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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven ten, The Uncle Henry Show, weekday afternoons from five
till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We're not gonna take it.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're not gonna take it.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
We're not gonna take it anymore.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
Oh my god, yes, you ridigl We're.

Speaker 6 (00:28):
Not gonna take it. No, we're not gonna take it.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
We're not gonna take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
This is the Uncle Henry Show, The Uncle Henry Show
here on news Radio seventy ten WNT. In case you
are wondering, I am Uncle Henry, the host of the show.
That's what we call it, the Uncle Henry Show. I
should have probably told you that years ago. And yes,

(01:53):
here we are together once again, once again. It is
me and you in here trying to figure out what
is going on on, what is going on in the
world around us. It is it just seems like people
have lost their minds all over the globe, and they're
forcing the other people that haven't lost their minds to
step up and try to break them out of this

(02:13):
insanity that they're in. It's just a it's just a
constant battle of trying to get these nuts to unnut
themselves in whatever I don't want I'll think of a
better word, unnutify there needs to be a mass unnutification
of the country and of the world. But look, I'll
get to all of this as the Uncle Henry Show

(02:33):
proceeds forward here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
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until that was brought up on the show. So whatever

(02:55):
you need to bring up, feel free to do so.
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The tele phone number that's two five one four seventy
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I do enjoy getting the old fashioned electronic mail. I do.

(03:15):
It's strangely satisfying because if you don't like an email,
you can delete it, just delete it, never see it again.
It's oddly satisfying. Now, look, before I get I've got
a long list of things I can get into here
with you, but I want to start off with something
from the City of Mobile because a few of the

(03:35):
listeners to the unk Lender Show actually live within the
City of Mobile. And then there's the people that live
out that side the city limits that love to backseat
drive the City of Mobile and Monday Morning quarterback the
City of Mobile. So this is for all of you.
Let's see, let me go into the Unkle Hendry Show.

(03:55):
Email inbox. I did receive an old fashioned electronic mail
message today from the City of Mobile. It's a press release.
Subject line on the emails Mayor Simpson releases proposed budget
for fiscal year twenty twenty six. The email reads as follows.

(04:21):
The City of Mobile's proposed budget for fiscal year twenty
twenty six was delivered to the members of the Mobile
City Council this afternoon, outlining the City of Mobiles projected
revenues and expenditures for the coming fiscal year. The fiscal
year twenty six budget includes increased allocations for public safety

(04:42):
programs and initiatives, stormwater management, local infrastructure improvements, and other
vital public services. Even with revenues projected to remain level,
the city will be able to take on these new
obligations without pulling from it's operating reserves or cutting funding

(05:03):
for other city services. Here is a quote from the mayor. Quote.
This budget allows us to continue making big investments in
Mobile's future, and that wouldn't be possible without the commitment
to fiscal stewardship we prioritized with the city Council and
our department leaders over the last twelve years. Together, we've

(05:25):
placed the next mayor and city council in a strong
position to continue building on our city's momentum. All right,
so here are some of the highlights, according to whoever
it is on the mayor's staff that sent this us out.
In public safety, this budget includes a two point five

(05:48):
percent merit raise for all City of Mobile employees. Now
for public safety, proposing two point six million dollars in
funding for additional police and fire rescue positions. Very good.
As a tax paying citizen, I'm always in favor of

(06:08):
more police and fire rescue positions. Also one point six
million dollars for new police equipment. I'm always in favor
of new police equipment. When I think of equipment, I
think of things like guns. Also one point four million
dollars for expanding public safety camera network. All right, good,

(06:34):
it seems like we could use more of these things.
Let's see three hundred thousand dollars for the Gulf Coast
Technology Center and nearly one million dollars to support a
new ankle monitoring program. I wonder what that would be,
a new ankle monitoring program. You know, you could spend

(06:55):
the extra nearly a million just on weights. It might
help have an ankle monitor and a big weight on it.
If somebody is not in jail, they're supposed to stay home,
why not put like an anchor on them. You know,
they should have it. They should be able to get
to the you know, move around enough to get to
the toilet and stuff. But why not like an anchor

(07:17):
on them. I'd spend tax dollars on like jailbird anchors,
things like that, right.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Also in the budget though, for infrastructure, six million dollars
for improvements to storm water infrastructure, two hundred grand for
spay and neuter programs, an additional one and a half
million to support future economic development. And then this an

(07:47):
additional one point seven million dollars dedicated to pothole and
street resurface repairs. So now I like that one points
seven million additional for the potholes, but really when in
terms of how much it costs to work on streets

(08:08):
these days. This figure should have been it should have
it probably should have been close to five to ten million.
Just look, I'm just being honest about the potholes I
drive through the streets of the City of Mobile. They
need way more. I hope the council council has to
approve this. I hope they shovel some more cash over

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to the pothole repair and take money away from all
the constant city partying where you're always hearing about all
the cities holding a concert. And we're going to have
this going on in Montegras Park with a DJ and
bouncy houses. Cut that garbage out and fill the potholes,

(09:09):
it says the Uncle Henry Show Here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM, it is five twenty. We have news
headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before we get to
the news headlines, there's just this show. If you'd like
to call me two five one four seven nine two
seven two three. That's two five one four seven nine

(09:29):
two seven two three email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia
dot com.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
Hello, caller, Hey Henry, how you doing today?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Steve, Steve, how are I'm doing great?

Speaker 8 (09:42):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Oh I'm doing I'm doing fine. Man, I'm just just
getting aful work headed to the house. But I had,
First of all, I want to tell you I enjoyed
the YouTube video of you and Killer Bees up at
the Grand O Ipry.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh yeah, thank you. Yeah he is. What a wonderful guy,
Killer Bees is. He's very funny.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
Oh he's a hoot. Yes, But I had a question.
Every so often i'd see you paying the camera around
and you catch sight of this lady. Is that lady
your wife?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yes she is, Yes, she is, well.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Uncle Henry, you old dog, she's She's a beautiful lady.
I'm not that I'm impressed because as conservative men, we
generally tend to have good looking wives, you know, as
you know, because we generally tend to have, you know,
good jobs and more money and good blanker own and
all that stuff. But yeah, man, I thought that she

(10:45):
was a very very beautiful lady. And you guys make
a very charming couple.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, so I really appreciate that, Steve, And and I
will let her know in case she's not listening. I
think she might be listening as she's driving right now.
But in case she's not listening to all, play your
comments back to her. Thank you for that, and I am.
I'm very proud that, for whatever reason, she has decided
to be my wife. I'm very proud of that.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, I certainly married up myself and my wife a
very beautiful lady, a twenty five year veteran of both
the Army and the Air Force, and which means I
better keep my nose clean because she shoots way straighter
than me.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yes, indeed, yes, Now when are you gonna when are
you gonna be able to come in and talk knives?

Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'm thinking within the next month.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh okay, good, good.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
If that'll if that works for you, absolutely clear it
all with my with my employer and everything, and uh
they're actually excited about it because they want me to
plug the business all right.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, you know there every now and again, a fleep,
a free plug can slip in. So uh yeah, I'm
looking forward to it.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Well, I am too, and I'll we'll we'll get together
on the exact day and everything, and I'll let you
know and we'll we'll have a good time.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
All right. Well, Steve, thank you very much for your
kind words about my wife and looking forward to getting
you on the air.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
All right, take care, buddy.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
All right, there he goes. Steve has his own now,
and I'm I never know how to tell you to
find his YouTube channel. He was just talking about my YouTube.
You can find the Uncle Henry show YouTube channel and
see the video he was talking about with Killer Bees
where Killer Bees gave me a tour, me and my
wife a tour backstage at the Grand Old Opera. You

(12:39):
can watch it on YouTube. Now. Steve's channel is called
make It Stick and it's about knives. But there's so
many other channels that are also called make It Stick.
So you'll have to look around and if I find out,
if I can figure out what it's the exact name
of it is, i'll tell you before the end of
the outre But Steve, thanks again for the phone call.

(13:02):
Telephone number here two five to one four seven nine
two seven two three. That's two five one four seven
nine two seven two three email address Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. And talking about conservative men with their
beautiful wives. It is uh. It is always wonderful when

(13:26):
it happens. It's always wonderful when it happens. Now, let's
see There's some other things I wanted to bring up
here on the Uncle Henry Show. One of them. This
has nothing to do with local news. This is not
just Alabama or the Gulf Coast. But I saw a
story about astronomy that got my attention. This is from Foxnews.

(13:53):
Carmen Roberts of Fox News has a report for us
about a new discovery in the sky. Listen to this.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
NASA's web Space Telescope discovered a tiny moon orbiting Uranus,
expanding there.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Is a new there's a new tiny moon. They've discovered
a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. All right, listen, let's
listen to the rest of the story.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
NASA's web Space Telescope discovered a tiny moon orbiting Uranus,
expanding the planet's known satellite family to twenty nine. Scientists
estimate the newly discovered moon is just six miles in diameter,
so small you could walk around it in a couple
of hours.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Now, when you hear somebody say something like this, there's
like there's a there's an object way out at the
end of the Solar System and the back loot there
of the Solar System, and it's so small. They'll tell
you how big it is. Oh, this is so small
that if you got on there, you could walk the hall.
You could walk then that entire moon in six hours.

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How are we supposed to know that they're telling this
the truth? Think about that. Is there any way that
you or I could confirm this. There's no way that
we could say, well, let's go hop in the in
the Chevrolet, or should I say, let's go hop in

(15:20):
the Accura purchase from Joe Bullard Acura. Let's head, let's
get in the Acura and then drive to the moon
of Uranus and let's time it. I'm going to park
here on the moon and you go walking and listen.
There's constantly stories like this where you can't confirm anything

(15:41):
you're being told. They could be making it up. And
I often wonder do they make it up? Because they
could have just said, yeaht there's a moon there and
it's little, but then they go into detail. It's so
small you could walk in six hours and if you skipped,
you might make it in five and a half. How
would we know this? All right? Look, I'm sorry. Back

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to the story.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
A team led by Southwest Research Institute spotted the moon
in February, which was quite a feat considering its tiny size.
Even NASA's Voyager two spacecraft missed it during its fly
by nearly forty years ago. Carmen Roberts, Fox News, all right.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
So a new moon found orbiting Uranus. Now, the one
reason I wanted to bring this up is that I, I,
like most good hearted Americans, good wonderful Americans, I hate
the name Uranus. I just hate it because for obvious reasons,

(16:45):
for obvious reasons, the same stuff that people talk about
in middle school about uranus. Why can't President Trump? He
renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, which
was tremendous fun, just tremendous fun. Why can't he rename uranus?

(17:07):
He named He changed the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of America, which was good. Why
can't he rename uranus and call it something nice that
middle schoolers won't make jokes about, or wait, middle schoolers
or mentally deficient adults. Why can't he rename it to

(17:29):
something that's nice and proper. I don't even care if
he named it after members of his family. He could
name it Ivanka or.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Or any of them.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
That says the Uncle Henry Show on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. It's five thirty five. I've got callers waiting
to talk. Two five to one four seven nine two
seven two three is the telephone number. That's two five
one nine two three.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
Hello caller, Hey, how you doing, Cliff.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Cliff, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
Thank Henry, I got a better lead, So I get
with you on that.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (18:25):
But it's like, uh, Pluto was a planet, then it
wasn't a planet, and then uh, you have they find
the planet. They hadn't found nothing that they were already Theah. Yeah,
well what we have to do is say that now

(18:48):
we observed something that was already that. But it reminds
me that they're doing the same thing that the Democrat
Party are doing. You know. It is how they can
just come up with something and change their names when
it don't suit them, like this new deal now with MSNBC.
Now let's just change our name because we got a

(19:09):
lot of stupid people listening to us, So we'll change
it to ms now, so it's more bs under a
new name. They change from from blue to red. They
changed from being the worst enemy of the Democrat people
they had this guy that what you call it, Philipbuster,

(19:39):
Jim Crow and voter Rights, that dude Philibuster, that the
world record. It was like seventy two or seventy five days.
But they can just say, okay, we'll change our name
to we saving Black people and in any convenience that

(19:59):
they can, just because we got so many stupid unenlightened people.
The plan is was already there, whether you were smoking
weed when you missed it, it was already there. You
can't say you discovered a dead gun thing. Discover one
thing that the Democrat part is the word thing from

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black people.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
You have blood.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Dale can thank you very much, Cliff. You also have
a blessed day and enjoy your new knee. Two five
one or seven nine two seven two three. The telephone
number there's two five to one four seven nine two
seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That is uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now let
me see, uh, I've got I got a voicemail I

(20:45):
do want to get to before I move on to
any other topic. Got a voicemail that came in this
afternoon that I really do want to share. Let's this
is very brief.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Well god, ten more days count them? One week, three
days until the tide rolls roll tide, roll roll.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Tiede roll ten more days. All right, very very good,
very very good. Thank you very much, sixty eight year
old Chris of Westlocksley. If you ever want to leave
me a voicemail message, please do so. Two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six to leave a message

(21:30):
for the Uncle Henry Show. Hello caller, Hey, o Henry's
light catcher roll tied roll roll tied roll like catcher?
What's up?

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Hey? Just uh renaming the planet Uranus. I got to
thinking this is so far out in the middle of
nowhere and really don't make a whole lot of difference
about anything or anything else. I don't we just name
it Joe Biden?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right, Well that's not bad. That's better than the current.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
Name, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Absolutely and really wouldn't be a whole lot of difference
in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Well about the same IQ.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's right, Well you never get afternoon, Okany, all.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Right, like catcher, Thank you very much for your phone call. Yes,
if President Trump can rename the Gulf of Mexico and
turn it into the Gulf of America. Why can't he
should do a big favor for humanity and change the
name of Uranus. It's something that middle school children won't
chuckle over. It'll have more dignity to it. And I
don't care if he makes it egotistical and names it.

(22:32):
He could name it Milania. Wouldn't that be romantic? He
could do it next year on Valentine's Day, make the
announcement on Valentine's Day that he's naming he's renaming Uranus Milania.
Or he could name it after his daughter Evanka, or

(22:52):
he could name it after himself. What anything would be
an improvement? I have one or seven nine two seven
two three the telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Hello, Color, Hey Henry, Jimmy the Economist.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Jimmy the Economist, You are live on the radio.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
How about them dogs? Stick them?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Congratulations?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
What would we do?

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Well? You've made?

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You apparently are maintaining quality in your football program from
year to year. That's that's saying a lot.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
We put arch Manning on his rs last year. So
why I don't get the arch Manning thing? He looked
like a dud against Georgia last year. Why is he
gonna shoot straight all the way to the top. Everybody's
on board with Arch That's ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
It is.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
He's he's He's no better than Alabama or to Auburn,
or to Georgia quarterback. They're just people like to say
stuff about them. Your name is Manning.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
You're absolutely right. They've already figured out he's going to
be a Hall of Famer in the NFL, and he's
going to be able to sell fried chicken on television
like all the other Manning men. They've already made him
a star and he hadn't earned it yet.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
He hadn't earned anything except the trip to is Ours
against number eleven. On UGA's defense, it happened three times
in the SEC Championship. I mean whatever. I can't believe
the country has fool been fooled by this. But anyway,
I didn't call by that.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
What'd you call about?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Did you see that they're proposing federal crimes against one
of the Federal Reserve chairmen who's from Atlanta branch of
the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yes, I saw that. They're saying that the lady claimed
two places as her She did mortgage fraud, allegedly mortgage
from mortgage Truss.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Right, guess where she's from. Guess where her original primary residence,
where she claimed homestead was where Chicago, Illinois is the
same town as Barack Obama, who appointed her to that position. Okay,
don't I don't hear that in the news. I have

(25:19):
to read about it from sources well beyond what you
see on even television. But I'm glad the people who
might be listening to my voice here know about it now. Yes,
she is a rogue agent of the Barack Obama administration.
She's a Federal Reserve chairman up there in Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia,

(25:40):
right up there by the Georgia Bulldogs, and she's a
rogue agent. She needs to be eliminated asap.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, it looks stick of Henry. All right, Thank you, Jimmy,
thank you very much for your phone call and bringing
up the mortgage fraud. I've noticed there been a few
politicians and government bureaucrats accused of doing this mortgage fraud stuff.
So now, of course, waiting for consequences, we seem to

(26:14):
do a lot of we seem to do a lot
of waiting for the consequences, don't we in this country?
You find out about about these politicians doing doing bad things,
and then you wonder, will there ever be a consequence? Well,
this is another one of those cases where we'll have
to wait and see if there are any consequences to

(26:36):
the alleged mortgage fraud for that person. Uh, consequences. Probably.
I can make a prediction, and the prediction is the
consequences are going to be less than if you did it.
All right, let's see, Oh gonna be taking a break here.
Before we go to break, I want to remind you

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that you can listen to previous episodes of this show
if you want. For and I don't know why you would,
why would you? But if you wanted to, previous episodes
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More Uncle Henry show to come after the break. This

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is the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seven
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If you would like to call in, you can two

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five one four seven nine two seven two three. That's
two five one four seven nine two seven two three. Now,
I was on the Fox ten website looking for news
items that I may have missed that I might could
share with you and we could learn together from me
sharing these items that I missed and maybe you missed too.

(28:33):
And I saw a couple of local mobile Alabama crime
stories from the past several days that caught my attention
that I wanted to bring up to you. One of
the stories was woman brandishes hammer, box cutter at a

(28:56):
store clerk. This happened Tuesday afternoon at a gas station
on Moffatt Road. It's that Clark station near the interstate.
There have been other things that have happened at that
particular location. Let's see. The story says a woman is
accused of brandishing a hammer and a box cutter at

(29:17):
a gas station employee while trying to take items from
a store. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up, I
can't show you this on radio because I know it's
twenty twenty five, but we have not yet, we have
not yet been able to figure out how to do
pictures or video on radio. We're still working on it.
But the reason I'm even looking at this story is
the mug shot. This woman looks very happy. You got

(29:42):
a nice big smile on her face, and she's happy
in her mug shot. Twenty four year old woman. So
previously there was another crime story the the headline on
the story was woman breaks into apartment, pepper sprays man.

(30:07):
And that woman in her mugshot, another young woman just
smiling in her Mugshot's a big old smile. A trend
this week of women in mobile smiling in their mugshots. Now,

(30:30):
we were told a few years ago on the Uncle
Henry Show that you should always smile in your mugshot.
And the reason you should always smile in your mugshot
is because you're innocent until proven guilty. Just remember that.
I'm bringing that up because you never know. I hope

(30:51):
I'm not arrested. I hope i'm not, but you never know.
Who knows. Maybe one day, maybe one day of my
accident break a law. You just never know. There's so
many laws they come up with. If you ever I'm
going to pledge to you right now that if I
ever do end up getting arrested, I am going to
smile in my mugshot, no matter how upset I am,

(31:15):
no matter how embarrassed I am, I'm going to smile.
And that smile. If you are looking online and you say, oh,
uncle Henry has been arrested, look at his mugshot. I'm
going to be smiling, and that smiles for you. It
is that smile is for you, the listener of the

(31:35):
Uncle Henry Show. I hope it never happens. I hope
it never happens, but if it does, I'm going to
be smiling in my mugshot for you, the listener of
the Uncle Henry Show. And that smile is to remind
you that were innocent until proven guilty. In this country,

(31:58):
we still have a constitution, even though many elected officials
have never looked at it. They don't like it. They
often argue that it's too restrictive. They wish we didn't
have a constitution. They hate it. When you bring it
up to them, they mock you. If you happen to
carry a copy in your back pocket because I know

(32:20):
I've seen it happen. But that'll be my message to
you in my mugshot is that I still believe in
the constitution. I still love this country. I still want
us to have a good and wonderful country. And that
is the message I will send you when I'm smiling
in my mugshot to you. Now, I don't know these

(32:43):
women that I saw on the Fox ten websites smiling
in the mugshots. I don't know what message they're sending.
Their message may be that I need more crack. I
don't know what. I don't know. I don't know what
their message might be, I'm out of weed, send more.
I don't know what the smile is. I don't know

(33:04):
what message they're sending. But my message to you and
my mug shot will be that I'm innocent until proven guilty,
and I love this country and I love the Constitution.
That'll be my message to you in my imaginary future
mug shot, and I hope that is And I don't

(33:28):
ever want to be arrested ever, but if it happens,
I'd like to take my chances in mobile because I
think more people would see the mug shot and wonder
why is that guy smiling? There's more to come, but

(33:51):
first I'm going to take a break. I'm going to
sit down for a minute before more. Uncle Henry's Show
fucks that says they Uncle Henry's Show here on news

(34:20):
Radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you. I appreciate you listening
to it. I really do. Now in this half hour
a show, I'm going to cover some stories that I missed,
some news stories I missed. You might have missed them too,
and we can learn together. Perhaps, think about it. Maybe

(34:43):
you and I can learn together from listening to these
news stories together. Wouldn't that be nice? Isn't it better
to have knowledge as opposed to be just being incredibly stupid.
I've tried that, By the way, it is. It's not
all it's cracked up to be. It Isn't it might

(35:04):
seem fun to be stupid, It's not. I've tried it
every time. I every time I tried, I regret it.
All right, Look, before I get to the first story,
if you'd like to leave me a message, If you'd
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(35:25):
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get to some news items that I might learn from

(35:47):
and maybe you two. Now, the guy that was running
the Mobile Housing Authority, a mister Pierce Uh. He was
knocked out of his job recently and and yesterday, all
of a sudden, he is out talking and he is
claiming that Mayor Standy Simpson has been behind a special

(36:09):
scheme to get rid of him, which I don't quite understand.
So let's follow along here. I've got the story. This
is from Fox ten. The reporter is investigative reporter Brendan Kirby,
and we will hear Lenise Legon and Brendan Kirby, the
news anchors introduce this story about the Mobile Housing Authority

(36:31):
guy that is claiming that Mayor Stemson was running some
type of scheme to get rid.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
Of him director of the Mobile Housing Authority is lashing
out at Mayor Cinny still lashing out.

Speaker 8 (36:44):
Listen, Yeah.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
Michael Pierce claims the mayor maneuvered behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
I'm maneuvered behind the scenes.

Speaker 11 (36:50):
Ost Tim and he says there was no cause to
fire him. Our Brendan Kirby is at the news center
with more.

Speaker 10 (36:56):
And Brendan Pierce is not going quietly.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
No, he's not Cameron Liniz.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
He's lashing out. I think that was already established.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Is that it's part of a campaign by the mayor
that dates back in.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Years, a campaign by the mayor. Any personal experience with me.
They didn't observe me, my work.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
More than a month and a half after the movie,
O Housing Authority Board fired him as executive director. Michael
Pearce is taking aim at the two men he blames
for his ouster, Mayor Sandy Stimpson and a private contractor
that Pierce says has won several city contracts.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Mayor Stimpson specifically devised a plan and devised a plan.
The mayor devised a plan and enlisted the assistance of
others and enlisted people to discredit my personal and professional
reputation throughout a prolonged smear campaign. A smear campaign.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Mayor Stimpson responded in a statement, the decision to terminate
Pierce rested with the board.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
However, the Housing Board. Now, before we go on here,
I don't know. I've met the mayor a few times.
He doesn't, he doesn't. You've noticed he hasn't been on
the show a lot. He's got more important things to do.
And I've not met mister Pierce. I've seen him. I
think I saw him at one city council meeting a

(38:15):
few years ago on UH on YouTube. But the idea
that the mayor, you know, the mayor is not running
for re election, why would he put energy into a
behind the scenes scheme, some kind of a some kind

(38:35):
of a behind the scenes secret campaign to get rid
of this guy. Why would he do that if he's now,
if he was going to be there for another term,
I don't know. Maybe there would be a I can't
figure out what what the mayor's motive would be to
engage in in a prolonged smear campaign if the mayor

(38:57):
is going to be leaving office soon.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
With the board, however, it is not coincidence or conspiracy
that residents living in.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
This statement for Mayor standy Stimpson.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
It is not coincidence or conspiracy that residents living in
MHA properties in public officials have routinely criticized the leadership
of MHA for its failure to serve residents or properly
maintain its properties. He said. In a statement, the mayor says,
the Department of Housing in Urban Development considers public housing
and mobile to be quote substandard, and Mayor Stimpson adds

(39:33):
that it is quote a very generous description.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
This means okay, so the mayor and I'm sorry, I'm
pausing in the middle, in the middle of the mayor's statement,
saying that the FEDS look at our housing, our mobile
housing authority down here as being substandard. And the mayor

(39:56):
says that would be a generous assessment. So the mayor
claiming that it's this housing is nasty is what it
sounds like. Let's continue with a mayor's statement.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
A Mayor Stimpson adds that it is quote a very
generous description. This may be why news of Pierce's termination
seemed to come and go without much fanfare until he
began making baseless allegations against the people working very hard
to do what he failed to accomplish, create safe decent
and affordable housing opportunities for the citizens of Mobile.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
And I'll pause there just to say that from watching
the psychologically tortuous Mobile City Council meetings on YouTube, I
can tell you that from time to time citizens would
show up and complain about Mobile Housing Authority and the housing.
The council would always have to say that we don't

(40:51):
have it's not us that runs it. It is the
Mobile Housing Authority and not us that runs it. But
these complaints have been coming for a year after year
about the Mobile Housing Authority and the substandard housing.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Board members terminated Pierce after placing him on leave in
June following an unspecified complaint. We've asked for specific details,
but the board, MHA, and the city have refused to
speak publicly about it. Pierce says Mayor Stimpson pressured board
members to step down before their terms so that he
could make enough appointments to get the three member majority

(41:31):
necessary to oust him. The mayor says that he takes
his responsibility to fill vacancies on board seriously. That says
that resignations of mh A board members are their decisions alone.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
And again, I don't know I've met the mayor a
few times. And I don't know that the man that's
accusing him of having a scheme in a smear campaign.
But I'm still trying to figure out why would the
This all sounds like a lot of hard work if
you were going to put together a behind the scenes
smear campaign of stuff. It sounds like a lot of

(42:05):
hard work to what end? Though the mayor is leaving office.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Here's why I have an opportunity to air his grievances
at a mobile County Personnel Board hearing challenging is firing
that's scheduled for October.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
All right, So, and that was Brendan Kirby doing the
reporting there. He's got a hearing in This man that
was let go has a hearing in front of the
mobile personnel board. He may do well there. I've heard
that it's hard to get canned if you've got if
you have time in underneath the mobile personnel board. So

(42:44):
we'll all find out in October how this goes. All right,
let's take a break and then come back with more
Uncle Henry's Show. Take the break, it says the Uncle

(43:07):
Henry Show here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. We
have news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Before we
get there, I'm going over some news items that I missed.
You might have missed them too. Maybe we can learn
together about the world in which we live. Now, let's

(43:33):
see next week Mobile City Council is going to vote
on waiving the sales tanks on the material that they're
using to build the bridge or something like that. You know,
the fantasy bridge that people fantasize about being over the
Mobile River. Let's listen. I've got that also from Fox ten.

(43:56):
Let's learn together about this. This is allegedly going to
happen in next week's meeting.

Speaker 11 (44:01):
So to waive sales taxes on materials related to the
Iten project. Our Brendan Kirby is joining us now in this.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Brendan is Bank.

Speaker 11 (44:11):
Studio and Brendan the council doesn't really have a choice.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
Yeah, that's right, Linnie. State law requires this. Those materials
also will be exempt from state taxes under that same
twenty nineteen statute. It's unclear how much tax revenue the
city will be giving up, but the project is expected
to cost as much as three and a half billion dollars.
A good chunk of that figures to be spent in
the city. During the Mobile City Council's pre meeting conference

(44:36):
this morning, Councilor William Carroll urged the city's legal department
to ensure that contractors realize the exemption doesn't apply to
tools and other equipment that will be used.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
During the construction.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
He says that it's important that the city doesn't give
away more tax revenue than it needs to. Given the
three hundred million dollars Downtown or Region project.

Speaker 9 (44:56):
We all know what we're looking at as far as finances
over the next three years. We're looking at a billion
dollar project over there where we don't need to lose
any opportunity forever.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
The albam An Apartment of Transportation is hoping to break
ground on the bridge project this year.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
This year, hoping to break ground this year. Let me check.
I believe that would be twenty twenty five if I'm
not mistaken.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
But state officials still don't have the financing in place.
The tax abatement vote is expected next week, reporting liven
and he says.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
All right, thank you Brendan Kirby for that. So they
still now I didn't realize they still haven't figured out
they still haven't figured out how to pay for it,
but they hope. They're hoping to break ground later this
year at some point. All right, well, right now it is,
it is August. We got between now and December thirty
first for their hopes and dreams and wishes to come true.

(45:50):
All right, Let's see what else can I share with you?
Let's see do I have time for this story? There
was a story out of Odinville, Alabama where there was
a middle school dance and parents are upset. They're saying
there was inappropriate touching. And yes, middle school dance has

(46:16):
already taken place in Odinville, Alabama, and already inappropriateness. Let's
let's see how much of this I can I can.

Speaker 12 (46:25):
Stand telling us. And young girls were, in their words, groped,
their skirts lifted as other students took pictures school.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
All right, this is terrible.

Speaker 12 (46:34):
It is responding on social media and URIs Telabama reporter
Reggie Kyle Live and five Tonight asking questions.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Is w b RC sending somebody out to Odinville to
find out about these girls getting their dresses pulled up.

Speaker 12 (46:46):
With parents and school leaders.

Speaker 13 (46:49):
That's right, mothers. I spoke with tell me. They're frustrated
and want answers how innocent event can leave their child
traumatized and afraid.

Speaker 7 (46:57):
That's my biggest issue right now. Where were the teachers?
Where were the administrators when all this was going on?

Speaker 13 (47:04):
Last Friday, the Oldinville Middle School held a back to
school dance to kick.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Her back to school dance off.

Speaker 13 (47:10):
The new school year. During the event, several girls said
their skirts were lifted up and photos taken while being
grouped by two boys.

Speaker 14 (47:18):
Oh, I felt if somebody come up to me grabb
my butt, and then so I turned around and then
he turned back around, smirked out me, and then ran off,
and I went and told the principal and then he
just said okay, and then put the way outside for
at least five minutes, sell them back in.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I'm not laughing at what happened to the girl, but
the solution of you're being you the principal, here's you've
been groped. In modern times, you know this is this
is a bad thing, and monit it's well, it's never
been good. It's never been good, but especially now, people
are very sensitive to the groping. So she tells the

(47:57):
guy that she was groped, and and the punishment was
the alleged groper is sent outside of the dance for
five minutes.

Speaker 13 (48:07):
These two parents telling me. Once back inside the school,
some of the behavior continued.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
I shouldn't get a phone call from her cry hysterically
out of school function, saying I have to please come
get me. I need to leave. That's something I'll never forget.

Speaker 13 (48:22):
Oldenville Middle School leaders posted a statement on Facebook that reads,
in part, we are aware of social media posts and
video circulating about the events at the back to School
dance on Friday night. Many of these posts contain inaccurate
information from individuals not connected to Oldenville Middle School or
Saint Clair County Schools.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
If they're right, so it's inaccurate.

Speaker 10 (48:44):
Those were reversed, and your boy was my daughter being grouped,
being violated, being sexually assaulted, And I say, oh, it's
just a boy. Being a boy does not make it okay.

Speaker 13 (49:00):
Oldenville Middle School releasing a statement that reads, in part,
the safety of our students is and will always be
our top priority. We encourage any students with direct knowledge
of these events to speak with oms administration or file
an official report with the Saint Clair County Sheriff's Office,
and the school boy will hold a meeting at six

(49:20):
o'clock this evening at the Oldinville Middle School.

Speaker 8 (49:24):
All right.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
And by the way, that reporter I like him. He's
very forceful. I would even be in favor of like
deputizing him so he could go and report on the
story and then go and arrest the people involved. All right,
out of time. Thank you for listening, as they say
in Shirland, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it eavesy all right later
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