Delivering Powerful Letters

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Henry, I think I got the biggest big tree in
the state Alabama. I know you hold it against me, Henry,
because you think I'm on morning medication where I am
on morning medication. But uh, the point I'm trying to
make is the big tree is growing so big. He's
got so many pigs on it. It was pushing up

(00:31):
against my bedroom winder that I took the screen off
and open up the window. And I'm just letting it.
I'm just letting the fig tree limb just grow up
above my head in the bedroom, above my bed. And
of course it cost me. I have to run the
air conditioner, you know, cause with the window open, you know,

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but I'm gonna have I can just lay in the bed.
When these figs get right, just reach up and get
me a pig you're comes in? Is that wrong? Eh?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Message deleted Prass.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is the Uncle Henry's Show here on news Radio
seventy ten wnt M. Thank you once again for listening
to the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it, bear very much.
I'm very glad to be in the air conditioning today.
I'm glad also to be hosting the program with you

(02:02):
as usual. There's just so much. There's just so much
for you and I to consider, so much for you
and I to try and figure out together. Telephone number
to reach the On Cleander show two five one four
seven nine two seven two three. That's two five to
one four seven nine two seven two three. Hope all

(02:22):
is well with you on this Thursday. So many things
to get to on the show. My goodness, what he
gott in all kind of messages today from listeners and
and uh, all these news items breaking out. Before I
go to the phones and talk about anything else, I
do want to make a correction. Yesterday on the On
Cleaner Show, I gave out false information. I did due

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to me not checking further, and I said there were
only four candidates for mayor of Mobile. I was wrong. Uh,
I was wrong. There are six. It is uh the candidates,
if I can let me try and remember without looking
at their names. I know Connie Hudson is running. She's

(03:05):
one of the qualified candidates. Spiro Cheri Goddess one of
the qualified candidates. Paul Prime one of the qualified candidates,
Barbara Drummond one of the qualified candidates, and the two
that I didn't mention yesterday because I didn't realize they
had qualified, Danetta Eli or Eli, I believe that is

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a candidate that is qualified. And also Marrian dies qualified.
So instead of four, there's six, that's six. And now
I know you may be thinking there's two of the
four that you may Now. I don't want to read
your mind. I'm not a mind reader. I don't have that.
I don't have that ability to read minds. But I'm guessing,

(03:52):
just like the guess are at the fair, I'm guessing
that you're thinking that perhaps two of the four don't
have much of a chance at all of maybe even
getting two hundred votes of each. I'm guess that's my
guess that you're thinking that the two of the two
of the six don't have much of a chance. But

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let's be glad that they're in the race. Let's be
glad that we have six instead of four. And the
reasoning for this is when there's any kind of mayoral forum,
when those two candidates then and I'm not singling out
any specific candidates, but when those two candidates that you're
probably thinking don't have a chance when they're speaking during

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the mayoral forums coming up in the future. That will
give the other four candidates time to formulate better answers. So, yes,
this is good. It's good for everybody to have all
these choices. It is all right. So what you got
on your mind? Two five to one four seven nine
two seven two three. That's two five to one, four
seven nine two seven two three. Already have a caller here,

(04:57):
Hello caller.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
You know, let's me again. Hey, yesterday we were talking
about Star of the driver's License Star. Yes, yeah, as
Snake Trapper said that you didn't have to have a
birth certificate. Well he must have misread it, because they
still say you have to have it, because I looked
on the list and it's still there.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, Well, but how many things are on the list?

Speaker 4 (05:25):
That's one of the key things on the list. It's
one of the lists of four items.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
There's no substitute for it, apparently not.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh yeah, well, there's a passport, and then you have
to have some kind of birthday to say he was
born out of the United States in sub country if
you were born you know, travel or something and something else.
And you can't get a passport without a birthtipate all right.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, then, I I have not looked this up myself
due to my own personal lack of initiative. But I
guess my my advice to you from yesterday we'll have
to carry you over to today.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Then.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think you're gonna if what you're saying is true,
then you're gonna have to go get an official to
help you out with that.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, I've called Tobby Tubberbill and Kaj Britt, and both
of the said they can't do nothing about it. It's
a state thing. The state tells me that they can't
do it. Back because it's a federal thing.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Somebody's lying, all right, Well, keep on calling and keep
and let me know what happens.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I certain I'll let you know if anything changes.
You have a good day now.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hey, you too, Thank you. I wish there was a
better I wish I were smarter about a lot of things,
about this, of course, and many other things going back
many many years. Two five, one, four, seven, nine, two three.
The telephone number here on the Uncle Ember show A
lot to get to. But before I get to any
of that other stuff, any of the tough issues, let

(06:54):
me get to something that I enjoy hearing about this
was phoned in right before the show started.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Today roll tied Row time ro mean roll tide, and
I do believe. Let me check the old calendar here,
four and thirty one makes thirty five and thirty sixty
five days until kickoff against the Florida State Seminoles will
be the University of Alabama Crimson.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Tide sixty five days roll tied Row.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
And if I'm correct on this, my memory hasn't let
me down for seven weeks from today, a season five
weeks from today, or thirty five days from the starting
a fall practice, which is we know technically it's still summer.
And then some in these parts. That's all right, the

(07:47):
young man can handle it. There, nice little surprise, Uncle,
I was me and Arika ran down to the General
Dollar and on her way back she.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Going down there.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
She listened to Billie Eilish, another one I don't necessarily like.
But on the way back she plugged in be My
Little Baby by Ronnie and the run ends. How about
that some of these shows they watch they play that
as background music. One of her favorite shows is at
Young Sheldon, and they play a lot of stuff from

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the sixty seventies and eighties, there's hope yet, I'm a reckoning,
but anyhow, out of here on the front porch, what
a nice day, eighty eight degree with a nice little breeze,
and I've got the stand up circular fan of going
here on the front porch man hair Rod Dice brother.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Sixty eight year old Chris, thank you for the voicemail.
Back with more Uncle Henry's Show after the break here
in Paradise, Uncle Henry's Show. It is five twenty. News

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headlines coming up. News headlines coming up in ten minutes
from Fox ten and from Fox Radio National News. Telephone
number if you'd like to call in on the program
two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
That's two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle

(09:44):
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, don't I don't think
it's been brought up on this show yet, but there's
been a lot of people upset about dredged mud being
dumped in Mobile Bay as part of this ship channel

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deepening and all that stuff, and that there's been a
fight over whether or not the corp of Engineers should
be dumping mud into the Bay in parts of the bay,
a lot of people upset about it. And today I
got a press release emailed to me from Mobile baykeeper.
Let me go into the Uncle Hundrey Show email inbox

(10:28):
to share with you briefly the press release that was
sent to me and the other people in the medium.
The subject line on this press release is Coastal leaders
deliver message to Congress stop the mud dumping in Mobile Bay.
The press release reads as follows, Hi uncle, and I

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appreciate them using my first name, Hi Uncle. On June
twenty five, that would have been yesterday. On June twenty five,
a group of coastal Alabamians made the trip to Washington,
d C. With one message for our elected officials, quit
dumping mud Inmobile Bay. The group included commercial fishermen, charter guides,
waterfront property owners, and Bayo Labatter Mayor Henry Barnes. They

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met face to face with Alabama's congressional delegation to ask
them to put a stop to the corp of engineers
dumping nearly ninety million cubic yards of dredged material directly
into the bay, a practice that's smothering oyster reefs, killing
off seagrass and threatening the future of fishing and coastal
life as we know it. And they also delivered now

(11:39):
let me start the sentence over. I want to give
it to you verbatim. That means that I'm going to
say each word as is typed in here. They also
hand delivered a powerful letter signed by forty leaders, organizations
and local businesses across Alabama. Now, before I reveal to

(12:04):
you that some of the people that are on the
letter a powerful letter, now, are letters really the only
powerful letters? I'm trying to think of powerful letters I've received.
They've usually been from people wanting money or from government entities.
They're usually like, hey, we were denying your health care

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for this. Those are the kind of powerful letters that
I don't know if this is powerful, But no offense
debate keeper on this. Now they say the letter was
signed by Representatives Chip Brown and Matt Simpson in Baldwin County,
Mayor Craft of Gulf Shores, Mayor le June of Daphney,
a marine scientist, all of Alabama's commercial seafood organizations, and

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it goes down a list of other people. So anyway,
so that all of that that message was taken and
they said the letter was given directly to Senators Katie Britton,
Tommy Tumberville and representatives Figures and Barry Moore, and they
are asking them to stop the mud dumping. Now, I
just want to hit you with a different angle to this,

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a different angle. I got a voicemail from longtime caller
Bauford who says that he talked to his own expert
on this, and his expert is at an old shrimper
and an old multi generational shrimper. So here is what

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Buford reports on mud dumping in the bay.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
An Henry, I got some inside info on the dridging
operation in Mobile Bay. You know how they throwing all
that mud in the water and they complaining that it's
mudding up the water and all that. Henry ran into
a multpai generational stripper from Parkway, stopped in the gas

(14:02):
station down here on VIP to get my afternoon beverage,
and Henry talking to him about the muddy situations in
the bay and the river and it is not affected
by that dredgion at all.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Now, wait, does this guy know about the letter? Has
he Beufford need to tell this guy if he's telling
you that it's not from the mud dredging. The dredge
and mud he needs. The letter is powerful, Fred tell
him that there is a powerful letter.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
Affected by that dredgion at all. No, sir, Henry, according
to this multi generational shrimper who was born and raised
on Mobile Bay shrimping, they are diverting water from the
Mississippi River out into our fieldway and that is where
all that MUD's coming from. Anyway, Henry, he just said,

(14:58):
all the hoopla over that dredgond project is just that
a bunch of hoopla.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Did he use the word hoopla.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
But he is assault of the IRG type and says
what he means. He did not use the word hoopla.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
He is something else.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Radio.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Well, I thank you. I appreciate that all right. Now
that if you've been looking for a euphemism for some
words you're not supposed to say on the radio or
on television or I don't know what you're on, TikTok
or whatever you might be on, maybe the Ring, the Ring,
Doorbell Camera Network or whatever you're on. If you're looking

(15:36):
for a euphemism, Viewford is giving it to us. Hooplaw.
So hoopla would be a euphemism for a word you're
not supposed to say on uh in in public.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
But I'm just cleaning it up for radio.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
But anyway, Henryson, because I was asking him where the
blue crabs went, because I ain't caught a one several days.
And according to this here most tad generational shipper, Henry,
they are buried themselves in the mud. Dude, to all
this fresh water from all this rain we've gotten. Anyway, Henry,

(16:09):
I tell you what you want to know, what's going
on in that water, in that bay, in this river,
you talk to a man that makes his living off
of it, he'll shoot you straight. Anyway, Henry, you have
a good day.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Pufford, thank you very much for your voicemail voicemarel number
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now, Beifford,
you said that to know what's going on in the bay,
I should talk to somebody that makes their living off
of it. Now, this powerful letter was was signed by

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oyster farmers, charter captains, charter guides, commercial fishermen. So they're
there now. The powerful letter that was delivered to the
Congress people up there and the Senators. It also had
people that so there's I guess there's a difference of
opinion between the grizzled multi generational shrimper versus the other

(17:08):
people on the powerful letter. So maybe Beiefford. Maybe you
should next time you run into this guy at the
filling station, ask him about the letter. Ask him if
he's read the letter, if he's going to any of
these meetings, or maybe he's talking about different mud. Maybe
there's a variety of mud issues in the bay. By

(17:33):
the way, if I ever get laid off from this job,
I might like to have the job of delivering powerful
letters like that. I'm going to be kind of fun,
like publishers clearinghouse or something. Uncle Henry's show. There's Radio

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nine two seven two three the telephone number Hello Color.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
Hey Henry, Jimmy the Economist.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Jimmy the Economist, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 7 (19:13):
Well, thank you for having me. I'm actually based upon
where I live. I'm more interested in the mayor's race
and Robersdale. But I did hear some news other day
from mobile may oral race, yes, which the mister may
want to discount everything I say, because I really think
Stimpson is a Democrat. But I heard there were many

(19:37):
Democrats that all withdrew right before the deadline. And then
there was a meeting with Barbara drumming downtown maybe a
day or so ago. Yes, And it was in us
versus them type of thing. You know, we need to
be together in order to defeat the other side, which

(20:02):
I took is a you know, US African Americans versus
them being the whites. I mean, I suggest it was
a racial direction of her meeting and comments. And that's
one of the reasons I'm glad I don't live in Mobile.
I don't have to deal without us versus them where
I live, thank the Lord. But I don't live in

(20:25):
any city. I'm in the county over here, So I
just hate to see it. I'm not stupid because the
fact that it happens in other cities like probably Jackson, Mississippi,
and Savannah, Georgia, and Atlanta, and you know, it's the South.
That's what the South is, That's what it has become,

(20:46):
at least in the larger populations. I just am sick
of it. It's been to us versus them since pre
Civil War, and I'm freaking worn out and watching and
hearing about these people in Mobile want to be leaders
still pulling that same thing, us versus them. It's just sick.

(21:12):
And maybe I'm reading it wrong. Like I said, I
prefaced this saying that I think Stimpson's a Democrat. Okay,
I really do, because he spends money just as good
as a Democrat other people's money.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
All right, Well, now Barbara Drummond did make She told
can I would you like to hear her quote she
gave to Lanyap about the US versus them stuff.

Speaker 7 (21:33):
I really yeah, I want to hear about it, but
I don't really know anything about the lady.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
All right, Well, she said to lan Yap, quote, what
you saw here this morning wasn't It wasn't about race.
It was about bringing our community together. Uh so she's
she's claiming it's not about race, it's about bringing the
community together.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
She at the same time admitted that there were a
couple of people that dropped out because of the way
the math works best for the black population is that
they do drop out and they all band together in
order to win.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know that
she said that, but that is certainly probably a consideration.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
I mean, she wants to have it both ways. And
it's still.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
Ah.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
I guess I'm calling to tell you I'm glad I
don't have to deal with that. So have a wonderful tech.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
All right, Thank you, Jimmy, thank you very much for
your phone call. I appreciate, appreciate your phone call very much.
Two five to one, four seven nine, two seven two three.
The telephone number that's two five one four seven nine
two seventy two three. As we go through the next
couple of months, July and most of August, we'll be
able to hear the views of all these candidates, and

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you'll be able to you, the listener, will be able
to discern if you agree with the Jimmy's assessment or
not of how that is all going to work again.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
the telephone number here on the Uncle Henry show. Uh,
let's see, I got it on a completely different topic.

(23:18):
Let me go to caller RT because I'm also upset
about what he's calling in about.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Hey, good afternoon, Uncle Henry. This is RT.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Hey, it's summertime. Yeah, and it's getting high outside.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
And the news media is doing it again. They do
this year after year, and it upsets me. But these
TV mediorologists, these weather people and these experts are going
on and on and on about this is like it's

(23:58):
the first time it's ever gotten hot, and that millions
of people or lives are in danger.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, And let's and I'm sorry to pause you. But
let's all remember that heat can be very bad, of course,
but far more people dine from cold, Far more people
dine from cold than heat.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Uncle Henry, it this is in the first time has
been real hot. Freak gets hot every year. Yes, I've
worked along the golf coast, mostly construction work, working like

(24:40):
an athlete, going back forty years. It's no hotter today
than it was forty years ago. Our news media loves
to do this calendar date stuff in these almanacs, but

(25:03):
that doesn't tell the whole story. They're politicizing the weather
fi entry, Yes, and I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yes, a lot on't either.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
I have no problem with TV weather personality telling me
it's hot outside, right. I remember I worked on the
hottest day of the entire mobile history twenty years ago,
approximately in August, when it was one hundred and seven degrees,

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and that was twenty years ago. I remember thirty and
forty years ago in mid to late May, when the
actual air temperature would break one hundred degrees, and that
was thirty to forty years ago in May. Yes, so
they pick a few days out of June and try

(25:57):
to scare everybody to death and then they'll go into
a climate change story after the weather. Right, this is.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Nothing but propaganda, right, motivating through fear.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Yes, there is really no different than it has been
my entire life. And I have over forty years in
the workforce outside. I know all about it. I know
all about the heat, and I know all about the cold.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
All right, wait, Artief, thank you very much, thank you
for calling in about I'm with you on this. In fact,
I've noticed that have you noticed that the weather maps
that weather people are using on television now they now
like to show the map in the color red. Now,

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years ago, the map color didn't change from season to season.
It was just a map. Now, oh, now the map's
got to get red. It's got to get red. We
got all these computer graphics, and we can make it
look like the entire We can make it look like
North America is on fire itself on the weather map.

(27:14):
And I've also noticed rt a lot of the TV
stations they would rather tell you the heat index number
before they tell you the temperature. And the reason is
the heat index number is always higher, and that's more exciting.

(27:37):
There's more Uncle Henry Show to come after the break
here on News Radio seven to ten WNTM Uncle Henry's show.

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It is five fifty new shed lines coming up in
ten minutes. Telephone number two five one, four, seven, nine,
two seventy two three, Hello.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Color, Hey over Hendry.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
How you doing Snake Trapper? Snake trappor you are live
on the radio.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Hey on, Henry. If anybody out there in radio land
wants to support or listen to a good old hometown
music over Henry. Yes, our great friend Spencer Smith and
their bands we'll be playing tomorrow night out at the
Sticky Rooster, Uncle Henry. So I'd encourage everybody that wants
to listen to some good old hometown music man, come

(28:40):
on out and tell them a visit. Man, I'm on.
They start kind of late, about nine o'clock. You know,
I see nine o'clock.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Did you are you? Is that true nine.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
O'clock, jessir, I'm gonna probably get there a little bit earlier.
I could sit and chat with them. I'm personal friends
with several of the band members. Two of them, Tommy
and Richard, actually do our safety meets that I work,
so uh and you know our good friend smiths Encor
Smith is also in the band and h.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Now the band now waiting now, snake, They'll slow down
here these these The band is called Skyline.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
Soul, Yes, sir, Skyline Soul on Henry Day right here
located the mobile. They play all the Marti grals. Uh,
just a good old Their music genre is classic rock
and blues. Just some good old music on'tle Henry Now?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now, is is that a real name? The sticky Rooster?
You mentioned something called? Is that a real name of
a place?

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yes, it's a little club. And actually it's a smoke
free club, which is one thing I think I'm gonna
find nice about it on here. I can't stand all
that cigarette smoke. But yes, ir, it's right there at
Nevis Road and Highway ninety, which Navis Road is what
Range Line turns into once it crosses Highway ninety.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
All right, so you are gonna go talk to the.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Band out, check them out?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right? So that is tomorrow night, and it is uh,
it's gonna be that late. It's gonna be around nine.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yes, I think the band actually go live about nine,
but I'm gonna try to get there a little bit earlier.
Why I could actually chat with some of my friends. Man,
So anybody out there want to stop in, stop in
and say, hey man, they'd love to see you out there.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
All right, So that is tomorrow evening at a place
called the Sticky And that's a real name.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
That's a real name, Uncle hen I would tell you
what it's right down the road from, but you probably
wouldn't even believe it.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
All right, Well, well then then don't tell me all right? Well,
uh skyline soul. They Spencer Smith and Avery Smith are
big fans of the Uncle Henry show, so I wish
them well, hope to have a big crowd out there.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Wonderful people, Uncle Henry. Everybody in that man, at least
the ones I know, are just wonderful people. And you
know it's worth, it's worth to listen over so anybody
got nothing to do, come check them out.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Snake Trapper, Thank you, Thank you, Ogle Hendry. There he
goes Snake Trapper and you the listener. That's perhaps an
opportunity to go get a Snake Trapper autograph or something.
Tomorrow evening at the Sticky Rooster.

Speaker 9 (31:20):
Hello color, Hey, Uncle Henry LD the Mad Trucker, are
you you know? I think the Snake Trapper if he's going,
if he's gonna give out places to go to. He
needs to give an address, because I think a lot
of people going to end up at the candy store
out there in Theodore. But that's not why I call it. Okay,
did you did you hear the heat advisory?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
I did not.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
First First it.

Speaker 9 (31:42):
Was protect the elderly and your your dogs and your pets.
Now it's the obese and the overbeast.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Now I have not has not been said.

Speaker 9 (31:52):
I've heard that today, and I just wear your wife
and your mother, how are they doing?

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Because they're doing good, because they're normal, of course. Oh
and he hung up. All right, Well that's too bad,
he hung up. Well, why l D? Maybe the phone
disconnector maybe LD could call back in. Why why would
you mention my wife and my mother in relation to
the heat wave and protecting the overbeasts and the the

(32:21):
the what I don't know what overbeasts and super beasts
and over beasts. I don't know. You know, I'm wondering
about this, this fascination with weight. L D is a
very a very fit, very fit man, very thin man.
I wonder if there's something in his family's history that

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makes this sensitive, this a sensitive topic that he would
focus on. I don't know, maybe you the listener can
be an amateur psychologist and help me figure out what
is going on with LD because it's either a psychological
issue or it does demonic possession, monic possession where he
might need to have that exercise out of it. All right,

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just about out of time here on the Unk Lanry Show.
A reminder we've got more show coming up after the
News after six o'clock. Also, you can hear me tomorrow
on ninety five KSJ from ten to two playing Today's
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we've got a Saint Jude concert coming up. Ksj's got

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a Saint Jude concert raising money for Saint Jude coming
up July eight. It's going to be July eighth at
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I think they've had three or four number one hits
on country music radio. They're coming to the Florabama to
do this special Saint Jude concert. So all the money,

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all the tickets sale money is going to go to
Saint Jude. If you're interested in that that concert and
then helping that cause, you can go to Florabama dot
com and get your tickets more Uncle Henry Show. After
the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show here on

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news radio seven to ten WNTIM. Thank you so much
for listening to the Uncle Andrew Show. Now I've got
some charity people in here, some people in here from
a nonprofit doing good work. And this is the first time, ladies,
this is the first time I've ever had people in
from a charitable event that the event is already sold
out and we're still going to be talking about it.

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So first, Tammy Norris and Shelley Bell, you're both with
Be the Change Golf Coast. Welcome, Thank you so much.
Now Be the Change Golf Coast. What is be the Change?

Speaker 8 (35:08):
So Be the Change Golf Coast comes from the concept
of micro donations and micro assistance.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
It is.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
It comes from the concept people will donate the change
out of the bottom of their purse, They'll donate the
change out of the cup holder of their car. And
knowing that I believe that if the community knew that
those small amounts of donations could help someone who is
struggling in our community, that they would donate that they

(35:38):
would absolutely So we try to get people to donate
at least two dollars a month. People say give until
it hurts. I don't want it to hurt. I want
it to be as effortless as two dollars, five dollars.
Whatever is easy for somebody. I have people that donate
fifty dollars a month, but that's easy for them. So

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whatever it is, that's easy, okay.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
And then you use it for.

Speaker 8 (36:04):
What So we use it. We collect the money. We
partner with community providers out there like Penelope House and
Door to Serenity, and we're not partnered yet with Salvation Army,
but there's a couple out there that we're still gonna
get a hold of and we partner with them. And

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they have clients that come in and say that they
need they have a need for one hundred dollars or less.
So that's the micro assistance, okay. So we've helped with
We have helped with gas for somebody's car, brand new
job on a single mother get a brand new job.
She doesn't have gas to get back and forth to

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work until her first paycheck comes in. So we give
her a couple of tanks of gas so that she
can get back and forth to work. I have assisted
with someone who was broke down in the middle of
the road. If she could just get her car towed
to her daddy's house. He would fix that car for
her and we paid for the tow truck. So there

(37:09):
are instances out there where the working port you don't
have to be. You know, the majority of what we
do is kind of for the homeless population or the
addicted population, or people that are in facilities, but we
help the working poor as well.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Okay, we're going to talk more about your work. And
if somebody listening right now interested in be the Change
Golf Coast, what would be best? Should they go to Facebook?
Is there a website where should they go?

Speaker 8 (37:32):
Be the Changegolf Coast dot com. And there is a
donate button right.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
There, be the Change Golf Coast dot Com. We're going
to come back to that, but you've got an event
coming up Monday that we're really not going to push
the event because the event is blessedly sold out. Congratulations
on your cellinge.

Speaker 8 (37:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Now tell us about your event. I know it's at
Greer's Saint Louis Market on the roof, which people love
going there. What is the event it's a wine tasting.

Speaker 10 (38:00):
Yes, sir, is a wine tasting. There will be three
it's three pairings that will be served, and it's just
the opportunity for us to get there and you know,
share the word.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
You know.

Speaker 10 (38:10):
So there's people that have sponsored the event as well
as you know, the guests are coming. So we just
want to have a great time at Griers.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, congratulations on being sold out already for the event.
Tell the radio listener about the sponsors of this event
because they deserve a little shout out because they're they're
stepping in and trying to help help you help a
lot more people.

Speaker 10 (38:33):
Yes, sir, they have, and it's been a great year
for this and we've got several sponsors.

Speaker 8 (38:38):
We have d R.

Speaker 10 (38:38):
Horton that is our title sponsor. We have Vice Construction Company,
we have Ditchwitch of Alabama, and we have Remax Partners.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Now Ditchwitch is not Sandwiches, Ryan, it is okay, So
d R. Horton, Remax, Vice Construction, and Ditchwitch of Alabama.
Thank you to all this mony.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
Thank thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Now we're now are you excited that you sold this
thing out?

Speaker 10 (39:04):
Oh, yes, sir, we are. We are so excited. We
had it sold out within three weeks of it.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
Was actually about eleven days.

Speaker 10 (39:11):
Yes, so eleven days we sold it out. And it's
on a smaller scale this year because we are people. Yeah,
it's one hundred that we are accommodating this year. So
we're going to do upstairs on the rooftop and downstairs
at careers.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Okay, so you're both you both are are working and
are a part of Be the Change Golf Coast and Shelley,
you're the founder of Be the Change Golf Coast. Yes, sir,
talk to the listener and me about why why this?
Because there are so many there are so many great efforts.
I know you see them all going on a mobile
on the golf Coast. Why did you feel the need

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to do this?

Speaker 8 (39:48):
Because there were I was part of the system as
a single mother had you know, I live paycheck to
paycheck for an extended period of time, and there were
times that one hundred dollars could have helped me personally.
And it is we fill in gaps where there are
no other people to do the things that we do.

(40:12):
We're not going to double down on if they need clothing,
there's our sister's closet. If they need food items, there
are churches and there are pantries that can help them
with those things. But where else are you going to
get a tire for your car? Where else are you
going to get the price of a tow truck to

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tow your car home. So there was a gap in
there and we wanted to fill that.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Now, how long it has been the change Gulf Coast existed.

Speaker 8 (40:42):
We started I started it in twenty twenty and then
because of some personal things going on, I had to
put it on hold for about a year and a
half or so. So we are just really kind of
getting up and running in the last year or so.
So we're trying to get the word out there and
let people know that we exist.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Bet this is for you. It has to have been
a tremendous learning experience, right.

Speaker 8 (41:07):
It has been absolutely. I had no experience in doing
this or putting an organization together.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
So and you told us, I think at the beginning
of this conversation, you find the people that need help
through some of these partner agencies.

Speaker 8 (41:22):
That's correct. We don't give the individual money directly, we
don't we help individuals, but they have to come through
a partnering facility.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Okay, well that helps you kind of in the vetting
process as well.

Speaker 8 (41:37):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Okay, So you've got this event sold out coming up
Monday at Greer Saint Louis Market. Do you have any
other future fundraisers coming up?

Speaker 10 (41:45):
We actually do. We're going to be doing another untasting
in probably late fall, so it'll be up and coming,
and so we're looking forward to it. So we're already
planning getting it ready for the next one.

Speaker 8 (41:56):
Kell and I on the website.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Okay, all right, well I know this is if this
first one sold out so quickly, I think you're I
think a lot of charities probably wish they had thought
of doing the exact same thing, going to the rooftop
of Griers and doing a wine tasting.

Speaker 10 (42:12):
Yes, they have been great. Garrett and Shelby have been
amazing and helping us with everything.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
So there are and are there rooms you've talked about
people given as little as two dollars a month. I'm
sure there's room also for bigger donations if if somebody
wants to be a big sponsor link d R Horton
or Remax or ditch Witch.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
Absolutely absolutely, the two dollars a month is effortless for
those that don't have a lot but they want to give.
But like I said, I have donors that are fifty
dollars a month or ten dollars a month, or if
they just want to do a one time donation, there's
a button for that on the website as well.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
All right, Well, Shelley Bell, Tammy Norris out of time
here in this segment of the show. Thank you for
coming in and talking about be the Change.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
Well, thank you, thank so much for having for having us.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
You the listener. It's be the Change, Go Cooast dot com.
That's Bethechange Gulf Coast dot com and you can also
find them on Facebook. Back with more after the break,

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it says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on News Radio
seven ten WNTM. News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
If you can just endure this segment of show, you
will be rewarded with information news headlines before we get
to that. Yesterday, during this segment of The Uncle Henry Show,

(43:43):
I was sharing a voicemail from somebody that agreed with me.
Thank the Lord. I'd mentioned that I thought one way
to cut down on young people shooting each other in
the street. One way would be to make sure that
in middle school that there is a mandatory, yes, a
mandatory field trip where you take the kids to the

(44:06):
jail and just let them walk through there while there
are prisoners there. You don't go through an empty jail,
you don't go through a cleaned up jail. You don't
look at pictures of a jail or video from a jail.
You go in person to a jail and you walk
through there and you see let them see what it's
like once you get caught or doing something wrong and

(44:29):
you go to jail. Now, I've had people tell me,
as I mentioned yesterday, I've had people tell me that
wouldn't work because jail is now. Some young people see
this a status symbol of all things to have been
to jailing back. But I think for a young impressionable mind,
if you were to show them what is the consequence
if you break the law, this is what your day

(44:51):
to day life would be like. If you got this
scent to jail, I think that would change. I think
it would make a big impact on young people, because
even if you're only in that jail for a little while,
I don't know if you've ever been or looked, but
it's extremely unpleasant to be in there. Now. I'm bringing
that up again because there was a news story on

(45:12):
Fox ten last night about how our Mobile County Metro
jail already is full and they're taking in more than
a dozen inmates from another jail in Alabama. Let's listen together.
I got the story here here is. I believe Camering
Taylor of Fox ten leading us into this story, and

(45:35):
I believe that'll be reported by Shelby Myers of more.
They're gonna shove some more inmates in there.

Speaker 11 (45:41):
Have an overpopulated Mobile County Metro Jail now getting a
few more inmates. It's after the jail in Macon County
shut down. R Shelby Myers finding out how many of
those inmates Metro is taking in and Shelby, what did
you learn?

Speaker 12 (45:53):
Well, Cameron and I spoke with a Metro jail warden
who says they've taken in about seventeen inmates from Macon County,
which doesn't sound like a huge number, but the warden
says Metro is already overpopulated in the east central part
of Alabama. The Macon County jail is forced to shut
its doors and ship out its forty two inmates. Sheriff

(46:15):
Andre Brunson there says the jail is uninhabitable and a
major part of that is lock and security issues. As
for the forty two inmates, some have gone to Shelby
County and about seventeen are here at Mobile Metro Jail.

Speaker 13 (46:29):
The individuals who come from Making County, those charges rang
from a murder to receive instolen property and we can
accommodate in terms of holes and those individuals again because
we deal with it every day.

Speaker 12 (46:41):
Pat Mitchell, warden at Metro, says they started housing some
of the inmates last month.

Speaker 13 (46:46):
Typically the sheriffs throughout the state. They have a mutual
agreement with each other to assist when the time of need,
if their facilities are in repair or what have you.

Speaker 12 (46:56):
Mitchell says Macon County will send funding for its inmates,
but it is adding to an already overpopulated jail at
just more than.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Fild I'm sorry, already overpopulated. Now this would be the
perfect time for the field trip. I know school is
not in session and the people at the jail would
probably hate the idea, but it'd be bad enough to
go through a jail that is normally populated, but taking
them through when it's overpopulated. That might cut down on

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somebody wanting to commit a crime when they see what
it's like.

Speaker 12 (47:31):
In there funding for its inmates, but it is adding
to an already overpopulated jail. At just more than fifteen
hundred inmates, Mitchell says, things are a little crowded.

Speaker 13 (47:43):
We certainly can handle the number that we have. We're
beyond our capacity, obviously, but we may do. We have
the personnel to accommodate the needs. Could we use more room, absolutely,
but we will nevertheless assist other agencies when they call
upon us.

Speaker 12 (48:00):
So I asked that question, what about making more room
for those inmates? And Mitchell says Sheriff Paul Burge is
in talks with LOGO and state leaders on finding an
alternative making more room for inmates in some capacity, but
there's no concrete plans on what that might look like
just yet. As for the Macon County Jail, there's also
no timetable on when it will be repaired. In the

(48:23):
studio Shelby Myers, Foxen.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
News, Okay, all right, maybe it's time to build some
type of satellite jail. Yes, some additional jail. Maybe we
could build a mobile County satellite jail. Put it somewhere.
Let's see eight mile, the eight mile area. No offense
to eight mile. I'm just trying to think of where

(48:44):
would be. It doesn't make any sense for me to
have the jail where it is. Anyway I'd put it
because when when mobilians want to go visit mommy or
daddy in jail, they don't have to drive all the
way down to the waterfront. It should be more centrally located. See,
you can visit mommy or daddy so or your or
your or your boyfriend or your girlfriend. I don't know

(49:08):
what's up in your life, and I don't want to
get into your business. I'm just saying, so maybe somewhere
eight mile, eight mile Aria. I think there's a lot
of room out there. Anyway. Out of time, I've run
out of time for the Uncle Hendary Show. Blessedly for
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(49:30):
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Thank you for listening to the Uncle Hendry Show. I
appreciate it very very much. As they say in Sarahland,
have a good one, and as they say in Theodore,

(49:54):
take it easy

Speaker 2 (49:59):
All right later ya