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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It Saysney Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you. I appreciate very much you listening
to it and to me. Now this half hour of show,
I'm going to get some voicemail from listeners and also
some news items that I have missed. You might have
missed these news items too. Let's start with a voicemail
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voicemail number if you want to leave a message for
me and the Uncle Henry Show. Listeners, The voicemail numbers
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.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
In a recent show, sometime in the past few weeks,
I think I remember talking about how I feel like
Dulphin Island Parkway has been unfortunately ignored by the city's
fathers and mothers for many many years. Now, I know
that there are a lot of projects now going on
on the parkway in the last few years, in the
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last couple of terms of Mayor Stimpson, I think there
have been some things planned for the western shore of
Mobile Bay and Dlphin Island Parkway. But before that I
just feel like dip has been has not getting the
attention it deserved. I just think that it's such a
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beautiful part of Mobile that we have not maximized the
potential of. Now that said Beuford, I think Beauford degrees
with me. So let's listen. Here's a message from long
time uncle Henry, show listener and Beauford about the Parkway.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And Henry, I mentioned before I was born and raised
on the Parkway, moved out of the Parkway down to
the fire area for about ten fifteen years, then moved
back to the Parkway.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Now that's how you know. And I'm sorry to pause you, Beuford,
but that's how you know somebody loves the parkway. If
you leave the parkway and then you fifteen years later
you return to the Parkway, that's how you know. Now,
wasn't that Wasn't that a part of the Barber drumming
mayoral campaign where she talked about how her heart was
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on the parkway, that she loves the parkway. Anyway, back
to the message, Beuford loves the parkway so much, you
moved back. He moved back onto the Parkway.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But Henry, I call him to say that. I do
believe there is a renaissance along the parkway. Yeah, there's
been a lot more attention pay to the parkway by
the City of Mobile. I believe CJ. Smalls as the councilman,
he's done a fairly good job of paying attention to
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the parkway.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But yes, and I'm pausing to say yes, I've noticed
this CJ. Small really working with the previous Mayor Stempson's
administration to try and get more more love to the parkway,
and I think he's succeeded, Henry.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't know how I feel about it, Henry, Why, Henry,
the parkway has got I believe the most beautiful property
in Mobile County.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I don't know about the most, but it's very nice.
It's very nice.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And what kept that property affordable for normal working folk
was the rough exterior of the parkway, the fact you
had to pass numerous crackheads and meth heads going down
the ip, especially as you're heading south from I Ten.
It tended to scare off most of your wealthy But Henry,
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I'm starting to see a lot of your hipster types
riding bicycles.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And doing kayaking and canoeing activities.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
All Right, now, I said, well, then that's then it's
gonna happen. You're right, the renaissance is going to occur. Then,
if you've got the hipsters, these young, upwardly mobile people
that want to have a place to put a kayak
in and ride their little bicycle and play Hacky Sack
and stuff like that, and braid their hair together and
whatever it is these hipsters are doing, it's going to happen.
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Then if that's what, if you're seeing this, then it's
already gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It tended to scare off most of your wealthy, but Hanray,
I'm starting to see a lot of your hipster types
riding bicycles and.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Doing kayaking and canoeing activities. And Hanray, I'm afraid that
with the renaissance of the Parkway, they're gonna knock the
edge off the Parkway and the rich will be more
We'll be more comfortable gobbling up property and.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Coming in and ruining. But Henry, the only reason I
get to live on probably most beautiful parts of the
Parkway an alligator by you. And I've got sunsets every
day that looked like they were painted by the hand
of God himself.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
May I know what you mean. We're blest on the
Gulf coast to have those beautiful sunsets, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Sons every day that looked like they were painted by
the hand of God himself. Was that everyone that went
to look at that house was scared of death. They
would be robbed by the time they got there, right,
So the seller had to drop it down to one
hundred thousand dollars lower than what he was asking and
put it in my affordability range. But anyway, Henry, I
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do like the attention on the Parkway, but not too
much attention. And anyway, Henry, the Parkway is a strange
and unusual place at times. Anyway, Henry, just thought you
have a good day.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Thank you. This is I appreciate you bringing this up.
The voice found number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six
nineteen seventy six. I was invited to a gathering on
the western shore of the Bay very neat. It was
near the close to the Buccaneer Yacht Club. And my
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wife and I driving down the Parkway and we were
having these conversations about you know, this is such a
beautiful area. It's too bad we have to drive past
crackheads and meth heads, and that we would be worried,
and some some areas of the parkway we'd be worried.
If the car broke down or something, we'd have to
get out all of our weaponry and defend ourselves and
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all this kind of stuff, And just kept thinking about
I wonder, I wonder why the City of Mobile has
not tried to exploit There's a lot of beauty to
exploit down there. All that you talked about, the sunsets
that looked like the hand of God painted them. There's
a lot. There's a lot of things down there that
could be exploited, generate a lot more tax revenue down
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there if they could figure some stuff out. And I
was I was starting to try to come up with
some ideas of my own, just to throw them out there.
But now now that I've heard from you that you're
worried about the renaissan un you're worried about the property
value skyrocketing and all this kind of stuff and all
the beauty being becoming unaffordable, then Bufford, I will stop
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that train of thought of my mind. I will no
longer think of ways to try and help out the
parkway because it's already getting helped out apparently. Oh, almost
out of time for this segment, all right, going to
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iHeartRadio app Let's take the break, take the dead gun break,
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Happy Thanksgiving from me Uncle Henry here on the Uncle
Henry Show. News headlines coming up in ten minutes. If
you can make it through this segment, you'll eventually be
rewarded with news headlines. I do want to mention to
you to be careful if you have to be out
and about driving around tonight. Be careful because this is
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one of the top drinking nights of the year. They
call it Drinksgiving or blackout Wednesday. Just statistically, this turns
out to be one of the heaviest drinking nights of
the year. And it kind of makes sense because people
a lot of people travel back to where they came
from and they see friends and family that hadn't seen
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in months or in years, and they want to have
a roboratory drank or two or five, and then things
get out of hand and it gets dangerous. Should just
be very careful if you have to be out and abound,
And if you want of those drinkers that just can't
control yourself, get a designated driver or something like that,
or lock yourself in a room like a were wolf.
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And by the way, that's what the were wolf. That's
what the wolf man used to do. He knew he
was going to turn into a wolf. He didn't want
to hurt anybody, so he would he'd try to lock
himself away. But anyway, news items, I want to get
to a news item or two that I don't know about.
Here is a story that might interest somebody, like the
Snake Trapper, one of our regular callers. This is about
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another invasive species coming into the country. A fish originally
from the Amazon in South America is heading into Florida.
Here is Fox News with more on this fish.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Armored catfish taking over underwater.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They're everywhere, they are everywhere that right, Wait, did he
say armored catfish? Armored? All right, I've got I'm starting
it over again.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Here's the story once again, armored catfish taking over underwater.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They're everywhere, they are everywhere.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
That man comparing the situation evolving the invasive species that
thrive in slow moving waterways like lakes, sent neighborhood ponds
to the problem in the Florida Everglades posed by the
Burmese pythons. In this case, the armored catfish create erosion
when they burrow and dig holes into the shore turns
basically the bank and the Swiss cheese. The species also
harassed the blood manates by latching onto them with their mouse.
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The goal remove them from the ecosystem by catching them.
And you can cook and eat them too.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I heard they're good to eat.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
The Florida Conservation Commission suggests cooking them in the shell
and the white, flicky meat will fall out.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
CJ.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Popa, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, an armored catfish that rows into the bank. Okay,
this this is going to be a problem, all right, Well,
but I have faith in humanity being able to handle
this problem. If they are tasty, if you just heard
that you can eat them, and if they taste good, well,
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then mankind is going to settle this. Yeah, well we'll
figure this out. Well, it's bad when there's an invasive
species that it's we don't really have a taste for,
and then it's kind of a chore. But if it
tastes good, we tend to do good with those kind
of problems, don't we. You can tell by looking at
most of the country. All right, let's see what else
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is there? Another story? Oh, speaking of today being a
drinks giving or blackout Wednesday with a lot of people drinking,
Fox News has a report saying that younger people Generation Z,
instead of getting drunk for drinks giving or blackout Wednesday,
a lot lot of them may be drinking marijuana drinks.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
If you've got people coming over for dinner, instead of
stocking up on butt heavy or Shardonay, you may want
to grab something called THHC sodas, gummies or candies. And
it's a popular trend. As MPR points out, it says
these drinks first appeared on the counters at gas stations
and corner shops. Now they've gone mainstream. There are places
like Total Wine Target even stocking them at stores in Minnesota.
The rise in THHC products comes as more Americans turn
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away from alcohol altogether, many people citing costs and health
risk as the reason for putting down their drink.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Cost and health risk of alcohol.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
But it's not like people are going totally sober either.
There's a new trend emerging. It's called California Sober. It
basically means people rely on cannabis to curb their drinking habits.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
All right, So can't what you're switching one thing for another?
All right? Well that's look, you're still You're still on something.
So don't think you're doing something great for yourself. You're
still on something. All right, real quick, almost out of time.
Before I'm out of time, Let's have some Thanksgiving with
President Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Thank you, Paton, Good morning everyone.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The Statue of Liberty and there's wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving
go together naturally, because although as Americans we have many
things for which to be thankful, none is more important
than our liberty. Liberty, liberty, liberty, quality of government, that
brightness of mind and spirit for which the pilgrim fathers
brave the seas, and Americans through two centuries have laid
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down their lives. Today, while religion is suppressed and perhaps
one third of the world. We Americans are free to
worship the Almighty as we choose, while entire nations must
endure the yoke of tyranny. We are free to speak
our minds, to enjoy an unfettered and vigorous press, and
to make government abide but the limits we deem. Just
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while millions live behind walls, we remain free to travel
throughout the lanfe and to share this precious day with
those we love most deeply, the members of our families.
My fellow Americans, let us keep this Thanksgiving Day sacred.
Let us thank God for the bounty and goodness of
our nation, and as a measure of our gratitude, let
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us rededicate ourselves to the preservation of this the Land
of the Free and the home of the brave. From
the Reagan Family to your family, Happy Thanksgiving and God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
All, and happy Thanksgiving again to you and your family.
Thank you for listening. As they say in Sara Land,
have a good one, And as they say in Theodore,
take it ease.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right. Later,