A Little More Monday Stop Signs and Raccoons

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It says the Uncle Henry's Show here on News Radio
seven ten WNTM. Thank you very very much for listening
to it. I appreciate very much you listening to the
Uncle Henry's Show now in this half hour of show
here on a new week on Monday. I know you're wondering,

(00:39):
will there be more raccoon talk. I believe there will be. Yes,
there will be, but not right away. Not right away. First,
let me get to a news item. This kind of
snuck up on me, this news item. This is a Mobile,
Alabama news item. This has to do with something the

(01:00):
Mobile City Council is going to be voting on, I
believe tomorrow. This is a news story that Fox ten
had Friday night. And now I know you probably saw
it or heard about it, because if you listen to
this station, you're a responsible citizen. You're curious about the
world around you, and you try to stay up to
date on all the thing's going on in our city, county, state, country,

(01:25):
and world in dimension and galaxy. But some people they
don't pay attention on Fridays. In fact, they're going out
Friday night trying to get liquored up and stuff like that.
This is a news story from this past Friday night
where Fox ten investigative reporter Brendan Kirby, who is frequently
disheveled where he talks about stuff. The Mobile City Council

(01:48):
is going to vote on tomorrow at their meeting about
traffic in downtown Mobile. They want to get rid of
some traffic lights. Let's listen together. I had no idea
that we're going to get rid of traffic lights. Let's
listen together on what the plans are for downtown Mobile
and the traffic flow.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Also tonight, driving around downtown Mobile could be a little different.
Mobill City leaders are scheduled to vote on a pair
of proposals next week.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
That would be tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Could turn some one way streets two way and replace
some traffic lights with stop signs. Our Brendan Kirby is
joining me. Now, Brendan, how would this work?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Let me see exactly how this traffic realignment plan would work.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
We're here now. Let me assure you that what he's
showing you is not that interesting. So I know you
you're wondering when is radio going to get pictures. We're
we're still working on this, but you can you can
visualize what he's talking about. But let's think, now, what
do you consider more progress a traffic light or a

(02:58):
stop sign? What represents more progress to you a traffic
light or stop sign? Just a basic question. All right,
Let's listen on Washington Avenue.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
In the distance there you can see the traffic lights
on spring Hill Avenue and Dauphin Street. They both would
be gone, replaced by stop signs, and this flashing light
on Kantai Street also would be gone. The plan is
to replicate that at intersections throughout downtown.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is how traffic flows in downtown mobile now through
intersections regulated by traffic lights.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes, city leaders.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Want to change that. They're proposing to remove traffic lights
represented by red dots here and replace them with stop signs.
Flashing lights at other intersections also would be removed, nearly
two dozen in all. A second contract up for a
vote next week.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
And that would be tomorrow. A second contract.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Would turn Saint Anthony, Saint Joseph, Warren, Dearborn, and Jefferson
Streets from one way to two way roads. Des Nick Amberger,
the city's executive director of Engineering and Infrastructure, says these
are recommendations from a study done a few years ago
by the Downtown Movie Alliance.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
All Right, now, before we hear the reasoning, and I
have not. I'm hearing this for the first time with
you right now here on the Uncleanimer Show. Have not
previewed this. But so what what would the reason be?
Because I'm sure that in the past they replaced stop

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signs with traffic lights. Now why are we going to
go back to stop signs instead of traffic lights. I'm
very curious. What have we did we not realize that
the red lights were somehow wrong? I don't I don't understand.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
It's it's basically making Downtown safer for the pedestrians, slowing
some traffic down from when it's Green Hill.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh, it's oh okay. This is to slow down the
traffic for the people not in their cars. So this
is for the pedestrian and not the actual person trying
to get from point A to point B in a vehicle.
All right, So this is this is making Downtown mobile
less friendly for the automobile.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Sort of Engineering and Infrastructure says, these are recommendations from
a study done a few years ago by the Downtown
Movie Alliance.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's it. It's basically making Downtown safer for the pedestrians,
slowing some traffic downs and when it's green the whole way,
people unfortunately tend to tend to speed UH through through
these areas which are heavily heavily UH used by pedestrians.
So the goal was to slow the traffic down and
make it safer for.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
The goal is to slow the traffic down because Heaven
forbid a green light appear, all right, so we got
to get rid of the green light altogether, get rid
of the lights. All right, Okay, this is just in
other words, they would like less driving and more walking.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
So mobilians, they're skeptical. Cheryl Shiftlett says she was one
of the original bartenders at Haley's and has watched downtown
traffic for years.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Unfortunately, I don't think it's gonna work. I don't find
that people inmobiles stop at stop signs. I have stop
signs here in my house, and I see them run
them all the time that I think the signals.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Are going to be better Riley Barrow and Jilly and
Kelly agree.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
I don't think that would go well. A lot of
people run stop signs, so I feel like lights are
probably more efficient.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
I have a friend who runs stop sign centoriously. I mean,
she just can't help it, and so I don't think
it would be a good idea.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
But Mason Johnson, who works at Reesters downtown, Mason Johnson
says he thinks it doesn't have to call him Johnson
as they said, didn't they say that in the seventies.
It's a good idea.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
Of having less stop lights for people try and race
through or beat to get through their day. Makes a
safer environment for everybody that's down here trying to enjoy
getting food, drinks, coming to see music, things like that.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, the traffic single contract is worth a little more
than a million dollars, the other contract more than three
point three million dollars.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
City officials say.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
They hope to begin this work in about two months,
and then after that it will take six to eight
months to complete reporting inmobile Brendan Kirby Box ten News.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
All right, so progress getting rid of traffic lights to
put in stop signs. Okay, all right, Well, I guess,
as Fred Richardson would say, time holds the answer to everything.
In time, we'll all know. But does it say it?

(07:45):
I'm now I'm wondering, and I probably won't live to
see it. How many years do you think will go
by before they replace these stop signs? So they're taking
out traffic lights and they're going to put in stop signs.
How much many years do you think it'll be before
they put lights back in? Because I feel like that's
probably going to happen. That's just the way these things work.

(08:08):
All that's gonna take is about twelve years. I've noticed
from watching city politics, people tend to forget once you
get beyond ten years. People forget the mistakes that previous
administrations make and they try to make them again themselves.
So I give it about twelve years. I don't know

(08:30):
if I be around or not, but if I am,
I will remind you of this in twelve years. All right, anyway,
enjoy your stop signs coming soon to downtown mobile with
the removal of traffic lights. All right, back with more,
Uncle Henry Shaw, I believe we have raccoon talk and
more after the break. Let's go ahead and take the
dad gum break. Take the break, This says the oh

(09:11):
Coleah Henry Show. We are on News Radio seven ten WNTM.
News headlines coming up in ten minutes before we get
to the news headlines. I have more communication from longtime
caller Bufford. This is our second week of raccoon calls,
although this past Friday or no, it was last it

(09:34):
was last Thursday that snake trapper called in about armadillos.
So be prepared. There could be an abrupt, an abrupt
pivot to armadillo talk. We've had a lot of raccoon
talk and there will be more here now, but there
could be a pivot. There could be a pivot to

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armadillo talk in the future. Now, Bufford's been trying to
catch his sixteenth raccoon that has been trying to get
into his property, getting into his garage or something, and
he phoned into it with a development in the case,
and there's here.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
This will let you know. I have now caught coon
number sixteen. Congratulations within about thirteen months, an't I all right?

Speaker 1 (10:22):
So it took him thirteen months to catch sixteenth. Now
that he's not going to looking for the raccoons, they're
coming on his property.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
Sixteen dag on raccoons in my backyard with no woods
around me, just a strip of trees. Anyway, Henry, I'm
gonna go ahead and dispatch this tailor caught him in
a dog proof trap, used a chocolate moon pie shoved
at the very bottom underneath the trigger mechanism, and then

(10:51):
put sory bean oil based sardines.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
All the way of it.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
He couldn't resistant Henry anyway.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
You'd have a good day, all right, Beufford, thank you
very much for your phone call. Certainly having a better
day than that raccoon. Now, raccoon, uh, raccoon Buford. Now
that would be good if a raccoon could call. If
you're a raccoon out there and you have thoughts on
being trapped and then dispatched. Two five one two one six,

(11:21):
nineteen seventy six is the voicemail number four Raccoons and
Humans two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now,
Beauford mentioned he was going to dispatch the raccoon. So
if you if you're, if you're, if you have delicate sensibilities,
you may not want to listen, because I believe Beauford

(11:42):
is called back to tell me how he dispatches the raccoon.
So if you have delicate sensibilities, I'm warning you now
don't complain to me if you hear about the dispatching,
and it causes a wave of negative and sad emotions
and causes anxiety and you I'm warning you now. I'm

(12:03):
warning you now. All right, here we go with the
dispatching voicemail, and then you have an opportunity to tune
into something else. Find enough, go on the iHeartRadio app
and find a different episode of the Uncle Henry Show
podcast and listen to that. But you're warned, all right,
all right, I hope that all these sensitive people have

(12:25):
tuned to something more to like the Light Mix or
some other station that can can help people that are
you know, delicate. All right, to the dispatching case.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
You're wondering, I will be using a twenty two TCM
pistol the Rock River Arms. I can't remember the brand
of the pistol shooting out up anyway. It's a twenty
two TCM, which is a twenty two caliber bullet and
a net down nine millimeter casing ujodily fast and powerful

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shoots of ginormous fire ball. Not time anyway, Henry, This
coon ain't got much longer. One problem toon list in
this world, but I'm sure about four or five are
replaced it anyway, Henry, you have.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
A good Dayewford. Thank you for telling the interested people,
and there are a lot of people interested in the
type of weaponry you would use as a tool to
dispatch the raccoon. Now, those calls about trapping raccoon number
sixteen and dispatching him, those were made to my voicemail

(13:34):
last Thursday, last Thursday night, after the Uncle Henry Show
was over. I was off Friday. Now I'm here back Monday,
and there's one more raccoon call. This was let's see.
This came into the voicemail at one twelve a m.

(13:55):
Saturday morning, one twelve a m. Saturday morning, Buford calling
in the middle of the night with one more This
is our final raccoon update for now. On the Uncle
Henry Show.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Andrew, they say, here's you for trying to be quiet
so I don't wake up the wife. Henry, my trail
camera went off in the backyard. I got me raccoon
number sixteen, and by god, two more replaced them. Henry.

(14:30):
I'm now actively trapping raccoon seventeen and eighteen. Henry. It
is a coon apocalypse down here in Dog River anyway, Henry. Now,
if you posted, yeah, a good.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Day all right, Bufford, thank you very much for the voicemail.
Voicemail number if you have a different topic or animal
two five one two one six nineteen seventy six. That's
two five one two one SI nineteen seventy six. Beiufford
dispatched raccoons sixteen, and then forty eight hours later two
more show up to pillage in his yard. Raccoons seventeen

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and eighteen have shown up at Bufford's. It kind of
reminds me of the United States getting into these conflicts
around the world. You feel like you've got one figured
out and settled, and then here comes another one. All right,
out of time for the Uncle Henry show. As they
say in Sarahland, have a good one, and as they

(15:37):
say in Theodore, take it easy, all right Later