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Joseph Brennan stopped in to talk about Son Of A Sailor Fest- Jeff Poor talked about immigrants - Mobile Mornings - Wednesday 9-18-24
[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 from Dan and Dalton, if I'm talking 106.5. Hey, to the text line, by the way, 2513430106. What do you like on your cheeseburger? How do you like them? It's National Cheeseburger Day, so I'm sure there's deals out there to and fro for cheeseburger half price. You know what I'm coming around on? I was always very anti-raw onion on the burger. Never really liked onions. It actually used to be a thing in my family, where my dad would taunt me because I hated onions so much. So he'd hang him in front of my face and stuff like that. That's a mean thing. Well, it was all in good fun, but I've come around on raw onions. So yeah, like a good onions, pickles. Isn't it crazy that you didn't like them? Mm-hmm. And now you do like them. Like you taste change. I wonder how that happens. Well, he would always say to put hair on your chest, like so many men had told their children about a number of different foods over the years. Well, my dad would talk to me about that when I was eight or nine, but he was talking about a shot of gin. But go ahead. But yeah, I've come around on the on the old raw onions on the burger, pickle, cheese. Mushrooms? I do like mushrooms, but at some point, you know, you're overloading it. So you've got to pick, you've got to pick. It's like loading up a van, right? You can't just keep putting people in there. It can't be a clown van. It can't be a clown van. 28 people get out of it and say, well, you've got five seat belts. Yeah, so you have to decide, like do I want bacon or do I want mushrooms on here? Can't really do both. Don't need the bacon. I like bacon. I like cheeseburgers. Don't necessarily like them together. You think it's too much? I don't know, just together. I'm not pretty much room. You know, they built the, whenever the genius, I'm sure Nobel Prize, when it came up with these Swiss mushroom burger back 20 years ago, they threw it right down the middle to me. That's what I like. That's perfect, yeah. And it is perfect that National Cheeseburger Day is this week with some of the Sailor Fest coming up for us this weekend. Yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. So if you don't know about it till you will soon, and it's free, that's the main thing. It's going to be downtown. It's going to be Saturday. It's going to start around 11 o'clock at the Riverview Hotel. That's where the second line parade will begin. And last year, I swear there were 2,000 people in that parade. It was, it was, they had no idea really what was, what they were doing or whatever. They just knew Joseph and his friend, John, wanted to make sure that it had something happen, right? Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, Joseph, that was so smart of him, and not because he was trying to capitalize on this, but he saw how much folks around here, and really around the nation, love Jimmy Buffett. And he was thinking, you know what? We need to do something uplifting. We need to have fun in memory of Jimmy Buffett. He put that together last year. It ended up being a great success. So I'm looking forward to seeing that kind of carry through this year, this weekend, and then moving forward, because Jimmy Buffett certainly deserves that kind of praise coming right here in Mobile. He really does. And so he's gotten together with Lucy. Lucy can't be here, but I think Jimmy's, the niece is gonna be here and be on stage. Will Kimbro, who was part of Buffett's band, he's gonna be here performing. He just kind of on the lark just checked with Will, like, hey, is there any way? Because somebody was saying, no, he'll be booked. He'll have something going on that weekend. And he checked with him and Will said, "No, I got nothing going on that weekend. I'll be happy to be there." And then there's this, he could tell us more about it, but this band, that is the, I guess, the official Jimmy Buffett tribute band, if you will. Mm-hmm. So no cost, just chill, have a good time, and there'll be food trucks there, but if we'd have the food trucks at Cathedral Square, just get up and you can walk to any restaurant right around there anyway. There's plenty to eat there. That's awesome. Looking forward to talking with Joseph about that. A couple of texts, then we'll get into more serious matters like exploding pagers, city manager in Springfield, Ohio, now on video from six months ago, saying he has received folks in his community complaining about missing pets they believe were eaten, same city manager that ABC at the debate last week said disavowed any of those comments or that he said none of that was going on. We'll get to all of that, but a couple of texts here. Lauren, we were talking about business execs and owners and the higher ability of Gen Z workers, which is if you're born between 96 and 2010, your generation Z, Lauren says, "Completely agree. They do not last long at our office. We actually place bets on it and signs off elder millennial here." And same thing here with the onions. I actually tried a burger at a Braves game this past weekend and they always put all the stuff on it. It was life changing, but not a game changer for my Dodgers. Well, Lauren, I think your Dodgers will be just fine. Things aren't looking so great for the Atlanta Braves as we had towards the postseason. Traffic update, I-10 eastbound, a parking lot east of the Grand Bay exit. Thank you there, we'll have more on traffic later. John, by the way, John is with a braided river brewing, by the way, and that was Joseph's pal. So that's how they got that underway last year. That's a good little spot to head to. You're talking about this generation of kids. There are also, yesterday I visited the St. Paul's team, but we have them against Theodore on Friday night and was visiting with head coach and Barnett who have known him for many, I knew Hamone. He was a high school kid himself. And so I think the one thing is true though, there are still, within the generations of kids, there are still kids that make up the football team. That's a different, that's a different kind of kid. Right. I mean, when you are just as in generations past with doing these games on TV for 25 years now, I don't see a big difference in the kids themselves, because the kids on the football team are a certain kind of kid. The kids that would probably maybe more be willing to enlist in the armed forces or whatever, but they played together, they sacrificed together, they listened to the coach. I mean, all really good traits. So if you grow up in any generation and you're a certain type of person, maybe more of a loner, maybe somebody that doesn't have an interest in team sports, then maybe you're going to become somebody who is less of a good teammate on the job. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense to me. And I think, you know, actually, if you look at the pros now, and some of those are in a lot of college, I guess all the college athletes for most part, are Gen Zers. And you're right. I mean, so much of it depends on how you come up, who you're around, what kind of work you've been asked or have gone through during those developmental years. But I think with Gen Z, I mean, just think of those years, 96 through 2010. And when the internet became absolutely massive, which was, you could say, I think generally 99 through 06 was probably where we saw that massive expansion and availability to jump on the internet, better high-speed connections to where you can just jump around there, find different forums and things of that nature. And then of course now, we're on to a completely different level. But so many of these Gen Zers growing up, you've heard the term the loneliness epidemic, right? And maybe they leave school and don't see another person for the rest of the afternoon until they get back to school the next day. And maybe they're already a loner at school anyway, but they find refuge in the internet where you feel like you're connected, but you're really not. You're not getting that personal. And I've talked before about the good aspects of bullying. Now, obviously bullying, for the most part, is terrible. And there's been some awful bullies over the years, there's been some terrible things done. But general friend on friend, hey man, why are you dressed like that? You're not gonna get any chicks dressed like that. Or-- - That's just messing. - Yeah, messing with your buddies. A lot of that I think has kind of gone to the wayside, especially for people who don't really have those friends they're hanging out with between classes and outside of school. I think that's probably a pretty big part of this. But you also have, you know, and plenty of our listeners have talked about this. We've talked about it over the years. The participation trophy kind of aspect of this, and you have so many teachers and so many other, you know, leaders of young men and women who don't base awards or participation based off of merit. And it's a problem we're seeing in bureaucracies around the country as well, where, you know, everyone, everyone is getting the same amount of time. Everyone gets the same trophy, no matter how hard you work at it and no matter how much you study beforehand or practice beforehand, we're gonna make everything equal so no one leaves here upset. That's, I think, probably the biggest reason why so many of them are having trouble in the professional world out after school. - Well, DEI hands things to people, right? - Yeah, yeah. - Maybe the best for the job is not the one that gets the job. It's not like people around that person on the job don't realize that you've had a bad worker or a bad manager or a bad whatever, you can see that the hire was based on merit. - It's a check a box sometimes, yeah. - So, you know, and going back to when I left home, I was 19, moved to Athens, Georgia. You know, computers weren't a thing yet. It was really, really, really back in, you know, 1977. But the point is, I didn't like Newton. I went to the University of Georgia, yes, you know, part time, night school, this kind of thing, in and out. The point is, I didn't know anybody. So everything that I did from that moment on at 19 years of age in Athens, Georgia, 900 or 800 miles from where I was from, it all depended on me and my communication and my ability to do the job that was given to me. I mean, it was like jumping out of a plane. And I felt like I had to, I knew that there were skills I didn't have. I knew that, but I thought that I did have the skills to get to the skills. I had the skills to be able to, I could think clearly and I could probably operate around people okay, fake it if you want to say, you know, but it's almost like there are, there's memory. And maybe there were kids back then the same way, but there are aimless sheep out there among us. I think those are the ones they're getting talked about from this Gen Z in particular, the ones that really don't operate at the same level, the same capacity, just dealing with people and dealing with issues and dealing with problems. - Yeah, and self-confidence ties into that too, right? You think you might not ever be able to do it. - Yeah, I had to invent my own self-confidence. It wasn't there. - And of course, there's still a lot of fantastic parents who made great men and women out of Gen Ziers. And I think back, you know, I'm a millennial, technically. And a few things that suck with me from my parents over the years, one in particular where we were going out camping. St. Stephen's one time, I believe we were going to. And my parents were kind of running around getting everything ready on the campsite so we'd have a good chill weekend out there camping. And I remember my dad was just working his tail off, my mom was too, and I was kind of just standing there. And I was probably like, between eight and 12. And my mom was like, what are you doing standing there? You see your dad busting his butt over there. I'm running around, you got to be helpful. You got to do something. Don't just stand still. And then also over the years, my parents saying, be irreplaceable, wherever you are, do something where they say, I can't let this guy go. He's doing this, he's doing that. - And that's great advice. - And I brought up, you know, the internet and how it's affected Gen Z and a lot of these other generations. It's also affecting the parents of these people. There's a lot of parents who would rather get home, stick their nose in Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or look up recipes and instead of paying attention to their kid who might be doing the exact same thing, they're wrapped up in their own digital world. So you're not getting these kinds of connections and the parents saying, listen, if you want to be successful outside of this household, there's certain things you have to do or have to figure out how to do that. - That's right. - And a lot of Gen Z is missing out on that as well. That's a real interesting take right there about the parents themselves being wrapped up and they would rather be. - And then you create this canyon between you and your kids and you really don't know how to get it back or maybe you don't wish to even get it back because you're like doing your own thing. Yeah, be prepared, kids, but I love what your mom or dad told you about to be so-- - Be irreplaceable. - You're irreplaceable. - Both of them, man. - A lot of texts on Gen Z, some cheeseburger texts as well and we have to talk about these pagers in Lebanon yesterday. That's all on the way on Mobile Warnings. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Shout out to Dink on the text line and says, I'm sorry, I'm not talking about it. Tom in Athens, Georgia is a very young adult, I guess, in the text. - Athens Cool Town was just, he was just there racing at the fairgrounds. - Out of way, Dink. - All right, thanks for welcome back, Dink. Hope everything is well. - A lot of texts on the text line about a number of things, including the cheeseburgers in the National Cheeseburger Day. - Yeah, I have some fellow new raw onion fans. Was this one, I'm like, you don't know raw onions anyway, this is Rebecca texting this, as a child. Now as an adult, I love them, but save the bacon and eggs for breakfast, not on a cheeseburger. - Here you go. - Today National Cheeseburger Day. - There you go. - And some folks texting about what they like on their cheeseburger, also this Gen Z conversation. CB Carl says, I was brought up to be a self-starter. My grandparents always drilled it into my head to me to make myself useful. Then the people will find you to be indispensable. This texture is not just athletics, they provide the qualities you tie to football. No, certainly not. They say a band for one requires the same level of commitment, not everyone has the athletic ability required to be accepted on the average Alabama high school football team. We'll go to Clark Prep. This is really true for larger schools. - Take all the comers. - There's schools that will put you on the football team, I'll tell you that much. - Yes, I understand exactly what you're saying. There are plenty of things to get involved in. I think maybe the worst thing would be to just not have your child taking place in any kind of extracurricular activities, even if it's not involved with the school karate or gymnastics or something like that. But you have to have something, you have to have a routine. I think that's the main thing that some of these Gen Z years are missing for sure. - Yeah, so the study came out and a lot of people are. And then we get on the text line, but basically the study said exactly what? - Well, the Gen Z years are pretty much for the most part, not all of them, but they called him lazy, I think, and not great workers and a number of things in this poll we were discussing earlier. - Okay, did you see that David Muir, I didn't even know that he was the host of ABC's World News Tonight, which I believe is number one among the networks. - He's the main man for ABC, that's right. - So he did the, he was there at the co-moderated the debate with Trump and Kamala, and he's taken a hit. - Really? - So people did notice, I mean, I didn't notice it that much in the moment, you know, I don't know, but people were really offended by the way that Trump was treated as opposed to Kamala. And his news dropped 12% of viewership over the last week. - Yeah, and remember the fact-checking during that debate and how much heat ABC news got over fact-checking Trump, but not Kamala, and then you had Lindsey Davis who said, well, we couldn't just let his words hang there without being refuted. And they've continued to go after Trump advanced for what's been said about Springfield, Ohio. And the Haitian immigrants there, remember about 15 to 20,000 Haitian immigrants have been put into Springfield, Ohio, town that had 60,000 people just a few years ago. And so even yesterday, Kamala was talking with the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia, same thing that Trump did, a month ago, I believe. And she went back to that and she said, these racist tropes that Trump is trotting out about these poor people in Springfield, Ohio, and he's ruining that community with lies and this and that. And remember back in 2012, they said Mitt Romney and the Republicans wanted to put black people back in chains. That was, it's a common theme every two, every four years to say the Republican party, the party of racists, this and that, they keep going back to it. - Well, remember the ABC News Fact Check from Mirror on what Trump said about eating the animals in Springfield? - He brought the city manager. - He said that was ridiculous. - He said, that's a lie. The city manager says none of that's happening. Well, yesterday, video comes out from, I believe the same city manager. - Yeah. - I don't know if they've had a change in city management, but this was back in March at a Springfield City Commission meeting, and you have this manager talking about people in the town confiding in him, well, I'll let him say it. - Those are things that bring the domesticated animal in the neighborhood. You've had some stuff in the park that, again, they're being taken advantage of for reasons other than, and if you take your head, Brian. - No, no, I asked, I asked me if there was proof. I forget, I just don't have proof of anything. - If I have anything, people that have confided in me have asked me for anonymity. I'm not, I can't give their names up. - I mean, we haven't seen the proof that you're, and I've heard about it, yeah. - So, yeah, you have the commission there saying, where's the proof? And you have the same city manager who ABC News used during the debate as the fact check refute of Trump. - That's right. - And you have the same city manager in March saying, people have confided in me, people in this town, that animals are going missing. There's weird stuff going on in the park. And you had yesterday, Kamala Harris saying, these racist tropes, well, it's a fact that people in other countries eat things that people in other countries don't eat, and in Haiti, there's among the poorest nations, right? And sometimes they have to, just to survive, right? But they're using this to hit Trump advance, and there's a lot of truth to it, and there's a lot of people in Springfield, plenty of videos over the last week and a half, where you have residents there saying, no, this is happening, but more important than that, we're not set up as a small town to take in this many immigrants with such different ways of life than us. I mean, just look at, it's Silicaga, where they don't even have people there who could translate the Haitian Creole, and schools, and workplaces. It's creating problems for the citizens who are already there. - And that doesn't necessarily equate to racism because people are uncomfortable with their city, with so many people that they can't even communicate with among them. It is 8.30 FM talk, 106.5 talking about son of a sailor fast, we'll do that next. (upbeat music) - 8.34 FM talk, 106.5, mobile mornings, Wednesday style. And now it's time to head over to McConnell Automotive, where we talk with Louis Arrata. Hey, Louis. - How you good morning guys, how are you? - Man, we are doing great here, weather clearing up for us for the next week or so. It'd be a good time to take a ride in a new vehicle from McConnell Automotive. - Or a used one, we got plenty of 'em, both sides. - I mean, we're gonna have to get us a, she, we got to make a double decker out front. We got so many cars, man. We gotta check everything out online at McConnell Automotive, man, we got a great selection of 'em. We got low interest rates. We got great deals on new cars and used cars. I mean, we're here, we got a great service department, a great body shop, what else you want, one stop shop. - Yeah, it is a one stop shop, man. You guys are always so great with your customers. You make things as easy as possible on 'em. And it's not even bad waiting around in there. You got TVs everywhere to get that work done on your vehicle. So folks need to check it out. Also, the website's great too, Louis. - That's right, McConnell Automotive.com. We got a great website. Like you said, we got TVs everywhere. So you need a car, you're gonna shop on Saturday. We'll have all the football game zone. And you can have one by yourself if you don't wanna watch it with all the folks that are around here. - That's great, thank you, Louis. - Hey, thank y'all. Louis Radda, go see him at McConnell Automotive on Dolphin Street, just east of I-65, and the website, McConnellautomotive.com. - It is 836, FM Talk 10065, Mobile Mornings with Dan and Dalton, and my son Joseph Brennan. Good morning, Joe, man. - Aloha, fellas. Aloha, hey, so last year you had, you kind of describe what happened last year, what happened, and how all unfolded, and then we'll get around to the actual festival this year. - Yeah, so son of a sailor fest, which is on Saturday, you know, celebration of Jimmy Buffett. It started last year. When he died on September 1st, that morning of September 2nd, we saw the news, nobody, I mean, a lot of people came as a shock. Well, I mean, within a couple of hours, I was texting with my friends, John Killian at Braded River, blowhouse brass band, and you know, we're all kind of downtown guys, and we love Mardi Gras, and we love Mobile, and how we do things here. So we got to do something for Jimmy. So we just threw together a second line parade, got in touch with Grant at Mose Barbeque downtown, said, "Hey, can we do like a, you know, "party after the second line parade here "with some tribute musicians to Buffett?" He was down. Next thing you know, we had a parade permit, put it on Facebook. We had 3,600 people show up from as far as Chicago, Miami, San Antonio. I mean, it was like a pilgrimage. You know, I keep describing it, and you know, parochial school educators might not like this, but you know, it's like the Camino de Santiago, like of Jimmy Buffett. You got it, you got to go on this pilgrimage, and part of that is Mobile. - Yeah, it's hometown. - Yeah, and when the people from out of town were fascinated by Mobile. - Oh, I mean, it became such a great way to expose people to our city, and how, you know, weeks can easily kind of take it for granted, but this is a beautiful place, and we have a really unique, rich, beautiful culture here, laid back Gulf Coast style, and a lot of people came down here, and they were like, they'd never even, I mean, I hate to say it to some people, I hadn't heard of it, you know? And it came down there, like, this is awesome. We love downtown, we love Mobile Bay, and yeah. - Yeah, and you know, I didn't really, I mean, I didn't really think about it till now, but last year to let people know about this, you came on our station, on TV, but I imagine with these parrot heads, and there's so many of them, and they've traveled for Buffett concerts forever. They've been to every, I imagine the forums, or wherever they congregate online, we're just, you know, on fire with this news, you're gonna have this, but those who were actually able to travel from far away, and love Jimmy Buffett so much, may be able to add like another connection to this man who they'd listened to forever. Maybe they've been to, you know, San Antonio to watch a show, or Miami, or Atlanta, but to actually come to where Jimmy Buffett grew up, and probably another connection they hadn't been able to make at that point. - Yeah, you've been talking to me about that. It's in their eyes, it's all like a sacred ground. - Yeah. - Because they're parrot heads, and they never came to Mobile, but when they did, and I think when they came to Mobile and saw him being honored in that way, that's what really got him. - Yeah, and I think, you know, we, it all kind of made sense. When you come here, and there's a second line parade for Jimmy, and it's part of our culture, and you see kind of the beach vibe we have here, this kind of New Orleans meets the beach. I think a lot of these parrot heads, they said, I get it now. I get how Jimmy Buffett could come from a place like this. And so, again, this year, we're doing that even more, especially for people from out of town, where they can come and really connect with his roots here. But more than that, you know, even if you're not like a parrot head, we're celebrating what he embodied, which is like Gulf Coast culture. We love it, we talk about it. We don't exactly live it up as much as he did. So he's sort of our patron saint. Gulf Coast culture, having a good time, and this festival is really just a platform to broadcast. You know, our culture down here by the water. - Yeah, and you're right, Buffett was so, I mean, he was it. - He was it. If you could bottle up that kind of Gulf Coast vibe and live it every day, he did it. - Yeah, and how many people were you expecting to show up last year? And were you surprised at how many did show up? - I mean, look, I'm notoriously, well, first of all, I'm bad at numbers in general, you know, I can't count above 10, probably. I don't even know if I can, but 11. - Oh, that's it, yeah. But I mean, last year, I put on the parade, sorry, mobile PD, but you guys were amazing and we love you. I put 100 people on the parade permit. 3,600 showed up. This year we're-- - You should have been jailing. - I should have been arrested. But they had a great time. The central precincts did an incredible job. Thank you, Captain Garrett. Yeah, so this year, you know, we're expecting, if not more, you know, I mean, a big crowd. - Yeah. - And so the difference between this event and that event, now it's city sanctioned. - Yeah, so the mobile, the visit mobile's gotten involved, so they've helped you with funding and that kind of thing for-- - We've got a-- - What? - Well, we've got a lot of great partners with this. Visit Mobile, Downtown Alliance, the City of Mobile, Mobile County, just to name a few. And yeah, if I could just kind of describe what is going on this year, as opposed to last year, this is a free downtown music festival in Cathedral Square, kicked off with a second line parade, just like last year. At 11.15, when the second line kicks off and then at noon in Cathedral Square, it's music all day. And we're gonna have the streets, Kontai and Dauphin Street blocked, and that the block of Dauphin with heroes to load a beer garden, that will just, that will be pedestrian only. It'll be like a midway at a fair, you know, you can be at Cathedral Square and then freely go over, grab a go drink from cocktail from debris or heroes or halis, and then come back over. - Should you bring your own chairs? - Yeah, you know, I think that's a great idea. Bring some, you know, bring a bag chair, prepare to, you know, be comfortable. - Yeah, consider it all a day event. - Yeah, consider it a day at the beach, bring a chair, it's a free event, it's a Alabama by week, the weather's looking great. We're gonna have some food trucks down there, island routes, smoking gringos, so we're gonna have Caribbean, Mexican, shaved ice, ice cream food truck. This is a family friendly event. I think, you know, why not, come on down. And the music is gonna be incredible. If I could talk about, please, please, please, yeah. First of all, our headliner, starting at 5.30. Well, first of all, you need to get there the whole day. 'Cause at, I guess I'll start at the beginning. We have blowhouse brass band leading the second line. It's kicking off at 11.15, starting at the Riverview Plaza Hotel. If anyone was there last year, that's where we started last year. - Right. - They're gonna have an outdoor bar set up. We're starting our day early. - Yeah. - Get there at like 10, 10.30, you know, meet up with your friends, and then 11.15, we're striking up the band. Blowhouse will bring us all the way to Cathedral Square, down Dauphin Street. They'll take the stage. They might even have some buffet up their sleeves, that they've got some horn arrangements for, which will be really interesting. - Nice, nice. - Right after that, we've got street folks, which is a Troprock Act from Mobile. They've been, they've kind of emerged as this like, really great Troprock bands playing it all over Mobile Bay. So they're gonna kick off the day with good vibes. After that, speaking of vibes from Jamaica and Pensacola, Florida, we have Vi by Rhee. They are a reggae, incredible reggae band. They've opened for the whalers. - Wow. - And I mean, talk about, you know, you got a drink in your hand, you got reggae music. - I mean-- - You got sunny skies. - Sunny skies. - 89 degrees. - Yeah. - So then-- - You're waiting on Alabama to beat the hell out of Georgia. - Right, next week. - Next week. - Next week. - Yeah, there is no Alabama, let me repeat. There's no Alabama game. As if that wasn't enough. After Vi by Rhee, we have Will Kimbro from Mobile. A lot of people know Will, incredible musician, incredible songwriter. He has written and performed on every Buffett album for the last 20 years. He goes, I mean, his relationship with Jimmy is huge and intimate and they work together closely for the last 20 years. His set is gonna be really special. He's gonna play his music, music he wrote with Jimmy and each in between songs telling stories of what it was like to work with him. Stories nobody's heard before. - Yeah, that's awesome. - And yeah, so if you're a fan, you don't wanna miss that. And then to cap it off with A1A, the Jimmy Buffett Coral Reef Retribute Show. I think this kind of, you know, makes the point pretty clear. They filled in for the Coral Reefers. So the Coral Reefers couldn't make it to a show. Jimmy called this band. - Wow. - They are. - That's an endorsement right there. - If you can't make it to a Coral Reefer, Jimmy Buffett Coral Reefer Show, this is it. So they're gonna be putting on a great two hour show. I mean, this is like electrifying show. 13-piece band, horn section. That'll be at 5.30. - Wow. - So, and if you're playing on being there all day, which why not, is you have this whole day stacked full with awesome acts and good times. I mean, obviously you need to take your usual things like if you were going to a festival, maybe make sure you have some water, make sure you've got something comfy with you. Stay cool. But what kind of dress code are we talking about here, Joseph? - I mean, Hawaiian shirts is like the minimum. If you know parent heads, it's like Mardi Gras. You know, I mean, elaborate costumes are encouraged. We're having a costume contest on stage. During the day, you gotta get that competitive spirit. Get some kind of crazy head piece. Think of a costume. Last year we had some people dressed up as cheeseburgers and a kosher pickle and, you know, all sorts of crazy costumes. So you have to have the flip flops. Flip flops. I mean, okay, so if you're not gonna do a costume, which we really think you should, dress comfortably. - Yeah. - It's a day at the beach. It's a VIP experience too. And so everything is free, but if you want to be a VIP, that's a different level. - Yeah. And I really, I can't say enough about this VIP experience. If you want to put your cares away, not worry about, you know, food, drink, anything, do the VIP experience. - Very important. Parrot head. - Very important pirate. - Pirate. - Okay. - Parrot head is good too. Yeah, so Saturday, during the day, thanks to our friends at Corona, all the Corona you want. - That's the coolest sentence I've ever heard. - I know, right? - Thanks to our friends at Corona. - Yeah. Yeah, thanks to our friends at Corona. We have the Corona Cabana. It'll be our VIP, hospitality tent. You got shade, you've got food. Thanks to Mose Barbecue, you've got Corona, you've got water. I mean, what more do you want? There's one more do you need really? We're gonna have some yard games, some corn hall. You got a front row zone only for the VIPs. - Nice. - So you can just go get a beer, walk up to the front row, walk back. You don't have to worry about pushing through people. We've got our private portallets, so don't be waiting in line. These are the portallets just for VIPs. Transportation downtown, you've got a shuttle. If you're saying, "Hey, I want to do it up right, "stay at a hotel." We've got a shuttle, thanks to Gulf Coast, trolley tours going from hotel to Cathedral Square. - Wow. - I didn't know bad a lot. - I mean, so the value really, I mean, if you really want a big, you know, "Hey, let's not worry about anything, "I stay downtown, let's do the VIP." And maybe the coolest part is Friday night VIP welcome party. It's at the Admiral Hotel, which by the way, if you haven't seen the new activated Admiral. - I haven't been there yet, I think it's beautiful. - Yeah. - Here's what's special about it. Jimmy Buffett, when he was starting out 1969, 23 years old, he got his first following playing at the Admiral's Corner, the bar at the Admiral Hotel. And now we're bringing it all back, we're having our welcome party there. And the coolest thing is we're having a talk and Q&A with product sound studios. The studio that recorded his first album in 1969, they're gonna be there, they'll be telling stories, Q&A. If you're a fan, you can't get closer to his story than being in the room with the guys that recorded him when he was 23 and nobody knew him. - That's amazing. - Yeah, so that's-- - That's so cool. - That's Milton Brown? - Milton Brown, and a lot of people know John Ed Thompson as Mobius Weatherman, he has a long history in songwriting and he ran the studio with Milton. So that's gonna, of course, be cocktails, beer, wine, hors d'oeuvres, good times, and connecting with his roots. So really, that welcome party's gonna be something special. - And that's for the VIP, so if you click the VIP tab, you'll be able to access all of that and make the deal, right? - SOS-fest.com, go to the VIP page and you'll see all those perks again and then you can easily get your passes. Yeah, and also, we have some Buffets, some of the family gonna be at that party. So again, if you're a fan and you wanna have the best weekend possible, the VIP is the way to go. - Yeah, sounds like it. - Dude, you did it. I mean, this year, this sounds amazing. I mean, to start this last year, the way you did, and that was such a success, I can't even imagine what things are gonna look like Saturday and Friday night for those VIPs, that's great. - And I love that the way that's gonna be great and it's the last day of summer, which is pretty ironic. - Right, yeah, after Nomical Calendar, Saturday's the last day of summer. So I think that's pretty perfect. - It is perfect, man. Great work on that. You and John both and all the factions that are involved, but I know that's a lot of the rest of it on you, so way to go. - Thanks. - So Friday, of course, I'll be doing football then Saturday. I'm yours all day, for sure. - Yeah. - That's looking forward to it. - Yeah. Again, go to Sonobasaler. - Yeah, SOS. - SOS-Fest.com, okay? - All right. - Gonna talk with Jeff Port, I believe. Find out what's going on with his show. Right around the corner, I'm Mobile Monix now. (upbeat music) - Good morning from Dan Doulton, FM Talk 10065 at 855 on Mobile Monix with the Jeff Port show on the way next. - It certainly is on the way next and joining us as he does every Wednesday, Jeff Port on the line. Hey, Jeff. - Hey, guys, how are you? - Doing pretty good. We got a little work on your line. It sounds a little staticy there, but we'll try to get that all we're getting. Tell us who's on the show, what's the discussion going to be all about today? - From the album, a policy is to talk to Stephanie Holden Smith. She'll be with us at the nine o'clock hour, ten o'clock hour, Joey Clark from News Talk 93.1 every Wednesday and then we'll wrap it all up with our Senior United States Senator, Tommy Tuberville. - Jeff, I'd love to, something we haven't discussed with you yet. I know you've been talking about it quite a bit and that's all this discussion around Haitian immigrants and being placed in small towns, normally blue-collar towns that have lost a lot of industry over the years and Springfield, Ohio, of course, taking the bulk of that conversation, especially after the debate last week. You guys have been reporting on Solacaga and some other towns here in Alabama who are dealing with a similar situation, albeit much fewer Haitian immigrants than Springfield. What do you think the national boots on the ground view is on this? I know what the media is saying about Trump advance. I know what Kamala Harris is saying, but Vance is saying, hey, we're bringing attention to a serious problem that's more serious than what's being eaten in these towns, but how these towns and workers are being replaced, what do you think the average voter thinks of all this? I mean, well, we can start with the whole idea about an alien culture coming in. I mean, even you could include just this belief that people's pets are getting eaten. I mean, you know, whether it's true or not, I think that's the perception out there. That this is something coming into our culture here. We were sitting here in Solacaga, making blue-bell ice cream and watching Andy Griffith reruns and all of a sudden you bestow upon us this burden that we don't know how to deal with at a lot of cities, a lot of places in America see that. It's like, well, I don't want that happening here. What do we do? And it comes like, so the theory out there, just kind of talking to people around this situation in D.C., why would they, why would all this be happening right now in the middle of a presidential election? She's very inopportune, right? Why would you give Donald Trump, Mr. Broderwall, a layup here? And so, what it appears to be going on, guys, is they're facing that January 20th deadline and the idea that, you know, Biden won't be president anymore. They gotta hurry up and get some of these Haitian migrants resettled, and that's what it looks like is going on here. Man, man, man, so much to discuss. But we are out of time, so we're gonna put our traps on ice. - It's up to Jeff now. - It's up to Jeff. Have a great show, Jeff. - Hey, thanks for having me on. - Yeah, I'm looking forward to that conversation with Senator Teverville as well. - Jeff Porsche on the way next. Mobile mornings, we'll be back tomorrow morning at six. - Every four years, politicians make promises of a better life, but we all know a better life of freedom can only be found on a bicycle at a venture earth bicycles. The best bike shop is the largest selection of bicycles. We have over 75 e-bikes and 400 bikes in stock. Our experienced techs can service most e-bike brands starting with tubes and tires 'til full overall. 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