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October 17, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
That says the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio
seventy ten WNTM. I appreciate very much you listening to it.
Now in this half hour show, we're going to get
to some listener voicemail, and I've also got some news items.
I want to get to news items that I missed.
You might have missed them too. Now, first let me

(00:38):
get to some listener voicemail. If you'd like to leave
a message. Two five one two one six nineteen seventy
six is the voicemail number for the Uncle Henry Show.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
to leave a message for the Uncle Henry Show. Now,
I've gotten some messages from Buford, longtime caller Beeford. I've
had a few of his messages this week that I've

(00:59):
shared with you. Here is another message from Beauford.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
An This here.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Henter of you.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
In the podcast, you had mentioned the Bernie Ditmans.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
All right, so he's starting off. I'd mentioned I used
to work for Bernie Dipman at WABB This was a
topic of yesterday's show that we did with Michael Stewart
here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
So uh.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, I told a Bernie Dipman story recently on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Feller that owned w ABB. Yes, the tory stories surrounding
his sprugliness, handy I about spit my coffee out. Yes,
I am drinking coffee at eleven o'clock at nine, I'm
working the night shift. But Hannah, he told me he
would he wanted to give away one concert ticket and

(01:49):
try to sell the other one to the fella that
won the first one.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
God, you know that's hilarious. Man, I would love it.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
If you could put a show together where you just
told old mobile radio stories about the characters.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right now, pause there the story, the story that I
was telling. I made the point that Bernie Dipman, who
was just a magnificent businessman, I owe so much of
my career, so much of my success, any success that
I've had, I owe so much of it to him
and him hiring me there at WABB and let me

(02:30):
work there and being around it. But he was very successful,
a trailblazer and radio. But he was very frugal.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yes he was.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
He was very frugal, and he was looking for angles,
always looking for angles to try and bring in more
revenue and that was one of his ideas. He asked
one of the program directors if instead of giving away
a pair of concert tickets he wanted to give away
one and then try to sell the other one two
the winner and the program director would not allow that,

(03:01):
so that never happened, didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Go on the air.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
He also did not want to give vacation, and the
program director said, you have sorry, Bernie, but you know
you have to. This is this part of labor law.
I believe so, and we want to keep employees. We
want people to continue working here. So he didn't want
to give vacation if he didn't have to. In fact,

(03:26):
I remember every time I took vacation, it was a struggle.
He would want me to pre record things and leave
them so that it sounded like I was there when
I was gone. He also one time I took vacation
and he created a fake scandal to claim that I
had been suspended for something. Anyway, but yes, there are

(03:49):
plenty of stories about him, and also the frugality of
Bernie Dipman. But I digress from your voicemail. Let me
get back to your your mess.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Chir together, where you just told old Mobil radio stories
about the characters that came in and out of mobile radio.
You know, Henry, I got a work in theory that
I don't believe they make characters like they used to anymore, Henry.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
That older generation was full of characters.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Henry, in my own life when I used to work
for a lords.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Tell it the company.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
At one time, the older guys, they were just characters.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Henry had one.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Fella this day before you tell me about that one fella.
You're saying they don't make characters anymore now, Beauford. If
you were to look at social media of young people,
teenagers and early twenties, I think there are more characters
now than ever before. If you look at all the
weird things that young people are into, I think there's

(04:58):
a lot of characters, a lot of young own characters
out there. And that's a very generous and kind way
of putting it. I would have called them freaks or weirdos,
but I'm not gonna be like that. I'm gonna call
them characters the way that you did, so I can
be nice and kind about it. There's a lot of characters.
Just just look on social media and you will see
the island of misfit toys times a thousand, times a million.

(05:20):
All right back, Differ's gonna tell us about a character.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
So tell us in in my own life when I
used to work for a lords tell it the company
at one time, the older guys, they were just characters.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Henry had one fella that he decided he was gonna
make some extra money. He found them. He found a
whole sailor that had a bunch of edible underwears. What
and so he found these edible underwears for next to nothing,

(05:58):
and he was gonna sell these edible underweares. And Henry,
he had like a bunch of kids, And so he
had the edible underwears in the back seat of his car,
and his kids were back there, and they done got
in it and they started eating all the edible underwears.

(06:19):
They thought they were like fruit roll ups.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
And he's driving around town.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And he's come to work the next day. Ungott me
mad because because his children ate his million dollar ideas
of selling edible underwears.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
But Henry, I just and.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Let me pause there, just to say that whoever thought
of the idea of edible underwear, what a disgusting what
a disgusting individual. I hope they've repented by now. I
hope by now they have repented for such a disgusting invention.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Don't I don't know, Henry. I don't see these younger
generations producing the type of characters that we had in
here World War two generation and Vietnam Air generation in
Korea generation. Maybe it was the wars that come up
with I don't know, but may and them older them
old timers, man, they.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Were, they were something else, man, they were. There were
some characters and them generations.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Anyway, Henry, I do miss missed characters that used to
be around. They they sure didn't make life enjoyable and
gave you a.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Good laugh here and there anyway, Henry.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
All right, and then the voicemail cut him off. You
for thank you for your your suggestion. I would like
to bring in some some of my old friends, old
colleagues from back in the day and tell some radio
stories and other uh we and we all met other
characters in the community. But I don't know if I

(07:56):
buy your premise about a lack of characters of unusual
people eccentric, let's use the word eccentric. I think there's
still a lot of eccentric people around, but before our
entire culture has become more eccentric, the entire culture. There

(08:18):
weren't nearly as many weirdos back in the day, and
now the whole culture has eccentricities. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
If I bide the premise, I'm gonna have to do
some more thinking. Be for Thank you for stimulating my
mind and making me want to even figure out if
that's true or not. Again, the voice my number two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Get to
take a quick time out and then come back with
more Uncle Henry Show here on these radio seventy ten WNTM.

(08:52):
Take the break call Henry's Show. We have news headlines

(09:14):
coming up in ten minutes. Now, I'd like to get
to a news item that I missed. I missed this.
I would like to learn about this. This is about
a social media post causing upset regarding the Williamson and
Biger High School football game tomorrow night at Ladd Stadium.

(09:37):
There was some notice put up saying that there would
be no tailgating allowed, and you may have already heard
about this. This is my first listening to this, so
if you hadn't heard it, then we can learn together.
Let's go to Fox ten. I think this involves Brendan Kirby,
their investigative reporter. Let's find out together.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
High schoolers have a key foot matchup on Friday, but
there will be no tailgating. Lad Peoples Stadium making that
announcement and are now edited social media posts and it
had a lot of people upset.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Are Brendan Kirby joining us now in the studio?

Speaker 7 (10:10):
All right, Brendan, you've been trying to find out why
that decision was made. We can't tell us. Well, that's right.
Linneus and Cameron Ladd, which owns the is owned by
the school system, says that it was for security.

Speaker 8 (10:22):
The school system said that there's never been.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Tailgating at lad at high school football games anyway, so
the problem may have been on the delivery.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
The message from lad People's Stadium was blunt. There is
no tailgating for this game. Anyone trying to tailgate will
be removed from the property immediately. You've been warned. Some
folks responded to that now edited Facebook post with complaints.
Some suggested it was insulting. Some questioned why two schools
appeared to be singled out. Some wondered whether race was

(10:52):
a factor, since both schools are predominantly black. Ladd responded
with a post from our sister station in Mississippi, WLA,
reporting on a tailgating band at a high school there
in the wake of a violent Friday last week. At
high school football games in the Magnolia State, being proactive
is key, Ladd says in a response to one commenter.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm pausing there just to note in a very obvious way,
you might want to call me uncle obvious at this point.
Isn't it sad that we are now at a time
in our country where high school football games now you've
got to be worried about the possibility of gunplay?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
All right?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Back, yes, uncle obvious, back to the story.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
But Sherry dill Hey McDade, the school board member who
represents the area that includes Ladd, says this was a
decision made by the administration at Williamson because it is
standardized testing week. She says, normally people by tailgating passes,
which requires teachers to go to the stadium early to
set up and then clean up afterward. She says that

(11:56):
would be too much of a distraction during test week.
I'll do it big gang.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
But our first priority as a system and as a
school was to make sure that all of our testing
procedures were in place, all of our testing policies were there.
We make sure that teachers were where they were supposed
to be, not going around making sure that people were
buying tailgate spot.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
Last Friday night, multiple people suffered gunshot wounds at a
high school football game in Leland, Mississippi. Another shooting took
place about three hours south of there. Two people died,
including one in the tailgating area. Phillaughey McDade notes that
Mobile County has had its own problems with violence at
football games, including a twenty twenty one shooting at Ladda

(12:38):
at a Williamson Viiger game, but she says security improvement
since then have worked, and adds that there will be
extra security on hands Friday because of an expected large crowd.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
They have tailgated before, and I'm quite sure that they
would be able to tailgate again.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
Sure with game day security rules, school systems supposed to
Renee Phillips says that there is no change in policy.
She says tailgating does not take does take place on
some high school campuses, but that the school system has
not sanctioned that it high school games played at Ladd.
Phillips also tells me that the original Facebook post has
been edited because it wasn't approved by the district. Appointing

(13:17):
live in the news center Brendan Kirby Box ten News.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, so we are at that point in our culture,
our culture in the last segment of the show talking
about a changing of culture from generation to generation. And
now here we are, and right now we're at a
point in our culture, at least in this part of
the country, well probably all over the country where you've

(13:40):
got to think about these things in ways you never
had to before. It is a shame, of course, but
AT's see. Do I have time for anything else? Any
other news out of I can slip in? Yes, in
fact I do. Here is a news outam adishakan Go.

(14:01):
Researchers have a new theory about the origins of one
of Chicago's most bizarre landmarks, and that is the Chicago
Rat Hole landmark. Here is Tom Graham of Fox News.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
For years, Chicago's so called rat Hole attracted tourists to
the Roscoe Village neighborhood. The landmark appeared to be a
full bodied impression of an unlucky rodent that got trapped
in what cement. The tiny impression became so popular it
eventually rat told neighbors as tourists would visit at all hours.
Chicago workers ultimately removed the famed slab of sidewalk and

(14:41):
took it to the City Hall County building. But in
a radical twist, researchers have now concluded in a paper
published in Biology Letters Wednesday that the rat hole was
likely not created by a rat. They believe it was
more likely an unlucky squirrel or muskrat instead. Tom Graham,
Fox News.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Right, Okay, now, can you imagine now, think about all
the jobs on the planet and somebody who's going to
make it their mission, their job to find out what
made that hole in that cement? All right, well, all right,
out of time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show.
If you want to listen back to previous episodes, they're

(15:20):
available as podcasts. Head to NewsRadio seven ten dot com
look under podcasts for the Uncle Henry Show, or go
to the iHeartRadio app and look up Uncle Henry's Show.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
There.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Thank you so much for listening, As they say in Sarahland,
have a good one, and as they say in Theodore,
take it easy, all right Later
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