Raccoon Stew or Baked Raccoon with Sweet Potato

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Roll time.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uncle.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Once again, a beautiful day here, calling from the front
porch in West Locksley. I feel it appropriate, uncle, if
you would allow me to read the following. This as
the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice
and be glad in it. That comes from Psalms one
and eighteen, verse twenty four.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you, Uncle Henry. You have a blessed day. Excuse me,
but you have a blessed day in a roll time.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seventy ten w nt M. Thank you so much for
listening to the Uncle henvery show. I appreciate it very
very much. And here we are together again once again.
It's me and you trying to figure out what is
going on in the world around us. And today just

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had that Bible verse from sixty seven year old Chris.
What a day it has been. What a gorgeous day
here on the Gulf Coast. Now, if there's something you
want to bring up with me that is not filthy nasty,
feel free to make a phone call to the Uncle
Henver Show. Two five one four seven nine two seven

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two three. That's two five to one four seventy nine
two seven two three email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia
dot com. As usual, there's so many topics to get
into my goodness graces at every level locals, well not
even just local nameihborhood, sometimes just on the street, all
the way up from your street to the galaxy and

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into other dimensions. Yes, at every level. Things to talk about. Now,
I want to start real quick before I get into
I've gotten all kind of messages and things I would
like to relate to you from listeners, But before we
get to that, today there was a meeting of the
Mobile Metropolitan Planning Organization, which I like hearing about because

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these are the people that figure out what roads are
going to get improved or what roads are going to
get built, that kind of stuff. And that's where we
can get an update on the fantasy bridge. And I
know you remember the bridge that people have fantasized about.
People have daydreamed and fantasized about a bridge that many

(02:47):
of us are still skeptical about it ever getting built.
So was there an update on the bridge today at
this meeting. I've got the report here from Stephen Moody
of Fox ten. He was at the MPO meeting. Let's
listen to his very brief report that he gave on

(03:08):
Fox ten.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
And we got an update on several projects, including the bridge. Now,
the first update that we got today on this pack
to genda was a look at the finalized twenty to
fifty long Range Transportation Plan, which among other things, takes
a focus on public transportation, that was adopted today after
years of hard work.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
They'll focus on public transportation, all right, I'm looking forward
to hearing more about that here. You may have noticed
that traditionally, going back, people have not been fond of
taking public transportation' that's just been a characteristic here on
the Gulf Coast. People have not been fond of it.

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They've not been necessarily fond of hopping on buses or
whatever other kind of public transportation. Although there maybe they've
got something in their plan to fix that, to make
public transportation more fun. Maybe if they had bars on
the way transit buses where you could get a cocktail
as you took the bus. I'm not saying they should,
I'm just saying that, for example, that'd be thinking out

(04:08):
of the box trying to get people interested in public transportation.
And I do remember it was years and years ago.
Do you remember when Lambert Memes former city Commissioner Lambert Mems,
when he had at one point suggested that mobile buy
used mono rail from Walt Disney and put it down

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Airport Boulevard. Yes, that was a now that never happened,
of course, but it was a suggestion, and I believe
it was based on the fact that I think somewhere
in Nevada actually did buy some used mono rail from Disney.
But anyway, public transportation, so that's going to be in
the plan. What about the Fantasy Bridge.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
So discussed several projects related to the twenty twenty four
twenty twenty seven Transportation Improvement Program, but the biggest update
came into form of the Iten Bridge project.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
All right, big update.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Officials say they hope to get a price proposal by
the fall, which would then give them a guaranteed price point.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
All right, So they hope to get a price proposal
by the fall. All right, So we might we might
get a proposed price by the fall.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
And then representatives from different cities. We're here along the
representatives from al dot the NPO spoke with us about
the importance of everyone being on the same page.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
So many of the projects that are done. You know,
the local we don't have the funding to do it,
but al Dot is able to go to Montgomery and
get it and bring those funds back here. So it's
very important that we work with them to make sure
we're all on the same page.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
All right, Well, now that makes sense since we don't
if I understood that correctly. I do speak English from
time to time, not as an expert, but I'm familiar
with English. I believe the man that was that was
on camera there that we heard said that it is important.
We don't have money and the state does, so it's

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important to be on the same page. I guess we
need to ask for about the same thing. I guess
to get the money now.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
If all goes well, they're hoping to still start construction
on the bridge by the end of the year, which
would align with their timeline that we heard about just
a month ago, reporting live here this morning here in downtown.
O'bill Stephen Moody Fox Sinews.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
All right, so there's a hope, so we do have.
You know, hope is good, Hope you need it. I've
found this to be true. Hope can be very important,
and if you don't have it, things can be a
lot rougher mentally, so it's nice to have hope that
the construction could maybe possibly begin by the end of

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the year. But first we're hoping to get a price
proposal by the fall. All right, well, these are these
bridge just like this. I suppose they can't be built overnight,
judge them by the talk locally, and I guess it

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takes at least thirty to forty years, or does it
take fifty years to get one of these things up
and running. I don't know, but that's the update Metropolitan
Planning Organization hoping to get a price proposal by the fall,
and then maybe possibly hoping to begin construction at the

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end of the year. So again, still wondering. It's a
question in my life. I've got several questions in my life.
One of them, and it's not a top priority at all,
but one of them is will I live to see
the bridge being built? And I've made arrangements with some
wonderful listeners of the on Clember show that if I

(07:53):
don't live to see the bridge built, that they will
eventually have they will take my remains. I don't want
to get into all of I don't want to get
into all of the gory details, but I do want
my remains driven over it because it's been a topic
on the talk show almost the entire time I've been
on this almost the entire time I've been here on
this station for over twenty years. I believe it's been

(08:14):
a topic. So maybe I won't get to ride over
the bridge, but maybe my remains could be taken over
the bridge. Or maybe somebody could take an old, an
old cassette recording of an old Uncle Henry show and
then drive it across the bridge. Or maybe they could
find somebody that looks like me, some older disgruntled man,

(08:35):
and just grab him and drive him across the bridge
without explaining to him why they were doing it. That
would kind of fit. There's more to get to. The
aunc cale Hevery Show continues here on news Radio seven
to ten WNTM. I'll be back right after the break.

(09:05):
Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven to ten WNTM. At
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If you would like to call the show telephone number
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(09:29):
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. See, I've got a voicemail
from a listener. In fact, this listener was in the
in the studio Monday. I believe Pat Nelly calling in.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Hey, Uncle Henry, it's Pat Nelly. I hope you're having
a great afternoon. I am another glorious day in Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, it has been. It has been gorgeous.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
It'd be nicely. Temperatures was like this every day of
the week. Hey, listen, have you seen where this Maryland
Senator Van Holland I think his name is, flew down
to I think it's El Salvador or one of them
foreign countries down there where they got all of.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Ms.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Thirteen people in the jail. Well, he flew down because
this quote husband was sent down there, even though two
courts in twenty nineteen said he needed to be deported.
But anyway, he flew down there. He wanted to speak
to the president of El Salvador, and the president said

(10:48):
I'm not going to meet with you anyway.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Pat Nelly, but the
whole thing, the idea, this senator flying down to El
Salvador wanting to meet with a president and getting turned
away or whatever has happened there. It's and this happens.
This is a Democrat doing it, but it happens from

(11:12):
time to time with both of the major political parties
in this country. It's just all performance. This is just
this is all about performing. I am sick at this
point in my life. I'm sick of politicians from either
political party putting on some kind of a show for me.

(11:33):
I don't buy. And this again, both political parties. Right now.
This is a Democrat doing a little performance, but it
happens a lot in Congress with the Republicans, where there's
a lot of tough talk and committee meetings and hearings
and all this kind of stuff and then nothing really happens.
You may have noticed that a lot of performances, a
lot of strong words are said on a camera. Get

(11:55):
in front of a microphone and just say some strong
stuff and then nothing really happens. But I hope that
somebody at home saw him on camera and maybe they
get some campaign contributions from this person of that person.
A lot of performance, and this is this is a
grand performance going to another country and trying to intervene,
and uh, I'm just sick of it. Could there could

(12:17):
could either party just focus on results for a while.
That'd be a breath of fresh air, wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
Of El Salvador? And the president said, I'm not gonna
meet with you.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Anyway. The thing that really bothers me and I guess
they just they're not they're not self aware that man
has a citizen in his state is a mother of
five was murdered by an illegal immigrant. However, he's not

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expending enough energy to talk about her and honor her death.
He had rather go down there to support an illegal alien.
He's illegal. It's plain and simple. He broke our laws.
He needs to be deported anyway, Uncle Henry. The good

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thing about it is, oh.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
And one more thing, and we'll get to the good thing.
Just one more thing. Because you're looking at this and
you're thinking, why would any politician of either political party
want to go to bat for somebody that is accused
of being a gang member and breaking a variety of laws.
Why would you go to bat, especially when if you

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look at all of the surveys in the country. All
the opinion polling, most Americans are on the side of
if there's a somebody here that is a gang member
from another land, that their skill in life as being
a gang member. Most of the public opinion polling is that, yeah,
they could go somewhere else. We'd be just fine. We'd

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be just fine if if a gang member goes to
another country and be as a gang member there instead
of being a gang member here, why take that side.
This is another thing that most most political parties could
learn from, but especially the Democrats this go around. Just
because the other team takes a position doesn't mean you

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automatically have to take the opposite position. You don't have
to do that. You could find you know what, there's
not always two sides to everything. Sometimes there's a third
and a fourth and a fifth. Is there some other solution?
But we a lot of people get their opinion assigned

(14:49):
to them by a political party and it doesn't seem
to even if it doesn't make sense, if the other
party is doing it, you're going to be against it.
And that is just not This not gonna work. It's
not working for the Democrats on issue issue. By the way,
all right, back to Pat Nelly. He was about to
tell us the good thing is, what could the good

(15:11):
thing be?

Speaker 7 (15:12):
Pat Nelly an illegal alien. He's illegal. It's plain and simple.
He broke our laws. He needs to be deported anyway,
Uncle Henry. The good thing about it is they're always
gonna be on these eighty twenty issues like men and

(15:32):
boy and girls, sports and stuff like that, and praising
the illegals and feeling sorry for them. Well, I hope
you have a great afternoon, what's left of it? And
roll tide, roll.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
T Pat Nelly, thank you very much for your phone call.
Thank you for bringing the story up. I know a
lot of people are spending a lot of time on
the story, uh, looking at it, going on social media,
talking about it, getting in front of cameras and microphones
about it. But is this Are there other issues the
American people would like to see action on other than

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trying to protect a gang member getting flown out of
the country. I think probably you probably find other issues
to jump in on full force and not have to
worry about embarrassing yourself like this Maryland senator seems to
be doing and eighty twenty Again, you mentioned eighty twenty

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issues like this, Patnelly, just because to the Democrats, just
because the Republicans do something or Donald Trump does something,
you don't have to automatically oppose it. Maybe you can
find a instead of one way or the other, maybe

(16:50):
you can find a third way to get to where
you want to go. You know, the Clintons were really
good about that. Bill Clinton, they what did they call it?
Bill Clinton? When he was president. The Republicans would take
an issue and take out a popular popular position on

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that issue, and Clinton would find a way to get
close to it without actually doing it. He called it triangulation.
It was fine. It was anyway. There's a way of
doing this that voters might like more than just automatically
advocating for gang members in Al Salvador. News headlines are

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coming up and then additional Uncle Henry Show after the
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(18:41):
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now Monday, Snake
Trapper came in and uh talked about snakes and there
were a few discussions of the eating of snakes and
snake meat. This has been talked about on the show
for a few years now. Now got a voicemail about

(19:05):
eating creatures. I don't know how to describe this. I
guess non we modern Americans don't eat as much raccoon
and possum and snakes. Maybe our ancestors did. Got a
voicemail about eating these woodland creatures.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Hell, I just heard your voicemail with Snake Trapper about
the chicken hearts and whatnot. But years ago, when I
worked at Ampex Corporations, and I'm sure you remember Ampecs.
They were a tape magnetic tape manufacturer. Yeah, out of

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opal like Alabama. And we had a fellow there, probably
a lot like snake Trapper country fella, and he would
catch all kinds of of game and cook it up
and then you know, maybe once a month on a
Friday or something, he'd bring it into the conference room

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and me and some other members of the staff and
the plan manager would have a lunch and try to
figure out what it was he was serving us.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right, all right, So there's the premise of this story,
as somebody similar to snake Trapper would show up what's
a month at work and you'd have to guess what
he was feeding you, all right? Where does this story go?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
And it might have been venison, it might have been turkey.
But this particular time, everybody was eating a fried delicacy
you could say, and somebody mentioned they had a back,
and somebody else mentioned they had a back. I noticed

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I had a back, and then somebody mentioned that is
it snake? Because you know, we had to guess what
it was that we were eating. And uh, Anyway, Rodney,
the fellow who did all this said, yeah, it was nake. Well,
we had another manager who I'll just say had a

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week's stomach at that point in time when he found
out it was snake and he had to the thought
of it. I guess he had to run out of
the convent's room into the hall where he lost his cookies. Wow, anyway,
it was uh boy, brings up memories. Anyway, how a
good one, Uncle Henry, talk to you later.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Uh nab Cobel. I believe that was Thank you for
sharing that story, dab Cobil. Somebody who's sensibilities, his sensibilities
were so sensitive since of sensibilities, that he could not
stomach the thought that he was eating snake, and so
I had to go throw up in the hallway. All right, Well,

(22:09):
I guess that's why that's probably a game a lot
of people don't want to play, is the guess what
you're eating game. That's just generally speaking, most of us
would like to have an idea before we we go
ahead and need something. We'd like to know in advance
what it is. But I love this. I loved the

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story of one guy noticed they had a back, another
guy that said they had a back. You noticed you
had a back. Turns out it was a snake telephone
number two five to one four seven nine two two three.
The telephone number here on the oak Lander show also
got this call. This is about. This was a message
phoned in yesterday about cooking possums and raccoons. Now the

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man called in twice to leave his message. Here's here's
the first go around. This is brief.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I gotta good one to tell you about. About the
possum I got a.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Back when I was a teenager back in the eighty
if Paul Lewis used town the light away, he used
to go coon hunting and possum hunting. He fixed all
of them drunks o where like co coon and possum
I on a Sunday afternoon to get soping back up
where they go to work.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
All right.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
And that's the extent of that. So I'd love to
hear more details on this. So you knew a man
that would go and catch raccoons and possums and then
cook them up and feed them to drunks on a
Sunday to get them ready to go to work the
next day. All right, there's a And the man called

(23:48):
in again trying to get leave the same message.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
This is up your handy show. I got a good
one to tell you about a possum. This is years
ago with Paul Lewis. You don a light of weight
over there and Miller.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, he's well coon hunting on h during the week
and kill coon and possum and they cook him up
with him drunks on Sunday as noon to get him
sobered up and go to work and mind about it.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Okay, So a stew. He made a possum and or
raccoon stew to help the drunks sober up. This I've
never heard. I didn't realize that that was a cure. Uh,
possum stew or raccoon stew a way of sobering. That

(24:35):
is a sobering thought.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Hello Cox, you don a light of weight turing Percy
over there. This I wasn't about fourteen years old.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh this sir, you're calling in live Hello there?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Hello? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Who was doing? Who was cooking up the raccoons in
the pasta raccoons yesterday? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
And how Paul Lewis had to wide away over in
Percy over there, okay, and he used to serve them
over there to all them. People would drink all weekend
long and have a hangover, and he'd get them all
so overed up and get ready to go to work
mind the morning.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
So it was an every every week he cooked some
kind of wild game for the people that were drinking
too much.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, he was a he was a big coon hunt
He loved his hunt coons. You know. He he go
coon hunting at night during the week. Yeah, and he
didn't have them all clean and dress and everything. He
had habitatoes and carriages and everything like that. And the stew.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Now did you ever taste the stew?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I ate a bunch of it. We were I wasn't
about fourteen years old. Yeah, and I used to go
in there all the time, and mister Lewis and Missus Lewis.
I'd go over there and I'd be drinking with the
rest of them. But I knew I couldn't drink very much.
I had to slip mine.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
So what now, what did the stew taste like?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh? It was good. It would taste this like eating
beef stew.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Only it wasn't beef. It was raccoon.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, it was real good. All right.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well, now now I've got to I'm gonna have to
have some raccoon stew sooner or later.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, you know, I remember eating coons back. Well, my
granddaddy used to kill them.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah. Did he also make a stew?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, he made stew. He used to make them in
the oven with sweet potato.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Wow. Okay, right right, Well, I'm sorry I was speechless
there for a moment. I was. I was imagining a
raccoon in the oven with sweet potatoes. It seems like
a beautiful sight, it is it.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I mean, it looks good, but with the sweet potatoes
and raccoon. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Right, Well, sir, thank you for calling in and finishing
up that story for me.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
God Man, appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate hearing from you. All right. See,
I learned something new every day, and learning that one
way you might prepare raccoon would either be in a
stew with potatoes and carrots, or you might want to
bake it. Bake your raccoon, you know. And now I've

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got raccoons next door. I think there have. I think
baby raccoons are going to be showing up any any
day now next door. Not Don't worry. I'm not going
to turn them into a stew I don't have the
experience yet. It says the Uncle Henry Show here on

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news radio seventy ten WNTEN. But it's five point fifty
news headline. It's coming up in ten minutes, and then
more Uncle Henry's Show now coming up. Let's say tomorrow.
I believe Killer Bees is going to come in tomorrow.

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We're going to talk a little bit about the Lord
and about Easter and other things as well, but that's
going to be tomorrow here on the Uncle Henry Show. See,
Easter is Sunday, and this year it falls on April twenty,

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and unfortunately, that is the day that the sleeves bag
dopeheads have celebrated for many, many years. And I don't
know the origins of it. I don't want to know,
but for some reason, that's a day that marijuana people
celebrate for twenty. They celebrate marijuana on four to twenty,

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and Easter lines up on the same day this year. Now,
I saw somewhere today that this has happened four times
in the last twenty five years or something. But I
think after this Easter four to twenty is not going
to line up with Easter again until twenty eighty seven

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or something like that. So this is thank goodness because
I can't stand the idea that some people, instead of
celebrating or commemorating Easter, they are going to be celebrating
and commemorating their marijuana problems. Now, LD the Mad Trucker
called in about this topic.

Speaker 8 (29:44):
Hey, uncle Henry, LD, look a here, I don't smoke marijuana.
Let's make that perfectly clear.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
I can.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
I'm a truck driver and I've never tested positive for order.
I wouldn't be a truck driver forty seven years. Well,
I got about a year ago, and I going to
start now. But that being said, Uncle Henry, guess what's
coming up for twenty that's right, baby, for twenty and
I think that place called can Obama Downtown. I think

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they're having some sort of party there the day before
because I think it's Easter of the day. Four twenty
is Easter Sunday, and they're gonna have a party down
their Saturday. Anyway, I've sing by entering that joint rolling contest.
What you see, I can roll a mean joint.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
No wait wait, wait wait a minute, wait a minute.
I can't believe it. You know this every day there's
things will happen, and I'll think, I can't believe that
that ended somehow ended up on my show. I can't.
I never would have thought fifteen years ago that I'd
have the mad Trucker calling in talking about a joint
rolling contest, and then.

Speaker 8 (30:54):
He thinks he could win it party down their Saturday. Anyway,
I've sing by enteringet joint rolling contest. You see, I
can roll a mean joint. I don't mean a marijuana cigarette.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
Because let me tell you this.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Back when my uh my grandpa, he's a seaman, right,
and he was a drunk. I mean, he was one
heck of a drunk. But when he would come in,
he'd be gone six step months and he'd come back
and he'd you know, he just drank and smoke cigarettes.

Speaker 9 (31:25):
All all the time. He always stayed at my dad's house.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, but and you know, by the way, uh, sorry
to interrupt l D, but I had a a grandparent
that was a merchant marine. He was in the merchant marines.
He was he was all over the place just like that. Now,
he didn't uh, he wasn't mean, but he was out
uh doing merchant marine stuff all through my childhood. And

(31:50):
and I don't know, marijuana never came up, and he
had that, Uh he had that Prince Albert in the can.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
And he used to have cigarette papers and he was
rolling one one day and he said, boy, said, you
want to roll it?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
And yet Brin Paul, I do it.

Speaker 9 (32:07):
I don't know how old it was.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
I could have been more than probably seven, eight years old,
But this went on for years and years. I think
he passed away when I was like, probably seventeen something
like that.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
And they right around there starry to interrupt again. I'm
sure maybe younger people listening to the Uncle Henry Show
under the age of sixty may not realize this, But
once upon a time it was common for people to
roll their own tobacco cigarettes. Yes people would, Yes, people
would roll their own tobacco cigarettes all the time.

Speaker 9 (32:40):
Back in the day, I rolled many a cigarette boys.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
I got good at it. So I think about entering
that contest. I know I can't smoke it, but maybe
I can roll it. And they have a joint rolling contest,
and uh, maybe you could go down there and sponsor it.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
How about that?

Speaker 8 (32:57):
But uh, I was thinking about doing that. So if
you'll come on down there and watch Eld roll up
a blunt for you.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
No now, look, no, no, thank you, no, thank you. Uh.
It's still allegedly a semi free country here. So if
you want to enjoy your freedom by going there and
showing your cigarette rolling skills, that's that's up to you.
But no, I will not be sponsoring it. I will
not know that. That would be Hey, that would be

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a sign of clear distress in my life if I
suddenly pop up and I'm sponsoring something like that. So Ld,
thank you for the voicemail 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 yes I can't. It's

(33:47):
easy to imagine LD rolling those cigarettes for his grandpa.
I had relatives that all had tobacco and rolled their own.
Even had one relative with a machine, a cigarette making machine. Yeah,

(34:23):
it says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on news radio
seventy ten WNTM, this high hour of Uncle Henry Show.
Going to check some messages from listeners. Also going to
check a news item, maybe more than one news item.
But first I want to get to some voicemail the
voicemail number two five one two one six nineteen seventy six.

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That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
to leave a message for the Uncle Henry Show. Now,
in recent weeks there's been a lot of beaver talk
on the Uncle and in the streets of the City
of Mobile, as the City of Mobile had to contract

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with a beaver remover to remove a beaver infestation. In fact,
Mobile City Councilman Josh Woods called it, and I think
he called it an infestation of beaver. I think that
was his word, infestation. Now, all of this happening with

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the beavers while a beaver advocate appeared at the Mobile
City Council meeting a few weeks ago to tell all
of us in Mobile that we should not remove these beavers.
It doesn't matter if they build dams and flood neighborhoods
or anything. We should not remove the beavers because number one,
of the beavers have rights.

Speaker 10 (35:50):
Beavers have just as much right to exist and to
live here in their natural habitat as we do the public.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
With the beavers, yes, they have as much right as
you do to be wherever they are, and as She
said that the public is not on your side.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
There on the side of the beaver public stunsman is
with the beavers.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
All right. So now, longtime caller Beufford has been listening
to this play out on the Uncle Henry Show, listening
to the Uncle Henry Show podcast. Uncle Henry Show podcast
available on the iHeartRadio app. Just look up Uncle Henry's Show.
You'll find the latest show set a preset in the
iHeartRadio app and you'll find the show quite easily. Beauford

(36:32):
has heard the comments and wanted to comment and of.

Speaker 9 (36:37):
This there's the viewing podcasting mentioned that Josh woods Head
they called our beaver situation an infestation of baber.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yes, Henry, another.

Speaker 9 (36:52):
Term for an infestation of baver would be a target
riach environment.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Really take that for you, will.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
I remember one spring break, Henry, there was an infestation.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Of beaver.

Speaker 9 (37:07):
Buddy mine considered a target rich environment. Anyway, Henry, are
saying that the beaver is monogamous. I run across quite
a few beaver.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
That uh.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Right now, wait all right now, wait, I'm pausing you
there because the beaver advocate was quite clear on this.
This woman, well, I don't know what a que I have.
I can't remember her name. I don't know what her
I don't know if she has a doctorate in beavery,
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (37:37):
But she says, if beavers are a gentle monogamous species
who formed para bonds mate for life.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
All right, so you just heard her. There, beavers are monogamous,
they're gentle. What if she's they're gently monogamous.

Speaker 10 (37:51):
If beavers are a gentle monogamous species who formed para
bonds mate for life, they.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Mate for life, they're monogamous, in gentle and they make
for life. Beaufford, what do you what are you trying
to tell me about the beaver?

Speaker 9 (38:03):
Beaver is monogamous. I run across quite a few beaver
that rather wild had numerous partners. What matter of fact,
that's so many partners, some saying it like a porcupine.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Anyway, Henry, you have a good day, all right, Befford.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
I don't know. I don't understand a lot of what
you're you're talking about there, because I'm not I'm not
a woodsman. I'm not I don't have a lot of
experience with beaver, and I think a lot of people
listening can just determine just just by listening to me
and listening to my thoughts on a variety of issues.
You know, I don't have a lot of beaver experience.

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More on the beaver.

Speaker 9 (38:47):
And of this here is Diefer Hanry just got down
review in the podcast where Josh Wood was talking about
the infestation of beaver's right and pe the thinking last
rainstorm we had a hendry My vehicle almost flooded out
on VIP Now that was around the Hanging Road, a

(39:07):
Boyking Boulevard area. Yes, handy board and raised on the
Parkway went through many of hurricanes.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
How of storm that.

Speaker 9 (39:17):
Area of the Parkway has never ever ever flooded before. Huh,
I mean they ain't never flooded. Like the only part
where the Parkway would flood would be right on the
north end of Dog River Bridge where the river in
the bay on a very high storm surge to come
over the parkway.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Okay, that's the only spot, Okay, all right?

Speaker 9 (39:41):
If that, if the Parkway is starting to flood in
other areas where it's not supposed to du to beavers,
I would very much like for them to publish where
these potential beaver lodges are.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Has there been evidence that the beavers are causing flooding
there do you have you is this? Did I miss this?
Has this been in the news?

Speaker 9 (40:06):
And uh, I'll make sure they can speed up eradication process.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
Henry.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
I'm not saying I know how to make homemade explosive devices,
but I'm just saying I could help speed up the
blowing up of beaver lodges if need be. Anyway, Henry,
something has got to be done with this infestation of beavers.
Have one of these dagon beaver lovers have to replace

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the three thousand dollars transmission due to the fact that
a beaver damn flooded a roadway where it used to
not flood before. Anyway, Henry, glad to say the city
council doing something about the infestation of these nasty beavers. Anyway, Henry,
you have a good day.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Thank you for that phone call voicemail number two 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 its listeners and Beufford's saying
that he can help speed up the blowing up of
a beaver lodge. I do remember. I brought it up

(41:19):
many times. The voicemailed that you left Buford years ago,
maybe ten years ago or older than that, where you
you talked about blowing up a stump. You mentioned you
remember the story your your little child was afraid of
a stump, thought a monster lived in it or something,
and so to help your son go to sleep, you

(41:40):
went out. I think you said it was like ten
o'clock or midnight at night, and went out and blew
up a stump. Do you remember, I know you remember that,
all right? Well, those are I think those are useful
skills to have. I don't know if neighbors appreciate it
when someone blows up a stump at midnight, but see,
I could consider that useful, the idea that you can

(42:03):
help speed up the blowing up of something. I like
that because I feel like you're responsible and won't blow
up nothing that don't need blowing up. Just remember Beeford,
when you fantasize about blowing up a beaver lodge the beavers,
it's you're not just getting one beaver, You're getting a

(42:24):
multi generational beaver family.

Speaker 10 (42:26):
If beavers are a gentle monogamous species who form pair
bonds mate for life and live in multi generational family groups.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
They live in multigenerational family groups like the Waltons did. Yes,
just like them. In fact, I bet a beaver life
is very similar to the Great Depression in the mountains.
Probably is all right, going to be back. I've got
a news item to share and more as the Uncle
Henry Show continues here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.

(43:15):
Uncle Henry Show News Radio seven ten WNTM. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes before we get to the
news headlines. Just a little bit more, a little bit
more Uncle Henry Show here for you. Now, Easter approaches.
We have good Friday, we have Easter. This Sunday, the

(43:38):
week after Easter in the state of Alabama is work
Zone Awareness Week for drivers. I believe yes, Oh, It's
National work Zone Awareness Week next week. This is an
effort all across the country to remind us to drive
safely in work zone. Now, I'm fond of anything about driving.

(44:04):
I love covering that topic on the unc Lenver Show.
Here's a report from a Fox ten Stepsister TV station
up in Montgomery, WSFA, as they talk about work Zone
Awareness Week next week.

Speaker 11 (44:21):
For many drivers. Work zones can cause frustration with slow
moving traffic, but if.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
You are distracted in one of those work zones, it
can create a dangerous situation that puts your life and
the lives of others at risks.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Right now, before we go any further, I just want
to clarify my frustration. I know you didn't ask, but
I don't get frustrated where they work zone because traffic
is having to go slower. What does frustrate me? If
the work zone remains a work zone for like a year,
if you can't get the roadwork done in a timely fashion,

(44:58):
that's a little frustrating. I'm not frustrated with the work
zone because I I love roads. I like progress. I
like bigger, wider, nashly paved roads. And if you're if
you're improving a road, I like that. However, I do
get frustrated if it takes two years or something like
if it's the same work zone for years, little frustrating.

(45:21):
I just wanted to clarify that. Or let's listen as
we're allegedly going to learn something from this report about.

Speaker 11 (45:27):
Work zones, part of National work Zone Awareness Week, the
Alabama Department of Transportation is reminding all drivers to stay
alert while driving in work zones. WUSFA twelve News zan
kor Xanda Smith has more from today's Capital kickoff event
and what drivers need to know.

Speaker 12 (45:45):
Respect the zone so we all get home. This is
a theme of this year's National work Zone Awareness Week.
The Alabama Department of Transportation is reminding drivers to slow
down in work zones and watch for roadway workers.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
These workers, they're real people. They're your neighbors through your
high school buddies.

Speaker 12 (46:04):
They're people that you.

Speaker 13 (46:04):
Know, and like everyone else, they simply want to go
home to their families at the end of each day
when the shift is over.

Speaker 12 (46:10):
Last year, there were two forty four work zone crashes
here in art.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
And I'm sorry to interrupt again. I'm still thinking about
he said, that's my high school buddies are out there
on the work zone.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Now, I'm going to start paying closer attention when, Yeah,
when I go through the work zone, I'm going to
be glancing at first at the road to make sure
that I'm not reckon or nothing. I don't want to
hurt nobody, but I'm also going to glance off at
the people that are working in the work zone and
look for people that I went to high school with. Yeah,
the old Oh, that older guy over there, Yeah that

(46:42):
I might have gone to school with that old guy.

Speaker 12 (46:44):
Nur Steve. Fifteen people died and five hundred and twenty
seven were injured. That number of crashes is up from
the year before, but deaths are down.

Speaker 13 (46:55):
On the upside is that, you know, we have reached
a ten year low in fatalities and we need to
continue that trend. And the way we continue that trend
is to keep preaching work zone safety.

Speaker 12 (47:08):
With more construction during the spring and summer, drivers should
expect to see more work zones as a drive on
the highways and interstate.

Speaker 13 (47:17):
We've got over three hundred construction projects going on statewide.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Plug good by the way good. I like that. I
like that Alabama can do three hundred projects. We need
about I don't know three thousand work projects for roads,
but three hundred I like that.

Speaker 13 (47:33):
US let's think about all of the summertime travel folks
going on vacations.

Speaker 12 (47:39):
All encourages drivers to pay attention, slow down, don't tailgate,
and merge safely.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Now, see that advice would be for any day, not
just work zone Awareness week, or even in a work zone.

Speaker 10 (47:55):
What are the number two top citations rewrites?

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Feeding and falling too close one of the biggest tributors
to crashes and work zones. Speeding in following too close in.

Speaker 12 (48:03):
Work zones when construction workers are present, finds for speeding
and other moving violations. Double law enforcement say, this is
strictly enforced.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
State troopers are going to stop you, and we're going
to issue you a citation, and you may or may
not be very happy with us when we get done,
but we are trying to correct a behavior.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
We are trying to save lives.

Speaker 12 (48:25):
Rosina Smith, WSFA twelve News.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Now think about that. Do you have have you ever
gotten a speeding ticket? You probably haven't. You the listener
to this show, you probably are just as innocent as
anybody could be in this planet. But for the listener
that may have gotten a speeding ticket, have you ever
thought to yourself that they're trying All they're doing is
trying to correct your behavior. That's all just trying to

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correct you.

Speaker 11 (48:54):
National work Zone Aware this week is April twenty first
through the twenty fifth November. You can always check if
there are construction work zones on the way in your destination.
We have place to link with that information on the
twelve News app and WSFA dot com.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
Very nice, all right, Now see next week. If I'd
have known that next week was National works On Awareness Week,
I might have tried to take some time off to
just celebrate and enjoy all the observances of National works
On Awareness Week. But I didn't know until Today's kind
of too late for me to get that time off.
All right, Well, look out of time with this edition

(49:31):
of The Uncleanary Show. I appreciate very much you listening
to the show, or at least trying to listen to
the show until you can't take it anymore. As they
say in Sarahland, have a good one, and as they
say in Theodore, take it easy, all right Later