Pro Hockey Returns to Mobile

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day goes by. Once again, here we are together, me
and you trying to figure out what is going on,
what is going on? What really is going on in
the world around us. We've got some big news today
for Mobile, Alabama and the Guff Coast. Big press conference.

(02:00):
Big press conference held today at the Convention Center in
downtown Mobile, where there was the announcement the Professional Hockey
is returning to Mobile. Professional Hockey returning to Mobile in
twenty twenty seven. We're gonna get what is this league
called the Southern Professional Hockey League coming to Mobile where

(02:21):
they franchise in twenty twenty seven. Mayor Standy Simpson was
there to make the announcement. With all these officials from
the oak View Group and other local luminaries. Let me
take you there. Let's listen together as Mayor Standy Simpson
explains all of this stuff about the hockey and how

(02:42):
wonderful it is, how your life may change, your life
could change because the quality of life, judge them by
this Purse conference today. The quality of life is just
going to be dramatically increased by bringing ice hockey back
to Mobile, Alabama. So let's together, me and you listen
Bill Mayor Standy Simpson explain all of this.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
The it that we're talking about is professional hockey is
coming back to Mobile and it's coming back in a
big way.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
In a big way, bigger than last time.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
So Zulia Sports, which operate successful teams in several Southern cities,
as the ownership team. They'll be bringing it back starting
in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I see in my notes somewhere.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
It'll be October twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Says I'll see you on the ice, okay. So when
I see you on the ice, I'll be citizen Sandy. Okay.
But I'll be glad to be citizen Sandy at that time.
You know, there it's a new franchise and as part
of the Southern Professional Hockey League, and they're going to grain.
As the pastors said, there are going to be some
great experiences, memories made family friendly, and so it's just.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Going to help continue to improve.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's something we've been striving for for so many years,
and that's to improve the quality of life for all citizens.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
All right, So this is a quality of life issue.
If you've been wondering what's missing, what's missing in my life,
my life quality not quite where I wanted to be, Well,
this is it. You didn't know it.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
This is it, and it's an opportunity for us all
to get behind the same team. You know, sometimes on
the weekend there's some of y'all that were orange and
blue and summer comes in white. But this will be
our team that we can all support.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
And the Jags sadly not mentioned.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
We're anticipating all citizens doing that. But I'd say this
that Tom's remarks were very kind about interacting with us,
but it didn't take us long to realize during the
process that.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
They mentioned to Tom that's an oak View Group. Guy.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oakview Group was going to bring something to the table
that we didn't think anybody else could bring from the
standpoint of management, not just of the new arena with
the possibility of hockey, but also what's going on in
this building as well as the Sayer Theater. So Tom
Piquett and Peter Luco, thank you all so much and
look forward to your remarks in just a moment. Also

(05:14):
had an opportunity to meet Andy Kaufman. We went to
Jacksonville to see the iceman, found out a little bit
about Andy's history and nine o'clock at ten o'clock in
the morning on a weekday, there were school children out
there skating.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
There were others that seemed to.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Be maybe in the eighteen nineteen twenty year olds, doing
figure skating as if they're getting ready to go to
the Olympics.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
And I'm thinking, this is amazing.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
And what we found out was there was so much
emphasis put on the practice facility, not just the arena
where the games will be played, but the practice facility
will be for the citizens of Mobile to enjoy, whether
it's birthday parties or practice and another So it's going
to be another dimension of something we just don't have.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
And I'm convinced this will be good, good for the
quality of life of orthopedic doctors.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's all your sports.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Because of their expertise, they will bring it and they
will do it right because they've been in other communities
that have lost hockey and brought it back and been
very successful. So no pressure, Andy, But anyway, and the
cool thing is that it seems that they're all buying
back into Mobile.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
They have found out.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
It didn't take them very long that we had a
team called the Mobile Mystics.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
That was twenty two years ago. Things have changed tremendously
since that.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Time in the league, you know, the Southern National Hockey
League winning the Stanley Cups, creating new fans. The minor
leagues are expanding, and new youth leagues are also starting.
With the right facilities, there's no telling what the outcomes
will be.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
We will have the.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Right facilities and they'll be among the best in the Southeast.
I would anticipate a future mayor unveiling hockey player out
in front of where the Hall of Fame, the Walker
Fame is, And so again, Andy, no pressure, but we
expect them to get the best players here so that
we can have some Hall of famers. A good deal,

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as y'all all know, the Civics. Excuse me, the arena
is going to be transformative. We had an opportunity to
speak to a small group last night, and the difference
in this arena and a lot of other arenas around
the Southeast is that we had to build the arena
to accommodate Mighty Gras and because of that, it gives
some flexibility that the management team gee that they don't

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have in other places.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
So they will be able to do things.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
From a sports perspective and also from an entertainment perspective that.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
They can't do anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
So, whether it's Pro hockey games, Mighty Graw, just bands coming.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
To play, you know, it's going to be a very
exciting time.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
All right, So pro hockey returning into twenty twenty seven.
So what will the name of the team be. Well,
they have a name the team contest at their website
mobileprohockey dot com. So if you have an idea, what
would you call it? If you're gonna, if you're gonna,
if you're gonna name a hockey team. And you just

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heard all of that, that very confident predicting of the
future that it's going to be so popular, there's going
to be a Pro Hockey Hall of Famer that grows
up in Mobile learning about hockey. Here you heard all
of the predictions from Mayor Stempson. What would you name it?
Aside from mobile mystics, you can go to the Name
the Team contest at Mobileprohockey dot com and come up

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with a name for the Mobile Pro Hockey team that
is coming in twenty twenty seven. More on this than
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says the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy
ten WNTM. An exciting day in mobile history. Is the
announcement made that hockey is coming back to try again. Yeah,
they're bringing pro hockey back to try again, but this
time it'll be different. They say. The arena is such

(09:42):
anod just the praise of this building that's not yet built,
about how it is gonna be. Just it's gonna change
everything in our lives. It's gonna change everything in our lives.
This new arena, including it's gonna create this this incredible
hockey team that's gonna be more success than anything we
could have we could have imagined. In fact, listen to

(10:04):
I've got a little bit more on this that a
lot of people talking at this press conference today, they
were all very affable, and they all had a They
all had an aura and a vibration of affability. And
I want to give him credit for that. There was
a lot of affability at this press conference for Pro

(10:25):
Hockey today at the convention Center, with the different people
from the view groups speaking, they were all very happy.
They all loved Mobile, they all loved working in Mobile,
all this kind of stuff. Let me share with you
the There was a brief speech from the Mobile City
Council President CJ. Small, And the reason I want to
play it to you in its entirety is because he's

(10:50):
so enthusiastic. You got to enthusiasm is contagious. More we
have learned more contagious than COVID. And I think even
if you're not a hockey lover, you will feel you
will you may you may become a hockey fan just
listening to his enthusiasm. Listen, all right, here is one

(11:10):
of our city fathers, our city leaders, Mobile City Council
President C. J. Small, excited about the return of professional
hockey as they're going to try again with hockey in Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 6 (11:26):
Hey, good afternoon, Good afternoon. That's my former colleague on
the council used to say, Former John Williams. Is another
great day here in the city of Mobile. And as
I was sitting there listening to the pastor praying and
the marriage speaking, I was saying, Wow, the best is

(11:47):
yet to come. I was thinking about that. Over in
District three, we have the final center linements being completed
with Airbus, and right next door to Airbus, you know,
it is a brand new airport that's being built. And
as we look outside, we see almost a brand new, shining,
you know, sparkling train that's getting ready to head back
to New Orleans. And I said, and then you look

(12:09):
over from the train. You look over and you've seen
a brand new arena is being built, and they saying, Wow,
what's going to be inside that brand new arena? And
as you hear a brand new team hockey. The best
is yet to come. But if you just think about
it and just you know, just think about all the

(12:29):
great things especially up under our mayor leadership within the
past in the past twelve years, Mobile is rising.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
It's not Mobile is rising going down.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Is rising and the best is yet to come. And
we have more opportunity that's coming right here in the
city of Mobile. This Act three has a sand This
the three is the place where things are happening. Guess
what Mobile? Mobile is a place where things are happening.
Congratulation to all the great success that we have. Congratulations Mayor,

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and to my colleagues and from the citizens of Mobile,
we like to say thank you all, thank you all,
thank you all.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
All right, could you feel it? Could you just feel
the excitement? Did you? Did that give you goosebumps to
hear that Mobile is rising in the District three, the
DP area, That's where things are happening. But now all
of Mobile will be like DP in this exciting Mobil
is rising with hockey. And all it took was hockey.

(13:32):
Did you know this? I never realized that hockey was
what I was missing in my life. But here we are.
I'm very excited about this myself. I am I'm very
excited about this myself. Who knows, maybe I can get
some type of additional job being a puck boy or
what do they have there? What do you that puck boys.

(13:54):
What do they do? I don't know. All I know
is people fight. They run around on the ice and
they fight each other. Looks one of my biggest I
think I'm gonna like this more than soccer. No offense
to all these soccer freaks out there, but I think
I'm gonna like it more because I like my sports

(14:15):
to be where there's contact. You know, one of the
great things about football is the tackling in the occasional
really rough block. You love that. You should if you've
got testosterone, you should like it. And I think I'm
gonna like this because you know, if they were to
add just a soccer would be even bigger than it is.

(14:37):
If there was some type of tackling or blocking or slapping,
it just something, just some element where somebody can lay
somebody out. So anyway, this quality of life issue. You
heard the speech from the mayor. It's a quality of
life issue that they've been working on for years and
finally hockey returns. So between now and twenty seven, I

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would say this to the men of mobile based on
what I learned back when hockey was here before. I
would say, if you're a man and mobile, especially if
you're a single man in Mobile, Alabama and you're looking
for a mate. You need to start working out more,

(15:24):
you do. You need to pay attention. You need to
work out and really pay attention to that. Because I
know from when the Mystics were here, even though the
town didn't support the Mystics enough and the Mystics left,
the people that did support the Mystics, I noticed. I

(15:46):
watched it. I had a ringside seat. The people that
supported the Mystics. Young women. Young women really like hockey players,
they really do. You the Mobile young men especially now.
I don't know if any young men are listening. And
maybe they are as a punishment, maybe they've been maybe
they did something wrong, or maybe they're helping grandma move

(16:09):
the move a giant piece of furniture or something, and
grandma's playing the show to them while they were moving
the piece of furniture. You, young men, you're gonna be
competing with these hockey players. The hockey players are gonna
have their choice of the women in this town. I
hate to say that. I know it sounds, it sounds chauvinistic,
it sounds old fashioned, but I saw it happen. In fact,

(16:31):
there is a I don't know who I should have.
I've told this story on the air before, but I
worked with somebody that went home for lunch. This is
a true story. I worked with somebody who went home
for lunch and found his wife with a mystic. It

(16:53):
was not it was not it was not a pretty
it was not good. It didn't. It ended up with
the guy. The guy ended up. He caught his wife
with a mystic and then as she left, he the
guy jumped on the hood of her car as she left.
It was a real scene, you know, And he couldn't

(17:15):
really fight the mystic because the guy was a professional athlete,
and you know, the pro athlete was gonna whoop him.
So it was just verre. You look, young men need
to get ready. They need to get ready and make
the best of themselves because the quality of life is
going up. You're going to be competing with these hockey players.

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It's a new it's going to be a new era
in many ways in Mobile, Alabama when the pro hockey returns.
All right, there's more show, but we've got a news
break coming up. After the news. More of this whatever
this is as the Uncle. Every show continues here on

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the big press conference was held today announcing the return

(18:45):
of pro hockey to the city of Mobile, to that
new arena in October of twenty twenty seven. If you
want to find out more about all this, uh the
They've got a a website that you can go to.
It is Mobileprohockey dot com. Now, at the website Mobile
Prohockey dot com, you can you can participate in the

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Name the Team contest, and you can also make a
deposit on a season ticket. If you already want to
drop some money on season tickets, you can do that.
I want that now, callers, I'm going to grab your
calls here. I just want to say one thing briefly. Now,
I knew there was a press conference today, but I
didn't know what it was about. And I had a

(19:30):
meeting this morning with a business guy, and uh, during
the during our business conversation, he just said something about
he made the comment to me that he didn't think
that hockey was going to work again in Mobile, Alabama.
And he went through all these reasons, and I didn't
know that hockey was going to be the topic today

(19:51):
or at least of that press conference. And he was
telling me all the reasons. He thought that hockey would
be the same as it was when it was here before,
that it would have an initial burst of excitement and
then it would go the way of other professional sports
that have been located down in that part of the city.
And after I found out about the hockey announcement, I

(20:12):
started thinking about it. And the one thing that I
think is different this go round, aside from the facility,
because they keep telling us the facility is going to
be one of the best in the country. The one
thing I think is different is now there are people
in Mobile that have grown up with nostalgia for the mystics.

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Whoever was a child in those years twenty two years ago,
if they're still here, I think they're going to have
a lot of nostalgia for it. I think this can
be really successful I think it really can be in
a way that it wasn't the first time. But that's
just me. I think that that whole factor of it

(20:56):
being here years ago and they're bringing it back, I
think there's a big chance for this to be a
big deal. So I hope they're right. I hope they're
right about how great this is going to be for Mobile.
All right, so whatever you want to talk about two five, one, four,
seven nine two three, Hello.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
Color, Hey Jimmy the Economist.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Jimmy, you are alive on the radio.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
My childhood recollections of sports in downtown Mobile would be
with Ronnie Arrow and the Junie Lewis Jeff Hodge days.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh wow, Okay, that was.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
The criminal of crime as far as I'm concerned. But uh,
that's when South didn't even have a gym to play
basketball in true so that was well attended. I'm not
sure hockey will ever be as well attended as I
But that really wasn't what I was calling about. Okay,

(21:57):
calling about all these uh endorsements for the mayor of
Mobile race.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yes, I don't.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
Live in Mobile, so I don't have a vote, But
recall Mobile is it's either the third or fourth biggest
town in the state.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
I think it's I think we're number two now, behind
just Birmingham. I think so.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Huntsville is smaller than Mobile.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Don't I'm not sure, but I think we're right up there.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
Well, Birmingham. This is supposedly the red state of Alabama,
right that Trump touts so much. And I'm a Trump fan,
so I'm not dissing on them. But the mayor of
Birmingham is a dim lefty, the mayor of Montgomery is
a dim lefty, and Barbaria Drummond is pulling out every
step she can to be the mayor of Mobile, which

(22:51):
will make other than Huntsville this state a bunch of lefties. Yeah,
I mean, is that what Mobile wants? Lefties like Birmingham
and they want to be like Birmingham and Montgomery.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
We will find out next week.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Well, I'll tell you what. I don't mean to diss
on Mobile, but if they go lefty, I'm going OUTI
I ain't coming back. I ain't going by. I mean,
do you want to go to Birmingham City Birmingham and
do business? Do you want to go to the city
of Montgomery and do business? I open a business here. No, Okay, Well,

(23:34):
why would anybody if this place goes lefty want to
do that in Mobile.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Because we're gonna have hockey.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
Well that ain't good enough for me. Maybe good enough
for people that live I don't know in Pritchard because
they want something better. But uh, that ain't gonna cut it.
I hope Mobile doesn't go live. I mean I might
have to move further away than I am from them
right now if that happens, maybe into Florida where there's

(24:05):
normal people. But good luck, Spirou, no matter if you
win or lose. I mean, I wouldn't want the job.
Take care, Henry, all.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Right, you too, Thank you, Jimmy the Economist for your
phone call two five one four seven nine two two
three the telephone number here on the ELK Glanders show.
By the way, before I go to the next caller.
Barbara Drummond had all these endorsements from the Mayor of Birmingham,
from the former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buddha Judge, which

(24:40):
was the funniest endorsement, and then Senator Corey Booker almost
as funny, but still, And I went to her website
and I can't find those endorsements anymore. Are they still
on the website? What happened? I thought they were on
the website, the drummingdfrommayor dot com or the endorsements. I

(25:04):
know they got Doug Jones endorsements still up there? What
happened to all the other endorsements on the website anyway?
Hello caller?

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Well, well, you know if I mean, she knew it
wasn't going to help her get alected with them all
those endorsements all going.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Me, Well, she thought it was somebody thought it was
gonna help until they thought it didn't.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
Well, let me ask you something. I did not research this,
and I wish I had before I called. But is
Birmingham a sanctuary city?

Speaker 4 (25:37):
I do not know. I have no clue. I am
not well now. I hate to say this, and I
know a lot of people here will feel badly about me,
and you'll think I'm a bad guy. But I don't
really enjoy a lot of the big cities in UH
in the state of Alabama as much as I enjoy mobile,
So I don't I have not spent a lot of

(25:58):
time in Birmingham, and I don't have a lot of
curiosity either at this point in my life.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
Okay, Well, I was just wondering because you know, if
Barbara drumming in the Democrats years and most Democrat mayors
in the country have a sanctuary city, and I sure
don't think that Mobile wants that to happen.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I don't think they do either. So it will be,
it will be. It'll be something that I'm sure will
come up if she happens to win.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
Yeah, we won't find out next Tuesday, I guess.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
So.

Speaker 8 (26:34):
Anyway, the reason why I call it is because you
challenged me to come up with the name from the
new hockey team.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, what what name do you have for the new
hockey team?

Speaker 8 (26:45):
Well, Henry, I've got a civil of them. I'm I'm
gonna go down the list for you. Said, she put
me on the spot, you know that way?

Speaker 4 (26:51):
All right, I got a I got a pen in
a in a notepad. I'm ready to take notes. What
are your suggestions?

Speaker 7 (26:58):
Mobile? Ice dream?

Speaker 8 (27:02):
That's one?

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Did you say ice dream or ice cream?

Speaker 8 (27:07):
Ice dream? Because we're dreaming to have another hockey team
and be a success.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
So okay, all right, ice dream? What else?

Speaker 7 (27:17):
Well?

Speaker 8 (27:18):
You know you got we we we get in our second.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
Win in hockey here in Mobile, right, Yeah, I'm thinking,
why don't we call it Mobile's second line.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Ties in with Marty Gros Okay, all right, I'm almost
out of time for this segment.

Speaker 8 (27:36):
You got another name, last one since we was playing
with pucks Mobile, puck.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Arounds Mobile puck Arounds. Yes, all right, hey Mobile Pirate
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Hello caller OK, Henry LD the Mad Trucker retired.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
Mad Trucker retired.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
Yes, Look, I hate to ask this. Would you your
mother and your lovely wife would never consider crossover bar
and vote for Barbara Drumming? Would they?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Well, my mother doesn't live in Mobile, so she cannot
vote in Mobile's elections, and my wife has already made
up her mind on who she's going to vote for.

Speaker 9 (29:35):
Well after that, did you?

Speaker 1 (29:37):
You didn't?

Speaker 9 (29:37):
You said you didn't see the whole debate?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
No, I did none.

Speaker 9 (29:40):
After what Barbara Drummer said, I think she's going to
get all the women in Mobile to vote for I'm
kind of concerned about this. And what she said was
that if she is elected, every woman six hundred pounds
in over will get a free buffet for a year.
And I'm just thinking that maybe your mother and your
wife would like to get in.

Speaker 7 (29:59):
Cut it out.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
That's a lie. That is a lie to imply that
my wife is over six hundred pounds in weight, and
to imply that my mother, my sainted mother, beloved by
all that meet her, would be over six hundred pounds
it's a lie, and you know it's a lie. And

(30:21):
I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what
this is about. I don't know if this is some
type of leftist Have leftists started paying Led? Is that
what this is about? Is there is there some kind
of leftist money going to the people that called this
show to try and force them to have me just

(30:42):
flame out on the air. Is that what this is about?
Is this some kind of scheme, some type of money
scheme by the left wing to throw me off the
air by having me lose.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
My mind.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
By going after my mother? And now they've gone after
the love of my life. You're attacking the love of
my life. Whatever they're paying you, whatever they're paying you,
it shouldn't be enough.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
LD.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
I know you just you just retired. This, you know,
this kind of makes sense. He's been talking about retiring
for a few years and all of a sudden these
calls start happening. Maybe he's maybe he is one of
these paid people. These A lot of times people get
on social media and they advocate for politics, and you

(31:32):
don't know they're being paid by somebody who's paying you LD,
who's paying you LD to attack my family. The evidence
is out there. People can see my wife online in
pictures on Facebook. They can see that she's a petite woman,
smaller than me, so they it's a lie you're saying.

(31:58):
You're saying clear cut lies that are easily proven by
basic look at social media. People have seen pictures of
my mother and they know that she's not six hundred pounds.
In fact, they know that she's of normal weight for
her age and activity level according to insurance industry actuaries.

(32:21):
They know that she is normal sized for her weight
and activity level and age. These are obvious lies and
it has to be money. There has to be because
ld what other motive would he have? What other motive
would he have, especially now he has retired from trucking

(32:45):
and prices the Biden inflation, we still have high prices
that a lot of prices haven't gone down. Are you
using this? What is this? What are you using the
money for?

Speaker 5 (33:03):
L D?

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Are you going to gamble?

Speaker 9 (33:04):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (33:05):
What this is about? Paying for your gambling? Whatever it is,
it stinks, whatever it is, it's a rock to your soul.
Whatever it is is going to it's going to bring
nothing but shame and dishonor and disgrace to your family.
And I've met your beautiful wife, who is of normal size.
I bet your I bet your wife is mortified. I bet,

(33:28):
I bet you've hidden this from her. I bet you
don't let her listen to the show, because your lovely
wife would be mortified. She would feel the scalding feeling
of shame. Shame is a scalding feeling that just it's
just a horrible feeling that shame. You're immune to it,

(33:53):
but your wife is not. And I bet your wife
would be so upset to know what you're doing. LD
turned down that money. Turn the money down. Call back
with an apology. We'll pray together, and we can move
forward to make the world a better place. I'll be

(34:19):
back with constitution day next. I'm chat. This is the

(34:41):
Uncle Henry Show here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
Thank you so much for listening to The Uncle Henry Show.
Proud to welcome back to the Uncle Henry Show. Ryan
Pablo Foster, Ryan Foster, Hello to you, Hello uncle, Thank
you for having me. Love having you back here. I
just love talking to you. It's good to be And

(35:01):
one of the reasons he's here is it's Constitution Day. Well,
of course Ryan has a background in radio, and I
thought it would be great to have somebody with a
radio background come in and read passages from the US Constitution. So, Ryan,
where are we going to start?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
You got a copy? Hand it out where out? I'll
do my best.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
No, Actually, Ryan Papula, don't have it, memorist. Actually, Ryan
Pablo Foster is with a group, a nonprofit I'm assuming
that wants to encourage the teaching of civics like the
Constitution to our children. So tell everybody where you're working now.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
So I am working for a place that you know.
When I discovered this organization and started talking with them,
I realized this may be the most popular thing I
talk about on your program, maybe since we've discussed the
Glenn Miller Orchestra, yes, a couple of years back. Yes,
that this would intrigue you more than anything, because this
is right your wheelhouse, Hunk. I am working with the

(36:00):
Liberty Learning Foundation.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Liberty Learning Foundation. Now, what is the Liberty Learning Foundation
because I've never heard of that.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Oh, well, it is a newer nonprofit organization based out
of Huntsville, started in twenty thirteen and has been growing.
So these programs have been going in Huntsville and Birmingham, Montgomery, Auburn,
Tuscaloosa for years now and have just started growing. You know,
COVID times kind of threw a monkey wrench in things
and slowed the growth. But we're back at it and

(36:29):
now I'm glad to be part of the crew because
Liberty Learning Foundation does educational programming in schools with the
school systems, with the teachers. We have a whole educational
team of educators who work with the teachers to provide
programming that they can do with their students in school
that focuses heavily on civics, history, character, integrity. For the

(36:55):
older kids, you know, start getting into things that they'll
need to quote unquote adult in the world, like financial literacy,
things like that.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
All right, I've got I've got to ask because see
when all I've got this to compare to, It's been
so long since I've had a child in the schools. Yeah,
all I've got this to compare to is my childhood,
and I remember learning civics in school. Are some schools
not teaching as much civics as they used to, Just
the basics of how the government works.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
And let me put it in terms you can understand.
All right, let me put it in your vernacular. Okay. Nowadays,
the quote unquote school marms. Okay, sos have to teach
a lot of science and technology, which is good. Stem
we needed electricity now we need it and it's important
and we do need that. We do need those things.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
By the way, instead of school marm, I want to imagine, uh,
miss Crabtree from the Little Rascals, Miss Crabtree the teacher.
She was great that all of the other the Little Rascals,
the our gang children, they all the males were in
love with Miss Crabtree. So Miss Crabtree now teaching a
lot of science and tech, which we need absolutely, and

(38:05):
that has taken time away from how the government works
well and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I suppose I kind of don't do the education part
of that.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
You're letting people know about it.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
I'm just letting people know about that and trying to
help keep the mission going.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Now, the schools get irritated if the liberty uh what
is it called a liberty Learning Foundation? When somebody shows
up from Liberty Learning Foundation, do teachers get irritated, say
what are you doing here? No?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
They love it because it's another tool in that teacher's
toolkit to educate her students in a fun way. Because
we actually have a mascot. We have a spokesperson. You
might have seen her. She's kind of a Patina Green.
She hangs out in the harbor in New York, has
a big torch statue of Liberty that would be the
statue of Liberty Liby Liberty as we like to call her,

(38:50):
and she comes out kicks off the program for the
kids at a big kickoff event, and then the teachers
take the kids over the course of a ten week period.
They get all these materials, workbooks to work with the kids,
They go throughout their program, and then they have a
big celebration at the end. It's a very cool program
and really heavy on getting the kids involved in their community,

(39:11):
you know, the kids picking a community hero that they
want to honor and figuring out why, because it's not
for the teacher to determine who their community hero. They're
going to selects. The students do it and they have
to debate why and go over the merits of well,
should we honor this firefighter or this veteran over here
or this you know, I was shocking to hear it,

(39:34):
but occasionally an elected official gets it. Okay, all right,
so you know why, but they have to go through why,
and why is very important when you're going through civics
and history and being able to discern those things.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Okay, So is this in public and private schools? What
type of schools are accepting? So public schools are welcoming this?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Oh? Absolutely, we work in conjunction with public school systems. Again,
we have an entire education team of retired educators and
they work directly with the school system so that they
find where this fits into a spot in their curriculum.
But as you think about it, you know, the kids
get more holidays than they used to when we were
coming up. You know, you have hurricane days, you have

(40:18):
snow days. They have these days that they miss, and
the teachers didn't have to kind of jam more learning
into fewer days. And you know, this is a way
you can kind of condense this stuff but also keep
it fun and interesting, because, as we all know, if
a kid gets bored, he's not paying attention, he's certainly
not learning anything. So you want to keep him engaged

(40:39):
and interested in you know, keep that attention because sadly,
as time has gone on, our attention, does you know
not what it once was?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Now excuse me? Is Liberty Liberty Learning Foundation? Are you
doing anything in Mobile or Baldwin Counties? Sure?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
So I cover Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia, Clark and Connecca Counties.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
And there are schools in all of those counties that
have involved with this.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Absolutely. We just at our kickoff events in Bruton, Evergreen
and Flomton a couple of weeks ago, got them up
and going, and then coming up in October, we have
Baldwin County and Mobile County and sarah Land schools. Okay,
just kicking off their programming. And if anybody would like
to attend and see this in person, because again, like Liby,

(41:27):
Liberty's kind of cool and I know people, I can
get you a selfie if you would like to attend.
You know, maybe your company wanted to get involved. By
all means, please reach out to myself or unk and
you know, hey, we'd love to have you.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Okay, So I've not heard this is the first time
hearing of Liberty Learning Foundation. You said they started up
over ten.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Years ago up in Huntsville.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
You're still you're running into that a lot of people
learning that this is actually available.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Well, that's exactly it. A lot of people just don't
know about the program, you know, especially if you don't
have kids in your school, if you don't have school
age children, such as yourself, right, your kids grown, And
of course some people just don't have any and maybe
they're just not you know, connecting with it and COVID
and all that kind of through a wrench in thing,

(42:15):
so they don't have quite the familiarity within the marketplace
that they do in Birmingham or Huntsville, you know, Coleman,
all these towns that are well familiar with it. So
that's what we're trying to rectify. And I thank you
for letting us do that. All right, we got less
than a minute in this segment of the show. If
people want to find out more or even get involved,

(42:36):
what would they do, Well, you could go to Liberty
Learning dot org and of course you can follow along
on social media see some of the pictures of Libby
Liberty and the kids and kind of you know, get
a sense of it. I tell you, there's a great
video on the front page of the website. But when
you go to it, you'll have to scroll down the page.
Nice video hit that it'll kind of paint the whole

(42:57):
picture for you.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Is Liberty Learning die Orge. Liberty Learning dot Orge to
learn about Liberty Learning Foundation and teaching Civics to the
little children in school the children needed all Right back
with more from Ryan Pablo Foster after the break, Uncle

(43:28):
Henry Schoon News Radio seven to ten WNTM News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Before we get to the
news headlines, a few more minutes here with Ryan Pablo
Foster with Liberty Learning dot Orge. Now we've talked about
Liberty Learning dot Orge, the great work they're doing trying
to teach civics to the little children of our country.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
But Ryan Pablo Foster also he knew Tim Camp. I
talked a lot about Tim a couple of days ago
after the passing of Timcamp, somebody that I will always
be grateful to because Tim Camp he was instrumental in
me getting one big job in my life that changed
my life. I will always be grateful for that job
that Tim Camp got me. And then he was he

(44:10):
put a word in and helped me get another job.
That was the job I'm in right now. So I
have a lot of gratitude toward what Tim Camp did
for me getting with those jobs. Now, Ryan Pablo Foster,
you worked with him, for him and with him at
ninety two zoo.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
That's right. Did you win the old WABB?

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Well, that was my first question. Is I remember when
you came to work with us at WABB a few
years before I left. There was Tim still at WABB
when you came to work there.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Yes, And I wasn't quite sure what to make of
that man when he walked in the room. I was
a sixteen year old kid, wowed by all the flashing
lights and yeah buzzers and all the cool things in
the radio station studio and the DJ's in there spending
the hits. And here comes this guy with this long
haired he looked like he had been awake for about

(44:59):
three days.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Street, he looked like he was in a band.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yes, he looked like he had just come off a
tour bus. Yes, kind of Keith Richards esque kind of
I would say, easier to understand, yes, but not much.
He comes in cigarette dangling off his lip at the time.
You know just what goes? Huh You're the new one?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
And I was like, yeah, Hi, how are you.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, don't break anything. And he just turned around and
walked out.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
And I was like, don't break anything.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Who is that guy? And they were like, Oh, he's
the guy that's got to fix everything if you break it.
So yeah, I don't do that quickly.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
The one time I can think of one time only
that I made him mad one time only, and it
was when we first started getting computers. Oh and the
way this was new, we didn't have computers off the computers. Yes,
he did understood what they meant for the future. But
right when we first got computers, he got really mad

(45:58):
at me because he caught me I was using a
bulk eraser right next to a computer. Oh goodness, can
you remember the fun of a bulky race? I do
remember John electric magnet and you magnets, and you don't
get them near computers.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
But anyway, especially back in the day, those those early
computers were not shielded from such magneticurces. Yes, you could
wipe the entire hard drive very easily.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Yes, he looked. He he acted like he wanted me
just out of the entire industry, like get out of
the industry. But then later, of course, he recommended me
for all these jobs and everything. So so you met
him there briefly, but he left. I think he left
WABB before I did.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Yeah, I think this was probably ninety late ninety two,
early ninety three. They left, and they went and started
another radio station.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
Group here in this building, Yeah, in this very building,
and I got hired on that. He brought me over
here with him.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, with the sports station, and then you know what
was the original Capital, Yeah, Capitol brought casting well yeah,
back then, way back in the day. Yeah, And so
he was here for many years.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
And then competed against KSJ with the Dog created their
own country to create to compete with KSS.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Right.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yeah, so you but then you went to work for him, yeah,
years later, you were at ABB for years after I left,
I was then you went to work for him.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
At the Zoo at ninety two Zoo.

Speaker 7 (47:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
I went over there and worked with him for six
years over there, and yeah, that was very interesting because
it was a different type of music and different type
of thing, and radio had evolved a lot, and yeah,
the computers had kind of taken over.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
We've only got a couple of minutes left in this segment,
I was telling people a couple of days ago that
of course people identify cats certain with the Zoo for
the brand he built, But I tried to explain to
people that Tim, Tim really kept the Zoo alive.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
That's one thousand percent correct.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Talk about that in our in our remaining man, him
keeping a line.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yes, Kat started it, but Tim kept it alive because financially,
you know, radio stations face battles, and time evolves, music evolves,
industries evolve, and Tim was good at always kind of
saying like, hey, we've got to be doing this other thing.
We've got to try this new thing. We've got to
be doing this because if we don't, we're going to
get left behind. So let's push this, push this. But

(48:22):
we also need to keep Mobile's local roots. We need
to keep the give these local musicians a chance to
be heard, and you know that that can be a
profitable thing to help everybody win. And that was great
is that he was always looking for everybody to win.
How win for everyone?

Speaker 4 (48:39):
How involved was he in the the music played on
that station.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Oh insanely So he was one of those guys. If
he heard something he felt really belonged there, then he
was going to do that. And if he didn't think
it fit. You were in for a fight, you know,
because he was a musician at heart and was for many,
many many years and many different bands.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
And yeah, the man knewest stuff I had. I remember
how he was mad speaking about music. He was very
irritated with you too. When they came out with that
album Zoo Ropa or whatever it was they had, Yeah,
whatever it was, it had a song on there called
Lemon or something. I remember him just bitter. He was

(49:20):
bitter about it. Yeah, he was telling me this in
rock and roll, what is this? Mad at you too,
Tim Camp?

Speaker 1 (49:27):
He was. He was an interesting fellow, Yes he was.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
And on that note, we are out of time, Ryan
Pablo Foster, I wish you the very best. Come back
again and talk more about Liberty Learning dot Orge and
the Liberty Learning Foundation. You could even bring people with
you and come and do and talk about all of
that on this show.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
That sounds wonderful. I would love to do that. Oh
and keep in mind, Tim Camp actually even played Johnny
Gwinn's music really, oh Cantator back in the day.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Wow. All right, Ryan Pablo Foster, Liberty Learning dot Orge,
thank you for coming in.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Thank you for having me on.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Thank you for listening, as they say in Sara Land,
have a good one, as they say in Theodore, take
it easy, all right later