Nail Salons on Buses and Other Great Ideas

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you trying to figure out what is going on, what's
going on in the world around us. Sometimes the news
is so weird. I wonder if somebody has slipped something
in my drink, some type of psychedelic mushroom or something. There.

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or scatological type of talk. But other than that, whatever
you want to bring forward, you may bring it forward
on the program. Now, numerous things to get to on
the show at every level in Mobile. There's still stuff
from yesterday's city council meeting to talk about, Like the
council is looking at the bus contract with Wave Transit,

(02:23):
trying to figure out should we continue with the bus
system we got going on in Mobile or should we
try something different? Have times changed? You know, we've been
doing the same type of stuff with buses for quite
a while, for many years. Could we try something new?
Is there any new thing we could try that would
be better suited for modern times than the Wave Transit system?

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I know people need people do still need transportation, always
are going to need transportation here in these parts, but
as a better way of doing it now. I've got
the story from Fox ten. This is how it was
reported on Fox ten. Brendan Kirby, the often disheveled reporter.

(03:12):
I've got him, uh, talking about what the city council
may do with the buses and mobile.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Let's listen together, big changes could be coming a public
transportation in Mobile.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, the Mayor's office is asking council members to extend
the current contract with the company operating Wave Transit, and
that to give this any more time to decide on
a long term plan.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Fox Send's Brendan Kirby joining us now with what's being
considered and Brendan this could mean some major shifts for writers.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah cut Cameron Lenise. The Stipson administration wants a new
plan in place by the start of the new fiscal
year in October, and that plan could include cutting routes
and launching a ride share program. Mobile. City Councilman Josh
Woods says he was concerned that the city's bus service
was inefficient. He said as he got confirmation after mapping

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out what his own commute to Government Plaza would look
like by bus.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
But what I do is I'd walk out of my house.
I'd walk roughly about three quarters of a mile to
my bus stop, catch the bus or wait, wait and
catch the bus.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Councilman Wood says the trip would require a transfer to
another bus at the shops of bel Air before getting
to Government Plaza, and the trip would take nearly two hours.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
And take me an hour forty five minutes. If I
worked an eight hour day, I would spend four hours
just getting to and from my job. And I think
in the citymobile in twenty twenty five, and that's one
accepted when I look forward to seeing what efficiency looks like.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hey, no pausing there, Just so again, I understand there's
a need for public transportation. Some folks really need public
transportation to either get to a job, or get to
a doctor's office, or go go to the grocery store,
whatever it is. But could there be could there be
better ways of going about? It would take him two

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hours to get from his house to down to government Plaza.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
A company called Transdev operates the Wave transit system buses.
Its contract expires at the end of June. Scott Collins,
the city's executive director of finance, says a three month
extension would give city leaders time to review their options.
Colin says the federal government provides about two million dollars
of the bus system's twelve million dollars budget, but he

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says federal support has been declining and comes with strings
such as a requirement to use union drivers. He says
the city is considering whether to walk away from that
money and focus instead on just a few main routes
using smaller vehicles running more frequently.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
The question is, really, operationally, do we need a forty
passenger bus that has a fifteen year service like but
as five people own it each time, Or do we
need a twenty passenger van that's more fully utilized. It
may have a shorter surface life, but we get greater
service out of it now.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
These are good questions to ask.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
To help writers get from bus stops to their final destinations.
Colin says the city is looking into a ride share
program similar to Mogo, which is currently only for work commutes.
Those changes sound good to Darius Friisen, who's relied on
public transportation since losing access to a car more than
two years ago.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
That's all I want.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
Yeah, it does. It does because some people need that.

Speaker 8 (06:35):
You know.

Speaker 10 (06:36):
Sometimes, y'all, Bush, you still got to walk a few
miles sometimes.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Hey, hats off. I'm not wearing a hat right now,
but if I were, it would be off to Brendan
Kirkby for actually asking somebody who rides the bus what
they think good.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I talked with the president of the union that represents
the drivers. He greets the city's current buses are too big,
but he says eliminating fixed routes and rely on a
ride share model isn't the right move. Council members say
they plan to take a closer look at all these
options in the coming weeks repointing live in the New
Center Brendan Kirby Box ten News.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
So well, it seems it's always a good idea to
go and look and see are we being efficient or not?
Do we need all of this or non? And you
heard the examples given. Are the buses too big? Or
should we have smaller buses because we don't have as
many riders on the buses. There's a lot of things

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you could do. Here's a lot. You heard some of
their suggestions, and I was thinking, you know, if the
buses are that big and you only instead of a
forty passenger bus, you only need a twenty passenger bus,
could you maybe think about this? This could benefit the
business community. What if you had some small businesses set

(07:55):
up inside the bus? Yes, what if each bus had
a business in it? Now, I know that sounds weird
to you, but I'm thinking, as I go around the
streets of the city of Mobile, I see, for example,
there's a nail salon in every strip mall. Every strip
mall has somewhere you can get your nails done or

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your eyelashes done. What if we had some people set
up in the buses and they were doing nails and
eyelashes in there. Wouldn't that wouldn't Maybe more people would
ride the bus if they can get the nails done
on the bus or get the eyelashes done on the bus.
Think about that. Think about that. Also, in every strip mall,

(08:39):
I see vape shops. What if there was a vape
shop in the back of one of them things. The
city could rent out space for two businesses on the bus,
and more people might ride the bus so they get
the nails done or get a vape. Think of it.
Think creatively like this. Please more after the break seventy

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Uncle Henry's Show, News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It
is five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes
on the Uncle Henry Show. I was talking in the
last segment of the show about ways to innovate with
the bus system. Hearing all these people say that maybe

(09:40):
the buses are too big. Maybe instead of a forty
passenger bus, they just need twenty passenger vans or something
like that. And I mentioned you could maybe put some
businesses in there. Nail salons, they're in every strip mall.
But let people get their nails and eyelash just done.
On the bus. That would you'd probably have a lot

(10:02):
of ridership that way, or a vape shop on the bus.
And another thing, you could have an over twenty one
bus that could you could just have a cag back there.

Speaker 11 (10:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I know that that sounds controversial, but nobody's driving except
the bus driver. You want to you want a full bus?
Do you want the buses to be full? Maybe you
have a wine bus. I'm not looking, by the way,
I don't want to take the wine bus. I don't
want to ride the cag bus. I'm just saying, there's

(10:38):
ways that you could innovate. Let's have some innovation on
all this. Now. I was looking at in callers, I'm
gonna grab your calls real quick. I was looking at
what other other cities around the world are doing for
mass transit. In Germany and in China, they're working on

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robot buses, so and that would be safer. There would
be no bus driver to mug if you just had
like an autonomous robot bus. But in Paris they're fixing
to debut an aerial tramway. Maybe something like that. People

(11:24):
would uh, I'm sure this is a beautiful city. People
would love to be on some type of aerial tram.
I know Lambert Memes once suggested that we buy used
mono rails. Maybe something like that would go overwhel two
five one or seven nine two seven two three. The
telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 11 (11:46):
Hello color, Hey Uncle Henry.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Hey you are live on the radio.

Speaker 12 (11:53):
Hey you reckon? In Las Vegas, they got slot machines
on them buses.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
You know, I don't know. I've never been Las Vegas,
so I don't know do they do they have gambling
on the bus?

Speaker 12 (12:04):
Well, you think, you know, if it's legal. You know
it's legal Las Vegas. You know, you go on Las
Vegas into the grocery store and they got a slot machine.
So it makes you wonder there whether or not you
could sit in the chair. You know, it could be
a coinless system, but you know, you sit there while
you're riding on the bus, you know, doing the slot
machine until you get off of it and then print
your seat out and cash it in or whatever. But

(12:26):
of course they don't have that here. But the only
thing I can think of here for a bus maybe
be a back massage. You know, get on the bus
and then somebody's massage in your back while you're riding
on the bus. You know, that would be that'd be
kind of nice.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's now that I didn't think about that, But I
see a lot of those places around town too. That
might be another business they could put inside the bus.

Speaker 12 (12:44):
Yeah, that'd be nice going there and get your back
massage and all that while you're waiting. By the time
you get off the bus, you're all rejuvenated.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
What I'd like would be a chiropractor bus because I yeah,
I would, I really, that would be great. I would.
I'd take the bus to work if I could get
a Cora on there.

Speaker 12 (13:01):
Yeah, I agreed. That would be getting you know, one
of the massage chairs. Yeah, sitting you know at the mall. Yeah,
it does the whole number dare while you're waiting on it.
That man, that'd be awesome there. I'd pay extra for that. Yeah,
but but you have a great day. I'll just messed
with you, right, Yeah, I just but if it was
legally gambling, you know, they you know, back in the day,
and you see like old Chips and all that, you know,

(13:23):
had the motor home riding around and it was gambling
in it, and you know, and they'd get busted. But
but you think something like that if it was legal,
I mean they have slot machines in a bus, would
be you know, probably really popular.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I would think, well, that would be. That would be
quite that would be the city would probably want buses
on every street if they could make money like that.

Speaker 12 (13:42):
Uh, they wouldn't make a bunch of money, though.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes they would. All right, well, sir, thank you for
your phone call.

Speaker 12 (13:47):
All right, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
There you go, Yes, Sin, Sin will find you even
on the bus. Yeah, immediately somebody calling in. Let's put
a slot magine on there. Two five one poor some
nine seven two three the telephone number.

Speaker 13 (14:02):
Hello caller, Hey, good evenough.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 13 (14:09):
Uncle Henry. Do you think that maybe fifteen fifteen years
ago people noticed that hardly anybody was riding those busses.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
I've been getting calls on this show. You know, if
you were listening fifteen years ago, people were calling about it, saying, yeah,
there's nobody on the.

Speaker 13 (14:26):
Bus back and forth up up Highway nine end stuff,
and you got like three people on it.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (14:32):
But uh, when I call you about Uncle Henry, h
I was listening at these folks. Now, when this moron
Jasmincrockett say thing you know you're saying, to not pay
her any attention with the most dangerous thing in America
now is white men and they need to be put
on the tur watch list. But now she's not the

(14:54):
only one saying this. I wonder do these people even
go around and look in their districts and see exactly
what's going on. Well, people are walking around in these
cities like zombies on drugs, shooting and killing each other,

(15:19):
games killing each other. We killing each other every day,
two or three at a time. Nine by the end
of the week, it'll be five or ten in some.

Speaker 11 (15:29):
Of these states.

Speaker 13 (15:30):
Do they actually even care about what they say anymore?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
No, well, you know they don't.

Speaker 13 (15:39):
You got you got guys standing up there saying, well,
I never you know, I never thought I would be
asking y'all you people to revolt. And we need to
get angry, we need to get violent, we need to
do all of this stuff. But when it comes to
them needing from something from us, it's we we need
to fight this, We need to do that, we need

(16:01):
to do this. But when it comes to reaping the benefits,
they receiving everything. It's it's kind of amazing that a
few people have woke up, but it's amazing how people
don't catch these people. We need to start telling them
that you know we're watching, were watching you, because all

(16:22):
y'all say, well, what we need to do, but you
never say what we're going to do for you because
they never do anything for you. For this bus situation
we even got in this city, they should have cut
them buses in half and had like fifteen more routes
going fast because some people have to be to work
at six point thirty seven o'clock. Some people can't even

(16:43):
catch the bus. They got to catch it at four
or five. It's all about what when they come up
with these ideas to get money that you will never
benefit from all of these things that are going on
in the world. And now white man should be on
the terror watch list when we the worst thing that
ever happened to each other, were killing each other like rats.
But they don't care about us of black people because hey,

(17:06):
we're doing the thing that the Marxists and the socialism
and progressive I already want to do. They always want
to thin out to her because we're killing their old
zone and stuff. So they want us to keep doing
what we're doing because I don't see anybody complaining about
less than some city. And then it happened to one
person in that neighborhood, then everybody want to get in

(17:27):
the uproar. But when it comes to the country and
the senators and Congressman had blah blah, you know, three
got under the rug. We're doing just what they want
us to do.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
You have bless them and you have one too, Cliff.
Thank you very much for your phone call. Cliff. There
is more Uncle Henry's Show to come after the news break.
We have news headlines coming up from Fox ten and
from Fox Radio National News, and then more show Uncle

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That's Uncle henridiheartmedia dot com. Now. The last couple of

(18:34):
segments of the show talked about the City of Mobile
rethinking how buses should work, trying to figure out a
more efficient way for that tax dollar and more efficient
for the people that need to ride. Now, there was
another thing from yesterday's Mobile City council meeting that I

(18:54):
just wanted to mention. Uh, Lenise Lagon. Let's listen. I've
got Lenie Slagon here from Foxteam with a brief description
of this. The City of Mobile looking at buying some
robot lawnmowers.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
A Mobile City council following through on a purchase Fox
and News talked about last week. You're looking at it too,
of these autonomous lawnmowers. The council voting today to approve
the contract with Groundworks Distribution for more than eighty five
thousand dollars. That'll pay for the cost of two of
these mowers capable.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right now, think about that. That's eighty five grand for
two lawnmowers.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Bull of cutting the grass on fields without an operator autonomous.
The Parks and rec Department views the mowers as something
of a pilot program to see if they make the
work they're more efficient. The city expects to receive the
mowers in a couple of weeks. The city says it
will save some seasonal labor, but not effect full time employees.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, that is what eighty five grand for two lawnmowers.
I hope they work better than the electric garbage truck.
Do you remember the electric garbage truck. I hope they
worked better than that. Now, this story caught the attention
of longtime caller Bufford.

Speaker 8 (20:15):
Any of this here is Gufford.

Speaker 10 (20:17):
Henry just saw news blurt slaying the City of Mobile
was gonna buy robot lawnmowers to increase productivity.

Speaker 12 (20:27):
Henry.

Speaker 8 (20:27):
I don't like it at all, Henry.

Speaker 10 (20:30):
I do not want no dagum robot lawnmowers and the
City of Mobile mowing grass.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Henry.

Speaker 10 (20:37):
The Chinese could infiltrate the computerized brain of these robot
lawnmowers and have them go into a playground and run
over children. What chaos and having, Henry, we have we
have been warned by numerous movies, such as The Terminators movies,

(21:04):
what a bad idea it is to have these type
of robots.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
And I'm pausing there because, uh, there's a lot to
think about in terms of what you've just said. You're
you're you're using the Terminator movies as a basis to
make public works purchases. I don't know if we can.
I don't know that we can use terminator movies as
a basis to judge whether or not we're making a

(21:32):
good move in the Public works department. Now, but maybe
you may be right about this, and I'll unpause your message.
You're in a moment vor they're saying, this is a
test program to see how it all works out. See
if I were If if it were me, I would uh,
I would wait for other cities to try it first

(21:54):
and then find out from them. In fact, i'd say something.
I'd call up Jackson, Mississippi, and said, Hey, have you
seen these new robot lawnmowers. Why don't you guys buy
a few of those and tell us how they work. Yeah,
I would want somebody else. If you're going to spend

(22:15):
eighty five grand on a couple of lawnmowers, I'd like
to have some other city try it out and get
back to us and let us know how it works
for them before we go ahead and try something like
that again. Got a hope that it works better than
the all electric garbage truck that it's hard to find
anybody that thought that was a good idea. A lot

(22:36):
of people thought it was a good idea until it
wasn't all right. So now Buford is worried that the
robot lawnmowers will be programmed by the Chinese to mow
all of us formed.

Speaker 10 (22:49):
By numerous movies such as the Terminators movies. Yeah, what
a bad idea it is.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
Yes, have these type of robots, right, Henry.

Speaker 10 (23:02):
We need to take the reins of society away from
the nerds. I mean, that's all we need to do.
Henry is taking Feller's jobs away. And also it is
it is extremely dangerous, Henry, a dobbolical lets Luthor style
villain could cause some sort of computerize the virus to

(23:26):
infect these robot lawnmowers and have an entire army of
robot lawnmowers wreak havoc upon mobile.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Henry, this this needs to stop. And I want to
know whose brother in law is gonna.

Speaker 10 (23:42):
Make a billion bo jillion dollars selling robot lawnmowers a
citymobile there, I said.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
It anyway, Henry, I don't like any robots at all.

Speaker 10 (23:53):
And I guarantee you some demented, sicko citizens gonna try
to figure out the to incorporate some sort of nastiness upon.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
These robot lawnmowers. What anyway, Henry, you have a good day,
all right?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, now I was having a good day. Now I'm
worried about the robot lawnmower. I wonder if there's a
wonder if there's a way to barricade yourself away from
the robot lawnmower. Well, Beaufford, you've given me food for
thought on this. Maybe I'll have I haven't watched a
Terminator movie in many, many years, but now I need

(24:32):
to go and see if there's any does in now
it's been a while since I've seen the movie. Did
at any point in the Terminator movies did Arnold Schwarzenegger
mowey lawn? Did that ever happen? Just? I don't quite remember.
I remember him chasing people on a motorcycle and making

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his lines with his thick accent. You know what I wonder,
if we are buying a robot lawnmower, does it cost
extra to make it talk to you in a thick
accent like Arnold schwartz sworts? Because I would that would
be kind of worth it. I think it would if
if the robot lawnmower sounded like Schwarzenegger, maybe it would

(25:23):
be worth spending eighty five grand on all these lawnmowers.
Right anyway, Beauford, thank you for the voicemail. The voicemail
number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That is a new voicemail number for this year. If
you if you've been calling the old number. I ain't
hearing those messages and haven't I think since January. Two

(25:47):
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six would be
the number to call two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six to leave a message about robot lawnmowers
or anything like that. We do, uh, we do have
grass to cut, and I know they want to make

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it look pretty Otherwise, wouldn't it be fun to just
get some some type of municipal goats. Wouldn't it be
nice having municipal goats to go eat grass stuff for us?
And then when when the goats weren't working, you could
you could take them to one of the local parks
and have some type of municipal petting zoo situation. There's

(26:31):
I mean, there's there's there's high tech like the robot lawnmowers,
and then there's going back to the basics with some
type of goat. It would be uh. In fact, when
I end up retiring, I wouldn't mind being a part
of some type of civic lawnmowing group if they wanted
to get a group of seniors to go and mow
the grass, because I, when you think about it, I

(26:55):
do want to avoid being done in by robots. All right,
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Speaker 11 (29:24):
Hey, what's going on? Bro?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Just hosting the radio show What's.

Speaker 10 (29:28):
Up with You?

Speaker 11 (29:29):
Ah? You had a good idea about them goats.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Do you have a goat?

Speaker 13 (29:37):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (29:37):
But City Huills's got plenty of them, and they put
them out there and let them grave a little bit
and they've put making already stupid decisions.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, uh, I'm sure they would. They'd be willing to
consider goats if we had a proposal for him.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
It is that they in the city council, the City council, fum.
The goats man is in Billy.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, you know the word goat. Now everybody wants to
be the goat these days.

Speaker 11 (30:09):
Yeah, but all of them go you know, they all hollered.
He can't kill them though, you're like a goat.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Well, the next time I talk to a council member,
I'll ask them if they're as hard headed as a
goat and see what they tell me.

Speaker 11 (30:26):
Yeah, smell them too if I stink like.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, well you two, thank you. All right. Next
time I see Josh Woods, I'll ask him if if
he has any goat like qualities. Let's see. Uh, let's
I've got a message right before the show started. Let
me see sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley

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on Facebook before the show started, O.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Ty uc PERUSA here through the Facebook waiting on my
uncle Henry show to come home here in about ten
or fifteen minutes. Yeah, I ran across the site titled
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right now, So sixty four to sixty five would
be nineteen sixty four to sixty five would be what
sixty years ago? So sixty eight year old Chris gonna
tell us the top TV shows from sixty years ago.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Get a load with some of the starting number one
Noon Railroad Luno Bonanza.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Bonanza, Now that's a classic still worth watching. In fact,
I've got a relative that was so excited about ten
years ago he got a box, some DVD box of
Bonanza episodes and he could not wait. He wanted to
loan those to me so bad. He wanted me to

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watch all those Bonanzas.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Bewitched, Gohmer, The Andy Griffith Show, Fugitive, Red Skelt, Dick
Fan Dye, Lucy's Show, Peyton Place, Combat, Walt Disney, Beverly Hillbilly,
My Three Sons, Own, and on and on down litt
quality programming from one to seventy. I mean, hey, you

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look all the way down at number seventy. Huntley Brinkley Report.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
I remember we.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
All that's in news. My daddy always watched Ah. You
think anything nowadays compares hey, eything the last twenty years
compares that, I think not.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Sixty of your old Chris. Thank you for bringing that up.
I'm with you on that. I hate the fact that
modern entertainment. They one of the hottest TV shows are
on streaming services, and they're filled with the cuss words, nakedness,

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horrific violence. That's that's on all of them, all of them.
Like people would say, oh, one of the great TV
shows of all time was the Sopranos. Well give me
a version of that that doesn't have cusswords in it
or naked people in it. They didn't need cusswords or
naked people on television, and back in nineteen sixty four,

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they didn't need that, and they still managed to put
out stuff that people are watching today. I mean, Andy
Griffith's show That'll that'll outlast all of us, didn't need cusswords,
didn't need naked people in it. Bonanza, No cuss words,
no naked people. Sixty eight year old Chris, thank you

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for reminding me that I can find excellent entertainment on YouTube.
All the Beverly Hillbillies are on YouTube. I'm gonna go
watch some tonight, it says the Uncle Henry's Show here

(34:41):
on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for listening.
I appreciate it very much. Now in this half hour
of show, I'm going to get to some news items.
I might get to a voicemail or two if you'd
like to leave me a message. There is a new
voicemailing number that I've been using for months now. If

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you've been calling the old number, I ain't listening to
those old messages. The new number for voicemails two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now there's a
traffic a traffic note for mobilions, and that is that

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today the City of Mobile shut down the intersection of
Dolphin Street at McGregor Avenue to put in a big roundabout.
People love roundabouts, don't they. So they're shutting that down
and it's going to be shut down I guess for
six months. I hope less time than six months. You
never know. Let's see who should we go to for

(35:48):
coverage of this I've got the story from Fox ten,
and I've also got the mayor, Standy Simpson, talking about
it yesterday. Well one, let me go to Standy all right,
here is the yes. I know you love the mayor.
You want to hear his his voice, his Southern accent,

(36:10):
his charisma. That just it's almost electricity coming out of
the radio when you hear Standy Simpson. Here is the
charismatic mayor talking about this this MacGregor thing.

Speaker 14 (36:24):
Next is the Dolphin and MacGregor closing where Dolphin at MacGregor,
that intersection, which will there'll be a roundabout built there,
but it closes.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Tomorrow and that would be today. It closes tomorrow and
that would be today.

Speaker 14 (36:43):
There will be no traffic coming down Wimbledon Drive going
to Dolphin or anywhere north and south on MacGregor. At
that point, we're asking motorists. We've been asking motors to
plan for an alternative routes. This is going to take
aim while probably it won't be completed until the calendar

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you're in and we realize this disruptive. It's just like
a lot of the other projects we have to do.
We don't know another way to do it other than
to completely shut it down to get the construction crews
the opportunity to do what they need to do. Now
what's already been done. A lot of the project has
been completed, but it can't be used as a connector

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right now because of the outlets and where the traffic
will ultimately go. So what we'd like to do is
just share, give you a sneak peek what the project
looks like.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Right and so at that point he showed a video
to the people at the Mobile City Council meeting. You
can watch it on YouTube. They've got the Mobile City
Council meeting on YouTube from yesterday and you can watch
the video that he showed of the project. If you
enjoy watching your tax dollar funded traffic circle construction videos,

(38:04):
I know that's a very obscure genre of movie to enjoy,
the taxpayer funded roundabout construction videos. Let's see that was
the mayor talking about it. Let me hear what did
Fox ten say today? Here is Fox ten reporting on
this dramatic traffic closure at McGregor and Dolphin.

Speaker 15 (38:26):
McGregor Avenue and Dolphin Streets intersection is officially closed to
traffic as new construction begins. It's a story we've been
following from the very beginning, and.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
That would have been how many years ago, from the
very beginning.

Speaker 15 (38:39):
Foxton News reporter Stephen Moody is alive this morning with
more Stephen. This has been a long time coming.

Speaker 9 (38:48):
It has Iceland.

Speaker 16 (38:49):
We have been following this project for a car.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Theway that was Ashling Mitchell throwing it to Stephen Moody.
I've never met her. She appears to be a nice
young lady. Stephen Moody, very nice guy. Yes, if you
shame ount about reporting on a story, give him a hello.
He's a very nice guy. Stephen Moody.

Speaker 9 (39:09):
A couple of years now you can see behind me
here work has finally begun. There is a lot of
excitement because this is the final phase of this project
that's worked, beginning today on a brand new roundabout.

Speaker 17 (39:20):
Hoping for the best.

Speaker 16 (39:21):
The final countdown is on for a project that's been
ongoing for over two years. The intersection of McGregor Avenue
and Dolphin Street is closed as work begins on a
new roundabout, and residents who live here say they can't
wait to see the finished product.

Speaker 17 (39:34):
We're hoping that it's gonna be a better flow and
there won't be so many hold ups. And I think this,
I think this roundabout is going to be big enough
to accommodate that.

Speaker 16 (39:44):
Work on mc gregor Avenue has been all going since
May of twenty twenty three, and we've already seen some
of the improvements including repaving, new curbs and gutters, improved lighting,
new traffic signals, new sidewalks, and completely rebuilt underground utilities.

Speaker 17 (39:57):
One of my favorite walks now that they finished those
sidesdewalks is to is to walk and check it the
you know what, what's new. Construction has happened since my
last walk, so I've been kind of keeping pretty close
eye on it. Me and my dog have I think
you're going to see a lot of usage.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
By the way, they had video of the dog. They
had video of the dog. Yeah, they yes, he mentioned
his dog. They had special I'm sure. By the way,
radio list, I know you're wishing that this was pictures,
but we have just not figured that out yet. Radio
has not figured out how to transmit the pictures yet,
but we're working on it. But yeah, they had video

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of the dog.

Speaker 17 (40:36):
From the local residents using those big, beautiful sidewalks getting
down to various venues down there. So it's it's been
it's been good and.

Speaker 16 (40:47):
After work continues. The theme of this area full of
homeowners and businesses is patients.

Speaker 17 (40:52):
I've been pretty patient.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Okay, well what are your choices now? You have no
choice but be patient. Right, it's I mean, it's a
long I don't I it's a lot. But this is
a major This is more than just putting up a
traffic signal. This is a major, complete rebuild. You heard
all the stuff they're doing. I don't even want to

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know what it cost.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
Or it is expected to continue here till around December
thirty first, when they expect this roundabout to be completed.

Speaker 16 (41:22):
Fox to News will be.

Speaker 9 (41:24):
Follow along with this progress on this project. As it continues,
we'll have more through.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
All Right, Well, that would be nice. That was Steven
Moody reporting that'd be nice. The estimated time that it's
to finish would be December thirty first. Wouldn't it be
nice if they'd do it earlier than that? And you
never know, you never know. It may it may be
that they can. I want to be optimistic today about
all this, but congratulations to everybody that lives along that

(41:52):
particular stretch of McGregor that has had it built up
in gorgeous and beautiful. See on my morning walk with
my dog, and I take a dog with me too
when I walk through the streets of the city of
Midtown mobile. Unfortunately, the street's not that nice looking. Unfortunately,

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a lot of the streets torn up, potholes, pothole patches
on top of patches, on top of patches. There was
one stretch of street in Midtown it looked like an
asphalt quilt. Yes it did. It looked like an asphalt quilt,
like somebody had put together all different types of asphalt

(42:38):
and created a quilt of different patches there in the street.
But I was excited today I saw one of my
favorite potholes got big enough that somebody put a yellow
Not a yellow, somebody put an orange cone in it.
That was that's stepping up when you get a cone
in your pothole. All right. Anyway, more to come, more sighting.

(43:01):
If you think traffic circles are exciting, more fun to
come on the Uncle Henry Show. But first got to
take a break for traffic and weather. Let's please take
the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on

(43:31):
News Radio seven to ten WNTM. I know you're probably
disappointed that I'm talking. You'd rather just you'd rather just
kick back and listen to this bumper music. But I do.
I need to talk. That's part of the job. There
are news headlines coming up in ten minutes here on

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news Radio seven ten WNTIM, so if you can just
make it through this segment of the show, you'll be
rewarded with news headlines.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Yesterday, Tommy Tuberville, the senator, the coach, Tommy Tuberville announced
who was running for governor of Alabama. Many of us
in Alabama kind of figured out that this is what
was going to happen. I thought he might have announced
before yesterday, but he finally announced. Now. His press office
in Washington has been sending me emails for the past

(44:23):
couple of weeks trying to arrange him coming on the
Uncle Henry Show as a guest. So that told me
then that he was running for governor. They never mentioned
he was running for governor. They just asked me, Hey,
would you like to talk to Senator Tuberville on your show?
And I said, well, yeah, I would. I'd like to
talk to him. Can always talk football, with him, but

(44:47):
he has not his people have not contacted me to
be on the Uncle Henry Show since he ran for senate.
The last time he ran for Senate, he came on
the Uncle Henry Show. I think he came on a
couple of times, and then once he got elected, didn't
hear a word for several years. But now he's back.

(45:08):
Now I'm now hearing from him again because he's running
for something else. Now Here is just a little bit
of Tommy Tubberville from yesterday. He gave an interview to
w b RC in Birmingham. Here's just a little taste
of what he told wbr C. This is brief, less
than a minute.

Speaker 18 (45:29):
I want to bring people together. I'm gonna work very
hard at it. Again, this is not an ego trip.
It is something that I think needs to be done,
and we're gonna do things a lot different. We're gonna
bring a great staff and we're gonna hit the ground running.
But again, I'm looking forward to the next year and
a half. It's gonna be sad to leave, but at

(45:51):
the end of the day, you know, I have to
do a lot of friend and talk to my wife
and family and President Trump and a lot of people
in the Senate they said, you need to go do this.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
So here, I am all right, sorry, Look I'm laughing
because we're talking about people in the Senate encouraging him
to go run for governor. I believe there are many
Republicans in the Senate that like the status quo. They're
very uncomfortable with Donald Trump making waves in Washington doing

(46:24):
things different than other presidents have done, and Senator Tubberville
has followed. He's fought along with Donald Trump. He's tried
to push the Trump agenda. You remember his hold on
those military those military promotions and things like that. I
think they would rather have somebody that goes along with

(46:45):
the flow than be like Tommy Tuberville has been in Washington.
Despite how much fun it must be to be able
to talk to a former college football coach if you're
a sports fan, I'm sure that from time to time
it's a lot of fun to go talk to the
Senate that used to coach college football. But yeah, I'm
sure the Senators don't want him up there. They would

(47:05):
prefer to go back to Alabama and run for governor.
But I am curious. You heard him say that things
would be different, so I have has Alabama. Here's a
question for you. Has Alabama ever had a great governor
in your lifetime? Do you think that Alabama's had a

(47:27):
great governor in your lifetime? I'm just curious about that.
All right, Hey, before amount of time, here is one
of the times that Tommy Tuberville was on the Uncle
Henry Show back when he was running for the Senate.
I like to be different in some of the things
I talk about in talk radio, so I asked him
these questions. Do you listen to music for pleasure?

Speaker 19 (47:50):
Oh? Oh yeah, yeah. I'm a big country and Western fan.
But of course I grew up with the Beatles and
the Rolling Stones and you know, all all the music
from jazz that really started, you know, in Memphis, and
I like all music. I'm a I'm a Merle Haggard fan.
I'm I'm a I'm a i'm I like their old

(48:11):
traditional country and Western music, but I like the new
stuff too. It's a little bit more rock.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
By the way, Bill Blank, the former program director of
ninety five KS Jay, loves he loves Auburn. He's a
huge Auburn fan. He loved meeting Tuberville when Senator Tuberville
came in to do the interviews. This one was over
the phone. As you can tell, he got so upset though.
Bill Black gets so mad when people call it country

(48:37):
and western music. Oh he Bill Black did not like
hearing that from Coach Tuberville.

Speaker 19 (48:42):
Un Then it has been you know, when you and
I grew up. But I'm a huge music fan. My
brother is a musician. I went the athletic route. He
went the music route. He plays any instrument and writes
songs and not not famous, but he just you know,
he just loved it. And and I've been around music
most my life just listening to him and watching him

(49:02):
write songs.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Now there are now some Facebook questions since you asked
for him, Josh Josh Woods wants to know who is
your favorite Beatle?

Speaker 19 (49:16):
Oh, I liked all of them. I would probably say
Paul McCartney. I think John Lennon might have been the
smartest of all of them, just watching you know, the
shows and and him doing the writing. Had a very
different voice. Paul McCartney had a different singer's voice.

Speaker 13 (49:34):
Also, I liked them all.

Speaker 19 (49:36):
You know, George Harrison was kind of mysterious guy AND's
never upfront much. But Paul McCartney, probably at the end
of the day, still living and obviously still writing and
playing the singer.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
That's a plus when you're still living. That makes it's
between him and Ringo all right, out of time for
this edition of the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate you listening.
As they say in Sarah Land, have a good one.
As they say in Theodore, take it easy, all right
later