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News. Sports. Weather from Dr. Bill Williams. Traffic info from Kane. And one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's mobile mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. Very happy and privileged to have you along, thank you for listening to Mobile Morning's on FM Talk 106.5 and Dan and Dalton. Yes, it is 807 and it is a Thursday, which means we have the FM Talk 106.5 Fish and Report. A little late, but that's better than ever. Captain Bobby Aberskyto talks with Sean Sullivan about what you can expect on the water this weekend. And it is time for the FM Talk 106.5 Fish and Report, brought you by McCoy Outdoor Company and the star of the show. Captain Bobby Aberskyto from 18 Fish and Man, it's October. It's, is it fall fishing yet, Bobby? I'll tell you what, the air temperature in the middle of the day still feels like summer, but in the morning, there's a bit of a chill in the air, but the fish have somehow reacted to it. I guess the water temperatures dropped enough to where like you and I were talking about just what went on the air. Just stuff's already starting to happen. It's stuff we were expecting. There's a lot of shrimp on the move both up the bay and down through the Mississippi sound areas. Some of the areas a little earlier than I really thought it was going to be where we're seeing shrimp activity with shrimp being on the move, moving up into the tidal river system where they'll spend the next probably month and a half or so. And of course, when they're moving like that, they're easy prey and that's when they get run to the surface. And of course, you know what happens from there. It's just kind of just crazy fishing and we've had a couple of those days over the last several days with that fish and you can fish. When they're doing that, you can just about catching on anything. We had the fortune of catching them on top water, which is not the preferred method of fishing under birds. Fortunately, some of the fish we were on that were running shrimp, the birds hadn't found yet. So we were able to throw top water and the only reason I caution you about that is when you're throwing top water around bird school is not only the trout like it, but the birds like it too. So you've got to be a little bit careful with the lures you're throwing. The ideal thing is either a single hook soft plastic bait like a grub with maybe a light gighead. The ideal thing for me is as a cork with some kind of shrimp imitation because you're holding that bait up in the strike zone. You know, keeping in mind that when the shrimp are on the surface of the fish are up towards the surface too. And so that's the ideal method. But whatever you choose to do, when you see that happen, just by fishing smart, not spooking the schools, this is the time of year, you can really have some incredible action on trout fishing when the shrimp are on the move during these transitional periods. You think it's too early for us to do the public service announcement about how to be smart on the school, how to approach the school and not run them off? It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to mention it. It's just in the key to the whole thing, if you just stop and think for a second and figure out which way your boat's going to drift and set your drift up and you're casting it up from that direction. In other words, that's always going to be upwind. And you don't want to run through the diving spurs, the school of fish to get upwind. You want to make a big loop around them. Don't be in a hurry because they're not going anywhere. And if you take those extra few minutes or extra few seconds, in some cases, to set that up, set that drift up smart, you can stay on those fish for a long time. So that's the key. And we'll mention this again, I'm sure because it's such an important part of this type of fishing. So up the bay, I mean, we've been talking about this last few weeks, fish moving up the bay up the bay up the bay. So not that there's not fish at the south end, but people who like to fish the northern part of Mobile Bay and maybe eventually the delta, it's starting to look a lot better. Starting to look a lot better like it's getting ready to happen. And on that subject, we ran a trip last week and multi-boat trip. And some of the guys actually fished some of the structure up in the bay, some of the deeper structure and caught fish, slipkork and shrimp. So that goes on to don't think it's all just bird school fishing. There's there's a lot of fish hanging out on that structure. You know, if you like doing that kind of fishing to in your, in your bird schools and the bird squid dive. And that's certainly another option to add to the, to the day, especially a little later in the morning. Good stuff. Bobby, somebody wants to get in on one of these trips or looking at this fall fishing, going ahead, how do they get it booked? Let's go to 18fishing.com. That's our website and it's got all of our trip information on there. Our new phone number, which you can reach us at, or you can just go ahead and go through the email, contact us for them and we'll get back in touch with you and get you booked up. All right, Captain Bobby, we appreciate it. We'll do it again next week. Okay, my friend. I hope you have a great weekend. You too. Captain Bobby Eberscato and the FM Talk 10065 Fish and Report, brought to you by McCoy Outdoor Company. Well, I hate they got around to the report so late, but you know, I'm not going to cast blame here. It's 811 FM Talk 10065, Mobile Morning's with Dan and Dolph. And a reminder that if you miss any part of the FM Talk 10065 Fish and Report, or you want to listen to it again, maybe you're like me, takes two or three go rounds before something starts to settle in your brain. It happens to me all the time, but you can listen to it on our FM Talk 10065 app or go to the podcast page on our website or anywhere podcasts are available. So, you know, we kind of knew this was coming. Well, we did know this was coming. No kind about it with special counsel Jack Smith and his report on well, you know, they were trying to prosecute a federal charge or charges that former president Donald Trump attempted illegally to overturn the 2020 election. And so much has gone down over the last, you know, just this calendar year, really, and you look at the Supreme Court ruling that gave presidents and former presidents pretty wide berth when it comes to what charges they are immune from as far as their official acts as president. So Jack Smith, who will not be able to prosecute Trump in this case until well after the election. I mean, we're just a month and, let's see, a month and two days away from the November 5th election. So what's a man to do? You're not allowed to prosecute Trump as you had planned before the election. Instead, he reworks his case and throws it back out there. But this is just, you know, one side of the story. This is the prosecutions, the charges they've levied against Trump and co-conspirators and what they say happened. So what we have now is this is out there. The Trump team, I guess, could argue against it in the court of public opinion, but this won't be seeing the courtroom. This won't be seeing a jury before the election. And so many have pointed out on at least so many law wonks or they're saying or political wonks are saying, well, now this, the jury will be the American people November 5th and with all of the different things that Trump has faced here over the last couple of years inside of courtrooms. But yesterday, Smith, the special counsel put out a 165 page, what the Wall Street Journal is calling road map for allegations that former president Trump, quote, resorted to crimes to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. The filing, which was unsealed yesterday in a DC trial court mounted to a defense of the case, even after a recent Supreme Court ruling that conferred broad immunity on presidents for official acts at the core of their constitutional powers. Smith's team says that Trump's, quote, scheme was fundamentally a private one, leaving him open for prosecution. So they're, they're trying to argue that even though Trump was president, an outgoing president, but president, as all of this was going on, they're saying that his attempts to overturn the election were done as a private citizen. I will let Jonathan Turley, who is with Fox News, of course, he is a law professor and knows the law well. And he had, well, he was on last night with Brett Berry spoke for some time, but he was just a small portion of what Professor Turley had to say about these Jack Smith special counsel. This report that came out yesterday. What's striking about the filing is it all turns on what Trump honestly believed. You know, he, he says that the, the through line of these charges, this is a quote, was deceived. Well, the president had a attorney saying that he did have a basis to challenge the election and that there could be a certification challenge. Democrats in the past had used this law to challenge certification. So it comes down to a question of was it to see and, you know, it's for many people, this is a sort of a repackaging without substantive changes. The Supreme Court, yeah, so he was talking about, he said basically what came out yesterday, like you just said, there was the same package as what Smith was going to take to court to begin with before the Supreme Court ruling, but that he took out a bunch of the stuff that involved other acts that Trump was doing as president, which wouldn't have been part of the case after that Supreme Court ruling. Yeah, I get it. So the, it was a reaction to the, to the ruling in a way. Right. And they're trying to put that out before the American people. And I'm sure the timing was not a coincidence. They drop it right after the debate. It means nothing. And it's a month out. Now there was, I think, some new information that was mostly came from interviews that the Smith team, the prosecution team did with some pretty high ranking members of Trump's cabinet, including Vice Pence, where Pence was saying that he was having dinners and phone calls with Trump and that Trump kept pushing on trying to say that the election had been rigged and this and that and that Pence, according to his own words, was saying, hey, man, it's time to give it up more or less. Yeah, I saw that. This means nothing. Well, does it mean, in what sense, do you think this will, I mean, because they're going to have this on the front of every news site and newspaper for some time, as we head into the November 5th election. When was the last time Trump wasn't running from something? I mean, this news, this news, look, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if it's legitimate or not. My guess would be no. I'm just saying people have kind of decided people are real people. There's a lot of people that are Trump supporters that haven't even said it to their coworker. Like, yeah, this guy's getting screwed, man. And I just think more and more of this, this drumbeat in the media is going to produce very little for the Democrats. And this is my opinion. And the reason is because it's been so constant, two things. It's been so constant and it's been so obviously trying to distort Trump and who he is. Again, even if there's some legal action here, even legally, but the attacks on Trump have been so persistent, Dalton, that there's people looking at it, finding some of their news sources, other places, and just saying, this is a crock. And I think you have, they're preaching to their own choir, like they're getting off on all this in some corners. The people who just hate Trump, they're getting off on this. No doubt. But that's not enough. That's not enough of the American people. That's my opinion. Yeah, I could see that for sure. I think most people have made up their minds at this point. If not who to vote for, they've made up their minds on how they feel about all these different charges that have been levied at Trump. And you know, when we talk about October surprises and you had this M-Hoff thing yesterday, got to talk about the Daily Mail report that he had slapped his ex-girlfriend and that he was an abusive partner, it's kind of like, you know, you watch an old LSU Alabama game where the score is six, three, one big play or one October surprise makes for the whole election season. These days, there's so many outlandish stories about these candidates. It's more like a Texas Tech Oklahoma State game where there's a big play down the field every time. So they just kind of mean less these big October surprises. 55-49, right? It's Dan Adalton on Mobile Morning. Thank you for listening. Good morning from Dan Adalton FM Talk 10065-822 on Mobile Morning. It's good to have you on. We do appreciate you listening every day. It means a whole lot to us and to Jeff and Sean and the whole crew here at FM Talk 10065. What we do is live local talk so many hours in the day and so many hours of the week and we podcast everything so just go to FMTalk10065.com. If you think you missed anything, you didn't miss it. You just didn't hear it the first time but you can listen any time you want. You sure can. In a minute here, I want to get to some commentary from a former soldier on what's going on in North Carolina and the federal government response compared to the private citizen response to try to help save those who are still stuck in very serious situations in the mountains of North Carolina or Northern Georgia or even parts of eastern Tennessee but we mentioned the Doug M. Hoff October surprise yesterday, the husband of vice president Kamala Harris and this was a report in the Daily Mail. They said M. Hoff is accused of slapping his ex-girlfriend for flirting with a valet worker at a Ritzy Gala in 2012 with Gala. I think they were at the Cannes Film Festival. It's like three in the morning or so. They're outside of hotel. They're waiting on a cab and the line is long and everybody's waiting on the cab and everybody's losing their mind a little bit because they've been drinking. It sounds like she was trying to go to the main valet man and do a little ... I don't know if flirting was part of the recipe there but M. Hoff apparently thought it was. I think she went to the guy with the old ... I've got $100 for us to kind of leap the line. You met my friend Ben Franklin. So she does the old ... Have you met Ben Franklin and or whatever currency she was using and part of the presentation of Mr. Franklin is maybe a little physical where she kind of puts her hand on the guy's shoulder or whatever. She's just trying to get a cab. I don't think she's trying to like leave with him. She's not trying to leave with him but it got kind of ... Now these are reports from a couple of people who know the woman very well. Her friends. He's 59 now. M. Hoff said he supposedly struck his then-girlfriend described as a successful New York attorney in the face so hard she spun around while in a valet line after an event there at the Cannes Film Festival. This was in May of 2012. I guess he met Harris and they married soon after in 2013, 2014. But these allegations come from three unnamed friends of the woman. And all three requested not to be named due to fear of retaliation from M. Hoff. The three friends provided photos to the day of the mail of M. Hoff posing with the woman as well as other documents. They say corroborate the trip that they took to the south of France. So there's your ... You saw the October surprise for Trump in the Jack Smith documents. Then you see the October surprise or one of the October surprises for Harris there and the allegations made against her house. And I don't know what's to be taken from all this. It's a real personal story of drinking and abuse and all this kind of stuff. And wealth. You're at the Cannes Film Festival. They weren't outside a Montgomery Biscuits game. So they're at the Cannes Film Festival and this all breaks out and they're at this Richie Hotel. And so it all happens around money, wealth, power and all that kind of stuff. Now I think the only thing that I would take away from this is like is Kamala Harris married to an abusive husband. It's kind of like I'd want to know that. Is the woman who may be president of the United States victimized by her own husband? Husband. Good question. When I read that story, all I thought about was, well that's kind of a sad story and it's kind of a gossipy story. But what do I take from it, what I take from it is, is the woman who we are now just beginning to even at all begin to know who wants to be president, elect in a month. Is she somebody that is dealing with somebody like that? And if there was the conversation about maybe a little drinking. So it's worth diving. It's worth questioning. Well, for me, it's just you can see kind of the propaganda machine at work. And like you said, this is gossipy. So I'm not sure if this story goes anywhere. But just the other day you had some top anchor at either NBC or CBS who was saying or CNN, maybe that was saying Emhoff has like rewritten the rules on what it is to be a man's man. So that trying to promote him as this good is good dude who soft spoken, but as a real man. And you have the allegations that he knocked up a nanny back in the day as well. You kind of see the propaganda machine at work, right? You do. You do. And we're seeing that at work 24/7 as this election comes closer and closer and closer. People become more desperate and then powers that be become more desperate to make sure that their candidate wins. But I wasn't aware of this that they were propping Emhoff up as the new man's man. And I read that in the story. I was like, what's that about? So I'm not that familiar with Emhoff at all. I don't know anything about his backstory. I imagine he's a well to do rich, wealthy, powerful guy. He's married to a woman that may soon be our president. But I didn't know that he was being propped up as this guy that was going to change the way dudes are. Yeah, exactly. And you know, as far as Hurricane Helene, and we've been trying to figure out, as the federal government stepped up to the plate, and when it comes to helping with this disaster, this recovery, and they're still trying to find bodies. And I've seen numerous stories of, you know, private citizens who were flying in their own helicopters and trying to help or get into the area via other means. This one, a South Carolina pilot who flew stranded hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina to safety claims he was told he would be arrested if he continued the rescue mission. They're saying that it's a no-fly zone, basically, for private citizens who were trying to come in and help out. Saw another couple reports of that on Twitter as well. Well, you have this former green berry and MMA fighter, Tim Kennedy, who I follow and have for some time. He writes, "There's no way that you can grasp the amount of damage left in the weak wake of this hurricane. There's no way you can comprehend the complete failure by our government to respond. There are Americans who have been left up in the mountains and the hills with no support. I guess it's always been that way. The people outside of the cities don't matter. The poor don't matter. The blue collar workers don't matter. We're just one month away from an election and you see how much they really care." Kennedy says, "I got to see firsthand how the ones answering the call are everyday regular Americans. I got to watch volunteers from save our allies do the impossible. They're sleeping in cars, delivering baby formula, food and diapers, checked on nearly 100-year-old men that have been surviving for a week on their own. So you have the private citizens coming to aid and in some cases being told to scram because they could be interfering with the federal rescue operations. Shameful. Yeah, real pretzel up there right now. Very shame. It is a 35-year-old woman who is Dan Adulton. He hasn't talked on a 65. She saw the story about the, you know, again, this would be one of those things where even with the federal response to what's going on up in North Carolina and the Appalachia, you know, I'd like to see more definitive report of they've done a good job. They haven't done a good job and everyone's going to have their opinion. I get it. It seems to be a failing, but I don't know that for sure, you know, like it seems to be a failing. And I know people in S that aren't necessarily telling me that. They're just telling me about the anguish and everything that's going on. I mean, it's, it's, it's God awful. Yeah. But anyway, the employees forced to work at a Tennessee plastics factory recounting the historic flooding that took over their parking lot. It's amazing. So we have people that lost their lives. 11 people were swept away. They were people who were working at this plastics factory. And I think Dalton, the conversation is, did the plastics factory, did they make the decision in a timely way? And do you even, you have a once in a 200 year, whatever they're calling this flood event. How would you know that it's going to get so bad so quick? Right. Management, you probably don't. Yeah, it's one thing if you're on, you know, the coast of Florida or even into Georgia where you know it's going to make a massive, massive impact. But I don't think it's that out of the, out of the ordinary, if you're in Asheville, North Carolina to have folks coming to work, right? Somebody can make a bad decision there. You know, the rain's coming in. It's going to get bad. They're starting to realize it's going to get bad, but they don't recess or call work off in time when they do people lose their lives. It's a terrible story. Yeah. And we're talking about the federal response. They say 1,000 active duty soldiers set to deploy to Western North Carolina to help with Helene response. That was announced by Biden yesterday as he made a trip to the area. It's been a week. It has been a week. That's right. Rob Holbert, landyap and landyapmobile.com.com. If you want to catch up on the news, you can do it there. Rob, how are you doing? Good. How are you going? We are doing all right. And I want to talk with you here in just a minute about your article on the rise of AI. And that, of course, playing a pretty big role in the port strike conversation. But I loved reading Dale Leish's interview with Mayor Sandy Stimson, reflecting on his three terms in office, said he's not running for re-election. And it seems like maybe a monkey off of Mayor Stimson's back not having to worry about going out on the campaign trail as he tries to get some of these massive projects as close to finished over the next year in a month. Yeah, I think it's going to give him some time to focus on those things and not have to worry about the politics as much. I mean, yes, he said that as much to us when he came in and talked. So, you know, I think hopefully it's going to give him some opportunities to look at things that he wants to button up before he's gone. I mean, some of those things obviously can't be, but get as far along as you can with the Civic Center or some of the other things. The airport is still, I think, it will be significantly finished, but it's not going to be fully operational, I think, until 26. So, there's some other things there. But, you know, he said he wasn't going to start any other giant projects at this point either. You know, when I look at Sandy's administration or the terms that he's been the mayor and really the rise of land yap, it's almost kind of correlated along with each other. I know you started much earlier than that, but when the papers went down and you guys became more significant in what you did and have done a great job, you know, we have a mayor. Are you inadvertently giving us credit for all the stuff he did? I think so. It wasn't inadvertent at all. But, it's, he's an interesting, he's been a very interesting figure in this city for a lot of reasons. His temperament has always been spot on. His presentation of ideas has been excellent. I mean, you know, he's had, by and large, some very successful things that have happened during his administration. You know, he cups along the way, but if you're in public office for that long, you're going to have that. I'm not dismissing anything, but it's just been interesting that you guys, he's been your mayor for a long time. He has been, you know, I think, you know, I've covered a lot of mayors in my life in different capacities. The thing that I've found very refreshing about him after, especially after Sam Jones, and he's kept this, you know, kept doing it, you know, kept this is that he's been open. You know, it's never been an issue of getting in touch with him or being able to talk to him or having him tell us what we ask about, you know, so that's been, for me, newspaper standpoint, that's been very refreshing. The other, prior to that, was go around, you know, if you want to ask what the weather was like outside, it would be a battle with Jones's office. So, you know, it's good to have that openness. And I think, I know there's, you know, you're going to accumulate some people who don't like you when you've been in office 12 years. There's going to be people who are upset. I mean, you know, I'm sure the people, Paul Prine and some of those folks have a different attitude about the mayor in general. But I think overall, when you look at what he's done, it's been very positive for the city and the city has flourished a lot under his leadership and financially. It's in far, far, far better shape than it was. So, I mean, I think he leaves it better than he, than he found it. And he's still got another 13 months in office. So, it's a big battle. Giving some opportunities to finish up things he wants to do. Yeah. And we'll see who takes a spot. You know, I know he wants to tee it up to the next person. That's what I was wondering. If we will see some kind of an endorsement from Stimson over, you know, a particular person he'd like to see, maybe following his footsteps. Does he seem like the type of person who would make that kind of move? Or does he seem more like the politician who says, look, my time here's over. I don't want to affect this race in any way publicly. I think his indication to us was if he felt like the right person was, was there that he would, that he would support that individual. So, you know, who that is, I don't know. Yeah, I would think that's the case because he's put so much work into this for 12 years. He's tried to elevate the city in ways that that met his vision. And that's a lot of work. And that's a lot of attention to detail. And I don't think you'd want to say Sayonara. And I don't give a crap what you guys do after I leave. I think he'd be very interested in who's next, Rob. Well, when you come into, you know, you look at, when he came in, for instance, GulfQuest was underway. You know, it was still being finished up. And, you know, those are the kinds of projects that I mean, I hope anything has the kind of success that GulfQuest had. It didn't really work out very well. But these projects are going to be handed off to somebody. The airport will be significantly finished. The civic center is going to be probably right in the middle of being done. Bayfront Park still needs a lot of work. So there are things there that if someone comes in with a different agenda, different attitude, not interested in those things that maybe they don't, you know, maybe especially like Bayfront Park, for instance, maybe it doesn't rise to level, but they hoped it would. It still needs a lot of money put into it. But, you know, so I think those are things he's going to try to really work on a lot this coming year. That's the indication he gave us. I just I hate I missed my chance yesterday as the mayor and some other local officials signed that last steel beam going into the international airport. I really wanted to write for a good time called Dan Brennan, but I missed my chance there. So you know, it's been reading me in the men's room. No, yeah, it's it's around town. That's right. It's all over the place. I see it everywhere. So and so we have this port strike as well, which is a big dang deal. I mean 1500 Longshoreman that walked out. They struck just like so many around the east and Gulf Coast. Ivy jumping in yesterday with you think it was the the veterans administration the way she went after that the union that is calling the strike. But I like how you wrote about AI this week because that ties into this story and the union worried about automation taking some of their jobs over. And you know, AI, we've talked about it for years, but we are kind of right there where it is starting to take some jobs. Yeah, it's something when I was writing about it, talking to some college students the other day and it and it is really when you think about what kids I have children in college and think about what are they going to do for their careers is it's something that is going to be able to outlast AI or be aided by it, but not taken over by it. Those are hard things to know. And you know, when you I mean, the Chad GPT for instance has made so many strides just in the two years that it's been out. I mean, it's just far better. I took a like a 50 page court case the other day and just fed it to it and said write a news story about this. And you know, 25 seconds later, there was a news story, some of the whole thing up. And it was, you know, it was certainly publishable. And so that's a lot of temptation for, you know, in my business. And I see people doing it. I mean, there's there's people all over the state doing it already. And so, you know, you're using it. Well, you know, if you're if you're the publisher sitting there and you don't have the money to pay reporters and you can just feed in the cop reports and lawsuits and things like that and generate stories in a minute. There's a big savings in doing that. That, you know, is accuracy a problem? Yeah, you got to go fact check and do all those things. But, you know, that that's an issue that for people who write, I think it's, I mean, I drew up a contract the other day on Chad GPT just to see, you know, if I could do one and it did, you know, so, you know, lawyers, you know, does it hurt people who do that for a living? Yeah, there's some things there. Yeah. And you know, it's it's almost like we knew this was coming, but a lot of folks just don't have a plan, you know, from the federal government to state governments on down. We saw it with the acting and writer strike for the movies and TV shows where that was a big part of their argument. So basically it looks to me like the unions for these different organizations. Their only chess move is to say, just don't use it. But that's going to be so tempting. Yeah. You know, fighting over at the automated gate. I mean, that's kind of where it started here, is over an automated gate and saying, hey, that's taking human jobs. But I mean, to me, that's a losing battle. It's going to, I mean, that that's that technology is not even very exciting or new. You know, that's sophisticated. So, you know, that that's going to be a job that goes away. It's and a lot of ports are getting more and more automated. So that's a big issue. I get that. So, you know, it is it's something that's scary to people when you look at transportation, you look at things like that. Those are places. Those are fields where you can probably see some job loss. You know, everybody's all over the map. I read something yesterday from a guy who says, oh, you know, it's only going to take 5% of jobs. I've seen people say, hey, it's going to take 30, 40% of jobs or more. You know, if you think 30% of the jobs in the country were taken by AI, what happens to people? You know, what are people going to do? I mean, we have a lot of people in the country who don't work already. And, you know, it's not it's not a utopian situation for those parts. I mean, you can sit around and watch Fox News and MSNBC all day long or, you know, or do drugs or drink or whatever it is that a lot of people do. So I don't know. It's not it's not something where most people are finding, you know, higher callings by doing that, I think. And that that's the worry that I have that most people need work to do, you know, it's part of who we are. I'm by the I'm three out of four. There's things that you mentioned. I'll let you. Yeah. You're already on your way. Yeah. I'm like, you're prepared for the future. You just described my lifestyle. But, you know, the real quick before we let you let you run, I know we were taking a lot of your time before we wrap this up. Perception is so much of all of this. And the union president dagged it. I mean, he comes, you know, he's not really the most likable guy out there. So when people are going to take sides one way or the other, it's pretty obvious which side they're going to take. Correct. Especially the end here. Union bosses. Union bosses aren't warm and fuzzy, but, you know, I don't know if y'all noticed also that Katie Britt has sponsored something yesterday worrying about basically robots. What would she call them? I can't think of it. That basically like humanoids. That's, you know, humans that Chinese humanoids are going to infiltrate our country. You know, it's like this stuff is getting kind of out there. Yeah, it's getting weird. 2024 was already weird. Watch out for those humanoids, man. They're going to have us all taken on our couch. Yeah. Look, I might fall in love. I could fall in love with one of them. Don't knock until you try it. You know, there may be a humanoid out there for you. Is there a human out there for me? That's the real question. Thanks a bunch, man. Thanks for your time. And, people can get online and get your stuff at low price. Yeah, they can't get out there laying out mobile and get signed up and help us keep doing the work we did. All right. Great weekend. All right. Thank you, Rob, laying out, laying out mobile.com and his AI taken over in Venezuela. They're doing something crazy about Christmas this year. We'll get into that when we come back. Yeah. Venezuela and Christmas. You're right. 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And Maduro knows this, but the Venezuelan socialists have a long track record of misinterpreting, misrepresenting Christian faith and co-opting the religion to suit their ideological pursuits maintaining a long-standing animosity towards the Venezuelan Catholic Church. So they don't like so they're trying to punk the church, they have punk in the church. So the Catholic Church is, you know, this has got all Spanish roots, so you have many, many Catholics there. And the church has got a level of power that they're not happy with. And so they're punking the church. So Christmas is not in December in Venezuela. It's right now. And you know, that's a big ask for the big man in the North Pole, right? You're asking him. Two months early. Can you come early? Yeah. For one country. Yeah. Just drop by. Maybe they'd call it a trial run before he gets to the rest of the world in late December. And the weather's better. I mean, if Santa if Santa may be kind of, you know, I'm not happy with all this, but the weather's better. It's a trial run. You only got to do one country. Yeah. Well, he was definitely called while on vacation, I would say he's probably on a beach somewhere and he gets the ring from Venezuela and they say, hey, something's happened though. We need you down here fast. And then what so in Venezuela, rather than a little tray of cookies, what do they leave for Santa? That's a good question. You know, one of my when I was in in October, in elementary school, that was like one of the projects that I'm sure my mom actually did a lot of, but it was my project, my name on it. And it was about what all different cultures and countries what they leave out for Santa. Really? I want to say in Australia, they leave out pickles or something like that. Okay. Weird birds down there, but yeah, I'll have to look what what do Venezuelan children leave for Santa on October the 12th, or whatever they're going to celebrate Christmas, money, money store. All right, eight to 59, if I'm talking in Jet Four on the way, he is on the way. April Marie Fogel also Andrew Jones, the state senator, and Carolyn Dobson joins and fresh off of her debate yesterday.