Day Before the Vote

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Have you ever asked a naturalized American how he or
she feels about the business of voting. If you have,
it's probably given you a whole new slant on the matter.
To those men and women who were born in other countries,
the right to vote is a precious privilege. They line
up before the voting booth on election day with the
same high sense of pride and responsibility that one might

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feel upon being awarded some rare degree. Actually, the right
to vote should give us all the same heavy thrill.
It is we you and I who determine the course
of our country and the conditions of our own lives
with those votes we cast on election day. Just one reminder,
make sure your opinions will be counted. Make sure you
cast your vote by being very sure to register. Registration

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days differ in varying localities, check on the time in
your community, and get your name on the rolls. Then
take it mantage of all of America's media of communication
for informing yourself on the issues involved. And then, when
election day comes, go to the polls with pride and
responsibility and vote.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio SEVENNTM.
Thank you, Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry's Show.
I appreciate it very very much. Once again, once again

(02:16):
here we are together, me and you, trying to figure
out what is going on, what is going on in
the world around us, what is going on? I hope
all is well with you. Of course, tomorrow big voting
day for municipalitives all over the state of Alabama.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
And see, you know what, I don't know who to
vote for, and so therefore I'm in a delusion of
who to vote for?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is that you? Are you in a delusion of who
to vote for? I hope not. I hope you've made
up your mind by now. But there's still time you've
got between now and polls open up in the seven
o'clock in the and then you got until seven o'clock
tomorrow night, so you you've still got some time to ponder.
If you're still at the point pondering trying to figure
out who to vote for. Wherever your vote, whether it's

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Mobile or any of the exciting exciting races over in
Baldwin County or wherever else, Mobile County, wherever else you're voting.
I hope you have all the info you need and
you make a good choice. Now in Mobile, quite a race,
competitive race. I've got a report for you. This was

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just on Fox ten. Wouldn't you like to hear this.
This is a preview of tomorrow's vote in Mobile, Alabama
from Fox ten their investigative reporter, Brendan Kirby. Let's listen together.
Here is the preview of tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
And first tonight, the election tomorrow in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
It has its own dramatic music.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Voters are heading to the polls to elect mayors and
city council.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
And one of the biggest races is right here in
the Ports city. Four people want to be Mobile's next mayor.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
All right, our Brendan Gerby is joining us from the
news center right now with your election preview. Brendan, this
is one of the more competitive races in Mobile's history.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yeah, it is Lenis and Cameron.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
You have to go all the way back to two
thousand and nine for the last time that there was
no incumbent running. That race also featured four candidates, two
men and two women. Just like this time, the candidates
this year have all been running TV ads. Tomorrow, you
deicide for the first Mobile election since two thousand and nine,
Mayor Sandy Stimpson won't see his own name on the

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ballot when he goes into the voting booth. When I
asked him about that last week, he couldn't keep a
smile off his face.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, people ask me about how do I feel about it?

Speaker 7 (04:47):
I said, I am so happy I'm not campaigning right now.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Which is a true statement.

Speaker 8 (04:52):
Honestly, I have endorsed someone and I feel that that's.

Speaker 9 (04:57):
The best person to run the city in the future.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I wish Paul good luck.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Mayor Stimpson's choice, former Mobile County District Judge Spiro Cherry Goddis,
is getting stiff competition from state Representative Barbara Drummond, County
Commissioner Countie Hudson, and former police chief Paul Prime. Cherry
Gotta says he wants to build on what Mayor Stimpson started.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
My goal is to keep that progress going.

Speaker 8 (05:22):
Momentum is a fickle thing, and if we lose it,
we may never get it back.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
So I want to provide some stability in that area.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Representative Drummond says she brings years of experience as a
problem solver.

Speaker 9 (05:33):
I want voters to know that Representative Barbara Drummond is
not going to do she is doing it right now.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
She has always worked to make Mobile better.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Commissioner Hudson Austitituts experience has both a commissioner and a
Mobile City Council member before that.

Speaker 9 (05:50):
I think with my years of experience, I've got twenty
four years between city and county government.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
I want to put that to work.

Speaker 9 (05:57):
I want to help Mobile do everything in my power
to help Mobile live up to its greatest potential.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Former Chief Prime has a law enforcement background, but he
says preventing crime requires more than making arrests.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is that if we really want to reduce crime, we
have to give those to commit majority of the crime
an opportunity, a hand up if you will. And that's
why I talk so much about workforce development.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
Pols Tomorrow will be open from seven until seven and
we'll have team coverage when the results come in. If
no candidate gets a majority, a runoff will be held
next month, reporting live in the news center.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Brendan Kirby, Fox ten News.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, there's the excitement. Tomorrow is the vote. Now,
I've already had a bunch of people come up to
me today and give me behind the scenes predictions. Yes,
they claim to have all kind of behind the scenes knowledge.
I'm getting all kind of behind the scene predictions from
people today. Let me tell you this, to those of

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you that have been giving me, you know who you are.
You're behind the scene predictions. Be very careful believing all
of your behind the scene predictions. Now, it may all
be true. But whatever you're hearing behind the scenes that
makes you think one candidate's got it in the bag
and the other one does it, don't let that influence

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you and whether or not you actually go out and vote.
Don't assume that whatever you've heard, oh, so and so
ha's got it in the bag. Don't make assumptions no
matter who it is, no matter who you're voting for,
go out and actually vote. As everybody tells you. You've

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heard it over and over and over and over again.
It's said in every election, turnout is number one. You
can have a lot of people like a candidate. You
can have the majority of people like a certain candidate,
but if they're not motivated to actually show up, all
that liking don't do much. So disregard all of the

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things you're hearing behind the scenes about your candidate or
some other candidate, and just go out, make sure you vote,
show up and vote, and then we'll all figure out
what happens from there. But what I don't even know
how to characterize this election season we've had. Maybe has

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this been the dullest. Probably didn't feel dull if you're
actually running. But for those of us that aren't running, well,
maybe I could say one of the most well behaved
municipal elections in many, many years. Right back with Moore

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after the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show Here
on news Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five twenty

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Speaker 7 (09:38):
Hello caller, Hey Oncle hen Ray, are you doing.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Snake Trevor, Snake Trevor, you are live on the.

Speaker 10 (09:44):
Radio, Obra Henry.

Speaker 8 (09:45):
I have no idea who's gonna win or be our
next Mobile mayor, but I do believe that uh probably
no matter who wins that race, I think Mobile would
be getting a good mayor.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (09:58):
But I will make a prediction on all some indictments
probably being handed down after the first of the year,
Uncle Henry.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, who's goodding indicted after the first of the year?

Speaker 10 (10:08):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (10:09):
Hillary Clinton? Uh, James Coming, Uh, Brennan and Clapper. Uncle Henry,
I do believe that, uh, they will be indicted after
the first of the year. And the reason I say so,
Uncle Henry, I have been reading some of the documents
that our FBI director Cash Betel and h our security

(10:29):
advisor Tolcy Gibbert yes, has been releasing, and uh, man,
they actually have the receipts for the wrong doing, Uncle Henry,
If if, if these people are not indicted, Uh, I'm
here to say our country is lost and uh people
will never have faith in our government again.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Now, so you're saying by the first of the year
or what, give me a date, because I want to be.
I want to bet you on this. I disagree, and
I want to bet you on it. And I and
I think that we ought to make it something like
a turtle whoever loses the bet has to buy the
other person some turtle meat.

Speaker 8 (11:08):
Oh for Henry.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
That sounds great. And I do.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
Believe it will be after the first of the year.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
What time when.

Speaker 7 (11:15):
Let's see, let's let's let's go buy by May?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, all right, by May? All right. Now I want
to tell you. I want to tell you why while
I disagree. Now I've read the same documents. I agree.
I agree with you that they have done wrong big time.
But I think if they had, if they thought they
had a serious case that they would be able to
bring that, they would not be releasing these documents to

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us the way that they are. I think that that
this would have been handled completely differently. I think they
want the the the indictment to come in the court
of public opinion. They want to win a battle of
propaganda and p R and not actually win in the
courts or otherwise be handling the documents and everything completely different.

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So I do not have faith that any of those
people will be held accountable.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
Well, Henry.

Speaker 8 (12:09):
The reason I say that is because there has been
at least three grand juries that have been convened to
go over this evidence, and there are still thousands of
more documents that that we've yet to see.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
So I'm telling you if they do not, if they
do not handle this over Henry, I mean, America will
lose faith.

Speaker 10 (12:32):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (12:33):
You know, I said long ago if Hillary Clinton had
a one that election in twenty sixteen, this country would
have been lost, and it would have been Henry because
of the three justices that she would have put on
the Supreme Court, and we would have done lost all
our rights. We'd be having the uh you know, all
the woke stuff shoved down our throat. I mean, this
country would have been lost. And if they if they will,

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if they do inde these people this, this country can
be saved.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
But it's gonna take that to happen.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, Well, look, I hope you win the bet, and
I hope that I purchased turtle meat and then get
you to cook it for me.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
But he yes looking for you without you purchase, and buddy,
if we just.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Ramp this up, the turtle all right, hey, real quick, uh,
before we're out of time in this uh this phone call,
the humidity is going to be dropping. We're going to
have loads in the upper sixties. How will this will
snakes be frisky? Will there be a friskiness to our
snakes in the next week?

Speaker 8 (13:32):
It should bringing upticking their feeding, Uncle Henry. It's not
getting cold enough for them to be concerned.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
But an upticking the feeding.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
Enough ticking the feeding, o Henry, because when it does
start getting cooler, they know they need to uh to
start stuffing their bellies because they're they're liable to go
three or four months without eating. So this cold weather
will definitely, uh definitely should bring them out uh and start,
uh you know, looking to start fattening up for the winner.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
I guess you would say, all right, well.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Snake trapper, thank you for calling, yes, and you take
care of my buddy. There he goes, the snake trapper.
And by the way, I do I do wish that
his prediction would come true. I've already I've already lost
faith in uh in certain aspects of the government policing
itself at that level. I've just just based on what

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we've seen since all of that stuff happened. But I
hope snake Trapper's right, and I hope they're able to
get something going there. Two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. The telephone number that's two five
to one four seven nine two seventy two three. Email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. President Trump with an executive order

(14:52):
that a lot of people are arguing about already about
flag burning, wanting to put people in jail for flag
burning if they are if they are burning a flag
in an incitement to violence. I guess so, President Trump

(15:12):
with an executive order about flag burning of all things,
and a lot of people very upset about it. On
a freedom of speech standpoint, people that love the country
and don't want to burn the flag still think that
this is a form of protected speech and that they

(15:34):
disagree with this whole idea of President Trump going after
flag burners in such a way. Now, I'm sure you've
already figured this out. I'm sure most people should have
already figured it out by now. But I think this
is ultimately I find it very funny. I don't know
that it would I don't know if this is constitutional

(15:56):
or non I'm sure somebody will try to challenge this,
but I find it very funny because you know, there
are some people in our country that will automatically try
to do the opposite of whatever Donald Trump would like
them to do. So I think a lot of people,

(16:19):
a lot of Democrats, are going to start burning flags
when they would not have burned them before, but now
they're going to to prove some kind of a point.
And I think the idea of President Trump setting up
his opponents so that they will feel a strong desire

(16:42):
to burn a flag, I just think it's in terms
of framing his opponents, setting them up to make them
look even worse than they already will look by having
them go out. Some of them won't be able to
help themselves. And you may, you may relate to it.
There may there may be some people that automatically try

(17:06):
to do the opposite of what the opposing party is suggesting.
But I just there's gonna be people that feel drawn
to burn a flying They're gonna look horrible doing it.
They're gonna look horrible doing it, and they never would
have done it. They never would have made themselves look

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as bad as they're gonna look. If they weren't for
Trump making that suggestion in that executive order Back with
more Uncle Henry's Show. After the break, it says the

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Speaker 10 (18:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I can also be heard on FM radio during the
earlier part of the day from ten to two. I'm
on ninety five KSJ playing Today's Hottest Country. All week long,
I'm giving away tickets to see Alabama, the legendary country
music supergroup Alabama. They're going to be in concert October
second at the sound Amphitheater in Gosha, Mississippi, and tomorrow

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I will have your chance to win tickets to see Alabama.
Be listening tomorrow. I think your first chance to win
tickets tomorrow is going to come in the ten o'clock hour,
So be listening to me in my first hour on
KSJ tomorrow from ten to eleven. Be listening tomorrow from
ten to eleven for your chance to win some tickets
to see Alabama in concert at the sound Amphitheater in Goshe, Mississippi.

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And if you want more info in the concert, you
can find that at ninety five KSJ. Again the telephone
number here two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. That's two five to one four seven nine
two seventy two three. Now I've got some voicemails from
over the weekend to get to. Let me see this.
One came in from West Locksley.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
Well, Uncle sitting around here, been making out a list
as the church got out to go pick up a
few dry goods. Min scream down to the walmart singing
pictures you posted on the Facebook from the Country and
Western gig over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, I was down at the Wharf and Orange Beach
Saturday for the Little Big Town concert. Had a wonderful time,
uh I. So you you you can tell that I'm
I'm of advanced age. Well, I was there. I'm sorry
for pausing Chris already, but he said he saw the pictures.

(19:55):
He saw the pictures from me being down there that
I posted. And if you want to see him, you
go to my personal Facebook or go to the Uncle
Henry Show Facebook page and look at the pictures. So
I was doing this meeting and greeting people there at
the concert at the wharf in Orange Beach. I had
a couple of guys that went to high school with

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me that I haven't seen since high school.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
That was.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
And when they came up and started talking to me,
it was almost like seeing ghosts. Now they're both alive,
or are they? But yeah, that's what it was like
seeing ghosts when it took me a moment to realize, yes,
I know these people, but from many, many, many many
decades ago. So anyway, had a lot of fun down
there at the wharf meeting all these wonderful people. Again.

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The pictures on the Uncle Henry Show Facebook.

Speaker 11 (20:49):
Page Facebook from the Country and Western Gig over the weekend. See,
you're still a popular one with the ladies. The thing
you got missus Henry Haynes around you would want you.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
To stray now, No, that's not going to happen.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Yes, they like like a senior citizens nowadays.

Speaker 10 (21:10):
Hunt.

Speaker 11 (21:13):
Did you enjoy yourself this weekend?

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Was this?

Speaker 11 (21:16):
Was it a worthy performance?

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Well, you know, I didn't see the performance. So the
gates opened at six. The Little Big Town concert starts
at seven o'clock with the opening performers, and right about
they start, the first performer started playing their music. I'd
say it about seven point fifteen. They had to evacuate

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the wharf because of lightning and they stayed evacuated until
I don't know eight thirty ish or something. Yeah, so
did I did not stay and wait for the rain delay,
but there was a lightning lay. Anytime there's lightning there,
you've got to evacuate people. So unfortunately I did not

(22:06):
get to stay for the concert. It was running a
little late for me.

Speaker 11 (22:09):
Chris yourself, this weekend was a Was it a worthy performance?
And will there be more coming up? That's the inquiring
minds want to know how your weekend went, and uh,
you can let us know on tomorrow. That'd be Monday Show.
By the way, A week from yesterday, which was August

(22:32):
of twenty third, is the Alabama Florida State Game. Roll
tied ROI ROA and the Albs. They played Friday night
against Baylor. Yes, how about that?

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (22:44):
Did you watch any.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
Of the football this weekend? I watched a little bit
of it myself. It was okay, But I'm ready for
the real meat and tabors next weekend. All right, beab
take care of yourself. Look forward to seeing you in about
twenty seven miners.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
I reckon.

Speaker 11 (23:06):
Later, dude, All right, later to you.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Sixty eight year old Chris off Westlocksley. Thank you for
caring about my weekend activities. Other than going down there
to the wharf, there was just some some chores and rest,
resting up for this exciting municipal election week where we're
gonna just there's gonna be tremendous energy release and mobile

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and all every town that's having an election. You haven't mentioned,
you haven't phoned in about Locksley municipal elections. Sixty eight
year old Chris. I know there's exciting elections in fair Hope.
There's exciting elections in Robertsdale. Many communities have some some
tight races. I have not heard anything out of Locksley.

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Two five to one or seven nine two seven two
three the telephone number here on the Old Clamber Show.
Let me go to another voicemail message phoned in this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (24:01):
Hey, good afternoon, uncle Henry. This is our teeth. Yes,
I kind of have a question, or not really a question. No,
just correct me if I'm wrong. I understand every states
allotted a certain amount of congressional seats US congressional seats. Yes,

(24:25):
according to population, right. I don't understand how California can
constitutionally add five seats when so many citizens are fleeing
that state in record numbers. I mean, they're leaving California

(24:48):
faster than they're trying to lead the Honduras in Venezuela.
That makes no sense to me that this is not
constitutionally illegal to add five seats.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well, I don't think they're talking about adding seats. They're
talking about jerry mandering, keeping the same number, but changing
the districts, jerry mandering the districts to create five more
Democrat seats, to draw the lines so that you can't
elect a Republican in those seats. That's what It's not

(25:25):
about adding new it's about redrawing the lines RT.

Speaker 10 (25:31):
In fact, they need to decrease their seats now. Texas
at least has a growing population. So I just this,
this has no legal This is it's just a bunch
of garbage and a waste of time and a waste
of a lot of money going into court. It's just

(25:53):
this is disgusting. This is getting by.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
The way you say it's disgusting almost. I hate to
say like this, but but it's I won't say almost
all the time, because there are good uses for the
tax dollar, but probably over half of the time when
I'm noticed tax dollars being spent, it is disgusting.

Speaker 10 (26:14):
It is it was, Uncle Henry. Yes, but anyway, something
different to think about besides all the local election we've
got tomorrow. God help us have a great day, Uncle
Henry row Tyroll.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well tidroll. Thank you RT for your voicemail. I appreciate you.
Voicemail message. No, it's nobody's talking about adding seats. When
they use the word ad, they're talking about to a party.
It's all about redrawing, jerry mandering, has drawing the lines
a little bit different to favor one party over the other.

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That's what. And who knows. We may we may have
a national trend of doing a ton of that. Of
course we'll have to wait and see. But RT again,
thank you for your voicemail. Voicemue number two fivenineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
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Hello caller Uncle Henry LD the Mad Trucker.

Speaker 11 (28:15):
Hey, how you doing?

Speaker 7 (28:16):
Are you voting tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (28:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Oh, very good, very I hope that you have to
tell me this.

Speaker 11 (28:23):
Did your did your wife and your mother?

Speaker 10 (28:25):
Did they vote absentee?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
They did not vote absentee? Why?

Speaker 8 (28:30):
Well, I got bad news, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
I don't believe they can fit in a voting booth.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
And it's gonna be bad.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
They're not gonna be able to vote tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Why would that be? They're both normal sized. Why wouldn't
they be able to fit in?

Speaker 8 (28:41):
Well, that is not what I've seen and heard.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
What do you mean you've seen?

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Somebody told me your wife talked out at about five
point fifty.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
What who said that?

Speaker 8 (28:51):
What?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Kind of a freak said that.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
Hello, that guy from largely Oh.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
He did not, he didn't, and then he hung up.
All right, this is you know what ld this is,
this is this is it for you. You've you've you've got
to the point now that you've you're transferring. My wife
is petite, my time, My wife is I mean, we're
There are photographs of her. People can research this themselves

(29:18):
and go on to my Facebook and see pictures of
us together on Facebook, disproving you're bizarre fantasy of me
having overbeast relatives. I don't know, I don't know why
you You're sitting out there with an imaginary life that
you've created for me where I'm surrounded by women that

(29:38):
are all big enough to uh, to be like whales
or something. It's just not true. These women are of
normal size. In fact, you can probably find pictures of
my mother online on my Facebook page. Go look, look close,
put your put your eyeball right up to the screen.

(30:01):
Aldi All right, listener, I apologize. I'm trying to edit
myself right now as I speak. Try not to say
anything violent or anything. I don't want it to be
that way. Two five, one, four seven nine two two
three the telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show,

(30:21):
I didn't want to mention. I saw the story over
the weekend that former Mobile County Commissioner Freeman Jockish had
passed away at age eighty or eighty one, that he
passed away earlier this month. Freeman Jockish, What how to

(30:48):
put this? What an interesting character he was in the
history of Mobile politics. Freeman Jockish, who was a if
I remember right, I think he won three elections for
county commissioners, so the voters liked him up until he
got convicted of doing some stuff he shouldn't have been

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doing there and went to jail for it. I'll tell
you that I met him back when I was still
doing TV on BAYTV, the original Uncle Henry TV thing
on BAYTV Port City six. He was one of the
last guests that I had. He might have been my

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last guest when I was doing TV during that particular
time I was doing TV. It was when he was
running for county commission The Democrat running against him was
Tommy Sandusky, and I think Tommy Sandusky used to be
a state representative. Hard for me to remember all those

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years ago, but I interviewed those two guys, and I
think those were the last two politicians that I talked
to on the old BATV TV show. Now Freeman Jackish. Yes,
he got in trouble a couple of times with the law.

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All I can tell you is that I didn't see
any evidence of that in my interactions with him. I'll
tell you that his family was really nice, and so
if you're a family member of his condolences out to you.
I don't want to go over all the things that
he was accused of and got convicted of. I'm sure
that's not something you want to hear about when you're

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mourning the person. But always always nice to deal with them.
At least he was nice. It was one of those
things where I can say he was nice to me.
I don't know what he was like to anybody else,
because but I know he was nice to me. But
certainly that was a different time. And I mentioned this

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a few months ago that we went through a period
of history in Mobile County where county commissioners kept getting
into trouble with the law. It happened over and over again,
and he was just one one of many that ended
up getting in trouble with the law at the Mobile

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County commission And that's why I always say, when somebody
is a county commissioner in Mobile County and they can
make it a term or two and not get into trouble,
I consider that an accomplishment. Not getting I can. Yes,
I consider not getting indicted an accomplishment when you're a

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county commissioner in Mobile County. So condolences to the family
of Freeman Jockish Hurricane Katrina. Twenty years on.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
Hurricane Katrina left behind one hundred and twenty five billion
dollars worth of devastation to the new work.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for listening. Thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it very much. Now,
in this half hour of show, got some news items
that I missed you might have missed them too, and
also a voicemail from a listener. So we're going to
get to all that in this half hour of the

(34:49):
Uncle Henry Show. Now, first let me start with a
story about tailgating. Yes, football season. Football season, we've got
high school and college for ball all already Underwigh and
then the major college football programs are going to be
kicking off this weekend. I'm looking forward to it. But
according to this news report from WBrC in Birmingham, some

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of us may not be able to tailgate the way
we want to, and the reason is because of President
Trump's tariffs. Yes, they found an economist at UAB who
sang that President Trump's tariffs could make it just cost
us a ton more money to go tailgating. We may

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not be able to afford the tailgate the way we
want to. All right, let's learn together. Let's listen to
the story from d WBrC stepsister station to Foxtown about
how those mean tariffs are going to make it so
you can't tailgate what the way you want to.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
More for your tailgate snacks this football season.

Speaker 12 (35:56):
That's because terrrists are expected to cost higher prices at.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Their are expected to cause Now they're not saying that
this is already the case. They're expected to cause higher
prices grocery.

Speaker 12 (36:09):
Store, which could take a bite out of fans wallets.
You reporter Briddy Talbert on your side side here in
studio with the explanation and how you can save some money.

Speaker 10 (36:17):
Brady Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 13 (36:17):
Before setting up those tailgate tents and firing up the grills,
you'll likely have to spend even more money this year. Companies,
oh my goodness for having to decide whether to eat
their costs or pass them on to you.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
All Right, the next voice you hear will be from
a long haired, bearded economist from UAB. So your next
voice is going to be an economist, and he's going
to explain tariffs and stuff to you as if you're
three years old. Now, you might like that, you might
like being talked down to by the economist. So let's

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listen together as we're talked down to about the possibility
of higher tailgating prices.

Speaker 14 (37:01):
If you're thinking about something you know as innocent as tailgating,
that is a recreational activity, Uh, I know, mo? Did
you know that it's Alabamians would think no, it is
a necessity to life, like water and breathing air.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
But tailgate prices will increase.

Speaker 15 (37:15):
UAB economic expert Ben Meadows says supply chain pressures will
likely affect yours will likely for game day experience. Four years,
inflation has been top of mind, and we're now seeing
cost increases on items being imported into the US under
the Trump administration.

Speaker 14 (37:32):
It could be from groceries to think about, like folding
chairs and things like that. All those tailgate essentials, if
they're imported and subject to these.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Policies, they will be more.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
If we're expensive for consumers.

Speaker 15 (37:44):
He says, all grocery prices are up two point nine percent.
You'll pay more on items like beef, fresh and frozen, chicken,
sauces and condiments and cookies and if you need a little.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Extra you know that's and cookies an important part of
the tailgate.

Speaker 15 (37:59):
Caffeine for the early morning football games. Also expect to
pay more for coffee.

Speaker 14 (38:04):
If you think about it, the United States is not
a tropical country, so we cannot grow coffee except for
a little section of Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
So in that wonderful that, don't you feel like you're
little child learning? By the way, would that ruin your tailgate?
If coffee cost a little bit more money, would that
ruin your tailgate? It would according to this guy, little.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Section of Hawaii. So any coffee we consume is going
to be imported.

Speaker 14 (38:32):
So when I tell you that coffee is up fourteen
point five percent year every year, it's not hard to think.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Oh, it's because it's all getting important.

Speaker 15 (38:39):
But will these tariffs benefit local American suppliers? He says
It's possible, but certainly not on all items.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I think it's on a case by case basis.

Speaker 14 (38:49):
For instance, goods that are tropically made papaya, pineapple coffee.
I see no ability for the US farming market to
catch up there.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Oh my goodness. So what does that mean my tailgate?
The papaya at the tailgate is going to be too expensive?
That could ruin. I know a lot of football fans
that one of the most important aspects of their tailgate
is the papaya, as they grill it on an imported grill,

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and and they sit in an imported chair drinking their
imported coffee, and they just love having their papaya right
before the game. And this is gonna every It's all
going to cost more, isn't it. This expensive papaya? What
a terrible thing.

Speaker 13 (39:40):
So what should you do to save?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
As far as what should you do price, maybe you
should become a fan of something there's no tailgating? Is
that the answer?

Speaker 13 (39:49):
Let's go? You are limited and obviously can't control them.

Speaker 15 (39:52):
However, Meadows says to prioritize personal finance, set a budget,
evaluate where you're spending money, and make any cuts that
work with your family's life.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Okay, well that's why. Are you glad there's advice like this?
But those pesky tariffs from President Trump threatening your tailgate papaya?
All right? What else? Before we go to break? This
is a This is a weird story. At least I
think it's weird. There's a town called Union It's wait

(40:24):
is it called? It is called Cedar Bluff, Cedar Bluff, Alabama.
The police department has quit, not all at once, but
now they're down to only the police chief. They have
no officers. And once again from w b r C,
they send a reporter out there and there's They did
a story on how there's no police officers, but they

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nowhere in this story to they do they ever really
mention why they're all quitting? Wouldn't that be at the
top of your list to figure out why? Anyway, let's
let's listen and see what we can learn about this
town where all the police have quit.

Speaker 16 (41:02):
At Morgan neighbors I spoke with today, tell me this
situation has been going on for a while and it's
just time to find the right people who want to
serve this community.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I don't think the pay, how much they are paid.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
Is the issue, thank you, speaker.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I think it's much right. So they just answer this lady,
she says, it's not the pay. Nowhere in the story
they don't say what it could be.

Speaker 16 (41:26):
Becka Shaw is a business owner in Cedar Bluff, but
she's also a concerned neighbor. Earlier this week, an officer
resigned during a town council meeting, prompting the mayor to
call an executive session. After an hour and a half,
the council members accepted the officer's resignation, leaving the town
with just a police chief. Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver

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says his deputies will help keep you safe.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
And then the sheriff there says what you'd expect that
if trouble breaks out, they'll be sending some deputy. He's
in there, so the people of Cedar Bluff are going
to be all right.

Speaker 10 (42:03):
Provide protection and security concisions in the town of Bluff.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (42:08):
After leaving the council meeting, Rebecca Shaw says neighbors were
still left with unanswered questions. And no police department.

Speaker 9 (42:15):
They've been dropping left and rights and leaving and going
other places. I would like to say Cedar Bluff posts
jobs for people to come and apply for work.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Sure, so she just wants them to list the jobs,
all right?

Speaker 16 (42:29):
What else on to say that the town of Cedar
Bluff quote will always have a police department. Chief steps
He's the current police chief here in Cedar Bluff. He
went on to say that he's currently on call twenty
four hours a day, and if he cannot assist you,
that's where the Cherokee County Sheriff Department will step in.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
All right, Okay, well that's reassuring to the people of
Cedar Bluff. They got one cop that's available twenty four
to seven. But nowhere in their report did they tell
us why they were quitting. All right, journalism, All right,
back after the break with more Uncle Henry Show. This

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is the Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seventy ten WNTM.
News headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before we get
to the news headlines, I've got a voicemail from a listener.
If you'd like to send me voicemail, you can do
it the voicemail number two five one two one six

(43:47):
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six
nineteen seventy six. To leave a message for the uncle
Henry Show two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Let's listen to this message that was left yesterday.

Speaker 11 (44:04):
B tid uh hell. Uncle will share a little personal
family with you if you don't mind. Okay, Mint Vernett
passed away Friday. She was aged ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Okay, ninety eight year old aunt Vernette? Did you say,
sixty eight year old Chris, condolences to you on losing
your aunt. Condolences to you. She made it to ninety eight?
All right? What else can we learn about this?

Speaker 11 (44:33):
She was the last remaining child in my dad's family
of twenty five children.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Oh okay, all right, the plot thickens. All right, So
twenty five kids and she was the last of twenty five.
I don't know that I've ever heard you mentioned this before,
sixty eight year old Chris of wes Locksley. You must
have how many cousins do you? You must have more

(45:05):
cousins than anybody I know. If there were twenty five,
you had what twenty four aunts and uncles on one
side of the family. All right, let's listen. What do
we have here? So she was ninety eight, the last
of twenty five children.

Speaker 11 (45:20):
Of twenty five children, My daddy was number twenty two.
He was eighty five when he passed five years ago.
My grandpa Rogers, his first wife passed after she was
after she bore number nine.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
All right, So the sixty a year old Chris's grandfather,
his wife passed away after they had nine kids together.

Speaker 11 (45:47):
So then, so he remarried, and he was forty four,
he got him an eighteen year old. My grandma, it was.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
A look, listener, it was a different time. It was
a different time. So so he already had nine kids.
Then he remarried and he got him an eighteen year old.
Good lord, she married a guy that had already had
nine kids, all right, So then what happened after he

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married the eighteen.

Speaker 11 (46:16):
Year old and they had sixteen youngins?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Sixteen youngins.

Speaker 11 (46:25):
He passed away a few weeks after number twenty five
of a stroke.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Oh wow, I have four uncles.

Speaker 11 (46:33):
No twins, by the way, I have four uncles named
Huey Dewey Louis.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
And Druey Huey Dewey Louie and Drewey.

Speaker 11 (46:44):
And my grandma Rogers started running out of name, so
some of the young men she started giving their middle
names president's name Doel Roosevelt, and forgot some of the
other ones. Daddy's wasn't a president, all right, that's just
not I share a little personal info with you. There

(47:07):
have a good.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
One, all right. Sixty eight year old Chris, thank you
for that voicemail and condolences again on losing your aunt Vernett,
the last remaining child of the very prolific Grandpa Rogers
twenty five children. Sixty eight year old Chris, There's got

(47:31):
to be more stories to tell. If he already had
nine kids, remarried and had sixteen with wife two, there's
just got to be more stories there. I'm sure there are.
But again, listener, that it was a different time. You

(47:54):
try to don't try to fit that family into our
modern expectations of life. That was just a different time
when dad was He was eighty five when he passed
five years ago. So it's just very, very different than
what you encountered today. In fact, the entire the entirety

(48:18):
of Western civilization is going through a loss of population
where there are less kids being born to countries that
are considered part of Western civilization. I think I think
it's become a really big issue in Japan. I think
in Japan they're having less kids there than ever before.

(48:43):
So maybe we need some people from your family, sixty
eight year old Christ to go repopulate. We need to
find all the people with your Grandpa Rogers DNA and
get them to repopulate the planet, at least the Western
civilization part of the planet. But uh, yeah, I'm very

(49:04):
curious about the marrying an eighteen year old and having
sixteen more kids. Would like to know more about Grandpa
Rogers and just all of his attitudes about life. Just
just did he did he need them to work a
farm or something? Were they all working for him?

Speaker 10 (49:25):
All?

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Right?

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Anyway, if you'd like to leave a voicemail, maybe you'd
like to tell me about your family tree. Two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six is the voicemail number.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
to leave a message for the Uncle Henry show and
the listeners of the show. All right out of time,
Thank you for listening. As they say in Saarland, have

(49:48):
a good one, and as they say in Theodore, take It,
Eves

Speaker 7 (49:55):
All right later