Election Year Council Theatrical Performances

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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dot com. That's Uncle iHeartMedia dot com. Of course, I'm
going to be giving you some Mobile City Council coverage
today of what happened at today's Mobile City Council meeting
because it was there was there was a lot of

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performance by Mobile City Council members because we are in
election season. The election for the Mobile City Council a
mayor is in August, and so there was the council members.
I can't read their minds, none of us have that
ability to read someone's mind. I can't read their minds,

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but I do know that an election is coming up.
I'm and I'm guessing that some members of the council
feel like they need to make their feelings and their
thoughts known more than usual. So there was a lot.
There was so much politician hot air today. My goodness,
we could have a fleet of municipal blimps and take

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care of our public transportation needs just based on all
the hot air coming out of there today. So I'll
get into that. I will share with you some observations
from today's Mobile City Council meanting. I'm also I'm really
excited today. I'm very happy and excited in my personal life.
As you may be aware, I got married about six
weeks ago to a wonderful woman and now she is

(03:18):
my wonderful wife. Now I'm very excited because she is
cooking for me tonight. Yes, my wife is cooking for
me tonight and I'm going to be for the first
time ever. I'm going to be trying her mama's Her
mother has some special recipe for baked beans, so I'm

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going to be having these special baked beans tonight. I'm
very excited about this.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I know you may be wondering why I would be
excited about baked beans, but my wife had to go
to four different grocery stores to get all the ingredients. Yes,
these are not just any average baked beans. Four different
grocery stores to get the ingredients, all kind of stuff
up in these beans. I don't even know all the

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different things going up in there. But I have been
assured that no exotic animals have been farmed harmed in
this There's no endangered species going into the beans. They're
going to be completely legal for all age groups baked
beans that I'll be And I'll let you know tomorrow

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how things turn out with the baked beans. But I'm
very excited about that. It's just exciting to have that
kind of stuff happened in your personal life.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Before I get to the council meeting and I get
I'll share with you some of the things said at
today's meeting, because some very serious We've had some very
serious goings on unfortunately in the City of Mobile lately.
And I will share with you some of the performances
from today's Mobile City Council meeting here in just a

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while on the Unkla Henry Show. But I do see
that a living caller dialing into this. Well, people, I
don't guess they dial in anymore. They're they're just calling
in using their their smartphones. Let me go to a
living caller.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Hello caller, Hello, Henry the Alabama Bush. I'll get your service,
the Alabama bush Hoog.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
What is on your mind today, bush Hoog?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, a whole lot of things on on Henry. You
said you want to talk about anything we can come
up with. Well, I got something for you now. Tonight.
There is a season premiere of a show called skin
Walker Rants. It's a it's a television program that talks
about the paranormal, the UAPs, and all kind of crazy things. Yeah,

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they got all the scientific stuff there to research it
and experiment with, and it has been a hoot to
watch it.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Have you ever seen it?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
No, I have not watched it. What channel isn't on.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, it'll be on at eight pm Central time on
the History Channel.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay, all right, I don't even know if I get
that panel, but I'll check. Now, Now, what is historical about?
What do they have the history of UFOs? What is
this about?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, it's about it cumbers everything on Gannery uh back
from the Navajo and the Ute in Utah having a
curse and they cursed land. The use did and it's
called the skimwalk O rants. And throughout the years they
have had people that own the place, including Bigelow Alongs,

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a big aerospace company. He sold it to this man
in Utah and he has put together these scientists to
study it. Now they have come up all kind of
weird things going on on Glanry and nobody can explain it.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, So that's tonight at eight o'clock on the
History Channel.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Oh you can just finally streaming somewhere. I'm sure right,
all right, Anyway, I was just wondering phythothetically speaking. Okay,
now he'll by chance some saucer came down or some
vehicle and landed there in the parking lot at five
five five Broadcast Drive. As you was walking out after yourself,

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thinking that you were the spokesman for a human race
and asked you what's up? What would you say? What
would you do?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well? I would, I guess I'd have to talk to
him about Jesus. And I feel like that would be
the ultimate responsibility. If there's some creature not from our
planet that is encountering me in the parking lot and
I'm the first human being they find, which now, see, man,
if that happened, to think of these are this wouldn't
of course, this would never happen because if they're smart enough,

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if they're smart enough to travel through time and space
and dimensions and all this stuff, they're not going to
come here to uh, to this parking lot with me
walking out there. That would be that would indicate a
lack of intelligence on the Alie part to come here
to talk to me. So I would immediately want to
help them. And first thing I would do, of course,
what I would have to witness to them and talk

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to them about Jesus and finding salvation to Jesus Christ
and accepting him as their lord and savior. And we'd
have to go from there. But if that that hypothetical
has such a problem, with it, because if they're smart enough,
if they're smart enough to get here, they wouldn't I
would not be the one they would encounter. You presume

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they would go they would try to find Elon Musk
and find out why he's sending rockets up there and
disturbing their peace or something like that. If they found me,
then that would indicate dumb aliens can fly in space,
and that would be that'd be even scarier than what's
going on currently in our country. Back after the break,

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Today was a Mobile City Council meeting day. This is

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the first meeting that they've had since the horrible murder
that occurred in the Sanger Theater in downtown Mobile. So
there were members of the council that wanted to make
sure that the public knows that they're up set. So
we got a lot of talking from the Mobile City
Council today on that and many other topics. I thought

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you might want to hear some of it here is
uh By the way, if you want complete coverage of
all of this, you can cover it yourself by going
to YouTube and looking for the City of Mobile's YouTube channel,
and you can watch the Mobile City Council pre council meeting,
and you can also watch the actual council meeting itself

(10:29):
on YouTube. You can learn way more from watching those
meetings than you can learn from me or from any
coverage on television or print media. There is good coverage
from land YAP, So if you go to the La
lamyacmobile website lamyakmobile dot com, they've got coverage of the

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council meeting. But I can only give you some brief
highlights of these meetings. Now, Mobile City Councilman Ben Reynolds
District for Ben Reynolds during the council meeting repeated something
he said at pre council He thinks that you, the

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citizen should not assume when you go out and about
in Mobile, Alabama these days, you should not assume that
people are going to be civil towards you. Instead, he's
advising you, the citizen, to be aware of your surroundings.

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Here's what Ben Reynolds had to say at today's Mobile
City Council meeting about assuming civility, which you can no
longer do in modern society.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yes, are very briefly, Miss President, I made some comments
this morning at pre council regarding the assumption of civility
in our society. It seems we're now at a point
where we can no longer make that assumption in our
everyday lives. Everyone in our city, business owners, our municipal government,
state government, county government, whoever it is, does not need

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to make the assumption that the citizens that are surrounding
you are always going to be civil. So this is
a plea to everyone to pay attention to your surroundings.
Continue to advocate for public safety. We will continue to
do it on the City Council. We will fund projects
to help bolster our number one priority of protecting our

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public safety. And I just want to make sure that
everyone's aware of that, that be aware of what's going
on around you, and I, you know, employ the city
and City Council to continue to figure out ways to
protect ourselves, harden our infrastructure. Whatever we can do as
a government, that we do it. Thank you, mister President.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, so you just heard what he had to say.
They're going to do their best, but you need to
be you need to be aware of your surroundings. This
is this is not a new message. This is an
old message that people, not just politicians, but people have
tried to tell each other through the years. In fact,
when I moved to Mobile about about about eight years ago,

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I guess eight or nine years ago. When I decided
to buy a house and mobile and made the move,
a bunch of my friends were worried about me coming
to Mobile in assuming the civility of my neighbors, and
so I was gifted. I was I was encouraged to

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buy a gun, and I was gifted all kind of
knives and weapons. Just moving to Mobile. All my friends
were giving me weapons and knives, and I still I
still treasure those wonderful gifts. I do have a wide
variety of knives and daggers and stabbing devices, all of

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those things. I still treasure those wonderful gifts. All you,
all of you that gave me all those weapons. You
know who you are, Thank you very much. I still
still appreciate it and still have those weapons with me
every day as I'm out and about throughout the streets
of the city of Mobile. Now, the City Council President CJ. Small.

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He believes that the reason people are shooting each other
and killing each other in Mobile is because you no
longer have to have a pistol permit to conceal carry.
He thinks that it was the permitting process that prevented
so much death and destruction in our society. If we

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just had to have a permit, then things would be different.
So let's listen. Here is here is the council President CJ.
Small talking about how it's the state legislature that has
caused this by removing the pistol permit requirement to conceal carry.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
And as I had state and in pre conference this morning,
the state of Alabama has felled the citizens. In my opinion,
by taking away the gun permit requirements. People are feeling
too comfortable in carrying guns around.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
People are feeling too comfortable carrying guns.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
And this is a question would like to ask our
attorney or the city attorney. I know that the state
had tooken away the license or the requirement to have
piston permit, but can our local delegation do anything as
a requirement to have Mobile County and to require them

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to us to have pistel permits.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So he wants Mobile County, rest of the state no permit,
but he would like to find a way to make
Mobile Countians get a pistol permit.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
They can attempt to get something.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
This is the council attorney answering.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Through the legislature, but it will be the entire legislature
that has to.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Vote on him.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
This delegation down here.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Can they just requires just for our.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
Area, even for our area, the entire state legislature would
have to vote on it, yes, and then it would
come So if you have local legislation, it still has
to get through the House in the Senate and then
it comes down and its voted on locally. I still
have to go that route.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
I'm not too sure that they are hurt to try
it not, but I'm willing to try if it's possible.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yes, Now, I just want to Corey Penn, Councilman Corey Penn,
who already had he had already gone on a six
or seven minute rant. He needed to chi him in again.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
I know I'm talking a lot, but I want to
join in with you. Miss the President guys, we have
to that's a serious issue. Call your legislation guys. We
need those permits back and right now. A lot of
times we get caught up in these party issues, Republican
versus Democrats. It's not about that. It's about a saving

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our community. Call your legislatorship and let's create difference. Thank you,
Mss President.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Anything from the administration.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
I think everything that needs to be said that has
been said, So no further comments.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
All right. So there you're being encouraged to call your
local legislators to try to get some gun control going.
There's more, Yes, more after the break on me on
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I go to the phones, and I do have a
caller waiting. One more thing from today's Mobile City Council meeting.
If you were listening in the last segment, you heard
me playing some of the remarks of city council members
in response to that horrible murder that happened in the
Sanger Theater over the weekend. Now, Corey Penn, Mobile City

(19:31):
Council of Corey Penn, I don't have time to play
everything he said. He talked so long and so much,
quite a performance. He was angry at the media for
only covering negative things and not showing the positive, and

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he gave examples of how mobilions are working with the youth.
There are a lot of mobilions trying to help, trying
to work with young people, trying to get young people
to do the right the right thing, and not resolve
their disputes with guns and shooting each other. He was
upset with the media for focusing on the negative, and
I thought, let's we're gonna join him in the middle

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of his of his lengthy dissertation. This is right in
the middle.

Speaker 8 (20:25):
Then we have a horrible situation take place.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's the shooting at the singer. Horrible situation. Not everybody.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
What we're gonna do now, Well, we've been we just
had a meeting.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
This is what we've been talking about.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Let's come together.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
Let's stop pouring fingers. Let's just stop trying to get
on the news and say what that person not doing?
And when we can come together. That's what a Tom
hallf for. It was saying you can't show up. We
didn't have nobody blocking the door. Everybody had a voice.
Let's figure this thing out together and stop fighting. But

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as adults, we keep doing it, We keep fighting each other,
We keep blaming that the police, the administration, What the
council can do, what we could have did to stop
the situation. What can you do? We have to do
it together. And I'm tired. I'm tired I'm tired of

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seeing this. And the only way we can create change
is we do it together. It takes family.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
And now he's gonna say some good stuff here about
how we need strong families in the city of Mobile,
which is true.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
We lost that.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
Our city can only go as family goals strong families.
When we have strong families, our community strive and our
city strives.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's how we create the change.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Now, I know you hear the passion and it sound
like I'm angry, but I have hope. I have hope
for the city of Mobile. I have hope because that's
one smile for senting. It's so many great people in
our city. It's so many young people doing amazing things.
It's so many adults doing that event. I don't know
if y'all saw it, but them kids, they were dancing,

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don't watch them. It was beautiful. They was doing their passion.
It was amazing. Share that story, Give them hope, go
talk to them, love on them because some of them
kids say they don't even want to dance anymore. So
we got to love on them guys, and we gotta
give them hope. And I'm sorry if this sounded like

(22:51):
a rant, but I'm tired, and we have to stop
pouring at each other and come together. Because when you
point at somebody, look at you, pouring at yourself, three fingers,
pouring at yourself, look at yourself in the mirror, and say,
what can we do?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
So let's come.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
Together, sity on Mobile, churches, let's come together. If the
media is showing show this, churches come together, communities come together,
families come together, police, firemen, administrations, counsel. We all got
to stand together and stop fighting against each other. Media,

(23:34):
come together, and let's stand.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Okay, I'll stand. I'm sorry, I will stand a little tired,
but I like to stand.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
And when we stand together, we can't be divided.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Thank you, missus. President. Right, that was core That was
about a half or maybe a little less than half
of the entire dissertation by Corey Penn. So a lot,
lots and lots of performance at today's Mobile City Council meeting.
And again you can see the full context of all
of this by going to the City of Mobile's YouTube

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channel and watching for yourself all of these meetings and
pre council meetings. Two five, one, four, seven nine two
two three. The telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
Hello caller, heyll Henry, are you doing snake trapper?

Speaker 1 (24:28):
You are live on the radio.

Speaker 10 (24:30):
Oh Henry. After listening to that by, I guess that
was Corey ten Yes, uh, man, it makes me want
to just throw my hands in there and start singing
coon by y'all. I mean, uh, for one, they need
to recognize where the problem is. And with mister C. J.
Small coming out and claiming that that permits and mobile

(24:52):
gun permits and mobile has something to do with that
shooting straight out live Uncle Henry, It's got nothing to
do with it.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Do you think that.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Solo for one minute thought about a permit before he
committed that ain't a a no?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Well, of course that that the whole permitting thing was
has absolutely zero to do with it.

Speaker 10 (25:12):
Yes, yes, So Corey Penn needs to be singing coom
by y out of him and telling him uh to
uh not to come up with an excuse, uh, but
but to face the problems that we have. I mean, uh,
the killings that happened in Chicago and New Orleans by
these young men every day. Uh, do you think they

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worry about a pistol permit? And over here right I
don't say that just because I'm thinking, Hey, I may
not have to go out and get a permit because
I have even though my mobile passed there, I have
always kept my concealed permit. Uh. Valid, Uncle Henry. Uh.
Until they start identifying the problem and stop uh trying

(25:55):
to make it, you know, stop trying to cover it
up and not pointing out the pro problems. Uh, it's
it's not going to be solved. So he needs to
look in the mirror.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well he's telling us. You heard him. He wants all
of us to look in the.

Speaker 10 (26:09):
Mirror, yes, sir, and uh and point at the problem.
And yes, sir, it does. I mean, you can't change
the world. And I do agree with him that you
can change yourself. But uh man, and until you identify
the problem, though, you can't change nobody else on entry.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's it.

Speaker 10 (26:27):
It's gonna have to you know, they're gonna have to
find it in their hard And what that's gonna take,
I will not I.

Speaker 9 (26:32):
Do not know.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
All right, well, snake trapper, Yes, yes, sir, don't hinder.

Speaker 10 (26:38):
And another thing too, I agree with President Trump on
taking that three billion dollars away from Harvard and maybe
using that money for for trade schools in these inner cities,
teaches young men of trade. Over Henry, there is a
demn Mike Rose said that for every five skilled craftsmen

(26:58):
that retired, that only two was taking their place.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I heard that too, So I mean.

Speaker 10 (27:04):
These kids, man, I'm telling you, living in inner city
like it, they would love the opportunity off Henders.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, well, hey, I'm up on the break. Gotta run,
but stay trappers. Thank you, take care of my buddy.
There is more to come. Uncle Henry show continues after
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Speaker 3 (28:11):
Hello color, Uncle Henry. How you doing, sir.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'm doing fine, sir. You are live on the radio.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
That is a your fine American. Appreciate what you do
so well.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (28:24):
I was listening at the beast part of mister Penn,
a councilman Penn and his grand standing. There you know,
and it's it's a shame that when something like this,
this young man lost his wife at a family event
right there, and then a politician wants to get up
there and act like they're at the pulpit.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's not about that there. Uh, murderer is murder.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
The current mayor a few years.

Speaker 11 (28:49):
Ago, his statement was he wanted to try to make
move of the safest city in America, and that's failed miserably.
But you can't go around pointing fingers right there. It
all comes down in individual act.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
True, somebody chose to do that there.

Speaker 11 (29:04):
It doesn't take a village to raise a family. It
doesn't take the school. It takes the individual that is
doing that act. Just like the same thing that happened
with the molotov cocktails on the Jewish people there and stuff.
That was an individual act. And so the media has
done the same thing nationwide as our council people are

(29:25):
doing here. It's a terrible act. It ought not happen
right there, whether it's a school event or a dance
or just people at large. People need to take responsibility
and accountability at.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
This thing in time right there.

Speaker 11 (29:39):
Yeah, there's a lot of different ways going out there
and pulling the gun on somebody. Violence is violence. It
doesn't have to be a hate crime, not black on
black crime, not white on crime, it doesn't matter. Crime
is crime, and these criminals need to be held responsible
and the need to the law needs to go to
the first extent to put these people in jail for

(30:02):
a long time or forever, or either the death penalty.
Once that starts going again, people will quit doing these costs.
But right now they get a slap.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
On the wrist. You know, God bless our police officers.

Speaker 11 (30:14):
And sheriffs out there, FBI and so forth. They're doing
their job, but they put them in and as fast
as they turn the key, somebody's bailing them out. So
it's that's you know, it's habitual criminals that we be
out here doing these acts.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
So we need to go back to the basics right here.

Speaker 11 (30:33):
Yes, the people with juris doctor degrees there, put these
people in jail for a long time, keep them off
the streets, keep our streets safe, and yeah, take care
of your family. Try to encourage them to not go
out and get a firearm or getting a fight someone
like that. There's other ways that you can work this out.
So it was just a real shame that a nice

(30:54):
event like this was left with this mark, you know,
forever for these poles. You know, they can't So like
I say, mister Penn, I would say, no more grand standing.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yes, we do need to help each other out.

Speaker 11 (31:08):
In situations like this, but don't grand stand on something
like this, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
You fine, hey, thank you, thank you for listening, thank
you for calling into the program and what you had
to say about, you know, putting people when people do
some horrible making sure that they go to jail and
stay there. That's a huge part of it. But also
making sure that the general public sees consequences for these

(31:37):
kind of crimes. And what I mean by that, you know,
we we you've heard of the purp walk. It doesn't
happen all the time, but every now and again, when
there's a high profile crime, the police will contact the
media and let them know we're gonna walk this person

(31:57):
out from this building to the vehicle, and they do
the purp walk, and the media shows up and they
ask questions. They're shouting questions that the person that's accused
of committing the crime, and the whole reason. We've been
told the whole reason for the Purp Walk, and not
every city does it anymore. The whole reason for the
purp Walk is to let the community know that somebody

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has been arrested for this horrible thing, so that we
will psychologically realize that somebody has been arrested and they're
off the streets, at least temporarily. It would be a
great service to the community to and I don't know
if the media would ever be interested in doing this,

(32:41):
but show us people in jail, show us find people
that have been convicted of murder, show us them in jail.
Do children go on field trips to the jail? From
what I understand, and it's one of the worst places

(33:01):
you can visit in Mobile County is the jail. If
we took every fourth grader to the jail once on
a field trip during their year in fourth grade and
walked them through there and let them see what a

(33:23):
jail cell is like, not pictures, not video. If we
marched them through there, this is what jail is. These people,
I know you don't want your little children to be
exposed to this. If we show down all the fourth
graders what jaala is like. They might think twice about

(33:44):
shooting somebody that disrespected them if the media went and
showed people languishing in a jail. Alabama jails are horrible.
Show us what it's like, and show us often, it

(34:19):
says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio seven
ten WNTM. I appreciate very much you listening to The
Uncle Henry Show. Now, in this half hour of show,
I will share with you a few news items, perhaps

(34:40):
a voicemailer two. I'm not exactly sure how it's all
going to turn out. It's the same as when I cook.
I have a lot of trouble with consistency in terms
of cooking. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it ain't. I would
like to start with a news item. This is from
Fox ten, and I think this is a story from

(35:01):
sometime last night with Fox ten where they give an
explanation of new laws going into effect in the state
of Alabama. And I know that you love this type
of stuff. You love laws, you love rules. Rules make
things more fun, don't they. If you're going to play
a game, the game has to have rules, doesn't it.

(35:22):
The rules make it more fun. All right, let's listen together.
Here's Fox ten with their story about new laws go
into an effect in the state of Alabama. It's important
to know what the new rules are the new laws,
because we've been taught, many of us have been taught

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from childhood that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
So you don't want to be ignorant of a law.
Let's listen together.

Speaker 9 (35:53):
Some three weeks after the state legislative session adjourned, a
number of new laws will take effect this week in Alabam.
Foxtansley pat has a rundown on some of the most notable,
plus a look at other laws to hit the books
in the future.

Speaker 12 (36:08):
State lawmakers, we're at work for months in Montgomery. Now
some of the fruits of their labor become effective in
the form of new laws.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Fruits. No sorry to interrupt, but they passed a bunch
of new rules that you're gonna have to live under.
And if you don't live under their rules, you get
in trouble. There's legal problem, you can get prosecuted or
something like that. I've never heard this described as fruity,
but it's the fruits these laws. Don't think of them

(36:38):
as onerous or draconian. Think of them as fruity right.

Speaker 12 (36:42):
The fruits of their labors, future state lawmakers. We're at
work for months in Montgomery. Now some of the fruits
of their labor of fruits, in the form of new
laws in Alabama. Vapes are no longer available in vending machines.
The new law also increases penalties for selling vapes to miners.

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It's part of a sweeping initiative that also raises the
minimum age to purchase tobacco and vaping products to twenty one.

Speaker 13 (37:09):
The new law.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Pausing there just to make an observation or just share
an opinion. This is just a personal opinion, but I
think there ought to be a standard legal age for
every dad gum thing. And I say that because I think,
if a correct me, if I'm wrong, can an eighteen

(37:34):
year old or a nineteen year old go and join
the military and go lose their life on behalf of
this country get shot out by a Russian or a
or a communist somewhere on the planet. I mean, if
you can sign up for the military and then have

(37:55):
a target on your back, shouldn't you be allowed to
buy a a beer or a vape or whatever else
is legally available. I don't quite. I don't understand all
these different ages that they twenty one year olds are
smart enough to decide whether or not they can vape,
but a twenty year old cannot. Now, the twenty year old,

(38:16):
I guess, can join the army and become a Green
Beret and go defeat our enemies, but not get allowed
to buy a vape. I just come on, I would
like to see a standard legal age. You're either you're
either smart enough to make these decisions or not. And

(38:37):
I don't know why we pick twenty one, because I
still meet twenty five year olds that don't want to
leave mommy and daddy's house. They don't want even if
they could afford it. Maybe they can't afford it because
of the nature of the economy, But even if they
could afford it, they don't want to leave mommy and
daddy's house. Why would a twenty five year old that's
living with mommy and daddy bel to go buy vapor

(39:01):
and buy beer If you can't handle your own rent,
what makes you smart enough to know that you're smart
enough to buy whiskey and use it responsibly? All right,
back to the new laws. The fruity New Laws.

Speaker 12 (39:18):
Also bans the selle of flavored ease cigarettes inconvenience stores.
Alabama House Bill five eighteen, known as the Prenatal Equal
Protection Act, expands legal protections for unborn children from the
moment of fertilization. It was a bit of a gray area,
but the new law allows criminal prosecution for homicide and

(39:38):
assault of an unborn child. Another bill, signed by Governor
k Ivy, defines the sex of a man and woman,
as well as a boy and girl, based on their
reproductive organs at birth. The legal definition aims to clarify
the state code.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
And this isn't it ridiculous that you even had to
do that that we've reached a point in line life
in society where people would argue over that and it
has to be clarified in law because of people that
can't face reality. And maybe there's some some law that

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could come up with that would cover all of this,
that would be some type of face reality law.

Speaker 12 (40:20):
This school year, Alabama public schools are prohibiting students' use
of smartphones and other wireless devices. It's called the Focus Act,
also known as the Freeing our Classrooms of Unnecessary Screens. Meanwhile,
teachers and other state employees will now have access to
paid parental leave. Juneteenth becomes an official state holiday. This

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means that state government offices will close on June nineteenth
for the holiday. And if you're still feeling sticker shock
at the grocery store, you'll get a little help. Come
September first, lawmakers reducing the state sales tax on food
from three percent to two percent. They also ended the
pink tax, removing sales tax from feminine hygiene products, maternity items,

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and baby goods including diapers and formula.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
And when it comes all right now, I didn't hear
anything about the taxes being removed from feminine hygiene products.
Have some people done without their feminine hygiene products because
it was too highly taxed? How have I missed that?
Is that? Do I need to watch? Maybe I need

(41:28):
to start watching like the Lifetime channel or Hallmark TV
or where would that be on the Bravo channel.

Speaker 12 (41:35):
Comes to illegal immigration, Alabama now joining other states making
it a felony to knowingly bring someone into the state
who is in the US illegally. The law goes into
effect October first, and is punishable by up to ten
years in prison. In mobile Leepek Fox ten news.

Speaker 9 (41:55):
And even though it won't be in place for this summer,
come October, the state will have a new shark alert
system in place, and that's to warn people when there's
been a shark attack in the area. It's known as
Lulu's Law, named after Birmingham teenager Lulu Gribbon, who lost
her hand and leg in a shark attack at a

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Florida beach last summer.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
All right, so we have all these wonderful new rules
and laws going into they're already going into effector will
be in effect in the state of Alabamat Don't you
feel more protected now? Knowing that twenty year olds can't
buy a vape? Are you? Just make you feel better

(42:37):
about society? And wonderfully feminine hygiene products now untaxed so
you can stock up on them. All right, back with
more more Uncle Henry's Show after the break, Let's take
the dad Gum break of Cole Henry Show, NewsRadio seventy

(43:21):
ten WNTM. We have news headlines coming up in ten
minutes here on WNTM Now. Yesterday in this half hour
of show, I shared with you a news item about
how the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency was giving out instructions

(43:45):
on how to be a pedestrian, that some people don't
know how to cross the road and to look both
ways before they cross the road. If you listened yesterday,
you heard this. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency felt like
they needed to explain to the citizens that we're not
bright enough any more to know how to cross a street,

(44:08):
and so they had to explain that you look both
ways and that you try to find the safest spot
on the street to cross.

Speaker 14 (44:15):
It was.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
It was a sad commentary. Well, I've got another Alabama
Law Enforcement Association story for you. This is from WSFA
and Montgomery, a step sister station to Fox ten. Now,
today the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is telling you to
wear your seat belts when you're driving. Now, this is

(44:36):
which is good advice. But I am having trouble understanding
who might not have heard that message yet, because the
last time I checked all of the vehicles that I've
gotten into over the last I don't know how many decades,
all of these vehicles get mad at you if you

(44:57):
don't put your seat belt on. Have you you know
what I'm talking about, don't you? You get into a
car and you don't put your seat belt in the
car starts nagging you. It'll make sounds. There'll be chimes
going off, bells, ringing, buzzers. I've been in some people's
cars whether there will be a female voice'll come in
and tell you to put your seat belt on. Even

(45:19):
if you're not driving. You'll say, hey, passenger, seat belt,
get that passenger belted up, or I'm turning this car around.
All right, Well, here is the Alabama Law Enforcement Association
wanting you to know, in case you hadn't figured it
out yet, you need to wear your seat belt.

Speaker 14 (45:37):
Ives.

Speaker 15 (45:38):
You've heard it many times, but law enforcement officers say
some people still refuse to buckle up, and some are
getting creative to avoid wearing them. WSFA twelve News anchor
Sally Pitt's explains.

Speaker 14 (45:51):
Before you hit the road, law enforcement officers say you
should buckle up, no matter how short the drive.

Speaker 13 (45:56):
It's a decision that you can make.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Now this is the state trip. I love his accent.
I wish you'd run for governor or senator just so
I could hear him talk. I like his accent.

Speaker 13 (46:08):
Well, no matter how short the drive, it's a decision
that you can make to protect yourself.

Speaker 14 (46:13):
Captain Jeremy burkehat when the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says
wearing a seat belt increases your chance is surviving a
car crash. ALIA reports nearly sixty percent of people who
have died in crashes this year. We're not wearing a
seat belt.

Speaker 13 (46:27):
For us in law enforcement, and I think that's why
we're so passionate because we see it time and time again.

Speaker 14 (46:33):
Cars now come with technology that reminds you to put
on your seat belt. A flashing light.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Oh, I have a feeling she's going to tell us
what people do to try to get around this technology.
By the way, just so you're not I don't want
there to be confusion. Since this report and yesterday's report
on walking across the street, they illustrate that there are
more dumb people than ever before in our country. And
so in case there might be a dumb person listening,

(47:01):
I want you to know that I am in favor
of seat belts. I wear my seat belt every time
I drive. Early in my career, let's see early in
my career, my original cameraman for BATV Port City six,
back when I was doing cable access television back in
nineteen eighty nine. My original cameraman named I called him

(47:26):
the camera freak on TV and his first name was Will.
He was killed during during my run on BAYTV because
he didn't wear seatbelt. He was in a car load
of people that were not belted up the way it

(47:47):
was described to me as he was thrown from the vehicle,
he was not wearing a seat belt. Had he been
wearing a seat belt, he would have remained my camera freak.
And he is one of a few people I've known
soeveral people that have died in accidents where it has
been explained to me that they would have lived strong

(48:07):
chance they would have survived had they had worn their
seat belt. So maybe you don't like wearing one, but
if there is another person in your life that loves you,
you might want to do them a favor by wearing
your seat belt or a beat.

Speaker 14 (48:21):
That won't stop until you buckle up.

Speaker 13 (48:24):
But stay trippers say some.

Speaker 14 (48:25):
Drivers have found a way around that.

Speaker 13 (48:27):
You can buy the ends the plug the buckle plug
as we refer to it, to go inside the seat belt,
which would stop the vehicle from dingy.

Speaker 14 (48:38):
Captain Burkhat says Alabama troopers have worked fatal accidents where
someone manipulated the seat belt to keep the alarm from sounding.

Speaker 13 (48:46):
And that's just a tragedy for us. When we get
to a vehicle crash and somebody's lost their life, they
don't have their seat belt on, and we go in
there and we see where they've gotten the buckle plug
inside the seat belt.

Speaker 14 (48:58):
It is the law in Alabama to wear your seat
belt no matter where you.

Speaker 13 (49:02):
Sit in the car, regardless front seat passioner, back seat passenger.
You require to have a seat belt.

Speaker 14 (49:07):
On Sally Pitt's WSFA twelve news.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Oh and I'm almost out of time here. A few
years ago, I was a passenger in a vehicle that
got pulled over for speeding. I was wearing my seat belts.
There was someone in the backs and I wasn't driving.
By the way, I was not driving. I was a bystander.

(49:30):
The guy in the back seat was not wearing his
seat belt, and he got a ticket. He wasn't driving,
he was just sitting in the back seat. Got a ticket.
Right out of time. Wear your seat belt. Thank you
for listening. As they say in sarah Land, have a
good one. As they say in Theodore, take it easy
all right.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
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