The Gentle Beavers of Mobile

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:15):
This is the Uncle Henry's show here on news Radio
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me and you, and once again it's you and me
trying to figure out what is going on in the

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world around us. And today a mobile city council meeting,
and even with all of the negatives about a council meeting,
like politicians speaking, which is always oh, it's difficult to endure.

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Even with all that, I still learned. I learned a
lot I did. I learned stuff at the council meeting today.
I just can't I'm still reeling. Yes, my mind is
still reeling from some of the things I learned at
today's Mobile City Council meeting. Now, last week we all learned,

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those that paid attention, we all learned that you can
use an ambulance like a taxi in the city of Mobile.
That was I never knew that. I didn't know that
people used ambulances to just go all over town, some
people numerous times a day. I just didn't know this.
Learned that was a brand new thing to learn last
week at the Mobile City Council meeting. Well, today I

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learned I did not expect to learn about this topic
the way I learned about it today. The topic of beavers, Yes,
the topic of beavers, Yes, beavers. Learned a lot about
beaver's today at the Mobile City Council meeting. Now, a
couple of weeks ago, Mobile City Council they passed something

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so that they could get rid of what we're called
nuisance of beavers because beavers like to build dams. You
may have noticed this. You may have seen it in
a cartoon. Beavers like to build dams, and it can
be a problem in a city if a beaver builds
a dam on some creek or something, and then water

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flows into a neighborhood or into a road. It's just kid.
You can't have it. You can't have it. So the
city council a couple of weeks ago they passed something
where they hired somebody to go remove nuisance beavers. And
I don't understand all the ins and outs of Alabama
law on this, but apparently there are a species you're

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not allowed to I think I saw someone fox him
saying you can't try to to take them to some
other location and let them go. There's something about doing
that that you're not allowed to do. So anyway, the
beavers have to be euthanized. And there was a beaver advocate, Yes,

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a beaver advocate showed up at the Mobile City council
meeting today to advocate for the beavers and telling us all.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Public sentiment is with the beavers.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Public sentiment is with the beavers. Did you know? I
didn't know that. I didn't know that the public had
already figured this out because I hadn't really cared. Please
forgive me for not caring a lot about this. There's
many other things going on. I'm tending. I'm thinking about
my wallet a lot lately. Probably shouldn't probably should be
wondering about the beavers since public sentiment, what is a

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public sentiment?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Public sentiment is with the beavers.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
All right, well, let's listen. I want you to learn
with me. Here is a beaver advocate speaking. This is
the executive director of a local organization AARC. I don't
know what the acronym is, advocating on behalf of all animals.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Turning to the council, my name is Tracy Glover. I'm
the director at ARE, a mobile based animal welfare organization,
and we are here today to speak about a program
that was recently announced to trap and kill beavers who
the city has deemed a nuisance because their dams can
potentially pose a flooding hazard. We would like to make
sure that the city is aware that there are effective,

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ecologically and financially sound humane alternatives available, and we urge
the city to reconsider its decision and adopt a humane
method of dealing with any perceived nuisance caused by the
construction of beaver dams. In a recent news story about
the program, viewers can see the bodies of dead beavers
piled up in a wheelbarrow.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh my lord, I never saw the horrible image she'd
just referred to in a wheelbarrow.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Hundreds of people commenting on the social media post expressed
outrage by what they saw and made it clear that
the like wants a humane solution. The city calls beaver's
a nuisance. But beavers have just as much right to
exist and to live here in their natural habitat as
we do.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
All right, Now, this is important. This is something we
all need to learn. I didn't know this. I don't know.
This could come up in court one day. But she's
teaching us that beavers have rights.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
And I don't know if they're if there's a special
mammal constitution that covers all of us, I don't know.
I don't I don't know where it is. But this
is a This is an executive director of something, and
they often know things. So beavers have rights. What kind
of rights?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Beaver's have just as much right to exist, just as
much you're in their natural habitat as we do. Just
as much as you did, as much right to exist
and to live here in their natural habitat as we do.
Public sentiment is with the beavers, all right.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
So beaver's just just like you and me. We're on it.
We're equal. Apparently, beavers and humans are equal in terms
of living in the city of Mobile. According to the advocate,
all right, let's continue.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Public sentiment is with the beavers, right, the community cares
about our wildlife. Beaver's are a gentle, monogamous species who
form para bomb.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Wait a minute, beavers are a monogamous Beaver's are monogamous.
How about did you know that I'd never wondered. I'd
never thought I wonder if that beaver has got more
than one girlfriend. I never thought about that. Now I've
wondered that about the raccoons in my neighborhood, because I've
told you I actually, unfortunately was a witness, an ear

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and eye witness to some type of beaver, not beaver, raccoon,
non monogamy. It was, yes, raccoons. I've already checked. Raccoons,
not monogamous. Beaver's monogamous, according to this lady, So that
they're automatically the beaver gonna get more sympathy, especially for

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the from the church going public, for their monogamy. Beavers
are monogamous. This is see. I just last week it
was people can use an ambulance as a taxi. I
didn't know that. Now we are learning that beavers are monogamous.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Beavers are a gentle monogamous species.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Who and they're gentle as well. I mean, this is
does this uh does the beaver starting to check some
things off on some people's lists. Here they're gentle, they're monogamous,
full spectrum of rights, just the same rights as you do.
I mean, this is there's a case, there's this case
being made for a beaver here. Oh, I've got to

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go to break. There's more to get to. I've got
more more beaver talk coming up on the Uncle Henry Show.
More things learned about the beavers, Beavers, Uncle Henry Show,

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News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five twenty
news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Today a Mobile
City Council meeting. And I was telling you before I
went into the break about the beaver advocate. We had
a beaver advocate appear at the Mobile City council meeting

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trying to talk the Mobile City Council into changing their
mind about these nuisance beavers. There's current they've hired a
guy to get to eliminate, to eliminate the nuisance beavers.
In the city of Mobile. But a beaver advocate spoke
to the council and taught us all that beavers have

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the same rights as human beings and mobile and that
beavers are gentle and monogamous. They're wonderful. Listen and we
isn't that what we all want in life is for
just to have monogamous beavers. It's a wonderful thing, all right,
Let's listen more teaching from the beaver advocate of the

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monogamy of the beavers.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
If beavers are a gentle, monogamous species who form pair bonds,
mate for life, and live in multi generational family groups.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, did you hear that they mate for life? Just
like Uh? I'm trying to think of a famous couple
that lived for a long time, Jimmy Carter and Rosalind. Yes,
they're similar. Or we could pick Republicans George Herbert Walker
Bush and Barbara Bush. They were beaver like. These couples

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were beaver like. They had a lifetime devotion to each other.
And did you hear what she? The beaver advocate o
also said, the beavers live the beavers live in uh
a multi generational home? What is this all? They all
live together one generation with the other.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Beavers are a gentle, monogamous species who form pair bonds,
mate for life, and live in multi generational family groups.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
That would be like the Waltons. It is like the Waltons.
When you think of beavers, think of the They're like
Waltons with with the with big teeth and unusual rare ends.
It's the Walton family. Want to get You don't want
to have the Walton family's bodies stacked up in a
wheel there? Do you? Come on? They're beavers. They've got

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a right to exist, and they're gentle and monogamous, and
they live with their grandma. All right, let's get back.
There's more learning. Let's listen. Pay attention. These they've got
the same rights as you do in.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Mobile meet for life, and live in multi generational family groups.
Beavers are considered a keystone species and their dams provide
wide ranging ecological benefits. We can coexist with these animals
who made their home here long before we did. We
have information we'd like to share.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
They made their home here before we did. Find Go
find the oldest beaver because I've got questions. There's still
some stuff from the City Commission days I'm curious about.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
With the council taken from several expert resources including Outdoor Alabama,
the Animal Welfare Institute, and the Human Beaver co Existence Fund.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
There's a Human Beaver Coexistence Fund. There's Money in Beaver which.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Detailed the many ecological benefits to maintaining beaver dams while
still protecting property and avoiding flooding through the use of
tools such as fencing, the beaver Dam flow device, and
the beaver deceiver, which are tools recommended by these and the.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Beaver deceiver, Now did I see an ad for the
back of that? And a comic book once? The beaver deceiver.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Other organizations because they are effective, cost efficient, humane, and
ecologically manificial. In fact, research has shown that these humane
devices are more economical in the long run because once
a device is installed, there is almost no cost to
maintain the system over many years. In contrast, the city
has said that under the current program, taxpayers will be

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paying an annual cost of approximately fourteen thousand dollars to
continuously kill animals. This is because unless we plan to
hunt them to extinction, the beavers will always return. We
would like to know what research was done to inform
this decision, and we have some specific recommendations for the city.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
They want to know about the cities beaver research.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Talking as best as I can, immediately discontinue the current
lethal program, to conduct research into the feasibility of humane alternatives,
including those mentioned above. Three, consult with a trained engineer
who could advise what the best tool would be for
the specific areas involved, and for adopt a humane and
ecologically sound management strategy that will protect our communities, our

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local ecology, and spare the lives of these animals with
whom we can coexist. We are more than happy to
help the city with additional resources, research, and whatever is
required to devise and implement an appropriate strategy that protects
the public while also protecting the environment and our truly
precious wildlife. Thank you for your.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Time, all right, and then you know this, I know
this will shock you, because these politicians love to talk,
most of them do. None of the council members wanted
to respond. They didn't none of they were probably like me,
just soaking it all in. They did not realize then,

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probably wondering if they need to worry about the beaver
vote in the next since beavers have just as much
like to be here as we do in Mobile. They
might have to worry about the beaver vote, but no,
none of the politicians talked. None of them had a
question for the beaver advocate about the monogamy of the beavers,
because sometimes you're suspicious because you see, you know who

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they're talking to. They spent a lot of time talking
to that of the beaver. You don't know. They didn't
have any questions about any of it. Beaver monogamy. Beaver writes,
no questions or comment. There was no beaver story launched
by any of the There's some council members love to
tell stories. Didn't get one. Joel Daves didn't talk about
any revolutionary war beavers or anything like that. Nothing very

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I could tell. They were stunned by the info. So
who knows what will happen. This could be a golden
age for beavers in Mobile going forward two five, one,
four seven nine, two seven two three. The telephone number
here on the Uncle Henry Show. Hello Color, Hi, Hey,
you are live on the radio.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hi. I agree with a nice lady. You need to
be nice to the beaver. Don't mistreat or harass the beaver.
Be nice to the beaver.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
They are a gentle, gentle animal. According to the beaver advocate.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, they are gentle.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
You need to love the beaver. Gently touched the beaver
sometimes in the saws the beaver.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
No, no, we don't have to No do we have
We don't have to touch the beaver.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well, some people like to touch the beaver. Some people.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, look the beavers don't. They don't. They want
to be They want to be left on to their
own cells. You just heard the description. They're gentle. They
live in that they bond for life. They find that
their sweetheart beaver that they went to beaver school with.
They I'm sure they have an engagement period. Maybe they

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sow some wild oats with some raccoons or some possums.
But then they come back and they get married and
they're married for life and they stick with the same beaver,
just like George Herbert Walker Bush did with Barbara Bush.
All right, anyway, this is what let's hope that the
council can figure out what to do. And I don't

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know will this will the expense of full righted beavers
affect the new arena s on the new Arena anything
like that. We don't know We've got all these projects,
all these big projects going on in Mobile with amtrack
and a new arena, a bridge being built sometime in
the next twenty to thirty to forty years. How will

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this affect it. We don't know. We got to think
about it. But anyway, if you want to see more
on all of this, Mobile City council meetings are on YouTube,
So go to the YouTube, the YouTube channel of the
Mobile City and watch all the beaver talk. But just

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remember this. If you are resentful of the beaver, maybe
because you're not living a life as good as a
beaver's life, being gentle and monogamous, just remember this.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Public sentiment is with the beavers.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Public sentiment is with the beavers. Beavers seventy ten times.

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Uncle Henry's show, News Radio seven to ten WNTM. By
the way, this is Beaver's I don't think they would
build a damn to this kind of music. I don't
know if it fits their gentle, their gentle, monogamous personalities.

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telephone number on the unk Lanbry Show. There was a

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city council meeting yesterday today where we learned about beavers.
If you if you just tuned in, there was a
beaver advocate at the Mobile City Council meeting advocating for
beavers to be left unmolested in Mobile because they have
as many rights as human beings in Mobile. They have

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just as much right to be and mobile as a
human being does.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Beavers have just as much right to exist and to
live here in their natural habitat as we do. Public
sentiment is with the beavers.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
And then we learned that the beavers are very similar
to the Walton family, that they're monogamous and they live
with their grand their grandma, their granddaddy.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Beavers are a gentle monogamous species who form pair bonds,
meet for life, and live in multi generational family groups.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
So very much it's just to think it's like the
Waltons that you're wanting to get rid of them when
you're getting rid of the beavers. Just so we learned that.
Now there's more from the meeting that I'll be sharing
with you before we run out of time in this
half hour of the Uncle Henry Show. But I do
want to talk to a caller or two two five
one four seven nine two seven two three the telephone number.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Hello caller, Hey, O Grahn, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Snake trapper? Snake trapper? You are live on the radio.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh here, I could understand that lady saw passion for
the beaver, because everybody that knows me knows I have
the same passion for the possum. Uh. At one point
in time, Ogle Henry, back in the twenties and thirties,
the beaver was almost hunted to it for its pelt.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Right.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
And now I will say that if you want to.
I won't say harvest because the six Old Christ. But
if you do kill a beaver on Glenry, you are sinning.
If you do not eat that beaver, it is uh.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
You know, you will have to.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Answer for taking the life of one of God's creatures
just because the fact that you didn't want to live
along the side of it, especially when you moved into
its habitat. They're not moving into our habitat, We're moving
into theirs.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
So I'm with the lady.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
You know. If if she loves the beaver and wants
to be an advocate for her, you know I'm for her.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, now do you now? Did you think because she
talked about the the gentleness and the monogamy the the
beaver is monogamous. Now raccoons and possums. I looked it
up before the show started. Raccoons and possums they both
cat around. They are not They are not monogamous. They're

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low down cheaters. Did you know this your love? Hey,
you love the possum, but the possum is a cheater.
The public sentiment is with the beaver. Public sentiment is
with the beaver because the beaver is monogamous in general.
The possum is out. It's out on the town looking
for love in all the wrong places.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh, I'm upset now over Henry. I may go out
and kill me once they need it, just for that,
because I'm a one woman man myself on gle Henry
and I I don't understand how they can just ah
will as my grandmother would say, is be a Jezebel.
But yeah, I see them a little differently now, Uncle Henry.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Possums can be Jezebel possums, now, did you? Snakes also
they also cut around. Snakes are not monogamous.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know. That's one thing I really like about the dove.
You know, they are very good eating, Uncle Henry, But
they anytime you see a single dove sitting in a
tree or on a power line, it's mainly because it's partner.
You know, they'll have the same partner for life. Uh
So if you see one of them by theirself, it's
a good chance that they lost their lifelong partner at

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some point in time. They're beautiful animal, they are good
to eating. But man, it's it's it's sad to know
that when you take one, you're liable to be making
one sad for the rest of its life.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
So well now and now when it comes to beavers though,
according to my research, after learning that they have the
same rights as I do, uh, I learned that beavers
when they lose their lifelong mate, they will remarry to
a different beaver.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Okay, well see, I'm see.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
You got to do that because their their whole point
is to build stuff, and you need you need to
have the wife beaver to help you build.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
One thing I have learned about them, Henry, that if
they're building a damn and it's causing water to back
up on your property, yes, you don't have to harm
the beaver. You can go destroy its damn and it
will spend the next fall building another one, so you
can make a lifelong worker out of it. You know,
it takes them months to build a nice dam and

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would only take humans just seconds with a pana right
to destroy it. I got a buddy that hunts up
in Coleman County and he probably once a year has
to has to blow up a beaver dam because it's
flooding his hunting ground.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
And he blows them up.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yes, or he buys canna right and shoots it with
a high powered rifle, mixes it together and shoots with
a high power rifle. Mixes about three or four pounds
of it, and it'll totally destroy a dam.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hey, tell him to start a YouTube channel, h Oliver, Henry.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
He films it every time he does it. Now he
I don't know that he puts it on Well, I'm
pretty sure he don't put it on YouTube or nothing.
But man, he's created some heck of a explosions with
with Tanner.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Right, all right, thing beaver dams on his property?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
All right? Well, hey, what are you going to come
in and do the snake show over Henry?

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Uh? My birthday is Friday, and I'm going why stake
him out for Mexican Friday. But anytime after that would
be fine, over Energy. You just let me know when
and I'll be there.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
All right, I'll get in touch.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yes, sir, over Henry.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
You take care.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
But it right there. He goes snake trapper with his
thoughts on the the beaver, telling us, well you heard
what he said? Two five one four seven nine two
two three Hello Color, wait, let me push the right
button now, Hello Color, good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
How are you today?

Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm doing good? You are live on the radio.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
See like every time I've called lady it's about creatures.
Well I can give I can give a little insight
before there was Tanner, right, Uh, I grew up you know,
this is the guy called in about the Rattle State
Rodeo last year. Uh grew up in that same area
and had a good friend that was a bounty hunter
for beaver's for the timber companies around home. And I

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used to have to go with him a lot. And
back in those days we used uh stick dynamite and naturoblistion.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Matter of fact, he was one of only two people
licensed in the state of Alabama to buy not troublition.
We had to come to Mobile actually to buy it.
And uh also the dynamite. We would just pick up
everything down here and uh we would set the charges off.
And uh I agree with. I mean, the lady's got
a lot of good points about the monogamy and things
like that, and there I guess they are pretty general

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on dispositions. But I don't believe she's probably liking to
see somebody that there that was ever bitten by a beaver.
It's pretty it's pretty bad bite when.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
You do get oh, I imagine, and uh.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I was fortunate not to ever to ever get bitten
by myself, but the gentleman I work with has been
bitten several times and it was pretty pretty bad. And
you know, and for the for the question about, you know,
the multi generationals, I guess there's some of that that
went on, but you know, they've they've got to go
out and start new new territory, so there's there's not

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a ton of that multi generational stuff in those lodges.
They send those young kids and out pretty pretty pretty
of you know, pretty young, and uh, they have to
kind of make their own way in another area. So
I have a problem with with the thinking behind that
they couldn't transplant those those so called nuisance beaver is out.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Hey. Sure, I'm sorry, I'm up on the break. I
gotta go into the break, But thank you so much
for telling me about your beaver experiences. Uncle Henry Show

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News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five point
fifty news headlines coming up and ten minutes and then
more Uncle Henry Show after six o'clock. Now we've talked

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about today's Mobile City Council meeting, where we learned a
lot about Beaver's The Life of Beavers. Also, the mayor
spoke out about the Fantasy Bridge project. For many, many
generations now there have been mobilions fantasizing, dreaming and wishing
for a bridge to be built, a more adequate bridge

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for traffic needs. And we've been been hearing about it.
It's in the works, us in the works, us in
the works, and that's we've heard that for many many years.
We got the news. I guess it was Monday. The
news was out at the Alabama Department of Transportation. They

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they ended their relationship with the Mobile Bayway, the contractors
that were going to be building the new Bayway or something.
So they broke off with that group of contractors. And
so where does the project stand now, Well, the mayor
spoke out about it. He wants to let you, the

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Mobilian know about this. So here's what the mayor said
at today's Mobile City Council meeting about the new Fantasy
Bridge project. Because you may remember, we've been promised that
there would be groundbreaking this year on this project. So
let's listen together to what the mayor had to say.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
Good morning, morning, good to see everyone this morning. Appreciate
you being here, I have several announcements and then a
couple of presentations. The first announcement has to do with
the bridge, something that you may have seen in the
media in the last twelve to twenty four hours where
it's talked about that there was a change of contractors.

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But the project is moving forward despite what may have
you read. May what you may have read into the article.
I've spoken with the al DOT team. They're going through
the evaluation process of determining the next best contractor to
participate in the r FQ r P RFP process. We'll

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know more within the next few weeks about how it
actually moves forward. The good news is is that all
the work that has been done by the contractor on
the Bayway, that engineering will not be lost. That's the
property of our DOT and so it will be turned
over to the engineering firm that will be replacing them.

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The next steps are continue and you're in the process
of negotiating what they call the guaranteed maximum price and
finalizing the tipy A loan. Aldot is still very optimistic
about the pathway forward and they still anticipate groundbreaking by
the end of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, so still anticipating groundbreaking at the end of twenty
twenty five. So let's I hope that all of that happens.
I hope that that all comes to pass. Now, if
it doesn't, not going to be surprised, but still hope.
I want to be optimistic as well on all of that. Now,

(31:40):
let's see what else, oh Lanyap. What you can read
online at lamyakmobile dot com. The Lamyak newspaper of reports
that yet another person has announced that they are running
for mayor of Mobile and let's see the story and

(32:01):
Lanyap says that the new candidate is a former pastor,
Michael Woodard. Michael Woodard is running and Lanyap reports that
he is a served in the Army as a captain,

(32:22):
graduate of Viger and went to University of Southern miss
and he says he wants to make Mobile a greater
one Mobile. So I don't know now personally, don't know
anything about him. So looking forward to learning more about
the new candidate for mayor. And I'm hoping that I

(32:43):
can remember the name. We're now getting to the point
that there's enough candidates I'm going to start forgetting them.
So Michael Woodard so now eight now eight running or
mayor of Mobile and I'm sure more to come because

(33:06):
there will be all well, judging by previous mayoral campaigns
going through the years, we're still waiting on how should
I say this diplomatically? There will be at least at
least one or one and a half lunatic candidates that

(33:26):
will Now I won't point out which one is which,
That'll leave that up to you. They'll be at least
one to one and a half lunatic candidates jumping in
all right, about to go to break for the news
coming up at the top of the hour. I want
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Henry's Show.