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in the industry here who's calling in right now
Matt Murphy is the cohost of Matt Val which
is heard on top 9 5 9 9 five
down in the Birmingham area has been doing this
for a lot of years and he wrote a piece lately
for 18 19 news that just really caught my
attention that is holler at him man you gotta
come on the show so Matt Murphy welcome to
right side radio how are you doing man thanks
Bill glad to be with you and I figured
that the piece that I wrote for 18 19
years would be absolutely up your alley considering the
mini ads that I've I've read of yours over
the years well well I appreciate it and and
by the way I'm gonna go ahead and point
out that you're the only talk radio host who's
ever hung up on me while I was on
the air with you so this is where I'd
have to plot my revenge while you're in the air
together one of the reasons that I'm happy that
happens is because now you have a story that
you're never gonna let me forget that's exactly right
man well listen so here's a deal either al
.com wrote something that just just drew my iron
and I was so glad to see you you
popped off a response to it before anybody could
and ail .com basically to publish this the sleaze
bag review of Alabama claiming that we are an
unhappy state and that we somehow pulled that way
by this organization that's based out of England go figure
and so you wrote a piece and you said
they tell us we're unhappy don't believe him and
talked about you taking a trip along the back
roads and small towns of Alabama on your motorcycle
and just finding just the opposite man so before
we even talk about politics I wanna hear about
that go ahead and give us your experiences on
that while the .com struck me as the number
of things Phil one most of which was lazy
right I mean and I know how this journalism
goes because I see some of these pieces these
funny bologna surveys in my email inbox every day
I'm sure you do as well where they send
something out the design is to get get media
or organizations like gmail .com to print something that
will eventually lead someone back to these website and
I don't necessarily begrudge the people that are sending
out the emails that grudge the companies that choose
to publish this garbage and it's invariably some sort
of survey you know the favorite food of every
state or you know the states that are happiest
or the states that are set and yeah they
ranked Alabama fourth happiest and I looked at some
of the metrics that they used and it was
all money related nonsense really the matrix didn't community
thing in terms of happiness at least the way I
grew up and I thought about my grandfather in
the way he grew up in the way he
raised me and then I thought about this motorcycle
trip that I took about a year ago and
I decided to write a response piece because it
seems to me that the people that write the
surveys the people that apparently right for .com and
those that you live in New York City in Washington DC and
some of these other Metro regions they want to
measure happiness first and foremost about money and power
and that's not the happiness that I learned when
I was a child that's not the happiness that
I that I saw across Alabama when I took
a trip on a motorcycle last year just answer
your question more directly I you know I was
for a load for a week just like many
companies our company decided to try to furlough full-time
employees as as an effort to save employees ultimately
and during that week there was a lot of turmoil going
on in the world the George Floyd issue had
just you know caused a lot of just metropolitan regions around
the country and a lot of liberals on mainstream media or
stirring that pot and I decided to get back
to kind of the roots of what I believe
that was to be and it was incredibly cathartic
I had an opportunity to meet people four people
rich people black people white people and by Marshville
I gotta tell you I couldn't disagree more with
this Tony survey people of Alabama happy and they're
happy because they have friends and they have neighbors
that they have loved ones and they go to
church and they give to their charity organizations and
they believe in their communities and if that type
of that type of rural Alabama that I wish
al .com would get out to more because maybe
they've learned to love Alabama like weed well it's
absolutely right man I mean I'm looking at the
article right now I pulled up as a reference
that while we were talking and and you went
to places that like like Hache and mud eye
and Brundage and Georgiana and Camden and Selma I
mean you were you were literally and I love
the fact you said like you never talk to
people about bank accounts you didn't talk about news
or race or climate change nobody asked for the
transgender bathroom and everybody looked happy and then the
best one to me though was a lady named
Miss Peggy and you sat next to her on
a bench in Union Springs by the town Square
and basically had a great conversation with this sweet
stranger and that was the best part of the
article for me was Miss Peggy I think well
yeah it was really cathartic for me to fail
and I didn't I didn't necessarily a more people
with some of the more sentimental after effects of
that but I sat there in Union Rachel for
a long time thing about Miss Peggy because you
know she was an older African-American woman you know
she told me a few stories about the thing she
had been through in her past and and this
is a woman that lived through you know real
racial discrimination she lived through you know some of
the real sins of America that it's altogether right
and and proper to address and to memorialized and
history books because it's important that we don't repeat
it but she she no grudge if she seemed
to at least I mean we sat on a bench
for 30 4 5 minutes and talked and I
just inquired about her life and she grew up
near union Springs her father was a sharecropper when
she grew up I mean it was just a
wonderful experience with a woman that I'll never meet
again but it galvanized in me what we experience
every day and I don't think we recognized this
enough and I at least I and what we do
feel as talk radio host you expose yourself to
these mainstream media organizations and it's all doom and
gloom and to hear or watch some of this
nonsense you would think that I mean we're about
to break out and some sort of race war
or some sort of class struggle not true most
people that we interact with every day are good
people their kind people they want to share kindness
and they want kindness returned and that's what I
saw in this and you know she in that
little 30 minute conversation she taught me a lesson
but I'll never forget I know that she wouldn't
remember me if you met me today but I'll
never forget her but I will say this too
man so when I read this about you on
the bench with Miss Peggy reunion Springs I picturing
a scene from Forrest Gump and your Forrest Gump that's what
I'm saying in my mind right now take a
right from the bird statue right down past the pharmacy
you'll see that bench across from the old courthouse
that Miss Peggy and I sat on it and
it felt that way to me too Phil it
was it was kind of like a scene out of
the movie it's pretty cool all right my brother we
take a short break right now can you hang
on I wanna talk politics with you for a few
minutes you're good with that I'd love it all right
Matt Murphy cohost of Matt and Val show every
morning 6 to 10 and top 9 9 five
done in Birmingham he's also the program Director down
there and he is gonna be back with us
here a minute talk about little politics how does he
see it from the Birmingham perspective I think a lot
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so listen we're gonna go back to the phones
right now my brother and Matt Murphy is on
he's the cohost of Matt and Val in the
mornings on top 9 9 five down in Birmingham
been doing this for a lot of years so hey Matt
let me ask you this switch of gears for
a minute politics so big topic on my show
I'm sure you've dealt with it on your show
has been the executive order by governor Ivy regarding
vaccine mandates how's that playing out on your show
what are you seeing in here all right I wanna
talk about the mandate but you peaked my interest
I was thinking during the break I have to ask
the question was it not medical marijuana that you
were on my show about that you're not kinda
go la cross ways and you know of course like
I do I blew my top and all of
that wasn't a medical marijuana brother I'm gonna go
ahead and label it twice so you've actually hung
up on me twice both times I called back
in and when we had added one was transgender
bathrooms and the other was medical marijuana so this
is where you know your slogan for your show
your slugline for your show couldn't be more correct
because I mean you are you are the epitome
of conservative doesn't in Alabama and I said it's
a compliment and I'm kind of I'm kind of
the equal time I'm I'm more of a literary
guy so we hit on those several issues on
which we disagree but I bet we did agree
on 90 % of that is true that is absolutely
true we might but I will state that as
a witness on the air I agree with you
90 % of the time at least if not more
but the things that we agree on I know
that you're very vocal about in Huntsville and I
try to be in Birmingham and I bet you
we agree on this executive order which is this
unfortunately the K IV administration has become increasingly reactive
and not proactive and they seem to react to
environments around them as opposed to proactively seeing what
needs to be done and getting ahead of it
like some other governors frankly right around us or
Ron DeSantis obviously comes to my Greg Adams another example
in Texas but the executive order I think it
will be active situation that the governor she responded
to criticism that should not done more to protect
Alabama workers in Alabama businesses and and the executive
order doesn't do anything at least my reading I'm not
a lawyer feel you are but you tell me
and yet you've been in the Senate so you
know how these executive orders rent what authority does
this give the governor that she doesn't already have
it I don't understand what this does exterior to
her basic job to discover now you're exactly right
and you pretty much nailed it I mean it
was it was disappointing in that regard and it
affirmed a couple of things but it did a
firm that she is all for the idea of
the AG pursuing litigation so I'm glad to hear
it it affirmed that she's not planning on firing
any of her executive of staff employees or whatever
but then you know right after that arguably the
university system arguably is a part of the executive
branch I mean they're not legislative they're not judicial
what's left right executive branch and yet Auburn university
thumb their nose at her the very same day
and said yeah we don't get it we're not
doing that and so they're proceeding with their vaccine
mandate so it obviously was hollow it didn't have
any teeth in it and in it and it
left a lot to be desired and it leaves the
legislature I'm hearing sentiments among the legislature that should've
been very vocal already on this they are saying
oh I guess we gotta do something now and
and that's kind of where it's at and it's
it's it's it's been disappointing I guess it's way
I put it well I mean if I remember
that you have government in high school right the legislative
branch makes the law the executive branch enforces the
laws and the the judicial branch adjudicates and interpret
the law so it has an enforcement division I
guess the disrespect from the university sample yeah you're
enforcing and carrying out the wheel of the album
legislature but that runs a file of the executive
order if you're mandating vaccinations on the campuses because
of some federal feat which specifically is supposedly spelled
out in the order and I also heard Phil
and you probably heard the same that the Alabama
Department of public health issued something internally that indicated
that they had a new federal mandate came down
this was the day after she issued the executive
right well I guess it was the day off
in which they were indicating that they were going
to be compelled by federal mandate as opposed to
the executive order of the governor so I don't
think it does anything at the you know this
is my least favorite rase but I'll use it
at the end of the day I don't think
it matters because I don't think the Bible administration
has any intention of moving forward with this mandate
I think they've seemed to push back I think
that the scales are tipping on the concept of
mandatory vaccinations now what a business is going along
with it as another question but I don't believe
the federal government 's gonna command it and here's
why I feel they at least will push it back
in January because there's no way it's my understanding
that well in excess of 30 % of the
TSA for example is unvaccinated is zero chance that vitamin
administration is gonna fire 30 % of PSA in
advance of Thanksgiving and Christmas but then on top
of that I'll tell you too you've seen the
supply chain is jacked up right now the economy
is reeling because of it in an part it's
it's because of the trucking industry and the national
trucking association came out in today in the news
that I store that I had earlier they asked
to meet that upwards of 3 5 % of
their membership in the national trucking Association is not
vaccinated and likely to quit their jobs and further
jack up the supply chain all of which will
come back to the Biden vaccine mandate and they'll
have to wear it like a hat a point where
I could sit down and listen to an argument
about a necessary mandate or quarantine I mean we
did all that right we did all that in
the earlier stages of the pandemic and it was
you know it could be argued what we should've
done what we should've done but ultimately I don't
mind airing on the side of caution with something
new like this comes along we have no idea
what it's gonna do we now know that there
is no real impress danger that unvaccinated people present
vaccinated people there's no real impress danger to the
general public if I choose not to get a
vaccine therefore there's no compelling interest for the government
to tell me as an individual that I have to
do something that I don't wanna do and then
that's kind of my standard it's always been a
standard and and and I think the will of
the people in the smart the people of Alabama
the rest of the country is gonna win this
thing and are you sure you don't have a lot of
degree that sounds very loyal I'll be honest with
you that was that was that was smooth man
I've been I've been around a lot of smart people like
I just I didn't have the disciplined to actually
go to law school so I just you know
you just huddle up and listen to lawyers for
about 2 5 years and you eventually some some
of it rubs off hey man appreciate being on
the show today Matt Murphy host of Val and
Matt and the more Matt and Val in the
morning on the top 9 9 five down in
Birmingham thanks we've never been on the show with
us thank you all right you guys that was Matt Murphy
top 9 9 five and he's been doing it
for quite a while you can also find some of
the stuff he writes like the one we talked
about earlier on the 18 19 news he's a
regular contributor there and so go check it out
but I'll be honest with you I am glad
that we had the time to talk about the
fact that he and I both agree this is
not an unhappy state we may be unhappy with
things here and there we have a moment we
get frustrated at something or whatever else but generally
speaking it's not like a level of disco contempt
that ranks as an unhappy state I reject that
notion outright and he put it as well or
better than I could have in his piece on
18 19 news so anyway glad of it all right
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