Couple of Weekend Messages

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:21):
This Susday Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you so much. I appreciate very much
you listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I really do.
Now in this half hour of show, going to get
to some voicemail phoned in by the listener and perhaps

(00:42):
get to a news item here. First, I want to
start with a voicemail voicemail number two five one two
one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two
one six, nineteen seventy six, to leve a voicemail message
for the Uncle Henry Show and it's listeners. The voicemail
I'm starting off with is from sixty eight year old
Chris and west Locksley, Alabama. Over the past year or so,

(01:06):
he has left messages about the first Sunday of the
month and how they have a wonderful lunch at his
church on the first Sunday of every month. So let's
listen together as sixty eight year old Chris Off west
Locksley tells us about the first Sunday of the month
at his church in Baldwin County.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
So, Pat hell, I'll go I thought i'd go ahead
and give you a call sitting outside they church house
here at a core past twelve, first Sunday of month
to November two k twenty five, another big, beautiful spread
was laid out, almost have a near catastrophe. Got in

(01:52):
the room there and ready to eat and get her
plates field and all that the chicken hadn't showed up yet.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ooh, that is that when the chicken doesn't show up.
And I'm sorry for pausing it, but I'm paused to
think of the gravity of the situation. See and now,
in your life, maybe this would not be a big deal.
But I was raised in a peculiar way in rural
Baldwin County when I was a little child to expect

(02:22):
fried chicken on Sunday. I was raised it. Yes, I
was raised that way. My Sundays as a little child,
the learning to walk up until old enough to use
the pocket knife and cut trees down and stuff. In
those years of early childhood, we would go to church
on Sunday and then my mother would prepare fried chicken

(02:47):
for Sunday dinner. And that was the tradition every Sunday,
every Sunday had to have fried chicken. And so, at
least the way I was raised, this would be a
catastrophe if we were ready for the meal and there
was no fried chicken. This is what this was. I
was raised for this. So what happened?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
They said, oh, about ten minutes, ought to be here.
At ten minutes coming went, another ten coming, went, and
another ten come and went. That was about thirty minutes.
So after that it finally showed up. Thought I was
gonna have to call and lodge a complaint with y'all's
new mayor and his wife. But man, I'll tell you

(03:27):
one thing. It was good and hot, Lord of Mercy,
They just pulled it out of the oven, no doubt.
But some griers fried chicken, tater casserole, want all this
to have green beans with chunks of bacon in it? Yeah, corn,
some of the usual And then for dessert, well Ms

(03:50):
Margaret's homemade bread pudding.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now is it wrong? And I apologize for pausing again,
but I'm wondering is it wrong that I was severely entertained.
I was very entertained just listening to sixty year old
Chris list some of the items he that he had
for lunch. The tater casserole, the green beans with chunks

(04:16):
of bacon, all of this it just felt me with
It just filled me with joy and entertainment. And I've
heard smart people have told me that it's always trouble
in your life. If you consider food entertainment, you should
the smart people tell me you should consider food fuel

(04:39):
and not entertainment. The meaning of that being that some
people don't eat because they need fuel. Some people eat
because they want to be entertained by the food. And
maybe that's what I was doing. Maybe I was being
entertained listening to it. I need to reflect on this more,
but let me get back to the message.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, Miss Margaret's homemade bread pudding just told me to
take me home a couple of three extra helpings of that,
and I obliged. And then another Miss Margaret's there, Steve's wife.
She made chocolate the Chlair.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
She says, go on, take some of that home with you.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
After I've done had a big old helping out it.
I said, you know what, I believe I will so
three and I gonna be eating chocolate.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
The Claire.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
And bread pudding probably for the next day or two.
Lord of Mercy. Anyhow, she's out here playing the playground.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
You got your.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Garrett Park their property line runs right up to the
church house's property line, so she gets to go out
there and swing and play on the monkey bars and whatnot. Lee,
I'm gonna sit up here in the car, and she
reading about the Auburn football program.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Roll Tide, Roll Roll tid Row. Sixty eight year old Chris,
thank you for entertaining me. Right or wrong that I
should be entertained, but thank you for entertaining me with
your tale of the after church victuals there in Baldwin County.
And I am also reassured that as much as the

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world continues to change dramatically around us, that there are
still people going to church on Sunday, taking their kids going,
and some people are there cooking for each other, encouraging
each other to take the second helpings home. I just
I love that that way of life is continuing there

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and continues in many other places. So sixty you old Chris,
thank you for that you did. And more than just
entertain me with the food talk, you've reassured me that
there is some continuity of America. Again, the voice maun
number two five one two one six nineteen seventy six

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two six nineteen seventy six to leave a message for
the Uncle Henry Show voice mail Now in sixty eight
year old Chris's previous message that I just played, he
mentioned Miss Margaret's bread pudding, which has come up numerous
times on the program from those voicemails of Chris. I
just want to let Chris know if he's listening, Chris,

(07:22):
I was allowed to be a judge. I mentioned this
last hour on the Uncleaner Show. I talked about this
last hour, but I was. I was allowed to be
a judge at the brunch Fest fundraiser this past Saturday
morning in Fort Condy Village in downtown Mobile. They were
raising money for Lifelines counseling services. And I got to

(07:46):
taste all the food as a judge. And they had
some bread pudding and I don't know what restaurant provided
it because they didn't want to let us know we
were judging it and they didn't want to prejudice our
judge votes by telling us where it came from. But
I had outstanding bread pudding this past Sunday, Oh, I

(08:06):
do remember. I think it was Ralph and Caco's on
the Causeway that made this very good bread pudding. But
also I had some pancakes with fruit that were especially delicious.
They were made with an Asian spice called panden, which
they described to me somebody told me was an Asian

(08:27):
version of vanilla boy. Oh boy, I'm gonna have to
try that again. Pancakes made with this pandin. It was
very good. Uh look Pa n d An I believe
is the name of that spice. It was excellent. All right,
back with more Uncle Henry's show. After the break, we'll

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get into some other stuff. Let's go ahead and take
the break. Call Henry Show here on news Radio seventy

(09:22):
ten WNTM. News headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before
we get to the news headlines, I got more voicemail.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
This past Friday night, we had Halloween, and last week
I shared with you the Alabama Law Enforcement Association Sergeant
Burquette that said that every family that went out and
celebrated Halloween needed to have a plan and they needed
to execute their Halloween plan with the proper personnel. And

(09:53):
longtime caller Buford enjoyed this, and he called and left
messages about his plan, his famili's planned for hallowe I
did not have time. Buford went into great detail. I didn't.
I did not have time to share all of his
Halloween planning with you, but I thought you might want
to hear one more message from Beewford on that topic. Yes,

(10:14):
this is about a trick or treating plan, but I
for the future. You might be somebody that will be
taking kids or grandkids or great grandkids trick or treating
in the years to come, and you might need to
know how to plan properly. And Beuford, here's one last
message from Beewford about well, I think it's one last

(10:35):
message from Buford about this where he talks about his
plan on how to keep the family safe as they
go as they went trick or treating this past Friday night.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Enter in the final trick or Treating votesmail. Most important
thing that you need to do that State of Alabama
forgot to tell us to do is h go armed.
Have you a dagon pistoler? And also, if you don't
want to carry a gun, at least carry a very

(11:09):
high powered flashlight.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Now I'm pausing here just to say, Buford, if you
are listening to this show via as a podcast which
you've found on the iHeartRadio app or at NewsRadio seven
ten dot com, you're mentioning carrying a pistol. I do
own one, and I'm going to be it looks like

(11:33):
I'm going to be getting another one sometime in the
next six months, so I will be asking now, don't
you can think of you can compose your thoughts. Don't
phone anything yet, don't phone in any messages yet. But
I will be asking for your advice and other people's

(11:53):
advice when I go for pistol two, which will be
coming up sometime in the next six months. So just
keep that in the back of your mind, Buford or
any expert on personal protection via firearms used by responsible adults.
All right, back to the messenger saying that we should

(12:15):
at least have a high powered flashlight.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
As high as many lumins as you can afford, especially
in a dark environment. When those foreign tricker treats invade
your nice little safe apocalypse, your little safe little neighborhood
that you are tricker treating in. It can have apocalyptic effects.

(12:41):
And in a dark environment, a very powerful high loomin
flashlight will temporary blind them and we'll mess them up, Henry,
It really will. Whenever they got in mind, it will
throw them off long enough and to use a tactical term.
It will throw off their what but uh and uh,

(13:03):
they will have to regroup and it will destroy whatever
plan of action I have. I have used this several times, Henry,
throughout my life. And I tell you this man a
dag high powered flash flight and they're not as expensive
as they used to be. You had to die like
fifteen twenty years ago, I had to spend two hundred
dollars on one. But you can get them for ten, fifteen,

(13:28):
twenty thirty dollars now five anywhere dollar store lows. And
they've got a lot of real high quality, high output
flashlights you can get for under fifty dollars right now.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
And I understand what you're saying. I can. I can
already understand how that would be very helpful in a
variety of situations to uh, if somebody is up to
no good and they're approaching you, and you take away
their ability to actually see you well with that flashlight
youford if you could suggets a couple of brand names.

(14:01):
I know you said there's plenty of them out there,
If you could suggest a few brand names, because I
would be interested in getting one of those high powered flashlights.
Are back to your message.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Anyway, make sure you have some sort of weapon upon you,
especially if you are trick and or treating in the
mobile area. Keep in mind your neighborhood might be safe,
but if it's in mobile you ain't as safe as
you think you are, especially on Halloween night when the

(14:35):
former and trick and or treaters crossed that their imaginary
line and in filed trait your area looking for full
sized handy bars. Oh and the reason that you, for
children know what houses passed out full sized candy bars
is there's a set of houses in this neighborhood that

(14:55):
we got friends in that they have done it every year,
and that we know the people, So that's how that's
how they know. But anywhere, Henry, you're just the thought.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
A good day, all right. Thank you very much Bufford
for your advice on flashlights and weaponry, and I expect
future advice to be given. And I hope that it
all went I haven't heard from Beufford since since Halloween.
I hope everything went well for his family with the
execution of their plan with the proper personnel for Halloween.

(15:28):
All right, out of time, blessedly out of time for
this edition. Of the Uncle Henry Show. Thank you for listening,
as they say in Sarahland, have a good one, and
as they say in Theodore, take it easy

Speaker 3 (15:44):
All right Later