And that's where places where there's mass transit or places where these published newspapers held on a lot longer than they did in places like, for example, in Mobile doesn't have a daily newspaper anymore.

You would walk in, so if you work on the Hill, you would walk in, you know, you start as a lowly intern or staff assistant, and there would be this bundle of newspapers at each office, you know, wrapped in the little plastic, hard plastic zip tie things.

And that was like the first thing anybody, you got to the door, first one there, unclip these things and a pile of papers would, you know, newspapers would just be wherever your office put them.

But but yeah, no, now it's now it's you're going online and even if they do print the papers, half of it's propaganda.

Anyways, I was looking at Politico this morning.

Rand Susie Wiles is in trouble for her job.

Nobody believes that.

That's how they made – they were – printing presses for so long because one of these lawmakers april marie and you know this too they just they're just in their ways like they they were raised on the newspaper and they still read it they don't like reading it on their phone i mean they got bad eyesight or something i don't know

What's the sense of the election? Uh, what are you hearing out there?

Yeah.

So I went...

A- and I really appreciate them inviting me to come.

I, uh, I was happy to come join us, join them, and it was me and Corey Hill.

Uh, they're...

The group of ladies...

But to be honest, man, like I, I just, that's not doing it for people.

So, like, you know, the, the, the enthusiasm gap is the, their messaging bills, the things they do, the things that they're very excited about that they want to tell you about in interviews, in their campaign speeches, uh, uh, th- there's, it's not doing, it's, it's not having its anticipated effect, and the Democrats are eating their lunch on it

itI, [coughs] I think there really is, um, y- as you said, the, the Doug Jones signs.

If, if yard signs were votes, we would be in trouble, and I really hope that people realize that.

I, I think there's something in where you have to say to people, "You need to process that, because if you don't have a Tuberville sign in your yard," and this isn't a campaign ad for Tuberville, but if you don't have a sign in your yard, if you're not talking about this election, you, you're, you're kind of missing out.

You're not doing your part.

And we need people to, [laughs] to realize that, um, you're not hearing a lot, you're not seeing a lot, but things have been done.

And so, uh, my thing tonight, and, and I'm with you on the funding.

I would think that's something that's, that's a net positive, that they need to be, the state needs to be making sure that it is, that, that it is adhering to the law and not leaving it up to people just to kind of find out about these, these lawbreakers.

That, that there's just something about that, that prototype of candidate that they really promote, but they don't coach up enough to really become relatable and make a connection with people.

Well, and that's...

He's gotta be that, those congressional seats have to be on the list of why Trump is there, right? I mean, he endorsed a handful of people.

Of course, uh, as you could see all over the news, uh, Katie Britt is, uh, is, you know, a Tr- a Trump sweetheart.

And so people who say, "Why is he in Mobile?" Well, he's in Mobile.

We do have these congressional races.

We do have some endorsed statewide candidates.

Our friend M- Allen Mendenhall says they kind of operate as kind of a, you know, a purple state legislature and not, like, a Republican super majority.

It's like, hey, how do I update my passport? Where do I get a this? How do I get a, you know, a, something for by you know a military servicer i'm sure it does all that stuff quite fine but you got to know you put something up that's supposed to be or ai or as presidents call it super intelligence si that we're going to ask questions like this where are the alien bodies

I will say this, I asked it what the latest was title nine was because those actions taken yesterday was title nine and it has yesterday's actions.

It says latest official actions and then it has the September 28th, uh, DOE, um, rules, which by the way, if you're curious what happened yesterday, uh, they said, okay, we really, we, we really, really want you to understand that, uh, that boys cannot be girls and play girls sports and being girls spaces.

But yesterday was like the final, like we have officially rolled back the rules for the Biden administration because there's a whole process, right, for rule changing.

So impressive.

It knew what happened yesterday.

And then Envisioned Education Program for the Children.

yeah so basically it's um it's and you can see the apartments uh the biggest is the three the biggest they currently have is a two-bedroom it says a three-bedroom will be announced but you know when i saw the communal places you can go to get your meals um this is you said the word cult i said it looks like a voluntary jail that you're putting yourself in like everything you need right here will give you cars to go bye-bye but you don't have to go bye-bye like I was looking at the comments on the ad I saw, and somebody was like, Hotel California much?

They're completely bereft of courage, and that pisses me off.

It really does.

It gets to me too.

And I've reached out to a number of people.

So I saw the Finn Church story.

John Rich started, got, Finn Church got in touch with John Rich.

Now I've interviewed him in person on radio.

So these other schools now, and real quick, explain to me, like I'm five, what is a faculty senate and what purpose do they serve?

They're completely bereft of courage and that pisses me off.

It really does.

It gets to me too.

And I've reached out to a number of people.

So I saw the Finn Church story.

John Rich started, got, Finn Church got in touch with John Rich.

Now I've interviewed him in person on radio.

So these other schools now, and real quick, explain to me, like I'm five, what is a faculty senate and what purpose do they serve?

And make sure that you're raising children, that even if your children know, then new people come in the house or whatever, you have to have them secured.

Yeah, this is an important thing to parents and grandparents because in Birmingham, there have been a number of situations in which a parent has allowed their kid to go to someone else's house, not realizing that that person had an unsecured firearm.

And so the kid goes to the house, sees a firearm, is curious, and it results in a shooting.

And whether it's one kid showing another kid the firearm or whether it's them taking it up.

We've had several instances since I moved to Alabama of guns and vehicles that kids have gotten.

They're going on to shoot their parents.

You know, it's a very, it's one of those things because it's entirely preventable, right? I teach my kids, treat every gun as if it's loaded and don't touch it.

Go ahead.

And these people that are coming here, The two things I think that are driving enrollment from out of state to Auburn and Alabama, it was Nick Saban and football, not necessarily Auburn, but in sorority rush TikTok videos that for some reason that culture is very alluring to a lot of teenage females around the country.

Yeah, I think all of the, it's almost like the Dallas Cowboys effect.

You know, they saw three times as many people apply once they had the reality thing.

The sorority rush, the same way.

It's become a beast of its own.

And now people want to go to, just want to go rush there.

I actually saw somebody interview the other day because they didn't get into any sororities.

And there's these lawmakers, I think, kind of go along with what they want.

... state funding.

I mean, they get state funding.

It was on their, uh, it was on their website.

They were promoting it as an, as an affinity group.

You know, a service they provide is helping, you know, these, these graduates figure out what, you know, whether or not to put their pronouns on their bio.

There's just a certain level of, um, what are you doing? And how out of touch with who Auburn is.

You know, uh, their student, uh, their stu- their faculty senate had a protest last week.

You know, we had legislation, right?

... state funding.

I mean, they get state funding.

It was on their, uh, it was on their website.

They were promoting it as an, as an affinity group.

You know, a service they provide is helping, you know, these, these graduates figure out what, you know, whether or not to put their pronouns on their bio.

There's just a certain level of, um, what are you doing, and how out of touch with who Auburn is.

You know, uh, their student, uh, their stu- their faculty senate had a protest last week.

... you know, we had legislation, right?

People, they kind of like the outspoken moderate, and that's what he is.

I think that in terms of likability, even for his own voters, he's got that going for him.

But yes, if you're the party, you're cursing him under your breath and behind closed doors, you're trying to figure out what you can do.

Because he's been open about distancing himself from their crazies.

And then he's been open about crossing the aisle for friendships.

And then last night, at what point...

They can't afford to lose them.

um and the right center networks i mean they they like to talk about fetterman in the sense that see one of them even thinks they're going crazy so you get a lot of fetterman you get a lot of carvel on the right leaning networks but i think they're keeping it chambered because they they look at it they know the senate's going to be tight and they cannot afford to lose a defection right now they had to keep him happy but if keeping him happy is letting him go rogue and letting him show up on like jesse waters show or whatever or sean hannity show then so be it he's doing but i think what he's done is he's created an environment inside of his state where he's made it very difficult for any kind of republican to unseat him now i don't know what goes on on the democrat side i think he'd have a challenge there's no doubt he'll have a challenger But I don't know that he's beatable in an election in Pennsylvania right now.

But it's a very disappointing thing when you value what this group of people says versus this group of people.

Yeah, no, I agree with you.

And I think that in terms of values that for years, groups for Moms for Liberty, for which I am a member, groups have been saying, how about you do this? How about you keep whatever your kooky ideology is in your house, not in the public library, not in the public school.

Not in the public square.

We don't want to see men wearing chaps, assless chaps, walking down the street.

We want to be able to raise our kids okay.

However, normal, we want to do it.

I don't know what the hell it is, but it's not being done from a good place.

And then I've heard the theory been thrown at me lately that he did it and set her up for it.

Right.

So the short version is this.

Obviously, there's no doubt she did it, except for the Candace Owens, your brain is baked, you're not with reality, you're not with evidence, whatever, right? So the husband idea, that's a very good way.

If you've got someone in your life who's like, the husband did it, okay, that person can't use reasoning and evidence and can't make good decisions.

And again, if you're dating a woman who says the husband did it, it might be time for a breakup.

So there's that.

OK.

Like I said, we have an insanity defense in American jurisprudence.

We do.

And you look at where, you know, I think these days and I, you know, for myself, I'm watching all of these violent crimes and taking hers aside.

You see how many of the violent crimes we see around the United States where we have the mentally ill going in and out of our jail system, specifically men who are committing crimes against women.

um and in public places and that there's a there's a mental health crisis in this country i of that i there's no doubt the question is is was this woman had you know did she have psychosis she clearly had depression she might have had some kind of you know bipolar situation thing going on but to me and what we were talking about this morning is the national response to this because And it's just, I find it surprising.

I find it, you know, I find it crazy that there are women by, you know, by the dozens hacking into the courtroom to support her.

I agree with you there, but is it a murder charge? Does it rise to that level? Is it guilt beyond the presumption of innocence? That's hard to prove given the circumstances of the case.

Yeah, what's crazy to me, and this goes back, and I brought in the Candace Owens, you know, Erica Kirk thing, is what's crazy to me is the amount of women who are online.

But who am I to start problems up there?

So there are ... [laughs] Well, my, my church has them too, actually, um, which is so odd to me, because most churches are actually going to armed, armed guards these days.

But neither here nor there.

S- so Bama Carry gets worried about Flock.

They start a petition, it's at Deflock Alabama, and almost immediately hit 1,500 signatures, and this is word of mouth only.

Um, just people sharing it on their Facebook.

There's no, there's no organized campaign for this.

Maybe, maybe that does get tightened down, you know, hopefully.

I think there's going to be a lot of that.

Well, I think it'll go twofold.

I think that he's going to, there's some things, we know gambling is one of them, right? There's some things where you go, okay, he's just going to get this off the plate.

It's been sitting there forever, tired of talking about it, let the people vote, and we know which way that's going to go.

And that'll be that.

But I think in terms of the small everyday issues, the things you go, okay, why can't we ban pride flags from classrooms? Why can't we you know do certain like ultra conservative things that there makes no sense to why can't we hold these colleges out you know accountable for still having divisive concept stuff or craziness in their colleges like i think those things are where we're going to be successful and if you look at florida in their legislature they have fights but generally it's over how far bill is going to go they're they're still fighting you know on the spectrum of okay are we going to give a little bit more Their Republicans are true Republicans.

Our Republicans tend to be blue dog Democrats.

It's kind of a fascinating phenomenon.

I now think we all understand it is really the data center issue that they don't want questions asked about.

Well, and I think you're onto something with this data center thing.

I am not as opposed to it as some people are, but I will say I am incredibly opposed to the way that they have gone about doing, especially the one in Birmingham right there next to the Humane Society building.

in terms of just the process, the behind-the-scenes sneaky, the non-disclosures, the we're going to quietly do things to let this through.

If you want and need a data center, if it's such a great boon to the economy and the taxes and all that stuff, then you stand up in public forums and you say it.

You don't do everything as behind-the-scenes as you have been.

And I'm kind of concerned that everybody seems to be avoiding those conversations.

Well, and it sows public distrust.

And then when the cap comes off, do we have do we have the money for everybody have a fair chance at this? I don't think we do.

Well, a couple things are in play there.

What does the state do? How much more money? Because the governor made it a point to allocate additional money for it this year, which is how so many additional students were funded.

But you've got to keep in mind, if you look at those numbers, the homeschool numbers have surged 70%.

But the homeschool students, there are a couple catches there.

One, which is if you're going to a private school, or a micro school, that kind of thing, you're getting a $7,000 scholarship or tax break, okay? If you are homeschooling, you are getting $2,000 per child, but only for two children.

And so I clearly need to go back to some kind of grammar school, which is a weird thing in Alabama.

You know, what time is school time? What is demanded during the school time, right? But

And sometimes that impacts the policy.

Oh, it does.

Absolutely.

There have been times where you go, why isn't this thing happening? And you go, oh, well, so-and-so is dating so-and-so.

And it's usually, you know, someone in the Senate and someone in the governor's office, someone in this office or that office.

You know, I...

There just is that to it.

Where does, like, it crosses that line into the unethical, right?

I mean, what if what if the bombing, the carpet bombing here doesn't work? Do you end up putting American troops on the ground there to occupy Iran for God knows how long?

One thing that our nation has not been great at in this administration is getting other countries.

And we've seen a little bit to some extent with Israel.

We've seen it.

We've seen it a little bit.

But I think we need more partners and we need.

Here's the problem.

Explain what's going on here, how this mechanism is trying to work.

Brooke Reed in Montgomery County said, rejecting the Tuberville residency challenge that probably has a lot of long faces around the state today.

Yeah, so my theory on this is everybody going after it knew it wasn't going to succeed.

They knew he had probably run this all the traps beforehand.

But it's a good campaign thing to be able to say, you know, we're continuing to check this.

There's still issues with this.

We really don't know if he's going to be qualified.

Like the what ifs, people are dining off of that and have been for months.

Doug Jones never could do that.

That couple got some attention out there.

They did.

It's because they're hot, right? They are hot.

And then it turns out that they already had a Netflix special.

So I went way down the rabbit hole.

A couple of your listeners were like, you know, you've got to enforce the law.

I'm like, no.

So, and of course, yes, it's House Bill 666, right?

That couple got some attention out there.

They did.

It's because they're hot, right? They are hot.

And then it turns out that they already had a Netflix special.

So I went way down the rabbit hole.

A couple of your listeners were like, you know, you've got to enforce the law.

I'm like, no.

So, and of course, yes, it's House Bill 666, right?

birthday uh that's because they had done a lot it was the anniversary of the statue of liberty and they'd done a lot of work to it what do you think our kids will remember about this uh this occasion

You know, it's funny to say that because I was really wondering, there has been a movement to get kids involved to reading American history.

I pointed out some things from, I believe it was PragerU for them.

I think it is what you make of it, right? Like my kids are hopefully going to remember that we talked about the country.

We talked about what's great about it.

We really have followed the Fridays of the pandemic.

who have come here um so i think they'll remember that i don't know you know again if we'll see if the fireworks on the national mall if they if they're entertained by that but hopefully they remember at least this being a year that i you know that we work together their family to uh to get them to learn some some about american history and how great it is I guess my takeaway is American exceptionalism.

But the politics, I think, have just gotten a bigger part of the culture.