The Helpful Friction of the Chalkboard

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at iHeartMedia dot com. Plenty of things. I got a
lot of things to talk about with you today here
on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, before I get to
any of that stuff that has uh uh that I
have on my mind that I would like to discuss
with you, the wonderful listener. Uh I got a call
yesterday about a pothole on spring Hill Avenue. It was

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what a delight it was to get the pothole called.
I got an update. The person called act with an
update on the pothole.

Speaker 9 (04:03):
A pothole seventeen hundred spring Hill Avenue headed towards the
interstate the three one one service was called on July
the thirtieth.

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Thank you all right, sure, thank you whoever you are.
Thank you.

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He's giving me daily updates on the pothole. This is
what I've always dreamed the uncle Henry Shokook could become.
I know whether people other hosts have dreams of being
real famous and stuff like Sean Hannity and all that
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that addresses the basic concerns of humanity, such as potholes

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being fixed. So, sir, thank you for this. Keep me updated.
The voicemail number to report your pothole two five to
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one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now yesterday, at
this time in the program, I was talking about a
plan that the City of Mobil is investing money in.

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They they're going to be removing twenty six traffic signals
in downtown Mobile replacing with us with them would stop signs.
Because an expert came to town and talked to business
people and stakeholders in downtown Mobile, and they figured that
was the missing ingredient that the one thing that Downtown

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Mobile needs more of is stop signs and not traffic signals.
And so starting Wednesday of next week, a lot of
these traffic signals in Downtown Mobile are going to start
flashing red that and they'll do that for ninety days
so that you can get used to the idea that

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you're going to have to stop at four way stops
at a lot of these intersections. Now, I got a
call on this topic now, and I made the prediction
yesterday again that in about fifteen to twenty years, city
leaders are going to forget about this and they're gonna
think that the greatest thing they can do. They're gonna
think that the one thing that Downtown Mobile needs in

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fifteen to twenty years is more red lights, and so
they're gonna it will it'll just be a reverse and
fIF that's my prediction fifteen to twenty years from now.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Now, I got a call on this.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
You know, uncle, I was listening to you, I believe
it was last night, talking about that deal where they're
taken down. Would you say twenty six traffic lights yes,
and going to put up stop signs yes, Because.

Speaker 8 (06:30):
That's progress in Mobile, Alabama in twenty twenty five. Getting
rid of traffic lights and replacing them with stop signs
is progress.

Speaker 7 (06:42):
And I'm sure this is coming from the citizen tax
dollars of Mobile. And I was just wondering, if the
idea is to make all the traffic from all like
all four inner four interests to the intersection to stop,

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why not just have them? Why not leave the lights up,
because I believe, like you said, probably ten or fifteen
years or he knows, maybe centers they don't want the
lights back up again. Leave the lights up and just
set them on red, not flashing, but just solid red
to where people have to stop, and then they don't
have to put up the stop suns. And that could

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say taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Now, see, it's too bad that sixty eight year old
Chris of West Likesley cannot run for Mobile City council
or mayor. This will this is a this is a
great savings, This is a great say. In fact, they
could do what Chris is suggesting for they could do
that for what a year, couple of years, just to
see just to see if if they want to go

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ahead and take the lights down.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Chris, what a great idea.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
I don't know, it's just the thought. Maybe I'm wrong,
torning it over in my head here on the front porch.
Beautiful day to day. What say you that? Uncle? Oh?
And by the way, three weeks from tomorrow, roll tied Rope,
Roll Tied.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Roll sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley, thank
you for the voicemail about that. Well, they're gonna have
them flashed for ninety days red so the traffic so
that we can get used to it, and traffic engineers
can observe the behaviors of drivers to see if we're
if we're understanding it. There's other things to get into,

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and I'll get into them as The Uncle Henry Show
continues after the break here on WNTM.

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It's coming.

Speaker 8 (09:35):
Monday is back to school for Mobile County Public schools
and Balwin County Public schools. Some school systems already back
in school in different parts of Alabama. That means, now,
remember this Monday. If you use social media at all,
your social media is going to get all clogged up

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with back to school pick chirs.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Everybody, everybody. Nowadays, everybody's got to jump in on it.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
Back to school pictures just clogging up the Facebook feeds
and Instagram and all whatever, whatever social media you're on,
gonna get all clogged up. But back to school pictures. Now,
back when I was a child, this this was not
you didn't do this for a variety of reasons. When

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I was a child going to school, A lot of
families didn't have cameras. It was still it was still
kind of a rich person's thing to have some type
of camera at your house back when I was a
little child. And also there just there wasn't as many
narcissists in society that felt like every every single minute

(10:49):
of their lives needed to be documented and then shown
to the world. There just wasn't this hey look at me, Hey,
look at me, Hey, look at me all the time.
Back when I was a child. But look for that.
There's gonna be a lot of clogging up of social
media Monday with all these back to school pictures. Now,
I was watching a news report on Fox Tend. They

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showed teachers getting ready for school to start, and they
visited a Mobile County public school, a Magnet school, and
they were interviewing some of the different teachers about it.
And I noticed when they were the camera was going
around all the classrooms at this particular school. In the
different classrooms I did not see. I didn't see any blackboards.

(11:36):
I didn't see any chalkboards. It was all video screens
and dry erase whiteboards up there. I didn't see any
this particular school. I didn't see any blackboards or chalkboards.
And so I turned on the internet and I went
to Google dot com and I typed in do schools

(12:01):
use blackboards anymore? Because I don't. I don't have any
children or grandchildren in school right now, and the relatives
that I do know that have little children in the school,
I didn't feel like talking to them, so I just
went to the Google and asked it. And immediately the
Google artificial intelligence, which I didn't ask. I didn't ask

(12:23):
for this artificial intelligence. But it got involved, and the
artificial intelligence popped up and it was it was telling
me that some schools do use blackboards and all this
kind of stuff. And then it's and then it told
me something that I'd never heard before. The Google artificial
intelligence told me that some teachers like to use chalkboards

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blackboards because when a child is writing on it with chalk,
the friction created by the chalk on the blackboard slowed
down the pace of writing, and that for some students,

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a slower pace of writing helped the child learn better.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Now have you ever have you ever heard anything like this?
That the that the friction, that's that the friction.

Speaker 8 (13:33):
Caused by chalk on blackboard slowed down the pace of
the writing. And this was good, I guess for the
slow kid that needed that couldn't couldn't keep up with
a fast pace. The fast pace of a dry erase board.
The dry erase board is almost like a racetrack. You

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gotta be careful with the dry erase board. You might loose,
You might who knows, you might go flying off of
it and end up falling down or something. The faster pace.
I'd never heard anything like this, And and so uh,
I noticed that they that the the the internet had

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all these different sources then and then I looked at it.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
It looks to.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
Me like people that make blackboards and and sell chalk
have written up these websites that extol the virtues of
chalk boards, and so I guess there's a I guess
in order to make money, they're out there trying to
uh to demonize the dry erase boards and and prop

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up the chalk in eraser business.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
I don't know it was.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
I found that as weird as it could be when
I was looking this up today. But if you're if
you're at all curious, and you shouldn't be, but if
you're all at all curious, there's a there is a
big battle online about what is better chalk, and there's
pros and cons. I looked at all these lists of
pros and cons to to chalkboards versus the other two

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five to one, for I know that's not a burning issue.
I just founded another change. Life is always about change,
and I do like to look and see how life
is changing. And I did, and I never considered that, maybe,
you know, I might do a better job here on
the air if I wrote out notes to myself on

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a chalkboard with chalk because the friction cost would slow
down my writing and it might help me absorb what
I'm trying to think about. Two five, one, four, seven
nine two three. Hello, Color, that's clean here you are
live on the radio Color.

Speaker 10 (15:52):
You are spot on this afternoon. You're on fire. You
brought out the narcissist point. You're a spot on With that,
you saved one hundred people today listen to your show
having to go to therapy next week, the therapists telling
them about being narcissist and taking pictures of the cells
all the time. Kudos to you today, well, thank you.

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And also on the chalk fiting, I thought you were
about to come out with that some little kid was
gonna be allergic to the chalk dust. I wouldn't have
been surprised if you said that, but hey, you know what,
you got one by me on that one say it
was because of the slow and the friction.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
Now wait now, wait, you and I just thought you'd
be allergic to the dust.

Speaker 8 (16:34):
No, I didn't mention that, but that was also on
the list. In it, the the artificial intelligence said that
chalkboards produced dust, which may pose problems for children with
allergies or respiratory sensitivities.

Speaker 10 (16:52):
Yes, and you're in my area, you're in my ear.
Excuse me. Don't you remember the days when you're assigned
to go out and clean the the erasers. Yes, we
can knock them on the side of the building. Wasn't
that famious. It was always always told you you were
always wanting to be pete to go clean the erasers.
And if you and sometimes the teacher had one of

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those really nice ones, you could finish it off. You know,
you had to kind of buff it back in the shape. Yeah,
if your teacher had more of those buffing type feels so.
But I you know, on the other point about that
the markers, I believe it was cause kids probably sniffing them.
They had to take they taken some of them out.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Might be hey, I'm up on the break. Thank you
for your phone call. There, he goes.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
Yes, it was always a reward when you were when
you were considered trustworthy enough to leave the building and
go beat some erasers.

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Let me go to another voicemail that was sphoned into
the Unk Henry Show today.

Speaker 11 (19:28):
Hey, uh, Pat Nelly, I hope you're having a great
Friday afternoon.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Yes, hey, listen, what's the world coming to.

Speaker 11 (19:38):
I'll see an all over social media today and hearing
on the AM radio news that they now have a
breast milk flavored ice cream? What's going on? What is
happening in this world? Hunh?

Speaker 7 (19:57):
You know?

Speaker 8 (19:57):
And I'm pausing there just to say that, yes, you know,
I saw this story. It was something that I did
not want to talk about on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
The idea of.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
This, I don't even want to say it. There's a
lot of body parts. I don't even want to say
the name of the body part, even when it is
a clinical medical name of it, or the name for
that body part you'd see in the dictionary. I don't
even want to say the words. I mean, if I'm
not allowed to look at it, why would I want
to say it. So I saw this story. I didn't

(20:30):
I didn't want to mention it.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I saw it.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
I saw it online, and then I saw Fox ten
has the story about this. This this uh you know
what milk flavored ice cream it is? You can't escape it.
Why can't the media resist reporting weirdo stuff like this?

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Does it help the viewers and the listeners to report
weird things like Hey, we're going to have a special
ice cream that is flavored by you know what.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
It's supposed to be like, you know what, milk? Why
Why can't the media have some discretion and not tell
us this?

Speaker 8 (21:19):
You know, a lot of these companies come out with
weirdo pervert stuff, not because there's a market for it,
but because they know sleeves bags in the media will
talk about it.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
So, Pat Nelly, I'm with you. What is the world
coming to?

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Or or better put, where is the world headed? And unfortunately,
nine times out of ten, if you're watching the news
only you can draw the conclusion that the world is
headed to the devil. But that's why you don't want to.
You don't want to just take into account what you
see in the news. Go out in the world around.

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You're going to find good people in your neighborhood and
in your community that are God fearing, that would not
want milk. They would not want this type of milk
flavored ice cream. Just but anyway, Pat Nelly, yes, all right,
let me unpause your voicemail. But I saw the story
and I was also thinking the same thing, only in
a more in a more aggressive, angry way toward the

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media and the ice cream makers.

Speaker 11 (22:27):
What's the world coming to I'm seeing all over social
media today and hearing on the AM radio news that
they now have a breast milk flavored ice cream.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
What's going on?

Speaker 11 (22:46):
What is happening in this world?

Speaker 7 (22:48):
Hunh.

Speaker 11 (22:50):
And another thing that's got my crawl today, I go
do a pickup order at Target. I love it's convenient.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
People are so polite.

Speaker 11 (22:59):
Well, every every single cripple people parking spot was taken up.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
Now you get Hey, by the way, Pat Nelly, you
might want to update the lexicon here. They're gonna They're
gonna be some people that are that are very sensitive.
A lot of people are very sensitive. And it's the
opposite of uh, sticks and stones will break my bones,
but words will never hurt me. There's a lot of
people that words are for whatever reason, they've been raised

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to think that words are like cinder blocks. They're gonna
bust their heads. You may want to update your lexicon.
When in referring to these type of handicapped parking spots,
had a chance.

Speaker 11 (23:40):
To sit there and watch all the people coming and going.
There was not one cripple person that got out of
those cars that just chats my bootee. And I bet
they've never worked an honest day in their lives. Why
is it that people sponge off society gotta have a

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crippled people parking path?

Speaker 7 (24:02):
It makes no sense to me?

Speaker 11 (24:04):
What is wrong with this world?

Speaker 7 (24:05):
Hunh?

Speaker 11 (24:06):
And then I'm sitting there, nice and polite in my
little parking spot, reserved for my pickup, and somebody just
comes in there one hundred miles an hour, slams the
door and gets out and runs in. That's for me,
my kind of people that did the drive up I

(24:28):
made with body and I worked six days a week.
What's gonna happen when the balance teeters over to sixty
percent of the people are leeches and only forty of
us are.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Doing the jobs. I don't know whunk.

Speaker 11 (24:43):
I'm sorry I'm gripping so much, but it I feel
like the old man trying to kick the kids off
his grass. I hope you have a great afternoon.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
And roll tide.

Speaker 8 (24:54):
Pat Nelly, thank you for your voicemail. Now the handicapped
parking spots, are they still as abused? I mean, for
years I was getting calls about the abuse of these
parking spots. Are they still being abused? You're saying that
the people, the people seemed completely healthy when they got

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out of these these vehicles and into these vehicles in
these spots.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Are you sure?

Speaker 8 (25:20):
Are you sure it wasn't some type of hidden handicapped
They might have They might have been handicapped by hearing
somebody use tough words or something. You never know, Hello caller, Hello,

(25:47):
all right, all right, good, well done.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
That was just what the show we needed.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
That.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
That was a wonderful that kind of relieved the tension.
Even though it was it was quite moronic in every way,
shape or form, it did leave them the tension of
Pat Nelly feeling like the old man yelling at the
kids to get off his loan. Two five one four
seven nine two seven two three the telephone number here

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on the Uncle Henry Show. I wonder what what are
the qualifications? I've been blessed to not need one of
those uh handicapped spots yet I'm sure any day now
I'll end up needing one. But I wonder what the
qualifications are.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
I wonder.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
I wonder, because you're saying that people look able bodied
when they're getting out of.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
The vehicle, you could it be could it be a
hidden issue? Pat Nelly? Maybe? Uh maybe when.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
You notice this in the future, maybe you could engage
in conversation and find out they might. A lot of
people you've you've noticed this. Probably a lot of people
that have ailments like to discuss their ailments at length
with anyone that will listen. So you who knows, you
might learn about a new ailment that is not easily

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visible on that person. They might have a rash or
some type of permanent rash on their foot. You just
never know. They might have an allergy to parking far
away from the store.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
You don't know. There is more to come.

Speaker 8 (27:32):
The Uncle Henry Show will continue, but first traffic and
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Speaker 12 (28:26):
Hehi. I want to call and complain about handicapped parking
spots too.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (28:31):
I went to the Walmarks and they had a spot
that was about the size of three regular spots. And
that's bad.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh it is.

Speaker 12 (28:40):
Yeah. I went in to complain to the manager and
he said he needed it for the size of the
five day truck to haul in your mother.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I just cut it out, you freak.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
You know that was one of your weakest efforts. You
know it's I guess I should be happy that the
sleeves bags scumlrd Heerbert freak that has called the show
is starting to lose steam as he attacks my mother.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
I mean that is.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
Already you created skepticism. You created skepticism telling me that
there was a special, special handicap space that was three
times the size that was created specifically for my mother.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
That is I mean, they won't do that.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
I mean, as wonderful as my mother is, if she
were that size, theoretically they would there's they would not
do that.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
They would not create a special space for her.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
You're gonna look, if you're gonna continue the attacks, you're
gonna need to step it up now. I prefer that
you just step off a cliff and I don't want
you to call ever again. But if you are going
to keep this up, you might want to step it
up because it sounds like, I don't know, maybe maybe
your brain is being affected by all the drugs or

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the the STDs you have. I don't know what it
is that might be causing your brain rot. But that
was a weak effort which I and kind of even
though I'm sad that those calls are still coming in,
I'm kind of encouraged going into the weekend that uh,
the sleeves bags seem to be weakening. Maybe the continuous.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Prayer is working.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
Two five to one four seven nine two seven two three.
The telephone number that's two five to one four seven
nine two seventy two three. Email address Uncle Henry at
iHeartMedia dot com. Now, let's see what can I tell
you about? Do I have time for this? I got
a voicemail? Uh, this one is a uh yeah, I

(30:38):
think I've got barely enough time for Bufford's voicemail about
seeing a monster.

Speaker 13 (30:45):
And this Rader's jeefer. Hannry, I just saw a monster, hannay.
You know, I do a lot of driving in my
job to day and night.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (30:59):
Back, I was driving down a Muffat road in way
West Wilmer.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Wow in the morning.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
I've been there right there, we're Muffett and one.

Speaker 13 (31:11):
But you eight meat around that area heading back towards
town that is eastbound. Yeah, hannay, I see this big
old monster like creature running across the road. He's huge,

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thank to myself and saying, mane, look, that was like
a big old bar and it was kind of running
like a raccoon, you know, half on two feet, half.

Speaker 10 (31:43):
On four legs.

Speaker 13 (31:46):
And I had to slow down so I didn't hit it.
I wish I had did my personal truck because rather
than my personal truck.

Speaker 10 (31:52):
I just rammed it.

Speaker 13 (31:54):
But uh, you ever.

Speaker 14 (31:55):
Hit anything in a company vehicle? That is a mess
load of paperwork aheadache. But anyway, Henry, I was slowing down.
I slowed all the way down to like twenty my
own hour because it kind of like stopped in front
of me. And this is what freaked me out, Henry.
It looked at me.

Speaker 13 (32:16):
And the eyes were glowing red eyeballs.

Speaker 11 (32:22):
Henry, it was just red.

Speaker 13 (32:25):
Eyes, just glowing. Then it got on two feet and
ran off into the woods on the little side of
the road. Henry, I don't know what in the world
that could be. But uh, I don't know if bears
have glowing.

Speaker 14 (32:41):
Red eyes when headlights in them.

Speaker 10 (32:44):
But the thing was huge.

Speaker 13 (32:46):
I couldn't make out the face at all, just a
big old black, furry mountain of a monster.

Speaker 14 (32:55):
But uh, I tell you what, Henry Wilmer's got some.

Speaker 13 (32:59):
Weird weird stuff out here. Truth, it got weird animals
and I mean weird mess head type people. Henry. I
have even come across a wolf hybrid wild dogs out
here in Wilmer. Wow Man saw two of them devour
forty chickens that belonged to the old hipster hobby farmer.

Speaker 14 (33:23):
Biggest dagum teeth and jaws I've ever seen on a creature.

Speaker 13 (33:27):
Anyway, Henry just figured you've been interested in.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
And then the phone went out. I guess the.

Speaker 13 (33:36):
Holy hour of three am.

Speaker 10 (33:39):
Keep your eyes peeled.

Speaker 13 (33:41):
You ain't never gonna know what's gonna be running out
and the roads in front of you.

Speaker 8 (33:46):
All right, And then the voicemail did cut him off.
Do you thank you for that call? I'm out of
time for this Hilf hour. Maybe sometime in the next
you mentioned Wilmer and weirdness. I might I might have
to tell some of the weird stories I know from Ariel.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
I'll have to think on it.

Speaker 8 (34:10):
Back after the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show

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here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Now in this
half hour of Uncle Henry's show. I'm going to get
to some news items that I missed. You might have
missed them too, And also, if I've got some time,
we'll get to some voicemail messages phoned into the Uncle
Henry Show.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
So let's find out.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Let's let's let's allow the Uncle Henry Show to proceed
forward in the time stream. Here is the first story
I want to cover with you, first story I want
to learn about.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Now.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
This is about an Alabama lawmaker, an Alabama state lawmaker
who is pre filing legislation for the next legislative session,
which I guess would be next year. This legislation would
make it so that you could not vape in public
in Alabama. It would make vaping in public just the

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same as lighting up an old fashioned cigarette in public.
Now I'm a little confused by this. Now you're probably
not confused, but I am because I'm not a I
was not a cigarette smoker, and I'm not a vapor
so this is not part of my world, the whole
cigarette smoking vaping world. It is not part of part

(35:58):
of my world. So I don't know a lot about
the way you do. But to me, I thought I'm
old enough to remember when vaping was welcomed as a
safer alternative than cigarette smoking.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 8 (36:15):
Do you remember when they first came out with vapes
and we were told that this will be a safer
alternative than cigarettes and cigarette smoking.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
And now.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
I don't even know what kind of research they've done
on vapes. Every time I hear the Drug Education Council
talk about vapes, they're very upset about vapes.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
So let's listen. I've got this story.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
This is from w SFA up in Montgomery, a stepsister
station to Fox ten. Here is the story about vaping
in public possibly getting banned next year.

Speaker 15 (36:52):
Well, Republican Senator Gerald Allen says he had heard about
vaping before, but became more aware of how popular and
how common it was when he was at a football
game and someone used a vap nearby, very closely to
other people at that game. And now he says he's
sponsoring legislation to stop that from happening again.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
Now before I'm stopping it already there because see he's
this is a lawmaker who's who became aware of this
when someone vaped near people.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
At a football game. Now is it?

Speaker 8 (37:21):
Am I in danger? If somebody vapes near me, Should
I should I flee?

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Is there?

Speaker 8 (37:27):
Am I going to get some type of horrible effect
on myself if somebody's vaping near me? Because I cannot smell.
I of course I could smell cigarette smoke through the years,
I don't think I can smell vaping vapors. Is that
what you call them? Vapors? I guess because it's a
vape I can't. So why should I be afraid of

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somebody vaping near me when I can't even smell whatever
it is that they're vaping.

Speaker 16 (37:56):
I'm confused, And that's what prompted me to to look
into the statue itself and as far as the tobacca use,
and all we're doing is going into the current code
and adding vaping as part of the code.

Speaker 15 (38:14):
Current code does have restrictions on vaping, particularly for miners,
and what types of e cigarette products can be on
convenience store shelves, but Senator Allen is looking to add
to freeze the State's Clean Indoor Air Act that would
include banning the use of an electronic nicotine delivery system
in public places like restaurants, malls, and sport and recreation facilities.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
That needs to be a priority of ours to make
sure that the citizens know that when they go into
a public place that cannot vape.

Speaker 15 (38:43):
The Alabama Department of Public Health says vaping, even secondhand,
can increase risks of lung damage, cardiovascular issues, and respiratory problems.

Speaker 8 (38:52):
Now, see I have this is the first time I've
heard of this. Of course, I've heard about secondhand smoke
for years. We were told that being near a smoker
was just a terrifying thing to be near somebody smoking.
So now am I supposed to worry now about secondhand
vapors that I can't even smell.

Speaker 17 (39:13):
Just like cigarettes have secondhand smoke, babes also have second
hand aerosol, which include a mixture of nicotine, ultravine particles,
and other potentially harmful substances.

Speaker 15 (39:24):
And with veping being relatively new, at least compared to cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
I've challenged the citizens to google vaping and look for themselves.
It's a very serious issue, and that's why that this
is important bill to go into the current code and
add this to state law.

Speaker 15 (39:45):
If the bill's passed, it would go into effect October
first of twenty twenty six. Center Island tried to get
this past last legislative session, but it didn't make it
to a vote for the full chamber.

Speaker 8 (39:54):
Okay, so this is a legislator has told me that
I need to google the vaping vapors. All right, Well,
I might have some time this weekend to look up
the vapors and see what I need to be worried about.
I guess this is a new thing to worry about.
But it's as I've already said numerous times already in
this segment of the show, I how how is it

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hurting me? If I can't even smell it? Is it odorless?
Are there are there particles that are that are invisible,
ghostly particles that are coming out of the vape that
I can't smell, that are going up into my nostrils
and then into my lungs and messing me up somehow?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
I guess.

Speaker 8 (40:38):
Well, I guess I'll find out when I google it,
as the legislator. Legislator suggests we do. So if you're
a vapor just keep in mind that this is likely.
This sounds like something that will get pasted in the
Alabama legislature, So be aware that you're going to have
to figure out some new way or some new localeation

(41:02):
for your vaping. And I see, I know with I
remember when cigarette. I remember, I've been in this building,
working in this building since nineteen ninety eight, and before
nineteen ninety eight, I also worked in this building a
few years before that, and I remember all the different

(41:22):
stages with cigarettes. And first first it became you can't
smoke in the building here where I work. And when
that happened, you'd have about a third of the workers
going out the back door and standing out at the
back door and smoking cigarettes out there, about a third

(41:45):
of them. You'd always find somebody out back all day long.
There'd always be somebody out back. In fact, one of
our general managers years ago, probably around the year two thousand,
bought a special awning and put it at the back
of the building so that you would have some protection

(42:05):
from the elements when you went out there and smoked
your cigarettes. This was back before vaping. Then a few
years passed and the people that own this building decided
that you not only can you not smoke in the building,
you can't be like fifty feet from the build. You
had to be stand way away from the building.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
And so then.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
Nobody was under the awning anymore, but you'd see employees
during the day just walking by themselves out in the
parking lot to smoke their cigarettes. So I guess that'll
be the future of vapors. I'll start seeing people just
people randomly walking around in the parking lot out there vaping.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
All right, Look, there's more to get to.

Speaker 8 (42:52):
I'm sure we'll find out together as the Uncle Henry
Show continues here on news radio of seventy ten wnt
But first gonna have some traffic and some weather and
words from our sponsors. So let us now take the break.
Take the break, it says day Uncle Henry shown News

(43:34):
Radio seventy ten WNTM. News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, I want to
check a voicemail here and maybe check a news story
as well.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
Now I've got a voicemail that is.

Speaker 8 (43:55):
This is almost stale in that I got this voicemail
a couple of weeks ago, I guess, and forgot to
play it. This is about a This is a reaction
to another phone call. We got a live phone call
on the Uncle Henry Show a few weeks ago from
Jimmy the Economist, and that caller Jimmy the Economist said
that he was going to see Eric Clapton in concert

(44:18):
in September. So and that was news to me that
Eric Clapton is still alive and that he is also
still able to play guitar, and that he'll be in
the United States, and that one of the Uncle Henry
show callers will be going to see Eric Clapton perform.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Now, let's listen.

Speaker 8 (44:36):
Here's a voicemail about that particular phone call from this
phone then from Locksley, Alabama.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Bro Tuh, Uncle Uh. I would like to spend out
a thank you to caller Jimmy the Economist for informing
me and the listeners and viewers yesterday. Sir Eric Clapton
is coming to nash Vegas in September and that he

(45:03):
will be attending said show.

Speaker 8 (45:05):
So nash Vegas, I'm going to assume is I'm gonna
assume it's not. I'm gonna assume it's Nashville and not
Las Vegas. That's the assumption.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
I know.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
It's dangerous to assume. It's also dangerous to draw conclusions.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
Don't draw conclusions because if you do, you're going to
be wrong. You can draw them if you want just
be wrong. I guess you all don't have any consequences
for being wrong, all.

Speaker 8 (45:31):
Right, So but I am drawing. Even though coach says
don't draw conclusions. I'm gonna draw conclusion. It's in Nashville.
But back to the voicemail from sixty year old Chris
of West Locksley.

Speaker 7 (45:44):
The attendant said, show I just might have to try
and make that one myself only. Dad. Gun problem is
if I looked on the calendar right, it's on a
Monday night. But that's okay. Might be the last time
get to see the old boy, he said. The first
time he had seen him was in nineteen ninety nine.

(46:06):
Excuse me, nineteen ninety I believe well. I saw mister
Sir Eric Clapton in nineteen seventy three at Legion Field
in Birmingham.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (46:16):
The opening act was the Charlie Daniels Band.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
Now, now I'm not a Clapton fan or expert. For
obvious reasons, he became famous. To me, I first became
aware of Eric Clapton when he was singing about shooting
the shooting the Sheriff. And he had a song called Cocaine.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Do you remember this?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
It was a terrible time to be listening to the
radio when there's songs about cocaine and people shooting sheriffs
and things like that. So nineteen was that the era
of the cocaine and the shooting of the sheriff? In
nineteen seventy three is that when that was happening.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
The opening act was the Charlie Daniels band Wow. And
I think since then I was trying to count up
how many times I'd seen and or worked Clapton, and
I believe that total comes to seven if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
Seven.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
Okay, so you've seen Eric Clapton in concert seven times?
That is, I guess if you're a Clapton fan, that's
a pretty good number.

Speaker 7 (47:25):
Believe that total comes to seven if I'm not mistaken.
The last time I saw him was in two thousand
and seven in San Antonio, I believe. Yeah, that's right. Anyway,
Thanks Jimmy the Economist for keeping me up to date

(47:45):
on that. I'll have to look into it.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
And roll tide, roll tied, roll sixty eight year old Chris,
Thank you. Let me know, of course, would love to
hear about your adventure. If you drive up there and
see Eric Clapton for the eighth time. See the last
time I remember hearing about Eric Clapton, he was getting
canceled or people were mad at him? Were they mad
at him over not wanting to take the vaccine? There

(48:13):
was something during the COVID pandemic that made people mad
at him, and he got attacked and I can't and
it's at this point I can't remember why they were
attacking him. But anyway, thank you for the voicemail. The
voicemail number is two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five to one two one six,
nineteen seventy six, to leave a message for the Uncle

(48:36):
Henry show. Now, before we're out of time, Today is Friday,
but it's also according to Fox News, National Pickleball Day.
Here is Fox News's c J. Peppa with more on
National Pickleball Day.

Speaker 18 (48:59):
It's the sixty anniversary of the sport that's exploded across
the nation with the familiar sound of the plastic ball
connecting with the pickaball paddle.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Did he say sixty? The sixtieth anniversary of this what.

Speaker 18 (49:15):
Was created on a summer Saturday in nineteen sixty five
on an old badminton court at the Seattle area home
of Washington State Congressman Joel Pritchard, using ping pong paddles
and a perforated plastic ball. Now some paddles cost close
to three hundred dollars apiece. Pick a ball is considered
the fastest growing sport in the US. According to picklerage
dot com, about thirty six point five million Americans have

(49:37):
played the sport at least once, and young people are
flucking to the game, dropping the average age of players
from forty one five years ago to thirty five today.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
CJ Popa Fox News.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
All right, I may never try it, just to be different,
all right, out of time. Thank you for listening to
the Uncle Henry Show. As they say in Sarland, have
a good one. As they say in Theodore, take it easy.

Speaker 13 (50:00):
All rite later