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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM, and I thank you very much for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate that. Now,
coming up this half hour of show, I may get
to some listener voicemail. I'm gonna get to some news
items that I missed. You might have missed them at
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two before I get to any of that other junk.
Yesterday was a Mobile City council meeting. I offered you
coverage of the meeting during yesterday's Uncle Henry Show. If
you want to listen to that, that show from yesterday
available right now, is a podcast. You can find that
on the iHeartRadio app. Just look for Uncle Henry Show
on the iHeartRadio app. Now, there was a couple of
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things that happened at the council meeting that I did
not mention to you that I want to share with
you right now. One of them is young Mayor Spiro
announcing to the citizenry that the City of Mobile is
joining a lawsuit trying to get more money from internet sales.
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He seems to believe we can get a lot more
money from internet sales by joining this lawsuit. Let me
let the mayor, young Mayor Spirow, explain this to you
and to me. Here is young Mayor Spirow explaining this
lawsuit that Mobile is now joining up in.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yesterday was a.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Big day for our city. In council with some of
my staff and others around the state, our city chose
to join this an SSUT lawsuit against the State of Alabama.
We're joining the cities of Tuscaloosa, Mountain Brook, theres Hoover,
the S s U T program. Nobody really knows what
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that is.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Before you tell us what it is, not just one
thing to ponder. You just heard him say that we're
joining other cities to sue another governmental entity. So cities
in Alabama are suing the state and all the lawyers.
You know, the city is going to have lawyers, the
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state's going to have lawyers. Who's going to pay all
the lawyers? Well that would be me and you. Yes,
we're we're we're. I guess if you live in Mobile,
you're you're being paid. Well, let's see, if you're living
a Mobile, you're paying your tax dollar is going to
pay a lawyer to sue the state, and then the
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state is using your tax dollar to hire a lawyer
to defend from the other lawyer. So we're paying for
both of We're paying for both sides lawyers. Somebody figure
out some way of avoiding this kind of thing, if
we could figure that out in the future. They have
figured out how to just get just get into our
wallet every juice which way they can all Right, back
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to the explanation. We're suing the state.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So I'm gonna call it the internet sales tax. Ten
years ago, Alabama instituted a flat rate tax for all
Internet sales. This was back in twenty fifteen. I think
Amazon was still only selling books. Back then. It was
a way that our cities, our counties, and our state
could capture some of the dollars made off of those
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Internet sales. In the ten years since then, internet sales
have gone off the charts. By our calculations, the city
Ofmobile is losing out around thirty four million dollars a
year under the current structure.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Excuse me, almost almost swallowed my coffee down my windpipe
or something. Thirty four million. They're thinking the city could
get thirty million in additional tax dollars every year. Think
of how many lawyers we could hire with all that money.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That that is not something that as your mayor, can
I can stand by and watch. Thirty four million dollars
is a lot of money, yes, and right now I
think the scheme is just unfair. Where our tax dollars
spent here in mobile delivered by mobile drivers, bought from
mobile stores, delivered to mobile homes, that money is going
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all across the state, to every county in the state
and to every city in the state. That's not fair.
And so we've joined that lawsuit in an effort to
protect our local sales tax dollars. We've worked for years
trying to find a fix to this with the legislature,
and we'll continue to do that. Entering this lawsuit is
not the end of those negotiations. I hope that it
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is a time for renewal of those negotiations. But in
the end, the City of Mobile cannot sit on the
sidelines and watch this fight. We might not have filed
this suit, but this is our fight, and so I
am committed to fighting for those dollars to come home
to Mobile, to protect our schools, our roads, our citizens.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
All right, Okay, all right, Well, so that's the explanation
of why we're joining the lawsuit. Now, I guess we'll
all wait and see. He said. The lawsuit was the
beginning of negotiations. Who knows where this will go. But
if we get more of our share of the tax revenue,
good Now. Also, I just want to share another quick
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thing with you from the city council meeting last week.
Council members wore green and there was an odd moment
at the at last week's meeting where CJ. Small decided
to read some type of dissertation to the citizens about
the meaning of the color green in Christmas. Now, if
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you didn't hear it, just this briefly is some of
what he said last week. CJ.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Small, thank you a Vice President Gregory as seesus through
the CITs of the City of Mobile in District three,
as you all have heard and see you on today,
we are already celebrating the Christmas season. And as you've looked,
between the administration and the council staff, excuse me, the
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clerk staff, and also the council we are wearing the
color of green. Green is a key Christmas color, siviolizing
internal life, represented by evergreen trees that stay vibrant throughout
the winter. The Christian interpreation is rooted.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
In anyways, He goes on to explain what green means. Now,
why is this? Why is a politician doing this in
a government meeting? Lord knows? I don't know. Am I
going to get some kind of credit at a community
college by listening to this? Am I? Am I enrolled
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in a course listening to this? Anyway? The reason I'm
bringing up is yesterday they wore red. So let's turn
things back over to CJ. Small to explain what red means.
And maybe you've enrolled in a class in community college
and you can get credit for this. Let's learn together
about the meaning of red at Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
As our mayor had stated earlier on in his announcements
that if you look around some of the people of
his administration, of the city clerk and her staff, and
the council members, we are wearing red. Last week we
wore green. So if you look at the color of red,
red for Christmas simbolizes Christ's blood and sacrifice in the
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Christian tradition, representing love and redemption. Also, while it's tied
to the pagan winter celebration for life, it's seen in
holly berries and uh punt settles and is popular by
the Coca Cola iconic Santa Claus. It signifies passion.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Did you I want to thank him for reminding me
that the iconic Coca coall of Santa Claus wears red.
I guess that's different from the other Santa Claus is
what are they wearing off red?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't understand this life and a viral promise a
spring during winter connecting to faith and festive cheer. So
in the last week we wore green, this week we
wore red, and that's week at the History Museum. We
will be wearing festic holiday colors on next Tuesday. And again,
our meeting would not be held in this or ault termium.
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It would be held in the History Museum right down
the street.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And they do that every year once a year, so
that they can keep up some record of the longest
continuously used city hall in the country or something like that,
so that they meet at least once a year over
there in the old city hall. All right, back with more,
I gotta take a break, back with more. After the break,
take the dad gum break, That says the Uncle Henry Show.
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News Radio seven ten WNTM News headlines coming up in
ten minutes. Merry Christmas to you. Before we get to
the news headlines, I got a few news items I
want to share with you now. Yesterday at this time
I had a voicemail from sixty eight year old Chris
of West Locksley where he asked me about the Hangout
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Music Festival and how it was not going to happen
in Gulf Shores next year, and he wanted me to
comment on it, and I did, but I wasn't sure
that I had the story completely. So in the interest
of making sure I have the full story on it,
here is Fox ten with just a brief update on
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why the Hangout Music Festival will not take place next
year in Gulf Shores.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
The Hangout Music Festival not happening in twenty twenty six
organizers telling Golf Shore City Council members that they need
more time to book top tier acts much like those
that made this year's event a success. The city signed
a two now.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
This year's event was the Sand in My Boots Festival.
The difference between the Sand and My Boots Festival and
the Hangout Festival was that the Sand in My Boots
Festival festival was mostly not all but mostly country music artists,
led by Morgan Wallen, who's like a top five or
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top ten concert draw in the country. Morgan Wallen and
a bunch of those young country folks, which was different
from all the rock and roll debauchery of the previous
Hangout Festival.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So backs to the story, the city signed a two
year extension in July to secure the event through twenty
twenty seven. That came after positive feedback from Sand in
My Boots, the tour that featured country musical acts. Organizers
say July just didn't give them enough time to book
comparable acts for next year. This year's festival sold more tickets,
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were told and generated more revenue than any previous Hangout festival.
Golf Shore says it's confident in the group's commitment to
putting on a world class festival and they're looking forward
to the return in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Twenty twenty six. It would be a benchmark of how
much further could we had?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Is the Mayor of Gulf Shores talking to you right now,
Robert Kraft.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
We go forward because if we can get the right
people and redevelop recreate what we had, we will be
looking at more people coming here, a longer extension, but
they knew that this was a test period. Twenty twenty six,
they decided they didn't have the right mix to make
that happen again, and so we want to cancel, and
we'd like to have that same opportunity in twenty seven,
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and we said, yes.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
This is the first cancelation in the festivals sixteen year history.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I did not realize that they made more money off
Sand in My Boots than they did on the old
Hangout Music festival. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I did talk to some local business people down there,
restaurant people and hotel people, and they claimed that the
people spent more that the Sand in My Boots. Customers
spent more in the restaurants and spent more at the
hotels and things like that. So that may be a
big factor there all right. Well, looking forward to seeing
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what they can put together for twenty twenty seven. They
said they couldn't get the right acts for twenty twenty six,
so I'm anticipating some really big names for twenty twenty
seven for whatever they're going to call it down there
in Golf Shores. Let's see what else can I share
with you before we go to break, before we end
the program, here's a weird news story out of Florida.
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A Florida man had an unusual explanation after he crashed
a stolen car. Let's listen together and find out the explanation.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Deputy say. The crash happened Monday in Vlusha County after
a thirty six year old Calvin Curtis Johnson allegedly took
a BMW that had been left unlocked with the keys
and a cup holder. Minutes later, witnesses pulled him from
the wrecked car. Johnson admitted he'd been driving over one
hundred miles an hour, but insisted he never stole the car,
saying he'd simply been teleported into it. Oh, I'll tell
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report of something.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Where'd you get the car from?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
He's cavs.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I no, no, what's tell fort.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
He was taken to a hospital and now faces grand
theft and suspended license charges. Johnson also told the deputies
they saved him from the aliens. Matt Murphy, Fox News, All.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Right, now, see this is being presented as a weird
news or a fun news story by Fox News. I
don't Look, this is somebody with a drug problem or
a mental health problem, or both a drug and mental
health problem. I don't I don't know. They need to
they need to rethink. This is personal opinion time here
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from me, personal opinion time, and that is these newspeople.
This is not it's not funny. Well maybe it's funny
to you that the guy thought he teleported into a car.
I think of a guy that his life is on
the wrong track and he's he's now going to be
immortalized in the weird news files for getting high or something,
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and this will be something he'll live with for the
rest of his life. I just I don't enjoy the
weird or fun news stories that seem to be generated
by people that are out of their mind on drugs.
I see it as sad and not happy. I'm look,
I'm sorry to be a downer here. I'm sorry to
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be a downer here at the end of the show,
I just feel that way that you could tell they
did that story tongue in cheek about the man and
UFOs and stuff. God needs some help. He also needs
to pay for us what the damage as he caused.
Maybe do some time in jail. I do believe in punishing,
but also need some help as well. All Right, out
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of time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show.
We made it here together, didn't we. Thank you. I
really appreciate you listening to the Uncleanary Show. I really do.
If I weren't doing the show, i'd be just I
might be sitting in a car teleported in there. All right,
thanks for listening. As they say in sarah Land, have
a good one, and as they say in Theodore, take
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it easy.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
All right Later