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Montgomery Shooting - Festival this weekend - Mobile Mornings - Monday 6-24-24
(upbeat music) - 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. - Lot to get to, lot to get to with Russia, and Ukraine and Russia and just Russia on its own. Another oopsie daisy by Boeing. Dalton's gonna let us know about here. - That seemed like a pretty big slip up. - Yes, involving there. - Especially for a couple of people who are far, far away. - Yeah, on the space station with no way back right now. We'll get to that story. - That is insane. - Plus, I'd love to talk with some of y'all who were, or weren't out there at the Rock the Country this weekend. I know I've already seen several texts and we'll get to those and talk a little bit more about how things ran out at the grounds. But this story, making national news. I mean, as much news as you can make nationally when there are shootings like this going on in cities around the country, every weekend, but Montgomery and the shooting this weekend where, can I say miraculously, so far we don't have any reports of deaths, but nine people shot. - Yeah, when you listen to the recording that you had played for me, it's, 'cause I guess that was from a video, right? 18, 19 news has got the video. - This was on "Yellow Hammer." - "Yellow Hammer News" has got the video. - They found a Facebook post and it looks like AL.com has it as well, so several different sites with this post they found on Facebook with someone recording the shooting as it goes down. We'll play part of that. I can't play the entire thing 'cause of language, but which I would argue that in a situation like this, well, that's my argument with the FCC. I guess I can leave that out of here, but it's part of the story, right? - By the way, Josh Moon's article that you saw Saturday. - Yes. - That was-- - So he actually posted this Friday. - Okay, that was, okay. And so it was a day and a half before this incredible shooting in Montgomery, and Moon's opinion seems to was in favor of the mayor of Montgomery, Reed, that talking about this intervention, police intervention, and from Elio or outside forces to help Montgomery out in this spot. The mayor says it's all political. He has the same opinion Josh Moon does, right? - Right, yeah, and now this happens. - Mayor Reed basically saying crime is down in Montgomery. Crime is down across the United States and that they're just making Montgomery a bad example for political reasons. And he's been saying this for a few weeks now, and then you have this big article from the Alabama political reporter on Friday with Josh Moon, and then you have this shooting that happened early, early Sunday morning. So overnight Saturday into Sunday morning, nine people shot, four others injured, and they say police and fire medics were dispatched at 1.46 a.m. to the area of North Pass Road and Alabama River Parkway regarding reports of gunshot victims. First responders found one adult female and one juvenile male, both with non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Later three adult males, two adult females, and two more juvenile males with non-life threatening gunshot wounds arrived at a local hospital on their own. Also the mayor said one adult female and two adult males with non-life threatening injuries occurred from a vehicle versus pedestrian collision. You wonder if that was an accident or an intentional collision with how chaotic things were. One adult female with minor injuries from broken glass showed up to an emergency room for treatment. They're saying somewhere north of 362 rounds were fired. Initial reports added at around 650. - Yeah, Reed said more than 600 rounds were fired at a crowded party. - Yeah, and if you listen to the full recording, which isn't the whole shooting, yeah, it's easily somewhere around that number, officers from the Montgomery Police Department, ATF, and FBI are currently interviewing witnesses and suspects. Now, I don't know if this was a big, big block party or party in the woods or a field party, kind of like we've seen. That's where the shootings seem to be happening here more recently. - 146 in the morning. Police, you would think we're aware of this party. These things are usually show up pretty prominently on social media, and so 146 a.m. - Right, and so I read the headline just like you did, read the story, and you think, okay, well, it's another shooting, it happened again, it's terrible, it's sad, but if you listen to the audio of this, this sounds like it's happening in the Middle East. It's, here's part of this, and again, it's about 35 seconds of that Facebook video. I cut out a lot of it because of language, and you can imagine the language being used as people were laying on the ground as the shooting was going on, and it seems like this video was recorded from quite a bit away, actually, from where the shooting was happening. Here's some of that video that was posted on Facebook. (upbeat music) (drumming) (drumming) (drumming) (drumming) Again, that's like a third of the video, and the rest of the video with some pauses, there's just as much gunfire, absolutely insane. That's happening not very far away from us right here, and you have the mayor, who is, of course, had been before this, pushing back on claims that crime and Montgomery has gotten completely out of control, and you think of why the legislature is focused on this with a proposed bill to have Aliyah or have the state take over failing police departments, and Josh Moon argues that that was directed at Montgomery. - Yeah, it was political, it was Republican towards the Democrats. (drumming) Yeah, and so we'll read some of this, Josh Moon article to you when we get back, and also get into what happens next there in Montgomery, but we'll continue and open up the text line as well, 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6 as we turn up your voice, on Mobile Morning's. - Unbelievable. - Your text, please, at 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6, about Montgomery. Dan and Dalton, Mobile Morning's. (drumming) It is 17 after eight o'clock, on Mobile Morning's, we're Dan and Dalton, good to have you along. So the Montgomery shooting, mass shooting, 146 in the morning the calls came into police. So by the way, when, just to be clear, when there's a mass shooting going on, you're good with the police showing up, right? - I am. - Yeah, me too. - Yeah, as quickly as possible. - Probably people at that party were too. - Yeah, and you know, you wonder, and if police had shown up, which, you know, I'm not saying they showed up late, I think this was just a party way on out there, but sure think that gunfight might have continued between the shooters there at the scene, and law enforcement, and thankfully it didn't come to that. Thankfully, you know, no one's dead, and I'm talking about that. How many, so many rounds can be fired, and nine people shot, 300. There were apparently hundreds of people there, but I mentioned this Josh Moon article from the Alabama political reporter, and he has since reported on this shooting. - Yeah, I wanna get into that. This article is all fresh to me into the audience, and then suddenly, now he's faced with, well, actually, Josh Moon, there was a mass shooting overnight. He reported about that, but still put his little spin on it. - Right, so he starts his article, violent crime is down significantly all over America, and that includes in the city of Montgomery. That likely comes as quite a surprise to those who have encapsulated themselves in their right-wing media bubble, where shootings are rampant, murders are common, and everyone should be scared to death all the time. See, that's the right-wing media bubble that says. - Right-wing, please, please stop making that up because we're getting afraid. - Yeah, shootings are not rampant, according to Josh Moon. It's a fairly heat continues. It's a fairly classic case of some agenda-driven media seizing upon a rather common problem, the fairly consistent, even if declining level of crime in American cities, and highlighting it to the point that common viewers believe the problem is much larger than it actually is during an interview. So this is where this article came from. He had Mayor Stephen Reed, Montgomery Mayor, on his podcast last week. If you want to listen to it, I'm talking about it, give it a listen, Alabama politics this week. He said, "The mayor talked about the frustrations "of attempting to deal with the very real problem "of crime, particularly among the most at risk groups "in Montgomery, while also battling "against the characterization that crime "is out of control in his city." In the podcast, the mayor said it's just factually inaccurate to say some of the things that are being said, and then he references a New York Times article to say actually crime in Montgomery isn't that bad. He says, "A couple of weeks ago, "there was a top of the page article in the New York Times "about although violence is down, "public safety remains an election issue." He said this New York Times article went into detail about social media and how information is carried versus the way it used to be. So he's kind of saying, "Well, it's actually, "it seems more rampant than it actually is "because it's social media." And I would say we know more about what's going on. - Oh, thanks to social media in a lot of ways. Would we have had that video that audio I played for you earlier? No, we wouldn't have. He said it's a lot tougher to get your message through. It's a lot harder when you present facts, you know, than those who say, "Well, we don't believe those facts "because it doesn't fit my narrative." So this kind of ties into, and he uses in the article, Moon says, "Right-wing politicians around the state "have taken advantage of the Montgomery crime narrative." He's still saying it's just a narrative. And he says, "This week two pike road politicians "introduced a bill that would allow the governor "or attorney general to appoint an interim police chief "for any city in which crime exceeded a certain arbitrary level. "The bill's sponsors made it clear it was directed "at Montgomery, although they never addressed the fact "that Montgomery doesn't rank in the top five "in Alabama for crime and doesn't rank in the top 24 violent crime. "Like to see which statistics he's using for that." Now, addressing the bill and the motivation behind it, he said, "Read did not mince words. "The goal has little if anything to do with public safety "and far more to do with who controls the money "that flows into and out of America's largest cities." And he said, "He's a member of a board "with a bunch of other mayors around the nation." And he said, "We're seeing more preemption "from state legislatures all throughout the country "that this is a tactic. "The bills are usually from conservative led legislatures "and target democratically led cities. "So this is a strategy, something that is intentional "and deliberate to change who controls what. "He said, "I don't want your listeners to miss this point. "It's just not just about public safety. "It's about who's controlling the money "and who gets the benefits of that." Well, after that shooting this weekend, if there isn't more of a focus on public safety, rather than may read, worried about who's pulling what levers, it's just absolutely ridiculous that I think he's making this whole thing, well, he's making it political, of course, but also in a way racial, right? - Of course, of course. - One thing Josh Moon talked about, the perception, the narrative, right? What we just heard, I perceive that to be a real problem, no matter what city it's in. He also talked about the right taking advantage of this fairly common problem in cities. It's an emergency. I don't know how you do some magical math to make it look like things are not as bad as they feel as we perceive them. As we, when we, you know, we'd certainly have had shooting incidents in areas of mobile, we never used to have them in the past. - Yes, and that's the fact. I mean, what, you should be afraid when you're with your little girls at Wendy's. - Yeah, you should, and I don't know if-- - At least you should be on the, you know, have the idea that something could occur. - Yeah, not afraid, right? - Yeah, not afraid. - I don't live my life in fear, but it angers me. - Sure. - I'll tell you that much. I think it angers a lot of people, especially if you've been living somewhere for decades, and that place is becoming-- - Yeah, turn it over on. - Yeah, you've never seen it before. And, you know, I've lived up and down Grilat Road in Nolwood from, but mostly my entire, you know, time here in Nolwood. Almost 20 years up and down that road. And we have 15 years. And it's never been a real issue. Here and there, there's been a problem. And I know now we're talking about Montgomery. I mean, Mobile, not Montgomery, like we were a minute ago. But now, where I live, you know, 20, let's say, 150 yards up the road, I'm seeing story after story in these apartments of shootings and even deaths. And we had that video of a gas station near my house, which is the closest gas station to my house. - That was ironically about that same time of night that the video was taken with everybody kind of, it looked like a video, like a music video, or, you know, like a hip hop video. Yeah, with the drums on the ARs and it's, so it's a problem for sure. And just the Montgomery mayor saying that this is all about politics, that the Republicans in the state are trying to get a handle on this. It seems like he's completely, completely missing the picture here. And, you know, maybe, maybe this is part of the reason he didn't perform as well in the Democrat primary for Yale too. - Got washed out pretty quick. - 'Cause a lot of people thought he would. - Yeah, well, and also even if it is, a Republican strategy in other states, and then Alabama picked it up, oh, see what they're doing here. Well, this is some, the crux of the problem is not political at all. The crux of the problem is the crime itself. So if you, if your city is being run in a way or in police are enforcing in a way, or unable to enforce in a way, where crime is a problem in your city, that's perceived by the citizens, then that's the crux of the problem. Not a strategy that may be political in some ways, but it's designed to kind of shake it down and get it right. I would love to get, I would love for the citizens of Montgomery to say, there's no problem here. I'm talking about many African-American citizens, in Montgomery, in areas that where a lot of this is going on, God knows where this all was, but for them to come out and just say. Yeah, there's not a problem. 'Cause I don't think they would. I don't think they'd feel that one. No, there's no way. And when you, I don't know if we're gonna get a chance to play some of that audio again, if anybody missed it, it's so compelling because it just goes on and on. And it sounds like a war zone. And it's, and thank God, they're not really good at hitting targets if it is. I'm 600 rounds. Yeah, nine shot. And to this point, nobody has passed away again. That's right. And then four others injured leaving the scene, I would imagine. Looking at the text line, we have a lot of text on this. We'll try to get to as many as we can. King of all unnamed textures said, "Would be interesting to know the arms used, that's a ton of reloading." And these folks didn't just bring guns, they brought the whole armory, it sounds like. Yeah, it sure does. But he said, "Did you say that was Montgomery?" Yeah, that was Montgomery. That wasn't some audio from Gaza or Ukraine. No, that was right up the road. Let's see here. Doesn't have meta says. They should just go and check to see which people in Montgomery hold licenses for fully automatic weapons. Yeah, because all this gun control argument that's gonna fix all of this, I've got news for you. Shooting into a crowd of people, illegal, attempted murder, illegal, murder, illegal, shooting an automatic weapon, illegal. There's already a lot of laws being broken here. Do you think they're afraid to break one more or two more laws? You know, what kind of gun control measure would fix this? And don't let me ask you this. What kind of cooperation are they going to get out of people? That witnesses that were there? Yeah. What kind of cooperation are they going to get out of people who were there? Maybe so, maybe enough. I don't know. And how do you prosecute something that happened? Basically, in the middle of the night. I guess there is a way to get to the bottom of what happened, but you're gonna need witnesses to come forth. And stories we've seen in the past, even recently, it just doesn't happen, right? It often does not happen. Yeah, even at the shooting over in Baymanette or near Baymanette. Yeah, Stockton. Stockton. So we had basically what, and we're numb to it. We're numb to it. Because we're thinking, didn't something like this happen? Oh, but Dadeville up on the lake. And I'm thinking, no, sooner than the more recent than that, oh, Stockton. Yeah. 20 miles away. And there was at a party. Yeah. And people weren't cooperating with that. People were not cooperating. I think maybe they finally compelled some folks to, but it wasn't easy. It doesn't sound like from the Baltimore County Sheriff's office. Daniel and Foley, and we'll speed read some of these. He says at one a.m. sends the an emoji like, wow, that's crazy. These people are the problem, not the guns. It's from Daniel. Textor here says, we know that the mayor didn't discuss the cities with no bail policies in his report, or maybe talking about Josh Moon there. Yeah, that's a big problem, is letting violent offenders out on no bail, which happens so often. Textor here says, you keep saying they're misleading the public and isn't that what you're doing if you are not giving stats. What stats do you want? 600 rounds fired. 1 a.m. Yeah, no, but nine people shot. I get you. And we should, I'll try to look into that, see what stats that Moon and Reed are referencing, saying that everything is fine here. Doesn't feel like everything's fine. And it certainly didn't Saturday night. No, no, not at all. See if we can get to this one more text here. I will have to hold it till after the break, as things are slowing down here on the internet. Two, five, one, three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six. Get back to your texts. Plus that Boeing Starliner. Is he gonna make it back up into space? Things aren't looking good for Boeing right now. (upbeat music) 835, FM Talk 106.5 and Mobile Mornings on a Monday. Right now it's time to head to McConnell Automotive. We talk with Louis Arrata. Good morning, Louis. - Hey, good morning guys, how are you? - We are great. And I know you've got some good news from over at the McConnell Automotive lot and plenty of vehicles, both new and pre-owned in stock. - The good news we got, we have air conditions. (laughing) - That's the best news anyone could say right around this time of year. - That's right, we got air condition in the shop, air condition in the show rooms. And you can look at the beautiful cars inside your air condition house at McConnellautomotive.com. And just call, we have it cool down and ready for you. If you wanna come take a test drive on it, just give us a call, 251-476-4141. But like I said, got some great deals going on out here and check everything out online at McConnellautomotive.com. - Yep, and also you mentioned it earlier because you have those men and women working in the air conditioning, but the body shop, the service center, you guys take care of it all. - That's right, they're all in a good mood working on these cars here. So just come on by here and come on inside and be cool with us and let's say your car. - All right, sounds good, Louis, we appreciate it. - Thank you, thank you. - That's Louis, go see him at McConnellautomotive on Dolphin Street, just east of I-65, and the website, McConnellautomotive.com. - Quick Google search of Montgomery crime. This is not exactly what I was looking for. The stats that Reed and was referring to in the podcast with Josh Moon and how, you know this. And like I said, there could be some truth to the idea that this is a playbook that Republicans are doing in other states, around other cities, maybe, but all I'm saying is where's the crux of the problem to start with is the crime itself. Montgomery's got a crime rate of 32 per 1000 residents. Montgomery has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim, either violent or property crime in Montgomery is one in 31. That comes from neighborhoodscout.com. - Okay, yeah, and I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I'm also-- - I don't know either. - Not sure how accurate, you know, even statistics from the FBI are. We've talked about that before. - 'Cause we have. - And yeah, the stats that Moon put out there, he said the bill sponsors never addressed the fact that Montgomery doesn't rank in the top five in Alabama for crime and doesn't rank in the top 24 violent crime. And so I'd like to know where exactly those statistics came from. But again, I'm gonna tell you not to believe you're lying eyes or you're lying ears in this situation. And this texture here says 500 plus rounds expended. This was not a shooting, it was a fire fight. It doesn't have meta, you know, where there wasn't violence, the rock the country event saw less than 10 officers the whole time I was there. 15, 16,000 people out there each day, and I didn't even see a fight out there. Let's see, if we can glock switch, someone says here, most likely a glock with a switch and a 50 round drum. Yeah, I'm sure there were some glocks, which is out there in that shooting, but I don't think that was all there was. Sound like they had some pretty high powered weaponry there that may or may not be legal. - I'm gonna ask you to play that audio again, you know that. - Yeah, we'll see if we can get to it. Text Mr. Plot, of course, let's go after the law abiding gun owners who actually have an FFL to possess an automatic weapon, I'd be willing to bet money that any of those weapons that were firing, quote, automatically, unquote, were illegally modified by criminals. - And illegally owned, or you know, but you know, who's got the gun license on any of this stuff? I mean, most of these crimes that are committed in cities, including Mobile, the guns were not lawfully purchased registered. - Jason says, in response to the Montgomery shooting, thankfully, in most cases like that, the shooters are a terrible shot, given that Democrats like Mayor Reed are anti-gun Democrats, why do they endlessly protect the inner city gun violence and pretend it's a non-issue? Text your back here, so you're assuming that the mayor is lying because you, but you can't prove it because you don't know, and what about, he's saying there is not that the violence narrative is overblown from Montgomery. Did you not listen at all to that audio I play? Maybe now is the time to play, okay. Now you said I should play the audio again. I'll play the audio again, so, and I'll read this text again. You're assuming the mayor is lying, but you can't prove it. I'll prove it right now. This is what happened in Montgomery, 1.30, Sunday morning. (dramatic music) (tense music) That's 15 seconds. That video goes on for a minute and a half, just like that. Text your here, let's see. Good morning, guys. This says something different with the number of rounds and posts a different story here. More than 300 rounds were fired and his initial statement reads that over 600 were fired, but that was changed late Sunday afternoon to 362 after further review by authorities, so. That's the latest there. I'm sure we'll hear more about the shooting in Montgomery as things roll along and maybe we'll hear Jeff Poor expound on it some during the Jeff Poor show on the way here just a little bit. - Yeah, Josh Moon's follow up after the shooting itself. He said the shooting, I don't know if you read this or not, I think we didn't quite get to this. The shooting is, this is Josh Moon's opinion on all this. The shooting is the latest incident in Montgomery, comma, which has drawn interest from lawmakers across the state looking to score political points off of the gun violence plaguing the city. So he says there is gun violence plaguing the city. He also says that this is politics involved with Republican lawmakers looking to quote unquote score political points off of the, now one, he calls that scoring political points, but then in the same sentence, he uses the words, the gun violence plaguing the city. - Right. - Well, if there is gun violence plaguing your city, Josh Moon. - Yeah. - Is that not a problem? I mean, regardless of what the stats say or the way that you can rinse them out and change them up or whatever. I'm trying to find stats, the city of Montgomery, it's tough to get them there. I think I would probably have to look at it more like a national, and even like you were saying too, we've seen those crime stats from the feds, which weren't very accurate, even dealing with the city of Mobile. And then you had a bunch of cities that didn't really turn in their stats. So if a city is ranked at a certain spot, well, if the others aren't even participating in the ranking, maybe you jumped over, jumped behind some cities. I don't know. - Right, and obviously this is, Montgomery isn't the only place that this is happening. - No. - You see it every weekend. - You're sealed and stocked in. - Yeah. Exactly, so tragic, and I know we've talked about it quite a bit this hour, but it is, it's a tragedy. I mean, who would want to live in Montgomery? But we see shootings happen all the time. So we'll continue on that story throughout the rest of the week. Also, this Civic Center story here, I found it interesting. I know nothing's ever a done deal, especially when you're talking about construction in Alabama, really construction anywhere. But Fox 10 spoke with Mayor Sandy Stimson about the big Civic Center project late last week. And of course, if you've driven by that property, the Corps of Engineers building has shot straight up. They have really been working quickly on that. And parking garage next, they're getting to the start of really building up the parking garage. - There's a slab and all that. - Stimson says the mayor says the Corps of Engineers building will be finished by the end of the year, but the Corps won't move in until the end of March. And they're hoping the parking deck is done right around April 1st of next year, and said the Corps will be using the parking garage, but there will also be spaces allotted to the public. I need to check, and some of you might already know it off the top of your head, Mardi Gras 2025. When do we get started with that? When's Fat Tuesday? I need to look that up. But the mayor, I think he's saying he wants to have that parking garage ready for Mardi Gras. I think that's what I heard him say earlier. But the part that got my ears perked up, or I guess my eyes, reading the mayor's Friday night newsletter, he said the city plans to reevaluate cost estimates for the new Civic Center arena. So I've been under the impression, I think like so many others that this was basically a done deal that they would demolish the Civic Center as it stands now. And if things go to plan, that could begin in August. But in the mayor's newsletter, it sounds like that might not necessarily be exactly what happens. He says over the next few weeks, we will complete 60% of the design work for a new state of the art civic arena. This will allow us to reevaluate cost estimates and decide whether to demolish the 60 year old complex and build a world class entertainment venue in its place. So it sounds like maybe because of cost, there's a question of whether they will go through with the plan to completely demolish the current Civic Center and rebuild a new arena. Sounds like there's a possibility they-- - Refurbish. - Refurbish. - What they have instead, yeah. - So talking about those plans, I don't know how, so 60% of plans, the design is done. But, and so I understand that it's apples and oranges here, but when you go to the Mobile Alabama City Mobile site for the Civic Center, there's one, two, three, four, it looks like nine artists' renderings, including things that look very much like plans from the Civic Center, some are renderings and some seem to be more technical in its appearance. So in any event, that you can look at that and think, well, the plans are done. Well, plans aren't done, and maybe it's fortunate that the plans aren't done right now at 60% because it sounds like some reconfiguring might have to be involved here, and when I say reconfiguring, I'm talking about the figures themselves and will the city move on full speed ahead with building a brand new arena? I would have said on Friday morning, of course, during that meeting. You point out that Friday evening, there's one little sins in the mayor's newsletter, which appreciate the mayor's sending those newsletters out, by the way. - Yeah, they are very, very helpful. - Very helpful. - Yeah, they are, open line of communication there. And as I was going to the shows this weekend, I was very happy that I got to go out there Friday with my dad, my brother and his wife were in town, and then I went back out there Saturday with my brother and his wife, and also some relatives of hers, and we were talking a lot this weekend as we were kind of hanging out, and I was telling them how great things are looking as far as building up the city. And one of the things I was talking about was that new civic center arena. - And by the way, the artist's rendering, it's, I hope if it's built, it's built at which it's a beautiful building on the outside, for sure. - The more events that we can have like, what was this weekend? And I know that Kidrock rocked the country, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Certainly, it was-- - Probably a potty mouth. - If there was a lot of potty mouth than going on. - By the way, years ago, Kidrock played Bayfest, and I talked, I think a mother or somebody called us the next day, they were, it was the country stage. So Kidrock was playing where the other country artists were gonna be, or were, whatever. And I think that's, I might have that wrong, but anyway, she ended up with her like nine year old. - Oh yeah. - And basically in front of the stage, and in the end was not really, they were a little shocked. She wasn't pleased. She didn't realize Kidrock would do just that, which I guess is exactly what he did the other night. - Yeah, and I remember the last year that I went to Bayfest, they had the rapper, Ludacris, on one night, and he plays a edited show. So he wasn't cussing up there. He was just, you know, close. He just wasn't saying the words. And so I'm like, wow, okay, so this is a clean show. They're making everybody go clean for Bayfest. Well, another rapper, Wiz Khalifa, was on the next night. - Yeah. - He did not have a clean show. He actually was like making love to a beach ball at one point during his show, and I was like, well, either Ludacris didn't get the message or Wiz Khalifa didn't get the message. One or the other. - You know who got the message? - The beach ball. - Yeah, it did get the message. - He got more of a message than he ever wanted. - But like, my favorite thing about the show this weekend, well, maybe not my favorite thing, but every single artist that got up there said Mobile, Alabama correctly, which is, that's a tough task for people who haven't been to Mobile or rarely have. They were all correct on that front, but the people I talked to that came from so far away, Minnesota, Wisconsin, a few I talked to, of course, a lot of folks from just around the South that didn't have nearly as far a drive, but that brought some money in. And Josh, you know, we talked with Councilman Woods last week and he said, "This is gonna be a boon to the local economy." And he was right. You know, I talked to some people who were staying down at the battle house. A lot of folks who were just staying on airport a little bit closer to the grounds. - I would not have guessed that. - Yeah. - I would never guess that that kind of event would have brought in so many people from elsewhere. I thought, well, for instance, when the artist a couple of years ago, Morgan Wallen, who was almost an underground artist at that time because of, you know, some things caught on video. But Morgan Wallen, that, I assumed it was a local crowd. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe I was wrong on that too, 'cause it was over 30,000. - Yeah, that was a massive, massive show. Again, great job to the MPD for, and the workers on staff doing the parking and getting people in and getting people out. It was about as clean an operation as you can ask for, getting people in there and parked, and then back on their way home. - Construction on Ziggler was not a problem, and is it already completed on that portion of that? - That was the only bit of weight we had, was Saturday night leaving. - Okay. - And we ended up on Ziggler for about 10, 15 minutes in a line with just two lane traffic. You know, one lane going in that direction. - Okay. - So that was a little bit of a hold up, but, you know, I've waited longer than 15 minutes to get out of, you know, South Alabama game. So I've waited more than 15 minutes to get out of theater or high school and a game there. - Yeah. - Way longer. So yeah, not a bad inconvenience at all. And so overall you would say it was a net positive easily. - Yeah, I don't see how it was anything but a success, and for whoever was collecting on concessions, I believe they had a pretty good weekend as well. - Yeah. - That was the one thing I walked in, and you're looking at NFL beer prices at the grounds. - Somehow people just kept buying them. - Yeah. - Including? - Including the people I know. (laughing) - It's a 851 on Mobile Morning. So Dan and Dalton, and we'll get back to some of your texts straight ahead, maybe even a phone call. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Dan Brennan, Dalton, are we? Give him top 106.5, if you. Enjoyed the rock the country over the weekend. There's two nights, really, started in the daytime. So a lot of entertainment, a lot of heat to battle off. And then of course, I guess when the sun went down, it felt a whole lot better at the fairgrounds. - Yeah, and Uncle Cracker sang that. So there was that. - Exactly, that's a song. (laughing) - Mobile Morning's in 25-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6. - Thank you, Backstrap Stacker, Fat Tuesday, coming up March 4th next year. So if the plan is to have the parking garage done, April 1st, sounds like they're gonna miss out on the Mardi Gras season there. So that'd be nice though, have that parking garage for next Mardi Gras. Martin says, "Slow the tape down "and get an accurate count of shots. "That thing is bizarre." I thought about it, Martin. I thought about counting 'em. Then I said, "I need to go to bed last night, "that I don't have the time to do that," 'cause that's a lot of shots. Texture here says, "Internet is a powerful thing." That's why Kid Rock had the crowd. He promoted the crap out of it. He certainly did and it showed this weekend. I wanted to get to this because we've talked about all, we've talked about all of Boeing's domestic airline issues. Of course, you'd have to be living out in the woods without internet to know Boeing's been going through it here recently. - Yeah, and whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork as well. - Yeah, and some of them dying. - Yep, but they had a big win. Earlier this month, there might've been late last month when the Boeing Starliner finally was able to take two NASA astronauts up to the space station. Well, once you go up, you have to come down, right? And for a third time this week, the Boeing Starliner was delayed. And now you have these two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams stuck at the ISS. And in this article, they say engineers on the ground are racing against time to fix numerous issues with the spacecraft. Officials have reported they have a 45 day window to bring them back. Now, it doesn't mean that they're gonna leave them up there and that they're just gonna die in the space station if they don't miss the 45 day window. They said the return module of the Starliner spacecraft is docked to the ISS's Harmony module, but Harmony has limited fuel, leaving the window for a safe return flight increasingly narrow. Wilmore and Williams were supposed to come home on June 13th after a week on the space station, but because of problems that include five helium leaks on the Starliner, they're still up there. CNN said-- - But they knew, they knew about the leaks. - They knew there was a small leak. - They knew there was a small leak and they made the decision that, you know what? I don't think that's gonna bother anything really. - It wouldn't be too big of an issue. - Exactly. - And it got them there, right? Now you gotta go back. They said the issues with the Starliner included five thrusters that abruptly stopped working during the flight and a series of helium leaks. But a space expert said in worst case scenario, this would be worst case for Boeing, I believe, the astronauts will have to wait until Elon Musk's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft makes its scheduled trip to the ISS in August. So how would that look? Boeing could finally get them up there, but if they have to have SpaceX, bring them back down, what a twist, right? - Unbelievable. And yeah, I mean, they knew there was a leak. - They had to make some sort of an analysis and said it's not gonna be a big enough problem. We're just gonna go ahead and send them on up there. - Yeah. - And now they've got a picture ride home. - That's amazing. Coming up, Jeff Porsche show, stay representative Jennifer Fiddler, hour number one. Stephanie Holden Smith with the API and hour number two and Dale Jackson with WVNN joins Jeff in hour number three. - Dan and Dalton back tomorrow, beginning at 6 a.m.