Hosing Down the Christmas Tree

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Merry Christmas, God Bless America and Roll Tied, Roll.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It Sysney, Uncle Henry Show, Uncle Henry Show here on
news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you so much for
listening to The Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it very
very much. I really do. Once again, here we are together,
just me and you, trying to figure out what is

(01:25):
going on in the world around us. It's it's and
for me it's even more confusing than ever before. What
is going on in the world around us? If you
like to call in, if there's something you want to
tell me about two five one four seven nine two
seven two three, that's two five one four seven nine
two seven two three email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia
dot com. It's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh.

(01:49):
And then I don't really give a flip what the
topic might be, as long as it's not pornographic, about
human reproduction, anything scatological, anything like that. Other than that,
whatever you'd like to call in about, feel free to
do so here on The Uncle Henry Show at two
five one four seventy nine two seventy two three email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. I hope you're

(02:11):
doing well. You know, I look in the news and
I unfortunately see a lot of people that aren't doing well.
A lot of violence going on around the world. I
hope you're doing good. I hope you're doing well. Now,
let's see, there's so many things to get into on
the Uncle Henry Show. One thing I do want to
mention here at the beginning of the program, I want
to say that I'm I'm a little disappointed, a little

(02:32):
disappointed that Aj mccerron, former Alabama Crimson Tide Quarterback champion
quarterback AJ mccerron, he announced today that he is dropping
out of the race for lieutenant governor in the state
of Alabama. He was going to run for lieutenant governor
as a Republican, but then he today has said that

(02:52):
football is calling him back, so there will be some
type of football opportunity for him, and so that's good.
I'm glad that he'll be able to go go back
and play some football or do whatever he is. I
don't know if he's going to play or coach or
watch it. Maybe I don't know who knows talk about it.

(03:13):
Who knows. And I'm glad for him because that's what
he knows and what he's been good at. But still
I'm disappointed. I am I'm disappointed that AJ mccerron's not
running for lieutenant governor of the state of Alabama. Now,
you may be wondering, why why would I care about that?
Because he's he's a former football player. Why would I

(03:38):
why would I want him involved? Well? Number one, just
for the entertainment value of running for governor Alabama at
the same time that Tommy Tuberville is running for governor.
I just would have enjoyed it. Number one. It would
have been in personal enjoyment. Just for the entertainment value
of AJ mccaerron running for office and having all these debates,

(03:58):
and I can imagine all these politicians up there with
their politician answers, and then people just listening to Aj
mccerron just talking like a regular person, getting a little
roll tied here and there. I just it would have
been refreshing for me. It would have been nice a relief.
Last thing I want to see, especially at my age,
is a bunch of politicians talking about what they might

(04:19):
do if they get elected. Just tired of hearing that.
Had enough of that for the rest of my life.
So I'm disappointed about that. The entertainment value. Also, there's
no reasonablieve he wouldn't have been good at it. Now
you might say, well, what does he know? What would

(04:40):
he know about being lieutenant governor? All he's done is
win national championships and playfoot. What would he know? Probably
as much or more than some of these sleevezy politicians
that are running for it, all these super ambitious sleevezy politicians.
So look, I want more non elected officials to jump

(05:06):
in and run for these big offices. More regular people, please.
I want to vote for a plumber. Is there a
plumber out there that'll run? I want to vote for
an HVAC expert. Is there an HVAC expert out there
that'll run? Because these are people that live in the
real world and solve real life problems. I don't want

(05:26):
somebody that they're running. They get into office and they say,
you know what, the answer to the problem is, We're
gonna form a committee. We're gonna study it, and we're
gonna form a committee, and then we're gonna figure out
who we can give money to to make the problem better.
Certainly there's somebody we can give money to. And before
we give the money to them, we're gonna have to
figure out somebody new we can tax. Is there anything

(05:48):
we can tax out there?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
I want to get it. I'm tired of them people.
Get a roofer. Is there a roofer out there that
could run for a lieutenant governor or a football player?
I don't know about a baseball player. Well, yeah, why
not baseball players? Get them all in there? Really, I
sincerely feel that way after years of watching these politicians

(06:10):
wreck things. All right, let me go to the telephones.
I like it when living people call the show two five, one, four,
seventy nine, two three, Hello color.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Hey, good name Mark, Henry.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Clip clip You are alive on the radio, Hendrey.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm I'm more on your side on this. I'd rather
have football players. I'd rather have anything running for politicians
politics than just anybody saying things at uh like, because
I'm black, most of the black people politician national news.

(06:51):
When these people say that, and then what they do
and what they say out there in office only embarrasses
black people because they they say things that are butt back,
stupid or they're doing things against helping the people. The
Democrat Party is for everything evil right now. They're even

(07:13):
from the jump on the train and try to protect
the Somalians over there. Nobody remembers Mogadishu or Blackhawk down
the movie that they couldn't even put it on fam
as graphic as what happened for real. But those are
those people, those same murdering Islamic maniacs. We don't allow

(07:37):
eighty thousand to get here. And Omar ran out of
the country. Her family was rich. She was run out
of there because her family were doing things to the
people in Somaya. Now she's talking like she can do
the same thing over here, but she she can with

(07:59):
the Democrat Party help, because the party itself is evil.
The Socialists, the Marxists, the companies, they are evil and
the world doesn't know that because there are so many unenlightened,
stupid black people and poor voters. They don't understand what's
going on.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, if you can't understand it, by now, are you
ever going to understand it?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, most of the people don't even understand or don't
believe that the Democrat Party shut the government down and
didn't care whether they start or not. They're trying to
get leverage, and they'll do that they get expensive anybody.

(08:45):
Sooner or later Democrat voters will wake up and understand
that they are just another what you call dependent class
of Democrat voters like gays, lesbian, transgender the.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Cliff, I'm up on the break. I'm gonna have to
go to the break.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Okay, yeah, bliss again.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you, Cliff. Seventy ten Tight Saver. Traffic from The

(09:27):
Uncle Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven ten WNTM.
Merry Christmas to you and have a blessed Christmas. Telephone
number to call The Uncle Henry Show two five one
four seven nine two seven two three. That's two five
one four seven nine two seven two three email address
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. We have news headlines

(09:50):
coming up in less than ten minutes, so if you
can just endure this segment of the program, you will
be rewarded with news headlines. The last segment of the program,
I mentioned to you the listener that I was disappointed
that AJ mccerron, former Alabama crimson tied quarterback, has dropped
out of the lieutenant governor's race. I like the idea

(10:12):
of him or any other non state politician running for office,
just because I've fed up with all the professional politicians.
Look around at the job they've done, especially on the
national level. So I'm disappointed that AJ mccerron has dropped out.
AJ mccaerron allegedly returning to football in some capacity. So

(10:33):
now there's a bunch of stiffs running for a lieutenant
governor of Alabama. Now I'm hoping since AJ mccern is
not running, what about Jake Coker? He's a yeah, what
about him? Jake Coker? He was an Alabama quarterback and
won a national championship game against Clemson. I think it

(10:56):
was forty five to forty or something like that. I
could handle some of that. That would be just if
they could use if Jake And why why would I
mention Jake Coker Because he's if I remember Jake Coker correctly,
from watching him play that season and then playing that game,
I found him to be full of grit. Yes, you

(11:19):
don't use that word a lot, Well, you probably never
used that word grit. I believe Jake Coker put in
a gritty performance during his season as the Alabama quarterback,
especially in that game. Jake Coker is a fighter and
has grit. Somebody find him and encourage him to run
for lieutenant governor. Please, I mean you're you're a former

(11:43):
Alabama quarterback. People are gonna people are going to donate.
Even if people would donate, uh probably not to Mike Shula,
but many of the other former quarterbacks they would. Please,
Somebody find him, tell him, Jake Coker, please run for
lieutenant governor. Now that aj is dropped out, now let's
see what else. There's so many other things I want

(12:05):
to talk to you here on the Uncle in her
show about do you want to mention real quick that
tonight President Trump is supposed to give a televised address
from the Oval Office where he's going to talk to
the American people. Now I'm old enough to remember when
that was a big deal. Used to be a big deal.

(12:28):
The President says, I want to talk to the American
people tonight. All the major networks works would cover it
was It was just it was a quite a quite
a thing to have the president addressed an ancient on
television at night. But I think it stopped being a
big deal when his his term began this year because

(12:54):
President Trump I get. I feel like he's on TV
every day? Is he not on He's on TV at
least several days a week from the Oval Office, talking
and talking and then taking questions from everybody that has
a question. I feel like it's not special anymore because

(13:17):
he's on TV all the time. Why does he have
to come on tonight. I feel like he's on all
the time live, So not that not as big a deal,
at least to me.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I don't know what he's gonna say, if he's going
to have some type of big announcement of some new
thing they're gonna do, but it's I'm at a point
where I'm having trouble getting enthusiastic for any new thing
that the president is announcing or wanting to do. And
the reason I'm having trouble getting excited about it or
enthusiastic about it even if it's a really good idea,

(13:55):
and there's been some really good ideas thrown out there.
But even if it's that's a good idea, I'm not
getting excited or enthusiastic about it because I understand that
there's a Republican Congress. Republicans call them ConTroll them. Both
houses housing the Senate, and they don't seem to be

(14:17):
doing much of nothing. They don't seem to be doing
much nothing. And any good idea he comes up with
that is popular with his voters with the American people
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it's popular with the
American people, popular with the Republican base. That Republican Congress

(14:38):
ain't gonna do nothing. They might pass some resolution to
condemn something, but in fact, his own Republican Congress, the
Senate especially, they have they've blocked. They won't let him

(14:59):
make recess of appointments. You might think, you might imagine
that they don't even like him. You might imagine that
you might imagine that many of these senators, especially in
some people in the House that are Republicans, you might

(15:19):
imagine they really don't like President Trump. And they might
say they do, but they don't behave like it. They
won't even let him make recess appointments. They haven't tried
to get any of his stuff, any of these executive
orders actually put into law. You know, if it's something

(15:40):
real popular, it's okay. If it gets defeated, just try
to pass it. Just show that you tried and ain't
doing that now. I believe that Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson made some announcement this week that they're going
to try to do this, that once they come back
from Christmas and New Year, they're going to they're going

(16:00):
to really start trying. Well, I guess that'd be nice,
But what have you been doing? They ain't been doing nothing,
not really, So it's hard for me to get enthusiastic.
And now, now, if you're somebody like me and you
wonder these things, and you think about these things, and

(16:21):
you imagine what's going on. I keep wondering if some
of the things that President Trump is or isn't doing
is because he knows they're gonna lose the midterms. Democrats
will control the House, and then they're gonna start doing
impeachments here, there and everywhere. And I keep wondering if

(16:44):
he's just wanting to appease some of the Senate Republicans
just to make sure that he has some people in
there that won't convict him that he'll he just just
to make sure he doesn't get it convicted in one
of these impeachments. I just it just it's already mess.
And that is another reason why I'm fed up with

(17:08):
even the politicians in Alabama from watching the ones up
in Washington, These pros that get up there and stay
up there for years and years. You've seen what they
They've not done. You've seen how they acted during the
government shut down. Republicans and Congress ain't didn't do nothing.

(17:30):
So hard for me to get an enthusiastic now. I
love hearing a good idea. I hope we get some
good proposals. It'd be nice. I hope he has good
things to say tonight, But hard to get enthusiastic or
gung ho about any of it, knowing what he's got
to work with and that disgusting House of Representatives and

(17:55):
that wicked, wicked Senate. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seventy

(18:26):
ten WNTM, thank you for listening to me, Uncle Henry Show.
You can also hear me on FM radio. I'm on
ninety five KSJ every weekday, Monday through Friday from ten
to two. Tomorrow, I'll have your chance to win tickets
to see Mustache, the band. They play nineties country. They're

(18:47):
in concert at Soul Kitchen in downtown Mobile this Saturday night.
So to win tickets to Mustache the band. Just be
listening to me on ninety five KSJ tomorrow right around
eleven fifteen, right after eleven o'clock tomorrow on ninety five KSJ. Now,
before I get back to some topics that I want
to discuss with he here on the un Climber Show

(19:08):
a press release from the Mobile County Animal Shelter. They
put out a press release today saying that they are
Mobile County Animal Shelter currently over capacity. They have no
available space. They have more than one hundred dogs currently
available for adoption, many more on stray hold. They need

(19:30):
people to step up and if you could adopt, of course,
they would love for you to adopt a dog. If
you can't adopt, if you could a foster, they need
you to foster a dog. All the adoption fees have
been sponsored for approved applicants through Saturday. So if you
want to get a dog, they have a lot of

(19:53):
them there at the Mobile County Animal Shelter. Telephone number
to call the on Climber Show two five one four
seven nine. That's two five one four seven nine two
seventy two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henrid iHeartMedia dot com before I get back
into news items, and there's plenty of news items to
talk about. I saw something today that I have never

(20:17):
heard of this before, and this is something that came
up from Southern Living. Now you remember Southern Living magazine.
I don't know people still know the days of the magazine,
or I know people still print magazines, but now it's
mostly websites. But Southern Living you could always if you went,

(20:38):
if you went into any elderly woman's home, Not that
I've been in a lot of them, but if you
went into an elderly woman's home, you'd find stacks of
Southern Living here in the South. Now you can find
Southern Living online at Southernliving dot com. They have an article.
Southernliving dot com has an article that is encouraging us

(21:00):
to wash our Christmas trees before we take them into
our homes. If we buy a real tree, Southern Living says,
you should always wash it before you take it in
your house. Now, I have never I've been around for

(21:20):
a while, I've never thought to wash my Christmas tree
before I took it in the house. I've never gone
to a Christmas tree line and then take the tree
home and then hose it down before taking it. I've
never done that. I've never known anybody. I've never known
a neighbor do that. No member of my family has
done this. I've never heard of any human being washing

(21:44):
their Christmas tree before they took it into their house.
But they've got the article Southernliving dot com. The headline
is why you should always wash your Christmas tree. The
article says this expert holiday tip may surprise you, but

(22:11):
it makes sense. Live trees are covered in pollen, mold, spores,
and other allergens in pollutants. Artificial trees can be a
haven for dust mites and allergens too. Once you set
up your tree in your house, these contaminants can impact

(22:32):
indoor air quality and set off allergies and asthma. Here's
how to wash your live Christmas tree. Blah blah blah
blah blah. And then it goes on and tells you
to hose it down and get out a leaf blower
to dry it off and all this kind of stuff.
I want to I thank the Lord that I was

(22:52):
born before people thought they needed to wash their Christmas
trees before they took them into their houses. But now
that this is out there. You know, ten years from
now they're gonna sell them to you. You can pay
an extra fee, probably to get him pre washed. Now
something I thought of doing sometime before next Christmas. I

(23:13):
want to invent some Uncle Henry tree washing soap and
try and sell it. Yes, I think I might be
able to make a buck off this, this weird idea
of washing your Christmas tree. Now, speaking of Christmas trees,
I got a voicemail right now, Buford, one of my
few faithful voicemailers. He left me a message about his

(23:38):
family buying a Christmas tree.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Hey, I mean you for family went and got our
Christmas tree yesterday.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I got to thinking. You know, hey, you remember when
I was a kid man, he used to have these
Christmas tree lots everywhere.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
True.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yes, they sprout up on eight corners like dagum general dollars.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
And I always loved going to a Christmas tree lot.
Henry always kind of wanted to work at one during
the Christmas season when I was in high school, but
never did. But dinner. I always liked the atmosphere or
Christmas tree lot, the smell of it. You know, they
had high school you know kids helping you with your train,

(24:24):
tying it to the RuView car Griswald style if you.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Didn't have a truck, or oh, Griswald style. Now, I
believe that is a reference to the Christmas Vacation movie. Listener,
I think I've told you before, I've never seen it,
never seen it. Now I've reached an old age. I
think I might as well go the rest of my
life without ever seeing it. I mean, I've not seen
it up till now. Why pollute my mind with it?

(24:52):
At this point, I think I may go the rest
of my life without seeing that movie. But anyway, Griswold style,
the Christmas tree the nostalgia of the Christmas tree lot.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Car Griswold style, if you didn't have a truck or
it was just an enjoyable experience during the Christmas season.
But man, them Christmas tree lots are getting fewer and
far between, right, I'm sure like everything else, it cost
an unguilly a lot more money for Christmas trees to

(25:22):
be grown and transported. Right, hard to make money off
of a Christmas tree lot now, So we ended up
having to go to tractor supply, which I absolutely hate
going to a large store to buy a Christmas tree,
and I won't have nothing but a live tree because
the entry and breaker holds six ft tree. And these

(25:45):
Christmas tree lots that are still around are like one
hundred and thirty and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Wow, he's trying times of want and woe.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I can't afford to pay one hundred and fifty dollars
for a Christmas tree. I'm sure the Democrat it's useful.
Idiots on welfare can afford to pay a one hundred
and fifty dollars Christmas trees in stair, food and houses
all paid for. But I bet you there's some government
program to give them people from Christmas trees too.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Now you just said that that that'll eventually happen. It
will eventually happen.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
You do miss the old Christmas tree lots of old, Henry.
It just ain't the same ripping a tag off a
tree and going inside a dagum corporate store and paying
for it and loading up yourself. Anyway, Henry, just one
more thing, These dagum democrats, due to the lizard people

(26:42):
over lords, ruining for what used to be a every day,
normal American way of life. Anyway, Henry, you have a
good day, be.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
To thank you very much for sharing your nostalgia for
the old fashioned Christmas tree lots. And I hadn't thought.
I hadn't thought of it out how there are so
so fewer? But now that you mentioned, yes, there are
still a few around, but not nearly as many as
there used to be. But times they do change. Two

(27:19):
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six is
the number to leave a message a voicemail message for
The Uncle Henry Show. Two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That is the number to leave a
voicemail message for the Uncle Henry Show. There is more

(27:40):
to come, but first I got to take a time
out for traffic, weather and words from the magnificent sponsors
of The Uncle Henry Show and station AM seven ten mobile.

(28:27):
The Uncle Henry Show continues here on News Radio seven
ten WNTM. Now this bumper music. It came upon a
midnight clear This is how I would hear it. I
guess if I had overdosed on Bennadrill. Yeah, it sounds

(28:49):
like somebody is taking a quelude or something. All right, look,
there's a news I'm gonna want to share with you
before we get to the top of the hour. There
is more Uncle Henry show coming your way after six o'clock,
but there's news out of I want to get to.
This was a wild chase. You probably already heard all
about this, but I wanted to highlight something in this
news story. This is but a woman that went from

(29:11):
Mobile County over to Baldwin County and stole a bunch
of wine and lamb chops and then tried to escape
back to Mobile And well, listen, I'll let Fox ten
tell you the story. Here's Fox ten with the story.

(29:34):
Can't make this up, Oh, you can't make it up.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
A Pritchard woman wearing Adale Earnhardt T shirt is accused
of going one hundred and twenty miles per hour across
the Bayway last night. But she was not racing.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
She was allegedly trying to get away from the cops.
That high speed chase started when Daphney believes say the
woman stole a bunch of wine and lamb chops from
a grocery store or Claudia Nichols is working.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
By the way, anytime I hear lamb chops, I automatically
think of the late Lambert memes.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
This story and Claudea, you have some new reporting about
the suspects rap sheet.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
That's right, Lennyson Cameron. These core documents say Julia Washington
did the same thing earlier this year in mobile stealing
nearly forty bottles of wine from a target. Tonight, she's
locked up again facing more felony charges. Tonight. Daphney police
say all these bottles of wine and lamb chops have
been returned to their rightful owner. The stolen loot found

(30:31):
inside this car Monday night after a blazing fast, high
speed chase.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'm sorry to pause it there, but they said the
stolen wine and lamb chops have been returned to the owner.
So when the lamb chops go back to the grocery store,
are they sold at like reduced? Is there like a
discount on there reduced for quick sale? Stolen lamb chops Across.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
The Bayway, the suspect Julia Washington wearing a Dale Earnhardt
t sh when she allegedly put the pedal to the medal.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
At one time. She was over one twenty on the interstate.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
During the chase starting at the Publics and Daphne officers
say Washington hit another vehicle on Highway ninety eight before
slamming into a retaining wall and coming to a stop.
The chase ended near the Cochrane Africa. Town Bridge Police
say twenty eight bottles of stolen wine and three packages
of Lamb shops were inside Washington's vehicle.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
It's not uncommon for mobile residents to come over and
try to victimize our businesses, and every chance we get,
we make them as unwelcome as we possibly can.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Oh, whoa, whoa? Did you hear that this was a
Daphney police captain? Did you hear what the Daphne police
captain said about mobilions? Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
It's not uncommon for mobile residents to come over and
try to victimize our businesses, and every chance we get,
we make them as unwelcome as we possibly can.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Wow, it's not unmon for mobile people to go over
to Baldwin County and try to victimize the businesses. Did
you hear that? I need to get the next time
we get Sheriff Birch in here, I'm gonna ask him
about people from Baldwin County coming over here and doing
stuff Because I remember a few years ago, Mobile City

(32:22):
Council meetings. We had a couple of councilmen that were
complaining bitterly about Baldwin County contractors driving in to Mobile
County neighborhoods and dumping like building debris and stuff, just
just dumping trash over a Mobile County from Baldwin County.

(32:42):
It's not uncommon for Mobile residents to come and victimize.
Oh really, it's not uncommon for documents.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
This isn't the first time Washington has been accused of
stealing alcohol. Record shows she was indicted on organized retail
theft charges after she was arrested in February Inmobile, accused
of stealing forty nine bottles of wine worth more than
three thousand dollars over the span of nine days and tonight.

(33:09):
Records also show Washington is wanted on felony theft warrants
out of Bay Minette or digging deeper into these charges,
and we'll let you know as soon as we learn more,
Cameron Lenny.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, Well, I don't know if that's a national
story yet. I think the fact that she was wearing
a Dale earnhart T shirt would make that become a
national weird news story or a dumb crook story that
people around the country will see. If she had not
worn the Dale earnhard T shirt, the embarrassment would be

(33:42):
limited to the communities that she lives in now. But
by wearing the earnhart T shirt, she's guaranteed that people
are going to hear about her. At least they're going
to hear about her in places that understand NASCAR. There's
more to come. I got more show coming up for
you after the news break. Uncle Henry Show continues here

(34:06):
on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.