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I have. It's always exciting to receive an email. Well,
as I said, here we are together. I was not
here yesterday. I was downtown at Moe's Original Barbecue at
a fundraiser for Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. A big,
big radio personality. Bobby Bones from ninety five cast j
nationally syndicated guy and former winner of Dancing with the Stars.
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He was in Mobile and did a show at Moe's
to help us raise money for Saint Jude. If you
bought a ticket to that and you went, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I believe I don't have any
kind of official total here because they don't trust me
with numbers around this place. I did see I think
that over seven thousand, close to eight thousand dollars raised
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there in this event. So thank you, thank you, thank
you for everyone who showed up and donated with their
ticket money to see Bobby Bones at Moe's original Barbecue.
I saw a lot of wonderful people there. I saw
in the political realm for those of you that are
obsessed with politics on the local level. Former Mobile City
councilman John Williams was there with Missus Williams his wife,
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and they were full of vim and vigor that just
just being out of government seems to agree with John
Williams and his wife. They were there, they were excited
about Bobby Bones, listened to Bobby Bones a lot. John
Williams was just as enthusiastic as I've ever seen him
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to do anything. He wanted to meet Bobby Bones. And
there was a country music singer at the thing, last
name named Matt Stell. He's had some hits that we
played on ninety five KSJ and John Williams. It turns
out loves this guy and quotes his lyrics when he
goes to give speeches. Whenever he's asked to give a talk,
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he will often quote Matt stell songs. So that was
kind of a surprise for Bobby Bones and Matt Stell
when they met John Williams and he was talking them
up like that, So that was fun. That was interesting.
And also talked to John Williams about litter. He reported
that he and his wife still pick up litter frequently.
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In fact, every weekend, Missus Williams patrols their neighborhood and
collects sometimes, she says, sometimes she collects enough litter in
her neighborhood the bag is too heavy to carry and
she had yes and she has to ask others to
help her carry her full litter bag. And John Williams
told me that that he has trained mayor Sandy Simpson
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to pick up litter when he walks around on any
time that they're out on a walk. He said that
originally he didn't do it, but that he had trained
Sandy Stimson to pick up litter almost unconsciously as a habit.
So see, these are the wonderful things you can learn
when you go down to these fundraisers. Also saw mayoral
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candidate Spiro Cerigattis. I hope I'm saying his name correctly.
Enjoyed talking to him and looking at having him and
all the other mayoral candidates on the Uncle Henry Show.
I've avoided interviewing politicians for quite some time due to
the well I don't want to go into the reasons
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because I'm going to it looks like I'm going to
be interviewing them again. But anyway, look forward to that
coming in the future, some mayoral candidates popping in on
the Uncle Henry Show. So it was wonderful fun to
see all of that again. Two five, one, four seven
nine two two three the telephone number. Now on the
national level, there's so much news coming out of moves
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being made by the Trump administration. I am having a
lot of trouble keeping up with all of it, so
many things happening every day so far, I have been
highly entertained and dismayed at the same time, learning this
week about where a lot of our tax dollars have
been going through USAID. Many many things that our tax
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dollars are going for that we should all be mad about.
I think maybe the thing that's made me the maddest.
I'm not ready to say that it's made me the maddest,
but it's in the top three is finding out that
media organizations that money from the federal government is being
funneled through USAID non governmental organizations and entities to pay
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news media outlets the BBC getting my tax dollar? What
the New York Times getting my tax dollar? And I
know you've heard about Politico, which famously we had the
story of these two reporters that said that they were
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not allowed to write anything negative about Joe Biden or
the Hunter Biden laptop. Politico getting lots and lots of
tax dollars is Can somebody up in the Congress make
it so that it's against the law. Can we make
a law about this that government money doesn't go that
we can't have government paying news organizations which and then
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turn then end up writing stories, news stories that are
positive about one political party and negative about the other.
It sounds so close to election interference. It sounds just
a millimeter away from rigging an election when you do this,
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when you have the actual news stories, these news media
people getting money from the government. Could somebody make a
law about that. I'd appreciate that if that's at all possible.
Any congress people out there listening in disdain but hard
to keep up with all this stuff. Now, I've got
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some great messages from listeners to get to on these
topics and others. Would love to hear from you as well.
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number two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
That's two five one four seven nine two seven two three.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Hello Collor, Hey on Conny, how you doing so, Cliff.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Cliff, I'm doing good and you are live on the radio.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Uncle Henry old as I am. Yes, I never thought
I would see what I'm seeing now. I said that
these people are backcracked crazy. Yes, but I can't believe
these people or fighting deportations against this one guy. She
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killed five children. He was over here. They caught him.
They deported him. Two or three times, and he was
back over here, and he was the child with murder
from Venzuela somewhere, and they let him back over here.
And he did this thing, five children and a lady,
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and you got people picketing, protesting. I never thought American
people was that ignorant and would be so stupid, because
these people allowed these people come over here to hurt us.
So that family that gut hurt was intentional because these
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Venzuela and all these other countries, they open up the
prisons right and the only thing over here was Uncle
Henry was free money letting them. Van Johnson started something
and they told these people all over the world, you
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come over here. You don't have to have you don't
have to have a father, you don't have to have anything.
Just come over here in Americae gonna take care of that.
Wasn't American dream. The American dream was that if you
work hard, you got an idea, then we'll allow you
to become Elon Musk. Not that we allow for Moron
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to tell us Elon Musk is not smart. We're listening
that to the wrong people. Elon Musk is a genius,
But we elect people like AOC to tell us that
Elon must it's one of the dumbest people that she knows. Yes,
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this is how and I'm only on my black people.
Black people are so stupid. I'm surprised that we have
lived at law. Yeah, blood Dalgain.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Cliff, thank you for your phone call. And I did.
I did see the criticism of Elon Musk from AOC
saying that he was one of the dumbest billionaires. You
can criticize him if you want to about a lot
of things. You can disagree with what he's doing right now,
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but to call him dumb, that that that is really
There are many other things you could call him if
you wanted to call him stuff. You can call him
a lot of things. Call him dumb kind of puts
a mirror on you. There. I have one four seven
nine two three the telephone number here on the Uncle
(13:03):
Henry show. Let's see speaking of all this uh government
spending and people, a lot of Democrats very upset these
days that they're going and finding this government waste and
wanting to cut it out. Here is a message about
all that from the mad Trucker.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Oh, Henry the boy, did you hear.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
The Democrats screaming about all that pork being taken out
of their pots my mind. And on top of that,
did you hear Elizabeth Wore in that hysterical woman screaming
about what's the name of the dude that does the rockets?
I can't see our buzz.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The dude that does the rockets pretty good? What we'd
all like to be? Well, I shouldn't say we all.
I don't know what you're interested in. Maybe you'd rather
be the dude that raises goats, but I would enjoy
being the dude that does the rockets.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Buzz screaming that no one elected him? Hey, how many
stars totally unelected?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Did Obama? Point?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I think it was twelve or thirty stars totally unelected people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That he appointed, you know by I'm sorry to interrupted again,
but LD, I want to thank LD for reminding me
of the tsars. I remember the TZAR time. I remember
how the media, the media did not want to vet
the Tsars. They didn't want to do any reporting telling
the American people who these people are are or what
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their backgrounds were. Glenn Beck, do you remember this? This
is how Glenn Beck actually rose to a lot of fame.
He started looking into who the tsars were he would explain.
Van Jones was one of the czars. Do you remember
all this.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I didn't hear them say a word that man. For
some reasons, they just thought that that was such a
great idea. But suddenly, now that we have an economic
man that's gonna save this country, finally, finally, I feel
like maybe my tax dollars might stop going down the drain.
These people are all up in ar shell white because
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you know it and I know it. They send two
point five million dollars to Vietnam. When it gets there,
there's an American and sunglasses in a dark suit that
takes about thirty percent of it. Right then, right there
flies back to the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You know it, you know it.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
It's favery and it's kind of shock, and Elon Musk
is going to stop it, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
LD the mad Trucker, thank you for the voicemail voice
one number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
to leave a message for the Uncle Henry. Now you're
saying he's going to stop it. I don't want to
be negative about this, but I'll believe it. When it
happens this kind of this kind of gravy train that
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we're learning about now, the amounts of money that we're
hearing about, now that that usually has a lot of
momentum built up behind it, a lot of people are
getting greased, palms are being greased. We're hearing about it.
But will it stop or will they figure out some
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other work around to do the same old thing just
under a different name. I would like to be optimistic
about it being stopped right now. I'm just grateful for
the transparency. I'm just grateful for knowing. I'm very grateful
for finding out that the New York Times was getting
a ton of cash through USAID, BBC, Politico and all
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these other news organizations. Yeah, I like the transparency. I
like at least knowing we can make better decisions by
knowing all this stuff. LD thanks again for the voicemail.
Uncle Henry Show continuing. We have a break coming up
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You'd like to call the show, you can two five
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five one four seven nine two seven two three. Email
address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm gonna go
to an email here in a moment, but first let
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me go to some voicemail that has come into the
Uncle Henry Show. Let's start with a guy that used
to live in the country of Panama.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Uncle Henry. This is Dan from Mobile, Alabama. I love
your show. It's just wrong to say that, Hey, I
used to live in Panama for thirteen years and what
Trump is doing in Panama is right. That Chinese own
everything there, so uh, you know, I hope you give
me a call back, and uh let's talk about it
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on the air.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Thanks by now all right, Well, I didn't know I
was supposed to call you back. I'm here most Monday
through Fridays from five to six thirty. Uh two, five, one, four,
seven nine three, sir, If you'd like to share more
thoughts on Panama, in the Panama Canal it is, I
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would It would be interesting to talk to somebody that
actually had lived there and knows what the situation is like.
Now on, before I get to the email, the old
fashioned electronic mail, another voicemail that has come in. Pops
in touch.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Ever one hundred pops, how you been good?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I uh wan't to talk about Trump a minute. He
him kicking the NBC News and several others out of
the Pentagon I thought was hilarious. But I want to
talk about his his threat to take over gover and
to make Canada the fifth first state. Yes, I think
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he's a businessman and that's his way to negotiate. He
goes to the extreme.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
And if he gets.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Half what he wanted, well he won, instead of trying
to get twenty percent of what he wanted. I could
be wrong. But makes sense to me. He's a smart man.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Have a good day in roll tide.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Row tadroll pops. Thank you very much for your phone call,
and thank you for listening to The Uncle Henry Show.
Two five one four seven nine two two three The
telephone number here on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, let
me go to the email inbox, and an old fashioned
electronic mail message has trickled. In subject line on the
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email is new fake pandemic. The email reads, good afternoon, Uncle,
I hope you're having a great afternoon. Phyllis Fong, a
twenty two year deep state operative, is one of the
key players behind the artificial inflation of poultry and egg
prices in the US. She ordered the killing of millions
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of healthy birds using the fake excuse of mutating bird flu.
But here's the truth, there was no pandemic, just another
manufactured crisis to spread fear. Pong was one of the
fired Inspectors General fired by Trump. She refused to leave
and had to had to be removed by security. Anyways, unk,
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have a great, great evening, enroll time. And that email
from Pat Nelly Pat Nelly or someone claiming to be
Pat Nelly, And he adds ps. These people are evil.
Pat Nelly, thank you for your email about the eggs
and the bird flew and all that stuff. The uh
I've noticed. I think I saw on Facebook today somebody
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locally trying to sell eggs. Maybe this will be a
I'm trying to look at the silver lining here. Maybe
there will be a new golden eggs, not a golden egg,
a new golden age of egg producing in the country
by citizens. In fact, I'm glad you emailed because I was.
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I was out walking early one morning earlier this week,
I think it was Monday morning. I was walking through
the streets of the City of Mobile, walking in the
streets of the City of Mobile in midtown, in between
Dauphin Street and Old Government near Murphy, and I heard
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a sound that I didn't know was legal in the
City of Mobile. And that was the sound of a rooster. Now,
I've always heard that chickens are legal, but that you're
not supposed to have a rooster. But yeah, I was
hearing a rooster here in a rooster. And I don't
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want to say exactly where I heard the rooster because
I don't know that anybody would care. Maybe some neighbors
somewhere would care about roosters crowing? I am you could
if anybody I know you didn't ask, But I wouldn't mind,
not something that would bother me. In fact, I might
even find it relaxing. I know a lot of people
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don't want to be awakened by the sound of a rooster.
I would find it quite charming. I think now I
say that I don't live next to a rooster. I
did years ago, but I don't now who knows. But yeah,
heard a rooster crowing, and I thought to myself, after
I got over the realization that it was a rooster,
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I thought, this person well prepared if they've got other
chickens well prepared for our egg crisis that we're going
through in the country again two five to one four
seven nine two S two three the telephone number here
on the Uncle Henry Show. Let me see, I've got
more voicemail to get to. Let's listen to the snake Trapper.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Hey Ograh, Henry snake Trapper, Hey man, I am mad
this morning, Uncle Henry, as Reagan Girl would say, I
am maddered in a wet hen And I will tell
you a hen does not like to get wet. If
you don't believe it, I squirting one with a water hose,
they will attack you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But anyway, I've never heard of that. I've never Well,
maybe a future show we can talk about the dos
and don'ts with chickens.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Over Henry, I seen where they're wanting to increase the
mayor's sally to one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, and they did. They voted to do it, and.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
I believe that's the currents area is one twenty. But
over Henry, if the city of Mobile's got money like
that to throw around, there's no reason why they cannot
put up a couple of possum cross the signs somewhere
in Mobile. Over Henry, and I tell you a good
place to start would be right there in midtown. I mean,
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my friend Pat Nelly had a possum for a couple
of years visited him at night. At times. He would
hear his dogs barking, and he'd go out there and
sure enough, the old possum be sitting there. I mean he
kind of growed a customed to this visit by this possum. Well,
I had to say, Uncle, Henry, he found it on
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side of the road, and it was probably eating the
chicken bones that people are throwing out. But yeah, right,
there be a good place for a sign, and it
definitely would have saved that possum from probably being hit
Uncle Henry. Bad and if people have quit throwing out
their dad gumb chicken bones. But Uncle Henry, that's why
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I'm mad. I'm sure I'll get over it. But Mobile,
if you got that kind of money to throw around,
I mean, man, what kind of increase is that. I mean,
I don't know if anybody's gonna get a raise like
that from one twenty to one ninety. That is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah,
put out some signs save a possum, North America's only marsupial.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, good day, my friend.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thank you, Snake Trever, thank you for that passionate pro
possum message. And I saw possum. I saw a living
possum that was not in distress on Westwood Street this
week in midtown Mobile. So yes, you could have possum
crossings in midtown I could confirm that. But as far
as the mayor's pay increase, go back and listen to
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the podcast of Tuesday's show, because we heard the city
council explain that it would be impossible to attract top
talent paying the measly one hundred and twenty grand you
got to have, you got to attract top talent, and
apparently we haven't done that in the past. And also,
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you don't want a mayor to have to leave town
for greener pastures because he can't afford to raise his
family on that tiny salary. Uncle Henry shown News Radio
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seventy ten WNTM News headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Hello color, Uncle Henry, Bama big man.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Bam A big man, Bam A big man. You are
live on the radio. Now, are you calling from out
lot roadway?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Yes, sir, I sure, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well tell us what's on your mind, Bamma big man.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Well, you know last week we ran into each other
and I asked you a question. Do you remember that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I do.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Well, I want to recant that question. Okay, after this week,
I'm convinced this is gonna be good. This administration is
going to be good.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now you did you were, I'm not sure. Explain your doubts.
What were your doubts about this administration?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Well, you I've been listening to too many of these
crime ass liberals. Okay, sorry about that, but I'm I
mean they i mean they're crying. Okay. Yeah, you know,
it's been joy to me all week long because Trump
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is running at such a speed. He'll do something one
day and when they fabricate something to attack him about,
he's doing something else. So he's got him on the
run and they just can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, that's that is what we're saying. I don't know
how long you can keep it up, but it's uh,
it's it is quite a pace.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
It it is crazy. It is crazy what he's doing.
It's crazy.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
You know.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I was expecting good things when he you know, if
he won for the election, I was expecting good things.
But I mean, he's blowing me away what he's doing.
And I mean he don't care. I mean, he's just
doing it. And i mean, in my years, I've never
seen a president actually do what they said they were
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going to do during a campaign. I mean, he's going
beyond that, it seems. And I'm just I'm just I'm
enjoying it. I'm loving it. I'm proud of be an
American again. This is great.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well, I'm so glad to hear this Bama big Man.
I'm glad that you have more certainty about your the
Trump administration in your heart.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Well what do you think, Uncle Henry, about what about
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, I think I covered this at the beginning of
the show. I don't know if you remember, were you listening.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I'm kind of clouded right now, kind of clouded?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Now what is that code for?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well, I don't know, I'm in I'm not.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wait a minute, what is this when someone is cloud
I've not heard that before. What if I'm cloud and
what am I have?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
I maybe you forget things?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Oh okay, all right, well you know uh what, Look
I am thrilled now, I'm I'm cautiously optimistic, Bamba big Man.
Cautious because because this is all entrenched. Everything that they're
they're showing us, all the transparency of what we're seeing
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is entrenched. Many many, many years have gone into building
up this giant USA slush fund, money laundering, whatever it is.
All these intelligence agencies are using it. They're using it
all over the world, paying off people all over the globe.
So how do you when something is that entrenched that
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you've created all almost a global bureaucracy, how do you
get how do you get rid of it quickly? I
don't know. There's so much money behind it. I don't
know how you're going to do it. I hope that
the security is just a number one for Donald Trump, JD. Vance,
musking everybody else. Because when people's money gets cut off,
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like a lot of these people are having the money
cut off, who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, the mob don't get too happy with that. So,
I mean, that's not good. He's already got instructions in
case something happens to him, So we got something common here.
This is going to be big, real big. I do
have one question for you. I've heard this that said
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that if he gets everything going like he wants to go,
do you think he might just go ahead and resign
and hand it to Vance? Do you think he could
do that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't know. I have not heard of that. It
doesn't sound like.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Him, I know it don't. But I've heard that that
some people think he just going up Now?
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Is this? Is this something you've heard it? Like jewels,
ant lot road way? Where have you heard this?
Speaker 4 (33:14):
No, I've heard it further out than that. It was No.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I saw that and where where who's saying this?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Well, it was some news establishment said that, and really, okay,
kind of a it was kind of a passing thought.
Some people think that might be what he's doing, but
I don't know. But I'm like you, I don't think
he'll quit. He wants to, really, he wants to wipe
everything out. And you know, you know, I wish there
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was subpoena eli Okay, I wish they would do that.
I would love what entertainment that would be to see
him get questioned by these idiots. Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
We know, I tell you this, You've never sounded so
up be and this is about as energetic as you've
ever sounded. Bamba big man. I've got to go amount
of time for this hour of Uncle Henry Show, but
have a pleasant evening. More Uncle Henry Show to come
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This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy WNTM. Coming up this half hour on the Uncle
Henry Show. Going to get to some voicemail. I have
another LD truck driving story about him visiting dog food plants.
You'll want to listen to that if you're eating dinner.
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I think you'll like it. In addition to voicemail. Going
to get to some news items here on the Uncle
Henry Show. Let's see there is a story I wanted
to make sure that we got to here. This is
a story from Fox ten about the replacement for the
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Mobile Civic Center and how it will be improved allegedly
for Martigrau groups that we have a lot of Martigraus
groups that used to use the Civic Center which is
now demolished. What is this new facility going to be
like for the Martigraus groups. Let's listen together to this
story from Fox ten. We're gonna hear Lanise Lagan and
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Camering Taylor introduced the story and the story will be
presented by Fox ten investigative reporter, the frequently disheveled Brendan Kirby.
So let's listen together and learn from this report on
the replacement. Thangy for the Civic Center center as host
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and Marti Gras Balls for decades, but that's not a
thing of the past.
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It is seventeen MYSIC organizations too have found temporary homes
for their events. They're looking towards the future though, and
that new arena to replace the Civic Center. Our Brendan
Kirby has been working this story.
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And Brendan, there's been some apprehension about this new facility.
Speaker 11 (37:37):
Yeah, there has Cameron and Lenise, but the company that
will be responsible for managing the new arena predicts that
the carnival organizations will come to view it as an
improvement for its location along the parade route and its
multi use designed The Mobile Civic Center long has been
a favorite destination for carnival balls, but with the building
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torn down in construction on its replace soon to begin,
Marty Gaus organizations have decisions to make about their long
term futures.
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I think there's always apprehension when you're looking at something
the design components have taken Marty Graus into consideration. I
think that the city has been very thoughtful about that,
and Marty gau Groups had input into that. So I
think it's going to be a great facility.
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Accommodating Marty Gras will fall to Oakview Group, which will
manage the property for the city. The company's senior vice president,
Tom Paquett says Marty Graus wasn't just an afterthought.
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The new arena was designed with Marty Graus in mind.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
So, by the way, sorry to pause the story. I
know you were deep in thought listening to it, but
I'm look isn't it wouldn't it be common sense that
Marty Graus would be key to this because over the
last several decades, what has been the top use of
that facility because it sure wasn't concerts. Now, we had
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some concerts, I'll admit that, but it not like it
was in the seventies. I'll say that, not like it
was in the seventies and into the eighties, or look,
what else has it been used for other than Marti Gras.
So yes, I would easy to understand why Marti Graus
would be the top Yeah, the top factor to consider
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when rebuilding or building a new facility. All right, let's
listen to what he has to say. Tom Paquette, Senior
vice President, oak View Group.
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Tom Paquette says Marty Gras wasn't just an afterthought.
Speaker 12 (39:32):
The new arena was designed with Marty Grass in mind.
So there's going to be some great spaces that were
really only there. It's dedicated for Marty Gras event. So
I actually think it's going to be fantastic for Marty
Graus in an improvement over what was previously an improvement.
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Lady Gullich, executive director of the Mobile Carnival Association, says
the new arena could allow for Marty Gras balls to
be even more elaborate.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
The productions are going to be able to be bigger
and better with all of the new technology that we'll
be able to be in the new facility. They are
the things that like you see at concerts and things
where people are flying, Musicians are flying around in the
air and there's different lighting going on. All of those
particular things will be able to be accommodated in.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
What people flying in the air. So what what will
this be? Like? You're going to have your marti gras,
your organization's king or queen coming in from the ceiling.
Is that what we're going to have? People are going
to be lowered from the ceiling here? All right, I'm
like you, I want to know. I'm very curious about
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this updated technology for marti gras, people flying around right
back to the store.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
They're the things that like you see at concerts and
things where people are flying, musicians are flying around in
the air and there's different lighting going on. All of
those particular things will be able to be accommodated in
the new facilit with the technology improvements.
Speaker 11 (41:02):
The city's contract with OVG guarantees the carnival organization's first
DIBs a.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Season, Gullage tells me, and then the microphone cuts off.
So what is he saying, what did Gullage tell you.
Speaker 11 (41:15):
That the new arena will be big enough and flexible
enough to accommodate more than one ball at the.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Same time, more than one ball at the same time. Now, okay,
now that would be that actually sounds kind of fascinating
to me, the idea that you could have one more
than one ball simultaneously at the place, and you know,
people would would you know how people are they'd want
to slip in between both of them. Yeah, and you
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add the fact that people are going to be flying
as well. According to that lady, this this could be
quite interesting. All right, let me see if there's is
there anything else left in.
Speaker 11 (41:52):
This For that reason, she says that the number of
organizations holding balls there might be greater even than the
Civic Center or plat live in the new center. Brendan
Kirby Fox they you.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
All right, some more, we could have more more groups there.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I hope that it is success, because it certainly is
a done deal at this point, gonna get built, the
taxpayer on the hook for it. Hope that it is
a big success and that people enjoy having multiple mrighty
gral balls at the same time with people flying in
the air according to that lady. That very elaborate sounding stuff.
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number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now,
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over the last couple of months, I guess maybe the
last three months, LD the Mad Trucker has shared a
few truck driving stories with us, and recently he shared
some very unpleasant stories. Well, I don't know if the
stories are unpleasant, but some of the details are a
little gross. As early in his career he would have
to pick up and deliver to a dog food plant.
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So there's at least one more of these dog food
plant stories from LD.
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So.
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Now you might if you're eating if maybe maybe you're
enjoying the ink. Well, I don't know if anybody's enjoying
the show. Maybe you're monitoring the unkle Emery show as
you're eating dinner or something. If so, you might want
to turn it down, just just a tad while you're
while you're eating, or maybe pause you're eating. In fact,
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if you want to lose weight, maybe this will be
a good time to to crank up the radio. All right,
here's the Mad Trucker with another story about going to
the dog food plant as a younger, much much younger trucker.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Hey, oh, Henry Ald, let me tell you that story
about that dalk food plant.
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I used to go see.
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It was really close close to mobile.
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But it was nasty man, it was a.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Nasty but I went there a lot, and I picked
up and I delivered there a lot. When I first
started trucking, well, I'm in the back like I always
did with my lids. I would pick up a I
take take a railroad trailer of lids from Mobile to
this Dolt food plant, and then that reload.
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With dry dog food.
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Going to Jacksonville or sometimes it went to Atlanta. Sometimes
it went out to Texas and all that.
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But that's just what we did.
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Hey, you the listener, If you've got a dog and
feed it dry dog food, the next time you're feeding
your dog the dry dog food, think of LD. Yeah,
men and and well men in these days women, I'm
sure men like LD they're the ones that bring the
dry dog food to your to your precious fur babies
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if you. By the way, I've never referred to my
dog as a fur baby. No offense to those that do.
I'm just saying I don't call mine a fur baby,
but I do. Uh. I do like my dogs, just
like you like your dogs. All right, Just remember l
D when you're giving dry dog food. All right. Back
to the story about the dog food plant.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Times went after.
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Texas and all that.
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But uh that's just what we did.
Speaker 5 (46:43):
And uh, I got in the back all the time
because you know, that's where they unloaded it. And I
was right back there where they you know, I said,
the beat lungs and all that was, and it took
them a long time to unloaded.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
So I just walked around the plant. Nobody cared.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Nowadays. Do you think they would nowadays, with all the
updated rules about safety. Do you think that nowadays they
would mind if you just walked around the dog food
plant while they were unloading the beef lungs or whatever.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
It was on time to unloaded. U.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
So I just walked around the plant.
Speaker 8 (47:19):
Nobody cared.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
And I came up on this big old pallette, like
I said, a bat of chicken legs.
Speaker 6 (47:26):
Man, I mean chicken.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Legs, nothing but the leg itself.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Not I mean, don't get.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
Me wrong, not the drumstick. I'm talking about the foot.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
The foot.
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Man, A whole palette of them, filled up to.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
The top with chicken feet toenails and all. But they
were green, green as they could see. And so I
asked one of the cooks walking by, I said, man, why.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Asked one of the cooks. Dog food cook. Now, this
is a job specialty that I want to learn more about.
I want to learn more about the dog food cook
at the dog food plant where they've got green chicken
feet on a.
Speaker 5 (48:09):
Pallet, oenails and all. But they were green green as
they could feed. And so I asked one of the
cooks walking by. I said, man, why is this chicken green?
Speaker 4 (48:21):
Is it bad?
Speaker 5 (48:22):
And he goes, oh, no, no, no, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
It just the company has to do that.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
And I said, why wasn't Why why doesn't they do that?
He said, it stops soup companies and other entities from
calling that whatever they're selling you by chickens bra or
chicken noodle and all that they put the dye on
the chicken's foot, so it turns the soup green. That way,
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they can't sell it. Because the funny part about it,
think about that's Uncle Henry. Prior to that, prior to
somebody figuring out how to stop places like big soup
companies from using chicken feet, they were using chicken feet.
Oh my god, nasty, filthy chicken feet. If we know
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what chickens walk through all.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Day long, eld, thank you. This is one of the
more educational calls. So they died the chicken feed on
purpose to prevent soup companies from putting chicken feet in
people's chicken soup purpose some type of purposeful dying of
chicken feet. LD You've taught me some things I've never
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known before. Now I need to I want to learn
about dog food, the dog food plant cook and also
the dying of chicken feet. All right, out of time
for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show. You can
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in NewsRadio seventy ten dot com. Thank you bear very
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much for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. As they
say in Sarland, have a good one and as they
say in Theodore, take it easy.
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All right later,