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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J. Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm ninety three point one wpo C now Trudy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Now, retailers are using the tariff situation to try to
drive sales.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm seeing that already on signs. I was driving on
York Road yesterday. Huh, Watson's you sell like patio furniture.
They have a sign up that says pre tariff pricing,
so get a deal now before the tariff's go into
a fact Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And like some of the major Chinese retailers that you know,
people show timu she and they're saying order by May second,
or we're raising prices one hundred and forty five percent,
so they even put like a deadline wow to like
drive you know.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'm like, I mean, on one hand, at least they're
giving us a heads up.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, I guess.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Because but what's gonna happen when everything costs like like
one hundred and forty five here's that more.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm worried about that.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
And listen to this Governor Hogan, of course he was
the governor. Now Governor Moore's in the House. But Governor
Hogan writes on Facebook and he's upset. It sounds like,
he says, the new five dollars tax on tires is
a good example of a state government perpetually on the
hunt for creative ways to raise revenue.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I didn't know anything about this tire tax. So here's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Maryland has introduced a new five dollar fee on each
tire purchased, aiming at generating revenue for transportation projects. It's
expected to go into effect July one, twenty six, so
a year from now. But a five dollar fee, along
with other feet increases, is expected.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
To raise twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So maybe you need to make sure you buy your
tires before next July twenty, twenty twenty six. Oh god, Okay,
that's what's gonna be twenty bucks for a motorist, you know,
in a car.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
There are so many cash grabs like that though.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, everywhere you turn around, you with the emissions test,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Seriously, you're gonna plug that in? What plug it in?
Underneath the steering wheel and then you'll be behind a truck.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That's just baling black guess is just coming into the sky,
and I'm like that, I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Had an emissions test on it exactly. Yeah, what up
with that?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
H Okay anyway, not that that was no IB obviously
harboring some emission to anger. Okay, So the BW Parkway's
outbound between one hundred and one seventy five is stop
and go. There's an accident in BW Parkways southbound between
thirty two and one ninety eight, and we're slow already
before the Harbor tunney.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This report I keep us in the loop of entertainment
and pop culture and the things we shouldn't care about.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But somehow we really knew.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
That's an abrey.
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On ninety three point one, w poc.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Loan's going to star in and an executive produce a
Hulu upcoming drama series, Count My Lies.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh yeah, I know, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Then Nate Bergatzi's going to host the seventy seventh Emmy
Awards on CBS. I don't know if he's a good
host because he's so dry.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think he's a great comedian and he's family friendly.
He doesn't drop any f bombs and he's funny. He's
really so slow.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Though I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I mean, I'm a fan too, I just don't I
always think it's interesting how they just feel like everybody
can host things. Yeah, like there's a there's an art
to hosting, you know what I mean. Best kept secret
at Dollar General is the penny list. This is trending,
so I guess sometimes a Dollar General, when they want
to clearance stuff, they make it, they take it down
to a penny, right, and then the associates are supposed
(03:52):
to pull it from shelves, okay, but they're so understaffed
right now that they're not pulling it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So sometimes you can find penny deals.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
And lastly, the time one hundred lists of the most
influential people in the world came out, they're gonna have
a gala at.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
The end of the month.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Snoop Dogg's gonna host and perform, of course, and he's
got a new gospel album coming out. So we're so
some of the names on the list from the world
of politics, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, RFK obviously. Then we've
got Scarlet Johansson, Nikki Glazer, you know, Simone Biles, Serena Williams.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's it's your typical crew, all right, and that's coming
out soon. This report ninety three point one w POC.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Good morning. I really hope you're having a good morning,
Michael J. Bethany here. We've only got a few minutes
to spend with you, I'm sure because you're busy, but
wanted to drop in and let you know what the
feedback has been on this story.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We're telling you. You know, the women went up into
outer space.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, I think it was cool from the standpoint of
here are six women, you know, going up in space.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That part is cool, got it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But it is a little bit like a ride at
you know, at an amusement park.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Literally.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Somebody said, Hi, it was a very expensive carnival ride, right, Yeah.
And then somebody else said it's no different than a
bunch of laps on a NASCAR track, which I guess
I always did think was sort of gluttonis like all
the wasting, the tires and the gas and the you know,
that kind of thing. But it's for the good of sports,
so it's okay. Someone said, I think it's both gluttonois
(05:32):
and kind of cool. Definitely, they are not astronauts. They
are space tourists at best. But I think it's really funny.
Somebody said, I have lost like my sense of care
about how celebrities spend their money.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Imagine for a second, though you're a John Glenn or
you're you know, someone who stepped on the moon, and you.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Look at this and go astronauts.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The Michael J. Morning Show on ninety three point ONEPOC.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
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Love bringing back the country Memories here at ninety three
point one WPOC Michael J and Bethany And we have
noticed there was a lot of how do I put it,
(06:25):
just upset people after that spaceflight the other day six
women astronauts and being called astronauts even irritated some people
because they're saying that it was nothing more than a
publicity stunt because they were only in out of space
for three minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They weren't in outer space. Though that's three minutes, then
that's three minutes more than all.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Of us, right, So like I think it was eleven
minutes all together three or four minutes they floated around
in the spacecraft. Well, Gail King, who was probably the
most outside spoken person of this six people on the flight,
she has addressed the controversy and the criticism and she says,
(07:09):
I wish people would do more due diligence. And then
my question is she says, have y'all been to space,
Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see
what they do and then come back and say this
is a terrible thing. Well, people commented like, oh, that
(07:29):
thing is belching CO two or carbon.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know, they're saying it's gluttonous, Like, right, we should
be spending that money in other places. Blah blah blah.
I go back and forth on this because they're not
wrong about all that. But also, I'm Jeff Bezos arguably
does spend money in lots of other areas, right, So, like,
I don't know, I think the innovation in this whatever innovation, science, hope,
(07:58):
all that stuff that the space exploration kind of right,
I don't know, But.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Don't you have to be in space more than eleven
minutes to really learn something. I mean, we've shot a
lot of rockets up. We know how to do that,
we know how to land the rockets without you know,
we know how to get people into space and out
of space.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I really don't know what we learned. I mean, we
learned that.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Katy Perry looks goofy, upside down kind of cute. You know,
she's got her She had her little playlist of what
she plans on playing a concert, and I mean, you know,
And then I was wondering, they're busy taking selfies. If
I were there, it's just me, I'd be looking out
the window the entire time, because you only get eleven minutes, right,
and you want to it's like wow, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I get that bar.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But they they're busy like doing you know, selfies inside
social media exactly. I mean, you would think that you'd
be more mesmerized just by the window.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know, what do I know? I would love
to hear what y'all are thinking. Seven seven nine six two.
Begin your message with hi or hey call us eight
hundred and three to two thirty six ninety three. Do
you care about this at all? Do were you inspired?
Are you annoyed? Let us know?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Gail King says, you never see a man, a male
astronaut going up into space and saying, oh, he just
took a ride.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
See, I don't think it's about men or women.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
William Shatner went up and he looked like a goofball too.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's right, Yeah, it's true. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I don't really know what we learned about the car.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
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Speaker 3 (09:40):
Now I'm taking personal offense to this story.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Okay, the story about Jim Palmer saying that he's never
in his entire life had.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
A chicken wing. That's insane. Well, he's never eaten them.
I grew up in like just sell the Buffalo. Chicken
wings were at every meal.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I feel Jim Palmer has never eating a chicken wing
or fried chicken. He says he eats chicken breast, but
he takes the fried skin off.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay, Anyway, he says, if.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The Orioles hit a grand Slam, I'll make sure I
eat a chicken wing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
If they do it tonight, I will. But Jack's the
holiday did it.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
The wing?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't know yet. We got to check back on that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I feel like I feel like what he said about
Jiggen wings are fighting words.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's fun, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We were just with him at Ashley Furniture last weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Jim Palmer, he said he's never had a chicken wing
in seventy nine years. A late, Well, he's very worried
about health. So maybe he didn't eat the fry. Who knows. Hey,
we want to wrap up our story.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
We talked about last half hour, all about the six
women who went up on the Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
space flight. I think this sums it all up from
the tax and we got a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
This is Joe doesn't pay my mortgage, so I don't
give a rip what rich people do in space A man, Joe,
all right, Joe, Joe put.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
A cherry on top that ice cream. Thank you, Joe,
We appreciate you. And they're going to get a new
stadium in DC.
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okay and for the commanders and the City of Washington,
d C building a new.
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Eric Church is involved in a new housing development project,
very nice Blue Haven in Newland, North Carolina, part of
the region's relief efforts after Hurricane Heleen.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So he was there along with the governor. He's been
really helpful in that recovery.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Putting a lot of money. I think he put his
own million dollars into it. And Toby Keith's son, Steven Covell.
You know Toby Keith's real last name was it was
Toby Keith Cavell. Anyway, his son Stealen and his wife
Haley announced on Instagram they're expecting a baby.
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Isn't that sweet? I know Toby would have been very,
very proud.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
So BW Parkway North.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I sort of I feel like I'll open a package
and I'll be like, hmmm, is it am I getting bigger?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Or is this getting smaller?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I understand, you know, I know I love Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I call it Dunkin Donuts. I know it's Duncan.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I'll never be able to kick that habit, right, but
it's dunk So I'm at Duncan with my wife the
other day and I'm like, look at those donuts. They
I mean, some of the big ones are still the same,
but the little like the the the glazed.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. Is it just maybe I'm imagining it? I don't know. Yeah,
I guarantee you though.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I would put my paycheck on McDonald's hamburgers. Have they've
they're shrinking? Open that bun up and look at that burger.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, no, you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And they're even doing it with like beauty products and
like soap and stuff like that, like laundry detergent.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's shrink flation and they're like it's.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Real cereal, they're shrinking. I just look this up here.
Bethany cocoa pebbles now comes in the nineteen point five
ounce box, down from twenty point five.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's even price right, that's it's not too much, but.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's enough that that just doesn't look the same.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Did you know that toilet paper, for example.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Sharman's Ultrasoft toilet paper used to have two hundred and
sixty four double ply sheets per role. Two hundred and
forty four now okay, and I thought I was wasting
the TPP too much. And it's already down to the
little roller.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Have you guys noticed seven seven ninety six two begin
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Speaker 4 (16:11):
What has shrunk and what are you doing about it? Well,
my tidy whities have gotten tighter.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I don't wear it tighty whities, but but everything's getting
tighter or smaller.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I should say, yeah, and I'm our dollar doesn't go
as far. What are you doing to combat that? What's
your unhinged money saving tip?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Give it to us. Yeah, we would love to hear
about it.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But I mean I was thinking about the shampoo specifically,
when it comes to the end of the shampoo bottle,
I like, add a little water so I can get
one more, one more.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Just a little bit out. Or did you know that you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Can put your hand cream in the microwave for a
few seconds and get the rest out of the bottle.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Really, I don't. That's unhinged. See what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Got it? Yeah, So if you're unhinged, we want to
hear from you. Just trust me. We're unhinged.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
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Bethany talking about shrink flation this.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Morning, everything shrinking And I agree with you on Duncan
you can't even buy a five pounds tint of sugar anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's four pounds.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I mean, everything's shrinking.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
The only good part about this I've come up with.
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You know, you go to the grocery store and I'm forgetful.
I don't always have my bags with me, So I'm right,
I'm thankful that I can carry a little lighter load
of laundry soap.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And you know they're really big. But I mean we're.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Paying the same prices or more right, everything is shrinking.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I told my wife that everything is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Shrinking more like I said, I think the only thing
we can do.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
About it is pay more for it. Is there anything
that you've stopped buying because it's it's gotten like too small?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I can't honestly say I have.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
There's nothing that I can think of right off the hid,
you know, off the bat.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yeah, I see, I think they know that we're
not where along the line there is.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah. Yeah, but what you're telling us is everything you're
buying you need. I mean, if you've got to buy
things you need, you gotta pay for it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's whether they're shrinking in right. Yeah, it's not there
exactly well, thanks.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
For calling it more often at a higher price, so
they're getting a lot more money out of you.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, thank you very much for calling morning. What do
you want to say?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
So one I'm my.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Saving tips is fruit.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Fresh fruit.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Once it's starting to go a little bad, I cut
them up and put them in the freezer for like
smoothies or milkshakes.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh, that's a.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Good idea instead of letting it waste, chop it up
and put in the freezer.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Banana, Yeah, bananas.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You never know when your children are going to eat
the bananas that week, so I try to kind of
put them in the spy up, kill them the.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Bananas, and then I cut them up a little bit
and just so I'm gonna sip let freeze the bags.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
All right, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
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We had a pretty serious situation on two ninety five
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J. Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm ninety three point one wpo C now Trudy.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Now, retailers are using the tariff situation to try to
drive sales.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm seeing that already on signs. I was driving on
York Road yesterday. Huh, Watson's you sell like patio furniture.
They have a sign up that says pre tariff pricing,
so get a deal now before the tariff's go into
a fact Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And like some of the major Chinese retailers that you know,
people show timu she and they're saying order by May second,
or we're raising prices one hundred and forty five percent,
so they even put like a deadline wow to like
drive you know.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'm like, I mean, on one hand, at least they're
giving us a heads up.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, I guess.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Because but what's gonna happen when everything costs like like
one hundred and forty five here's that more.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm worried about that.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
And listen to this Governor Hogan, of course he was
the governor. Now Governor Moore's in the House. But Governor
Hogan writes on Facebook and he's upset. It sounds like,
he says, the new five dollars tax on tires is
a good example of a state government perpetually on the
hunt for creative ways to raise revenue.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I didn't know anything about this tire tax. So here's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Maryland has introduced a new five dollar fee on each
tire purchased, aiming at generating revenue for transportation projects. It's
expected to go into effect July one, twenty six, so
a year from now. But a five dollar fee, along
with other feet increases, is expected.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
To raise twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So maybe you need to make sure you buy your
tires before next July twenty, twenty twenty six. Oh god, Okay,
that's what's gonna be twenty bucks for a motorist, you know,
in a car.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
There are so many cash grabs like that though.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, everywhere you turn around, you with the emissions test,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Seriously, you're gonna plug that in? What plug it in?
Underneath the steering wheel and then you'll be behind a truck.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That's just baling black guess is just coming into the sky,
and I'm like that, I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Had an emissions test on it exactly. Yeah, what up
with that?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
H Okay anyway, not that that was no IB obviously
harboring some emission to anger. Okay, So the BW Parkway's
outbound between one hundred and one seventy five is stop
and go. There's an accident in BW Parkways southbound between
thirty two and one ninety eight, and we're slow already
before the Harbor tunney.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This report I keep us in the loop of entertainment
and pop culture and the things we shouldn't care about.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But somehow we really knew.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
That's an abrey.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
On ninety three point one, w poc.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Loan's going to star in and an executive produce a
Hulu upcoming drama series, Count My Lies.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh yeah, I know, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Then Nate Bergatzi's going to host the seventy seventh Emmy
Awards on CBS. I don't know if he's a good
host because he's so dry.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think he's a great comedian and he's family friendly.
He doesn't drop any f bombs and he's funny. He's
really so slow.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Though I'm a fan.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I mean, I'm a fan too, I just don't I
always think it's interesting how they just feel like everybody
can host things. Yeah, like there's a there's an art
to hosting, you know what I mean. Best kept secret
at Dollar General is the penny list. This is trending,
so I guess sometimes a Dollar General, when they want
to clearance stuff, they make it, they take it down
to a penny, right, and then the associates are supposed
(03:52):
to pull it from shelves, okay, but they're so understaffed
right now that they're not pulling it.
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So sometimes you can find penny deals.
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And lastly, the time one hundred lists of the most
influential people in the world came out, they're gonna have
a gala at.
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The end of the month.
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Snoop Dogg's gonna host and perform, of course, and he's
got a new gospel album coming out. So we're so
some of the names on the list from the world
of politics, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, RFK obviously. Then we've
got Scarlet Johansson, Nikki Glazer, you know, Simone Biles, Serena Williams.
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Good morning. I really hope you're having a good morning,
Michael J. Bethany here. We've only got a few minutes
to spend with you, I'm sure because you're busy, but
wanted to drop in and let you know what the
feedback has been on this story.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We're telling you. You know, the women went up into
outer space.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, I think it was cool from the standpoint of
here are six women, you know, going up in space.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That part is cool, got it.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But it is a little bit like a ride at
you know, at an amusement park.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Literally.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Somebody said, Hi, it was a very expensive carnival ride, right, Yeah.
And then somebody else said it's no different than a
bunch of laps on a NASCAR track, which I guess
I always did think was sort of gluttonis like all
the wasting, the tires and the gas and the you know,
that kind of thing. But it's for the good of sports,
so it's okay. Someone said, I think it's both gluttonois
(05:32):
and kind of cool. Definitely, they are not astronauts. They
are space tourists at best. But I think it's really funny.
Somebody said, I have lost like my sense of care
about how celebrities spend their money.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Imagine for a second, though you're a John Glenn or
you're you know, someone who stepped on the moon, and you.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Look at this and go astronauts.
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Love bringing back the country Memories here at ninety three
point one WPOC Michael J and Bethany And we have
noticed there was a lot of how do I put it,
(06:25):
just upset people after that spaceflight the other day six
women astronauts and being called astronauts even irritated some people
because they're saying that it was nothing more than a
publicity stunt because they were only in out of space
for three minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
They weren't in outer space. Though that's three minutes, then
that's three minutes more than all.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Of us, right, So like I think it was eleven
minutes all together three or four minutes they floated around
in the spacecraft. Well, Gail King, who was probably the
most outside spoken person of this six people on the flight,
she has addressed the controversy and the criticism and she says,
(07:09):
I wish people would do more due diligence. And then
my question is she says, have y'all been to space,
Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see
what they do and then come back and say this
is a terrible thing. Well, people commented like, oh, that
(07:29):
thing is belching CO two or carbon.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You know, they're saying it's gluttonous, Like, right, we should
be spending that money in other places. Blah blah blah.
I go back and forth on this because they're not
wrong about all that. But also, I'm Jeff Bezos arguably
does spend money in lots of other areas, right, So, like,
I don't know, I think the innovation in this whatever innovation, science, hope,
(07:58):
all that stuff that the space exploration kind of right,
I don't know, But.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Don't you have to be in space more than eleven
minutes to really learn something. I mean, we've shot a
lot of rockets up. We know how to do that,
we know how to land the rockets without you know,
we know how to get people into space and out
of space.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I really don't know what we learned. I mean, we
learned that.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Katy Perry looks goofy, upside down kind of cute. You know,
she's got her She had her little playlist of what
she plans on playing a concert, and I mean, you know,
And then I was wondering, they're busy taking selfies. If
I were there, it's just me, I'd be looking out
the window the entire time, because you only get eleven minutes, right,
and you want to it's like wow, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I get that bar.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But they they're busy like doing you know, selfies inside
social media exactly. I mean, you would think that you'd
be more mesmerized just by the window.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know, what do I know? I would love
to hear what y'all are thinking. Seven seven nine six two.
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Speaker 4 (09:09):
Gail King says, you never see a man, a male
astronaut going up into space and saying, oh, he just
took a ride.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
See, I don't think it's about men or women.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
William Shatner went up and he looked like a goofball too.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's right, Yeah, it's true. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I don't really know what we learned about the car.
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Now I'm taking personal offense to this story.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Okay, the story about Jim Palmer saying that he's never
in his entire life had.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
A chicken wing. That's insane. Well, he's never eaten them.
I grew up in like just sell the Buffalo. Chicken
wings were at every meal.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I feel Jim Palmer has never eating a chicken wing
or fried chicken. He says he eats chicken breast, but
he takes the fried skin off.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay, Anyway, he says, if.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
The Orioles hit a grand Slam, I'll make sure I
eat a chicken wing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
If they do it tonight, I will. But Jack's the
holiday did it.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
The wing?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't know yet. We got to check back on that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I feel like I feel like what he said about
Jiggen wings are fighting words.
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It's fun, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We were just with him at Ashley Furniture last weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Jim Palmer, he said he's never had a chicken wing
in seventy nine years. A late, Well, he's very worried
about health. So maybe he didn't eat the fry. Who knows. Hey,
we want to wrap up our story.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
We talked about last half hour, all about the six
women who went up on the Blue Origin Jeff Bezos
space flight. I think this sums it all up from
the tax and we got a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
This is Joe doesn't pay my mortgage, so I don't
give a rip what rich people do in space A man, Joe,
all right, Joe, Joe put.
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A cherry on top that ice cream. Thank you, Joe,
We appreciate you. And they're going to get a new
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When do you consider early thirties versus mid thirties?
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Mid is like five?
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thirty four?
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Michael Jay's Music City minute in sixty seconds. You don't
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Thomas Rhett fans gray hair because he's supposed to be
at our iHeart Country Festival, which you could win the
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Eric Church is involved in a new housing development project,
very nice Blue Haven in Newland, North Carolina, part of
the region's relief efforts after Hurricane Heleen.
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So he was there along with the governor. He's been
really helpful in that recovery.
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Putting a lot of money. I think he put his
own million dollars into it. And Toby Keith's son, Steven Covell.
You know Toby Keith's real last name was it was
Toby Keith Cavell. Anyway, his son Stealen and his wife
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I sort of I feel like I'll open a package
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Or is this getting smaller?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I understand, you know, I know I love Dunkin Donuts.
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I call it Dunkin Donuts. I know it's Duncan.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I'll never be able to kick that habit, right, but
it's dunk So I'm at Duncan with my wife the
other day and I'm like, look at those donuts. They
I mean, some of the big ones are still the same,
but the little like the the the glazed.
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Yeah. Is it just maybe I'm imagining it? I don't know. Yeah,
I guarantee you though.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I would put my paycheck on McDonald's hamburgers. Have they've
they're shrinking? Open that bun up and look at that burger.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, no, you're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And they're even doing it with like beauty products and
like soap and stuff like that, like laundry detergent.
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It's shrink flation and they're like it's.
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Real cereal, they're shrinking. I just look this up here.
Bethany cocoa pebbles now comes in the nineteen point five
ounce box, down from twenty point five.
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It's even price right, that's it's not too much, but.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's enough that that just doesn't look the same.
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Did you know that toilet paper, for example.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Sharman's Ultrasoft toilet paper used to have two hundred and
sixty four double ply sheets per role. Two hundred and
forty four now okay, and I thought I was wasting
the TPP too much. And it's already down to the
little roller.
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What has shrunk and what are you doing about it? Well,
my tidy whities have gotten tighter.
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Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I don't wear it tighty whities, but but everything's getting
tighter or smaller.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I should say, yeah, and I'm our dollar doesn't go
as far. What are you doing to combat that? What's
your unhinged money saving tip?
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Give it to us. Yeah, we would love to hear
about it.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
But I mean I was thinking about the shampoo specifically,
when it comes to the end of the shampoo bottle,
I like, add a little water so I can get
one more, one more.
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Just a little bit out. Or did you know that you.
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Can put your hand cream in the microwave for a
few seconds and get the rest out of the bottle.
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Oh?
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Really, I don't. That's unhinged. See what I'm saying?
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All right?
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Morning, everything shrinking And I agree with you on Duncan
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It's four pounds.
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I mean, everything's shrinking.
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Now.
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The only good part about this I've come up with.
Listen to this.
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You know, you go to the grocery store and I'm forgetful.
I don't always have my bags with me, So I'm right,
I'm thankful that I can carry a little lighter load
of laundry soap.
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And you know they're really big. But I mean we're.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Paying the same prices or more right, everything is shrinking.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I told my wife that everything is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Shrinking more like I said, I think the only thing
we can do.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
About it is pay more for it. Is there anything
that you've stopped buying because it's it's gotten like too small?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I can't honestly say I have.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
There's nothing that I can think of right off the hid,
you know, off the bat.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yeah, I see, I think they know that we're
not where along the line there is.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah. Yeah, but what you're telling us is everything you're
buying you need. I mean, if you've got to buy
things you need, you gotta pay for it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's whether they're shrinking in right. Yeah, it's not there
exactly well, thanks.
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For calling it more often at a higher price, so
they're getting a lot more money out of you.
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Yeah, thank you very much for calling morning. What do
you want to say?
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Saving tips is fruit.
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Fresh fruit.
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Once it's starting to go a little bad, I cut
them up and put them in the freezer for like
smoothies or milkshakes.
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Oh, that's a.
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Good idea instead of letting it waste, chop it up
and put in the freezer.
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Banana, Yeah, bananas.
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You never know when your children are going to eat
the bananas that week, so I try to kind of
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Bananas, and then I cut them up a little bit
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