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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Five till seven.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One of the things I've learned in life is ignorance
is bliss Not only not only does that go for me,
it goes for the for everybody. If, uh, if you're
ignorant of the subject, it's very blissful.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And now live from Mobile, Alabama, as the stomach churns,
starring Uncle Henry coming to you through an electro voice microphone.
Joining Henry will be callers, emailers, radio and internet listeners.
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So without further ado, in the style of that great
country music legend Mini Pearl.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Here's.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Thank you so much. Yes, Uncle Henry Show underway here
on news radio seven ten WNTIM. I appreciate very very much.
You're listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Once again. We
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Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Today was a Mobile
City Council meeting. I will offer you a little bit
of coverage of today's Mobile City Council meeting. Now it's
getting a little bit harder for me to cover these
meetings the closer we get to the municipal election because
the politicians, many of them, feel like they've got to
put on some type of emotional performance to let us
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know they care. They really want you to know they care.
Some of them, now, not all of the politicians. Some
of them don't have a lot to say God, bless
blessed or the quiet when it comes to the Mobile
City Council blessed or the quiet because they're merciful upon
the citizenry without blowing all that garbage, all that hot air.
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But Mobile City Council meeting. I'll tell you about it
as much about it as I can. I say that
because I think I'm I think I'm developing an allergy
to it or something I really do. I think I
may I may not be able to tell you about
city council meetings. In the future, I may be able
(03:08):
to get a medical excuse from my doctor because I
think it's causing some type of allergic reaction, just physically,
not just mentally. Is it's enough to drive any sane
person insane. But I may have a medical exemption sometime
in the future. I'll let you know in advance. Maybe
I can hire some some kid or something to watch
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it for us and tell us what happens in these meetings.
If you want to watch the council meeting, they're available
on the City of Mobile's YouTube channel. The meeting today
would be great to go to sleep too. As I've
said before, it would be a great sleep aid. Just
to crank that thing up and about two or three
minutes into it, you'll be out like a light. Now.
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The one thing, a couple of things, but one thing
from the meeting today is we have the local head
of the NAACP, the branch president of the Mobile NAACP,
mister Clopton, Robert Clopton, showed up today to ask the
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Mobile City Council to investigate what's going on with Wave
transit buses. You know, they voted to do a ninety
day extension on the contract. I think a few weeks ago.
The buses continue to run in the city of Mobile
because people do need transportation. But the head of the
NAACP wants the employees' claims investigated because they've made some
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claims about how bad it is to work for the Wave. Now,
I'm I'm I'm a little ignorant about this. I'm trying
to figure out why the NAACP is involved or are
Wave employees? Are any Caucasians allowed to work for the Wave?
I'm just just curious about this. I'm trying to figure
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out what is the angle of the NAACP being involved,
NAACP being involved, is it? Are there any Caucasians allowed
to work for Wave Transit? Are they allowed to work there?
I'm just curious. Now Here is a little bit of
what the president of the NAACP had to say about
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how how terrible it is to work for Wave Transit
as a bus driver or any other employee. He says
that the workers right now working for the buses, they're
filled with anxiety.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
A Wave Transit employees face considerable anxieties related to their jobs.
This job in security dependent expiration of the TRANSITEV contract
on June thirtieth or after the extension casts a significant
shadow of uncertainty on the job security of the Waves
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Transportation employees who are also citizens of Mobile. The possibility
of a transition to a new operating entity or a
significant restruction of services raises legitimate fears of potential job losses.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
By the way, this is something that many other industries
have felt all throughout the city of Mobile and the country.
By the way, I happen to work in an industry that,
over the last fifteen to twenty years has shed numerous
workers and wide ranging layoffs involving numerous companies. So I
know the anxiety he's talking about. Nobody in the government
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ever wanted. Nobody in the government or outside of the
government asked to anybody to help me with my anxiety.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
By the way, what a proposed ninety extension office is
temporary reprieve. It does little to alleviate to underlying anxiety
among the employees. Yes, just a basic job and security
can negatively impact their morale, productivity, safety, and overall well being.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Now remember this, if you take the bus, there's anxiety
up in there.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Hey, they're safety and security.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right. Now listen to this. This is the worst
commercial for riding the bus you're going to hear because
he's talking about how bad it is to be a
bus driver. Why would anybody want to get on the
bus after hearing about all this.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Ensuring the safety and security of all wave transit employees,
particularly the bus drivers or an ultimate concern.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Can I have one day please? Granted?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Woman, I can employees across stronger guarantees and more robust
security measures to protect them from potential assaults and other
safety threats encounter during their daily jobs.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So during the daily job of driving a wave bus,
you've got to worry about assault.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
The specific mention of situation where drivers have been attacked
on the score of the urgency of implementing effective strategies
to mitigate these risks and provide employees for a safe
working environment.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Now, to see the premise here is that the right
now on a wave bus, that is not a safe
work environment. That is what we're hearing from this highly
respected man. It is not. So this is the worst
commercial if ridership was already down, not a good commercial anyway.
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There's a little bit more of this and more from
Today's Mobile City council meeting, not a lot, but a
little bit more. As the Uncle Henry Show continues. By
the way, I if you're going to be riding the bus,
may God bless you and protect you. Uncle Henry Show.
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NewsRadio seven to ten WNT, It's five twenty news headlines
coming up in ten minutes, ten minutes from Fox ten
and from Fox Radio National News Now. In the last
segment of the show, I was shared with you some
audio from today's Mobile City council meeting. The local NAACP president,
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mister Robert Clopton went to the council to ask them
to please investigate what is going on with the workers
the different Wave transit worker complaints. You know, the city
has a ninety day extension of their contract with the
Wave Transit buses, trying to figure out if they're going
to continue the contract. And the head of the local
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NAACP went to the council meeting today ask them to
please look into complaints of workers, and he started talking
about riding on the bus, how unsafe it is for
the bus driver. It's the worst commercial for riding the
bus that I've heard in many, many years. It just
it sounds terrible. It sounds terrible he was talking about,
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but the bus drivers are getting harassed and assaulted real quick.
Here's the rest of what he had to say. They
gave him a little extra time because there's a council
rule that you get three minutes to talk to the
council when you sign up to talk, and if they
like you, they'll give you extra time. But if they
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don't like you, then you only get three minutes. And
they like him, so they gave him extra time. So
here's just a little bit more of what he had
to say about riding them up the bus, how dangerous
it is for the bus drivers.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Include enhanced training and de escalation techniques.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He wants the bus drivers to be trained to de
escalate the people riding the bus.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Improve communication systems to report incidents, and potentially increase security
personnel present and vulnerable or unsafe neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
All right, So, so again, terrible commercial for the buses
and in some some neighborhoods, some bus routes needing security
on the bus.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Basically, we need to fix this.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Currently, there's a way of employee who's been terminated due
to her actions. I have to being attacked and fear
of her life.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
She took action.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
No one will physically injured or anything, but she lost
her job.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
I wonder.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
What would happen if it happened to.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Thank you for your time, go ahead and finish.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You See, if they like you, they give you all
the time. You just have to be on the good
side of the council. If they like you, they give
you all the time. You need it now, Yeah, they
need to. Yeah, they're gonna need to fix it if
they want to continue to have bus service with this
Wave Transit, They're going to happen. I mean, you heard that.
You heard what he had to say. Now, by the way,
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if there's a woman that was a bus driver for
Wave and lost her job because she reported an incident
or something, has that been in the TV news that
I miss that? Maybe I missed that, but that would
be quite a story. Sounds perfect for local TV news
to talk to the bus driver that lost her job
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because she was defending herself from being attacked on a bus. Five.
There's more from the council, But I got callers two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. That's
two five one four seven nine two seven two three
Hello caller, Hello, that caller might have passed out. Sometimes
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that happens. I notice people a lot of times. I'll
talk to people and when I get really into a
wonderful dissertation, they kind of just nod off. Maybe a
lot of people are using me as a sleep aid.
Hello color, Hey, good inner, Cliff Cliff, you are live
on the radio.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
The name of these people is for the advancement of
colored people.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, we had any of.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Them idiots, Emma came out. Were sitting here killing each other.
We killing mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children and everything. A
couple of incidents on the buses. Okay, we're gonna go
to city council. Did they ever or will they ever
come in and say that the black people ain't ambassing unless.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
You count us trying to get to meet our will
make a quicker.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, I'm gonna guess that they certainly have. You would
think they have.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Well, they have them.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
The only time they naacp of black lives matters or
anybody interject theyself into summing is.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Have a white man, the white police or something like that.
It seems like those people on their left because they
left us, they don't care about nothing or any people.
This stuff is getting situated to where now we are
killing the parents, the children are killing their parents. Then
the brother got to kill that parent, and then the
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children are getting shot because they ain't got nothing to
do with this stuff, but they're being shot.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
This is.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
What you call one of those things that should be
addressed nationally. Yeah, but they don't even seem to. I
guess we're doing exactly what the left and progressive want
us to do. We there's too many of us out
here now, probably soaking up and giving out too much carbon.
(14:52):
So the best way to do it is staying out
to hers. And I think that's what they're doing because
they never bring up the elephants send the room. Yeah, blessed,
Helga and Cliff.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Thank you very much for your phone call two five
one four seven nine two three the telephone number here
on the Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Hello color, Hey Uncle Henry is Sartee RT.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Hey, hey Uncle Henry. Baptist bus Service. Yeah. I've been
a resident of Midtime Mobile for most of the last
twenty five years. And in the year twenty sixteen, my
car died. Yeah, and uh I walked over night Ship
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which was six miles away, and I would ride my
bike to work at night in the year twenty sixteen,
and it was most of the year until I was
able to get a new vehicle. But I would ride
my work tonight at night and then take the bus
back and be able to hook my bike on the
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front of that bus and get most of the way home. Yeah,
and that was like a huge hell.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, well, yeah, I believe the bus They're needed, it
is a needed function. Was it dangerous then, were you
being attacked or harassed?
Speaker 11 (16:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Good, not at all good.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
And it worked for me and I was so appreciative.
I mean it provided I mean that was needed. Hell,
which I worked my way out and now I have
reliable transportation. But it was thank God for that bus
service as the box to work at dight would go
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on in some weather, and was able to hook my
bike on that bus and ride it home in the
morning at about seven eight o'clock in the morning, and
it was such a blessing.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, I'm glad that you were I'm glad you were
able to use the Wave transit and it helped you
keep your keep your job, keeps some money flowing in.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
But that was twenty sixteen. That was a long time ago,
so I don't know how things are now, but it
was a blessing for me, and I was so appreciative.
And I think it's a great service because if you
got to be somewhere, I mean, and then these I mean,
if you're a self support individual, you're not asking for.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Handouts exactly exactly. It is a Look, there are people
that need it for like you. You needed it for work.
Other people needed to go to the doctor or go
get groceries. It is needed. Hey, I'm up on the brick.
I gotta run, but thank you RT for your phone.
Call back after the news break with more Uncle Henry's Show.
Speaker 12 (17:55):
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Still seeing heavy congestion. Dude, Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
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Speaker 14 (18:37):
Hello color, Uncle Henry. How are you?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Hey, John, I'm good. I hope all is well with you.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
Thank you, sir. I'll try to make this short. Yes,
I'm just very disappointed in Sandy Stimpson as the heads
out the door and throws a bunch of socialism at us.
He's affordable so called affordable homes.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yeah, they're putting.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
In downtown Midtown and one in westbo'bile. It's just glorified
Section eight. You don't have to have a job. They're
all broken families with no fathers. Crime will go through
the roof. They don't do anything with infrastructure, so the
traffic is going to be awful, and I'm just very disappointed.
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These programs don't work. I mean, if you want to
use my taxpayer dollars for some productive, build some prisons
and fix the infrastructure, not put in these little Section
eight establishment apartments that just end up being destroyed within
two to three years. It's uh, this is why I'm
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voting for Paul. I don't think anyone else is qualified.
That's just my opinion. But Sandy is disappointed me. He
really has. But that's just my take on it.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Sir.
Speaker 14 (20:01):
I hope you have a great afternoon.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, Well, thank you very much for your phone call.
I appreciate that. Uh, and I've I've been listening over
the past several years about constant talk about affordable housing
and mobile uh and whatever whatever falls under that umbrella
of affordable housing. Uh. But you, I don't know that
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getting a new mayor will change the course on any
of that. Just based on what I've watched of these
Mobile City Council meetings, it looks like, uh, there's going
to be more of it in the future, So just
just brace yourself for it. I don't know that the
next mayor will will change any of that as far
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as affordable housing goes two five, one, four seven nine
two three the telephone number here on the Unk Clamberg Show.
Now today was a Mobile City Council meeting, and of
course all of it on YouTube on the City of
Mobiles YouTube channel. I just thought you might want to
hear one quick thing. This has nothing to do with
the buses that we talked about on the last segment
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of the show or affordable housing. This has to do
with a special event that Mobile City Council President CJ.
Small is inviting senior citizens to attend. Now know that
AM radio has a lot of admirers that are in
their golden years because they're smarter. I mean, it's just
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a basic fact that the older you get, the more
life experience you have, you have more discernment. And because
older people have more discernment, they're more likely to find
AM radio and enjoy it and embrace it because of
all the blessings that AM radio brings to a person.
And so I know that senior citizens will want to
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hear this. This is a senior citizen oriented announcement from CJ. Small,
the Mobile City Council President. He's having a special event
next week, I believe, with one of the mayoral candidates,
Barbara Drummond, and the only you can't go to the
event unless you live in his district or her district.
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So if you live in his district or her district,
then you are invited, but you must RSVP. So let's listen.
This is very brief. What kind of event is this?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
And attention to the citizens of District three.
Speaker 15 (22:31):
On next Thursday, June to twenty sixth, twenty twenty five,
Representative State Representative Barbie Drummer and myself, we are a
host in AWAI Annual Chat and Chew.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
An Annual Chat and Chew an Annual Chat.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
And Chew Senior Town Hall Luncheon.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Senior town Hall luncheon, a chat and chew senior. And
this perfect for seniors because you know, I'm a senior
and I do love to chat. I chat for a living,
and chewing is something that I truly enjoy and think.
I think the Lord every day. I think the Lord
for my ability to still chew. Many others, unfortunately have
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issues with chewing. It's a chat and chew senior citizen
town hall. Oh, and I can't go because I'm not
in his district.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
And it's going to be at the golf Quest Maritime Museum.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Oh, it's going to be at the biggest boondoggle in
recent mobile history, the golf Quest Maritime Museum, which he
called it the golf Quest. I don't think they're called it's.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
If I call it the golf Quest, people get mad.
But CJ. Small can call it the golf Quest.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
The time is from eleven thirty one o'clock PM.
Speaker 15 (23:51):
This is only for the residents of District three, Mobile
City Council, District three, or State House representing one of
the three.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Again, this is your chit and chat.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Wait wait, wait, it's our annual chit and Chat Chit
and Chat. I thought it was the chat and chew. Now,
I'm I'm again if you're a senior, as a senior citizen,
now I'm already confused. You've already know when you all right,
he said it was the chat.
Speaker 15 (24:20):
And chew, Chat and chew, all right, the chat and chew,
Chat and chew Senior town how launching.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
But then he changed the name of it to the
chit and chat.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Three again, this is your chit and chat, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't know. All right, well watch the you maybe
you can figure it out. The the chat and chee.
I don't necessarily know what you do at a chit
and chat Senior citizen town hall. I don't know what
that is. Maybe it's for the best that I don't.
You know, I wanted to go, but it's it's a
(25:00):
uh now, I would like a chat and chew chat
and chew. I don't know about a chitting chat.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Three again, this is I am your chitting chat now.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Before I move on from this bit of confusion, if
you are a senior and you want to go to
this and you live and you meet all the criteria
that you live in his district or her district, you
have to r s VP.
Speaker 15 (25:24):
Hosted by Representative Barbara Draumma and myself, and this is
something that we do every summer, bringing the seniors together
within our district and bring them up to date of
what's going on around the district. And again to r
s VP, you must r s VP. Please down two
five one to zero eight five four eight zero again.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And so you have to r s VP. All right, Well,
if you live in in those districts and go, please
call the Uncle Henry Show and tell me was it
fun and was and I would like confirmation was it
a chat and chew or a chit and chat because
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chewing would have been one of the big draws. Now, yeah,
the information about what's going on in the district that
they won't tell anybody in any other district, that would
be interesting too. But the chewing part, I'm always up
for that, especially although I'm curious is to where the
who pays for that. I don't know if that would
be council discretionary funds or if it would be campaign
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funds since it is an election year for both of them.
Who knows what it is? All right, that's your Mobile
City Council coverage on the Uncleanry Show. I'm sorry I
can't give you more in depth coverage of the council meetings.
But as I mentioned earlier in the hour, I think
I'm developing a severe allergy to the City Council and
(26:53):
their their meetings, and whenever they reach a quorum, I
really to get ill. I do, and so I'm gonna
have to look into that. But I really can't watch
any more of the council meeting without losing my mind
or getting physically ill. So I have to wait until
next week for more council coverage. Are going to take
(27:14):
a time out, and then yeah, there's even more show.
There's a lot more going on that we can get
into here on news Radio seven to ten WNTM. No
if you missed yesterday's show or last Friday's walk down
Memory Lane where we talked about judges spanking inmates and
stuff like that. All of those previous shows are available
(27:36):
as podcasts at NewsRadio seven ten dot com or on
the iHeartRadio app. Just go on the iHeartRadio app and
look for Uncle Henry's Show for previous shows. Uncle Henry Show,
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News Radio seventy ten wnt M telephone number two five
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address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's see let me. Yesterday I
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talked about the no Kings protest that was going on
all over the country this past weekend, including Bobil, Alabama,
and I was talking about how it must have been
good group therapy for these folks. These folks have a
lot on their minds and needed to get it off
their minds. Maybe it maybe it helped them to get
out and air their grievances get honked at. And I
(29:02):
talked about the idea of maybe holding some type of
group therapy protest where maybe we could all just air
our grievances as a group, just pick a corner in town,
and we could all make our own signs of whatever
our grievances are. Like mine, as I mentioned yesterday, maybe
(29:24):
I would have a sign that would say tipping has
gotten out of hand? Is something like that? Now, Snake
Trapper liked the idea.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Hey then, or shake Trapper man. I was listening to
you yesterday evening when you were talking about the No
Kings protest. Yes and how you thought it'd be a
wonderful idea if we set aside and pay and everybody
show up and protest whatever grievances may.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Be over hindred days. A brilliant idea.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I love it, man, and I'm with you there, and
I'll tell you exactly what my sin will say. It'll say,
no bag limit on frogs.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No bag limit on frogs?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Are these raised the bag limon? I tried, Okra, Henry,
that mobile delta is just full of frogs and they
are detrimental. Two endangered species, the yellow darter and the
striped salamanders, just to name a few. Another thing, O, go, Henry.
(30:32):
My sin will probably another sign will probably say.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Be kind, don't be rude.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Yeah, Okra Henry.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
It don't cost anything to be kind to people. I mean,
I've had folks tell me that I was nasty because
the fact that I like frogs, and then they'll turn
around and go eat on an old nasty chicken.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
I mean, I don't understand it. I mean to eat
his own.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I mean, if you want to eat on a nasty chicken,
eat on it, but don't tell me I'm nasty because
I want to eat on a dog.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
But man, what.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
A brilliant idea over Henry. Then at the end we
can all join hands and sing coone by God, and
then just look straight up the moon and just let
it all out, just freem you know, just let it
all out. I think that would do some good on
the Henry Ui.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
By the way, you know, people have I've heard this
all my life, people saying let it out, just scream
and let it out. Scream and let it out, and
it'll make you feel better. I've heard this all my life,
and I remember it must have been it had to
be twenty years ago. One day I thought, I'm going
to try this, and I did. I tried it, and
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I felt worse than ever before. It's a lie. It
doesn't It doesn't feel better to just scream and let
it all hang out like that. It doesn't work. But
anyway the grievances on signs might work though as a
group therapy.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Hey, brilliant man. I love these ideas you come up with.
So man, whenever you decide to set aside that day
for protest, I'm with you.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
Brother. You have a good day, my friends.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Thanks Trapper, thank you for wanting to join in on
the group group therapy protest day. I'll figure out a
date and a location, and I'm sure that my sign
will change from tipping has got out of hand to
something else, but just just something something like that. And
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I love your your thing about the frog limits and
the delta. That's this is the kind of stuff that
we need to get off our chest. And just like
the No Kings, it'll really make no difference other than
the way we feel. That's all that. That's the only
difference it'll have in our lives. Likely tipping will remain
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out of hand, and likely you will still be limited
on the frogs that you can get out of the delta.
But we'll feel better after gathering together and airing our grievances,
and that'll be about the same as the people that
went out in the No Kings and enjoyed getting honked at.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I don't know if I want to protest too close
to a road, though, so we might have to. Maybe
I could bring some recordings of horn honks, just so
we can have the ambiance of some horn honking. Just
about out of time for this segment of the Uncle
Henry Show. There is more show coming up after the
news break here on News Radio seven to ten WNTM
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News Radio seventy ten WNTM presents to you once again.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
Me.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I'm Uncle Henry. This is the Uncle Henry Show. Got
a half hour of show left here on this lovely Tuesday,
lovely if you like thunderstorms. Now in this half hour
of show, I may have time to get to a
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news item or two, But first I've got more voicemail
to get to. Voicemail number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. Now, yesterday, at this time, I shared
with you some voicemail messages from Buford, longtime Uncle Henry
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Show caller and listener Buford, who's been dealing with a
raccoon issue, a raccoon issue at his home. He was,
he told us yesterday and his voicemail he was working
on trapping his sixteenth his sixteenth raccoon, I think of
the year. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe it's since
he's lived there. I'm not sure. It sounds like a
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lot of raccoons for one year, doesn't it. I mean,
we're only in June. Maybe can clarify on this. But
after hearing his message yesterday, I went home and right
there I went to my midtown home and saw one
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of my next door neighbors raccoons, and I took a
little video of it. Yeah, I did not. I was
very careful not to disturb the raccoon. I don't have
the problem that Beauford has. Bufford has raccoons eating into
his garage. Now. I never put any kind of food
item outside of my house for my dogs. They don't
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do any eating outdoors, at least of food that I
buy them. They may be eating different, different creatures that
have stumbled into our yard by mistake, but I have
not had issues like Buford has talked about having these
issues with these raccoons. I'm kind of surprised because I'm
surrounded by raccoons in my midtown neighborhood. Raccoons everywhere, lots
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of neighbors talking about the raccoons. Now Buford has phoned
back in with a little bit more on the the raccoons.
I believe this message is about the intelligence level of
the raccoon.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yes, tener sponsor to your comments about coons being extremely smart,
here they are.
Speaker 11 (37:28):
They're probably one of the craftiest.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Animals and the animal kingdom, old regular old dago raccoon.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
By the way, I love the word crafty. Back when
I was a youngster, people from time to time were
described as crafty. It wasn't always a compliment. So yeah,
sometimes it was applied to thieves that were really good
at it. They were just maybe they that fits the
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rat coop. Maybe that's why Beufford picked the word for
the raccoons. All right, I'm sorry, I enjoy the word crafty, Henry.
Speaker 11 (38:09):
They're so bad, I'm smart that they like.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
If you get one in your attic, if someone live
traps it and then they relocate it, that raccoon will
go and find another attic because they know there's attics
and houses and they love them. Henry, Oh, does a
coon love an attic? It's dry swarm, got all kinds
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of fun things that you.
Speaker 11 (38:35):
On and roll around in your insulation and tear up.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Well, now I'm sorry to interrupt again. So raccoons love attics.
This is new. I didn't know this. I didn't know
that raccoons had favorite parts of the house. What about
crawl spaces? Buford for a future call, and do you
know anything about raccoons and crawl spaces? Do they prefer
to be up in an attic or would they mind
a crawl space? Just get just curious.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
All I know is they're crafty.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
But but they're extremely, extremely crafty. But they're downfall of
all their craftiness, Henry is they are gluttonous. Oh boy,
are they a gluttonous critter?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Nothing this now the way Beaufort is. I'm sorry for
interrupting again. But he's describing these raccoons as crafty and gluttonous.
Sounds like a brother in law. He doesn't. Yes, I know, now,
no offense to you if you're a good brother in
law or if you have good brother in laws. I'm
just saying, I look, I've I've had. I have family
in both both Mobile and Baldwin Counties, and when I
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hear some something described as crafty and gluttonous, brother in
law is the first phrase that leaps to mind.
Speaker 11 (39:55):
Henry, you know, a coyotes crafty. But a coyote's got disciplined.
If he thinks there's a big.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Old hunk of meat that's tainted in any way, he
won't touch it. He'll starve to death before he goes after.
But a dagu coon man, he can up that hump.
And Henry, I tramped coons that were so trapsmart that
if he tried to live trap them, they would actually
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set the trap off and then manipulate the trap to
get the bait out of it, without any thread of
getting you know, caught or anything like that. They'd actually
roll that trap across the yard till they should get
that bait loose and get that to it. But Henry,
I have found their crypto night and that is a
dog proof coon trap. Henry, the little dry dog.
Speaker 11 (40:47):
And cat food and sardines. But what the hey is
good old fashioned.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (40:57):
On?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
This is terrible that this the we were just about
to learn even more about the crafty, gluttonous raccoons. And
now then the voicemail something has gone wrong with Buford's
smartphone or cell phone or whatever, walkie talkie, whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
He's using proof coon trap, Henry, a little dry dog.
Speaker 11 (41:19):
And cat food and swordines.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
But he is good old fashioned what good old fashioned
something the hnter.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
What I do is I take me a pace of
a moon pie and I put it underneath that trigger
in that moonpie doll proof trap, put some sardines or
dog food on top of.
Speaker 11 (41:41):
It, spray some fish hole around it. I catch him
every day on time.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
But uh, anyway, all right, I'm sorry for interrupting him
so much. So moon pie, moon pie, dry dog or
cat food, sardine and fish oil. That's the magic potion
to get a raccoon.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
They are crafty and smart, but they are They're gluttony
is their downfall, entirely gluttonoss critters. Anyway, Henry out lets,
you know when I trapped this, when I'm going after you.
Speaker 11 (42:19):
Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Pure Thank you for your educating me on raccoon life,
in the predilections of raccoons and what they do and
what they like to eat and what they can't resist.
I don't think I'm gonna have to trap any of
the ones that are living next door to me. They
for I guess I don't have enough moon pies. I
don't have enough dry dog food that they can get to.
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I don't have enough fish oil or sardines or anything.
So they're leaving me alone. If I but if I,
if I had a neighbor that I didn't like, should
I just put sardines in their backyard? Not that I
would ever do that. I would never do that. I
would you know what. Strike that from the record, Please,
I did not ask that question. That was inappropriate. All Right,
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I'm going to take a quick time out more Uncle
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Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seven WNTM. News
headlines coming up in ten minutes. If you can just
endure this segment of show, you'll have news headlines to
listen to. Let's see, there was a story I wanted
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to share with you. This is not an earth shatter story,
not like many of the other stories got There are
so many things going on right now in the world
that's making the head spind But this is a brief
story from Fox News about the state of how we're
all being entertained these days, or informed or communicating. And
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this story is about how streaming viewership people streaming video
that has now surpassed cable TV and broadcast TV combined.
This happened for the first time ever last month. Let's
listen together to the details on this story.
Speaker 9 (44:43):
May marked a major milestone in TV history. Streaming officially
surpassed broadcast and cable combined in US viewing for the
first time. According to Nielsen, streaming accounted for forty four
point eight percent of all TV.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Why now, I'm sorry for Arner already interrupting. I've already
got a question. And so I was thinking about this
as I'm hearing it. I'm trying to comprehend it, and
as I'm listening to it with you, my friend. As
I was listening to it, I thought, Okay, streaming is
beating cable and broadcast television combined. Who is still using cable?
Speaker 7 (45:24):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (45:25):
And I say that because it's been years for me,
and the main reason no offense to all the wonderful
people that work with the different cable companies on the
Gulf Coast. But I've had really terrible I've had terrible
situations with customer service throughout the years with cable TV
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companies that that, And I'm saying that as someone who
used to have a TV show on cable television locally
back before satellite dishes. But now that people have have
the option to get television through streaming, through through internet service,
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or even still getting a satellite dish, why are people
still using cable? Is there something good about I mean?
Is I'm serious? I hate to sound ignorant on this,
but I am very ignorant on this. Is there something
that cable's better aunt than all those? Is it cheaper?
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Because I'd go back to cable at this point, I'd
go back to anything that's cheaper. We're now in that economy.
I know the economy is doing a lot better, but
I'm at a point in my life where I would
I would I should cut some expenses here and there.
Is it cheaper it's cable to anyway? I'm sorry, let
me go back to this.
Speaker 9 (46:49):
Milestone may marked a major milestone in TV history. Streaming
officially surpassed broadcast and cable combined in US viewing for
the first time. According to Nielsen, streaming accounted for forty
four point eight percent of all TV watch while broadcasting
cable together made up forty four point two percent. YouTube
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led the pack with twelve point five percent, the highest
share ever for a streamer. Netflix also sorted with the
final season of You becoming the most watched program. Nielsen
says streaming's dominance is just beginning and expects the trend
to keep ticking up.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Michelle Polino, All right, Michelle Pelino a Fox News telling
us that streaming now beating TV, broadcast, TV and cable combined.
And it's easy to understand why that would be. When
you have when you've got internet access and you're streaming
online and you have things like YouTube, it has the
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feeling of infinity. Now, I know it's not infinite, the
amount of garbage to watch, but it's for a human
brain that only has a certain number of minutes in
a day might as well be infinite, because there'd be
no way to watch all of the garbage that has
put on all these streaming services, including YouTube. All right, Well,
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times they are a changeing. Okay, hey, time for one
more quick story. And this is the story about Jimmy
Swaggert in the hospital.
Speaker 12 (48:24):
Jimmy Swaggert's son says only a miracle can save his father. Swaggert,
pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge and
founder of Jimmy swagger Ministries, has been preaching full time
since nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
And now think about that nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 12 (48:42):
He eighty seven scandal hit after he was linked to
a prostitute he met in a CD motel, leading to
a famous I have sinned speech in which he didn't
specifically address the incident.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Gary Baumgarten, Fox News, I'll tell you what, no offense
to the Swaggered family or people that have have benefited
from his preaching through the years. But I did not
realize he was still around. He's ninety, and this is
a lesson, a rough one for people to learn. He
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was caught with the prostitute in nineteen eighty seven, and
now as he is in critical condition, what's the one
thing that's brought up about him at age ninety. It's
been many, many years since nineteen eighty seven, But what's
the one thing that has brought up about him? He
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could have done so many great things before that and
after that. But what's the one thing that is going
to be remembered. Just something to ponder when you're deciding
whether or not to give into that temptation. Just remember
one bad move like that, reputation will be gone for
the rest of your life. All right, out of time.
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Thank you for listening, as they say in Sera Land,
have a good one. As they say in Theodore, take
it easy, all right later