for a high stepper. - This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 106.5. - Well, Sean's a tough guy. I mean, I think everybody knows that. You know, Sean, he took some licks, he hangs in there. - Yeah, what's wrong with the deal we got? I mean, the deal we got pretty good, don't it? Did you hear what I said? - So this is a Bourde Council. I had no doubt about them. That doesn't suck. - If you don't like it, you're bad. - Last question, were you high on drugs? - Last question, kiss my (beep) - I tell him, 107 FM Talk 106.5, mid-day mobile, hour number two on this Tuesday, phone number, text line, the same as they were, just last hour, 3430106, 3430106. Also, you're still getting text on this idea, you know. We've talked about, Sheriff talked about it. I know it's fantasy that you put the bad guys, when it'd be bad guys somewhere on their own, let them shoot it out, right? Keep the, 'cause I'm not shocked that there's bad guys out there. I'm shocked that they have just nothing left in their souls that would keep them from entering children or killing children, killing people, not innocent people in this, and my friend texted me here, let's also throw those selling fentanyl in as well. So would we have them, would they be like, so did my friend, would they be like in the Colosseum, where you'd have the gladiators, but then you'd throw in like some lions and stuff, you know, or winning. So the fentanyl dealers go, by the way, y'all are in here as well. They're like, wait, wait a second, we're not, no, no, you're in there as well, go on in, shooting's gonna start here in about 30 seconds. Good after it. All right, coming up, by the way, coming up later on this hour, my buddy Tom Clackston's gonna join us, we'll talk with him. He's got a car show coming up, and we'll probably get into some other subjects with one of my favorite Marines, Tom Clackston. Some more text here before we get to tonight's debate, of course, I don't know, I'm gonna be watching it. Like I said at the beginning of the show, at the end of Jeff's show, I've been invited tonight. This is interesting, speaking of the Colosseum. This is interesting to me. And I do enjoy live tweeting or Xing or whatever you do on Twitter X now. During debates and during state of the unions, we do that @FMTalk1065. So if you've never taken part in it, hop on there tonight, and I'll be bouncing things out on the Twitter feed and you can do the same, answer me back, it's a lot of fun. But I'm going to, I don't know, I think I'm the only conservative at this debate watching part. And that's more exciting to me. I love y'all, but it's boring, we're all just agreeing. It's fun to go into the Colosseum. So I'll let you know how that goes, but I'll be tweeting during it as well @FMTalk1065. All right, let's see. Okay, back to earlier, I didn't get all these texts. Back from Navy Chief said, Navy Chief in Foley said I would have zero issues with permitting my weapon if there was a no fee charge since the second amendment is right. There's a difference between banking and getting a driver's license. Those are privileges, not your right as a US citizen. I take issue with the voting argument because yes, you do need an ID, but there's a free ID to negate having to pay for a right, which is that Navy Chief, that argument, that debate came up during the bill when it was working in Montgomery. And there's a lot of validity to that, right? Not having a fee with it. Because in the States, they stepped up with this account to make sheriff's departments generally hold for the money that they're not receiving from concealed carry permits, but it's really not working. We've talked to the sheriff about that before. Money not coming through. But if you did have a mechanism there that kept them whole, I think you make a fair argument because that free odor, 'cause if we said, okay, you have to have an ID to vote, but the ID cost you money, then I think a lot of us would challenge that and say, even though people are gonna say, we're a driver's license, but I'm talking about the free voter ID. A lot of us would challenge that as some kind of impediment to voting to do that. So I think you make a fair discussion. Now, can we put that genie back in the bottle? Maybe chief, I don't know. Okay, now come on. This is, we're not supposed to talk about this. Unnamed textures and hey, Sean, how many years do you think the new peer will last? I'm sure they're talking about the Gulf State Park peer. So whoever you are, a named texture, maybe you have heard me talking in the hallways here at FM Talk 106.5 since that peer was, well, a few weeks ago they had a big reopening of the peer. And I hadn't said it on there, but I said, "Oh my gosh, we're gonna get a storm." The second the peer is finished, he can get a storm in front of mine, has built a peer, he lives on the bay. So in addition to Gulf State peer, we've got this unnamed texture, we've got two things going bad for us, right? Badly for us, the new peer at Gulf State Park, which is like a, and if y'all are new to the show, I don't believe this scientifically. This is just superstition being a Gulf Coast guy. The new peer's finished at the beach, which makes me worry about a storm coming. And then a buddy of mine just finished about a month ago, his peer, and I'm like, "Why are you doing this to us?" You know you build a new peer, you know what happens. So we get double it. So a named texture, I'm generally worried about it, although it looks like what we're talking about with Francine and Dr. Bill's discussion. We don't have to worry about losing eight peers from that, but we do look at like one to three feet of storm surge in our area, you know where it floods, but there is a chance that track could come further east, but right now they're talking about Morgan City, Louisiana, and that's right now where they think the landfall as a category one, coming in there. All right, Brandon says, "Yes, yes." Right, exactly what I was thinking. Brandon said, "You remember how Sally turned at the last minute?" "Yes, I do." Brandon, let's not talk about peers. Can we not talk? With a storm in the Gulf, can we not talk about, mom always would say, "You're tempting fate." Or tempting fate. Okay, so let's not tempt. This is the, well, everything in my world is based on, most everything in my world is based on logic, right, and critical thinking. For some reason I come off the damn tracks when it comes to hurricanes, except the people who say, "Well, you know we're due." Well, that's not actually science. Because we're going to get one because we're due, and I've asked Dr. Bill if that's something he puts in his forecast formula. He says no, but yes, all the talking about peers, it's worrisome. All right, so tonight, the debate, it's going to be probably the only debate we're looking at. It's going to be on ABC eight o'clock hour time at the, here's a story from Wall Street Journal, says Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Donald Trump will have these, have similar goals in Tuesday night's presidential debate to knock their opponent off balance and to find themselves as the best candidate to bring change to the country. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Debate hosted by ABC News takes place at eight o'clock central at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Five things to watch for. So here's the things they want us to watch for. Five things to watch for. Here's the list, five things to watch for. Number one, can Trump stay on topic? I will, and they say in the first sentence here, it said, before President Biden exited the race, Trump's advisors usually were content to let Trump be Trump, but with Harris now, the Democratic Condender, they have ramped up efforts to keep Trump disappointed on message and hope that he doesn't risk alienating some of the critical undecided voters needed to push him over the top in November. Okay, so this is, I like, I like when you have a focused Trump. At the same time, without Trump being Trump, I think you have a race horse, right? But if you hobble the race horse so much, they're not gonna win. So it depends, sometimes I listen to Trump, I'm like, oh my gosh, why didn't you just stop? You should've stopped two minutes ago and he doesn't. At the same time, if you take somebody like Trump, who's incredibly nimble on his feet in that and start trying to tell him what not to talk about and all that, I think you might mess him up. I really do, I think it, now we don't need him to sound like he's just one of his regular rallies and doing all that, but, all right, the second one here can hear us separate herself from Biden. All right, so now we're talking. And I've said this for a month and change that the Harris Walls campaign is running against an incumbent Donald Trump, even though Donald Trump is not in office. It's so much of the rhetoric we hear out of the Democrats and once in a while, when we get to hear from Kamala Harris, it sounds like you're like, yeah, you're running against yourself. So will she tonight, they say separate herself from Biden, will she, I mean, to do that, she would have to, in my opinion, to make it work is a tack and say, listen, all these things were happening under President Biden and I don't like him. And I thought it was a wrong decision. So we're going to do it differently. She'll never say that though, 'cause it breaks the Democrat orthodoxy. So I don't know how she separates herself from President Biden, the Biden administration, unless she does something where she says like, well, you know, they didn't, if she comes out and says, well, they didn't ask me, then you seem weak as a leader, right? Third one on the Wall Street Journal list here, well, either of them fill in the blanks on their policy plans. So both Trump and Harris have talked about their broad agenda for the country with few specifics on policy proposals. Absolutely. I would love to hear more policy proposals. I will say that Trump, number one, having been President for four years, you watched it. And number two, because the guy takes every interview, I mean, if there's a mic, he can't walk past it, he's talked about ideas. Now, would I like them to be boiled into how that works? You know, he'll say, well, you know, we should pay for IVF. Yeah, the thing I've taken umbrage with Trump on, that I think that's a dumb idea, that the one set of taxpayers would give money to another set of taxpayers for IVF. Although I think if he does it, he should say, we're gonna pay for IVF and I'm gonna make so-and-so pay for it. I don't know who that would be. But Kamala Harris has thrown out some ideas as well, with no idea how it works. So she's gonna cap prices. How does that work? Who caps them? Is it done at the state level? Done at the federal level? How do you do it? The $25,000 for the first time home buyers, where's that coming from? Well, muted microphones matter, number four here. I think they matter and I think they help Trump. I mean, people will say, well, he won't be able to throw her off, you know, her game is easily. Yeah, but from what I've seen, and we'll see tonight, but what I've seen from Vice President Harris, when she's in a area that's not scripted, which you know, the questions, I mean, are gonna be completely scripted, that let her talk, let her talk. I think it's better, I think it's that judo move, like it's not gonna be bad like Biden, where he talked himself into a ditch, but it may be good to have the muted mic moment. And then the last one here, which issues will each candidate try to steer the debate towards? What do you think? So I can see what's happening here with the left, and it's gonna be Project 2025, which Trump has distanced himself from, says he has nothing to do with it. Even I heard the conversation come up that, I guess, Shmari Figurs is trying to tie Project 2025 from the heritage, from heritage to Carolyn Dobson. So maybe they'll go with that. Maybe they'll go with whatever she could say, Trump's benefiting himself, trying to make his friends richer, those kind of things. I think that's been used so much, I don't know if it'll land. Now on the, on the Trump side, I hope he doesn't go into just the, I think he should, I mean, he could say, "Come on, here are the, here are the policies that this administration has done for the last three years. Right here, here's where we are, here's what's happened. And Kamala Harris has been a big part of this. I think that would be a lot better than some, you know, just calling her out, you know, what's her name? So we'll see, your thoughts on this, and we'll grab some text here. David did say tonight's debate drinking game is every time that Kamala cackles, you have to take a shot. Why should she be the only one that's at fault, that's fall off your seat drunk tonight? There you go. I, speaking of the laughing thing. So fan of, I've listened to Tucker Carlson, right? Stuff on Twitter, his podcast. The two laughs in the American political world that I think could negate each other. Like there's a, there's a principle in audio. If you play the same sound against itself, it results in silence. So what if you played Tucker Carlson's laugh? I like Tucker so, I don't get, I'll let your pearls. But Tucker's laugh against Vice President Harris's laugh. Would it leave complete silence? Maybe, okay, come and write back. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. 125, FM Talk 1065, mid-day mobile. Let me take a second, take a second here. We'll get to the text line, but I won't tell you. Bob, Bob, buddy Clint Jameson. I'm talking about how long we've known it. So he's with Adventure Earth, basically. He is Adventure Earth vicycles. So how long has he been doing this? Well, in my past, I think figuring out the other day, I have 32 years in this business, 33 years in the radio business. At one point, at a station before this one, I would work a regular show, and then I would go help with the other station being a producer for a show. And he had a show with some other co-host that was all like Adventure Sports, Exercise, all those kind of things. And even back then, that's 20 something years ago. He was like the bicycle guy. He did the swimming and did the running for triathlon, but he was like bike guy back then. So it was no big surprise when he got into the business of bicycles. Now, I watched him and guys like him that could ride road bikes and do all that stuff with amazement, but it wasn't for me. A couple of years ago, he said, "Hey, man, I know you're on a bunch, you like to get in the woods. What do you think about one of these electric bikes to get you through the woods? Got my attention." And I've said it before that I still use it for that, but it has become part of my life for riding for exercise. So I have an electric bike from Adventure Earth vicycles. By the way, right now, anytime, there's 75 plus in stock for you take a test ride on. And yeah, there are different manufacturers, different styles. There's on road, off road, hybrids, all that. But what happened with me is what I thought was gonna be a tool like during turkey season or something like that. I became part of my weekly schedule for exercise. And the fun of electric bike, for me, is that you could, yes, you can ride it all electric, never even hit the pedals. But for me, I can put it in this assist mode. Where, if I'm going up a hill, something like that, it kicks in, but because it kicks in right then, and then the rest of the time I pedal, it makes it just something I wanna do every day. And instead of it being something that's parked in a garage, something that's got clothes hanging on it, something like that, it's a part of a thing I do every week to get out and get exercise. So if you've been thinking about doing that for exercise, maybe running and those things a little hard on the joints, bicycling, you're like, yeah, I wanna do it, but I don't think I need to get out there and try to ride a regular bicycle for 20 mile, try an e-bike, they're so much fun. And the nice thing is you can ride to the edge of your ability, and then you can e-bike the whole way back, and not even touch the pedals. You're gonna love it, there's so many different types, so many people are using them, and there's a great selection, and somebody who knows them inside and out, at Adventure Earth Bicycles. That's my buddy, Clint Jameson. I want you to go see him, he's right at the, he's in midtown at Little Flower in Airport. Go see him online at venture-earth.com. But the most fun is to see him in person. So right there, it kind of can be cornered across from Bruce Chris. You'll see Adventure Earth Bicycles go in, they got 400 of the non-e-bikes, as well as the 75 plus e-bikes, all the equipment that goes with them, helmets, plus they do, they're a good old fashioned bike store too, so if you got bikes you need to get two nups and service done on them, they do that as well. Adventure Earth Bicycles go see them today. Right, from the text line here, Brandon earlier, Lisa had texted back in, shut your mouth, Brandon. So Lisa has the same kind of superstition about hurricanes than I do. Let's see, cowboy said, good afternoon, Sean. This is cowboy, another good show. Why are you talking about the pier, the brand new pier possibly being an omen for the storm, and your buddy's new addition, go ahead and throw in for good measure, the new restaurant on the Fair Hope Pier, and now you have a trifecta. See, so I know there's a lot of you that haven't chimed in on the text line, but Lisa, Brandon, cowboy, myself, we all speak the same language. You'll understand me, and I understand you. Jerry said, cut off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. You're saying that Trump should say that tonight? I don't, I think it's gotta be the economy, stupid, right? I don't think you're stupid. I'm doing the old Carville line. He's got to talk about, hey, were you better when I was president, were things better? Let's see, dirt taker says you kept prices by turning our country into a socialist government that is the new Democrats party. But what I'm telling, I don't care what your political affiliation with is, just look at the history of capping prices. I mean, Nixon did it, a Republican did it. It, it fails. It fails. Jason said, Sean asked the sheriff as a fine hour radio. I've yet to hear him dodge a question, and that's damn refreshing. He's a, you know, sheriff Burgess, regular guy. He'd ask him questions, and you know what? Jason in the past, when if he doesn't know something, well, I don't know, but I'll come back and get you the answer. Terry says what accent is Kamala using for the debate? I don't know. Well, we will, we'll see. And Joe suggests the Civic Center, while they're destroying it, maybe Joe says the Civic Center perfect spot for the gangbanger wannabes at the OK Corral. Ideal spot till it's torn down. Or maybe we tear it down while they're in there, Joe. What about that? Right, news is next. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. Right, welcome back, FMTalk1065 at Midday Mobile. I'd like to have you here on this Tuesday. It's like this man, like because he's on the air on Monday. He's on the air on Wednesday. So he figured out a way to get on the air on Tuesday as well. Which I love and I love it. That's my friend Tom Flax. Didn't good to see you, sir. I love it, I love it. Well, I did. You know, I already had my TV gig this morning, so. OK, fine. Then you just swam up with us in the radio world here. Of course, Tom, listen, Tom on Mondays with the car show, and it's got about Radio Network on Wednesdays. And speaking of veterans issue, congratulations, my friend. Veteran of the year, South Alabama Veterans Council. Hang on, I'm so horrible. I am so fired up for it. And what people don't understand, you hear Tom, he's a pretty public guy, does all kind of events. You hear him on the radio, but what you do behind the scenes. And I see there's so many veterans. You all serve your country, then you get back, and you continue serving. And ever since I've known you, that's all you do, is serve other veterans out there. Yes, sir, yes. And that doesn't go unnoticed. So congratulations, Veteran of the year. I like it. And, you know, I kind of-- Your highness? Ooh, no, sir. No, sir, just they'll come to ball trying to make a living. You know, but I love the veterans organizations. I love being a part of that industry, as we could call it. I really get disturbed with some of the things that I see happen over the last years, or like 20 years, that I've really been pushing veterans events since I've retired from my regular job. And I just see the need for somebody. I don't care who does somebody, just step up and do what they can when they see the need for a veteran or veteran organization or association. And, you know, in a lot of those areas, I can fulfill that, so-- And you're surfing, people don't-- maybe people realize it, maybe they don't-- the number of veterans that you start looking at, mobile in Baldwin County. But you go over to Northwest Florida, Southeast Mississippi. It's huge. We have probably from the figures that we can attain somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000. You're talking about a quarter of a million veterans that have access to this radio station. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It's just 76,000 right here in Mobile in Baldwin County. Hey, it's up. You look at that and you go, OK, there's certain things that are different for different veterans groups, but there are some things that underpin everything, right? Whether you're a veteran from, you know, Korean War, I'm sure, you know, say World War II, but we've lost almost all those men and women. But from World War II through to folks that are just back in the last couple of years, I mean, it's huge-- It's unbelievable. It's huge, right? There's maybe faces and long in the tooth faces. Oh, yes, well, you know, there's over, you know, about 5% of all of Americans have served as veterans. Yeah, but that's changing, right? So that's the thing that gets me too. And we've talked about it, and I am like y'all's token civilian around things, but-- You're awesome, and we appreciate what you do. But I come from family and friends that served, right? That connection, 5%, but it's getting-- If you start talking about the last 10 years, 20 years, there's a lot of people, a lot of people listening right now, a lot of people in this country that have no connection to a vet. We have vets that are not connected to vets. True, what I'm saying is like, but people in law, they don't know anybody, they're in their family served. And they, and I think that's a bad thing, because that disconnect, when you talk about veterans, I can't picture Tom Clackston. There's a person out there that doesn't have a Tom Clackston, who doesn't have a grandfather or father. Right, amen, you know. But then we have to stop to realize that between 1776 and today, we have had 1,200,000 veterans, patriots, give their lives, fighting for the freedom of this country. I'll think about that number. A million, 200,000, that's deaths. That doesn't even touch the figures for injured and wounded. And I mean, we're talking about 20, 30 million of our vets that are living that are wounded and hurt and harmed from being out there serving the country. They're giving 99% so we can have our 1% of our freedom. But what worries me in these things is why it's so important that folks like you and Tom Clackston surround the country keep pushing these things is that I think the danger is with the volunteer military and production and troop numbers that there won't be those people that have that heart connection to a veteran. We're seeing that. Yeah, but you can see it in Washington. You can see it. They're like, they know there's veterans, but they don't know any. Well, we're not teaching history anymore, Sean. I mean, the guy-- But you know who teaches history is when it's your brother or your dad or your mother or your grandfather or your best friend from high school that served. You have a different appreciation of civilian. I'll give you an example. We do an event called the folding of the flag. It's 13 volts to the flag. There's a history in every phone. And when we go out as the P.O. Wilson Detachment and Marine Corps League. And we present you on a guard and present the colors and fire the rifles for an event. And then we give the flag folding ceremony. It never fails. All you have to do is look around in the audience. And they finally realize what that flag really stands for and all of the history and passion that goes into that. And there's tears everywhere. And those-- And those flags in our homes think about that-- Hey, man. But if you've never had-- if you've never been given one of those folded flags, you don't know how to respect it. Now, listen, we do another show about the fact that how many Americans know how to fold the flag properly. Oh, yeah. Boy Scouts saw this set. But always count numbers are way reduced. It's viewed far between now. Few and far between. And we're going to talk about the car event coming up. But before that as well, going on today in Montgomery. Oh, I'm pissed to the max. Excuse my French. But we just lost $7.2 million. This is what we're talking about. $7.4 million for a personality conflict. What he's talking about is going to go into. This is what we talked about. From last week, when Governor if he asked Admiral Davis to step down his head of the Alabama Department of Veterans and then John Kilpatrick, local guy with that-- I know that, I'm going to remove both of them bits. Move from the board and this over. And I'm trying to navigate this whole thing, how this happened. Because this was very ungovernor I feel like. I mean, it was how she-- I haven't seen her do this very often. She was very aggressive with that removal. And to me, there's a lot of smoke there. So where's the fire? Well, you know, one of the reasons she's doing this, is she's trying to put out the fire and destroy the Admiral. Because he's filed a suit against the Ethics Committee. And the Ethics Committee looked at it. So a conversation with Todd-- we've been talking about this on this issue for a while. And I talked to Todd Stacy yesterday. He said the filing went to the Ethics Committee, they denied it. The problem is our Ethics Committee in Alabama has ethical challenges, at least at the head. So he leads it to question. But then he went on to say, well, there were these things that Admiral Davis was doing that were in violation of the ARPA money. And I'm trying to dig into it. Was it-- he didn't know it? Because you could make the case that they-- oh, well, he was doing this and trying to get over. Or did he not know? I can do things. We have to have an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission here, because there's things that-- Right. So we don't know everything. But it was big-- how is it so big that the first step from the governor's office is to fire the Admiral? Right. And you know, and she-- And because of that, $7 million that would have gone to veterans goes into the bigger Alabama mental health. You know, here's a personal opinion. This is not factual. And I can't-- Not factual or not-- Here's what I'm seeing as a vet. OK. And I was in Montgomery about six weeks or so ago when the Admiral presented his budget and all to the legislation as to what he had spent more the money had gone and thing. John Kilpatrick is a mobile veteran here. He's in the National Guard. He's 12-year Marine. I saw the deed for helping our veterans, which we all see. So he felt like we need to have a place where we can detox our vets from drugs and our alcohol. And we didn't have anything within a couple hundred miles of mobile. So he steps up, he steps up, and he builds this facility. There are some people that are jealous of that. They're afraid that he's going to take their business. So these people have pocket-- deep pockets, because they're-- they are paid for profit. They're not a 501(c). You know, like I off it is, and John's off it is. So when they saw the competition coming, they started with their people in Montgomery. And they started fighting it. And they got into them deep enough that they got the money cut. The money was allocated. It was allocated. They had decided where it was going. The Admiral was just trying to finish that. But you know, so what does it feel like, because now they're some, a few, maybe more than that, of legislators from around the state. A couple of legislators that have stepped up and said the governor was within her rights to-- I hope they enjoy what left-- they got a new job to have. There's 400,000 veterans in the state of Alabama. 400,000 votes. And they have families. How many of those families are going to follow their vests? At the meeting going on today, I know South Alabama Veterans Council well represented. Do you know of other groups like y'all from elsewhere in the state? I mean-- They didn't have their meeting today. They canceled it. They can't cancel it. OK. Yeah, because we were sending a bus. Yeah, that's what we talked about yesterday. So the bus did not go. We didn't send a bus, because they canceled a meeting, and now they didn't have a vote. So we now expect the governor to appoint a replacement for the admiral. And this is what we've got to watch. She's either going to work with the Veterans Commission that appointed him. She didn't appoint him. The veteran's going to appoint him. But she can put people on the board. But she can override that and put somebody-- Well, she can take everybody off the board and put-- Right, she can put one of our cronies in this position. So we're just going to stand by to see what the hell's going on. And we're all really disturbed and perturbed. I know you'll be. I'm talking about this more, of course, on Scuva, but-- Oh, you damn right. Tomorrow night. Excuse me, my friend. The Marines speak full. I'm always worried for the FCC fine. I know, baby. Just tell them to get in line. There's other people who act there with them. I know too many Marines. It always makes me nervous when the mics are on. I know it. I guess I shouldn't. I'm scared I might lose my job on the show. That does not do that. And you can't do that now as this year's veteran of the year for the South Alabama Veterans Council. If you just join us talking to Tom Clackston. A couple of things I want to add on here, too. You get your other passion, other than our veterans and United States military, or these car things. Well, these car things are the vehicles thing. I see a need. I see a need. Here we are. We're veterans. We're Marines. We have our own organization that was given the right to do it through legislation. We're the only ones that has that right now through the legislation. So we have prepared ourselves to take care of ourselves. That's what Marines do. But being here in the mobility area, and all we see the need for all of the other veterans, and that they're not able to get the things and get the emergency monies, maybe to pay the rent. Maybe they've got bed bugs in their trailer, and they're getting a little senility there, and they don't know what's going on. So somebody has to take over and get that cleared away, and have the fumigation and all done change. Do it in other words, at least, buddy, to do that. And you need money to put him in a motel? Where's that money coming from? Us, you know, from veterans, in veterans' organization. So how do you raise that money? So to do that, we have to have barbecue sales. We have smoked butt sales. Which are some fine smoke butts, by the way. And then we-- so I said, we need more money, because there's so many other things we can do. So I had the vision to go ahead and do a car show, because I'm 50 years in automotive industry. And I knew how to do that. So we made that work. Now we're into our third year. And this Saturday, the gates will be open at 0,700. That's 7 o'clock. But we'll secure it at 1,400. That's 2 o'clock, OK? I had problems with that and walking to the end. And the TV anchor this morning, channeled 10, about 10. I said, a million times it's 2 o'clock, OK? But anyway, so we can derive some revenue from that. And that being said, we're going to put-- Yeah, we're going to go ahead and see the car show. And it's going to be at the US, this Alabama battleship. You and I are so familiar with it. By being able to have our remotes on the battleship, in the bowels of the battleship, as you say. But we're having our show over there. And we're actually going to disperse probably $4,000, $4,500 to $5,000 to some of these 501(c) units. Excellent. So quilt's a valor. Do you understand how people understand what they do? And what a gracious move that is. The Oakland Cemetery, where they're looking for veterans out there in that cemetery. We didn't know there was any there. We found 1,200. And we're only 10 acres into 22 acres late late. Tom, how many? 1,200 vets in that cemetery. They cover World War II. They cover Korean War. They cover in Oakland and Vietnam. Nobody knew these guys. They didn't accept the families. And they didn't know where they were at. You couldn't find them. There's so many trees and brush, you know. Just growing over and growing up. Yeah. So they got to have money to do that. Said it doesn't-- the other place people don't come up with that money. So vets have to take care of vets, brother. So that's what we're trying to do. And we'd derive some revenue from our car show. We have a hell of a vent so that people could really have a good time. We're really promoting the jeeps and having a jeep bash on the bay. Can you believe, I mean, 50 years in this, you believe how popular jeeps are now? And they would love to have the one I had when I was in the Marine Corps in 1956. I'd probably love to have that one as well. So I mean, is it just older cars? What are we going to say today? It's a normal car show with trucks and classic cars. We actually have some awards for cars all the way back to 1920, and even 1920s to 1930s, 1930s to 1940s, and right on up to 2024. But then we have the jeeps or our separate identity. They have their own coverage there. And they also have their own trophies. And the trophies that we designed for the cars are unbelievable. OK, let's do this. Run to the news, you hang out-- Go ahead, bro. Go to the news, come right back. And car show coming up this Saturday at the battleship. My buddy, I'm proud of him, even if he wasn't his highness now, but he's his highness veteran of the year, Tom Plaxon. We'll be right back in minutes. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. At 154 FMTalk1065. Midday Mobile, glad to have you here on this Tuesday. Check in with my buddy. Blame Price at Paris Tractor in Robertsdale. Blame it seems like things are popping here on the rental side. Hey, they are, Sean. With this storm coming in to the Gulf, it's got people on high alert. And I already have some guys picking up some skid steers with grapples on them. This morning, headed west for after the storm makes landfall over there. So you've got that big equipment. You've also just for a second here. We know the guy that they can quit me, Tom, that skid steers. But you've got stuff for just the homeowner to rent as well. Absolutely. So we've got a little bit of everything. We've got small stand-on skid steers to get the four-foot gates going in the backyard. So if you've got a little project over the weekend that's trying to knock out in the backyard, can't do it all by hand, we've got that smaller equipment that will help you get into these small areas in some of these neighborhoods around Baldwin County. Also, are you still doing-- I mean, hunting season's here, man. Are you still got the deals going on the L series? We've still got the deals on the L series. You buy the L series tractor with at least two implements. It can be any two implements. A bush hog, a biz, a box blade, a set of forks. Any two implements qualify for it. But we're going to throw in a free 7 by 20 trailer to kind of form up that package deal. And it all qualifies for zero-interest finance and big kaboto right now. All right, you're looking for equipment to rent or buy. Talk to my buddy, Blaine. How do they find you? Well, right here at Parris Tract in the middle of Robert's down Highway 59, we're here Monday through Friday, 8 to 5, Saturday's, 8 till noon. Or you can give us a call at 251-947-4171. Thank you, Blaine. Thank you, Sean. All right, there goes Blaine Price. He's the-- well, those orange tractors are over in Robert'sdale at Parris Tractor. Couple more minutes with my friend and veteran of the year, Tom Klassen, host of the Car Show and Scuttlebutt Radio Network, and got a car show coming. This is the money that y'all raised. When is the next-- when are we doing butts again, too? We don't get cracked off. I don't think we're going to do anything about it till the end of the year. I think y'all, they do some great Boston butts. It's wild. You know, we cooked fish to 100 at a time. We've built some awesome smokers. Yeah, it's real good meat. It's awesome, yeah? But Car Show's coming up, so yeah. He said from 7 to 2. It's going to be-- you know, the gates will open at 7 o'clock for spectators, and all of the ratios will start coming in there and ratios. My bad. I mean, I'm a race judge. Great. Because it's not having them racing them around. It's a car show, not a race show. Yeah, well, we might be doing some dodas in the parking lot. What the hell? But anyway, some jeeps in there. The cars will start coming in at 0600 to get in so they can start registering. But then we'll be out of there by 2 o'clock. We've got some presentations. We'll 0800. That's 8 o'clock. We'll have-- Tardy, you quite sure. Well, you, I, you civilians are. Yeah, that's right. But we will have a presentation of colors. We'll also have an awesome lady there to see the National Anthem. Awesome. And we'll get our self-underweight. At 10 o'clock, we'll present some, I think, six or seven quilts of valor. One of our servicemen there, and you'll enjoy this one, is Danny, eight-year-old Navy guy. And he was driving the LSTs. It was bringing the Marines on board on the ground in Okinawa. And guess what was laying off shore firing big rounds in there and softed up Okinawa? The USS Alabama. Mighty A? Yes, the Mighty A. And he goes over there at least once a year, and he tells his son, I'll be back after a while. And he goes and walks around the ship. He doesn't. They don't know what he does. But I doubt that the gentleman is getting his head cleared from remembering Okinawa in '42, '43, so. Beautiful story. He still has the Alabama to do that on now. Car show on Saturday, Tom, back on there, tomorrow night for scuttling button radio network. Congratulations, my friend. It is well deserved. Thank you, sir. I'm still humble for it, and I'm so proud to be in that group of gentlemen. I'm proud just to know a bunch of y'all. All right, Paul Fonbaum, show on the way next. We'll do it all again tomorrow.