Uncle Henry Show 8.30.2023

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Episode Transcript

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What is happening here? What ishappening to a country? Gun almighty?
What is happening to this country?What's happening to my country? You know,
I don't know what's gonna happen orhow are we gonna I don't know
if America is going to survive.This country is whacked out right now.

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Everything. But yeah, look atthe state of the country. Oh,
because this country is is whacked outright now. This is insanity. Yes,

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it is Uncle Henry Show underway hereon News Radio seven ten wnt M.
I'm a little disoriented more than usualtoday. I'm disoriented on many occasions
as I host the program. Asyou can tell, I'm a little more

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disoriented today because the temperatures were Ithink we're at ninety two right now,
which is I'm just not used tothis, this coolness, this ninety two,
and this morning it was even coolerand nicer. Anyway, I hope
all is well with you. HereI am, and there you are,
and we're spending some time together hereon news radio seven ten WNTM. If

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there's something you want to bring tomy attention, or if you want to
bypass me and go right to thelistener, with something you can call in
two five one four seven nine twoseven two three. That's two five one
four seven nine two seven two threeemail address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
One news item that really caught meoff guard today was this continued fighting

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in South Balbin County over building bridgeswith the Balbin County Bridge Company there on
the Beach Express. This morning theywent up on their toll quite dramatically.
The toll was two dollars and seventyfive cents to go over that bridge.

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This morning they up to it tofive bucks effective immediately right before the Labor
Day holiday, and they put outa press release and they said, this
is all the fault of al Dot. You may remember there was a big
lawsuit. Al Dot is going tobuild a bridge, a free bridge,
well not free to the taxpayer,but a non tolled bridge, and this

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the Balbon County Bridge Company very veryupset with this. They went through this
lawsuit. Originally a judge found forthem, and then the Alabama Supreme Court
decided to go the other direction inthis. And so the state is going
to go ahead and build a bridgefor golf shores and this Ballman Beach the

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Ballwin Express Bridge folk there, theyare not happy with this, to the
point that they're going to raise theirtoll up to five bucks, which they've
done. Now. They gave reasonssaying that, Let's see, I looked
at the story on lagnapmobile dot com. They complain all about al dot and

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the director of al Dot trying todestroy their company, and they say they've
had to spend a lot of moneyto defend themselves in court because of the
director of al Dot. And nowthis other bridge is going to be built,
and they say that because of allthat plus inflation, they're just going
ahead and going up to five buckson their toll. Right, just a

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little while ago, the Mayor ofOrange Beach, mister Kennon Tony Kennon,
released a statement wanting to make surethat everybody understood that Orange Beach doesn't control
the bridge, that the City ofOrange Beach doesn't control the toll, doesn't
profit from the troll, according tohis press release, and can't raise it

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or lower it. That it's nothis fault. It's not the City of
Orange Beach's fault, according to thatpress release. Now, the reason this
is interesting to me is it justI'd never realized how big a money maker
that place was, that bridge was. I just never realized it. But

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I've gone down there the last coupleof years quite a bit in my job
with ninety five K SJ, goingto all the country and Western concerts,
and I see a lot of thetraffic I see. On many occasions.
Many of the time I've driven downthere, I have not paid a toll,
And the reason is no one wasbecause for safety reasons. When there's

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gigantic amounts of traffic feeding into thattoll bridge, it's only one lane in
each direction, they just waved thetolls and let you go through. That
is for safety purposes. And it'shappened to me on numerous occasions where I
didn't have to pay a toll.Well, that tells me that they're sufficient
volume for another bridge, maybe morenow. The Balbon County Bridge people,

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they wanted to these toll bridge peoplejust wanted to expand their toll bridge to
meet all that. I don't liketolls, I don't like them really at
all. But if the state hasnot had enough money to build roads,
as they've claimed for many lifetimes,they never have them money, never have

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enough money to really take care ofinfrastructure the way it ought to be taken
care of. It makes me wonderwhy the state hasn't done a toll I
mean on a bridge down there.This, I'm curious as to how is
it that a private company is goingto just continuing to make tons and tons
of cash could have been the state. In fact, you might have been

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able to fund other infrastructure improvements downthere if you had, if the state
had told it. Again, I'mnot in favor of toll bridges, but
sure's a lot of money to bemade, a lot of money. All
right, let's see whatever you wantto talk about. It's fine with me.
Two five one four seven nine twoseven two three Hello color, Happy

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winds you, Uncle Henry. DavidWhitlock, Happy Wednesday to you. What
is on your Whitlock mind? UncleHenry? Me and I work with a
person who cuts trees. Well,we had a tree trimming job to cut,
I mean trim palm trees for oneof the condominiums down in Orange Beach.
We go down there Monday, andI think it was two seventy five

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plus. They charge per axle fora dump trailer, so today the price
is a most up it costs eightor nine dollars for us. I think,
now, Uncle Henry, to sneakthis through before Labor Day without any
public discussion. I understand it's aprivate company, but it's wrong, Uncle
Henry. And there's plenty of trafficdown there to sufficient warrant another bridge.

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I think the what my question is, Uncle Henry, And I don't know
the particulars, but maybe you door one of your callers do. What
if we get what about this tollbridge we have in a mo get built
in mobile, Uncle Henry? Yeah? Will they be able to raise the
toll rates once it's a set prowill they be able to raise it like

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this coup? Well, allegedly it'llbe one toll and then one the bridge
is paid for, the toll willbe lifted. And I say allegedly because
who knows? Who knows? Iknow I won't put a tax on something,
Uncle Henry. And to say it'snever gets lifted, well, you
remind do you remember they used theyhad something called the Hamburger tax and mobile

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that was going to be uh don'tI was born in the eighties, it
was it before nineteen eighty, UncleHenry? Or was it probably a little
bit about that. But the pointof that is it was supposed to be
temporary and we still have it.So anyway, look, David, I've
got to go into the break.Thank you so much for your phone call.
Thank you for relating your personal actualexperiences. I have some listeners that

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love axle talk on the program.I guess I need to get into the
toll bridge business. A lot ofmoney in that Uncle Henry Show, News

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If you'd like to join the show, you can two five one four seven
nine two seven two three. That'stwo five one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henryat iHeartMedia dot com. That's Uncle Henry

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at iHeartMedia dot com. Have numerousthings we can get into, including some
wonderful voicemails from listeners. Now.Earlier this week, I don't know if
it's yesterday or the day before that, somebody called into the show talking about

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environmentalists and criticizing I don't know ifit was a snake trapper that called.
Somebody called in talking about John Kerry. You remember him, John Carey flying
around in a jet. He's talkingabout global warming and climate change and everybody
needing to get to net zero emissions, and all the while he's flying around

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hypocritically in a private jet. Well, I've got one thing, just one
tidbit on that topic of environmentalists beingangry about people in private jets. The
latest celebrity being called out for damagingthe environment and contributing the climate change for

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a private jet. The latest celebrityis Taylor Swift. Now, you may
might not have heard of Taylor Swiftif you're my typical listener, but if
you're if you're a younger person underthe age of sixty, you've heard of
Taylor Swift. Very popular. She'sbeing attacked now because she has spent one

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hundred and sixty six hours in theair on her private jets plural, not
just a jet, private jets.She spent one hundred and sixty six hours
in the air in her private jetsduring her latest tour. She would fly
from stop to stop and also flewback to her home commuting in the private

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jets. She bought one of themin two thousand and nine, and the
other. In twenty eighteen, oneof them is valued at fifty four million
dollars. The other has valued atforty four million dollars. Now why am
I smiling as I talk about this, because this is this is a great
thing. If you're sick of theclimate agenda, you may want to help

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the environment. Most of us wantto help the environment, but many of
us do not agree with the agendaof all the different things people are saying
we need to do to help theenvironment. A lot of people disagree with
all this stuff. A lot ofpeople agree that we want to help the
environment, a lot of people disagreeon how especially with the agenda that is
set up people are trying to push. I love the fact that now Taylor

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Swift is being called out about this. And the reason I like that is
because her fans are the most rabidin all of music, in every genre,
there's there are no fans like it. You've seen all the stories,
probably in the business news of howmuch money people are spending on scalped tickets

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to go to these shows, andall you've got to do is say something
negative about her, and people comeout of the woodwork and attack. This
is quite severe in the virtual worldin the social media world. Now,
that's not a world that really managedto me or you. Some people live

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in that virtual world. These environmentalistspick. They should never have pointed at
her. They should have just lether fly around and her fifty four million
jet and her forty four million dollarsjet. They should have just left her
alone because they her fans could reallytake out this movement. I'm not exaggerating.

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Her fans are that rabbit. I'mvery excited about this, very excited.
Not many people are going to defendJohn Carey for flying around in a
private jet. Taylor Swift's fans,who know, they might even set of
a go fund me just to paywhatever carbon tax would go on it,

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just to get her to their town. I am yes, I'm ready to
go pomp pompcorn for this one.Anyway, What else can we talk about?
Two five one four seven nine twoseven two three is the telephone number
on the Uncle Henry Show. Letme go to a voicemail. I got
another voicemail from Nevada John. Nevada. John is a guy that listens on

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the iHeart radio app. Used tolive in Mobile but moved to Nevada.
Strangely, and he files this voicemail. Uncle Henry Hayes, Nevada, John,
Hey, couple of things today.So I don't know if you saw
it on the news there, butwe had some climate protesters here in Nevada.

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They blocked off a road with likethe steel frame. I'll pause you
there. Yes, many me andmany listeners saw the video this week.
There were we were just talking aboutthe climate protesters. There were some there
trying to block a road to theburn Man debauchery that goes on in the

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desert. And there were tribal police. I don't remember exactly where, what
tribe and all that, but therewere tribal police that were having none of
it. Look up the video,and then we had our our Nevada rangers
coming. The guy that drove rightinto them, knocked them all off the

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road, arrested them, took themto jail. Anyway, I thought that
was pretty good, you know,don't block the roads. Come on and
then by the way, Nevada,John, thank you. I agree with
that. Protest is part of America. There are ways to do it.
You're not going to persuade me ifyou ever blocked the road. I'm against

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people blocking the road to protest.I'm against speed bumps, I'm against speed
tables. I'm against all traffic calmingdevices. I don't even like coons in
the road. I'm not sure ifyou saw that isis is now they're managing
the whole smuggling with the migrants comingacross the border there. Yeah, so

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that's really really great. I gottatell you, Uncle Henry, as someone
who lived in Manhattan during nine toeleven and watched it all happened before my
eyes, I can tell you it'spretty infuriating what's going on, Uncle Henry.
I think I'm just gonna stop watchingthe news. I'm just gonna I
don't know, maybe I'll just turnon All in the Family or something,
maybe some Sandford and Son, andjust just turn off this news and because

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it's it's it's really really raising myblood pressure. Okay, Well, have
a good day, Uncle Henry,take care of goodbye, fine, thank
you. Yes, there was Isaw headlines on a story about somebody possibly
smuggling people in that might want toharm the country Nevada. John. We've
talked about it on the air beforeon the show. Is people have gone

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to the southern border to try andreport on what's happening, and they're they're
explaining that a lot of the peoplecoming across are not just from Mexico,
Central America or South America. There'speople from all over the planet that are
assembling down there and crossing the borderthere, people from all over the world,

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and we, as you may havenoticed, we don't seem to have
a good system of figuring out who'scoming across and what they're going to be
up to when they get there.Now, of course, a lot of
people are just trying to slip inand have a better certainly better off here
than anywhere south of here. Nooffense to south of here. I know

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there's a lot of wonderful places southof here. But some people, when
you're coming acrossing your Chinese I havequestions. Uncle Henry Show News Radio seven

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ten WNTM telephone number here if youwant to jump in on the show.
Two five one four seven nine twoseven two three. That's two five one
four seven nine two seven two threeEmil Landrus, Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot
com. That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMediadot com. Now for a while on
the Uncle Henry Show. You've heardme and a few of the callers express

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dismay about President Biden, not justhis policies, which have been disastrous for
our country and for the world,but also feeling some compassion for him in
that he seems to be sometimes outof it and just not up to it
physically. Many of us feel likeit's elder abuse to have Joe Biden bumbling

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around in the Oval office. It'spainful to watch. Many of us are
worried. Look. I know thathe's accused of all kinds of stuff.
He may have done a lot ofillegal stuff, certainly looks that way.
But aside from all that, Ihate to see an elderly person take an
advantage of and I feel like that'sbeen the case with President Biden. He

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clearly could use a lot, eventhough he's been on a lot of vacation,
he could use a lot more.In fact, I would I would
let a spokesperson. I wouldn't pridehim out in front of the cameras,
just let a spokesperson do it.But anyway, the reason I'm bringing that
up is, Mitch McConnell, haveyou seen the video yet? This is
today. Mitch McConnell, Senator MitchMcConnell, the Republican minority leader in the

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Senate. He had another episode wherehe's stepping to the media and just freezes
up and as apparently not there andI am I am not a fan of
his really at all, for manymany reasons, but all of that aside,

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I felt really bad for him andhis family. Is it worth it?
Is it really worth it for hisfamily to have him up there and
have these things happen? I mean, it was terrible. I felt I
felt horrible for him, despite mydisliking much much of what he does,
it felt bad for the guy.If you saw the video, it's hard

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to I'm not going to play theaudio because it's hard to tell when you
listen to it. He froze up. He was asked something and he just
stood there, and a young ladystepped in and compared to him young as
anything under the age of seventy.A young woman stepped in and asked if

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he had heard the question, andthen eventually they led him away because he
was having some kind of an episode. So obviously it's not good for him
to be up in the Senate asthe minority leader. Certainly it's not good
for him. Can't be good forhis family. It cannot be good for

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his constituents because how is he goingto represent you or your state? If
if he clearly oftentimes doesn't know wherehe is and what he's doing, it
looks like he should be in ahome. Is it worth it? What

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are you? Is it worth it? Is it? That? Is it
that worth it? You know?We have the situation with another senator,
Feinstein out in California, where herentire family has power of attorney over her
affairs. She oftentimes I think therewas some votes she she was not able
to say yes or knowing a voteor something. I mean, it's just

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is it worth it? I justuh, if it is? I would
love to see some people in hisoffice step up and explain why we are
he is staying in office because becausehe's obviously not well, it's that worth
it? Well? What is thewhat is it? Is? Somebody getting

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a bunch of money out of this? Is this all about special interests getting
as much as they can and itdoesn't matter if the guy falls apart before
our very eyes. It's really uh, I'm wondering how much of this went
on before we had a lot ofcameras up there. I want to was

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this Maybe this is just the wayit's always been and we haven't seen it
because now we live in an agewhere everything is on camera. But I
can't I just can't understand for thelife of me, how it is worth
it for them to have him inthat position again. Two five one four
seven nine, two seven two threeis the telephone number on the Uncle Henry

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show. That's two five one fourseven nine two seven two three. Let
me let me check a message thathas come in from long time caller Buford.
Now, Beauford did not call inabout Mitch McConnell or Joe Biden or
the abuse of the elderly. Hecalled in about driving early on Airport Boulevard.

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Hand they say, Hanard, travelingdown Airport boulevards at five in the
morning, What an unguidly hour thatis to be driving? By the way
I was. You and I mighthave been on airport at the same time.
I was on airport yesterday between fourfifty and five fifteen. But anyway,

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Henry, I came across a bycyclist. You know. That got
me thinking, Henry, I ain'tseen as many bicyclists as we used to.
Is that just me, Henry?Remember when the Lance Armstrong was big
about twenty years ago. I guessit was. And man, there were

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thousands of bicyclists clogging up traffic allover Mobile. It seemed like they were
all out in their bicycling costumes,and you know, they had this smug
attitude of we owned the road too, and all that nonsense. And then
ever, now and again, acouple of them would get runned over.

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But Henry, do you think thefad has just died out since the Lance
Armstrong ain't around no more and nobodyreally cares about bicycling anymore? Or do
you think that enough of them hadgotten runned over to where they finally figured
out not to be bicycling on abusines the highway anyway, Henry just thought

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i'd pose that question. Yeah,have a good day, Beauford. I
don't know, I that's your observation. I still see bicyclers. Maybe it's
been the heat. Who knows,maybe it's been the heat. Buford.
Probably not appealing to get out onthe bicycle when it's one oh six or

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one oh five or one oh fouror even one oh three. So I
don't know. I have not noticeda lack of bicyclers, but I'll now
I'll start paying attention. I haveseen quite a few in the last few
years in the Oakley area there there. I think it's still very popular among

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young professionals, the folks that weused to call yuppies. I think it's
still popular and that you can findmany of them in Oakley, all around
Callahans just Beauford. You you maybe just in the wrong part of town
to see the exciting bicycle community,but I don't I I have not noticed

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a drop off and bicycles. Idid notice on Airport Boulevard though the traffic
signals early in the morning don't seemto work quite as well as they should.
I'll put it at that. HelloColor, Uncle Henry, how you
doing it? Stephen? Stephen,you are live on the radio, so

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I could I could go on andon and on about your comment about the
red light one Airport Boulevard in themorning. But you know, God help
us, maybe we'll you know,get us the traffic engineer that can you
know, actually do something. Yeahfor that. But anyhow, so,
today I was beating the friends tolunch downtown and normally I go to lunch
at eleven. Today was at onebecause that's gonna make they when they were

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free. And so I'm walking frommy office downtown over Heroes and I had
an epiphany on the way back oflike how we are conditioned to things.
I'm walking back and I'm like,man, this feels kind of nice.
Got a bit of a breeze.Yeah, it's it's warm, but I'm
not breaking a sweat. It wasninety one degrees or so it was.

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I mean, that's hot, youknow. Yeah, we've been baking in
the sun for three weeks, likea you know, a pan of cookies
in the oven, and now youknow, the low nineties are back,
and we're like, man, thisis nice. It's just interesting how we
get conditions to the things around us, and it goes in all aspects of
life. But I don't know,I just thought it was as interesting as
I was walking back through being wellsquare today or around tearing enough right now

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that yeah, that is that isquite Hey, I've got to go to
break. Do you want to hangon? Sure? Very all right.
We'll continue with the insights of stephenAs we continue after the break, Uncle
Henry showed News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five fifty news headlines in

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ten minutes from Fox News. Inthe last segment of the show, caller
Stephen was describing how today he waswalking through the streets of the city of
downtown Mobile and was hit with anepiphany about how we can be conditioned.
Stephen, please continue your thoughts.So as I was, you know,

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walking back from lunch and not hatingmy life because I was not sweating to
death like I have been the lastfew weeks, Well just just just had
that epiphany of you know, somany things in life we get we get
put into certain environments and situations,we get conditioned to those environments. And
we can go back a couple ofyears to the whole COVID lockdowns. You
know, we were conditioned for allthe things that they did, and then
you know, here we are again. There's a rumor of some of that

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stuff trying to come back, andif that happens, maybe this go right
on. Folks will be a littlemore open to maybe doing those kind of
things because of the conditioning that theywent through the last time. Though they
may be you know, insanity andcrazy ideas or what have you or you
were talking about, you know,Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden and all these
ancients that are literally being wheeled into go do their job and wheeled out

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wherever they you know, you know, we're conditioned that it has to be
those kind of people within leadership,you know. I mean, it's just
because because it's just the way it'sbeen for some amount of time. That's
that's a great point. Yeah,you know, so maybe just there's some
things in life that we've been conditionedto that may not be the best just
because it's how things have been,may not be may not be the best.

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There may be better options that areout there. I don't know,
just my random thought as I waswalking back from lunch by myself today.
Well, Stephen, thank you forsharing that. I love the the You've
created a mental image that I've ofyou walking through downtown we'll bill having epiphanies,
and I enjoyed that. Hear you. Oh, I got an date
for you on the Cody situations.Please tell us a week. Yes,

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what's the update on the coyote?The city reached out and they have decided
that to change their mind and theywere gonna come in and I'm supposed to
meet one day later in the weekwith the director of Animal Services, and
he and I are going to goon a tour or the neighborhood and look
at some places where we think they'recoming from or going or what have you,

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and from there they're gonna come upwith a plan to do something.
So it went from basically go poundsand to all right, we're gonna change
our tune and we'll actually come helpyou out. Okay. Well, I'm
really glad to hear that because itmakes it makes sense that they would.
You're in the city limits, you'vegot this going on. It makes sense

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that the city would have the desireto help out. I mean, especially
when there's all these rules about whatyou can't do to protect yourself and your
and your your pets and from thecoyotes. It makes sense that they would
do something. I can't wait tohear what they come up with, So
keep us up to date on that. I'll do it. We'll hear.

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You have a fantastic defe you do. Thank you, Stephen. I appreciate
very much your phone call. Yeswe are conditioned, aren't we. It's
once I start thinking along those linesof things that we've been conditioned to do,
and a lot of the reasons.If your reason for doing something is

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that's the way we've always done it, that is probably probably not a good
reason to do it. If that'sthe reason. If somebody ever asked you,
why do you do that, well, that's the way I've always done
it, probably not a good reason. Again, Stephen, thank you very
much for your phone call. Let'ssee almost out of time. In this

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segment of the program, m letme see there there were numerous weird news
items that I wanted to bring upto you. A man in Connecticut is
in trouble with the law. LastMay, he found a bag. This
guy in Connecticut, he didn't stealanything. He found a bag with five

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thousand dollars in cash in a parkinglot and he took it home with him.
Five thousand dollars. He found itin a bag. Now, the
money was in a bank bag,and it turns out that it belonged to
the city of Trumbull, Connecticut,and it had lots of documents inside the
bag that would let you know exactlywhose money it was. Lots of documents

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in there. But this guy,he took the money home, and now
months later they are charging him withlarceny. And this is because he found
the money and didn't turn it in. He just found it and took it,

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didn't turn it in. He's beencharged with larceny and he faces a
five thousand dollars fine. So hethought he had found five grand, took
it home. Now he's going toend up having to give it back and
could be fined five thousand dollars.Just the reason I mentioned this story is

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so you'll understand that it's not alwaysfinders keepers. Many of us were conditioned,
just like Stephen would say, Wewere conditioned as children to think that
finders keepers losers weepers as some typeof law of the universe. And apparently
finders keepers losers weepers, that's notactually law, at least not in several

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states in this country. Just rememberthat it's not always finders keepers losers weepers.
You've been conditioned to believe wrongly.All right, there's more to come,
I do. I've got more showcoming up after the Fox News Uncle

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Henry's show, News Radio seven tenWNTM. Before I get to voicemail from
listeners and other news items, Billand Shelby of ninety five KSJ have remained
in the studio after their ship.Now, you said that there was something
you wanted to talk to me about. That's weird. I normally have questions

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for you, but now you've gotI don't even know what she wants to
talk about. It is that true? That is very true. I have
no idea. I couldn't leave rightnow. I have no idea. It's
just a surprise topic. It's notreally that a prize topic. I don't
think you'll think it's that important.But has to do with the conversation uncle
that you and I were having.Oh okay, I know exactly what you
do. Know what it's about becauseyou okay, we were having this conversation
at the wharf and you could tellI was a little ticked off about something.

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Well. I recently celebrated my twentyfive year anniversary here with iHeart Media.
Yes you did. And you mayremember that I recently moved to Mobile
back sixth what was in March,and I moved back to Mobile, yes,
sir, so that I could winthe Quintessential Mobilian Napy Award, which
you did. You did, congratulations. But when the company iHeart Media.

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They for my twenty fifth anniversary,they sent me a surprise gift, howe,
and but I was I forgot tochange my residence with the company,
so they sent it to my oldaddress. Oh okay, all right,
tell with that gift. So Iwent to my old address a few days
a few days after I had celebratemy twenty fifth anniversary, and iHeart Media,

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God bless him. It sent mea very expensive box of gourmet chocolates.
Well, how sweet of them,literally and figuratively. That sat on
that front porch in a hundred degreeheat or several days. I'm sure the
ants enjoyed it. It was aIt was a big middle ten of melted

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chocolate, was the gift I got. You know what, I wonder if
they sent one to my old addressbecause I turned over twenty five years a
while back. No, it's beena couple of years for you. You
were you were with iHeart a littlebit before. Yeah, it was,
but I moved a couple of yearsago. So it's a good chance of
people that bought our house in Spanishfort got the box of chocolates. They
like to take your old packages.So we got some stuff from some record

(36:45):
companies too. I don't want totalk about it. I remember starting here
twenty five years ago, and Iremember Shelby Mitchell joining us just a few
months later. Yeah. I remembermeeting her the day she transferred, and
I asked her if she had gottenany thing for her twenty fifth. Well,
here's the thing, here's what's thepart of the story. When I

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was so mad, I thought,and I told Alion, I told Ronnie
and I told every I thought.My twenty fifth was last year. No,
and I was like, I didn'tget Jack Didley squad from my heart.
I went and bought look my pinkBarbie pink headphones. I bought myself
because nobody gave me a gift.And I was mad. I was like,
fine, whatever you know corporate andI went And so for a year

(37:29):
I hadn't mad. No, Iwas okay. And then Uncle told me
the story about his gift, andI was like, dead gunness, what
guess what? Guess what? Todayat my doorstep ups or they don't do
that, but UPS left an icecold package with beautiful, chilly, almost
frozen, delicious chocolates from a highdollar chocolate Alright, congratulations, thank you.

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So I still have no, mymath was off by a year,
and I was mad for a year, So you're a mad over nothing for
an entire year, pretty much.Okay, I'm excited about my chocolates,
and I just had to share thatyou were right because Uncle's like, no,
I think you were right behind me. I'm like no, it's but
I did the math and and Iwas wrong, So you were right,

(38:14):
Uncle Henry. And I'm still leftout in the cold with nothing. I
got no chocolates, I know nothing. Well, first off, here here,
here's the big deal. Company doesn'tknow I still work here, and
I okay, and I I kindof like it that way to be honest
with you. Don't tell, don'tbring it up, don't start anything,
don't wave any flags. I'm quiteall right now. Bill seniority does get

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him a few perks, like whenwhen Eric Church comes to town, Bill
gets the same out. Yeah,but if it was gonna be one of
us, it would be the pD. Well, that's true. Yeah,
so you get to see all thestars, that's true. And they
don't give me chocolates either, nothingI think about it now. They give
you like alcohol, I don't drink, don't do any good. Put on
your wall. Yeah, they dothat. That's kind of cool. So

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you don't really, you don't needa box. I just don't need the
company thinking about me. I don'tif they never think of me again,
that's okay, I'm all right withthat. Doesn't hurt my favorites. You
need a gift, no idea,you didn't get you a gift. Okay,
maybe even know your diabetics, sothey didn't send your chocolate. You
know, that's a good lie.We could go with that. Okay,
Now did you get Did you getemails from higher ups the way that I
did? No, you didn't getWait a minute, Oh, so you're

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still short changed. Now you're no, you're no short joke. Then your
anniversary. Then your anniversary is comingup in a few days. I'm getting
mad again. Hey, look,you got the chocolate. Let's be happy,
okay, Okay, when you sharethem with your husband. When you
go into your employed when you gointo the employee website, you can actually
see your higher date, so youcan look there and see. Yeah,
I should have done that sometime inthe last twenty five years, you know,

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at least in the last year,so you wouldn't be so mad.
Yeah, so you'll you'll well,you'll you'll be getting you'll be getting emails.
I'm so excited where they wish youhappy twenty five years. We'll be
from Bob and Rich and no fromthe two guys. So and I replied
to both of mine, and theynever replied back. Okay, so they're
like bots their auto emails. Anyway, I just thought I thought that was

(40:04):
funny. I was like, whatis this frozen? I'm like, oh,
New York fancy chocolates, I gotus. I think Bob and Rich
probably picked those out for you.I think that specifically themselves, for every
one of our employees. Now,while I've got you both here and we
still have a little bit of timebefore we go into the break, when
were all three of us were atthe Jason Aldean concert this past weekend and
the wharf and Orange Beach now inMobile that day it was one oh six

(40:25):
I think an all time record yeafor their city. My gosh, Now
you've both told me that it wasincredibly hot inside the wharf it was hot
everywhere? Was it? Did everybody? Was it? Still? It was
a sellout? Did every was everybodythere? Oh? Yeah? What's Aldean?
Was there, even though it wasit was so hot where people still
Absolutely it was a huge cressy andtremendous turning. Maybe because of all the

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people it stopped the wind or somethingbecause there was no breeze. Are what
about now people think from heat?Was there any of that going to a
couple right in front of us?First of all? In the case,
what about actually in there? Yes, we saw somebody tote in the stretcher
kind of to the side, butit was during one of my favorite songs,
so I kind of he didn't care. I mean, he was being

(41:08):
taken care of by the medics.So I tried to get him to carry
me out. On the way out, I just I needed a lift,
and they wouldn't do it. Likenope, you could have faked a faint
walk. Fat man walk is whatthey said. You were not fat.
Shut shut it. I did aradio broadcast. Now, now I probably
shouldn't tell this story. Oh goahead, do it. I'm talking about
people being carried out. Oh Idon't know where this was going. I

(41:30):
was hired to do a radio remoteat a facility out in Westmobile. This
was way way back, okay,And while I was there, it was
a two hour broadcast. While Iwas there, someone passed away in there.
Oh my gosh. Oh while Iwas broadcasting. Oh no, you're
really killing it. That when Iwas working for a music station, and

(41:54):
when they brought this person out,oh, our music system was playing Share,
singing the song do you Believe inLife After Love? And I've never
I've never tried to move so fastas I moved towards that, toward the
toward the volume knob. We stillhad knobs. It could have been worse,

(42:15):
could have been Elton John funeral four. Friend, Just say it,
Just say it anyway. We've allhad weird things like that happened. People
being carried out while you're listening toshare music. Yeah all right, And
by the way, that was notmy idea. That was the station's idea.
Okay, what would I blaming youfor that? I hope you enjoyed

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your chocolates. Hope you enjoyed yourchocolates. Thank you and Bill chocolates.
We will tell we will tell managementthat they need to get together and don't
talk to management on my bad chocolates. Would I would rather than not even
know about how to spell my name? It's okay, really, as long
as they can spell it right onthe paycheck, that's all that matters on
you. You just don't know it. Management. If you're listening, Bill
wants swordfish tacos. I do lovetheer. That's so good. Yes,

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all right, Bill and showby ofninety five KSJ. We're the throwback Labor
Day weekend coming up this weekend.All throwback mus are going to be fantastic.
Thank you both for being on theAlcohol Henry Show. Thank you for
having us Loocle Henry Show. NewsRadio seven ten w NTM news headlines are

(43:30):
coming your way in ten minutes.And don't forget that Jesse Kelly Show is
on in the seven o'clock hour rightafter Fox News. An outstanding show,
The Jesse Kelly Show. While I'vegot a few minutes left here on the
Uncle Henry Show, I want toaddress some voicemails. Some voicemail has trickled
in over the past several days.The voicemail numbers two five one seven zero

(43:51):
six bull two five one seven zerosix two eight five five. Let's check
in with the Mad Trucker l D. Hey, Uncle Henry, ld uh,
this is in a Fallen County school. I'm not gonna play the name
of it. But our little girlwhen we lived in a trailer over there,
she came home and she told hermama she was hungry, and Missus

(44:15):
l D said, well, didn'tyou eat your lunch? She goes,
no, we weren't allowed. Andshe goes, what do you mean we
weren't allowed? She goes, anybodywith peanut butter and jelly couldn't eat their
lunch today because we got a studentin there that's allergic to peanut allergy.
And missus l D went is aboutas berserk into the apex as you could
go, and she made her apeanut butter and jelly sandwich. Next day,

(44:37):
she walked into that classroom and shesaid, how come my daughter can't
eat this sandwich? And she said, I'm sorry, man, there's one
person in here that is allergic topeanuts. And she said, well,
there's twenty five that aren't. Somy daughter is gonna bring this sandwich and
she's gonna eat it. And eitheryou put her in another classroom, or

(44:58):
you put that child in another classbecause she's bringing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
And guess what, they moved thatstudent and out of the room for
lunch. They got to eat theirlunch and beat the quiet, and the
rest of the students got to eatthe peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's
what's wrong with America. They're tryingto run you out of everything. Man
want the lowest of the minority.I say, one child with a peanut

(45:22):
allergy ruins it for twenty five otherchildren. No, it didn't work that
way. That one child needs toeat a little bit of peanut butter every
day until they get gives to it. LDE. Thank you for your voicemail.
This is I haven't heard stories likethat now. Of course, I've
heard of people with all these allergies. I haven't heard of somebody successfully somehow

(45:47):
navigating past that the way that yourchild did so. And I wonder if
that would happen today, because itsounds like this happened years ago. I
wonder if that would happen today.And one more thing, again, thank
you for that voicemail. LD voicemailnumber two five one seven zero six bull
two five one seven zero six twoeight five five. No one's really explained

(46:09):
why we have so many of theseallergies nowadays. When they were rare they
used to be rare. Now theyain't. What happened to us? Just
care? What do you think happenedto us? Let me see, I
think I've got time for one morevoicemail. This one is from the very
familiar Snake Trapper. Hey, UncleHenry, Snake Trapper, Hey man,

(46:34):
I see we're uh they're trying topush the mass mandate again, Uncle Henry.
Yeah, I guess. Uh.They've not had a tragedy bad enough
to to try to restrict people.So they, you know, they gotta
they gotta do something. Their panicand they want tragedy be bad. So
uh, you know, I'll tellthem what they can do with their mass

(46:54):
mandate, Uncle Henry. They cangive them all to China, Joe Biden
and then he can put him inhis Buddha Jed Jed Jedge. Many bunch
of idiots, Uncle Henry never ceasedto amaze me with some of the craft
that they try to come up with. But you know, if they want
to try to put a mask onme, come on down here to La

(47:19):
Lower Alabama and try that in asmall town man wanting to bring back mass
mandates and hospitals and Dennis All versusbasically in the public. But it ain't
gonna happen, Uncle Henry. Ididn't wear one during COVID, and I'm
not wearing one after COVID, andI'm not wearing If I cannot breathe the

(47:42):
air that God produces for me,then I don't want to stay on this
planet. If I die because Ididn't wear a mask, Oh well,
I guess somebody should have kissed mein my Buddha edge Jedge Edge Man,
what a name. He's an idiottoo, of Henry, But man,
I just wanted to share that wouldto my buddy. You have a good

(48:04):
day, snake trapper, thank youand best of luck to you. Wanting
to resist all of that, I'mseeing the same things you're seeing. I'm
already seeing a lot of people makingdeclarations ahead of all of it, saying
saying essentially what you've been saying,that they are not going to participate in
this. So it will it willbe fascinating to see if anybody decides to

(48:30):
push this really hard and what thereaction will be, because there are many
people that are not well. Theysay they're not going to put up with
it. Although I think today Isaw stories that the federal government had entered
into a lot of COVID nineteen contractswith contractors that are I think dated to

(48:52):
run through twenty twenty four. Isaw something today about the government entering into
survey some surveillance companies like they wantto like and again, I'm not sure
if what I was reading was onthe up and up. I'm gonna have
to research it myself. But lotsof news items or alleged news items out

(49:13):
there about returning to masks and thingslike that, So I guess I guess
it's a familiar fight now, justabout out a time on this episode of
the Uncle Henry Show. Thanks forlistening to it. If you're still with
me, leave me a message tofive one seven zero six Bull two five

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In fact, I would love tofill an entire show with nothing but
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