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Jeff Poor Show - Friday 10-04-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] 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 Jeff Poor Show. I don't think Hank done it this way. [MUSIC PLAYING] Good morning. Welcome to the Jeff Poor Show that we're going to talk 106.5. It's Friday, Friday, finally Friday. 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6, you need to be in touch with the program. What you got to do, you got to hit me up on the text line, and we will respond to whatever it is that is on your mic. I'm going to applaud today's program. Touch day C, as we do every Friday at about a half hour, also on the program. Tommy Tuberville, our senior United States senator, will be with us. And then our returning champion, we do this every Friday. Stay senator, Chris Elliott. So make sure that you stay tuned for that. Like I said, in the meantime, get us on the text line, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 0, 1, 0, 6, hip, hip, hooray, a truce, if you will, in the ongoing, or the now, I guess, halted port strike, the logshoremen are going back to work, and we can rejoice with our stockpiles of toilet paper. Like it's Christmas or something. We'll see, I guess this is the truce to see where they can get some kind of agreement between now and next year sometime. I don't know. They'll probably get some of their raise. Quite a ask there by the union. I did see, I guess, some of these truckers are rejoicing as well that carry the freight from the port. But we don't have to go stockpile any paper towels. We don't have to hear any more escapades with the bidet. I'm glad we don't have to worry about that anymore. Trust me. But that's kind of leading the news here. I think it's directly related to the local area. Also, I'll talk about some other things, the disaster relief debacle. I know that a lot of media are saying, well, you know, look, you used all these resources to deal with this immigration thing that you've generated. And now you're out of money. And I don't-- may work as it must be like how he holds on to a job is a remarkable. He says, it's probably too late to fire him. They're not going to do anything with him this close to an election and this close to the end of the Biden era. But he's been a little bit of a disaster, if you will. And no one-- I mean, it might be the worst. Now, look, the Department of Homeland Security has only been around since 9/11. But he might be the worst we've ever had. Probably is the worst we've ever had. What were his qualifications? How he ever got that job to begin with? It's just remarkable. And I wonder what kind of accountability mechanisms there's going to be here. Like, how can a function of government-- which I think is a necessary function of government. There's a lot of things government does. It's stupid. It's a waste of your taxpayer money. But sort of a disaster relief step in when there's a natural disaster and people are in a difficult situation, that's fine. That can be a function of government. And you see all these roads and these bridges that have been destroyed, two major interstate highways up there, people stranded. They're using teams of mules to get the people who are way, way out away from the towns and the cities. So anyway, they don't have the resources. And you hear all these crazy stories. And I don't know. Some of them were told, well, that's just conspiracy. That is social media misinformation. Well, let's see. We want to see what's going to happen there. And Democrats got to own this, but how far will Republicans go? Katrina's the template. Heck of a job, Brownie. I think that Bush got kind of not a very fair shake on that. But I-- the bar is Bush, had a little Katrina. Finding this is below that. And there's almost an arrogance about it. But it's not beneficial to a political narrative. There's no 2006 midterms coming up. It's a-- it's this. And this is what you need to know. They're on defense. I think they're on defense. That, well, they're on defense by virtue of being in power. But they're also on defense because of where they are, I think, in the polls. Having to defend the status quo. And that's why you're not seeing as much of it. The media is still trying to make a big deal. The biggest joke is as such. Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney's speech yesterday. Does anybody ever cared what Liz Cheney has to had to say? Republicans didn't like her what she was like, a team player. She wrote her daddy's coat tells to be a congresswoman in Wyoming. And you look at-- well, you also look at, like, OK, so she-- she got mad at Trump. And then they had to kick her out of leadership. And you're like, whoa, why is she a leadership to begin with? And then you go to the next phase of this. And she's now on the January 6 committee. And then she loses her primary. And now she's out stumping for Kamala Harris. And the point is as such, like, these people don't really-- they don't really have an ideological core. It's all about, like, a-- it's a power grab, or it's partnered up with, like, a philosophical view on one thing. And with her, it was-- she was always kind of in the pocket of the big defense to defense contractors. She was good at this. She raised money for Republicans. And that's how she got to where she was in leadership. We have Republicans in this state who had Liz Cheney come and flew in, Daddy, too, Dick Cheney, to raise money for their political efforts. 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. That's the number you want to be in touch. Also, Donald Trump going back to Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, what do you think that's going to be like? Would you watch that? I think you will. But now, I wonder if he's doing this a little too-- if he's doing this a little too close or not close enough to the election. Why did I say that? Because we got to remember he was shot at twice. Well, we know he was shot at at least once in Butler, Pennsylvania. And the media Democrats are trying to make us forget about that. And by going back to Butler on a month out of the election, tomorrow will be a month, it forces him to have to still talk about it. It forces him to say, hey, this is where he was shot at. This is where he was almost killed. And at that point, he becomes kind of a hero, and we seem to have forgotten about that. We-- you and I have not forgotten about it, but we have forgotten about it, I think it's the country. I mean, yet a major party presidential nominee almost assassinated. You don't have really a good response from the federal government. Department of Homeland Security, again. Why did abysmal failure? Why don't we just do away with it and go back to the way we used to do things pre-9/11 if it's going to be like this? Because look, look at the failures at DHS. OK, the border, that's been covered. We know that. The Secret Service has been a train wreck, two assassination attempts, and then obviously this FEMA response. Well, why even have it? I mean, here was the discussion during the last month. We are spending a lot of time talking about this resettlement effort of Haitians in Talladega County and in Silacaga. Remember this, guys? They were talking about taking FEMA trailers and moving them to Silacaga and housing them there. Well, when they had even FEMA trailers, I would assume there was a lot of people without homes in the Appalachian Mountains in Worcester, North Carolina. Well, we can't displace these Haitians we brought here and decided to resettle in our hurry-up effort before the inauguration day 2025. What are you going to do now? That's the story. This is going to be a story. And the next president, be it Harris or Donald Trump, is going to have to deal with it. They're going to have to deal with it, and this is the legacy you're going to inherit. But that is where the focus has been. What a-- I'll honor Mayorkas. What were his qualifications? I mean, he was always a guy before he was in the Biden administration. Going back to the last 10, 15, 20 years, he was seen as an activist, an open borders activist, an ideologue. It's like putting Ron Paul in charge of the Fed. He dismisses American immigration policy, and he was Biden's guy. Like, who was calling to shots here? It's clearly not Joe Biden. Meanwhile, we got a war, another Hezbollah leader. Israel's just decimating Hezbollah. I say this again one more time. We're going to see Israel's strike I read before November 5. We're in that month window. What does that mean for the election? I don't know. Does it really escalate things? Or are people just kind of tuning this out? It's background noise. But the way it works is as such. Hezbollah Hamas annihilated. Dad opens up the window for Israel to go to Iran, hit their nuclear targets. And despite the objection from the Biden administration-- because the Biden administration is not foolish, and they come out too hard against this. It hurts Kamala Harris' election chances. So they got to do it sooner rather than later. We're really, really getting close here. Does this is to get World War III? This is a Parker Griffith the other day. It made a good point, though, that Iran is sort of the oddball out in the Middle East. It's not as if-- oh, you attack Iran. You attack us all, because they just aren't part of the mix there. They're almost an islet to themselves. They're not even the Russians and the Chinese are like, I don't know about these guys. Maybe they can get North Korea in a couple of long, I don't know. Once again, 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. Let's get a break here. We'll be right back. This is the Jet Force Show at the Talk, 1-0-6-5. Welcome back to the Jet Force Show at the Talk, 1-0-6-5. Thanks for sticking around on. This Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday morning, 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. You want to be in touch with the show? All you got to do is text me. We'll get some text right now. Pat, they agreed on a 66% raise. But I think there's maybe more details to iron out, Pat. They text her. What about the BS job numbers that were important? I guess, well, those real numbers revised after the election. Well, it's a good number. The question I had when I saw them, though, was this? Didn't the Fed signaling these rate cuts predicated on economic issues? Well, you can't have it both ways. You can't have the rate cut and good unemployment data. So that popped into my head, but we'll see where that heads. I don't think people are really paying attention there on their texture. I think it's this. Hey, guess what? I just went to the grocery store and paid like $30 for a hit of lettuce or whatever. I'm telling you. That is what matters. The jobs data is-- it's a very theoretical, very-- it's in the abstract. I mean, the Dow Jones industrial average is not-- the markets aren't really reacting in a big, big way. It's good news for Harris. It gives her a talking point. But does it change the perception among the electorate? And I don't think it does. I mean, this is why Democrats have been saying all along. Well, despite how you feel about the economy, it's still a good economy. Really? Yeah, yeah. Here's-- look at this data. And that's not what-- it's not the employment data that's no labor markets that is the issue here. It's prices and wages. I guess there's been some wages that have increased, but it's just a product of inflation. Kenny, the air motion vote for Harris and so that we can go ahead and rip this bandaid off. Go ahead and seek the ship and the people that can swim will obviously survive and will bankrupt the government. And they want to shut it down and start totally over welfare system at all. Kenny, that's not going to happen. Kenny, that's a-- you don't know what you're talking about here or-- well, maybe you know what you're talking about. You don't know what you are suggesting. So it won't be good. Paul-- Paul, very chatty this morning. Dibs think people care what the chadys had to say. No one likes. I ran except Erdogan. Maybe a little maul is better. Get him some concubines and go down a few stories in the sand. And I bet it's overstated by 45% referring to the jobs numbers. I don't know. I don't think-- I think the only reason Liz Cheney is anything is it's like it I told you so. Like, hey, look, even a guy that we reviled 20 years ago is our-- his daughter is like come out against. Come out against Donald Trump. That's how bad Donald Trump is. And that's what the talking point that they want and they got. Now, yes, a very lightweight Republicans, I think, just watching that they're kind of like trying to make like the big story here. No one's swayed by this, right? Who has chadys-- Liz Cheney's constituency. It's not Wyoming where she served. Then where-- I mean, who's like, yay, Liz Cheney? Well, maybe Quinn Hillier. But beyond that, but it's funny to watch the media try to make it seem like a bigger deal than it is. Text line-- once again, 25 was 3430106. We'll pick it up on the other side. This is the Jeff Fore show on FM Talk 1065. My son is all left up to you. And I can't get to sleep at night, barking a lot so loud and bright as he hasn't worked in 20 years. Probably never made a single person cold. But I can't say the same for me. I've done it many times. Somebody take me home. Look back to the Jeff Fore show at FM Talk 1065. Thanks for sticking around on this Friday morning, 2513430106. If you want to contact the program, text us. And we'll respond to whatever it is that is on your mind. Still to come on the program. We'll hear from Senator Tommy Tuberville. That's about an hour from now. And then our returning champion state senator Chris Elliott in about two hours. So make sure you stick around for that. But joining us now on the line, we do this on Fridays. Always my pleasure to bring on from Capital Journal and Alabama Daily News. Todd Stasey, Todd, good morning, aren't you? I'm great, Jeff. How are you? I'm doing well. You and I are talking off here to kind of get a reprieve from the trip over to Auburn for football. Is it going to road for a month? It's been a rough season, hasn't it? Yeah, like I'll be honest, I'm welcoming the opportunity to watch football games in my couch instead of going up there, setting up a tailgate. You can have home games in a row. It's pretty rare, and it's pretty exhausting. And there'd be one thing if we were winning. It's the other thing when you keep losing. But always going to cheer for this. Oregon blue, who knows? Maybe we'll pull something out of the hat. Yeah, in Georgia. I don't know. Expectations were that we could be four and one and five and oh, by this point. And oh, boy, this might be a tough season, Todd. I got to admit, and I don't know how-- I mean, and then you and I spent a second on this. I don't know how Auburn guys are going to react. Auburn people are going to react to another, especially if it's a losing season. I was told somebody maybe said on Twitter or something, if it is indeed a losing season this year, it probably will be. I think it's the first time since the '40s that we've gone this many losing seasons in a row. I think it would be four in a row. First time since the '40s, that's pretty significant. That's looking through Doug Barfield and sort of some really bad, bad periods. Probation, yeah. Yeah, so look, basketball season is coming. So that's what I'm thinking about. I just think of the overall health of the program. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of improvements going on, but I do those maybe take a look at what's going on under the hood, but that's a discussion for another time. Real quick, and we don't usually talk about federal politics or national politics, but what is your election outlook right now? Do you have a crystal ball or do you have any sense of where things are going? I mean, it's just so neck and neck, right? I think that's the one, I mean, it's pretty obvious, but it's so neck and neck. You're talking about, you know, tens of thousands of voters in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that are probably going to sound its election. I mean, you throw Arizona and Georgia in there, obviously North Carolina with everything that's going on up there. I mean, that could be, who knows how that might affect things, but it's just so close and it's hard for anybody to say, okay, dependatively what's going to happen. The one thing I'll say is right now, if you look at just, you know, most of the polls, kind of a, you know, real killer politics, like average of the polls, obviously Harris has an edge, but she doesn't have that big of an edge, you know, Democrats generally need about four or five points winning the election, the popular vote, to overcome Republicans' advantage with the Electoral College. She doesn't have that right now. She has, you know, one to two points, you know, maybe if you're being generous, three. Generally it takes a Democrat four or five points to overcome the Electoral College advantage for Republicans. So she has not crossed that line yet, not even come close, really. So right now you might think, okay, that seems like a good thing for Republicans, but again, you're looking at, you know, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and maybe, you know, a couple other states. That's where the election's gonna be won, and I don't know anybody that knows definitively, you know, 'cause we just won't know until election day. And the less nothing crazy happens, obviously we've got, what, 38 days to go. We'll see, but, you know, it's just, it's a nail-biter. - Another thing is that there's this like sort of unraveling situation in the Middle East, does that impact voters? I mean, we're talking about like an October surprise or some seismic event that had to be necessarily a surprise that would shit the election. And it's hard for me to like, 'cause it goes at this point, if you're sitting on something that you have with Donald Trump, it's been 10 years. I don't know what that could be. Maybe there's something out there for Kamala Harris that the Republicans will roll out, but I feel like the tank for October surprises is a sort of dry. - Oh, I agree. I don't think there's gonna be too many surprises. Now, the one thing that could help Trump is if there was another debate and he performed really well. Like it's he performed, and I don't think there's gonna be another debate, but there could be if there was, and he performed the same way that JD's aunt performed by really tying Harris Waltz to Biden and just kind of talking about that record, that could really help him. But I'm not sure there will be that opportunity. He missed that opportunity in the first debate, right? He said so much time defending himself and kind of getting into cul-de-sacs that were really unhelpful instead of really pressing the issue and making sure that all the things we're talking about in terms of problems the country is facing are on her watch, right? And then tying her to Biden. He didn't do that effectively in the first debate. JD's aunt did. He did a great job. I just not sure how much that's gonna matter. I don't know how many people were watching and how many actual undecided, you know, how many votes that's gonna impact. But if that could happen, it could help Trump. So maybe the answer to your question is through advertising, through media, somehow they can continue to make the case that all of the problems from immigration to foreign policy and all the things that people don't like about the state of the country are on her watch. That could be effective, but not a lot of opportunities between now and November. - No, I agree with you. And I don't, I think these debates have become Rorschach test that they will, well, whoever, maybe it's very marginal the people watching that are swayed one way or another. But, and the other thing about Trump, you're right. Like, I can tell you, if I were advising Kamala Harris and I'm not, but this is, she did like, all you gotta do is get him talking about himself, like, raise some issue about himself, about Trump and then you, you get him off track. You get, you know, talking about his crowd size or whatever. And that's, that's what you do, that's, that's a tactic. But, but I, I think like this, Todd, I mean, do you wanna win a debate trophy? Or do you wanna win an election? And I don't know that having another debate really helps either of these candidates. Is it, is it, there's something that we need to take away, though, that it is, it is the Harris campaign that wants another debate. It seems like, yeah, I know there's been talk out there and maybe that's telling it into itself. Like, the fact that the Trump campaign doesn't think interested in another debate, maybe they have some polling that shows that they're fine and don't need it. Obviously, I've always believed, and this, you know, kind of comes from experience that internal polling from the campaigns themselves is always more accurate than, you know, public polling. There's better at it, because it matters to them. So maybe that, you know, maybe that says it all right there, but it's all about opportunity. And I agree with you that the debates don't matter all that much, like of course, you know, the conditional wisdom was the Harris one-met debate. And I agree, but it's, you know, looking back at it, it's not like she won handily and just wiped the floor with him, it's that he missed the opportunity. - Yeah. - It's not that he-- - He left money on the table. He could have done so much better. And he just-- - Yeah, it's just an opportunity that was out there, and he's kind of, you know, swung and missed, or maybe watched the ball fly by, and so that's all. But it obviously didn't hurt him in the polls. It just was an opportunity to miss. And there aren't too many opportunities to really make the case. And so, you know, we'll see. - Joy by Todd Stacey from Alabama, Daily News. We got some, we got word last night, at least a truce, it seems, and this dock worker strike. It impacts Alabama, and I know you look at it and you look at like, there's all kinds of like, sort of ancillary things going on with these panics, and I don't know what it's like up in Montgomery, but we sure as heck got them down here. But I guess people will get back to normal and they'll get past this until the election, and then we can get, I mean, I don't know that we're in the clear here, but it was gonna be, and it still could be very painful for the country with, I guess, people are having to really educate themselves on what is coming in and out of these ports. - Right, and yeah, we saw some panic buying up here too. I was told by a friend that Costco ran out of toilet paper and it's like, that's saying something. We haven't been to Costco and seen the crates and crates and crates of toilet paper, and I'm pretty sure most toilet paper is made in the United States. I don't know if that was actually needed panic buying, but yeah, it's just a suspension. They didn't come to a long-term agreement. They basically punted the football until January 15th, where the dock workers union is gonna sit down with the ports and everybody to try to hammer out an agreement, but it's all over this automation stuff. Well, look, the world is moving to automation, at least partially, and I'm not sure we can really stop that. I understand the workers not wanting that, but at a certain point, not having automation make this less competitive with the rest of the world. And I know that, you know, it's just like the whole-- I think it's a bit of a-- The buggy whip argument, you know, the last person to make the buggy whip was a fine buggy whip maker, but we don't do that anymore. So I don't know if they can really expect to hold off this, you know, technology forever. I think you're right, I think it's inevitable. And this strike, I'm not, there's probably a few dock workers who listen to the show even, but like the strikes just gonna speed up that destination, the approach of the destination to automation. I mean, this is what's gonna happen. I don't know how much automation that they can have at these ports, but it's not gonna hold together forever. I mean, this is gonna be the world we live in, I think. - Yeah, the money made a comment that it's almost like the strikes end of that, where a lot of folks, including me, weren't really aware until this strike of how far behind the United States is to the rest of the world in terms of automation. So kind of, you know, it's actually maybe doing a disservice to their point. You know, why are we so far behind China and the Netherlands and Australia and other places with automation? So yeah, I think you're right, it could actually speed that up. But it also highlights just how important this presidential election is. Obviously, the president has a big say in strikes and needing those things like that. And so who wins this election might be a big determinant. And remember, this union, the Dark Workers Union, chose not to endorse. They typically endorse Democrats. You're gonna all go way back. They chose not to endorse this time. They have a good relationship with Trump, which is really interesting. I don't know what that really means, but it's not the, you know, maybe traditional, you know, Republican, what you would think of Republican versus Democrat as it pertains to unions. - Yeah, well, I think that's just sort of been like a theme from Trump about this approached automation. Well, it's, I think it just feeds into this. It's this era of populism we're living in on the Republican side. And I, all this automation and you and I talk about it being inevitable, it is having this impact on our political system. Now, what can your political system do to slow that down? Is it really even up to the political system to do that? But that seems to be where the frustration lies. And I'm surprised that it's, it's a Republican to a seize on this and not Democrats. - Right, and I think Democrats aren't really sure, you know, and they're footing on this issue. And Republicans traditionally haven't been, but you're right that, you know, the party has changed, Trump has really changed the party in terms of, I think a lot of that is probably good, but this is gonna be interesting. Let's just take Trump wins the election. The way he, you know, maybe involves himself in this issue will be really interesting to go on board. It also will be interesting if Harris wins, where that goes. So yeah, I mean, it's not a normal union fight that we would have expected 15, 20 years ago. - And, you know, that's the thing. Like, you're not hearing a whole lot about that, but like, if I'm a Democrat strategist or I'm a, you know, like sort of in the party and it'd be like, it would be like a Republicans losing evangelicals or something. It's these traditional voting blocks. Now, maybe they make it up in other places I don't know, but there's something, what's going on here? Why is it, why are we going in this direction? Why are these should be our guys? They've always been our guys for cycle after cycle, after cycle and now the teamsters and the dock workers are kind of sitting on the sidelines here. - Yeah, and I think a lot of that is cultural. I think, you know, you just think about blue collar, union workers, you know, bond large are just more culturally conservative, you know, than the Democratic Party is right now. And while, you know, Democrats could really count on those union votes for decades, I don't think they can anymore just because, you know, just because you're a member of a union and a blue collar worker to manufacturing or dock work or whatever, doesn't mean you're gonna go along with whatever your union, you know, whatever candidate your union adores us. I think that's part of it. And because that's the case, because these voters aren't tied to the Democratic Party nor they're leaning more Republican, that means the Republicans need to listen to them more, right? If you've got a constituency out there that's on the table that's willing to listen to you, you know, you better be listening back. And so I think that's a big part of it too. - Todd, tell folks what you got coming up on Capitol Journal and how to sign up for your newsletter. - Well, speaking of this issue, I'll be talking with Bradley Martin, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, tonight on Capitol Journal, about this union issue. We set this interview before the agreement so we'll get the latest on that. Also going to be talking with Anthony Daniels. He's the House Minority Leader about what's coming up in the next legislative session, what the Democrats are working on. And so a really good episode of Capitol Journal, that's tonight, 730 on Alabama Public Television. - And your newsletter. - It's really easy to get on the list. Just go to aldaylenews.com. You can sign up right there on the home page, put your name and your email, and you'll be on the list. - Todd, Stacy, ladies and gentlemen, Todd, thanks again. - All right, Jeff, be good. - All right, we'll be right back. 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Does it translate to more votes? But is this really, you know where I was on this? Like, I think this, I think this trend toward automation is inevitable. Is it right or wrong? I mean, you know, that's the whole thing about markets. They're not immoral or moral or kind of amoral. They kind of go, I mean, you know, there's like a law of economics. It's like a law of gravity. It's a law of science. And at some point, we have people in this country who just, it's all about like reducing those costs and getting that cheap labor. Well, if you could eliminate parts of your labor force, I mean, it would just be like, well, maybe Sean could get chat GPT to do this radio show and we wouldn't know any better. At least keep us entertained for three hours and kill time until midday mobile every day. But I, you know, maybe that's an oversimplification, but that's what these corporations do. And they're gonna, they're working on it right now. They're not gonna get caught like a deer and headlights again. They're looking at this, this strike situation, these ports, and they're thinking, we need to hurry this up. Let's build a better robot. Let's get 'em breaking here. We'll be right back. This is the Jeff Moore Show. What if I'm talking about one, oh, six, five. ♪ And on the old town square ♪ ♪ Under the barbershop ♪ ♪ Oh, they set me up in the chair ♪ 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 Moore Show. ♪ I don't think I ain't done it this way ♪ Welcome back to the Jeff Moore Show. It'll be a talk, 106, five, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. It's how you can touch with the program if you just so desire coming up on today's program, still to come, Tommy Tumerville. That's it, about 30 minutes from now, and state center, Chris Elliott in about an hour and a half. Oh, let's see here, a couple of things. I guess a Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, or I guess tomorrow, I should say. That forces the media to talk about and tip the assassination and the two innocent bystanders. Also, it looks like people are starting to make their way back into Asheville, North Carolina after having to flee. I get the flooding of the French Broad River there in Asheville, but maybe we're a little, maybe that's this, we're a little impatient and we shouldn't be, we shouldn't even be thinking in this way, but what you see from a lot of right center media, right center, social media, what do you would call influencers or whatever? Why isn't the Biden administration taking a hit for this? And maybe they will. It's just a matter of time before they do, but you really look at the slow role of the, and it won't be Bush Katrina. Even though you can make a case that it's somewhat somewhat like that, but they still will take a hit and it's going to send momentum in a bad direction, or in the wrong direction for Democrats. And tell me this, our three Democrat listeners, you don't think that this is a problem for Team Harris and why not? That maybe a blame it on Trump for global warming or something, that's just not going to sell. 'Cause it is, well, it's Biden not Harris and this is, you can't conflate it to him, I mean, he can because pass shows us. Katrina at George W. Bush, the next go around in 2006, it was that it compared with a anti-war sentiment that Democrats tapped into and they had big, big, big, big gains in that '06 midterms. Let's get some text out of the way here. I do see our resident Democrat talkers here. I'll start out with Kitty, sorry for the negativity. The person can only take so many punches below the belt before they've had enough. It goes on to add the aggravation of going to the service station, squeezing out $5 for gas, when the person behind you is hoping out of the government food card are coming out with $30 worth of junk food, it's ridiculous. Jean, it's funny how Mike Pence is not the vice president, so this is like, this is so irrelevant. It's funny how Mike Pence is not the vice president and House GOP went to want to be rewarded for the great job they have done for us. Continue to mock Liz. Jean, do you want to run a Liz Cheney? Have at it. Can we get the posters up? I will see you. All of the positives, all of the good vibes, all of the joy, if you will, of Liz Cheney. I will concede that. You put that in your column as a virtue of Democratic Party politics. If you want to run a Liz Cheney and everything that Liz Cheney has accomplished and what a heroin she is, I mean, you, Jean, please, by all means, tell me where I can send a check. Jeff, do you think the presidential race is actually as close as the polls suggest? Hey, Trump beats her, beats her soundly. I need some reassurance. I do too. I don't know about how much. I don't know about soundly. The problem, there's two problems, but there's one thing to have going for on the Democratic side, but there's two problems that are just learning to me and no one has an answer for. On paper, Harris ought to be blowing Trump out. She should be, I mean, this is a twice impeached. 34, out, felony conviction, former president that had low approval numbers when he walked out the door all January 20th, 2017. I mean, 2021. And it's not a blowout. Why is it close? If you believe what the media tell you, and I don't believe them, by the way, why is it even close? Why is it she dominating? I mean, why is it she doing better than she is? That's problem number one. Probably number two. She's just not a good candidate. She's not doing interviews. There's something wrong there. People will figure that and that catches up pretty quick. And the interview she does are like, does she really know what she's talking about? And you can say, well, that doesn't matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so seeds of doubt, just enough doubt. I mean, the media is in her back pocket. That's, that's, but that's always going to be the case with any Democrat. Yeah. Anyway, she's not doing the things that you would think you need to do to win a presidential election. I guess is the point I'm trying to make. Like, okay, you see her. And if you're running her campaign and you're trying to say, Hey, this is what you need to do to win. Is she doing all of that? Do you feel? I mean, because if it's, if it's you or the Republican nominee, I would be concerned. That's probably number two. She just doesn't feel like she's fully invested in this race. Now what Democrats have going for them? We call it a ground game, but it's also their ability to cheat or their ability to, you know, pick up a few votes here and there are whatever they do through absentee ballot, through mail in, through knocking on doors, getting people registered to vote. You go to any major city in America right now. There are people chasing around with clipboard, trying to get you to register to vote. They have a very good ground game on all fronts. Republicans do not have that. It's harder. It's harder for Republicans because Democrat voters tend to be more centralized or concentrated in what area. And Republican voters tend to be more dispersed. And that lends itself to just having a tactical advantage when it comes to a ground game. Democrats have that down. That is going to pay off for them. They are going to be able to have a reservoir of votes heading into election day. Where Republicans make it up is they have a bigger, the enthusiasm, the Republican party, traditional Republicans have an ability to get their votes out on election day. I mean, they show up. They're reliable. You don't have to worry about. Republicans stay at home to watch whatever is on TV or go out to the club or whatever it is. I don't know if it goes to the club on Tuesday night, but our Monday night. But what we know is Republicans. They are a more reliable, more likely voter. Also, you watch these polls that are rolled out of these major media programs and in these publications. And I tell you guys, I see them in my own eyes. I see a lot more surveys with registered voters. I don't see as many with likely voters. I don't know why pollsters are abandoning the likely voter model. Now, how you define a likely voter and how you get to what is defined as a likely voter is all over the place. Usually it's just like you're going to vote the election. And that's what they call you a likely voter. And if you say, maybe you're, you're just a registered voter or no, then they just do adults. And they do these surveys and they put them out there and they treat them like as such. Like, well, did you know 67% of adults like Kamala Harris on abortion? It doesn't mean anything. Do they vote? We didn't ask that, but it creates a number. Can you validate textures? Does the bridge replace the Wallace tunnel? So my understanding is they keep the Wallace tunnel. I think the Wallace tunnel becomes part of the causeway somehow. And the bridge doesn't replace it, but it does replace the bayway. And they want to tear down the bayway. They're going to tear down the bayway and build a higher one. So what will happen is while they're building the new bayway, you'll be on the existing bayway. And then when it comes time to open the new bayway up, they will close the old bayway and remove it. Maybe they will make it a fishing pier like they do it a lot of places. I don't know. James, James, come on, man. Why do you have to write an essay? Jeff, help me understand this. James, I want to read your text, but like you make it hard when you send me a hundred words. The Affordable Care Act permits the cell states to expand Medicaid coverage to it. You just copied and pasted this. I'm not reading this. Come back and try again, James. Peacock. This is from Peacock, who in the, you know, what still uses that dry-ass toilet paper. Anyway, I keep toilet paper in my house to blow my nose, and that's it. Also, I live in Maryland. It's Homecoming Week. And there's about seven million rolls of toilet paper wasted on rolling people's houses. So that's how smart we are as Americans. Peacock, you, um, you have, you have very few joys in your life, don't you, Peacock? Uh, toilet paper for your nose, that Kleenexes and, uh, Bahumbug on the, on the, on the, on the Mardi Gras, but on the Homecoming floats for high school kids. I mean, that's what it be. Harris wins Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, it's over. Nevada and probably Arizona will be in her column, but she doesn't need them. There's a path. If she doesn't get Georgia, I mean, I don't think your mouse right here. Maybe I can mess around with it. The 270 to win or whatever website. But there is a path without those three states for Trump. But the problem with those three states can be, you know, they're going to be, uh, and this is a problem. And I'm yet to hear a Democrat address and accept maybe like a James Carvel and one of his drunken stupers on air, but she isn't. Kamala Harris has a lead in the polls in those three states, particularly Wisconsin, but it is a much, much smaller lead, according to the polling, than either Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden had in 2016 and 2020 respectively. And Trump outperformed way, way outperforming the polls in those two states. So based on that, and I know this isn't necessarily scientific. It's somewhat anecdotal, but why would you not think that Trump would not outperform the polls again in those three states community notes and pick off just one or two of them? And then you have a problem there. I would be worried about that community notes want to be and maybe you're not. Maybe you think the pollsters have got it right this time. We'll be right back. This is if you talk about O6 5. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Why are you happy about that? How often do you go across the Bay of name texture? Why? I mean, I get it. I mean, maybe you live in, I don't know where you live, but why does this bother you so much? And I'm not, I'm just curious why. Josh, I'd be okay with the guy doing Ronald Reagan quotes every day, just instead of just Thursday. [LAUGH] The Ronald Reagan quotes, I, yesterday when he was on the neocons, neoconservatism, by the way, the passing fan of 20 years ago, the Bush era of Republican Party politics. And it really was, it was just liberals who were very, very hawkish on national defense on foreign policy coming over to the Republican Party, because Democrats were the peace nicks of the era and they, they just were, they said, well, we will go be bloody guts over on the Republican side, but our social values are very liberal. And it's sort of like, that's what's going on with Liz Chaney and a lot of other things. But the populism, and Tonsisi, I talked about this, like, that the weird union move, it's not going full Republican, but they're not endorsing either the Democrats. The UAW guys, I hate the UAW Sean Fade. I, I think the auto workers have just been co-opted by a crazy president. But the other union, and the politics of a union are just as complicated as politics of anything, it's telling that they're staying on the sidelines in this presidential election. The endorsements, I never thought, meant that much, but people will do this. They may not go out and vote for president based on the union endorsement, but they will go out and vote for their union based on who that regime endorses for president. And it's a no-win situation because you're going to make it a half your membership mad if you endorse one way or another. That's, that's telling because it tells you there's something going on in the country. And I'm not saying it so we're going to, the country is going back to the right. We're going to this rebirth of Reagan conservatism, a shining city on a hill and, you know, we're, we're, we're going to achieve peaceful strength and we're going to have our guns and butter and it's going to be great. But politics is always kind of trying to figure out it's a mind game. And it's hard for me from mobile or Fair Hope or wherever I am right now, Alabama. The thing, well, what do you think the mindset of a Michigan voter is right now? What's the prevailing sentiment? I mean, are inner city voters in Detroit really eager to go out and hit the button for Kamala Harris? Are they excited? On the other hand is the, the rural Michigan voter. Are they as geared up, geeked up for Donald Trump as they were in Washington. Is the union vote? Is the UAW really going to bring home Michigan from the Democratic Party? And you, you, you, you try to put yourself in their shoes and then you look at the two candidates and what is, what is Harris doing to ingratiate herself to those voters and I don't know why. Good morning, just two quick things. The Harris campaign really thinks the electorate is dumb. How does raising taxes on the rich reduce the middle class debt? Two, the strike was pointed because the public opinion was against the dock workers and what hurt the Democrats in the election. And we'd have more panics on, I don't know what's next. Okay, 2513430106 stay tuned. This is the Jeff Pore showing up and talk. 1065. [Music] This is for the one who drives the big win. [Music] I go down to the honky talk. I go down to the honky talk. I go down, I go down to the honky talk. I go down to the honky talk. I go back to the Jeff Pore show, what have I'm talking about. They just stay with us on this Friday, Friday morning. 2513430106. They want to be in touch with the program. All you have to do is hit me up on that text line. Joining us now on the line, he's our senior United States. It's always a pleasure to bring all my friends. Tommy Tuberville, coach. Good morning, how are you? Good morning. That is a fitting song that you're with going down to the honky talk. I've never seen so many bad things going on in our country. That's what I'd like to do sometimes, but we just got to keep fighting. Well, that is true. Man, it's really ramping up right now. Before we get into that dilemma, let's talk about, well, one dilemma. Two programs that are going in the opposite direction, which is probably the story of my life. The exception of you and Pat die when y'all were coaches, but Auburn and Alabama football kind of disappointing defeat on Saturday for Auburn and a big win on Saturday for Alabama. Yeah, I went to part of both of them. And I didn't see the ending other than on TV of Auburn. And I just can't find a way to win. And you got to learn how to win. And anything that you do, you got to learn how to finish something off. For some reason, you know, fourth quarters have not been very good for Auburn this year. They just, they can't find any consistency. And as you said, a number there looking down the losing season if they don't turn this thing around, but it's not just one or two. Everybody wants to blame a quarterback. And I understand 14 or what 15 turnovers is. It's hard to overcome, but still, sooner or later, your defense has got to stand up. You got to tackle better. You know, a lot of things can happen, but there's been so many much disruptions in the last 10 years in the front office and all over Auburn. They got to get their stuff together because it's more than just a coach or coaches or players. It's the all-around program. And you flip that to Alabama, which I was there with President Trump. I mean, everything goes one in their direction. They've got players, they've got a new coach that's got them inspired. They've got things that are building their front office has been stable. They've been on the same page. It's like any business. I mean, you've got to all be all in and they're fans. I'll tell you what, it was a great atmosphere over there for them. So, you know, to win like they want, you know, get behind after being in about 20 point five points and then get behind and come back and win. My God, that shows you you can finish your game off. Let me ask you something because this has been my complaint, my, most of my adult life, about Auburn and Alabama. And you look across the state and I'm an Auburn alum and you see like they go after the big coach. I mean, they go after Nick Saban. They go after the boy here from Washington. They do what I think they got to do to have a successful program. They just find a way. And I don't, Auburn does it, I mean, God bless you freeze or Gene Chiswick or even Gus Miles on to some degree going after the mid major up and comer. It just seems like there's a different like level of expectations at the two schools to me, just kind of watching it. And maybe that's the little brother mentality in me or whatever. But what do you think of that? Well, the whole thing about hiring people, especially in sports is by looking behind the scenes. It's about looking at the people that they surround themselves with in terms of who's going to help them win games. And I think there's a time to use that good coaches. I don't know a lot about this staff. I know a few of them on the staff, but you know, his first year, you know, he lost three or four or five coaches. So there's been no stability just in a short period of time. Now, I think you as a good football coach, I think he's going to turn it around. But, you know, patience out there, money involved players now, if you don't win games now, the problem real quick is those players can say, listen, I'm going somewhere where I feel like we're going to win next year where I can go to the field or whatever. This kind of NIO is even more pressure on coaches having success. So it's tough. And you're right about Alabama. You know, they've missed the board guy. Again, I don't know him. I've never been around him, but I just watched the players. They respond to him. And again, they've got more players at Alabama. Let's get this on the table real quick. It's not that they're covered in spare. Auburn's got a lot of building to do. But again, when you get to that point, like the board walked in and he hadn't let it back up at all. He just kept it going and he's building on that. Oh, I mean, one more gripe and then we'll move on. But like Alabama is a dream job. What does it take to get Auburn to where it is at least? I mean, I don't think it's a bad job. But it's, you know, got a big fan base and they feel that stadium every Saturday for home games. But what does it take to get Auburn? It feels like it's kind of a mid-tier team right now in the SEC and the elites are, Bama, Georgia and so on. Yeah. Well, you've got to hit the right person. Okay. You've got to hit that button now. It's totally different than what I came in because I could build a program when I came in. I took two stars, three stars. We were very hard on the practice card. You know, we built our football team and now you've got a basketball team. And so it's totally different. But if you go back and remember now, I went through five Bama coaches in my 10 years at Auburn. I mean, they couldn't find the right fit. They were stumbling and stumbling around. It's all about, you know, the front office all getting together and all getting on the same page. Auburn's got to do that. Alabama did it. Malmore did a great job of not giving up on Nick because, you know, they tried to hire two or three more people that I don't know would have been successful. And then when they finally got Nick to say, yes, you know, they took off. So it's as much about the front office. The people that run the show other than the coaching coach staff, then you got to get around them and help build that. Coach, let's move on. The one of the most disappointing things I think I've ever seen in government is that the Department of Homeland Security FEMA and hearing that FEMA is out of money. Meanwhile, you know that DHS has played a role in this, this Haitian, the CHNV program, the resettlement. And they are using a lot of resources there, but they're not using them for this hurricane helene relief. In Western or Carolina, in particular, where I was born, and you see these photos and I got to say, like I said, this is one of the most disappointing things. How does this happen? Well, we're in a tough situation. Yep. And we've been lied to. We've been scammed. American people have been scammed. You know, I'm a Republican, but first of all, I'm an American that believes in Christian values and believe in our country and believe in the people that built this country. And I want to leave this country to our kids and grandkids. So that being said, we've been scammed. You know, you've got two people running now for office that were not elected through the process. They were selected. And one point, it didn't happen. I know people when Joe Biden got out, friends of mine, on the Democratic side in the Senate, they were going to run for the nomination in the -- when they had their convention, and they were immediately called and told, "You will not run." We have selected this person to run. Pretty much threatened them. And so they didn't run. And so they said, "Hey, I'm not getting involved in something. It could be a huge threat to me and my family." So what has happened is they work -- and this whole group has lied to the American people for 3 hours, going on 4 years. You get, say, in our borders closed and this and that. Now, you know, we've all been looking before. They're getting this money from them to take care of these people. Other than the fact we knew they were using the care of money, COVID money, the inflation reduction act money. Now we know that the group that has been confiscated by this regime, other than the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, everybody about now FEMA, they've been taking money from FEMA and paying these illegal immigrants and taking care of them. And it's all coming out in the light. And people now are looking, "Well, wait a minute. This is for a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster like the border." But they're corrupt. Every day, something comes up now that they've been exposed, that they've been doing, they shouldn't be doing. And people should be going to jail. This is treason. And not taking care of these people up and down the East Coast because we need to do a supplemental. We don't have the money. We're printing $80,000 a second right now. Just keep our country going. They have absolutely just run us in the ditch. We're going to have so hard of time. The American people are getting out of this mess they've got us in. And they're pushing the narrative of electing these two people that, you know, the Trump and JED events are so much more qualified than these two clowns running. But these two clowns aren't going to be running the show. It's going to be the deep state behind the scenes and focus. I know if you're after a Democrat, you've always voted Democrat. That's the way it goes. This is not Democrat versus Republican. This is America versus deep state socialism. And it's coming to an end here in about 30 days. And my God, Trump doesn't win. I don't know what we're going to do. I really don't. You know, maybe it's this. Do you worry about this? When you do go after a supplemental, I think the time will come. Congress will have to do something here, but they're not going to let a crisis go to waste. And you're going to be voting on things totally unrelated to the storm relief to, and they're going to use it as a, I mean, this is what they always do, right? And they're going to use it as leverage. Oh, they, they never, they never leave anything. Any stone unturned if they're, if the Republicans are for something, they're going to pile on and spend money out of the places we don't need to. It's like, you know, I've been bringing up a situation where we have to help our farmers. If they're trying to run our farmers in bankruptcy where they can just close them all down, build gates and all these socialist by their land and get all of our food from over the station. China and Brazil, that's their plan. Our farmers, we've lost 150,000 farms in the last three years. We're going to lose probably another 150,000 this year. The crops are good, but the prices are rock bottom. They can't make it. And we'd lose our food in this country and we have to depend on other countries. It's just like a drug problem that we had. China makes all of our drugs during COVID. But like you said, that they never, they never let a, a good thing be undone by not getting their hand in their, in the cookie jar to steal money, to fraud money. It's an absolute scam that the American people are going through right now. And we got to get them out. We don't have much longer. If this group gets elected this time, I don't know whether we can ever win another election because they'll leave the borders open. And you think we don't have any money right now? My gosh, it is going to be a bad tale for the American people to ever get anything from social security, Medicare, anything that's going to cost. It's going to go through the taxpayers back to the taxpayers. We're joined by United States Senator Tommy Tubber for just a few more minutes here. Coach, election wise, I mean, I, if you look at the battleground states and the margins and compare them to past margins, you got to feel pretty good about where Republicans are at. But, I mean, where do you think it is? Is it enough to not allow for any kind of a, should they get against a steal or anything? Like, how do you feel about today as we headed to November 5th of month out? Well, in 2020, we're finding more and more about about what happened. There's no doubt that they, that there were several states that are absolutely stolen. We've all known that. But if you say anything like that, they call you a crook. And that's what a crook's always do. They always point the finger at you. But they, they sold the election for President Trump. Joe Biden wasn't a duly elected president. Of course, he can't spell "cat." And they knew that they just don't put him in. He was selected, not elected. And so, and everywhere I go, Jeff, I was kind of driven. I've been campaigning for President Trump and for other senators. You know, most people, as you say, coach, is my vote on count. They don't ask you about the recession that we're in or the oil prices or the climate or board, which they're very concerned about. They're worried about their vote count. And I'm telling you, if it looks anything like anything that happened last time, I'm afraid what's going to happen in this country. But I really don't think that the Democrats care. I don't think that they care what happens. You know, January 6th, 6th, that was, that was my first day on the Senate board. Now we found out that it was mostly instigated by CIA and FBI, Nancy Pelosi. President Trump won the National Guard there. They turned it down. It was all a setup. And so, I'm just, I just hate to see what's happening to our country and to the American people. But I think the American people are resilient. And I just hope to God that these people, if they will, have always voted Democrat folks, it's not your party that's at stake, it's your country that's at stake. And we have to go out. And we have to elect people that are going to stand up for our country and not for other things like socialism, communism, world wars. I mean, we're in dire straits right now and I hope to God that next 30 days, more and more people come to their senses like helping the people in North Carolina. What's going on up there, there's going to be 5, 6, 700 people. That's going to be found dead in this situation, not 200. And I hope people open their eyes. What a complete catastrophe has been for the FEMA and the federal government, not lifting one finger to help those people. Coach, you know, one more thing that we'll get you out of here. The Vice Presidential debate, your colleague J.D. Vance in the Senate. I feel pretty good about that. And, you know, Trump will be around forever. Maybe he's the guy that they passed a baton to or whatever. But just based on that performance, what did you make of it on Tuesday night? I thought it was awesome. I knew it was coming. I've become very good friends with the idea. I've learned a lot from here. The guy's what 39, 40 years old, but he is great on the street. He knows the King's language. He can communicate. He didn't get -- he didn't get blustered, even though it was a three-on-one, like it wasn't ever debate against the Republican. And he's just showed the difference between Tim Walsh, who's an absolute joke of being having opportunity to be vice president. I think if you get it 30 more minutes, J.D. Vance would have convinced him to vote for it. But J.D. is a future of this country in terms of politics. You know, you have other people like Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. We have a deep bench. We have people that can actually talk. They're smart. They've done things the right way. And if you look at the bench on the other side, the Democrats, I mean, I don't know where they're going to go. Bernie Sanders lives with one. I mean, they don't have those young people coming up that still actually lead our country into another century. So, yeah, I don't -- J.D. did right. Again, his stop went way up. Hopefully, people saw that because, can you imagine, you know, these two get elected and some were having a Kamala Harris, which would be a disaster anyway, for her being in Tim Walsh. I mean, the guy can't tell the truth, but it was great for a country, not for the Republican Party to see J.D. and close in person. People, I think a lot of people were impressed, but, you know, his common sense attitude towards American and American people. Coach, we always appreciate your time. Let's talk again soon. All right, yeah, thank you. All right, that was U.S. Senator Tommy Tubberville there. We got to get a break in here. We'll be right back. This is the Jeff Moore Show on FM Talk, 106-5. 6-5. [Music] [Music] The first thing I remember knowing. Welcome back to the Jeff Moore Show on FM Talk, 106-5. They just stayed tuned. We do appreciate it. 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-3-6. Is the tech slide still to come on the program? State Senator Chris Elliott, our attorney champion at the bottom of the 11 o'clock hour. Oh, what do we got here? What do we got here? Gene, it's quite possible Trump loses the popular vote again. It still gets elected, only in America. But, I mean, this is the system we agree to, Gene. This is the, I mean, we can, you can lead the charge here. And change the Constitution, and we can have a presidency that is chosen by a popular vote. Now, good luck getting that through. But this is how it lines up. And I've always said that too, Gene, that Republicans have an advantage right now with the Electoral College. And you may not like it. Tough. We go move to Argentina, then you can, you can popular vote it up all day. But this is what we've been doing for, what, 250 years. And that's, that's, that is, that is how America picks its presidents. And you could go back and read the history of why we do it that way. But we chose not to do the popular vote. You never would have formed a country if you'd gone with the popular vote. And they've tried to change it into past, Gene. But I don't, I mean, I don't necessarily like it when the Republican loses the popular vote and wins the Electoral College, but that's how the game is played. We'll be right back. This is F.M. Talk, one of those six, five. Everybody making my prediction. So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on and on and on. Bam! [music] 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] Welcome back to the Jeff Porchow. I've been talking about those six, five. Hour number three begins right now, two, five, one, three, four, three. Zero, one, zero, six would be in touch with the program. All you got to do is text me. I still come on the program. St. Senator Chris Elliott, about 30 minutes from now, as we close out this week. Or this, yeah, this week. It is Friday. Week flies by. It's busy. One month and one day, and then we'll move on to something else. Well, it'll be bumpy. Let's see. What's going on? MSNBC's still riding to Liz Cheney. I cannot believe that they think Liz Cheney is that big of a get. It's sort of like me, though, with Tulsi Gabbard. Can I get RFK juniors? I think kind of a big deal, but I don't know if it brings any votes at all. But like making a big deal out of these former congresswomen who left their party to go switch sides, I guess. What else we got here? Obama joining Kamala on the trail fundraising fundraising. One thing you got to say about Barack Obama can raise a lot of money on that money they raised for Joe Biden. Joe Biden, one of the more tragic stories in American political history. But we knew Obama and I expect Bill Clinton will be there at some point, too. And then obviously the story that really will get you in the hardship of the Hurricane Helene fallout. And sort of this is what's important now. Don't get upset by the mainstream media not handling this like it should. You're never going to get Katrina level outrage. Where is the celebrities doing their fundraisers on national TV and you give Kanye West the opportunity to say, George Bush doesn't care about black people, and then the media and the Hollywood elite just giggle about it. And notice there hasn't been, I mean, there's been a few celebrities, but they are mostly of the right of center. Nashville and so on. This just doesn't tug at your heartstrings, I guess, for them. But I think those people North Carolina are damn sure going to remember this for generations. Let's see, let's go to the text. The reason I care about the toll bridge, we gave $8 billion outstanding in Cairo. Let's spend credit here in the US. Richard could have an upper-class water system or a class water system building bridges in El Salvador not happy at helping the US. But is that why you're you're moving to? No, you're not the one you're different on name texture. I don't know what to tell you. I'll see you here, Mayor Pete. People vote for these idiots. It's scary. They vote for these people, these Democrat voters. Some are just Democrats, but there's a brand of Democrats that is the most like cringe, just headache, something frustrating types and there's no like there's a smugness generated from like where they get their news. As if like NPR and the New York Times, because they have a sort of an eloquent touch to their delivery. It creates this false sense of elitism. And what it does, it's this deference to authority that I've always thought is such a fallacy, especially when you build your foundation of what you believe in, especially ideologically, politically, so on and so forth. It builds this foundation and we talked to some of these Democrat voters who are so sure of themselves, they'll stick a Harris wall sign in their yard. And you try to have a conversation. There's no critical analysis here of what they read on the news, but we do it on time. I'm she do it on time with me and I'm like, you know, you're right-wing nut job or whatever. Well, Fox News, I mean, we don't, we, you don't look at the source and say, yeah, but this is where they're coming from. I mean, they're always going to be on the side of the Democrat. They're always going to portray or go either way to portray things that are rosy for the left-wing worldview. And every little thing Trump or Vance does, the portrayal of JD Vance by these people is criminal. Hey, it really is. It's criminal. Um, well, anyway, people vote for those idiots. That's why they think it's the smart thing to do. And they don't like, well, why do you think this? And I always ask these questions. Well, I read it in the New York Times. Well, are you skeptical of the reporting? Well, no, they're the New York Times. They don't get things wrong. They rarely do. They have the smartest journalists. They went to the Ivy League schools and that's, that's what I, that's why I, well, what do you want me to get my news from Fox? What are you crazy? You know, it's, it's that. That shapes a worldview that I think is very, very, uh, it's, it's where the Democratic Party finds its strength. You always got a number of people who are going to vote Democrat no matter what. But you also got like the people who arrived at this destination probably in the last 10, 15 years. How did you get there? And that's what they'll tell you. And they'll just roll your eyes if you try to tell them otherwise. Michael, I think the dock workers decided to give, go excited to give in after Governor DeSantis responded with the Florida state guard yesterday. They knew they were about to be permanently replaced and the Republican governor was going to look like a hero. Maybe, uh, I think they got some political pressure from Democrats as well. You know, it's like, Hey, you know, um, dock workers, we have a lot of, probably have a lot of dirt on you. I mean, we've been spying on Trump a lot lately and Republicans and, uh, uh, moms for liberty or whatever, but, but we, you're still on our radar. You better, you better come around here and, uh, get back to work for now after the election. If you want to, if you want to destroy the country, well, fine. You're not doing that till after November 5th. All right. Got it. Capiche. All right. We're good. We're, we're in agreement. They're doing a jet. The person that grabs about the rolling of trees or toilet paper must not know that you are an Auburn graduate or Eagle rolling at tumors corner. I want one of my biggest regrets. I have not taken my three year old to roll the trees and that is mostly because all of it hasn't won a game. The two games day one, we were home. What was really late at night? Well, they were. Yeah, they were. What was the night game against their both night games? Yeah. New Mexico and Alabama and M. Hi, Lord. Losing the Cal Arkansas and now Oklahoma. Lane, what did Jeff? I did disagree with you that Republicans have an advantage because of Electoral College. If that is the case, why have so many Democrats been elected over the past 60 years, we all know that why the Electoral College is a place. It's to protect smart states from larger populated states. There was a brilliant system. Two hundred or 45 years ago. It still is today. Well, if you don't have the Electoral College, Wayne, I mean, one of those George Bush presidency's goes away. And one of those Trump presidency's go away. They do have an advantage. They've won presidential elections on the Electoral College. Even Republicans have an advantage in the Electoral College because Republican voters tend to be more rural voters and disproportionately rural states get more representation in the Electoral College than urban populated states. Now populated urban states get more Electoral College delegates, but it's disproportionate. So a Republican voter in South Dakota is worth more than a Democrat voter in California in the Electoral College. That's the advantage. There are a few states that are rural states that are very blue. Like Vermont and Delaware are two that I think of, Rhode Island. But how many populated states are there that are red states? I mean, say Texas has a bunch, Florida has a bunch. But overall, Democrats are going to win the major American cities, but their Electoral College count is not going to be as much. Jim, it's not an advantage for Republicans. It's the way the founders keep the popular state's from dominating the less popular state less lucky for us. And we will not, we're not a democracy. But Jim, it is an advantage. Republicans have an advantage in Electoral College because red states get more Electoral College representation. I mean, I don't know how much simpler I can explain it. You may not think it's an advantage that they built in. You know, 250 years ago, this was created a system that's got a favor Republicans in 2024. They didn't do that, but it is an advantage. It favors Republicans. The Electoral College system favors Republicans. The end to tell me how I am wrong. What's not the way they sit up? That doesn't have anything to do with it. Squirrel, well, the reason to money by Obama simply means a lot of idiots are out there and have money to burn, but there is a prestige in Democrat circles to get your picture made from Barack Obama. It's like it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and people will write a $10,000 check for that. You're, you're, you're with a historic figure, the first black president. I mean, it's just, it is a, is a thing he is able to do post presidency. And I, I can't explain it, but that's, that's where it is. And a texture. My question is where the money is coming from, who is dispensing into the legal aliens and how that is not an automatic crime against the country. And I'm going to not be aiding and abetting in any other circumstance. It should be, I would think. How is that not smuggling? How is that not one of the most critical things that should be enforced by our country? It's not that they are given. This is where y'all got to be careful. When they get here, the Biden administration as the executive branch of government has certain powers. They, they hold the keys to the jail cell. They, they prosecute crimes and they could choose what crimes they prosecuted, which crimes they don't. And obviously they have chosen to not prosecute illegal border crossing. In fact, they haven't created a program. That does not prosecute illegal border crossings immediately. It sits in places that did this due process. And while the due process is underway, it makes these people coming here, seeking, quote, unquote, asylum legal. And gives them government benefits. This is a policy objective of the current president of the United States to resettle as many of these Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan migrants as they possibly can before. The January 20th inauguration. That is elections have consequences. That is what he has chosen to do and how he's chosen to handle his immigration system. And the people in western North Carolina are suffering because of it. We'll be right back. This is F.M. Talk about 065. We've got a long way to go, and it's short time to get there. Time is kind of what no man did run. Keep your foot apart on the pedal, so don't tell the mind it breaks. Let it all hang out 'cause we gotta run to me. Have a real bad morning, up from San Antonio. ♪ Everything that I got ♪ ♪ Is just welcome ♪ Welcome back to the Jumpboard Show. Let's have a talk about 065. Thanks for sticking around on this Friday. Coming up on Monday, you get April, Marie Fogel, fill it in for me. Got to take a day off to go to Talladega and getting back on a Sunday. I just didn't want to chance it, so you get a filling host on Monday. But I'll be back Tuesday. Tuesday, I got your guest list here. Gary Palmer, congressman from the 6th Congressional District. Judy Barlow, these short public and women. And John Wall, Alabama Republican Party chairman. Let's get through some of these texts. Sean, Kanye wasn't lying, though. Easy, Sean. James, Jeff, how do you look at yourself in the mirror as a man and just outright lie to your listeners? That's the way I mentioned him saying it. It's early pathetic and what's worse is they effing believe you. James, off the meds this morning, a dramatic reading there. Let's see what else we got here. Daniel, the Electoral College, doesn't pick any advantage. It's what it is. Did the Democrats have an elected advantage before Republicans existed? Well, no, but why are you guys being so obtuse about this? If we went to, like, picking straws or something, there would be no advantage. Republicans have an advantage at Electoral College. It's a country's 50/50. The disbursement of Republican voters versus Democrat voters. Democrats are concentrated. Republicans are more dispersed. You look at a map in the United States. You see these blue dots and you just see red. But those blue dots are very concentrated in big cities. And in an Electoral College system, that's going to be a disadvantage, okay? Even if you have numbers that are somewhat equal 50/50 in an Electoral College system, the more geography you have, the advantage you have. I'm not going to explain this, like, 12 times. I know you get what I'm saying and I don't know why you take offense to be saying Republicans have an advantage in the Electoral College system. I'll see Jim. It was designed to be disproportionate. I don't know how many more ways I can explain that to you. Well, why is it that the founders say we're going to create a system that is meant to favor one sort of voter over another? No, it's the opposite. It was something completely different. We're going to give states equal weight in this. Or it's being a state matters. But Republicans do have an advantage. James, just call it a day, son. I.T. Jesus. Not that it will help, but I will be cheering for Alabama short bus brother Auburn to beat Georgia. What do you want? Short bus brother, I think, is derogatory. I name textured Jeff. There's two types of socials, Democrat voters to type. That does what Oprah Winfrey and Taylor so tell them to do at a type that want to be part of the ruling elite. I don't. I think we overplay this Taylor Swift stuff. I don't know about Oprah. Oprah's kind of a has been. Does Oprah been relevant in 20 years? But do people really do what Taylor Swift tells them to do? I just reject that. And how many if they are is the demographic of people who are programmed to do what Taylor Swift tells them to do are not old enough to vote. If you're going to rely on Taylor Swift to be your beacon, then you probably already lost those voters anyway. They're voting based on an emotional response. And like you look at Democratic Party politics. It's really steeped in emotion. Two five one three four three zero one zero six. That's the number. I'm not going to argue you can text me this that Republicans don't have an advantage. The Electoral College. All you want. I'm done. You know where I am on that. They do. It is a system that favors the Republican Party. It may not have been intended to be back when they created it. But the Electoral College system favors Republicans because of where Republicans are located. It favors Republicans. There's no denying that. There's no disputing that. What has a Democrat won? The Electoral College without the popular vote in our history. We're back. This is a Jet Force show. I flip talk. One of six five. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open. [Music] Welcome back to the Jet Force show. I flip talk. One of those six five. Thanks for sticking around on what's left of this Friday morning. Joining us now on the line. We do this every Friday. Our returning champion. State Senator Chris Elliott of Josephine. Senator. Good morning. How are you? I am doing well. Good to be with you and glad to be back in South Alabama after several trips to Montgomery this week. Let's talk about contract review. The couple storylines there. Anything we need to know. Yeah, Senator Dan Roberts from Mountain Brook chairs at committee and Chris Pringle and Dan Roberts and I are usually the guys there each and every time to look over these contracts. And the statute basically says that the contracts, the executive branch agencies sign for services have to come through this panel for if you will, this committee to look at them and see the 30 questions about the legislature provides them over sign if you will. We can delay the execution of those contracts up to 45 days while we look at that. And boy, did we do that yesterday. There were every single solitary contract that the Board of Education, the State Board of Education brought, was listed as a sole source contract. And this is the only vendor that can provide it. We didn't even try to RFP it. Request for proposal. Send it out for bid. And the RFP process exists for, you know, so we can have some competition and get the best deal for tax payers. Anytime we see sole source contracts like that, we, you know, we have lots of questions about them and why they're sole source. And while, you know, certainly legal to have a sole source contract is certainly discouraged as well. And yesterday we took a step to hold absolutely every one of those contracts and did that for a number of other boards and agencies as well. Just trying to make sure we're getting the best bang for the buck for the tax payer. The frustration is, though, in 45 days or whatever. I mean, they just go right on ahead. They just slow. Well, it's like a speed bump almost. It is. And it is a frustration. I mean, this is an executive branch agency. And what we're trying to do here is provide some oversight. The governor signs a ton of contracts. You can only imagine. And so what we're doing is screening some of those for her. Sometimes she likes it. Sometimes she doesn't, but we're trying to put a little red flag on him and say, hey, Governor, you know, look at this. And of course she has her representatives in the room while we're going through and asking some of those questions. And by and large, I've seen that the governor's office is certainly respectful of what the legislature is asking and respects our work on that committee. Yeah, well, just in general, though, philosophically, like, you know, we think the legislature sort of is like Congress and even Congress. Senator, I mean, I think their oversight role is way exaggerated. I mean, you're an oversight committee chairman. You're on Fox News. A lot of your Republican are on everywhere else. If you're a Democrat and there's not much they could do either. But like you always hear this. I heard. So Quinn Hill, you're the other day like talking about the VA saga and how the legislature needs to exercise this role of oversight or whatever. But you don't really have this. The legislature does not have like the oversight like we think, like even Congress does with subpoena power and whatnot. You're correct. I mean, it is. It is a limited role and that to some extent is by design. I mean, the executive branch has the authority of executing the functions of government and there's a lot of it. And I think it's reasonable to say, you know, the governor or sales or even the administration is oftentimes not aware of all of the bureaucracy that is just turning day in and day out. And so what we try to do on that committee is to is to provide limited and you're correct, limited oversight and to keep the bureaucracy in check and to keep it honest because it is all too often just easy to say, oh, we'd like to spend here and they do a good job. And it's only this, you know, much increase and we'll just rock and roll and see if we can get it through committing and just move on and get it signed and keep going. And that's just that's what we need to be more. We need to be more efficient than that. There's no question about it. But I will say where the authority does come in, both in Congress and in the state legislature at the end of the day, we set the budgets. And if you get an agency that's non-compliant, they can feel it in their budget. And if they're not doing something that we want them to do, we can change the law and how they, you know, how they promulgate rules, whether or not they have to get through the rule making process. They're all kinds of different things. I've had two issues this summer alone. Jeff, where I've encouraged a rule change or relooking at a rule. It hasn't occurred. I've sent over draft legislation and low and behold, the agency has changed its mind and decided to look at it in a different way. And so those are the tools we have in our toolbox. They're limited. And oftentimes they can be seen as punitive, but they're powerful nonetheless. Yeah. But how often do you say, well, okay, well, you're not going to do what we tell you to or cut your budget? Or you were changing the law and then the governor who is over that agency that seems to be playing fast and loose is going to sign it into law, right? I mean, they play games here. And that's, I think that's a frustration, at least for me personally, but probably a lot of my listeners is just how these agencies have so much power and it sees unelected bureaucrats. Well, like it or not, I have found myself in a position where a lot of those agencies and the boards and everybody else looks at me and goes, Oh, gosh. Here comes that elite guy. You know, what, what, you know, it's such a pain. You know, I got to, I got to go explain this to him or I've got to try to, I may as well head this off. That's the position I don't mind being in because I'm as as unexciting as it is. I am a good government and efficient government champion. And I think on them. And, and so, you know, you see things where we have, in fact, and they're limited, but, but cut the budget for some, some folks. And we see instances where we have file legislation or threaten to file legislation or change a process and then get the compliance or, or, or that we're seeking. And so those are, those are certainly tools we can use and have you. Now, everybody doesn't operate that well, that way as you well know. And my colleagues don't operate that well, but that way. But, but sometimes being seen as the guy that is willing to do that is enough to affect the change you need to without actually having to do it. Well, it works. They are minimum. They're, well, crap. You're right. Here comes that Elliot guy. We better go call the, our higher gun go to lobbyists and tell them to get ready. Here comes, here comes trouble. And then, well, that, that, and this is what we saw guys all session. I'm telling you, I'd be in the hallways and we, there would be everybody sitting in the media sitting there hair on fire over gambling or something. And the talk in the hallways would be like, it would be you and the occupational licensing stuff or it would be, oh man, they're going to make a start labeling seafood or, I mean, you just like there's, the times would be a disconnect from what was really, what seemed to be the most important thing. And when the state would get in place and try to make some changes and do something, like all of a sudden that becomes like all hands on deck. It's really remarkable to watch. Well, it is. And you're pushing back against that bureaucracy and it doesn't like it. And so what does it do? It goes and it hires lobbyists in it. And you got a lot of the ability for the, the bureaucracy to hire. It's unlobvious. That is crazy, right? Guys, think about this. They are, the government, your tax dollars goes and they find like, and there's some elite caliber lobbyists in Montgomery that you and I couldn't hire, right? And this is what they do. They, they go and hire these big names and they, they just, they, they really work the, and they essentially work leadership, but they're, they're pounding on your door. You watch it. It is remarkable that your tax dollars are being used to lobby government. It's, it's, it's offensive. There's no other way to put it in. It is hard. It is hard. And you saw that last year, you know, good, good government is hard. The, the, you know, insatiable creek of bureaucracy to have more money, more power, more authority is, is hard to overcome, especially when they're spending the taxpayer dollar to advocate on their own, the bureaucracy's own, you know, behalf. And it's just, it's one of those things that just takes constant pressure. But we're making headway. I mean, I'm not, I'm not upset about it. I'm, I'm actually pretty encouraged. You watch the actions of contractors, you committee that is constantly pushing back on these folks. You look at the actions of the, the sunset committee, uh, under the direction of Senator Will Barfoot and uh, Representative Marshall Wilcox. They've got some banging up members. Uh, uh, Bubba Underwood, uh, Keith Kelly, uh, that are just, you know, on the, you know, on these folks paying attention to how well these, these, uh, these boards are running or not running and are really staying on. You see a lot of drama about that. And that's not fun, exciting, sexy stuff. It's just good government, but they're, they're making progress. And you see, you see contracts changing and, and administrative functions of boards moving to different places. And these executive directors getting fired or terminated. I mean, there's, there's a lot moving. There's a lot going on. There's headway being. Yeah. And they're not totally just dismissive of the legislature. But about, I mean, it had to be two years ago. I mean, the middle of COVID so probably longer than that. When do you remember the effort? And maybe you were a part of it to get, to give the legislature the ability to call itself into session. Yeah. And just how people lost, especially the executive branch lost their damn minds. Todd Stacy and I got into it on air about that, about, and this is his belief. And I don't, I mean, I, I see it just the opposite. That the legislature has so much power. And the legislature is the all powerful branch of government. And this would just totally undermine the balance of power. If you gave the Alabama legislature the ability to call itself into power or, I mean, into session. And that's not true at all. The only thing that you guys have that gives you, I think, I mean, obviously the traditional power to persevering and all that, but you're able to override a gubernatorial veto with a simple majority. I mean, that's, that's it. Right. What you say, guys, generally, what you guys in the legislature generally goes. However, back to this, though, like, I don't think it's, I mean, the balance is what the balance is. But I don't think that calling yourself into session or anything would give you any undue advantage. I mean, the governor still is where things really happen. I certainly would agree with that. And I was part of that effort, especially as it related to COVID and shutdowns and things of that nature. I think the important thing to realize that as that bill matriculated and moved through the process, there was a huge hurdle to get over in the number of legislators that had to agree that we needed to come back into session. It was going to be for an emergency in order to reach that threshold. And so it's not like, hey, we decided we want to do something, you know, Bringsie dank here and all of us, you know, need a trip to Montgomery or something like that. Not far from it. It was going to have to be some sort of serious emergency that was going to require the legislature to come back into session and, frankly, an instance where the governor didn't want to call us back into session, which was probably, you know, going to be one of the reasons we needed to come back into session because the governor wasn't doing something that needed to be done. And so that process really needed to go through, but you're correct. The governor did not like that. And then, of course, the lobbying, the lobbying entity, you see that that professional political last year didn't like it. And now that we've sort of like had a time for like emotions to cool off and we're not as, you know, wrapped up in the COVID stuff. I mean, that was, that was really kind of like, that was a perilous time because there was and things are still the way they are. I mean, we made some subtle changes, right? But that the executive branch would have so much power and not have any oversight. Well, what if you have Senator, a Robert Bentley situation where the legislature's not in session and it's not in session for the, until the next year. And there's just something wrong going on in the governor's office. And you can't call you. I mean, is this the way other states, I mean, when y'all were trying to do this, did you look at other states and get the legislature do things? Are you just stuck with a potential corrupt governor until the next session? Yeah, we certainly looked at other states. There, you know, and everybody does it differently. No question about it. Then there are some states with the capacity to do that. What you find is really a different level of urgency, you know, when there's a problem versus when there's not a problem, right? There's not a problem right now. Everything's functioning, you know, fairly well. There's not a crisis. And so, you know, we've got joint, you know, interim committees that are going to meeting throughout the, throughout the off season, if you will. But there's no urgency to get that done right now. And so you don't see it getting pushed. However, obviously when there was COVID, or when you had a Bentley situation or something like that, you know, there was, there was certainly more urgency to get in and take care of it. Look, during COVID, we abandoned our principles. There's no question about it. The government put people out of business. The government locked people up. The government, you know, forced our children out of school. It was, I can't. The churches, you know. Yeah. Close beaches. People's product property discovery said you can't go in your front yard because it happens to be at the each. It's probably one of the healthiest places to be. There were some ludicrous decisions that were made out of fear and because we abandoned our principles. And those are the types of situations that would and the, we, where we, we should, and we need the ability to call ourselves back in the session. Well, I mean, I know we're beating up with the governor again as sometimes we do during this segment, but there was sort of this. This seems to be the case even for some of your colleagues and probably even you at some point, but they, they just can't wait till the legislature calls it. The sign he dies and then goes out of session. It's like in some ways you watch this and it's just like trying to run down the clock, right? They're just, they're just on pins and needles until the clock runs out and those guys go home and we can, we can get a breather here. Now, like last session you just felt it was like, oh God, they're going to pass a stupid gambling bill. This cannot end soon enough, but like, that's how it is usually always for a lot of what you see in my government. I think you and I have even talked about this before. They are just trying to run down the clock and get out of town. That's true. And it is because oftentimes they like the status quo. They don't like folks like me up there causing the ruckus or looking under rocks or trying to figure out, you know, hey, somebody, you know, somebody, you know, getting a contract they shouldn't get or is just the most efficient way to do things. I don't like that. I think you'll want to be left alone and continue to do their little play. So they don't, they don't like us being there. I'll tell you one thing though, if we end up in a situation where Kamala Harris gets elected president, we're going to need to have a special session on immigration. That's going to need to happen in November. It might be. Oh, elaborate on that real quick. I'll just, I mean, I think, I think we need if she, if she gets elected president, we need to get moving quickly on a special session to deal with this immigration because it's not going to get, it's not going to get any better. We're talking revisiting HB 56, right? We're talking, we're talking a slew of six, eight, ten different pieces of legislation that have broad support about the House and the Senate to get ahead of some of the continued missteps of the Biden Harris administration on, on, on immigration policy. And listen, I hope it's all phenomenal. I hope we never have to be that. I hope President Trump gets elected here inside of a month. And, and, you know, and I can spend November worried about Thanksgiving and traveling to buy installs. But, but if not, I'll be, I'll be the first one saying we need to get into a special session when you get ready to go. Senator Wells, appreciate your time. We'll talk again soon. Thanks so much for having me, Jeff. Enjoy your weekend. State Senator Chris Elliott there. We'll be right back. This is F.M. Talk with us. Six, five. ♪ But honey now ♪ ♪ And don't it make my brown eyes ♪ ♪ Don't it make my brown eyes ♪ ♪ Don't it make my brown eyes ♪ ♪ Blue ♪ ♪ Blue ♪ ♪ Blue ♪ ♪ Blue ♪ ♪ Blue ♪ All right, let's take it on to have some muscle shells to the potatoes. ♪ ♪ Mmm, burling now. ♪ ♪ Ooh, my gosh. ♪ ♪ Right up over Spanish, Lord, into low view of my home. Welcome back to the Jump Force Show. If I'm talking about those six, five, they should stay in with us. So, let's listen to this Friday morning real quick. Uh, coming up on Monday, you get April, Murray Fogle. I'll be out. Tuesday, I'll be back with Gary Palmer, Judy Barlow, and John Walsh, so please tune in. Uh, what do we have here? Anything interesting? Uh, community knows most of the port, Elliot. I don't think we're going to do that. Uh, a name, Dexter. I've been in politics. It's been corrupt for 60 years. Good luck. And then a bunch of others. I don't have time to read. Can it appear shortly mid-day mobile? Show what you got. Hey, Jeff. Uh, yeah, we're going to talk about, uh, toilet paper futures falling in, uh, the latest news. Oh. Get into that. But, uh, yeah, John Sharp joins me here in, uh, just about ten minutes. Uh, also coming up in hour number two of the show, Kate Kisler from Mobile Baykeeper. I don't have so much else was going on that the EPA agreement with Alabama Power kind of got lost in the mix with the, uh, strike this week, but we're going to revisit that story and, uh, see what they think about this latest with the EPA and going forward about the, uh, coal ash up at Berry Steam Plant. So, we'll talk about that in hour number two. So, that's all in the way. Plus your chance to win a Mason Hills farm, $100 gift certificate, get some great meat for the grill for the, uh, upcoming games. All right. Yeah. Nothing like watching Auburn lose with quality beef. You would eat your thought, your thought about this yet. I bet. Georgia. No, it's just not happening. Do you think it's going to be close? No, probably not. It's, it's it Athens. Yeah. I'm just checking. All right. I mean, I don't want to dissuade anybody from tuning into the game. Well, if I'm talking about 065. Well, thank you. However, I am not a fool. I see that this is not working out. Okay. Like, I don't know. I watch the Auburn media and I'm just like, guys, come on. Well, this is, this is not good. We'll see. We'll see. Uh, and then we'll discuss on Monday. No, we won't. Uh, I'll just go hang my head and cry somewhere, I guess. It must be great to be an Alabama fan. That's all I got to say. But that's, that's it for me. I've done with that little tirade. It has been a pleasure. I will do better on Tuesday when I return. Sorry, fellas. I forgot to say goodbye. This has been the Jeff Four Show. I've been talking about 1 065. ♪ ♪