School Bus Fight Club

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I did not realize we were having all kind of
amazing rain going on. I slept blissfully, blissfully slipped through it.

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But then I noticed throughout the day I've gotten lots
of text messages from Alabama Power. Not about my bill,
thanked the lord, but just about how the power's been
off and on off and on, off and on all day.
So I hope, I hope wherever you are, if you
had any extreme rain or anything like that, I hope
everything is okay. I hope there wasn't a lot of

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flooding in your area or limbs down or anything like that. Now,
what can we get into? There's plenty to get into
here on the Uncle Henry Show, numerous topics to get into. Hey,
before I get into a topic real quick, let me
just go to the voicemail. I got a general just
a nice hello kind of a voicemail as somebody was

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waiting for the show to start.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
So Tata out here on the front porch on this Wednesday,
eagerly anticipating the beginning of the Uncle Henry Show in
a couple of hours.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
Yes, and also.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Anticipating so Rita getting off the school buck here in
about the next thirty minutes or so, they started back
to school, Mondy, and I sure had missed that rascal
gay as I have to point out to when she, yesked,
do I have to go to school? Yes, you have
to go to school, So getting used to it. By

(04:02):
the way, suns come out, actually quit raining for a while.
Seventeen more days, uncle roll tid rope.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
Road title, seventeen more days. Fantastic. Now, if I were
independently wealthy to an extreme, I might ask a doctor
to just go ahead and just knock me out for
seventeen days. Yeah what I mean?

Speaker 8 (04:25):
You what?

Speaker 7 (04:27):
Why not just go ahead, just knock me out for
seventy days? Revived me? When the college football season begins,
you can just go ahead and knock me out eventually
once they once they perfect freezing people and then thawing
them out, that would be a wonderful option for the
last decades of my life. If I have any left,
just to every every year right around may just just

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get frozen and get thought out right at the end
of the August, and that might maybe that could add
years to my life and I could live a continuous
football season. Just about just some future applications for technology
that's not there yet now in sixty eight year old
Chris there of Wes likesly phoning in about how he

(05:11):
was waiting for his daughter to get off the school bus,
and it reminded me of school buses. You know, I've
been thinking a lot this week because it's back to
school time. I've been thinking back on my memories of
school about how life was so very different all those many, many, many,
many many many decades ago. But how when I started

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school we didn't have any really didn't have any supplies
or any kind of technology in the school itself. There
was no air conditioning, nothing like that. We didn't even
have blackboards where I went to school in the first
first few years of school. No chalk was too much.

(05:56):
We couldn't afford it. At the school I went to,
no chalk or boards. We had to do all of
our ciphering outside of the dirt. When the teacher wanted
to teach math, we'd go out out by the school
and there would be a patch of dirt and we
would use sticks and we'd cipher in the dirt. That's true,
We just but we learned. You learned how to do

(06:17):
the basics of math. You know, one plus one equals
whatever it is. And of course the most important thing
you can learn in math, in my personal opinion, is
how to balance a check book and or understand how
interest on a loan works. These are the top things
to learn if you want to navigate in modern society, especially,

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but school buses. As you mentioned, your daughter getting off
the school bus, waiting on the school bus, getting off
the school bus. Now, eventually we had school buses by
the time I got into high school. The excitement of
riding the school bus, and what I'm going to tell
you is not exaggerated. I will not exaggerate, but I

(07:03):
do remember. I remember the chaos of the school bus
when I was a high schooler riding that school bus.
There was a fight every day on the bus on it. Yeah,
they didn't stop. Now, back in the day, they didn't

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stop the bus because the school the bus driver had
somewhere to be, you know, after they after the bus
driver dropped off all the kids, they had somewhere to
be so that back when I was in high school,
there was no stopping the bus. If there was a fight,
there was a fight. And there was a fight every
dad gone afternoon on that bus. There was a couple

(07:44):
of guys. One of the guys was a preacher's son,
and that was entertainment for them, him and his buddies.
That was entertainment was to get some type of fist
fight going on the bus. And they didn't have to
dislike you at all. They just wanted the I guess
they just really enjoyed UFC type fighting. And that was

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just every That was every afternoon on that bus. Now,
of course, in modern times, I'm sure they'll stop the bus.
They're gonna call lawyers, there's gonna be all kind of
who knows how many social workers are gonna parachute in.
I don't know what it's like now, But it was
every day there was a fight on that bus. And
I remember vividly one of the lady bus drivers back

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in the day. I remember her. I vividly remember her
looking back over her shoulder as she yelled to the
kids in the back of the bus fighting. She yelled,
just don't get any blood on the seats. Just don't

(08:52):
get any blood on the seats. That was the order
from the bus driver back in the day. Uncle Henry's

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That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now I have
noticed on social media lately, especially on the x app,
and I think on TikTok, there's a lot more talking

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about h EBT and snap benefit and how states now
have the opportunity to eliminate things like candy and sugary
soda from EBT SNAP benefits. And this is controversial, as

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you might imagine. I think at least one state has
already done it. I haven't kept up with a lot myself,
but there is a state legislator in Alabama that's already
planning in the next session. I guess that'll be early
next year. Already planning to bring this up in case
k Ivy doesn't decide to do it herself. There is

(10:39):
a stud legislator that is going to push this in
the legislature. I've got the story for you. This is
a brief story. I think I got this from WWAFF
up in Huntsville. Here is the story about the state
legislator looking to eliminate candy and sugary soda from the EBT.

Speaker 9 (11:03):
The Trump administration has made some big changes to SNAP
as of late now, Alabama lawmakers are looking to take
that one step further. The Trump administration is offering waivers
to states that would allow them to exclude soda and
candy from the list of SNAP eligible items, something State
Senator Arthur Orr says Alabama needs to get on board with.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
I do have a bill that would.

Speaker 10 (11:29):
Require Alabama to seek a waiver to exclude these items
from our state SNAP program.

Speaker 9 (11:37):
Or says, The rationale behind it is simple.

Speaker 10 (11:40):
Are these really healthy items for individuals to be consuming
at the expense of the taxpayer.

Speaker 9 (11:47):
He already has several other state lawmakers backing him on
the legislation, but the potential change has not come without
some backlash, and.

Speaker 10 (11:55):
Some people say Oh, you're punishing the poor. Don't see
it as a punishment. You have to stay focused on
who's paying for it, and the taxpayers are paying for it,
and therefore, is it truly a necessity as far as
a food group.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Or's other reasoning is the state's health.

Speaker 7 (12:12):
Is it a necessity? Is a food group that is ze?
Can a lot of Alabamians even comprehend this wealth Alabama.

Speaker 9 (12:23):
Is among the top five states with the highest obesity rate,
sitting at thirty nine point four percent according to the
US News and World Reports survey.

Speaker 10 (12:32):
If we're facilitating obesity with soft drinks and candy through
the snout program, we're actually driving up our cost with
the medicaid program dealing with diabetes or high blood pressure.

Speaker 11 (12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (12:47):
Now, Or says, this entire legislative process could be entirely
skipped over if Governor k Ivey decides to request that
waiver herself from the Trump administration, something he says is
a real possibility.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
All right, So the conversation is there, and I'm wondering
if I have no clue as to how this will
be received in the legislature. Is this something that a
lot of people feel strongly about now know. Years ago
on this show, I used to get lots of calls
where people were irritated at what they saw being purchased

(13:23):
by EBT. It became a frequent topic on the program,
and I never brought it up myself because it's something
that I did not notice, and I don't know why.
I guess I was not. I guess I need to
be more aware of my surroundings when I go shopping

(13:43):
for groceries. See I'm the type of person that goes
into a grocery store and I almost get hypnotized by
the delicious food, and I'm focusing on food. I rarely
am focusing on the people around me in the grocery store,
and that's probably a mistake. I probably need to be
more aware of my surroundings in case they're stalkers or

(14:06):
you never know who might come up behind you and
knock you in the head or something like that. But
I've just I've not paid a lot of attention. But
a lot of the callers to this show have paid
attention through the years and have complained bitterly about what
they see people buying, claiming that they themselves can't afford
some of the things they're seeing people buy on these cards.
But what do you think this will be something that

(14:29):
Alabama does. The lawmaker makes a great point that we're
spending a lot of tax dollars on medical costs for
people developing diabetes and everything associated with obesity and o obesity.

(14:50):
Does it make any sense at all to allow the
tax dollar also to go for people to purchase candy?
Is it required? Is candy required for happiness?

Speaker 12 (15:10):
Now?

Speaker 7 (15:11):
I know maybe a lot of four year olds would
probably if four year olds called talk shows, that'd probably
be a number one topic, wouldn't it? The importance of
candy for adults though? Is it? Is it required? Is it?
Does it? If you were told that you we want
to help you out, we know you're going through rough times.

(15:34):
We don't want to see you starve. We're going to
help you buy some food, but uh, sorry, no candy?
Is that somehow harmful to the psychology of the person
being helped? Does it? Does it make them feel? What? What?
What is it doing to them? Is it? Is it
causing some type of psychological trauma? If you can't get

(15:56):
Reese's peanut buttercups at age whatever age you are, forty
five years old. I don't know. I mean, and when
I think about this, I think, well, of this sounds
common sense. It sounds common sense to me that you
would not provide free candy in free sugar ed drinks

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to people who are coming to you for assistance. They
are they're telling the state that they cannot afford, we
can't afford to eat. Help us. Well, is it really help?
Are we really helping when we're saying, yeah, we're gonna
help you. And if and if all you want to

(16:43):
eat are peanut butter cups, have at it? Just it
doesn't it seems like common sense that you would. In fact,
there are a lot, probably a lot of folks that
would restrict it to even more than than stopping candy
and soda from being purchased. But I have no I

(17:05):
really have no clue as to how this is going
to go in the Alabama legislature. You know, as the
story pointed out, the governor could take that action if
she wanted to. There must be a reason why why
wouldn't she? Unless I didn't forget when I started talking

(17:28):
a bit about this, I forgot about the sugary drink lobby.
Are politicians of Montgomery hoping to get donations for their
campaigns from sugary drink companies. I don't know this, says

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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's see, I've got some
voicemails and other things to get into. But first, a
living caller, Hello caller.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Hello Uncle Henry. I hope you and your listeners having
a wonderful home day today. It's out Bama busholl calling in.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
Well, thank you, Bamba bush Hog. What is on your mind?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Well, you was talking about the food stamping, the you know,
the snap program. And I'm gonna tell you some Uncle Henry.
My wife was working is working at a Walmart here
in Mobile. I'most tell you where because I don't want
nobody looking her up. Okay, sit can tell you about

(19:58):
a bunch of people through her line with all kind
of snack foods and sodas and candy and chips, stuff
that's not nutritional for anyone. And it's a wonder if
they are rating us as one of the highest fat
people population in the country. I don't know, but the

(20:20):
thing that gives me if they do cut this out,
Uncle Henry, I think the trick or treats this fall
during Halloween are gonna have a hard time trying to
find some candy from somewhere in a lot of the
neighborhoods I'm not gonna say wis, but it's gonna be.

(20:41):
It's gonna be slim pickings eye. I'm afraid.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
All right, Hey, real quick, Uh, you're you've just you've
just disclosed your wife working at Walmart. Congratulations? By the way,
Now is she judgmental? Would she's seeing all this? Is
she judgmental at all?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Well?

Speaker 13 (20:58):
You know a little bit, because you know, we try
to eat right and seeing people displurging money on stuff
it's not Nutrice's, you know, it kind of gets on
your nerves a little bit.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
Okay, all right, Well, God bless you give my best
to the wife at Walmart. I will do, Thank you
very much, Bamba Bush. How see, I never I'm surprised
that the wife at Walmart registers this and is paying
attention to this. I would think that if you're checking

(21:30):
people out in that environment, do you remember those things?
It would all be a blur to me if I were,
If I were in that situation, I think it would
all be a blur to me. Now, let's see, I've
got a voicemail. I think I've got a voicemail on
this topic.

Speaker 11 (21:50):
Hey, it's Pat and Nelly. I hope you're having a
great afternoon.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Hey, listen this.

Speaker 11 (21:58):
Ronda and I were up in the wall Mark Sunday
after lunch, and that place was packed six deep. It's
always a mistake to go to Walmart when everybody wakes up,
because then people don't seem to wake up, or they
never get out of their bed clothes when they go
to that Walmart. I don't understand that.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Well, well, it's about comfort.

Speaker 11 (22:21):
We've had their pajamason in their house slippers, you know.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
By the way. That reminds me of a lot of DJs.
I've worked for years, years and years in radio since
the early nineteen eighties. There are a lot of radio
people that they look like they look like they just
got out of bed and did not even change clothes
when they come to work.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
But anyway, every probably six deep, and the lines weren't moving.
But I noticed these people had their buggies filled over,
flowing to the top, and as they had to wait
longer and longer to see if their EBT card would

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go through, the kids would run go grab stuff from
throughout the store and stack it on top of that buggy.
I'm surprised the.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Wheels even held all them groceries.

Speaker 11 (23:19):
I was looking at them people, and unc I had
jealousy in my heart. I can remember when my babies
was young, I'd go into the store with a fifty
dollars bill and I'd have to figure out how to
make a couple of meals to get through the end

(23:39):
of the week. And hear these people don't look like
they worked a day in their lives, and they're stacking
these buggies full. Well, there was a real polite, quiet
lady that was right in front of us.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
She didn't have much.

Speaker 11 (23:57):
You could tell she was trying to make a couple
of meals to get through the end of the week,
just like I was when I was younger with my kids.
I mean, she had ramen noodles in their unh but
she also had some good breakfast cereals, so you knew
she was trying to help her some kids get back
to school and get them fed after school. Well, Uncle,

(24:18):
I ended up paying for her groceries. It wasn't much.
I just paid for them because it reminded me of
what I was like when I was a young parent
trying to make ends meet, and it just infuriated me
to see them people packed them buggies up and try
to pay with EBT. Actually, later on I found out

(24:41):
the EBT system went down, and I was kind of happy,
is that wrong with me?

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Unc?

Speaker 11 (24:48):
And also I was up at the region's bank today
get a little change out of the ATM and some
bumb comes up to me and says, excuse me, sir, you.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Got a dollar?

Speaker 11 (24:59):
And I said, know to you? Is that wrong with me?
I don't know. I just asked need Jesus to forgive
me of being so judgmental of.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
And then the voicemail cut him off. Well, Patt Nelly,
thank you for sharing with us. Now you were you're
asking me about if you're wrong in all these situations.
But you did your turning to Jesus, which is a
good It's a good sign that you're turning to Jesus
and asking for forgiveness. And as long as you're turning
to him, you're going to figure it out. You'll figure

(25:34):
this out without calling the show by turning to Jesus
and all this. Now, was it wrong to tell the
man that approached you at the ATM no, when he
asked you for a buck. I wouldn't. I wouldn't say
that is wrong because we've had homeless advocates on the

(25:54):
program in the last couple of months that have told
us that money you want to help the homeless, but
money's not usually a help, especially if a person is
dealing with an addiction issue or some form of a
mental health issue. So money isn't the help they need help,

(26:18):
no doubt. Money isn't going to be the thing that helps.
So no wrong there. Now. I don't know about your heart.
That's between you and Jesus. And as far as the
thing about the EBT being down, was it wrong to
be happy about that? Look, I'll leave that between you

(26:38):
and the Lord. Not everybody on that is abusing it,
that is all I would say. Not everybody on that
is abusing it. But you talked about how you were
you helped a lady out out out of your own
You had sympathy for a woman in line with you,
and you helped her out there with their groceries. That

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is you voluntarily helping, which is wonderful. You see a
lot of that on the Gulf Coast and in our country.
But the whole EBT thing, that is often people you're
not giving a big say in that. It's a little
bit different. In many cases you're helping people involuntarily based

(27:30):
on what you said in that message. But Pat, you're
on the right track if you are going to the
lowered about what you're feeling and doing on this topic.
Back with more Uncle Henry's Show. After the break, it says,

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That's two five one four seventy nine, two seventy two three.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now last hour, when I
started the show, I mentioned h I shared some memories
of my time in high school, and I was talking
about how when I was in high school, back in

(28:43):
the the ancient times, that there was a fight on
the school bus every day. This was now, this was
almost always in the afternoon. Rare Now, there were rare
morning on the way to school fights, but most it
was the afternoon. Was when you'd have a fight every
day on the school bus. The school bus that I

(29:04):
rode and uh, I talked about how though. I'll never
forget the bus driver turning back and yelling out over
her shoulder, don't get blood on the seats. Whatever you do,
don't get blood on the seats. Now, she wasn't going
to stop the fight. She had places to go, she
needed to drop the kids off. She just screamed, whatever

(29:27):
you do, don't get blood on the seats. I guess
she was gonna have to clean it up.

Speaker 11 (29:30):
Now.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
I've already I've already received a message from somebody listening
about that about school buses.

Speaker 14 (29:38):
I hey, good afternoon, Henry, this or tea. I was
listening to your story about the school buses and everything. Yes,
and I got to thinking, the most dangerous situations parents

(29:59):
sitting there children into is the public school system, because
you don't know what's gonna happen to them and what's
gonna be encountered by them. And you know, it's amazing,
you know, some about fifty to fifty some make it

(30:22):
through it okay.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
And others really don't. It's it's tough. Anyway, I have
a good day of Henry road time.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
Roi ro Artie, thank you very much for your phone call. Well,
I mean it's it is well, you're either gonna send
your kids out into life or not. And what what
what would the alternative be? You could, of course homeschool
if you have the ability to do that, the the

(30:54):
means and the ability to do it. But eventually the
child will have to encounter the real world. And uh,
the real world can knock people around pretty viciously. So
whether it's at a school or not, at a school,
still going to happen. Might as well be at a school,
I suppose, because you do have a chance for an

(31:18):
adult to intervene. And accepting the cases where the adult
can be the problem, but most of most cases the
adult is going to intervene. And uh, but yeah, life
itself is dangerous, Rtie. Hello coler.

Speaker 15 (31:36):
Hey there, I got to tell you. And I don't
know if the data backs this up or not. It's
probably been enough time to kind of bring some statistics together.
But maybe even some of the positive stuff you're bringing
from moving from morning to afternoons might be affecting some
of that fight and going on, the kids listening and stuff.
What do you mean, Well, I mean I gotta imagine you.

(32:00):
You look at these school buses and I know sometimes
I play music but if enough of them are playing
your show and some of that positive messaging out there,
I gotta be optimistic.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
You don't think, well, I love that you're positive. But
now I don't know that any school buses are still
on the road while I'm doing the show. But if
they were, don't you think that would cause a riot?
Wouldn't the children be angry if they were forced to
listen to an elderly person?

Speaker 15 (32:25):
I gotta imagine some of them. But I like we
always say, you know, show a child how to fish
and he'll fish or something.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
It is what it is, Okay, all right, Well that's
a wonderful positive way of looking at it, sir. Maybe
I can talk to the school system about recording messages
of peace and love that they can play in responsibility,
that they can play on the school buses.

Speaker 15 (32:49):
It's going to be on my radio.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
My kids have to listen, all right, well, sir, thank
you very much. I appreciate that. All right, And there
he goes, and he knew the caller. I love being
hung up on. Thank you for hanging up on me.
I appreciate that very very much. Hello, color, Hello, come on, hello?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Will go ahn of you there?

Speaker 7 (33:12):
Yes, Johnny Gwinn. I've only got about forty five seconds.

Speaker 11 (33:17):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Michael Malice, great writer, said, the only place that children
and government institutions will ever see violence is prisons and
public schools.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
That's the only place children will see violence.

Speaker 11 (33:31):
Guaranteed to see guarantee.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
Guaranteed to see violences in prisons.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
And public not right, you'll be you will be exposed
to violence guaranteed in those two government institutions.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
Johnny Gwinn, that is an excellent quote from Michael Malice. Yes,
thank you, Johnny Gwinn. Johnny Gwinn dot Com defried studios
dot com out of time for the segment. Thank you,
Johnny Gwinn. The first time I Michael Malice quote has
been dropped on the program. There's more to come, whether

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whether we should or not, there's more show, it says

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the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seven ten WN. Tim,
thank you, I appreciate you listening to The Uncle Henry Show.
Now this half hour of show, we'll get to this
and we'll get to that. I'm going to start with
some news items that I have not had a chance
to talk about yet on The Uncle Henry Show. Now

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we found out yesterday, although a lot of people knew
well in advance, but it was official yesterday that Alabama
Congressman Barry Moore Representative Barrymore has decided to run for
the Senate, wanting to replace Tommy Tubberville coach Tubberville as
a senator representing Alabama. Now, of course, senator, in my

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personal opinion, senator has to be the best job in
American politics. It's got to be the best job in
American politics. And the reason I say that is because
it's a six year term. Six years. You can get
up there and start screwing up in the first few months,
and there you are. You got to You got all

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those years to go up there to the trough, the
slop trough, and just waller around in it. Up there
in the swamp. It's a cushy job and you don't
necessarily have to accomplish anything because, especially if you're a
Republican and you're in the minority, you can just make
speeches and come home and tell everybody that you try.

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I tried so hard to get some nun up there,
but those rascals and the Democrat Party they just wouldn't
let me. There was just too many of them rascals
up there in the Democrat Party. They just would not
They just wouldn't let me do nothing. Oh, what's a
cushy job being a senator? Now, let's listen. I've got
a story here on Barrymore running for the US Senate.

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This was done by WSFA up in Montgomery, the Stepsister
station to Fox ten. Let's listen and learn together about
Barrymore running for the Senate.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
He's wore.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
Alabama's open US Senate seat has gotten more crowded. The
seat is being left open by Republican Senator Tommy Tarberville,
who is now running to be Alabama's governor.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Well before we hear more about this. So the cushiest
job in politics, in my personal opinion, would be a
senator in the United States Senate. But Tommy Tuberville giving
it up to be governor of Alabama? Does being governor?
Is being governor of Alabama? Cushi? Or do you think

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you know? Maybe it is because k Ivy Alabamians have
not really demanded much from her. In fact, a lot
of Alabamians don't care if they ever see her or
hear from her. I need to rethink that I've got
to rethink this. Maybe I've got it backwards. Maybe the
cushiest job is Alabama governor. And you do get a

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lot of perks when you're governor of Alabama. A number
one perk is you really don't have to do much
of nothing. We've seen that with k Ivy. Another perk
is you've got a plane. You can fly around. On
that plane, you can pretty much go wherever you want
to in your governor plane that the taxpayer pays for.
To think about this, I may have to reevaluate the

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cushiest jobs in politics. All right. Back to the news
story from WFSA or SFA or whatever it is bound
Barry Moore running for the Senate.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Republican US Representative Barry Moore has announced his intentions to
fill the seat. Joining his live is Gray. Media political
correspondent Jessica on Bro Jessica, why does Representative Moore say
he's running for the Senate Representative?

Speaker 12 (38:19):
Moore says he's running for this seat to be a
reliable voice of support in an ally to President Donald
Trump on a bigger platform right now. Moore represents Alabama's
first district. The Coffee County native is a veteran small
business owner and served as the Alabama House a Representative
member for eight years. He served as a chairman of
the Military and Veteran Affairs Committee and the vice chair

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of the Small Business and Commerce Committee. But Representative Moore
says what sets him apart for many in the Republican
Party is his early and unwavering support of President Trump
and the Make America Great Again movement, which he says
would make him a consistent ally for President Trump in
the Senate.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
This night, I'm pausing there, says we're going to hear
barrymore talk about how he likes Donald Trump more than
anybody else. Now he's running. One of the guys he's
running against is the Attorney General of Alabama, Steve Marshall,
who may not have been as early as supporter, but
you may remember that Steve Marshall went up to New York.

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I don't know for whatever reason I know, but Steve
Marshall went up to New York to show support for
Donald Trump when Donald Trump was on trial, back before
he won re election. So Barry Moore can say he
was an early supporter, but Steve Marshall can say that, Hey,
I was there when you were on trial, so there

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will be a contest of who loves Trump the most.
I wonder what Donald It's really be interesting to see
who Donald Trump throws his support behind.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
The system itself very often puts pressure on elected officials
and people, especially in the legislata branch, as a lobbyists
get their hands on. So we want to make sure
that people can resist the pressure from the system and
continue to serve the people. And so I think my
record's pretty clear of done that along the way.

Speaker 12 (40:01):
The Republican race already also has Attorney General Steve Marshall,
former Navy seal Jared Hudson, and business owner Rodney Walker.
And for the Democratic primary, business owner Kylle Sweetzer, US
Army veteran Dakary Lariot, a chemist Mark Wheeler.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
All right, thanks Jessica. The final day for primary candidate
Violin since January twenty third in Alabama's primary election day
is May nineteenth.

Speaker 7 (40:23):
Okay, so there's I guess that means there's still time
for additional people to try and get that cushy job.
What if there's any other politician that is somehow closer
to Donald Trump? Maybe, do you think there's a politician
that was that can prove that they were a huge
fan of the Celebrity Apprentice TV show or the Apprentice

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TV show. Maybe if they had something like Celebrity Apprentice
T shirts or something that they could show that they
were wearing in some old photographs. So I'm trying to
think of a way how could you prove you were
there before Barrymore or Steve Marshall as a Donald Trump supporter,
just because I know it'll be important. Now, let's see

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before I leave the topic, Let's see, I looked on
the Internet and asked the Internet to tell me what
are the top donors to Bury More? Just to learn
about Barrymore. And I see who have been the top
donors during his time in the Congress of the United States.
And let's see, according to this list that may or

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may not be accurate on the Internet, the top donors
to Burry Moore would be House Freedom Fund than kai
Kinkey Incorporated, which and I don't know if I'm pronouncing
that right, but that's a family owned lumber business in
the state of Alabama. Regent's financial has given him a
lot of money. The Alabama Peanut Producers Association, Drummond Company,

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Alabama Farmers Federation. Alabama Power did already say Alabama Power.
Alabama Power is given a bunch of money, National Association
of Realtors, National Cotton Council, the US Peanut pack America's
credit Unions, American Crystal Sugar. You know, I may need

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to just as a side curiosity, I haven't thought much
about lobbying from the sugar industry. You know, sugar Americans
love it. Americans love it. But there's there's always a
lot of people that are pointing their finger at sugar
as being really bad. I wonder, I guess there needs

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to be lobbying on behalf of sugar and other sweet things.
All right, anyway, Barry Moore jumping in, who knows who
might jump in as well on that race for Alabama
and its new senator. All right, coming up, there's more
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News headlines are coming up in ten minutes here on
news radio seventy ten WNTM. Let's see, I've got a
news story about Baldwyn County. Fox ten reporting on a
new I don't know if this is an app, but

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there is something to help you in Baldwin County from
the Baldwin County government in the government. Wonderful awstrae to
help the Government's always trying to help at every level,
aren't they. In Baldwin County. The county government is coming
out with something called Baldy to help you if you

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live in Baldwin County. What could this be? What could
Baldy be? Let's find out together. There was an employee
of the Baldwin County Commission on Fox ten this morning,
interviewed by Joe Emer, the very talented Joe Emer. Let's
listen together and find out what is Baldy and how

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can Baldy help. Baldwin County ins.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
The launch of Baldy.

Speaker 16 (44:42):
It's designed to make it easier for people to access
county services. Here to talk to us more about this
innovative platform is Shannon Spivey, the customer relationship manager with
the Baldwin County Commission.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Shannon, good morning, Thank you so.

Speaker 17 (44:56):
Much for being here, Thank you for having me all right.

Speaker 16 (44:58):
So, Baldy is spelled be A L d I in
case you're trying to envision it in your head.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Yes, what is it?

Speaker 17 (45:06):
It's this cute little eagle we have on the website
that you can talk to.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
Now, see here we are. It's twenty twenty five and
people are so infantile now. Instead of just going online
and asking a question, you've got to talk to a
cartoon eagle. That's where Yeah, this is where we are.
This is where we are as a people. We can't

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just go online and search for information. You need to
go to a website and have a cartoon eagle talking
to you. And I don't know why they picked an
eagle for Balwen. Is there a lot of eagles in
Baldwin County? I guess there must be. All right, let's
go back to the interview about the cartoon eagle Baldy
that will solve all your problems in Baldwin County.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
What is it?

Speaker 17 (45:54):
It's this cute little eagle we have on the website
that you can talk to. It's a native language generative AI.
Think of it as your personal assistant to help you
navigate Bawling County government.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (46:08):
We're always talking about the ways that AI are coming
into society, and this is just another example of that.
I think we do have the website pulled up, so
we're going to try to take this now so people
can see what we're talking about.

Speaker 7 (46:19):
So, Shannon, we're apologized for the lack of video on radio.
We're still working on it.

Speaker 16 (46:24):
Looking at the website here and what are we seeing
on the screen.

Speaker 17 (46:28):
So on the bottom right of your screen you'll see
a little icon that says let's chat. It fluctuates between
different languages as well, so you can speak to it
in any of seventy different languages. So that's also going
to be helpful because a lot of times you may

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have somebody that's visiting the area or that lives here
and doesn't speak English, and it may be something that's
Italian or Finish you know.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
Yeah, we got a lot of people from Finland. You
find them all over Orange Beach, just.

Speaker 17 (47:05):
The Spanish speaking. So this will translate. You can ask
it questions in your language and it will respond back
in your language.

Speaker 16 (47:12):
Okay, So what type of questions are we going to
be asking, Baldy.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
What will it help us with?

Speaker 17 (47:20):
Well, we're going into hurricane seasons.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
You know, one question I'd like to ask Baldy is
how much of the tax dollar did it take to
create you Baldy.

Speaker 17 (47:30):
So right now, if you went on there and asked,
I'm new to the area, what do I need to
do to prepare for a hurricane? It's going to give
you a list of information based on what is on
the county website, so you don't have to know to
navigate to the emergency management agency?

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Could he please ask or why does it have to
be a cartoon eagle that we interact with.

Speaker 17 (47:53):
Page and then hurricane prep It's going to bring all
of that information right there to the page where you're
typing it.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
You know, it's artificial intelligence. You know Kenny Stabler was
from Foley, from Balwin County. Why can't it be Kenny?
Why can't we interact with a Kenny Stabler cartoon a
question and guide.

Speaker 16 (48:12):
You through it? What about if I need a new
driver's license or tag or anything like that.

Speaker 17 (48:17):
Yes, it will also it's going to answer questions about
anything that's on Balwin County al dot gov. And so
it's going to apply to the county commissioners, our probate judge,
and revenue commissioner. So in Balwing County, if you need
to get your car tag redeude, that's going to go
through probate, and that's not the case in mobile. So

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a lot of times it's confusing for people to know
where to navigate on the page, so it can.

Speaker 7 (48:44):
Touch especially if they're from Finland, where to get your
tag and they're asking in the Finnish language, bag.

Speaker 17 (48:52):
Driver's license renewed. If you just want to tell it, Hey,
I'm a new resident, what do I need to know?
It's going to bring back a lot of information about you,
where to register to vote, if you need to enroll
your kids in school, just everything about moving to Balwey County,
our questions you have, even if you've lived here your
entire life.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
What a great resource to have.

Speaker 16 (49:14):
We're out of time, but just real quickly, how did
this come to be? And I'm sure you guys are
proud to have this. Thank you for asking for the
Baldwin County residuce.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (49:22):
So, our county commissioners have been very proactive in trying
to improve customer engagement and making it easier for the
citizens to get their questions answered twenty four to seven
without having staff on hand twenty four to seven. They've
been looking at products similar to this over the past
five or ten years. And last year we felt like

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it had really progressed to a product that we could
put on our website that would really be useful to
the citizens.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Shannon, thank you so mine.

Speaker 7 (49:52):
No, we don't know why. It's an eagle all right,
out of time. Thank you for listening. As they say
in Sharland, have a good one. As they said Theodore,
take it easy

Speaker 2 (50:01):
All right later