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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 (00:06):
All gonna be allround, I'm okay, ninety three point one
w p C.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Now, well, they are sighting uncertainty in the.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Economy, talking about Southwest Airlines and all their airlines such
as Delta and United all cutting back on the number
of flights that they'll be providing for the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Second half of the Baltimore is the hub for Southwest, so.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I know this is a little stressful, guys, But I
guess they're saying that many people are opting to pause
their vacations because.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They have no idea what's going on with the economy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right, I could just drive. I'm planning for the
summer too. I'm like, you know, maybe the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, I want tank trip. I always wanted to take
a trip up north to New England. Oh yeah, hello Vermont.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I've never seen Maine before. I don't know, so who
knows if you're gonna fly or not. But check your flights.
The other big cutback FDA has laid off a lot
of people, and so I understand they're cutting milk testing.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, are they not going to test milk?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, they're trying to push it onto the States to
do their own milk testing.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, listen as lactose intolerant as I am, I could
just sniff it and tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Twenty thousand jobs were cut from the Department of Health
and Human Services. Of course, whyn't tell anybody around here
that a lot of people work for the FDA or
don't anymore, so to speak. They also suspended an existing
and developing program that helps test for bird flu in
parasites in food products.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So we don't need that either. I guess I don't know.
I guess the States are supposed to.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Okay, and Musk's car company, Tesla, reported a seventy one
percent decline in quarterly profits. I feel bad for Tesla
owners like Lindsay and Kadeem Franklin of Baltimore. They say
all perceptions have changed. They say when they first got
their Tesla, people would give them my thumbs up, Oh yeah,
you're saving the environment. Right now they're using another finger.
(02:08):
So I was just kind of curious, let's throw it
out there. If you're a Tesla owner, how are you
feeling about things? And is it tough having that car?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Now? Are people mean to you?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Seven seven nine six two.
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You can tell us texts seven seven nine six two
or call eight hundred and three to two one thirty
six ninety.
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Three, ninety three point one w POC traffic.
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The interloop between Harford Road and bel Air Road is
closed due to an earlier accident.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Ninety three point one w POC Michael, Jane, Bethanie Who
what's life like in a tesla these days?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Doesn't look like it's too great.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Richard says, I own the tesla and at least two
people will speedby chanting alone fucks.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Until they're about thirty feet ahead. In that that's not fun.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Somebody I owned a Tesla, I loved it, sold it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now I have a truck and it's worth it, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
The somebody else and the only people who wanted tesla
are those who never got a power wheel as a child.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
All I keep us in the loop of entertainment and
pop culture and the things we shouldn't care about, but
somehow we really do.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
As breath on ninety three point one w POC.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The first trailer for the second season of Wednesday on
Netflix starring Jenna Ortega has been released and people are
very excited. I was sad to see that Fortune femster
is separating from her wife, Jack's divorce filing is looming.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
If you watch.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Netflix shows and content on Peacock, you're gonna have to
shift over to Hallmark Plus.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I said Netflix, I'm at Hallmark.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, when calls the Heart, Hallmark Movies, et cetera, et cetera,
They're not gonna be available on Peacock anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You're gonna have to get Homwark. Okay to me more.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Probably didn't have Being It Girl on her twenty twenty
five Bingo card, but here she is. The sixty two
year old is on the cover of People's World's Most
Beautiful People twenty twenty five issue available now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I've loved her since Saint Elmo's Fire.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, she's still stunning, gorgeous. Little Caesars has a new creation.
It is not Pizza What. It's a reality competition what
called Pizza Crust Island. You can watch it on YouTube.
Fans can vote four episodes so far. HBO has a
new two part documentary about actor comedian Paul Rubens.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Pee Wee himself, right, peee Herman in his own.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Words before he died in twenty twenty three, HBO is
going to have it on May twenty third. And lastly,
have you heard of Dubai chocolate. No, it's the new
viral food. It's going wild. But Costco is gonna do
one better. What they've got ice cream sandwich with Dubai
ice like ice cream bars, ice cream, the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You can get it only at Costco. Ant's Club.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I gotta, I guess, I gotta go to hell Alwy's
Malls ninety three point one w POC traffic alrighty ninety
three point one w POC Michael, Jay and Bethany. Brandy
is running late for work. But do you have a
hot second for the hot seat?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brandy?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I do all right, okay, Brandy, She's she's in for
Luke Bryant tickets.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
She wants those three questions three seconds to answer.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Each question is yes, you gotta be, you gotta be,
you gotta be fast, all right, Brandy? Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Question number one, what is really expensive but definitely still
worth it?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
It's really how wow true?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That is a good answer. Question number two, in the
words of the Great chapel.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Roone, Are you a giver?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My god?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She took too long to answer the time alone. I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Get to work quickly, our lyd it was nice, nice
three seconds.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You gotta be in it to win it. Who is this?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Raise your right hand, repeat after me. I promise to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Bethany, there you go.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You got three seconds or you're gonna hear the same thing,
so make sure you respond quickly.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Are your questions for Luke Bryan? Tickets?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Damn? What is one thing that's really expensive but so
worth it?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You'll still buy it?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Man?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Ticket?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Amen? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Question question number two, in the words of the Great
chapel roone, are you a giver?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah? She's getting a song called Giver? Are you a giver?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh man?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
All right, yeah, you'll be a giver? Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Last question, be honest with this one. Have you ever
had a naughty dream about your boss?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No, he said, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I gotta tell you. It's like I don't normally go there,
and you don't either, right?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oka, All right, Well here's where you're going. You're going
to see Luke Brian in concert? Sam, Oh sweet, Yes,
ninety three point one POC Traffic.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Sam's a giver.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Hey Sam, who are you taking to the show to
see Luke Bryan? Oh yeah, I Oh that's a smart move,
all right. The Summer Time roback Thursday, Give me a
Ellen Jackson for Ken.
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And Cockysville Michael J and Bethany ninety three point one
w p o C. Now little follow up on our
story from the other day.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We were talking about the top ten super speeders on
you know, for the cameras Baltimore City. They the top
ten people owe eighty one thousand dollars plus and most
of them are from Virginia.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Six out of ten plates the most caught on camera
speeders Virginia drivers. And the reason because they don't pay
the tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They don't got a word. There's no consequence.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But Mayor Brandon Scott says, no more, Brandon brand He's
gonna go after specifically Virginia drivers. I love that that's
the new directive, which I like.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I think he.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Should go after anybody who's got There's one Maryland driver
who had fifty six tickets with the same camera. They
just like they're basically flipping the bird at the camera
and they're like, we're not slowing down. And you know what,
that endangers all of everybody else, and it makes all
of our insurance higher because they're going to cause accidents
and we're gonna have the bay for and it enrages
(09:01):
my sense of justice. Yeah, I one hundred percent agree
with you. So that is going on the other big news.
How many people know about Sunset Cove. Oh, I've been
Have you been there? What a beautiful place it was.
It was Middle River's original beach bar. It's open for
lake at least I don't know, I want to say,
(09:21):
like thirteen or fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, it seems like a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well anyway, the co owners, David Steele and his late
brother Scott, had this place that they opened up back. Yeah,
it was in twenty twelve on Frog Mortar Creek. Well,
they announced on Facebook they're closed. They're done, They're out
of business, And that's really a sad thing this time
of year. There were so many great memories at Sunset Cove.
(09:46):
I just got a note here, this one from Doug.
He says, Sunset Cove crazy Tuna, mcfall's oyster and real
Just to name three local waterfront restaurants to close in
the last year. Maryland economy cannot afford uh to support
all these restaurants. Look for more to follow. Well, we
got to do something about that. We got a shop
(10:08):
and and dine local, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I think so? And do what we can. But if
you have a favorite place, make sure that you're.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, I'm supporting we miss on Zuchove already. Support is
sponsored by Irian.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Good for you, you better get.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Get Every time Carrie Underwood sings, I feel like she's
looking right at me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is she singing to me? Is she No? I think
you need therapy because in sixty seconds, you know, like
you own music.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Grow.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Oh can I just congratulate real quick here? We've had
so much going on the last few minutes. Sherry from
from Reiser's Town.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Okay, Sherry, wait to start your morning. Huh So who
is this?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
My name is Sherry?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Have you ever gone to a concert at Pier six Pavilion? Sherry,
I have a little while? Yeah, well you know how
much fun it is?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Then it is as yeah, Zider's Peer six Pavilion May
first Thanks to Live Nation, she is hooked up Michael
j and Bethany here. You know who else has gotten
hooked up this week? I mean, and he was already
kind of hooked. Tim McGraw, Okay, only this time it's
not with Faith Hill. He's working with Parker McCollum. This
(11:19):
song apparently he's got everybody in Nashville talking. So I
wanted to play a couple of seconds and give it
a listen. I haven't heard it yet. This is a
little bit of paper umbrellas with Parker McCollum. Tim McGraw,
it's gonna say, lotta be a colttas.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You're called to drink him.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Longer.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You can get a sound stronger something where and you
have to ta quite like, what do you think that's sure?
It's definitely Tim.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I love that all right. Anyway, that's the big new
country song coming out of Nashville this week.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mate.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Kelly Clarkson's forty third birthday Today, Wow BA birthday Kelly
Clarkson and news on Now the American Music Awards. There's
another award show coming up.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
AMAS.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
The AMAS have announced Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, and Zach
Bryan are nominated for the All Genre Artists of the
Year for the twenty twenty five American Music Awards, airing
May twenty six on CBS.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Ninety three point one WPOC. Traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, so it looks like our roughest spot out
there right now is a ninety five southbound between Hanover
Street and three ninety five. There's a medical emergency. The
left lane is block. Things are stop and go back
to eight ninety five. Eight ninety five southbound between Moravia
Road and the Harbor Tunnel is backed up too, though
you might be sitting there for about ten minutes. And
there's an excellent eight ninety five northbound at frank First
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Avenue causing stop and go traffic back to Maryland Route too.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Listen on the twenties Inner the Nationwide keyword at w.
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P ninety three point one w POC, Michael J and
Bethany were truly worldwide with the iHeartRadio app even north
of India, in the country of Nepal. That's where it is,
Bethany on the map, you could picture it. It's almost
(13:30):
eight thousand miles away. And by some magic of satellites,
we have Len Forcas on the line as he's getting
ready to climb Mount Everest in Nepal.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Mount Everest base Camp. Yep, just here with my son.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
We just corrected eight days for seven days to get here,
and yeah, we're getting ready to train to claim on
Everest Utilee mid mid May.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So, so how hard was the trek to get to
base camp?
Speaker 8 (13:58):
You know, you started about eight thousand and feet of
bo sea level and you move slowly two thousand feet.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
A day and now we're at seventeen five hundred feet.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
So there's a lot of acclimatization going up at high
and of course you're checking and carrying a pack and
so forth.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But we got here. We're pretty tired, I guess.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, tell us what life is like at the camp, Like,
what do you do all day? What's going on? Base
camp is?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Actually, he's not a moving it's not a glacier. Base camp.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
To the end of base camp is over a mile
and there's over twenty five hundred people here supporting five
hundred climbers. Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Well, of course I've been training since June, you know,
to prepare for this for me.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, but it's the reason that he's doing this is
to raise money for Hope Cam, which is this whole
charity that you set up because your son went through
a battle, a health battle, and while he was separated
from his classmates, Land came up with the idea of
having a video connection.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is back in the day before they had you know,
before we had zoom and everything. And so, Len, you're
trying to raise a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, well, we're over halfway on the fundraising. We've got
a lot of sponsors.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
We've got their logos down on my jacket that I'll
use when I summit. Corporations and individuals that really love
the mission and out the outcomes that we create when
we help these kids. And so yeah, but we're not
there yet, and you know, we need to spread the
word and to kind of you know, helping kids with
cancer feel less lonely is something that moves you, right
(15:29):
and you know, hope can't create those outcomes.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This they do every year, Bethany, sixteen thousand children in
the US are diagnosed with cancer, and many of them
phase six to nine months, you know, missing school while
they're undergoing treatment. So hopekam dot org is where you
can go and find out more about this. We're gonna
we are hooked up around the world at this very
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moment to a country called Nepal.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That is where Mount Everest, tallest mountain.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's insane, and.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Len Forcas from Northern Virginia is climbing it right now.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He's at Base Camp. Len. Come in.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll be climbing, you know, up the mountain a couple
of times to you know, get my body ready for
eventually when we can summit, which will be in mid May.
So it's a lot of very you know, very deliberate
acclimatization that you have to do to prepare your body
so that you can succeed.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Now, what happens if God forbid, there's some sort of
an accident or you like, because I've never done anything
that I didn't end up needing medical attention. So so
if you needed like a doctor or something, is there
a hospital someplace closed?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Well, I'll tell you exactly what happened. Two years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I was here for five weeks acclimatizing training and we
went for the summit.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And when I got to camp too, which is about twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Two thousand feet above sea level, I developed it's called
a pulmonary edema, and it's when you're lung stilled with fluid.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Oh, there's kind of like high altitude pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I had about thirty six hours to get down from
that elevation and the only way I could have made
it was on a helicopter drowning and the helicopters only
fly when the weather's clear, and it was snowing all day. Unfortunately,
the snow stopped and at five o'clock they the helicopter
came up and got me and uh flew me directly
to a hospital in a town called Lukla, which is
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about sixty miles away, right, and uh, and I.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Was ok after that. So, yeah, this hilicopter pretty much.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah, I was pretty terrified because I had thirty six
hours before you know, I wouldn't be breathing anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
And so I was very lucky that that the weather
cooperated and then the helicopter pilot was able to get
me down.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
So now, when you fail, you learn and you look
at everything that you did that caused you to fail,
and you you you work on those problems, and so
sometimes failure is a great tea shirt.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, right, I think you're very inspiring.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
You are you have time.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I climbed the highest mountain on six of the seven continent.
This will be number seven. I'm sixty five years old
and I'll be the fifth person to accomplish that goal.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Can you believe that he will be the fifth oldest
ever to climb all seven peaks of impressive seven continents.
If you go to Hope cam dot org, you can
follow along with Len Forcas.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I can take the ring.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Ninety three point one w POC Michael j and Bethany
and we got a connection around the world. I'm amazed
at this. Let's go back with Len Forcas from Mount Everest.
Do you leave anything behind or like put your mark
like I liked these places?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I would want to like p or something. You know,
Len would never he would never.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Well, what I do is, you know we've connected Hopekam's
connected thousands of kids.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
And every day that we're climbing.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
If you go to the Hope Hopekam's website, I have
a blog on this. Every day we climb, we honor
a different child with cancer.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
We tell their stories.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That's sweet, and we bring in and the messages that
these children exc inspired me.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Right, I mean we having a tough day.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Thinking with therapy or radiation, right, and and the world
needs to hear their stories as to the bravery and
what they overcome every single days they fight cancer, and
so I want to I'm sharing those stories with the
world to show.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The outcome that how Hope came, it helped them, and
so to me, it's the way of honoring over twenty
five children as I'm here moving up every day during
the course of the Eventually.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, that's awesome, that is so sweet.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Hope cam dot o RG Hope cam dot org is
where you can go to make a donation. Len is
halfway to his one million dollar goal, and you're going
to start climbing towards the summit on Mount Everest.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You said, in the beginning of May.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
And I'll go up.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I'll go up the mountain a couple times, up to
Camp two, Camp three to acclimatize and prepare my body
for altitude, right and then probably around May tenth, I'll
be ready.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
And then it's just a matter of the weather.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
You have to wait for good weather, so it could
be anywhere from May tamp to make twenty fifth.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So you said you're about seventeen thousand feet right now,
you're going to the top of Mount Everest. How high
is that?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Someone am on everest is twenty nine thousand feet.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh my gosh, so you're basically just about halfway thousand
twelve thousand thousand. Yeah, and when you'll big down when
you go up that mountain, is it sheer rock? Are
you like climbing like a wall or kind of paint
the picture of what that's like on the way up.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I just want to be able to imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Well, the first challenge you have to go through is
called the Kumbu Icefield, which is a moving glacier and
you leave at two am because it's when it's at nighttime,
it is cold and it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Doesn't it's frozen.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
You up for this, Bethany, but you have to go
for you.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Know, roughly eight hours through an environment where you cross
crevasses that are two hundred and three hundred feet deep.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Across, you go across ladder fall on one of those,
you have to go out. It's all ice. Everything is
from here to the top, you know, ice is and
but you're connected through a rope the whole time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So if you fall, you you know you won't fall
off the mountain.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Well that's good, but you have to have a lot
of skills to be able to go up vertical ice
faces across you know, twenty to thirty foot ladders across crevasses.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
And then when you get to Camp one, going to
Camp two is mostly just trekking across you know, a
long glacier with not too many crevasses. And then Camp
three you get to climb up.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
The Loncy Face, which is a vertical is very steep
and uh, and from that point on it's uh, it's
pretty steep climbing.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So all the way to the top, well listen, then
good luck on everything, and Bethany, he's going to be
at the top of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Top of the world.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean, I don't I would never do it, but
it's pretty cool. Sixty five years old, this man is
in the best shape of his life.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That's awesome. Ninety three point one
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after hours.
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All gonna be allround, I'm okay, ninety three point one
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Now, well, they are sighting uncertainty in the.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Economy, talking about Southwest Airlines and all their airlines such
as Delta and United all cutting back on the number
of flights that they'll be providing for the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Second half of the Baltimore is the hub for Southwest, so.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I know this is a little stressful, guys, But I
guess they're saying that many people are opting to pause
their vacations because.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
They have no idea what's going on with the economy.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right, I could just drive. I'm planning for the
summer too. I'm like, you know, maybe the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, I want tank trip. I always wanted to take
a trip up north to New England. Oh yeah, hello Vermont.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I've never seen Maine before. I don't know, so who
knows if you're gonna fly or not. But check your flights.
The other big cutback FDA has laid off a lot
of people, and so I understand they're cutting milk testing.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, are they not going to test milk?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, they're trying to push it onto the States to
do their own milk testing.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, listen as lactose intolerant as I am, I could
just sniff it and tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Twenty thousand jobs were cut from the Department of Health
and Human Services. Of course, whyn't tell anybody around here
that a lot of people work for the FDA or
don't anymore, so to speak. They also suspended an existing
and developing program that helps test for bird flu in
parasites in food products.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So we don't need that either. I guess I don't know.
I guess the States are supposed to.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Okay, and Musk's car company, Tesla, reported a seventy one
percent decline in quarterly profits. I feel bad for Tesla
owners like Lindsay and Kadeem Franklin of Baltimore. They say
all perceptions have changed. They say when they first got
their Tesla, people would give them my thumbs up, Oh yeah,
you're saving the environment. Right now they're using another finger.
(02:08):
So I was just kind of curious, let's throw it
out there. If you're a Tesla owner, how are you
feeling about things? And is it tough having that car?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Now? Are people mean to you?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Seven seven nine six two.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You can tell us texts seven seven nine six two
or call eight hundred and three to two one thirty
six ninety.
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Three, ninety three point one w POC traffic.
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The interloop between Harford Road and bel Air Road is
closed due to an earlier accident.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Ninety three point one w POC Michael, Jane, Bethanie Who
what's life like in a tesla these days?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Doesn't look like it's too great.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Richard says, I own the tesla and at least two
people will speedby chanting alone fucks.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Until they're about thirty feet ahead. In that that's not fun.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Somebody I owned a Tesla, I loved it, sold it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now I have a truck and it's worth it, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
The somebody else and the only people who wanted tesla
are those who never got a power wheel as a child.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
All I keep us in the loop of entertainment and
pop culture and the things we shouldn't care about, but
somehow we really do.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
As breath on ninety three point one w POC.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The first trailer for the second season of Wednesday on
Netflix starring Jenna Ortega has been released and people are
very excited. I was sad to see that Fortune femster
is separating from her wife, Jack's divorce filing is looming.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
If you watch.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Netflix shows and content on Peacock, you're gonna have to
shift over to Hallmark Plus.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I said Netflix, I'm at Hallmark.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, when calls the Heart, Hallmark Movies, et cetera, et cetera,
They're not gonna be available on Peacock anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You're gonna have to get Homwark. Okay to me more.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Probably didn't have Being It Girl on her twenty twenty
five Bingo card, but here she is. The sixty two
year old is on the cover of People's World's Most
Beautiful People twenty twenty five issue available now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I've loved her since Saint Elmo's Fire.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, she's still stunning, gorgeous. Little Caesars has a new creation.
It is not Pizza What. It's a reality competition what
called Pizza Crust Island. You can watch it on YouTube.
Fans can vote four episodes so far. HBO has a
new two part documentary about actor comedian Paul Rubens.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Pee Wee himself, right, peee Herman in his own.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Words before he died in twenty twenty three, HBO is
going to have it on May twenty third. And lastly,
have you heard of Dubai chocolate. No, it's the new
viral food. It's going wild. But Costco is gonna do
one better. What they've got ice cream sandwich with Dubai
ice like ice cream bars, ice cream, the whole deal.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You can get it only at Costco. Ant's Club.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I gotta, I guess, I gotta go to hell Alwy's
Malls ninety three point one w POC traffic alrighty ninety
three point one w POC Michael, Jay and Bethany. Brandy
is running late for work. But do you have a
hot second for the hot seat?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Brandy?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I do all right, okay, Brandy, She's she's in for
Luke Bryant tickets.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
She wants those three questions three seconds to answer.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Each question is yes, you gotta be, you gotta be,
you gotta be fast, all right, Brandy? Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Question number one, what is really expensive but definitely still
worth it?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
It's really how wow true?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That is a good answer. Question number two, in the
words of the Great chapel.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Roone, Are you a giver?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
My god?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
She took too long to answer the time alone. I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Get to work quickly, our lyd it was nice, nice
three seconds.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You gotta be in it to win it. Who is this?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Raise your right hand, repeat after me. I promise to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Bethany, there you go.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
You got three seconds or you're gonna hear the same thing,
so make sure you respond quickly.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Are your questions for Luke Bryan? Tickets?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Damn? What is one thing that's really expensive but so
worth it?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You'll still buy it?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Man?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Ticket?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Amen? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Question question number two, in the words of the Great
chapel roone, are you a giver?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah? She's getting a song called Giver? Are you a giver?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh man?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
All right, yeah, you'll be a giver? Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Last question, be honest with this one. Have you ever
had a naughty dream about your boss?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No, he said, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I gotta tell you. It's like I don't normally go there,
and you don't either, right?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Oka, All right, Well here's where you're going. You're going
to see Luke Brian in concert? Sam, Oh sweet, Yes,
ninety three point one POC Traffic.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Sam's a giver.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Hey Sam, who are you taking to the show to
see Luke Bryan? Oh yeah, I Oh that's a smart move,
all right. The Summer Time roback Thursday, Give me a
Ellen Jackson for Ken.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And Cockysville Michael J and Bethany ninety three point one
w p o C. Now little follow up on our
story from the other day.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We were talking about the top ten super speeders on
you know, for the cameras Baltimore City. They the top
ten people owe eighty one thousand dollars plus and most
of them are from Virginia.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Six out of ten plates the most caught on camera
speeders Virginia drivers. And the reason because they don't pay
the tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They don't got a word. There's no consequence.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
But Mayor Brandon Scott says, no more, Brandon brand He's
gonna go after specifically Virginia drivers. I love that that's
the new directive, which I like.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I think he.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Should go after anybody who's got There's one Maryland driver
who had fifty six tickets with the same camera. They
just like they're basically flipping the bird at the camera
and they're like, we're not slowing down. And you know what,
that endangers all of everybody else, and it makes all
of our insurance higher because they're going to cause accidents
and we're gonna have the bay for and it enrages
(09:01):
my sense of justice. Yeah, I one hundred percent agree
with you. So that is going on the other big news.
How many people know about Sunset Cove. Oh, I've been
Have you been there? What a beautiful place it was.
It was Middle River's original beach bar. It's open for
lake at least I don't know, I want to say,
(09:21):
like thirteen or fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, it seems like a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well anyway, the co owners, David Steele and his late
brother Scott, had this place that they opened up back. Yeah,
it was in twenty twelve on Frog Mortar Creek. Well,
they announced on Facebook they're closed. They're done, They're out
of business, And that's really a sad thing this time
of year. There were so many great memories at Sunset Cove.
(09:46):
I just got a note here, this one from Doug.
He says, Sunset Cove crazy Tuna, mcfall's oyster and real
Just to name three local waterfront restaurants to close in
the last year. Maryland economy cannot afford uh to support
all these restaurants. Look for more to follow. Well, we
got to do something about that. We got a shop
(10:08):
and and dine local, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I think so? And do what we can. But if
you have a favorite place, make sure that you're.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, I'm supporting we miss on Zuchove already. Support is
sponsored by Irian.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Good for you, you better get.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Get Every time Carrie Underwood sings, I feel like she's
looking right at me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Is she singing to me? Is she No? I think
you need therapy because in sixty seconds, you know, like
you own music.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Grow.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Oh can I just congratulate real quick here? We've had
so much going on the last few minutes. Sherry from
from Reiser's Town.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Okay, Sherry, wait to start your morning. Huh So who
is this?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
My name is Sherry?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Have you ever gone to a concert at Pier six Pavilion? Sherry,
I have a little while? Yeah, well you know how
much fun it is?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Then it is as yeah, Zider's Peer six Pavilion May
first Thanks to Live Nation, she is hooked up Michael
j and Bethany here. You know who else has gotten
hooked up this week? I mean, and he was already
kind of hooked. Tim McGraw, Okay, only this time it's
not with Faith Hill. He's working with Parker McCollum. This
(11:19):
song apparently he's got everybody in Nashville talking. So I
wanted to play a couple of seconds and give it
a listen. I haven't heard it yet. This is a
little bit of paper umbrellas with Parker McCollum. Tim McGraw,
it's gonna say, lotta be a colttas.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You're called to drink him.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Longer.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You can get a sound stronger something where and you
have to ta quite like, what do you think that's sure?
It's definitely Tim.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I love that all right. Anyway, that's the big new
country song coming out of Nashville this week.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mate.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Kelly Clarkson's forty third birthday Today, Wow BA birthday Kelly
Clarkson and news on Now the American Music Awards. There's
another award show coming up.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
AMAS.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
The AMAS have announced Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, and Zach
Bryan are nominated for the All Genre Artists of the
Year for the twenty twenty five American Music Awards, airing
May twenty six on CBS.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Ninety three point one WPOC. Traffic.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, so it looks like our roughest spot out
there right now is a ninety five southbound between Hanover
Street and three ninety five. There's a medical emergency. The
left lane is block. Things are stop and go back
to eight ninety five. Eight ninety five southbound between Moravia
Road and the Harbor Tunnel is backed up too, though
you might be sitting there for about ten minutes. And
there's an excellent eight ninety five northbound at frank First
(12:59):
Avenue causing stop and go traffic back to Maryland Route too.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Listen on the twenties Inner the Nationwide keyword at w.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
P ninety three point one w POC, Michael J and
Bethany were truly worldwide with the iHeartRadio app even north
of India, in the country of Nepal. That's where it is,
Bethany on the map, you could picture it. It's almost
(13:30):
eight thousand miles away. And by some magic of satellites,
we have Len Forcas on the line as he's getting
ready to climb Mount Everest in Nepal.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Mount Everest base Camp. Yep, just here with my son.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
We just corrected eight days for seven days to get here,
and yeah, we're getting ready to train to claim on
Everest Utilee mid mid May.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So, so how hard was the trek to get to
base camp?
Speaker 8 (13:58):
You know, you started about eight thousand and feet of
bo sea level and you move slowly two thousand feet.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
A day and now we're at seventeen five hundred feet.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
So there's a lot of acclimatization going up at high
and of course you're checking and carrying a pack and
so forth.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But we got here. We're pretty tired, I guess.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, tell us what life is like at the camp, Like,
what do you do all day? What's going on? Base
camp is?
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Actually, he's not a moving it's not a glacier. Base camp.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
To the end of base camp is over a mile
and there's over twenty five hundred people here supporting five
hundred climbers. Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Well, of course I've been training since June, you know,
to prepare for this for me.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, but it's the reason that he's doing this is
to raise money for Hope Cam, which is this whole
charity that you set up because your son went through
a battle, a health battle, and while he was separated
from his classmates, Land came up with the idea of
having a video connection.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is back in the day before they had you know,
before we had zoom and everything. And so, Len, you're
trying to raise a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, well, we're over halfway on the fundraising. We've got
a lot of sponsors.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
We've got their logos down on my jacket that I'll
use when I summit. Corporations and individuals that really love
the mission and out the outcomes that we create when
we help these kids. And so yeah, but we're not
there yet, and you know, we need to spread the
word and to kind of you know, helping kids with
cancer feel less lonely is something that moves you, right
(15:29):
and you know, hope can't create those outcomes.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This they do every year, Bethany, sixteen thousand children in
the US are diagnosed with cancer, and many of them
phase six to nine months, you know, missing school while
they're undergoing treatment. So hopekam dot org is where you
can go and find out more about this. We're gonna
we are hooked up around the world at this very
(15:52):
moment to a country called Nepal.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That is where Mount Everest, tallest mountain.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
That's insane, and.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Len Forcas from Northern Virginia is climbing it right now.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He's at Base Camp. Len. Come in.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I'll be climbing, you know, up the mountain a couple
of times to you know, get my body ready for
eventually when we can summit, which will be in mid May.
So it's a lot of very you know, very deliberate
acclimatization that you have to do to prepare your body
so that you can succeed.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Now, what happens if God forbid, there's some sort of
an accident or you like, because I've never done anything
that I didn't end up needing medical attention. So so
if you needed like a doctor or something, is there
a hospital someplace closed?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Well, I'll tell you exactly what happened. Two years ago.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I was here for five weeks acclimatizing training and we
went for the summit.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And when I got to camp too, which is about twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Two thousand feet above sea level, I developed it's called
a pulmonary edema, and it's when you're lung stilled with fluid.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Oh, there's kind of like high altitude pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I had about thirty six hours to get down from
that elevation and the only way I could have made
it was on a helicopter drowning and the helicopters only
fly when the weather's clear, and it was snowing all day. Unfortunately,
the snow stopped and at five o'clock they the helicopter
came up and got me and uh flew me directly
to a hospital in a town called Lukla, which is
(17:21):
about sixty miles away, right, and uh, and I.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Was ok after that. So, yeah, this hilicopter pretty much.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah, I was pretty terrified because I had thirty six
hours before you know, I wouldn't be breathing anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
And so I was very lucky that that the weather
cooperated and then the helicopter pilot was able to get
me down.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
So now, when you fail, you learn and you look
at everything that you did that caused you to fail,
and you you you work on those problems, and so
sometimes failure is a great tea shirt.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, right, I think you're very inspiring.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
You are you have time.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I climbed the highest mountain on six of the seven continent.
This will be number seven. I'm sixty five years old
and I'll be the fifth person to accomplish that goal.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Can you believe that he will be the fifth oldest
ever to climb all seven peaks of impressive seven continents.
If you go to Hope cam dot org, you can
follow along with Len Forcas.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I can take the ring.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Ninety three point one w POC Michael j and Bethany
and we got a connection around the world. I'm amazed
at this. Let's go back with Len Forcas from Mount Everest.
Do you leave anything behind or like put your mark
like I liked these places?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I would want to like p or something. You know,
Len would never he would never.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Well, what I do is, you know we've connected Hopekam's
connected thousands of kids.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
And every day that we're climbing.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
If you go to the Hope Hopekam's website, I have
a blog on this. Every day we climb, we honor
a different child with cancer.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
We tell their stories.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
That's sweet, and we bring in and the messages that
these children exc inspired me.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Right, I mean we having a tough day.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Thinking with therapy or radiation, right, and and the world
needs to hear their stories as to the bravery and
what they overcome every single days they fight cancer, and
so I want to I'm sharing those stories with the
world to show.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The outcome that how Hope came, it helped them, and
so to me, it's the way of honoring over twenty
five children as I'm here moving up every day during
the course of the Eventually.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, that's awesome, that is so sweet.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Hope cam dot o RG Hope cam dot org is
where you can go to make a donation. Len is
halfway to his one million dollar goal, and you're going
to start climbing towards the summit on Mount Everest.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You said, in the beginning of May.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
And I'll go up.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I'll go up the mountain a couple times, up to
Camp two, Camp three to acclimatize and prepare my body
for altitude, right and then probably around May tenth, I'll
be ready.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
And then it's just a matter of the weather.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
You have to wait for good weather, so it could
be anywhere from May tamp to make twenty fifth.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So you said you're about seventeen thousand feet right now,
you're going to the top of Mount Everest. How high
is that?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Someone am on everest is twenty nine thousand feet.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh my gosh, so you're basically just about halfway thousand
twelve thousand thousand. Yeah, and when you'll big down when
you go up that mountain, is it sheer rock? Are
you like climbing like a wall or kind of paint
the picture of what that's like on the way up.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I just want to be able to imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Well, the first challenge you have to go through is
called the Kumbu Icefield, which is a moving glacier and
you leave at two am because it's when it's at nighttime,
it is cold and it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Doesn't it's frozen.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
You up for this, Bethany, but you have to go
for you.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Know, roughly eight hours through an environment where you cross
crevasses that are two hundred and three hundred feet deep.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Across, you go across ladder fall on one of those,
you have to go out. It's all ice. Everything is
from here to the top, you know, ice is and
but you're connected through a rope the whole time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So if you fall, you you know you won't fall
off the mountain.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Well that's good, but you have to have a lot
of skills to be able to go up vertical ice
faces across you know, twenty to thirty foot ladders across crevasses.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
And then when you get to Camp one, going to
Camp two is mostly just trekking across you know, a
long glacier with not too many crevasses. And then Camp
three you get to climb up.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
The Loncy Face, which is a vertical is very steep
and uh, and from that point on it's uh, it's
pretty steep climbing.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So all the way to the top, well listen, then
good luck on everything, and Bethany, he's going to be
at the top of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Top of the world.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean, I don't I would never do it, but
it's pretty cool. Sixty five years old, this man is
in the best shape of his life.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That's awesome. Ninety three point one
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