So this morning we got a good compliment from Dave Hughes. Hey, I'm really enjoying MRW7180. He's got a kind of an interesting vibe there from Alabama. Kind of a Casey Neistat kind of style there. Cool video here. What the North thinks about the South. You know, they're all, you know, inbred. [Applause] Anyway, but there he is. Yeah, he was he was kind of perturbed MRW that you don't show the uh the channels you subscribe to anymore. You know, I can't tell if you're watching me. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Today we're waking up here in Selma again. I want to take a special look at the Edund Pettis Bridge and then I'm going to make a few stops on our way home. The Edund Pettis Bridge was built in 1940 and it's named after Edmund Pettis who was a brigadier general for the Confederate Army during the Civil War and he later became a US senator for the state of Alabama. It became a national landmark because on March 7th, 1965, the foot of the bridge was the setting for Bloody Sunday, the site in which Martin Luther King Jr. was organizing the march and the Alabama State Troopers and Dallas County Sheriff's Department beat them and hurt them and injured them just for wanting to be able to vote. It became a national landmark because of its history involving the civil rights movement and that horrible Sunday. When I was here last time, I wanted to fly my drone around it, but it was raining on me. So, while I'm here this morning, I'm going to go ahead and uh launch my Mavic and get some shots of it before we leave Selma here in a few minutes. You can see here's the Edund Pettis Bridge. There's a famous shot of President Barack Obama standing here facing the opposite direction speaking to a crowd on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. That's how we honor those on this bridge. Of course, our democracy is not the task of Congress alone, but I've covered parts of that before. Today, I want to spend a little bit more time on the bridge itself. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm out on the Alabama River and uh I'm actually at another dam. This is the Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam. It's not a hydroelectric plant like the other one. And I was thinking maybe they wouldn't be it wouldn't be a no drone zone since it's not a hydroelect electric. But when I got here, this is what I saw. If you remember, I did a video called the perfect day and I was down at the riverfront and I was talking about how the Harriet river boat was missing that it must be off somewhere for maintenance. The river boat is not out here, which would normally be in the water right there. I don't know if it's out on a cruise or getting maintenance done to it, but it's not here. The river boat provides some good pictures. So, that kind of sucks that it's gone. Well, I found it. She is sitting right there getting maintenance, I guess. Getting ready for the summertime. When I decided to come up here, I never expected to see her sitting there. I better walk over here and just double check and make sure that there's not a sign up saying no drones on. This facility is a lock and dam, not an electric plant, which means the ships, you know, go into the slot and that's how they get through. I see there's some gentlemen off in the distance there in their boat fishing. I was just talking to the captain of the Harriet there behind me. He said they had to take it down to Mobile. Um, and they have to do that every 5 years so the Coast Guard can inspect the bottom of the ship and make sure it's okay. So, uh, they're headed back home now, but they got caught up with a bunch of flooding and storms on the way. He said, uh, they left January 2nd, headed to Mobile. They they hit left Mobile, headed back to Montgomery on, uh, February the 6th, and they're just now here. there. It's about 51 miles of river between here and Montgomery with all the snaky curves and all that stuff. Of course, you know, by car I can I'll be back in Montgomery in 15 or 20 minutes, but he said it'll take him a whole day to get there. So, it's good that the Harriet is coming back just in time for all this nice warm weather for people to ride on the Harriet. My sole purpose in coming here today is because I wanted to fly the drone. So, that's what I'm going to do now. We're going to put the drone up, try to get some good pictures. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. I have uh not been to one of these since I was a little kid. I had no clue what they looked like or um you know what what went on here. So, it's pretty neat to see. I'm glad that I was able to fly the Mavic here today and uh get these shots of this [Music] I have made it in from the lock and dam. So last year, sometime around September, I posted this video right here. Softball is over. Well, today my daughter, we've already signed her up and today is the tryyous so she can get put on a team. So, that's where we're going right now. Here we are at softball triyouts. It seems like just yesterday we were finishing last season. All right, so that's going to do it for this episode. I'm going to go ahead and end the video now. I want to thank you all for watching. Sorry about all the drone shots, but it was a beautiful day and a perfect place to fly my drone. That was I got some really good shots from around the dam. So, thank you all for watching. I'll see you tomorrow. You have a good night. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause]