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Midday Mobile - New Supreme Court opinions have dropped and Webb Jackson and John Young join the show - June 28 2024
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Why is he allowing three Russian ships in a nuclear submarine 90 miles off our coast? Okay, so, you know, we had talked about this before with the Russians doing their exercises in the Caribbean. This is to me, and I'm, you know, I'm no war expert, but I watch things and I read. To me, this is like, that's the right hand. You know, when you're in a fight here, fist fight, it's not the hand they show you, you know, the right hand's there and you're focused on the right hand because he's going to smack you at the left. I think what you see in the Caribbean, they want you to see it. You know, the Russians have assets off our coast as it is. They don't want to see this is, I think it about politics, right? I think this is about puffing up chests for the Russians and Putin to say, oh, yeah? Well, y'all want to give these weapons to Ukrainians? Look at this. We're over here and we're flexing. We still have enough ships to send them halfway around the world. Yeah, I don't think they're going to attack us. Yeah, I think it's just, I think that's the show off. The ones that worry me are the attack subs we don't see, right? The other things from the left hand, that's what always worries me. The people coming across the border, you know, that are terrorists of ISIS. Kay, those are ones where I'd rather them go parading around, you know, dragon baits and trying to catch Marlon off their battleships around Cuba, you know, playing the Russian theme song or whatever. At least they're, I know that's not the, that's not the left hand. That's the right hand. It shows off. So that's kind of how we have that. I think that's about it's not security. It's just politics. Right. It's just, it's scare some because they could start shooting rockets over here. And they're so close to us that we can't even defend ourselves. Mm, I do not think you not think we have part of the fleet. Shadowing them underwater. Uh, I would hope so. I think, I think we probably do it. Like I said, the more they, the more they pop off and show off and are real flashy, the less I fear what they're doing. It's the ones I can't see that, that, that frighten me on that. So that's, but we'll have a chance to talk about that more next week. Mark, appreciate the call and just a couple more texts here. And then we'll get to some more of these in the second half of the hour. This texture says, sadly, it doesn't matter. Biden still beats Trump. I'm interested how you see that calculus. And other textures said to be fair, uh, Jean Claude Pierre. Are you having a cring Jean Pierre Pierre? You're funny. Uh, it says to be fair, Jean Claude Pierre, uh, holds the job to take questions and pitch a narrative. It is, but how many times you heard me, if you've listened for any time, even when there's a Republican in office, you, I couldn't do a press secretary's job because they have to get out there and just, uh, just BS sometimes. And I would finally just be like, I can't do this, y'all. We're going to, we're going to call it for the, I will see. It's just, but you think the narrative would come out. If you're a current job here and you know, because you're in a circle and you know, what's fixing to happen at this debate, you know, in two weeks, and you're going to go out and say that the video from Los Angeles, where former President Obama leads President Biden off stage, where he's doing his like Roomba like walk and he's just going to be led off. And you're going to say anybody who says that that's something to pay attention to. At first, you were saying it was a deep fake and then you pivot some verbal jujitsu, which was good to saying it's a cheap fake. You're still saying it's fake. You have to know that you're going to get egg on your face in two weeks. They got a, I had to give myself an added lift in my words. I left an escape capsule. I think for myself, um, let's see, uh, Ben says a lot of talk. This is good. I agree, Ben. Ben says a lot of talk about the VA last night. It got me thinking how good would the VA be if the president's had to rely on it once they left office. Yeah. At least VA discussion did come up. Um, so it's, there were some things. That's the tough thing. There were some things that were discussed policy wise there, but you almost couldn't even focus on it because Trump would be delivering and the camera shot would show the two shot would show Biden. They're staring off into space and then for them to wrap it up on talking about their golf handicaps. I thought that was a not a top moment, but we'll see. All right. And we'll get back to your text later on in the hour plus my buddy, John Young, from Men United Against Violence joins me later in the hour. Right now he, you know him. You love him. The crowd goes, well, speaking of golf, we could get into it. As we talk about tournament coming up, it's Webb Jackson from Joy Life on the Gulf Coast. Hey, Webb. Hey, how you doing? Good. Uh, so will you put open invitations out for President Biden and former President Trump to come play at the golf tournament for Joy Life on the Gulf Coast for St. Jude? Absolutely. We have that, uh, driving range contest. They talked about who can outdrive each other. We'll have it set up. It's open. So let this be, go to the top of the parties that, uh, they can come to Mobile. That's right. And take it, take on each other. Spread the word. And that would be a charity event. If you could have, because if you wanted to pull for somebody or against somebody politically, you could come out and talk trash while they're on the driving range. Exactly. Is that right, Zuko outbid him and he'd be great now. Yeah. So, uh, President Biden, former President Trump, y'all support St. Jude? I'm sure you do. Then come down here and take part in that. Uh, speak it away. So this is a year round because we, we talk a lot about the golf tournament. Of course, we talk about your life on the Gulf Coast for the parade and the ball and all that good stuff that happens here. But y'all don't just show up in October and pack things up in, in February. No, this is a year round. Yeah, year round raising money for St. Jude. So I guess people who hadn't heard us talk about it in the past. So join Life Golf Coast and what y'all do as per St. Jude. Everything we do is for St. Jude. We're a 501(c) charity organization that raises money for St. Jude. We're local. We have, uh, patients. We have friends and friends who have, uh, kids that are St. Jude patients. We have grandmothers that unfortunately had, uh, grandchildren that are St. Jude patients. We just have people that want to see childhood cancer go away. So can there be even the stat? We hadn't talked about in that while that at any given time, and y'all think about this, where we live and the number of people that are, you know, we don't have 30 billion people living here, the number of families that have gotten help from St. Jude. The total, I know, but it ain't been time currently there's 50 kids or family under protocol from St. Jude at any point in time. I'll think about that for a second. Think, think about where we live. And I'm, yes, we've grown and all that, but 50 children, childhood cancer from our area. Just an area long. And then over time, that number's been hundreds. Yeah. I mean, you think about every year and then compound that out. It's unbelievable. It is. And it's, you know, to hear from, you know, once it got to meet you and working with your life on the Gulf Coast, getting to meet these parents, the kids are awesome too. And getting to meet the parents though, it's, you know, I'm going to say it's every parent's nightmare. Yeah, it's the worst thing possible. I mean, every time I talk to a parent that has a kid that has a cancer, you're just like, how do you do this? I couldn't do it. I mean, honestly, it's, it's amazing what they can do. And they get that support from St. Jude. And I think that's a, that's a big reason of why they can continue to do this. Because everything St. Jude does for them. I mean, the food, the transportation, the first rate, medical care, everything is taken care of. And they have to do nothing but take care of their child. Yeah. Be there. But, okay. So, but growing up and watching the telethons and hearing about St. Jude. And I knew that was there, but it was something different for me. When you introduced me to these families. Yeah. And instead of saying, hey, everything's taken care of from, uh, form at St. Jude. To hear a mother say, we got the diagnosis on Thursday. We left Friday morning. They were ready for us at Memphis at St. Jude. We walked in. I met with Sally, whomever. They feel what they tell me, the person's name, who then said, don't worry about it. This is taken care of. This is taken care of. They're going to, you know, the doctors are here ready to work. We're here to help you parents navigate this thing. They hear the, like, we know what happens, but I guess to hear an individual parent, tell me how it and give real names to it and talk about what they're on and all those kinds of things made it so incredibly real. And that happens every single day with hundreds of families that come to those doors. And it's the same thing. You've got cancer. They call. They make the appointment. You're there the next day and you're there for four or five, six months. And that's what's so critical about this is that you don't get time off to say, let me call my boss. Let me call my neighbors and provide childcare for my other siblings. Let me find do this and this. You've got to go. You're gone that time and you're gone. You're gone for months on end and they take care of everything. Yeah, it's an amazing thing. And I think we all academically know what web just said. It's saying you take care of these things. But when you hear these families that have been on with me on the radio, the ones I've met personally, when they tell it, it's just, it's real. I mean, it goes beyond just knowing something to going, that really is happening. And I'm talking to the person that benefited from that. And so that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to help those families and try to raise money. So that is not a big burden on them. So even though all the money is taken care of, everything's taken care of, they all still need support. They still need things to do. And so we try to make these fun events where not only can we raise money and fund for St. Jude to help hopefully cure a child cancer one day, but we also give them a great time and a fun event for them and their entire family. Okay. Let's talk about a couple of things. I did mention golf first. So let's quickly plug golf tournament. Golf tournament is going to be the end of October, October 18th. It's going to be a four-man scramble of food, drinks, everything provided for. It's a really fun event. We are still working on the location. We may be switching location, but it's going to be October 18th. Usually it's an eight o'clock shotgun start. Okay. So that's one that people can get signed up now. Get your team together, start time, start going to website. Got it on our website or Facebook page, which is www.joyoflifegolfcoast.org. Okay. So you go there and then this is really good. So the culmination of the year, I don't know how you see it because I'm on the outside, but the culmination of the year for Joy Life and the Gulf Coast is the ball and the parade at Mardi Gras. And even though, like I said, y'all are doing stuff 12 months a year, but a lot of people, you're brand, right? You're brand for saying things is this awesome ball y'all put on and the parade. And with that, in true Mardi Gras fashion, you have a king and queen. We do. And these are children that childhood cancer patients. Correct. Childhood cancer. Any child that has childhood cancer from the Mobile, Baldwin County, Gulf Coast area, your eligible to be a king and queen for the ball. Now, for the king and queen, exactly, they have a court as well. But the king and queen are current or former patients of St. Jude's from the area, but the court can be anybody that has, unfortunately has St. Cancer. So when you'll hear these kids come in on the show over the years and you'll hear them this year, know that that's what the king and queen, and they can tell their stories, which are amazing as well. So it's a nomination process. How does this work? You got to, we get nominations from individuals, Facebook pages, just people that know people. And actually, we're looking for nominations right now. We have not selected a king and queen. So if you know of an individual that has childhood cancer and would like to think they would be a good candidate for king and queen of the ball, please send it to us. You can PM us on our Facebook page or shoot us a text. But we are looking for those. They will be named, will be put together with all their diagnosis and their bio. And then the committee will just select to a king and a queen. Okay. So that process open now and it'll be when they have time in my summary. We don't have a definite time period. But we're looking for co-op and we're trying to get this taken care of probably before the end of July. Okay. And it makes it kind of difficult because with hippologues, we can't go to St. Jude and say, hey, how many patients you have here? Can people have to do it themselves? Yes, we have to have help for y'all. So if you know anybody, please give us a call. And heck, I'm looking at the text line. John just sent a picture of a grandchild. They're here. So also, we heard this last year, the parade has gotten so big. Yeah. And I think it was one of the times you were in here and people were still trying to get on the floats and I think y'all were full. Yeah, we had to stop doing that. So better get started early. The process, somebody who wants to take part in the ball for joy of life, the parade, when do they have to get on it? They want to do the float. They want to do that thing. Just like in everything, the sooner the better. Because it did fill up. I mean, I'm sure you had to say, no, we can't do it. We ran out of floats. We rent floats from the different organizations. So we don't have our own floats, but the amount of floats that we had available, we went through all of them. We had none left. So we had to actually turn people down. But we do have sponsorship packages for the ball that if you're a business or individual, it's a great sponsorship package. We do a lot of advertising for you. You get tables. It's food, dining. Food's awesome. It's great. It's a great fun event. But also, there's ones for the parade. And also, there's some that you can sponsor the ball and the parade. So it depends on what you want to do. The parade float. You have you in 21, 22 of your closest friends, family of coworkers, you can come parade in downtown Mobile. It's a lot of fun. Something I'm proud to have been involved with for years now with this radio station. And web makes it happen. So golf tournament first on the calendar. But if you want to make sure, I know it's June, and Bardi Gras seems like a long way off, but things fill up. It fills up really quick. All right, good stuff, man. And once again, the website, www.joyoflifegoofcoast.org. All right, there he is. Web Jackson. We're coming right back. More mid-day mobile. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. [MUSIC] 125 FM Talk 10065, mid-day mobile on this Friday. Y'all say hello to my buddy Ron at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry like me. Hey Ron. >> How you doing, Sean? >> I'm good. So it's been a story here, what you have called, healthy growth. And you've explained to us what that means in precious metals. Are we still tracking that way for gold and silver? >> Yes, we are. Gold and silver have been doing basically week after week. We've been talking about it. It's been holding steady silver right about $30 now. Gold just under $23.50, so I mean, that's a good sign. You don't want wide fluctuations because it worries people, just like you see stocks shooting up and shooting back down. People tend to take a step back and watch it and told things so long. So it's been very stable and it's really good for setting up hedges. And I mean, I know people look at, other people look at gold and silver is investment. I look at it and they only get hedged against inflation and against a problem with the U.S. dollar. >> Yeah, you said, and you're in the business of selling dang precious metals. So, but Ron even tells you it's part of a bigger package. It's a hedge with what you're, you could have equities, you could have savings, you could have cash and precious metals. >> Yes, sir. >> Talk quickly too about gift ideas and I was on with us the other day. I was talking about this pretty cool thing. If you're looking at like, y'all are pretty much the masters of finding unique gifts at Bobo Bay coins. Getting a coin from your birth year and certain coins to give as a gift. That's pretty cool. Now, how does this work? Do you come and pick out the coin and then y'all make the jewelry? How does that work? >> There's a lot of different ways to do it. Some people just put it in a set. They do U.S. meant to make a U.S. proof sets from basically 1938 on and they made proof coins all the way back into the 1800s. So, of course, the stuff in the early 1800s is pretty pricey and, of course, most people don't have birthdays in the 1800s. >> You're from, right? >> Obviously. But it's very inexpensive if you have children that are born in the 90s on, those proof sets are very inexpensive in some cases under $5. So, really easy way to get a gift. Maybe getting a youngster interested in the hobby. It's a good way to, I mean, we have people all the time, Sean, walking the front door and they're like, man, if I hadn't been stacking sober, if I hadn't been doing this, I'd had to dig into my retirement account to pay this bill. So, it's a way to save money and create a hedge and it's like you said, it's a savings account. So, it's easy to cash part of it out and you don't have to cash the whole thing out, just about the budget we need to take care of the expense. >> Well said. Tell folks how to find you all. >> 2204 Government Street and Midtown Mobile. They can find us on the web at mobilebacones.com or give us a call, 251725-1590. >> Hey, thanks, Ron. >> You're welcome. Have a good weekend, Sean. >> You too. There goes Ron. Check it in for Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. So many texts to read. I did get stuck on Ricky. I got stuck on your, you know, you often send screenshots to us here, Ricky. This one, a screenshot Ricky has sent me of Jan Michael Vincent and Melania Trump. With hearts, is that, are they a couple? Is that what you have, Ricky? There are a couple. You'd be Jan Michael Vincent from Air Wolf fame. It's a show I watched as a kid. Remember Air Wolf? Oh my gosh. We're going to bring that show back. Mark says on the text line is, if there's a strong third party candidate and no one gets enough electoral college votes, will there be a runoff? Well, now it'll go to the Congress in that. It'll be interesting to see that they're probably running the polling right now to see if there's any increase in, like, Barbara Kennedy Jr's poll. I don't know, do the people go to Jill Stein or Cardone West or, like, where do they, do you have people abandoning Biden and then putting their support with somebody else? Or do you have people just going, yeah, I'm not going to show up and vote. You know, maybe that's the thing. Firedog says China has to be in a meeting right now. Do we invade Taiwan now or hope Biden pulls out a win? Russia's probably having the same meeting about Ukraine. Do we keep this up and hope Biden wins or deal with the wildcat play with Trump? Yeah, that's the thing is an American, right? Looking at that last night. It was sad for America, overall. All right, coming right back. More bid day mobile on FM Talk 10065. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 10065. What's up, 135 FM Talk 10065, midday mobile, more air wolf talk and Jan Michael Vincent here on this day after the worst showing ever for a US president in a debate. For sure, also mentioned last hour to some of the Supreme Court decisions. We talked about the Chevron decision there with Congressman Jerry Carl, also Supreme Court narrows the law that's used against some of the January 6 rioters from the Wall Street Journal says the Supreme Court on Friday limited the Justice Department's ability to use an Enron era obstruction of justice statute to prosecute some of the people who stormed the Capitol in January 6th. A court said a Pennsylvania man way to go Keystone State. The court said a Pennsylvania man who entered the Capitol building during the riot may have been improperly charged under a statute enacted in 2002 that made it a crime to impede certain government proceedings. This was specific to Enron, y'all, and they used it for, you know, they just found them a law that worked, I guess. The decision is expected to ripple through the lower courts and could up and here y'all go hundreds of other January 6 cases. That may include the election interference case brought against former President Trump by Jack Smith. So we'll see where that is. That decision just sounds today. Supreme Court separately expected to issue a blockbuster ruling on Monday talking about Trump's claims of immunity from prosecution. So that could be it. We'll see. This is going to be split decision double double. I don't know. But I think this is a dig through this this weekend because that's just the kind of rock and roll guy I am. These Supreme Court decisions and we'll have more to talk about this on Monday's show. So you have a couple of big ones. You have the Chevron decision and which is not specifically about Chevron. It's the way that government agencies try to act like they're passing their own laws without going beyond the scope of their job as dictated by Congress. Also, this one interesting too. Remember the discussion here locally and maybe with this. I can get Councilman Van Reynolds back on to talk about the camping ordinance on public property here as Mobile is trying to find a way to deal with homeless people that were staying on public grounds right away as those kinds of things. They say here's Supreme Court loosened the restraints on city officials, confronting homeless encampments overturning a lower court that found it unconstitutional to penalize people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to stay. Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments which a lower court invoked to strike down the city's ordinance had no role to play in limiting government responses to homelessness. Gorsuch wrote, homelessness is homelessness is complex. It's causes for many. So may the public policy responses required to address it. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice his clearance Thomas Samuel Lito Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on that decision. So we'll talk about it more. Speaking of the interesting bedfellows, when something is different, that's when you pay attention more in one of these decisions. Let's see. Maybe it was a Chevron decision. See, you usually look at the court and go, "Okay, well, these justices will agree and these will not agree." And when you see one that bucks the trend, I think it might have been the... Let's see. Yeah, okay. It was the January 6th one that we talked about a second ago. The Supreme Court ruling that the government's theory for charging hundreds of capital rioters with obstruction was too broad. So in that decision, when it came back, you go, it said in that it was a 6-3 decision. Out of the 6, it said, "Justice Katanji Brown Jackson joined Justice Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh." And then flipped on the other side, Amy Coney Barrett, descended and joined Sotomayor and Kagan in that. So I thought that was interesting. Maybe that's the first time that Justice Jackson has joined on with Justice Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, but it stood out to me. So check it out. We'll talk more about that on Monday. And I look up and I see my friend John Young in the studio, "Men United Against Violence." I'm going to pull you right there on that mic. There you go. You've got your sun shirt on, ready to go do something fun. Oh, yeah. We're always ready for fun. Apologize for being late. But when you have plans that involve airport boulevard at lunchtime, you should have an alternate right now. Can we start like we don't have enough to do with men united against violence. Can we have a bobillion united against the way the lights are timed on airport boulevard? If you let me, Mr. Mobile, not have that change. Yeah, because it is. It is terrible. I mean, red light to red light. Yes. And if you're unfortunate enough to be stuck behind the wrong type driver, you'll spend two, two stops at a red light. Yeah, it's one thing that we'll get into what we're talking about. But mobile guys, let's just have our mobile complaint session for a second. It's something like if it's during the day, and I'm sitting there on airport at the red light that I was at the last red light, but at least there's cars coming north and south on whatever road, you know, is intersecting airport. That's one thing. But when it's five o'clock in the morning or something like that, and I'm sitting in that light, and there's not nobody's even thought about being at the intersection going the other way, like at four minute an airport or something like that. It's yeah, they don't change them. I think they run on the same cycle 24 hours a day. So I got an idea, see, because traffic engineers, I'm sure the city y'all are way smarter than I am. I'm just some hay seed. But like at five in the morning, there's not as many people on that road as there are five in the afternoon. So maybe you change it. Well, maybe red lights are suggestive at that time. Start with me on that. We got a got a lot to talk about here with you and our focus primarily on mobile or mobile guys. And many night against violence focused on violence and mobile young black men kill another young black man and black girls and, you know, but I sent you a text the other day. You watch what happened in Montgomery. Right. That was I watch in the video of that. And knowing the friends of mine that served that had been in battlefields, that rate of fire John was like what they hear in battlefields. It was jaw dropping to me for this, this gun melee that went on in Montgomery. 367 recovered casings. We covered. Right. That's not the number of casings that shot into the car that fell into the ditch that weren't seen. So this is in the this is not in this is not in Iraq. Right. This is not in Gaza. This is in Montgomery, Alabama in the United States of America. Right. And you know, reading the article, the sad part is is that it took police longer to respond because they were working a homicide that occurred earlier and in a robbery with an assault. So this is in a saying 24 hour cycle in the city of Montgomery, our state capital. Where the blend. We're not in the third world. No, we're here at home in the United States. There's massive gunfire battles going on inside. Right. This isn't the Medellin cartel right now. This is 2024 in our state capital, the seat of the civil rights movement. And to see that type of behavior, I think left nine people shot. Yes. One of them a minor child. When do we want to just say, and then of course the mayor, and I'm not criticizing him. I'm on the right. I can. I can. I'm gonna repeat. I'm sure we got a buddy up there that 1819 news that does. But he states this type of violence. Well, what type of violence exactly? Yeah. Who's committing the violent acts? We have to say we didn't detail that. He did not describe suspects. He did not describe victims. He did not give. He attributed the violence to a gun. And you're an our gun owners have it gone. You're a prolific hunter. Our guns have never shot anyone. They've never gotten up and gone and done something like I've been asleep and the guns gone up and taken part in a murder rampage with 367 rounds or brass pick up. Your rifle didn't call my Glock and say, Hey, let's go kill somebody and don't let your owner know. So that's the problem I have with it. I am saying that men have to speak truth. And if black men are killing black men, we have to say black men stop killing black men. And that's what the even though Bear Reid doesn't say it, but John there. Well, I'll say I mean, that's what happened. It was black people killing black people. That's it. This is and I have some friends that live in Montgomery and they say every time there's an event there, there is a shooting. And this is becoming too common all over the state of Alabama, stocked in of all places, stocked in Alabama in the country, Silver Hill, Alabama, I think, Foley, Loxley, and the suspects are always suspects and victims are always described the same once it comes out. They're young black men usually killing young black men and sometimes black women. And we've talked about this at length, but the issue still stems from home. I'm glad to see that the city of Mobile and the city council is working with Mobile County Health Department to give post traumatic treatment to shooting victims. I think the article I read said 642 shooting victims have been taken to university hospital. And so here that once again, if y'all didn't read the article, we mentioned briefly earlier this week 600, 642 and gun shot gun shot victims right once again, not the third world United States of America, the state of Alabama. Mobile, this happened in Mobile University Hospital. But I mean, that's war statistics. Absolutely, absolutely. And I'm glad that we're treating them after the fact, but how do we prevent it? We have to say we have an issue, as I said two years ago, almost, that there is a subculture of gun violence involving young black men in Mobile and obviously in Montgomery also, and obviously in Stockton. Well, why? Well, the homes are broken. And Sean, I'll say this to your listeners. And you already know, I'll say this to anyone. A few weeks I spoke at three different events, three different completely different, a black church, a predominantly white church, and a civic organization. And my statement doesn't change. I refuse to say anything differently. It isn't gun violence. And until we're willing to say black men are killing black men, then we'll never be able to prevent it. We'll never find out what's really wrong. You can use any analogy you like. I can hit a golf ball straight for six yards and 194 curves behind me until I say I need to tuck the baby in and bring my right arm in. That's right. Keep it closer to my side, stiffen up my wrist to drive further. You can use any analogy you like to say until we're saying that black men are killing black men and ask, why? What's the root cause? I wish this study could be done. What we're doing should go further and interview in our suspects. Where's your father? How many generations are you into fatherlessness? Did you graduate high school? What grade level can you read, write, and count? What is your most positive interaction with a man? How many other siblings do you have? Do you have different fathers? Did they graduate high school? How's your interaction with your mother? Is she? These are the questions we need to ask. And you've said it comes back. You have an acronym, FEED. FEED. Family education, employment, and discipline. If those things go through, those are part of your life. The number of interactions you'll have with police, let alone violent interaction falls precipitously. A wise man told me that to avoid negative contact with police, and I hope he's listening, I've been quoting him now for 10 years, he said, don't commit crimes. Don't go where crimes are committed and don't socialize with people who commit crimes. And I'll add one to that. Don't embarrass the family. Those are not just black or white. Those are family ideals. Those are family roles that worked. We're talking, this isn't the black culture. I saw a television show advertising, the celebration of our cultures, the television show, annual awards, and all they had were wigs, wheez, wags, and swags. That's all I saw. That isn't black culture. Black people weren't historically killing one another like this. I didn't grow up in fear of being robbed or killed by a black person. My father didn't. So when did this happen? This drill rap music has taken over the culture. It has become normalized to be ignorant, be violent, and be anti-community, anti-education. It's looking at this too, just with the kids, black kids that it's not even like, there's always been, we pick any group any time, there's always bad kids, there's always some bad kids, but they were shunned or whatever. They weren't, this is now what's cool to like, I mean, I sound like an old guy, but I mean, that would be cool. It's being celebrated now. Like this is the, why do they get outside? It's not the edge, it's not the thing. The thing that now black girls are being violent towards one another and their parents, with the 642, what are the demographics of those kids? How many of them are black? How many of them are black? Let's, vote out, let's say it. Say it. Don't give us their names, give us their age, their race or ethnicity, and they're one of two genders, male or female, and those numbers will speak for themselves. If I'm full of crap, Sean, those numbers will be- Bring the numbers out and show that John's full of crap. Please, I want to be wrong. I desire to be wrong on this, but historically and statistically, we all know that I'm not. It takes courage to tell truth. I never knew it had to, you were brave when you told the truth, but I call again on- Welcome to 2024. Right. Anybody that's listening that has the ability to speak truth to this matter, just say it. I had someone calling and asking me, "Well, how do I say it as a white guy and not sound like George Wallace?" I said, "Well, state statistics, state history, state facts." You don't have to say, "Y'all killing each other because y'all can't help it." Now, you have to say that 25 years ago, this wasn't an issue. We can say that. Well, because it's factually- And you know, I've talked about that. We always have fun doing this. If y'all don't know, so John's black and I'm white. So, if y'all know, because that's- It feels funny to me that you have to remind me of the way it's like John's black and I'm white, okay? Whatever. We're both mobile guys. And what we both want is to black kids to stop killing black kids. Yes, that's what we want. We want prevention. The treatment is great, but an ounce of prevention is worth one pound of cure. If of those 642 named that we'll receive, that we're in the study, if 80% of them are black, then we have to say why are black kids more likely to kill or shoot or be shot or be killed. And this drill wrap music, I'm sure most of your listeners don't just type it into your search engine and listen to the lyrics, how they celebrate killing and shooting. There is no- And speaking to some police officers, I know, the juvenile detectives, there are 14-year-old girls who have had gonorrhea, 12-year-old girls who have gonorrhea. There are 14-year-old boys who have been shot multiple times. One kid in the story from the 65 connector, nine-year-old had been shot before when he was like, and he had been shot and they said, yeah, this is like the second time he'd been shot. Right. Nine years old babies. And so, we have to say what it is. If we are not going to- How could we ever catch criminals or suspects if we don't describe who we're looking for? Don't know. What is the fear of saying black men stop killing each other? Thank you. Especially to my church goers, to everyone who goes and worships to the true and living God, how could you not speak the truth as a believer and say that this is a, you will call out other sins, murder made the top 10 with God. Right? So, that's an easy one. That'll shall not kill make the top 10. So, we as believers should be able to say, stop killing. Why would I say to someone who's, hey, you'd be stopped killing? Okay. He's not a killer. And part of it too, and we're gonna break, but part of it too, like people say, well, we need tougher penalties out there, but it's still happening. So, doing things on the backside is proven itself, not that you stop arresting people and putting them in jail, but we had to do something on the front side of this to make a change. So, we're not dealing with aftermath. We're preventing us. He's not a law issue. The culture issue. Coming right back. More of my friend, John Young, right here on Midday Mobile. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. Right up 156, FM Talk 1065, just a couple minutes left with my friend, John Young, Men United Against Violence. People want to hear and see more of what Men United Against Violence is doing. Facebook page. Good place. Yep. Facebook and then United Against Violence and Mobile. Billboards are up. They are. We haven't had a rally, Sean, because if no one's noticed, it's been hot. You say? It's been terrible hot. It's like, it's like if somebody put, I'm not going to make a lizzo joke. It's like, it's like that 77th Plymouth Graham Fury I had. In a high school that had no air conditioning and no heat and no radio. It's that kind of hot. We used to talk about vehicles like that. Growing up, they had, they said, what kind of AC? We said, it's 270. They said 270. Yeah, two windows down, 70 miles down. That was the air conditioner. But it's, y'all go, if you haven't heard what John and I were talking about, first of all, the video from Montgomery, and I know that's not here, we're focused on, but we're focused on this all over, but focused here. But listen to Montgomery, and then John Statz, once again, this is Mobile Gunshots, Moby victims to take into university hospital in a two year period of time with 642 youth. That is youth. That is youth. Yes, youth, that made shots compare that. And I could Google is probably and see the number of gunshot wounds we had in different conflicts in certain theaters. Wouldn't have been 643. Right. I agree. And we have to ask why. That's insane. This month, men united against violence are drawing attention to the drill rap music, which is, is drill because it's for shooting people is another word synonymous. And so the music encourages violent behavior. It encourages murder. It encourages shooting into homes and buildings and vehicles without regard for who's inside. So many of these young black men who involve themselves in violent crimes are so detached from reality that they no longer see human beings. They see targets. Yeah. They see opponents. And if when you and I go to the range, we'll take head shots all day longer, that piece of paper. Yeah, it's not a human being. It's not a human being, but when you become desensitized to human suffering, that's what we're dealing with. Y'all that we're going to keep pushing until we can start turning this battleship around. John is always good to see you. Always my friend. All right. And we really are friends people. We don't pretend. Yeah. Yeah. Who would want to be known as a a friend of mine if they really weren't. (laughing)