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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Proverbs twenty five sixteen. The King James version, hast thou
found honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
lest thou be filled therewith and vomit it. The new
International version, if you find honey, eat just enough, too
much of it, and you will vomit, Proverbs twenty five sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
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we can be talking about, things going on locally, statewide,
national level, international level, galactic levels, interdimensional level, spiritual level.
There's just so many things to talk about on the
unclendar shows. I said two five one four seven nine two.
That's two five one nine three. Now before we get
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to anything national or international, and there's plenty of that,
like President Trump flying around the Middle East, signing deals
with this country in that country, accepting gifts, selling stuff
to them planes and drones and stuff. And then on
the state level, legislature and their last legislative day today.
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But on the local level, on the local level, we
do have a mayor's race and city council race coming up.
I got a voicemail about the mayor's race. Let's listen.
RT is calling back in he has concerns about the
mayor's race.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Hey, good afternoon, Local Unity is RT. Hey, uh, I'm
really starting to get concerned about this mayor's race.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Hey, before we find out, why are you? Are you
concerned about it or not? I mean, there's lots of candidates.
There's lots of candidates, and every now and again something
is said on social media where people in comments sections
will laugh at each other's comments or point bangers at
each other. But as are you concerned?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Are you actually concerned? At this point? You got a
lot of choices. I'm still waiting for more people to
jump in the mayor's race. I know you think there's
already maybe too many or just the right amount. But
as a longtime viewer of the Mayor's Racism Mobile and
also longtime watcher as a host in news talk radio,
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I'm still waiting for a truly legitimate lunatic to run.
And we've got now there is at least one person
that's kind of off and I will not name them,
but no real loons, and we've had them in the past.
We've had and to no offense. And I'm not going
to name names because I don't want to hur anybody's
feelings or their family. I don't want their families to
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be upset when I talk about former candidates being kind
of out of their minds. And I'm still waiting for
somebody out of their mind to jump in just for
some entertainment value. But we still have time. There's still
time for people to jump in. But anyway, are you concerned?
RT is really starting to get concerned, right, Let's find
out why he is concerned.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Concerned about this mayor's race. You know, all the I believe,
all our fellow listeners on the show and everything or
arguing between Connie and Spiro and even Paul Prime. Yeah,
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but you know that's all good and time, But there's
a whole lot of Democrats in our city, and if
they line up between behind one candidate, all that ca
that has to do is hit fifty. It's over with.
It will be over with on what August twenty sixth
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I believe totally over with. It's done. And the ramifications
of a democratic mayor may not be may not be
very good, Uncle Henry. Right now, I feel like Mobile
is open for business and we're all getting along. Yeah,
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you know, pretty good with staying out of most of
the turmoil. I'm not so sure if a Democrat takes
over the mayor's office anyway, we need to think about this.
Have a good day, roll tide all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Right, thank it, roll tied back to you, RT. Thank
you very much for your concern sharing. Thank you for
sharing your beginning of concern about how the mayor phrase
may turn out in the city of Mobile. Now, and
I know you're talking about Democrat mayors. Now, if you
were to ask, there are democrats running. Pretty obvious there's
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democrats running, because I believe Barbara Drummond got endorsed by
the former Democrat Senator Doug Jones, So it's yeah, there's
democrats running. But if you were to ask them about it,
they'd say, oh, no, these these mayoral races, these city
council races are non partisan. But yeah, there, Look they're
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either lean. They either lean Republican or Democrat one way
or the other. Most of these folks running from mayor,
So I don't know. In the next mayor's forum, I
don't know how many are going to be lined up
between now and time to vote. Maybe somebody can ask
the question, do any of you candidates plan to wreck
the city? Just come out and ask, just it never
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hurts to ask. By the way, it never does hurt
to ask. Learn not to be afraid of no, and
there are a lot more doors will open in your
life if you learn not to be afraid of the
word no and just just go ahead and ask. So
at the next mayor's form, maybe each candidate could be asked, hey,
I just need to make sure are you going to
wreck the city? We'd like to stay. Now what RT
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said that the city's been staying out of most of
the turmoil, I don't know. I don't know exactly what
turmoil that is. So maybe we could ask, are you
planning to bring any turmoil? I don't know there's still
time to figure it out. RT, don't get too concerned.
There's still time to figure it all out. And as
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I mentioned before I played your voicemail, there's still time
for other people. There could be other people jumping into
the race. You never know, And as I said, just
for pure entertainment value, kind of hoping. I can't remember
those guy's name. There was one guy that ran and
years ago. That was his most notable thing about him
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was he was a stamp collector. Do you remember that guy?
He was There was no other way to describing the
media would describe him as a stamp collector. So I'm
waiting for that, just for some pure entertainment value to
the mayor's race. But I know we all want a
good mayor, no matter who that is. We want a
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good mayor to keep the city out of turmoil. Right,
there's a lot more to get to you. If you
call him, we'll get to you. And if not, I
got a I got a whole sack of junk.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
To go through.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Here, Uncle Henry Show, proceeding forward in the time stream
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callers waiting to talk on the Uncle Henry Show. Hello Coller,
(09:28):
Hello caller. Now do you think this is a rear
end dial or something?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I wonder if somebody's been kidnapped or they're being human
trafficked and they've called the show just so we can
hear them being drug off or something. All right, now
they hung up. All right, we'll very good. Maybe that
was an accidental somebody accidentally what do they call that
a rear end dial? You know what I could tell
I could do an entire hour taking those kind of calls.
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Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
the telephone number, Hello Collor.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Hello, go Henry. Yes, sir, this is the Alabama Bushog.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Colin the Alabama bush Hog. You are live on the
air now. You left a voicemail earlier this week, uh
talking about Rumble. So if we look up Alabama bush
Hog on Rumble, will we find you.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Well, the thing is, Uncle Henry. I came up with
the Alabama busshog handle because I joined Rumble during the
Biden administration. Yeah, and I didn't want to get in
trouble with my real name.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh okay, well that's not a bad name. Alabama bush Hog.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Well, I feared it was cool. I mean, I'm from Alabama,
I'm from the country, so you know it did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All right, So we look you up on Rumble Alabama
bush Hog.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yes, and and there you will find Mobile Pirate Radio.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Okay, that's me Rob Morris.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay, well, now Rob, that's a perfectly fine name, but
I would prefer to call you the bush Hog, so.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Uh am, I just keep that name. Okay, all right,
Well we used talking about the Alabama politics. Why don't
you just run from mayor?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well, because I wouldn't get enough votes to win would
be one reason. And it's uh well, yeah, I think
if I joined the campaign, I can min it to
help you out a little. Well, okay, I would have
your vote, but that would still not enough be enough
votes to win. And at this point there would be
no money for donations. Everybody's picked their candidates, so it
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would just be I would be the lunatic that joined
the I don't want to be the crazy person that
joins the mayor's race at the last minute. I want
to leave that up to somebody else.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I get that you can keep your dignity that way. Yes, yes, yes,
that makes a lot of sense. Well, besides, I don't hurry.
I wonder if you, if you was to run from marriage,
would you support pick a ball?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, I don't, look, uh, whatever person, whatever a person
wants to do in their spare time like that, I don't.
I figure it's none of my business. If you want
to if that's the way you want to roll, then
go ahead and do it. Just leave me out of it.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Well look here, I've never seen it before in my life.
I've heard about it. It's spreading it all across everywhere.
Pick a ball, of course being built, people playing it. So,
but my only concern is I was wondering, now are
hot dog vendors sponsoring these matches?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
First of all, I have no idea. I don't I
don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well they should be, Uncle Henry, because now once they
start bawling and playing pick a ball on the court,
senilar lady going, why end up with a pickle relish
mess all over the place.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Think about it.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You got pickle relics on your racket. You're on clothes
on the court. I bet they'd have a couple of
guys on the side of the court with a squeezy pass,
wheezing it off the court so you can have the
last match, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Oh, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right, Well maybe that's a connection. Maybe that'd be a
good connection for somebody for a hot dog bender.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
It could be because look here, you could even run
down the road in your own deal. Go on on,
Henry and honk your horn, hollering, pick hot dogs and
several freak pickle relives right here. You can make some
money on the side.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
All right, well, what why don't you start and then
let me know how it goes.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I just might do that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I might.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I might do it live and send it to you.
Let's see what happened.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, Well, hey bush hok, thank you for your
I've got other people waiting. Thank you for your call. Uh,
let me know how that all works out.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
It's been the pleasure talking to your uncle, and we
have a great show en.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Road time row.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Thank you the Alabama bush hog. That's easy to remember.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Hello Coller, Hello of color, Yes, his shoulder.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
I called the endorsement. Endorsement, Paul prior premor, tell it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Tell us, tell us, tell us about why you're.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Voting for him, cause I worked before him. He's a fireman. Okay,
tell the person and everything I know it's brought law.
He's a good person too, so his hoptown is real
nice people in pow work with a sister and all
good people.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
All right. Well, that that's a good That is a
ringing endorsement, because you want a candidate eight that has
good brothers and sisters in laws.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Yes, sir, he's like he's a bie man the five
off the city.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Okay, hey, will road tied roll Tarro.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thank you very much for calling about you can't and
I do enjoy getting the candidate shout out calls. I
really do. Uh two five one four seven nine seven
two three the telephone number.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hello caller, good good eatinging, Uncle Henry?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Hey Bert Bert? What do you eat? What have you
been up to? Burt?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Can I get in a quick little plug for something
that I'm fixing to be involved in?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Please do? Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:41):
This coming Sunday. I'm playing a benefit for a cancer
patient at the Zebra Club on Dauphin Island Parkway in
the rip.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Van Rock Band, The Rip Van Rock Band.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Yes, sir, okay, mission is free. They're gonna have apples
and be selling up chicken dinners. There's going to be
several bands playing. It's kind of like a battle of
the bands.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Hey, so this is Sunday at the Zebra Club.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
What time starting at noon?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Okay? Now tell me about your band, the band you're in.
Tell us some of the songs you're going to be playing.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
A lot of old seventies rock, some Alman Brothers, Bad Company,
Delbert McClinton, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What about the Pina Colada song?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Never in a million years? Why not? That song is
on the soundtrack in Hell.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, So no Pina Klada song. But but don't
you think Bad Company is all over that soundtrack?
Speaker 9 (16:51):
I don't know it was. I guess the song was
released around the same time that Bad Company was putting
out a lot of good hits. But I just I
just can't see myself singing that they'd have to offer
me a whole lot of money, all right, something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
All right, Well, I'm going so this is this is
this is a benefit for a cancer patient and it's
going to be at the Zebra Club on d IP
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Is that right, Sunday beginning at noon from noon to
about five.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, well, I hope you all right. I hope
you raise a lot of money out there for that person.
I really do.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Thank you, Uncle Henry, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
There he goes, There goes Bert got to go to
the break now, but bad company. Every time the song
rock and roll Fantasy comes on, I want to slam
my head into a wall, but I don't because that
would be unfair to me. Uncle Henry. Show here on
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Speaker 7 (19:32):
Hello, Color, Hey Henry, Jimmy the economists.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm doing great, Jimmy, what is on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
It was nice to hear from one note Bird. It's
been a long while I heard that voice. But uh,
you remember that lady ran from Mayor and Mobile is
very fitty, dolorous and uh, you don't even know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yes, I remember her.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
She wanted to bring a petting zoo to downtown right
as part of the city You know every taxpayer would
love to see their money go towards a petting zoo.
I think she. I think she wanted to have it
in Vinville Square, if my memory's correct.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Do you do you remember she also talked about how
the city needed to champion horse racing. You remember that?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah, I'm not sure where that would have happened. Maybe
out at the dog track, but uh, Dolores. Do you
remember her last name or how many votes she ever got?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I don't remember the vote total. I think it was
Dolores Brown, but I'm not I'll have to look that up.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, if I was in Mobile, I would will
vote for her. I don't live in Mobile, but that
would be the ideal candidate. She certainly got her priorities
in order, like most of all the current administration. The
petting zoo in a horse track, and I'm sure she
wouldn't have done. You the cruise ship parking deck that
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they're now talking about having to tear down because it
was built like a piece of jump. But Delorus, there
was another politician. I think he became President, Barry Obama.
I'm not sure whatever happened to him either, kind of
like Dolorus, you know, there's video of him working out
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and he looked like Lamar Latrelle from a Revenge of
the nurs.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I think I do remember that. I think I remember that.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yes, it's funny how I can kind of bring up
these old timy things in my head and catch a
laugh out of it. But Barry gave me much bigger
laugh than THELRUS. She's much more serious candidate.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She was.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Yeah, okay, well, I'm glad you reminded me Dolores Brown.
I encourage her to run for mayor because the current
list is uh, pretty weak. See you later, all.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, thank you very much. Jimmy the Economist a rare.
He's normally very serious when he calls the program because
he's been thinking about economics. And if you think about
economics and then you also think about how the government
handles economics in the country, it can make you very
serious and it can make you seriously ill. But uh,
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he got it. He sounded a little lighthearted there. And
now I don't I think Brown was her last name,
but I'm not sure. It's been a long time since
I have thought of her. Uh, but there we have
had some wild times with people running for mayor of
the city of Mobile two five one four seven nine
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two seven two three. The telephone number that's two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. Email address
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Sixty eight year old
Christopher west Locksley with a message. By the way to
leave a voicemail. The number to do that is two
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Two
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Troul that.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Have you noticed on these commercials about these new drugs
and everything, all these drug commercials that they're going to
do this for you and that for you considering what
sort of an ailment or disease you might have.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Have you noticed on them?
Speaker 10 (23:32):
That these spots will run about I'm guessing I'm not
timed them yet, maybe sixty seconds to two minutes, and
they'll spend they'll start out by telling you you know,
what it treats you for and whatnot, and that lasts
about I'm guessing twenty maybe thirty seconds tops, and then
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they'll spend the rest of the commercial telling you the
side effects pretty much tacked it almost if not kid right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And I'm I'm sorry to pause you there. Sixty eight
year old Chris. We've all any of us that watched
television have seen all of these pharmaceutical ads for the
past several years. And it was yesterday. I don't remember
what the product was, but somebody that sounded just like
Morgan Freeman was telling me about the possibility of having
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diarrhea if I took it, and I thought, if that's
really Morgan Freeman, God bless him. Does he need that money?
Does he need the money bad enough to go in
there and read a script about how you might get
diarrhea if you take this. But back to your message, Yes, yes,
all of the things you've said are true. They spend
about fifteen seconds telling you how your life will be better,
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and they'll show a person that is, some of the
times ethnically unidentifiable, so that they will appeal to every demographic,
and they'll show them doing Tae Kwon on dough, or
or working in the garden, or or doing something frolicking
in in a flower filled meadow. And then they say, oh,
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by the way, if you take this, you need to
let your doctor know if you have suicidal thoughts in diarrhea.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
If not, kids, I don't want something if I've got
a condition. I don't want something that's gonna possibly cause
me the sphere. It says, you know, if you if
you have flu like symptoms, or if you start vomiting,
or blood pressure gets real high, or do this, do
that or call this number. I don't want no part
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of anything like that. I don't know how you feel
about it, but come on, Bobby Kenning Jr. Do your think? Brother?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Sixty eight year old Chrystal west Locksley, thank you for
the voicemail, Boyeman number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. I also can't stand watching these commercials.
Of course, I've never learned anything that's helped me by
watching the pharmaceutical ads, even if it's for a condition
i've got. I've learned more about marketing than I've learned
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about pharmaceuticals or anything else by watching those ads. There's
a there's one for one of the weight loss drugs,
the fat Shot, as President Trump called it. There's one
of these ads where they give you the impression if
you watch it, that everybody on the planet is on it.
Where you know the ad I'm talking about where people
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are going about their business and then they walk out
into the street and join a giant crowd that is
all walking in the same direction to nice sounding music,
and they're all losing weight together. We're all losing weight together.
There's a big crowd of us what And I always
think of Lemmings whenever I see it. I think of
the I wonder if these these people are are going
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to walk off a cliff together. But anyway, sixty eight
year old Chris, thank you. Yes. I cannot stand the
pharmaceutical ads. And it's at a point where if I'm
watching a TV show and there's a commercial for detergent,
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like laundry detergent, I get happy. I get happy that
it's a laundry detergent commercial and not some drug that
if I take it, I need to call my doctor
as quickly as possible because I might have a suicidal
thought after taking it. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seventy
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That's two five one, four, seven nine two seventy two three.
Let me go to another voicemail message that was phoned
in by a longtime listener.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
Hey, uh, it's Pat and Ellie. I hope you're having
a great afternoon.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Hey, listen, Trump.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Was recently talking about lowering drug prices for all Americans.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Which be Hey, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 11 (28:51):
And you use the example of his friend went to
go get the fat drug over in Europe it only
costs fifteen dollars, but here in America it was twelve
hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Pro said that.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
If he cured cancer, the Democrats wouldn't applaud. Well, unt,
I'm convinced two people that Donald Trump doesn't need to
try to and press us Democrats and people who walk
around with mask in public. Anyways, unh, I hope you
have a great afternoon and roll tide.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Roll tydrow Pat Nally, thank you very much for your voicemail.
The voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. I would love for the drug prices to
go down as much as the President says they can
go down. Would love to see that happen. Uh, it
is it is watching all of the stuff that the
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Trump administration is trying to do for people more and more.
I've always wondered this, but now it's it's frequently throughout
the day I keep wondering, what is what has Congress
been up to? Ever? I mean, what do they do?
What do they do up there? What are they doing
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that I don't know about? Because it sure doesn't look
like they're up to much doesn't. And he comes up
with all these things that that seem like most people
would want to be in favor of, like finding a
way to lower prescription drug prices. That would be a
help for a lot of people in this country that
need that kind of help. So why wouldn't you try
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and do it? And we just look at Congress and
wonder what have they been up to? I think the
only thing that I've noticed that Congress is done in
the last several weeks is passed some kind of past
this Gulf of America bill that it's kind of fun.
I mean, it's it's it always makes me smile when
I when I hear about the Gulf of America. But
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is there are there any other things maybe that would
impact our lives, that could be done in a positive
way by the Congress. It is the Congress has always had,
at least since they've been doing these these public opinion
polls ranking ranking Congress asking people about their job performance,
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Congress has always gotten a low a low number. But
have they ever looked worse?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
To me?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
They look awful. They just and and that's all of them,
not just one party. I just what are they doing
up there? Has there been any effort by the Republicans
in Congress to move forward and take some of these
executive orders and actually make them into law. It just
it just looks like they ain't doing nothing up there.
(31:46):
I guess it's a good job if you can get
it all right. Almost out of time here, I got
a voicemail from someone named Norman, a different Norman than
the regular Norman that calls. I'd mentioned earlier this week
that my new wife got very upset with me because
I honked my horn at somebody in traffic that was
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sitting in a red light. And this man wanted to
call in about honking a horn. You can't hear a
lot of the beginning of his message.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Hey yah, horn horn gets all me.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He's about gonna try and talk about horn honking sitting
there at a light. So he's talking about somebody sitting
in the light and wanting to honk a horn at him.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
They doing what they're doing, they're talking on the phone.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Or they're distracted.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
What she always.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Complains about is you know you all right?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
This is he's talking about his wife complaining about him
honking his horn.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
What she always complains about is, you know, you beat
your horn at somebody.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
You don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
They made you fall out of the fallout of the vehicle.
Ohased and all grazed and all confused and all crazy.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
For the gun.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
But guess what, I got one too. But you know
I don't want nothing like.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
That to happen.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But still, you know, I don't mind giving them a
little beat beat to get them going because they are
holding up traffic.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Have a good day and roll tide road, sir.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Thank you Norman for your phone call. Uh and that's you.
You bring up a good point that everybody should remember
when they get mad at another driver and want to
confront them. The other driver may be packing, that may
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be packing more than the bird that they're gonna flip.
So let's all be careful and respectful. Back with more
Uncle Henry Show after the news break on WNTM. This
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is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry Shaw.
I appreciate it very very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm going to get to some news items,
perhaps a voicemailer two. I want to start once again
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on a familiar topic, and that is the legalization of
dope smoking throughout the country and in the state of Alabama.
I've set on the radio for many, many years, perhaps decades,
that I I felt that Alabama would be the last state. Yes,
I've always felt that Alabama would be the last state
that would legal lives the dope smoking. And I thought
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I was going to be wrong about this prediction because
we did have medical marijuana. Medical marijuana was passed by
the Alabama legislature and signed into law by Governor k Ivy.
I guess it was over four years ago that this happened,
and I thought, well, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe Alabama will
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not be the last state to legal lives dope smoking,
even for medical reasons. And by the way, in case
you're wondering for medical I do believe there are medical
applications for this. Now I'm not a doctor, or even
I don't really well I think. I think I've got
one doctor that's a cousin, and he doesn't talk to me.
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We're not in a feud, but I'm just not smart
enough and he doesn't want to waste his time with me.
But I'm not a doctor, so I don't know smart
stuff about it. But I do know I do believe personally,
anecdotally that there are some medical applications for it. And
I say that because I did have a friend who
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died of cancer, and I know that smoking illegal dope
was about some of the only relief the guy got
it in the last couple of months of his life.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It was.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It was And you may have been through this as well,
seeing somebody pass away from from having cancer and going
through all that, and I know that he got relief
from it. And so I don't want to deny people
that are that are in hospice or something if they
want to use this, if it gives them any kind
of relief, I don't want to. I don't want to
deny somebody that is going through that kind of a
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nightmarish situation some kind of relief, So I would I
would make it legal for that, and there may be
some other medical benefits.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
There has not been a tremendous amount of research on it,
but because it's been classified the way it's been classified
by the federal government, that just hadn't been a lot
of research. There's probably been more research in the last
ten or fifteen years than have been done in decades before.
But anyway, Alabama passing this into law that medical marijuana
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could be something that we can have in Alabama. In
the legislature, they worked on it for years. They did
their best to take all of the enjoyment out of
it so that you could not party on it. They
were trying to make sure that, for example, you couldn't
have certain flavors of gummies and things. In fact, if
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I remember correctly, it was gelatinous cubes. Yeah, gelatinous cubes
that would only be available in certain flavors. Alabama did
a good job trying to take all the partying out
of it. Well, I'm bringing it up because yesterday another
law lawsuit was filed. It's been over four years. Listen,
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I've got the story. This is very brief. This is
from WSFA stepsister station to Foxten, WSFA and mayor in Montgomery.
Here's what they had to say about this brand new lawsuit.
Speaker 12 (38:16):
Tonight, a company has filed a federal lawsuit against members
of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission. The Alabama Always LLC
group filed the suit. It claims that commissioners and staff
have violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Alabama Always
is one of the companies applying for an integrative license
in the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Officials now they're calling it a burgeoning, a burgeoning medical
marijuana industry. That's still I mean, how can it be burgeoning?
How can it burgeon? I need to look up burgeoning.
How can you burgeon when there isn't any I mean,
maybe they're gearing up for it or whatever, but how
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can it be burgeon if no one's actually sold an
no patient. There is no patient in Alabama that's gotten it,
So how's it burgeoning?
Speaker 12 (39:10):
Was alleged that members of the commission retaliated against the
company for their criticism. They have filed suits in state
court as well. We reached out to the Cannabis Commission
for a response, but have not heard back. Medical cannabis
was approved four years ago in Alabama or because of
delays at the state level, it still is not available
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to patients.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
How about that for you? So Alabama may may there's
still a change from Alabama maybe the last state, or
may never. There's you know what, Alabama may never make
it legal. In fact, here's another news on them, because
hemp is legal and there's some kind of federal loophole
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about hemp and getting THC at a hemp. Now this
was covered on the Uncle Henry Show already, I think
this week about how there's a bill that Governor Ivy
is going to I don't know if she's already signed
it today or is going to sign it soon, but
it's going to strictly regulate hemp products in Alabama. Here
is a report from w I think it's WAAF in Huntsville,
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another step sister station of Fox ten about what businesses
are saying that are already selling. There's a bunch of businesses,
even in Mobile selling all these hemp products and they
may need they may not be selling them next year.
Speaker 13 (40:31):
In the state legislature, hanging in the balance tonight, Pausville
four forty five, which will strictly regulate hemp products across Alabama,
is winning a decision from Governor Ivy Wafa forty eight.
Savanasapps shares the concerns of small business owners.
Speaker 14 (40:47):
Liz.
Speaker 15 (40:48):
The Hump bill aims to put strict regulations on hmp
products in our state, either banning them altogether or significantly
reducing their dosage. Business owners here in Fort Payne tell
me this is a drastic solution that could eliminate small
businesses like dispensaries and locally owned smoke shops. Houseville four
forty five, backed by Representative Andy Witt, is set to
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ban inhalable hemp products, lower the dosage of edibles, and
restrict how these products are manufactured.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
See this is why I think it'll never be legal
in Alabama. I mean there, this is not even the
actual marijuana, this is the hemp. And they're already they're
already getting rid of where you won't be able to
buy anything smokable, only edible, and they're going to lower
the dosages to make sure you can't party on it.
Speaker 15 (41:34):
It's also set to remove these products from gas stations
and place a tax on them, which will drive up prices.
Wit previously shared with me that this was all to
keep THHC out of the hands of our children. However,
to Cab Dispensary owner Thomas Sumifer tells me nearly eliminating
the products altogether is not the answer, and he feels
it will be the demise of his business and many others.
Speaker 16 (41:56):
If you're that worried about the children, get rid of
the alcohol, get rid of the tobacco. Put these in
stores that are twenty one and up. Only let us
self regulate, and let's.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
At right, let us self regulate. Every government that I've
ever run into, at every level, they don't want you
to self regulate.
Speaker 16 (42:19):
Let's move forward with this. There's no sense in nuke
and the whole thing.
Speaker 15 (42:24):
And over one thousand Alabamians have signed a petition for
Governor Ivy to veto House bill for forty five. Officials
with Ivy's office tell us this bill is still under review,
reporting in four Payne Savannah side forty eight News on
your side.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
All right, still under review. So I wonder, m all right, well,
Alabama might be the lamp may never legalize the dope
smoking and who knows, maybe that'll be a positive in
an entire country of stoned people. All right, back with
more Uncle Henry's Show after the break. Let's take the
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break here on news radio set ten WNTM Uncle Henry's Show.
(43:21):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I got a
news item for you about the dredging and the bay.
There's going to be a town hall meeting held in
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Theodore tomorrow night at six o'clock. This is about the
federal government doing that dredging work. Horror of engineers dumping
mud in the bay from the dredging, and a lot
of people are upset about it enough to have a
town hall meeting. So this is scheduled for tomorrow night,
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six to seven thirty pm at St. Philip Neary Catholic
Church in Theodore. This is being put on by a
mobile baykeeper. They say that you'll have an opportunity to
talk and ask questions of oysterman charter captains, commercial fishermen
and some marine scientists there about the effects of the
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mud dumping from the dredging in the bay. There's some
people that are trying to stop the dumping of the mud.
They want it handled differently. Now I'm not an expert
on well I know about mud. It's it was always
a great fun when I was a kid mud, What
fun it was. Now as an adult, not as big
a fan of mud, But when I was a kid,
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what fun I had? What fun I had with the mud?
Back in the day, we didn't have money for toys.
I've talked about this many times on the show. My
favorite toys as a child were sticks, sticks and branches,
pine cones, and dirt. I'm not going to go into
(45:08):
a lengthy discussion I've done it many times before about
how wonderful dirt is as a toy. But one way
that it was fun was when you put water with
the dirt and you can make mud. But we're not
talking about the fun kind of mud. We're talking about
mud that's upsetting these fishermen and these oystermen. So here's
a brief story from Fox ten about all of this.
(45:31):
Here is Lenise Lagon and Cameering Tailor introducing a story
by Shelby Myers of Fox ten about the mud and
how people don't like.
Speaker 17 (45:41):
It burns about how dredge materials being handled Inmobile Bay.
It's part of the ongoing Channel deepening and widening project.
Speaker 18 (45:48):
He is siting with a local environmental group, saying there
has to be another way to dispose of the excess mud.
The Army Corps of Engineers. They're pushing back, insisting the
practices are safe and well studied.
Speaker 17 (46:00):
Our Shelby Myers is digging into both arguments and Shelby
walk us through what you found out well.
Speaker 14 (46:04):
Cameron LaNese drone video shared by the environmental group Mobile
Baykeeper shows mud being returned to the base, sparking questions
from Alabama State Senator Chris Elliot, and one local shrimper
we spoke with says it's already making his job harder.
M Alabama State Senator Chris Elliott taking to social media
sharing this drone video with the caption there's a better
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way to do this like Mobile Baykeeper. Senator Elliott supports
the deepening and widening project of the Ship Channel, but
wants to find alternatives to how the dredged mud is handled.
Speaker 19 (46:39):
We just have got to get a better way of
dealing with the dredge material and it can't simply be
disposing of it in open water.
Speaker 14 (46:47):
The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently deepening the
ship channel to accommodate larger vessels. By law, they must
use at least seventy percent of suitable dredge material for
beneficial use, like creating wetlands or reinforcing shorelines on Dauphin Island.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
But and benefit now, I've never thought of the beneficial
use of mud you just heard her say, for you know,
helping a shoreline or creating wetlands. What about playing? That's
not mentioned? You know I enjoyed as a kid. I
loved it. Maybe they could have a special mud park.
(47:25):
Everybody has all these water parks that cost a lot
of money. What about a mud park? What a mud
park be fun?
Speaker 14 (47:31):
But some of the remaining mud is being returned to
the bay through a process called thin layer placement, which
critics refer to as federal mud dumping.
Speaker 16 (47:41):
And that does smother what's called benthic organisms or critters
that live in the mud that's already there, and fish,
of course feed on that.
Speaker 14 (47:50):
Local shrimper Patrick Gormandy is one of only about a
dozen who shrimps in the Mobile Channel with this project.
Speaker 19 (47:57):
We have no idea what the future holds for us.
Speaker 14 (48:00):
He says he's worried the dumping could cover up shrimp
eggs and affect his and other shrimper's livelihood.
Speaker 19 (48:06):
When they pump this mud into particular spots, that spot
becomes off limit for a pretty long amount of time
because it's silty, and then their nets get damaged and
they get stuck in the.
Speaker 9 (48:18):
Mud, so.
Speaker 19 (48:20):
They are forced out of these areas, or there's areas
that they can't work anymore. Sometimes it takes a year,
sometimes it takes two years, and there's other areas that
they've never been.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Able to work.
Speaker 14 (48:31):
The corp of Engineer says the sediment is not harmful
and may be beneficial. They sent us this statement that reads,
in part quote, thin layer placement is a widely accepted
best practice by the environmental and dredging industries. The Core
of Engineers tells me the deepening and widening project is
expected to be complete in June. We'll have more of
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their statement on foxtontv dot com. Now, if you want
to be a part of this conversation, Mobile Baykeeper is
hosting a town hall this third say, at six at
Saint Philip Mary Catholic Church in Theodore in the Studio tonight,
Shelby Myers, Foxen News.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Okay, all right, well, looking forward to seeing what they
learn about all this. What has decided about it? It
sounds like it's already decided and people are just airing
their complaints about it. But we'll of course follow this
because many of us love Mobile Bay and all that
it has to offer us. Now a reminder that you
(49:27):
can listen to previous episodes of The Uncle Henry Show
as a podcast. You can find the podcast on the
iHeartRadio app or at NewsRadio seven ten dot com. If
you don't like the show, you might want to download
episodes of it just to delete them. Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Download them and delete them.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I'll still get credit for him, all right, Thank you
for listening. As they say in Sarahland, have a good one,
and as they say in Theodore, take it evesye
Speaker 7 (49:55):
All right later
Proverbs twenty five sixteen. The King James version, hast thou
found honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee,
lest thou be filled therewith and vomit it. The new
International version, if you find honey, eat just enough, too
much of it, and you will vomit, Proverbs twenty five sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
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(01:44):
we can be talking about, things going on locally, statewide,
national level, international level, galactic levels, interdimensional level, spiritual level.
There's just so many things to talk about on the
unclendar shows. I said two five one four seven nine two.
That's two five one nine three. Now before we get
(02:04):
to anything national or international, and there's plenty of that,
like President Trump flying around the Middle East, signing deals
with this country in that country, accepting gifts, selling stuff
to them planes and drones and stuff. And then on
the state level, legislature and their last legislative day today.
(02:27):
But on the local level, on the local level, we
do have a mayor's race and city council race coming up.
I got a voicemail about the mayor's race. Let's listen.
RT is calling back in he has concerns about the
mayor's race.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Hey, good afternoon, Local Unity is RT. Hey, uh, I'm
really starting to get concerned about this mayor's race.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Hey, before we find out, why are you? Are you
concerned about it or not? I mean, there's lots of candidates.
There's lots of candidates, and every now and again something
is said on social media where people in comments sections
will laugh at each other's comments or point bangers at
each other. But as are you concerned?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Are you actually concerned? At this point? You got a
lot of choices. I'm still waiting for more people to
jump in the mayor's race. I know you think there's
already maybe too many or just the right amount. But
as a longtime viewer of the Mayor's Racism Mobile and
also longtime watcher as a host in news talk radio,
(03:41):
I'm still waiting for a truly legitimate lunatic to run.
And we've got now there is at least one person
that's kind of off and I will not name them,
but no real loons, and we've had them in the past.
We've had and to no offense. And I'm not going
to name names because I don't want to hur anybody's
feelings or their family. I don't want their families to
(04:03):
be upset when I talk about former candidates being kind
of out of their minds. And I'm still waiting for
somebody out of their mind to jump in just for
some entertainment value. But we still have time. There's still
time for people to jump in. But anyway, are you concerned?
RT is really starting to get concerned, right, Let's find
out why he is concerned.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Concerned about this mayor's race. You know, all the I believe,
all our fellow listeners on the show and everything or
arguing between Connie and Spiro and even Paul Prime. Yeah,
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but you know that's all good and time, But there's
a whole lot of Democrats in our city, and if
they line up between behind one candidate, all that ca
that has to do is hit fifty. It's over with.
It will be over with on what August twenty sixth
(05:07):
I believe totally over with. It's done. And the ramifications
of a democratic mayor may not be may not be
very good, Uncle Henry. Right now, I feel like Mobile
is open for business and we're all getting along. Yeah,
(05:30):
you know, pretty good with staying out of most of
the turmoil. I'm not so sure if a Democrat takes
over the mayor's office anyway, we need to think about this.
Have a good day, roll tide all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Right, thank it, roll tied back to you, RT. Thank
you very much for your concern sharing. Thank you for
sharing your beginning of concern about how the mayor phrase
may turn out in the city of Mobile. Now, and
I know you're talking about Democrat mayors. Now, if you
were to ask, there are democrats running. Pretty obvious there's
(06:08):
democrats running, because I believe Barbara Drummond got endorsed by
the former Democrat Senator Doug Jones, So it's yeah, there's
democrats running. But if you were to ask them about it,
they'd say, oh, no, these these mayoral races, these city
council races are non partisan. But yeah, there, Look they're
(06:31):
either lean. They either lean Republican or Democrat one way
or the other. Most of these folks running from mayor,
So I don't know. In the next mayor's forum, I
don't know how many are going to be lined up
between now and time to vote. Maybe somebody can ask
the question, do any of you candidates plan to wreck
the city? Just come out and ask, just it never
(06:56):
hurts to ask. By the way, it never does hurt
to ask. Learn not to be afraid of no, and
there are a lot more doors will open in your
life if you learn not to be afraid of the
word no and just just go ahead and ask. So
at the next mayor's form, maybe each candidate could be asked, hey,
I just need to make sure are you going to
wreck the city? We'd like to stay. Now what RT
(07:20):
said that the city's been staying out of most of
the turmoil, I don't know. I don't know exactly what
turmoil that is. So maybe we could ask, are you
planning to bring any turmoil? I don't know there's still
time to figure it out. RT, don't get too concerned.
There's still time to figure it all out. And as
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I mentioned before I played your voicemail, there's still time
for other people. There could be other people jumping into
the race. You never know, And as I said, just
for pure entertainment value, kind of hoping. I can't remember
those guy's name. There was one guy that ran and
years ago. That was his most notable thing about him
(08:04):
was he was a stamp collector. Do you remember that guy?
He was There was no other way to describing the
media would describe him as a stamp collector. So I'm
waiting for that, just for some pure entertainment value to
the mayor's race. But I know we all want a
good mayor, no matter who that is. We want a
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good mayor to keep the city out of turmoil. Right,
there's a lot more to get to you. If you
call him, we'll get to you. And if not, I
got a I got a whole sack of junk.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
To go through.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Here, Uncle Henry Show, proceeding forward in the time stream
on this Wednesday, there's beautiful Wednesday here on News Radio
seven to ten WNTM. Back after the break Uncle Henry Show,
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News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five point
twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes from Fox
ten and from Fox Radio National News. I have some
callers waiting to talk on the Uncle Henry Show. Hello Coller,
(09:28):
Hello caller. Now do you think this is a rear
end dial or something?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I wonder if somebody's been kidnapped or they're being human
trafficked and they've called the show just so we can
hear them being drug off or something. All right, now
they hung up. All right, we'll very good. Maybe that
was an accidental somebody accidentally what do they call that
a rear end dial? You know what I could tell
I could do an entire hour taking those kind of calls.
(10:06):
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
the telephone number, Hello Collor.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Hello, go Henry. Yes, sir, this is the Alabama Bushog.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Colin the Alabama bush Hog. You are live on the
air now. You left a voicemail earlier this week, uh
talking about Rumble. So if we look up Alabama bush
Hog on Rumble, will we find you.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Well, the thing is, Uncle Henry. I came up with
the Alabama busshog handle because I joined Rumble during the
Biden administration. Yeah, and I didn't want to get in
trouble with my real name.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh okay, well that's not a bad name. Alabama bush Hog.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Well, I feared it was cool. I mean, I'm from Alabama,
I'm from the country, so you know it did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All right, So we look you up on Rumble Alabama
bush Hog.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yes, and and there you will find Mobile Pirate Radio.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Okay, that's me Rob Morris.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Okay, well, now Rob, that's a perfectly fine name, but
I would prefer to call you the bush Hog, so.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Uh am, I just keep that name. Okay, all right,
Well we used talking about the Alabama politics. Why don't
you just run from mayor?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well, because I wouldn't get enough votes to win would
be one reason. And it's uh well, yeah, I think
if I joined the campaign, I can min it to
help you out a little. Well, okay, I would have
your vote, but that would still not enough be enough
votes to win. And at this point there would be
no money for donations. Everybody's picked their candidates, so it
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would just be I would be the lunatic that joined
the I don't want to be the crazy person that
joins the mayor's race at the last minute. I want
to leave that up to somebody else.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I get that you can keep your dignity that way. Yes, yes, yes,
that makes a lot of sense. Well, besides, I don't hurry.
I wonder if you, if you was to run from marriage,
would you support pick a ball?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, I don't, look, uh, whatever person, whatever a person
wants to do in their spare time like that, I don't.
I figure it's none of my business. If you want
to if that's the way you want to roll, then
go ahead and do it. Just leave me out of it.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Well look here, I've never seen it before in my life.
I've heard about it. It's spreading it all across everywhere.
Pick a ball, of course being built, people playing it. So,
but my only concern is I was wondering, now are
hot dog vendors sponsoring these matches?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
First of all, I have no idea. I don't I
don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well they should be, Uncle Henry, because now once they
start bawling and playing pick a ball on the court,
senilar lady going, why end up with a pickle relish
mess all over the place.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Think about it.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You got pickle relics on your racket. You're on clothes
on the court. I bet they'd have a couple of
guys on the side of the court with a squeezy pass,
wheezing it off the court so you can have the
last match, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Oh, okay, all.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right, Well maybe that's a connection. Maybe that'd be a
good connection for somebody for a hot dog bender.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
It could be because look here, you could even run
down the road in your own deal. Go on on,
Henry and honk your horn, hollering, pick hot dogs and
several freak pickle relives right here. You can make some
money on the side.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
All right, well, what why don't you start and then
let me know how it goes.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I just might do that.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I might.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I might do it live and send it to you.
Let's see what happened.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, Well, hey bush hok, thank you for your
I've got other people waiting. Thank you for your call. Uh,
let me know how that all works out.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
It's been the pleasure talking to your uncle, and we
have a great show en.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Road time row.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Thank you the Alabama bush hog. That's easy to remember.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Hello Coller, Hello of color, Yes, his shoulder.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
I called the endorsement. Endorsement, Paul prior premor, tell it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Tell us, tell us, tell us about why you're.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Voting for him, cause I worked before him. He's a fireman. Okay,
tell the person and everything I know it's brought law.
He's a good person too, so his hoptown is real
nice people in pow work with a sister and all
good people.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
All right. Well, that that's a good That is a
ringing endorsement, because you want a candidate eight that has
good brothers and sisters in laws.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Yes, sir, he's like he's a bie man the five
off the city.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Okay, hey, will road tied roll Tarro.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thank you very much for calling about you can't and
I do enjoy getting the candidate shout out calls. I
really do. Uh two five one four seven nine seven
two three the telephone number.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hello caller, good good eatinging, Uncle Henry?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Hey Bert Bert? What do you eat? What have you
been up to? Burt?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Can I get in a quick little plug for something
that I'm fixing to be involved in?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Please do? Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:41):
This coming Sunday. I'm playing a benefit for a cancer
patient at the Zebra Club on Dauphin Island Parkway in
the rip.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Van Rock Band, The Rip Van Rock Band.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Yes, sir, okay, mission is free. They're gonna have apples
and be selling up chicken dinners. There's going to be
several bands playing. It's kind of like a battle of
the bands.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Hey, so this is Sunday at the Zebra Club.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
What time starting at noon?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Okay? Now tell me about your band, the band you're in.
Tell us some of the songs you're going to be playing.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
A lot of old seventies rock, some Alman Brothers, Bad Company,
Delbert McClinton, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What about the Pina Colada song?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Never in a million years? Why not? That song is
on the soundtrack in Hell.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
All right, So no Pina Klada song. But but don't
you think Bad Company is all over that soundtrack?
Speaker 9 (16:51):
I don't know it was. I guess the song was
released around the same time that Bad Company was putting
out a lot of good hits. But I just I
just can't see myself singing that they'd have to offer
me a whole lot of money, all right, something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
All right, Well, I'm going so this is this is
this is a benefit for a cancer patient and it's
going to be at the Zebra Club on d IP
Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Is that right, Sunday beginning at noon from noon to
about five.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, well, I hope you all right. I hope
you raise a lot of money out there for that person.
I really do.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Thank you, Uncle Henry, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
There he goes, There goes Bert got to go to
the break now, but bad company. Every time the song
rock and roll Fantasy comes on, I want to slam
my head into a wall, but I don't because that
would be unfair to me. Uncle Henry. Show here on
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news Radio seventy ten WNTM. You can hear me every weekday,
Monday through Friday on ninety five KSJ, where we play
Today's Hottest Country. We're number one for Today's Best Country
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on ninety five KSJ. Now, if you tune in tomorrow,
there's a iHeart Country World premiere of a new song
that is not going to be allowed on streaming services
until tomorrow afternoon. It is a new song. It's a
collaboration between Scotty McCreary, a young country and Western artist.
(18:49):
Scotty McCreary. He does an outstanding job. He is collaborating
with Hooty and the Blowfish, not just Hoody who's been
in country music since I don't know two thousand and eight,
twenty ten. He's collaborating with the Blowfish as well. So
that will be tomorrow. Be listening right after the top
(19:10):
of the hour every hour tomorrow to hear the iHeart
Country World premiere of a new song called Bottle Rockets
from Scotty McCreary and Hoodie in The Elusive Blowfish two
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The telephone number that's two five to one four seven
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Speaker 7 (19:32):
Hello, Color, Hey Henry, Jimmy the economists.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm doing great, Jimmy, what is on your mind today?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
It was nice to hear from one note Bird. It's
been a long while I heard that voice. But uh,
you remember that lady ran from Mayor and Mobile is
very fitty, dolorous and uh, you don't even know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yes, I remember her.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
She wanted to bring a petting zoo to downtown right
as part of the city You know every taxpayer would
love to see their money go towards a petting zoo.
I think she. I think she wanted to have it
in Vinville Square, if my memory's correct.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Do you do you remember she also talked about how
the city needed to champion horse racing. You remember that?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah, I'm not sure where that would have happened. Maybe
out at the dog track, but uh, Dolores. Do you
remember her last name or how many votes she ever got?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I don't remember the vote total. I think it was
Dolores Brown, but I'm not I'll have to look that up.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, if I was in Mobile, I would will
vote for her. I don't live in Mobile, but that
would be the ideal candidate. She certainly got her priorities
in order, like most of all the current administration. The
petting zoo in a horse track, and I'm sure she
wouldn't have done. You the cruise ship parking deck that
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they're now talking about having to tear down because it
was built like a piece of jump. But Delorus, there
was another politician. I think he became President, Barry Obama.
I'm not sure whatever happened to him either, kind of
like Dolorus, you know, there's video of him working out
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and he looked like Lamar Latrelle from a Revenge of
the nurs.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I think I do remember that. I think I remember that.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Yes, it's funny how I can kind of bring up
these old timy things in my head and catch a
laugh out of it. But Barry gave me much bigger
laugh than THELRUS. She's much more serious candidate.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She was.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Yeah, okay, well, I'm glad you reminded me Dolores Brown.
I encourage her to run for mayor because the current
list is uh, pretty weak. See you later, all.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, thank you very much. Jimmy the Economist a rare.
He's normally very serious when he calls the program because
he's been thinking about economics. And if you think about
economics and then you also think about how the government
handles economics in the country, it can make you very
serious and it can make you seriously ill. But uh,
(22:30):
he got it. He sounded a little lighthearted there. And
now I don't I think Brown was her last name,
but I'm not sure. It's been a long time since
I have thought of her. Uh, but there we have
had some wild times with people running for mayor of
the city of Mobile two five one four seven nine
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two seven two three. The telephone number that's two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. Email address
Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Sixty eight year old
Christopher west Locksley with a message. By the way to
leave a voicemail. The number to do that is two
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Two
five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Troul that.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Have you noticed on these commercials about these new drugs
and everything, all these drug commercials that they're going to
do this for you and that for you considering what
sort of an ailment or disease you might have.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Have you noticed on them?
Speaker 10 (23:32):
That these spots will run about I'm guessing I'm not
timed them yet, maybe sixty seconds to two minutes, and
they'll spend they'll start out by telling you you know,
what it treats you for and whatnot, and that lasts
about I'm guessing twenty maybe thirty seconds tops, and then
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they'll spend the rest of the commercial telling you the
side effects pretty much tacked it almost if not kid right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And I'm I'm sorry to pause you there. Sixty eight
year old Chris. We've all any of us that watched
television have seen all of these pharmaceutical ads for the
past several years. And it was yesterday. I don't remember
what the product was, but somebody that sounded just like
Morgan Freeman was telling me about the possibility of having
(24:25):
diarrhea if I took it, and I thought, if that's
really Morgan Freeman, God bless him. Does he need that money?
Does he need the money bad enough to go in
there and read a script about how you might get
diarrhea if you take this. But back to your message, Yes, yes,
all of the things you've said are true. They spend
about fifteen seconds telling you how your life will be better,
(24:49):
and they'll show a person that is, some of the
times ethnically unidentifiable, so that they will appeal to every demographic,
and they'll show them doing Tae Kwon on dough, or
or working in the garden, or or doing something frolicking
in in a flower filled meadow. And then they say, oh,
(25:11):
by the way, if you take this, you need to
let your doctor know if you have suicidal thoughts in diarrhea.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
If not, kids, I don't want something if I've got
a condition. I don't want something that's gonna possibly cause
me the sphere. It says, you know, if you if
you have flu like symptoms, or if you start vomiting,
or blood pressure gets real high, or do this, do
that or call this number. I don't want no part
(25:40):
of anything like that. I don't know how you feel
about it, but come on, Bobby Kenning Jr. Do your think? Brother?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Sixty eight year old Chrystal west Locksley, thank you for
the voicemail, Boyeman number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. I also can't stand watching these commercials.
Of course, I've never learned anything that's helped me by
watching the pharmaceutical ads, even if it's for a condition
i've got. I've learned more about marketing than I've learned
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about pharmaceuticals or anything else by watching those ads. There's
a there's one for one of the weight loss drugs,
the fat Shot, as President Trump called it. There's one
of these ads where they give you the impression if
you watch it, that everybody on the planet is on it.
Where you know the ad I'm talking about where people
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are going about their business and then they walk out
into the street and join a giant crowd that is
all walking in the same direction to nice sounding music,
and they're all losing weight together. We're all losing weight together.
There's a big crowd of us what And I always
think of Lemmings whenever I see it. I think of
the I wonder if these these people are are going
(26:59):
to walk off a cliff together. But anyway, sixty eight
year old Chris, thank you. Yes. I cannot stand the
pharmaceutical ads. And it's at a point where if I'm
watching a TV show and there's a commercial for detergent,
(27:19):
like laundry detergent, I get happy. I get happy that
it's a laundry detergent commercial and not some drug that
if I take it, I need to call my doctor
as quickly as possible because I might have a suicidal
thought after taking it. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seventy
(28:00):
n tim It's five point fifty news headlines coming up
in ten minutes, and then additional Uncle Henry Show telephone
numbers two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
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That's two five one, four, seven nine two seventy two three.
Let me go to another voicemail message that was phoned
in by a longtime listener.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
Hey, uh, it's Pat and Ellie. I hope you're having
a great afternoon.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Hey, listen, Trump.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Was recently talking about lowering drug prices for all Americans.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Which be Hey, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 11 (28:51):
And you use the example of his friend went to
go get the fat drug over in Europe it only
costs fifteen dollars, but here in America it was twelve
hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Pro said that.
Speaker 11 (29:05):
If he cured cancer, the Democrats wouldn't applaud. Well, unt,
I'm convinced two people that Donald Trump doesn't need to
try to and press us Democrats and people who walk
around with mask in public. Anyways, unh, I hope you
have a great afternoon and roll tide.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Roll tydrow Pat Nally, thank you very much for your voicemail.
The voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. I would love for the drug prices to
go down as much as the President says they can
go down. Would love to see that happen. Uh, it
is it is watching all of the stuff that the
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Trump administration is trying to do for people more and more.
I've always wondered this, but now it's it's frequently throughout
the day I keep wondering, what is what has Congress
been up to? Ever? I mean, what do they do?
What do they do up there? What are they doing
(30:08):
that I don't know about? Because it sure doesn't look
like they're up to much doesn't. And he comes up
with all these things that that seem like most people
would want to be in favor of, like finding a
way to lower prescription drug prices. That would be a
help for a lot of people in this country that
need that kind of help. So why wouldn't you try
(30:31):
and do it? And we just look at Congress and
wonder what have they been up to? I think the
only thing that I've noticed that Congress is done in
the last several weeks is passed some kind of past
this Gulf of America bill that it's kind of fun.
I mean, it's it's it always makes me smile when
I when I hear about the Gulf of America. But
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is there are there any other things maybe that would
impact our lives, that could be done in a positive
way by the Congress. It is the Congress has always had,
at least since they've been doing these these public opinion
polls ranking ranking Congress asking people about their job performance,
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Congress has always gotten a low a low number. But
have they ever looked worse?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
To me?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
They look awful. They just and and that's all of them,
not just one party. I just what are they doing
up there? Has there been any effort by the Republicans
in Congress to move forward and take some of these
executive orders and actually make them into law. It just
it just looks like they ain't doing nothing up there.
(31:46):
I guess it's a good job if you can get
it all right. Almost out of time here, I got
a voicemail from someone named Norman, a different Norman than
the regular Norman that calls. I'd mentioned earlier this week
that my new wife got very upset with me because
I honked my horn at somebody in traffic that was
(32:07):
sitting in a red light. And this man wanted to
call in about honking a horn. You can't hear a
lot of the beginning of his message.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Hey yah, horn horn gets all me.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He's about gonna try and talk about horn honking sitting
there at a light. So he's talking about somebody sitting
in the light and wanting to honk a horn at him.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
They doing what they're doing, they're talking on the phone.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Or they're distracted.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
What she always.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Complains about is you know you all right?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
This is he's talking about his wife complaining about him
honking his horn.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
What she always complains about is, you know, you beat
your horn at somebody.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
You don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
They made you fall out of the fallout of the vehicle.
Ohased and all grazed and all confused and all crazy.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
For the gun.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
But guess what, I got one too. But you know
I don't want nothing like.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
That to happen.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But still, you know, I don't mind giving them a
little beat beat to get them going because they are
holding up traffic.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Have a good day and roll tide road, sir.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Thank you Norman for your phone call. Uh and that's you.
You bring up a good point that everybody should remember
when they get mad at another driver and want to
confront them. The other driver may be packing, that may
(33:53):
be packing more than the bird that they're gonna flip.
So let's all be careful and respectful. Back with more
Uncle Henry Show after the news break on WNTM. This
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is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry Shaw.
I appreciate it very very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm going to get to some news items,
perhaps a voicemailer two. I want to start once again
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on a familiar topic, and that is the legalization of
dope smoking throughout the country and in the state of Alabama.
I've set on the radio for many, many years, perhaps decades,
that I I felt that Alabama would be the last state. Yes,
I've always felt that Alabama would be the last state
that would legal lives the dope smoking. And I thought
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I was going to be wrong about this prediction because
we did have medical marijuana. Medical marijuana was passed by
the Alabama legislature and signed into law by Governor k Ivy.
I guess it was over four years ago that this happened,
and I thought, well, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe Alabama will
(35:31):
not be the last state to legal lives dope smoking,
even for medical reasons. And by the way, in case
you're wondering for medical I do believe there are medical
applications for this. Now I'm not a doctor, or even
I don't really well I think. I think I've got
one doctor that's a cousin, and he doesn't talk to me.
(35:53):
We're not in a feud, but I'm just not smart
enough and he doesn't want to waste his time with me.
But I'm not a doctor, so I don't know smart
stuff about it. But I do know I do believe personally,
anecdotally that there are some medical applications for it. And
I say that because I did have a friend who
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died of cancer, and I know that smoking illegal dope
was about some of the only relief the guy got
it in the last couple of months of his life.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It was.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
It was And you may have been through this as well,
seeing somebody pass away from from having cancer and going
through all that, and I know that he got relief
from it. And so I don't want to deny people
that are that are in hospice or something if they
want to use this, if it gives them any kind
of relief, I don't want to. I don't want to
deny somebody that is going through that kind of a
(36:47):
nightmarish situation some kind of relief, So I would I
would make it legal for that, and there may be
some other medical benefits.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
There has not been a tremendous amount of research on it,
but because it's been classified the way it's been classified
by the federal government, that just hadn't been a lot
of research. There's probably been more research in the last
ten or fifteen years than have been done in decades before.
But anyway, Alabama passing this into law that medical marijuana
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could be something that we can have in Alabama. In
the legislature, they worked on it for years. They did
their best to take all of the enjoyment out of
it so that you could not party on it. They
were trying to make sure that, for example, you couldn't
have certain flavors of gummies and things. In fact, if
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I remember correctly, it was gelatinous cubes. Yeah, gelatinous cubes
that would only be available in certain flavors. Alabama did
a good job trying to take all the partying out
of it. Well, I'm bringing it up because yesterday another
law lawsuit was filed. It's been over four years. Listen,
(38:02):
I've got the story. This is very brief. This is
from WSFA stepsister station to Foxten, WSFA and mayor in Montgomery.
Here's what they had to say about this brand new lawsuit.
Speaker 12 (38:16):
Tonight, a company has filed a federal lawsuit against members
of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission. The Alabama Always LLC
group filed the suit. It claims that commissioners and staff
have violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Alabama Always
is one of the companies applying for an integrative license
in the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Officials now they're calling it a burgeoning, a burgeoning medical
marijuana industry. That's still I mean, how can it be burgeoning?
How can it burgeon? I need to look up burgeoning.
How can you burgeon when there isn't any I mean,
maybe they're gearing up for it or whatever, but how
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can it be burgeon if no one's actually sold an
no patient. There is no patient in Alabama that's gotten it,
So how's it burgeoning?
Speaker 12 (39:10):
Was alleged that members of the commission retaliated against the
company for their criticism. They have filed suits in state
court as well. We reached out to the Cannabis Commission
for a response, but have not heard back. Medical cannabis
was approved four years ago in Alabama or because of
delays at the state level, it still is not available
(39:30):
to patients.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
How about that for you? So Alabama may may there's
still a change from Alabama maybe the last state, or
may never. There's you know what, Alabama may never make
it legal. In fact, here's another news on them, because
hemp is legal and there's some kind of federal loophole
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about hemp and getting THC at a hemp. Now this
was covered on the Uncle Henry Show already, I think
this week about how there's a bill that Governor Ivy
is going to I don't know if she's already signed
it today or is going to sign it soon, but
it's going to strictly regulate hemp products in Alabama. Here
is a report from w I think it's WAAF in Huntsville,
(40:18):
another step sister station of Fox ten about what businesses
are saying that are already selling. There's a bunch of businesses,
even in Mobile selling all these hemp products and they
may need they may not be selling them next year.
Speaker 13 (40:31):
In the state legislature, hanging in the balance tonight, Pausville
four forty five, which will strictly regulate hemp products across Alabama,
is winning a decision from Governor Ivy Wafa forty eight.
Savanasapps shares the concerns of small business owners.
Speaker 14 (40:47):
Liz.
Speaker 15 (40:48):
The Hump bill aims to put strict regulations on hmp
products in our state, either banning them altogether or significantly
reducing their dosage. Business owners here in Fort Payne tell
me this is a drastic solution that could eliminate small
businesses like dispensaries and locally owned smoke shops. Houseville four
forty five, backed by Representative Andy Witt, is set to
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ban inhalable hemp products, lower the dosage of edibles, and
restrict how these products are manufactured.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
See this is why I think it'll never be legal
in Alabama. I mean there, this is not even the
actual marijuana, this is the hemp. And they're already they're
already getting rid of where you won't be able to
buy anything smokable, only edible, and they're going to lower
the dosages to make sure you can't party on it.
Speaker 15 (41:34):
It's also set to remove these products from gas stations
and place a tax on them, which will drive up prices.
Wit previously shared with me that this was all to
keep THHC out of the hands of our children. However,
to Cab Dispensary owner Thomas Sumifer tells me nearly eliminating
the products altogether is not the answer, and he feels
it will be the demise of his business and many others.
Speaker 16 (41:56):
If you're that worried about the children, get rid of
the alcohol, get rid of the tobacco. Put these in
stores that are twenty one and up. Only let us
self regulate, and let's.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
At right, let us self regulate. Every government that I've
ever run into, at every level, they don't want you
to self regulate.
Speaker 16 (42:19):
Let's move forward with this. There's no sense in nuke
and the whole thing.
Speaker 15 (42:24):
And over one thousand Alabamians have signed a petition for
Governor Ivy to veto House bill for forty five. Officials
with Ivy's office tell us this bill is still under review,
reporting in four Payne Savannah side forty eight News on
your side.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
All right, still under review. So I wonder, m all right, well,
Alabama might be the lamp may never legalize the dope
smoking and who knows, maybe that'll be a positive in
an entire country of stoned people. All right, back with
more Uncle Henry's Show after the break. Let's take the
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break here on news radio set ten WNTM Uncle Henry's Show.
(43:21):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I got a
news item for you about the dredging and the bay.
There's going to be a town hall meeting held in
(43:41):
Theodore tomorrow night at six o'clock. This is about the
federal government doing that dredging work. Horror of engineers dumping
mud in the bay from the dredging, and a lot
of people are upset about it enough to have a
town hall meeting. So this is scheduled for tomorrow night,
(44:01):
six to seven thirty pm at St. Philip Neary Catholic
Church in Theodore. This is being put on by a
mobile baykeeper. They say that you'll have an opportunity to
talk and ask questions of oysterman charter captains, commercial fishermen
and some marine scientists there about the effects of the
(44:24):
mud dumping from the dredging in the bay. There's some
people that are trying to stop the dumping of the mud.
They want it handled differently. Now I'm not an expert
on well I know about mud. It's it was always
a great fun when I was a kid mud, What
fun it was. Now as an adult, not as big
a fan of mud, But when I was a kid,
(44:45):
what fun I had? What fun I had with the mud?
Back in the day, we didn't have money for toys.
I've talked about this many times on the show. My
favorite toys as a child were sticks, sticks and branches,
pine cones, and dirt. I'm not going to go into
(45:08):
a lengthy discussion I've done it many times before about
how wonderful dirt is as a toy. But one way
that it was fun was when you put water with
the dirt and you can make mud. But we're not
talking about the fun kind of mud. We're talking about
mud that's upsetting these fishermen and these oystermen. So here's
a brief story from Fox ten about all of this.
(45:31):
Here is Lenise Lagon and Cameering Tailor introducing a story
by Shelby Myers of Fox ten about the mud and
how people don't like.
Speaker 17 (45:41):
It burns about how dredge materials being handled Inmobile Bay.
It's part of the ongoing Channel deepening and widening project.
Speaker 18 (45:48):
He is siting with a local environmental group, saying there
has to be another way to dispose of the excess mud.
The Army Corps of Engineers. They're pushing back, insisting the
practices are safe and well studied.
Speaker 17 (46:00):
Our Shelby Myers is digging into both arguments and Shelby
walk us through what you found out well.
Speaker 14 (46:04):
Cameron LaNese drone video shared by the environmental group Mobile
Baykeeper shows mud being returned to the base, sparking questions
from Alabama State Senator Chris Elliot, and one local shrimper
we spoke with says it's already making his job harder.
M Alabama State Senator Chris Elliott taking to social media
sharing this drone video with the caption there's a better
(46:27):
way to do this like Mobile Baykeeper. Senator Elliott supports
the deepening and widening project of the Ship Channel, but
wants to find alternatives to how the dredged mud is handled.
Speaker 19 (46:39):
We just have got to get a better way of
dealing with the dredge material and it can't simply be
disposing of it in open water.
Speaker 14 (46:47):
The US Army Corps of Engineers is currently deepening the
ship channel to accommodate larger vessels. By law, they must
use at least seventy percent of suitable dredge material for
beneficial use, like creating wetlands or reinforcing shorelines on Dauphin Island.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
But and benefit now, I've never thought of the beneficial
use of mud you just heard her say, for you know,
helping a shoreline or creating wetlands. What about playing? That's
not mentioned? You know I enjoyed as a kid. I
loved it. Maybe they could have a special mud park.
(47:25):
Everybody has all these water parks that cost a lot
of money. What about a mud park? What a mud
park be fun?
Speaker 14 (47:31):
But some of the remaining mud is being returned to
the bay through a process called thin layer placement, which
critics refer to as federal mud dumping.
Speaker 16 (47:41):
And that does smother what's called benthic organisms or critters
that live in the mud that's already there, and fish,
of course feed on that.
Speaker 14 (47:50):
Local shrimper Patrick Gormandy is one of only about a
dozen who shrimps in the Mobile Channel with this project.
Speaker 19 (47:57):
We have no idea what the future holds for us.
Speaker 14 (48:00):
He says he's worried the dumping could cover up shrimp
eggs and affect his and other shrimper's livelihood.
Speaker 19 (48:06):
When they pump this mud into particular spots, that spot
becomes off limit for a pretty long amount of time
because it's silty, and then their nets get damaged and
they get stuck in the.
Speaker 9 (48:18):
Mud, so.
Speaker 19 (48:20):
They are forced out of these areas, or there's areas
that they can't work anymore. Sometimes it takes a year,
sometimes it takes two years, and there's other areas that
they've never been.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Able to work.
Speaker 14 (48:31):
The corp of Engineer says the sediment is not harmful
and may be beneficial. They sent us this statement that reads,
in part quote, thin layer placement is a widely accepted
best practice by the environmental and dredging industries. The Core
of Engineers tells me the deepening and widening project is
expected to be complete in June. We'll have more of
(48:52):
their statement on foxtontv dot com. Now, if you want
to be a part of this conversation, Mobile Baykeeper is
hosting a town hall this third say, at six at
Saint Philip Mary Catholic Church in Theodore in the Studio tonight,
Shelby Myers, Foxen News.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Okay, all right, well, looking forward to seeing what they
learn about all this. What has decided about it? It
sounds like it's already decided and people are just airing
their complaints about it. But we'll of course follow this
because many of us love Mobile Bay and all that
it has to offer us. Now a reminder that you
(49:27):
can listen to previous episodes of The Uncle Henry Show
as a podcast. You can find the podcast on the
iHeartRadio app or at NewsRadio seven ten dot com. If
you don't like the show, you might want to download
episodes of it just to delete them. Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Download them and delete them.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I'll still get credit for him, all right, Thank you
for listening. As they say in Sarahland, have a good one,
and as they say in Theodore, take it evesye
Speaker 7 (49:55):
All right later
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