Ain't Afraid of No Ghost

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:24):
It sins they Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTIM thank you so much for listening. I
appreciate it very very much. Yes, I would like to
keep this job as long as is possible. Now, in
this half I our show going to get to some
news items that I missed. Maybe you missed them too.

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Maybe you're as lackadaisical as I am in terms of
paying attention to the news. So I can we can
help each other by digesting this news together. So I'm
gonna get you some news. Those items also get to
some voicemail in this half hour of Uncle Henry Show.
Let's see, I've got a few news stories I want

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to get to and I want to learn about. Let
me start off with this because it is October and
the terrible month of Halloween. Now love FALLA love October.
Not a fan of Halloween, all of the demonic, satanic
imagery of Halloween, people putting giants skeletons in their yards,
and men and women running around on Halloween Night getting

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completely and totally inebriated and getting into trouble. I'm not
a big fan. But you look, it's still allegedly a
free country. See if you if you want to go
out there and dress like a devil and party, just
party mindlessly. That's it's still allegedly free countries to go,
and you do you and I will. I will remain

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my old, boring self. But as you, as you dress
up like a devil, just contate what would happen if
the rapture occurred while you're dressed as a devil. Just
think about it. I'm not gonna go any further, but
if the rapture occurred and you're dressed like a devil,
what are you gonna I mean, just think about the

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ramifications of this. All right, let me get to a
few news items here. Now, this is one that sund
I don't even know the full story yet, but it
already sounds stupid as all get out to me. Now,
let's see the lead into the story. This is a
story from Fox News. Fox News is Matt Murphy. Would you,

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the listener, would you share your new home with a
ghost if it meant saving some money. Let's listen to
Matt Murphy of Fox.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
A new Rocket mortgage survey finds nearly two thirds of
Americans would consider buying a haunted house right now.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm pausing right there. He just said his whole premise
of his news story is that it was a survey
done by a company. All right, so company wants some publicity,
free advertising, so they go out and they spend some
money on a survey, and then they send out press releases.

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And here we are, Fox News is reading their press
release to us. So I'm so sick of news stories
turning out to be one of two things, either being
a survey. Hey, we just found out that forty seven
percent of Americans would drink pickle juice, and oh if
it's just stupid stuff like I'm tired of that. I

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don't want to hear about surveys asking people would you
live in a haunted house? Or would you drink pickle juice?
Or what's the one chore in your house you hate
to do the most. I'm sick of it. Stop you
in the news industry. I don't want to hear about
all these surveys. Cut it out. It's if I wanted
to watch family feud, I would watch family feud, and

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that's essentially what this is. And the other thing I'm
sick of that the news does if they're not doing
a survey. They're saying, there's new research. New research shows,
according to researchers, just a new study was published that
all you got to do is walk five hundred feet

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a day and it reduces your risk of death by
twenty percent. And you find out they've surveyed, you know,
twenty people or something like that, or done research on
five people or something. Cut it out, all right, let
me get to the story, all right. The story was
from Matt Murphy of Fox. A Rocket Mortgage survey of

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people who would buy a haunted house.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
A new Rocket Mortgage survey finds nearly two thirds of
Americans would consider buying a haunted house. Thirty nine percent
say yes, and another twenty six percent are open to
the idea. One in three even claim they've already lived
with a ghostly roommate. Only eighteen percent say they'd sell
after learning their homes.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
See all, he's just read there's news. No, he's reading
a press release from the mortgage company and was haunted.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
While nearly forty percent say they'd try to coexist with
the spirit instead of calling an exorcist. With mortgage rates
still spooky high, a few bumps in the night might
be the best deal on the market and they had
to perfey.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Fox knew Ryan, you had to throw in all the
music and all that kind of garbage. Look, what a
ridiculous story for Fox to cover. And by the way,
I know you didn't ask, But oftentimes people tune into
talk shows to hear the host's opinion, even if they
hate the host and hate his opinion. So I will

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share with you that I don't believe in ghosts. I
don't now. I do believe in the supernatural. I do.
I've read my Bible. I know there's forces on the planet,
a lot of demons running around, But I don't believe
in ghost I don't believe that my great grandmother is
going to make a bump in the house or unlock

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a door or something.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't believe my great great grandmother is going to
walk down the hallway every time you turn on Freebird
or something like that. I don't I don't buy into
it at all. Can there BEI can it? Could a
house have a demon up in there? Maybe? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Why don't they do a survey of how many of
these people after they ask them if you'd buy a
haunted house, ask how many of these people or what
kind of medication they're on. Add that into the question
what medication are they on? Have they ever been have
they ever been in a straight jacket? These kind of

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things I'd like to hear asked. All right, let's see
what else. Let me get to other news items that
are not as not nearly as stupid as that. Here
is a story from Fox ten from yesterday or the
day before about how Carnival Cruise they have announced they're
going to have year round cruising from Mobile coming up

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sometime in the next year or two. Let's listen together
to what Fox News reported. A Fox ten reported on this.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Carnival Cruise line is making a big commitment to Mobile,
announcing in twenty twenty seven it will offer cruises from
the Port City year round once again. Mobile is also
getting a new ship, The Carnival Valor, now based in
New Orleans, is expected to embark from Mobile on May fifteenth,
twenty twenty seven. The ship will offer six to eight

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day sailings with extended destinations including Jamaica, Columbia, and the
US Virgin Islands. This will extend Mobile's cruise season by
six months. That means more options for travelers and a
boost to the local economy.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
The impact is very large. In fact, when you look
at a full time twelve months, and when you look
at a bigger ship by nine hundred passengers, so this
ship holds three thousand passengers. The impact of that is
right now six months, we have about fifty thousand cruised
passengers a year. Coming in now we'll have one hundred

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and forty thousand the ballot.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
All right, that's good, that's very good news. That was
the mister Clark, who leads Visitmobile. All right, that's good news.
I'm glad. I know cruising is actually bounced back dramatically
since COVID, So glad that this is good news for
mobile anything that brings in that money. All right, going
to take a time out and then back with more.

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Uncle Henry Show, take the break, it says the Uncle

(09:13):
Henry Show. Here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM News
headlines coming up in ten minutes before we get there.
Let me check a voicemail voice my number two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. To leave a
message for the Uncle Henry show. Let's say we've got

(09:36):
a message from longtime caller Buford.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Man of this here's befful Dearon. Just heard on news
Burke on the radio that, uh, there's this government shutdown.
Farmers are committing suicide at the higher rateing victans. I
hate to hear anybody be in a situation where they
I feel that's the only way out. But I gotta

(10:02):
ask Henry, governments told them been shut down? What two
three weeks? I mean, that's what Senator Tupperville was saying.
I mean, are farmers I was always told farmers were
independent and patriotic people. If the government shut down only

(10:24):
three weeks and they're about losing the farm, I mean,
they're more government dependent than the dagum degenerates LD yells
about when he's behind them in Walmart.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Right now, I'm pausing there, Buford. Now, Buford, I'm going
to continue the rest of your message here in a moment.
There is more of it. I'm not an expert on
the topic, but I know that farming independent farming like
the like who you're talking about, they are independent. Farms

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are among the most regulated industries in our country. They
have rules over just about everything they do on their
Now you think of that, you just have an image
in your mind, probably of what a farmer's life would
be that who knows where your image of that goes
back to mind, goes back to my childhood. But modern

(11:21):
independent farms, the amount of government regulations would I don't
know if it would surprise you or not, but I
mean they have everything is regulated by the federal government,
from from how you plant your seeds, what kind of
seeds you can plant, to the way you dispose of manure,
stuff like this. So you've got a lot of government regulation.

(11:44):
I mentioned the federal but there's also state and local
rules depending on where you are. And then you have
stuff with big corporations with their patented seeds Buford ninety
percent of US corn and soy seeds, for example, have
all kinds of use agreements that regulate how you can

(12:08):
use their seeds, and they enforce this stuff with lawsuits
against farmers on stuff. There's I mean, I'm not an expert,
so I can't go into all this. So it's not
as simple as you might think. This may what these
farmers that are that are allegedly taking their lives. It
may it may not have as much to do with

(12:29):
being dependent on government subsidies as you might think. But
let me get back, let me get back to your message.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
I mean, what in the world is going on here?
Are the farmers the biggest welfare class in America, That's
what it sounds like. And then they are in a
panic because China might not buy their soybeans. Pinter China
is the biggest enemy of the United States. What in
the world are these farmers selling sod things China for?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Well, you you're gonna have to sell them to somebody, China.
Not that I would want them to go to China,
but you know, look, you want to keep the farm going,
you got to find somebody to buy it.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Now owns two million acres of farm land in Alabama.
I mean, who's selling it to China? I mean, I'm confused, Henry,
I mean, what's going on with the farmers? I mean,
are these not just regular farming folks doing this? Is

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this the farming corporations? Is this some ginormous you know,
investment firm that's bought up all the farms and is
doing this to us?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Pausing to say, I think I saw a stat that
want to go on seeds again. I think there are
four companies that control over sixty percent of seeds in
the country. Just just that kind of stuff, Buford.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
I mean, man, every farmer I knew was a pretty
good patriotic fella, right, yeah, I mean I don't. I
don't understand that news story, Henry. I mean, what's going
on with the farmers anyway. I was always told never

(14:25):
cuss a farmer with your mouthful anyway.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
He Dayford, thank you, I've never heard that one before.
Never cuss a farmer with your with your mouthful. I
don't have all the answers to what's going on with
the farmers. I can just tell you that you and
you have, you and I have the same image of
the pretty good patriotic fella that is a farmer. Well, nowadays,
that pretty good patriotic fella is one of the most

(14:51):
regulated guys, one of the most regulated fellas that you're
gonna find and boxed in in a lot of ways,
all these government regulations. But anyway, Beeford, Uh, I'm not
an expert. Maybe somebody listening can tell us two five
one two one six nineteen seventy six is the voicemail number.

(15:13):
I'm almost out of time here, but if you want
to leave me a voicemail over the weekend about what
plagues the farmer. Two five one two one six nineteen
seventy six is the voicemail number. Two five one two
one six, nineteen seventy six. Or shoot me an email,
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com, because I'm also interested, uh, and I

(15:34):
think we need to make sure that farmers are okay
in this country because we all need to eat all
right out of time. As they say in sarah Land,
have a good one, and as they say in Theodore,
take it easy all right later