No April Fool Pranks Here

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Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes. Indeed, thank you, thank you for listening to the
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it's non pornographic, filthy, perverted, you know that kind of stuff.
You should know by now what you should and shouldn't

(02:12):
say in public around men and women that might be
and their children and their very elderly relatives. You should
know what you should and should not say. Now. Today
is April Fool's Day. As I told you yesterday, I'm
not participating at all. I've opted out. You can do

(02:32):
this too, opt out of April Fool's Day. I probably
need to start a campaign next year leading up to it,
but opt out of it. Don't get involved with it.
April Fool's Day, it's all it's based on deceit. Why
would you want to celebrate a day based on deceit?
And I found out today that historians they don't really

(02:56):
know where this came from. This practice. Now, there's a
bunch of theories. I found, like three or four different
theories of what this of where it originated, But there's
no clear evidence of where this started. This whole April Fools,
Let's have a day of lying to each other and
all that kind of stuff. The historians say there's only

(03:19):
theories that don't know where it really originated from. So
that leads to my theory that it originated from the
devil or was devil inspired. Now that's my personal theory,
but just nobody else has an explanation, so I'm going
to go with mine. Devil came up with it, whispered
in into the years of some stupid people, and they

(03:39):
ran with it. So no April fool stuff on the
show today. Now, other people, of course celebrating April Fools.
It was mentioned at the Mobile City Council meeting today
was a Mobile City Council meeting day. I will cover
it for you a bit here on the Uncle Henry Show.
It will not be full and comprehensive coverage because it

(04:01):
just annoys me. It just annoys me tremendously watching city
council meetings. I do want to thank them though. Today
the meeting was only like thirty eight minutes long, so
there was still hot air. Of course, because anytime you

(04:21):
get more than one politician into a room, they can't
help it. They just can't help it. But it was
still very little hot air at today's Mobile City Council meeting.
It went quickly thirty eight minutes. As I said, perfect
for a nap for the discerning citizen. But April Fool's
Day was brought up at the Mobile City Council meeting.

(04:43):
Let's see, we've got the mayor of Mobile.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
Don't forget that today's April Fool's Day.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
There are a lot of tricksters out there, and I
will say that I pulled a really good one on
my children, and I thought a couple of them were
going to have to go to the hospital this morning.
But all is well once they realized it was April first.
And I'm not going to tell you what I told him.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh okay, so you heard the mayor, Standy Simpson said
he pulled an April Fool's prank. He told his kids
something this morning and they almost went to the hospital
based on what Now, he didn't say what he told him,
So let's what do you think? What do you think
he could have said to his kids that would have
shocked them to the point that they want to go
to the hospital. Could it have been I've changed my

(05:33):
mind and I'm running for reelection. Maybe that could have
cost some cardiac arrest symptoms. Could have told him that
could he have told him that he had decided, after
long consideration to endorse Paul Primee for mayor. That would
have been that would have probably been a shock at
the family. And there's some other things. Well, I'm not

(05:53):
going to come up with all. I'm not going to
share with you all of my speculations on this because
we want to have a pleasant show. Mentioned April Fool's Day.
The mayor mentioned April fools Day. One of the speakers
at the city council meeting noticed that mister Reggie Hill.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
There was a quote this morning about watching out of
the trickery because today is April fools Day. But the
way these meetings have commenced with so long, it doesn't
have to be April for that what happens?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Okay, all right, So from today's mobile City Council, I mean,
what can I share with you Only a few things really. Now,
if you want complete, actual, real coverage, you can go
to lanyab. I think they do a terrific job covering
the city council. Lanyapmobile dot Com is the website. Foxten's

(06:41):
already done a story about the possibility of buying some
property the city council looking at buying some property to
convert it into a new animal shelter for mobile instead
of building a new one. They're looking at buying some
land on the west I sixty five. I don't have
the address. I can't tell you where, but they're looking

(07:02):
at taking some empty warehouse and retro fitting that into
becoming a new animal shelter. That's one of the things
that happened at the meeting. Now, Reggie Hill, he had
something I thought that was interesting to say at the
meeting today about the media. He was talking about hiring

(07:26):
third party law firms to do work for the city.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
He mentioned this, let's begin with these third party law firms.
Everybody down here knows about it, but a lot of
people in the public do not. And because we don't
have an impartial media outlet here in the city.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
We don't have an impartial media outlet into the city,
a lot.

Speaker 7 (07:45):
Of that stuff is being suppressed from the content being
able to get out to the public. I believe we
argue that some people probably paid these media outlets to
prevent certain people from getting the messages out to our neighbors,
our fellow citizens.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
So we can argue that at another time.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
But what happened. So there's the He said he could
argue that some people paid the media not to get
information out to the public. Now, I've never heard of this.
I'm not saying it has never happened before. I've not
heard of this during my time in town, when I've

(08:18):
been here for a while, I've met a lot of
media people. No one in the media has ever told
me that they were getting paid to not report on something.
And I'm very curious if anybody has the numbers they
can slip me how how big? How big do my
ratings have to get before I can get on some

(08:40):
kind of payment list. Not not that I want, not
that I want to participate in anything like that. I'm
just curious, just curious if there is, if there is
a standard do you have to meet before you can
get paid. I get paid to talk? Is there more
money and not talking? I don't like to find out.

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(09:41):
more from the Mobile City Council to share with you.
But before I do that, I do like to take
phone calls from living people. Whenever there's a living caller,
Hello Collor, Hi, Hey, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 8 (09:56):
I agree with you, April fool is as bad. You
shouldn't be folling people.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
I agree.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
Hey, I want to say something very important to you,
Uncle Henry.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
What's that?

Speaker 8 (10:06):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
What are you sorry for?

Speaker 8 (10:12):
I've called in the past that said things about your
mother's weight that was inappropriate and unkind, and I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Now is this a genuine apology? I mean, do you
recognize that she's normal sized and that you've been a
devout and repeated liar.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
Well, I know that she's got a domendic condition that
makes her so big, and I shouldn't think.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
She does not. She doesn't have a genetic condition that
makes her larger than an average woman of her height
and age and activity level.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
Well is an average woman are height and weight activity
level six hundred fifty three pounds?

Speaker 9 (10:50):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Come on, she's of nord Look I can't believe this.
I can't believe it's twenty twenty five and this, this
kind of garbage is still happening, Sir, Hang up on yourself,
Hang up on yourself, Hang up. All right, there it went,
all right, good listeners. I apologize for that. You know,

(11:11):
I'm trying to keep the budget as low as I
can on the program. If I have to hire a
call screener, that would be less for me. So in course, yes,
it causes a problem. When I don't hire a call screener,
then you have this kind of garbage. Somebody calls in
about your mama. Let's forget that last call happened. I'm
going to edit it out of the podcast, so nobody
that listens to the podcast later tonight, nobody will hear

(11:33):
that call. Let's pretend that it didn't happen, and let
me move forward. Let's let's restart it, says the Uncle
Henry Show. News Radio seven to ten WNTM news headlines

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coming up in about seven minutes from Fox ten and
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four seven nine two seven two three. That's two five
to one four seven nine two seven two three. Email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Today a Mobile
City council meeting. I'll get a little bit more for

(12:17):
you from the council meeting. If you want actual, real coverage,
you can go to Fox ten or Lamyakmobile dot com
or any of the actual UH news stations and find
out what is going on. But I want to share
a little bit with you now. Mayor Stemson had numerous
things to say at today's meeting. One thing he talked

(12:38):
about a recent drug bust. Uh. This is something he
says was in the media. I missed it, so I
did enjoy the Mayor actually sharing news.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
I'm going to talk about Mobile Police Department just for
a moment. You may have picked up on in the
media that we had what we called Operation Isaia Trail.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Operation Isaia Trail more clever naming.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
And where we were targeting some drug traffickers and drug
activity on the Zaya Road. This came to us as
a complaint of activity that was being a witnessed and
they had hoped that we would do something about it.
We did something about it, although sometimes it takes a
while for us to build the case. But there were
eighteen arrests to two thousand grams of narcotic seas ten

(13:24):
hour firearms taking off the streets.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
And again it came from.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm sorry to interrupt the mayor, but I'm curious you
talked about two thousand grams of narcotics and I'm look,
I don't do this metric stuff. I'm sorry I rejected it.
Back in the seventies, back Carter. A lot of people
don't remember. Carter said, you know, we really need to
get on the metric system. And we went into the
schools and tried to teach it to the children, and

(13:50):
eventually people said, no thanks, we'll stick with inches and
miles and stuff like that. So why are drugs? Why
are illegal drugs? Were only told about grams of this?
Can't what about how many cups of marijuana? How many

(14:10):
cups of heroin? Could you put it? Was there a
court of heroin? I'd like to know these things. Was
there a teaspoon of fentanyl or was it? I would
love it if we could get away from the grams.
But anyway, back to the drug.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Bus, citizens complaining about drug activity in their neighborhood. So
this is a I think I hope it is an
example to you that we do listen, we don't condone it,
but sometimes it just takes us a while to get
all the facts together so that we can execute upon
these kind of activities, so we can execute a drug

(14:46):
rate on these activities.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right, So and he you noticed that the mayor
kept stressing the fact that people complained, but it took
a while. I wonder was this is this a complaint
from last year? That would be a nice rest of
the story to find out. Was this a couple of weeks,
a couple of months? How long does it take if
you notice drug sales? Do they have to first figure

(15:12):
out they have to convert from metric to American? What
is it? Let's see what else from the council meeting,
there was something I did want to share with you
so that you can hear that the City of Mobile
is taking care of business. The mayor talking about a
report that they issued today of things that the city

(15:36):
did for the citizenry in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
Coming in to the auditorium. On the desk out there
are copies of this report, which if you didn't pick
one up, I would suggest that you can pick one up.
It's a public it's our public works annual report are
twenty twenty four. Public Works is now actually three to part.
It's his Billmobile, it's engineering, infrastructure and public works. And

(16:04):
what this report does is highlights the things that they
accomplished in twenty twenty four. I would say this is
a banner year for public work for what was formerly
public works.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
These are some of the student.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
A banner year for public works. This is this is
the kind of stuff do we ever have there there
ever been other banner years for.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
This statistics Engineering oversaw ninety five miles of road resurfacing,
thirteen point seven miles of new or repaired sidewalks, and
one thousand and thirty seven new Ada ramp installations. Good
public Services collected sixty thousand tons of garbage, one hundred
and eighty thousand QB caards of trash, eighty eight thousand

(16:47):
pounds of litter, and fixed forty five hundred potholes.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Forty five hundred potholes were.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Fixed and fixed forty five hundred potholes.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Now this was wonderful. Now they did an annual report
on this. As a citizen of Mobile, as a taxpayer
and Mobile, I would love if they could come out
with a pothole report more often, just just because it.
I don't know about you, but living where I live,
in the part of town I live in, it is

(17:18):
a daily thing of I can't believe they haven't fixed
that in the last several decades, that kind of stuff.
I've that pothole that I remember that from back in
the nineties, that one, that one goes to the nineteen seventies.
It would be nice to hear it would be nice
to hear more, more, more often about pothole reports. In fact,

(17:39):
I'd love a weekly pothole report if the city could
do it, of how many they filled in a week.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
And fixed forty five hundred potholes?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I love that, But could we double that? Please back
with more after the break, Uncle Henry Show News Radio
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number two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
That's two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Hello, caller,
Uncle John. How are your doing?

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Man? I'll tell you what. It has been a dull
moment since the Trump and Biden debate. Has it bossed?

Speaker 10 (18:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
It has been wild ever since.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Hey, are you looking forward to watching Trump and Obama
running for their third rise?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I don't think Yeah, I uh, that would be exciting.
I don't think it'll happen.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
But uh, it would be fun.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
It would be funny.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, hell yeah. Oh boy, I'm telling you, it hasn't
been many dull moments. Man, I'm telling you. Did you
see did you see Kid Rocks and Trump and Bill
maher on on?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
I haven't seen them all together, but I heard that
they're having dinner.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh yeah, they and they're getting along pretty good. Kid,
old kid, cracky. He was really amazed at how well
it went. But you see what Jaya Paul's doing today? Unc?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
No, I did not.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Oh she's this guy. He's having fits about what Trump's doing.
You know how she sleeps? Right, No, She's got a
fourteen inch black iron skillet and she puts her face
over in it and puts the weight on the back
of her head. I'm being ugly, but boy, that is
it looks like that's what she does bad.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, Well, all right, well let's hope. Let's hope she
doesn't eavesdrop on our conversation.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Well, look here, I'm glad you're going to head it out,
they got it goes hi, Yeah, edit out as idiot
call man. You know it's his number. Look what we
ought to do is I'll pitch in a little money
every month. We could get Lee Hannah back for your
call screener.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
No, I don't think that would be possible. She works
for a different company.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, with my FID player enough she'd come back.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, you would have to pay me more to have
her back.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh yeah, I know, y'all wan't the best of buddies,
but you know what, she was kind of cute uncle.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, uh do you have? Well, I'm glad that. Is
there anything else you want to share? Are there other
people you find cute that you think should call screen
for the show?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't know what you think?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Now? This is you brought this up? This was this is.
This did not come from me. You called in with
with wanting to lust after a call screener come up
with is there anybody else?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I saw you at Snake Snake Stripper's house here a
year ago or more, and they were two thirty chicks
sitting beside you and s Nut Stripper and his old
lady was across the bar, and I mean, hell, you
know they get to some pretty nice looking gowns there,
would you you could use one of them?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
All right, well, I'll I'll take that under consideration.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yeah, and if you see best tell her. I said,
hey man, I ain't saying her in a while since Halloween. No, well,
she'd give me a call. She's got my number.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
All right, I'll pass that on.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Halcoll All right, there, he goes. I don't know what's
going on. God bless him. John. We're going to be
praying for you. There's obviously something going on and an
unusual fascination about women around the Uncle Henry show. Two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. The
telephone number that's two five to one four seven nine

(21:47):
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way hiring works now in this company. They they have
to put up some special notice corporate wide. If we're
going to hire somebody, the job has to be listed
corporate wide with all of qualifications and stuff like that.

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So just deciding to bring somebody back, it's not as
easy as it used to be due to corporate stuff.
With iHeart. One of the funniest things that happened the
last time we hired a call screener for the Uncle
Henry Show. It was Ariel who now is the program director.
I think she's the program director of stations in three

(22:31):
different cities now. And when they hired her, I looked
at the qualifications for the job, and I realized I
was not qualified to be my own call screener. Yes,
that's the way they wrote the qualifications to where you
need this degree and you need that degree. I could

(22:53):
not have qualified to be hired to screen calls for me,
which I know sounds strange. Corporate corporate media, corporate life.
If you work for a big company, you know what
I'm talking about. To find one or seven nine two
seventy two three the telephone number here on the unc
Lanbry Show, Uh, let me go to a voicemail message.

(23:15):
I don't think this has come up on the show yet. Uh,
but it caught my attention the way it's caught some
other people's attention.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Hey, Oklnry l D. Did you see on the news
today Mississippi stopped having a state income tax.

Speaker 11 (23:32):
Did you see that?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (23:34):
Well, in a pold.

Speaker 10 (23:35):
Move, I would say maybe thirty or forty years from now,
Alabama's going to do the same thing. Just like they're
going to get a lottery one day, just like they're
going to get casinos one day, just like we're going
to have sports betting one day in the near future,
thirty forty years from now.

Speaker 11 (23:55):
Everyone, everyone, These are Republicans run in Alabama and every
state is doing better than this state because of the
leadership of a tired old woman that has stell insight.

Speaker 12 (24:11):
She needs to go.

Speaker 10 (24:13):
We need somebody young in there. We need somebody that
will move this state forward. We need a lottery, We
need legalized sports betting, we need gambling. We need a
lot of things in here.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
No wait, now, do we need it or do you
just want it? I mean there's a difference, and I'm
willing to listen. If you think we need it financially,
that we just can't afford to live without it, that
you can make the argument. But do we need it
or is it just that you want it?

Speaker 10 (24:42):
Legalized sports betting, we need gambling, We need a lot
of things in here, including no state tax, income tax.

Speaker 12 (24:53):
Will we get it?

Speaker 10 (24:54):
No, never will, because this is the most backed act
words that I wanted to say in one way state,
in the whole entire pitty state. Foe God just like
you would think.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Now, wait a second, I'm sorry interrupt, but now you
so you think we are the worst out of fifty
in these things? Really has Mississippi eliminating their income taxes?
That has that drawn them permanently ahead of Alabama?

Speaker 10 (25:27):
I'm just asking in the whole entire pitty state. Fine, God,
just like you would think with Republicans running it, we
might be a little bit further into the twenty fifth century.
But oh no, can't do that. Here we are still
sitting on.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
The porch twenty fifth century, looking.

Speaker 10 (25:50):
At surveys, getting committees together to study the problem like this,
this marijuana thing they're doing. They're studying the problem that
marijuana has been legal in California, it's been legal in Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and they're still in Alabama studying it.

Speaker 9 (26:12):
What the hell?

Speaker 10 (26:13):
What is gone wrong with the state of Alabama. This old, decrepit,
old woman, that's what's going wrong. She needs to go
right LD.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Thank you very much for your voicemail message voicemail number
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's
two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. I
will point out that k Ivy. I don't think she
had much of a battle when she ran for reelection.
I don't know where you were. I hear a lot
of anger. I hear some emotion. There, a lot of
passion about your issues of wanting to gamble away all

(26:46):
this cash and smoke marijuana as you do it without
any kind of income tax interfering. But the people voted for.
People had no problem voting for. In fact, I wonder
where her approval rating would be these I guess now
would be the time LD to have these conversations, because

(27:07):
there will be she won't be running for reelection because
she can't, and so we're going to be getting a
new governor who, let us know, LD, who do you
think is gonna you said, twenty fifth century? Who will
get us there? We're willing to listen. And meanwhile, another

(27:32):
thing to ponder, do you think the governor and the
legislature really run things in this state? Uncle Henry Show,

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two five one four seven nine two seven two three. Hello, Color.

Speaker 12 (28:26):
Uncle Henry, how are you?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm good, John, how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (28:31):
Pretty good. I just wanted to express my opinion on
two Alabama issues.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (28:37):
The first is, uh is marijuana. I'm warning against legalizing marijuana.
That's what liberal states do. It's a gateway drug and
now it's laced with fit, now causing some people to
pass away. And it stinks, smells horrible, very rude, and

(28:57):
it encourages laziness and low IQ behavior. So I don't
care how much tax revenue it brings in. Absolutely not
not in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (29:08):
Second issue, which is a little bit more complicated, is
the lottery and sports betting. I understand the moral issues,
I understand the tax revenue, but it's where does the
money go. If it goes to infrastructure, I'm one hundred
percent for it, If it goes to eliminating state income tax,

(29:28):
I'm one hundred percent for it. But if it's for education,
in other words, babysitting and three meals a day for
all children, no, no way. So the lottery, it's where
does the money go. Does it go to the general fund?
Does it go to something specific like infrastructure, which I prefer,

(29:52):
But that's just my uncle. That's just my opinion. Uncle Henry,
what say you?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, I'm with you on where the money goes and
what you said about marijuana. Uh, we can look to
other states to see has it gone good for them
or not? And I don't We're not hearing a lot
of great stories at US these states about where they've
done that, right, And as you pointed out, there's a

(30:20):
there is a social public aspect to it. People are
not buying it and sitting at home and quietly using
it and mining their own business. They're out in the
streets and everybody is smelling it and it's uh, I mean,
we get we're hearing complaints about it and it's not
even legal here, and it's you hear complaints about it
all the time, right, It's.

Speaker 12 (30:42):
It's very pungent. And in New York City they just
made it legal to smoke marijuana in movie theaters.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, I mean, are you kidding me?

Speaker 12 (30:53):
But where do you draw the line on the schoolishness?

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yes, by the way, it's instead of making a good
movie to watch where you can watch it safely, instead
they would hey, come on in and bring your dope.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
But on the gambling, I'm with you on where would
the money go? Uh? And also it's just a The
thing about the gambling issue in Alabama is whenever you
decide that people are going to be allowed to have casinos,
it's it's like you're you're awarding a license for printing money.
I mean, it is peace. People are going to get

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incredibly wealthy. How do you decide who gets incredibly wealthy?
Who's allowed to get incredibly wealthy by running casinos because
they're going to be winners and losers there. How do
you decide that? And as and as you pointed out
where will the money go, will it go to a
good a good source or not? I'm with you on infrastructure.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
We already increased our gasoline tax a few years ago
with a promise that it was going to go to
better roads. Are we seeing more road projects in the
state of Alabama now that we've increased our gasoline tax.

Speaker 12 (32:04):
I don't think so. But I'm from the Mississippi coast
And granted, when the casinos came in in ninety one,
there was some increase in the standard of living good.
There are societal costs like prostitution, like bankruptcy, like divorce.
So you just have to. I think some people would

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be would go with the lottery, but maybe not want
to go all the way with casinos everywhere. At least
if they do it, it's got to be in some
kind of moderation because it just there's social problems that
you have to admit exists.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
All right, Well, I agree with you on that. And
as you pointed out, if Alabamians were asked to vote
on just a lottery, then Alabamians would pass that. It
gets a lot more complicated when you throw in all
the other stuff.

Speaker 12 (32:57):
Right well, Uncle Henry, God bless you. I hope you
have a nice evening.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Sir, thank you very much for your phone call. And
people watching on Facebook were wondering was that the same John. No,
we have we have numerous John's that call the show.
And that's not a slang term, that's just a first name.
We have numerous men with the first name John that
do listen to the Uncle Amer's show. Also, sheep listener,

(33:23):
I like to thank Randy Hastings for he sent me
a picture of sheep that he is.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
He is.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
He is playing the Uncle Henry Show to some sheep today.
Thank you for that. I don't know how I'm doing
with people, but I'm probably the most listened to show
among sheep in the state of Alabama. More show after

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the news break, This says the Uncle Henry Show here

(34:18):
on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Now in this half
hour of show, I'm gonna get to some news items.
Also gonna get to some voicemail. Voicemail number two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now before i

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get to any news items or anything like that, I've
had some back and forth. Well, I don't know if
it's been back and forth. I've had some criticism of
one caller from another caller. LD the Mad Trucker has
been somewhat critical of sixty seven year old christ Off
west Locksley, claiming that sixty seven mure old Chris of

(35:00):
west Locksley is a moots, that he's not doing anything.
He's just sitting in a rocking chair during his retirement.
I've shared some of these messages with you. Now I've
got a new message LD the Mad Trucker has has created.
I guess this is kind of a play in his
mind of what things are like at sixty seven year

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old Chris's house in the morning. Here is the message
from LD the mad Trucker. This is directed at sixty
seven year old Chris.

Speaker 12 (35:33):
Hey, uncle Henry.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
This is my reddition of what happens over there at
Chris from Lonsley's hollas six am.

Speaker 12 (35:43):
Well, I guess it's time to get up.

Speaker 8 (35:46):
You come something with the cousin, Oh little lrdie.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
I gotta get out there on the swing and sit
for a little bill about the fly. Two words is bomb?
You do nothing good? Look? Why did you do something?

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (36:01):
Is it Wednesday yet?

Speaker 12 (36:02):
Maybe I'll go get some free food.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
Oh your bumb I never bumb. I don't know what
to do, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I don't know. Sounds a little unfair sixty seven year
old Chris, that you're being referred to in this way
by LD creating this playlet in his mind about what
it's like with with you and your family. Now, sixty
seven year old Chris, what is his day like? Well,
he did he left a message today. Let's listen. How

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close is this to what LD phoned in about sixty
seven year old Chris.

Speaker 9 (36:43):
Oh tayuh, another beautiful day here in Paradise. Just finished
some kitchen duty. Swept the floor. I'll get in there
directly and mop it and vacuum the living room and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
By the way, mopping not a fan. Now, we all
like mop floors, I'm sure, but when it comes to
having a chore to do, that's in my top five
chores I hate to do, which is mopping. So sixty
seven year old Chris, congratulations on getting these sweeping and
mopping in all right, So sweeping and mopping.

Speaker 9 (37:20):
Getting there directly and mop it and vacuum the living
room and whatnot. Of course, when you're retired you can
do things like that. It's your own face, I reckon,
and I enjoy doing it that way instead of somebody's
standing over me telling.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Me to do it.

Speaker 9 (37:35):
Oh, by the way, don't get me wrong. I love
my family, love having them around. However, it's on Tuesdays
and Wednesdays it's just me a solo. Everybody's either at
work and or school, so two days out of the week.
As I told Barbara, my very attractive young male lady.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Okay, at Locksley or West Locksley, there is a very
attractive young male lady named Barbara. Just just letting if
people are considering moving to Locksley or West Locksley. Just
there's an amenity.

Speaker 9 (38:13):
From my very attractive young male lady. I get a break,
she says, Lord, I wish I did. She's got about
three or four youngin's. I think Jesusy's always enjoyable. Made
it down to the church houses. I'd try to do
it on a regular basis. Breakfast with the men of
the congregation, the men who choose to show hey, you

(38:37):
anywhere im I'd say about twenty to thirty or forty
of us, I'm gonna guess all but maybe three or
four of them retired. All of us rather than retired,
except for about three or four. Preachery he shows up.
He's a young Feila. He's from Mobile. He's preaching Mobile.

(38:57):
He's been with us a few years now. All right there,
Uncle Gott, I chair all that with you. I'm gonna
go back to rocking back and forth on the front porch.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Here.

Speaker 9 (39:09):
See if I get up the energy, I resume my walking.
By the way, I'm up back up to two miles.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Now.

Speaker 9 (39:17):
See if it gave me enough energy to do some
moppet and whatnot. You have a good one and I'll
be uh, I'll be listening up and watching on the
Facebook for you.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Outright, sixty seven year old Chris, thank you for telling
me about your your your day, your Tuesday during retirement.
And glad to hear that you have a group of men.
That's uh, that sounds like a very healthy number of
men that would show up on a on a weekday
for some type of church breakfast. That sounds pretty good.

Speaker 12 (39:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Anyway, thank you for that voice mail voicemail number two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six, to leave
a message for the Uncle Henry Show. And let's see,
before I get to any news on THEMS, maybe maybe
one more voicemail. Got time for one more here before
we go to break. This is a voicemail abound a

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topic that a lot of people have been discussing over
the past many years. Illegal immigration.

Speaker 10 (40:20):
Hey, hey, you know these Democrats are screaming their heads
off about this foreign immigration, these invaders that have came
in courtesy of Joe Biden. Well, the problem is a Democrat,
fellow Democrat, I'm not a demographic Democrat, United States Democrat.
The problem is that they will never pay those to security,

(40:44):
They will never really pay taxes. They will stay in
the shadows. They will work in cash jobs, and that's
how they'll live their lives. And they'll live very nice lives.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
Here unkill what kill.

Speaker 10 (40:57):
They're sick and they walk into an emergency room and
they burn off about eight thousand dollars in bills. And
you know what they say at yos amigos when they
walk out and they don't pay the bill. You know
who pays the bill. You pay the bill.

Speaker 12 (41:12):
I pay the bill.

Speaker 10 (41:13):
Uncle Henry pays the bill. That's why they've got to go.
Let them go back where they came from. Fill out
the forms, pay the taxes, get on Social Security, but
you're not you're not collecting it. You may get on it,
but you can't collect it for twenty years after you
come into this country. That way we know that you're

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not here for a free ride. That's how it you work,
That's how it works in other countries.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Thank you Weld for the voicemail voicemoie number two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. To leave a
message for the Uncle Henry Show and his listeners. Now,
if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can leave
me a message using the app. Just hit the microphone button.

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It's called the talkback button. When you see look on
the app where there's a microphone, hit it and you'll
be able to record a message for me right on
the app. And it sounds pretty good, the talkback, the
talkback messages, the quality is pretty good on that. So
again that's in the iHeartRadio app. In fact, remember the

(42:24):
iHeartRadio app is free to download. It's more like a
car radio. Now you can set presets. You can set
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all over the country using the free iHeartRadio app. All right,

(42:47):
going to take a time out for weather and traffic
and news from our sponsors. Right back with more Uncle
Henry's Show. Uncle Henry Shown NewsRadio seven ten WNTM. These

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headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before we get there,
I'm gonna check a news item maybe more than one
news item, or I might even grab another voicemail. I
wanted to share this with you though. This is from
yesterday on Fox ten. This has to do with the

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buses in Mobile, Alabama. Now, I think land yapp has
already written about this. I think they've done a story
on this. But the City of Mobile is trying to
figure out what to do with public transportation as there's
the possibility of a Wave transit strike taking place. How

(44:01):
are the are the buses working out for us? Do
we need to continue funding a bus line in the
city of Mobile. Here is the story from Fox ten.
You'll hear Lenish Lagan, an anchorman, camera ring Taylor introducing
the story to us.

Speaker 13 (44:20):
You're looking into public transportation in the city of Mobile.
Some Wave Transit workers have threatened to strike and the
city is now weighing its options on what to do
if that happens.

Speaker 12 (44:29):
This is a story that R.

Speaker 8 (44:30):
Shelby Myers has been following for you.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
She's in the studio now at the latest and Shelby.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
You're finding out the city is looking at if Wave
Transit is actually worth it.

Speaker 13 (44:39):
Yeah, I am Linison Cameron. I reviewed city documents on
Wave transit ridership since twenty nineteen, I found that while
ridership has steadily declined, the amount the city has committed has.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
More than doubled.

Speaker 13 (44:53):
In twenty twenty, the city allocated four point nine million
dollars to Wave transit. By fiscal year twenty twenty five,
that number has reached ten million dollars.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
All right, five years, it's it's doubled in five years
going to Waive transit.

Speaker 13 (45:11):
M A spokesperson for Mobile says that's largely because federal
funding has declined, and while the calls for the city
is going up, according to documents, total ridership is trending down.
In twenty nineteen, there were more than eight hundred and
thirty six thousand writers. Last year that dropped to around
six hundred and twenty eight thousand writers.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Hey, I'm sorry to pause the story for you again,
but so I know there are some people that need
the bus. I living in midtim Mobile, I see people
that do use the bus. I can tell they need
to use the bus, that they don't have another way
of transportation. Why vote you? The listener who could voicemail
me two five one two one six nineteen seventy six,

(45:55):
maybe if you've got a theory about this, or maybe
you know why, why do you think ridership would go down?
Why do you think ridership would go down? Because there
there's there's always going to be a population that is
aging that maybe needs a ride to the doctor or
the grocery store or wherever people are riding the wave to,

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or even people that ride it to work. Why would
it go down going from over eight hundred thousand to
just over six hundred thousand in just a few years.
And just I don't I don't quite understand. I don't
feel like more people are getting transportation. Are there less
places to go now? Anyway? Just two five one two

(46:39):
one six, nineteen seventy six to leave me a theory
or maybe tell me the answer.

Speaker 13 (46:43):
Even if every writer paid a one way fare, wave
would generate just over eight hundred and seventy three thousand dollars,
falling short of the ten million allocated. The city says
all fair revenue goes back into wave operations. Mobil may
Or Sandy Stimpson told us last week he wants to
look more closely at the cost of public transportation.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
We really do need to come up with a better
solution than what's currently going on because of the expense
of it, I mean what the City Mobile is spending
on and what it cost us for passenger, there's not
a long term bible.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Way to go about it.

Speaker 13 (47:22):
One potential alternative expanding Mogo. Last year, the Mobile Chamber
of Commerce partnered with Villa to launch the micro Transit
ride share. Currently, they have cars and vans to take
people on rides for a dollar twenty five or people
to certain jobs get to ride for free. Chamber President
and CEO Bradley Burns says expanding the service will take

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some time.

Speaker 14 (47:45):
We're in the process of a farure out how to
scale it up and so we've had these talks with
the city. Had nothing to do with problems with the union.
It was all about how could Mogo fit in with
their existing transit program.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
So Mogo would be I guess you heard the description,
but instead of getting on a bus, you'd get in
a car with a few other people that are going somewhere. Hmm.
Is that more attractive? I mean, I know it's better
in terms of cost for the taxpayer for the person riding.

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Would you prefer to be on a bus or would
you prefer to be in a car with the four strangers.

Speaker 14 (48:28):
And then this union thing came up, which kind of
calls us by surprise, But the program's flexible enough that
it could probably work out to help the city.

Speaker 13 (48:39):
Now again, all of this conversation is timming from about
two thirds of Wave Transit workers in a union voting
to strike because of what they call an unsafe work environment.
A definitive strike date has not been announced. And I
did hear back from Wave Transit's managing company, Transdev. A
spokesperson says, in part quote, trans Dev continues to bargain

(48:59):
in good faith with ATU Local seven seven zero for
the operations of the Wave Transit bus system. We value
our partnership with the ATU and remain hopeful that we
can come to a mutually agreeable resolution quickly. In the
studio tonight, Shelby Meyers, Fox.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Ten News, all right, maybe we should have done what
Lambert Memes suggested years ago, which was by a used
monorail from Disney. He suggested that, but we didn't buy it.
All right, out of time for this edition of the
un Clemmer Show. Thank you for listening to it. As

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they say in Sarahland, have a good one, and as
they say in Theodore, take it easy, all right later