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Jeff Poor Show - Monday 9-30-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] From Bucks Pocket to the shores of Orange Beach, at all points in between, an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jeff Porchow. I don't think Hank done it this way. [MUSIC PLAYING] Good morning. Welcome to the Jeff Porchow on FM Talk 106.5. Thank you for being with us on this Monday morning. Text slide 251-343-0106, as I get touched with the program, if you so choose. Come up in about 30 minutes from now, talk to Jeff or Fiddler, or every other Monday, I guess. Bit, bit to say, she's been in a lot of stuff, particularly dealing with the problem or issue. Yeah, it was called the issue, the Haitian migrant issue, tracking that down. And I think what's more important than anything kind of being responsive to people's concerns. Yeah, believe it or not, I mean, that's just that there's-- I don't know, like skepticism to this is really a problem, but we get to that more in a moment. I've been thinking about that a little bit lately. Also the program today, Keith Blackwood, the Mobile County District Attorney, and we're talking about that new statue. We have Senator Barfoot on last week, but like a crime deterrents and really what are we supposed to think of? I think there's a gang problem in Alabama. Not necessarily quite as bad as here in Mobile's other places, but there's actually a bill on the books, a law on the books that would address that. And coming out of the last session, arguably, we've seen an increase, not a decrease in this problem. And so what gives? And finally, Dale Jackson, WV it in. You know, Hammer News are calling in this morning, so stay tuned for that. The Western North Carolina just absolutely-- I mean, it looks like I guess a hurricane did sort of go through there. If you recall, back in early August, I took a week off. And my three-year-old that I made a trip from Fair Hope all the way to Washington, DC. But we went through Western North Carolina. And I was like, kind of explaining to him, like, look what happened. We were just there like a month and a half ago. I was born in Brevard, North Carolina, so this has got a lot of family in that area. But you know, I guess this is sort of a political talk show. What do you think is going to have a bigger impact on the North Carolina electorate? The guy running for governor are like half the Western portion of the state being underwater. And what looks to be like a seemingly unresponsive federal government is wherever a Katrina situation. I guess it just matters to who the constituency is. When there's-- if we're going to make any sort of race, any sort of outrage, but there's something really-- it feels like it took till today for the media to really kind of get on board and say, hey, what's going on here? But all weekend, you're just seeing no internet, no cell service. I'm an uncle with no one's heard from since before the storm. And what's the deal here? But this is-- well, we got the usual suspects. Republicans pounce headlines from the Beltway Press, so there's that. We'll get to that more in a moment. Donald Trump in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night also heard there was a football game. There's a couple of football goons in the state that didn't go the way I had hoped. But I congratulations to Alabama fans out there. Who would have-- driving back from-- I know this is the Auburn's channel, but driving back, let's say the Bama game from Auburn. I can't believe they got rid of Eli Gold. You got Alabama fans that listen to the games on the radio. Am I wrong here? Tyler Watts, who at the Pelham High School, by the way, I don't know, just-- there's a-- you expect to hear a certain voice, and there's a certain nostalgia associated with the voice who call the games, and there's nothing there for me. But maybe, after it comes, I'm an Auburn fan. Not that Auburn has a legacy there. At least there are guys, kind of the Auburn radio network, guys, kind of follow the same cadence. Donald Trump, well-received. In Tuscaloosa, we knew he would. And, you know, early on with Alabama running up to score, well, you thought, well, half the state of Georgia probably turned the game off. But then Georgia made a game of it. So maybe that did kind of work out the way they had hoped. Let's see here. What else we got? Oh, this made big news Friday. We did a story in 1819 news, 1819news.com. What's Allen? The Department of Justice, the Biden DOJ is suing. What's Allen and the state of Alabama not allowing the, making the accusation that the state is purging bond citizens within a certain window, which is a violation of federal law. And the quote unquote purge is just like who's a citizen? Who is it? You got to be a citizen to vote in our elections in Alabama, per the state of Alabama, and the DOJ says, hey, you can't do that this close to the election. Who do you think you are? Yeah, and it's made some national headlines because the wink and the nod is like, let's contaminate the well. Let's make it look like it's Republicans who are playing unfair. Look, a lot of signs here that this could go Republicans away. I'm not trying to get high on my own supply here. We start seeing these sort of tactics. And one of the big tells I thought today I saw a story about, is it time to do away with the electoral college? Is there seeing like these stories about the popular vote and what the way we do our elections and then they're like these, are they send reporters out on the beat to cover things in a way that would be beneficial to Democrats? Well, I mean, everything they do is that, but particularly on the selection discussion. That's another one of these signs that suggest they're losing. There's a bunch of news out there right now showing a lot of favorable things for the former president, over the vice president. Now we got a debate tomorrow night, the vice presidential debate. Like I said, this will be fun for guys like us to watch, but it's not going to matter. Do y'all remember the last presidential debate? Yeah, no one really does, do they? But a bunch of favorable signs here. Mitch McConnell and his Senate leadership fund coming out the sidelines and getting more engaged in other states. The show's, I don't know about a wave, but at least a, at least a higher tide for Republicans. That's one, did they see some data? They see some things to put some money in some races besides what they've been, the two they've been focused on are Montana and Ohio, but now they're starting to play in some other states. I still think North Carolina is going to break four Republicans more that they were going to try to use this in battle. This lieutenant governor, they were going to try to make him the story and their narrative got crushed by hurricane Helene. Because like I said, like a big portion of that state is not getting like a good quality response from the federal government. I think that impacts the electorate. I mean, it certainly, it certainly makes people think, you know, well, this is the Democrat run government here. Western or Carolina, it's the exception of like Boone in Asheville and something to hippie-dippy places. I mean, it's a red place, generally speaking. But if you start depressing those turnouts in those blue cities because the Biden administration doesn't really, I don't know, maybe the little slow coming out of the gate here, what their disaster response, it's a wash. I mean, this is going to be an election. There will be an October surprise, but it still feels like an election that we're voting on the status quo. Do you like what you got now? Well, vote for four or more or years of Kamala Harris or if you don't like it, vote for Trump. And it's not really going to be about the candidates necessarily because people don't want to think about their tax policy here or there. They just, it was okay when Trump was president that there was the pandemic. But other than that, I mean, you know, things were terrible and things are seem, at least the perception is that they have gotten worse under Biden and that's what's going to happen. That's why people are going to vote. It's not going to be. I mean, you're going to hear a lot of noise and then the top of the ticket. Members of Congress, especially our delegation, feel really good about the House. They think, well, they don't think a big blowout like 20 seats, but they think potentially 8, 9, 10 seat majority that the House will grow as majority or Republicans, despite all of the all of the struggles in the House Republican caucus. They said Senate maps are very favorable. It's the Democrats are in trouble there. I mean, there's even to talk about Larry Hogan, who's running on the Republican ticket in the Senate in Maryland, picking that seat up, and he'd be a terrible Republican, but he'll caucus with the Republicans. And Republicans will have the gavel if he worked to win. So keep an eye on that. But I tell you guys, this North Carolina stuff is the longer this goes on and the slower response time. You hear these just crazy stories about looting and, you know, no one being able to get in or out. And it's a weird place. If you've ever been there, you know, the roads. You have to go over a mountain down into a valley to get to Asheville, even the interstates. So not a lot's coming and going. I guess with like Katrina, if you think of a hurricane, there's not a lot of mountainous roads on the coast. There's none. And you're able to kind of clear a path a little easier. This, the roads of, like, interstates are completely washed out. Like half of I 40 between Asheville and Statesville gone. But you go up over these mountains and you go down and they build these cities in the valley. And the roads that have to cross the mountains are totally gone. Not leaving a lot of options to get in and out. Anyway, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, give me a lot to work with there. So give me some feedback and we will pick it up on the other side. This is the Jeep 4 Show on FM Talk 10065. All right. Let's take it on down to muscle shows to the potatoes. Mmm, burling now. Ooh, my gosh. (upbeat music) Right up over Spanish, forward into Mobile, my hometown. Mr. T. Welcome back to the Jeep 4 Show on FM Talk 10065. Thanks for staying with us on this Monday morning. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. If you need to be in touch with the show, you know what to do. Find me on the hit me up on that text line. We'll go through some of these text real quick. We'll get to our next guest, Jennifer Fiddler, coming up in a few minutes. We have a people problem now, but I have too many bad parents that teach you right and wrong about their kids are from Daniel. And they text you. You know, I gave us a little bit of an explanation, but from what I understand the university really never said anything about that. They have to. I just, you keep him. He's like the brand, the franchise. Even if he is, he's like Harry Carey. I mean, now when I was, they made the switch when I was a kid to Eli Golden. And it was, it was kind of a lukewarm reception, but it kind of grows on you. And they, I don't understand this abrupt departure. But I mean, I'm not an Alabama guy. I had to agree with you with Eli Gold. He was the voice of Alabama football. Well, I don't have a basketball as well. Like he had a, I read his book. Well, listen to his book and I mean, like he could call a lot of other sports as well. Like he is. Well, the thing about him, usually the voice of your, especially at SEC, the voice of your athletic program or whatever radio effort is very football heavy. But he was like a good basketball announcer as well. And it's a rigorous schedule, but I just, I don't get it. I don't, these, the talent they have now is okay, but it's, some of it's kind of annoying. Some of it's a little too Homer. You, you're, you're an answer to be a Homer, but I mean, you don't want them like, I, I felt there's too much like pep rally talk on the radio Saturday night. I'll see here. I have a very Chris and Orange Beach, a very bare ball. You know, like gold, football, the voice of football. So maybe running a lot of gold out of Alabama football radio. They should go to hell for it. It's a city called baseball game for the Yankees. Joy here. I used to list all the Alabama Auburn and Alabama games. I just listened to Auburn. I possibly watch Alabama try listing, but with our Mr. Gold, I just can't without Mr. Gold. I can't get into it. Jay Sir James will actually totally agree with you, Jeff. Eli Gold is truly missed and in two to this Bamber agree with you about Eli Gold. So it's like Chris Stewart's best game. Eli was told he slipped the past couple of years. Not sure about that. I mean, just like when you listen to Eli Gold, I mean, you could tell he was prepped and he had like all his methods or maybe antiquated. But I, I, the, the duper on casters, something very sterile about it. Even with the excitement that they are cheer, cheerleading Alabama for sure. Maybe that's what you want. But, but it feels so cookie cutter, right? It just feels, I might as well be listening to like Ole Miss or some other like mid major. Um, and like it doesn't, it doesn't really stand out. Chris Stewart is probably a nice guy, I'm sure, but like, the way that Eli Gold sort of was just dispatched and they didn't have like a ceremony. I mean, like have like a last year and make a big deal out of itself. So I'm telling country Ford or whatever sponsors leaving. What was that? Was that the problem that he couldn't cause. Yeah. All these like classic Eli Gold sponsors. You know, you could hear him in your head and maybe they weren't coming back. But I, I don't get it. I listened, I listened to most of the game on the radio on Saturday night. And, you know, who are the like marquee. Essie, who calls college football anymore? It's like Learfield communications taking a lot of these stations or whatever. And it's not as, uh, it's not as iconic. Right? Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, we'll be right back. This is the Jeff Moore show at FIT Talk, 106.5. I'm getting hammers sitting right here at the floor of Pamela. At the floor of Pamela, my starship, across the universe divide. And when I reach the other side, I'll find a place to risk my spirit if I can. I'll go back to the Jeff Moore show at FIT Talk, 106.5. Thanks for hanging out with us on this Monday morning. We do appreciate it. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. You want to be in touch with the show? You just got to text me and I'll do my best to respond. Uh, apparently the, the most interesting compelling topic of the day is Eli Gold is the voice of the Crimson Tide, which I did not see coming. Uh, I will just say, listen to Alabama football and the way over Auburn this weekend. And I, I don't know what happened there. Uh, anyway, enough of that. Joining us now here in the Fair Hope Bureau, always a pleasure to bring out my next guest, State Representative Jennifer Fiddler, a good morning representative. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you doing, Jeff? Doing well, doing well. Thanks for making time for us. We always appreciate you coming on. Uh, let's kick it off here. You've been really, um, on the, on the task here with the, at least a thread or the perception of a resettlement of Haitian migrants in Baldwin County, got any news or have you been able to figure out anything? Um, well, just to give everybody an update, the, this all, I guess it all sparked with a, um, meeting that was in the enterprise area that Jay Palmer had. Um, Jay has a, um, a relationship with some Haitian ministers that informed him that we would have a thousand patients come to Baldwin County. And, um, so I started trying to figure out a little bit about the program and it, what it is, is the Cuban Haitian Venice, uh, they're from Warra. Yeah, they're from. Yeah, see H in V programs to your program that, um, people in asylum. It's in a parole program that people can come in from those other countries. And they get moved over here to the United States. And he made the comment that they were illegal. They're illegal in the sense that Congress did not approve and appropriate the funding for that. And then they're legal in the sense that the executive branch has approved it. Uh, secretary Mayorkas, um, has said, yes, it's okay. So we've had reports of this going on throughout Alabama, North Alabama. Um, the, um, in, um, representative Robbins area in silica, where he is actually done some one on one interviews with, um, those folks, some of those folks that could speak English. And, um, so it's some as fear as like, is this, I'm just doing fact checking. Uh, is this true? I mean, we've got it from Mr. Palmer. Um, and so we've been trying to find the point person at the federal level. Uh, I've reached out to the federal delegation. I've reached out to the governor's office. I've reached out to some of my Dela Democrat colleagues. I've reached out to, um, many people. I've reached out to some of my folks that own apartment complexes just to find out if there's anything that they've heard and anything they know of that's happening. And who can I find? Who is this point person? And, uh, basically I've been told when you find them, let us know. We'd like to talk to them too. Well, let me, I guess there's not much you can do at the state level, right? Like, yeah, it's a federal issue. But like thinking about what can the state do or what can local government do? No, no, I don't think the city councilman here in Fair Hope who signed that letter did himself any favors, even if he did it two years ago. That created this sort of, I don't know, rumor mill or whatever that's going on. But I think people want to know, like, well, traffic laws being forced, are we going to make sure people have to have drivers license to drive or is it going to be like chaos like Ohio? Is it zoning laws? I mean, there's, there's like things where, you know, you saw how many people can live in a single family dwelling, those kinds of things that sort of lead to the, that are maybe, um, like kind of the consequences of a big influx of people. What can the state do or what is the state? Where does the state have any authority over any of this? I mean, so from your role, you'll look at state government. I don't know that there's much you can do, right? Um, I've gotten a lot of ideas. For example, what is Florida doing? What is Texas doing? Because they are known to have the toughest immigration laws. So let's look at those. How do they differ? They've gone through court. They've made it through the court systems. Let's see what they've done. How about the NGOs? Do we have any regulation on these 501(c)(3)s? The non-governmental organizations that are given money, um, and... Don't you need like a business license and can you regulate that? I don't know, but those are questions that we need to vet. Um, is there something we can do on that level? Driver's licenses, tags. You know, is there something on that level that we can do? Yeah, I think there's a lot of things we can look at. Absolutely. Yeah, well, that's a good point you make about the NGOs. I mean, they allegations out there. So this is just hearsay or whatever. If they are a decommitted fraud by alluring people to come to places in Alabama and tell them that they have a job, a house, or whatever, a place to live, just come on, get on the bus, and they're taking money from these people. And then they get here and it's not quite what they were told it would be. That's fraud. That seems like something that could be pursued by Alabama's criminal justice system, right? You know, that's a question. Yeah, the one, I hope, but unfortunately, you know, I'm going to repeat this story that I had a colleague tell me. He interviewed one of the Haitians and the Haitian told him that he had dropped in Florida, got flown into Florida, dropped, didn't know really where to go, what to do. I'm not sure where the sponsor is at this point, but didn't know where to go. He finds this person that says, "I will give you a job." They go get bus to Silicon. They live in -- many of them live in one home, so there's several people that can pay $100, $150 a month to sleep on the floor. He pays $75 a week, you know, to get to the job. And then he may work, he may not work. Just -- it's almost a form of indentured servitude. And so we need to be -- it's not fair to them. It's not fair to the people that, you know, the communities that are -- that this is happening in. It's kind of -- I think the -- the fear was, oh, my gosh, is there 1,000 people that don't know our culture. They don't have driver's license. Oh, we don't know their culture. Right. All this. And who is the sponsor? Because whenever I've done the research and talked to Congressman Barry Moore, he said, you know, they're coming here and they may not -- we can't find the insurance form. So it's a burden on the rural hospitals who are already in, you know, not so great shape across the state of Alabama. And they don't have insurance. So they may rack up a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of bills or, you know, where that's part of the issue. The sponsors need to be held responsible. And even if we abided by the federal law, which is stated, if you read the -- about the program on the federal website, it talks about the sponsors are supposed to be -- have insurance on these. We just can't find the people that are actually responsible, which is concerning to me. That's the -- that is where I've been doing all the digging on that side. You know, I've gotten to the point where I'm about to call the Haitian Consulant and see if I can't. But if you're -- you know, if we can't find on the federal side or, you know, federal delegation is telling me the same thing that I found, which is can't find -- can't find anybody on that -- the point person over the program, that's -- that's not good. It's weird, right? Usually there is a chain of command or something, and this seems to be happening. Now, the way it's been explained to me, it -- it's that whatever the federal government is doing, it's doing, but the pastor or these NGOs, and we're trying to, like, figure out, well, then, you know, what's that? That seems to be, like, you find that link between the NGO and whatever agency, bureaucrat, or whatever the federal government. Then maybe you're making some progress, but that's -- that's been the big mystery for a lot of these guys. And I -- I don't know. I don't know what the answer to that is either. Yeah, we're still looking at it, and I have to say I appreciate Lieutenant Governor Ainsworth. He sent a letter to Secretary of Mayorkas telling him about this plight and how, you know, just not there it is. I don't know how many of you seen that. I did -- I posted it, and it was on X. But I appreciate him taking a stance and trying to find out, you know, what's going on and stopping the program until we can vet it a little bit better. He said so that was really important to the event you and I were at the other night to point clear Republican women, like, I think that they're trying to bring some of these Haitians here, but they're creating a dependency on the federal government. So, let's say Talladega County, for example, doesn't have the resources, the finances for an influx of Haitians. Probably Ballway County can handle a little bit better than they can, but in a mass number, there's a lot of things that they will be able to cover. So, good to the federal government, and the federal government creates this dependency. Well, Ainsworth said, "Look, I'm not going to take a penny from the federal government. We're not going to make this like a thing in Alabama." And maybe that would be like a maybe a deterrence from settling here. I mean, go settle somewhere else, but not here because we're not going to take the assistance for the federal government. And I mean, maybe, I mean, that might be exactly what's happening. I have to say too, I must say to everybody out there, that the cities are mayor here, Mayor Sullivan, has done some research of her own and talked to the cities and counties across the state because she's involved with the League of Minutes Pilates. And they have not reported a lot of crime or issues with the Haitians. So, for the people that are out there that are like a little bit fearful, you know, we haven't seen a lot of, you know, problems. It's just the problems of where they live in. They don't know our culture. There's no really job for them because sometimes they'll have a job at the poultry plant and, you know, some, you know, they may not, you know, talking to my colleague, he said, you know, they may be working 20% of the time. And this other time, you know, they're just kind of, you know, sitting around. So, trying, I guess not to get into trouble and enjoying our culture, but just interesting. Hey, it's a call out to anybody out there that may know who that point person is. Police contact our office, 251904615, 251904615, and let us know or text you, Jeff, you'll get it to me. Yeah, 2513430106 to the simple to text line. And I will pass that information along, joined by state representative Jennifer Fiddler here on the program. I guess like the next question I would have is, have you heard from the governor? Are the AG or any of the, like, state level hierarchy about this? Or have you, they sent any signals? I have reached out to the governor, the staff, governor's staff, and the governor's staff has assured me that they do not know, you know, when these settlements occur or the influx occurs, and they have little to no knowledge. They'd never get, you know, attacked, they'd never get contacted. So, that is what I've heard. They did kind of reach out to some other agencies for me with the same answer. Well, I mean, nothing. The reason you're engaged in this, I assume, is because your constituents are very concerned, right? Fair Hope City Council Monday night, well, we, you know, they were, they had read the article in 1819 news and just, and knew that Councilman, the Councilman, Corey Martin had sent a petition assigned his name on a petition. And that was for, just to, on Corey Martin's behalf, that was for a Ukrainian program. He mentions, but that name on the petition along with the thousand Haitians coming did create a lot of concern, and it all came to the city council meeting. They kind of conflated the two, right? Right. Because he signed that letter, they must be coming to Fair Hope, which never really no one, but that was sort of the assumption that was creating a lot of people, right? They put those two things together. He's reread it in the, you know, in a somebody saying it, and then you knew there was an invitation out there. Okay. Let's wait a second. We're not happy with this. And so there's a lot of people here that's very concerned, and I've just started vetting it on their behalf as a representative of the people and trying to find answers. Well, I just, it, I've seen like these sort of hysteria is created in Fair Hope over the years. I'm sure you have to. And the city council here is the place where people go. Like this one was bigger than usual. When you say standing room only, you know, seats outside the chambers there. So yes, and we did get off topic with some things throughout the night. But, but yes, there was, you know, we had a, that was a lively meeting. Library books, drag brunches, you know, the Karen Wilson era, whatever, they were all like, you know, sort of high drama, but this one, I think drew a lot of people. I did. I mean, they were, there was a lot of social media going on. So, you know, day two days, three days before the meeting. So, yeah, I knew it was going to be quite a bit, but. And I mean, in those kinds of fits, I don't know what they could do, but they didn't seem, I mean, they sat there and sat through it to their credit, but they didn't want to seem to like. I still want to deal with this. You know, this isn't really, this is really is it our thing and we don't know anything about this. Kind of blame the messenger. But anyway, let's get a break in here. We got Jennifer Fiddler sitting in studio with us. We'll be right back. This is the Jetport show on FM Talk 10065. This WKRG Newsbreak is brought to you by Roy Lewis Construction, delivering on their guarantee to provide a commercial construction project that stays on task and on budget. For guaranteed quality from start to finish, call Roy Lewis Construction for your next commercial project. [MUSIC] Welcome back to the Jetport show on FM Talk 10065. Thanks for staying with us on this Monday morning. Text line, if you want to get involved, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, still with us here for the next few minutes. State Representative Jennifer Fiddler, we've exhausted the Haitian topic. What's going on? Else is going on in the district. Well, I wanted to make sure everyone knew that there was a resolution passed through the Republican executive committee. The resolution requests that the cities of Baldwin County and Baldwin County look at the taxes that are imposed on hearing aids and impairments. The state legislature removed the state sales tax on hearing aids and impairments for residents of Alabama because Florida and Georgia and all of our neighboring states imposed these taxes. So we felt like this would be an increase in business for our people here in the state of Alabama instead of going out of state. And it would help the people that are on the lower socioeconomic level or the elderly to try to be able to better afford a way to be able to hear what's going on. There's so many people too that go out of the workforce because they have hearing issues. So the resolution asks requests that the cities of Baldwin County and the Baldwin County Commission really look and study at how much revenue those taxes are bringing in. And if there's a way to see the benefit for the people versus the benefit for the city or the county, weigh those and make a decision on if we should remove those taxes for a short, short term time period, long term time period, any partial time period. Our state law does have a sunset, so it will run out so we can look and see what the impact is in a couple of years. So that passed at the Republican Executive Committee and wanted to make sure everybody knew that. How much could the municipalities of these counties be raising from a hearing aid tax? Well, Baldwin County is going to be, of course, the biggest hit because it would be a county tax throughout the entire county. The city, some of that is going to go to your school, so they're going to possibly really look hard at that. The cities, you know, that's going to be probably negligible. If that will really look at these, this is like are we really building our school system on the foundation based on hearing aid sales taxes? I don't know, but such as the tax code, Alabama, I guess. Yeah, they're just, you have to look at that. They'll have to count on the governance and the leadership. We'll have to just look at it and see if it's something that they can get by with or not and make that decision, but this is just requesting that they take a hard look at it and consider, you know, the people's plight, you know, at that age in life. Usually it's most of our folks wearing hearing aids are above U-65 or older. Well, what else you got for us, anything? Interestingly, I was invited to a documentary regarding the vaccine and any injuries that they may have caused, and that's put on by the Children's Defense Fund. I did that a couple of weeks ago, and I think it's going to come out in the next couple of weeks streamed. So keep an eye on that. First of all, I just appreciate your time. We'll talk to you again soon. Thank you, Jeff. Y'all have a good morning. We've got to get a break in here. We'll be right back. This is FIT Talk with O-65. Excuse me, man. But where's the door? From Bucks Pocket to the shores of Orange Beach, at all points in between, an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jeff Porchow. I don't think Hank done it this way. Welcome back to the Jeff Porchow with FIT Talk with O-65. Thank you for staying with us on this Monday morning. We do appreciate it. Text line. The primary means of communication with the program, two, five, oh, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. Just keep the text coming. We appreciate the feedback. As always, still to come on the program. Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood. That's in about a half hour from now. So make sure you stick around for that. And then in the 11 o'clock hour, Dale Jackson calling in from a remote location, Tennessee, I believe, but we'll find that out in the 11 o'clock hour. Let's get two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. You get through some of these real quick, these texts. Uh, uh, I need a texture. Sit all the illegal aliens to live with the ones that have the Haitian Harris walls coming to signs in their yard. Uh, Sam, can't they ask the Haitian minister where he heard that they were coming? I think, uh, I don't know. I mean, how reliable is a Haitian minister? Maybe, maybe very reliable, but maybe not reliable at all. Uh, Daniel, but in a law that says any work visas without sponsors should not, should be considered illegal and deported immediately. Maybe you have that law already. It's just not enforced. But what's happening is the work, well, the sponsors, you, I guess you could sign anybody's name on it. How do you enforce a law like that? I think this guys, I think the real deal with this Haitian migrant stuff when, when all those people showed up at the Fair Hope city council meeting, are any other city council meeting mobile, wherever the, um, the alleged refugees are going to be settled. Make sure that your local laws are being enforced Haitian or whoever. But if they are driving these Haitians or drive without driver's license. It's a living in a home where there are limitations on how many people can live in the home. And there's any other like maintain law and order. How do you do that? If you can't speak the language. Have you thought about that Fair Hope city council? Well, you racist are, uh, I don't even look at that social media. Hey, reached my time. Okay. Uh, we get it. Uh, so. But that's what I think is important. So reassurances, even if you think it is a total, total like made up. Whatever you think of it, it's just a, uh, things got a little out of control and then what's happening in Fair Hope, Facebook page and, and, you know, we just can't let people have, uh, access to this rumor mill because it makes our telephones ring. Well, whatever at least show a little sensitivity. That's all they had. Yeah. I didn't don't just like belligerently. Criticize the messenger. Squirrel send the buyers to JD Crow's house. Seems like he would have already invited them. A less TB, the prejudice Klansman gets cartoon of his cartoons. Hey, Jeff, I'm a chart driver and that depends on getting loads in and out of the port. And if they go on strike here, mobile, it's going to hurt all of us drivers and the companies that rely on the port is there anything we as drivers can do to stop the strike before it starts. These people need to realize that they are hurting more people than their own people when they go on strike. And it's just the nature of organized labor. I'm afraid to say a name texture. I don't know what we could do. But you're right. I mean, the heat of an election cycle, and it would behoove a union presumably who supports Democrat candidates to get the settle now and rather than later. Or at least gets some kind of compromise until later. Mike, Jeff, I hope they pass this hearing aid garbage. It doesn't help many. Our government is failing right to each taxpayers front door. But it's astonishing how our education financing. I mean, Alabama has a very unique tax code. And this is what you would probably get under some kind of consumption tax if we did it nationally and did away with the federal income tax system and did away with the IRS. But your property is not taxed as much. And your tax based on like sales taxes and this is hearing aid tax and other taxes, that's where the real revenues generated in the state. And it goes way back back to the 1901 Constitution and just the influence that the farmers are back in the planters as they called them had over the Alabama political process. You had a state that was run by the big plantation owners, the big farm interest. Yeah, the low property taxes because of the land that they owned was in their best interest. So the state was like, well, we got to make it up on the other end. Well, they'll make it up on the sales tax side. We'll make it up on the income tax side, but primarily the sales tax side. And there's no ballots there. In fact, I would argue now in 2024 that it's you have some of the disabilities who see the low property tax at the state level. They just make up for it with higher property taxes at a local level. However, what is going on there is that's the system we have that you rely on sales taxes and not everybody else property. So not everybody's getting the benefit of our quote unquote low taxation, but they're having to pay. It's a regressive system, but there is a virtue in these so-called regressive systems because everybody who goes to the grocery store, unless they're using an EBT card, but everybody goes and goes buys a new pair of tennis shoes or whatever pays a sales tax and the sales tax is put into pots. So we all have buy in to whatever our government services are. But I will go back to what I said to Representative Fiddler. If you can't let go of how much ever sales tax you're raising out the hearing aid. I mean, we need to you need to think about where you're putting your money at. In a texture, I have to have insurance to drive. What about insurance? Oh, this is from Billy D. Well, yeah, well, that's best part of the traffic laws are going to force the traffic laws and we have a insurance requirement in Alabama. Oh, mine's finally come out. And he is addressing the recovery efforts on the hurricane. It took them all weekend to kind of catch up, but I mean, you hear some really, really devastating bad stuff going on in western North Carolina. Essentially, like they cut those roads through the mountains, guys. If any of you been, you know, where they just blast the rock out of the way. And it's well, and these torrential downboards are creating a waterway in a lot of places. So these roads, these major thoroughfares to get in and out of the cities, just become rivers and they weren't designed for that. So they get washed away and all the infrastructure along the way gets washed out and it becomes impassable. Daniel, it's 18, 19 news going to the what is 18, 19 news going to keep going the public information from the mayor of Montgomery. Yeah. So that's a fascinating story. It's our lead at 18, 19. So if y'all this, I know we're a mobile show, but I'm going to tell you what we're doing because it's kind of kind of crazy. The mayor of Montgomery is an official surrogate for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, which is fine. I mean, I understand how politics works and you got to have your guys and your people doing whatever, but let's check the city budget, the schedule. What's going on here? You know, our city resources being used for this endeavor. And we filed a public records request with the city of Montgomery. They went back and forth with us, told us that that was, uh, that was not something that, uh, well, fell under the, uh, the, the, you know, the requirements of Alabama's public records laws. So we got the attorneys involved. Well, finally we got to a place where they responded and they said, they're, okay, we'll, we'll work with you. And then they said, but first if you want these records, it's going to cost you $6,000 and we expect $3,000 of it up front. I mean, that's just, that seems absurd to me. Does it, does it seem a little, a little shady? But yeah, we're going to try to pursue it the best we can, Daniel. Uh, I don't know if we'll have success. We $6,000 is a steep price tag. But, um, we're going to find out like why so much, right? Sort of backstory there. A lead story in 18, 19 news, 18, 19 news.com. I named texture, maybe the Haitian migrant problem is government jobs program for French Creole translators. How many French were Creole out of work French Creole translators are there? Let's think about this too. So we have a labor shortage. There is a labor participation problem within Alabama and it's always in the mid 50%. So that's, that's one of the lowest in the country. Like 56% or something of that magnitude. Okay. Well, therefore, why would it be if we didn't have this, we have migrant labor in, let's say, Ballet County and other places, especially Ballet County, all of these ESL students and whatnot. Would it be higher or lower? And is it this are importing the cheap labor to Alabama, the pressing wages to a degree and then it, it, the wages are so low that people to start people who are natural board. Native citizens of Alabama. Aren't going to work for those low rates. And what's the rational thing to do here? And then I, I, I know that this is put it, put it to you like this. If you are not working, if you're just a guy and you're in your 20s and you receive a government assistance, but should you go take a job somewhere that's only going to pay you X amount of dollars, you're no longer eligible for these government freebies because you have work, let's going to probably disincentivize you going to work. Well, what if they, and this is not really a fair thing for these employers because they have to compete against the federal government as well or the state government or whoever providing these benefits, but they raise their wages and it's worth your while. So you're having to pay rent now. Your housing isn't subsidized and you're no longer taking Medicaid or whatever, but you're making, you've got a job and you're making a little bit more money and you're able to pay rent and you're able to provide health insurance for yourself. That's what you want. That's what you want. You want to get off the dependency, but you want to make it worth your while. So it's not just enough to meet the government and match what they're doing. You got to incentivize it way, way more. There's a premium that you have to add on top if you're a private employer. But also, like, are these employers having a hard time with their, I mean, are these employers, do they see this cheaper labor out here? They're reluctant to raise that labor. That's a big question. Anyway, we got to get a break in here. We will return. This is the Jeff Pore Show on FM Talk 106. 6-5. [Music] [Music] Welcome back to the Jeff Pore Show on FM Talk 106. If you're staying with us on this Monday morning, Mobile County District Attorney, Keith Blackwood coming up in the next segment. So stick around for that. Daniel continues with, that's crazy and shady as hell. I do agree. A name text here, $6,000-courage if he were in the city of Montgomery, Democrat managed, Democrat damaged. I like that. Democrat managed, Democrat damaged is a good slogan. Good job there. Peacock, I've been a manager for 20 years and had several employees explain to me how everything works. You have to have a low wage. You get free healthcare. You get free food stamps and you get this and that and damn food stamps. Now you go to the convenience store by $2 Coca Cola. I mean, it's unreal by the government screwed up. I've worked in service industry places where I've had people explain to me the whole system. And how you game the system to get, you know, there's about, but it's very rational. It's not like, Hey, look at these lazy people on the, uh, on the public. No, it's, it, no, it's like gaming the system. You, you make a certain amount of money per year. You don't, you don't like, especially like some of these guys would have children with a woman. And they would, you know, if you know, just kind of face of eye, you look at it and just a normal family. But they would not get legally married because if they got legally married. They don't get the benefits that a single mom gets. So they, I mean, there's, there's all of these weird perverse incentives. Uh, our disincentives or whatever that impact like a normal human behavior. Cause it comes the way it's supposed to work. And wait, we all think it's like, well, you don't like me anymore. Go, go to work and, and you know, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. But if the government says, well, we're going to pull you up by your bootstraps, but not if you make this much. And that's what this what you face. And it's just a screwed up system. Josh Montgomery mayor and people involved asking $6,000 for public records and the mayor spending tax payer money. It just sounds dirty. I bet there's a prosecution that this ever gets investigated. Uh, and a teacher says, thank you. Uh, that's D a blackwood about the excessive plague barning and improving records access to prevent early release of offenders when they have holds other warrants, et cetera. Well, my understanding squirrel is like they don't have a lot of room down at the Metro jail. Now, I don't think that they're like just releasing people. Well, maybe they are, but the system is overburdened. We expect like tough old crime policies from our elected officials. But we have a, well, that's not something undermining the criminal justice system, which I think is just Democrat voters who don't think that a very robust criminal justice system is really a good thing. They have the reasons. And you had these left wing nonprofits who are the same. And, but in the meantime, like a lot of people are right. Well, I can build more prisons. Like use the more judges, more prosecutors. Create this system that's very, this a deterrent. Or less crime, punish these criminals. But then there's people, well, what are you going to do? You got to put them in a whole men like that was built in like the 1920s or whatever and got a house. I'm in this like giant gymnasium of a room with a bunch of bunk beds in it where there's like third world diseases that are coming out of it. Well, we don't want to build more prisons are better yet about the prisons, guys. I mean, Governor Ivy does some good things, but she's really screwed the prison situation up with the construction. Ten years as governor, and they barely have any thing done on them. We'll be right back. This is FM talk one oh six five. You got to know when the hold up know when the pull up know when the walk away know when the run you never count your money. When you're sitting at the table, there will be time of the count. Welcome back to the job poor show. We'll have to talk one oh six five. Thanks for staying with us on this Monday morning. Still a couple to program. Not an hour from now. Call it in from Tennessee, I believe Dale Jackson and WVNN and yelling hammer news. But joining us on the line now, it's my pleasure to introduce our next guest. First time he's been on Mobile County District Attorney Keith and Blackwoods on the line. Keith, good morning. How are you? Good morning, Jeff. Doing well. Thanks for having me on. Hey, thank you for coming on. We do appreciate it. Well, how's it going so far? I mean, you and I haven't talked really at all, but got to add an election cycle and you're getting acclimated. What's the job been like? The job's been great, and we made a lot of progress since I took office in January of last year. We have worked through over 12,000 felony cases in circuit court alone. And our number of pending cases has gone down, which when I took office, that number of pending cases in circuit court hadn't gone down in about five and a half years. And so that was a really big focus of mine, because as everybody knows, you know, we had a tremendous backlog of cases partially due to the pandemic and working through that to make justice swift again was one of my primary focuses. Well, let's let's hit on the topic at hand, and I obviously I spend a lot of time talking about what's going on in other parts of the state just because they're getting all the screaming headlines. But as far as Mobile County goes, what's your perception? Do we really have these woes that like a Montgomery or Birmingham are having with gang problems or whatnot? But because if we are, it just doesn't seem to be quite as noticeable. We certainly do have gang issues in Mobile County. I know Birmingham and Montgomery in particular have had some really big problems that have made the news. Our issues with gangs, you know, we've really been able to target them with some kind of technology initiatives that Mobile Police Department and the Sheriff's Office and some other agencies have been using, and we were able to identify them. Kind of online through a social media presence. And, you know, we fly those cases at the district attorney's office. We take them very seriously. And, you know, we're especially seeing a big problem with juvenile gang members and this law that your reference last week and this, you know, been talked about very important law, but it really doesn't address the juvenile gang problem as much as I think it should. Well, that was my sort of quip about it was this, like we passed it. Our prosecutors just not using it or aware of it because you passed this and they had to really change on the language to satisfy some of the Democrats in the state Senate. But the law is on the books yet. Here it is. It just seems that this is perception. It may not be the reality, but there's been a spike since the law was passed in the gang problem. And when do we really get to go at it? But you, the way you explained it to me, it was like, look, we, this doesn't be like an underlying crime here before you could pursue that statute. That's right. The statute is really a sentencing enhancement and it took effect September 1st and last year. So these cases, a lot of them are pending your injury. Very few of them have been indicted, but we really haven't gotten to the point yet where we have a sentencing where we're able to apply a sentencing enhancement. That time's going to come and we're absolutely going to be using this criminal enterprise enhancement statute. It's got some pretty tough sentences behind it. And we will certainly be utilizing that. Well, unless other than the juvenile problem, or did you say this law doesn't really address, why would you like to? I mean, what would be what would be beneficial? Why should the legislature look at as far as giving you as a prosecutor more tools to deal with some of these problems? If I were granted my wish list, I think we need more prisons in Alabama. Right now, there's not a lot of prison space. Over 80% of the people that are in prison are in for horribly violent offenses. We need more space there. We also need more prosecutors. I was able to get some additional funding from the city and the county to hire a few more prosecutors. That's one of the big reasons that I've been able to work through the backlog that we had. But if you look at the American Bar Association standards for the number of cases that any attorney should be handling and the types of cases that we handle, the heavy lifting that we have to do, I probably need double the number of prosecutors. If we were to have a truly efficient justice system, I think that's a problem across the state, especially in the larger jurisdictions. But I'm a state agency. I get a little over $2 million of funding from the state. I make up for the rest of it locally. You look at indigent defense and the state just in Mobile County alone pays over $7 or $8 million for indigent defense. It seems like that indigent defense is funded way more than prosecutors are. I think that's something that needs a really serious look at the state level, fully funding prosecutor offices. What do you think the disconnect here is an Alabama because my assumption that I operate on and where red state and the voters or the people of the state sort of, I think, kind of call us running idea about being tough old crime. And that we should have a criminal justice system that is in some ways also serves as a deterrent. But when it comes to like just having what we need in place or what you need in place, I should say, to execute a tough on crime sort of criminal justice system. We're not, we're not really getting that. Are we? I mean, it just seems like we're really slow getting out of first gear, at least. Well, I think a lot of it is that, you know, our state, you're right. Our state is very rich. It's a very diverse state. We have just a very small number of larger jurisdictions and the crime that we're seeing in, you know, Birmingham, Montgomery, here in Mobile, maybe Huntsville and Tuscaloosa. The crime over the last several decades is different. You have a lot younger people committing crime. You have a lot more violent crimes that the technology aspect of it makes prosecutions very complicated. And I don't think the funding structure, especially for the larger jurisdictions, is really kept up with that. Our funding structure in DAs offices was kind of started in the 1970s under the current system that we have. It relied on a lot of these and what we call kind of gimmick funding methods, you know, badjack unit, the recovery unit that helps recover restitution and court costs from convicted defendants. And those things have kind of gone by the wayside. And so the larger offices, especially in our state, are not funded to the extent that they should be. I think that's something that's going to be talked about in this next legislative session coming up early next year. We're joined by Keith Blackwood. He is the Mobile County District Attorney here on the program. Well, you mentioned wanting more prisons and more prison space. And it doesn't doesn't seem like there's like an undercurrent here of like, no, that's not the solution. I mean, I mean, like somewhere along the way, we got off track here. Maybe it was George Floyd or whatever. But the policing, they're just really just promotion of these like, I don't know what you would call them alternative methods, de-escalation, or whatever the emphasis is put on those things and less just like, the lucky criminals up and put them away and maybe rehabilitating them. And so you don't have this problem anymore. I think there's a perception in the public that prisons are full of nonviolent offenders or petty drug users. That's just not the case. The vast majority of people that are in prison are in prison for violent crimes. There is a rehabilitative aspect to what we do for low level offenders, non-violent offenders. And I think that's important, treating mental health issues or drug addiction, things like that is important for preventing crime down the road. But I do think we need more prisons. There's plenty of violent crime out there. And as much as we try to prevent it, there's always going to be violent crime. So we need a place to put those offenders to keep all of our community safe. Yeah, and what about that, though? Have policing methods changed? I mean, I guess you're kind of new at this job, but I assume you're familiar with it, but are we, I don't know, necessarily solved on crime, but there's something going on here where, you know, five years ago, you didn't have some of these problems. Is it like another drug on the street that is changing people's behavior? I mean, what's changed to create at least my perception is that things have gotten a little worse out there out on the streets? I think, I think, massively, there's been an attack on our police. I think that's unfortunate. I've been in office almost two years now. I worked as a prosecutor coming up on 17 years now, but I really saw an assault on the police and the media during the Obama administration. There were some kind of nationwide events that happened, and there's been this narrative that's anti law enforcement. I think that has been a huge detriment to our partners in law enforcement, and it's something that they've had to deal with. They've had to adapt. There's a lot more focus on kind of public relations in the community. That's something that they've had to do with this national narrative that's been against law enforcement. You also have a lot of nonprofit organizations that are trying to open the doors of the prison, let violent offenders out. That's something that we've had to combat quite a bit during my time here at the DA's office. Well, the politics of it, and I don't really have a grasp of Mobile County like I should, but there seems to be kind of a mixed bag. You have the demonic constituents who are wanting the tough on crime, but do you ever get the sense that there are people out there that think we're too tough on crime or that we need to be a little softer. I mean, like I said, I don't know that exists, but that seems to be the direction of our politics in a lot of places around Alabama. I mean, by and large, the people that I come into contact with, and that's across the entire community, across all demographics, they want law and order in the community. And in their places in Mobile County, where the crime is particularly bad, you talk to the people that live there. They want the police. They want prosecutions. They want to feel safe in their homes. And yeah, that's something that we're trying to accomplish. We're trying to put bad guys in jail and keep them out of the communities. Well, and that's, you know, some places, I guess it's just that they just don't maybe necessarily have the resources. What about that? I mean, everywhere it seems in Alabama right now, even down here Mobile. I mean, you have some kind of drama, some kind of turmoil involved with the police department and the police, maybe they're understaffed or they have a morale problem or whatever. How much are you dealing with that at your level of it? Just like knowing that there's criminals on the street and maybe you're just maybe not being apprehended or dealt with. Well, we've got great law enforcement agencies here, the Sheriff's Office, the Mobile Police Department. Most of the municipalities are pretty good. We've done a lot of work with the city of Pritchard and the Pritchard Police Department to try to help them out. But morale has been a problem. Like I said, since I started seeing this in the national media during the Barack Obama administration, there's really this national narrative that is anti law enforcement here on the local level. I think most people trust the police. Most people support the police and we certainly work with them on a daily basis to try to prosecute these crimes. Well, and you said on your wish list, more prisons beyond that. I mean, is there another statute to enhance penalties or what else can you, where else the state level where they write these laws? Do you think there needs to be some work? Well, I think treatment sentencing needs to be pushed. We have sentencing guidelines that were pushed onto prosecutors about 15, 20 years ago. You've got the 13A as our criminal code. You've got the statute that gives you the range of punishment for felonies and misdemeanors. Then they push these sentencing guidelines that are presumptive in drug cases and property cases, and then they're voluntary for violent crime offenses. But generally, sentencing guidelines, the sentences are much less than what they would be under the statute. And then, you know, to make matters worse, the rules and the laws on parole allow offenders to get out early. So, you know, we may get a sentence of 15, 20 years for certain offenses, but they're going to be out in a matter of a handful of years because we don't have treatment sentencing. That's something that's been promised to us ever since the use sentence and guidelines came out, and it has not happened as of yet. Keith, appreciate your time this morning. Let's do this again real soon. Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Chris. Keith Blackwood, the Mobile County District Attorney there. We got to get a break here, be right back. This is have to talk what I was 6'5". See the stars right up the purple sky feel that long sumptures. Let's win them. [Music] A couple of guys in first class on a flight from New York to Los Angeles kind of making small tall, killing time. Welcome back to the Jeff Pour showed up and talk about those six five things are sticking around on this Monday morning. Text line 251343016 coming up in the next hour, Dale Jackson, WVN and the yellow haber news are Monday, a regular. We'll talk to him about, well, I could probably crime. I mean, I'm think I've noticed where a lot of the attention has been put. You just heard the district attorney for Bobo County there, but we didn't get into it, really. A Glock switch is a constitutional permitless carry. I could hear the sheriff's that if they're listing cringe, whenever I say constitutional carry, but it's the moniker that has been applied to it, so it is what it is. Now, we heard last week that the Big Ten Mayors, which is, well, you can see if I can do this on top of my head, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Huntsville, Decatur, Hoover, Madison, Dothan, Auburn, and Tuscaloosa, how's that? They were scheming to get that constitutional carry law repealed. The permit was carry because this was the time to do it. You had the shooting in Birmingham and you have these high crime situations. Now is the time to make the push, make your case and get this law to books that a lot of these municipalities don't like for whatever reason, but the sheriffs as well, because, well, they were collecting a gun permit fee off of these permits. And now you do away with that requirement. They're not collecting as many fees and that's sort of the rub there. And as soon as that rumor got out and I can tell you where it started, it was like a Hoover City administrator or police chief or police commissioner, giving a speech with lawmakers present, telling them that it was common. It was going to get repealed and you better watch out because they're coming for you. You better not support or you better not oppose our effort to repeal it, which was news to us. I mean, we're in a news organization. So we start calling around to these mayor's offices and got a lot of pushbacks. And that's not what we're going to do at all. We're not really interested in that. Now the fight you'll see for the big 10 mayors probably has to deal with the SUT. They want to raise your internet sales tax and don't buy it guys. What they want to tell you is, well, this will help the local mom and pop business and army municipality because they will be paying a tax rate that is in line with what these online retailers have. So you want to support your local businesses, don't you? Well, then we should raise your taxes, which is kind of crazy. But that will be what Walmatics and Chris England and those guys try to do this year. But I don't think they're coming for doesn't sound like there's much of an appetite to come for per minute. Let's carry this year. We'll be right back. This is the Jet Four show and I've been talking about 065. Mona, try to tell me to stay away from the train line. She said that all the railroad men just drink up your blood like wine. From Buck's pocket to the shores of Orange Beach at all points in between an insider's perspective on Alabama politics. It's the Jet Four show. I don't think hang down in this way. Welcome back to the Jet Four show and if we talk with 065, thank you for staying with us on this Monday morning, 251. 3430106. You need to be a touch of the show. Just hit me up on that text line and I'm happy to respond. Still to come, Dale Jackson to be being in and yell him our news. So stay right where you are. Just a couple of texts to get to here. Based on our past discussions, Daniel, we have to stop putting people to jail for life. That should never walk the Kurt streets against fast track, the deputy, a dog that baits and attacks is put down. We should do the same for killers. I'm hesitant for government. It just philosophically to be putting people down as if they were, you know, a dog. I mean, I don't have a value on life. But if somebody, there is evil in the world, you have to put it down, but just like, where does that definition of evil really, really begin? And here's what I'd say, Daniel. I barely trust the government to deliver the mail sometimes to give them this authority, this broad discretion to use to use the heavy-handed government to punish people. Who's to say that these entities that are and by men don't get corrupted and use the power of government to pursue their political opponents as we've seen at the federal level? I just, let's kind of rein that in a little bit. I get where you're coming from, but that's my problem. It's just, but when you say that, you're assuming that doesn't charge the government or honest actors always. And some are. Most are. Some are not. Oh, I got a image here of a time magazine cover, and it says in trouble period. And Jeff, your comments regarding the current time magazine cover. And it's Donald Trump in a golf cart, it appears, at least from this angle, which could be two things. I mean, like, art is what you take away from it, I guess. This magazine art doesn't mean that time magazine to trouble because Donald Trump's coming back and they're ilk. The left wing is in trouble. Art is Donald Trump in trouble because what's he loses his election, they're going to pursue him and throw him in jail or something. So I don't read a lot of time magazine these days. Guys, the art of magazine writing has died, but like, it's also kind of people don't consume their news that way anymore. What's happened is, and then any time magazine still kind of does this time magazine thing. But whereas you only had a half dozen sources you would read on a regular basis, maybe your daily newspaper. Like I said, you're a handful of magazines or whatever. Now you have exponentially more sources to read every day to keep up. So who's got time for a four thousand word article? So like the art of magazine writing is died because people never want to just don't subscribe. And then the opportunity just the flood of information makes it more difficult to keep up with and like. One of the things I just kind of realized magazine reporters after the bubble copeland episode. A lot of magazine reporters reached out to us wanting to do the magazine story because it it. If they did it right, which they are all have their own takes, so I just don't trust any of them. That kind of format might lend itself to a magazine story. But what you find is just like the same old cookie cutter like taking the usual sources and combining it with. You know, the handful media clips that the mayor there did before this episode. But you find that these magazine writers who do this for a living who freelance and the way magazine writing works, Daniel. Are not Daniel, but unnamed texture is you write the big story, you submit it, then you're working like on a freelance basis, a contract basis. But the people who make their money this way, it used to be a way more lucrative. They are not good at their jobs anymore. So they talk about Tucker Carlson. He used to write these magazine pieces. You could read. He's got a book out of his old magazine articles. Or he would get embedded with a campaign or go on some kind of junk it overseas and write about it and do the big, you know, like I said, 4,000 word story. The people just don't read it anymore. So journalists have found other ways to make a living other than magazine writing. But the ones who stuck with it are very bad at it. They just, it's a law start. So what I like watch, well, I see something like that from time magazine. I just think. They're trying to sell magazines and trying to maintain a level like a circulation to draw in advertisers. And I think it's just meant to be provocative, I guess. There's a long one to the explanation for you squirrel. What happened to the 1819 news magazine? And then we did a little bit of that. It's a. It's been put on the shelf. Maybe I think we do it once a year now. Essentially, 1819 news had a quarterly magazine. And we do these long form stories, but like I said, who's random? I wrote a column for it. And my reporters were all responsible for a one long story. But yeah, it's gone now. All right. It's scaled back, I should say. And a text or jet disagree with you on public execution. Somebody wants to kill your wife and cold blood and they're calling it on videotape. And they had a trial. We found guilty. Would you want 25 years or failure to put the death or hang on the courthouse square two weeks? Well, I'll tell you what the difference here, a name text or a zest. If you're a family member, if you're next to Ken, you get to go. They will you are given so many seats. If you're a victim of one of these debt penalty crimes. You can witness the execution. If that's something that puts you to peace or whatever. I think we're just a barbaric society. Well, I don't think you want a public execution. Because I guess that I I very, very wary of the the public system here abusing it. Anyway, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, watching the the scenes from Asheville or Carolina. Build more village right outside of kind of to the south east of Asheville. This is where it looks like it really flooded where the French Broad River is. But anyway, here it is. It's like horror stories coming out of there. I know it's like, oh my gosh, here we go again. But. This really hurt Bush in 2006. Everybody said, well, this is Biden's Katrina. How close are we to becoming Biden's Katrina? Because the people who are there's complaints of looting of crime of things going on. People getting robbed. There's no like civil authorities there. I saw like a report of a truck with supplies coming in, but stopped at a rest area. They got its tire slashed and like people robbed the truck. And we're not really getting those stories, but that's the kind of thing that feeds this narrative like, hey, good job Brownie or whatever Bush said with FEMA. And even if that work going on, I don't expect the media to cover it as such because they used Katrina in 2005 to go out to Bush and set themselves up for the 2006 midterms. That's the deal here. Whenever there is a presidential election, these catastrophes always get pinned on to current administration. Remember, they did this to Trump with Puerto Rico. The difference here is it doesn't seem like it's matters to the media. And maybe that's why the, well, we don't want to make our buddies in the Biden administration look bad. But I am telling you guys, North Carolina is in play if it really is. And they're banking on this screwball gubernatorial campaign on Republican side to drag down the ticket. You want to see something that drags down the ticket. I think this really drags down the ticket. If the Biden administration mishandles this by many accounts, they are. Sometimes it binds his yellow would be a distraction, but he will come visit Western North Carolina in the coming days. And this is a place I'm very, very, very familiar with. I was born in Brevard, North Carolina, just south of Asheville watching these Facebook groups around these places I grew up. And people haven't heard from their loved one. There's no cell tower service. There's like a handful of SkyLink Elon must station set up for people to get on the Internet. And at least let next to Ken know that they're okay. But these work to spiral out of control and maybe they won't because we're kind of past that point. In this part of that state, it would have it impacted Lee and purple state. Look, I've never bought the numbers that that that Kamala Harris could win, North Carolina. I just, there's a lot of wishful thinking and some of the sampling that this comes out of the polling there. However, they played this card with this governor and they had the oppo and somebody shopped it to Andrew Kaczynski at CNN. And he's made a lot of hay out of it. And it's gotten all over the mainstream media. But this they have shut up about the lieutenant governor in North Carolina for the time being. Does that look exploitive? Squirrel, the hurricane won't be Biden's Katrina because the media and Oprah won't make it the racial narrative. No one outside of a disaster zone will care about a hurricane. Well, maybe nationally. Now, let's say this was Alabama and they were mishandling it in. I don't know, we were usually the victims in this listing area of a hurricane. Let's say it was being mishandled in Birmingham. And you were like somewhat familiar with that area. I mean, I think, I think in this case, it's all local. We may not see the blow up nationally, but locally, you're gonna. The Charlotte Observer and some of these local newspapers aren't really in like national election mode. They're in crisis management mode. And assuming people read the newspapers, but the local TV stations, this perception is going to come out of the local media there is what matters and not so much New York Times or MSNBC or whatever. But the local media aren't going to paint a fuzzy warm picture because it's just not that at all. There's a reality on the ground. So like, I think this impacts the election. But I wouldn't, when I would say squirrels, I wouldn't rely on that coming out of the national media. Like who would doorkill on in that part of the state as cable right now anyway? You're in a rotten, crummy situation. And a federal government is not reacting like we are told or expected to. And maybe some of those expectations are a little. Or a little high. But whenever you're in this miserable situation and you're probably cussing out Biden or somebody, who are you? How does that impact your voting behavior? I don't know the answer to that. But my guess would be it's not good for the current and president. Toothless Bamber. Mississippi Alabama, Mississippi Gulf Coast, prepared to some degree for hurricanes. Ashmallows the last place these residents would expect to storm. Reports are that they are suffering there. And you're right, media isn't going to make this another Bush Katrina. I'm just telling you, watch the local media there. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. You wouldn't be touching the program. It is up there. This is the Jeff Moore show. What if I'm talking? One, zero, six, five. I still act and look the same. Watch you see ain't nothing new cause I was country. It's where I drank my first beer. It's where I found Jesus. Where if my first car, I tore it all to pieces. I learned the path to him. There's full of sinners and believers. Learned the happiness on her. Ain't just for high achievers. Welcome back to the Jeff Moore show. What if I'm talking about those six, five dates are sticking around. On this Monday morning, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. Dale Jackson coming up in the next segment programming note working on the guest list for tomorrow. But I, as we always do on Tuesdays, have John Wall, the Alabama Republican Party confirmed. So I have him and two other guests to be named later. Maybe one of them will be confirmed by the conclusion of today's program. But that's coming up on tomorrow's broadcast. See what else we got here? Major disaster declaration approved. Once again, Donald Trump in Alabama and Tuscaloosa on Saturday night. And just, I know my crowd, which is Breitbart News and others, are very, very excited about some of this. Like the image of Donald Trump with Hank Williams, Jr., Kid Rock, John Daly, and there was like an MMA fighter. Yeah, yeah, don't forget our friend Katie and Wesley, Prince Katie and Wesley Bred and Tommy Tuberville. I suppose the coach Tuberville, he was at the Auburn game. And then he flew across state before, or actor, before the Auburn game started, he left. They called a plane and went to the Alabama game there. But Trump in the box, assuming he saw a pretty good game, I watched a little bit of it. A dinner in Montgomery on the way home and then listened to the rest of the radio. Like I said, my comment on this was like, gosh, guys, like Chris Stewart, Tyler Watts are very, very generic. So where is he like gold? Where is that kind of, it's just not, maybe it's just, it's going to take time. I mean, I'm not an Alabama alum or fan or any of that. So maybe I just need to butt out, but the Alabama radio presentation makes me sad. It just feels so, so cookie cutter. But anyway, it sounds like you had a good game and a lot of people are happy, but Trump me in there. I think it was a good show. It just, when you have candidates who do these sort of things, take a break from the campaign trail and standing in front of a podium with a microphone, but it humanizes them. It makes them look like just an everyday person. Or when they talk about baseball or they talk about something that's not. Democrat sucker or whatever, I think these kinds of times in history are important because it makes those candidates more relatable to a lot of people. Now, you don't want to can it's just spending his time doing recreational activities. I mean, Donald's able to golf course probably doesn't ingratiate himself to too many people. That is perceived to be as a rich man sport or something, but come on Harris. Like, do you think she has any clue about sports? I don't. I don't think she has the first, like, idea about the rules of football or baseball. Maybe I'm wrong. But it makes hers, if there's a cultural gap there between her and the voter who does understand this, who this is like more middle class, more mates. I mean, this is what people do. You go to your kid's team ball game even or you go to high school football and Trump gets a little bit of that. I don't know. She's that's her thing. Like, maybe it's with female soccer or something, but what percentage of the country are WNBA? What percentage of the country watches that? She sometimes just got to give in to, like, whatever is in the mainstream. Maybe she does that through, like, some of the entertainment stuff. So some of the music acts that come to her campaign rallies. I don't know. Jeff, unnamed texture. I think Auburn did good until the coach got stupid with the players. I don't know what that's all about. Y'all know my feeling on Hugh Freeze? I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise, but I am very disappointed in that higher still and even more disappointed I was when it would happen. Well, bring it back. [Music] [Music] Little back to the Jeff Porte Show at FM Talk. 106-5. They should stay with us on this Monday morning. We do appreciate it. Text line. You want to be in touch. 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. Showing us now on the line here. The one and only tell Jackson WVNN and Yellow Hammer News. Dale, good morning. How are you? I could not be better. I'm a Dollywood baby. Yeah. So, I mean, even with the weather and, I mean, did that not hit Gallinburg or Pigeon Forte again? It's little to each. I'm glad I understand. There were some thoughts on people from Jackson. Yesterday, they said it took them two to eight hours to get here. It took them 15 hours to get here because the way they came, it kind of messed up how they were. It's supposed to be here. So, it's a problem for some people getting here. But now, once you're here, I talk about bus drivers. They said they're going to live here and live in the counties to the east who have some major issues about so much here. Well, you know, they showed some photographs. I just kind of amazed because they keep the storm came through so fast. And then, like, it just wrecked western North Carolina. Yeah, all that rain just, like, sat there and, you know, like you said, it came in so fast. Usually it kind of lies through it. And that's the problem. You know, but this time it appears it dumped on the awful lot of stuff that they're going to have to deal with for a while. Yeah, I mean, just wrecked roads and highways and bridges and whatnot. State of Alabama. So, I mean, I've been listening to a little bit of your show from last week. And the, the solution to the rising crime in our, well, two of our metropolitan areas in Alabama, it seems to be, we're going to, we're going to bag lock switches and we're going to repeal constitutional carry and all is going to be all right. I think they will be in the block, which is just a variety of levels of change that's moving to say, I think that students go along with that stupid thing, I believe. But the other stuff, the kind of super carry on. I don't absolutely know where this is. And I'm pleased to something that's already illegal, but the problem is it gives much of yet another out. It's like a talking point. And I'm glad to see some wall makers kind of pushing back against it. You had Sarah Gavain on your show. We had Lance Bell, a couple others. I don't know. It's just you got a gang problem and you won't acknowledge it. In fact, is anybody but like talk radio talked about the gang problem? Probably not, and from the same reason, you're probably not going to like this analogy. Same thing as above a Copeland situation. I mean, the simple fact is you guys have that guy dead or I'd be in a weirdo, but they could not bring it to themselves to say he's a transgender weirdo or into transgenders or whatever his actual predilection was. They refuse to talk about that because it's an acceptance that somebody of that ilk is bad. Therefore, they think it means that people will say all of them are bad. And this is the exact same thing. I mean, there's no way they're going to say it's a gang problem. And, you know, for them to say, "Oh, if the Glocks was from it, this is that." They say, "No, you don't have these problems in Huntsville. You don't have these problems in Mobile. You just don't. This is a unique problem. And it's a cultural problem in the two cities where they've been most anti-police and most stupid with their vote. And that's just the way it's as simple as it can be. We can look at these cities, Mayor Stimson, Tommy Battle, both Republicans. One ran for governor. One probably has been mentioned as running for governor as a Republican multiple times. And those guys, I mean, I saw what Tommy Battle did when they tried to do riots here. I saw what they did. They're like, "Absolutely not. This is not going to happen here. We're going to come after you." Well, we'll see you. Fine. Go right in. Here's a long-ass commission that's going to investigate this stuff. No, I guess we should have done things better. Okay, fine. But they didn't have any problems after that, did they? And then the other places you hadn't said people saying, "Yeah, we should maybe keep on the police. We should do this. We should that." And then you've got an anti-police attitude. You've got no support for the cops. The cops in Birmingham, they hate the mayor. I was down in Montgomery a couple of weeks ago at a radio station event. And it was kind of funny because I talked to every single cop that was doing security for that event. And I saw a joke. I may have mentioned this to you. They literally laughed when you said to them, "I hear you said it on Tuesday to Sydney in the end of the country." And they laughed. It was ridiculous. They said, "One of them had to make the mayor or the police chief would ever say a word like anything like that to the cops." And you and I believe sat in a walk-on, which is essentially a family restaurant. Yes, at the bar. You have to be able to talk at night, whatever. And even that seemed lost. It was like, "Where are we at?" Like, "What's going on?" Maybe that was a little over the top to read that situation. But you don't walk into the walk-in, or the walk-ons at Huntsville. And it'd be like a trap gang party. And that's what it was like when we were there. Yeah, it was a little... May I say it ghetto, but... It was jarring. I mean, it really was jarring. It's just... It's like that, though. You go into places in Montgomery and... Yeah, there's just something that's like... It'd be like Mobile, and you go to the Ruby Tuesdays. They don't have those anymore. But whatever, chain restaurant. And then you go to the one in Montgomery. And the culture's just very, very distinct. You know, they're just... No, totally. It's a cultural problem. Everyone knows it. Everyone knows it. Very few would. Yeah, and I don't know what you do about that, though. Like, it's not just a government solution for that. No, the government solution is present. I mean, Shane Stringer said it on your show. Yeah. You can build on the prisons you want, but you've got to have people who want to put people on jail. They don't have that. And I think that's the perfect encapsulation of the issue. Well, that's what it is, right? That in these particular... In these particular cities that... Tough old crime doesn't really get the votes. Now, I mean, this is... The city of Birmingham is run by the guy. Who thinks he's going to go into the inner city school and wear a jacket and a t-shirt, with jeans and nice shoes, and he's going to turn around the bad class. Well, instead, what he needs is the Louis Gossett Jr. from the substitute. That's not the name of the movie. And where he goes in with the baseball bat. That's what you need. I mean, those are the real solutions here. I may have that movie wrong, but that was just... I think it was what I'm talking about. And you have that situation. That's what you need. And, you know, who's going to vote for that? Are they going to vote for that? I don't think so. But that's what they need. But, I mean, it just doesn't... And I don't know, like... The problem is with Birmingham and Montgomery in particular, that I mean, maybe you get away with this in a lot of places, but state government has to function in Montgomery. And I say just like the business community, all the headquarters, all the corporate, big-bule headquarters are in Birmingham. And you lose those. I mean, it's just... The state has to function with those two cities. Maybe they could get by without Prichard Selma, or Bessemer, or wherever. But Montgomery in Birmingham have to be safe places. All right. I mean, the way you say it is, if a region leaves Birmingham, they're not going to Hudson. They're going to Charlotte. Or they're going to Nashville. Or something like that. So, I mean, you lose that. And I just use it as an example. But that's the point. If they leave, they're not staying in the state. They're getting the hell out of dodge. I mean, that's what they're doing. We already heard some of that, right? Like, they've lost... They've left... Move some of their headquarters. And when people talk about it, they're like, "Well, it's because the executive didn't want to live there." It's like, "Okay, I can't believe it." It's all that they're stood. But you have... You have this real problem that they don't want to deal with. And, you know, there were some sit-downs, some rappers in church talking to how all their friends were murdered. It's not going to change anything. I mean, we have discussions all the time with people. Just try to get Birmingham back on the same track. So, so, here's the thing, Dale, though. And somebody textures a guy kind of sideways would be last week on this. But, well, let's say it's a race problem. I mean, you just have black culture. But, like, here's the thing. You've always had a black culture in Alabama. And some reason the last mayor of Birmingham, Bell, William Bell, and then the last mayor of Montgomery, although he was white, Todd Strange, were able to keep it together. And these two mayors Randall Woodfin and Stephen Reed aren't able to really more so Randall Woodfin than Reed. I think Reed's kind of coming around. But, what changed? You know, you've always had this. I mean, that's a change. They're out of it towards the police. And that's it. You know, and Bell and Strange believe the police were there to police the city and clean up crime. With the other two, they are from the culture of the police or the problem. I mean, we had five plus years in this country, where the discussion was maybe we have too many police. Maybe the police are the ones causing the problem. But I was talking about mainstream thought. And then, of course, we have elections and they change our mind and pretend other things. But that was the mainstream thought. And these two guys are the example of that. They're the example of that mainstream thought. And it's just, it's idiotic. It's self-deceeding. The people being hurt are the people who are living in these communities who are also African-American. And they're in care. But I mean, look, we live in a society also, where they're trying to tell you that crime is down. You know, any society that we live in, they can say crime is down. Montgomery is the second state of the city of the country. And the only problem is Birmingham is Glocks, which is that we just don't need to. Nobody believes any of that. Nobody believes not one word what I just said. It should be any same person, actually. But it's convenient. I just, I was listening to your Philip Insler, right? Like, well, tell me this. Like, you know, do you believe this would have changed anything? And, you know, rightfully so. He's out. He's been pushing this bill for a couple of years. And now, if you're going to push a bill like that, now would be the time to do it. But like, he couldn't answer your question. It was like, well, no, maybe not, or maybe, or, you know, I don't really know. Yeah. I mean, the, the, uh, the attorney there has already, for the last year or so, has said, I'm going to enforce the federal law here. So give me these guys who are running around these blocks, which is, and they're going after them. They're already going after them. They're already doing it. That's, that's it. The attorney has, look, look at what I keep going back to what's it. Look at what he said. He was like, we're going after Trump. And the, the city attorney is like, no, we're not. It's just the whole thing with Joe. Everything is happening there. It's an absolute joke. And on top of that, you invite the guy to the White House. That was weird. Why? I mean, you know, the only reason he didn't get invited, right? Is because they got that task force that's actually doing something about crime. Well, he's also already like, uh, uh, a Kamala Harris surrogate officials, a surrogate. Well, sure. Whatever. My point is they're not going to invite him because he's actually doing something about the crime. They invited the guy who's getting out of control. Why don't they invite the guy? I don't know. It's crime. It's such a success for the Biden administration. Go find that police department were crying down and bring that guy up there and talk about what they said to drive down crime. So they can't do that. So they bring the guy who just got shot up and nobody in the media raises that that much. Uh, sir, why are you here? Oh, because, uh, gangland hit in my entertainment district on a Friday night. That's what you're here. You're doing anything about it. No. Yeah, where's crime at? Oh, it's out of control. And the reporter says, what the hell are you doing here? Well, here's the, here's the other thing. And this is the other component. The, the permitless carry law repealing that. So what I, what I've been told, uh, there was an event with the Hoover like chief of police or police commissioner or whatever. And he was very, very, um, ad minute that the legend that there was going to be a push by the big 10 mayors to repeal permitless carry and he was very, very vocal about it. And so we followed up with 18, 19 news, did with the mayor of Hoover and the mayor of Mobile, uh, Sandy Stimson, uh, the outgoing mayor now, uh, said, no, we're not doing that. And, uh, you know, you had to be like very politically naive to think that you're going to repeal permitless carry Alabama, right? Yeah. I mean, the big 10 mayors like to, to wag around their, their appenditude. Uh, that's what they want to do. That's what they want to do. They don't want to get involved in this culture war stuff. The last thing they want to do, they have no interest in this. Especially with the lose. The losing, it's a losing battle. They're not going to put cops to show carry back in his cage. That's over. It's over. And maybe you'll get reed. Maybe you'll get, uh, maybe you'll get wood fed. But I mean, you got to believe the other eight mayors look at those two and go. Yeah, your cities are big, but you guys are horrible. I don't know, uh, tab bowling is not, uh, uh, he's kind of a let now. He's going to show up. He wanted to go to his own city council meeting because he would yell at him. And, uh, we all know wall Maddox. I don't think he's, he's maybe, uh, oh, he's deceased. Uh, but, uh, the, uh, the other big 10 mayors, you're right. They don't, are you talking about all this one in the middle of this, does he? No, we have nothing to do with it. I mean, he's on his last term too. But he, he wants nothing to do with this. He's not going to jump in there. And it's the, but you know what he's doing? He's like, how do I get more businesses than to my ever expanding. That's all he. What's she going to do? What's she going to do? He, I don't think anything. I mean, I, I think he's had a good run. I think he's trying to be a more of a grandfather. I mean, he showed, I don't want to grant, uh, football games because his grandson was on the other team. So I think that's what he, I think that's, I think that's what he wants to do. And I think he's ready to kind of do something else. I don't think he has no desire to be a congressman. Well, just going to point it to like a board or something by the governor or whoever. Yeah. Maybe that's it. I mean, but, I mean, like, you know, they always take time. We'll go with somewhere. And he's going somewhere and all this other stuff. Well, they're strong. He ain't going nowhere. Okay. He's an easy, relatively young guy for the position he's in. And, you know, so I think that he'll be there for a while. So I don't, I just don't foresee battle. Got to be at least 10 years older than strong. So I don't see anything happening there. You missed out a big weekend in politics in Alabama and Auburn football this week. How? Well, I heard the president was in Tuscaloosa. But, uh, so you didn't see my photo of that out there. You went to the game? Hey, you didn't see the photo of me in the present. Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, I did. That was awesome. And I have a black hand going to Facebook. I was like detail Jack. People think that I'm actually trying to pass that off to the real thing. But my hand is clearly black. I'm sorry. And, uh, well, you're your Congressman, uh, Dale Strong, Congressman Adderholt. Uh, Mike Rogers, Tommy Tumberville. We're also at Auburn, uh, before the game this week. And, um, your name might have gotten dropped once or twice. Uh, but... Why? Uh, how are you doing? What's he up to or whatever? Uh, I think was the question. As if we were jagged into hip or something. Well, when they asked where I was, was it supposed to be there or something? I don't know. Uh, you're, uh, you're associated with me for some reason. Okay. Oh, did you tell them fine? Yeah, I, I said, uh, you seem to be okay and you're playing a lot of, um, online streaming. Online streaming football with your son. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's true. That's true. All that had Be Dale Jacks amongst women. Where else can folks find you, Dale? Uh, YouTube as well. We owe him renews.com. And, uh, I'm basically everywhere. So you just, just Google me. I'm around. Dale Jacks, ladies and gentlemen. Dale, thanks for coming on. Yeah, no problem. All right. We'll be right back. This is the Jeff Pour Show at FM Talk. 10065. We love you all, but you fell off in. Cause after all, he's just a man. Stand by your friend. I gave you my heart and I tried to make you happy. You gave me nothing in return. You know it ain't too hard to say. Welcome back to the Jeff Pour Show. And if I'm talking 10065, thanks for sticking around on what's on this Monday morning. Coming up Tuesday on the program. Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wall. So please make sure that you, uh, tune in for that. A couple of guests to be named later, real quick. Josh, do you think Trump lost Georgia votes hanging with all those Alabama fans? He didn't have Herschel Walker with him though. Probably not. Hey, Wood. Uh, Jeff, uh, I'll burn Alabama broadcast and I'll broadcast for both blend now. Squirrel. You're not denied a freaky, trendy attitude that apes who have flew his black people to be Chris Gates serves against the police and defined blackness. Accordingly, far more. Any other graph demographic, this is pushed by white infant analyzing liberals. Um, well, okay. Uh, they need Florida's Grady. Florida Lee County Sheriff Grady Judd down there near Tampa. And then finally Montgomery Birmingham, our Gotham City ran by thugs. Well, there you have it. Cut up here shortly. Big day mobile shot. What you got? I mean, you know, listen to your conversation. Listen to, uh, Chris Stewart with the play bot play, uh, you know, which is. Been taking some getting used to, right? Uh, right. You know, Eli, I mean, I think Eli should have stayed there until Eli was ready to leave. But then again, for all transparency, and we talked about it, I had him on my show. Those podcasts are available. He was really good to me. Always was a friend to me when I was at the University of Alabama. Help me in this business. I love the guy. And so it's not just, you know, so there you go. I love the guy. But he was, he's one of the best. He's one of the best. Put essential broadcasters for, yes, like, like, he is the textbook of what you do for preparation, right? Love the man. Yes, that's, he knew everything about every player and their parents. He was that good. I mean, this just, this, that just sounds like any generic ESPN broadcast. It doesn't sound like a brand, like it used to be. I don't get it. I don't know why Alabama chose to go in that direction. You know, we'll have, we'll have some wings one day. I'll tell you what I know. All right. Looking forward to that. All right, guys. Well, that's it for me. I'll stay tuned for Midday Mobile. It'll be a great presentation. I got to get out of here. I will try to do better tomorrow. Sorry, Phyllis. I forgot to say goodbye. This has been the Jet Force show on FM Talk 10065. On FM Talk 10065. [MUSIC]