Who Runs Alabama

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:49):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
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Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I enjoy
this job, I really do. I mean, it's an air

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conditioned building. They provide me with all the coffee I
can drink. And once a month, I've got a boss,
my boss, Ronnie Bloodworth, the top boss here. Once a month,
our boss. He will put snacks out. Yes, yes, we

(01:33):
get snacks. He'll put out little bags of individual bags
of chips, and he'll put out little like fun sized
candy bars and things like that. So we get coffee,
we get free air conditioning, we get snacks when he
puts them out there. It's just I just love it,
so thank you for listening. By you listening, you help
me get little little snickers bars and cups of coffee,

(01:56):
and I do appreciate it. It's the little pleasures, the
simple pleasures of life. I know you're always thinking about
the big pleasures of life, like having that fancy gigantic
suv you've been looking at, or that big boat, that
big mansion you want to live in. But the simple
pleasures of life, like a little fun sized candy Bar.

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iHeartMedia dot com. Plenty of things to talk about as
usual on the Uncle henvers shaw. I'll get to some
some local here in just a second. But we are
in a government shutdown. I guess this is day two,

(02:37):
And I say I guess it's day two, because this
seems to be the lowest energy government shutdown. You can
remember previous government shutdowns, can't you, where the media acted
like it was one of the great emergencies in the
history of the world. Do you remember this government shutdowns?

(02:57):
It's it's the greatest emergency in the history of the world.
And you'd have all the politicians speaking apocalyptically into these
microphones and all the reporters running around and this government shutdown.
This is kind of a low key government shut down,
a low energy lacka daisical government shutdown. I don't know

(03:20):
do do most of Americans realize there's been a government shutdown?
Shelby Mitchell heard on ninety five KSJ to top ratings.
She commented to me, and she's not a political She
almost never talks about politics. She's more concerned about country
music and cows and things like that. She said to

(03:43):
me just a few minutes ago, she said, you know,
it might actually be good because they'll have time to
go into the offices and maybe do some dusting. Yeah,
she's thinking about maybe they could clean things up while
there's while the people are out of work government. This
is the lowest key government shut down ever. Makes you
wonder do we need do we need the government going?

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Maybe the government should only operate three weeks out of
a month. Maybe again two five one four seven nine
two seven two three the telephone number here on the
Uncle Henry Show Limber Show. I've already got a caller here.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Hello, caller, good even the Uncle Henry.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Bert, you are live on the radio.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
First, I've got to say I'm on disability. Yes, so
social Security disability chick arrived. Okay, So I am not
homeless as a result of the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, I'm glad to hear that. Bert. I didn't want
to see you or anyone else suffer from the government shutdown.
So I'm glad you're not suffering, but I.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Mean there are government employees who are being asked to
work for free as a result of the shutdown. And
the shutdown is a result.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Of the not necessarily the mainstream Democrats, but the loony
looney tunes left wing of the Democrats saying, Okay, you
got to do this or else we're.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Going to primary you in twenty twenty six. And this
is why Chuck Schumer is doing this. And what is
this shutdown about, Well, it's about free health care for illegals.
And they're saying, oh, this is about Americans, health care

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for Americans. No, they're not Americans. They are burglars who
are broken into our country. A burglar who breaks into
my house is not a member of my family. I
call the cops to remove burglars who have broken into
my house. And ice is the cops who are removing

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burglars who have broken into our country. And when they say, oh,
this is removing healthcare for Americans, no, they are not Americans.
They are burglars who are broken into our country of Henry.
And if you want to pick a hilpa die on,

(06:29):
I'll pick that hillpa die on. They are not Americans, Henry.
They are burglars who have broken into our country. And
I know the legal immigrants who have come to my
country legally, yes, who have said I jump through all

(06:49):
these hoops to get into this country legally, yes. And
I have no sympathy for the people who jump the
line and burn if they're gonna make it this hill
to die on.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Isn't this the dumbest hill for them to have picked?
I mean, what a dumb what a dumb hill for
the Democrats to pick.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
But you see, Uncle Henry, this is their voting base.
They can't win elections without illegals voting in American elections.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that. Doubt me, prove now, proved,

(07:30):
prove to me that I'm wrong. Okay, they can't win
elections without illegals voting in American elections.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
All right, Well, bird, anything anything else on the government
shut down?

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think I've set my piece, Uncle Henry, So thank
you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hey, before you go win? Is your next gig?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
November the seven at the Blues.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Tethern November the seventh, the Blues Tavern. You will let
me know if that changes, won't you?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, it's gonna be just me and the drummer. I
have proven to the world that I can carry a
gig all night long, just me and a drummer.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right, then I'm I'm putting it on the calendar.
Then I've got to see this. So Bert November seventh,
Bert and a drummer at the Blues Tavern, rip Van Rock. Bert.
Thank you for your phone call.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank you, Henry.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
There he goes Bert without spoken opinions or the government
shut down, and also the declaration that he's proven to
the world that he can carry a musical gig with
just him and his keyboards and the drummer. Uncle Henry Show.

(09:10):
News Radio seventy ten WNTM. It is five twenty news
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really matter? Does it really matter? As long as it's
not a pornographic topic. I don't mind. And I've got
plenty to say and uh but but I've got a
live caller, and I love hearing what the people have
to say. Hello caller, ogl Henry LD the mad Trucker

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retired man retired.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know what I'd like to do. I don't know
if you know, do you ever go anywhere with your mother,
wife or anything like that? I like to invite you
that that next time Bert has a gig, I'd like
to invite you out and on paide it way.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh wow, yeah, and you know my mother would love
My mother would love to have a word with you.
So yes, yeah we could. We could, uh, we could
have a peaceful meeting at the Blues Tavern November seventh.
My wife would love to go, I know, so me,
my wife, my mother will meet you there at Blues Tavern.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Okay, well well I've already called up there real quick.
They don't serve food at night, so I'm gonna bring
some pizza. How many pizzas do you think your mother
could eat for seven or eight?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Come on, now, she doesn't. She's a normal person, that
dumb itel dates. She's not. She's not gonna eat seven
or eight pizzas. That sickning. That's sickning. And she's reached
an age where she just doesn't eat much. This is
so you know what, I think there's an intervention needs

(11:02):
to happen with LD. You know, it's clearly some kind
of demonic possession going on. There's a demon that has
attached itself to LD. I really believe this. There's a
demon that has attached itself to LD, and it is
really wrecking his life because I know a different side
to LD, and he would probably he'd probably be upset

(11:23):
if I told you the things I know about him working.
He does some charitable stuff. I'm not going to get
into it, but I know that he has a charitable
side that would shock many listeners because people have heard
him over the years and think, oh, he's talked so
tough on the air, he must be mean, and they
don't know that he's out help. Well. I'm not going
to reveal all the sorts of stuff he's done, but

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this is a demon. This is a demon that has
attached itself to him, and I don't know what it is.
I don't know what the inner harm, the inner trauma
in his life. I don't know. If I don't even
want to spec late live on the air because it
could cause even more harm in his psyche and cause

(12:05):
the demon to get an even greater foothold in his
mind and soul. But I think that I'm gonna get
some friends together, we're gonna pray this out of him,
going to pray it out of him. In fact, that
might be a good thing to do. We could ask
Bert to prepare for kind of an exorcism there at

(12:25):
that gig on November seventh. And the way I would ask,
I would ask Bert to maybe learn a couple of
spiritual hymns. Now I don't want Bert, I wouldn't want
you playing like Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum
or some weird hippie thing, but you know, some type
of some type of religious amazing grace or something like
that on And I know that Bert is a master

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of the keyboards, him and his drummer could practice us
and then we could pray it out of ld. Anyway,
I'll let you know more on this. I'll work on
this some way to pray this demon out of him.
It's a terrible thing for a man to have worked
all those years and go into retirement and suddenly have
his life ruled by the devil. Where was I? Oh? Yeah,

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hosting a radio show two five to one four seven
nine two two three. That's two five to one four
seven nine two seven two three email address Uncle Henriet,
iHeartMedia dot com. I have one this one pet Peeve.
I want to mention to you. Bert and his phone
call in the last segment was talking about health care
for those that are in the country illegally, and that

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being one of the sticking points, the ability to shuffle
money around in state budgets, federal money going to states,
and then states juggling the money around to pay for
health care for illegals. Healthcare I remember vividly before Obamacare.

(13:57):
Do you remember the years before Obamacare. I do. I
remember them years, and I remember people complaining bitterly about
their health insurance. I remember better complaints before Obamacare about
health insurance in this country. What was covered in what wasn't,

(14:19):
differences from state to state, plan to plan. I just
remember people of all walks of life being unsatisfied and
angry and frustrated with the way that health insurance and
paying for health care worked in the United States of America.
I remembered quite vividly, and then I remember Obamacare getting introduced,

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and now here we are, how many years after Obamacare,
And when I talk to people about health care these days,
I find most everybody I talk to about health care
is bitter about it. They're frustrated with it. They don't

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like the way it works. It. What is it in
this country preventing a an overhaul that actually works for
people with health care? Why can't we Why can't this
country get together and figure this out? We don't want

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to socialized medicine, but what we've got now people are
still frustrated and bitter and angry by the way health
insurance works in this country. Is there no way to
get this? Are you telling me that we can't figure
this out? I mean, we've we got one trillionaire that's
building rockets and you watch them on and they're they're

(15:55):
finding ways to parallel park these rockets and do wild
I mean, it's not like human beings are all stupid
playing in the dirt, you know, trying to one plus
one equals to in the in the sand with a stick.
We do have people with minds and brains that can

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figure things out. Why have we not figured this out?
Is it because there are a number of influential groups
of people making a hell of a lot of money
pardon my language, and they don't want the They don't
want the money trained to stop. What is it? I'm

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serious about this. You might remember a bunch of Republican
politicians promising to repeal Obamacare once upon a time, and
then when they had the majority in Congress, they never
did it. Do you remember this? Do you remember that?
Do you remember promises about healthcare that nobody fulfilled? I

(16:57):
apologize for even bringing this up because it may have
it may have triggered an unpleasant thought in your mind
about health care. But I can't. I cannot. I can't,
for the life of me, understand why we would go
forward with the way things are and not trying to
figure out a way to make it better. I feel

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like it's almost like that they want to force us
into socialized medicine by making just health care and health
insurance stink to the point that enough people get frustrated
and them end up begging a commie to come in.

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All right, look, there's more to come. I'll be back
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at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, I do have some voicemail
that has come in to the Uncle Henry Show. Uh,
and let me go. Let me go ahead and get
some comments from the voicemailers on here. Unless a live

(19:34):
call happens to interrupt. Let's see. Let's see sixty sixty
eight year old Chris of wes Locksley, Uh, going over
al dot com for me?

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Bill cad up.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Well, Uncle, something just caught my eye here for reason
the intronet al dot com. There's an article on there
by our old pal on Sharp and it titled did
National Democratic endorsements backfire in Mobile mayoral race? And there's

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a picture of Barbara Drummond. Hmmm, sounds like some folks.
I've been listening to the Uncle Henry show and d
G said, you reckon? How about that?

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Of course the Democrats dispute that, But.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
I find that interesting and curious at the same time.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Do you not?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Sixty eight year old Chris, thank you for your voicemail
voicemail number two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six. Now,
I don't think that ail dot com got that idea
from me. In fact, I would suspect that no one
that works there listens to this show. I just that
is my suspicion that no one that works for there

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would listen to this show. But I think a lot
of people probably came to the same conclusion, even though
we're not supposed to make assumptions or draw conclusions. I
think that maybe some people came to the same conclusions
about what happened with the national endorsements of Barbara Drummond, because,

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as I'd mentioned to you, it just it brought a
level of politics that I don't remember ever being interjected
into the Mobile mayor's race before, and I, as a voter,
I didn't want to hear it. I didn't want to
hear what some New Jersey senator would think about who

(21:45):
ought to run Mobile. I mean, come on, why would
we care, Why would we care why a New Jersey
senator or what Kamala Harris would think? What do they
know about Mobile? But anyway, thank you for the voicemail.
It was my nunder two five one two one six
nineteen seventy six to leave a message for the Uncle

(22:05):
Henry show. Now. Also, we had the story from the
Mobile City Council meeting earlier this week that they did
they voted in a tax. So just always remember that
the current council did vote a tax then, and it
was on vapes, on vaping devices that'll go into effect

(22:29):
next year. Uh. I got a call about that vape tax.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
Hey, uncle Henry, this is alt real quick. I wish
we could vote a number on Alabama residents going to
fold and to participate in the lottery. If you want
to talk about taxes and money. Now, wish we could

(22:56):
vote a number on that Alabama residents going to forward
them and it's thank you for the lottery. I'm sure
it'll be high and that's money. We're just loosening that on. Yeah,
go ahead and text of apes whatever. Anyway, have a

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good day, roll.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Table Rota roll RT. Thank you very much for your comments.
And whenever, and I've talked about it before, whenever, whenever
I think about the idea of a lottery, and I'm
very unemotional about lotteries or gambling. I've explained to you
the listener that the Lord did. The Lord made me

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to where I'm not attracted to it. It is now
I'm a track. There are other vices that are seductive
towards me, but gambling isn't one of them. I just
I am not entertained by it, not even buying a
lottery tail. I'm just not entertained by it. But a
lot of people are. And as you pointed out RT

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A lot of people slip out of the state of
Alabama on a daily basis to spend money in other
states on gambling, but would be a lottery tickets or
anything else. But every time the topic comes up, I
have to think to myself, I know so many people
that would love to buy a lottery ticket in Alabama,

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even people that are not big time gamblers. They just
love the fun of picking numbers and then they like
the fun of going home and having the lottery ticket
in imagining what they would do if they won. Wouldn't
it be fun if I won that? What would I do?
I know what I'd do. I'd buy you this, and

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I'd buy you that, and I'd buy them that, and
I wouldn't buy them that. And they just love it.
It's an entertainment for them to buy the lottery ticket,
and I know so many people that would love to
be able to do it. I think if it were
on a ballot that a lottery would pass in the
state of Alabama. Isn't it interesting that something that many

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many voters would go for their representatives in the Alabama
legislature will not make it happen. They won't and it's educational.
It tells us that the voter ultimately isn't the top

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concern of the politicians of Montgomery, that your vote isn't
the number one thing that they're concerned about representing you.
That's it's something else. Is it a donor? Who is
it who really runs the state? That's my I keep

(25:54):
coming back to that question. Apparently people with a lot
of money are donating money to politicians to make sure
that they don't vote for these things. It just be
nice to have a scorecard and know who each legislator

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is really representing, since they're they're not really fully representing
the constituent. There's somebody out there that writes big checks.
So who is it? Let us know? Is it interests
out of state that don't want the competition from Alabama?

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Or is it people in Alabama that want gambling done
their way so that they can print money. I don't know,
but i'd love to I would that's something speaking of
al dot com or land YAP or somebody. I'd love
them to to. Don't just make it a story in
a newspaper, make it a book. I'd love to read

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the book of who really does run the state? Because
it ain't the voter. We've learned that just by just
from that one issue, that one that lottery is, We've
learned it stra ain't the voter. All right, there's more. Yes,
there's another segment in this hour of the show, and

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I've got a caller waiting more Uncle Henry's Show. After
the break, Let's take the dad Gum break. This is

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the Uncle Every show here on News Radio seven WN. Tim.
It's five fifty. We have new we have news headlines
coming up in ten minutes, and then more Uncle Henry's Show. Hello, Color,
say good evening, Cliff, Cliff, you are live on the radio, Henry.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
We built I was working for Golden in West Industries.
We built the Imperial Palace in Biloxi. Uh. If you
remember all of those ads against gambling was said paid
by the Mississippi Gambling Commission or for the of the

(28:49):
Florida Game and Commission against Gambling and mobile. We was
getting all these recordings about how bad gaming they were
paid for by these people. Mike Dow had bought that
uh Banale doctors and it was the way it was designed.

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It was designed just like the Imperial Palace casino. When
we went built the barge and then put it up
next But Biloxi said that, uh, they you couldn't put
a casino bars there unless you built a hotel by
i e. Here Coons, Boulder Bars and Imperial Palace in

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the fifteen to twenty story hotels. Because they said that
a barge could just take up and leave any time
they want to. But before then, you know, you had
the Isle of Capri and everything there was little ships
and barges. Mobile built the convention center. The whole idea
with Mike Dow was to do the same thing. Build

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that barge and look to that convention center. Also that catwalk.
It's the same as going to a hotel. It's like
Boloxi Commission have made them you can't put a gambling
bar there unless you put a hotel by so hey,
you got a catwalk to the convention center. But the
people paid so much money to one side of this

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state and the blue haired women who the judges and
lawyers and all of that that got rid of a
lot of script clubs and everything else downtown. They got
together and decided it wasn't gonna be no gambling in Mobile.
And they still getting paid to do that. Right now
you signed. The ads on television used to say paid
by Florida Gaming Commission. This will rob you and robbed that.

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We still got more people going to Mississippi to gamble
and Mississippians.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Oh yeah, hey, you just look in the parking lots
at all that all their all those Alabama tangs.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
I'm looking. I'm lucking back now. That was before Austin came.
But when I also first came, I was looking across
at the convention center. They got these giant sewer pumps
on the outside of that building for to take the
sewer off the barges and boats and put them into

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the city sewer system. But they're not being used. Every
now and then we have a little cruise ship or
something come through that and use it. But that whole
thing sitting out there was designed for that casino bar
to be hooked up to.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well. And I suppose we will not ever see that, right, Cliff,
I mean the mobile will be safe from the gambling,
won't it.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Yes, I will considering how much did the ass if
the people tell you you paid for about the Florida
Gaming Commission or Biluxei Gaming Commission. Somebody's poems have been
breazed and mobiles to where they're now because that was Mike,
Mike Dowlads dreaming. That was one of his string of
pearl deals, which I think we will save a lot

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of money and gas by going streading here, gathering and
a lot of GUI tickets and a whole lot of
other stuff if we just had that things shut up
down there. It was set up for that, and then
you got the Amtrak up under it. Man, you're talking
about some real business.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, Cliff, no idea if this so, who knows if
this will ever change, But I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Well, I imagine we got we could have got enough
guy to fix all these potholes we got. I know
it had been enough money to fix the potholes. I
don't know about building the schools like they're saying, but
just the streets being paid with build enough for me?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Amen?

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, bliss dell can Cliff, thank you.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Thank you Cliff for blessing me and the listeners by
your phone call. All right, just about out of time
for this segment of the Uncle Henry Show. We have
news headlines coming up next from Fox Radio National News,
and then more Uncle Henry's show after the top of
the hour news break. In fact, today is National Poetry Day,

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and I'm not really smart enough to read poetry on
a regular basis, But through the years, I've had lots
of listeners call in with their own poems that they've written,
and so I'm gonna see if I can. I'm gonna
go into my archives and share. I know I've got
at least three poems from listeners. I'm gonna get into

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National Poetry Day. Yeah, National Poetry Day coming up along
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Henry Show here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM. Thank you,
I appreciate you listening to the Uncle Henry Show. Now
in this half hour of Uncle Henry Show, there are
some news items that I missed that I want to
get to so I can learn about them. But before

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I get to any news items, today Thursday, October two,
Today is National Poetry Day. Poetry Day. Now, unfortunately I
don't often think of poetry. No, I don't now. I
thought about it back when I was a child and
I was in school and I was forced in school

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to read poems and learn a little bit about them.
Now what I learned, I don't remember, because it was
a long time ago. I just remember reading poems when
I was in school. As an adult, I did not
gravitate to poems. Now. Every now and again, I'd see
a poem and I'd read it and I think, well,
that was well done, well done with that poem. But

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I never tried writing poems or anything like that. Well,
it's National Poetry Day. So to commemorate National Poetry Day
here on the Unkle Inery Show, I've got a few
poems that listeners have phoned in to the Uncle Henry
Show through the years. And if you're a longtime listener,

(35:55):
you've probably heard these poems get played before. But I've
got a few poems that people have called into the
show that I'm gonna I'm gonna share with you now
on National Poetry Day. This is just a show that
there is some some culture to this program. I don't
know if I would call it culture, maybe some maybe
some semi culture. On the program today with poetry. All right,

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let me start with the poem that I've played the
most frequently through the years. Here's a listener's poem. He
wrote it and called it waffle house Woman. Here is
waffle house Woman.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
A poem by a writer who's too humiliated to leave
his name. Waffle house Woman. I'm going to marry a
waffle house waitress and eat free omelets all day, slipper
and begger for her whole shift till the chuester all
takes me away. I'll swell down ad free coffee and

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tell her what she's done on I distinctly said Denver
style waffle housewoman, and don't give me this old song. See, Billy,
I got ten tables in fifty orders to go. They're
all tipping customers, not like you. So sit there and

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shut your hole. My ex is a waffle housewoman. But
now I'm sorry to say I'll have to stick to
my meth lay and by my time until ihop comes
my way. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Message deleted waffle house Woman. I don't know the name
of the man that wrote and performed waffle house Woman.
If you're still out there, sir, thank you you. I
think It's difficult to include the word cholesterol in a
polom probably, but you did, and I liked the You
used some evocative language, the word swilled or I think

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you were talking about swilling coffee or swilled coffee. Well done,
waffle house woman. Let's see. I wonder what year that
was phoned in. Let me check. Let's see here that was.
That poem was phoned into the unc Lenary show in
February of two thousand and nine. So February of two
thousand and nine, waffle house woman. If that man is

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still around, God bless, I'm well done. All right. Now
here is a much older poem. This is a poem
that was written by local legend Liian Jackson. Liian Jackson,
who formed the group March Against Crime and Mobile. She
was a watcher of city and county and governmental budgets.

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The politicians hated her, the citizens should have loved her.
With Lily and Jackson, she wrote this poem. They did
a show one night. I was told that I was
going to BATV to interview Gene Stallings, And when I

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showed up, Jeene Stallings was not there as you might imagine. Instead,
there was a group of people and they did kind
of a this is your Life, Uncle Henry presentation on
television that was live. It was a surprise, and it
was live. Here is Lily and she showed up and
she had this poem that she wrote for me, Lily

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and Jackson. Wonderful to see roses so much.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
I bought things to you.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
Now, Uncle Hennah, it's past my bedtime. We got to
stand up, and I'm gonna have to kind of read
this poem about things that you and I have kind
of discussed from time to time. All right, and so
this is a poem. A rose is a rose is
a rose, and I'm a rose.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
And I interrupt here just to apologize for the audio quality.
This was taken off of a VCR tape, and I
guess the year would have been nineteen ninety one or
ninety all right, back to the poem. Lily and Jackson
with her poem.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
To Uncle Henry, opponent of communism, devil worship, and immorral behavior,
and whom I am proudly to consider a worthy fellow crusader.
Dark recesses hide secret meetings and committees resulting in done

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deals and taxes that are public defeating. Such things provide
calls for Uncle Henry's fight to throw out demons and
devils and turn on lights. But as to his fight
against immorral behavior, throw in the towel. It's a job
for the savior. Another chief problem, and that's upon, is

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that crime finally has a home in the sun, Suppressed
public stats and swiped notes, Murders of crime fighters, trusting hopes,
arrogance and madmen, and tyranny all around. Having been banished
from one place and another, scorned by scores and loved

(41:21):
only by my mother, Uncle Henry empathized with my ongoing
plight and declared me unique on his show one night. So,
in spite of all the bs heaped upon me by foes,
Uncle Henry thinks I smell.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Like a rose.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
So I wrought you these roses because to show if
you cast your petals upon the water, you'll get a.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Whole Bokay, wonderful.

Speaker 9 (42:02):
Don't you think the sentiment is sweet?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
And it was a sweet sentiment, So Lily and Jackson
again again. I'm thinking the year was probably ninety one
or ninety now as I listened to that, haven't listened
to that in years. It cursed me shoes that you
heard her talking about crime and crime stats being cooked
and all this kind of stuff. It almost seems to

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happen in a cycle here locally, where we go through
these cycles where crime spikes and the citizens complain and
they have all these gripes about the way the police
department is handling things, and then things get better, and
then a few years later we have the crime spike,
and it all feels very familiar. It just feels very familiar.

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All right, Look, I actually have more poems. So I
do have a couple of more poems to get to
a National Poetry Day. But first I've got to take
a break for traffic, weather and words from our sponsors.
Let's please now take the dad gum break. This is

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the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.
We have news headlines coming up in ten minutes. It
is National Poetry Day. So I got a few more
poems to share with you from the archives of the
Uncle Henry Show. Now let's see, I've got this. This

(43:44):
is a weird one. This is very and in fact,
I've got it labeled in the audio archives as weird poem.
All I know is this was also phoned in in
two thousand and nine, but it was phoned in in
August of two thousand. So let's listen together to the
poem that has labeled weird poem.

Speaker 10 (44:07):
A poem of Uncle Henry by the East Bay Sojourner,
written by inspiration from multiplied trips across the Mobile Bayway.
I don't do the gators as an omen for the
day or the week's business, but the presence, nevertheless, Louise
my spirits stretched out on a mud bank in the

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mid morning sun, with his tail curled in an arc.

Speaker 11 (44:36):
The six foot.

Speaker 12 (44:36):
Reptile almost looks fake, like some long sculpture. Very Lands
is digesting his latest conquest or contemplating the next one,
soaking up the rays, just outside the shadow of the
Iten Bridge, which crosses Mobile Bay at its northernmost and shallowest,

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and he seems oblivious to me and my fellow contemporaries
rushing by in our daily pursuit of happiness. When I
see him like that, or as fellows, one of them
barely visible above the water level, I feel a sense

(45:20):
of kinship with him in our own way. We are
both intent on filling out bellies.

Speaker 11 (45:28):
To play the next message Press one to replay the truth.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
All right. You noticed I did not interrupt that because
that I forgot that. That's actually pretty good, at least
it is to me. But I'm not educated like you are.
You're probably educated. You probably can pick that poem apart.
But to me, as an uneducated bumpkin type person with
a limited intelligence, I found that to be pretty good.

(45:56):
I like it better now that I did when it
was phoned in in two thousand. If whoever phoned that
in is still a listener and still alive, thank you.
I appreciate that. I'm gonna have to trot that out
more frequently since it's about alligators. Well done, weird poem,
all right. The next poem, This was phoned in by

(46:18):
a caller named Tim, and I believe the year was
twenty twelve, and I think this is about politics.

Speaker 11 (46:27):
Hey, Henry, here's a little poem for you, regarding Obama.
Obama was the night before elections, and all through the
town tempers were flaring, emotions up and down. I had
in my bathrobe with a puff in my lap, had

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cut off the TV, tired of political When all of
a sudden, there arose such a noise. I peered out
of my window. So Obama and his boys they had
come from my wallet. They wanted my pay to give
to the others who had not worked today.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
When I'm pausing here just to say I'm loving this already,
I'm already. I'm falling in love with junk that people
have phoned in from twenty twelve.

Speaker 11 (47:20):
He snatched up my money and as quick as a wink,
jumping back on his vandwagon. As I gagged from the stink.
He then rallied his henchmen who were pulling his cart.
I could tell they were out to tear my country
apart on Fanny, on Freddy, on Biden, and as on

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Acorn on Pelosi. He screamed at the pears they took
off for his calls, and as he flew out of sight,
I heard him laugh at the nation who wouldn't stand
up and fight. I leave you to think on this
one final note. If you don't want socialism, dad, gain

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that you better get out and vote to you later.
All right, deleted.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
That was pretty pretty good, very very good, and of
course Romney lost. I believe that was I think that
was right before. I guess that was before the Romney
Obama vote. All right, one more. I have one more
poem for National Poetry Day. This is this is a
very brief one phoned in by a lady. This was

(48:41):
right before Alabama Crimson Tide roll Tide role played against Texas.
I believe in the National Championship game. Do you remember
that game where they knocked the quarterback out? They knocked
the Texas quarter out quarterback out real quick, and then
it was a wonderful romp against Texas. Here is a
poem A lady called into the show.

Speaker 13 (49:03):
Alabama Alabama jump out at the start. Please please don't
test Uncle Henry's Heart show. Thebamination all about our pride.
Give them Texans a great, big ride. We Bemma fans
are not crazy nor dumb. We no longer fear the
big thumb jo Uncle Henry Road Tide message deleted.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
What a wonderful poem. All right, All right, amount of time.
I didn't get to any news items. It was all
a bunch of bunch of poetry junk on National Poetry Day.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Well, look, remember if you want to listen to previous shows,
they're available as podcasts on the iHeartRadio app. Look for
Uncle Henry Show on the iHeartRadio app or at NewsRadio
seven ten dot com. Thank you for listening, as they
say in Sarah Land, have a good one, as they
say in Theodore, take it easy, all right Later