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Rob Holbert from Lagniappe - Mobile Mornings - Thursday 9-26-24
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Almost every run and model agrees that this storm, the eye of the storm, is coming in this region. It was a DeSantis there and, of course, a lot of evacuees leaving that area. That projection they put on it about three days ago, it's stayed fairly true to that. And which doesn't always happen. That land yet, but you're right, it hasn't. Also, people are going to be evacuating from areas well north of the coast because you're going to have hurricane effects, hurricane, in places like Valdosta, Georgia. That's got to be an hour from the coastline, I would think, easily. Yeah. Lisa texted earlier when I mentioned my brothers and Valdosta with his wife. They are going to Montgomery, I hope, we'll see how traffic works out there. She said my brother's home burned down last October and they rebuilt. He and his family just moved into their new home on Sunday and they live in Cairo, Georgia. Right? Yeah. In the middle of the path. So, the Cairo, the Egyptian capital that's said by the locals, Cairo, that's right there too. Cairo, Valdosta, some of the areas where Jimmy Carter's from, Plains and all that Albany. And while Atlanta may not catch and won't catch the same strength of the storm, that area south of it will, it's a lot of money, a lot of infrastructure in Atlanta. And if it's still at tropical storm levels up there and Atlanta suburbs, yeah, I can do a lot of damage. Braves got a big end of the season and they've got two games left, they've got to play the Mets, turns out they're going to try to do that or double-header on Monday, yeah, after the regular season ended. So, a lot of people making alternative plans, Dr. Bill, he had the latest for us just a few minutes ago for Hurricane Helene. Well, Helene is now a hurricane and it is over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. It went through the Yucatan Channel yesterday and now is moving in a northeast direction at about 12 miles per hour, the highest winds are now at 90 miles per hour, but it is going to intensify today. It's got a long ways to go across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a major hurricane with winds of 115, perhaps as high as 120 miles per hour. The likely target right now is the eastern Florida panhandle and particularly Appalachia Bay, which is a bay just south of Tallahassee. Because of the shape of that bay and the coastal area, they will likely get a storm surge of 15 to possibly 20 feet and that storm surge will be huge for some distance eastward and southeastward all along the Florida panhandle and the peninsula all the way down to Tampa. It can expect a very large storm surge, but Appalachia Bay is the target right now and that will be this evening and tonight that it will arrive on the coast. It will continue as a hurricane into the Tallahassee area, it looks like the center will go right over Tallahassee and still be a strong hurricane. By tomorrow morning, it will be over southwest Georgia and still a hurricane and it will then continue up the western side of Georgia and during the afternoon hours, we will move pretty close to Atlanta as a strong tropical storm and that now four of the hurricanes will actually persist all the way up to Atlanta and so the impact will be very, very significant across Georgia and then late Friday and in the Saturday, it will be in Tennessee and western Kentucky where it will sort of make a loop and merge in with an upper air low pressure system that is up in that area. The eastern side of that storm is very, very large and as a result, we can expect strong winds to occur over eastern Georgia, much of the northern Florida peninsula and there may be a quiet a few tornadoes to the eastern side of the storm that will occur in Florida, Georgia and maybe even into South Carolina. Dr. Bill, what is synopsis on where the storm is now, what it's going to do, that was from earlier this morning on FM Talk 1065, yeah, I think the storm surge, you know, of course the winds are going to be ridiculous if it's a cat four levels, but that's storm surge. I'm going a little more in depth with them on that, but 15 to 20 feet possible, you almost don't want to think about it, right? Like what could it do when you showed me that picture of Mexico Beach, that was Michael. Yeah. And that was 15 feet storm surge there, 15 foot storm surge and it just looked like it wiped out pretty much everything on the beach there. Like the one house standing, wasn't it strange that when I guess it was fortified, it was a big on-stilts and it was still standing, but yeah, yeah, and the saving grace there, I guess, where the projected landfall as Dr. Bill said, there's not as much, not as many communities or being communities in that spot. So we'll see Dr. Bill, we will keep you updated on everything throughout the day and then tomorrow morning we'll have all of that for you. So stay tuned here to FM Talk 1065. The other big story that broke yesterday, Sandy Stimson announcing that he is not going to seek re-election to a fourth term as mayor of Mobile in the 2025 municipal elections. He released a video and here's part of that. For the past 11 years, I've had a privilege beyond imagination and that has been part of the transformation of the city of Mobile. Through the years, I believe God has answered countless prayers by blessing our city as things were accomplished that few thought were possible. Taking vision and hoping to reality. There you go, Sandy Stimson from yesterday. Beautiful music, beautiful video. Yeah, I mean, they should have released it like an animated video, which is kind of a cartoon, Sandy Stimson, and like Lion King setting maybe up on the overlooking. There'd be like a monkey on his shoulder, he's announcing that he's not running, but anyway, I didn't see much of the video that is audio from the video. I know people, of course, when you're talking about a political figure, everyone has strong opinions and feelings, right? And there have been some moments, some things that I've disagreed with the Stimson administration on. I think overall, his tenure as mayor has been great and I know some people have some issues with crime and a lot of people are upset that because the mayor said he was going to make Mobile the safest city and was it in America, was that the promise? It's a good goal. I don't know if it was technically possible, you know, but people took him, I guess, explicitly at his word there. So some folks upset about the crime we've seen and in different parts of the city. Maybe they're not so happy about the blight, but when you look at the economic growth, the different major businesses that have come in industry, the jobs that have been created for a lot of folks in our area and the different fund recreational activities that have come in since he's been mayor overall, I think it's been a success. Yeah. I mean, certainly when you look at it, it appeared it wasn't like time wasted like a mayor that you're like, where's he at? What's going on? There were times in the past, certain mayors would kind of disappear from the scene and you're like, well, who's in charge, what's going on here, Biden like, Ivy, like, I feel like we're going to get suspended, you watch it. So in any event and turn the page and now the question is, who's next? It is. That is the question. Maybe some of those folks who might be interested commented in this John Sharp star story with ail.com and he talked with some other figures from around the state and got some commentary on how they feel about Mayor Sandy Stimson, Governor Ivy, called him a dear friend and a partner on major projects, of course, the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway. She said from our investment in the port of Mobile to pressing forward with the Mobile River forward with the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project together with Mayor Stimson, we are taking giant steps that will benefit this entire state and region for generations to come. As she said, Mobile was once her home and will always hold a special place in my heart, so I'm speaking as more than a governor when I say how proud I am of the tremendous progress the city has made over the last decades, thanks to Mayor Stimson's leadership. Sharp with ail.com also spoke with some other mayors, Walt, and the word, the main word that most of them use here is mentor. It seems like, you know, he has, he's wise, seems he's wise, he's been mayor for a long time, he provided some assistance through a mentorship to some of these mayors, Walt Maddox, said he was a mentor and dear friend. And that's Colusa, and that's right, Tuscaloosa, and that Stimson was instrumental in assembling a coalition of the big 10 mayors and, you know, they do carry pretty big weight whenever they come out with a coordinated recommendation, recommendation press release. He said, I'm going to miss learning, leaning on him for advice, whether it's for work or just life, talking with Sandy, it takes only a few seconds to realize he has poured his heart and soul into Mobile Woodfin, who's facing some drama right now, the Birmingham mayor, Randall Woodfin, called Stimson invaluable to the mayors of Alabama's largest cities, Huntsville mayor, Tommy Battle, decatur mayor, tab bowling, called him effective and a quality leader in the state. And it goes on and on, I thought Congressman Carl, what he had to say, thanks to Mayor Stimson's vision, dedication and hard work, Mobile's in excellent financial shape, and is continuing to attract new growth and business opportunities. His leadership will be missed by so many Mobileans, and he has big shoes to fill. I also wanted to get to the comments from Sam Jones, who once, of course, took on Stimson. He said he wasn't sure why Stimson was retiring, but could understand if he wanted to spend more time with his family. Of course, they had two battles for mayor. Jones said it's a really time consuming job that you're working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can't take vacations like people who work eight hour days. He's done three terms and I can understand that he would want to spend time with his grandchildren. He believes this is where some of this political gamesmanship comes in here. He believes Stimson inherited a strong economy and argues that the city was in an improving financial position by 2014. Jones also said that Stimson's now famous one Mobile slogan was more of a campaign message than actual reality in bringing this city together in an era of sharply divided politics nationally. But he said he added, I think overall he came out pretty well. So some commentary there from some other political figures around the state. Also this Lawrence Batiste, former Mobile Police Chief and Executive Director of Public Safety is considering all possibilities to better serve the community. Hours after mayor Sandy Stimson announced he would not run for reelection. Batiste was sworn in as MPD Chief back in April of 2017 and was later promoted to executive director of Public Safety under Stimson in 2021, wrote in a text message Wednesday that he was surprised by his former boss's announcement when asked to further clarify. He was wondering, you know, he says basically I love this city and I'm exploring the possibilities to better serve this community. But he said he's weighing all possibilities. So maybe that means his hat will soon be in the ring. And as far as hats going into the ring, we've had listeners since this announcement yesterday throwing out names and really names have been flying for some time now. So when we come back before we talk with Rob, who do you want? Not who do you think, but who do you want to see run for mayor of Mobile? I have a list of some recommendations I can throw out there. Yeah, yeah, we put our little heads together. It is 8-21 with Dan and Dalton if I'm talking about 6-5 Mobile mornings. Thank you not just for listening today, but every weekday, I appreciate that a lot. Morning from Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 1006-5, 8-25. We've been talking about the storm, the lean, and it's still on course for where we thought it was going earlier this week. And it is also on course to continue to grow possibly a category four before it gets to the shores. And then to think it's going to continue to be a hurricane all the way into the state of Georgia and do all kinds of damage on the way up to Atlanta and then dump a lot of rain on Kentucky and Tennessee. Yeah, and eastern side of Alabama all the way up the state could see, we'll see more effect from this than the western side of course, but I'm hoping we don't see any shift in the track west that makes landfall there. All right, so we're talking about Mayor Sandy Stimson and he announced yesterday he would be not be running for re-election next year. I asked on the text line who you would like to see run just some names off there out there real quick for you here, some names I just came up with off the top of my head earlier today. What are our thoughts on Jim Ziegler? Ziegler. Zieg to run. Zieg like to run. Steven Nodine. Mike Dow. Well, the doors cracked open for Steven Nodine. How about Don Siegelman? Uh... Come back home. Yeah. He's Murphy Grant. Murphy Grant I think. Yeah. Why not? Kay Ivey. If she doesn't run for Governor again, we'll bring Kay Ivey. But some serious names that have been tossed around there. I know Bradley Burns, first name out of a lot of folks mouth. Jerry Carl now that he won't be a sitting Congressman as we move forward while we speak of former Congressman Joe Bonner. He's here already, but he's making a pretty nice salary there at South Alabama, so this would be a drop in the salary there. And of course, James Barber, Lawrence Petiste, you already said through his name in. Now, when we talk about City Council, William Carroll's name seems to come up a lot. Sam Cochran, possibly the former sheriff. So let's see what the text line has to say here. Ty Bullard. Joe Bullard's son. Okay. He's now running the dealership. She's on famously known for being on those commercials. That's right. Talk about the dealership. Tim from Foley says we need a woman, Gina Gregory perhaps, but definitely someone who will not line their pockets or cause any scandals. Are you saying women don't cause any scandals or line their pockets? Paul Lewis says, well, we'll get to Paul's here in a little bit once it comes up here. Ed says, I think Jerry Carl would do a great job. Maximus, I'd like to see Jim Barber run for mayor. Firedog. How about this? Ricky. Ricky for mayor says fire dog. Okay. Think of the entertainment value as what fire dog says. Think about the amount of time it would take for him to mayors get impeached. We'd be lining that within three weeks of his administration's beginning. One pretty well-known mayor that just got indicted up in New York City. Yeah. This is Texas today. Yeah. Class representative for our city on any stage. Speaking about mayor Stimson, a rock and roll doctor says growth in mobile. If I'm not mistaken, the population of mobile has only increased due to annexation, otherwise mobile would have a negative 5% population growth. Yeah. There has been a lot of folks leaving mobile and going to Baldwin County. But when I say growth, I'm thinking more economic growth, more jobs coming in, even though a lot of the folks that work in those jobs come from Baldwin County and elsewhere. A lot to come from Mississippi and just growth in some of the, you know, of course, we'll always talk about GulfQuest, right? But that was way back, but you look at the Civic Center project that's underway here. It's going to happen. Some of the other massive projects that are underway. More people living downtown. That's right. More people feel safe downtown, even though it still will have its moments. A rock and roll doctor also says Bradley Byrne lives in Fair Hope. Joe Bonner lives in Montrose. Yep. Mark in West Mobile said, hey, Joe Bonner's got a, he's got, there's an actual president of South Alabama's home, right off of Old Shell Road in between like McGregor and the university itself. That's where he is. Well, he probably lives both, but he does have a home here in Mobile. Mark says, I've been there, you know, can I name drive? I think we talked about that one. We did. Yeah. Paul Prine is what Mark in West Mobile says. This textor says Dan Brennan. Well, they say, okay, said bring, bring Colby Cooper back. That's a name that we haven't heard yet. And no BS leader than says Dan Brennan and then says, no, sorry. He's a Georgia fan. He put you in the running and took you out on the same run on the sentence. Hey, I, you know, I like the heck out of Colby Cooper. Always did. Some people, they might have rubbed the wrong way because he was a little aggressive, but he got stuff done. So Carlos Finley may be giving another run. Maybe. That's about Fred. Fred Richardson. Has he given up on the hopes of becoming mayor? He's going to come off political analyst and then he'll fill through. It is 8.30 with Dan and Dalton. Good morning from Dan and Dalton FM 12.065, 8.35. Over the mornings. Good to have you along. What's going on with Rob over from Lanyat Mobeal. Can you have a birthday here recently, Rob? I did. I did. All right. Tuesday, Tuesday, the lamest day of the week to have a birthday. Yeah, that's a tough one. That's, that's, that's no good. That's a tough one. That's a, that's a rough day to have a birthday. It's not really having much fun on Tuesday. Well, you know, take it from your old buddy Dan, power through and have a big time anyway. Well, yeah. That's what I did. It's the best I could. The day ends and why go for it. Yeah. And that's even not on your birthday sometimes. So, but, yeah, Rob, starting rumors. Happy birthday. I want to hear in a little bit get to the cover story, which I absolutely enjoyed reading through yesterday. But first, I guess we need to get to the big news from yesterday. And that is that mayor Sandy Stimson officially announces he is not running for re-election next year. It's kind of been just, yeah, just in. And so we've been batting some names around for fun, some, some are serious about who they want to see run for mayor next year. But your thoughts on his announcement yesterday and I guess the overall tenure of Stimson is mayor of Mobile. Well, I mean, I think, I was just, I think it's, you know, it's, he decided this based on just, it's, it's just time. It's not. There's no, I know there's some theories out there that he's sick or he's whatever and all these other things. He just said, it's just, it's really time for him to spend time with his family and that kind of thing. So I think that's, those things can be put to rest from what I gather. You know, it's, I've said it a million times, but, you know, every politician has an expiration date. Every, you know, it's, things change. It's time. Everything has to end eventually. You know, I think it's a good time for him to get out of it if he's not ready to do four more years of it. I mean, he, as he said, he'd be 77 years old by the time he finished another term and, you know, that's, he's, you know, he wants to do some other things. So, I mean, you know, you look at it, I think by any measure, it's been a very successful mayorship, I mean, he's done a lot of stuff. The city is in phenomenal and better shape than it was when he took over. I don't think that's, that's not really arguable. I know there's some, you know, I'm sure that there are some people who are excited that he's leaving because, you know, when you're, when you're in politics, when you're in charge, you make enemies eventually. And he's got some people who don't like him. But by and large, most of what I've heard is people ready to jump off, jump out the window because he is leaving, you know, it's like the city's going to go to hell and we're, what are we going to do and what was us? But I, you know, I think he's done a great job. Overall, it's been a very, it's been tremendous and very successful period for the city. And, you know, from a personal standpoint, dealing with his administration, they've always been open and honest about things with us and, you know, even when they've had trouble, even when there's, you know, issues that they maybe didn't want to talk about, they talk about it. So that, I have to commend them on that as a reporter. It's a, it's a rare thing because, you know, the gut instinct for most people is to ball up and not talk to you and to get angry and, and that kind of thing, they, they've never done that. Yeah, well, a little shout out to Governor Ivy, but how does the city not go to hell? And then that's the, I know you were just kind of throwing that out there. It's not necessarily, Stimson's gone, equals city goes to hell. Well, that's not necessarily going to be the case, but, right, right. So, so what, what, what happens now? Well, I mean, you know, there's, certainly there's a lot of great stuff that's teed up for whoever's next. There's some big shoes to fill who is going to be next. I think there's going to be several folks who are interested in it. You know, some probably some people who have expressed who run in the past or expressed interest in the past and maybe some new folks who haven't, but, you know, everybody says Connie Hudson's going to run. I don't, she, I don't know that she will or won't, but certainly she would be somebody who's at the top of the list of people that, that might run. I think I've heard, you know, would Joel Dave's run, he's, he was not planning to run for re-election. I don't know if that means he had an inkling. This was going to happen and decided he was going to focus his, you know, attention elsewhere or if he was just saying, I'm done with this. So that, I don't know that. You have once the teached people talking about that, you know, there, I mean, you know, even Steve NoDine. I've heard that. You heard that on the station. I've heard that. I've heard it from him. You know, I mean, there's a lot, you know, I don't, you know, I mean, I would imagine you'll see, you know, some of the people who run in the past that might want to take a whack at it. I don't know, you know, William Carroll has ever since I've known him, he's talked about running for mayor. I don't know if he will or won't. He talks about it, but, you know, whether that's possibility or not. I don't know. I think you're going to have a busy, you know, time figuring it out. There's some folks who want to run. I, I know it could be a pretty big pool of candidates once it gets down to it. I mean, we had three in this last election and that was with Stimson running for re-election. So I guess we'll see how it goes. You know, when we talk national politics, which we do so often on the station and there's so much contempt for national leaders and certainly a lot of that is due, but you have people that believe sometimes that elected politicians truly are in it for themselves and that even some folks say that they want to see America burn. And I think some people keep that same contempt for local leaders and sometimes that's due depending on what the city you're in, but for Stimson, it seems he's a guy who I think really wanted to see Mobile succeed and it can't be easy for a city that you love to have so many people dislike you for one reason or the other. I, you know, for him to stick around as long as he did, I think that's a pretty good success in itself. I know I wouldn't want to feel that hate all the time from some people in the city. Yeah. It's a tough thing. I mean, I can tell you my feelings in my dealing with him. I've never felt anything other than he was trying to accomplish the job that he was elected to do. He wasn't in it for him. He was not in it for him. Right. I've never felt that way. I mean, I don't, you know, I've never felt that there was anything better other than trying to do this job. Yeah. You know, did it make everybody happy all the time? Not always. I mean, you know, you break some eggs when you're making on what's that happens. It people and not everything, not every decision was perfect. I mean, none of us are. You can't expect that. I don't, you know, there are, yes, there are some people who are angry. And there are some, there are certainly some haters out there. I hear from them frequently, but it's, you know, when you look at what, I mean, compared to, I mean, certainly compared to the administration prior to that, I would say that this has just been a huge 180 for the city. I mean, we, you know, we are financially in great shape. There's a number of things that are coming in that are being done that are underway that are, you know, maybe if they're not transformative, they're at least really very helpful to the future of the city. So I think there's a lot of good stuff and, and I think overall his, his administration will be remembered very fondly by people. You know, Rob, to move on to another subject and of course you guys do some great investigative journalism on current politics and things going on around the state and in our area. But your cover story this week, right all the way through it, Kyle Hamer crowed it yesterday. And I learned so many new things. And it's about the Dolly Parton bridge, but it's real name. Of course, General WK Wilson, Junior Bridge. And you know, I'm embarrassed sometimes to say I didn't know all of this about the general. And I don't think most people actually did. And hammock does this deep dive. You know, if it weren't for him, the, the bridge that's named after him could very well have been, you know, 50 feet high rather than the height that is. He was worried about moving through those shipping channels and the continued growth of South Alabama. But that's just a small part of his really interesting life that hammock dove into here. Yeah, he had a really amazing career and this is a story. As has been talking about doing this story for years and if I think I did it, so, you know, unfortunately, we're not able to get Dolly Parton to comment, but, you know, that Kyle did a great job of going back and looking and I didn't know all those things about General Wilson either. I mean, he had a really amazing career and did a lot of stuff for the community. Unfortunately for him, he decided these two huge arches would go on top of that bridge and it immediately took on a different name than, you know, what, what it was intended. People wanted to honor him and I think he's, you know, unfortunately for him, his, his legacy is up against another legacy and I don't think it's ever going to change or at least not, not any time soon, maybe when people forget who, maybe one day people will forget who Dolly Parton is, but yeah, you know, the long time. Talked about Dolly Parton, I don't know, eight years ago maybe in my past life and we mentioned the Dolly Parton Bridge and she got a big kick out of that and said she was aware of it and evidently there are other bridges that look similar in other parts of the country and people call them that. Right, the Dolly, so that our bridge is one of the several Dolly Parton bridges. The team formed us on the live of the year. I didn't know that, I suspected that was probably the case, you know, I didn't know that for sure, you know, but it is, you know, as far as we could tell, we couldn't find the origin of the, of the name, you know, the nickname, but it's been going on for a long time and, you know, so even when, even when the bridge was dedicated, people called it something else at first, they, nobody ever, nobody ever called it the WK Wilson Bridge and it just, you know, then it became commonly known as the Dolly Parton Bridge. I mean, it's to the point where, you know, when you watch a newscast and there's a wreck and they're like, there's a wreck of a Dolly Parton Bridge. I mean, it's that, it's gotten to be that well known and, you know, if you said there's a wreck on the WK Wilson Bridge, most people would be like, I don't know where that is. Yeah, or if it's some new, new young newscast, or you'd say they don't even know this area, why would they call it that? But his, so his military career, and one thing I found fascinating, his military career just took him everywhere and he was in a couple different, you know, wars, he was a military man. And then when he starts working for the Corps of Engineers and then he ends up moving to Minnesota and then moved all around the world, he ended up settling in Mobile. He decided he wanted to be here over all of these other places. And I think that's just amazing. And then after the Kennedy assassination, he was tasked with putting his resting place, like kind of building that the eternal flame, the eternal flame there at Arlington. Wow. That story was, that story was fascinating, you know, that, that apparently that, that Jackie Kennedy wanted the flame to change colors. And, and Wilson said, no, you're getting one color that she asked that the day before, right? Something like that. Yeah, it was very short time, but he, he, he apparently was the person behind the eternal flame at John F. Kennedy's grave, you know, so, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a fascinating story. And it's really like, you know, if he just had the foresight to square the top of that thing off, it would be, you know, I got a text who says I was around when that bridge was new and Dolly Parton was in her prime, well known for her, well, you know, what's, I'd never heard the bridge called Dolly Parton Bridge until about 15 years ago or so. I would disagree with that because I moved to town in 1995 and people were calling it the Dolly Parton Bridge that was, that was, yeah, we, Kyle found references to it as far back as 1990. Yeah. That makes sense to, it's been at least, you know, 30 almost, you know, getting close to 35 years now. Right. At least that. Well, timeframe. Yeah. And I recommend people to pick up this issue. This would be a good one to just keep on the coffee table, you know, for folks who come by to read this amazing story. And there's plenty more in this issue as well. And you're damn the torpedoes, yeah, some great stuff there on this battle between Ivy and whistleblower. Yeah. He's got interesting opinion on the, on the, on the VA and the governor and that's, that's worth reading itself. Yeah, so folks want to pick up the latest issue on Stans Rob or a better yet sign up online. Like we've done here at FM talk. How can they do that? Of course, there's purple boxes everywhere. You can pick papers up there or go online at land@mobile.com. We're doing about 65 articles a week on Atlanta daily. It is a daily newspaper online and when people say we need a daily paper in town, we have one. It's online at land@mobile.com. It's a dollar for the first month, 6, 15 months after that and we can take PayPal now where that should be operational today. All right. But you know, so, and there's a dollar, there's a dollar, a little pass there. So day pass that you can do for one buck and you don't have to be committed if you just, if you're commitment phobic. So there's different ways to do it helps us keep going and doing this work. All right. We'll keep it up Rob. Appreciate it a lot. Thanks for joining us again on this Thursday. Happy birthday to you. Well, thank you. I've had quite a few. We'll see how many more I get. Thank you. Rob Holbert, land@mobile.com and we're coming back to wrap up mobile mornings on this Thursday. Let's know who's coming up on the Jeff Porsche show and get to as many texts as we can. That's on the way right here on Mobile Warnings. A-54 FM Talk 106.5 in Mobile Warnings, this segment brought to you by 1-800-GOT-JUNK. Making junk disappear. That's what they do. They've been doing it here in Mobile and Baldwin counties for over 16 years now. Trebin, it has a fantastic crew. He's assembled over that time. If you call him 1-800-GOT-JUNK or go online and set that appointment up, they'll give you a pre-onside estimate with all inclusive pricing and no hidden fees. 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And in hour number three, former state senator Dick Brubaker, who endorsed his former primary opponent, Caroline Dobson, just last week for AL2 and that congressional race. You had a good idea, hey, whoever was it, whoever loses, whoever loses that race just becomes mayor. Just slap mayor on them. Yeah. So if Dobson wins, figures is your new mayor, figures when Dobson is the new mayor. Rebecca says, Bradley Byrne was my first thought yesterday when I heard Stimson was retiring. Let's see. Backstrap says, chief Barber would be a great mayor, same with Sam Cochran, and not, you know, Sam Cochran. We saw that a little earlier, the former sheriff might be a pretty interesting name to keep an eye on. Oh, it seemed like a steady hand, right? Maximus says no, dine would be a killer mayor. All right, Maximus, Dan, let's see. I think that's actually texting someone else back, squirrel, Vereen. Let's see. Earlier we were talking about secret service. He said, I would like to go back to a rally, but I don't trust the secret service to keep it safe. Is the secret service going to keep everybody safe at Brian Denny Stadium this weekend? Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean, I think so. How could you not, when the highs of the country and the world are on you, you have to be perfect at this point. And what's amazing to me in this report that we were talking about earlier that report came out. They were so imperfect, Alton. There's no way they're going to suddenly get their stuff together. I mean, is there a single military man or lady anywhere near the top of that leadership structure at secret service? How can you not even just basic preparation for any kind of event have a security plan and not just a security plan, but a fall back and a fall back to that fall back and a fall back. Anyone who's ever taken has been in charge of any kind of military command and if taken people into theaters of war. Can you imagine them running an operation like we've seen the secret service run? I mean, this is bureaucracy to a T where you have people who have no idea what the hell they're doing. You add that to their complacency and their belief that everything is just going to be fine because it's been fine up until this point. Pennsylvania seemed like the whole attitude going into that was, hey, it's going to be hot. Hey, man, it's going to be hot. So careful. I don't know if you want to go up on that roof. And you know, secret service snipers, counter snipers weren't even supposed to be there. It's fortunate that they were there to end the shooting when they did, but that building should have been covered. They should have been communicating the whole way through absolutely embarrassing for secret service. The Trump at Brian Denny this weekend, I wouldn't be worried about it. 859, Dan Adalton and Mobile Morning's back with you in the morning.