Welcome back to Tuesday. Here are the tidbits:

✅ CONGRATS: to our friend, Ben DeGweck, on being named CEO & Chancellor at South University.

🎙️ Thanks to John Russo (Chief Underwriting Officer – Small Business) with The Hartford for joining us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend.

🎙️ We are looking forward to having the Poarch Creek Indians‘ Chris “Ding Ding” Blackburn and Ellie Byrd with WHNT News 19 in Huntsville join us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this Saturday. Show starts at 7AM Saturday mornings on Bham’s Talk 99.5.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: The cold of our winter is caused the by the Northern Hemisphere’s tilt away from the sun, not the planet’s distance from the sun?

📅 NOVEMBER 19th: If you are in the Mobile area and want to be an Ambassador the fantastic Mobile Chamber, they are having a recruitment social to bring you on board at Fairhope Brewing in downtown Mobile.

👀 HIRING: Huntingdon College and our friend, Dr. Anthony Leigh, are looking for an Assistant Professor or Religion, an Assistor Professor of Exercise Science and an Admission Recruiter to join their team in Montgomery.

👀 SO COOL (Part I): The Poarch Creek Indians 53rd annual Pow-Wow event on Thanksgiving Day in Atmore looks fantastic. Traditional regalia, authentic dance competitions, crowning of the Poarch Creek Indian Princesses, food, art and more. If you are looking for something to do, this is it! Really unique.

👷 The new Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc. HQ building in Bham keeps getting closer & closer to being open & awesome. Can’t wait to see that finished product.

⚾ CONGRATS: to the Birmingham Barons Heads Groundskeeper, Caleb Paulus, who was recently named the 2025 Southern League and 2025 Double-A Head Groundskeeper of the Year! Great job!

☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great info & reports.

❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: there is a Harland Sanders Cafe & Museum in Corbin, KY? It is the original home of Kentucky Fried Chicken. I’ve got to check this out sometime.

👀 SO COOL (Part II): The Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum in Nashville has a major exhibit called “Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising”. I need to see that, too.

⚽ The Bham-based Gulf South Conference has a new men’s soccer champion! Congrats to the University of West Florida for taking the title.

📅 DEC 3: Alabama CCIM Chapter‘s Jingle & Mingle Christmas Party at the John Hand Club.

☑️ Call us at Truitt Insurance & Bonding Inc. (205)254-3005. We want to be your agent.

👀 CONGRATS: McKinley Hubbard who was recently named Miss University of Alabama at Birmingham 2026.

📅 MAY 29: Nate Bargatze is coming back to the Ham with his Big Dumb Eyes tour at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC).

🎯 Luke “The Nuke” Littler is the world’s No. 1 professional dart player after taking the title at the Grand Slam of Darts. And he is only 18.

🛑 Thanks for the read.