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Rob Holbert from Lagniappe - Mobile Mornings - Thursday 10-10-24
News. Sports. Weather from Dr. Bill Williams. Traffic info from Kane. And one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's Mobile Mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. Good morning from Dan and Dalton if I'm talking one of those six five Mobile Mornings. Good morning after how about the thing makes landfall around nine I guess last night and it's scooted right across the state. Terrible circumstances with the with the tornadoes and water spouts on the eastern side of the state. You had loss of life there but it's virtually gone. Yeah. Sayanara after less than 12 hours on land and you're right. So far only fatalities only reported fatalities I've seen have come and they came early. You had it in the early early morning story from St. Lucie County with the sheriff there saying multiple fatalities. I said a modular home community for residents 55 and older was hit by a tornado. Their whole homes with them inside were lifted up moved destroyed. He said I mean everything in the hurricane or this tornadoes path is gone. But I haven't seen with haven't seen reports of fatalities yet from I think any other county except St. Lucie County. Although that doesn't mean that's not going to be the case of course is day day like comes on. But right now it's looking like those tornadoes that like you said were hitting the eastern side of the state before the storm made landfall was western side of the state. Probably four hours ahead of time. Yeah that ended up being maybe the most vicious of the storm and then the storm surge that moved in as well. And I believe they had a high tide this morning maybe an hour hour and a half two hours ago. So they're hopefully seeing water receding here before too long. But so far not very many accounts of fatalities which is great news. You overheard my conversation with my sister. What did you put you to think of what did you take away from that because she was just out in the bathroom. She stayed at a house. A friend of theirs house that's got fortified shutters. Yeah I think and then so. Sounds like she's got it figured out when the first time she had stayed during a storm. Yeah gone and said hey I can't even tell when I'm inside that there's a hurricane outside. Well built they have that house. But it was great to hear that she's safe. I know you were worried about her going in overnight. Leanna has a family over there. Friends she's worried about. I know many of you out there as well. Especially this last storm Helene. I was surprised by how many people. I guess I wasn't so surprised. But just being down here and when the storms moved through the Gulf Coast. We naturally have a lot of family and friends that have moved alfs where in the southeast or along the coast. So anytime one of these storms if it doesn't affect us directly it affects us by family or friends. And in your case Valdosta your brother's station in Valdosta did get walloped pretty good. It got hit pretty good yeah and they were without power. He might still be without power. I need to check in on him in two weeks. Fortunately for us they're the most mobile and youngest members of the of the family. So then they have little bitty kids to worry about. They're pretty able to get around and and deal without you know power for an extended amount of time. How about the irony of my nephew who I don't know what firm he works for. Really bright kid and but anyway he was living doing his job and living remotely in Asheville. He gets hit by that storm and he's from the northeast. He's not used to all that though he's traveled around a good bit now. Don't tell me he was there for Sandy too. He was not been in all of the storms. He was not there for Sandy. Well he was up that way but he wasn't in the eye. Yeah yeah he wasn't in the eye. But so he had really just to kind of normalize his life. He calls up Rosemary late last week and says hey and Rosemary do you mind if I come down a while it's you know a mess up here in Asheville. So I don't know what his living conditions are or were up there. He was just looking to catch a break. Yeah. He goes to Bradenton Florida. How about that? And now so that was late last week I believe and now we have this coming. Now it's coming gone. He had a ride out of another hurricane. His second one in two weeks. That's a it's a good story. He'll always have that right. He'll always have that. He'll always have that. And she was just what she lives in a large neighborhood called Lakeview Ranch or something like that. It's in but it's huge Dalton. It's it's from one exit and maybe two or three miles to the next exit on 75. Yeah. It's the it's the entirety of the community. I don't think community right. Yeah wow. It's where it's where Dickey lives baby. Yeah big by television. Oh man. So so it's a community and it's got we've not checked on him and we've not checked on Dick. But it's got it's not just the homes. It's got shopping and everything. You know it's got everything you need like bang there you go where you don't have to leave the the area if you don't want to. So she was just walking around this morning. We just talked on the phone and she was saying you know our house is fine. I'm like God oh my 120 mile hour winds. Yeah. Also she said the winds changed direction as we kind of knew it would. And then but she said I forget what she calls it that netting over your pool that everybody's got in Florida. It looks like a backstop but it's you know it's like so you can yeah be outside and not have nats up in your eyeballs right of course. So she says the pole cover. It was but she said the the one that they have they were going to replace anyway after this hurricane season. And it was a little janged up. She said one of her neighbors to think the whole thing was in the pool. So other than that it's it's pretty amazing. She said trees are down. Street signs are down. But I think the way they built those homes whenever they build them maybe in the 90s they build them to last. So far so good. That's good to hear. And you know we've you know any kind of you we've seen category one storms just cause immense amounts of damage. We've seen cat three cat four storms blow through and of course cause damage but not nearly to the amount that you thought they might with just the kind of sheer force they were bringing. So hopefully this is one of those cat threes that ended up not being as destructive as it could be. There was a lot of rain in a short amount of time. 16 inches of rain on St. Petersburg. So that's a one in one thousand year rainfall for the area. They say that about every big rainfall now. One in one thousand years one. But 16 inches of rain there's nothing to sneer at there. And you mentioned your sister you said was ready to get rid of the pool cover that ended up leaving anyway. Or yeah it's it's it's it's it's a you know it's not just right. But it keeps yeah it keeps the bugs out. Right. Right. Right. So kind of the same thing with Tropicana Field. Right. So you had Tampa Bay where the Rays play and very few people watch. Right. It's a dinghy old. So but they were using this just like so many big arenas. And in the eye of a natural disaster. They were going to use it as a staging area. Right. And National Guard. Right. They had 10,000. Let's see it was staging site for first responders and state and local emergency management services. We'll play some DeSantis here in a minute talking about getting all of this ready for this storm in such turnaround from Helene. The facility was set to host 10,000 people. They had cots already arranged on the playing surface that actually seen photos of that before the storm. But the the roof just shredded to bits. It's that same kind of material that you probably you remember the was the Georgia Dome during the tornadoes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It almost looks like a cloth or something like that. Yeah. It was just kind of hanging down. That looks like maybe the same material for Tropicana Field. And it's just you know torn to shreds. They said the trap was built to withstand winds of up to 115 miles an hour roof supported by 180 miles of cables connected by struts and stadium opened in 1990. But they're replacing it. So they're trying to replace it before 2028 with a new $1.3 billion ballpark. So it's kind of similar to that. I think we're planning on using it a little bit longer here. But the roof of the Tropicana Field absolutely shredded. Probably the worst thing about that is that they were trying to use it as a staging area. Then a another part of last night's storm that went viral. Maybe no one really expected. Did you see Lieutenant Dan Joe Milinowski. Joe Milinowski. That's his name. Oh, I didn't even know he had real name. Yeah. So this guy he he lives in Tampa on a sailboat. One leg. Well, he has two legs. One of his legs is cut at about the shin. So he's missing. He's missing a foot. Hence the the nickname there. Lieutenant Dan. And people were worried sick about this fellow because he was just damn determined not to leave his boat. He said, Hey, it's a boat. It's a boat. He's like, he's he's rain. There's way he was like being a boat. This makes all the sense in the world. Right. He's he's worried about the water. I'm in a boat. He's thinking Noah. Right. He's thinking I can ride this thing out. And he did despite the mayor of Tampa's best urges. And then at one point, she even threatened them with a rest getting arrested. She said, for his own dang good, we're going to arrest him. Well, Lieutenant Dan said, no, no, no, you're not. Isn't he a TikTok personality too? I don't know if he's previously viral on TikTok. This is my first chance yesterday getting to get to know Lieutenant Dan. I only know that there's a news nation reporter that was kind of following him around all day and just checking on him. He's like, you all right, Dan? He's like, yeah, man, like quit messing with him. I'm getting ready here. And I even saw some footage during the during probably the strongest part of the storm whipping Tampa. And you can see his sailboat right out there just kind of tied off to the side of a of one of the docks out there, I guess. And it's just rocking and moving. And maybe is that a 20 footer, do you think, or helping? Well, let's see here. It's, I don't know if I see any sizes on it there. It didn't look, you know, tiny. No, it's not itty bitty bitty. No, it's a baby right probably about 20 feet. And then he could go downstairs. Yeah, he had cover. Yeah. So, and then after the storm, our news nation guy gets out there and says, Hey, you out there, Lieutenant Dan, he pops his little head out. And so, all is fine. He wrote it out in the sailboat during the storm. So if you are a tick tock, a tick tocker, whatever you want to call yourself, the story in Newsweek opens up with this, the popular tick tock user known as Lieutenant Dan had survived Hurricane Milton's landfall. So user would that mean he's on it. He's on it. I don't know. He's like, yeah, I'm sure that he's probably on. He seems like an interesting guy. Yeah, he's, he's, I think he's popular on tick tock and was before this storm. And now I'd like out, you were saying, you know, like the mayor was kind of talking about, you know, we'll, we'll arrest you and all this. And I'm thinking the heck with that, you ought to name all your sports teams after they all to be the dance. Yeah. The Tampa Bay dance. He's the most courageous guy out there. Is he going to be like when the bucks come back to play as you 12th pirate or whatever. I don't know what they call their fan of the game. He's perfect for the, for a buck in the ears game, right? Yeah, he needs to be shooting the cannon right after a touchdown. Once we see how Raymond James stadium looks after this. That's true too. So far, the damage appears to be what the damage is. It's nowhere near as widespread of the lean. We weren't expecting that, of course. More on this after the break, plus the Santas audio from before the storm. What if I'm been in Dalton FM talk one of six five mobile mornings? Part of your job that you got is meeting with decision makers from local manufacturing and healthcare and engineering firms, contractor firms. Well, you got just what you need. It's going to be next Thursday at Fort Whiting. It's the partners for environmental progress. Industrial reverse trade showed brings decision makers from industry together in one location. So you've got these clients that are decision makers and you need to do business with them or you want to start to do business with them. 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The PEP Industrial Reverse Trade Show, Thursday, October 17th at Fort Whiting and Mobile, get more information and you can register it online at pepmobile.org. Thank you on the text line, Big Angie, texting in about our new viral sensation there in Tampa, Lieutenant Dan, who wrote out the storm on his sailboat, survived. Big Angie says, yes, he's earned enough to get a new boat, 26,000 raised in a couple days. He might not need a new boat. Big Angie, I was just, he just popped his head out of the other one. But I'm sure he'll, everyone will take a new boat, right? Yeah. Said his TikTok name is JC, J-A-Y-S-E-A-3-3-1, that will be good for those of you with TikTok. That's one social media app I've managed to stay off of. So Bonesaw says, oh, how about this? Bonesaw, you've been texting us for such a long time with such great text. He sends a selfie in a domestic plane. Looks like he's getting on a flight with a nice lady. He said, I wanted to make an actual announcement, me and my actual future wife were on our way to Vegas to get married by Elvis. Apparently, she heard all the jokes I made about being married to a seagull, and I'd really appreciate it. If y'all would openly make a statement that I do not have relationships with birds. Well, you started the rumor. He started his own dang rumor. Bonesaw, what I can tell you is you look happy now. I don't think you currently have any relationships with birds. But in the past, no, no. Bonesaw, we wish you the best. That's amazing. That is cool. Good stuff. And congratulations to you and Miss Bonesaw there. Screened enclosure. Many people pointing out that's what you're getting at in Tampa there. I kept thinking you were talking about like a pool cover yourself. No, but the enclosure, and it's funny, even along, and this is not a fact, but it seems to me what's that Florida Lillian is right across the line there from from Alberta and this port of part of Alabama. It's like, you don't see him. You don't see him. You don't see him. You cross over to Lillian. There they are. They're everywhere. That's a Florida thing. Jason says, well, he first, he says, Dan, don't let your nephew come stay in Mobile. Yeah, we don't want him to bring the hurricane. No, not two hurricanes in two weeks. He's asking for it. Yeah. And Jason also says, who's been a better governor than DeSantis? He wasn't a good presidential candidate, but a top notch gov. I still see a future for him, possibly in presidential politics. But if you're in Florida or even heck, if you're here in Alabama, why would you want to see him leave? He was doing his thing again yesterday, hitting all the national media, talking to his folks on local media and just doing it. He was doing a great job. I think you can say that no matter what side of the aisle you're on. And I was watching him on Brett Bear last night. Even Biden said he's doing a great job. Do you see that? Well, and you know, I was saying this before Helene, when Helene was coming in and I was watching the Weather Channel like the day before or very early that day, he went on the Weather Channel, did about 20 minute interview, straight up, no notes, just talking about the storm and what to expect and how they're taking care of their people. Yeah. And he continued doing it through Milton yesterday. He was on Brett Bear Fox News last night. Here's some of what Santa's had to say about just them being prepared for the storm. We've had a massive evacuation. Most people heated those calls. When you start talking about 10, 15 feet of storm surge, that's just mother nature. You're not going to win that. But we are prepared. We have the largest National Guard mobilization in the history of the state to respond for search and rescue. We also have our county and local first responders. So that effort will be robust. Should it be necessary? We've also staged over 50,000 utility workers. So they are in the state of Florida. They've been brought from all over the country. And so as soon as this storm passes, they are going to be beginning power restoration. And Bear also asked DeSantis. He said, you know, with all the recovery going on in the mountains up there in North Carolina and Northern Georgia and Eastern Tennessee, there's been a lot to talk about FEMA and whether they've been kind of hindering recovery efforts. And there's been a lot of rumors, some of that hadn't been proven true for sure. But he asked DeSantis his thoughts on FEMA's assistance in the state of Florida. And DeSantis kind of took control here. I've got to get the job done. And that's what I'm focused on. Now people have asked me about, you know, is FEMA going to do this? Just let me be clear in Florida, we run the show. FEMA's not running the show. We will utilize them to support some of the things we're doing. But you are not going to see FEMA running a muck in Florida. I know that's been out there on the internet. That is not going to happen. I'm the sheriff that's in charge here and we will make sure to protect you. Don't worry about it. Wow. Yeah, it's it's heartening, I think. It's a good thing to see a governor or someone in a similar position to just take control and using the powers that he has to try to make his people as safe as possible. And feel safe. You watch what DeSantis and the way he handles this, compared to, you know, other governors who may not even really make a peep, but how leading then it's it's amazing to see how wide a discrepancy there could be between leaders. But that's the way a state needs to be run. You don't need to be, you can accept federal government assistance, have them come in and give you some help. But you're the state. Do you like the people in the state? Yeah. Take care of yourself, take care of your own, and then worry about the help from elsewhere. I love what DeSantis said to say that's the first I've heard that. It's 30 now if I'm talking 106, so I'm going to talk with Rob from Lanyup on the way. Hey 34 FM Talk 106 five mobile mornings on a Thursday. The segment brought to you by underdog fantasy. It's a great time of year. Football is, of course, back right in the heart of football season get postseason baseball. NHL has started NBA and college basketball right around the corner. And there's no better way to make your game viewing experience more fun than playing underdog fantasy at the same time. Went up to 1000 times your money just by choosing higher or lower on your favorite player stats like touchdowns, passing yards, and more. 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Use the promo code Dalton. Claim your new customer special of a free pick and your deposit offer must be 19 plus in Alabama and present in a state where underdog fantasy operates. Terms apply concerned with your play call 1-800-Gambler or visit ncpgambling.org. We gambled a little bit. My sister gambled last night in Bradenton, but she won the gamble, I guess. Yeah, she's starting moving through fine this morning. Yeah, Rob Holbert with the land. Yeah, never a gambled talking to Rob. He's going to shoot us straight. What you doing, Rob? How are you? Well, I'm doing good. We're just enjoying gorgeous weather that other people are paying for. Yeah, okay. Yeah, 10. Dr. Bill, he's been laying that forecast out last couple days. It was just 10 clear days and north wind coming through, but thanks to that storm. So, I'm looking forward to it feeling a little bit more like October. You got a stacked issue of land app once again this week with plenty to discuss. I really enjoyed the cover story this week, Rob. A bit of a history lesson that I certainly needed. I know some other folks could use it as well, but something that will be on the ballot in November, not the presidential race, the pay-as-you-go program. Scott Johnson put that together and I thought it was a really good story. There's a lot of stuff there I didn't know either. I didn't really understand the whole concept of what pay-as-you-go was, but it's a mobile county is kind of special in that regard that we have this program. I guess if I can try to put it as easily as possible that the state requires that these road projects be bonded out, but we are allowed to basically put a bond up and then pay it off immediately. So, we're basically paying cash money for those, for when we're building these roadways with pay-as-you-go bridges and roads and things like that. Doing that gets rid of all the interest money and a lot of other stuff. A young fired up Bay Hayes when he was the county commissioner back in the 90s was kind of the one who looked around and said, "We're paying so much." I think two-thirds of the money was going to administrative and other stuff. To do some of these projects, he just thought this crazy that how much money we were spending on all that. So, an interest in those things. So, just figured out a way to do this. And it's been really good for the county. We had 500 miles of unpaved road, not long ago, and now we're left with 200, which still is a lot. But we've got a guy on the cover who lives on a dirt road, and he's wondering how long it's going to take for him to get his dirt road paved, and it's probably going to take a long time. But because there is still 200 miles of unpaved road, but overall, the project, it appears to work really well, and everybody's kind of singing its praises. Yeah, it's kind of funny. This has been up for a vote so many times over the last couple decades, and I look around, and no one's really asking questions. I'm like, "I guess I'm just supposed to know everything about this. This page you go, and everyone's fine with it. It seems to pass overwhelmingly every time." But I guess because this amendment was passed so long ago, 1924, Scott writes in his story, to add this 6.5 mil tax that it's like the old state government or local government, because of what they did, we're kind of able to avoid some of the inefficiencies of current state bureaucracy in a way is kind of what this page you go program feels like. Interesting. And it's a tax that because it was passed so long ago, and has worked so well for us here, it's not as easily passing in other localities because, well, you're asking them for a new tax, right? Yeah, I mean, this is 100 year old tax, and it was originally put in place to build the causeway. And so this extra money, quote unquote, extra money was there when they came back in the 90s and said, "Well, what if we, I know we got to bond it out, but what if we bond it out and we pay it off, and then we don't have to deal with all the interest and the other things that go with the bond?" And that was really because we had the extra money, we're able to do that. And so that's why it's pay as you go. And, you know, I never really understood that terminology really very well either. But, you know, so they basically they bond it, they pay it. It's basically repaying cash for the working done. Yeah, and I think it's pretty interesting too, how they're able to kind of line up these projects. They had, in a way, they need to to get it to pass on the bill, but every county municipality, every city municipality kind of gets something, right? Every time that they bring up a new plan, and that's an easy way to keep everybody involved. So, yeah, that's the same gentleman that was running the airport when I moved to town. Am I wrong about that? That's him. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, he was a very young, it was a very young town to Michigan. It was, it was, yeah, they named a building after him down down in the Oakley area. Yeah. And also, he's a nice guy, plays guitar too. Yeah, he's a very nice guy, but that's something I never, I never mentioned him up, linked it up to this, but together. He was a chamber of commerce guy and he was an airport guy. Okay. Yeah. He's been busy for a long time. Good dude. Well, I encourage everyone to check out the cover story for a fantastic history lesson on page ago. Then you'll have something you know that some of the folks maybe in your company don't, you'll be at the all-star at the company. That way when, yeah, it comes up on trivia night. Yeah. Yeah. It comes up. You're going to be ready. Take everybody down. That's right. That's exactly right. Yeah. Another story that took our area by storm a few months back was the Jubilee, and man got a little roughed up during the Jubilee for, he'd take it too much flounder. Is that what that was about? Yeah. He had too many flounder, and he didn't have a fishing license, even though he was over 65, so he didn't technically need one. But he then he got an altercation with the police because he was feeling mouth out. Basically saying, yeah, you know, like, hey, I've been doing this my entire life. What's going on? I think he got pepper sprayed. Yeah. So, you know, it turned ugly. They were down there. The Marine Resources officers were writing tickets to people at Jubilee's for the first time anybody can remember. So, because, you know, you're picking up fish out of the water and you need to have a license. So, state representative Matt Simpson is going to, he has a bill he is proposing to make it legal for you. If you're standing there and a flounder is right there, you can pick it up. You have to still, it still has to be within the, you know, the limits. It has to be the right size and you can only take the prescribed amount of fish and crabs and shrimp, but you're not going to get arrested. You don't have to have a fishing license. It's, you know, you're just a casual, you know, it's the only time you ever fish is when there's a Jubilee. Is this one of those things when Matt Simpson, when Representative Simpson takes this up there to Montgomery, I think most of the people in the state will be like, what are you talking about? Don't know, don't care. Or they're going to say, hey, that seems interesting. I think so. Yeah. And I mean, he's going to face some, he's going to face some opposition from the environment. Not ADM. Yeah, the, the Marine resources. Yeah. That outdoorsy people. Their name right now, but I'm losing it. But, you know, it's going to face some opposition from them. But yeah, I don't know that the people up in Birmingham and Huntsville and wherever are going to know anything about this whole process, but it is, you know, it is unique. There's only two places in the world that have it in Mobile Bay and somewhere out in Asia that this occurs. And so, you know, it is basically just saying like it's special. It doesn't happen very often. You know, it's part of our fabric of our community. Let some people go out there and kick up a fish or two and, you know, not have the law breathing down their neck for not having a fishing license for this one minute, you know. Yeah, he came on Sean Show and was talking about that too. He was, and of course, Sean, he's one of those outdoorsy people. Yeah, he is not seeing you that. Yeah. And maybe, maybe to get this past, if that's what we want, we set up some kind of nice presentation for the legislators up there in Montgomery, maybe a standing pool of some sort. Okay. Get up there, throw some fish in, a little bit of water. The government controls the weather. So we probably have the government created you believe for them to all be there and they could go down and see what. You talk about that, but to somebody who's been lived down here hasn't been ran all this. It sounds like what kind of magic trick are you talking about? Fish are jumping out of the crazy. Yeah, right, right, right. It doesn't sound crazy to us because we know what it's all about. It could take you an hour and a half to explain this to some Yahoo from Jasper. So fish just come up and they're just sticking their heads out of the water. I don't understand that. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, so we'll see. I know Matt Simpson was fired up about this after that story reported by land yap. So see the follow through here in the next few months at the legislative session. One thing they did get passed quickly last session kind of as a surprise was the IVF bill and providing some form of immunity to IVF providers around the state, but that came after the state Supreme Court said that hospital down here was liable for the loss of some human embryos due to someone breaking in and having a time in there and knocking some of those vials to the ground. But it looks like that appeal has been denied in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court denied a petition to appeal the Alabama Supreme Court's decision earlier this year. I'm trying to figure out where we stand on all this. Does it really matter after the state legislature passed this immunity for IVF clinics in the state? Although, Mobile and Firmry still kind of, they're facing that lawsuit because they weren't grandfathered in, right? I guess civil lawsuit. That's fair play, I guess. Yeah, I think that, you know, from what I, my standpoint, it doesn't seem like it makes a big difference. And that's the court more or less said, you know, we'll take up, you know, we'll take up state cases if it is meaningful nationally, but this is not. And, you know, since it was handled at the legislative level, I don't think it's, yeah, really right now a lot of the discussion about it is just primarily politics ahead of the election. And I doubt we're going to hear a whole lot about it after that because it is, you know, it is kind of settled here. We've fixed that issue, you know, when the Alabama Supreme Court essentially ruled that embryos are more or less children at this point. And that created a circumstance in which you could file a lawsuit, you know, for wrongful death essentially. So that's where they are. So, I mean, you know, yeah, it doesn't help mobile and summary in that regard. So they've got that issue they've got to deal with, but I think the state is kind of settled. It's one thing where kind of surprisingly, and I know some folks were upset with the way the legislature went about it. And they liked the state Supreme Court decision and thought it should kind of stand as Alabama law. But as much as we talk about the inefficiencies of our state government and how, you know, embarrassing stories just kind of come out from our state and are held in the national media for days on end, this one was settled rather quickly by the legislature after this came up this summer. Yeah, I mean, I think they realize there, you know, there's a lot of people out there who have you know, tried IVF and, you know, are, you know, it's very expensive. They're trying to have children. And then when you have basically all the IVF, you know, all the clinics they're handling it, say, we can't do this anymore right now. It's shutting down. So it was sort of an emergency situation for a lot of those folks. Yeah, I think that no doubt, I mean, a lot to them to have that opportunity. Rob, go ahead. No, I was just going to say, yeah, good stuff in this issue of landing. Really good stuff. If folks want to find the print edition, those are still easy to find. I see them everywhere. Or if they'd rather sign up online, like I do and Dan does and get those stories directly to your inbox, how can they do that? Well, you can go to lainatmobile.com. Right now we have the October surprise sale for a subscription. So it's a half price for the annual subscription. That's $35 for the whole year. That's 67 cents a week to have access, full access to our website. Yeah, and here's the thing. You can't make it any cheaper than that. You can go to it every day. That's what I try to stress to people who are like, no, I just pick up that. I'm like, well, that's fine. But if you subscribe any given day, there can be two or three new stories, let alone Tommy Hicks, who is like some sort of humanoid. He is a humanoid. He's a sports writer, humanoid. He is. We don't discourage people. We absolutely, of course, want people to pick up the print issue. And there's a lot of new stuff in the print issue, but there's also about 65 stories a week going on online, new stories and sports stories that are not in the paper. So there's a lot there. And it only costs you 67 cents more a week right now to be fully aware of everything going on in our community. It's also a bunch of writers and staff that you can, I think, find large trust. That means something. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Better than buying large. You can trust a man that you can't ever mess up now, Rob. Good stuff, Rob. We appreciate your time once again. And we'll talk to you next week. Yeah, I have a great weekend. You got it. Rob, over with Lan Yap on Mobile Morning. And Dan and Dalton, 851, going to wrap some things up here. Dan and Dalton, if I'm talking one of those 65 mobile mornings, I want to thank the well-wishers on the text line listeners that we're saying. Hope your sister's okay. Turned out to talk to her this morning. She did stay in a home in Bradenton, Florida, about 13 miles off the beach. And she stayed in a friend's house that was a little more fortified. We're talking about this. The shutters can withstand 200 miles an hour winds or something like that. Yeah. That made all the difference in the world, I guess. And in that neighborhood, the houses are built a certain way. They're built to withstand. And she said everything was pretty much fine. Things were knocked over, but property was pretty much okay, which to me, when that thing was barreling in, I'm like, I know that neighborhood. I know that what that place looks like. It's not going to look like that. And she says, by and large it does. That's great news. Yeah. And so yeah, thanks to folks who were reaching out about Dan's sister. And no, thank you to the haters who didn't reach out asking about her this morning. What's your deal? What's your deal? Jason texted in. And yeah, I wanted to talk about this because so many people are talking about the conspiracy theories that these hurricanes were completely invented by the government. There's a wide range of conspiracy, right? There's some people who think that the government completely, Ricky, the government completely initiated these storms or have the capability to create a hurricane out of thin air and send it to where they wish, which I agree, those folks, maybe a little, a little off the deep end on those. But as Jason points out here on the text line, and what I've been, what a lot of these government officials and media people miss out on when they completely say, you're absurd. Government isn't doing anything. That has anything to do with modifying the weather, which is false. That's false. There's, you remember the flooding in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, where one of those airports was completely underwater. That's right. Out there, they cloud seat. They're trying to get rain so they can get green. Yeah. And there's actually green growing in the desert now up there. They're trying to get water because it's a place that doesn't get much water. There are places and there are places in America where they are not massively changing the weather, but they're doing certain little things, right? So when that's completely taken out of the context of the conversation and you just call people idiots, then that's where conspiracy starts to continue to grow and to continue to grow and continue to grow. There are certain things that scientists are doing and that the government is involved in, where they're trying to find ways to affect the weather. They say for the better good. And I hope that's the case, right? I don't believe they're completely inventing hurricanes out of thin cloth to destroy swing states leading into an election. But they need to acknowledge that there are certain things that they're capable of doing like cloud seeding and things that do affect the weather because without mentioning that, then you're leaving out a pretty big part of the story. Well, before you could affect the weather, probably the biggest manufactured weather, if you want to call it that, would have been like irrigation. I mean, that's the best we could do, right? We don't know it's going to rain, it might not rain, but to irrigate farmlands and plants and crops and things like that. That was probably way out of the box. No doubt. In the invention when it came out a long time ago. Yeah, a long time ago, right? So that was probably the great, great, great grandchild to us now. And I don't think you create a hurricane out of thin air. You probably had a thick air. You have to have some kind of air to create that hurricane. Is there like a, can you Google how to create a hurricane? Yeah. You can. Yeah. And it, Marsford Teller green space pops up. It's a 859 on FM Talk, 106-5, Dan and Dalton, and see you tomorrow.