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

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Friday evening. What a feeling you like saying in week
what you wanna do?

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Week in.

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Be what you wanna be week in.

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Wonderful town, Wonderful people, plices to go, things to see.

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My love is more meal.

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That's my wonderful time, Beautiful boats, schools and churches, entertainment,
places to shop.

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My heart's in more. That's my wonderful town.

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Will be the center up exportation, business and industry set
the pace Mobile's got the Junior miss Cell operation, hold
of party Rum, Senior.

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Home Game o'bile is great to live in and work in.

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Good climate's ideal for progress.

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You see.

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My love is mold deal.

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Ma's my wonderful.

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Oh that role okay, right, it says The Uncle Henry Show.

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Here on News Radio seventy ten w NTM. Thank you
so much for listening to The Elk Glenmary Show. And
once again here we are together, me and you trying
to figure out what is going on, what's going on?

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What is going on in the world around us. I
hadn't figured much of it out, but I do know
it's going to be an exciting weekend here in Mobile, Alabama.
He is, it's already exciting. It's already exciting right now
on a Friday in Mobile, Alabama. We've got a lot
going on in the Mobile area. Can't you feel it?
Can you feel the excitement reverberating all around you in

(03:07):
the ether? The excitement of this weekend and Mobile. We've
got the Gulf Coast Challenge Football Game of Mobile, I said,
four o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Ladd Peebles Stadium with Jackson
State versus Texas versus Alabama and A and M University,
and very exciting tonight at six o'clock. In less than
an hour, they've got the HBCU Fest concert at Ladd Stadium.

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There's a concert at six o'clock tonight at Ladd Stadium.
I'm so upset that I can't make it. The concert
tonight features Lil Scrappy and the Ying Yang Twins. You
were wondering what the excitement was, weren't you. You could
feel it in the air, and you weren't quite sure

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that's what it is Lil Scrappy and the Ying Yang
Twins or at Ladd Stadium tonight. I just almost getting
goosebumps thinking about this Little Scrappy in the Yin Yang Twins. Now,
I don't know anything about them, but just based on
the names, I just they've got to be fun, right,

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You gotta be fun if your name is Little Scrappy.
I don't know anything about Little Scrappy. In fact, the
only celebrity that I know with that name with a
name similar would be Scrappy. Do you remember Scrappy Do,
one of the I don't know what his relation is

(04:38):
to Scooby Doo, but I understand that Scrappy Do somehow
related to Scooby. I wonder if uh, Little Scrappy is
somehow part of that. Has there been a Little Scrappy cartoon? Anyway?
That's tonight the fun of Little Scrappy and the Ying
Yang Twins at Ladd Stadium, and then tomorrow at ten

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there's going to be the Gulf Goes Challenge parade, and
then of course the big game tomorrow at Force and
just lots of excitement, lots of excitement with a Gulf
Coast Challenge going on in Mobile. Now, we've got a
lot of other things to talk about other than that excitement.
We've got all kinds of stuff to cover. In fact,
I saw some some very intriguing comments in LANYAP today

(05:26):
about this lawsuit involving the foxes on Daulphin Island. Now
you've been following this stuff on Dolphin Island. You've got
the you've got the government wanting to remove and euthanize
a bunch of foxes on Dauphin Island to protect sea turtles,
the eggs of sea turtles, and I think also to

(05:48):
protect birds down there. And there are citizens suing on
behalf of the foxes, trying to protect the foxes. And
land YAP has an article today on their website about
how the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has
joined the lawsuit, and I was reading what the lawyers wrote. Now,

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the lawyers for the Alabama Department of Natural of Conservation
and Natural Resources, they're sounding kind of insulting toward these people.
They're trying to protect the foxes. Now what do I
mean by that sounding kind of insulting towards these people?

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So these people, they're trying to protect these foxes from
being removed and euthanized. Now, the lawyers for the for
the state wrote, according to LANYEP, they wrote, if either
the plaintiffs or their council had even perused the West

(06:52):
End Bird Conservation and Management Planned final which they challenge,
they would see that it was prepared for the state
in addition to the town of Daulphin Island, Mobile County. Unfortunately,
the plaintiffs are more interested in creating publicity for their
social media posts and to drive engagement with their personal

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hobby photography, commercial endeavors, and go fundme links, rather than
addressing the legal and statutory framework controlling the issues in
this case. So the lawyers are claiming that these people
are really not about the foxes. The lawyers are claiming
they're just trying to get attention for themselves, that they're

(07:39):
that's the claim that they're using the foxes to get
attention for themselves. And they also said, listen to this,
these states attorneys Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
listen to this. The attorneys said, allowing private citizens to
serve as spokespeople for wildlife would open the door to

(08:04):
unreasonable and inconsistent results that will harm both humans and
wildlifees in the state. So the lawyers for the state
are claiming that a private citizen we cannot allow private
citizens to serve as a spokesperson for wildlife. Now, I'm
trying to figure out what that even means. Allowing a

(08:30):
private citizen to serve as a spokesperson for wildlife would
harm humans and wild life. I've got to I don't understand.
I don't even understand that. I back with more. I
got many other things to talk about when the show continues.

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After the break, it is five point twenty News Radio

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seventy ten WNTM. Uncle Henry here with you on the
Uncle Henry Show. We have news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines, you
can call in if you'd like two five to 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. In the last segment

(09:41):
of the show, I mentioned to you that there's this
lawsuit over the removal of foxes on Dauphin Island, animal
lovers suing the the suing the government, trying to stop
the government from going in and getting these foxes and
euthanize them. And I told you before what to break.
The lawyers for the Alabama Department or Conservation of Natural

(10:03):
Resources said, according to Lamyak, that allowing private citizens to
serve as spokespeople for wildlife would open the door to
unreasonable and inconsistent results that will harm both humans and
wildlife in Alabama. Now I'm I'm curious. I would like

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to hear more about what they think could happen if
private citizens were serving as spokespeople for wildlife, because I
feel like Snake Trapper, who's called the show over the
past couple of years, I feel like he has acted
as a spokesperson for snakes and for possums. He has now,

(10:50):
he didn't call himself a spokesperson for snakes and possums,
but I believe he has acted as a spokesperson for
possums and snakes while calling the show, speaking on their
behalf to the rest of us. And I'm trying to
figure out how that could have been on that could
have caused an unreasonable result or an inconsistent result that

(11:15):
could have harmed us. And I'm wondering. I mean, I've
got a lot of squirrels that are very active in
the backyard these days. I'm wondering if I could set
myself up as a spokesperson or person for these squirrels.
I don't know what i'd say on their behalf. It'd
probably be nut related. But what harm would it cause?

(11:39):
How could it harm anything? If I was acting as
a spokesperson for the squirrels.

Speaker 9 (11:47):
Hello, color, Hey, how you doing well?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
There you are? Snake trapper? Snake trapper, you are live
on the radio.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Hey, ok, y'all that situation with the fox on the island, Yes,
I know, I know a second generation person that was
actually raised on that island.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
The father had just reached and passed away, but the
uh son is my son's age. And as far as
I'm aware of, the fox are not native to dun Island.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
And uh, and the way I understand that these fox
are allowing people to actually pet and feed them and
that is that is most definitely not a good thing.

Speaker 9 (12:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
The fox definitely need to be uh removed. I don't
know that you'll ever be able to rehabilitate them, so
uh euthanization. I know it's cruel, but it's probably the
thing to do.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's it's horrible that somebody actually probably captured these animals
as young and uh you know, got them used to humans.
And you know if the person that did this is
responsible for the fox in the trouble that they're.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
In the can Now do you uh know the state
So you're saying that the foxes need to be removed.
If you were called as an expert witness and put
on the stand, would you would you testify to have
the foxes removed so that they wouldn't eat the turtle
eggs and the bird eggs and stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I would definitely testify to have them removed on Grehndry because,
like I said, they're not native to the area and
they will be dangerous to other species such as the
turtle and any small rodents that live on that island.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's a horrible thing. Uh. It would be nice if, if,
if they could catch them and actually uh turn them
into pets without having to use an item because it's
it's not the fox falt Uh. But you know the
state law does prevent us from uh actually turning fox
into pets. So how they handle that situation?

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Now?

Speaker 6 (13:53):
But now wait a second, it's against the law to
turn a fox into a pet.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, sir, you can, you cannot. You're supposed to relocate
them within a I believe it's two miles. I may
be a little off on a distance, but like if
you caught one in your yard that was menacing your chickens,
had uh, you can't even take them out of the
county or definitely not in another state. So the thing
to do, uh would be to either euthanize them or

(14:22):
maybe have some kind of rehabilitating outfit that would uh
you know, uh keep them in a sanctuary to they
live out their life. But uh, the person that that
integrated these fox to that island is solely responsible for
all of this chaos, all right.

Speaker 10 (14:40):
You know, it's just.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Not a good idea to take wildlife and try to
turn them into a pet, especially when you integrate a
non native animal to a small place like Dauphin Island,
because it definitely will affect the turtle uh nesting on
that island. And then this is horrible. I don't know
how many it is. I think it's somewhere around ten

(15:03):
or twelve from what my son's buddy has been telling me.
But it's a horrible situation all around, and it's one
that should have ever happened.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
All right, Well, Snake Trevor, thank you for giving your
expert witness opinion on this. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh yes, sir Henry. And you know, like I said, man,
people leanwildlife wrongly, admire it from a distance or you know,
when you get a chance to see it and its
natural habitat. But you know, I mean, that's no more
than what Mars is trying to do with the lake
you know there there there will not want people, you know,
having good times in that lake because they're scared they'll

(15:41):
introduce a nonspeecive clam or plant that lake. Right, I
think is it's crazy, you know, but uh, you know
that's the way the world is.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
On gren All right, Well, Snake Trevor have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, sir, you did the same on Hendon.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
There he goes Snake Trapper two five one one four
seven nine two seven two three. The telephone number here
on the Elk Cleaner Show. Hello caller.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
Uncle Henry. Yes, sign American.

Speaker 11 (16:08):
How you doing good? Since we are talking about the
Douphin Island fox or foxes how yeah, that would be
grammatically correct. This is a couple of years ago on
the Gulf side, going towards the west end. Some friends
of mine they were in a house every year at
the same time, and one of the guys is such

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a great cook, and he is frying fish and boiling shrimp.
We've got the windows and the doors opening, and it's
in the evening time. We sat down at the table
to eat and I'm facing the door, and all of
a sudden, I look up and I tell my buddy,
I said, hey, we have a unwelcome visitor here. And
there is a fox at the very top of the

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deck and he is looking inside the door, smelling the shrimp.
And as we told our friend right there, we said,
he said, are we going to run?

Speaker 9 (17:01):
I said, yep.

Speaker 11 (17:02):
I said, all I have to be is faster than you.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (17:09):
My buddy took a handful of shrimp and threw it
at the fox. He started eating the shrimp. We shut
the door. In a few minutes, he went on down
the steps, but there was two or three more down
at the basin of the steps. So so they're they're
they're well fed, no doubt about that. But yeah, there
are fox on Dolphin Island. But we didn't stick around

(17:30):
to and bite him in.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
All right, Hey, thank you for telling me that story.
And there goes the call her. Yeah, so the Foxes
are That sounds very very tame, it says the Uncle

(17:59):
Henry Show. It's five thirty five. Telephone number here two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. That's
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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Hello, Color, Hey Henry.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
What's going on? Man?

Speaker 6 (18:26):
Steve? Steve, you are live on.

Speaker 9 (18:27):
The radio, Yes, sir, just just driving home. There was
kind of a traffic tie up on South sixty five.
I don't know if it's been cleared up yet. It
didn't look like there was any wreck, just an arrow
point in that way, you know, a flashing arrow about
probably about halfway between Government and Airport Boulevard on the

(18:52):
south side. But it was I didn't see any wreck
or anything, and just but everybody was slowed down to
a crawl. I guess for that because of that, they
keep right sighing. But yeah, just avoid that, areakay?

Speaker 12 (19:05):
Well?

Speaker 13 (19:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (19:05):
The crazy craziest thing I ever seen. I saw that
a friend of mine had found on Dauphin Island. Was
he had gone down there just the days off. He
found a little area on the bayside of the island,
and he laid down there, you know, just chilling in
the sun for a little while, and he fell asleep,

(19:29):
and when he woke up, something caught his eye over
on this log that was about fifteen feet away from him.
And when his eyes finally just he realized that it
was about a five and a half foot long eastern
diamondback rattlesnake. Oh okay, which he proceeded to I know,

(19:50):
snake trappers gonna cringe with this, but he took a
piece of driftwood and killed it well that the thing
didn't rattle or make a sound until he cashed its
head in and it started crazy rattling and it died.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Well.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Now a snake trapper would not be offended by that.
As long as your friend hate the snake.

Speaker 9 (20:14):
I don't think he ate the snake.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
It was too bad.

Speaker 9 (20:16):
What what he did was at the place that I
used to work. I used to work for a fam
you know, for my family business for a long time.
And uh, he came walking in with a Nike box.
Now I'm thinking he's going to show me these, you know,
brand new Nike tennis shoes that he just went to
the mall and bought, you know, and he sticks that

(20:37):
box under my face and pops the lid open, and
that dead snake is inside that pox. So yeah, you
can you can imagine how quickly I took a step back. Yeah,
you know, the Nike box. But yeah, we took the
snake out and measured it and it was five and
a half feet long, and it had quite a rattle

(20:58):
on him, and it had about a about a half
inch worth of fangs on him. He would have he
would have put a hurting on you. He would have
definitely if he'd hit you with a venom. And a
lot of people don't realize that if you've cut a
snake's head off, that head can still bite you for
a little while after until the head finally dies.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
But yeah, you get.

Speaker 9 (21:21):
Your foot close to that head, that head will bite you,
trust me, and it'll put the venom in you and
it kill you just as dead as a whole snake.
You can ask snake trapper about that. I've seen it.
I've seen it happen. I've seen a snake's head bite
something that was put down next to it.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
Well, what a way to wake up? Waking up and
spotting a giant rattlesnake.

Speaker 9 (21:45):
Yeah, that will definitely gets you up in the morning,
that's for sure, especially if he had another friend whose
copperheads come up in his house and he had just
got out the shower and seen a copperhead slither into
his bedroom and everything.

Speaker 13 (22:00):
What now what?

Speaker 9 (22:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Well, how are they getting in the house through a pipe? Okay?
All right?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (22:09):
Through some pipe that that uh it was like a
vent pipe or something that he didn't have a you know,
like any any kind of screen over or anything like that.
And they made his way up into the warmth and everything,
and I think he found he wind up finding about
two or three of them up in his house.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (22:28):
And he had a dog that was he had a
dog that was old and blind. So he was terrified
that that snake was gonna get his dog, you know,
a small, small brig dog. You know, the dog might
have I mean, not that the snake's gonna try to
eat something that big, but if that dog wandered up
on that snake not seeing it, and he know, got

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in its range, it'll bite it to defend itself.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
And it's still that dog.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
But yeah, those are my those are my weird snake
stories for Friday afternoon. Just just to watch where you're going.
Pretty soon it'll be too cold for him.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
Indeed. Well, Steve, thank you for telling me those stories.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
Okay, yeah, I want to try and maybe the next
two or three weeks to arrange coming out there and
doing a knife show.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
Well please do I look forward to it?

Speaker 9 (23:15):
Okay, all right, yeah, I'll we'll, we'll, i'll, i'm we'll
talk to my boss again and then uh we'll, uh,
we'll see about it. And I may even be bringing
you some swag from the office.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Oh that's swag is always loved.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
All right, my friend, We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Thank you, Steve. There he goes. Make it Stick look
him up on YouTube. Make It Stick is his YouTube
channel where he does knives and throwing knives. Two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. The telephone
number that's two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.

(23:50):
I'm trying to think I can imagine myself killing a
five foot plus rattlesnake. Just I can imagine myself killing one.
Now I can't imagine myself putting it in a Nike
box and taking it to work. That is a that
is a different mindset, a just completely different mindset. Hello, color, Hey, Henry, Hey,

(24:19):
you are live on the radio.

Speaker 12 (24:22):
Okay, I got a little comment I want making on
the Fox story. Yes, sir, uh, I ain't no Fox specialists.
But what I understand they are areas of rabies, and
uh they will eat every kind of a they can
get and rob every kind of little baby chick or whatever.

(24:46):
And you know, we see them up in the woods
up there where hunt up there in uh Clark County,
and we see them, we kill them, okay, and and
and get rid of them because we worried about the
rabies being spread around more than anything else.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Okay, So that show, So that should be a concern
on Dolphin Island.

Speaker 12 (25:12):
As well, Yes, sir, it should. Somebody gets bit the
one and they get the rabies. It's gonna be a painful,
blown survival of the rabies.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yes indeed.

Speaker 12 (25:30):
Well okay, I just want to throw my Nicholas Worth
in there.

Speaker 13 (25:34):
All right.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Well, hey, I appreciate that, and I thank you for calling.
I thank you for listening.

Speaker 12 (25:39):
Okay, thank you, brother.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
All right, there he goes, Hello caller, Hey, Hey, you
are live on the radio.

Speaker 14 (25:49):
Hey, I'm I also trapped a very dangerous and crazy snake.
Oh you did, Yeah, it was crazy wall and dangerous.
I zipped up my zipper coados in my pants.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
What now?

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Hey did you sick freak? How dare you? How dare you?
And we're talking about reptile dangers. This is a serious
discussion on this show about the dangers of these pauseinous reptiles.
And there you are some pervert just waiting, you know,

(26:21):
isn't It's sad that we live in a time in
our society where there's a bunch of perverts out there
and they're just constantly being activated. You can't have a
normal conversation without normal conversation activating some kind of a pervert.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's sick.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
It is sick.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
And I don't know, I don't you know. You really
need to drag your family to church. Drag your families
to church. I know that they would rather sit home
and do whatever weird thing you do on a Sunday.
Take your family to church. We need it. We need
the kids to be in Sunday school, learning Bible verses,

(27:04):
memorizing Bible verses, taking macaroni and gluing it to poster
board to spell out Bible verses so that when they
grow up they're not thinking about their zipper. And oh,
he talked about snakes. Let me see if I can
come up with something about my zipper. Sick freak perverts.

(27:28):
Take your family to church, Get him into Bible school,
Get him into Sunday School.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
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Speaker 6 (28:04):
Uncle Henry Show. It is five point fifty news headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Telephone number two five one
four seventy nine two seven two three. Hello, color.

Speaker 13 (28:24):
Scooting names, Henry.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Bert Bert, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 13 (28:29):
Uncle Henry. Ordinarily I would be watching Young Sheldon right now, okay,
but this is this is an episode that I just
couldn't watch all the way through, okay, because it's right
after Sheldon's dad dies, and my dad died twenty eight
years ago today.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Oh Bert, I'm sure I'm sorry to hear about that.
And I know that even though it's been twenty eight years,
I know it's still something that had great impact in
your life.

Speaker 13 (28:55):
It did, it really did. And now I've been here.
I've been seeing in posts saying that he died from
a brain tumor. And I've been seeing posts saying that
brain tumors can be cured with those dang nicotine patches
that people used to quit smoking what And I wish, yeah,
And I wish I had known that back then. It
would have been worth to try at least, because nothing

(29:17):
they were doing was keeping it from coming back again
and again and again. And you know, they did surgery
and that came back, and they said, there's nothing we
can do to keep it from coming back. And I said, well,
I'm not going to put him through another surgery if
it's not gonna help. You know, I don't want to
put him through one brain surgery after another. But anyway,

(29:38):
Uncle Henry, I've just got the vent on something. I
always used to watch me TV all day long, from
from morning till till one, and from like eleven in
the morning till one in the morning after Alfred Hitchcock
went off. And now they've taken me TV off the air.

(30:00):
The channel that used to carry me TV now carries
Antenna TV. And there are just a couple of shows
on that channel that I used to watch but everything
on me TV was something that I look forward to,
Andy Griffith, the Twilight Zone, Uncle Hinton, I mean the

(30:20):
oppera Hitchcock. All that gone. Now I hardly even watch
TV anymore.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Now, did me TV me TV still exists, right? Or
did it just get taken off TV locally?

Speaker 13 (30:33):
I don't know. I'm pretty sure it still exists.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Oh wait, wait, I went to I went to their
website and it says that you can now find me
TV locally on w A l A TV channel ten
point seven.

Speaker 13 (30:53):
I'll see if I can see if I can tune
into that. My TV isn't great on channel ten or else,
so i'd be watching Jeffard all.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Right, Well, it's that's where they've that's where you'll have
to try and chase it ten point seven.

Speaker 13 (31:06):
I appreciate that information, Henry. I'll give it a try,
all right, and you have a good inning, And thank
you for taking my.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Call, of course, thank you, Bert, and appreciate you listening
to the show and calling the show.

Speaker 12 (31:19):
Hello caller, Hello Henry, Yes, sir, I'm calling back. I
got a couple of things what the guy Bert was
talking about as I'm watching MeTV right now, it's got
mask on it, and it's got Andy Griffiths and all

(31:42):
kinds of good stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (31:45):
But another thing I want to talk about is that
fer Bert to call about bragging about what he had. Yes, sir, well,
I bet if the truth is known, I bet I
put bigger worms on the foot to catch a brim
with heath patching.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
All right, Well, sir, I'm this, I'm.

Speaker 12 (32:13):
Heard about it. But that's what I feel about somebody
bragging back what they got ain't nothing.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
Well, sure, sir, I'm sure you're very right about that.
Well you too. Thank you. I really I appreciate you listening.
I appreciate you calling and you saying things that I
would never say. I would never I never want to
get to a point in my career where I'm trying
to discuss certain things and compare them to other things,

(32:50):
if you know what I'm driving in, So, sir, thank
you for going where I dare not tread. All right,
let's see do I have time. I want to try
and throw in one very quick voicemail because it is timely.
This has to do with the Alabama football game.

Speaker 13 (33:08):
Hey, uncle Henry LD retired LD.

Speaker 15 (33:12):
Well, I'm pulling the trigger, Uncle Henry, I am pulling
the trigger. Eleven hundred and fifty clams standing up here
right now. It's the casino, getting ready to walk in
and put it in there. I'm gonna put eleven hundred
and fifty dollars on Alabama minus ten and a half.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
One hundred.

Speaker 15 (33:32):
My god, eleven hundred and fifty clams. Baby, eleven hundred
fifty clams minus ten and a half.

Speaker 13 (33:39):
Can they do it?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Man?

Speaker 11 (33:41):
I sure hope so.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
All right, So if you watch the Alabama game you've
just heard that's LD's bet. Eleven hundred and fifty clams
on Alabama by ten and a half. That LD, thank you.
You've added additional interest for the Alabama game. For me,

(34:08):
I'm going to be paying very close attention, closer than
I would have.

Speaker 15 (34:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
It, Sysney, Uncle Henry show here on news Radio of
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle
Henry Show. I appreciate it very very much. Now, in
this half hour of show, I'm going to go over
some news items that I missed that I want to
learn about before we get to that. There is a

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celebrity birthday today that really really provoked a lot of
thought in my head. I was surprised. I was very
surprised at the amount of thought that this celebrity birthday
provoked inside my head. The celebrity celebrating a birthday today,
that provoked thought in my head. The celebrity is Chubby Checker.

(35:16):
Chubby Checker is still alive. Chubby Checker is eighty four
years old today. So congratulations to Chubby Checker from making
it to eighty four. I guess twisting can keep you alive.
Maybe that's one thing we can learn from this, that
if you twist enough, it'll provide enough health for you
to make it to eighty four years old. But Chubby Checker,

(35:39):
when I heard it was his birthday today, I got
to thinking about him, remembering reflecting on my experiences as
a consumer back in the nineteen sixties, living through the
Chubby Checker era of music, and some started. Something was
really nagging at the back of my mind. I thought,

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what is why am I fascinated by this? What about
Chubby Checker is catching my attention? So I started. I
went and looked at pictures of Chubby Checker. Now he
was considered chubby in nineteenth it was nineteen sixty one,
I believe, or was it sixty, No, it was nineteen sixty.

(36:25):
He went to number one with the song the Twist
in nineteen sixty, and they called him chubby Chubby Checker,
and I looked at pictures of him, and by today's standards,
he is not even close to chubby, not by today's standards. Now.
Back in nineteen sixty, I guess he was considered a

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chubby guy by modern standards, where you know how Americans
are raised eating Dorito's and pop tarts and Lucky Charms
and just get fed like piggs as children. By today's standards,
I don't know what you'd call him, string bean Checker.

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I don't know what. I don't know what. I don't
know what you'd call him today. But he was not,
by today's standards, not chubby at all, Old Chubby Checker.
And what a weird career Chubby Checker had. I mean,
he sold a lot of records, I guess, for about
ten years, and most of them were records that were dances.

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He had the twist? What else did he do? The
fly pony time? He sang about the twist? He did,
Let's Twist again? That song won a Grammy Award. I'm sorry,
I don't know why this amuses me. It just seems

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a little dumb, but just but again, he entertained America
with the twist. Let's twist again, the pony, Pony, time
the fly. He had a bunch of hits. But Chubby
Checker eighty four years old today and not at all.
Maybe he's chubby now, but by modern standards, the nineteen

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sixty Chubby Checker was not chubby at all. Just shows
how times have changed. Times have changed? All right, let
me get onto actual real news items. Aside from Chubby
Checker celebrating his eighty fourth birthday, let's see, I found
some things I was curious about. One of them is

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federal funding has finally ended for public television, for PBS
and for National Public Radio public funding starting October first,
no more tax dollars, No more tax dollars going to
NPR or public television. And WBrC in Birmingham decided to

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do a story about this. So let's let's find out
what is the What is the the angle on WBrC
reporting on this Because WBrC one of the private sector
television stations that has always earned its money through TV commercials,
reporting on Public Television.

Speaker 16 (39:24):
Vision and WBHM in Birmingham filling the impact of this.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
Your reporter, Abbey Hammon on your side tonight with what
people are saying about the cuts.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
By the way, isn't it wonderful that the reporter is
on our side? I wonder is there ever a reporter
that is against you?

Speaker 5 (39:40):
And how outlets here in Alabama are moving forward?

Speaker 17 (39:42):
Abby, that's right, Brittany Seve. October first marked public media's
first time without federal funding in fifty years. A bill
signed in July canceled one point one billion dollars in funding. Now,
stations like APT and WBHM here in central Alabama may
have to rely solely on community support to keep going.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
We're seen like a private sector television station.

Speaker 16 (40:06):
Does, stations across the country having to make devastating cuts,
reducing their staff, reducing their services.

Speaker 17 (40:15):
For over half a century, public media has brought nearly
ninety nine percent of the American population free educational programming
and services with the assistance of federal funding.

Speaker 16 (40:27):
Until now have the money rescinded. Seventy percent of that
funding went directly to local stations. So while we heard
a lot of concerns expressed during their decision debate about
national programming. The actual impact of this one point one
billion recision over two years is hitting the local stations
the hardest.

Speaker 17 (40:46):
Stations had two months to try and figure out what
to do without the money they had already planned for
in their budgets.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
By the way, they had too much to figure out.
They should have called me or anybody that works in
commercial media that actually survives without government money. We have
ideas on how they could help themselves.

Speaker 16 (41:07):
In stations in the country saying that they're going to
have to go off the air within a matter of
months really unless some sort of funding is restored.

Speaker 17 (41:17):
According to Kate Ridley, the president and CEO of America's
public television stations, the cuts are impacting stations serving rural
areas most because they don't have the population to raise
additional funds.

Speaker 16 (41:30):
We think it's critically important, as does the Public Broadcasting Act,
that all Americans, regardless of whether they live in bigger
communities or smaller communities, have access to free over the air,
non commercial educational television.

Speaker 17 (41:43):
Here in Birmingham.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
All right, look now, I don't want you to think
I don't like all of public television. I have watched
a lot of public television in my life, and I've
enjoyed a lot of it. I really have. I've enjoyed it.
And MPR. I used to like MPR before they just
went so unbelievably leftist. But I'm having trouble working up

(42:08):
a lot of sympathy because I know I look at
the list every every week of the most popular podcasts
in the country, and NPR lands at the top of
those lists every week, incredibly popular. All they've got to
do is hire some salespeople and they can they can

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make they can sell commercials just like we do here,
and I think they'll do okay. I think they will
because people do love their public television. People really like
MPR a lot of especially that left wingers. So just
hire some good salespeople, sell a few commercials, and you're

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gonna be fine. Come on, join the rest of us
in the real world. Right anyway, I have no I
have nothing against them, as long as they keep the
leftism out of my face. All right? Coming up more
more show after the break. Let's take the break, it

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says the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio seven
to ten WNTM News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I have you
a few news items I want to learn about.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Now.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
I saw that there are a bunch of college archery
people shooting bows and arrows in Foley this weekend. It
is a what do they call this? The USA Archery
Collegiate three D Nationals. A bunch of people just shooting
arrows all over the place. Let's find out what's going on.

(43:59):
Let's into Fox ten reporting on all of the archery happening.
And I want to learn about this because I've always
appreciated archery. I have I did not I've tried it
when I was a teenager. I tried it. I wasn't
very good at it, but I've always admired it. It's

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something I wished I'd taken the time to get good
at now. I don't know if there would have been
a practical application, but it just seems like a great
skill to have been able to put an arrow upside
somebody if you need to.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Top archers from across the US or in fully this
week shooting it out at the Hotel Planner USA Archery
Collegiate three D Nationals less than a decade ago, the
tournament only drew seventy five shooters. This year, thirty five
teams and a total of four hundred and eighty four athletes.
A big rich.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Four hundred and eighty four people shooting arrows around. Reason
for that grow I wonder if I wonder if you
can find just arrows laying aun in both.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
It has been scholarship opportunities.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
I don't know how I got mine, but I mean
I grew up doing it. I mean, I'm shooting both
in Dallas six and you know, you just kind of
meet the right people and get the connections, and you know,
just be a good person out there on the rain.
Don't be acting a fool. You know, trade people with respect,
and that's how you get noted.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Will Timmerman shoots for Lindsey Wilson University in Kentucky and
has been shooting in this fully event for the last
few years. For him and many other student athletes, archery
tournaments are family affairs, and Folly this is the favorite
tournament of the year.

Speaker 18 (45:32):
We're going to make sure that we hit certain restaurants
around between Folly and Golf Sourers both to get some
of the good seafood and yeah stuff, we just don't
get as much back home.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
What about the dad Gum Beach. Well, you came all
that way and you're worried about what you're gonna eat.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
That's exactly what city leaders hope for. Sports tourism continues
to pay off in Baldwin County, especially in the shoulders seasons.

Speaker 15 (46:01):
The last year this event brought in about three hundred
and thirty three thousand dollars in economic impact, which is
over twenty thousand dollars in local taxes.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
So that's a pretty big deal for us to be
able to fill that need in the October time train
back on the range. The last thing on these competitors'
minds was the impact of their sales in lodging taxes. Instead,
it was the impact they could have on the scorecard.
The weather this weekend was welcoming, and it's of course
these shooters love.

Speaker 19 (46:26):
I love the venue here compared to where we shoot
at home. It's flat and it's open here, so the
terrain's better. You can see a lot better. It's I
love the warm weather when we come down here in October.

Speaker 8 (46:37):
But the venue's just been great, Like the best conditions
to shoot in are here.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
I want you to look out of your shoulder for
us right here, that this sea of people should Competitve, Yeah, sir,
what's competition like here?

Speaker 8 (46:47):
Oh it's stut. You better be on a game, especially
this weekend. You know there's there's plenty of professional archers
out there.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
But I mean I professional archer. Now see, I need
to figure this out. Not that I want to become
a professional archer, but professional archer. What do you make money?
What do you get arrow endorsements and bow endorsements. I've
got to figure this out. I gotta find out.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
I wouldn't say that a third of these collegiate kids
aren't shooting for professional archer. I mean they're all in
with the.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Mix of it. The competition continues here at Graham Creek
tomorrow and Saturday before it moves indoors Saturday afternoon at
the Events Center at OA for the finals. Now, all
of this is open to the public and free to attend,
so come on out. I think we'll have a good time.

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Live in FOLI hal sharek Foxten news.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
All right, well, interesting but not enough to make me
go there. But I thank Fox ten for forgiving me
some new things to think about, like what is a
professional art? How wealthy can you become a professional archer?
All right? Almost out of time? Here real quick, one
more story a flu season. Here's a report from WAFF

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in Huntsville about how already the flu is popping up
in Alabama.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Alert tonight as flu season strikes again in Alabama. Cases
we're already being reported at the end of September, and
tonight we hear from doctors and experts on what you
expect this flu season. Wa FO forty is faith Delpa's
our story.

Speaker 20 (48:32):
The Alabama Department of Public Health already shows influenza cases
popping up around Alabama. Infectious disease specialist doctor William Schaffner
says it's that time to take this season very seriously.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Visits to emergency rooms and hospital admissions and cemeteries each.

Speaker 20 (48:51):
Year, Schaffner told me last year was the worst flu
season we have seen in fifteen years. Doctor Wes Stubblefield
with the Alabia i'm A Department of Public Health says
the CDC is projecting a season similar to last years.

Speaker 10 (49:06):
They're forecasting a quote unquote typical flu season, very similar
to last year's, meaning that flu, RSV, and COVID activity
should spike sometime in the wintertime, and we'll see increased
hospitalizations numbers, and even severe illnesses during that time period.

Speaker 20 (49:22):
He adds those with the highest risk our children and
elderly people.

Speaker 6 (49:26):
Elderly people as well as.

Speaker 20 (49:28):
Those with underlying health conditions. But everyone should prioritize their health,
especially during winter month.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
All right, well, it just sounds like a regular flu season.
Just be careful, you know what to do. I think
we've all been taught, haven't we over the past few years,
especially after they shut everything down. We've all been taught
how how we're allegedly supposed to pect protect ourselves from
catching stuff. Right, look on that annoying note, I'm out

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of time for the unclaimary show. Thank you for listening.
As they say in Sarahland, have a good one, as
they say in Theodore, take it easy, all right Later