Genius with Chicken Wings

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you. I appreciate you listening to
the Uncle Henry Show. Now in this half hour, going
to cover some news items with you and maybe listen
to a voicemail. I want to start with something from
yesterday's Mobile City Council meeting. I talked about this on

(00:41):
the Uncle Ras Show yesterday, and that is the Mobile
City Council is looking at the business license of a
bar on Saint Stephen's Road. It's called Fat Tuesday Sports
Bar spelled pH at because I guess phat is better
than fat. I don't understand. I don't understand any of that,

(01:04):
but anyway, Fat Tuesday Sports part used to be called
sixteen oh eight because I think the address is sixteen
oh eight Saint Stephens Road. Mobile police asking that it
be shut down because of enormous resources of the city
having to go with countless well I shouldn't say countless.

(01:24):
They said they had some like two hundred police calls
to this place. They have to keep sending the police
there over and over and over again, and the place
seems to stay open. I don't know what lanyap asked
the owner when they close, and he said he closes
when people stopped buying chicken wings, and so I believe

(01:45):
it is open. I mean, you'll see enormous numbers of
cars around this place at three in the morning, four
in the morning. It's just it is. It would be
horrible to live behind there. There's residents behind there. It
would just be terrible to live near this place. So
the council did not Mobile City Council did not vote

(02:10):
yes or no on shutting it down. Let's listen to
how Fox ten covered this, because I'm sure they've got
some stuff that I've not heard of yet, So let's
learn together.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Council delaying a vote on whether to close a bar
that's been under fire. May Stemson's administration says fat Tuesday
Sports Bar on Saint Stephen's is a public nuisance. Brendan
Gerby is joining us now with the very latest on this,
and Brendan, it seems the council is just not ready
to decide.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, they're not.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Lenice Council members say they still got some questions and
several say they're looking to see if there are other
options besides closure. A week after Mobile Police detailed hundreds
of calls they responded to it Fat Tuesday Sports Bar.
City administration officials are again asking the city Council to
revoke the establishment's business license. Council members say they sympathy

(03:00):
eyes with neighbors who have had to deal with frequent disturbances.
The incidents ranged from illegal parking to shootings, but some
council members say they want more information about the hours
these calls have come in, as well as how many
of the incidents are inside the bar versus outside of it.
Council Vice President Geina Gregory suggested considering sanctions short of

(03:21):
closing the bar, perhaps a temporary suspension. We're in order
to beef up security or reduce hours of operation.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
If we agree to something like a suspension, then that
would be the hope, but it may not be worth
that effort when we get more information.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Rob Laski, Executive Director of Public Safety, says he believes
police officials made a compelling case last week when they
testify that there have been two hundred and seventy calls
to Fat Tuesdays two hundred and seventy since twenty twenty two,
and that on many weekend nights, it ties up the
precincts entire squad.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
My recommendation stands as it is.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I believe that the business is a public safety hazard.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
But at the end of the day, they were elected
into their job to do that.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
They feel like I should be closed out.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Rick Johnson, who owns the bar, says police have been
to his establishment recently, but not because they were responding
the problems.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yes, he did for the last for a week. He
wouldn't call out there. He came out there volunteerly.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Johnson says he's been paying three off duty officers at
a rate of fifty dollars an hour to keep order
in his parking lot. He says he can't control what
happens around the property.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
I don't have that many peoples in my place. Saturday
night is the only night that everybody converge on my
business around my business anyway, because they don't have anywhere
else to go.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Councilman William Carroll says he wants to know how the
city handled previous situations that includes the predecessor of Fat
Tuesday at that same level location at a former club
on Dolphins Street known is Atlantis. City officials say they're
gathering information Saft Bay Council members and we'll hope for
a vote next week. Reporting live in the Nee Center,
Brendan Kirby, Fox ten News.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You can't now, I've got a voicemail on the topic. Uh,
let me go to the voicemail. This is a listener
that I've played this person's voicemails Buford already this week.

Speaker 8 (05:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Buford is predicting that the bar will not be shut down.

Speaker 8 (05:31):
A handra not there fact, Teersy's Bar, Henry, they will
never close that bar down. This is why. First off,
the owner of that place is a business genius. I mean,
don't close till they stop selling, till they stop buying
chicken wings. That's just pure genius. But Henry, he's out

(05:55):
a genius in another way. As soon as he got
money up, Henry, he started every local politician he could
and now.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Let me stop there. Yesterday at the council meeting, there
was a young lady that works at Fat Tuesdays that
spoke at the council meeting, and she pointed out to
the council that her boss had contributed to some of
their campaigns and previous council members campaigns and other elected

(06:26):
officials in Mobile County. So that was that was pointed
out by one of the employees.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Every local politician he could. He owns every dagum preacher, politician,
and the African American politicians on the city council. He
owns them as well. He also has several preachers in
his back pocket that will jump and shout racism and
miss is a political lynching accusations. If they try to

(06:55):
shut that open drug market down, Henry, if they up
shutting that place down, I will be unbelievably, unbelievably surprised.
I just Hanry, I just don't see it happening. Man.
It will never shut that place down because he is
smart enough to kick back some money to all these

(07:19):
local politicians in his world to keep him protected anyway, Henry,
just my two cents. As old Fredericks, you say time
holds the tale of all things, and time will all
know you have a good day.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
You thank you for your voicemail voicemail number two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Uh, here's that
employee from yesterday. This is like in the middle of
her speech to the council where she explains that the
bar owner pays for an Easter egg hunt.

Speaker 9 (07:56):
He has had an Easter egg hunt every year that
is also funded by him alone. He gives away over
five hundred dollars and that's not even including the cost
that it takes to put the functions together. At the events,
the kids of that community get to enjoy free food, spacewalks,
face paintings, and many other enjoyments. Think about those children

(08:16):
with rendering your decision.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, think if you close down that bar, the little
children will not have a fun Easter egg hunt.

Speaker 9 (08:26):
Richard Johnson has donated money to support the campaign of
not only some of the city council members that sit
before us today, but even political parties in the city
of Pritcher. Richard Johnson has donated to many children outside
of this community.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
All Right, Beautford, you may be right about this, but
as you said, we'll find out eventually. All right, back
with more Uncle Henry Show after the break here on
news radio seventy to ten. Take the dad Gum break,

(09:03):
it says, the Uncle Henry Show. Here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. We have news headlines coming up. In
ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines, I
have a few more stories. I want to get to
things I want to learn about here now. A night
or two ago, I shared a story with you about

(09:24):
how student enrollment in Alabama public schools is dropping, and
it was presented as a mystery that don't there's some
of these students that don't know where they've gone. They're
not being enrolled anywhere else. They can't figure out where
the students have gone, or at least as of that

(09:45):
night that I ran that report, that was the story.
So I've got to follow up. This is from WBrC
UP in Birmingham, a stepsister station to Foxton. Here is
a report on the drop in public school attendance in Alabama.
Let's learn together, as we listened together to this.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Report, thousands of students now just missing from school attendance
rules all across our states.

Speaker 10 (10:12):
So we're digging into the numbers into as many of
your children's school leaders can't totally explain where those students are.
They're baffled. State Superintendent of Education doctor Eric Mackie told
us attendance is down by fifty eight hundred students. A
large portion went to private or homeschooling through the Choose Act,
but there are more than two thousand students unaccounted for,

(10:36):
and the largest number missing students come from the bigger
school districts. For example, in Mobile County, nine hundred and
sixty students. That's down from forty seven thousand student population
in our viewing area.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
So Mobile County nine hundred students haven't shown up and
they are baffled. You heard that word, I believe by
the way, I wish the news people would use the
word baffle or baffled more often.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
Birmingham City Schools normally has twenty thousand students, but they're
down four hundred and eighty two those students not showing up.
Out of the thirty four thousand students in Jefferson County Schools,
one twenty five students are gone from the attendance roles.
The state superintendent stopped shorts of saying that fear of
immigration enforcement is the reason for the drop in attendance.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
As we talk to local superintendents, we know that in
some places that are high impacted that they did lose
a lot of Hispanic students, but statewide that is not
the case. We actually gained three hundred Hispanic students between
follow twenty four and the follow twenty five.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Really, we've really so with all of this going on,
we've gained Hispanic students in the state of Alabama.

Speaker 10 (11:53):
Talking with local teachers unions about the impact the drop
is having on educators.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Reporter Jillian Brooks and studio with new reaction to that
big enrollment drop from teachers union and of course they
cared Jillian because this drop.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
And I'm pausing here, and I apologize for pausing. So
what do you think if it's not Hispanic students afraid
of immigration crackdowns, is what is it? Because they've explained
that these students have not shown up enrolled in other
states on their school roles. Where do you think these

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students have gone?

Speaker 11 (12:28):
I could cut the number of teacher positions across the state.

Speaker 12 (12:31):
Absolutely could have a huge domino of fact. Now, many
educators in expected and drop an enrollment because of the
Choose Act going into effect, But what they did not
expect was those thousands of students not making it to
school at all. There are nearly seven hundred and twenty
thousand public school students across the state of Alabama. That's
down about five thousand from last year, with a thousand

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of those in Jefferson County Schools alone.

Speaker 9 (12:55):
We believe at AEA that the best environment for students
to learn and grow and thrive in Alabama's public schools,
So we want all of our students to be president
and accounting.

Speaker 12 (13:04):
For several school districts statewide, SOAW would dip in their enrollment.
State Superintendent Doctor Eric Mackie saying that some superintendents have
mentioned that a lot of the students missing are Hispanic.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
And I mean, we've all seen what's going on, and
I've always said, when it affects our kids, you know
that that's when we should be concerning. And to me,
that's never what our country has stood for.

Speaker 12 (13:26):
The president of the Birmingham American Federation of Teachers believes
that many of the students aren't in class because they
fear being deported.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
We expect our kids, all kids to just go to school.
It's about teaching and learning. But I think we'ld live now.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
We just heard the state superintendents say that they've gained
Hispanic students, So now why is the union guy going
opposite of the school superintendent on this?

Speaker 6 (13:51):
And during the time we're making decisions that affect our kids,
that teaching and learning.

Speaker 12 (13:57):
With the loss of thousands of students, Doctor Mackie's says
that could mean the loss of teaching positions.

Speaker 11 (14:02):
We're certainly hopeful that we can retain as many of
those positions as possible.

Speaker 12 (14:08):
Now, not all schools are seeing a decrease. Some have
stayed the same while others have grown.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
All right, I'm waiting for the more follow ups to
this to find out what exactly is going on now
before we're out of time, A quick quick story on snakes.
I know snake Trapper might like this. Florida is talking
about its effort to eradicate pythons in the Everglades. Let's

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listen together.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Florida Governor Rhan DeSantis wants to protect native species that
roam the Everglades, saying we're basically putting a bounty on
the python. A state invested two million dollars this year
to hunt the giant snakes. De Santis pointing out that
a single female Burmese python, considering an apex predator, can
lay up to one hundred eggs at a time, adding

(15:01):
they have no natural predators in the Florida Everglades. Over
nine hundred people took part this summer in Florida's Python Challenge,
setting a new record by removing two ordred ninety four
of them over the course of ten days. Pythons prey
on mammals, birds, and reptiles while robbing native predators, including panthers, bobcats,
and alligators of their primary food sources. C J Papa,

(15:21):
Fox News.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
All Right, I need to find out from the snake
trapper what python tastes like. All right, out of time
for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate
very much you listening. As they say in Sarahland, have
a good one, and as they say in Theodore, take
it easy.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
All right later