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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I don't go, Henry, how you doing? I cannot believe ignorant.
A lot of people in the United States are message deleted.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
This says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. Thank you, thank you for listening to
the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it very very much.
Once again, here we are together, me and you, just

(01:28):
the two of us, trying to figure out what is
going on? What is going on in the world today?
What's wrong with these people now on today's program, numerous things.
There's all kinds of stuff to talk about. We have
we now just just a universe of things to talk
about here on the Uncle Henry Show, just about every level.

(01:51):
Before I get to any of that, though, I want
to share with you very briefly a quick voicemail. This
came in to me. I was so excited, so excited
when this voice, ma now came into my voicemail in
box today. This was phoned in before noon today. Listen
to that. This is what a gorgeous voicemail. This is.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
A pothole at seventeen hundred Springhill Avenue headed toward the interstate.
Previous call to three one to one.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Thank you, oh my lord, thank you, whoever you are,
whatever anonymous person phone in, thank you for phoning in
your pothole. I would love for the I would love
for the Uncle Henry Show voicemail to turn into a
secondary pothole reporting system. Of course three one one in
the City of Mobile's app. You can, of course report
them to the City of Mobile. But I love hearing

(02:43):
about them too. The voicemail number if you'd like to
phone in potholes at various times in your life, two
five one two one six nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six to phone
in your pothole. In fact, where was this? This was
on spring Hill Avenue.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Where was this, uh pothole at seventeen hundred Springhill Avenue
headed toward the interstate.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
All right, what a wonderful sir, whoever you are, Thank
you so much. You made my day with that one one. See,
this is the important stuff. We're in a mayor's race
and everybody's talking about crime and whatever else they're talking about.
This is the kind of stuff if you if you
can't do the basics, you have no business being in
office in my personal opinion. Now, let's see here we

(03:33):
are lots of things to talk about. Two five one
four seven nine two seven two three. The telephone number
if you'd like to call into the program and talk
to me two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now,
I got an email today from the City of Mobile.
It was a press release. Uh, that has to do

(03:57):
with traffic in the City Mobile. Let me go to
the email inbox. Subject line on the email this traffic
signals to be removed is part of Downtown street optimization plan. Now,
this is something we talked about on the Uncle Inmers

(04:17):
show a few weeks ago. The email reads as follows.
The City of Mobile is going to work to remove
traffic signals from select downtown intersections. That work will begin
next week. It's part of a multi year optimization effort
aimed at making downtown safer and more efficient for pedestrians, cyclists,

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and motorists. The City of Mobile is leading the project,
which stems from a comprehensive plan created by the Downtown
Mobile a lines working with a renowned urban planner Jeff Speck.
During his visit, SPEC met with downtown business and key
stakeholders to identify ways to improve the area's functionality and accessibility.

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The resulting strategy emphasized creating a more walkable, efficient, and
safer Downtown for everyone, whether you're traveling on foot, on
a bike, or in a vehicle. The one point one
million dollar effort, Yes, we're going to be spending over

(05:26):
a million dollars to remove traffic signals. The one point
one million dollar effort, beginning next week, will remove twenty
six traffic signals from intersections in Downtown. In most of
those locations, the signals will be replaced with four way

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stops to improve traffic flow, and we all understand that
the best way to improve traffic flow is to stop
it with a stop sign. This will increase pedestrian safety.
The project will also improve the pedestrian safety and access

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by installing new ada ramps and restriping crosswalks. All twenty
six of the traffic signals that are scheduled for removal
will begin flashing red Wednesday morning of next week and
will continue to do so for ninety days. And this
transition period gives you time to adjust to the new

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all ways stops and allows traffic engineers to observe driver behavior.
All right, so this for ninety days, all the things
are going to rip out, are going to be flashing red.
So you can get used to the idea that you're
going to have to stop a lot. Now. I mentioned
this in the last time this came up, but I

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am very confident in my prediction. I will make the
prediction again. I predict in fifteen to twenty years. In
fifteen to twenty years, somebody is going to put together
a comprehensive plan with businesses and stakeholders to put up
traffic signals. This is my prediction fifteen to twenty years

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from now, because they're gonna forget about all this. They're
gonna take out all these traffic lights. People are gonna
get tired of having to stop at these stomp signs
all over twenty six intersections going to be People are
gonna get sick of it. And in about fifteen to
twenty years, there'll be new There'll be new people on
the council Nobile City Council. There'll be some new people

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doing business downtown. They'll try to find some renowned expert
from somewhere and they're gonna bring them in and they're
gonna reverse this. This is my prediction. Mark it down
in your mind if you intend on being around fifteen
to twenty years from now. A lot of us we
don't know, but if I am around in fifteen to

(08:03):
twenty years, certainly I will be remembering this. In fact,
I might be leading the effort to go find an
expert to back up the idea that we need the
traffic signals. Yeah, we've now reached a time where progress,
where progress is seen as taking down traffic signals and

(08:28):
putting up stop signs. That is now progress. Thank you
to everyone involved. Back with more Uncle Henry's Show after
the break here on news radio seven to ten WNTM WNTM.

(09:15):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. Telephone number if you'd like to call
in and talk with me and the listener two five
one four seventy nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seventy two three. Email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. And see let me let me

(09:44):
go to a message here from a regular listener of
the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Hey, unh Patnelly.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Or someone claiming to be Patnelly.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Hope you're having a great afternoon. Welcome back. I missed
you anyways.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Unk.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Have you seen where of these Democrat state representatives from
Texas that fled the state? Yes, so they don't have
to vote on the redistricting. Yeah, Republicans are doing. I
remember last year the Democrats carved out a spot from
Mobile to Montgomery to take a Republican seat from us.

(10:29):
I can't remember all the weeping and nashing of tea
from Republicans over the issue. What's the matter with us?
Why don't we stand up and fight?

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Let me pause you there, there was a little bit
of weeping. It was kind of faint there, but there
was a little There was a little bit of weeping.
There's a little bit of gnashing of teeth there. Not
as much as you're right Republicans get. I mean, there
are states where I think I saw some stats today

(11:02):
where there are some states where in presidential elections and
things like that, Republicans will get as much as forty
percent of the vote in a state and have only
one or zero congressional representation from that state due to
redistricting the Democrats are able to do.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
So.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, will the Republicans ever redistrict as aggressively as they
have had done to them? I don't know if that'll
ever happen. And the reason I say that is, and
I know this will sound nuts to you, but I
think there are a lot of Republicans, especially in Washington,

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that don't mind being in the minority Party. I don't think.
I don't think they mind, even though right now they're
barely in the majority of there in Washington and getting
some things done. But I think a lot of Republicans,
especially in Washington, do not mind being in the minority Party.
They have figured out a way to monetize it. They

(12:06):
figured out a way to make a lot of money
by being up there and not having to really accomplish much.
But that's just a personal opinion on how these things happen,
and it may happen that way in some states. So
back to your voicemail.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Anyways, Oh, did you hear Tim Cook at the White
House today singing Donald Trump's praises?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
By the way, this obviously phoned in yesterday evening. I
didn't hear what Tim Cook had to say, because I
was working yesterday during the time that Tim Cook from
Apple was at the White House. But I did see
that he took President Trump some type of gift. It
was some type of engraving. You probably know more about

(12:54):
this than me. It was probably it was some kind
of an engraving that had a gold base, And I thought,
this guy has this guy has studied the President. I
think President Trumper would would probably love if you're going
to meet him, for you to give him some type
of elaborate golden gift. I think he would like that.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
As he committed five hundred billion dollars, which they've already
started breaking ground and producing stuff from that five hundred billion,
but he committed another one hundred billion dollars in development
into the United States. But all Democrats can talk about
we got to win the House so we can impeach

(13:33):
this guy. What is the matter with these people? And
who are the people that vote for these these Democrats?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
It just it just.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Don't make sense at this point. It's it's got to
be a mental illness. Anyways, UNC glad Tim Cook spending
money in America means nothing but great for America, And
I hope you have a great afternoon and roll tide.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Roll tied. Roll that Nellie, thank you very much for
your voicemail botch my number two five one two one
six nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. I can't answer. I'm not a psychologist,
so I can't answer what why people behave the way
they do? Uh. And I'm not a mind reader, so
I can't read their minds. Many people I don't want

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to try to read their mind, but there are many
disgruntled people in the country for a variety of reasons.
The point you're making about Apple and this huge investment
in the country. I saw something yesterday about how iPhones
are going to start to be built here. I never

(14:42):
I would never have. And I think the parts are
going to be made here as well. If I understood
what I read correctly, future iPhones that are bought in
this country will end up getting made in this country
with parts made in this country. If you'd have told
me that electing Donald Trump would somehow translate into iPhones

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being made and manufactured here, I wouldn't have I wouldn't
have understood. But here we are. Here we are two, five, one,
four seven nine two seven, two three the telephone number.
Hello caller, Hello, Hello caller, Hello.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Can hear it?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yes, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
I'm turning my radio off. Yeah, this is Pete the
angry physician. Hey. There was a town hall meeting when
President Obama was president, and he was actually asked a
question about whether or not manufacturing would ever be brought
back to the United States, and he point blank said,
if you expect Apple to start making poems in this cut,

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you're mistaken. It's never going to happen. And that was
the attitude of President Obama and all the administrative leadership
of the Democratic Party. And look here, we're going to
start making Apple phones. You read that correctly. Yes, they're
gonna start doing the parts and the phones here in
the United States. Something they said that would never happen.
And for every Democrat who says the Republicans are out

(16:20):
for just they're wealthy and they're just out for their
privileged building and manufacturing is what made Middle America great.
It's what went away during the Democratic administrations. It's why
Detroit went from the seventh biggest city in the world
to a shell of itself because of the Democratic Party policies.

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And if anyone wants to wake up and look at
the facts, you realize that Donald Trump is doing more
for middle America and low income people than any Democrat
ever has.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Amen. Amen, And he's just gotten started.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah. And they want and you're right, just want them impeached.
They want to roll it back. And I don't understand
how any sane person can look at the country of
where it was going and what it was and where
it's headed and shoes to go backwards. I just and
it clearly has to be a mental illness. And yeah,
I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't understand it, but I

(17:20):
appreciate you getting the word out and being an advocate
for truth justice in the American way.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Uncle Henry, thank you, Thank you very much for your
phone call. Good to hear from you again. There's more
Uncle Henry Show to come after the news break here
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Speaker 1 (17:46):
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Speaker 3 (18:10):
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number to reach the Uncle Henry Show. Hello caller, Hey,
Uncle Henry, are you doing Snake Trapper? Snake Trapper? You

(19:20):
are live on the radio, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Did you ever hear from either one of the female
mayoral candidates?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Not yet, There's still time, but uh that I have.
I sent out emails a few weeks ago and have
not heard back yet.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Uncle Henry. I had the privilege to listen to your
two interviews with Judge Spiro and Chief Prime, and I
do believe that either one of them, either one of
them men, would probably be very good for mobile. Okay,
I am heartbroken that these two meryoral candidate women's campaign

(19:59):
have It's not even reached out to you yet, don't, Henry.
I mean, even if they don't want to do this
free advertisement and let the Mobilians know who they are.
They at least old mister Quintessential Mobilion a response.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
That, well, well, I appreciate you saying that. I don't
really look, I don't hold it against them, because, as
I said yesterday, you know, when you're if you feel
like you're doing really good, do you want to take
the risk of accidentally saying something in a long interview
that might come back and buy you. So don't. I

(20:35):
don't hold it against them. If they don't want to
do the interview, that's fine.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Well, I don't say that I would hold it against them,
but I definitely, uh lose a little respect for them.
And there's no doubt in my mind. I mean, Chief
Pining and Judge Bureau got a nice boost from your interview.
I mean it was wonderful. You did a beautiful job,
and it makes me think that these two women have

(21:00):
something to hide over Henry. Uh if they if they
can hear your radio station, I mean I would say
to both of them, they at least owe you a
response so they can take it for what they will.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right. Well, and by the way, I don't I
don't think they do. Well, I wouldn't know, but I
don't think they have anything to hinde. I think it's
probably just strategy. Snake trapper, that's all it is.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, I mean, looking at it, unfortunately I don't get
to vote in the mail or race, Henry, but looking
at it from the outside, uh, it just I just
don't see it help on them at all. I mean, Henry,
you are mister mobile. I know you probably don't look
at yourself like that.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
I mean, you know, And like I said, I'm gonna
be very upset if you do not hear from them. Okay,
that's just my opinion over all.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Right, Well, I hope you don't. I hope everything turns
out for the best.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, I would say.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
To them, I hope by them not responding that they
are not snake bitting. I had no fun intended.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
All right, Well stay Trevor, thank you for your phone call.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Do you take care over all?

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Right? Thank you? I appreciate your kind words. But uh
again those are Those were not hard hitting interviews or
there was no really tough questions being asked or anything
like that, just trying to get a sense about a
person talk to them find out what they got to
say about certain things. Two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. The telephone number that's two
five to one four seven nine two seven two three.

(22:25):
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now there
was a by the way, this story that I'm going
to bring up to you here briefly has nothing to
do with the mayor's race at all. It's just something
I find interesting. We've had lots of calls over the
years from truck drivers on the Uncle Henry Show. At

(22:48):
back when I was doing mornings, especially, lots and lots
of truck drivers would listen to the Uncle Henry Show,
maybe for companionship, and used to hear from a lot
of them. And I saw a story today about driverless trucks.
And as you know, last week, I went to Nashville,

(23:11):
and it was the first time, at about thirty or
more years, that i'd driven north of Birmingham in Alabama.
Now I've driven to Memphis and all these other places,
but I just had never driven that particular route all
the way from Mobile to Nashville. And one of the

(23:32):
big differences. One of the things I noticed driving up
to Nashville and back was way more big rigs on
the road than ever before. There were a lot of
stretches where it seemed like there were more big rigs
than any other kind of vehicle. And maybe it's been

(23:52):
that way for years, but I just had not done
that much interstate driving until last week, and so I
heard this story today and I wanted to share it
with you. A new company is trying to solve a
massive staffing shortage by releasing driverless semi trucks now. Jeff

(24:13):
Flock a reporter for Fox Business. He's got the details
for us on the inside of one of those trucks.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
The fact is they're already on the road. The only
difference is that there is a safety what they call
a safety driver now.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
So they already have driverless trucks on the road, but
they put people in them just to make sure they're okay.
A safety driver.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
He's not steering this truck. He's a fully qualified driver.
But what they're doing now is get gathering data the
truck is driving itself. How soon will they get to
a point where they actually can remove the safety driver.
They think by the second half of next year, at
least that's.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
The second half of next year.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
According to the CEO of Kodiak Robotics, which is operating this,
one of the big players in this huge or long
haul drivers particularly, nobody wants that job anymore, you know,
going coast to coast, these guys or this truck over
a robot twenty four to seven rain.

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Or shine, night and day.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Okay, So you know, a few years ago, I would
not have thought this was going to happen. But as
each day goes by, this seems like it's going to happen.
Are you just heard the the second half of next year,
which may be optimistic, But all of these different technologies

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are getting better and better in terms of artificial intelligence.
This may be, this may be the future. I don't know.
I don't know how they're gonna make it fully safe
for us. I don't know that if maybe they'll maybe
in the future there will be certain lanes of Interstate
Highway that are only four driverless vehicles, just to make

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it somehow safer for us. If only one lane of
the road is going to be driverless vehicles. But just
the whole concept of a driverless big rig, it sounds dangerous,
sounds like there could be a lot of problems with that,
because we all know how unpredictable things can be on

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any major hideway, just tremendously unpredictable. But still technology is
getting better, sounds like it's sounds like it's going to happen,
and not too far off in the future. So maybe
the current truckers today will graduate into becoming safety drivers.

(26:39):
Maybe they'll be maybe they'll have convoys where only one
truck has a driver and three or four other trucks
and the convoy are driverless. I don't know, but uh,
you heard what he said, the possibility of going twenty
four to seven drivers of course have to sleep for

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safety purposes. What would happen to trucking if you didn't
have to have the driver's sleep and maybe you only
you only needed one driver for six trucks or something
like that. This is really interesting, at least to me. Right,
there's more to come. I'm going to take a time

(27:21):
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(29:08):
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the telephone number here on the Uncle Henry show. Uh,
let's see, I had a voicemail I wanted to share
with you that had to do with the catching of
illegal immigrants into our country. Beauford, longtime caller, Beauford phone this.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
In Henry talking to old feder Raleigh. He is what
they call a FED to use a slang term.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
All right, so Bufford can talk to the Feds, Henry.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
He said, Trump's got them deporting these illegals left and right.
But they gotta slow it down, Henter, because they've burned
up so much overtime. Really this that federal law enforcement
is not allowed to make more than a congressman. See,

(30:30):
the congressman will get jealous and upset that if an
underling such as a federal law enforcement or any federal
worker get so much overtime that they exceed the standard salary.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Of a congressman.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Now, Sir, I have never heard that now, was this
guy pulling your leg? Buford? Now he he's a FED allegedly.
Do you think the FED was pulled in your leg?
Because I cannot imagine who would have thought this up?
Were there congressman that got jealous of an FBI agent
or something? I mean, what I can't imagine that is

(31:11):
this true?

Speaker 8 (31:13):
You believe that, Henry? How it makes sense? I mean,
you to be a to be a congressman, you have
got to be the most egotistical, narcissistic piece of human
garbage ever to walk the earth. But uh, anyway, hater,
I thought that was an interesting little tidbit. But that

(31:35):
fella said they are loading up the Trump train to
Taco Town left and right though. Anyway, Henry, you have.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
A good day, all right? Well, Butuford, now you've got me.
You got me now wanting to look into this and
see if that is indeed a rule and that they've
burned up so much over time that they're having to
slow down a little bit. Well, it's in the news
every day about how they're recruiting people, trying to get
more and more people to join ICE, and it's been

(32:09):
it's the story has been almost shoved down our throats
about the actor Dean Kane signing up to be an
ICE agent. I think he is Dean Kane in his
forties or his fifties, signing up to be an ice agent.
I wonder if anyone if he ends up actually becoming

(32:31):
an Now, if you were, if you were in the
federal government in Ice and an actor that some people
might remember applied for the job, would you actually put
him out on the front lines or would you ask
him to just be like a spokesperson or something. I

(32:53):
don't know. It might be better to put him on
the front lines. It'd be it might be on a
fund to see if anybody recognizes him, if any of
the people he's apprehending him, if he's apprehending people, if
they recognize him, maybe they watched him once. All right,
out of time for this half hour of the Uncle

(33:13):
Henry Show, but there is more to come after the
news at six. There's a few news items that I
had missed that I want to cover. In fact, I
did watch most of the council meeting this past Tuesday,
but I did not see the part of the council
meeting where they decided to condemn the old bell Air

(33:38):
cinema movie theater, so we'll get it. We'll get into
that and other things as the Uncle Henry Show continues
here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. And again, if
you want to listen to previous shows, you can find
him as podcasts on the iHeartRadio app on iTunes, or

(34:02):
you can go right to NewsRadio seven ten dot com
and find them there. This is the Uncle Henry's Show

(34:30):
here on News Radio seven ten WNTM. I appreciate very
much you listening to the show. Now, coming up, this
half hour of show gonna get to a news item
or two that you may have missed, and perhaps a
voicemailer too. Let me start with a news item. This

(34:52):
got passed me during the Mobile City Council meeting this
past week. I didn't watch every minute of the Mobile
City Council meeting, so I missed fact that the Mobile
City Council voted to condemn an old movie theater in Mobile.
I believe the bel Air twin Cinema. You remember that,
you remember the Bellair twin Cinema. Let's listen to this story.

(35:16):
This is from Fox ten. Lenise Lgon will give us
the details.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
Any council members to condemn old buildings, especially when they
deteriorated to the point where there is a safety risk.
One particular situation, however, caught our attention. Or Brendan Kirbius
here and Brendan Mobil City council members taking action on
a commercial building. Most people will recognize.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, that's right, Lenise.

Speaker 10 (35:42):
Usually these actions involve houses that have been abandoned. But
the council yesterday voted to condemn an old movie theater
at the shops at bel Air. Take a look at
this building. At one time it was bel Air Cinema,
which had two screens in four hundred and fifty seats,
but it hasn't operated as a movie theater since the
nineteen nineties. The council called a caring yesterday and no
one spoke against the plane or for it for that matter.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
By the way, unfortunately we don't have video yet in radio.
It's something we've been working on for many, many years,
but we still can't transmit video through radio. So I
can just tell you that the building looks terrible. Is
it really does look horrible? And I and I you know,

(36:25):
it's something that I work near, but I don't think
i've taken a look at that building really since the pandemic. Now,
during the pandemic, I went on long walks around the
closed down businesses there, and I looked a lot during
the pandemic around the bel Air Twin cinema. But it

(36:48):
is really, this looks terrible. It looks like a haunted cinema.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
Council members then voted to condemn it. A city spokesman
tells me that for years it was used to store
Christmas decks. The city issued in municipal citation in twenty
twenty two, but official say that citation was dismissed after
the property owner got a demolition permit. David dack Andbab,
the city's director of municipal Enforcement, to Old Council members

(37:13):
yesterday that work stopped months ago. Listen to him described
the current condition of the building.

Speaker 11 (37:18):
They started some demolition of the building, but they paused
for over a year. Year and a half, almost two
years now. The roof has deteriorated the point where there's
holes in the roof. The extray walls are open. It's
actually open to the public and it's a hartbridge for
homeless to go in and out.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Oh well, harbridge for homeless to go in and out.
So now it's well. I had the homeless advocate, Eric
bump Over Street on the show the week I was
out of town, had a recorded interview with him. In
each interview I've had with Eric bump Over Street, he
loves the homeless. He wants to help each homeless person,

(37:54):
but he has advised me and everyone else to be
careful because many of these people have issues, have mental
health issues or addictions, and so he says, it is
not safe to approach the homeless by yourself, and so
this is a hazard. Then to have this building there

(38:15):
with homeless people going in and out of it, right
there at the mall, Now, isn't it sad? Isn't it's
sad that movie theaters cannot thrive anymore, at least in
midtown Mobile or around this area. I know we've got
a couple of theaters out in Westmobile, But would you

(38:37):
if there was a brand new movie theater at the mall?
Would you feel safe going there? Would you want your
teenager there at night? Just unfortunately, we've had incidents at
other theaters. Let me hear the rest of this. We
just heard that there's holes in the theater and the

(39:00):
homeless people are going in and out of there.

Speaker 10 (39:03):
I reached out to the shops at bel Air but
haven't heard back. I also haven't been able to reach
the property owner bell Air Investments LLC. The property owner
has ten days to respond. Say officials say that their
goal in these cases always is for the property owner
to secure or demolish dilapidated structures. As a last resort,
the city will tear downy structure or secure it and

(39:25):
then build the owner. The property owner also can appeal,
reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby, Fox ten News.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah to me, kind of sad to me because for
many decades went to movies at the bel Air Twins Cinema.
I didn't go there as often for whatever reason, as
I went to the Capri. I can remember going to
the Village. I guess it was the Village four, and
that it was the Village six. We had plenty of

(39:52):
movie theaters around town back in the day, but I
guess that time has passed us by now and I
can't remember the name of the movie theater. There's a
there was a movie theater on Airport Boulevard that was
a that was a two screen movie theater. I remember
watching The Sting. Yes, I was a fan of that movie,

(40:15):
The Sting. I remember seeing The Sting there, and that
was on Airport Boulevard, not too far from the interstate.
But as I said that time, I guess in American
history has passed us where you're going to have that
many movie theaters in a town. So yeah, I remember

(40:37):
seeing The Sting at that theater on Airport Boulevard. I
remember seeing Star Wars at the Village four or the
Village six and being not realizing that it was going
to turn into the horrible thing that it turned into

(40:57):
for our culture. I remember saying a lot of I
think I saw more movies at the Capri than at
any of the other theaters. Now I'm trying to think
bel Air twin cinema. I know I saw Grease there.
The horrible What a terrible movie for our culture. Grease.

(41:17):
Do you remember the movie Grease? Yeah? You like the
songs in it, you think the music is so much fun,
But don't forget how the movie ends spoiler alert. John
Travolta ends up corrupting Olivia Newton. John. She goes from
a nice girl into becoming very like a tart. If

(41:39):
I remember correctly, John Travolta corrupts Olivia Newton John and
they get into a convertible and they fly off demonically
into the sky, with her turning into some sleazy woman.
It was just terrible, What a terrible ending for Grease.
I think I saw Grease at the Bellair Twin Cinema,

(42:00):
And as strange as it may sound to you, I
remember my family wanted to see Gone with the Wind,
and there was that movie. Gone with the Wind was
reissued several times over the years, and I think Gone
with the Wind there was a reissue of Gone with

(42:23):
the Wind that was at the bel Air Twin Cinema.
It was either nineteen seventy four, it was seventy four,
seventy five, or seventy six, and I remember, yeah, I
remember saying I didn't want to go because I'd already
seen it. I'm not the type that wants to see
movies over and over again. I didn't want to see

(42:43):
Gone with the Wind again and sit there for five
hours watching this incredibly long movie. But my family, oh,
the family wanted to go. So I have that bad
memory of the bell Air. I have two bad memories
at the Belair twin Cinema. All right, look, I gonna
take a break and I'll be right back. Let's take
the break. This is the Uncle Henry Show here on

(43:23):
news Radio seven ten WNTM. News headlines are coming up
in ten minutes. Before we get the news headlines, let
me check the voicemail if you'd like to leave a
voicemail message for the Uncle Henry Show. The numbers two
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Here

(43:46):
we got a message from longtime listener and caller Buford.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
Canaday here reviewing the podcast. How about a month behind
on podcast? But uh, I came a cry was a
spanking judge podcast.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Now he's referring to a show I did a month
or two ago about Herman Thomas, the former judge who
is running from Mobile City Council. I believe against Corey
penn Man.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
I tell you what, that's the exact type of city
council than we need. He would be so good for
the community. But Henry, you had waited an old news
clip with old cowboy Bob was acting a fool. Henry,
m that right, Cowboy Bob was a quintessential old mobil

(44:39):
Southern barrister. We need more lawyers like that, you know,
forter a forore of a lawman and a lawyer and
a seventy five percent showman.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
But yes, suck Cowboy Bob the lawyer. Now, if you
missed that show, here's a little take Beauford, I hope
you don't mind. I've interrupted your voicemail just right about
in the middle of your voicemail. Just cowboy Bob quite
a quite an attorney. Let's listen. Here he is defending

(45:16):
he had some clients, the Car Brothers. The Car Brothers
were accused of some robberies or something. Let's see here
he is defending the Car Brothers to a TV reporter.

Speaker 11 (45:28):
Your reaction to allegations that your client is part of
a larger, more organized group that's been involved in numerous robberies.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
In a word, bull, My clients ain't a part of
nobody's ring.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
He don't even have a ring. I mean his telephone
just goes third. It don't ring.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Okay. Here he is teaching us about the legal profession.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Grand jury does what the district attorney's offered. You take
a damn Sandwich.

Speaker 11 (45:59):
Jovan, that's not the issue.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
The issue is now can they prove it?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Okay, so Ham Sandwiches can get indicted. And I think
I already I played this clip for you. Here he
is when he was he was being arrested or he
wanted to be arrested.

Speaker 11 (46:17):
Are you going to arrest me or you're not taking
me anywhere?

Speaker 8 (46:20):
You understand that.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
We'll just say you say you're under red, under rest?
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Okay, A lot of leah. He he put on a show,
he really did, all right. Back to Beefred's voicemail about
that Herman Thomas show that we did where we were
remembering the spanking judge.

Speaker 8 (46:40):
Trial, Ah tenty five percent shown. But uh hannay you
mentioned in that news cast that Vivian Faker's son, Figure's
son was taddled by Herman Thompson.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yes, was that.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
Congressman Samari Figures Jamary Figures Henry Paddle in spight by
Judge Thomas in his secret paddling room.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
No, that it was not. It was it was his
brother a kill at least I think that's the way
it's pronounced. A K I L. I remember it vividly
because I thought it was remarkable to have Herman Thomas
on trial and you had Vivian Davis Figures as one

(47:32):
of the witnesses against him. She I believe was a
witness for the prosecution, as was A Kill Figures. And
I don't know his current status. I don't know if
he's still with us or not. But A Kill Figures
unfortunately took a different path from Shamari Figures. A Kill

(47:53):
Figures had a long rap sheet of mostly drug related
arrests going back to two thousand and two. The last
news story I saw about A. Kiell Figures was from
twenty twenty two where he got arrested. I think he

(48:15):
was arrested in twenty twenty one. He was accused of
being a part of a drive by shooting, but I
don't know that that was ever proven. I think that
may have been only an allegation. But no Shamari Figures.
I do not believe Shamari Figures was ever paddled by
Herman Thomas.

Speaker 8 (48:33):
I earned the courthouse because if he was paddled, then
looks like old Judge Thomas done paddled him straight, didn't it.
I mean he grew up to be a Communist congressman
I mean he is quite successful and wealthy. Maybe them
paddling did some of them at.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Risk you some good, don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I know again he was not Shamari was not paid,
but he certainly I'm sure was a spectator in terms
of seeing the results of what happened with his brother.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
Anyway, Henry, what a magnificent, humorous, absolutely goofy moment and
mobile history. I tell you what man old Herman Thomas.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Hey, by the way, almost out of time here do
you ford check out what Rob Hulbert of LANYAP wrote,
because he is he tried to get Freedom of Information
Act documents about that Herman Thomas case from the federal government.
They won't give him all the documents. There are hundreds
and hundreds of documents about Herman Thomas that are still

(49:45):
we can't see with the Department of Justice. All right, anyway,
out of time, Thank you for listening to the Uncle
Henry show, as they say, and Sarah Land have a
good one, as they say in Theodore take it easy
all right.

Speaker 10 (49:58):
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