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in your house. Well, here we are together once again,
me and you trying to figure out what is going on,
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what is going on in the world around us. We'll
try and figure some of that out in this hour
of Uncle Henry's show. There was a city council meeting today.
I'll give you a cup of the mobile city council meeting.
That and more from me with you here on the program.
Telephone number two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. That's two five to one four seventy nine,
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Before I get to the council meeting or any other
news items or opinions or even aches and pains, and
I've got a few. I will start with a caller.
We have a living caller, I think, either that or
a robocaller.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here, Hello caller, Good evening, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Bert Bert, you are live on the radio.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I just want to comment on Trump taking over the
policing of DC.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Please go right ahead, Bert, and.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I think this ought to occur in just about every city.
I'm not going to say run by the Democrats, because
there are Republicans that are as far left as the Democrats,
like Romney and our former governor Bentley. So I'm just
gonna stay.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Run by the Okay, the cities run.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
By the left are definitely afraid to really handle the
crime problem, first of all, because they don't want to
anger the constituencies that they rely on for votes. But second,
it goes way deeper than that, Henry. The chaos is
the less stock in trade. They think that the more
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chaos there is, the more crime there is, the bigger
people are willing for their government to be. They think
people are going to swallow this business, and some people
do to swallow this business of the If we hike
your taxes higher and take away all your guns, the
crime problem is going to go away. And that's been
tried for generations and that hasn't happened. What's going to
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happen to deal with the crime problem is lock these
people away and throw away the key right and use
Yellow Mama if necessary, or whatever method of execution prevails
in these cities. And I don't think it happens at
all in DC, and that's the big part of their problem.
But the way you deal with crime is deal with
the criminals. Don't take away everybody's guns. And don't assume
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that I can. Property taxes and sales taxes is gonna
help crime. Don't assume that bigger and more expensive and
more intrusive government is going to help the crime problem.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It's going to make it worse.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Trump is doing the right thing, and he should do
this in every city that's overrun by crime, like Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
All right, well, Bert, I kind of wish you were.
It's too bad you're not running for Mobile City council.
You would have met a great candidate.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I mean to tell you maybe someday when I moved
back to the city limit.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So Henry, all right, well you live outside the city limits.
Well then you got to promise me you're going to
call in but right sometime between now and election day
a week from today, and make a final endorsement from
outside the city limits of who you think ain't going
to win the mayor's race.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I will do that on Henry's right. Now. It's really
a toss up between Hudson and Paul Prime. Even though
there are the two candidates have things going for. I
really think that that there's a lot of good in
all four. I'm kind of torn between Hudson and Prime.
But I will give you my final endorsement before the election.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right, Bert, thank you, thank you for your phone call.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Bert, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
There, he goes Burn. Now, on the topic of the
federal gunment going in and taking over DC for the
crime thing, I have been in favor of it before
it was done, simply for the reasons that are the
most easy to understand, which is it is our nation's capital.
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If there's one city in the country, if you had
to pick one in the country that was going to
be as safe as can be. Wouldn't you want it
to be the the capital of the United States of America,
shouldn't it shouldn't that city be run better than any
other city in the country. It should be, at least
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in my own personal opinion, it ought to be. And
we were getting stories for the last several years of
Congres people that worked for Congress getting carjacked all the
time that they were giving out safety tips on how
to drive so that you wouldn't get carjacked if you
just stayed in the center lane if possible, Never get
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on an outside lane. Drive your car in a center lane,
so it's harder for somebody to carjack you. Now, that
is absolutely ridiculous than in our nation's capital that you
would have any any kind of a crime problem at all.
So I'm very much in favor of that being taken
care of in whatever way they need to take care
of it. What kind of message does it send to
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the rest of the country in the world that were
allegedly the most powerful and bestest for the bestest country ever,
except if you come to our nation's capital, you might
get mugged or carjacked or something. No, make it so
that it's safe up there now, bird thinking that it
ought to be done in other cities now that I
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don't know about, because a lot of this crime in
places like Chicago and in San Francisco as a big example,
people are reaping what they have sown. There is the
ancient principle of what you sow, ye shall reap. What
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comes around goes around, cause any effect. And even though
people seem to be kind of blockheaded and not that
smart about it, if you live in a place like
San Francisco and you keep voting for das that don't
want to prosecute anybody that unless they shoplift over one
thousand dollars or whatever it is, if you want to
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if you want to vote for policies like that, I
think you ought to have to stay and live in
it and experience what you've created out there. Same for
Chicago or any other place. If you're going to keep
voting for for just lunatics that don't want to they
want to defund police and get rid of prisons, and
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and I want bail anything, Let let them live. Anybody
that would vote for that should have to live in it.
And reape what has been sown. There's more show to come.
We're going to take a break for traffic weather words
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Speaker 4 (09:30):
Hello caller, Hello, Haliger Henry. Yes, this is Callit, this
is who I know.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
This is call. Hey, this is call Carl back from
the dead. I'm back call. I want to tell you
if you've got some good looking TELLS representatives out there.
I know one. Some of them had a birthday. But
all I gotta say is quit your grunted and drop
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ya let him.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All right now? Who I'm missing out on this? I
don't And the caller just disconnected themselves. Listener, I apologize
for not understanding the premise of the phone call. And
I don't know who that was supposed to be? Was
that someone? Now? Did he say? Carl? Was this another
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Jerry Carl reference. I hope so. But listener, again, I
apologize for not understanding the what even the premise of
that call was. But whoever that was calling in, God
bless you, and I mean that in a good way.
God bless you. Thank you for your phone call to
the Uncle Henry Show. It's always and it was always
a pleasure and reassuring when I get indications that people
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are alive listening to the show and contacting it. So
thank you very much for that, Sir two five one
four seven or Lady two five one four seven nine
two seven two three the telephone number here on the
ONL Cleaner Show. Now, today was a Mobile City Council
meeting day, Yes, and I do have coverage of today's
Mobile City Council meeting for you. Now. I'm very happy
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about the meeting today because even though even though it
was a governmental entity that is I'm sure misusing tax dollars,
it was a very brief mobile City Council meeting today.
It was less than forty minutes in length. That was excellent, excellent.
There were only there was only maybe one council member
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that's still talked too much. But everybody else y'all did
a great job and keeping that meeting brief for the
citizens at under forty minutes. Now there was there were
a few things I wanted to bring to your attention
from today Mobile City Council meeting. It was the first
council meeting after the Amtrak Chu Choo drunk train had
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come back to Mobile, and there were a few mentions
of the Amtrak Chuo Choo train. Here is Mayor Sandy Stimpson.
You can remember him. Here he is giving a dissertation
on the return of Amtrak. So here is the Mayor
of Mobile. Standy Simpson giving a dissertation on the return
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of Amtrak. Now, if you are driving and listening to this,
please brace us up. Don't be startled because his charisma
is off the charts, and I understand many people are
sometimes get startled and disoriented when they hear me begin
to play Standy Simpson audio. So here he is again,
don't be distracted by his charisma. Here's the mayor giving
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a dissertation on the return of the Chu Chuo train
to Mobile.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Joan No.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Amtrak successfully returned to Mobile on Saturday. Jeane and I
were fortunate enough to ride in the inaugur Old Many
roll service from New Orleans to Mobile.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Along the way there were four stops.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So they went to New Orleans to get on the
train to ride it back to Mobile. More government efficiency
for you.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
It's the breath of Mississippi.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
It was amazing at every single stop, Bluxigulf for at
Pasca Goola Ocean Springs.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
There were hundreds of people at the train stations.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
There were bands playing, there were cheerleaders, just.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Excitement that you cannot imagine.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
And I don't think anybody really predicted to be that
kind of excitement.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So excitement you can't imagine. So you, the listener, don't
even try. No, he mentioned bands and cheerleaders, don't try.
Don't He just said, you can't imagine. Don't try to
imagine the excitement. It was beyond your ability to imagine.
Back to the dissertation on the Chutue train.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
And actually there were places just as we would go
through neighborhoods that you'd see a couple, our child waving
at the train as it was going by. Anyway, what
a privilege to be able to be on that train.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You know, And now that he said that that, you know,
that might be something fun to try and do on
the weekends, especially for older people like me, is to
to find the route and see if we can sit,
maybe sit in some lawn chairs and wave at the train.
Wouldn't that be a fun thing to do? And if
you'd have known that politicians are on it, you could
have held up a sign advocating for whatever your political
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beliefs are.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
It's that when we got the Mobile, I was real
concerned because I was not sure that we were going
to do as well as some of the other cities
had done. But I was surprised when well, I wasn't
surprised to see the Excelsia Van and the Zaa trail
maids and the shipmates and then they'd be here. But anyway,
we had a wonderful celebration here of the approximately three
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hundred people that were on the train, and we fed
them in in the convention center. Anyway, it could not
have been a better event, made a great impression of
everybody from the City of Mobile.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But you know, it comes from my perspective.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
At a perfect time when we're trying to revitalize the
downtown waterfront with what we've done with the Hall of
Fame walk will what you will ultimately see when we
finish Cooper Riverside Park. Anyway, it's just very exciting time.
It's going to help us in our tourism. I made
a prediction that really I believe that all of the
stops between here and New Orleans, that everybody recognizes the
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opportunity to get visitors to come here, of those who
live in past Cagoula thinking we can get them to
come to pass Cogola, and so I feel like that
all of our tourism individuals and people engaged and tourism
will kind of up their game trying to you know.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm thinking about that. You are there people in New
Orleans that are getting on the train because they've been
aching to ride that you choo to Passagoula. Do you
think that's happening? Do you think that people are just
they just just aching for it. They want to stop
at Passagoula.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
To make sure that we put a best foot forward
for everybody that's riding the Amtrak train. So yes, to
be seen how it will work out. We've got a
three year window for Amtrak to prove itself, and so
if the last yesterday's trains are any indication, it's going
to be very successful because they were completely full yesterday.
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So I would highly recommend that you get with family
and friends and figure out a reason to either go
to the coast of Mississippi or go to.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Get together with family and friends and figure out a
reason to go.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
New Orleans and enjoy yourself on the train.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
All right, figure it. Get together with your family and
friends and figure out a reason.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
To go.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
All right, that might be a fun Maybe we could,
maybe you can bring some guests in one day and
do a show where we should and figure why would
we do this? All right, let's see before I'm out
of time. In this half hour of show real quick,
here is Mobile City Councilman Corey Penn also discussing his
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love of the Amtrak Shoot you Train.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
I had a great time this past Saturday on the Amtrak.
I had an opportunity to ride the train from Mobile
to Passagoula. It's a great ride, great train, opportunity to
enjoy the Gulf Coast, and so I encourage everybody to
take that train ride to different locations on the Golf
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Coast and also become Mobile.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
Thank you, miss President.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
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little bit more coverage of the Mobile City Council meeting
from today.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
UH.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
In the last segment of the show, I shared with
you some Amtrak talk the Amtrak Choo Choo train now
coming and going from Mobile daily and Mayor Stempson talked
about how he thinks it's going to be a big success.
Also Corey Penn urging you to ride the train. He
knows it's fun because he took it from Mobile to Passcagoula.
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What a fun train ride from Mobile to Passcagoula. Now,
what else? What else can I share with you from
today's Mobile City Council meeting. Let's see we've Here's a
brief brief remark from Gina Gregory, Mobile City Council person
Gina Gregory talking about the dredging at the lake at
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Langan Municipal Park.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
She's excited and speaking of Langon Park, we are still
sitting on pins and needles. Any day now to hear
the official announcement that work will begin dredging.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They're sitting on pins and needles.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
There's a big piece of equipment out there. The sitting
and waiting. If anybody sees it, you know, I saw
it the other day and had to take a photo
of that. But we will start dredging any day now
at Langan Park, and.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Any day now.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
That's just another one of the really great things happening
in our city and in our district to make this,
you know, make the quality of life just that much better.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, So the quality dredging the lake so that
you can take a little boat down on their frolic
in the water. I guess that adds to the quality
of life in Mobile, Alabama. Dredging Langon Lake the quality
of life. It's quality of life issue. I wonder. I wonder,
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you know, I wonder if there's some people that have
they're trying to figure out do I want to live
in Daphne or do I want to live in Mobile?
And when they hear when you tell them, hey, before
you make your mind up, they're dredging Langon Lake. Yeah,
they really are. They're dredging. They're dredging Langing Lake. It's
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quality of life. And then the person says, well, I
wish you had told me that. Now I'm gonna get
over there and look for a House immediately a Mobile.
I wonder if that's happening anyway, pins and needles over
the dredging of Langon Lake. Now, next week we've got
a municipal election. Many municipalities have elections next week. Here
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is Mobile City Council and Ben Ras addressing the very
serious topic of the election next week.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
Miss President, I want to encourage every resident in the
City of Mobile to get out and vote on Tuesday.
I know everybody up here has been working hard, and
the other candidates that are in the races have been
working hard. In Tuesday is where you let your voice
be heard. Please show up and vote on August twenty
sixth on Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Thank you, Miss President.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
All Right, brief and to the point. Yes, And I
would like to commend all the council people that keep
their remarks brief. May God bless you not just now
but also going forward in your life that you've given
us the gift of brevity in your public comments. And
what a wonderful thing that is. Again, this is the
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Uncle Henry Show. It's five point forty. Now, there was
a woman that spoke to the Mobile City Council meeting
today that I really want to share with you some
of her comments. The woman her name I believe was Ms. Robinson,
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and she had she had some issues to bring up
to the Mobile City Council about her street, Josephine Street,
which she says is is highly traveled by people driving
fast and it's not safe for the residents of her street,
Josephine Street. Now, before she spoke about her street to
the council, she did have this to say to.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Each and everyone in you all who don't like YO,
who do like I feel as though you are have
been done a good.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Job in Mobile. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Mobile is so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
All right, So the council getting getting told that they're
doing a great job with beautiful mobile. Mobile is so beautiful.
So she talked about the street Josephine Street, people running
through it, and then she had other issues to bring up.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
And before I get started, I'm just liking.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I should. She had other issues to bring up. She
brought up, Uh, she brought up the fact that the
trees need trimming on her street. And she also brought
up the fact that what was the other issue on
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the street, no streets sweeper. She wanted a street sweeper
to show up that she hadn't seen a streets a
street sweeper in years. Now. Uh, let me see if
I can join in. At the end of her.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Comments, yeah, thank you Mss Robinson for coming down right now.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So she gave her comments. She says, the street's too busy.
We need people to slow down on the street, the treats,
the trees need trimming, and the street sweepers. We need
a street sweeper out here because the street's too dirty.
So she lives in Corey Penn's district, so then he
jumps in. Let's listen. Is Corey Penn joins the conversation
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after she has given her comments to the council.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Yeah, thank you miss Robinson for coming down. I know
one of me.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Of course, you came to the community to me and
one of your concerns were repaving Joe's Fiend Street, and
that's one of the streets.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
That we got repaid loved it.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Yeah, and that's and so again, thank you so much
for coming. One of the things about.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
The street sweeper, we also just got a street sweeper.
It was on that agenda.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
So that was the issue of making sure that we
have enough street sweepers to be around in the community.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
So I just.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Saw given a very thorough answer to her, very thorough.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
I just saw Ms Brown writing your issues down, so
we're gonna make sure that we get that street sweeper.
And then I called you that when I saw your
name on that agenda, and you told me about the trees.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
All right, So he called her in advance when he
saw that she was on the agenda.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Told me about the trees. So I already reached out
to that department about getting the trees cut. Well, I
still wanted you to come down because I.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Want so this is somebody that didn't have to come.
She didn't have to come. The council meeting could have
been even shorter. She didn't have to come. She talked
to her council representative about the street, about the trees,
about the street sweeper. She talked about all this, but
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he he called her and told her, I want you
to come to the meeting.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Anyway, trees cut.
Speaker 9 (26:40):
Well, I still wanted you to come down because I
wanted I told you still to come down even though
I already called you, because I wanted everybody to hear
the issues.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
I don't want people to.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Think that we try to call you and stop you
from coming. I want the public to hear your concerns.
I want the administration to hear your concerns.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
And I'm sure he especially wanted to hear voters who
will be voting next week to hear that he is
trying to solve all of her issues at the council meeting,
before she even showed.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Up, sireens, I want the administration to hear your concerns,
and I want my colleagues to hear your concirns. And
so I'm glad that you came down, and so we're
working on it. We're going to work on those issues.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And he went on and on and on. How many
of the speakers at the council meetings, how many of
them come down there because council members ask them to
have I missed?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
This?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Is this a new thing now or has it always
been like that? An this is the Uncle Henry Show.
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It is five point fifty news headlines coming up in
ten minutes. I've got a call her waiting. Hang on
just a second. I got one more thing real quick
from the lady that was talking at the city council meeting.
And there was a lady that was at the council
meeting today. He just tuned in to do your lack
of initiative. The lady showed up and had a list
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of concerns about her neighborhood, and she announced them to
the council. And then it turns out that she had
already said all of this on the phone to Councilman
Corey Penn, so she didn't really need to be at
the city council meeting, but he insisted that she come
down there anyway, I guess, so that before the election
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he could let everybody see him in action getting things done. Now.
Right before she left, she made this very generous offer.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Believe you all with it.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
If I was to hit the lottery.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Tomorrow, he was to hit the lottery tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
As my god that I served this is true, I
would make sure come to you all with this money.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
She would come to She would come to the City
of Mobile with her lottery winnings. If if she won
the lottery, she would come to the City of Mobile
with her lottery winnings and.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
Make sure my firemans, my policeman, my teachers.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And the city clerk wanted to be included as well.
So she so she's just unbelievably generous with that imaginary money,
and it makes me feel bad about myself because when
I think about my imaginary money, if I were to
win the lottery tomorrow, I would not be taking my
lottery winnings to any governmental entity. I would not, even
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though there's a lot of wonderful people that work for
the government that could use extra cash. I would not
take my lottery winnings to my imaginary lottery winnings to
the government because the government's already going to get about
half of it anyway. All right, let me go back
to the phone.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Hello Coller, Hey over Hendry, how you doing, Snake Trapper?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You are live on the radio.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
I'm Henry.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I want to comment on missus Gregory's comment about the
dredge and Langham bark. Yes, you know, she talked about
how it's going to improve the quality of life. Yes,
well over, hendred For one, I don't know how they
was able to get a permit approved to do that,
for one, because that is there where they fixed and
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start dredging his home to a protected species known as
the alligator snapping turtle. For folks out there that don't
know how dredge works, it's a big old cutter head
that they stick down in the mud and break it
all up and then suck it all out of there. Well,
I'm Henry, that's exactly where the alligator snapping lives, about
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three to four foot down in them mud packs. So,
uh man, I'm devastated to know. I mean, they don't
they restrict me on being able to at least hargust
for one a year, but yet they are fixing to
wipe out any that is in that uh that lake over, Henry.
And I do know for a fact there are alligator
snapping turtles in there, a lot of snapping turtles, but
they're also alligator snapping turtles. Well, I'd like to I'd
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like to know how they got around it. I mean,
they're fixing to devastate any that are in there.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, maybe there's somebody that weighs the pros and the cons. Now,
there is the con of devastating the habitat of the
endangered turtle, but the pro is the quality of life.
It's quality of life snake trapper.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Over, Henry, It's not gonna be much of a quality
of life for uh for for the protected alligator snapping turtle.
Like I said, I do know for a fact they
are in there. I've seen them in there before as
a boy, and I ain't been there in many years
and look for them. But uh, right there where that
dredge is set up, man, they're fixing to wipe some out. Uh.
And I guarantee you if if this was on land
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and they found a gopher turtle in that area, they
would not be able to do that. So I wish
they would reconsider that may be what's holding them up.
But they need to have some kind of program to
try to at least get the ones that are in
there out and maybe possibly relocate them, because if they don't,
they're fixing the wipe them out in there. And I'm
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just you know, it just bothers me, Henry, because that
that that that one is one that needs protected. They
have there have been people, especially in Louisiana, have been
eating them things for years and they are very good eating.
But that's not why they're on the dangered list. They're
on their protected list. It's because their habitats has been destroyed,
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just like they're fixing the do here lang the park.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, Well, snake, Trevor, if I did win the lottery tomorrow,
I would use my imaginary winnings to help protect the
alligator snapping turtle weld.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Uncle Henry, you're a good soul buddy, and I appreciate
you for it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All right, Snake Trappers, thank you for your phone call.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You take care of our buddy.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
All right, there he goes Snake Trapper. Now, see, we
were just we had heard that the city official was
on pins and needles, so excited that the equality of
life was going to just explode due to the dredging
of the lake. And then we get that we find
out that there's some pitiful turtle down in there, some
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poor pitiful turtle. It's already hiding down in the mud
because it's there's people like Snake Trapper that find it
just good eating. And now the possibility of the habitat
being wrecked all for the quality of life. Now that
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we got that choo choo train, all we need now
is a dredged, langing lake. All right, out of time
for this hour of Uncle Henry's show. There is more
coming up after the news break here on news Radio
seventy ten. That says the Uncle Henry Show here on
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News Radio seven ten WNTM. I appreciate very much listening
to it. Now, in this half hour of show, I'm
going to get to some news items that I missed
and you might have missed too, a little learning together
about the world in which we live. Well, see, let's
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start here right here in Mobile, Alabama with a news
item now com Bump over Street. He's been on the
Uncle Henry Show a couple of times already this year.
He is a local homeless advocate, and he was on
the show in late July talking about how he planned
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to go and live among the homeless to raise money
for taking care of the homeless and also to learn
what life is like on the streets of the city
of Mobile as a homeless person. Again, so Eric Overstreet.
I interviewed him before he went and did this, and
now he is about eighteen days into his thirty days
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of living in the streets of the city of Mobile
as a homeless guy. I've been thinking about the weather lately.
It's been either just dramatically hot or rainy. It's been.
It would not be a good time to be homeless.
I guess it's never a good time to be homeless,
but particularly horrible time to be homeless in mobiles. So
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let's listen. I've got an update on what he is doing.
This is from Fox ten. Let's listen together to Fox
ten's update on Eric bump over Street living in the streets.
Speaker 14 (36:16):
Choosing to live on the streets for thirty days.
Speaker 15 (36:19):
But it's not because he doesn't have a place to go.
It's his way of raising money and awareness.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
And it's day eighteen of his thirty day mission.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
Ashland Mitchell stop.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
By to see him.
Speaker 10 (36:31):
Why am I doing this? I guess I'm crazy enough
to do it. God put it on my heart and
I decided to do it.
Speaker 14 (36:36):
Eric over Street is eighteen days into his thirty day
homeless on purpose journey twelve days.
Speaker 10 (36:42):
Yet today in Fairy Tire really more now.
Speaker 14 (36:45):
Armed with only the basics, he's living without ear conditioning,
a shower, or.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Armed with only the basics. The camera showed pistachios in
what looked like a sprite. In case you're wondering what
are the basics in life? A sprite in pistachios.
Speaker 14 (37:02):
The comforts of home, all to raise money for Ryan's Refuge.
Ryan's Refuge is a local nonprofit that serves primarily men
and some women, bringing them off the streets and helping
them find permanent housing, mental health care, rehabilitation, and other
vital support free of charge. Over Street's goal is to
raise twenty five thousand dollars for the shelter, and so
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far he's hit seventeen thousand.
Speaker 10 (37:25):
This has been a great fundraiser.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I'm so seventeen thousand, Hey, what that's pretty good for
just going out and what he's basically been doing is
just posting on social media about his experiences out there
in the streets. Congratulations to them. That is. I'm not
very good at math, as you may have noticed through
the years, but eighteen days, seventeen thousand dollars, that sounds
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like a significant amount of money each day, almost one
thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
So proud.
Speaker 14 (37:57):
Well, it's certainly been tough over streets as he's seen
the good in people, like the city's homeless Outreach team.
Speaker 10 (38:04):
They came out to help a girl that was in distress.
They're wonderful, Like I can call them and they call me.
We communicate a lot. I think they're doing a great job.
I wish there were more homeless resource teams, but there's
only three of.
Speaker 14 (38:14):
Them, and visits from friends are helping him through.
Speaker 10 (38:17):
It's meant a lot, Like I've had a lot of
friends come by and support me and hang out with me.
I don't never even have time to sit down and
talk to somebody for now, and I've been able to
do that.
Speaker 14 (38:25):
More than just a fundraiser, Overstreet also wants to raise
awareness so that when people pass by someone living outside,
they think twice about what that person may be facing.
Speaker 10 (38:34):
They're wonderful people, you'll find out when you interact with them.
Speaker 14 (38:37):
In Mobile County Ashley Mitchell Fox ten News Now.
Speaker 15 (38:41):
If you would like to help or learn more about
Ryan's refuge or the city's homeless outreach team, we have
links to both on our website foxttv dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Or go on Facebook and look up Eric bump over Street.
Bump was a nickname of his, Eric bump over Street.
Look that up on Facebook. You'll be able to follow
along and see what he's been up to. Right now,
we go from Mobile up to Montgomery. There is a
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new chair for the Pardons and Parole Board, and WSFA
decided to interview the new chair of the Pardons and
Parole Board in Alabama to find out what is going
on with pardons and paroles. Let's learn together what is
going on with pardons and paroles? You and I might
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make an assumption that too many people are getting out
of jail, but we may be wrong. Let's learn together.
Speaker 17 (39:39):
Alabama Pardons and Parole Board is hitting the ground running.
Speaker 16 (39:43):
Hal Nash was appointed to that role by the governor
just last month, even as Pardons and Paroles faces national.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Criticism, national criticism why.
Speaker 16 (39:53):
Alabama's parole rate hit a low of just eight percent
last year? Our political correspondent now.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
So, but.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
If the parole is eight percent, well, criticism from who
people that ain't getting paroled? All right, Look, I am
in favor of people serving their time.
Speaker 16 (40:16):
Jessica Umbro sat down with Nash to talk about those
numbers and his plans. Jessica, what did he have to say?
Speaker 18 (40:23):
The new chairman, hal Nash told me he's not looking
at those numbers. He said, he's looking at each case
individually and says people who are let out on parole
need to, in his words, want to help themselves.
Speaker 19 (40:35):
Coming from a law enforcement background, I'm going to err
on the side of safety, which is public safety and
all the citizens of Alabama.
Speaker 18 (40:43):
Before being appointed by Governor Ivy in July, Nash was
the Chief Correction's Deputy with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
He says granting parole is about fairness to the victims,
to the public, and to the inmates.
Speaker 19 (40:55):
The public safety aspect has to be paramount.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I like the okay, good, thank you for saying that.
Let's let public safety be number one here.
Speaker 19 (41:07):
Because the public did not ask that person to offend.
Speaker 20 (41:11):
He said.
Speaker 18 (41:11):
He wants to see young offenders, not necessarily juveniles, take
advantage of opportunities such as the Perry County Probation and Parole,
re entry education program, or prep center.
Speaker 19 (41:21):
I do things so much differently now than I did
when I was eighteen or nineteen years old, So that's
something that's going to be weighted more. What influences did
they have, What opportunities did they have or not have?
And those are things that I think are important in
order for this fairness to work.
Speaker 18 (41:39):
There are going to be people that say you're not
giving enough second chances. What is your message to people
who believe that?
Speaker 19 (41:44):
I believe in second chances. We all, every day, if
we're aware, get a second chance.
Speaker 18 (41:49):
Nash said he wants to promote educational resources and chances
to get clean from drugs or alcohol behind bars. He
says doing so would be a message that someone is
ready to be granted parole.
Speaker 19 (42:00):
Do all you can to improve yourself while you're in prisoned.
The Board and the Bureau really want to help these
folks integrate back into society.
Speaker 18 (42:09):
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles pass new guidelines
for parole last month. They give more consideration to completing education,
such as getting a ged behind bars and if the
person was less than eighteen years old at the time
of the crime.
Speaker 16 (42:23):
All right, Jessica, thank you.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, sounds like I like that he's got a law
enforcement background and that public safety should be number one
on getting out. But national criticism because the parole rate
is at eight percent. That keep on criticizing, keep on
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criticizing it. We'll drop it down to zero if we
have to. All right, look, there's more to come. Yes,
I've got more to get to as The Uncle Henry
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says they Uncle Henry Show News Radio seven ten WNTM
News headlines coming up in ten minutes before we get
to the news headlines more news items that I missed
you might have missed as well. But see in the
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last segment we heard from the new chair of the
Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole how he wants to
reform all of the people up in prison, which sounds
like a wonderful thing, just to reform them all and
then have them become taxpayers. Now there, there's a new department.
Alabama has a new Department of Workforce. I guess it's
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the old Department of Labor they call it. Now it's
the new Department of Workforce and it is headed up
by a guy named Greg Reid, who was a former
Alabama state senator. Here is an interview about the new
Department of Workforce. This is a new state department this year,
the Department of Workforce. What are they up to up there?
(44:23):
Let's find out. This is from WBrC in Birmingham interviewing
Greg Reid, the new person running the Department of Workforce.
Speaker 17 (44:35):
We want to explain to the viewers what this means,
and we have I mean, people traditionally know the Department
of Labor, the labor department, that's the term that you used.
While that is still it, there's two or three different
organizations that have worked in government now under one umbrella,
and that's what this is, what is the reasoning and
the hope is that this will create well Alabama.
Speaker 21 (44:57):
Alabama's legislature, this governor have been involved in some really
important things to grow Alabama's economy, whether it's broadband internet access.
Alabama's gone from forty seventh to twenty fourth in the
access to the Internet for our citizensdry.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Now that's good as long as it's not being used
to watch pornography on the internet. Yeah, the internet's good
as long as you're not getting filth funneled into your house.
Speaker 21 (45:23):
We're the envy of America in that category, especially in
rural Alabama.
Speaker 20 (45:27):
Do you feel like a lot of people don't realize
that People.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Don't realize that. Yeah, I would say that most of
us would have no inkling that we are the envy
of America for our internet access in the country. We're
the envy of America for the quality of our college
football and the beauty of our state. We're the envy
of America, but the envy of America for our internet.
Speaker 21 (45:52):
Okay, we're the envy of America in that category, especially
in rural Alabama.
Speaker 20 (45:57):
Do you feel like a lot of people don't realize that, People.
Speaker 21 (45:59):
Don't realize that we've made tremendous progress there or believe it.
The other thing was rebuild Alabama. Alabama spent two point
four billion dollars on roads and bridges over the last
three four five years.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
We've done a lot of.
Speaker 21 (46:13):
These economic focus things. What is the next big question?
If you're the investor going to spend one hundred million
dollars bringing your plant, bringing your industry to Alabama, You're
going to want to know the answer to Alabama's most
important workforce question, and.
Speaker 20 (46:28):
That is do you have enough work?
Speaker 21 (46:30):
You have enough workers? And so that is a huge
focus for Alabama and for the legislature and the governor.
And so this agency was created to bring together portions
of AIDT, portions of the Department of Commerce, all that
was the Department of Labor under one house, so that
all of the collaboration of moving workforce forward is in
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one place.
Speaker 17 (46:53):
Many of youers have heard the concerns that there aren't
enough people going into the trades, jobs, going to school
for trades. You were telling me in the green room.
The average age of a welder, it was a welder
right in Alabama.
Speaker 21 (47:09):
Is what age fifty six?
Speaker 20 (47:12):
So what does that mean?
Speaker 21 (47:13):
It means that if we don't have a plan moving
forward for many of these trades, if we don't have
a program that solidifies all of our efforts moving forward
in the direction of growing our workforce, we're going to
be in trouble economically. If you think about fifty.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, don't you think that's probably the case all over
the country, not just Alabama, that the trades are just
much older people involved in the trades. It's probably a
problem everywhere.
Speaker 21 (47:42):
Six years old. I'm sixty years old. I mean, if
that's the average age of folks that are putting everything together,
how important are those jobs In the.
Speaker 20 (47:52):
Future, There's not going to be people putting things together.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 21 (47:55):
You think about what's happening in Mobile.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
We've got a new contract, what's happening in Mobile.
Speaker 21 (48:01):
With hostile there related to building submarines for the Department
of Defense. They're going to be hiring thousands of welders
in that area to be able to build these ships and.
Speaker 20 (48:11):
Submarines before we rune out of time.
Speaker 17 (48:13):
The important part, now you were telling me, is that kids.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
He brought up mobile. She immediately changes the subject because
they're up in Birmingham. That's ridiculous. You should have let
him talk about mobile today.
Speaker 17 (48:29):
The messages trying to tell kids today for your college
may not be for you. And that's okay, because we
need these people in the trades. So there's something happening
in high schools now.
Speaker 21 (48:40):
From the state level, absolutely, the state passed the Career
Pathways diploma legislation, meaning that a kid can identify eighth
ninth grade that they want to be, for instance, a machinist,
and so they move through a celebrated program in the
career tech focus at their high school. When they get
to their senior year in high school, got a two
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year college scholarship waiting for them. All of their credentialing
comes from the two year college. They get all this training.
We're even working on now apprenticeship programs for sixteen and
seventeen year old kids. Imagine who's going to want to
hire those kids when they walk across the states.
Speaker 20 (49:19):
They're going to be trained already. Absolutely, all right.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
All right, okay, well, this this all sounds fine. I've learned.
Did you know that we were the envy of the
country because of our excellent internet in the country. I
didn't know that. All right, anyway, out of time, thank
you for listening to the Uncle Henry Show. As they
say in Sarland, have a good one. Oh and don't
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forget to listen to the podcast of the Uncle Henry
Show on the iHeartRadio app. And as they say in Theodore,
take it eavese
Speaker 3 (49:53):
All right later,