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Jonathan Mcconnel from Meridian USA talked about security in USA and more - Midday Mobile - Friday 6-21-24
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I'm good And so I guess before we even get started people hadn't heard us talk about it before your company that is Global company, but based right here when you're a homeboy based right here in Mobile Does what what do y'all do? We do a lot of anti-power to work off the coast of Somalia is mostly what we do obviously in Red Sea anywhere from So as Egypt all the way east to Sri Lanka with some of us out of India and then all the way up into the Persian Gulf or Reagan See depending on which side of the picture on there and then all the way down to South Africa we will load armed security teams and Make sure that merchant ships get there safely Yeah, and it's the people that he's putting on those ships those security teams or men that are like him veterans Out there that are now defending these merchant-brained ships and you mentioned the the pirates of course That was the big thing had us talking years ago about that But now into the mix you got the pirates like you said before coming back. They're filling in the vacuum left in that situation But now we put in a terrorist group and the Houthis out there that Aren't looking just it's got to be different because they're not just looking to take stuff off a ship They're looking maybe just to destroy the ship to destroy it Yeah, so I mean it's an act of terrorism. They're not there to do any type of financial gain They're just there to disrupt global trade You know this disrupt global shipping. I mean the Somalians. I'm actually when they last time the ship was 12 13 years ago They were actually had a great business about it They would pull the ship up to you know The coast of Somalia and they would sit it there for for months and they would wait until it won right out of fuel Because then they need it now it's going to cost you two million dollars more because you got to pay a tugboat up from Mombasa To also bring the cash but also to tow it back And so that would you know be a two million dollar surplus the average payout usually back in those days with nine to 12 million dollars So they take the long game, but it was entirely commercial, but I mean honestly If I was a military snail in Slowly and probably a part of them be totally honest. I'm important. It's a much of a job What they're doing like sitting on to an uncop all day, right? This would be that that would be to be honest. It'd be the two of us Yes, we would be doing that probably because that's uh, that's where the money would be made But now you've got at least in that you start thinking about that scenario you understand their motivations You can protect against that that motivation because they get a physically get this ship and hold it to get ransome or get stuff off of it Now we're dealing with these terrorists out there That like you said, they're the it's not the same motivation Uh, their motivation is to to shut down shipping there They don't want ships going through there where if you're a Somali pirate you want a little steady flow of people coming through so you can pick some off With the hootheys now I mean we we we've talked about this, but we're we got dead sailors here We got people dying in that region because of these hoothe attacks That's right. Yeah, I'm so that they they have sunk two vessels now the The second vessel they sunk, which is the tutor which is last week. I mean they hit with a, you know, unmanned drone A waterborne drone so it was not an aerial drone this time and just drove it right into the stern and blew up the engine room Which calls it to media we think I mean so there was no dane for for the hootheys at all But what the hootheys are wanting is legitimacy, right? So you got this far extremist group in yemen that what they had a coup Was it 12 years ago now uh 10 years ago and kicked out the uh, the Yemenis that were in power that were aligned very much not very much with the u.s but aligned somewhat with the u.s And uh, and ever since then the hootheys have looked for legitimacy to be like, okay. Hey, like we're fighting america And that's the the message they preach all across yemen is like hey, we're we're fighting the great infidels the americans and Like, 99 percent of americans didn't know what a hootheys was And now they've actually legitimized themselves because with the backing of iran Uh, you know through their funding through their munitions through their training. I'm in fact They borrowed iran's helicopter to take out the galaxy leader on uh or to uh hijack the galaxy leader on the uh, with it No, they were 16th. I believe for 17th this last fall. So it's uh, they're getting some help for sure Okay, and go and be johnson's been on this You know, obviously a lot more than most people who hadn't heard of the hootheys before but then again He has a master's degree as as a marine and a veteran and you know, somebody who spent time uh dealing with uh that part of the world and a lot of the ideology so This battle going on here you have this A little bit of a proxy right you talk about the alignment with the united states versus those aligned with iran How does saudi arabia play into this who where's that uh, why are they in this conflict? Well, so the saudys are very much I mean They're an ally to america, uh, you know, we we fun more disagree on Some major things with yeah with saudi, but they've been a great Um, I won't call them a partner, but they've been a great ally Especially going against the hootheys the hootheys were essentially fighting the proxy still are fighting the proxy war Uh aligned with iran against saudys. Uh, so right here on the uh western border Right about hobby. Da. Uh jazan saudi radar. Those are some Like where it's more of a conflict area. They shoot stuff back and forth all the time. There's not many incursions It doesn't seem like that uh, but the saudys have been dealing this for years, uh seven or eight years Um, dealing with the hootheys and in in honestly the immoradi's have been involved as well Uh, so yim and essentially is dealing with it from several front Uh, but they just haven't been successful in stamping out the hootheys hootheys are a terrorist organization, but they're also very much like how isis tried to build the caliphate, you know what six years ago And they brought in a government and they you know, so the hootheys are actually functioning in a society Uh, and they have a government there in western yimmin or yimmin Um, but they're just you know Their idea of like hey, let's cause disruption and uh in the red sea is Or actually all the way out to even the gulf boom on is is uh, it's quite frustrating and also um, just so to be to be frank because if the us decided to I think we could crush them and Uh, I don't know a couple weeks. I mean it took us You know Lesson a month to take bag bed, right? So, uh, you know, I don't want troops on the ground But I think we could do with some strategic bombing and this is finiboss and to continue the tax Yeah to hear the hootheys too. I mean either the timeline to hear the rhetoric to this is Uh, this is ancillary to israel's war in gaza, right that they're doing this of course. I mean if you're Uh, your puppet masters are ran. You know, you you're answering to them They said, you know, they were going to first just target ships right that we're going to do business with israel or going to israel But it seems like they failed that one Yeah, I mean They're just searching for target opportunity now at first they were looking for a nexus for any I mean that was the reason they initially started was anybody that was helping or aiding israel Um But now it is it's expanded to you know, if they see a ship and they can target they're going to do it Um, you know, I think the tutor was a librarian flag. I'm not mistaken. Um, and uh, so You know, I don't know if there were any ties I think the galaxy leader left it was aimed by zodiac if i'm not mistaken or there was some partner there That had some israeli kind eyes and but yes, I mean It's no secret to the entire middle east is uh, every ear of country absolutely despots Israel once it wiped off the face of the earth And so they're they're back so again for all. I mean, look at levanon. I think yesterday said something about his cypress helps, uh Death and he shouldn't send the gaza or something in the trip from the israel Uh, you know, they had a pretty strong rhetoric about the consequences regarding that Yeah, if y'all didn't hear that. I mean what johnson's i'm about but i don't know if we've mentioned it yesterday or not But his blog has said cypress y'all where they're the way I understand it They're bringing relief supplies to relief supplies coming into cypress as well that are going to gaza Uh, but because they say they're doing stuff with the israelis you're going to go attack a an island Not even i mean not even attached to gaza not even attached to israel and they're going to attack there Yeah, that's right. Yeah pretty uh pretty strange Hey, we'll get uh got a lot more questions here our friend johnson mcconnell Uh, the company is meridian us. He is a homeboy, but he's got his folks for his company Uh work in half a world away in the place is making all the news out there coming right back We'll get more of your text at three four three zero one zero six. This is mid-day mobile on fm talk. What oh six five Hey This is mid-day mobile with shawn sulliman On fm talk one oh six five Right. Welcome back. It is friday edition and mid-day mobile grind to have you along Get right back to my conversation with my friend johnson mcconnell from meridian us First let's check in with my man blaine price at perish tractor in robert. So hey blane How are you showing how's it going? It's going good. 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Yeah, so the the point of origin the two sites So, yeah There's plenty of radar and there's there's so many different ways that you Identify a two side and I mean how quickly could we get ordinance on that? I mean, yeah, so they may shoot it Or may launch them from somewhere. Um, and then you know, can you do it with air? You know air support or you can You know, it's probably too far away for artillery. We don't obviously have a battery setup anywhere Uh within you know 30 clicks of there, but yeah, I mean, I think it would be something the relatively easy Okay, so now to flip this around the other thing you and I talked about and you not talk about this Off there as well I've just watched this for a while, but especially since uh, what's popped off in Ukraine and then now In Gaza is the use of drones you mentioned it too and taking out this this ship um The dichotomy between the ordinance or you know, whether we're putting a jet in the air we're shooting some from a from a battleship or destroyer What they're using in drone technology is way cheaper than what we're responding with, right? Sorry, you're talking like even the really nice big drones, uh, that you know that the ones are going 100 miles or so there's At most it's a $20,000 drone and then we're shooting it down with the Two to three million dollar missile. That's you know an anti missile Missile from a destroyer and so they are winning economically uh, absolutely kicking our tails on that one and I mean Whether we could find a different way. I mean I think we are so far behind the game in the drone drone world I mean we just built the us government or us government just funded building a 155 factory Which is our story shell just how to outside of Dallas for general dynamics and I'm like why did we invest? 10 billion dollars and why don't we own the drone market, but China is so strategic and they're like hey, you know what? We're going to fund DGI and so that they are the essentially the preeminent drone company in the world And they're all subsidized by the Chinese government because they're getting all the data from us They're learning how to do this and it's keeping everyone outside of the market And so it's just another example of how China's kicking our butt and we seem to not care Yeah, or you know that that military industrial complex is so deep Uh that they don't see the money in doing drones that they see and you know in the traditional ways have been spent And money but on this drone side that analyzes because this mismatch on the battlefield first Let's keep it on this aquatic side because I've seen the Ukrainians use these Subaquatic aquatic aquatic right at the right at water level drones to take out some really big assets of the russians plexi fleet I mean, that's a big that's a complete changer of the naval game Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. So if you take out like the vessel that took up the tutor on last week was having it was a american drone You know, I've got that acronym acronym was for it but You know like if you did imagine if you took out that thing, let's say cost a hundred thousand dollars It doesn't but let's say if it did And you took out one of our 19 billion dollar carriers like that's the best return on investment Anything i've ever seen it's like, you know taking the airplane and not another one nevermind so I mean really I mean it it has to change it. I mean if i'm If I have naval assets in the theater, I'm probably going to be a little spookier if i'm you know if i'm in command of Of a ship that even though I can't see the enemy ship. There's something in the water that could take out this gigantic hulk of of america floating out there That's right. Yeah. I mean if you look at the formation that aircraft carriers move in I mean they're they're there that you've got mine detectors and get vessels the aircraft carrier is obviously the the The king uh they're on the chest board and so you protect it with all the other parts and all the other ships that are out there but still, I mean Could it happen? You never know um and You know the only you only have to get lucky once right and then all of a sudden that's a 19 billion dollar mistake and plus what? 4000 lives if not more They're a cold piece of machinery. So I mean there's where it's go ahead I'm gonna pivot one second on this The Chinese let's do this. We're up against a break. Let's do that. We're up against break Can you hold on to that because we're about to go to the news break? And I want you to just hold on to that as we pivot because we uh, I want to get in this conversation because Jonathan sees it number one and what he's doing for his living now But as a warrior uh, us veterans sees it with much more depth than many of us out there So we'll come back and get his insights into this Jonathan McConnell from meridian us our guest And we're coming right back on midday movie This is midday mobile with shawn Sullivan on FM talk 1065 Right, so welcome back midday mobile friday style glad to have you long three four three zero one zero six for the text line Questions for my friend Jonathan McConnell meridian us Jonathan you're as we went to the news break there you were pivoting and you want to talk about shipbuilding Yeah, I mean, so like this is another part where we're actually failing We have what four ship guards in the united states that they've produced military vessels And we are so far behind china's producing at the rate of like once one a month they're pumping them out and we're pumping them out like one every 18 months Um, you know, and i'm not trying to say that we need I'm not a fan of the military industrial complex But we've made not need more ships But we've got to do something about this to combat the threat of china in I mean, if we're gonna have a slide of whether I have it tomorrow than I would in five years Let's say built a fleet up that we can't defeat You know, and I think that's something that we need to start talking about and it's odd that I think i'm about the news this morning We're self self-career you just purchased um affiliate A ship guard out of Philly. It's just like what are we doing? Um, so We'll see Smaller people to meet are hopefully in charge. Uh, you know like president Biden is credibly articulate, uh, well thought out well planned and uh, and so I have a lot of trust there Uh, and uh, you know in lord Austin. I I an alibany in at that. I mean, you know, the biggest step We have direct troops right now is uh racing's in the ranks and so, you know, maybe china's Up there somewhere. Yeah, hopefully it's cycles rad on the china thing and then we'll come back to Uh, the the mid east but on the china thing. I had a story. I think it's on monday's show And I I think an abrel in the pacific fleet and I don't have the story in front of me Said the plan for dealing with china trying to take taiwan right coming across a taiwan straight Uh, they would create a drone hellscape every like she's word hellscape these days A drone hellscape, uh to slow the chinese down a long enough for us to get our uh, I guess Uh ourselves and allies in theater in position rated to defend taiwan which goes back to the you know Where are we in policy? You know, we say we defend taiwan, but then again, we have a one china policy Uh, but he's acting like it'd be this this swarm of drones That would be keeping uh china repel, but like we just talked about we are way behind it's not like Uh, we're leading the world in drone production, but I mean, that's where he that's where he went in his saber rattling Yeah I hope that's the plan then it's not american lives at that point. So that'd be great. However, let's let's just remember I mean china has 1.2 Korea uh during the korean war in the chosan reservoir They didn't have enough weapons for the the chinese Literally, they were just going to finding a weapon went like when they were just cinnamon waves of people thousands of people And soldiers and they would literally pick up the weapon and then they would fight because they just didn't have enough weapons They had 1.2 billion the and they're not going to send that many across the taiwan But I mean They can attract a lot of people and still be successful because it's it's not it's not a numbers game to them. So They don't know they're like, you know, I go on and on about russia and the green machine and how they will Uh, wear you down with people well china's the big brother to that for sure in how those sacrifice Uh people to for a gain as as we stay in that theater you talking about korea too Uh saw this uh earlier this week. I think my headline I wrote was well. This isn't great uh, when fun america poutin takes his trip to to north korea and exchange gifts he and Ungo riding around some car. They brought I mean giving each other t sets and they're they're the bromance is huge here but Beyond that though, they signed a deal I think it was discussed in a ap story a basic a mutual defense deal And that one beyond all the other things really frightens me because If now something would pop off we have, you know, the dm z we have basically an armistice I mean, we don't have a we don't have a treaty Uh for the korea's something happens there as they're starting to float the balloons, you know, and do all the stuff they do back and forth Uh, something happens there. Of course, we're coming in on south korea's side and now not only maybe china but russia coming in to back up Pyeong Yang. I mean that it's a bad place Oh, it's it's a horrible time, but hopefully we can get dennis robin back over there and good. He'll fix it You know, he'll fix it. I mean he'll be like, hey, listen. That was the first cringe. You're screwing you guys so But now I mean it is problematic. I I think we've talked about this for like I was incredibly surprised How horrible russia did in the invasion of ukraine. I mean like like just logistically Uh, I used to think about russia and that there would be a really Hard fight and what scares me about russia is the nukes Uh, you know from a conventional web uh military standpoint, um, you know Russians are some big guys are very determined, uh, but just tactically, you know from a general level Uh strategic level. I don't think they did well with the invasion of ukraine. So i'm not overly worried about that. And let's be honest Um We have two huge oceans that are protected the problems. We have a sort of border that is like a sieve and You know, it lets people are in all the time, but Russians aren't coming across our eastern western border or even northern border Uh, but now whether they already have two million russians here already that could do sabotage attacks that could happen Well, I mean we got the uh, specifically, you know, the six dougiques that were in here Uh, the same, you know that are affiliated with the same isis group that did the attack in moscow So, I mean you've got state players and non state players, but the russian side just for a second I mean i've been reading for what it's worth uh that they have In russian fashion they go in and they screw up and they at least learn at some point And they've been learning to to do better on that battlefield and and thwart what the Ukrainians are doing Uh, but yeah, they do it at a cost of a lot of lives there I don't know, I get to get you back to talk about russia and ukraine Because I don't know where the off ramp I keep looking for peace because I don't see how ukraine can like win Yeah, I can see them maybe holding them off. I don't know how they can win Uh, but to to this conversation on the ships were not building and then this drone technology I mean this is it's going forward. I don't know it used to be you're a superpower You built your military you had the biggest gun and that gun could be in the form of a A bomber or a tank or whatever fill in the blank And then you could you could hold dominance now back to that drone situation we're talking about I mean you could have a battlefield right now that I could imagine I can have a drone that could take out a tank Right, you went I could have a thousand dollar drone with a charge in it. They could take out a tank I mean that the whole world of how i've understood Uh the balance of power out there seems I worry it's at a tipping point You're covering and I my has all to the service number. I mean the service members nowadays What they're having to see on a battlefield. Um, I mean like in ukraine Uh, I was listening to the guy. I was like, yeah, you don't get out of your trench To take a crap in the middle of the night because the drone will literally be flooded to your chest for a charge on and kill you And i'm like that's just incredible. I mean that the fact that's where we are in warfare And that's what our you know young men and women in american said we'll be fighting one day Hopefully, hopefully not, but I mean I think that's that's the battlefield. That's the battle state for collecting it. It is terrifying to me I mean, I I The two tours in iraq. We owned the air like we never had an issue. I never ever looked up in the sky In fear because I knew it was always a helicopter was it's always our guys or a fast maneuver. It was always our guys And they were always there to support us. That is not that I hope that will always be the case But uh now i'm having to worry about drones like that's terrifying Yeah, yeah, and I think too I have said this before it not even around you, but when people talk about situation In gasa with the idf and and their losses. I said, you know Uh, we are an exemplary country. I am you know, I am a proud american will always be a proud american Maybe of certain things more than others But the fact that y'all did what you did like in philuzia. We could have we could have brought in ordinance and leveled philuzia But instead we risked your life and other marine's lines to go and door-to-door to prevent from killing Uh, rackeys that were not non-combatants. I mean it's I keep coming back to that because I think it's a thing that people have forgotten Oh, I mean the the greatest thing in our church is american Middle women's blood. I mean it like, you know, it's it's just sad. Uh, you know, I think that I wish we had a rule where You know, hey, I have the rule. I don't vote for anyone who hasn't served. Uh, I mean, I will if there's no choice But I mean you pretty much Diagnostic to your politics most of the time because you believe what's best for this country because you bled your life a lot and uh, and you know, it's It's just different. There was a probably one It's a non-profit Um, a super pack. It was formed. Uh, it was called the fulcrum and it was okay. Listen. We want to get veterans elected So when we get up there, they just move the needle like I don't care about your politics But you agree that you'll Work offline to move the needle. It's the same immigration immigration. We've been talking about for 30 years I was in high school and I remember talking about immigration and I was like we haven't done anything about this in 30 years now And I'm like like It is asking that you think you can keep a like in these same idiots up there and in nothing gets done. It's crazy Well, and from a political side too, so it is a low hanging fruit not only republicans But you look I mean, uh, the fame from the body administration that yeah, we're gonna do something now Which turned out to be as always a fain, but they realize it because it's independence it scores high And and also some democrats It scores high you would think as politicians go. I want to do the thing that people want to do So they cheer me and pat me on the back. I want to be light That's the crazy thing that has that more hasn't been done on the border because politicians love a layup They love this slam dunk Yeah, but if if republicans call it the idea democrats are going to fight it democrats going with the idea We probably scared fight it even if it's the right thing to do They're going to they don't want the other team to get a single layup and that's what's ridiculous. I mean If we could solve immigration more or if we could I mean we need an event Well, we don't need an event that that the United country again not 11 the United country was for a few months I hope that we don't have an event like that But you know like that's something we almost need to do in the public country I guess I'd be event we could do would be the forgiveness of school student ones like I've seen those letters being published on my social media That's pretty cool. Like I love the boxing of those guys too. Like a guy that got sent It has the Biden administration forgives your line. I'm like actually the u.s tax payer forgave your line Like it was paying for that line. Like but we're given by the credit for this like whatever So yeah the the the the great a magnificent Beneficent one and then that guy. Yeah, there's a whole other story there. I'll probably get to it next week with this guy Then went on a spending spree afterwards, but I want to ask this question. This is from the text line here. This is fire dog He liked you a veteran and so I think this is good to get a veteran's question to a veteran He said I wouldn't recommend to any young person to join the military these days If the Houthis are this much of an issue for the u.s How would we fight a small conflict? So from one vet to another vet, how would we fight a small conflict? you You know You know if my son after that seven-year-old he knows Sean just squeeze boy He is my heart and he said daddy. I'm gonna be a marine like you and I was like buddy you can do anything you want to be but like it would break well from a Service standpoint. I'd be so proud of him. Uh, you know, but also like he's also my My treasure not like my entire world and something happened to him. I would be devastated But all of my friends. I'm at I'm at 19 years if I was sitting and I would be retiring in January It has become a social experiment all of my friend group I'm not very little very few peers are still in and the ones that are just like man like when when obama came in Uh, you know especially when vibing came in like the morale just fell through the bottom because they treated like a social experiment They're like, okay. We're gonna you know doing the entry where you start paying for, you know, uh, sex change operations You know, like you had the doctors that we have in the military or horrible at dealing with Marines Deal with other wounded and all of a sudden you compete with sex change operations. I heck would think it Yeah, I obviously We're thinking of not the primary job, you know, what is the point of having the military? It's not to have a petri dish for social experiments. It's to win wars a Johnson, uh, rebind folks too Uh, once again that y'all I just think it's cool. I mean, it's a mobile company, but y'all work Internationally if they want to go see more about what y'all do, how do they find you online? Uh, www. meridian dot uf. That's where we are Thanks Sean for having on always a place talking to you helpful. We'll catch up soon in person Absolutely, brother. Uh, be good. There we go. There's johnson mcconnell. We're coming right back more mid-day mobile Yeah This is mid-day mobile with shawn selvan on fm talk one oh six five Right. Welcome back fm talk one oh six five mid-day mobile friday style and uh good time to check in with my buddy ron at mobile Bay coins and find jewellery and get a guesser end of the week update on precious metals prices. Hey ron Hey, no sir. Sean. I'm good. I'm good. So what would we do in golden silver this week? Golden silver has been doing well. It's all the told silver is right because it's made under $30 mouth and gold is helping around 2349 right now so golden silver has been staying steady Which is a good thing for people that have hedges and you know the watching the economy and watching the stock market everything is holding their own And because of the higher prices by hiring me. Yeah, the gold silver a few months ago were you know probably 20% less There's been a lot of selling action mean there's a lot of variety in the market different types of silver that had higher premiums in the past that now those premiums have Vanished so you can get some cool silver for the price of regular silver basically all the stuff laughs so many people have been selling so many things close to spot It's a great time to add your head and get some cool stuff Explain that to me though. I mean you said Cool silver and so some kind of collectability or something like that selling for the same as as the kind of the raw silver or what? Yeah stuff that normally has a higher premium, but so many people have been selling it were just selling along with the regular stuff I mean collectible stackable one kilobars kookaburls and stuff like that that people had an abundance of and they're just Proficating on it. So we're just kind of passing the savings along to the to the customers So you come by the shop and see all the cool stuff you can get pretty close to what regular silver prices are Okay, I get a question while we've been talking this is from john and john must i don't know if he knows that this is You know all we have for talking about it seems like you have precious metals and jewellery and open on eyes But I think I know you know a little something about this john said hey are old postage stamps of any collectors value You know a little bit about stamps well Yeah, the stamp market is still strong in some states like New York There's a lot of large companies to deal with stamps But down south and even midwest the stamp the stamp collectors have really stanished I mean Unfortunately coin collecting isn't as popular as it wants was when i was a kid there or they didn't have the many Distractions you have nowadays and nobody will put their phone down Not alone. You know play with coins and stuff like that. Not that there's no collectors There's just not the quality we have back in the day Now can you give people an idea like if they've got something that they come by because we know always talk about you Given you know if people come in with pieces of jewellery or or things like that give an idea what they're worth. Does that same thing exist in the stamp world? No, I mean we've we've got out of stamps the last time I even sold a stamp of donor stamps during the 1980s That's how long ago that for me. It kind of went away in the 90s. It just disappeared now There's still some value. I'm not saying people should link them and put them on On packages and shipping to be surprised how many packages and get some other dealers around the country But they're just covered like small flat-rate boxes. They're just covered in old stamps As far as using them up instead of sitting around in the display case So I don't have a lot of people just using them So before you do that make sure you look into it and you can find most of that information online We just do not have a stamp expert here at the shop On the jewellery side, I know that I've even my mother has come to y'all to get estimates if somebody says hey I've got this thing. Is this real? Well, you know, you've talked about that with people buying things online I mean they could come in and see if it really is worth that or what it is. Is it real gold? You know, what carrot is this thing? Exactly. We'll give it a checkup. Make sure all the pawns are holding your diamonds down tight If there are diamonds involved because that's an easy way to leave the diamond If you only have four pawns and one of them gives out it's easy for the diamond to pop out So come in and we can give them a appraisal on it. We can give them estimate a buy sell us And then of course with the nicer piece of jewellery, we can resell They'll pay super strong a lot of because that we're going to try to retail with the shop All right. Good stuff ron tell folks how to find you They're located at 2204 government street in midtown mobile. They call at the shop two five one seven two five fifteen ninety I find it some 11 mobile bay coins.com. Hey, thank you ron Thanks, john All right. There he goes ron checking in for mobile bay coins and find jewellery check it on the text line here Don said good afternoon. Sean. I don't know if you saw this on america's got talent I can say no because i've never watched that show Uh, but he said there's a group of drone engineers that had like 400 different drones in the air at one time through a computer program They were making different designs in the air Can you imagine what that would look like to see those organized drones with charges being sent to destroy instead of entertain scary stuff? I'm with you john. I mean, that's what I you know talking to john thin about you look at a situation where Drone technology you have this I mean it used to be you almost had to Not always because you could have different ways, but tanks took out tanks, right? Even though yes You could have munitions take out tanks, but you would enter a battlefield with things that were equally costly to either side Well, now you have a situation where you have this drone You've taken out that ship the other day let alone think about if you use that Situation because I mean with the uss coal attack was people coming physically by boat with people at it You could at least take them out But a drone can come in there and attack something that costs a thousand dollars or even 25 30 000 Take out something that's tens of millions of dollars in value Uh, daniel says this is interesting so daniel said pay the ship guard workers better And from being a contractor inside the biggest shipyard in the area talking to the guys there and seeing it they say They saying that work four hours a day walk four hours a day Got guys showing up two hours before their shift sleeping in their vehicle to get a parking spot So it doesn't take two hours to get out of the parking lot Uh, it's that just that many people in the parking lot there Says rain or shine six a.m. Or three p.m. Winter or summer They have to walk to the turnstiles from the last parking spot to the turnstiles is over one mile There's got to be a better way they're wore out before they badge in Wow, it's that far from where they park to where they go to work that yeah, that seems like Any business would say hey, there's got to be a better way if we're going to be more efficient You should change that daniel i was unaware of that so and i'm guessing that's the big shipyard just to my west out there Hmm. That's uh something we'll look into talk about it coming up Uh, hopefully soon and maybe next week on the show. All right. Uh, you can always check us out online fm talk 10065.com and the fm talk 10065 app is out there Uh, talk to y'all tomorrow morning for fm talk 10065 outdoors. Uh our guest will have lee davis on from gnd farms Also, kurtl scott vanen director of alabama marine resources that saw at seven tomorrow with mike warden i Where fm talk 10065 outdoors paul fine bomb on the way next [music] [music]