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August 6, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after hours.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, Corey Kent, one of the new guys in country music.
Here with Michael J and Bethany in the morning ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Three point one WPOC Bethany's Brief All the things you
need to know to get you day started.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
There's a chance that the air quality might be a
little bit lower today due to those Canadian wildfires. Apparently
it's affecting the northeast.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
I'm already coughing.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, I think it's probably a good reason to stay
home from work today.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Cool or high seventy nine? Would you use that as
an ex I think so. I can't make it in
the smoke.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Everyone just calling It's gonna be fine too, smoky uh.
Ava Perlin, a seventeen year old from Owings Mills, wrote
a book about her sister, her Millie, who has Down syndrome,
and it was just a project at school, but now
she's officially published and the book One in a Million
is helping to fill the gap in research on siblings

(01:13):
of people with disabilities.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
And apparently the book is adorable and everybody loves it, well,
then get it read it.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
It's available on Amazon one in a million because her
name's Milly. After nearly two decades on Sirius XM, The
Howard Stern Show is reportedly set to end WOW later
this year, as Stern's one hundred million dollar per year
contract expires. It seems serious XM is willing to unmatch
his salary demands, and they're shifting their focus on younger

(01:41):
talent and podcast formats.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, he is getting up there, he is. I think
he's got to be in his seventies.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
For the first time in over seventy I'm sorry forty years.
The MTV Video Music Awards are acknowledging country music.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
This This Is So Nice.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Twenty five edition has a Best Country Video category.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Here are the nominees.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Chris Stapleton, I Think I'm in love with You, okay,
Cody Johnson, Carry Underwood, I'm Gonna Love You, great song,
Jelly Roll Liar uh huh, Lady Wilson's four by four
by You okay, Megan Malroney, am I okay?

Speaker 5 (02:16):
Love that? And Morgan Wallen smile more go ahead. The
winner is who do you think It's going to be?
Probably Morgan Wallen, No, Cody Johnson, Okay, I'm writting Courdi
Johns right.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Morgan Wallan's also up for Artists of the Year and
Best Album for I'm the Problem. Bailey's Zimmerman and Luke
Combs are nominated for Backup Plan post Malone, and Blake
Shelton for pour Me a Drink.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
That's for Best Collaboration.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Love This and the MTV Video Music Awards will air
on CBS for the first time on September seventh.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Ninety three point one w POC.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Traffic Gilbert Avenue one way southbound between Preston and Fayette
Street is blocked right now due to some emergency.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Bailey Zimmerman, I'd say his star is on the rise.
What do you think I would say?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
So?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, Michael j and Bethany here at ninety three point
one WPOC. We love to share with you everything that's
happening in country music.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Michael Jay's music sitting minute in sixty seconds. You don't
know like you own music.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Row. So we were just talking about post Malone because
he's got a cameo in Happy Gilmour too. Yeah, now
we're concerned about him. What is it going to take
to stop this before something bad happens. Post Malone stalker
was just arrested for the fifth time.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
You know what I'm saying, It's terrifying.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
The woman was taken into custody in Utah yesterday after
she jumped on post Malone's car as he was trying
to leave the house.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
No, at his house, yes, oh uh uh, this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well what do you do?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
You call the police?

Speaker 6 (04:04):
No?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
No, I mean, like it's the fifth time. Like I
think she needs help, she needs to be like in
a mental I.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Don't know, but that's not good. And you know, I'm
glad Post Malone's okay. Hey, Luke Combs has been spending
time working quite hard on his new album. We started
playing a new song we have the single, back in
the Saddle, and Luke was telling us about what that
song is all about.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Is about just me getting back to what I did
when I first started doing music, saddling up, hitting the road,
getting after it, just kind of getting back to it.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I'm really excited that he's got a new country
that is cool and it is very very cool. So
congratulations to Luke Combs. Hey, Kip Moore is out touring
and I wanted to let you know because you're always
looking for a cool one off show to go see.
There's a place in DC. It's not that far from
here and it's called the Bullpen. Just the heads up

(05:00):
if you're a Kitmore fan. And I went to a
Dewey to see him taking some road trips. He's a
fun show.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
He is a fun show.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So I'm just putting this on your radar September eleventh,
that is coming up at the Bullpen. You can check
the bullpendc dot com and you'll find out about that show.
That is your Country music minute this morning.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Ninety three point one WPOC.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Traffic seems like emergency roadwork is the biggest problem on
the road so far.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Of course, we've got bel Air and at Harford Road.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
The Colt and a country Michael j and Bethany And
I also want to confess right here at ninety three

(05:54):
point one WPOC that this happens to me every summer.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
It goes by too fast.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
We start talking to back to school, and my mind
is blonde because it seems like yesterday was the fourth
of July and the day before yesterday was Memorial Day,
and what happened to the summer and it's over.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
You know what I'm saying here?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It is August sixth I know, and the h we
were talking back to school.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, because a lot of the schools in our listening
area go back August twenty fifth. That would be like
the first day of school, which means the teachers are
all going back the week before that, which is next week.
Yeah and next wild. Yeah, that's so wild, my god.
So I saw a survey that said five hundred seventy
dollars is what the average parent is spending per child

(06:39):
on back to school supplies and clothes and backpacks and
shoes this year. Five hundred and seventy dollars. So I
just wanted to take a survey seven to seven nine
six two. Begin your message with higher, Hey, how much
are you spending? Or we you know, we'd love to
call and chat about a eight hundred three to two
one thirty six ninety three.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
What are you doing? Are you spending per kid?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Are you like giving each kid like a budget and
letting them go free? Are you just like and this
year because everything is really expensive?

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Ay, are you making changes?

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Are you did you sit the kids down and say, listen,
everything's way more expensive this year.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
See, I don't want to do that. In fact, literally
anybody wants to do that. No, But I don't know
if that's is that smart parenting.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
I think it might be because like you want to
teach them the responsibility like things happen, but at the
same time, at the same time, it's a lot of
pressure to put on a kid to say. I mean here,
like I'm dealing with this with my college age daughter, right,
I said to her, I'm like, she's all stressed out
about the money because it's an issue, of course, right,
But I said, listen, we'll figure out the money somehow,

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some way.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
You've got to go to school and be thinking about school.
You got to be thinking about like being a kid.
And I don't know, I just hesitate like dumping all
this on our kids, like.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Oh my god, it's gonna be five hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
I don't know if it's like that.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I think it should be like more like in my opinion, right, like,
there are wants in there are needs, right, Like I
got like, let's go through your clothes and see which
pieces we really like that we can like reuse and
what and what do you need to fill out your wardrobe?

Speaker 5 (08:20):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Or like, you know, are those sneakers still okay to wear?
And then maybe we get you a new pair of
crocs or I don't know, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Like there's so much pressure on both sides. I mean,
you got the money, that's the pressure. You got the
peer pressure because it's like, oh my gosh, I don't
want to wear clothes, They're gonna make me look like an.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Idiot, right, you know what I mean? And of course
kids are feeling that pressure. Now there is some help
for parents. The Text Free Week in Maryland is the
tenth through the sixteenth, so that's this coming week Sunday
to Saturday, right, So.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
That helps a little bit. But I'm really curious.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean, do you go into it and just say, look,
these are the things we've got to buy for our
kid or kid kids for back to school and then
you just put it on a credit card, or do
you actually sit down and say, Okay, you said the
average was.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Five hundred and five seventies a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
So much yeah, so do you say, okay, we got
to keep this under three hundred or four hundred or
is there a number.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Five seventy goes so fast if you think about like
the average pair of sneakers a hundred box a backpack, Yeah,
that's what forty. Yeah, then you've got all supplies. Yeah,
can get a whole outfit for less than that of
the stuff the kids want.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, I bet there's plenty of people hitting a thousand.
Oh you know what I'm saying. Stressful? No, but that's
what it is. Insane.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But are we doing our kids a disservice by sharing
that anxiety with them.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
That I just because think about it, Like if I
think about when I was a kid, my favorite time
was back to school because that was the only time
I got new clothes. Okay, honestly, like that was the
only time that I got to go and pick out
stuff right. Other than that, I was getting like hand
me downs or you know what I mean, like the
thrift store.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
I was right there too.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah, So it's like I don't want to take that away.
I don't know, let us know what you think.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Seven seven nine sixty WO begin your message with higher
Hay or call and chat with us.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Eight hundred three six ninety three.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, we would really love to hear from you if
you're and you know what, if you're a teacher with
kids in school and you're dealing with it, you want
to give your viewpoint.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Love to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Eight hundred three two one thirty six ninety three with
Michael J and Bethany.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
In the morning. Would you go with me.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
If we roll down street.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
We've heard from people trying to buy WPOC Saturday in
the country tickets and trying to stretch dollars from back
to school. I know there's some anxiety with back to
school shopping. So if you're a parent, you got to buy,
you know, clothes and get everything going. Uh is it
a situation in your family where you know you're a
little anxious about how much is gonna cost?

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Five hundred and seventy dollars? You said that's the average
this year, right.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
I take issue with a couple of the texters that
have been texting in that are like back when I.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Was in school, we would never well, it's not like that.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Anymore, right, So we want to hear from you. Eight
hundred and three two one thirty six ninety three. Will
go to the phones your text at seven seventy nine
sixty two.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
About back to school now car.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Worthing day gone, time to pick it up and hit
off home.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Sons going round.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
And I know what.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Michael J and Bethany here at ninety three point one WPOC.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Good morning. Hey Wendy, you got kids?

Speaker 4 (11:55):
I do?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I have one twelve year old?

Speaker 5 (11:57):
And what grade is that?

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Like?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Third grade? She she's going into seventh? I think seventh? Wow? Twelve?

Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Oh I guess so? Yeah, so five is kindergarten?

Speaker 10 (12:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, Okay, what do you think about the five and
seventy dollars estimated budget this year?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
So this is the first year that she's going to
public school in like.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
The last three years she's been going to private so
it's been.

Speaker 9 (12:27):
A little nerve racking.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
I'm taking her out today to go to school shopping
and I'm stressed out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Hey, Wendy, it was easier when she was in private
school and had to wear a uniform, wasn't it.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
Yeah. It was a little bit cheaper too.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah. What's the strategy?

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh, I didn't have to I didn't have to buy
anything but like a backpack in her uniform.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Right, and maybe a few shirts or whatever.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, So what what will you guys, do will you like,
did you talk to her about it?

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Like is there a game plan about what just like
money and that kind of stuff, or is it like
just she's very understanding.

Speaker 9 (13:05):
Its like even for Christmas and birthdays and stuff like
I'm like, oh, what.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Do you want for Christmas?

Speaker 10 (13:11):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (13:11):
I don't want nothing.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I have everything.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Oh she sounds sweet.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well, God like going shopping and everything else.

Speaker 9 (13:20):
She's not like, oh I need this, so I need that,
I want this, I want that.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Hey, before you go out, do you have a dollar
figure or a budget in mind? Or do you just
go and get what you need to get?

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Cross your fingers and hope for the best. Kind of
have a budget.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
I like to stay under three hundred for clothes. Good
luck with that, right God. A lot of people are
running sales right now, so that's really good. Someone on texted,
our older kid understands budgets.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
We give them cash to buy their stuff. Oh wow,
that's cool.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
We help them look at sale ads for each store
they want to go to, and then prioritize what they need.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
See.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I think you could use this as a teaching yeah,
you know, and then we start with the actual physical
school supplies and what's left of their budget gets to
spend on clothes and shoes.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
I should try the cash thing. My kids go right
for the credit card.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
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Speaker 5 (14:12):
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one that hurts?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
A ninety five south bound between Lombard and the Harbor
Tunnel is our roughest spot out there right now, it.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
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Speaker 8 (14:38):
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Speaker 9 (14:42):
I'm that I have to.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Make this count on myself.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
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Speaker 5 (14:55):
Week, I contel, they say same one nice train.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Ninety three point one w POC, Michael J and Bethany.
We've already got our crew from Dos Beer Hall Parkville.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
In the house. I'm so nervous. Yeah, they've got the Bronchwiger,
so I think I can smell Can I smell it?

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:26):
I can smell it. And you guys, okay, they're in
the studio with us.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
They'll be on at seven thirty this morning, POC.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Bethany's bree all the things you need to know to
get you day started.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
I just want to shout out to Ava Perlin, seventeen
year old from Owings Mills.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
She is pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
She wrote a book about her sister, Millie, who has
Down syndrome. Started out as a project for school, but
now as she's officially published.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
If you want to grab it, it's on Amazon.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
It's called one in a Million because this is what
her sister's name is, Milly. Yeah, and it's about siblings
who have disabilities.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
It's very cool. Yeah, it's very cool.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Okay, Howard Stern donezo after nearly two decades on Serious XM.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Now he I guess they aren't gonna meet his uh one.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Hundred million dollars millions. In case there's any curiosity.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
We're not making one hundred million dollars. Oh you're not,
I am, you know, come on, this is awkward, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I think part of it was just like, I mean,
it's been there, done that, and that's so old, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's so Yeah, they're gonna put their money into younger
talent and podcast formats.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
We have a free iHeartRadio app, which I think kicks
the kicks the serious out of them.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
For the first time in over forty years, MTV Video
Music Awards are acknowledging country music. The twenty twenty five
edition will have a Best Country Video category.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Plus, Morgan Wallen is up for Artists of the Year
Best Album of the Year.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Bailey Zimmerm and.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Luke Combs are up for collaboration along with Post Malone
and Blake Shelton Cool. You can watch the MTV Music
Awards on CBS on September seventh. Will Ferrell and Molly
Shannon are gonna star in a golf comedy series for Netflix.
I'm excited about that Rose was voted Maryland's favorite wine.

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Weigh in on that seven to seven nine six. To
begin your message with higher, Hey, I find that hard
to believe.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yeah, what's everybody at Doss Beer Hall?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Then?

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Did guys sell a lot of rose over there at
the wine.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Some wine mostly beer? Probably right there?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean, come on, it's Doss Beer Hall beer.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
And lastly, podiatrists are saying the highest heel that you
should wear two inches.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Anything more and you're doing damage. All right, And that's
enough for me anyway.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
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Speaker 5 (17:50):
Oh, definitely don't go with anything bigger than two inches.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Most of your heels are less than Yeah, all right,
it's not a bad looking day on the roads, you guys,
So that's really good. There's a vehicle fire on ninety
seven southbound at General's Highway, water main break on lock
Raven Boulevard northbound and southbound Puddy Hill, so you're gonna
want to steer clear there. And fifteen southbound between Old
Frederick and biggs Ford Road.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Remember when guys did wear platform shoes though they were
the big deal.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
You do not remember? No, good, well don't we don't
need that ever again Howard Stern remembers that, bet you
he does. All right, Oh, there goes the free ticket
window wide open.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
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Speaker 5 (19:02):
And Bethany Alita is on the line.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
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have you ever had brown Schwager before?

Speaker 9 (19:12):
No, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
You know a lot of people say that, do you
know what liverwurst is? Though? Right? Oh yeah, yeah, my
dad love that.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
I don't you know.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Have you ever had it?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:25):
It just looks bad, but it's good though.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think I think it worst for Brown Schwager.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
It gets a bad rap, it really does, because there's
nothing like it on like in Toast or on you know,
marble Rye, like they have at at dust Beer Hall
and at seven thirty, right around seven thirty, Bethany, are
you ready to have some delicious breakfast?

Speaker 5 (19:47):
I am. I was ninety percent nervous and now you're
one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
I'm down to fifty to fifty Michael J's music City
Men in sixty seconds.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
You don't know like you own me?

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah? First things first?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
What is going on in the world of country music
this morning? Well, I gotta start. I gotta start with
post Malone. I mean, can you imagine you're just trying
to drive to work and for the fifth time his
stalker has been locked up, she jumped on the hood
of his car as he was trying to leave his house.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
I think this story is really nuts. Yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
So hopefully they can maybe set of times. Yeah, this
time they need to set her straight.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
In speaking of drama, Brianna Chicken Fry LaPaglia is responding
after her ex boyfriend Zach Brian subtly referenced her in
a recent video. On Monday, Zach Brian shared a video
on his Instagram stories featuring him setting fire to a

(20:50):
flag for Barstool Sports, the media company that host Lapaglia's podcast,
and it just went from there.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
So now she's getting the lawn involved.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
I think these two fire up their arguments whenever they're
not in the news.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Yeah, well they're in the news today.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Luke Combs has a lot of songs to choose from
for his next album, so he wants to crowdsource. So
what he's gonna do is he's gonna take like little
snippets maybe raw production, you know, sessions, and let people
hear what the songs sound like that he's going to
put on the album, and then fans can decide whether
they like him or not.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Ooh, what do you think? Of that, I think it's okay.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
But as you're getting a lot of hands, a lot
of a lot of cooks in the kitchen, you know
what I mean. I trust Luke Combs to be able
to pick songs that sounds. I mean, I think he
knows what he's doing. And that is Michael Jay's music
City meant it.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Ninety three point one WPOC Traffic.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
There's an exident with two lanes blocked to fifteen southbound
between Old Frederick Road and Bigg's Ford Road. Looks like
traffic's getting by on the right.

Speaker 9 (21:59):
Show jeez, somebody's done.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Point one tilbody POC Michael j and Bethany and the
moment has a rived.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
You guys play German music at Doss Beer Hall. Okay,
step on up.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
We got to get you guys on the microphones here.
Let me introduce everyone. Yeah, you can come over here. Yep,
we got mics for everybody. I would like you to
meet Andrew. Good morning, Andrew, good morning.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (22:45):
And this is now? You said you go as Mel,
but your name is Melissa. Which what do I call you? Mel? Mel?
All right, so we have Andrew and Mel They are
both owners of Doss bier Hall, and you guys have
got two locations in Parkville and in bel Air as well, right, ye.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Plus food trucks. Two food trucks. And how did you
guys get the restaurants started.

Speaker 10 (23:07):
I guess it started from my husband Scott going to
Octoberfest in twenty thirteen, came back and decided that was
going to be our concept for the restaurant and bar
and then just go from there.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
So we just wanted it to be a feel.

Speaker 10 (23:20):
Good atmosphere, kind of similar to Octoberfest. You come in,
there's communal seating, you can get big beers, sausages, big pretzels,
sit down next to a stranger, talk it up, leave
with a friend kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
So your restaurant's awesome. I love your friend, I love it.
I'm there all the time. Bethany had mentioned to me
that she had never had bron Schwager, and so I
called up and Gail answered the phone. Gail, you're the
general manager. Yes, and you must love working with these guys.
I do.

Speaker 8 (23:52):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, it's a big it's a big, happy family.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, we're very excited to have you guys all from Baltimore.
Bethany and they grew up on grapple and brown schwager,
as I say, but it's brown Schweger, right, am, I
sing Bronschweiger brown Schweger. And do you guys know anything
about what goes into brown schwager?

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Andrew? I do not? You do you do?

Speaker 9 (24:13):
You?

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Mel? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (24:14):
So it's traditionally made from like the liver, and it's
a pork sausage as well.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So all right, all right, so now what is the
difference between liverwurst and brown schweger.

Speaker 10 (24:29):
So Bronschweiger is actually a variety of liververst, and that
it comes from liberverse, which is liver sausage in German.
So bron Schweiger comes from the region of bron Schweg
in Germany, and they specialize in a finely ground smoked liverwurst,

(24:51):
the best of the.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Best brown Schweger.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Andrew what she said, You got a good partner there,
and uh and and.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Out of the three of you, who likes brownschwager the most,
probably Andrew Andrew? I really like it.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, Andrew got really excited. Right, I said, do you
guys eat that? And he was like, yes, yes, it's delicious.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
But I also said that if you put anything between,
you know, rye bread along with Swiss cheese, pickles and onions.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
I eat just about anything, all right, Well, I'm down
with it now.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
I just used to have bronchwager on like toast with mustard.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
That was like all it took, you know. But I
guess you could put cheese, you could put onions, you
can put all.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
So the way you guys serve it is with the
smoked Brownchwager, liverwurst, Swiss cheese, onion, pickles, on marble rye
for eleven bucks your and by the way, it's.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Only eleven dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Your prices are very fair, they really are. And you
can get anything and I'll tell you what else. Bethany, So,
I was over at in Parkville at Dos Beer Hall
and it was a Wednesday. It just happened to be
a Wednesday night, and I'm like, when did crabs become
German food?

Speaker 5 (25:58):
And they have? You guys have steam crab now for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
We we actually partner with our friends down at Parkfield
Crabs right on the corner of Hartford and Taylor. They
steam the crabs and deliver them to us every Monday
Wednesday and Sunday by reservation only. They'll bring up as
many crabs as we need for you know, the customers
that that are are there to enjoy the all you
can eat.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Crabs and it's like what fifty bucks?

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Yeah, fifty bucks all you can eat on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Sundays. We have a couple of time slots and
it includes corn on the cob and hush puppies as well,
all you can eat.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And you know what goes great with crabs, of course beer.
And if anybody and his beer, it stops beer hall.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Andrew has a fan on text. Apparently Andrew and his
twin brother are musicians.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, what do we play? My twin brother and I
We both play guitar and we sing so cute.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
We're an acoustic do look at that? Do you do
you play at the restaurant or.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
We haven't in a couple of years. We just haven't
done live music there in a while. Okay, we go
by the pips.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, yeah this shout out, shout out the pips. Yeah,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
So now, just real quick, the backstory you had. You
got the restaurant where the barn was first, and then
you open up in bel Air and and and then
the barn was there forever, so it just Grewn Baltimore
that was atle place to go you get crabs, which
was it's kind of an homage to them.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
For sure. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
I mean when we moved in in twenty eighteen, people
kept asking us and asking us, you know, are you
gonna do crabs?

Speaker 5 (27:31):
Can we get crabs? And at the start we didn't
have them right.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
So we had someone locally, our friend Scott down the
Corporal Crabs, reach out to us and he said, I
think I can help with this, and we've been doing
that since.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, let's fous focus on October Fast coming up dos
beer Hall and tell and e Mel tell me about
brown schwager. Is it a popular item on your menu?

Speaker 10 (27:52):
I would say with the older generation it is definitely
popular because they have, you know, grown up on it and.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Their taste buzz are just toasted. Gable's enjoying this. He's
laughing over here. It's just there.

Speaker 10 (28:06):
You know, they come in, they know what they want,
they get it all the time. We have one one
guy that comes in and he hates pickles, so he's
like brown sugar sandwich, no pickles.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
All the time that what he says brown sugar.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
But it's just one of those things that we just
did a menu revision, and I literally thought to.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Myself, I was like, do I take it off? Did
I like, do enough people order it? Should I just
get rid of it?

Speaker 8 (28:30):
No?

Speaker 5 (28:30):
I didn't.

Speaker 10 (28:30):
And then and then you guys called and we were
I was like, thank you.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Off. Well, six and ten people claim that they dislike
food they've never had, So.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
Here we go. Then the moment has arrived. The should
I pour the beer? Pour the beer? I brought you
a beer?

Speaker 10 (28:54):
Oh wow, all right, brow half of Ison, it's a
breakfast beer.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
Tra Oh my god. Half of Bson is one of
my favorite beers. Oh my goodness. First of let's describe
the sandwich.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
It's huge, okay, so this is a big sandwich, comes
wrapped in an adorable German paper, right, Okay, it's got
thick pickles.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
We need video of this moment. Hold on, hold on,
hold on, because we got our hands full of food.
I gotta get video.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Hold in for one second, all right, So Bethany described
the sandwich from Dosspier home.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
So I got a half here, marble rye in a minute.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
It didn't start. I met hold on modern technology. All right,
now it's working. Bethany, tell us about the video, or
tell us about the sandwich from Doss Beer.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
So look at this thick bread, marble, look at all
that cheese, some some of this mystery meat.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
It's not mystery meat.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
It's onions, big thick pickles.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
And then you say there's mustard on here too. Let's
see it. One more time for the videos on the side. Okay,
one more for the video. That is beautiful. It's a
good looking it's an awesome sandwich. Are you telling me?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
We have Gail, we have mel and we have Andrew
All from dos Beer Hall.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Right now, here's the moment we need.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
We need quiet while Bethany tastes it and we get
the honest reaction. Here we go for the first time
that the middle. We just bite into it. M Oh
my gosh, you're making me hungry just watching you eat that.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
It's good, oh good. I do not hate this. Now,
describe what you're experiencing. We want to know.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
It's a little mushier than I care to have meat generally.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Now, I told you, like in a sausage, you know,
sausage is a little gristly a little, there's like something
inside of it.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
But this is smooth. It is a fine ground, right,
but it's still ground.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, right, so the all the flavors go really well
to get there. Yeah, the flavor of the meat is
coming through. See it doesn't taste like what I thought
it was gonna taste like, which is garbage.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
And it's not that. Oh it's the first off, it's
from dos A.

Speaker 10 (31:14):
There's with the hef of it's nutrient dense, so you
get a lot of iron and vitamin A from it
as well.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Right, it's I mean, so it's actually it's a healthy meal.
Right there, you go, this is great.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
So on a one to ten, what do you give
dos pier Haul's Bronschwager on the menu? And do you
second Gale's renewal and and mels renewal of Bronschwager on
the menu?

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Keep it on the menu as a traditional German? Right? Fair?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
I will probably order something else, but I don't hate it. Yeah,
that's fair out of ten. I'm gonna give it a
six out of ten.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
All right, I'd like to say that the Brownschwager we
do not make an house. We actually get our Bronschwager
our fine liver worse from answever on in Rosedale and
fill it olph your road.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
I'll give it two thumbs up.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
Right now, dear weed downy unders on the chnoo.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Hold on for one second here at ninety three point
one poc, Michael J. And Bethany, I have update. You
were getting advice though, real quick, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
What was that called my lady in the office.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Don't let Michael J.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Pull your leg.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Don't need that Brown's word. Stop.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
That stuff was nasty.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
It's not nasty. Grew up on that stuff, right it okay,
all right, No, you gave it a six. But now
you've got an update. You have an update. What I
dipped it?

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I dipped the whole Sammy right in the mustard, right,
and then I had another bite and.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
That next leveled it. So what does that mean?

Speaker 4 (32:51):
I think I'm bringing it up to an eight. Oh,
that mustard is a really good all right.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Doss Beer Hall is in the house this morning.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Mel You guys winners in Baltimore's Best Yes, we just.

Speaker 10 (33:03):
Won Bottimore's Best Bar for a second year in a row,
and graduation runners up on Bottimore's Best happy hour.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Well that is awesome, very good.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
How about that, Bethany, I'll go for happy hour all right,
and it's a great Angela.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
You guys are getting ready for Octoberfest, right yep. October
Fest starting up on September twentieth. Our staff will be
wearing their darndles and their leader hosing throughout the entirety
of Octoberfest. It's a lot of fun. We'll have uh
specific activities, different activities each night of the week for
the two weeks throughout Octoberfest.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
It's it's a really good time.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
It really is what inspired us to our business partner, Scott,
to start this restaurant.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
So we really look forward to this time of the
year and that is the good news that hell, it's been.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
Get found leaving just tile drown myselfs. But they love
to smeal. Oh hell, let me get something mad and middle.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
And some Brownschwagger from Doss Beer Hall.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
All right.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Someone on tech said, Hi, everyone, where and what is
the name of that bar where.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
You got the Broun Schwager Doss Beer Hall? Brown?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Okay, watch Braun Braun b r a u n right,
braun Schwager Schweger.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Right, can you have it made the way you want.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
It's from Doss Beer Hall, Parkville and bel Air. So good,
and yes you can have it made the way you want.
And then someone else said, hey, my parents fed brown
Schwager is a treat to our dogs when I was
a kid.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
Oh, stop it, it's an option. Stop it.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
It's so good. And here at ninety three point one
w POC. The whole crew also brought in some blueberry sausage.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Now tell me about that. You guys make it in house, right, Yep.
It's one of our sausage of the months.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
So for August we made a blueberry pancake sausage.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
It has some maple syrup in.

Speaker 10 (35:11):
The mix, and we have all of our own recipes
for our sausages of the month, and it comes with
a sugar crumble and a blueberry honey butter Beani.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
This is a ten a ten yes, and the marble
rot makes it too. No, it is a good sandwich.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
And I'm gonna dig into this giant pretzel and tell
me the raspberry thing.

Speaker 10 (35:33):
I like the rid So the dips that we brought,
we have something like thirty six or thirty seven dips
that you can choose from in the restaurant, but we
brought you raspberry, hollopeeno jam, rosemary thyme, mustard, scratch, a.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Honey Old Bay Man. You guys are awesome.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
Honey butter, honey, honey mustard, beer butter, and a hot
horse Radish mustard.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
And what are you bringing tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Thank you guys very much for being here, Thanks for
having us. Yell, Andrew, you've got to go check the
restaurant out. If you've not, if you've driven past Doss
Beer Hall and Park fillerbell Air and you haven't stopped,
I mean, come on, yeah, come on.

Speaker 5 (36:09):
So thank you guys so much for coming. Yeah, we
really appreciate you guys.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
All right, ninety three point one w POC Traffic.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
The alternative was Michael J.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Making me a sandwich, and I think, well, I just
figured it might be safer, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Their kitchen is definitely much better than mine, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
All Right, there's an accident on fifteen southbound between Old
Frederick and biggs Ford Road two
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