Crichton Leprechaun Festival

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.
To me, it looked like a left con To me,
I gotta do look up bit of cheat. Who else
in the left cord said?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Be a crackhead.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I got hold to the round stuff and it told
me to get up in a tree and play a lep.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It says The Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seven ten WNTM. I appreciate very much you listened to
the oakle Herews Show, and what a beautiful day we
have had thus fought. What a gorgeous Monday, spectacular Monday
weather and not just any regular Monday. Saint Patrick's Day

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dot com. Yes, Saint Patrick's Day. Be careful out on

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the roads if you have to be out and about
later today. This is one of the big amateur drinking
days of the year, and it can be dangerous when
these people get out there and drank. So will be very,
very careful as you were out and about and enjoying
yourself on Saint Patrick's Day. Reflecting on Saint Patrick's today today,
I was, uh, I was thinking about the Crichton Leprechan,

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of course, because it's hard to avoid the Crichton Leprechaun
now because of the sighting. The most significant leprechn sighting
in North America in who knows how many years was
the Crichton Leprecaun back in two thousand and six. And
I got to thinking about it, and I'm sure this

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has already been talked about on other talk shows in
this town, other people smarter than me talking about this stuff.
But next year. So the Crichton Leprechan, I believe, debuted
in two thousand and six on NBC fifteen with their
legendary news report. So that if math, if I remember

(02:43):
math and calendars correctly, that means next year will next
year be the twentieth anniversary of the Crichton Leprecaun? Am
I right about this? I'm not very good with math
or anything. Well a lot of things? Is that right?
Will that be the twentieth anniversary next year?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I know you may find it distasteful, you may think
it's nasty, you may not like the way, you may
not like it, but twentieth anniversary next year. Is there
no way that the city could somehow make bank on this?
Has anybody put together some kind of a Crichton Lemprechon festival?

(03:31):
Has that ever been attempted in the last twenty years
since this happened? Does that not make sense? All you
folks running from mayor, there's a bunch of you, now
think about it. This would give you an opportunity to
address the Crichton lemprechan by having a Crichton lemprechn festival.
You can make it any way you want, make it

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very family oriented, if you want to change the image
of the Crichton Leprechaun, because we do hear the word
crackhead thrown in there every now and again. This is
an opportunity make it more positive, have a family friendly
festival of some kind, some type of Cridton leper con festival.
I got because I got to thinking about this today.

(04:12):
I thought, is anybody making money? Somebody's got to be
making money off that, right somehow? It's known globally. Just
a thought. I wonder if anybody have I missed this.
Say I maybe there was already some type of Crichton
Leperchon festival and I missed it because of my As
I get older, I've discovered that going is highly overrated,

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staying is underrated. Staying it can be so much fun,
and so for many years I didn't want to go anywhere.
Maybe I missed it. Maybe there was a three or
four year run of a Crichton leper Con festival. But
there's an opportunity there for somebody, either the city or
an entrepreneur of some kind. Have yourself it. Next year's
the twentieth anniversary. Two five, one, four, seven nine three

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the telephone number. Have other uh inconsequential thoughts on the topic,
But first I'd like to go to a living caller.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Hello, Color Hell, here are you doing.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh, Henry. I imagine if you can get your people
to believe in the uh chry lipocon, Yes, it's easy
to get them to vote Democrat. Okay, the thing that's
going on today, you know, really done nothing anything doesn't

(05:37):
bother me. But the fact that the thing that's going
on now is even with what the ACLU is doing
the ACLU is trying to stop Donald Trump from getting
violent game members out. Yes, I'm discounsted. Yes one another

(06:02):
fire has been set when another person has been burned
by set on fire by illegal Okay, I wonder even
the ACLU do anything. They don't give the Democrat voters,
maybe the lower end. They're unenlightened. They don't even give

(06:25):
them people of credit for even breathing on their own
because they're doing things that detrimental to the people of
this country, even black people. But it's like they don't care,
and they know that they're black people. The Democrat voters

(06:48):
don't care either. Either they're stupid or the game is
too fast for And that's what's scared.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, Claif I look, it's hard to imagine that there's
actually a lot of people in the country upset that
violent gang members are getting thrown out of the country.
It's hard for me to believe that a bunch of
people are mad about that.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Not only that Uncle Henry, the things that are going
on in the country. You know, the eggs are going
down eventually, you know he's gonna get this stuff done.
But I got people telling me, well, we ain't gonna
have this. If Donald Trump do this, I told him,
I said, look, man, one thing, you better started believing

(07:40):
in in this God because if you start looking at man,
were you in a whole lot of trouble. We have
to understand this is a long game, even with your
full one k. I've been in this thing a long time.
I've seen what people do to people, and yes, and

(08:02):
it ain't nice. But what they do, the stupid people,
you know, really makes me sick. Poor black, poor white,
poor Democrat voters what they take them for. And I
hate the usually worry about. I'm gona tell them again.
I'm gonna say it. It's like toilet people. You just

(08:24):
use them and throw them away because they don't care
about us down here killing ourselves. Every week. It's thousands
of people getting killed. But what they say, Okay, tornadoes
doing this, you know, bullets doing that, But they don't care.
It's all about what their leftists progressed as socialist does.

(08:48):
It's all collater.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Or that you have blessed hell, you have a blessed Cliff,
Thank you for your phone call to the Queen ra show.
Have a blessed today. Quote more show after the break
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to leave an electronic mail message for the program. It
is Sat Patrick's Day. I mentioned in the last segment.
Be careful if you are out and about tonight. This
is one of those bar holidays. I don't know if

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I should call it that, but it's a day of
high alcoholic beverage consumption. And I was surprised to find
out that Saint Patrick's Day is number four on the
list of high alcohol consumption days in the United States

(10:32):
of America. Now, the number one time for alcohol consumption
by adults in America is New Year's Eve. New Year's
Eve allegedly is number one for drinking a bunch of booze. Now,
I was surprised to see that Christmas is number two.

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Now I guess I see my family didn't booze it
up for Christmas. I don't come from a boozing, boozing family,
especially on Christmas. That doesn't fit the Christmas spirit the
way I was raised. But apparently I was raised differently
than you. Christmas is number two for booze consumption, followed

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by number three Independence Day July fourth, and then Saint
Patrick's Day is number four on the list of booze
consumption holidays or days. So just keep this mine. Be careful.
They're gonna be people that have too much. They should
know better. Be careful on the roads now. Also, Saint

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Patrick is associated through legend with driving snakes out of
Ireland Saint Patrick. That's the legend. The legend is that
snakes were driven from Ireland by Saint Patrick. Now in

(12:01):
that vein here is a snake update. Yes, a snake
update was phoned in early this morning. This call came
in before seven am to the Uncle Hender's show voicemail.
This is a Saint Patrick's Day snake update.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Hey over, Henry Snake Jeffer hey Man. We got down
the forty three degrees last night, Ogle, Henry oh Man.
The uh the snakes were looking for shelter last night
over Henry. So there will be a couple of people
in mobile today that'll wake up and find a snake
in the laundry room of their driver.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
All right, now, I have not heard any such reports,
those reports. Those now haven't of course scoured Facebook or
anything looking for these reports, because I've got a job.
But if you're jobless and you're on Facebook all day,
let me know if you've seen snake reports.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
So I would recommend that you before you just go
stick in your hand in your drive, take a peek
in there. Now. There will be a big chance that
it'll be a non venomous snake if you do find one,
So I would recommend not harming the snake. Just get
him out, put him in a bucket.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
He recommends not harming the snake.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Til the tempter gets above sixty five degrees and then
you could turn him loose. You're liable to have him
just about a late part of the day, so you
can go to your nearest pet store and pick him up,
a little white mouse, because.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
He's come on, snake tra Look, if we look, if
we find snakes in our dryers, we're not gonna go
see if we can find a happy meal for the snake.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well they're gonna be very hungry. And then you know,
give him his mouse. And then when the tempter gets
above you know, sixty four or sixty five degrees, then
you can safely release him ungle him. And I was
talking to mister and missus. I am a big man
that grears on Friday, and they fell victim to this phenomenon. Yes, sir,

(14:08):
they told me a story where a couple of years
back they woke up to one in their laundry room.
I don't know that they was able to catch it.
They kind of let it self remove it. So I
would say to them, it's probably found in a new home.

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I didn't tell I didn't tell Miss Bamber big Man
that because you know she don't like snakes, nor does
Bama big Man. Right, But they said their little hand
a little pay. I think it was a cat.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
But by the way, just for the record, snake trapper,
most people don't. Most people, I would say, the majority
of people. Now you the listener, can correct me if
I'm wrong, I would say the majority of people are
not big fans of snakes. They may not have anything
against a snake, but they don't want to hang out
with them, to use the slang term, they don't want
to go and put them in a baby blanket and

(15:03):
ride them to the pet store so I can find
them a mouse. Here's a little mouse. Sorry you got
lost in my house. Most people are not like this
snake tramer. In fact, it's kind of a red flag.
No offense to the snake owners out there that have
big aquariums in their house and they got a bunch
of big ol' snakes in their house. No offense to you,

(15:24):
but it's kind of a red flag. I'm not saying
that there needs to be a red flag. I'm just
saying it's kind of a red flag.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Set every time it gets around the dryer, it sniffed.
I didn't want to tell them, but it's probably still there.
But yeah, just hang on to that kitty cat over
Henry because they'll eventually find it. Them are one of
the best things to keep snakes away as a kitty cat.
But yeah, man, if anybody out there has this happened

(15:53):
to them, phone ended on for Hendry Show and let
us know. It happens a lot more and then people realize.
But like I said, don't be worried. Don't harm the snake,
I mean ninety nine probably chance to.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Little castle doctrine. When a snake comes in the house,
I invoke castle.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Doctrine, be non venomble.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
But over hender, I just wanted to share that with you,
all right, thank you. There will be some people freaked
out at one point today right when they open their
driving there's a six foot rat snake or a big
old black snake or a keen snake in the drier.
But man, they just.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
All right, and then the voicemail cut him off. All right, well,
Stake trepor, thank you for your snake update so far,
though no word from from anybody out there that did
find a snake in the dryer, But they may have
been too busy going off and trying to find a
mouse and other snake pleasures to keep the snake company

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until I got warm enough for the snake to to
get on back to the wilderness out there. Voicemail number
if you'd like to leave a voicemail like snake Trapper
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. To
leave a message for the uncle Henry show and its listeners.

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dot com. Now, this past Friday, the Uncle Henry Show
happened at Greer's Saint Louis Market in down tim Mobile.
I want to thank everybody that showed up, and it
was so nice talking to folks, meeting some people I'd
never met before. At Greer Saint Louis Market, and of

(19:09):
course a lot of people that I have met previously.
Thank you all for coming by. I enjoyed seeing everybody
at Greer Saint Louis Market in downtown Mobile. If you
tried to listen Friday during the first half hour of
the show, you would have noticed that we had tremendous
technical issues and we had to summon an engineer. We

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had an engineer that had to be summoned from his
home in midtim Mobile and he had to come up
to the radio station and fix what was what was
out of whack to use a technical term. He had
to come up here and fix what was out of
whack and got me back on the air normally in

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about thirty minutes. But if you want to listen to
most of the show from Friday at Greer Saint Louis Market,
you can listen to that at It's available as a
podcast on the iHeartRadio app or NewsRadio seven to ten
dot com. Now, I thought that there would be a
chance that the mayoral candidate Spiro would show up because

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we were at Greer Saint Louis Market. Spiro, you may
you may have heard, is married to Lucy Greer, so
I wondered would Spiro show up? And Spiro did, but
did not make it on the air because every few
feet he was stopped by someone who wanted to talk

(20:33):
to him. I guess about his run for mayor. So
we will have him on the air some point in
the next few weeks so I can find out everything
I can about him here on the Uncle Henry Show.
And also we'll have on any other mayoral candidate that
would like to be on the show. And I'm easy
to get in touch with mayoral candidates. You can just

(20:56):
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. There I am if
you'd like to come in and tell us what you
would like to do as mayor. Maybe you've got plans
to create a Crichton leprechn festival in the coming years
to generate even more revenue to pay for the new arena.
Whatever it is, we'll talk about it here on the
Uncle Henry Show. Now. One of the listeners that showed

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up for the broadcast was the Mad Trucker. The Mad
Trucker was at Greer Saint Louis Market from five to
five thirty this past Friday, and I tried to interview him.
I tried to talk to him a little bit on
the radio. I don't know how hard it was to
listen to that or not, because we were not operating

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with our normal equipment. And he mentioned while I was
talking to him at Griers, he mentioned that he had
left me a message about when he had been run
over as a child. I'd never heard this story before.
So for the long time listener of the Uncle Henry Show,

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this is a brief call from the Mad Trucker telling
a tale about Midtown Mobile. He was run over by
car as a child in Midtown Mobile.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Hey ocle, Henry bild Man, that was that was my
stopping ground, Ima Jean. And we lived on Morgan Avenue.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
If anybody and so.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Imma Jean Street, Morgan Avenue ld. As a child raised
on Morgan Avenue, I knows.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Where that was.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
And man, we were poor age church mice or his
church mice. And I might have told you this before
if I have just cut me off.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I haven't.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
But me and my sister, my mother was yelling at
us to come home, and we were walking out in
the middle of the street, crossing the road and right
there at Morgan Avenue, and right I don't know what
the name of that intersection is.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Down there.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
A woman ran us over drunk. She was drunk out
of her mind, ran us over. I stayed in the
hospital for damn near month.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Oh my goodness, all right, so ld as a child
in the hospital for a month after being run over
by a drunk driver.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
But the uh tore my nose off. I don't know
how they throwed it back up, but it come out
smelling like a rose out of my knees were I
didn't have, you know, I got my knees and looked
like a lizard's knees. But they said we laid on
that pavement, that hot pavement, and got third degree burns
on it from where she hit us. And because nobody

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knew it for ten minutes that we were ran over,
he and my sister got ran over.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Wow okay, I'm wow. Okay, So you laid in the
street getting burns from the pavement.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
And damn, it's amazing we lived through it. But the
worst part about it was the fact that back then
they didn't have those non stick bandages, and my aunt
used to have to come over because my mother couldn't
do it, and she ripped those bandages off and put
new ones on there, and oh my god, to this day,

(24:03):
I can remember screaming at the top of my lungs
when they ripped them fresh scabs off.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Oh god, it was terrible.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
How we lived through that, I'll never know.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
She must have.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
I don't know, ran us completely over, I mean completely over.
I sat her tire tracks on her back and we
lived to tell the tale.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
So wow, that was.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
That's a weird place to live down there.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Down there, we.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Called it Ruver Royd, a single manufacturer.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's where we lived down there. We throw dirt.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Clods at trains. I mean, we had a great It
was a great time to be a kid.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
So you got run over, Yeah, great fun childhood. You
got to throw dirt clouds at trains and play around
in midtown U until you got run over and this
and your sister got tire tracks on her back. Well,
I'm hey glad that you both made it through that.

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That sounds quite I can tell it made an impression.
I can tell it made an impression. Did it make
when you started driving? I know from your career that
you have a no accident record as a trucker, perfect
driving record as a trucker. Did it influence your driving?

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Having been run over by somebody curious about that you
would know more about the power of one of those
vehicles than people that have not been run over by
a vehicle. Did it influence you in the way that
you drove or did you go Did you ever go
through a period in your life where you drove real

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fast like lots of young men and women do. Anyway,
thank you for telling that story. Not your usual childhood
playing around story, but the childhood I got run over
by a drunk driver story and live to tell the day.
Two five to one four seven nine two two three.

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The telephone number that's two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at
iheartmdia dot com. I am glad that you mentioned the
dirt clod. Throwing dirt clods at trains. That was a
big part of my childhood. Not throwing in them at trains,
but dirt clods when I was growing up, also as

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poor as church mice and the toys. My favorite toys
of course were pine cones and sticks due to their versatility,
the pine cones and the sticks, but also dirt. People.
Don't people just don't realize how much fun dirt can be.
You spend a lot of money for your child to
have a very expensive gift, something electronic. It's hard for

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me to imagine they could ever enjoy it as much
as I enjoyed dirt clods on over the course of
numerous years of my childhood. Dirt loved them because you
could throw them at another child, and when the dirt
cloud would hit the other child, it would often have

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like its own little explosion. It would puff and there
would be like a little rain of dirt on the
child's head. Such fun with the dirt, simple pleasures, the
simple pleasures of throwing a dirt cloud at someone. More
to get to, Yes, there's always more until there isn't,

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and more is to come. After the break here on
News Radio seven ten WNTM, Randy Kennedy is back on
Sports Talk ninety nine five FM with the Randy Kennedy Show.
You can hear that on Sports Talk ninety nine five

(27:58):
if you're a big lover of sports. So I'm going
to talk to Randy Kennedy about his new Randy Kennedy
Show that is coming up after six o'clock here on
News Radio seven to ten WNTM also a more show.
Maybe I'll get to a few more voicemails from over
the weekend. Two five one four seven nine two seven
two three is telephone number. That's two five one four

(28:19):
seven nine two seven two three. Now, I mentioned to
you last week that through the years of hosting talk
radio and Mobile during mayor elections, I've always gotten great
fun from listening to phone calls from people who don't
live in Mobile but like to comment on who's running
for mayor. It always makes me I can't stop smiling

(28:42):
when I hear the out of town calls about the
Mobile mayor's race. And I got another out of town analysis.
Let's go back to the voicemail for it. Another out
of town analysis.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Henry, another may oriel race analysis. First off, Henry, it
is true I do not live in the city limits.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
By the way. That makes it more fun for me.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
My job is highly, highly, highly affected by who's in
that mayor's office.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
By the way, mineus too, even though I live here.
Unlike you, I do live here, but yes, me too.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
So I may not live in the city limits. Believe
you me, Henry, I pay a closer attention than most.
But uh, anyway, Henry Renn and Dub Feller.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I know, Okay, a Feller, he knows we're gonna get Feller.
He knows comment anyway.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Henry Renn and Dub Feller, I I know who is
very tied in with local politics. Yes, he had a
little bit of a different analysis than myself. Okay, he
felt that the two big races will be between Spiro
and Connie.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Hudson, right, and that I believe they have the most money.
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
His viewpoint is is that Prime, though he has a
very very vocal support system, they don't number in many numbers.
They're a small group of people, but very loud, And
I don't know, I don't necessarily agree with that announce

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I still think it's gonna be between Spiro and and Prime. However,
that is an interesting take. But you know, Henry, I
ran into another fella that another fella was gonna vote
for Batiste because Batiste and him had a mutual friend So,
I mean, who knows, Henry. People vote for people all

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kinds of different ways. I do know that Connie Hudson
does come off as the professional insider politician, and the
political mood of the day is to be against all
entrenched politicians, even at the federal level. I mean, you

(31:22):
saw Katie britt She I mean she got it. But
I mean she sat there and she told everybody she
wasn't the Beltway insider. And boy if that wasn't one
of the most inside insiders I've ever seen. I mean
Richard Shelby, she worked for him.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Is this right?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Was it chief of staff for years? Was head of
the business counsel or some other or nothing. I mean
that girl was tied in, and you can see by
how well she's doing in the Senate how tied in
she is. But she distanced herself from those connections, Henry,
because the political mood of the citizenry is almost the

(32:02):
French Revolution style Death to all aristocrats. But uh, I
don't know. It's gonna be interested, Henry. It's going to
be interesting. I do believe that Connie us since she's
hired a lot of powerful political analysis.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh and then the voicemail cut him off. All right, well, beautifre,
thank you for I love. Please give me future updates
on what fellas you know are saying. I don't know
as many fellas as you. I don't think so I
would like to hear what your fellas are saying. A
lot of my fellas, the fellas I know, I can't

(32:39):
get them interested. I can't get them commenting. They don't
seem to be interested yet, So keep telling me. The
voicemail number maybe you have, Maybe you the listener, could
offer some analysis. Two five one two one six nineteen
seventy six is the voicemail number if you want to
leave some analysis. I have won. Two one six nineteen

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seventy six the number to leave analysis for the Uncle
Henry Show, your analysis or fellers you know also gals
see it, says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on news

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Radio seven ten WNTM now in this segment of the show,
back on the show for the first time in numerous years,
and looks unaged. Well, I shouldn't say that you look
like you did the last time you were here. Randy
Kennedy is here from Sports Talk Down Day nine to
five FM. Welcome back to iHeartRadio, to iHeartMedia.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
You must have really missed me.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
It hadn't been years, it has it has since you've
been on this show. You've been on this show. It's
been about three years since given a football opinion or
any other kind of opinion on the Klandory Show.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
We need to fix that.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, Randy Kennedy, my boss's favorite broadcaster, much to my dismay,
is Randy Kennedy my bo. Well maybe maybe it's good
for me that he listens to you instead of me,
Randy Kennedy, So tell the listener where people can find
the new Randy Kennedy Show.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
The New Randy Kennedy Show, starting today four to six pm.
That's what we're going to do every weekday, four to
six the Randy Kennedy Show. We got all the favorites
that we used to have, plus some new gags we
got going on, some new segments. So really excited about it.
And it's the perfect time, you know, we're this is
March Madness, we're starting March Madness. This is the perfect

(34:46):
time to be coming back. So we're fired up about it.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Starting today, Okay, So Randy Kennedy Show on Sports Talk
ninety nine five FM from four to six. Now, you
can also listen to him on the iHeartRadio app. Anywhere
that you have any connection your smartphones hooked up to something,
you can get Randy Kennedy's Show on Sports Talk ninety
nine to five FM on the iHeartRadio app. There's a
lot of things I wanted to ask you about, since

(35:10):
it's been many years since you've been on the microphone
with me. I want to start with what you will
probably find to be a weird line of questioning.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I like weird. Okay, Mobile mystics, as I seem to recall,
there was a devoted fan base for hockey and mobile.
They were devoted enthusiastic. Were you here for it?

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I was not. I have been here since O two,
so twenty three years, but they were just before me.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Okay, they were leaving. I think they left when you
got here.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah, I think I was the reason.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
So here's the deal. Very devoted fan base, especially among women.
For a reason I won't go into mobile mystics. They
didn't stay mainly because they just couldn't consistently get the
attendance where it was needed to do that. Do you
think we'll support it? Will mobile support some like Randy Kennedy.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
It's so interesting because it was just before I got here,
and to hear the lore of the mystics, I thought
there was like sixty two thousand in the building every
time they dropped the puck. I mean that's the you know,
the enthusiastic yeah for the team. It's just still to
this day you see people walking around town wearing jerseys
and stuff. I mean, it's amazing. I don't know. We

(36:22):
have not been a great consistent go support a sports team.
We've been more of a kind of event sports city.
So I don't know, we'll see. I mean, South Alabama's
had some great teams. Obviously, we know the Bay Bears
went away. We've had every football league you can imagine
come through town.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
I would love to see it. I would love to
see that be a big part of our city. But
I don't know. We just have to wait and see.
Like I said, I wasn't here last time, but the
people who love it really love it.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
A guy I know, I know a guy I worked with,
a guy that was married, was and went home for
lunch one day and found a mystic with his wife.
It was it was That's My number one memory of
the Mystics was the the they had kind of an outlaw.
They were just so you know, hockey was still people

(37:15):
didn't know what hockey was, right. We've seen it on
TV but uh, people just loved the Mystics very enthusiastically.
So I'm just curious what you thought about that, because,
as you pointed out, Uh, Beay Bears did not play
bad baseball. They did pretty good as far as baseball
quality of play. People still didn't want to show up.
Mystics won a lot of hockey games, still didn't have

(37:38):
the consistent attendance. So you don't know, You're not sure
how we'll go.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
By the way, I'm on your show to break the
news that the name of my next book will be
I found my wife with a Mystic.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Okay, I mean, isn't that age.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Wouldn't that be a good title for a novel?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Well, it's not. I would loved it. This was a
guy that is a radio guy. I wish I could,
you know, I guess I could never talk to him
on the air about it. But he had quite a
vivid description. He painted a word picture description of that
day for me that was quite quite exciting. Now, so
what else do I want to ask Randy Kennedy about?

(38:12):
First time since in years I've had him on the air. So,
is college football that I love is gone forever?

Speaker 3 (38:21):
You know, It's not gone?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Forever.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
It's never going to be gone forever. But the big
fear here is that when fans lose the connection to
players like Okay, those players go to school where I
went to school. That's the big connection. As soon as
we If that's completely severed, then all you're watching is
relatively bad minor league football. I mean relative to what

(38:45):
you can watch in the NFL. It's bad football. It's
not they're not as good as the guys in the NFL.
The reason why college football, in my opinion, and I
think yours is a million times better than the NFL,
is because of that bond, that connection that Okay, you know,
these guys might not have grown up being a fan
of my album made, but once they get there, they
learned the fight song, they get to realize that our

(39:06):
rivals are really are the devil. You know, they agree
with me about that, and that connection is what it's
all about. If you don't have that connection and guys
are just jumping around and we don't fix that problem,
then we lose that. You know, why would you watch
a college game when you could watch better players playing
in the NFL?

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Will it be? Are they still going to be tinkering
with it, because it's obvious that they went ahead with
this new way of doing things within IL and all
the moving around probably not the best thing or the
quality of what we're seeing in the field. So could
you tinker with it somehow and make it a little
bit better.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Well, there were some problems that were, you know, like
in the road, that we were going to encounter regardless,
But the folks in charge let two things happen at once.
One is started paying players and two at the same time,
for no reason, allowed just this free for all transfer
a situation. The two things did not have to happen together,
because when you put them together now it really is

(40:03):
just free agency every year. Guys can just transfer. If
I'm at Alabama and I want to go to Auburn,
well I can just go to Auburn. And why would
I go to Auburn when I'm playing at Alabama. It's
because we also just said we can pay players, you know,
And so those two things didn't have to happen together,
and that can be fixed. The transfer part, I think
can be somewhat fixed. The money part, I think we've

(40:24):
kind of let that genie out of the bottle.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yeah, Well, it's hard to tell somebody that is a
legal adult they can't make money doing what they do best.
But you're right, you write anything into a contract for
the money. Yeah, so you could say, hey, you got
to stay, or if you leave, we get some of
the money back, exactly.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
I don't think it should be against the law to say,
yeah that you go to you sign with Alabama, and
you get either one dollar or one hundred million dollars,
and that means that's where you play your college ball period.
That's it. And I think a lot of us could
swallow that. Well, of course, you know, because okay, yeah,
he got one hundred million dollars. But once he got there,

(41:04):
he fell in love with Big al you know what
I mean, Like he's all in now. He understands he's
a studio of Alabama. He loves Alabama. But this whole
thing about you're going to give them a hundred million
dollars or whatever, ten million dollars and at the end
of the year they might just as likely to be
playing for Auburn next year as a post Alabama. I
think that's where you just lose what's special about college athletics.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
All right, we are just about out a time here
Randy Kennedy. You can find Randy Kennedy's new show, The
Randy Kennedy Show on Sports Talk ninety nine to five FM.
That's going to be daily Monday through Friday, four to six.
Will there be a podcast.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
There will eventually be a podcast. Right now, I'm what
I've got is just the best clips of the day
you can find online in various places. But yes, eventually
there will be the full podcast of the show.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
All right, that Sports Talk ninety nine to five FM,
Randy Kennedy Show four to six weekdays, and on the
iHeartRadio app Randy Kennedy. Good luck to you.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Let's do it again soon more.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Uncle Henry Show. After the break here on News Radio
seventy ten wn t M. This says the Uncle Henry

(42:23):
Show Here on News Radio seven ten WNTN. We have
news headlines coming up. In ten minutes. Before we get
to the news headlines, I'm gonna check some voicemail that
has stacked up. Voicemail number two five one two one
six nineteen seventy six had us two five one two

(42:45):
one six nineteen seventy six. Let's see got this one.
I believe this was this was phoned in I believe
Saturday from West Likesley, Alabama.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Through Ted bro T Uncle.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
I hope you're battening down the hatches over there in
Mobile County.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I did.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
It is one o five pm on this yereus Saturday. Okay,
that they're saying we're going to get some bad weather
here four too long, quite windy, I must say, But
nice out here on the front porch. Yes, perhaps we'll
be spared.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yes, and mostly mostly spared in this part of the state.
But lots of people around the country with some very
awful consequences from from that weather. Very glad that South
Alabama came out of it mostly good.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
I caught part of the Greers show yesterday, didn't catch
all of it. I blame if I didn't fall asleep
while I was listening to it. I think it was
boring or anything. I just I guess I felt like
a nap.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
You know what I did. By the way, I do
know the message, just to say, yes, I'm not offended.
In fact, I'm if all the listeners were to fall
asleep while listening to the show, as long as you
weren't driving, I would be perfectly fine and even honored
if you would fall asleep listening to the Uncle Henry Show.
No Now, when I was a younger broadcaster, I would

(44:20):
have been worried that it was boredom that could have
cost it, and it still could. But at this point,
I'm just honored that you're there and that you trust
me enough to let me be in your ear like
that while you're falling asleep. It's kind of a It's
kind of intimate, isn't it, to listen to me as
as you snooze. Sometimes I want, in fact, right now,

(44:46):
if I didn't enjoy talking to you, the listener so much,
I could easily put my head down and be off
to dreamland. I could right now in the middle of
the show.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
So I'm gonna go back and listen to it on
the podcast.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
And by the way, I'm sorry for interrupting again. I've
had There have been many times people have been calling
the Uncle Henry Show and making dramatic statements on the radio.
I've spaced out in the middle of the call and
didn't even know what they were saying. Yeah, you may
have noticed, you may have noticed. Somebody says something wild,
and then I I act like I didn't hear it.
It's usually because I was maybe asleep.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
As if it's available already, and I listened to the
first segment of it. Yeah, the podcast, Yes, Christanielle, are
having some technical difficulties. And when I walked back up,
I was in the last segment of it and it
sounded like the technical difficulties had been reguified. So glad
to hear that came about. Hope y'all had a nice turnout.

(45:44):
I hope everything went well. Thank you, buddy, Thank.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
You six seven year old christ yea, it did go well,
except it was technically a nightmare. We had technical issues
this past Friday that were not marrish. Let's see in
our remaining moments here, Buford heard that LD the Man
Trucker's about to retire and.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
This he interview in the podcast. Just heard l D's voicemail
that he is almost to retirement. Man, what an accomplishment. Man,
I'm so happy for you. LB. I have many more
years to work. I've got twenty six years of working

(46:30):
behind me already, but my children are still in grade school,
so I got probably that many more years I'm gonna
have to work. But anyway, LB said that he'll when
once he retires. That it. That's it. He ain't never
gone back to work. He's known several fellas that, you know,
after being retired, they went right back on the job.

(46:51):
And uh, you know, I know a lot of fellas
that have retired myself. And I've seen that trend with
the guys I used to work with, buddies of mine
that have made it to the great achievement of retirement.
And I got this question to have these What I've
noticed is this them guys that like have hobbies that

(47:12):
they either they hunt or fish, or they're active in
their community or church, or you know, they just have
an active social life, a personal life. They're the ones
that seem to stay retired. But them guys that I
call Joe six packs, they just go to work, come home,
drink a six pack of coal beer, go to bed,

(47:33):
get up, go to work, go home, and they don't
do nothing but work. Them are the fellas I see
that tend to retire and then after a couple of
years they go right back to work. And them kind
of fellas, and also the fellas that don't like their wives.
They find out.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
That or their wife didn't like them home all day
and maybe that the wife doesn't want them.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
There all night that they really rather be away from
from their wife. And they got no hobbies to get
it away from her from and they go back to work.
But man, ld, I think if you got some hobbies
and other interests besides what you do for a living, man,
I think you're gonna have a wonderful retirement. But anyway,
I'm just curious. But I know with men and myself,

(48:20):
I have lots of other interest outside of what I do.
And man, once time I'm retired, I'm gonna be into
all the stuff I don't have time to do now
I won't have time to go back to work. But anyway,
just the.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Thought you have a good day, prefer thank you for that. Yes,
And men, even when they're older, men need a purpose,
and you retire, you find out you don't have a purpose.
Some people go back to work just to have a purpose.
In line, anyway, thank you for your voicemail, Thank you

(48:54):
for listening to the unc Glenn Rey show. As they
say in Sarah Land, have a good one, and as
they say in Theodore, take it easy all right.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Later,