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well welcome to it it's it's midweek we are
like halfway to the weekend big doings that means
it's time to play it hit it boom guess
what day it is Mike Mike Mike what day
is it Mike guess what today is it's hump
day congratulations you are halfway to Friday y'all there
it is if a camel plays that you know
it's gonna be a good day so we got
a great show later on for you and that's
a boomer on the board hey buddy woo whoop
it's Wednesday yay yay it's just it's Wednesday and
Thanksgiving week is coming do y'all have like a
special traditions do you have now I still I
still have like like like like I don't know
if my body can handle another piece of the
birthday cake that's like a big deal in your
family big deal it's like it's it is where
did that cake even come from that's on my
dad 's side up in the Oregon Washington it's like
the Dagwood sandwich of cakes incredible but Thanksgiving is
that actually just a different level for the for
the southern side of the side what time should
we be there we got we got good deals
on for you I mean the show the show
is full I mean the show has got some
hair on it I'm just saying so at 3
o'clock today Terry Latham who is the former chairman
of the statewide Alabama Republican Party she is now the
campaign chair for Alabama for Ron DeSantis so she's gonna
come on at 3 o'clock give us her perspective
on why the DeSantis campaign where she sees it
going and how things are going why she even took
the gig I mean you know just wonder what
made her pick DeSantis so we'll talk to Terry
Laythan at 3 o'clock about that and then you
know the deal if you hear the camo plate
at the beginning of the show that means towards
the end of the show at the start of
the third hour we go to the grand council
on Wednesdays with Jeff Poor and Dale Jackson so
that's at 4 o'clock grand Council we ping each other
with questions don't even always know the questions in
advance and darn we just see how we do
so that's such a big deal with grand Council
4 o'clock and then there's a triple dipper so
hit it triple dipper three stories you gotta know
that's right triple dipper three stories three themes if
you will that you gotta know as we run
today's show number one at the gate we're gonna
talk about election 20 2 4 we're gonna be
doing this as we move towards the primary and
you know it's gonna be here before you know
it to standby it's gonna be here but the
primary elections coming up and the field for the
Republican side is getting smaller the field for the
Democrat side is always been small because they won't
let anybody else in for the most part but
yeah election 20 2 4 we'll talk about latest
developments will talk about Canada polls will talk about
how things are doing and then we'll talk with
the Terry Lathan about Ron DeSantis 's campaign in Alabama
so there's that and then number two on the
triple dipper I'm calling it once again national insecurity
things are happening I mean even right this very
minute up on the screens here on the wall
Biden is meeting with G and what they're calling
a high stakes meeting he has yet to ever
go into those high stakes meeting and seemed like
he you know always draws the short stick but we'll see
in the meantime national insecurities got a variety of
pieces in it did you know we just bombed
targets in Syria we did did you know that
we've been attacked in Siri in a rock like
50 times in the last two weeks we have
did you know that we just lost one of
our multimillion dollar drones to Hoosie rebels that oh by
the way Biden had already taken off of the
terror watchlist we did and all these things national
insecurity we'll talk about it as number two on
the triple dipper and then number three I'm looking
around at people tearing down US flags claiming that
we are not the nation that we used to
be excoriating us while they're inside our own borders
enjoying the benefits of living here and I'm saying
number three on the triple dipper America love it
or leave it that's that's how I feel you
know I'm not gonna make you leave yes you
have a first amendment right but I have to question
why if everything so awful so bad why do
you wanna be here so I'm just saying in
America love it or leave it that's number three
on the triple dipper all right let me jump over
here to my opening comments and I'll just remind
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daily right side way monologue all right let me ask
you something have you ever sat through something that
just made you squirm I mean because the person
who was speaking or acting or singing was just
so bad that it made you uncomfortable and I'm
not talking about like little kids in the elementary
school play I mean they could be so bad
that it makes it even more fun I'm talking
about grown men or women who are just so
bad at what they're trying to do and they
have no clue how bad they're doing it and
they can't even tell that every single person in
the room is just cringing so I was once
out of church on a beautiful Sunday morning everything was
fine service was going well I was in good
spirits and then a man stood up to sing
a solo and it wasn't spontaneous I mean it
was well planned his name was printed right there
in the order service somebody pushed play on a
CD player and oh boy chemist Cater Wallen and
to say it was awful would be a compliment
I mean I actually began to break out in
a cold sweat for him I found myself wondering
whose bright idea was this who vetted this guy
before they gave him the microphone well let's just
say it stored to Quinn aspired if you know
what I mean but the thing was he had
no idea how bad he was singing I mean
he couldn't tell that the vast majority the congregation
was silently begging for it just to be over
he was just in his mode he was completely
tone deaf he was oblivious to the fact that
what he thought he was singing was actually not
what he was singing they were two different things
tone deaf is not good when you were singing
a pretty song but likewise being tone deaf can
be set of politicians at time how's that well
it's true politicians get tone deaf all the time
they get their bubble and they believe that what
they're doing what they're legislating what they're issuing executive
orders for what they're giving speeches about are things
are constituent just really want to hear completely oblivious
to what is being asked for or needed they
discontinue sometimes to do their political caterwauling and they
never realize that even for a second that folks
out there are just looking at each other and awkward
wonder trying to figure out why they're elected officials
do certain things when it doesn't really relate to
what the people need or even want I made
it certainly reasonable to stand on a position in
front of a group opposed to it or to
have an idea that perhaps folks don't realize you
know things that could be done if you got
them enacted that's very common but that's a different
animal than the oblivious and ability of some politicians
to recognize that they are a spouse Ing something
that the crowd is not in favor of or
doesn't want or for that matter can't even figure
out why it's being talked about and yet those
tone deaf politicians they just keep on going digging
their hole even deeper never realizing for a second
that the path they're on as a dead end
street and the crowd in front of them is
just getting moody your moodier because they know they're
not being listened to so Kayson point yesterday I
spent some time unpacking the growing sense of the
Alabama legislature is preparing to bring another casino bill
oh boy I'm in Alabama law currently does not
allow for a true casino gaming it would require
legislation and to vote of the people and I
can tell you from firsthand experience that any gambling
bill like that's gonna suck the air out of the
state house it just is it'll be all consuming
as it becomes a source of contentious debate committee
action public hearings polls being paid for in lobby
is doing the bidding of their casino clients major
and much needed legislation will often take a backseat
as the verified air on the upper floors the
state house is inhaled by casino operators and casino
industry lobbyist it's a song has been sung many
times in the Alabama state House it has never
never been sung well it shows up on the
order of service and everyone in the congregation of
Alabama citizen sits there in squirms and wonders why
is it so important inside the steakhouse bubble but
never so important to the vast majority of folks
outside the steakhouse y'all it's a classic case of
politicians being politically tone deaf thinking they're singing a
great song but just really missing the mark so
let me ask you to ask yourself this question
how many times have you sat around talking with
your friends about how badly you wish we had
more casinos in Alabama yeah how many dinner table
conversations are fast Food Lion small talk or water cooler
discussions at work have you been a part of
that centered on how badly you and your friends
and family just really wished that Alabama could just
please get some of that casino gaming action well
I'm gonna wager pun intended I'm gonna wager that
the overwhelming number of folks in Alabama just like
me and cannot recall when they ever expressed a
burning desire to have casinos nearby what people are
really talking about though are things that are of
a completely different set of priorities so recent polling
shows that likely voters in Alabama have a different
set of priorities for their elected officials voters want
some things done that'll help them get through this
crazy era of post Covid election integrity Biden economics
energy cost border security crime in the street schools
needing improving madness that we've been enduring now for
the past several years and nowhere nowhere in that
litany of real and abiding issues are the people
of Alabama just begging their politicians to please please
give us more casinos just to make our lives
better a recent 20 2 3 pole by the
center for excellence and polling it shows that 9
2 % of Alabamians are concerned about crime rates
where they live with 7 2 % believing that
Alabama cities have the largest share of the crime
problem another 8 1 % strongly support a special
efforts to enforce election integrity as we come into
the all important 20 2 4 election year in
another survey of like the Republican voters conducted earlier
the same year and keep in mind y'all we
have a Republican super majority in Alabama so this
should matter 9 4 % of Republican voters 9
4 % believe that parent should have a choice
and where and how their children are educated 9
1 % say they believe that parents are not
the government should choose the best education environment for
kids here's another one just last month the university
of Alabama Culverhouse College of business issued a report
they said that business leaders were surveyed and that
the Alabama business confidence index is still in the
negative and that the business mood has gone down
slightly since last quarter confidence in the US economy
is a hole is even lower and then there's
a recent sin square voters voice pole that found
it voters overwhelmingly picked inflation as the top issue
affecting their concerns that need to be addressed and
then following those economic concerns the next on the list
was matters related to illegal immigration crime and then
jobs in the economy in that order but my
point is this politicians need to sing to their
audience not to themselves and they need to sing
and govern in a manner that does not look
sound or feel like they are so tone deaf
that they are missing what really matters to people
who elected them it's crime school choice inflation election
integrity jobs those are the things we talk about
because those are the things we care about casinos
not so much that's just tone deaf politics that's
a rap for the right side way while you
wait and watch I'm telling you they bring that
bill it's gonna be all consuming and other things
that are so important to y'all things like school
choice things like tax relief things like jobs in
the economy they all wind up taking a backseat
because the lobbyist get in there and stir things
up and next thing you know the only thing
that anybody can get done is what happened with
the gambling bill where are we on the gambling
bill how's the gambling bill doing next thing you
know that's all the press cares about nothing else
gets reported it's maddening it's tone deaf let's make
up sing another song Phil Williams right side radio
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