Runoff Vote Is Tomorrow

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.
My fellow citizens, the final hours of the campaign are
upon us. I urge all of you please take time
to vote. You are the guardians of this great democracy.

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We should pray that as much as we honor those
who died to make us free, we also fervently pray
such sacrifice will never again be required, that there will
be a day when new battlefields are never again created.
This and every election is what they sacrificed for. They

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gave everything to preserve and protect the vote you were
free to exercise, regardless of how you choose, you must
take the time to make that choice.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It says The Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
sevent ten w nt M. Thank you. I appreciate very
very much. You're listening to The Uncle Henry Show. And
once again here we are together, me and you trying

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to figure out what is going on in the world
around us, What is going on? What's going on with
all these people? Now, if you can clue me in,
telephone lines are open two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. That's two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. We've got so much to
get into as usual here on the Uncle Henry Show.

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Of course, a lot of people spend time watching the
Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday. We can get into that. We
got I played Reagan talking about voting because tomorrow is
runoff voting day for many municipalities around the state of Alabama,
including here in Lower Alabama. You've got the mayor's racing mobile,

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Barbara Drummond versus Spiro that is tomorrow, you got to
vote there. In many other cities, you've got voting in Prichard,
a lot of people curious about Chickasaw. Just a lot
of places with some voting. So make sure you go
and vote. We've seen situations just in the last vote,

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we're only a few votes. What was it in Prichard?
What were they separated by two or three votes? So hey,
your vote counts in these municipal elections, especially, go at
and vote tomorrow. Now, I got a lot, I can
say myself, But already people calling in to talk. So
let me go ahead and grab some phone calls here
on the Uncle Henry Show again, two five, one.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Three.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The telephone number to Kyle Hello, caller, good Evenhandah Cliff
Cliff you are live on the radio again.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Uh did you see that ABC was frightened into hiring
Kimmel back?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, for you the listener, if you hadn't heard, Jimmy
Kimmel will be back on his show tomorrow night.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
You remember the young man that was Phone Fox. He
didn't say anything that vial and he didn't lie and
Fox had to get rid of him. These people, I'm
telling you, they they got control over evil people. And

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I guess they got control over the money too, because
you would think that Disney wouldn't pull nothing like that,
because you know, you got us, the people that really
pays the money to go to Disney, and we're we're
we're we're going to start the standing up for certain things.
They even in Alabama, you got people running for offices

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and have offices here that are black. Talk about they
wouldn't stand up for both, for Charlie kirk Lareal and
all of this stuff. But you will make a statue
and name streets after a demon.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's a wild world.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Evil is showing this ugly face because the Democrats are
I said that now most of them are just being
used and they're stupid. But the leftists and those Communist Martians.
They are real evil people, and so what's happening is
they're showing these people they are true coloring because a

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lot of them they don't need.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't care, and I'm saying, must be must be
the case, Cliff.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, they don't care if they say something stupid and
get ran off because they got you know, crazy always
show up late, so they got more crazy people to use,
and they'll say stupid things. This is so bid. I
don't care who it is. I respect somebody's funeral. I
don't care if it was the most hated people in

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the world. I don't want them to die because that
judgment is on them. I don't care how bad they are,
whatever they did or whatever they said to me. I
don't wish to death on anybody because because the Bible
talks about what you wish for someone else, how you
do someone else, you'll get it back. That's why we

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don't hate.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's word. Blessed you, Thank you, Cliff. I appreciate very
much your phone, your phone call a blessing to the
program and to the listener. You five one four seventy
nine two seven two three. The telephone number here on
the Uncle Henry Show, Hello, Color Old.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
What Henry is the bamba boos? Rob Morris, how you.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Doing bamba bush Hog? You are live on the radio.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
It's always good to be live, o Henry. I hate
the alternative. Hey, look at here. I want to wish
all your listeners.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
A happy day of fall.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
First day of fall.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, a happy first day of fall to you too.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Well, thank you, sir.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know it's autimal, equal nons and everything is.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
In balance in our hemisphere today. It's equal time and
night and day.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
And you can stand the.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Egg up and it'll stand up by cellphone today. If
you get all your listeners to try it out, it
works every time.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I have never tried that, So if I went home
and pulled out an egg, I'd be able to stand
it up and it just and it wouldn't womble.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, you know, you gotta have a little past. There's
a little feeling, a little tingling in your fingertips when
it happens, and you can just throw your fingers away
and see them fall by itself. He can take a
picture of shaver with all your friends. I'd love to
see people that do it. I did it myself today.
But look the reason why I'm calling is about the
election tomorrow, the run off relation for mayor. Okay, look,

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people need to know. Me and the camera girl want
to go vote in the election, and we were turned
away because of the registrict redistricting thing going on and
we didn't get the memo. We had to go vote
somewhere else and that was a big mess in a
general election when we all voted for mayor Mobile and elsewhere.

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But look here, people need to know before they go
to vote. Go to City of Moti, little dark Orgon
and they'll tell you exactly you put it in your mason,
tell you where you need to go vote, so there's
no confusion. Using go vote now tomorrow after our gover
here on Mobile, I'm gonna travel down to Chickasau, Alabama

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because close personal friend of mine, Tyrann Colvin, is running
for mayor of Chickisau, So I'm gonna be down there
to support tying my friend to become mayor of Kicksaw.
Now what's the vote? Satality After seven pm in little
old Chicksau, Alabama, we find out that my boy won.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, we're gonna take a trip on down.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
The Mobile downtown for the hero Cherry Goddess.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Watch party, and Kochan pulled it off as well.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm good down all right, bush Hall. Thank you for
your voice, your your phone call to the show. I
appreciate that bear very much. Gonna take a time out.
More on the vote tomorrow and other topics. As the
Uncle Henry Show continues, it says the Uncle Henry Show

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number here for the Uncle Emery Show five one four
seven nine two seven two three. That's two five one
four seven nine two seven two three. We've got news
headlines coming up in ten minutes. Yeah, tomorrow is as
I mentioned before I went to the phones, Tomorrow is
the time to vote and the run off for the

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mayor's race and Mobile and many other municipalities. You're the
Bam of bush Hog. In the last segment talking about Chickasaw,
I mentioned Prichard. Now the Mobile mayor's race, I am
at a point where I have no clue. I have
no idea how it's going to go. Now. You may

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you may be more plugged in than me, and you
may talk to more people around the town, so you
may be more plugged in. You may know how things
are going to shake out tomorrow, But I really I
have no clue how the vote is going to go tomorrow. Now,
I will say, as I've mentioned to you before, this

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is so different from previous mayor's races. And what I
mean by that is this is the most part of
now that as you're aware, Mobile is they don't have
partisan elections for the City of Mobile, the mayor's race.
They're non partisan elections. But we have two candidates that

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have run previously as both a Republican. One is a
Republican and one is a Democrat, so we know which
way they lean, at least on state and national issues.
We at least know that where the leaning is. But
this was the first time, and I may be wrong
on this, but this is the first time I can
remember a candidate bringing in big name, big other big

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political names to endorse them in the mayor's race. Barbara Drummond,
getting people like Senator Doug Jones, the former Transportation secretary
of Buddha Judge, the mayor of Birmingham Wood Fen Senator
Corey Booker. I mean this it We've not had this before,

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at least that I can remember. We've had endorsements before,
but not like this. And I guess I mean, if
Barbara Drummond manages to win, maybe it'll look like a
bright idea. But to me, you know, if she loses,
it's going to look like the dumbest move you could
possibly make. Why would you want to Why would you

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want to bring in? Is the endorsement that valuable that
you would risk associating yourself with with these potential policies
and these these these these unpopular policies from other areas.
I mean Buddha Judge, for example, How that an endorsement

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by him help would help no one in Mobile Alabama.
It doesn't matter what side you're on, just wouldn't help you.
It just was it. I just I don't understand why
you would even take the risk, especially when you were
positioned pretty good to begin with, take the risk of

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and having somebody like Senator Corey Booker. It's almost such
a turn off to some people. I just got I'm
struggling to figure out how you would think this would
have been a good idea. But we'll I'll find out
tomorrow night. We'll know. Maybe maybe it's a brilliant idea

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and I'm just too dumb to figure it out. But
right now it is looking like looking like a bad
It's a really bad bad idea. In fact, the running
ads where Sam Jones is endorsing you what a terrible idea. Now.

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I mentioned last week when we were all reading about
Sam jones endorsement of Barbara Drummond. I know there are
a lot of people in town that like him. Obviously,
he's been elected. He was elected the county commission, elected
to the state Legislature, elected the mayor of Mobile. You
got to have some people that like you to get

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those to win those elections. But he lost twice running
for mayor because people figured out that they didn't like
the way he ran things. It just it just seemed
like such a risk to bring in these endorsements. Well, again,

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I might be completely wrong. So there's a lot of suspense,
a lot of suspense here, and I know both of
the candidates have worked really, really hard, and their volunteers
have worked really, really hard. So this is going to
be something else, really going to be something else. To
see how it all turns out tomorrow night. A lot
of energy will be released, I hope positively when it's

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all over. But as I mentioned in the first segment
of the show, don't forget then in these municipal elections.
We've seen examples around the state, and even I think
in Prichard where things have gotten down to just a
handful of votes deciding things. So you think, you get
up tomorrow and you think, well, so and So's got it.

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I've really got a busy day. Don't do that. If
you really want to have a say, make sure you
have that say tomorrow and go out and vote. It'll
be in these runoffs it's even more important than it
was the first time. So get out there and exercise
that right to vote. And I'm looking forward to it.

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In fact, I even called and asked a few questions
at the Board of Registrars last week, and I talked
to a lady down there what a nice just the
nicest lady. She didn't care who I was voting for.
She just wanted to make sure that I had a
good experience when I went and voted. So get out

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there and exercise your right to vote tomorrow two five
to one four seven nine two two three. The telephone
number here on the Uncle Henry show. Also the Bamba
bush hog caller mentioned that it was the autumnal equinox.
As we begin autumn, we begin fall, and every year

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now when we make this transition into autumn, it reminds
me of years ago. I lived next door to a
lady at the time, she's about ninety three or ninety four,
and she liked to walk with me. She asked me
if I would I when I walked my dog if

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she could come along with us. She wanted to. She
wanted to walk, get some exercise, and I would have
wonderful conversations with this lady. By the way, is ninety
eight now still with us at ninety eight, But back
when she was ninety four, I remember she would get
she would She asked me one year, she says, when

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did it become fall? And I said, what do you mean?
And she said when I was growing up, it was
always autumn. It used to be autumn, and now people
keep calling it fall. She said, it's not fall, it's autumn.

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She seemed to think that it was kind of like
cheating to call it fall, almost like it was lazy
because you were dropping, you were using a shorter word.
She wanted to bring back autumn. So it's not just fall.
Remember it's autumn. That says the Uncle Henry Show here

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on news radio seven ten WN tim at it is
five thirty five. Telephone number two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. That's two five one four
seven nine two seven two three.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Hello caller, Hey, Uncle Henry, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Snake trapper, snake traveler? You are alive on the radio
over head.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
And I sure hope Miss Barbara Drummond doesn't win that
meorial race Oncle Hendry. And I'll tell you why why because,
uh well, she thinks I am a threat to the
future of this country over Henry. But I'd like her
to know what type.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Of person I am. A few years back, one morning.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
Nine, on the way to work. It was still dark,
you know, because I leave pretty early. A car runoff
in the ditch.

Speaker 7 (18:59):
I could tell there was some by the inn, and
I jumped out, not knowing for his kids and car
what it was in the storm, and helped pull a
drunk out of a ditch so that he went drown
and he tries to sault me with a stick, so.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I wind up leaving him on side of the road.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
So I'm no threat to the future. This country ot
with Henry h So I just hope she don't win.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, Well, I'm glad. Look, I'm glad. And by the way,
God bless you for trying to help somebody that you
see in distress on the side of the road. Thank
the Lord that there are still people out there willing
to do things like that at your own risks. So
thank you for that.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Oh yes, sir, I mean you just didn't know if
there was kids in the Hawaiian It happened to be
an old drunk that run off in the ditch, and
then he actually thought I'd run him.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Off the road.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
But that's here and the there.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
But anyway, over, Henry, what I told the tabount. You know,
we at the height of snake season. So this Saturday morning,
Uncle Henry, I got up and I decided I'm gonna
go hunt for moccason' zill awful Henry. I started at
the North Lake north of US and worked my way
back to the dam, turning over.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
The logs or lifting up rocks, you know, just trying.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
To see what I could find. Did not see any
venomous snakes. I did see a couple of black snakes
and a king snake and a garter snake. But yes,
or the snake act, it is alive and well. And
time I got back to the damn Uncle, Henry.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
Them dead gun geese realized.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
What was going on, and here they come, so uh
just about got assaulted by them. I went on and
got out of there. But I believe that's the reason
maccason Zilla is not hung around here, because of the geese.
So uh, you know, uh, you know, the dead snakes
are gone, but because of the geese. But I think

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i'd rather have the dang snakes around there.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
Geese.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now wait a minute, Well, of course you'd rather have
the snakes around you. You have a fascination with snakes.
But tell me this, so I've never heard of this before.
So you're you're thinking, you're thinking that this giant water
moncasin has been scared off by the geese. So geese
are a deterrent. If people are afraid of snakes, they

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can get some geese and the geese will keep the
snakes away.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
Yes, sir, if you have Canadian geese hanging around your
lake or.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Pond, will not leave.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
You will definitely not not have many snakes because we'll
eat them. They'll actually eat them while they're you know,
when they're little. I mean, they're not going to tackle
one like Gozilla. He'd probably put a herd on them.
But yes, their geese are known to eat snakes. They're
very terrified of them. The geese are not scared of nothing,
especially if they got young around. And I definitely don't

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believe they were coming after me because they had young around,
because they got two that's actually had some they're practically
grown now. So they were just being mean over They
just didn't want me around.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Mean geese. They weren't being protective, they were being mean.
They knew you were no threat. They just didn't like you.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, they do not like me, and then that reason
they'll come out of the lake. But four or five
houses then, because I mean I've been having trouble with
them for a while. But I'm thinking about getting me
a migratory bird stamp this hunting season and harvest one
of them, Uncle Henry, because you know, wait.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
A minute now, now, listener, We're not going to continue
to talk about geese and snakes the whole half hour.
But I'm so curious about this. So if you want
to shoot, if you want to harvest a geese, you've
got to get a special permission to shoot a geese.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yesterday.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
They are a migratory bird, they are protected, but you
can get a hunting permit to actually harvest so many.
I don't know the rules and regulations here Alabama, but
I do know that you can't just go out and
get one and they are inedible bird.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, well of course, but let me let me ask
you this. So, how long have the geese been there
for a couple of years?

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Now, I'm gonna hear them geese have been here for
every bit of ten years.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, you're gonna have neighbors that are gonna be emotionally
bonded with the geese. And if you go out there
and shoot one of these geese, you might have the
neighborhood try to throw you out of the neighborhood. They're
gonna be mad at you.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Hey, I'll go ahead and the next time we're together
and not on radio, I got a story. I'm gonna
tell you this true story. It cannot ever get out,
but it's one that you'll find very fascinating. But I
will not Now.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Is it a story about somebody that is that is
in love with the geese?

Speaker 6 (23:48):
I know, sir, It's about me and my troubles with
the geese.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh okay, all right, well all right.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
I definitely cannot tell you.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
On the radio, Henry.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
Oh well, okay, you whine, take care of you too.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Thank you very much for your phone called snake Trapper. Now,
I know from when they had a geese problem in
fair Hope and wanted to relocate the geese produce. I forget,
I've already forgotten what the ultimate solution was for the
geese issue, but I do know that there were people
that had developed strong emotional connections to the geese. See,

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we live in a time where people are having trouble
getting along with each other, and instead of bonding with
other human beings, they find it more easy to bond
with a goose. And they'll go out and they'll they'll
name the goose, and they'll feed the goose, and pretty
soon they'll they'll project some type of personality on the goose.

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And then if you try to do something with a goose,
they're gonna they're gonna act like you're doing it to
their brother in law or something. So just be be
very careful, snake trapper, because these Fair Hope people got
very emotionally at hatched to their geese family.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Hello caller, Hello Uncle Henry.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yes, sir, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
This is Tom.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm doing good, Tom.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
The last time I got to talk to you, I
had the honor of meeting your parents.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Now the reason I'm calling in regards to the campaign, okay,
and the election. You know, I've been campaigning a long
time before I was ever old enough to vote. I
was reminiscing the other day and I remembered my first
campaign when my parents was for president for very gold Water.

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So here i am in Mobile. I'm seventy four years
old and I'm campaigning for mayor. Okay, it's been seven
months now and it's I'm into the wire tomorrow, and
I just want to urge people to get out and vote. Now,
I did learn something in my years. Most time, when

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a candidate is endorsed, that candidate seeks that endorsement. Nobody
ever just does it without them being aware of it. Okay,
So if you understand where I'm coming.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
From, Oh, yes I did, Yes, I did.

Speaker 8 (26:34):
Okay, all right, so it's being asked to have those
people endorse. So anyway, I want to urge each and
every person to go out tomorrow. The polls are open
from seven to seven. Go out, vote for the candidate
of your choice. But vote exercise you're right, and we'll

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we'll see what happens tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
All right, Well, Tom, I hope all is well with you.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
It is. I'm doing fine. I've got good health, I've
got good friends, and so I'm doing fine.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Very very good. Well, Tom, thank you very much for
your phone call.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
You're welcome, and have a nice evening you too.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
There he goes Tom. I remember I think I met
Tom's son. He met my parents. I think I met
Tom Son during a broadcast at Greer's Saint Louis Market
earlier this year. Tom always a pleasure. Tom called the
Uncle Henry Show. I don't know twenty years ago. Always

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a pleasure to hear from Tom back with more after
the break. It says the Uncle Henry Show Here on

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news Radio seventy ten WNTM. It is five fifty news
headlines coming up in ten minutes and then more show.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Hello caller, is it me?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
That's you?

Speaker 9 (28:25):
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (28:26):
Henry Steve?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
You are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Yes, sir, I'm actually out in my backyard throwing knives
while I were speaking. Oh great, So yeah, I just
hadn't call in a couple of days. I had to
let myself, you know, come back down to earth after
the whole Charlie Kirk thing. You know, you don't want to,
you don't want to let anger cause your tongue to

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say something that you know you might regret saying, or
you know, anything like that. But I see you what
a lot of a lot of a lot of people,
a lot of Democrats who were actually cheering that event
and saying he got what he deserved and everything them
to find something else to do than what they was

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doing before.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
That is true, there was there were some consequences for
some folks that publicly wanted to say that, no doubt, and.

Speaker 9 (29:23):
Uh, you know, I mean somebody says, oh, now you
believe in cancel cultures, like, hey, I did not the
one who canceled you. You know, you said something on
social media, You said it out there like it just
goes away, and then somebody saw it, recognized you told
your boss, and your boss saw it and was just

(29:44):
as appalled as any normal person would be and said, no,
I'm sorry. We can't have somebody like you working for
our company. Who's going to celebrate other people's debts, right,
you know? And uh, you remember that, you know, for
for for to give you an exact sample of how
different you know we are. They all say that Donald

(30:04):
Trump's just the worst person to come since, you know,
the old German guy with the funny mustache, right and
and uh uh but do you remember when Ruth Bader
Ginsburg passed away, Yes, and he talked about how extraordinary
a life she had and she was a very extraordinary lady.
And yes, you know, he didn't say any you know,

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of course, you know, thoughts and prayers for the families
and everything, and that's what you were hearing from from
everybody on the right. You know, you didn't hear anybody say, oh,
you know, burning hell or anything. Like that. You know,
you did. You had some people on the fringe online
on on a YouTube feed or whatever, you know, saying

(30:47):
ignorant stuff like that. But as far as you know,
that might just be people trying to make you know,
right wingers or Christian people look bad. But uh, yeah,
they haven't stopped either. It's uh, there's a there's a
culture war going on right now and one side's debating
and voting. The other side is shooting and killing. So, uh,

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what they don't seem to understand is is that when
you see people on TV and one side is getting
hit with bricks and the other side is throwing the bricks,
most of the time in civil societies, the people getting
hit with bricks. Eventually when just how it goes, because

(31:33):
sympathy goes to people, you know, who are obviously being
oppressed and being attacked for no reason, and and you know,
and when terrorism happens, it's pretty pretty plain to see.
And uh, they even tried to claim it was it
was one of us, you know that that that shot
Charley Kirk. They tried to do that for Donald Trump's

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attempted assassin too, And you know, this is just it's
not even cute anymore. Guy, this doesn't work, you know,
let's just go back to the table and talk, you know,
because what y'all are doing isn't working.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, let's let's hope that that can happen. Let's and
now I would like to be optimistic and think that
it would. Uh, I don't know if I am, but
let's let us at least hope and pray that that
could happen.

Speaker 9 (32:20):
Well, it's simply gonna have to happen because we're tired
of tolerting the other, the other situation, and it's you know,
if it blows up, I'm sorry to say. Well, we
shoot straighter than they do, We got more guns than
they do. And uh, we've been getting mad for a
long time and just having to swallow it. When we

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don't have to swallow it anymore, they're gonna they gonna
wish they'd have left us alone. And that's you know,
that's that's what I got for today. But yeah, I'm
just just out there chunking the knives.

Speaker 10 (32:55):
Man.

Speaker 9 (32:55):
So far, I haven't missed. And it made a horrible
clang on the radio.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
So all right, oh you've been throwing while you've been talking. Yeah,
all right, well good, well, hey Steve, I'm gonna run,
but thank you for your phone call. And again we're
gonna have to get together and do a knife show.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yes, sir, I'll let you know.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
All right, very good, there you go, Steve. Thank you
Steve for your phone call. And yes, I hope that
we do not get into a situation where we have
to figure out who can shoot better than the other.
I would hope that we would not end up in
that situation and instead actually find are there basics we
agree on any more? Let's hope. So Mike fix it

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on news Radio seven ten WNTM. Thank you, I appreciate
very much you're listening to the Uncle Henry Show now
coming up this half hour of show. Gonna check some voicemail,
also want to I also want to check some news
items here. In fact, let me start off with some
news items. Let's start with a lot of roadwork that

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is going on in downtown Mobile. Yes, we have road
projects going on in downtown Mobile, Alabama. One of the
reasons I want to highlight this for you and for
me so that I can learn about this is I
think about the expenditure of the tax dollar, something that

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something that I like to pay attention to. It often
costes pain. When you see the tax dollar being lit
a flame or flushed down civic toilets. It occurs to
me that over the years that I've lived in Mobile,
that enormous amounts of our tax dollar have gone into
downtown Mobile. There are many many neighborhoods in Mobile, but

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downtown Mobile, Oh, it gets. It gets local tax dollars,
state tax dollars, federal, all kind of grants and things.
You'll hear all you'll hear all kinds of tax money.
You didn't know existent will just come from out of
nowhere sometimes end up in Downtown Mobile. And we're always told,

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of course, that this is for our own good. Even
if you live somewhere else in the town and your
street looks just horrible like many of the streets in
Midtown and many other neighborhoods, you're told that we must
continue to pump the money into Downtown Mobile because Downtown
Mobile is the tide that when it rises, lift all

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it lifts all boats. Now there's still again neighborhoods, many
neighborhoods waiting wondering will the tide ever rise high enough
for their streets to get renovated. But anyway, let's forget
about your neighborhood right now, and I'll forget about mine.
Let's think about all of them more, just even more

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money going into Downtown Mobile. Now here's a brief report
from Fox ten about Saint Louis Street. They're going to
really make Saint Louis Street beautiful. The just an incredible
plan for Saint Louis Street. And now I believe the
work started today. So let's listen to what they're doing
down there on Saint Louis Street. Here is Fox ten

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reporting on it.

Speaker 11 (37:16):
Big and proof is now to talk about coming to
Saint Louis Street in downtown Mobile, a revitalization project five
years and the works is officially starting next week. And
our Shelby Myers was there for that groundbreaking. She's in
the studio now with what drivers and pedestrians can expect. Hi, Shelby,
Hi Lemese.

Speaker 12 (37:35):
It's going to take about two and a half years.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
But on Monday, and that's today today. In case you're
callindrically challenged. Many times I'm clindically challenged, and I'll mostly
on Wednesdays, I wonder is today Thursday or is it Tuesday? Yes,
I'm callindrically challenged. The calendar just challenges me and you

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might be too. But today is Monday. All of this
work beginning today we'll get started.

Speaker 12 (38:03):
Saint Louis Street will be undergoing a major makeover. We're
talking new street lighting, landscaping, and a whole lot more.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
One, two three.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
That had the groundbreaking I think Friday than I think.

Speaker 12 (38:18):
And with that, the highly anticipated Saint Louis Street revitalization
project is set to get started on Monday. The street
will close from spring Hill Avenue to Bayou Street for
the first section of construction.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Spring Hill to Buy You closed down.

Speaker 12 (38:33):
And then block by block for the next two and
a half years, crews will be working to replace aging infrastructure,
improve storm water and drainage features, put up new street lighting, landscaping,
and ada accessibility.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
Idea is that this street will be a safer street,
be more accessible, pedestrian friendly.

Speaker 12 (38:53):
New water and sewer lines will also be put in underground.
In recent years, several new businesses have popped up on
this street well.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
By the way, And I'm sorry for pausing here because
I know you're trying to learn. You're wishing I would
stop talking so you could learn about the joy of
Saint Louis Street being revitalized. I just want to speculate here,
and this is a question for you. They're claiming it'll
take two and a half years. How long do you
think it'll really take. You just heard it involves it

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involves drainage improvements and things like that. What do you
think how many years do you think it really will take?
I don't know either, but and I'm guaranteeing you it
won't be done quicker. It won't be any faster than two.

Speaker 12 (39:41):
And a half bringing new life to it.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
How many years have they worked on McGregor Avenue.

Speaker 12 (39:47):
Some local groups are excited for the infrastructure to catch up.

Speaker 13 (39:51):
It's safer, it's going to be more attractive, it's gonna
be more vibrant. It matches all of the private sector
investment that you've seen, and I think you're going to
see a lot more. I have an investment in the
near future, So we're excited.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Good. I'd like to we all like the private Chector investment.

Speaker 12 (40:07):
With that, progress will be some pain, but Braided River
Brewery owner David Nelson says he's looking forward to what
Saint Louis will look like once it's all complete. He
encourages patrons to support all the businesses on the street
during construction.

Speaker 14 (40:20):
All of the businesses here still need to support, you know,
as things go down. Hopefully with the progression blocked by
block we all don't get too much disruption and people
keep coming to us and spending some time with us
all the way through.

Speaker 12 (40:34):
And the seventeen million dollar project is mostly being funded
by the Restore Act, coming from money paid out from
the companies in that twenty ten BP oil spill settlement.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
All right, so all not tax dollar oil spill money.
So when they had the giant oil leak, the Johnt
oil spill, this is their way of making up for it.
They're making up for that oil leak and that oil
spill by improving to slow down traffic on Saint Louis

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Street and make it prettier. Make it prettier for everybody
down there. All right, well, very nice. Now there's also
in addition to that, they're also continuing to work on
the downtown street optimization projects going on. Here is Fox Tens.

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I think this is DaShan Smith with a brief report
on that work also going on, I believe at night.

Speaker 15 (41:33):
For drivers in downtown Mobile some one way streets are
turning into two way streets. Check out this map seven.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Now apologize you can't see the map. Radio still doesn't
have pictures after all these years. But we're working on it.

Speaker 15 (41:48):
One way streets will be converted to two way. They're
in blue right there on your screen. The change is
already happening. The restriping and related streets sign changes will
take place overnight from nine pm to four am to
avoid any confusion.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Nine pm to four am. To avoid confusion nine pm
at night to four am they're doing construction work, restriping
and all that kind of stuff nine pm to four
am to avoid confusion. Now, see, if I were riding
around at like two am and saw a bunch of
people working down there, I'd be confused. It would cause

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confusion for me. I guess I'm backwards.

Speaker 15 (42:28):
You'll notice traffic signals are flashing on some streets in
Downtown Mobile. City crews will also be converting those lights
to four way stops. The city says it's part of
an ongoing effort to make downtown safer and more accessible
by slowing traffic and provide more parking.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
All right, very nice, all those street improvements in Downtown
Mobile or alleged improvements in Downtown Mobile. Now your neighborhood,
don't ask don't even ask them about your neighborhood. Right now,
right now, it's Downtown Mobile.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Me.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
One day before you die, they'll come out and pave
your street. All right, Coming up more show. We're going
to get to some voicemail after the break. Let us
go ahead now together and take the dadgum break it

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sysdey Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten
WNTM News headlines coming up in ten minutes before we
get to the news headlines, going to get to some voicemail.
The voicemail number if you'd like to leave a message
is two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.

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That's two five one two one six nineteen seventy six.
Now followed the story of the foxes on Dolphin Island
and how Dolphin Island is looking to remove these foxes
because the foxes are allegedly endangering the protected sea turtles

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and other birds. It's foxes versus sea turtles and birds,
and the foxes have advocates that have that have gone
to court over this. Here is a voicemail about this
topic from longtime caller Buford Handah.

Speaker 14 (44:31):
This, Hey.

Speaker 10 (44:34):
Henders. You know I've worked the streets and mobiles one
capacity or another for now on twenty six year started
right before the turn of the century, Henry. I can
tell you this. In my travels, I do have the uh,
the good luck to run into people in of a.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Know sometimes all right, good, I like that Hannah run.

Speaker 10 (44:57):
Into a feller that's in the know off island areas.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Okay, good, And let me tell.

Speaker 10 (45:04):
You did not waste the opportunity to ask him, what
was going on about this fox situation down there? Henry,
A very very powerful coalition has formed over them foxes.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Okay, a powerful coalition, a.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
Dolphin Island foxes and Henry, this powerful coalition once those
foxes destroyed. Really, I never thought I would see this
coalition ever formed, because Henry, it is comprised of two
of the most craziest people you'd ever know. I mean, Henry,

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the crazy Karns, the crazy bird Carons, the Karens that
loved the birdies have joined forces with the crazy the
cat tearings. That's right, Henry.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
What the bird ladies and.

Speaker 10 (46:06):
The cat ladies of Dauphin Island have formed a coalition.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
All right? Now, I've got a pause there because that
is a.

Speaker 9 (46:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
And I know that some people are probably wincing, Beauford.
They're very there's a lot of sensitive people these days.
You've noticed it, you've seen it. You might even feel
sensitive yourself. But they're not gonna like the word crazies.
One word, now, Beauford. I don't want to censor you,
so you can continue calling people crazies, I guess, But

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if you would like to, if you'd like to be
a little more sensitive sensitive in the way you put this.
Maybe in the future you'd call them fans cat fans
and bird fans, and fan, of course is short for
the word fanatic, so you could still you could still

(47:03):
have your insanity element there, but instead of using the
word crazies, just fan which is short for fanatic. But
I don't want to tell you. Look, I don't want
to censor you as if you were Jimmy Kimmel or
somebody like that. All Right, So you're claiming that the
cat people have teamed up with the bird people. Now,

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that does not make any sense to me, because I've
watched this battle go on for many years in different
places I've lived where some people hated cats because they
attacked birds. I've watched a lot of battles between cat
lovers and bird lovers. And you're telling me the cat
lovers and bird lovers have teamed up.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
That is.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Certainly worth calling the voicemail over. That is remarkable. Almost
a once in a lifetime configuration, maybe a once every
five or six generations, that you'd have the cat lovers
and the and the bird lovers teaming up.

Speaker 10 (48:05):
Ladies and the cat ladies of Dauphin island. Have formed
a coalition, shall we shall we say, a Superkaren coalition
if you will, okay, and have joined forces to destroy
the foxes. Wow, Henry, that that is that is who

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wants the foxes destroyed?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Really?

Speaker 10 (48:33):
Now there's another coalition.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Now and I'm gonna I'm pausing there just to ask
maybe Beauford can clear this up or somebody else. Wouldn't
a cat lover also have deep affection for a fox
or well, I don't know. Are they are foxes and cats?
They don't get along. I guess I'm new to this
coal the animal coalitions.

Speaker 10 (48:56):
That is just the animal lover coalition. What now, wait
and if you will and have joined forces.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Okay to destroy the foxes.

Speaker 10 (49:07):
Okay, Henry, that is that is who wants the foxes destroyed.
Now there's another coalition that is just the animal lover.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Coalition that just loves all animals, and.

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Uh, they are wanting the foxes saved. But Henry, I
tell you what, this is a tearing battle, royale of
the century. We'll have to stay tuned to see how
this ends up. Anyway, Henry, you have a good day.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Keep me informed. This is a new world to me.
All the different coalitions loving animals. It occurs to me
it would be I would have a lot of trouble
if I were mayor, a mayor, or a council member
down there having to deal with all of that anyway,
out of time. Thank you for listening to the Uncle
Henry show. As they say in sir Land, have a

(50:03):
good one. As they say in Theodore, take it easy

Speaker 6 (50:07):
All right Later