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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uncle Henry Show, weekday afternoons from five till seven. Leviticus
nineteen thirty two, The King James version, thou shalt rise
up before the hoary head and honor the face of
the old man and fear thy God. I am the Lord.
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The New International version rise in the presence of the
aged show, respect for the elderly, and revere your God.
I am the Lord. Leviticus, nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And good day, it says The Uncle Henry Show. Thank you,
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Thank you for listening to The Uncle Henry Show here
on news radio seven ten wnt M. Once again, here
we are together, me and you trying to figure out
what is going on in the world around us and
what is what is going on. I've been trying to
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figure it out even more than ever what is going
on with people in the world today now. If you
can help me figure it out, give me a call.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
is a telephone number. You can bring just about anything
forward on the show, as long as it is not
filthy or pornographic or scatological. There's no filth. Please with
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your phone calls or personal attacks towards my family. Uh So,
before I go into any of the news topics, any
of the different things to talk about here on alnkle
Henry's show here on this Wednesday. Today is today that
the local newspaper land yapp released the winners of their
Nappy Awards, where people locally vote for their favorite things
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on the Gulf Coast. And I want to thank you
if you're one of the people that voted for me
in the Nappy Awards, thank you, thank you very much
for voting for me. I was very honored and remain
honored to have won the Nappy Award for Best Overall
Radio Personality. What a wonderful that is a wonderful thing,
especially with one I got one foot on the FM
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dial and I've got one foot on the AM dial.
I'm well, I'm not by but you know what I'm saying.
I'm straddling two different two different types of radio FM
and AM. I'm a straddler, and so it's a wonderful
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honor as a straddler in both FM and AM to
win this award Best Overall. Now, I would of course
have loved to have won Best Radio Voice. Mitchell won that.
Congratulations to Shelby Mitchell of ninety five KSJ winning Best
Radio Voice. I would have loved to have won that one.
I would have loved to have won Best Local DJ
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for the work I do in ninety five KSJ, which
I didn't win that. When Matt McCoy won that one,
he's lovable, We'll give him that. But I won Best
Overall Radio Personality, and I've I'm kind of liking it
because the word overall, not only is it a wonderful
type of clothing that I believe is underrated. I think
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overall should be we should see more often, I believe,
But the word overall, it almost sounds like I'm over
all of the other radio personalities, at least for the year.
So I like that. That's what I like to imagine
in my mind when I need to build up my
confidence in my mind, I'll think of that best over
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all of the other radio personalities. So thank you to
Lanyev for having the Nappy Awards every year. It's always
a lot of fun. Thank you to everybody that voted
for me. Especially want to thank my wife who voted
every day, every day without fail. She voted for me
because she wants to be married to somebody who's award winning.
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And I also want to thank my mother who voted
for me every day because what else is she going
to do? So thank you. And if you're one of
the voters, again, thank you, thank you, thank you. I
appreciate it very much. And congratulations to all the other winners.
Many Now some of the awards, of course I disagreed with,
but I won't go into that because it needs to
be positive today here on the program. Now, let's see,
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we got a lot to get into as the show
moves forward. I'll talk a little bit about the mayor
forum that Fox tens streamed last night. That was a
that was I really enjoyed watching the mayor's form streamed
on Fox ten. We'll get into that. I'll share with
you a little bit from it, not a lot, but
a little bit from it as we go forward. And
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there's many other stories I want to get into as
well here on the Uncleanders Show. But before I get
into anything else, that's something odd. Phoned in to the voicemail.
I've been getting voicemails from listeners for now a couple
of decades plus here on News Radio seventy ten. I
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don't know that anyone has phoned in a riddle before,
here's somebody phoning in a riddle. The voicemail number two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two
five one two one six, nineteen seventy six, someone phoning
in a riddle.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh well, Henry is Sabama bus. I'll following you calling
in to you. I sir wrote that, uh, you're pairing
well in this way. Weird and crazy, scared looking weather
coming our way right now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Look, I've got to pause there. The Alabama bush hog,
referring to itself as the Bama bush hog referring to
the weather is weird and crazy. Now. Look this we've
had weather. I mean, this is this is very similar
to previous weather. I don't understand. I don't buy into
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the hype. Whatever the hype is. I haven't been able
to watch TV today, so I don't know what the
hype is. But we've had stuff like this before. It's
not Maybe you can be scared. Many people are scared
by a lot of things. My dogs are scared with
any type of mechanical sound. But don't you can be scared,
I guess. But don't call it weird because we've had
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this is just weather. It's summer. There's gonna be thunderstorms
and tropical this and tropical that. So anyway back to
the voice.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You're looking weather coming our way other than that.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Look a here.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I come up with a riddle last night, and I
thought i'd share it with you and your listeners and
see if any of y'all can come up with the answer.
You know, stretch the brain a little bit, work those
muscles up there.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And you know, I've always found anything that really is
called a brain teaser. I've never enjoyed it. My brain
hates being teased. My brain would rather be in a recliner.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Forget about other problems going on, political whatever. Okay, now
you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, little need this?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Then I live up on high, surrounded by stars. I
had a branch of peace and weapons of war sealed
around one. We speaks for us all. What am I
think on it? And I'll just check them in sin
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any of your listeners comes up with a correct answer.
You have a good day on hammy road.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Tide, All right, roll tied row the riddle. I live
upon high, so it could be a drug user being high.
I live upon high, surrounded by stars. I have a
branch of peace and weapons of war sealed around one
who speaks for us?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
All?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
What am I?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
All?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Right? Again? My brain? Uh, my brain is I don't
know if my brain's equipped for this. This does sound,
and I don't want to I don't want to imply
anything about the Alabama bush hog, but this does sound.
Was this inspired by anything? Any kind of substance? Was
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any kind of anything imbibed to inspire your riddle? Anyway?
I'm gonna move forward from that and talk about other stuff. Next,
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Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten WNTM. It's five
twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes from Fox
ten and from Fox Radio National News. Telephone number two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. That's
two five one four seven nine two seventy two three.
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Email address Uncle henriyd iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle henriydiheartmedia
dot com. And I do have a.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Caller, Hello Coller, what's going on? My friend?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Not much? What's up with you?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Well, well call the Pottles. Oh good, I hope you
can hear me. I'm kind of about in Westwest Mobile
in a dead zone on Cody Road.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You got me, Yeah, we got you. For now. What Now,
you got a pothole out there?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Now, well, there's some bad spots on Cody Road out
by the fair Grounds that need some attention. But my lord,
I work on Brookdale Drive and I know the mad
trucker he commented on this road. But my goodness, you
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can stick basketballs on Brookdale Drive and you will not
see them. The potholes are so bad.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No, no, let me ask you. Now, I'm not familiar
with Brookdale Drive. Is that is that a city street?
Does the city? Is the city it's supposed to maintain
that run?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, it's in District one. It's north of the al
dot on I sixty five service Road north on the
west side of the interstate. It's right thereby uh uh
Owen Photography.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, you know that is I'm trying to visualize it
in my mind. Now have you called? Have you called?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Three one morn? I have worn my phone out. That's
in uh Corey Penn's uh district. I have called and
called and called, and I called yesterday and the dispatcher
I talked to kind of got a little testy with me.
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Oh yeah, a kind of a lack of daisical attitude
about well, you know, we can only do so much
with all the potholes that have been called in. I said,
let me talk to your supervisor. Ooh so yeah. So
she got on the phone with a better attitude. She explained,
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of course, about the truck's been down, and I said, look,
when the truck is down, go to other resources. You know,
Josh Woods was bragging about if a pothole occurs in
the city council meeting, we should be able to address
it within forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now that was Ben Reynolds. That was Ben Reynolds.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
All right, okay, yes, so still I had called in
a service order a SOO number two weeks ago. I
promise you Brookdale Drive, you can stick basketballs in some
of these potholes and they would disappear. And there are
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hundreds of people that work on Brookdale Drive South, Brookdale
Drive North, and Brookdale Drive West. It's all commercial. But
that is the worst city city street in Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
All right, well, sir, you've inspired me. Now I'm going
to be taking a field trip when it's not raining.
I'm gonna take a field trip to Brookdale and take
some pictures, and I'm gonna I'm gonna verify all of this.
Thank you for telling me about your nightmare.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
This is norm west Mobile, well North, I call in
sometimes Storm and Norman. Okay, but uh, the mad trucker
could verify this because I think he said that he
has been on that road. Yes, but when they when
they do patch them, they'll leave them a couple inches high.
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And I told the dispatcher it's like a B fifty
two bomber has bombed that street. All right, it is
uh yeah, it's unreal.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
All right. Well, Storm of Norman, thank you so much.
You've painted a very vivid word picture description of Brookdale,
and I will I will look into it myself.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
I look forward to hearing your report because I listened
to you all your podcast every day.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Well, Storm of Norman, thank you. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Have a blessed day, Roll Tide, chide.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Roll and oh I've already had a blessed day. You
don't know how I've longed for this. I've longed to
have people call in about potholes on the Uncle Henry Show.
It's just it's one of my favorite all time topics.
Why have a local show if you can't talk about
holes in the street? Two five one four seven nine
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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. Now, in fact,
I don't even know. I don't know. I don't know
what's going on. It may be going on all over
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the country, but I've just noticed locally there seems to
be a war against UH driving cars. And you may
have noticed this as well. We've had all We've had
municipalities all around the Gulf Coast lowering speed limits. Speed
limits getting lowered all around the Gulf Coast. There was
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a story in the news, but I think Foley was
one of the last ones to lower speed limits. And
you drive down streets in towns like Mobile, you'll have
potholes that will slow you down because you don't want
to destroy your car. And then you'll have speed bumps,
speed tables, traffic circles. You have the government. The government
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will impede you by putting in speed bumps, and then
you know, the next block they'll be filling in a
hole in the street. What is the logic in this?
How does it make sense? Why do we why do
we build roads if we're not allowed to drive down
the dead gum road. What's the point of a road
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if you can't drive down the road. Since when did
driving down a road become something that we don't like
it anymore? For years, I grew up that you drove
a road, was there for you to drive down. Now
you got to have speed bumps, speed tables. Uh, some
of the there're speed bumps on the Eastern Shore that
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they have like warning lights where they not only have
the expense of putting in a big speed bump, then
they put a light on a pole next to it
to let you know, hey, you're gonna mess up your
car when you keep driving down this road. Why can't
we just drive down a road? Look, I apologize. Look,
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I know that you maybe the younger listener, and I
know we may have younger people under the age of
sixty actually listening to the show for a change, But
I know you, the younger listener, would rather have the
roads where everybody's driving along fifteen miles per hour so
it can be safe for you to push your chihuahwah
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across the street in a baby carriage or whatever it
is you're doing it. You just want to be able
to walk around on the streets, have chalk and make
drawings in the street and all this kind of stuff.
What's wrong with driving a dead gum car down a
dead gum road. Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven to
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twenty six. I'll have your chance to win tickets right
after eleven thirty. Right after eleven thirty tomorrow on ninety
five k s J. Now, last night there was a
Mayor's Forum Fox ten. They streamed it on their website. Now,
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because it was streamed, I didn't see all of it.
I saw a lot of it, though I did see
a lot of it and listen to a lot of it.
Not the whole thing, but most of it. The four candidates,
I'll and I'm going to share with you a little
bit from the forum last night, not a whole lot,
but a little bit for you. Before I do, I'll
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just say that having watched mayoral elections since the time
of Arthur Outlaw versus Mike Dow, that's when I started
paying close attention to Mobile mayor races. Was was Mike
dal versus Arthur Outlaw. I'll say that Mobile has had
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worse candidates. Bill has had far worse candidates in the past,
just saying, and I don't want to name names at
the point because those people are no longer around running
and no reason on pointing out how some of them
were not that great or even how awful. But Mobile's
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done a lot worse than these four that were at
that forum last night. I thought they all did pretty
good for their voter bases. I didn't see any big
mistakes from anybody. Now maybe you may disagree on that.
You may have noticed something that I didn't notice, but
I didn't see any big mistakes from anybody last night
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in the forum, I thought, if you didn't get to
see it and you want to hear just a little
bit of it, I decided to go ahead and grab
from Fox ten the closing remarks. They got about a
minute to give a closing comment. So let's see. Let
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me start. I'll play all fours closing comments so that
you can hear and you can kind of get a
flavor of what their message was, the kind of things
they talked about in the forum. So first we'll start
with the County Commissioner, Countie Hudson.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
I humbly ask you, each one of you for your
support on August the twenty sixth. You know, this comes
down to leadership and leadership. To me, my style of
leadership is one that sets high standards. It sets it
demands accountability from everybody, from staff, but it's also about
customer service. It's about listening to people and caring about
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constituent concerns. To me, that's leadership. That's what you will
get when I'm elected mayor. I'm the only candidate that's
on the stage that's in this race that has served
both as an elected official in city and county government.
For four years. Trust me, experience matters, no matter what
you here tonight or any other time, experience matters. Also,
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I'm the only candidate who has been involved with major
capital projects. Not only was I the lead negotiator on
bringing Airbus to Mobile, I'm the signatory on that from
the county, and also in being involved in major capital projects,
I'm the only one with that experience as well.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Thank you all right, So Connie Hudson now Spiro chiragotis
closing remarks.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Thank you, and thank you all for being here. I
had some remarks planned, but I just want you all
to understand where I'm coming from. When I talk about
Mobile reaching its full potential. I'm all in on seeing
that reality because it's personal to me. Mobile is home.
I'm forty two years old. I expect to be living
and working in this city for thirty Lord will in
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forty years. My children are in school here, in school
here for at least the next decade. When I look
at our city and the generational change that we have,
what happens next in this city, We'll define our city
for generations to come. With our financial footing, right now,
we have a loaded spring that is ready to propel
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us forward into the future. And so I tell you
I'm all in because I am. I'm not just asking
for your vote on August twenty six I'm asking you
to trust me to chase down that full potential. I'm
asking you to join me in looking forward to what's
next for our city. And I'm asking you to go
all in with me. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now that was Spiro Chair Goddess. Now here is the
Here is Barbara Drummond running for mayor again.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
I want to thank all of you for coming. I
want to thank are moderated because it shows your interest
in city government. On August the twenty sixth, I want
you to look at everyone that is on that ballot
and look at what they have done for me.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Lately.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
I look at my own career, not only in county
government and in city government, but now in state government,
and somebody asks me the other day, what have you
done right now? I look at the Mobile County Public
school system. Some may look on this stage and say
our school system is horrible. I see a future because
they have improved, and I look at all of the
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things that they are doing right now, and I look
at that I brought eleven point seven million dollars back
home to our school system. I look at the airport,
I brought fifteen million dollars. But most of all, Barbara
has a heart for Mobile, a heart that is built
on nothing but dedication to this city. A footprint that
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you can see all the good things in the future.
And so on August the twenty six, look for Barbara
drumming because she has a heart for you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
All right, and then the final candidate haul prime.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
My colleagues on the stage, I mean no disrespect. Many
of us have been serving in many regards, including me.
The question is what have we done? How transparent has
that been. We've all talked about public safety. The reality
is is we can do everything. We can have all
these programs, build houses, affordable housing, schools, youth programs. It's
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all for not if we don't feel safe. Look at
the Festival Center, it's dying. Look at Broad Street. We
put a lot of money in it, it's dying. The
reality is it's all for not unless we commit to
public safety. The reality of it is is integrity and
character must matter at city Hall. I'm the only candidate
on this stage that has demonstrated the utmost impeccable character.
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And I'm asking you to consider that. Go to Facebook,
that's right and look at Facebook at Prime for there
and you'll see.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That we have the momentum.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Thank you for your time and hope during your support.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Thank you. All right, So there were the four candidates,
and you kind of got a flavor of where they
were coming from by those closing remarks. Now, the Paul
Prime comment about I'm the only candidate that has exhibited
exhibited the utmost in personal character, now, I think that
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refers to an earlier answer he gave with the forum.
He talked about he was the only one that had
had to do the right thing even though it caused
harm to him, and that that had to do with
what he did during the the whole Sandy Stimpson firing
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Paul Prime thing. So that I think that is what
he was referring to about. He was referring to doing
something that caused harm to himself because he thought it
was the right thing. So that was that puts that
remark in a little bit of context for you. So
I'll say this about all four candidates. I noticed this
is something different this go around than previous mayoral campaigns.
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As I mentioned a few minutes ago. I'd watched them
since the time of Outlaw versus Dal. All four of
these folks seem very confident. More they seem to be
the most confident candidates that I've yet to see run
for mayor of Mobile. I do believe that they all
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four believe that each one is the right candidate. Of course,
a lot of talk from Paul Prine about public safety,
Connie Hudson talking about experience because of her years of experience.
I did notice that Spiro talking a lot about generational change,
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and that is something i'd not It's not been a
theme I don't think in previous elections. But I have
noticed more people now anytime that I talk to people
that are under the age of forty, and I don't
do that a lot because it's really annoying to talk
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to people. What do they know when they're under the
edge of forty. But I have noticed younger people are
bringing up a generational change, so that's something to keep
an eye on. And Barbara Drummond talking a lot about
all of her experience as well at levels of government.
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So I mentioned to you yesterday. I asked X the
X app, the groc AI I asked it to predict
who was going to win the groc x A. I
predicted Barbara Drummond would win. Now, some of the listeners
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asked chat GPT for Microsoft, and that predicted a Connie
Hudson win. But we all know that anything can happen
between now and election day in this election. And back
with more after the break Uncle Henry's Show News Radio
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seven to ten WNTIM It is five point fifty news
headlines coming up in ten minutes and then additional Uncle
Henry Show. Now I got another. I got a voicemail
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yesterday after talking talking a lot about potholes on the
Uncle Hendry Show yesterday, and it was a glorious pothole discussion.
If you missed it, you can find the podcast of
yesterday's show by going to the iHeartRadio app. Look for
Uncle Henry's Show on the iHeartRadio app, or just go
to NewsRadio seventen dot com. You can find it there.
We had a wonderful pothole discussion yesterday on the program.
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Got a voicemail about potholes, which what a blessing it
is to get voicemails about potholes.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
Lording up Henry marian uh Oh, Henry. I didn't want
to call, but I just I have to because the
subject is potholes. Potholes here in Mobile County, Alabama. Yes,
and they've been talking a lot about that on the news,
this morning, talk radio, this kind of thing. Now, the
amazing thing is the city said that they patched or
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repaired over four thousand potholes just last year. Did I
hear that correctly? Yes, And they've already gotten one thousand
pothole complaints this year. Yes, and they've got all of
them fixed or all the complaints answered, except for about
three hundred in ninety six of them. I think they said,
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that's a lot of potholes, Uncle Henry. And they also
have a claims department. You hit a pothole or a crater,
as I like to call them. Let's say you fracture
a couple of ribs in the process, I guess you
can find a claim with the City of Mobile. Let's
say you have a flat tire or knocks your car
out of alignment. I guess you have a claim with
the City of Mobile, and I guess they'll take care
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of it. I'm not sure, but that's amazing. Four thousand
potholes repaired last year, if the weather I mean, if
the news guy knew what he was talking about, and
they said, the reason they haven't gotten all of them
this year is because the aspalt truck broke down and
its replacement broke down. Yes, really, I mean come on now,
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but anyway, up Henry, one of our council members have
or has recommended that maybe we do or hire an
outside asphalt pothole repair company.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Now. Yesterday Josh Woods of the Mobile City Council was
asking about having some type of redundancy in place so
that there would never be missed pothole repair.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
Time, so that they can get these things fixed in
timely manner. I just felt like that was an amazing story. Yes,
I'm trying not to let these potholes sneak up on me,
but every now and then when them does, Uncle Henry,
hope you and your listeners have a great day, great evening.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
All it you lay all right? Thank you Marion for
your voicemail voice. Maman number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six
nineteen seventy six. You're talking about seeing it talked about
on the news. I've told before how I went to Jackson,
Mississippi years ago and got up on a Saturday morning
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in the hotel room and turned on the local news
to see what was the news in Jackson, Mississippi. And
the top story was a pothole. Yes, and they had declared,
and I started doing research. They declared like an infrastructure
emergency in their town to be to being just inundated
with potholes. You don't want to be inundated with them,
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that's for sure. You don't. You don't want to be
like Jackson, Mississippi. Two five one four seven nine two
seven two three. The telephone number here on the Uncle
Henry Show. Hello caller, Hehi, Hey, you are live on
the radio.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
Hey, I need to run familiar because I know how
to stop the potholes.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
How would you stop the potholes?
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I keep your mama from wearing high heels?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Oh what you cut that out? You sick, idiotic, brain dead,
demon possessed, lousy, scumbag pervert jerk. Stop it. You know
I'm not gonna let I'm not I'm gonna stop. I'm
gonna stop myself right there. I could go on for
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for maybe an hour or two describing the type of physical,
emotional and financial punishments and and of course physical punishments
I'd like to do to this person. But instead I'm
not going to do that because today I was announced
as a Nappy Award winner for Best Overall Radio Personality.
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So I will not go down that road. I will
not spend the time or the energy thinking about the
things I'd like to have done to this person. It
would be, but I will I will elaborate and say
that it would be like George W. Bush era George W.
Bush era torture, which which they claimed they weren't doing,
(34:48):
but they were really doing. So that's that's that's what
I was probably bring in some Dick Cheney c I
a types handle that guy, waterboard him. I need to
uh yeah, just about out of time for this half
hour of Uncle Henry's show. There is more coming up
after the break. We're going to take a time out
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for Fox Radio News Headlines and then more Uncle Henry
Show here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. It says,
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the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seen WNTM.
Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now
in this half hour of show. We're going to get
to some alleged news items that I missed. You might
have missed them too, so we can learn together when
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we check out these news items. Now, I want to
start off with something that I have not yet previewed.
This You and I will be checking this out together
for the first time, just the two of us. Now,
this is from w b RC up in Birmingham. They
did a story. This was either earlier today or yesterday. Now,
(36:37):
this is a story. The headline is be careful walking
on hot surfaces. Now. Now, look, I'm not in favor
of walking on hot surfaces. I'm not in favor of
hurting yourself on a hot surface. But since when have
we needed the people on the news to tell us
to be what's going on? How did this become news?
(37:03):
Whatever happened to TV stations going out and actually investigating things,
you know, just looking into what government's up to that
kind of thing, or maybe even consumer news. Maybe there's
some company out there somewhere is ripping somebody off or something.
Whatever happened to that kind of news. Now you get
(37:24):
all kind of safety tips or stories like it's National
hot dog Day, it's National Macaroni and cheese day, let's
spend five minutes talking about macaroni and cheese. What happened
to the news anyway? This is a news story. Let's
listen together. What why do we need this on the news?
All right? WBrC talking about how it's hot on the pavement.
Speaker 12 (37:50):
For the hot weather coming our way. WBrC safety check
tonight because with the storytep.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
It's a safety check truth that could make.
Speaker 12 (37:57):
The pavement or concrete feel thirty to forty three. He's hotter,
which could actually lead to burns, especially if you're near
a pool.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
That's right, and your reporter or Josh GANDT on your
side this afternoon, braving the heat to bring to you
this warning.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Look, we know it's hot. It's summertime in Alabama. When
the sun beaming down right now it is in the
nineties with it feels like around one hundred. I've been
outside for just a little bit and you can tell
I am already sweating buckets. It doesn't take long in
his heat and on the ground it is even hot.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
By the way, I know we don't have we don't
have video yet, radio only audio. And I know you're
thinking it's twenty twenty five. What are you guys gonna
what are you gonna get some video with the audio?
We're still working on it, but you can't see this video.
This guy has so much product in his hair, God
bless him. He could sweat and be just completely melted
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by the sun. I think his hair would be left.
But anyway, he's in lots of edits in this video,
different angles of his head with his sweat and everything.
All right, let's say, what can we learn about how
the pavement gets hot and how you might burn your
foot on it?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
I think buckets. It doesn't take long in this heat,
and on the ground it is even hotter. Want to
know how hot? This thermometer measuring almost one hundred and
thirty degrees on an asphalt. That hot pavement and concrete
can lead to significant burns for people and their animals.
We know the pool, it's a great way to cool off,
but the concrete around it can heat up big time
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in the summer months, making for an uncomfortable, even dangerous
walk on your feet.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
It's sorry, I'm sorry, it's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Indirect sunlight before.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
You go out into the pool, go down to the ground,
touch it if it's really hot.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Either maybe grab a towel, put it a.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Can you believe this? They're telling people that you eat
to be you need to touch the surface before you
put your foot on it. Well, what about your hand?
What are you gonna have to carry around on an
oven mint? What is this.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
All?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Right? Again? I apologize for this. I cannot believe they're
doing a news story about how you've got the concrete's
going to get hot at the pool? What's going on.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Before you go out into the pool? Go down to
the ground, touch it if it's really hot either, maybe
grab a towel, put it over it. That's going to
help you out. If you get out of the pool,
you won't be burning your skin.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
First Alert meterologist Matt Daniels says playground equipment can be
another hot zone.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Just the pad itself.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
It's reading at about one hundred and sixty three degrees.
Over the years, we've been on your side warning you
that the equipment can heat up in a hurry, causing
second or third degree burns in a matter of minutes,
even seconds.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
If it's really.
Speaker 11 (40:40):
Hot, you needed to make sure that you're checking that
equipment and just more importantly, just trying to keep that
timeframe go in the morning, go in the evening, and.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
You know, is this because do they have to do
these stories? Is it now a necessity to warn people
about this? Because is it just because the IQ level
is dropping around the country, I know, getting dumber as
each day goes by. Is it the rest of society
also joining me in the downward intelligence trend? Are we
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just getting dumber in the not you, but as me
and the rest of the people other than you, are
we all getting dumber? Is that why we need people
to tell us this and.
Speaker 11 (41:19):
Just avoid the middle of the day right now because
of how hot it is.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
Don't forget your pets. The scorching payment can burn them too.
Vet Nearians say, if you can't keep the back of
your hand on the ground for five to seven seconds,
it's too hot for your pets.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Paw all right. Now we've got now we've got a standard,
the back of your hand on the ground, and if
you can't keep it there for five to seven seconds,
you can't walk your dog. All right. We've now got
a back of the hand standard.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Make sure they're walking in those grassy shaded areas. It's
not going to be as hot.
Speaker 6 (41:50):
If you do get a payment burn. It's best to
get it checked out.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Because a pavement burned, all right, I don't doubt that.
I'm sure it exists. But now I didn't know the terminology.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
As doctors say, it could become infected, and they say
that could further complicate the healing process. So please be
careful out there. I'm Josh Scan. Do you be here?
See six News on your side?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Good lord? Come on, Oh wait, I got to hear
Hay said that. Let's listen to how he said, on
your side. Let's hear it.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
He's be careful out there. I'm Josh Skin to you
be here? See six News on your side?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
On your side? All right, Well, I'm glad you're on
my side. I learned I've learned something from this news
report that pavement pavement can get hot in the summer. Now,
the in the old days, people were smart enough to
make adjustments without a TV guy with a lot of
hair product telling them to make the adjustments. That's I'm
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just I just want to point that out. I know
we had problems in the past, no doubt, but one
thing for the people of the past, they didn't need it.
They didn't need to be told these things on television.
What is news turned into news one day? What do
they go someday I know I'm gonna turn on the
(43:07):
news and it's They're just gonna sit there and Uh,
it's gonna be like a babysitter for adults, isn't it.
They're gonna tell you how to make a sandwich? Is
there going to be a special saying I'm gonna say
that it could be dangerous because there is a knife
in the kitchen. What do they go? Look? Just frustrated
with it? That's all, just frustrated with it. I'm longing
(43:29):
for the days back in the day when there was
when there was an investigative reporter that would look into
what government entities were up to that kind of thing,
or or anything any other thing that we need investigated.
Now it's stuff like this National Macaroni and Cheese Day,
(43:50):
National hont Dog Day. By the way, today is National
hount Dog Day. We'll get to that in the next
segment of the program before I move on to the break.
A reminder that you could listen to previous episodes of
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(44:14):
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NewsRadio seventen dot com. All right, let's take the Dadgum break.
Let's take the break. This says the Uncle Henry Show.
(44:51):
News headlines coming up in ten minutes before we get there.
A couple of more items. Now I mentioned National hot
Dog Day and the last segment of the show, and
the last segment of the show, I was expressing my
frustration and bewilderment with modern news on television because it's
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and radio, because it ain't what it used to be,
and we get we get all this stuff, like the
last segment. We have the segment from w b RC
and Birmingham about hot pavement and how to protect yourself
because it's dangerous. And also I've noticed on the news
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they will take valuable time out of a newscast to
tell us about its National Macaroni and Cheese Day, or
it's National red Wine Day, and they'll spend, you know,
five minutes talking about it, or it's National Cracker Day.
Just stuff like that. That to me, All these different days,
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by the way, National Road, National fern in the shade Day,
whatever it is, they all seem to be created by
different industries to get publicity one day a year for
their product in the news instead of actually going out
and reporting something. These news shows like it because they
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don't have to do nothing but sit there and talk
about crackers or strawberries or whatever it is National fried
Fish Day or talk about fried fish. It seems I'm
trying to think of the right diplomatic way to put
this diplomatically. I won't say the things that popped into
my head initially because I don't want to offend all
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of the news people. Let me diplomatically say it seems
to be a low cost way to do the news.
I'll just put it that way. It seems to be
a less expensive way to do a newscast. All right.
So that said, here is something from Fox National News
(47:02):
reporter Lily and Wu reporting on hot Dog Day. Now,
think about all the things going on in the world
that a Fox News reporter could be reporting on. There's
there's the Middle East, There's Russia, Russia, Ukraine, there's tariffs,
there's there's Epstein arguing and all this kind of stuff. No,
(47:26):
it's national. Let's let's spend some time on National hot
Dog Day.
Speaker 13 (47:31):
An American icon gets some extra love on National hot
Dog Day, which falls on the third Wednesday of every July.
That's halfway between Memorial Day and Labor Day, otherwise known
as hot dog Season. According to the National hot Dog
and Sausage Council, which is.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
The national the National hot Dog and Sausage Council, this
is so, this is there, and they've done a great job.
They've gotten there, they've gotten their product mentioned on Fox
News by creating a special day for the hot dog.
By the way, National hot Dog and Sausage Council. Wouldn't
it be great to have a job working for them
(48:12):
and have that on your business card and you're at
some gathering and somebody asked you, hey, what line of
work are you in? Oh, well, I'm on the National
hot Dog and Sausage Council. Here's my card and you
can have a little hot dog shaped card. Wouldn't that
be fun?
Speaker 3 (48:27):
Does?
Speaker 13 (48:28):
That's when Americans put away seven billion francs, or more
than eight hundred every second. The people of Los Angeles
consume more hot dogs than any other city, followed by
New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, according to data from Katom
Restaurant Supply.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Just some of the venus is that because you can't
afford to eat in an actual restaurant in those cities
and you have to buy a hot dog on the streets.
Speaker 13 (48:53):
Use offering hot dog deals, Circle, k Sonic, Shake Shack,
seven eleven, and Wienerschnitzel. Lily and Wu Fox News.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
All Right, Lily and Wu got the easy job. She
didn't have to actually report on anything at all of substance.
She just had to tell us, Hey, we want to
remind you that I might want to eat a hot dog,
all right, and I don't, and I don't necessarily need
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to be reminded. I was raised. I was raised on
the hot The hot dogs were always in the refrigerator.
And I know it's a shock to you that I
that we had refrigerators when I was growing up. We
didn't have ice boxes. We did have we did have
refrigerators when I was a child, and we always and
we did we could afford to have hot dogs in
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the house, and that was a staple, usually a lunch food.
And so, but I don't. I don't feel the need
to create a day to celebrate it. I guess everything
will get its day. You know they say every dog
gets its day. They probably do. Every breed does. I'm
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sure there's a there's a Schnauzer Day at some point.
In fact, I think I'll look that up after the
show and see whaten Schnauzer Day is. Or let's see,
is there anything else or one more thing. I already
mentioned this at the beginning of the program, But if
you voted for me in the Lane Yap Newspaper's Nappy Awards,
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thank you. Thank you for voting for WNTM making it
the favorite AM radio station. That's uh it. I like
the idea that they remember that am radio exists at
land Yap. Thank you for that land Yap appreciate the
remembrance of am radio. And also thank you if you
voted for me for best Radio Personality Overall. I like that.
(50:53):
I like the idea that it's it's just best overall.
That could be KSJ, that could be WNTM, or it
could be it could be me just walking through a
radio station room or something. Thank you for voting for
me in the nephew Wards. I appreciate it very much.
Out of time, as they say in Sarland, have a
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good one, as they say in Theodore, take it easy
Speaker 4 (51:21):
All right later