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Football Friday with Paul FInebaum - Recovery and Response to Hurricanes - Mobile Mornings - Friday 10-11-24
It's time for football Friday with Paul Feynbaum, preceded by Bryant Bank. Your hometown bank with big bank benefits, located in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Now, here's Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. After an illustrious week on FM Talk 10065 and across the nation. This radio show, Paul Feynbaum, joins us on this Friday, Paul. How has the week treated you? It has been a week to remember, you know, I was just started in radio 40 years ago when we last encountered Vanderbilt, beating Alabama and that was a disastrous season. Let's hope this one isn't. Yeah. What a wild game. I want to talk about that game, Paul, but my question for you is, how soon do you go from being the Paul Feynbaum watching the football game, enjoying what you're watching, most of the time, some of the time, when does that switch flip to where you go? The calls on Monday are going to be insane. When did that switch flip for you during that ban again? I mean, my problem with that was I had flown home from Texas, got home early in the fourth quarter, and my wife is a big Alabama fan, and she's cheering for Alabama, and then it's suddenly dawning on her that she also had to agree from Vanderbilt. So once she was convinced Vanderbilt was going to win, then she completely went to Commodore on it. Is that right? So I wasn't thinking about the radio, because I was convinced, I mean, even as the AGO popular was spiking the ball, I was still thinking, yeah, another down double three scores, but Alabama will still figure out a way to win. It was only when they were shaking hands when I realized that we were in for quite a week, and then the tech started coming in the tweets, fine-bomb show, and you just, and then what you get into is, can we live up to the hype? And I kept telling my producers, guys, calm down, I've been down the road before, and you can't force it, but fortunately the show lived up to it, we got the calls that we absolutely had to have, otherwise we wouldn't be the fun-bomb show. I think you got, who's the old guy that's only drinking all the beer? Maybe he doesn't do it and have a kiss of his health. You're a legend? No, Larry. Larry. Well, Larry, he was not kind to you at all. Yeah, he quit the show for the 25th time, and he quit because Stephen A and I were on Monday trashing the boar, and I don't think, I don't think Larry's figure has figured out yet that Alabama lost. Well, you wouldn't know it talking to some Bama fans around here. They just haven't mentioned it since Saturday. Is that the worst loss for Alabama ever? Is that fair to ask? I think it is. It was interesting, Sunday morning I was on the Sports Center and they were trying to get me to say that. I just wasn't quite sure. I needed it. It's the kind of thing that you just can't make. You have to start thinking, there were worse losses in terms of consequence. I mean, the kick six was, and that was the DEF CON-1, that cost Alabama National Championship. This one just shattered the mystique, and I think a quick story. You may have heard of this guy. He's a pressure watcher, but he's proud of it, as he should be. He calls himself the Nick Saban, the pressure watcher. Yeah, I think I heard him. Yeah, so after Alabama beat Georgia, he started calling me to say, "I'm the Nick Saban and Kaelyn DeBore of pressure watcher." Monday he said, "I am no longer the Kaelyn DeBore of pressure watcher." That's how bad it was, and then legend had the call that has now gone viral that it's like coming home and finding out your wife ran off with the neighbor. He said, "Kaelyn DeBore, you can win a net and I still won't trust you." That said it all. Hey, Paul, if they had lost, they could have easily lost, you know, without Ryan Williams on their roster, they probably lose to Georgia the week before. That would have been one of the worst losses ever because of the points that Georgia fell behind. Yeah, I think you're right because just blowing that lead, but you could have still said, "Well, it's against Georgia." I've said this a hundred times this week, I'll say it the rest of my life. There is just something about losing to Vanderbilt. Every high school has a rival that you can't lose to, and somebody said I was on one of the network, the cable network shows the other day that this erudite professor said, "Well, it's a little bit like the homecoming queen dumping the captain of the football team in the quarterback for some nerdy, science, project winner, and, you know, listen, we can talk all we want about how far Vanderbilt's program has come. It doesn't matter. It doesn't change the approach of the Alabama family. Yeah. And you've stated it that way, just the optics of it being bandy, the doormat of the SEC for a hundred years in Alabama, the champion of the SEC for a hundred years. That's absolutely something else. As a Tennessee fan, I have been through those bandy losses before, and they aren't fun to take it all, and sometimes it necessitates a coaching change. That's not coming to Alabama, but Tennessee, another top five team who fell to an unranked opponent on the road this weekend. I wasn't feeling too well watching that game Saturday night, Paul, and watching the game itself didn't make me feel any better. I just keep wondering, I don't know, hypo seems to kind of just be waiting on his defense to win games. We saw it with Oklahoma. We saw it there with Arkansas. You know what? He doesn't trust Nico's win. Is there a trust issue between hypo and Nico, you think? There could be. And I have to tell you, my personal feelings on that game, by the time that game started to go south for Tennessee, I just said to myself, I don't have time for this. I mean, I can't deal with a Tennessee loss right now on top of an Alabama loss. And so I really haven't, I refuse to think about the Tennessee game guys. But you're right. The Oklahoma game is a little bit of an outlier. The Tennessee is just a bad road team. I don't know why that is. And I think you're right. Hypo is such a good offensive mind that he tends not to trust his own quarterbacks very much. He didn't do it last year with Joe Milton and for good reason. And I think he's very skittish on Nico. And he better figure out a way to get right quickly because, you know, I'm not overly concerned about Florida at home, but the next week it's going to be maybe the entire season on the line. Yeah. That's Alabama, right? That's right. So as a Georgia guy, I'm watching Auburn play Georgia. And it's the first time I really watched an entire Auburn game this year. And I'm thinking to myself, they're not bad, like they're pretty good. They're hanging around, it was 14 to 10 in the third quarter, you know, eventually Georgia pulls away and wins, but there's just something is missing there. And they didn't have a ton of truth. It wasn't like the obvious turnovers or the pick six, but what is missing with Auburn to make them a winning team? Yeah, you know, watching Georgia Saturday, they're just kind of an ugly team. And part of it is they don't, they don't have the dynamic receiver. And about to, I don't know why they don't have that. That's all we hear about a great recruiting there is. But, you know, if you put Ryan Williams on that team, which was always a possibility or you get another one of these receivers, I mean, and I think that's what, that's what Carson Beck is missing. He's got a good running back, but I mean, what was so interesting is I felt like Georgia didn't look good at all and then they still be Auburn by 18 and seem disappointed. Exactly. And on the Auburn side, something's just not quite right. Is it Hugh Freeze? Well, and then you had Hugh Freeze going after his quarterback again. Oh, yeah. Are you supposed to hand the ball off on a certain play? Yeah, yeah. And pulled it every game. Hugh Freeze has had something to say about the quarterback play. Yeah, because Hugh Freeze can't admit that he has shortcomings. I mean, it's, it's really getting irritating and I, I, I, I'm losing faith in Keith Freeze. I know more losses really shouldn't, that shouldn't be a surprise, but it's back your quarterback. The other guy who, who went all in on, on this guy, by the way, you could've had Diego Pavia. Yeah. He, he, he beat you last year and you didn't even try to get him on, frankly, I talked to Diego earlier in the week. Nobody really wanted him. Wow. Wow. But, but, yeah, Hugh Freeze just continues to dig himself deeper into a hole and a couple more losses. That whole is going to be pretty suffocate. It seems that way. Well, and you also had the big A&M blowout went over Missouri, kind of running out of time to talk about that one. That was certainly, certainly surprising to some folks, but big games coming up this weekend. Paul. And for the first time, the Red River rivalry is an SEC game. We get number one Texas number 18, Oklahoma in Jerry's world should be a big one Saturday. Yeah, I'm on my way out to that one. And it just feels so weird going to Dallas for an SEC game. And I realize the A&M played the offense on there, but it, it, it, it, it, it, it was still a game that, that you watched whether you really knew anything about the teams or not. It's one of the most defining games. And people keep warning me about the field, the field that the, it's, it's right in the middle of the state care. And, and I'm told the, don't, don't eat. That's pretty blunt. Yeah. There should be a cardiologist on duty at all times, with all the pride, I mean, it's fried weight. It's fried ice cream. It's fried. Everything out there. And in fact. Well, I, the probably be some great food in Baton Rouge, they're kind of known for that kind of thing up the road from New Orleans. And it really, it looks like could be a very interesting football game, Ole Miss, after winning South Carolina against LSU. Yeah. I think this is the most important game of the weekend in the SEC because the, the winner of this game is, you can check, but I know it sounds cliche, the favor loser is in trouble, but it is. Uh, if all this loses, that's two conference games. Uh, let me, they also have Georgia ahead and you hate to have to play Georgia in November as a must win. But that would be exactly the situation. Now LSU is not in great shape either. They lost to Southern Cal, uh, but, uh, the pressure, I think, is on lane kicking here because, uh, he bounced back against South Carolina. I really don't know what that means bouncing back to them, South Carolina. Uh, but, uh, this team was a top five team a week ago and then now it's real. Yeah. And this cut, this game should be decided by coaching, right? I mean, we're in the middle of the season. No more surprises. Everyone knows. You have Lane Kiffin against Paul Feynman's best friend, Brian Kelly and Monday afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we were joking, uh, that if, uh, Kelly wins this game, we might have to cancel a moment. You've become your Monday staple though, right? Yeah. But it's gotten so, I mean, we, we, we started doing the thinking, you'd be a national championship every year, but, uh, we weren't expecting that to sweat games out. It's pretty often when you're a high gate coach, welcome in this other, another tough law. Yeah. That is a tough conversation. Tough one to have. You can hear the audience just tuning out. Well, uh, you have Bama, uh, at home, South Carolina, I guess Game Cocks probably won't provide too much resistance to the tide, but we didn't think that about Vanderbilt last week either. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, listen, I'm not even, I think Alabama will bounce back, but, uh, I, I, I, I didn't think last week would, uh, would be a real challenge either, but, so this is, uh, what's, what's really tough about this game, it's 11 o'clock start, and I don't know about you guys, but who in the world wants to go to a football game or 11 o'clock in the morning, especially when you're, when you're kind of down from the previous week. So that, that's, that's a, that's a, I think a big negative for, and I think the most important thing is what will Kane and the board be wearing? Oh, he caught it. I had so many, uh, I had somebody text me last week and say, did he get that t-shirt at Bucky's on the way to the game? Yeah. A lot of talk about his t-shirt, maybe to kind of split the criticism, he goes, collared shirt sleeveless. I don't know. Maybe something like that, uh, to get both, uh, both fans of the, uh, the kind of, uh, more casual wear and the more business casual there on the sidelines, then you look like the meat guy at Win Dixie. So I don't know if he dressed like the butcher. Yeah. You know, I don't mind, uh, you wearing a shirt, but, um, I mean, get it, get it, get the right size. I mean, it looked like, uh, you know, like first time you ever watch posters, it's always in your, in your t-shirt shrink three sides. Oh man. Uh, uh, last game to get to Paul real quick before we, uh, let you go, Tennessee, also coming off that loss, at least they're at home this week, but a big rivalry game against Florida. Uh, there's going to be some real issues in Knoxville, if they lose another one to the Gators. Yeah, this might be, might be one of the most underwhelming, uh, Florida Tennessee games I can ever remember up in the nineties. This literally was the game of, uh, of the year, uh, and the SEC and even after that. Uh, but, uh, Billy nature is kind of breathing again after, you know, beating two very average teams, uh, this would save his job, uh, if possible losers, he might need to coach on the hot seat. Could be amazing the way this happens. Yeah. It's amazing the week to week. I don't think anybody's great. I don't think, you know, I, well, you know, I, I think George has got a lot of flaws, uh, Alabama obviously isn't perfect. It's just going to be an interesting season because every week you can't turn your head away from any game because an upset could happen. No, uh, the last couple of weeks have been really extraordinary, um, and it's all the cuts about that. And there's a million reasons why, uh, emotion transfer, but I think the transfer portal is probably the biggest reason. All right, Paul, we really appreciate your time again this week, uh, means so much for us that you take time out of your week to answer these questions and have a conversation with us. So, uh, thanks again. And we look forward to talking to you next week. It's always great guys. See you next week. Paul Finebaum, Football Fridays with Finebaum right here on FM Talk 10065 in Dan and Dalton on mobile mornings. And it's all brought to you by Brian Bank, Brian Bank, yeah, that's right. We appreciate Brian Bank for sponsoring this. They've been doing it for some time now. And we always appreciate our conversation with Paul Finebaum coming up more mobile mornings on the way. Going from Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 10065, terrible accident in a, uh, tourist thing in Colorado. Now, 23 people had to be rescued. One person actually died, an elevator malfunction trapped them hundreds of feet underground in the Molly Kathleen Goldmine. So now they take this old goldmine, they turn it into a, you know, they've got an operating elevator and all. So you have access that you would not normally have as an everyday citizen. And this becomes kind of a touristy thing, uh, around noon yesterday, they might experience a mechanical issue with its elevator system causing a severe danger for the participants. This is Sheriff Jason Mike cell from that color, Colorado County. What occurred was that about 500 feet deep, um, we had a mechanical issue that created a severe danger for the participants or the, the riders that were on board. Among those rescued two were children in four were seen by a medical personnel for minor injuries. According to Mike cell, who did not, he did not provide any details on the fatality, but you take this goldmine, which you would think that's a dangerous place that cripple creek up on cripple creek. That's where this goldmine is in, uh, Colorado there. And so then you turn it into something touristy and everything's fine until it's not. And what a way to go at a, at a, at, uh, what would you, what would you call that actually? I mean, you, you take something and it's historic and it's, it's romantic. And you turn it into, to, uh, you, you take a tourist attraction, a tourist attraction. I guess that's what it was. And someone losing their life at a tourist attraction, that is tough news. Yeah, that's rough. Yeah. When, uh, went out to Colorado once, uh, my brother was either getting ready to or he was already out there for the Air Force Academy and, uh, my dad and I took a little trip over to cripple creek. Oh, so you're familiar with it? Well, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not familiar specifically with the goldmine there, but, uh, it was interesting seeing cripple creek, which was, I guess a bustling tourist kind of town. I mean, they wrote a dang song about it, right? Yes. That was about a different cripple creek. And, uh, it was kind of laid back. Not many people were going there. They had a couple of restaurants, uh, when you were out there, a couple of when we were out there, but, you know, Colorado is one of those places that has all kinds of attractions that are kind of like that with just the, uh, the kind of landscape they have in the past, uh, that's tragic. Man, you didn't think that's going to happen. It is. How about that? Just, you know, so, I don't know, I think Illinois is the state with all these giant things, a giant shoe, a giant crayon and stuff like that, they don't usually fall over and kill you. No, they don't. We'll get back. I'm going to talk a little bit more about the aftermath of Milton and Peline. 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I think that the Santas also with a little beef with Kamala Harris, I don't know what she's doing. I mean, as the storm was coming on to Florida, she's talking crap about the Santas hasn't returned her call. That's her wife. And just keep in mind how all of that played out during Milton, right? So I mean, during Helene. So Helene comes through causes mass amounts of damage, of course. We're still, and we'll talk more about what's going on there now. But one of the main kind of, you know, refrains from that was the federal government response. A lot of people felt and still feel that it was lacking, that it took too long for them to start putting events into motion to start to try to go help people. Private citizens were on the ground way before helping the people in North Carolina, Northern Georgia and East Tennessee, before the feds even got involved. And then when the feds did get involved, it seemed like they weren't doing anything but slowing things down. Yeah. So they were regulating things. And you can't do this. You can't do that. It was pretty obnoxious. So the Harris campaign and then the Biden administration, they're probably seeing all this response and decide they need to push back. So they started pushing back and saying, no, our Helene response has been fine. Listen that blah, blah, blah, blah. The Biden said the people who are getting what they need, they're all pretty happy. He said that. And you know, Harris was a little more, she toured the areas, right? But she was a little more hands off with Helene. Then when we see that Milton's coming in, it's like she and her campaign said, okay, this time we're going to get ahead of it and we're going to make it clear that we're communicating with Ron DeSantis and that we're helping to take care of this situation. Well, DeSantis, you know, he's like, in three and a half years, there's never been any communication between the vice president and me when there's natural disasters. It's just not part of the protocol. Yeah. So this is all political. She's trying to act like the president, but then she starts going after DeSantis. Yeah. Like on the view or different talk shows, it's insane. Yeah. It seems like a pretty unforced error there. It does. So DeSantis says, I'm working with the president of the United States. I'm working with the director of FEMA. We've been doing this now nonstop for over two weeks. And Santa said Thursday, of course, that would be Helene, which hit Florida first and then went on to do what it's done. And he says, although I've worked well with the president, she has never called Florida. She has never offered any support. I don't have time for these games. I don't care about her campaign. Obviously I'm not a supporter of hers, but she's not. She has no role in this process. I'm also working with the people I need to be working with. Also DeSantis said, I'm the sheriff here. It's always going to work through me. And I can see why he's saying that now after watching this podcast of Sean Ryan, who had some guys in that were up in the state of Florida. They're from Florida. They fly up. They see the disaster. They can help. So they have organizations that can help in situations like this, but the two guys that never met each other before, they get together, they fly up to North Carolina and they immediately run into somebody who says, I think this guy can help because he's got a helicopter. And they end up with the guy who has a helicopter. They didn't have a helicopter. They're saving people left and right. And then they're seeing some people taking credit for this on the news, and it's peeing them off a little bit. And then when we talk about, just listen closely here, please, when we're talking about politicizing a tragic event, and is Trump doing that? Is Trump not doing that? Well, it's become the talking point now. So the Democrats are going to hammer that home. Trump is politicizing these events. And maybe because of his rhetoric in the way he says what he says, it may be out of bounds by a yard or two, but in my way of thinking, if you're just, the tragedy happens, and then you're just speaking about what you have observed, well, the Democrats happen to be involved in charge. So you can say you're politicizing the whole argument, or you can say, this is the shortcomings I see with the federal response. You can say that's politicizing the whole thing, but really if you're just saying this response has been weak to nonexistent, to way late to whatever, that's not really politicizing. I guess, and when you're weeks away from an election, you could consider that. But when you're saying FEMA has really dropped the ball here, we're not sure why. You don't have to say it's a conspiracy or any of that. They have just been, it's a big government, and they have been ineffective in this situation. Topography probably got something to do with it. In Florida, things are flat, and you can get to where you're going. It's the talking point of the response by FEMA being politicized, I think is incorrect, because you're just saying what you're seeing, and people who have got no dog in the fight in terms of the presidential election, that's what I'm trying to find, those people. And what they're saying is, it's not been good. That's the message that I care about, or the people that are on the ground, the volunteers that are helping out, whenever, we have two candidates here, you have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and we're within a month of the national election at this point. Anything they do or say is inherently political. They are both political annum, so if Trump says anything about the storm, while he's on the campaign trail, you're politicizing the storm, if Kamala Harris says anything about the storm, while she's on the campaign trail, the storm's being politicized. So it's kind of like a, it's a weird, and it's something that all Americans say, like it shouldn't be politicized, but it is political. So it's kind of a really weird kind of barbed to throw out there, but everyone just accepts it, right? That the storm has been politicized. If it was just people on the ground that had been affected by the storm, you didn't have Trump or Kamala saying anything, then yeah, but I'm right there with you. Because the people on the ground are saying that the response from FEMA has been lackluster, that's not a political state. No, they're saying no, it's not a political state. These people are dying and trapped and whatever because of FEMA's poor response. That's not a political statement. That same FEMA's half ass in the worst time when you've got to be on top of your game, like the Secret Service. What are we going to, is that politicizing it? No. The Secret Service, they were terrible. It wasn't their A game. And I just get tired of people trying to call that being political when a lot of these people are just suffering and saying what they're seeing. Those two guys from Florida that went up there on the Shawn Ryan podcast, and they only have the best intentions. And I was going to play the clip. I didn't check it ahead of time for the old FCC buzzwords, which had been known to fly around on the Shawn Ryan show, so I'm not going to play it. But part of that interview, and these seem like trustworthy dudes, they're veterans. They went to North Carolina to assist. They said that, so while all of that was flying around about Kamala Harris not caring about the storm and Biden being late to the party, these two dudes, Jonathan Howard and Charlie Keyball with the aerial recovery members, said that one of them said, "I had a squadron commander from North Carolina reach out to me." They had a C-17. They loaded a C-17 full of hurricane relief supplies, and they used that fully loaded with supplies, C-17, for a photo op for Kamala Harris, and which is, I guess, fine, right? But they never sent the C-17 with the recovery supplies to where it was supposed to go according to this squadron commander that contacted either this man, Jonathan Howard or Charlie Keyball. That is a bit of a controversy, isn't it, if they load up a C-17 with things for a photo op and then never actually send the supplies, I'd loved a real journalist to kind of dig in and see if that actually happened. That's the other problem, real quick, who's covering this thing and how transparent are they being? The news organizations, okay? Who is covering this, and you've got it, NBC, ABC, CBS, are there, but are they telling us the facts? And I would say with this election around the corner, they're not. So who's politicizing what, if the media is keeping us from the real, or at least the corner of the story we'd be interested in, what are balls and strikes? How well has FEMA done? Have they been lackadaisical? We're not getting that narrative from the mainstream media, and I think it's, there's your tragedy. The tragedy itself, and then the fact the way this thing is being covered, is it really being covered tough, and let's find the facts, and are people guilty of a poor response, and is it FEMA, and is it the government, and it's going to take some time, too, right? Sure, if you're simply on the ground right now, you're with CBS, or you with CNN, and your job is to cover this storm from every corner, isn't that inherently a B story? That the help is not getting to the people, if it is not. And the more and more credible people that I read up on and see on the podcast like the Sean Ryan, these guys got no, they've got no reason to cry foul about Democrat response whatever, they're just saying, "Man, it's sad," and the sadness of this all is not being covered that I see. Another thing I've been thinking about, and watching the staging of, you know, linemen and first responders for both Milton and Helene, and seeing the big diesel trucks that are making it out there, folks are taking their four-wheel drives to get to places that other people can't. They're tying up their winches, pulling people out of mud pits, mudslides, they're doing all of these things, and I'm picturing a future where we have phased out gas and diesel engines. Not good. Could you expect, you know, a convoy of electric vehicles to ride into Asheville, North Carolina, where the roads are all blocked? Thank God. That's not the case. I'm getting people out of there, I mean, imagine the tragedy if we were fully electric at this point. Maybe we would have built the infrastructure up enough that it would be a little bit more stable than it is right now, but thank God for gas and diesel engines that are out there saving people. This one story, I don't know if you saw this, Dan, as they continue to uncover bodies in the mountains up there in North Carolina, 11 members of the same family were killed during Helene, and there's a GoFundMe up there now called Support the Craig family after tragic loss, 11 people in the Craig family in a town called Fairview, about 12 miles southeast of Asheville, in a town known as Craigtown. So you have the Craig family in Craigtown, 11 folks died due to a landslide that was triggered by those rains, a resident close to that Craig family said that the family members lived in several houses beside each other, all of them were crushed during the mudslide. One family member, Jesse Craig, said that he lost his mother, father, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, cousins, and second cousins in the incident, and he said 11 people overall from this mudslide. That's what they're dealing with here, and it's not just the Craig family, it's one right after the other. And then who knew that, I'm sure some of you did, that North Carolina was such an important part of our country, not that I didn't think it was unimportant, but we talked about the quartz mine and how that might shut some things down for some technological things that they produce using quartz. But how about the potential IV shortage nationwide? The Florida, yeah, I will know, out of North Carolina, North Carolina, Baxter International produces 60% of America's IV fluid supply, so you have hospitals out on the west coast who are now rationing their IV fluids because everyone, all these hospitals are seeing the potential of this becoming a serious problem. The plant produces 60% of America's IV fluid supply at 1.5 million bags daily, and their supply that they had there was flooded out, and I think they've been having issues getting back into action here. Hospital in Boston is conserving its supply, UVA hospital, same thing here, postponing some elective and non-life-threatening surgeries. This is a big deal. Some really important places that have been more or less shut down because of Helene. It could be national shortages. Yeah. To the text line real quick here, Dalton, from Jean, you too are such awful human beings, hope you take a shower after your show, and disinfect everything, shame on you for spewing fake news. Where was the fake news, then? Jean. And I replied, if you think that, Jean, thank you. Yeah. That's the opposite of Jean Santa. Yeah. It's the fake news. Awful human beings. Yeah. What's the fake news there, Jean? Let us know. 856, if I'm talking one of six five mobile mornings to the text line, we go. And the real Sam says I'm a long haul truck driver. I listened to liberal radio. It's tough to find that out there, by the way. In conservative radio, all day, respectfully, Jean is an idiot. No, I didn't say that. I think Jean and I have got different points of view, and I think Jean probably, I don't know, might hear her, I don't know which, but they would, they, they, they, they, they consume their news through a certain kind of outlet and probably believes everything that they texted us. Yeah. Jean consumes their news through this outlet and bitches all day. That's fine. That's fine. Jean, you know, I think we would agree on a lot of things. If you would allow yourself, but you just don't, I could have a glass of lemonade with Jean. We could work it out. Yeah, I'm just, I'm glad that, uh, glad that I don't really care what Jean thinks. You know, I got friends and family and a bunch of listeners that seem to like us. That's cool. Jean, have any of that. How about this? Damn Yankee. A crisis here in Mobile directly caused by Hurricane Milton. The new Wawa is out of donuts because their stores are resupplied from Orlando. Oh, wow. I mean, Aiki says it could be weeks before the new Wawa has a week old donuts back on the shelves. So that's, uh, yeah, I didn't even think of that, uh, that possibility. Reynolds. Thank you. Reynolds. He says, I think y'all are wonderful human beings. Daniel, tell Jean the fake news is on the TV and we're hammering Jean. I think I'm going to, I'm going to lighten up on Jean here. I'm not going to read all of these texts that seem to have been brought in here. Hey, what says Jean is monitoring you on the list for the ministry of truth or just does not like a difference of opinion. I'm not sure where the opinion was. There's been a widespread response from people on the ground that said the federal response has not been great enough for Helene. And I, and I said, is the media covering it like they should, and that made you an awful human being. Dan, you should have never, never brought that question. I'm terrible. Jeff Porsche on the way, Todd Stacey, hour number one, hour and order two, Pete Reem. Man, we know well right here on Mobile Morning's and hour number three, state Senator Chris Elliot joining the show, so I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, Pete, also one of those that's, we're saying that taking your things to like local churches was probably the better idea than dropping them off at the Beem and Sight. He definitely had a lot more faith in that and saw it more coordinated effort. 859 and Jeff Porsche is on the way next.