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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, the rollback kind of makes you smile.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On a Wednesday morning Here at ninety three point one
WPOC with Zach Brown, Band, Michael j and Bethany ninety three.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Point one WPOC, bethanies brief all the things you need
to know to get you day starry.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
So I guess the running festivals this week, and I
suppose I should start training.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, I've been running myself to work out. I'm running
to the couch, the fringe and the TV.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And then to bed. That's so funny. There's gonna be
a lot of road closures and stuff this weekend. We'll
keep you posting, okay.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Donald Trump gave rare praise to Time Magazine after the
publication did a cover story praising him for his role
in the Israel Gazza ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
However, in a relatable move, he said that listen.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Time Magazine didn't pick a great picture of me for taking.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And he's not wrong. It's not a great picture.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
He says, I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles,
but this is a super bad picture deserves to be
called out.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Don't you hate it when you get a bad picture
of yourself, which is for me. It's all of them too,
don't I just don't like pictures either.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Check it out.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's worth a google later if you want no secret
that work is super stressful. Right, well, there's a new
study that says that workplace mental health is getting worse.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Eighty percent of.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
People in a new survey said that their work environment
is more toxic than ever before. Sixty seven percent of
people said that their work environment was toxic last year. Now,
literally eighty percent of people say that their work environment
is toxic.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I want you to weigh in seven to seven, nine
six two.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Begin your message with higher hay, do you feel like
you work in a toxic environment? Ninety three percent of
people say their employer isn't doing anything to support their
mental health.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
This is I don't know if I like this story.
Let me know what you think.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Howard County school leaders on Monday were voicing concern that
the students and families are being caught in the middle
of this bus strike.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, so it looks like.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Zoom Services passed out flyers to the kids, encouraging families
to join the fight. I don't like, guys, I don't know.
I guess it wasn't anything bad on the flyers, but like,
do we need to get the kids in?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't exactly puts them in the middle right like here,
and you know they probably loved their bus driver. Yeah,
you know what I mean, you get to know them
and mister missus whoever's driving the bus.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and then you're like, oh, that's a that's hockey
the kid right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The school district is apologizing and they say, like, this
is not an appropriate way for you know, disseminating information.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And then lastly, Lisa an Walter from right here in Maryland,
from Abbott Elementary is going to debut her first comedy
special on Hulu.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So that's exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
All right, so a couple of big situations happening out
on the roads.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Laney Wilson, we were talking about the CMA Awards coming
up in about five weeks. She's going to be the
host of that show, so that ought to be pretty
cool here at ninety three point one WPOC. Good morning, Michael,
j and Bethany. You got some texts coming in.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
In my brief, I mentioned that eighty percent of employees
say that their work environment is toxic. Some says, I
used to work in a toxic environment. Now I work
in an okay one. And I believe most people are
stressed nowadays. But perhaps people are saying their work is
toxic just because they don't want to be there, right.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I feel like there's a lot that's I feel like
that's interesting. Then someone said, I heard Bethany say that
someone was driving really far. I can mute one hundred
and nineteen miles Award Oh one way each day from
West Virginia to Riverdale, Mallard, Maryland. Dang ring the bell.
I really love my job. Listen every day, Michael Jane,
Bethany Gino. If the accident on seventy is on the
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eastbounder westbound side, this will help me with routing later
it is on the eastbound side.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Jay's Music City minute in sixty seconds. You gon't know
like you own music.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Road told you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We've got Morgan Wallen news and he's just got everybody talking.
For one, he's got the cinematic video performance video for
a song that's about to be his twelfth number one
on the chart, and it is quite a video. Have
you seen oh, my gosh, it starts out after a
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bad car accident. You'll have to watch it. Morgan Wallin
with his now number one country song. He's traumatic, That's
all I can say. That's true, and he is teasing.
Here's the teas that Morgan's really kind of teasing everybody with.
He's like, I'm a thinking about torn in twenty twenty six. Yeah,
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he's not just thinking about it, think about it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You do it right. It's definitely already booked. Yeah, so
expect big news.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
We don't have dates yet, but I'm sure they are
coming soon for twenty twenty six. Looks like Morgan Wallin's
putting something big together.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He stops fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Keith Urban says he was lonely and miserable his words
touring just months before it was revealed that he and
Nicole had split. In an upcoming episode of the new
competition show The Road, which is out in about a week,
Keith Urban got candid and you'll see him talking about
being away from home and family for long periods.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Here's what Keith says.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
When you wake up on a tour bus at three
point thirty in the morning, you're sick as a dog.
You're in the middle of nowhere, and you've got to
play your fifth show later that night, and you haven't slept.
You miss your friends, you're missing your family. You're completely
lonely and miserable and sick. You say to yourself, why
am I doing this? Keith, come on, buddy, pull it together.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We're gonna need you to get it together.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, ninety three point one w POC traffic.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
People say that their work environments. Maybe Keith is gonna.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
See ninety three point one w POC Michael J and Bethany.
Halloween is right around the corner. We're starting to think
about costumes and parties and what we're gonna wear. Have
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you ever done a custom or you know a costume
that that you went with a partner and you matched
or you were part of a team.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't think so. I was one of the Raisins.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Remember the Raisinets heard it through the grape vine that
we had we had that song on. Each one of
the Raisins was dancing and playing a different instrument. One
of it was like five of us, and one of
I was the raven with the saxophone. We had the
rating with the drum. They're each had a different instrument
and we were dancing. I heard it through the grape vine. Oh,
you guys were very cool. Yeah, we were raisins. You've
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never done that before?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
But it's funny that you mentioned that, because I got
this text message after the show the other day, right,
and I was like, huh, this feels like something we
might be able to talk about on the air. So
here's what the deal is. A man texted his wife
is a teacher and she's wearing a two person horse
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costume with another teacher at work. Oh that's a man. Oh,
and he's having some feelings about it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, because somebody else is in the horse and it's
not him.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And so they're having like a preyed at the school
and a Halloween party for the kids and the wife
is in this horse costume.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Can I get some clarity?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know if you know this or not, but
is this the horse where there's one person who's the
head and one person's the back end?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And is she the back end or is she the she?
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
If she's the head of the horse, I don't know
which position she's in. I don't know because that might
affect it too.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I don't know. So he said, I'm upset about this.
What should I do? Well? I mean, first off, and
I'm like, don't ask me. First of all, I don't
know what would you say? I would be mad? Would you?
I would?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I don't think I would like that if your spouse
was in a worse costume.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I it sounds so silly, but it's really affecting him.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It seems yeah, well that it sounds like maybe there's
the therapist part of me is coming out from my therapy.
I think my therapist would say this is just a symptom.
This isn't the problem. She would say, there's another problem
going on, and that's why you're worried about being you know,
in this situation where your wife isn't a horse with
another man.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I mean they're both teachers at the school and then
doing it for the kids, right, So but is she.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The horses or the horse's add Do you think that matters?
I don't know. I don't think. I'm just joking about it.
But well, I don't I feel bad. I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I would not, but I tend to swing towards the
jealous side, right as a person.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But is that a symptom of maybe another problem? Is
there something we need to talk about? And is that
what your therapist is gonna say?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, yes, yeah, well maybe maybe not. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think that's what I want y'all to help us decide.
Seven to seven nine six two. Begin your message with
higher hay or eight hundred three two six nights.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
If my wife were a horse's rear end, you know,
I'm just trying to picture.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Seriously, Yeah, if she was like, we're having this party
at work and I'm going to do with this costume
with you know, Joe who works in counting or whatever,
you'd be like, what up with that?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Don't do that?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right, we'll find out what you think. But first,
somebody's getting called darling. I wonder if she's in a
horse costume?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Was he calling you darling? Was he call you day?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Damn?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Was he calling you dolling?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Chase Matthew?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Question is are you concerned if your spouse isn't a
two person costume for Halloween at school?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Uh, We're getting mixed texts on this, and I'm and
I'm glad about that because I have mixed feelings about it.
So I'm like, am I crazy for having mixed feelings
about this? Someone said, it's not jealousy on my part,
but I do feel like being in a horse costume
with the opposite sex is inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Here's what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
A man texted in that his wife, who's a teacher,
is going to do all of the Halloween festivities at
the school inside a horse costume with another I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Mean it makes me laugh. It's really funny. It's comical.
But if you really take it.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like you know, someone said, hi, position is in important
to say who's grabbing hips and staring at tush all day?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Exactly? That's what I was envisioning.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh, I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's a halloween costume. What's the big deal?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If this is what you're worried about something about, you
should have bigger problems, right Hi, Bethany michael J. I
agree with the husband. I'm not a jealous type, but
that costume would bother me, so it said, I believe
her being the rear end wouldn't be an issue, And
I feel like another man having his hands on my
woman's hips, like that's not going to work out for me.
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I think this is really I think this is fascinating.
Like I would just be like, why don't you guys
be something else? Well, it's like, well, but they want
to be a horse. Maybe that's what they rented already
paid for it. Yeah, I mean that's the costume. We're
going to be a horse, and a horse's rare end.
I know it's silly, but it's it's bugging him and
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now it's bugging me.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Just Phone and Dixie washed in fo.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
God Lover. She's the half of a horse.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Her husband is jealous and concerned because another man is
in that costume with her. Yeah, so we're getting some suggestions,
and Bethany, I've got some pictures of other two person
costumes they could opt for. If they don't want to
be Michael j and Bethany, they could be us. They
could be the two person browny Bronosaurus and the rear
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end has a farther distance from the front of them,
so there'd be there wouldn't be any physical touch going
on inside the costume. One person suggested they could be
a peanut, butter and jelly Halloween costume where they each
a slice of bread and that way they're not you know,
becoming a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Have you seen the outlet one where one guy is
like the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yes, look at this, Yeah, you can the plug and
the your saptacle.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah. Someone said on text, it depends on what grade
they teach, right, which I think is interesting because they said,
was it the kids who instigated it? Because elementary school
kids like sometimes they have to dress, they have to
dress in certain costumes, like we're all gonna be like
cowboys and cowgirls and someone's got to be the horse
or and then they said, but there is something else
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causing the insecurity. And then this john said, I wouldn't
be jealous. I trust my wife one hundred percent, but
I would make dinner the night before consisting of beans
color farmers.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's the yet.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And then someone else was just like, I do not
like this. I do not have a good feeling about this.
And that's like what I think, Like what is their
relationship outside of the horse costumes? Like are they work?
Husband work wife? Someone wanted to know that I don't
know that much about it because it was just a text,
and I just like my imagination ran wild because I.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Was like, I would be upset about this too. Bring
on the beans ninety.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Okay, So a couple of really big issues on the
road right now that you're gonna want to know about
as you're headed out the door. Seventy eastbound between Ridge
Road and Woodbine is completely closed right now, but it's
backed up like people didn't know it so they got
on the road and like it's like a total mess.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And the detours are just horrible right here.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So don't go anywhere near seventy eastbound in Mount area
right now. It's not a good situation. Ridge Road is
closed northbound in that area as well. A ninety five
southbound is crawling before the Harbor Tunnel. Looks like you're
sitting there and not moving for close to half an
hour because there's an accident with the left tube closed
on ninety five southbound at the for mckenry tunnel.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So Kenny Chesney with Michael j and Bethany, we've got
gooder news. And I don't know, Bethany if I'm gonna
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be able to beat you. You've been what are you
like three days straight?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Now?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think yeah, And you said you didn't remember the
last time you won, and then someone said, untext, hey, Michael,
it's easy to remember the last time you won. It
was when Bethany had her last day off shady right already.
So here's what's going to work. We're going to resume
the battle and you are going to help us. But
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we need to find somebody who's going to be able
to do this. So let's go all right. Now, you
were looking for a girl dad. Are you a girl dad?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
DJ?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Are you either a former student, current student, or graduate
from McDaniel College in Westminster?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
No, but I live there. It's a great school.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Like I said, I live ten minutes away from McDaniel's
every day too, and from work.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
We're gonna I'm comfortable with that. I'll accept it. Today's
gooder news.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You're gonna decide who's got the gooder story, Michael, Jay
or Bethany. All right, And Bethany's been winning day after day,
so here she goes. She gets to lead off as
the winner.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
All right.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Okay, so imagine this, by the way, you sound really.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right enough with the kiss at all? Smart? She
loves the kiss off handsome. I bet you're such a
good dad. All right.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
So, as I was saying Bruce recently, surprised his daughters,
Kelsey and Mariah with two vintage Ford Mustangs.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh my god, I like this story nineteen sixty five.
In nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Wow better yet both of those cars used to belong
to their late mom, Tracy.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Isn't that awesome? I'm confused. All right, I'll tell you this.
Who gave the cars?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Due?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay? So it happened in North Dakota.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
A man discovered one of the cars by chance in
an online auction marketplace. Right, and then he confirmed that
it had been his wife, Tracy's first car. Oh wow,
so he bought. She has since died. He purchased the
car and began restoring it. Then he gave the car
to one of his daughters. The exact same thing happened again.
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He found another one of Tracy's old cars, He restored
it and gave it to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The other daughter. Oh that's sweet, I know. My little
heart is like, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
First of all, what's better than like a sixties Mustang?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Like almost nothing? Now I'm down with that. I love Mustangs.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Oh, very true, very true.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
If you found out that one of them was your
mom learned to drive on and the other one was
like her first car, and your mom's gone and your
dad restored it. My mind, like my heart, it's just
like the best thing ever. A right, I know you're
with me on this, right. That's your first name again, sir,
All right, TJ.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Don't be swayed by her persuasiveness, because that's nice.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Must great, TJ.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Wouldn't you love to restore a car for your daughters
when they're older?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No, that would be that would be fun.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
That would be something old to.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Do and keeping the moms spiralized.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
My oldest daughter being sixteen. Now my oldest is sixteen,
so it would be it would be her first car.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So your sixteen year old a Mustang. She'd kill herself
driving that thing. That would be too fast.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I mean, you've got to learn somewhere, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's RIGHTJ. TJ. Listen.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You tell me you live close to McDaniel College, so
listen to this story. McDaniel College in Westminster announced just
this week a gift amounting to nearly fifteen million dollars
from the late Jonas Eshelman, a Western Maryland College alumnus.
Now the school was renamed to McDaniel College in two
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thousand and two in case he didn't know, but he
graduated from Western Maryland College is what it used to be.
The bequest is the largest in the school's history. The
gift will support new programs in nursing, speech language pathology,
occupational therapy, and early childhood education as well Bethany and TJ.
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It's also going to go towards construction of new classrooms
and spaces on campus.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Eshelman was born in Hagerstown.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
He passed away in twenty twenty three at ninety five
years old. He graduated from Western Maryland College in nineteen
fifty and he had worked as a retail business manager
and real estate investor. He established a painting company. The
Baltimore Son called him a jack of all trades because
he was a carpenter, a flora tyler, an electrician. He
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retired to West Palm Beach and gave the school. That's
so fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
That's an insane amount of money. The biggest that is
a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Now, both of those stories are good. The father restoring
the cars definitely kind of touched me a little bit
because of the me having I have three I have
two daughters and a bonus daughter, so I would love
to be able to.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'm smelling.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm smelling he's about to say, I'm gonna win reaponet.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I don't think so he's gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Love to go with that story. But with me being
a hometown kid and McDaniel at the college being in
my backyard, and with that being a lot of money,
and it's able to help not just one person, it's
able to help multiple people across the through multiple years.
So I'm gonna have to go with the McDaniel college story. Michael,
you definitely.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Want this one.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I'm sorry, I'm saying that's the story. Story with the kids,
it is touching, but the money and McDaniel college is
a bigger it's a I feel it's a bigger story,
is more, it's more, it's gonna touch a lot more
people's life.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And I didn't even kiss up the djul Well, I'm
taking it all back.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
No, No, I have to agree with you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Actually, my daughter goes to McDaniel and and so I
think this is great.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, and it's local, and yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
A small it's a small community. So for something like
that to happen, it's step.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So a huge shout out to the entire Eshelman family.
You've got a very very cool story to tell.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You can't wait to visit Eshelman Hall.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, it's no longer called Mcgenia COLLEGEGE.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's great, all right, buddy, Hey, thank you very much, TJ.
You were awesome.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Long time listener, first
time Pauler. So, I'm awesome that I was able to
get on the air today.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You got good because maybe use this friends that I'm
crazy