MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-10-09

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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

Stephen McCraney (1:02)

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MidDays.

Gerard Gibert (1:06)

SuperTalk Mississippi.

I'm your host, Gerard Gibert, along with Rhino in the Element Wealth Studio, guiding you through the middle of your day with facts, fodder, and fine music on this Friday, yo. Yeah, and the storm is just brewing out there in the Gulf. It's been upgraded, correct, to a category three.

SPEAKER_4 (1:28)

But they expect the wind shear to knock it back down to two before it makes landfall.

Gerard Gibert (1:33)

That's what I heard. So that's, I guess, relatively good news. But at two, what are the strength of the winds in a two? Up to 80 miles an hour or something like that? I mean, it's still a bunch of wind, strong wind.

SPEAKER_4 (1:46)

The category two classification for hurricanes is 96 to 110 miles per hour.

Gerard Gibert (1:53)

Okay, a little higher than I thought. Well, last time I checked, 96 to 100 mile an hour winds pretty dang strong. That could wreak some havoc for sure.

Looks like though the path still shows it going Mobile Pensacola sort of in that area between those two cities.

SPEAKER_4 (2:13)

Just with less of a western hook.

Gerard Gibert (2:18)

Yeah, it kind of wobbled.

SPEAKER_4 (2:19)

The original ones were going to be much more of it's going to churn and kind of curl west into Mississippi. And that's why we were saying earlier in the week, the forecast was showing the eastern half of the Magnolia State getting a whole bunch of rain.

Gerard Gibert (2:33)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (2:34)

Now it looks like some of the eastern part of the Magnolia State is going to get some rain.

Gerard Gibert (2:40)

Yeah, so the forecast for the Magnolia State downgraded, I guess, a little bit, right, in terms of rain and wind as it moves on through. But I was a little surprised to hear when we had the National Weather Service on the program yesterday that it's going to be in and out. What did he tell us?

Sunday, back to sunny skies and five to ten mile an hour wind. So this thing is moving fast.

SPEAKER_4 (3:10)

Yeah, I'm looking at the forecast for various cities across the Magnolia State, and you look at, say, the hurricane churning all the way north to Tupelo. Tupelo, the forecast, has rain starting early in the morning on Saturday, but it will be gone by nine o'clock at night.

Gerard Gibert (3:29)

Well, how about that?

SPEAKER_4 (3:31)

As far north as Tupelo. But then you look at somewhere like, I think I had Gulfport pulled up earlier, and it was surprising because they have the wind advisory, because there's a lot of wind right now. Yeah. It's a very windy day today.

But tomorrow, they've got 30% chance of rain, like 2 in the morning.

Gerard Gibert (3:52)

Okay. Well, I hope...

SPEAKER_4 (3:54)

It may miss large swaths of the Gulf Coast entirely.

Gerard Gibert (3:59)

I hope that doesn't interfere with cruising the coast too much. That's what I was looking at. Yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (4:06)

It looks like they're going to just miss it.

Gerard Gibert (4:09)

Yeah. So that's good news. I know that the folks, man, they look forward to that every year. Woody Bailey, the team, they do such a great job of that. And 10,335 registrants, I believe, Rhino, the last figure I saw. That's a bunch of classic vehicles representing 42 states. It's just incredible for the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Magnolia state overall. Great job, guys, and, you know, they get treated to some Mississippi hospitality, renowned hospitality, Mississippi Gulf Coast style. Enjoy it. Secretary of War, Pete Hexeth, has confirmed that the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will be made public.

The president approved the execution by firing squad. He, of course, it seems like just yesterday this happened, 2009

He was responsible for killing 13 people, injuring dozens more. That was at Fort Hood. And I'm looking at the latest photo of him, Rhino, and he's got the orange jumpsuit on, and he's grown out his beard. Is there something about the facial expression, you shared with me one yesterday of Zoran Mondani. What a nutcase that guy's turned out to. Not that we were confused, but you showed me one of him that was, what do you call it? His real estate smile.