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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Goa Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.
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Uncle Henry, you know what I think Global warning have
destroyed the hair on my head? What you think, Uncle Henry?
Global warning makes people lose their hair on their head.
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Uncle Henry, Yes, I believe in Global Warning.
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That's forward.
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Wonderful town, wonderful people, places to go, things to see.
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My life is small.
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That's my wonderful town.
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Beautiful homes, schools and churches, entertainment, laces to shop.
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My heart's in mobil. That's my wonderful town.
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Mobile the center of transportation, business and industry set the
Pace Mobile's got the junior miss Cell operation Home of
party growing, Senior Home Game.
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O'bile is great to live in and work in.
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Red Climate's ideal for progress.
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You see.
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My love is mobile.
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That's my wonderfault.
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O that role.
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Okay, this is the Uncle Henry Show here on News
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Radio seventy ten wnt M. Thank you, Thank you once
again for tuning in to the Uncle Henry Show. I
think you can still tune a radio now if you've
if you're if you're listening for the first time, you
might have made a mistake. Check check and see what
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you're supposed to be listening to. But for the return listener,
thank you for coming back to the Uncle Henver Show. Yes,
I know you probably give the Uncle Henver Show a
listen on Mondays just to see if I'm still here. Yeah,
I'm still here, still employed, still doing the unk Cleandry Show.
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Glad to be here, Glad to be in the air conditioning.
My goodness, gracious, my goodness, what heat we got now,
it's been hotter, it's been hotter, But once against like this,
does it even matter if it gets hotter? That's where
I am. I don't know where you are in your life,
but I'm at a point where this is a temperature
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and humidity level that at this point, if it got
any hotter, I don't know that i'd noticed. Because it's
hot enough. It is hot enough. It's hot enough to
cause me to change plans or to just avoid doing
a lot of the basics. So it's hot enough for me,
and I hope it is for you, and I hope
you're staying healthy in the heat. Here we are, once again,
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you and me together on the Ulk Calendar Show, trying
to figure out what is going on in the world
around us, and if you could tell me what is
going on in the world around us? What is this?
What's going on? I keep falling back on the explanation
of it's just satan running wild most of the time.
That is a pretty good default answer. It's just satan
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running wild and people need to combat it. Now a
programming note for the regular listener. I am taking vacation
starting tomorrow. Now, why did I come in and just
be here for a Monday? Well, I would say poor planning, Yes,
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little poor planning. Not that I don't mind being here
in the air conditioner with you, but probably should have
taken today off too, but made some poor planning. But
I'll be gone the rest of the week now in
my place, I do have three brand new shows coming
up for you this week. Tomorrow, I've got a brand
new discussion with Eric bump over Street of Ryan's Refuge
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about the homeless situation on the Gulf Coast and Mmobile.
He's planning on once again living with the homeless starting
at the end of this week. So he's yes, he's
going out into the heat to live with the homeless.
So we'll talk about that. That'll be tomorrow. Then, Wednesday,
Paul Prime, my first interview, my first meeting with Paul Prime,
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candidate for mayor. That will be Wednesday on the Uncle
Henry Show. And then Thursday Spiro cere Goattis mobile mayoral candidate.
Spiro will be in Thursday, so we'll have a homeless
show tomorrow and then Wednesday and Thursday a couple of
mayoral candidates, and then whatever happens Friday, who knows, God bless.
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I hope something good happens Friday. But I'll be back
a week from today after taking some time off, and
I hope I have interesting stories to tell. In fact,
follow me on the Uncle Henry Facebook page to keep
up with me on my vacation. I hope I have
some fun things to show you while I'm on vacation
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this week. Now we are here together. Now today, I'm
available for your phone call. Maybe you need some advice
or some counseling, maybe just somebody to listen. Just you
want somebody to listen to you. 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.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Uncle Henry
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at iHeartMedia dot com. I do have some wonderful message
from messages from listeners to get to, uh, some topics
I want to bring up just a lot to get
to on the Uncle Henry Show today, let me start
with a caller, Hello, coller.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Ocle Henry LD, the mad Tracker Man.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I guess where I'm going.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Where are you headed?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Ld?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I'm going to Hillsdale Community Center and play ping pong.
I advise everybody, if you got a paddle, come on.
They play and they play.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, okay, now this are you going out there this evening?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Yeah, every Monday they play ping pong out at Hillsdale
Community Center.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, So you're the listener, you've always wanted to meet
l D and chat with him, Go play pu ping
pong with him?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
And you're you said you're going on vacation next.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Week this week, yeah, starting tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Oh okay, all right, Well, I hope that lap band
surgery you're getting for your wife and your mother goes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, shut up about my mother and wife. You freak sick, disgusting.
I can't believe that. And I just encourage people to
come by me. You look, do not go see l
D when he is playing ping pong at the Hillsdale
Community Center. In fact, listener, I would urge you, if
you're out there in Hillsdale preparing your ping pong activities,
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I would encourage you to refuse to play l D.
Let him play against a wall or something with ping pong.
Do not entertain l D at Hillsdale Community Center playing
ping pong. A man that would imply that both my
wife and my mother would need some type of surgery
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to combat over waitness or overbeesity is strictly a lie.
And I don't know if it's just to demoralize me.
I don't know if it's uh, I don't know, if
I don't really Again, the fallback explanation, I always trying
to figure out what is going on? Why is the
world so crazy crazier As each day goes by, there's
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something crazier and crazier. And I've got a The fallback
explanation is Satan Lucifer or Lucifer Satan. I believe it's
Lucifer Satan, but I'm not really sure. I believe it's
it's him running amok in the world around us, and
I don't know. I guess the devil has got his
claws right sunk deeply into LD. So if you're if
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you're going out there to Hillsdale, please do not play
ping pong with the demonic LD.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
This says the Uncle Henry Show on News Radio seven
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Speaker 6 (09:46):
Hello, color, aka Henry. Yes, sir, Rolling? Who Rolling?
Speaker 11 (09:55):
Rolling?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Rolling? Are you doing on the here today? I'm thank
you for taking my.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yes, what I'm doing? Good? Thank you for calling?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
All right, thank you for taking my call. Listen, I
went to an area of Mobile that I travel frequently,
and hellwai LD. I heard that? But anyway, Uh, what
is the deal with Michigan Avenue? Why can't they get that?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I don't curse Uncle Henry, good, but I will say,
why don't they get that cotton picking concrete off of
Michigan Avenue? What's to deal with that?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
When you're driving on you all must not travel Michigan Avenue.
All that concrete need to be taken up all the
way from I to Governmentstery. Get that cotton picking concrete up.
Who's area is that?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Tell me I don't know. Canselman area is that?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I don't know. I'm gonna have to drive down there
and investigate.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I believe miss Conne Hudson, I guaran tee you she
can get some money and fix that street. As long
as I can remember, they have had concrete on that
cotton picking street and it do not hold up. It
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reminds me of driving to our terminal in Jackson, Mississippi.
Forty nine was concrete and you could be in the
left lane and it was so up and down and
raggedy till you'll be in the left lane. Next thing
you know, you're bouncing your head off the ceiling in
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the right lane. Yes, Yes, that the concrete. Somebody need
to know when they fix it. It don't hold up
for about.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
A year or so.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Then it's right back again.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Amen.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Just get it up and put asphalt down all the
way from I Can to Government Street. Get rid of
that crap.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's a.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
And the same thing with with dog wood out there
in Morningside area when they go out there and put
down speed bunts and they just throw them down like
they're taking concretes and breaks and just throw it down.
And then the city come in and tear the street
up trying to fix something. It's like you're riding or
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jeep up and down here all day long.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It is. You're right. Everything you're saying is absolute truth.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
We we talk about potholes, but that Missigan Avenue, it
takes the cake.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It does.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I don't need to look at that, all right, Uncle Henry,
I guess I done got that off my chest.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm glad you take it. Thank you, God, bless you,
thank you. Roland. I agree. You know, some guy called
in here a few months ago defending the concrete streets,
and I kept thinking what was And it sounded like somebody,
of course, with more education than me, one of the
mobile elite. It sounded like an elite calling the show
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to school me that I just needed to shut my
mouth about these horrible streets. But I think about the
streets and so many neighborhoods described just like just like
Roland described them, that I can remember. I can remember
moving into Midtown mobile back in I guess it would
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have been like nineteen eighty four or eighty five, moving
into a midtown mobile back into eighty four eighty five,
and the streets being torn up. And now I'm back
in midtown years later in twenty twenty five, some of
these streets are still messed up. They hadn't gonen't any better.
That hadn't gotten any better in all those years from
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eighty five to twenty twenty five. You know, we were
told the city fathers and mothers all back in the
nineteen eighties and into the early nine is. They kept
telling us, we're gonna invest all this money. We're gonna
take all this money, get all the government money we
can get. We're gonna invest in Downtown Mobile. We're gon
we're gonna build up Downtown Mobile and just make it
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some magnificent. It's gonna come magnificent down there. We're gonna
put all this money into Downtown Mobile, and it's gonna
generate so much tax dollar that there'll be a rising tide,
and the rising tide will lift up all boats, and
that will benefit all the neighborhoods of Mobile. All this
investment down there will create all this revenue from all
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this tourism and all of that rising tide will benefit
all the neighborhoods of Mobile And it ain't happened. It
ain't happen yet. There's a bunch of neighborhoods wondering is
it ever gonna happen? Do I have to What am
I gonna have to do? Am I gonna have to?
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Just?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Is there somewhere we can go get frozen and then
get thawed out? Can we can I go get frozen
somewhere and thaw me out when the streets are fixed?
Could that happen? Because it ain't happen yet. All right, Look,
I apologize for this is what the man is. Look,
we're we're talking about. Oh, we're gonna take this city
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to the next level, and we're gonna build this, and
we're gonna build that, and we're gonna have this down here,
and we're gonna have all this. But you know, I'm
not impressed. If the streets are horrible, Why would I
be impressed? You can't get a street right? Oh, but
look at this new arena we're building. What about the
Dad up street? A right? Look? I apologized. Roland was
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speaking my language though all right, listener, I apologize for
getting out of hand. I should have been more even
even tempered about the misuse of the tax dollar.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Hello caller, Hey, uncles do.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
JD You're live on the radio.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Uncle, So I have a serious question here. So, if
the city can afford to build the useless golf Quest
Museum and tear down the Civic Center and rebuild another
civil center, how come they can't afford to fix roads?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, you know that is that is a That's just
what we have to ponder this one together. You might
even have to. I don't know how many years of
research it would take to answer that question, because a
lot of it we've been thinking about this for years.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Is there any I have it? I have purposely ignored
the mayor's race, But is there any mayor or mayoral
candidates that are talking about fixing the streets?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I think probably all of them are yes. I think
most mayors do. Most mayors do.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Well, that's what politicians do. They always say they're going
to do something until they get elected, and then they
never do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, it all depends. It all depends on if you
do a little bit of it or just part of it,
or we tried to do it, tried to do it,
but those other people, those other politicians wouldn't let me.
There's a lot of different reasons for all this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
No, there was nothing wrong with our civic center. You know,
we could have done just like in New Orleans and
just with their super dollin just renovated it, disupposed to
tearing it down. It's these bureaucrats there all. They're just
interested in making money but not actually helping people. So anyway,
Uncle Henry, I hope you have a great vacation to
the newdist colony, and I'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
To the news colony. Now, I'm not going to a
news colony. I have to pay attention to the news
because of this job. So I'm going to go somewhere
and not pay attention to the news. I will not
be going to a news colony. What a boring place
that would be the news colony. This is the Uncle
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Henry Show, News Radio seventy ten w n TM. It
is five thirty five. If you like to call the show,
you can two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. That's two five one four seven nine two
seven two three. Hello.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Calling hell over Henry.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm doing good, snake trapper. What is on your mind today?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Over Henry? I need some advice. Man. I think you're
probably one of the smartest men I know, and I
need some advice from you.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What is your what is your question? What do you
need advice about?
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Uncle Henry? In my lifetime, I have been built by
hot mouse, been built by every non venomous snake you
can think of, been called by Bob Camp, even been
robbed at gunpoint when I was broke.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You've been by a spider?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
What about a spider, Uncle Henry. That's the problem last night.
I got up to go to the bathroom about three
o'clock this morning, and as I was finished, I looked
around and there was a large wolf spider in the
floor there right by the toilet, Uncle Henry, and man,
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I freaked out. Hadn't been asleep since every time I
tried to doze off, I would just I would just
feel like they were just crawling all over me, Uncle Henry,
and I do not know how to defeat the fear
of spider's Uncle Henry, do you have any advice on
how I could how I could take care of this problem.
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I mean, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's a Bible verse I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me something. You know that one. You've
heard that one.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh, yes, yes, sir, I do, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No prayer, no, I'm sure is pray it over and
over and over and over and over and over again. Now,
and that may sound simplistic and maybe even silly to
some listeners. It helped me with a fear of heights
that anytime I was in a situation, I would pray that,
I would pray that Bible verse over and over and
over and over and over again. Repetitive, just repetition, over
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and over and over again. It really helped me get
over a fear of heights. Anytime I'm in a situation
where I have some type of fear, that is what
I do. I pray to God, who has told me
in his Good Book that I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, Uncle Henry, that is some wonderful advice. And I
know that through God all things are possible. Yes, And
I do know that I would have got some rest
had I would have been able to put my mind
there so and then I never thought of that. But man,
what some wonderful advice, Uncle Henry. Like I said, Man,
things do not rattle me in life.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Like I said.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The time I was robbed at gunpoint when I was broke,
when I was about twenty two years old, I did
not have a dime on me and the guy told me, well,
if you don't produce money, I'm going to kill you. Well,
I mean, I you know, what can you do, Uncle Henry?
I had only thing I could do. I actually told
the guy, well, if he could meet me there tomorrow,
which was being robbed on a Thursday, and I got
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paid on a Friday. But and you know, it kind
of sent him back in reality, I guess, because he
didn't kill me like he told me would do.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
But hey, that's pretty good. I thought you were going
to say you threw a snake at him or something.
You didn't have any snakes with you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
No, sir.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I was actually helping somebody move in Pritchard when I
was twenty two years old. And that is a horrible
feeling to have a gun pointing at your head and
telling you they're going to kill you if you, you know,
don't produce no money. After telling him he was broke,
and you know, good Dame, well you is broke.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You know it's unfortunate, but I know you're like the
You're one of umpteen people that I know that have
been in that situation that have had a gun pulled
on them. So yeah, it's a lot of people get
traumatized from it, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Well it didn't traumatize me, Henry. But like I said, man,
that my fear of spiders, Man, I just don't. But
I guarantee you had I had I put my mind
in that set of praying that prayer on Henry. There's
no doubt in my mind that would have worked. And
then I just didn't think about it. It just every
time I closed my eyes, man, I just felt them spiders.
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And I even researched the spider that I have seen
that wind up being a wolf. Spider found several in
my house over the years. For some reason. They get
in my house and they're harmless. They actually claim they're
good spiders to have around, but man, they'll sure make
me run into trees.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Uncle Henry, All.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Right, well, snake trapper. It's not impossible to overcome those
kind of fears, So just pray on it. And can
and don't give up, continue to pray on it.
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Well, I'll go Hendry.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I sure appreciate that advice, buddy, and I guartee you.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I know that'll work do my fate. So thank you
sir for that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You're very welcome. Thank you for listening, and thank you
for calling Snake Trapper two five one four three, the
telephone number to call on the Uncle Andry Show.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Hello, caller, col Snake Trappers. Scared of spiders? Yep, I'm
definitely afraid of potholes. Lord have mercy. Hey, this is
Storm and Norman.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How are you Storm and Norman. I'm doing fine. Thank
you for calling.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I was wondering if you ever got to have a
chance to drive over to Brookdale drive.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, I haven't made it yet. I was playing it well.
I was planning to go this weekend, but it was
so hot Saturday, I was I was out in the
heat all afternoon Saturday working for KSJ at the at
the Wharf, had to be outdoors all afternoon, and so
when it came time to go visit Brookdale, I said,
I'm going to have to postpone it again. It's just
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too hot to get out.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Well, I'll tell you, I've called every week for the
past five weeks. Fill in the potholes, Fill in the potholes,
Fill in the potholes. Have they been there yet? Negative?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Negative? Negative?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
But you know, keep pester and mister Penn which is
at his that's his distant district. Yeah, and all the
only thing I hear is the song and dance. Well,
we're going to repave that whole street as soon as
the state turns loose the money.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Well by the end of the year. But still, you know,
as I had mentioned, there are basketball size potholes on
Brookdale Drive North and Brookdale Drive South, and there's more
every week. It's it's a catastrophe.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Sounds like it, It really does it.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
You know, it looks like a bombing mission and has
arrived over there off the IS sixty five service road. AnyWho,
how many more days.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Till Alabama kicks off?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
You better believe it. That's the only thing we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I think we're in the thirty I don't know, thirty something.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, we had to be about thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Ors, yes, something like that, something like that.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Man can't wait, right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the diversion.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Yeah, got me a new bunch of little baby silky
chickens over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh congratulations.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Yeah, you know what a silky chicken looks like.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I do not.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
They are so cute. They almost look like they don't
have feathers. They look like they have hair, and their
hair sticks, their feathers sticks straight up on top of
their head.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wow, okay, I'm going to yeah, oh.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
They are Yeah, Google is okie chicken. One day I
will and yeah, you're going to get kicked out of it.
But I've looked at some of your old youtubes and
I was in the audience on a lot of them
when you had Lamb Chop on there and some of
the other old city commissioners and mayors back in the
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early nineties and stuff. Sure brought back a lot of
good old memories, aren't well. I'm glad old memories.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, I'm glad. Well, thank you for going and looking
at those YouTube videos. I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep. And somebody calling in the other
day about Paul Behar. I met him many times and
he probably only lived about eight houses away from me.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh okay, so you knew him well then.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Yeah, knew him, knew him, and one of my daughters
went to school with one of his children. Sure did
at Davidson Yep, yep, yep. So anyways, roll tight, my
friend roll.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Ted Hey, Storm of Norman. Thank you very much for
your phone call. I'm glad to uh and I apologize
for not going out. I really look forward to when
there's a really deep pothole like that. It is kind
of an adventure, and I look forward to that adventure.
I will make it out to Brookdale. Sounds like they're
going to be growing potholes out there. If you're waiting
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on the state to release some money, sounds like they'll
the pothole will wait on me. All right, I got
more to come. More Uncle Henry Show on the way
after the break here on news Radio seven to ten WNTM.
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Speaker 11 (28:28):
Hello caller, Hello, Hello, Hello, are you there, Yes, Henry,
that fella called in about Michigan Avenue a while ago.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yes, I'm seventy years old. My grandparents used to live
down there off Michigan Avenue. In that road's been messed
up ever since I've been about four years old.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Wow, it's always been messed up.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
To the sugar line down in the middle of it,
come back, put concrete back them on top of it.
And it's been messed up every something.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So it's kind of a it's kind of a tradition
in mobile.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Like I say, I remember, and I'm seventy years old,
that it's been messed up. I was four years old. Wow,
they were going out there. But my dad is to
cut my grandparents out yard.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well it's about I guess it's about time to do
something about it, isn't it. I said this, all right, well, sir,
anything else, yes, sir, Like.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I said, I remember, back in the seventy of Michigan Avenue,
You've been messed up then, and I'm seventy years old.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right, Well, sir, I think we're having some trouble communicating,
but God bless you. Thank you for sharing that story
of Michigan Avenue being messed up for the last Let
me try and do the man. Would that be sixty
four years? About sixty or something like that? Sixty three year?
I can't do the math, but a long time Michigan
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Avenu messed up, sir. Thank you very much for your
phone call. Now on the topic of bad streets and Mobile.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Hey, fat Nelly, I hope you have a great afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, hey, listen, I sent you some.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
Pothole pictures through the Facebook from a Slava Creek parkway.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
I was thinking that if one of those mayoral candidates,
maybe somebody like that Spiral.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Gyro or whatever their name is, Yes.
Speaker 12 (30:49):
Went to that location and stood inside that deep pothole
and had all the TV cameras around them and made
a pledge to the fine citizens of Mobile Bill, Alabama,
that they would vow not to spend one new dollar
on any new project until every pothole in the city
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has been repaired. I guarantee you they would win in
a landslide, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And that was Pat Nelly. Patt Nelly, thank you for
your voicemail that's a nice idea for somebody running from mayor.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And I haven't seen any polling. I don't. I don't.
Maybe you have. If you've seen some polling, let me
know what the pole results are. But if anybody is
lagging behind in the race, maybe that'd be a good
thing they could do. Go stand in a pothome. Let's
see before I amount of time a message from Locksley, Alabama.
Speaker 12 (31:50):
True t, how you doing on this Monday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I huh, I don't know what happened to the message yesterday.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
I can breezy out here on the front porch at
two point thirty two pm, anxiously awaiting the beginning of
the Uncle Henry Show. How was your weekend?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Good?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Hope we'll share it with us. Mine went quite well.
Number one called me up Saturday evening.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Now number one in the Chris Dictionary, number one is
his son, his number one son. So his number one
son called him.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Number one called me up Saturday evening, says hey, once
you come over tomorrow, oh grillous of state, and go
swimming in the pool, et cetera. I said, all right,
we'll see yes to church, well church, let it out.
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Came home got it men, Serena got to change the clothes.
We lived here at the house twelve fifteen in the track.
It took me forty minutes to get to it from
where I lived in Locksley, which is like about five
miles as the crow flies because of the traffic. Then
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getting the ones. We got up on the concrete slab.
It wasn't so bad till we got to the bridge,
and you know how that all goes. But anyhow, glad
we made it over there. I had me a grid,
big old rib about, said about twenty two to twenty
four answer Sarita, she had Phil at MiG Don. You
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know how they wrapped the bacon around it and everything. Yes,
snuck me about or so of that also, man, good stuff.
I'm talking about brother. Anyhow, Day after tomorrow, young men
in the Crimson Jersey's report for the first practice of
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their first upcoming game August thirtieth against Florida State, roll tied, roll,
roll tied roll.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Chris, congratulations on your son cooking your steak. What a
blessing it is. Family is what it's all about. And steak,
(34:35):
it says the Uncle Henry's show on news radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now,
in this half hour of show, I'm gonna cover some
news items here that I'm missed. You might have missed
them too. Maybe we can learn together as I examined
these news items, and who knows, maybe I'll have time
(34:59):
for a voice mail. We'll find out together. Should you
make the decision to stick with me in this half
hour of show. Now, this past Friday, on the Unclendar Show,
I was talking about a news story and I played
a clip, an audio clip of a caller to the
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Unclendar Show that called me back in probably nineteen eighty three.
If you miss that here briefly, I won't play the
whole thing, but here's what I played. This is a
talk show caller in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Oh yes, I'll tell you. I'll say that life imprisoner
should be abolished. If they're going to give a person
life in prison, I don't think we ought to have it.
We ought to cut that out all together. If the
crime is bet enough for life's imprisonment, it's bad enough
(36:00):
to execute them. Because this country cannot afford to keep
all these people for life in prison. It ought to be.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Cut out right. I'll stop it there, but one of
the greatest talk show callers of all time for mobile
talk radio. But the reason I shared that on the
show was, we have this horrible news story out of
Bibb County, Alabama. I know you've heard about it. I
know you've seen it and been disgusted by it, about
these people that abused these children in a bunker. Just
(36:30):
it's the details of the story are so horrible, don't
I can't even stand to say the details out loud
of what we're done to these kids in this bunker.
And you probably if you listen to the Unclemery Show
for any length of time, you don't hear me. You
haven't heard me over the years advocating for the death
penalty a lot. I'm not really blood thirsty, not seeking
(36:56):
vengeance or anything like that. But when I heard that
story about what happened to these kids in Bibb County,
I just thought, this is this is an example of
how why society would need a death penalty. The people
that did these things to these children in that bunker,
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abusing these kids the way that they did, I think
society has to protect itself by setting an example. Now,
these people will not face the death penalty from what
I understand, because of Alabama law. But I think we
should look at we should look at having the death
penalty for those type of crimes, and it should be public.
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It should be a public thing. As horrible as that sounds,
I know you think we're more advanced. Mankind is more
advanced than that. Well, clearly in bib County, they're not
advanced in that particular county. You're you have not advanced
beyond some some standard where we don't need the death
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penalty anymore. There needs to be an example set and
let every horrible, evil pervert in the land know that
you cannot do these things. It's just it's a matter
of self defense for society to be able to continue.
Now bring that up again, that horrible, unpleasant story again,
because over the weekend we have a local legislator that
(38:22):
is looking to expand the death penalty. And I didn't
catch the story. So let's listen together, let's find out
together about this. Here is a story from WSFA television,
stepsister station to Fox ten of Montgomery. Here they are
talking about a local legislator in I think Baldwin County,
looking to expand the death penalty.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Already filing bills for the twenty twenty six legislative session,
and one of them looks to expand the number of
circumstances that would allow the death penalty. WUSFA twelve News
political correspondent Jessica Umbro is in Our Capitals to tonight.
Jessica tell us about the new circumstances that this bill
would add to the state law.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Well.
Speaker 14 (39:06):
The prefile bill has an added line aiming to be
the twenty second situation where the death penalty can be used,
and that's when a murder defendant knowingly creates a great
risk of death to multiple people. Baldwin County Republican Representative
Matt Simpson says the bill is in part because of
a deadly shooting at the Sanger Theater Inmobile, a domestic
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incident where one person was shot and killed. Representative Simpson
says that the current law doesn't factor in the impact
on all of the people in the theater who weren't shot.
He says he understands that people are fundamentally against the
death penalty, but says he feels strongly in using capital
punishment as a deterrent.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
My personal belief is the death penalty is not used
enough that we should use it more to send the message.
You know, I don't agree that people should spend thirty
or forty or fifty years in prison waiting for the
death sentence to be enforced. I think that's cruel unusual
punishment itself, to make someone sit in prison for that
long waiting for death.
Speaker 14 (40:06):
SIMP Representative Simpson told me he also intends to refile
a bill that he proposed last year that aimed to
allow the death penalty for people convicted of rape or
sodomy of a child twelve years old or younger.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
There you go, are good? Aren't good?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And he talked about understanding that people are fundamentally against
the death penalty. I'm not a big fan myself of
the death penalty because I understand that the court system,
the system of criminal justice in our country is run
by human beings, and human beings make mistakes, and you
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don't want to have somebody mistakenly get the death penalty.
But still, in a lot of cases like the one
out of Bib County, I just think we need something
like that for that case out of Bib County. And
again people will think, well, we're better than that. Now
we have reached a point. It's twenty twenty five and
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we have we have evolved as a people, and we
are better than that that, We're smarter than that, we're
more advanced than that. Well, I don't know the people
that the people that created the constitution of the United States,
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they were not stupid. I mean man human nature. I
guess my point is human nature does not change. It
doesn't matter if we build rockets and go to Mars
and we build supercomputers that can that can then build
robots to do all of our tasks, that none of
that will matter. When it comes down to the basics
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of humanity. Human nature does not change. It hasn't throughout
the history of humanity. Now we can change forms of government,
we can change the way societies work, we can change institutions.
You can have progress in those arenas. But when a
human being is born, that human being that their nature
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is no different from a human being whose nature when
they were born five hundred years ago, a thousand years ago.
Human nature does not change. And we saw that in
bib County. We saw as advanced as we are with
electric cars and satellites in space. We still had human
beings in bib County act like barbarians, like animals, of
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perpetrating evil on these children. And even as advanced as
we are, we have to defend ourselves. In One way
to stop that type of activity from occurring is to
set an example. So I'm with the legislator out of
Baldwin County and think that they need to move forward
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on all this. All right, there's gonna be I've got
more to get to that's not as heavy and dramatic
as all of this, and that's coming up after we
take a break here on news radio seven ten WNTM,
The Uncle Henry Show. Let us please now go ahead
and take the dad gum break, it says The Uncle
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Henry Show on News Radio seven ten WNTM. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Now. You may have noticed that,
unfortunately in our society, as the years and decades have
(43:41):
gone by, there just seems to be less and less
parenting going on. Now, not talking about you, I'm not
talking about you and your family. It's the people that
don't listen to The Uncle Henry Show. Who and I
don't know who they are because they I don't know them,
but clearly there's a lot of people that have not
been parented. We can see this whenever we deal with
(44:04):
the topic of violence in the streets around the country.
Usually the violence comes from young people that just have
not been parented properly or parented at all. And you
can see a lot of examples in life where people
are just not being parented. Now, to me, I found
(44:24):
something in the news that is an example of this.
I found a news segment on how to make sure
your kids learn about hygiene. Now, why would you need
to put something on the TV news about hygiene? The
(44:46):
only reason this is me guessing, But I would guess
that maybe there's a lot of adults that have bad
hygiene because their parents never taught them anything about hygiene,
and so now it has to be on the news
on how just basics of hygiene. Now, to me, this
(45:08):
sounds insane that you need to go on the news
and tell people to do hygiene. Here's let's listen a
little bit of this. This is from once again WSFA
and Montgomery Stepsister station to Fox ten. They got a
UAB professor to come on and talk about hygiene. Now,
(45:30):
they could have just grabbed my mama or my grandmother's
no longer alive. They should have grabbed my late grandmother.
My late grandmother had five kids. She and they didn't
have any money. They were They had a two bedroom
house with a mama and five kids, no money. But
(45:54):
one of the rules of my grandmother's house was that
we even if we're poor, even if we don't have money,
that doesn't mean we won't be clean. And every child
was taught that before they left the house. Every day
for wherever they were going school or wherever, they had
to be as clean as is possible. That was a
rule of the house. We may be poor, but we're
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not going to be dirty. We're going to be clean
when we leave the house. But my grandmother's no longer alive.
The TV station didn't call my mama, so they got
a professor from UAB to talk about hygiene and how
to teach it. Let's listen together question.
Speaker 16 (46:35):
Before your children head back to school. It is important
to make sure your kids know the best ways to
stay clean.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Joining us live now, the parent doesn't know. You got
to get a professor to tell the parent.
Speaker 16 (46:47):
Ofver zoom is doctor tedros Smith, the pediatric nurse practitioner
and new professor at UAV. Thanks for joining us here
on Alabama Live.
Speaker 10 (46:54):
Good morning, and thank you for having me, doctor Smith.
Speaker 16 (46:57):
What are some basic hygiene practice that says all children
should be doing, no matter their age?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Now, think about that question, what are some basics of hygiene?
Isn't it sad? Isn't it sad that they think there's
people watching that don't know how to clean themselves.
Speaker 10 (47:17):
All children should be able to discuss freely in a
safe space with parents about hygiene and why it's important.
First of all, parents want to roll model for their
kids so they understand what's important. So some key recommendations
of things that kids should be doing. Of course, first
and foremost is washington hands. Frequent hand washing with soap
and water, especially after using the bathroom, after eating and
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before eating, as well as after playing outside.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Just I wonder how many kids will see this and
wonder why mom and dad have never taught them to
wash their hands.
Speaker 10 (47:49):
There are a regular grooming, taking a bath or shower
every day is important to remove germs.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Also, think about that, isn't that sad that some people
don't know to take a band.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
So cleaning under their fingernails, keeping their finger nails cut
short so no bacteria can get under their nails, and
then also remembering to cover their mouth as well as
their nose when they call, and then washing their hands
afterwards so they can prevent the spread of germs. Those
are just a few things that all children should be doing.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I wonder where the rest of this interview.
Speaker 16 (48:19):
Goes very important practices. What or how do hygiene practices
change with different age groups.
Speaker 10 (48:28):
Sometimes children are going to be doing more sports and activities,
so they may need to shower more often than other children,
just depending on what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
So we even have it, we even have to explain
today you might get you might have to do extra
bathing if you get extra dirty. This is this is
just sad that there's no parenting there. We've failed. You know,
you've generation or two have been failed if their parents
can't even go through the basics of learning how to
take a bath. See this reminds me of when President
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Obama was president. He proposed the idea of having dinner
at school. You know, we already have breakfast at school,
we have lunch at school. He was proposing the idea
of dinner three meals a day at school, and it
was because a lot of kids go home and there's
no there's no dinner. Eventually, we may have federal public
(49:27):
school boardings, have a federal boarding school for some family. Well,
I guess it wouldn't be from a family. Some people
are gonna One day after I'm gone, there will probably
be federal boarding schools so that the government will raise
kids because parents, there are no parents left to parent
these kids. All right, out of time, I'm out of
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time for this edition of the unc Cleanary Show. Thank
you for listening to the Uncleanary Show. As they say
in Sarland, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it eves
Speaker 6 (50:02):
All righte later
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destroyed the hair on my head? What you think, Uncle Henry?
Global warning makes people lose their hair on their head.
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Uncle Henry, Yes, I believe in Global Warning.
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again for tuning in to the Uncle Henry Show. I
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if you're if you're listening for the first time, you
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(02:43):
you're supposed to be listening to. But for the return listener,
thank you for coming back to the Uncle Henver Show. Yes,
I know you probably give the Uncle Henver Show a
listen on Mondays just to see if I'm still here. Yeah,
I'm still here, still employed, still doing the unk Cleandry Show.
(03:04):
Glad to be here, Glad to be in the air conditioning.
My goodness, gracious, my goodness, what heat we got now,
it's been hotter, it's been hotter, But once against like this,
does it even matter if it gets hotter? That's where
I am. I don't know where you are in your life,
but I'm at a point where this is a temperature
(03:25):
and humidity level that at this point, if it got
any hotter, I don't know that i'd noticed. Because it's
hot enough. It is hot enough. It's hot enough to
cause me to change plans or to just avoid doing
a lot of the basics. So it's hot enough for me,
and I hope it is for you, and I hope
you're staying healthy in the heat. Here we are, once again,
(03:46):
you and me together on the Ulk Calendar Show, trying
to figure out what is going on in the world
around us, and if you could tell me what is
going on in the world around us? What is this?
What's going on? I keep falling back on the explanation
of it's just satan running wild most of the time.
That is a pretty good default answer. It's just satan
(04:07):
running wild and people need to combat it. Now a
programming note for the regular listener. I am taking vacation
starting tomorrow. Now, why did I come in and just
be here for a Monday? Well, I would say poor planning, Yes,
(04:28):
little poor planning. Not that I don't mind being here
in the air conditioner with you, but probably should have
taken today off too, but made some poor planning. But
I'll be gone the rest of the week now in
my place, I do have three brand new shows coming
up for you this week. Tomorrow, I've got a brand
new discussion with Eric bump over Street of Ryan's Refuge
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about the homeless situation on the Gulf Coast and Mmobile.
He's planning on once again living with the homeless starting
at the end of this week. So he's yes, he's
going out into the heat to live with the homeless.
So we'll talk about that. That'll be tomorrow. Then, Wednesday,
Paul Prime, my first interview, my first meeting with Paul Prime,
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candidate for mayor. That will be Wednesday on the Uncle
Henry Show. And then Thursday Spiro cere Goattis mobile mayoral candidate.
Spiro will be in Thursday, so we'll have a homeless
show tomorrow and then Wednesday and Thursday a couple of
mayoral candidates, and then whatever happens Friday, who knows, God bless.
(05:41):
I hope something good happens Friday. But I'll be back
a week from today after taking some time off, and
I hope I have interesting stories to tell. In fact,
follow me on the Uncle Henry Facebook page to keep
up with me on my vacation. I hope I have
some fun things to show you while I'm on vacation
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this week. Now we are here together. Now today, I'm
available for your phone call. Maybe you need some advice
or some counseling, maybe just somebody to listen. Just you
want somebody to listen to you. 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.
Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Uncle Henry
(06:27):
at iHeartMedia dot com. I do have some wonderful message
from messages from listeners to get to, uh, some topics
I want to bring up just a lot to get
to on the Uncle Henry Show today, let me start
with a caller, Hello, coller.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Ocle Henry LD, the mad Tracker Man.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I guess where I'm going.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Where are you headed?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Ld?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I'm going to Hillsdale Community Center and play ping pong.
I advise everybody, if you got a paddle, come on.
They play and they play.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, okay, now this are you going out there this evening?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Yeah, every Monday they play ping pong out at Hillsdale
Community Center.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, So you're the listener, you've always wanted to meet
l D and chat with him, Go play pu ping
pong with him?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
And you're you said you're going on vacation next.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Week this week, yeah, starting tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Oh okay, all right, Well, I hope that lap band
surgery you're getting for your wife and your mother goes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, shut up about my mother and wife. You freak sick, disgusting.
I can't believe that. And I just encourage people to
come by me. You look, do not go see l
D when he is playing ping pong at the Hillsdale
Community Center. In fact, listener, I would urge you, if
you're out there in Hillsdale preparing your ping pong activities,
(07:46):
I would encourage you to refuse to play l D.
Let him play against a wall or something with ping pong.
Do not entertain l D at Hillsdale Community Center playing
ping pong. A man that would imply that both my
wife and my mother would need some type of surgery
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to combat over waitness or overbeesity is strictly a lie.
And I don't know if it's just to demoralize me.
I don't know if it's uh, I don't know, if
I don't really Again, the fallback explanation, I always trying
to figure out what is going on? Why is the
world so crazy crazier As each day goes by, there's
(08:32):
something crazier and crazier. And I've got a The fallback
explanation is Satan Lucifer or Lucifer Satan. I believe it's
Lucifer Satan, but I'm not really sure. I believe it's
it's him running amok in the world around us, and
I don't know. I guess the devil has got his
claws right sunk deeply into LD. So if you're if
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you're going out there to Hillsdale, please do not play
ping pong with the demonic LD.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
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Speaker 6 (09:46):
Hello, color, aka Henry. Yes, sir, Rolling? Who Rolling?
Speaker 11 (09:55):
Rolling?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Rolling? Are you doing on the here today? I'm thank
you for taking my.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yes, what I'm doing? Good? Thank you for calling?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
All right, thank you for taking my call. Listen, I
went to an area of Mobile that I travel frequently,
and hellwai LD. I heard that? But anyway, Uh, what
is the deal with Michigan Avenue? Why can't they get that?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I don't curse Uncle Henry, good, but I will say,
why don't they get that cotton picking concrete off of
Michigan Avenue? What's to deal with that?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
When you're driving on you all must not travel Michigan Avenue.
All that concrete need to be taken up all the
way from I to Governmentstery. Get that cotton picking concrete up.
Who's area is that?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Tell me I don't know. Canselman area is that?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I don't know. I'm gonna have to drive down there
and investigate.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I believe miss Conne Hudson, I guaran tee you she
can get some money and fix that street. As long
as I can remember, they have had concrete on that
cotton picking street and it do not hold up. It
(11:30):
reminds me of driving to our terminal in Jackson, Mississippi.
Forty nine was concrete and you could be in the
left lane and it was so up and down and
raggedy till you'll be in the left lane. Next thing
you know, you're bouncing your head off the ceiling in
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the right lane. Yes, Yes, that the concrete. Somebody need
to know when they fix it. It don't hold up
for about.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
A year or so.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Then it's right back again.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Amen.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Just get it up and put asphalt down all the
way from I Can to Government Street. Get rid of
that crap.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's a.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
And the same thing with with dog wood out there
in Morningside area when they go out there and put
down speed bunts and they just throw them down like
they're taking concretes and breaks and just throw it down.
And then the city come in and tear the street
up trying to fix something. It's like you're riding or
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jeep up and down here all day long.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It is. You're right. Everything you're saying is absolute truth.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
We we talk about potholes, but that Missigan Avenue, it
takes the cake.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It does.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I don't need to look at that, all right, Uncle Henry,
I guess I done got that off my chest.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I'm glad you take it. Thank you, God, bless you,
thank you. Roland. I agree. You know, some guy called
in here a few months ago defending the concrete streets,
and I kept thinking what was And it sounded like somebody,
of course, with more education than me, one of the
mobile elite. It sounded like an elite calling the show
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to school me that I just needed to shut my
mouth about these horrible streets. But I think about the
streets and so many neighborhoods described just like just like
Roland described them, that I can remember. I can remember
moving into Midtown mobile back in I guess it would
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have been like nineteen eighty four or eighty five, moving
into a midtown mobile back into eighty four eighty five,
and the streets being torn up. And now I'm back
in midtown years later in twenty twenty five, some of
these streets are still messed up. They hadn't gonen't any better.
That hadn't gotten any better in all those years from
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eighty five to twenty twenty five. You know, we were
told the city fathers and mothers all back in the
nineteen eighties and into the early nine is. They kept
telling us, we're gonna invest all this money. We're gonna
take all this money, get all the government money we
can get. We're gonna invest in Downtown Mobile. We're gon
we're gonna build up Downtown Mobile and just make it
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some magnificent. It's gonna come magnificent down there. We're gonna
put all this money into Downtown Mobile, and it's gonna
generate so much tax dollar that there'll be a rising tide,
and the rising tide will lift up all boats, and
that will benefit all the neighborhoods of Mobile. All this
investment down there will create all this revenue from all
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this tourism and all of that rising tide will benefit
all the neighborhoods of Mobile And it ain't happened. It
ain't happen yet. There's a bunch of neighborhoods wondering is
it ever gonna happen? Do I have to What am
I gonna have to do? Am I gonna have to?
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Just?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Is there somewhere we can go get frozen and then
get thawed out? Can we can I go get frozen
somewhere and thaw me out when the streets are fixed?
Could that happen? Because it ain't happen yet. All right, Look,
I apologize for this is what the man is. Look,
we're we're talking about. Oh, we're gonna take this city
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to the next level, and we're gonna build this, and
we're gonna build that, and we're gonna have this down here,
and we're gonna have all this. But you know, I'm
not impressed. If the streets are horrible, Why would I
be impressed? You can't get a street right? Oh, but
look at this new arena we're building. What about the
Dad up street? A right? Look? I apologized. Roland was
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speaking my language though all right, listener, I apologize for
getting out of hand. I should have been more even
even tempered about the misuse of the tax dollar.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Hello caller, Hey, uncles do.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
JD You're live on the radio.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Uncle, So I have a serious question here. So, if
the city can afford to build the useless golf Quest
Museum and tear down the Civic Center and rebuild another
civil center, how come they can't afford to fix roads?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, you know that is that is a That's just
what we have to ponder this one together. You might
even have to. I don't know how many years of
research it would take to answer that question, because a
lot of it we've been thinking about this for years.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
Is there any I have it? I have purposely ignored
the mayor's race, But is there any mayor or mayoral
candidates that are talking about fixing the streets?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I think probably all of them are yes. I think
most mayors do. Most mayors do.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Well, that's what politicians do. They always say they're going
to do something until they get elected, and then they
never do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, it all depends. It all depends on if you
do a little bit of it or just part of it,
or we tried to do it, tried to do it,
but those other people, those other politicians wouldn't let me.
There's a lot of different reasons for all this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
No, there was nothing wrong with our civic center. You know,
we could have done just like in New Orleans and
just with their super dollin just renovated it, disupposed to
tearing it down. It's these bureaucrats there all. They're just
interested in making money but not actually helping people. So anyway,
Uncle Henry, I hope you have a great vacation to
the newdist colony, and I'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
To the news colony. Now, I'm not going to a
news colony. I have to pay attention to the news
because of this job. So I'm going to go somewhere
and not pay attention to the news. I will not
be going to a news colony. What a boring place
that would be the news colony. This is the Uncle
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Henry Show, News Radio seventy ten w n TM. It
is five thirty five. If you like to call the show,
you can two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. That's two five one four seven nine two
seven two three. Hello.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Calling hell over Henry.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm doing good, snake trapper. What is on your mind today?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Over Henry? I need some advice. Man. I think you're
probably one of the smartest men I know, and I
need some advice from you.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What is your what is your question? What do you
need advice about?
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Uncle Henry? In my lifetime, I have been built by
hot mouse, been built by every non venomous snake you
can think of, been called by Bob Camp, even been
robbed at gunpoint when I was broke.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You've been by a spider?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
What about a spider, Uncle Henry. That's the problem last night.
I got up to go to the bathroom about three
o'clock this morning, and as I was finished, I looked
around and there was a large wolf spider in the
floor there right by the toilet, Uncle Henry, and man,
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I freaked out. Hadn't been asleep since every time I
tried to doze off, I would just I would just
feel like they were just crawling all over me, Uncle Henry,
and I do not know how to defeat the fear
of spider's Uncle Henry, do you have any advice on
how I could how I could take care of this problem.
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I mean, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
There's a Bible verse I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me something. You know that one. You've
heard that one.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh, yes, yes, sir, I do, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
No prayer, no, I'm sure is pray it over and
over and over and over and over and over again. Now,
and that may sound simplistic and maybe even silly to
some listeners. It helped me with a fear of heights
that anytime I was in a situation, I would pray that,
I would pray that Bible verse over and over and
over and over and over again. Repetitive, just repetition, over
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and over and over again. It really helped me get
over a fear of heights. Anytime I'm in a situation
where I have some type of fear, that is what
I do. I pray to God, who has told me
in his Good Book that I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, Uncle Henry, that is some wonderful advice. And I
know that through God all things are possible. Yes, And
I do know that I would have got some rest
had I would have been able to put my mind
there so and then I never thought of that. But man,
what some wonderful advice, Uncle Henry. Like I said, Man,
things do not rattle me in life.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Like I said.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The time I was robbed at gunpoint when I was broke,
when I was about twenty two years old, I did
not have a dime on me and the guy told me, well,
if you don't produce money, I'm going to kill you. Well,
I mean, I you know, what can you do, Uncle Henry?
I had only thing I could do. I actually told
the guy, well, if he could meet me there tomorrow,
which was being robbed on a Thursday, and I got
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paid on a Friday. But and you know, it kind
of sent him back in reality, I guess, because he
didn't kill me like he told me would do.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
But hey, that's pretty good. I thought you were going
to say you threw a snake at him or something.
You didn't have any snakes with you.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
No, sir.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I was actually helping somebody move in Pritchard when I
was twenty two years old. And that is a horrible
feeling to have a gun pointing at your head and
telling you they're going to kill you if you, you know,
don't produce no money. After telling him he was broke,
and you know, good Dame, well you is broke.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You know it's unfortunate, but I know you're like the
You're one of umpteen people that I know that have
been in that situation that have had a gun pulled
on them. So yeah, it's a lot of people get
traumatized from it, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Well it didn't traumatize me, Henry. But like I said, man,
that my fear of spiders, Man, I just don't. But
I guarantee you had I had I put my mind
in that set of praying that prayer on Henry. There's
no doubt in my mind that would have worked. And
then I just didn't think about it. It just every
time I closed my eyes, man, I just felt them spiders.
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And I even researched the spider that I have seen
that wind up being a wolf. Spider found several in
my house over the years. For some reason. They get
in my house and they're harmless. They actually claim they're
good spiders to have around, but man, they'll sure make
me run into trees.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Uncle Henry, All.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Right, well, snake trapper. It's not impossible to overcome those
kind of fears, So just pray on it. And can
and don't give up, continue to pray on it.
Speaker 12 (22:54):
Well, I'll go Hendry.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I sure appreciate that advice, buddy, and I guartee you.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I know that'll work do my fate. So thank you
sir for that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You're very welcome. Thank you for listening, and thank you
for calling Snake Trapper two five one four three, the
telephone number to call on the Uncle Andry Show.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Hello, caller, col Snake Trappers. Scared of spiders? Yep, I'm
definitely afraid of potholes. Lord have mercy. Hey, this is
Storm and Norman.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How are you Storm and Norman. I'm doing fine. Thank
you for calling.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I was wondering if you ever got to have a
chance to drive over to Brookdale drive.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, I haven't made it yet. I was playing it well.
I was planning to go this weekend, but it was
so hot Saturday, I was I was out in the
heat all afternoon Saturday working for KSJ at the at
the Wharf, had to be outdoors all afternoon, and so
when it came time to go visit Brookdale, I said,
I'm going to have to postpone it again. It's just
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too hot to get out.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
Well, I'll tell you, I've called every week for the
past five weeks. Fill in the potholes, Fill in the potholes,
Fill in the potholes. Have they been there yet? Negative?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Negative? Negative?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
But you know, keep pester and mister Penn which is
at his that's his distant district. Yeah, and all the
only thing I hear is the song and dance. Well,
we're going to repave that whole street as soon as
the state turns loose the money.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Well by the end of the year. But still, you know,
as I had mentioned, there are basketball size potholes on
Brookdale Drive North and Brookdale Drive South, and there's more
every week. It's it's a catastrophe.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Sounds like it, It really does it.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
You know, it looks like a bombing mission and has
arrived over there off the IS sixty five service road. AnyWho,
how many more days.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Till Alabama kicks off?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
You better believe it. That's the only thing we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I think we're in the thirty I don't know, thirty something.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, we had to be about thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Ors, yes, something like that, something like that.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Man can't wait, right.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the diversion.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Yeah, got me a new bunch of little baby silky
chickens over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh congratulations.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Yeah, you know what a silky chicken looks like.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I do not.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
They are so cute. They almost look like they don't
have feathers. They look like they have hair, and their
hair sticks, their feathers sticks straight up on top of
their head.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wow, okay, I'm going to yeah, oh.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
They are Yeah, Google is okie chicken. One day I
will and yeah, you're going to get kicked out of it.
But I've looked at some of your old youtubes and
I was in the audience on a lot of them
when you had Lamb Chop on there and some of
the other old city commissioners and mayors back in the
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early nineties and stuff. Sure brought back a lot of
good old memories, aren't well. I'm glad old memories.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, I'm glad. Well, thank you for going and looking
at those YouTube videos. I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Yeah, yep, yep, yep. And somebody calling in the other
day about Paul Behar. I met him many times and
he probably only lived about eight houses away from me.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh okay, so you knew him well then.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Yeah, knew him, knew him, and one of my daughters
went to school with one of his children. Sure did
at Davidson Yep, yep, yep. So anyways, roll tight, my
friend roll.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Ted Hey, Storm of Norman. Thank you very much for
your phone call. I'm glad to uh and I apologize
for not going out. I really look forward to when
there's a really deep pothole like that. It is kind
of an adventure, and I look forward to that adventure.
I will make it out to Brookdale. Sounds like they're
going to be growing potholes out there. If you're waiting
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on the state to release some money, sounds like they'll
the pothole will wait on me. All right, I got
more to come. More Uncle Henry Show on the way
after the break here on news Radio seven to ten WNTM.
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Headlines coming up in ten minutes, and then more Uncle
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Speaker 11 (28:28):
Hello caller, Hello, Hello, Hello, are you there, Yes, Henry,
that fella called in about Michigan Avenue a while ago.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yes, I'm seventy years old. My grandparents used to live
down there off Michigan Avenue. In that road's been messed
up ever since I've been about four years old.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Wow, it's always been messed up.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
To the sugar line down in the middle of it,
come back, put concrete back them on top of it.
And it's been messed up every something.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So it's kind of a it's kind of a tradition
in mobile.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Like I say, I remember, and I'm seventy years old,
that it's been messed up. I was four years old. Wow,
they were going out there. But my dad is to
cut my grandparents out yard.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well it's about I guess it's about time to do
something about it, isn't it. I said this, all right, well, sir,
anything else, yes, sir, Like.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I said, I remember, back in the seventy of Michigan Avenue,
You've been messed up then, and I'm seventy years old.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
All right, Well, sir, I think we're having some trouble communicating,
but God bless you. Thank you for sharing that story
of Michigan Avenue being messed up for the last Let
me try and do the man. Would that be sixty
four years? About sixty or something like that? Sixty three year?
I can't do the math, but a long time Michigan
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Avenu messed up, sir. Thank you very much for your
phone call. Now on the topic of bad streets and Mobile.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Hey, fat Nelly, I hope you have a great afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, hey, listen, I sent you some.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
Pothole pictures through the Facebook from a Slava Creek parkway.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
I was thinking that if one of those mayoral candidates,
maybe somebody like that Spiral.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Gyro or whatever their name is, Yes.
Speaker 12 (30:49):
Went to that location and stood inside that deep pothole
and had all the TV cameras around them and made
a pledge to the fine citizens of Mobile Bill, Alabama,
that they would vow not to spend one new dollar
on any new project until every pothole in the city
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has been repaired. I guarantee you they would win in
a landslide, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And that was Pat Nelly. Patt Nelly, thank you for
your voicemail that's a nice idea for somebody running from mayor.
Speaker 9 (31:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And I haven't seen any polling. I don't. I don't.
Maybe you have. If you've seen some polling, let me
know what the pole results are. But if anybody is
lagging behind in the race, maybe that'd be a good
thing they could do. Go stand in a pothome. Let's
see before I amount of time a message from Locksley, Alabama.
Speaker 12 (31:50):
True t, how you doing on this Monday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I huh, I don't know what happened to the message yesterday.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
I can breezy out here on the front porch at
two point thirty two pm, anxiously awaiting the beginning of
the Uncle Henry Show. How was your weekend?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Good?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Hope we'll share it with us. Mine went quite well.
Number one called me up Saturday evening.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Now number one in the Chris Dictionary, number one is
his son, his number one son. So his number one
son called him.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Number one called me up Saturday evening, says hey, once
you come over tomorrow, oh grillous of state, and go
swimming in the pool, et cetera. I said, all right,
we'll see yes to church, well church, let it out.
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Came home got it men, Serena got to change the clothes.
We lived here at the house twelve fifteen in the track.
It took me forty minutes to get to it from
where I lived in Locksley, which is like about five
miles as the crow flies because of the traffic. Then
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getting the ones. We got up on the concrete slab.
It wasn't so bad till we got to the bridge,
and you know how that all goes. But anyhow, glad
we made it over there. I had me a grid,
big old rib about, said about twenty two to twenty
four answer Sarita, she had Phil at MiG Don. You
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know how they wrapped the bacon around it and everything. Yes,
snuck me about or so of that also, man, good stuff.
I'm talking about brother. Anyhow, Day after tomorrow, young men
in the Crimson Jersey's report for the first practice of
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their first upcoming game August thirtieth against Florida State, roll tied, roll,
roll tied roll.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Chris, congratulations on your son cooking your steak. What a
blessing it is. Family is what it's all about. And steak,
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it says the Uncle Henry's show on news radio seventy
ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now,
in this half hour of show, I'm gonna cover some
news items here that I'm missed. You might have missed
them too. Maybe we can learn together as I examined
these news items, and who knows, maybe I'll have time
(34:59):
for a voice mail. We'll find out together. Should you
make the decision to stick with me in this half
hour of show. Now, this past Friday, on the Unclendar Show,
I was talking about a news story and I played
a clip, an audio clip of a caller to the
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Unclendar Show that called me back in probably nineteen eighty three.
If you miss that here briefly, I won't play the
whole thing, but here's what I played. This is a
talk show caller in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Oh yes, I'll tell you. I'll say that life imprisoner
should be abolished. If they're going to give a person
life in prison, I don't think we ought to have it.
We ought to cut that out all together. If the
crime is bet enough for life's imprisonment, it's bad enough
(36:00):
to execute them. Because this country cannot afford to keep
all these people for life in prison. It ought to be.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Cut out right. I'll stop it there, but one of
the greatest talk show callers of all time for mobile
talk radio. But the reason I shared that on the
show was, we have this horrible news story out of
Bibb County, Alabama. I know you've heard about it. I
know you've seen it and been disgusted by it, about
these people that abused these children in a bunker. Just
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it's the details of the story are so horrible, don't
I can't even stand to say the details out loud
of what we're done to these kids in this bunker.
And you probably if you listen to the Unclemery Show
for any length of time, you don't hear me. You
haven't heard me over the years advocating for the death
penalty a lot. I'm not really blood thirsty, not seeking
(36:56):
vengeance or anything like that. But when I heard that
story about what happened to these kids in Bibb County,
I just thought, this is this is an example of
how why society would need a death penalty. The people
that did these things to these children in that bunker,
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abusing these kids the way that they did, I think
society has to protect itself by setting an example. Now,
these people will not face the death penalty from what
I understand, because of Alabama law. But I think we
should look at we should look at having the death
penalty for those type of crimes, and it should be public.
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It should be a public thing. As horrible as that sounds,
I know you think we're more advanced. Mankind is more
advanced than that. Well, clearly in bib County, they're not
advanced in that particular county. You're you have not advanced
beyond some some standard where we don't need the death
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penalty anymore. There needs to be an example set and
let every horrible, evil pervert in the land know that
you cannot do these things. It's just it's a matter
of self defense for society to be able to continue.
Now bring that up again, that horrible, unpleasant story again,
because over the weekend we have a local legislator that
(38:22):
is looking to expand the death penalty. And I didn't
catch the story. So let's listen together, let's find out
together about this. Here is a story from WSFA television,
stepsister station to Fox ten of Montgomery. Here they are
talking about a local legislator in I think Baldwin County,
looking to expand the death penalty.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Already filing bills for the twenty twenty six legislative session,
and one of them looks to expand the number of
circumstances that would allow the death penalty. WUSFA twelve News
political correspondent Jessica Umbro is in Our Capitals to tonight.
Jessica tell us about the new circumstances that this bill
would add to the state law.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Well.
Speaker 14 (39:06):
The prefile bill has an added line aiming to be
the twenty second situation where the death penalty can be used,
and that's when a murder defendant knowingly creates a great
risk of death to multiple people. Baldwin County Republican Representative
Matt Simpson says the bill is in part because of
a deadly shooting at the Sanger Theater Inmobile, a domestic
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incident where one person was shot and killed. Representative Simpson
says that the current law doesn't factor in the impact
on all of the people in the theater who weren't shot.
He says he understands that people are fundamentally against the
death penalty, but says he feels strongly in using capital
punishment as a deterrent.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
My personal belief is the death penalty is not used
enough that we should use it more to send the message.
You know, I don't agree that people should spend thirty
or forty or fifty years in prison waiting for the
death sentence to be enforced. I think that's cruel unusual
punishment itself, to make someone sit in prison for that
long waiting for death.
Speaker 14 (40:06):
SIMP Representative Simpson told me he also intends to refile
a bill that he proposed last year that aimed to
allow the death penalty for people convicted of rape or
sodomy of a child twelve years old or younger.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
There you go, are good? Aren't good?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And he talked about understanding that people are fundamentally against
the death penalty. I'm not a big fan myself of
the death penalty because I understand that the court system,
the system of criminal justice in our country is run
by human beings, and human beings make mistakes, and you
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don't want to have somebody mistakenly get the death penalty.
But still, in a lot of cases like the one
out of Bib County, I just think we need something
like that for that case out of Bib County. And
again people will think, well, we're better than that. Now
we have reached a point. It's twenty twenty five and
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we have we have evolved as a people, and we
are better than that that, We're smarter than that, we're
more advanced than that. Well, I don't know the people
that the people that created the constitution of the United States,
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they were not stupid. I mean man human nature. I
guess my point is human nature does not change. It
doesn't matter if we build rockets and go to Mars
and we build supercomputers that can that can then build
robots to do all of our tasks, that none of
that will matter. When it comes down to the basics
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of humanity. Human nature does not change. It hasn't throughout
the history of humanity. Now we can change forms of government,
we can change the way societies work, we can change institutions.
You can have progress in those arenas. But when a
human being is born, that human being that their nature
(42:08):
is no different from a human being whose nature when
they were born five hundred years ago, a thousand years ago.
Human nature does not change. And we saw that in
bib County. We saw as advanced as we are with
electric cars and satellites in space. We still had human
beings in bib County act like barbarians, like animals, of
(42:32):
perpetrating evil on these children. And even as advanced as
we are, we have to defend ourselves. In One way
to stop that type of activity from occurring is to
set an example. So I'm with the legislator out of
Baldwin County and think that they need to move forward
(42:52):
on all this. All right, there's gonna be I've got
more to get to that's not as heavy and dramatic
as all of this, and that's coming up after we
take a break here on news radio seven ten WNTM,
The Uncle Henry Show. Let us please now go ahead
and take the dad gum break, it says The Uncle
(43:21):
Henry Show on News Radio seven ten WNTM. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Now. You may have noticed that,
unfortunately in our society, as the years and decades have
(43:41):
gone by, there just seems to be less and less
parenting going on. Now, not talking about you, I'm not
talking about you and your family. It's the people that
don't listen to The Uncle Henry Show. Who and I
don't know who they are because they I don't know them,
but clearly there's a lot of people that have not
been parented. We can see this whenever we deal with
(44:04):
the topic of violence in the streets around the country.
Usually the violence comes from young people that just have
not been parented properly or parented at all. And you
can see a lot of examples in life where people
are just not being parented. Now, to me, I found
(44:24):
something in the news that is an example of this.
I found a news segment on how to make sure
your kids learn about hygiene. Now, why would you need
to put something on the TV news about hygiene? The
(44:46):
only reason this is me guessing, But I would guess
that maybe there's a lot of adults that have bad
hygiene because their parents never taught them anything about hygiene,
and so now it has to be on the news
on how just basics of hygiene. Now, to me, this
(45:08):
sounds insane that you need to go on the news
and tell people to do hygiene. Here's let's listen a
little bit of this. This is from once again WSFA
and Montgomery Stepsister station to Fox ten. They got a
UAB professor to come on and talk about hygiene. Now,
(45:30):
they could have just grabbed my mama or my grandmother's
no longer alive. They should have grabbed my late grandmother.
My late grandmother had five kids. She and they didn't
have any money. They were They had a two bedroom
house with a mama and five kids, no money. But
(45:54):
one of the rules of my grandmother's house was that
we even if we're poor, even if we don't have money,
that doesn't mean we won't be clean. And every child
was taught that before they left the house. Every day
for wherever they were going school or wherever, they had
to be as clean as is possible. That was a
rule of the house. We may be poor, but we're
(46:15):
not going to be dirty. We're going to be clean
when we leave the house. But my grandmother's no longer alive.
The TV station didn't call my mama, so they got
a professor from UAB to talk about hygiene and how
to teach it. Let's listen together question.
Speaker 16 (46:35):
Before your children head back to school. It is important
to make sure your kids know the best ways to
stay clean.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Joining us live now, the parent doesn't know. You got
to get a professor to tell the parent.
Speaker 16 (46:47):
Ofver zoom is doctor tedros Smith, the pediatric nurse practitioner
and new professor at UAV. Thanks for joining us here
on Alabama Live.
Speaker 10 (46:54):
Good morning, and thank you for having me, doctor Smith.
Speaker 16 (46:57):
What are some basic hygiene practice that says all children
should be doing, no matter their age?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Now, think about that question, what are some basics of hygiene?
Isn't it sad? Isn't it sad that they think there's
people watching that don't know how to clean themselves.
Speaker 10 (47:17):
All children should be able to discuss freely in a
safe space with parents about hygiene and why it's important.
First of all, parents want to roll model for their
kids so they understand what's important. So some key recommendations
of things that kids should be doing. Of course, first
and foremost is washington hands. Frequent hand washing with soap
and water, especially after using the bathroom, after eating and
(47:40):
before eating, as well as after playing outside.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Just I wonder how many kids will see this and
wonder why mom and dad have never taught them to
wash their hands.
Speaker 10 (47:49):
There are a regular grooming, taking a bath or shower
every day is important to remove germs.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Also, think about that, isn't that sad that some people
don't know to take a band.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
So cleaning under their fingernails, keeping their finger nails cut
short so no bacteria can get under their nails, and
then also remembering to cover their mouth as well as
their nose when they call, and then washing their hands
afterwards so they can prevent the spread of germs. Those
are just a few things that all children should be doing.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I wonder where the rest of this interview.
Speaker 16 (48:19):
Goes very important practices. What or how do hygiene practices
change with different age groups.
Speaker 10 (48:28):
Sometimes children are going to be doing more sports and activities,
so they may need to shower more often than other children,
just depending on what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
So we even have it, we even have to explain
today you might get you might have to do extra
bathing if you get extra dirty. This is this is
just sad that there's no parenting there. We've failed. You know,
you've generation or two have been failed if their parents
can't even go through the basics of learning how to
take a bath. See this reminds me of when President
(49:01):
Obama was president. He proposed the idea of having dinner
at school. You know, we already have breakfast at school,
we have lunch at school. He was proposing the idea
of dinner three meals a day at school, and it
was because a lot of kids go home and there's
no there's no dinner. Eventually, we may have federal public
(49:27):
school boardings, have a federal boarding school for some family. Well,
I guess it wouldn't be from a family. Some people
are gonna One day after I'm gone, there will probably
be federal boarding schools so that the government will raise
kids because parents, there are no parents left to parent
these kids. All right, out of time, I'm out of
(49:49):
time for this edition of the unc Cleanary Show. Thank
you for listening to the Uncleanary Show. As they say
in Sarland, have a good one, as they say in Theodore,
take it eves
Speaker 6 (50:02):
All righte later
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