The Roaches and Bats of San Antonio

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Uncle Henry Show weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Friday evening. What a feeling you like saying? In week,
do what you wanna do. Week in be what you
wanna be week.

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Wonderful town, wonderful people, nices to go thanks to see.

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My love is more Meal, that's my wonderful time.

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Beautiful boats, schools and churches, entertainment, places to shop.

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My heart's in more Fel, that's my wonderful town.

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Will be the center up exportation, business and industry. Set
the base.

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O'bile's got the junior.

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Miss sol apration, hold on party growing.

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Senior old game.

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O'fiel is great to live in and work in.

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Good climate's ideal for progress.

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You see.

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My love is mold deal. Ma's my one ft. There's

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the channel. Now before I get I've got people waiting
to talk on the phone, and I've got I've got
things to tell you about. But I asked Shelby Mitchell
of ninety five KSJA to talk to us briefly here
at the beginning of the Uncle Henry Show on a Friday,
because she just she just came back into the mobile
area after an out of town excursion to a faraway

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place called Austin, Texas. Now, I've never been to Austin, Texas.
I've spent some time out in Dallas in that area.
I've never been to Austin, Texas. What was it like?

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Actually, we were mostly in San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, but you visited both.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
We visited both. That's correct. We were mostly it. We
were staying in San Antonio. But we did go to
Austin for one day and see a friend. Okay, it
was amazing. Austin is very funky.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now what does that mean.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Well, it's very like hip and young and hippies. Walking around,
but then you might turn around and see like a cowboy.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I loved it.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
I thought it was really cool. We went line dancing.
A roach got on my arm and I thought it
was a scorpion because that could happen.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
No, wait, Arene, you've already said a lot of things
I need to asks about. Yes, so you went and
you you went to Austin from San Antonio. You went
to Austin, Uh huh? And you saw hippie Yes, Now,
how do you know they were hippie?

Speaker 6 (03:49):
They they were groovy. They were just they looked super happy,
and they had like boho The ladies have Boho's style
dresses and their hair was like whatever.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And they didn't care that they look unemployed.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Some of them had cowboy boots on.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
So that was cool. Okay, all right, So now you
were line dancing in a roach? What happened when you
were lined down? Where were you line dancing?

Speaker 6 (04:12):
It was a famous place. And now I can't think
of the name of it because I got memory issues.
I should have written it down. But we went to
see our friend who took us line dancing. Our friend
is Greg and he is a young hipster himself. Okay
of the progressive era Austin. Austin's it's very modern. Yeah,
so anyway, but we were having a large there was

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a lot of people in there, and we had just
been talking about scorpions and you might see them out
in the desert. Now in Austin, it's kind of a city.
So but I felt something crawling on me. I was like,
oh my gosh, it's a scorpion.

Speaker 8 (04:43):
But it was a roach.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
So I flicked it onto my husband, the fireman, and
he squished it and saved the day.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
So there's a dance place in Austin that's got roaches,
but like alling all over you, dude.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Five hundred people were in there and we were having
beverages and it was fantastic. There's also a thing, Uncle Henry.
If you get very bored, y'all type this in read
about it. One point five million bats live under the
bridge in Austin. It's a big, famous bridge and I
can't think of the name of it. But anyway, every
night at sunset they emerge from under the bridge to

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go find their dinner in the form of insects or
not one vampires.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
They're looking for roaches there to go line dance.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
What is a bat doing?

Speaker 6 (05:24):
It is the coolest thing to see them at sunset
fly up from out from underneath this bridge.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, so that's something fun. If you ever, if you
want to go to Austin, you can spend time with
roaches and bats. And so now is this before I
ask you anymore about this? Is this going to end?
Are you going to do a trip Advisor review about
a roach landing on you when you're line dancing? I
think people need to know. Tourists need to know.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
I would, but I can the bar.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, but you went so but you spent more time
in San Antonio. Yes, tell me you went to the Alamo.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yes, it was amazing and I would have stayed longer,
but we were on a little time schedule. It was
the coolest thing. And now, and now I know why
people in Texas have so much pride. Texas was its
own country for like nine years before the US, between
the US and uh Mexico. Yeah so, but but the
whole Now I understand the whole pride thing, but it

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was it was really I had forgotten the history of
like Davy.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Jones and Davy Crockett.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
Excuse me, Davy Crockett, Davy Jones was Pirates of the Caribbean, Davy.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
CROs with the with the hat, Davy Crockett.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
And then the other guy whose name looks like David Bowie,
but it's Bowie. He pronounce it Bowie. He was one
of the leaders. And a guy named Travis him. Okay,
and so anyway, they really you know, I learned so
much and then it left my brain. But it was
really cool to uh, to understand, you know, why they were.
They fought so much and it was a symbol of courage,

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and you know, the whole the Battle of the Alamo,
and then they lost. But later on, who's the bad guy,
Santa Anna, Yeah, the bad guy he was captured and
our good guy he said, remember the Alamo, this was
this was for the Alamo. This was revenge and that's
why he was captured. And that's why I remember the album.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I heard it was a dump? Is it a dump?

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Not at all. They are actually right now undergoing a
major expansion and they're they're building a museum. They're building
an entire When you go back in like a year,
it's gonna be huge. Okay, it's no, it's not a dump.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's not like Graycelin all right before, which is a
dump before before. But I'm almost up on the break
and you're about to walk out of the room. Tell
people how they can meet you tomorrow. Shelby will be
available to meet you the general public tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Where are you going to be I'm gonna be at
tractor Supply mobile the regrand opening on Shillinger Road.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, Shillinger Road, Tractor Supply. When are you going to
be there? Tomorrow noon to two?

Speaker 6 (07:55):
And I will have Luke Bryan tickets for you to
register for. Okay, and not have KSJ T shirts.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh not yep, okay or the last So if you
want to pick up a ninety five ks J T shirt,
meet Shelby, get a selfie, wither and register for tickets.
That's a tractor supply on Chillinger Road. I think that's
not too far from from uh, the from Ziggler on
Chillinger Yeah, okay, so tractors Supply tomorrow noon to too. Shelby,

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thank you for telling us about your trip to Texas.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Thank you always I recalled more well.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
You remembered the important stuff roaches, bats and the names
of Davy Jones fighting at the element. There is more.
We've got more Uncle Henry Shaw coming up after the break.

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but I do have a caller waiting. Hello, caller.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Good at me, Uncle Henry Bert.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Bert, thank you so much for holding during that segment.
Bert tell people about the big benefit for Tarleton McNabb
tomorrow in mobile.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
I just got word last night. My band will be
playing the Band's Crank up at twelve noon and we're
going to start at four to one tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Very good. We'll be able to see Bert live on
stage playing with his band at the Blues Tavern tomorrow
at twelve forty five in the afternoon. Bert tell people
what this benefit concert is for.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
It's for a musician friend of Burn's name, Charleton McNabb,
has been diagnosed with tank creatic cancer. There's no cover
charge at the club, but they will be selling pork
chop plates at ten dollars piece.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Okay, so pork chop plates ten dollars a piece there
at the Blues Tavern tomorrow. I guess that starts at
noon and they're going to be having different musicians playing
all through the day.

Speaker 9 (10:46):
There's going to be about a dozen bands at the
very least.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's wonderful. I do. Tell tell me you've been friends
with the McNabb family for a long.

Speaker 9 (10:55):
Time, almost fifty years, uncle Henry, almost fifty years.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, sir, well, Bert, what kind of tell me? Give
me a preview of what kind of music you'll be playing.

Speaker 9 (11:09):
We do a lot of sixties, seventies and eighties rock, beatles,
journey stuff like that Bad Company.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now you are you gonna be playing keyboards?

Speaker 9 (11:25):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
What about singing? You're gonna be lead singer on any
of the songs.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
At least half of them.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
At least Bert, I'm gonna make a strong effort to
be there to watch this I'm really looking forward to it.

Speaker 9 (11:39):
We'd love to see Henry.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
All right, well, Bert, thank you for telling everybody about it.
I hope they raise a ton of money for Tarlton McNabb.

Speaker 9 (11:50):
I do too, Thank you, ticking M call all.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right, Bert, thank you very much for your phone called Bert.
You can tell Bert is mentally he is getting ready
for tomorrow. So you heard what he had to say.
Benefit going on throughout the afternoon there and into the
evening at the Blues Tavern in mobile Bert's band hitting
the stage at twelve forty five, Bert singing lead on
half the songs. How can you not want to go

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see Bird after all these years of calling the show?
I can't. I couldn't stay away. So looking forward to it.
Bert performing at the Blues Tavern tomorrow in that benefit concert,
and I hope that raise a lot of money for
Tarlton McNabb. I know the McNabb family, great people. Two
five one four seven nine two seven two three. The

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telephone number that's two five to one four seven nine
two seven two three.

Speaker 10 (12:40):
Hello Color, Hey, Henry. How you doing today, Steve?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Steve, how are things with you?

Speaker 10 (12:49):
I was doing well? Doing well? Yeah, I too, Am
familiar with Tarlton. Uh, he's a very fine bass player.
I think that my bands in the past have played
on you know, shows that his bands were on two
and he was always very good, very very solid bass players.
As I can recall. I never did I never did

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get a chance to jam with him at all, unfortunately,
but I have heard him play a lot, and he's
a really good musician. I'm very sad to hear that
that he's diagnosed with cancer. We don't want to lift up,
lift him up in prayer and lift him up this
Sunday at church. Let's see if we can't pray all
that out of him.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's what. That is a wonderful thing to do. I
hope a lot of people do that when they can. Now,
what did you play in your bands? What have you played?
Have you what instrument do you play?

Speaker 10 (13:43):
Oh, I'm gonna lead singer harmonica player?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh, lead singer harmonica?

Speaker 11 (13:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (13:48):
Yeah. I mostly just sang and most of the bands
I was in, I played all that, uh, all that
heavy heavy metal type stuff.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
That you don't like, right.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
Uh, you know, it didn't affect my soul in the
way that it has a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, what I can tell.

Speaker 10 (14:08):
Yeah, I heard you railing on the Kiss yet yesterday
and everything and and uh, you know, I have I
have mixed opinions about Kiss. I think they were brilliant
uh uh showman, and I think they say that their
song was Nah. But but as far as going to
see a live concert, if you ever want to see

(14:28):
a live Kiss concert, you saw a spectacle. Is this
just a huge spectacle. But you know, they knew had
a market, they knew how to do all that. Gene
Simmons is he there was probably more about religion and
the Bible than most uh most of la people. Uh,
he's not a very He's not an idiot. He even
though he's sticks in the worlds has tongue around. The

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man is very very intelligent. He was a school teacher before, uh,
before Kiss was formed. But uh, I don't want to
get into a bunch of Kiss stuff that they're not
only my favorite band of that genre and era, they're
way better examples. But still, I don't you know, are
they worth giving a metal to? You know, any of

(15:10):
these fans are just musicians. Man, it's just playing music.
It's just entertainment. You know, do we really need to
honor these people like there's some great groundbreaking thing. I
don't think so think.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'm glad you're I'm glad that you're saying this, Steve.
I'm glad that you're saying this.

Speaker 10 (15:27):
I mean, I personally think that arts, that the arts
in general, are way too important in people's lives. They
should be less important. More important things should be, you know, agriculture, survival,
you know, making the world a better place. I just
you know, let's sit around and jam and listen to

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some music and do that. Now, let's make this world
a better place. And if music helps do that, I
think it's a good thing. But most of the time nowadays,
all you see is music for the devil. I mean literally,
you see people dressing up like the devil, dancing around,
you know, on National TV, you know, in very very

(16:09):
Luciferian Satanic garb, and just basically saying, let's all worship
the devil together.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
That is true. You see it in all these major
reward shows. You tune in and it looks like Babylon.
It looks like it looks like ancient Babylon would look.

Speaker 10 (16:29):
Oh, if you know, I mean worsen Babylon, because we
got the minor technology that Babylon hasn't. You can pipe this,
You could pipe this garbage to it to the ends
of the earth in a half second. True, you know,
and we don't. You know, that doesn't need to be
you know. And I'm beginning to wonder. You see all
that and everything, and you hear all these devout religious

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people saying, oh, America is the great Satan. You know,
you begin to wonder maybe they're right. I don't know,
you know, I certainly don't buy into their says, hey,
let's go cut people's heads off. But when I see
that in my home country, it makes me ashamed. It
really does make me ashamed.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yes, indeed, Well, Steve, I'm glad that you've checked in,
and I'm glad you've got some good well wishes for
Tarlton McNeil.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
Yeah, man, we love you all right.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
There he goes, Thank you, Steve, thank you for calling.
There is more show to come, but at first we
have traffic, some news headlines, and then more Uncle Henry
Show here on news Radio seventy ten w nt M.

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here holding on Hello caller, Hey.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
OK, Henry. I was the one that called you yesterday
talking to you about saying anybody that would talk bad
about your family or you.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 11 (18:44):
I want to call back today. I tried to get
you again yesterday. You had a story yesterday. I believe
it was up at Birmingham about the human organs.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. Now for people, for people that don't know about
this story, Fox Tennis covered at a bunch Uh there
were inmate there were students, allegedly students at UAB that
noticed that they had a lot of extra organs, a
lot of extra organs laying around up there that were
coming from autopsies done on inmates that had died in

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Alabama prisons. And now that UAB is being sued by
the families because they never gave permission for the organs
to be harvested from their loved ones. And one of
the lawyers. I was laughing yesterday because one of the
lawyers for UAB said that he made the argument in
court that your organs aren't your personal possessions.

Speaker 11 (19:37):
Yes, or that I remember hearing that.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (19:40):
My question is the day before that, did you have
another story in Birmingham about a dog that was bringing
human remained home.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yes. I wonder if well, well, maybe they need to
take the dog up to UAB and see what the
dog can do. They might find more evidence to take
the dog up to UAB.

Speaker 11 (20:01):
Yes, that's a matter of fact. But anyway, you said
yesterday that I was an anonymous call. I just gonna
let you know, y'all, y'all just call me the lightcatcher
because it seems like I catch every red light i'll
come through when I'm driving. So okay, I just wanted
to call in let you know, just you know, just
kind of share that what you see. If I get
a chuckle out of you and just tell you God
bless you and enjoy the rest of your day.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, thank you, God, bless you. Thank you very much
for your phone. Call Lightcatcher or red light Catcher would
be a good name for you as well. And if
you missed that story, that other story out of Birmingham,
they've got a dog up there that has found him
and remains I think for the third time this year

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where the and the first time the dog they the
dog found a skull on the side of the road.
And then, you know, I don't know, weeks, weeks or
months later, the dog found a leg bone and and
just I think it was last week, the dog found
yet another bone. This dog just keeps finding human remains
up there, and they think, well, two of the three

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times that came from the same individual, and they're still
waiting on test results on the third remains that the
dog found. But the dog just going just minding its
own business, going through the neighborhood finding human remains in Birmingham,
you know. Speaking of that, there was another story out

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of Birmingham a few weeks ago where a woman was
found she had lost her life, attacked by a pack
of dogs. I think it was a bessemer. They just
found this woman, she had lost her life. They found
her in a vacant lot after being attacked by dogs,

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And the gist of the story was that they had
had three or four people had lost their lif life
in Alabama after being attacked by dogs in the last
year or so. Have you heard anything about this? I
didn't realize that roaming packs of dogs were a hazard
in Alabama to the point that we've gotten a number

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of people that have lost their lives to being attacked
by dogs. Packs of dogs in Alabama? Doesn't that sound
kind of third world? Can we not do better than
this and having roaming packs of dogs? All right? Again?
The telephone number here two five one four seven nine
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, I got a couple of
stories I want to tell you about. These both come
from press releases I've received this week. One of them
was a press release from Jerry Carl. You may remember him.
He was a congressman. He represented Lower Alabama up in

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Congress up until Barry More took that seat after some redistricting.
So the press release that I got was Jerry Carl
to make major announcement at fully City Hall Monday, August eighteenth.
It says, former Congressman Jerry Carr will hold a public

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event at Fully City Hall Monday, August eighteenth at ten
am to make a major announcement. Now, what do you
think the announcement will be. Well, I'll give you a hint.
The email says at the bottom of the email paid

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for by Jerry Carl for Congress, and it serves our
mailing addresses Jerry Carl for Congress, post office box blah
blah blah blah blah. So obviously Jerry Carl announcing that
he's running for Congress again. So Jerry, are making that
announcement officially Monday morning, ten o'clock in Foley at the

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Folly City Hall. And with Barry Moore running for the
US Senate, now Jerry Carl jumping in to run for Congress.
I'd like to put this out there to anyone listening
in that congressional district here in South Alabama. You know,
Jerry Carl already is going to have a pretty good

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shot at that congressional seat because he's got the name,
recognition of having been in Congress before. I'm sure that
he's going to have some donors lined up all ready
to go. Before making the announcement, but just for general
entertainment purposes. It'd be nice if a lunatic would run

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just for fun, or let me rephrase that instead of
just if there's someone out there that is an eccentric,
just an eccentric, fun loving personality, please run, please run
for Congress, just to just to liven things up. No

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offense to Jerry Carl, but he's not the most charismatic guy.
He's fine, he's a nice guy, but he's not he's
not overflown with charisma. It'd be fun if we could
get some eccentric, just some eccentric, fun loving people to
run for Congress just to spice it up and give
us some entertainment. That lady that was trying to run

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as a writing candidate and mobile for the mayor, her
last name was Dias, I hope she runs. Lady, if
you're listening, please run, just give us just to spice
it up. And there's some other people in South Alabama
that would be fun if we could get them to
run just for entertainment purposes, like the guy that makes

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the bacon, the guy that makes the bacon in Fair Hope,
Bill E of Bill Eve's Bacon. I wish he'd run,
because then he could he could compare everything to making bacon,
and he could talk about his He could talk about
bacon while he's running for office. And wouldn't that be
fun to hear a candidate talking about bacon all the time.

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He could run Bill E of Billy's bacon? Or what
about Uh? What about Paninie Pete?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
He could talk about making sandwiches and stuff that wouldn't
that be fun? If Jerry Carl were running against Bill
E and Panini Pete, wouldn't it be fun? It'd make
you hungry every time? Yeah, every time there'd be a forum,
you get hungry. Uh? And what about Uh? I know
somebody that's good in the spotlight, Lucy Buffett. Why not

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Lucy Buffett from Lulu's have her jump in there. Wouldn't
that be fun? I bet I bet she'd get a
lot of cam Pain donations just because he's Jimmy Buffett's sister.
Just give it some thought. Any any fun loving, outgoing,
eccentric people, even somebody like Ron Reims, wouldn't wouldn't Ron

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Reems be great just just running because you know he
could somebody to ask him a question and he'd talked
for thirty minutes, answering it it'd be fun anyway, just
some just something to think about.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
All.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
There's more to come more Uncle Henry Show. After the break,

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it says The Uncle Henry Show. It's five point fifty
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And let's see, I've got a couple of voicemails to
get to real quick before before this hour is over.

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Let's see, this one came in this afternoon, right before
two o'clock in the afternoon.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Cooky, don't sitting out here on the front porch under
a heat advisory just pointed out to me by both
the ACU Weather app and the Weather Channel app. One
of them's telling me that it's eighty nine but it
feels like one hundred and seven. The other ones telling
me it's ninety one, but it feels like it's ninety four.

Speaker 11 (28:53):
Well, we know how that.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Goes exactly, absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
Speaking of I just wanted to check cup on you,
make sure you're doing all right. You're surviving to eat
real well. I assume you're in the air conditioning the
fine air conditioning building there and mobile, Yes, I'll leave
you with this a mere fifteen days.

Speaker 11 (29:17):
Ro tad Row Row.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Tad Roll, all right, thank you very much for your voicemail.
Sixty eight year old Chris of wes Locksley. The voicemail
number is two five to one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six to leave a voicemail for the Uncle Henry Show. Yesterday.

(29:39):
On the show, I talked about how it's disgraceful, that
it's disgraceful that President Trump is going to honor Kiss
with a Kennedy Center honors. It's absolutely disgraceful. And I
got this voicemail.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Uncle Henry instead of Kiss, what if it had been
ac DC.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
Let's see what you got to say about that.

Speaker 9 (30:05):
I'm curious, weigh in on it.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well, you're curious, Well, that would be equally disgusting if
ac DC were to be given some type of presidential honor,
some Kennedy Center honor, and you put metals around these
people ac DC. What kind of songs do they have?
Dirty deeds? Isn't that one of their songs, Dirty Deeds

(30:32):
Done Dirt Cheap, where they're singing about doing dirty deeds
why would you Why would we award somebody for that?
Why would you put a medal around their neck for that?
And I think they've got another song about where they
sing about big blank, where it's like a body part
and they're singing about a big blank, if I remember correctly,

(30:58):
and some song about she shook me all night long,
and there's lyrics about how she keeps her motor clean
or her engine clean or some other some type of
innuendo about the human body that is strictly disgusting. So no,

(31:20):
it would be it would be almost as bad. Kiss
is worse because of the Satanism, but ACDC would be
just as bad. You know who's still alive That would
be a good replacement for Kiss at this Kennedy Center
thing would be Pat Boone. Pat Boone still alive. He's

(31:40):
in his nineties. He posts on the x app. He does,
he posts. In fact, I think it was last week
or the week before, he posted video of him Pat
Boone playing basketball, Yes, at at age ninety three or
ninety whatever is so, Pat Boone's still alive, why not

(32:05):
honor him instead of somebody like Kiss or the idea
that we're going to have foreign bands like ac DC
that have come over here and carpet bagged into our
music and the idea that we'd give them a medal.
It's it's outrageous that led Zeppelin got one of these things.

(32:26):
What it's absolutely disgusting. But anyway, that was yesterday's show.
You can listen to that show as a podcast podcast
available on the iHeartRadio app. Just go on the iHeartRadio
app and look for Uncle Henry's Show. Listen to the podcast.
Set a preset for the podcast there. Now, let's see
just about out of time for this hour of Uncle

(32:50):
Henry Show. Before I'm out of time, I want to
mention one more time that there is a benefit concert
for Tarleton McNabb. He is a local musician who has cancer.
All the proceeds going directly to his medical expenses. This
is going to be tomorrow at the Blues Tavern in

(33:10):
Mobile starting at noon, and they're gonna be selling pork
chop plates for ten bucks apiece. I'm gonna go get
me a pork chop plate. There's no cover.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
On.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
There's no cover charge for going in and watching the bands. Bert,
longtime caller of the Uncle Henry Show, his band is
going to be performing at twelve forty five tomorrow at
Blues Tavern, and a lot of other great bands are
gonna be there all throughout the day. I'm going to
try and be there myself to see Bert's band that

(33:47):
is tomorrow at the Blues Tavern starting at noon, and
they're also going to have an auction, raffles and things
like that. More Uncle Henry Show coming up after the
news break, It says, the Uncle Henry Show here on

(34:35):
news Radio seventy ten WNTM. This half hour of the
show gonna go over some news items, and also I
will say things that pop into my head spontaneously, and
I am yes, I'm praying that's something. I'm praying that
something pumps into my head that I can say. All right, first,

(35:01):
let's get into some news items here. Let's get into
some news items. We have the first week of school
coming to a conclusion. It did earlier today here for
many families on the Gulf Coast. For many families, this
was the first week of whatever schooling they're going to
be getting. And yesterday the state school board had a meeting,

(35:26):
and I realized that I don't I just don't hear
as much from the state school board or the local
school board the way that I used to. Now, if
you are a longtime person, if you've been on the
planet for a lot of years, and if you lived
in the Mobile area for a lot of years, you'll

(35:48):
remember that schools used to be in the news all
the time. There were years where school board meetings would
dominate the news in Mobile County, especially just going all
the way back to Dan Alexander on the school board
and all the fights there and then who was it McGann,

(36:14):
And then we had we had all the different efforts
to increase taxes for schools. The school board used to
be in the news all the time. And over the
past last few years, maybe last ten or fifteen, just
not as much news out of the school board. I
don't know. Does the media cover school board meetings anymore?

(36:36):
I don't know. Anyway, This is the state school Board.
The state school Board had a meeting yesterday. Let's listen
to what may or may not have happened at that meeting.
I'm turning now to a stepsister station of Fox ten,
and that would be WSFA and Montgomery. Let's listen to

(36:57):
their coverage of the state school meeting from yesterday.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Learning the first time since the start of the new
school year.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
And with that new year in effect, there are challenges
board members say they want to address early on in
the semester. Our political correspondent Jessica Umbro in the Capital
studio for US tonight and Jessica, you talked to Superintendent
doctor Eric Mackie after that meeting today. Tell us what
is the biggest priority for him this school year.

Speaker 8 (37:24):
Doctor Mackie says, it's not just about getting Alabama students
back to school. It's about keeping them in school and
encouraging consistent attendance from day one to day one hundred
and eighty.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
All right, so the top priority is getting kids to
go to school, all right? Well, all right, well I
mean that. I guess. I guess you can't really have
any other priorities if you don't If you don't meet
that one requirement is to actually have a student to teach.
So I guess that's a good top priority. All right.

(37:56):
By the way, I hate to bring this up, but
I cannot show you the video here on the radio.
I know it's twenty twenty five. We've had decades to
work on this, but radio still has not figured out
how to bring you pictures. We're still working on it
right now. I've only got the sound for you from
the video, but I can tell you I'm looking at

(38:17):
the video of the State school Superintendent, doctor Mackie, and
I have to say, this guy his hair. I'm wondering
how long it took him to do his hair before
he went to that school board meeting. I mean that hair,

(38:38):
it looks professionally done. I don't know if he's got
a staff that helps him with his hair, or if
he's got a wife that helps him with his hair,
or if he just spends a lot of time in
front of the mirror in the morning. But my goodness, gracious,
that is quite quite a hairstyle. And there's nothing weird
about it. It's just quite uh, quite well put together

(39:01):
for a state employee. All right, let's listen as he
says whatever he's going to say to the w SFA. No,
it's w yeah, WSFA. Let's hear what they say.

Speaker 8 (39:11):
It's from day one to day one hundred and eighty.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
We need students in the classroom if we're going to
teach them and they're going to continue to progress, and
so you're going to see a big emphasis on attendance.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Doctor Mackie says Alabama is first in the nation for
school attendance, but he says the state wants to see
more of Alabama's roughly seven hundred and fifty thousand students
each and every day.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
We really need to take kind of a moon leaf
on attendance. We need to see dramatic improvements, especially in
our high poverty communities, so that we can get back
to where we were before the pandemic and then work
to get even better than that and bringings right again.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
His accent is very Southern. I like his accent. But
go find go look at try to find this video
and look at his hair. The guy he looks like
he needs to be walking on a movie set instead
of actually being involved in running a school system. Anyway,
But the main messages you heard him, they're really wishing

(40:13):
that students would show up. Even though we're first in
the nation for attendance, he's still wishing that the students
would actually show up so they could be indoctrinated in
programmed for.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
The pandemic and then work to get even better than
that and bringing students to the classroom this school year
isn't just about math and reading.

Speaker 8 (40:32):
Doctor Mackie says it's about building social skills too. He
says Alabama students took a hit on socializing during the
COVID nineteen pandemic when students were out of the classroom
and at home.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Locals tell me that pretty much that gap has been
made up, that our students are coming back with good,
strong social skills again as long as they're in school.

Speaker 8 (40:51):
But at its core, doctor Mackie says, education is about progression,
learning concepts that build off of what was taught the
day before. He says, not being there makes it harder
to keep up in the classroom.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
We really, is it? Really? It makes it harder to
keep up if you're not there. How about that? Who knew?
I wonder how many years you had to go to
school to learn.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
That the day before? He says, not being there makes
it harder to keep up in the classroom.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
We know that most of the gaps that we have
in middle school and high school are actually created in
the very early grades. It's emphasizing very much the importance
that students be at school, that they be at school
every day, and that they be at school every day
on time.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Okay, it is. The priority is getting the basics, forget
even the learning stuff that you actually need the person
in school. And he mentioned we're trying to get back
to the pre COVID levels that still lagging behind the
pre COVID levels of school attendance. You know, it's looking

(41:56):
more and more as we have hindsight, it's looking more
and more like shutting down the schools for COVID was
a just an enormously stupid decision. Enormously stupid. I wonder
if anybody has faced a consequence for making such a
stupid decision.

Speaker 8 (42:18):
And to really drive home that idea, the Alabama State
Board of Education pastor resolution recognizing September twenty twenty five,
so next month as a tenance awareness month. You're in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Thanks, all right, well that's going to solve the problem.
Next month is a school attendance awareness month, so we
can get used to the idea of being aware of
whether or not we're in a school. All right, very good.
At least the guy's got good hair. All right, There
is more to come, Perhaps something of substance will happen.

(42:51):
Who knows. Right now, I've got to take a time
out for traffic and weather and words from our sponsors.
So let us go ahead and take the break. The
break that says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on news

(43:17):
Radio seventen WNTM news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, got another news
story for you. This is uh. This is out of Hoover, Alabama,
and it's another animal story. Lots of animal stories on

(43:39):
The Uncle Henry Show in the past year to two years.
This is a raccoon story now, and we'll learn together
because I have not I haven't heard all of this,
but a woman in Hoover, Alabama says that some raccoons
are living in her apartment. Now, for whatever reason, she

(44:05):
called the local TV station to help her with her raccoons. Now,
I don't know if she's called the landlord. If she's
renting an apartment. I'm gonna guess that she's called the landlord.
We'll find out together here. But i'd call the landlord,
or i'd call a critter control type of company, or

(44:27):
even a local government if local government rounds up critters.
But she called the TV station because there were raccoons
in her apartment. Let's go here is w b RC
stepsister station to Fox ten reporting on a woman with
raccoons in her apartment.

Speaker 12 (44:47):
Or to lose some sleeve. She's been her own investigator
for the past several weeks. She also reached out to
me for help about her raccoon roommate situation.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
They're loud, like very loud.

Speaker 12 (44:59):
Shortly after moving into her new apartment in Hoover and June,
Melia McWilliams started hearing noises. They got louder and louder.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
You moved over here to the second room.

Speaker 12 (45:17):
She recorded the sounds on her phone.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
So I did a little investigating around my apartment and
I went to my bedroom closet, and that's when I
heard the squeaking of the baby raccoons. It sounded like
I hear them all the time.

Speaker 12 (45:29):
McWilliams says, a family of raccoons have been running around
in the ceiling. She hasn't actually seen them yet.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
They have been traveling through my ceilings and my walls,
and I can hear the scratching. I can hear them
like sliding through the walls.

Speaker 12 (45:48):
When we were there a few weeks ago, we heard
loud noises coming from a few weeks ago James bathroom.
It sounded like the raccoons were wrestling so here and that.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
On Constant Bay.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Yes, it's very frustrating, and it's also kind of scary too, because,
like you never know if you're want to see it
in the vents, or if they've caused enough damage one
day to where they could just come through the ceiling.

Speaker 12 (46:13):
All the racket has kept McWilliams from getting sleep. She's
a registered nurse and at one point couldn't sleep in
her own bedroom because of the noises.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
I cannot sleep. I've started getting my grains back, I've
had to miswork, and just recently I started having nerve
issues in my leg due to the back pain.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Right now, I'm waiting for the landlord being mentioned here.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
My first is whatever.

Speaker 12 (46:39):
Though McWilliams reported the issue to management, who told her
they were trying to get rid of the critters, but
McWilliams believes they were not working fast enough, so she
called WBrC for help.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
I've kind of joked on my coworkers one day. I said,
you know, I'm not gonna know if I'm gonna go home.
Look in bed and there's a whole family raccoon.

Speaker 12 (46:55):
It's just chilling McWilliams says it also started to smell,
so management put this machine in her apartment that sends
out a miss to cut down on the odor.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Sorry, so they just deoder instead of getting rid of
the raccoons. They are they're deodorizing her apartment with a
machine they didn't use for breezes. They put some machine
in there to blow some mist in there.

Speaker 12 (47:26):
Over the past few weeks, we've been reaching out to
management through email. They told us they are working to
remove the raccoon, saying it's a work in progress versus
a quick fixed type issue critter control also called in.
McWilliams says multiple traps were put out as well. Toward
the end of July into early August, McWilliams says the
noises finally stopped. She tells us management told her they

(47:48):
caught several raccoons, some even out by the dumpster. Several
weeks after first hearing the sounds, McWilliams finally able to
sleep again.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
I've been able to sleep in my bed now and
it feels great. And they said once they are sure
that they have all the raccoons, they're going to start
the sanitation process to start helping.

Speaker 12 (48:08):
With the smell issues with apartments, nothing new. It's one
of the top complaints we hear about all over.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Well, so almost a happy ending. They still have raccoons
stank in the apartment, as you heard, but they are
they are catching the raccoons. I hope Beuford is listening.
This is Beuford has called in about all the raccoons.
What did he say in the last year, he's caught

(48:35):
something like fifteen raccoons or something that have been going
into his garage. Buford would probably tell the apartment complex
up there that the raccoons are gonna They're gonna be
more raccoons coming now. I guess raccoons have some type
of network and they know where it's good to go.
So all right, well, I guess it's fortunate for this

(48:57):
lady that she can call a TV reporter to keep
up the pressure on raccoon removal in her home. But
I've never heard an infestation get to the point where
someone couldn't sleep and it's giving them nerve pain and
migraine headaches. And they've got raccoons stench in their apartment.
With some special anti raccoon stench misting machine, count your blessings. Listener,

(49:22):
this is a lesson to us all. We must count
our blessings, and I feel blessed to not have raccoons
living in the house all right out of time. Thank
you for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. As they
say in sarah Land, have a good one, and as
they say in Theodore, take it easy, And as they

(49:44):
say in some midtown convenience stores, keep it easy all right.

Speaker 10 (49:54):
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