Safety Tips in a Good Southern Accent

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:21):
It says the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle
Henry Show. I appreciate that bear bear much. Now, in
this half hour of show, I'm going to go over
some news items that I missed. You might have missed

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them too, So together me and you, we can learn
about the world and which we live. That's what we'll do.
That's what we'll do this half hour. All right, I
want to start out with this item about next week. Now,
next week, next week, the Thanksgiving holiday will be observed

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by many people in our country. I don't know about you,
but my family I was raised where we observed Thanksgiving
and we've enjoyed it. We enjoy it because we're a
family that enjoys sitting around and eating stuff and we're
all so grateful. We're all so grateful and thankful and
all that kind of stuff. But we also enjoy the
consumption of food items. You can tell my family. I

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think my family were early adopters of diabet us in
the state of Alabama. My family might have even brought
diabet us to Alabama. I don't really know. That's part
of the family tree. I don't want to examine. So anyway,
next week is Thanksgiving and I found a news story
from w SFA in Montgomery, a stepsister station from Fox ten.

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They did an interview with the Alabama Law Enforcement Association
Captain Jeremy Burkett safety tips for Thanksgiving travelers. Now, Captain Burkette,
he is the wonderful law enforcement officer that right before Halloween,

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I played him on the Uncle Henry Show for you.
He had the Alabama Law Enforcement Association's Halloween safety tips.
And he's the guy that came on the air and
told us that you need to have a plan for Halloween.
If you're going to go out with your kids, you
need to pay you need to pay attention. This is
what he taught us, And if you've been listening, you

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remember this because we went over it for like a week.
But he said that you needed to have a the
proper parent to child ratio for Halloween, and that you
needed to have a plan and the proper personnel to
execute your Halloween plan so that your plan would go smoothly.
This was all outlined by Captain Burkett. Well, now let's

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see does he have a Thanksgiving travel plan. Let's find
out together. Here is Captain Burkette with his magnificent Southern accent,
teaching us on WSFA Thanksgiving destination.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
You still need to be prepared Triple A projects. At
least seventy three million people will travel by car this year,
joining us here in studio as Captain Jeremy Brookett with
the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Do you all typically see
a big increase ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh? Absolutely so really now all the way through the
new year, we just see a tremendous amount of traffic
during these extended holiday travel periods. And that's why we
want everyone to just be aware of some of the
things that are on the roadways. But our theme this
year is keep the road safe so everyone can give thanks.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
And all right, so they got a theme, keep the
road safe so that everyone can give thanks? Do you
now this? I don't know if we're going to be
testing on this or maybe if you're going to get
your star ID maybe you can skip ahead in line
if you know the theme from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency,
But it's what is it about giving thanks everybody?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Or what is this of some of the things that
are on the roadways. But our theme this year is
Here's our theme is keep the road safe so everyone
can give thanks, and.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Keep the road safe so everyone can give thanks. This
is good at the.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
End of the day. That's our message. We want everyone
to be able to get to their holiday destination and
back home safely so they can enjoy their family and
their loved ones.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
When you pull somebody over and during that time, pero,
you're not trying to ruin their holiday. You're trying to
make sure they get there and back safely.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's exactly right. And we're going to be out and
we say this, and we're going to be out in forced.
And it's two reasons.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
One all right, what are the two reasons that are
out in force?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
One because we want people to be safe, but we're
also out there to if a crash does occur, we're
already there. We're going to try to get that roadway
cleaned up. One so people can go on about their buility.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
And he said there was two things, and it sounds
like it's a bunch of things business.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
But we're also there to try to prevent additional crashes
because we all know in the interstates, especially in our
interstates Interstate sixty five, Interstate eighty five. When they get
backed up, we see subsequent and additional crashes.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
With more people being on the roads, do you see
a lot more crashes? That's holiday?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Absolutely, and that's why you know the other part, the
other pillar to the campaign.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
There there's another pillar to this this year as.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
We're talking about continue success. So as of yesterday, for
a leiah investigated crashes, we're thirty one fatalities down, so
that's and we were down last year. So we really
want to continue that success. And we see that during
these extended holiday travel periods, those are lives saved. That's
somebody else that's going to be able to go spend

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Thanksgiving with their family. Thirty one more individuals from this
time last year. So that's why we're going to be
out doing what we've been doing to try to keep
people safe.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
There are a lot of families that will have an
empty chair at Thanksgiving because they've lost a loved one
in a crash, and you don't want that to happen.
What are some of the behaviors that you see on
the roadways that are dangerous?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
So here are your dangerous roadway behaviors from Captain Burkett.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
During this time of year and we just can't talk
about this enough. It's to distract the driving, and we've
really pushed hands free. We still see issues with cell
phones because that's just such a part of our everybody's life,
you know, interacting with these devices. But one of the
other things we just want to put it in front
of everybody's mind is all the people in the vehicle.

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When you do a great job, you always do how
you've got the designated navigator of the person that's going
to give out snacks. I mean, I think that's great
advice that you always share. But just put in your
mind that now you've got maybe six seven if you've
got a large vehicle, could be eight people. That's different
in your normal commute. Oftentimes some people drive by themselves

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to and from work. So just having those additional distractions
in that vehicle and having a plan.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
For it, you know what, No, what was he saying
that the people are distraction in the car? We went
from cell phones to being a distraction. Now extra people
in the car can be distractions. I guess that's true.
The most distract that I've ever been driving a car
was driving a two year old and the two year

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old was in a car seat behind me, throwing objects
at me as I drove. That was very distracting, more
distracting than a cell phone.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
You have several kids. I have several kids. We know
that they can be a distraction too. They start yanging
in that backseat as well, and that can be a distraction.
It's important to talk to your children about, Hey, we
need to reduce anything that can distract mom or dad
while they're driving.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, that's exactly right. And then and then anticipate the
distractions that will occur. You know, know that you're going
to have things that come up. People are going to
have to go to the bathroom. Hey, you may have
some issues with navigating, especially if it's a destination you've
ever been before.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Or look, listener, I I if you don't mind me
listening to this. I just love his accent. I love
his accent, just hearing him talk about any dad gum thing.
He could read it. We could go get a phone
book from the museum and have him just read the
phone book, which, by the way, you know somebody under

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the age of twenty five try to explain the concept
of a phone book to him, the idea that once
upon a time there was a book published that had
everybody's name and address and phone number in it, and
it was public. Nowadays, if they printed something like that,
people would sue them, wouldn't they? All Right? Anyway, again,

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I apologize for playing so much of that. I just
love it hearing his accent, even though the information he's
given out is really only benefits really stupid people. All right,
coming up, there's more coming up, but let's take the break.
It's time for a break. Take the dad Gum break,

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it says the Uncle Henry Show. We have news headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Before we get to the
news headlines, a few more news items, I want to
go over here. A few weeks ago, we had the
story here about how Alabama Public Television some of the
people on the board were considering severing Alabama Public Television's

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connection with PBS, and I remember playing the story for
you and not quite I personally didn't understand it very
much because it didn't sound like an enormous amount of
money was involved, and it seemed to be unnecessary to

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cut their ties with PBS. These kind of shows are
very popular, and I just feel like Alabama Public Television
could definitely raise the money, and I think they need
I don't know if it was a million or a
couple of million. I just feel like they could raise
that money because those shows are so popular. So I
didn't understand why they were talking about ending their relationship

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with PBS, claiming they could not afford to have PBS
on Alabama Public television. Well I've got an update on
that story. Turns out that they are going to continue
with PBS. Let's listen together. This again is from WSFA,
stepsister station to Fox ten, reporting on what has happened

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with Alabama Public Television.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Watch Sesame Street, Antiques, road Show, Great Performances, and more
on Alabama Public Television, at least for now. The Alabama
Educational Television Commission voted today to continue with its current
contract with PBS. Alabama political correspondent Jessica Umbro was at
the meeting and has more the decision.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
The meeting of the Alabama Educational Television Commission started, it
was said that all options were on the table. They
ultimately voted to keep ties between Alabama Public Television and PBS,
and that decision was met with applause and cheers. Education
is not in doctrination.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
All right, so they've got another's there's people being interviewed
as you're hearing, standing outside, and I think this person
is dressed as the Cookie Monster. It's an adult woman
dressed as the Cookie Monster, and there's another adult woman

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standing next to her, also dressed as the same character,
the Cookie Monster. Now is this is this a good
way to persuade people? Apparently it is. Apparently it is
because they voted in favor of keeping their ties with PBS,

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So I guess they'll can consider this time well spent.
Dressing up like the Cookie Monster is time well spent.
It's persuasive. You can persuade people if you're dressed up
like the Cookie Monster. All right, let's listen. What does
someone have to say? Who is dressed up like the
Cookie Monster?

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Public television and PBS And that decision was met with
applause and cheers. Education is not in doctrination and it
never will be. Julie Reese, stressed up as Cookie Monster,
was just one of the people protesting the possibility of
PBS and Alabama Public Television splitting up. She says educational
programs like Sesame Street should be a permanent fixture on

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Alabama TVs.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
We're here today because we decided to take a stand again.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now, Unfortunately, because this is radio, we still don't have
the technology to show you pictures or video. We're working
on it, but we don't have it yet. I just
want you to know the people that there's video of
these protesters, demonstrators who are demonstrating in favor of the
tax dollar going to PBS. They're all elderly Caucasioids. Just

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in case you are wondering. Not that it matters, but
I don't see a lot of I don't see a
lot of diversity in this ground. I don't see a
lot of young, vital people, in no offense to the
elderly that are there. Maybe they're very robust in their
elderly years, but this is all a bunch of elderly Caucasioids.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's what we see as a violent misuse of overreach
for our children.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
It's a belief shared by fellow protester Martha McMahon.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
I raise my daughters watching Sesame Street and they learn
so much from that, and I think it's.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Just very important that the schools have access to it.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
In the meeting the.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Commission, if the schools have access to it, Okay.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Should we three options. Cut Alabama Public Televisions ties with
PBS entirely, remove some programming such as PBS News Hour,
or keep the program I mean the scene. The Commission
passed a motion to keep funding their current PBS contract,
which does go through June of twenty twenty six. The
decision was met with cheers, and Alabama Public Television Executive

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Director Wayne Reid says, Alabama Public Television needs to be
for the public.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
You need to listen to the people and see what
they want, whether they want to fund this or not.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Governor k Ivy said in that letter on Monday to
the Commission that Alabama Public Television should carry on the
values of Alabama. But she said before Tyzer severed there
should be extensive input and research in Birmingham. Jessica Umbro
for WSFA twelve News.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Now, this all came about partially because of cuts made
to PBS's budget by Congress. The Commission says, in order
to keep PBS, they will now have to launch additional
fundraising campaigns to close a one point four million dollar.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Defait okay, one point four million dollar deficits. So they
just had elderly people dressed as the Cookie Monster show
up instead of sitting you know, the same ladies will
probably sit at home and make like little sculptures of
Joe Biden's head out of liverwurst and stuff like that.

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So one point four million they'll be able to raise that,
I mean, you'll be able to get all these weirdo's
dressed up like the Cookie Monster. They'll they'll open their
wallet for this, so no big deal. All right, out
of time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show.
Thank you so much for listening to it. I appreciate it.

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As they say in Saarland, have a good one. As
they say in Theodore, take it easy, all right later