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Jeff Poor talks about Mo Brooks - Mobile Mornings - Wednesday 10-09-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] News, sports, weather from Dr. Bill Williams, traffic info from Kane, and one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's Mobile Mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Whig. Good morning from Dan and Dalton. If I'm talking about 65, thanks to Sean Sullivan filling in the last couple of mornings. And the ex-work did Leanna had to put in. Oh, because Dalton wouldn't come to work. Now he's feeling better. It was a holdout. Yeah, hold on, doesn't work when you don't put your message out. Yeah. Well, that was a pure agent. That was a pure agent. You're like, who's got Alabama? I had a guy say, I'm going to red shirt, I'm not going to play the rest of the season. And he said, just if you have any questions, he just talked to my agents. It's now college football is there. It's a guy named Otis, I think. Otis. Jermaine Otis or somebody. Jheem Otis. That's exactly what I was doing. Yeah, you sound similar. Well, you weren't well, and you had some time off, and so you got it, and hopefully, you're on the mend. And the world keeps spinning, you know? It's watching what's going on in the Middle East, and what will or won't happen with Iran. We're less than a month out from the election. And you have all these crazy things going on as just the two biggest, two of the biggest hurricanes we've seen, destruction-wise and then size-wise and speed-wise with this Milton on the way, coming in right before the election. Right before the election. It's not like you have to add anything on, but you have with this Social Security entitlement question. So tossed out there. And I think it's a valid question, and I hope I didn't really offend Shiloh, as it appears I did in the text earlier, 'cause Shiloh seems to agree with a lot of the things that I've said over the years, but we're talking about this budget deficit, which I know it's not the most immediate problem we have right now, but it is something that's going to need to be taken care of at some point. And the number just keeps growing. It's something we've seen for some time. $1.8 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2024. At least that's what the CBO is projecting as of now. And the deficit was just slightly smaller this past fiscal year than the 2023. A lot of that because of the way they kind of cooked the books with the student debt cancellation that wasn't really canceled. We still aren't sure where that story will end up, but part of this story is Social Security and Medicare. They ended up costing 6% more this past year than they did for fiscal year 2023, or possibly even more when you adjust for the timing of some of the payments that are made on those. One of the biggest rises came in interest payments. US spent $950 billion on interest payments for fiscal year 2024. And with that, interest costs have surpassed military spending, something we've been talking about for some time now. But Shiloh, he took offense to that part, where in the story they call Social Security and Medicare the largest federal entitlement programs. And Shiloh says, "Dalton, please do not refer "to Social Security as an entitlement. "I paid into it for over 47 years. "I paid for it and earned it. "So please correct your statement." So my question to you, the textures, callers if you'd like, 2513430106, or if you'd like to leave a talkback message on the FM Talk 1065 app and leave your hot take there, is Social Security an entitlement program? I don't know the answer. Paul says it is an entitlement. The government has squandered the money and Social Security is almost broke. Fisher River Frank, no, not an entitlement. Another texture here, no Social Security is an annuity that we pay for, it is not our fault that politicians have mismanaged it. Roy in Spanish Fort texts in, says, "Social Security is a tax with no legal ownership "by the person or company paying in. "In the private sector, it would be called a Ponzi scheme "as the current payers are paying the premiums "for the previous payers." That's kind of the way I feel Roy every time I make my Social Security payment out of the check. Tommy says, "I'm entitled to it "because it's my money that I paid in." Another texture here, Social Security not an entitlement. I work, it's worked and paid for, but definitely not handled correctly. Good morning guys, this is D. No, it's not an entitlement. You should only be entitled to it if you paid into it. King of all unnamed textures says, "If you paid into Social Security, "then you are entitled to receive it." The problem is that the term itself is being redefined. Another texture here, it is the mirror definition of an entitlement. You are entitled to it because you've paid into it your whole life. Thomas texted in, "No, we pay into Social Security, "so it's our money." Roll tie, roll, roll, tide, roll, Thomas from Irvington. And I know this has been a debate for some time now. You had a Democrat a while back from Connecticut, Congressman John Larson who did a big speech on this. He said, "All too often the other side of the aisle "refers to Social Security as an entitlement. "That is simply wrong. "It's the insurance Americans have paid for "to fund retirement, disability, "and survivor benefits through a lifetime of work." But if you look at a Social Security, if you look at the actual, where was it here? The Social Security Administration government page, they say these Social Security benefit programs are entitlement programs. You have the program itself, calling itself an entitlement program. I don't know the way I felt about this for my whole, well, at least the last 15 years I've been getting checks is, I'm paying into Social Security. I think it's probably something I will never see. Just the way it's been managed, so much money going out. - I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I think-- - You think, so let's see. - It'll survive in some form. - I'm 33, let's just say I start drawing Social Security. I mean, the age will be past 70 by the time I get up there, but let's say 65. You think this will still be around in 32 years? I don't see it happen. - That's a fair question. - I don't think it will be. - I haven't started drawing yet. - Yeah. - And I could, but I'm so fiscally wise. - That's the thing. - I regret the whole thing. - Yeah, I don't see it as an entitlement, necessarily. You got that thing going out of the blue there, so congratulations. - Thanks, John says I think mostly entitlement has become money for nothing. Paul says people are in denial that their money's been, that they've been paying in, has just been used in the general fund. In the end, the dollar will be dead is where this is headed. So Paul feeling a little bit like Ricky this morning, saying the dollar's dying. This textor says too many people are cheating. I think we can pretty much all agree on that. Terry says, glad you're better. Thank you, Terry. Social security supplemental income is an entitlement. Social security, retirement and disability are not. Let's see. Social security is not an entitlement. It is a blessing at my age. The feds need to keep their hands out of the cookie jar. And Ricky says we are slaves to the federal private bankers. It's all a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi, but he, Ponzi, the feds are a private banker scam. - Both, they were both part of the cast of Happy Day. - Yes, that's exactly right. And Reynolds says, if I paid into Social Security, I am damn sure entitled to it. If you don't pay in, you are not. So are there a lot of people who've never paid into Social Security or getting those checks? I don't know. You automatically pay into it, don't you? - Well, is everyone paying into Social Security? I don't know if that's the case either. - If you work, the government's taking that money out. I think that's automatic. - Yeah, that's what I think. - Okay, what do you think about the guy that they found in Oklahoma City of all places? The Justice Department announced yesterday the charges against the guy who wanted to raise some cane and kill as many people as he could on election day itself. That would be amazing. - So that, and that kind of, the whole story here and the way that the FBI director laid this out yesterday, I guess it was. You had Attorney General Merrick Garland speaking to this. You also had FBI Director Christopher Ray. So they arrest this Afghan citizen who came over to the United States basically right after the disastrous withdrawal. He's been living in Oklahoma. He's been charged with plotting a terror attack on election day. And they say that he and another co-conspirator, this one in underage co-conspirator. - I think it's a like a brother-in-law sure. - On behalf of the Islamic State, expected to die as martyrs on election day. They said 27-year-old Nasir Tawidi obtained firearms and ammunition to conduct a violent attack on U.S. soil. And he took a number of steps to prepare for the plot. Said he entered the U.S. on September 9th of 2021, just weeks after troops pulled out of Afghanistan, he came in on a special immigrant visa and is currently on parole status, pending adjudication of his immigration proceedings. He was arrested Monday, charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism. And he actually went to court yesterday, Oklahoma federal court. So some of the clues they had here, they said ahead of the planned attack, Tawidi allegedly liquidated his family's assets, resettled members of his family overseas, acquired AK-47 rifles and ammunition. And they seized his communications, Tawidi allegedly indicated his attack was planned for election day. Then the FBI said in a post arrest interview, Tawidi allegedly confirmed the attack was planned for election day, targeting large gatherings of people during which he and the juvenile were expected to die as martyrs. Federal prosecutors allege that Tawidi communicated with someone who facilitated the recruitment training and indoctrination of those who expressed interest in terrorist activity and who he believed was affiliated with ISIS. They also said he saved ISIS propaganda on his iCloud and participated in pro-ISIS telegram groups as well as contributing to a charity, which funnels money to ISIS. So how did the FBI get in on this guy? This is interesting. ISIS has a charity? Yes, they have several NGOs. You send money to this charity. I guess you can get a tax break. And then that charity funnels the money to ISIS. And people have been doing this for some time now. So the FBI, who've been keeping an eye on this dude, like if you think you can just jump on an app, if you think they're not watching, when we talk about getting, when some people talk about getting rid of the FBI, it would come with so many bad things that fixing the things that need to be fixed. So many people would almost not be worth it. You talk about the control and the power that the FBI and the state have just because of their ability to investigate and have spies. Like on all of us, on everybody. But the fact that they're able to stop things like this, if they weren't able to do this, it would become unmanageable. It would be ridiculous around here. So they found while this dude was liquidating his family's assets, preparing for this day of martyrdom, they advertised the sale of the family's personal property on Facebook, a confidential informant working for the FBI, hopped on, asked if a computer was still for sale, claiming they needed it for a gun business. That led to Tweety and the juvenile meeting with the FBI informant and others working for the FBI at a rural location to test firearms. So they bring him in, find him on Facebook, selling stuff. And they said he expressed interest in purchasing two AK-47s, along with magazines and ammunition from the informant. They got everything they needed, so they arrested him. - So then they confronted him and said, "Here's what we have on you." - Yeah, sounds like that. - And then he confessed. - His face? - More or less, yeah. And he faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted. So it's a pretty big dang story. - It is a big story. I think it was among the first ones that the Golden Deal group did this morning at 4 and 5 AM. And yeah, I'm glad we got into that. That's, can you imagine that on election day? All right, so what is really happening at the border? And is there a solution? Daniel Demartino is an economist and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He was a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, The Glenn Show, and he talked about a lot of information that I don't think we're all that aware of. It's on the way, it's 819 with Dan and Dalton. So I listen to a lot of podcasts and then I meet on the podcast. I'm now familiar with the get. A lot of these podcasts will have guests on it, you know, like the talk show. And then I become fascinated with the guests and then I'll check on the guests and where the world's for these-- - Follow that trail. - So Daniel Demartino is an economist and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute that's a conservative think tank and he's also a very talented public speaker and he talks about his homeland of Venezuela and how it's got to the point where he is now. He was a guest on The Glenn Show, that's one of my favorite podcasts that I listen to. He talked about the crisis at the Southern border. Some of these you might already know, some of it maybe you don't. This is, he's talking about the number one problem is security. - Every year, there are millions of people on the name, on valid and illegally through the Southern board. Number one, it's a security issue. Many of these people have ended up committing crimes. Legal immigrants and immigrants in general commit far less crime than native born Americans. Yet the problem is if you can stop criminal immigrants from coming, why wouldn't you want to? I'm talking about gang members, people who that are known to be dangerous, you would want to stop them all. And the problem is that that's not what's happening. They're just basically letting them in, sealing them, giving them a notice to appear in court and then they're being released. And I think that that is both the fault of the opponent, the current presidential administration, but it's also really part of global trends. And I think that's underestimated on the right. The labor market in the US has been booming with job openings. And there's a very high correlation between job openings in the US and illegal immigration. - Secondly, all the nationalities coming over, is that a big problem? He says yes. - And then the other issue comes from who is coming? Before, say 20 years ago, 90% of people crossing the border were Mexican. Today, maybe two thirds are not Mexican. And it's very easy to send back a Mexican because you send them right across the border to their own country of citizenship. There's no questions asked. But you cannot send to Mexico, people from part non-Mexican. Mexico is a sovereign country, too. And once they're in US territory, that's not Mexico's problem. And Mexico doesn't want them with good reason. And so what happens now is that you can't deport somebody from Venezuela, let's say. You can't deport somebody from Haiti. You can deport somebody from, you can deport people even from China, and it's not accepting deported citizens. Because why would they? - So you're following so far? - I'm following you, I have takes. And last but not least, Trump says he's gonna send everybody back, DeMartino says that'll be quite a trick. - I don't think it's going to happen. I think the whole thing about mass deportations is a great campaign slogan, but that's not going to happen. I think optimistically, Trump will be able to deport a million people in four years. And it won't be the million people that people really want on the fourth. It will be the really terrible stories that are gonna cause family separation and crying and political backlash. Because what people don't understand is that nobody who has a pending immigration court date can be deported until their case is resolved for immigration courts. And the people who have pending dates are the recent illegal immigrants who came under Biden. So if Trump deport somebody, it will be the people who came 20 years ago who have children here and are gonna have all these sad stories on the media and by the Democrats. - So whatever that court date is that they received in the last three years, say, coming across, they got a court date. - Right, it's not here yet. - And sometimes it's five, six years off. - So Trump wants to deport somebody legally. He cannot deport somebody who's got that court date, whether they're gonna show up or not. Whether they're a good guy or a gang member. - Well, legally he's holding a lot of weight there too 'cause you see what's legal changes a lot. Like so many of these, the Haiti refugees that we talk about all the time and the Biden administration will say they're legal. - Yeah, you've deemed them legal. - Right, might not really be legal citizens but because you say they are, you say they're legal. I just, if Mexico's allowing people to come through from other countries but saying, yeah, you can't bring them back here, I feel like there's some sort of way you have to work that back and say, no, you can't let them up here. If we let them in back, we let them as the problem. The first thing you have to do is stop the bleeding, right? You have to stop the border. - He says rhetoric alone can stop the bleeding. He said that you see these surges. It's when Trump was in charge and Trump's rhetoric and all they were like, bang, going there. - Yeah, if they don't have a $5,000 debit card waiting on them and a phone or whatever they get when they cross the border makes it a job, makes it a lot less friendly for them to come in, so maybe that'll stop a lot of that. But I think the way that maybe Trump could get a lot of these people deported back to the countries they come from, some bad players. - A lot of bad players. - And they have this court date in the future. - Yes, you put it back on their country. You say, you take them back or we're going to punish you this way, this way, or this way, or this way. You make the punishment so harsh that they say, yes, please, start sending back those people because we don't want to deal with blank. I think that's what he has to do. So it's millions. - And it is, it's millions. - It's tens of millions. - Yeah, tens of millions. - And like you said, the people who have been here the longest, maybe at the most risk of being sent back, but something has to be done. - And he's saying it might not be so easy. - Mm. - It's kind of got my attention. I wanted to share that with everybody. 830 FM talk, 106.5, Dan and Dalton. And Milton is burying down on the west coast of Florida. Dr. Bill straits it all out for us on the way. (upbeat music) - 834 FM talk, 106.5 mobile mornings. Plenty of text to get 225.1343.0106. You can use that same number to call in. Or leave us a talk bag message on the FM talk, 106.5 app. This segment brought to you by underdog fantasy. And we are smack dab in the middle of football season. Actually, we're at the point now where every night there will either be a college or pro football game on until November 27th. That's the next date that there's not a football game on the schedule. - Really? - So it's a wonderful time of year. And to make it even more fun, your viewing of whatever sport you're watching, why don't you try underdog fantasy? Went up to a thousand times your money just by choosing higher or lower on your favorite player's stats, like touchdowns, passing yards and more. And now with major league baseball postseason, you have the NFL, college football, and hockey season has started soon, basketball. 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Daniel says, let's see here he says, at some point the government has got to step in and protect us like it's talking about to some of the, like the Martino said, if you could keep people, bad people out of your country, vet them and then keep, why wouldn't that be the first thing you did? And that's not what they've done at all. - Well, you know, and I read another great piece from Chris Rufo, I don't know if you've been following, he's academic, I guess you could call him, but he's pretty active in the sphere of government. - Former in liberal? - Yes, yeah, former, I mean, he comes from a family of socialist Marxists, I think, but he kind of tied on to DeSantis a little bit there and helped guide some of his governing in some ways, and then now he's affecting a lot. His kind of main goal is to put stories in the mainstream media, the way that so many on the left seem to be able to do so that work against the right. And this latest story, he went to Charleroye, Pennsylvania, one of these places that's been discussed, kind of hand in hand with, for us it would be Silcaga that we had. - Yeah, yeah, with the Haitian. - Not as many that came into the town as you saw in Springfield, which became the main topic there for some time, but still Charleroye, Pennsylvania, kind of an old town that used to, you know, make a lot of money in building things, right? - Yeah, so you have steel town, basically. - Right, all these towns in Pennsylvania. - They have factories. - Manufacturing towns. - Manufacturing people, that's how you associate Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, even these big cities, that's having these blue collar type people there. - And so this isn't a news story, but it's the same story we see over and over again. He kind of dives into the Charleroye situation where it's now a town of 4,000 people. They bring in 2,000 Haitians, and it's specifically for them to work at this frozen food plant. With it churns out, just, you know, dinner TV meals, one right after the other. And you have, I can't remember who it was involved in this story, I think it is the actual owner of the company that's employing these Haitians. - Okay. - So he's paying base hourly rate to the government who is funding the Haitian workers. And then he is also in charge, he is renting out where they're living. - Right. - So he's making money. - Coming and going. - Coming and going. - I think it's the same story in so many different places. - One of the towns in Alabama where that's going on, Dalton, it was a council member that was happening to be making the money coming and going. - Yeah. - That's why people were infuriated with him. - So they're able to take full advantage and then you hear people say, well, but they're coming to work. They're doing the job that no one else wants to do. They're working in a dang freezer for 12 hour shifts. But you say, yeah, but the 4,000 people that live there, that have kids in school there, that try to go to the doctor there, I mean, their infrastructure can't handle it, can't handle these 2,000 new Haitians. So this is a story that's being copy and pasted all across America. - And you wondered just in how many places across America, we know there's a handful of towns in Alabama, Athens, Sylacauga and a few others. And that one that Rufo points out, we know about Ohio, obviously. But what are the numbers? How many people are from, is it Haysha only or? - No, you have. - Haysha only or the Dominican or? - So you have Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the whole CHNV thing. And there's plenty more where that came from as well. Quickly, the text line before we get back to the latest on Hurricane Milton, as far as Social Security, Mark and Westmobile said, "I'm 32. "I'm willing to accept that it won't be around "by the time I retire if they allow me to stop paying in. "Why should I pay in if I won't see it?" It's kind of the question that I've been asking Mark, myself, many, many, this texture says, "Many, many people paid into Social Security, "but the politicians have turned it into a welfare program. "People that don't deserve the payments draw "on working people's earned benefits." It's texture, not if you're paying your employees $10.99, which happens a lot. This texture says, "I've paid in, I want my payout. "They don't want me to go all Gambino family on them. "They will pay me if they know it's good for them." So a bit of a lobster laying there. - That's a federal crime right there. (laughs) Jerry and Fort Morgan, that FBI story about the arrest of the potential terrorist, that if you believe everything that the FBI and the SARS AG tell you, you should probably talk to Ricky more often. Well, Jerry, I mean, if you know me, I don't believe everything that basically anyone tells me. Try to pick apart every story at least a little bit. And I do think that while we have some major problems with the FBI and CIA, major problems that absolutely need to be taken care of. - Secret service. - If we did just cut it off at the knees, like start anew, we would be dealing with a lot of problems, 'cause I do believe there are a lot of attacks that they are able to stop, so. - Yeah, but that's a major discussion that can't be handled in just a few minutes. - And it's interesting, it would be interesting to know which ones they stop and don't tell us about, and which ones they stop and do tell us about, and the reasons for that. - Amen, yeah, I'd love to see that. - Okay, all right, let's turn our attention down to the western coast of Florida. Dr. Bill Williams, this was earlier this morning with Dan and my cherished cohort, Dalton, who is back and with us and not 100% well, and yet he's laboring on through the morning. This was Dr. Bill on Milton. - Well, yesterday, of course, early, it went to an eyewall replacement cycle, and it dropped down to maximum winds in the 140 to 45 category, and down to a category four, and then once that eyewall replacement was done, started to build up again, and became a category five yesterday afternoon, and it has stayed a category five all night, around 160 miles per hour, sustained winds, and it's now moving northeast at 14 miles an hour, picking up its forward speed. Right now, it's about the same latitude as the Florida Keys, but it's out in the eastern gulf, and it is moving northeast. It looks like it'll make impact anywhere from Tampa Bay to Sarasota. I think we mentioned that before, and that's about where it's going to come in, and it will then cross, that'll occur about midnight tonight, if you wanna clock, and then it'll cross the peninsula and reach the east coast around Cape Canaveral, around noon tomorrow, and then it'll move offshore. It may lose some strength before it reaches the Tampa Bay, Sarasota area, because it'll start to encounter some wind shear, but it's still gonna remain a strong hurricane, probably around 130 plus miles per hour, and then when it leaves at Cape Canaveral, it'll drop down, still be a hurricane, but more likely a category one or two, and then head out, straight out into the Atlantic, where Growsley is going to weaken. - The latest is this. This was as of 50 minutes ago, Sarasota, Harold Tribune, of course they're keeping a close eye on this, and I think the mileage between Tampa Bay and Sarasota, maybe about 50 miles or so. But anyway, Milton, a powerful category four storm, for what that's worth, you won 57 or over your category five, so it's not far from that, and they're talking about sustained winds at 155, so pretty close. Should be hitting Sarasota, Tampa Bay, somewhere there in that area. It could be midnight tonight, it could be right at midnight. - It's always overnight, isn't it? - It seems always overnight. - Yeah, when's the last day break, or storm that made landfall during the day, I guess technically, Helene did, it was kind of six, seven p.m. - Yeah, yeah, Helene did. - Maybe a little later than that. - I guess you're right. - But still a bulk of that for most of the people came. - It was dark, yeah, it was dark. I mean, the sunset's pretty early, so you're right. And it seems to make it worse, right, that you're there. - Yeah, you get punched when you can't see what's happening. It hurts more than when you, I guess you can't see it anyway when it's what, anyway. - Well, if you have damage going on outside, you can't even open the shutters or whatever, just to get a look to see. Though I probably, if you're sitting this one out, in that you're staying in an area where, and I looked at Bradenton where my sister is, her area of town is about 22 feet above sea level. It's west of the interstate. So it's far west of the barrier islands, far west, I say that east, I should say, yeah, east of the interstate, and east of the number one barrier islands, and then number two, the downtown areas of Bradenton and Sarasota, and I would say in all, that might be 10 miles or so, I mean, it's not safe, safe. - Right. - I don't think, but she's made a decision and that's it. - Well, you know, a lot of people can't just get up and leave, you know, and there've been so many discussions about already the lack of fuel available. - Yeah. - And I know that the governor's fantasy's been trying to make more fuel, I was wondering how they would do that, if they would run fuel tankers, like there have to be people just running out of fuel on the interstate, right? - I would think, yeah. - As it was bumper to bumper all day yesterday. - And now you're just stranded. - Yeah, how do you go about that? And if you do run out of fuel, you gotta get off the side of the road, and you're just impacting so many other people behind you. - Right. - But I saw the Tampa mayor, and it seems like every, every time one of these moves through the person in charge has to come up with more direct and scary language, what was the mayor said, you're going to die? - Yeah, if you're in the, and that would be in the area, like I do believe what she was referring to was the area. - It's gonna have direct impact. - A, yeah, A is gonna get direct impacted. So whatever was deemed in Tampa as you're now, you're in, you're in category A, those were the people that they were even saying, and you can't blame them, right? They're saying, look, our people are gonna get hurt trying to come save you. We talked about that here all the time, too. Get out, so you don't have innocent first responders that have to end up in harm's way because of your decision. - Yeah. - So I don't think that my sister is in one of those areas, but I think she's close enough where it's a risky proposition. They certainly could have left, but they would have had to have left by Monday, probably. And then the decision is, where are we going? - Yeah. - Are you going south or are you going toward Miami? What are you doing? Where are you going? And it wasn't quite certain where the storm was going. And also, I think this fed into that Dalton, might've been eight years ago or so. She rode one out and the neighbor's house that's pretty fortified. And so she probably has got, you know, confidence that she can get through it again, but as I've said to her, as people have said to us, every time a hurricane's coming this way, they're all different. - They like snowflakes. - None of them are exactly like the last one. So if you think you're going to experience again, probably not. I mean, when you look at the damage that Sally did here, Pensacola, Dolphin Island, by just spinning and spinning, that wasn't part of the forecast. - Right. - But it's part of what happened. - It just hung over and created massive amounts of damage. Yeah, I'm also worried about, and I mentioned it with Dr. Bill, but the debris that's already out there in some of these places. - That was a great question. - And hard by Helene. - He said that's a legit question. - Those are projectiles. - Yep. - Just kind of sitting there, waiting to be rocketed back through, but, you know, folks in Florida, I think at this point, and we saw it pretty well with Helene, even though there was loss of life in the state of Florida. They know what's coming, right? And they've seen it before, and like you said, there no two are the same, but at least most folks down there know how to act. - You know, among those, but remember you pointed out the pictures of all those boats and yards and everything that was on near a barrier island or on a college way, leading to it. Things like that. They're gonna be part of the storm this time around, too. - Yeah. - Second time, there'll be debris. No telling where they're gonna end up. - Absolutely brutal, and hurricane season not over. - No. - We'll have another month to go. - Yeah, 849 FM Talk 10065. We will talk with Jeff Poor from the Jeff Poor Show on the way. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Morning from Dan Brennan and Dalton Oregon's back, and that's great. It's 853, and Jeff Poor's with us right now. Got the Jeff Poor Show that's up in about seven minutes. Good morning, Jeff, how are you? - Doing well. Thanks for having me on. - Jeff, and I'd like to get to with you today. First off, why don't you let us know what guest Jeff coming up. - Can you get off here a little bit with Del Strong? He is a Congressman. He's an old mo' Brooks seat for those of you all time, Alabama political watchers, but from Huntsville, look at an update on Space Command there, but we'll probably spend a lot of time talking about this disaster response. I expect Congress will act on this. Guys, if you recall, after Katrina, it only took him like five days to get into gear, get into motion. And I don't know what the delay is here with this seems like the federal government's so slow moving, but they crucified George W. Bush. So I just interested in his perspective on that, even though he's a freshman. Joey Clark, y'all know him, he's on every Wednesday, and then Scott Butcher in the 11 o'clock hour. - You mentioned Del Strong and who used to hold that seat, of course, mo' Brooks, who we know well. And while we make our way to election day next month, you know, you keep hearing of all of Trump's friends and foes of the past and who they've lined up to endorse or not endorse. Some of them have said, listen, I don't like Trump, but I'm not voting for Kamala. I'll still vote for Trump. And then of course, you have the Chinese who say, listen, we don't like Kamala's policies, but we absolutely hate Trump. We're voting for Kamala. Are we gonna get a mo' Brooks or maybe even a Jeff Sessions endorsement or non-endorsement before next month? - Unlikely, Sessions has sort of implied he's, I think he's still a Trump guy even though Trump has distanced himself from him. A mo' Brooks is pretty bitter about the way 2022 shook out. But, I mean, I don't know that an endorsement from Jeff Sessions, yes, but mo' Brooks with that. - That's what I'm waiting on, Dan. I don't know how I'm gonna vote. - What I'm saying is I don't think you should wait on it. I don't think it means anything. - I don't think your mo' Brooks has a big constituency. I don't think he ever did, to be honest, but you know, God bless mo' Brooks. - That's one of those guys that kept getting elected. But it wasn't like they were crazy. - Well, we were having a conversation earlier on the text line about how it doesn't get you elected to be a fiscal conservative with the budget the way it looks. And that's one thing mo' Brooks was very concerned with our budget. It seems like anyone who leans the same way mo' Brooks does in that manner is gonna have a tough time getting elected moving forward. - But it was always like a weird dynamic because if you've ever spent time at Hudson, let's say federal city, they have a research parkway, you drive down it and there's like McDonald Douglas on one side. There's like, I mean, it's just the fits contractor Avenue there and mo' Brooks never really got a log with that crowd. And he just seemed like a weird fit for that district. - Yeah, but he kept getting elected somehow. - Yeah. - Yeah, fire and brimstone too, that was good for him. Jeff, debate season. We had one last week between the two AL2 candidates, Caroline Dobson and Shimari figures, I guess one coming tomorrow, AL.com style. Speaking of things that may or may not make a hill of beans as far as the selection goes, are these debates helping or hurting either candidate? - No, let's pay the attention to them. I suspect they're just getting drowned out by not only presidential election, but everything else going on in the news. And I don't, what I don't like, Republicans have to stop doing debates with these left wing media outlets. This is a potential trap for Caroline Dobson. AL.com is, I mean, they're going to work to get Shimari figures elected. There's no question about it. - I mean, the moderators Ivana Heringkew, right? Who is the, she's the prison reporter. She's the one who's writing weekend and week out about why so-and-so doesn't deserve to be on death row. - Yeah, even though he raped eight people and then killed four, well, he needs a second chance. Well, you know, is that really, is that the best you could do AL.com? - Yeah, it seems like a real briar patch for Dobson to jump into with this one specifically. - Yeah, yeah, I think I agree with you guys, but in the end, Jeff, or take the debates away to say the debate either doesn't happen, well, it's going to happen. Say that people are not paying close attention to the debate so it makes no ripple at all in the district. Who's going to win this race? - It's like whoever wins the top of the ticket presidential race, but what's something that's kind of weird about it? I mean, Shimari figures has been on Shodjo a couple of times. He ambushed my show once. I don't know if y'all've had any luck, but I don't see him around. You don't, I don't feel his presence in AL2 around much. Now, we drive around Montgomery. It's a little immobile as well, but Montgomery, especially. You do see a lot of Shimari figure signs and things, but him himself as a candidate is not as, he's not as out there as Dobson. She's everywhere, so I don't know that that matters, but it doesn't seem like a presence there. - You can't feel the thing on the ground. - His presence is tying himself and his dad to Martin Luther King and Obama and all those TV ads. - Maybe he's spending too much time with Bethesda as his house. I don't know, but I think it's just the top of the ticket, it's what matters there. - All right, good stuff, Jeff. We're looking forward to your show. Coming up in just a few minutes. Thanks for taking your time with us this morning. - Thanks for having us, or having me on. - I think that if Shimari figures this, it's tough like candidate for the Democrats. - You gotta be pleased that he's the guy. - He's smooth. - He's smooth. 859, Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 106.5 in Mobile mornings in Jeffport next. (upbeat music)