Back to School Bashes and Other Uses of the Tax Dollar

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got a lot to get to. I've got some I
got voicemail about a variety of topics in the Mobile area.
Also today a Mobile City Council meeting. I missed last
week's meeting. Thank the Lord took a week off and
missed last week's meeting. That explains why I was in

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a better mood as I started the week. But we've
got today's Mobile City Council meeting to cover for you.
A few highlights from today's meeting. Then we'll go over
and then we'll get into all kinds of topics here
on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, at the beginning of
the council meetings, after the city council president always warns

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the public that we really don't want to hear much
from you at all, if you just just calm down
and don't interrupt us and stuff like that. Then every
week the mayor, the mayor starts the meeting by making announcements,
and he made an announcement today. I thought you might
want to hear this as a This is kind of
like a public service announcement from the Uncle Aanry show

(03:16):
to you the mayor announcing that there's going to be
a back to school bash. Now, you might remember, if
you're old enough, you might remember back when cities the
main job of cities was to fund police departments. Have
paved roads, have good drainage, maybe some sidewalks, some street lights.

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Maybe you have a fire department along with your police department.
Those were the basics back way way back. Those were
the basis of government. Now, modern Americans expect the government
to be kind of like their mama, and they like
one of the things they want their government to do
is entertain them and have have activities and things to do.

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Because the average citizen cannot they can't occupy themselves. And
so there's a back to school bash. Let's listen together.
We've got a back to school bash coming up. Let's
listen to the mayor talk about the back to school bash.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
So we're having a back to school bash.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Not just a gathering, but a bash.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
The Parks Department is partnering with the WKRG and this Friday,
August ninth. It's Friday August ninth at Manegral Park. It'll
be from ten am to two pm and free and
open to the public and we're giving away backpacks filled
with school supplies. Has first come, first serve.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
And by the way, as we hear, there's been so
many efforts to make sure that children have school supplies
provided to them by altruistic, charitable people, philanthropic people in organizations.
I'm trying to think back, what did we do back
when I was a child, Because we didn't have anybody

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riding up with a backpack full of school suppliss. I
wonder what we did. I'm gonna have to see if
I can maybe give my mother some extra jeraitol and
see if we can stimulate her memory and find out
what happened. Maybe there was a mystery relative providing me
with all these things and I just don't remember them.
Way back to the bash, Marti grass parked Friday with

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backpacks for children.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
We're also partnering not only with WKOG, but the Alabama
Army National Guard, and both of them will be on
site for that event. In addition, there'll be a giveaway
to the giveaway, there'll be free food and drinks and
live DJ and.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
A live DJ because how could you how could you
have a gathering paid for in part by the taxpayer
without some type of music.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Flatables, There'll be inflatables, other fun activities. I'm glad to
help the parents and give students one last summer celebration.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Isn't that what we all want? I guess is that
the next step for Mobile is once eventually we figure
out how to maintain streets and have them seen, drive
down them without potholes and stuff, and maybe not have
people getting shot on street corners and stuff. Once we
get that settled, then of course entertainment, having live music

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and different activities like this. Who knows. Maybe the utopia
of Mobile the city of perpetual potential. Maybe when we
reach our full potential, there will be bashes every day.
Maybe there'll be a your government party at least once
a week, don't you think once a week a government
party of some kind, And we'll have I'm sure we'll

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have plenty of tax dollars to pay for all of it.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
And thorn a thing w KRG and mobile parks and
record department. As I was looking in the crowd seeing
how many parents we had, I think we have a
lot of grandparents here.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
And that's because the city council meetings inconveniently held during
the day, so that parents they've got to be out
working to raise money for the family. They can't take
off work and go down to the council meetings. And
so yes, you'll only get grandparents and some lunatics down there.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
So we wish our children a lot of luck bringing
their children to this event. But please show up with
your grandchildren or your children. And I'll take a sidebarry
just for a moment and say I Parks in reg
Department is done a phenomenal job programming what's going on
in our parks.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, indeed, wonderful, wonderful. Aren't you going to miss his charisma?
By the way, do any of the candidates from mayor?
Do any of the candidates for mayor have any of
that charisma that you heard there from Mayor Stemsing holding
that audience the palm of his hand as he was
giving out the details of the taxpayer funded bash back

(08:06):
to school bash, giving one last celebration for the children,
because imagine them going to school without having some type
of last minute celebration. What a doll, What a dull
beginning of the school year. As a senior citizen, I'm wondering,
are they going to have any kind of bash for

(08:27):
me back to the home bash, going to the nursing
home bash. Could we have something like that? Think about
that for the whoever's running from mayor out there. Think
about that for your future programming for parks and wreck

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Now.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
News headlines coming up in ten minutes. News headlines from
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Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, before I get back

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to the Mobile City Council meeting and other exciting things
like the back to school Bash, let me go to
the phones. Hello, caller.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Henry, Jimmy the Economists, Jimmy the Economists.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
You are live on the radio.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
I assume you've been hearing information about Jerome pals kandidacy
or a position, the fedchair running down and Trump's trying
to seek new one.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. Has he called you?

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Scott desstant Is out of the running, who would have
been a fantastic candidate.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, but he doesn't want the job.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, again, this is Jimmy the economist. Yeah, I've been
Jimmy the O'Connors for twenty something years. I'm on your
show and I'm announcing my candidacy as the Federal chair
of the Reserve Banks.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Very good, now your show today. Now, at what point
would you get rid of the fan once you became
the chairman? How soon do you think you could end it?

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Well, that's very good point, Linda McMahon. What she's doing
with the Apartment Education is a very good start. Okay,
very good start. Of course, she wants to end that entity,
and I want to do the same with the Federal
Reserve Bank.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, but keep.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
In mind the Constitution gives powers to coin and meant
currency to the Congress. Yeah, so that's really not much
of a better option than the Federal Reserve system. Unfortunately,
that is true. So we're gonna have to talk about

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going back to the gold standard. Of course, assuming Fort
Knox is full, may be totally empty. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
You remember they talked about going and looking, and they
stopped talking about it. I think because somebody told them
there's nothing there.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah. It reminds me of Bugs Bunny cartoons where they
used to go into Fort Knox. Actually seen more on
Bugs money about Fortknox hav in real life. But of course,
the Federal Reserve System is created by all the wealthy
people prior to World War One to finance World War One,
and it's time to be done with it and go

(11:52):
back to whether it's platinum or gold, or the digital
currency or heck, you know, I mean, my vio collections
pretty good. Why don't we start considering stuff like that
as money currency or a way to turn currency into
paper from some sort of asset. Right now, we got

(12:14):
nothing right than me and you paying taxes, that's all
we got. Yes, And keep in mind banks and the
Federal Reserve System who have own Treasury bonds over the
well since Biden's been around, getting paid six percent, so
they really don't have to do a dang thing. I
mean that making a lot of money on computer transaction

(12:36):
at six percent off of you and me working harder
and all our income being sucked up by the economy.
But nonetheless, if Trump wants a problem solver in the
Federal Reserve in a way to close it down without
giving the reins to Congress and needs to give Jimmy
the Economist a call.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
You have my endorsement. You have my endorsement for this.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
Thank you very much. Talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
There he goes Jimmy the Economist, possibly the new head
of the Fed. Two five to one four seven nine
two seven two three. The telephone number that's two five
to one four seven nine two seven two three. Email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. And it is.
It is constitutionally the Congress has that power of the

(13:23):
of coining currency, as Jimmy was talking about. They also
have there also, as I've mentioned before, they're also in
charge of United States Postal Service. So if you've ever
wondered what's wrong with the postal service, let's see here
do we have here? Hello color?

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Oh, good afternoon, Henry. I don't want to change the
subject from nothing. Just come into the house and saw
on the news how the people in Florida are gonna
come over and they're gonna take one of those funnels
off the USS the United States and take it to Florida.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (13:58):
I called just reaching lay about saying, right, don't the
people from the battleship come to Yeah? Yeah, I know
you're an important kind of person around town, and maybe
you could call them up and suggest them they run
over there and get the other one. You know.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, okay, well I'll see what I can do. I'm
not that influential. I can't get all of the mayoral
candidates to come on the show, but maybe I can
talk to the ones that will come on the show
and we'll see if we can get reached whoever's in
charge of these these parts from that ship.

Speaker 8 (14:33):
Yeah, I mean, like the people at the battleship, you know,
Alabama dall to know some port people, you know, and
you should maybe hob niveal with them.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
You know.

Speaker 8 (14:42):
The only thing you have to do is slide it
on a barge, on it right over there, put it
next to the drum or to be fifty two. That
looks so cool.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Wouldn't that be fun to be able to go and
just enjoy it, enjoy the ambiance of it, and.

Speaker 8 (14:57):
Just think if you did it, they could put a
little plaque down there saying that you did it, so
that people will remember you forever.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know, That's what I've waited my entire life trying
to do something plaqworthy, and you've finally given me an
avenue to get in a plaque. So I really I
appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Well.

Speaker 8 (15:16):
I used to be a driver until I retired out,
and I used to listen to you, and like ninety
percent of the time you were so entertaining, and like
you know, I can never understand how come you stayed
in Mobile and didn't go to LA or New York
or Atlanta or Nashville. You know it made it big.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, I think I was only entertaining to a certain
number of zip codes, and once you get out of
those zip codes, it's just not as much fun.

Speaker 8 (15:47):
Oh well, let me be the first one to give
you a compliment.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Then, well, I appreciate I appreciate that very much, sir.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Okay, Dorkie broll. I'll let you go and thank you for.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Every well, thank you for your suggestions and giving me.
Thank you for giving me the idea of how it
might get a plaque. Two five to one or seven
nine two seven two three the telephone number here on
the Unclamber show. Hello Color, that's you. You are live
on the radio.

Speaker 9 (16:19):
Hey, Ganny, I'm just gonna respond to that guy, your
last caller. It's my understanding that the Maritime Museum is
working very hard to actually get one of the stacks
and have it put on display outside of the Maritime Museum.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh okay, well that makes perfect sense, which I.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Think would be a fabulous idea. I saw it coming off,
and you know, they could take it and sand blasted
and put it back to the original color scheme, and
I think it would be a fantastic addition to that,
to that horribly successful museum we have down there.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, anything can help at this point, right, that's right.

Speaker 9 (16:58):
But anyway, I just wonder aspart I don't have firsthand
knowledge of that, but that's what that's what I understand
they're trying to do. Anyway, So I have a good day, Bud.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
All right, thank you very much, thank you very much
for your phone call. I do want to mention one
thing quick. The man that called in, he said, he
wondered why I wasn't I never worked out of town
in some big market. True, the true story. Anytime I
got a new boss in this company over the last

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twenty years from out of town, the current management would
tell the new boss. They'd say, Okay, you're not really
going to like this Uncle Henry show, but give it
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Show two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
That's two five to one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
It's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now mentioned there
was a city council meeting today. They they talked about
a lot of stuff. It was over an hour long.
You can watch the meeting on the City of Mobile's

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YouTube channel. Lanyap has great coverage of it. Lanyapmobile dot
com and Fox ten has already done some stories. There's
there apparently there are rumors that they're going to be
changes to wave bo Us roots and the rumors were

(20:03):
brought up at the meeting and they did a story
on that already on Fox ten. So you can find
all that stuff covered by Fox ten. Now I want
to share with you from the Mobile City council meeting today.
I always love hearing when citizens speak to the council
and offer constructive criticism to the city council. I think
it's always wonderful for the Mobile City fathers and mothers

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to get criticism, constructive criticism from the citizenry. Especially in
an election year. And a lady spoke to the council
today about the Mobile Housing Board, the mobile Housing Authority.
She apparently wanted to be considered to run it, and
they did not. They did not pick her to be

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in charge of the Housing Board. So, oh, you might
want to hear a little bit of what the lady
had to say. The reason I'm sharing this with you
is I found this lady to be She was critical
of the council and yet somewhat elegant at the same time.
Let's listen together. Her name is Laurie Hunter. I hope
that Laurie will attend future city Council meetings and offer

(21:12):
more strict constructive criticism. Let's listen to a little bit
of Laurie helping the city council with some constructive criticism.

Speaker 10 (21:21):
I am Laurie Hunter, and I exist at Mobile Housing
Authorities downtown Renaissance property. I say exist because the rights
and benefits of mobile housing Authority residents have been hijacked
in broad daylight by the very institutions that were charged

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to prevent the abuse, which include this government. And I
see that you are still ignoring your responsibilities under the
recovery agreement with HUD and Mobile Housing Authority. Even though
this government has the power, resource and influence to bring
justice to the suffering and abused residents, you have not. Sadly,

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this government has become contaminated by political immorality. Harsh you say, yes.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love this contaminant. This government has been contaminated by
what did she say? Corruption or political immorality or something
like that. Whatever it was, it was good. The words
were big. You can tell a lot of effort went
into this. I'm enjoying. This is good. Laurie. Laurie, you're
doing an excellent job here with the contamination part, but.

Speaker 10 (22:38):
True as evidenced by your own actions. After all, you
were complicit in an epic land grab of nearly three
hundred acres that rubbed out historic African American communities, all
to make way for our shiny new airport, which we
know represents billions of dollars for investors, contractors, and concessionaires.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
By the way, you go watch the video. The lady
has some of the best hair. And I've watched a
lot of council meetings. I've watched a lot of people
address the Mobile City Council, and I've seen some remarkable hair,
like Reggie Hills, for example. But this lady has really

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some of the best hair if you go watch the video,
some of the best hair that I've seen at a
council meeting. Hair or wig.

Speaker 10 (23:34):
And what's with the inexplicable appointment one after the other
of incompetent MHA commissioners who clearly don't give.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
A ding dong, don't give a ding dong.

Speaker 10 (23:48):
About the residents. But no, when I volunteered my service,
I was patent, me overlooked.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Right now, she wanted to know what was Why did
they keep upon people that she deemed incompetent. I don't know.
I can't remember how ding dong was worked in here.
But again, excellent word choice.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
Of course, I know there wasn't a snowballs chance in
hell you would point and approve me. How did I know?
Because you know well that I care only for the
righteous representation and justice for the residents. However, it's still
not too late to do the right thing and fill
the current vacancy with me today, I challenge it's.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Kind of like Jimmy the economists calling in this lady
volunteering to be in charge of the housing board or
Housing Authority. Jimmy wants to be in charge of the
Federal Reserve Bank. There's something in the air today.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
Was each and every one of you to take a
good look in the mirror.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh, she wants the counsel to take a good look
in the mirror and look at themselves.

Speaker 10 (24:55):
Will you see any of God's reflection there? What account
will you give to God? We would you say about
how you treated your less fortunate brothers and sisters. I
asked you to partner with the good and move into
the light.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
All right, very good, Very good, Laurie Hunter, Please, lady,
attend more council meetings. And excellent, excellent written statement there,
beautifully delivered, and of course the hair or wig or
both outstanding. We need more of this, the citizens participating

(25:32):
in government, and of course asking council members to look
in the mirror at themselves and all that kind of stuff.
All that wonderful. Well, let's see, let's see what else?
Is there anything else from the council meeting I wanted
to bring to your attention. Yeah, one more thing, one
more thing from the council meeting. Now, when it came
time for the council members today to go over their announcements,

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all of them started talking about construction projects in their
districts because it's an election time and they want citizens
to get the perception if any citizen accidentally saw the meeting,
they wanted the citizen to have the impression that they
were actually doing something. Joel Daves, who's not running for

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your election, just gave us an update on the McGregor
Avenue project. You may have forgotten that once upon a
time you used to actually be able to drive them
down McGregor Avenue, and of course you hadn't been able
to do that for a long long time. I don't
know ten or twenty years now, since they've been working
on it. Here's an update.

Speaker 11 (26:35):
Everybody else is talking about the construction projects going on
in their district. I thought i'd take a little time
to talk about the McGregor Avenue project, which is a very,
very big project that's been going on for some time.
Impacts not only the residents of District five, but really
most residents in the city of Mobile, and I want
to compliment mister Hamberger and his team on that project.

(26:58):
It's moving ahead rack on budget. I've been down there
several times to examine it. And right now they're working
on the mother of all roundabouts at Dolphin and McGregor
and it's amazing project. Still expected to be completed around
the end of the year sometime. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

(27:20):
We don't have any Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
I love that. I love that. Expected to be completed
sometime in the future. There's the Uncle Henry Show. It's

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five point fifty news headlines coming up in ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you'd like to listen to my interview with Paul Prime,
that is available as a podcast right now on the
iHeart Radio app. Look for the Uncle Henry Show on
the iHeartRadio app. If you want to hear my interview
with Spiro Cherugattis, you can find that as a podcast
on the iHeartRadio app. Just look up Uncle Henry's show

(28:24):
on the iHeartRadio app. If you'd like to hear my
interviews with the other candidates, ask them to come see me.
Speaking of the mayoral candidates, there was a debate last
night on WKRG, and I got a phone call about

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that debate on WKRG. Let's listen together to this message
phoned in to the voicemail.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Hey, good afternoon, Uncle Henry this is rty so calling about.
I watched the debate last night on WKLG, and I
wouldn't call that a debate. That was more like a panel.
Very little debate in this but anyway, I think the

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best two performers were Spiro and Paul Prime. The best
finish I think was Connie Hudson when she started referring
to her over two decades of experience and that is

(29:38):
her name and signature on the air bus deal. I
thought that was effective. But the winner of the debate
was probably Barble Drumming thanks to all those softballs Peter
Albrich Live to her, Marble Drummond has never had to
really answer any serio questions. She is the lone Democrat,

(30:04):
which means if she wins, the mayor's rays mobile is
a blue city that involves a whole range of questions
and issues. And uh, I don't understand why people refuse
to ask her those serious questions. She's skating through the

(30:29):
entire campaign without having to talk about Democrat and blue
city policies.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
All right, And I guess that was that for the voicemail.
Thank you RT for your voicemail. The voicemail number if
you'd like to leave a message is two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one
two one six nineteen seventy six. Now, RT, would you
call back in and leave give me a message of
what specific questions you're talking about when you talk about

(31:04):
these serious questions about being a blue city, because I'm
not exactly sure what questions you're talking about. Are you
talking about would Mobile be a sanctuary city or are
you talking about that? What? What blue city policies are

(31:25):
you talking about that you think might be implemented by
Barbara Drummond? Because if we if we're wondering, and I
guess many people are, if we're wondering what it would
be like she was a part of the Sam Jones administration.

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Sam Jones was a Democrat and still is, so that
would have been I guess what would would would her
being mayor be a return to those policies, the same
policies we had when Sam Jones was mayor. But if
there's what if you have specific blue city type policies

(32:08):
you're thinking about, please call and leave me a voicemail
let me know what they are, because I'm not sure
I would know what to ask in those terms, it's
fair to ask if it would be a return to
the Sam Jones days, because Mobile voters decided at one
point they didn't they didn't like that anymore, and they

(32:30):
went with Sandy Stimpson. And then they had a rematch
between Sam Jones and Sandy Stempson and voters picked Sandy again. So,
but I don't know exactly the questions you would want asked.
So just give me an idea of what you're talking about,
because I'm trying. When I think about the big cities

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and the big blue cities, we think about them being
sanctuary cities, we think about them maybe being not is
tough on crime. I don't think it would be easy
to be soft on crime here the way they are
in the big Blue cities, because you do have a

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DA and elected DA that decides what cases to prosecute
and how hard to go and those kind of things.
And so I just I don't know if you'd have
the same just because you have a Democrat mayor. I
don't know if it would line up the same as
what you're thinking. When you think of like Chicago, for example,

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or Denver or any of the other big blue cities,
there is more to come more Uncle Andrew's Show to
come after the news break here on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. This is the Uncle Henry Show here on

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news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Coming up this half hour
on the unc Henry Show. I'm going to get to
some news items that I missed. You might have missed
them as well. But first I want to get to
some voicemail. The voicemail number here for the Uncle Henry
Show is two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.

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That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
to leave a message for the Uncle Henry Show. Now. Yesterday,
during this half hour of Uncle Henry Show, I shared
a message from sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley.
He was talking about the first Sunday of the month

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pot luck lunch that he had after church this past Sunday,
and he was describing all the delicious foods that he
enjoyed and some of the food he took home from
the church. And that voicemail, really, it really, it triggered
LD the Mad Trucker. LD the Mad Trucker feels like

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sixty eight year old Chris is taking and not giving.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
Hey, uncle Henry LD, let me tell you something. Let
me tell you something. I'm retired now, right, and I
don't have the money that I used to have, but
I still don't go to churches and eat them out
of house and home. Chris from Locksley, the moots from
Locksley is went from eating the belly pop at church

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and now he's bringing home one, two and three helpings
of bread. Fuddy, good luck, Chris. You are the biggest
bumb I've ever met. I know in retirement funds are licking,
but it sounds to me like you've taken on the
church as you're one all be all to feed you,
good lord man, three yelvings have you?

Speaker 4 (36:16):
No shame, no tame?

Speaker 7 (36:18):
My god, I cannot believe that. Why do you put
this moods on? Every every week he calls in and
he talks about all the food he ate and none
of the food he prepared for other hungry people at
the church. Oh no, this man just consumes. He's like
a leads, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
He's the least He.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
Takes takes cakes and he gives nothing back except maybe
a belly rub on the way out. And now and
now he's going to the goat box. The go box, man,
I tell you what, if I was mislistly, I would
I would look him in the eye and I would
say get out.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Wow. Okay, that is quite triggered from LD the mad Trucker.
Now in sixty eight year old Chris's defense, I believe
he said yesterday when he phoned in his message about
his pot luck lunch there at the church, he said
that Miss Margaret, I believe he said that she told

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him to take as much as you want home. Let's
let me do a quick replay of that part of
Chris's message, just so I don't want to mischaracterize what
he said in the message. Let's listen together. Did Miss
Margaret tell him to take this food?

Speaker 12 (37:41):
Big prid chicken, bread, etc.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Etcetera.

Speaker 12 (37:44):
And Miss Margaret made the famous New Orleans style bread pudding. Yes, man,
I bring me home about three helps She said take
all you want to, So I did.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
She said take all you want to. I believe that
was the quote. She said, take all you want to,
And then he did.

Speaker 12 (38:04):
Orland style bread pudding. Man, I bring me home about
three helpings. She said take all you want to.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
So I did.

Speaker 12 (38:12):
Help me a go bag set me about three helpings
in there, all right.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
So look, LD, what you may be missing here, LD,
is that some people like this Miss Margaret. I think
she got just as much pleasure from sending the bread
putting home with the sixty eight year old Chris as
as he got from taking it home and then eating

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those three helpings. She we don't know the backstory behind
Miss Margaret. She may have once cooked for a big family.
It might be now that she's only cooking for herself,
and this may give her a great deal of satisfaction
knowing that sixty eight year old Chris is wolfing down
giant portions of bread pudding that she's made. I've encountered

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people like this in my life, where they would get
angry at me. I once had an angry confrontation at
a Christmas party. Now you're gonna think I'm insane, but
I went to a Christmas party once and somebody got
mad at me because I wasn't eating enough, and I
got mad at them and we ended up. Our voices

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were raised at each other, with me asking how much
do I have to eat to make you happy? So anyway, look,
let's not LD. We're not there. We don't know the situation.
We don't know we're going to tell I'm gonna take
sixty eight year old Chris's word for this. I believe
that the lady that is cooking the bread pudding feels appreciated,

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like she's contributed. She likes it. She likes the idea
that there's a sixty eight year old man just enjoying
that bread pudding gives her a sense of accomplishment. That's
just that is my interpretation. The Stone the voicemails. Now,
this is not the first time that LD the Mad Trucker,
the well, I should say, LD the retired Mad Trucker

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has been critical of sixty eight year old Chris of
West Locksley, Alabama. In fact, here is a phone call
from many years ago where LD acted out. He called
in and pretended that he was sixty eight year old
Chris and sixty eight year old Chris's wife, Missus Locksley.

Speaker 13 (40:32):
Here's the skit that I realized it is probably going
all over there in Locksley right now.

Speaker 14 (40:37):
Chris turns to Missus.

Speaker 13 (40:39):
Locksley and says, honey, now that Hogan's Heroes is over,
my three sons is next. She looked at him, and
she goes get here, and she gets up.

Speaker 14 (40:52):
She walks into the kitchen and.

Speaker 13 (40:54):
All sudden he hears the butnder get out, and he
hears some eyes and he's thinking, hey, missus lock, he's
gonna make some dakrease. Here's it pouring into the thing.
He hears a scoop into a box, scoop, scoop.

Speaker 14 (41:07):
Oh no, maybe it's not dak rease.

Speaker 13 (41:09):
Maybe she's making a coke float for me so we
can watch my three sons. And he hears her, fummy.

Speaker 14 (41:18):
Here's a parting class, and then the years they're jugging
it a sudden come hit the floor and he walks
in there and she just drinks a drain of note
shake you have to note you have a note on

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the on the kitchen counter and saying, what's next?

Speaker 13 (41:42):
I dream of Genie.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Ld, the retired mad trucker. He's he's had he's had
issues with sixty eight year old Chris for many, many years.
All right, Uh, let's see before I go to break,
a reminder that you can listen to previous episodes of
The On Cleanary Show as a podcast. You've got last
week's shows are now available as podcasts, So if you'd

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like to listen to my interview with Mobile mayoral candidate
Paul Prime. It's available as a podcast. The interview with
Mobile mayoral candidate Spiro Cerragatas that is available as a podcast.
The interview with Eric bump Over Street, who is right
now living with Mobile's homeless community to raise money. That's

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break and then back with more. Let's take the break,

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it says the Uncle Henry Show. You're on News Radio
seventy ten WNTM. News headlines are coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, a few news
items that I missed. You might have missed it too.
First thing I want to get to, and this is brief.
The Alabama Republican Party has passed a new rule for Republicans.

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Let's listen together. I believe I've got this from WSFATV
at A Montgomery. Let's listen to the new rule.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
A new rule passed by the state Republican Party says
that if a Republican governor appoints a Democrat to an
elected office, that governor will be removed from the ballot
in the next election. The GOP Executive Committee held its
annual summer meeting in Montgomery this weekend, expressing concern that
governors sometimes in the past have appointed officials from opposing

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parties because those officials were the best candidates for the job.
But the committee says governors who cannot find suitable candidates
that are Republican should reach out to the party for help.
At least one committee member express concern about rural majority
Democrat counties where it may be difficult to find qualified
Republicans to fill some seat.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Okay, so a Republican governor that would that would appoint
a Democrat to fill a job, or to fill an
elected role or something like that would not be on
that they would be removed from the next ballot. So
if a Republican was running for reelection, they would not
be allowed to run as a Republican governor that after

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run as an independent. Is that is that what this
is about? All right? Well, this will never this is
not going to happen. I'm guessing that this rule will
never be enforced. And if you had a popular Republican
governor in a first term that happened to appoint a
Democrat to some post somewhere, I doubt the Republican party

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would use this rule to stop a popular Republican governor
from ending up on the ballot again. So I don't know.
Maybe this was the Republicans wanting to act like they
were doing something when they went to their meeting. I
don't know, but that was I'd missed that, probably because
I didn't need to hear it. I also, we're in
back to school time. They're already a bunch of school

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systems going back into session this week and a bunch
of them going back into session next week all over
the state of Alabama. That led Governor k Ivy to
put out a back to school message. Let's listen together.
I've got this from YouTube, Governor k Ivy giving us

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a back to school message for the upcoming school year
Alabama students.

Speaker 15 (45:58):
It's going the k Ivy. I want to be one
of the first to welcome y'all back to school for
the new academic year. There's something exciting about the first
day of school, a fresh start, a clean slate, a
time to set goals and dream big. Whether you're walking

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into a fourth grade or heading into your final year
of high.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
School, or hiding from the bullies behind the coke machine.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
This moment matters.

Speaker 15 (46:30):
Believe it or not, I've been in your shoes.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Believe it or not, I've been in your shoes. I
guess some young people might have trouble imagining k Ivy
as a younger person.

Speaker 15 (46:43):
As a student, and later as a teacher. And I
know that what happens in the classroom can shape the
path ahead. The lessons you learn, the friends you make,
the habits you build, they all help the foundation for
your future. And this year is no ordinary one. All

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across America, we're gearing up to celebrate our nation's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
It's a reflect I'm sorry to interrupt her, but I'm
thinking back on my time in school. And I did
have a teacher when I was a senior in high school.
I remember she was giving out the report cards and
she said to me, Henry, you're wasting your mind. You're
wasting your mind. She was right. Now she didn't tell
me how to unwte it. She was right, but she

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needed to go a step further and tell me how
to unwte it. But anyway, back to whatever it is
that k Ivy is blabbering about here, and.

Speaker 15 (47:43):
As we look to the future of our great country,
I truly believe that the next two hundred and fifty
years depending on the work being done right now in
Alabama's classrooms. That's why I've said it again and again.
Strong students lead a strong Alabama. That's the truth. Every

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math problem you tackle, every book you read, every science
experiment you try, it all adds up to something.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Bigger science experiment that you try. I had a chemistry
set when I was a little kid. I remember all
I ever did with it was mix all of the
chemicals together and then shake them up, and sometimes it
would it create quite a mess.

Speaker 15 (48:33):
It prepares you to lead, to serve, and to shape
our future. Alabama needs smart, bold thinkers like you to
take the range one.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Day, maybe tomorrow. We could use a bold, smart thinker
to take the range tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (48:49):
If you're out there, whether that's in the classroom, a hospital,
a factory, a local store, even the Governor's office.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Here's my chilence to all right, here's your challenge, Governor
k Ivy issuing a challenge to our children as they
start a school year. What is the challenge she issues
to that little children this year?

Speaker 15 (49:12):
Be bold enough to raise your hand, be kind enough
to lift someone up, and be brave enough to fail.
Then try again, because one day someone just might look
back and say that Steele changed Alabama. And I wouldn't
be a bit surprised if that Steele is you.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Isn't that wonderful? This reminds me of romper Room. All right,
out of time. Thank you for listening, as they say
in Sairland, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it easy

Speaker 3 (49:45):
All right later