Spiro Wins

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
How's thereby doing?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
And remember hears got it, we guarantee it.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
And now live from Mobile, Alabama, as the Stomach Churn
starring Uncle Henry coming to you through a electro voice microphone.
Joining Henry will be callers, emailers, radio and internet listeners.

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So without further ado, in the style of that great
country music legend, Minnie Pearl, here's in.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much for listening
to the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. Once again, here we are together, me and
you trying to figure out what is going on, what

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is going on in the world around us. Now I
would like to begin as we get through all the
stuff going on here, a big congratulations to Mayor elect Spiro,
chair a goddess, and Lucy Greer and their families and

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all the people that worked with them, just everybody involved
in that campaign. Congratulations to them on their victory what
looked to be a close one to many of us.
Congratulations to Mayor Elect Spirit and his family on the victory.
And uh, a little bit of history now as we

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witnessed yesterday with the next mayor of Mobian Mobile being
the young former Judge Spirou chair of Goddess. UH would
love to hear from you as to why you think
it turned out the way it did. Just curious, what
do you think? Why do you think it broke the
way it broke and it turned out the way that

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it turned out. Two five one four seven nine two
seven two three The telephone number that's two five one
four seven nine two seven two three.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Spiro had quite a money advantage over Barbara drumming. Barbara's
drummonds still came very close. She came very very close.
Even with that huge disadvantage money wise, still came very close.
I'm sure many other people smarter than me have already

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analyzed this for you in mobile radio, talk, online, social media,
even in the antiquated news websites out there. I'm sure
you've already heard a lot of analysis or read a
lot of analysis today. But I can just from my perspective,
I thought that the the big endorsements that came in

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from people like Pete Buddha Judge lit a fire under
some people. I just think some voters that may have
just thought, well, I don't know, is it that important
that I vote. I think a lot of these bringing
in things that reminded people of national politics. I think

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that may have motivated some of the spureau voters. But
then again, I don't know. You probably talked to more
people than I do about this kind of stuff. Two
five to one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number that's two five to one four seven
nine two seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. But quite a mayor's race. It wasn't

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nearly as nasty as it could have gotten. We've seen
nasty mayor's races in the past. I don't want to
bring up too many of them, but we've seen that
nasty mayor's races in the past. We've also seen lunatics
run in the past. It was kind of kind of

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civilized in many ways this election, so I'm thankful for that.
But I'm still curious as to why you think it
went the way that it went, So if you have
any thoughts on that, I would love to hear from you.
Now today there was a mobile city Council meeting. I
will share with you some coverage of that because there
was a little there were some things said about the

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election at the City council meeting today. So we'll get
to all of that and more as the Uncle Henry
Show proceeds here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. Now,
before I share more thoughts on the mayor's r the
excitement and check usaw with their new mayor. They got
a new mayor and Robertsdale Prichard. We had a lot

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of new mayors popping up. Before we get to you
that other stuff, let me go to the phones. I
do have a living caller. Hello, Color.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Henry.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, hello, you're live on the radio.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
I'm getting him.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
I got my wife behind me talking about say it,
say it, say it? Okay, I just want to tell
you what a great times she had.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
What do you mean, hey there, we're talking a great
time at the election yesterday.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
You kill you at the at the at the at
the election we had. I had a good time and
I was glad I voted, and I thank you for
helping me make a logical discision.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh well, you're very welcome. Well, I want to thank
By the way, this is Cliff and missus Cliff on
the phone with us. I went out to dinner, my
wife and I went out to dinner with Cliff and
his wife this past Friday and had a wonderful time.
I just want people to know how it is. It
was such a great joy to spend time with both

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of you. You are both you just you give you
uplift people. So it was great to have that companionship.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
Man.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
That was what I call elegant. That was beautiful. That
was thee call out of this world. We thank you
and your gracious wife. She was a great host. And
I'll tell you something else, it's not about what color.
It's not about politics. It's about good people. You have

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a blessed Helen.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Well you too, you have a blessed day too. Thank
you very much, Cliff and missus Cliff for the nice
phone call here at the beginning of the show. But yeah,
we went out. Cliff has helped the Uncle Henry Show
through the years. There were many years when we were
doing Caller of the Year competitions that I know he
won at least once. He may have won more than

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once per caller of the year. And so that having
his great phone calls that make me think a big
help to the program. And also his wife, she organized
and proceeded over my wedding to my wife. This is

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something that I've never talked about on the air. I
thought I was going to be talking about Sparrow winning
the election, and suddenly I'm talking about this. But I
had a wonderful, wonderful marriage ceremony that was completely organized
by Cliff's wife and just going to be in our
hearts for the rest of our lives. The great kindness

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that we have received from Cliff and his wife and
my wife and I. After the dinner, we talked about
amongst ourselves about how wonderful it is to have these
these relationships with people, and how one of the great
forms of education there is. You can learn a lot

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from reading books, no doubt. You can learn a lot
from going to school, no doubt. But the best way
to learn in life, I think, is by talking to
other people and by traveling to places that you're not from.
And we learned a lot just from talking to Cliff
and his wife, and I could tell that Cliff has

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learned an incredible amount just from his travels in the world.
So anyway, thank you for that. Look gonna take a break.
When we come back, we'll get back into the election.
I've got voicemails on the outcome I want to share
with you. I've got coverage of the city council meeting
where they talked about the election last night. We'll get

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into all of that as the Uncle Henry Show continues
here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM seven ten times.

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This is the Uncle Henry Show. It's five twenty news
headlines coming up in ten minutes from Fox ten and
Fox Radio National News. There was a Mobile City council
meeting today and there were reactions to last night's victory,

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the Spiro victory. Now I've got a few I've got
just a very brief remarks from Mobile Mayor Standy Simpson.
He the sound was not working at the beginning of
the meeting for the YouTube, so I guess that was
a blessing in some ways. But sound somebody decided to

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turn the sound on and it came on in the
middle of Mayor Stimpson's remarks. And so here we join
Mayor's Standy in the middle of his remarks as he
talks about the election. Here is some post election remarks
from Standy Simpson from today's Mobile City Council meeting.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
And we know from scripture that where quote.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Some scripture they turned the microphone on just in time
to get some scripture quotation.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
And we know from scripture that where brothers live in
harmony and where brothers are united, that God commands a blessing.
And so my encouragement to Spirou is to find a
way to make sure the God's face still shines upon
the city of Mobile as he tries to unite us

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and move us forward. I'm excited to work with him
in a transition plan. We're going to do everything we
can to make sure that all the institutional knowledge that
we've learned over the last twelve years, and the things
of how we can move the city forward, deposit that
with him. And then as he puts his team together,
we will be in the background, and if he needs

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our help, we'll be glad to give it to him.
But he will be the mayor and I'll be citizen Sandy.
But I really believe that the best is yet to
come for the city. I also want to thank Lisa Lambert.
I've never run an election, none of us in here.
I've ever run an election, but I sense that it's
not an easy thing to do, and she's probably aged

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ten years over the last few days of the last
three weeks, So Lisa, thank you so much for what
you've done.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
All right, there got a little scriptural reference from the mayor,
and also he mentioned something the institutional knowledge, wanting to
make sure they pass down what institutional knowledge they have
to the next administration. I don't know if that resonates
with you or not. I don't know what kind of
work you've done in your life, but I've worked for

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companies where people have been laid off in the past.
I'm not mentioning any company my name, but I've worked
for some companies where people have been laid off, and
one of the things you miss. You miss the people
that get laid off, but you also miss what they knew,
the institutional knowledge that the experience that walks out the door.

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So I'm glad that they're trying to make sure that
they prepare the incoming administration with as much institutional knowledge
as they can before they come in and run things.
I know it doesn't sound like much to you, but
in practice it is very important. If you have somebody
handing off a baton that doesn't want to hand it
off and they don't want to be helpful and pass

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all this stuff on it can cause some problem, so
glad to hear that. Let's see some more congratulations. Here
is Mobile City Councilman Joel Daves.

Speaker 7 (13:14):
All right, Disc five Counsel of days.

Speaker 10 (13:17):
Thank you, Miss President. I would like to congratulate mister
Chergatis on his victory. I thought both candidates ran ran
good campaigns, and I think that the voters of the
City Mobile have spoken. I want to commend Representative Drummond
on her concession speech, which I thought was very warm

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hearted and tended to heal loans that are sometimes created
during elections. So I thought it was overall a very
well run election, and commend the candidates. Thank you, Miss President.

Speaker 11 (13:50):
Thank accounts to day this or two.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
All right, and let's see Gina Gregory also with some congratulations.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
District seven Vice president.

Speaker 12 (14:00):
Thank you, mister President. I want to join my colleagues
and Mayor Stimpson in thanking Lisa Carroll, our city clerk
and chief Elections officer, and all of your staff and
of course all of the administration folks who were involved
in last months and then yesterday's election. It is a
very difficult, very time consuming job, and you will do

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it well. Thank you very much for all that you did. Also,
congratulations to our Mayor elect Cherry Goddess. We look forward
to working with him and his team and moving the
city forward. I also want to commend Representative Drummond for
her campaign, very well run, very positive campaign. And also

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last night when the Mayor elect made his concession speech,
I was very happy to hear him say one of
the first things he would do would be to reach
out to Representative drum An in order to talk with
her and see how they can work together on some
of the things that she brought to the table and
was concerned about during the campaign. And I certainly hope
that happens and we all get together and work toward

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uniting the city as best we can in these next
four years. So again, congratulations to everybody, appreciate all of
that into almost Citizen Sandy, thank you for all you've
done for the city. We look forward to saying that
a couple more times.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
All right, now, there was a little bit more congratulations.
There was one other councilman that wanted to congratulate the
candidates and the way they ran their races.

Speaker 13 (15:43):
Josh Jock.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, Jockwood, who rarely speaks at link at the City
council meeting.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
District says Counselan Woods, thank you, miss resident.

Speaker 14 (15:57):
I too want to congratulate Mary Lake Cherry goddess. And
I'm also commented on the represent of drum and the
race and then her concession speech that she had it
definitely was was was a move towards UNTI and and
again I respect the respect representative Drumming a lot. Uh,
the race that both of them ran were very good

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and I think the yesterday results show that. But but
kind of just to echo what the mayor said moving forward,
obviously we pick a candidate that then we go vote
for our candidate, and we have the signs in the yards,
we have the bumper stickers we have, but today that's
over with. We we have a mayor elect. We we
we know who the next mayor is going to be.

(16:40):
And I really just want to want to just emphasize
the importance have come together. Mobiles best days are ahead
of her, and uh, the only way we're gonna we're
gonna achieve those best days, only way we're going to
have those best days is that if we unite and
we come behind our scene, we support our candidate that
that was elected at the candidate elect our mayor elect again.

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You know, the best days of the Citymobile are ahead.
There's seven council districts, there's over two hundred thousand people
that call theirselves mobilions, and it's going to take each
one of us. Even though, and I won't dive into
my diet tribe of the lack of voting turnout, but
that's for another day. But I do appreciate everyone that
did come and vote. I think you're District six. You

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came out, you voted, you outdid yourself. So I really
do appreciate that. But again, I just want to really
emphasize that moving forward, and it's going to take all
seven districts, it's going to take the new mayor to
push mobile to the next step. So I just wanted
to comment on that.

Speaker 13 (17:37):
Josh Jock, Yes, Jock would gaining in Gravitas.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
At city Hall. More show after the break, Uncle Henry

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show here on news Radio seven ten WN Tim It's
five thirty five telephone number two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. That's two five one four
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at iHeartMedia dot com. After the voting was done, I

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got some voicemails phoned in to the Uncle Henry Show.
Let's see. Let me go to this voicemail from I
think this was earlier today.

Speaker 9 (18:52):
Go tight, well, uncomely, it looks like the City of Mobiles.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
You Montra should be fear got it.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Spiro's got it? Do you guarantee it all?

Speaker 10 (19:05):
Right?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well? Thank thank you sixty eight year old Chris of
wes Likesley for the voicemail. Let's see now Before the
before the final results were announced, Bufford called in and
was convinced Barbara Drummond had won. I'm not going to
play that message for you. I don't want to embarrass

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Beiufford too much. But here he called back. He called
back later.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
And of this there's Ufard. Thank god I was wrong
in my prediction. I didn't think he was gonna pull
it off there for a minute. Man Mobil will live
to see a few more years.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
You have a good day, Beefford. Thank you very much
for your voicemail. The voicemail number two five one two
one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two
one six, nineteen seventy six. To leave a message for
the Uncle Henry Show. Here is the snake Trapper.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Hell in the snake Trapper. My goodness, man, this mayorial
race was way too close here in Mobile. On gole Henry.
Of the most important thing you can do as a
citizen of your county, state, and federal government over Henry,
is to get out and vote, participate in your elections.

(20:29):
You ain't got to get out and wave flags onside
the road, but my goodness, you have got to use
your voice or we're going to lose this country to socialism.
On gole Henry, Mobile got close. Like the great President
John Kennedy once said, ask not what your country can

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do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
The most important thing is.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
To get out and vote.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I ain't open in I just won't share that with you, buddy.
That was a close one. Man. If we ever dodge
getting snake bit, we did it, then obll you have
a good day, my buddy.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
All right, Snake Trapper, thank you very much for your voicemail.
Really do appreciate the voicemail. There voicemail number again two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now the
snake Trapper, quoting JFK ask, not what your country can

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do for you, but what you can do for your country.
Another Mobilion who quoted JFK once upon a time was
former Mobile City councilman and former mayoral candidate Fred Richardson.
That's not what the citicn do for you this time.
What you can do for this city? Now? Uh the
context for that? Why would Fred Richardson quote JFK? Uh

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it was all about raising your taxes. That's not what
the cit can do for you this time. What you
can do for this sitting? All right, let's see what
other voicemail can I get to here? I believe I
got one more.

Speaker 9 (22:12):
Yes, Uncle Henry, it's about it's early in the morning,
not real early, but it's early. I just wanted to
call and tell you that I believe what you did
help Mobile tremendously. What I mean is when you played
that clip from Miss Barbara Drummond about how she felt

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about President Trump. I think enough people heard that, and
they shared it with a lot of people, and those
people shared it with a lot of people, and enough
people heard that to put mister Spiro cherigattis over the top.
I really appreciate what you've done. I don't know if

(22:56):
your radio station would appreciate it, but I do, and
I'm sure a lot of other people do too. Thanks Henry,
bye bye.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
All right, sir, Well, thank you sir for that. But
I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I don't listen
to all the other stations in town because I'm busy,
even though the other stations in town are doing a
great job, but I don't get to hear all the
other talk shows. I'm sure that that was played on
all the other talk shows as well. But thank you

(23:26):
for listening to this show and wanting to give a
shout out there. But as I said at the beginning
of this program, I think that a lot of people
would not have been as motivated if there weren't such
a strong national the introduction of national party politics to

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Mobile's mayoral election. I've watched all of these elections since
Outlaw and Dow. That was my first one really paid
close attention to as an adult. Outlawed Now I don't
remember any kind of left right Republican Democrat. Then I
don't remember left right Republican Democrat fighting for any of

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the Dow elections didn't. I didn't. I don't remember it.
During the Sam Jones years, I don't remember it. This
is the first time I remember that being there in
the background, and I don't believe that the Spiro campaign
brought it in. It was having endorsements from Pete Buddha
Judge and Senator Corey Booker, and then on the very

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last last day, right before the vote, you get Kamala.
That may have motivated I don't know how many people
it may have motivated, but I think it motivated some
people to go and vote and had This is just
personal opinion time. I think if all of the those

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endorsements were not there, that if it had just been
Barbara Drummond talking about how much she loves Mobile, and
she's very eloquent at talking about she really doesn't. I
believe she does love Mobile. I've heard her talk about
it a lot. I think if you had left the
Mayor of Birmingham out of it, and Corey Booker and
all these other people, that some voters would not have

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felt like they had to go to the polls like
the house was on fire. I just think I think
she motivated some people in a way that she probably
did not think she would motivate people.

Speaker 11 (25:38):
Hello Collor, Hey to Jimmy Economist.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Jimmy, you were alive on the radio.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
Only comment about that mayor thing. You mentioned the words
some people would get out for after those endorsements. But
and this thing is tight. Yes, it didn't take It
didn't take too many more, you know. R This spirou

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guy got on by the haird of his chinney chin
chin at the best.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 11 (26:18):
Maybe Barbara can get it done next time. She just
doesn't bring up Corey Booker. But how about them dogs
this week? Go dogs? Sick them? Yes, the Georgia dogs
playing at home against Maama. I hope they were out
that tail. Send that elephant back home to the puke cows.

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It doesn't happen much, to be honest, So it would
be very nice if it happened this time of the year,
this coming weekend. What do you think?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I, like many Alabama fans, I don't know what.
I have no idea what to expect now, and I
have and I have I feel like I know what
to expect out of Georgia. You got Kirby smart, you
got you just have a great program there. But I
don't know what to expect from Alabama. So I have
no idea how it's going to turn ount. Of course,

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I'm hoping for an Alabama victory.

Speaker 11 (27:18):
Well, I'll take a Georgia victory by the hair on
our chinny, chin chin. I can promise you that I'm
sure that time. The last time they played in Athens
was ten years ago. Rain Like hell, I was there.
I mean I lost two or three cell phones whatever,
whatever I had I lost that day, and uh, of course,

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saving put the whooping on us.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, Jimmy, I wish you the best. I'm out of
time for this segment. Thank you for your calm. Uncle

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Speaker 6 (28:29):
Hello Color, Hello, Uncle Henry. How are you today?

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm doing good? Is this Tom?

Speaker 7 (28:37):
This is Tom Tom?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well, how you doing? Were you pleased with the election results? Oh?

Speaker 6 (28:44):
I was excited, very excited. Uh Mobile one, everyone in
Mobile one. But what I wanted to call you about is,
for six months I worked on this campaign and this
gentleman that is now our mayor elect was working hard,

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going out there, ringing those doorbells and talking to people. Earlier,
you asked what it was about him that caused him
to win. Yes, Well, I'm going to tell you the
man resign from being judge to run for mayor now.

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The reason because he knows he could make a difference.
He has a compassion, and he has a quality about
him that he listens to people, and being a judge,
you have to listen. And I'm going to tell you
I just I'm so happy because people are going to

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see a great change in Mobile and and I'm proud
to have been working beside this gentleman.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad he made
that kind of impression on you.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
He did. And I've worked many a campaign with a
many a candidate, and I'm going to tell you he's
one of the hardest working people I have ever seen,
and he is compassion about what he wants to do.
And I think that people are going to be truly surprised.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
All Right, Hey, were you there last night at the
big celebration.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
Yes, I was. I was right there amongst all the
nice people and I saw people that I haven't seen
in years, and we had a wonderful time. And hey,
what a way to kick off the best of mobile.
Things are going to change. I can see it. I
can see it. We got plan trains and automobile is

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coming to mobile, you know, and uh it. But it
takes people. It takes people, and if everybody works together,
you're going to see a change in mobile.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
All right, Well, Tom, thank you for your phone call,
thank you for talking about that.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Well you're welcome, and you have a nice evening you too.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
There he goes Tom, one of the people working on
that campaign. And I've I've been fortunate enough, I guess,
to meet the mayors that we've had, well, going back
to the City Commission. Of course, met Bob Dole, Lambert Mimes.

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I never met Gary Greenow in face to face, but
I did watch him testify in person at the Lambert
Mims trial. But since so I met him. I met
Arthur Outlawn, Mike down and Sam Jones and Standy Simpson

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and Spiro. Mayors usually are are nice people. It's kind
of hard to get elected if you're not a nice person,
generally speaking. But I found Spiro to be and it
may be a generational thing, but very accessible. Many mayors

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have talked to me, and while being nice, you could
tell that they wanted to be any they wanted to
be anywhere else, but actually talking to me. And I
did appreciate the times that I've been able to talk
to Spiro share ganis that he he actually listened, He
actually paid attention, and that is something I'm not used to.
I won't name There have been a many mayors that

(32:52):
that did not want to listen. I won't name them, uh,
but Spiro did so I think that'll probably translate even
to you. Maybe you're listening and you're depressed that you're
that you're candidate didn't win. Well, I think that this
is a mayor that'll that'll listen to you. So if

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you do have legitimate concerns, don't be afraid to take
them to that mayor's office because I think this is
a mayor that will listen to you. I say that
time holds the answer to everything, and so we'll all
find out together. I think was u it was Fred
Richardson that said time holds the answer to everything. In time,

(33:37):
we'll all know and time holds the answer to everything.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
In time, we'll all.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Know, Yes, we will, and I hope that what we
know turns out to be very, very positive for the
future of Mobile and all the people that live not
only in Mobile, but all of the communities on the
Gulf Coast that are affected by Mobile, whether they're in
the city limits or not. All Right, more to come.

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Speaker 2 (34:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I appreciate you listening to the unc Cleanver Show very
very much. Now in this half hour of show. In
the last hour, talked a lot about the municipal election,
Spiro winning out over Representative Drummond. Now I'm going to
get into some other things here in this half hour
of Uncle Henry's show. I want to get to some

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voicemails from listeners and also a few news items that
I missed and you might have missed. Two. I want
to start with some voicemail. The voicemail number, if you'd
like to leave a message, is two five one two
one six nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two
one six nineteen seventy six. Now, last weekend, as people
were getting ready mentally to vote in the runoff election,

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at least some of us were, there were other things
going on in coastal Alabama, including the Alabama Coastal Cleanup.
Now I mentioned the Alabama Coastal Cleanup briefly here on
the Uncle Henry Show last week. I've always been interested
in it. I've participated a time or two through the years.
And if you're unaware of what it is, Alabama Coastal Cleanup.

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Once a year, people get together as volunteers and they
try to go out to Alabama's waterways to go the beaches, streams, rivers,
anywhere there's water, and they pick up the litter that
human beings throw into the water or onto the side
of the waterways. And I can remember always being fascinated

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about the news stories that would be written about it,
because afterwards they used to tell us about how much
stuff was cleaned up. And I don't know I've missed
that story. Maybe it's out there somewhere. But you used
to find out interesting things that people would throw away,
because every year they'd find weird stuff. Now mostly it'd

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be beer cans, fast food, wrappers, you name it, all
the typical litter. It's a one way of finding out
what are the most popular booze items that Gulf Coast
people liked to drink. Because you'd find all kinds of
beer cans. You could find out what was the most
popular beer liquor bottles, all that kind of stuff. Now,

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the Mad Trucker, the retired Mad Trucker LD had a
comment to share about the coastal cleanup.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Hey, uncle Henry LD, you know that coastal cleanup. I
saw those guys out there on the side of the
road picking up trays by this creek and all that,
and that's really nice. I appreciate that, and I would
have liked to help, but I had to go fishing
that day. But I went down there to Jemison's. You
know what that is. You know where that bridge is
a cross us right over there. I love the kayak

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fish there. Probably see me there every other weekend or so.
But you know what they really need to do with.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
The coastal cleanup.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Really cared about the coastal cleanup. They would bar people
from fishing there.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
All right now, Why I know he's gonna tell us
why LD retired mad trucker, Why should they stop people
from fishing at that particular spot.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Are people from fishing there? They would bar them because
I saw more in drink their beer and throw the
cans into the rocks. That's what I saw on Henry
non stop, non stop. Aren't that it was breaking the
beer bottles? They had a good time throwing beer bottles.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Now I'm pausing there just to wonder to myself. You
talk about beer cans that you saw at non the
non stop throwing of beer cans from fishermen into the rocks.
Now were any of them wearing LSU caps?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Now?

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Know, if you're an LSU fan, I don't mean to
I don't mean to cast aspersions upon you or your
ilk as an LSU fan. I just I used to
live across the street from an LSU fan. I've mentioned
this on the show before. This guy. Every time it
was time for the garbage to be picked up, there

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would be it, just cases of of of beer cans
out there, just tremendous. I could and this guy lived alone.
He was not throwing parties. This LSU fan, he just
I guess he'd built up a tolerance through his long life.

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But by the time he reached the age that he was,
that he lived across the street from me. This LSU fan,
he just he always had a beer in his hand,
just tremendous, and he never appeared under the influence. He
never appeared under the influence at all. But he always
had that beer in his hand. And when it became
garbage day, my goodness, gracious them. Just the amount of

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beer trash that would go out was amazing. So I'm
just curious if they had LSU caps. Anyway, back to
the story of the breaking beer bottles and beer cans
n beer bottles.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
They had a good time throwing beer bottles. I saw
a lot of rappers, a lot of I saw a
subway eating subway sammus get eaten and thrown to the ground.
If they really wanted to clean up the coastal areas,
they would far fishing from that bridge, amongst other places.
Because these people have no respect for anything. You know,

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everything that I card out there on that kayak on Henry,
it comes back, whether it's an empty bag, whether it's
a wrapper, maybe it's a coast che wrapper, maybe it's
cold beer. That bottle that can is coming back with me.
But not those scumbags.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
All right, And I'm sorry I keep pausing you, LD,
but thank you. I want to thank you for respecting
the where you're fishing. I mean, why that is curious,
isn't it. I mean, they obviously enjoy it going out
there and enjoy fishing. Why wouldn't they want to keep
it as close to nature as possible? Why would they

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want to soil the area with their own debris? It
really doesn't make sense. Do you think it's just poured
upbringing or is it just mentally they don't have it
going on. They're not very bright.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
It's coming back with me, But not those scumbags. They
just throw their crap to the ground. They throw it
between the rocks like it's gonna disappear and never be
seen again. Yeah, it is till the next tide float
and then it floats out of the rocks and out
into the bay. So if y'all really care about the
Bay coastal cleanup, get somebody to far fishing there from

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the road.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Wow, okay, LD, the retired mad Trucker, thank you for
that report. Now, LD did a follow up, Yes, there's one,
there's there's a little bit more on this. A follow
up on that coastal cleanup. I don't I don't know
if I have time in this segment. Let me try
and see if I can squeeze some of this phone
call into the segment.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
Hey, uncle, Henry L. D Well, you know what I
thought about something else on that coastal cleanup. Yeah, if
they really really cared about the coast, they would get
the Alabama feaverage control is that the ABC store. Yeah,
ABC Store, they would get them to stop selling miniatures.

Speaker 9 (42:13):
What?

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Stop selling miniatures?

Speaker 4 (42:14):
What?

Speaker 5 (42:15):
Because every time I'm go into a local established called
the ABC store, I like to go in there. It's
cheaper than everybody else. You go in there and people
buy five or six miniatures.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
And I'm sorry to pause him there, but the ABC store,
I wish they didn't exist. I really don't. No offense
to those of you that might work at an ABC store,
but I hate the idea that the government. You're buying
liquor from the government, and there are other people that

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sell liquor the government in competition with the private sector
selling the liquor. Why does the government have stores selling liquor.
It's ridiculous. All right, Hey back, I'll finish this voicemail
after the break. Gotta take a break, and then more

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Uncle Henry Show. Take the break, it says the Uncle

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Henry Show on news radio seven to ten WNTM. News
headlines are coming up in ten minutes. Before we get there.
I'm in the middle of a voicemail from LD, the
retired mad Trucker, about the Alabama coastal cleanup that happened
last weekend. LD is proposing that the ABC stores stop

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selling miniatures. Now, why did want would want the ABC
store to stop selling miniatures? Let's find out together. As
I continue, I'm going to pick up in the middle
of this voicemail. Why why would LD call for the
abandoning of miniatures?

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Because every time I go into a local established called
the ABC stof I like to go in there. It's
cheaper than everybody else.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
You go in there, and people buy five or six
miniatures with every bottle of Elixure they get, And I
wonder for the longest time, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Why would you do that? Why why would you do that?
And then you know, just walking down River Road past
the Foul River Trailer Park, I see why. Because these
scumbags they get their fifth of wine or their fifth
of whiskey or whatever they got, and they get five

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miniatures with it, and they chug down three or four
before they get home. So they're actually drunker than Cooter Brown.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Right now? Why? All right? I apologize again for pausing this.
So why why would you chug five miniatures on your
way home? Why you've got a fifth in your car? Now?
Why not buy another fifth or a pint or some

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other Why? I don't understand, ld Why would they do that?
What is your theory on this?

Speaker 5 (45:29):
They're actually drunker than tudor Brown. But here's the problem,
Uncle Henry. They can't leave them in the car because
what if the say trouper pools along. That won't work. Well,
what are you gonna do about that? Well, you can't
bring them inside and throw them in the trash because
your husband or your wife might find out.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
So what do they do?

Speaker 5 (45:47):
They throw them out the window?

Speaker 1 (45:49):
All right? So this is a download drinking situation where
they're trying to conceal from both the government and their spouse.
They are drunking on the way home. So what is this?
Is there an army of alcoholics in that area? This
just sounds this sounds like a horrible a horrible way

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to live, buying a fifth of some kind of booze
and then buying additional miniatures so that you can get
pre drunk before you even arrive home. And you want
to consider this is sad there needs I'm gonna have
to put this on my prayer list, praying for the
unknown drunks of that neighborhood. All right back to I'm

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gonna finish it up here, I promise in.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
The trash because your husband or your wife might find out.
So what do they do? They throw them out the window.
So between River Road and bell Graph I mean DP
Road and uh bell Graph Road. On River Road, there
must be twenty million miniatures thrown out. If y'all really cared,

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If you really really cared, Mobile Bay, you get the
ABC store to outlaw miniatures. That would clean up a
lot right in itself. But you won't do that because
you'd rather just take it up and feel good about
it than actually get something done.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
All right, the retired mad trucker educating me, I did
not know these people that are throwing the miniatures out,
And now you've got me wanting to pray for them
because it sounds like they're in a horrible situation, and
they're making it bad for everybody else by tossing miniatures out,
and who knows what kind of horrible tragedy they might

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cause by being a drunk driver. Helde, thank you for
the education. I did not know that there was purposes
behind buying miniatures and larger bottles of the alcohol. Now
I live in Midtown. I've talked about that a lot,
and I walk the dog through Midtown, my wife and

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I do now together, and I see liquor bottles thrown
out a lot in Midtown, especially near well really it's
stop signs. I guess that is a that is a
convenient place once you stop at the stop sign, That
is a convenient place to throw out your your liquor bottles.

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But I don't see a lot of miniatures in midtown.
I see beer cans, and I also see pint bottles.
So what does that ld? What does that mean? When
I'm seeing the pint bottles? Is this unmarried people? They're
they're not worried about getting pulled over, so they're not

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trying to hide their their open liquor bottle from a cop.
But is this because it's this they're just uh, they're
unmarried and they just want to use the City of
Mobile as their garbage. Can that be the thing? There?
By the way, in Midtown vodka still number one. I

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see more empty vodka pints around Midtown than any other
more than beer cans, more than anything else. It is
the vodka badle. All right, well, voiceman, or if you
could educate maybe there's something you can educate me on
the voiceman number two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six, nineteen

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seventy six. To leave a message for the Uncle Henver's
Show and the listeners some of the unk cleanary show.
Now I had I had some news items I was
going to get to, but I kept interrupting LD and
didn't get to it. So, listener, I apologized for being
so inquisitive about the voicemails. In future episodes, I'll try
to let them play a little bit more before interrupting

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them and losing all that valuable time with my interruptions.
All right, thank you, appreciate you listening to the Uncle
Henry Show. It's nice to have a job, as they
say in Sarahland, have a good one. And as they say,
in Theodore take it Easy.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
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