Swearing In Not Swearing At

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that happened today here in the building. Anyway, here we
are together, me and you, and join this Monday together,
this first Monday that we'll share together in the month
of November. Yes, it's a brand new month, full of promise.
Let's make the best of this month together. Now, today
a big day in Mobile history as we had the

(02:41):
new mayor sworn in. Mayor Spiro was sworn in today
along with the Mobile City Council. We'll get to some
of that as I go through the show with you today.
I will bring you a little bit of things said
at the swearing inn of the mayor and council today,
which went on entirely too long. But we'll get into
all of that as we move forward. I do want

(03:03):
a couple of things before I go into all that
stuff and other news items that we can get to. First,
want to say, pray for Ron reams Now. Ron reems
is he's just got a flu like illness. But he
reached out to me and said, hey, if you don't
mind praying for my family because we've all got this

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and he described symptoms. Now, I'm not going to read
the description of symptoms to you because you might be
getting ready to have a meal of some kind and
I don't want to go. I don't want to get
in between you and your meal with a description of
Ron Rhem's illness. Suffice it to say, it's an illness
that you wouldn't want described before a meal. So please

(03:49):
pray include him in your prayers. The family, not just
Ron Reams, but the entire family of Ron. They all
seem to have come down with the same old things.
So hope he feels better soon. Because I want to
tell you about something. I want to tell you just
a little bit about Halloween. One of my least favorite
days of the year would be Halloween. And I'm sure, yes,

(04:13):
I've got a list somewhere of days I'm not a
big fan of. We'll get into that maybe one day.
Halloween not a great day. A few things that I
wanted to mention about Halloween. After dark, during trick or
treating time, my wife needed something from the store, and

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she said, would you mind going to the store, And
I said, no, ma'am, because I try to do what
I'm told. And so I went to the store, and
I drove through the streets of the city of Mobile
during trick or treating hours. The sun was down, it
was dark, there was no twilight. Driving through the streets

(04:58):
of midtown Mobile now something, and I hadn't done that
in many halloweens recently. I didn't realize that just driving
down the street was considered an insult many families. I
found that in my part of midtown. I lived near
Murphy and a lot of a lot of visitors were
there visiting just I guess wanted to see what we

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were handing out, and I was. I was. There were
many angry parents and guardians I was. I was going
as slow. I was like a molasses driver, instill just
the fact that I had a vehicle. I got some
dirty looks, some hand gestures, some of them understood. Some
of them probably were new combinations of cuss words that

(05:43):
I'm not familiar with. But I got a lot of
hand gestures about just driving down the road. Anyway, I
got to the store. This is Halloween night, trick or
treating is going on. I went into the store. I
found the item that my wife wanted me to bring
back to the home. When I walked out of the store.

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For the first time in my life, I was panhandled
on Halloween and I found it, and it was, of course,
immediately confusing. It was very confusing because on Halloween, I'm
used to people asking me for stuff because it's Halloween.
People show up and they want stuff from you or
they'll trick you. So but I was not at my house.

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Somebody was asking for a money outside of the store,
and it was genuinely confusing because first I thought, wait,
is this a real panhandler or is it somebody dressed
up as a panhandler for a Halloween costume and maybe

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they're just having a good time and they're having fun
and they're on their way to the Halloween costume party
and whatever it is. And so I didn't I had
to confirm. I said, are you is this true? I mean,
you're really asking me for cash here a Halloween night,
and the person said, yes, sir, if I could just
I just need a couple of bugs. Anyway, Now, I

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did not. I did not give cash to the panhandler
because I've been told by all that every homeless advocate
that I've interviewed in the last twenty years has told
me that cash is not you can give food, you
can give bottles of water, you can offer a ride
to the shelter. There's a variety of things you can do,
but money not usually the answer in these situations. And

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so it turns out it was an actual, real panhandler.
I just I'm mentioning this so that if there are
any panhandlers listening, listening, because there's something about a panhandling
that feels AM radio to me. I don't know what
it is, but it has an AM radio feel to it.
The if you are a panhandler, remember that it's going

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to be a little more difficult or easy on Halloween
depending on where you panhandle. Now, if you're just in
the parking lot and you're asking people for money, they're
going to be confused the way I was. But if
you just were to walk into a neighborhood, then then
you might get candy and cash, depending on the temperament

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of the homeowner. Just want to throw that out there
for the panhandlers in the future. Handhandled on Halloween night,
and I really I was. I was as perplexed as
I could be when I was panhandled on Halloween night.
Didn't know if it was real or a costume. There's

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more to get to. Of course, we have today's swearing
in ceremonies and all that. All of that and more
coming up here on The Uncle Henry's Show, seventy The

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Today was the swearing in of the new mayor and
city council for the City of Mobile and other municipalities
around the state. Now you can watch the entire thing
for the City of Mobile on the City of Mobile's
YouTube channel if you will want to watch all the speeches.

(10:00):
It was a fun It was one of the few
times council meetings are generally fun for all because everybody
that was sworn in won an election and their families
were there, so most people were happy. At a lot
of council meetings, they have some people that are happy
and some people that feel like the government has stepped

(10:21):
on them and left them. But you didn't have that
at today's festivities. They had the swearing in. Now. I
thought you might want to hear some of the new
mayor Mayor Spiro cheer goddess, so I'll share with you some,
not all, of his speech. He talked for eight or
nine minutes. I'm not going to share the whole thing
with you again. You can watch it all on YouTube.

(10:43):
I thought you might want to hear some of it, though,
just to get the tone. Here is the new mayor
addressing his city as mayor for the first time.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Standing before this crowd today is one of the great
gatest honors of my life. To the citizens of the
City of Mobile.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Serving as your mayor is not a responsibility I will
take lightly. You have placed your trust in me, and
I will work every single day to continually earn that trust. First,
I must thank God for his guidance and the many
blessings He's bestowed upon me, my family, and the City

(11:29):
of Mobile. I pray for his continued wisdom as I
seek to lead our city with faith, integrity, and resolve.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
And I'm pausing there just to say I would like
to thank all of the council people and the mayor
that did mention the Lord today, I am appreciating that
more and more as each day goes by. I don't
want to live in a theocracy or anything like that,
but I do appreciate people expressing their faith that way.

(12:01):
So thank you for those that express their faith today
at the council meeting.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Next day. I have to thank my family, Lucy, our children, Nick,
jack El, and Mary Barton. I couldn't do it without you.
Your love and encouragement and the sacrifice that you've made
mean the world to me. And I thank you to
my mom, my sister.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Now a little uh. I think I wasn't sure because
I wasn't looking real close at the screen on YouTube,
but I think there was a little emotion here from
the mayor when he was thinking his family. O.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
My family that are here today, To my father and
my grandparents who have already left this life, thank you
for lifting me up, MM for believing in me and
for instilling in me the values that will continue to

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guide me as I seek to lead this city. To
my campaign team you're scattered around, Hey, hey, I wouldn't
be here without you. To all the people who stood

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beside me as we fought this fight, as we ran
this campaign. Thank you to every volunteer, every donor, every friend,
every trusted advisor. You helped us carry a tremendous load.
You knocked on doors, you made phone calls, you sent
out countless texts, you offered wise counsel, and you pushed

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me when I needed it most. Thank you. You reminded
me always of what this race is truly about the
future of our city. I would not be standing at
this podium without you. Thank you. Mayor Stimpson can't be
here today. He's being honored in Montgomery, but I have
to talk about him a little bit. To Mayor Stimpson

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and the incredible city employees who serve Mobile every day,
thank you. Because of Mayor Stimpson's leadership, along with this council,
Mobile is positioned for a strong and bright future. I'm
grateful for that foundation, and I look forward to building
upon it. To the thousands of city employees who wake

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up every day to serve our citizens, you make this
city better. You are the backbone of Mobile. I cannot
wait to work alongside you. You've set a high bar,
a high standard for dedication and public service. My goal
as your mayor is to meet that same standard. Every day.

(14:56):
We can only succeed if we succeed together. I have
to express my gratitude for the council. I think our
council and our Mayor are working better than in the
history of our city, better together. I thank you for that.
I thank you for welcoming me to this position. I've
received a warm welcome from each one of you, and

(15:16):
I so look forward to working with you. I know
that we all have the same common goal, and that
as a brighter future for our city, and I look
forward to chasing it with you. I know that the
success of my administration, my role is my time as Mayor,
will depend upon a strong collaborative and productive relationship with

(15:38):
this council. I know that we won't always agree, but
you have my faith and my commitment that I will
always work in good faith, with transparency, and with an
unwavering dedication to the people we serve. To the future
of Mobile is orror shared responsibility, and I look forward
to rolling up my sleeves and getting to work with

(15:59):
you as we begin this new era. Our team is
focused on hitting the ground running, in fact, only to
go get to work as soon as this is over.
The challenges for our city that lay ahead. They're very real,
but so are the opportunities, and I look forward to
seizing them with you. We will work to strengthen public

(16:20):
safety so every neighborhood is safe and feel secure.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Good.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
We will collaborate to create affordable and desirable housing in
every neighborhood across our city. We will work with the
community to build a public transportation that public transportation system
that people want to ride and that will serve the
people who depend upon it most better.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Okay, and I've made my suggestions in the past about
making a public transportation system people would want to ride.
Put nail salons on there and vape shops.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
We will invest in workforce development and seek to open
doors for our citizens and preparing our city for the
thousands of jobs that we know are on the way.
We will continue to improve public mobility.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
And then the Yeah, the microphone went out a few
times and during Mayspiro's speech.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
By building unity, one conversation, one partnership, and one neighborhood
at a time.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
All right, there is more to his speech. I ain't
going to play the rest of it. We're up on
a break. You can watch his entire speech on the
City of Mobiles YouTube channel. Look under their live videos
for that. A lot of humility there from the incoming
mayor Spiro. Uncle Henry show here on news radio seven

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Email address Uncle Henry dieheartmedia dot com. Today the's swearing

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in of a new Mobile City Council and new mayor
at Government Plaza. You can watch all of it on
the City of Mobile's YouTube channel. I thought you might
want to hear a little bit more of it. I
don't have a big long bunch of speeches for you
to listen to like I did with the new mayor,
Spiro Chair Goddess, but just a little thing you might
want to hear, just a little bit from the other

(18:54):
people that were sworn in today. Corey Penn, Mobile City
Councilan Corey Pen, I think this is his second term.
I think it's his second term. Now. I've not met
and interacted with Corey Pen, but he seems to be
a very nice guy just from watching on YouTube. He

(19:17):
seems to be a nice guy, but he also seems
to love hearing himself talk. He really just he loves
a microphone, and Corey Penn loves to hear himself talk.
So here's a little bit. I'm not going to share
with you his entire speech because after he gave a speech,
other council people kept referring back to how long he talked.

(19:40):
So here's about one minute of Corey Penn's speech. It
was the most energetic, most crowd pleasing speech of the day.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
This is just the beginning.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
Because when I look around Mobile, I see potential, I
see purpose, and I see power because we are mobile.
When I say, we all want you to say mobile,
we are.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
And since we are, that means we have to move
forward together, we have to be stronger together.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
And to keep growing, we must do three things.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
We have to imagine, say imagine, we have.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
To now see I'm sorry to interrupt him there because
there's only a few seconds left to play of him.
But whenever I go to a concert or something like
that and the performer tries to get me to participate
as an audience member where they you know where, they'll
say okay, we want this side of the auditorium to
clap with here, and then when the other side of

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the auditorium, we want you to clap over it. I
always think, no, I didn't pay for that. I paid
you to entertain me, not me. Anyway, the audience participation
not necessary for a swearing in speech. But let's go
back to the energetic swearing in speech from Corey Penn,
ignite saying night and we have to inspire.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Say inspire. Imagine our neighborhoods with resources they need. Imagine
families thriving. Imagine every child have equal opportunity.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Imagine every pothole filled in every street paved.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Right now, we see in our community and our country
people are dealing with snap issues and being cut and
all these things.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
But we are mobile and we.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Can come together and make change. We can support these issues.
We can come together and make sure that everybody have
the needs to move our city forward. But we can't
stop at imagining. We have to move to ignite.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
All right, So then you have to go back through imagining, igniting,
and then inspiring. So Corey Penn spoke energetically. The crowd
enjoyed it. Even though he talked longer than most people
would have preferred that he talked due to his enjoyment
of his own talking. Now, after he gave his link talk,

(22:01):
we had another city councilman get sworn in, and that
would be the brand new councilman, Bo Fleming, representing District five.
Here's just a little bit of him because at the
beginning of his speech he mentions the Corey Penn speech.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
Good morning. So I was pretty excited to be here.
Half to ad Midd, I was even a little nervous,
but after listening to Counsel and Pen, I'm.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Pretty fired up.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
Now. Yeah. So I don't know if it's because I'm
the new guy or one of the new faces on
city council, but I was told to keep it really
short and sweet Counsel and Pen renald and said, look, men,
you've got two minutes. And then during Corey Penn's address.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
He didn't get to member.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
But all right, well, anyway, I already know I'm going
to enjoy beou Fleming on the council there. So again,
if you want to see the entire speeches of Corey
Pen or Bo Fleming there on YouTube. Also Josh Woods
Josh Woods of District six also referred to the Corey
Penn filibuster.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
So I will be brief not only because y'all chose
to join us today, but also because I know that
not only I and Council Member Gregory here we actually
stand between you and cupcakes and cookies. So I definitely
understand that the boys want to get out there say

(23:44):
that I will be brief.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I do want to say thank you, all right, So anyway,
Josh Woods, thank you also for trying to be brief
in making the joke back to the Cory Pen address. Now,
I'm almost going to leave this topic for you because
I know there's other things you'd like to hear about
real quick. The council, in addition to being sworn in,

(24:07):
they elected their officers and CJ. Small was once again
elected to be the president of the Mobile City Council.
So CJ. Small will serve as president for the next
four years. And Geena Gregory was once again voted council
vice president, so she'll be council vice president for the
next four years. Here is just a little bit of CJ.

(24:29):
Small in his speech after being sworn in again.

Speaker 5 (24:35):
Public service is not an individual journey. It's a share
of calling, and I am forever Grafel for those who
walk this road besides me. To Mars Spirou Chari Goddess,
and my fellow members of the Mobile City Council, congratulations.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Each of us.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Bring unique experience, perseverity, and passion to this table. But wait, wait,
I say the best is yet to come. But what
you're not us is a deep love for the city
and the desire to see Mobile grow stronger, safer, and

(25:15):
more exclusive for all who call at home, Mobile's story
has only just begun. Mobile's story has always been one resilence,
from our barbery downtown, in our waterfront, to our neighborhoods,
our new to our neighborhoods, in our growing industries, and

(25:36):
even to the new international airport, which is also located
in District three. But our future depends on how well
we work together. We must continue to invest in our youth,
protect our community, strengthen small businesses, and ensure that every citizen,
regardless of where they live, feel safe, heard of value.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
That is what you know, that is one of I
would love to feel safe, heard and valued. I would
I'm trying to think. I maybe tonight I'll sit down
and make some notes on time. Are there times I've
felt all three things in Mobile? I'm sure there were.
I'll just have to remember. What was it? Safe, heard

(26:26):
and valued? That was the council president CJ. Small and
Gina Gregory. Real quick before we go to break, just
a little bit of hers only because she points out
how long she's been there, and it may surprise some
folks for.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
My husband Todd, who was with me today. Todd has
been here with me throughout thick and thin, been a
lot of both.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
He was sitting here next to me a minute ago
he says, is it six?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Yeah, this is six.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
That's a long time.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
And all were amazed when CJ said, thirteen, I've been
here twenty years.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
I've seen it all.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
I think I've seen a lot of you all over
the years for sure.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
All right, well, I wish all of the council members
big success along with the mayor. And again, you can
watch all of their lengthy speeches. They all seem really
long because they're politicians. You can watch all of that
on the City of Mobile's YouTube channel. Back with more
Uncle Henry's Show after the break. The Uncle Henry Show

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(28:09):
This concert is the Night of Veterans Day at Doherty's
on Dauphin Island. We're trying to raise money for Vets Recover.
Vet's Recover is a group and mobile that helps veterans
going through very difficult things PTSD, homelessness, addiction, all of
these different things. Vets Recover does great works for veterans locally,

(28:33):
and we're trying to raise money for Vets Recover with
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believe that'll be in the eleven o'clock hour tomorrow on
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Veterans Day on Dauphin Island. Let me say I've got

(28:56):
a caller here. Hello, caller Cliff, you are alive on
the radio, Henry, I want to pray that.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
All of the new sworning people are successful in their endeavors. Yes,
also praying for help for Bradley Burn and his family.
But whenever I hear somebody say about a safer mobile,

(29:27):
Stump speeches like that. You know, it's like that one
long speeches like a cheerleader trying to convens a team
that ain't never won a game to inspire them to
the crowd will believe that they might win this game
and knowing they pretty much will never win the game. Yeah,

(29:48):
a safer mobile have been preached for a while, and
now seems to me the only person making money is
undertaken us. If we could get everybody, couldn't coordinate with
the police and give them all the help they need

(30:12):
because you seem to overwhelm the police. You're building new stuff,
new structures, new neighborhoods, you're building all these things. But
you need to make it appealing for police officers to
get on the job and want to stay on the
job with all this crap gun on with defund the police,

(30:32):
and they're overwhelmed by they overwhelmed in our gun by
stupid people with guns and stupid people telling people with
those guns. It's okay to do crimes because you're poor.
I've heard something a long time ago from a book
I was reading by economists, and he said, the problem

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with paying people to be poor is you're gonna have
a lot of a whole lot of poor people. And
so if you're giving people no options but to stay
that way, it's gonna cause all of these things that
we are having now and until we get down to

(31:23):
the root of the problem and stop having people like
the Democrat Party and all these people that tell these
people they like them, but they're letting these people start.
Ain't no love there. They only use them for one thing,
and that's the vote. And I said, my uncle said

(31:44):
forty five years ago, they're gonna get some new black
folks and some new pope folks over there. And these
folks are gonna do what they want to say and
to do what they say do. And these people are
fighting tooth and nail to get easy legals over here
and put them on the insurance and every other doll

(32:05):
they got because they need the voters. Because the black voters,
some of them, the one that much needed ones, are
waking up and the other half sitting here thinking, okay,
Donald Trump, Donald Trump had nothing to do with this here. Uh,
it's the Senate. They need to get the senators on key.

(32:26):
But they're telling you, we need this, uh, we need
this as their help if we say that the poor
people going to be hurt, that's the only leverage they've
got on Donald Trump. But Donald Trump knows that one

(32:47):
point five trillion dollars is not going to the medical
the medicare and health care for American people because they
gave more than five billion dollars spent on these legals
to get them over here, to put him in place,
and they always put him in black neighborhood. But the
black people never get a die, but they never understand

(33:09):
that they being used.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
You have a bliss day, Thank you, Cliff. You have
a blessed day as well. Now, Cliff mentioned Donald Trump
having nothing to do with the shutdown. I think that's
what he was implying there. Donald Trump will be gone
off the political scene in just a few years, three years.

(33:33):
But you've got people in Congress that are there like
it's a lifetime appointment. Nancy Pelosi in Congress since nineteen
eighty seven. Just think about that. This is with both
political parties. We put a lot of attention on presidents,
but we have a lot of problems that come from

(33:57):
career politicians that go up in there and they don't
want to leave until they're carried out.