Happy Election Year Coincidence

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two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Got a lot
of things to cover on the show, as is usual,
some local stuff to get into. There was a big
press release today put out about the Amtrak line between
Mobile and New Orleans and the the Amtrak people wanted

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to announce that they've named the the Amtrak line between
Mobile and New Orleans for these trips are going to
be starting up here soon. They have decided to name
it the Amtrack Mardi Grass Service Line. So yes, they're
calling it the Mardi Grass Service Line between New Orleans

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and Mobile and vice versa. And that's that is a
pretty good name, the Martigrass Service Line. It is a
better name than what I would have come up with
that would have been a little more not as elegant
with it. I would have called it the the Booze
Train to Bourbon Street, something like that Booze Train to
Bourbon Street or the boondog Will Express. I would have
been more, perhaps more accurate in my name for this,

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but the it just seems to be an elegant name.
The Amtrak Monty Gross Service Line and that and who
knows that. I don't know if there'll be a Morti
Groth theme inside the train or not. That might be
a good idea for him. So anyway, we're we'll find
out more. They haven't given word on exactly when it
starts up, but they've got the thing named the Amtrak

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Marti Gross Service Line. And there There are many other
things to get to on the program, but I want
to talk to a living caller. I've got a caller here. Hello,
Collor Henry Cliff, if you are live on the radio.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Man.

Speaker 7 (03:58):
I just wondered anyone you know except me? Notice that
uh Democrat Party has pretty much they jumping off a cliff.
They done went from you know, killing babies and castraight
and cheered to a saying to the people, even the
politicians are saying it's okay to kill the president or

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anybody you think wrong.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Now you're talking about how are you referring to recent
polling that shows that some Democrats think violence is necessary?
Is that what you're talking about?

Speaker 7 (04:34):
Yeah, well I'm hearing it.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh you are, You're hearing it.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
I'm hearing it. I'm talking about you know, on national
television and squad and different places like that to view
these people and the ones they paying to protest out
there are saying this kind of stuff and you know,
it reminds me of this the person that want assassinated

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the CEO. Oh, they're dead wrong and their information of
getting about who is the one that's doing wrong and
worthy of killing, they're getting bad intel, but they still
killing any.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Well, I don't know where it's leaden, Cliff, but it's
not going anywhere. We line.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
Well, the Democrat Party can always use a lot of chaos.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
Victory all.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
They can use all this kind of stuff, anger, madness,
you know, this is what they use. And they're telling
you they don't care if it's your children. They'll manipulate trends,
which there is no such thing. You can't transform from anything.
You're a man, but if you cut your head off,
you something else. Know, you're just a man without a head.

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And all of this stuff they use as chaos. They
don't care about collateral damage. Everything that happens, it's collateral
damage to them.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Well, Cliff, it's it's gotten it I had I have
noticed it's gotten uglier and uglier, and there seems to
be even more and more anger. I guess there's profit
to be made in people being mad.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Amen, even though now it seems to me they find
in bodies all over the place. People are we're really
losing our moral standard of moral compass.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well, uh, we need to find it pretty quick you, Cliff,
thank you very much for your phone call. Yes, I
have noticed. I have not noticed people calling for more violence.
I've seen some polling that people have talked about, UH.
But I'm I'm I've become a pole skeptic. Many people
have become poles skeptics. But I've seen recent polling saying

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that there are some voters out there that feel like, uh,
as each day goes by, that violence is necessary uh
to express themselves politically, which should worry a lot of people.
That is, we do not need that in the streets
of the United States of America. But as I mentioned
to Cliff, there must be a lot of people making

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money off making people mad. Is there is there money
to be made in madness and anger? Is there money
in it? Is there a way? Is it making somebody
mad and then asking for a donation? Is that is
that the whole point of it? Or is it all
about just creating an atmosphere of intimidation so that people

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are afraid to voice their opinion or do anything like that.
Whatever the motive. Very uncomfortable to live in a constant
state of whipped up anger in the United States of America.
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Speaker 9 (09:40):
Hello caller, good evening, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Bert Bert. You are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
Uncle Henry. I have a theory. Okay, About ten or
fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck came to I think it
was Fair Hope or some some place like that to
have a book signing.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, I remember I interviewed him. I got I interviewed
him before he came to Fair Hope.

Speaker 9 (10:05):
Yes, all right, and do you remember what happened?

Speaker 5 (10:08):
I remember that both that there were protesters waiting, that
they they had alerted. I remember interviewing me and telling him, hey,
I heard there were some protesters waiting on you, and
he was very frustrated.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
All right, Well, that's what I want to talk about.
Because one of these protesters just lit into him about
everything and anything you could think of, and worked himself
into a frenzy and actually had a seizure, literally went
into a seizure because he had worked himself into such
an emotional frenzy. Yeah, and the protesters tried to find

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a way to blame Glenn Beck for it somehow or
the other, but it was obviously this guy had done
this to himself. Well, Uncle Henry, I don't mean to
sound uncharitable about all this. I know that the Pope
had been in very poor help because of about.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
With pneumonia and everything.

Speaker 9 (11:00):
Yes, but he had a meeting with Jagie Vance and
he just lit into him about deporting illegal immigrant gang
members back to where they came from.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
And it's my theory that he worked himself up into
such an emotional frenzy brow beating j d Vance about
this issue that it took him right out of this world.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
That note, it may have contributed.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
That I have not heard that theory. That is quite
a theory that the Pope worked himself up into an
emotional frenzy, that that contributed to his death.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
Well it was. You know, stress can can cause cardiovascular events.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
That's true.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
Thing that that's what they're saying. The cause of death
was was a stroke, and people can stress themselves into
a stroke.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
You know, you're I may be able to the people
that have prank called the show. Maybe I could sue
him for there you go, Maybe I could, because they're
trying to kill me with this. It could kill me
all these frank calls.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
Well, thank you for taking my call for Henry hey Bert.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Great to hear from you, and glad you're doing well. Yes, sorry,
all right, there he goes. Yes, indeed I had not.
I didn't realize. Now I knew that jd Vance met
with a pope, I did not realize that there was
an emotional frenzy reach. And you, the listener, maybe you've

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never been in an emotional frenzy. I hope you haven't
been worked into an emotional frenzy, but an emotional friend
I have been worked into emotional frenzies and attempts to
defend my family and the honor of my family, so
it can be very, very physically uncomfortable. I can't imagine
getting into emotional frenzy of some kind in it causing

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a health problem. So I hope, I hope that's not
the case. And it would be nice if we could
settle political disagreements without working ourselves into such emotional frenzies.
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two seventy two three. Now, there was a news item

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I wanted to share with you from today in Mobile, Alabama.
We hear a lot about affordable housing in Mobile, Alabama,
and today there was an affordable housing development that had
groundbreaking forward. And this I've got the story from Fox
ten to share with you. It is CJ. Small. You

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know CJ. Small, the president of the Mobile City Council. CJ.
Small Heights is the name of it.

Speaker 11 (13:42):
Do you have Mobile broke ground today on a new
affordable housing development.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
Our Stephen Moody.

Speaker 11 (13:48):
Has more on the new efforts that will bring dozens
of homes to our area.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
One two three talks all right? That day?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
And with that, the City Ofmobile has broken ground on CJ.
Small Heights is named after City Council President CG.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Small, And we'll bring twenty three single all right, Yes,
I'm pausing the story. There twenty three single family homes
to be built in the Arlington community CJ. Hall, CJ.
Small Heights, CJ. Small Heights. Now, I'm sure it's only
a coincidence. I'm sure it's just a happy coincidence that

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in an election year, just a few months before there's
an election for the city council, that a city councilman
that is running for reelection has a housing development named
after him. I'm sure it's just a happy coincidence, a
happy coincidence that in an election ye're just a few

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months away from voting, that a new affordable housing development
would be named after somebody who's in office and running
for office in that election. In that a what a
what A what a blessing, What a happy blessing and
coincidence that is, to have something named after you, some
big thing named after you, right before people go to vote. Now,

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I have nothing against CJ. Small. He's had he's had
quite a career at the Mobile City Council as the
council president and as a councilman. I have nothing against him,
but I just it really drives me nuts anytime some

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kind of building or or or anything is named after
a politician when they're still actively a politician and running
for office. I just again, nothing against CJ. Small. People
obviously love him, they've vote for him, they name housing

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developments after him. But is it two other people that
may want to run against him?

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Is that not?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Isn't it a kind of an advantage to have something
named after you when you're still running for office? What
if there was some type of government building named after
you and it also doubled as a polling place. Do
you think that's ever happened? That people would go to

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vote and one of the choices that they would vote
for would actually be have the building named after him.
Just doesn't seem right to me. Just doesn't seem right
to me to have buildings named after people who are
not only alive but also in office. It'd be nice

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if we could just wait whenever we want to name
something after a Polish and we've got a lot of
people that have done one of things that we want
to name things after them. I just it would be
nice to wait. We don't have to wait until they're
gone off the planet. We could just wait until they're
no longer running for offices and then name stuff. I

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know you you probably disagree with me on this, but
what a what a happy, happy coincidence that in an
election year, just a few months before people have to
decide if they're going to vote for you or not,

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you get an affordable housing development named after you. Happy coincidence.
Uncle Henry Show News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It

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is five thirty five telephone number here two five one
nine two seven two three. That's two five one four
seven nine two seven two three. Now I've got to
call a car. Hang on just a second. Uh. In
the last segment of the show, I was talking about
how today for affordable housing fans a great day and

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Mobile because they broke ground on a new affordable housing development.
It's going to be twenty three single family homes in
the Arlington community and they're call they're calling it CJ.
Small Heights after Mobile City Council President CJ. Small, CJ
Small Heights, and I just I was remarking on the air,

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just making the observation that it's a wonderful, happy coincidence.
Isn't it a wonderful, happy coincidence that, uh, CJ. Small
is getting something named after him like this? Right, just
a few months before people are voting in the city
council election. Isn't that something? Isn't that a coincidence when
you I guess that's one of the perks of being

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an incumbent is right before people go to vote, you
have something named after you in the city and they'll
have signs up and everything. That's just it's a happy
and wonderful coincidence. Now, I have nothing against CJ. Small.
I know he's had some some Uh, there have been
sometimes that things have been rough for him. There was

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a kickball injury when he was playing kickball.

Speaker 13 (19:30):
Got to hit a couple of times in the head
about a ball, but uh.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
He got kicked a couple of times in the head
by the ball. And then there was COVID. You may
remember the COVID lockdowns. They still had city council meetings
during the COVID lockdowns. Over I guess it was on zoom,
and he wanted all of us to know his tremendous
how COVID affected him, all the terrible lockdowns that destroyed

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other people's businesses, and really you remember what it was like.
It was for a lot of people psychologically torturous, all
the things that were done with these COVID lockdowns, and CJ.
Small explained to us that during the COVID lockdowns, he
suffered during the COVID lockdowns.

Speaker 13 (20:18):
Yes, I suffer a little bit because I wasn't able
to go to the mall and get my Cinna bond.
When I first heard that the mall was closing down,
I ran to the mall to get me a cinema bond,
and fortunately they had closed down a day earlier before
I was able to get it.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
So he was unable to get a cinnamon bun. So
that's just put that on the list of terrible things
that happened during COVID. He suffered, I believe he. Yes,
he used the word suffered.

Speaker 13 (20:44):
Yes, I suffer a little bit because.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
He couldn't get a cinnamon bun. But people love him.
In fact, they love him enough to name a housing
development after him right before he's about to face re election. Uh.
They love him to the point that even other politicians
like Gina Gregory uh let let him call her his

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personal Barbie.

Speaker 12 (21:10):
Doll Vice President.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Since I've been on the council.

Speaker 13 (21:14):
I always told you my Barbie doll, and you will
always be my Barbie Doll.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Uh And that wonderful anyway. Nothing against CJ. Small. I
just think it is uh uh the timing, the timing
of naming something after a politician right as people are
going to be voting for or against him. Very happy

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timing for CJ. Small and not for anybody that might
run against him if that happens, all right, two five,
one four seven nine two three the telephone number. Hello caller, Hey.

Speaker 10 (21:53):
Over Henry, how you doing, Snake.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Trevor, Snake Trevor, you are live on the radio, over Henry.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
Did you see in the new where the eighty two
year old turkey hunter in will Cox County got attacked
by Bobcat? Yes?

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yes, in fact, I've got that story. I have that story.
I'm thought about playing it later in the show that Yeah.
Did you hear the guy get interviewed? He's such a
great guy, I did.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
I mean, he's very fortunate. Over, Henry, I will tell
you I've also been a victim of a Bobcat attack.
They are some vicious animals.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Tell me, now, you've never told this story. What happened?

Speaker 10 (22:31):
Oh, Henry, I got a permanent scar I have to
show you next time I see you on my right
arm from that bobcat. When I was about twenty years old,
I was fishing north of Graven Island in a boat,
and I was headed south and I noticed something swimming
across the river and it just about made it Uncle Henry,

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and I seen it starting to have trouble and go under,
so I started heading toward it with my boat and
got to it just in time. As it went down,
I was able to stoop him out with a dip net.
The thing had actually drowned it. So I went right
to the bank, throwed him out on the bank, and
went to He was probably about a twelve fourteen pound.

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He wasn't a fully grown bobcat, but he was a
huge one. Went to giving it press congestions and you know,
trying to get the water out of his lungs. And
about that time it went to hacking and spitting up.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Wahit wait wait wait wait wait wait. I went before
you finished this story. I want to understand correctly you
were you were You were doing CPR on a bobcat.

Speaker 10 (23:37):
I was not breathing into it their way, Uncle Henry.
I was trying to clear its chest cavity of the
water that it ingested, all.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Right, So but you, but you were trying to to
to save the life of a drowning Bobcat. This is
this real? Are you making this up?

Speaker 10 (23:56):
Uncle Henry. I did save the life of a drowning right.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry, I doubt Did you please
continue so you're doing your chest compressions, yes, sir.

Speaker 10 (24:05):
And then he went to coming to and like I said,
hacking is spitting up water. And about the time when
I realized he was gonna make it, I got to thinking, well, this, uh, this,
you know, don't seem like such a bright idea, Uncle Henry.
And man when he come, I mean, he just went
crazy and uh he he got me across to my
right inner arm. I have a four claw scratch there

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which one of them got infected pretty bad.

Speaker 12 (24:32):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (24:33):
But yes, sir, they are some vicious animals, Uncle Henry.
So the man's the man will probably have a permanent
scar for the rest of his life.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Wow, well, snake river, what a wild story.

Speaker 10 (24:46):
Yes, sir, man, I wouldn't recommend anybody do that, over Henry.
It's just that when you see something struggling like that, man,
you know, you don't really think about it. You just
seemed that he needed help and was able to get
to him and get him dipped out of there. But
uh man, and I asked himself, I would probably do
it again, but when he starts coming to you definitely

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need to back away from them.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
All right. Well, Snake Trepper, thank you for sharing that
wild Bobcat story.

Speaker 10 (25:12):
Yes, sir, and I know you didn't want to see
that fellow's bullet hole long hendrydwe I heard you talk about.
But next time I see, I'll show you that star.
All right, please do see you take care of my buddy.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Thank you, Snake Trapper for your phone call. Snake Trapper,
he's starting to starting to sound like Paul Bunyan or something.
There's just there's gonna be legends of all these kind
of weird things that Snake Trapper has done.

Speaker 14 (25:35):
Hello Coller, Hello, that is an unbelievable story, which I
think ties into my comment is that with the Democrats
trying to protect all these illegal aliens and proven ms
thirteen people, do they really think I support them or

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any of the normal people, uh that want law and
order in this country and don't want to protect murderers,
chile rapists, you name it, all kinds of slime balls
that came in here illegally. Uh. And I just don't
know what the Democrats are thinking. But I know what

(26:23):
I'm thinking, yeah, is that it is not impressing me
one I owe to. They have absolutely zero credibility with myself,
and I highly resent them, and I can't ever believe
that I will support anybody who at one time, especially
this time, was part of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, look it is I'm I'm with you in that it.
I can't believe what they're doing it. I just cannot
believe that they would that they would go to such
links for gang members. What I guess we should ask
what they're drinking or what they're smoking.

Speaker 14 (27:04):
I don't know what it is, but it can't be
good for you, No, it can't. Okay, Well, I appreciate
you well letting me express my opinion and my total disgust.
That's what's happened to so many people in government.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yes, indeed, it is total disgusted. Sir, thank you very
much for your phone call. I'm up on the break.
It's going to be taking a quick time out for
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right back with more. Uncle Henry shirt sure, sir, thank
you for calling. I appreciate very much.

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address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. See what can I tell you
about Alabama legislatures still up to stuff? And I saw

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this story about the Alabama legislature involving uh EBT snap benefits.
There is a lawmaker that is proposing that in Alabama
that people getting SNAP benefits not be allowed to use
their SNAP benefits to buy soda now. And you've heard

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of other states trying to do this. I think two
states have done it, Arkansas. I think Arkansas is one
of them. I can't remember the other one, Indiana. I
think maybe. Here's a brief report from Lauren Harkson of
WBrC in Birmingham, a stepsister station to Fox ten about
this bill and the legislature about buying soda using SNAP benefits.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Representative Mac Butler is the one behind the legislation. He believes, well,
everyone should be able to use their own money to
buy whatever food and drinks they want. When it comes
to tax dollars, the government should be encouraging healthy items
to make healthy citizens now. Right now, Health Bill five
seventy nine is in the early stages of the legislative process,
but in order for the state to put limits on

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what SNAP recipients can and cannot buy, the bill would
need a waiver from the USDA, which determines on the
federal level the food and drink idea eligible through the
SNAP program. Representative Butler says his main concern is for
children's health and development, adding he wants to ensure they're
getting quality foods.

Speaker 15 (30:10):
It is targeting children that are developing, because I think
that's where the most critical need is is to look
at that demographic of the children, but it would impact
the adults as well.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Now, other states are already taking action in this sector.
Arkansas and Indiana have passed the USDA to let them
ban people from buying soda and candy with SNAP dollars.
Anti hunger groups opposed Snap.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Now, anti hunger groups opposed this. They want people and
I'm guessing they want people to be able to buy trash.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Apparently food restrictions, saying that research shows that those using
Snap are no more likely than other low income Americans
to buy sugary drinks. Now, the Food Research and Action
Center is one.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Of the Food Research and Action Center. Now, I did
look that them up up. They get a lot of
money and support from people that make food and sell it.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Organization against Banning Items and they.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Say, quote, the people that sell the items are against
banning them.

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Rather than limiting access, fueling stigma, and making the program
more difficult and costly to administer, lawmakers should be focused
on expanding resources, promoting healthier food access, and more urgently
opposing the harmful proposals to weakened SNAP end quote. Representative
Butler says, by the way, that's it just seems so

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disingenuous to claim that.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Banning sugary soda from Snap weekends, Snap are people people
need their sugary soda. I'm just saying, what is anybody
buying that? Buying that argument.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Because the bill was introduced so late, in the legislative session.
He doesn't expect it to pass this year, but he
does hope that it starts a conversation around healthy eating.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
All right, well, it's it did make me think about
healthy eating. I'm still gonna have some candy later today.
It's left over from Easter. All right, let's see almost
at a time. In this segment of the show, there
was one weird news story I wanted to share with
you because I've always had fantastic I've been so lucky
to have great mail carriers, mail delivery people, postal workers.

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Everywhere I've lived in Mobile and Baldwin County. I've just
had great service from whoever was delivering the mail. But
there's a weird news story out of Melbourne, Florida. A
postal worker there is in big trouble. She was out
delivering mail and she delivered mail to a house that

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was having a party and they when she had the
mail forum, they invited her to say, hey, come on
in join the party. So the mail lady did. She
joined the party. She had some vodka shots. She got

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in trouble later that day because the police were called.
The police were called because people noticed that the mail
truck was driving the wrong way down the road and
swerving around. So the postal worker in big trouble, in big,
big trouble for accepting the invitation and going into the

(33:28):
house and having the vodka shots. Of course, it's horrible
to DUI. So we're all against that. But I would
like to apologize to all of those great postal workers.
I've had great mail delivery people all my life here
in South Alabama, and I want to apologize to all

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of them for never inviting them in. I just never
thought you'd accept the invitation. All right, there's more show
coming up after the news break here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. This is the Uncle Henry Show here

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on news radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for listening
to the Uncle Henry Show. Now this half hour of show,
I've got some news items I want to I want
to cover for you and for me. But before I
get to any news items, I do have a voicemail.
I want to get to voicemail number two five one

(34:50):
two one six, nineteen seventy six as two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six to leave a voicemail
for the Uncle Henry Show. Now earlier this week Tuesday,
it was sixty seven year old Chris of west Locksley.
It was his birthday. He became sixty eight year old
Chris of west Locksley this Tuesday, celebrating his birthday. And

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yesterday on the Uncle Henry Show, I played a voicemail
from him from a few months ago where Chris told
this wild story from the nineteen seventies. He talked about
how he was a young man in the nineteen seventies
and he was doing all the wrong things. He was
purchasing and smoking marijuana up in the Birmingham area, and

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he told a wild story. It had all kind of
slang terms in it, like the word lid. He was
talking about going to buy a lid, which is apparently
a package of marijuana, a lid some type of package
of marijuana. And the story that sixty eight year old
Chris of west Locksley had told him that voicemail was

(35:58):
about how he had a friend with a pet raccoon
and they went to purchase their marijuana lid and the
raccoon in the vehicle ended up getting under the seat
and eating half of their marijuana lid package. And it
was a I don't endorse any of this. I don't
endorse it, but I thought it was the wildest voicemail,

(36:21):
probably the wildest voicemail I've been left here at the
on Clemery Show some type of story about lids and raccoons. Well,
at the end of that voicemail, Chris said he had
another story about a goat and he just phoned it in.
So let's listen together. And I don't. I have not

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pre listened, so I am hearing this with you. All
I know is this is this is a follow up
to the raccoon story that involves a goat, and I'm
gonna guess it may involve packages like lids or related items.
So let's learn and listen.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Together till Uncle just got through listening to watching the
on the Facebook Uncle Henry show for April twenty three,
like to thank you for the birthday wish, Happy birthday wishes,
and you played that voicemail. I called in here a
little while back about the raccoon and eating the Mary
Jane Well and then I said, alluded to the goat story. Yes,

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I don't reckon I ever called that Winny, and.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yet no I think I would remember that. I get
through the years, I've gotten maybe only one voicemail. I've
only gotten one about somebody purchasing packages called lids and
raccoons eating them. So I've never that is the only
voicemail I've received like that. And I would know if
there was something similar involving a goat. So yes, i've

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not yet, not yet been told the goat story.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I don't reckon I ever called that when in yet,
So I'm gonna call it in now. That same buddy mine.
He had a goat and they kept him tied up, well,
not tied. It had a long leash, probably about twenty
thirty foot long, attached to a clothes line outside. And uh,
the woods that were were excuse me, the woods that

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run right up to his party line the end of
the yard.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
There.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
I'll get it out here at a minute party line.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
The party line could have been property line, That's what
I'm guessing you were thinking. But back to the story,
sixty sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
There, I'll get it out here at a minute party line.
He had a five gallon warstup sitting out there in
the bushes, and uh it was it had it had
marijuana growing in it several several plants and I don't remember,
maybe fifteen or twenty of them.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
I know what now, I'm sorry to pause because this
is this is educational for me. So at the edge
of the woods, he had a five gallon washer and
he was grown plants in was this so he could
why not just grow him in the ground? Well maybe,

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I guess that'll be for a future voicemail. Right back
to the goat and all these these dope plants at
the edge of the woods, and.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Uh it was it had it had marijuana growing in it,
several several plants and I don't remember, maybe fifteen or
twenty of them, and it was about i'll guess maybe
three three feet tall or something like that wasn't ready
for picking yet. And so one day me and him

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was out running around and we come home as in
the afternoon, and that goat was out there. He was
a head button the tree like what no, Sam Hills
got in to that dude. And we went in the
house and his dad said, yeah, stupid goat's been up
their head butting that tree. Drakely, my buddy, he says,

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uh oh. And so we went back outside. I said,
what's probably so let's go check the plants. Go up
there and check the plants. It was about fifteen or
twenty stalks of standing up out of the dirt, clean
his whistle. That goat doesn't eat the leaves off every dad.
Blame one of them butting the tree. And I mean

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he kept butting that tree until it burned your head.
He knocked out, stupid goat.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Sixty seven year old Chris. Thank you. Now, this is
what a wonderful anti drug message. This is this is good.
This is anti drug. If you're a younger person listening
to the show, somebody maybe in their fifties, for example,
and you're thinking about trying it because now they've got
the alleged legalized marijuana and Alabama that still seems like

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a fantasy, not a reality. You may be thinking of
trying it because it's getting legalized in all these other places.
Alabama's got it for medical. It will eventually one day
you're thinking maybe you should try it. Well, maybe you shouldn't.
You heard what it did to the goat. Do you

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want to be like a goat? This is a serious question.
Do you want to be like a goat? You want
to do? You want to eat some of these leaves
and then go butt your head up on a tree
over and over again. Do you want to be like
a goat? This is look don't don't. Don't be like
a goat. You don't. You don't have to do this.

(41:45):
Don't go with the crowd on this. There have been
many times in human history the crowd was not right.
Don't go with the crowd. Don't be like the goat.
In the sixty sixty eight year old Chris story about
the goat, all right, oh oh, and there's I got
one more message here I want to share in this
segment of the show sixty eight year old Chris, if

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you're listening, LD, the mad Trucker had a question about that,
about that voicemail about the raccoon eating what you called
a lid.

Speaker 12 (42:18):
Hey, uncle Henry LD, I forgot to do this. I
want to ask Chris how much he paid for that
lid back then, because when we thought it it was
like fifteen dollars. That was a lot of money, man,
but fifteen dollars for an ounce of weed. And uh,
we tried to make it last as long as it could,
but usually end up happening where you you have your
buddy steal.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
It from you one way or the other.

Speaker 12 (42:41):
He vomit and vomit and vummit that it wasn't and
you have. But yeah, how much of the lid Chris
from Lockley when you were buying?

Speaker 5 (42:50):
All right? Voicemail number, look, just say no, Just say no.
Voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six,

(43:15):
it says the Uncle Henry Show Here on News Radio
seven ten WNTM News headlines coming your way in ten minutes.
In the last segment of the show, I had the
sixty eight year old Chris story about a goat. There
was a wonderful anti drug story explaining how it can

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make you stupid if you use that stuff. And he
was using He used a lot of slang terms about it,
using all those those slang words like weed and the
word lid and all that kind of stuff. I got
one more quick voicemail about that from the Mad Trucker.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Hey, Uncle Henry, let's see.

Speaker 12 (43:58):
You know, I can really preciate Chris and Locksley talking
about buying the lid.

Speaker 7 (44:05):
That was awesome.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
I will say that was awesome.

Speaker 12 (44:08):
I have not heard that word in a long time.
That's an ounce of weeds. And if the dealer liked
you back then, he'd give you an ounce and a half.
And the best part about that lid was all the
seeds in it. You know, he roll up a joint
and you start smoking it. People getting hide and in
that seed.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
But pop and.

Speaker 12 (44:27):
Whoever it popped on, everybody just crack up and laugh
or they couldn't laugh anymore.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
Just say no, Just say no.

Speaker 12 (44:35):
And uh that was.

Speaker 9 (44:36):
Just the way it was.

Speaker 12 (44:37):
Had zig zags. Let's see what that man, the old
brown whose brown's was it brown?

Speaker 8 (44:44):
Or yellow?

Speaker 12 (44:44):
Zig zag papers?

Speaker 5 (44:46):
Just say no?

Speaker 12 (44:47):
And uh, man, I'm telling you what, that was a
good time in my life for sure.

Speaker 7 (44:53):
Go pick me up a lid.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Good John, Chris, When I said, just look, when this
show becomes available as a podcast, listen to the last
segment again about the goat that ate it and then
kept butting its head into a tree. It should That
really illustrates what you're doing to yourself. Do not be

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like the goat. Do not eat this stuff or smoke
it or whatever you do with it. And because it
makes you dumb enough to butt your head into a tree.
All right, just say no. Just say no. Now I
mentioned I had news items to get to. I might
have time to get to just one. But it is
related to what has been talked about in this half

(45:37):
hour on the show Just Say No. Here is a
story about how Alabama is still cannot get medical marijuana
off the ground. For in this state, it just seems
to be almost impossible. Here's a story from earlier this week.
This is from w SFA in Montgomery, a stepsister station

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to five lay.

Speaker 16 (46:01):
For those waiting on access to medical marijuana. It's been
nearly four years since Governor kiv signed legislation to legalize
medical cannabis in the state, but the program has yet
to get fully off the ground because of ongoing legal
disputes over the licensing process.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
And it appears now I'm sorry to interrupt this, but
how hard would it have been to look around the
country if we really wanted to do this for medical purposes?
How hard would it have been to study what other
states did and copy them. Could we have not done
that and avoided all of this?

Speaker 16 (46:35):
There's another obstacle has been put in place. WSFA twelve
news anchor Rosanna Smith joins us Live with more in Rosanna.
The latest court ruling handed down this week could bring
even more delays.

Speaker 11 (46:46):
That's right now, a Circuit court judge here Montgomery rule
not the process used to award the medical cannabis licenses
nearly two years ago is woy. The Alabama Medical Cannabis
Commission is in charge of issuing licenses to those who
grow and dispense it, and AMCC issued licenses in December
of twenty twenty three, but several groups filed lawsuits over

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claims that the Commission did not follow the Alabama Administrative
Procedures Act, which governance processes like this with the rule link.

Speaker 16 (47:16):
This week, the.

Speaker 11 (47:17):
Core tossed out the licenses that the Commission had awarded
but not yet issued, effectively starting the process over from
the beginning.

Speaker 17 (47:26):
After two years of being stuck in the mud having
a log jam, this at least offers a path forward
to have them bottle the law and get licenses issued.
It'll probably take several months to do this, but it's
better than two years. It's nice to have foundly that clear.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
Just continued high level of frustration with the way this
has evolved has become pretty obvious that there's some powerful
forces in Alabama that they intend on keeping this program
from getting going unless they have that way, whatever they
way seems to be they coming at every angle.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
All right, Now, look that was that voice you heard
talking about powerful forces. That was mister McMillan, who I
believe is the Cannabis director of Cannabis. He's got some
kind of marijuana title, John McMillan, some kind of marijuana title. Well,

(48:24):
he says there's powerful forces. Well what are they? Who
is it? I would enjoy a news story one day
explaining to me exactly who really runs this state? And
I'm not being facetious, but what did he say? Powerful forces?
Didn't want this to happen or something.

Speaker 8 (48:44):
It's become pretty obvious that there's some powerful forces in Alabama.

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Who if it's if it's if it's obvious that there's
powerful forces. Who are they.

Speaker 8 (48:55):
Intend on keeping this program from getting going unless they
have they wait, whatever that way seems to be. They
coming at avery hangle.

Speaker 11 (49:05):
The Commission director, John McMillan says they are still trying
to de sign from a legal perspective, what their next
steps will be going forward. He says this may include
following an appill.

Speaker 10 (49:17):
Now all right, thanks, all right.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
So it's been almost it's been almost four years in Alabama.
Still can't figure it out. Oh well, we'll have to
figure out how many how many more years will it be?
How many more years will it be? Right out of
time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show. Thank
you for listening to it. I appreciate that very much.
As they say in Sarland, have a good one. As

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they say in Theodore, take it easy. And one clerk
in midtown mobile from another country this week, he told
me keep it easy.

Speaker 10 (49:57):
All right.

Speaker 9 (49:57):
Later