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August 4, 2025 18 mins
Sara's in-laws are getting a little too close for comfort in today's Ask Alabama. Alabama got a very WEIRD gift from a neighbor and Producer Blake is a little freaked out. Matt Rife made a BAD purchase in 3 Things You NEED to Know. PLUS Super Easy Trivia and What the Hell Headlines HERE. 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stirring the pot, one morning at a time. Welcome, Welcome
to the Alabama Show.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, Good morning. Does it feel like back to school?
It does? Yeah, oddly enough, I'm ready. I am.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Normally I'm always like no, summer was too short now.
But I went to tractor supply this weekend and they
had all the Halloween stuff out, and I was like, Yes,
ghost cows are the best.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Give me a ghost chicken, give me a ghost cow,
Give me some candy.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm ready for Halloween. I'm ready for back to school.
I'm ready for Halloween. I'm ready to go to the
pumpkin patch, ready for all the things we just started. Yes,
pumpkin spice lattes.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Fall hasn't even officially begun yet.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Aren't we here? It's coming. Welcome to October. My neighbors
already have their Halloween decorations up. We get.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Okay, well, chill out. We're not there yet. You chill
out before we know orre gonna be a Christmas don't.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Really my fun exactly. Christmas is the greatest time of
the It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, but let's let's take a second and just relax.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Anyway, if we're going back to school this week, your parents.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Are real happy. If your kids are going back to school,
call the show.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
We want to hear from you. Eight three three five
h one Bama is the number. Good morning, It's.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
What the hell headlines? What the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
On the Alabama Show, Smoky the Bear arrested a man
who kept stealing his signs.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Why Smokey's doing something about it?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yes, somebody was caught stealing Smokey Bear signs from state
parks in Florida, and Smokey himself was actually there when
the guy was finally caught in the act and handcuffed.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Charges are still pending. But listen to the Smoky.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Is always around our forests, and just let you've got
lucky today that he saw the bad guy and got
him in kuff who goes and steals an image of
Smoky Bear and then tries to profit all for that.
You're going to go and commit crimes in our forests,
you probably need to find a different place. Not only
will you find Smoky in some of those forests, but
you'll find our car officers. We're the most pro law

(02:21):
enforcement state of the Union.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Hey, you know what, only you can prevent forest fires.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's super easy trivia with The Alabama Show producer Blake.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Come on down.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, you will be answering today on the Alabama Show.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Back to School Questions in honor of it being the
week that all the kids go back to school. Think
you can handle it.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
I mean we're going to find out, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Question number one? What is the traditional fruit students give
to teachers?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Apple? Good job, buddy? Next time? What color is a
school bus yello? Yellow? Unless you're riding the church bus,
it's white most of the time. Yeah, we don't know.
Here's the yellow. What do last one? For the wind?
You're ready?

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
What do teachers use to write on a blackboard?

Speaker 5 (03:21):
It used to be chalk.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's still chalk. Maybe, yeah, it's chalk. Just congratulations, buddy,
you just want.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yes, I'll be back.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's three things you need to know.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Taco Mama just closed their location at UAB on seventh
Avenue South.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'm so upset about this. Why would they do that?
They just did.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
They posted a note that says, this is not a
decision we make lightly while this location is saying goodbye,
we cannot wait to welcome you into our other Birmingham
locations to keep the good time rollings the good times rolling.
There's still eight Taco Mamas in the Birmingham metro area
and there's one in Tuscaloosa, so we're not losing Taco
Mama for good, just the one at E gav. Starting today,

(04:17):
Wendy's is serving a Wednesday Adams inspired meal to celebrate
season two of Wednesday, which we will get the first
half of Season two of Wednesday this Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Get it drops on Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Got it.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
The meal includes a rest in ten piece nugget okay,
a cursed in crispy fries, and a Raven's Blood frosty
which is just vanilla with dark cherry swirl and then
two mysterious dips of dread. Every meal also comes with
a purple plastic spoon with a Raven and Scold design.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I love this.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know. I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
And speaking of spooky, Matt Rife, Oh idiot just bought
the stupid Ed and Lorraine Warren their home and so
him and his other YouTube buddy are the official guardians
of the Annabelle Doll, the same doll that the guy
who was just taking on tour was unlived. Uh, matt

(05:17):
Ryphon's that. Now here's the Guardian. He posted on TikTok.
He's going to open the house up to people being
able to come in and do paranormal investigations.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
And stay the night.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yes, what the hell is wrong with him? He posted this.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Video on TikTok and people.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Were like, well, I'll be missing you. Another comment was
who's in charge of your money? Because they need to
be fired. We'll see what happens. Matt Ry feels nice,
non you and I love you.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Three things you need to know more at the Alabama
Show dot com.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
You were listening to the Alabama Show.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
If you ever need help with some going on in
your life, calls the show. Hey, three thirty five oh
one Bama is the number, Sarah, good.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Morning, what's going on in your life? My in law is.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
Kevin dooris for a long time, okay, and we all
live in different states, so it makes it difficult because
it's like if you're in a see one, you can't
see the other, and like they get all jealous if
you see one more than the other, Like live close
to either of them, so are they fighting over like
who gets the holidays?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Every year, always, always.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
But now my father in law has decided he wants
to move close to us.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
But his wife is terrible, Like, how mad is she?
What does she do?

Speaker 7 (06:42):
She just doesn't want to be around us. You can
tell she doesn't one of around us.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
She just wants to be with him. She's like one
of those people that if you say something, she's like,
well what about blah blah blah. She has to take
the other side, just to like for.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
The devil's advocate, And it's like, I don't need the
devil advocating.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Thank you all. Do you and your husband? Do you
have kids together?

Speaker 8 (07:04):
We don't.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
I think my father in law is hoping that if
we do, or if he moves closer, that we would
because we would have help.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
How close is.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
This man thinking of looking? Not just in the same
state as me or the same county as me? No, no, no,
there's a house literally across the street from me.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh hell no.

Speaker 7 (07:24):
And he asked me to go over there and take
videos of it and send it to him. And I'm like,
I can't have him living across the street.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Absolutely not. Does his ex wife none of he's thinking
about doing this?

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Yeah, And she's like I'll believe it when I see it.
He says he's going to do a lot of things.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
And then he never does.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
What does your husband say? He feels like.

Speaker 7 (07:46):
He doesn't really think that it's going to happen, but
also feels like he can't be like discouraging his dad
from wanting to spend more time with him because it's
his dad, and.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So it's this weird area.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
But every time they visit, my husband leaves, he's like,
he's like, oh, I'm going.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
To go into the office. He works from home, but
he's like, I'm going to go though, and he leaves
you alone with you with your father in law and the.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
Terrible why we're here like weeks ago looking at houses
and I had to drive them around all.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Day every day.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
I'm like, when I said I wanted to be a
stamp of life, this is not what I'm bad.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Let's see if we can get some help for you.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Do you have Do your parents or your in laws
live in your neighborhood?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Are they invading your space? And what do you do
to deal with it? Eight three three five oh.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
One, Bama, that's eight three three five oh one two
two six two.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're listening to the Alabama Show on demand.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Eight three three five oh one BAMA is the number
to call the show.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Chris, good morning.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Do you have advice for Sarah whose father in law
wants to move in across the street.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
All right, look here, she needs to get creative. Across
the street is way too close. I have a father
in law to be then he's popping over. No good
for her.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
He's going to be coming over every night for dinner.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
She's got a adding out this house across the street.
She needs to find out what's wrong with it. She
needs to make up some stories about some weird stuffing's
happened there. She needs to discourage. This is not good
for her. Soites, it's got termites, that's got bad jo you.
She needs to figure something out.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Have you ever lived in the same neighborhood as your parents.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
I've never lived in the same neighborhood. My my fiance
was actually living with her mother when we met.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Yeah, that's an interesting thing. So so yeah, she needs
to have this not happen, at least not across the street.
She needs some distance. She needs a buffer.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Eight three three five by one BAMA is the number.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Andrew, I know your mother in law used to live
in your basement. Do you have advice for Sarah, whose
father in law wants to move across the street.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Ain't no way. My mother in law is a psychotic
old woman.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
How long did it take you to get her out
of your basement?

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Oh? Year, oh year, it does. She fell down the
stairs one time going to the vice and I opened
the door to make sure she's okay. And I looked
down her and she's wrapped up in the tail button.
I could hold it up into bobom the stairs. I
just shut the door back. I did. I yeeld down her.
I said, hey, you are on she said, I said,

(10:15):
want be so alive. I'll pray for you, and I
shut the door back.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
She is taking you out of the whil buddy. I
hate to tell you.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
She ain't got met left. I got it all already.
Oh my god, the best thanks she ever had. And
that's her daughter.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, Oh amen, everybody, thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (10:32):
Yeah, I'll just for are she tries to move in.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh final, it's three things you need to know you
with the Element show.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
After fifteen years, the West Homewood Farmers Market is closing.
I am so shook fifteen years, they're ending this tradition.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
I love that it was there for that long boat.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I know. So they do want their last celebration to
be one that honors the Homewood community. So Tomorrow, Tuesday,
August fifth, from five to eight pm at one sixty
Oxmoor Road, there's going to be food trucks, live music,
and balloon animals and crafts for the kids.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
So hop on out to the farmers market, get you
some fresh produce.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Casper, the nineteen ninety five Kids Classic were even born
in nineteen ninety five, yet plead the fifth Casper the
nineteen ninety five Kids Classic is.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Returning to theaters in October.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Universal Pictures in aounced on Friday they're going to release
Casper on October third. You can see it on the
big screen all the way through Halloween.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
All right, I'm down, I am too. That's a great movie.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Did you see Jelly Roll WWE at the Summer Slam. Yes,
he finally went up against Logan Paul because we played
in Three Things you need to know a few weeks ago,
them talking smack to each other.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
He finally got to lay the smack down.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
It was awesome clips.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I'll say this.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
It was as he did do some body slams and
some elbow drops, but ultimately Logan Paul won the match,
and I'm real humped about that.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I was rooting for Jelly Roll.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Hey, he's going to be in the ring more often.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I could, I could get in with some Jelly Roll
on WWE.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think that's great. And he looked great. Do you
see he's lost like over two hundred and thirty pounds.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
He's looking really good for where he started he is.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's three things you need to know more at the
Alabama Show dot com.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
We're listening to the Alabama Show on demand.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Here's a good news story to start your week off.
All right, a man made best friends with a raccoon.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
I mean, wouldn't anybody that sees a real good I.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Mean, those old trash bands are so cute.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
So eighty two year old man in Connecticut is in
the news for being a raccoon whisperer. One walked up
to him outside at his house last spring and he
started feeding.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
It and it kept coming back. Then this year it
came back with five babies. He now has a full
literally as a whole family. Listen to him talking about this.

Speaker 10 (12:57):
Just raccoon just came walking up to me. I don't
know whether she felt comfortable with me, but she came
back with five babies. I wear a glove on my
right hand. I put the grapes or the marshmallows in it,
and she gently takes the things out of I don't
even need to use the glove, but I'd rather be

(13:18):
safe than sorry. But the most important thing is it
just keeps me occupied. I enjoy doing it.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's as simple as that. I love this little grandpa
that is so sweet.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
He's like so excited to have something around.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's all fun and games. So one of those raccoons
gets rabies and comes up.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Oh no, they love them too much. They'd go away
if they got rabies.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
You were listening to the Alabama Show.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
We're going to do an exercise together. Okay.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I want you to imagine you're taking a nap on
your couch on it.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's Friday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
You're relaxing, and you wake up to a text, and
the text is from your neighbor and.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
The text says, hey, what's that songs do you wear?

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
You responding?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Yeah, I'll responding me.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It always starts on something.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
By the way, thanks for listening to the Alabama Show.
I'm Alabama the girl with producer Blake, the producer who produces.
My neighbor asked me if I wear a certain sized
songs and I was like, and I was going to
dinner with her and her husband, and they're a.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Little bit older than me. I kind of they're like
my I've kind of adopted them as like my aunt
and uncle. Okay, Like I'm real close with my neighbors.
They always helped me out.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
And they're like, we're gonna go to dinner and I'm like, okay,
I'm going to take a nap.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I wake up from a nap and it literally goes,
what's these songs do you wear? And I immediately in
my sleep went, I don't want any thongs. I don't
know what you're doing. What is happening. I don't want this.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
Oh wait, wait, she was trying to give you some
I thought she was asking for years who that's what
fraighting with.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
So I like, when they came to pick me up for.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Us to go to dinner, I was like, what the
hell are you talking about? And she goes, I bought
some underwear and it doesn't fit. It hasn't even it's
like brand new. I haven't even washed it yet. Do
you want it?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
What?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
So here's the next question.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Somebody's given you some underwear they bought that they didn't
like you taking it. Yeah, yes, and you're gonna wear it?

Speaker 10 (15:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Why not? I mean it's free, free clothing, free underwear. Yeah,
I need that? Wasn't mind some more.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't know why I gave that an air horn.
I just needed one. We'll good because I.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Took the underwear, but because she was like, I tried
one on and it didn't fit, and I don't know
which one she tried on, so she gave me a
bag and immediately threw them all in the in the
washing machine and washing them.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
You do need to wash brand new underwear at all times?
Well I did, and I'm wearing a pair of to
day Okay. Well I didn't need to know.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'll I'll think one complaint, please.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Did not hr.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Hr Well call the show what is the weirdest? Because
I think this is.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
The weirdest thing I have ever accepted from somebody is underwear.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Glitchen.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
The weirdest thing you've given me is this conversation, So
thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Eight three three five one BAMA is the number. That's
eight three three five oh one two two sixty two.
What is the weirdest gift you have ever accepted from anybody?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
You were listening to the Alabama Show on demand?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Eight three three five oh one BAMA is the number
to call the show Andrew, good morning. Would you take
underwear from somebody if they tried to give it to you?

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, would you wear it?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
No?

Speaker 9 (16:40):
I wouldn't wear it, But I mean if if they're
trying to give it somebody to remember them by or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Nom my neighbor.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
My neighbor just gave me some thongs that she bought
and didn't like, and she goes, hey, you want these?

Speaker 9 (16:57):
That's kind of creepy. That's like buying used underworld the
good Will. I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
They were brand new, fresh out of the pack.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
Oh in that case. In that case, I'm mind. But guys,
it's a little different. I don't know if I've writ
another man's box. Okay, what's the I might have some
speculation there.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
What's the weirdest gift you've ever accepted from anybody?

Speaker 9 (17:18):
Oh? Little gifts Yeah. I had a girl that I
knew by association of it came up give me a
coffee of her bur lest photos one time, and I
told her they were really nice. I appreciate it. I
just I don't know. I dropped them off for a
buddy in my house. I was like, there ain't no
way I'm keeping those.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Why didn't you keep them?

Speaker 9 (17:37):
She wasn't the best looking, and she also was kind
of a talker. Okay, she's one of those you'd catch
outside your window at night. She's on realm, Like I'm serious.
She drove through ber outback and I'm pretty sure you
didn't called it one hundred numbers. She knew Levey, buddy,

(18:01):
I love you watch her? You ever made a redheaded
named Tiffany with a big butterfly on the chesty?

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (18:10):
We flag number one? Love y'all.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
You were listening to the Alabama Show. The following program
is on demand.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
What are you gonna do after the show today?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Today? I guess I need to go shopping for some stuff,
like some waters and probably noodles.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
That sounds really interesting. I'm gonna go.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Help my little cousin set up her classroom since this
is her first year being a teacher, so shout out
to the teachers. If you're a teacher, welcome to you
back to school week. If you missed anything on the
show today, you can download the free iHeartRadio app and
look up the Alabama Show on Demand and we'll see
you tomorrow morning at six am.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
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