Local Reaction to Faraway Voting

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, Uncle Henry, Yes, what your fly is open?

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Just for the record, my fly, My fly is not open.
My fly is closed. Please please do not discuss my
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Speaker 4 (01:33):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I appreciate this job and all that it entails, which
involves a paycheck. Here we are together again, me and
you trying to figure out what is going on, what
is going on in the world around us. Today's one
of those days where you have to stop. Well, I
don't know about you. You're a lot brighter than me.

(01:56):
Probably you've already got these things figured out. But I
have to stop and try figure these things out. Like
all these election results there yesterday. I know you've probably
heard a lot of speculation, people using speculative knowledge talking
about the election results from yesterday, all these big Democrat
victories in all these places including New York City. Now,

(02:19):
the one thing that I am trying to figure out
what is going on is with this uh, this attorney general.
I know you've heard it talked about endlessly, so I
won't go on and on about it myself. But they
these voters elected a guy to be their attorney general
in Virginia that was texting about wanting his wanting a

(02:41):
somebody he disagreed with to be killed and the children
of that guy to die and them in their mother's
arms and all this kind of stuff. And this guy, somehow,
in modern America, that is not disqualifying. That is so
I'm so I'm trying to figure out what is disqualifying
now in the United States of America for holding public office.

(03:05):
What kind of spoken word or opinions will get you
get you passed over by voters, because clearly it's okay,
at least in some instances. I guess well, I'm still
figuring it out. I'm still figuring out who can you
fantasize about violence toward and then get elected. By the

(03:32):
way last night, I hate to complain and call her.
I'm getting right to you here in just a second.
I just I hate to complain. I want to be
positive as much as I can. But I watched a
lot of election coverage last night on national channels. I
don't know that I liked any of it. I didn't
like any of it that I saw any of the
actual coverage with people either either happy or clutching their pearls.

(03:54):
And let's bring on Kelly and Conway, who may have
some insight.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Didn't enjoy any of that election coverage. But I do
have good news. I've got a caller. I'm going right
to the caller. But here's something positive I want to
I want to have something positive in this segment of
the show for you. The original owner of Hooters, the
restaurant you remember them, The original owner of Hooters, who

(04:26):
created Hooters more than forty years ago, has taken back
full control of the company and claims he's gonna he's
gonna put the women in more modest attire. Yeah, they're
gonna cover some people up at Hooters. All right. Well,
look there's a positive. Yeah, they elected a communist in
New York, but Hooters wants to put more clothes on

(04:49):
the ladies. So there's there's a you know, positive and
negative here all right, let me go to the phones.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number, there's two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. Hello Color.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
Oh, I want to testify.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
All right, go ahead and testify.

Speaker 7 (05:07):
I want to let the people know I'm watching you
on YouTube and your fly is closed.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Thank no, thank you? Well all right, well, thank you
for that. I appreciate very much. I've got confirmation. I
think the listener would have trusted me on this, but
thank you for testifying in the future. Please, I guess
I'm going to adjust the camera so that I'm only
seen from the head up or something. Two five one

(05:32):
four the telephone number here, Hello Color.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
They are Henry Cliff.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Cliff, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 8 (05:42):
I'm looking at these statistics and stuff. When they come
to voting, I got to believe that that's a lot
of money, a whole lot of money involved. But in
the case of New York, they're saying seventy percent of
people voted. How many people that? Okay, Now, you can

(06:06):
trust a white politician, or you can.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
Trust uh uh.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
Obama color politician, but how many people are gonna trust
a man that to get in that I believe college
said he was black and Indian and uh on that
his religion says that it's okay to lot of the infidels.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
This man had.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
Told y'all he's gonna bring his people that been hiding
in the dark in New York. He's finna bring him
out front. So it's gonna be another death to New York.
But the Muslims are gonna take over. And it took
a lot of money to do that. And uh, what's that?

Speaker 7 (06:55):
What's that? Uh chick that's got i q a ten
uh aoc.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
She come out and went he won and said, now
we have just one of victory over the old oliguard
Democrat Party and now we're find the take over and
run it too, in other words, to get rid of
Schumann and all these people, Pelosi and all. Lease, it's

(07:23):
a new guard coming on and we're gonna do it
the way we want to do it.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
The average person that uh.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
Josh Sore called the ignorant masses, they just participated in
something else that's gonna hurt them. The people you've seen
clapping behind Mandane and AOC and all these these people
are paid to get around and people are paid to protest.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
But they the.

Speaker 8 (07:58):
Josh Saw playbooks say it's one thing, get the people
interested and make them think it's fun. So it's fun
for them.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
To do that.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
And you're going to be around your friends, and it's
going to be fun for you to, you know, to
do what we need you to do. And that's what's happening.
You got black people standing out there and even they
don't even know what this man is telling you that
I love my Muslin religion, which means gift to America

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come first.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, Glad Cliff, thank you for your phone call. I
have a few thoughts on that myself, but I'm heading
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iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, Cliff,
his last phone call was talking about the election results
up in New York City, and he was talking about

(10:06):
certain folks voting against their own interests, perhaps because they
don't realize what they're doing in their vote. Cliff, I
wanted to look because there was so much discussion of
the New York race and who should people support against
Mom Donnie and all this kind of mess. I looked

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on the Internet, which is the source of all information
and misinformation, and I wanted to look at the demographics
of New York City and Cliff. According to Google, which
we can believe or not. New York City itself, according
to Google, thirty six percent of the people living there,
thirty six percent are foreign born, were not born here.

(10:54):
Now they may have become legalized as legal immigrants. I
don't know, but thirty six percent not born here. And
another stat about New York City according to the Right
or Wrong on Google, forty eight percent of the people
living in New York City, forty eight percent speak a

(11:16):
different language other than English when they go home, almost half.
I think that's the way the math works almost half,
really almost half of the people living there. When they
go home, they drop the English and they speak a
different language. So when they are looking at candidates to

(11:39):
vote for. First guy, they look at Curtis Sliwa. They
don't even want to hear his bio, they just look
at it. They look at his hat. They say, all right,
that guy the hat. No, sorry, Pillsbury dough boys wearing
a hat. We're not going to vote for that guy.
So then they look at the other two candidates. One
of them has some thing in common with them. One

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of them is not a corrupt guy from a corrupt family. Well,
I know, maybe they were, maybe everybody was corrupt up there,
but uh, they're not gonna pick Cuomo. Who they gonna
pick If you go home, if you're if you're either
from a foreign country or you're trying to make it

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in New York City, you're not from around here, you
speak a different language, and you go home, who you
who are you gonna relate to? Who you're gonna identify with?
So demographically, I don't I don't know how they could
have I don't know how anybody else could have won
that When you had him on the on the ballot, Mom,

(12:48):
Donnie so and Plus there are a lot of Republicans
that wanted that guy to win so that they can
run against him all over the country, just like Democrats
run against Donald Trump. Even if they're out in California
or Arizona, they're constantly mentioning Trump when they run for office.

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Even if they're running for school board or something, they're
still talking about Trump, Mom, Donny will be talked about
all over the country by Republicans running for office next year.
So some Republicans wanted that to happen. But again, how
could it? How could anyone else have won If thirty
six percent of the population of the town is not

(13:29):
born here and forty eight percent speak a different language
when they go home. That's the guy that reminds them
of them of themselves. Two five one or seven nine
two three the telephone number, Hello Color.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Hey, Henry, Yes, sir, I got a quick question on
this nuclear option field going on. I'm just kind of
wondering if if we go ahead and chew the nuclear option,
does that does that permanently change the amount of senators

(14:07):
after that point that they would need to be able
to pass anything that that becomes permanent after that point?
Is that what the problem is?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, I once you use it, you're you're gonna think
the other side is going to use it too.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know. It sounded to me like that once
it's once you use it, that that requirement where let's
say like it's sixty right now, that it'll change it
from sixty down to fifty five, and that from now
on it'll lower that requirement. Because Trump was saying today
that the Democrats already tried to do it, but they
was short two people to be able to get it passed.

(14:45):
So it makes me think of you know, it was tried,
but the Democrats failed on it too. But once it happens, well.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, this it was used back in twenty thirteen and
it was done. It's been done before by the Democrats
and the Republicans to get nominations through because parties will
block each other's nominations to judge ships and things like that.
So it's been used before.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
So it doesn't like permanently change that threshold and it
goes back to what's required to begin with.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I guess look, I am not an expert on it.
I just know that this is something that a lot
of the Senators don't want to use it because they're
worried it'll get used again on them. But this is
something that I think, I think this is where we are.

(15:39):
That the Republicans decide not to use it, it will
be used on the Republicans. I mean, you've noticed politics
has gotten quite extreme in the last few years.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I don't see any other option at this point. I mean,
I don't really think they're got a budge. I think
we're kind of pushed into a corner. But it almost
because the way Trump was talking, well, if we do this,
it's going to change that requirement now and then now,
once you change that threshold, we have enough senators in
there that we could just pass whatever we want for

(16:13):
the three years three years left in Aaron, then he
could get everything that he wants to get to get done.
But the problem is is that once the republic the
Democrats getting office, then they'll have they'll they won't have
to have as many senator either, and then they could
pass whatever they want. But it almost made it sound
like it's a permanent change it once they do it.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well they again, where at this point somebody's gonna go
ahead and do it they've used it for nominations. I
don't know that they've used it for legislation. I'm not
a student of this, but it will be done. You
can see that both sides politically in this country have

(16:53):
voted for their own types of revolutions. Donald Trump was
a form of a revolution against the status quo. Mom,
Donnie and others like him are very similar in going
up against the status quo. This is this is going
to happen. Somebody's gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Don't you think we should do it? And then just
everything that we want to do, we just go ahead
and do it now. I mean, we just we just
throw all that stuff out there we really want to
get done instead of not getting anything done now.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, I would if if I trusted the Republicans in
the Senate. The answer, the short answer to your question
is yes, I think the Republicans should do it, but
that should have a really good plan behind it to
get just the right stuff passed. And I don't have

(17:44):
a lot of trust in the people up there to
have everything lined up properly to use it properly. Neil
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Speaker 7 (19:49):
Hey, Hey, this Strawberry. Strawberry my bullet help.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
This is you. You got a bullet hole to show me?

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Uh, this Strawberry, I won't see my boat hole.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I don't want to see your bottle hole again.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
Tyler Tulverdale for President.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, all right, thank you very much. That was Strawberry
wanting to show us his bullet hole. There was a
guy that worked at WABB for years named Strawberry. He
used to want to show people his bullet hole. That
was kind of an icebreaker. Once you met him for
a few minutes, then he would he would pull his

(20:32):
shirt up and show you where he had been shot.
He was not an on air personality. He in fact,
now that I think back on what he did, I'm
not sure I know what he did, but he didn't
work on the air. Two five one four seven nine
two two three. The telephone number here, Hello, color, Yes,

(20:54):
I'm Michelle.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
And I've been listening to your show today, coy and
join it. Don't know anything about strawberries anyway, that's a
whole other too much inpoke.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yes, yes, indeed, yes, no, we don't need to see
where you've been shot.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, but you know, some of the things that I've
been thinking about, you know. Number one, you know, as
far as the filibuster, you know Trump is that was
the case that he was making today, is that yes,
they're going to use it, and if we use it now,
we have an opportunity to turn this country around and

(21:28):
make it so good that if they try to use it,
they'd be you know that they'd be such enough for
but also too as far as the the gentleman that
was wanting to kill you know, the politician's kids. To me,
there again, that's the media covering for them, because they
were saying that a percentage of the people, like I know,

(21:49):
you know, you said it was like forty six percent
or something of the people that voted for him didn't
even know that he even said that. And I'm thinking,
how could people in Virginia not know that when we
know it. I mean, to me, that's the lack of coverage.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, and I'm and I'm let me interrupt you just
to say I was thinking the same thing in that
when I saw these results, I thought, those voters they're
seeing they're seeing completely different information than I'm seeing. Obviously,
they've got to be seeing completely different stuff than from
what I see. We're watching. We're all sitting and watching

(22:26):
a movie screen, but you and I we're seeing one
movie and they're seeing another.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, the the interesting point that they did make is
that the majority of those people were younger voters. So
I guess it wasn't like on the internet or you know, Facebook.
It's not even Facebook, Instagram's snapchat, all of that enough.

Speaker 7 (22:51):
But I just thought, oh, that's that's.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Scary that that many people had no clue whatsoever. But
the last thing I wanted to point out, as far
as the results, especially in New York in particular, the
thing that was interesting to me is they make it
sound like it was this huge victory and it was
fifty one percent, but we're talking that forty nine percent

(23:17):
of them did not vote Democrat in the city of
New York. And I know a lot of outlining areas
of the state of New York or Republicans. It's interesting
to me why someone hasn't thought about the fact forty
nine percent did not vote Democrat. Why and if you

(23:40):
added that forty nine percent to the outliers man, they
may actually flip New York. And I don't know that
anybody thought because it really wasn't you know. And how
many illegal aliens were allowed to vote because they had
they said they were going to allow them to vote,
whether it became legal. I don't know that you know

(24:03):
internal things in New York, but I know that they
were trying to pass it that they could, so how
many of them did. But you know, outside of that
forty nine percent did not vote Democrat, and you added
to all the other Republicans in the state, I think

(24:24):
you could turn it because it really wasn't much of
a difference.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, I like that you're looking for that silver lining,
which is a good trait for all of us to have. Well,
you mentioned the filibuster. If you were to use if
you were to use if you were to bust the
filibuster and pass election integrity laws where it would be
impossible to vote in this country if you weren't a citizen,

(24:52):
that might solve a lot of these problems.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
That's right, and that's one of the things he talked
about today. That's exactly right. I mean, I hate the
thought of using the filibustero rules. I hate it, I
really do. So. I think we're to the point if
they're gonna throw this much fuss over clean c our bill,
what makes you think they're not gonna step further? They are?

(25:18):
They are, and and and we have a window of
opportunity to do those integrities. Like you said, voter intergory laws.
We have a window of opportunity. We need to do it.
There is no reason we everybody does not need to
show some kind of identification driver's license, non driver's license ID.

(25:44):
You have to show up for everything else. There's no
that is not shown on the voter ID. Now whatsoever?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
All right, while I'm with you there, Thank you, all right,
thank you, Thank you so much for listening to the show.
Thank you for calling two five one four seven nine
two seven two three the telephone number here. On the
Uncleanver Show, the lady that just called was talking about
people in Virginia not being aware that the attorney general
candidate they voted for had openly fantasized about killing a

(26:20):
Republican and fantasized about the Republicans children dying in their
mother's arms and all that kind of stuff. I noticed
that in the coverage. I flipped around to different disgusting
news networks last night, and I kept hearing anchor people saying, well,
you know, he did apologize, Yeah, but he did apologize.

(26:43):
Maybe maybe they just believed his apology. Now we are,
we are. We are living in bubbles. You've heard it
talked about almost infinitely now, and those bubbles are getting
bigger and stronger. Apparently, if you can keep that kind
of stuff under wraps all, I'm going to take a

(27:05):
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Speaker 9 (28:12):
Good name Uncle Henry Bert Bert.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
You are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
Uncle Henry. I remember an odd year election many years
ago in which Kurt Fordyce was elected governor of Mississippi, Okay,
and the national news anchor said, well, the Republicans didn't really,
really really win that race because Kurt fordeist, well, he's
a racist, bigot, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And similarly, Uncle Henry,

(28:40):
it's hard for me to see the election of my
Donnie as a victory for the Democrats in New York
City when he sets up in Islamic Califate and offers
sanctuary to al Qaeda and god knows what other terrorist
group and tells ICE an FBI everybody else, y'all can't

(29:00):
go after my terrorist buddies. I can't see that as
a win nationwide for the Democrats. And by the way,
the Democrats in Virginia who refused to support win some
earl fears for governor. I don't ever want to hear
any of these people ever again call Conservatives racists. When

(29:23):
they could not. We were told if no matter how
you feel about his policies, if you vote against Obama,
if you vote against Kamala, you're racist, all right. Well,
however they felt about her policies. If the Democrats in
Virginia could not support win, some earl fears to be
the first black woman governor of Virginia, they're racist.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
What works for their side works.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
For our side too.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
That's the way it seems, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
Burn, It really does.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hey, Bert, By the way, I've got you on the
phone here, Bert, I want to thank Bert called my
voicemail this morning to tell me about a technical problem
on the red station. Bert. Thank you for that, because
I heard the same thing too and tried to get
it fixed. So thank you for calling in and telling
me about the the technical difficulty you heard on seven
ten this morning.

Speaker 9 (30:11):
I appreciate that y'all did shortly get that fixed. And
I appreciate y'all getting that fixed. Okay, Henry, me too.
Take one more thing. This thing come on Friday afternoon,
four o'clock Blues Tavern, just me and a drummer. First
time I've tried to do anything like that being the
whole show in at least fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Wow. Okay, so Bert and a drummer. This is going
to be. This is starting Friday afternoon at four.

Speaker 9 (30:40):
That's the Blues Tavern.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yes, sir, very good, Hey Bert, thank you for reminding
me of that, and thank you for telling the listeners
about that. I hope a bunch of people show up
to see you.

Speaker 9 (30:49):
Well. Thank you for taking my call to Henry.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Thank you Bert. All right, there he goes, Hello Colin.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Henry, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm good you are live the radio.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
This is in reference to your to your lady that
was called right before Bird. I believe in your break
it made a lot of good valid points and it
was a tramesy today or loot yesterday in Virginia after
I think it was Attorney General made the text and
the comments he did about wishing death to his opponent's children,

(31:22):
and I guess we've just sunk to that, to that
level that we could or they could put that person
in office and apology or not. I mean, uh, he
showed his true colors. And I've you know, I've always
been told that when the person really shows you who
they are, you better believe them. And I believe Cliff
has said that a few times on your show, and

(31:43):
uh that that was quite obvious in that situation there
and the other point she made too, may be thinking
too that. Uh, And I think and you kind of
alluded to it as well. Uh, We as a voting
public are pretty ignorant about our politics and our civics

(32:04):
and social studies. I don't know that they even teach
civics anymore at schools, and it's quite a shame that
they don't, because we have become a nation of uneducated
all the way around, but particularly in our political games
and what these things stand for. And it'd be nice
if some civics and some things were put back into

(32:26):
the school system again.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well, and I don't know how much is or isn't
in there, but based on the behavior of people, as
you said, people are behaving is they don't know how
the government works.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
Oh, exactly exactly. You have a good evening, sir, well.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
You too, Thank you very much for listening, Thank you
for calling. You know, one example of that, I remember
growing up there were always campaigns going on trying to
actually change our constitution, which I don't know that a
lot of people understand that there are mechanisms to amend

(33:06):
the US Constitution. You can add things to it if
you really want to. But what was the what was
the last thing they tried to do equal rights amendment?
Was that it equal rights amendment and that failed. And

(33:26):
I don't know that anybody has tried to do any
kind of amendment to the Constitution since then. But people
were a little more civically engaged and would actually try
to amend our constitution to put it in there, put
in whatever they wanted in there. Now it seems to

(33:49):
be people just want to use as much force as
possible to get what they want. There is more Uncle
Henry's Show coming up after the news break here on
news radio sevent ten WNTM. It says, the Uncle Henry

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Show here on news Radio seven ten WNTM. Thank you
for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it
bear very much. Now, in this half hour of show,
I'm going to check a voicemail. I've got some news
items to go over all of that, all of that
as we spend a little bit of time together here,

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let's see, I'm gonna start with a quick voicemail. I
got a follow up message from longtime caller Buford. If
you listened last week, Beufford had a lot of ideas
about Halloween, about his Halloween plans with his family, and
I was just curious how everything went. Now on this show,

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we heard from the Alabama Law Enforcement Association that you
need to have anytime Halloween rolls around, you should have
a plan. You should have proper personnel to execute the plan,
and that is how you have a successful Halloween. So
let's find out. Beauford called in to let me know
how things went this past Friday night with his family

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on Halloween. Did they execute the plan? Did they have
the proper personnel?

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Hannah Hannah Pottle left the Halloween to follow up, but I.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Guess it didn't take.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
But Henry with the Bufort family had a good house.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Hallowse ease good.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
It was a successful plan executed of trick and or treating.
The view for chill dream got loaded down with candy.
I mean they got two years worth of candy, Henry,
But diary, they but two.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Years worth of candy? Really, how do you how much
candy per day? Does that? Is it? Do they get
one piece of candy a week? How does that work?
Several years worth of candy? Huh?

Speaker 9 (36:24):
Henry?

Speaker 4 (36:24):
A few observations, there was a probably a one to
one parental ratio for chill dream.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
And Henry, as I predicted, with that many parents, everybody
else is assuming that someone else is watching the chill
grain and so in essence, the chill green we're not
watched at all.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
However, and now I'm pausing there because the parent to
child ratio. We were taught by the Alabama Law Enforcement Association.
Captain burkead that you need to have the proper parent
child ratio when you go out trick or treating. This
is for future halloweens. And Buford said he had a

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one parent to one child ratio and that's too much. Actually, now,
you and I we would think that would be the
perfect way to do it. But no, Bufford says, the
parents assume other parents are watching. So remember this one
to one is not the ratio.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Neighborhood we go in and everybody looks out for everybody's
children in a way, so they were all perfectly safe
up until the invaders came in from the rougher side
of town as they do every year. And about that
time that is when the native tricker and or treaters
stopped trigger treating. But Henry an odd observation was a

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Friday night, and it was one of the less farser
attended trick and or treating.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
And I'm pausing there just to say I heard the
same thing from other people I know. I do know
other people aside from you and Beuford. I know that's
a shock. It seems like we're a tight knit group,
the three of us, you, me and Beuford. But I
do know some other people. And they told me that
they didn't have as many trick or treaters as they thought.

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They thought that it being a Friday would would just
give them one of the biggest Halloweens that ever experienced.
And they bought a ton of junk to hand out
and they have a bunch of leftover junk because it
was it was not as big a Halloween crowd as
they thought.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Hinry, this neighborhood got hundreds and hundreds of children trigger
treat in there, and the neighborhood behind my children school,
and basically the whole school trigger treats in that neighborhood
and several parents open up their houses and it's a
good time for parents and children alike. But for a
Friday night, we were expecting a blowout trick and or

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treating the event, and it was not I don't know,
as my daddy used to.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Say, where all the little happy.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Tricker treaters were. But it was I've seen bigger trigger
treating crowds in that neighborhood on a Wednesday night, much
less of Friday night. It was kind of sparse, so
and I heard that from other reports of other parents
who triggered treating other parts of town. But everything went well, Henry.
We executed our safety plan properly good, even though my

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children refused to wear reflective reflective garments over their costumes.
And uh, I was kind of proud that they did
because as a youth, virginior he's in eighth grade.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Now, he just flat out said he ain't doing it.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
That's gay was his exact words.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Wow, that degree with the feller just pausing to say
that if I now, if I'd used that language in
front of my father, there would have been a repercussion.
My father would have my father that kind of language,
that kind of language, my father would not tolerate. So,
but this is a different generation, your generation, different from

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my generation. In fact, my father. I'll get back to
the rest of the voicemail of you for just one moment.
I never heard my parents say a cussword until I
believe I was in my early thirties. I was in
my early thirties and I heard my father say a

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cuss word, and it was one of the it was.
It was. It was not a word I can say
on the radio, but it was. It was. In modern life,
it's now considered minor. It's now considered Sometimes you'll hear
politicians say it on the news. Yes, I've heard President
Trump say it in speeches. But I remember when I

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heard my father cuss, when I was in my early thirties.
My father cussed, and it was a shock. I felt
like I'd been hit by a bolt of lightning. And
then I thought, well, you know, you waited until I
was in my early thirties. Couldn't you have just kept
going and not cussed for the rest of the time
we have together. But anyway, but I'm look you for
no criticism of you in your fa I'm just saying

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that this is generationally different. All right, back to the voicemail.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Anyway, Henry, it was a good time had by all.
Everybody was safe and uh we made our trigger treating Halloween,
playing per the State of Alabama's request, and within the
first five minutes playing absolutely deteriorate it. And then we
just did what we always did and everything.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Was fine anyway, and then the voicemail cut him off.
Thank you for your report. I'm glad everything went safe
with the trick or treating. Yeah, it was Uh, it
was an unusual Friday night.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
My wife and I I had to go to the
I've mentioned this on the air before. I had to
go to the store for my wife while tricker treating
was underway in my neighborhood. It was it was after sundown,
so it was there was no twilight either. It was
definitely dark, and I had to go to the store
to get my wife something and I was and I

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told the story on the air that I was panhandled
on at the at this yes, panhandled on Halloween night,
which was confusing for me because I didn't know if
it was a real painhandler or someone dressed as a
panhandler in their costume contest or zom. But I noticed
the traffic, tremendous traffic, and I thought, I wonder how

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many kids are trick or treating versus being taken somewhere
or just adults going out to party and just abandoning
trick or treating so that the adults can go party. Anyway,
let me get off this topic. I'll be back with
news items after the break. Let's take the break here
on the Uncle Henry Show. It says the Uncle Henry

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Show on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. News headlines coming
up in ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines,
there's a few stories that I missed that I would
like to find out about. Maybe you missed them too.
Maybe you can find out about it with me. Now
this has to do. First story here is about Alabama

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Public Television, which I've watched a bunch of in my life.
Alabama Public Television possibly dropping PBS programming. Really, what would
be on it all? Just listen to this together. This
comes from Fox ten's stepsister station WBrC in Birmingham. Let's

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listen to what they got to say. Obama, you may
be saying goodbye to Big Bird.

Speaker 10 (44:12):
Elmo, Burt Nerdie, Daniel Tiger, and Arthur.

Speaker 8 (44:14):
Say it ain't so.

Speaker 11 (44:15):
Alabama Public Television is considering cutting ties with PBS, and
one commissioner says the move could change what generations of
families have grown up watching your reporter.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
James Giles joins us, Now he's our reporter, James Giles.

Speaker 11 (44:29):
After digging into what's being done behind the scenes, James,
why is APT considering cutting ties with PBS?

Speaker 10 (44:36):
Well, Britty Steve, it's a partnership that's been around for
more than half a century Alabama Public Television and PBS,
but one commissioner says that relationship could soon be severed.
He's not sure why or why. Anyone outside that boatroom
knows was on the line.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
What what now? Nobody knows is that what he just said.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
For me, it was a kind of a say what moment.

Speaker 10 (44:58):
That was Pete Conroy's reaction when he walked into last
week's Alabama Public Television Board meeting.

Speaker 12 (45:04):
I strolled into the meeting last Tuesday not knowing that
one of the top topics would be severing the ties
with PBS. I don't know that I can change an
outcome here, but I do want people to know what
they might be losing. And you know, we're talking about
Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger, Nova road.

Speaker 10 (45:24):
Show, PBS programs, the same shows that have taught generations
of children. They're ABC's their shapes and their kindness making
up nearly ninety percent of apt's content.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
But with ninety percent of their content. So if they
did cut ties with PBS, what would they show? You know,
I'm now, I know you love I know, look, I
know you the listener, you love all that stuff, all
the PBF stuff, A bunch of shows where people have
British accents. I know I love people with accents too,

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and all the puppet show that they have and all
that kind of stuff. But if they had to produce
Alabama Public Television and not imported from PBS, we could
there could be some interesting shows, a lot of interesting
stuff probably going on in these rural counties. I'd love

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to have a why not widen They're a connecta sausage
show all about making sausage. Stuff like that.

Speaker 10 (46:25):
Federal funding cuts announced by the Trump administration this summer
and more than two point eight million in grand funding gone,
APT is now forced to refink how it operates.

Speaker 12 (46:36):
That was about fifteen percent of the budget. The thought
now following up with this, we'd think that membership would
take a huge hit, and the mount loss there could
be in the three million dollar range.

Speaker 10 (46:47):
Conroy says. The concern isn't just about numbers.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
It's about well, now, Sam confused because you heard something
like two point eight million dollars something like that. Don't
you think you know, those shows are popular. People people
do like PBS shows. I mean, that's clear. You don't
think they could raise two point eight million dollars. I

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don't You don't think they could raise You don't think
there's generous donors in the state of Alabama that would
come up with the two point eight million dollars. I
think you could raise that money. Maybe, I look, may
maybe it'd be different if I was on the inside there,
and I maybe they don't get as much money as
I thought, But I think you could raise that money.
People love those shows, a lot of them.

Speaker 10 (47:36):
It's about impact sharing. The story of a woman from
Elmore County who says watching PBS an APT shaved her
life from a little girl in Alabama to a college
professor in Georgia.

Speaker 12 (47:47):
And she says, how did I learn to love my neighbors?
You know what's coming, it's mister Rogers. How did I
learn to be brave?

Speaker 11 (47:53):
She said?

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Grover, all right, well, look that's kind of sad. That
obviously was not paying parented and needed to instead of
getting parented by a mother or father or both. Mister
Rogers and Grover, a puppet gave her her values. We

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all if that's the case, if there's a bunch of
people sitting out there in Alabama that have that, that
are looking for parenting on APT, why not just go
and put a bunch of uh, get some study school
teachers from these churches. I'm serious about this. Let's just
start showing some church services.

Speaker 12 (48:36):
And uh and uh, how did she, you know, learn
about the world. It was through you know again, PBS programming.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
All right, no parenting, Gara says.

Speaker 10 (48:46):
He hopes the war will take the time to study
this move before making a final decision. If you'd like
to share your thoughts with the APT Commission, we posted
details about how to reach them inside the w BRC
News app.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
All right, well, I guess I need to sit down.
I want to compile a list of replacement shows. It
shouldn't cost that much to make a puppet show. Put
a sock on your hand. We've got sock cop who
lives in Mobile I think sock cop lives in Mobile County.
There could be a sock cop show. Put some church

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services on there. I think we could fill it up
if they decide to draw PBS. But on a serious note,
they can't raise two point eight million dollars hire some
sales folks up there. All right, Well, I'm sure I'm
going to predict they will not drop PBS. They did
this news story to frighten people that were raised by

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PBS into either donating or begging for more government grants.
I promised that. Look, that's my prediction, they will not
drop PBS. All right, out of time, Thank you for listening.
As they say in sarah Land, have a good one.
As they say in Theodore, take it easy

Speaker 7 (49:58):
All right Later