The Crippled Possum

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It is the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
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Here we are together as we try to figure out

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what is going on? What is going on in the
world around us? Is what is going on in this country?
Tell you what at all? You know what I keep
wondering what is going on in the world around us?
And so much of it seems to track right back
to the devil. It does, it really does. But here
we are Uncle Ember show underway. Took a couple of

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days off. Glad to be back here with you. My
radio friend two five one four seven nine two seven
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that's two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot Com. We've got
so much to get into. Very excited to find out,
uh that the the state of Alabama is releasing all

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of the Snap benefits in full. Isn't that wonderful those
of us that are on Snap. Very good to hear
about this. We're going to get into all of that
and more as the show moves forward. Better. But I
got a living caller right here at the beginning of
the show.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Hello caller, Uncle Henry, Roll time.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Roll tied road.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
John McNeil, how are you today, sir?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm doing fantastic. How you doing?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm doing great and joint avenue in the office as
usual this week. It was a great show. We did. Yes, indeed,
I just want to mind colors. Has been a rough,
rough day in the market. Uh, if you're not building
defense into your portfolio, you need to you need to
look for some defensive structure and uh make sure you

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don't lose what you've earned all these years is run
up in the market.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well we're we're not. We're supposed to uh set it
up so that we don't have to think about it.
Didn't that right, John McNeill, Yeah, you get yourself, You
get yourself a plan together and then you don't have
to worry about it.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's right, It's not hard to put a plan together.
But I just wanted to You know, this is homecoming
week at Alabama and we're playing the Oklahoma You know,
they can.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Sneak up on us.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
They hadn't been doing too good lately, but they are
a powerhouse.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
John McNeil, the quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Tys Simpson,
said that this Oklahoma defense is the best coach that
they'll face this year.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yes, and he's a rank number five as far as
quarterbacks for the Heisman, which I think you should be
ranked higher, of course, But I think it's gonna be
a good game. They can't wait till two thirty. My daughter,
Virginia O'Brien is taking her two little children and her
husband to sit in our seats for the game. That's
the first time they will go to an Alabama game.

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And I've got them lined up to have a special
session with Big Al and the cheerleaders and they're going
to have a big time. Be looking for Bi O'Brien
at the homecoming UH Expose this weekend.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
All right, very very good, look forward to that. I
hope there's a lot of pictures that are taking of
this incredible event for those kids.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
They'll be in the pictures and in our newsletter. So
if you don't have a if you're not subscribed to
our newsletter, uh, just give us cold we'll put you
on the list. But I hope you have a great
day and roll time.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
John me neil, Thank you, always a pleasure always. You
need to come in and do the show again sometime soon,
John McNeil.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I can't come before next week.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I'll be there if you'll be all right, all right,
we'll set it up. Well, we'll set it up.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
A good deal.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
There, he goes, John McNeil. John McNeil, Yes, John McNeil
of Mobile Bay Financial Solutions. If you want a season,
they put out a newsletter every Thursday. You can call
their office two five one six six six five thousand
and get on their their newsletter list, their email list,

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and that way you can see the pictures that he's
talking about of the family going up there and having
Big Al spend some time with him and all that
kind of stuff. John McNeil, Yes, indeed, John McNeil 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. While I had no I missed the

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opportunity he was on the phone, I could have asked
him what he thought the having the influx of these
Snap benefits hitting the cards around the state. What would
that do and the short term for many businesses out
there because a big part of Snap, A lot of
a lot of us, a lot of people talking about
Snap during the government shutdown, and a lot of people

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talking about the impact of Snap on the people that
rely on it for food. But a lot of businesses.
There's a lot of businesses that that line up and
make uh, make good cash on the Snap. What would
happen to Walmart, for example, if there was no such thing?

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So this could be a big boost temporarily to some businesses. Now.
Governor Ivy released a statement today. They put out a
press release today that these Snap full Snap benefits will
be released for this month. The Governor of Alabama, k Ivy,

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put out this statement. Governor Ivy said, quote, it is
about time Congress did their job to reopen the federal government.
In Alabama, Snap recipients were some of the most impacted
during the shut down period, and I'm pleased that DHR
will work to quickly provide normal, full benefits. Our state

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government in Alabama, as well as our local governments, do
not operate in such a reckless way. And I hope
Congress has learned from their failure to meet their responsibility
to the people across this country. That is a statement
from Governor k Ivy. Now I hope that she's saying

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she hopes Congress has learned from their failure. I implore
the Governor not to hold her breath waiting on Congress
to learn from anything. I hate to be that cynical,
but one of the things I've learned from observing in
my life is that Congress does not seem to learn
from really about anything, or they're about where to get

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more money for themselves personally. So I don't believe Congress
will learn. But here in the short term, you're gonna
get your snap benefits back. After the break with more
Uncle Henry's Show, Uncle Henry Show, it is five twenty

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dot com. Hello Coller.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Henry, Yes, Ron Ron rem Now.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
The last time I heard from you, Ron Rems, you
were ill. Are you better now?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'm better? Took a spill today and fell on them.
I don't want to go into that. Okay, The thing
I want to start with. Do you know the name
of that guy who you had on his voicemail? First name?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
What guy?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
The guy who was asking for a federal investigation of
the bathroom at the Alabama Public Safety Building. No on
de Metropolis and Highway nine.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
No, I do not know his first or his last name.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
No, No, Well, I just wanted to give him a
piece of advice, and it's very simple. Don't drink and
call voicemail.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
All right.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
He didn't explain why he wants a federal investigation, but
he told us twice right that he wanted the federal investigation.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh, like I said, I have this inkling that he'd
probably been nipping a little bit at the liquor cabinet.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
You never know, you really never know. I learned years
ago that I used to think that I could tell,
but now I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, here's seem that way. That's all I can say.
The other thing is I wanted to agree with you
about the Democrats and Congress, and also the Governor's got
it right because they can try to explain themselves all
they want to, but I don't think that they learn
their lesson because all you got to do is listen

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to Hai King, Jeffries or Chuck Humor and listen to
what they're saying after they've already lost the vote, and
it's like, you know, you could hit them with the
two by four, but you still don't have their attention.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
The way it looks to me on.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
That one, well, none of it. It doesn't make sense.
And I'm trying to figure out when they're talking who
are they really talking to. Is it a group of
maybe five or six donors that they're trying to convince
Because it does anything they've said resonate with actual voters,
I don't know that it does.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I don't know it resonates with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
I'm sure because they're the radical left and they're they're
you know, she wants to run for president. I wish
your luck. I don't think it's gonna happen that she wins,
but you never know.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
You never know, Ron, And she's, uh, she's a way
better communicator than Kamala Harris.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh sure, and Kamal was still stepping into the stuff
that she get. You know, she'll say things that she
really should not have said, and that happens a lot,
and that you know, even after the election has been
over for months, so almost a.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Year, that's right.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Anyway, That's just some of my thoughts for the day.
I just wanted to touch base with you and wish
you all the best and roll tied.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Ron. Thank you. Good to hear from Ron Reims. Last
time he contacted me, his family had a bug, one
of them bugs, and they were fighting that bug. So
I'm glad. I'm glad Ron is better from that standpoint.
But uh, you know, AOC running for president, don't don't

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think don't think that she couldn't get a ton of votes.
Don't think she wouldn't have a chance to win, because
I'm telling you doesn't look she's she's better at communicating
than Kamala Harris. Imagine if the Democrat candidate had been

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able to speak. Imagine if the Democrat candidate had made
a little sense the last time. Just imagine two five, one, four,
seven nine two three. Hello caller, Cliff, Cliff, you are
live on the radio, uncle.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
And trying to figure out the Democrat Party and trying
to make them make sense. Don't make sense. They're telling
the people they're spelling it out for them. They're starving them.
Then when they they they open the government back up,
they get mad and tell the people they're in their

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face they shouldn't have done that. And we're gonna get
rid of Chuck Schumann because he should have let y'all starve,
and they don't get it. So you if you think
you can wake up dead people, then you might have
a chance.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well, I don't think I can do that.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
The people that they're talking to, unc Henry are already gone.
They were tilling you in your face that you don't
we don't give a rests behind about you. All we
care about is power and getting insurance for our medical

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health for our new black and illegal Democrat voters, and
we'll let you starve to do it.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, what do you do for? Where do you think
they're headed? I mean, I think the Democrats we're seeing
a lot of the older Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi go
bye bye. Chuck Schumer is probably going to be going soon.
I wonder what the new Democrats are going to be like.
I think they're going to be more confrontational. Cliff.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah, but uncle Henry, these are what you call court gesters,
village idiots and rodeo clown These people like jas Mincrockett,
AOC and these people out around here chalkick. These people
are IQ ain't as big as y'all thought they would.
Because every time I'm listening at these people, I was thinking,

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I'm dumb enough to be a politician. They can put
a donkey up there, we say, already got a has
a logo, and all that donkey got to do is
just go around making a jackass out of itself, just
like AOC and Jabane Crockett whatever they say. It don't
make no sense for people saying here here, all these

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people are, I mean, they are just bright. They're the
next thing that the politicians, the Democrats need. This new blood.
The new blood is stupid. Yeah, Blisz deal again.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Thank you, Cliff. You have blessed me more than you
could know by having come forward here on the Uncle
Henry Show. Yeah, I've been thinking about what direction are
the Democrats going to take. I don't know if you've noticed,
but the rhetoric is getting more firing. And you look

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at some of these confrontations that are happening in the streets,
like happened at Berkeley this week where people were attacking
the turning point thing out there in Burt. It looks
like there's some not all, of course, but there's there's
some younger Democrats especially that are really itching for some
kind of confrontation, itching for something like that. And I

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just I hope that I just hope the cooler heads prevail.
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got a couple of callers waiting. Hello caller.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Good uncle Henry Bert Bert.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
You are on the radio.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
A minute ago you asked what direction the Democrat Party
is headed in? Yes, And Uncle Henry, I remember when
if you were an Alabamian, you were almost certainly a Democrat.
Right When hal Heflin ran for Senate in nineteen seventy eight,
no Republican even bothered to run against him. He went

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in with ninety four percent of the vote. Right, And
I think it took the Baxley credit fiasco of eighty
six to convince the conservative American conservative Alabamians that the
Republican Party was their home.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
There was that, and there was also just the Reagan Revolution.
But you're right completely we had a lot. I mean,
Senator Shelby was a Democrat. You had a lot of
politicians that all flipped from one part of the other.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
And Uncle Henry, I'm a student of history all my life,
and I've always wondered what happened to political parties that
just vanished. The Whigs, i think, separated over the slavery issue.
The Federalists, that's a story that's rarely told, but they

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took openly, blatantly took the side of the British enemy
in the War of eighteen twelve. And there were five
at that time New England states that were seriously considering
seceding from the Union and joining Canada over the issue
of the War of eighteen twelve. And within ten years
after the war, there was no more Federalist party. They

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didn't even bother to run a candidate. The people of
this country saw the Federalists as choosing a foreign enemy
over the interests of their country. And that's what the
Democrats are doing today, Uncle Henry. This whole saying government
shutdown thing is over goodies for illegals, because they know

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that they don't have the heart and soul of the
American people on their side anymore. So they've got to
bring in as many foreigners as they possibly can to
outvote American citizens. And that's what all of this is about.
How many goodies are we going to give for foreigners
to come in and vote for Democrats? And that is
not a winning strategy for a party that wants to

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win the heart and soul of the American people.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, the Federals, well, some people would think they've already won,
that the math is going to work out in their
favor going forward. You obviously don't believe that way.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
It all depends on the demographics. I guess that the people,
like Mam Donnie has said, we will come to your
country and we will outbreed you. We'll have ten kids
to year one, and we will outnumber you. The of
migrants from third world countries that absolutely loathe and despise

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everything this country has ever stood for, they could very
well outnumber us eventually.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
All Right, Well, I think so. Really it sounds like
what you're saying is the next few years there needs
to be a lot more deportations, there.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
Does Uncle Henry. Not just that, not just the ones
that are that have committed crimes, but like Tom Holman says,
everybody that breaks into this country like a Burglar is
spitting in the eye of the literally millions of people
that are jumping through all the hoops to come to
this country legally, including my neurologist. I got to give

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him a shout out, Uncle Henry. His name is doctor
Shak and he's from Pakistan, and he says, I spent
six productive years of my life coming to this country legally,
and he has no sympathy for the people that break
in like Burglar whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Now it's uh when you do it legally, there's a
lot of work and money involved.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Indeed, well they take him a call, can it?

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Bert? Thank you great to hear from Bert. Two five
one four seven nine two seven two three the telephone
number here on the Uncleaner Show.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Hello caller, Hey Obrah Henry, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Snake Trapper, Hey, Snake Trapper. I went to Dlphin Island
for Veterans Dale. I went to a concert Doherty's on
Dolphin Island had Dylan Carmichael. We were raising money for
BET's recover. And I had a man who drove all
the way from fair Hope. His name was Anthony, and
he asked me there when we were at Doherty's listening
to the country music. He said, Hey, is this snake trapper?

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Is that a real person? And I said, yes, that's him,
and he really does trap snakes and eat them.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
Uncle, Henry.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Uh yeah, I'm a I'm a. I mean, uh, you know,
I don't do it as much as I did was
a younger man, but I do. But uh yeah, on Henry,
what I called to tell you about, man is, uh,
I had something's been coming up on my ports for
the past month and getting to my cat's food, and
uh so I started putting stuff out about three days

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a week. Uh, and I happened to catch it out there, Henry.
It's an old tripled possible Henry got a bad giddy
up and it's up looks to be about seven years old,
and it's coming up after midnight. And for people out
there that don't know, you know, the life expectacly of
Waltham's only four or five years, so this one's way

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past its age. So I'm gonna continue putting stuff out
for it until it just squit's coming up. And I'd
like to.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Tell people out there, if you get a chance to
be nice.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
To a possum, I do that for one. If you
just see one walking around in the woods that possum
has done beat the odds because the mother poss will
give births seven days after gestation seven and nine days
and it's usually around twenty to which they have to
find their way to its pouchs and compete for only

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thirteen teats in that pouts, in which only nine of
them will work. So just the fact that you see
it working around is as basically just beat the odds.
It's like a forty five percent chance for surviving just
from being born. So you know, I've stayed the many times.
We're just a couple of bad years away from losing

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our only marsupill. So if anybody out there happens to
no one hanging around or something, put it.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Out a little food.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
You know they will find something. They they are forgers
and scavengers. They'll find something. But you know, I can
remember as a kid over hen, I used to think
they was just the otherest and nastiest looking animal you'd
ever want to be around. But the more I learned
about the possum, and that's how rare it is. Just
the fact that we have a marsupial in North America,

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I've grown to love them a lot, Uncle Henry, and uh,
they are really sweet animals. They mean nothing, no harm.
I mean, so if you get a chance to be
nice to a possum, do it. Uh, please try to
miss them on the road because, like I said, the
fact that they've beat the odds just from being born.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Thank Frepper, thank you. This is one of thank you
for telling us this real life story of you encountering
the crippled possum.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yes, sir, Old Henry Man, Uncle Henry, I really like
to catch it and take it in and snuggle on
it and love on it. But it's been wild all
its life. Like I said, I'm just gonna try to
have a little interaction with it as I can and
continue to put it something out make it kind of
a little easier for what to find, because, like I said,
that's an old one. It's way past its days. Yeah,

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you know. So you know I love them, on Henry.
I do because of the fact that you know, they
don't mean anything any harm and you.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Know they just put in this world.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
They don't know their purpose, but they definitely have a
place very good.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I've got to go to the break, but thank you,
Snake Trevor. Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
You take care there.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
He goes with compassion and empathy for the animal he
described as a crippled possum. You know, if I ever
were to open my own private club, I might call
it the Crippled Possum Invitation only, the Crippled Possum. Uncle

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Speaker 2 (28:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
When Snake Trapper called a few minutes ago, I mentioned
that somebody mentioned Snake Trapper to me when I was
at Doherty's on Dauphin Island Tuesday ninth ninety five KSJ
throwing a Veterans Veterans Day nine time concert to raise
money for Vets Recover in Mobile. I just want to
want you to know that it turned out great, a

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great crowd for Dylan Carmichael. People had a great time,
and the event raised over nine thousand dollars. I don't
know the exact amount, but over nine thousand dollars raised,
which was great. And then the people from Vets Recover
told me as they were leaving that they got a
few big donations from people as well. So for those

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of you that went to the concert, or bought tickets
or donated without going, whatever, thank you very very much
because that group does help veterans every year in Mobile.
That's recover now. The number here is two five one
four seven nine two seven two three two five one
four seven nine two seventy two three. Now Monday, when
I was on the show Monday, I got a voicemail

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from Pat Nelly or someone claiming to be Pat Nelly,
saying that he had a ninety three year old friend
named Duval that listens to the show. I think he
said it was a ninety three year old man named
Joe Duval. Now, this person claiming to be Pat Nelly

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phoned in with a follow up about his ninety three
year old friend that listens to the show.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
Duval, Good afternoon. I hope you're having a great day.
Sure is a glorious day in Mobile, Alabama. Yes, hey,
let's no sooner. Did you played my voicemail yesterday? Than
Duval called me up and chastise me because I did

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not tell him the message that he wanted to relate
to you. Oh, he says that he watches you every
day on am seventy ten. But his exact quote was
that guy must have had an excellent Husian elecution elocution

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teacher when you were younger, and he's probably gonna call
again and tell me I butchered that word. But I
think you get the idea of what he was trying
to compliment you on. Again. You're doing the Lord's work.
I know a lot of seniors, include myself, listening to
you daily. I hope you have a great afternoon, and roll.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Tiede, roll tied roll. Thank you very much for your
phone call. Thank you to Duval for your compliment. I
did not. No one has taught me nothing about elocution.
I just went to public schools and the state of Alabama,
except for one year. I had one year right before

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high school where I was in a church school, but
everything else, all the other years were Alabama public school teaching.
It was just your regular teaching that everybody else got.
And back back in the day, you had to pass tests.

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You had to listen in class and read your books,
and then you had to take a test and make
better than you had to get more than half right,
if I remember correctly. That's all it was. It was
just your basics, just your basics reading, write and rhythmetic
and all that garbage. But thank you to Dubaul, and
thank you Pat and Ellie for your voicemail the voice
the number two one six nineteen seventy six. That's two

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five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. And speaking
of speaking of seniors, I think I mentioned Monday that
I hooked up my TV antenna to my television because
of the YouTube TV dispute with with ESPN and Disney,
and I needed to watch the Alabama game. So I

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hooked the TV antenna up to my TV and started
watching the free stuff over the antenna, and I've really
enjoyed it. And my wife was out of town at
a women's retreat, and so last night I slept with
the TV on me TV, And when I woke up

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this morning, I was so excited. There was an hour
of George Burns and Gracie Allen. You now, senior citizen,
we'll know while I would, they'll know why I applaud this,
But it was I thought, this is why can't we
have more of this? You know, if I had, if
I if I were one of the richest people like

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Elon Musk. I'd buy ABC or CBS or NBC, and
I would say, let's let's get some George Burns and
Gracie Allen on there. I would I would force the country.
I'd force the country, those watching broadcast television to to
stomach some of that stuff because we were better off.
We were. No cussing on there, no nakedness, nobody was

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running around, uh, trying to get in each other's clothes
or nothing like that. No illicit affairs or nothing, just
basic stuff, just like the education. I got all right
back with more coming up after the break. Got a

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weird topic for the Uncle Henry Show coming up after
the break. I'm going to talk to an author about narcissism.
What is it