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John Sharp - Midday Mobile - Thursday 9-25-24
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 FMTalk1065. 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 bade council. I had no doubt about them. That doesn't stop. If you don't like it, you're bad. Last question. Were you high on drugs? Last question, kiss my ****. All right, here we go. FMTalk1065 and Midday Mobile. Glad to have you along on this Thursday edition of the show, the Friday Eve edition. We will check in with staff meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams for the latest on Helene. He joins us around 1235. Say this, you got a serious storm here. Serious. I mean, you know, sometimes I commented, I think there's some storms that are over hyped out there. When you start talking about category threes and category fours, God bless those people in that path. Hopefully they've evacuated. And like we talked about yesterday too, if you spend any time in that part of the Florida panhandle, 20 possibly 20 feet of storm surge and 15 to 20 feet goes a long way in around there. So, we will talk to him about that. And you know, the television coverage right now from the weather channel and national coverage. They've got every reporter possible standing in the water doing reports along Florida's western coastline, but we'll get the facts from our staff meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams coming up in a little bit. Plus, my buddy, John Young, Men United Against Violence, joins us in hour number two. So, stay tuned for that. I know he's fan favorite and another fan favorite. The crowd goes wild for my man, John Sharp from AL.com, who is currently ranked where in college pick them. Well, you got to look probably towards the bottom. Me too. Me too. Honestly, I don't look. I just closed my eyes and I had to win wing it. Actually, I didn't have, I had a 500 week last week. So, I was happy about that. And I'm picking Alabama this week. And so, I have a good feeling about this game. I'm glad they were up on the board this week. And so, we'll see how that goes. There's going to be a wonderful, it's going to be a wonderful week in a football. Indeed, it's going to be. And here's something you and I could start like Dalton, the genius behind college pick him around here, right? And Dalton and Dan, you know, are football guys here. What if you and I combine powers to do the FM talk, one of the 65 mobile mayoral pick them going forward for the next year? Well, probably has slightly better than the college pick them, but probably not much more. This is a wild card out there right now. It is. So, I mean, that email hits inboxes yesterday and they had your phone ringing. I'm sure as you were ringing out, had my phone ringing as people were asking me questions or what I thought this that or the other. You've done a lot of work on this just since yesterday's announcement. So, I guess we need to back up and lay it out here that yesterday the announcement and the video came out that Mayor Stimson not going to run for re-election. Yeah, I started hearing some scuttle, but in the first part of the morning, let's even back up further Tuesday's meeting. He was not there. He was not at the meeting. He was not at the public safety committee hearing. So, he was absent as well as some other folks within the administration. And that's not uncommon. You know, the mayor doesn't always go to every meeting, but not looking back on it, it makes you wonder what was going on. But at any rate, there was a meeting around 9 o'clock in the morning, 9.15 with members of the mobile chamber and some other officials. The mayor got together with folks to, I guess, do a pre-announcement before the press release went out at around 10.30 or so yesterday morning. And it just kind of laid it out there. He's not seeking a fourth term in office. You know, rewind back a little bit to April, where I asked the question after the firing of former police chief Paul Prine, you know, whether or not, you know, he felt the whole thing with regards to the reaction that the former police chief had at the time of the handling of the position was based on politics. And he said, yes, he thought it was political. He felt like everything to do with the mayoral election in 2025. And I asked them, are you running in 2025? And he said, yes. He says, but I'm in it as long until I say I'm not. So that leads us to a few months later. And he says he's not. He's, you know, the mayor is 72 years old. He laid out all the facts there, what he, you know, the reasons why it's not an, you know, out of line or anything along those lines. I mean, you're talking about when you spend time with his grandchildren. And so, you know, that was the decision he made. He's put in it'll be 12 years at the end of of next year. Yeah, pretty good run. Yeah, it has been a pretty good run. A very successful political run. Everything he's essentially touched is as one over. I think you know, you talk about the annexation vote last year. I think that'll go down as a, you know, you look at the Stimson administration, those moments. That's a big one. And, and I think all but one of the areas voted to annex into the city, you're talking over 19,000 new residents coming to the city via annexation. And where it was a few years before that, being such a politically hot potato for it to come out like that was, was impressive. So yeah, he's had a good run, definitely. And then we'll be talking more about that as the next was it 14 months ago. Sure. And it's still a ways away. Yeah, as if we look at this, also, the timing, I mean, he obviously had made the decision some point earlier. And it's obvious with having a video, right, that it is not like he just made that decision this week. I don't know if he said exactly when he made it, but you don't produce a good looking video he produced there. That must take it a while. Yeah, I wasn't taking your cell phone up and a quick recording. I'm done. Yeah. So I mean, I don't know, we made the decision, but I sure can guess that it's been longer than two weeks ago to get that produced. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So this is a decision that's been made. You know, I wish there would be a news conference or some press time. I've asked for it. I'd like to know those. I got those questions too. And so I just want to throw that back out there as well. We'd like to know the background on how we came to those decisions. I'm sure that'd be forthcoming. That's nothing that the mayor is probably going to hide or anything along those lines. But it's, it's fresh out there right now. And yeah, there has not been any one on one media time or even a press conference related to this. It was, you know, it was done strictly via a press release that went out and then, of course, on social media. So interesting, you know, you talk about 15, 20 years ago, if you make a decision not to run for office, yeah, you probably do hold that press conference. So there's other ways to go about doing it. But nowadays they take the social media and that's the way they get the message out. Yeah, and of course, this is, and to run an analog here, when a coach retires, like when Dick Saban retired, of course, melted the internet with people speculating, right? You know, who might it be this, that or the other? Of course, it was answering pretty quickly, in that case. But that also happened yesterday. You had the, I mean, the announcement about him not running for reelection had barely, it was still sizzling hot as an announcement before the city. And people like me started with the speculation game of who might be next. And you've talked about that as a story you have right now at AL.com about it. Well, I'm going to have a follow up story here. I'll come out tomorrow because I've been making phone calls yesterday and into today. You know, it's one of those things that we give two days, too. I mean, there's just a laundry list of names out there. There is no heir apparent. That's why this makes this, you know, there isn't that person that's waiting in the wings. Everybody's like, aha, that's the person who's going to run for that seat. We have a little bit that in the governor's race. You got a two or three candidates, maybe. And that's not to say there won't be a wildfire that comes out of nowhere and makes it run at it. But that's what we have it, for instance, in the governor's race in 2026. Here in the mayor's race, there is no heir apparent. There is no one that you can say, that's the guy or that's the person who's going to lead the city after Sandy Simpson leaves. So, you know, we it has, you know, it's kind of open pan towards box a little bit. There's an all fairness to its way too early. I think, you know, we got to get through this election. But yeah, I mean, naturally, you're going to ask the question, who's who wants in, who doesn't, who's confirming that they're not doing it automatically. Yeah, who said no, right? I mean, that's like the first walk through is to ask people and have them emphatically say no, that the cut that's how we cut our list down. Right. And you got to keep in mind, too, if there's someone that has no that is not in public office right now, and their name is not as well known, we're not, we're not really considering them at this point. Again, it's way too early. That's not to say there isn't someone out there, whether it be a preacher or a, or a banker or a, you know, somebody in the business world that has no prior political experience. So it's kind of hard to make that prediction right now. But when you talk about those that are in public office or have served in public office, some of the more high profile names, I, you know, I've reached out with, for instance, council president CJ Small says he's not running. So he's a no. Okay. This is going to make my list here. So CJ is a no. All right. Who's next? Yeah, Ben Reynolds has said that he's a no. Okay. So he will not be, he will not be pursuing. Corey Penn has said he's not, he's a no as well. Those are just some directly to me. And then a couple of state lawmakers like Representative Marja Wilcox and, and Representative Chris Pringle both said they're not interested either. And so that, you know, that those are kind of, those emphatic nodes right now that that I've heard from. And, you know, a lot of folks are probably already reaching out to me. Well, that's because that's how wide open it. Yeah. You know, there is, it's just a lot of names out there. And that's, you know, there really has been nobody that's been groomed to be the next mayor. Well, okay. So he's, and I do think it's interesting. You mentioned this is something I talked about last night with somebody off air, that, that business person that we may not know their name yet, right, that might be in the wings. But now the names we know, you're getting some notes. You mentioned people from the council, you know, I've heard people also talk about other names you didn't name out of council. Well, first of all, let's go to Joel Davis. Have you heard from Joel Davis? Well, he's retiring for that. He's retiring. Yeah. Unless he's changed his mind on retirement. That's a good question, but he was pretty well. Okay. Well, we asked him when he's not running again, but I'm done. He's done with everything. What about William Carroll? Now that, you know, I talked to William about this. He told me that he's really interested. There's a lot going on in the second district that he'd like to focus in and on, but you know, this is it. He has a daughter's in high school, but he, you know, something he's thinking about. Okay. You know, it's all right. We'll get way too early. You know, it's not really something that's on the top of his mind right now. Okay. Although I need to stay with my analogy. I mean, and I'm not saying that's what he's doing or anybody else, but how many coaches have you seen, right? As we put this, I love being here at so and so university. I'm dedicated to the players of so and so university. I believe in this place press conference next week. I'm honored to take a job at the new, the other university across the country. You know, so maybe it happens that way. That's a, that's a good analogy. So, you know, sometimes Doth protests too much. What about you say no heir apparent, but you know, there has been conversations about James Barber came up on the show yesterday. People suggested me. Yeah. Right. I've reached out and that's a good one. He's the chief of staff. I have reached out to the city administration. I'm waiting back. I've asked that question, you know, and, and, and I hope they get back to me on that. There's, there's a couple of folks in administration that may be a mayoral type of folks, but I don't know. You know, you just don't, you know, I've floated a couple names out of the city administration. I don't want to name drop right now, but it's just kind of like, hey, look, and I get them to respond. And I haven't heard back yet. Again, it's super early. You know, get a little of this deadline to file to run for office. The last day that that qualifies July 15th of 2025. Now, clearly, if you're going to run for mayor mobile, you want to be, you want to, you want to have your ducks enrolled long before then. But yeah, that's a way to weigh. Yeah, I agree with you there. I said yesterday, and I, this is just my sense, my, you know, my gut sense on it, that the some serious players here, I wouldn't be surprised if we wouldn't hear from them by the end of the year. They're probably going to let it go through the, the general election cycle on the federal side, get all that stuff done, but that we don't start hearing something in December. You know, I wouldn't be surprised. Well, that's a good point. I thought maybe after, after the holidays would be a good time. You know, you really don't think after this election, I think that a lot of people are going to be tapped out of politics for at least, let's get through the holidays. And then you're talking right after the new year, I think you'll start seeing more activity, but you could be right maybe before the end of the year, but I, I just think people tap out traditionally in covering the stuff. You start getting around Thanksgiving. It's, it's kind of like, well, you have that little bit of time between thanksgiving and Christmas, but by the time you get to the holidays, people just don't want to talk about this stuff. So it could be the first of the year, but yeah, you know, I'm going to get back to a couple of more names that folks that might be that are thinking about it, that I keep hearing is prayerful consideration. Yes, yes, prayerful consideration. For those under prayerful of considerations with the, for instance, yes, Mobile County Commissioner, Connie Hudson's one, Lawrence Batiste, former public safety executive director, I believe the Lanie I've had a story on that yesterday. And then Paul Prine as well. He is, you know, that's something that he's considering. And also another one who hasn't totally ruled it out, even though he does not live in the city of Mobile is Jerry Carl. Yeah, so he's on the, he's on the show tomorrow, y'all, by the way, at 1230, because that's a, that's a name that came up pretty quickly after that announcement yesterday, text line here at the station, people are like, would it be Jerry Carl? Yes. Yes. So that's something he's not totally ruling out. And Paul Prine doesn't know the city either, I guess. But if we tell you what, here's how we watch y'all. Here's how, like, intrepid reporters like John do, just see if there's any real estate moves for some of the names that they move into the city limits. Well, it's, what is it? I think it's the rum for senator. It doesn't take US senator. You don't have to be what a resident in the state for a day or something like that. It's really kind of. And for house, yeah, at the federal level, you don't even have to live in the district, as we saw, but at least on this, for mayoral, I think the rules are, you do have to live in the city. For some of the ground 90 days, I got to go back and check, that's, you know, there's a little bit of longevity there. So a little bit. But yeah, that's, that's, that's the, that's the rule. So they, they have to, you know, there'll be some apartment hunting ourselves. So, but don't we're having fun with that. But he and I, it's just that, that's, so that's, that's where I, that's what I know right now. There's a few that are ruled, you know, kind of ruled out some that are on the fence. I'm still waiting on the councilwoman, Gina Gregory. I'd like to know where, and where she stands on this. She's, she's the longest serving council member. So that's always a question. And, you know, of course, there's names out there that, been floated out there. You know, Frank, we'll just let it kind of unwind. Well, you know, he's in his 80s. You know, is that something he wants to do right now? I have not heard. Yeah. So that, and there's some other former council members that no longer live in Mobile, but that's not to say that, you know, again, that there's a lot of what is what could, the same John, John, do I want to run? Yeah. Well, whereas that's how wide open it is and, in people that don't live in Mobile, have that option. If you want to move the Mobile and run for mayor, here you go. Here's your chance because these opportunities don't open up. You know, you don't have an open seat very often for mayor. I mean, the last time this happened was, what, 2004? It's been a while. And so this will be an interesting, unique and rare election for Mobile. Yeah. And for sure. And once again, y'all, like John said, I mean, they have to mid-July to get, get, get qualified. But, I mean, election time is, I mean, August of 2025. So, I mean, I know that seems to be about this next year, but I don't know, the older I get, the faster time goes, it'll be August of 2025 before we know it. Yeah. And Mobile won't be the only city with the race. I mean, we got cities throughout the state everywhere. I mean, all the cities are running on the same calendar this time around. So that's going to be interesting. And as we saw in Fair Hope, on Monday night, a lot of threats at council members that they may have, that they're going to expect competition. And so, you could have a lively, municipal election. Very, you know, I looked at the ballot for this November outside the presidential race. It's slim pickens. But that's not the way it's going to be next August. It's going to be all hands on deck. That's for sure. John, people want to read more about this and so many other stories. How they find you online? Yeah, Twitter, X at John Sharp, 99. All right, John, good luck, but not great luck this weekend in college pick them because I want to still stay ahead of you in that ranking. So have a look at it. All right, and we'll talk to you soon, brother. All right, John. There goes John Sharp. We're coming right back. More of your calls and text at 343 and 0106. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. About five minutes from now. Five and a half, six minutes from now. Staff Meteorologist Dr. Bill Williams joins us with an update on Helene. Serious storm and hit an area there along Florida. You know, we talked about it's not super populated, but St. Mark's, Cara Bell, St. Joe Bay, Appalachian Coal. I mean, there's St. George Island. Those areas are not, there's a little bit west of where they're saying it's going to hit, but I mean, those areas were really exposed. We'll talk to Doc about that coming up in just a little bit. All right, to the text line here, Steve says, Hey, Sean, Mobile should name something for Mayor Stimson when he retires. How about the Austin Stimson lawn at the Airbus Bienville Square? Yeah, I think I said yesterday, even with the recent back and forth there, think that the breadth of work of Mayor Stimson is a good one. I don't think I know. It's a good one. The first thing is the fiscal side. I was just so happy to see somebody come in and say, listen, let's address the spending. Let's pay down debt, get the credit rating better for the city, which brings down the interest, which lets us pay this thing down faster. It's a hell of a testament, I think, on that. Let's see. Somebody says they think it's going to be William Carroll. Yeah. Well, he didn't say no. And I do like that John gets a lot of it. It's like, it's a throwaway statement like hardworking Alabamians when people have not saying they're disingenuous, but people say, well, prayerful consideration. In other words, I don't know yet, right? Are you sure you're praying about it or you just thinking about it? This texture says, well, Mayor Sandy Stimson received a pension from the city. I don't know. I don't think that makes a, I don't know that that's a big deal to his bottom line, but I'm not sure. Let's see. Good. Heywood has said announcement. Heywood on the text line is not actively running for the mayor of Mobile. What about some prayerful consideration? Heywood, Jason says, Sean, I hope Connie Hudson goes all in on the mayor's race. The county commission really needs a fresh face. She's front row for the Aquatic Center and big glory hound projects, but has gotten very lazy on the little things, unfortunately. All right. Listen, prayerful consideration, and we'll be right back. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 1065. At 1235 FMTalk 1065 and come to check in with our staff meteorologist, Dr. Bill Williams on the latest on Hurricane Helene. Dr. Bill, you called it. I guess it was Monday we were talking and he said, it's going to be a strong storm. And it has shown potential to be a very big storm. Yes, it is. And it's now halfway on its journey across the Gulf. And so it's got another half to go. And that's through this afternoon and tonight and then making landfall tonight. And it looks like it will occur along the shoreline of Appalachia Bay, just south of Tallahassee. Right now the storm is moving north north east at 14 miles per hour. And the highest winds, sustained winds are up to 105. That's likely to increase quite a bit. Over the next several hours, as the storm continues on this track and may turn a little bit more to the north so that it ends up right in the heart of that curvature there, which is the shoreline of Appalachia Bay. The storm will lose some strength, but it still will hit Tallahassee pretty hard because it's not that far away from the coastline. And then it could still be a category one as it moves into extreme southwest Georgia tonight. It will then become a tropical storm and will remain as the tropical storm all the way up through Georgia. And by seven o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock tomorrow morning, it will be near Atlanta as a tropical storm. It will then turn more to the northwest and move into Tennessee tomorrow. And then it will stall and weaken, but it will be a big rain event in Kentucky and also Tennessee and even into the northern portion of Alabama. The system will kind of be absorbed into a upper air disturbance that is located over the heartland of the nation. It looks also like a very interesting storm surge. It could be as high as 15 feet along Appalachia Bay, maybe even 20 feet at some locations. I mean, wow. And it's also going to be a problem along the western side of the Florida peninsula with a pretty good storm surge all the way down to Tampa. I mean, as we talk about all the different factors here, let's focus on that for a second. Storm surge wise. You spent time while you were in Tallahassee for a while in school, but you go down the coast right there and you talk about you're talking about St. Mark's the other day and I've spent time St. Joe Bay, Appalachia, Cola, those areas down there, St. George Island. There's not a bunch of relief there as you go inland. It takes a while for not to just be flat. So when you start describing 15 to 20 feet of storm surge, Dr. Bill, how far? I mean, that could go way inland, not just right there on the water. It sure is. Yeah, sure. We'll do that very flat in that area, particularly around Appalachia Bay. So it's going to cover a lot of land as that surge builds through the evening hours into the west of it. Conditions are going to be pretty good and that concludes us because really dry air is moving in across Mississippi and Alabama. And it'll be only the easternmost portion of Alabama that really gets to feel the effects of the storm and as well as northern Alabama. And they'll get quite a bit of rain. But for central and southwest Alabama, we got dry weather coming in that's going to last all the way through the weekend. Dr. Bill, you talked about that rain if they're in northern Alabama. So in the Alabama River watershed, I mean, people are down here wondering, are we going to see, is it going to be enough that we're going to see some down river, not that the rain will be here, but when we see those river levels come up, I mean, is it going to be that kind of rain? That may be the case because with a storm sort of stalling over Tennessee, they'll continue to get rain across northern portions of Alabama. But the central and south look pretty good. And even though all that rain will be up there on Saturday, it looks good for most of Alabama. And that means that the big football game should have all partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the upper 70s. So the weather looks good for the weekend. Dr. Bill, we appreciate the update on this very, very significant storm, Helene. And if we got time later, we'll check back with you and get another update. Okay. All right. There's our staff meteorologist, Dr. Bill Williams, with your tropical weather update. It does it the whole way through the end of November, which is the end of hurricane season. Yeah, we're not out of it yet, obviously. And what a big storm they're expecting there in that part of Florida. And then, you know, talking about holding together up to Atlanta, I was talking to my friends here at work, I said, well, I've looked at this in the past when storms have gone through Florida, right? And they've hit like the east coast of Florida or down near Naples like happened a couple of years ago, just the money in real estate that's down there. And you hear these insurance companies, we dealt with it post-Katrina here, right? The Niven and Katrina, they start acting like, well, we might not be able to continue to write policies and we're going to have to do all these things. You go into an area of Atlanta, if you think about that, when you're like going into Atlanta, you're in, you're in like urban, well, before you're in Atlanta, you just neighborhood after neighborhoods, after neighborhoods of houses that are probably worth a good bit of money. And you get that kind of weather go through there. I wonder if we're going to be hearing some squawking on the insurance side out of Georgia coming up as well. All right. To the text line here, Dave from Gulf Shores says, rank outlaw versus Dow versus Stimson as favor. You're saying, are you for like one to three? I would say, because I mean, mayor outlaw, I mean, I remember him, but I was a punk high school kid. So I would go Stimson one, Dow two, outlaw three, but maybe I have to go back and rethink two and three. But Simpson's number one, for me out of that list, Dave, how about you? What do you think? Jean says, best rich would be excellent for mobile. Yeah. And it's interesting. I think the best lives in Baldwin County now, but that name has come up, Jean, be yeah, just watch the watch if there's new real estate filings, because I mean, a couple names we've named here, like best rich, Jerry Carl, who'll be on with us tomorrow. People were saying Bradley Byrne yesterday, Paul Prine former chief, Prine, now those names, I said, live inside the seat limits mobile. Maximus says he's running as the minister of justice. Now, is that a executive branch position or is that legislative? Maximus, let me know what. Oh, and by the way, Heywood just came back and said, after prayerful consideration, I asked, I will serve our city. See, there you go. I wonder if there will be some of that where people go, you know, how the coaches do. I'm real happy with my program here. And I'm dedicated to the school and it's really a family thing. And they've just welcomed my family next day. I am proud to take the job at the university across the state or across the country. Joshua says, I hope Stimson is not the last of the good mayors. If people like Carol that use liberal power words become mayor, Mobile will probably be another Birmingham and Montgomery. I mean, who on the council, who on the council, do you think? Not saying who would do it, but if you had to pick somebody from the city council, who would you put in that position? Not. Yeah, no, some have said no already, but like who if you could just pick, who would it be? Let's see here. This from gosh, just jump around here. Irish Indian. So Sean, there's a lot of farming as well, oranges, tomatoes, pecans. We saw a lot of glue packing into that industry. It hurts. Is that about you talking about the, you talking about the hurricane? Irish Indian, or what part? What's that response to? Michael says, the insurance companies are reinsured by groups like Lloyd's London. So once a company like, I can't, I don't know how to pronounce that. Sage Sure, Saggisher pays out 150 million. The insurance company like Lloyd's covers the rest. That is interesting, right? Okay. So thank you for that. That the insurance companies get insurance, just like the bookies, when the bookies get a lot of action and they're scared, you know, that people are loading up on one, you know, one game, one team, then they call other bookies and make bets like their people did to be able to balance the action. Maybe that's what it's like. Chris and Orange Beach says, without a doubt, it'd be Ben Reynolds from the council. Yeah, Paul says, where does Sam Concord live? Yeah, he's in the, he's in the city. Sam, that's a name. I think we need to keep on a short list. I do think we need to keep that on a short. I haven't heard, I hadn't heard anything and talked to him. Don't know if there's any prayerful consideration, but Sam Concord is somebody that I think could be a viable candidate in this mix. Paul also says, Ashley Rich. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. If the word gets back, are y'all anybody there? If you know them or they say no saying yes, I'll try to reach out to those folks by next week. Okay, thanks. Irish Indian said referring to the storm, it does a lot of farming damage. Absolutely. I can't imagine the number of people southeast, I mean, I'm sorry, Southwest Georgia. I'm just thinking about all the peanuts that have been turned around my house, right? I mean, if you're in Baldwin County and Mobile County, if you hadn't been smelling, if you live in the country and you hadn't been smelling dirt in the air, you need to get your nose checked because there are a lot of peanuts been turned. That area of Southwest Georgia got a lot of peanuts as well. And then cons like you said, orges, I guess, yeah, is that enough of the, is that area of the panhandle? Well, I guess the orges to be messed up. Yeah, because they're south. I mean, if you look at the radar, I think this thing is big. This hurricane is big. And while we're focused on Appalachia, Appalachia Bay, Tallahassee, I think the whole, the old right hook, right? The Northeast quadrant of the storm is battering places. Irish Indian, you're correct. Yeah, that is big citrus country down there. Dr. Mariana, have you had your medicine today, Dr. Mariana says, here's an idea. How about Harris come running for mayor? She would do wonderful. Wouldn't she? And yes, whoever wants to punch me in the face for that, you get a free shot. He goes on, Dr. Mariana goes on to say, she can unburden the city and tell us about how she was raised in the middle class home. Did you hear that? Did you all hear that? We've been watching Vice President Harris on the campaign trail. I don't know if you knew this. She was born in middle class home. Yeah, like, okay. Let's move on. Although I will in fairness, because it's kind of the world I live in. Trump has his things. He says the same way every time to. Not, not about middle class home, but he's got, they got the jokes that stick, right? I could go back to the classics, but I don't know how that's resonating. She was, I don't know. I guess politicians are trying to, but I'm just like you, right? I'm just like you. Let's see here. Shane and Mobile says, Sean, I accept your nomination for mayor. Says Shane and Mobile says, Sean, I accept your nomination for mayor. Shane for Mobile Mayor, let's make Mobile great again. So Shane and Mobile, not Sean, Shane and Mobile running for mayor. Good. Was that Shane? Can you let me know how much prayer, how many minutes of prayerful consideration did you go through before you came up with that, that idea? I don't know. And then Tim said, I would have rather had the smart brother Fred, but Fred was smart enough not to want to be mayor. Tim, you're not going to disagree. Show me how in a 12 year run, I mean, can I say there are some things that I didn't agree with? Sure. But a 12 year run, I say hell of a run for a mobile mayor. I think we can go through all that, you know, people will bow the Civic Center and all those things. We talk about that stuff. I'm not really as pumped about that as I am putting the, you realize what a unstable fiscal footing the city was on, when Mayor Stimson was first elected and then had to do things that weren't ribbon cutting and raw, raw, raw kind of stuff that you want to do. If you're executive brands like, Hey, I am, I'm doing the, they did the work there at the city to get the city in a lot better position financially. And I, I will never forget that. So I don't know that I've seen maybe some back in our 108 mayors, there's been a mayor of the city of Mobile that did that. I can say I'm ignorant. I don't know. But in my recent memory, it was a heck of a job by, by Mayor Stimson. Hey Dalton, if you need to check the text line here, Otto says, you don't know if you want to refresh that in your office. Dalton says, Dalton's pretty young, but I think he'd make a great mayor for Mobile. He kept, he keeps up with local and state politics, and is a very smart man. I will, I will second that. Well, he's a very smart man, but I think I don't want him to run at all for mayor, because he's got a job to do around here, right? I do. So Otto, let me delete that. Why don't you tell Dalton to look at it? Let me delete that text at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, get rid of that right now. Good. All right, Otto, you have been blocked. Ah, coming right back. More mid-day mobile. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. Right to 1253 FM Talk 1065, mid-day mobile. Thursday, show. Glad to have you along. Look at it. A cool picture here. So I'm over on the website for my buddy Clint Jamison's adventure earth bicycles and the website adventure-earth.com. I always say you got to go see it in person. You do, but sometimes you got a little downtime. You can't get by the shop there at the corner of Little Flower and Airport and go online and look at it. And so he's got his e-bikes when he first go on the website. He's got, you can see all the different e-bikes out there and then you can go to the non-electric bikes. But he's got to banner up there about, haul it all, electric bikes. Like anything that's worth having, it's got to have accessories to it, right? You kayak people and I've got one too. So you know what I'm talking about. You'll get the kayak and then you got to put the this on it and the that on it and the other thing on it and the death finder and the live well and okay. Well, you can do the same thing with the e-bikes out there. And I've been really interested in the one I have from Adventure Earth Bicycle at the off-road one, but it has as one area in the back, like already like built in to carry stuff. But that's not enough. No, I agree. And Adventure Earth Bicycle's client has a full selection of the painters that go on the sides there in addition places to put everything from your gun to your water bottle to your phone if you need to be on the phone while you're buying, whatever, you've got accessories and he's got the accessories for those e-bikes and the non-e-bikes as well. And while you're looking at things like that too, if you're not like me and throw your bike in the back of the pickup truck, well, he's got all the racks. If you want to carry a bicycle, several bicycles and you want to put them up top, you want to put them around the, put them in the back of the vehicle, he's got those racks as well. He's got the bicycles and he also has the accessories. And if you're thinking about getting out on the bike, maybe you even have right now, get the tune up work done. He's a good old-fashioned bike shop as well. Remember the old days you go up there and they do the bike, you know, people buy stuff from box stores with no kind of service or support out there? First of all, deal with a local company. And then if you only get the service done, go to the good old-fashioned bike shop, which is owned by my friend Clint Jameson. Adventure Earth Bicycles, everything inside to get you outside, corner of Little Flower and Airport, and online cool pictures at adventure-earth.com. All right, text lines here. And then we got a, we'll come back to the story though, too, because Dale Leach from Landnap joins me here in just a little bit. And we'll talk with him about pre-season chatter about the mobile mayoral race. All right, let's see. This texture says, I said the other day, Tom Clackston, don't encourage my buddy. I like that. By the way, Tom Clackston, veteran of the year this year, and a great human being, don't let him know. I said that though. Do not say, ah, he was cussing you. Chris and Orange Beach, why don't you run for it? You're smart enough. Maybe I'm smart enough not to run for it. I don't have the time, on time. We'll see one day in the future, right? But right now, I do not have time for that. Let's see. C.B. Carl said, the smell of fresh-turned peanuts makes me Jones for a boiled goober. Now that you brought it up, I'm worse. You have the smell right now. You know that smell. C.B. Carl, when the turn in peanuts, it's just like it's that it's as a kid, I used to like to just dig holes, make forts and like every bit of my clothing just smelled like earth. And I kind of liked it. And it's when I had to get hosed off on the back porch. Not enough of that in today's world. Go remember that? Did you have that where you had to hand your clothes over to mom and then standing there with the hose, hosing you down outside? You know, there's a lot in the culture now. You see a lot with the violence out there where they disrespected me. I deserve respect. No, you don't. You know how you could check that in kids? We need more kids to have mom hose them off in the backyard as they're standing in their BVDs. That kind of check your ego for a while. Let's see. Michael said back to the conversation on insurance companies, he said, after Irma, I worked claims in Naples for six months. The carrier I worked for had the first right of refusal to complete the repairs with their own contractors. The fraud was crazy. The same company that insured the property performed the repairs and also would finance the deductible. Hmm. Okay. All right. What do you think, Michael, your experience? Do you think if this goes as a strong tropical storm or category one up through the Atlanta suburbs and all that, that we start hearing a lot of squawking about insurance in Georgia. And we've heard it from Florida. We've heard it from here. We've heard it from Louisiana. I wonder. All right. Let's see. Let's see. Paul says it needs to be somebody with administrative experience, not Joel Dave's, not Barber. Yeah. But what about somebody coming out of the business side or private sector that we hadn't even heard of yet? So I wonder if it's not that person, a self financed, right? It'd be somebody's got, doesn't have to, doesn't have to keep doing whatever job they're doing to make a living. They can go take that job, take the, take the pay cut and do the job with the city of Mobile. All right. We will, we'll see. So Dale Lee joins us here in just a little bit. We'll talk about it with him and a lot of more techs coming in on this. This one. Okay. Outlier here before we get a break. Unnamed texture said is one of six, five safe from being bought out by Soros. This is what makes me a horrible talk show host. I would put it this way. How much money are we talking about here? I want to sell those swords up. But how much money are we talking? I mean, I got stuff I could do.