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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cole Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven. What sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. Now, thank you so much for listening
to the Uncle Henry Show. It is Monday, a beautiful,
beautiful Monday, and we're starting the week off with a
special show. My special guest today for a snake show
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is the Snake Trapper. Snake Trapper, thank you for coming in,
Ophrah Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you for having me, and I am so excited
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well I'm not only is it exciting to have you
in here to talk all things snake for this hour.
You're one of the few guests that has ever had
a groupie come along with them, Pat Nelly, pat Nelly
Friday was just dying to get here. In fact, listener,
Pat Nelly is in the room, and at some point
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I'll be going to him for questions because he is
already as we've tried to start this show, he's been
asking all about snakes. And these are serious questions, aren't they,
Snake trepperd They're not silly questions. He's asking very serious questions.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, sir, I hope I can answer every one of them,
and I will confirm that this is the real Pat Nelly,
well allegedly. So all right, well we'll get to his question.
So Pats standby.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're going to keep you there to deploy when needed
for the program.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you understand your role?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yes, Sarah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All right, very good man, I'm serious. There's times when
I go blank, I'm good. There are times. Now what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I thought you were going to stick me in my
corner if I got to rambunctious.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Is he even paying attention snakes?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Have I heard everything you said?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I believe he hears you, but I don't believe he's
paying All his mic is off for now. I'll be
coming back to him at some point when he's paying
attention to the show. So, Snake Trapper.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Here we are, me and you on the Snake Trapper
Show talking about snakes. I've already had women folk tell
me that they were very interested in this program because
they want to know what to look out for. So
explain to this first. Let's start here. I was raised
to believe that every snake is better off dead. The
best snake is a dead snake. Now your thoughts on
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that teaching. Many people are taught that. Your thoughts on
that teaching, Igaherry, we all have a.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right to this planet. I don't believe that. I believe
anything put on this planet has the right to live.
So I got a friend hunter, and he believes the
same way. If he comes across the snake, he is
going to kill it, okay, And.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
He said, you don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You think that snakes they have rights similar to beavers
in that they have a right to be here just
as we do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We need to learn to live with them, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
All right, Well, first let's start with this. What is
the current state of snakes in Mobile and Balwin Counties?
Where are that? What are they up to right now?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
On a day like today, Oh, Henry, day like today,
they are out sunning, hoping that some little bird or
rodent will pass by them so they could feast.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So they're just out now. In the past and previous shows,
you've described snake emotions as snakes are mad today. Snakes
are not mad today. Do they have any emotional situation
going on today?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, sir. If they're sitting there on side the creek
or river or log, whatever it may be, they're probably
pretty hungry, and if somebody happens to come by, it
will aggravate the crap out of them because we will, Yes, sir,
they don't want to be fooled with. They just want
to eat them a meal and go back to their
den and wait about another week and venture out and
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try to feast again on some other little rodent.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So one of the more important questions that I should
ask is how should the homeowner, how should the human
being in South Alabama determine whether or not a snake
is dangerous. You're in the yard and you'll see a snake.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Two feet away.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
How can we instantly know if we're in danger or not?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Go Henry. There are about five very dangerous snakes in
our area. All of them are very distinct. If it's
a rattlesnake, you would hope that he would start rattling
and let you know that he's there. And it's not
that he's wanting to get you or nothing. He's just
letting you know that he's sitting there looking for a
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brain food. Just leave him alone. They don't look to
bite you. They don't want to waste their venom on you.
And a copperhead if you're around a bunch of debris.
That's what they like to do is hang out under
debris trying to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Get The question is, how do I know if the
snake is dangerous. It's a split moment. It could be
a cobra. We don't know two feet away. How do
I tell if the snake is dangerous or not?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
There are signs if it's got that triangular head. Uh,
there is a good chance, a very high chance, that
it is a poisonous steak. If it has the slitted
pupils eyes, there's a very good chance. Now, some of
your most deadliest snakes in the world from Australia and Africa,
now they do have the round pupiled eyes. But here,
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uh now, now your uh, your copper head. When its
eyes are dilated, a lot of lights shining toward it,
its pupil will almost look round.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
All right, So I'm supposed to look for a triangle
head for danger and what else? What what about the eye?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Uh, slitted pupiled eyes, Henry, they that have round pupils
or there will have be slitted kind of like what
you would see in.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
A cat eye. All right, so uh, let's go. We've
already got a collar, Hello.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Collar, Hey, henry snake trapper. How a y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What about it? Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Eve?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How you doing?
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Brother?
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I'm doing fine, I'm doing fine. I uh As a youth,
I used to roam in the creeks and catch cotton
mouse and in uh, copperheads a lot of the time,
plus a variety of nine venomous snakes. They weren't they
weren't as much fun to catch because they weren't as dangerous.
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But uh yeah, down here we got. We got cotton mouse, copperheads, rattlesnakes,
and the occasional but rarely seen coral snake.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You are absolutely right, brother, I.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Mean the rule on the rule on the coral snake
is uh, red and yellow kills a fella. Red and
black venom black. If you see the red and the
black together, it's not a coral snake.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, do you have a different rhyme snake trapper?
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, sir, it's a red touches yellow. It'll kill a fella.
If red touch is black, you can scratch its.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Back, all right, pat nelly, if you've been writing down the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Rhymes, uh no, but I was gonna ask that question.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well all right, well, then you took all right, well,
well come up with another question. All right now wait
all right, strike it off your lists, all right, start sorry, Steve.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Steve, that's okay, that's ok so glad you.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You brought a rhyme in that was similar but different
from snake trappers.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yes, that's a bus yeah yeah, a bunch of different.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Rhymes things in the in the boy Scouts, you know,
a lot a lot of these, a lot of these
little rhymes that like lefty lucy, righty tighty, that that
type of thing. It actually does help you in life,
you know, on certain things. Especially the lefty lucy righty
tighty has helped me out many times trying to take
off a bolt or a nut or something and trying
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to go the wrong way at first, like wait a minute,
wait a minute, let me check this left you Okay, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Going the wrong way exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's that is no one wants it's you feel silly
if you waste time, especially doing that, don't you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, Steve, do you know do you know what the
other snake is? The uh, the red on black? Do
you have any idea what that one's called?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I think they have several that are like that, they
have different kind of king snakes.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, sir, it's the starr.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
King snake, Scarlet kingsnake in California kingsnake. I think some
of them call it.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yes, sir, I can tell you. I can tell you
sure know an awful lot about them. Did you ever
eat them?
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I haven't eaten a snake at this point in time,
but I don't I don't kill him just for no reason.
If if you know, I find a venomous snake in
the vicinity of people, I just try to move it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That is wonderful thing. Hey, Steve, we got to run.
We're up on the break, but Steve, thank you for
your phone call. And we're gonna have to do a
show about knives and swords and stuff with Steve coming
up sometime soon. All right, back with more Snake Trapper
here to talk snakes. Pat Nellie his groupie will ask
a question later.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We go for a crash with road blockage.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
West Mission.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five point twenty.
Today is Monday, Snake Trapper Day. Here on the Uncle
Henry Show doing a snake show. He's got a group
he here, Pat Nellie, who is gonna He's gonna ask
a question or two some sometime before the end of
the hour. Telephone number two five one four seven nine
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two seven two three. That's two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. I've got my own questions,
but we do have callers for snake Trapper.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Hello, Color Tonight show is awesome. Snake Trapper, You're awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Thank you very much. Do you have a question for
snake Trapper?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Yeah, I just want to say snake trapper. I'm just
like what, I'm a snake trapper too.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What now your your phone broke up? What did you say?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I'm a safe trapper also.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I'm just like you, Well, be careful man. Some of
them thinks to be very dangerous.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Yeah, you're right. I have to trap a big dangerous
sneak every day. I just put in my pair.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I stopped that shit.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Freak goodness.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Don't you care?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, look, I don't we I talked about this
last week.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
If I have to come in here and just talk,
I'll come in here. I'll read the Bible. I'll just
read books and share thoughts and we'll go We'll go
that direction. If I can't go to the phones, but
no more of that, please. There are elderly women listening,
and then there are even older women listening. We don't
want the We don't want any of these people to
be scandalized when this show is on. I want to
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make that pledge to people so that this show is
safe enough to put everybody into a state of slumber
as they listen. That is my fervent wish and dream
for this program. Two five one four seven nine two
seven two three The telephone number.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Hello color.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Unc Lenory. How are you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm great, John, you are live on the air with
Snake Trapper Hello John, Hey.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Snake trapper Man, You're always a pleasure to listen to.
I just had one simple question for you. I live
like off a Shillinger where that flooring store is in Westbobile,
and I've seen a couple non venimous snakes in my
twenty years i've lived here. It doesn't bother me as
long as they don't get in my house and as
long as they're not venomous. But my simple question is
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do mothballs help?
Speaker 12 (11:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Great question.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I believe they do, But I mean you got experts
as will say they do. Not The best prevention is
a kitticat right, right, So.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
You don't think the mothballs do anything at all the
older because they have a strong sense of smell.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
From what I understood, Grandma always seemed like they did,
and I believe they do. But you do have folks
out there that will deny the claim. Uh So, I mean,
I really don't know the true fact of it, but yes,
they do smell horrible. Snakes do sense things with their tongue,
that's sure, and you see them keep sticking their little
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tongue out. They can taste the molecules in the air,
so I don't believe they would like that taste. Like
I said, I believe they work. I would recommend if
you have a place that you have a problem with,
give it a shot. I don't think it would hurt anything,
and I do believe that it will work to an extent.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Okay, Well, thank you sir for your advice, and thank
you Henry.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I appreciate the question. Two five one four seven nine
seven two three. The telephone number.
Speaker 13 (12:46):
Hello color, Hey, this is blind Dog Micing point clear
Blond Dog Mike.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Hey, you doing, Mike.
Speaker 13 (12:53):
I'm doing fine. I used to check snakes for a
biologist up in Birmingham, and so I got used to
doing that when when I was in high school. But
you know, getting a rat snake and putting it under
our house, that's been one of the best things I've
ever done. And I do it when I find one
because we're up on piers about three feet off the
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ground and we've got lattice work under there. So but
I never have a mouse problem because of that, because
they will hunt them down. They will. They can smell
them and hunt them down.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Oh, yes, sir too, they will. They will keep the
mice out of your chicken feed. They are egg eaters.
They will not harm the chickens. But man, if you can,
if you are on a bunch of chickens and you
can spare a couple eggs, they're worth their They're worth
their labor.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Yeah, I bet they are. I do have a question, sir.
I have noticed that a lot of the non poisonous
snakes will exhibit sort of a nervous behavior. And I've
asked some perpetologists this and they say, well, it just
doesn't you know, some do it and some don't. They'll
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actually stick their tail in the leaves and vibrate it
back and forth like and it'll sound kind of like
a rattler, but it's not a rattler. I mean, I've
had a garter snake do it. I've had a banded
water snake do it, and another small snake do it,
and they sound it's like they sound like a rattler,
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but they're not just funny. It's kind of like a
nervous response. I guess have you ever seen that.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, sir, I have. The cotton mouth is notorious for
doing that. You know, they can't they can't make a
sound other you know. I stepped over a log one
time out pig hunting and uh, man, I heard something.
It was that bumping and what it was doing. It
was sitting there rattling. It's bumping its tail up against
the log.
Speaker 13 (14:48):
It's log.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, yes or so Yeah, they do do that. They're
letting you know that they're there.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And snakes, Uh, they do not seek people. You know,
you have people say that they chase you. You know,
I don't know of anything.
Speaker 13 (15:02):
Oh, they don't do that.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
A copperhead, if there are little ones around and you
get anywhere near it will dart towards you, but far
as chasing down the road or something no curtain, they
will not do that. Though copperhead is very dangerous when
it has young around, they're more dangerous probably, you know,
far as being aggressive than probably any snake out there.
Speaker 13 (15:22):
In my first I had troubled discerning between a banded
you know, like a rat snake or a banded water snake.
But most of the water snakes I have down here
on Bailey's Creek, they're all banded water snakes. And I
have yet to see a cotton cop you know, cotton
mouth down here watermarks, and I've been here since eighty nine.
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So but down here, you know, all the predators are
after those snakes. So you know that's the way it goes. Yeah, well,
it's really really nice to have you on because you know,
we're so snake rich down here. It's good for people.
In my opinion. Don't kill the non poisonous snakes because
they really help keep a healthy piece of property, and
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they're not going to hurt you. They really aren't.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
No, they won't. And the best way to tell the
difference between that rat snake and the banded water snake,
the banded water snake has a lot of similarities to
the cotton mouth. They're short and stout to where your
rat snakes are generally long and slender.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're all good snakes. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
You have a good day, you too, my brother. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Great to have you call in, Blind and Dog Mike.
We do have another caller waiting. But caller, you may
want a call back after the break, or you can
hang on. I'll leave that up to you. Pat Nelly,
before we go to break, you got a question for
snake trapper.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, I just wanted to know. I grew up, like
I was telling you earlier, out off Moffatt Road, and
I'm sixty one and never seen a rattlesnake in a
wild But up here in midtown I see all of
snakes everything, of course, not a rattler. And I was
just wondering why did I never see one playing in
the woods all my life?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Usually you probably wasn't in the air. The thing about
the rattlesnake that you're seeking. When you do find one,
there's generally four or five more round there, what you
call a pit viper. They'd like to hang out a lot.
They'll all din down with You know, it's not rare
to move something and find five or six of them
at a time. Why you've never come across one, I
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don't know. Westmobile out toward Wilmer is notorious for some
big rattlesnakes, and you see a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, we've got to take a time We've got
to take a time out. Then we're gonna come back
with more Snake Trapper Show here on the Uncle Henry
Show here on these radio seven to ten WNTM. Meanwhile,
you can listen to previous episodes as podcasts on the
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here if you have any questions about snakes two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seven two three that
asked the snake trapper a question about snakes. Also, his
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groupie Pat Neelly is here. He will also question snake
trapper about snakes before we are out of this half hour.
When was the first time you were bit by a snake?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Probably when I was about fourteen years old, over Henry.
It wasn't nothing severe, just got tricked by. Wasn't much
to it at all, a little bit of swelling, you know,
nothing major.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So the average listener if they get bit by a snake,
if they're hiking in the woods, working in the yard,
what should they do if they get bit by a snake?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, Uncle Henry, no, two snake bites are the same,
And now'll explain what I'll explain to you. If, for instance,
a rattlesnake bites you, it will yield anywhere from two
hundred milligrams of venom up to eight hundred milligrams of venom. Now,
either one of that amount of venom is enough to
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kill a man and up to five men if that
bite is in the correct place. Now, if it bites
you in say a muscle tissue where there's no blood
vessels or nothing, after about thirty minutes, you're gonna start
filling tingling all over your body. Your breathing's gonna start
being restricted. And after about six hours that flash is
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going to start deteriorating. And then if you're not seek
the correct medical attention in two days, you will die. Now,
if that same bite hits you and it gets a
blood vessel or an ottery, that will process will intensify
very quickly. One good thing about the snake bites, Uncle Henry.
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There are under ten people a year that die from
snake bites. The biggest reason for death is the diamondback rattlesnake.
It is North America's deadliest snake. Okay, So, like I said,
that's all based on the amount of venom you received
from that bike.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So are we at a point where if somebody is
bit by the snake that you've described the deadliest one,
if they get to a hospital pretty quick, they're going
to be Okay, yes, sir, they.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Will start at minister from anti venom. It's very expensive
depending on the severity a bite, on how many vowels
of that anti venom you would need. You could need one,
two or up till probably about fifteen or sixteen. Okay,
we've said, depending on the severity of that bike.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
All right, now we've got a caller, Pat Nelly, have
a question ready for when the caller is finished. All right,
so you have between now and the end of this
call to figure out your question.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Hello, caller, I forgot all my questions.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Hey guys, I don't think I got to tell you
all who this is.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
But we I've been cooking around here for a lot
of years and we know them to do, you.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Know, burgers and hot dogs and things like that.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
But I've been thinking about cooking some snakes and didn't
know if I should. Uh, you know, if you if
you do garlic, butter or just salt and pepper, or
we're gonna smoke them and do something like that. I
figure we bite them first before they bite us.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'll tell you what, brother, the best way to cook
a rattlesnake. If you're frying it, you would want to
fry just like you would your pork chops or your chicken. Uh.
If you Mari nature por jobs and chicken, uh do it?
The same way.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
If you smoke it, do it the same way. Uh.
But uh are you are you that that Billy John
bunky fellow.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
We ain't gonna go in there, but just listen here.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
What we're gonna do.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
We probably gonna grudge it and some butter and some
garlic and then.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Put it the deep cry deep put in their.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Whole hole, and they just share it with the family.
Everybody grab hold of just keep on it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Hey. Uh, if it's big enough, it'll be uh, it'll
be enough to feed the whole family.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And the person elegantly whoever that as they elegantly hung
up on themselves.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I appreciate that, bear bear much.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Two five one three the telephone number to ask a
question of the snake trapper Pat Nelly, Snake Trapper groupie,
what is your question for snake Trapper?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, it's a question he's kind of already answered. But
my son has texted me about the the childhood rhyme
for the coral and the king snake.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Can you repeat that, yes, sir, the into the microphone.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Both of the snakes have three distinct colors, red, black,
and yellow. The black will be in the center of
two red rings, or the black will be in the
center of two yellow rings. If red touches yellow, it'll
kill a fellow. If red touches the black, you can
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scratch its back. So the red touch in the black
is the scarlet kingsnake. And there are a few that
are out there that's similar. But them two snakes look
exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The black band is exactly the same size, and so
is the red and yellow rings. It is crazy and
one of them is very deadly. The uh, this coral snake, uh,
is probably one of the most powerful venoms. It's just
that they're small. They're rare. You hardly ever hear one
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of them. I did have the opportunity to get to
see one last year and uh, but man, they they're
one of the They produce a Their venom is neurotoxin too,
which is different from all your pit vipers around here.
All your pit vipers around here has what you call hemotoxin,
which affects skin, tissue, blood. A bite from a rattlesnake,
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the effects on it. You start doing internal bleeding and
your flesh starts deteriorating. That's from the hemotoxin. Now, the
neurotoxin in the coral snake affects your nerves. It'll actually
make you start convulting, you know, to fall out.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Right, We have another color, Pat Nelly, thank you for
asking about the rhyme again.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Hello Color, Good evening, Uncle Henry Burt heard.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You are live on the radio with Snake Trapper. Hello Burt.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
How you doing, brother?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Doing great? Doing great. When I was twelve, my parents
took me to see Bellngraft Gardens for the first time. Yes,
and I walked a little close to this bush, and
all of a sudden, I hear this this, And I
looked down under the bush and there was this fairly
big snake with shiny blue and gold bands. It was very,
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very beautiful, and I'm backed slowly away. I wasn't in
any danger, but I'm wondering if you could tell me
what species that was.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It sounds like a one of them supersized legless lizards.
Was the blue? Was it kind of like a velvet blue?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
No, it was a It was like a medium blue
and kind of goldish yellow and shiny.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Okay, boy, how how long was it?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
It was pretty long? Okay, Well, it was cuiled up
so I couldn't tell you exactly how long. But it
looked fairly big.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Okay, well that's pretty sure. It wouldn't be the legless lizard,
you know, because they get probably about eighteen inches of max.
But man, I would really have to look at it
because you know, for instance, the rattlesnake, there are actually
thirty six different species just here in America. The rat snake,
there's probably up to forty five different species, the water snake.
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I mean, they come in all different shades and varieties,
but you kind of go by the environment then what
they look like or what's around them. Sounds like it
may have been some type of rat snake to me.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Well, I was.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Kind of kind of scared till I got a good
distance from it, but I appreciated its beauty. It was
a very beautiful snake.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yes, sir, I could almost just from you explain it
to me. I can almost guarantee you that it was
a non venomous snake. I don't know if a venomous
snake that looks like that in our area.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
All right, thank you snake trapper, and thank you for
taking my call.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Henry hey Bert, thank you always. The players are to
hear from you and it sounds great hearing Bert sounding
so uh so healthy these days compared to previous years.
We're gonna take a time out for more, for more
wonderful traffic and weather and words from our sponsors. And
then there's a little bit more snake Trapper coming up.
(27:28):
I'm gonna have to I think we're gonna go to
Pat Nelly's questions. See if he has any more questions. Now, oh,
you've got one, all right, save it.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He's got one. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We're gonna get Pat Nelly's question and maybe your phone
call when we come back. Snake Trapper on the UK
Glandra Show here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Back after the break, Uncle.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Henry Show, News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five
fifty news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Snake Trapper
is here doing a snake Trapper show, just talking about
snakes here at the beginning of snake season. What is
the height of snake activity? Would that be summer, would
it be or would it be before it gets real hot?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Okay, if you asked any turkey hunter, they'll tell you
it's spring time of the year.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, spring is it for the high activity?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Of the snakes, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Now, the hotter it gets in the summertime, now you know,
you know the snake can't regulate its body right. Too
much cold's not good for it, and also too much
heat is not good for it. That's when you start
finding the snakes in your toilet. Is in the hottest
days of the year.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Okay, So this is this is a time of year
where we're more likely to see snakes out and about.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yes, sir, you'll see this when you'll come across them
in the woods. Man turkey hunter I've spoke with this year,
and I worked with four different turkey hunters. And man,
they they said, the copperhead. I mean they're seeing copper
heads like crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's really, yes, sir, Now we have we already had
John call in about mothballs. Aside from getting a cat,
Is there anything a person can do to ease their
mind about snakes in the yard.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
There's a lot of people worried.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
They don't want to they don't even want to see one.
Is there anything other than a cat that you can
do to get rid of snakes or keep them away
from your property?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yes, sir. If you have a well groomed yard. Uh
don't don't you know, have trash around or anything that
will attract them. Uh, any kind of debris. You know,
they'll look for shelter. They're gonna get under any kind
of uh you know, especially in the summer. Uh, they'll
start getting under trash piles or bushes. Uh. You know,
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like if you if you feed animals, leaving food out,
that will attract rodents and that'll attract the snakes. Uh.
Anybody that is getting squirrels in there, rats in their
attic or in their house, that will attract snakes to it.
So at all costs, you and I need to try to
keep the rodents side of there in the in the snakes.
Most snakes found in abandoned cars are in there trying
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to eat rats and mice that is trying to take
shelter in the summer or the winter of the rain. So, yes, sir,
there are there are things you can do to prevent them.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So keep your yard clean is number one?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Your yard clean?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Now, Pat Nelly, do you have a final question for
snake trapper.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Well let me put this in two questions. Okay, could
we go to all together and buy some rattlesnake meat
and have a like a snake fry.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Pat, I would love to do that.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
What what is it a pound?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Uh, it's it's probably it's not cheap. You can probably
buy it right now on Amazon. I know you can
the turtle meat. But man, the best thing to do
is put the word out somebody that gets one, because,
like I said, man, five your house, Man, I'd love
to come across one. I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I mean the fish fright here, I mean the snake
fright your house.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, be fine, the snake trapper. I'm sure she'll be happy.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Okay. And the next question would be how did you
get into snakes? I mean, it's fascinating just sitting here.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And please speak into the microphone when you answer this question.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, sir, when I was a young man, I come
up very hard. And at the time, from time I
was probably about thirteen, I knew a biologist that would
want snakes. He actually run into him at Seul City
and that is probably less than a half half a
mile from one of the snakiest placed in mobile right,
there were forty five meets on we're industrial valves at Yes,
(31:50):
there is a big, old, huge swamp there as a
child or a young man, I could go there at
any time in fill a order. So you know, at
that time, you could get ten dollars a foot for
a snake. So you know you get a two and
a half foot that's twenty five dollars snake.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And you could you could catch as many as certain
times a year you can catch as many a sex,
five whatever. But mayah, you could always feel in order.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
So yeah, I've always thought you was putting on an act.
But you you're pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
No, I don't know about all that now. Most people
say anybody that do stuff like it ain't too smart.
So very interesting, but yeah, it was. I mean I
could as a as a very young man like that,
I could. I could make enough money in a Weekend's
what a grown man will making in a week So
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I was on shockcock Show one time and I told
him a story about I'd had left there and I
had five cotton mouse and they ranged from probably two
foot to probably three and a half foot, all in
a five gallon bucket. And at the time I had
just a board with a cinder block on the board
in the back back of the car, you know, between
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the where the feat go and halfway home, I happened
to notice that bucket had turned over, so almost flipped
my car, you know, trying to get it wowed down
so I can get out of there because they had
been piled up in there together and they was not happy.
So and I did not know where they all were
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at wind up catching about five of them I believe
it was, and there was one I never did find,
so wow, I don't know if he got out of
the car what happened, but man, yeah, that was that
was a neary feeling because them being in the bucket
with five other ones didn't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All Right, we are out of time. Snake Trapper, thank
you for coming in and talking about snakes.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Just Sir Grenerin, thank you for having me. Man, it's
been a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It is always a pleasure here and you talk about
the snakes. Pat Nelly, thank you for coming in and
showering Snake Trapper with devotion as you have. That has
always been all the attention that you've given Snake Trapper.
Sure he appreciates it. We'll have to do this again sometime.
There is more Uncle Henry show to come after the
(34:08):
news break here on news.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Radio seven ten WNTM.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We're gonna get into unsnaky things after the news break,
(34:37):
That says The Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seven ten WNTM. In this half hour of show, I'm
gonna check some voicemail if you'd like to leave me
one voicemail numbers two five one two one six nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six nineteen
(34:59):
seven to leave a message for the Uncleanry Show and
the listeners of The Uncleanary Show. Now, let me start
with sixty seven year old Chris of west Locksley. He
left me a message over the weekend. I like starting
with him because he's almost always upbeat because he's in
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West Locksley counting his blessings. Yes, a lot of his
phone calls. He's counting his blessings. And this is a
lesson for somebody like me. Sometimes I need to remember
to stop a moment and count my blessings in life.
For example, right now, I'm broadcasting in a wonderful building
(35:41):
with electricity in it, air conditioning and heating. They have
coffee provided to me. There are a lot of blessings
that some of us take for granted, and I've got
the wonderful blessings here. Anyway, let's listen. Here's sixty seven
year old Chris of West Locksley with a phone call
from yesterday.
Speaker 12 (36:00):
Dad, Uncle Roe, calling you from the front porch here
on this Sunday afternoon at three twenty four pm.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
A beautiful day.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Once again, had several those here recently. I hadn't taken
to some zerd tech day there shortly a short time ago,
thover the fallen it's kind of thick, but oh all right,
you take the good with the bag when you live
in Paradise.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh, by the way, you you uh, you've got pollen
there that stick you had to take some zer tank.
Last night I was blessed. I was invited to go
to a media preview of the Gulf Coast Chinese Lantern
Festival at Bellingraf Gardens. Beautiful, it is good. I think
that opens up Thursday Wednesday or Thursday night. It's it's beautiful,
(36:48):
by the way, if you decide you want to go
with your family, very beautiful, very beautiful. But I walked
through Bellingraf Gardens last night and I don't know that
I've been to Bellingrath at this time time of year.
Maybe ever. I've been there all through my life at
various points, but I don't think I don't think I've
ever been there when pollen has been like it is now.
(37:12):
So today I am I am wishing I had some
of your xertech d sixty seven year old Chris. But
anyway back to the voicemail.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
You take the good with the bag when you live
in paradise. Yes, well, I was going to tell you
what we've done to the church house this weekend. More
eating was involved. Yesterday Saturday, we had our annual spring fling.
That's where all the kiddies come and show up, and
they had the big bounce houses and all that good stuff,
and several of them get out there and do some cooking,
(37:46):
some frying up fish and frying up chicken.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Hey, before you go on, you mentioned a bounce house
and all this stuff your spring flinging this weekend. It
was Saturday afternoon and I was in my yard doing
some yard stuff midtown mobile and one of my neighbors
had a party, and I don't know what kind of
(38:11):
party it was. It started around noon and they had
one of these inflatable bounce houses in their backyard. I
could see it over the fences. There are a few
houses away. So they cranked up the really loud music.
They were playing a bizarre combination of rap music, rap
(38:34):
and hip hop music and country music. You would hear
rap and hip hop and then Toby Keith, you'd hear
rap and hip hop, and you'd hear Billy Crrington. It
was just back and forth between country and rap and
that party. They started at noon, just screaming and hollering
(38:58):
and really loud. This went at least until nine or
ten o'clock at night. This was these people, these people,
it was like a ten hour party, ten or eleven
hour party. Anyway, back to your spring flang. You had
a spring.
Speaker 12 (39:13):
Flaning, several of them get to get out there and
do some cooking, some frying up fish and frying up chicken. Yes,
it's just a wonderful time. They's all kinds of side dishes,
huck puppies, col slough baked beans, and then a lot
(39:35):
of store bought type of desserts which I ain't got
a problem with that, moon pies and Little Debbie Swiss cakes.
There was some homemade brownies too. By the way, I
forgot about them. I had me a couple of them.
I'll tell you what, baby, I've attended a lot of
congregations in my time, but this one loves to eat
(39:58):
more than anything.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
I ain't got a problem.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
It ain't a criticism. I ain't got a problem with that, brother.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Hey, maybe the Lord knew you'd match up really good
with these people. Put you there for a reason, man
that I got to hear the whistling in.
Speaker 12 (40:15):
I ain't got a problem with that, brother, Man. That
was some count I'm telling you. And then of course
coming up here in a couple of days on Tuesday,
be doing the men's Breakfast Tuesday morning. Yeah, gotta love it.
Speaker 11 (40:32):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (40:32):
By the way, Also speaking of love of it, looking
forward to the state Man snake Man being on your
show tomorrow telling us which is the good snakes and
which is the bad snakes and all that other good stuff,
and perhaps seeking enlighteness on the beaver's and the pothums
(40:54):
and whatnot. So I'm really looking forward to it. Ought
to be an outstanding program.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Hell then, Row.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Ti rold tid Row, thank you for the roll tides.
Sixty seven year old Chris of West Oxley and thtting
and thank you for letting me live through you with
your experiences with this this congregation of people who love
the Lord and love to eat the blessings of the
Lord with various pot luck events. Now and if we
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didn't cover what you wanted covered in the Snake Trapper
episode that aired last hour, I'll I'll have to bring
him back in a few months and maybe we can
cover some things we didn't cover in the last hour
of the program. Voice my number again, two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six, to leave a message
(41:47):
for the Uncle Henry Show. Let's see before we go
to break, I've got time for a message from Buford man.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Hey interview in the pododcast I'm listening to the Ron
Rings Interview. Absolutely my magnificent Henry.
Speaker 12 (42:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
By the way, that podcast available on the iHeartRadio app.
The Ron Reims Interview on The Uncle Henry Show, Henry.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I tell you what I would love to see you
do more interviews with old timer media types, Henry. They
you media folks were in the know of mobile history
and turn events back in the day, and it is
absolutely fascinating. Henry Man thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed listening to what
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was going on the mobile during the seventies and eighties
and with Reno getting putting jail and whether he thought
he was railroaded or not. Henry, please have some more
of these retired radio types coming on and having these interviews.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
We have a good day you for Thank you. I
would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
If you have any suggestions of who you'd like me
to ask to come on, please send them my way.
All right, let's see, gotta take a time out back
with more Uncle Henry's Show. After the break, Uncle Henry Show,
(43:32):
News Radio seventy ten WNTM news headlines coming up in
ten minutes before we get there. More voicemail messages from listeners.
Voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Last week I shared observations from the Mad Trucker. He
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wrote in the Joe Caine Parade, and he said that
he saw standing in the back of Marti Gras crowds
watching parades people that were they looked unhappy, stone faced
and I've seen this too. I've seen this too, people
standing at the back of the crowd looking quite nonplussed.
(44:15):
Where you wonder wonder why they're there. Are they there
to just stand in the back and disapprove of Marti Gras?
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Are they just monitoring? What are they doing? Now?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Sixty seven year old christ Off West Locksley called in
and suggested that maybe those people had those rough looks
on their face because they saw l D the mad
trucker and had a reaction to him. Now, LD would
like to respond to sixty seven year old Chris's comment, Hey.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Uncle Henry l. D. Well, you know I take it.
I can take it. I can dish it out and
I could take it. Christopher Mosley said that the reason
why everybody was browning because they saw my husbly mug
I hit the paraise, and you know, I find humor
in that. Ain't a big deal. I've attacked Chris NonStop.
But I would just like to say, Chris, if if
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you want to make amends and be friends, I bet
you come on down Friday to to Uncle Henry and Greers.
Oh never mind, they don't have any free food there.
Speaker 14 (45:19):
I don't think you'll be there.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
And there he goes the bad Trucker. Yes, by the way,
I will be broadcasting live this Friday, technology permitting at
Greer's Saint Louis Market in downtown Mobile on Saint Louis Street.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
I'll be there the Uncle.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Henry Show from five to six thirty, maybe later, but
definitely five to six thirty at greer Saint Louis Market.
And I would hypothetically theoretically like to meet you. As
long as you don't grab me or anything, and as
long as you do some minimal grooming and or bathing,
I think I would love to meet I'd love to
(46:00):
meet you theoretically hypothetically. Now, speaking of the Mad Trucker,
the Mad Trucker has another message for us, and this
has to do with a caller. I think it was Friday.
It was either Thursday or Friday. A man called the
show live to talk about how daylight saving time didn't
(46:23):
bother him. Flipping the clock forward and flopping it back
didn't bother him because he's retired and he doesn't have
to get up. He gets up when he wants to,
goes to bed when he wants to, and that inspired
the Trucker.
Speaker 9 (46:38):
Well, Henry LD I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Was that John not like you said, John Patrick, I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (46:44):
But that guy that said he.
Speaker 14 (46:45):
Is retired and goes to bed when he wants and
gets up when he wants.
Speaker 8 (46:51):
I want out, and we say one thing.
Speaker 11 (46:52):
Congraduations, sir, graduations.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
I'm getting closer to that point than ever.
Speaker 11 (46:59):
I'm not going to like.
Speaker 14 (47:00):
I know about ten of my friends who retired six months.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Later, they're right back in the truck. They're right back
at their job. They're right back to it something now.
Not me. I'm gonna go to bed when I want,
and I'm gonna get up when I wan't. So congratulations,
are very proud of you. How long did you work
before you retired?
Speaker 14 (47:21):
How many years you put in?
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Quire minds want to know.
Speaker 9 (47:24):
I'm looking at.
Speaker 14 (47:25):
Forty six, forty six years trucking.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
Wow, I'm not ready.
Speaker 14 (47:31):
To put this, put the steering wheel aside, and watch the.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Sunrise and go to bed when I feel like it
and wake up when I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Well, and I wish you the best there, ld. I'll
tell you I've done lots of hours of radio with
John McNeil of Mobile Bay Financial Solutions and his daughter
Virginia O'Brien, and they say a lot of their a
lot of their clients, a lot of them will retire
(48:03):
and then unretire, and a lot of it has to
do with wanting to have a purpose and while you're
still healthy, accomplished something. So you may not get behind
the wheel, but LD you'll find something, probably won't you.
Maybe it'll be all volunteer work. In fact, I have
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relatives that were retired maybe twenty years ago, and when
they retired, the first five to ten years of their retirement,
they were busier. They were busier retired than they were
when they were working. They just picked up all these
different volunteer things they were doing. They were always running around.
(48:46):
They seemed busier when they were retired when they instead
of working. But LD the mad Trucker, when you retire,
please check in once or twice and let us know
how you're adjusting to retirement because you I'm interested personally,
because I know you've got that on that shift you've
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been driving at night for so many years. That is
going to be a gigantic adjustment to have a life
where you're not awake in the middle of the night
every night. That is I can't I can't wait to
hear that goes for you. But I wish you the best.
I hope you enjoy your retirement and let us know
when when the big day comes, maybe we can have
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an Uncle Henry Show uh celebration for you. All right,
out of time for this edition of The Uncle Henry
Show again, if you'd like to leave a message two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That leave
a message for the Uncle Henry Show and the listeners
(49:49):
of the Uncle Henry Show now again, thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. As they say in Sarland,
have a good one and as say say in Theodore,
take it easy.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
Alright later
Speaker 14 (50:08):
Mhm
Cole Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven. What sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. Now, thank you so much for listening
to the Uncle Henry Show. It is Monday, a beautiful,
beautiful Monday, and we're starting the week off with a
special show. My special guest today for a snake show
(00:44):
is the Snake Trapper. Snake Trapper, thank you for coming in,
Ophrah Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you for having me, and I am so excited
to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well I'm not only is it exciting to have you
in here to talk all things snake for this hour.
You're one of the few guests that has ever had
a groupie come along with them, Pat Nelly, pat Nelly
Friday was just dying to get here. In fact, listener,
Pat Nelly is in the room, and at some point
(01:12):
I'll be going to him for questions because he is
already as we've tried to start this show, he's been
asking all about snakes. And these are serious questions, aren't they,
Snake trepperd They're not silly questions. He's asking very serious questions.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, sir, I hope I can answer every one of them,
and I will confirm that this is the real Pat Nelly,
well allegedly. So all right, well we'll get to his question.
So Pats standby.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We're going to keep you there to deploy when needed
for the program.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Do you understand your role?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yes, Sarah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All right, very good man, I'm serious. There's times when
I go blank, I'm good. There are times. Now what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I thought you were going to stick me in my
corner if I got to rambunctious.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Is he even paying attention snakes?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Have I heard everything you said?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I believe he hears you, but I don't believe he's
paying All his mic is off for now. I'll be
coming back to him at some point when he's paying
attention to the show. So, Snake Trapper.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Here we are, me and you on the Snake Trapper
Show talking about snakes. I've already had women folk tell
me that they were very interested in this program because
they want to know what to look out for. So
explain to this first. Let's start here. I was raised
to believe that every snake is better off dead. The
best snake is a dead snake. Now your thoughts on
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that teaching. Many people are taught that. Your thoughts on
that teaching, Igaherry, we all have a.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right to this planet. I don't believe that. I believe
anything put on this planet has the right to live.
So I got a friend hunter, and he believes the
same way. If he comes across the snake, he is
going to kill it, okay, And.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
He said, you don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You think that snakes they have rights similar to beavers
in that they have a right to be here just
as we do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We need to learn to live with them, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
All right, Well, first let's start with this. What is
the current state of snakes in Mobile and Balwin Counties?
Where are that? What are they up to right now?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
On a day like today, Oh, Henry, day like today,
they are out sunning, hoping that some little bird or
rodent will pass by them so they could feast.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So they're just out now. In the past and previous shows,
you've described snake emotions as snakes are mad today. Snakes
are not mad today. Do they have any emotional situation
going on today?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, sir. If they're sitting there on side the creek
or river or log, whatever it may be, they're probably
pretty hungry, and if somebody happens to come by, it
will aggravate the crap out of them because we will, Yes, sir,
they don't want to be fooled with. They just want
to eat them a meal and go back to their
den and wait about another week and venture out and
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try to feast again on some other little rodent.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So one of the more important questions that I should
ask is how should the homeowner, how should the human
being in South Alabama determine whether or not a snake
is dangerous. You're in the yard and you'll see a snake.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Two feet away.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
How can we instantly know if we're in danger or not?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Go Henry. There are about five very dangerous snakes in
our area. All of them are very distinct. If it's
a rattlesnake, you would hope that he would start rattling
and let you know that he's there. And it's not
that he's wanting to get you or nothing. He's just
letting you know that he's sitting there looking for a
(04:38):
brain food. Just leave him alone. They don't look to
bite you. They don't want to waste their venom on you.
And a copperhead if you're around a bunch of debris.
That's what they like to do is hang out under
debris trying to.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Get The question is, how do I know if the
snake is dangerous. It's a split moment. It could be
a cobra. We don't know two feet away. How do
I tell if the snake is dangerous or not?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
There are signs if it's got that triangular head. Uh,
there is a good chance, a very high chance, that
it is a poisonous steak. If it has the slitted
pupils eyes, there's a very good chance. Now, some of
your most deadliest snakes in the world from Australia and Africa,
now they do have the round pupiled eyes. But here,
(05:27):
uh now, now your uh, your copper head. When its
eyes are dilated, a lot of lights shining toward it,
its pupil will almost look round.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
All right, So I'm supposed to look for a triangle
head for danger and what else? What what about the eye?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Uh, slitted pupiled eyes, Henry, they that have round pupils
or there will have be slitted kind of like what
you would see in.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
A cat eye. All right, so uh, let's go. We've
already got a collar, Hello.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Collar, Hey, henry snake trapper. How a y'all doing?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What about it? Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Eve?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How you doing?
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Brother?
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I'm doing fine, I'm doing fine. I uh As a youth,
I used to roam in the creeks and catch cotton
mouse and in uh, copperheads a lot of the time,
plus a variety of nine venomous snakes. They weren't they
weren't as much fun to catch because they weren't as dangerous.
(06:23):
But uh yeah, down here we got. We got cotton mouse, copperheads, rattlesnakes,
and the occasional but rarely seen coral snake.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
You are absolutely right, brother, I.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Mean the rule on the rule on the coral snake
is uh, red and yellow kills a fella. Red and
black venom black. If you see the red and the
black together, it's not a coral snake.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, do you have a different rhyme snake trapper?
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, sir, it's a red touches yellow. It'll kill a fella.
If red touch is black, you can scratch its.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Back, all right, pat nelly, if you've been writing down the.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Rhymes, uh no, but I was gonna ask that question.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well all right, well, then you took all right, well,
well come up with another question. All right now wait
all right, strike it off your lists, all right, start sorry, Steve.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Steve, that's okay, that's ok so glad you.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You brought a rhyme in that was similar but different
from snake trappers.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yes, that's a bus yeah yeah, a bunch of different.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Rhymes things in the in the boy Scouts, you know,
a lot a lot of these, a lot of these
little rhymes that like lefty lucy, righty tighty, that that
type of thing. It actually does help you in life,
you know, on certain things. Especially the lefty lucy righty
tighty has helped me out many times trying to take
off a bolt or a nut or something and trying
(07:46):
to go the wrong way at first, like wait a minute,
wait a minute, let me check this left you Okay, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Going the wrong way exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's that is no one wants it's you feel silly
if you waste time, especially doing that, don't you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, Steve, do you know do you know what the
other snake is? The uh, the red on black? Do
you have any idea what that one's called?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I think they have several that are like that, they
have different kind of king snakes.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, sir, it's the starr.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
King snake, Scarlet kingsnake in California kingsnake. I think some
of them call it.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yes, sir, I can tell you. I can tell you
sure know an awful lot about them. Did you ever
eat them?
Speaker 9 (08:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I haven't eaten a snake at this point in time,
but I don't I don't kill him just for no reason.
If if you know, I find a venomous snake in
the vicinity of people, I just try to move it somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That is wonderful thing. Hey, Steve, we got to run.
We're up on the break, but Steve, thank you for
your phone call. And we're gonna have to do a
show about knives and swords and stuff with Steve coming
up sometime soon. All right, back with more Snake Trapper
here to talk snakes. Pat Nellie his groupie will ask
a question later.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We go for a crash with road blockage.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
West Mission.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five point twenty.
Today is Monday, Snake Trapper Day. Here on the Uncle
Henry Show doing a snake show. He's got a group
he here, Pat Nellie, who is gonna He's gonna ask
a question or two some sometime before the end of
the hour. Telephone number two five one four seven nine
(09:31):
two seven two three. That's two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. I've got my own questions,
but we do have callers for snake Trapper.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Hello, Color Tonight show is awesome. Snake Trapper, You're awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Thank you very much. Do you have a question for
snake Trapper?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Yeah, I just want to say snake trapper. I'm just
like what, I'm a snake trapper too.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What now your your phone broke up? What did you say?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
I'm a safe trapper also.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I'm just like you, Well, be careful man. Some of
them thinks to be very dangerous.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Yeah, you're right. I have to trap a big dangerous
sneak every day. I just put in my pair.
Speaker 11 (10:12):
I stopped that shit.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Freak goodness.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Don't you care?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, look, I don't we I talked about this
last week.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
If I have to come in here and just talk,
I'll come in here. I'll read the Bible. I'll just
read books and share thoughts and we'll go We'll go
that direction. If I can't go to the phones, but
no more of that, please. There are elderly women listening,
and then there are even older women listening. We don't
want the We don't want any of these people to
be scandalized when this show is on. I want to
(10:43):
make that pledge to people so that this show is
safe enough to put everybody into a state of slumber
as they listen. That is my fervent wish and dream
for this program. Two five one four seven nine two
seven two three The telephone number.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Hello color.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Unc Lenory. How are you.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm great, John, you are live on the air with
Snake Trapper Hello John, Hey.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Snake trapper Man, You're always a pleasure to listen to.
I just had one simple question for you. I live
like off a Shillinger where that flooring store is in Westbobile,
and I've seen a couple non venimous snakes in my
twenty years i've lived here. It doesn't bother me as
long as they don't get in my house and as
long as they're not venomous. But my simple question is
(11:31):
do mothballs help?
Speaker 12 (11:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Great question.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I believe they do, But I mean you got experts
as will say they do. Not The best prevention is
a kitticat right, right, So.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
You don't think the mothballs do anything at all the
older because they have a strong sense of smell.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
From what I understood, Grandma always seemed like they did,
and I believe they do. But you do have folks
out there that will deny the claim. Uh So, I mean,
I really don't know the true fact of it, but yes,
they do smell horrible. Snakes do sense things with their tongue,
that's sure, and you see them keep sticking their little
(12:14):
tongue out. They can taste the molecules in the air,
so I don't believe they would like that taste. Like
I said, I believe they work. I would recommend if
you have a place that you have a problem with,
give it a shot. I don't think it would hurt anything,
and I do believe that it will work to an extent.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
Okay, Well, thank you sir for your advice, and thank
you Henry.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I appreciate the question. Two five one four seven nine
seven two three. The telephone number.
Speaker 13 (12:46):
Hello color, Hey, this is blind Dog Micing point clear
Blond Dog Mike.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Hey, you doing, Mike.
Speaker 13 (12:53):
I'm doing fine. I used to check snakes for a
biologist up in Birmingham, and so I got used to
doing that when when I was in high school. But
you know, getting a rat snake and putting it under
our house, that's been one of the best things I've
ever done. And I do it when I find one
because we're up on piers about three feet off the
(13:13):
ground and we've got lattice work under there. So but
I never have a mouse problem because of that, because
they will hunt them down. They will. They can smell
them and hunt them down.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Oh, yes, sir too, they will. They will keep the
mice out of your chicken feed. They are egg eaters.
They will not harm the chickens. But man, if you can,
if you are on a bunch of chickens and you
can spare a couple eggs, they're worth their They're worth
their labor.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Yeah, I bet they are. I do have a question, sir.
I have noticed that a lot of the non poisonous
snakes will exhibit sort of a nervous behavior. And I've
asked some perpetologists this and they say, well, it just
doesn't you know, some do it and some don't. They'll
(14:02):
actually stick their tail in the leaves and vibrate it
back and forth like and it'll sound kind of like
a rattler, but it's not a rattler. I mean, I've
had a garter snake do it. I've had a banded
water snake do it, and another small snake do it,
and they sound it's like they sound like a rattler,
(14:23):
but they're not just funny. It's kind of like a
nervous response. I guess have you ever seen that.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yes, sir, I have. The cotton mouth is notorious for
doing that. You know, they can't they can't make a
sound other you know. I stepped over a log one
time out pig hunting and uh, man, I heard something.
It was that bumping and what it was doing. It
was sitting there rattling. It's bumping its tail up against
the log.
Speaker 13 (14:48):
It's log.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, yes or so Yeah, they do do that. They're
letting you know that they're there.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And snakes, Uh, they do not seek people. You know,
you have people say that they chase you. You know,
I don't know of anything.
Speaker 13 (15:02):
Oh, they don't do that.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
A copperhead, if there are little ones around and you
get anywhere near it will dart towards you, but far
as chasing down the road or something no curtain, they
will not do that. Though copperhead is very dangerous when
it has young around, they're more dangerous probably, you know,
far as being aggressive than probably any snake out there.
Speaker 13 (15:22):
In my first I had troubled discerning between a banded
you know, like a rat snake or a banded water snake.
But most of the water snakes I have down here
on Bailey's Creek, they're all banded water snakes. And I
have yet to see a cotton cop you know, cotton
mouth down here watermarks, and I've been here since eighty nine.
(15:44):
So but down here, you know, all the predators are
after those snakes. So you know that's the way it goes. Yeah, well,
it's really really nice to have you on because you know,
we're so snake rich down here. It's good for people.
In my opinion. Don't kill the non poisonous snakes because
they really help keep a healthy piece of property, and
(16:06):
they're not going to hurt you. They really aren't.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
No, they won't. And the best way to tell the
difference between that rat snake and the banded water snake,
the banded water snake has a lot of similarities to
the cotton mouth. They're short and stout to where your
rat snakes are generally long and slender.
Speaker 13 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're all good snakes. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
You have a good day, you too, my brother. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Great to have you call in, Blind and Dog Mike.
We do have another caller waiting. But caller, you may
want a call back after the break, or you can
hang on. I'll leave that up to you. Pat Nelly,
before we go to break, you got a question for
snake trapper.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, I just wanted to know. I grew up, like
I was telling you earlier, out off Moffatt Road, and
I'm sixty one and never seen a rattlesnake in a
wild But up here in midtown I see all of
snakes everything, of course, not a rattler. And I was
just wondering why did I never see one playing in
the woods all my life?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Usually you probably wasn't in the air. The thing about
the rattlesnake that you're seeking. When you do find one,
there's generally four or five more round there, what you
call a pit viper. They'd like to hang out a lot.
They'll all din down with You know, it's not rare
to move something and find five or six of them
at a time. Why you've never come across one, I
(17:30):
don't know. Westmobile out toward Wilmer is notorious for some
big rattlesnakes, and you see a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
All right, we've got to take a time We've got
to take a time out. Then we're gonna come back
with more Snake Trapper Show here on the Uncle Henry
Show here on these radio seven to ten WNTM. Meanwhile,
you can listen to previous episodes as podcasts on the
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here if you have any questions about snakes two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seven two three that
asked the snake trapper a question about snakes. Also, his
(19:02):
groupie Pat Neelly is here. He will also question snake
trapper about snakes before we are out of this half hour.
When was the first time you were bit by a snake?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Probably when I was about fourteen years old, over Henry.
It wasn't nothing severe, just got tricked by. Wasn't much
to it at all, a little bit of swelling, you know,
nothing major.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So the average listener if they get bit by a snake,
if they're hiking in the woods, working in the yard,
what should they do if they get bit by a snake?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, Uncle Henry, no, two snake bites are the same,
And now'll explain what I'll explain to you. If, for instance,
a rattlesnake bites you, it will yield anywhere from two
hundred milligrams of venom up to eight hundred milligrams of venom. Now,
either one of that amount of venom is enough to
(19:57):
kill a man and up to five men if that
bite is in the correct place. Now, if it bites
you in say a muscle tissue where there's no blood
vessels or nothing, after about thirty minutes, you're gonna start
filling tingling all over your body. Your breathing's gonna start
being restricted. And after about six hours that flash is
(20:21):
going to start deteriorating. And then if you're not seek
the correct medical attention in two days, you will die. Now,
if that same bite hits you and it gets a
blood vessel or an ottery, that will process will intensify
very quickly. One good thing about the snake bites, Uncle Henry.
(20:44):
There are under ten people a year that die from
snake bites. The biggest reason for death is the diamondback rattlesnake.
It is North America's deadliest snake. Okay, So, like I said,
that's all based on the amount of venom you received
from that bike.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So are we at a point where if somebody is
bit by the snake that you've described the deadliest one,
if they get to a hospital pretty quick, they're going
to be Okay, yes, sir, they.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Will start at minister from anti venom. It's very expensive
depending on the severity a bite, on how many vowels
of that anti venom you would need. You could need one,
two or up till probably about fifteen or sixteen. Okay,
we've said, depending on the severity of that bike.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
All right, now we've got a caller, Pat Nelly, have
a question ready for when the caller is finished. All right,
so you have between now and the end of this
call to figure out your question.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Hello, caller, I forgot all my questions.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Hey guys, I don't think I got to tell you
all who this is.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
But we I've been cooking around here for a lot
of years and we know them to do, you.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Know, burgers and hot dogs and things like that.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
But I've been thinking about cooking some snakes and didn't
know if I should. Uh, you know, if you if
you do garlic, butter or just salt and pepper, or
we're gonna smoke them and do something like that. I
figure we bite them first before they bite us.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'll tell you what, brother, the best way to cook
a rattlesnake. If you're frying it, you would want to
fry just like you would your pork chops or your chicken. Uh.
If you Mari nature por jobs and chicken, uh do it?
The same way.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
If you smoke it, do it the same way. Uh.
But uh are you are you that that Billy John
bunky fellow.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
We ain't gonna go in there, but just listen here.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
What we're gonna do.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
We probably gonna grudge it and some butter and some
garlic and then.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Put it the deep cry deep put in their.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Whole hole, and they just share it with the family.
Everybody grab hold of just keep on it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Hey. Uh, if it's big enough, it'll be uh, it'll
be enough to feed the whole family.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And the person elegantly whoever that as they elegantly hung
up on themselves.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I appreciate that, bear bear much.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Two five one three the telephone number to ask a
question of the snake trapper Pat Nelly, Snake Trapper groupie,
what is your question for snake Trapper?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, it's a question he's kind of already answered. But
my son has texted me about the the childhood rhyme
for the coral and the king snake.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Can you repeat that, yes, sir, the into the microphone.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Both of the snakes have three distinct colors, red, black,
and yellow. The black will be in the center of
two red rings, or the black will be in the
center of two yellow rings. If red touches yellow, it'll
kill a fellow. If red touches the black, you can
(23:48):
scratch its back. So the red touch in the black
is the scarlet kingsnake. And there are a few that
are out there that's similar. But them two snakes look
exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
There.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
The black band is exactly the same size, and so
is the red and yellow rings. It is crazy and
one of them is very deadly. The uh, this coral snake, uh,
is probably one of the most powerful venoms. It's just
that they're small. They're rare. You hardly ever hear one
(24:20):
of them. I did have the opportunity to get to
see one last year and uh, but man, they they're
one of the They produce a Their venom is neurotoxin too,
which is different from all your pit vipers around here.
All your pit vipers around here has what you call hemotoxin,
which affects skin, tissue, blood. A bite from a rattlesnake,
(24:43):
the effects on it. You start doing internal bleeding and
your flesh starts deteriorating. That's from the hemotoxin. Now, the
neurotoxin in the coral snake affects your nerves. It'll actually
make you start convulting, you know, to fall out.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Right, We have another color, Pat Nelly, thank you for
asking about the rhyme again.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Hello Color, Good evening, Uncle Henry Burt heard.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You are live on the radio with Snake Trapper. Hello Burt.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
How you doing, brother?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Doing great? Doing great. When I was twelve, my parents
took me to see Bellngraft Gardens for the first time. Yes,
and I walked a little close to this bush, and
all of a sudden, I hear this this, And I
looked down under the bush and there was this fairly
big snake with shiny blue and gold bands. It was very,
(25:35):
very beautiful, and I'm backed slowly away. I wasn't in
any danger, but I'm wondering if you could tell me
what species that was.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It sounds like a one of them supersized legless lizards.
Was the blue? Was it kind of like a velvet blue?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
No, it was a It was like a medium blue
and kind of goldish yellow and shiny.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Okay, boy, how how long was it?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
It was pretty long? Okay, Well, it was cuiled up
so I couldn't tell you exactly how long. But it
looked fairly big.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Okay, well that's pretty sure. It wouldn't be the legless lizard,
you know, because they get probably about eighteen inches of max.
But man, I would really have to look at it
because you know, for instance, the rattlesnake, there are actually
thirty six different species just here in America. The rat snake,
there's probably up to forty five different species, the water snake.
(26:30):
I mean, they come in all different shades and varieties,
but you kind of go by the environment then what
they look like or what's around them. Sounds like it
may have been some type of rat snake to me.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Well, I was.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Kind of kind of scared till I got a good
distance from it, but I appreciated its beauty. It was
a very beautiful snake.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yes, sir, I could almost just from you explain it
to me. I can almost guarantee you that it was
a non venomous snake. I don't know if a venomous
snake that looks like that in our area.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
All right, thank you snake trapper, and thank you for
taking my call.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Henry hey Bert, thank you always. The players are to
hear from you and it sounds great hearing Bert sounding
so uh so healthy these days compared to previous years.
We're gonna take a time out for more, for more
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(27:28):
I'm gonna have to I think we're gonna go to
Pat Nelly's questions. See if he has any more questions. Now, oh,
you've got one, all right, save it.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He's got one. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We're gonna get Pat Nelly's question and maybe your phone
call when we come back. Snake Trapper on the UK
Glandra Show here on news radio seven to ten WNTM.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Back after the break, Uncle.
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is here doing a snake Trapper show, just talking about
snakes here at the beginning of snake season. What is
the height of snake activity? Would that be summer, would
it be or would it be before it gets real hot?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Okay, if you asked any turkey hunter, they'll tell you
it's spring time of the year.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, spring is it for the high activity?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Of the snakes, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Now, the hotter it gets in the summertime, now you know,
you know the snake can't regulate its body right. Too
much cold's not good for it, and also too much
heat is not good for it. That's when you start
finding the snakes in your toilet. Is in the hottest
days of the year.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Okay, So this is this is a time of year
where we're more likely to see snakes out and about.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yes, sir, you'll see this when you'll come across them
in the woods. Man turkey hunter I've spoke with this year,
and I worked with four different turkey hunters. And man,
they they said, the copperhead. I mean they're seeing copper
heads like crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's really, yes, sir, Now we have we already had
John call in about mothballs. Aside from getting a cat,
Is there anything a person can do to ease their
mind about snakes in the yard.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
There's a lot of people worried.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
They don't want to they don't even want to see one.
Is there anything other than a cat that you can
do to get rid of snakes or keep them away
from your property?
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yes, sir. If you have a well groomed yard. Uh
don't don't you know, have trash around or anything that
will attract them. Uh, any kind of debris. You know,
they'll look for shelter. They're gonna get under any kind
of uh you know, especially in the summer. Uh, they'll
start getting under trash piles or bushes. Uh. You know,
(29:53):
like if you if you feed animals, leaving food out,
that will attract rodents and that'll attract the snakes. Uh.
Anybody that is getting squirrels in there, rats in their
attic or in their house, that will attract snakes to it.
So at all costs, you and I need to try to
keep the rodents side of there in the in the snakes.
Most snakes found in abandoned cars are in there trying
(30:17):
to eat rats and mice that is trying to take
shelter in the summer or the winter of the rain. So, yes, sir,
there are there are things you can do to prevent them.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So keep your yard clean is number one?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Your yard clean?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Now, Pat Nelly, do you have a final question for
snake trapper.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Well let me put this in two questions. Okay, could
we go to all together and buy some rattlesnake meat
and have a like a snake fry.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Pat, I would love to do that.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
What what is it a pound?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Uh, it's it's probably it's not cheap. You can probably
buy it right now on Amazon. I know you can
the turtle meat. But man, the best thing to do
is put the word out somebody that gets one, because,
like I said, man, five your house, Man, I'd love
to come across one. I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I mean the fish fright here, I mean the snake
fright your house.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, be fine, the snake trapper. I'm sure she'll be happy.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Okay. And the next question would be how did you
get into snakes? I mean, it's fascinating just sitting here.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And please speak into the microphone when you answer this question.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, sir, when I was a young man, I come
up very hard. And at the time, from time I
was probably about thirteen, I knew a biologist that would
want snakes. He actually run into him at Seul City
and that is probably less than a half half a
mile from one of the snakiest placed in mobile right,
there were forty five meets on we're industrial valves at Yes,
(31:50):
there is a big, old, huge swamp there as a
child or a young man, I could go there at
any time in fill a order. So you know, at
that time, you could get ten dollars a foot for
a snake. So you know you get a two and
a half foot that's twenty five dollars snake.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And you could you could catch as many as certain
times a year you can catch as many a sex,
five whatever. But mayah, you could always feel in order.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
So yeah, I've always thought you was putting on an act.
But you you're pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
No, I don't know about all that now. Most people
say anybody that do stuff like it ain't too smart.
So very interesting, but yeah, it was. I mean I
could as a as a very young man like that,
I could. I could make enough money in a Weekend's
what a grown man will making in a week So
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I was on shockcock Show one time and I told
him a story about I'd had left there and I
had five cotton mouse and they ranged from probably two
foot to probably three and a half foot, all in
a five gallon bucket. And at the time I had
just a board with a cinder block on the board
in the back back of the car, you know, between
(33:01):
the where the feat go and halfway home, I happened
to notice that bucket had turned over, so almost flipped
my car, you know, trying to get it wowed down
so I can get out of there because they had
been piled up in there together and they was not happy.
So and I did not know where they all were
(33:22):
at wind up catching about five of them I believe
it was, and there was one I never did find,
so wow, I don't know if he got out of
the car what happened, but man, yeah, that was that
was a neary feeling because them being in the bucket
with five other ones didn't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All Right, we are out of time. Snake Trapper, thank
you for coming in and talking about snakes.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Just Sir Grenerin, thank you for having me. Man, it's
been a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It is always a pleasure here and you talk about
the snakes. Pat Nelly, thank you for coming in and
showering Snake Trapper with devotion as you have. That has
always been all the attention that you've given Snake Trapper.
Sure he appreciates it. We'll have to do this again sometime.
There is more Uncle Henry show to come after the
(34:08):
news break here on news.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Radio seven ten WNTM.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We're gonna get into unsnaky things after the news break,
(34:37):
That says The Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seven ten WNTM. In this half hour of show, I'm
gonna check some voicemail if you'd like to leave me
one voicemail numbers two five one two one six nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six nineteen
(34:59):
seven to leave a message for the Uncleanry Show and
the listeners of The Uncleanary Show. Now, let me start
with sixty seven year old Chris of west Locksley. He
left me a message over the weekend. I like starting
with him because he's almost always upbeat because he's in
(35:20):
West Locksley counting his blessings. Yes, a lot of his
phone calls. He's counting his blessings. And this is a
lesson for somebody like me. Sometimes I need to remember
to stop a moment and count my blessings in life.
For example, right now, I'm broadcasting in a wonderful building
(35:41):
with electricity in it, air conditioning and heating. They have
coffee provided to me. There are a lot of blessings
that some of us take for granted, and I've got
the wonderful blessings here. Anyway, let's listen. Here's sixty seven
year old Chris of West Locksley with a phone call
from yesterday.
Speaker 12 (36:00):
Dad, Uncle Roe, calling you from the front porch here
on this Sunday afternoon at three twenty four pm.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
A beautiful day.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Once again, had several those here recently. I hadn't taken
to some zerd tech day there shortly a short time ago,
thover the fallen it's kind of thick, but oh all right,
you take the good with the bag when you live
in Paradise.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh, by the way, you you uh, you've got pollen
there that stick you had to take some zer tank.
Last night I was blessed. I was invited to go
to a media preview of the Gulf Coast Chinese Lantern
Festival at Bellingraf Gardens. Beautiful, it is good. I think
that opens up Thursday Wednesday or Thursday night. It's it's beautiful,
(36:48):
by the way, if you decide you want to go
with your family, very beautiful, very beautiful. But I walked
through Bellingraf Gardens last night and I don't know that
I've been to Bellingrath at this time time of year.
Maybe ever. I've been there all through my life at
various points, but I don't think I don't think I've
ever been there when pollen has been like it is now.
(37:12):
So today I am I am wishing I had some
of your xertech d sixty seven year old Chris. But
anyway back to the voicemail.
Speaker 12 (37:21):
You take the good with the bag when you live
in paradise. Yes, well, I was going to tell you
what we've done to the church house this weekend. More
eating was involved. Yesterday Saturday, we had our annual spring fling.
That's where all the kiddies come and show up, and
they had the big bounce houses and all that good stuff,
and several of them get out there and do some cooking,
(37:46):
some frying up fish and frying up chicken.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Hey, before you go on, you mentioned a bounce house
and all this stuff your spring flinging this weekend. It
was Saturday afternoon and I was in my yard doing
some yard stuff midtown mobile and one of my neighbors
had a party, and I don't know what kind of
(38:11):
party it was. It started around noon and they had
one of these inflatable bounce houses in their backyard. I
could see it over the fences. There are a few
houses away. So they cranked up the really loud music.
They were playing a bizarre combination of rap music, rap
(38:34):
and hip hop music and country music. You would hear
rap and hip hop and then Toby Keith, you'd hear
rap and hip hop, and you'd hear Billy Crrington. It
was just back and forth between country and rap and
that party. They started at noon, just screaming and hollering
(38:58):
and really loud. This went at least until nine or
ten o'clock at night. This was these people, these people,
it was like a ten hour party, ten or eleven
hour party. Anyway, back to your spring flang. You had
a spring.
Speaker 12 (39:13):
Flaning, several of them get to get out there and
do some cooking, some frying up fish and frying up chicken. Yes,
it's just a wonderful time. They's all kinds of side dishes,
huck puppies, col slough baked beans, and then a lot
(39:35):
of store bought type of desserts which I ain't got
a problem with that, moon pies and Little Debbie Swiss cakes.
There was some homemade brownies too. By the way, I
forgot about them. I had me a couple of them.
I'll tell you what, baby, I've attended a lot of
congregations in my time, but this one loves to eat
(39:58):
more than anything.
Speaker 8 (39:59):
I ain't got a problem.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
It ain't a criticism. I ain't got a problem with that, brother.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Hey, maybe the Lord knew you'd match up really good
with these people. Put you there for a reason, man
that I got to hear the whistling in.
Speaker 12 (40:15):
I ain't got a problem with that, brother, Man. That
was some count I'm telling you. And then of course
coming up here in a couple of days on Tuesday,
be doing the men's Breakfast Tuesday morning. Yeah, gotta love it.
Speaker 11 (40:32):
Oh.
Speaker 12 (40:32):
By the way, Also speaking of love of it, looking
forward to the state Man snake Man being on your
show tomorrow telling us which is the good snakes and
which is the bad snakes and all that other good stuff,
and perhaps seeking enlighteness on the beaver's and the pothums
(40:54):
and whatnot. So I'm really looking forward to it. Ought
to be an outstanding program.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Hell then, Row.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Ti rold tid Row, thank you for the roll tides.
Sixty seven year old Chris of West Oxley and thtting
and thank you for letting me live through you with
your experiences with this this congregation of people who love
the Lord and love to eat the blessings of the
Lord with various pot luck events. Now and if we
(41:24):
didn't cover what you wanted covered in the Snake Trapper
episode that aired last hour, I'll I'll have to bring
him back in a few months and maybe we can
cover some things we didn't cover in the last hour
of the program. Voice my number again, two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one
two one six, nineteen seventy six, to leave a message
(41:47):
for the Uncle Henry Show. Let's see before we go
to break, I've got time for a message from Buford man.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Hey interview in the pododcast I'm listening to the Ron
Rings Interview. Absolutely my magnificent Henry.
Speaker 12 (42:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
By the way, that podcast available on the iHeartRadio app.
The Ron Reims Interview on The Uncle Henry Show, Henry.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I tell you what I would love to see you
do more interviews with old timer media types, Henry. They
you media folks were in the know of mobile history
and turn events back in the day, and it is
absolutely fascinating. Henry Man thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed listening to what
(42:40):
was going on the mobile during the seventies and eighties
and with Reno getting putting jail and whether he thought
he was railroaded or not. Henry, please have some more
of these retired radio types coming on and having these interviews.
Speaker 9 (42:57):
Absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
We have a good day you for Thank you. I
would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
If you have any suggestions of who you'd like me
to ask to come on, please send them my way.
All right, let's see, gotta take a time out back
with more Uncle Henry's Show. After the break, Uncle Henry Show,
(43:32):
News Radio seventy ten WNTM news headlines coming up in
ten minutes before we get there. More voicemail messages from listeners.
Voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
Last week I shared observations from the Mad Trucker. He
(43:54):
wrote in the Joe Caine Parade, and he said that
he saw standing in the back of Marti Gras crowds
watching parades people that were they looked unhappy, stone faced
and I've seen this too. I've seen this too, people
standing at the back of the crowd looking quite nonplussed.
(44:15):
Where you wonder wonder why they're there. Are they there
to just stand in the back and disapprove of Marti Gras?
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Are they just monitoring? What are they doing? Now?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Sixty seven year old christ Off West Locksley called in
and suggested that maybe those people had those rough looks
on their face because they saw l D the mad
trucker and had a reaction to him. Now, LD would
like to respond to sixty seven year old Chris's comment, Hey.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Uncle Henry l. D. Well, you know I take it.
I can take it. I can dish it out and
I could take it. Christopher Mosley said that the reason
why everybody was browning because they saw my husbly mug
I hit the paraise, and you know, I find humor
in that. Ain't a big deal. I've attacked Chris NonStop.
But I would just like to say, Chris, if if
(45:07):
you want to make amends and be friends, I bet
you come on down Friday to to Uncle Henry and Greers.
Oh never mind, they don't have any free food there.
Speaker 14 (45:19):
I don't think you'll be there.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
And there he goes the bad Trucker. Yes, by the way,
I will be broadcasting live this Friday, technology permitting at
Greer's Saint Louis Market in downtown Mobile on Saint Louis Street.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
I'll be there the Uncle.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Henry Show from five to six thirty, maybe later, but
definitely five to six thirty at greer Saint Louis Market.
And I would hypothetically theoretically like to meet you. As
long as you don't grab me or anything, and as
long as you do some minimal grooming and or bathing,
I think I would love to meet I'd love to
(46:00):
meet you theoretically hypothetically. Now, speaking of the Mad Trucker,
the Mad Trucker has another message for us, and this
has to do with a caller. I think it was Friday.
It was either Thursday or Friday. A man called the
show live to talk about how daylight saving time didn't
(46:23):
bother him. Flipping the clock forward and flopping it back
didn't bother him because he's retired and he doesn't have
to get up. He gets up when he wants to,
goes to bed when he wants to, and that inspired
the Trucker.
Speaker 9 (46:38):
Well, Henry LD I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Was that John not like you said, John Patrick, I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (46:44):
But that guy that said he.
Speaker 14 (46:45):
Is retired and goes to bed when he wants and
gets up when he wants.
Speaker 8 (46:51):
I want out, and we say one thing.
Speaker 11 (46:52):
Congraduations, sir, graduations.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
I'm getting closer to that point than ever.
Speaker 11 (46:59):
I'm not going to like.
Speaker 14 (47:00):
I know about ten of my friends who retired six months.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Later, they're right back in the truck. They're right back
at their job. They're right back to it something now.
Not me. I'm gonna go to bed when I want,
and I'm gonna get up when I wan't. So congratulations,
are very proud of you. How long did you work
before you retired?
Speaker 14 (47:21):
How many years you put in?
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Quire minds want to know.
Speaker 9 (47:24):
I'm looking at.
Speaker 14 (47:25):
Forty six, forty six years trucking.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (47:29):
Wow, I'm not ready.
Speaker 14 (47:31):
To put this, put the steering wheel aside, and watch the.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Sunrise and go to bed when I feel like it
and wake up when I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Well, and I wish you the best there, ld. I'll
tell you I've done lots of hours of radio with
John McNeil of Mobile Bay Financial Solutions and his daughter
Virginia O'Brien, and they say a lot of their a
lot of their clients, a lot of them will retire
(48:03):
and then unretire, and a lot of it has to
do with wanting to have a purpose and while you're
still healthy, accomplished something. So you may not get behind
the wheel, but LD you'll find something, probably won't you.
Maybe it'll be all volunteer work. In fact, I have
(48:24):
relatives that were retired maybe twenty years ago, and when
they retired, the first five to ten years of their retirement,
they were busier. They were busier retired than they were
when they were working. They just picked up all these
different volunteer things they were doing. They were always running around.
(48:46):
They seemed busier when they were retired when they instead
of working. But LD the mad Trucker, when you retire,
please check in once or twice and let us know
how you're adjusting to retirement because you I'm interested personally,
because I know you've got that on that shift you've
(49:08):
been driving at night for so many years. That is
going to be a gigantic adjustment to have a life
where you're not awake in the middle of the night
every night. That is I can't I can't wait to
hear that goes for you. But I wish you the best.
I hope you enjoy your retirement and let us know
when when the big day comes, maybe we can have
(49:29):
an Uncle Henry Show uh celebration for you. All right,
out of time for this edition of The Uncle Henry
Show again, if you'd like to leave a message two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That leave
a message for the Uncle Henry Show and the listeners
(49:49):
of the Uncle Henry Show now again, thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. As they say in Sarland,
have a good one and as say say in Theodore,
take it easy.
Speaker 4 (50:06):
Alright later
Speaker 14 (50:08):
Mhm
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