Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you. I appreciate very much you're
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm going to get to some voicemail
and also some news items. Let me start with some
news items here on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, this
(00:40):
I'm sure you've already heard of, but I just learned
about this today. Today was my first learning of this
news item. And this is out of the state of Mississippi.
This is about a group of monkeys. Yeah, I better
turn the music down. I don't want to be misunderstood.
A group of monkeys escaped from a truck in the
(01:07):
state of Mississippi, and it's caused a stir in Mississippi.
Let's listen to Fox News reporting on the monkeys being
on the loose in Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Two Lane University says research monkeys that escape their travel
crates during a truck wreck in Mississippi are not infectious,
despite earlier concerns. Local authorities say they initially attempted to
find and kill the escaped animals after the truck driver,
who's unaffiliated with the university, told them. The monkeys were
aggressive imposed a threat to humans, but as of nightfall Tuesday,
(01:41):
three monkeys were still unaccounted for. In an unrelated incident,
last year, forty three reciss monkeys escaped from a breeding
facility in South Carolina. It took authorities two months to
recapture them by tempting them with peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches in Atlanta. Jonathan Sary, Fox News.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, they tell you that these things, these these monkeys
are aggressive and dangerous to humans, and yet you can
somehow subdue them with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
All right, I'm sure it's somewhere in between. I've oversimplified
the thing. This reminds me, and I've got more on
this story. I've got reaction from Mississippians on this that
(02:20):
I have not heard yet. You and I will hear
this together. But this just reminds me thinking back about monkeys,
my life here in the United States of America, in
dealing with monkeys, I remember in popular culture, what I
remember the most was was the monkey in the Tarzan movies.
(02:44):
Now I guess that's not really a chimpanzee. Is a
chimpanzee considered a monkey. Is that a different don't I
don't even you know, I don't even want to know
at this point. I guess the point I'm trying to
make is back when I was growing up, monkeys were
thought of as sweet. They were. They were the monkeys
of the movies, except for the ones that were in
(03:06):
the Wizard of Oz. But it turns out the more
you learn about I'm, the more harmful they can be
to human beings. In fact, my own father told me
a story of how he went to a zoo when
he was a child and got close to the monkey cage,
and the monkey grabbed him by the hair and would
(03:27):
not let go, and they had to have adults come
and save my father from the monkey that had grabbed
my dad through the through the bars of the cage.
All right, let's let's listen together. I've got the reaction
of Mississippians two having monkeys let loose in the community.
This report was from w LBT in Mississippi. I believe
(03:51):
a Stepsister station to Fox.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Ten a night for the three remaining the monkeys. The
three monkeys remaining that escaped after the carrying them overturned
yesterday in East Mississippi.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It happened on I fifty nine, just north of Heidelberg.
The Jasper County Sheriff's Department reported the nearly two dozen
Reese's monkeys were on their way to a testing facility
in Florida. Threeener sides. Teddy Ready talks with residents about
their concerns.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
By the way, I love the voice of that guy.
That guy's working up in Jackson, Mississippi or something. What
they need to get this guy to move down to Mobile.
Need a recruit that news guy needs to be recruited
down here, just so I can listen to him talk
read the news to me. All right, let's go back
to the monkey story tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Those living in the small town of Heidelberg are living
with the reality that three aggressive monkeys were on the
loose after the trailer carrying them.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Living with the reality. Residents are living with the reality
of three aggressive There are three aggressive monkeys on the loose.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Three aggressive monkeys were on the loose after the trailer
carrying them turned over.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I thought it was a joke at first.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I was a I think in Michigan when I first heard.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So this guy's a trucker. I know you can't see
the video because radio. We still have not figured out
how to send pictures. We're still working on it. But
this man is standing in front of a big rig.
He was in Michigan when he heard about the monkey infestation.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I thought everybody was messing with me. But looked up online,
you know, a little surreal, kind of like a movie
or something.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Man.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Tuesday, Jasper County officials arrived in your highway marker one seventeen,
where they found an overturned truck hauling twenty one monkeys
to a testing facility in Florida. As of Tuesday night,
official say three of those monkeys were still missing, five
or dead in the remaining thirteen were recaptured to Lane
University officials sent a team to Heidelberg to assist law
(05:48):
enforcement in the catching indisposing of the monkeys. For April
Cooper and Kensey Henry, when they heard monkeys were on
the loose, they got worried for the safety of their pets.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now, when they heard that monkeys were on the loose,
it's just something you don't hear often, do it. You
don't normally hear that monkeys are on the loose, do.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
You, Gray when they heard monkeys were on the loose,
they got worried for the safety of their pets.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
My first initial action was it was an outbreak situation. Honestly,
you know, I grew up watching that movie, so it's
a bit scary. So we just kept our dogs inside, and.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's the main thing. We've got animals.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Yeah, just cope for the best.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
For those who have seen the monkey's first hand or
those who just live in town. Many of you want
the remaining monkeys caught without harming them.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
There's like a.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Many of you want the monkeys caught, all right. Sounds
like this Mississippi reporter has his finger on the pulse
of Mississippi opinions about monkeys being on the loose.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
A heightened concern over it. But hopefully it'll work out,
you know where. There's enough crazy stuff going on right now.
This is probably something we don't need on top of
everything else. Hopefully they catch them.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
What do you mean, on top of everything else?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What do you what does that mean? Where's the reporter
to come and explain this to me? On top of
everything else happening, this is something we don't need. What
else is happening? The government shut down. Are they worried
about snap benefits and now we've got monkeys to worry about.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I heard they had to put quite a few of
them down. But yeah, hopefully that doesn't happen that have
to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
It was originally reported by the Sheriff's department that these
monkeys we're carrying infectious diseases, Not to Lane. University officials
did clear that up, releasing a statement saying none of
the monkeys are infectious from Heidelberg Teddy Red three on.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Your side, Yes, they claim they want the monkeys caught
without harm done to the monkeys. What do they think
is going to happen if the monkeys get taken on
to Tulane and get experimented on? What do you think that?
What do they think they're gonna do? Are they going
to put them in a fancy hotel down there at
(08:03):
two Lane? I don't think so right now.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
According to Two Lane University, the monkeys were housed there,
but they belonged to a separate organization. Meanwhile, Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks conservation officers remain on site.
They are actively coordinating with the Jasper County Shares Department
as part of the ongoing investigation. Rees's macOS are known
to be aggressive. The public is advised to avoid any
(08:27):
contact and should not attempt to approach them. Residents are
asked to report any credible sightings to one eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Be smart, all right. There's a toll free number. There's
a toll free number for monkey reports. If you were
happen to see a monkey, one eight hundred, be smart.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
There's more to come as The Uncle Henry Show continues,
but first I got to take a break for traffic, weather,
and our beautiful commercials. Take the break, Uncle Henry shown
(09:09):
news Radio seventy ten, WNTM news headlines coming up, news
headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before we get there,
I'm gonna check some voicemail and other news items now
at this time. Yesterday on the Uncle Henry Show, I
(09:31):
shared a story with you from WBrC in Birmingham, stepsister
station to Fox ten where they had Halloween safety tips
from the Alabama Law Enforcement Association Captain Jeremy Burkett, and
I love listening to Captain Burkett anytime he's in the
(09:52):
news because he's got a magnificent Southern accent. He's just
got a great I love the Southern accent with this guy.
I wish you'd run for office or something, just so
I can hear him talk. If you missed it, he
talked about how you need to have a plan when
you're having Halloween. You need to have a plan, and
you need to execute it properly with the proper personnel.
(10:16):
Here's what if you didn't hear him, this is what
he sounded like talking about executing your Halloween plan.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
That's one of the things that's just really important, and
that's the reality. You can have a really good plan
in place, but if you don't have an appropriate number
of personnel, appropriate number of parents, an appropriate number of
guardians out there with you to help execute that plan,
that's where things starting to go sideways.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You know, again, you got to have the you gotta
have the proper personnel to execute your Halloween plan. According
to the Alabama Law Enforcement Association, a proper plan and
the proper personnel. Buford longtime caller. Buford heard Captain Burkin
at and had to phone in a voicemail message voicemail
(11:04):
number two five one two one six nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
An of this hair's different. Henry just heard the UH
Trooper captain, the captain of the Troopers that had a
magnificent Southern accent. That man speaks with true Southern author tie. Anyway, Henry,
just want to let you know I'm glad the government
in the state of Alabama told me I needed to
execute a proper plan with proper personnel for my chill
(11:36):
Dreams trick and or treating. Hey, let me take you
the beautiful ChIL Dreams plan of action for Halloween trick
or treating will be. Thus, we will hit the houses
that give out the full sized candy bars first so
that they're not depleted of their resources nor are they
(11:57):
aggravated with the influx of trick or tree or chill
dream and then they just turn it off the lives
and we're gonna get there at those houses first and then.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Henry, Now, how do you know, I'm sorry to pause
your message. Hot how do you know what houses are
giving out full sized candy bars to children? Is this
have you plotted this out in advance? Is there a newsletter?
Is there an app that tells you the size and
types of candy that are handed out.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I think we're gonna have a detailed map of where
we go from there around the neighborhood and whether we're
gonna go down to the east side or the west side,
and by versus so handy, that's the view for chill
dreams Halloween tricker and or treating playing. Now, usually one
(12:49):
of the other parents the neighborhood, they'll host Halloween at
their house. And I can tell you this, Henry about
two three middle life. Then that plan is going to
go out the window. But I appreciate the state of
Alabama and let me know that I needed to have
a trick and or treating plan with proper personnel. We
(13:13):
will intend to do that, but probably once one of
my chill dreams sees a group of their friends, they're
gonna run off with them in all kinds of directions,
and our trick and or treating plan will then be uh,
as they say, mission compromised. But a guarantee it is
Henry the beuper chilled dream will hit the houses that
(13:35):
give off give out my full sized candy bars. First,
you have a good day here.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Thank you for telling me that you have a plan
and that you also recognize the plan may fall apart
because of the the children running off. In fact, the
guy said Captain Burkett said yesterday on that report that
the number one thing people get wrong is the ratio.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Think about is the parent to child ratio?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The parent to child ratio. Have you thought of this, Beauford? Whatever.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Well, one of the things that we really continue to
drive home, and these are things that people often don't
think about, is the parent to child ratio. So that's
one of the things.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
See this is how you get that's how you make
sure that you have the proper personnel. Is you got
to have the parent to child ratio. Beauford. And I'm
sure maybe your wife, maybe you and your wife, one
of you might be good at math. I can work
on this ratio stuff. One thing I've noticed in the
last decade or so is the government is more often
(14:49):
coming up with instructions for us on just basic things
because people are not being parented anymore and there's not
a parent teaching kids basic things. Like the Mobile County
Health Department for years would put out like summer picnic
safety tips, thinking that we can't have a picnic We
(15:09):
can't take food out of our kitchen and go go
eat it at a at a public park without somehow
creating some food born illness or something anyway out of time.
Thank you for listening to this edition of The Uncle
Henry Show. If you'd like to leave a message for me,
two five one two one six nineteen seventy six is
(15:29):
the number. That's two five to one two one six,
nineteen seventy six to leave a message for the Uncle
Henry Show. Thank you for listening. As they say in Saarland,
have a good one. As they say in Theodore, take
it easy
Speaker 8 (15:45):
All right Later