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Midday Mobile - State Representative Chip Brown joins the show to discuss the 9-11 Anniversary and the latest from Montgomery - Wednesday, September 11, 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. 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 1065. 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 beer we got? I mean, the beer we got drank pretty good, don't it? Did you hear what I said? So this is a bad 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 ****. But here we go, FM Talk 10065. Midday Mobile, hour number two on this Wednesday. Glad to have you all along. Phone number, the same as it was last hour and it's been for 15 years. 343, 0106, three, four, three, 0106. Plus, if you use the FM Talk 10065 app, you can leave us one of those talkback messages. All right. Also getting a notice here from Commissioner Doett, Mobile County Commissioner Doett said all county offices will be closed tomorrow. All right. Speaking of it. So there's some overlay here because I'm thinking about the Commissioner Doett and his district in Mobile County. And then from a state perspective, district 105 last on the charts, first in our hearts, representative Chip Brown joining us as well. So what do you go? I mean, you're hearing anything. You're doing anything different in 105 with whatever we're going to get from Francine. Oh, there we go. I got to press that button. And there he is. Chip Brown. Hey, hey. So, yeah. So it's your, I mean, I just mentioned I got a note here from County Commissioner Doett said the county offices would be closed tomorrow and thinking about his district. And there's some overlay with 105 and district three there. Anything you're hearing from your perspective from a state rep here, anything for I don't think this could be amount to much, but for Francine. No, you know, I mean, Dauphin Island started having issues last night with flooding on the West End. And, you know, we expect flooding on the causeway going into Dauphin Island. And of course, that's one of the reasons why, you know, Commissioner Doett has actually taken the lead on that and does such a great job along with, you know, Commissioner Chris Blankenship that we're fortunate to have at apartment conservation and widening that causeway going into Dauphin Island. So we don't have such a problem with storm surge that we, you know, we've had in the past of cutting the island off. And so, you know, there'll be flooding there. And then of course, you got to worry about places like bottle battery that are low flying with flooding, some flooding there coming up out of the bayou. And then foul river has problems with rivers rising. But, you know, I think we're going to be in good shape with this. It's just a part of living down here on the coast. I mean, it's we're used to bad thunderstorms and high winds and, you know, just tire stuff down and hope for the best. Yeah, get your, you know, it's good. My garden was really, really dry. So it's getting watered down. So I'm happy. See if you take the silver line in there. It's a good thing. It's part of life. You're right. Yeah, actually one of my neighbors was put inside down this morning. I thought, man, that is smart. Oh, they are so lucky. There's so, okay. Well played neighbor, well, well played, well done. I want to talk with you about here. But as we, as we get started to today, it's, you know, I thought about this, how the world has changed since 9/11. And be personally how the world's changed. But it is, I don't know if it went exponential or logarithmic after 9/11. But for so many folks like you, it was a big part of your life. It was. I still remember pretty much every moment of that day. You know, I was watching it live on TV, watching Fox News and saw him break live and, you know, say a plane and hit the building. And I said, oh, you know, I yelled at my wife and said, hey, a plane just hit the world trade center. And she said, oh, it's terrorists. I said, well, I don't know, because I remember World War II, reading in World War II, a bomber hit the Empire State Building. And then we were both watching live TV on the second plane hit. And yeah, that really, you know, one thing it did do was bring the country together. And I remember going down to the cathedral downtown to a special mass and prayer service. And it was standing remotely. And people were out the door and into Cathedral Square. And, you know, it unified the country because it was such a shocking event. And that thing is it'll happen again. I mean, we've got so many illegals in the country, illegal immigrants in the country right now that many of them are on a terrorist watch list. And, you know, President Trump is right. Countries like Venezuela, they emptied their jails and sent their worst of the worst here. And so it's just a matter of time. It'll happen again. It's sad to say that. And I hope it doesn't. I hope I'm wrong. But, you know, it will. And, but not 11 transformed a lot of people's lives. I mean, you know, I ended up, you signed up. I mean, you're like so many of my contemporaries that you signed up. I mean, you signed up, you know, your National Guard that went to Iraq. Well, the, I was, yeah, I listened to, I was listening to the radio. Actually, they said 35. And I was 32 at the time. And my father retired as a colonel in the National Guard. My mother-in-law retired as a colonel in the Army Reserve. And so I walked from a watch and said, this is something I really feel like I need to do. And I went and, you know, within been about two weeks, three weeks, I was actually on a plane to Fort Steel, Oklahoma to do basic training. And I ended up serving in the National Guard. And we deployed. Originally, we were going to commit our order change. And I ended up with US Central Command. And we ended up in, I was in Qatar and Doha. And then they transferred back here. And I worked with a private satellite company doing satellite work in Atlanta. And then I'd had an injury. And so they put me out as a disabled veteran. And I ended up going to Afghanistan twice. Your stories of that that we've done on the show are amazing, amazing. I mean, your time as just, you know, the things you saw in Afghanistan, where you were there in the perspective you've given us over that is amazing. Well, it's definitely, you know, unless you've seen it, it's hard to comprehend. And it's, I think if you see, if you see war, you see hatred, you see poverty, you see all these things in other countries, I think it makes you more grateful for what you have here. I mean, we truly do live in the greatest country in the world, in the greatest country in the history of the world. And it should be a beacon of freedom, a beacon of hope. And we just have to make sure that we protect it. And so when I hear people criticize the United States as just a country and the people that live here, it, you know, it's just graceful to me. I mean, it's the old adage of love it or leave it. You know, it's, it's, it's sad to me. It's sad because we really do have greatness in the United States. We just, a lot of times we take it for granted. And with that, you know, to transition to now and just in the, just recent time here in the last legislative session, the bill you carried here that, that was ensuring mental health needs for veterans. That in our state that we were living up to that. So talk about that bill that you, you took in the house here. I think it was Senator Jones bill in the Senate. Talk about what did that, what did that bill say? Well, one thing we've never really had in Alabama is we've never had a true comprehensive plan of how to treat our veterans regarding mental health and substance and alcohol abuse as far as a state plan of where we are, where we need to go. There was an effort to do that in 2020. The governor, the governor put together a task force to look into it and, you know, nothing really came out of that. And so we looked at that and we, we also, that's recovery and mobile and so did others and have been down there several times. And, you know, what they're doing there at Best Recovery is, it's great work. I mean, it's phenomenal. And so I started really doing a lot of digging and talking to mental health. People involved in mental health on the veteran side and then talking to veterans and, you know, the federal VA. I'm enrolled in the federal VA and I occasionally go down there and get eye exams and that sort of thing. But it's, you know, there's so many, it is a, it's backlogged, it's, you know, it could take months to get in and you have people that have, you need mental health treatment, you need it right away. And, and I think it's important too that you look at issues like veterans treating veterans, you know, if you, because it's a different perspective than regular mental health, you know, your average civilian can talk to someone that, you know, has never seen that, has never been involved in, in, you know, experiences with the military, whereas a veteran, a fellow veteran has more trust with that veteran that's, you know, in a crisis. And so we need to look at that sort of stuff. And so the VA really, it's just, it's failed. And so as a state, we have to look at that. And so we introduced a bill that originally the original plan was to have it come under the state Department of Veterans Affairs and mental health would be, Department of Mental Health would be more an advisory role. But as we went along, that, that wasn't going to work. And for several reasons, one, because the state Veterans Affairs didn't have the resources in regards to, to individuals to be able to, to do that work, you know, I mean, there are, there are private entities out there that can do it. But so, so we had to shift. And so it's now what we were able to do is we put together a steering committee that we had our first meeting two weeks ago with Montgomery and it's made up of some members of the legislature, but also individuals from different service groups that serve our veterans right now, as well as individuals like the Adjunct General of Alabama is on their, you know, mental health experts, those people that are truly involved right now in serving our veterans and in mental health and in substance and, you know, substance and addiction issues. And so the goal with that is to come out with a state plan, a comprehensive plan by April so that we can have a blueprint in a model with where we need to take Veterans mental health and substance and alcohol abuse. It's, it's something we've never had in the past. And so when you hear people say from the state that they're treating veterans, they're just lumping veterans in with everybody else and they don't need to. It's something separate. It's a totally different class. And we did something a couple of years ago as a legislature, we, we created a 988 phone number that if someone is experiencing a mental health crisis and they need to speak with someone that can call that 988 number and they'll get a veteran counselor on the phone that can talk to them about what they're going through and try to help them out with the suicidal issues. I mean, the end of the day, the whole goal here is to protect our state's veterans and provide them the help that they need. As you did that work, then how, how does what has happened here in the last, you know, I guess it's been going on for a while since early this summer, but it came to a head last week with Governor Ivy asking the head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, Admiral Davis to resign, removing John Copantrick you mentioned from the board. Your reaction to that? Well, I'm sad. It came to that. I mean, I think that, you know, the issue between the governor and between Admiral Davis was an ongoing issue. It wasn't something new. And in Montgomery circles, it was pretty widely known that there were conflicts, I think, personality-wise and leadership-wise. And, you know, Department of Veterans Affairs is unique in Montgomery in that it's a quasi-state agency in that it's not like a normal agency, like say, Department of Labor or, you know, economic community affairs or, you know, ADM, that any of those, that their director is appointed by the governor as part of the governor's cabinet, whereas the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the legislation that was created in the '40s, that that commissioner is actually chosen by a board that the board is selected from a pointees that are made by the service organizations, like the American Legion, military officers association, you know, BFW, that sort of thing. And so they all put their person up. The governor makes the, she approves the board appointees. And then the governor serves as the chairman of the board. And then that board is the one that selects the commissioner. And so truly, the commissioner is not really a member of the governor's cabinet officially. And so, one step removed. Right. It's unique. And so, you know, there were issues going back. I mean, it's widely known in Montgomery, like I said. And I think Admiral Davis did a very good job. You know, he was, he benefited from additional monies coming into the state, ARPA monies and, you know, the best word thing. But he did a great job as far as when you look at things like the veterans cemeteries, you know, the one in Spanish four. There's a, you know, the veterans homes. There's a new one that I believe the ribbon cutting was this week. The Benny Atkins home that's down in the wire grass, you know, ones in Bayman Ed and in North Alabama. I mean, so what happened? He did this. This was good. You talked about the ARPA money. But what happened where it is just a personality conflict over now. You have the governor's office saying that the money was, they risk all the ARPA money because the way it was being spent or wanted to be not being spent, but the way they wanted to spend it. I mean, would it help me understand what's going on here? Well, I think I think quite a bit of it had to do with management styles, but then also there were conflicts within Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies, particularly Department of Mental Health. And you have to have mental health. You have to have the Department of Mental Health. If you don't have the resources as an agency, which the veterans affairs does not have the resources, so you have to be able to work with other agencies. And I think that had a lot to do with it. I think there were conflicts between other agency heads and veterans affairs. And it's spilled over into you saw the ethics complaint that Admiral Davis filed against Director Boswell, a commissioner of the Department of Mental Health. And that's something that's never, to my knowledge, it's never been dying. I never had an agency head filing ethics complaint against another agency head. And I was dismissed. And I think that that along with the $7 million ARPA money, where we as a state almost missed out on being able to execute those funds. And I think that was kind of the last straw. And you know, the end of the day, I think I applaud Admiral Davis for a service to the state. But we got to look ahead. We got to focus on who's going to be that next commissioner? Who is it going to be? And did the veterans get coming out there and we just got a minute left here? But are the veterans in Alabama get short shrift on this? I don't think so. I don't think it's just unfortunately part of the process as far as, you know, like I said, Admiral Davis did a great job. And I thank him for a service. But it's end of the day, it's a job like any other job. And someone else will come along that may supersede what what Admiral Davis did. He may not. But it's just part of the process. And, you know, I think if we need to look at the veterans community, in particular, it needs to look at getting someone in there that is independent-minded, but that can't work with other agencies and could really go after federal funds to try to do some of these things statewide, like what we're working on with the mental health, the veterans, the mental health and substance abuse steering committees to really have a plan to move forward and try to help our state's veterans. Appreciate your time. Your insight on this and appreciate your service to our nation. I've signed up all those years ago. Representative Chip Brown, I come back and talk to us soon. I will. Thanks, Sean. All right. There goes District 105 for Chip Brown. We're coming right back more of Midday Mobile. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. 128 FM Talk 1065 Midday Mobile on this Wednesday heads up to this show on the road Friday and another one on the road Saturday. But we're going to the grounds for us old-timers like the Greater Gold State Fairgrounds, you know, the hip thing the grounds for the G and D farms outdoor expo excited about this. They've done the thing that I for the longest time said, you know, somebody ought to do. We don't need to have like a at the great boat show in the late, late winter, early spring. And then, you know, I think by the calendar, it's winter time. But for us, it's like springish and somebody needs to do one in the fall, like for more hunting stuff and all that. Well, my friends, Starla and Lee Davis out of G&D farms have done this. And it is Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the grounds. Midday Mobile, we will be live from the grounds from noon to two on Friday. Then Mike Ward and I, in person, you can combine throw stuff at Mike. Mike Ward and I will be doing FM Talk 1065 outdoors from a special time from 11 to noon on Saturday from our booth right there at the ground. So, it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday at the doors open 10 o'clock on each morning, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Doors open until nine Friday and nine Saturday closing at four on Sunday. Come on by, see us out there. We've got three days to do it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. All right, put that on your things to do for Friday list combined see Midday Mobile from the grounds. Coming right back, April brief vocal joins us. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. 135 to FM Talk 1065 Midday Mobile on this Wednesday. Glad to have you locked. Oh, and by the way, too, on the text line, Maxima said, "Hey, Sean, triple A." Those are going new to the show. I'm always abused at triple A every any holiday that comes up. They're like, "More Americans are traveling this and then filling the holiday than ever before." It's like, it's B-roll in TV. It's just something they pre-record, but from Maximus knows that it muses me. So he said, "Hey, Sean, triple A advises this will be the most heavily traveled hurricane in history." So there you go. Don't you know they're waiting at triple A to make some kind of, well, because of this, more Americans will be staying overnight at Atlanta Airport. All right, y'all say a lot of my buddy Ron at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. Ron, you still doing the sale on silver? Yes, we are. We have about a thousand ounces left. We had a whole lot of it in stock, and we're still selling that at $1.25 over spot. We have some hundred-off bars and some nice ten-off bars, and they're not generic. They're named brand bars, so get them all the last. We also have a new supply of zombie animals or one-ounce silver rounds with different designs that have been popular through the year, like a one-ounce Chinese panda. And then the artist changed the panda into a portable zombie panda. Wait a second. Wait a second. Ron? Ron? Go ahead. They're taking the adorable, lovable panda and making it a zombie version of the adorable, lovable panda? Yeah, you wouldn't think it's possible. It doesn't look adorable and lovable anymore, but I guess if you're a zombie, you might. That would be a movie that needs to be made about zombie pandas. I mean, there wouldn't be many of them. The movie would be over pretty fast, because they're almost extinct, but so these things are what we talk about. There's a precious metal value, and then y'all get these things that are pop culture collectibles that increase the value over what just the precious metal price would be, right? Yes, sir. Yeah, lots of that stuff. When we have more new supply of Batman, batarang coins in stock, there's all sorts of stuff that people want to stack, but they don't want to just do generic. They want to kind of mix it up with pop culture and regular. We have plenty of both in stock. All right. Well, tell folks how to come find you. We're located at 2204, government street in Midtown Mobile. They can find us on the web at mobilebaycoins.com or give us a call to 51725-1590. Hey, thank you, Ron. You're welcome, Sean. All right, there goes Ron, checking in from Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. And now she's joining us today. It's all right. People wonder where you were yesterday, but April Marie is with us today. I'd say media sensation, radio, print, mom, the house, person trying to avoid trees falling on her house. What else could I add to the list, April Marie? You know, actually, I want you to add zombie in front of all that because it really does. It's got a whole different vibe to it, right? Like you've got your cute panda and your zombie panda. You've got your cute commentator and your zombie commentator. I'm feeling kind of zombie-ish these days. All right. So zombie commentator, April Marie Focal, joining us now. So what did you give if you had to report card last night on the debate? What do you score double Trump's debate performance? What do you give him on his report, right? So I know that this is not a popular opinion with our side, but I feel like Donald Trump could have done better. I think he let him, he let her get under his skin, and she looked during some questions and some toward some tourist portions of the event. She looked no presidential. So I'm giving him a B plus and I'm giving her an A minus. So you're better than me. I gave him a C. I do not. And of course, in true Trump fashion, he's on the shows this morning, I thought I did the best after you, which I would have put people on their heels for a second. If you're Trump, I know it's not possible with his personality, but for him to say something last night, like, well, you know, this wasn't perfect. I could have done better. I'll do better next time. People wouldn't know what to do with that, but I thought it was a C. You're much more lenient of a greater than I am. Well, I think that he, but here's the problem that the standards are so low, generally speaking, that that if he only loses his temper and he only says the wrong thing and he only, he does that, then he can tie great it on the curbs because, you know, for him, he was pretty disciplined. And then for her, for her, she was way better than she normally is. She clearly got a lot of practice and rehearsal time, because there were moments and answers she gave where after she was done, I just sat there going, holy crap, if I didn't know any better, I think she had half a brain. Yeah. And of course, I mean, people go, well, that, you know, they fact checked Trump five times, her zero times. Okay. And I agree, I agree with that. I give, I give them the media gets an absolute F for the moderation of that event. That was absolute garbage. Tough thing is, on both sides, no matter who, if you're moderating something or an interview or actually, I saw, believe it or not, this will tell you that I think it's, it has some, some reason to talk about it because it's Danabash who said it. So not exactly, I'm not a cheerleader for Danabash, but she was being, she was on a podcast and they were asking her about the interview she did with, with Harrison Walls. And she did the thing where, she did ask some follow up questions, right? In that interview, and then they, they dodged those as well after a certain number. And I get this too, when I do interviews, people say, well, you never got them to answer the question. I said, asked them two times, three times. At a certain point, you know, it, you can't do anything about it. The people need to take from that. When she was asked the question about, is he, you know, are people better off now than they were under Donald Trump? She started off with saying, well, I'm a middle class child and I grew up, again, it was nothing to do. You know, and so, I mean, I don't know how many times you can follow up on that and say, please answer the question. You know, I don't know that Mira did that once, but there's a bunch of that last night. The question was asking, then she went off into something that she was comfortable in and coached up on. You know, one of the questions that really stood out, and it's the point where I watched it probably three or four times was, do you recall the worst day we're talking about Israel? And he, and she handled that question, and she, you actually, just her facial responses were better than I would have anticipated them being. Now, it's not just right. It will be absolutely horrific for Israel, for this woman to be in the Oval Office, because no one can or will take her seriously. But I did feel like on a couple of those foreign policy questions, she surprised me with measured responses. Yeah, it was moderate. But here, it, and, you know, used to be the formula, the people went left and right during primaries, moderated during a general. And the language from her, for example, for the Israel thing was moderated, but it's not like things she said about Israel were things that were 20 years ago. Like she tried to bring up things about Trump from 40 years ago. These are things she has said recently. I mean, it's in stark contrast to things she said while she's been on the campaign trail. That, that was, would have been one of the, you know, one of the SEC ref to throw a flag, yellow flags all over the field on that. One of the things that I thought was interesting was somebody had done a like fact check, and it was like Kamala versus Kamala, and it would be her an answer she gave last night versus the same question the way she answered it, you know, even three weeks ago that she just was, she was trained on these answers. She was rehearsed as if she hadn't been given a script, and she stuck to that script really well. And I think that that was a good thing for her. I think ultimately the ability for them to her team, her side, to put those on TV ads or on digital ads, that's going to be a plus for her. Now, did she win any undecided spots, right? There's a question. I don't think so. And I don't know, I don't know that either did. And I, you know, people say, well, there's no undecided voters. I still think there are, and they're the people that are just now paying attention to the fact that we have a presidential election coming up in November, right? They're just, they're, they've been doing whatever, uh, watching TikTok dance craze. And now they're like, Oh gosh, I got to get boned up for the, so I think those people, maybe that's the group. Cause a lot of people go, how could somebody not have an opinion one way or the other yet? Well, maybe they're due to the party. So I wonder what that looked like to them last night. That's what I was trying to picture. Yeah. And I think that last night, both candidate looks presidential, and that's surprising because Kamala just is not, there's no, there's no, like this, this woman has the ability to do this, but then again, I was surprised she had the ability to look that way. And he, her practice showed. Now, and Trump tried to be a little more disciplined, but he's so, he's strong. And I wonder how much I know that I've heard that debate prep is different for, for Trump than it is for pretty much anybody else, you know, what they, I'm sure they did. With Kamala Harris, actually, they have a person that I think looks like Trump, who dresses up in a suit and they do the practice with, I don't think that happens on the flip side for Trump, but they had to know they're going to throw out something. I mean, coming from what former President Obama said, the DNC about the size of the rallies and moved his hands small, they knew that that was a, and the Achilles heel for Trump. So I, Trump's got to be Trump, but somebody in his, somebody there, his team had to say, Hey, they're going to ask this. Don't, don't take the bait on this. Don't, don't get enough. My rally has this many people years. But he took the bait. He took the bait. I was like, God, dang it. If he, well, and that's the thing is Trump's vanity is his Achilles heel. And they know that. I mean, you look at, I, I, whenever I hear anybody talk about crowd, crowd size, I go back to that Sean Spicer, you know, very early on in the White House, first White House, you know, real press court thing. He, that was dominated for two weeks. They know that the size of the crowd matters to Trump. And, and they, they were able to push a couple buttons and get them flustered, and he was able to kind of go back and forth a little bit with the interrupting and try to make some jokes. But all in all, I don't think either of them screwed up to a point where it's going to change the needle. No one, no one was a superstar and no one screwed up really. Right. Do you think they either from fundraise? I mean, Harris campaigns had a heck of a run fundraising, but I've also pointed out is compressed, right? So the money that was on the sideline has come in where it has been coming in steadily for Trump for a lot longer. But do you think this is a bump for money for either campaign after last night? Or do you think all things are, you know, static? I think the thing that ends up changing from last night is the, the ever much anticipated Taylor Swift weighing in to endorse Kamala Harris because while I think it's absolutely absurd, I also realized that there is an entire generation of young people who will now get out and vote to make Taylor happy. I mean, the Harris campaign sold out of Taylor Swift's bracelet within the first couple of hours they had them online today. And I knew this happens. I just don't, I don't understand it. And I'm not saying it at my age now. I take myself in the time machine back to being in my twenties, right? A new voter out there and having a band I liked or an actor I liked. If I can still like their product without changing my belief system, people used to say, you like such and such actor and such such band. They're real liberal. I said, yeah, but I like their products. The song's really good. I don't, I'm not going to vote like they want me to vote. I just enjoy the song. But the people that will line up to do what a pop star tells them to do or actor is so different. Wow. It is, it is a cult. It is a, and I know this because I love this. If I were to walk into my 11 year old daughter's bedroom right now, you're going to find that she bought a record player so that she could buy Taylor Swift records. I'm looking, I'm literally walking in here. I see the remnants of her Taylor Swift Halloween costume. I see the guitar she started playing six months ago because she wanted to play the guitar like Taylor Swift. I see a stack of magazines, including two rolling stones. I don't know how I accidentally bought her two with Swift on the cover. This is a phenomenon unlike anything that I think has could impact politics. But this is, this is an 11 year old girl. You've got 18 to 30 year old girls who would jump off a cliff for Taylor Swift. And they very well might do it when they tell, she tells them to vote for Kamala Harris. Wow, wow, wow. A good insight from a mom of a, of a Swiftie, a non voting Swiftie, but a Swiftie indeed. People want to get in touch with you, continue this conversation. Where do they find you? At the best places on Twitter are X and it's APR, YL and ARIE. And hopefully I'll be doing some fill in shows for you next month. Yeah, there's a, no, the month after. The month after. Well, can I send you on vacation next month to? Yeah, I probably, I'll take that too. We'll work on it. April Green, thank you. I'll start filling up my calendar with vacation dates and get it back on soon. All right, we'll be right back more of midday mobile. Log in now for streaming shows, host bios, on demand forecasts, local national and global news, plus interactive polls and blogs. Get all of it online now at FMTalk1065.com. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. All right, so welcome back. 3430106 for the text line in the phone line. Could wrap it up by conversation about the debate. We can throw some more into the mix as well. Right now, I want to check in with my buddy, David McCreary from LCM MotorCars, who's on the road. And David, you're on the road, trying to get us inventory on financing, right? What are you doing? Well, this has been a travel week. So yesterday in Monday, I was in Tampa, Orlando, bought 16 new vehicles. They've already been delivered. And then this is a weird thing. I haven't done this this often, but we're in Memphis today meeting with one of our banks. And it's not one of the banks we borrow money from. It's one of the banks that loan our customers money. And they're trying to figure out what's a better way to do business for us and for our customers. So we're basically trying to make things better for everybody. I like it. So you're, I mean, you go where you need to go to get the vehicles that we need at home and off. Obviously, you're doing the same thing on the financing side. Yeah, I mean, not everybody can write a check or take cash for a car. So we're trying to find out the best way for them to get the best for their money when they do finance, because I mean, no interest rates aren't that great around the country right now. But we've somehow seemed to manage to keep our customers on buying and having affordable payments, and they own payments, which is a big deal for people. Well, it takes work like you're doing right now. So people can take benefit in that inventory and financing wise by coming to see you. Tell folks how to do that. We're at Highway 90 and Plantation in Theodore. It's one mile south of ITN. It's at 15A. You can give us a call at 251-3750068 or go to the website, lcmotorcourse.com. It's credit apps there, all the vehicles there. If you don't see a picture, call the guys. They'll send you a picture or do a FaceTime with you. Good stuff. David, thank you. All right, buddy. Have a good day. All right, you too. So it's on the road, David McCrary, with lcmotorcourse. All right, to the blog text, let me try to get the most of these before we wrap up today and go to Paul Feynbaum. Let's see. Darryl and Graham Bay said, "Shone, we took our grandkids to Waterville and Gulf Shores in August. Almost every person working there had a Caribbean accent. When we were leaving at the end of the day, all these people were waiting together to be picked up. Haitians? Not sure. Definitely not locals. I thought at a time it was unusual might make more sense now." Darryl, I don't know that. If you're bringing people in, Lord knows, Haiti is a place you want to leave. We had an update. What's barbecue doing? I thought about that when people talk about all the cooking of the animals, which the people clutching their pearls about eating ducks and geese. Now the pet things, but have at it. Beautiful, nice duck lorons or something like that. Come on. But I don't know, Darryl, if they're in this part of the state of Alabama. Somebody asked earlier, the ones working in like Albertville. I think it's a pilgrim's pride chicken plant there. So that's where somebody had asked me about that. License Commission is closed tomorrow. Owl County Office is also closed tomorrow for Mobile County. So thank you for the heads up there. Let's see here. My man Chris at Orange Beach said I have 30 gallons of fuel in the garage. I will not sleep without air conditioning. Yeah, I'm riding around right now, and I was actually just getting it for the lawn mower. But I'm riding around. I think people looking at me, because I'm riding around with a red can't red jug in the back of the truck, right? And people probably think I'm getting ready for the storm. I'm actually just got to put the more gas and lawn mower. Terry said how dare the Admiral report an ethical behavior in the Ivy Cabinet. Chip Brown did the Montgomery Montgomery two step. Otto seems to say something similar here. Sounds like Chip Brown doesn't want to PO me mall. Let's see. Summerdale Tony said the debate did not surprise me three versus one. And she had the questions up front to study. The same time Tony. I don't think I don't think Trump did his best work last night. I really don't. I mean, I guess, you know, if you want a raw raw show that's going to come on say he was the greatest has never been anything. I just don't think he did his best job. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be president. It just as a he could have done better. Let's see here. Thank you. Michael sent him a very dangerous storm pictures. He said that the wind was starting to pick up about 10 30th morning on Dauphin Island. But Michael, who has no concern for his children has his child out on the beach. And it looks like it's just not really very rough. It's danger run. Could you go over what's closing tomorrow from Mobile County? Got the news here. Here's what I got that the school system of the county public schools closing for tomorrow. The county offices closing for tomorrow got the license. The license commission office closing for tomorrow. Probably have an update here with WKRGs next newscast. If there are new things coming up that are closing, but those are the ones I had. This person, John said to so to answer Darryl, here you go, said they are Jamaican. A lot of them work at the beach for whatever reason because Jamaicans as a nationality, you talk about hustle. I don't know. I mean, this is anecdotal. I mean, obviously, I'm not aware of whatever Jamaican does, but the few Jamaicans that I've worked around and been around in my life, they're like, holy cow, we've got the hustle. I've got people saying that Jamaicans on. So there you go, Darryl. We answered that question before we ramped it up. Paul Finebaum on the way next, a reminder to speaking of Paul Finebaum. You've got the college pickum going on right now with the great prize from spring hallways hardware. We've got your chance to win $100 in meat from Mason Hills Farm coming up on Friday, plus we're going to talk some football on Friday as well with Dan and Dalton.