Wasting the Time of the Phone Scammer

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And now live from Mobile, Alabama. As the Stomach Churned
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Joining Henry will be callers, emailers, radio and Internet listeners. So,

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without further ado, in the style of that great country
music legend Minnie Pearl.

Speaker 8 (02:02):
Here's.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Thank you so much, Uncle Henry Show underway on news
Radio seven ten WNTIM. I appreciate very very much you
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Once again, It's just
me and you here together trying to figure out what
is going on in the world around us. And there's

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junk going on at every possible level that we could
discuss on the program today. Telephone number two five one
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Uncle Henri at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, so many things.
Alabama legislature finished their session. We can be disappointed in that.

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Together in a little while, we've got we got so
many stories to get into. But uh, living callers. I
like to talk to the people that call in alive
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before I talk about any of the different topics and
things that I'd like to discuss. Let me go to
the phones.

Speaker 9 (03:13):
Hello, Color, Hello Ago Henry.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, sir, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 9 (03:20):
Well, it's an honor to be here. This is the
Alabama Bushog.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
There he is again, Alabama bush Hog. What is on
your mind today?

Speaker 9 (03:29):
Well, well, sir, I like to talk about illegal immigration. Okay,
I mean the Biden administration leading over twenty million of
these legal people. And I know I know all of
them ain bad, but there's a bunch bad and every
you're everywhere. There's there's bad everywhere. So they trying to

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get all these illegal immigrants is committed crimes out of
the country, right, well and everything, Well, you know they
ain't right. But that's another story. But I saw today
on the news where in Houston that's Ice Detention Center.
They had twenty four illegal immigrants belonging to the trenda

(04:14):
Argua gang who took over the prison. Who took over
the Ice Detention Center.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I did not see
that today. So the gang members actually took over the
Ice Detention Center in Houston, that is correct.

Speaker 9 (04:31):
Now I can't see that had an ammobile metro, but
who knows. But yeah, they took it over. They put
the cots up against the walls, keep people the guards
and coming in and you know, taking care of the situation. Anyway,
they went out in the yard and with their bodies
they held hands and stuffed out s o is and

(04:53):
the drums pitched it up. I don't know what they
were trying to say, but look here, uh, I insidered
the Ice of Genzen Center that Jesus has one gone
down there to l Salvador. If you've seen footage of
that prison in El Salvador.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 9 (05:11):
They don't play, they don't they don't play. And that's
where these solows need to go, and they need to
go in and get them out of here. That's what
that's what. That's what I thought about it, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, anything else on the topic, well.

Speaker 9 (05:27):
You know, just the thought that are wonderful. President Trump,
I had a big, beautiful idea of starting re reenterating
prisoners to go to Alcatraz. Okay, now you know Alcatraz
is there in San Francisco, baby, and nobody could escape

(05:48):
from it apparently. But you know, they said it back
in the day, they sent high school students to Alcatraz
on a throat on a ferry to try to scare
them straight. You remember all that.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I remember scared straight?

Speaker 9 (06:02):
Yeah, well you know, huncle Henry, what were they tell you?
We're talking about San Francisco. Scaring straight did not work?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, So you're so, what are you saying that Alcatraz?
What are you saying that he shouldn't use Alcatraz?

Speaker 9 (06:20):
Now I've been trying to scare him straight, No, sir,
because they might turn another way. So that's my thought
about it.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right, well, bush Hog, thank you very much for
your your animated phone call, very passionate discussion there on immigration.
I don't I don't look the idea that people would
proh protest putting these gang members from another country back

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to the country where they came from is nonsensical, and
it's a losing issue for the Democrats. It's a winning
issue for President Trump, and that's what I think we're
going to continue to see it happen. I don't know
how it's all going to play out in the courts,
because there's been a lot of activist judges put into
positions in the courts in our country. But I think

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it's a winning issue with voters. President Trump ran on it,
and people voted for him to do it, and so
I appreciate very much him trying to do what he
said he would do. That's what we all hope and
wish and dream of when we go to vote in elections.
We're hoping that whoever we vote for might do what

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they say they are going to do. And it doesn't
happen that often. You think it happened more often in
our country that people who run for office would actually
try to do what they promised they would do. Most
of the time we elect people in this country, they
go up into whatever office they're in, and then they
report back to us that they tried, they tried, but

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the other people, the other politicians, just wouldn't let them
do it. That's what we've heard that. I've heard that
in my entire life. You send people up to Washington
or Montgomery or anywhere, any legislative body, and instead of
doing what people promise, they end up telling us, well,
I tried, I tried, but they just I tried, but

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the other people just wouldn't let me do it. Well,
we finally have somebody trying to fulfill their campaign promises.
A lot of people appreciate it. I hope that future
politicians will take note and will try to actually fulfill
campaign promises for a change, or at least only promise
things they know they can get done. There is more

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to come a lot of other things to get into,
as the Uncle Henry Show continues here on News Radio
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Speaker 8 (10:11):
Hello color Uncle Henry. Yes, sir, this is a Sarah
land Den. Do you remember me?

Speaker 10 (10:17):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
I do Sarah land In. How are things in Sara Land?

Speaker 8 (10:21):
Oh, they're always good in Serra Land. Just to avoid
the bears, that's all you gotta do this enough. I
hope that they'll let you have a helicopter, that they'll
give you a helicopter to take you down there into
that mess. I hope you're not riding in a vehicle.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, I don't have like a I don't have like
a horse or a or a dragon or any other
creature to carry me, or I don't have a blimp
or a helicopter, so it will be in a an
internal combustion engine vehicle.

Speaker 8 (10:51):
Well, bless you.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yes, look, I've thought about the parking situation, uh, for
all week long.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
Yes, okay, Well I think you could find a partingspaper
helicopter if they would just get you one.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
All right.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
Anyway, what I call tell you about. I have a
warning for you and all of the Uncle Henry listening family.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
What's the warning?

Speaker 11 (11:13):
We got a.

Speaker 8 (11:13):
Telephone call and not today, but this is a little
bit in the past, but they're probably still go doing it.
We won the publisher's house clearing house sweep steaks youwo
and a half two and a half million dollars plus
a pearl white Mercedes twenty twenty five already loaded on

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a flatbed, and seven thousand dollars a week to be
presented to us every Friday afternoon. Now I knew that
this was a scam because it set a none of
us on my phone for the call ride d Yeah,
and I'm not advising anyone to do this, not recommending
it whatsoever. I answered it, and I had so much

(11:59):
fun with that four I wanted to keep him on
the line as long as possible to keep him from
really scamming somebody that might fall for it.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
By the way, by the way, I don't know before
I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just I love that
you're that you wanted to do this, that you were
going to keep him on the phone. Thank you for
that attitude that we need to give these people as
a bigger problem as we can.

Speaker 12 (12:20):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
I carried him over till next day, and then my
wife finally got fed up with it, and then following morning,
I had to go ahead and tell him that I
knew it was a scam all the long, and I'd
just been playing with him. Wow, but we had him
where he thought that my wife was my husband and
that I was a woman, and he started calling me

(12:41):
missus and ma'am. And he had an extreme uh, Middle
East accent. Yes, but he was trying to sound like
somebody that'd been in the South all his life, and
it blesses hard. He was trying hard. I kind of
felt sorry for him until I started thinking about what
he was actually doing to other folks.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, Okay, well, that's I love your attitude toward that.

Speaker 8 (13:06):
No, thank you, I don't. I don't like those folks anyway.
I don't either, So thank you for letting me share
in that with you.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Hey, Sarah land In, thank you. Congratulations on being a
Sarah land In.

Speaker 8 (13:17):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that, especially coming from you.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, it's it's a happening place. Have a great day.
Thank you for your phone call two five one four
seven nine two seven two three. The telephone number that's
two five one four seventy nine two seven two three
email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, and
I've done this. I haven't been able to keep people
on the phone that long, but I have. I've had

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big run ends with people trying to scam. A few
years ago, this would have been five or six years ago.
I used to get lots of phone calls from people
that sounded like they were from another land and they
were telling me that my that my computer was sending
them a message that something was wrong with my computer,

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and that they were calling from Microsoft or somewhere to
tell me that they had to fix for my computer.
And I would get into I would always tell them
I don't own a computer, and we would get into
just tremendous conversations. I did the same thing. I tried
to suck up as much as they're saying, Yeah, this
is what happened. You get to be a certain age
and you've got a little time to spare, not on

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the planet, but on the phone. All right, let's see
two five one four seven nine two seven two three
the telephone number to call on the Uncle Henry Show.
Now there's a legislative session ended. Before we go into
all of that, one of the things that is now
law in Alabama is, uh, there's a ban on cell

(14:46):
phones being used in public schools. I've got a report
on the reaction to this. This is from Shelby Myers
of Fox ten. She reported the reaction on this. I
believe this was last night.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Are Shelby Myers with reaction from some parents and Shelby
what are they saying? Well, Cameron, it's been a mixed
bag of opinions. Most are fine with banning phone use
in school, calling it distracting, but some are worried their
kids won't be able to reach them in case of
an emergency.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Parents are letting their voices be heard on social media
and in the park.

Speaker 12 (15:20):
Cell phones should be put away when they go to
school because it takes their concentration off the work.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Some mobile moms we spoke with are in favor of
outlawing cell phone usage in public schools, agreeing with the
Focus Act of bills signed into law by Governor k
iView Wednesday. I think it's a great thing to ban
it because it's a very big distraction and with social media,
it's just a lot. It creates a lot of chaos.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Kids.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
They can't be distracted by it.

Speaker 8 (15:48):
I've been in an education system.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
They can't be distracted by that all day and if
they have it out then it's going to be an issue.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
On social media, commenters were not holding back, some showing
a different view of the ban. One person wrote quote,
this is crazy. These kids need their cell phones in
case of emergency. Some clarification on the law. It states
that starting next school year, no student can have a
wireless communication device on school grounds unless it's turned off

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and stored in a locker, car or similar storage location.
There are exceptions for children with health issues that need
cell phones. For example, diabetics who monitor their bloodshirt with
a mobile app, or students with personalized education plans. Some schools,
like the Mobile County Public School System, already banned the
use of devices and have created a way for phones

(16:39):
to be stored in the classrooms safely, but the Focus
Act will require all school systems to ban them. It
would be left up to the schools to decide how
the devices will be stored.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
And look for the people that are upset that they
feel like their child needs their child needs the phone
to be able to reach them in case of an emergency,
What if there's an emergency. Look all throughout the history

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of public education, kids didn't have cell phones in school,
maybe until the nineties. I mean think about, think back,
how did we survive without them? What happened? Were they're
all kind of child deaths or something because they couldn't

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reach their parents. They couldn't have a phone in there
in their classroom back in nineteen eighty seven. No, they don't. Look.
Anybody that thinks they need them is nuts. Uncle Henry

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iHeartMedia dot com. Now, before I get into any other
news items, a quick voicemail about this this wonderful Thursday.

Speaker 10 (19:34):
Go tick uncle. I am enjoying this wonderful weather eighty
five degrees and breezy perfect. Wouldn't want it any other way.
And all you folks that loved it when we had
the snowstorm back in January by humbug. Don't want no

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part of that old stuff. And by the way, I
think you said you're working a Country in Western gig tomorrow.
Looks like the weather is going to be cooperative for you.
So there's another plus. We'll call that a blessing for
Uncle Henry roll Tied.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Mister roll Tied Row, sixty eight year old Chris, thank
you very much for your voicemail. Yeah, the weather has
been spectacular. We have definitely transitioned out of out of spring,
at least by the temperatures. Feels very summary, very summary
for the weekend. Now I mentioned, oh, here we go

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with some phone calls two five, one, four seven nine
two three, I mentioned I won't be here tomorrow. There
will there will not be an Uncle Henry show on
the air tomorrow. I will be at the Country and
Western gig looking for I'm really looking forward to going
to the Sand of My Boots festival in Golf Shores.
Main reason I'm looking well, I'm looking forward to seeing
the performances. Some of the very top names in the

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music industry are going to be there performing. But I'm
also very curious about who is going to who's bought
these tickets because they have all these different tiers of
VIP passes where people are spending thousands of dollars to
be in VIP areas. I'm really I just want to

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see the type of folk that are there that have
spent all this money, A lot of them not from
around here, flying in and driving in to see this.
So it's going to be a the type of people
watching that I don't think I'll ever get to see
again in my life because I doubt that I'll be
going to very many things like this, but looking forward

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to it and the weather, as you panted, that will
be great. Hello color, Yes sir, Yes, sir, you are
live on the radio.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
All right, Well, I wanted to just point out I
think what may be another slam dump for the Democrats. Okay,
about for about four years we had a Department of
Transportation with the Democrats, and I think a fellow named
Pete Budabozo or whatever his name is, yes, sir, And

(22:12):
I'm trying to figure out for four years what did
he do? Because right now we've we've had a man
that Trump appointed and he's been in office for about
two months and he's done discovered that every computer system
and all the airports around the country are inadequate.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
So where where was mister Pete? What was he at
home having relations with his husband? Maybe is that what
he was doing?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, I know he took right when he was appointed.
He was off for a couple of months for some
type of paternity leave or something or maternity leave.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Yeah, I think they let him adopt a child. Yes, sir,
that's a shame. I won't go into that, but my
feeling is about that is that's a shame.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah. But you're you're bringing up you're you're bringing up
an excellent point, uh that you know, once we've only
got a few years left of this and then there
will be a new president and then it's, uh, we
will probably end up going back to status quo where
just about nothing gets done from either side.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah. Well, I also heard today on a talk show
that I can't remember the exact fear, I think it
was sixty something. Republicans has said they will not vote
to codify a lot of the executive orders, right, and
that that just that that just makes me want to spit.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, they should understand that the people that voted when
Donald Trump was on the ticket. A lot of them
aren't coming back when Donald Trump is off that ticket.

Speaker 10 (23:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
They either have a chance to uh do policies the
way that Trump has introduced them, or they can be
very irrelevant in the future.

Speaker 9 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
Absolutely, Okay, Henry, I tried to call your voicemail, but
I'm not sure I got your voicemail two five one
two one six one nine seventy six.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yes, sir, that's it is it is. I've had to
transfer over to that to make sure that I had
a working voicemail.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Well, it's just that the lady didn't say anything about
it being Uncle Henry's uh talk line or anything or
a message line, and I didn't order to leave a
message or not.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well in the future, please do that is the voicemail number.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Okay, thank you for taking my call here. I have
a good afternoon. Enjoyge tomorrow. You may make it count.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh, thank well, sure, I'm going to do that. Thank
you very much for your phone call. Yeah, the 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 twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week.

Speaker 9 (24:55):
Hello caller, Hello uncle Henry.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
Yes, sir, Hi, this is Kirk and Chickasaw.

Speaker 9 (25:02):
How are you.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm great, Kirk and Chickasaw. What's going on?

Speaker 10 (25:06):
Well, right before you came on, there was a news
bumper about it's the fiftieth anniversary of the movie of Jaws.
Do you remember that when how people were waiting in
line to see that movie?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I remember it quite vividly.

Speaker 10 (25:21):
Yes, Yeah, it was just you know, I was my cousin.
I waited two and a half hours to go into
the It was a double cinema and they only showed
that movie in both both theaters, so it took us
two and a half hours, you know, to wait line.
But there was a news bumper about there's a gentleman
in uh in Marcus Denyard where the movie was filmed.

(25:46):
He's going to swim and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the movie. He's going to swim from Marcus Denyard, I
believe to Nantucket. I didn't hear all of the all
the news broadcasts, but I got the most the gist
of it.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (26:01):
But here here's an interesting thing. What if Trump posted
on truth social that calling all the legal aliens. If
you can swim from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket, we will
deport you, but and we will pay for your flight
back to your country. But in like two to five years,

(26:23):
you will be able to become an a legal citizen.
Can you imagine if one hundred thousand people showed up
at Martha's Vineyard? What creation?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
So this would be the ultimate way to troll Martha's Vineyard.
Is what you're saying is to have it exactly, is
to let Martha's Vineyard find out what it would like
to be a border town and have every public institution,
every public service overwhelmed.

Speaker 10 (26:50):
Right, But it would be for the greater good because
they would be helping these people to you know, become
a US citizen eventually within like five years.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
That would be uh, that would be the most interesting
that's the most interesting suggestion for immigration law is have
a feat of strength or some physical challenge in order
to become a citizen exactly.

Speaker 10 (27:13):
And I think, you know, just think of all the
people that would anybody that survived would or made the swim.
The people in Nantucket would love it because it would
be a great publicity for them and all in all,
would be a great, a great way to say thumbs
up to the whole situation we've got on our hands
right now.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, hey, thank you so much for bringing that up.
I've got to run them up on the break, But
thank you very much for your phone call to the
Uncle Henry Show. Sir, Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven
ten wntim AT's five point fifty news headlines coming up

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in ten minutes and then more Uncle Henry Show. Now,
before I go into anything else, we had a caller
and the last segment of the show was talking about
the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, and he was talking about
his memory of going to the movie and standing in

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the line for two hours to see Jaws all those
years ago. I also I remember vividly going to Jaws.
The entire family went to Jaws. We had a bunch
of people. When I say family, I meant extended family
like aunts and uncles and cousins. There was a group
I think it was about twelve of us that went

(28:40):
to Jaws together. I was living on this side of
the bay with my family, and family from Baldwin County
came over and we all went to Jaws together. I
don't remember the theater. I think it might have been
the bel Air Twin Cinema. That's but I may be
wrong about that. It was either that or the Ca

(29:01):
Prayer or the Village four or whatever it was. But
the thing I remember about going to Jaws, we all
saw Jaws the movie, and it was a phenomenon in
the country. Hard to imagine, but it was. It was
a phenomenon in the country, both both the book and

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the movie. But after we twelve of us, we went
and saw Jaws, and then after we decided to go
eat seafood at Red Lobster in Mobile. Yes, seafood's better.
You might want to try it. You can watch Jaws
on a streaming service and then have a seafood dinner.
It's just pairs good. The movie Jaws pairs good with

(29:43):
a seafood dinner. And yes, went to the Red Lobster
on Airport BOULEVARDI Mobile to after seeing Jaws. That is
a vivid memory from all those years ago, because it
was a tree to both see a movie and go
to a restaurant at the same time. Just like when

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I hear all of the people objecting to banning cell
phones in schools, we had that story earlier in the hour.
There are some parents that are upset because cell phones
are going to be banned in public schools in the
state of Alabama. And of course, when I went to school,
there was no such thing. You know, it was a
science fiction concept that you would have a cell phone.

(30:28):
And we all survived. We survived without them. I'm not
saying they're bad. They're actually they can actually be pretty good.
But we didn't need them in a classroom to survive.
And also, when I think about school and the biggest
change about going to public school between now and when

(30:53):
I went to school, aside from the curriculum, because back
when I went to school, it was reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Speaker 12 (31:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
The biggest change though, was no air conditioning.

Speaker 10 (31:04):
Back then.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't even think they were talking about it when
I was in school. The idea just the idea of
putting air conditionings. Now, air conditioning has existed, but the
idea of putting them in schools, I don't know that
anybody was even talking about it back then. I do
remember box fans. Every classroom had a box fan, and

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as a student, you wanted you wanted a desk near
the box fan.

Speaker 10 (31:38):
That was.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
It was very strategic. I've talked about this before. I
don't I don't. I don't remember a lot of fights
on the school campuses back in the heat of going
to school with no air conditioning because people you'd eat
lunch and then with no air conditioning, it was a

(31:58):
struggle from noon on to stay awake in school. You
were you were too sleepy to get into a fistfight
or anything like that at school back in those days.
But that was we survived. We made it using using
old fashioned technology of books and knowledgeable teachers to transfer

(32:22):
the information to you without any kind of learning plan
on a smartphone or tablet or anything like that.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
We did.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
We managed people, believe it or not. People learned things
and actually went on and had knowledge enough to build
bridges and all that kind of stuff. All right, Uh,
just about out of time. A reminder that you can
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(33:17):
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Coming up in the next half hour of show, I

(33:37):
found a news story and I immediately thought of the
snake trapper. Yeah, got a news story about about snakes
coming up. That and more on the way. As the
Uncle Henry Show proceeds here on news Radio set WNTM

(34:03):
News coming up next, it says, the Uncle Henry's Show

(34:27):
here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you for
listening to the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate it very
very much. The paycheck remains important in my life. Now
in this half hour of the show, going to get
to a few news items, some things that interest me
and might interest you, and I may have time for

(34:50):
a voicemail. Who knows. I want to start with something
this is of interest to the Snake Trapper. If you're
a longtime listener, you've heard the Snake Trapper call the
Uncle Henry show. You can find him on Facebook. Two
words snake and then trapper Snake Trapper on Facebook. He's

(35:14):
always calling in about snakes. And I saw a snake
story today on Fox ten. I don't have the video
or the audio of this snake story, but the gist
of it is that Eastern Indigo snakes are being reintroduced
into the wilderness of Alabama and Florida. These snakes. I

(35:37):
don't know anything about the Eastern Indigo snake because I
was raised to not trust or like snakes. Yes, that
was a theme in the family. When I was a
little child, preschool age child, we lived in rural Baldwin
County in an old farmhouse, me and my mom and

(35:58):
my dad, and we had This was an old farmhouse
that was built back when you had lots of chimneys
for either cooking or heating or both. So there was
a chimney in the in the kitchen, there was a
chimney in this room. In that room, well, we had
a chimney in the back of the house in a den,

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and the chimney there was a trap door under the
chimney to help you clean the chimney, and that door
was missing. And I remember from my early childhood, age
three or age four, we came home from church one
Sunday afternoon. My mother went into the den and there

(36:44):
was a there was a couple of rattlesnakes in the den.
They had come up through that trap door in the chimney,
and we had rattlesnakes in the den, and my father
he quite easily dispatched the rattlesnakes used I think he
used a shovel, either a shovel or a rake. But

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that really my mother's panic pausoned my mind, because I
do remember her panic and we had a repeat of it.
I guess maybe six months later. Seven months later, it
was still a time of year where you could have
snakes Roman I remember during a work day coming home

(37:28):
with my mother, my father was working in Mobile at
the time. We came home to the rural Balbon County
farmhouse and there was another rattlesnake in the den. This
one had managed to get on the mantle, the mantle
of the fireplace, and my mother had to call her

(37:50):
brother in law who was a police officer, and he
came in and he joked around, says, what do you
do You want me to shoot it? Or anyway, at
an early age I was my mind was poisoned against snakes.
Now i've since now I don't feel like killing all
of them. Some of them, yeah, but I don't feel

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like killing all of them. In fact, I don't mind
them if they do good things like eat rats or
do other things like that. But anyway, back to the
Eastern Indigo snake. Eastern Indigo snakes are being released into
the wilds of Alabama. I found a press release online

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dated yesterday about this. I won't read it all to
you because you're already probably trying to figure out what
else to listen to, but it begins by saying, in
a significant milestone for conservation, Eastern Indigo snakes, revered as
the Emperors of the forest, have been reintroduced into the

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wild into Alabama and Florida. The release is part of
a long term initiative to restore these endangered ape tax
predators to the western portion of their historic range, where
they play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance. So
they've released a bunch of these in Alabama and Florida,

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and this year, forty four snakes were released in Alabama,
another forty two released in Florida. Over the past few years,
they've released over five hundred of these Eastern Indigo snakes.
Now the snake, the Eastern Indigo snake is the longest
native snake in North America. It can reach links over

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eight feet and it helps regulate populations of small animals.
It eats all kinds of little mammals and things, but
it also eats venomous snakes. It'll eat copperheads, and it'll
eat rattlesnakes. So this is something that and there's all

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kinds of organizations all involved in this. But I just
I'm relating this story for the snake trapper because I
don't know if he's ever run. Because they're endangered, they're rare,
it's hard to find them. I don't know if snake trapper,
if you're listening, i'd love to find out if you've
ever if you've ever found an Eastern Indigo snake, if
you've ever eaten one. If you've eaten one, did you

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get in trouble for eating it? Because it's endangered? If
you did eat it, what did it taste like?

Speaker 12 (40:32):
Now?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
It is?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
It is, I saw video of it. I don't think
snakes are good looking. They still give me the creeps.

Speaker 12 (40:39):
But it is.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
A blue black coloration, kind of kind of nice looking snake.
If snakes could look nice and described as docile, So
I guess not a threat to man. But I can
imagine if you were in the woods and you walked
up on a big, like an eight foot snake, there

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are a lot of people that are going to just
go ahead and try to get rid of that snake.
So anyway, if you do, if you run into an
eight foot long blue black snake, don't kill it. It
ain't It ain't gonna bother you. It's out there trying
to eat rattlesnakes and copper heads and small mammals and
stuff like that. All right now, before I go to

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break a news item for you, yesterday at this time
I was talking to you about the THC legislation that
Alabama legislature passed. Well, k Ivy did sign it into law.
Here's a brief report on that from WSFA in Montgomery.

Speaker 13 (41:43):
And some controversial new regulations for THHC products sold in Alabama.
THHC is the active ingredient found in marijuana. We've seen
a number of ingestible products show up on the market.
This bill bans the inhalable products, it lowers the dosage
allowed on edibles, and it removes the products from convenience stores.

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They can still be sold at other locations to people
twenty one and over.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
If you have arthritis and you cbd ol, you'll be
able to go to your local pharmacy and get this product.
If you take gummies to help you sleep or help
you with your arthritis or anxiety, you will still be
able to go get these products, but it's not at
your local gas station or convenience store. You should be

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as I've said before, gas stations and convenience stores should
be selling cokes and sodas and chips and drinks, and
that's it, and not being your pharmacy.

Speaker 13 (42:43):
Retailers that do decide to sell these products will now
also be required to get a license from the State
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Okay, so it got passed and now signed into law.
By Kate Ibby. All right back with more show after
the break. Let's take the break on the Uncle Henry Show.

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Today at ten o'clock in the morning, I visited the
folks at Fox ten for Studio ten with Joe Emer
and Chelsea Sayssan and every Thursday, iHeartMedia sends one of
the radio personalities over there to talk about the weekend events.
We have a weekend event calendar that you can find

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every week on our websites. It's called your Best Bets
for the Weekend. You can find that right now at
NewsRadio seven ten dot com. And one of us, one
of us DJs me or Shelby Mitchell or Mary Booth
or Ariel or we'll all go over there and we'll
talk about weekend events with Joe Emer and Chelsea Sayssan

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And that was always fun, very nice, very gracious while
I was there, though, the next person that went on
Studio ten was Mike Bunn with Blakelee State Park, and
he was there to talk about upcoming cruises out of Blakely.
Now I want you to hear this. This is brief.

(45:11):
I just want to endorse the idea of taking one
of these brief cruises out of Blakely because they don't
I guess they last about an hour ninety minutes. I've
taken several of these over the past couple of years.
So interesting. I've learned so much, lived here all my
life and still learning things about the delta, learning things
about the port. It is a lot of fun and

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educational to take these cruises. So just briefly, here is
Joe Emer talking to Mike Bonn of Historic Blakelee State
Park about what they got going on right now with
these different cruises and other events.

Speaker 9 (45:45):
Good to see us, let's see you.

Speaker 14 (45:47):
We're talking about a lot of cruises going on, and
one of the big things in our area still is
we continue to mention the SS United States.

Speaker 11 (45:55):
Yeah, the SS United States continues to be something that
people really have interest to see see and a lot
of people coming from outside our area that I want
to see this. And what we've decided to do is
we were running a two hour mobile harbor tour featuring
in the United States. We've gotten a local author and historian,
John Sledge to help us out. We're doing some one

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hour cruises with him, and so it's a deep dive
into the history of the ship a.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Quick Now, I'm sorry to interrupt, but that sounds great.
By the way, one hour there with the Sledge narrating
as you're looking at this sounds pretty good.

Speaker 11 (46:27):
Big view and just gives you a good understanding of
its place in American maritime history.

Speaker 14 (46:33):
Speaking of its place in American history and global history,
the Clotilda cruises there as well.

Speaker 11 (46:38):
Yeah, we continue to do one cruise a month for
the public first Saturdays of most every month. We're going
out of the.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
I'm sorry to interrupt again. I've taken the Clotila thing
too fascinating to see where they yet's fascinated. Take that
cruise too.

Speaker 11 (46:53):
Mobile Convention Center working with Africa Town Freedom Tours doing
some cruises up to that site.

Speaker 14 (46:58):
All right, so that's from the convention Center. What about
from Five Rivers, anything coming up there?

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (47:02):
We steal cruise every other weekend out of Five Rivers,
and so this weekend we're doing a sunset cruise, some
Delta Discovery cruises. We're going down to Giliard Island and
we're also doing a gator cruise, so that's a late night.
That's after the sunset cruise, we do a one hour
cruise just looking for alligators.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Nice.

Speaker 14 (47:19):
I'm all on board. If you watch the show, you
know I'm a big fan of alligators. Some of the
cruises have food and drink involved. Tell us about the
seafood buffet.

Speaker 11 (47:27):
Yeah, we go down to the original Oyster House as
one of our sunset cruises, and your ticket includes a
meal from the buffet there if you purchased through us
and we run that cruise. It's a sunset combined with
the seafood buffet there and that's coming up in just
a week or two.

Speaker 14 (47:44):
Well, that's a great idea. Love the original oyster house.
And then as we're speaking about food, let's talk about
a cooking demo that's coming up.

Speaker 11 (47:51):
Yeah, we've got a unique opportunity to have a special
program that will explore the foods and the ways people
get and what they ate in the early town of Blakely,
so early eighteen hundreds, and we've got some reenactors that
will help you understand the processes people went through to
cook and preserve food and what they ate, how they
gathered it. So it's going to be a really interesting

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learning experience and we invite people to come out and
learn a little bit more about that aspect of life.

Speaker 14 (48:16):
Off the top of your head, do you have any
examples of that food or those dishes.

Speaker 11 (48:19):
It's going to be some meats and some locally grown
vegetables and fruits and ways that people were utilizing them
by the season.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Very cool.

Speaker 14 (48:27):
All right, Last, and before you go, we want to
talk about a public archaeology program.

Speaker 11 (48:32):
Yeah, University of South Alabama has their field school in
Blakely this month, and so they are investigating some things
in the old town site, meaning the original town of Blakely,
which was occupied before that by colonial plantation and before
that by Appalachi Indians. So there's layers of habitation. They're
doing their program there and you're welcome to come out
and see them and talk to them. But we are

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doing a special public program at the end of that
field school where you can learn a little bit more
about everything they've learned.

Speaker 14 (49:01):
Very cool stuff. If someone's watching right now, they want
to book one of these programs, or book one of
these cruises, get involved with the programs.

Speaker 10 (49:08):
Where do they go.

Speaker 11 (49:08):
Everything's at Blakelypark dot com. Go to the events page.
Everything is listed there. You can sign up for anything.

Speaker 14 (49:14):
All right, great stuff, Chelsea a night cruise.

Speaker 10 (49:16):
All right?

Speaker 1 (49:17):
That was Joe Emer. Thank you Studio ten Fox ten
for letting me play that. I highly endorse all of
these different things at Blakely. If you haven't been to Blakely,
I think you'd enjoy it. I think if you're interested
in history especially and the outdoors, you would really love
all these things they do at Blakely. They do such

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a great job with those cruises. All right, out of
time for this edition of The Uncle Henry Show. Thank
you so much for listening, as they say in Sarah Land,
have a good one, as they say in Theodore, take
it easy all right Later