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Midday Mobile - Running Red Lights - Monday, September 16, 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. Baby, that's why 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 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 great 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 ****. Right. We go FM Talk 1065 bid day mobile hour number two on this Monday. Glad to have you here. And it was a great time. See so many of y'all at the G&D Farms Outdoor Expo Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sort of thinking about this too. So Bayacopa, what happens is I get in an event like that. I'm doing the radio show and interviewing people on Friday. And I'm surrounded by outdoor stuff. So I'm like, if you took a Hunter Biden and Robert Downey, Jr. and put him in a cocaine factory, I was distracted. OK, with the outdoor stuff going on. So didn't do all the things I was supposed to do, but I'm correcting it. So today, and I was hanging out eating some great food with my buddy, Joey Mason from Mason Hills Farm on Saturday, reminded me that I didn't give y'all the chance to win the $100 gift certificate on Friday. So coming up this hour, your chance to win $100 gift certificate from Mason Hills Farm so you can get the meat for this weekend's cookout. Watching football, he's got a great selection online, or you can go in person and see him with the shop there, which is beautiful. We'll give you a chance this hour to do it. And also, speaking of being at the grounds for the G&D Farms Outdoor Expo, told folks each day to drop their names in that bucket. The FM Talk 10065 logoed bucket with the rope handle and the little throw handle on the bottom and all that, like next level bucket stuff. And we did that. So each day we collected names here and we've done the drawing here through the very scientific method, which was, so my friend Celeste having a basket full of these names, and then I reached in and grabbed without looking and grabbed a name and pulled them out. So our winner is here for the buckets. There's three of y'all, and we'll give the names here and give your names. And then we'll call you as well. If you're not listening right now and you can come by here and pick up your buckets. But if you're listening, I call us at 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6 to collect your bucket, Steve Steele, congratulations, Ben Wolf, congratulations, and Gerald McDonald, congratulations. Y'all all won FM Talk 10065 logoed buckets and we'll get in contact with you. Or if you heard your name, just give us a call at 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6. And you can stop on by the studio and pick up your bucket. So there you go. But yes, your chance to win Mason Hills Farm coming up this hour as well. Listen, I was so out of it doing the outdoor stuff. So into that that I didn't even put in my picks for college pick them. Although I've been doing so poorly this year, but it may not even matter. I'll pick it up this week and try to try to make it up. All right, a lot of text here. I want to get to. Yeah, before we do, okay, we'll come back to the text on do it. Read this story because this is something that's been something I've been watching for months and months and months. And we mentioned to you many times on the show and maybe, maybe there's something to, uh, finality, maybe not finality, but there's more news on it. So Reuters reporting this morning, a Pakistani man has, uh, they said, pleads not guilty to us assassination plot charges. Remember, I told you that the Iranians and heck, the FBI came out and said, Hey, by the way, I mean, made made the news for like a day or two. And then people seem to forget it that the FBI said, uh, we've got an Iranian assassin in the country, uh, trying to take out Trump, trying to take out Pompeo, trying to take out John Bolton. Remember that? Okay. So here, here's the story to this morning to the Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran, pled not guilty or pleaded to the new word. They use pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from the alleged plot to assassinate American politicians in retaliation for the killing of Iran's Revolutionary Guard's top commander, Qasam Soleimani. I'll see if merchant, uh, 46 entered his plea to one count of attempting to commit terrorism across national boundaries and one count of murder for hire at a hearing before us magistrate, judge Robert Levy in Brooklyn. The judge ordered that merchant be detained, uh, detained pending trial. I think that's probably a good choice. Let's not have him out on bond. Uh, federal prosecutors say merchant spent time in Iran before traveling to the United States to recruit people for the plot. Hmm. Okay. Merchant told a confidential informant that he also planned to steal documents from one target and organize protests in the United States, the defendant named Donald Trump as a potential target, but had not conceived the scheme as a plan how to assassinate the former president. According to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of everybody with me and an imity court papers do not name the alleged targets and know it, but the FBI did Reuters. The court papers don't, but the FBI said this, uh, said no attacks were made as the president Trump had, as president Trump had in 2020 approve the drone strike on Soleimani. I'll point out too, if you want to look at presidents that have approved drone strikes, right? If that's the, if that's, I mean, starts with, you know, Bush, but he goes straight into Obama did the same thing, right? Then afterwards, I'm sure Biden has done the same thing. So says there are no suggestions that merchant, and I don't know about Biden, but I know, I do know Bush and Obama and Trump all did. So there are no suggestions that merchant was tied to an apparent assassination attempt on Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday or a separate shooting of the Republican presidential candidate at a rally in Pennsylvania in July. Uh, merchant was arrested in Texas. Okay. So this is, this goes once again, we had, I'm not saying one ties with the other. I hope they're researching it. I hope they're investigating. I'm sure they are, but you have a, the FBI told us months and months and months ago, hey, we've got an Iranian, uh, asset here, right? Who's looking to recruit people to assassinate these, uh, these night Trump being one of them. It's like, I thought I asked that question when Pompeo came to speak. I think he spoke at the University of Mobile and my buddy, Dan Brennan was doing MC work before he left. I said, by the way, do know that there's that name is on this list of people to be assassinated, um, said Iran's mission to the United, uh, United Nations said back in August that the modus operandi described in merchant's court papers, ran contrary to Tehran's policy of, quote, legally prosecuting the murder of General Soleimani and quote. So there you go. So just, uh, piece of news out today, after what happened yesterday, something that was just, just kind of rolled out there. All right. Um, this is, uh, Chris and Orange beat says, because I don't watch social, because I don't watch social media. I was, however, watching football on Fox and CBS, along with 60 minutes last night and did not hear about Trump until this morning. Amazing. So, and I heard about it, here's some, Chris, you'll, you'll understand this. Uh, I heard it about it at about the ships. I was about the ships when I brought the phone out of the airplane mode back into trying to get a cell signal, uh, because we were way off short, like fools, because by the way, I think it was supposed to be one foot or less yesterday, I can guarantee you and I have photo documentation. It was not one foot or less yesterday. Um, but coming back in, that's when I first heard it. And Chris, it's interesting too, the way it was spun, because looking at my text and getting a call from an important arbiter of information, my mother, um, mother said, you know, they tried to, they, they tried to take out Trump again. They tried to kill Trump again, then talking to friends of mine that were, uh, not really engaged in news. They said, Oh, I thought I heard something about it. Something happened. Somebody was on the golf course or something. And then Ferdinand, who is left said, Oh, it sounds like the, uh, the Trump campaign is trying to make, uh, you know, something over this, but there's some guy in the area that might have had a gun. So it was interesting how it dribbled out, right? So Chris, like folks like you not seeing anything, no breaking in for it, which give me a break. Somebody tried to assassinate a presidential candidate, let alone a former president. You should have, you should have the cut ins. You should have the cut. You know, the way, or do the picture in picture, you always hear like folks in TV, probably are not along with me here. Cause I've heard y'all stories that like get a golf match on or something like that. And you have to cut in because there's a dang tornado bearing down on the place or something like that. And people, I can't believe you cut in the golf match to do that. Uh, but Chris, I heard the same thing that that now Fox news was covering the cable news, but the mainstream networks, I don't think we're doing it. And Fox news was doing it, but they didn't cut into the game on Fox. So it is, it is on a, we had a place where an attempted assassination or a setup. I don't know how you call this. The last one with dirt bag in Butler, Pennsylvania, that's an attempted, that's an attempted assassination. I pulled the trigger trying to kill the guy. This a, they said they're going after him for gun charges. But I mean, what else was he doing there? And you can look at the, at least we think we're going to be able to hear from this guy, what he was thinking. So it's a attempt on an attempted assassination. Um, but it's interesting how the information came out. You know, some people here, there needs to be somebody who just breaks in without an angle on it and saying, here's what just happened. Here are the facts we know, right? We're getting that today, but yesterday, um, we'll get into the, yeah, see, several of y'all want to talk about this, uh, red light deal. It says, David said, would it be unconstitutional revenue generation for the city to have such screwed up traffic lights, especially along the airport, Boulevard breach, and then send out a bunch of police officers to enforce traffic, enforce traffic light laws. Well, we'll get to that. It's not exactly just that. I'll read the story. Uh, Michael said, how about the city of Mobile fix the stupid red lights on airport or the, uh, retarded ones on university at the south entrances, that trip without cars even being present before they try to enforce stupid red lights is there incompetence is causing people to treat their stupid intersections as stop signs. Well, okay, here's the story, here's the story. So, uh, this is from, uh, WPMI, so NBC 15 and, uh, says this on Tuesday. That'd be tomorrow on Tuesday, September 17th and on Wednesday, September 18th, Mobile Police Department officers will be conducting an enforcement operation focusing on traffic lights and failure to register violations. The mission of this quote, red light blitz end quote is to ensure motorists are operating their vehicles in a safe and responsible manner when passing through intersections during the operation officers will also ensure their vehicles are properly registered and insured over these two days. Officers will monitor major intersections throughout the city of Mobile. So they did, you know, I don't know which major, probably guess which major intersections, but back to those texts there. This is, and I am not just calling things stupid or what I'm from the bottom of my heart. I've mentioned this to folks, you know, that are in law enforcement. Of course, this is going to have to come from city government, but the situation on airport Boulevard, I know there might be others that fit into this, but I'm just, for me, this is the one I drive every day and I live out past the airport and drive to our studios here at airport in 65 and the sinking with them. And I'm no traffic engineer, I'm just, you know, I'm just me. Um, it's really messed up and I'm for public safety. And I think there is a public safety argument to be made here that this is, this is not good and you could say, well, people shouldn't speed. I agree, I agree, but we're also not living in a Pollyanna world. And when you have the lights to where somebody cannot leave one light driving speed limit or even a touch over the speed limit, they can't leave one light on airport and I'm saying airport, there may be others that fit this and make at least one of the next two lights, then there's a, well, it looks like Daytona. When the light does go green, people are going very fast in an attempt to just not get stopped at every light. That is for major intersections, also very frustrating on some of these smaller roads that come in, the north south roads coming in across airport that stopped people and they sit there and, you know, I've talked about it coming in early to the station or late in the evening when there's just not a lot of traffic and to sit there and watch a whole light cycle that takes, it seems to me, takes as much time as it does during the day with nobody crossing there. But yeah, it's leading to people speeding. And I think that's the problem, right? So that leads to dangerous situations. People run on the red lights. That's dangerous. People speeding on airport. That's dangerous. But in their an easier way, I mean, all law enforcement can do is enforce laws, right? So they're enforcing the laws that are there. So it's not on them. It's on legislative bodies and executive branch bodies to look in this and say, are we doing the best thing here on, maybe they can come on it. I would love any traffic engineer wants to come on and tell me, please, come on. Just contact me. I'll get you on the show. Couldn't we do a better job of having a system where if somebody is traveling, you know, a major, major road like airport, that they could drive at the speed limit or, you know, touch above the speed limit that they could drive the speed limit and make a couple of the next lights instead of stopping it every single light on a road, once again, not defending if you're speeding. You're running red lights. You're breaking laws. And that's what law enforcement's there to do to enforce laws. But let's look at the law. Let's look at not even the law. Let's just look at the engineering of those lights and the sinking of those lights. Are we doing the best job and get plenty of text to get to when we get back at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, you put yours in as well. Same phone number. Be right back. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk one oh six five. Right one 24 FM Talk one oh six five. Bit day mobile on this Monday, let's get the week started to check it in with Ron at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry, getting an update on precious metals and a lot more. Hey, Ron, are you doing good? So and we'll also talk about the fractional silver. We were talking about last week. What about prices just overall? How would we do from last week to this week? Yeah, silver and gold. I lost you there. Let's see if we get you back on. That's now that was unfortunate. Whatever happened. Can you only get run back on for me since we're dropped him? He had some good things to say. I'm sure so we'll get back to it and see if you all can get him on. Then we'll we'll pick him up later on. All right, to the text line. Let's see here. Let's see. T-t-t-t-t. Gosh, I got to go back some distance here. All right. Grant said, Sean, who uses an AK for a 400-yard shot? No one trained or an ignorant individual. Yeah, I mean, the round can do it. And with the scope, obviously, I mean, Grant, you could you could dial it in. But I did think about that. The number of people using semi-automatic rifles for these things when, you know, I don't get a kind of a Cobb discussion here, but you'd have been better with some sort of other rifle round, right? And a scope on there that balances for for distance, parallax. OK, Ron, OK, good. Ron, I don't know what happened. I'm sorry, man, you're telling me you're about to break the news about what's going on this week with Golden Silver prices. Yeah, Golden Silver are both up. A lot of people feel that that's going to cut interest rates and are still, you know, a lot of need to be there for about the economy and all the stuff that went on over the weekend affected the two. So Golden Silver were up, not really sharply up. The gold is almost 2,600 ounce just a hair underneath. Silver is trading just over 31 an ounce. So both are up over last week, quite a bit. OK, you mentioned fractional. Last week, how does this work? Well, fractional gold is going to cost a little more premium than higher gold, but it's all relevant because when it comes time to sell, you'll get more. We'll pay you more for the fractional gold. You can go anywhere from one gram and anything small to gram is pretty much useless. But a gram and higher all decent investment points, but the best is a one outside. But not everybody can afford it. A lot of people would buy one 10,000 gold and then we get 10 of them to come trade it in, get their ounce of gold and we'll pay them the premium that they had basically paid. So they get, you know, some of their money back on that premium. So it's a good way for people to get an ounce of gold without having to come up with that money. All of one shot. OK, you also mentioned last week and I still I can't believe I go back to this because I don't understand the desire, but it's, but I do know it's a thing for these zombie coins. You'd run through these. You said you're getting a new shipment of beautiful, cute, cuddly animals that have been turned into zombies like pandas. Yes, they just walked in the door and the new shipment. So we have all silver and we bought some copper. Not everybody could afford silver. We had the youngsters coming in that wish they could own them. So they did have copper versions that are much, much more affordable. If you really like the design, the first three are out. It's a panda, the taco turtle, and the other one is a zombie horse. So cool looking zombie stuff. And it's by the same people that did the zombie buck back 10 years ago, they're starting a new series. So very cool. All right, tell folks how to find you. We're looking at 2204, Gumman Street in Midtown Mobile. They can find us on the web at mobile, bait coins.com. For this, give us a call 2517251590. Hey, thanks, Ron. Welcome, Sean. All right, there he goes, Ron at Mobile Bay coins and find jewelry, home of the zombie coins. I don't zombie animal coins. You get to be a movie in there, right? So the few pandas left in the world go zombie and they start chasing everybody. But you can't shoot them because they're, you know, they're a threatened species or endangered species. So then what do you do? There's a movie for you. All right, more from the text line. Dirt diggers said, how about stopping these drivers smoking all this weed on the road? Yeah, you know, the up and smoke program is up there through. Sheriff's department, I don't know. How you ever, you know, how many cars would you have to stop dirt digger? Really, you know, that's, it's ridiculous. Right? I've been talking about it for a couple of years now. You pull up and I'm not just, it's not even a thing against weed. If I, if I pulled up at traffic lights and could smell a big scent of jack and Coke pouring from vehicles to it. So, you know, those people are probably not abiding by the law. They're driving while they're doing a drug. But you're right. I mean, dirt digger, it's, it's, there's not, I don't think there's a day. I drive through our fair city that I'm not, you know, and it's not even like, I'm not like, oh, that got weed. I don't care. I care that you're doing it and driving though. Aidan Sichtenell said didn't Mayor Stimson get on the air about a year ago and Bragg about having the lights synchronized. I think he discussed that, Aidan. Yes. And I've something that I think reminded folks about. All right. Okay. Here's backstrap stacker. He knows airport and this is. This is, should I say, because this is real world stuff and that, no, that's what we deal with on the show. He said, if you can jump that next light, you can say 15 minutes from university to the interstate. If you catch one, you catch them all. It's true. What backstrap is saying, this is the, and that leads to less public safety. So the traffic lights were there to ensure public safety. But the way they're set right now, human behavior. Because of this fact that it takes you another 15 minutes to go that distance, people are all in butt out there. I mean, it's just true. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk one oh six five. One thirty five FM talk one of six five midday mobile getting to those. Many texts coming in of this operation red light program. For so, let's talk vehicles with my man, David McCraury LCM motor cars and inventory on a Monday. How you looking really good. We've got, you know, everything that we've most everything we've still missed in a couple, but most everything that we bought last week's here out front and ready to go. So if you're looking for anything, I mean, we've got cars, trucks, got a lot of nice trucks, small SUVs. And we did buy a 12 passenger bus. It should be here today or more. Yeah, that's something I'm glad you brought that up because over the years, you point out that you get, you know, the vehicles that most people think about. All right, he's got SUVs, he's got trucks, he got cars, but you get, I mean, you get box trucks, you get vans, you get flatbeds, you get all that stuff in. We do like, like we talked about before, I mean, when we're at the auction walk around, we see something we like, we know what our customer base is. We go just kind of gravitate towards that vehicle and these buses and whatnot. We've done good with it. We sell them to churches and, you know, different organizations and try to make sure they're nice and safe. And this is one of the big bubblebacks with this kind of handicap door. It doesn't have a handicap ramp in it, but it does have a handicap door. So that's why I want to put a ramp and if they could, it's really nice. So if somebody that I'm sure there's somebody listening there, go, that's what we need for our church or our group. So how do they find you, how they check it out, how they get in touch? We're at Highway 90 and Plantation in Theodore. It's one mile south of ITN exit 15-8. You can call at 251-375-0068 or go to the website, lcmotorcars.com. Thanks, David. Have a good evening. Hey, you too. There goes David McCreary from LCM MotorCars. And yeah, he always gets like, I mean, there's a regular inventory, but then he has cool stuff. I mean, he's had like cherry pickers and the flatbeds and the box trucks and all that on the lot. All right, to the text line here, all right. And so backstrap stacker had said a little formula here. If you can jump and put that in quotes, the next light, you can say 15 minutes from university to the interstate. If you catch one, you catch them all. And that, you know, I know there's got to the idea that you would catch every light. You know, your life would be green lights all the time is, is not realistic. But what's happened on the airport and probably other roads, time at airport, is that what backstrap laid out. If you're you're doing what you're supposed to do, you hit every light. There's got there's got to be something. I know they got this program where they're I don't think it was airport. I think it was other roads and mobile. They were putting the cameras and monitoring the lights and trying to tweak them to make them better. I think there's a federal grant for that. That's off the top of my head. If I have it wrong, I'm sorry, maybe a state grant. I think it was federal grant. Yeah, let's try airport on that one too. All right, Nick. Nick B said, I just sat on Hillcrest, a cottage hill for almost 10 minutes. The turn lanes to cottage hill activated, but the straightaways did not set through two cycles. And the cars were backed up a half mile each direction on Hillcrest. Yeah, I'm sure like I do this. I'm sure this is a problem of the roads. So yeah, you can line them up here. I'm just thinking about the one that I'm just cried about what affects me. Paul said the same things going on here in Gulf shores on 59 with the traffic lights. It once again, the idea that you catch every light, everything's be perfect. No, but it'd be one out of three, two out of three, something like that. You know, it'd be Chris says, it ain't rocket science. Rocket science is what got the traffic backed up. Keep it simple, stupid. Oh, OK, beforehand, he said, it's like over here, how we 59 going to the beach. So just like Nick talked about, no, not Nick, just like Paul talked about. Chris says the same thing. It's just like over here on highway 59 going to the beach. They need to turn them all north and south green for 10 minutes and all east and west green for five minutes and let the traffic roll. And they said it ain't rocket science. Let's see. So kind of says, OK, here we go. See, this is that these are the stories, hopefully, if the traffic engineers would listen or just go monitor our text line, I'll. Cut and paste these and send them to the traffic monitors. This is how it's affecting regular people. Kana says, I used to be able to catch green lights all the way from Hillcrest to Florida on airport running slightly over the speed limit on the way to Murphy. But that's been a long time ago. I just try to avoid airport these days. I'm doing some of that when I remember to. I hate to say what I'm where I'm going because then every, but, you know, they're doing some improvements on Ziggler, right? And so if you got to go west, it may be worth you. Uh, taking the time to have to go north or south to where you go because your east and west flows a little better. Although soon as I said that, it's probably going to be. Be messed up. Um, let's see. And, uh, Grant says, so, so Nick, you can hear that Grant says, my truck always tries to overheated Hillcrest. It's ridiculous. So that's where the, so you got Hillcrest has got issues. Seems like 59's got issues and maybe it's more complicated than it seems to us. Right? But I just think if you, if we're doing this, it goes back. If you're just doing this, the story came up, uh, announcement for the Mobile Police Department, but, uh, the story over at mind, BC 15 says Mobile PD announces red light blitz traffic enforcement operation. It says, so tomorrow. And I'm paraphrasing their story, but put it in cell of unease tomorrow and Wednesday, uh, MPD is going to be conducting enforcement operation, focusing on traffic light and failure to register violation. The mission of the red light blitz is to ensure motorists are operating their vehicles in a safe and responsible manner when passing through the intersections. Once again, I go back to this, I agree. First of all, law enforcement is doing what they're supposed to do. It's in their name, law enforcement. So, and people running red lights is a deadly thing on stop signs. Red light is a deadly thing. I think one of the side parts we're talking about is the, the speeds people may not run red lights, but the speeds they're running to try to catch the next one or a couple of the next ones. It said, uh, so MPD is going to be making sure the vehicles are safe and responsible manner passing through intersections during the operation officers will also ensure vehicles are properly registered and insured over the two days. Officers will monitor major intersections throughout the city of Mobile. So the, I mean, I think there's no question that it's a good thing to have law enforcement, making sure people aren't running red lights. I mean, that's how people get killed. But at the same time, so that law enforcement doing that, enforcing the law that's on the books, hey, uh, other branches of government, can we work on sinking these lights better? Is there, is there any room to adjust there to make it work better? Bill says why in the world would police tell when they will end the enforcement of cars stopping at red lights? Why wouldn't they want drivers to always fear getting a ticket? Well, you can, they're always, they're always build. They're always going to be running that. I mean, they're always going to be enforcing that. I think in this, it's when they get grant money or whatever, and they do a super saturation of certain places. Yeah. Earl says the same thing. I'm with both of y'all. We've said at what point is it legal to run a red light? It is not. So, uh, Earl went on to say, I've traveled airport my entire life. I've never seen red lights at, I've never seen red lights at insignificant intersections turn unless someone was there. Now, airport seems to be a secondary road, not a primary road. Something has been wrong for a while. I'm glad you have more of a voice and regular people who doesn't complain about red lights. Yeah. Once again, it's not just the red light part or right up. It's, it's the fact that the sinking of them, the idea that you should be able to not hit every one. If you're doing the speed limit, right? And you're nobody here is saying, run red light. I mean, that's, that's on for the enforcement of that. What I'm asking is are people doing that? And then also speeding because of frustration that I think, once again, tailing off my statements. So maybe somebody from that sets the lights from, from the city could talk about it. Is there something we could do better? Is there something that that protects public safety? Right. And yet there's, there's no question that the run, the red light is, is deadly. And they're going to enforce that and Earl and Bill and others, I'm with you. But can you do something here that helps public safety? Knowing that the people are going to get so far. If I think if people could, and I'm, you know, who knows what everybody, and everybody's heart and mind, but if people can do things the right way. Generally, there's always exceptions. There's always that jerk out there. You see them driving like jerks, I see them. But if everything's, if everything's easier, then you'll have more cooperation. And I think better public safety. So we'll see. I would love to get somebody on to talk about that. All right, back to more conversation about the, the latest here. And I'm not going to use this guy's name, but I, I might end up using the guy's name because he was not successful, right? And because like on the show, if you all know, I don't, when there's a killer out there, murderer, no matter what they're doing like that, I don't, I don't use their name. This guy obviously wanted that for himself. Why would he have had a go pro cam? Right? With his other stuff he had gathered there, the rifle and the backpacks and all that. And is what can be seen as nothing else is an attempt to try to kill Donald Trump. What else do we know about him? Some things have come out. Maybe you've heard some of these, maybe you have not. First of all, on the gun thing and there have been, you know, the normal thing. If something, anything happens with a gun, then somebody shows up to, uh, to, uh, say it's a, it's a gun, you know, it's about the gun, not about the person. Well, in this case, let me point out the guy was a guy as a felon. So he, the law on the books said he shouldn't have a gun in the first place. So whatever gun registration regulation they want to put in from Washington, wouldn't have stopped this guy. He already was doing something illegal. And they said the gun had followed off serial numbers. He was driving a car with stolen plates. Okay, so I broke that law, uh, had a long history of crime. It is weird to me though, uh, that the best they can do right now, and this doesn't mean what the finality of this, but the best they can do right now. Is go after him on the gun crime, federal, federal gun laws that has the most teeth of anything here. It's strange. I mean, how about like that you're, and maybe that will come out later, right? That you can do something, but like he had guns when he shouldn't. Okay. Well, what about the, uh, what about the trying to set up to assassinate somebody, let alone former person in the United States, but that's what they're going with. So we will, like I said earlier in an evening, Congressman said, sit back and see what new information comes out over the next 24 hours, but obviously we'll be talking about this going forward. And I want to do, uh, do this before I go any further and I'm looking for color, number six right now at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, because I have a hundred dollar gift certificate to Mason Hills Farm. Get your meat for your next football game party, $100 worth of meat from my man, Joey at Mason Hills Farm. It's color number six that will win it. You do that right there at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. So good luck. Color number six, the, uh, I've always wanted to say this, the meat is yours. Meat is yours. So good luck. And also those names that are earlier. I will be calling you getting you the info to stop by and pick up your FM talk. One of six, five, Mo Goed, rope handle, super throw bucket. Appreciate seeing all y'all out at the G&D farms outdoor expo. All right, coming back. It's time for a checkup right here on the demo wheel. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk, one of six, five. All right. Welcome back to time for a checkup on bid day mobile here on FM talk, one of six, five. Dr. Kevin Patella with Ulta Point joining me. Good to see you. Good to meet you. Good to meet you as well, sir. And this is a interesting, interesting news out that you have a new treatment for depression and you hear treatment for depression a lot. You don't hear new treatment for depression a lot, at least from in my world. Right. Right. It's been really 30 years, 40 years since we've had a big breakthrough that long for a decade. So what, okay. So, okay. Now, now you got my attention. What are we talking about? What happened? What is this? So previously, the big breakthrough was kind of the advent of the SSRIs. Prozac being the big one and about 85 or so. Recently, though, there have been a lot of breakthroughs as far as transcranial magnetic stimulation, spervato, intranasal ketamine, which Ulta Point Health is now providing for patients on a pretty frequent basis here. Is this a standalone treatment in this conjunction with other things? Where does this come in? So both of these treatments are going to be done in conjunction with a standard antidepressant medication, at least one, but generally a lot of times patients who come to us to get these treatments are on at least one or two medications as is. So it's kind of to add on to in addition to whatever they're taking. What about that? I've heard people talking about, and number one, I would talk about like seasonally or people you get more people this time of year say, you know, hey, I'm feeling depressed or something like that. It's a seasonal thing. And then beyond that, the medications do people need to change because the body gets used to it. I don't have the right terms, Doctor. But you know, I mean, that so those two things, right? So occasionally you'll see where the medications just lose their effectiveness over time. So that's the thing that happens, right? Definitely. Definitely for a good, good amount of people, they'll lose effectiveness over a couple, couple of years, maybe sometimes for a couple of months for people. So these treatments are really indicated for what we call treatment resistant depression. So these are going to be patients who maybe they've tried three, four, five different antidepressant medications and maybe they've been successful for a period of time. And maybe they've not at all, but these are going to be generally patients who have tried multiple medications and found that they've not been entirely helpful. So there's probably great news for patients out there that said, maybe this can't be helped and now there's something new. Right. Because about probably about a third of patients who suffer from severe depression are going to find that they don't get much help, if any, from the traditional medications. So this opens up a lot of, what percent? Probably about a third of them. Wow. That's a, that's, that's a whole bunch of Americans out there, a whole bunch of folks locally. It is, it is. I mean, somewhere between 10, 20% of Americans throughout their lifetime are going to suffer from major depressive disorders. So if you think about a third of those patients, that's a lot of people who could benefit from one of these new therapies. And once again, we'll come back to this before we finish up the name of this. If somebody's asking you all for it, is what? So one of them is transcranial magnetic stimulation, also called TMS. And the other one is bravado, which is an intranasal medication. It really, because you always think, I always got to be a pill, but you're not putting a pill in my nose. No, no. So it's, it kind of looks kind of like a bottle of flu, and it is almost like kind of you spray it up your nostril and then you spray it up the other nostril. And then we monitor patients for two hours after they get the medication, just to make sure that they're safe, because these medications can alter blood pressure. Okay. Um, but generally they're safe and effective for most people. How do we navigate that? Talked about this time of year and whatever, but I mean, it's not as bad. I guess here is it would be up north, but if people are they, you know, how do they know if they've got depression or they're feeling depressed? Is there a difference between, you know, I'm feeling depressed. Doesn't mean you have depression, does it or right? So really, when you look at the DSM-5 criteria for major depressive disorder, you've got to have either true, like, like depressed mood or anhedonia, which is kind of the lack of interest in things that can be a partial anhedonia, where they don't really feel interested in doing the things they want to do, or that could be full anhedonia, where they don't want to do anything. Um, you have to have one of those two to be diagnosed with major depression, but you have to have at least five symptoms of depression for two weeks consistently to have major depressive disorder. So those symptoms will be depressed mood, anhedonia, difficulty sleeping, excessive feelings of guilt, hopelessness or worthlessness, reduced energy, reduced concentration, changes in appetite. Um, what we kind of call psychomotor agitation or psychomotor retardation, where patients maybe move a little bit slower than normal or maybe feel more irritable than normal. Um, so those, those symptoms, if you have five of those symptoms, for two or more weeks, that would count as a major depressive disorder. How do you, how do you gauge that in somebody like, like grief? Like somebody loses love on family members, something like that. And so maybe those things you said, you know, you feel that and you may feel it for weeks or longer. Are you, it has a chemical change in that person versus somebody who has this, you know, has a disorder with, you know, with depression. So you'll, you'll see there's kind of a big spectrum of grief where sometimes people will grieve and it will look exactly like depression. Um, a lot of times people have some of these symptoms, but not all of these symptoms while they're grieving, or they might not have all five of these symptoms that they need consistently. Um, one big thing to kind of differentiate grief from a major depressive disorder is the level of disability that you often see. A lot of times people with major depressive disorder are going to have their depression be so severe that they're missing time at work. They're neglecting, spending time with people they care about. Um, maybe they're intentionally isolating themselves from friends, from family. A lot of times people who are grieving and not to downplay how serious grief can be a lot of times people who are grieving will actually find comfort and solace and spending time with those other people or they'll say, uh, going to work has helped keep me active and has helped keep my mind off of this. Whereas with depression, a lot of times, the depression forces them out of those things that they know they'll enjoy. Wow. This is the best explanation. I've always wondered that. I'm like, you know, it is at the same, but it is not exactly the same. But if people are have been dealing with this over time, or maybe this is new to them, they need to get in touch with you all at, at all to point. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. Dr. Dean, tell us how to, how to do that. So, um, we have an access to care line that patients can call and that phone number is two, five, one, four, five, zero, two, two, one, one. And that'll get you in touch with somebody where we can schedule an appointment. Um, what we do here is once you get ahold of somebody on that line and they'll take down your information, um, they'll schedule a consultation with myself so that I can evaluate you and kind of help determine is one treatment more appropriate than the other. Um, maybe we need to try more antidepressants because some insurance companies will have different recommendations. As far as treatment length, the number of treatments tried. Um, so I'll, I'll be able to do that consultation. I also do a pretty thorough medical evaluation to make sure there wouldn't be like a contraindication health wise that people couldn't get one treatment or the other. Okay. So, uh, you got to look at that before you decide what's right for that patient. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. All right. Well, we'll talk more about this going forward. Pleasure meeting you. Yes, sir. Pleasure meeting you. Dr. Kevin Poteina with all to point right here on the day mobile and it's time for a checkup. Yeah.