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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven. Hey,
go ahead, get on the groove train man, and start
to baby it says the Uncle Henry Show here on
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news Radio seven to ten WNTM. Thank you for listening
to the Unclean Very Show and very proud to welcome
back to the on Cleandar Show. Microphones, Killer Bees, killer Bees,
to see you man, great to see you again, killer Bees.
Every time I see you you seem in just in
better shape and in better spirits. Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's one of those God things, man, one of those
cod things.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now you are here, you're gonna be talking this hour
about a show you've got. You're gonna be doing a
comedy show this Saturday. Tell people where and win and
what it's about.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I sure will. It is at revived Church mobile that
is on Ziegler Circle. It's a horseshoe shaped road off
of Ziegler right across the street from the fairgrounds. You
know where that funeral home is. It's across from the
road that turns by that fuel home is our road.
It's horseshoe shaped. Our church is at the bottom of
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the horseshoe. The part where the good luck lives and
we're on the inside of that curve. The show is
at six thirty. Doors will open at five thirty, and
it is a benefits show which will which will be
for Ryan's Refuge. I have the founder of Ryan's Refuge
here with us today at mister Eric Overstreet and also
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for the revived church mobile homeless outreach missions that we do.
So it is a full, full fledged, full blown comedy show.
I'm bringing my opening act, mister Dan Whitehurst from Nashville down.
We're doing our full show and there'll be a silent auction.
And by the way, we need some donors for the
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silent auction. We need people to help us out with
products or services for that. But it is at at
six thirty. There's information at thirty six thirty in the evening.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
This is you know this, what a wonderful thing for
people my aid.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Let's normalize this.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Do I have a lot of fans that don't want
to drive after dark?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So good.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I learned that trip from Larry Gatlin. But ticket
information and other infos at killerbees dot coms be ea
Z because we did not know any better. And if
you want some info about donating for our silent auction
bees at killerbees dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But killerbes dot com to get the tickets and if
you want to remind themselves where this is going to
be in the time and all that kind of stuff. Yes, sir,
So we're gonna talk about what you're raising money for
before we get to that. Though. For the Killer Bees fans,
what's your summer looking like? How you spend this summer?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's a busy summer. I've been back one week from
a three week tour. Part of that week entailed five
days of filming with Discovery Channel for their hit series Moonshiners,
which is so much fun, so much fun. And we're
in our fifteenth season for that show, and lo and behold,
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it's my tenth season.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I would henth season on Moonshiner.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, sir, I would have never dreamed that I would
learn how to make moonshine. They have taught me to
build a moonshine. Still, I can do the mash in process,
I can do the run. And I do have the
distinction to have made the prayer list every Sunday at
church for ten years now. It's like the new world
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record of prayer list people. So it's it's you know,
there's a lot of chemistry in fish is it's involved
in these I like to say covert distillation of non
taxable artists and spirits at are non disclosed location.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And wonderful description.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's intriguing to me the science in there. And I learned,
and I kid you not the word he'll Billy means
a genius and overalls with a spit cup.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That is wonderful the mountain. This is so good.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
People judge a book by its cover. And these folks
are actually so incredibly smart. They can do anything. They
can fabricate things, their problem solvers and it's an honor
literally to get to do the show with them.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now you're gonna be doing some Moonshiners this summer.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So so I know I've asked you this probably before,
but after being on the show for ten years, Uh,
how what is the most unusual place you've had a
fan from? Have you had fans from? Like Siberia?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow? We get yeah, we get email from Australia, Germany,
the UK, Canada, all that stuff. And I'll say this
as well, stop asking for moonshine on Facebook. I'm on
a TV show. I'm not your local liquor guy, but.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You get you get emails from Australia about being on munjoh, yeah,
we do.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And in some of these countries it's funny they don't
reference it as moonshine. They call it bush rum. Okay, yes,
So there's all kinds of different terminologies just depending on
what part of the world you're in.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Are there other parts of the world. Are there strange
countries that have wanted to hire you, that want you
to come in and do shows. Have you Have you
gotten requests we want you to shows over here in
Tanzania we have And I'll say.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This, you really need an American audience that is used
to the American culture for American stand up to work.
I know we did some years back. We performed on
four of the Hawaiian island and it was kind of
tough shows because there were so many people there from
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different countries that just are not in tune with our culture.
So it's kind of there's sort of a culture barrier
in the crafting of your premise, setup and punchline. So
it's really a neat experience to see those differences. And
even though people are people everywhere those cultural differences can
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sometimes hinder the joke writing process.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So and I guess it would not help to consult
with Yakov Smirnoff or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yakoff Smyrna.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He had to do, he had to adapt for our culture.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Correct, correct. And he just did shows at the Funny
Moone Comedy Club in Saint Louis, Missouri because a buddy
of mine works at that club. And just the other
morning he goes, man, I just picked up yakof Smirnoff
from the airport. So he's still out there doing it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, ta hear that now. So we are going to
spend a lot of time this hour talking about why
you're doing this comedy show Saturday. We've got a couple
of minutes here before we go to our first break.
Why are you? Why are you personally wanted to get
involved in raising money for this cost?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I personally have been blessed during my career and dear
my life forty three years. I've had a successful stand
up career and luckily, wonderfully blessedly, I changed my life
several years ago and realized that you have to steward
over your gifts, and part of that stewardship is service
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to others. So it is on my heart to serve
others and to help others, And that really is the
driving force right there, to do an outreach, to helping homeless,
to helping displace families. So it is called upon us
to help our brothers. And as a believer, and if
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you're truly gonna walk in faith, you're gonna follow these
these the commandments. You're gonna help others. You're going to
do what you can as you can and when you can,
and make opportunities to help others. So that really it's
you know, people will call it giving back with it's
really a deeper, a deeper thing than that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, hey, we're gonna talk more about that, and we're
going to get into the charity you're helping and that
entire cause. When we come back after our first break
here on news radio seven to ten WNTM. Again, if
you want to find out about tickets and get tickets,
go to Killerbees dot com. That's Killerbees dot Com. Back
with more Killer Bees after the break here on news
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radio seven to ten WNTM, The Uncle Henry's Show, Uncle
(09:07):
Henry Show, news Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is
five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Killer
Bees is here. He's got a comedy show this Saturday
evening at the convenient time of six thirty pm at
Revived Church. Full comedy show raising money for a very
good cause. We want to talk about that cause now.
In the last segment, Killer Bees, I asked you why
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you were doing this, and you said that it was
the stewardship gifts over your gifts. Stewardship over your gifts. Why.
There's a lot of incredible causes out there. I'm sure
you hear from people all the time they're looking for help.
Why did you pick this particular, this particular cause, Ryan's refuged.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, I'll say this, there are so many people in
need in so many different areas, for so many different things. Yes,
and our church has a reputation and for helping homeless people.
And that's where I became aware of the homeless situation.
And our dear friend Eric Overstreet, who we were here
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from in just Amenities in here with us y'all, is
the the spearhead of helping the homeless community here in
Mobile and he has founded Ryan's Refuge where he gets
people off the street, gets some cleaned up houses them,
gets some started on coming back into society. And that
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is such a I'm gonna say it, there's a very
gnarly situation, and it is an absolute takes a man
of courage and conviction to be able to do that,
and I'm impressed with that. And there is a need
there because the homeless folks get such such a such
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a negative rap, you know, and sometimes sadly it's it's warranted,
you know, But they're there are so many out there
that are there because of bad decisions, bad luck, who
are willing to change their lives, who are in the
process of changing their lives, and so it just behooves
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us to help them out and to step up and
to do the hard job.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So Eric, tell me about Ryan's Refuge. What is it?
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Rhyan's Refuge is a ministry that me and my wife
had their over Street started two years ago. I've been
ministering on the streets of Mobile many many years. That's
how I met the Beasley's. We've done many many other
things together. It's a five bedroom home with the eight
thousand square foot building behind it. Chris Francis Tree Service.
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Chris Francis gifted us this house to help people get
off the street many many years work in the streets.
One day my wife hemmed up and said, are we
getting results? Like as there more? What can we do more?
So she sets you out of vision of a home
where people could come inside and needed a table together
and felt like part of a family, not an institution.
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And so that's what we have. We have about forty
people there presently. We have people in the house and
in the warehouse who have males and females. It's a
long term or short term shelter. You can come there
and just take a shower, if you need to wash
your clothes, take a nap. But we've been going for
two years almost now. We're so proud. We've served over
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six hundred people in two years.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So what have you learned about the homeless situation? Because
it's not just mobile, of course, it is a nationwide
issue that seems to be getting worse and not better.
What have you learned about homelessness and homeless people.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I'm not sure if you're familiar, but a few years
ago another joint venture I did with tearing through a beasilely.
I gave away all my possessions and quit my job,
and I went and lived with homeless people for ninety
days and mobile under the bridges and in the woods,
so I could answer that very question.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What I found out was, unfortunately, there is no exact formula.
They are all different, Every person is different, every story
is different, very much. Mental illnesses on the street, very
very high rate of mill illnesses, high dictions, of course,
and those go hand in hand. What shocked me was
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the unmedicated, mentally ill people walking around Movill, Alabama, not
even knowing why they're homeless.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Okay, so so people that, uh, there's nobody, nobody's gonna
help them if if there aren't people like you and
killer Bees are the person listening. I mean, they're out there.
They need medication, some of them, and there's no what
is their hope other than somebody coming in and helping them.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I bet everybody in Movill, Alabama would help them if
they knew how. They just got to know how. And
with mintal illness, it's a tough thing, Like it's hard
to help somebody that's off their medication. We work very
closely with ultra point, and there are many people. There's
not just me and killer Bee. There's a group of
people in mobile, an army of people trying to solve
this problem and help. We do not want to close
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our eyes. We wanted this to go away. We can't
house them all. So what we found out was, let's
change them all, one person at a time. Let's take
a few at a time and help them change their lives,
and then we don't.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Need to house them.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
They can house themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well talk, Well, let me ask you another angle to this.
What are the biggest misconceptions? What does the general public
get wrong that they want to be out there?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There's not one person I've ever met that wants to
they like it, they want to be out there, They
absolutely don't. Most as I said before, menally ill. When
you have instability in your mind, it's going to be
hard to have stability in your life. That's the greatest
misconception that any human being would want to sleep in
the dirt and let us sleep inside. Now do they
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make decisions that make them have to sleep outside.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yes, they do. That is the decision they make.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And another misconception is that they can't change because they
can one hundred percent of people that want to change
their life can't. We've seen it. We've seen it over
and over and over, including myself, including my wife.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What advice can you give to the listener that you
talked about how people do want to help if they
knew how how can they help? Aside from of course,
they can buy a ticket to this show, or they
can give a donation to your ministry. Aside from that,
are there any other things that people could do? What
can somebody do to help?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Start by treating homeless people with compassion when you look
at them, look at them like they're child of God
and not like they're a dreg to society. When you
meet them in person, talk to them, offer them help,
get them with a group. There are many groups in
Mobile right now that service homeless people. My name is
Eric over Street. A lot of people know me. If
somebody listening wants to get involved, we can put you in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
A safe situation.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Where you can get involved with veterans that have done
this a long time. And I'm telling you these are
normal human beings.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That just got displaced.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
They just got off track. They're just normals, me and you,
not him, but normalst me and you.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. Now, when when we encounter people that are on
the street and they're asking for money or something like that,
should we give them money? What should we do in
that case?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I would say a lady should never stop. I've never
a lady should never stop. I've never told a lady
to stop for a homeless person, even for another female
homeless person. I personally do not.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Give away money.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We get, we do outreaches. And again, the best thing
to be to do if you, if you are brave
enough to stop and talk to the person and shut
them kindness is get him in touch with me, or
get him in touch with somebody that can help them.
Ask them if they won't help, if they won't help
their self. In Mobile, Alabama, right now, where how can
the listener find Ryan's Refuge? Are you online on Facebook?
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Where can they find you? Yes, sir, we have a website.
We have a Facebook page. My name's Eric bump Over
Street on Facebook. Address is five five four Southcraft Highway, Mobile, Alabama.
You can communicate with me or you can go follow
us on Facebook. Ryan's Refuge. Did you say Eric Bump,
Eric bump Over Street bu MP.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's what my grand babies call me. So that's what
my Facebook is.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, all right, Eric, let me ask you this half
a second.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We're about thirty seconds away from the break.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
How many people are at Ryan's Refuge now? Thirty seven?
How many got up and went to work at a
job today?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Hey dah more on that. We're gonna get it more
into that as we continue with Killer Bees here on
the Unk Glanbery Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.
Back after the news break, Uncle Henry's show here on
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news Radio seven ten wnt Killer Bees is here. Killer
Bees is back. He's got a special comedy show this
Saturday evening at revived Church Westmobile for Ryan's Refuge. Now,
Killer Bees. We had a request on Facebook for you
to say something.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh yeah, let me do this real quick. Save up.
All right, Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now now for people that just tuned in, and we
have a lot of new listeners here after the bottom
of the hour, news You're doing a show. What kind
of a show is it going to be in a church?
Is this an actual Killer Bees show?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yes it is, Yes it is. I work clean these days,
but I'm forty three years into the business, and it
is a bone crushingly funny show. Good good, good, ownabashedly
say that. And I'm bringing my opening act, Dan Whitehurst
down from Nashville, who is as a hired police detective
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out of Nashville. He's got close to twenty five years
though of stand up under his belt, and he is
really funny. He does some police stories that happened before
there were body cams, and so he is really funny.
And it's a clean show. It's a non offensive show,
but it is funny, funny, funny. It's the show we
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do all over the country together, so we will be
doing that and we're just tickled to show up and
get on stage.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Now, you the listener, you can get your tickets at
killerbees dot com. Go to killerbees dot com, B E
A Z killerbees dot com. Get your tickets there. The
show is six thirty pm Saturday, of blessing for many
of us, correct.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
For those who don't want to drive after dark.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
We hear you, we feel you, So get those tickets
and contribute to this cause. We're going to talk more,
of course about the cause in Ryan's Refuge, but you
you talked about your show bone crushingly funny after all
these years of working on your your skill set, there
does uh does the wife laugh at your jokes?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Now, I think the more succinct succinc what that word
is answer would be no. But uh, but she gets
a lot of practice eye rolling. She has the strongest
eye muscles known to man. She could roll. She can
see the bottom of her hair when she rolls her eyes.
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So now I say that lovingly. But uh. You know,
I've been funny since I was a little bitty baby.
The first home my earliest memories is living in a
funeral home in Cousiesco, Mississippi. My dad was a funeral
director and an embalmber, and we lived on the premises
in that funeral home, and as a toddler, I had
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the run of the place. I go up and down
the hallways and stuff the earth. The earliest sentence that
I ever remember being told to me was the receptionist
at the funeral home saying, Truett Junior, quit shooting that
cap pistol. We're trying to bury people in here. So anyway,
I had no concept of life and death, but I
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would see sad people come and go from my home
every day, and I learned as a toddler, and literally
this is my earliest memories that I could do silly,
little cute stuff and the crying people would stop crying
and come over and talk to me and smile. And
I think that that is what fueled my compulsion my
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entire life to make people laugh and smile. I was
wittiest in school and all that growing up, but I
have always, as long as I can remember, tried to
make people laugh and smile. And luckily I read a
lot growing up a voracious reader. So I'm a semi
decent word smith, meaning great. But I love the turn
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of a phrase. I love the surprise factor in my material.
My favorite author of all times was O. Henry, the
guy from way back in old timy days, who was
famous for the surprise ending yes, for that twist at
the end of his stories. And I like to surprise
people with the way the punch lines go and once
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again with just the turn of the phrase and wordsmithing.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So many people here in Mobile on the Golf coast
that are my age, of course, remember seeing you several
times in town doing your comedy. What are some Are
there some other towns that you have done that have
that same history with you.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well. Nashville, Nashville, Nashville. The Zany's Comedy Club, one of
the premier clubs in America, brought me to Nashville in
nineteen eighty four, back in old timeye days and manage me.
And that's where I popped, was when I was working
out of Nashville because there was TV there, there were
record deals there, and so I did one hundred appearances
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on CMT, on T and N on those shows back then.
They just scooed me up when I went to Nashville,
and that was the best move because all the comedians
back then, when you started to get traction, would go
to either Los Angeles or New York. And I was
blessed enough to have a cousin that's a screenplay writer
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that called me. Goes, look, dude, he goes, don't go
to a city where you'll stand in line behind two
hundred people that don't have the same chops and you'll
be judged by your accent. He goes Nashville, he goes
TV record deal, he goes. Everybody's performed their Bob Dil
and Hendrix. Everybody go to Nashville. They will love you immediately.
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And he was right. So that's how it went.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So do you have at this point in your career,
when you're in Nashville or even here after your shows,
do you have a line of people that want to
tell you about the times they saw you before?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, yeah. And it's really and I say this as well,
I can't go in BUCkies without a sharpie to sign
autographs with. I am the the prince of buckets.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
That's that is something.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yes, it is, Yes, it is, sir. So it's been
such a blessed career, one that and admittedly one that
I took advantage of and took for granted because it
was it just came naturally to me. But as a wiser,
more in touch person, such a blessing, blessing, blessing, and
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I see myself doing it until the day I die.
It's a low common it's a low contact job. I'm
not climbing a ladder, carrying roofing tiles, I'm not working
with hazard or hazardous chemicals and stuff. And it is
an act of love doing it. I get such joy
out of lifting people up. Proverbs says a Mary Heart,
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do with good like a medicine and we prepareaphrase.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It to laughter.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But God wants us to be happy. He wants us
to have fun. So and there's ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Where it really hits so and one way would be
to go to your show Saturday. That would be the
Good Church. Yeah again, get tickets at killerbees dot com
and some of the proceeds are going to Ryan's Refuge
as well as Revived Church. So Eric over Street of
Ryan's Refuge, Why did you name your homeless outreach Ryan's Refuge?
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Where does that name come from? That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We tossed around a lot of names. There is a
young man named Ryan Bolton, a friend of all of ours,
a friend of Mobile, Alabama, that was murdered in La
last December, about the time we were starting Ryan's Refuge.
We were talking about starting a shelter for men. Ryan
Bolton was a servant of men. He was a humble, loving,
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giving helper of addicts, help for broken people, worked in
soup kitchens. The same time we're opening Ryan's Refuge, he
gets murdered. So I met his sister Jennifer, and we
decided to always memorialize this beautiful human being. Ryan Bolton.
Every person that walks through that door of Ryan's Refuge,
he would have been running it with me. It wouldn't
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have been called Ryan's Refuge. I might have called it
Eric or something. But he was a wonderful guy. We're
trying to remember.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You mentioned before we went to our last break that
you have thirty seven people at Ryan's Refuge right now
that are being sheltered there, and twenty one of them
actually have jobs, are going and doing work. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Real jobs, full time jobs. They come here nothing no, nothing, No,
they don't even have a wallet, much less the job,
no ideas. First thirty days we work on documentation, make
you legal, so you don't have to keep looking over
your shoulder, worrying about who you know, even like probations,
We deal with all of that. We make them legit,
so worried anymore. They're they're citizens, and then we get
them jobs. We help them get jobs. These aren't just labor.
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I'm not just talking about labor finders. We got twenty one
people that went to their jobs today, real jobs. So
they come with nothing, and it's nothing I've done. Mobile
Alabama has backed us amazingly. My wife has done amazing.
The volunteers of Ryan's Refuge are many, many, many, many many.
I probably do less than anybody, but it's been amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Too. Hey, we've got we've got to take a time out.
We have one more segment with Killer Bees and Eric
over Street of Ryan's Refuge. We'll be back with them
after the break. Here on NewsRadio seven ten dot com
again killerbees dot com to get your tickets for that
Killerbes show Saturday. Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten
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WNTIM here with Killer Bees and Eric Overstreet our final minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
No, Michelle, I'm not the most handsome person that's been
on the op. Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking talking
to my wife, so I didn't realize we were back
on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We're back on the air Killer Bees talking to my
wife about I don't know what we'll find out later. Now.
Killer Bees has a show this Saturday night at Revived
Church in Mobile raise some money for Ryan's Refuge, helping
homeless folks. Killerbees dot com is where you go to
get tickets Killer Bees, and that's be easy. Now. The
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show starts at six thirty, which is a blessing. You've
got your big professional opening act coming down. It's going
to be a full show. So people that have wanted
to see the Killer Bees show, maybe they've never seen
you before. This is going to be a great night.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well, it is going to be a great night. And
let me interject real quick where we're wanting to do
a silent auction. We need some help from donors to
donate goods or services for our silent auction as well,
and the proceeds will go to Ryan's Refuge and also
to the Revived Church homeless outreach program. So so that's
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what it's about. But with that being said, I am
gonna have a ball. I'm gonna at the Fool again
because that's my that's what I do. That's in my
Baileywick sir.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, No, this is this is a chance to see
you right here in Mobile County. You're gonna be doing
a lot of dates this summer around the region and
different spots.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All over the country.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We all over the country.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Oh yeah, we we go all over so so which
which is exhausting traveling and touring like that, but but
it is so much fun to go to different lands
and and see different people and it's just a once
again It's a labor of love for me. Man, I'm
just so tickled that I get to do this for
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a living and the new never wears off for me,
It never wears off.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That is that in itself is a blessing.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It is it is indeed.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So this is your chance. You can see Killer Bees
this summer. It's going to be this Saturday night at
Revived Church Killerbees dot Com. Now Eric with Rhyn's Refuge
helping the homeless get off the street re enter society.
I asked you this at the beginning of the show.
Tell me and the listeners how should we interact with
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homeless folks. A lot of people listening to this are
very compassionate, but they don't know what to.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Do, but intimidated at the same time.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah. Like I said before, everybody in Mobile would be
a homeless minister if they knew how and they and
if they weren't fearful of it. There's rules you got
to follow when somebody's in active addiction, and usually when
they're walking the streets facing they are I would have
a man with me for sure. If you're a female,
I wouldn't stop for a male or a female homeless person.
And that's just my advice. And I've done this fifteen
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years and I would want you to listen to my advice.
But the good news is you can call Eric overstreet
two five one three oh one, three oh two four
and I'll come run And if you see any homeless person,
and that's very common that people call me and tell
me where they're at. Or killer bees or revive ministries.
We're all about this. We don't just put on little
shows and once a month give away hot dogs. This
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is what we do, thirty days a month my shelter,
twenty four to seven. We're trying to help people get
off the streets. So you communicate with me. Don't put
yourself in a weird position. They are wonderful, wonderful human beings.
I'm different if I was in active addiction. You don't
want to be around me like that. You know what
I'm saying. So just you be careful and if you're
a female, always have a mail with you. Please listen
(31:33):
to me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay, now you supplies.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, that's something that you can do that's low impact
as far as as how much you have to interact.
You know, have a bag in your car or a
box in your vehicle with some with some waters in
it and some food in it, things that a homeless
person would need to help survive till that next day.
(31:58):
And it's easy to do. If you'll see them on
a street corner, you can just hold it actual way. Yeah,
stuff like that. Know, an active and active kindness goes
a long way to help people realize, you know what,
there may be hope. So so that that's some more advice.
That's that's what's good.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay. So so Eric again, if somebody people are not
going to remember the phone number, perhaps you're on Facebook. Yes, said,
they find Ryan's Refuge.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Ryan's Refuge, Eric bump over Street Revived Ministries. Any of
the churches in Mobil know who I am. I'm very
easy to contact. There's great other ministries, next steps. I
got a life a waterfront rescue mission. There there are
tons of places in Mobile. You find a person that
wants help, there's places they can get help. Right now,
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we do need a women's shelter though, there needs to
be another women's shelter soon.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Okay, so there's there's plenty of work to be done. Yeah, yeah,
all right, So again killerbees dot, this is this going
to be the only show in Mobile County this year
from Killer Bees.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Do you know that I'm looking at Corporate across the
table there and she's saying, Yes, this is it, this
is it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
This is going to be your chance this year.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
This guy plays the grand old Opry. Come see him
at church.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Come on, yeah, So go ahead, get this is your
chance to see the now world famous killer Bees from Moonshiners.
Go to Killerbees dot com and get those tickets Killer Bees. Eric,
thank you both for coming in love you too, Please
come back, Eric, come back anytime you want to talk
about this, please do. We'll give it more time. Coach
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people up and have more stories from what you're able
to do, because it is encouraging to hear people coming
off the streets and getting back into society.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We have news headlines coming up here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the
Uncle Henry Show. That says the Uncle Henry Show here
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on news radio seventy ten WNTM, and I appreciate very
much you listening to it. Now coming up this half
hour on the elk Henary Show, going to have some
news items, some voicemail whatever I can cram into the
thirty minutes I will cram now over the last two
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days of Uncle Henry shows. At this time, I've shared
with you raccoon related information from Buford as he's been
trapping a bunch of raccoons on his property. Now, I'm
not going to get to that immediately. No, but there
is more hot raccoon talk coming up, more hot raccoon
(35:04):
talk coming up on the Unclaimer Show. But first I
want to get to some news items before we get
to the raccoons. Now, this is important, at least to me.
Maybe not to you, but it is to me, and
that is I think we should all be on our
best behavior here on the Gulf Coast, especially in Mobile,
because the distinguished young women of America, the distinguished young
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women of America have arrived in Mobile, Alabama. Let's go
to Fox ten. Here is Lenis Lagon, one of the
most popular broadcasters in the history of Mobile. Here's Lenis
Lagon introducing us to the story of the distinguished young
women of America have arrived in Mobile for the Distinguished
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Young Women competition.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
English young women from all around the nation landed in
Mobile today and they received.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
A war that was yesterday.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
By the way, orm welcome to the port city with
a crowd greeting them at Mobile Regional Airport A Liam
Rivera was there and Liam so much excitement always for
this competition.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's right, Lenise.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Tonight's arrival ceremony welcomes representatives from all fifty states for
the sixty eighth Annual National Finals that is going to
be held next.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
By the way, you can't see the video. I'm apologize Radio. Still,
after all these years, we still don't have pictures. We
can't show you video. Still, we're still working on it.
We got engineers, we're still working on it. But until
we get that fixed, all you can do is listen
and create your own vivid image in your mind so
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you can imagine the young reporter guy standing in the
Mobile airport that the mobile is desperately trying to get
move out of to a new airport. Behind him are
a bunch of AZIA Trail Maids. And I just want
to say hats off to the AAIA Trail Maids. I'm
glad they still exist. I'm glad they're still there, and
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I do consider them wonderful representations of the city of Mobile.
The Azia Trail Maids. And no, I'm not saying that
just because I'm married to a former Aziya Trail made
It has nothing to do with my opinion of the
greatness and the importance of the Aiah Trail Maids. All right,
back to the story.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Next week, the Distinguished Young Woman class of twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Five distinguished young women from all corners of the country
arriving Inmobile tonight getting ready for the sixty eighth National Finals.
The class of twenty twenty five will compete in categories
of scholastics, interview, talent, fitness, and self expression starting next Thursday.
With a building excitement leading up to this event, these
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young women are prepared for what's ahead.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
It's everything that I've been looking forward to. I've been
wondering how I could afford my future college education, and
DYW has made it possible. So it's cool to finally
be here with one representative from every state.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
So the opportunity that all of the national representatives have
to come to where I represent from Mobile County in
Alabama and I get to show them around the amazing
town and see what all we have to offer is
just so amazing, and I'm so thankful.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Over one hundred and thirty thousand in total cash scholarships
will be offered over the three day event. But until then,
there are plenty of other things these young women will
be participating in, so a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Of rehearsals, certainly, but we also give.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Them a chance to get out into the community. We'll
visit tourist attractions like Bellngraft Gardens, USSS at Alabama, and
then they'll also do some service projects in the community
as well.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
I'm honestly really looking forward to all the different events
and the luncheons, touring universities and getting to just meet
members of the.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Community, the distinguished young women. This program has provided over
one billion dollars in scholarship opportunities. Reporting out Mobile Regional Airport,
Liam Rivera, Fox ten News.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
All right, very nice to have them in ten. Let's
be on our best behavior, please. And what I mean
by that, for example, is when somebody cuts you off
in traffic, don't flip them off? Can you just withhold
the flipping off at least until they're out of town.
They don't need to look around and see a bunch
of people flipping each other off and being mean to
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each other in Mobile Alabama, And if we could also
avoid shooting each other down in the streets, if that's
if there could be just a cease fire in all
of these shooting each other down in the street stuff
that is going on a mobile at least while they're here.
But glad to see them. Of course I preferred the
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name Junior miss And at this point I've already forgotten
why that's not politically correct anymore. But distinguished young women
of America inmobile and glad to see them, all right?
What else? What else can I share with you before
I move forward into other things like raccoon voicemail on
the unk Claimer Show. Here's a topic I don't know
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nothing about, so let's learn together about this. Divers have
been taking oyster lava larva and not eating the oyster larva.
They're putting them on reefs off the Mississippi coast to
try and kickstart some oyster stuff. Let's listen. Here's a
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story from w lox, a Stepsister station to Fox ten
about oyster larva. What about your history?
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Right now, the very first direct setting project in the
golf is underway, and it could be revolutionary for the
oyster industry.
Speaker 9 (40:52):
Normally, we do remote setting where you take the shell
into the laboratory and you allow the oyster larvae to
set onto the show. You throw them up a little bit,
and then you put that shell in the water.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Divers took buckets of one hundred and twenty five million
oyster larvae and placed them on reeves made of recycled
oyster shells.
Speaker 9 (41:13):
Like like a kind of just looks like.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Doctor Virginia Schweiz with the Cattie may C Foundation, is
behind the study. She says this method of seating oyster
beds could jumpstart the oyster industry.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
We're putting the larvae straight into the water, skipping that
metal step and a lot of the time and money
that is involved in them that metal step.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana helped collect the nearly
two hundred tons of oyster shells for this project. She says,
shared species across state lines is what makes this project important.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Louisiana Mississippi are direct neighbors, and they're but they're not
just neighbors by land, they're neighbors by water.
Speaker 8 (41:54):
Are waterways?
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Well, good, look I've heard all I need to know. Well,
I say that I'd like to know how long will
it take? So they're taking oyster larva and dumping them
onto to these reefs, how long would it take for
an oyster to be born there from or what, I
don't know what you call it, for the larva to
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grow into an edible oyster. I'd like to know, because
if you can do this, if this actually works this,
I might want a swimming pool. Yeah, if I knew.
I see, I don't want to go swimming in the
swimming pool, but I'd love to have like a big
oyster reef in my backyard, and if I could just
seed it with oyster larva. I love east I love
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eating some oysters, all right. Anyway, back after the break,
going to take a break, and then I've got more
exciting raccoon talk coming up on the Uncle Henry Show.
Let's go ahead and take the break, it says the
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Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seven ten WNTM.
News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The last two days of the Uncle Henry Show, in
the six o'clock hour, we've had hot raccoon talk and
provided by Buford, who has been trapping raccoons at his house.
He said he's trying to trap his sixteenth raccoon. And
I don't know if it's his sixteenth in the year
twenty twenty five or what, but or overall or whatever,
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but Buford trapping raccoons. And yesterday he mentioned something about
a raccoon trap. Lussie, what can I remember? He said
that he puts a moonpie. He baits the trap with
a moonpie and sardines and dry dog or cat food
with fish oil. So in case you're wanting to attract
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a raccoon. He now he called his raccoon trap a
dog proof raccoon trap. So let's listen together as we
learn more about the trapping of raccoons in an urban environment.
As Buford tells us what a dogproof raccoon trap is,
this is different.
Speaker 10 (44:19):
In case you're wondering what a dog proof coon trap.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Is, I am.
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Basically it looks like a bear can, but without the
marketing bear logos on it, just a metal cylinder can
type and trapsing and the bottom of it is kind
of lever and on the top of it it has
got this ring. And so when it's set, the premise
of it is that the raccoon will keep eating food
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out of it, and then you go down and grab
that trigger and pull up on it, thinking that it
is food, and then it catches their hand that ring
springs and traps their hand in it.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Okay, I'm I'm not sure, I'm and I'm imagining in
it properly. I'm trying to visually imagine in my mind
the trap based on your vivid word picture description of it.
All I can imagine in my head is a raccoon
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upside down in a beer can. Is that? Is that
semi accurate? Buford?
Speaker 10 (45:26):
Let me tell you, Henry, the beauty of that trap
is is that it will only catch raccoons and maybe
a stray possum. Now what snake trappers nine at ease?
I've only caught one possum in one of my dog proofs.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Oh, I'm glad you mentioned this, because snake trapper does
have a deep affection, a deep affection and a deep
compassion for raccoons.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
Basically, you just gently knock them in the head and
until they play dead, and then you just puil the
reliever and let their hand out, and then they run
off like nothing happened them. Coons is another animal, so
they are dishes animals at that they will tear you up.
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So Henry, I'll get them coons out of them traps
after they have been dispatched, because you can't relocate a
problem coon. You're just relocating the problem. But any way, Henry, back,
there is a what a dogproof trap is. If we
will not catch dogs can't get in it. That's why
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dog proof tats can't get into it. Really, you gotta
have a critter with an opposable thumb, like a raccoon
that can grab someuff. And Buddy, you take that moon
pie and you shove it underneath the bottom of that
there trigger. And when he gets there, he keeps smelling
that moon pie smells and they love it. And then
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he'll grab that hook of moonpie thinking he's done gotten
the surprize. And when he pulls up and hits that trigger,
and boy, he is caught. He is caught like a.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Rat in a trap or a raccoon in a trap.
Speaker 10 (47:15):
Anyway, Henry, hope you enjoyed listening to myccon tutorial. You
have a good day.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Thank you, Beauford. I appreciate the tutorial. By the way,
you the listener. If you'd like to call in with
your own tutorial on something. Two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's the number to leave a message
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six to
leave a message or a tutorial about raccoons. Now, I
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did wonder. I asked the question, was it? He said
he was He's trying to catch a sixteenth raccoon, and uh,
I wondered, is it? Has he caught that many this year? Well,
Beauford did call back in to clarify the schedule of
trapping the raccoons.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
Henry asked, answer your coon question. Now, I started tramping
these coons in my yard around April of last year. So, yeah, Henry,
I've trapped fIF Caen coons trapped in Kilt within a
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year and a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, so about a raccoon a month.
Speaker 10 (48:29):
Out of the year's time, Henry, and I am now
actively trying to trap coon number sixteen. I don't know
where to color from, Henry. It's like a bad Vietnam
movie to get rid of one and to replace it,
it seems. But Henry, I do believe of a us
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these drainish areas, the drainish still ways underneath the streets
as the coon highways and byeways.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Seen it myself, Yes, that is what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (49:03):
I'd like to put me a camera down there and
and just see what's crawling around in there. I got
me quarter gratis uh gut her and did of my
by my house and tenna. I got a brother that
married exceptionally well. And see if he won't contribute to
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go through for me to dang along the staying down
there just to see what's crawling around.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
But all right, okay, I'm out of time, but be
for thank you please trying to get video of the drains.
All right, thank you for listening. As they say in
sarah Land, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it easy, all right, Lada,
Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven. Hey,
go ahead, get on the groove train man, and start
to baby it says the Uncle Henry Show here on
(00:29):
news Radio seven to ten WNTM. Thank you for listening
to the Unclean Very Show and very proud to welcome
back to the on Cleandar Show. Microphones, Killer Bees, killer Bees,
to see you man, great to see you again, killer Bees.
Every time I see you you seem in just in
better shape and in better spirits. Is that possible?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's one of those God things, man, one of those
cod things.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now you are here, you're gonna be talking this hour
about a show you've got. You're gonna be doing a
comedy show this Saturday. Tell people where and win and
what it's about.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I sure will. It is at revived Church mobile that
is on Ziegler Circle. It's a horseshoe shaped road off
of Ziegler right across the street from the fairgrounds. You
know where that funeral home is. It's across from the
road that turns by that fuel home is our road.
It's horseshoe shaped. Our church is at the bottom of
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the horseshoe. The part where the good luck lives and
we're on the inside of that curve. The show is
at six thirty. Doors will open at five thirty, and
it is a benefits show which will which will be
for Ryan's Refuge. I have the founder of Ryan's Refuge
here with us today at mister Eric Overstreet and also
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for the revived church mobile homeless outreach missions that we do.
So it is a full, full fledged, full blown comedy show.
I'm bringing my opening act, mister Dan Whitehurst from Nashville down.
We're doing our full show and there'll be a silent auction.
And by the way, we need some donors for the
(02:08):
silent auction. We need people to help us out with
products or services for that. But it is at at
six thirty. There's information at thirty six thirty in the evening.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
This is you know this, what a wonderful thing for
people my aid.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Let's normalize this.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Do I have a lot of fans that don't want
to drive after dark?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So good.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I learned that trip from Larry Gatlin. But ticket
information and other infos at killerbees dot coms be ea
Z because we did not know any better. And if
you want some info about donating for our silent auction
bees at killerbees dot com.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But killerbes dot com to get the tickets and if
you want to remind themselves where this is going to
be in the time and all that kind of stuff. Yes, sir,
So we're gonna talk about what you're raising money for
before we get to that. Though. For the Killer Bees fans,
what's your summer looking like? How you spend this summer?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's a busy summer. I've been back one week from
a three week tour. Part of that week entailed five
days of filming with Discovery Channel for their hit series Moonshiners,
which is so much fun, so much fun. And we're
in our fifteenth season for that show, and lo and behold,
(03:29):
it's my tenth season.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I would henth season on Moonshiner.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, sir, I would have never dreamed that I would
learn how to make moonshine. They have taught me to
build a moonshine. Still, I can do the mash in process,
I can do the run. And I do have the
distinction to have made the prayer list every Sunday at
church for ten years now. It's like the new world
(03:54):
record of prayer list people. So it's it's you know,
there's a lot of chemistry in fish is it's involved
in these I like to say covert distillation of non
taxable artists and spirits at are non disclosed location.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And wonderful description.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's intriguing to me the science in there. And I learned,
and I kid you not the word he'll Billy means
a genius and overalls with a spit cup.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That is wonderful the mountain. This is so good.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
People judge a book by its cover. And these folks
are actually so incredibly smart. They can do anything. They
can fabricate things, their problem solvers and it's an honor
literally to get to do the show with them.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now you're gonna be doing some Moonshiners this summer.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So so I know I've asked you this probably before,
but after being on the show for ten years, Uh,
how what is the most unusual place you've had a
fan from? Have you had fans from? Like Siberia?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow? We get yeah, we get email from Australia, Germany,
the UK, Canada, all that stuff. And I'll say this
as well, stop asking for moonshine on Facebook. I'm on
a TV show. I'm not your local liquor guy, but.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You get you get emails from Australia about being on munjoh, yeah,
we do.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And in some of these countries it's funny they don't
reference it as moonshine. They call it bush rum. Okay, yes,
So there's all kinds of different terminologies just depending on
what part of the world you're in.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Are there other parts of the world. Are there strange
countries that have wanted to hire you, that want you
to come in and do shows. Have you Have you
gotten requests we want you to shows over here in
Tanzania we have And I'll say.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This, you really need an American audience that is used
to the American culture for American stand up to work.
I know we did some years back. We performed on
four of the Hawaiian island and it was kind of
tough shows because there were so many people there from
(06:05):
different countries that just are not in tune with our culture.
So it's kind of there's sort of a culture barrier
in the crafting of your premise, setup and punchline. So
it's really a neat experience to see those differences. And
even though people are people everywhere those cultural differences can
(06:30):
sometimes hinder the joke writing process.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So and I guess it would not help to consult
with Yakov Smirnoff or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yakoff Smyrna.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He had to do, he had to adapt for our culture.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Correct, correct. And he just did shows at the Funny
Moone Comedy Club in Saint Louis, Missouri because a buddy
of mine works at that club. And just the other
morning he goes, man, I just picked up yakof Smirnoff
from the airport. So he's still out there doing it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, ta hear that now. So we are going to
spend a lot of time this hour talking about why
you're doing this comedy show Saturday. We've got a couple
of minutes here before we go to our first break.
Why are you? Why are you personally wanted to get
involved in raising money for this cost?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I personally have been blessed during my career and dear
my life forty three years. I've had a successful stand
up career and luckily, wonderfully blessedly, I changed my life
several years ago and realized that you have to steward
over your gifts, and part of that stewardship is service
(07:42):
to others. So it is on my heart to serve
others and to help others, And that really is the
driving force right there, to do an outreach, to helping homeless,
to helping displace families. So it is called upon us
to help our brothers. And as a believer, and if
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you're truly gonna walk in faith, you're gonna follow these
these the commandments. You're gonna help others. You're going to
do what you can as you can and when you can,
and make opportunities to help others. So that really it's
you know, people will call it giving back with it's
really a deeper, a deeper thing than that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, hey, we're gonna talk more about that, and we're
going to get into the charity you're helping and that
entire cause. When we come back after our first break
here on news radio seven to ten WNTM. Again, if
you want to find out about tickets and get tickets,
go to Killerbees dot com. That's Killerbees dot Com. Back
with more Killer Bees after the break here on news
(08:45):
radio seven to ten WNTM, The Uncle Henry's Show, Uncle
(09:07):
Henry Show, news Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is
five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Killer
Bees is here. He's got a comedy show this Saturday
evening at the convenient time of six thirty pm at
Revived Church. Full comedy show raising money for a very
good cause. We want to talk about that cause now.
In the last segment, Killer Bees, I asked you why
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you were doing this, and you said that it was
the stewardship gifts over your gifts. Stewardship over your gifts. Why.
There's a lot of incredible causes out there. I'm sure
you hear from people all the time they're looking for help.
Why did you pick this particular, this particular cause, Ryan's refuged.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, I'll say this, there are so many people in
need in so many different areas, for so many different things. Yes,
and our church has a reputation and for helping homeless people.
And that's where I became aware of the homeless situation.
And our dear friend Eric Overstreet, who we were here
(10:08):
from in just Amenities in here with us y'all, is
the the spearhead of helping the homeless community here in
Mobile and he has founded Ryan's Refuge where he gets
people off the street, gets some cleaned up houses them,
gets some started on coming back into society. And that
(10:29):
is such a I'm gonna say it, there's a very
gnarly situation, and it is an absolute takes a man
of courage and conviction to be able to do that,
and I'm impressed with that. And there is a need
there because the homeless folks get such such a such
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a negative rap, you know, and sometimes sadly it's it's warranted,
you know, But they're there are so many out there
that are there because of bad decisions, bad luck, who
are willing to change their lives, who are in the
process of changing their lives, and so it just behooves
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us to help them out and to step up and
to do the hard job.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So Eric, tell me about Ryan's Refuge. What is it?
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Rhyan's Refuge is a ministry that me and my wife
had their over Street started two years ago. I've been
ministering on the streets of Mobile many many years. That's
how I met the Beasley's. We've done many many other
things together. It's a five bedroom home with the eight
thousand square foot building behind it. Chris Francis Tree Service.
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Chris Francis gifted us this house to help people get
off the street many many years work in the streets.
One day my wife hemmed up and said, are we
getting results? Like as there more? What can we do more?
So she sets you out of vision of a home
where people could come inside and needed a table together
and felt like part of a family, not an institution.
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And so that's what we have. We have about forty
people there presently. We have people in the house and
in the warehouse who have males and females. It's a
long term or short term shelter. You can come there
and just take a shower, if you need to wash
your clothes, take a nap. But we've been going for
two years almost now. We're so proud. We've served over
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six hundred people in two years.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So what have you learned about the homeless situation? Because
it's not just mobile, of course, it is a nationwide
issue that seems to be getting worse and not better.
What have you learned about homelessness and homeless people.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I'm not sure if you're familiar, but a few years
ago another joint venture I did with tearing through a beasilely.
I gave away all my possessions and quit my job,
and I went and lived with homeless people for ninety
days and mobile under the bridges and in the woods,
so I could answer that very question.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What I found out was, unfortunately, there is no exact formula.
They are all different, Every person is different, every story
is different, very much. Mental illnesses on the street, very
very high rate of mill illnesses, high dictions, of course,
and those go hand in hand. What shocked me was
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the unmedicated, mentally ill people walking around Movill, Alabama, not
even knowing why they're homeless.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Okay, so so people that, uh, there's nobody, nobody's gonna
help them if if there aren't people like you and
killer Bees are the person listening. I mean, they're out there.
They need medication, some of them, and there's no what
is their hope other than somebody coming in and helping them.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I bet everybody in Movill, Alabama would help them if
they knew how. They just got to know how. And
with mintal illness, it's a tough thing, Like it's hard
to help somebody that's off their medication. We work very
closely with ultra point, and there are many people. There's
not just me and killer Bee. There's a group of
people in mobile, an army of people trying to solve
this problem and help. We do not want to close
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our eyes. We wanted this to go away. We can't
house them all. So what we found out was, let's
change them all, one person at a time. Let's take
a few at a time and help them change their lives,
and then we don't.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Need to house them.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
They can house themselves.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Well talk, Well, let me ask you another angle to this.
What are the biggest misconceptions? What does the general public
get wrong that they want to be out there?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There's not one person I've ever met that wants to
they like it, they want to be out there, They
absolutely don't. Most as I said before, menally ill. When
you have instability in your mind, it's going to be
hard to have stability in your life. That's the greatest
misconception that any human being would want to sleep in
the dirt and let us sleep inside. Now do they
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make decisions that make them have to sleep outside.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yes, they do. That is the decision they make.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And another misconception is that they can't change because they
can one hundred percent of people that want to change
their life can't. We've seen it. We've seen it over
and over and over, including myself, including my wife.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What advice can you give to the listener that you
talked about how people do want to help if they
knew how how can they help? Aside from of course,
they can buy a ticket to this show, or they
can give a donation to your ministry. Aside from that,
are there any other things that people could do? What
can somebody do to help?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Start by treating homeless people with compassion when you look
at them, look at them like they're child of God
and not like they're a dreg to society. When you
meet them in person, talk to them, offer them help,
get them with a group. There are many groups in
Mobile right now that service homeless people. My name is
Eric over Street. A lot of people know me. If
somebody listening wants to get involved, we can put you in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
A safe situation.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Where you can get involved with veterans that have done
this a long time. And I'm telling you these are
normal human beings.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That just got displaced.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
They just got off track. They're just normals, me and you,
not him, but normalst me and you.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. Now, when when we encounter people that are on
the street and they're asking for money or something like that,
should we give them money? What should we do in
that case?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I would say a lady should never stop. I've never
a lady should never stop. I've never told a lady
to stop for a homeless person, even for another female
homeless person. I personally do not.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Give away money.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We get, we do outreaches. And again, the best thing
to be to do if you, if you are brave
enough to stop and talk to the person and shut
them kindness is get him in touch with me, or
get him in touch with somebody that can help them.
Ask them if they won't help, if they won't help
their self. In Mobile, Alabama, right now, where how can
the listener find Ryan's Refuge? Are you online on Facebook?
(16:52):
Where can they find you? Yes, sir, we have a website.
We have a Facebook page. My name's Eric bump Over
Street on Facebook. Address is five five four Southcraft Highway, Mobile, Alabama.
You can communicate with me or you can go follow
us on Facebook. Ryan's Refuge. Did you say Eric Bump,
Eric bump Over Street bu MP.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
That's what my grand babies call me. So that's what
my Facebook is.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, all right, Eric, let me ask you this half
a second.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We're about thirty seconds away from the break.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
How many people are at Ryan's Refuge now? Thirty seven?
How many got up and went to work at a
job today?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Hey dah more on that. We're gonna get it more
into that as we continue with Killer Bees here on
the Unk Glanbery Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.
Back after the news break, Uncle Henry's show here on
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news Radio seven ten wnt Killer Bees is here. Killer
Bees is back. He's got a special comedy show this
Saturday evening at revived Church Westmobile for Ryan's Refuge. Now,
Killer Bees. We had a request on Facebook for you
to say something.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh yeah, let me do this real quick. Save up.
All right, Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now now for people that just tuned in, and we
have a lot of new listeners here after the bottom
of the hour, news You're doing a show. What kind
of a show is it going to be in a church?
Is this an actual Killer Bees show?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yes it is, Yes it is. I work clean these days,
but I'm forty three years into the business, and it
is a bone crushingly funny show. Good good, good, ownabashedly
say that. And I'm bringing my opening act, Dan Whitehurst
down from Nashville, who is as a hired police detective
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out of Nashville. He's got close to twenty five years
though of stand up under his belt, and he is
really funny. He does some police stories that happened before
there were body cams, and so he is really funny.
And it's a clean show. It's a non offensive show,
but it is funny, funny, funny. It's the show we
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do all over the country together, so we will be
doing that and we're just tickled to show up and
get on stage.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Now, you the listener, you can get your tickets at
killerbees dot com. Go to killerbees dot com, B E
A Z killerbees dot com. Get your tickets there. The
show is six thirty pm Saturday, of blessing for many
of us, correct.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
For those who don't want to drive after dark.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
We hear you, we feel you, So get those tickets
and contribute to this cause. We're going to talk more,
of course about the cause in Ryan's Refuge, but you
you talked about your show bone crushingly funny after all
these years of working on your your skill set, there
does uh does the wife laugh at your jokes?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Now, I think the more succinct succinc what that word
is answer would be no. But uh, but she gets
a lot of practice eye rolling. She has the strongest
eye muscles known to man. She could roll. She can
see the bottom of her hair when she rolls her eyes.
(20:34):
So now I say that lovingly. But uh. You know,
I've been funny since I was a little bitty baby.
The first home my earliest memories is living in a
funeral home in Cousiesco, Mississippi. My dad was a funeral
director and an embalmber, and we lived on the premises
in that funeral home, and as a toddler, I had
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the run of the place. I go up and down
the hallways and stuff the earth. The earliest sentence that
I ever remember being told to me was the receptionist
at the funeral home saying, Truett Junior, quit shooting that
cap pistol. We're trying to bury people in here. So anyway,
I had no concept of life and death, but I
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would see sad people come and go from my home
every day, and I learned as a toddler, and literally
this is my earliest memories that I could do silly,
little cute stuff and the crying people would stop crying
and come over and talk to me and smile. And
I think that that is what fueled my compulsion my
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entire life to make people laugh and smile. I was
wittiest in school and all that growing up, but I
have always, as long as I can remember, tried to
make people laugh and smile. And luckily I read a
lot growing up a voracious reader. So I'm a semi
decent word smith, meaning great. But I love the turn
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of a phrase. I love the surprise factor in my material.
My favorite author of all times was O. Henry, the
guy from way back in old timy days, who was
famous for the surprise ending yes, for that twist at
the end of his stories. And I like to surprise
people with the way the punch lines go and once
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again with just the turn of the phrase and wordsmithing.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So many people here in Mobile on the Golf coast
that are my age, of course, remember seeing you several
times in town doing your comedy. What are some Are
there some other towns that you have done that have
that same history with you.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well. Nashville, Nashville, Nashville. The Zany's Comedy Club, one of
the premier clubs in America, brought me to Nashville in
nineteen eighty four, back in old timeye days and manage me.
And that's where I popped, was when I was working
out of Nashville because there was TV there, there were
record deals there, and so I did one hundred appearances
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on CMT, on T and N on those shows back then.
They just scooed me up when I went to Nashville,
and that was the best move because all the comedians
back then, when you started to get traction, would go
to either Los Angeles or New York. And I was
blessed enough to have a cousin that's a screenplay writer
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that called me. Goes, look, dude, he goes, don't go
to a city where you'll stand in line behind two
hundred people that don't have the same chops and you'll
be judged by your accent. He goes Nashville, he goes
TV record deal, he goes. Everybody's performed their Bob Dil
and Hendrix. Everybody go to Nashville. They will love you immediately.
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And he was right. So that's how it went.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So do you have at this point in your career,
when you're in Nashville or even here after your shows,
do you have a line of people that want to
tell you about the times they saw you before?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, yeah. And it's really and I say this as well,
I can't go in BUCkies without a sharpie to sign
autographs with. I am the the prince of buckets.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
That's that is something.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yes, it is, Yes, it is, sir. So it's been
such a blessed career, one that and admittedly one that
I took advantage of and took for granted because it
was it just came naturally to me. But as a wiser,
more in touch person, such a blessing, blessing, blessing, and
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I see myself doing it until the day I die.
It's a low common it's a low contact job. I'm
not climbing a ladder, carrying roofing tiles, I'm not working
with hazard or hazardous chemicals and stuff. And it is
an act of love doing it. I get such joy
out of lifting people up. Proverbs says a Mary Heart,
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do with good like a medicine and we prepareaphrase.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It to laughter.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But God wants us to be happy. He wants us
to have fun. So and there's ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Where it really hits so and one way would be
to go to your show Saturday. That would be the
Good Church. Yeah again, get tickets at killerbees dot com
and some of the proceeds are going to Ryan's Refuge
as well as Revived Church. So Eric over Street of
Ryan's Refuge, Why did you name your homeless outreach Ryan's Refuge?
(25:40):
Where does that name come from? That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We tossed around a lot of names. There is a
young man named Ryan Bolton, a friend of all of ours,
a friend of Mobile, Alabama, that was murdered in La
last December, about the time we were starting Ryan's Refuge.
We were talking about starting a shelter for men. Ryan
Bolton was a servant of men. He was a humble, loving,
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giving helper of addicts, help for broken people, worked in
soup kitchens. The same time we're opening Ryan's Refuge, he
gets murdered. So I met his sister Jennifer, and we
decided to always memorialize this beautiful human being. Ryan Bolton.
Every person that walks through that door of Ryan's Refuge,
he would have been running it with me. It wouldn't
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have been called Ryan's Refuge. I might have called it
Eric or something. But he was a wonderful guy. We're
trying to remember.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You mentioned before we went to our last break that
you have thirty seven people at Ryan's Refuge right now
that are being sheltered there, and twenty one of them
actually have jobs, are going and doing work. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Real jobs, full time jobs. They come here nothing no, nothing, No,
they don't even have a wallet, much less the job,
no ideas. First thirty days we work on documentation, make
you legal, so you don't have to keep looking over
your shoulder, worrying about who you know, even like probations,
We deal with all of that. We make them legit,
so worried anymore. They're they're citizens, and then we get
them jobs. We help them get jobs. These aren't just labor.
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I'm not just talking about labor finders. We got twenty one
people that went to their jobs today, real jobs. So
they come with nothing, and it's nothing I've done. Mobile
Alabama has backed us amazingly. My wife has done amazing.
The volunteers of Ryan's Refuge are many, many, many, many many.
I probably do less than anybody, but it's been amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Too. Hey, we've got we've got to take a time out.
We have one more segment with Killer Bees and Eric
over Street of Ryan's Refuge. We'll be back with them
after the break. Here on NewsRadio seven ten dot com
again killerbees dot com to get your tickets for that
Killerbes show Saturday. Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten
(27:51):
WNTIM here with Killer Bees and Eric Overstreet our final minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
No, Michelle, I'm not the most handsome person that's been
on the op. Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking talking
to my wife, so I didn't realize we were back
on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We're back on the air Killer Bees talking to my
wife about I don't know what we'll find out later. Now.
Killer Bees has a show this Saturday night at Revived
Church in Mobile raise some money for Ryan's Refuge, helping
homeless folks. Killerbees dot com is where you go to
get tickets Killer Bees, and that's be easy. Now. The
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show starts at six thirty, which is a blessing. You've
got your big professional opening act coming down. It's going
to be a full show. So people that have wanted
to see the Killer Bees show, maybe they've never seen
you before. This is going to be a great night.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well, it is going to be a great night. And
let me interject real quick where we're wanting to do
a silent auction. We need some help from donors to
donate goods or services for our silent auction as well,
and the proceeds will go to Ryan's Refuge and also
to the Revived Church homeless outreach program. So so that's
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what it's about. But with that being said, I am
gonna have a ball. I'm gonna at the Fool again
because that's my that's what I do. That's in my
Baileywick sir.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, No, this is this is a chance to see
you right here in Mobile County. You're gonna be doing
a lot of dates this summer around the region and
different spots.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All over the country.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We all over the country.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Oh yeah, we we go all over so so which
which is exhausting traveling and touring like that, but but
it is so much fun to go to different lands
and and see different people and it's just a once
again It's a labor of love for me. Man, I'm
just so tickled that I get to do this for
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a living and the new never wears off for me,
It never wears off.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That is that in itself is a blessing.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It is it is indeed.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So this is your chance. You can see Killer Bees
this summer. It's going to be this Saturday night at
Revived Church Killerbees dot Com. Now Eric with Rhyn's Refuge
helping the homeless get off the street re enter society.
I asked you this at the beginning of the show.
Tell me and the listeners how should we interact with
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homeless folks. A lot of people listening to this are
very compassionate, but they don't know what to.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Do, but intimidated at the same time.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah. Like I said before, everybody in Mobile would be
a homeless minister if they knew how and they and
if they weren't fearful of it. There's rules you got
to follow when somebody's in active addiction, and usually when
they're walking the streets facing they are I would have
a man with me for sure. If you're a female,
I wouldn't stop for a male or a female homeless person.
And that's just my advice. And I've done this fifteen
(30:50):
years and I would want you to listen to my advice.
But the good news is you can call Eric overstreet
two five one three oh one, three oh two four
and I'll come run And if you see any homeless person,
and that's very common that people call me and tell
me where they're at. Or killer bees or revive ministries.
We're all about this. We don't just put on little
shows and once a month give away hot dogs. This
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is what we do, thirty days a month my shelter,
twenty four to seven. We're trying to help people get
off the streets. So you communicate with me. Don't put
yourself in a weird position. They are wonderful, wonderful human beings.
I'm different if I was in active addiction. You don't
want to be around me like that. You know what
I'm saying. So just you be careful and if you're
a female, always have a mail with you. Please listen
(31:33):
to me.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay, now you supplies.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, that's something that you can do that's low impact
as far as as how much you have to interact.
You know, have a bag in your car or a
box in your vehicle with some with some waters in
it and some food in it, things that a homeless
person would need to help survive till that next day.
(31:58):
And it's easy to do. If you'll see them on
a street corner, you can just hold it actual way. Yeah,
stuff like that. Know, an active and active kindness goes
a long way to help people realize, you know what,
there may be hope. So so that that's some more advice.
That's that's what's good.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Okay. So so Eric again, if somebody people are not
going to remember the phone number, perhaps you're on Facebook. Yes, said,
they find Ryan's Refuge.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Ryan's Refuge, Eric bump over Street Revived Ministries. Any of
the churches in Mobil know who I am. I'm very
easy to contact. There's great other ministries, next steps. I
got a life a waterfront rescue mission. There there are
tons of places in Mobile. You find a person that
wants help, there's places they can get help. Right now,
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we do need a women's shelter though, there needs to
be another women's shelter soon.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Okay, so there's there's plenty of work to be done. Yeah, yeah,
all right, So again killerbees dot, this is this going
to be the only show in Mobile County this year
from Killer Bees.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Do you know that I'm looking at Corporate across the
table there and she's saying, Yes, this is it, this
is it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
This is going to be your chance this year.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
This guy plays the grand old Opry. Come see him
at church.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Come on, yeah, So go ahead, get this is your
chance to see the now world famous killer Bees from Moonshiners.
Go to Killerbees dot com and get those tickets Killer Bees. Eric,
thank you both for coming in love you too, Please
come back, Eric, come back anytime you want to talk
about this, please do. We'll give it more time. Coach
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people up and have more stories from what you're able
to do, because it is encouraging to hear people coming
off the streets and getting back into society.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We have news headlines coming up here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the
Uncle Henry Show. That says the Uncle Henry Show here
(34:18):
on news radio seventy ten WNTM, and I appreciate very
much you listening to it. Now coming up this half
hour on the elk Henary Show, going to have some
news items, some voicemail whatever I can cram into the
thirty minutes I will cram now over the last two
(34:42):
days of Uncle Henry shows. At this time, I've shared
with you raccoon related information from Buford as he's been
trapping a bunch of raccoons on his property. Now, I'm
not going to get to that immediately. No, but there
is more hot raccoon talk coming up, more hot raccoon
(35:04):
talk coming up on the Unclaimer Show. But first I
want to get to some news items before we get
to the raccoons. Now, this is important, at least to me.
Maybe not to you, but it is to me, and
that is I think we should all be on our
best behavior here on the Gulf Coast, especially in Mobile,
because the distinguished young women of America, the distinguished young
(35:29):
women of America have arrived in Mobile, Alabama. Let's go
to Fox ten. Here is Lenis Lagon, one of the
most popular broadcasters in the history of Mobile. Here's Lenis
Lagon introducing us to the story of the distinguished young
women of America have arrived in Mobile for the Distinguished
(35:52):
Young Women competition.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
English young women from all around the nation landed in
Mobile today and they received.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
A war that was yesterday.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
By the way, orm welcome to the port city with
a crowd greeting them at Mobile Regional Airport A Liam
Rivera was there and Liam so much excitement always for
this competition.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's right, Lenise.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Tonight's arrival ceremony welcomes representatives from all fifty states for
the sixty eighth Annual National Finals that is going to
be held next.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
By the way, you can't see the video. I'm apologize Radio. Still,
after all these years, we still don't have pictures. We
can't show you video. Still, we're still working on it.
We got engineers, we're still working on it. But until
we get that fixed, all you can do is listen
and create your own vivid image in your mind so
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you can imagine the young reporter guy standing in the
Mobile airport that the mobile is desperately trying to get
move out of to a new airport. Behind him are
a bunch of AZIA Trail Maids. And I just want
to say hats off to the AAIA Trail Maids. I'm
glad they still exist. I'm glad they're still there, and
(37:11):
I do consider them wonderful representations of the city of Mobile.
The Azia Trail Maids. And no, I'm not saying that
just because I'm married to a former Aziya Trail made
It has nothing to do with my opinion of the
greatness and the importance of the Aiah Trail Maids. All right,
back to the story.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Next week, the Distinguished Young Woman class of twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Five distinguished young women from all corners of the country
arriving Inmobile tonight getting ready for the sixty eighth National Finals.
The class of twenty twenty five will compete in categories
of scholastics, interview, talent, fitness, and self expression starting next Thursday.
With a building excitement leading up to this event, these
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young women are prepared for what's ahead.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
It's everything that I've been looking forward to. I've been
wondering how I could afford my future college education, and
DYW has made it possible. So it's cool to finally
be here with one representative from every state.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
So the opportunity that all of the national representatives have
to come to where I represent from Mobile County in
Alabama and I get to show them around the amazing
town and see what all we have to offer is
just so amazing, and I'm so thankful.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Over one hundred and thirty thousand in total cash scholarships
will be offered over the three day event. But until then,
there are plenty of other things these young women will
be participating in, so a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Of rehearsals, certainly, but we also give.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Them a chance to get out into the community. We'll
visit tourist attractions like Bellngraft Gardens, USSS at Alabama, and
then they'll also do some service projects in the community
as well.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
I'm honestly really looking forward to all the different events
and the luncheons, touring universities and getting to just meet
members of the.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Community, the distinguished young women. This program has provided over
one billion dollars in scholarship opportunities. Reporting out Mobile Regional Airport,
Liam Rivera, Fox ten News.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
All right, very nice to have them in ten. Let's
be on our best behavior, please. And what I mean
by that, for example, is when somebody cuts you off
in traffic, don't flip them off? Can you just withhold
the flipping off at least until they're out of town.
They don't need to look around and see a bunch
of people flipping each other off and being mean to
(39:29):
each other in Mobile Alabama, And if we could also
avoid shooting each other down in the streets, if that's
if there could be just a cease fire in all
of these shooting each other down in the street stuff
that is going on a mobile at least while they're here.
But glad to see them. Of course I preferred the
(39:50):
name Junior miss And at this point I've already forgotten
why that's not politically correct anymore. But distinguished young women
of America inmobile and glad to see them, all right?
What else? What else can I share with you before
I move forward into other things like raccoon voicemail on
the unk Claimer Show. Here's a topic I don't know
(40:14):
nothing about, so let's learn together about this. Divers have
been taking oyster lava larva and not eating the oyster larva.
They're putting them on reefs off the Mississippi coast to
try and kickstart some oyster stuff. Let's listen. Here's a
(40:35):
story from w lox, a Stepsister station to Fox ten
about oyster larva. What about your history?
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Right now, the very first direct setting project in the
golf is underway, and it could be revolutionary for the
oyster industry.
Speaker 9 (40:52):
Normally, we do remote setting where you take the shell
into the laboratory and you allow the oyster larvae to
set onto the show. You throw them up a little bit,
and then you put that shell in the water.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Divers took buckets of one hundred and twenty five million
oyster larvae and placed them on reeves made of recycled
oyster shells.
Speaker 9 (41:13):
Like like a kind of just looks like.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Doctor Virginia Schweiz with the Cattie may C Foundation, is
behind the study. She says this method of seating oyster
beds could jumpstart the oyster industry.
Speaker 9 (41:27):
We're putting the larvae straight into the water, skipping that
metal step and a lot of the time and money
that is involved in them that metal step.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana helped collect the nearly
two hundred tons of oyster shells for this project. She says,
shared species across state lines is what makes this project important.
Speaker 9 (41:49):
Louisiana Mississippi are direct neighbors, and they're but they're not
just neighbors by land, they're neighbors by water.
Speaker 8 (41:54):
Are waterways?
Speaker 4 (41:55):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Well, good, look I've heard all I need to know. Well,
I say that I'd like to know how long will
it take? So they're taking oyster larva and dumping them
onto to these reefs, how long would it take for
an oyster to be born there from or what, I
don't know what you call it, for the larva to
(42:17):
grow into an edible oyster. I'd like to know, because
if you can do this, if this actually works this,
I might want a swimming pool. Yeah, if I knew.
I see, I don't want to go swimming in the
swimming pool, but I'd love to have like a big
oyster reef in my backyard, and if I could just
seed it with oyster larva. I love east I love
(42:38):
eating some oysters, all right. Anyway, back after the break,
going to take a break, and then I've got more
exciting raccoon talk coming up on the Uncle Henry Show.
Let's go ahead and take the break, it says the
(43:01):
Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seven ten WNTM.
News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
The last two days of the Uncle Henry Show, in
the six o'clock hour, we've had hot raccoon talk and
provided by Buford, who has been trapping raccoons at his house.
He said he's trying to trap his sixteenth raccoon. And
I don't know if it's his sixteenth in the year
twenty twenty five or what, but or overall or whatever,
(43:35):
but Buford trapping raccoons. And yesterday he mentioned something about
a raccoon trap. Lussie, what can I remember? He said
that he puts a moonpie. He baits the trap with
a moonpie and sardines and dry dog or cat food
with fish oil. So in case you're wanting to attract
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a raccoon. He now he called his raccoon trap a
dog proof raccoon trap. So let's listen together as we
learn more about the trapping of raccoons in an urban environment.
As Buford tells us what a dogproof raccoon trap is,
this is different.
Speaker 10 (44:19):
In case you're wondering what a dog proof coon trap.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Is, I am.
Speaker 10 (44:24):
Basically it looks like a bear can, but without the
marketing bear logos on it, just a metal cylinder can
type and trapsing and the bottom of it is kind
of lever and on the top of it it has
got this ring. And so when it's set, the premise
of it is that the raccoon will keep eating food
(44:47):
out of it, and then you go down and grab
that trigger and pull up on it, thinking that it
is food, and then it catches their hand that ring
springs and traps their hand in it.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Okay, I'm I'm not sure, I'm and I'm imagining in
it properly. I'm trying to visually imagine in my mind
the trap based on your vivid word picture description of it.
All I can imagine in my head is a raccoon
(45:20):
upside down in a beer can. Is that? Is that
semi accurate? Buford?
Speaker 10 (45:26):
Let me tell you, Henry, the beauty of that trap
is is that it will only catch raccoons and maybe
a stray possum. Now what snake trappers nine at ease?
I've only caught one possum in one of my dog proofs.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Oh, I'm glad you mentioned this, because snake trapper does
have a deep affection, a deep affection and a deep
compassion for raccoons.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
Basically, you just gently knock them in the head and
until they play dead, and then you just puil the
reliever and let their hand out, and then they run
off like nothing happened them. Coons is another animal, so
they are dishes animals at that they will tear you up.
(46:18):
So Henry, I'll get them coons out of them traps
after they have been dispatched, because you can't relocate a
problem coon. You're just relocating the problem. But any way, Henry, back,
there is a what a dogproof trap is. If we
will not catch dogs can't get in it. That's why
(46:38):
dog proof tats can't get into it. Really, you gotta
have a critter with an opposable thumb, like a raccoon
that can grab someuff. And Buddy, you take that moon
pie and you shove it underneath the bottom of that
there trigger. And when he gets there, he keeps smelling
that moon pie smells and they love it. And then
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he'll grab that hook of moonpie thinking he's done gotten
the surprize. And when he pulls up and hits that trigger,
and boy, he is caught. He is caught like a.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Rat in a trap or a raccoon in a trap.
Speaker 10 (47:15):
Anyway, Henry, hope you enjoyed listening to myccon tutorial. You
have a good day.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Thank you, Beauford. I appreciate the tutorial. By the way,
you the listener. If you'd like to call in with
your own tutorial on something. Two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's the number to leave a message
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six to
leave a message or a tutorial about raccoons. Now, I
(47:43):
did wonder. I asked the question, was it? He said
he was He's trying to catch a sixteenth raccoon, and uh,
I wondered, is it? Has he caught that many this year? Well,
Beauford did call back in to clarify the schedule of
trapping the raccoons.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
Henry asked, answer your coon question. Now, I started tramping
these coons in my yard around April of last year. So, yeah, Henry,
I've trapped fIF Caen coons trapped in Kilt within a
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year and a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, so about a raccoon a month.
Speaker 10 (48:29):
Out of the year's time, Henry, and I am now
actively trying to trap coon number sixteen. I don't know
where to color from, Henry. It's like a bad Vietnam
movie to get rid of one and to replace it,
it seems. But Henry, I do believe of a us
(48:50):
these drainish areas, the drainish still ways underneath the streets
as the coon highways and byeways.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Seen it myself, Yes, that is what they're doing.
Speaker 10 (49:03):
I'd like to put me a camera down there and
and just see what's crawling around in there. I got
me quarter gratis uh gut her and did of my
by my house and tenna. I got a brother that
married exceptionally well. And see if he won't contribute to
(49:27):
go through for me to dang along the staying down
there just to see what's crawling around.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
But all right, okay, I'm out of time, but be
for thank you please trying to get video of the drains.
All right, thank you for listening. As they say in
sarah Land, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it easy, all right, Lada,
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