The Michael J Morning Show Podcast - May 9, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
I love you and I don't want you to go
ninety three point one PC now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
After one of the shortest waits in history, the Vaticans
papal conclave chose Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a sixty nine
year old from Chicago, as our new pope yesterday, and then.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
All the TV cameras rushed to interview his brother. Yeah,
and his brother is older than him by a couple
of years, but he looks just like him. They looked
very much alike, and they had just spoken before the conclave.
Here's what he had to say.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
First, we do wordle because this is a regular thing, okay.
Then we we do words with friends.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, they're playing all kinds of games.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's something to keep the mind off life in the
real world. And then we talked about what's going on,
and I said, well, do you have your red sox?
That said gold well all the time, And then just
that kind of stuck when I said, well are you
ready for this? I said, did you watch the movie Conclass?
So we know how to behave and he had just
finished watching the Baby cackling.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So here's the thing. He was in America till twenty seven,
then he left, and he's wanted to be the Pope
his entire life. They said, Bethany, when he was a
little boy, huh that Robert, the man who's now Leo
the fourteenth would hold masks and he would use an
ironing board as his tulpit. Yeah, oh that's really cute.

(01:46):
So little baby Pope. Yeah, dreams have come true and
that is the big news. Apparently it was a surprise pick.
They didn't think that. They thought they were going to
go with a European right, but they ended up going.
And he's he's moderate and they think that he's going
to be the best they could possibly have to lead
the church. So we wish him the best of luck.
And is it inappropriate to wish the pope good luck?

(02:10):
I think he's probably gonna need it. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Ninety three point one WPOC traffic.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
All right, there's an accident on the outer leave of
BW Park with Corey Kent is his name here? On
ninety three point one WPOC. I haven't met him yet, No,
I don't know a whole lot about him, and I
feel bad. I gotta do my research this weekend to
find out what's up with him. But that's his new song.

(02:36):
We've got a lot happen in this morning, and here's
how we'd like to get things started at this moment.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
To keep us in the loop of entertainment and pop
culture and the things we shouldn't care about but somehow
we really do.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
On ninety three point one poc SO.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The sixtieth Annual ACM Awards were last night, hosted by Reeba.
Kicked off with the twelve minute Songs of the Decades,
featuring classic and contemporary tunes.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
It was really good.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Ella Langley and Landy Wilson won almost every single award,
so congratulations of them. Brooks and Dunn. When their seventeenth
Due of the Year trophy Old Dominion won their ninth
Group of the Year trophy, they did a beautiful Alan
Jackson tribute.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
It was really lovely. Lifetime Achievement Award. Did you notice
what was missing in the award show? Not a single commercial,
No commercials Oh stream the whole thing. Love that. Yeah,
so they're going to show it over and over. Love that.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh you know how Kelly Clarkson's been having some issues
and she's talking about leaving her show. They're talking about
hoe to Coppy as her replacement. Oh and speaking of replacement,
I love I love that President Trump thinks about me
because he always picks somebody from the entertainment world to
put into the cabinet, so I can I can tie

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it all in.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, that's kind of him, you know what. And if
I was going to pick anybody at a cabinet, I
would pick you. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
He's chosen Janine Piro to be the interim US Attorney
for Washington. Background, so you will remember her from Fox News.
She was a host there for quite a while. Okay, okay,
So Shia la buff revealed recently that he once was
homeless and lived in New York City Central Park.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Isn't that interesting when you see someone the amount of
celebrities they go from the there is so poor that
they have no money in their pocket, and then they
get that one job and then their whole life changes
like that happens so frequently, so I think that's really interesting.
And then lastly, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, says he plans

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to give away two hundred billion dollars. He doesn't care,
he doesn't need it. Well, you can't take it with you,
That's what he said. He actually has a committee of
men that are trying to give their money away, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Like, yeah, give it here. Ninety three point one w POC.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
So at midnight last night, Morgan Walland dropped Superman and
we want to be the first to give it to you.
At WPOC dot com you can listen to the entire song.
But for anybody you can't get to a computer right
now or doesn't want to mess with their phone because
you know, I mean they're driving. You know we don't

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and we don't want you messing with your phone if
you're driving. This clip is for you today.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
But you know.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Probably I do the best I can. Superman still just
a rains time sometime.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Morgan Walling's Superman. It's all about his boy. Wait, disc co.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Work gonna fine sway down. You'll bay long night the
bulls geek Colster and you'll be the lawn air on
a straight right.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
If I play anymore right now, I think they're gonna
come in here and put me in handcuffs. So you
know there's some rules you can't break Bethany. I know
you know. So here's the deal. You can hear the
entire song at WPOC dot com when you click on
the Michael j Morning Show page and follow Michael Jy
and Bethany on Instagram so you don't miss anything. Commulus

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and caught herself somewhere wind. I haven't heard a word
head best Tim McGrath song ever right there? Oh you
think so? I think it is. Oh that's a bold statement.
I think it is. I mean, I know I love
live like you were dying, but something about best friend too.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
You love this?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
I love that. I love a lot of Tim. I
go back to Indian Outlaw, to the very beginning. I
met him in wine Dott, Michigan when he was he
had like overalls on and he just says he was
a scrappy little kid. But I think that song says
that's the song that to me, I think that's Tim o.
Oh wow, good morning, Michael Jy and Bethany ninety three

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point one WPOC. In your job, yeah, do you ever
receive an email that says we need you to take
this survey anonymous employee survey, right, and you have to
fill it out and It's all about opening up and
being honest about your the workplace, your supervisors. You're content,
if you're happy? Yeah, do you feel like you're being

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you know, managed properly? Do you feel that you have
the ability to to try things?

Speaker 5 (07:27):
You know?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Can you express your all this all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know we have a lot of HR people listening
on their way to work, and I know we have
a lot of employees of all different varieties.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right, so let's ask the question everybody's wondering. Is
it really anonymous? Right?

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Will you fill it out? Seven to seven ninety sixty?
Who begin your message with higher?

Speaker 5 (07:46):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Eight hundred three two six ninety three.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
We recently got the opportunity to fill out one of
these surveys.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
The first thing I think is, how do you really
know it's anonymous?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Not anonymous? This is one hundred percent not anonymous, right right?
So I don't it can't be. It's all everything is tracked.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Wonderful management really does want to know specifically? Really care
do they? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
We have answers from people out here because we have
managers listening.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
We have HR. We do, yes, we do.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
So our managers are welcomed to weigh in or others curious,
is it really eno?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Really anonymous? Do you what do you think about the results?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
How do you feel about it? Right? Like?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Because I can imagine I've not been a manager, but
I can imagine this would hurt my feelings if somebody
said something right bad, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
And are you as an employee able to really be honest?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I find in my whole life, right, if I took
all my managers right, I would say ninety percent of
them are unwilling to hear feedback. You know, don't this
is my whole life, do you know what I mean?
I've had a couple of good, really good managers, but
for the most part, a lot of them don't want

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to hear.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
What you have to say. Well, in defensive managers, I'll
say that I think it's a really tough job to
manage people because when you do, you've got to handle
each person individually at some point, because everybody's got their
own needs, drive things that motivate them in styles, it's

(09:23):
a tough job being a manager. Well.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Also, most managers right now are middle managers. That's what
they're managing up and they're manager that's.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
What I'm talking about. I'm not talking about the guy
that owns the company. I'm talking about you know, you know,
the immediate supervisors. Yeah, and we have a lot of
immediate supervisors listening. So you're welcome the way into seven
seven nine six two. You can tax start with hey
or high. Do you fill out your in air quotes?

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Anonymous employee survey love to hear from you this morning.
Got some great country music for your Friday too. You're
at ninety three point one W. Dylan Stock gave us
that heeltop place, the bar gave us, and girls that
stolen horse gave us, and books and the tough people.
I was listening to the song and all of a

(10:11):
sudden I flashed back and I remembered short people, and
you've never heard that. You never heard it was a
real song. Yes, that can't be a real there was.
It was a real song. This was the number one song.

(10:37):
I'm not kidding. That was a big seventies It was
a wild wild I don't know what people were on
in the seventies, but that was that was actually a
song for people not to be confused with tough people.
Right here at ninety three point one W. POC Michael J.
And Bethany we've been talking about HR these employees surveys.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
We were we were recently offered the opportunity to take
one of these surveys, and we both passed.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, you know, here's what I was thinking. If you
you know, if people worry about being honest, you could
be totally honest and then at the end you just
throw something like if I were doing it, at the end,
I could just throw in and there's toilet papers out
in the ladies room, throw them off your scent.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
No, we're just well, that's the thing, because they're like,
this is anonymous, what's your job?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
What do you do here?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, there's only like four of us that do this job,
so we're good.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
On the text we asked, we asked HR people or managers,
you know, what's the deal with this. Somebody said, hey,
if they're using a third party like survey site, then
it can be actually anonymous.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But then someone else said, I work in HR, and
most employees do fill out do not fill out the
surveys unless they're mandatory. Usually the feedback is very generic.
Employees who are one hundred percent truthful are usually the
ones with issues. What about the manager from Johns Hopkins. Oh,
the I from john Hopkins said that the last employee
survey was anonymous. I'm not able to see who made

(12:05):
certain comments or uh crated me certain You said that
seventy five percent of the employees responded. That's pretty good response.
I don't think it is either way. They said I'd
be scared, to be completely honest. So the manager said,
I would be scared. But that's what the other The
other person said that depending on how much detail they put,
you can tell who it is.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
You know, no matter how high up you get in
the you know the ranking of employees, you're always reporting
to someone. Everybody answers to somebody. Even the owner of
the company's reporting to stockholders. So we've all got to
be able to take take criticism, constructive criticism, exactly. And
that's how we get better.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
If somebody out here did say that they do read
the results or and then like try to make changes
because of.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
It, all right, and anytime you want to bring it
to us, we're always looking to come on the ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Three point one w POC traffic to get you there.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Go ahead, We're.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Doing it all right, We're slow in a lot of
spots right now, but there are no major incidents or accidents.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
To pass along. Just a little bit of congestion on
your friends. That is the iHeart Country World Premiere. You
just were a part of something really exciting here. Ninety
three point one WPOC Megan Morony and Kenny Chesney, Texas.
Let us know what you think. Did you like it?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Ninety three point one wpo C Now, So I.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Literally heard people jumping up and down outside of the
studio because all the people in the opre hearing. Yeah,
it was something they were all watching when the pope
was announced. It started. You know, you came in the studios. Hey,
there's white smokes. I'm like, what, there's a fire. No,
it was coming out of the Sistine Chapel, and that
meant that a pope was picked. I think it was

(13:52):
the third or fourth go round of voting, but it
was a pretty quick process. Yeah, they now that Robert
Francis Prevost from Chicago, an American cardinal who had been
picked as a cardinal by Pope Francis. So a couple

(14:14):
of popes ago, Yeah, is that what it was? So
I'm just trying to keep track of all of it.
He's going to lead the billion you know, Catholics around
the world as the new Hope. So we're so excited.
In that crowd yesterday, first time ever an American just cheering.
I was like, Wow, I know it. This is a moment.
It was a moment. It absolutely was a moment. So

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we now have Pope Leo the fourteenth, so you'll be
hearing more about him. The other big news over a
three day period last week, one hundred and seventy four
former Boy Scouts filed sex abuse lawsuits against six mid
level councils of Scouts. And they say that nationally eighty

(14:59):
thousand men have filed lawsuits up to this point for
inappropriate touching and things like that, going back to the
nineteenth Scouting four that was here in Maryland. Yes, the
one hundred and seventy four former Boy Scouts here in Maryland. Wow,
filed sex abuse lawsuits against the Scouts.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
God, my heart just breaks because those are the people
who came forward, and those are the people who but
who didn't come forward.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
And we trust our kids with Scouts and Scout leaders
and breaks my heart. Yeah. Well, and as a cub
Scout myself I mean, it was some of the best
times of my childhood. But but right.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Ninety three point one, I keep us.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
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, Well, it's great that we.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Have a new Pope in all, but production on Emily
in Paris was delayed because of the new Pope. Really yesterday, yeah,
they were shooting Emily in Paris, the Netflix show in
you know, Rome, and you know, with all the delays
for the new Pope, they had to cancel shooting for
the day.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
And so come on, they'll catch up. Come on, Leo, Yeah,
come on, all right, talk about starting off with a bang.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
The sixtieth annual ACM Awards were hosted by Rieba and
kicked off with the twelve Minute Songs of the Decade Medley.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
What'd you think of that? I thought it was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
It was, yeah, it was really nice for all those
little flashback moments.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was a good night. Overall.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
The ladies of country music were reigning supreme. Ella Langley
and Laney Wilson took home most of the awards.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Here's Landy, right, my.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
Legs are not.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
I can't believe that I'm getting to stand up here
with all these ladies. That I was influenced by every
single one of.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Y'all Female Artist of the Year, Landy Wilson Entertainer of
the Year, d hunting Spotlight.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
That we used to take off the charger all the time,
and my sister would turn all the lights off in
the house and she would shine the spotlight only as
I was running back.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
And forth across the living room. Well, she got it
figured it out that it's just really cute.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
NBC has renewed Law and Order and Law and Order
SVU for another season. I love that there's a new
nine to one one show coming Nashville nine one one.
Some people have already been cast, Jessica Capshot and Chris
O'donnald mord.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
First episode.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Listen to this casting Leanne Rimes and Kimberly Williams Paisley.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're both going to be in it. I love that. Yeah,
I think that's going to be great.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
James Foley, director of House of Cards and Fifty Shades,
has died of brain cancer. He was seventy one, I know.
And lastly, a happy story to end things with one.
Mister Bill Gates. I don't know if you've heard of him.
He is the Microsoft founder. Of course, he's giving away
two hundred billion dollars of his own money by twenty

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forty five.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Just give it. Well, he's always said he wanted to,
but now he's actually putting all the wheels into.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Motions like and and he's got a little club of
millionaires who are also trying to give away a lot
of their fortunes.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
So I love that. Get back to one hundred billion
Maryland's own love cash. We claim the boys because Chris
Lucas is from an Android and ound the county. Yeah.
Here at ninety three point one WPOC, Michael j and Bethany.

(18:33):
Mother's Day is on Sunday. So all this week, Bethany's
had a great idea. We've picked five really deserving organizations
that are doing things either founded by moms or four
moms or about moms. Yeah, and so the four that
we've had so far.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
So we had Claire Marie Foundation, right and that and
that's an organization that helps us spread the word about
skin cancer. And then we had the Harford Family House
and that is a great organization that helps homeless families
from Harford County. And then we had Leah Marie Farne

(19:13):
Foundation that was fantastic. We had House Ruth Maryland, which
is another great organization. And today we are honoring and
spotlighting Share Baby, which is an organization that helps moms
in need.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
And Bethany Nadia from that organization's on the phone right now.
Thanks for coming on with us. Nadia. I remember when
I when I had my first baby.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
I remember thinking to myself, Oh my god, diapers are
so expensive, like, how do we do this? And then
I found out that there was a charity that helps
moms in need, you know, the stuff they need for
their babies, and that's you guys.

Speaker 7 (19:49):
We're part of the National Diaper Bank Network, so there
are many more of us across the country, but in
Baltimore City, we are the only entity that does what
we do. So we provide diapers and wipes, but also
baby items like baby gear and clothing and formula to
community partners who then work with families in Baltimore City
to get those items in the hands of moms and
caregivers who need just a little bit of help to

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take care of their babies.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I love what you guys do tell us like a
little bit of how the organization works, like how the
collection goes and how the distribution goes.

Speaker 7 (20:19):
We are open to the public for donations, so of
the vast majority of our gear items come from public donations.
So we advocate for folks during spring break and winter
break when they're going through their kids' closets, clear out
the things, wash the things, and please drop them off
and bring them to us. And so we get a
lot of items that are donated from the general public.

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But then we also just purchase a large volume of
our diapers because we serve so many children. Donated diapers
and pull ups are not enough.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Hey, Nadia, So where can we bring donations?

Speaker 7 (20:50):
They can come directly to our warehouse. We're at seventeen
ninety two Union Avenue, Baltimore and Hamden and the Hamden
Union Mill area. We've got bins that outside of our
warehouse and they can be dropped off twenty four hours
a day.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm assuming on your website a donation link or an
Amazon wish list or something like that.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
We have Amazon donation lists, and then folks can if
they want to, they can host toiletry drives, diaper drives,
in their church, at their school, at their work. There
are all kinds of options. But then also we advocate
for folks donating money because we purchase so many diapers
of the year, our dollar goes three times as far
as your retail dollar. Folks can go directly to our

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website and which is sharebaby dot org, and if they
click the pink button in the upper right hand corner
that says need diapers, a list of all of our
partner organizations comes up. Most people can go directly to
any of the partners that distribute directly to the public,
so that would be folks like the Juty Centers Transformation Center.

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They're a whole flew of organizations in Baltimore City who
distribute to the public. But a good portion of our
partners only support families that are actual clients. Because generally,
where there's diaper need, there's other needs, so there may
be housing, in security, transportation and security, energy and security,
all of those additional needs that you have. And they
do wrap around services, so if you need more than

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just diapers, go to the partners that do client by
service and sign up for their services.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
God, this is amazing. I love what you do. It's
Natty A dutch In executive director. Is that right of share?

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Baby?

Speaker 6 (22:22):
That is correct?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
All right, thank you so much for coming on. We
really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
And you're putting up all of those links on Instagram
as well. Right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
The average baby uses twenty five hundred diapers the first year.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Of their life. Oh my gosh, that's twenty five hundred
diaper changes and those are expensive. So maybe this year
donate a packet diapers? Turn is this change? You got
your ninety three point onepoc.

Speaker 7 (22:52):
On always listen to you guys?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, I love you, Michael J and Beth and E
and hey are we ready to get hot? You know
we are. Let's do it all right? And we got Chat.
Who is on the line. He loves his country music? Uh, Chat,
are you there? Yes? I did record. Oh, he watches
the CMA every the CMAS and the a c M s.

(23:14):
Are you have any takeaways from last night and the
Academy Country Music Awards? Chat to record that I don't
want no spoiling it. Chat wants to see it himself.
It's gonna be good, all right, Chat, Well this is
gonna be good too, because we're gonna give you three
seconds to answer three questions, and you got to do

(23:38):
it in three seconds or you get buzzed and we
hang up on you. Oh chat, so chat. You got
to make sure you do a good job. Here, are
you gonna be ready? Yeah? All right? And and just
remember Bethany is a crazy woman. You never know what
she's gonna ask, right.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Right, Okay, let's go number one. If you who could
erase one color from existence?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Which one? Would it be? Red? Oh? Yeah, I was
just reading that women are more attracted to guys when
they're wearing red. Really, yeah, that's apparently the hot color.
I don't like red. You don't, No, I don't think so.
Chet's getting rid of it. I think that might be
just to get the other guys out of the way.

Speaker 7 (24:21):
Chet.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
What color shirt do you have on right now?

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Gray?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh? My god, Gray is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I like the question number two, Chet, who is the
hottest country singer? I think?

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah? Okay, yeah? Tall? Drink of water? Get tall? Question
number three? You're doing great? Chet. By the way, have
you ever been skinny dipping?

Speaker 5 (24:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Are you serious?

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I hope he doesn't have neighbors, because you know, you
got neighbors. Real close, they're like, what the heck is
Chack doing in the backyards? Chat again, a little chat?
All right, check you get the tickets, brother, You're going
to see Ty Myers at the Anthem November first

Speaker 2 (25:17):
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