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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Ninety three point one WPOC Now truity.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
All Right, the big story over the weekend if you've
been following it, the NTSB National Transportation Safety Board, and
a woman who runs that came out and said that
the reason that the Key Bridge fell was because they
had not conducted a vulnerability assessment, and they accused the
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state of Maryland for not dealing with it. It was
a ship the three football fields long that came blasting
into at a high speed into the bridge and knocked
it over. And so what they're saying is this and
sixty eight bridges total. Bethany need to do this. This
is not just the Maryland bridges. This is bridges across
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the whole country. Okay, So the whole point is, what
are these people, what are the states supposed to do
with the bridges?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How do you vulnerability test for a ship hitting the bridge?
How about the ship doesn't hit the bridge?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good idea? How about it seems to me the common
sense thing would be, how about a tug boat pulls
the ship through and they have guidance and they use
They say to the guys run of the ships, don't
be saying pass me my beer.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I'm sure he wasn't drinking at the time, but you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Saying, Like, yeah, about how about the responsibilities on the
guys driving the ships? Right right? How are we going
to fix all of these bridges?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're we're not gonna be able to Well, I will
say I was an intern on the bridge committee when
I was in college, like of the legislature. It was
in New York. But like whatever, most of the bridges
need work, right, they do. So it's like, also that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Well, they do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Everything needs work, but they if every bridge is going
to have to put dolphins, which are those cement barriers
around each bridge.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
They're not gonna have the money for that, right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic, how about you
just don't sail your ship into the bridge.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's a very good idea. That's a good traffic note.
All right, So the outer loop at seventy there's an
accident there that's affecting both the outer loop itself and
the off ramp. Then on ninety five south bound at
Mountain Road. There's an accident. The left lane is blocked
there and things are stopping and go back to eighty
and then we're just getting some regular congestion and all
of the.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Sticky spots out there. We need to give away some
concert tickets. I'm thinking the ninth caller is going to
be you at eight hundred three two one thirty six
ninety three. We'll set you up to see warren Ziders.
He'll be at the Anthem November fourteenth, good luck. This
report is sponsored by Jackson hewittt it matters. Who does
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We're giving away these warren Ziders tickets here and you
go to work.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
What time in the morning?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You got to get four am for am Bethany, She's
got to get into work. Debbie, Debbie, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And I listened to you all mornings long.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my god, Northwest Hospital.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I've talked to you before.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Are you staffing at Northwest Hospital?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Debbie?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I love you. I'll come over and give you a
big hug right now.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And it's great.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
So you listen all morning long to Michael j and Bethany.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Absolutely, Yeah, any comments.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Because you listen as much as the boss does. Anything
you want to say.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Oh no, I'm loving the show so far.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think you guys have great chemistry and I'm loving
it all right. Well great, we're loving you and we're
gonna give you up our tickets for Warren Ziders. He'll
be at the Anthem November fourteenth. You got a night
out to look forward to, Debbie. That sounds amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Thank you so much. Michael Jay's Music City Minute in
sixty seconds. If you don't know, like you own music grove.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
While we're talking about country music, Alan Jackson has a
rare genetic condition. You may have heard about this. It's
called sharcut Marie tooth disease. Yeah, it has nothing to
do with teeth though. It's a chronic neuropathy condition that
affects balance and the ability to walk. So even though
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he did great at the Grand Old Opry's one hundred
anniversary show last week, he's now down to his last
two regular shows April twenty sixth in Tampa, May seventeenth
in Milwaukee, and then Alan Jackson's calling at a career.
The Country Music Association is announcing the twenty twenty five
inductees into the Country Music Hall of.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fame tomorrow morning, eleven a m. Hour time.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The announcement will come via a press conference from the
Hall of Fame Rotunda in Nashville.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So we'll follow up on that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, the Opry one hundred had everybody talking last week.
But you know what's interesting, who's not in the Opry?
Who's not an Opry member? There's seventy six members, but
who's not major country stars? Six is not that many. Well,
that's that's where it stands right now. There are stars
who have not gotten invited or are not members. They
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are why No, Nah Judd, What, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw,
Thomas Rhett, Luke, Bryan What, George Strait and Willie Opera No,
And neither is Willie Nelson. And they say, yeah, they say,
the reason is because those two guys have been invited,
but they're in Texas and they don't want to make
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the commute. And you've got to do a lot of
shows for free at the Grand Old Opry.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's a commitment that all the members make to coming
back off the show, right and George Strait's.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Like, listen, I'm I'm happy. He's happy living in Texas. Interesting,
so there are some big members not in the opry.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
As a result, you learned something every day on this
There is the darm show. All right, traffic outer loop
at seventy looks like there's an accident.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
There in the wind.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Imagine you're on the side of Mount Everest.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And you're hearing that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nope, twenty nine thousand feet in the air. Mount Everest,
tallest peak on Earth. All right, I'm going to geek
out on this and I here's what I'm gonna do, Bethany,
I'm going to give you my snowhammer right right here
in Which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You want?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That one?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Do you want? You want? This one? That would be
my poconta?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wait a minute, how about how about this one? You're
allowed to smash me on the head if I get
to geeked out on this story we're about to share
because this is amazing to me. I want to introduce
everyone to a guy named Len forcas I got him
on the phone. Now, Len, give me the backstory on
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the organization that you raised money for, and then we'll
get into your story.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
By climbing Mount Everest. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
So twenty years ago, when my son had leukemia, I
was able to connect him to his classmates using web
cameras when he was going through treatment for cancer, and
it made such a difference to know that he hadn't
been forgotten by his friends. He went back to school
and now he's thirty two years old and is doing wonderful.
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But I started a charity to help other kids have
that same webcam connection back before Skype.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And Zoom and any of the technology that we know today.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
And it's called Hope Cam and we've helped almost six
thousand kids in every state. So when we met, I
was doing the bike race across the United States. I
did race across America in twenty seventeen, and you were
very kind enough to feature that race and we raised
a million dollars in doing so, and I finished the
race in eleven days. And now I've transitioned. Now I'm
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doing mountain climbing and so do these events to create
awareness and raise resources to help more kids with cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, lend Forcas, you are amazing. You rode your bike.
Was it from Annapolis to California?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Yeah, californ San Diego and Napolis in three thousand miles
in eleven days.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Isn't that amazing? Bethany.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He rode his bike all the way across the USA.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I checked in with him.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, I remember you were having some some moments
where you didn't know, you know, what was going to happen.
He was going over the Appalachians, he went over the Rockies.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, it's amazing, But hold on, how does that
compare len to what you're going to try to do?
Now You're gonna climb Mount Everest.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I've been doing a lot of training. I've climbed six
of the Seventh Summits. On each continent there's one mountain
that's the highest, right, So I've been doing this since
twenty eighteen and uh so I've climbed six or seven,
So this will be my seventh summit. So obviously a
very focused approach on training and having you know, great coaches,
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great guides. So yeah, I mean, I'm I'm super excited.
My son, Matt in fact, is going to be going
to Ever's base camp with me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Wow. Wait, is that the sun that had leukemia?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Matt? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now, and so he's gonna come with me, and we're
gonna gonna uh track to base camp together in about
eight days and then he'll fly home and then uh,
with a little bit of luck, I'll be able to uh,
you know, train and and then some mount evers this
year if the weather permits.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Wow, and tell me what a day of training would
look like for you, Like, what are you eating?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What are you doing? Like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Well, it's a number of things, and I've been obviously
we've been very specific since the last summer. Uh. So
it's it's weightlifting, obviously, it's uh, it's it's it's hiking
with the pack, lots of vertical nutrition. Is just being
smart about you know what you how do you feel yourself?
And then the other thing I do is at night.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
This is gonna sound kind of funky, but I actually
sleep in a stimulated environment. So I have a machine
next to my bed, and I have this thing. It's
like a it's like a it's like a laundry basket
that fits over my head and uh, and I and
I connect this machine and it reduces the amount of oxygen.
So actually last night I slept for eight hours in
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fifteen thousand seats above sea levels.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So oh, my good.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Body to adapt to that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, it's pretty next level.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's crazy that, I tell you what. We're gonna talk
a little bit more with with Len Forcus about this, Bethany.
I want to see if I can borrow that that
apparatus he hangs over someone's head. Okay, now I'm geeking
out a little bit. All right, Well, here's the thing.
He's gonna climb Mount Everest. I want to find out,
first off, how old he is. I want him to
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reveal that. And we're gonna find out how many people
have actually done when he's trying to do climbing all
seven peaks in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
We'll find out.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Next the car, hard.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The baby. All Right, if you didn't hear what's going
on here this morning at ninety three point one w
POC with Michael j and Bethany, we got a guy
named Len Forcas on the phone. Len is really a
unique guy. He's an incredible condition. Yeah, and I'm going
to ask him. I got him on hold. I'm going
to ask him his age and his second because I
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don't even know what it is. But I met him
about seven eight years ago when he was riding his
bike across the country, and I said, well, why is
he doing it. It's a thing called hopekam dot org.
It's a charity that he found founded after his son Matthew,
was dealing with cancer and he learned that when you
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know you're in a long term hospitalization as a kid,
you're cut off from school, you're cut off from your friends.
And this was before zoom came along. So he set
up this situation where they could put like a laptop
computer at the classroom and at the hospital room, and
they linked them so they could have video, which was
amazing about them. And he's doing this for hundreds and
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hundreds of kids, but it's expensive. So Len is going
to climb Mount Everest to raise a million dollars for
this campaign. So cool, Len, I want to put you
on the spot. I'm going to ask you how old
are you? Climbing Mount Everest?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Through sixty five last year? It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, he's great shape, I mean to start off with.
But I mean, so you're you're a physical specimen. That
is you know, probably I would say you're in the
top five percent of all of us, maybe even less
than that, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Well, look, I mean, we all have choices every day,
you know, and how we spend our day.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, but you're in great shape. I mean, no, he is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I mean, so, how many people have actually reached
the top of Mount Everest?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Do we know?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I think there was a statistic that I think I
think it's a couple thousand people. But when it comes
to climbing all the summits, the highest moms and every continent,
more more people have gone into outer space than have
done that feat.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So that's one of the things I'm excited to do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So so you're going to be you're going to be
among very few human beings who have ever accomplished this.
That's amazing. In fact, len I looked it up. Actually
he's absolutely correct. Nearly six hundred people have been in
outer space, which is sixty miles or more like off
the you know, into outer space, but less about five
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hundred and some people have made to the top of
all seven peaks. So on each continent, the highest peak
you know, you got your mouth, but Mount Everest is
the big cat daddy of them all, twenty nine thousand
plus feet.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How can we no, I mean, how can we oh sorry,
how can we help your costs.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can we We would love to support you. And are
you doing this on your website or how are you
doing it?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Yeah, well, it's obviously the Hope Cam.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
H opec AM is an organization and it's on the website,
it's on Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Every day that I'm.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Climbing, I'll be honoring a different child with cancer. So
we have over twenty five kids that we're going to feature.
So a big part of it is telling their stories.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Because you know, these kids, these that are going through
these treatments, they're they're fighting for their own survival and
they inspire me and they inspire all the people that
are working with me to help me be successful. So
that's a big part of it. My goal is to
raise a million dollars in doing so, so people can
sponsor us, people can contribute, or just follow and tell
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people about this great organization and the impact that we create.
And so yeah, that's just the fact that you're speaking
to me now just creates more awareness of our mission.
We're connecting over seven eight hundred kids a year now
all over the Country's.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Great to make sure that they're not lonely when they
go through treatment.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I'm on your Instagram right now, and my heart is
just oh, these kids are so sweet.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You are doing good work. Yeah, so Len, focus, Len.
Why are you going to start this climb on Everest?
When does it begin?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
So, my son and I, Relee, are flying on April twelfth,
And like I said, the window for climbing Everest is
between you know, the early May and the end of May,
so it'll be very weather dependent.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I would love to give you updates and keep
you in hands on where I am and yeah, you
and if we have until there, so, so are we
going to be able to call you when you're on
Mount Everest?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Well, I can tell you that when I'm at Evers'
base camp, I'll be able to speak to you. Once
I'm climbing. It's pretty hard to get a sell signal
up there, so right, But but I'll be happy to
share with your audience and your team what we're going
through and how it's going and uh and again to
tell tell the stories of these great kids.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I mean, if we have until May, I'm pretty sure
we can get in shape.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, traffic, Yeah, yeah, we're going to climb seven balls
in the air. Just walked to the bathroom and that
was a struggle.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
There's an ex ninety three one w p o C.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Now definitely I gotta go with our Maryland Turps basketball
teams for trending this morning. Oh my gosh, that game
last night, I was gonna have an art attack. So
down to the litteral wire. Yes, so literally, in like
the last minute, the Turps give up a three point
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shot to Colorado and they were, you know, behind, they
were down by a point. And so it got the
point where there's three point six seconds left in the game,
and they asked the coach for the Turps after it
was over with what he said to the guys because
he called the time out. Yeah, and they got three
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point six seconds left.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You know what I.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Asked everybody, I said, who wants the ball?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And he said, give me the MF.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Bull That's what queen said. And he's a freshman. That
a freshman. He said give me the ball and they
went with it. Yes, and they went with it. And
then he just runs around real quick. Within three, you know,
three point six seconds, what's the ball up? There's the
second left and it goes in and they win. They won,
And then some people were saying, oh, well, he traveled
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we won the game. It doesn't matter they didn't call it. Yeah,
so what an amazing game for the men. Now the ladies,
the women basketball team did as well.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, they did great and they're playing again tonight versus
Alabama five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That's awesome, So go Terps. Yeah, I don't want to
hear anybody saying roll tied around here today. Then no, right,
zero the Terps. They're definitely into the excitement. So now
the men are in the sweet sixteen. We'll see what
the ladies do as of tonight. Oh, speaking of brackets,
what about pizza Palooza this morning? Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We've got our saucy sixteen.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All right, new song in country music this week, and
they're so close. Let's go close, let's go low cash.
We're rooting you boys on to.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Keep us in the loop of entertainment and pop culture
and the things we shouldn't care about, but somehow we
really do. On ninety three point one.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Boxing legend and you know master grill Master George Foreman
passed away on Friday, the age.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Of seventy six.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Few professional athletes have been able to make the transition
from athlete to you know, businessman as well as George
Foreman did I.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Guess I didn't.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I thought Muhammad Ali fought.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
At Rumble in the Jump, Rumble in the Jungle, but
it was George Orman.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
What about Joe Frasier, Joe Frasier, Well, is he still alive?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Joe? I don't know. I'm not sure, but I remember
Joe Frasier. Down goes Fraser.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Did you know that at the height of the Foreman
grill he was bringing in four point five million dollars
a month?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Oh my god, I know has a.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Lot of birds. He had twelve kids with his wife.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And they were all named George.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
All five sons named George, seven daughters.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
All right, Jake Paul in other boxing news, Okay, Jake
Paul announced his engagement to Olympic speed skater I want
to say this, right, Juta dear leard In Okay. Uh,
they've been dating for a couple of years. They're really
a very cute couple. Congratulations. He most recently beat Mike
Tyson on that weird Netflix thing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Right, Okay. How about some Lamar Jackson news.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Oh, what's going on with Lamar?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He's been cast into the fourth season of Stars PowerBook.
So he's going to play a character called e Tone,
who is quote not to be messed with. We think
it's just going to be a one or two episode run,
but it might show what he's going to do after football.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, how about we focused on the Ravens right now?
With all the money he's making, Lamar, can we?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I mean, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Need a side hustle, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Multiple reports have surfaced that A one, Jeff Bezos, and
Lauren Sanchez have sent out their wedding invitations.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You get yours?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Not yet, I'm sure it's It was Sunday yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
So the wedding is rumored to take place in Venice
over the summer.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Taylor Swift's lastly Taylor Swift hasn't posted on Instagram in
about one hundred days, okay, but she broke her silence
to congratulate her bestie Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's joint album.
She said, I love this album so much.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
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Three point one w p oh C or should we
say WPO se guess Aaron Baltimore, we love our os.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
This is opening week. You know we got the Orioles
kicking off the season. Yeah, home opener a week from today.
It's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I'm anxious to find out about Pizza Palooza. We'll
get to that before six point fifty this morning. We're
gonna run down the Saucy sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Interesting that you said anxious, because this is something that
I saw over the weekend and it really had me
thinking about parenting. Okay, we need your help on this too.
Seven seven ninety six to two. If you're gonna text us,
start your message with higher hay or callists. We'd love
to hear your voice. Eight hundred three six ninety three. Yeah, okay,
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So I saw this video. Okay, this woman she sent
her I think he was eight, her eight year old
into Chick fil A to order his own meal.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
She sat out in the car.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, she did it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
On purpose, because she says, she read this book all
about parenting and how we because we aren't having our
children do things on their own, we are raising another
generation of even more anxious people. So we need to
send our kids into safe social situations.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And are they safe though? Going?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, I mean, what's gonna happen to him walks
into Chick fil a and orders a meal?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And she's in the party line, and does he have
cash on him or how's he paying for it? See,
look at you're doing it.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I am.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I'm just wondering how did she gave it cash? Okay?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
She wants him to have the full experience of paying
and getting this change.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And eight year old is in third grade. Okay, I'm
just picturing it, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It made me wonder, Like I remember riding my bike
to the store to get milk for my mom if
she was making something or whatever. Did you I don't
know how old I was, but I remember it. So
you know what's interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think some of my kids would be anxious doing that,
and some others would be all right, like you know
what I mean. Yeah, it's weird because I had a son.
I have a son who just would not go into
restaurants by himself. He couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, And then there's some that like won't make phone
calls and like this kind of thing. But they're saying, basically,
it's our fault because we're not pushing it. We're coddling
as well, yeah we're and we're we're scared that something's
going to happen to them, and probably nothing's going to
happen to them, so we should probably be pushing them
a little bit more. And that's why we have an
entire generation of people who don't want to do almost anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
So do you think it's all because we're not sent
into chick fil a when we're well? She said.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The woman on the video said that she had each
of her kids pick some thing that scared them a
little bit and then she helped them through it. And
I was like, Oh, that's so she's not just like
get in there and order us dinner. She's more like, Okay,
what is something that worries you? Are gonna we're going
to tackle it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
When I was eight, I was worried if we had
cherry pop tarts or if we.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Had the plane. You know.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But I bet you did stuff when you were eight.
I bet you went to the card shop or you
I don't know, I don't know what people did back We.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Used to ride our bikes around Hamilton and like we'd
be gone all day, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
So was it different? Thing?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It doesn't happen now and it's I just thought it
was really fascinating. So let us know if you relate
to this, are you doing this? Are you noticing your
kids don't do anything?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Weigh in and I'm going to check fil a, get
us lunch. Yeah, I'm hungry. I'm gonna said, my kid
want to breakfast bowl please? Ninety three point one w
poc These boys coming to Austin.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was raised around three ninety three point one w
poc Hey.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Good morning, Michael, Jay and Bethany. It's a wonderful Monday.
We're gonna have some fun together. And we were talking
a second ago about if you're anxious, your kids are
anxious too, and.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah, we're raising a generation of anxious children. So we
saw this Instagram video that with a woman was like,
I'm making my kids each do something that scares them
or whatever. Somebody on tech said, Hi, when I was
a kid at twelve, I was riding my bike four
or five miles from my house, buying my own snacks
and drinks.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
She said.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Today, my fiance's daughter's thirteen, and she's scared to go
down the street sting their scooter.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Oh you know, it's just things have definitely changed. I
think we're doing it though. Pizza.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I can't help myself.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Pizza, this pizza thing. We love pizza. First, you take
the dough and you spin it, all right, So we've
got pizza Palooza going on. We're looking for the best
pizza restaurant in all of Baltimore. And we've got our
saucy sixteen figured out.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Bethany, Yes, we do.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Wish you can congratulate. I'll take the first eight, you
do the second eight. We got Matthews Tiny brick Oven,
Frank's Underground Pizza. I love that Detroit pizza Pizza, John's Squires,
Italian Gardens, and Little Village all made it.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And then we've got Mama D's, Tony's, Mama MIA's, Sergio's Gills,
Pepe's Deepesqualies, and Gievanna.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's a whole lot of pizza. And we will see
the battles beginning. I'm sure by tomorrow we're going to
be narrowing it down to the what are we going
to call the eight, because we got to make sure
it's different than the basketball thing, because if we do,
we get sued.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
So we're going with the epic eight.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Okay eight, all right, Right now, they're in the saucy sixteen.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Things are really heating up there on the road.
Hey guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Ninety three point one WPOC Now truity.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
All Right, the big story over the weekend if you've
been following it, the NTSB National Transportation Safety Board, and
a woman who runs that came out and said that
the reason that the Key Bridge fell was because they
had not conducted a vulnerability assessment, and they accused the
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state of Maryland for not dealing with it. It was
a ship the three football fields long that came blasting
into at a high speed into the bridge and knocked
it over. And so what they're saying is this and
sixty eight bridges total. Bethany need to do this. This
is not just the Maryland bridges. This is bridges across
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the whole country. Okay, So the whole point is, what
are these people, what are the states supposed to do
with the bridges?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
How do you vulnerability test for a ship hitting the bridge?
How about the ship doesn't hit the bridge?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good idea? How about it seems to me the common
sense thing would be, how about a tug boat pulls
the ship through and they have guidance and they use
They say to the guys run of the ships, don't
be saying pass me my beer.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I'm sure he wasn't drinking at the time, but you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Saying, Like, yeah, about how about the responsibilities on the
guys driving the ships? Right right? How are we going
to fix all of these bridges?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're we're not gonna be able to Well, I will
say I was an intern on the bridge committee when
I was in college, like of the legislature. It was
in New York. But like whatever, most of the bridges
need work, right, they do. So it's like, also that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Well, they do.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Everything needs work, but they if every bridge is going
to have to put dolphins, which are those cement barriers
around each bridge.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
They're not gonna have the money for that, right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic, how about you
just don't sail your ship into the bridge.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's a very good idea. That's a good traffic note.
All right, So the outer loop at seventy there's an
accident there that's affecting both the outer loop itself and
the off ramp. Then on ninety five south bound at
Mountain Road. There's an accident. The left lane is blocked
there and things are stopping and go back to eighty
and then we're just getting some regular congestion and all
of the.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Sticky spots out there. We need to give away some
concert tickets. I'm thinking the ninth caller is going to
be you at eight hundred three two one thirty six
ninety three. We'll set you up to see warren Ziders.
He'll be at the Anthem November fourteenth, good luck. This
report is sponsored by Jackson hewittt it matters. Who does
your taxes at Jackson here ninety three point one di wodpoc.
(02:54):
We're giving away these warren Ziders tickets here and you
go to work.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
What time in the morning?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You got to get four am for am Bethany, She's
got to get into work. Debbie, Debbie, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And I listened to you all mornings long.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh my god, Northwest Hospital.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I've talked to you before.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Are you staffing at Northwest Hospital?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Debbie?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I love you. I'll come over and give you a
big hug right now.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And it's great.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
So you listen all morning long to Michael j and Bethany.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Absolutely, Yeah, any comments.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Because you listen as much as the boss does. Anything
you want to say.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Oh no, I'm loving the show so far.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think you guys have great chemistry and I'm loving
it all right. Well great, we're loving you and we're
gonna give you up our tickets for Warren Ziders. He'll
be at the Anthem November fourteenth. You got a night
out to look forward to, Debbie. That sounds amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Thank you so much. Michael Jay's Music City Minute in
sixty seconds. If you don't know, like you own music grove.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
While we're talking about country music, Alan Jackson has a
rare genetic condition. You may have heard about this. It's
called sharcut Marie tooth disease. Yeah, it has nothing to
do with teeth though. It's a chronic neuropathy condition that
affects balance and the ability to walk. So even though
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he did great at the Grand Old Opry's one hundred
anniversary show last week, he's now down to his last
two regular shows April twenty sixth in Tampa, May seventeenth
in Milwaukee, and then Alan Jackson's calling at a career.
The Country Music Association is announcing the twenty twenty five
inductees into the Country Music Hall of.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fame tomorrow morning, eleven a m. Hour time.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The announcement will come via a press conference from the
Hall of Fame Rotunda in Nashville.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So we'll follow up on that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, the Opry one hundred had everybody talking last week.
But you know what's interesting, who's not in the Opry?
Who's not an Opry member? There's seventy six members, but
who's not major country stars? Six is not that many. Well,
that's that's where it stands right now. There are stars
who have not gotten invited or are not members. They
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are why No, Nah Judd, What, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw,
Thomas Rhett, Luke, Bryan What, George Strait and Willie Opera No,
And neither is Willie Nelson. And they say, yeah, they say,
the reason is because those two guys have been invited,
but they're in Texas and they don't want to make
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the commute. And you've got to do a lot of
shows for free at the Grand Old Opry.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's a commitment that all the members make to coming
back off the show, right and George Strait's.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Like, listen, I'm I'm happy. He's happy living in Texas. Interesting,
so there are some big members not in the opry.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
As a result, you learned something every day on this
There is the darm show. All right, traffic outer loop
at seventy looks like there's an accident.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
There in the wind.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Imagine you're on the side of Mount Everest.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And you're hearing that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nope, twenty nine thousand feet in the air. Mount Everest,
tallest peak on Earth. All right, I'm going to geek
out on this and I here's what I'm gonna do, Bethany,
I'm going to give you my snowhammer right right here
in Which one do you want?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You want?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That one?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Do you want? You want? This one? That would be
my poconta?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wait a minute, how about how about this one? You're
allowed to smash me on the head if I get
to geeked out on this story we're about to share
because this is amazing to me. I want to introduce
everyone to a guy named Len forcas I got him
on the phone. Now, Len, give me the backstory on
(06:49):
the organization that you raised money for, and then we'll
get into your story.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
By climbing Mount Everest. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
So twenty years ago, when my son had leukemia, I
was able to connect him to his classmates using web
cameras when he was going through treatment for cancer, and
it made such a difference to know that he hadn't
been forgotten by his friends. He went back to school
and now he's thirty two years old and is doing wonderful.
(07:15):
But I started a charity to help other kids have
that same webcam connection back before Skype.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And Zoom and any of the technology that we know today.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
And it's called Hope Cam and we've helped almost six
thousand kids in every state. So when we met, I
was doing the bike race across the United States. I
did race across America in twenty seventeen, and you were
very kind enough to feature that race and we raised
a million dollars in doing so, and I finished the
race in eleven days. And now I've transitioned. Now I'm
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doing mountain climbing and so do these events to create
awareness and raise resources to help more kids with cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, lend Forcas, you are amazing. You rode your bike.
Was it from Annapolis to California?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Yeah, californ San Diego and Napolis in three thousand miles
in eleven days.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Isn't that amazing? Bethany.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He rode his bike all the way across the USA.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I checked in with him.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean, I remember you were having some some moments
where you didn't know, you know, what was going to happen.
He was going over the Appalachians, he went over the Rockies.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, it's amazing, But hold on, how does that
compare len to what you're going to try to do?
Now You're gonna climb Mount Everest.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I've been doing a lot of training. I've climbed six
of the Seventh Summits. On each continent there's one mountain
that's the highest, right, So I've been doing this since
twenty eighteen and uh so I've climbed six or seven,
So this will be my seventh summit. So obviously a
very focused approach on training and having you know, great coaches,
(08:44):
great guides. So yeah, I mean, I'm I'm super excited.
My son, Matt in fact, is going to be going
to Ever's base camp with me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Wow. Wait, is that the sun that had leukemia?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Matt? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Now, and so he's gonna come with me, and we're
gonna gonna uh track to base camp together in about
eight days and then he'll fly home and then uh,
with a little bit of luck, I'll be able to uh,
you know, train and and then some mount evers this
year if the weather permits.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Wow, and tell me what a day of training would
look like for you, Like, what are you eating?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What are you doing? Like what's happening?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Well, it's a number of things, and I've been obviously
we've been very specific since the last summer. Uh. So
it's it's weightlifting, obviously, it's uh, it's it's it's hiking
with the pack, lots of vertical nutrition. Is just being
smart about you know what you how do you feel yourself?
And then the other thing I do is at night.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
This is gonna sound kind of funky, but I actually
sleep in a stimulated environment. So I have a machine
next to my bed, and I have this thing. It's
like a it's like a it's like a laundry basket
that fits over my head and uh, and I and
I connect this machine and it reduces the amount of oxygen.
So actually last night I slept for eight hours in
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fifteen thousand seats above sea levels.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So oh, my good.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Body to adapt to that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, it's pretty next level.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's crazy that, I tell you what. We're gonna talk
a little bit more with with Len Forcus about this, Bethany.
I want to see if I can borrow that that
apparatus he hangs over someone's head. Okay, now I'm geeking
out a little bit. All right, Well, here's the thing.
He's gonna climb Mount Everest. I want to find out,
first off, how old he is. I want him to
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reveal that. And we're gonna find out how many people
have actually done when he's trying to do climbing all
seven peaks in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
We'll find out.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Next the car, hard.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
The baby. All Right, if you didn't hear what's going
on here this morning at ninety three point one w
POC with Michael j and Bethany, we got a guy
named Len Forcas on the phone. Len is really a
unique guy. He's an incredible condition. Yeah, and I'm going
to ask him. I got him on hold. I'm going
to ask him his age and his second because I
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don't even know what it is. But I met him
about seven eight years ago when he was riding his
bike across the country, and I said, well, why is
he doing it. It's a thing called hopekam dot org.
It's a charity that he found founded after his son Matthew,
was dealing with cancer and he learned that when you
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know you're in a long term hospitalization as a kid,
you're cut off from school, you're cut off from your friends.
And this was before zoom came along. So he set
up this situation where they could put like a laptop
computer at the classroom and at the hospital room, and
they linked them so they could have video, which was
amazing about them. And he's doing this for hundreds and
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hundreds of kids, but it's expensive. So Len is going
to climb Mount Everest to raise a million dollars for
this campaign. So cool, Len, I want to put you
on the spot. I'm going to ask you how old
are you? Climbing Mount Everest?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Through sixty five last year? It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, he's great shape, I mean to start off with.
But I mean, so you're you're a physical specimen. That
is you know, probably I would say you're in the
top five percent of all of us, maybe even less
than that, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Well, look, I mean, we all have choices every day,
you know, and how we spend our day.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, but you're in great shape. I mean, no, he is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But I mean, so, how many people have actually reached
the top of Mount Everest?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Do we know?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
I think there was a statistic that I think I
think it's a couple thousand people. But when it comes
to climbing all the summits, the highest moms and every continent,
more more people have gone into outer space than have
done that feat.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So that's one of the things I'm excited to do.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So so you're going to be you're going to be
among very few human beings who have ever accomplished this.
That's amazing. In fact, len I looked it up. Actually
he's absolutely correct. Nearly six hundred people have been in
outer space, which is sixty miles or more like off
the you know, into outer space, but less about five
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hundred and some people have made to the top of
all seven peaks. So on each continent, the highest peak
you know, you got your mouth, but Mount Everest is
the big cat daddy of them all, twenty nine thousand
plus feet.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How can we no, I mean, how can we oh sorry,
how can we help your costs.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Can we We would love to support you. And are
you doing this on your website or how are you
doing it?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Yeah, well, it's obviously the Hope Cam.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
H opec AM is an organization and it's on the website,
it's on Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Every day that I'm.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Climbing, I'll be honoring a different child with cancer. So
we have over twenty five kids that we're going to feature.
So a big part of it is telling their stories.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Because you know, these kids, these that are going through
these treatments, they're they're fighting for their own survival and
they inspire me and they inspire all the people that
are working with me to help me be successful. So
that's a big part of it. My goal is to
raise a million dollars in doing so, so people can
sponsor us, people can contribute, or just follow and tell
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people about this great organization and the impact that we create.
And so yeah, that's just the fact that you're speaking
to me now just creates more awareness of our mission.
We're connecting over seven eight hundred kids a year now
all over the Country's.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Great to make sure that they're not lonely when they
go through treatment.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I'm on your Instagram right now, and my heart is
just oh, these kids are so sweet.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You are doing good work. Yeah, so Len, focus, Len.
Why are you going to start this climb on Everest?
When does it begin?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
So, my son and I, Relee, are flying on April twelfth,
And like I said, the window for climbing Everest is
between you know, the early May and the end of May,
so it'll be very weather dependent.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I would love to give you updates and keep
you in hands on where I am and yeah, you
and if we have until there, so, so are we
going to be able to call you when you're on
Mount Everest?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Well, I can tell you that when I'm at Evers'
base camp, I'll be able to speak to you. Once
I'm climbing. It's pretty hard to get a sell signal
up there, so right, But but I'll be happy to
share with your audience and your team what we're going
through and how it's going and uh and again to
tell tell the stories of these great kids.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I mean, if we have until May, I'm pretty sure
we can get in shape.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, traffic, Yeah, yeah, we're going to climb seven balls
in the air. Just walked to the bathroom and that
was a struggle.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
There's an ex ninety three one w p o C.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Now definitely I gotta go with our Maryland Turps basketball
teams for trending this morning. Oh my gosh, that game
last night, I was gonna have an art attack. So
down to the litteral wire. Yes, so literally, in like
the last minute, the Turps give up a three point
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shot to Colorado and they were, you know, behind, they
were down by a point. And so it got the
point where there's three point six seconds left in the game,
and they asked the coach for the Turps after it
was over with what he said to the guys because
he called the time out. Yeah, and they got three
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point six seconds left.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
You know what I.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Asked everybody, I said, who wants the ball?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And he said, give me the MF.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Bull That's what queen said. And he's a freshman. That
a freshman. He said give me the ball and they
went with it. Yes, and they went with it. And
then he just runs around real quick. Within three, you know,
three point six seconds, what's the ball up? There's the
second left and it goes in and they win. They won,
And then some people were saying, oh, well, he traveled
(17:07):
we won the game. It doesn't matter they didn't call it. Yeah,
so what an amazing game for the men. Now the ladies,
the women basketball team did as well.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, they did great and they're playing again tonight versus
Alabama five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
That's awesome, So go Terps. Yeah, I don't want to
hear anybody saying roll tied around here today. Then no, right,
zero the Terps. They're definitely into the excitement. So now
the men are in the sweet sixteen. We'll see what
the ladies do as of tonight. Oh, speaking of brackets,
what about pizza Palooza this morning? Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We've got our saucy sixteen.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All right, new song in country music this week, and
they're so close. Let's go close, let's go low cash.
We're rooting you boys on to.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Keep us in the loop of entertainment and pop culture
and the things we shouldn't care about, but somehow we
really do. On ninety three point one.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Boxing legend and you know master grill Master George Foreman
passed away on Friday, the age.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Of seventy six.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Few professional athletes have been able to make the transition
from athlete to you know, businessman as well as George
Foreman did I.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Guess I didn't.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I thought Muhammad Ali fought.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
At Rumble in the Jump, Rumble in the Jungle, but
it was George Orman.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
What about Joe Frasier, Joe Frasier, Well, is he still alive?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Joe? I don't know. I'm not sure, but I remember
Joe Frasier. Down goes Fraser.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Did you know that at the height of the Foreman
grill he was bringing in four point five million dollars
a month?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Oh my god, I know has a.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Lot of birds. He had twelve kids with his wife.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And they were all named George.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
All five sons named George, seven daughters.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
All right, Jake Paul in other boxing news, Okay, Jake
Paul announced his engagement to Olympic speed skater I want
to say this, right, Juta dear leard In Okay. Uh,
they've been dating for a couple of years. They're really
a very cute couple. Congratulations. He most recently beat Mike
Tyson on that weird Netflix thing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Right, Okay. How about some Lamar Jackson news.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Oh, what's going on with Lamar?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
He's been cast into the fourth season of Stars PowerBook.
So he's going to play a character called e Tone,
who is quote not to be messed with. We think
it's just going to be a one or two episode run,
but it might show what he's going to do after football.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, how about we focused on the Ravens right now?
With all the money he's making, Lamar, can we?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I mean, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Need a side hustle, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Multiple reports have surfaced that A one, Jeff Bezos, and
Lauren Sanchez have sent out their wedding invitations.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You get yours?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Not yet, I'm sure it's It was Sunday yesterday.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
So the wedding is rumored to take place in Venice
over the summer.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Taylor Swift's lastly Taylor Swift hasn't posted on Instagram in
about one hundred days, okay, but she broke her silence
to congratulate her bestie Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's joint album.
She said, I love this album so much.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh my God ninety three point one WPOC traffic ninety.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Three point one w p oh C or should we
say WPO se guess Aaron Baltimore, we love our os.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
This is opening week. You know we got the Orioles
kicking off the season. Yeah, home opener a week from today.
It's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I'm anxious to find out about Pizza Palooza. We'll
get to that before six point fifty this morning. We're
gonna run down the Saucy sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Interesting that you said anxious, because this is something that
I saw over the weekend and it really had me
thinking about parenting. Okay, we need your help on this too.
Seven seven ninety six to two. If you're gonna text us,
start your message with higher hay or callists. We'd love
to hear your voice. Eight hundred three six ninety three. Yeah, okay,
(21:14):
So I saw this video. Okay, this woman she sent
her I think he was eight, her eight year old
into Chick fil A to order his own meal.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
She sat out in the car.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, she did it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
On purpose, because she says, she read this book all
about parenting and how we because we aren't having our
children do things on their own, we are raising another
generation of even more anxious people. So we need to
send our kids into safe social situations.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And are they safe though? Going?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, I mean, what's gonna happen to him walks
into Chick fil a and orders a meal?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And she's in the party line, and does he have
cash on him or how's he paying for it? See,
look at you're doing it.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I am.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I'm just wondering how did she gave it cash? Okay?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
She wants him to have the full experience of paying
and getting this change.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And eight year old is in third grade. Okay, I'm
just picturing it, okay, And.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It made me wonder, Like I remember riding my bike
to the store to get milk for my mom if
she was making something or whatever. Did you I don't
know how old I was, but I remember it. So
you know what's interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I think some of my kids would be anxious doing that,
and some others would be all right, like you know
what I mean. Yeah, it's weird because I had a son.
I have a son who just would not go into
restaurants by himself. He couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, And then there's some that like won't make phone
calls and like this kind of thing. But they're saying, basically,
it's our fault because we're not pushing it. We're coddling
as well, yeah we're and we're we're scared that something's
going to happen to them, and probably nothing's going to
happen to them, so we should probably be pushing them
a little bit more. And that's why we have an
entire generation of people who don't want to do almost anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
So do you think it's all because we're not sent
into chick fil a when we're well? She said.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The woman on the video said that she had each
of her kids pick some thing that scared them a
little bit and then she helped them through it. And
I was like, Oh, that's so she's not just like
get in there and order us dinner. She's more like, Okay,
what is something that worries you? Are gonna we're going
to tackle it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
When I was eight, I was worried if we had
cherry pop tarts or if we.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Had the plane. You know.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
But I bet you did stuff when you were eight.
I bet you went to the card shop or you
I don't know, I don't know what people did back We.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Used to ride our bikes around Hamilton and like we'd
be gone all day, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
So was it different? Thing?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It doesn't happen now and it's I just thought it
was really fascinating. So let us know if you relate
to this, are you doing this? Are you noticing your
kids don't do anything?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Weigh in and I'm going to check fil a, get
us lunch. Yeah, I'm hungry. I'm gonna said, my kid
want to breakfast bowl please? Ninety three point one w
poc These boys coming to Austin.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was raised around three ninety three point one w
poc Hey.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Good morning, Michael, Jay and Bethany. It's a wonderful Monday.
We're gonna have some fun together. And we were talking
a second ago about if you're anxious, your kids are
anxious too, and.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah, we're raising a generation of anxious children. So we
saw this Instagram video that with a woman was like,
I'm making my kids each do something that scares them
or whatever. Somebody on tech said, Hi, when I was
a kid at twelve, I was riding my bike four
or five miles from my house, buying my own snacks
and drinks.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
She said.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Today, my fiance's daughter's thirteen, and she's scared to go
down the street sting their scooter.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Oh you know, it's just things have definitely changed. I
think we're doing it though. Pizza.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I can't help myself.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Pizza, this pizza thing. We love pizza. First, you take
the dough and you spin it, all right, So we've
got pizza Palooza going on. We're looking for the best
pizza restaurant in all of Baltimore. And we've got our
saucy sixteen figured out.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Bethany, Yes, we do.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Wish you can congratulate. I'll take the first eight, you
do the second eight. We got Matthews Tiny brick Oven,
Frank's Underground Pizza. I love that Detroit pizza Pizza, John's Squires,
Italian Gardens, and Little Village all made it.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And then we've got Mama D's, Tony's, Mama MIA's, Sergio's Gills,
Pepe's Deepesqualies, and Gievanna.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's a whole lot of pizza. And we will see
the battles beginning. I'm sure by tomorrow we're going to
be narrowing it down to the what are we going
to call the eight, because we got to make sure
it's different than the basketball thing, because if we do,
we get sued.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
So we're going with the epic eight.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Okay eight, all right, Right now, they're in the saucy sixteen.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Things are really heating up there on the road.
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