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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh, call Henry. You know what alsa not been called
in your show lately. You know that Uncle Henry message
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And yes, I know you may be shocked, you may
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Still got a key that works to let me in
the building. Let me do the show once again for
the umpteenth time. Here we are together, me and you,
trying to figure out what is going on, what is
going on in the world around us, try to make
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dot com. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Hope you
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had a wonderful Monday. All of this if you love
humidity and if you love heat, some of us do.
Some people do love the heat and humidity. And if
you're one of those people, what a wonderful weekend you had.
Wasn't it a great weekend for heating humidity? I got
to thinking about the people that settled here way back
before the invention of air conditioning. What else, What a
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resilient group of people they must have been. They knew,
they just knew that it was better down here, even
with the heat and humidity.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not wearing a hat right now, but hats off
to them. If I were wearing a hat, it would
be off to those settlers that came here. And we're
here in all of the glorious heat and humidity of
the past making doab probably looked for a lot of
shade and made a lot of moonshine back in the day.
Don't you think, Well, here, we are so many things
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to get to going on the local and national level,
before I get to any of that stuff. I got
a voicemail from a listener right before it was I
guess it was an hour before the show started. Let's
listen together. This was a topic I did not expect
to have to address, or even think about on the
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Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Today road beautiful summer day here in Paradise, as your
day going today, looking forward to the show coming up
here in about oh, just a little over an hour's
three fifty one pm right now.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I guess you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Saw ind or heard about the statement that was put
out there that well, it began that Gregory McElroy, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Let me stop there. No, I had not heard. Now,
sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley phoning in
this afternoon, assuming that I had heard about about a
statement that was put out there. Now I had not.
This is me getting see This is why so much
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how much a help to the unc Lenary Show when
you call the voicemail and tell me about stuff you've
seen in the news, Because I'm getting the news from
a voicemailer voice one number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. So I'm actually getting news from a caller.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Gregory McElroy, the quarterback of the first Nick Saban led
Alabama Crimson Tide national championship in two thousand and nine, Yes,
stated on his program this morning on Jock's Radio. That
someone that he told him that Nick Saban was interested
in getting back and coaching, but he didn't believe it
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to be so that he didn't believe that he would. Well,
that has grown into uh once, it's made all the
rounds on all the podcasts. Now it's Nick Saban wants
to get back into coaching. Of course Nick Saban ain't
so Dad blame thing and who oh baby does more
prior to him. He's a young seventy three. If that's
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what he wishes to do, go for it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Uh, I don't believe that he will, but I don't know.
I don't have a hotline to him or anything like that.
So more fire to you.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Coach.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You you more than way more than honored your contract
when you was at the University of Alabama. Wins six
national championships, roll Tide Road. All right, uncle, thought i'd
run that in by listening to you later there bro.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All right, sixty eight year old Chris of Westlocksley, thank
you for letting me know about this. Unfortunately, having a
full time job does not allow me to listen to
Greg and mc elroy's program and all the other sports
podcasts or sports shows. That are available during out during
a working day. I'm unable. I'm unable, and the full
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time job I've got does does not allow me to
listen to us. There's while I'm actually broadcasting myself on
ninety five CASJ. I've never tried. Maybe I should try
that start. Maybe I can listen to sports talk while
hosting on CASJ. I have to figure out how to
work that out. But uh, Nick's what would be the
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point of that. I mean, he just won an Emmy
for being on College Game Day. I think I think
he's already won an award for his TV broadcasting. So,
as you pointed out, he's already gotten national championships, a
bunch of them. Where everybody calls him the goat in
college football, or most people call him the goat in
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college football. Why would you go back? It wouldn't be
money it motivated, of course, why would he doesn't make
any sense at all. I'm sure many other people have
said the same thing, only smarter than me throughout the day.
But it makes it would make no sense. But then again,
you know, you never know what would motivate somebody and
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make want to go do something like that. Now, some
of us have paid a little bit of attention to
how one of Nick Saban's good friends has decided to
stay in coaching, and that would be Bill Belichick, and
that that just doesn't It looks like Belichick should have
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just maybe stayed in the stayed in the retirement zone
rather than get him back into college football with all
his girlfriend mess going on. But cannot imagine Nick Saban
wanting to go back into coaching football. It would be
it would create a even though he, as you said,
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he's done wonderful things for Alabama fans winning all them championships,
and all those players he's helped win those championships and good,
great careers improve their lives, that would I'm sure there'd
be a strained relationship with the fan base if he
decided to go coach for some other college football team somewhere,
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hopefully far away from here, maybe even another country. That'd
be if you wanted to coach college football. I'd have
no problem with it. If he came back to Alabama,
or if he were coaching college football and like China
or Russia somewhere that would be very far away, hard
to get to. And why I can't think of a
motive for him getting into the NFL. So it just
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sounds like it's summer and these sports talk people don't
have anything to talk about. That's what it sounds like
to me. Maybe there's a lot to talk about in
sports talk. I don't know, but that's what it sounds
like to me. We don't have anything to talk about today.
Let's pretend Nick Saban is going to go back to coaching,
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it says The Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten
wn TM. It's five twenty news headlines coming up in
ten minutes from Fox ten and also Fox Radio National News.
Telephone number here two five one four seventy nine two
seven two three. That's two five one four seven nine
(09:31):
two seventy two three. Let's see, before I get into
any of my topics, and I do have today, I
went to the trouble of actually thinking of things to say.
But before I do any of that, I would rather
talk to living, living callers.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hello caller, Hey, over Henry, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Snake Trapper? You are live on the radio, Snake Trapper,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Over Henry. I woke up early Sunday morning, and I
rarely turn on the TV that early. Yeah, I actually
got up about five o'clock and I turned on the
TV and I'm coming through the channels over Henry and
I come across a network called me TV, Yes, and
they were running old reruns of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Was Henry, and I was sitting there thinking to myself, Man,
I learned a lot from that program. You know, I
never knew why I knew some of the things I did,
like the difference between the African elephant and the Asian elephant,
a correct way to tell the difference between a crocodile
and an alligator just from sight, a lot about possums
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and snakes. Over Henry day run four hours of old
reruns of Mutual, Walmhaw and Man, that just brought back
so many memories. And I believe some network needs to
pick that up and rerun them, because they've run that
program from nineteen sixty three all the way to nineteen
eighty eight, and that was every bit of my childhood
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and teenage life.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hey, hey, help me remember this because I used to
watch it too. Didn't it come on Sunday evening?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It did, Uncle Henry, And at one time it came
on late Saturday night or SAT late Saturday evening. But man,
I'm telling you that Jim Fowler, uncle Henry, that man
was a athlete. They showed him jumping out of or not.
You know, they were in a little helicopter and airboat
and jumping eye out of it into waste deep water
onto the back of about a four point white dell deer. Now,
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I don't know if anybody's ever had the pleasure of
actually grabbing a deer realizing what did Yes, man, that
is the one powerful little animal.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, Hey, if I remember right, I
think I may remember it wrong though because it was
so many years ago, but I think it came on Sunday,
right before the Wonderful World of Disney, if I remember correctly, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I do. I do remember it being right there, right
there along that timeline.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But now let me also say this to you, snakes Ray,
because you're talking about how educational it was. How you
you now remember that you learned a lot from watching
Mutual of Omaha's Wilder Kingdom. Now, in modern times, there
are probably thousands, maybe millions of hours of nature documentaries
out there, But have you noticed that all of the
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modern nature documentaries about animals and things, all of them
have a theme of how bad people are. It doesn't
matter what it's on. It can be about an a
possum or an antelope or snakes or whatever the topic,
but it's always there's some narrative inside the documentary of
how people are just terrible. If it weren't for the people,
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these animals would be flourishing. Have you noticed this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yes, sir. And then they pushed the narrative back then that, yeah,
we should all live together, and how important it was
for to let natural things happen, like if yeah, for instance,
if you see a fox with a possum, you know,
leave it alone because that's part of nature and it
kind of takes care of itself, you know, not intervene like.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
If you caught us.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know, even the you know, the snake went through
its natural habitat and uh everything it needed to do
to catch that animal. And it's just a part of nature.
But inn some network really needs to pick that up.
I mean I think that you know, children are very
interested in uh in animals and the man. They would
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really love and it'll give them something to do, and
they do not push that. Uh you know humans worse
than anything in the world. You know. They they had
a part of the program, one of the programs where
they were basically uh uh, figuring out myths on what
animals did what. For instance, like they claim back in
the Western days that the rattlesnake would not crawl over
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for a rope, so the cowboys back out in the
West would put a rope around them. Well, you know,
they showed that that wasn't the case. H They proved
that monkey see, monkey do is a real thing. A
chimpanzee will sit and watch humans and duplicate what they do.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yes, it's just very.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Educational, man, and I think the world really needs it.
I would love it again if they would run that
on a Saturday evening or Sunday morning or something like that.
But man, was it really brought back a whole lot
of memories. It made me realize where I learned a
lot of stuff that I didn't know where I got
it from.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Well that is what Hey, snake Trapper, thank you for
taking me down memory lane. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, sir over head, and you have a good day
bub you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Too, Snake Trapper with some Wild Kingdom nostalgia on the
Uncle Henry Show two five, one, four, nine three. The
telephone number Hello caller, OI, Hey you are live on
the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I used to watch the while that Omaha Kingdom show
a little too, you did. Yeah, I learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I learned a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like what.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I learned that the average adult male hippopotersus is smaller
than your mother.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh would you? Of course? Of course? Hey, come on, no,
they're bigger than my mother. Dad, gum it trying to
trick me with hippopotamus jokes about my mother. It's sickening.
It's gotta stop, you know. I I've thought should of
course the company, Uh we cannot. As I've told you before,
(15:37):
a call screener would solve this. Somebody to screen my
phone calls. But all of that budget has to go
to Sports Talk ninety nine to five to prop up
that station. And so here I am, and I've got
to either take the calls just just wildly coming in
without knowing what they are, or I just have to
choose to do the show uh just me talking, which
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would be would that would be stupid? Nobody would want
to hear that. So we're gonna have to we're gonna
I need I guess I'm gonna have to deputize some
people and figure out. You know, back in the day,
you would form a posse, back in the speaking of
the Old West, where they would lay rope down to
try and prevent snake attacks or suck the venomen out
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of a wound, which was wrong. I'm gonna have to do.
I'm gonna have to maybe get together a posse of
individuals that will help me find this person. I don't know,
maybe we can involve law enforcement in some way, and
then in this once and for all, it's got to happen.
I mean, my mother still she is of normal size.
I've had every kind of witness on the show testifying
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to her normal sizedness, and still the myth of her
giant girth persists. I don't know, it's it's turning into,
you know, And I guess I should be thankful that
I will fade into obscs gurity and that there won't
be a record in the future where there will be
some lie about my mother that will last into history.
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I'm glad that won't happen. I'm glad that won't happen.
But something is going to have to be done. I
pledged that it would end this year, and I'm already
halfway through. Maybe I should do like the mayor of
Orange Beach and like talk about having some type of duel.
(17:33):
Maybe we can figure out a non lethal dual method,
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dot com. Now there's a story. Uh, this is a
this is a national news story that annoyed me. Now
probably doesn't annoy you as much as it annoys me,
but this is a strong sense of deja vu when
I heard this story today. Here's the story about the
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postage the postage stamp price going up yet again. This
is from Fox News. Here is the story. Briefly, postage
rates are going up.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
The US Postal Services raising prices this week, and that
means a first class stamp, the regular kind of stamp
will go up from seventy three cents to seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Cents, okay, seventy three seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
International letter postage increases from a dollar sixty five to
a dollar seventy. The rate hikes were proposed earlier this year,
citing falling revenues and higher operating costs, and are part
of a series of rate increases planned every six months
through the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Every six months through twenty twenty seven, they're going up
on the price of stamps.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Minder, that's so called forever stamps retain the value of
current first class postage, no matter when or for how
much they were purchased. Evan Brown, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, why are we still doing this? Why has there
never been any reform of the US Postal Service. By
the way, I've said many times on this program, I've
have been blessed through the years. I've always had I've
always had pretty good service from the Postal Service. I
always had great mailmen and mail ladies, never had an
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issue going into a post office. I've always had good service.
I know other people have different stories, but I've had
good service from the post office. But why why do
we continue to do things the same way? With the
United States Postal Service. I looked into it. They had
a net loss, net loss of several billion dollars. They
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generated seventy nine point five billion, but a net loss
into the billions. I think it was something like seven
or nine billion dollar loss in fiscal year twenty twenty four.
They're losing billions, losing billions a year. Now. The Postal
service is in the Constitution. It says that the Congress
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it is under the purview of Congress. The Congress establishes
the post offices, and Congress also is to establish the
postal roads because back in the day mail routes, they
need to make sure there was a road to deliver
mail on way way back. Remember this is all before
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telegraph or telephone, and it's in the Constitution to make
sure they needed to have a way to ensure communication
for the country and back before telegraph and telephone, people
communicated by writing stuff on paper and putting it in
an envelope and send it across the country. Well, guess
what it's twenty twenty five. It is. It's twenty twenty five.
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When you want to talk to your mama, or your child,
or your grandchild, or your sister or your brother, do
you write a letter and put it in an envelope
and ask somebody to carry it over there in person
in twenty twenty five. It's twenty twenty five. This is
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as outdated. This would be like having a United States
Bureau of Blacksmiths to make sure all of our horses
were shoot properly. What are we doing with this now?
Of course the main reason it still exists in its
current form. Now can't lobby the Postal Service, can't lobby
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the Congress, but the workers can the workers' union. So
there's the Postal Workers Union that lobbies Congress to keep
all this going to have a status quo. And also
there are postal worker packs. Political action committees now looked
at all this stuff on. Most of the donations go
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to Democrat lawmakers. Republicans get some of the money, but
the vast majority of the money goes to Democrat lawmakers.
And this is all about maintaining a status quo that
costs US a few billion dollars a year for an
outdated technology. The whole point of it is so that
we can communicate with each other. Well, we don't write
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letters to each other anymore. You might send a thank
you note if you're seventy five years old, you might
send an invitation to be high falutint. But this is antiquated.
You know, if they want to keep up with the
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actual basis of the postal service as communications, they should
instead make post offices. They should make post offices about broadband.
You know, they're worried about rural broadband. We've heard about
how people in small towns out in the country cannot
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get any kind of internet service. How horrible it is. Well,
they should stop dropping off mail every day at people's
houses and maybe maybe do rural broadband through post offices
around the country. That makes way more sense than delivering
letters every day when we don't get letters. Maybe weirdos
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write letters these days, or eccentrics. I apologize for the
weirdo label. Eccentric people perhaps they're writing letters to each other,
but we have email. We have text messages, we have telephones.
What are we doing here? Why? Why does this exist?
Other than people are making money off of it, to
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a net loss into the billions every year. Got to
go up on the price every six months. They have
to keep raising the rates every six months just to
keep going and still at a loss. Probably. Look, I
know there's nothing that can be done about this, because
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there's enough lobbying money going to congressmen and congresswomen that
they'll never mess with it. But it is the one
of the dumbest things we do in this country is
to maintain all that. And I'm not against having mail
delivered to your house, but do you know five days
a week in twenty twenty five when we got we
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got email, text messages, Internet, maybe it ought to be
two or three times a week tops.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Hell no color, Hello longer, Henry, Yes, sir, Hey, Hey,
just had had a brainstorm. This is d Wayne. So
they're going to go up every six months on the
postal rate.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
By the way, I'm probably close to your age. I
remember when a stamp was six cents, they went up
to seven and you had to buy a one cent
stamp and place it beside your six cents.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I remember them, YM.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So here's my brainstorm, Uncle Henry. You can retire, Okay,
take about a million dollars of what you've got saved
up in your four oh one k and go invest
it in the current postage stamps. They've already said they're
going to go up every six months for the next
two years. Once the price goes up in two years,
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turn around and sell the stamps by your forever stamp
and sell them for what the price is.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Then what a wonderful sir. What a wonderful did you say,
were d Wayne? Yes, sir, what a wonderful idea, d Wayne.
I think I may do that right away. This might
be my last show.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, I mean they're already giving us warning. They're gonna
go go ahead and invest a bunch of money in
them now. And there you go, all right, go up,
reach out, all right over, Henry Rot thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Very much for your brainstorm. More show after the break,
Uncle Henry's show. I'm going for it Uncle, every show.
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It is five point fifty here on news radio seven
ten WNTM, also five fifty at other locations. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Telephone number two five one
four seven nine two seven two three. That's two five
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Uncle Henry at ihartmedia dot com. Now I saw the
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saw the story about the postal service going up on
the stamps. I shared with you my reaction in the
last segment of the show, and I got to think it,
if there's maybe we could maybe we could do some
Maybe we could utilize the postal workers, like the mail carriers.
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Maybe we could we possibly deputize them in some way,
just in addition to delivering mail, get them to do
welfare checks and stuff on the elderly, just some like that,
just some additional stuff for him. They're going to go
up on the rate every six months for the next
several years. Congress won't let us change the system, even
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though it's antiquated to the point of antique from before
the time we had the telegraph. Maybe we could find
some new uses for the mail carriers. In addition to
dropping off the junk mail and the unwanted bills, they
could also have body camp maybe body cams and stuff.
Give them some tasers and things, and just let them
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be kind of another layer, a first responder for us.
Just maybe give it some thought, and if you think
that's too dangerous for them, maybe we could just forty
five the mail trucks make them bulletproof or something again.
Two five to one four seven nine two seven two
three the telephone number that's two five to one four
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seven nine two seven two three. Uh, want to mention
again that Tomorrow night, I think it's tomorrow night. Fox
ten is going to be doing their mayorum forum where
they have the candidates for mayor on Fox ten tomorrow night.
I think it starts at six, so a lot of
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us will be watching to see with the different candidates
for mayor will have to say during the forum. It'll
be for a lot of people that can't go to
the individual forums or they find that reading the interviews
in Lamyak are just too much heavy lifting. Don't have
it on TV tomorrow night at six o'clock. I'm looking
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forward to it. Over the weekend. On that topic, over
the weekend, I saw that that Elon Musk's X app.
It has its artificial intelligence called Groc that they keep
allegedly improving, and they upgraded Groc last week to Groc
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version four, also known as super Grok, and so over
the weekend, I typed into the artificial intelligence of super Groc.
I told super Groc, I said, please examine all available
data on the race for mayor of Mobile and please
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analyze the data and predict who will win the mayor's
race in August. And the Elon Musk Groc, I'm sorry,
I bespoke the Elon Musk super Grok the answer that
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it gave me, and it gave me a lot of stuff.
It went on and on a bunch of gobbledygook about
this candidate, that candidate, and then the prediction from Gronk.
I'm sorry, the prediction from super Grok. See, it feels
weird for me to say that I'm communicating with an
artificial intelligence named super Grok. This makes me feel like
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perhaps one of the dumber I know. I've got to
be dumber than my ancestors at this point. If I'm
asking if I'm asking serious questions of a being, well
not even a being, I'm asking serious questions of something
called Supergrox, that's got to make me dumber than a
previous ancestor. But anyway, the artificial intelligence known as super
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Gronk told me it predicted that Barbara Drummond would narrowly
defeat the other candidates, and that Barbara Drummond would be
the next mayor of Mobile. That is the prediction from
Elon Musk's SUP. So if you use artificial intelligence out there, chat,
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GPT or what. I don't even know what all those
other things are, do the same, tell me what it says.
I would love to hear what the other artificial intelligences
are predicting. Now, there's no way, of course, that this
can be well, you know, the prediction may turn out
to be true. We don't know. We'll find out after
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the election. But there's no way that the super Groc
can know what we all know because we're seeing the signs,
we're seeing the candidates, we're seeing people out campaigning. We
know way more than Supergrot. But I just thought it
would be a fun diversion to ask. And that was
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the answer that Supergrot gave me. Barbara Drummond narrowly defeating
the competition. We'll all find out in August, it says
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the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM.
And I appreciate you listening, thank you, thank you for listening.
I appreciate that bear very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm gonna share with you some news
items that I missed you might have missed them too,
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and also share with you personal opinions and thoughts that
have occurred to my mind. Let me start with this
may not be the most earth shattering story, but I
love these stories. In fact, I'm growing as each day
goes by. I love these kind of stories more and more.
And the story I want to share with you is
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about a woman in Mobile, Alabama, over the weekend celebrated
her one hundred year birthday. Yes, a one hundred year birthday. Now,
the older I get, the more I enjoy seeing news
stories about people hitting a hundred. I do, and I'm
sure it's because I like to imagine that I could
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possibly hit that number. Now statistically, statistically probably not. But
you never know. They might invent something tomorrow. They might
invent something to be able to put my head in
a dish or something. You never know what they might
be able to do. Yeah, put my head in a
dish or a tank or something and attach me to
a like an HVAC system or something, and you never know,
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You never know, they could you never know. I don't
want to get too far ahead of myself in technology.
But a woman celebrated a one hundred year birthday and
the woman this is a very brief story. I'm talking
longer than the story is. I love the fact that
she seems to have all of her mind. She seems
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to be as clear as a belle mentally, and I
just love the idea of being able to have a
conversation with somebody that can remember back that far. I've
got a relative that's ninety five, and I love sitting
down and talking to her because I can ask her, Hey,
do you remember do you remember when this happened? Do
you remember when they bond Pearl Harbor and all that
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kind of stuff? She oh, yeah, she can tell. She
can talk about the story and what was going on.
So I love that kind of stuff. Anyway, here we
are from Fox ten. The woman's name is Bertha Belt.
One hundred years ago, Bertha was an outstanding name for
a woman. Now. I don't know if many many people
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are naming their babies Bertha now. One hundred years ago,
that was an outstanding name.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Listened together tonight was a very special birthday celebration at
the Battle House Hotel. Missus Bertha Belt celebrated her one
hundredth birthday two days ago and was all decked out
for her big party this evening. Belt was born in
Little River, Alabama, before moving to the Port City. Her
family says Belt is a mother of seven children and
enjoys bingo, church functions, traveling, and a party, especially if
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it's in her honor. That's exactly what she got as
she was surrounded by her loved ones to celebrate this milestone.
That's a joy to know, to feel, to sit down
and feel the love.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I'm just happy attack of what God has allowed me
to meet.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You in the right mind. Thankful that God's allowed her
to be in her right mind. I'm sure I love this.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
In the right mind.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Able to move some.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
And I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And I don't have no sat flames.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
She don't have no complaints one hundred years. What a
wonderful thing to hear from someone at age one hundred
no complaints, still has their mind thanking.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
God, I don't have no SAT flames.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Again, Happy birthday, it's Missus Belt from all of us
here at Fox ten.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, happy birthday to birtha Belt that was I just
loved that, and you heard what she liked. They didn't
ask her what the secret was to live in one
hundred years, but she said she enjoyed church functions, bingo
stuff like that, and parties. We've all been told that
for a long life. One of the great factors for
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a long life is involvement with a church, having that
community around you. There's a little evidence, a little bit
of evidence there for you. Let's see, there's one more
story from Fox ten that I missed. I want to
briefly share with you and share with me. This is
a There was a ribbon cutting this morning, I believe,
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for a new eco tourism area on Dauphin Island. Dolphin
Island getting a lot of action with the Alabama Deep
sheet Fish and radio this weekend. Here is Fox ten
reporting on this new eco tourism area.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
An Island hosted a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony this
morning to celebrate its new eco tourism area. Foxtenews reporter
Stephen Moody has more on the site that's dedicated to
a Dolphin Island native.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
Welcome to the new Christopher Blankenship Eco tourism area. Blankenship
is the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources, and this is the island's way of recognizing
his many years of service. It's just kind of crazy,
you know, knowing it's just I'm just no island boy,
and then that my name is going to be on
a park down here on the island in my family's
contribution for the island. It's been.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
The area is located on the Garado Avenue and offers
two board walks to provide a great view of the water,
a cartop, kayak launch, picnic tables, and restaurants. And since
opening thirty days ago, it's already drawn a crowd.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's been very popular already. And that's the mayor of
Dauphin Island, Jeff Collier, a very amiable and affable person.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I think as we go forward, it's only gone.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
By the way. I don't know if he's running for anything.
I don't know if there's an a look that was
not an endorsement or anything like that. If anybody's wondering
if there's some kind of election going on.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Become more so, a lot of people like to come
here just to be connect with nature.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And that's what this is all about. And then connect
with nature, you know, when I'm driving home this evening.
You know, I like connecting with nature mostly in the
fall and the spring, but I'll connect with it now.
I might even i might roll my car window down
a little bit and connect with some nature on the
way home.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Includes people like Joe Lene Damar, who says this area
is unlike any area on the island.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
I like it because of being able to bring the
grandkids here. With the boardwalk, it gives them something different
to do walking out over the water and just seeing
the different wildlife that they've seen, turtles and all the
cribs and h.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
We need snake Trapper to explain to her grandkids how
delicious turtles can be, delicious turtle soup.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
Little fish there swimming around the boardwalk. So that's been
really sweet.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
All for your convenience. Steven Moody, Fox ten News.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
All right, Dolphin Island with a new eco tourism area
for you to Maybe you can take your grandchildren and
let them look at turtles down there and they can
they can connect or reconnect with nature, whatever the case
may be. Very nice. Dolphin Island getting lots of action
this weekend with the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. And
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if you've been living here for a while and you've
never been to the Liar's Contest, they do that Thursday night,
you really you should do it. You should go least
once go to the Liar's Contest. If you listen to
this show, you would like the Liar's Contest at the
Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. Some of the more interesting
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and I'll use that word in a good way. It's
a positive way. Some of the more interesting people I've
met have been storytellers at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo.
Liar's Contest. So that is Thursday night. Randy Kennedy of
iHeartMedia Sports Talk ninety nine to five will be one
(42:33):
of the judges in the Liar's Contest Thursday evening. All right,
more Uncle Henry Show on the way. I've got more
personal opinions to share and other items for you. After
we take a break for traffic and weather and words
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Henry Show. Now. Today, July fourteenth, on Monday, is also
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Bestill Day. Now Bestill Day France's biggest holiday of the year.
I've got I've got an odd Bestill Day memory to
tell you about. But before I do that, here's Fox
News with a report on Bestie Old Day in France.
(44:01):
Just briefly to give.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
You the background, President Emmanuel Macron oversaw celebrations on the
most famous street in Paris, the Chancelise, parades of soldiers
on horseback, a warplane flyover, and this year, axe wielding
Asian warriors.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Each year axe wielding Asian warriors.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
France invites a guest Indonesia got the call. This time
a spectacular drone light show and elaborate fireworks with the
Eiffel Tower as the backdrop capping off the festivities. Bastiel
Day marks a turning point in the French Revolution, when
Parisians stormed a fortress in prison back in seventeen eighty nine.
(44:45):
Jonathan Savage, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Now, if you're a regular listener of The Uncle Henry Show,
you know that I'm not. I'm not very versed on
any topic, so I don't was now bestille Day when
they stormed the bestille was there a lot of people
getting their heads cut off instead? Do I remember that right?
Guillotines and stuff anyway, but still day. So I've got
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a weird bestille Day memory for you. That is kind
of a fake bestille Day memory. And what I mean
by that is back in the ancient times of the
late nineteen seventies, I think it was late seventies or
early eighties. Before I was on the radio, I had
an acquaintance in this town. He was an odd guy.
(45:31):
His name was his first name was Michael, and he
invited me and a few mutual friends to his house
one night in June now bestill Day, July fourteenth. He
invited us to his house in June for what he
(45:52):
said it was going to be a bestille Day dinner.
And it was so long ago, but I remember there
were a out six of us there, including this guy's wife.
Michael was a married man, and uh I was a
few years younger than him, so about six of us there,
(46:13):
and he served this this what he said was a
bestille Day dinner and I'd never you know, I've never
been invited to a Beestille day dinner. He served cornish
game hen or something like that. It was something. It
wasn't your usual uh, rubber chicken or anything. It was
like cornish hen or something like that. And after we
(46:35):
all ate, he stood up and he came out. Now
I'm not talking about coming up with his blank uality
or anything like that. He didn't reveal his blank uality
or anything like that. It was it wasn't that kind
of coming out. He stood up and came out as
(46:58):
a pagan. Yeah, and yes, it was as weird. You
think that's weird now, back then it was extra triple
weird in Mobile, Alabama to have an adult male that
held a responsible job. He did work for the city
of Mobile. He came out as a pagan. Now his
(47:24):
wife was not happy. She and there's more to this,
but his wife was very involved in the Episcopal church,
and I think less than a year went by and
they were not married anymore due to him coming out
of the closet as a pagan. So he cut Now
we're all we are all thinking this is a practical joke.
(47:47):
What's going on. It's an alleged Bestille Day party in
June of all times. Well, it turned out he invited
us there on the summer solstice, and he said, you know,
I'm out of the closet as a pagan. He said
that he worshiped what did he worship? He worshiped some
(48:11):
type of female what he called a goddess. By the way,
I don't believe in that at all, but he said,
he said, he worshiped this female goddess or something. Now,
this dinner happened at a house he and his wife
had on South Street, right near Murphy High School, right
(48:34):
near Murphy High School. And he said, now that we've
had dinner, let's all go down to the Murphy bleachers
and I'm going to do a ceremony for the summer solstice.
This pagan. Now the story. Unfortunately for you, you were
(48:58):
hoping there would be a spectac angular ending to the story.
The ending was that I was not. I was not
going to participate in any kind of pagan ritual on
the campus of Murphy at night on the summer soultice.
So I said, sorry, gotta get out of here. It's
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time for me to go. Thank you for the bestilled
dinner on the summer solstice, which made no sense anyway.
That is my one memory of bestill day is the
pagan who came out of the closet as a pagan
and ended up leaving town. He went and left and
moved to Chicago after his wife got sick of him.
All right, out of time. Thank you for listening, as
(49:42):
they say in sarah Land, have a good one, as
they say in Theodore, take it easy
Speaker 1 (49:47):
All right Later
Oh, call Henry. You know what alsa not been called
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Still got a key that works to let me in
the building. Let me do the show once again for
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trying to figure out what is going on, what is
going on in the world around us, try to make
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had a wonderful Monday. All of this if you love
humidity and if you love heat, some of us do.
Some people do love the heat and humidity. And if
you're one of those people, what a wonderful weekend you had.
Wasn't it a great weekend for heating humidity? I got
to thinking about the people that settled here way back
before the invention of air conditioning. What else, What a
(02:23):
resilient group of people they must have been. They knew,
they just knew that it was better down here, even
with the heat and humidity.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not wearing a hat right now, but hats off
to them. If I were wearing a hat, it would
be off to those settlers that came here. And we're
here in all of the glorious heat and humidity of
the past making doab probably looked for a lot of
shade and made a lot of moonshine back in the day.
Don't you think, Well, here, we are so many things
(02:52):
to get to going on the local and national level,
before I get to any of that stuff. I got
a voicemail from a listener right before it was I
guess it was an hour before the show started. Let's
listen together. This was a topic I did not expect
to have to address, or even think about on the
(03:13):
Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Today road beautiful summer day here in Paradise, as your
day going today, looking forward to the show coming up
here in about oh, just a little over an hour's
three fifty one pm right now.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I guess you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Saw ind or heard about the statement that was put
out there that well, it began that Gregory McElroy, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Let me stop there. No, I had not heard. Now,
sixty eight year old Chris of West Locksley phoning in
this afternoon, assuming that I had heard about about a
statement that was put out there. Now I had not.
This is me getting see This is why so much
(04:00):
how much a help to the unc Lenary Show when
you call the voicemail and tell me about stuff you've
seen in the news, Because I'm getting the news from
a voicemailer voice one number two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. That's two five one two one six,
nineteen seventy six. So I'm actually getting news from a caller.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Gregory McElroy, the quarterback of the first Nick Saban led
Alabama Crimson Tide national championship in two thousand and nine, Yes,
stated on his program this morning on Jock's Radio. That
someone that he told him that Nick Saban was interested
in getting back and coaching, but he didn't believe it
(04:43):
to be so that he didn't believe that he would. Well,
that has grown into uh once, it's made all the
rounds on all the podcasts. Now it's Nick Saban wants
to get back into coaching. Of course Nick Saban ain't
so Dad blame thing and who oh baby does more
prior to him. He's a young seventy three. If that's
(05:04):
what he wishes to do, go for it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Uh, I don't believe that he will, but I don't know.
I don't have a hotline to him or anything like that.
So more fire to you.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Coach.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You you more than way more than honored your contract
when you was at the University of Alabama. Wins six
national championships, roll Tide Road. All right, uncle, thought i'd
run that in by listening to you later there bro.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All right, sixty eight year old Chris of Westlocksley, thank
you for letting me know about this. Unfortunately, having a
full time job does not allow me to listen to
Greg and mc elroy's program and all the other sports
podcasts or sports shows. That are available during out during
a working day. I'm unable. I'm unable, and the full
(05:56):
time job I've got does does not allow me to
listen to us. There's while I'm actually broadcasting myself on
ninety five CASJ. I've never tried. Maybe I should try
that start. Maybe I can listen to sports talk while
hosting on CASJ. I have to figure out how to
work that out. But uh, Nick's what would be the
(06:18):
point of that. I mean, he just won an Emmy
for being on College Game Day. I think I think
he's already won an award for his TV broadcasting. So,
as you pointed out, he's already gotten national championships, a
bunch of them. Where everybody calls him the goat in
college football, or most people call him the goat in
(06:38):
college football. Why would you go back? It wouldn't be
money it motivated, of course, why would he doesn't make
any sense at all. I'm sure many other people have
said the same thing, only smarter than me throughout the day.
But it makes it would make no sense. But then again,
you know, you never know what would motivate somebody and
(06:59):
make want to go do something like that. Now, some
of us have paid a little bit of attention to
how one of Nick Saban's good friends has decided to
stay in coaching, and that would be Bill Belichick, and
that that just doesn't It looks like Belichick should have
(07:20):
just maybe stayed in the stayed in the retirement zone
rather than get him back into college football with all
his girlfriend mess going on. But cannot imagine Nick Saban
wanting to go back into coaching football. It would be
it would create a even though he, as you said,
(07:41):
he's done wonderful things for Alabama fans winning all them championships,
and all those players he's helped win those championships and good,
great careers improve their lives, that would I'm sure there'd
be a strained relationship with the fan base if he
decided to go coach for some other college football team somewhere,
(08:02):
hopefully far away from here, maybe even another country. That'd
be if you wanted to coach college football. I'd have
no problem with it. If he came back to Alabama,
or if he were coaching college football and like China
or Russia somewhere that would be very far away, hard
to get to. And why I can't think of a
motive for him getting into the NFL. So it just
(08:27):
sounds like it's summer and these sports talk people don't
have anything to talk about. That's what it sounds like
to me. Maybe there's a lot to talk about in
sports talk. I don't know, but that's what it sounds
like to me. We don't have anything to talk about today.
Let's pretend Nick Saban is going to go back to coaching,
(09:08):
it says The Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven ten
wn TM. It's five twenty news headlines coming up in
ten minutes from Fox ten and also Fox Radio National News.
Telephone number here two five one four seventy nine two
seven two three. That's two five one four seven nine
(09:31):
two seventy two three. Let's see, before I get into
any of my topics, and I do have today, I
went to the trouble of actually thinking of things to say.
But before I do any of that, I would rather
talk to living, living callers.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hello caller, Hey, over Henry, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Snake Trapper? You are live on the radio, Snake Trapper,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Over Henry. I woke up early Sunday morning, and I
rarely turn on the TV that early. Yeah, I actually
got up about five o'clock and I turned on the
TV and I'm coming through the channels over Henry and
I come across a network called me TV, Yes, and
they were running old reruns of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Was Henry, and I was sitting there thinking to myself, Man,
I learned a lot from that program. You know, I
never knew why I knew some of the things I did,
like the difference between the African elephant and the Asian elephant,
a correct way to tell the difference between a crocodile
and an alligator just from sight, a lot about possums
(10:42):
and snakes. Over Henry day run four hours of old
reruns of Mutual, Walmhaw and Man, that just brought back
so many memories. And I believe some network needs to
pick that up and rerun them, because they've run that
program from nineteen sixty three all the way to nineteen
eighty eight, and that was every bit of my childhood
(11:04):
and teenage life.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hey, hey, help me remember this because I used to
watch it too. Didn't it come on Sunday evening?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It did, Uncle Henry, And at one time it came
on late Saturday night or SAT late Saturday evening. But man,
I'm telling you that Jim Fowler, uncle Henry, that man
was a athlete. They showed him jumping out of or not.
You know, they were in a little helicopter and airboat
and jumping eye out of it into waste deep water
onto the back of about a four point white dell deer. Now,
(11:39):
I don't know if anybody's ever had the pleasure of
actually grabbing a deer realizing what did Yes, man, that
is the one powerful little animal.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, Hey, if I remember right, I
think I may remember it wrong though because it was
so many years ago, but I think it came on Sunday,
right before the Wonderful World of Disney, if I remember correctly, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I do. I do remember it being right there, right
there along that timeline.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But now let me also say this to you, snakes Ray,
because you're talking about how educational it was. How you
you now remember that you learned a lot from watching
Mutual of Omaha's Wilder Kingdom. Now, in modern times, there
are probably thousands, maybe millions of hours of nature documentaries
out there, But have you noticed that all of the
(12:31):
modern nature documentaries about animals and things, all of them
have a theme of how bad people are. It doesn't
matter what it's on. It can be about an a
possum or an antelope or snakes or whatever the topic,
but it's always there's some narrative inside the documentary of
how people are just terrible. If it weren't for the people,
(12:52):
these animals would be flourishing. Have you noticed this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yes, sir. And then they pushed the narrative back then that, yeah,
we should all live together, and how important it was
for to let natural things happen, like if yeah, for instance,
if you see a fox with a possum, you know,
leave it alone because that's part of nature and it
kind of takes care of itself, you know, not intervene like.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
If you caught us.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know, even the you know, the snake went through
its natural habitat and uh everything it needed to do
to catch that animal. And it's just a part of nature.
But inn some network really needs to pick that up.
I mean I think that you know, children are very
interested in uh in animals and the man. They would
(13:36):
really love and it'll give them something to do, and
they do not push that. Uh you know humans worse
than anything in the world. You know. They they had
a part of the program, one of the programs where
they were basically uh uh, figuring out myths on what
animals did what. For instance, like they claim back in
the Western days that the rattlesnake would not crawl over
(14:00):
for a rope, so the cowboys back out in the
West would put a rope around them. Well, you know,
they showed that that wasn't the case. H They proved
that monkey see, monkey do is a real thing. A
chimpanzee will sit and watch humans and duplicate what they do.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yes, it's just very.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Educational, man, and I think the world really needs it.
I would love it again if they would run that
on a Saturday evening or Sunday morning or something like that.
But man, was it really brought back a whole lot
of memories. It made me realize where I learned a
lot of stuff that I didn't know where I got
it from.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Well that is what Hey, snake Trapper, thank you for
taking me down memory lane. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, sir over head, and you have a good day
bub you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Too, Snake Trapper with some Wild Kingdom nostalgia on the
Uncle Henry Show two five, one, four, nine three. The
telephone number Hello caller, OI, Hey you are live on
the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I used to watch the while that Omaha Kingdom show
a little too, you did. Yeah, I learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I learned a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Like what.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I learned that the average adult male hippopotersus is smaller
than your mother.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Oh would you? Of course? Of course? Hey, come on, no,
they're bigger than my mother. Dad, gum it trying to
trick me with hippopotamus jokes about my mother. It's sickening.
It's gotta stop, you know. I I've thought should of
course the company, Uh we cannot. As I've told you before,
(15:37):
a call screener would solve this. Somebody to screen my
phone calls. But all of that budget has to go
to Sports Talk ninety nine to five to prop up
that station. And so here I am, and I've got
to either take the calls just just wildly coming in
without knowing what they are, or I just have to
choose to do the show uh just me talking, which
(16:00):
would be would that would be stupid? Nobody would want
to hear that. So we're gonna have to we're gonna
I need I guess I'm gonna have to deputize some
people and figure out. You know, back in the day,
you would form a posse, back in the speaking of
the Old West, where they would lay rope down to
try and prevent snake attacks or suck the venomen out
(16:21):
of a wound, which was wrong. I'm gonna have to do.
I'm gonna have to maybe get together a posse of
individuals that will help me find this person. I don't know,
maybe we can involve law enforcement in some way, and
then in this once and for all, it's got to happen.
I mean, my mother still she is of normal size.
I've had every kind of witness on the show testifying
(16:44):
to her normal sizedness, and still the myth of her
giant girth persists. I don't know, it's it's turning into,
you know, And I guess I should be thankful that
I will fade into obscs gurity and that there won't
be a record in the future where there will be
some lie about my mother that will last into history.
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I'm glad that won't happen. I'm glad that won't happen.
But something is going to have to be done. I
pledged that it would end this year, and I'm already
halfway through. Maybe I should do like the mayor of
Orange Beach and like talk about having some type of duel.
(17:33):
Maybe we can figure out a non lethal dual method,
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dot com. Now there's a story. Uh, this is a
this is a national news story that annoyed me. Now
probably doesn't annoy you as much as it annoys me,
but this is a strong sense of deja vu when
I heard this story today. Here's the story about the
(19:07):
postage the postage stamp price going up yet again. This
is from Fox News. Here is the story. Briefly, postage
rates are going up.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
The US Postal Services raising prices this week, and that
means a first class stamp, the regular kind of stamp
will go up from seventy three cents to seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Cents, okay, seventy three seventy eight.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
International letter postage increases from a dollar sixty five to
a dollar seventy. The rate hikes were proposed earlier this year,
citing falling revenues and higher operating costs, and are part
of a series of rate increases planned every six months
through the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Every six months through twenty twenty seven, they're going up
on the price of stamps.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Minder, that's so called forever stamps retain the value of
current first class postage, no matter when or for how
much they were purchased. Evan Brown, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Now, why are we still doing this? Why has there
never been any reform of the US Postal Service. By
the way, I've said many times on this program, I've
have been blessed through the years. I've always had I've
always had pretty good service from the Postal Service. I
always had great mailmen and mail ladies, never had an
(20:24):
issue going into a post office. I've always had good service.
I know other people have different stories, but I've had
good service from the post office. But why why do
we continue to do things the same way? With the
United States Postal Service. I looked into it. They had
a net loss, net loss of several billion dollars. They
(20:53):
generated seventy nine point five billion, but a net loss
into the billions. I think it was something like seven
or nine billion dollar loss in fiscal year twenty twenty four.
They're losing billions, losing billions a year. Now. The Postal
service is in the Constitution. It says that the Congress
(21:16):
it is under the purview of Congress. The Congress establishes
the post offices, and Congress also is to establish the
postal roads because back in the day mail routes, they
need to make sure there was a road to deliver
mail on way way back. Remember this is all before
(21:37):
telegraph or telephone, and it's in the Constitution to make
sure they needed to have a way to ensure communication
for the country and back before telegraph and telephone, people
communicated by writing stuff on paper and putting it in
an envelope and send it across the country. Well, guess
what it's twenty twenty five. It is. It's twenty twenty five.
(22:01):
When you want to talk to your mama, or your child,
or your grandchild, or your sister or your brother, do
you write a letter and put it in an envelope
and ask somebody to carry it over there in person
in twenty twenty five. It's twenty twenty five. This is
(22:22):
as outdated. This would be like having a United States
Bureau of Blacksmiths to make sure all of our horses
were shoot properly. What are we doing with this now?
Of course the main reason it still exists in its
current form. Now can't lobby the Postal Service, can't lobby
(22:49):
the Congress, but the workers can the workers' union. So
there's the Postal Workers Union that lobbies Congress to keep
all this going to have a status quo. And also
there are postal worker packs. Political action committees now looked
at all this stuff on. Most of the donations go
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to Democrat lawmakers. Republicans get some of the money, but
the vast majority of the money goes to Democrat lawmakers.
And this is all about maintaining a status quo that
costs US a few billion dollars a year for an
outdated technology. The whole point of it is so that
we can communicate with each other. Well, we don't write
(23:35):
letters to each other anymore. You might send a thank
you note if you're seventy five years old, you might
send an invitation to be high falutint. But this is antiquated.
You know, if they want to keep up with the
(23:56):
actual basis of the postal service as communications, they should
instead make post offices. They should make post offices about broadband.
You know, they're worried about rural broadband. We've heard about
how people in small towns out in the country cannot
(24:18):
get any kind of internet service. How horrible it is. Well,
they should stop dropping off mail every day at people's
houses and maybe maybe do rural broadband through post offices
around the country. That makes way more sense than delivering
letters every day when we don't get letters. Maybe weirdos
(24:41):
write letters these days, or eccentrics. I apologize for the
weirdo label. Eccentric people perhaps they're writing letters to each other,
but we have email. We have text messages, we have telephones.
What are we doing here? Why? Why does this exist?
Other than people are making money off of it, to
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a net loss into the billions every year. Got to
go up on the price every six months. They have
to keep raising the rates every six months just to
keep going and still at a loss. Probably. Look, I
know there's nothing that can be done about this, because
(25:30):
there's enough lobbying money going to congressmen and congresswomen that
they'll never mess with it. But it is the one
of the dumbest things we do in this country is
to maintain all that. And I'm not against having mail
delivered to your house, but do you know five days
a week in twenty twenty five when we got we
(25:52):
got email, text messages, Internet, maybe it ought to be
two or three times a week tops.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Hell no color, Hello longer, Henry, Yes, sir, Hey, Hey,
just had had a brainstorm. This is d Wayne. So
they're going to go up every six months on the
postal rate.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
By the way, I'm probably close to your age. I
remember when a stamp was six cents, they went up
to seven and you had to buy a one cent
stamp and place it beside your six cents.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I remember them, YM.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
So here's my brainstorm, Uncle Henry. You can retire, Okay,
take about a million dollars of what you've got saved
up in your four oh one k and go invest
it in the current postage stamps. They've already said they're
going to go up every six months for the next
two years. Once the price goes up in two years,
(26:49):
turn around and sell the stamps by your forever stamp
and sell them for what the price is.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Then what a wonderful sir. What a wonderful did you say,
were d Wayne? Yes, sir, what a wonderful idea, d Wayne.
I think I may do that right away. This might
be my last show.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, I mean they're already giving us warning. They're gonna
go go ahead and invest a bunch of money in
them now. And there you go, all right, go up,
reach out, all right over, Henry Rot thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Very much for your brainstorm. More show after the break,
Uncle Henry's show. I'm going for it Uncle, every show.
(28:01):
It is five point fifty here on news radio seven
ten WNTM, also five fifty at other locations. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Telephone number two five one
four seven nine two seven two three. That's two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. Email address
Uncle Henry at ihartmedia dot com. Now I saw the
(28:28):
saw the story about the postal service going up on
the stamps. I shared with you my reaction in the
last segment of the show, and I got to think it,
if there's maybe we could maybe we could do some
Maybe we could utilize the postal workers, like the mail carriers.
(28:49):
Maybe we could we possibly deputize them in some way,
just in addition to delivering mail, get them to do
welfare checks and stuff on the elderly, just some like that,
just some additional stuff for him. They're going to go
up on the rate every six months for the next
several years. Congress won't let us change the system, even
(29:11):
though it's antiquated to the point of antique from before
the time we had the telegraph. Maybe we could find
some new uses for the mail carriers. In addition to
dropping off the junk mail and the unwanted bills, they
could also have body camp maybe body cams and stuff.
Give them some tasers and things, and just let them
(29:32):
be kind of another layer, a first responder for us.
Just maybe give it some thought, and if you think
that's too dangerous for them, maybe we could just forty
five the mail trucks make them bulletproof or something again.
Two five to one four seven nine two seven two
three the telephone number that's two five to one four
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seven nine two seven two three. Uh, want to mention
again that Tomorrow night, I think it's tomorrow night. Fox
ten is going to be doing their mayorum forum where
they have the candidates for mayor on Fox ten tomorrow night.
I think it starts at six, so a lot of
(30:13):
us will be watching to see with the different candidates
for mayor will have to say during the forum. It'll
be for a lot of people that can't go to
the individual forums or they find that reading the interviews
in Lamyak are just too much heavy lifting. Don't have
it on TV tomorrow night at six o'clock. I'm looking
(30:34):
forward to it. Over the weekend. On that topic, over
the weekend, I saw that that Elon Musk's X app.
It has its artificial intelligence called Groc that they keep
allegedly improving, and they upgraded Groc last week to Groc
(31:01):
version four, also known as super Grok, and so over
the weekend, I typed into the artificial intelligence of super Groc.
I told super Groc, I said, please examine all available
data on the race for mayor of Mobile and please
(31:31):
analyze the data and predict who will win the mayor's
race in August. And the Elon Musk Groc, I'm sorry,
I bespoke the Elon Musk super Grok the answer that
(31:51):
it gave me, and it gave me a lot of stuff.
It went on and on a bunch of gobbledygook about
this candidate, that candidate, and then the prediction from Gronk.
I'm sorry, the prediction from super Grok. See, it feels
weird for me to say that I'm communicating with an
artificial intelligence named super Grok. This makes me feel like
(32:15):
perhaps one of the dumber I know. I've got to
be dumber than my ancestors at this point. If I'm
asking if I'm asking serious questions of a being, well
not even a being, I'm asking serious questions of something
called Supergrox, that's got to make me dumber than a
previous ancestor. But anyway, the artificial intelligence known as super
(32:39):
Gronk told me it predicted that Barbara Drummond would narrowly
defeat the other candidates, and that Barbara Drummond would be
the next mayor of Mobile. That is the prediction from
Elon Musk's SUP. So if you use artificial intelligence out there, chat,
(33:07):
GPT or what. I don't even know what all those
other things are, do the same, tell me what it says.
I would love to hear what the other artificial intelligences
are predicting. Now, there's no way, of course, that this
can be well, you know, the prediction may turn out
to be true. We don't know. We'll find out after
(33:27):
the election. But there's no way that the super Groc
can know what we all know because we're seeing the signs,
we're seeing the candidates, we're seeing people out campaigning. We
know way more than Supergrot. But I just thought it
would be a fun diversion to ask. And that was
(33:49):
the answer that Supergrot gave me. Barbara Drummond narrowly defeating
the competition. We'll all find out in August, it says
(34:19):
the Uncle Henry Show here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM.
And I appreciate you listening, thank you, thank you for listening.
I appreciate that bear very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm gonna share with you some news
items that I missed you might have missed them too,
(34:42):
and also share with you personal opinions and thoughts that
have occurred to my mind. Let me start with this
may not be the most earth shattering story, but I
love these stories. In fact, I'm growing as each day
goes by. I love these kind of stories more and more.
And the story I want to share with you is
(35:03):
about a woman in Mobile, Alabama, over the weekend celebrated
her one hundred year birthday. Yes, a one hundred year birthday. Now,
the older I get, the more I enjoy seeing news
stories about people hitting a hundred. I do, and I'm
sure it's because I like to imagine that I could
(35:25):
possibly hit that number. Now statistically, statistically probably not. But
you never know. They might invent something tomorrow. They might
invent something to be able to put my head in
a dish or something. You never know what they might
be able to do. Yeah, put my head in a
dish or a tank or something and attach me to
a like an HVAC system or something, and you never know,
(35:48):
You never know, they could you never know. I don't
want to get too far ahead of myself in technology.
But a woman celebrated a one hundred year birthday and
the woman this is a very brief story. I'm talking
longer than the story is. I love the fact that
she seems to have all of her mind. She seems
(36:09):
to be as clear as a belle mentally, and I
just love the idea of being able to have a
conversation with somebody that can remember back that far. I've
got a relative that's ninety five, and I love sitting
down and talking to her because I can ask her, Hey,
do you remember do you remember when this happened? Do
you remember when they bond Pearl Harbor and all that
(36:31):
kind of stuff? She oh, yeah, she can tell. She
can talk about the story and what was going on.
So I love that kind of stuff. Anyway, here we
are from Fox ten. The woman's name is Bertha Belt.
One hundred years ago, Bertha was an outstanding name for
a woman. Now. I don't know if many many people
(36:53):
are naming their babies Bertha now. One hundred years ago,
that was an outstanding name.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Listened together tonight was a very special birthday celebration at
the Battle House Hotel. Missus Bertha Belt celebrated her one
hundredth birthday two days ago and was all decked out
for her big party this evening. Belt was born in
Little River, Alabama, before moving to the Port City. Her
family says Belt is a mother of seven children and
enjoys bingo, church functions, traveling, and a party, especially if
(37:23):
it's in her honor. That's exactly what she got as
she was surrounded by her loved ones to celebrate this milestone.
That's a joy to know, to feel, to sit down
and feel the love.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I'm just happy attack of what God has allowed me
to meet.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
You in the right mind. Thankful that God's allowed her
to be in her right mind. I'm sure I love this.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
In the right mind.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Able to move some.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
And I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And I don't have no sat flames.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
She don't have no complaints one hundred years. What a
wonderful thing to hear from someone at age one hundred
no complaints, still has their mind thanking.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
God, I don't have no SAT flames.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Again, Happy birthday, it's Missus Belt from all of us
here at Fox ten.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, happy birthday to birtha Belt that was I just
loved that, and you heard what she liked. They didn't
ask her what the secret was to live in one
hundred years, but she said she enjoyed church functions, bingo
stuff like that, and parties. We've all been told that
for a long life. One of the great factors for
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a long life is involvement with a church, having that
community around you. There's a little evidence, a little bit
of evidence there for you. Let's see, there's one more
story from Fox ten that I missed. I want to
briefly share with you and share with me. This is
a There was a ribbon cutting this morning, I believe,
(39:05):
for a new eco tourism area on Dauphin Island. Dolphin
Island getting a lot of action with the Alabama Deep
sheet Fish and radio this weekend. Here is Fox ten
reporting on this new eco tourism area.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
An Island hosted a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony this
morning to celebrate its new eco tourism area. Foxtenews reporter
Stephen Moody has more on the site that's dedicated to
a Dolphin Island native.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
Welcome to the new Christopher Blankenship Eco tourism area. Blankenship
is the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources, and this is the island's way of recognizing
his many years of service. It's just kind of crazy,
you know, knowing it's just I'm just no island boy,
and then that my name is going to be on
a park down here on the island in my family's
contribution for the island. It's been.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (39:58):
The area is located on the Garado Avenue and offers
two board walks to provide a great view of the water,
a cartop, kayak launch, picnic tables, and restaurants. And since
opening thirty days ago, it's already drawn a crowd.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's been very popular already. And that's the mayor of
Dauphin Island, Jeff Collier, a very amiable and affable person.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I think as we go forward, it's only gone.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
By the way. I don't know if he's running for anything.
I don't know if there's an a look that was
not an endorsement or anything like that. If anybody's wondering
if there's some kind of election going on.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Become more so, a lot of people like to come
here just to be connect with nature.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
And that's what this is all about. And then connect
with nature, you know, when I'm driving home this evening.
You know, I like connecting with nature mostly in the
fall and the spring, but I'll connect with it now.
I might even i might roll my car window down
a little bit and connect with some nature on the
way home.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Includes people like Joe Lene Damar, who says this area
is unlike any area on the island.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
I like it because of being able to bring the
grandkids here. With the boardwalk, it gives them something different
to do walking out over the water and just seeing
the different wildlife that they've seen, turtles and all the
cribs and h.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
We need snake Trapper to explain to her grandkids how
delicious turtles can be, delicious turtle soup.
Speaker 9 (41:20):
Little fish there swimming around the boardwalk. So that's been
really sweet.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
All for your convenience. Steven Moody, Fox ten News.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
All right, Dolphin Island with a new eco tourism area
for you to Maybe you can take your grandchildren and
let them look at turtles down there and they can
they can connect or reconnect with nature, whatever the case
may be. Very nice. Dolphin Island getting lots of action
this weekend with the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. And
(41:49):
if you've been living here for a while and you've
never been to the Liar's Contest, they do that Thursday night,
you really you should do it. You should go least
once go to the Liar's Contest. If you listen to
this show, you would like the Liar's Contest at the
Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. Some of the more interesting
(42:12):
and I'll use that word in a good way. It's
a positive way. Some of the more interesting people I've
met have been storytellers at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo.
Liar's Contest. So that is Thursday night. Randy Kennedy of
iHeartMedia Sports Talk ninety nine to five will be one
(42:33):
of the judges in the Liar's Contest Thursday evening. All right,
more Uncle Henry Show on the way. I've got more
personal opinions to share and other items for you. After
we take a break for traffic and weather and words
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gum break. Let's take the break, it says The Uncle
(43:16):
Henry Show on News Radio seven ten WNTM News headlines
are coming up in ten minutes. Before we get there,
a few more things Sarah for you on The Uncle
Henry Show. Now. Today, July fourteenth, on Monday, is also
(43:41):
Bestill Day. Now Bestill Day France's biggest holiday of the year.
I've got I've got an odd Bestill Day memory to
tell you about. But before I do that, here's Fox
News with a report on Bestie Old Day in France.
(44:01):
Just briefly to give.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
You the background, President Emmanuel Macron oversaw celebrations on the
most famous street in Paris, the Chancelise, parades of soldiers
on horseback, a warplane flyover, and this year, axe wielding
Asian warriors.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Each year axe wielding Asian warriors.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
France invites a guest Indonesia got the call. This time
a spectacular drone light show and elaborate fireworks with the
Eiffel Tower as the backdrop capping off the festivities. Bastiel
Day marks a turning point in the French Revolution, when
Parisians stormed a fortress in prison back in seventeen eighty nine.
(44:45):
Jonathan Savage, Fox News.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Now, if you're a regular listener of The Uncle Henry Show,
you know that I'm not. I'm not very versed on
any topic, so I don't was now bestille Day when
they stormed the bestille was there a lot of people
getting their heads cut off instead? Do I remember that right?
Guillotines and stuff anyway, but still day. So I've got
(45:08):
a weird bestille Day memory for you. That is kind
of a fake bestille Day memory. And what I mean
by that is back in the ancient times of the
late nineteen seventies, I think it was late seventies or
early eighties. Before I was on the radio, I had
an acquaintance in this town. He was an odd guy.
(45:31):
His name was his first name was Michael, and he
invited me and a few mutual friends to his house
one night in June now bestill Day, July fourteenth. He
invited us to his house in June for what he
(45:52):
said it was going to be a bestille Day dinner.
And it was so long ago, but I remember there
were a out six of us there, including this guy's wife.
Michael was a married man, and uh I was a
few years younger than him, so about six of us there,
(46:13):
and he served this this what he said was a
bestille Day dinner and I'd never you know, I've never
been invited to a Beestille day dinner. He served cornish
game hen or something like that. It was something. It
wasn't your usual uh, rubber chicken or anything. It was
like cornish hen or something like that. And after we
(46:35):
all ate, he stood up and he came out. Now
I'm not talking about coming up with his blank uality
or anything like that. He didn't reveal his blank uality
or anything like that. It was it wasn't that kind
of coming out. He stood up and came out as
(46:58):
a pagan. Yeah, and yes, it was as weird. You
think that's weird now, back then it was extra triple
weird in Mobile, Alabama to have an adult male that
held a responsible job. He did work for the city
of Mobile. He came out as a pagan. Now his
(47:24):
wife was not happy. She and there's more to this,
but his wife was very involved in the Episcopal church,
and I think less than a year went by and
they were not married anymore due to him coming out
of the closet as a pagan. So he cut Now
we're all we are all thinking this is a practical joke.
(47:47):
What's going on. It's an alleged Bestille Day party in
June of all times. Well, it turned out he invited
us there on the summer solstice, and he said, you know,
I'm out of the closet as a pagan. He said
that he worshiped what did he worship? He worshiped some
(48:11):
type of female what he called a goddess. By the way,
I don't believe in that at all, but he said,
he said, he worshiped this female goddess or something. Now,
this dinner happened at a house he and his wife
had on South Street, right near Murphy High School, right
(48:34):
near Murphy High School. And he said, now that we've
had dinner, let's all go down to the Murphy bleachers
and I'm going to do a ceremony for the summer solstice.
This pagan. Now the story. Unfortunately for you, you were
(48:58):
hoping there would be a spectac angular ending to the story.
The ending was that I was not. I was not
going to participate in any kind of pagan ritual on
the campus of Murphy at night on the summer soultice.
So I said, sorry, gotta get out of here. It's
(49:19):
time for me to go. Thank you for the bestilled
dinner on the summer solstice, which made no sense anyway.
That is my one memory of bestill day is the
pagan who came out of the closet as a pagan
and ended up leaving town. He went and left and
moved to Chicago after his wife got sick of him.
All right, out of time. Thank you for listening, as
(49:42):
they say in sarah Land, have a good one, as
they say in Theodore, take it easy
Speaker 1 (49:47):
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