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It's live, it's local. It's the Dale Jackson Show. And it's only on News Talk 770 AM, 92 5 FM, WVNN. Depend on it. Dale Jackson here, news talk 770 a.m. 92.5 FM, WVNN. Live local. I got to ask this question. And listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, bro. Bro, does anyone believe this? I'm going to ask you a question. Austin, tell me this. I mean, just, just, just help me out with this. Does anyone believe Decatur is a, quote, better, end quote, city than Huntsville? Does anybody believe that? No. As someone who lives there, I will say no, the smells, the factory, the smog, it's not, no. Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right. What the hell is this? You know, I, you know, and Austin, I'll just tell you this and everyone else. When Huntsville dropped from number one to like number seven to the top cities or whatever in one of these lists, I brought Mayor Tommy Battle on. I was like, what are you doing? How did you let this happen? You know, that kind of thing. And I was like, I was joking. Obviously, we were, we were kidding around. But I think it might be time for Tommy Battle to be impeached. I mean, there's just no other way to put. There's no other way to put this. US News and World Report has put together a list of the top cities to live in Alabama. And Huntsville is fifth. Fifth. This is got to be like fake news or something, right? It sounds like it. Right. All right. I mean, maybe they're trying to get me to read this. I don't know. I don't know. But when I say Huntsville is fifth, it's fifth in Alabama. Okay? It's not even fifth in the country. It's fifth in Alabama. Okay? I just, who believes this? It is, it is. It's just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Okay, here's the numbers I've given you. Okay, here, here's the numbers you get. Here's the numbers you get. Hoover, number one. Ah, you know what? I can see it. I can see it. Decent schools, suburb of Birmingham, lowerish crime, economic development. Okay. I mean, it's the cheaper mountain brook. Let's just put it that way. Okay. And I've lived in Hoover. But when I lived in Hoover, I referred to it as Guadaloover. Because I lived right off of, some people will know this. Some people have no idea what I'm talking about. I lived right off of US 31 getting off 565. I lived in an apartment. My rent was like $425 a month in the year 2007.

And this is not a joke. This is a real thing that happened. When I got the job in Huntsville after being fired in Birmingham, which is true, that happened. I pulled the U-Haul into the neighborhood or into the apartment complex. And this is going to sound fake. I'm telling you, it's a true story. What I assume were illegal immigrants would crawl out of, were crawling out of windows in order to say, like, hey, I, I, I'll help you. I'll help you. Give me some money. Give me some money. I'll help you. Give me some money. I'll help you. Give me some money. So I hired one of these illegal immigrants to drive up to Huntson with me and unload my stuff. I hired an illegal, guys. Put me in jail. Put Grant in jail for voter fraud on Tuesday. Put me in jail for hiring an illegal 19 years ago. Do you guys have like a conversation or was it just a silent drive? That was a good conversation. We talked. Okay. It was a good conversation. It was a good conversation. And, you know. He was a nice guy. I mean, he was just a guy wanting to work. That's all it was. He, the guy, you know. And, you know, next door to me, I never talked to these guys, but there were like five illegal immigrants living in like, I'm assuming they were illegal immigrants, excuse me, living in the place next door. Anyway, I called it Guadaloover, okay, because that's basically what it was. And it was, um, It was not great. But the rest of that city is, okay, I can see it. I can see it. Give me number one. Okay, fine. I'll take that. Number two, Daphne. Okay, I mean, what are we going to do here? What are we going to argue? We're going to argue that Daphne isn't one of the best cities in Alabama? Is that really what we're going to do? No, of course, no one's going to argue that. No one's going to argue that. It's okay, we all agree. It's great. Okay, we all are completely fine. You're on the coast. There's a lot of money. Everything is awesome. It's in Baldwin County. You got the Mobile Bay. It's right on I-10. You got all this stuff. Right. Okay. No one's going to argue about Daphne Alabama. You can make the argument that Daphne's a great place to live. Okay, fine. Yeah. Okay, great. Okay. I don't think anyone's going to complain about that. Number three is Decatur. And I just look at this. I looked at this list. And before you go any further into Decatur, I want to go to number four, Dothan. Okay, what are we doing? Are we listening to mouth abetically? What are we doing? What are we, what in the world is this? What in the world is this? Decatur, Dothan, then Montgomery. What? I just don't even understand it. I don't even get it. Then Florence, then Auburn. That's crazy. It's crazy. Montgomery, Doth and Decatur. What are we doing? Mobile, obviously. Aniston, eh. That's not something you hear a lot about. Gadsden, okay, Gadsden's growing. Tuscaloosa, obviously, is awesome. And Birmingham's 13.

But I'm sorry, I'm hung up on Decatur. I mean, I'm sorry. Someone who lives in the city of Decatur. You've got to sell this to me. I need someone that, and Austin has already taken a knee on this, all right? Well, Austin heard he was going to have to defend Decatur and just immediately was like, I live there, no. Okay, that was his response. Would you like to admit that at all before you get home to Decatur? No, no. If you're really going to compete against Tunsville. I mean, I like it because I live there, but it's not, I mean, no. Yeah. By the way, I'm not bagging on Decatur. It is what it is. It is what it is. Nobody's suggesting that like the people there are bad or anything like that. I mean, they've had some problems recently. They have poor leadership for a while. They've had some issues there. But. Nobody's ever been like, I sure can't wait to move into Decatur. It just doesn't happen. So I need somebody to make the pitch that Decatur is the city to live in. That it is, it's good. You got Hoover, you got Daphne, and then the bustling metropolis that is Decatur. Now, a couple things I know about Decatur. Okay, couple of things. I know about Decatur that you need to know about Decatur, okay? A couple of things. It's growing. It's real estate market is doing pretty well. You got a whole of this stuff happening there. I'm not suggesting it's not. But the guy who lives in Decatur, who I was going to say, hey, defend Decatur, it smells like cat food. That's the first thing you said. Am I wrong? Like the smell, the thing? Like, yeah, I look. Even, and let's put it in a different way, okay? I'm bagging on Decatur here, but not on Decatur as itself. And Austin kind of mentioned this. It's more or less the list itself comparing it and saying it's a better city to live in than Huntsville. You could make the argument for Hoover. I'm not sure I'd buy it. You could make the argument for Daphne. Okay, there's plenty of reasons to make that argument. You could make the argument for Dothan? Like, I don't, what is the, what is the Dothan argument? But I don't want to get into that. But I question the whole thing, mostly because, you know, you know, I mean, we. We know Decatur, like it's right down the street. We all know, we all know where it is. We all know what it is. It's not, I don't know. I just look at it. I just saw that. I was crazy. We'll get into what their reasoning was here in a bit, but I kind of wanted to lay the groundwork for someone to defend. Decatur. Okay? I'm giving you guys the option. You guys defended. 866-494-9-866. I'm open to being changed here. I'm open to being changed. Like, if the mayor wants to give me like the, you know, the Better Business Bureau, not Better Business Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce version of the city that they want me to come see. I'm more than open to being convinced. But I read this and I was like,

Two things entered my mind. Yeah, right. And Tommy Tuberville should be Tommy Tuberville. Tommy Battle should be impeached. Those were those were the two things that entered my mind. What are we doing PR-wise? How did this happen, Huntsville? What did you do? What did you do? Maybe all the people would say we need trains. Maybe those people are right. Maybe I've been wrong. We need to get a train so we can move up the list on this. Okay. All right. I'm going to give you guys an opportunity to make the pitch. 866-494 WVNN. That's the Coleman Furniture Market Free Speech phone lines. I will make a little bit of a caveat. I spent a New Year's indicator a couple years ago. I enjoyed it. I'm just throwing that out there. All right. You can get your text in as well. Scoutpass control.com. WVNN. Hot take text line. And you can email me. You've got mail. Dale at WVN.com. But listen, Cidney Decatur Chamber of Commerce. I'm open. I'm open. I can be convinced. Just not there yet. Stay tuned. Dale Jackson.

All right, it may sound like I'm bagging on Decatur, okay? Maybe because that's kind of what I'm doing, but it's, it's not, that's not really the point of the, of what I'm saying here. The point of what I'm saying here is, who believes that Decatur is a better city than Huntsville? Who? Okay? Who believes that? Who believes that? I just don't know. I don't know. Let's give some folks an opportunity to get in here and resolve this for me and maybe teach me a lesson. John in Decatur. Go ahead, John. Tell me where I'm wrong. Good morning, sir. Hey, my wife and I lived in Texas when she became pregnant and she wanted to live in Alabama. We looked it up and because of the school ratings and the crime per capita rating and the fact that we're close enough to Huntsville to enjoy it but still come home, that's what ranked them above Huntsville. Okay. All right. Did you find that it delivered what it said it was going to? Absolutely. I live right about midway through Decatur. I'm close to everything I want to beat you. And in 20 minutes, I can be in Huntsville and be at the malls, do whatever I want to do there and come home. And my neighbors are great. I don't have any problems on my street. I haven't had any crime on my street. I've lived here four years now, and I've had less crime and less problems than I've ever had in my life. Would you say it's a you live in part of the nicer part of Decatur? I live the old, old downtown. I live right, right down, down by the old part of Decatur. Okay, so yes. Yeah, you live in the nicer, the more expensive part of Decatur, right? Yeah, I don't, I don't smell the cat planet that talks about. Okay, all right, all right, thank you very much, John. Appreciate that, appreciate that. I feel like John maybe isn't getting the full Decatur experience. Maybe that's the case, but I appreciate him being there. And again, Yeah, I'm not suggesting the whole city. We're talking about this as a whole, okay? We're talking about this as a whole. I don't know what this says about Austin. That guy said, I don't smell it. I mean, the Bucky Bucks don't smell it. But Austin is just bathing in the cat litter. Every day, twice a day. Driving there and back, I smell the cat food. Okay, all right, all right. Some of you guys have given some ideas on what this might be about. I don't know what it is, but we'll give you guys, let you hear your thoughts on the Scoutpass control.com, WVNN, hot take text letter. You can get where John was on the Coleman Furniture Market, free speech phone lines, 866-494 WVNN. I've lived in Decatur 35 years. No one ever said Decatur. Okay, all right. Hold on one second. I got our little British, our little British robot friend is not, not doing well. Let's see if we can get this right here because that ain't going to work. To Kate your. No, what are you doing to me? You're killing me. One more, one more chance, one more chance.

Decatur Okay, all right, there you go, you got it. There you... You should try to hear him say Chattanooga. This guy doesn't know what he's doing. He does not know what he's doing. Okay, let's try this again. Sorry about that. I've lived in Decatur 35 years. No one ever said Decatur is better than Huntsville. We all go to Huntsville to shop and eat. No one goes from Huntsville to Decatur. Huntsville's gas is now cheaper than Decatur. Okay, all right, all right. So there's there's the general thought, okay? There's the general thought here, okay? And I'm not sure I, I'm not sure I disagree with that. That's how I've always heard it understood. That's how I've always understood it. Decatur, Barbecue, Water Park, Rock of the South, Wildlife Refuge, and Science Museum. You know what I probably hate Decatur? I'm kidding. But you know what? You know what? Probably so anti-decater? It's that wildlife refuge. If it was up to me, they would pave that thing. If it was up to me, they'd kill every single one of those alligators and they'd pave that thing. That's what they would do. Those things are scary, man. Those alligators scare the hell out of me. They scare the hell out of me. That place terrifies me. Speaking of Rock, the South. Just wait a few weeks when D.KHA gets completely... Sorry, I forgot to fix it. I apologize. Hold on. Just wait a few weeks when Decatur gets completely trashed by all the high school and college brothers attending Rock the South. Okay. Brothers. He wrote Bros, but he says brothers. Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, Rock the South, then move to Decatur. Is it so they have more space to destroy? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I don't know. How excited are you guys about Rock this out there? Are you worried about that, Austin? A little bit. It's a non-attendee. I don't want the town to get torn up. Okay. You're not psyched about it. You're not psyched about it. No, not particularly. Okay. All right. Maybe the average our round trip of the daily commutes to and from work in Huntsville is starting to make it less desirable. But no, no, no, no. You're missing the point. It's becoming more desirable. You're wrong about that. It is becoming more desirable. More desirable. So I think, I don't know, man. I don't know, maybe. 60 years experience living here is an always been a good old boy town. Several smaller museums, but Point Mallard is its highlight. But it's a money pit most years. Okay. All right. All right. There we go. I don't think Point Mallor is a money pit. I could be wrong about it. I haven't looked at the financials there, but it is an attraction that definitely brings people in and lets that happen. Now, here's a little bit of a deep cut here. People will not get this.

No sign police in Decatur. I believe I could be wrong about this, but I believe that's a reference to like all the signs shenanigans that went up at like City Hall and stuff like that. I went down there. Okay, so I just went, I went. So I'm not saying they had some shenanigans. It was some signage down there. So maybe maybe that's not necessarily a good thing that we're hearing. But I think he's being sarcastic. Comment to the first caller. Downtown Decatur is just down the street from the cat food plant and next door to the hood. No, no, no, you're misunderstanding what he said. His neighborhood's fine. His neighborhood is fine. It might be next to the hood, but they're not bothering them there. Because, you know, my guess is that's where the nice neighborhoods is where the police, like, they'll be like, okay, we're going to maintain this niceness here. Okay. So that was his experience. But he says, you say he should be able to smell the cat food. Well, he says retired. Maybe he's too old to smell the cat food. I don't know. Look, I'm not banging on Decatur. I just thought that a list that puts Decatur over Huntsville is a list that maybe shouldn't really be trusted. Let's try it that way. This is the Dale Jackson Show.

two five. Dale Jackson here with you, thrilled to be here with you. I am not thrilled to be talking to our next individual who will join us on the Alabama A&M, $350 million bulldog hotline because I thought we'd be having a very different conversation with former Congressman Mo Brooks, but we are thrilled to have him here anyway, in reality. Don't forget Alabama A&M $350 million. That's the economic impact on the great state of Alabama. $238 million in North. Alabama alone. Learn more about what Alabama A&M can do for you in your community at AAMU.com.E.D.U. Former Congressman Brooks, thank you so much for being here. Over a million dollars in attack ads were spent against you. On the heels of multiple, you'll tell me how many, I'm sure, multiple millions of dollars in attack ads spent against you during your run for United States Senate. These are two disappointing losses in a row of not to bring down the mood here, but could anyone overcome this? Probably not. When you're being outspent as badly as we were outspent, it's difficult to get your message out and you own the defense a lot because typically when you run up against dishonest people. They're more than happy to lie and distort to achieve their goal. And so you're spending money trying to correct the record, not telling people what you want to do if you're elected. And so, you know, we spent, we spent about $40 per vote that we got and the opposition spent somewhere between $3 and $500 per vote that they got. That's probably an all-time record. cost per vote and we're getting people telling us that it might be as much as two million dollars that was spent and that's That's just remarkable for a legislative race. Yeah, and, you know, I've talked about the reasoning for this, that this was done, and they went so hard to the mat. I believe it was all about legislative politics, where Nathaniel Ledbetter and his allies basically said, we're going to defend our team no matter what. And even if... Even if we get an L here, at least we've proven we'll defend our team, which will essentially enshrine loyalty. I think it's a political move there. Not that the gambling interest did not want.

Mo Brooks because you have made it, I think, very clear a fly in the ointment you would be on the issue of casino gambling and things of that nature. So I think that was a big part of this. You know, I want to do a little bit of a broader picture here for a second. And people will tell me, and I work in this business. And people tell me all the time that negative advertising doesn't work. That's a lie. They tell me that it depresses turnout. That's what one of the experts is saying about Alabama turnout being down. I don't think that's true either, although the goal is, I guess, to depress your opponents, supporters, and to not do anything. But I just want to highlight something. I just want to get your thoughts on it. Your record, and I'll even rope in Jeff Sessions to this as well. The two of you, If we were to get in a time machine and go back 10 years, would be seen as the most conservative, the most firebrand, in sessions maybe not, but seen as the most adamant. conservative supporters on issues of illegal immigration and debt deficit and things of that nature and nobody would ever say you know that you guys were rhinos or or anything like that and would question your record on taxes or or anything else but man i've never seen two people have their records misconstrued misled, lied about whatever phrase you want to use. Can you think of two people or a person where they've been able to effectively flip around their image through two or more campaigns? No, quite frankly, I can't. And I look at guys like Mike Pence. Like he gets a lot of heat right now from some on the right for the stuff on January 6 where he wouldn't do things that he could not do. I think that's been wildly unfair. I told Mike Pence that to his person that I think that he was treated pretty unfairly. And you guys were treated pretty unfairly. I think in these last two elections, you specifically these last two elections sessions in his last election. And before that. And it's hard not to dwell on that. You know, Mo, I've known you for a very long time. You're the same guy you were the day I met you, okay? I don't think you've changed at all. I've stood at tea parties with you. I've sat in offices and had private conversation with you in D.C. I've done all these things with you. Talk to you, I would say hundreds of times probably on the radio and elsewhere and TV and things of that nature. You haven't changed at all, but the perception of you absolutely has. When you look back at your record and what you've done, that's got to be just – I'm not trying to bring you down, but we're just having a little after-action review here. But what do you think about that? Well, it's very disappointing. There was a time when voters would vote against candidates based on their dishonesty. And it's unfortunate that voters seem to count character and truthfulness and honor.

much less than they used to. And that's not a good path for our country that voters are going in that direction. We need elected officials who will be honorable, who will be truthful, who will be honest, who will tell people what's really going on. And when you don't have that, then you're in very dangerous political territory. Yeah, I think there's definitely something to be said about that. And the reason why I look at that is, I look at like, again, I sit in meeting sometimes. These negative ads aren't going to work. And I'm like, No. If you flood the zone, they absolutely will. And this is the thing. I was looking at this and it makes his way to the seven things a little later. Graham Platner out of Maine, MaineConf, you know, this guy, Nazi tattoo, all these other issues, all this stuff, all this other stuff. And, you know, people are. just kind of like his supporters are just kind of like well it's fine no big deal i mean these are actual issues and it doesn't really seem to have any cut through i mean yeah we're hearing about it but i mean the guy hasn't been hounded out of office the he he his or out of the race his political opponent dropped out why do you think it's been so ineffective going after him Can't answer that. Don't know enough about his campaign. Okay, that's fair. That's fair enough. I know you've been in the middle of running your campaign down here. Main cop, by the way, is what we should start calling him, just FYI. But as we move through the next legislative session, do you think gambling is a foregone conclusion? No, one of the good things about my running and being the lightning rod of so much negativity by James Lomax's team and money spent by Lomax's team. is that we won in other places around the state because the incumbents didn't have the resources because the resources were being spent attacking Mo Brooks. And so I've had a number of people tell me that, hey, thank you. What you did helped me win, help me unseed an incumbent. That was a part of the Nathaniel Ledbetter. squad, so to speak. And, you know, I take some pleasure in having helped other candidates win, not as much perhaps as if I'd been in that same category. Sure. But it's a team sport. And I think we made some good advances. We'll see how it plays out. Are you now officially done and back into the political commentator sphere? You back into that space? Well, I never say never. You never know what the future is going to bring. But I'd be hard pressed to go through that a third time in a row where you've got people with almost unlimited resources who have no honor and no integrity and are willing to say anything to win.

uh that's that's not a pleasant experience to know people are lying to know that they know that they're lying and they don't care about their lying so long as they reach the ultimate goal which is uh winning an election and it's most unfortunate that the news media is so bad now that they let candidates get away with it that used to not be the case yeah no i i i think i you're right i mean the the the amount i i A lot of this could be resolved by, you know, a singular, you know, TV station or, uh, media outlet outside of talk radio saying, guys. This isn't true. Like doing that kind of, that kind of checking does not exist outside the talk radio. And when it's done on talk radio and people say, hey, come on, this isn't, this isn't legit. It kind of dies there. And that audience hears it, but the other outlets won't touch it. And that's sort of an unfortunate piece there. And it can be overwhelmed with. I mean, basically money. You can't buy elections, for lack of a better way to look at it. There's been a lot of money spent on these races. It's very hard to overcome that. So. Congressman Brooks, thank you very much for joining us. We always appreciate you. We'll definitely talk with you next week. I think the after-action review will be done, and we can move on to talking about the things going on in the world and getting your perspective on those. We always appreciate the former congressman joining us here on the program. You can continue to get your thoughts in here right now at the Colman Furniture Market, free speech phone lines, 866-494 WVNN or You can get it here on the scout pest control.com, WVNN, hot take text line. That's one for you as well. 866-494-9-866 or email me. You've got mail. Dale at WVNN.com. That is the downtown rescue mission.org email inbox. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Drake Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One. Sports Talk. Your home for Drake C. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. And we will be right back. This is The Dale Jackson Show.

Talk 770 a.m. 92.5 FM, WVN. Dale Jackson here with you. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you so much for being here. Just real quick comment before we jump to the Coleman Furniture Market free speech phone lines. Here in just a second, 866-494. WVNN, this comment came in, oddly enough, on our text line. Mo was not on the ballot in Jackson County. You know how many times I heard this? You know how many times I heard this. And this is not a criticism of that person. Okay, I'm just going to make this as clear as possible. This is not a criticism of the person who was there. Mo's race was a state house race where like 7,000 people voted. And they spent like a million dollars on. It's a very small geographic district in the city of Huntsville. Okay, that's why. It's crazy. The amount of money spent on TV and all this other stuff, it's crazy. It's just an insane thing. You gave me a million dollars for an ad campaign in the city of Huntsville. I wouldn't even know what to do with it. I would have no idea. I feel like, what are we supposed to do? I have no idea. But yeah, that's why. A lot of people were like, Mo wasn't on my ballot. And a lot of people went up to the people at the... Pulling places are like, Moe's not on my ballot. Mo Brooks is not on my ballot or this race isn't on my ballot. It's because that race was a state house race. So there we go. All right. Now let's go to Robert. Robert, thank you very much. You are on the Coleman Furniture Market. Free speech phone lines. Go ahead. Good morning. Good morning. Yeah, I got a question about your shows. Okay. I listen to you in the morning. Okay. Not all the time, but I listen. Okay. And you and Yaffi are on the radio, what, three times a day, four? No. I'm on once a day. Hold on. Let me ask a question. I'm on from five until nine. Yaffi's on from nine to 11. And then there's a replay at eight o'clock and nine o'clock. So twice, I would argue, probably. Why? Why not? Gee, Dale, what's enough, ain't it? Well, I mean, you obviously have a problem here. Let's just cut, stop the niceties and just get to your issue. What's the issue? You're preempting other shows. What show by preempting? Well, it's probably yappy, but he's actually preempting America at night. No, he's not. America night is on 10 to midnight.

Well, okay, I could be wrong. No, you're not wrong. You're not wrong at all. These shows are on 8 and 9 o'clock. There's a reason for that. You want to have a programming conversation, which nobody else would do with you. And I promise you on the radio, but I'll do it with you on the radio. Here is the reason behind. That's why the guy asked you if he could, if he wanted you to answer it on the phone on the radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly right. He's doing the right thing. The answer should have been no. But that's not how I operate. The way I operate now. There's not free speech. I don't have free speech here. This is a talk radio show. There's no free speech. So that's not that. I'm giving you a gift here. So take the gift. Here it is. We used to have a live program at that time. And if we go and fill that time slot with a syndicated radio show, it will be harder to go back to live programming in the future. And I would like to put a live program there. Is that okay? Is that an appropriate programming decision made by the program director at WVN? Do you like that if it was a live program? We had a live program there, yes. The other mornings, that'd be great. I'll say that again. The reruns when you're saying the same thing over and over again is not too good. For me, I mean, you know, and I try to be nice. Why are you trying to do? Don't know. No, no, no, no, no. You're being phony. I always try to be nice. I'm not a mean person. No, just be the, look. embrace your inner prick. It's okay to do. Don't come in here and try to be nice when you're just being a prick. That's fine. I appreciate it. I've answered your question. I appreciate you, Colin. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you. Dale Jackson.

It's live, it's local. It's the Dale Jackson Show. And it's only on News Talk 770 AM, 92 5 FM, WVNN. Depend on it. 92 5 FMWVN. Dale Jackson here with you. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you so much for your time today. And look, there are other views on replays and things like that on talk radio. I got to make programming decisions. And sometimes they make bad ones. Okay? I do. And look, and look, sometimes it make bad ones. But I... and fully responsible for all of them. So if you've got complaints about WVNN programming, I'm more than happy to hear them, and I'll be more than happy to respond. Some of you have texted in some responses to that previous caller here on the ScoutPass Control.com. WVNN Hot Take Textline. I'll give you a couple of those. I listen to your replays often. It's like watching a movie. You catch things you may have missed the first time around. I like the replay of the morning shows at 8 and 9 p.m. Because I can't always listen to the entire show at their regular times. Thanks. Let me also tell you something. Okay, let me just give you a little piece of information here about my programming philosophy. When I first got here... I told him, I said, look, here's what we should do on the weekends. Your weekends should look like Monday through Friday. It should look like that. And they said, why? And I said, well, okay, so you're, you're programming that you have on Monday through Friday, your most important programming, right? Yeah, from 6 to 7 p.m. Yeah. Okay. So why aren't you putting that on the weekends? And they didn't really have an answer for it. I mean, there are other business realities at play on the weekends and we got good programming there already. But I said, if you got issues, then you should put your regular programming on the weekends. That's as simple as it is. And I live that philosophy in evenings, too. Put your best programming on. Put your best foot forward. Put your local programming together. That's my programming philosophy. Not everyone agrees, but keep this in mind. They're wrong. All right. It's eight after the hour. Time to remind you all that it is time to get into Matt Curtis and the Matt Curtis real estate team because he helps you sell home every eight hours. His billboard keep going up right there on the parkway. You can see it. And he can help you sell your home for top dollar. That's Matt Curtis and the Matt Curtis real estate team. Let that guy help you out today. He's always ready to help you. And he did it for me. He'll do it for you. He has made me a lot of money. And if you're going to sell your home, you want top dollar, you want it done right, you want it done quickly. You want it from the guy who sells a home every eight hours. You want Matt Curtis. He gets Matt Curtis real estate.com. Check him out today. We do have the seven things to jump into. We do have a lot of stuff talking about. Doug Jones is delusional and I absolutely love it. I love the delusion that Doug Jones is offering up and we're going to get into that. That's probably the number one thing you should be talking about. It's cute that he thinks he has a chance.

It is. It's like adorable. You just want to grab it by his jowls and be like, you're going to do it. Look at you ready for governor. You're going to do it. You're going to do it. Yes, you are. That's how they're treating it, but that's how the media is going to treat it the entire time. Let's get to it. The seven things, of course, is brought to you by two men in a truck. Two men and a truck, you're going to get that. You're going to get a truck. You're going to get a lot more than that. And I know it. I've used them. They move stuff into my house that when people tried to move it out, they couldn't do it. We gave it away to someone. They had to take it apart because they couldn't get it through the doorway. But two men in a truck could. They understand it. They want to move your stuff. They want to make sure your homes are protected, both of them. We've all had people help us move or help someone move or someone gouged a floor or dinged the door or messed up with some piece of furniture. You don't want that. You want your stuff moved. You want it done quickly. You want it done right. You want it done for a great price with people you can trust. And that's two men in a truck. They have the grandma rule. Yeah, the grandma rule very clearly. Treat everyone the way you'd want your grandma to be treated. And you want your grandma to be treated well. Two men in a truck does that. Two men at Truck Huntsville.com. Check them out today when you do. You tell them Dale Jackson sent you. All right. Let's get to it. It is time for. The often duplicated never replicated the most critically acclaimed segment here on the Dale Jackson show brought to you by Alabama's most trusted journalist. It's the seven things you should be talking about today. Now time for the seven things you'll be talking about today. Number seven. A voter turnout in Alabama continues to drop. Am I supposed to be sad about this? I'm not sad about it, but am I supposed to be sad about this? Anyway, Democrat counties, including Montgomery and Jefferson, saw some numbers go up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. But so what? They still got blown out. Experts claim negative advertising from obscure out-of-state PACs, voter apathy, and confusion surrounding congressional districts. could have led to lower turnout. Here's an alternate view. It's a midterm primary in a one-party state. I just don't know. I'm not sure there's really a question here as to what's really going on here. So I don't. Okay. Oh my God. This is scary, guys. Democracy and stuff like that.

Number six. Democrat lawmakers continue to duck questions when pressed about mine cop, excuse me, Maine cop, Graham Platner, and his never-ending Reddit scandal involving crude comments, racism, sexism, and now, who knew, degradation of purple heart recipients. Guy gets a purple heart as he draws fire away from his unit. And Graham Platner goes on social media to blast the guy and call him fat and call him a loser and saying the only reason he's alive is because the Taliban can't shoot straight. The guy had a Nazi tattoo as well that he didn't know, but yes, he did know. And now they're still trying to figure out ways to defend this guy. This is going to be a giant mess for them. And I hope he stays on the ballot. I hope main conf is something that we need to be talking about for a very long time. Defend your boy. Number five. Radical activist groups continue to circle the wagons. When it comes to the Southern Poverty Law Center, headquartered in Montgomery. Congratulations to Montgomery for that. Headquartered there in Montgomery, and they continue to circle the wagons there to help them. But the other day... Yesterday, we had a hearing, and that hearing on Capitol Hill was pretty bad for them. They were exposed for doing exactly what they did, giving money to groups like the KKK and others who were part of the unite the right rally, while pretending that they needed money to fight those groups while they were paying them. They claim that they were doing the same thing law enforcement does. Which is not true. It's not true. They were creating extremist groups, helping create extremist groups so they could get money to fight them. It was a business decision. Plus, you know, they did a lot of false financial stuff. That's actually that's what got them in trouble. Number four. Hoover was named as one of the most desirable cities to live in in the entire country, according to a survey by U.S. News. Now, the best... Places to Live rankings took 250 cities and tried to find the best one. Good value, desirable place to live, strong job market, high quality of life. Hoover is in there at number six. But there are a bunch of other Alabama cities that made the list as well.

And here they are. Daphne, which makes sense. Decatur, I still can't understand. Dothan, huh? And then Huntsville, which used to be the number one city on these lists. What's happened here? I don't know. But the impeachment of Tommy Battle needs to be on the table here. He has completely destroyed the city of Huntsville. And it's time for him to go. I'm kidding. Tommy Battle's awesome. He can be a mare as long as he wants. Number three. President Donald Trump's decision to further attack Iran, it's on hold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're on hold, guys. He's working on it. He's working on it. Peace talks are apparently continuing, and there is some form of conversation taking place in Pakistan as they try to get this stuff taken care of. And it looks like they're going to try, just try. try to get somewhere where they can say, okay, this is, this is something we can work with. But I think it is very clear that it is time to, it's time to bomb them more. I know I keep saying this, but there's huge gaps here on the nuclear deal, straight of her moves, funding of terrorism, all this stuff. They obviously are not ready to make a deal. Number two. U.S. Representative Barry Moore out of Enterprise ex-Navy sealed. Jared Hudson are now officially advancing to a ALGOP primary runoff that will take place here soon. The advancement of that primary runoff to that primary runoff on June 16th is underway, and it is time for these folks to know. Look. This is an important race. This is an important seat here. And people who voted for Steve Marshall, like myself, I have to decide which one of them you're going to go with. Get ready to hear a lot of ads. Get ready to maybe this to get ugly. I hear, I hear there is going to be a lot of ugliness in this race. I haven't really seen it. The ALGOP primary in the first round wasn't really that ugly. Does this have to get ugly or is this going to be, look at me, look at what I've done, look what I'll do. I don't know. They do. Now, time for the number one thing you'll be talking about today. Who is the Democrat candidate for United States Senate? Anyone know? Okay, just asking. Alabama allegedly is in play. According to Doug Jones, the cowardly caretaker former junior senator in an ill-fitting suit who looks like he just woke up and stole his shoes from a homeless person and who will never be governor. That guy, Doug Jones, has teamed with Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to kind of do the whole like Andy Beshear can win in Kentucky. Why can't we win here?

And that's sort of the argument he's making. Let me help you out here. Because you suck. I mean, that's basically it. That's basically it. The situation for Andy Beshear's rise is a little bit different. There is a little bit of, how do I say this, actual success for Andy Beshear to look at. That's how he got reelected. Doug Jones, we've already seen this race between Tommy Tuberville and Doug Jones. And it doesn't go well for you. And I don't see what's changed in Doug Jones's repertoire. that is going to lead to him beating Tommy Tuberville. But he says, he says it's a competitive state. But I would also like to point this out. Doug Jones is a liar. Okay. And I'm going to say this. Doug Jones says things that aren't true and he knows they're not true because they get him positive headlines. You would like me to give you an example? Well, thank you. I'll be more than happy to do so. He still claims that there is rampant voter suppression in the state of Alabama. Yet he cannot name a single person who has been voter suppressed in the state. Not a single person. Now, I would love for him to out those people and say who's been voter suppressed so we can resolve those issues. But he has never told a Secretary of State and I've checked what the actual issues are. He just says it because he wants to say Alabama is bad. Alabama is racist. Alabama is terrible. I don't think that's going to work. That's like the equivalent of me running from the mayor of Decatur after saying Decatur, really? Like that, it's exactly the same. Oh, Decatur's terrible, which is not what I said, but still, it's the equivalent of that. Good luck, Doug Jones. I look forward to you being absolutely humiliated even further, and I will narrate the entire thing. Thank you so much for doing that for me. For the rest of you, thank you so much for being here. We appreciate you as well. We'll talk in just a sec. Stay tuned. Get WBNN's Dale Jackson seven things you should be talking about today. Right in your email box every morning. Go to yellowhammer news.com and sign up today.

I love it when people texting questions for 10 with him and say they're not going to have time to listen. Have you thought about listening on the podcast? Have you thought about listening on the stream? Have you thought about listening to listen to your phone? Have you thought about listening to listening to on your computer? Have you thought about just coming out here and standing near the radio station and listening to me yell about it? There are so many different ways to listen, including the podcast and things like that. So if you miss my answers or you submit a question for 10 with him and you're not able to hear it, well... It's out there. Go get it. Go get it. I will answer this question, though, because it's relevant to the topics being discussed during the seven things you should be talking about today, which if you miss, you can also read at yellowhammer news.com. But here's a good question. What is D.K. Chabeta at than Huntsville. Crime. Cat food smell. Crime. Inept leadership. Is it crime? Is crime the correct answer? Let me just say this. You can bang on their leadership all you want. Okay? You can bang on their leadership if you wish. But let me just say this. Go look at their last election results. Go look at it. You want to look at a city that saw something that they didn't like and then responded to it? Okay. Just think about that. I think the people of Decatur responded very well to that. They had an opportunity to put people out of office who handled a situation very poorly, and they did so. So, yeah, I mean, credit where credit is due. Okay, the previous mayor did not do a great job, did not do a great job. But the idea that they didn't respond to that by asking for better leadership and demanding it. Well, that's not true. Okay, so kudos to them for that. Dale, as one of the 7,000 voters in the Brooks Lomax primary, I would have preferred Lomax to have just mailed me a check with his pack money instead of filling my mailbox and internet with spam. I would still have voted for Mo, but the cash from Lomax would have been nice. Could you imagine if they were just like, look, we were going to run a campaign, but here's just a check instead. This is a check. It's from this campaign. We were going to do this. And so be it, here's 500 bucks. I mean, could you imagine? Could you imagine if that would have been the thing? Look, I think a lot of people would have been very happy with that, but that is not how it works. That is not. How it works. But yes, your internet, your TV, your radio were filled with attack ads on that front. And yeah, it was a very expensive house phrase, a very expensive house phrase. And it's, you know, look, Mo Brooks had an uphill climb on that. He was taking on an incumbent. And I had said, and I said this to Mo earlier today. You can hear that on the podcast if you want. There, the, the attacks on Mo Brooks have been years long, years long. And they have destroyed his impeccable reputation. And I, look, I say this as a friend and a supporter of Mo Brooks. His record on every single issue is the right record. On every single issue, you can't tell me one thing that Mo Brooks has got wrong.

He has fought your culture war. He has fought your immigration issues. He has fought your budget and debt deficit issues. He has done every aspect. There is not a single thing that Mo Brooks has gotten wrong. But the campaigns against him have been very effective in changing the reputation. And that's very unfortunate because he should go down as one of the best representatives of the people of Alabama that has ever been. And it's unfortunate that that reputational harm these campaigns will do and have done will linger. But I will not tolerate them. Okay. So if you're looking for a Mo Brooks fanboy, I'm right here. And I always will be. There's that. What's that worth for Mo? Probably not. You're listening to the Dale Jackson Show. News Talks at 70 a.m. 92.5 FM. W. L.N. Dale Jackson here with you. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you so much for your time. And we got a lot to get into, a lot to talk about. And our next guest, we're going to put him on the hot seat because I got some very hard questions for him coming up here. He needs to be held to account. No question about it. It is Sam Gavan. He is on the Alabama-NM $350 million Bulldog Hotline. $350 million. $350 million.

on North Alabama alone. Learn more at aamu.edu, what they can do for you and what they do for your community. amu.edu. Sam Gavann is my state senator. We appreciate him coming on the program and joining us. First question, how did you eke out your victory on election day, Senator Gavan? How'd you do that? Well, I just had the good fortune to be on the, you know, a regular on the Dale Jackson show. And so I was not challenged for my county party seat, my state party executive committee seat and pre-election for nomination for Senate District 7. So thank you for the work you did, it's paving the way. Thank you. Flattery will get you everywhere. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And you didn't have any opponents. You had none that you had to run against. In the Senate, though, we're going to talk about gambling in just a bit. You know, there were a couple senators that went down. What was the biggest surprise to you of people who lost their seats? Senator John Roberts out of Mountain Brook was the biggest surprise. I don't think, I've been hearing rumblings about All Britain being in trouble. All Britain had a geography problem in part, and because of how much of this district was in Baldwin County. He won the other three counties that he represents, but he lost Baldwin County at such a margin. that took him down. And it wasn't an overwhelming thing. It was between 700 and 800 votes. I don't remember. But, you know, and my take on that is that the people of Baldwin County really don't want gambling in their county. And I think that was had a big issue with it. Okay. Obviously, it's the opposite end of the state from me. But. We're going to come back to that gambling conversation because that's what I thought. I thought the All-Briton thing that was the biggest deal. Did the John Roberts thing have anything to do gambling in your opinion? I don't think so. From what I gather, his opponent just wanted to run. Nothing personal against Dan. He ended up getting the BCA endorsement. But it took a long time coming before he got the actual endorsement. And he had a lot of his, a wealthy individual, put a lot of his personal wealth into the race. I think spent a pretty hefty sum. I haven't looked to see the final numbers. And, you know, sort of a, if you look across the state, House and Senate races, it's sort of an anti-income cycle. or it appears to be. And I've heard that as at different levels. But I don't think the gambling had any direct impact. I'm familiar with some of the reasons VCA was not pleased with Senator John Roberts and it had nothing to do with gambling from what I can tell.

Yeah, I don't know about the anti-accompancy thing. I mean, you had eight out of 140 people lose. So, I mean, I don't know how much of an anti-compancy. But the ones that actually were challenged, yeah, there were a pretty decent number of those that went down. I think you might have been challenged had this piece of news just came out that I've been talking about so far today. You represent parts of the city of Huntsville. And Huntsville has fallen behind. Both Hoover, Daphne, Decatur, and Dothan as the best place to live in Alabama. Respond to that allegation from the U.S. news. What do you think about that? Well, number one, the laws that I help pass or prevent from passing affect those cities as much as they do huntsful equally. But I think hustle is great. I wouldn't swap it. Look, they got to get paid right about something. And I would imagine maybe the... Could be the cost of housing affected their metrics. I'm not sure. I mean, we have seen housing prices go up a lot here from all the people moving in. I think over time, that'll kind of adjust a little bit. But I don't, you know, not sure they're going to necessarily go down. They may just equalize more. So you will not be resigning over this plummeting figure. Is that correct? I'm very happy with what's going on in Huntsville and Madison County. very, very, very pleased to run on my record of involvement with the city of us. Okay, that's fair enough. I jokingly, I jokingly mentioned all this because, you know, one of the things I thought is like, maybe it's good that is falling down the list. You know, I always, I always say, like, stay out. We're good, we're full. Maybe this will work on that regard. Obviously not serious about that at all, but here's something that is deadly serious. Gambling interest. very successful in some ways, like with the Lomax Mo Brooks race, the gambling interest were not necessarily. I'm kind of torn on this because the gambling interest, and this is a good question for just general politics for people who don't follow it as closely as maybe I do and you do. But gambling interest essentially poured a bunch of money into a pot and it was, you know, went out throughout the state. to different races. Obviously, that race in House District 20, Brooks Lomax, is one of them. Was that an incumpancy protection play or a gambling play, in your opinion? I think it was more incumbency protection as opposed to James Lomax loves gambling. Which of it do you feel it was more than one or the other?

Between the two, I think it's incumbency protection. I don't, you know, I don't see James walking down the halls of the legislature and everybody going out and face the gambling because he's not, to my knowledge, not a sponsor to a gambling bill. So I think it's more of an incumbency protection. I don't know how much they played in other races. I know they spent a lot of money, perhaps more money, trying to beat Senator Glover. Former Senator, solid no vote on comprehensive gaming, and they struck out down there in Mobile County. And we kind of known that for a couple of, maybe a month or so, that looked like Rusty was coming back. because those ads were not working. They were frustrating people from what I hear down there. They were motivating rusty space. And so, you know, it gets down to all politics as local, I think. I mean, I didn't, you know, I heard you say something the other day of basically conventional advertising. It's not dead. And I think that, you know, that certainly. You can see that at play. I mean, look at, I don't think Senator Williams was on the air for Ag Commissioner, and he didn't make the runoff. You know, I think you kind of got to get out there on TV and radio. Now, my personal opinion, I live in District 20, and I'm a political nerd, and so I went through the mailers every day looking at them and seeing what they did. mostly in the House District 20 race. I didn't pay a lot of my attention to the ones for few I got for Lieutenant Governor or for U.S. Senate. But the most of them were, and U.S. Lomax had no control over the ones that were coming from the American Conservative Fund. Mo had no control over the ones coming from, I can't remember the name of that, Pat, went for America, I think. And, you know, I just would lay them out, and, you know, one day I had five. You know, there was, one was just a hit piece on Mo. One was just a hit piece on Lomax. One was maybe a pro piece on just one of them. And one for each had a pro on one side and a hit on the other. And I just got a feel that most constituents were getting those, bundling them all up and throwing them in a trash can without looking at them. Right. Because there were so many. Well, I don't disagree with that. I think there's definitely something to be said about that. But, you know, is the gambling interest in this state in a better position today than they were before the election? I would argue they're not. Rusty Glover stays, that's status quo. Mo Brooks loses, but Lomax stays, that's status quo. You lose Greg All-Briton. That is definitely not status quo. He was the gambling guy. Did the gamblers pick up any Ws, or is it status quo or worse for them? If you look at the board, it may be about a why, because you kind of swapped. John Roberts was a hard no on any gambling, including the lottery.

And then presumably Waters, I think Waters came out and said he was against comprehensive gaming. I don't know where he stands on the lottery alone. So, you know, and you've already had a couple of changes. With, you know, when Pro Tim Reid left, he was replaced. He was a yes vote. I don't think he really liked it, but he did vote yes. And then he was replaced by Senator Woods, who's a no vote. So, you know, there have been a couple of movements on the board. I think that, you know, it depends on the language, but I think that, you know, John Roberts is going to be. probably a yes vote, again, depending on the language, like some other senators. And then if a Democrat were to win that race, then they're probably just going to be a flat-out yes. Right. Okay, so I agree with all of that. I think that they are probably in the exact same, not in the exact same position, maybe a little weaker, maybe just a slight bit weaker. But... You know, I think Tommy Tuberville can come and put his thumb on the scale. And he's been pretty clear about where he stands. And he's like, he wants to see something done. I don't think he's going to talk about it too much. But he's okay with some form of gambling. Maybe just lottery. I don't know. I don't know. But I think the Tommy Tuberville statements make it maybe a net positive at the end of this cycle. But as of right now, it looks like a neutral push. Do you see a special session for gambling anytime soon? No, I don't see a special session. And let's just go back to a couple of points. Number one, All Britain was a big deal for a couple of reasons. One, he's a general fund chairman. Number two, he was, you know, very seasoned, knew how to stand in the well, knew how to block things, was a, you know, tactician on doing things of that nature. And you got a couple of newer, you know, going to be brand new guys that just like we all had to do, you know, figure out where the bathrooms are, learn the rules, see how things operate. So that's a big difference right there. And, you know, and All Britain was one of the reasons I think that we, because Ports Creek didn't want it, that we didn't have a lottery. And so that could change the question. And we don't know where Scott Ortiz and Mountain Brook is. I mean, I don't. I don't know whether he's a total no-on gambling. I mean, I don't think it came up in the campaign. To my knowledge, it didn't. It, you know, he could be, he could be, okay, he'd vote for a lottery, or he'd vote for this or that. We don't know where people are nuanced, and that's, you know, because there's a lot of people out there, and I'm one out. I mean, people, you know, get on me about not voting for a lottery. I'm like, I had a lottery to vote on. I mean, I think, I've said just ad nauseum, I think a lottery is poor public policy, but my constituents want it. And so, you know, I'll vote for a lottery. But, um.

constituents are pretty clear. They don't want casinos. And so I think that I think everybody's going to have to regroup. I heard Jeff Ford the other day talking about how the plan's already there and they're going to ram at home. And, well, I think you've got to figure out the dynamics in the Senate because. You know, he was talking about that before the elections. And there's been a pretty, I mean, I don't think you can underestimate enough the change in, you know, with Albreed. No, there's been a shakeup. There's been a, there's been a shakeup. And I agree with that. I agree with that. And we will have this conversation a hundred more times. Okay. So, so. Absolutely. Sam Gavan, thank you very much. Congratulations on his, he did not have a single vote cast against him on Tuesday. So congratulations. What a record to have. There we go. Sam Gavann, my state senator, appreciate him being here. Thank you so much for his time. Thank you very much for your time. We got a lot to get into. We love the fact we get to discuss this stuff with you. So thank you very much for being here and listening to WVNN. We'll be right back. It's the Dale Jackson Show.

The U.S. soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg. And after interviewing so many dudes during this men's World Cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the brightest prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. The U.S. soccer podcast, presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. Platform. News Talks. 77 AM, 95, FM, WVNN. Dale Jackson here with you. Thank you for being here. You know, here is one thing you can take away from the election on. Tuesday. If you're looking for where, you know, where it all stands after the election, we gambling and things like this, I, I'm of the belief that it's a status quo. It's a push. It's a net neutral, as some have told me. I believe that. I also believe that it kills any attempt. And I'm not sure it was really there, but I've heard it. a casino at Ditto Landing. Like, you see what they're doing down there. They're making it look great. It's, you know, it's a jewel. It will be better and all this other stuff. I get it. I see all the stuff going on down there. And it's great. It's great. I mean, it's no Decatur, guys. I mean, Hussville's no Decatur. I mean, I get that based on the U.S. news rankings. But if you look, the only. And it was like, they put a casino on the water. I'm like, yeah, but it's the Tennessee River. I mean, I hate to say it like that. It's like, so what? You can't do anything with that water. I mean, you can get in a boat and go out there. But it's not like you should be out there swimming. There's alligators out there. I don't want any part of that. The Tennessee River isn't necessarily like a great river to swim around. I'm sorry, it's just not. And that's always been my take on it. But anyway, that's irrelevant to this whole thing. But. any casino in Huntsville proper or Madison County. And I would argue in Madison County, Livestone County, maybe Decatur, you could open up something there and have an idea that you want to put it there. But the previous push has been for a casino in Jackson County. But everyone's like, oh, put it in Hudson. Look, you don't want, how do I put this? I guess I decided to put it as bluntly as I can. So here we go. you're going to put casinos in places where there's very little positive economic development going on already. That's where you want casinos to be. That's where you're going to put them. I'm not saying there's not positive economic development in Jackson County because that's not necessarily true. But there's a lot of you could make the argument that it would bring development where there's not really a lot of it. You're not going to put it in the middle of Huntsville. This, I think, secures. that that status quo is going to remain. That that part is true. So what it looks like if they do get casinos is, I think that part is, and I think that's been the way it's been for a while. So that part of the status quo kind of remains. So status quo. If you're talking about gambling, lottery on the table always is. If you can get the others to be like, okay, fine, we're not going to demand.

everything all at once, then maybe you go that way. You maybe get lottery and sports gaming. Maybe you get that. The casino stay. But the comprehensive thing is what everyone wants. And I still think that that is on track to happen. But who knows? We'll stay on top. This is the Dale Jackson Show. It's live, it's local. It's the Dale Jackson Show. And it's only on News Talk 770 AM, 92 5 FM, WVNN. Depend on it. Thank you so much for being here. What am I hating on? Oh, we'll get to that in just a second. I'm hating on Yaffe for one. Late as always, unbelievable, just an unprofessional young man. and his performances will be noted, okay? They will be noted. I'll just say that and leave it right there. But we will await the arrival of one Yaffy. John Wall will be with us in just a bit as well in the next part of the hour. He's running for Lieutenant Governor and was leading the race, led the race in the runoff. So. There's that conversation that we're going to have. There is also a lot to be said about what's going on in North Alabama, a little bit of a blood feud that I'm making up between Decatur and Huntsville, completely fabricated it out of nowhere. So we're going to continue trying to milk that. But. We got Hayden 8 coming up here in just a bit. It's eight after the hour, so time to remind you about Matt Curtis and the Matt Curtis Real Estate team. Matt Curtis can always help you out and let him do just that. Matt Curtis, real estate.com. Talk to that guy today when you do, of course, let him know that Dale Jackson sent you. We've got 10 with him coming up at the end of the program so you can continue to get your questions in. Also, people are continuing to try to tell me. reasons why the city of Decatur ranked higher in the U.S. News list this year and why Huntsville has plummeted to the point of pain. Yes, we have fallen below Decatur, below Dothan. But at the same time, maybe we should be a little happy about that and say, um, We're full, so we don't want you. All right. There's something you can hate on if you were so inclined to do so. Right now, though, a hated 8 is brought to you by Scout Pass Control, which I love.

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What's got you steamed? What's got you mad? Tell us now. It's time for hate at eight. Now, if any of you got anything else to say, now the time! Yes! Now is the time. Now is the place. And there's time for you to get in here and let your hates just flow through you. Don't sit on them. Don't... Don't sit on them, guys. Let those hates out. Let's go first to Austin. Austin, what do you hate on? I'm hating on the Trump admin. It has really wheeled down its deportation talks. The X.com account used to have all kinds of hilarious posts. It would be them like flying a plane America's back, baby, and it's, I don't know, some sort of hilarious song playing. They just haven't been on that recently. And I miss it. I was pretty hopeful. The numbers are kind of middling. They stopped talking about it, so I'm sad about this. Yeah, I'm with you. The one issue that Donald Trump is still winning on is immigration. Now, the Iran war stuff, I think is to put, to use the Biden administration term, it's transitory. The hatred of that, I think that result, when that is resolved. And if it resolves positively, when it is resolved, I think those numbers will change. Okay, that's what I think happens. And that's what I hope happens. But on immigration, his numbers remain pretty good. And to me, it makes no sense for them not to be hammering that, except that they have 10 ears and they worry too much about what the mainstream media is saying. And I don't know why, but immigration is the thing that Trump wins on the most. And they should be continuing to ramp up their ice stuff. And there's been a couple of things. I think recently the new Drake album is called Ice Man or something. And they photoshopped an image of him holding, I think a, what he called, a necklace with an ice out ice. thing on it and it be whatever it was the what do you call that thing the pendant or whatever i see i know you're talking about i saw the post yeah and they did one with maga instead of ice or something and so they did a little bit of that but they're not doing enough i'm with you they need to do more uh they they should be focusing on the immigration front it's definitely one of their winners and it's something that they should should actually focus on a little bit more. So I'm with you on that 100%. Some of you have some interesting hates coming in here. This is one that I think we can all get behind because Yaffe has failed to arrive when he is supposed to.

Hold on, let's like, let me get this right here. Okay, here we go. Let's try that again because it's important this gets out there. I am hating on Yaffi for taking his family to Epstein Island instead of Shiloh for Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, it's a bad choice on Yaffi's part. It's a bad choice. We should probably make him work. What do you think about that? He doesn't show up on time, so we make him work. Okay, yeah, it'd be the best. It's not Yaffi's fault. He's not here, by the way. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. He'll be here just a bit. All right. Let's move on. Dale, what are you hating on? Thank you very much, Austin, for finally remember what you're supposed to do. I thought we were done with this guy, but we're not. He can't stop crying. He can't stop whining. He can't stop doing what he's doing. And yes, I got a bunch of people who text me and said, hey, this guy's talking about you again. Of course he is. What else is he going to do? This is, I am giving him the only relevance he has, okay? And Jeremy Navito's relevance is almost over. Came in third in a race. And one of the people didn't even campaign. Anyway, let's take a look. Here's what he had to say on Facebook yesterday. And I said that's here's what he had to say and that I didn't unmute it. So excuse me. Here's what he had to say on Facebook the other day. Good morning, y'all. That's not a good start. I'm just telling me. I'm a video here. And I have to say a big thank you. Thank you for the donations. I hated asking for it. I absolutely hated it, but you showed up and you donated. So thank you. Thank you for the time, the energy, the connections, the protests, the setups, the tear downs, the canvassing, nights and weekends. It made a real impact. Why are you making me do this to you, dude? Did it make a real impact? You came in third. You've been running this entire time. You've been being a pest and you got absolutely demolished. I don't know if he has a real world big boy job or anything. But if you work with this guy, please tell him to stop embarrassing himself. That's that's kind of the important thing here for him. I want him to feel better about himself. But. That's up to him. Okay? That really is. Okay. He got crushed. Okay? And he came in third. It's his own fault. He did it himself. You feel bad for him in the sense that it's very funny that this happened this way. And it wasn't even close. Okay? He got 10,000 votes. He got destroyed in every possible way, just decimation in a District 5 race across almost all of North Alabama. But he continues. You made a real impact, although you didn't. And thank you for voting, for participating. I hope you understand the importance of your vote and just how precious it is. It's literally your voice and you must use it. The naysayers, the haters in the comments, the radio bullies, the... Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh my God! It's our fault, guys! It's our fault! Let's use it. The naysayers, the haters in the comments, the radio bullies, the racists, and the bigots, the fascists, they want you quiet and in the closet. Subjugated. This is how they think they're going to win by making you feel helpless.

And so, yeah, that didn't go as planned last night. Honestly, I'm kind of shocked. But that's okay. Look at what we did. Yes, look at what you did. Look at what you did. Oh boy. Hey, by the way, he's doing the same thing that they all do when they get destroyed. We're not going anywhere, guys. We're going to stay here. We're going to do it. We ran a true, progressive, grassroots campaign. He got slaughtered. Over a year and a half. Got slaughtered. And captured a significant portion of the vote. No, you did. Right here in North Alabama, a deep red state. You didn't do it. Ultimately, I'm disappointed that I don't get to be your representative in Congress. And I'm not going to break down the numbers right now. Why not? Why not? You don't want them to know? Okay. Because the loss is a loss. Yeah. And I'll share my thoughts on a bunch of things as the time comes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it would probably be the best time because this is the, listen to me. Listen, I'm going to help you out, Jeremy DeVito. This is the apex of your run. It's all downhill from here. Okay? You go ahead and you keep posting on your Facebook page and stuff like this, but let me just tell you something. The era of your relevancy is over. But what it looks like here is we split our vote with Candizuvial. And that's perfectly fine. That is the point of a primary, y'all. Yeah, totally wanted to lose, guys. That's what I was doing. I was trying to lose. And if everyone who votes for me votes for her, then we just prove that D5 is ready for an outsider. Okay, all right, that's an interesting theory. But what happens when they don't? What happens when Andrew Sneed, the Dale Jackson talk radio listener? It becomes the nominee. He's got 42% of the vote. All your voters are not going to vote for her. They are going to vote for him. He is going to be the nominee. So then what happens? What does it prove then? What does it prove then? Here's the thing. He won't be around to know. His relevancy is over. A woman, a strong leader. I've said it from the beginning. By the way, is being a woman a qualification? I've said it from the beginning. We needed a fight in the primary. People needed to be tested before they take office because we have to trust them to act without supervision for two years with decisions that will impact your life. To act without super... What does it even mean? I don't even know what that means. You've got to act on supervision for two years. Okay. That deserves scrutiny, not acceptance, and we got it. And I'm not going anywhere because I told y'all, I fight and I organize. That's what he does he does. He fights and he organized. Hey, does anybody want someone that got destroyed in a congressional race that he'd been running for a year and a half? Anyone? Anybody want that? Anybody want that? Anybody want that? He can help you. I mean, he can't help you do anything, but he can make a Facebook video. Always done. You always done it. But in the short term, I will be focusing on my family and my mental help y'all. Oh, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's going to spend more time with his family and focus on his mental health. What happened here? I will be focusing on my family and my mental health, y'all because G what vets like Gwot vets. Me are angry and tired. And tired. Okay, I don't want to go any further here because I think he cusses or something. But what's a Gwot vet? I don't know what that is. I have no idea what that is. I'm afraid to look it up.

But there we go. I've never heard that term. Global War on TerraVet. Okay. I've never heard that. I've never heard that. Am I crazy here? Okay. There you go. But Danny DeVito did a good job, and we appreciate him being a source of conflict here on this program. I appreciate the constant references. And I also appreciate... You going out there and embarrassing yourself every single day. Thank you for that. You have truly done a service to this country now twice. Once as a GWAT vet and also as a joke of a candidate. So thank you. And again, to everyone out there who knows Jeremy DeVito, I'm sorry. We'll be right back. Stay tuned. It's the Dale Jackson Show. huge mistake and I want to apologize out loud okay okay I just want to I want to be as clear as I can possibly be on this okay so I'll give you guys opportunity to have your say on the scout pest control dot com WVN hot take text line 866 494 WVNN first a comment that that's not attacking me but let's go with this one first If you're a would-be politician and you blame Dale Jackson for your loss, then you need to find your next job at the burger joint. I don't know what DeVito does. I have no idea if he does anything, actually. But... I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. So let's make sure we just understand that. If he gets a job at a burger joint, then good for him. It's an honorable job. People need to work. People need to do it. You can make a lot of money running a McDonald's. So yeah, good luck to him, whatever the next avenue of his life is, because it's not a politician or an influence or anything like this. Why do you hate veterans like Jeremy DeVito, jealous that you didn't serve? Were you scared? Before we go any further, let me just add something. Before I answer this fully, I'm just going to say the following. I do not care about your military service. I mean, this is something that we see with politicians a lot. I just don't care. I really don't. Aren't you a veteran? irrelevant to the conversation. The answer is yes. But yes. Yes. That's true. That's true. Yes. It's factually inaccurate the statement. So let's make sure we understand that too. I did four years of regular Army Nintendo playing in a year of Army Reserve Nintendo plane. So thank you very much. Thank me for my service. I kind of think that people who like wear the army hat and say, I'm a veteran and all this other stuff, I think that's kind of cringe. And yes, Jared Hudson, same exact thing. I think it's kind of cringe personally. Okay? That's just my take. I've always been this way. I wish Austin wouldn't have asked me that because I was not going to let on that I was in fact a veteran because I don't think it's relevant to my take here.

But I think it's kind of cringe. Okay. So no, I'm not jealous that I didn't serve. And no, I wasn't scared, although I, you know, I would be scared if I had to go to a war zone. I would definitely be scared of that. And that's completely an honorable thing for people to do. It is. But, yeah, I think it's kind of cringe, personally, to make that your entire personality. And DeVito had, like, vote for a veteran on his thing. And Hudson has himself in his gear and stuff on his thing. Look, again, It's a part of your story, that's fine. And it's a cool part of your story. Being a Navy SEAL is a lot cooler than being a GWAT veteran. Not to say one is an honorable or anything like that, but that's a brand, a marketing brand. And I also know that I am an abnormality here. A lot of people absolutely think that it's a qualifier. So we just have a disagreement on that. Another text. Jeremy DeVito just needs to stop being a bitch. Okay, all right. Thank you very much for that. Maybe, maybe, but we'll never talk about it again. Deal, Jackson.

News Talk 770 a.m. 92-5 FMWVN. Bill Jackson here with you. Thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate you being here. I appreciate you every day. And we also appreciate the person who just returned here on the party. We called it a little earlier, but I screwed up the schedule. So we appreciate him being flexible. He is running for lieutenant governor. His name is John Wall. He has the endorsement of Donald Trump. And he finished in first place at 40.6% Wes Allen, 38% underneath him. And Rick Pate at 7.3%. So John Wall's got to feel pretty good about wearing... as former ALGOP chairman. He is on the library services board as well. Those are, how do I put this? The only time I've ever been interested in what's been going on on the library service board is when John Walls and they're laying waste to those people. It's been a pretty entertaining watch, to be honest with you. But let's go ahead and bring him on the line here. John, thank you very much for joining us. Sorry about earlier. 40.6%. You overperformed. Is that fair to say? Oh, definitely. I mean, look, I think all the polling have me much further down than that. And look, what this is about is about the people of Alabama speaking clearly. They want change. I am unapologetically the outside, you know, outside fighter in this race. You know, the Donald Trump endorsed state party chairman, you know, not the political career politician. And I think that's what the people of Alabama want. They want somebody who's going to go to Montgomery and fight for him. Yeah, I think you're right about that. I think there is a move in the Republican Party towards fighters and people who are willing to kind of, I don't say be out there because I don't think that's the right way to say it, but call a spade a spade. And on the library board, I think, like I mentioned that, it's probably one of the maybe, I don't even think, let's just put it this way. Wherever you're mentioning it and your stump speech, you need to move it up. Okay, because that is a, and I say that because what you've done there, is you've taken on a bureaucracy. And the bureaucracy, as I mention this all the time, every organization's power structure is more liberal than the people it serves. This goes for companies, sporting leagues, anything, the military everywhere. It's more liberal than what it is. And that board is so out of touch, maybe not with its employees, but it is out of touch with its consumers. And I think you've pointed that out pretty well. And you've won every single one of those battles, correct? No, that's exactly right. And look, that's the type of leadership that we need. You know, I remember the first time I was in there, parents started bringing the books in and I looked around because I was fairly new on the board. And I looked around and I was like, is no one else going to stand up? You know, is no one going to speak out of this. And I just finally was like, you know what? I don't care if I'm new. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do the right thing because that's what we need, people who are not afraid to do the right thing and who will drive it home. And look, that's another one where I'm so proud of that fight because at the end of the day, you hit the nail on the head. All these boards, all these bureaucrats, they should be about serving the people of the state. That's what government was designed to do, not protect librarians, but to actually serve the kids and the parents of our state.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Exactly right. So now we move into the next phase, a runoff. It's June 16th, I believe. Maybe I've been wrong with that date. But you got to, you got right. Okay, June 16th. What do you do for the next couple of weeks to drive this drive home the point that you want to make that you're the guy for the lieutenant governor's job? Well, you know, I think I do keep doing what I'm doing, which is, you know, reviews like this, but it's talking to the voters. You know, one of the biggest things with my message in the primary was this race is not about me. It's not about the endorsement of Donald Trump. It's not about the other candidates. This race is about the people of Alabama and returning power and control to them. I am so sick and tired of electing politicians sending them to Montgomery or Washington. And when they get to their chicken out on us. They, they're wimps. You know, they bend the knee. So if you get tired of something, you, instead of being part of the problem, be part of the solution. So that's why I'm running. I want to talk to people. I think the people about them are looking for that candidate who's not afraid to be bold, not afraid to stand for our rights and freedoms, go to Montgomery, actually drain the swamp, actually get the job done, don't back down and fight for the people of the state. I think that's the message that I'm going to be spreading. I think that's what the people are looking for. Okay, and if you become a lieutenant governor, maybe they've weakened it a little bit, the lieutenant governor. What do you think the most important job of the lieutenant governor is? Oh, there's a couple things. I mean, look, you know, you talk, they have weakened the position a little bit, but look at my record as the party chairman, you know, getting constitutional carry across the finish line, passing school choice, cutting taxes. You know, there was a party that came up with a $223 million tax package that we actually got passed last session. If you can do that as party chairman, imagine what can be done as lieutenant governor. And so I embrace it like, look, I want to bring that same passion for good government. Another thing people, you know, gets ignored with lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor in Alabama appoints over 400 positions to over 160 different boards and agencies. And if you really want to change the deep state, if you really want to get in there and put some conservatives in there and change government, it's not the elected officials, it's actually the bureaucrats who run all these boards and agencies. And so that's an important part of the lieutenant governor roll. It gets ignored a lot. There we go. John Wall, thank you very much. Running for Lieutenant Governor, I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from him as we move through this next month or so, and we appreciate him being here on the Alabama A&M $350 million Bulldog Hotline. Thank you very much. We'll talk with him soon. Yaffy, it has finally appeared, and it is nice to see that Yaffy has decided to come to work. Yaffy? I'm going to dock your pay. You know that, right? So you better, unless you wow me in the next couple of minutes here. I haven't talked about this yet, but I didn't want to talk to you about this earlier. Shamari figures. Terri Sewell. Doug Jones.

all three in the black congressional. No, they're not all three in the black congressional caucus. Two of them are the black congressional caucus. Two of them are African-American. One of them is Doug Jones. I was like, is he in the white guilt caucus? Okay, he's in the white guilt caucus. You need to cut. Yaffe needs to come up a little bit, I believe, on sound. But let me ask you this, Yavi. If a reporter goes to Doug Jones today and says, hey, do you support the NAACP? in the Congressional Black Caucus telling black players not to go to the University of Alabama and play. What would Doug Jones say? They're never going to ask him, but what would Doug Jones say? Wow. You know, that's a tough one. I would assume he would say something like, I understand what they're protesting, but this isn't the way to do it. But try to make it, I don't know, try to play it both ways, which I don't know how you could exactly do, but that's what he would try to do. The most dangerous thing that could happen in the state of Alabama for politics, for Democrats, is a superstar black athlete quit the team. I mean, I'm dead serious. You're right about that. You would never say that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the worst thing that could happen to them is a superstar black athlete say. I'm leaving the state of Alabama. And we're not, we're not, we're not going to, I'm not going to play here. I'm going to go play at Ohio State because of, uh, Terri Sewell's congressional district, which sounds so stupid. Like, I mean, that's, but that's really what it is. It sounds so dumb. Sounds so dumb. But it, nonetheless, it is really what these people want to see happen. Do they actually think they're going to get this done? I don't know. There are times, I think, where they believe they have more power than they do. But a lot of this stuff, even like the protests, it's just virtue signaling, right? They can't actually believe it makes that much of a difference. But it gets some attention. Yeah. Yeah. And it moves it into the culture war, too. It makes, you know, ESPN and whatnot cover it. And that's why I don't know why, like, a reporter won't be like, Senator Jay Jones, who I love and will do anything for it. You also support black athletes standing up for their rights. I mean, God, put me in front of that guy for five seconds. Give me a, let me ask that man one question and I will undo his entire campaign, not that it needs to be undone. He's got to have an event coming to Huntsville eventually, Dale? You want me to go up and ask him, like go get in line? What am I, one of the commoners? I'm going to do that. You know, it's a costume. I get it. A commoner costume, but you can do that. Okay, I'll put on my Carhart hat and maybe a vest and I'll go up there and I'll read a question off of my phone screen and ask him, Senator Jay Jones, do you support black athletes or are you for what Republicans are doing to this state? That's the way the question will be asked. And if given the opportunity, maybe we'll do that. But yeah, I think a reporter should ask that question and I would love to see it. But Doug Jones also the other day was like, There's voter suppression everywhere. And not a single reporter is like, where? Like, that's it, right? Like, again, I know that you guys, especially Affie, view me as Alabama's most trusted journalist. I know that, I know that. But that's kind of a joke.

because there are no actual journalists in this state. And if there is, tell me which one's better than me. So that's kind of the joke. But wouldn't it be easy to just be like, man, you say there's voter suppression in this state? That sounds like a Pulitzer winning story. Can you help me find those people so we can expose this? What do you think? Well, you'll be called racist if you ask that question, Dale. It's racist to try to find the voter suppression now? So if I don't accept that the voter suppression is straight up happening, I'm a racist. But if I question where I can find the people who have been voter suppressed, I'm also a racist. Correct. Okay. That sounds about right. I mean, that sounds about right. It's not logical, but yes, correct. Okay, all right. So there's my two questions if I could ask Doug Jones. I mean, hey, and you'll notice something else about that event. where you've probably seen Hakeem Jeffries when he was up there saying, if LSU was for it, we're against it. If Alabama's for it, we're against it. You know, all this other stuff. They were not there. Shibari figures and Terri Sewell were not there. Now, there's a reason why they weren't there. I believe it happened on Tuesday. It might have been Monday, but either way, you could justify they're in their district's campaigning, right? So that's where they were. So really, you could ask those two what they think about it too. Is anyone going to do it? No, that's why I said you have to dress up in some kind of costume. Get one of those glasses with a mustache thing. Put that on. Pretend you're a journalist. I mean, that's what it's going to take. Holy cat. You've actually just given me a good idea. I'll put like a dress on and pretend I'm transgender. And they'll let me go to the front of the line. It'll be great. It'll be great. Okay. Thank you very much, Yavi. When we come back, 10 with him, and I'll tell you, because Yaffi was late today. I'm going to use the questions people asked about him. So if you got yaffy questions, get them in here, especially if there's thinly veiled insults or maybe not so thinly veiled. We'll use those as well. Stay tuned. 10 with him coming up next. Get your questions in right now. Scoutpass control.com. WVNN Hot take text lines. Stay tuned. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. These players are battered and exhausted, but you don't hurt like this if you don't care about this team, about this country, about this game. I think you can feel the intensity, the goals, the energy that, wow, look at us. Here in the U.S., I have got some news for you. There's so much more to come. My name is Megan Klingberg, and we're just getting started. The U.S. Soccer Podcast, presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. This is The Dale Jackson Show. You guys know Yaffee's sweating this, right? Like, you know that. Everyone knows that Yaffy, yeah, are you sweating this? Is that what's happening?

No. You know, I can look at the text line, too. I can see it. It's absolutely true. It's absolutely true. All right, let's go ahead and get to it. Let's get to 10 with him. It's time to answer the deep questions. It's 10 with him. All right. We got 10 questions in about 10 minutes. Some are Yaffi-related, politics, personal, pop culture, pro wrestling, parisotial relationships, and personal attacks. Yeah, get your questions in right now. Let's get this one in. How can you make Yaffi work when he doesn't come in on time? Yeah, Yaffi. How can't I make you work when you don't come in on time? You can't. Good answer. Good answer. This isn't really a question. This is more common, but we'll use it anyway. Dale, you never told us Jeremy DeVito was Danny DeVito's gay brother. He sounds more feminine than Yaffi. Okay, first off, Jeremy DeVito is not related to Danny DeVito, nor is he gay. So those are the two comments. The feminine comment, Yavi, your thoughts? What is this the guy with the recumbent bicycle comments to all the time? No, you have multiple haters, Sammy. I wonder why. You got multiple haters. What do you mean you wonder why? You blame it me for this? No, I'm just implying it. Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right. This one comes in via email. Dale at WVN.com. That's the downtown rescue mission.org. Email. Email inbox. Why are you smearing veterans? I love it. Anytime I talk about a veteran or any of this stuff, I get accused of smearing veterans. So, yeah, Fee, why are you smearing veterans? Oh, man, that's a good line. You're going to say that to me. Now I really can't get back at you. Okay, why am I smearing veterans? I'm guessing Jeremy DeVito is here? Yes, that's correct. Yeah, that's what I came from. I'm smearing him. It's like, okay. Thanks a lot, guys. That makes a lot of sense. All right, moving past that. Would you ever moderate a tough questions debate between the top runoff candidates? I would, but you know who gets asked to do that stuff? Yaffy. You know why? Because he's safe and soft. And they know that he won't go. I just do what I'm told. He won't go crazy like Dale Jackson. They think I'm insane, man. I'm telling you, people think I'm crazy. They think I'm absolutely insane. Is that fair, Avi? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, here we go. This is going to be a hard question for you. Ready? What's more surprising Decatur's raking? Huntsville's ranking or Montgomery's ranking. I wouldn't live in Montgomery if you gave me a free house. Oh, geez. I honestly believe Decatur's ranking is probably the most surprising out of all of it. It's cost of living, all these other things and stuff like that. Huntsville's dropped like fifth in Alabama from first in the country. It's kind of silly, I'll be honest with you. But Yaffe, which one of those three is more surprising? Montgomery is Huntsville's or Decatur's ranking? It should be Montgomery.

But I'm sure people there are woke too, so they, you know, they have to include it in their minds. Okay, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair. Continuing on. If they are treating people trying to bring aid into Gaza that's so portly, I would believe the people of Gaza are treated just like the video show. The whole world is hating Israel. Why do you seem to be in love with them? Look, let me just say this and make this as clear as possible. This is about those people who were on the boat that got interdicted trying to invade Israel, is saying they were there for aid. Those people deserve every single thing that they get. They put them on the ground. Oh, no. Stop, please. There's a quasi-war going on. There's a quasi-war going on, and these people are trying to invade. But that's okay with you because, you know, there are Jews there doing it. Why I'm so in love with Israel? I don't know. But I am. I'm Mr. Zionist. No question about it. And when I see them doing that stuff to people, it only makes me love them more. This is The Dale Jackson Show. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. And that's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.