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The Holidays - Claims Clotilda not real - Mobile Mornings - Monday 7-08-24
[MUSIC PLAYING] News, sports, weather from Dr. Bill Williams, traffic info from Kane, and one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's mobile mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. [MUSIC PLAYING] We've got to talk about a spa treatment over the weekend. Oh, yeah. Holiday weekend. You said, did you do that at the battle house? Well, Don said, no, I did it at my house. My house, yes, spa day from the kids. It looked like they put a mud mask on Friday. Yeah, I got the mud mask on Friday. So he's got the pictures of him. And I'm like, was that at the battle house? No, it's at my house. I'm like, OK. So not exactly-- maybe it was done with more love, but it wasn't done for a few. I didn't feel like it. Well, painful. From what-- you and the girls, they kind of lay it on you. Pretty good, sir. You let them do all that? Yes. On Friday, it was just me and the girls. Oh, that's right. On Friday. So we got grabbed a little Chick-fil-A, went to the library, and then had a spa day. And then we watched the president-- well, we didn't. I did. Watch the presidential interview later Friday night. Yes. So we'll get into that. Of course, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who is a brain surgeon. I always wonder, what kind of doctor? That's what he is. He said that President Biden's debate performance was concerning. He said his phone was kind of ringing it off the hook as soon as everybody was watching what he was watching. Everybody wanted to know what Gupta thought. Yeah. And so he wrote an op-ed that was published on Friday, and he talked about why he wrote that op-ed. That after the debate, I got a lot of calls, text emails from my neurology and brain science colleagues from around the world, frankly, sort of highlighting some of these things. But if you take a look, slow response time, I think we saw that in a sustained fashion. Definitive word retrieval mix-ups, rambling, sometimes confused speech, reduced voice volume as well, and reduced facial movements. And these things can all be connected. We often think of cognition simply being memory, but if someone has an underlying movement disorder, for example, that can actually affect cognition in the sense that people may have more flattened affect face, and not really be speaking as quickly or as loudly. I mean, when Dr. Gupta can't no longer ignore what we all saw during the debate, he basically is talking head on CNN. Right. He was there go-to for COVID, right? That whole time. He was. He also talks about what he would do if Biden were his patient. If he were my patient, if he were my dad, frankly, I would want to get more testing done. Cognitive testing and more detailed movement disorder testing as well. Now you've heard, Fred, what the White House has said about this. They say, look, it was essentially, it was a bad night for him. He had had late nights, he had jet lag, he had a cold. We heard he wasn't taking any medications for that. And those things can cause temporary brain fog, if you will. But again, this idea, are we looking at episodes of something? Or is this a condition that should be more fully investigated? And it really seems to be more of the latter. And as far as the interview itself. So George Stephanopoulos, ABC News gets cast member on Good Morning America, he's one of the long time Democrat. He was, of course, on the Clinton campaign. Right, right. He was on staff. Yeah, he may have been the press secretary. He may have been. I think so. Anyway, or he may have been the chief of staff, but. So that's pretty friendly fire, but he did. So he explained it as the interview came on on Friday night. He said, look, this was done earlier today. We're going to roll it out there to you. No commercial breaks, no editing, we haven't touched this. So then watching it, I believe that's true. Yeah. So you were going to get an unfiltered look at the mind of Joe Biden, right? So he talked about, and he had to know the questions about the debate we're coming up. And there's another story about questions to Biden that are furnished by the White House. Nice. So anyway, Biden talks about it being a bad episode. And George Stephanopoulos is kind of holding his hand through the whole thing, but he did, you know, push him on some things. Anyway, it starts out with the debate itself. But your friend Nancy Pelosi actually framed the question. I think he's on the minds of millions of Americans. Was this a bad episode with a sign of a more serious condition? It's a bad episode. No indicate any serious condition. I was exhausted. I didn't listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and a bad night. You know, you say you were exhausted. And I know you've said that before as well. But you came and you did have a tough month. But you came home from Europe about 11 or 12 days before the debate spent six days in Camp David. Why wasn't that enough rest time enough recovery time? Because I was sick. I was feeling terrible. Matter of fact, the docs with me, I asked them they did a COVID test. People were trying to figure out what's wrong. They did a test to see whether or not I had some infection, you know, a virus. I didn't. They just had a really bad cold. And did you ever watch the debate afterwards? I don't think I did now. No, I don't think I did. How about that answer? Yeah, it's not. I don't think that settled very many Democrat minds. No, and you heard how loud the background is there. Yeah. That's not because ABC doesn't know how to mic up George Stephanopoulos. They were in like a library because Biden was speaking so softly they had to jack up his mic volume and you get all that background noise. That's a very good point right there. And the fact that he says, I don't think so. You know, you did or you didn't. And Stephanopoulos does not push back on that at all. I think in some areas he did. He kept pushing him for this look, will you take a cognitive examination and then release the results. And he did that time and time again. And here was what Biden had to say. Would you be willing to undergo an independent medical evaluation that included neurological and cognitive cognitive tests and release the results to the American people? Look, I have a cognitive test every single day. Every day I have that test. Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world. And that sounds like hyperbole. But where are the central nation in the world? I don't know if I was right. And every single day, for example, the day before I come out here, I'm on the phone with a prime minister. I know I shouldn't get into the detail, but with Netanyahu, I'm on the phone with the new prime minister of England. I'm working on what we're doing with regard to in Europe, with regard to expansion of the NATO and whether it's going to stick. I'm taking on Putin. I mean, every day, there's no day I go through. They're not those decisions I have to make every single day. And you have been doing that in American people than watching, yet they're concerns about your age and your health are growing. So that's why I'm asking to reassure them, would you be willing to have the independent medical evaluation? Watch me between, there's a lot of time left in this campaign. It's over 125 days. So the answer to the decision. The right answer right now is no, you don't want to do that, right? I've already done it. What do you make of that? Well, we'll see this week with the NATO summit in DC, and we'll talk more about that later. But this is a big week in the Biden presidency. And if he says, hey, my cognitive exam comes every day, and I'm acing it as the leader of the free world, and we'll get another good look at that this week to see what he looks like in action. As we remember last time, we went over to France for D-Day. Yeah, not as good. It was kind of led around, right? By the hand, by some other world leaders. So when, to get them all juiced up though, all that Stefanopoulos has got to do is talk about the election itself. Like, are you ready to be the president for the next four years? He asked them that. And it also talks about the election itself between Biden and Trump. But 2020 was a close race. And your approval rating has dropped significantly since then. I think the last poll I saw is about 36%. The number of Americans who think you're too old to serve has doubled since 2020. Wouldn't a clear-eyed political catalyst tell you that it's going to be much tougher to win in 2024? Not when you're running against a pathological liar. Not when you hadn't been challenged in a way that is about to be challenged. Not when people-- You've had months to challenge you. Oh, sure, I had months ago. But I was also doing a hell of a lot of other things, like wars around the world. He was doing it. Like keeping NATO together. Like working anyway. They're doing other things, like wars. Yeah, thank you for doing wars, President. But I'm not pouncing on an old guy here, obviously. We're just discussing, you know, if he is in a state-- a stage in life where he should give all of this up. I would say, most certainly. Yeah. And obviously, the Democrats, now they're all back in Washington. They're all back on campus. Right. And they're all going to be able to look each other in the eye here and now just text message and all that. What happens now? Well, that makes for some major possible changes on the way to some minds. And while this interview was supposed to, you know, assuage some concerns for the Democrats, if anything, it just kind of held things over until today. Right. It didn't answer many of the questions that the Democrats were wanting him to answer as in, "Yeah, I'm fit to lead the country and I'm fit to run this campaign." Actually, right after that interview aired Friday night, you had the fifth public house Democrat calling on Biden to quit. And that was Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig, who after the interview there said, "As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it's hard to hear." President Biden is a good man and I appreciate his lifetime of service, but I believe he should step aside for the next generation of leadership. So Craig, the fifth house Democrat to publicly ask Biden to step aside. Dan's story this morning had more to do with a call that was, well, calls were taking place all weekend, but you had some very well-known kind of senior house Democrats that are now asking at least privately for Biden to consider stepping aside. And that includes Jerry Nadler, Joe Morell, Adam Smith, Jim Himes, and Mark Ticano, all of these pretty prominent names and some committees in DC, pretty senior Democrat names as well. So you have five that have now publicly called on Biden to step aside. At least five who privately said he should exit from the race, and then a lot more who after the debate and then after the interview have become more public in what they're saying, including a lot of former Obama staff members and kind of hangers on. You had, for instance, I think it was Axelrod who jumped on after the sit down on Friday. He was, of course, played a crucial role in Obama's two successful campaigns. He said that Friday was sad to watch, "When George Stephanopoulos asked him if he'd be willing to take a cognitive test, he said, "I take a cognitive test every day." Well, the fact is that may be true, but 75% of American people think he fails. That's what Axelrod had to say about that. He's talking about, "Look, I'm doing it every day because I've got wars and stuff for whatever he said." And people are like, "Well, no, that's not a cognitive test. That's your performance and your question and your performance. So we want you to take a cognitive test so we can have some real data on where your brain is right here right now." Also, a quick little story, Dalton, that there were a couple of radio interviewers or hosts who had a chance to do a sit down with the president. Right. And they claimed that the questions, they can only ask four questions. They were given eight questions by the White House itself. To choose from. Yeah, pick four out of these. So that's, what does that say? Yeah, well, it says that one of those radio hosts has been let go by the station. Ever since she made that announcement. Really? And I don't know if both interviews were in Philadelphia, but I do know there were two radio hosts who said as much. But, yeah, the one was a Philadelphia station, W-U-R-D. It's a word. Parted ways with a host who interviewed Biden last week using questions provided to her by the Biden campaign. The station said the interview violated its journalistic independence. It sounds like they're firing her, letting her go, because she asked the questions provided by the Biden campaign. I thought they would let her go, especially the public. Yeah, W-U-R-D will check during the break to see if that's an NPR station. I don't know that it is. Well, they said it has a high, a large black following, according to the New York Times. Really? It was an interview to kind of boost his numbers among the black men. Yeah, like the black vote. This was Andrea Lawful Sanders, who said in a statement yesterday, W-U-R-D said that they agreed in agreeing to a predetermined set of questions. They jeopardized the listener's trust and that Sanders resigned in a mutual agreement. Wow. Didn't see that corner of that story right there. Interesting. So anyway, there you have it. Text line 2513430106. Let us know what you're thinking about. And you can also give us a call if you like too. Yeah, that's right. 2513430106, a bunch of texts to get to. And we'll do that. And we'll get back for more Mobile Warnings on the way. Good morning from Dan at Dalton in Mobile Warnings. And it's so good to be back. And when you come back on the job here, like we have now, we're going since Wednesday by the way. Yeah, that felt good. I'm sorry. That felt good. Sean Sullivan, I love the hell out of you. That felt so good to get away. And of course, you know, celebrate our, celebrate the nation that we live in. And of course, kind of takes some downtime. But we are, we return. And it's an all-star lineup of textures, including Joel and Summerdale and Rock 'n Roll Doctor and Ricky. Yeah, and Bonesaw. Don't forget Bonesaw. A bunch of textures this morning, and you know, you kind of look at, and if you haven't been paying attention to the news the last five days, well, good on you. But so much game, so many games being played in the, in private, in Democrat circles, lots of leaks, lots of sources saying things. And for me, I think the biggest shift since the debate and last week is the Obama camp and kind of sticking the thermometer into their pool and seeing what the temperature is. From Obama, looking where he said Biden's debate performance made it much more difficult to win in November. It's about as far as he's gone to this point publicly. But you look at the team that was around him. You know, and you get the, the Stephanopoulos interview, of course. But Julian Castro, who was the HUD director, housing and urban development. He said Biden's cleanup job with ABC was, quote, "not good enough." He said, "I think the most chilling was when Stephanopoulos asked him, well, what if you lose to Trump? How are you going to feel?" And Biden said, quote, "Well, as long as I gave it my all, that basically he would feel okay. Castro had the biggest problem with that answer in the 20 minute interview." And I thought it was interesting that Axelrod talked about that interview almost sounded like he was talking about the debate itself. Like he was this critical of the interview. Yeah. That's a lot of people were of the debate. What did Axelrod say? Well, his biggest issue was with Biden saying he would not take a cognitive test. Yeah, over and over. He said 75% of Americans think you fail at that cognitive test. And then you have Eric Holder, the former attorney general for the Obama team. And on X, he posted that, quote, "We are now engaged in a difficult determination about who our nominee for president should be." So if you're looking for clues, I think Julian Castro, Axelrod and Eric Holder tell you probably where the Obama camp sits right now on this. And we've heard also Michelle Obama, you know, it started coming out before the debate that, well, she's never really liked the Biden family. And that she never endorsed, of course, Biden leading into 2020. And that she's maybe helping to play some chips on Kamala Harris moving forward. Yeah, and that's a really good point. It's that Obama and Biden were joined politically. But they were never a match made in any kind of heaven. No, and never from the start, it was just to put them together so they can win the election. That's right. And Obama, of course, his endorsement of Biden came very late in 2020, where he was almost, it seemed like he wanted someone else to win the primary. Looking at the text line, Jason says, "I was really surprised that Stephanopoulos challenged Biden as much as he did." Yeah, he could have challenged him more, I would say. But yeah, he knew what his job was there to make it look like a real tough interview, whether it actually was or not. Rock 'n' Roll Doctor says, "While Biden displays his inability to think/talk for himself on a public stage for a political race, he cannot win." I wouldn't be so sure about that, Rock 'n' Roll Doctor. He said, "Our enemies must be salivating between now and the end of the year. USA has never been as exposed to enemy provocation, including in the homeland." Joel says, "Basically, the White House is still lying and they're still denying that Biden doesn't have anything wrong with him, plain and simple." Joe T says Biden won the last election and mostly stayed in his basement. Yeah, and no one's referencing that either now, where we and so many others are saying, "Hey, why won't you leave the basement? There's clearly something wrong." Years ago, so we're talking about nearly four years ago, he wasn't really present then either. Bonesaw says Joe Biden has gone from the funny grandpa who forgets names to the entire country actually feeling sorry for our president. That's not good. The idea of him talking to world leaders daily is horrifying. How about he did? He almost sounded like he made a mistake by bringing up Netanyahu. That would have been more of a hush-hush conversation with Netanyahu when they say, "Well, I guess I better talk about it now." And you have that NATO summit this week. I want to get into that on the other side of the break. And NATO mad with Orban from Hungary and what he did, we'll get into that. Plus, controversy surrounding the Clotilda all on the way. 834, FM Talk 106-5, Mobile Morning's on a Monday. Right now, it's time to head to McConnell Automotive, where we talk with Louis Arrata. Hey, Louis. Hey, good morning, guys. How are you? Doing great and set up for another fine week over at McConnell Automotive. I know you're building on to the body shop and they keep doing great work back there. The service department and body shop, but you also have a lot of new and pre-owned vehicles on the lot, Louis. That's right. I'm out here right now trying to get all these vehicles heading. I bought last week, get them serviced, get them up front, get the pictures taken, get them on the website. I mean, we got a lot of stuff to do. We got about 20 new cars that we got in here. We got, you know, from work vans to work trucks to 3/4 ton. We got a trading in a 22 Denali half ton Saturday. We're getting that and ready to go. And just got a lot of stuff you can check out online at mcconnellautomotive.com. Like I said, got a couple of work vans and they got three regular cab work trucks that a lot of people are looking for. We got a great selection to check that stuff out online at mcconnellautomotive.com. Come on by and see us. Yep. And you guys make it easy when folks do come on by. We appreciate your time this morning, Louis. Hey, thank y'all. Come see us. Thank you. That's Louis Arata. Go see him at mcconnellautomotive. Dolphin Street, just east of I-65 in the website, mcconnellautomotive.com. 836, the text line to us right here or if you want to call 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. And Sextre here said, "Did Biden really beat Medicare or is Medicare beating him?" Martin says, "One of my favorite Clio awards." Is that advertising? Is of an Asian public bath? I think this is because we were talking about bad England earlier. Yep. He said, "It focuses on this little boy." All of a sudden, there's a lot of bubbles in the water around him. It's hilarious. Don't even remember what that commercial was for. It sounds like when I take the kids to the pool, we can hear this week quite a bit. Sheila says, "Good morning, guys. Relishing these nice cool temperatures in Montana before heading back to Bama tomorrow." I'm so grateful for the app that's allowed me to listen to you guys every morning. Thank you. Have a blessed day, and the next time I hear you, it will be with a great deal of humidity. Thank you, Sheila. We appreciate that. And some more text to get to here. Okay. Yes, St. Stevens. I don't know why I didn't think of St. Stevens when we were talking about public baths earlier. As Texas said, St. Stevens, Alabama, just south of Jackson has Indian public baths. They've been there for several hundred years, quite something to see. Really? We went out and camped at St. Stevens quite a bit when I was younger. Huh. I didn't even think about that as we were talking about the public baths. So you, what, they've reminded you and you were aware of that? I guess I'd forgotten that they had Indian public baths out there. I just remember catching fish out at St. Stevens when I was younger. That was about it. It was right around the time Fast and Furious came out. So it's been a long time. Texture here. So we're talking about the growth in Baldwin County and these population estimates saying another 50,000 over the next decade expected to move into Baldwin County, which would put the population somewhere around 300,000. Texture says, "Good morning, guys. I live in Foley." This is GC, actually. "I live in Foley. We have gigantic subdivisions popping up everywhere. That means overcrowded schools, torn up roads. My tax is going up for new schools while these developers make millions and millions and go back to Florida where they live." I think I had another texture earlier from Silver Hill, which is crossing the 2,000 population mark and officially becoming a city very soon, said, "We don't want you to move to Silver Hill. Move out, if anything." So, okay. They weren't saying that to you. Right. Just in general. They don't want to see anyone else moving into Silver Hill. The thing about Foley is, too, you have the growth there, but what separates them from, since Fair Hope and Daphne, and even Spanish Fort, is 98, is not nearly the corridor or two. It can be a corridor to the beach because it takes you down too Foley eventually, where you can either cross over and take the Foley Beach Express or you can hit, start hitting south from there. But Foley is on that major artery. Yeah. So, not only do they have the growth of the city, they have everyone coming south or north. They've got all the traffic. Right. They've got all the headaches of people going through. And as people are going through, the place is growing all around. And so, that's a lot going on. There's a lot to consider and to try and manage in the city of Foley. And I guess just kind of keep moving up the line. Summerdale, Robert'sdale, Locksley, you're next. They're all seeing the growth. Yeah. That's right. Your friendly neighborhood banker says, "I always wondered what gave China the gravitas to fly a spy balloon right over our mainland. They knew how feeble Biden is well before we did. Jerry says, "Eric Holder should be in jail because he's a criminal." Textor here says, "The project 2025 is wrong. You guys been working on this thing for years since Reagan days. This will be the reason that Biden wins the election." So, Project 2025, that's this, what the Heritage Foundation put out as they're kind of what they want to see in the next Trump term is all of these different policy proposals for Project 2025. Well, Textor, I don't know if you saw Trump over the weekend come out and completely disavow Project 2025. Now, what he actually thinks of the Heritage Foundation's plan is maybe another thing, but at least publicly, Trump said, "Their plans are abysmal and he has nothing to do with them." So, I know this textor is completely, every day. You go back through these texts. Project 25. Project 25. Well, there you go. Trump completely disavowed it this weekend, so maybe find another line of attack. I don't know. Heritage Foundation, I thought what they put out was pretty divisive and I don't think that's where Trump needs to go right now. No. He doesn't need to play that role. No, he doesn't. And he's not. Clearly. That's what he said this weekend. And then, Textor here says, "What is the app y'all are on?" Well, that's easy. That's the FM Talk 1065 app and it's on the iTunes app store. It's also on the Google Play Store. And you can find it. Just search FM Talk 1065. No dot. That makes it tough to search for. Yeah. That's correct. FM Talk 1065. And then, our project 2025 textor says, "He lied." Okay. Well, he said he disavows it, so you say he lied. All right. Let's see who you can believe. I don't know. As far as this NATO summit this week, and I'm not sure a big enough deal is being made over what this summit might mean with the war in Ukraine, of course, being at the front of mind for NATO. Well, you had Viktor Orban, who I'm sure our project 2025 textor there is no fan of, just like so many Democrats and then a lot of other leaders of European nations. But Orban and Hungary now, who they're in NATO, but they're also in the EU. They rotate the presidency of the European Union. And as of, I believe today, or maybe it was last Monday, Hungary began its tenure as president of the EU. So you have Viktor Orban, who is the prime minister of Hungary, and he last week made back-to-back trips. He went to Kiev and visited with Zelensky, and then he went to Moscow and visited with Putin. And when he went to Ukraine, that was actually Orban's first visit to Kiev and to the country since the war started back in February of 2022. Orban, who says he's been advocating for a peace deal to end the war, revealed that Putin has made clear that peace talks can only happen after Ukraine basically lays down their arms. Orban said, "If we sit in Brussels, we won't be able to get any closer to peace. Action must be taken." And that's what he had to say on a state radio channel in Hungary. And then the pushback was pretty much immediate that Orban would have the gall to go talk to Zelensky and Putin and talk about peace. You had the EU foreign policy chief, Joseph Burrell, he put out a statement quickly stressing that Orban had no mandate from the Union. I mean, he's just the president of the EU right now. But they said he had no mandate from the Union and that he was, quote, "not representing the EU in any form." Goin' on Maverick, huh? He went Maverick on the EU. And Orban insisted on his end that he had a, quote, "really useful frank conversation with Putin about Ukraine." And Putin said the pair discussed possible ways of resolving the conflict. But Putin, of course, repeating his demands that Ukraine withdraw all of their troops from annexed regions. Orban said after his two visits, he realized that the positions are, quote, "far apart" between Kiev and Moscow and added that, quote, "the number of steps needed to end the war and ring about peace is many." The White House also, not too happy that Orban went off and did this. Press Secretary Corinne John Pierre labeled his visit as counterproductive for NATO and argued that the visit will, quote, "not advance the cause of peace." You had the EU, well, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who wrote on X, "Appeasement will not stop Putin, and only unity and determination will pave the path to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine." Now as far as the NATO summit this week, the White House laid out its goals, including the announcement of new steps to strengthen Ukraine's air defenses and military capabilities, with the intent of ultimately sending a strong signal to Putin that NATO will outlast him if needed. It's Hungary that's got this kind of a Maverick streak in it or Orban himself, but what are the odds? They've got 27 nations in the European Union, and they rotate them, and it landed on Hungary. Right now, with the war, like a spin the bottle, and it's crazy to me that, so it's Hungary's turn to be the EU president. Of all times in the world, and the leader of Hungary, who's the leader of the EU currently, goes and does what you would expect the leaders to do to talk with the two nations making war. Yeah, this is like a cafeteria fight, isn't it? And they get mad at him for even discussing it with Putin and Zelensky. And there's more. Two hours ago, it was reported that Orban made a surprise visit. Oh, where is he now, Jacksonville? He's in Jacksonville at Dalton's sister city. Yeah, he's in China. Really? So he followed Zelensky and Putin trip with a Xi trip. Yep, he's using all of his points. He's at a Marriott in Beijing using his points up, and so, yeah, now he's there, and he put on X piece mission 3.0 and a picture of him, I think shaking hands with the with Genping. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's what it is. So there you go. So Orban strikes again. If they weren't happy with him earlier this week or last week, not happy now. It's just ridiculous to me. And you know, the same press that is just now surprised that Biden had his had a cognitive decline, like they're just now finding out, whoa, who was hiding this from us? What are they going to think when they find out this war is being fought in Ukraine and that NATO and that the EU apparently have no no incentive at all to actually talk with Putin more Zelensky. Like when the press finds out about that in three years or whatever it is, yeah, it's just the most ridiculous thing in the world to me that now all of a sudden you're verbotan from speaking to Putin. Like don't talk to him. Don't talk to him. Don't even look at it. Yeah. This is a this is some sort of seventh grade cafeteria fighting. I listened to something pretty interesting yesterday, he had texted you from my pool right. Yeah. That was a nice setup. So it was remember when they had the debate within the debate or outside of the debate with Robert Kennedy, Jr. where he was doing his own side debate. So I was I was checking that out. It was pretty interesting, you know, with his answers as opposed to he had some very interesting strong takes on Russia, NATO as well. And they don't really line up with what. The Democrats? No, no. Yeah, it's more in line with what Trump has been saying. It's more it's, you know, he probably would not object to or bond, it seems to me. But anyway, what whatever we're doing, if it's a Democrat policy or just a national policy or whatever, it seems to be a Democrat policy. But he's well, it's a Neocon policies that the Democrats have signed up for. Yes. And then he is. That is not the way he sees that conflict being resolved at all. No. And you saw the barbs come out for RFK last week. And I think during all this discussion about whether Biden is fit to lead and you look at that chunk of votes that RFK has been able to pull and depending on what polls you're looking at, you know, anywhere from 10 to 20%, 20% would be very high end. But someone noted online the other day, how crazy is it that you have a third presidential candidate and he's not like a Jill Stein, right? He's not pulling one or two percent, much, much higher vote totals for RFK. And he's from a very historically political, politically connected, you know, family and the Kennedys, but the Kennedys, right? The statement online was that he's going around and saying, Hey, the CIA killed my uncle and dad. And it just doesn't get the time of day. The third leading candidate with, you know, depending on what you look at, maybe a sixth of the voters, a fifth of the voters in America interested in voting for him, saying, yeah, the CIA assassinated my dad heads up, everybody just in my uncle and everyone's just kind of like, Oh, did you hear he might have eaten a dog that one time? Yeah, that guy used to be on heroin, man. Don't trust him. Yeah. So Kennedy Jr. is, they, he's not getting a chance to see the light of day. And yet at this debate, off the debate, I guess it was in LA, but it was jam packed with very enthusiastic Kennedy supporters, somebody somewhere thinks enough for the guy. Yeah. And I think the Biden campaign is they were trying to, you know, plug the holes in their leaking vessel last week. That was one of the things was they wanted to make sure Kennedy's name stayed a bad name and it never pushed out a couple of stories. I think we're probably going to be October surprises and it never, not only was it not invited to the debate, I don't think his name was ever mentioned was, and also the he did mention the debate itself, the organization that used to run all the debates, right? They got the heave hoe. They were out. Now it was the debate through CNN kind of became like a money grab, right? Yeah. He said that they went around the debate commission in order to keep him off the stage. That's what RFK claims. A lot of texts to get to, two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six, plus article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, someone calling into credibility, the entire story of the Clotilda, and this comes on the day, a year after the Heritage House opened in afternoon. We'll get to this guy's claims and also some pushback from our own Ben Raines and John Slid. Yeah, and just a few thoughts that I have, I visited the Heritage House over the weekend, which is Dan and Dalton, FM Talk 106.5, 85, finally get to Africa town to the Heritage House and now you've got claims that Clotilda never happened, and it gets a story that's circulating now. I know that Ben Raines is giving on with Sean talking about this. Yeah. So John Slid will be on with Sean today at one on mid-day mobile, and then Ben Raines tomorrow at noon, and both historians who are frequent guests on mid-day mobile provided comment to this story in the Wall Street Journal, which was published on Saturday and the headline certainly piqued my attention. It was the last slave ship to reach the U.S. or was it a hoax, and they have this former journalist he's retired now, but he actually wrote for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal at one point, and critically, he's also the author of another book about a slave ship. This one about the Wanderer, which I believe was up near Georgia is where they found the Wanderer, which was used to transport slaves across the Atlantic, and at the time, I believe this colonialist thought he was writing a book about the last slave ship, which then you have the story about the Clotilda come out, and apparently a colonius, this journalist, started diving in because he believed that the story about the Clotilda isn't real. He said it was a bold prank that became a folktale that, incredibly, has been embraced as history today. It said, "Colonius' skepticism based on three years of research underscores the tenuous nature of historical narratives, particularly concerning the brutal era of American slavery, and the journal article says if he's correct, it would be an awkward moment for historians and it would leave many black people who believe their descendants of the Clotilda voyage grappling with uncertainty about their origins." Now, Darren Patterson, who we've discussed on your planning, former head of the Clotilda Descendants Association says he believes the Clotilda is real, but he said many in Mobile's black community feel the Clotilda story has been hijacked to some extent by outsiders in big media since it was discovered in 2019, he also said there are people in Africa Town right now who will tell you that the Clotilda never existed, never happened. You have, this colonius is looking through the records and said the Clotilda was built in 1855, records show it transporting goods around the Gulf of Mexico, then in July of 1868 two sentence news blurb was republished stating that the Clotilda had come to Mobile with enslaved Africans, and then not much from 1860 reported on the Clotilda as civil war going on. He did, and then they said in 1890, Timothy Mayer, of course, he played a crucial role in this, claimed in an interview with a New Orleans newspaper, he'd launched the Clotilda slave journey on a wager, and you also had his captain, of course, William Foster, who was tasked with piloting that boat, and this colonius says he doesn't think it ever happened and people push back and say well, it wasn't meant to be published, this was all a secret bet that was made, you also have sledge and reins who have commented, and basically their response is, this guy thought he wrote a book about the last slave ship, he was wrong and now he feels burnt by the whole thing. The narrative is all presented as fact at the Africa Town Heritage House, by the way, as I took credit myself over the weekend, it is now 859. [BLANK_AUDIO]