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Midday Mobile - Caroleene Dobson talks with Sean about her recent debate and the campaign - October 11, 2024
There will be no personal nor direct attacks on anyone and I would ask that you please try to keep down the loud cheering and the clapping. There will be no booing and no unruly behavior. With that, this is painful and it will be for a long time. After all, these are a couple of high-stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper. No step too high for a high stepper. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 106-5. Well, Sean's a tough guy. I mean, I think everybody knows that. You know, Sean, he took some licks. He hangs in there. Yeah, what's wrong with the beer we got? I mean, the beer we got drank pretty good, don't it? Did you hear what I said? So this is a bade council. I had no doubt about them. That doesn't suck. If you don't like it, you're bad. Last question. Were you high on drugs? Last question, kiss my ****. Right. Here we go, FM Talk 106-5. Midday mobile on this Friday, glad to have you along. One of these days that I've said this in the past, that it doesn't work because there are four stories on top of where the opulent FM Talk 106-5 studios are. But if we ever got a one-story studio, you have a convertible feature. So we could do this show. We could drop the top on a day like today. Fantastic outside. If you needed a numerical confirmation of that, I was listening this morning when Dr. Bill handed out the very rare and coveted 2.0 weekend weather scale, whether it's fantastic. So many activities going on. Speaking of which, I think I'm going to take the van. It may take my truck, but take the van. I'm heading down to smoke on the farm with my man, Joey Mason this afternoon. That gets cranked up at four o'clock. So hopefully, if you get a chance to stop on by, visit with me. And then we'll all go check out the great, great cooking going on, smoke on the farm goes on today and tomorrow. And if you need more information on that, you can go to his Facebook page for Mason Hills Farm. Speaking of Mason Hills Farm, your chance to win $100 gift certificate today from Mason Hills Farm as we get you ready for another great weekend in college football that then brings me to this as well. If you have not, if you're one of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of us in the college pick them challenge, make sure you get your picks put in today for the games over this next weekend. I need some rehabilitation. I feel good about my picks for this weekend because I was destroyed last weekend because all the things that happened that weren't supposed to happen when it came to the college football match ups. But I'm in and ready to go for for this week. So do the same thing. If you're in the mix, make sure you get your picks in. I mentioned to Jeff that my buddy, JB Bino, was coming on. And this is the nature of what he does and what I do. We, you know, been talking throughout the really through from Helene and then, of course, Milton, he's in Tampa. He worked for to be KRG here. He and I got to be buddies. He lives in Tampa now and works for WFLA. And so we're, you know, we just had talked this morning just attentively. He was going to hop on kind of giving us. He's good because he's like so many of us here. He can give you like a real world. He's a TV guy, but he's like a regular dude too and give you a, you know, a regular person's take on what's happening in Sarasota, you know, in Hillsborough County and through Florida where Milton hit. But the nature of his job, he got called out and this is the story. He texted me like as the show started right after I'd talked to Jeff, he said, man, I can't do it. We got something going on again here. So they've got the recovery efforts going on after Milton hit the Tampa area. Maybe some of y'all, I actually, I know several of y'all in the text line have family and friends in that area. He said, man, we got a flood. I got to go. I can't do the, can't do the show. And then he saw the story. So this is a secondary flood. So this is freshwater flooding, right? So you had the storm surge and actually they didn't get it bad on the surge there in the Tampa area, actually drained Tampa Bay. Kind of like I pointed out this happened here before too, depending on the orientation. If you get the wraparound winds, you can drain a bay. Well, it flooded to the south of there, but the rain flooding is what they're dealing with now. So this is just coming out down there and a Pasco County, which is north of Tampa. This is just, I mean, like the, it'd be like, I'd be like Washington County is to Mobile County, right? It's the next county up to the north. They have a flood evacuation morning. This is what got my, he said, man, we got a flood. I can't do the show. I went and looked at this. It's like the entire county, which is just, so I guess as all the water that fell to the east and the interiors, trying to get out to the Gulf of Mexico, the amounts are so much that they're having says here, Pasco County has experienced historic flooding in low-lying areas, neighborhoods around the county, anywhere near, anywhere near a river or lake. If you all spent some time there in Florida, that's like, so a lot of places are near river or lake. So the water is quickly rising. They are encouraging all people to leave, evacuate, get to higher ground now. So I guess they have some, I don't know if there's been some kind of breach of some kind of water control device or just finally all that water is trying to get out to the Gulf at one time. But now here we are, you know, a day after, two days after, two days after Milton. And here comes this second issue. You had the initial flooding and you had storm surge. And now they have like kind of high river, like, you know, we would have here, you get a bunch of rain north of the dams, right, on the Alabama and Tom Bigby. And it doesn't, we don't get the flooding immediately to the mobile. It takes a day or two and then the river starts rising. But in this case, they are rising quickly enough that they're using all their, I guess, the people that had been doing the search and rescue around that area now, like pulling people that had, everything was okay or generally had fared okay in the storm. Now they're pulling them out of their homes because of secondary flooding. So that's what happened with JB, but it gives us a, it gives us a heads up of what's happening down in Tampa. All right. Also coming up in about 15 or so minutes, I'll be joined by AL2 candidate on the Republican side, Caroline Dobson had that debate earlier this week. Somebody had texted me about that earlier. You know what? I have not had much stuff having yesterday. Did not get to watch the AL.com debate yet, but I'm going to talk to her about it. I know several of you all have. If you got questions for Caroline Dobson, she's going to join us here just after about 1235. So, you know, heard the debate was, one headline said it was testy, not testy, it was testy, a testy debate. So we'll, we'll listen to that. I wonder where you're on this because this district has drawn and I have my issues with the geography of AL2. I have since before it even happened. Remember, I said, how are we supposed to have a community of interest in a congressional district, AL1 being the same now that goes from state line to state line? It just does it. And maybe it's just old habits die hard, you know, that AL1 for the majority of my life, or I'll tell you what, since I've been paying attention to things like that in my life, AL1 has been southwest Alabama. It just made sense, right? The way the district was drawn. Now, you have, I think, disparity. I don't think I know, you have a disparity in communities of interest within this district. You had the two urban centers, mobile being one, Montgomery being the other, and a lot of what they call the hinterlands in between. And so I think it, it stretches what the community of interest would be, how they deal with that. I don't know how you do that, how you make sure you're doing what is needed 100% for people in the extreme southwest portion of the district down here, and the extreme northeast or eastern portion of the district. Yeah, it's a, so we'll talk about that. If you have questions, or you can get those, to me on the text line at 343010634306. In addition, we'll be coming up later on in the one o'clock hour, John Hill from Ascension Technologies. So many videos are out here, and you all send me so many videos on the text line. You're like, look at this. Do they really say this or what the AI, right? Or deep fakes and all that. Then I caution you, you know, you see something and you look at it, you've got to go figure out if it's real or not. Sometimes they're poorly done and you can tell their AI, but also who has a time to stop and take all the time to have to be a, you know, a, a detector of what's AI out there. Where is this going? Does it, you know, does it just incrementally get better? In other words, does it get to look more real? Does it logarithmically get better? Some of the questions we'll ask John Hill from Ascension Technologies. So you've got AI questions. He's going to join us at one to talk about that as well. Also coming up later on in the show, Baldwin County Parade of Homes coming up. One of the homes you want to check out, the featured homes here, the builder of that home's going to join us. Also, we're talking about bluegrass and Stapleton and a whole lot more. Phone number 3430106. 3430106 for a call or text. News is next. [Music] This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 1065. I told 20 FMTalk 1006 hot Midday Mobile, but have you long on this Friday just mentioned the port I got from JB Buneau down there in Tampa? They got like a secondary issue with now floodwater, I guess, that is the rain that fell to the east of the coast. Now trying to get back to the Gulf, they got rivers rise and big time down there. Secondary rescue efforts going on down there. But it reminds me of a conversation we had earlier in the week with my buddy David McCreary from LCM MotorCars. David, I know so many times you not talk. You'll be at auction in Florida, right? It's a place where a lot of the vehicles you'll get come from and you said that is changing. You saw that coming with the first storm and now it's showing up, right? Somebody's been wanting to check out a vehicle. This is the best inventory we might see for a little bit. Yeah, I was watching some stuff this morning. There was a lot of about 800 cars and they're all getting higher, higher, higher. So now's the time to buy, especially if you don't have somebody adjusting the prices and we're not going to adjust our prices. What you've been saying is we got a lot of nice trucks out here and of course trucks are going to bring the world right now because everybody's trying to get something to work out of. So now's the time to come see us. We've got great finance and great inventory. Yeah, I mean, this is a little bit of a news education at the same time talking about vehicles that this is how it affects your business, right? I mean, y'all are going to end up, you said looking to the west and other places to get these vehicles. But yeah, I mean, you take that big area out and inventory is going to get slimmer. And you got to be careful. You know, we're not perfect, but you got to be careful what you're buying and who you're buying it from because they'll be some of these cars down in Florida. They get flooded that are cleaned up and backed them down real nice and they make them look real special and they'll send them out west or, you know, to different auctions and you end up buying one and you got a you got a problem. So once all water gets into something, it's over. For sure. So people want to take if they've been on the fence about checking these vehicles out, I'm going to say today's the day to do it this weekend is the time to do it. So tell them how to find you. What are your hours? We're until six o'clock during the week eight to six money through Friday and then known Saturdays. We're here from nine to two. You give us a call at 251-3750068. Our address is pitch 7-11-highway 90. We're in theater or one mile south of IPNX at 15A. Or you go to the website, lcmotorcourse.com. Good stuff, David. I appreciate it. We'll talk soon. Have a good weekend. All right. You too. There goes David McQuarry at the LCM Motorcourse. Yeah. I mean, there's, I mean, how many times have we talked to him? That's one of the areas that, you know, they find a lot of vehicles, but now they got to stop because of what's going on down there and we'll have some period of scarcity in that going forward. And like I said, I'm just watching this right now, unfolding down in Pasco County with the flooding. Michael on the text line said, I love living in Pasco. It's still an area that has a lot of old Florida with tons of farms, ranches, and just pretty country. It is. And to north, north of there too, Michael, and I guess north and east spend some time in there, the cattle country over there. And they really, you're right. There's just some beautiful, beautiful areas there. And it looks like, I mean, it's not the entire county that's going underwater. Of course. And there was actually some topography in Pasco County, but I'm watching this unfolding now on Florida television down there. And there's a whole, a whole bunch of people there now that made it through everything. And now they're like, you got to get out of your houses now. Jason said, so now you're saying the government has flood machines too. I didn't, oh, did you see the story? This is, we saw something like this in, when Helene was coming in, now this is from Milton, the story from the sun.com. Incredible moment. The stranded sailor was clinging to life on his cooler, was rescued after Hurricane Milton. How many of these at sea survival stories? Have we seen that involve a cooler? A lot of them, right? Right here in our area, and I'll go through this. We talk about on the outdoor show a bunch in today's world with the technology that's there. If you, if you're fishing offshore and you're filling up the tanks with gas on that boat, the stuff I'm talking about here is not a, not an expensive thing to do. And that is to get an e-purb. So you get a e-purb system that you use to, to give your lat long as an emergency. As well, I carry a second. I think it's a thing called a Garmin in reach, okay, that I can clip to a, a life jacket or something like that. This stuff stays right there within one and a half steps from where I am at the helm. This stuff is important to have with you. You know, you go in the water, you go from Mexico, the Atlantic, these are big bodies of water. How do they find you? The technology is there. And somebody said to me the other day, well, it almost costs 300 for that when you're talking about it. I said, okay, 300 bucks. How much did you spend to go out in the Gulf and fish? Ice, fuel, bait. So don't tell me you can't do 300, 400, whatever for, for something and save your life. And like I said, I have a secondary because it's my personality and I'm a boy scout. So two ways to do it. But it goes on the story. He said, the captain, boat captain survived at nightmare as he was plucked from the sea by a rescue chopper after his vessel sank. And you can see the coast guard chopper doing it, awesome rescue teams with the coast guard. And it shows him riding it out on his cooler as a flotation. Now, why he also doesn't have secondary and I mean, if you're out sailing in the Gulf, you don't have some other secondary number one, a warning device or a locator device. But in addition, why you don't have multiple ways of floating other than your cooler. But I mean, it's so many stories. I think there's some of your nodding along with me. How many stories we hear that people were clinging to a cooler as their flotation. They said he was he was clinging to his cooler 30 miles out to see off longboat key when he was found by the helicopter. Coast Guard officials said the man had survived a nightmare scenario. His boat had become disabled off the coast on Monday and had returned to the vessel to try to save it early Wednesday. As the storm worsened, it was too late for him to escape. And so he said the boat was messed up. Something happened, I don't know what was wrong with it, but something was messed up. So he somehow got back to shore and he comes back out to get it. And what he does, well, the storm is too close. And there he was. And it said he, I guess he rode it out Coast Guard managed to find the man estimated that he had survived winds were at that location of 90 miles an hour. This is when he's in the water and swells of 25 feet. Unbelievable. Unbelievable story there. And right now the, I guess the fatality fatality numbers keep coming up. And I'm scared that as the searching goes on more in Florida, those numbers will come up as well. And I see a couple stories here of groups that are getting supplies to take them to victims of Milton and of Helene. Remember, always if you got this, if you're organizing through your church or your civic group, whatever, and you're getting supplies to go hold down somewhere, just send us a text or send me an email. Text 3430106 or email Sean S.E.A.N. at FMTalk1065.com and we'll get that information out. And Michael also says, yes, Citrus is awesome as well. Citrus County, Danelian and Crystal River are my ideal example of God's country. It is pretty country, Michael. I agree with you. Brandon says, "Inreach many attached to the cooler, not a bad idea, along with one on my belt." Oh, so you got two of them? So I got the e-purb and then I got the inreach many with that little clip thing on it. And yeah, I'm not saying I'm going to not take the cooler, but I'm going to have, if I'm out that far, I'm going to have probably something else, you know, the life rafts in a bag or that kind of stuff out there. All right, 3430106 coming back here in a couple of minutes. I'll be joined by Carolyn Dobson. I know it's just, she'll probably go count down the actual number of days between now and November 5th. It had been many before election day. And this is a big deal. You look at AL2. This is drawn to be a majority minority district, which was abusing to me that they use people's race, right, to determine this is to give Democrats a chance in the state. They push past the point where it's about Black Alabamians. Now, it's about Black Alabamians vote Democrat is what the district is. It's drawn to give them a district they can win here, right, in AL2. But I wonder, just seeing some of the stories out there, and we'll see how it comes out that this kind of one size fits all, you look a certain way, you have melanin or lack of melanin in your skin. Therefore, you think a certain way politically. I wonder if that's going to be shown to be true and not much changed from the past or that's going to be shown to be not the case after November 5th in AL2. Be interesting to hear your thoughts on that as well at 3430106. And do people still do people know that they're voting in AL2? I mean, I know y'all do. But you start looking at places where people just kind of woke up and realized in the last week there's election coming up in just three weeks. Do they have any idea that where they're voting and where the lines are now? We'll talk about it. Oh, and thank you, Jerry said that I heard the new iPhone will allow for satellite communication. I saw that story too, like when it's out of sale. You could use it that way as well. If you're going offshore, you'd very spend a lot of money. Spend the extra money had the safety. I know it. You think it's never going to happen. But the people that they pluck out of the golf didn't think it was going to happen either. So, dude, take care. All right, be right back. Caroline Dobson next. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 1065. By 1235 for FMTalk 1065 and Midday Mobile on this beautiful Friday, so much stuff going on this weekend. I'm heading out this afternoon. Hope to see you out at Smoke on the Farm by Man Joey Mason, out at Mason Hills Farms and their cooking contest going on today and tomorrow. Slide out there and see if I can get some samples. Hopefully, you'll be able to join me this afternoon, Smoke on the Farm. And I think doors open up, the gates open up at four o'clock this afternoon and then tomorrow throughout the day as well. But we'll talk more about that a little bit. I mentioned we would go to Caroline Dobson, AL2 Republican candidate. Coming up in Carolina, I figured I didn't have to count the days. You could tell me how many days to election. Yes, no, we're just about three and a half weeks out. So, not to tell or pay an attention that every day, right? No, no, not at all. No, but very grateful for the cooler weather and yeah, it kind of coincides with a lot of things going on in all the communities in the district. So, grateful for the opportunities to get to interact with voters. Yeah, does that work? Like, we have like so many things in October, because weather finally gets nice. Does it work? Because you can go to a couple different events and see a lot of people that vote in AL2. That's right. That's right. Absolutely. So, it's a lot of and so many, so many great charitable organizations have their annual fundraisers, you know, victory health partners that you're just talking about. I'm hoping to get out there. So, anyway, it's a good opportunity to participate in good causes and also get to meet voters and have a good time too. Good deal. I want to talk about the debate from earlier this week with you. And I have not seen it yet several of what many people here have watched it and were, you know, talking about it on the text line with me. Your takeaway as you left that debate, or was it a debate or a forum? I always mess the terms up. Which one was it? You know, arrived by any other names, but this was characterized as a debate. So, grateful to AL.com for hosting it. And I think it demonstrated, you know, just the fact that my opponent and other members of the radical left don't have any solutions, because they helped create the problems that have, you know, certainly killed economic opportunity, caused rise in inflation, and have made the world less safe. And they'll try to distract with, you know, everything from, you know, personal networks, anything else. But when it comes down to it, you know, they don't have a plan, because they helped create these problems. Yeah, on that, you know, it's so many times in politics, we, the tennis ball that gets chased is not the thing that's key to the success of a leader or their constituents. But it is the, I mean, we see it in the presidential cycle, both sides, too, the things we will change. But this was brought up about net worth, you know, and I look at it and go, well, I don't even know I had no idea one way or another. But why does it matter? But yeah, that was brought up that that because you're net worth, they said, you know, I don't know, I think your opponent called you a billionaire, right, that you were somehow you couldn't understand what was going on in the district and parse that out for a second. I hate to chase his tennis ball, but this is what people are talking about. No, no, well, well, you know, yeah, no, it's just exactly that, a distraction. And, you know, I think a lot of people say, oh, we don't want to hear people talk about, you know, presidential candidates talk about their golf game. Well, yeah, I don't think, you know, net worth is really particularly relevant. However, in this case, I'm grateful that AL.com fact checked it. Shamari figures is actually a lot wealthier than I am. And again, has spent the past over a decade in D.C. among the political elite. I grew up in Beatrice, Alabama, both of my parents were rural health care providers. Both of my dad's parents were public school teachers, both my mom's parents were veterans. You know, when we talk about issues impacting small towns and rural communities, that's how I grew up, you know, working hard and giving back to the community. And my husband and I moved back to Alabama over five years ago, because I wanted to raise my kids in Alabama. And I wanted to help make Alabama better. I didn't know in what way that would be, whether in the private sector or the public sector. But Alabama has given so much to me in terms of the values in the community that we have here. And that's how I wanted to raise my kids. And I wanted to do what I could to help make Alabama better. Because as you know, you know, we certainly get a bad rap nationally. And folks, you know, want to say Alabama is backwards. But we have an incredible state. We have so many, so many wonderful people, so many incredible resources. And certainly we are not perfect. There are a lot of things we need to work on. But I'm so proud to be from Alabama. And so to say that, you know, I'm not, I'm not fighting for Alabama families by someone who literally started leasing an apartment in the district two days before the filing deadline. Someone who's literally swooped down here to run for this race, but isn't raising his kids here and hasn't been invested in the future of Alabama is again, just a, I think, a rather pathetic distraction. Yeah. So from the distraction, so I'm glad we cleared the air on that because that does seem to get what gets chatter. But I am more interested in the things that have affected us directly, right, in AL2. This one is, so you and I talked about it, then I had Shamari figures on. And it is in this one, it's pretty binary. You talk about illegal immigration and what it means for folks in AL2, why it would be important to stem the tide of illegal immigration. On the flip side, your opponent says, nobody ever asked him about that. So address that. Yeah, no, I mean, that shows me. And I think it's evident, I mean, I think a lot of folks are saying, you know, what Jeff Ford, the other day, was saying, you know, where is Shamari figures? We haven't run into each other that much on the trail. And I really, obviously, that's a big district, but, you know, I've made it my mission and put in 16 hour days trying to hear from folks all over this district. And folks are really concerned about the state of our open border, about the fentanyl deaths of Alabamaans, about, there was a sex trafficking ring in Montgomery, a little over a month ago that was shut down. And just the strain on resources that's created when you, you know, inject 8 to 10 million non-citizens within a span of three and a half years. You know, that is a strain on rural healthcare. It's also a strain on our education system. I think a lot of folks have seen and talk about stories and and say that they have, you know, daughters or daughters in law that are teachers, public school teachers throughout the district, that all of a sudden have an influx of Spanish speaking students that cannot speak English or other, I mean, not just Spanish speaking, but, you know, students that can't speak English, and no way of, you know, helping those students. And at the same time, you're holding back others in the class when you kind of got this wide array of students that you're trying to teach you, which is an impossible situation. And that's, you know, again, that's, I think, one of the milder repercussions of our open border. But of course, my opponent doesn't want to talk about this because he was part of Biden's transition team that that flung open our border. And again, the statistics from from ICE are the 662,000 people with criminal histories have come across our border. 13,000 of those are where people with murder histories have come across our borders. And again, we're seeing this in our communities. A young 19 year old in Sims earlier this summer was killed by an illegal alien drunk driver who had previously been arrested for drunk driving and relief. So, you know, it's impacting every single one of our communities in this district. And the thing is that it's so stoppable. The Biden Harris figures administration opened our borders without legislative action. They could close them, but they refused to. And that really, again, that jeopardizes not just the safety of our country, but also the economic security and the ability of us to provide for our own, as we've seen most recently in the wake of Hurricane Tilleen and Milton and New York is saying, we don't have adequate funding. Well, we just spent $1.4 billion on non citizens. It's just a real slap in the face to folks that have worked hard all their lives and contributed their communities and now find themselves, you know, faced with a natural disaster in which they've lost everything. And the government's prioritized on one who just walked across our southern border. You know, on the on the criminal aspect of it and deporting these people, I'll hear a lot of times and you add this to the platform if you want to. They'll say, listen, citizens are committing these same crimes as the illegal immigrants. And I add to this, I'd like to deport them too. I just don't have a mechanism because they're citizens. You know, if I can deport them, I'm mind them up on the deportation line as well. But in this case, here's somebody who doesn't have to be here, who's who shown themselves before to be a violent criminal and now is doing it again. Yes, no, exactly. It's really, it's really troubling. And we've had some of the Alabama delegation put forth some some legislation that you think everyone would agree with that should not be partisan. Senator Brett sponsored the Lake and Riley Act. And you know, if if you are detained for a crime and convicted of a crime and you're an illegal alien, you go back to wherever you came from. And yeah, they block it. And I'm like, like, what about that one? You know, what about because now we've shown that this person is not a contributor to the country. You can't make the Ellis Island argument here. So why not say bye? Right, right. One thing is, too, because of this administration, they fling up in the Southern border. And then there's a huge backlog when it comes to folks that are trying to come here legally that that we need. I was recently talking to a nursing home owner who has several nursing homes in the district, you know, which are very much struggling, struggling in part due to increased regulation from the Biden-Harris administration that they cannot meet with local workforce. And so they, over the course of the past five years, have applied for 60 registered nurses from abroad who want to want to come to America. We need them in our rural communities. To date, they have had one approved. So on the, you know, it's just it's again just really non-sensical and detrimental to our country, because, I mean, of course, we absolutely need legal immigration. And you and I've talked before, too. I mean, we need migrant workers. But, you know, by the same token in 2022, the Biden-Harris administration capped the number of H2B workers, which the timber industry is very reliant upon, but they just they put a quote on it. And so for half a year, folks in the timber industry that needed migrant workers, migrant workers that wanted to come here couldn't because of this arbitrary quota. Meanwhile, you know, this other border is just is just long open. So it's, you know, having a tremendous negative impact on our country, it's really killing our country. We've got to do something about it. You know, I am a proponent and it sounds sometimes we're like, what are you talking about? I am a promote, a proponent of legal immigration, not just work visas of, but legal immigration. And it's like, if you if you stop the flow of water in one place, it does find another way to go. And the way I would look at it is if you're like me and believe in legal immigration and increasing that, if we stop the illegal immigration, then there's more of a cry for, hey, maybe we should look at expediting legal immigration in the process, opening up quota for more people and bringing folks in that become legal citizens. But until you stop the water that's flowing through the illegal route, you won't have pressure on Congress or the executive branch to do it another way, the legal way. Right. Right. And we look and see where the priorities of this administration are when it comes to staffing. So I mean, you know, since I've argued, oh, that there's not the manpower to vet all the legal immigration application, that process should certainly be streamlined and less regulated, probably, or regulated in a more efficient manner. But then secondly, you look at, you know, this administration that pushed for and got passed, you know, an 80 billion dollar increase to the IRS budget. They had 87,000 employees with the IRS. And you're thinking, you know, and I'm thinking like, do we really need to expand the IRS or would that have, you know, could we have maybe expanded, you know, the number of folks that are vetting these folks that want to come to America that we need here. But we certainly don't need 652,000 folks with criminal history. And what's also not talked about is, you know, during the Trump administration, the Trump administration lost track of 1400 miners at the border, which in, you know, as a mom, that is 1400 too many. Right. That, you know, that is, that's a travesty. This administration in the past three and a half years, again, my opponent part of the team that opened the border, they have lost track of 320,000 miners at the border. I mean, they're inviting a humanitarian crisis. They truly are with the open border policy. Yes, where do they end up, you know, I mean, yeah, it just, it's very, very, very concerning. So, but yes, to your point, when you, when you don't incentivize people to follow and don't make it possible for people to utilize our legal immigration process, then you're going to, you're going to have desperate people coming across the border. And I have no doubt that there are a lot of people coming across our southern border right now illegally that want a better life for their families. But a lot of them are, are being used by cartels, are being subjected to all sorts of, of treatment. And I visited the border back in August with Congressman Tony Gonzalez, his district in Texas has about 823 miles of the US-Mexico border. And yeah, it was just devastating. The stories we met with border patrol, but also with local law enforcement and just the strain on resources. But we also saw these stash houses where cartels will literally stash the people that they're bringing across, not give them food or water, but just give them caffeine pills so that they can get them across the border. And then of course, you know, this year alone, there have been hundreds of bodies found within a mile of the border. So, you know, it's just, this is a humanitarian crisis and it's all at the feet of this administration. Yeah, and I mean, and back to the first point, that if there was a expansion of legal immigration, right? And it was, it was better. The cartels and the coyotes wouldn't have the business. The people say, I'm not going to risk that and all that stuff that's laid out. And I'm being a drug mule or the things that can happen to young ladies on the trip or the show. Now, we're going to go to the legal route to heck with you. And it just dries up their demand, if you do that. So, but, and before we wrap up to something that you and I've talked about, I talked about with your opponent as well. And that is rural health care. And you look at the between mobile and Montgomery in AL2, there's a lot of area that's rural Alabama and health care issues. He had argued with me, debated with me, we talked about Medicaid expansion, for example, in the state. And his argument would be it would actually be a net savings to have Medicaid expansion, to have more people get early treatment. Therefore, not being a bigger burden on resources going forward. Of course, that means people have to still go get healthcare and prevent it of care. And that we should do that and we should expand it. We should take like all these, he said, well, there's all these other red states out there that took them, Alabama should do it too. Your opinion on that? Yeah, well, he, you know, he keeps his silver bill at solution to rural health care. And it's urban health care crisis too. I'm very grateful for USA for mobile infirmary and, you know, in the mobile area. But, you know, up in Montgomery, Jackson Hospital, just so important is really struggling financially. So, you know, it's not just a, a, a rural problem, but, you know, he keeps campaigning on Medicaid expansion, which is a decision that has to be made by the state legislature. So, you know, either of us elected, you know, we could, couldn't do anything about that. But also, you know, just Medicaid expansion alone. And I say this as the daughter of a rural health care provider, my mother was a physical therapist and worked in rural Wilcox County, Butler County, Monroe County. She had to close her practice because Medicaid, most of her patients were on Medicaid and Medicare. And increasingly, they're just not reimbursing for services. So, if, if the majority of the patients of a hospital are on, are on Medicaid, that's not going to be enough to keep them open. We've got to have a strong economy in order to have strong health care. So, we've, we've got to have good paying jobs. We've got to have folks with private insurers going to those hospitals. And, and also a, you know, good local tax base of businesses and economies. So, you know, he and I, whatever, he wants to argue, can't do anything one way or another about Medicaid expansion. And, but what we can do is get our economy back on track. We can stop the reckless government spending that's increasing inflation, that's increasing the cost of, of medical supplies and what it takes to just operate a rural hospital. And also cut back on all these regulations. I mentioned earlier nursing homes, the Biden Harris administration earlier this summer back in May rolled out some, some regulations impacting nursing homes that were, were required every nursing home occupant to receive a certain number of hours, talking multiple hours of treatment time by a registered nurse every week. And so, there are a lot of rural nursing homes that, that just don't have the registered nurse staff. And there are a lot of folks that live in nursing homes because they have a balance issue and their family lives far away. You know, they don't necessarily need to have appointment time on a weekly basis, but these regulations that were imposed, it's estimated to cause the average nursing home facility in the US an additional $300,000 a year to comply with these regulations. But again, you know, it's not one-size-fits-all, so we may see, you know, unless, unless we get some change in the White House House and Senate, we may see a lot of rural nursing homes have to close down, which is, again, would be such a detriment to local communities. You know, again, being the daughter of a physical therapist who worked in nursing homes, they serve a really important purpose in our community for people that have lived and worked in their town their whole life. They want to stay in their communities. They want to be with their friends and be close to family. And so it's, again, you know, Medicaid is certainly not the silver bullet solution, but we've got to have a strong economy. And that means we've got to have less inflation, less regulation. -Carolyn, thank you for your time, remind folks, too. Although I do see your headquarters every day driving to and from work, but where they, if they want to get yard signs or things like that, how they can get it in person. And then for more information on your campaign, where do they go? -Yes, yes. We have a headquarters in the Pine Brook Shopping Center, generally open from 10 to 2 most weekdays. Although, if you give us a call, we can meet you whenever. And we also have some materials in the GOP headquarters next door to find out more DobsonforCongress.com. D-O-B is in Bravo, S-O-N-F-O-R Congress. Thanks so much. -Hey, thank you, Carolyn Dobson. And we're coming right back. More mid-amobile next. -This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. At the 1257 FMTalk1065 in mid-day mobile, I have it here and good to do this, too, because I'm heading out this afternoon to Mason Hills Farm for smoke on the farm. But every weekend through college football season, your chance to win that $100 gift certificate from Mason Hills Farm. And let's do it now, looking for color number six at 3430106. 3430106, color number six, $100 gift certificate to Mason Hills Farm. Get that great meat for the grill for next weekend's games. Cook out, or if you just want to -- I'm not telling you how to use the gift certificate, but it would sure be nice if you could invite me over. And so we can enjoy it. Plus, like I said, smoke on the farm going on today and tomorrow at Mason Hills Farm. I give you more information, go online, find their address, come on out and see us. We'll be out there this afternoon. And hopefully, sample some of that great food that the folks, the competition teams are making. Good stuff. All right, good luck. And we'll be right back. Come back next hour. John Hill from Ascension Technologies joins us. AI questions. I got a man who can answer them. And get them ready. [Music]