For the Love of Elon

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Uncle Henry. I was just sitting here lessen and
wishing that it was time for the Uncle Henry Show
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Speaker 1 (01:36):
Whatever. Just as long as the show is on, that
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Speaker 3 (01:42):
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just so many times. I'm still trying to make a
sense of stuff that happened about five years ago, four
years ago, three years ago, two years ago, let alone.
What's going on now? There's a lot to try and
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Speaker 1 (02:32):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I want to jump right in to some voicemail messages.
I've gotten some intriguing messages over the last day, a
couple of days. Uh voicemail numbers two five one two
one six nineteen seventy six. I've got a message about
Elon Musk. It has been quite entertaining for me to

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watch the reactions people are having the Elon Musk, just
the the if people are now right his name on
posters and standing in the street upset with Elon Musk.
I find that quite entertaining. He's not even an elected official,
and people are upset about it. Here is a message,
an Elon message that was phoned into the Uncle Henry.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Show, Uncle Henry LD not Anty three today.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm in love, Yes, I'm in love. I'm in love
with Elon Musk.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
I am in love with Big Falls, whoever that guy is.
I am in love with everyone who is finding this
waste and finally finally telling the American taxpayer that he
has been pamboozled.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Hey, now I'm pausing, LD. Just say LD.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Now you're you're talking about how finally somebody's finding the waist,
don't get too excited. Calm down on this, because I
was already seeing stories today of certain Republican congress people.
Reporters are running around, They're finding Republicans up there in
Washington that are that are concerned that Elon's going too fast.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Elon's going too fast.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
See, there's already some squishy Republicans that are getting concerned
about Elon and him finding the waste. Some people have
gotten quite wealthy off waist. So just I know it
looks good, but it looks like there's some people that
have gotten rich off this money that don't want they
don't want to stop getting rich off this money. Anyway,

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let me unpause the voicemail, as you're in love with Elon.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Musk and just paying his taxes into working his butt
off to give it to somebody in Liberia.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Finally, finally we learned this, and we would have not
learned it had it not been for Elon Musk, and
one of the greatest presidents will go down in all
of history. Donald J.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Trump, Man, I am so proud, Actually, Uncle Henry, I
think that maybe my tax dollars might actually go for something, actually, oh,
for something good instead of waste now. And I want
them to keep looking, and I want them.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
To keep goutting man.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Keep cutting, because you know what they said, they have
found four point seven trillion untraced dollars that the Democrat
Party is stolen.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, I don't know if they know that it's been stolen,
but I think they've What they're claiming led is they
can't trace the money. They can't trace the money. No,
we don't know if the money went to ill grannies.
Maybe there's some grannies that have been very ill that
needed all this money, but they can't for whatever reason,
they can't trace it.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
I want to see the people go to jail.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
I want to see the people's houses raided. This money
is somewhere, Uncle Henry. All we have to do is
follow the follow the offshore bank accounts. That's all we
have to do. All we have to do is raid
Barack Obama's house. All we have to do is raiate
Clinton's out.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Man.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
They've been stealing us flying forever and mis McConnell. He
was probably Lindsey Graham too. I'm not gonna single out
just Democrats because I know there's a lot of state
stinkers in the Republican Party.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
That is so very true.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Man.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
I just feel so so relieved it finally, finally the
American taxpayer is going to see where his money went.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, d thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
A lot of people have these sentiments I have, And
I don't know if I feel relieved about it, because
I'm still, as I pointed out, I'm seeing people going
on record in front of TV cameras, Republicans going on
record in front of TV cameras saying that maybe this
is going too far, Maybe Elon's going too far and

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finding this waste.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Maybe we should just slow things down. Blah blah blah
blah blah.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
And so I'm worried about the loose see and the
football situation with Charlie Brown, where the football gets put
out there, and every time Charlie Brown trust to kick
the football, the football is pulled away. So I'm worried
about that. I am working very much. So there are
a lot of people, of course, as I said, that
agree with you Ld, and I'm one of them. But

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then there's a lot of people that don't.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
That liked the status quo.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
They liked the government being big and corrupt, and all
they wanted from Alabama congressmen and Alabama senators representatives, all
they wanted from our Alabama senators and congress people is
to go to Washington and try and bring some pork
back here. And they didn't care everything else doesn't matter.

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There are a lot of people that are really invested
in the entire system of it being a giant pork
factory and everybody just try to get a senator that's
really good at bringing home the pork, and they just
just let it be a big, big trough for all
these pigs to feed out of up there. I would

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love for that to all be cut out just like you.
I would love for our government not to be just
a giant money machine that if you have to know
the right guy or the right gal to have the
money get sprayed all over the place. I'm optimistic, though,

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this is I'll tell you this LD Every day now
when I start watching the news, I think to myself,
I am so glad I got to live to see this.
I don't know how it's going to turn out, but
I'm so glad I got to live to see this.
I never would have believed this was even possible a

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few years ago. All right, back with more, Uncle Henry's
Show continues here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. After
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Speaker 7 (09:37):
Hello color, Hey Uncle Henry. Hey, hey man.

Speaker 8 (09:44):
Uh sounding good today. I've been listening to the open
segment of the show, and now you're talking about taxation
and musk.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And yes, what do you call it.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
So there's something that a lot of people don't think about.
It struck me over the weekend is uh is sales taxes,
and UH I went to a local UH, I guess
a building supply store over the weekends, and I don't know,
I bought about two hundred and fifty dollars for the stuff.
And I looked at my receipt, and I had bought

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some some materials I had. I had a few different
types of boards that I needed to use around the
house to repair some stuff, and maybe some cocking and
a few kens of paint and all. I looked through
my receipt, just comparing it, make sure that everything added
up right, and you get to the end of it,
and uh, on that few hundred and fifty dollars there

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was there was a line item for an additional twenty
five dollars. And the funny thing about that is I
didn't see anything on there that explain what I was.

Speaker 9 (10:46):
Paying for except tax.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
Yeah, that's all it was. So I didn't really know.
I don't know what I'm getting for that. You follow
what I'm saying here.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Well, you're you're so you're do you want to know
where your sales tax is going. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 8 (11:01):
Yeah, wouldn't that be great if they If if we
could pass a law saying that I don't know, it's
some type of tax lottery or something, and you can,
you know, if the machine can spit out something to
show you what you're paying for for that that extra
ten percent that has added onto the gross taxes that
are you're already getting hit with on your income and

(11:23):
the and the sword. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Maybe in the future technology will be good enough so
that after you make a purchase, you get like a
text message telling you, thank you, thank you for your
sales tax.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
You just filled a pothole.

Speaker 8 (11:36):
Yeah, that would be great a pothole. Then I would know,
But I don't know if it's really how many potholes
is really feel? And then maybe it is, but really
I don't know. If I only my half of it
is a is a transfer of money from people that
ain't really making it, or you know, from people that
are making it. I don't know anyway, I don't know

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what other people think or how they feel about for
since sales tax is kind of says it to me,
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well, well it is regressive.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
It stinks. I don't like it either. I don't like
it at all. And I remember when it used to
not be ten percent and how people just claimed it
would be the end of the world and all of
the people that and all of the people Now that
it's been ten percent for a while, people just have
gotten used to the pain.

Speaker 9 (12:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (12:23):
I don't know how we're so used to the pain
and accept it because it is painful.

Speaker 9 (12:27):
That's anyway.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
That's all I really had to say. I'll hang up
and listen, man, I'll love to listen to your sir.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Ye have good day, all right, Well, sir, thank you
very much for that. But I remember a few years
ago we had a few local political figures trying to
in mobile trying They had a scheme or a plan
to try and lower the sales tax and make up
for the lost revenue with something dealing with property tax.
And nobody wanted nobody wanted to even have the conversation.

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Nobody wanted to hear that. But sales tax up where
it is. People, even though you and I, sir, are
not a fan of paying high high sales tax like that,
as each year goes by, people expect more from the government,

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not less more. A lot of people have been raised.
I've mentioned this several times. People are raised to think
that all good things come from the government. I've met
people that think like that. I've met people that think
that the only thing to get something done that's big
is to have public private partnerships so.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
That anything big.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Instead of having a private a private company come in
and start their own hockey team, we got to get
the government involved all that kind of stuff. It's just
people of and raised to think that all good things
come from a big government, and it takes tax dollars,
and so for people like me and you, sir, the

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best I think we can hope for in our lifetime
is to stop further increases in these taxes.

Speaker 7 (14:18):
Hello Coller, Hey over, Henry, how you doing, Nake.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Trevor, Stake, Trevor, you are lying on the radio.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
Oh, Henry, how I have been paying in Social Security
since I was seventeen years old. Yeah, roughly about forty
three years, give or take three or four days. And
for the past thirty years, you've been hearing that the
Social Security was going to run out right, and the
timeline was right there. When about the time I'm getting

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ready to retire, Henry, I should be able to retire
and probably about another six years. And right now I
am sitting here watching President Trump on TV telling how
many millions of people over one hundred to one hundred
and nine, and then how many from one hundred and
nine to one hundred and twenty, all with uncle Henry
Dari is a person that has actually drawn Social Security

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that is three hundred and sixty years old. And this
is absolutely disgusting and makes me want to vomit because
you know, we've been robbed. Henry. I could never imagine
it was as bad as what it actually is. And
what I would say to President Trump is anybody stealing money,

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locked them up, whether they Democrat, Republican, independent, black, Asian, white,
I don't care, Henry. If you break the law, you
need to be held accountable. And it is just disgusting me.
And no wonder they claiming that's gonna run out. I mean,
ain't no way, uh something like that could sustain itself.

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But man, and I would say to everybody out there
that has been stealing money for the last fifty plus years,
you might want to get in contact with President Trump
and try to cut a deal, maybe turn over on
somebody that was robbing us a little bit worse than
what you are, because Uncle Henry, yes, they are all
going to over the next year, going to devour their

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self by trying to stay out of trouble. I'm for
all of them paying for it.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Over Henry, Well, we certainly would like to see those
that have stolen from us have to pay for it
and do a little jail time for stealing from us. Again,
I'm optimistic, snake trapper. Not sure we'll see what we
want to see, but I'm optimistic more than I've ever been.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Oh yes, sir, on Henry, it's looking brighter than it
ever has in my lifetime. I mean, I still gonna
work another six years, so I'm still putting money in
that part. And I think I was looking at a
report where between me and my employer On Henry, I've
done pay it in right around six hundred thousand dollars.
You know, like I said, I have been paying it
for forty plus years, So you know that's me three

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hundred thousand and my employer for hundred thousands. And man,
if he'll just cut me a check and give me
what I put in and say ideos I'd be happy
with it, but you know, they've been telling me it
wasn't going to be there, which, you know, thank god,
I've always been able to save a dime out every
dollar I made, so you know, I've kind of not

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wanted to have to depend on that to survive. But
you know, I said, you've been saying it wasn't.

Speaker 9 (17:23):
Going to be there.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's true, and and let and and I think it
will be.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
I think it will be.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Hey, Snake Trapper, I gotta go, got to go into
the break, But thank you for your phone call.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
Sorry, I wasnting like it.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's okay, that's okay, Snake Trapper. In fact, you've really
stimulated thought in my mind. Snake Trapper said he was
so upset about this that it made him want to
throw up. I'm trying to think have I wanted? Have
I ever thrown up? From the government?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
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Speaker 1 (19:06):
Now.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
In the last segment of the show, Snake Trapper was
on some type of verbal rampage talking about fraud, government fraud,
and he said this, oh.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Wait for Henry, there is a person that has actually
drawn Social Security that is three hundred and sixty years old.
And uh, this is absolutely disgusting and makes me want
a vomit now.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
And that really stimulated my mind when I heard him
say that, It really made him want to throw up.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I've tried to. I know the government has made me mad.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Numerous, just numerous and numerous times today only and just
forget last week, I mean today alone. I'm trying to
think if I've ever been mad enough that I wanted
to throw up because I've been really mad, I mean
really really mad. Uh reference to COVID the COVID era there.

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I don't know if I've ever wanted to throw up, though,
I'm gonna have to think about it. I'm gonna ponder
this over the next day or two. Have I ever
been at like snake trapper wanting to throw up due
to government waste fraud? Something like that?

Speaker 1 (20:22):
All right? Two five, one, four, seven, nine two three
the telephone.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
Number, Hello Color, Hey, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm doing good and you are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (20:32):
Great, uh he he. I just figured out why people
like mis McConnell and all these other guys go up
there and spend a lifetime up there in Washington Sea.
I think mister muff and President Trump has revealed that

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to us.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well in terms then I'm sorry interrupted, he revealed what
to us about? What did they reveal?

Speaker 9 (21:07):
He revealed why people go to Washington, d C. And
stay up there forty fifty years.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
And that is because they're stealing money. Well that you
put it, I was trying to think of an elegant
way to say it.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
And you just you just went right to the truth
of the matter.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Well, yeah, there's look uh and it's and it's uh
stealing money by Hey, We're gonna vote for this and
then I'm gonna have my brother in law be in
charge of that and his wife can get a job
doing this, and it turns everybody in the family ends
up making a ton of money.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah, I uh, I heard something about this revelation about
that uh that Green New Deal uh by got started there, Yes,
you know Trade dollar k New deal. Well, the story

(22:08):
is want to bite. Best friend had to get a
a non profit started before he could get just megian
ten million dollars grant and he just got it done
this year and they with hell, they pigionhold ten million

(22:29):
dollars for this guy a friend new non profit qualified
was ten million dollars for the the Green New Deal.
And when I heard that, I thought that was just unbelievable.
That's the way Washington, DC works.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Amen, That's exactly it.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Anyway, I just wanted to put that in.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, I'm glad you did. Thank j Hey, thank you
very much for listening. Thank you for calling the show.
One of the things we've heard about doage doing musk
the Trump administration doing is looking into how our politicians

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can do so well that they well, it's public record
what you get paid to be a senator or a
representative in Congress. And then we hear all these stories
about how the net worth is just amazing on a
lot of these folks once, once they've been in office

(23:42):
for a while, they have tremendous net worth. I think
shouldn't people in both political parties be in favor of
finding out because don't we all we would all like
to be wealthy. Maybe they can help it. Have a
big seminar, do some YouTube videos teaching all of us
how to increase our net worth, the way that senators

(24:03):
and representatives have figured out how to improve their net
worth and make all this money. I mean this, we'd
all love to know. We'd all love to know, and
it's in their best interest to show us exactly how
they increase their net worths because if they can show
us and how it was all above board, everything was legal,

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there was no stealing or nothing, no backroom deals, then
we'll have more trust in government. Then we'll trust our
government more, won't feel as upset when we pay the taxes,
when we see that they increase the network their net
worth legally instead of illegally. I'm very much looking forward

(24:45):
to finding out all about that. It's also interesting how
people once they get out of office. Have they been
a politician for a long time, then they get out
and suddenly they get really rich. I saw some list
of how much the net worth is for former presidents,
and I think I saw something about the Clintons are

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now up to one hundred and twenty millions.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't know what they I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Exactly they've done except make speeches, write books and riding
planes with Jeffrey Epstein since they got out of office,
but I think the Clintons are worth something like one
hundred and twenty million dollars worth, way more than W see.
I would have thought that w coming from a political dynasty,

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would have been worth even more.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
Hello Color, Hey, O, Henry Now Coobill, how are you?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Nev Kobell. I'm doing great. You are live on the radio.

Speaker 10 (25:49):
Hey. I don't know if a lot of people know this.
I mean, it's been in the news and everything about
senators and congress people utilizing insider trade to become wealthy,
and the for you or me or Martha Stewart. We
get into big trouble with that, you know, if you

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do it and partake in it, and they get catch
you and you go to jail. But what I guess
the majority or a lot of people Americans don't know
is when Congress passes those types of laws, they exempt themselves.
They can legally, maybe not morally, but they can legally

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commit or do insider trading. And one of the things
I was proud to hear about, I would assume Tommy
Tupperville has his money probably in a blind trust, because
in the financial records for Tommy Tupperville, I think he
did like five points something percent on returns, which is

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not out of the line with what the average investor
or the average person putting money into a fort when
kay would get in returns for any given year, yeah,
you know, you might go a little higher, a little lower.
But the ones, the real crooks like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer,
some of those folks were making one hundred and forty
plus percent on their money, which was due primarily to the

(27:18):
insider trading. Now, the kickbacks they get from everything else
is that's what those are really going to expose I
think hope.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
So hey, nav Cobil, I got to run into the break.
But thank you for listening, thank you for calling.

Speaker 10 (27:32):
Okay, thank you, Henry.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
There he goes nav Cobil. There is more to come.
More Uncle Henry Show to come here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Back after the break. It is

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five fifty Uncle Henry Show. Two five one four seven
nine two seventy two three. That's two five one four
seven nine two seventy two three. Let me go to
the voicemail voicemail number two five one two one six
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six

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nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
Sold tired uncle.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
A couple of things that gets my goat on this brainy,
quite chilly afternoon. Yes, first of all, and it's something
I've expressed before. I'm hearing all these people now complain about,
Oh they're tired of it being so cold? Would the
warm weather hurry up and get here? And this is

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the same Dad blame people that when it is warm, which,
as you know, I am very fond of the warm
weather as opposed to the cold weather. They're all hollering, Oh,
wouldn't it be nice to just get cool enough where
we could put on a sweater or a jacket or something. Police.
Cold weather stinks in my book.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I liked it.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
By the way, there's more to this voicemail. I just
like your firm stance. Sixty seven year old Chris has
a firm stance. I know maybe you, the listener, wished
I would take more firm, firm stances. And I'll think
about that because I'm attracted to the to the stance
that is, there's no wiggle room here.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Cold weather stinks.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Stinks in my book anyway. And I'm this when I've
expressed to you two or three times in the past.
It's but that dead blame Sean Hannity in his interview,
and he has some great guests, and he asked some

(29:57):
killer questions. But then once again, and this is reference
to him having Bill Rally's on there every Wednesday, he'll
he'll ask Riley about something. Riley has started talking, and
he'll buddy in and he'll just keep on and on
and on, and every now and again you'll hear Riley
try to say something, and he'll just keep on and
on and on and on and walking all over him.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
All right, Well, I guess that's that.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
All right, sixties of your Chris, thank you for sharing
your thoughts. Look, Sean Hannity, I'll agree with you on
this point.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
He when he has when he interviews people, he has
he has the flaw of talking too much during the interviews.
In fact, I saw him trying to interrupt President Trump once.
Sean Hannity, You're right. He gets good guests and then
he won't let them talk. Often very it can be

(30:58):
very frustrating, very frustrating. So I agree with you on that,
and I agree with you. I think on the cold
it does stink. Now do I like cooler weather every
now and again? I do, yes, But I like your
firm stand on cold weather. Voice my number two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two one
six nineteen seventy six for the Uncle Henry Show voicemail. Now,

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let's see, while I've got time, what can I tell
you about it?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
I saw a weird story. Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
This has to do with end of life. There's a
new thing in the funeral industry and this is starting
in London. The company is called Poetic Endings, and this

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company is offering the world's first living coffin. The coffin
is made of mushrooms. It is a coffin made of mushrooms,
eco friendly coffin. It breaks down biological matter, decomposing within

(32:15):
forty five days and then enriching the soil. So this
is for somebody that really want If you're one of
those people that you just you just want to be composed,
I don't know. Look, I don't even know how to
talk about it. But if you this is your thing.
A coffin made of mushrooms, and they are priced only

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at about fifteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Bucks US dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
If you were to be buried in the mushroom coffin.
You know, this got me to thinking, I don't think
I want to be buried in a mushroom coffin. It
sounds a little just just too weird for me. I
know you'd love it, but it's too weird for me.
If I were going to have some unusual way of
being put to rest, I would want somehow. I would

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like somehow for my remains to fill potholes. If I
could be put in asphalt and then filled some holes
in the streets of the city of Mobile, I think
that would be the ultimate. I would love the idea
that after I passed, that my remains would go into

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potholes and provide a smoother ride for the mobilians that
I'd left behind after passing forward into the next phase
of life. I'm going to see if there's anything practical
about that, if I could possibly do that, somehow get
myself put in some asphalt.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
There's more to come. The Aul Gleanor Show continues.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
We have news headlines from Fox and then there's more show.
You can listen to previous episodes as a podcast on
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Speaker 1 (34:28):
This is the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
On News Radio seventy ten WNTM. I'm Uncle Henry, and
I want you to know that I respect you as
a listener. That respect is hypothetical and theoretical in that
you and I have not met, but hypothetically, if we've met,

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I would have tremendous respect for you. Now I would
have gratitude towards you all. So as a listener, I'm
very grateful that you're listening. That's not hypothetical or theoretical.
If we met, I would be very thankful and grateful
to you personally for listening to the show. Even if
I found you to be repulsive in any way, that's right.

(35:16):
Even if you were repulsive, bye, maybe you have maybe
you've got a repulsive habit.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Even if you had a repulsive habit, in my opinion,
I would still feel gratitude toward you.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I hope. Have we cleared this up all right?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
In this half hour the unk Clinary Show going to
get to some news items and maybe a voicemail. There's
one thing I want to talk to you about that
I saw this. I saw this today and I wasn't
sure if I believed it. I still don't know what
to think about it. It is a research study. It
was published yesterday. I don't normally bring up research studies
on the Unculinary Show because I found that the results

(35:55):
of research studies often coincidentally have a lot to do
with who pays for the study. Yeah, yeah, it's funny
how that works, but money can often affect how a
study turns out. Anyway, listen to this you'll know why
I wanted to bring this up. So researchers from universities

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across the United States and Canada. They got together with
groups of iPhone users, and they found that people feel happier,
more focused, and even sleep better if they turned the
Internet off on their smartphone for just two weeks. Two

(36:39):
weeks without the Internet on their smartphone has them feeling happier,
they're more focused, they sleep better, and the improvements were
so significant that they were comparable to reversing ten years
of age related cognitive decline. What, yes, they're claiming, Well,

(37:02):
I guess you can tell what they're claiming. This sounds
like they're saying that using a smartphone that has Internet
on it ages your brain prematurely, or it puts you
in a state of mind where you're acting as if
you have cognitive decline, even if you might not have
cognitive decline. Happier, more focused, sleep better. I can buy

(37:24):
into that. But the whole part of this that's got
me is the improvements so significant that they're comparable to
reversing ten years of age related cognitive decline. So when
I heard this, I was skeptical. Of course, Then I
wanted to know, well, who paid for this, because there's
got to be money tied to this.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Who would pay for this?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
And how do they think they're going to make money
off of this?

Speaker 1 (37:51):
This study.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Many studies, many studies. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but
many studies it turns out that companies or interest groups
will fund the study and then while I amazingly, they're
somehow making money. So I looked it up. Who paid
for this study of turning off the Internet on smartphones?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
And people are.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Just happier and their mind is younger. It was paid
for by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Now,
isn't Silicon Valley where they invent smartphones? Don't they invent
smartphones and apps and things like that out in Silicon Valley.

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So this doesn't say it's already not making It's still
not making sense to me. How this this study? Why
they even wanted this study? Why would Silicon Valley want
to fund a study to find out what happens when
you turn the Internet off on their products? So where's

(39:04):
the money angle on this? I don't know, by the way,
I have no idea what the money angle is. But
I'm wondering if maybe they'll take this study and maybe
invent an app that you can download onto your phone
that will monitor your Internet use or turn it you

(39:25):
Maybe you would it would be a way of saying,
I will only have the Internet used on my phone
for eight hours a day or five hours a day.
I'm trying to figure out where's the money angle on this.
And I also thought to myself, well, I would like
to be happier, more focused, and sleep better. And I

(39:45):
would really love to reverse my cognitive decline. Because I know,
if you're a regular listener to the Uncle Henry Show,
I'm sure you've noticed that I'm just all kind of decline,
just tremendous decline here in my brain, and I know
you hear it every day.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
So I thought about could I do this? Could I? Yes?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I could. I could go without the Internet. I could
probably go without the Internet for the rest of my
life because I grew up without it.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
I'm going to yes, and you probably did too. I
like it.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I like the idea of being able to stream sports
onto my television or look things up, having the equivalent
of the Library of Alexandria times a gazillion available on
my phone whenever I want to look something up.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
I could do without it, But at this point I
don't know that I want to. Yeah, they've already they've
already gotten me to where I want to use the phone.
Now that I want to use it, they're telling me
that I'm better off not using it. All right, Well,
I just want to let you know about this. I
found it an odd claim that turning the Internet off
on your smartphone is for two weeks is comparable to

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reversing ten years of age related cognitive decline. It makes
me wonder now how much more competitive we might be.
I used to think we were more competitive as a
country by having this technology. Are we at a point
where the technology is also making us less competitive? Would

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we all be smarter somehow if we stopped getting glued
to our smartphones.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
I just found this to be a just an odd
study coming out of Silicon Valley. All right, look, I
know you want to hear other things. I'll get to
the other things as the Uncle Interry show continues. I
have a few news items, other more pressing news items
to run by you as we move forward here on
the program, speaking of using your smartphone and how it

(41:58):
causes you cognitive decline and stuff like that. We do
have the iHeart Radio app for your smartphone. I've told
you about it many times. You can listen to the
Uncle Henry Show on the iHeart Radio app. Download the app.
They've made it more like a car radio now so
you can scan the radio dial really in any town

(42:19):
in this country. You just enter a zip code or
the name of a city. You can scan a live
radio dial in that city, which I love. I love
doing that kind of stuff. I am a radio fan
from going back in the days of me owning a
Crystal Radio. The Crystal radio I built back in the day,

(42:39):
I could only get it to pick up woonee. Yeah,
Woonie was the only station in my Crystal Radio. iHeartRadio
app better than the Crystal Radio.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
So Uncle Henry Show. You want to listen to previous episodes,
download the iHeart Radio app and then set a preset
for the Uncle Henry Show and you'll be able to
listen to it. I'll be back with more after the
break on WNTM. This says the Uncle Henry Show. News

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headlines are coming away in ten minutes before we get there.
There is at least a news item here I want
to share with you. This is from the Alabama legislature.
There's a bit of legislation that the Attorney General of Alabama,
Steve Marshall is trying to get this passed. It's the
Speedy Trial Act, an attempt to speed up the process

(43:48):
when violent criminal cases are in the system. I have
no idea how long it takes for these cases to
make it through the court system in the state of Alabama.
I just know that all of us should want to
to be as little delay as possible. All of us
would want a speedy trial. I would think most of
us would want a s speedy trial. It's good for

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all of us. I think, for example, if the person
accused didn't do the crime, and that happens every now
and again, you want to taken care of as quickly
as possible if you didn't do something wrong, so that
you can get your life back and not have your
life wrecked waiting a year or two years to go
to trial. And if somebody is a violent criminal, you

(44:32):
don't want them out waiting for trial doing more crime,
which we've seen examples of that locally. So let's listen together.
I've got this story from w b RC in Birmingham.
This is about the Speedy Trial Act. As not everybody
is in favor of this, you.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Are considering could help clear the state's court backlog of
violent crime cases.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
But one legal expert for yours it could actually create
a domino effect.

Speaker 11 (45:00):
Your reporter, Josh Gant, speaking with an attorney tonight to
find out where potential problems could develop with this proposed bill.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Josh, what did you find out?

Speaker 12 (45:08):
Yeah, Britney Steve attorney Roger Repel says the Speedy Trial
Act is good in theory, but he says things like
more on Naya's Law cases may cause the system to
slow down even more. Speeding up violent criminal cases without
unnecessary delays is something Attorney General Steve Marshall is pushing for.
A part of the Speedy Trial Act, the bill proposes

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tapping retired circuit judges to preside over specific cases to
reduce violent crime.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
We want to identify those cases that desperately need to
be heard in which the prosecutors and defense are prepared.

Speaker 10 (45:40):
The only thing that they're missing as a judge in
a jury to be able to consider it.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
You're going to have lots of problems that are going
to come. But again, in theory, it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 13 (45:49):
One of the problems could come with the Naya's Law
cases with more people being denied bond in jail and
awaiting trial. According to criminal defense attorney Roger Repel.

Speaker 11 (45:58):
These people now who are charged to murder or capital murder,
you're going to be forcing those trials to come to fruition.
But in the same time, you're gonna have people that
are still in jail on crimes that aren't violent, that
haven't been able to make bond. Their cases are going
to be slowed down even more. You're going to have
people that are out on bond on cases that may
not be a violent crime, but their cases are going

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to be slowed down even more because you're prosecuting.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
The other cases.

Speaker 13 (46:23):
Uphill says murder.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Right now, those are valid concerns. Usually I'm ready to
dismiss I'm usually skeptical of some of the objections to
this kind of stuff, but those are I hear what
that guy is saying about this. It's too bad that
we can't allocate the resources necessary so that everybody gets

(46:44):
a speedy trial, whether it's a violent crime or non
violent or whatever it is. I wonder, what is that
too expensive for the State of Alabama to do. Just
have a few more judges.

Speaker 13 (46:58):
Murder cases do take time, some longer than others.

Speaker 11 (47:02):
I've handled, you know, many of them, and they're not
just you know, you get arrested, indicted, and then you
go to trial a few weeks afterwards. These can be
very complicated and complex cases, involving expert witnesses and investigations
by the defense.

Speaker 12 (47:19):
Another issue could be staffing, according to a Facebook post
from a current circuit judge who says if they use
the staff judicial assistants, court reporters, bailiffs of current sitting judges,
then that judge can't hear any cases. He's suggesting amending
the legislation to provide funding for staff.

Speaker 13 (47:37):
Of course, we'll keep you updated on what happens. Is
Dona Montgomery Brittany all right.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I would like our judicial system to be fair to everyone,
of course, and move a little bit quicker. And I
still I don't understand why my suggestions no one will
pick up on my suggestions of when somebody commits numerous
crimes in the state, why can't we just give them

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a bus ticket and say you can't live here anymore?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Why not if somebody's committed I don't know, we come
up with a number save you're convicted of ten crimes
or twenty crimes or something. It gets expensive. People get
arrested over and over and over again. You've noticed this.
Why can't we just we tell sex offenders where they
can live. If somebody's convicted of being a blankial offender,

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there are all kinds of laws about where they can live.
And they can't live within a certain number of feet
of a school, or they can't live near this, they
can't live near that. They've got to check in whenever
they move. They've got a lot. Why can't we do
that with other criminals and just say, all right, we
see here, you've been arrested ninety seven times, you've been

(48:50):
convicted ten times. You've hit our limit. You now can
no longer live in the state of Alabama, and we
will give you a bus ticket to any in the
continental of the United States. But if you come back
into the state of Alabama, you'll have to have mandatory
prison time or so.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I don't know, I don't know. Let's figure it out.
Let's figure it out.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Maybe uh, plane tickets to Australia, something like that. Let's
think about it all right, out of time for this
edition of the Uncle Henry Show. As I mentioned to
you earlier. I appreciate very much you listening to the show.
You don't even really have to listen. You can just
turn it on your radio and walk away. That's okay.
I don't mind talking to your empty room. Thank you

(49:36):
for listening. As they say in Sarah Land, have a
good one, and as they say in Theodore, take it easy.
And I have verified this, they're still saying it in Theodore,
take it easy.

Speaker 7 (49:56):
All right.

Speaker 9 (49:57):
Later