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Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. Many things to get to on today's
Uncle Henry Show. Real quick though, uh. Condolences to fans
of Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan passing away today. It has
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been a rough last few days or Generation X in
our country. A lot of the the the cultural figures
of their their lives passing away. Over the last several
days for Generation X, you had, of course Ozzy Osbourne,
who I'm trying to be very respectful of your memories
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of Ozzy Osbourne, but Ozzy Osbourne passing away. You had
the uh, the young man that was on the Cosby Show,
Malcolm Jamal Warner, many people upset about that him passing away.
And now Hulk Hogan passing away. It has been a
rough several days for generation Generation X that came after
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the Baby Boomers, all these big figures that were very
important to the youth of Generation X. I was not
my My experiences with professional wrestling were mostly local. I
was an adult when all of this pro wrestling really
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took off with WWF and Hulk Hogan and stuff like that,
So it did not I was not hypnotized and charmed
the way that many people were by professional wrestling. Those
were raised with professional wrestling as a child. I did not.
I didn't have all of that, So I don't have
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the same emotional connection that you may have to Hulk
Hogan now I was a youngster. When I was a youngster,
I enjoyed watching on local television Boy Bob Kelly and
all those folks that wrestled on the local level, and
then later of course marvelous Marcel Pringle and Percy Pringle
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who went on to become pallbearer there in the WWF
and WWE. But hul Cogan. Now, I don't have a
lot of insight on hul Cogan other than looking back.
Was he I know the Rock became enormously popular, but
would you say that Hulk Hogan might have been the
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most popular of all of the big pro wrestlers. Again,
I know the Rock very popular, but would Hulk Hogan
be the one? It would be the TOMPs. I'm asking
you because I'm again that kind of missed that era
of myself because I was not young enough to have
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it on. When you're young and stuff like that is
presented to you, you don't have a many filters to
let you know that something is silly or ridiculous, and
so you just eat it all up. I was kind
of past that age when Hulk Cogan came along. But
hul Cogan was he the best at what he did.
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And I guess when you say best at what he did,
that's more than the athleticism of running around and jumping
on top of people, but just about the marketing, standing
in front of a camera and doing all the things
that they did to make themselves so popular. Was he
the best? He probably may have been the best at
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doing that and getting attention, and a lot of the
people that followed him kind of followed his example. So again,
condolences to those that are in mourning over losing all
of these figures from their childhood in the last few days.
Ozzie Osbourne, hul Cogan, Malcolm Jamal Warner of The Cosby
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Show two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number there's two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. One more thing before I move on
to other topics. Speaking of Malcolm Jamal Warner and The
Cosby Show, which was one of the most popular shows
of its kind, that is it is it on TV anywhere?
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Because of all the horrible things that were learned about
Bill Cosby? Is it's too bad that the the baby
gets thrown out with the bathwater there because as upset
as people remain with Bill Cosby and all the things
he's been accused of and gotten in trouble for that
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was still quite a television show that meant a lot
to a lot of young people in the country. Imagine
being one of the other people on that show. You
were on that show made a lot of money of it.
I'm sure that everybody made a pretty good paycheck that
was on the program. But then Bill Cosby gets himself
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in all that terrible trouble, and then all the other
people that were on that show you don't find you
don't see the show anymore, and they're kind of they
all kind of took a hit. They were all hit
by that shrapnel when that bomb went off. Too bad
for them. And I wonder in years to come, will
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the disdain for Bill Cosby died down a bit, and
will that show end up on more TV channels seen
by more people, because at the time it seemed to
be of quite high quality for that type of TV show. Well,
imagine that. Imagine that if you were on that show
and that was about the best and most prominent thing
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you ever did in your career, and then Bill Cosby
gets and on that trouble and then people no longer
see that show for years and years. That had to
have been a bitter pill to swallow for some of them.
But anyway, we've got many other more important things to
talk about here on the Uncle Henry Show. Got topics
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to get into, voicemails that have been phoned in. All
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iHeartMedia dot com. Now, before I get into a topic
or two that I have for you, let me quickly
check a voicemail that came in before the show this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Old time huh speaking of Roll Tide, Yes, thirty seven
days until we kick it off against f SU, and
I'm pretty certain it made I think it's next Wednesday, perhaps,
which would be the thirtieth of July, or it could
be next Thursday. Young men report for the first day
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of practice, whole month of practice to get ready for
the seminoles. Yeah, also noticed today lost a couple more
the haulkster M seventy one and then the same word
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musician Chuck Manjoni passed away. I don't recall if it
said how old he was or not. Never was really
into his music. He did a couple of songs I
could tolerate, but not a big time listener. Okay, on
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that enlightening moment. Message for now, looking at one hour
in about thirty five minutes until the Uncle Henry's program
comes on the air. Thank you and roll Tidrow ro tid.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Row, thank you for the kickoff updates. Love hearing the
college football countdown updates. Yes, also I did not mention
the jazz musician Chuck MANNGIONI passing away, not getting as
much attention, perhaps because he did not bine the heads
off bats or things like that. Two five one or
seven nine two seven two three the telephone.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Number, Hello Color, Hey, y'all, go to JD JD.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Uncle, What a week, Ozzie. And then the Hulkster. You
started the show talking about Hulk Hogan and the Generation
x Yeah, I wanted to tell you I was the
Generation x SO back in the eighties when I was
a kid, Hulk Hogan was the biggest thing ever man.
He was a trailblazer in the WWF when he started.
When the WWF started out, they were a small all
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wrestling promotion, and then when Hull Cogan came on the
scene WrestleMania one, he actually built that company. Yeah, Hule
Cogan took the WWF and built it into what it
is today just from his all the things that he did.
He carried an American flag to the ring, He talked
about eating your vitamins, saying your prayers. He was a
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dynamic TV personality, and of course he won all his
championship matches right, so like yeah, he was just so
popular back in the eighties and then into the nineties,
the ww transition like into Stone Cold Steve Austin and
the Rock and you know, and it just kind of
changed over the years. But now Hule Cogan actually built
that entire company, the WWF, but now whole Cogan. You
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know you remember him being at the RNC convention.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh yeah, absolutely, that was quite a surprise to me.
I didn't know he was gonna come out, So yeah,
I remember it vividly.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Hull Cogan came out there and ors Trump and became
a big MAGA supporter. So the last time he actually
appeared on ww television was January sixth, uh uh of
this year, and everybody booed him. It was in Los
Angeles because he had become a Maga supporter, So I
thought that was wild. Oh he got booed. Yeah, he
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got booed right on an episode of Raw when he
came out.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You can look it up on YouTube if you look
up Hulk Cogan, uh getting booed. That was the last
time he showed up on ww television.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Hey would uh so, based on what you just told
me about him really popularizing ww WWF and building it
into what it is, would you say that he h
he influenced everybody that came after him. Is it would
that be accoring?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
He did, absolutely, I mean if if because if not
for hul Cogan there, there wouldn't have been Uh, there
wouldn't have been a road for Stone called Steve Austin
and the Rock and John Cena and all the people
that came later, you know, because the WWE had grown
so big by the time Hogan left that, I mean,
the company was just huge and uh and so and
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I also want to tell you one other thing about Ozzie,
because I know that a lot of people like to
say he bit the head off the bat.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So the true story of that is that he was
at a concert and somebody threw a bat on stage,
and because it was dark, Ozzy thought it was a toy.
He thought it was like a rubber bat. So when
he picked it up and bit into it and had
actual blood and he realized it was a real bat.
And so right after the concert he got rushed by
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ambulance to a hospital so he could get treated for rabies.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So that was That's actually the real story of the
bat incident with Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You know, I've been to a lot of concerts of
never taking a bat with me? I mean, why were
why did somebody why did did they have songs about bats?
Why would did you go to a concert with a
bat with you?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Who knows? Back in those days with all the drugs.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Right, okay, well well we have our shared drugs these days.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All right, they should taking my car Uncle roll time rocha.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Thank you JD for your phone call explaining the gen
x icons to me here on the Uncle Indy Show. Yes,
so somebody goes to a concert. They just happened to
have a bat with them. Was it a deceased bant?
Was it a pet bant? It's just you don't But
I guess There've always been eccentric people throughout history, So
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I don't. Maybe that could have happened at any concert.
Maybe the people that were uh, that were caught at
that concert on the the Coldplay concert, that were caught
cheating on their spouses, they might have had bats in
their pants. You never know, You just never know with
all these things, all right. Two five one four seven
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nine two seven two three the telephone, we're here on
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nine two seven two three Email address, Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. Next week on the Uncle Henry Show,
I'm going to have some interviews with mayoral candidates, at
least the ones that will return my emails. And I
say that because I saw a story I think NBC
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fifteen had this story about how Representative Barbara Drummond is
challenging her opponents to live two live televised debates, and
the the story says that she wants I'm trying to
get all the details she wants, uh, two live televised debates,
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and she wants live fact checking questions from journalists and
citizens and some type of live fact checking while the
thing is going on now. The forum that I saw
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the other day from Fox ten, it looked like all
of the candidates, all four of them look pretty confident.
All four of them seem like they're very confident speaking
on their own behalf. I don't know that I'm trying
to vary out why she would issue this challenge, because
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I'm sure that everybody else would fall in line and
show up if there was such a debate. I wonder
if she feels like she needs the attention and has
me kind of confused because there's the Uncle Henry show.
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Speaker 7 (18:48):
Hello color, Hey Henry, Jimmy the Economist.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Jimmy the Economist. You are live on the radio.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You pique my interest when you brought up wrestling and
uh the Houlkster. But correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
an exer. Probably, I don't know. Maybe I'm in the middle.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Gon in the mid seventies, but as far as wrestling,
we had local wrestling. You were a part of it, Obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You missed that.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Yeah, bullet Bullet Bob Armstrong.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, he was one of.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Them, and Anderson's bullet Bob's may believe girlfriend who may
have really been your mama, Fanny may Tupwaller.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
That is not true, and you're leaving out Cowboy Bob
Kelly well Els I had a Bob. We had a
local version of Gorgeous George back in the day, back
in the nineteen.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Sixties, Adrian Street.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Adrian Street was around here. Yes, indeed, Marvelous Marcel.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Pringle Man has ever kissed you.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He is the only man that has ever kissed me. Yes,
against my will.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
It was interesting that we had like the Mobile group
and then we had a Pensacola group, and maybe they
went back and forth ye one another, but there was
always the Atlanta group that was like it was hard
to figure them out because we didn't get their coverage.
They were probably under some sort of Turner TV. And
that's of course where Rick Flair was from. So although
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you mentioned Hogan being the most international, I think Flair
might have been the guy who at least regionally became
the star before the Hulkster really piggybacked on Ric Flair
and brought it to the whole new level.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up wrong. A lot
of younger people, people younger than you, don't realize that
before WWF it was regional. You had all get a
different kind of wrestling all over the country.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Yeah, and you couldn't get those television stations. You could
only get your local if you had local cable or
right Ears or an Intenta on top of your house.
That's the only options you had. We were pulling a
little bit from Pensacola because we could get that signal,
but only probably with cable. But anybody much younger than me,
they wouldn't understand regional television. But don't let's not leave
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our Rick Flair.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
He's still around. I think he was bigger than the Holkster.
No offense to the Holster, but I think it crested
as far as creating that nationwide persona character I think
questioned when Rick Flair became I guess it is when
we started getting TVs down here? Is that about right?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That might have been?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Well, I'll never forget your bit with Adrian Street that was.
That was quite unique and I'm sure you probably quit
it all of wrestling coverage after that event, but anybody's listening,
I encouraged watch Henry May guy.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
With a man.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, it was against my will, Jimmy, it was against
my will, all right, take care, all right? You can
see that on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And also as far as local, Bob Holly, who I
think went from local to WWE then WWF. I enjoyed
interviewing Bob Holly about what it was like to be
in the WWE WWF. He worked out as they all do,
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to make himself look as much like a hul Cogan type,
extremely cut, very muscular, and I remember when I interviewed
him years ago, ten or fifteen years ago, Bob Holly
told me that when he was at his peak and
he was traveling all over the world doing those doing
those events for WWE, he said, to maintain the body,
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to maintain his body, he would have to set an
alarm and wake up in the middle of the night
to eat. He had to eat around the clock. Now,
I'm sure now, I'm sure now fifteen years later, they've
probably figured out something a little bit better than that.
But then he was setting an alarm and waking up
in the middle of the night to eat whatever protein
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he was going to eat just to maintain the muscle
mass that he wanted to have for those fights. And
always fun to ask these people what it's like to
do what they do, because things don't always go according
to plan in the ring. And I've told the story
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on the air many times about a local match. I
went to one out at Baker High School where one
of the wrestlers, Hippie boy Yet Mike Hippie Boyet was
one of the wrestlers and Mike Hippie Boyet got very
(24:06):
angry and the final match of the evening, he went
off the rails and the other people involved, the other
wrestlers and the refs were very they were very fearful
because he went off the rails and he just started brawling.
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It was not your typical wrestling match. It was real life.
It was real life, like a bar fight, only you
got to watch it in the ring. There. Anyway, all
of it is it's a lot of fun. I'm sure
there's great books out there by people that have done it,
and probably a lot of great books to come where
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people tell they're behind the scenes stories about how those
matches are are set up, how they decide what they
want to do in the ring, and of course when
things go wrong, which they do. Two five to one
or seven nine two seven two three. The telephone number
that's two five to one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henriet iHeartMedia dot com. I
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want to go back to the story I mentioned right
before the break at the bottom of the hour, I
told you that one of the mayoral candidates, Barbara Drummond,
who many many political observers believe she will make it
into the runoff and that she has a very strong
chance of being the next mayor for a variety of reasons. Well,
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she is challenging let's see she according to NBC fifteen,
she's asking UH local television, radio and digital news outlets
to organize and broadcast two televised debates in August. She
would like them to be live, with independent fact checking,
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opening statements, moderated questions, and a public Q and a segment.
And she's challenging the other people to join her in this.
Now this surprises me because this does this sounds like somebody,
This sounds like a suggestion from somebody that's not doing
well in a campaign. I mean, all four they're doing
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forums all over town, the four candidates, They've they've done
numerous forms. I think they've got more coming up. They
all nobody's gonna duck her. They're all going to show up.
If anybody does a televised debate, they're all going to
show up. Nobody's gonna not do it. I just I
don't understand calling for this. Uh this, it's the type
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of thing you do if you were behind in every
There's every indication that she would would be likely to
make the runoff, unless there's some polling that I have
heard about, or the public is not aware of that
somebody has done and have not released the results. I
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don't I don't understand the call for this, and certainly
issuing a challenge. All the other candidates are going to
be glad to show up. The other candidates want they
want to be on camera too, So I'm a little
perplexed by that. There is more to come. Got to
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nine two seven two three, Hello.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Color, Hey Uncle Henry, this is.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
All t RT.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Hey, thank you very much. I was calling about your
last report about Barbara Drimmin. Yeah, and yeah, that reminds
me so much of Hillary Clinton back in twenty fifteen. Really, yes,
remember she was she didn't want to answer questions from
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her boarders, and she started promoting Media Matters, this news
truth finding an organization. Do you remember that.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Well, I do remember all the different fact checkers that
popped up that weren't really fact checkers, but.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But me Matters was an organization that was the first
fact checker, and that she promoted it back in twenty fifteen. Yeah,
and it was basically she was trying to hide who
she really was and Barbara drubbing. She is the only
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lifelong Democrat in this race, and she's tried to hide it.
Nobody's promoting political party here right with all the craziness
of the Democrats nationwide, she didn't want to answer those questions.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, I mean, she wants to go she's challenging people
to televised debates, so she wants to be in front
of cameras talking about running for mayor.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
She doesn't want to answer questions on why do you
support these democratic policies like even the stuff in Los Angeles,
all these crazy democrats, mayors of sanctuary cities and defunding
the police. Barbara Drumming doesn't want to answer those questions.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Well, has anybody asked her those questions?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I haven't. Personally, I haven't. I remember Barbara Drumming from
when she was a Press Register reporter. I've met her
a couple of times. She's a nice, gracious lady.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yes, indeed, nobody wants.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
To talk about the democratic parity policies that she could
bring into the city of Mobile that I don't think
we're gonna like uple Henry, I don't think you'll like
them either. Well, I know you're allowed to endorse, but.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Oh no, I'm not. But you bring up an interesting
point as to whether or not any of that will
ever get brought up at a forum or a debate,
And I don't know if it will or not. I
guess we have to wait and see. There's gonna be
a lot more. Maybe somebody will bring that stuff up.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
But party politics has been taken totally out of all
city elections, right, And I'm curious, does she support the
mayor of Los Angeles, the mayor of Washington, d C.
The mayors of New York? I mean, is she going
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to fall in line with the National Democratic Party? And
I think those are very good questions, and I think
she's trying to avoid that.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, we still have a lot of time, a few
more weeks, so those questions may pomp up. We'll have
to wait and see if she gets asked and if
she answers.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I hope you do. But when you're talking about they
want fact checkers, right, I mean, she is a lifelong
Democrat and it should be broadcasted wide open, and it's
not being done. And you know, I'm assuming Paul Prime's
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a Republicans. I know Connie Hudson and Sheriff Jeddy Goddis is.
So it's I'm just I don't like the idea that
party politics has been basically hidden from this election.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Well, yeah, that is, uh, it is something as you
pointed out that because the races are considered nonpartisan for mobile,
those kind of things rarely get brought up in mayor's races. Historically,
they usually haven't been well.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
I don't want mobile to turn into Los Angeles, Chicago
or New York. I really don't. I just and I
think these are very good questions.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right, Well, let's let's see if anybody asks the Martine.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Okay, thank you Uncle Henry, Rollti.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Rod, thank you very much for your phone call. All right,
just about out of time for this edition of The
Uncle Henry Show. I think I got time for one
very brief voicemail.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Hey, unc storming Norman, wondering if you had got out
to check out Brookdale Drive over the weekend, check out
all those pottholes like I had asked you about man
Or man even more this week. It's like B fifty
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two bomber strike. Just checking it out. Hope you did.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Bye, Hey Stormer Norman. Thank you. I have not been
to Brookdale yet, but I will back by Monday. I
will have visited Brookdale for you, and I will file
a pothole report for you, and I'm sure ill just
enjoy the ambiance of Brookdale Drive, it says The Uncle
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Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. I
thank you for listening to it and to me. Now,
coming up this half hour of Uncle Henry Show, going
to get to some voicemail from listeners and also maybe
a news item or two that I missed and you
might have missed as well. Let me start off with
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a voicemail message. The voicemail number is two five one
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man who traps snakes. He's called the Snake Trapper.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Hey e reader, Snake Trapper, Hey man, I'm listening to
your show after six o'clock where you are talking about
the Democratic William Boyd that is going to run for governor.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yes, he's one of the people running for governor. Sorry
to interrupt the Snake Trapper if you missed it. A
a night or two ago at this time, I shared
with you an interview I think it was WBrC or WSFA,
one of the stations upstate interviewed this Democrat candidate for governor,
doctor William Boyd, A guy that's got I think two
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or three doctorates and all these different different degrees and things.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
He's running for governor, Uncle, Henry, I got four or
five questions that I need to ask this fellow. One.
I would like to know if he supports a five
year old deciding its gender. The second question is I
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would like to know if he would support the America
First Agenda from President Trump. And also I would like
to know if he is perfectly fine with deporting illegal
aliens that has broken laws in this country.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
If this fellow answers doesn't get the right answer, he's
got no shot in Alabama.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Henry.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Now, wait, you heard the interview that I shared on
he was taught. You remember he said something about high
speed high speed rail, which I don't know why anyone
would bring that up running for governor, but he does,
Snake Trapper, You don't think Alabamians will fall in love
with the idea of high speed chi choo trains going
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all over the state.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
I mean, I'm just now had my passport renews It
has costing me one hundred and sixty five dollars just.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
To have it renewed.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (37:33):
If I guess, if I was an illegal, I could
just go to and fro without any consequences. But I'm
an American citizen.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I'm sorry to interrupt again. Trying to imagine where what
country will snake trapper visit? Will will he? I didn't
know snake trapper was leaving the country. Snake trapper, are
you going on? Are you going to try and trap
a snake somewhere? Are you going to where where you
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can find anacondas and pythons and things like that outside
of the country or some other Are you going to
go across the world to find cobras? You probably hadn't
been bit by a cobra yet. Now I'm very curious
Will the vacation involve trapping snakes? Just curious about this?
Speaker 7 (38:28):
All?
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Right? Back to the voicemail taxpayer.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
But yet I have to have a passporard right to
leave this country or to enter this country. Correct, But
lest you're willing to let a person that's undocumented, that
you have no knowledge of who they are, or where
they've been or where they're from, just enter and leave
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at pleasure, we'll boid. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Will you be for making uh illegal immigration illegal? Uh?
Will you let the parents decide what happens to their children. Uh,
will you be given school choice?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Wouldn't it be great for Snake Trapper to interview all
the candidates for every office? This would it would it
would be quite entertaining. I think. Uh, he could also
ask about their you know, different kind of questions in
addition to everything he's brought up. He could ask candidates like,
what is your favorite snake that kind of thing.
Speaker 9 (39:38):
It sounds like you're running as a Democrat. Uh so
you probably support all of that, the yes, and we
know what that stands for. But anyway, Uh, people ask
us a fellow the tough questions. We want to know
how he thinks. We want to know if he supports
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our president and his agenda to be America first, if he's.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Not in like Flynn?
Speaker 4 (40:12):
All right, and then the voicemail cut him off. Stave Trepor,
thank you, thank you for offering perspective questions for that
man who would like to be the Democrat nominee. I
apologize for not knowing the names of all the people
running for governor yet that race is next year, and
I know that there's a I know Tommy Tuberville is
running for the Republican nomination wanting to run for governor
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as a Republican. And then you've got doctor Will Boyd
on the Democrat side. And I think there's another Republican
and another Democrat also seeking their party's nomination to run
for governor. I don't know who they are yet, and
I guess I'll wait because I've learned through the years
that sometimes you don't have to learn the names of
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all the candidates because many of them don't have a
chance anyway. So I just I'll just wait before I
devote that brain power to learning the names of all
these folks. But Snake Trapper, thank you again for your
voicemail about that man running for governor and offering questions.
Two five one two one six nineteen seventy six is
the number on the Uncle Henry Show two five to
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one two one six, nineteen seventy six. They leave a
message for the program now before I go to breaks,
since I had Snake Trapper on. Snake Trapper is known
for his wildlife phone calls, calling in about snakes, of course,
and also possums, raccoons, various various animals. Here is a
(41:42):
story I just I just found out about this a
little while ago, some wildlife enforcement officers around the country
are looking to stop poachers with robots. This is from
Fox News. Let's listen together. Robots stopping animal poachers.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
There's a new tool in the fight against illegal hunters
around the country, increasingly lifelike robotics remote controlled animals which
can wiggle their ears, move their legs, and in some
cases even poop. One industry leader, Custom Robotic Wildlife's products
assembled from dead animal skin and remote controlled car parts
(42:22):
are constantly being improved to stay ahead of poachers, many
of whom are themselves using technology such as thermal rifle
scopes to stump illegal hunting. With those, the company rolled
out a heat emitting robotic deer. Thousands of violations are
issued each year, and poachers can face hundreds of dollars
in fines and potential jail time. Lillly and woo, Fox News.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Have you heard this robot deer using old car parts
and old animal skinned robot deers in the wood? Right, Well,
that's another thing to be looking for if you're just
out in the woods where there could be a robot deer.
All right, I'll be back after the break. Let's take
by break this says the Uncle Henry Show here on
(43:23):
News Radio seven ten WNTM news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines, maybe
a story or two. I missed these stories. You may
have missed them too. I got something for us from
(43:43):
Fox ten about Mobile mapping out. I think our storm drains.
Drainage is a topic from time to time in this
very wet city. Let's listen together. I think we'll hear
investigative reporter Kirby telling us about this mapping out of
(44:04):
the city of Mobile's storm drains.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Workers are making a map, but not an ordinary one.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
This one is looking at where the roads and businesses are. Rather,
it's documenting what's underneath the streets. Brendan Kirby is in
the studio to talk about it. And Brendan, it's part
of an effort to reduce flooding.
Speaker 10 (44:21):
Yeah, that's right, Cameron Lnis.
Speaker 12 (44:22):
Anyone who's been here for just one good downpour knows
how quickly many of the streets can flood. The stormwater
management map is meant to be a tool in recognizing
where the system's greatest vulnerabilities are.
Speaker 10 (44:35):
In the last year, city workers have used a federal
grant to visit and document every stormwater drain, inlet, culvert,
and manhole and mobile as it existed before the twenty
twenty three annexation.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Now this would be I'm guessing that you would not
be interest or excited to look at something like this,
But I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm an ancient person,
but I love the eye idea of mapping all these things,
all the the main holes and all the I would
love to In fact, i'd love to interview them people
(45:09):
that are mapping them. They've probably got a completely different
view of the city of Mobile than you and I do.
The people that know all the storm drains.
Speaker 10 (45:18):
More than forty thousand features in all. Now workers are
moving on to the newly annexed areas. That's another four
thousand features.
Speaker 13 (45:26):
We open it up, we go inside, we look at
where the water is going. We also have a feature
that we have to look at the entire city, so
we know if you put in water here, we know
exactly where it's gonna come out.
Speaker 10 (45:39):
Jennifer Green, this is good.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
This is something I would I wish I'd like to
look at this.
Speaker 10 (45:44):
Rector of Programs and Project Management says The information will
guide future decisions on what pipes to replace and what
drainage ditches to repair. The city's next major project is
a complete overhaul of Saint Louis Street downtown. Green says
some of the pipes are one hundred years old. When
it's done, she says, the street won't just look nicer,
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it will clear out titles faster folowing torrential rainstorms. For proof,
she points to heavy rain a couple of months ago
in a recently upgraded portion of Broad Street.
Speaker 13 (46:16):
We were watching that really closely because that was the
first really heavy rainstorm since the project has been completed,
and what we saw was Yes, of course there was flooding,
which is to be expected when you have that much rain,
but the system responded extremely quickly.
Speaker 10 (46:31):
Matt Anderson, the city's director of Public Services, says the
mapping also is a big help to maintenance crews that
remove leaves and other debris that clog the system.
Speaker 14 (46:41):
Oftentimes, when we have a crew that goes out, they
don't always know what they're going to be running into
when they pop open that manhole or they pop open
a stormwater inlet cover. If you were on the crew
and you were responding, and you arrive on a flooded
street and you don't know exactly where the stormwater inlet is.
That can make your job much more difficult.
Speaker 12 (46:57):
The grant funded mapping project costs about two million million
dollars and then it will take another six months or
so before it's finished, and the.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
City is advertising for a deputy director of.
Speaker 12 (47:06):
Stormwater Services to coordinate all this, but Anderson says that
he can only do so much. He says the completely
fixing the entire system to make it floodproof would take billions.
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby Fox ten years.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Yeah, that's the thing. It's nice to know all this,
but as you just heard him say, it would cost
billions to because look at where how low lying a
lot of mobile is down near the water. Of course,
low lying plus lots of rain, and you could have
the best drainage system in the world. But if you
(47:41):
get a certain amount of rain in a short amount
of time, ain't much you can do about it. All right,
But interesting, nonetheless, that they're mapping out all of the
storm water and all the drains and stuff. Now, let's
see one more. Let's see I've got One more item
from Fox ten Lenish Lagan reporting on taking a summer
(48:02):
break off of your social media. Let's listen together.
Speaker 11 (48:07):
Dance videos on TikTok, cooking or educational videos on YouTube,
events on Facebook. Social media sites are a wealth of
information and entertainment. They can also be a real time drainer.
It can happen fast. You open up that link from
a friend and the next thing you know, you are
swallowed into that dreaded doom scrolling vortex.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
If you can what does she say, doom scrolling vortex,
no break.
Speaker 11 (48:34):
That means this is a clue for you to take
a break. Instagram has a deactivation page. Just sign into
your account and click temporarily deactivate account. You can do
this once a week, depending on your reason. Too busy
to distracting too many ads.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
We're being told how to deactivate social media? How about
not even clicking on it.
Speaker 11 (48:57):
You might have other menu suggestions. Pick one and then
you'll be prompted again to enter your password to continue.
Once you've done that, click temporarily deactivate account and you're done.
You also have the choice to delete the account, or.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
You could just not open the apps if you want
to take a break though is call me sometimes I
can help with these stories.
Speaker 11 (49:21):
It's more permanent. When you deactivate your Instagram account, it
actually still exists your account.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Just all all right, look, thank I want to thank
the Lord that I'm not so enslaved by social media
that I have to worry about all this kind of stuff.
But if you, if you are, if you feel enslaved
by your social media, you can go to Foxten's website
foxtentv dot com and get advice on how to pause
your social media for your mental health. Right out of time.
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Thank you for listening. As they say in Sara Land,
have a good one. And as they say in Theodore,
take it easey, all right, Ata
Weekday afternoons from five till seven.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh Gohn, you know why why can't we all hear alone?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. Many things to get to on today's
Uncle Henry Show. Real quick though, uh. Condolences to fans
of Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan passing away today. It has
(02:20):
been a rough last few days or Generation X in
our country. A lot of the the the cultural figures
of their their lives passing away. Over the last several
days for Generation X, you had, of course Ozzy Osbourne,
who I'm trying to be very respectful of your memories
(02:45):
of Ozzy Osbourne, but Ozzy Osbourne passing away. You had
the uh, the young man that was on the Cosby Show,
Malcolm Jamal Warner, many people upset about that him passing away.
And now Hulk Hogan passing away. It has been a
rough several days for generation Generation X that came after
(03:05):
the Baby Boomers, all these big figures that were very
important to the youth of Generation X. I was not
my My experiences with professional wrestling were mostly local. I
was an adult when all of this pro wrestling really
(03:28):
took off with WWF and Hulk Hogan and stuff like that,
So it did not I was not hypnotized and charmed
the way that many people were by professional wrestling. Those
were raised with professional wrestling as a child. I did not.
I didn't have all of that, So I don't have
(03:48):
the same emotional connection that you may have to Hulk
Hogan now I was a youngster. When I was a youngster,
I enjoyed watching on local television Boy Bob Kelly and
all those folks that wrestled on the local level, and
then later of course marvelous Marcel Pringle and Percy Pringle
(04:11):
who went on to become pallbearer there in the WWF
and WWE. But hul Cogan. Now, I don't have a
lot of insight on hul Cogan other than looking back.
Was he I know the Rock became enormously popular, but
would you say that Hulk Hogan might have been the
(04:33):
most popular of all of the big pro wrestlers. Again,
I know the Rock very popular, but would Hulk Hogan
be the one? It would be the TOMPs. I'm asking
you because I'm again that kind of missed that era
of myself because I was not young enough to have
(04:55):
it on. When you're young and stuff like that is
presented to you, you don't have a many filters to
let you know that something is silly or ridiculous, and
so you just eat it all up. I was kind
of past that age when Hulk Cogan came along. But
hul Cogan was he the best at what he did.
(05:18):
And I guess when you say best at what he did,
that's more than the athleticism of running around and jumping
on top of people, but just about the marketing, standing
in front of a camera and doing all the things
that they did to make themselves so popular. Was he
the best? He probably may have been the best at
(05:39):
doing that and getting attention, and a lot of the
people that followed him kind of followed his example. So again,
condolences to those that are in mourning over losing all
of these figures from their childhood in the last few days.
Ozzie Osbourne, hul Cogan, Malcolm Jamal Warner of The Cosby
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Show two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number there's two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. One more thing before I move on
to other topics. Speaking of Malcolm Jamal Warner and The
Cosby Show, which was one of the most popular shows
of its kind, that is it is it on TV anywhere?
(06:29):
Because of all the horrible things that were learned about
Bill Cosby? Is it's too bad that the the baby
gets thrown out with the bathwater there because as upset
as people remain with Bill Cosby and all the things
he's been accused of and gotten in trouble for that
(06:51):
was still quite a television show that meant a lot
to a lot of young people in the country. Imagine
being one of the other people on that show. You
were on that show made a lot of money of it.
I'm sure that everybody made a pretty good paycheck that
was on the program. But then Bill Cosby gets himself
(07:13):
in all that terrible trouble, and then all the other
people that were on that show you don't find you
don't see the show anymore, and they're kind of they
all kind of took a hit. They were all hit
by that shrapnel when that bomb went off. Too bad
for them. And I wonder in years to come, will
(07:35):
the disdain for Bill Cosby died down a bit, and
will that show end up on more TV channels seen
by more people, because at the time it seemed to
be of quite high quality for that type of TV show. Well,
imagine that. Imagine that if you were on that show
and that was about the best and most prominent thing
(07:56):
you ever did in your career, and then Bill Cosby
gets and on that trouble and then people no longer
see that show for years and years. That had to
have been a bitter pill to swallow for some of them.
But anyway, we've got many other more important things to
talk about here on the Uncle Henry Show. Got topics
(08:17):
to get into, voicemails that have been phoned in. All
that and more coming up as The Uncle Henry Show
continues here on news radio seven to ten WNTM. A
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Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is
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Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry at
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iHeartMedia dot com. Now, before I get into a topic
or two that I have for you, let me quickly
check a voicemail that came in before the show this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Old time huh speaking of Roll Tide, Yes, thirty seven
days until we kick it off against f SU, and
I'm pretty certain it made I think it's next Wednesday, perhaps,
which would be the thirtieth of July, or it could
be next Thursday. Young men report for the first day
(10:12):
of practice, whole month of practice to get ready for
the seminoles. Yeah, also noticed today lost a couple more
the haulkster M seventy one and then the same word
(10:33):
musician Chuck Manjoni passed away. I don't recall if it
said how old he was or not. Never was really
into his music. He did a couple of songs I
could tolerate, but not a big time listener. Okay, on
(10:55):
that enlightening moment. Message for now, looking at one hour
in about thirty five minutes until the Uncle Henry's program
comes on the air. Thank you and roll Tidrow ro tid.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Row, thank you for the kickoff updates. Love hearing the
college football countdown updates. Yes, also I did not mention
the jazz musician Chuck MANNGIONI passing away, not getting as
much attention, perhaps because he did not bine the heads
off bats or things like that. Two five one or
seven nine two seven two three the telephone.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Number, Hello Color, Hey, y'all, go to JD JD.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Uncle, What a week, Ozzie. And then the Hulkster. You
started the show talking about Hulk Hogan and the Generation
x Yeah, I wanted to tell you I was the
Generation x SO back in the eighties when I was
a kid, Hulk Hogan was the biggest thing ever man.
He was a trailblazer in the WWF when he started.
When the WWF started out, they were a small all
(12:00):
wrestling promotion, and then when Hull Cogan came on the
scene WrestleMania one, he actually built that company. Yeah, Hule
Cogan took the WWF and built it into what it
is today just from his all the things that he did.
He carried an American flag to the ring, He talked
about eating your vitamins, saying your prayers. He was a
(12:22):
dynamic TV personality, and of course he won all his
championship matches right, so like yeah, he was just so
popular back in the eighties and then into the nineties,
the ww transition like into Stone Cold Steve Austin and
the Rock and you know, and it just kind of
changed over the years. But now Hule Cogan actually built
that entire company, the WWF, but now whole Cogan. You
(12:48):
know you remember him being at the RNC convention.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh yeah, absolutely, that was quite a surprise to me.
I didn't know he was gonna come out, So yeah,
I remember it vividly.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Hull Cogan came out there and ors Trump and became
a big MAGA supporter. So the last time he actually
appeared on ww television was January sixth, uh uh of
this year, and everybody booed him. It was in Los
Angeles because he had become a Maga supporter, So I
thought that was wild. Oh he got booed. Yeah, he
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got booed right on an episode of Raw when he
came out.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You can look it up on YouTube if you look
up Hulk Cogan, uh getting booed. That was the last
time he showed up on ww television.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Hey would uh so, based on what you just told
me about him really popularizing ww WWF and building it
into what it is, would you say that he h
he influenced everybody that came after him. Is it would
that be accoring?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
He did, absolutely, I mean if if because if not
for hul Cogan there, there wouldn't have been Uh, there
wouldn't have been a road for Stone called Steve Austin
and the Rock and John Cena and all the people
that came later, you know, because the WWE had grown
so big by the time Hogan left that, I mean,
the company was just huge and uh and so and
(14:14):
I also want to tell you one other thing about Ozzie,
because I know that a lot of people like to
say he bit the head off the bat.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So the true story of that is that he was
at a concert and somebody threw a bat on stage,
and because it was dark, Ozzy thought it was a toy.
He thought it was like a rubber bat. So when
he picked it up and bit into it and had
actual blood and he realized it was a real bat.
And so right after the concert he got rushed by
(14:40):
ambulance to a hospital so he could get treated for rabies.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So that was That's actually the real story of the
bat incident with Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You know, I've been to a lot of concerts of
never taking a bat with me? I mean, why were
why did somebody why did did they have songs about bats?
Why would did you go to a concert with a
bat with you?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Who knows? Back in those days with all the drugs.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Right, okay, well well we have our shared drugs these days.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
All right, they should taking my car Uncle roll time rocha.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Thank you JD for your phone call explaining the gen
x icons to me here on the Uncle Indy Show. Yes,
so somebody goes to a concert. They just happened to
have a bat with them. Was it a deceased bant?
Was it a pet bant? It's just you don't But
I guess There've always been eccentric people throughout history, So
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I don't. Maybe that could have happened at any concert.
Maybe the people that were uh, that were caught at
that concert on the the Coldplay concert, that were caught
cheating on their spouses, they might have had bats in
their pants. You never know, You just never know with
all these things, all right. Two five one four seven
(15:58):
nine two seven two three the telephone, we're here on
the Uncle Henry Show. That's two five one four seventy
nine two seven two three Email address, Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. Next week on the Uncle Henry Show,
I'm going to have some interviews with mayoral candidates, at
least the ones that will return my emails. And I
say that because I saw a story I think NBC
(16:22):
fifteen had this story about how Representative Barbara Drummond is
challenging her opponents to live two live televised debates, and
the the story says that she wants I'm trying to
get all the details she wants, uh, two live televised debates,
(16:47):
and she wants live fact checking questions from journalists and
citizens and some type of live fact checking while the
thing is going on now. The forum that I saw
(17:08):
the other day from Fox ten, it looked like all
of the candidates, all four of them look pretty confident.
All four of them seem like they're very confident speaking
on their own behalf. I don't know that I'm trying
to vary out why she would issue this challenge, because
(17:29):
I'm sure that everybody else would fall in line and
show up if there was such a debate. I wonder
if she feels like she needs the attention and has
me kind of confused because there's the Uncle Henry show.
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Speaker 7 (18:48):
Hello color, Hey Henry, Jimmy the Economist.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Jimmy the Economist. You are live on the radio.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You pique my interest when you brought up wrestling and
uh the Houlkster. But correct me if I'm wrong. I'm
an exer. Probably, I don't know. Maybe I'm in the middle.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Gon in the mid seventies, but as far as wrestling,
we had local wrestling. You were a part of it, Obviously.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You missed that.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Yeah, bullet Bullet Bob Armstrong.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Yeah, he was one of.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Them, and Anderson's bullet Bob's may believe girlfriend who may
have really been your mama, Fanny may Tupwaller.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
That is not true, and you're leaving out Cowboy Bob
Kelly well Els I had a Bob. We had a
local version of Gorgeous George back in the day, back
in the nineteen.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Sixties, Adrian Street.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Adrian Street was around here. Yes, indeed, Marvelous Marcel.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Pringle Man has ever kissed you.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
He is the only man that has ever kissed me. Yes,
against my will.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
It was interesting that we had like the Mobile group
and then we had a Pensacola group, and maybe they
went back and forth ye one another, but there was
always the Atlanta group that was like it was hard
to figure them out because we didn't get their coverage.
They were probably under some sort of Turner TV. And
that's of course where Rick Flair was from. So although
(20:24):
you mentioned Hogan being the most international, I think Flair
might have been the guy who at least regionally became
the star before the Hulkster really piggybacked on Ric Flair
and brought it to the whole new level.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up wrong. A lot
of younger people, people younger than you, don't realize that
before WWF it was regional. You had all get a
different kind of wrestling all over the country.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Yeah, and you couldn't get those television stations. You could
only get your local if you had local cable or
right Ears or an Intenta on top of your house.
That's the only options you had. We were pulling a
little bit from Pensacola because we could get that signal,
but only probably with cable. But anybody much younger than me,
they wouldn't understand regional television. But don't let's not leave
(21:20):
our Rick Flair.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
He's still around. I think he was bigger than the Holkster.
No offense to the Holster, but I think it crested
as far as creating that nationwide persona character I think
questioned when Rick Flair became I guess it is when
we started getting TVs down here? Is that about right?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That might have been?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Well, I'll never forget your bit with Adrian Street that was.
That was quite unique and I'm sure you probably quit
it all of wrestling coverage after that event, but anybody's listening,
I encouraged watch Henry May guy.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
With a man.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Well, it was against my will, Jimmy, it was against
my will, all right, take care, all right? You can
see that on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And also as far as local, Bob Holly, who I
think went from local to WWE then WWF. I enjoyed
interviewing Bob Holly about what it was like to be
in the WWE WWF. He worked out as they all do,
(22:37):
to make himself look as much like a hul Cogan type,
extremely cut, very muscular, and I remember when I interviewed
him years ago, ten or fifteen years ago, Bob Holly
told me that when he was at his peak and
he was traveling all over the world doing those doing
those events for WWE, he said, to maintain the body,
(23:02):
to maintain his body, he would have to set an
alarm and wake up in the middle of the night
to eat. He had to eat around the clock. Now,
I'm sure now, I'm sure now fifteen years later, they've
probably figured out something a little bit better than that.
But then he was setting an alarm and waking up
in the middle of the night to eat whatever protein
(23:23):
he was going to eat just to maintain the muscle
mass that he wanted to have for those fights. And
always fun to ask these people what it's like to
do what they do, because things don't always go according
to plan in the ring. And I've told the story
(23:44):
on the air many times about a local match. I
went to one out at Baker High School where one
of the wrestlers, Hippie boy Yet Mike Hippie Boyet was
one of the wrestlers and Mike Hippie Boyet got very
(24:06):
angry and the final match of the evening, he went
off the rails and the other people involved, the other
wrestlers and the refs were very they were very fearful
because he went off the rails and he just started brawling.
(24:27):
It was not your typical wrestling match. It was real life.
It was real life, like a bar fight, only you
got to watch it in the ring. There. Anyway, all
of it is it's a lot of fun. I'm sure
there's great books out there by people that have done it,
and probably a lot of great books to come where
(24:48):
people tell they're behind the scenes stories about how those
matches are are set up, how they decide what they
want to do in the ring, and of course when
things go wrong, which they do. Two five to one
or seven nine two seven two three. The telephone number
that's two five to one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henriet iHeartMedia dot com. I
(25:09):
want to go back to the story I mentioned right
before the break at the bottom of the hour, I
told you that one of the mayoral candidates, Barbara Drummond,
who many many political observers believe she will make it
into the runoff and that she has a very strong
chance of being the next mayor for a variety of reasons. Well,
(25:31):
she is challenging let's see she according to NBC fifteen,
she's asking UH local television, radio and digital news outlets
to organize and broadcast two televised debates in August. She
would like them to be live, with independent fact checking,
(25:55):
opening statements, moderated questions, and a public Q and a segment.
And she's challenging the other people to join her in this.
Now this surprises me because this does this sounds like somebody,
This sounds like a suggestion from somebody that's not doing
well in a campaign. I mean, all four they're doing
(26:20):
forums all over town, the four candidates, They've they've done
numerous forms. I think they've got more coming up. They
all nobody's gonna duck her. They're all going to show up.
If anybody does a televised debate, they're all going to
show up. Nobody's gonna not do it. I just I
don't understand calling for this. Uh this, it's the type
(26:44):
of thing you do if you were behind in every
There's every indication that she would would be likely to
make the runoff, unless there's some polling that I have
heard about, or the public is not aware of that
somebody has done and have not released the results. I
(27:05):
don't I don't understand the call for this, and certainly
issuing a challenge. All the other candidates are going to
be glad to show up. The other candidates want they
want to be on camera too, So I'm a little
perplexed by that. There is more to come. Got to
(27:27):
take a time out for traffic, weather and words for sponsors,
and then back with more. Uncle Henry's Show. Uncle Henry Show,
(27:55):
News Radio seventy ten WNTM. It's five point fifty. The
news headlines coming up in ten minutes, and then more
Uncle Henry's show telephone number two five one four seven
nine two seven two three, Hello.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Color, Hey Uncle Henry, this is.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
All t RT.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Hey, thank you very much. I was calling about your
last report about Barbara Drimmin. Yeah, and yeah, that reminds
me so much of Hillary Clinton back in twenty fifteen. Really, yes,
remember she was she didn't want to answer questions from
(28:44):
her boarders, and she started promoting Media Matters, this news
truth finding an organization. Do you remember that.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Well, I do remember all the different fact checkers that
popped up that weren't really fact checkers, but.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But me Matters was an organization that was the first
fact checker, and that she promoted it back in twenty fifteen. Yeah,
and it was basically she was trying to hide who
she really was and Barbara drubbing. She is the only
(29:22):
lifelong Democrat in this race, and she's tried to hide it.
Nobody's promoting political party here right with all the craziness
of the Democrats nationwide, she didn't want to answer those questions.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, I mean, she wants to go she's challenging people
to televised debates, so she wants to be in front
of cameras talking about running for mayor.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
She doesn't want to answer questions on why do you
support these democratic policies like even the stuff in Los Angeles,
all these crazy democrats, mayors of sanctuary cities and defunding
the police. Barbara Drumming doesn't want to answer those questions.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Well, has anybody asked her those questions?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I haven't. Personally, I haven't. I remember Barbara Drumming from
when she was a Press Register reporter. I've met her
a couple of times. She's a nice, gracious lady.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yes, indeed, nobody wants.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
To talk about the democratic parity policies that she could
bring into the city of Mobile that I don't think
we're gonna like uple Henry, I don't think you'll like
them either. Well, I know you're allowed to endorse, but.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Oh no, I'm not. But you bring up an interesting
point as to whether or not any of that will
ever get brought up at a forum or a debate,
And I don't know if it will or not. I
guess we have to wait and see. There's gonna be
a lot more. Maybe somebody will bring that stuff up.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
But party politics has been taken totally out of all
city elections, right, And I'm curious, does she support the
mayor of Los Angeles, the mayor of Washington, d C.
The mayors of New York? I mean, is she going
(31:23):
to fall in line with the National Democratic Party? And
I think those are very good questions, and I think
she's trying to avoid that.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, we still have a lot of time, a few
more weeks, so those questions may pomp up. We'll have
to wait and see if she gets asked and if
she answers.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
I hope you do. But when you're talking about they
want fact checkers, right, I mean, she is a lifelong
Democrat and it should be broadcasted wide open, and it's
not being done. And you know, I'm assuming Paul Prime's
(32:04):
a Republicans. I know Connie Hudson and Sheriff Jeddy Goddis is.
So it's I'm just I don't like the idea that
party politics has been basically hidden from this election.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Well, yeah, that is, uh, it is something as you
pointed out that because the races are considered nonpartisan for mobile,
those kind of things rarely get brought up in mayor's races. Historically,
they usually haven't been well.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
I don't want mobile to turn into Los Angeles, Chicago
or New York. I really don't. I just and I
think these are very good questions.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right, Well, let's let's see if anybody asks the Martine.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Okay, thank you Uncle Henry, Rollti.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Rod, thank you very much for your phone call. All right,
just about out of time for this edition of The
Uncle Henry Show. I think I got time for one
very brief voicemail.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Hey, unc storming Norman, wondering if you had got out
to check out Brookdale Drive over the weekend, check out
all those pottholes like I had asked you about man
Or man even more this week. It's like B fifty
(33:36):
two bomber strike. Just checking it out. Hope you did.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Bye, Hey Stormer Norman. Thank you. I have not been
to Brookdale yet, but I will back by Monday. I
will have visited Brookdale for you, and I will file
a pothole report for you, and I'm sure ill just
enjoy the ambiance of Brookdale Drive, it says The Uncle
(34:28):
Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. I
thank you for listening to it and to me. Now,
coming up this half hour of Uncle Henry Show, going
to get to some voicemail from listeners and also maybe
a news item or two that I missed and you
might have missed as well. Let me start off with
(34:53):
a voicemail message. The voicemail number is two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five to
one two one six, nineteen seventy six to leave a
message for me and the Uncle Henry Show and the listeners.
Let me go into the message. This is from the
(35:13):
man who traps snakes. He's called the Snake Trapper.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
Hey e reader, Snake Trapper, Hey man, I'm listening to
your show after six o'clock where you are talking about
the Democratic William Boyd that is going to run for governor.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yes, he's one of the people running for governor. Sorry
to interrupt the Snake Trapper if you missed it. A
a night or two ago at this time, I shared
with you an interview I think it was WBrC or WSFA,
one of the stations upstate interviewed this Democrat candidate for governor,
doctor William Boyd, A guy that's got I think two
(35:55):
or three doctorates and all these different different degrees and things.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
He's running for governor, Uncle, Henry, I got four or
five questions that I need to ask this fellow. One.
I would like to know if he supports a five
year old deciding its gender. The second question is I
(36:22):
would like to know if he would support the America
First Agenda from President Trump. And also I would like
to know if he is perfectly fine with deporting illegal
aliens that has broken laws in this country.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
If this fellow answers doesn't get the right answer, he's
got no shot in Alabama.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Henry.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Now, wait, you heard the interview that I shared on
he was taught. You remember he said something about high
speed high speed rail, which I don't know why anyone
would bring that up running for governor, but he does,
Snake Trapper, You don't think Alabamians will fall in love
with the idea of high speed chi choo trains going
(37:17):
all over the state.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
I mean, I'm just now had my passport renews It
has costing me one hundred and sixty five dollars just.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
To have it renewed.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (37:33):
If I guess, if I was an illegal, I could
just go to and fro without any consequences. But I'm
an American citizen.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
I'm sorry to interrupt again. Trying to imagine where what
country will snake trapper visit? Will will he? I didn't
know snake trapper was leaving the country. Snake trapper, are
you going on? Are you going to try and trap
a snake somewhere? Are you going to where where you
(38:09):
can find anacondas and pythons and things like that outside
of the country or some other Are you going to
go across the world to find cobras? You probably hadn't
been bit by a cobra yet. Now I'm very curious
Will the vacation involve trapping snakes? Just curious about this?
Speaker 7 (38:28):
All?
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Right? Back to the voicemail taxpayer.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
But yet I have to have a passporard right to
leave this country or to enter this country. Correct, But
lest you're willing to let a person that's undocumented, that
you have no knowledge of who they are, or where
they've been or where they're from, just enter and leave
(38:53):
at pleasure, we'll boid. What do you think?
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Will you be for making uh illegal immigration illegal? Uh?
Will you let the parents decide what happens to their children. Uh,
will you be given school choice?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Wouldn't it be great for Snake Trapper to interview all
the candidates for every office? This would it would it
would be quite entertaining. I think. Uh, he could also
ask about their you know, different kind of questions in
addition to everything he's brought up. He could ask candidates like,
what is your favorite snake that kind of thing.
Speaker 9 (39:38):
It sounds like you're running as a Democrat. Uh so
you probably support all of that, the yes, and we
know what that stands for. But anyway, Uh, people ask
us a fellow the tough questions. We want to know
how he thinks. We want to know if he supports
(40:01):
our president and his agenda to be America first, if he's.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Not in like Flynn?
Speaker 4 (40:12):
All right, and then the voicemail cut him off. Stave Trepor,
thank you, thank you for offering perspective questions for that
man who would like to be the Democrat nominee. I
apologize for not knowing the names of all the people
running for governor yet that race is next year, and
I know that there's a I know Tommy Tuberville is
running for the Republican nomination wanting to run for governor
(40:38):
as a Republican. And then you've got doctor Will Boyd
on the Democrat side. And I think there's another Republican
and another Democrat also seeking their party's nomination to run
for governor. I don't know who they are yet, and
I guess I'll wait because I've learned through the years
that sometimes you don't have to learn the names of
(41:00):
all the candidates because many of them don't have a
chance anyway. So I just I'll just wait before I
devote that brain power to learning the names of all
these folks. But Snake Trapper, thank you again for your
voicemail about that man running for governor and offering questions.
Two five one two one six nineteen seventy six is
the number on the Uncle Henry Show two five to
(41:21):
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. They leave a
message for the program now before I go to breaks,
since I had Snake Trapper on. Snake Trapper is known
for his wildlife phone calls, calling in about snakes, of course,
and also possums, raccoons, various various animals. Here is a
(41:42):
story I just I just found out about this a
little while ago, some wildlife enforcement officers around the country
are looking to stop poachers with robots. This is from
Fox News. Let's listen together. Robots stopping animal poachers.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
There's a new tool in the fight against illegal hunters
around the country, increasingly lifelike robotics remote controlled animals which
can wiggle their ears, move their legs, and in some
cases even poop. One industry leader, Custom Robotic Wildlife's products
assembled from dead animal skin and remote controlled car parts
(42:22):
are constantly being improved to stay ahead of poachers, many
of whom are themselves using technology such as thermal rifle
scopes to stump illegal hunting. With those, the company rolled
out a heat emitting robotic deer. Thousands of violations are
issued each year, and poachers can face hundreds of dollars
in fines and potential jail time. Lillly and woo, Fox News.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Have you heard this robot deer using old car parts
and old animal skinned robot deers in the wood? Right, Well,
that's another thing to be looking for if you're just
out in the woods where there could be a robot deer.
All right, I'll be back after the break. Let's take
by break this says the Uncle Henry Show here on
(43:23):
News Radio seven ten WNTM news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines, maybe
a story or two. I missed these stories. You may
have missed them too. I got something for us from
(43:43):
Fox ten about Mobile mapping out. I think our storm drains.
Drainage is a topic from time to time in this
very wet city. Let's listen together. I think we'll hear
investigative reporter Kirby telling us about this mapping out of
(44:04):
the city of Mobile's storm drains.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Workers are making a map, but not an ordinary one.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
This one is looking at where the roads and businesses are. Rather,
it's documenting what's underneath the streets. Brendan Kirby is in
the studio to talk about it. And Brendan, it's part
of an effort to reduce flooding.
Speaker 10 (44:21):
Yeah, that's right, Cameron Lnis.
Speaker 12 (44:22):
Anyone who's been here for just one good downpour knows
how quickly many of the streets can flood. The stormwater
management map is meant to be a tool in recognizing
where the system's greatest vulnerabilities are.
Speaker 10 (44:35):
In the last year, city workers have used a federal
grant to visit and document every stormwater drain, inlet, culvert,
and manhole and mobile as it existed before the twenty
twenty three annexation.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Now this would be I'm guessing that you would not
be interest or excited to look at something like this,
But I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm an ancient person,
but I love the eye idea of mapping all these things,
all the the main holes and all the I would
love to In fact, i'd love to interview them people
(45:09):
that are mapping them. They've probably got a completely different
view of the city of Mobile than you and I do.
The people that know all the storm drains.
Speaker 10 (45:18):
More than forty thousand features in all. Now workers are
moving on to the newly annexed areas. That's another four
thousand features.
Speaker 13 (45:26):
We open it up, we go inside, we look at
where the water is going. We also have a feature
that we have to look at the entire city, so
we know if you put in water here, we know
exactly where it's gonna come out.
Speaker 10 (45:39):
Jennifer Green, this is good.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
This is something I would I wish I'd like to
look at this.
Speaker 10 (45:44):
Rector of Programs and Project Management says The information will
guide future decisions on what pipes to replace and what
drainage ditches to repair. The city's next major project is
a complete overhaul of Saint Louis Street downtown. Green says
some of the pipes are one hundred years old. When
it's done, she says, the street won't just look nicer,
(46:06):
it will clear out titles faster folowing torrential rainstorms. For proof,
she points to heavy rain a couple of months ago
in a recently upgraded portion of Broad Street.
Speaker 13 (46:16):
We were watching that really closely because that was the
first really heavy rainstorm since the project has been completed,
and what we saw was Yes, of course there was flooding,
which is to be expected when you have that much rain,
but the system responded extremely quickly.
Speaker 10 (46:31):
Matt Anderson, the city's director of Public Services, says the
mapping also is a big help to maintenance crews that
remove leaves and other debris that clog the system.
Speaker 14 (46:41):
Oftentimes, when we have a crew that goes out, they
don't always know what they're going to be running into
when they pop open that manhole or they pop open
a stormwater inlet cover. If you were on the crew
and you were responding, and you arrive on a flooded
street and you don't know exactly where the stormwater inlet is.
That can make your job much more difficult.
Speaker 12 (46:57):
The grant funded mapping project costs about two million million
dollars and then it will take another six months or
so before it's finished, and the.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
City is advertising for a deputy director of.
Speaker 12 (47:06):
Stormwater Services to coordinate all this, but Anderson says that
he can only do so much. He says the completely
fixing the entire system to make it floodproof would take billions.
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby Fox ten years.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Yeah, that's the thing. It's nice to know all this,
but as you just heard him say, it would cost
billions to because look at where how low lying a
lot of mobile is down near the water. Of course,
low lying plus lots of rain, and you could have
the best drainage system in the world. But if you
(47:41):
get a certain amount of rain in a short amount
of time, ain't much you can do about it. All right,
But interesting, nonetheless, that they're mapping out all of the
storm water and all the drains and stuff. Now, let's
see one more. Let's see I've got One more item
from Fox ten Lenish Lagan reporting on taking a summer
(48:02):
break off of your social media. Let's listen together.
Speaker 11 (48:07):
Dance videos on TikTok, cooking or educational videos on YouTube,
events on Facebook. Social media sites are a wealth of
information and entertainment. They can also be a real time drainer.
It can happen fast. You open up that link from
a friend and the next thing you know, you are
swallowed into that dreaded doom scrolling vortex.
Speaker 4 (48:29):
If you can what does she say, doom scrolling vortex,
no break.
Speaker 11 (48:34):
That means this is a clue for you to take
a break. Instagram has a deactivation page. Just sign into
your account and click temporarily deactivate account. You can do
this once a week, depending on your reason. Too busy
to distracting too many ads.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
We're being told how to deactivate social media? How about
not even clicking on it.
Speaker 11 (48:57):
You might have other menu suggestions. Pick one and then
you'll be prompted again to enter your password to continue.
Once you've done that, click temporarily deactivate account and you're done.
You also have the choice to delete the account, or.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
You could just not open the apps if you want
to take a break though is call me sometimes I
can help with these stories.
Speaker 11 (49:21):
It's more permanent. When you deactivate your Instagram account, it
actually still exists your account.
Speaker 4 (49:28):
Just all all right, look, thank I want to thank
the Lord that I'm not so enslaved by social media
that I have to worry about all this kind of stuff.
But if you, if you are, if you feel enslaved
by your social media, you can go to Foxten's website
foxtentv dot com and get advice on how to pause
your social media for your mental health. Right out of time.
(49:51):
Thank you for listening. As they say in Sara Land,
have a good one. And as they say in Theodore,
take it easey, all right, Ata
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