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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I see her to drop fine good morning Echo Base.
This is rope too.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I found them repeat. I found them from US Talk
eleven ten and ninety nine three bat.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I love it when a plan comes together.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutlin.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
I was listening to the magic voice was coming out
of the strange modern invention.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Let me talk to walk, let me talk to good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let it ring, let me talk to walk. Come on,
shout ahead.

Speaker 6 (00:42):
The man, the whole club was looking at her. She
hit the fast thing, you know, shout a guy. Low
lo lo lo lo lo lo.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is not the version he woke up to.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's like kids Bomb.

Speaker 7 (01:01):
This is like the kids Pop karaoke version. This is
like if I picked this at a karaoke bar.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Explicit stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
This is not hardcore enough for you.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Burgion are doing his ultra voice.

Speaker 7 (01:14):
Sorry, is this is this like me?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
It says uh, says Kevin Turk.

Speaker 8 (01:20):
It's not.

Speaker 7 (01:22):
It's definitely not flow Rider.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Well just imagine it was Okay. I wondered why this
was when I looked at the lyrics.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
You know, nearly as.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Bad as I thought it would be.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh yeah, just talk for Car's band, or this.

Speaker 7 (01:35):
Is seven o four singing apple bottom jeans? What is
the song even.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Called apple bottom?

Speaker 9 (01:43):
Jane?

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh god, this is ter this is really bad.

Speaker 7 (01:49):
So we will not be at this version, so Spotify.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Look, I come in, I have about I have about
two minutes notice, So everyone's in a while. The version
that pops up is not necessarily the one that you
woke up to. But I can't. I can't be you
and know all of that.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
So we walked into man there today and I overloaded
him with stories as we were walking in. Uh so
that probably distressed.

Speaker 10 (02:16):
Which was the song you woke up?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well?

Speaker 7 (02:17):
It was? It included because this song was in my
dream and came out of my dream into I had
one of the Jim Zoki stress dreams where I was
trying to get to work and I was in a car.

Speaker 10 (02:27):
But having a form me exau. I didn't have one, but.

Speaker 7 (02:30):
I couldn't remember how to get here in my dream
because I was coming from Concord rather than my my
other home, my my other home, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
By extra home, my actual home.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
You know I used to live in Concord.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Good morning, et humble.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Breast, my extra dream home. It's just actually next week.
I don't think that's enough. I don't think that.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
Yes, is that the name of your team?

Speaker 7 (02:59):
Well, that one got the most, the most likes on
on our Twitter, on our Twitter, but I didn't tweet
it out on our text line. Guys, I'm struggling today
on our text line. Most people. The most positive reaction was.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
To Megabeth that bbs no.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
That was only from you guys.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You guys had this. We didn't come up with bbs no.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
That was we had. And Sean, one of our listeners,
Sean even went so far as to make a megabath
like graphic.

Speaker 10 (03:35):
Well that it's done, So that's going to be the team, man.

Speaker 7 (03:38):
I think it has to be. I think it has
to be because we were going to do a poll,
but we got so much reaction about Megabeth that I
don't even think a poll was necessary.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Play one more time.

Speaker 10 (03:52):
Laser eyes. That's right, She's in on every deal.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
You guys, yeah they. Dan Morgan called me yesterday about
this Adam Theelen thing.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's like, what does Mega book think?

Speaker 7 (04:03):
And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 (04:04):
Well I noticed there was like some you know, the
dragging their feet on this whole situation. So that's probably
yet they're still conversing with that.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Was like, let me sleep on it.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
They were they were having they were having some trouble with,
you know, getting that salary worked out. So I was like, yeah, guys,
let me let me sleep on it for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
A lot about the situation.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
I was going to call him to compensation, so adamant
I met compensation.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Adam Schefter, speaking of this, says yesterday, late yesterday, Vikings
and Panthers have tried to work out a trade for
Carolina wide receiver Adam Thielen, who would like to return
to Minnesota, but the two sides continue to struggle to
agree on compensation. Mike Kay with The Charlotte Observer, reacting
to this, says, seemingly a nuanced situation. The Panthers gave

(04:47):
him a raise after he contemplated retirement earlier this offseason,
felt like his entire summer was understated, even after taking
a bunch of teammates to Minnesota before camp. Can't just
give away the leading wide receiver of the past two years,
so still going on. Sounds like that's the first time
that I've heard explicitly that Adam Adam Thielen wants to

(05:09):
go back to Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
It kind of made me sad, and I get it
if this is his last season, you know, move home,
be in your family, establish your your life back.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Weird when you were retired.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, I understand why he would want to go. That's
the first time I've heard him say, Okay, I am
like this.

Speaker 11 (05:24):
This place here could be his other home. Yeah, some
people are other homes.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Extra home home boyfriend number two, extra.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
Home, extra home in Kong?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Do you I mean, is it only two.

Speaker 10 (05:34):
When you have the thing? I don't dream big, dream
big any more homes.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
You just lay it all out there now.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
In my in my nightmare that I was having, I
was coming from my apartment that I lived in in
my twenties, that I lived in in Concord. But the
funny thing in my dream, I couldn't remember how to
get here.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
How many apartment How many homes do you have in
your dream?

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (05:53):
In my dream it was just a really dinky apartment.
So I was I was really.

Speaker 10 (05:57):
Not telling him he didn't know how to go to work.

Speaker 11 (06:00):
As you were still in your twenties, you had to
started hearing it's like a time travel.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
Where do I work?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (06:07):
I'm not in my forties yet.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
That's a bungalow that I that I owned. I'm a
different county.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
Oh, I had the worst apartment. It had that wood paneling.
I mean not just you know something, I mean.

Speaker 10 (06:18):
The most awesome.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
It was wood paneling, the most awesome wood paneling from
Florida ceiling all the way through the entire the entire apartment.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Wood paneling is awesome. Yeah, just ask every station wagon
owner in the seventies coveted shag carpet to yep.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
Yeah, baby, well Knowleum, I had the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
It was drop.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, it was a it was a it was a
it was a pad man.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
That.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
I can't believe you had that, mate.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Already six thirteen on WBT traffic. Check on your Tuesday morning,
Boomer Vooncannon an apartment there, shag carpet.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
Oh, you have no idea. I mean it was some
high living.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
You have no idea, Boomer, Yeah, yeah, wish.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
How about a lava lamp? A lamp?

Speaker 7 (07:01):
No, no, But my grandmother helped me decorate and brought
over a full sized giraffe. It was this wooden giraffe
that went from like FLOORA.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, I guess I thought you mean you said full size.
I thought you met a real giraffe.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
Well, it was like a big, old wooden giraffe that
went from the floor to the ceiling. She sat over
in the corner.

Speaker 12 (07:20):
My stepmom had three wicker made giraffe giraffes and they
were ginormous.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
I remember them in our home cling. Your giraffe have
a name? Did you name it?

Speaker 7 (07:31):
I think I named him Jeffrey, after the after the
Toys r Us giraffe.

Speaker 13 (07:36):
This is too good.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
That was weird.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
No, ain't know where about it.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
This is good Morning bet with Bo Thompson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
That's a little better. That sounds like not kids blow
good morning. Sometimes I have to scramble into action.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
I danced so much to the song at my wedding.

Speaker 14 (08:24):
Yeah, just slap yourself, hang on, make a bed.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
So we have to a watermark on this song.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Now we have to tell people. Wait, I tell you what.
Nick Craig is quite the multitasker. I mean he hosts
the Carolina Journal News hour.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right right frequent listener Nick yeh.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
And he has a digital show online show, and then
he has time to develop logos for fantasy football teams.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
Nick Craig has already created by Megabeth logo Mago Beth.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
He actually sent over the mock up of the Megabeth. Now,
if you're just joining us and weren't here late yesterday
in the show, we're doing a fantasy football league with
the group here in the morning, including Beth Troutman, who
has the eighth pick out of eight. But we're gonna
we're gonna have the draft today. We talked about how
best to do this. We're gonna do the draft off
the air. Then we'll sort of unveil the results of

(09:33):
a few of the rounds, but really nobody cares who
any of the guys pick. We just want to know
who Beth picks.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Right.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
And yesterday we're talking about team names. A lot of
us have team names that we've used for years, like
I've used the Amity Finns for almost three decades. Zoke
has been what's your team name? The Radio Flyers, So
Radio Flyers and Beth we kind of crowdsourced this yesterday
and came to this Mago Beth.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
I'm so impressed with our listeners. We got so many
texts with so many brilliant ideas. I wrote down a
bunch of really great ones. But as soon as the Chris,
our texter, Chris came up with Megabeth and as soon
as I go, as soon as I said Megabeth out loud,
then the text line started going nuts, with people saying,

(10:18):
oh my gosh, megabath, Megabeth, Megabeth. And we were going
to do a poll and ask I know, it's like beetlejuice.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yes, three times, may go Beth. That's one and three.
Come on, wake the guy up this sir.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
So we got so many different different reactions to Megabeth,
including our listener Sean, who created a mega Megabeth font
to go. So I feel like we need to put
the font on the logo that that Nick Craig has
created and we can just combine. As we've crowdsourced the logo,
We've done the whole entire thing.

Speaker 10 (10:54):
Now is Nick's logo like a giant Beth. It is
a megab It's just her face.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
It's a cartoon.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I got JD.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Ban Yeah, this is my favorite man, Megabet. I mean,
you are ready. If you lose this, it's going to
be really embarrassing, I know.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
But a big thank you to Chris for coming up
with it, and a big thank you to all of
you who voted, A big thank you to everyone who
came up with brilliantly creative names.

Speaker 11 (11:23):
I'm so you're the only fantasy team that's more concerned
about the merch than actually drafting.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
Well, favorite merch at hats and shirt.

Speaker 7 (11:29):
I think we should start selling merch.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Well, we need to talk about this because yeah, I mean,
we're doing a fantasy football draft and then we'll do
the season and we'll do updates on the air. But
it really comes down to this. When you do a
fantasy football league, there's the winner that usually gets money
or something, and then the loser has to do something.
And so the loser of this league that we have
is going to have to do something for the benefit

(11:51):
of not only the room here, but the audience.

Speaker 10 (11:54):
If I came up with the greatest solution, So let's.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Go over what we came up with, at least up
until now.

Speaker 11 (12:00):
Well, I think I don't know if anyone else had
a solution but me, But I said, we'll have a
news and bruise where just the loser of the matter
has to do the entire two hours by themselves up
on a stage.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
I just wanted to make sure the early audience heard
that one, because I don't know how you top that one.
You know, we go over to the Heist Brewery and
you just sit on the stage one night and.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
You have no help.

Speaker 10 (12:19):
It's just you and you just have to like, you
have to just talk for two hours.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
Do you think anyone would come to that though?

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well, I know how to make them come. You have
to buy bruise for everybody in the audience.

Speaker 11 (12:32):
And everyone else gets to sit in the seven get
to sit in the audience with the crowds, so they're
still there enjoying.

Speaker 10 (12:37):
The one person that has.

Speaker 11 (12:38):
To do and just point laugh like if I lose,
Like I just do two hours straight up, like local politics,
just like school board meetings.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
And we have the ability to uh to put questions
in the in the bowl.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
See oh see that gets even better. So one person
doesn't use and bruise the losers, or who do you
think is gonna win.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
In the district six?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Jumping up there, googling in front of everybody.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Get Mike don up there with the person. Oh no,
get some assist.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
He'll be in the crowd with everybody else. But I
think it'd be crowd. I don't know that Heist will host.

Speaker 10 (13:07):
This particular ones. We have to come up with another venue.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Maybe this is like the.

Speaker 10 (13:11):
Rooftop of the Y one or something.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
As usual, we're creating the event and then we find
the location.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Yeah, didn't we figure out where we're gonna do.

Speaker 11 (13:18):
The loser has to run five miles on the rooftop
of the y Oh oh.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Oh, that's awful. We'll see it. But if that's not
fear If bo loses, bow can run five miles lickety split.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I might go to the hospital.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Yeah, I would have trouble running five.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Well, that's what we need to get creative about. We have,
you know, we'll announce the results, you know, like the
first round, and then we'll see who best team is.
And we'll do some of that tomorrow because we're going
to have the draft offline tonight or online, but off
air is what I should say.

Speaker 10 (13:45):
We're doing this like we have like a computer program,
like we're doing one.

Speaker 12 (13:48):
Of the Yes, some windows, I get one of the
leagues that you have to like Yeah, ESPN, Okay, I
sent you an invite I did not get I'm sure
you didn't.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I did not get that.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
You know, they used to Beth do a fantasy football
without the aid of a computer, So you would actually
have somebody who would have to go crunch all these numbers.
Because I remember, you're the numbers again.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
We fattistics.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
We started, We talked about doing this on the chair,
but I was like, guys, I don't even realize. I mean,
I hear I hear all of you guys talking about
fantasy football. I hear people talking about fantasy football, but
I've never paid attention or done fantasy football. So when
you say crunching the numbers, I need somebody to print
out a roster of everyone I can choose from.

Speaker 10 (14:27):
It's it's called a computer.

Speaker 12 (14:29):
Why don't we explain PPR to you, Beth. Mm PPR,
it's a PPR league.

Speaker 10 (14:33):
Changes everything that sounds like paps, blue ribbons.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Reception.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
All right, So the parameters are set. Tomorrow will announce
the results of the draft, and then throughout the season
we know we'll see how we're doing. But basically we're
all interested to see how Beth does. I don't care
how Bernie does.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, I don't care how I do.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
I feel like I'm gonna have to get one of
those like gamer headsets to sit and draft with you.
Yes tonight?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Is that what I have to do?

Speaker 10 (14:56):
You need one of those and wear a helmet, Foba helmet.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
You have to wear a helmet football.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
They have replicas down f Z. Get you one, guys,
if they were.

Speaker 10 (15:06):
Full uniforms like they're playing in a game when they're
doing their show.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
If I win this thing, I'm gonna get Megabeth t
shirts made and you guys have to wear them every
day for the rest of the football season.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, this is what we need to do. All of
us need to decide what each of us that should
have to do if they lose, because we don't really
care about winter. We do, but only if it's you.
But I want to we we got to figure out
what the loser's got to Hey, Mark, Yes, sir, did
you hear that Beth decided on a fantasy football team
name Megabeth Maga.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Six thirty eight on News Talk eleven ten, nine to
nine to three WBT on your Tuesday, August twenty sixth
Bo Thompson and Beth Trautman here in the historic TYBOYD studio.
So you've heard Mark talking about this story, and we're
getting more information about what happened on Friday night here
in Charlotte. Arena Zarutzka, twenty three year old, a lady

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who police was stabbed on Friday night on the light rail.
Now we've learned that she had fled Ukraine according to
a GoFundMe page that her friends set up. The deadly
stabbing happened at about ten thirty in the East West
station in South End. This is the light rail and
so just a tragic story obviously, and then learning about

(16:26):
the backstory of this as we go forward. But Edwin
Peacock last night at the city council meeting had some
remarks about this and then the light rail safety sort
of in general. But he also told Channel nine he said,
quote right now, the trust and confidence that we have,
particularly between South End and uptown is very fragile. And

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he said the story is heart wrenching, and obviously, if
what we're hearing is true, clearly we need to give
that family some answers, and we more importantly need to
give all citizens who are riding the light rail a
lot of confidence that you're going to be safe. Unquote,
That's what Edwin told Channel nine.

Speaker 7 (17:06):
I mean, and it makes sense as this story is,
as we're getting more details and the story becomes more
and more heartbreaking. I think Edwin is right to address
safety and to address how people feel about public transportation.
But I know that he spoke about this at last
night's meeting as well.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes, and here is Edwin Peacock at the DAIS last night.

Speaker 15 (17:30):
We just learned on Friday night that there was a
stabbing at a very prominent area right in the heart
of South End, probably at the very apex what many
people consider to actually be the South End Manager. You
know that I emailed you I wanted to make it public.
What my request was also just building off what missus
Ashmir wanted.

Speaker 9 (17:51):
I wanted to.

Speaker 15 (17:51):
Know any details about the victim on this East Boulevard shooting,
as well as this victim that we have a Carolina
play small, any information about the accused suspect, including past
records that can be disclosed, and then data and trends
on criminal activity along the light rail over the past
thirty six months and any actions that have been taken

(18:12):
by cats and CMPD. Now why I'm underscoring this and
why I think it's so important is the very reason
that Ashimirah and all of us here who know what
is on the ballot this November, which is the continued
continuance of the expansion of our transit system, and the
transit system that we have all put so much energy
and effort into, but we feel is one of the
best in the country. And all I know from my

(18:33):
experience of living in Washington, d C. And having a
lot of friends in Atlanta is that the moment that
the transit system starts to become something where it's not
considered to be safe is the moment in which you
begin to lose riders, You begin to lose the momentum
that you want to keep. And I don't want to
see our community. I know our council doesn't want to
see that as well too, and that's why I want
to request, do we have a trend, mister manager, Do

(18:54):
we have something that we need to respond to?

Speaker 9 (18:56):
We are in a gap period right now.

Speaker 15 (18:58):
We do not have a police chief that is coming in,
he is going out.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Is that the cause of this, I don't believe.

Speaker 15 (19:05):
So I'm not pointing a finger at CMPD, But what
I do want is I want us to be proactive
and not be reactive to this. And most importantly, I
want our public to know that we care about citizens
that are being harmed, and especially at such an egregious
nature on a public transit system that we have direct
authority over.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
We will talk in more detail with Edwin Peacock City
Councilman coming up at eight point five on the show today,
but he does make an interesting point about the stigma
that gets attached to something like this that has a
lot of momentum right now. But if the public perception
becomes that I can't I'm not safe if I travel
that way, that's a difficult sort of It's difficult to

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move it back in the other direction once it starts
going down that particular road.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Well, and think about the development that the lightrail is
responsible really for how South End has grown because the lightrail,
the lightrail started and then South End grew, and so
many young people have moved to that part of town
who may be work in uptown and rely specifically on
the light rail and not on any other form of

(20:12):
transportation in order to get around this particular area. And
you have a lot of young people who live, live
and work in the South End area, and this young
woman twenty three years old fled the Ukraine, and now
we're looking at the suspect, a man named de Carlos Brown.
You've heard Mark Garrison talking about this to Carlos Brown Junior.

(20:34):
Reports say he will be charged with first degree murder
once he's released from the hospital. And he was reportedly
injured in this stabbing attack, which is why he is
in the hospital. But when you think about these kinds
of issues and you are a young person, especially a
young woman potentially living alone in the South End area,
a young man living alone in the South End area

(20:55):
and relying on public transportation, a stigma like this one
can and can change an entire area, and that's not
what we want to see because that part of Charlotte
has become so incredibly vibrant. I mean, if you think
about when we were in our early twenties, bo the
South End area that was like an auto parts road.

(21:18):
You know, you would go there to get auto parts
or take your car to get fixed or something like that.
It wasn't what it is now. And the light rail
really is responsible for that reason.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I mean, it is such a crowded area of Charlotte,
but it is because it's so popular. It's crowded with construction,
and it's crowded with people, but there's so much construction
because all the people want to be there, the young people. Yeah,
I mean so much so that it even has regions
like Loso.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yeah, I mean. And we've talked about the popularity of
this region. It's where a lot of the great restaurants
are a lot of walkability, a lot of walkable spaces.
And again we should attribute the success of that region
to the light rail got there first.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
And I know I sound like a curmudgeon when I
say it's congest did it's hard to get around there.
It's where all the young people like to be. And
if you have if you have an area like that
that is served by something like the light rail, that
all of a sudden gets, like we said, a stigma
attached to it that it's not safe. That can really
disrupt part of what's happening there and what they'd like

(22:17):
to see happen in other places. It's why they just
had the connector to the university area.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
And we've got the whole conversation about going up into
the Moorsville area, you know, going to the north Mecklenburg
part of town. Using the southern what am I? What's
what's the what am I trying to?

Speaker 5 (22:35):
The silver line?

Speaker 7 (22:37):
I was trying to Norfolk Southern, thank you, thank you
my brain. Finally you came up with the word but
using the Norfolk Southern infrastructure that's there, make a bed.
Thank You're just going to use that whenever.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
She has a big brain, mile through.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Not a big brain, the biggest brain, the biggest Mayo.

Speaker 16 (22:58):
Bet alive on w N I K and as usual
we're talking about Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
That's how the video that was dropped online from Nike
sounded yesterday is Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 14 (23:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Now will be the third female athlete to have a
shoe designed specifically for her by Nike. The first two
were Sabrina Aescu from the Liberty and the aces Aja Wilson.
But uh, this this is the first look at not
just where the shoe may be going, but also the
signature logo now and it's not it's not quite the

(23:45):
jump Man logo yet. But she's got a little more,
you know, she she's got a lot of hype, but
you gotta gotta become the legend. I think before you
get the silhouette. But this is the first logo drop
that is coming up. It's a it's an interlock, two interlocking,
and a smaller hidden sea that Nike says represents her
magnetic connection with fans around the globe who are drawn

(24:06):
to her unwavering confidence, steadfast commitment, and remarkable shooting ability.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
I just love that there are apparel lines now that
are highlighting female athletes. But here's my big question. Do
you think that mostly women will purchase this brand of
Nike or will they make it available to men as well?
And would men choose this over, for example, an Air Jordan.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Well the shoe. I mean, I don't know if they're
going to make a male version of the Caitlan Clark shoe.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
I wonder if they would they if they did, would
men buy them?

Speaker 5 (24:43):
Well, here's what I would say to that. I think
this may be the one that they would I think
that's that's sort of kind of a that's an interesting
question because I think men will wear Caitlin Clark's stuff.
You see men wearing Caitlin Clark jerseys, you see men
wearing you did during the height of the US women's
soccer team when they won the Olympic gold. In the
World Cup, you saw a lot of little boys wearing

(25:06):
shirts that were like, you know, Alex Morgan and such.
But I do wonder about that. So I wonder if
Nike is going to make a male version of the
Caitlin Clark shoe, and then I wonder if there'd be
a demand for it. I think she is. You gotta
be careful here because honestly, the biggest question right now
with Caitlin Clark is can she still stay healthy. She
hasn't played a game since mid July, and they're wondering

(25:28):
whether she's going to come back for the playoffs and
the WNBA. But I think we can all agree she's
I mean, look, she's it. You know, people will debate
you on this, but to me, the stature of the
WNBA before and after, it's not even it's night and day.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
Yes, I mean, they had record numbers of attendants for
w NBA games this year, and I would agree that
she has been a huge draw and some of the
rivalries between her and other players, that's been a huge
draw for people. But to watch really talented athletes, men
or women, I think that draws people into arenas to see,

(26:04):
you know, people who have a skill that is almost,
you know, next level human. It's the reason Michael Jordan
was such a phenomenon because he almost didn't seem human
because he was so good. And her shooting ability is
not similar to Michael Jordan's, but she has this ability
to make baskets and and she looks it from anywhere,

(26:26):
from anywhere, and it looks effortless. It's a different style
than Michael Jordan. But it seems like, I don't know
what the word is. It seems beyond human because she's
so gifted at it.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Maybe the word is transcendent.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
Transcendent, that could be it. And so that makes me
That's why I wonder if if they make a male version,
if men would in fact buy the shoe, because women
they make a women's Air Jordan, don't they.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
M hmm, yeah, I mean there's there. So here's the thing.
The signature shoe and Signature collection which I mentioned, has
the interlocking seas. The logo was was dropped yesterday. They
won't actually be in stores until next year. Twenty twenty
six is when the shoe comes, but fans can get
their hands on the logo collection, which is t shirts, hoodies, shorts, pants,

(27:10):
et cetera. On October first. A navy and yellow logo
tea will drop in North America on September first, Indian
if Indiana fever esque and so we'll see. But like
I said, their biggest issue with her right now is
she hasn't played since July. They need to get her
back on the floor. And you know, then you start
talking about could she ever become a logo like Michael

(27:30):
Jordan's someday? You know, if she stays healthy and she
keeps going the way she's going. Absolutely, But this is
the first of the Nike line, and like I said,
she becomes the third athlete to have her own shoe
for you know, an Escue and Wilson were the first two.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I'm trying to picture with that silhouette would be able
to like her jumping in the air with a ball
just slightly coming away from her fingertips.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
I can see it. I was thinking last night, like,
obviously there's the jump Man. Shaq has one that's not
as well known. I don't know that, did Kobe have one.
I'm trying to think of any what other athletes have
have silhouette logos? Is it just Jordan.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
The only silhouettes that I know are the actual NBA
silhouette that was the which is Jerry West, Jerry West,
and then I know Michael Jordan, and that's that's about it.
In my brain.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
There's a rebook one of Shack which where he's Duncan,
but it's not as ubiquitous as as the Jordan one.
But if there ever was going to be a female version,
like I said, she's got to put in the years,
but she's on her way if she can just get
in the game and not be injured so much. It's
almost seven o'clock on WBT. If we do this, how
do we know it's going to end any differently than

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it did before?

Speaker 7 (28:36):
Because before you didn't have me.

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About it for you.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
This is Good Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Beth
troutlif Yeah you know we have two of them. Wow,
you must be rich.

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Lend me talk to lend.

Speaker 14 (29:03):
Me talk to shouting.

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Got the bottom jeans the bird The whole.

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Was looking at her things.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
She hit the fun next thing all because I played
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The Maggie sweat rains and read you're.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Just joining us around. Beth woke up with the blow
Rider version of this in her head. I played the
kids pop version, and then one of our listeners said, hey,
have you heard the bluegrass version?

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This is from Henry J. He texted the text line
seven four five seven eleven ten. He was like, you've
got to hear the version by the Clever LEAs. It's hilarious.

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Shout it three feet how she rolled a bit of
Bobby camegoth bottom straps.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
Oddly that fits.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
It's like the Flight of the Concords, but it really is.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
We also got a great email from from Nick C.
We were talking about the fact that we're starting a little
GMBT fantasy football league and we were trying to figure
out what are.

Speaker 10 (30:21):
The team names going to be?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
And yesterday we sort of crowdsourced this a lot of
listeners suggesting names for Beth's team, and we've landed on
this and Nick C. Nick Craig, the multitasking host of
the Carolina Journal News Hour, actually has already can we

(30:44):
buy this stuff yet? I mean it's merch. It's Megabeth
fantasy football merch.

Speaker 7 (30:48):
I think he's probably Yeah, I think he probably, But
I think we need to start selling it.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Created on a campus.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
I don't even know what to do here.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I mean, the take him it back?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
The humble brag doesn't even seem to apply here. You
have your own fantasy football team merch line and you
haven't played a game yet, played a game. I'm telling
you that.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Was a good morning bet. Humble breath. That one calls
for something more. That was a good morning BETI enormous
nothing humble about it, brag.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
I think that suffices.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
In the Charlotte area yesterday.

Speaker 10 (31:32):
Did you do that during the newscaster?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
I mean, if you.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Have your own merch line before you've ever played a
fake game.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
But I didn't create it? How is That's what I mean?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Like your people did your minions.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
You don't even need to lift a finger, Beth.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
People do it for a lot of pressure in this.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
Season, though, I know that is I am eight. Bernie
auto generated our draft order and I'm dead last.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's bad drafts on your Apple products and you'll be
good to go.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
But I don't even know how to do this. I
still haven't gotten the invite from you, Bernie.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's probably in your spam folder.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
Promotions folder are legally that we don't have a link
at it all went to spam.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
We are the only people that don't me.

Speaker 12 (32:14):
Stephen, Wayne and Boomer asked me to retext it to
him and he said he got the I got it.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I see it.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
I can't tell you who's on whose team because we
can't see.

Speaker 10 (32:21):
Yeah, yeah, we have no lights in here today. Can
we talk about this?

Speaker 5 (32:23):
We might as well. I mean, you know, it's it's
theater of the mind. But just imagine you came in
to do a radio show, uh, and the lights didn't work.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
It's completely dark. So Sir Steven and Anthony went downstairs
and got like a stand light that's over here. I
feel like I'm at a dentist office.

Speaker 11 (32:42):
They did it, you know, it's funny boat that he
felt like, who's at a spot.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
Went in the wrong place.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
But they did a few things. They put some security
things on the door in here, and and that's all
fine and good, but by doing so, they unplug some
other stuff.

Speaker 11 (32:57):
We light We used our energy a lot, man, so
we had to divert to that one lamp over there.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
We can't have both ceiling lights and a stand up lamp.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
I think when they drilled the hole for the new
security pad on the outside of it, they definitely drilled
through a wire.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
So we have to keep the FM people out or
what are we doing here? Yes, the riff raft what
are you from?

Speaker 18 (33:17):
FM?

Speaker 10 (33:17):
Get out of here? Mix?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
But if you came inside, you wouldn't be able to
see anyway, so there's nothing to take.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, I try, you know, they all work off computer.

Speaker 11 (33:25):
I'm old school, so I print my sports copy off
I realized as as they started.

Speaker 10 (33:29):
I can't see.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
I feel like we need like a nice little sleeping
cap and a candle with a stand on it, you know,
like Scrooge style, and.

Speaker 11 (33:39):
Like minor helmets like that might be minor helmets that
might be better.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
We're all doing our show by candle light today.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Yes, that's the way that it feels.

Speaker 10 (33:47):
And we're closed the night before the NFL roster cuts.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
I'm starting to lose my vision anyway, so even my
glasses aren't helping right now in the dark.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Oh you don't need glasses seven thirteen don't DBT traffic
check right now, Boomer von Cannon in the dark.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
It sounds like the dark.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
Look at you all panty with your lights and stuff.

Speaker 18 (34:07):
You.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah, some would say, how is that different than in
the other day?

Speaker 7 (34:12):
How do you get lights?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Pay the power talking to somebody.

Speaker 10 (34:16):
I'm waiting for the seven thirty sports.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
I think some sun may come between those tree branches
outside the window.

Speaker 10 (34:21):
This sun is coming up.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Gonna go outside and read the next one.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
You know our motto, the more we fix, the more
things break.

Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, that's it man.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
It's a great sound.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Ooh, natural light.

Speaker 11 (34:33):
I didn't realize those blines are made of iron. The
noise they were making.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
This is good morning, beauty.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Tuesday morning, August twenty sixth here in the Tyboid studio,
bo and Beth in the dark room.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
I feel like, are we about to develop photos?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Don't know?

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Is that what's happening?

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Yes, we're gonna do it. On the radio yesterday in
the office President Trump signing some executive orders and asked
about Ukraine. I said, you wanted to get this done
a bilateral as soon as possible.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
Have you spoken to Putin since last Monday?

Speaker 8 (35:11):
Through the Yeah, I have What is your conversation.

Speaker 19 (35:15):
Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation.
And then unfortunately Obama is loaded up into Kieva someplace,
and then.

Speaker 18 (35:23):
I get very angry about it.

Speaker 19 (35:26):
I think we're going to get the war done this tough.
I thought that would be of the seven that I settled.
I thought that would be the easiest of the group. See,
you never know what's going to happen, you know, a war.
Strange things happen in war. The fact that he went
to Alaska, our country, I think was a big statement
that he wants to get it done. That was not

(35:47):
easy for him to go to Alaska, you know, for
him to come here. But the fact that he he
showed up on a very successful that it was a
very successful day for other things, because you know, we're
also talking about missiles, nuclear, We're talking about a lot
of different things.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
So the President is obviously a bit irritated by the
fact that this has not happened yet, meaning the meeting
even well.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
I think part of it is because during the campaign
for the twenty twenty four election, he kept saying that
he would be able to end this war in one
phone call, and I think he believed he had a
relationship with Putin that would allow something like that to happen.
And what he's realizing is that Putin is not a
man of his word. He may say something in a
meeting and then turn around and do something like like

(36:35):
bomb an American factory.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Former White House Chief of Staff who spent a lot
of time during his tenure five feet away from President Trump,
Mick Mulvaney on the apparent stall in negotiations.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah, this is really not going well. If we talked
about on the show last week or not, if I
talked about on News Nation, I said, the thing to
watch was the schedule that you know Trump, remember he
met with Putin on a Friday in a life and
then he meant, I think with the European leaders the
following one day, as you mentioned, and then you expected
something to happen right away. In fact, Trump sort of

(37:08):
hinted that that was things were moving very quickly, and
that as Lensky and Putin were going to meet and
going to meet promptly, that's clearly not going to happen.
And I think what everybody needs to be figuring out
of the White House is that something needs to change.
There's a there's a stasis, there's a status quo right
now that needs to be broken. Putin is completely happy

(37:28):
with the way things are right now. He's talking there's
no sanctions. He gets to continue, you know, is worth
maybe one hundred percent, it means eighty percent. And he's
still you know, slowly taking over land and so forth.
He's got to think to himself, you know what this is.
This is the best deal I can get right now.
And Trump has to change that. No amount of jawboning
at this point is apparently going to work. So you

(37:50):
have to look at sanctions, you have to look at
military action, you have look at something to change the calculation,
because right now Putin could Putin, I think, is sending
messages that he's five with the way things are for
the unforseeable future.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
You know, I was wondering about that. Is Putin sending
a message trying to make Trump look weaker. I know
that the conversation that Donald Trump has had since this
war began was if he had been president, you know,
Vladimir Putin wouldn't have attacked Ukraine in the first place.
And I'm wondering now if Vladimir Putin's trying to say, hey, look,
I do what I want no matter who's in office.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
Yeah. I don't think that two things are mutually exclusive.
Starting a war is one thing, and continuing it and
dragging it out is another. I happen to agree with
President Trump, but I don't think Putin would have invaded
if Trump had been president. I think Putin is very calculated.
He likes going to he likes pressing the Democrats because
he thinks they're soft drew on national security. Why that's
why he invade CRIMEA under the Obama administration, I feel,

(38:50):
and why he didn't do anything during the first Trump administration.
So I think that that probably is true, but it
doesn't solve a problem now. And you know, every time
I watched the president on TV's like, you know, it's
not my war, I'm like, yeah, okay, it's not. I
get that you didn't start it, but you're president now,
and you know fixing it is part of your problem. Yes,
you do Inherit difficulties from previous administrations and this is

(39:12):
one of them. But clearly what they're doing is not working.
We are I mean, he never really believed the twenty
four hour talk during a campaign, but he thought this
thing would be over by now, and it's not. And
Putin is very very quietly, very subtly sort of thumbing
his nose. And so you know, Donald's real nice to
meet you. Let's let's let's continue this conversation. Maybe I
don't know, six eight weeks from now, let me go

(39:33):
bomb these guys for a little bit. I'll call you back.
That's what's happening right now, and that's going to continue
until Trump changes the changes the status quo.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
Well, he said on Friday that in two weeks he
should know whether progress is possible to end this struggle.
And we know now that when he says two weeks,
it doesn't always mean two weeks. It sort of means, Okay,
that's my that's my cover, or that's my time to
sort of figure out what next move is. And the last

(40:02):
time he gave that, like I started saying with you,
last time he gave that ultimatum, it didn't take two
weeks and he made the decision to have the summit.
Now the summit's happened and he's moved past that whole thing.
So now I just wonder, you're so good at taking
us behind the scenes with what he's doing and maybe
how he's strategizing. You know, what, is this the time
that we actually see Trump sort of go on the

(40:24):
offensive as it relates to Vladimir Putin, because you know
what we saw at the White House, you know last
week was a lot about posturing. It was a lot
about who looks like they have the upper hand. And
that's a big deal to President Trump as it is
to Vladimir Putin. We've never actually seen sort of the
the the clash. What really happens when when one of

(40:45):
them gets angry.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
Yeah, here's a difficult conversation I hope that somebody's having
with the president. And you mentioned deadlines and then moved
deadlines and all that kind of stuff. Deadlines be nothing.
Now Trump came up. So we're putting on sanctions tomorrow,
We're putting in sanctions two weeks, sping sanctions in twenty
twenty seven. You know, it doesn't it doesn't make any difference.
And the difficult conversation is that somebody has to go
to this president. We need to do something to re

(41:07):
establish our credibility because right now Putin doesn't believe us,
he doesn't fear us, he doesn't respect us. He may
like you. I mean, fine, he may you know, you
enjoy your conversations and so forth, but it's not moving
the needle. It's that's not changing anything. It's not getting
you where you want to go. And you need to
do something to re establish credibility. I don't know if
that means setting a deadline and keeping it, if he

(41:29):
gives you an ultimatum and keeping it, if it just
means something out of out of the blue sanctions today
without without any heads up whatsoever, something to change where
we are, because right now it's not that Putin's got
the upper hand, it's just Putin is still I mean,
how many times we've talked about this. You don't get
a deal at the table until everybody believes they're going
to get a better deal at the table than they

(41:51):
get in the field. That that's I mean, that's that's
that's that's war fighting and peace making one on one,
all right, And right now the Russians still feel like
they've got to they will get a better deal by
staying in the field, and you have to change that.
Until you do, it's not going to end.

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Speaker 7 (45:58):
I drink like five Okay, every you.

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my doctor has said to me before you're doing okay,
doing fine, you don't have to do the drink the
eight glasses of water.

Speaker 10 (46:14):
By the do you carry a jug of milk.

Speaker 7 (46:16):
Or I just said, I just said you care food.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Let's move on to number two, which is eat a
nutrient dense breakfast.

Speaker 7 (46:29):
Now, this is what I'm worried about with you too.
I know that you are a protein person. You have
at least three eggs, right, do you have anything else?
Do you have fruit or nope?

Speaker 5 (46:38):
Just the eggs, just eggs, just to get the water value.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Out of those.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (46:44):
That's how he hydrates.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
I don't even scramble them.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
But it's straight up, like rocky.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Basic all water. Basically, they're saying, a nutrient rich breakfast
helps provide essential nutrients. Of course, ports your energy and
accounts for about twenty percent of your caloric intake. So
it's a great opportunity to improve your dietary quality. They're
saying high protein foods. So you're doing great with the eggs, BO,

(47:11):
but you might need some yogurt, some oatmeal, some berries,
maybe some mixed nuts and seeds in there.

Speaker 10 (47:17):
For four yogurt.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
Yeh, y'all. I love yogurt. I told you guys, I
am obsessed right now with this Icelandic yogurt. It's called
Skier and it's their extra extra creamy yogurt. And they
have one called Apricot and honey.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
It seems difficult.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
See the title of this was to live to be
one hundred, not live to be Okay, I'll hang on
as much as I want to hear the rest of
this list.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
We've only got into two.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
That's pretty part for the course.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
She got stuck on your milk habit.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Yeah, because you think that I'm my milk cabin.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Hold on, I gotta take a shot of milk.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
A long day, a swing at that, and I feel
like traffic check right now, Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Man, start your day with something liquid.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
A yeah.

Speaker 20 (48:11):
Well, the late great Charlie Daniels, you stand back in
this romping stomping days, would show up at morning shows
at six in the morning, the mayor talk about his
upcoming show or whatever.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Every time he'd have a six pack of beer in
his hand.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Wow, back before you change the way men.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Were men.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Exact that he was a man.

Speaker 7 (48:29):
You know what time it is my water, he's hydrated.
That technically dehydrates that technically well.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
As Jim said, us, guys gotta gotta dehydrate before we rehydrate.
Truman the old tank well before the.

Speaker 7 (48:47):
Ladies have to do that. If we do that too,
I don't know if you know this, but we tinkle
as well.

Speaker 10 (48:53):
Oh, Sans never gone to the bathroom and.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
I never see I never seen that starts. I'm concerned.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
They just good excuse for the girls. Oh man, it
is just is that what we're sharing.

Speaker 7 (49:06):
Yes, you know how we always say to you, say
more words, say last words.

Speaker 5 (49:13):
Good morning, Sandra, good morning?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Hell are you guys?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
We're good now, Ray talk to you.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
Guys, have no idea bo We are like twins from
another mother kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
The music that you'd like and everything you guys talk about.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
I absolutely adore Christine. Do you say do you say piano?

Speaker 1 (49:31):
No? I don't. Good morning, beaty with bow and Beth.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Say, if Christine you had your chance?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
Just yes, yes, I do yes, thank you, thank you,
thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
And you've got off feeling all right.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
I think I broke Beth off the air, Actually did.

Speaker 7 (49:58):
I wrot?

Speaker 6 (50:03):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Effects dropped from Ben?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
We'll be hearing that again.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
The mourning routine that will help you live to age
one hundred. We're trying to get through a list. You
know us, we never get through lists.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
We got through two. Who knew?

Speaker 10 (50:21):
I thought that we.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Won't get through the get through the rest of this.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
No, hydrating can be that big.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Of a stumbling block to get through. So so number one,
the morning routine that will help you live to age
one hundred. Hydrate right away.

Speaker 14 (50:35):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
And I immediately took issue with this because Beth says
she gets out of bed and drinks a big drum
of water.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Drum of water, the whole barrel.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
And I said, I said, I've been known to go
days without drinking straight up water. I'll drink lots of
things that have water in it, and that's how I
get hydrated.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
You eat a lot of watermelon, the old melon when
you get out.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
So we actually had people defending me on the text line, yes, one,
a lot of people. I want to point out that
some people, that's right, some are saying on the text line.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
First, let's see it was Michael. Michael said, Hey, Beth,
I'm with BO. I don't drink water either. I pretty
much get my water intake through ice. So so he
stands with you and I. Actually he brought up an
excellent point, because Bo, you have an ice machine and
you do get a lot of ice.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
I do have.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
I get only ice for that ice machine I get.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
I'm just what I'm nervous about is first thing in
the morning that it's it's coke, or.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
It is coke.

Speaker 7 (51:40):
Coke first thing in the morning, that's what you wet
your mouth.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Don't brush my.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Teeth with the coke, but the showers in it.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
But wait a minute, wait a minute. How many people
out there, I have to imagine it's got to be
a lot of people that the first liquid that then
then I'm talking about brushing your teeth, I'm talking about
the first beverage that you consume is coffee. I'd be
willing to bet a lot of people are in that boat.
So for me, I don't drink coffee. I don't like it.
Coke diet coke is my coffee. Well, okay, so when

(52:06):
you put us that way, I'm not so weird.

Speaker 7 (52:08):
That makes sense, And that was the point of that
of hydrating. Big number one on this list is because
they're saying you should have water before you actually have
your coffee. This I have to read this text out
loud because I love He hasn't or she hasn't left
a name, but I love this routine. Good morning everyone.
I drink ten ounces of water. First thing. It's by

(52:30):
my bathroom sink. It has my creatine, my apple cider vinegar,
my lemon juice, and my Himalayan salt in it. I
chug that, then brush my teeth and go to the gym,
where I drink another twenty ounces of water. This guy
has it down. That's pretty good.

Speaker 10 (52:45):
I don't know half the things were in that.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
It's Himalayan salt.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Lant take a chal salt.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
I want to take a nap after that.

Speaker 7 (52:52):
Well, Himalayan it's like a pink salt. And you need
salt is basically an electrolyte. You need it or to
operate your into plasmic reticulum and your sodium potassium within
the cells of your body.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
WHA.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Number two is eat a nutrient dense breakfast. Number three
is stretch your body.

Speaker 7 (53:13):
Which I think that that's probably a good idea too,
because you I don't know if you guys sleep. I
don't know if you guys sleep on your side or
on your back. How I'm a side sleeper, and so
I often just I oftentimes wake up with a sore
neck or a sore shoulder because I've I've been pinched
in that one position too long, and so, you know,

(53:35):
been to down, touching my toes, stretching out my hamstring,
stretching out my calf muscle.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Do this every day when you look up, I do.

Speaker 7 (53:41):
While I'm like letting the dogs out, I'm out there
with them, I'll stretch out myself.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
I never knew how much of a multitasker you were
while you were letting the dogs.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
Out, drinking water, stretching my legs.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Number four, Activate your nervous system.

Speaker 7 (53:52):
Now this one I've never done. But you can do
it by tapping yourself or using your fist to kind
of like a punch, punch yourself.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
And that's what he was doing. Wolf of Wall Street McConaughey.

Speaker 7 (54:03):
Character, get yourself woken up.

Speaker 10 (54:04):
What's the health benefit in punching yourself?

Speaker 7 (54:06):
It's activating your nervous system. So let's tell I'll tell you.
Activating your nervous system requires more than just waking up
quick three three minutes somatic exercises like body tapping with
your bald fist. It wakes up by the tiger rock.

Speaker 10 (54:22):
Reminds me of the Bears. Guys Shamessa now having sassages.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
Well, it says, it wakes up your nervous system to
start the day. It promotes a healthy vaggle tone by
the old.

Speaker 10 (54:35):
Waggletone, a healthy one mark it's bagel tone.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
I never heard.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
No one knows that I hear. Hivale and salt was
a near miss.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
Right there, folks, dodge a bullet almost almost eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
It is all.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three DOUBLET.

Speaker 14 (54:57):
Strange things are a foot at the circle.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
This is good morning beat with Bo Thompson at Beth
trout bat.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
Watch meet the changes, then try to keep up.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Okay Right now.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Eight seven on WBT on this Tuesday morning, Bo Thompson,
Beth Troutman Here in the Tyboid Studio and a lot
of news to tell you about today, and we're still
learning more about a story, a tragic story heading into
the weekend. Last week, Arena Zurutzka, twenty three years old,
police say was stabbed to death on Friday night on

(55:35):
the light rail in Charlotte. We now know she had
recently fled war torn Ukraine. That's according to a GoFundMe
page that was set up by some of her friends.
Ten thirty on Friday night is when this happened at
the East West station in South End. Before I bring
on our next guest, I want to go to some
audio from last night's City council meeting from that guest,

(55:58):
Edwin Peacock.

Speaker 15 (56:00):
I am underscoring this and why I think it's so
important is the very reason that Ashmira and all of
us here who know what is on the ballot this November,
which is the continued continuance of the expansion of our
transit system and the transit system that we have all
put so much energy and effort into, but we feel
is one of the best in the country. And all
I know from my experience living in Washington, d C.

(56:21):
And having a lot of friends in Atlanta. Is that
the moment that the transit system starts to become something
where it's not considered to be safe is the moment
in which you begin to lose writers, You begin to
lose the momentum that you want to keep. And I
don't want to see our community. I know our council
doesn't want to see that as well too, And that's
why I want to request, do we have a trend,
mister manager, Do we have something that we need to
respond to?

Speaker 9 (56:42):
We are in a gap period right now. We do
not have a.

Speaker 15 (56:44):
Police chief that is coming in, he is going out.

Speaker 9 (56:49):
Is that the cause of this? I don't believe. So
I'm not pointing a finger at CMPD.

Speaker 15 (56:53):
But what I do want is I want us to
be proactive and not be reactive to this. And most importantly,
I want our public to know that we care about
citizens that are being harmed, and especially at such an
egregious nature on a public transit system that we have
direct authority.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Ever, that was at last night's city council meeting. We
now welcome on the WBT Hotline Live with us here
on Good Morning BT. Edwin Peacock, the representative from district
number six on City Council Edwin. Good morning to.

Speaker 21 (57:20):
You, good morning going to Beth.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
Appreciate you being on with us. And you know, first
here before we talk about big picture, obviously, the tragic
nature of what happened on Friday night at a place
where you know, in this city, South End, where so
many people are, and so many young people at that
are using that system. Just an amazing story to hear
about and just a terrible one to talk about well.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
And to think that she fled a war torn country
and then was killed in an act of violence.

Speaker 21 (57:50):
Here, Yeah, my heart goes out to this victim. Clearly
her refugee status is cheering at the hearts of everyone
who begins to look into the story. I think as
we also look at the suspect and we look at

(58:11):
how many times CMPD has arrested him, we see a
poster child, frankly for what I consider to be our
failed mental health systems, because he clearly was harmed to
himself and others, and we were unable to get him
the help that he needed. And obviously the result here

(58:33):
is beyond anything anyone would imagine. But this was preventable,
and I'd like to see us be a a lot
more aggressive as it relates to these types of individuals
who are frankly riding our bus systems, they're riding our
rail systems, and there's many on the streets of Charlotte
that we just don't have a response for.

Speaker 7 (58:56):
So what in your mind to try to prevent things
like this from happening in the future. How do we
get folks the help that we need or that they need,
and how do we get them into the institutions that
can help when so many of the institutions have lost
funding or you know, there aren't as many available to people,

(59:19):
or they don't necessarily say I want this help, And
how do we get them committed to the help if
they don't want to be there.

Speaker 21 (59:33):
It's complex. I think when you talk with the DA's office,
when you talk with the county, many mental health professionals
and particularly those in the private sector, they talk about
the transfer from the state's responsibility to help those that
are mentally ill and shifting it largely to our prison

(59:55):
system as well as to our sheriff's office. And in
many cases we're asking CMPD to do things that they're
just simply not qualified to do. You will see from
our official press release from the city and from CMPD
that we've had individuals who've confronted him that have been
trained in mental health, but if we don't have a
way to put them somewhere best that can help them,

(01:00:19):
we're really ignoring the problem. And with the problem mental
health combined with addiction, we can't point the finger at
CMPD and say they're not doing their job. When you
see somebody who's been arrested, I believe almost eighteen times
we have a failure in the system and the system
needs to be addressed. We're also at a very important intersection.
I referenced it in my comments last night. Obviously, Chief

(01:00:41):
Jennings is leaving after thirty one years of distinguished service.
This is an opportunity for us as a council, in
this new future council to start underscoring that we have
a crime problem, and that crime problem needs to have
a more comprehensive look. There's many plans on the shelves
of six r D. Fourth Street that we need to
dust off and then we need to revisit. But we

(01:01:02):
need to revisit in the three hundred and sixty degree angle,
looking at both mental health and addiction and obviously combined
with that or many in our homeless population that we
want desperately to help, but we need to provide them
that help well.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
And earlier in the show, we were talking about this
sort of big picture about what it means for the
light rail service, and here we come at a time
maybe a crossroads, you'd even say, about extending that and
to the degree that which we do that, but you
mentioned other cities where you know, once a stigma gets
attached to something like public transportation, it's hard to turn

(01:01:39):
the public sentiment back in the other direction. And so
it's one thing that we're having all these discussions about expansion,
but you also got to make sure that the public
has an underlying confidence and what's already there.

Speaker 21 (01:01:52):
With public sentiment, you can accomplish anything. Without it, you
can accomplish nothing. And right now this is just a
small example that we cannot take this as business as usual,
that this is a normal incident. Bo it's not. We
need to get on top of it. We need to
give confidence to rids that there will be a visible

(01:02:13):
police presence on trains. When we have problems like this,
we need to have a response to it. We need
to have communications from our city giving writers confidence. Otherwise,
the moment that the public begins to feel the way
that I've described, you can see how it will change

(01:02:33):
the sentiment. And when we're looking at asking our voters
to tax themselves so that we can spend forty percent
on rail, forty percent on roads, and then another twenty
percent on the future of transit, which can be a
mix of micro transit to other things, we're asking them
to have confidence in us, and so we need to
reassure them. Last night I asked for details from CMPD

(01:02:55):
as much as we can provide at this point, I
ask for additional details from cats. Is this a pattern?
We all know that we also saw an incident last
week on a bus at Carolina Play Small we'refore assailants
attacked a veteran. We are seeing a series of incidents
over the summer here that point to a crime problem.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
And while I.

Speaker 21 (01:03:17):
Applaud CMPD for the statistics that are proving that our
crime is down, I've been around long enough. You all
have been covering this long enough to know that statistics
are paper thin. When this turns, it's too late, and
that's why we need to get ahead of it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
I want to change the subject real quick before we
let you go, because you actually were the catalyst for
a pretty lively conversation we got into on the air
a few weeks ago because you posted a video. You've
been posting a lot of videos, but one of the
first ones that you posted since you've been back in
office and now running for at large was with one
of your campaign workers in one of the area Charlotte neighborhood.

(01:03:54):
I'm gonn play a littlelip of that right here.

Speaker 18 (01:03:56):
And we're getting some good responses, but we're also getting,
you know, a lot of garden among our neighbors around here.
You want to tell them about that?

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
No, you tell them what are you seeing?

Speaker 18 (01:04:05):
Yeah, So, honestly, some people who just do not even
come to the door. They acknowledge you, but they wave
you off. And it's it's certainly, certainly quite odd that
we have some people out here who don't, you know,
want to want to talk with their elected officials, And yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Well, why do you think they're so guarded us?

Speaker 18 (01:04:22):
I believe it's a combination of technology and the risks
we live in with the modern world, you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Know, So you get an idea, and I thought that
was very interesting because here is someone like you who
is now running again this fall, and it's been a
while since you have run, and a lot of the
technology that's in place now wasn't there the last time
you were doing this. But the old school going on
knocking in doors in neighborhoods. Uh does that? Does that?
I mean that was the first weekend that you did that.
You've been doing more of it, But is that sort

(01:04:47):
of a lost art?

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Now?

Speaker 21 (01:04:51):
It's not a lost art in how I'm campaigning bo.
I think it's one of the best ways in which
any elected official can get very upfront and uh, a
close examination is to what are on the minds of people.
My intern near Oz Connor, who's been helping me out,
we were walking door to door in the South Charlotte
neighborhood and just noticing, obviously the preponderance of ring cameras

(01:05:14):
that are very helpful in the public safety's eyes, but
it adds a layer of defense where normally people might
look through their window to open up and to greet
the individual there. But now you see a sort of
a level of guardedness that wasn't there when I was
last doing this ten years ago. And I think it's positive.

(01:05:35):
But if we want to break down barriers and we
want to reduce tensions between individuals and neighbors, you have
to look at one another. And I think when you're
standing fifteen feet off the doorstep from somebody and you're
there just simply to remind them to vote and to
engage them, you know, it just shows you that we're

(01:05:55):
in a new era.

Speaker 7 (01:05:57):
It's really remarkable thinking about how quickly it has changed
because of technology, how quickly we have gotten away from
the face to face communication. And I think that you
are right that it has created more of this division
because we're not having those face to face conversations and
showcasing mutual respect.

Speaker 21 (01:06:18):
As it is surprising. I mean, we hear so much
about partisanship, but when I stand on someone's doorstep and
I ask them to tell me where do we differ
on issues on the local level, generally I see a
little bit of a turned head, like, oh, I hadn't
thought about that. And what we know is is that
people want safe streets that they want they want their

(01:06:41):
trash picked up, they want dependability, they want to see
a well functioning city. And we don't have to dive
into national divisive issues or other subjects. It's very easy
to find common ground, and I think that's the non
partisan nature municipal politics. That we have to remind ourselves

(01:07:02):
that our first job is to protect and serve. Our
second role is, obviously, is that we're here at the
serve the people, so we're responding to them in their
neighborhoods and in all four corners of Charlotte. We want
to be able to administer that same level of quality
of service from the City of Charlotte the people have
been grown accustomed to. We're a different city than many

(01:07:24):
other rising cities in this country in the sense that
we have a top notch police force that is on
top of things, but we need to complete that circle
with obviously a stronger mental health system and then secondly,
obviously looking very closely at the addiction problem that is
a part of much of our homeless community.

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
Ed Edwin Peacock, who of course is the District sixth
representative now and he's running for at large city council
in the fall, kind enough to give some time this morning.
We appreciate it and we'll talk to you again soon.

Speaker 21 (01:07:57):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (01:07:57):
Goody explore the studio space.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
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Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
There are sixteen segments in our regular show, and we
realized that we need one more.

Speaker 7 (01:08:06):
So here we go, folks. This is what we like
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Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
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Speaker 10 (01:08:37):
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Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
We can turn on a dime on this show. You know,
we can go from lighthearted subjects to serious subjects. It's
just the nature of how we work together. That was
probably the hardest time I've ever had, going from being
jovial to having a very serious conversation because Bo Thompson
everyone seventeenth segment listeners was in rear form.

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Oh man, I used to eat there every day after
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that in Landmark, Oh yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:09:43):
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They're cooler was not working, and so they said, well,
we'll just close till we.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Get it fixed.

Speaker 17 (01:09:53):
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inspector showed up. The person in charge could not answer
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could not answer questions about cold holding or anything.

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Speaker 17 (01:10:23):
Beth's former favorite show, Mars on East Way Drive eighty four.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Baseman, just walk in and go?

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Does anyone know why they're here? Or where here is?

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
Or is anybody here sick?

Speaker 14 (01:10:36):
That too?

Speaker 17 (01:10:38):
Let's see here now we have Disono pizza at Waverley.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
They had an eighty four goodness.

Speaker 17 (01:10:45):
The person in charge had no food safety training and
they too could not answer any food safety questions.

Speaker 10 (01:10:52):
Is like pleading the fifth like what do you do there?

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
I guess it's like I'll know.

Speaker 10 (01:10:56):
A baseball council. I'm not going to answer that question.

Speaker 17 (01:11:02):
Improper hand washing. Observed a food employee touching their hair
and then handling clean equipment without washing and nobody had
their hair covered there.

Speaker 14 (01:11:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:11:16):
Uh, they were not cleaning the food prep area properly.
Pizza cutter used for hours without being washed or even
rinsed off as a nasty slicer had dried food stuck
to it. Other utensils stored as clean were not. The
FOCUTCHA bread had been sitting out way too long and
had to be thrown away.

Speaker 10 (01:11:34):
Forgot ya, gotcha?

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
I forgot you were there?

Speaker 11 (01:11:41):
So that's Pete laughed that hard at your own dad joke,
but she does every time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
She just entertains it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
She was the most audible laugh after her own joke.

Speaker 17 (01:11:52):
She was before she got better. Give that joke a
eddie for sorry Mark. So that was Pizza Waverley and
eighty four. Now we have a joint in Pineville known
as Joy's Beryanni Kebabs. They had an eighty nine a
little better. The jasmine rice was not hot enough had

(01:12:13):
to be thrown out aged nine. There were no dates
on the cooked chicken, the milk, the cream and other items.
That was a repeat violation. There were two food thermometers
and neither one of them worked. The inspector had to
show them how to use them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
When do I did that?

Speaker 17 (01:12:32):
Yeah, let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
There was also Beth will love this one.

Speaker 17 (01:12:37):
A live roach on the meat slicer, live wait.

Speaker 7 (01:12:43):
And they got an eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:12:46):
They also had flies in the kitchen, but whatever they
were doing was not working because they had a can
of residential bug spray.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
City.

Speaker 11 (01:12:55):
Pinegel's technically South Carolina, So I think they great a
curve down there.

Speaker 7 (01:12:59):
I feel like if you have live roach on the
meat slicer, you should fail like seventy one.

Speaker 17 (01:13:03):
Yeah, to agree if you haven't. If you're overrun with roaches,
they can shut you down on the spot. But then
if just one or two they tell you to get
it fixed right on the slicer. Yeah, that's pretty nasty though.
So that's Joy's Buryanni Kebobs roach in Pineville and eighty none.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
No Joy there. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:13:24):
Now we have a place on Margaret Wallace Road in
East Charlotte called El Cilantro. They had an eighty seven
employee was not properly washing after handling raw chicken. The
inspector stopped and gave a little hand washing lesson. Sanitizer
in the dish sink was not strong enough to kill
any germs, so, in other words, they were not sanitizing
the dishes. The food processor was stored as clean but

(01:13:47):
had old food stuck to it, had be re washed food,
and the cooler was not very cold. And turns out
this is another case where oh, it's not working, so
we have to close until we get it fixed. The
repair guy showed up pretty quickly doing they got to
reopen within an hour or two. They had the wrong
dates on the empanadas and other items had no dates

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at all. That was a repeat problem. The inspector said, look,
you got to assign somebody to put dates on your food.
So el's cilantro on, Margaret Wallace, go in there and
go how old are your impanadas? The personal questions they
had they had an eighty seven. Yeah, So there you go.

(01:14:28):
That's this week's hall of shame.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Thank you, Mark, Thank you Mark, Hey, Mark, I got
a question.

Speaker 12 (01:14:35):
Sure later on when they don't do so well in
these uh the reviews, are they able to like ask
for them to come back out or they.

Speaker 17 (01:14:42):
Have to wait for a certain No, actually within about
three days. If they get the problems fixed, they can
call and ask for a reinspection. But you would be
surprised how many times they call for a reinspection and
things are worse.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Yeah, I mean that happens a lot. You've had reinspections
in these reports before.

Speaker 17 (01:14:58):
Yeah, and the inspector comes back, No, you still haven't
fixed that.

Speaker 7 (01:15:02):
Live approach is still on the ham slice.

Speaker 5 (01:15:07):
You still don't know where you are or why you're here.
Nothing's changed.

Speaker 7 (01:15:11):
How old are your.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
How old are those?

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
That's the tone, the tone, alrighty, thank you Mark, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
This is good morning, Beat.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
News Talk eleven ten WBT. It's a Tuesday morning. Time
to check in with our good friend Brett Jensen, the
host of Breaking with Brett Jensen every weeknight o'clock here
on the Great Colossus, and of course follow him on
x for all the news in and around the Charlotte area.
It's Brett Underscore Jensen. That's his handle. More thing, mister Jensen,

(01:16:12):
Good morning all. How are you doing well?

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Doing well?

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
First day of school is in the rear view. Of course,
we were talking about this yesterday, and you were covering
this story yesterday and unfortunately one of the headlines from
yesterday as centers around one of the newest high schools
in the Charlotte Mecklenburg system, Palisades High School, down towards
the Lake Wilie. You had a story you were following
all day yesterday on this.

Speaker 13 (01:16:38):
Yeah, you know, last week a gun, you know, a
juvenile shot a gun from the outside into through a
window and into one of the athletic offices. Nobody was
in the office, thankfully at the time. And yesterday two
adults decided that they were going to break knives or

(01:17:00):
forgot that they had knives on them when they entered
the building and went through the body scanners, and so.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
You know, I don't know why they were carrying knives.

Speaker 13 (01:17:12):
I didn't know people carried knives, to be honest with you,
as part of their daily routine. But then there was
also two students brought knives that was found yesterday, one
at West shaw At High School and one at Huff
High School. So yesterday there were four knives that were
discovered on people that were detected by body scanners.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
Were these like Swiss army knives? Were they pocket knives?
Do you know details about the kinds of knives that
were being carried or forgotten in pockets?

Speaker 13 (01:17:42):
Yeah, no, I don't know, And that's what I was
wondering because but I can tell you the two adults
they were, they were charged and arrested, so you know,
And I even said, you know, last not on air,
I said, I don't know if there were if there
were a tiny little Swiss army knife with a corkscrew
and little scissors, Okay, I said, I sort of get it.

Speaker 17 (01:18:00):
But well, we've learned a little more. Those I could
chime in, We've learned a little more. The one woman
had a box cutter and indeed did have a gun
on her yesterday Brett Wow, oh turns down there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
So Brett and Mark, you guys are both with us
here the CMS. We carried the press conference that they
started the day with and from the bus lots, which
they always do. They always have a post first day
news conference as well. What did we learn what kind
of elaboration came from them yesterday regarding some of these
things we're talking about right here.

Speaker 13 (01:18:35):
Well, you know, they addressed it briefly, you know, I mean,
they just talked about how these were poor choices, because
they said this was these were actual choices that people made,
and that there's nothing to protect against poor choices. But
that's why they have the body scanners, and that's why
scanners work and to try and prevent things like this,

(01:18:57):
you know. And they said, look, they will, you know,
do this to the full extent of the law that
they're allowed. But the problem is, especially with the juveniles,
even juveniles that have brought guns to school are usually
home within hours of being taken into custody. They're usually
homes sitting at home with their parents or guardians within hours,

(01:19:18):
and a lot of times not a lot happens to
them because of the system and so it's you know,
we'll see what happens. They talked about it a little
bit like I said yesterday, but it was more of
just it was more just like, well, these are poor choices,
and these are choices that people make, and there's not
a lot you can do when people actually make choices

(01:19:38):
to do this.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
So that's that was one headline from day number one. Now,
Crystal Hill, Doctor Hill started the day at the news
conference in front of the bus lot and one of
the things that she talked about actually three different things.
She talked about three different apps that she was imploring
students and families to use. And we were talking about
the fact that so much seems, you know, geared towards

(01:20:01):
using your digital devices these days. And at the same time,
you know, one of the headlines from schools across the
country is, you know, our school system's going to allow
cell phones or not. So every sing thing centered it
seems to center around that little device that we all
carry around. But the way that the safety measures are
implemented and access to those same devices from students and

(01:20:22):
teachers is an ongoing discussion here.

Speaker 13 (01:20:26):
Yeah, you know, and look, they tried to make cell
phones universal in terms of how what you can and
can't do with them, because you know, like in the
years past, you know, every school had their own system,
so there wasn't a uniform policy, and so I mean
they're you know, so you have what one hundred and

(01:20:46):
eighty schools, and so you've probably you had one hundred
and eighty different policies, and now they're trying to make
them uniform that they're not going to be allowed like
out you know, on the person is one thing, you know,
in your pockets and your per whatever book bag. But
they're not supposed to be out now. Granted, if an
alert comes through and there's a lockdown or you know,

(01:21:10):
the new system that they've got in place, I love
you guys, which is what it's called, then yes, people
will go to their cell phones and they'll react to
their parents and tell their parents what's going on. But
I think you know, the policy is you're not supposed
to have them out at all system wide. Now, they're
supposed to be put away and not seeing period. So

(01:21:30):
but we all know that a sixteen year old or
even a fourteen year old whatever, will we'll have their
phones out, like like we are aware of this we're
not silly.

Speaker 7 (01:21:39):
Before we before we let you go. Any positives from yesterday,
any any good news from the first day of school?
Did things run smoothly, buses were going greater, kids were happy.

Speaker 13 (01:21:53):
Yeah, I mean the buses did what they always do
in the first day of school. There are regardless of
every single bus driver position is field, there are always
occasions where buses run late, and some occasions buses were running.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
An hour, hour and a half late.

Speaker 13 (01:22:08):
A school board member's own child got to school an
hour and fifteen minutes late because of the buses. Wow,
and so, but that always happens the first day of school,
not everywhere, and then usually by Wednesday everything is just
running very, very smoothly. But they were very happy with
the way, you know, the first day of school when
they were having the press conmence, they were happy with

(01:22:29):
the way things were going, and it you know, appeared
to be excited. So I said, the buses people, some
people were complaining about the buses. That actually happens every
single year, and that's the norm, not the exception.

Speaker 5 (01:22:40):
Yeah, that here comes. The bus app has been in
use for us several years now. But that that works
once the bus routes themselves are finalized on the first
day into the first weeks, a couple of weeks of school,
they have to get those routes worked out. So an
ongoing thing, no doubt. Before we let you go. What's
coming up on the Breaking with Brett Jensen tonight that

(01:23:01):
you know of right now?

Speaker 13 (01:23:03):
Well, I went to a political event last night where
there were five judges, so I was able to talk
to some of the judges and just learn more about
the system and more about the things that they deal
with and how the process works. So I'm gonna talk
a little bit about that tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
All right, six o'clock right here on News Talk eleven
ten WBT, Breaking with Brett Jensen and follow him on
X Brett Underscore Jensen. Good to talk to you, man,
and then we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 13 (01:23:28):
Thanks, guys, appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
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You want to be good? Or do you want to
be somebody who changes the world? Can I be both?

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three Double ept.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
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Light from the dark. This is Good Morning Bet with
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Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Then it can't be on the Waity's Talker.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
Nine oh seven on WBT. You never know where the
text line is going to take you. We were just
talking to Brett Jensen about the first day of school
in Charlotte Mecklenberg. Two knives were found heading into Palisades
High School and we were talking about this and sort

(01:24:22):
of getting the report card as it were, for the
first day of school across the district. And Brett makes
the comment that most people don't carry knives.

Speaker 7 (01:24:30):
Right, And I asked the question what kind of knives
were they were? You know, was it, for example, a
pocket knife that might have been forgotten in a pocket?
And Brett asked the question, like who does who carries
a knife? And I will tell you we have received many,
many text messages on our text line. One this person
didn't provide a name, but he says about eighty percent

(01:24:52):
of the guys I know, myself included, carry a pocket
knife every single day. Rodney said, if Brett doesn't know
why you might want to carry a pocket knife, he
needs to turn in his man card. That's from That's
from Rodney. Jeff Garver says, all real men should carry
a pocket knife, which made me then look at our
Sir Steven of Anthony.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
But good morning.

Speaker 7 (01:25:13):
I at one point needed a pocket knife. This was
a few it's been it's been a couple of months,
and I now call Steve Barry Poppins because lovingly, of course,
anytime I need something, he either has it on his
person or in his car, including a pocket knife. And
you've you've, you've offered it to me for many a service.

Speaker 20 (01:25:36):
And honestly, and I was just saying this to Bernie
during the break, I have to imagine, at least five
to six times a week at minimum, do I have
a use for it randomly, whether it's around the office
or at you know, at home, or out and about
somewhere or something. So yes, I mean outside of if
I'm ever going to the airport or you know, heaven forbid,

(01:25:57):
the courthouse or like city hall or something like that,
I always have my knife in my pocket.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Are you going to the courthouse, Steve?

Speaker 20 (01:26:04):
I have to get my driver's license renewed or a
new tag, or you know, run from the low considering
I live in South Carolina, in the courthouse, in city hall,
is the same place.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
That's you know, all right.

Speaker 17 (01:26:15):
But I mean I've I've carried a knife for years.

Speaker 7 (01:26:19):
Well, Rick, I mean we've really gotten about thirty, maybe
forty texts about this. Rick says, I'm a landscaper. I
carry a knife on me every single day. Yep, Dave says,
Brett seems surprised, But I carry a folding pocket knife daily.
Many people do. Oh my goodness, now more more, more
people are coming in.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
Well, yeah, I mean it's like a utility knife. Look,
my son was in boy Scouts and I was too,
And one of the things that we did once they
I can't remember, they had achieve a certain rank, and
then then they had to go through a little process
where they got their wood It was called like the
wood car Somebody out there in Scouts will remind me
what it's called. But they got their wood carver's certificate

(01:27:02):
that demonstrated that they knew how to be safe with
a knife. And then and again, these are these are young, young,
young kids that could then they were they were then
allowed to carry a knife on you know, scouting events,
scouting trips.

Speaker 7 (01:27:16):
You know, what's what's a strange thing to think about?
Now we back I always say, back in my day,
But when when we were in high school, the days
of yours, in the days of viewer, a lot of
people had Swiss army knife key chains, and we had
them in school. Half the time, you had them hanging
off the book bag, you know, like there wasn't a

(01:27:37):
sense of violence in school the same way. I mean,
every now and again you might see a fight in
the cafeteria or you know, in the little communal areas
in between classes or something like that. But I don't
And maybe it was just because I was in small
town Concord, which Concord kind of was a small town.
Then it's not anymore. We only had a few high schools.
I digress.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
Now you have three gas stations.

Speaker 7 (01:27:59):
Now we have yeah, like five. Well you know what
this is a this is a total side note. But
Bo Thompson went to watch one of the football games
on Saturday night and he sends me a text and
he's like, hey, we're playing your high school for good actually,
but it was jam Robinson, which is in Concord. But
I had to ride him back and say, dude, that
school didn't even exist. Back when I was in high school.

(01:28:22):
We had three high schools.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
We're spiders, not bulldogs.

Speaker 7 (01:28:24):
Yeah, we weren't the bulldogs. We were the spiders. We had
Concord High School, we had Northwest Caverras, and we had
Central Cabarras.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
That was it.

Speaker 7 (01:28:29):
But now there's like a billion. They've got jam Robinson,
you have Cox Mill, you have north Well, Northwest and
Central are still there. Then you have like West Caberras.

Speaker 5 (01:28:37):
Billion.

Speaker 7 (01:28:37):
Yeah, there's so many. We have a lot of schools,
so so, so many schools in Caverras County. But in
our time, I mean, we hadn't had Columbine yet, it
just wasn't the same. I don't think that we thought
about I don't even think we thought about violence in
schools back then.

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
Well, I mean, and again, I think the point people
are trying to make here is carrying a pocket knife
or some sort of little utility folding knife is not
that uncommon. Now you can't.

Speaker 20 (01:29:08):
This isn't like crocodile dundee walking through the halls or anything.
I mean, this thing, you wouldn't even know it's in
my pocket unless I pulled it out of my pocket.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
You can't walk into a school with that. But I
think most I think there are a lot of people
who walk into their daily jobs and do have one
of those. And that's not the kind of thing that
you think of a weapon in capital letters. It's a
it's a tool.

Speaker 12 (01:29:29):
There's one person to get away with that around here,
and that's Bill barte Oh yeah, Jesse Browns, Bill bartil Well.

Speaker 7 (01:29:33):
I have to I have to give a big shout
out to my favorite human, Pam l Vany. She just
texted in on the text line. She's my soulmate, a
sister from another mister. She said, I carry a small
knife in my handbag and just strapped my buck knife
to my belt because I'm headache to the pasture and
you never know when you might need it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
My wife carries a knife on her whenever she's going
out walking and stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
I can already tell you that Pam l Vany knows
more about weapons than I've ever known. Now that's not
to say that I don't have a pocket knife or
a utility knife, because I, like I said, my son
went through Scouts and so did I. But I think
people are coming out of the woodwork talking about this
because it sort of was a nonchalantly thing said.

Speaker 7 (01:30:13):
Right right right. It was just kind of this ring.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
I don't know who carries a knife, but right it was.

Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
An off the cuff thing. And when an off the
cuff comment sends our text line into a frenzy, I
mean I still I've probably gotten thirty more just in
the time that we've been having the conversation people talking
about their pocket knives and why you use them. And
I'm not gonna lie. Since I borrowed Steve's, I have
now put a Swiss Army knife in the console of
my my little vehicle.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
You're welcome. You don't need a knife.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
You've got a stand.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
Rolling on on a Tuesday, October?

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
October?

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
What am I doing?

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
Where did that come from? It came from Happy Halloween
because today is the first day of pumpkin spice at Starbucks. Oh,
even though I've never had anything pumpkin spice at Starbucks
because I don't do the coffee thing. I saw the
story yesterday, so maybe that's why my brain was October.

Speaker 7 (01:31:16):
You're already feeling halloweeny.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
It is August twenty sixth. Ladies and gentlemen, still getting
texts call me a weenie. Still getting text on the
hotline seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, ten driven
by libertybuw at GMC about the Acario utility knife.

Speaker 7 (01:31:34):
Or a pocket knife of any sort. I haven't seen
the text line blow up like this since uh Megabeth
came around earlier today. Earlier today. That's right, Matthew, I
like to hear about that. I didn't want to stomp
all over it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Make abath sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:31:53):
Matthew just sent us a great message and said, hey,
Bo and Beth, I gave my wife two pocket knives
and she hasn't cut me yet. One is purple and
has hearts on it, and the other looks like a
mini gun. It's very tiny.

Speaker 5 (01:32:05):
So all this talk about knives and utility knives and
this and that, you know, you start thinking because we
were talking last hour with Brett Jensen about the fact
that two knives were intercepted going into Palisades High School
the first day of school, you know, getting the report
cards of how things went. You know, security is always
something that we talk about. I'll give you a little

(01:32:26):
behind the scenes here at the old one Jullian Price
Place today. And this is a good thing. I mean,
the more security we can get, the better. Right as
long as I've worked here, there's been a security gate
and fence around this facility. But it's gotten more intricate
over the years. Now for the first time, and look,
I've been coming here around thirty years if you count

(01:32:49):
the years that I work part time back in my
you know, high school and college days, so I've spent
many a year coming into this building. I remember when
they instituted the card key that we have, because you
have to use a card key, and this is the
same for a lot of big companies that we could
mention around the area, broadcast or not a lot of people.
You have to have a card access key to get

(01:33:12):
into a gate, and then you go inside the building
and you've got to have a card key to get
in certain rooms the doors. Yeah, it's been that way
here for a long time. But for the first time ever,
we came to work today and now they have instituted
one of these sensors at the studio door.

Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
Yeah, we can't get into the studio without our card key.

Speaker 21 (01:33:32):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:33:32):
Now, when I was a kid and I was talking
to people about wanting to get into radio, and you
hear stories about because when I started out in this business,
I was running the control board on Sunday nights and
I did a lot of that behind the scenes stuff
before I ever did the the microphone thing. But I
used to worry, right I'd hear stories about I can't

(01:33:54):
remember who. Somebody on staff here back in the day
told me this story about how they got locked out
of the studio one night when they playing a record
and the record ran out and they couldn't get in
the room. And I don't know how they got locked
out because this door has never had a lock on it.
But now this door has a card key. And this
is exactly the kind of thing that I would do
if I if this had happened when I was in
high school or college or who am I kidding? I

(01:34:16):
can do it now, one of us someday. Now, with
all of us in the room, you know, we can
let each other in. But if you're on the weekend
or you're on a shift where it's just you, it's
gonna happen where somebody accidentally leaves the you know, during
a commercial break to go, you know, use the restroom
or something like that, and they forget their card and
they get locked out of the studio and nobody else

(01:34:38):
is here, and you're I have dreams about this where
I'm still a board operator on the weekend and I'm
locked out of the studio and I'm watching and you know,
the these days were a lot of times are automated,
so it's it's harder for it to happen, but it's
still possible for it to happen because you have to
do some things manually. But back in those days, you

(01:34:58):
had to do every single thing. Every commercial was on
its own little cart. We called them these four track
cassette carts, kind of like a four kind of like
an eight track type technology. But then some things you
had on a reel to real tape. Some things you
had on a CD and if that ran out, you had.

Speaker 7 (01:35:14):
To push the next button right you were out of lock.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
So this is the thing I used to dream about,
and I still do. You know how you we have
those recurring dreams where you're back in school and you
didn't do you didn't complete an assignment, and you go
to the class and you're in there and you're taking
the test that you didn't study for, and that's like
a metaphor for other things. But everybody has that dream
to some degree. For guys who worked in radio like
I did, and maybe Bernie and Steve have this same dream.

(01:35:38):
I dream still that that I'm a college kid running
the control board and I get locked out of the studio.
And now, because we have this sensor, which is good
because it keeps people out of the studio who shouldn't
be in here, but I'm worried that it's going to
keep me out one day when I'm supposed to be
in here and I've forgotten my card and I'm just
watching the station go to dead air.

Speaker 7 (01:35:57):
I promise I'll let you in if you have to
smash your face against the little little window.

Speaker 5 (01:36:06):
What the dream is is that you're not here, like
no one's here.

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
And you can't get in to do your job.

Speaker 5 (01:36:11):
It's gonna happen to somebody, it is, and there's no look.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have the security in place.
I'm just saying that now someone here is going to
be the first victim of this.

Speaker 7 (01:36:22):
I will tell you I'm the only one in this
room who does this. But I wear my my card
around my neck. Oh Steve does it too, like a lanyard. Well,
Barry Poppins does it too. He has his, He has
his around his around his neck.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:36:35):
I wear it like a lanyard because I don't want
to forget.

Speaker 20 (01:36:37):
That better not better not that's that's really going to
bother me. If I'm totally okay with Sir Stephen of Anthony,
but Barry Poppins, better not stick.

Speaker 7 (01:36:48):
You carry you have everything. You're like Mary.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
You don't control what happens in our world. Only one
person does make.

Speaker 7 (01:36:54):
A bed from now on, when you call our station
and Steve answers the phone.

Speaker 20 (01:37:00):
See, and I knew I if I said something it was,
I was gonna make it worse.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
And hear it is Megabeth, is this larger than my figure?

Speaker 14 (01:37:06):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
So he goes from Sir Stephen of Anthony to Barry Poppins.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
That's the worst.

Speaker 7 (01:37:16):
But it's the biggest compliment ever because anytime, like I
could say, I could say to him, I I need
a wet wipe, you know, for my hands, and Steve
will have one in his pocket like a little like
a little perill wipe.

Speaker 5 (01:37:27):
Yes, I'm sure that Barry Poppins has plenty of wet wipes.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
That's pretty incredible.

Speaker 7 (01:37:32):
But I've asked for some of themers must be done.
Oh Steve, snack the jobs again?

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Steve Stock at an all time low. Steve Stock is taking.

Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
You must call him this one. You call in now, thanks, sir,
Stephen is dead.

Speaker 7 (01:38:02):
Good tomorrow, Berry, that's right.

Speaker 20 (01:38:05):
I'm gonna follow in Jim Zoki's footsteps and go home.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:38:10):
That's perfect. Barry Poppins would say, good morrow, goodmorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Oh boy.

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
So one of these days someone's gonna get locked out
of the studio. And it's all in the name of
better security. But you know, if anybody's listening who used
to work here, you remember that door. I'm talking about
the huge door that feels like it's three feet thick,
you know, not quite that much, but it's a big door.

Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
It is a heavy door, and it's shmered with something
like it's a lot of hands. It's smeared with a
lot of years of hands.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
A lot of hands have touched that door. Yeah, guarantee
you that one.

Speaker 7 (01:38:40):
This is why I needed Barry Poppins for a purell wipe,
Barry Poppins, because you know, you just don't know where
those hands have been a.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Lot of sugar helps the medicine. We all get locked out,
we can assure that Steve will not let us.

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
In Steve's never gonna let sorry, I can't hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
Good luck getting into tomorrow morning.

Speaker 15 (01:39:08):
I just want to.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Put it out there.

Speaker 5 (01:39:10):
I would never play this as a bumper without a reason, ever, ever,
but I guess I'm here thanks to Beth Troutman.

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
I've driven you down this bumpy rad.

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
Yeah, because this is one of the worst songs of
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
I got.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
That night's garter, good Night.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
That's your night's carter, good night.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
That's a nights.

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
Garter from the Beatles to the Black Eyed Peas to
Elton John. This is actually the Telegraph out of London
trying to select the worst songs of all time. But
there's a bit of a catch to this. These can't
be novelty songs or songs that were purposely trying to
be bad.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
The rules were.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
The songs chosen couldn't just be straight up dreadful. They
had to be songs that actually were liked by someone.
They had to be popular or obscure. They could be
popular or obscure. They could be performed by Grammy winners.
All that mattered was that somehow, somewhere along the way
they became unlistenable. Now that see, now you're tracking with me. Yeah,

(01:40:27):
songs that were maybe cool because they were novelties or
you know, something different, but then they got played so
much hint hint money that they became songs you just hated.

Speaker 7 (01:40:41):
Nails on a chopboard kind of songs that every time
you hear them.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
All Right, I've already had enough of this one.

Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
This one's on the list, I think is this guy
played at too many weddings and parties and school dances.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
And we were just talking about the thirtieth anniversary of
Windows ninety five yesterday and how Matthew Perry, the late
Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston back in ninety five, like
did the whole rollout because you know, they were hip
and new then.

Speaker 7 (01:41:09):
Right, because Friends debuted in nineteen ninety four and it
didn't become the smash hit that it was until you know,
a year or two end.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Now, this song hit number one and was considered a
smash at the time, But this is on the now
unlistenable list? Do you agree with that one?

Speaker 7 (01:41:27):
Yes, the rim Brands.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
I'm gonna make Beth really unhappy about the next one,
because if I remember correctly, this is this is one
of your all time favorites. This one here has been
one of the ones that you woke up to.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Yeah, sure, don't think strong.

Speaker 9 (01:41:56):
Supposed to.

Speaker 5 (01:41:59):
Yeah, this one, this one did not age well as
far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 7 (01:42:03):
I think it was the technology part of it, the cray.
It was like they added the little uh auto tune effect.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
WHOA, Now, maybe I'm in the minority. I don't hate
this song. I don't either, you know why because I
liked this album for the most part by r EM.
But this also has the woman from the B fifty
twos in it.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
Right there, and I should be the key demographic for
this song, shiny.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Happy people look uncomfortable.

Speaker 7 (01:42:38):
It does make me uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
I think it was.

Speaker 7 (01:42:40):
It's kind of like the stand in the place wearing you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
I hate that one.

Speaker 7 (01:42:43):
It's all the same, you.

Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
Know, if that it's in that vein. But if I
was gonna have to choose one of the two, I
like this one better than.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
Yeah, I would. I think it's the B fifty twos
lady that that helps this one a little a little.

Speaker 3 (01:42:57):
Yeah. He leads into this to you guys, ever, follow
my Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
Again.

Speaker 14 (01:43:04):
These are.

Speaker 5 (01:43:06):
Now unlistenable songs. According to this survey done by the
Telegraph of Music writers. Songs that were big hits, but
now you've heard him so many times they are just terrible,
unlistenable songs.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
I think it's because he was on a train. He
was like I was on this he was high and
saw a woman who is with another man. Yes, you
have the one word, right right.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
A happened in the first Oh, I'm not gonna do
that to you guys, the edits that's flying.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
I think, yeah, all right, do you even know who
this is?

Speaker 7 (01:43:50):
That Blue Monday Monday order?

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Yeah, just can't be on the list.

Speaker 7 (01:43:58):
Oh you like this song?

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
So I like this song, and I like Orgy's cover
of this song. I'm a fan of both of them.

Speaker 5 (01:44:05):
Glad you glad you said cover of this song?

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
After that, that's quite didn't let it breathe. I've been
in radio a long time, buddy.

Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
Let's see what else we got on there.

Speaker 7 (01:44:14):
This one kind of makes me sad because I love
sporting events that play this song.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
They plays the Ascent games.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Oh no, not this one.

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
Oh you know what I'm gonna play. This one's gonna
make Pat McCrory mad.

Speaker 18 (01:44:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
Oh, the Beatles, Yeah, they say this song is now unlistenable. Man,
I'm them's fighting words might be the harmonica hang out there,
you go, you.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Love you.

Speaker 8 (01:44:56):
Love me?

Speaker 7 (01:44:57):
And this is coming from a British publication. This isn't
this isn't an American publication. This is a British publication
that came up with these songs. And the fact that
they put a Beatles song in the top of lip
or I guess the bottom eleven of all most hated songs.

Speaker 5 (01:45:10):
Yeah, unlistenable. I've known three Beatle freaks in my life.
Love Pat McCrory was one, Jason Lewis was too. Al
Gardner was three. I think they would probably argue there
is no such thing as an unlistenable Beatles song.

Speaker 7 (01:45:27):
I think even if you're not a Beatles fan, it's
hard to say that Beatles that anything from the Beatles
as I'm listening.

Speaker 20 (01:45:32):
Well, they had such a gigantic catalog with music and
it was all so different.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
Yeah, from album to album, even within the same album.

Speaker 5 (01:45:40):
You want one more so the one that maybe this
is the best list I've ever seen or heard. Bo's
favorite British band of all time, the worst song by
the worst bands. Maybe we know what this means.

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
Oh boys.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
And at the time when they came out, they were
supposed to be the next Beatles.

Speaker 2 (01:46:03):
Yeah right, let me.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Get back to where it's like, uh, here we go.
They kind of just drone on.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
It's actually the best.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Part of the song, specially change Where were you?

Speaker 18 (01:46:21):
Where were you?

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
I was in an acapella agree, I was turning the station.
So that's the list. Well, were Pagne Supernova in the
Sky the one song that we that we miss. Can't
play that funnel here No, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 (01:46:38):
Neil Diamonds, Sweet Carolina, Oh I forgot about this. Sweet
Caroline is the one that I I can't get behind
this one because it's so great at sporting events.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
At least we can agree on that.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
I thought you were doing with the Elton John Oh no,
we got to play say the name of it?

Speaker 7 (01:46:52):
No, but anyway, yeah, here here you go, Neil and
when this song is kind of creepy, but.

Speaker 5 (01:46:58):
It's it's it is in hindsight, it's very I went
to the school, the school where they started playing this.
The first time I ever heard this played at a
sporting event. Now maybe it happened at the Fenway before
I realized it, but they started playing it at Davidson
Oh yeah, in the Steph Curry era, and I just
uh like, I graduated from there. But I can't stand this.

Speaker 7 (01:47:20):
It's fun when everybody sees it together.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
No, no, it's not bad.

Speaker 7 (01:47:33):
Man, so good.

Speaker 20 (01:47:36):
See that's the part that I never understood as a
big Meal Diamond fan.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
I made Bog all the way back to champions as
somebody who've.

Speaker 20 (01:47:42):
Seen him live, I don't under I don't know where
that came from. That's so good, so good, so good
thing like I get the bump bump bump.

Speaker 7 (01:47:49):
Because it's because the game is so good, Steve, so good.

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
I have a sportsman be ye, good morning guys, love
lit every morning on the way to work.

Speaker 7 (01:48:01):
We love it here. It's like a carnival.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
You gotta be proud of Oh yeah, that's the most.

Speaker 5 (01:48:06):
Fitting term ever for the show. We're a carnival. The
only way to become president is to win the homecoming Carnival.

Speaker 1 (01:48:13):
This is good morning, Beatty.

Speaker 5 (01:48:15):
That's right, Arnold, and that's exactly what we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Will in this phone to grab.

Speaker 10 (01:48:23):
It makes me up, not ours get spid?

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
What the hell is on? Joey said, you know what
is it. This is where I grew.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
I beg the president, how did this not make the list?
No Nickelback on the list, not a.

Speaker 7 (01:48:43):
Single Nickelback song on the list. But Jeff Jeff had
asked so basically, any Nickelback song, he said, any song
from Nickelback should have been on that list.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
I must have done it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:56):
But I mean, these are music journalists that put this
list together. And again, it's not just worse songs of
all time, Like there are a lot of songs that
would be like Achy Breaky Heart, or like Mambone number five. Oh,
you know some of those those novelty songs the Mark
Arena that you knew were just But they're talking about
songs that actually did well, but they got played so

(01:49:18):
much that they became like songs you just want to avoid.
We started off with I got a feeling, which I
totally agree with. I remember the first time I heard
that song, Okay, that's kind of a different sound for
the Black Eyed Peas, and then after the millionth time,
I thought, I never want to hear the Black Eyed
Peas again.

Speaker 7 (01:49:34):
I can't ever well when you started playing that at
the beginning of the segment where we were talking Kelly
sent us a text to our text line seven oh
four five, seven oh eleven tenants had stop playing it please,
and then she put in parentheses, I've got a feeling
she just did not want to hear it. So a
lot of people agreed with a lot of people agreed
with this list, especially with the Oasis part of the list.

(01:49:56):
So many people are in your boat, your oasis.

Speaker 5 (01:50:01):
Boat boat is sinking right now.

Speaker 18 (01:50:02):
Two day's gonna be the day that they gonna throw
it back to you great songs.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
By now you should have.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
Somehow realized what you gotta Do's nose.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Body feels a way out to.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
Gosh.

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
What David said, we needed to add Annie Lennox and
the Rhythmics to this list, and we needed to add
some George Michael to the list.

Speaker 5 (01:50:27):
Okay, but see both of those there are songs by
each that I would put in that category. But there
are songs by both of those groups that I would
say were some of the greatest songs of all time.
Like there's some great George Michael songs, there are also
some terrible ones, like you know, if I never heard
I'll Tumble for You again, I'll be fine. But if
you like like like that. The Faith album had some

(01:50:47):
good stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:50:48):
On Wait, I Tumble for You. I thought that was
boy George.

Speaker 5 (01:50:50):
That is that is that wham?

Speaker 10 (01:50:53):
Maybe maybe that is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
I think that was boy George one of the Georgia's.

Speaker 5 (01:50:58):
One of the Georges. I don't culture club. Okay, well,
same time period.

Speaker 7 (01:51:04):
But There's a Monkey on your Back by George Michael
was the one that got don't like get the Monkey
off your Back or whatever?

Speaker 5 (01:51:09):
That good song.

Speaker 7 (01:51:10):
Oh, I didn't like that song. I think that made
me feel weird. You got a monkey on your back?
It made me feeluncomfortable.

Speaker 12 (01:51:16):
I'm already uncomfortable to see. Thank you's the delivery, Beth,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
Let's go find out in.

Speaker 5 (01:51:21):
That case, there's only one way to end the show today,
Ladies and gentlemen, this was a great tune from that album.

Speaker 7 (01:51:33):
See Bernie is uncomfortable. You make it pretty uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 (01:51:38):
There's some bad stuff on that album. There's a song
called Kissing a Fool.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
That's not a good song.

Speaker 7 (01:51:42):
That's a bad one.

Speaker 5 (01:51:43):
No right, they're much worse George Michael songs in this
including I'll Tumble for You. It's so bad it's not

(01:52:05):
even a George Michael soon George Michael song. I had
to get boy George to sing it, and I'll be
honest with you, I've never heard a good boy George song.

Speaker 7 (01:52:13):
I was about to say, Karma Chameleon could be added
to the songs that are listenable.

Speaker 5 (01:52:16):
Yeah, all right, there've been a lot of places today,
wow have we ever? Thanks to uh Vernie and Steve
and Mark Garrison and of course Jim Zochie and Boomer
von Cannon.

Speaker 7 (01:52:28):
And Barry Poppins and Barry Poppins.

Speaker 5 (01:52:32):
Hyah, I could be George Michael too. I might tumble
for you.

Speaker 7 (01:52:37):
Good talk be good talk though bye bye bye fun
storming the castle.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
You could take it goodbye.

Speaker 5 (01:52:46):
You've been listening to Good Morning bet here us live
weekday mornings six to ten on WBT a m n
FM eleven ten, nine to nine point three.

Speaker 7 (01:52:54):
You can listen to us anytime right here at WBT
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Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
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