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Midday Mobile - Apryl Marie Fogel on the Republican Party Platform and Sean talks with callers - July 9 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. Don't run baby, that's why this man knows what's up. All these are a couple of high-stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper. No stepper, too high for a high stepper. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. 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 deal we got? I mean the deal we got drank pretty good though, did you hear what I said? So this is a great 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 f***. Right away we go, FMTalk1065 midday mobile on this Tuesday, as I said beginning at last hour, it finally is acting like July weather, because right before we went to the news there was very cloudy about the rain here now the sun is shining brightly, earlier it was a downpour on airport and dry on Dolphin Street, yeah this is July, July in Mobile, this is doing the normal stuff. We'll get more from Dr. Bill, weather wise coming up at around 132, 133, something like that if you're going to set your watches by it. All right, set your watch on this too, it is a Tuesday, it's seven minutes after one o'clock and we welcome radio host, writer, bomb, bomb Vivant, I would say Rapple Rouser, April Marie Focal, back on the show, hey April Marie. Hello good morning, well afternoon. I guess afternoon, yeah, I don't, Birmingham is in a different time zone, right? You know, we were having a conversation before we got on air, I don't know what day of the week it is, all the time it is. That's good, that's good. There's a wonder I'm here. Well then you can probably, at this point, give me an idea of what's in President Biden's brain, like if you're feeling, that's very true, it's, it's, before, and we might come back to Rob Annette here in a second, but the Republican convention is coming, I heard a story earlier, they were talking about how there's some ruling that the protesters couldn't, like it was a shocking piece of news that the protesters at the convention wouldn't be able to go through the security clearance, you know, like in mass to protest. I thought that like, I didn't think that was shocking news, but what are they, maybe they won't be any protesters because it doesn't seem to be a bunch of hubbub about this convention might get me excited about this, why should I be all fired up? All right, so I'll tell you, so I've been to, I've been credentialed to two conventions, but I've been to three, the third one I just crashed, no credentials, but the conventions are four, and you know, the ordinary person, the person sitting in their car, sitting at their desk, they've never been able to mention, they don't give two hoots about what goes on, it's the hobnobbing of the party, faithful, and it's a combination, it's a very interesting combination of the, the people who get out and knock on doors, the donors, and then some elected officials, everyone there thinks they're the most important person in the world, okay. It's amazing, but this, the idea this time is that security has to be really tight because left this, even compared to the last convention, when they are rabid, they are, they are angry and they're, they're worse than normal. And so security is going to be tight and it has to be because we've seen this, this uptick in, you know, these people don't be, they'll have to be alive, they need to be sent to an island somewhere. Yes. I mean, if you look at the rhetoric, I mean, you might like a blue and on person or something out there, what they're saying, but what would they accomplish, and not from violence, obviously, but what, protesting at the convention, I'm just trying to look at this logically, who's mind, would they be changing, how would they change policy? They do it only for media, but it is a, it is just intended to be a media circus. I'll tell you, do you remember triumphed the comic dog? I do. I do. Yes. Yes. Yes. With the cigar. Yes. He was fantastic. No. He was a classic dog, he was protesting the New York convention. And so I was outside, I was volunteering, I did credentials, so I was outside volunteering. And we were keeping the protesters away, but I was kind of like, how much trouble can this puppet dog cause? It's for him to poop on, yeah, for him to poop on. So we let triumphed the comic dog a little bit clearer. What's interesting, this, this convention though, is in yesterday, there was a big brew ha ha over basically for the committee that deals with the platform, deals with who, who gets to do, you know, who gets to do what. Barry Moore was one of our people, and Joan Reynolds was the other on that committee. And basically, anybody who is old school, not, you know, died in the world of Trump, they just got steamrolled. And they're, I think that the biggest issue is not going to be what's happening outside the convention with the protesters, but the two factions lifelong through conservatives and Trump conservatives, clashing throughout the entire convention. Like in some kind of West Side Story dance fight or exactly, you know, there were yesterday, one of the things that happened was, there has always been a very strong stance at the convention made for specifically pro-life. And the language this year was incredibly watered down. And so some of the people, you know, equal forms specifically, some of the people who really got their feelings hurt that a, that, that this key component of Republican, of, you know, Republican principles was taken out of the platform. Okay. Well, the platform, some of the discussion, yeah, I heard of Quinn Hill, you're talking to Dan Dalton this morning, and he was lamenting how short the platform was. Dalton made a point, you know, maybe you don't make it long to give your enemy's material to work with, you know, leave things out. But it is kind of silly that we truly have, and just on both sides, it is called to personality. It is not about what's in the agenda. I mean, the agenda is like very simplistic, like, we think it would be good for old people to get healthcare. And next, you know, we think, so maybe they just omission, this goes back also, I, this agenda 2025, right, I get a sale with this, Sean, what do you think about this? And the Trump world is distance itself from this, right? It's a heritage foundation thing, not, not a Trump thing. Well, so here's what's interesting about that is that what, there are people, you know, you have a transition team who looks up what the next administration is going to look like. So the heritage foundation, there's at least two, maybe three, because America first has one too. This transition team in a perfect world, this is what the Trump administration would come in and do. And a lot of it is based on his promises, right? Let's get rid of the deep state. Let's just fire a ton of people. Let's do these things. And they put down on paper a plan of what this would look like, and people lost their minds, and they're like, this is implementing what you're, what we've already said we're going to do. Or this is what it looks like when you get rid of a Department of Education. This is what it looks like when you, you know, get rid of, you know, IRS agents. This is what it looks like. And it's, you know, it shouldn't come as a surprise, but yes, Trump didn't like the fact that it was Trump's team didn't like that it looked like there was a shadow operation happening. Okay, but for a second, too, back to the pro-life stance, can't you? If you're looking at this, I guess, strategically, right, what was the, what happened in 2022, right? It was, it was the motivation after the road decision to remain to the states that probably benefited Democrats more than anything that they did themselves. Right? Oh, absolutely. It was huge. Yes. It was huge. This is one of those issues where there is no middle ground. Very few people are like, well, I don't really have an opinion on that. Even the people who don't say they don't have an opinion, they lean towards being pro-choice, allowing abortion just because they don't have strong feelings of faith or one way or the other. And so I think this is the, it's alienating people who don't need to be alienated in our party, though, and who does it attract, who does being soft on abortion attract to the Republican Party? Okay. Well, where are they going to go? Okay. The flip side, it's just like when the Biden administration is going through these gymnastics to try to act like they're anti-Israel and pro-Israel at the same time. Do you think that the pro-life Republicans are going to go somewhere else? Maybe they stay home. Maybe they say this, or they don't stay home, but they undervote that race and in a protest to what Trump's people have done in this, but again, you have to be really in the know, right? Like you have to be paying attention to know that this has been taken off the Republican platform. This isn't something people are just, you know, on election day. Let's go see what the R&T platform at convention was decided to be. But it's semantic wise, it could be off the platform. That doesn't mean the Republicans aren't going to be pro-life. I mean, you know, I mean, I get what you're saying, but the same time pragmatically, it doesn't mean they're going to change the votes of the members of Congress. Oh, yeah. There are a lot of outside groups, outside spending money, and two of the most, you know, the biggest get out the vote, two of them are Second Amendment, NRA group types, and face-based, get out the vote in churches. And that, both of those vote blocks with or without R&T money are going to be working their people, and the faith-based organizations will be pushing the life issue 100% of the time. Okay. And so, what do you think they bring an addendum in here? What do they do? What's the fix? I think they just pretend the outside groups ignore the fact that the R&T left it off. The fix is that they try to placate these very angry people and say, you know, oh, in yesterday, it was basically like, well, there's something there, it's just not what you wanted. And again, better than Biden, but language is better than anything Biden is going to give you. Right. Exactly. This is why I say it on both sides when there's a big tumult about something that is intraparty and I go, is it a big enough thing that they're going to go walk across the street and go vote for the Democrats or go vote for the Republicans? I don't think so. Yeah. I think it does cause people who, this is such an important issue to them, it is going to demotivate them. They are motivated when they feel like their voices are being heard and their issues that's important to them is important to the party and everybody's going to be talking about it. And they got a little bit of the wind sucked out of them yesterday. There we go. All right. People want to continue this conversation or many others with you? Where's the best place to find you? It's April Marie, APRYL and ARIE on X and on Facebook. Okay. And by the way, it's Tuesday at 118 right now. So you know, so you can go ahead and mark that down. There goes April Marie and we're coming right back for a bid day mobile. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk 1065. I tell 123 FMTalk 1065, mid-day mobile, and get the text here in a second, Dalton saying here during the news break, "Tell me about Eric Erickson, he's out of WSB up in Atlanta." I've talked to him a couple of times, Eric put a tweet up or an X up or whatever the heck you do over there now, about the passing of Jim Inhofe, the senator out of Oklahoma. And he made this point. So I went and looked at it. Dalton I've googled it. And it is with the exception of Fox, and that's not right. There's about a third of the news post about the death of Inhofe, who died today, not 89. It said every one of these says climate change denier, like that's his epitaph, right? James Inhofe Senator who denied climate change or climate change denier, Jim Inhofe, any combination they're in, dead at age 89. Now if you were to get into, if you're doing a story about the passing of Inhofe and you want to get down paragraph two or something and say he's most famous for this or that or hawkishness or then you can go okay, then Inhofe was somebody who was a stalwart saying climate change was a hoax, fine, but to put that as the evidence. So one day when Bill Clinton, when former president Clinton passes, well they write the headline, grown up, fun time, oval office recipient, former person Clinton dies at age 115. Are they going to do that? Or like somebody, but they were pointing out that when they had done the headlines about the passing of, or a bird, you know, was out and out big it, did they put that on, no. They didn't write anything. But Ted Kennedy's passing, do they say bad driver Ted, no, they did not. Aquatics champion Ted Kennedy, no, they did not. So interesting and that's, there you go. If you look at, I know that the grand conspiracy stuff is much more interesting, but to watch what goes on that, that swipe like there, just say, Senator Inhofe, dead at age 89, he's out of Oklahoma, but paragraph two or something, you want to say he is most famous for this? That's fine. Yeah, well, good, good catch there from Eric Erickson and adult Norway. Let's see here, Chris and Orange Beach, what do I think about that bad motor scooter? I love the fact y'all send me, and believe me, I'm happy to be typecast. Y'all send me pictures of awesome boats on trailers going through town. What is that? Is that a solace? Which one is that? Chris, send me a, send me an idea on that. It does look good. I'm just seeing the, the back of the boat though. Ken said, Ben, back to a conversation with Ben Reigns, Ben's arguments against that guy. So I guess the author of the book, Colonius or Mick Warder, who wrote the Wall Street Journal story, could be said about Ben. If the guy is right, then Ben is a bad reporter, if Ben is right, then that guy's a bad reporter. Nah. Ken, you're wrong on that one. And not just saying, I know Ben, he's my friend, it is, but the bad reporter part was him not bringing up the other information, your good reporter, you could say, hey, here's this idea that the Clotilda was a hoax. And if Ken, I don't know if you've read the story over there, you would say the Clotilda is a hoax. And according to a new book out by so-and-so, Colonius, this, that, and the other, and then you roll out that information. Then you say, you know, the theory that the Clotilda is the actual last slave ship is backed up by this, this, and this, you put out, you don't omit the stuff. It's almost like saying climate denier Jim Inhofe day to day nine. So Ken, it really isn't like one telling the truth, it's one omitting, putting a story out and omitting a bunch of other information instead of saying, hey, this stuff is out here, but here's some other stuff into the mix. That's how you would do it. Ah, let's see, ah, jerry says a great baseball coach, Bobby Knight. I thought, did he catch baseball as well, Bobby was always famous in basketball world. Maybe you meant basketball. Ah, he said, the great town coach Bobby Knight once said that putting a blank on a beach was a great motivator, a blank in jail, your butt, would say, but your button on the beach was a great motivator, your button jail for allowing sewage to be released in the water would be a way, definitely a good place to start. I understand that nobody has enough guts to say anything about the ship channel, however, it's definitely a problem that it's only going to get worse. But they are two different things, the sewage in the ship channel. I think you can mitigate the ship channel, Jerry, I do, ah, you know, you can take as you're doing this thing, you can take not just a spoil, but maybe money from the ship channel to do more environmental enhancement. But I think it's a zero sum game about keeping the sewage out of the water. Michael says, I am a lifelong Republican voter. And after what, ah, Vance said Trump stance and the party removing the pro-life stance, I will not vote for Trump. So Michael, okay, that was kind of the question I was talking about with April Marie. Are you just not going to vote? You're not going to vote for Biden, not going to vote for RFK, Jill Stein, Cornell West, right? I mean, none of those would be. So if you're not, are you going to not vote or you're going to vote for somebody else with the pro-life stance being taken out? Jason says, ah, isn't asked the sheriff normally the second Tuesday or my mistaken? You are not mistaken, Jason. They asked for an audible. So a week from today will be asked the sheriff with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch. And this was just confirmed here this last 30 minutes or so, ah, they're coming up Thursday at noon on this show, ah, now getting ready to retire come August, Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack is going to join me. He's leaving, of course, his job as Sheriff of Baldwin County taking the job with the Sheriff's Association for the, ah, for the state, he'll join me for a discussion coming up Thursday right here on midday mobile, ah, so there you go. And Michael, I am interested. Yeah. If you are just going to stay home or you're going to vote for somebody else, ah, Tom Graham Bay, hot to a president, the hot to a girl probably has, I mean, there are a lot of politicians of which they had the name recalled, the hot to a girl, right? I can't read that, Martin on the air, you're going to get me in trouble. Coming right back, we'll read maybe some things he'll get me in trouble when the day mobile continues right after the news. Back to, ah, like I said, it'd be able to show, ah, if, if you wonder what July in south Alabama looks like, if y'all are new around here, ah, where it can be raining, like right across the street and dry where you are, but hot everywhere in between, you're seeing it. And that is a formula for growing grass. Don't I know. I was just talking about that affair with my buddy, plain price from Paris tractor in Robert's tail. I mean, the bigger the cutting deck, the more your life you get back, right, brother? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, you were just talking about it. It takes a while and then all the time to start back again. Yeah. And you know, I run a zero turn and it's, it's like, if they eventually make an eight foot wide zero turn, I may be in. I mean, if people have a don't have zero turn, they know, yeah, they're missing out and they may even want to upgrade to a wider cutting deck. What do y'all got in stock right now? We, we've got everything in the shot. We got anywhere from a down to a 42 inch mower for your little small subdivisions, you're really small yards all the way up to a 72 inch deck. We've got all that in stock right now, gas and diesel, which all qualify for that zero interest financing to come over right now. You know, the, the diesel thing is of interest too, if y'all are in, you know, kind of an ag setting because you could not be paying taxes on the fuel you're using to mow that grass. Absolutely. I've got a diesel myself and it makes it so much more convenient because, you know, I've got the trackers and all right there. I use the same tank for the lawnmower that I do, the truck, the trackers and the side by side, it just makes life a little bit easier. It does. What y'all have made easy too with Kubota is financing because I mean, I just get done talking about it on the show, you know, where interest rates are and all these, y'all said the interest rate is going to be zero. Absolutely. We still offer that zero interest financing and that's not just on motors, it's on trackers, skid steers, excavators, side by side. We offer it on all the Kubota and land product quick. So if you're, if you're interested in any of that, give us a call, stop by and see us. We'll be happy to help. All right. Tell people how to stop by and see you if they don't already know where you are. Well, right here at Paris Tracker, right here in the middle, Robert still on Highway 59 come by see us Monday through Friday 8 to 5 or Saturday until noon, you can give us a call at 251-947-4171 or we do have a website, Paris Tracker.com. Good stuff, Blaine. We'll talk soon. Thank you, Sean. All right. There he goes. And we'll get a few texts here, but I do what actually before we get back to the text, a couple of stories here, Axio's story and this has come out over the weekend, I think, but you've heard some, well, talk about this, the, the, the election crackdown. Axio says headline is Democrats whip against GOP's latest election crackdown. So they're trying to whip the votes against this is that house Democrat leadership is bringing out the big guns. I don't think, can they bring out, hey, Dalton, can they bring out big guns, the Democrats? Okay. House Democrat leadership is bringing out the big guns against Republican bill to be voted on next week that would require proof, listen to this horrible language, this hateful language, the bill that would require proof of US citizenship to vote in federal elections. My lands. If I had some pearls, I'd be clutching them right now says House Republicans have made non-citizen voting in federal elections for which there is no evidence of widespread phenomenon, a marquee issue going into the 2024 campaign. All right. So first of all, Axio's. First of all, if it's not, it's not this, there's no evidence of being a widespread phenomenon, right? So it's not a big deal. It's not disenfranchising, then, then what's the problem, right? The same way you diminish the Republicans push on this, you should ask yourself the same question if you're on the other side. But if it's not a widespread phenomenon, it's then who's getting disenfranchised says the House is set to vote on the safeguard, you know, they love an acronym in Washington, save. They spend more damn time coming up with the words for the acronym, I think, sometimes and they do, given a darn about the American public. But it says the House is set to vote on the safeguard American voter eligibility act or save act, which would require, quote, "documentary proof of United States citizenship to vote in federal elections." I know it's shocking, right, you're shocked as I am. They said that could include a passport, a photo ID card that proves a voter was born in the U.S. or another form of photo ID along with supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, the legislation would require non-citizens to be removed from the voter registration rolls, my goodness, and require election officials to ask voter registration applicants for proof of citizenship and open them up to legal consequences if they do not. They're saying that you would have to be a citizen to vote an election of this country. The heartlessness of these Republicans, it's just horrible. So the story is about the pushback and they're trying to rally the votes, Democrat votes to push back against this. Why? Why? Now, one of the arguments that's been made in the past is that this push is, you know, this is really not, it's a Trojan horse, right? What this is really about is black voters, and black voters, because for some reason, black folks can't get ID, and I've gone round and round with this before. Conversations, a friend of mine, he's a real smart guy, and he's a strong Democrat, and he is a, I won't say that he's in sconce somewhere in the middle part of the state. Okay. If you'll go back and listen to the podcast, you'll know exactly who he is. He's a smart dude, and he's everything else in the world, other than politics, he and I get along famously, I think I'm a better dove shot than he is, but his contention has been, and he's a big Democrat, is that, well, your Republicans won't do this because you want to keep black people from voting. I said, "Show me," and I've asked him. I said, "Show me," even after Merrill and other secretaries of state after in Alabama have made programs to get IDs to anybody who wants them, "Show me how the black folks in the state can't get an ID," because that's the argument, because they know they can't argue, even though they'll probably try in Washington, this idea, this idea that somebody who's not a citizen shouldn't be allowed to vote, like, because that's the push here, right? They'll say, "But it's really not about that," so they have this secondary argument they're making. I still don't fall, and I want to ask that honestly, and any of the y'all that've listened to me for any period of time, know that when I tell you this, I'm not coming at this, this is not a rhetorical question, but in 2024, that's where I live in 2024. What are the impediments to a black person having an ID? Where is it? And if you say, "Well, it's geography," well, then geography, well, they're too far, that's when my buddy can see lives in the black belt, and he said, "Well, it's too far." I would go get an ID. I said the same distance for the damn white person down the road too, y'all chose to live out in the country. I really want to know that. I really would want to hear how this is, because the bill, the Save Act, or whatever the acronym to sure is, the Save Act is focused on saying, "Hey, if you're not a citizen, you don't get to vote, so you have to have an ID to show your citizen. You're born in the United States, or you have gained citizenship, welcome aboard, cool, to vote." But then the arguments can be pushed back. This is this hateful bigotry that's coming from Republicans in this. I would. I would open question here. If you can tell me how I'm all wet on this in 2024, I don't need a time machine this because back in the day, some arguments may be bad, but I live now, and so I'm trying to figure out how that works. All right, 3430106, 3430106, we'll grab a phone call here, and then we'll get to the text. Let's see. Line one. Okay. Robert and Sims. Hey, Robert. Hey, Sean. I appreciate you taking my call. I was listening to Ben Rains, and I don't know, I mean, I guess the close tilde, which I've never been convinced that was the close tilde. I know they got measurements, and I've heard his thoughts on it, but, you know, surprising, I may be a little more educated than I sound, and I guess close tilde is science, meat, history, because there is some scientific study of whatever they found, right? Well, in any kind of educational environment, peer review is a big deal. Absolutely. So, that's what I said, and that's the way it is. All the peer review is a little bit of it. There are some hustles in peer review, but if you're saying what happened in Wall Street Journal or the colonialist book, that wouldn't peer review. Well, I mean, it wouldn't peer review. What would you come in? Okay. How would you write? Peer review would be somebody taking the assertion that the close tilde was the last slave ship and looking at it and looking at what they used as their evidence here and going through it and saying that's not good evidence, or that's flawed, or you need to look back at this. I mean, that's how peer review goes, right? I publish a paper, and here's my scientific theory, and you go, well, Sean, you forgot about the such and such equation, or you forgot about the this and that. That's not what this guy did. Well, I am guilty of not having read the New York Times article or whatever this is. Wall Street Journal. But Wall Street Journal, forgive me, but still, and then he said, well, this is, he said some of the things that I thought were really, you know, well, listen, find him down here and he can present his. I'm going to use the word findings. I might be using some of the wrong terms to some supporters and let's see what happens like he was threatening with a mob. And I agree with that. Like when Ben said that, I had to take a breath and say, hey, that's that's not a fair playing field either, because I'm not close. Like I said with John Sledge yesterday, I'm not close to showing the evidence that it's like I'm not one of these people go, no, no, no, my way is right. I don't want to hear a comment and show me new evidence, but just saying it's a hoax because I said it is and I'm going to ignore all this other stuff. That's not peer review. That's not a, that's not a, that's a straw ban argument. You mean, what, what, what parts of this article I am going to try to read it, but I was just trying to listen to you and try to, you know, so tell me what parts were you, did you consider not peer review? He's a reporter. I mean, the guy that wrote this is a reporter. He was. Yeah. He's retired reporter. And so he leaves out. So he, he says, well, because, and I, you'll have to read the story, but going through the whole thing, he says that it was, here we go, federal records, this comes from the Wall Street Journal story with Worder writing about the book from Columbia's said federal records show the Clotilda being built in 1855 and transporting, transporting goods around the Gulf of Mexico. In July of 1860, a two sentence news blurb sent out anonymously on the telegraph was republished in various newspapers, stating the Clotilda had come to Mobile with enslaved Africans. Federal authorities who investigated the report found no evidence of it. Okay. It's think about what year this is. The federal authorities, do you think people in Mobile who are on the, in the state on the edge of secession, we're going to say, Hey, Yankees. Yeah. Here's, we'll give you all the information you want. I mean, I think the whole thing is that, that, he may have found the Clotilda, but how old is Mobile, if you're only accepted as 300 times years old, that's right. So you think there might be more than one burned out ship and what they find that in the Mobile River was it another? Yeah. It's at the Mobile River. And the reason I believe in what Ben found is so early on, Ben said, Hey, man, I went down to archives and he got the ship rights drawing, you know, the, that was on file. You had to file them back then to build the ship. It was built here in Mobile. And so he has the, like the, this is this long, this is this width, this beam is like this that was filed as a blueprint, I guess, for building that ship. And so they can do the exact measurement. Is this beam the same? Is this length the same? Is this, uh, is this, you know, is this upright in the same place as this flooring in the same place? Is this ship rib in the same spacing between this and this? And it lined up. And that's what, to me, gives it veracity. Well, you know, I guess I take a little bit, I mean, I, you know, you're saying you've got questions. Do you believe in this colonias guy? Do you believe in Ben range? Are you saying you, you're waiting for more information? I'm just convinced me. I mean, until you, you can't, I don't think Ben range and although now he's got, would you be fair to say he has a little bit to gain by being the guy who found the last. Sure. So absolutely. It's just, it's just clonias. Right. Because he has a book about it saying it's the wanderer. So the guy's got dog and the two, the guy that wrote the other book. So they're both reporters, right? Yes. Or, so they're, so my peer review thing getting his off base, I don't think is, I mean, maybe it's a structure of peer review wasn't there. It wasn't like a. Well, okay. Well, maybe I misapplied it to a degree, but still they're both reporters and the last thing Ben range said, and well, he's a bad reporter. He probably doesn't know where the kind of reporter that guy is that this guy just disagrees with him. That's not making me. That's a bad reporter. And I mean, it's not that he disagrees. It's that McWorter, not clonias who wrote the book, but the Wall Street Journal reporter about it should have said, here's the new assessment, right? Here's what clonias has said in this book and why it's a hoax. And then you say, then paragraphs down, you say the assertion about the Clotilda is been brought up because of these things. You put the different sets of information out there and you don't omit the other part of it. Because you want to say, if you're going to make it say, here's the new assertion. Here's why this might be true in Clotilda's wrong. Here's what they said about Clotilda, but they didn't do that. Well, I can't disagree with what you're saying to a degree, you know, I can't. And that's all I need. And that's all I need in life, Robert, because I got to move on, I got to move on, but appreciate the call. Let's go to what this happens at the end of the show and run that mark is in mobile marks up next. Hey, Mark. Hey, how are you doing? Good. Just have a comment and then a question if I may. The comment regarding black folks not be able to get ID to vote because they live in rural or extreme remote areas are those people likely to vote as well, even if they did get ID, if they if they can't, you know, I don't know, a good point. It does the same thing that keeps you from getting the ID, keep you from getting to the poll. I don't know that. I'm looking and I'm trying to look at this honestly, you know, that in 2024, I mean, some things were done. So a lot of things were done to disenfranchise black voters many, many decades ago, but that is not now. And so for them to fight against this voter ID bill, they're saying, you know, which is about citizenship, but they're saying it's the Trojan horse for trying to disenfranchise black voters. I'm honestly, honest, open eye, not with any angle saying, tell me how black folks have a disadvantage to get an ID that that I who I'm a white guy that I don't. Yeah. And if they want to make the effort to go and vote, to go to polling station, you know, surely they can make the effort to or they have the means or whatever to get an idea. It's logical to me. Well, you know, logic and politics, they don't rhyme, do they? Right. Mark, thanks. We've got to run to the news coming right back more midday mobile. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk one oh six five see if we can lightning round these text because I got a story about a guy that climbed back into jail in Mississippi. Okay, um, you hall man said, on the text line, it's not an illegal vote. I worry about it's the cheating that organized groups can accomplish throughout the country. Thank you for that text. Sommerdale Tony says that sounds about normal. Usually they bring out requiring an ID would make it tough on black people to vote. So in other words, they think their voters are stupid and they can't get an ID. I mean, as if I was black, that's kind of how I would, I think I would feel about it. Listen, historically different story, 2024, not the story. Jerry says they actually believe that Alabama's black population aren't smart enough to get an ID. Well, that's a horrible thing if that's, if that's what that party thinks. Gene says, I have witnessed black people that couldn't sign their name at the drug store. One is that Jane is at like 2024 or in the past, I mean, listen, don't have to go too far back the hillbilly highway in my people, at least on one side, and we'll see which side that they probably, you know, could barely write. All right. I come from ag folks that they're right and although there's one side of the family that was ag as well, but they were all nerds and they didn't go to college, but they dang it. You would learn to write and write in arithmetic or you'd get your knuckles popped. Jason says, I guess the banks and liquor store are bigoted when they ask for an ID too. Philip says, doesn't, I didn't get the whole text there. Okay. Philip says, let me try this. I think Democrats are worried that if Biden gets out of the election one way or another, they will have to redo all the absentee ballots. I mean, interesting, Martin says, in some counties groups literally come to the person who needs an ID. So there's absolutely no reason a person should not have a photo ID. That's the way I've heard it. Martin, that's absolutely true, right? So the Secretary of State's office has this and I haven't talked with Salin, but you know, in the past, we talked about it with Merrill when he's in that office that, I mean, there's a whole program where they would drive and bring you the ID, bring you the stuff to get it. Let's see. Yeah, we'll close out with this. That's pretty good. Adam says, you should get the guy who jumped off the bridge on your show. It's got to be a good story. If anybody knows what you're talking about, the news account there, the Devin talked about the wreck on the Dolly Parton bridge northbound, that somebody jumped off into the grass and I don't know where, you know, as you're going up, I don't know how far up is obviously by the time you get to over the Mobile River, it's very high, but it's tapered up where the person was that jumped off the bridge to avoid being hit by a car. Adam, good story, understatement. I hope the person is okay. I didn't hear this didn't sound like it was fatal. I do not know that, but yes, if somebody knows that person, I'd like to hear what that's like when you go, well, my best option is to jump off this bridge. Wow. Wow. I know it was a bad, bad day for Brexit this morning, and rain continues this afternoon. Y'all act like you're from Mobile, fallen counties, like you know how to drive in the rain, act like it, be it, live it, love it, find bombs on the plate next. We'll do this again tomorrow. Bye. [MUSIC PLAYING]