January 21, 2026 • 18 mins
Michael J and Jamie cover today's Brief and Music City Minute. They also talk to listenners about crazy stories that made them question whether coincidences are real.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door, your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. The other mornings,
everything just seems to click. You know what the difference
is those slow mornings you've probably missed. Ninety three point
one WPOC.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Michael J. Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hope you can join us every morning, but if you
do happen to miss anything, maybe you can catch it
here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in, follow, like, share,
and keep listening. Ninety three point one WPOC Michael J.
Jamie Costello. The brief is coming up in about three minutes.
What story you're really watching?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A place where WPOC blairs okay has been sold?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, all right, we'll find out next.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But first, Hardy ninety three point one WPOC Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Before you jump on the brief, I just have to
say something.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I have never met anyone else from Baltimore who knows
all the connections and knows all the pieces fall together.
I just mentioned him off the air as Hardy was singing,
and Jamie Costello.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Who's with us?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I say, you know, I've gotten to spend some time
with Adam Jones, who played center field for the Orioles.
And I was trying to remember his wife's name, Audie,
and you you say he's he's married. His mother in
law and father in law have some mysterygots.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Geene Fugut played football with the Washing Redskins, and when
he was going to school he supplied Earl Weaver with
the statistics. He was computer whiz before anybody did the analytics.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Crazy, he has something family. How is he related?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Fugots are related to Regional f Lewis Museum downtown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So it is Smaltimore.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It definitely is here at ninety three point one w
poc Hey, Uh, what is going on in the brief
this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
All right? Here is the brief ready.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Dobbins Island, where we wrapped up every summer has been
sold for close to two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No way you got to go out to die on
a summer day. Right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You'll hear poc playing flaring from every boat.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Boom is wild, all right, things that go bump in
the middle of the flight.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A survey is out saying when we.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Fly now, moderate turbulence is skyrocketing, especially up and down
the East coast.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Really, they're they're cause there. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Starting next week, those of you who fly Southwest, you're
gonna have a signed seats. Sorry, that's nothing new, but
you're gonna be boarding from one to eight following the
Wilma method.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, window, middle aisle, Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Passengers and window seats will board first, followed by those
in middle seats and aisles, and they'll start in the
back of the plane. Don't you get upset when you're
getting off a plane and the people in the back
come barging up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The everybody stands up at once, everybody stands up, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The world's most beautiful airport has been crowned. It's San
Francisco International, Oh wow, because of its sleek Okay, BUCkies
You ever been to a BUCkies an?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They're opening up all over the place. I've not been
to one.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
An oversized travel center has built up a cult following,
and they're going to open the largest convenience store ever
seventy six thousand square feet in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Last year, Lego Tuxedo Cat was the rage. Now it's
the Golden Retriever Puppy. Twenty one hundred and two pieces
of Legos Oh my god. A foot High goes on
sale February the first. That's pretty cool and I hate
to touch just between us. Okay, I'm a sex in
the city. Oh man, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
One of those guys. I love it well, I got
to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Kristin Davis revealed that she thinks the series ended, you know,
and just like that when they went to yeah, and
she says, because Carrie dumped.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Aiden for good. Oh, there was no way that they
could go on all.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right, And tickets for the annual Sock Burning go on
sale tomorrow. It's coming up in March at the Annapolis
Maritime Museum. This is where we take off our socks
from the winner and we throw it into a.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fire, saying winners over. I think you better be g
for what. That's no storm coming this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's the brief.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Fir slallone, Blake Shelton ninety three point one, WPOC, Michael
J Jamie Costello.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And we've got our Music City Minute here. Let's say
to Music.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
City minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
If you don't know, like you own music Road.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So we've also got Jamie on the telephone line. Jamie,
you say your son Oliver is a big Megan Moroney fan.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He's six years old. And what song does he love?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Kenneth the Orange, that's his song. That's the song.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, that's sweet. Well, maybe is Oliver with you right now?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
No, he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm almost to work.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's he's eating breakfast at the house.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, here's why I'm asking maybe you can be the
judge on this. In our Music City Minute, Megan Moroney
just released a little preview of a song that she's
done with Ed Sheeran, and I want you to listen
to a clip.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh wow, and tell us what you think. All right,
here you go. This is Megan Maroney and Ed Sheeran.
FU miss you.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Down right?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There you go, just a little snippet. So what do
you give it on a one to ten scale?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Jamie?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
All right, Jamie, Jamie has spoken and you've heard it
for the first time. That is your Music City Minute
three point one w POC Michael J. Jamie Costello our
special guest co host this week. Have you ever had
a moment in your life that happened that just made
you stop and think, There's got to be something above us,
(05:48):
a greater power, whatever it is, not speaking a specific religion.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just there's you get goosebu I believe in all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you brought this whole thing up yesterday because you
were talking about something that happened with a woman and
the fund.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You want to share that story, let me give you
two of them real quick.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Really had a mother in law sick for years, and
on the eve of putting in her rehab place being
discharged from the hospital, she dies. All right, funeral plans
are made, plot purchase ceremony at the cemetery. My wife
pulls up to our house and the garage door goes down.
She thought, well, the boys have pushed the button. Well,
(06:26):
the opener's in the drawer and they're on the couch.
They're not even close. So Mom sent a message that
the chapter is closed. Wow, all right. The next one
a woman. This is a true story a woman, Well,
of course they are. A woman suddenly becomes a widow
and her girlfriends decide to take her to Ocean City
to get away from all the pain and the hurt
and the sorrow. Right, so they go into her favorite restaurant.
(06:48):
She orders, the meal comes and she says, waitress, this
isn't what I ordered. This is what my husband used
to order. This is his favorite meal. And with that,
her phone goes off. One time. She looks and it's
her husband's number. What his phone has been turned off,
of course for months, locked away in the glove compartment
(07:09):
with their car parked out front of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But she's got a call from him.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, you tell me after the meal that was delivered
was his right?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You tell me, that's crazy. You tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't know what to tell you. I think that's
it's crazy. And then you know, you share that story.
And I immediately flashed back to apple Ford, and I
wonder who remembers this? This was In all of my
years here at WPOCU and all my years on the radio,
I've never ever experienced something like what happened at apple
(07:43):
Ford a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We were there, We had you know, country music playing,
We had a performance going in the back of that
f one fifty. We had a truck we were given away.
So here was the deal. There were fifty keys that
started this this truck. Well, well one of them started
out of the fifty, but they were fifty in a bucket. Okay,
fifty keys forty nine did not work. One did all right.
(08:08):
We gave away forty three of those keys on the
radio here at WDPOCA, So forty three people won a
key through a on air contest.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
When we get to apple Ford, we had seven more.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Keys that you could sign up to possibly win one
of those on site. That's the game. We did a
reverse lottery. Everybody picked a number. We got everybody in line.
Based on the numbers, they drew one through fifty, So
now they're fifty contestants at apple Ford in Columbia, and
I swear to God what happened. It still gives me goosebumps.
(08:44):
One at a time, each person gets up in the
truck and all they had to do was start it,
and if it started, it was their truck, right, one, five, ten, fifteen,
all these people, and I'm as this is going on.
I'm thinking to myself, we got a problem. What happens?
I'm like, is there a problem? You know that key's
got to be in there. But odds wise, if you
(09:06):
ever studied statistics, since usually somewhere in the middle, you
know what I mean, that somebody pulls the key. Well,
we get up to the forty eighth person, who pulled
a key didn't start the truck. There are two people left, Jamie,
I'm telling you, I don't. I was so nervous because
I'm thinking, oh, I mean, what are the odds that
(09:28):
there's two keys in this bucket and the other forty
eight didn't start it. So a woman is the forty
ninth contestant. She reaches in out of two keys, take
I'm nervous telling you the story. She takes the key,
gets up in the truck. It doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm list starting. One key left, and so there's one
guy left.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Steve is the last guy, and uh, maybe he'll hear this,
maybe his family will hear it. Steve takes the last
key out of the bucket. He didn't pick it, it
was the only key left, gets it. I'm like, dude,
you got to get up in the truck started, or
somebody's going to be coming from me because they're going
to think this is like a scam or something. Right,
he gets up, it starts the truck, last key out
(10:08):
of fifty, and tears are rolling down Steve's face and
I'm like, I know you're excited about this truck that
you've won, but what is going on. He put yanks
his scarf off his neck and he's got stitches from
the left side to the right side.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I said, what is going on? He's like, I
was just in Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I just had cancer surgery and I was praying his
words that God would give me some sign that I
was going to be okay. Well, he said, the only
reason I'm here at apple Ford that day was because
he was there to cheer on his mother in law
who had won a key on the radio. He signed
up for one of the seven that we gave away
on site. So he walks up, he signs up, he
(10:52):
wins a spot. He's the fiftieth out of fifty people,
and he gets.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The key and he's like, you know what, Michael. He
goes and I didn't even pick the key. It was
given to me.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
See.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
See, I'm telling you my hair. I have grey hair
on my body and I got a lot of them.
We're all standing up.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, So what are the chances? I don't know what
are they? So that's the kind of thing I'm wondering about.
Does that happen to every all of us? Do we
all have that?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I think you just got to open up your eyes
and you got to open up your heart and it
pour in.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Do you ever experience anything like that? You can share
eight hundred and three two one thirty six ninety three
ninety three point one wdpoc. Well, there's no shortage of
stories people. Everybody wants to share a story of something amazing.
Let me just grab a random line here and we'll
see what happens. Good morning, WPOC.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And wait a minute, and can you uh, let's see
we got it? Wait a minute, the lines are all jamed.
Hey Anne, are you there?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Wait a minute, I've got these line so screwed up
right now, Wit a minute, let me drop that one
and hello, w POC you're there now?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Good morning? Who is this? Hello? And yeah? And there
you are? All right? And so what did you want
to tell us? Go ahead, I want to hear the story.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
A few years ago, two of my friends and myself
we were in Pikesville at an afternoon tea and this
particular shop had all different types of mismatched chinaware teacups,
dessert whatever, And I looked down at my dessert dish
and it happened to be my deceased mother's fine China pattern.
(12:43):
And this was in Maryland, but she was from North Dakota.
So I was completely stunted that China.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow from North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's crazy. That's crazy. And I'm telling you weird signs right.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Absolutely all the time. If you're open to receiving them,
they're out there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Thanks for calling ninety three point one WPOC. Who's this
and what's your story?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Good morning, This is Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, and I have a story for you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, real quick's here.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Eight years ago, my dad is in hospice.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's dying. He told me to come close to him.
I did.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He said, listen, once I'm gone, if there's any way
I will give you a sign that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I don't believe in any of that. And I said, well, Dad,
how would.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I even know it?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Would you?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And he said, you'll know a few months later, I'm
standing in my living room now. I had his phone
already disconnected.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It was in a kitchen dwarf. I get a time
on my phone.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's a Facebook friend request from my dad, who we
were already friends on Facebook. And I got a friend
request from him.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And it just still gives me chilled. Wow, So there's
Facebook in heaven. I love that. Yeah, apparently, so we're
not going.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
To get rid of this social media crap even.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Where we're gone. Man, thank you for letting me know
about that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Kenny Chesney adding dates to his residency in Vegas. We'll
get to that on the Music City Minute about twenty after.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But now you are pop culture protein boost.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's the brief on ninety three point one wpocy callo.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Wide effort, Michael to raise the minimum wage up to
twenty five dollars an hour. There's a group called One
Page One Fair Wage, and they're trying to put it
on a ballot for this November. They wanted to go
up to twenty five an hour, and if they get it, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Gonna be the largest minimum wage in the state in
the nation. Do you think people are going to vote
for that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, I've talked to a lot of local small businesses
and they say they just can't afford twenty five an
hour for minimum wage. So that we'll see what happens
in the legislature. They've got a couple months left, let's
see what they do. I'll tell you what some people
are sitting this morning, several Maryland lottery players have strugging
rich one winning a one million dollar prize on a
(15:06):
scratch off ticket in Abingdon.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Hey, we're going to talk about a plane carrying the president.
Air Force one had to make a U turn from
Switzerland back to Joint Bass Andrews. There was a mechanical
problem on board. Everything's okay, he's airborne now, all right,
and then we're talking about this. The last vice president
to have a baby in office was likely a historical figure.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We've never had this happen before. Yeah, because Vance is pregnant.
Life is pregnant, and it's.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Been back in eighteen ninety three when Cleveland was the president,
they gave birth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, I mean, he's kind of pregnant. Are everything laughing
at me? Because I'm like, he's of course his wife
is pregnant and he's not.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, but Drover Cleveland. Yeah, how many years ago was that?
Eighteen ninety three? Dang?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That the kids through college now it's been a minute,
but they're still paying for it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's brief, sir, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Ninety three point one WPOC The Music City Minute coming up.
I'm gonna try to cover stories with Kenny, Megan Morony
and Jason Alden. After Hudson Westbrook ninety three point one
WDPOC He's just twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
One years old.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Hudson Westbrook here with Michael j Jamie Costello, and it's
time to find out what's going on with your favorite
country stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Michael Jay's Music.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
City Minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you don't know, like you own music Road. But first,
Jason Alden.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Now don't have a Baltimore date, although I keep flashing
back to Frank Remish at a CFG Bank arena telling
me that big things are going to be happening after July.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I guess July first, he.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Says, he begins, Yeah, he begins his fiscal year whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Keeping trying.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
He just said they're going to be booking, and they're
they're announcing a lot of big shows. So Jason Alden
hit up social media yesterday he says he's kicking his
tour off. Only day I see for him around anywhere
close January twenty ninth in State College, Pennsylvania, January thirtieth
and Allen down and January thirty first Atlantic City. If
(17:10):
you're looking at going to see Jason Aldan hopefully we
maybe he's one of the guys that comes to Baltimore
other big concert information, but you're gonna have to travel.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
A little farther.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Kenny Chesney is at the Sphere in Vegas, and he
says he wanted to extend his residency so that more
people could see him. He's adding new dates July first
through July eleventh, So you know, maybe you take a
flight out to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That would be a trip and go see him at
the Sphere.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think we just need to get that sphere built
here they're talking about in National Harbor, and we'll get
Kenny there. We'll have to wait and see him finally.
How about this. Megan Moroney's new album is coming out.
Everybody's excited. She has dropped a sneak peek of a
song that she's done here called I Own We Miss
You featuring Ed Sheeran, and you want to hear snippet.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Everybody wants to hear this. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Miss You man.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm drinking baby, I'll miss you off time.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
If that isn't a country song that I only miss
you what I'm drinking and I'm drinking all the time, baby.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Megan Moroni Ed Sheeran.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That'll be a part of Cloud nine when it when
it drops, coming up in February on the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All right, that's your Music City Minute
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door, your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. The other mornings,
everything just seems to click. You know what the difference
is those slow mornings you've probably missed. Ninety three point
one WPOC.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Michael J. Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hope you can join us every morning, but if you
do happen to miss anything, maybe you can catch it
here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in, follow, like, share,
and keep listening. Ninety three point one WPOC Michael J.
Jamie Costello. The brief is coming up in about three minutes.
What story you're really watching?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A place where WPOC blairs okay has been sold?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, all right, we'll find out next.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But first, Hardy ninety three point one WPOC Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Before you jump on the brief, I just have to
say something.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I have never met anyone else from Baltimore who knows
all the connections and knows all the pieces fall together.
I just mentioned him off the air as Hardy was singing,
and Jamie Costello.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Who's with us?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I say, you know, I've gotten to spend some time
with Adam Jones, who played center field for the Orioles.
And I was trying to remember his wife's name, Audie,
and you you say he's he's married. His mother in
law and father in law have some mysterygots.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Geene Fugut played football with the Washing Redskins, and when
he was going to school he supplied Earl Weaver with
the statistics. He was computer whiz before anybody did the analytics.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Crazy, he has something family. How is he related?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Fugots are related to Regional f Lewis Museum downtown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So it is Smaltimore.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It definitely is here at ninety three point one w
poc Hey, Uh, what is going on in the brief
this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
All right? Here is the brief ready.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Dobbins Island, where we wrapped up every summer has been
sold for close to two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No way you got to go out to die on
a summer day. Right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You'll hear poc playing flaring from every boat.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Boom is wild, all right, things that go bump in
the middle of the flight.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A survey is out saying when we.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Fly now, moderate turbulence is skyrocketing, especially up and down
the East coast.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Really, they're they're cause there. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Starting next week, those of you who fly Southwest, you're
gonna have a signed seats. Sorry, that's nothing new, but
you're gonna be boarding from one to eight following the
Wilma method.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, window, middle aisle, Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Passengers and window seats will board first, followed by those
in middle seats and aisles, and they'll start in the
back of the plane. Don't you get upset when you're
getting off a plane and the people in the back
come barging up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The everybody stands up at once, everybody stands up, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The world's most beautiful airport has been crowned. It's San
Francisco International, Oh wow, because of its sleek Okay, BUCkies
You ever been to a BUCkies an?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They're opening up all over the place. I've not been
to one.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
An oversized travel center has built up a cult following,
and they're going to open the largest convenience store ever
seventy six thousand square feet in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Last year, Lego Tuxedo Cat was the rage. Now it's
the Golden Retriever Puppy. Twenty one hundred and two pieces
of Legos Oh my god. A foot High goes on
sale February the first. That's pretty cool and I hate
to touch just between us. Okay, I'm a sex in
the city. Oh man, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
One of those guys. I love it well, I got
to the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Kristin Davis revealed that she thinks the series ended, you know,
and just like that when they went to yeah, and
she says, because Carrie dumped.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Aiden for good. Oh, there was no way that they
could go on all.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right, And tickets for the annual Sock Burning go on
sale tomorrow. It's coming up in March at the Annapolis
Maritime Museum. This is where we take off our socks
from the winner and we throw it into a.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fire, saying winners over. I think you better be g
for what. That's no storm coming this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's the brief.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Fir slallone, Blake Shelton ninety three point one, WPOC, Michael
J Jamie Costello.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And we've got our Music City Minute here. Let's say
to Music.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
City minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
If you don't know, like you own music Road.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So we've also got Jamie on the telephone line. Jamie,
you say your son Oliver is a big Megan Moroney fan.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He's six years old. And what song does he love?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Kenneth the Orange, that's his song. That's the song.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, that's sweet. Well, maybe is Oliver with you right now?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
No, he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm almost to work.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's he's eating breakfast at the house.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, here's why I'm asking maybe you can be the
judge on this. In our Music City Minute, Megan Moroney
just released a little preview of a song that she's
done with Ed Sheeran, and I want you to listen
to a clip.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh wow, and tell us what you think. All right,
here you go. This is Megan Maroney and Ed Sheeran.
FU miss you.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Down right?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There you go, just a little snippet. So what do
you give it on a one to ten scale?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Jamie?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
All right, Jamie, Jamie has spoken and you've heard it
for the first time. That is your Music City Minute
three point one w POC Michael J. Jamie Costello our
special guest co host this week. Have you ever had
a moment in your life that happened that just made
you stop and think, There's got to be something above us,
(05:48):
a greater power, whatever it is, not speaking a specific religion.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Just there's you get goosebu I believe in all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you brought this whole thing up yesterday because you
were talking about something that happened with a woman and
the fund.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You want to share that story, let me give you
two of them real quick.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Really had a mother in law sick for years, and
on the eve of putting in her rehab place being
discharged from the hospital, she dies. All right, funeral plans
are made, plot purchase ceremony at the cemetery. My wife
pulls up to our house and the garage door goes down.
She thought, well, the boys have pushed the button. Well,
(06:26):
the opener's in the drawer and they're on the couch.
They're not even close. So Mom sent a message that
the chapter is closed. Wow, all right. The next one
a woman. This is a true story a woman, Well,
of course they are. A woman suddenly becomes a widow
and her girlfriends decide to take her to Ocean City
to get away from all the pain and the hurt
and the sorrow. Right, so they go into her favorite restaurant.
(06:48):
She orders, the meal comes and she says, waitress, this
isn't what I ordered. This is what my husband used
to order. This is his favorite meal. And with that,
her phone goes off. One time. She looks and it's
her husband's number. What his phone has been turned off,
of course for months, locked away in the glove compartment
(07:09):
with their car parked out front of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But she's got a call from him.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, you tell me after the meal that was delivered
was his right?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You tell me, that's crazy. You tell me.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't know what to tell you. I think that's
it's crazy. And then you know, you share that story.
And I immediately flashed back to apple Ford, and I
wonder who remembers this? This was In all of my
years here at WPOCU and all my years on the radio,
I've never ever experienced something like what happened at apple
(07:43):
Ford a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We were there, We had you know, country music playing,
We had a performance going in the back of that
f one fifty. We had a truck we were given away.
So here was the deal. There were fifty keys that
started this this truck. Well, well one of them started
out of the fifty, but they were fifty in a bucket. Okay,
fifty keys forty nine did not work. One did all right.
(08:08):
We gave away forty three of those keys on the
radio here at WDPOCA, So forty three people won a
key through a on air contest.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
When we get to apple Ford, we had seven more.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Keys that you could sign up to possibly win one
of those on site. That's the game. We did a
reverse lottery. Everybody picked a number. We got everybody in line.
Based on the numbers, they drew one through fifty, So
now they're fifty contestants at apple Ford in Columbia, and
I swear to God what happened. It still gives me goosebumps.
(08:44):
One at a time, each person gets up in the
truck and all they had to do was start it,
and if it started, it was their truck, right, one, five, ten, fifteen,
all these people, and I'm as this is going on.
I'm thinking to myself, we got a problem. What happens?
I'm like, is there a problem? You know that key's
got to be in there. But odds wise, if you
(09:06):
ever studied statistics, since usually somewhere in the middle, you
know what I mean, that somebody pulls the key. Well,
we get up to the forty eighth person, who pulled
a key didn't start the truck. There are two people left, Jamie,
I'm telling you, I don't. I was so nervous because
I'm thinking, oh, I mean, what are the odds that
(09:28):
there's two keys in this bucket and the other forty
eight didn't start it. So a woman is the forty
ninth contestant. She reaches in out of two keys, take
I'm nervous telling you the story. She takes the key,
gets up in the truck. It doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm list starting. One key left, and so there's one
guy left.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Steve is the last guy, and uh, maybe he'll hear this,
maybe his family will hear it. Steve takes the last
key out of the bucket. He didn't pick it, it
was the only key left, gets it. I'm like, dude,
you got to get up in the truck started, or
somebody's going to be coming from me because they're going
to think this is like a scam or something. Right,
he gets up, it starts the truck, last key out
(10:08):
of fifty, and tears are rolling down Steve's face and
I'm like, I know you're excited about this truck that
you've won, but what is going on. He put yanks
his scarf off his neck and he's got stitches from
the left side to the right side.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I said, what is going on? He's like, I
was just in Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I just had cancer surgery and I was praying his
words that God would give me some sign that I
was going to be okay. Well, he said, the only
reason I'm here at apple Ford that day was because
he was there to cheer on his mother in law
who had won a key on the radio. He signed
up for one of the seven that we gave away
on site. So he walks up, he signs up, he
(10:52):
wins a spot. He's the fiftieth out of fifty people,
and he gets.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The key and he's like, you know what, Michael. He
goes and I didn't even pick the key. It was
given to me.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
See.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
See, I'm telling you my hair. I have grey hair
on my body and I got a lot of them.
We're all standing up.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, So what are the chances? I don't know what
are they? So that's the kind of thing I'm wondering about.
Does that happen to every all of us? Do we
all have that?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I think you just got to open up your eyes
and you got to open up your heart and it
pour in.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Do you ever experience anything like that? You can share
eight hundred and three two one thirty six ninety three
ninety three point one wdpoc. Well, there's no shortage of
stories people. Everybody wants to share a story of something amazing.
Let me just grab a random line here and we'll
see what happens. Good morning, WPOC.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And wait a minute, and can you uh, let's see
we got it? Wait a minute, the lines are all jamed.
Hey Anne, are you there?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Wait a minute, I've got these line so screwed up
right now, Wit a minute, let me drop that one
and hello, w POC you're there now?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Good morning? Who is this? Hello? And yeah? And there
you are? All right? And so what did you want
to tell us? Go ahead, I want to hear the story.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
A few years ago, two of my friends and myself
we were in Pikesville at an afternoon tea and this
particular shop had all different types of mismatched chinaware teacups,
dessert whatever, And I looked down at my dessert dish
and it happened to be my deceased mother's fine China pattern.
(12:43):
And this was in Maryland, but she was from North Dakota.
So I was completely stunted that China.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow from North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's crazy. That's crazy. And I'm telling you weird signs right.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Absolutely all the time. If you're open to receiving them,
they're out there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Thanks for calling ninety three point one WPOC. Who's this
and what's your story?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Good morning, This is Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, and I have a story for you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, real quick's here.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Eight years ago, my dad is in hospice.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's dying. He told me to come close to him.
I did.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He said, listen, once I'm gone, if there's any way
I will give you a sign that I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I don't believe in any of that. And I said, well, Dad,
how would.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I even know it?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Would you?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And he said, you'll know a few months later, I'm
standing in my living room now. I had his phone
already disconnected.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It was in a kitchen dwarf. I get a time
on my phone.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's a Facebook friend request from my dad, who we
were already friends on Facebook. And I got a friend
request from him.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And it just still gives me chilled. Wow, So there's
Facebook in heaven. I love that. Yeah, apparently, so we're
not going.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
To get rid of this social media crap even.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Where we're gone. Man, thank you for letting me know
about that.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Kenny Chesney adding dates to his residency in Vegas. We'll
get to that on the Music City Minute about twenty after.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
But now you are pop culture protein boost.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's the brief on ninety three point one wpocy callo.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Wide effort, Michael to raise the minimum wage up to
twenty five dollars an hour. There's a group called One
Page One Fair Wage, and they're trying to put it
on a ballot for this November. They wanted to go
up to twenty five an hour, and if they get it, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Gonna be the largest minimum wage in the state in
the nation. Do you think people are going to vote
for that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, I've talked to a lot of local small businesses
and they say they just can't afford twenty five an
hour for minimum wage. So that we'll see what happens
in the legislature. They've got a couple months left, let's
see what they do. I'll tell you what some people
are sitting this morning, several Maryland lottery players have strugging
rich one winning a one million dollar prize on a
(15:06):
scratch off ticket in Abingdon.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Hey, we're going to talk about a plane carrying the president.
Air Force one had to make a U turn from
Switzerland back to Joint Bass Andrews. There was a mechanical
problem on board. Everything's okay, he's airborne now, all right,
and then we're talking about this. The last vice president
to have a baby in office was likely a historical figure.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We've never had this happen before. Yeah, because Vance is pregnant.
Life is pregnant, and it's.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Been back in eighteen ninety three when Cleveland was the president,
they gave birth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, I mean, he's kind of pregnant. Are everything laughing
at me? Because I'm like, he's of course his wife
is pregnant and he's not.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, but Drover Cleveland. Yeah, how many years ago was that?
Eighteen ninety three? Dang?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That the kids through college now it's been a minute,
but they're still paying for it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's brief, sir, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Ninety three point one WPOC The Music City Minute coming up.
I'm gonna try to cover stories with Kenny, Megan Morony
and Jason Alden. After Hudson Westbrook ninety three point one
WDPOC He's just twenty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
One years old.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Hudson Westbrook here with Michael j Jamie Costello, and it's
time to find out what's going on with your favorite
country stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Michael Jay's Music.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
City Minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you don't know, like you own music Road. But first,
Jason Alden.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Now don't have a Baltimore date, although I keep flashing
back to Frank Remish at a CFG Bank arena telling
me that big things are going to be happening after July.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I guess July first, he.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Says, he begins, Yeah, he begins his fiscal year whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Keeping trying.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
He just said they're going to be booking, and they're
they're announcing a lot of big shows. So Jason Alden
hit up social media yesterday he says he's kicking his
tour off. Only day I see for him around anywhere
close January twenty ninth in State College, Pennsylvania, January thirtieth
and Allen down and January thirty first Atlantic City. If
(17:10):
you're looking at going to see Jason Aldan hopefully we
maybe he's one of the guys that comes to Baltimore
other big concert information, but you're gonna have to travel.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
A little farther.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Kenny Chesney is at the Sphere in Vegas, and he
says he wanted to extend his residency so that more
people could see him. He's adding new dates July first
through July eleventh, So you know, maybe you take a
flight out to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That would be a trip and go see him at
the Sphere.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think we just need to get that sphere built
here they're talking about in National Harbor, and we'll get
Kenny there. We'll have to wait and see him finally.
How about this. Megan Moroney's new album is coming out.
Everybody's excited. She has dropped a sneak peek of a
song that she's done here called I Own We Miss
You featuring Ed Sheeran, and you want to hear snippet.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Everybody wants to hear this. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Miss You man.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm drinking baby, I'll miss you off time.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
If that isn't a country song that I only miss
you what I'm drinking and I'm drinking all the time, baby.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Megan Moroni Ed Sheeran.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That'll be a part of Cloud nine when it when
it drops, coming up in February on the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All right, that's your Music City Minute
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