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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Henry, you still got a job that keeping a young
man from lusion. I have the dog gone. I get
That's why IM promar YY is high heel for people
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Speaker 4 (01:28):
Thank you. I really appreciate you listening. I really do.
I appreciate you listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Once again.
Here we are together, me and you trying to figure
out what is going on in the world, What is
going on? Why are people acting where they act? Wasn't
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it gotten into people these days? Yes? Indeed, if you
have any of them answers or if you have more questions,
this show is good not about answering questions, but finding
more questions to ask. Two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. The telephone number two five one
four seven nine two seven two three email address Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, there was the city
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council meeting today with the first the first council meeting
with the new council in mobile with the new mayor.
I'll get to that. I'll cover that for you before
I get to that, though, I did want to mention, uh,
I know that there are some people that listen to
the Uncle Henry Show even though they're not they don't
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enjoy it a lot. Like this guy, Henry.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You still got a job that keeping a young man
for Wilson.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yes, I do, Yes, I do. I know there are
some people that have been listening and have been waiting patiently.
They keep thinking year after year. They keep hoping that
I'll retire, hoping that I'll move on, that there'll be
a layoff or something. They're just out there just wishing,
hoping and wishing, dreaming for some different hosts to come
in and be on news Radio seven to ten WNTIM
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because I've been in here fouling things up in here
for well over twenty years on the Uncle Henry Show.
To those folks, to the people that like that caller
that just or just just can't imagine why I would
still be here, well, to those listeners, I just want
you to know that about an hour ago, yeah, it
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was about an hour ago, I just signed a new contract. Yes,
signed a new contract, so I will be here another
three years, yes, because and that could be for somebody
my age, that could be a lifetime deal. So yes,
another three years of the Uncle Henry Show signed into
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existence this afternoon in a new contract. So I want
to thank Ronnie Bludworth, my boss, Brian Crush Edward's my boss,
and all the other people in this building that have
the authority to tell me what to do. I think
I counted seven the last time I counted that people
tell me what to do in this building. So thank
you to the management for allowing me to continue doing
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whatever this is. And for those people waiting for me
to retire so that you can have some guy in here.
They'll sit in here and talk about President driving or
the Just be patient, Just be patient. You got another
three years to go or who knows, who knows with
the way health care is these days, how long I'll
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be here. But again, thank you to all the people
that are allowing me to continue doing what I'm doing
here on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, let's see, before
we get to the council meeting and other topics, I
do want to mention that I looked out the weather window.
I've got a beautiful weather window. Here that faces to
the to the west and gives me a beautiful view
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over the target wing of the gorgeous bel air mall.
And I just watched the sunset right before I took
the microphone, and I have to just let you know,
not that it'll do any good, but I want to
let you know that I really don't like this standard time.
I don't like this. I don't like the sun is
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already down. I know we've got some twilight to work with,
but that is somebody up in the Congress, I understand.
I think it was Jim Jordan from Understanding in the
in the Senate was blocking this. Let's let's go ahead
and sprang forward and then lock the clock. Let's all
figure out how we can do this. Put pressure on
these politicians. Figure out why there must be money in
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keeping the clock flopping back and forth. Why else would
you do it if there weren't money involved. There's got
to be money involved, because if so, where's how is
there money involved in it? There must be the otherwise
public public, the public would have it locked, that clock
would be locked. Let's all figure out how to get
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this done. Once we get to spring and flip the
clock forward. Two, five, one, four, seven, nine, two three, Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Collor, Hey, good EVENNK Hendrick.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Uncle Henry, come and grab you licens.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It's only one way that we were born and raised.
My mom always said that you can't kick a dog.
If you can't take care of whatever you have, you
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don't need to even try. A dog likes to be
cool in this summer and warm in the winter. How
would you like to be chained up outside and fly
as in your water? You never changed? What about what
if I did that to you? She was saying that
the God had made uh, that instituted that you have
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to be able to take even your father's train you
to be able to set you up to take care
of what you have. And we have lost that, but
some of us are raised. My wife, she she says something.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
She said something to me to dead about She says, uh,
see his wife, Uncle Henry is he's devoted and he goes,
he goes wherever.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
She does, and he helps her. And I said, yes, baby,
I say I do that. The same thing she said
a different You gonna know what it would do? You
start to fight Uncle Henry.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, I told her thirty four years ago when I
was after you, I said that I was.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I was doing the same thing. I say, down. You
cost me boy to keep you going the way you
got to go. But he's devoted to her. That's lovely.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I said, Okay, we had to get back to what
you're doing now. Look, okay, yes, before I get off here,
I'm gonna have to get with you and your lovely
wife and we have.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
To go back to Daulphin as soon as we can.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
My house is not gonna be safe.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Okay, Okay, Hey Cliff, I'm up on the break, but
I would love to do that with you again.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You have breathday you too.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Thank you very much, Cliff for your warm wishes, and
back with more after the break here on news Radio
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Speaker 4 (09:52):
It says The Uncle Henry Show. Here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. It is Bob twenty news headlines
coming up in ten minutes. I'll have coverage of the
Mobile City Council meeting here in a moment. But I
have another living caller, the living caller numbers two five
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one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seven two three four
living people calling the Uncle Henbry Show.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Hello caller, Yeah, I'm a living caller. This is a
blind dog micing point clear.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Great to hear from your blind dog, Mike.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Yes, sir, I just want to congratulate you on having
a contract renewal. I think you provide a very different service.
You provide a very different perspective, and I believe it's
it's very effective. You have a lot of a lot
of good callers, a cast of characters from all over
you know, mobile in Baldwin County. I just you know,
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it's it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, I really I appreciate that very much, and I
appreciate you telling me that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I don't get to listen or do anything till I
get back from doing the I do that cannon firing
at the Grand Hotel, but I enjoy listening to in
the afternoon around five o'clock or whatever. So it's great.
And I wanted to mention something about daylight savings time.
I mean, if they just stayed there, it'd be great,
changing back and forth. But you know out in Arizona,
the Navajo don't do that. They just stay at one
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time throughout the whole thing because they the Navajo saved.
The government's telling them to cut one foot off my
blanket on one end and sew it on the other end,
and my blanket it'll be longer, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So it's just that's well's put that is well put, Well.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Put your blank it'll be longer, Your day will be longer. Okay, whatever,
Just shift your schedule, team bat you know it doesn't anyway.
I'm glad you're going to be here for another three
years because you just really add a different flavor to
talk radio, completely different, and it's good. It's a good
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quality flavor.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well, I appreciate that, But this is the first time
I've been told that I'm providing a good taste to
talk radio.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Remember a little Charlie to TENA you know, Oh yeah, Charlie,
we don't want ten of that has good taste. We
want ten of the taste good exactly. All right, you
have a blessed night.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you very much. Blind Dog. Mike two five three
the telephone number here on the Elk Climber Show.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Hello caller, Hello, he Jimmy the Economist.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Jimmy the Economist, You are live on the radio.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Daylight savings time. What if you know the planet Earth
has been hit by meteors before meteorites. What if a
big one knocked us, let's say less than one tenth
of a percent all of our existing orbit around the Sun,
would time change?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I'm not I don't know if I'm bright enough to
even contemplate that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Maybe we should ask the government.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yes, indeed, I'm sure they could release a pamphlet
in a few years explaining all that to us.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Yeah, I'll write the mister figures.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Is that his name?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Rep? Mary, Yes, Showtime Showtime figures. In regards to an
employment contract, I've been working for myself for almost twenty
years entry in before that, I've never signed an employment contract.
So do you mind if fasten you just a couple
questions about them?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I don't mind, but I probably will not answer a
single one because I think I'm prevented from doing so
by my employer.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Does it delineate which bathroom in the building you must use?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
It doesn't. Now I will reveal that. It doesn't tell
me where I am allowed to tinkle.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Does it tell you what parking spot you must use?
I mean usually the bosses want the one with the
little you know, pride for pair or something to give
you a little bit of shade in a summer? Does
include stuff like that parking?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I'm not at that level. I've not achieved that level
of contract, so parking is not mentioned in the contract. Now,
there's a lot of language in there about what they
want me to do and they and essentially it has
show up when we tell you and do what we
tell you, which I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
Yeah, do you have to initial every single one of
those directive lines or each page or just at the end,
or there are men. I'd imagine your contract's got to
be fifty plus pages long. There's a lot of directives.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, in modern times it is automated through computer software,
so you can just you just click a few times
and it's all there.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Well, maybe after this three years you can negotiate you know,
executive bathroom privileges, wants to day or something. You know,
don't just take with they're feeding you.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
Oh I'm not.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
I'm not out of your quality asset. So you know,
you know you want parking spots. You want two parking
spots by the Bradford pair, not one.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I agree. And when i'm let's get there, I'm with you. There,
I'm with you when I'm on ks J. For the
next contract, I want to be able to play a
song of my choice every hour. I want to be
able to I want to be able to play the
songs of my choice in the next contract.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Oh it's not in this one. No, No, Welles's little
feet an asterisk or in the language at all. The
ability to place some little feet even on the uncle
Henry show.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now I could probably play little feet on the uncle
Henry Show.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
I could all right, well it's getting a little better,
but I think you need a little leverage. Maybe hire
you a lobbyist. You know, they're wonderful, great people. They're
typically low yeah, but work both sides of the equasions
and get paid by both sides. So kind of like
Jimmy Sexton.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, a well done. Thank you Jimmy for some great
that's you know. I wish I'd have talked about this
on the air. I should have done a show where
I said I'm about to go in and sign some stuff,
and then I could have had Jimmy would have helped me.
He would have helped me with a parking place. Now
there is no there are no special bathrooms up here, unfortunately,
but I might have been able to get like a
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nap room or something, because we do have a couple
of empty offices. I could have maybe got a nap
room or something like that. And of course the ability
to drop in some on KSJ. If I could just
drop in some George Jones whenever, I just maybe once
a day, just something like that would have been nice
in there. But anyway, thank you for the suggestions on that.
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I'm making mental notes for three years from now or
a little before then when we OmpT to renegotiate. Coming up,
I know you want to well, I don't know what
you want. But coming up after the news headlines, I'm
going to share with you some of today's Mobile City
Council meeting. We had the new mayor, there are two
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new council people on the council. There was a lot
of just it was like kid gloves were on today.
Everybody was on their best behavior at the meeting. Everything
really smooth. Nobody seemed to get mad at anybody. So
we'll get into all of that as we continue here
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on the Uncle Andrew Show. From today's very civilized Mobile
City Council meeting. We have that and a few other
things to get to as the show moves forward. I
mentioned that I'm on ninety five KSJ on Middays Monday
through Friday from ten to two, playing Today's Hottest Country.
I want to let you know that tomorrow on ninety
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five KSJ, I'm going to have an early chance to
win some concert tickets to see Dylan Carmichael. We've got
him coming to Dauphin Island a week from today to
do a concert the night of Veterans Day doing this
concert to raise money for Vets Recover. They help veterans
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with PTSD and other issues. Your chance to win some
tickets to that concert coming up tomorrow morning right after
ten o'clock on ninety five KSJ with Me Uncle Henry
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Show News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five
thirty five. Today was a mobile City Council meeting, the
first meeting with Spiro. Chair Goddess is the mayor got
two new council people on the council. Everybody was in
a good mood. The Mayor announced his staff today and
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lots of familiar faces in the staff for Mayor Spiro.
There was a lot of people that wondered if he
got the endorsement from Sandy Stimpson in exchange for keeping
a lot of those folks. A lot of them are
still on the staff, some of them in different jobs.
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And I guess the big change is that there is
no chief of staff because Mayor Chair Goddess wants a
lot of the city departments to have better communication with
him and report directly to him. So, if you want
to get all the details on this, Lanyap did a
great job with it. Lanyapmobile dot com is the website
to find out more. Now a little bit from today's meeting.
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Here is the mayor. At the beginning of every meeting,
they allowed the mayor to have remarks to the council
and to the public. Here are some of the things
that the new mayor said today at his first council meeting.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Thank you, mister Woods. Good morning everybody. There are a
few less people here today, but we had a big
day yesterday. It was an exciting day. I thought, a
special day for our city, a personal point of pride.
I have one of my children, we call her Skittle.
She has terrible stage fright, and she got up there
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yesterday and built it out the Pledge of Allegiance, and
I was very proud of her. So happy to have
my family here to see the family members of the
council members. I'm just so excited to get to work
with this city Council. I'm looking forward to it. Honored
to begin this next chapter of our city with you.
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There's a lot going on ready. We've got some important
items on today's jenna.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Right now, he's about to say that he's going to
form some task force. Task forces, so listen to here
if something, if an issue that's important to you will
be mentioned, has something to form a task force over. Now,
if you're a regular listener, you know that I'm infrastructure
is one of my top issues for a city. I
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think that streets, sidewalks, and drainage should be top priorities.
And let's listen. Will he mention a pothole task force agenda?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
But we've also got some exciting events coming up. We
as an administration have started to work on establishing key.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Task forces task forces.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
For a few of the areas that you know I
think are important for our city moving forward, like a
gun violence task force.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
All right, gun Violence task Force, Public Transportation task for
Public Transportation task.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Force, Economic and work Force Development task Force.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
All right, economic and whatever, workforce Development task force, task.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Force designed to look at activating the waterfront and how
we speed that up and do it in a way
that comports with our port activities.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Activating the waterfront.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
A few more will be coming up. We'll be announcing
those soon after we myself and some of the council
members get to meet about those.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Okay, if anybody from the admitt well I know no
one from the administration is listening to this. But if
anybody is a friend of somebody that knows somebody in
the administration, let them know that they should form a
pothole task force. And I'm willing to be a citizen
volunteer to help on the task force.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
I'm also going to start the work over the next
three hundred and sixty three days of meeting every singular
employee personally in the city. It's going to be tough.
We've got over twenty one hundred, but I think that's important.
If I'm to be the leader of the city, I
need to know the people who are really making it
run on a daily basis. So I look forward to that.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Okay, now that's not a bad idea. So Mayor Sparrow
is going to try to personally meet each city employee.
He's going to learn a lot. If they feel like
they can talk, he'll learn a lot about how things
are going at the city. Now, the meeting today lasted
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about thirty five minutes, which was magnificent. Wonderful to have
a meeting last only thirty five minutes. Now, Gina Gregory,
the council vice president, did mention to the mayor at
the end of the meeting.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
For our new mayor. Don't get the impression that every
meeting is this smooth. Sometimes we do get a little
contentious and they don't always end as quickly as this one.
So today is a great day in the City of Mobile,
and we'll all get to lunch on time.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
All right. Yes, indeed, so I like that they're thinking
along the lines of streamline in these meetings for the citizen. Now,
speaking of citizens, citizen Reggie Hill spoke at the meeting
like he does at most meetings, and he actually suggested
something that I really wish that the council would do.
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Nobody said a word about it. I'm sure the council
won't do this, but I think this is an outstanding
suggestion from Reggie Hill.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
I want to hope that we can move to having
two monthly evening meetings. I would like to propose that
hopefully someone can entertain that and have one of those
evening meetings actually rotate within each of the seven districts.
We know a lot of people are not able to
come down here and participate with this process, and that's
something that we could consider.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, now I'm with this. I think this is a
great idea having your city council meetings when you have
them for the city of Mobile is it might be
convenient for city workers in city, the members of the administration,
It might be convenient for council members and all of
these folks. It is not convenient for the people that
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pay for all of it. It is not convenient for
the citizens to have these meetings when they have these meetings.
And if you wanted to show the citizens that you
gave a flip, you would do as Reggie Hill suggested
and have a couple of meetings a month at night
so that citizens. If a citizen has a concern that
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they want to take to the council meeting right now,
you'd have to take a day off work. If you
have a job, you have to take a day off
work and go down there. They should be having a
meeting some of these meetings at night to make it
so that citizens don't have to take a day off
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of work to interface with their government. Now, Reggie Hill
said two meetings a month thought to be at night,
and one of those two meetings ought to go and
be held in different districts of the city, different council districts.
I think that would be a fantastic idea. Now I'm
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pretty sure they won't do it, but they should. They should,
They should do this. If they can't do two meetings
a month at night, they should at the very least
do at least one meeting a month at night. Make
it the first meeting of every month that you would help.
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You would hold it at night so that interested citizens
that want to participate would be able to go and
attend those meetings, because as I mentioned, it's not for
the citizen, not convenient all of it. The entire process
of going to downtown mobile figuring out where you're going
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to park, which might be easy for you, but for
people that don't go that down there very often can
be intimidating to them trying to find parking. Have have
the meetings at least one at night every month, if
not more, That would be the right thing to do
for the citizens. So anyway, thank you. Reggie Hill suggested
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that nobody in the council said a word about it,
and I'm sure it will. It will not happen, but
it should. There'd be some Maybe I don't know that
any council member would hear this, but if you're a
friend of somebody that knows a council person mentioned it
to them. Just maybe maybe once a month a night meeting.
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Make it easier on the citizens. All right, let's see
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Uncle Henry Show. Moving forward, we have news headlines coming up.
In ten minutes. After the news headlines at six, I'm
going to talk to some veterans from the Mobile Bay
Area Veterans Commission about all of the activities that are
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planned for Veterans Day. There are things planned for Veterans Day.
I think from early morning into the night. Veterans Day
is next Tuesday, a week from today, so we will
get to that after six o'clock here on these radio
seven to ten wntm's Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yesterday on the Alklaimbery Show, I played for you some
of the mayor and Council of Mobile making speeches after
they got sworn in. And one of the speeches went
longer than everybody else's Corey Penn, councilman Corey Penn, and
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he got into an audience response where he was asking
the audience to answer him back at the city council meeting,
and uh Beauford heard this. Beefford wanted to make a comment.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Amy, this hair is different, hen listen to core Penn's
speech on your radio program, and my lord, what is
he some kind of daggum roving preaching clown. I mean
having crowd participation, Henry. I'm like you, I hate crown participation.
But at a at a maorial swearing in that that
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was absolutely ridiculous, Henry. That makes MOBIL look like, it
makes Mobill look low class.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
It does.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
When I say inspire saying goodness gracious alive.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, Well, you know, look Uh, Beeford, let's see.
Let me let me hear a little bit of it again,
because you're saying that this is you're claiming that this
is not good for what you know. In fact, I
can't play it because it is so long. But you're
saying that it doesn't make us look good when there's
a call and response speech at a swearing in ceremony. Uh,
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maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, I don't know, but
it does show that we do have a pulse that well,
I'm trying to look on I'm trying to look for
the for the positive here. So it may have seemed
out of place and of course to somebody like me,
seem very annoying, but uh, let's try. I'm going to
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try and be positive about it and say that at
least it looks at least we know that there's enthusiasm
as the council is taking office, and we can hope
that this enthusiasm will continue. And uh, we can also
hope that there are good decisions made. But beat Ford,
thank you for your voicemail on that topic. Two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
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one two one six, nineteen seventy six even message, if
you'd like to leave a message for the Uncle Henry show,
I want to mention one thing to you that has
nothing to do with politics at all. This past weekend,
my wife and I drove out Lot roadway to visit
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some relatives that live in Sims. Yes, I've got relatives
that live in Sims. And it really keeps me grounded
because it's the people that live in Sims. They live
in reality. That is, the real world is out there,
and so it keeps me grounded to talk to relatives
that live in Sims. So we were driving out Lot
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Road going to Sims visit them relatives, and I saw something.
This was Saturday morning, the morning after No, it wasn't.
It was Sunday morning, the Sunday morning after the Halloween Friday.
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And I saw a man putting up his Christmas decorations. Yes,
there was a man putting up Christmas decorations Sunday morning early.
I mean this was early this We're talking pre church time,
(33:21):
putting up Christmas decorations. And I thought two things. I
thought One, he's married, and two I thought good, Yes,
I approved of this. Now in previous years I would
(33:41):
have I would have wondered, why do you have to
do it now? I mean, thanks, we haven't gotten it.
We're not even near Thanksgiving yet, but I don't know,
uh this time, For whatever reason it, I felt comforted
by it, because, as I reflected on, I kept wondering,
why am I reacting like this? And I'm enjoying the
(34:04):
fact that the Christmas decorations are going up just a
couple of days after Halloween. And I guess it's because
for me, it feels like we've lived through a tremendous
amount of history these last few years. We have had
things happening in the last ten years feels like thirty
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years crammed into ten. And I just felt comforted to
see the words Merry Christmas being nailed up onto somebody's
house that morning. And I think it's because the word
Christ is right there in Christmas. Anyway, to the early
(34:49):
adopters of Christmas, go for it.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Henry, you still got a job that keeping a young
man from lusion. I have the dog gone. I get
That's why IM promar YY is high heel for people
like you. Wow.
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Message deleted press fool, It says the Uncle Henry Show
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Speaker 4 (01:28):
Thank you. I really appreciate you listening. I really do.
I appreciate you listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Once again.
Here we are together, me and you trying to figure
out what is going on in the world, What is
going on? Why are people acting where they act? Wasn't
(01:52):
it gotten into people these days? Yes? Indeed, if you
have any of them answers or if you have more questions,
this show is good not about answering questions, but finding
more questions to ask. Two five one four seven nine
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Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, there was the city
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council meeting today with the first the first council meeting
with the new council in mobile with the new mayor.
I'll get to that. I'll cover that for you before
I get to that, though, I did want to mention, uh,
I know that there are some people that listen to
the Uncle Henry Show even though they're not they don't
(02:35):
enjoy it a lot. Like this guy, Henry.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You still got a job that keeping a young man
for Wilson.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yes, I do, Yes, I do. I know there are
some people that have been listening and have been waiting patiently.
They keep thinking year after year. They keep hoping that
I'll retire, hoping that I'll move on, that there'll be
a layoff or something. They're just out there just wishing,
hoping and wishing, dreaming for some different hosts to come
in and be on news Radio seven to ten WNTIM
(03:05):
because I've been in here fouling things up in here
for well over twenty years on the Uncle Henry Show.
To those folks, to the people that like that caller
that just or just just can't imagine why I would
still be here, well, to those listeners, I just want
you to know that about an hour ago, yeah, it
(03:28):
was about an hour ago, I just signed a new contract. Yes,
signed a new contract, so I will be here another
three years, yes, because and that could be for somebody
my age, that could be a lifetime deal. So yes,
another three years of the Uncle Henry Show signed into
(03:51):
existence this afternoon in a new contract. So I want
to thank Ronnie Bludworth, my boss, Brian Crush Edward's my boss,
and all the other people in this building that have
the authority to tell me what to do. I think
I counted seven the last time I counted that people
tell me what to do in this building. So thank
you to the management for allowing me to continue doing
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whatever this is. And for those people waiting for me
to retire so that you can have some guy in here.
They'll sit in here and talk about President driving or
the Just be patient, Just be patient. You got another
three years to go or who knows, who knows with
the way health care is these days, how long I'll
(04:34):
be here. But again, thank you to all the people
that are allowing me to continue doing what I'm doing
here on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, let's see, before
we get to the council meeting and other topics, I
do want to mention that I looked out the weather window.
I've got a beautiful weather window. Here that faces to
the to the west and gives me a beautiful view
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over the target wing of the gorgeous bel air mall.
And I just watched the sunset right before I took
the microphone, and I have to just let you know,
not that it'll do any good, but I want to
let you know that I really don't like this standard time.
I don't like this. I don't like the sun is
(05:23):
already down. I know we've got some twilight to work with,
but that is somebody up in the Congress, I understand.
I think it was Jim Jordan from Understanding in the
in the Senate was blocking this. Let's let's go ahead
and sprang forward and then lock the clock. Let's all
figure out how we can do this. Put pressure on
these politicians. Figure out why there must be money in
(05:47):
keeping the clock flopping back and forth. Why else would
you do it if there weren't money involved. There's got
to be money involved, because if so, where's how is
there money involved in it? There must be the otherwise
public public, the public would have it locked, that clock
would be locked. Let's all figure out how to get
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this done. Once we get to spring and flip the
clock forward. Two, five, one, four, seven, nine, two three, Hello.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Collor, Hey, good EVENNK Hendrick.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Cliff Cliff, you are live on the radio.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Uncle Henry, come and grab you licens.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It's only one way that we were born and raised.
My mom always said that you can't kick a dog.
If you can't take care of whatever you have, you
(06:48):
don't need to even try. A dog likes to be
cool in this summer and warm in the winter. How
would you like to be chained up outside and fly
as in your water? You never changed? What about what
if I did that to you? She was saying that
the God had made uh, that instituted that you have
(07:13):
to be able to take even your father's train you
to be able to set you up to take care
of what you have. And we have lost that, but
some of us are raised. My wife, she she says something.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
She said something to me to dead about She says, uh,
see his wife, Uncle Henry is he's devoted and he goes,
he goes wherever.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
She does, and he helps her. And I said, yes, baby,
I say I do that. The same thing she said
a different You gonna know what it would do? You
start to fight Uncle Henry.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, I told her thirty four years ago when I
was after you, I said that I was.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I was doing the same thing. I say, down. You
cost me boy to keep you going the way you
got to go. But he's devoted to her. That's lovely.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I said, Okay, we had to get back to what
you're doing now. Look, okay, yes, before I get off here,
I'm gonna have to get with you and your lovely
wife and we have.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
To go back to Daulphin as soon as we can.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
My house is not gonna be safe.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Okay, Okay, Hey Cliff, I'm up on the break, but
I would love to do that with you again.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You have breathday you too.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Thank you very much, Cliff for your warm wishes, and
back with more after the break here on news Radio
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Speaker 4 (09:52):
It says The Uncle Henry Show. Here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. It is Bob twenty news headlines
coming up in ten minutes. I'll have coverage of the
Mobile City Council meeting here in a moment. But I
have another living caller, the living caller numbers two five
(10:13):
one four seven nine two seven two three. That's two
five one four seven nine two seven two three four
living people calling the Uncle Henbry Show.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Hello caller, Yeah, I'm a living caller. This is a
blind dog micing point clear.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Great to hear from your blind dog, Mike.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Yes, sir, I just want to congratulate you on having
a contract renewal. I think you provide a very different service.
You provide a very different perspective, and I believe it's
it's very effective. You have a lot of a lot
of good callers, a cast of characters from all over
you know, mobile in Baldwin County. I just you know,
(10:50):
it's it's interesting.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, I really I appreciate that very much, and I
appreciate you telling me that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I don't get to listen or do anything till I
get back from doing the I do that cannon firing
at the Grand Hotel, but I enjoy listening to in
the afternoon around five o'clock or whatever. So it's great.
And I wanted to mention something about daylight savings time.
I mean, if they just stayed there, it'd be great,
changing back and forth. But you know out in Arizona,
the Navajo don't do that. They just stay at one
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time throughout the whole thing because they the Navajo saved.
The government's telling them to cut one foot off my
blanket on one end and sew it on the other end,
and my blanket it'll be longer, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So it's just that's well's put that is well put, Well.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Put your blank it'll be longer, Your day will be longer. Okay, whatever,
Just shift your schedule, team bat you know it doesn't anyway.
I'm glad you're going to be here for another three
years because you just really add a different flavor to
talk radio, completely different, and it's good. It's a good
(11:57):
quality flavor.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Well, I appreciate that, But this is the first time
I've been told that I'm providing a good taste to
talk radio.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Remember a little Charlie to TENA you know, Oh yeah, Charlie,
we don't want ten of that has good taste. We
want ten of the taste good exactly. All right, you
have a blessed night.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you very much. Blind Dog. Mike two five three
the telephone number here on the Elk Climber Show.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Hello caller, Hello, he Jimmy the Economist.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Jimmy the Economist, You are live on the radio.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Daylight savings time. What if you know the planet Earth
has been hit by meteors before meteorites. What if a
big one knocked us, let's say less than one tenth
of a percent all of our existing orbit around the Sun,
would time change?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I'm not I don't know if I'm bright enough to
even contemplate that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Maybe we should ask the government.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yes, indeed, I'm sure they could release a pamphlet
in a few years explaining all that to us.
Speaker 10 (13:10):
Yeah, I'll write the mister figures.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Is that his name?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Rep? Mary, Yes, Showtime Showtime figures. In regards to an
employment contract, I've been working for myself for almost twenty
years entry in before that, I've never signed an employment contract.
So do you mind if fasten you just a couple
questions about them?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I don't mind, but I probably will not answer a
single one because I think I'm prevented from doing so
by my employer.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Does it delineate which bathroom in the building you must use?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
It doesn't. Now I will reveal that. It doesn't tell
me where I am allowed to tinkle.
Speaker 10 (13:53):
Does it tell you what parking spot you must use?
I mean usually the bosses want the one with the
little you know, pride for pair or something to give
you a little bit of shade in a summer? Does
include stuff like that parking?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I'm not at that level. I've not achieved that level
of contract, so parking is not mentioned in the contract. Now,
there's a lot of language in there about what they
want me to do and they and essentially it has
show up when we tell you and do what we
tell you, which I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
Yeah, do you have to initial every single one of
those directive lines or each page or just at the end,
or there are men. I'd imagine your contract's got to
be fifty plus pages long. There's a lot of directives.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, in modern times it is automated through computer software,
so you can just you just click a few times
and it's all there.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Well, maybe after this three years you can negotiate you know,
executive bathroom privileges, wants to day or something. You know,
don't just take with they're feeding you.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
Oh I'm not.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
I'm not out of your quality asset. So you know,
you know you want parking spots. You want two parking
spots by the Bradford pair, not one.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I agree. And when i'm let's get there, I'm with you. There,
I'm with you when I'm on ks J. For the
next contract, I want to be able to play a
song of my choice every hour. I want to be
able to I want to be able to play the
songs of my choice in the next contract.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Oh it's not in this one. No, No, Welles's little
feet an asterisk or in the language at all. The
ability to place some little feet even on the uncle
Henry show.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now I could probably play little feet on the uncle
Henry Show.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
I could all right, well it's getting a little better,
but I think you need a little leverage. Maybe hire
you a lobbyist. You know, they're wonderful, great people. They're
typically low yeah, but work both sides of the equasions
and get paid by both sides. So kind of like
Jimmy Sexton.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, a well done. Thank you Jimmy for some great
that's you know. I wish I'd have talked about this
on the air. I should have done a show where
I said I'm about to go in and sign some stuff,
and then I could have had Jimmy would have helped me.
He would have helped me with a parking place. Now
there is no there are no special bathrooms up here, unfortunately,
but I might have been able to get like a
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nap room or something, because we do have a couple
of empty offices. I could have maybe got a nap
room or something like that. And of course the ability
to drop in some on KSJ. If I could just
drop in some George Jones whenever, I just maybe once
a day, just something like that would have been nice
in there. But anyway, thank you for the suggestions on that.
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I'm making mental notes for three years from now or
a little before then when we OmpT to renegotiate. Coming up,
I know you want to well, I don't know what
you want. But coming up after the news headlines, I'm
going to share with you some of today's Mobile City
Council meeting. We had the new mayor, there are two
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new council people on the council. There was a lot
of just it was like kid gloves were on today.
Everybody was on their best behavior at the meeting. Everything
really smooth. Nobody seemed to get mad at anybody. So
we'll get into all of that as we continue here
(17:35):
on the Uncle Andrew Show. From today's very civilized Mobile
City Council meeting. We have that and a few other
things to get to as the show moves forward. I
mentioned that I'm on ninety five KSJ on Middays Monday
through Friday from ten to two, playing Today's Hottest Country.
I want to let you know that tomorrow on ninety
(17:56):
five KSJ, I'm going to have an early chance to
win some concert tickets to see Dylan Carmichael. We've got
him coming to Dauphin Island a week from today to
do a concert the night of Veterans Day doing this
concert to raise money for Vets Recover. They help veterans
(18:17):
with PTSD and other issues. Your chance to win some
tickets to that concert coming up tomorrow morning right after
ten o'clock on ninety five KSJ with Me Uncle Henry
(18:48):
Show News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five
thirty five. Today was a mobile City Council meeting, the
first meeting with Spiro. Chair Goddess is the mayor got
two new council people on the council. Everybody was in
a good mood. The Mayor announced his staff today and
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lots of familiar faces in the staff for Mayor Spiro.
There was a lot of people that wondered if he
got the endorsement from Sandy Stimpson in exchange for keeping
a lot of those folks. A lot of them are
still on the staff, some of them in different jobs.
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And I guess the big change is that there is
no chief of staff because Mayor Chair Goddess wants a
lot of the city departments to have better communication with
him and report directly to him. So, if you want
to get all the details on this, Lanyap did a
great job with it. Lanyapmobile dot com is the website
to find out more. Now a little bit from today's meeting.
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Here is the mayor. At the beginning of every meeting,
they allowed the mayor to have remarks to the council
and to the public. Here are some of the things
that the new mayor said today at his first council meeting.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Thank you, mister Woods. Good morning everybody. There are a
few less people here today, but we had a big
day yesterday. It was an exciting day. I thought, a
special day for our city, a personal point of pride.
I have one of my children, we call her Skittle.
She has terrible stage fright, and she got up there
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yesterday and built it out the Pledge of Allegiance, and
I was very proud of her. So happy to have
my family here to see the family members of the
council members. I'm just so excited to get to work
with this city Council. I'm looking forward to it. Honored
to begin this next chapter of our city with you.
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There's a lot going on ready. We've got some important
items on today's jenna.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Right now, he's about to say that he's going to
form some task force. Task forces, so listen to here
if something, if an issue that's important to you will
be mentioned, has something to form a task force over. Now,
if you're a regular listener, you know that I'm infrastructure
is one of my top issues for a city. I
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think that streets, sidewalks, and drainage should be top priorities.
And let's listen. Will he mention a pothole task force agenda?
Speaker 12 (21:35):
But we've also got some exciting events coming up. We
as an administration have started to work on establishing key.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Task forces task forces.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
For a few of the areas that you know I
think are important for our city moving forward, like a
gun violence task force.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
All right, gun Violence task Force, Public Transportation task for
Public Transportation task.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Force, Economic and work Force Development task Force.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
All right, economic and whatever, workforce Development task force, task.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Force designed to look at activating the waterfront and how
we speed that up and do it in a way
that comports with our port activities.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Activating the waterfront.
Speaker 12 (22:18):
A few more will be coming up. We'll be announcing
those soon after we myself and some of the council
members get to meet about those.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Okay, if anybody from the admitt well I know no
one from the administration is listening to this. But if
anybody is a friend of somebody that knows somebody in
the administration, let them know that they should form a
pothole task force. And I'm willing to be a citizen
volunteer to help on the task force.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
I'm also going to start the work over the next
three hundred and sixty three days of meeting every singular
employee personally in the city. It's going to be tough.
We've got over twenty one hundred, but I think that's important.
If I'm to be the leader of the city, I
need to know the people who are really making it
run on a daily basis. So I look forward to that.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Okay, now that's not a bad idea. So Mayor Sparrow
is going to try to personally meet each city employee.
He's going to learn a lot. If they feel like
they can talk, he'll learn a lot about how things
are going at the city. Now, the meeting today lasted
(23:28):
about thirty five minutes, which was magnificent. Wonderful to have
a meeting last only thirty five minutes. Now, Gina Gregory,
the council vice president, did mention to the mayor at
the end of the meeting.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
For our new mayor. Don't get the impression that every
meeting is this smooth. Sometimes we do get a little
contentious and they don't always end as quickly as this one.
So today is a great day in the City of Mobile,
and we'll all get to lunch on time.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
All right. Yes, indeed, so I like that they're thinking
along the lines of streamline in these meetings for the citizen. Now,
speaking of citizens, citizen Reggie Hill spoke at the meeting
like he does at most meetings, and he actually suggested
something that I really wish that the council would do.
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Nobody said a word about it. I'm sure the council
won't do this, but I think this is an outstanding
suggestion from Reggie Hill.
Speaker 14 (24:28):
I want to hope that we can move to having
two monthly evening meetings. I would like to propose that
hopefully someone can entertain that and have one of those
evening meetings actually rotate within each of the seven districts.
We know a lot of people are not able to
come down here and participate with this process, and that's
something that we could consider.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, now I'm with this. I think this is a
great idea having your city council meetings when you have
them for the city of Mobile is it might be
convenient for city workers in city, the members of the administration,
It might be convenient for council members and all of
these folks. It is not convenient for the people that
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pay for all of it. It is not convenient for
the citizens to have these meetings when they have these meetings.
And if you wanted to show the citizens that you
gave a flip, you would do as Reggie Hill suggested
and have a couple of meetings a month at night
so that citizens. If a citizen has a concern that
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they want to take to the council meeting right now,
you'd have to take a day off work. If you
have a job, you have to take a day off
work and go down there. They should be having a
meeting some of these meetings at night to make it
so that citizens don't have to take a day off
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of work to interface with their government. Now, Reggie Hill
said two meetings a month thought to be at night,
and one of those two meetings ought to go and
be held in different districts of the city, different council districts.
I think that would be a fantastic idea. Now I'm
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pretty sure they won't do it, but they should. They should,
They should do this. If they can't do two meetings
a month at night, they should at the very least
do at least one meeting a month at night. Make
it the first meeting of every month that you would help.
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You would hold it at night so that interested citizens
that want to participate would be able to go and
attend those meetings, because as I mentioned, it's not for
the citizen, not convenient all of it. The entire process
of going to downtown mobile figuring out where you're going
(26:54):
to park, which might be easy for you, but for
people that don't go that down there very often can
be intimidating to them trying to find parking. Have have
the meetings at least one at night every month, if
not more, That would be the right thing to do
for the citizens. So anyway, thank you. Reggie Hill suggested
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that nobody in the council said a word about it,
and I'm sure it will. It will not happen, but
it should. There'd be some Maybe I don't know that
any council member would hear this, but if you're a
friend of somebody that knows a council person mentioned it
to them. Just maybe maybe once a month a night meeting.
(27:36):
Make it easier on the citizens. All right, let's see
going to go to break with traffic, weather and words
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want to mention that if you want to listen back
to previous episodes, if you've missed any of the important
(27:57):
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after the break. It is five point fifty here at
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Uncle Henry Show. Moving forward, we have news headlines coming up.
In ten minutes. After the news headlines at six, I'm
going to talk to some veterans from the Mobile Bay
Area Veterans Commission about all of the activities that are
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planned for Veterans Day. There are things planned for Veterans Day.
I think from early morning into the night. Veterans Day
is next Tuesday, a week from today, so we will
get to that after six o'clock here on these radio
seven to ten wntm's Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yesterday on the Alklaimbery Show, I played for you some
of the mayor and Council of Mobile making speeches after
they got sworn in. And one of the speeches went
longer than everybody else's Corey Penn, councilman Corey Penn, and
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he got into an audience response where he was asking
the audience to answer him back at the city council meeting,
and uh Beauford heard this. Beefford wanted to make a comment.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Amy, this hair is different, hen listen to core Penn's
speech on your radio program, and my lord, what is
he some kind of daggum roving preaching clown. I mean
having crowd participation, Henry. I'm like you, I hate crown participation.
But at a at a maorial swearing in that that
(30:32):
was absolutely ridiculous, Henry. That makes MOBIL look like, it
makes Mobill look low class.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
It does.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
When I say inspire saying goodness gracious alive.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, Well, you know, look Uh, Beeford, let's see.
Let me let me hear a little bit of it again,
because you're saying that this is you're claiming that this
is not good for what you know. In fact, I
can't play it because it is so long. But you're
saying that it doesn't make us look good when there's
a call and response speech at a swearing in ceremony. Uh,
(31:14):
maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, I don't know, but
it does show that we do have a pulse that well,
I'm trying to look on I'm trying to look for
the for the positive here. So it may have seemed
out of place and of course to somebody like me,
seem very annoying, but uh, let's try. I'm going to
(31:35):
try and be positive about it and say that at
least it looks at least we know that there's enthusiasm
as the council is taking office, and we can hope
that this enthusiasm will continue. And uh, we can also
hope that there are good decisions made. But beat Ford,
thank you for your voicemail on that topic. Two five
one two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five
(31:57):
one two one six, nineteen seventy six even message, if
you'd like to leave a message for the Uncle Henry show,
I want to mention one thing to you that has
nothing to do with politics at all. This past weekend,
my wife and I drove out Lot roadway to visit
(32:18):
some relatives that live in Sims. Yes, I've got relatives
that live in Sims. And it really keeps me grounded
because it's the people that live in Sims. They live
in reality. That is, the real world is out there,
and so it keeps me grounded to talk to relatives
that live in Sims. So we were driving out Lot
(32:40):
Road going to Sims visit them relatives, and I saw something.
This was Saturday morning, the morning after No, it wasn't.
It was Sunday morning, the Sunday morning after the Halloween Friday.
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And I saw a man putting up his Christmas decorations. Yes,
there was a man putting up Christmas decorations Sunday morning early.
I mean this was early this We're talking pre church time,
(33:21):
putting up Christmas decorations. And I thought two things. I
thought One, he's married, and two I thought good, Yes,
I approved of this. Now in previous years I would
(33:41):
have I would have wondered, why do you have to
do it now? I mean, thanks, we haven't gotten it.
We're not even near Thanksgiving yet, but I don't know,
uh this time, For whatever reason it, I felt comforted
by it, because, as I reflected on, I kept wondering,
why am I reacting like this? And I'm enjoying the
(34:04):
fact that the Christmas decorations are going up just a
couple of days after Halloween. And I guess it's because
for me, it feels like we've lived through a tremendous
amount of history these last few years. We have had
things happening in the last ten years feels like thirty
(34:25):
years crammed into ten. And I just felt comforted to
see the words Merry Christmas being nailed up onto somebody's
house that morning. And I think it's because the word
Christ is right there in Christmas. Anyway, to the early
(34:49):
adopters of Christmas, go for it.
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