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October 27, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seventy ten WNTM, and I thank you for listening to
the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it very very much,
I really do. I did some financial calculations over the weekend,
and for me to retire, I'm gonna just I'm gonna

(00:37):
need to work for at least another forty think about
forty two more years. So if you could just if
you could just keep listening, or at least tell people
that you do, I would really appreciate that. Now this
half hour of show, yes, I'm gonna get to some
news items, some voicemail all that. Who knows what else. Now,

(01:05):
I want to start with a news item. This is
not breaking news, this is not news that is going
to affect our lives. But I just want to I
want to focus on this, just very briefly. It's an obituary.
And the reason I want to focus on this because
it it really shows me how much our culture has
changed over the decades in this country. I know you've

(01:27):
noticed too. Our culture is very very different from what
it used to be. Now, we had an actress pass
away recently at age one hundred. Let's listen together to
the obituary provided by Fox News for actress June Lockhart.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
June Lockhart has passed away at one hundred. She had
roles in some iconic films, but was best known to
millions as Ruth Martin. I'm Lassie from nineteen fifty eight
to nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Timmy, you mustn't take it so much to heart.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
The important thing is that you try, son. We're proud
of you.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Winning the prize isn't the important part.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
It's entering the competition, just.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
As you did.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And all right now now I'm pausing the obituary, yes,
because think about think about Lassie. Are you old enough
to remember Lassie?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
This was you just heard. It was on until what's
nineteen sixty four, and then in reruns for years after
that a TV show about a dog. There was very helpful.
Lastie was very helpful. In fact, if you fell in
a well, your best bet was Lastie. That was yes,
not that she could climb down there and get you,
but she would alert people whenever there was a problem. Now,

(02:39):
think about how much our culture has changed since Lassie
was a hit TV show. It was a hit TV show,
was on for several years. It was a show about
a dog and and the boy think about that? Could
you could there? Could there be a modern version of

(03:01):
this the people would watch? Could modern audiences be satisfied?
Now people love dogs more than ever before. People have
loved dogs now more than they did during the time
of Lassie. In fact, back when Lassie was on TV,
a lot of people wouldn't let the dog in the house.

(03:23):
Your dog was in the backyard, lucky if it had
shelter in some cases. But now people love their dogs
so much. Some people don't even have human beings as children.
They just go adopt a dog, and they treat the
dog like a human being. And they're fighting to get

(03:46):
the right to take their dog into every business that
they can go into, every restaurant they can go in.
They want to have their dogs with them when they're
flying on airplanes and stuff like that. They have emotional
support dogs. You can now buy in special insurance policies
for your dog's health care. People love dogs now more

(04:08):
than ever before. So why hasn't there been a new
version of Lassie? What would but what would it be?
What would what would a modern Lassie be? Because back
in the day Lassie was out and about if I remember,
I don't now. I don't remember a lot of Lassie,
of course because it was not it was last on

(04:28):
in the sixties. But I think I remember in the
final years of Lassie there was one was there one
season where Lassie was out on her own trying to
try to get back home and was like meeting different
people every week on Lassie. I don't know what would
a modern Lassie look like? Would the modern Lassie if

(04:51):
if they decided, and again it's worth it's worth the
entertainment industry thinking about because people loved dogs more than
ever before, would there be a market for a show
where Lassie is an emotional support dog. And maybe you

(05:11):
would have Lassie get assigned to a different person every
episode that needs Lassie's emotional support, and we could hear
the different psychological termol that each person would have, and
then somehow Lassie would guide them to the activity or
whatever it would take for the person's work through their

(05:33):
emotional trauma, almost like Lassie as a psychiatrist dog. That
would be one that would be one modern version for
liberals of Lassie as the emotional support Lassie or maybe
a gritty if they were to remake Lassie as some
type of gritty, R rated television show on HBO where

(05:54):
there's a lot of cussing and nakedness. You could have
Lassie as a pit bull mix that guarded a drug
den in the Inn City. Now, could you see that?
I could see that last see the drug dog, a
pit bull mixed that that fights the police and all

(06:16):
this kind of stuff. Or maybe there could be a
third version of Lassie where Lassie is somehow gets hurt
and then gets adopted by a lawyer and then becomes
the lawyer ends up suing human beings on behalf of Lassie.

(06:36):
I could see that being a popular show where Lassie's
suing people trying to get more food or something like that. Anyway,
to me, this is an illustration of how how much
we've changed as a society that once upon a time
we had a show about a dog and it I
just can't imagine it working now, even though people seem

(06:59):
to love diet more than they ever have in the past.
In fact, if you were to make a TV show
Lassie now, I'm sure that somebody would demand that dogs
be a part of the production crew. They would yeah,
they'd want dogs in the writer's room where the dogs

(07:20):
help pick out what the what the script is gonna
be or something like that. Anyway, let me get back
to June Lockhart. But anyway, it illustrates how far are
we've fallen from what we were. Right back to the
obituary of June Lockhart, who passed away at age one hundred.
She was on Lassie What else was she.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
On nineteen sixty five to nineteen sixty eight. She portrayed
Maureen Robinson. I'm lost in space.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Now you listen to me. You're wasting your time.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You just take your animals and go back where you belong,
because if you want to take Will and Penny, you've
got to fight us for them. She has two stars
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for TV and
one for movies. Her family says June Lockard, dog of
natural Causes. Paul Stevens Fox News.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, lost in Space. You could you could do
modern Lost in Space. It would just be r rated
or something like that. It'd still be stupid. No no
offense if you'd like Lost in Space. But it was
pretty stupid, all right.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
And by the way, June Lockhart, uh, she if I
remember correctly. I think she had a part in Sergeant York.
What you know, is anybody showing that movie anywhere?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Where?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Can I need to find Sergeant York and watch that again?

Speaker 4 (08:36):
All right?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh, I'm almost out of time in this segment. Anyway,
Rest in Peace, June Lockhart and Rest in Peace are culture?
All right? Back, I've got voicemail and other stuff to
get to as The Uncle Henry Show continues here on
news Radio seventy ten, Let's take the break, it says

(09:14):
the Uncle Henry's Show on News Radio seven ten WNTM.
We have news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before
we get to news headlines, I want to go through
a voicemail here.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Last week I had a voicemail from longtime caller Buford,
and I put a question to him. He was talking
about aj mcceron running for office, and Buford was talking
about people allegedly being puppet masters, allegedly being puppet masters,

(09:49):
and I put the question of Buford. I just asked
him the simple question, Buford, please call and explain to
me who really runs the state of Alabama. Because Bufford
was stating that many of our politicians do what they're
told by alleged puppet masters that go unnamed. So who
are I just would like to know if this is true.

(10:11):
If this is true, I would like who are Who's
really running the state of Alabama? So Buford, I believe,
is trying to explain it to me. So let's listen
together to who Bufford says allegedly runs the state of Alabama.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Hannah a response to questions who runs straight out Obama Hendry,
I don't know any of this for sure. I'm using
my speculatory knowledge.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh okay, see you don't all right, well this is
just okay, okay, So you don't really know this. You're
using the concept invented by caller Dave several years ago.
Several years ago, caller Dave, he called the Uncle Henry
Show and said something, and I asked him how did
he know it was true? And he said that he

(10:58):
was using his spectatatory knowledge.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
I don't know that, but they just speculation. You may
like everybody respeculatory.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Knowledge with everybody has speculatory knowledge, So you can you
can say something and not know for sure that it's
true using speculatory knowledge.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
I don't know that, but they just speculation. You may
like everybody respectulatory knowledge with so.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
You for digging deep to use his speculation to provide
us with speculatory knowledge about who runs the state of Alabama.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
But Henry, as far as the UH corporations, your biggest
players are gonna be Alabama Power Alpha and the Teachers Union.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, Alabama Power Alpha and the Teachers' Union's got that.
I'm aware, I've watched them through the years.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yes, far as the individuals, it's gonna be the Yellow
Wooden Man. He throws a heck of a lot of
weight around here, being the wealthiest man in the state
of Alabama. But basically you're wealthy fellas that are publicly engaged.
You know, you can find them in the Red Elephant Club,
University of Alabama, and whatever Auburn's corresponding organization is for

(12:16):
over there at the cal College. But Henry, I do
believe that it might, you know, think of this AJ
mccarrn situation. I do believe he'd be the perfect candidate
for several wealthy Red Elephant Club fellers to get together
and you know, sponsor him into running for a public office,

(12:41):
statewide office. Because you see, AJ McCarron is used to
having a group of people take care of him and
shelter him through his professional life.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Anybody except for when he gets tackled.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Professional football player that's reached the levels he's had, he
has had a team of people around him, true, making
decisions for his best interest.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
True.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
And uh so, Henry, I mean, he probably would be
the perfect candidate to be controlled.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
So you would, so you what would you say? You'd
go to him and say, look, I'm gonna be the
equivalent of your offensive coordinator. You you be you, You're
there as the lieutenant governor, but I will be your
offensive coordinator politically. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Anyway, Henry, that there's who's gonna run the state of Alabama,
and me, mal Ivy don't let her senile elderly self
fool you. That lady has a death grip on this
hare state. But anyway, also, Henry, the Pork Creek Engines
they run the huge part of Alabama. I do believe

(13:52):
they're a big reason that they have kept the uh
the lottery down because they ain't getting the cut they want.
But uh, anyway, Henry, that's just my two cents of
my speculatory knowledge.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, believe it was.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Dave told us all about speculatory knowledge. That's right, anyway,
we all have it, and that's just what I'm I'm
assuming with my speculatory knowledge on who runs the state
Alabama that in my personal experience with politics and politicians, Henry, anyway,

(14:29):
you have a good day, all right.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
I appreciate that I was aware of just about everybody
you mentioned. I just wondered if I was wondering if
you had anything other than speculatory knowledge to add to it.
Now you just said, though, that you were assuming with
your speculatory knowledge. Let's remember what coach Nick Saban said.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Don't draw conclusions.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Don't draw conclusions.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Don't draw conclusions because as if you do, you're going
to be wrong. You can draw them if you want
and just be wrong. I guess you all don't have
any consequences for being wrong, all.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Right, And I don't know that probably didn't fit this situation.
I just love playing Sabin clips.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
I just do.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
It makes me feel better to play some Sabin quotes
like that, especially when he's getting on to people.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Don't draw conclusions.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I try not to. All right, out of time for
thank you for your voicemail. I do appreciate that voicemail
number 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 Embry show out
of time, Thank you for listening. As they say in Saarland,
have a good one, and let's say say in Theodore,

(15:42):
take it easy all right later
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