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Speaker 1 (00:16):
This says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you. I appreciate very much you
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I really really do
need this job. I continue to need the paycheck. Now,
in this half hour of show, I'm going to get
to some news items that I missed. You might have
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missed them too. Maybe we can learn together from going
over these different news items. Now, let's see as we
get closer and closer to Christmas. Here's a Christmas Eve
type story. This has to do with people stealing from you.
I saw a st and this allegedly comes from the FBI.
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But according to these these crime stats, Alabama, the state
of Alabama, has seen allegedly the largest spike in package
theft during the last few holiday seasons Alabama. This is
this is over the last five years, according to the FBI.
But that's what they're saying, that Alabama has seen the
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largest spike in package thefts. Now that doesn't necessarily mean
we have the most, but we had the biggest increase.
Alabama was number one for a spike in package thefts
during November and December during the holiday season. That's it's
confined to those months. Alabama's number one, California's number two,
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New York is number three, Louisiana is number four on
the list, but Alabama the biggest spike in package theft
during the last few holiday seasons. Now you worried about
porch pirates, I guess it's good to have a camera
out there. Even though we all see videos of people
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stealing on camera, cameras don't seem to some people could
care less. I guess if they get caught, or maybe
they're they're competent that whatever disguise they're wearing is going
to work or whatever that is. But cameras, I guess
it's good to have a camera out there, even though
some people don't care about the camera.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Something you might consider if you're worried about porch pirates
is just for the next couple of weeks. If you
have packages arriving and you can't be there, maybe you
could put some signs out in front of your house,
like pit bull family, or we love pit bulls, or
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or God loves pit bulls. That type of stuff. Just
just something to something to make people think that you've
got pit bulls at your house. Then maybe the maybe
the package thiefs will pick the next house and skip
over yours. If they think you love pit bulls, maybe
I'll start selling those signs next year. Just make them
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real colorful and come up with some kind of a
catchy phrase about pitfull. Maybe that'll work pitbull you. Of course,
you have to make sure that your thief can read.
That's another thing. Speaking of thefts and stuff like that.
Here is some news you may or may not be
able to use. Here is I found this from WBrC
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up in Birmingham, an interview with the Better Business Bureau
guy about porch pirates and other scams. Let's listen together.
This is Mike Dubberley of WBrC interviewing some Better Business
Bureau guy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Just related to your shipments, Carl Bates, president of the
Better Business Bureau Georgia's now with what.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You mean, Carl Bates. I wonder if he's related to
the Bates Turkey people, but no, he's represented the Better
Business Bureau.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You need to remember.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Good to have you with us this morning. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
We were just talking earlier. You know, we talk about
these points a lot, but people aren't getting the message.
Just because people are still getting scanned, and y'all get
report to that all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We do.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We do especially this time of year, and you know
these porch pirates are out there and you really need
to not leave your packages unattended on your porch or
wherever your delivery look at.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right, Well, how can you does that show you're saying,
don't have them delivered unless you're home. What are you saying, better,
business bureau man, it's.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, get for some more reminders about that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, besides not leaving them unattended, maybe asking a neighbor
who can accept your packages or will look after them
during the day if they're home and you're not. You
can also start shipping to secure locations. There's a lot
of lockers out there that are in businesses in our communities,
so you can ship directly that store, put in a locker,
you can go by and get it on your convenience
all right, add some notes on your delivery to customize it.
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Tell people to put it on your back porch versus
your front porch. A lot of times delivery drivers will
take care of those. If you have a security camera,
make sure it's a motion detected kind of thing, and
know when your package has arrived and go get it
right away. Don't leave it out there if you can right.
And then lastly, require a signature a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now, what about a suggestion, like my suggestion of having
a sign by the road that says we love pit bulls,
or pit bulls, God loves pit bulls, or proud pit
here's the best one, proud pit bull family. Put that
out there, make it colorful, Have little cartoon drawings of
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dogs on there. See I walk my dog through mid ten,
I walk past somebody's house and they've got a sign
about life is better with dogs or something. There you go,
life is better with pit bulls. Just put a bunch
of life is better with pit bull things out there.
You can add security cameras and stuff, but put that
out there, all right. And also, what about, and this
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is a real suggestion, just like my pit bull suggestion,
pitbull signed suggestion, Get a mannequin, get some halloween costume
of a police uniform, and have a police uniform, a
mannequin wearing a police uniform. Put it. Put it right
by your front door. Put it in the front window.
Let them see somebody who looks like an officer standing there.
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I know, look this is look we got to these
people don't run right up on camera, all right, back
to the Better Business Bureau.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Online store will let you do that. And it's a
little bit inconvenient, but you know you're going to get
your package because you signed for it at time of delivery.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Mean, well, you've got these situations where these scammers have
figured out almost that they know when you're expecting something
they do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And the whole thing with text messages and emails that
are coming from scammers saying you've been a problem with
your delivery and you need to click this link. And
then you click the link and two things happen, either
malwares on your phone or your tablet or your computer,
oh boy, that you don't want to steal your identity,
or they're asking you questions to gather personal information from you.
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None of those.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just want to
let you know. And it all sound like I'm bragging.
I don't want to sound like a bragger, but I
just I years ago I decided I wasn't going to
click on nothing that people sent me. See. Working here
at NewsRadio seventy ten WNTM, I've been emailed. By the way,
that's electronic mail. You may have already forgotten about the
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old fashioned email. But for years people would just send
me all these things. They wanted me to click on this.
We've got a video of President Obama pledge, an allegiance
with the wrong hand and all this stuff. Click on
the link. No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to click
on the link. We got proof that President Obama is
really from Mars. No, I'm not going to click on
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the link. I'm sorry, I'm not going to click on
the link. Don't be a lick a link click. Don't
don't be a link clicker.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Those links are are any good. That's not how the
major shippers operate. So you don't want to win it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We don't click.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Don't click, all.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Right, and confirm what you're what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Track your deliveries. Most online stores now will give you
a confirmation number, will provide tracking.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right, all right, all right, so common sense, Just
get the get the dude. Look, life is better with
pit bulls. Just put that sign at the end of
the driveway. You're gonna be fine. All right, There is more.
There's a little bit more Uncle Henry show to come
but first, I've got to take a time out. We've
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Radio seventy ten WNTIM take the break that says the
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Uncle Henry Show. News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, a few more
stories that that I had missed. You might have missed
them too. Let's learn together from these news items. Got
a news item here about one of my favorite topics,
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and that is beef. I do enjoy beef. I enjoy
eating beef. And unfortunately, even though we've had prices come
down on some things like gasoline, beef prices in the
United States are setting record highs as the country's cattle
herds are dwindling to their lowest levels in many, many years.
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Here is a Fox Business report on beef.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
A drought in America's heartland has meant there's been less
grass for cattle to graze on. Then there's been the
halt on US imports of Mexican cattle to stop the
flesh eating screwworm parasite. Reporting in the Wall Street Journal
indicates the presidents put together a beef task force to
look into solutions to bring down prices.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But a beef task force now, and I apologize for
interrupting this, But a beef task force, you know it
used to be. I remember back in the day, and
I apologize for the older I get. The more I
remember how things used to be, and I want to
share it with people that are younger than me, that
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might be in their sixties for example. But I remember
back in the day, they did not form task forces.
They didn't do that. The government would form blue ribbon panels. Yes,
they would have a blue ribbon panel or create a
blue ribbon committee. And I don't know what the ribbon
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stood for. I don't know if that was a sign
of quality, if your ribbon was blue, I have to
look that up. But they wouldn't have a task force.
But now, I think now people are expecting more actual act.
They want action, because back in the day, if you
heard that they were forming a blue ribbon panel or
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a blue ribbon committee, that meant that nothing would happen.
The Blue Ribbon Panel or the Blue Ribbon Committee would
study a problem, then that issue report and then nothing
would happen. So maybe a task force, maybe something will happen,
and maybe wouldn't that be knife stow to lower some
beef prices.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Mid all this meat processing plant closures, JBS, the largest
meat processor in the world, announced that it's closing down
a plant in a riverside, California, just east of Los
Angeles to quote simplify operations. This after Tyson Foods announced
that it would be shutting down a slaughterhouse in Nebraska,
impacting around thirty two hundred jobs there. Meanwhile, the Justice
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Department has opened a probe into potential anti competitive practices
by the largest meat packers in the nation. Max Gordon,
Fox Business.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, well, I hope that something comes up the Beef
task Force. There's lots of worthy causes out there that
could use some type of task force. And I can
tell you that my taste buds and my stomach would
really appreciate the Beef Task Force. I don't know what
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the solution would be, just encourage there needs to be
an encouragement of raising cattle in this country and then
eating them. I think there should be encouragement of this.
For many years, there's been a discouragement because they've been
claiming that cows would pass gas, and when cows passed gas,
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they claimed it was going to destroy the world, that
it would create global warming, and then we would all die.
The cows would pass gas, the globe would heat up,
the North and South pole would melt, and then the
water would rise, and we and the cows would all
die together and we wouldn't have any good hamburgers or nothing.
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Just fish for the survivors. They just get you a
bunch of fish. We should encourage the raising of cattle
in this country in whatever way is possible now before,
But I think I got time for one more story.
This is another Fox News story. This is This is
about knowledge of how the government works. You may have
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noticed that a lot of people in our country don't
They just don't understand how the government works. In fact,
I think our newest Supreme Court justice in many instances
has publicly admitted that they not only do they not
know what a woman is, they also don't even know
the government works. Well, it looks like President Trump is
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setting up a scholarship program or something to do with civics.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
The Trump administration and the US Department of Education is
announcing a televised Civics B for high school students, quizzing
them on their knowledge of the country's founding.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's called now this a talibathed, a telebathed Civics B.
I like that way more than a spelling bee, way
more than a spelling bee.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
On the Presidential seventeen seventy six Award. The early rounds
of the competition will be conducted online, followed by in
person semifinals and a national final this coming June in Washington,
d c. The prizes will be three scholarships totaling a
quarter million dollars WHOA. It's being supported in part by
the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation and as part of
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the Trump Administration's promotion of patriotic education. Eben Brown Fox.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
News My Good. I like the idea of a national
Civics B, and it makes me think of in previous years.
I haven't watched a spelling bee in a while. I
can remember previous years. There many times I've watched spelling
bees were the top spellers were little children that it
appeared their parents had come here from other countries and
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they were highly motivated. Wouldn't it be something if the
winners of our Civics Bee were kids who their parents
came here from other countries and they're just working really,
really hard. That would be something something to see. All right,
out of time for this edition of the Uncle Henbry Show,
as thank you for listening, as they say in Sirland,
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have a good one and as they say in Theodore,
take it easy
Speaker 4 (15:46):
All right later