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the Uncle Henry Show. Now, there's plenty of things to
be talking about on the Uncle Henry Show. There always is,
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Especially now, we could just pay attention to national news
and talk for to the end of time. Global news,
state news, local news, all kinds of stuff going on locally.
We talk about all that stuff before I get in
idy of that, though, I just want to, if you
don't mind, I'd like to talk to the listener that's
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been listening to me for a while, those that may
have been listeners year ago, two years ago, five years ago, ten, fifteen,
twenty twenty five, whatever the length of service to the program.
I just want to share something from my personal life
with you. It's rare that I come on the air
to show my share from my personal life. So I'd
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like to share from my personal life. I was off
the air last week. A couple of days I was.
I did not do a program on Tuesday. I was
off Tuesday, and then I was off Friday, and those
were kind of unplanned those days off, and the reason
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I just want to let you in on it. This
past Tuesday, I got married, Yes, I got married Tuesday Now,
this was not a big ceremony like I would like
to have that'll come later. This was a courthouse in
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the state of Alabama. You go get the marriage license,
you fill it out properly. And I did have a
nervous moment when the lady at the at probate was
looking at my application very carefully. I thought, did I
spell something wrong? If I got something wrong, what kind
of air could I have made? But everything checked out
and I got married. It was a courthouse situation Tuesday.
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So I'm now a married man. I don't know that
I've hosted the Uncle Henry. Well, I can tell you.
I don't believe I have hosted the Uncle Henry Show
on this station as a married man. So this is this.
I don't know how the perspective will change on the program.
I don't know if I'll talk more about whatever it
is that wives talk about to their husbands. I don't know.
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I'm going to find out. You'll find out if you
keep on listening, if it changes in any perceptible way.
Maybe there'll be more talking of couponing. I don't know
who knows, garden clubs. I don't know. I have no
idea what this will do to the program. But it's
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a wonderful thing for me, having become a married man.
Now I don't know how great a deal it is
for her, because I didn't do the math for her,
but I did. As the years have gone by, I've
realized that women, single women, they seem to have no
ceiling on how they how long they can go without
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having a husband. You see all these women turning one
hundred years old, one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty,
no man in their life. They seem to be They
seem to do fine as a single woman in her nineties, hundreds, whatever.
I don't know that you can say the same thing
about men. I don't know that you can say the
same thing about men going on and on in life
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without a woman in the house. And as I get
older and get more infirm, get on, get it, develop
all these relationships with doctors andsts, specialists and stuff. I
did the math. I sat down, and I did some ciphering,
and I believe that getting married is a lot more
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economically smart than hiring a private duty nurse. Now that
was an option, hiring a private duty nurse, but it's
it's far less expensive to just go ahead and get married.
So instead of getting a nurse, I decided to get married.
This was the decision I made many years ago. And
I think there was a lot that went into the
decision because there was a while I kept thinking, well,
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do I really need to get married. No, I can't
really afford twenty four hour nursing care. But you know,
they are working on robots. They are, they're working on robots.
I could have waited until some type of you know,
half machine half mannequin could come in and you know,
pick me up when I fall down and stuff like that.
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But I decided, no, I'm going to go the old
fashioned way, and I'm gonna make it with a human
being a marriage. And so UH spent many years looking
for just the right person to share my life with.
I had some I had my own list of qualities.
I was looking for a woman I did. I wanted
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to marry a woman that believed in the Lord. That
was important. I wanted to marry a woman that was
an Alabama fan. That was now no offense to to
Auburn and LSU fans or South Alabama fans, but I
wanted to I wanted there to be an Alabama fan
wife because that it's really too late in life to
get into those kind of arguments. And then I really
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was hoping to get a mature former trail maid, just
just something about the qualities of the Isia tro maids
that I admire, the ability to curtsey and do things
like that. And so I finally found someone that fit
all of those qualifications and we have entered into matrimony together.
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So if you were wondering where I was Tuesday, that's
where I was. I was getting married to a very
attractive female person down at the courthouse. So I've been
very happy. Now, that's not why I was out Friday,
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and I'll get into that. I'll explain what happened Friday
after the break here on NewsRadio seventy ten WNTM, The
Uncle Henry Show, The newly married Uncle Henry Uncle Henry Show,
News Radio seven ten WNTIM. It's five twenty news headlines
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coming up in ten minutes. In the previous segment of
the program, I announced to you that I got married
last week. There's more to it, but I do have
a living collar on the line.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Hello Collor, Hey, Uncle Henry is sart RT.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You are live on the Radio RT.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh, that's great. Congratulations, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I'm happy for Thank you, RT. I appreciate your happiness.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I have one concerned though, Uncle Henry. Yes, and I
hope you're not going Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
As No, I have not married a twenty four year
old check. Yeah, I heard, I've I've seen Bill Belichick
and his very very young girlfriend. No, this is this
is not the case. I did not go in that direction.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Okay, good, Uncle Henry goes. I'm concerned from the coach Belichick.
I hope he's not making a bad mistake, you know.
But anyway, I'm glad to hear from you. And I'm
also glad that Alan Batma didn't have a coach Belichick.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, you have to wonder about the decision making process
when he's running around trying to coach college football with
his twenty four year old girlfriend on the field.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yeah. So I'm glad that. I'm glad to hear that's
not the case with you. This is actually somebody in
one a year. You know, I'm sixty years old. I
couldn't imagine trying to get involved with the twenty four
year old.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, it usually requires being a multi millionaire at his age.
You're right, and I don't know, I don't know anything
about your personal situation, but you and I probably are
not at that level to uh to to throw the
money around.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Definitely, I'm just a regular every day that but yeah,
I'm definitely not. But any way, Uh, I'm glad to
hear for your happiness and uh anyway, roll clide, roll.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Ro roll, sir, thank you very much for your phone call.
Thank you for uh your question about that. Now, there
is a bit of an age difference only because I
do need my significant other to be able to help
me get up from medical situations. So I had to Yes,
I'm sorry, I know, but I had to find I
had to have somebody with the physical ability because I'm
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that age. You never know. I mean, one day I'm fine,
the next day I'm needing help getting of off the ground.
So it had to be somebody that had the uh,
the the muscle tone, and the the ability physically to
lift me out of very terrible situations. So we had
we had. That was a consideration in that whole age
gap thing. Let's see, Well, I've got other things to
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tell you about, but more living callers on the phone line. Hello, caller, Hello,
all right, Well, one thing I can say happily is
that my new bride is not a fan of Woody
would Pecker, and I will not be forced to watch
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any kind of Woody would Peck her broadcast, even if
there are grandchildren around.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Hello caller, Hey, Uncle Henry l Da Matt Trucker Man,
congratulations on your marriage.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Thank you very much for you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
You know, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
They say that a lot of men marry people that
remind them of their mothers, and I just want to
know that she weighs six hundred pounds to she does not.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
You're freaking neither does my mother. And he hung up.
This is disgusting. You know, I can't get through thirty
minutes of this show with a happy event in my life.
That is something that I haven't I haven't even I've
been doing this show on this station for all these years,
have not had any kind of happy event like this.
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Just share it with you that whole time in the
day that I do, somebody has to call in and
make an attack on my family. This country is sick.
We've got there's demons running all over this country, and
you know it as well as I do just jumping
into people's heads, making them say all these horrible things,
making them go out and vandalize cars and just do
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all kinds of horrible stuff, shoot people at parks and
things like this. We need a revival in this country.
We need a revival. Some people need to slap upside
the head. But I'm not looking. I'm not advocating for slapping.
I'm advocating just because you need it, doesn't need you're
gonna get it. But I'm advocating for a revival in
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the country. I think that's if you the listener, if
you've got a prayer list, put LD on the prayer list.
Because I've met him. I know that he does do
some good in the community. But there's his his uh
sadistic side, and he needs to have it prayed out
of him. So if you, I know that many listeners
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have a prayer list, slip LD on the prayer list.
Slip LD on the prayer list, will you please, because
I want to pray this out of him? All right?
Two five, one four seven nine two two three the
telephone number on the Uncle Henry Show. Now, I wouldn't
here Friday either out Tuesday afternoon, got married. I intended
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to be here Friday and do the show Friday, but
couldn't do it. My new bride Thursday, a couple of
days after our marriage, she notices something is happening with
a vision in one of her eyes, and it got worse,
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and it got worse, and her vision was really messed
up in one of her eyes. So Friday morning, got
an emergency appointment a Premiere Medical and turns out that
she had a tear in her retina. And I don't
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know how common it is. I haven't met a lot
of people that have gone through a retinal tear. But
they said, hey, we got to take care of this
right away because you could lose your if it detaches,
you lose your vision. There's not a lot we can
do for you. So they went in there and they
tried to laser her retina to fix it, but there
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was too much blood in there, so they had to
do an actual surgery on her eyeball this past Friday.
So I could not make it to work Friday. Now,
when they got in the eyeball For those that are
interested in eyeball talk, hadn't done a lot of eyeball
talk in years. Really on the show. When they got
in her eyeball and started looking around in there, they
found she didn't have just one tear, that she had
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like five tears in her retina, and retina was just
right about to detach, so they had if we had
not gotten to taken care of it would have been
it would have been really, really bad. So they lasered
her up, put a gas bubble in the eye to
hold the retina in place. And so right now my
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new bride is very uncomfortable and has to keep her
her head in a position like in a downward position
for several days in a row. But they're saying there's
a good chance she'll get visioned back in that eye.
So it's been a wild it's been a wild weekend,
a wild week this last week in my household. One
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of the wildest things, though, from a from a from
a money standpoint, was what happened she her they didn't
take her medical insurance at the eye doctors. They didn't
take her. She had insurance, they wouldn't take it, and
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it was too soon to have her on my insurance.
When I when we come back, I'll just briefly tell
you what that's like. When You're going in for a
for a procedure with a specialist and lasers and stuff,
and you got no medical insurance. I was crying. I
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found it quite fascinating, and I'll tell you about it
after the break. Uncle Henbriy Show News Radio seven to
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ten WNTM. It is five thirty five. In the last
segment of the show, I shared with you the news
that I got married last week, and then I shared
the news that on Friday, I was off the air
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Friday because my new bride just out of the blue
a retina a multiple tears in the retina, almost a
retinal detachment, and had to have an emergency surgery on
the eye to save the vision in the eye. And
doctor Stuart Ball, the younger doctor Stuart Ball of Premier
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Medical told told us that she has an eighty five
percent chance of getting the vision back in her eye,
which is great, but real quick. And I've got a
caller waiting, callar hang on, because I just I'll try
to make this quick. I want to learn more in
the year twenty twenty five about how medical procedures are priced,
because I found this interesting. I was in the hospital
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last July with a heart issue and they did a
heartcath on me. I think the bill to do the
heart thing where they went in and looked around inside
the heart. I think that was like a ten thousand
dollars procedure, if I remember correctly, ten grand just to
look up in there. Now, earlier this year, one of
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my dogs has been ill and I took the dog
to the vet and the dog has a tumor and
the dog's chest and I was given an estimated price
if we decided to remove the tumor, it would cost
between six and seven thousand dollars. Between six and seven
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thousand dollars to remove the tumor on the dog. It's okay,
that's I guess that's what the going rate is for
removing tumors from a dog's chest. So Friday, as I mentioned,
we were getting the eye repaired, and it had to
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be done in order to save the site. And the
place did not take my new bride's medical insurance. And
because she was brand new bride, like two days of
being married to me, she's not yet on my medical insurance.
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So it was all cash up front, and this made
me a little nervous. Now, no question, had to get
it done. And what price do you put on vision?
Maybe all the money you've got if you want to
make sure you can see you spend everything. So I
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braced myself the cash price up front and this, the
cash price up front was only a thousand bucks. And
so I'm really curious about how these things are priced,
because this was not an easy, we do this everyday
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type of thing. This was a surgery that involved cutting
on the eye, lasering in the eye, multiple professionals involved
at all kinds of different levels, looking at this, that
and the other. Only a grand and I say only,
I'm still I'm still at a point in my life
where that's a lot of money to me. To me,
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that's a lot of money. But still cash price up front,
only a grand. I wonder, I don't know if I
can find out or not, but I wonder what what
did it have been cost? What would the cost be
to the insurance company for that? I guess SNY I
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need a solid education on this. And you, the listener,
you probably know all about this and you know how
pricing works. But it just I'm I've left being confused
by all of it, but very very pleased with the
quality of care. The doctors were all fantastic. I think
we saw doctor Carter and doctor Ball both outstanding, outstanding physicians.
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But a cash price. I know, I might start asking now,
even though I've got medical insurance, I might start asking
up front, what's the cash price, just to find out
maybe it might end up being cheaper than the deductible
at some point. All right, two five, one, four, seven
nine three. The telephone number here on the Uncle Hendrew Show.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Hello, color, Hey over, hen how you doing, Snake.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Trapper, Snake Trapper, you are live on the radio.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Hen I'd like to wish your bigger congratulations on your
new bride and let her know that our prefers her
with her that she makes the full recovery with her eyes.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Okay, well, thank you very very much. And Snake Trapper,
you you heard l D called in and wanted to
know if she was six hundred pounds. You've seen my Brinde.
Can you describe to the listener her approximate weight or size,
O Henry.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
She appears to be probably around five four, maybe five
five probably. I mean I wouldn't think she weighed announce
over one hundred pounds. You know, I'm not too good
at judging weight. On women. But she is definitely a
beautiful lady and she is definitely not overweight. But yeah, o,
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Henry' talking about to weigh them. Old doctors charge people.
You know, back in the day when we would do
our pig hunting with our dogs, you know, it wasn't
you know, once you've corner of pig or something, you know,
one get cut, man, We didn't take them to the
vet on Henry were.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Wait wait wait wait wait, just uh, I want people
to know that that it was not planned that that
snake Trafford would immediately go from talking about my wife's
size to discussing pigs being given medical treatment. This was
not planned, and there's really no association between the two.
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But you were saying that when you treated pigs, uh,
it was inexpensive. What are you telling me?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh well, Jess, I was told actually talking about treating
your dogs that's been cut by a hog. But now
also too, I've neither many had a hog in my lifetime,
and we never took them to the vet. Okay, you
know we've always sewed them up ourselves in the same
way with the dogs, you know, as long as you
make sure the wound was cleaned out, and you treated
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it with some my thoul aid, man, or just any
kind of anybiodic or or bullet out with peroxide. Even
then they would make a full recovery. But uh yeah,
them doctors really get you on your on your fur babies.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But uh o, Henry, what are really called of them? Graduates?
And hope that your bray gets better? Uh man, this
is one of the snakiest weekends I believe I've experienced
in many, many years.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
How was now? How was this weekend one of the
snakiest weekends you've experienced?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Oh, Henry. Me and my mother in law both had
visitors from snakes. I had a rat snake and she
had a king snake. And she sent me a picture
of hers. And I told her that it was a
king snake, it was harmless. And she takes me back
and she beat it to a bolvarine. She she killed
the snake and.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
H wait, you your mother, your mother killed a snake.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
My mother in law, Oh, your mother in law.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
So even all these years, she has not learned to
trust snakes the way you do.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
She don't over Henry's you know, she's eighty four years old,
and any kind of a snake bite, even for one
that's non venomous, could be very hazardous to her, you know, because,
like I said, probably I've suffered a severe wound from
a non venomous black snake. It was a big one.
And you know they carried back care in their mouth too.
If they punctured your skin and that's not treated right away,
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it could get it could get infacted. So Yester, she
didn't wait for me to come get her nothing. She
went ahead and had let herself. But also on Henry
four different of my neighbors sent me pictures and contacted
me about snakes in their yard. So, man, this is
a very active and I posted on the snake trapper
page the gray rat that visited me. So anybody want
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to check that out. They go there and look at
the little visitor I had. Saturday.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah, I got a I got a phone call about
you from sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yes, sir, I meant to mention him too. He also
had a snake shed in his yard, which it appeared
to be I told him I thought it was either
a corn snake or a I told her it definitely
wasn't a moccasin or a rattlesnake because the diamond it
was too small, and by the scale size on the
skin it appeared to be a corn snake, which some
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people call them red rats. But yes, sir man, they
it was definitely active this weekend. Men.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
All right, snake Trapper, thank you, thank you so much
for your congratulations and also your snake report. I really
appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yes, sir buddy, you have to take care.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Now to thank you Snake Trapper. There is more show
to come, but first taking a time out for traffic, weather,
words from our sponsors, and then more Uncle Henry's show
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Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yo, ty, don't you.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Noticed something? When I come back from the walmarts here
a little earlier on this Monday at one eight pm,
it was a snake skin, oh about two feet long?
Perhaps I laying up by the front porch, and uh,
of course I could tell what kind of snakes. It's
just a skin, but I thought I want to full
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snake traffiicans identify the brand of a snake just by.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The brand of a snake? What brand snake bit you?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
And but I thought, I want to full snake traffiicans
identify the brand of a snake just by looking at
it shed skin. So what did I do? I jumped
on the fake books and send him a message. He said, yeah,
he probably could have took a picture and shout it
to him, and he did. I tell you what, that
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rascal he knows something about some wildlife doney. By the way,
he said it was a rat snake, which they're a
good one, so I ain't gonna worry about that. He'll
help keep the unwarned krivers away. Must be something to
have a talent like that. Huh. So A big shout
out to snake thank you.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
All right, there you go. A shout out snake Trapper
from sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley. If
you have a snake in your yard or a snake's
skin in your yard and you want to get it identified,
take a picture of it and you can find snake
Trapper on Facebook. I believe it's two words, snake trapper,
find him and send him the picture. And I believe
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he loves identifying those snakes for you. Now let's see
before amount of time two five one four seven nine
two seven two three. The telephone number. That's two five
one four seven nine two seven two three before amount
of time. In this segment of the show, there was
a news item this afternoon. I wanted to make sure
that I mentioned to you, Uh, the the former Golf
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Quest Maritime Museum has changed its name again. Now you
remember it was the Golf Quest Maritime Museum, one of
the great boondoggles of all time for the Gulf Coast. Uh.
They changed the name of the Golf Quest to the
National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. And now
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because President Trumps has changed the name of the Golf
to the Gulf of America, and there's an Alabama lawmaker
trying to pass a bill requiring local and state entities
to use Golf of America in their official materials if
they if they can. Uh. Today they've announced down at
the museum that they have a new name for the museum.
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It is now the National Museum of the Golf. The
National Museum of the Golf is the new name for
that museum. So and that that covers it. So if
somebody gets if we get a new president and they
change it back to Golf of Mexico, or they come
up with some other name for it that they want
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to call it. It's now covered National Museum of the Golf.
And I've read the stories like you have that the
city's been trying to convince Margaritaville to come and put
a Margaritaville bar at the top of the top of
that structure. Who knows, maybe maybe with a bar on
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top of it and a name change, maybe they can
get something going down there. Mobilians do like to get
together and party. You may have noticed this. You may
have noticed that there is a bit of a drinking culture,
and mobilians enjoy partying. If they could figure out a
way to put a party every night of the week
at the top of that museum, they would probably get
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much much more traffic, don't you think so. National Museum
of the Golf is the oh, National Maritime Museum of
the Golf. National Maritime Museum of the Golf is the
new name of that particular boondoggle down there. I wish
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him the very best, and I said, and I'll repeat
what I said to you a few years ago. You know,
it had to it's been forced to remain a maritime
museum because I think that was the requirements of the
grant money that we got from the federal government. Mobile
should beg. They should beg Katie Britt, Tommy Tuberville, and
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the different congress people representing this area in Washington. They
should beg these congress people, these senators to get to
get that forgiven to allow us to use that building.
Do something up there in Congress to allow us to
use that building for whatever would be best for the
city of Mobile, and not continue to make it a
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maritime museum that it's it's just difficult to get people
excited about going in there and look at exhibits on
anchors and stuff like that. It's a little hard a
bar at the top. It's a good start. But if
you could just get us released from that one requirement
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that it be a maritime museum and allow the city
to use it for whatever they can use it for,
that would be a wonderful relief and maybe get more
use out of the building. That space, quite valuable space
down there. All right, out of time for this segment
of the show, but there is more to come. I
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got to almost no news in this hour, So I
got to at least one news item I want to
try to slip in in the next half hour of
the Uncle Henry Show. So please listen. Got news headlines
coming up and the more Uncle Henry Show on WNTL.
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It says, the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seventy ten WNTM. Now in this half hour of show,
I want to check some voicemail. I want to share
a news item with you. I'm also gonna talk with
a lady from the Saint Mary Steakout. Yes, this weekend
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is the Saint Mary Steakout. It raises money for Saint
Mary Catholic Church School and they have a big steakout
thing every year where you go and eat a bunch
of steak for the good cause of that school. What
a wonderful thing to eat steak for any good cause.
I like the idea of it. I like the idea
of meat being involved in a charitable effort. So we'll
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get to all of that. Let me start with a
voicemail voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six. That's two five one two one six, nineteen
seventy six to leave a message for the Uncle Henry Show. Now.
Last Thursday, Snake Trapper called in live on the Uncle
Henry Show to tell a story about how how he
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tried to rescue a Bobcat. Well, I shouldn't say tried
to rescue snake trap. Go find the podcast and listen
to it yourself. From Thursday, Snake Trapper says he rescued
a bobcat that was drowning and even performed like CPR
on the bobcat. And that got that got my attention.
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I thought that sounds like something Paul Bunyan would do.
That got my attention. It also got the attention of
sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley, Alabama. He
phoned this in Friday evening.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Bro tired, Uncle Uncle, sitting out here on the front porch,
another beautiful day here in have did a paradise at
eleven twenty four am on the.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
SO eleven twenty four am. It was just it was
Friday morning.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Yes Friday, and yesterday I missed the Uncle Henry teleacats
last broadcast. So Rita had a choir recital at the
Robersdale Elementary and I was an attention attending attendance lord
at that she performed, her and her classmates performed quite well.
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On my head, I had to I'm watching it on
the rerun on the Facebook, and I had to pause
after the snake trapper and the Bobcats story, Nate Trapper.
It takes all kinds. If I were wearing one right now,
my hat would be off to you, buddy, because had
I been in your situation, I probably would have took
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a picture of the little Bobcat just before he went
under for the last time, because there's no way in
the wide world of sports. I'm trying to save him.
But it takes all kinds of people to, you know,
And that's not a criticism to help out God's creatures.
So again, my hat's softy, but be more careful next time.
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So that's blab I say. I like something that saund
like something that Jim Fowler would have run into while
what's his name was sitting up there on the bank
of sipping on a martini.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Sixty eight year old quick us off Wes Locksley, thank
you for your reference to Wild Kingdom and Marlon Perkins
and Jim Fowler and all this we used to well,
I think we all watched that video over and over
again of was it a snake, was a python or
an anaconda or something that Jim Fowler had to wrestle
or something on television, and while Marlon Perkins was who
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knows where, probably at a resort somewhere. All right, thank
you for the voicemail about the bobcat story. And yes,
snake Trapper certainly has a tremendous compassion for the animal kingdom,
enough compassion to try and perform CPR on a bobcat. Now,
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let's see, there was a news item. I just want
to share this with you. I don't know if this
has any chance of becoming law in Alabama or not,
but w SFA TV, a stepsister station of Fox ten,
reported that there's a bill in the Alabama Senate that
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would stop your power from getting cut off. Yeah, it
would stop your power from getting cut off. If let's
see what the conditions would be. If it was extreme
weather including extreme heat and cold, and that would be
most of the time in Alabama, or cases where children
under the age of twelve were in the house, or
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people over the age of sixty five were in the house,
or there's just a lot of long there's a long
list of why they wouldn't be if this gets passed.
I don't know if your power is going to be
free from now on. Anyway, let's listen together. Is just
the beginning of getting electricity for free. In quotation marks.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
New bill in the state Senate could soon prevent vulnerable
households from having their power shut off due to missed payments.
Order Emma Elis spoke to a nonprofit supporting the bill
to learn more.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
In twenty twenty five. Tricity is less of a luxury
and more of a necessity.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
As society today is as far as we've advanced.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
We need that.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
That's something we need to cook, it's something that we
need to clean, it's something that we need to really
do everything around our house.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
That's why knows and it's sad that we need someone
to explain why we need electricity. Are people that dumb?
I know you're not, but are your neighbors that dumb?
Speaker 8 (40:25):
Energy Alabama, a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for clean energy,
is supporting a bill currently in the Senate that would
prevent vulnerable households from power being shut off. This applies
to times of extreme weather, including extreme heat and cold,
cases where children under the age of twelve or elders
over sixty five reside in the household, when the household
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has an active service member or veteran, and if there's
someone in the household who needs electricity for medical.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Purposes diabetes, I mean, some people need to have their
refrigerators on at all time to store their insulin.
Speaker 8 (41:01):
God wants to stress this bill would not be a
welfare program.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
If you're struggling, okay, to you know, put food on
the table, or you're struggling to make enough money to
pay your utility. Yeah, it's still it's still at the
end of the day, your responsibility to pay that debt eventually.
But just because of that struggle, I don't think that
you should lose your privilege to electricity and gas.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
According lose your privilege to electricity or gas.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
Into energy Alabama. Alabama is number one in the nation
and energy burden and second in the nation for highest
monthly energy bill. All of this culminated lead lawmakers to
believe this bill is necessary MLS WSFA twelve news.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Okay, I don't. I wonder so if this were to
get passed, if you were Alabama power, wouldn't you go
to the public Service Commission and say we need to
charge more because now we're not going to be able
to cut anybody's power off. I'm trying to figure out
who could whose power could get cut off, because that
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was a long, quite a list. All right, Well, we
leave in interesting times, don't we. We live in interesting
times and we're at a point in society where somebody
needs to go on TV to explain why why electricity
is important. And just just hearing that, just hearing this
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and that with that guy that was talking about energy
being electricity being important, that is a guy working for
a nonprofit called Energy Alabama. Uh, this story is another
example why I think Alabama should have the state legislature
going to session only once every two years. They just
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they can't help it. They just get in there and
then all of a sudden, these things pop up and
they can't They just can't resist passing stuff. They just
keep wanting to change, invent new rules and new laws.
They just can't get They just can't help themselves. We
just need it once every two years for budgets. And
that's it, all right, back with steak talk next on
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The Uncle Henry Show, it says the Uncle Henry Show
here on news Radio seven to ten WNTM News Headlines
coming up in ten minutes before we get there, we're
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going to talk about the Saint mary Steakout. This is
a fantastic charity event because it involves steak It might
be a great event because it's for a good cause.
Lindsey Benyon is with us. Lindsay, Now, it's not just
a steak event, right, there's other things.
Speaker 9 (43:53):
Correct, It's a whole steakout weekend. We have three different events.
There's some of the ladies, there's a family friendly event,
and also the steakout.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Okay, so this h this raises money for what.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
We're raising money for Saint Mary's Catholic School. It's one
of the oldest Catholic schools in the state and we
are trying to raise money to cover things that tuition doesn't.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Now, you the listener, that's just a side benefit that
you're giving to a good cause. But you can do
all this stuff just because you want to have fun. Right,
These are all fun events exactly.
Speaker 9 (44:20):
We want it to be way bigger than the Saint
Mary's community. We want everyone to be involved well.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
And also I've had a chance to be around the
Saint mary community myself through other charity events or trivia
night and things like that. Wonderful people to get to know.
So if you want to get to know the people
of Saint Mary's, go to one of these events. Now,
tell us about the first thing you've got coming up.
That's Thursday, right.
Speaker 9 (44:41):
That's right. This Thursday, we're having our Silver Ships Mix
and Mingle event, which is an upscale, ladies only cocktail
tasting event. So we've got ten bars from around town
putting their best recipes up and you get to come
and sample everything and vote for your favorite.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
This is ladies only, yes, all right? Where does this
happen Where people are going to be trying all the cocktail?
Speaker 9 (45:00):
This is at the Courtyard on Dolphin Downtown, Okay, And
we've got live music, We've got catered orders, there's going
to be a wine pool and even a silent art auction.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
Okay. Where can people get tickets to the Mix and Mingle?
Speaker 9 (45:12):
These tickets are going to be available at Saint Mary
steakout dot com.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
Okay, Saint Mary steakout dot com. So you the listener,
you need any info on this stuff, Saint Mary steakout
dot com. So the first event is the mix and
mingle women only. Have you been to one of these before?
Speaker 9 (45:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
What was at length? Oh?
Speaker 9 (45:29):
Fantastic. It's kind of like an UPSCO wedding reception, except
you don't have to worry if your date is having
any fun. You just get to dress up and hang
out with your girls and have a great time.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Now is that a worry? Have you worried that your
date was not having enough fun at a wedding reception?
Speaker 9 (45:43):
I think most women can relate.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
Okay, all right, now is what is the next event?
Speaker 9 (45:49):
The next event is Saturday morning. We have a Kid's
Play Day. This is a family, family friendly event. It
is actually a free event for the whole community, and
we have all kinds of kid activities from nine am
to twelve pm. We've got inflatables, we've got activity stations.
There's even a nerf gun war zone that they can
get into. Lots of fun for the kids.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Okay, So where is this going to be.
Speaker 9 (46:08):
This is going to be on McGill field. It's on
the corner of Old Shell Road and Catherine Street.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Okay, right across from Saint Mary No Exactly. Used to
work down Catherine Street at wabb for many many years,
so I know all about that. So and this is free.
So if people want to come and bring their kids
to have all this fun, no cost.
Speaker 9 (46:26):
Involved, no costs. We do have food truck and we
have vendor shopping available for parents if they want to
have a little bit of shopping time while their kids play.
But all of the kid activities are free.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
All right. Now, let's talk about the event that it's
going to get the attention of my listeners, the men
that love steak. Tell us about the Steakout.
Speaker 9 (46:44):
Yes, the Steakout is the big event. It's Saturday night
from six to ten and it's at Saint Mary's School
and we have over eighteen teams coming to give their
very best steak recipes and it's unlimited steak tasting all
you want. You get to sample every recipe as many
times as you want. And we also have catered sides,
got live music, We've got an open bar raffle, live auction,
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all kinds of fun.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
All right, this is Did I think you said unlimited
steak tasting.
Speaker 9 (47:09):
Yes, Uh, they served to the public and you can
try all of them if you want. You can eat
all of them from wanted if you want. You get
as many as you like.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Okay, So this uh, this is going to be at
Saint Mary's. Yes, Now is it going to be outside
and that You've got a great space there at sas
outside for events we have.
Speaker 9 (47:27):
The steak tents out in the parking lot, but we've
got our beautiful pavilion that is open air and it
is where the live band's going to be, where the
bar's going to be, and it's a great facility.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
Okay, so you're gonna you are gonna have live music.
Speaker 9 (47:38):
Yesh got Disco Lemonade coming. They were here last year
and everybody loved and we've got them back.
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Now what is that? What is Disco Lemonade?
Speaker 9 (47:46):
Disco Lemonade is just a fun party band. They play music.
You all know it's fun to dance too.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
Okay, Well, most important thing is the steak So so
the steak out. Uh what has the reception been to
the steakout? I mean is it? Does it sell out?
Some years?
Speaker 9 (48:00):
It is in its eighth year, So we've grown the
event each year. We used to have a capacity because
it was indoors, but now that it's outdoors, we've got
room for everybody.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Oh okay, good all right, so no worrying about that. So,
as you said, if anybody wants to find out more,
it's Saint Mary's Steakout dot com.
Speaker 9 (48:18):
Right correct, It's St m a r Y Steakout dot com.
Speaker 4 (48:22):
All right. Well, I hope you have a fantastic event.
I know I'm not invited to the first two, but
the Steakout I would love to go to.
Speaker 9 (48:28):
Thanks. We hope to see you there.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
And now, just about out of time here for this
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As they say in Sarah Land, have a good one,
and as they say in Theodore, take it easy. And
I think I told you last week. I was in
a convenience store in midtown Mobile and there was a
man running the cash register from another land, from another continent.
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And when I was leaving, he said, hey, keep it
easy now. I thought that's a that's a nice variation
keep it easy. It's it's almost it's similar to a
message of peace in many ways. So I say that
to you as well, have a good one, take it easy,
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and also keep it easy.
Speaker 5 (50:06):
All right later.
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