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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Message seventy five received at four eighteen pm. I don't
want you calling me back.
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I don't know how I got this in the first place.
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
This is the Uncle Henry Show. Yes, indeed, the Uncle
Henry Show here on news Radio seven ten WNTM. Thank
you so much. I appreciate very very much you listening
to the Uncle Henry Show or watching it on YouTube.
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This show. You'd like to see an old man standing
a microphone struggling, you can watch it on YouTube. Just
look for Uncle Henry Show on YouTube. Here we are again,
once again together, me and you trying to figure out
what is going on in the world around us. And
there's plenty to figure out. Got a lot to get
to on today's Uncle Henry Show. You want to jump
in on the show, you can two five one four
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seven nine two seven two three. That's two five to
one four seven nine two seven two three. Email address
Uncle Henry and Heartmedia dot Com. Lots of things to
get into, lots of voicemails to get into. I've got
an old fashioned electronic email that has been submitted to me.
We've got the counselman mobile Councilman William Carroll final some
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got of a lawsuit about the city election. Yes, we've
got more on the Big Creek Lake thing. Just all
kinds of stuff to talk about here on the Oulklahoma Show.
Before I get to that, though, I'd asked you this
past Friday, if you were listening last Friday, I was
asking for some advice from Maile listeners because it was
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my wife's birthday this past Saturday, and my wife had
said to me, she said, don't get me anything, and
she made me promise. She made me promise don't get
me anything. And I didn't know what to do. I
went to the listeners and asked for advice. I got
some great advice. I just want those of you to
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know that gave me some advice. I took your advice.
Everything turned out fine. Everything turned out fine. I survived
this first marital birthday. No missteps that I'm aware of now,
who knows. I'm just talking about it may cause a misstep,
but no missteps. And I got to spend some time.
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She and I spent time with family both Friday and Saturday,
and then yesterday as a part of her birthday. Listen
to this, Listen to the sacrifice I did make a
sacrifice for my wife's birthday. She wanted to go to
the Little River Band three Dog Night concert in Ghoshat,
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Mississippi at the sound Amphitheater. And so yes, even though
I'm a mail, even though I'm a mail with a
little bit of testoster on the left, I still went
to the Little River Band three Dog nine concert there
in Gacet, Mississippi, at the sound Amphitheater. And I'm proud
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to report that everything went just fun. Now, my testosterone
level did drop a lot. That's the way it feels
today because I was subjected to the little especially the
Little River Band stuff. I mean that's there's every song
just sounded like, uh, fantasy's female fantasies about romance. No
offense to females having fantasies about romance, but it's just
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very very feminine, just very just being bombarded with feminine,
feminine stuff. But I survived it. It was very wonderful in
that uh.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
H.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I knew that the concert was going to be good
in this sense, not musically, of course, because it's a
Little River Band and three Dog Night, but I knew
it'd be good because these bands were popular. Let's see
the Little River Band was popular. I guess their biggest
hit was in like nineteen seventy eight in three Dog Night.
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Was even before then they formed, I think in sixty eight.
So I knew there would be lots of elderly people
like me. I would be amongst friends. And sure enough,
just tremendous number of elderly people at the Little Riverband
Three Dog Night concert. In fact, very few people stood.
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You know, a lot of people complained. Older people complain
when they go to concerts. They'll buy a ticket and
then the people around them are standing up and they
can't see the stage. Well, everybody just about kept their
seat that had seats. Yes, it was a sitting show.
A lot of sitting going on in the sound amphitheater
for this concert, so that was good. Also, we were
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trying to park, get this. We were trying to park
and there was this big parking area. Lots and lots
of cars were going in there, and we tried to
pull in and the man wouldn't let us. He said,
this is handicapped. It was the largest I have never
seen handicap parking of that size and that amount of
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vehicles in there. This I don't know if maybe I
don't maybe one of maybe three Dog Night has some
type of special song that is about the handicap. I
don't know, but a lot of a lot of people
with infirmities. They had shuttles just for the handicaps, just
a bunch of shuttles coming out there. So it was
it was just the atmosphere was wonderful for somebody like me,
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other than the fact that the music was Little River
Band three Dog Night. But just you know, it turned
out fine. The wife was very happy. We stayed and
heard every dad gum song, all the catterwallin we everything
turned out find. So those that were helping helping me
with my birthday, thank you very very much for that.
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Uh And we'll get into all the other stuff as
we move forward here on the show. Two five one,
four seventy nine, two seventy two three. The telephone number,
Hello caller, Hi Roll Tide, Roll tiede Roll, you are
live on the radio.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, Alabama's back, baby.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, Alabama. We're gonna have some voicemail later in the
show about the Alabama Crimson Tide playing a football game
that didn't make me sick.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, seventy three to nothing, something like that. Yes, yes,
seventy three of course. Seventy three is I'll see another way.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Size would you dumbmit, you degenerate sleeves bag, you freak?
How dare you attack my mother using an Alabama victory?
You know, you get you lull me into this false
sense of security where I think, well, this is a
friendly call somebody that is that is a member of
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my tribe, the Alabama crimson tribe, tiede loving tribe. And
so the guard goes down a little bit, and then
something degenerate and spake, and a lie comes out the
mouth of that person. You know, if lies, what if
lies made people's tongues burn? Think about that? What if
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what if we were built so that the lies would
burn your tongue when they came out of your mouth?
That last caller, their entire head would be engulfed with flame,
wouldn't it. It would be their head would be like
a chimney, just all kind of and who knows what
kind of smoke would come out of that burning, that
burning sack of filth that just called the show. Look,
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I apologized for such strong words despite their accuracy, But
I pray I pray for that person. I pray that
the Lord help them change their ways after appropriately punishing
them with some type of maybe some type of rash
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or something. Seventy ten, it says the Uncle Henry Show.
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Here on news Radio seven ten wn T you it
is five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes
here on the Uncle Henry Show. Telephone number two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seventy two three. Email
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address Uncle Henri at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, I wanted to get to
this story. We had the municipal election, and we've got
the runoff coming up September twenty third, and they're going
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to be changes on the Mobile City Council. Of course,
you've got Joel Daves deciding not to run again. And
I don't know how this is going to turn out
with William Carroll because William Carroll got whooped handily by
Samantha Ingram. William Carroll District two Mobile City councilman got
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whooped in the election, but he's filed a lawsuit. I
have no clue how this lawsuit will go. Who knows.
Maybe there'll be a new election. Let's listen. I've got
the brief story. This very brief from Fox ten explaining
the lawsuit William Carroll. Even though William Carroll was whooped
quite handily in his district, he still wants another go
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at this.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Mobile City council member William Carroll has filed a lawsuit
seeking to invalidate the results of the race he lost
for reelection. Carroll, who is currently a council member representing
District two, alleges that the winner of the contest, Samantha Ingram,
did not meet residency requirements. He alleges Ingram was not
a legal resident of Mobile for at least twelve months
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before the election, as required by the Alabama Code. Carroll
is seeking to have the election declared void. Fox stand
News reached out to Ingram for reaction and received this statement.
It says, quote, the people of District two have made
their decision. I look forward to serving and wish counselor
Carol the very best.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right, So, and I read I wrote what Rob
Hulbert of Landya wrote about it over the weekend in
his column. I have no idea how the loss should go,
whether or not they'll have to have some new election
or what is going to go on with this? But
I started thinking about William Carroll. You know, he he
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he ran against Levon Mansey the last go and if
I understand correctly, the reason that he that William Carroll
won is because because Levon Mansey passed away? Do I
remember that correctly? That his opponent passed away? When you
Levon Mansey was not alive anymore, unfortunately, and so William
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Carroll manages to get in there, and now when he
is up to try and win an election, he is
whooped with no runoff necessary. In this race, the people
of his district had determined no, thank you, we've we've
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we've sampled William Carroll and we wish him well, but
we would like to try somebody else, if you don't
mind that is that would be the polite way of
putting it from his constituents. But he's filing this, uh,
this lawsuit challenging this want to get invalidated. So I
got to thinking about it. This this is uh, this
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personality trait of his. He he has to understand that
he has served with most of the voters not caring
enough to vote for him. First time. It was somebody.
They had preferred a guy that wasn't even alive, and
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that this go round, they preferred somebody, somebody other than
William Carroll. They just they've figured it out. They figured out, well,
we're gonna try this lady whose lady might might we
might like her better. But he's still he's still fooled.
This lawsuit I started. Now this personality trait? What is it?
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I don't know him, well, I've only I've only had
maybe two conversations with him before. What is this?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What is this personality trade? You know? I got to
thinking about something that the cartoonist Scott Adams, the guy
that invented Dilbert and went on to fame and then
getting canceled and all that kind of stuff. Scott Adams
maintains that one of the great superpowers you can develop
in your own life that will help you in life
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is to develop an immunity from embarrassment. That if you can,
because a lot of people won't do things in life
because they're they're they're worried that they will be embarrassed.
They're afraid to be embarrassed. And Scott Adams, the cartoonist,
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says that if you can If you can develop that trait,
if you can develop the trait of not being embarrassed,
of trying things, putting yourself out there and not worrying
about being embarrassed, just just not even feeling it, then
you've got a leg up on a lot of other people.
A lot of people might want to try it, and
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they're they're scared they're going to embarrass themselves. You just
go on out there and you do it, whether you
embarrass yourself or not. That's a superpower for some people.
And I'm wondering, is that is that what is operating
with William Carroll being immune from being embarrassed? Because I
thought back, you know, when he was when he got
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in after the passing of Levon Mansey. One of the
first things William Carroll did in the first week or
two was appoint his own son to a board. Now,
who does that? Who who he appointed his own son
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to a board? Now that would be something that somebody
would do if they were immune from embarrassment, right, because
it doesn't sound like a smart move, does it. It
sounds like something somebody would do if they were immune
from embarrassment. So anyway I'm looking, I'm really looking forward
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to seeing how this lawsuit turns out, because if there
if they order that there has to be another election.
I think it's been shown a few times that if
you have a decent candidate, they're going to beat William Carroll.
So I don't know if there are other people out there.
I don't know if Samantha Ingram can run again if
they decide that she was not supposed to be on
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the ballot. If she can't. Uh, and you the listener
living district too, I think it's been shown, Uh, William
Carroll can be beat as long as you're alive. I
think you can beat him. But I would miss. There's
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some yes I would there if he ends up not
being on the council. So there are some things I
would I would miss. He's got away with words. In fact,
I love the way he has a passion for building
in historic homes, like he talked about, how he's fully
engorged in it.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I don't even know if there was a stronger advocate
for historic historic preservation in the city on the council
lo than than myself. So I am deeply engorged in
those neighborhoods I actually live.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
He's deeply engorged in historic neighborhoods because he has a
passion for it in.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
The city on the Council of than in myself. So
I am deeply engaged in those neighborhoods. I actually live
in a historic district.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And living in a historic district keeps him deeply engorged
in historic preservation.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Back with more after the break.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio
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four seven nine two seven two three email address Uncle
henrietiheartmedia dot com. Got some voicemails to get to an
email I want to get to as well, and you
can always interrupt with the live telephone call to bring
up whatever topic it is that you want to bring up,
as long as it ain't nasty. Now, last week talked
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about the Big Creek Lake thing. How I was surprised
at the Mobile City Council people mentioning it last week
and then more comment just spurring on, just kind of
throwing gasoline on the fire. Now I got an email
from a listener. Let me go to the Ulk Henry
Show email inbox. This is an email about Big Creek Lake.
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Subject line on the email, Actually there is no subject line.
The email reads, Hello, Uncle Henry. I've been listening to
your podcast about Big Creek Lake and started wondering if
any of the people who think they are entitled to
put their private boats into Big Creek Lake, even though
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who built that lake. I will celebrate my seventy ninth
birthday in a couple of days, and I vividly remember
taking a field trip back in nineteen fifty two when
I was in the first grade to see the newly
constructed Big Creek Lake Dam which formed Big Creek Lake
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to supply the Mobile water system. The email goes on
to say, in our current world situation, where terrorism occurs
frequently around the globe, I believe the government should be
taking extraordinary measures to protect our water supply. Our parents
and grandparents' tax dollars paid for Big Creek Lake to
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provide a safe water supply for Mobile. Please tell the
naysayers to google when was the dam forming Big Creek
Lake in Mobile County, Alabama built. You can read this
email on air if you desire, as I had throat
cancer and can't speak clearly enough to be able to
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call your show, but I always listen either to your
show or the podcast. Keep up the good work of
being the voice of Mobile and that comes from Sandford
in Sarah Lance. Sandford, thank you very much for listening
to the show. I appreciate that bear very much. By
the way, podcast available on the iHeartRadio app and at
NewsRadio seven to ten dot com. So you remember. I
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love the idea of you remembering going to the dam
there back right after it was built. That sounds like
quite a memorable field trip for a kid. I don't
remember going anywhere fun on a field trip when I
was a child in school. Of course, when I went
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to school, we didn't go on a lot of field
trips because a lot of the learning had to happen
in a field next to the schoolhouse. But I digress.
Now you're pointing out that this was built in nineteen
fifty two. Now you're making points saying for about the
keeping the drinking water safe, which I think most everybody
would agree on. We want our drinking water to be safe.
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But now you have to understand somebody born in fifty two,
how old would they be today? Seventy three? Will they
be seventy three years old if they were born today,
if they were born back when, back when Big Creek
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Lake was created by this dam. If you lived out
there near the lake, you were born in fifty two,
then all of your life for seventy two, seventy three
years you've been able to vote on the lake, and
now the government is telling you sorry, after your entire lifetime,
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at age seventy two seventy three, you can't vote on anymore.
I'm sure you can understand, Sandford, why some people would
have some issue with that. They would give them pause.
Now you might be able to compel them with your arguments.
You might be able to win them over to your
point of view, Sandford, but I'm sure you understand if
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they've had it one way their entire lifetime, it's going
to be quite a tremendous shock to the system to
change it, especially for somebody that's an old timer that's
been out there that long and has remembered it that way.
So I want to thank you very much for listening.
Thank you for the email, because it does illustrate why
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some people are so passionate about it, Because this is
a change, making it different than it's been for that
long kind of explains the emotions involved. So again, thank
you for the email. Email address, Uncle Henry iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle henridiheartmedia dot com. Now. The Alabama Crimson Tide
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played football over the weekend, and we've got a victory
out of it. Roll tidrow very glad, very therapeutic at
least for me to have Alabama just scoring repeatedly. It's always.
I don't care if it's a creampuff or not. I
do enjoy the team scoring that many points. Now, let
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me see, do I have time for a voicemail on
this topic. Well, I might have to save the voicemail
and go to a live call. Hello color, Hello, Hello, Hello,
you are live on the radio.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Hey, yes, sir, How did Alabama do?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They won? Roll ted roll?
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Are you kidding me? They was playing lose in Monroe,
weren't they? Yeah, what was a score?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I don't get they scored over seventy points?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
No?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Oh, Debor must got on somebody's rear end.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well I think so. I think. Well if the team,
I think the team noticed the reaction of the fans.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Yeah, I noticed the two. I walked that game, and
they look good. When they first started out butt around
the early part of the third quarter, they started just
looking going down. The two talk about the first game. Yeah,
tell them what you're talking about. Yeah, that was that
first game. Yeah, Hi, Henry I saw all I want
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to know. Thank you, sir, well.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Thank you? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
This is Donald Klug who is well?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Hey, thank you for listening. I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
All right, Pardner, you too, and you think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Whoever whoever was there with you helping you out. I
appreciate that bear very much and that was nice.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Hello color, Hey Henry, Ron Rams, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I'm good? How you been Ron Rams?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Good days? Bad days? Yes, David, bad days and day's
brenton a lot better.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Good.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I had to skip Churchester unfortunately because it wasn't feeling
so hot, but I thought maybe, uh, you'd like to
hear from somebody who was born in nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh okay, well, hey Ron, I'm up on the break.
Can you hold on sure? Ran Bergott No, see, this
is good getting Ron Rms in on this. I think
Ron Reims has been there and he's done that, and
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in the process of being there and done that, I
don't know if I don't know if he gives a flip,
and I think he'll tell us exactly what he thinks
that's coming up. Right after the break we go, 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
and then more Uncle Henry's show, and we have Ron
Raams where it's Ron Raams, thank you for holding what
is on your mind?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, you know I heard you talking about the fact
that they were saying the lake had been basically damned
up and made to become late. Yeah, in nineteen fifty two, yes,
and of course that is a long time. I was
born in nineteen fifty one, so I remember it. No,
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I don't. I don't remember anything about it about that time.
But h and originally I'm from Atlanta, you know, and
I feel like this about it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Let me first of all tell you you know you
said something about ben I've been there and done that.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yes, Ron Rams has been there and done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That several times over. The best part though, to me,
is I've lived to tell the tale. Yes you have,
you know so. But the thing is that lake has
been used recreationally, let's face it, for decades, right, and
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people are used to having it there. Now, I know,
I realize that we live in a separate age when
we have to be really concerned about terrorism and people
trying to come in and poison the water and all
that kind of thing. But don't we pay taxes for
a water and sewer system that is supposed to eliminate
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that problem. I mean, if we are going to have
a sewer system online, shouldn't it be doing the job
of eliminating any kind of poison or thing that's going
to be detrimental to our health. I'm thinking, you know,
people really want to use that lake. That's the main
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thing to me is the majority of folks indicate that
they don't want that lake taken away. And as long
as we've got a sewer system in effect that is
supposed to test and clean our water, which is what
they're supposed to do, I think, you know, we have
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to depend on that to take care of that issue. Otherwise,
what's the use in having a mobile water and sewer system?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Now? You but I know you've heard the arguments are
that it's going to cost everybody more money for their
water if people get invasive species in the lake and
there's some kind of snails or some special grass that's
not supposed to grow out there. There's all kind of
stuff they're worried about getting in that lake.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And you know, the thing is they worry about things
that most in most cases aren't ever going to happen.
That's what bothers me the most is, you know, I
found out in my life of seventy four years many
of the things I worried about at the time really
weren't worth worrying about because they never nothing ever happened
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that would cause this major worry. And I think we
need to learn to basically, as one guy said, we
need to all get along. And I think that the
water and sewer service is there to provide a service
to the public, and the public is saying we want
the lake open for recreational fishing or whatever, and then
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we'll have to cross the bridge when it gets to it,
but hopefully we won't have that problem. That's the way
I look at it, Henry. You know, I've thought about
it long and hard, because I've had people sending me
stuff through Facebook saying, you know, this is wrong for
them to close it down. Yeah, and I'm trying to
keep an open mind about it. But I'm just in
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the opinion that in a lot of these cases, you
have to depend on the public to decide what they
think is important and where safety issues are concerned. I
know there are so many people in this world who
think I know so much better than you, so therefore
I'm going to tell you what to do, and that's not.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Right, well said Ron Raems. Well said, well, I'm almost
out of time here. Great to hear from you. So
Ron raems there's people listening right now before we go
to the top of the hour news, can you recommend
anything good? Ondy, you've been watching anything good on TV?
What would you recommend for people to watch on TV?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
YouTube videos? I'm not talking about YouTube TV. I find
stuff on YouTube video that will never hit the airwaves
on the national airways, and it's a very informative and
educational thing that happens when you look at things that
are being published out there by what I would call
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independent journalists, and some of the stuff is very eye opening.
So if you haven't looked at YouTube lately, and I
know there's a possibility some of that could be misleading,
but for the most part, I'm thinking, man, there are
people out there who are really smart to know a
whole lot more than many of us do, and they
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don't have a platform like a CBS or an ABC
or an NBC or Fox to you know provide it
to the public, but yet they're providing it through YouTube.
I think it's a It's a wonderful thing we have
it available.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right. Well, Ron Rams, great to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You too, Henry.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You take care you too. Thank you very much, Ron Rams,
and get well soon, Ron Raams. Ron Rams feeling better today,
but miss church yesterday, do to feeling poorly? All right,
just about out of time for this half hour of show.
There's another half hour of show coming up after the
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news break. And again, if you want to listen to
previous shows, you will find the previous Uncle Henry's shows
at NewsRadio seven ten dot com look under podcasts, or
go to the iHeartRadio app and look up Uncle Henry's show.
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It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNT. And I thank you, thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now in this half
hour of show, there's more voicemail I want to get
to from over the weekend. But I got a few
news items I want to cover here. The main reason
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I cover the news items listener is because of my
own ignorance. I want to learn by presenting it to you.
I learned about it. This is kind of like when
I was a child. When I was a child, my
parents would read the newspaper out loud. I don't know
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that I ever wanted to hear any of that, you know,
now that I think about it, I don't know that
I wanted to hear any of that. I had my
own concerns as a child, But for whatever reason, maybe
they just liked reading aloud. I'll ask my mother the
next time that she's in her right mind, I'll ask
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her if you remember that, and I'll ask her, why
did you read things out loud in the newspaper? Was
it for me? Or did you just like to read
out loud? Some people liked her, Some people volunteer to
read out loud. All right, here we go. Here's the
first story I want to know about. Mayor Standy Simpson,
the outgoing mayor of Mobile, Alabama, proposing an ordinance for
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downtown Mobile about vacant commercial buildings. There have been people
through the years that have complained about vacant commercial buildings
that they believe are not being kept up properly, and
that's not nice for all the other property owners that
have property around those dilapidated, old vacant buildings. All right,
(36:26):
so let's listen. What's the proposal. We'll go to Fox ten.
Let's find out what Fox ten has for us on
this story mobile.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
Mayors Andy Stimpson asking city council members to approve an
ordinance cracking down on dilapidated vacant commercial properties in the
downtown area. This is an ordinance that would require property
owners within Hank Aaron Loup to register abandoned buildings with
the city and pay a fee that would be used
for revitalization efforts.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
It also be required to secure all doors and windows,
maintain a monitored firearms system, and sure for responders can
easily get inside during emergencies. Property owners would also be
required to carry adequate lie of building insurance and maintain
exterior lighting.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
The buildings would have to have working plumbing and prevent
pest infestation. The mayor says he wants to improve safety
for neighbors and promote redevelopment in the downtown area.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
By I'm sorry, I'm pausing it. There's a little bit
more to this, but all I'm thinking and all of
this sounds good in that you'd want the building to
be taken care of. If you own your own commercial
property next door, you would like your neighbor to take
care of the property. But does this see I have
not owned commercial property. I've only been a private property
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semi owner. And I say semi because do you really
own property when you have to pay taxes on it
in order to keep it? But I digres. This just
sounds like something that would people might sue. But I
don't know. Do other cities have these ordinances successfully? Anyway?
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Sorry for my ignorance. Back to the story.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
In the downtown area by incentivizing owners to maintain their properties.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
You know, we've run a lot over the last decade
about light when we know it's a cancer, we know
it depresses property values of anything associated with it. It
kind of opens itself up for crime if mint's been
a hazard or things happening in those buildings.
Speaker 11 (38:35):
Now, this ordinance would only apply to commercial buildings and
apartment buildings, not single family homes. The council will take
this up on Tuesday and could vote the following week.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Okay, so I'm looking forward to hearing what people say
about this at the council meeting, or what council members
may say about it in the next week or two
if it comes up at tomorrow's meeting, because as the
mayor said, this has been a long lasting issue, yet
he has waited until he's walking out the door to
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propose this. Now, why would why not at the end
of the last term. What did did we need additional
learning years to learn? Have we finally learned enough by now?
That's my next question is why now? It sounds good
to me, but why now? Why not last year or
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the year before? Did we just need a little additional
learning whatever the learning process was. So anyway, looking forward
to finding out how that turns out. And I'm sure
a lot of people would with property downtown that are
that might be next to or across the street from
one of these properties, they're probably very excited about this.
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All right, now on to stuff that's even more important,
and that is the abuse of senior citizens. Yes, I'm
against senior citizen abuse as a senior citizen. In fact,
I think those that commit crimes against senior citizens or
children should have additional penalties. There should be additional penalties.
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If you're committing a crime, that's one thing. But if
you're committing a crime against a child, there should be
additional penalties. If you're committing a crime against an elderly,
there should be additional penalties. Yes, we should stack numerous
penalties on top of the heads of the criminals that
affect those at the lower end of the age system
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that we live by and the upper end of the
age system that we all live by. Let's listen together.
Here's a story from WSFA Montgomery Stepsister station of Fox
ten about scammers scamming senior citizens using using artificial intelligence
to scam us.
Speaker 12 (40:56):
While intelligence artificial intelligence is rapidly trends forming our world,
there is a troubling.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
But has it really yet trend Well, now, I'm sorry,
I know you want to hear the story. But he
just said, AI's rapidly transforming our world. Okay, well, how
is it so far? In my life? What I don't know?
I don't see nothing transformed. What am I missing?
Speaker 12 (41:20):
It indicates scammers are using it to steal from our
seniors tonight a warning from state officials. WSFA twelve news
reporter Emma Ellis explains.
Speaker 13 (41:31):
You've probably heard the phrase seeing is believing your whole life.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yes, in each of.
Speaker 13 (41:36):
Artificial intelligence, the turn of freeze doesn't exactly stand the
test of time when it's in the wrong hands. This
new technology can make our senior citizens who didn't grow
up in the digital age a vulnerable population.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
By the way, glad I did not grow up in
the digital age. I don't feel vulnerable. I feel protected
because I didn't grow up in the digital dad gum age.
Speaker 14 (41:59):
Of the ways we see that being done is with
what's known as the grandparent scam. The grandparents scam is basically,
it usually happens late at night. They're asleep and someone
calls them purporting to be their grandchild. They're in trouble,
they need money immediately, but it.
Speaker 13 (42:17):
Isn't actually their grandchild on the other end of the phone.
Scammers have used AI technology to replicate the sound of
their grandchild's voice to try to take money.
Speaker 14 (42:28):
These are very sophisticated international crime rings, and they have
access to a lot of very sophisticated technology.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
I've heard enough death penalty. Yes I know that sounds extreme,
but death penalty for this. These are senior citizens. You're
scaring them half to death. You're calling them after that
gone to sleep, ringing them up after seven point thirty
at night, and your client you're pretending to be their
grandchild in trouble. Death penalty for the grandparent scammers, death penalty. Look,
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I'll be back with more, but first to break. Let's
take the break. This is the Uncle Henry Show, News
(43:21):
Radio seventy ten WNTM news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I got some voicemail,
some more voicemail from over the weekend. Bruford phoned in
several times and he placed a call about wanting Alabama
fans to maintain a higher standard of behavior. Now, I'm
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in favor of higher standards of behavior in most all cases.
So let's let's review this and see if Bufford makes
any good points. So let's see this was phoned in before,
right before the Alabama Crimson time played University of Louisiana Monroe.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Henry, Let's say there's buff Henry just wanted to say
when Louisiana Monroe beats us today right.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Now, Buford wanted you have to say that they did
not you know the results by now, Louisiana Monroe did
not have a chance against the Crimson Tide.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Nothing last forever, nothing good, last forever, nothing bad, last forever.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
The Lord lasts, forever, we.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
Will weather this storm. That being said, Henry us, Alabama
fans need to hold ourselves to a higher standards.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Okay, now I agree with this. Now, one way to
hold one's self to a higher standard is not to
predict an Alabama loss to a cream puff Buford. I
know you're hurting. You're hurting like many fans over the
the FSU game. You're hurting as many of us are.
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But please maintain a higher standard, Henry.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
We've got a lot of degenerate trash in our camp
as Bama fans, which is where Bamer came from. And Henry,
missus Gufford had a Walmart grocery order and there was
a so called Bamer delivering it. She was all dressed
out in Alabama gear, which I was glad to see
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because I thought, being an Alabama fan, that my groceries
would have been safe instead of with an Auburn fan.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
But all right, so all right, I'm pausing there just
to make sure I'm oriented correctly in this voice. Now,
So there are Bufford says there are some Alabama fans
who he called degenerate trash, which is nobody, by the way,
I don't. Maybe people call me that behind my back,
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and you know what, I don't mind, as long as
you don't say to my face. Just don't say to
my face if you think I might have to happen
to be degenerate trash, but don't say it to the face,
all right. So Bufford is saying that some Alabama fans
are we'll call them DT, degenerate trash. So Bufford says,
(46:21):
some are DT. And somebody delivered your Walmart groceries wearing
Alabama gear.
Speaker 15 (46:29):
And Henry, this bammer stole my two packages of Kanekti sassages.
What that's right, Henry, She just flat outstalls Kanucki sackages.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Of course, you know, you call Walmart and they refund
your money. But as she was pulling out of the driveway,
Missus Rufford was texting her on the numbers. He tasted
us with saying, hey, you forgot our Kanucky sassages. Fifteen
minutes later, she replies back, oops, you can call Walmart
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and now refund you. I don't enjoying my connecting sassages
right now.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
I'm pausing again, and I apologize for all the pausing
because I don't understand this. See, I don't get I
don't get groceries delivered. I enjoy the hunt. I enjoy
going to griers and hunt down what I like. I
like that process. It's part of the eating process to
me is going out and hunting it. Now, I'm not
actually using a gun or a bow and arrow or
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a spear or whatever I might use to hunt, but
I like going into griers and hunting it. Now does
this happen? I don't understand this. People sometimes to people
delivering will keep some of your food. Is that?
Speaker 6 (47:52):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (47:52):
What's Beaufort? Has this happened before? And you just how
could she have left it a to? Are you convinced
this person is eating your sausage.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
Watching the Bama game. I'm gonna have to actually go
out of my house to buy me some Kanecki sasages
because I will not go without Kaneki's back. But Henry,
this is a call to all Alabama fans, please act
right and hold yourselves to a higher standard. We have
a lot of degeneracy in our fan base, especially those
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that beat their wives and children when Alabama loses, and
people that beat that's still other people's Kanecki sasages anyway,
Henry right roll tied you for them.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
I'm sorry your sausagees got stolen or allegedly got stolen.
I'm still confused about how this works. Is there proof
that the sausage actually went into this lady's car? First
things first, Beauford, Yes, there are going to be some degenerates,
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probably in every fan base. But when it's something like
Alabama that has had so much, so much success, you
have a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon, and
with such a wide fandom, you're bound to have some
dullards and some degenerates jump in at some point because
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it's a bandwagon and it's fun to jump in on.
But don't think that Alabama has more degenerates than other
college football programs. I'm sure that there's I'm sure there's
other dullards or degenerates out there in just about every
fan base. All right, uh, and Beauford again, I'm sorry
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you got your sausages allegedly stolen or lost. All right,
out of time, as they say in Sarahland, have a
good one, as they say in Theodore, take it easy.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
Night Later,
Message seventy five received at four eighteen pm. I don't
want you calling me back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I don't know how I got this in the first place.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
By press fours, the message deleted.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
This is the Uncle Henry Show. Yes, indeed, the Uncle
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(01:32):
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once again together, me and you trying to figure out
what is going on in the world around us. And
there's plenty to figure out. Got a lot to get
to on today's Uncle Henry Show. You want to jump
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(01:53):
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one four seven nine two seven two three. Email address
Uncle Henry and Heartmedia dot Com. Lots of things to
get into, lots of voicemails to get into. I've got
an old fashioned electronic email that has been submitted to me.
We've got the counselman mobile Councilman William Carroll final some
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got of a lawsuit about the city election. Yes, we've
got more on the Big Creek Lake thing. Just all
kinds of stuff to talk about here on the Oulklahoma Show.
Before I get to that, though, I'd asked you this
past Friday, if you were listening last Friday, I was
asking for some advice from Maile listeners because it was
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my wife's birthday this past Saturday, and my wife had
said to me, she said, don't get me anything, and
she made me promise. She made me promise don't get
me anything. And I didn't know what to do. I
went to the listeners and asked for advice. I got
some great advice. I just want those of you to
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know that gave me some advice. I took your advice.
Everything turned out fine. Everything turned out fine. I survived
this first marital birthday. No missteps that I'm aware of now,
who knows. I'm just talking about it may cause a misstep,
but no missteps. And I got to spend some time.
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She and I spent time with family both Friday and Saturday,
and then yesterday as a part of her birthday. Listen
to this, Listen to the sacrifice I did make a
sacrifice for my wife's birthday. She wanted to go to
the Little River Band three Dog Night concert in Ghoshat,
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Mississippi at the sound Amphitheater. And so yes, even though
I'm a mail, even though I'm a mail with a
little bit of testoster on the left, I still went
to the Little River Band three Dog nine concert there
in Gacet, Mississippi, at the sound Amphitheater. And I'm proud
(04:07):
to report that everything went just fun. Now, my testosterone
level did drop a lot. That's the way it feels
today because I was subjected to the little especially the
Little River Band stuff. I mean that's there's every song
just sounded like, uh, fantasy's female fantasies about romance. No
offense to females having fantasies about romance, but it's just
(04:30):
very very feminine, just very just being bombarded with feminine,
feminine stuff. But I survived it. It was very wonderful in
that uh.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
H.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I knew that the concert was going to be good
in this sense, not musically, of course, because it's a
Little River Band and three Dog Night, but I knew
it'd be good because these bands were popular. Let's see
the Little River Band was popular. I guess their biggest
hit was in like nineteen seventy eight in three Dog Night.
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Was even before then they formed, I think in sixty eight.
So I knew there would be lots of elderly people
like me. I would be amongst friends. And sure enough,
just tremendous number of elderly people at the Little Riverband
Three Dog Night concert. In fact, very few people stood.
(05:28):
You know, a lot of people complained. Older people complain
when they go to concerts. They'll buy a ticket and
then the people around them are standing up and they
can't see the stage. Well, everybody just about kept their
seat that had seats. Yes, it was a sitting show.
A lot of sitting going on in the sound amphitheater
for this concert, so that was good. Also, we were
(05:52):
trying to park, get this. We were trying to park
and there was this big parking area. Lots and lots
of cars were going in there, and we tried to
pull in and the man wouldn't let us. He said,
this is handicapped. It was the largest I have never
seen handicap parking of that size and that amount of
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vehicles in there. This I don't know if maybe I
don't maybe one of maybe three Dog Night has some
type of special song that is about the handicap. I
don't know, but a lot of a lot of people
with infirmities. They had shuttles just for the handicaps, just
a bunch of shuttles coming out there. So it was
it was just the atmosphere was wonderful for somebody like me,
(06:37):
other than the fact that the music was Little River
Band three Dog Night. But just you know, it turned
out fine. The wife was very happy. We stayed and
heard every dad gum song, all the catterwallin we everything
turned out find. So those that were helping helping me
with my birthday, thank you very very much for that.
(07:01):
Uh And we'll get into all the other stuff as
we move forward here on the show. Two five one,
four seventy nine, two seventy two three. The telephone number,
Hello caller, Hi Roll Tide, Roll tiede Roll, you are
live on the radio.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, Alabama's back, baby.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, Alabama. We're gonna have some voicemail later in the
show about the Alabama Crimson Tide playing a football game
that didn't make me sick.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, seventy three to nothing, something like that. Yes, yes,
seventy three of course. Seventy three is I'll see another way.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Size would you dumbmit, you degenerate sleeves bag, you freak?
How dare you attack my mother using an Alabama victory?
You know, you get you lull me into this false
sense of security where I think, well, this is a
friendly call somebody that is that is a member of
(07:55):
my tribe, the Alabama crimson tribe, tiede loving tribe. And
so the guard goes down a little bit, and then
something degenerate and spake, and a lie comes out the
mouth of that person. You know, if lies, what if
lies made people's tongues burn? Think about that? What if
(08:16):
what if we were built so that the lies would
burn your tongue when they came out of your mouth?
That last caller, their entire head would be engulfed with flame,
wouldn't it. It would be their head would be like
a chimney, just all kind of and who knows what
kind of smoke would come out of that burning, that
burning sack of filth that just called the show. Look,
(08:40):
I apologized for such strong words despite their accuracy, But
I pray I pray for that person. I pray that
the Lord help them change their ways after appropriately punishing
them with some type of maybe some type of rash
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or something. Seventy ten, it says the Uncle Henry Show.
(09:27):
Here on news Radio seven ten wn T you it
is five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes
here on the Uncle Henry Show. Telephone number two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seventy two three. Email
(09:47):
address Uncle Henri at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, I wanted to get to
this story. We had the municipal election, and we've got
the runoff coming up September twenty third, and they're going
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to be changes on the Mobile City Council. Of course,
you've got Joel Daves deciding not to run again. And
I don't know how this is going to turn out
with William Carroll because William Carroll got whooped handily by
Samantha Ingram. William Carroll District two Mobile City councilman got
(10:33):
whooped in the election, but he's filed a lawsuit. I
have no clue how this lawsuit will go. Who knows.
Maybe there'll be a new election. Let's listen. I've got
the brief story. This very brief from Fox ten explaining
the lawsuit William Carroll. Even though William Carroll was whooped
quite handily in his district, he still wants another go
(10:56):
at this.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Mobile City council member William Carroll has filed a lawsuit
seeking to invalidate the results of the race he lost
for reelection. Carroll, who is currently a council member representing
District two, alleges that the winner of the contest, Samantha Ingram,
did not meet residency requirements. He alleges Ingram was not
a legal resident of Mobile for at least twelve months
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before the election, as required by the Alabama Code. Carroll
is seeking to have the election declared void. Fox stand
News reached out to Ingram for reaction and received this statement.
It says, quote, the people of District two have made
their decision. I look forward to serving and wish counselor
Carol the very best.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right, So, and I read I wrote what Rob
Hulbert of Landya wrote about it over the weekend in
his column. I have no idea how the loss should go,
whether or not they'll have to have some new election
or what is going to go on with this? But
I started thinking about William Carroll. You know, he he
(11:57):
he ran against Levon Mansey the last go and if
I understand correctly, the reason that he that William Carroll
won is because because Levon Mansey passed away? Do I
remember that correctly? That his opponent passed away? When you
Levon Mansey was not alive anymore, unfortunately, and so William
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Carroll manages to get in there, and now when he
is up to try and win an election, he is
whooped with no runoff necessary. In this race, the people
of his district had determined no, thank you, we've we've
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we've sampled William Carroll and we wish him well, but
we would like to try somebody else, if you don't
mind that is that would be the polite way of
putting it from his constituents. But he's filing this, uh,
this lawsuit challenging this want to get invalidated. So I
got to thinking about it. This this is uh, this
(13:02):
personality trait of his. He he has to understand that
he has served with most of the voters not caring
enough to vote for him. First time. It was somebody.
They had preferred a guy that wasn't even alive, and
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that this go round, they preferred somebody, somebody other than
William Carroll. They just they've figured it out. They figured out, well,
we're gonna try this lady whose lady might might we
might like her better. But he's still he's still fooled.
This lawsuit I started. Now this personality trait? What is it?
(13:49):
I don't know him, well, I've only I've only had
maybe two conversations with him before. What is this?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What is this personality trade? You know? I got to
thinking about something that the cartoonist Scott Adams, the guy
that invented Dilbert and went on to fame and then
getting canceled and all that kind of stuff. Scott Adams
maintains that one of the great superpowers you can develop
in your own life that will help you in life
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is to develop an immunity from embarrassment. That if you can,
because a lot of people won't do things in life
because they're they're they're worried that they will be embarrassed.
They're afraid to be embarrassed. And Scott Adams, the cartoonist,
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says that if you can If you can develop that trait,
if you can develop the trait of not being embarrassed,
of trying things, putting yourself out there and not worrying
about being embarrassed, just just not even feeling it, then
you've got a leg up on a lot of other people.
A lot of people might want to try it, and
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they're they're scared they're going to embarrass themselves. You just
go on out there and you do it, whether you
embarrass yourself or not. That's a superpower for some people.
And I'm wondering, is that is that what is operating
with William Carroll being immune from being embarrassed? Because I
thought back, you know, when he was when he got
(15:25):
in after the passing of Levon Mansey. One of the
first things William Carroll did in the first week or
two was appoint his own son to a board. Now,
who does that? Who who he appointed his own son
(15:48):
to a board? Now that would be something that somebody
would do if they were immune from embarrassment, right, because
it doesn't sound like a smart move, does it. It
sounds like something somebody would do if they were immune
from embarrassment. So anyway I'm looking, I'm really looking forward
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to seeing how this lawsuit turns out, because if there
if they order that there has to be another election.
I think it's been shown a few times that if
you have a decent candidate, they're going to beat William Carroll.
So I don't know if there are other people out there.
I don't know if Samantha Ingram can run again if
they decide that she was not supposed to be on
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the ballot. If she can't. Uh, and you the listener
living district too, I think it's been shown, Uh, William
Carroll can be beat as long as you're alive. I
think you can beat him. But I would miss. There's
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some yes I would there if he ends up not
being on the council. So there are some things I
would I would miss. He's got away with words. In fact,
I love the way he has a passion for building
in historic homes, like he talked about, how he's fully
engorged in it.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I don't even know if there was a stronger advocate
for historic historic preservation in the city on the council
lo than than myself. So I am deeply engorged in
those neighborhoods I actually live.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
He's deeply engorged in historic neighborhoods because he has a
passion for it in.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
The city on the Council of than in myself. So
I am deeply engaged in those neighborhoods. I actually live
in a historic district.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And living in a historic district keeps him deeply engorged
in historic preservation.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Back with more after the break.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
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(18:57):
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henrietiheartmedia dot com. Got some voicemails to get to an
email I want to get to as well, and you
can always interrupt with the live telephone call to bring
up whatever topic it is that you want to bring up,
as long as it ain't nasty. Now, last week talked
(19:42):
about the Big Creek Lake thing. How I was surprised
at the Mobile City Council people mentioning it last week
and then more comment just spurring on, just kind of
throwing gasoline on the fire. Now I got an email
from a listener. Let me go to the Ulk Henry
Show email inbox. This is an email about Big Creek Lake.
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Subject line on the email, Actually there is no subject line.
The email reads, Hello, Uncle Henry. I've been listening to
your podcast about Big Creek Lake and started wondering if
any of the people who think they are entitled to
put their private boats into Big Creek Lake, even though
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who built that lake. I will celebrate my seventy ninth
birthday in a couple of days, and I vividly remember
taking a field trip back in nineteen fifty two when
I was in the first grade to see the newly
constructed Big Creek Lake Dam which formed Big Creek Lake
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to supply the Mobile water system. The email goes on
to say, in our current world situation, where terrorism occurs
frequently around the globe, I believe the government should be
taking extraordinary measures to protect our water supply. Our parents
and grandparents' tax dollars paid for Big Creek Lake to
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provide a safe water supply for Mobile. Please tell the
naysayers to google when was the dam forming Big Creek
Lake in Mobile County, Alabama built. You can read this
email on air if you desire, as I had throat
cancer and can't speak clearly enough to be able to
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call your show, but I always listen either to your
show or the podcast. Keep up the good work of
being the voice of Mobile and that comes from Sandford
in Sarah Lance. Sandford, thank you very much for listening
to the show. I appreciate that bear very much. By
the way, podcast available on the iHeartRadio app and at
NewsRadio seven to ten dot com. So you remember. I
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love the idea of you remembering going to the dam
there back right after it was built. That sounds like
quite a memorable field trip for a kid. I don't
remember going anywhere fun on a field trip when I
was a child in school. Of course, when I went
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to school, we didn't go on a lot of field
trips because a lot of the learning had to happen
in a field next to the schoolhouse. But I digress.
Now you're pointing out that this was built in nineteen
fifty two. Now you're making points saying for about the
keeping the drinking water safe, which I think most everybody
would agree on. We want our drinking water to be safe.
(22:45):
But now you have to understand somebody born in fifty two,
how old would they be today? Seventy three? Will they
be seventy three years old if they were born today,
if they were born back when, back when Big Creek
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Lake was created by this dam. If you lived out
there near the lake, you were born in fifty two,
then all of your life for seventy two, seventy three
years you've been able to vote on the lake, and
now the government is telling you sorry, after your entire lifetime,
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at age seventy two seventy three, you can't vote on anymore.
I'm sure you can understand, Sandford, why some people would
have some issue with that. They would give them pause.
Now you might be able to compel them with your arguments.
You might be able to win them over to your
point of view, Sandford, but I'm sure you understand if
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they've had it one way their entire lifetime, it's going
to be quite a tremendous shock to the system to
change it, especially for somebody that's an old timer that's
been out there that long and has remembered it that way.
So I want to thank you very much for listening.
Thank you for the email, because it does illustrate why
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some people are so passionate about it, Because this is
a change, making it different than it's been for that
long kind of explains the emotions involved. So again, thank
you for the email. Email address, Uncle Henry iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle henridiheartmedia dot com. Now. The Alabama Crimson Tide
(24:39):
played football over the weekend, and we've got a victory
out of it. Roll tidrow very glad, very therapeutic at
least for me to have Alabama just scoring repeatedly. It's always.
I don't care if it's a creampuff or not. I
do enjoy the team scoring that many points. Now, let
(25:02):
me see, do I have time for a voicemail on
this topic. Well, I might have to save the voicemail
and go to a live call. Hello color, Hello, Hello, Hello,
you are live on the radio.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Hey, yes, sir, How did Alabama do?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They won? Roll ted roll?
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Are you kidding me? They was playing lose in Monroe,
weren't they? Yeah, what was a score?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I don't get they scored over seventy points?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
No?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Oh, Debor must got on somebody's rear end.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well I think so. I think. Well if the team,
I think the team noticed the reaction of the fans.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Yeah, I noticed the two. I walked that game, and
they look good. When they first started out butt around
the early part of the third quarter, they started just
looking going down. The two talk about the first game. Yeah,
tell them what you're talking about. Yeah, that was that
first game. Yeah, Hi, Henry I saw all I want
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to know. Thank you, sir, well.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Thank you? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (26:25):
This is Donald Klug who is well?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Hey, thank you for listening. I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
All right, Pardner, you too, and you think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Whoever whoever was there with you helping you out. I
appreciate that bear very much and that was nice.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Hello color, Hey Henry, Ron Rams, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I'm good? How you been Ron Rams?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Good days? Bad days? Yes, David, bad days and day's
brenton a lot better.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Good.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I had to skip Churchester unfortunately because it wasn't feeling
so hot, but I thought maybe, uh, you'd like to
hear from somebody who was born in nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh okay, well, hey Ron, I'm up on the break.
Can you hold on sure? Ran Bergott No, see, this
is good getting Ron Rms in on this. I think
Ron Reims has been there and he's done that, and
(27:29):
in the process of being there and done that, I
don't know if I don't know if he gives a flip,
and I think he'll tell us exactly what he thinks
that's coming up. Right after the break we go, It
(27:52):
says the Uncle Henry show here on News Radio seven
to ten WNTM news headlines coming up in ten minutes
and then more Uncle Henry's show, and we have Ron
Raams where it's Ron Raams, thank you for holding what
is on your mind?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, you know I heard you talking about the fact
that they were saying the lake had been basically damned
up and made to become late. Yeah, in nineteen fifty two, yes,
and of course that is a long time. I was
born in nineteen fifty one, so I remember it. No,
(28:32):
I don't. I don't remember anything about it about that time.
But h and originally I'm from Atlanta, you know, and
I feel like this about it.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Let me first of all tell you you know you
said something about ben I've been there and done that.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yes, Ron Rams has been there and done.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That several times over. The best part though, to me,
is I've lived to tell the tale. Yes you have,
you know so. But the thing is that lake has
been used recreationally, let's face it, for decades, right, and
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people are used to having it there. Now, I know,
I realize that we live in a separate age when
we have to be really concerned about terrorism and people
trying to come in and poison the water and all
that kind of thing. But don't we pay taxes for
a water and sewer system that is supposed to eliminate
(29:33):
that problem. I mean, if we are going to have
a sewer system online, shouldn't it be doing the job
of eliminating any kind of poison or thing that's going
to be detrimental to our health. I'm thinking, you know,
people really want to use that lake. That's the main
(29:54):
thing to me is the majority of folks indicate that
they don't want that lake taken away. And as long
as we've got a sewer system in effect that is
supposed to test and clean our water, which is what
they're supposed to do, I think, you know, we have
(30:15):
to depend on that to take care of that issue. Otherwise,
what's the use in having a mobile water and sewer system?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Now? You but I know you've heard the arguments are
that it's going to cost everybody more money for their
water if people get invasive species in the lake and
there's some kind of snails or some special grass that's
not supposed to grow out there. There's all kind of
stuff they're worried about getting in that lake.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And you know, the thing is they worry about things
that most in most cases aren't ever going to happen.
That's what bothers me the most is, you know, I
found out in my life of seventy four years many
of the things I worried about at the time really
weren't worth worrying about because they never nothing ever happened
(31:02):
that would cause this major worry. And I think we
need to learn to basically, as one guy said, we
need to all get along. And I think that the
water and sewer service is there to provide a service
to the public, and the public is saying we want
the lake open for recreational fishing or whatever, and then
(31:27):
we'll have to cross the bridge when it gets to it,
but hopefully we won't have that problem. That's the way
I look at it, Henry. You know, I've thought about
it long and hard, because I've had people sending me
stuff through Facebook saying, you know, this is wrong for
them to close it down. Yeah, and I'm trying to
keep an open mind about it. But I'm just in
(31:51):
the opinion that in a lot of these cases, you
have to depend on the public to decide what they
think is important and where safety issues are concerned. I
know there are so many people in this world who
think I know so much better than you, so therefore
I'm going to tell you what to do, and that's not.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Right, well said Ron Raems. Well said, well, I'm almost
out of time here. Great to hear from you. So
Ron raems there's people listening right now before we go
to the top of the hour news, can you recommend
anything good? Ondy, you've been watching anything good on TV?
What would you recommend for people to watch on TV?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
YouTube videos? I'm not talking about YouTube TV. I find
stuff on YouTube video that will never hit the airwaves
on the national airways, and it's a very informative and
educational thing that happens when you look at things that
are being published out there by what I would call
(32:53):
independent journalists, and some of the stuff is very eye opening.
So if you haven't looked at YouTube lately, and I
know there's a possibility some of that could be misleading,
but for the most part, I'm thinking, man, there are
people out there who are really smart to know a
whole lot more than many of us do, and they
(33:13):
don't have a platform like a CBS or an ABC
or an NBC or Fox to you know provide it
to the public, but yet they're providing it through YouTube.
I think it's a It's a wonderful thing we have
it available.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
All right. Well, Ron Rams, great to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You too, Henry.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You take care you too. Thank you very much, Ron Rams,
and get well soon, Ron Raams. Ron Rams feeling better today,
but miss church yesterday, do to feeling poorly? All right,
just about out of time for this half hour of show.
There's another half hour of show coming up after the
(33:51):
news break. And again, if you want to listen to
previous shows, you will find the previous Uncle Henry's shows
at NewsRadio seven ten dot com look under podcasts, or
go to the iHeartRadio app and look up Uncle Henry's show.
(34:33):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNT. And I thank you, thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now in this half
hour of show, there's more voicemail I want to get
to from over the weekend. But I got a few
news items I want to cover here. The main reason
(34:55):
I cover the news items listener is because of my
own ignorance. I want to learn by presenting it to you.
I learned about it. This is kind of like when
I was a child. When I was a child, my
parents would read the newspaper out loud. I don't know
(35:20):
that I ever wanted to hear any of that, you know,
now that I think about it, I don't know that
I wanted to hear any of that. I had my
own concerns as a child, But for whatever reason, maybe
they just liked reading aloud. I'll ask my mother the
next time that she's in her right mind, I'll ask
(35:41):
her if you remember that, and I'll ask her, why
did you read things out loud in the newspaper? Was
it for me? Or did you just like to read
out loud? Some people liked her, Some people volunteer to
read out loud. All right, here we go. Here's the
first story I want to know about. Mayor Standy Simpson,
the outgoing mayor of Mobile, Alabama, proposing an ordinance for
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downtown Mobile about vacant commercial buildings. There have been people
through the years that have complained about vacant commercial buildings
that they believe are not being kept up properly, and
that's not nice for all the other property owners that
have property around those dilapidated, old vacant buildings. All right,
(36:26):
so let's listen. What's the proposal. We'll go to Fox ten.
Let's find out what Fox ten has for us on
this story mobile.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
Mayors Andy Stimpson asking city council members to approve an
ordinance cracking down on dilapidated vacant commercial properties in the
downtown area. This is an ordinance that would require property
owners within Hank Aaron Loup to register abandoned buildings with
the city and pay a fee that would be used
for revitalization efforts.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
It also be required to secure all doors and windows,
maintain a monitored firearms system, and sure for responders can
easily get inside during emergencies. Property owners would also be
required to carry adequate lie of building insurance and maintain
exterior lighting.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
The buildings would have to have working plumbing and prevent
pest infestation. The mayor says he wants to improve safety
for neighbors and promote redevelopment in the downtown area.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
By I'm sorry, I'm pausing it. There's a little bit
more to this, but all I'm thinking and all of
this sounds good in that you'd want the building to
be taken care of. If you own your own commercial
property next door, you would like your neighbor to take
care of the property. But does this see I have
not owned commercial property. I've only been a private property
(37:45):
semi owner. And I say semi because do you really
own property when you have to pay taxes on it
in order to keep it? But I digres. This just
sounds like something that would people might sue. But I
don't know. Do other cities have these ordinances successfully? Anyway?
(38:06):
Sorry for my ignorance. Back to the story.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
In the downtown area by incentivizing owners to maintain their properties.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
You know, we've run a lot over the last decade
about light when we know it's a cancer, we know
it depresses property values of anything associated with it. It
kind of opens itself up for crime if mint's been
a hazard or things happening in those buildings.
Speaker 11 (38:35):
Now, this ordinance would only apply to commercial buildings and
apartment buildings, not single family homes. The council will take
this up on Tuesday and could vote the following week.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Okay, so I'm looking forward to hearing what people say
about this at the council meeting, or what council members
may say about it in the next week or two
if it comes up at tomorrow's meeting, because as the
mayor said, this has been a long lasting issue, yet
he has waited until he's walking out the door to
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propose this. Now, why would why not at the end
of the last term. What did did we need additional
learning years to learn? Have we finally learned enough by now?
That's my next question is why now? It sounds good
to me, but why now? Why not last year or
(39:31):
the year before? Did we just need a little additional
learning whatever the learning process was. So anyway, looking forward
to finding out how that turns out. And I'm sure
a lot of people would with property downtown that are
that might be next to or across the street from
one of these properties, they're probably very excited about this.
(39:51):
All right, now on to stuff that's even more important,
and that is the abuse of senior citizens. Yes, I'm
against senior citizen abuse as a senior citizen. In fact,
I think those that commit crimes against senior citizens or
children should have additional penalties. There should be additional penalties.
(40:13):
If you're committing a crime, that's one thing. But if
you're committing a crime against a child, there should be
additional penalties. If you're committing a crime against an elderly,
there should be additional penalties. Yes, we should stack numerous
penalties on top of the heads of the criminals that
affect those at the lower end of the age system
(40:35):
that we live by and the upper end of the
age system that we all live by. Let's listen together.
Here's a story from WSFA Montgomery Stepsister station of Fox
ten about scammers scamming senior citizens using using artificial intelligence
to scam us.
Speaker 12 (40:56):
While intelligence artificial intelligence is rapidly trends forming our world,
there is a troubling.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
But has it really yet trend Well, now, I'm sorry,
I know you want to hear the story. But he
just said, AI's rapidly transforming our world. Okay, well, how
is it so far? In my life? What I don't know?
I don't see nothing transformed. What am I missing?
Speaker 12 (41:20):
It indicates scammers are using it to steal from our
seniors tonight a warning from state officials. WSFA twelve news
reporter Emma Ellis explains.
Speaker 13 (41:31):
You've probably heard the phrase seeing is believing your whole life.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yes, in each of.
Speaker 13 (41:36):
Artificial intelligence, the turn of freeze doesn't exactly stand the
test of time when it's in the wrong hands. This
new technology can make our senior citizens who didn't grow
up in the digital age a vulnerable population.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
By the way, glad I did not grow up in
the digital age. I don't feel vulnerable. I feel protected
because I didn't grow up in the digital dad gum age.
Speaker 14 (41:59):
Of the ways we see that being done is with
what's known as the grandparent scam. The grandparents scam is basically,
it usually happens late at night. They're asleep and someone
calls them purporting to be their grandchild. They're in trouble,
they need money immediately, but it.
Speaker 13 (42:17):
Isn't actually their grandchild on the other end of the phone.
Scammers have used AI technology to replicate the sound of
their grandchild's voice to try to take money.
Speaker 14 (42:28):
These are very sophisticated international crime rings, and they have
access to a lot of very sophisticated technology.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
I've heard enough death penalty. Yes I know that sounds extreme,
but death penalty for this. These are senior citizens. You're
scaring them half to death. You're calling them after that
gone to sleep, ringing them up after seven point thirty
at night, and your client you're pretending to be their
grandchild in trouble. Death penalty for the grandparent scammers, death penalty. Look,
(43:00):
I'll be back with more, but first to break. Let's
take the break. This is the Uncle Henry Show, News
(43:21):
Radio seventy ten WNTM news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I got some voicemail,
some more voicemail from over the weekend. Bruford phoned in
several times and he placed a call about wanting Alabama
fans to maintain a higher standard of behavior. Now, I'm
(43:47):
in favor of higher standards of behavior in most all cases.
So let's let's review this and see if Bufford makes
any good points. So let's see this was phoned in before,
right before the Alabama Crimson time played University of Louisiana Monroe.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Henry, Let's say there's buff Henry just wanted to say
when Louisiana Monroe beats us today right.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Now, Buford wanted you have to say that they did
not you know the results by now, Louisiana Monroe did
not have a chance against the Crimson Tide.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Nothing last forever, nothing good, last forever, nothing bad, last forever.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
The Lord lasts, forever, we.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
Will weather this storm. That being said, Henry us, Alabama
fans need to hold ourselves to a higher standards.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Okay, now I agree with this. Now, one way to
hold one's self to a higher standard is not to
predict an Alabama loss to a cream puff Buford. I
know you're hurting. You're hurting like many fans over the
the FSU game. You're hurting as many of us are.
(45:02):
But please maintain a higher standard, Henry.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
We've got a lot of degenerate trash in our camp
as Bama fans, which is where Bamer came from. And Henry,
missus Gufford had a Walmart grocery order and there was
a so called Bamer delivering it. She was all dressed
out in Alabama gear, which I was glad to see
(45:28):
because I thought, being an Alabama fan, that my groceries
would have been safe instead of with an Auburn fan.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
But all right, so all right, I'm pausing there just
to make sure I'm oriented correctly in this voice. Now,
So there are Bufford says there are some Alabama fans
who he called degenerate trash, which is nobody, by the way,
I don't. Maybe people call me that behind my back,
(46:01):
and you know what, I don't mind, as long as
you don't say to my face. Just don't say to
my face if you think I might have to happen
to be degenerate trash, but don't say it to the face,
all right. So Bufford is saying that some Alabama fans
are we'll call them DT, degenerate trash. So Bufford says,
(46:21):
some are DT. And somebody delivered your Walmart groceries wearing
Alabama gear.
Speaker 15 (46:29):
And Henry, this bammer stole my two packages of Kanekti sassages.
What that's right, Henry, She just flat outstalls Kanucki sackages.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Of course, you know, you call Walmart and they refund
your money. But as she was pulling out of the driveway,
Missus Rufford was texting her on the numbers. He tasted
us with saying, hey, you forgot our Kanucky sassages. Fifteen
minutes later, she replies back, oops, you can call Walmart
(47:09):
and now refund you. I don't enjoying my connecting sassages
right now.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
I'm pausing again, and I apologize for all the pausing
because I don't understand this. See, I don't get I
don't get groceries delivered. I enjoy the hunt. I enjoy
going to griers and hunt down what I like. I
like that process. It's part of the eating process to
me is going out and hunting it. Now, I'm not
actually using a gun or a bow and arrow or
(47:39):
a spear or whatever I might use to hunt, but
I like going into griers and hunting it. Now does
this happen? I don't understand this. People sometimes to people
delivering will keep some of your food. Is that?
Speaker 6 (47:52):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (47:52):
What's Beaufort? Has this happened before? And you just how
could she have left it a to? Are you convinced
this person is eating your sausage.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
Watching the Bama game. I'm gonna have to actually go
out of my house to buy me some Kanecki sasages
because I will not go without Kaneki's back. But Henry,
this is a call to all Alabama fans, please act
right and hold yourselves to a higher standard. We have
a lot of degeneracy in our fan base, especially those
(48:28):
that beat their wives and children when Alabama loses, and
people that beat that's still other people's Kanecki sasages anyway,
Henry right roll tied you for them.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
I'm sorry your sausagees got stolen or allegedly got stolen.
I'm still confused about how this works. Is there proof
that the sausage actually went into this lady's car? First
things first, Beauford, Yes, there are going to be some degenerates,
(49:05):
probably in every fan base. But when it's something like
Alabama that has had so much, so much success, you
have a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon, and
with such a wide fandom, you're bound to have some
dullards and some degenerates jump in at some point because
(49:25):
it's a bandwagon and it's fun to jump in on.
But don't think that Alabama has more degenerates than other
college football programs. I'm sure that there's I'm sure there's
other dullards or degenerates out there in just about every
fan base. All right, uh, and Beauford again, I'm sorry
(49:47):
you got your sausages allegedly stolen or lost. All right,
out of time, as they say in Sarahland, have a
good one, as they say in Theodore, take it easy.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
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