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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, wet Wednesday,
light of rain. Looks like we're gonna have some rain
for the next several days. So here we are in
the rain together. We can talk about whatever you'd like
to talk about. There's all kinds of stuff going on
at every level. Stuff that was going on in the
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legislature yesterday. I want to talk about we've got our
mayoral politics to get into. And of course in Washington,
d C. There's so much talk about it. I don't
know how you could talk about it, even if you
talked twenty four hours a day, seven days week. All
that stuff going on. Now today we in the mayor's race.
Now they had the forum last night the cottage your
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Baptist Church. This morning you had the mayor of Mobile,
Standy Simpson, come out and endorse Spiro. So spirit Yes,
it is official. The endorsement is official. Sandy Stimpson endorsing
Spiro for mayor of Mobile. Let's see the Fox ten
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ran just a brief little bit on this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
To see how he would do as as a candidate
and if he would get engaged and could he get
a team together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So I'm comfortable now that I've made the right decision.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, current Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson making it an official
this morning, Stimpson endorsing former district Judge Spiro Cheria Goddess
for mayor. Spiro says he's running for mayor to ensure
Mobile remains a vibrant, thriving city for generations to come.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right. So the announcement was made at Greer Saint
Louis Market this morning, and I've not been able to
find really good audio of what was said by the
mayor when he announced that he was endorsing Spiro. I
tried to say, I'm not as technically skilled as some
radio people. I tried to make it as he is
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he to listen to as possible. I'm not going to
play a lot of this because the sound quality is
not that great. But just I'll just give you a little,
just a little bit. Here's just a little bit of
bad audio of the mayor endorsing Spiro. One of the
things he said right at the beginning here I thought
was of interest, So I didn't realize. So there's big applause.
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Keeople are excited, sat up with the endorsement. Now just
as the youngest candidate, you know, I didn't even realize
that I was. I've looked at all these candidates, their pictures,
read about him. I hadn't realized he was the youngest.
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Now what about that generational change? All right? So he
says he represents generational change, challenge.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
The Statish flow, courage to move beyond when it is
at work he will inspire for twenty five to fifty
year olds get on the sidelines and get days a
great city.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
All right, So again, now you understand one won't play
a lot of this because I can't get a good
version of it to play play you, but the mayor,
the current mayor, saying that as the youngest candidate, maybe
he will inspire other young young people to step up
and be involved in city stuff. Now, he talked for
for a lot longer than that, I guess about ten
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minutes or so, five or ten minutes. If you can
find it on Facebook or YouTube, you can watch it
and decide what you think one way or the other
about what the mayor said about his reasoning or endorsing
Spiro in the race. Now, I enjoyed tremendously going to
land Yap landyapmobile dot com, a great source for local news.
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And I went on to lanyapmobile dot com this afternoon
and read the re action of other candidates, which is
very fun. It's so much fun. Now, it's kind of
getting fun now. It's by the way, if you're a candidate,
I understand it's never fun for the candidate. Usually in
these elections, it's never fun really for the candidate and
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their families, but for those of us that are not
in the race, it can be a lot of fun
watching them back and forth with all these candidates. So
the question is it a great thing to get the
endorsement of Mayor Stimpson or not? Now, if you'd ask
that question a year ago or so, I think it
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would have been a foregone conclusion. It was probably a
very good thing to get that endorsement from Mayor Stimpson.
He had been winning election and reelection over and over again.
Clearly whoever had stepped up in the previous elections didn't
have what people wanted, and so the mobilions voters continued
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to go with Sandy Stimpson. I don't know what was
this whole was the whole police department thing a big
turning point because some people are questioning whether or not
it is a great thing to get the adorsement or not.
And it's hard not to smile saying that, because a
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lot of people just think it is absolutely the greatest
thing in the world to get the endorsement. But I
don't know. Now I'm laughing because Lanyap talked to a
bunch of the other candidates and their campaigns, and according
to them, it's not good. Getting the endorsement is not
good according to other candidates. In fact, let's see the
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lanyap in their story. This Afternoon has a statement from
Connie Hudson's campaign manager, Wiley Blankenship. He's been on this
show several times, he says, listen to this quote. Wiley
Blankenship says, quote, I have trom I have a tremendous
amount of respect for Mayor Stimpson and his leadership, but
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it is troubling that he would choose to endorse a
candidate with no executive leadership and experience in government or
even a large business. I feel like this decision is
more about who can be controlled than who would be
best for Mobile. So again, remember the guy that said
this has a tremendous amount of respect, tremendous amount of
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respect for Mayor Stimpson. However, now this is troubling. The
endorsement is troubling. It's all about who can be controlled.
I guess this is where the fund begins, where there's
going to be a lot of back and forth between campaigns.
But again, that story is at Lanyatmobile dot Com. A
lot of fun to see how all the other candidates
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say it's not good. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seventy
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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry,
iHeartMedia dot com. Now let's see. Uh so I mentioned
the h endorsement and the mayor's race. It'll be fun
to follow, and there are other news items. I wanted
to get to the Alabama legislature. If I'm I don't vape,
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I don't vape, and I don't have occasion to buy
mysterious gummies in various establishments. But the Alabama Legislature has
passed some new legislation about vapes and gummies in the
state of Alabama. So if you're one of the people
that's a vapor or a gummy eater, then you will
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be interested in all this stuff. I don't know if
you've noticed, but they're they're just about everywhere, going into
convenience stores, There's now lots of beverages that have things
in them, and I can never even figure out what
they are and what the strength of them are. I'm
just it's not of my era. All of these beverages
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that contain THC and stuff like that. Well, Alabama legislature
passed some legislation on this. I suppose Governor Ivey's going
to sign it. Some of this sponsored by one of
the mayoral candidates, Barbara Drummond. So I thought you might
if you didn't hear about this, you might want to
hear of what's going to happen with gummies and vapes
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in the state of Alabama. Here is a report from
I think this is WSFA in Montgomery, a step sister
station Fox ten reporting on the new rules.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Do regulations at the state level target products that contain THHC.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
THCHC is the active ingredient in marijuana, and products that
contain THHC have popped up in recent months and stores
across the state.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
State lawmakers approved legislation tonight that would limit where those
products could be sold. They also passed the bill aimed
at certain types of vaping products. Lawmakers told WSFA twelve
news anchors Sally Pitt's children's safety was top of mind.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
You have probably seen these in your local gas station.
They are sold as gummies, chips, and even drinks. State
Representative Andy Witz says that are unregulated and dangerous.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
We reeled in those illegal elements that has been plaguing
our communities and our students in our high schools.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
WITCH sponsor to build the authorizer Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board to regulate all consumable hemp products.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Ooh, sob I didn't realize this part. The ABC board
now regulating all hemp products now, don't. I have not
had a lot of one on one contact with people
that work for the ABC board, but in previous years
here in the Mobile area, I've heard about some aggressiveness
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from time to time. Do you remember those stories? Some
aggressiveness with topics like underage drinking and stuff like that.
So now hemp products are going to come under that umbrella.
M H.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It also removes it from convenience stores and limits how
much you can buy.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Okay, So if you've liked going into a convenience store
and buying some type of mysterious gummy product that has
a clever name, and I wish I could remember some
of the things I've seen in convenience stores. For the
life of me, I can't even come up with a
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fake name for it. But if you're one of those
folks that love stopping in there and grabbing some type
of mysterious gummy or some mysterious beverage that's got THC
in it, it ain't going to be in the convenience
stores anymore.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
You're able to buy fifty milligrams in Shelby County on
Interstate sixty five and a slushy machine. We've got a
true problem. So I said, get your slushy on the
way to the beaches.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Represented Now I'm sorry to pause again, but I see
I don't understand what is What is fifty milligrams in
a slushy? Is that going to do something to a person?
I don't understand? Said, Maybe that's why they're that, Maybe
that's why that they've passed this legislation, because maybe most
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people are like me and have no idea what they're
actually buying or what it could or could not do
to them. What and do they make THC slushies on
the interstate?
Speaker 10 (14:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What is that? What's happening. Is that one of the
reasons that people are even worse behind the wheel than
ever before. I wanted to blame it all on smartphones.
Maybe it's on some type of special slushie. People are
stopping and getting some type of illicit, mysterious slushie that
has some effect on their brain as they drive toward
our beautiful community.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Whitsville is now headed to the governor for her signature,
so is Representative Barbara Drummondsville on vapes. Under it, convenience
stores would only be able to sell FDA regulated products,
which Drummond says is a small number of what's available
right now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm sorry for pausing there again, but so they'd only
be able to sell FDA approved products in the convenience store.
When it comes to vapes, now, are any of those
approved by the FDA? Does the FDA approve vapes? What
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is this? I wonder? How is there going to be
a lot of room now for other products at convenience stores?
Are we going to see a lot more energy drinks
on the counter?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
All other products would have to go in twenty one
and up stores.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
From the classrooms to in the community. We saw this
becoming an epidemic.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Drummond beliefs this legislation will save lives.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
The reason that I've stayed with this issue for so
very long is because of a young man who died
in Dallas County. And I was exposed to a third
grader last year who is vaping. And this is a
problem that is going to affect their health. And I
think what this body did from the Senate to the
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House our children. We are looking out for their future.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Both bills put fees in place for those who do
not follow the rules. Sally Pitts w SA PA twelve News, Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All right, so you heard you heard Barbara Drumming there
talk about seeing a child with a vape. How troubling
that was? That was I saw a related story today
that made me think of you, the listener and talk
show caller Snake Trapper, because and I know you've already
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heard this story as well, where police I guess it
was an Ohio found a raccoon with a meth pipe.
You heard about this. A woman was rested after a
raccoon named Chewy was found with a meth pipe in
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the driver's seat during a police stop. Mm hmm, all right,
well if that we should rest assured that if something
like that happened in Alabama, there would be some legislation
I'm sure immediately ready to go preventing raccoons from having
meth pipes in the state of Alabama. All Right, there's
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more to come. Yes, I am obligated via contract to
remain here on the air for the next hour. I'll
be back after the news break. We're gonna get news
headlines from Fox ten and Fox Radio National News, and
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then more. Uncle Henry Show three email address, Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. Hello, their color.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
Good evening and Uncle Henry.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Roll tied, roll tied. Reagan Girl, what's going on with you?
Reagan Girl?
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Well, I wanted to call in because I had just
heard I had heard you talking about those that they
and those interesting cells that gas stations make, and I
just thought I would voice my opinion on something.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Please do.
Speaker 12 (18:32):
Okay. I don't know if any of your other listeners,
if they partake in vapes, but I really wish that
people that vape, I wish that they would take a
look in the mirror because I just can't help but
feel like those that vape, they look like they are
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walking around with Benkie. I mean they really do. It
looks like adults with pacifiers, and you know it is
not healthy. It is not healthy for you. I mean
you are basically breathing dangerous chemicals into your lungs and
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it looks like you're walking around with a binkie.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I mean, well, Reagan girl, would it be better if
the vape industry designed a vape that looked different, that
was somehow cooler, somehow more impressive, that did not look
like a pacifier?
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Actually, I don't think so. I mean I think that
you know, you would be better off going to Walmart
or the baby store and just buy a binkie. I mean,
because you know, therefore you would be you would not
be breathing dangerous chemicals and you have a pacifier. I mean,
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there you go walk around with a banking Now.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
See, now you've given me an idea for my own product. See,
I'm in a point in line where I really need
to get rich as quickly as possible because it just
got married. So do you think I could make a
lot of money if I invented a nicotine infused adult
pacifier that adults would actually no child would be allowed
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near it, but adults would have their own special nicotine pacifier.
Do you think people would buy that?
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Hey, you know, that might be good, and then just
slowly decrease the amount of nicotine that's in the banky okay,
assault uncle Henry, all.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right, and then eventually you just use your regular pacifier
without any nicotine in it.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
There you go, uncle, Well you take care and once again, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, thank you very much, regular. Great to hear from you.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Good to talk to you, uncle.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There she goes, Reagan girl, thank you, Reagan girl for
the phone call. Now, vapin was I do remember vaguely
when it when it first came on the scene, and
a lot of people thought it was great because anything
to get people from smoking tobacco. But now I get
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a sense that instead of smoking tobacco, people don't don't
really know what they're smoking. They just they're just taking
in something that's got nicotine in it. So, uh, Reagan girl, yes,
you you you're telling us that it doesn't look good.
It doesn't look like something that Phonsie would do. I'm
trying to think of who would be considered in modern
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times to be cool to use that slang term.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Back in the seventies, it was Phonsie, So who I
don't I don't know why throughout history people have smoked,
So I don't know how we break human beings of
that habit. It has been going on before we were
born and going to be going on after we're born, unless,
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of course, we're completely taken over by tyrants and they
outlawed it without a vote. Not that I'm in favor
of it. I'm just saying it's human behavior that's been
around for a long long time, smoking or a variation.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
is telephone number. That's two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. Email address, Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia
(22:36):
dot com. I saw today that there is a new
health trend that is spreading on TikTok. Now you probably
watched TikTok videos, I'm guessing. I just want you to
know that I've still not downloaded that app. I've still
not downloaded it and don't watch TikTok videos. But I
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saw it that there is a new health trend on
TikTok called Okra water, where people are putting videos up
on TikTok claiming that if you chop up okra and
soak it in water overnight and then the next morning
drink the water. That that Okra water has health benefits
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like managing you'r a diabetes, helping you with a difficult pregnancy,
improving your gut health, improving your skin. This is all
spreading like wildfire onto TikTok app. Well, somebody thought to
go and ask actual doctors about this, and the actual
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doctors say no health benefit at all to drinking the
Okra water unless you're dehydrated, and then it would help.
So I just want to throw that out for you
in case you're you think you're doing something really good
for yourself drinking some Okra Ochris soaked water. Hello color
(24:03):
Mary ld the mad Trucker.
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Hey, do you ever go to a state sales?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I do not. I have not been to one, maybe
in twenty thirty years.
Speaker 13 (24:14):
Really they're they're a tremendous amount of love to go
to it. But I just want to let you know,
because you know, I'm always looking out for friends, and
I assume we're friends, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Kind of Okay. I got a scale there in all
weigh up to six hundred pounds. So if your new
wife wants to use it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Hey, you don't dare ever, don't joke there go after
my wife like this? How dare you l d?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
This is sick?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This is I never dreamed this, I never I never
dreamed it would transition to a different family member. You know,
this is in this religion, This marriage is it's less
than a month old. This is still in the honeymoon phase.
In quotation marks, are you trying to mess up my ma?
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Rich?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What do you think's gonna happen? My new wife finds
out that the truckers are calling the radio show in
publicly implying that she weighs six hundred pounds, and and
that's gonna cause her. You're gonna cause me trouble in
my house at all at night? This is seconding. All right, Look, listener,
(25:22):
I apologize for raising my voice, but I can't. I can't,
but I can't. I don't, I don't. I do not
understand the psychology of this. And you're I don't know
if it's just fun. You think it's just fun to
see if you can cause me to have a stroke.
Is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 14 (25:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I was, I was. It was a year ago. I
was in the It was in spring Hill Hospital for
five days with all kinds of heart issues. Are you're
trying to kill me? Is that the end result? Is
that the goal is the goal. You're trying to get
me to die. You want you to hear me die
on the air? All right, listener, I apologize. I know
(25:58):
you tuned in for you will probably wanted to hear
some type of Trump talk or something like that. I
apologize for that, but I'm not putting up with this.
I'm not gonna I'm not I don't know. Maybe I
need to. Maybe I should go callerless either that, or
(26:20):
figure out if we can do some type of phone
number blocking or something. Back after the break, Uncle Henry Show,
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News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five fifteen
news headlines coming up in ten minutes, and then there's
more Uncle Henry's Show.
Speaker 15 (26:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yesterday there was a mobile city council meeting. Longtime caller Buford.
He took his h He went on a field trip
with his daughter there. I had a voicemail from him
yesterday where he described how his daughter's class ran into
Mayor Stempson, and he talked about how he enjoyed going
on the field trip. He also phoned in this report
(27:22):
about what it was like to go to Government Plaza
on his daughter's field trip during a city council meeting.
Speaker 15 (27:28):
Oh, Pennry, one of my little girls had a field
trip to city council today. Yes, when Reginald started hambling,
we had the lady old to take a tour of
Government Plaza. I was hoping to be able to see
him get kicked down. Henry, William Carroll, some teller got
(27:53):
up there and petitioned the city council to provide money
to pick up people's houses with the tax dollar. Yeah,
and William Carroll was all for it. You know, he's
a communist anyway. But Henry, I was just watering. Do
you think my house needs to be painted? Do you
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think William Carroll will uh will give me government money
to paint my house?
Speaker 16 (28:21):
Or?
Speaker 15 (28:22):
Am I not the right type of person for him
to give that to you? Because I mean it was
Luckily the school Chilled Dream did not realize the stupidity
that was being flying around, and they were just just uh,
you know, it was all above their head, right. But anyway,
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Henry was an interested filterip for the Killed Dream. They
got to see how the government works and see a
city council meeting.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Uh.
Speaker 15 (28:54):
They did think that the original feller that gets thrown
out of city council every week. They did think he
was a little odd, did not understand what he was rambling.
One one child asked, what was that fella rambling about?
All I could say was, I don't know, son, I
got no idea. Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, Henry,
(29:17):
let me let you go up. Junior just took the
headress off the dagon seat of car, put that mac
so what the boss? Anyway, Henry, you.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Have a good day, diffred. Thank you for your report.
Now you for talking about A man went to the
city council meeting uh and asked for help repairing houses.
Now it was a man that was He was telling
the counsel that the elderly in Mobile, Alabama need help
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repairing their houses, and he wished the government would help
the elderly repair their houses. Here is a little bit
of that if you if you missed that, here's the man,
the man asking for the government to help repair people's houses.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
The digital age has suppressed their comprehension.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The digital age has done something to their comprehension suppressed
to their comprehension. This is good.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
The digital age has suppressed their comprehension. Yes, as it
relates to assistance for repairs, they need help a community
development program via grants and city funds earmarked for home improvements,
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which show them that the city cares and loves them
most worked hard and may and made mobile the city
what it is. As we move forward, will multi million
dollar projects for the future. Let's not forget the elderly
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that made it possible.
Speaker 17 (31:18):
Thank you so much, miss Wayne for coming down.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
And the city does have some program for the elderly,
and the councilor I can pretty much say all of
us do agree with you and everything all right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
So that was the council president telling the man, as
you heard that the council agrees with him that the
government should repair elderly people's houses. So if you are elderly,
you might want to call just to figure out if
the city will help you repair your house, whatever it is.
I did love what the man had to say.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
That one phrase, Let's not forget the elderly that made
it possible.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yes, that let and the little beeping there, that's not
a smoke alarm. That was the sound that time was up.
Let's not forget the elderly.
Speaker 14 (32:07):
Let's not forget the elderly.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yes, all right, anyway, Beautiford, thank you for your voicemail.
Voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
And Beautiford, I'm sure you know there are a lot
of people in the United States of America that feel
like the government is the source of all things good,
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and then when there's a problem in their lives, the
first the first move would be to contact the government.
So I'm not surprised. There is more Uncle Henry Show
to come after the news break here on News Radio
seventy ten w NTM. This is the Uncle Henry Show
(33:18):
here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. In this half
hour of show, going to go over some voicemails, have
a few news items as well. I want to start
off this half hour with a few more reflections on
the passing of Fox ten weather man John Ed Thompson. Now,
(33:42):
on yesterday's Uncle Henry Show, spent quite a while talking
about the passing of John Ed, remembering his career. Now
I talked about my personal interactions with John Ed and
things I knew about John Ed. I thought you might
want to hear some of the things that were said
by the Fox ten crew, just in case you didn't
(34:07):
get to see that last night on their broadcast. Hey,
before I get to what they had to say, here
is a voicemail on the topic of John Ed Thompson
and the passing of John Ed.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
Henry going through were saved. I found a Fox Tends
hurricane tracking map. Remember where's the can.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
Of those things?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Growl and I do remember when all the TV stations,
including Fox ten w Ala would hand out hurricane tracking maps.
If you're a young person like under the edge of fifty,
this would have been before the Internet. This would have
been pre Internet and probably overlapping the Internet by about
ten fifteen years.
Speaker 15 (34:58):
Remember raced to can of those things? Yes, and Henry,
it is autographed by none other than John Ed Thompson.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Man an end of an era, Henry.
Speaker 15 (35:15):
I am very very sad to see his passion.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Anyway, Henry, I'm.
Speaker 15 (35:22):
Very very glad I still have this autographed Fox ten
news hurricane tracking map, autographed by none other than John
Ed Thompson, you have a good day.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you for sharing that, and I understand why you
would keep it in a safe The Fox ten News
hurricane trapping map tracking map autographed by John Ed Thompson.
That's a some you can keep for the family. UH
would love you should post a picture on social media.
If you're on social media, post a picture.
Speaker 18 (35:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That would be I think a lot of people would
enjoy seeing that. Now. Remembering John ed Thompson, as I
mentioned yesterday, I talked about my memories of him, some
of my interactions with him, and I remembered what I
could about his career from things he had told me
and other people had told me. But of course on
Fox ten they did a much bigger job. Let's go
(36:18):
this is from yesterday, Lenise Lagon and I believe we'll
hear the outdoorsy weather guy that Jason Smith. I believe
we'll hear them talking about their memories of John Ed.
Let's listen together.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
So many kind words are coming in tonight for John Ed.
I also had the pleasure of working with him for
more than ten years, and his wit was unmatched. You
have the ability to make you laugh out loud. He
and Renee who you just heard from, along with Jackie,
were some of the sweetest people to me here when
I first started working at Fox ten.
Speaker 19 (36:56):
I've heard so many people say, you never know what
he might say. I walked past his picture in the
newsroom every day, and his impact is clear, not only
here at Fox ten, but also in this community.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
And I've had a lot of people ask me over
the last several years, even you know, have you seen
John Ed how's he do and how's he enjoying retirement?
And I think he really did up until the last
couple of months. And John Ed was He was a friend,
he was a boss, he was a mentor, and I
respected him and I learned a lot about the weather business.
And that's probably why I'm still here at Channel ten.
(37:30):
He was a Channel ten guy.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
He was just one of a kind and we all
learned something from him. Of people at home watching, you know,
he was a familiar face across so many homes along
the Gulf Coast and also a very trusted voice during hurricanes.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Tonight, we remember long time Fox ten chief meuteriologist John
ed Thompson, who has passed away.
Speaker 19 (37:52):
He's spent more than thirty years QPR Communities informed and safe,
and his legacy lives on in the hearts of those
who knew him and watched him.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Now, I thought you might want to hear what some
of the former personalities on Fox ten had to say
about John Ed. We're going to hear from Renee Dials.
She was great, wasn't she? Renee Dials? Nancy Piers, she
was great, wasn't she? And of course Bob Gribb, who
one of the best ever in town in my personal opinion.
(38:23):
Personal opinion time here, Okay, first, Renee Dials. Let's hear
what she had to say.
Speaker 20 (38:29):
Ears here.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
John D.
Speaker 18 (38:30):
Thompson's name was already well known when I moved to
the Gulf Coast decades ago. I always respected and appreciated
his experience, and I had the privilege of working with
him for many years on the early morning anchor desk
the weekends all of our newscast. He was always willing
to answer my questions and give me his take on
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this industry. Forecasting the news was John Ed's job, and
he did it well all of those years. But music
was his passion. Talked about it whenever he had a chance,
and those of us who knew him knew he was
always on the lookout for bargain guitar, any bargain for
that matter. A friend texted me earlier today and she
(39:11):
said John Ed has a new gig now playing in
the Heavenly Choir, and he will be missed here.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
When I'm moved.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Now here comes Nancy Peers. Now, I just saw Nancy
Peers at the Allison Krause concert. I went to the
Alison Krause concert last Friday night at the Wharf and
Orange Beach for ninety five KSJ and Nancy Peers was
going to the Alison Krause concert. Here's Nancy Peers talking
about John Ed.
Speaker 17 (39:38):
I'm too mobile from the Midwest. I thought, I'm not
gonna have to worry about tornadoes anymore. They don't hit
down here, just hurricanes. And then somebody told me that
with hurricanes come tornadoes. So I had to find somebody
who could call me down in. That person was John
Ed Thompson. We worked together and when he would forecast,
(40:00):
I would listen so carefully and I trusted him. Just
think about it. Back then, he didn't have the fancy
technology they have now, but he was able to give
us a really good forecast and let us know what
was happening. So I really appreciated John Ed Thompson and
I missed you, John Ed.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I'm so broken hearted over the loss of my deal.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Here's Bill Flowers, who worked for many I have no
idea how many years Bill Flowers was at Fox ten.
He just recently retired. And you may remember the name
because he was also recently elected a constable in Mobile County.
Here's Bill Flowers talking about John Ed.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Dear friend, John Ed Thompson. Jed and I have been
friends for over thirty years. We had just so much
in common. We both had recording studios, both had a
love of music, and of course a love of guitars.
John Ed, I'm gonna miss you.
Speaker 20 (40:54):
Johnny Thompson was a real example of what you see you.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And here is the great Bob gripp is what you got.
Speaker 20 (41:00):
He was exactly the same whether he was on the
air or whether he was off camera. He knew when
it was time to joke around with the weather when
really not much was going on. But he also knew
that when we were under a tornado watch or tornado warning,
or a hurricane was approaching the Gulf Coast. He knew
when it was time to get serious, and he knew
how to communicate that to everybody watching at home and
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everyone everyone believed John ed Thompson.
Speaker 16 (41:27):
That was one of his many attributes. My wife Diana
and I had a chance to meet up with him
and his wife Sharon a couple of times at local
restaurants recently, and he was exactly the same personable guy
that you saw four years here on Channeltown.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yes, indeed he will be missed. All right, back with
more Uncle Henry's Show after the break. Let's take the break,
it says the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio
(42:04):
seven ten WNTM newsaid lines coming up in ten minutes.
In the last segment of the show was once again
remembering the life and times of John ed Thompson. One
more thing on that topic. If you're a fan of
John ed Thompson, just take a look on YouTube. There's
(42:27):
lots of videos with John ed Thompson. I found one.
I think it was about ten years old, or maybe
older than that. John ed Thompson and Bob Gripp were
together on Studio ten and they were being interviewed by
Joe Emer and at the time, Cherish Lombard was on
Studio ten. So it was Joe Emer and Cherish Lombard
(42:49):
and they were interviewing Bob Gripp and John ed Thompson
about the sixtieth anniversary of WALA Television. And John Ed
talked about back in the day when they didn't have
all these computer graphics, that his weather map that he
had to tape see. I never knew this, the cold fronts,
(43:11):
all the lines they would put on the weather map.
He said, every day before the weather he would have
to tape those things on there. They used tape, and
he said, after the weather was over, you'd pull the
thing off and pull the tape off of it, and
then you'd use it again the next day. And then
later they had a bigger weather map that used magnets,
(43:33):
so you could have magnets to stick the cold front
up there or the warm front or whatever. Anyway, look
for all those videos, all those videos available on YouTube.
Just look up John ed Thompson and you'll find plenty
of them to watch. Now on the topic of nostalgia,
remembering things from the past that we might enjoy as
a form of entertainment in the modern times. Back when
(43:55):
I was doing the Uncle Henry Show here on news
radio seven to ten WNTM in the morning hours. For many,
many years, I had a daily feature called the Daily
Reagan and it was a quote from Ronald Reagan, a
few minutes of Ronald Reagan. And it was sponsored and
a lot of people appreciated hearing Reagan back then during
those years. I don't know if people would like that
(44:19):
today or not, but I just just for old time's sake,
If you don't mind, I'd like to. I'd like to
move forward with a Daily Reagan. Yes, let's go into it.
Let me find some theme music for this. Maybe this
will work. That sounds reagany Right, it's time for the
(44:47):
Daily Reagan. And in this edition of the Daily Reagan,
the topic from President Reagan is church and state and
the people that are always trying to stop us from
having any mixing of church and state. Let's listen together.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
We have all heard it charged that whenever those with
traditional religious values seek to contribute to public policy, they're
attempting to impose their views on others. We're told that
any public policy approach incorporating traditional values is out of bounds.
This is a matter that transcends partisan politics and demands
(45:29):
the attention of every American, regardless of party. If we
have come to a time in the United States when
the attempt to see traditional moral values reflected in public
policy leaves one open to irresponsible charges, then the structure
of our free society is under attack, and the foundation
of our freedom is threatened.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
By the way. I got to pause it there, just
because we're at that point. I mean, yes, if you
suggest that you want to influence public policy on behalf
of those values, boy, you bet you gotta be careful
even saying it.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Under the pretense of separation of church and state. Religious
beliefs cannot be advocated in many of our public institutions,
but atheism can.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
And I'm sorry to pause Present Reagan again. See I
never did this back back when I was doing the
Daily Reagan. There was no pausing in me jumping in
and interrupting the president. But think about that. He's making
the point that you're not supposed to make a religious observance.
But think about all the other things that are celebrated
by government institutions flying you know, flying the LBGTQ flags
(46:52):
and stuff on our embassies and things like that. Yeah,
things have not gone in the directtion that Ronald Reagan
wanted them to go in all right, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry for interrupting him. I'll I'm pausing.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
You know, I've often had a fantasy. I thought of
serving an atheist a delicious, gour made dinner and then
asking he or she whether they believed there was a cook.
(47:28):
When I hear the First Amendment used as a reason
to keep traditional moral values away from policy making, I'm shocked.
The First Amendment was written not to protect the people
and their laws from religious values, but to protect those
values from government tyranny.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
And that was The Daily Reagan here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Just just kind of a throwback,
even though it's not throw back Thursday, it's way back Wednesday.
Just a throwback to the earlier years of the Uncle
Henry Show, the Daily Reagan. And yes, I don't know
(48:12):
would people want to hear this today or not. I
don't know that they would, but I did. I enjoyed
it tremendously because everything he said it is absolutely true,
and it always has been and it always will be.
All right, out of time for this edition of the
Uncle Henry Show. Thank you for listening. I do appreciate
it very very much. As they say in sarah Land,
(48:33):
have a good one, and as they say in Theodore,
take it easy
Speaker 7 (48:43):
All right later
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I was going to say, it would be unfair because
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It says the Uncle Henry's Show here on news Radio
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to the on Clendar show. I appreciate it, Bear bear much.
Here we are together again, me and you trying to
figure out what on earth is going on in the
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world around us. If you would like to jump in
on the show, if you want to talk about some stuff,
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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, wet Wednesday,
light of rain. Looks like we're gonna have some rain
for the next several days. So here we are in
the rain together. We can talk about whatever you'd like
to talk about. There's all kinds of stuff going on
at every level. Stuff that was going on in the
(02:25):
legislature yesterday. I want to talk about we've got our
mayoral politics to get into. And of course in Washington,
d C. There's so much talk about it. I don't
know how you could talk about it, even if you
talked twenty four hours a day, seven days week. All
that stuff going on. Now today we in the mayor's race.
Now they had the forum last night the cottage your
(02:46):
Baptist Church. This morning you had the mayor of Mobile,
Standy Simpson, come out and endorse Spiro. So spirit Yes,
it is official. The endorsement is official. Sandy Stimpson endorsing
Spiro for mayor of Mobile. Let's see the Fox ten
(03:08):
ran just a brief little bit on this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
To see how he would do as as a candidate
and if he would get engaged and could he get
a team together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So I'm comfortable now that I've made the right decision.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah, current Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson making it an official
this morning, Stimpson endorsing former district Judge Spiro Cheria Goddess
for mayor. Spiro says he's running for mayor to ensure
Mobile remains a vibrant, thriving city for generations to come.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All right. So the announcement was made at Greer Saint
Louis Market this morning, and I've not been able to
find really good audio of what was said by the
mayor when he announced that he was endorsing Spiro. I
tried to say, I'm not as technically skilled as some
radio people. I tried to make it as he is
(04:00):
he to listen to as possible. I'm not going to
play a lot of this because the sound quality is
not that great. But just I'll just give you a little,
just a little bit. Here's just a little bit of
bad audio of the mayor endorsing Spiro. One of the
things he said right at the beginning here I thought
was of interest, So I didn't realize. So there's big applause.
(04:28):
Keeople are excited, sat up with the endorsement. Now just
as the youngest candidate, you know, I didn't even realize
that I was. I've looked at all these candidates, their pictures,
read about him. I hadn't realized he was the youngest.
(04:50):
Now what about that generational change? All right? So he
says he represents generational change, challenge.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
The Statish flow, courage to move beyond when it is
at work he will inspire for twenty five to fifty
year olds get on the sidelines and get days a
great city.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
All right, So again, now you understand one won't play
a lot of this because I can't get a good
version of it to play play you, but the mayor,
the current mayor, saying that as the youngest candidate, maybe
he will inspire other young young people to step up
and be involved in city stuff. Now, he talked for
for a lot longer than that, I guess about ten
(05:31):
minutes or so, five or ten minutes. If you can
find it on Facebook or YouTube, you can watch it
and decide what you think one way or the other
about what the mayor said about his reasoning or endorsing
Spiro in the race. Now, I enjoyed tremendously going to
land Yap landyapmobile dot com, a great source for local news.
(05:54):
And I went on to lanyapmobile dot com this afternoon
and read the re action of other candidates, which is
very fun. It's so much fun. Now, it's kind of
getting fun now. It's by the way, if you're a candidate,
I understand it's never fun for the candidate. Usually in
these elections, it's never fun really for the candidate and
(06:16):
their families, but for those of us that are not
in the race, it can be a lot of fun
watching them back and forth with all these candidates. So
the question is it a great thing to get the
endorsement of Mayor Stimpson or not? Now, if you'd ask
that question a year ago or so, I think it
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would have been a foregone conclusion. It was probably a
very good thing to get that endorsement from Mayor Stimpson.
He had been winning election and reelection over and over again.
Clearly whoever had stepped up in the previous elections didn't
have what people wanted, and so the mobilions voters continued
(06:57):
to go with Sandy Stimpson. I don't know what was
this whole was the whole police department thing a big
turning point because some people are questioning whether or not
it is a great thing to get the adorsement or not.
And it's hard not to smile saying that, because a
(07:18):
lot of people just think it is absolutely the greatest
thing in the world to get the endorsement. But I
don't know. Now I'm laughing because Lanyap talked to a
bunch of the other candidates and their campaigns, and according
to them, it's not good. Getting the endorsement is not
good according to other candidates. In fact, let's see the
(07:43):
lanyap in their story. This Afternoon has a statement from
Connie Hudson's campaign manager, Wiley Blankenship. He's been on this
show several times, he says, listen to this quote. Wiley
Blankenship says, quote, I have trom I have a tremendous
amount of respect for Mayor Stimpson and his leadership, but
(08:08):
it is troubling that he would choose to endorse a
candidate with no executive leadership and experience in government or
even a large business. I feel like this decision is
more about who can be controlled than who would be
best for Mobile. So again, remember the guy that said
this has a tremendous amount of respect, tremendous amount of
(08:31):
respect for Mayor Stimpson. However, now this is troubling. The
endorsement is troubling. It's all about who can be controlled.
I guess this is where the fund begins, where there's
going to be a lot of back and forth between campaigns.
But again, that story is at Lanyatmobile dot Com. A
lot of fun to see how all the other candidates
(08:53):
say it's not good. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seventy
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Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry,
iHeartMedia dot com. Now let's see. Uh so I mentioned
the h endorsement and the mayor's race. It'll be fun
to follow, and there are other news items. I wanted
to get to the Alabama legislature. If I'm I don't vape,
(10:03):
I don't vape, and I don't have occasion to buy
mysterious gummies in various establishments. But the Alabama Legislature has
passed some new legislation about vapes and gummies in the
state of Alabama. So if you're one of the people
that's a vapor or a gummy eater, then you will
(10:24):
be interested in all this stuff. I don't know if
you've noticed, but they're they're just about everywhere, going into
convenience stores, There's now lots of beverages that have things
in them, and I can never even figure out what
they are and what the strength of them are. I'm
just it's not of my era. All of these beverages
(10:48):
that contain THC and stuff like that. Well, Alabama legislature
passed some legislation on this. I suppose Governor Ivey's going
to sign it. Some of this sponsored by one of
the mayoral candidates, Barbara Drummond. So I thought you might
if you didn't hear about this, you might want to
hear of what's going to happen with gummies and vapes
(11:10):
in the state of Alabama. Here is a report from
I think this is WSFA in Montgomery, a step sister
station Fox ten reporting on the new rules.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Do regulations at the state level target products that contain THHC.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
THCHC is the active ingredient in marijuana, and products that
contain THHC have popped up in recent months and stores
across the state.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
State lawmakers approved legislation tonight that would limit where those
products could be sold. They also passed the bill aimed
at certain types of vaping products. Lawmakers told WSFA twelve
news anchors Sally Pitt's children's safety was top of mind.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
You have probably seen these in your local gas station.
They are sold as gummies, chips, and even drinks. State
Representative Andy Witz says that are unregulated and dangerous.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
We reeled in those illegal elements that has been plaguing
our communities and our students in our high schools.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
WITCH sponsor to build the authorizer Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board to regulate all consumable hemp products.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Ooh, sob I didn't realize this part. The ABC board
now regulating all hemp products now, don't. I have not
had a lot of one on one contact with people
that work for the ABC board, but in previous years
here in the Mobile area, I've heard about some aggressiveness
(12:40):
from time to time. Do you remember those stories? Some
aggressiveness with topics like underage drinking and stuff like that.
So now hemp products are going to come under that umbrella.
M H.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It also removes it from convenience stores and limits how
much you can buy.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Okay, So if you've liked going into a convenience store
and buying some type of mysterious gummy product that has
a clever name, and I wish I could remember some
of the things I've seen in convenience stores. For the
life of me, I can't even come up with a
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fake name for it. But if you're one of those
folks that love stopping in there and grabbing some type
of mysterious gummy or some mysterious beverage that's got THC
in it, it ain't going to be in the convenience
stores anymore.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
You're able to buy fifty milligrams in Shelby County on
Interstate sixty five and a slushy machine. We've got a
true problem. So I said, get your slushy on the
way to the beaches.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Represented Now I'm sorry to pause again, but I see
I don't understand what is What is fifty milligrams in
a slushy? Is that going to do something to a person?
I don't understand? Said, Maybe that's why they're that, Maybe
that's why that they've passed this legislation, because maybe most
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people are like me and have no idea what they're
actually buying or what it could or could not do
to them. What and do they make THC slushies on
the interstate?
Speaker 10 (14:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What is that? What's happening. Is that one of the
reasons that people are even worse behind the wheel than
ever before. I wanted to blame it all on smartphones.
Maybe it's on some type of special slushie. People are
stopping and getting some type of illicit, mysterious slushie that
has some effect on their brain as they drive toward
our beautiful community.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Whitsville is now headed to the governor for her signature,
so is Representative Barbara Drummondsville on vapes. Under it, convenience
stores would only be able to sell FDA regulated products,
which Drummond says is a small number of what's available
right now.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm sorry for pausing there again, but so they'd only
be able to sell FDA approved products in the convenience store.
When it comes to vapes, now, are any of those
approved by the FDA? Does the FDA approve vapes? What
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is this? I wonder? How is there going to be
a lot of room now for other products at convenience stores?
Are we going to see a lot more energy drinks
on the counter?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
All other products would have to go in twenty one
and up stores.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
From the classrooms to in the community. We saw this
becoming an epidemic.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Drummond beliefs this legislation will save lives.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
The reason that I've stayed with this issue for so
very long is because of a young man who died
in Dallas County. And I was exposed to a third
grader last year who is vaping. And this is a
problem that is going to affect their health. And I
think what this body did from the Senate to the
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House our children. We are looking out for their future.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Both bills put fees in place for those who do
not follow the rules. Sally Pitts w SA PA twelve News, Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All right, so you heard you heard Barbara Drumming there
talk about seeing a child with a vape. How troubling
that was? That was I saw a related story today
that made me think of you, the listener and talk
show caller Snake Trapper, because and I know you've already
(16:44):
heard this story as well, where police I guess it
was an Ohio found a raccoon with a meth pipe.
You heard about this. A woman was rested after a
raccoon named Chewy was found with a meth pipe in
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the driver's seat during a police stop. Mm hmm, all right,
well if that we should rest assured that if something
like that happened in Alabama, there would be some legislation
I'm sure immediately ready to go preventing raccoons from having
meth pipes in the state of Alabama. All Right, there's
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more to come. Yes, I am obligated via contract to
remain here on the air for the next hour. I'll
be back after the news break. We're gonna get news
headlines from Fox ten and Fox Radio National News, and
(17:49):
then more. Uncle Henry Show three email address, Uncle Henry
at iHeartMedia dot com. Hello, their color.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
Good evening and Uncle Henry.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Roll tied, roll tied. Reagan Girl, what's going on with you?
Reagan Girl?
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Well, I wanted to call in because I had just
heard I had heard you talking about those that they
and those interesting cells that gas stations make, and I
just thought I would voice my opinion on something.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Please do.
Speaker 12 (18:32):
Okay. I don't know if any of your other listeners,
if they partake in vapes, but I really wish that
people that vape, I wish that they would take a
look in the mirror because I just can't help but
feel like those that vape, they look like they are
(18:57):
walking around with Benkie. I mean they really do. It
looks like adults with pacifiers, and you know it is
not healthy. It is not healthy for you. I mean
you are basically breathing dangerous chemicals into your lungs and
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it looks like you're walking around with a binkie.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I mean, well, Reagan girl, would it be better if
the vape industry designed a vape that looked different, that
was somehow cooler, somehow more impressive, that did not look
like a pacifier?
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Actually, I don't think so. I mean I think that
you know, you would be better off going to Walmart
or the baby store and just buy a binkie. I mean,
because you know, therefore you would be you would not
be breathing dangerous chemicals and you have a pacifier. I mean,
(20:01):
there you go walk around with a banking Now.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
See, now you've given me an idea for my own product. See,
I'm in a point in line where I really need
to get rich as quickly as possible because it just
got married. So do you think I could make a
lot of money if I invented a nicotine infused adult
pacifier that adults would actually no child would be allowed
(20:25):
near it, but adults would have their own special nicotine pacifier.
Do you think people would buy that?
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Hey, you know, that might be good, and then just
slowly decrease the amount of nicotine that's in the banky okay,
assault uncle Henry, all.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right, and then eventually you just use your regular pacifier
without any nicotine in it.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
There you go, uncle, Well you take care and once again, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Well, thank you very much, regular. Great to hear from you.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Good to talk to you, uncle.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There she goes, Reagan girl, thank you, Reagan girl for
the phone call. Now, vapin was I do remember vaguely
when it when it first came on the scene, and
a lot of people thought it was great because anything
to get people from smoking tobacco. But now I get
(21:22):
a sense that instead of smoking tobacco, people don't don't
really know what they're smoking. They just they're just taking
in something that's got nicotine in it. So, uh, Reagan girl, yes,
you you you're telling us that it doesn't look good.
It doesn't look like something that Phonsie would do. I'm
trying to think of who would be considered in modern
(21:45):
times to be cool to use that slang term.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Back in the seventies, it was Phonsie, So who I
don't I don't know why throughout history people have smoked,
So I don't know how we break human beings of
that habit. It has been going on before we were
born and going to be going on after we're born, unless,
(22:14):
of course, we're completely taken over by tyrants and they
outlawed it without a vote. Not that I'm in favor
of it. I'm just saying it's human behavior that's been
around for a long long time, smoking or a variation.
Two five one four seven nine two seven two three
is telephone number. That's two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. Email address, Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia
(22:36):
dot com. I saw today that there is a new
health trend that is spreading on TikTok. Now you probably
watched TikTok videos, I'm guessing. I just want you to
know that I've still not downloaded that app. I've still
not downloaded it and don't watch TikTok videos. But I
(22:59):
saw it that there is a new health trend on
TikTok called Okra water, where people are putting videos up
on TikTok claiming that if you chop up okra and
soak it in water overnight and then the next morning
drink the water. That that Okra water has health benefits
(23:22):
like managing you'r a diabetes, helping you with a difficult pregnancy,
improving your gut health, improving your skin. This is all
spreading like wildfire onto TikTok app. Well, somebody thought to
go and ask actual doctors about this, and the actual
(23:43):
doctors say no health benefit at all to drinking the
Okra water unless you're dehydrated, and then it would help.
So I just want to throw that out for you
in case you're you think you're doing something really good
for yourself drinking some Okra Ochris soaked water. Hello color
(24:03):
Mary ld the mad Trucker.
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Hey, do you ever go to a state sales?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I do not. I have not been to one, maybe
in twenty thirty years.
Speaker 13 (24:14):
Really they're they're a tremendous amount of love to go
to it. But I just want to let you know,
because you know, I'm always looking out for friends, and
I assume we're friends, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Kind of Okay. I got a scale there in all
weigh up to six hundred pounds. So if your new
wife wants to use it.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Hey, you don't dare ever, don't joke there go after
my wife like this? How dare you l d?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
This is sick?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This is I never dreamed this, I never I never
dreamed it would transition to a different family member. You know,
this is in this religion, This marriage is it's less
than a month old. This is still in the honeymoon phase.
In quotation marks, are you trying to mess up my ma?
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Rich?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What do you think's gonna happen? My new wife finds
out that the truckers are calling the radio show in
publicly implying that she weighs six hundred pounds, and and
that's gonna cause her. You're gonna cause me trouble in
my house at all at night? This is seconding. All right, Look, listener,
(25:22):
I apologize for raising my voice, but I can't. I can't,
but I can't. I don't, I don't. I do not
understand the psychology of this. And you're I don't know
if it's just fun. You think it's just fun to
see if you can cause me to have a stroke.
Is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 14 (25:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I was, I was. It was a year ago. I
was in the It was in spring Hill Hospital for
five days with all kinds of heart issues. Are you're
trying to kill me? Is that the end result? Is
that the goal is the goal. You're trying to get
me to die. You want you to hear me die
on the air? All right, listener, I apologize. I know
(25:58):
you tuned in for you will probably wanted to hear
some type of Trump talk or something like that. I
apologize for that, but I'm not putting up with this.
I'm not gonna I'm not I don't know. Maybe I
need to. Maybe I should go callerless either that, or
(26:20):
figure out if we can do some type of phone
number blocking or something. Back after the break, Uncle Henry Show,
(26:45):
News Radio seven to ten WNTM. It is five fifteen
news headlines coming up in ten minutes, and then there's
more Uncle Henry's Show.
Speaker 15 (26:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yesterday there was a mobile city council meeting. Longtime caller Buford.
He took his h He went on a field trip
with his daughter there. I had a voicemail from him
yesterday where he described how his daughter's class ran into
Mayor Stempson, and he talked about how he enjoyed going
on the field trip. He also phoned in this report
(27:22):
about what it was like to go to Government Plaza
on his daughter's field trip during a city council meeting.
Speaker 15 (27:28):
Oh, Pennry, one of my little girls had a field
trip to city council today. Yes, when Reginald started hambling,
we had the lady old to take a tour of
Government Plaza. I was hoping to be able to see
him get kicked down. Henry, William Carroll, some teller got
(27:53):
up there and petitioned the city council to provide money
to pick up people's houses with the tax dollar. Yeah,
and William Carroll was all for it. You know, he's
a communist anyway. But Henry, I was just watering. Do
you think my house needs to be painted? Do you
(28:14):
think William Carroll will uh will give me government money
to paint my house?
Speaker 16 (28:21):
Or?
Speaker 15 (28:22):
Am I not the right type of person for him
to give that to you? Because I mean it was
Luckily the school Chilled Dream did not realize the stupidity
that was being flying around, and they were just just uh,
you know, it was all above their head, right. But anyway,
(28:46):
Henry was an interested filterip for the Killed Dream. They
got to see how the government works and see a
city council meeting.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Uh.
Speaker 15 (28:54):
They did think that the original feller that gets thrown
out of city council every week. They did think he
was a little odd, did not understand what he was rambling.
One one child asked, what was that fella rambling about?
All I could say was, I don't know, son, I
got no idea. Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, Henry,
(29:17):
let me let you go up. Junior just took the
headress off the dagon seat of car, put that mac
so what the boss? Anyway, Henry, you.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Have a good day, diffred. Thank you for your report.
Now you for talking about A man went to the
city council meeting uh and asked for help repairing houses.
Now it was a man that was He was telling
the counsel that the elderly in Mobile, Alabama need help
(29:46):
repairing their houses, and he wished the government would help
the elderly repair their houses. Here is a little bit
of that if you if you missed that, here's the man,
the man asking for the government to help repair people's houses.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
The digital age has suppressed their comprehension.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
The digital age has done something to their comprehension suppressed
to their comprehension. This is good.
Speaker 14 (30:17):
The digital age has suppressed their comprehension. Yes, as it
relates to assistance for repairs, they need help a community
development program via grants and city funds earmarked for home improvements,
(30:46):
which show them that the city cares and loves them
most worked hard and may and made mobile the city
what it is. As we move forward, will multi million
dollar projects for the future. Let's not forget the elderly
(31:12):
that made it possible.
Speaker 17 (31:18):
Thank you so much, miss Wayne for coming down.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
And the city does have some program for the elderly,
and the councilor I can pretty much say all of
us do agree with you and everything all right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
So that was the council president telling the man, as
you heard that the council agrees with him that the
government should repair elderly people's houses. So if you are elderly,
you might want to call just to figure out if
the city will help you repair your house, whatever it is.
I did love what the man had to say.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
That one phrase, Let's not forget the elderly that made
it possible.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yes, that let and the little beeping there, that's not
a smoke alarm. That was the sound that time was up.
Let's not forget the elderly.
Speaker 14 (32:07):
Let's not forget the elderly.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yes, all right, anyway, Beautiford, thank you for your voicemail.
Voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
And Beautiford, I'm sure you know there are a lot
of people in the United States of America that feel
like the government is the source of all things good,
(32:35):
and then when there's a problem in their lives, the
first the first move would be to contact the government.
So I'm not surprised. There is more Uncle Henry Show
to come after the news break here on News Radio
seventy ten w NTM. This is the Uncle Henry Show
(33:18):
here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. In this half
hour of show, going to go over some voicemails, have
a few news items as well. I want to start
off this half hour with a few more reflections on
the passing of Fox ten weather man John Ed Thompson. Now,
(33:42):
on yesterday's Uncle Henry Show, spent quite a while talking
about the passing of John Ed, remembering his career. Now
I talked about my personal interactions with John Ed and
things I knew about John Ed. I thought you might
want to hear some of the things that were said
by the Fox ten crew, just in case you didn't
(34:07):
get to see that last night on their broadcast. Hey,
before I get to what they had to say, here
is a voicemail on the topic of John Ed Thompson
and the passing of John Ed.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
Henry going through were saved. I found a Fox Tends
hurricane tracking map. Remember where's the can.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
Of those things?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Growl and I do remember when all the TV stations,
including Fox ten w Ala would hand out hurricane tracking maps.
If you're a young person like under the edge of fifty,
this would have been before the Internet. This would have
been pre Internet and probably overlapping the Internet by about
ten fifteen years.
Speaker 15 (34:58):
Remember raced to can of those things? Yes, and Henry,
it is autographed by none other than John Ed Thompson.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Man an end of an era, Henry.
Speaker 15 (35:15):
I am very very sad to see his passion.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Anyway, Henry, I'm.
Speaker 15 (35:22):
Very very glad I still have this autographed Fox ten
news hurricane tracking map, autographed by none other than John
Ed Thompson, you have a good day.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you for sharing that, and I understand why you
would keep it in a safe The Fox ten News
hurricane trapping map tracking map autographed by John Ed Thompson.
That's a some you can keep for the family. UH
would love you should post a picture on social media.
If you're on social media, post a picture.
Speaker 18 (35:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That would be I think a lot of people would
enjoy seeing that. Now. Remembering John ed Thompson, as I
mentioned yesterday, I talked about my memories of him, some
of my interactions with him, and I remembered what I
could about his career from things he had told me
and other people had told me. But of course on
Fox ten they did a much bigger job. Let's go
(36:18):
this is from yesterday, Lenise Lagon and I believe we'll
hear the outdoorsy weather guy that Jason Smith. I believe
we'll hear them talking about their memories of John Ed.
Let's listen together.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
So many kind words are coming in tonight for John Ed.
I also had the pleasure of working with him for
more than ten years, and his wit was unmatched. You
have the ability to make you laugh out loud. He
and Renee who you just heard from, along with Jackie,
were some of the sweetest people to me here when
I first started working at Fox ten.
Speaker 19 (36:56):
I've heard so many people say, you never know what
he might say. I walked past his picture in the
newsroom every day, and his impact is clear, not only
here at Fox ten, but also in this community.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
And I've had a lot of people ask me over
the last several years, even you know, have you seen
John Ed how's he do and how's he enjoying retirement?
And I think he really did up until the last
couple of months. And John Ed was He was a friend,
he was a boss, he was a mentor, and I
respected him and I learned a lot about the weather business.
And that's probably why I'm still here at Channel ten.
(37:30):
He was a Channel ten guy.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
He was just one of a kind and we all
learned something from him. Of people at home watching, you know,
he was a familiar face across so many homes along
the Gulf Coast and also a very trusted voice during hurricanes.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Tonight, we remember long time Fox ten chief meuteriologist John
ed Thompson, who has passed away.
Speaker 19 (37:52):
He's spent more than thirty years QPR Communities informed and safe,
and his legacy lives on in the hearts of those
who knew him and watched him.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Now, I thought you might want to hear what some
of the former personalities on Fox ten had to say
about John Ed. We're going to hear from Renee Dials.
She was great, wasn't she? Renee Dials? Nancy Piers, she
was great, wasn't she? And of course Bob Gribb, who
one of the best ever in town in my personal opinion.
(38:23):
Personal opinion time here, Okay, first, Renee Dials. Let's hear
what she had to say.
Speaker 20 (38:29):
Ears here.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
John D.
Speaker 18 (38:30):
Thompson's name was already well known when I moved to
the Gulf Coast decades ago. I always respected and appreciated
his experience, and I had the privilege of working with
him for many years on the early morning anchor desk
the weekends all of our newscast. He was always willing
to answer my questions and give me his take on
(38:50):
this industry. Forecasting the news was John Ed's job, and
he did it well all of those years. But music
was his passion. Talked about it whenever he had a chance,
and those of us who knew him knew he was
always on the lookout for bargain guitar, any bargain for
that matter. A friend texted me earlier today and she
(39:11):
said John Ed has a new gig now playing in
the Heavenly Choir, and he will be missed here.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
When I'm moved.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Now here comes Nancy Peers. Now, I just saw Nancy
Peers at the Allison Krause concert. I went to the
Alison Krause concert last Friday night at the Wharf and
Orange Beach for ninety five KSJ and Nancy Peers was
going to the Alison Krause concert. Here's Nancy Peers talking
about John Ed.
Speaker 17 (39:38):
I'm too mobile from the Midwest. I thought, I'm not
gonna have to worry about tornadoes anymore. They don't hit
down here, just hurricanes. And then somebody told me that
with hurricanes come tornadoes. So I had to find somebody
who could call me down in. That person was John
Ed Thompson. We worked together and when he would forecast,
(40:00):
I would listen so carefully and I trusted him. Just
think about it. Back then, he didn't have the fancy
technology they have now, but he was able to give
us a really good forecast and let us know what
was happening. So I really appreciated John Ed Thompson and
I missed you, John Ed.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I'm so broken hearted over the loss of my deal.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Here's Bill Flowers, who worked for many I have no
idea how many years Bill Flowers was at Fox ten.
He just recently retired. And you may remember the name
because he was also recently elected a constable in Mobile County.
Here's Bill Flowers talking about John Ed.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Dear friend, John Ed Thompson. Jed and I have been
friends for over thirty years. We had just so much
in common. We both had recording studios, both had a
love of music, and of course a love of guitars.
John Ed, I'm gonna miss you.
Speaker 20 (40:54):
Johnny Thompson was a real example of what you see you.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And here is the great Bob gripp is what you got.
Speaker 20 (41:00):
He was exactly the same whether he was on the
air or whether he was off camera. He knew when
it was time to joke around with the weather when
really not much was going on. But he also knew
that when we were under a tornado watch or tornado warning,
or a hurricane was approaching the Gulf Coast. He knew
when it was time to get serious, and he knew
how to communicate that to everybody watching at home and
(41:24):
everyone everyone believed John ed Thompson.
Speaker 16 (41:27):
That was one of his many attributes. My wife Diana
and I had a chance to meet up with him
and his wife Sharon a couple of times at local
restaurants recently, and he was exactly the same personable guy
that you saw four years here on Channeltown.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yes, indeed he will be missed. All right, back with
more Uncle Henry's Show after the break. Let's take the break,
it says the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio
(42:04):
seven ten WNTM newsaid lines coming up in ten minutes.
In the last segment of the show was once again
remembering the life and times of John ed Thompson. One
more thing on that topic. If you're a fan of
John ed Thompson, just take a look on YouTube. There's
(42:27):
lots of videos with John ed Thompson. I found one.
I think it was about ten years old, or maybe
older than that. John ed Thompson and Bob Gripp were
together on Studio ten and they were being interviewed by
Joe Emer and at the time, Cherish Lombard was on
Studio ten. So it was Joe Emer and Cherish Lombard
(42:49):
and they were interviewing Bob Gripp and John ed Thompson
about the sixtieth anniversary of WALA Television. And John Ed
talked about back in the day when they didn't have
all these computer graphics, that his weather map that he
had to tape see. I never knew this, the cold fronts,
(43:11):
all the lines they would put on the weather map.
He said, every day before the weather he would have
to tape those things on there. They used tape, and
he said, after the weather was over, you'd pull the
thing off and pull the tape off of it, and
then you'd use it again the next day. And then
later they had a bigger weather map that used magnets,
(43:33):
so you could have magnets to stick the cold front
up there or the warm front or whatever. Anyway, look
for all those videos, all those videos available on YouTube.
Just look up John ed Thompson and you'll find plenty
of them to watch. Now on the topic of nostalgia,
remembering things from the past that we might enjoy as
a form of entertainment in the modern times. Back when
(43:55):
I was doing the Uncle Henry Show here on news
radio seven to ten WNTM in the morning hours. For many,
many years, I had a daily feature called the Daily
Reagan and it was a quote from Ronald Reagan, a
few minutes of Ronald Reagan. And it was sponsored and
a lot of people appreciated hearing Reagan back then during
those years. I don't know if people would like that
(44:19):
today or not, but I just just for old time's sake,
If you don't mind, I'd like to. I'd like to
move forward with a Daily Reagan. Yes, let's go into it.
Let me find some theme music for this. Maybe this
will work. That sounds reagany Right, it's time for the
(44:47):
Daily Reagan. And in this edition of the Daily Reagan,
the topic from President Reagan is church and state and
the people that are always trying to stop us from
having any mixing of church and state. Let's listen together.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
We have all heard it charged that whenever those with
traditional religious values seek to contribute to public policy, they're
attempting to impose their views on others. We're told that
any public policy approach incorporating traditional values is out of bounds.
This is a matter that transcends partisan politics and demands
(45:29):
the attention of every American, regardless of party. If we
have come to a time in the United States when
the attempt to see traditional moral values reflected in public
policy leaves one open to irresponsible charges, then the structure
of our free society is under attack, and the foundation
of our freedom is threatened.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
By the way. I got to pause it there, just
because we're at that point. I mean, yes, if you
suggest that you want to influence public policy on behalf
of those values, boy, you bet you gotta be careful
even saying it.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Under the pretense of separation of church and state. Religious
beliefs cannot be advocated in many of our public institutions,
but atheism can.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
And I'm sorry to pause Present Reagan again. See I
never did this back back when I was doing the
Daily Reagan. There was no pausing in me jumping in
and interrupting the president. But think about that. He's making
the point that you're not supposed to make a religious observance.
But think about all the other things that are celebrated
by government institutions flying you know, flying the LBGTQ flags
(46:52):
and stuff on our embassies and things like that. Yeah,
things have not gone in the directtion that Ronald Reagan
wanted them to go in all right, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry for interrupting him. I'll I'm pausing.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
You know, I've often had a fantasy. I thought of
serving an atheist a delicious, gour made dinner and then
asking he or she whether they believed there was a cook.
(47:28):
When I hear the First Amendment used as a reason
to keep traditional moral values away from policy making, I'm shocked.
The First Amendment was written not to protect the people
and their laws from religious values, but to protect those
values from government tyranny.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
And that was The Daily Reagan here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM. Just just kind of a throwback,
even though it's not throw back Thursday, it's way back Wednesday.
Just a throwback to the earlier years of the Uncle
Henry Show, the Daily Reagan. And yes, I don't know
(48:12):
would people want to hear this today or not. I
don't know that they would, but I did. I enjoyed
it tremendously because everything he said it is absolutely true,
and it always has been and it always will be.
All right, out of time for this edition of the
Uncle Henry Show. Thank you for listening. I do appreciate
it very very much. As they say in sarah Land,
(48:33):
have a good one, and as they say in Theodore,
take it easy
Speaker 7 (48:43):
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