Lott Road's Natural Beauty

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:15):
This says the Uncle Henry's Show. You're on news radio
seventy ten WNT you. Thank you, thank you for listening
to the Uncle Henry Shaw. I appreciate it very very much.
Just today I was reflecting on how I still enjoy
getting a paycheck. So thank you, thank you for listening

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to the Uncle Henry Show. Once again, here we are together,
me and you, trying to figure out what is going on,
What is going on in the world around us? Why
are people acting the way they do now? Right now?
Getting a little rain where I am, a little moisture,

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a little moisture into the picture here, be careful of
if you're driving into the moisture now today for a
lot of families, back to school time on the Gulf
Coast Mobile and Baldwin County Public schools back in session.
I think the Catholic schools, I think they're back in
session as well. Back to school. Hard to avoid noticing,

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especially on social media. I'm gonna have to get a
digital plunger just to clean out the clog in my Facebook.
My Facebook is clogged up with all the back to
school pictures the people are taking. I talked about this
Friday on the Uncle Henry Show. Back when I was
a child, we just didn't have the technology of having

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a camera like that. Was a lot of families didn't
have a camera back when I was a child. So
it just was not a thing that you would take
a picture at the beginning of every school year, wasn't.
It just wasn't something that we did. And nowadays, not
only do people have cam they've got a way to
broadcast to the world on the World Wide Web whatever

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they want to broadcast to the world. And so now
it's all just all these back to school pictures. And
I've been looking at these pictures, some of them on
my Facebook feed. That's just clogging it up. And I
see some kids look happy, they look excited to go
back to school, almost a little gleam of mischief in

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the eyes. You can see some of the kids that
are really competitive, you can tell they're just jumping at
the bit ready to get back in there. Now, I
wasn't that kid. I was not that child. I'm glad
that they didn't take my picture back when I was
a kid on the first day of school because it
would have been yet another I would have seen it
as yet another imposition. You're already gonna send me off

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to these people, and they're gonna fill my head up
with all this garbage, and you're gonna make me stand
here and smile. I don't even like the shoes that
I got to wear, and I don't even like this
shirt you made me with. I was not the kid.
I was not the kid that would have wanted to
be there in the pictures. And I saw that. I
saw some of that today on all that big clog

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on the Facebook feed. I saw some kids forcing the smile.
I saw some hints of anxiety on the faces of
these children. I saw some that looked like they were
being punished. It was an additional punishment before going back
to school. I'm just I'm wondering, is there a pressure.
Do you feel a pressure to you the parents? Do

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you feel like you've got to do it? Do you
feel like it would be bad that your friends would
look down on you if you didn't take pictures. As
the child was going back to school on the first
day of school, would you be, would you would there
be whispering behind your back or they must just not
care about their kids. They're not out there trotting them

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out there like the show Ponies. Which is there a
pressure on this? I feel pressured to parade your children
in front of everybody on social media. Yeah, I don't know.
I'm blessed to not be in this. One of the
great things is to not a lot of times you
want to be included in life. You do, especially when

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they're handing out free stuff. But when it's something like this,
I'm glad. I'm glad to be on the on the
on the sidelines and just looking in there and wondering.
But anyway, I hope, I hope for everybody involved you
have a grade school year, especially not just the students
and their families, but especially the teachers. God bless you.
If you're a teacher, God bless you. You know, back

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in the day, it used to be reading, writing, and arithmetic.
The kid would come there, you'd you'd you'd stop them
from misbehaving, and you'd teach them something. Then they'd go home.
And nowadays more and more you're being asked to actually parent.
You know, the kid comes to school and they get
a lunch, They get a breakfast and a lunch, and
then you're there trying to act as not just a teacher,

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but trying also having to do a lot of Parrington
because a lot of a lot of parents. They need
their own time, they meet, they need their me time.
These parents do so God bless you. The teachers, the
tough jocks, getting tougher every day to be a teacher.
Two five one four seventy nine seventy two three the
telephone number if you want to call the uncle here,

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show and talk about whatever it is on your mind.
Let's see who we got here. Hello color, ma'ama.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Bus hog here, hoping you and your listeners had a
good weekend.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
O'granery, Thank you, Thank you, ma'ama bush. How what's on
your mind?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, look at here. We gotta think the teachers. Also,
we got to thank the bus drivers who keep our
kids safe going to and from school. True, we put
our kids into their hands and they may see that
they ride there safely and get back home safely.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
That is true.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
If you have a favorite bus driver, you need to
tell them thank you whenever you see them. They sign.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
That's a good idea that is a wonderful idea, because
that is that's also a very difficult job.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
You ain't lying. I got a cousin and tries some
Mobile County scholism, and she says it's a lot of work.
But anyway, the reason why I called you unclen uh,
there's no reason why I called you. I'm sorry. Washington,
d C just got trumped. I don't know if you've
heard about it, but they got trumped by the Trump card.
Today he is sending the FBI, the Secret Service, the

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part Police, and Department of Homeland Security to fight the
crime and to clean up the streets on the nation's capital.
Isn't that something?

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah about time?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
I like like, I like the way he's thinking. Now,
now look here. As far as clean up the crime,
I'm sure that all those federal agencies can handle all
of that. You known't clean up the crime. But as
far as cleaning up the streets and watching in d C,
I think that DC officials had come down to Mobile

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and watch how Mobile's city works clean up after a
parade of Martin, parade of Mobile, because I'm telling you,
it is a myss. The night before you can wake
up the next morning and it's just as clean as
a whistle.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Well, that is true, and a lot of Mobilians wish
it could be like that, even when there's not a
Monty Growl parade.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
That well, I just think I just think that coming
down to what's what.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, hey bush All, I'm up on the break. Thank
you bush Hog for your phone call bringing up the
what's going on in DC and also the wonderful bus drivers.
You're so correct about the bus drivers. Thank you, Bama bushog.
You can find him on Facebook at Mobile Pirate Radio.

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It says the Uncle Henry's Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM. It is five twenty news headlines coming
up in ten minutes here on the Uncle Henry Show. Now,
we had the caller in the last segment, we had

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the Bama bush hog man calling in. He mentioned about
how President Trump is taken over law enforcement. They're having
the federal government handle some law enforcement in Washington, d C.
And I've heard, I've already noticed the complaints. People complaining,
including the people that run DC, all of them telling

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us that crime is down, crime is way down in DC.
Why do they need to come in with the federal
government and make sure that there's less crime. Does that
sound familiar? There is there a familiar ring to that
crime status are down. You know, we've heard that on

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the local level quite a bit. Crime is way down.
It's just for some reason, we're noticing it more when
people get shot in grocery store, parking lots on Sunday
afternoons and things like that in mobile. So it's the
number one issue in the mayor's race. It's gotten. It's
such a big issue in the mayor's race that local
media are complaining that they're tired of hearing about it.

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So that feels doesn't that feel a little That feels
a little familiar where they're saying, hey, up here in
d C, crime is down to an all time low,
why are you doing it? Well? They say stuff like
that about mobile too. It's the number one issue law
and order, the number one issue in mobile with the
mayor's race. So there's always room for improvement, especially in Washington,

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d C. And you'll remember a couple of years ago,
they were giving out tips. They were giving safety tips
to congressional snaffers on how not to get carjacked, where
they were telling them you need to drive in the
center lane. You need to drive in the center lane
to make it harder to get carjacked in d C.

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So this is this is long overdue. Uh, it is
supposed to be. We're allegedly the most powerful country in
the world, depending on I guess on who you ask.
Shouldn't our capital be a little bit safer than it is?
Shouldn't you be able to walk around up there and
not worry about getting killed or mugged or something. If

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you're gonna, if you're gonna pick one city in the
country to make a crime free as is possible, wouldn't
that be it, wouldn't you think? So let them, let them,
let's see, let's they can do up there, and if
they can make things better, maybe we can all learn
something from it to help our own cities around the country,
because many cities are dealing with crime right now. One

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thing I'm wondering about, the caller, I'm coming right to
your call. One thing I'm wondering about is, and I've
read already that there are some neighborhoods with schools in
them in DC that are just like open air drug dens,
very just terrible, terrible conditions. One thing I'm wondering about

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is where is the crime going to move? Because yeah,
they'll arrest some people and then the slightly smarter criminals
they're going to get out of there. So any of
the surrounding areas should be braced for impact. All all
of the police forces are that are in the suburbs

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outside of d C. I don't know if it'll a
lot of them will head to Baltimore. I don't know.
I'm not familiar with a lot of geographer but geography
up there. But they're gonna have to brace for impact
because they're going to have a lot of people that
are going to find it too difficult to make illegal
money in d C. And they're gonna be heading as
close by as they can get. Two five, one, four

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seven nine two three The telephone number, Hello.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
Caller, Hello, Uncle Henry. Hello, this is David Whitlock. I
haven't called you in a while.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Uncle Henry.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
How you doing, Whitlock?

Speaker 6 (13:31):
I just want to let you i'm calling today. I
don't have a pacific topic. I just want to let
you and your listeners know I've been doing well, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well good, it's been working.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
I've got my own place. I live in a Turkey home,
Uncle Henry, I have Lot Road right past Jewels.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Oh really, you're out Lot Road near.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Jewels about two miles past. I don't know if you're
familiar with this area.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Oh I am. I am Bamba big Man lives out
that way and also some I have some extended family
that are out Lot roadway these days. So yes, I'm
familiar with the beauty that the beauty of the natural
beauty of the Jewels area of Lot Road.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Yes, sir, I stay out near Lot Road in Jack Williams.
There's a church on the corner.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Attend that church.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah, I just want to let you know the listeners
doing well. It's about time for we got to interest
in madis raised. Uncle Henry. I don't If I could vote,
I would probably encourage people to vote for Paul Prime,
just because he's not a career politician with the city,
Uncle Henry. Okay, Crown's an issue and mobile, and you know,

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maybe we need the National Guard to come in because
you can't even where. There's shootings at Public's in midtown,
all kinds of stuff in Tillman's Corner. So maybe that's
what Maybe we need the National Guard in here.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Uncle Henry well, I don't know that we do. But
we have four candidates that all say they've got ideas
on what to do, so we can all no matter
who gets elected, they're going to at least try something.
We know that all four of them have some kind
of new ideas, so Mobile can at least sit back

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and see what happens whoever gets out.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
I just want to give you a big role TIMEE
football seasons right around the corner, Uncle Henry, I'll let
you go.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
All right, well, road ty do you? Thank you Whitlock.
I'm glad you're.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Doing well well your show, Uncle Henry, and I still
do listen from time to time.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, thank you, thank you very much, and I enjoyed
your phone call. Thank you, David Whitlock for your phone call.
My favorite calls about mobile politics are the ones that
come from people that don't live in the city limits.
I just I know that to you, you don't like that.
You probably want only mobilions to comment on mobile politics,

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But it's just from an entertainment standpoint for me, I
enjoy when I get the call from people that have
thought it through. Some people call up here with a
five to ten minute dissertation on Mobile politics, and then
at the end of the call you find out that
they don't they they don't even live here. So I
love it. David Whitlock. I'm glad to have gotten the

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out lot road where so if your out lot Road
past Jewels, does that put you in Sims? Does that
put you in Sims? David Whitlock. Anyway, I love those calls.
I love the out of town opinion on the politics.

(16:36):
And I've noticed mobilions now, mobilions have a lot of
opinions on how other towns are run. I think there
are a lot of mobilions right now that have opinions
about Orange Beach politics and would would maybe even want
to vote in that mayor's race. They certainly certainly read
a lot about it. In Land Yap, I know a

(16:57):
lot and there's a lot of people, especially up in
these Bring Hill area of Mobile, that have some very
critical things to say about fair Hope and ways they
wish that fair Hope was being governed. So it's a
grand tradition in talk shows of people wanting to express
their opinions about how other cities are run. And I

(17:23):
do enjoy it. There's more time for whatever it is
that's going on here. But first we have traffic and
the news headlines coming up as the Uncle Henry show continues.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
At the crime rate, so President Thump is getting this
turned around over Henry. And you know he got I
think it was like three and a half percent of
DC boat last year. Yeah, you let him clean that up,
and I guarantee you them numbers will increase dramatically because
people want to be saved over wont to be able
to go to the mall, uh go shop and uh you know,

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go out to eat and not have to worry about
somebody murdering you. It's just just.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know that that is true. People do want to
go about their business without fear of uh impending doom. Uh.
But you think he'll get credit because I think I
agree that there will be people in d C that
are glad that they will be able to walk down
the street of their neighborhood and not worry about getting
shot or something. But I still don't think they'll vote

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for him.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Uh, the votes will increase for him, Henry, he won't
get credit from from no Democrat. I mean he could
come out and walk on water and uh you know,
uh part the Red Sea and they'll say that you know,
it was a wind blown into a shallow ocean or
some crap. No, he's not gonna get credit for anything.
But uh, there there are people with minds and that

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won't safety and it's gonna pay attention. And I guarantee
you the numbers will be much more than that three
a half percent he got, you know he got in
his last last elation. I know it won't run again.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Right, but but he likely it'll likely be somebody he
approves of that gets the nomination for to run as
the Republican. So we'll watch, We'll watch and see if
you're right, if whoever runs gets a higher percentage of
votes in DC.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
You know, and anybody that complain can complain about what
he's done in d C. They're they're ignorant, Uncle Henry,
because I mean, who wants to live with one hundred
and seventy two people in your city killed in a year?
Are in like Chicago where where nineteen people were shot,
I mean, nobody wants them type of numbers, you know,

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And it's ridiculous. So President Trump, if you can hear
the old snake trapper, get the National Guard and go
ahead and take federal control of Chicago. Also, they need
it probably more than d C do.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
All right, well, snake trapper, anything else, any any the
snake reports from the weekend, anything like.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
That, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
You know why?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
I think I told you about three weeks ago about
my wrecking aphobia.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Oh you're you're you're you're afraid of spiders.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yes, well you know you. You give me advice and
told me what to do, and and I've been practicing
on it, and I think I'm ready to touch one,
o Henry, tonight. I don't know if you've ever shined
the light out in your yard at night, but you
can see little bright green little dots. Yeah, well that
that is that is wolf spiders in your yard. So uh,
I've been working on it over Henry, and I think

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I'm gonna probably try tonight or maybe sometime this week,
but I'm gonna try to touch one.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Well.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Look, if you if you can be bit, if you
can be bit by a snake like you have repeatedly,
certainly you can touch a spider.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Uncle Henry. I like to think so. But one thing
I can say. A snake has never made me run
into a tree, but a spider has Okay, so I'm
gonna give a child, Henry, I'm gonna beat it, you know,
Like I said, I'll let you know how it goes.
I'll even try to shoot a little video of it
and let it crawl on yourself.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
All right, All right, well, Snake Trefford, thank you, you
take care, buddy, and good luck to you with your
spider issue. I think the biggest spiders I'm trying to
think back in the let's see, was maybe it was
the nineties. I used to get a lot of exercise

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trying to hike in the woods in both Mobile and
Baldwin Counties, and I think the biggest spiders I ever
encountered were all in Baldwin County. Now, of course that
may be a ridiculous statement because I'm not an expert
on spiders or snakes, but I would see I would
come across more spiders in Baldwin County woods versus Mobile

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County woods. Now in north Mobile County, I found that
to be way snakier than any of the parts of
Baldwene that I'd ever been in. So anyway, I don't
know if those those if that was just my own
personal experience or the way things are two five to
one four seven nine two seven two three. The telephone
number that's two five to one four seven nine two

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seventy two three. Now Snake Trapper bringing up sending in
federal control and other cities. I don't know what the
law would be on that, and I don't do we
really want the federal government doing stuff like that, going
into cities and taking over. I guess you do if
it's a war zone, and maybe you would if you

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live on a street where you feel like you can't
even sit on your front porch because of being harassed
by criminals or stuff like that. But I don't know
what the law would be on him doing it outside
of DC. Uh, But we could all come up with
ideas of cities that can that need help in terms

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of crime. Snake Trapper and other people bring up Chicago
a lot, but from what I understand Memphis, there are
a lot of places Memphis, many others that have big
issues with crime. Again, two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. The telephone number that's two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. Email

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address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia. Dot com. Also on a completely unrelated note,
but it does deal with federal officials. I saw an
interview or an interview clip over the weekend with RFK Junior.

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His uh, his voice is getting better. Have you noticed this?
Have you seen an interview with him recently? RFK Junior's
voice seems to give me. It seems to be getting better.
I don't know if he's getting some new treatment for
what ails his vocal cords, but he is getting better.

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Somebody was asking him about what he eats, what his
diet is, and his answer was mostly meat in fermented foods,
and I don't know if that's what he's I don't
know if that's what's helping his voice or if there's

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some other treatment. But look for that if you're interested.
RFK is actually he's starting to sound better than he
did Cruis It says the Uncle Henry Show here on

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news radio seven ten wnt M. You can call the
show if there's something you want to tell me about.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
That's two five one four seven nine two seven two
three email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. I don't know, uh,

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I don't know how much local news you watch on TV.
Maybe you have noticed this before, but in case you
haven't noticed, you'll you'll if you watch local news on TV,
not just here but all over the country, you'll see
a lot of stories and this is this is I
think this applies to radio news too. A lot of

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stories you'll notice are they'll start with would be people
on the TV or the radio saying that new research
shows that they all be reporting on new research every
day every day. Maybe maybe not as much on Saturday
and Sunday, but Monday through Friday. If you watch local

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TV news or you listen to different radio stations, even
music stations, you'll hear the people telling you things there's
new research that shows there's this huge industry that puts
these these stories out and I guess it's for the
people that paid for the research, but you'll you'll start
noticing it now when you watch local news and listen

(26:41):
to local radio here and around the country. And also
in addition to research shows or there's there's new research
that claims you'll also hear about surveys. You'll hear and
this is an everyday thing on TV and radio where

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there'll be new surveys. It's almost like watching reruns of
Family Feud, where people are trying to guess what's the
number one answer of a survey. But you hear it,
you'll notice it now. If you've never noticed it before,
you'll start noticing it now. On local news and on
local radio. Survey says there's a new survey out and

(27:29):
it's usually being it's a story being promoted through pr agencies.
Some company wants their name out there, so they will
they'll spend money and they'll do some survey of five
hundred people or a thousand people, and then they'll end
up being on the news all over the country with
their survey. I'm bringing that up because I get it

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every day. I get news stories sent to me every
single day that are about new research or new surveys.
And there is a story today the most attractive hobbies
for men to have according to women. This is, if
you are a single man and you want to attract

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a woman, what hobbies should you have that would attract
you to a woman? And the number one answer in
this survey. By the way this was done, I won't
tell you the company that paid for it, because that's
the reason it was done. They wanted their name out there.

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The number one most attractive hobby allegedly for a man
to have that will make him attractive to a woman
is allegedly reading. Now do you believe then? Has it ever?
Has that ever manifested in reality? Where the women they

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were they sorry, they're not attracted. They're not attracted to
the great looking athletic guy over there that his hobby is, uh,
his hobby is playing softball on the weekend. Now they're
claiming that reading is the number one hobby that is

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most attractive to women. If you're a man wanting to
attract a woman, now, how would you how would you
show this off? If you were if you wanted to
attract a woman and you believe this, how would you
show this off? Would you try to walk around with
a book all the time? Or would you go to

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a bar and try to buy a lady a drink?
And when it comes time to pay, would you accidentally
pull out your library card? It's oh, oh, I'm sorry,
I thought that was my credit card, But it's my
library card. I just use it so much. I better
go put but I better put this back get out

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in my credit card. Do you believe that? Do you
believe that that would be the number one hobby that
women find most attractive. I would think, based on my
real world experiences, I think playing a musical instrument well
would be the thing. This is just advice to the

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younger male. I don't know a lot of bookworms that
women are throwing themselves at, but I know musicians that
look like Bigfoot on a bad day, and they always
have girlfriends. I'm just saying, just some advice if there
might be a younger listener being forced to listen driving

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Grandpa to go get his medicine. Out of time for
this segment of the show. There's more Uncle Henry Show
to come after the news break. The podcast available on
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says the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy
ten WNTM. I am Uncle Henry. In case you were
curious about this, Yes, I'm still here. I'm still here
hosting the Uncle Henry Show. I know you expected this
to be over many many years ago, but here I
am now coming up this half hour, going to cover

(31:52):
some news items here that I missed initially you might
have missed them too. We can catch up together on
these little news items. Now I'm gonna start with an
animal story because I don't know how it happened, but
over the last couple of years, the Uncle Henry Shows
had lots of animal stories. I guess it started when

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snake trappers started calling the show. Had lots of discussions
on the Uncle Henry Show about snakes and possums and raccoons,
just all kinds of stuff at frogs that have been discussed.
I don't know that we've talked a lot about foxes,
although in recent years people have been have been encountering

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rabid foxes in different parts of the listening area. Now
there was a rabid fox allegedly attacking a human being
in Appmore. I think it was last week. Let's listen together.
Here's the story from Fox ten as they give us
details on a rabbid fox attack new tonight.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
Someone and out Moore was bitten by a avid fox
in half and yesterday near the victim's home on Highway
thirty one. The Alabama Department of Public Health says another
person had direct physical contact with the fox. Both victims
are being treated all right.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Now, don't we need more details on this direct contact?
Now there was one attacked, but there was a second
person that had was not attacked, only had direct contact.
And what was that when they what were they doing
massage in the fox? I don't understand how anyway.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Hell officials urging everyone in outwore to take precautions, including
everyone in a more making sure pets have their rabies vaccination.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
You know, I need, I guess I need to check
with my doctor and see if I'm vaccinated for rabies.
I know I've been given a lot of shots through
the years. I've lost track of all the different pills
and things. Ointments. You know, that's something I didn't realize
when I got older that ointment would be involved. I
knew that pills were going to be involved, they didn't
tell me the ointments. Lord have mercy with the ointments.

(34:03):
Have I been vaccinated against rabis? Have I had a
RABI shot? I need to ask my doctor because if
they're doing it to the pets, why would you protect
the pet and not the person? All right, Well, anyway,
I wish the best to the at Morians that are
being bitten and attacked by rabbit foxes and I'd also

(34:24):
like to talk to the at morians that are having
close physical contact with rabbit foxes and not getting bitten,
because they probably have an even more interesting story to tell.
All right, let's see what else, What other stories can
I get to? All right, here's one. Mobile County has
an aquatic center that the Mobile County commission is building,

(34:48):
and they reached a milestone this past Friday. They had
a ceremony where they had the Mobile County Commissioners go
out to their aquatic center, which I believe is on
Halls Mill Road. I think it's on Hall's Mill Road
near I sixty five and I ten. They went out

(35:09):
there and held a ceremony Friday where the Mobile County
Commissioner signed the first steel beam for the main building
of the aquatics center before the beam was hosted into place.
This is a wonderful photo opportunity for the politicians that
are spending the tax dollar. It's also wonderful if you're

(35:31):
maybe you might be running for some other office and
you just want to show up and get your picture taken. Now,
let's listen. Here's Fox ten reporting on the progress being
made at the aquatic center. How close are they to
having this aquatic center finished.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
Obilla County's Aquatic Center project is making waves, reaching a
major milestone. Construction Phase one is nearing the halfway mark
since the groundbreaking last September.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Right now, I'm sorry Ry for interrupting again, just in case,
in case you weren't aware, what is Phase one of
the Aquatic Center. It's an outdoor twenty five yard by
fifty meters competition pool with two dive wells, concessions and
check in building, an indoor instructional pool, locker rooms and restrooms,

(36:25):
and parking. So that is all the stuff that is
being built out there. They're halfway there.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
Allegedly, today's beam signing ceremony was for building a the
future home of an indoor instructional pool, lobby and locker rooms.
The outdoor Olympic sized competition pool is already built but
still needs prepping and testing. Buildings for concessions and mechanical
systems are also underway. The first phase should be done

(36:49):
by early next summer, and once done, the centerbral host
competitive and recreational swimming, lifeguard in scuba training, and could
play a role in larger plans nearby water park.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yeah, how could we have ever survived without this. Now,
look you the listener, I'm sure you're excited about this.
You think this is magnificent. You can't wait to go
swimming out there and watch other people frolic in the
water and buy concessions and use the parking lot and
all that kind of get into the locker room. I'm
sure I know you're excited about this and feel like

(37:22):
it would be a great benefit to the citizenry of
Mobile County to have somewhere to go swim competitively or
be instructed. Now, this is an example of why I
could never be elected to any any office whatsoever. I
could never be elected to the county commission or a
city council, or I could never be a mayor. And

(37:45):
the reason I could never be elected to any of
those jobs asigned from my lack of experience and intellect.
The main reason I could not be elected is because
I would always vote no. I would always vote no
on something like this always what Now, I know, I
know you love it. I know you're thinking, what, Uncle Henry,
This would be a wonderful thing from Mobile County people swimming.

(38:08):
You have competition swimming, and people come in from out
of town and they spend money while they're going and
watching the splashing and all that. But I would vote
no because I've just noticed the maintenance anything involving water,
anything involving water, just requires such tremendous maintenance. It is

(38:32):
a just a never ending Now. You always have to
maintain any building that you have, whether you're a homeowner
or a business owner or a government, you've got to
maintain buildings. But anything that involves water just as that
much more maintenance.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
It is.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Have you ever owned a pool. If You've owned a pool,
you kind of know what I'm talking about. But I
can combine ownership of a pool with government and the
efficiency of government, and then you can see, maybe, Mike,
you still disagree with me, but you might kind of

(39:10):
see where I'm coming from on this. I can remember
when my grandson was little and I would take him
to different parks and Mobile and Baldwin Counties for fun,
and a lot of these parks would have special water
features like fountains or splash pads or just something to
spray the child, whatever it is. Almost always they were broken.

(39:33):
They were almost always broken. Anytime I went to these
places that had all these different things that were government run.
They were almost always broken. But I'm sure this is
gonna run perfectly. I'm sure that it'll be magnificent. It's
just gonna cost a lot for maintenance. I hope maybe

(39:53):
they can sell the place to somebody and let them
maintain it. All right, look back with more. There is
more Uncle Henry Show to come, but first a break
for traffic and weather and words from our sponsors. Take
the break, This says the Uncle Henry Show. News headlines

(40:23):
coming up in ten minutes. Before we get to the
news headlines, a few more news items that I missed
and you might have missed them too. With back to
school in full swing, so many kids back to school
on the Golf coast this week, there's something going on
in Illinois that has been in the news. Students in

(40:45):
Illinois are going to start filling out a mental health exam,
and people are up in arms about it. Here is
Mike Tobin of Fox News reporting on these mental health
exams that they're going to be given school children in Illinois.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Illinois officials say the mental health screenings will be essential
for lifelong success, and signing the legislation that puts the
testing into effect, Governor J. B. Pritzker said the screenings
will make resources available to troubled students, overcome the stigma
of mental health problems and catch problems early.

Speaker 8 (41:18):
They provide early identification and interventions so that those who
are struggling get the help that they need as soon
as possible.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
So quick to call this a government overarych Jabbi girl Sheer,
a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote on x that
this is a disastrous policy. Watches tens of thousands of
Illinois kids get shoved in the mental health funnel and
convinced they are sick. Illinois state Representative Steve reichs, as
a third grader might write an answer on a form
that comes to haunt him years later.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
Okay, wow, Okay, So they're worried about kids answering a
question on some mental health exam when they're in the
third grade and having it brought back to them when
they're an adult. I'm sure we could figure out a
way to prevent that. By the way, allegedly parents have
the opportunity to opt their children out of these mental

(42:08):
health tests. Now, look, I know that I know that
this was whoever came up with all this was well intentioned.
I'm sure they had to be, but we all know
that the road to hail is paved with good intentions.

(42:30):
Certainly we can all see, well, I shouldn't say we
can all see. Maybe you completely disagree with me on this,
but it's been clear to me, at least for many,
many years now, we have deteriorating mental health all over
the country, not just in one location or another. All
over the country people seem to be having mental health issues.

(42:52):
It's been a growing issue, probably worse after the pandemic
or during the pandemic. I think it's one of the
reasons that a lot of folks want to legalize drugs
in half the country, because they're all medicating themselves in
some form of fashion. But this, I just wonder, how

(43:15):
are they going to be able to do this? Since
I know learned people and intelligent people that disagree on
the definitions of mental health. Would one person agrees that
something is mental health issue the other person doesn't. I
just see a lot of disagreement on the very basics

(43:37):
in terms of mental health, the basics of what conditions are,
What do you call a mental health problem? It seems
like a lot of people disagree on a lot of
the very foundations of this. So I don't know how
you would do this and satisfy fifty one percent of

(43:58):
the people. I don't know how you'd be able to
do it with something like this, but I understand why
they think there's a need for it and they're trying
to do something about it. Can you see it? I mean,
can you see the levels of anxiety that seem to
be growing among young people in our country? I see

(44:19):
it in young kids, I see it in people in
their twenties. I've noticed a difference in people under the
age of thirty. They seem to be anxiety prone. Lots
of anxiety among the young. So I don't know. I mean,
good intentions behind this. It all depends on how they're
going to enforce it, how they're going to do it.

(44:41):
Do all of these solutions involve giving a pill? Do
the solutions involve learning some type of ideology that the
parents might disagree with? I mean, there's just there's all
kinds of things that would tie into this. Yeah, I
think something ought to be done to he up with
mental health, But I don't know is this the answer?

(45:04):
Mental health tests for the children? Now, let me see,
is there any story I can cover before we're out
of time. In this segment of the Unculator's show, Yes,
One More, One More, This is about robots and artificial intelligence.
This is a company is helping rebuild out in California
after those fires in Los Angeles with robots and AI.

(45:29):
Here is Fox News with the tail.

Speaker 9 (45:31):
One company is using artificial intelligence and robots to speed
up construction after the LA wildfires.

Speaker 8 (45:37):
Called Cosmic, the company.

Speaker 9 (45:39):
Is using a mobile robotic microfactory in the Palisades to
assemble wall segments of custom designed homes. Cosmic says that
not only does this make the home building process three
times faster, it also makes it around thirty percent cheaper
than conventional methods.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
It is called whoa, whoa, whoa. Now I like that
thirty percent cheaper. Bring on the robots.

Speaker 8 (46:00):
Ni's founder Sasha Djokick.

Speaker 10 (46:01):
With the help of AI, we make sure that every
design we show to our clients it's already buildable. We
know that how many panels we need to build. We
know what's the design of those panels.

Speaker 9 (46:13):
Cosmic is currently working to build fifty houses, and for
every time they build, Cosmic has pledged to donate one
house to an underinsured family in Pacific Policy.

Speaker 8 (46:21):
It's California, Max Gordon, Fox Business.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Okay, I need to learn more about this because I've
been hearing that they have not issued any permits yet.
So apparently somebody's getting permits and they're building somewhere. All right, Well,
out of time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show.
I appreciate very much you listening to ed. As they
say in Sarahland, have a good one, and as they

(46:45):
say in Theodore, take it easy, and as they say
in some gas stations in midtown, keep it easy.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
All right.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
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