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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do fellow kids her?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (00:02):
How are you doing all right? Sir? Good morning from.

Speaker 4 (00:05):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three W Beatty.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
That's not a good thing. Have you thought about moving?

Speaker 4 (00:12):
This is Good Morning Beatty with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 5 (00:16):
But I tell you to her my horseshoes again, my horseshoe.

Speaker 6 (00:24):
Yeah, ain't seen you in a minute.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I got something to tell you.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (00:31):
See the thing about you back on my eye is
the same thing that makes me jan my mom and
the hard to explain.

Speaker 8 (00:44):
Fuck girl, I'll try.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
You need to sit down this met think, oh wow.

Speaker 6 (00:51):
See this girl, she sort of looks just thank you.
She'd even smiles just the way you five seven the
block and the said she seems.

Speaker 9 (01:05):
I think it's one o two five. Somebody was feeling
herself this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:21):
I went from the Thompson Twins to Usher. No one
can explain.

Speaker 10 (01:25):
My brain had enough of me. This is why, kid,
You told me what your song was, and I mixed
this one up with a different Usher song.

Speaker 8 (01:38):
Oh first, let's hear this full story, this full song,
the full story. I'm worried. Well, there is a there
is a cuss word at the very end of this song,
and I want to make sure we don't plaated.

Speaker 10 (01:50):
We have we have two minutes and fifty seconds left.

Speaker 8 (01:54):
Before the cuss word.

Speaker 10 (01:55):
Oh yeah, this was what song was? You said it
was on the wind?

Speaker 8 (01:58):
Well, well I think it. I mean it's it's he's
just ad libbing and says a bad word.

Speaker 10 (02:03):
Okay, yeah, yeah, cool song, breath.

Speaker 8 (02:05):
I get nervous. I get nervous for you.

Speaker 10 (02:07):
What you said a few minutes ago was when you
said you want to hear the full story. It was
that's a translation for cool story.

Speaker 11 (02:12):
Bo.

Speaker 12 (02:12):
No that I do.

Speaker 8 (02:13):
I want to hear the full story about how you
mixed up Usher songs.

Speaker 10 (02:16):
Well, when when I came in this morning, you you
said I need that song you remind me. And Usher's
first song that I ever heard from him was this
song right here. This is like nineteen ninety nine. You
make me want to remember this? No, yes, yeah, Steve does.

Speaker 9 (02:37):
I definitely probably do.

Speaker 10 (02:42):
Help him.

Speaker 9 (02:44):
Basically, it's him saying he wants to cheat on this girl.

Speaker 10 (02:46):
Yeah, he made me want to leave the one I'm
with and start a new relationship. This was like way
early Usher, before he was Usher. And I don't remember
the context necessarily, but I always remember the song, you know, randomly,
remember where you were when you heard a song for
the first time, even if it's not like a song
of consequence. Sometimes it's just like a random song.

Speaker 9 (03:07):
Absolutely, I didn't.

Speaker 10 (03:08):
Know what Usher was going to turn into. This was
the first song I ever heard by him. I want
to say it was like nineteen ninety nine or two thousand.
I was running the board for John Hancock in the
afternoon and Hancock brought up this somehow. He and I
got talking about Usher, and Hancock was like Usher and
I played this song and he was, you know, dumbfounded
about who Usher was, and I and now, you know,

(03:30):
little he and I know that like in the next
ten years, Usher would turn into one of the biggest
pop stars in the world.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
Did y'all I don't know if either of you guys.

Speaker 10 (03:38):
Why the way John Hancock with us today the Final
Hour show.

Speaker 8 (03:41):
We'll ask him about his thoughts on Usher.

Speaker 9 (03:43):
Now he won't remember, I was gonna say, he'd be like,
what the guy at the church that brings.

Speaker 8 (03:46):
You to your show, the Usher during a wedding. Did
y'all watch the voice or have you ever watched The Voice.
Did you guys watch the seasons of the Voice where
Usher was an actual judge.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Nope.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
The only times I'd ever watched The Voice was solely
for the blind auditions. I do love the blind Dog,
and then after that, I don't care. Yeah, yeah, like
I just I want to see the really good ones
with the chair turns, and I want to see the
really terrible ones, and then after I like the competition.
I don't know, I don't care.

Speaker 8 (04:12):
I'm with you. The blind audition part of the Voice
is spectacular, but when Usher was a judge, he was adorable,
and it was surprising how adorable he was. It kind
of made me more, which is probably how I know
this song, because after seeing him on The Voice, I
started listening to more of his music because I knew.

Speaker 10 (04:29):
Where your song or Hancocks in myself.

Speaker 8 (04:31):
My song Oh You're because I knew burn and I knew.

Speaker 10 (04:35):
Most of the end of the song I'll stay where
we are here, don't say the word.

Speaker 13 (04:39):
I know.

Speaker 8 (04:40):
His other song Hey Daddy.

Speaker 9 (04:42):
Well I go to for Me was always you Got
It Bad because when I first started on the radio
in Jacksonville, that was one of the only songs that
had an intro long enough where you could do like
what we call, you know, a personality break, and you
could say something of value other than just like, hey,
you're listening to Jacksonville's nuber one hit music station and
here's Usher, because that was all the time you had

(05:04):
for most songs. You got it Bad has like a
forty three second instrumental intro, so you could actually, you know,
have a conversation with the listener.

Speaker 8 (05:12):
You were like, I'm going to actually talk right now.

Speaker 10 (05:15):
What's your favorite Usher song? Seven oh four or five?

Speaker 8 (05:18):
Hey Daddy?

Speaker 9 (05:21):
And then in parentheses Daddy's home.

Speaker 8 (05:22):
Oh, Daddy's home.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
It's called Hey daddy, daddy, but then yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
Your Daddy's home.

Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:28):
I learned that in a cardio funk class that like
a cardio cardio dance class that I took.

Speaker 10 (05:35):
Well, there's only one thing missing from this segment. That
is not it. That's not the song I meant.

Speaker 9 (05:41):
And it's that right here, yay there you go.

Speaker 8 (05:45):
Yeah, uh, this might be my favorite Usher song.

Speaker 10 (05:52):
This is this is his quintessential song.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
Right the movie Hitch, which it's hard for me to
watch now because my whole opinion of Will Smith has
changed so much since the infamous Oscar slap. But the
dance scene where he's trying to convince.

Speaker 9 (06:08):
Yeah, Kevin James's dancing this is that's what.

Speaker 8 (06:11):
He's like, Q tip Q tip throw away.

Speaker 9 (06:15):
But this was the song that that kind of created
theer like thing.

Speaker 10 (06:21):
Six thirteen on WBT on this Friday morning. It is Friday,
October seventeenth. Boomer von Cannon in the traffic Center.

Speaker 9 (06:29):
Yay Friyay Frye.

Speaker 10 (06:30):
The man who the man who invented the phrase Friday,
the word Friday.

Speaker 9 (06:34):
Usher.

Speaker 14 (06:35):
You know what I was here is something about Usher
gosh Man a couple of months ago and he sold
over one hundred million.

Speaker 9 (06:41):
Records, one hundred million. Yeah, Ushers, you know, I mean,
he played the Super Bowl. He also he was he was.

Speaker 10 (06:49):
A protege to a degree of Michael Jackson. I mean
Michael Jackson's last shows at in New York two thousand
and one, right before nine to eleven.

Speaker 15 (06:58):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (06:58):
Usher was part of those show. Britney Spears was too.
But it was interesting at the end of Michael Jackson's
career career who he sort of anointed, anointed as what
he thought would be the torch bearers right.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
I will tell you Usher can damn dance, oh man,
being a like you said, a spiritual successor to Usher
or to Michael Jackson, Usher was it?

Speaker 9 (07:20):
I mean he could sing and he could he could dance.

Speaker 14 (07:24):
Man, He's got the formula right there. That's the formula.
Make it work, baby, they can.

Speaker 10 (07:30):
Boomer used to introduce his songs on Magic ninety six.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
Have you seen Boomer do his Usher.

Speaker 8 (07:38):
Get in here and bust a move for us?

Speaker 16 (07:41):
There you go, you know what?

Speaker 10 (07:42):
You know what though, it's starting to get to that point, Beth,
where you know Usher songs are considered oldies.

Speaker 8 (07:47):
I know Usher songs are classic classic classic rock, old
classic R and.

Speaker 9 (07:52):
B, classic classic tracks.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
This is Good Morning BET with both Thompson and Beth.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Trout Man.

Speaker 10 (08:02):
Six twenty one on News Talk eleven ten WBT, Friday,
October seventeenth, Coming up next hour, about an hour from
right now, as we always do on Fridays, talk to
Congressman Mark Harris. Kind of our ear to the ground
in DC and not a lot of action in DC
with the government shutdown.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
They keep voting in the Senate, but it keeps going
the exact same way.

Speaker 10 (08:25):
Day number seventeen of the government shutdown could be on
our way to the longest one ever. We'll see. Mike
Johnson has been holding these news conferences just about every day,
kind of giving an update as to where things are.
I'll point you to the end of the news conference yesterday.
You don't hear this side of Mike Johnson very often.

Speaker 17 (08:43):
I have said consistently all along, this is part of
the deliberative process. We're going to debate and discuss that.
And there are debates and discussions going on on our
side of the aisle and on THEIRS. But to get
everybody together and build that consensus is not possible until
we get the government operating again and we stop holding
we stop getting very upset about that, we stop holding

(09:03):
the American people hostage for these ridiculous political games. People
see what's going on here. We should not have border
patrol agents not paid right now because Chuck Schumer wants
to pay political games to cover his tail. I don't
know how much more simply to say that, and every
single one of you know that's exactly what's going on.
I don't like being mad, Mike. I want to be happy, Mike.
I want to be the happy warrior. But I am

(09:25):
so upset about this. God bless America.

Speaker 10 (09:27):
We're done. Thanks, and he walked off with his entourage.
And that was how yesterday's news conference ended. But a
little exasperated, and we'll talk to Congressman Harris about how
things are going. But there doesn't seem to be any
end in sight. And like I said, day number seventeen, today.

Speaker 8 (09:43):
Well, a new poll actually out. Given all of the
conversations that are happening around the shutdown, this new poll
says that Democrats and Republicans are equally to blame for
this shutdown. This is according to a poll from the
Associated Press and the Center for Public Affairs Research, that
most of Americans fifty eight percent of US adults think

(10:06):
that Republicans and Democrats could do more.

Speaker 10 (10:10):
Speaking of doing more, coming up, we're gonna talk to
Bill Graham, our legal analyst. He's going to give us
some more analysis on the latest big legal headline out
of DC, and that is yesterday's indictment by a federal jury,
federal grand jury in Maryland, shortly, you know, not too
far away from DC. John Bolton, the former National Security

(10:31):
advisor indicted, now faces eight counts of transmission of national
defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information.
This is President Trump when he was asked about it yesterday.

Speaker 18 (10:43):
Novel was just indicted by a grand jury in Maryland.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Do you have a reaction to that.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 11 (10:47):
You told me for the first time. But I think he's,
you know, a bad person. I think he's a bad guy. Yeah,
he's a bad guy, too bad. But it's the where
it goes. That's the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Will I what have you reviewed the case against him?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
No, I have it.

Speaker 13 (11:04):
I have it, but I just think he's a bad person.

Speaker 10 (11:06):
That was President Trump learning about it. Of course, a
former national security advisor, one of the most vocal critics
of President Trump in the years after that time. And
this is not necessarily a surprise yesterday. A lot of
people thought this was coming. But we will talk to
Bill Graham about now where it.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
Goes, Yeah, and what this means for I mean, there
were eighteen eighteen different accusations within that indictment, including publishing
sensitive material or classified material. And that's something that we've
heard mcmulvaney talk about on our show. That John Bolton
was apparently a meticulous note taker and kept very detailed

(11:47):
notes of all of his time and meetings with the
President and you know, with other leaders within the cabinet.
And I guess the big question is will a jury
find him guilty if this does go to trial. I
know that John Bolton's attorney has said, look, yes, the
man kept a diary. That is not a crime. But

(12:07):
that's the quote from John Bolton's attorney.

Speaker 10 (12:10):
President Trump on Truth Social yesterday, this message, if Hamas
continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal,
we will have no choice but to go in and
kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
and of course the big agreement that was signed earlier
this week and all the all we've heard about it since,

(12:30):
and hoping that this holds. This was the fear and
still is the fear. Is Gaza going to abide by
the rules of this President Trump was asked yesterday, as
you'll hear here about the tweet I just read for.

Speaker 19 (12:42):
You today, you issued a threat against Hamas on True
Social what has.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
To go ahead?

Speaker 19 (12:51):
You said, they continue killing, keep killing innocence and Gaza
that if that continues.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
They know a strong statement that's what they used.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
To be a gang and all you were saying innocence.

Speaker 19 (13:04):
What what made you think they're innocence?

Speaker 11 (13:07):
Now, well, I'm looking at what's happening, and that wasn't
the deal that was made, and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's it's calmed down. It's it's a tough neighborhood. We
know that.

Speaker 11 (13:17):
Uh, we have a commitment from them, and I assume
they're going to honor that commitment.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I hope they do, and.

Speaker 11 (13:24):
I know I understand they brought back some additional bodies today.
It's a rough deal when you think of it, right,
very rough, and we have our hostage is back completely.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
We were very lucky with that, but.

Speaker 11 (13:39):
It's a it's a tough it's a tough situation. They
brought back bodies today. She probably know.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
But they also said they're gonna behave.

Speaker 11 (13:48):
We're gonna find out if they behave, if they behave good,
If they don't behave, we'll take care of it. Yeah,
you see, ann Fakeness go ahead.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
If they got killing people on both you would have
no choice put to go in and kill them.

Speaker 20 (14:03):
So do you mean US forces would go in and
take out the.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
Mine and say who would go in? But somebody will
go in. It's not going to be a we will
have to. There are people very close, very nearby that
we'll go in. They'll do the trick very easily, but
under our auspices.

Speaker 10 (14:19):
So definitely a story to keep an eye on as
we head into the weekend. The other big story and
the big conflict that's been going on is the Russia
Ukraine battle and President Trump will be talking to Zelensky
at the White House today. He talked to Vladimir Putin
yesterday in a phone call. So more on that coming up.
But that's a round up for the moment of the

(14:40):
political headlines coming out of DC. And Congressman Mark Harris
will be with us live coming up next hour. The
Morning you both anyway, I'm on my way to work.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Been listening to the station for years.

Speaker 15 (14:54):
I went through the Murky in the morning, John Mooy
Billy settled on you guys about ten fifteen years ago.
I've been listening to bou for a long time.

Speaker 21 (15:01):
I love the show with Beth and Boomer and all
the guys.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
This is good morning, beauty on a gentline.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 22 (15:14):
Again, Oh no, we're not going anywhere. There's so many
but much some people are and they don't even have
to leave where they are to go there.

Speaker 10 (15:28):
They're abandoning. Tell you the whole social media game. Guys,
there's a new term now.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
You know how I get kind of annoyed sometimes when
when I don't know, people come up with the coin
terms for everything, and we end up with like quiet quitting,
and you know, all of the this one, this term.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
I like it.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
It's creative and I could totally get behind this.

Speaker 10 (15:52):
About to say you want to join the fresh I.

Speaker 8 (15:54):
Want to join this group of people. It's called appstinance,
not abstinence with a b app like an app.

Speaker 10 (16:01):
Could you just part of the story.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
I wish I could say I were that clever. It's
part of a story on Mashable. And this is a
movement that actually was started by gen Z. It's not boomers,
it's not gen xers, it's not millennials. It's gen Z
starting a movement called app stenance because they don't want
big tech having that much control over their lives, and

(16:25):
they have started these abstinence get togethers where people come
together at once and delete apps. Delete Facebook, delete TikTok,
delete Twitter or X, delete Instagram, whatever it is, whatever
app it is that is causing you the most stress,
the most addiction, and the most And this is probably

(16:49):
this is probably my favorite part of this article in Mashable,
the most brain rot. Here's the sentence. It's become abundantly
clear that convenience isn't worth the brain rot. Isn't that
a great sentence to think about the convenience of how
connected we can be through social media not worth the

(17:09):
brain rot and the mindless scrolling and the addictive nature.
And these things were designed to be addictive, and gen
Z saying, hey, we've had enough. We don't want big
tech controlling our minds this way.

Speaker 10 (17:21):
Now. See when I first saw I saw this the
title is a mass exit from social media, and I
thought it was going to be that everybody just almost
like you know how you talk about throwing your phone
in a well.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
I do it daily.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yes, yes, yeah, I.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
Thought it meant throwing your phone in a permanent will,
like basically detaching from all social media period like a
cross not picking an app here and there, but doing
away with all of it, which is something you have
said in passing to me in recent days. Yeah, I could.
I know you'd love to do it, but and I
honestly would would like to at least to downsize. But

(17:58):
I started thinking about what would I will, What would
be the first one I'd get rid of. I can't
get rid of all of them. I mean, it's part
of what we do as our vocation.

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Oh, I agree that it is part of what we
do as our vocation. And now I am at this
point where I want everything that I do for this vocation.
I want the physical paper in my hands. I want
the magazines, I want the newspapers. I don't any longer
want all of the cesspool awfulness that lives, especially especially

(18:29):
on x and oftentimes now even on Instagram. Now my algorithms,
I think are probably sunshinier than most.

Speaker 23 (18:37):
You know.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
I get mostly animal stuff, I get mostly like daily affirmations,
I get religious like spiritual guides, things like that. But
interspersed in all of that is awful anger. And I
find myself these days getting upset at how angry people
are at each other. It's weird. I don't get angry

(18:57):
at the headline. I get angry at how much much
and how often people fight, and how unwilling people are,
especially on social media, to listen or consider someone else's
point of view or idea. And I do think that
the addictive nature of it and the fact that you
don't have to look someone in the face has made
us as a society much less kind and much less

(19:22):
tolerant and much less polite. I guess we just don't
have social niceties anymore. People are ready to call each
other names and call each other, you know, question each
other's intelligence just based on an article that's shared or
I don't know. And I'm also kind of annoyed by
how much. And that was part of this whole gen

(19:45):
Z abstinence movement too, or these the people who are
influencers that just seem to be seeking attention and will
be paid for that attention. And they're saying, look, we
want to now have digital cameras, we want cassette tapes,
and we want CDs, and we want vinyl and we
want landlines. And this is a gen Z movement. And

(20:07):
this is interesting to me because it's the group that
has grown up with social media. They don't have a
memory of no social media, and they're the ones who
are most annoyed by it.

Speaker 10 (20:18):
Well, you know how I feel about physical media, meaning,
you know, old school analog ways we used to access
our media, and that's going to feed right into our
business headline coming up in just a few minutes. But
so as to not make eye contact, will you look
at your phone because I have a question for you
based on what you just said. You check your phone
real quick, because I don't want to make eye contact.
I just want to send a question to you digitally.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Okay, just send me aa.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
I just got really awkward here, go ahead and read
that question.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
So way did you text me a question?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh? Text? Oh?

Speaker 10 (20:47):
I don't like to I don't want to make eye contact.
I want to just Oh, it's a good point.

Speaker 8 (20:51):
How do you even access the paper versions anymore? You
have to subscribe. I get my magazines, my Southern Living,
you guys know I'm obsessed. I get my Southern Living
in the mail. I get a couple of different magazine
subscriptions in the mail that sit on my counter until
I am ready to flip the pages, smell the paper,

(21:13):
highlight articles, read things. And I'm starting to think that
maybe I only want to rely on an actual news feed,
like subscribe even if it's digitally, to news sources and
get rid of the social media part of that because
I'm so sad at how angry people are. It makes
me so sad because there's no need and the anger

(21:35):
only exists digitally. Because if you get out into the
world and look at the sunshine, talk to your neighbor,
play with the dog, look at the birds. I'm currently
in my late forties, I've become obsessed with birding. If
you do all of those things, you realize how spectacular
this world is, and you also realize how much we
have in common. If you actually have another conversation, not

(21:57):
a digital conversation, an actual commonversation with a person, it
brings the blood pressure down. And so I'm thinking, there's
something to this. There's something to this.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Just texted you check your phone.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
Bo just texted me. There's a lot going on here.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
No, but look when you said when we talked about
like the idea of purging some of this is all
fine and good, But then you'd have to go back
to getting paper versions of all those things that you
now only get on your phone.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
But you could get digital versions of news sources. You
can do that without social media.

Speaker 10 (22:34):
I know, but I'm okay, maybe what we need to
do is just do our show each day. Based on
the magazine paper subscriptions that we get at our house.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
I could take pictures of the articles that I read in.

Speaker 10 (22:45):
Southern Living, but yeah, she's going to text you next
segment TV text you digital photos of the paper articles.

Speaker 9 (22:52):
Out of Well. Look.

Speaker 10 (22:53):
When I first started working on the show in nineteen
ninety seven, every morning, Al Gardner would take the Charlotte Observer,
the Wall Street Journal, and the USA Today and he
would go and sit at a desk and tear up
the pieces of the articles that he liked, Oh, stack them.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
I love every second of that, just the tactile nature
of that, like the feeling of that. Not that I
want to waste paper, but these days, the fact that
one AI search is like ten times more the energy,
it takes ten times the energy of a regular Google search.
We're not you know, it's not like we're wasting paper
versus wasting resources. Like man, we're using a lot of energy.

Speaker 10 (23:28):
On this note another now, this is actually this is
a digital platform that has gone by the wayside this
week and this one. I never had it, but I
always thought about getting it because it was the only
way I could get I could keep things the way
I used to is it friendster. No, but it's something

(23:49):
I came this close to buying about ten years ago.
And I'll tell you why. And it's because it's the
only way that you can do what I was trying
to do that I used to do all the time
that I hate that you can't do anymore.

Speaker 8 (24:00):
How's that I'm about to text you. There's a lot
going on here.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
A lot going on here, Yeah, a lot, boy.

Speaker 10 (24:09):
You've been getting into it with Marvin. Here on the
text line.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Marvin and I are chatting back and forth. He said, oh, Bath,
bless your heart. There's no barn warbler. You said barn,
I said, bird warbler. But I think it's because I
have trouble saying ours and double used together. Bird warbler.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Jo.

Speaker 9 (24:28):
Wait, it's a barred or barn.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
It's barned warbler by barn.

Speaker 9 (24:33):
That's what I heard too.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
Everybody heard barn. And I think it's just me if
we I think it's just me being unable to say
ours and doubles and then R.

Speaker 10 (24:40):
But I heard you say that, and I thought that's
what it was that made sense to me, warblar in
a bar.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
That Marvin was right. There are no bird warblers in
the United States. But they are these little gray brown birds,
and they have these little they look like they're wearing like,
I don't know, fascinators or something like they have this
like boofy hairdoo on top. Fascinatorscinators are the little hats
that like all of the princesses wear to the royal
weddings and stuff.

Speaker 9 (25:04):
Oh yes, no, how did I not know that?

Speaker 8 (25:06):
You're just these little, basic, little brown.

Speaker 10 (25:08):
Birds if you wear when you warble around a barn.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
But I love Marvin so much because he wrote He
wrote back, and he was so excited that I was
getting into birds.

Speaker 10 (25:17):
That's what I was going to say. The best line
out of all this is, Beth, I'm so excited you're
getting into birds.

Speaker 13 (25:22):
Love.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
It makes me want to go bird watching with Marvin.
He said, Oh, I thought it was a bird you
were seeing. Oh my god, I thought it was something
you were seeing out of your window. I had no
idea you meant worldwide that it's your favorite bird. It
was actually just the first bird I could think of worldwide.
My favorite bird to actually look at, I would have
to say, as a blue jay. If you ever see

(25:42):
a blue jay, or there's little and I need look
this up in my book again. The little like purplish
bluebirds that do feed out of feeders all the time
here in North Carolina, and they're almost purple. They're just
so lovely. But blue jay's are ginormous compared to what
you would imagine.

Speaker 10 (25:55):
Oh yeah, I remember when we were growing up, right
outside the window where we were eight, at our table,
we had a bird feeder, and so we would always
watch the birds come up, and my mom had one
of these little books that was would identify all the birds. Yeah, yeah,
and you'd see chick of the ease, and you'd see
blue jays all the time. Occasionally you'd see, uh, wait
a minute, this is this the the Marvin is online one.

(26:18):
So Marvin he jumps, he jumps from the digital realm
to the analog world.

Speaker 8 (26:22):
This is the thing I love the most about the
text line. I talked to the tax line and we
get phone calls.

Speaker 10 (26:27):
You just got rid of the digital and brought in
the analog version of Marvin.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
Marvin, you're my favorite.

Speaker 15 (26:33):
I told you guys before I think you know, I'm
the guy who said I like to drive around the
back road so I can listen to you more and
I guess.

Speaker 8 (26:40):
Yeah, you're in a promo of ours.

Speaker 9 (26:42):
Marvin.

Speaker 15 (26:43):
Oh, good lord, crazy you guys.

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Are for promos.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
So so this you bet.

Speaker 15 (26:51):
I am tickled to death that you are a birder.
So birding is like the number one hobby behind home gardening,
and it just means that people are moral aware of
what's going on around them, and they develop an appreciation
for what's around them, and hopefully it can kind of
help conserve and protect what's around him.

Speaker 12 (27:07):
That's why I'm so excited for you.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
Well, Marvin, have you read there's a fantastic book. It's
a fiction novel, but it's called Migration. Have you read
this book?

Speaker 13 (27:15):
I have?

Speaker 15 (27:16):
That is a fantastic book. And there's also one called
One Great Year. Oh it's about a man going and
you know, birding for one entire year. So it's there's
a lot of good stuff out there.

Speaker 10 (27:26):
This is the day that Marvin took over for their
favorite bird here.

Speaker 8 (27:30):
My favorite bird here would have to well, okay, so
there's a little purple purple bird that has a little
bit of a yellow under its belly.

Speaker 10 (27:39):
Hey, hey, this is crazy. You know what I was
about to say. The one bird that we always wanted
to fly up to the beside the table that never did.
That was in the book The yellow bellied sap Sucker. Yeah,
I'm not kidding. That's a real bird.

Speaker 15 (27:54):
It is a real bird, absolutely yeah. And you know
what's funny is people insults. You can say, what do
you some kind of a yellow belly sapsucker? And I'm like,
that's actually a compliment, dude, what do you say?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Exactly?

Speaker 10 (28:05):
Baron says, I know yellow belly sapsuckers, and you're not one, sir.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
But I think blue jays are amazing. I love cardinals.
I certainly love any of the swallows that will. I mean,
of course, a sparrow.

Speaker 10 (28:20):
Here we go, guys, now we have Nathan.

Speaker 12 (28:22):
I tell you this.

Speaker 15 (28:24):
People say things all the time, you know, and they
meet them as an insult. But when you learn it's
not an insult. You know, when you get called a
bird brain, you know, everyone, that's kind of like an insult.
But you know, if you've ever done anything, ready, anything
about crows, crows, man, crows are amazing. They'll put a
walnut on the ground in front of the tire of a.

Speaker 10 (28:43):
Car and oh, Marvin, are you gone?

Speaker 21 (28:47):
After it's crushed?

Speaker 10 (28:48):
Well, and if you if you, if you give, gona
make you eat some crow there, Marvin.

Speaker 8 (28:53):
If you give crows, crows will start following people around.
They recognize faces. If you give them gifts, crows will bring.

Speaker 10 (28:59):
You a gift back. Hang on, we're up against the clock.
And Marvin, I'm sorry, I've got to go to a promo.

Speaker 15 (29:03):
I look, you guys, you got it by morning. I
love driving in I sometimes I take the back road
so I can go a little bit longer talking.

Speaker 12 (29:10):
Hear y'all more.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
Oh, that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 10 (29:14):
Hey, boss, I've been driving all day.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I'm thorring out.

Speaker 15 (29:18):
I'm sposed to be there at seven, but at eleven,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and break for lunch.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Hey, look, just just blame Bow and Beth and we'll fix.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
It for you.

Speaker 12 (29:26):
Just right me and excuse can you all do that?

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (29:28):
Absolutely, gonna be a slacker for the rest of your life.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
This is Good Morning, Betty with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 10 (29:35):
You're just a lightless bird.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
Now he's a dreamer, Frank.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Lovely.

Speaker 23 (29:44):
So all right, ladies, so gentle along here and Sharon
from News Talk eleven, ten and ninety nine three tell
me beans.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Strange things are a foot at the circle case.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
This is good morning Beaty with Bo Thompson and Bed's
trout bat.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Watch the changes, then try and keep up.

Speaker 10 (30:06):
Okay, right now, good morning, you know us Friday morning
talking about birds.

Speaker 8 (30:22):
Steve just made a funny joke in the commercial break
that good Morning Betea is no longer about Bo Thompson
and Beth Traulvin. It's good morning, bird talking.

Speaker 10 (30:30):
And if you don't believe us, Nathan is online too. Nathan,
welcome to bird talk this morning.

Speaker 16 (30:36):
Hey, good morning. With all the bad in the world,
there's nothing wrong with talking about the birds. I tell
you to keep the water out for the birds. If
you don't, it's been so dry, you'll have all birds
eating to take a bath and get a drink of water.
Excuse me, I'm sorry. And some birds will not eat
out of the bird feeders. They eat strictly bugs only,
so like blue birds and things like that. So that's

(30:58):
that's what they want to the water to all the
bad bugs around your house. I appreciate y'all.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
Could I make a bird feeder out of bugs? Could
I make a bug bird feeder.

Speaker 16 (31:08):
That ken and you can buy like dehydrated meal worms
and things like that and put it in there and
they will they get it. They will do that a
lot of times, like the bluebirds and stuff. They like
to go hunting up but they're prey and eat a
lot of grasshoppers and worms, all kinds of bugs. You
might see them on top of the house beating them
to death and then eat them. My man, I about
to be crude or anything, but I love watching them.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
I have crows on my roof who have been sharpening
their beaks and beating the heck out of something for
the past like a couple of weeks, and I love it.
My husband keeps saying, we need to scare those little
crows off, and I was like, no, they're just making
their beak sharp exactly.

Speaker 16 (31:43):
They do that too, they do. They clean their beak
off like that. They sure do.

Speaker 10 (31:47):
See, Nathan, you didn't know.

Speaker 16 (31:48):
I really appreciate that. I appreciate y'all for what you're
doing getting my bay started.

Speaker 8 (31:52):
Oh we're so glad. And I figured it out. I
looked it up.

Speaker 24 (31:54):
Bo.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
The bluebird that I like is the blue grossbeak. Of course,
the blue grossbeak that I thought was purple. He looks
purple to my eyeballs. But he's blue, right, you know.

Speaker 10 (32:03):
Bo of course everybody knows that, Steve Geez, I'm gonna
have to tell us what it was. Yeah, we would
be waiting for you to kind of figure it out
on your own.

Speaker 8 (32:12):
We knew just the normal bluebird that Nathan was talking about.
They're lovely too. They kind of look like they have
a yellow little underbelly as well.

Speaker 10 (32:19):
Mister bluebird's on her shoulder. It's the truth, it's actual,
it's actual. I do want to get to the story
that I mentioned, heading into what I didn't know was
going to be a bird segment. Last last now sorry,
After twenty six years, TVO has stopped selling DVRs, exiting
the hardware business after nearly three decades. Now. This is

(32:41):
the thing that I said that I almost bought about
ten years ago. TVO is a standalone you can buy
it and it's yours DVR. And just as it was
about to take off, and it did to a degree,
but I think it got stunted because all of the
like Spectrum I have Spectrum cable, they called onto the
DVR physical machine years ago, but now you actually can

(33:03):
do the dv DVR in a cloud. But DVRs became
a thing, but then the cable companies made you, made you, uh,
you know, you rented the DVRs. And when I was
a kid, and I know your dad was the same
way because because we always always talk about all the
movies that you used to tape off a HBO on
your VHS, you know, and I used to love to tape.
I taped everything. I love taping sports, you know, events,

(33:24):
and I loved having those in my physical collection. And
then when the DVR came along and the d you know,
the DVD player, I had a recordable one of those
for a while, but once that physical media sort of
head its stay and moved on. Now we live in
a world where everything that you have access to is
via streaming.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
And it's not really yours, and you.

Speaker 10 (33:43):
You can't even I want I've always wanted a DVR
that I get to keep, because what happens is is
that you get your DVR from the cable company and
you tape all these things that you want to save
on it, and then you have to give it back,
so you don't get to own that stuff.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
Well, and they can delete stuff remotely.

Speaker 10 (33:59):
Too, exactly if they want to. That's my problem with
streaming is that we think we have this access to
this huge library, and that's that's the word access. You
don't own it, and you can't determine when it's when
it's there, and when it's not. A lot of times
you think you have it, and then in the middle
of the night they can just pull that title away
and you didn't know, and you can't control it.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Do you know what I love about the last half
hour even more, actually, the last more than half an
hour of this show. We have talked about wanting more
physical access to things like movies, and we've talked about
how social media creates brain rot and why bird watching
is a good thing. We are officially in the second
act of our lives.

Speaker 10 (34:36):
But but good morning, BT.

Speaker 9 (34:37):
We're old people yell at clouds.

Speaker 10 (34:40):
But you can't. But you know that's the other.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
Thing, Well, it's the TVO sound. TVO did it better
than any other DVRSAM, So did you have a t vo? I?
Did you did? I did have a tea? You still
have your I do not still have my TVO. I
had a TiVo when I was in my apartment in
the early two thousands, and I think I ended up
getting getting it, but because there was an entire episode
of Sex in the City where Miranda got TVO and

(35:04):
like TVO was her new boyfriend. Because the TVO could
record shows at any time.

Speaker 10 (35:10):
Yes, but again that was yours. You didn't have to
give it back. That's my It's the same thing about
when I was a kid, you recorded things on your VHS,
and then I remember when the recordable DVDs and CDs
came out and all of those, Like you can't go
into a store anymore. Like I still have an ability to.
I have a VHS that still works at home, but
I'm not connected to an analog feed where I can

(35:31):
record that anymore. Yeah, I just it's not that I
want to keep everything, but there's certain things like I'm
the kind of person where if the Atlanta Braves won
the World Series in twenty twenty one, I'd like to
be able to record that game and keep it forever,
and I can't do that anymore.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
Would you go back and watch that?

Speaker 13 (35:46):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (35:46):
I would when I get bored, of course I would.

Speaker 8 (35:48):
Really.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
Sporting events that you know, the outcum absolutely what do
you think ESPN Classic was invented the channel because people
like to watch old sporting events.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
I'm not sure I knew there was an ESPN Classic.

Speaker 10 (36:00):
You're kind of the wrong person to ask him.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
Yeah, Beth is the audience for ESPN Class.

Speaker 8 (36:04):
I probably just thought it was a game that was on.

Speaker 10 (36:07):
What do you think of Warbling, Barden whatever it was?
Bird Warbler, Bard Warble or.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
You get better at saying ours and w's. I'm like,
I'm like Barbara Walters.

Speaker 9 (36:17):
Oh baba walah, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (36:20):
Bird Warbler.

Speaker 10 (36:21):
Welcome to twenty twenty five, seven fourteen on WBT. When
we come back, we'll head to DC or actually I
don't know where he is, but he is often in DC,
but it's shut down right now, so we'll see where
Congressman Mark Harris is. But he checks in with US
weekly about all things going on in politics, because he is,
after all, a US Congressman.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
This is Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 10 (36:54):
All right, seven twenty one on WBT, Friday morning, seventeenth
to October seventeenth, day of the government shutdown in Washington,
d C. The guy we're going to talk to you
next well, his colleague getting a little exasperated yesterday. I
don't like being mad, Mike.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I want to be happy, Mike.

Speaker 17 (37:14):
I want to be the happy warrior, but I am
so upset about this.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
God bless America. We're done. Thanks.

Speaker 10 (37:20):
That's how the House Speaker ended his daily news conference,
updating everybody about what's going on from his perspective during
the shutdown. We go to the hotline now on Friday morning,
Welcome in Congressman Mark Harris from District number eight. Good morning, Congressman.
Hello Mark Harris. I don't think he's there.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
Oh, there he is. We had your own meal.

Speaker 9 (37:43):
Apparently, can you hear us?

Speaker 10 (37:46):
Okay?

Speaker 21 (37:46):
Good?

Speaker 10 (37:48):
So, I hope you're doing okay. And I was just
playing a clip of Mike Johnson. I don't know if
you heard that, but I know you know about his
press conference yesterday where he was a little out of
sorts towards the end, obviously frustrated with what's going on.
And now day seven, what about the government shutdown? Seventeen
days in from your perspective.

Speaker 12 (38:06):
Well, listen, let me just say a word about Mike Johnson. Speaker.
Johnson has done, I think a phenomenal job in the
role as he continues to bring leadership in the midst
of this crisis, of this shutdown. He is working daily,
he is keeping folks informed, he's meeting with folks, talking

(38:27):
with folks. But again, this government shut down that we
are in, people continue to ask when do you think
it'll be over? And you hear all kinds of wild
rumors or statements out there, But the only person that
really is going to be at to answer to that
question is Chuck Schumer. And that is when that he's
going to release or get five more folks on his

(38:51):
side of the aisle in the Senate to pass or
at least allow the vote on the Continuing Resolution that
we passed all the way back on September nineteenth to
make sure that the government remained open. So, I mean,
that's one thing that I have to keep clarifying with people.
The Senate just keeps voting, and a majority continue to

(39:14):
vote in order to have the vote on the clean cr.
And yet they've got to have that magic number of
sixty because of the filibuster. And so even though you've
had three Democrats crossover, you're still short because they cannot
take the vote on the clean CR. This is a
procedural vote that is holding everything up in the Senate,

(39:37):
and it's unfortunate, and we just we continue to hope
that something's going to.

Speaker 8 (39:44):
Break and tell us again how far how long that
CR would carry.

Speaker 12 (39:48):
Us, that CR would carry us November twenty first, which
again is not They're winding the clock down on that,
which is really kind of crazy. Again, the purpose of
that clean Sea our best was so that we could
continue to pass appropriation bills and get that done. The

(40:09):
Senate has passed three of the twelve. We passed three
of the twelve. My understanding, all twelve on the House
side are out of committee and have got to be
presented on the floor, and they're in the pipeline ready
to roll, so that we would be able to vote
to move those appropriation bills and get as many as

(40:31):
we possibly can by that November twenty first date, because again,
if we avoided the government shut down, then we certainly
were going to have an additional seven weeks in order
to get to that November twenty first date.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
So if the negotiations or if no conversation has really
had about the healthcare aspect and the subsidies that the
Democrats are asking for what happens if we get to
November twenty first, and then what happens and if the
government is still shut down.

Speaker 12 (41:03):
Well, there's going to obviously have to be a new
cr that will have to pass with another date out
there or a different kind of sere I guess. But
at this point those subsidies do not expire until the
end of the year. The question is I mean, if
they keep the government shut down and it keeps going

(41:25):
all the way to the end of the year, I mean,
I guess that you shoot themselves in the foot because
those subsidies expire at the end of December. Any way,
shape or form, they just do.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
So.

Speaker 12 (41:36):
The thing that we have continued to say, and the
Speaker has continued to say, that open back the government,
open it up, allow us to be able to get
back in have session, be able to meet in committees,
be able to have the debate, have the conversation, have
the negotiation, and decide how we're going to move forward.

(41:58):
But the craziness of shut down that Chuck Schumer has
insisted on, and truly from my perspective, he is doing
it to look over his shoulder, to please the left flank.
I know there's these rallies that are going on nationwide
tomorrow that are just kind of hating on President Trump,

(42:18):
that type of thing. I think they call them No
King's Rally, and they're doing them across the country. The
biggest one is in Washington, d C. I guess, And
it's just an opportunity for Chuck Schumer to kind of
be the big man on campus, I guess, and show
that he's fighting President Trump. And yet at the same time,

(42:39):
nothing's getting accomplished except we're having to move money around
so that we were able to pay the troops. Thank god,
President Trump had Pete Haak said, do find some money
there at the Department of Defense. We were able to
pay the troops on October fifteenth, which was important, critically important.
And so all those kind of things are going on

(43:00):
right now, making sure the women, infants, and children are paid.
But again that money is going to run out quickly.
But President Trump Rustbode at the Office Management and Budget
are continuing to work and manage that as well.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
You mentioned some headlines, not domestic headlines, but some of
the stuff going on overseas. Obviously trying to see if
the Gaza deal is going to hold but also President
Trump will meet with Vladimir Zelenski today, and it's been
announced that he's going to have a face to face
meeting soon with Putin. I want to get your take on,
especially the truth social posts he put out there yesterday

(43:41):
regarding what's happening in Gaza. I will continue with Congressman
Mark Harris here on WBT on a Friday morning, October seventeenth.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
This is good morning, Bets.

Speaker 10 (43:53):
We continue at seven thirty seven on a Friday morning,
Bowen Beth here talking to Congressman Mark Harris. Lots of
international headlines to get to here, and so a couple
things on the President Trump front yesterday. Congressman Harris, he
had a truth social posting, a short one yesterday, but
I'll read it real quick.

Speaker 12 (44:14):
Here.

Speaker 10 (44:14):
He says, if Jimas continues to kill people in Gaza,
which was not the deal, we will have no choice
but to go in and kill them. Thank you for
your attention to this matter. So you're watching what's happening
with the peace plan signed in the Middle East as
we head into the weekend. And then also word now
that President Trump is going to meet with Vladimir Vladimir

(44:37):
Zelenski today at the White House, and we'll meet face
to face in the coming days with Vladimir Putin. This
is President Trump talking about the situation going on with
Ukraine and Russia. Yesterday.

Speaker 11 (44:48):
Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterpart,
as you know, Labrov, and they'll be meeting pretty soon.
They're going to set up a time and a place
very shortly. Maybe's already set up. They've already spoken. And
I thought it was a very good phone call. I
thought very productive. But I'll be meeting with President Putin

(45:08):
and we'll make a determination tomorrow, a meeting with President Zelensky,
and I'll be.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Telling them about the call. I mean, we have a problem.

Speaker 11 (45:18):
Don't get along too well, those two, and it's sometimes
tough to have meetings. So we may do something where
we're separate, but separate but equal.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
We'll meet and talk parties. But this is a this is.

Speaker 11 (45:33):
A terrible relationship the two of them have, and it's
one of those things.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
I've seen things that nobody would believe, but this is
one of them. So I'll be meeting. We're going to
be meeting in Hungary.

Speaker 11 (45:45):
Victor Roban is going to be hosting and it's it's
really something that's time. I thought this would be because
of my relationship with President Putin. I thought this would
be very quick. It s turned out to be. Who
would think I did Middle East before I did this.
We did a total of eight, now seven and now eight,

(46:07):
and we're gonna make this number nine.

Speaker 10 (46:09):
Okay, so Zelenski scheduled to meet with Trump in just
a few hours, Congressman. On those two fronts, both the
Middle East peace plan that we hope is going to
hold and also what's coming ahead with Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 12 (46:23):
Your thoughts, yeah, boat, listen, I since we talked last Friday,
if you stop and think about it, we saw amazing
things that took place over the weekend and then our
earlier on Monday of this past week. What took place
and seeing those hostages come home, I think the whole

(46:44):
world was just incredibly touched and moved by that. And
then of course President Trump traveled over to Egypt, had
assembled all of those folks from the Arab nations who
were again meeting with him. It was historic time, and
I think that all too often we move from one
crisis to the other. Now, granted, there's still some issues obviously,

(47:08):
as we're seeing kind of the Hamas raise its head,
ugly head again in continuing some of its activity. I
told my staff yesterday when I saw that true social
I said, you have to appreciate President Trump's directness. I mean,
as you said, that was a true social post. That
was short and sweet, but it just put it out there.

(47:31):
The deal is the deal, and Hamas is going to
disarm and they cannot continue to do this and if necessary,
where they will have to be taken out. And he's
very clear about that. So we continue to hope that's
going to hold, that work is progressing. I think you
have to be encouraged. I'm encouraged by what has developed

(47:54):
just in the last day or two. The meeting that's
going to be happening with Zelensky today, I'm hoping is
going to be a very positive thing as he's able
to President Trump's able to talk with him about what
this meeting. I was a little bit surprised to see
this meeting was going to be coming up in two
weeks in Budapest. That was certainly encouraging as well. Could

(48:17):
it have to do with the fact that Trump is
still exercising his peace through strength, and those Tomahawk missiles
that are going to be very important have evidently become
a bit of an attention getter for Putin. As President
Trump talked about that, next thing, you know, phone call happens.
The next thing you know, a meeting is set up.

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And so I don't know how all that's going to
eventually play out. But again, President Trump has maintained the
overall posture of the United States of peace through strength,
and of course he's working through NATO and working with NATO,
which is how those Tomahawk missiles would ultimately be sold
to Ukraine. Again, a lot of moving pieces, very fragile time,

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but I'm very hopeful for the progress that we may
very well see on that front as well.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
You know, he famously posted on social media just several
days ago that he thought that Ukraine could get back
all of the territory, which was new language from President Trump.
What do you think is to be made of the
meeting in Budapest in Hungary, Given that Victor Orbon, the
prime minister there, is considered one of Putin's closest allies,

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do you think that has any impact on the meeting.

Speaker 12 (49:36):
Well, he may be one of Putin's allies or considered that.
But you've got to remember he is a strong, strong
relationship with Donald Trump, and he has been considered an
ally of Donald Trump all along as well. And he's
very conservative and he's brought a lot of reforms to

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Hungary in the process as well. So I I think
that I think it's going to be a very interesting meeting.
And I think when you really stop and look at
all of the facts that are playing out, the fact
that Putin is losing, he is losing credibility with Donald Trump,
and every time he talks and then does something different,

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I think that his his boot stock value goes down
as a leader. And I think Trump is I think
positioning himself to uh to try to get to a
conclusion to this thing. If possible.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
Congressman Mark Harris will have to stop it.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
There.

Speaker 10 (50:34):
We're up against the clock. We appreciate your time each week,
and perhaps next time we talk to you the government
will be open. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

Speaker 12 (50:44):
We can hope and pray.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Listen.

Speaker 12 (50:45):
I just heard yesterday Senator John Kennedy say that he
thought this could go through Thanksgiving, and I thought, surely
not so We're we're praying that nothing like that continues on.
But anyway, we're going to keep working to get it open.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
And Thanksgiving would be past that November twenty one, you know,
deadline for the cr Oh yeah.

Speaker 12 (51:07):
There would be a lot of things that would be
moving prior to that. But again they can they until
they vote in the Senate to move forward. We're just
stuck and and right now that's on Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 10 (51:20):
Well, we appreciate you coming on and hope you have
a good weekend. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 12 (51:24):
Thank you very much, look forward to it.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
Yes, sir, that's Congressman Mark Harris District number eight. Joins
us every Friday, sometimes from DC, sometimes from the district here,
but always gives us an ear to the ground on
what's happening.

Speaker 9 (51:36):
Hey, Buddy on the phone, I wanted touch on something
last week, takes about it.

Speaker 10 (51:41):
That was you, buddy, that was me. You know what,
the best part of all of this has been. See,
we love our listeners and I feel like we're all
kind of family. Now Buddy calls in about something else
and he says to us, well it got you on
the line.

Speaker 8 (51:56):
That's the greatest call to day.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Buddy, y'all have a great morning.

Speaker 20 (52:01):
I love listening to you.

Speaker 8 (52:02):
It's gonna be good morning, Bet and Buddy.

Speaker 10 (52:04):
That's right, it's gonna be good morning, Bet Buddy.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Bye, guys, Bye bye.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
This is good morning Beat with Bow and Path.

Speaker 18 (52:17):
Since I was here on the street, I was passing
my time sight.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (53:02):
I gotta play this today in honor of Ace Brayley
passing away. A lot of heavy hearts and a lot
of Kiss fans. We heard his health was failing and
got the news yesterday late yesterday evening. I got a
guy who was a you know, rock and roll Hall
of Famer in twenty fourteen. But let's remember one of

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the key members and founding members of Kiss.

Speaker 25 (53:27):
Ace Frayley, was known as the Spaceman or space Ace,
the lead guitarist and sometimes vocalist of Kiss. He co
founded the group in nineteen seventy three with Gene Simmons,
Paul Stanley, and Peter Chris. Together, they performed for nearly
a decade before the band disbanded. During the Kiss years
and after, Frayley did some solo work, most notably a
cover of New York group. Frayley returned to Kiss for

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a successful reunion tour in nineteen ninety six, sticking with
the band until two thousand and two. Later inducted with
the band in twenty fourteen into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. According to reports, Frayley suffered a brain
bleed after a fall last month. Ace Frayley died peacefully
surrounded by family at age seventy four and Eliopolis Fox News.

Speaker 10 (54:15):
I love this song. Not the first one you think
of when you think of Kiss, but it is when
you think of Ace, I think.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
Oh yeah, this is the biggest, probably of his solo career.

Speaker 10 (54:27):
So I know you had I know you wore out
the cassette that had the Beth song.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
Well, you know, I only have brothers. I didn't have sisters,
so I grew up listening to whatever music my brothers
were listening to. And my older brother, well you know,
and quite frankly, my little brother, who was probably also
influenced by my older brother, huge Kiss fans. So we
had like Kiss concerts on VHS. Yes, I have multiple
times seen the movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the
Park from nineteen seventy eight, which is one of the

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cheesiest things you've ever seen. But you know what's funny
is I grew up saying Ace Freeley. I never said
Ace Frayley, and I know it's spelled f r e
h l e y, but I always said I always
called him as Freely. I don't know did I say
it wrong, because like that reporter said Ace Frehley, and
I guess is it my southern accent?

Speaker 9 (55:14):
I was always like, it's a he's free I've heard
it both ways.

Speaker 10 (55:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
But I loved everything Kiss because of you know, like
Detroit Rock City. I still have it on like a
workout playing list because if you're ever doing battle ropes
at the gym, you know that when you flop the
battle ropes that the rhythm of that song is the
best battle rope song that exists. But of course my
older brother was also he's a he plays the piano beautifully,

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and he learned how to play Beth on the piano
from Kiss, just obviously because my name was Steth.

Speaker 10 (55:47):
Is that what your name is, Beth?

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (55:50):
Yeah, yeah, So what was it you were doing to
this song?

Speaker 8 (55:52):
Battle ropes?

Speaker 9 (55:53):
Battle ropes?

Speaker 16 (55:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (55:54):
Now I'm never gonna hear this song the same way.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
It's so perfect. For keeping a good battle rips man.

Speaker 9 (56:01):
I wish we had cameras in the room.

Speaker 8 (56:03):
I was just acting out doing battle rips.

Speaker 10 (56:06):
Twenty fourteen, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Kiss was inducted.

Speaker 9 (56:09):
Here was Ace.

Speaker 10 (56:11):
I have a speech ship, but I didn't these.

Speaker 21 (56:13):
On prescriptions, so I can't read. I want to thank Paul,
Jean and Peter.

Speaker 24 (56:22):
I want to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame for inducting us.

Speaker 10 (56:25):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 24 (56:27):
And here I am. You know, when I was thirteen
years old and I picked up my first guitar, I
always sensed that I was going to be in for
something big. And several years later we got together and
you know the story. It's all kisstory.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
You know.

Speaker 24 (56:48):
I've been sober now seven and a half years, thank God.
So only by the grace of God I'm here. I
want to thank my first wife, that my daughter, my
current fiance, Rachel Gordon.

Speaker 10 (57:04):
Uh, Life's been good.

Speaker 24 (57:06):
To me, you know, hopefully I got out of the
tenant twenty years to go.

Speaker 9 (57:09):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
A little over ten more years good?

Speaker 3 (57:16):
What can do? Good? What can I do?

Speaker 12 (57:22):
So?

Speaker 10 (57:22):
Rest in peace to Ace Freely or Frehley, whichever you say.
Or maybe like I would say Frawley, that tracks, but
you say piano.

Speaker 9 (57:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (57:33):
Yes, News is coming up with Mark Garrison.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three w BT.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
The energy in this place is just amazing, pure energy.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
This is Good Morning Beat with bo Thompson and Beth
Trout with.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
What I'm talking about is the pulse of the collection
coming a little percussion booze.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (58:00):
I wit, I.

Speaker 21 (58:02):
Wit hol lawyer.

Speaker 10 (58:04):
That's my job, That's what I do well.

Speaker 21 (58:07):
Phill Graham knows.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
It's a lot more we can do together.

Speaker 20 (58:10):
I can't do it, you can't do it alone, but
together we can do it.

Speaker 10 (58:19):
Eight oh seven on WBT. On this Friday morning, I'm
going to bring in our longtime legal analyst and good
friend of the show from the law offices of Wallace
and Graham. Bill Graham is back with us on this
October seventeenth. Good morning, Bill, Hey, good morning. How you
doing doing well? And lots of things to talk about.
The first thing I want to get to is John Bolton,

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President Trump's former national security advisor, yesterday indicted by a
federal grand jury in Maryland. This was President Trump asked
about the happening during one of his news conferences yesterday.

Speaker 9 (58:51):
No, Holder was just indicted by a grand jury in Maryland.

Speaker 20 (58:54):
Do you have a reaction to that.

Speaker 13 (58:55):
I didn't know that you told me for the first time.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
But I think he's a bad person. I think he's.

Speaker 11 (59:00):
A bad guy. Yeah, he's a bad guy, too bad.
But that's the where it goes.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
That's the way it goes, right, that's the way it goes. Well,
I w have you reviewed the case against him, No,
I have it.

Speaker 13 (59:12):
I have it, but I just think he's a bad person.

Speaker 10 (59:14):
He faces eight counts of transmission of national defense information
and ten counts of retention of national defense information. So, Bill,
this is not a surprise, necessarily, because after the James
Comy indictment, this is probably the next one. Most people
said would be coming it if it did, and now
it has happened. What are your thoughts on the Bolton indictment.

Speaker 20 (59:37):
Yeah, this indictment has a little bit more meat on
the bone of the indictment itself versus that that we
saw with Komy. Comy is a little bit on the
thin side as far as facts go, and there's some
procedural problems with the Komy indictment that I think bode
well for Komy. Bolton is charging the indictment, as everybody

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probably knows at this stage of the game, for retaining secret,
top secret documents, and the other part of the indictment
I don't think really has got a whole lot of
legs on it. That the first part probably does is
that he kept a diary. And I don't know why
he did this, but he sent his diary notes through

(01:00:27):
AOL and his email to family members. Now it's not
illegal to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
That's fine.

Speaker 20 (01:00:36):
Other people have done that in the past. Writing down
your own thoughts about your work and the diplomatic goings
on of the country.

Speaker 9 (01:00:44):
That part's fine.

Speaker 20 (01:00:46):
But if included in that any documents were attached, that
might be problematic. If any documents were shared that were
top secret ors, very very sensitive, that's going to be
a problem. You know, there's a lot more meat on
this indictment bone than that that we saw with Comy.

(01:01:07):
I would also add, for those who keep score on
this type of thing, which very few people do, is
his lawyer's Abby Lowell, who's a fantastic lawyer, who also
represented none other than John Edwards, none none of than
Ivanka Trump and none of than Jared Kushner. So you know,
he's got a good, good lawyer, and we'll see what

(01:01:30):
happens with the indictment. I think this will be a
little bit longer in the tooth. Then you'll see with Comy.
I think Comy gets out on a lot of procedural
stuff and then that'll probably be appealed.

Speaker 8 (01:01:40):
It's interesting. In the last several years, I think we've
probably heard more discussions about the handling of classified documents
than at any time in my memory, at least in
my lifetime of classified document conversations, because of you know,
the conversation surrounding the classified documents that former President Biden had,
you know, reportedly in his garage, and certainly the case

(01:02:02):
against current president and he was former president at the time,
Donald Trump and his handling of classified documents. How does
this case compare to those.

Speaker 20 (01:02:14):
Well, I'm not sure what it was that they say
was being retained and how old the documents were. You
can still have a top secret document and it be
relatively in an aged capacity, and you know, there's really
not any harm to the country's national security. The issue

(01:02:34):
is what what did he have and what did it say,
and who's implicated. Were there any means or methods of
obtaining the information and sources enclosed in the document contained
in the documents, We just don't know, and we.

Speaker 9 (01:02:52):
May never know.

Speaker 20 (01:02:53):
We'll probably see some redacted attachments to the bill of indictment,
but we'll have to wait and see. The reason that
you don't want to take these things home or leave
them in your car or your garage or wherever you're
leaving them is because sometimes these documents that you have

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that are originals have names and sources and methods and
means of obtaining intelligence that you don't want disclosed. I mean,
some of the reasons that we still don't know about
Kennedy or Johnson or things that had happened in the
past is because the people involved in those things are
still alive and we don't want to disclose their activities

(01:03:39):
involved in the matter. So we just don't know at
this stage, Beth, But we're going to find out pretty soon.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
I suspect I want to switch gears with you and
talk to you about one other legal issue while we
have you on the line. The Voting Rights Act is
certainly making headlines because of this case. The Supreme Court
heard some oral arguments Louisiana versus Kalaise about the last
remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, which is, of
course a civil rights law designed to ensure that states

(01:04:08):
could not get in the way of non white citizens voting.
It was historic when it was passed at the time.
What do you see happening and what does that mean
for voting in this country or the future of how
even you know, districts work.

Speaker 20 (01:04:25):
Yeah, I think the Supreme Court is going to nibble
around at the edges. I don't think they're going to
those those provisions of the Voting Right Act, Voting Rights
Act that you reference, I think will remain largely intact.
I'd be surprised if they vacate those to any substantial degree.
But I don't think the case is going to have
the impact that some of the commentators have run around

(01:04:51):
with their hair on fire about.

Speaker 9 (01:04:52):
And I don't think it's going to have anything to.

Speaker 20 (01:04:54):
Do with minorities voting or it will. I don't think
it will have any impact on them at all. To
be honest with you, now, the district that we had
in here in North Carolina, I think number one, I
think down at the coast up there in what I
call the Northeast corner. A lot of independence in that district,
so that'll be an interesting it's a plus Trump district.

(01:05:16):
But we'll have to wait and see. I'm sure you'll
have a court challenge. It'll probably be upheld. We'll go
down the road on that and maybe have another conversation
about that one sometime later.

Speaker 10 (01:05:28):
One more thing on the Supreme Court, different case, but
November fifth, the Supreme Court is going to have oral
arguments on that case that centers on whether the law
that President Trump used to impose his country specific tariff
policies actually authorizes a president to take such action. This
is notable because on Wednesday, President Trump said that he

(01:05:50):
is planning to be the first sitting US president to
attend Supreme Court arguments, at least in modern times. I mean,
first of all, on that itself is kind of hard
to believe. But the idea that he may actually be
there watching this, what do you think about that?

Speaker 9 (01:06:06):
That's very, very unusual.

Speaker 20 (01:06:09):
I've been in the Supreme Court and it's something to
be there and you just you're struck by how much
power and influence that has had over the centuries.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Here.

Speaker 20 (01:06:22):
Now, that'll be something to see on the merits of it.
I cannot imagine that the Supreme Court is going to
let the tariff tariffs stay in place and that the
President has pilinary power to impose those tariffs on some
you know, economic emergency or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
The basis was.

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
The tariff power rests with the.

Speaker 20 (01:06:45):
Congress, and that's where I think the Supreme Court will
leave it. Now the issue is going to be Okay,
then what happens, and we'll have to have a rebate
of the tariffs that have already been collected. And there's
already people in the administration and other places that are
offering to pay your teriff receipt. They'll give you ten

(01:07:11):
cents on the dollar in exchange for a receipt of
the tariff that they think is going to be coming due.
So there's an interesting economic benefit or dynamic that's going
on in DC, in New York and elsewhere where people
think they could make some money on the return or
a rebate of the tariff. I think that's why he's
going to put a little bit more pressure on the bench.

Speaker 10 (01:07:33):
But we'll see, Bill Graham, we got to stop it there.
We're up against the clock. We appreciate you coming on
this morning, and I hope you have a good weekend.
Y'all have a good weekend. I thought, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
You two.

Speaker 10 (01:07:55):
News Talk eleven ten WBT. Two for you absolute Let's
try this again and see there we go. The band
was not ready to play it. I had to crank
it up.

Speaker 8 (01:08:05):
Well you know they've been drinking.

Speaker 10 (01:08:07):
Yeah, actually sound better when they drink. Hey, look, two
for you. Two opportunities this weekend to join WBT and
t October Fest. Two more episodes Saturday and Sunday night.
This is coming up on Saturday night news and brews
as in news Room and Bruce Mark Garrison, Brandon Dixon,

(01:08:31):
Jeff Atkinson going to be six o'clock firing up Facebook
Live on Saturday night. Talk about whatever you want to
talk about. But you have three of the most known
names in that room back there to talk about being
news anchors and what it's like to be in that
bunker down the hall that they kind of operate in
a different area than we do.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
And how they collect the stories that they tell.

Speaker 10 (01:08:53):
Sunday Night is the Pride Squad? PM George, why are
you not doing this? You should be part of this.
It's Nick and Isaac and Lannie the PROD Squad PM
coming up our side.

Speaker 9 (01:09:04):
He has no answer for He literally just like looked
over and just kind of shock had Yeah, completely non
plussed over there.

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
Yeah, maybe I should rephrase the question, George, do you
want to be part of this?

Speaker 21 (01:09:16):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:09:16):
Okay, there's my answer right there.

Speaker 9 (01:09:18):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:09:19):
It's October Fast goes on for the rest of this month,
every Saturday and Sunday night, seven o'clock on Facebook Live.
The final weekend is coming up a week from this weekend.
That'll be the twenty fifth. That'll be Ladies Night, Beth
and Sharon and Anna and Pam the Jam.

Speaker 8 (01:09:35):
It's always fun when the Ladies get together. We forget
that we are being watched. We kind of act like
we're just on a FaceTime group call.

Speaker 10 (01:09:42):
Sunday, October twenty sixth, the grand finale before we actually
go to News and Bruis at Heist Brewery and Barrel
Arts Sunday, October twenty six That'll be Pete Caleener and TJ.
Ritchie starting at six o'clock Sunday night and Saturdays and
Sundays throughout the month of October. Now, I got some
big news about Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday here on this

(01:10:04):
good Morning VT. We got a great giveaway coming up
and we're going to have some fun doing this. But
the Hornets, you know, have their home opener against Brooklyn
coming up on Wednesday.

Speaker 8 (01:10:13):
Night and the new Spectrum.

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Yeah, this is your first chance to experience the completely
transformed Spectrum Center where there is a space and a
taste for everyone.

Speaker 8 (01:10:24):
I'm there for the taste. The space I will marvel at,
but the taste I'm in.

Speaker 10 (01:10:29):
So it's seven o'clock first. Twelve. One thousand fans in
attendance receive a commemorative tip off t shirt as they enter.
The Hornets had an exciting and productive off season. They're
ready to get back on the court and play Hornets basketball.
So Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, over those three days, we
have five pairs of tickets to give away to the
first game of the season at the newly renovated Spectrum Center.

(01:10:52):
And I do not have to rewrite no, no, yes,
you gets this one off. Yes, but I'm gonna tell
you what we are going to.

Speaker 8 (01:10:59):
Do well and this one bow you knew me. I
like full transparency. When we were talking about how to
do this contest. Bo literally texted me, why don't I
write these?

Speaker 10 (01:11:12):
Well, there's a reason for that. There's a reason for
that because I think it's going to work best this way.
We're going to do name that fake former hornet.

Speaker 8 (01:11:21):
So he I think needed to make sure that the
knowledge of Hornet dum was with solid and I don't
think he trusted my Hornet's knowledge.

Speaker 10 (01:11:31):
Well, this is always fun because one of our most
famous contests outside of you know, Sir Stephen of Anthony,
was named that fake college bowl game. You know, you
and I do that traditionally the morning after they announced
all the college bowl games each year, I play the
game with you where we say name the fake one.

Speaker 9 (01:11:46):
You mean, like the toilet Bowl?

Speaker 8 (01:11:47):
Yeah, yes, Well the one that got me was the
Velociraptor Handy Bowl. I thought it seemed like something that
could be held in Orlando.

Speaker 10 (01:11:55):
Well I'm still holding up they actually make that into one.
I'm going to will it into actually being one. But
that was the fake one out of you know two
others that I read, and they're crazy names too, like
the you know, the lawnmower tractor, Cheetah Cheetoh's Bowl. I
mean those are the crazy names they come up.

Speaker 9 (01:12:09):
Is that real?

Speaker 10 (01:12:10):
No, that's like a combination of real ones.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
Okay, I was about to say the lawnmower Cheatah, there's
a lawnmower one.

Speaker 10 (01:12:15):
There's there's the cheese it bowl. I mean, that's what
makes it fun. But there are so many former Charlotte
Hornets over the years. I mean, this franchise has been
around since nineteen eighty eight. There's so many former Hornets
with interesting names, like Randolph Keys.

Speaker 8 (01:12:29):
Was that a hint for people to listen on Monday?

Speaker 10 (01:12:31):
That's a real one, you know, that's that's one, Or
for sure if they called him Rudy Keys. See back
in the days when the Hornets didn't have much going on,
they had some of these players that would come through.
Arman Gilliam, anyone, anyone remember that one.

Speaker 9 (01:12:44):
I don't know why you're looking at the Miami Heat
fantas the room for affirmation. Ronnie Sikelee, Yes, I do remember.
And Alonzo Morning Heat Lifer. It's Aronzo Morning.

Speaker 10 (01:12:52):
That's right. And and a lot of people may forget
the Hornets and the Heat came into the league in
nineteen eighty eight, the same year.

Speaker 9 (01:12:58):
And how many championships.

Speaker 10 (01:12:59):
Do you guys have that would be zero point zero?
But coming up on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, right, we're
gonna give away pairs of tickets to go to the
first game of the season at the newly renovated Spectrum Center.
And it's gonna be name that fake hornet. We're gonna
give you two real ones and one of them will
be a fake one that I made up.

Speaker 8 (01:13:18):
I can't wait to see the made up names.

Speaker 10 (01:13:20):
This is always fun. So that'll be starting Monday right
here on News Talk eleven ten WBT. Speaking of competition.
Coming up after the news, it's the Friday News Quiz.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
Bet you Good morning DT, this is good morning bat.

Speaker 10 (01:13:37):
All right, it's back the Friday News Quiz with defending champion,
Sir Steven of Anthony.

Speaker 9 (01:13:45):
Yeah, and he is he also the score keeper?

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Is he?

Speaker 10 (01:13:49):
Or is that George?

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
George? George?

Speaker 9 (01:13:51):
There is no cheating, Steve wins. He's like, here to
do this, George, you keep score since I'm the champion.
And Boomer's there right boom, what's going on there?

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
He is?

Speaker 9 (01:14:01):
All right, Hey, I'm here, all right, here we go.

Speaker 26 (01:14:04):
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton indicted from mishandling secret documents.

Speaker 9 (01:14:09):
True or false?

Speaker 26 (01:14:11):
Sure, he is accused of giving documents about a future
missile launch to his wife.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
Is that true or false?

Speaker 8 (01:14:18):
Documents? Do we mean the actual documents or diary entries?

Speaker 9 (01:14:24):
Beth? What is the word documents mean?

Speaker 26 (01:14:26):
Well, he is accused of giving documents about a future
missile launch to his wife. True or false?

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
True? False? True.

Speaker 8 (01:14:37):
I'm really stuck on this word documents because of diary entries,
and so I don't know that I would consider a
diary entry a document. So I'm going to say false,
and you.

Speaker 9 (01:14:45):
Would be wrong.

Speaker 26 (01:14:46):
It is true. That is one of the accusations in
the indictment. Okay, Now, Bolton has said a lot of
derogatory stuff about Donald Trump. Which one of these did
he not say? Trump is stunningly uninformed. Trump's hair looks
worse than my mustache. Trump knows nothing about world history.

(01:15:06):
Which one did he not say? He did not bash
his own mustache.

Speaker 8 (01:15:11):
Yeah, I think it's the mustache one that he did
not say.

Speaker 10 (01:15:14):
I think it's c oh world history?

Speaker 9 (01:15:18):
Is that everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (01:15:21):
Well, yeah, he didn't say the one about the mustache.
That was too obvious.

Speaker 9 (01:15:26):
Head four. I was wasn't it that thought it was funny?

Speaker 26 (01:15:29):
It's funny the state fairs underway in Raleigh. How many
years has the fair been running here in North Carolina?
Ninety seven, one hundred and twenty four or one fifty six.

Speaker 10 (01:15:43):
I'm gonna go ninety seven, uh, one twenty four.

Speaker 21 (01:15:49):
I like that one twenty four figure myself, Yes, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
What do you think, sugar Beth, I'm gonna say one
twenty four as well?

Speaker 9 (01:15:55):
Well, you're all I.

Speaker 10 (01:15:57):
Mean it's one fifty cent.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
Oh wow, that's a long time loser.

Speaker 8 (01:16:02):
I kind of love that one hundred and fifty six
years ago people were going to the state fair and
eating yummy things.

Speaker 9 (01:16:07):
Yeah, it's if they were going in their horse and buggy.

Speaker 10 (01:16:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:16:10):
I kind of like that cleaning up after themselves.

Speaker 26 (01:16:14):
What is the most popular fair food in all of America?
Is it corn dogs, funnel cakes, or cotton candy?

Speaker 16 (01:16:23):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Man, all of the above? Is there a d so good?

Speaker 9 (01:16:28):
I think it's gotta be cotton candy.

Speaker 10 (01:16:30):
I think it's funnel cakes.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
I think it's corn dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
What do you think?

Speaker 9 (01:16:37):
And the answer is cotton candy?

Speaker 10 (01:16:39):
Yeah, Bomer, I go for the corn dogs personally.

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
Yeah, right me too all in and a corn dog,
a funnel cakes. I cannot go to a fair without
a corn dog.

Speaker 9 (01:16:48):
Oh no, I'm not saying my favorite. I'm just saying
everybody else's.

Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
Everybody else is wrong.

Speaker 26 (01:16:54):
Speaking of food, today is National Pasta Day? So true
or false? In Italy the most popular pasta now is
penne pasta.

Speaker 9 (01:17:03):
Is that true or false?

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
False?

Speaker 10 (01:17:07):
What the heck?

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
True? False?

Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
I'm gonna say false because Steve is our resident Italian.

Speaker 9 (01:17:13):
It's spaghetti speak spaghetti.

Speaker 8 (01:17:15):
Yeah, I got it right, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 26 (01:17:20):
Let's see a little international news here. This is kind
of an interesting story. The president of which African country
is seeking another term as president at the age of
ninety two? Is that in Cameroon, Senegal or Togo?

Speaker 9 (01:17:38):
I believe that that's Senegal. Don't ask me why you know?

Speaker 21 (01:17:45):
Yeah, Togo?

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
How about that.

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
I'll be different in say Cameroon.

Speaker 9 (01:17:48):
And you would be corrected. Is Cameroon?

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Paul Bia?

Speaker 9 (01:17:52):
He is ninety two years old? Paul, you go, Paul.

Speaker 26 (01:17:57):
Which governor won one point four million dollars playing blackjack
and reported it on his twenty twenty four tax return?
Was it Governor Ron DeSantis? Was it Illinois? Governor JB. Pritzker,
or was it Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo one point four million?
Playing blackjack?

Speaker 8 (01:18:15):
It seems like it needs to be the governor of Nevada.

Speaker 26 (01:18:18):
Yeah too, I'm gonna go with Pritzkirt is that everybody?

Speaker 9 (01:18:24):
The answer is Pritzker? Like he needs more money?

Speaker 8 (01:18:28):
Yeah, real billionaire?

Speaker 9 (01:18:30):
I know, all right? Do we have a winner at
this point? Or should we keep going?

Speaker 10 (01:18:35):
George got a winner? Three people?

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Three? Really?

Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
I know it's not me? So who are the who's
who's come up to? Mike, Georgia, Mic Steve, Right, there
is Steve.

Speaker 26 (01:18:48):
Boomer and Beth. All right, well here we go. See
we can tie break here. Health question I injuries According
to a new study on the rise in the US
among older players of which sport basketball, pickleball, or darts.

Speaker 9 (01:19:06):
I'm gonna go PICKLEBALLI see we can't all choose the
same answer. That's not That doesn't make it fine. I'll
choose darts because they both said pickleball. The answer is pickleball.
So now we're down to two. Just that's not cool.

Speaker 10 (01:19:25):
I'm just glad we're not playing any trom music.

Speaker 9 (01:19:28):
It's nine inch nails.

Speaker 10 (01:19:29):
Bow.

Speaker 9 (01:19:30):
He's been eliminated.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
All right.

Speaker 26 (01:19:32):
Uber announced a plan to let drivers earn extra money
by doing what delivering packages, taking customer surveys, or entering
data for AI.

Speaker 8 (01:19:49):
So delivering packages, customer surveys or entering data for AI,
uber driver is earning more. I'm gonna say, data entry
for AI.

Speaker 9 (01:20:05):
What do you think, boom?

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
You're taking surveys and.

Speaker 26 (01:20:07):
The answer is entering data for AI.

Speaker 10 (01:20:13):
So look who won here today?

Speaker 8 (01:20:15):
It's been a while.

Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
How long has it been? It's been I don't know
a few weeks. There we go, there's your round.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Queen.

Speaker 10 (01:20:23):
Oh, let's give the queen of crown. Oh.

Speaker 26 (01:20:26):
I think that since she used to sing in an
a capella group, she should sing her own factory song.

Speaker 8 (01:20:31):
BETHA, here you calling.

Speaker 10 (01:20:35):
And she has the crown for at least a week.
Thank you, Mark, Sir, News Talk eleven to ten WBT
Traffic check Boom er bond can though.

Speaker 9 (01:20:44):
Steve Diggett kind of shoved out of the way.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
It did.

Speaker 9 (01:20:46):
Yeah, I mean I did no pickleball, and I also
and Beth can attest. I also had the AI answer
ready to go.

Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
He did AI.

Speaker 10 (01:20:53):
Hey, Steve, see you later, loser.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
We've been a rolling Nervey.

Speaker 14 (01:20:59):
Move on, Steve, just like roller Derby over the railm.

Speaker 9 (01:21:03):
Oh Man, I'll be back next week.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
You just wait.

Speaker 16 (01:21:08):
Good morning, Bo and Beth.

Speaker 12 (01:21:09):
I hope y'all are having a great morning.

Speaker 10 (01:21:11):
Oh we are so far, so good.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
How are you?

Speaker 16 (01:21:13):
I had ww network and to your point, a minute ago,
you could watch a match from fineteen eighty seven.

Speaker 8 (01:21:19):
Wait, hold the phone. There was a WWE streaming service.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:21:23):
In fact, Vince Cokeley was one of the first. He
was a pioneer in all this. Vince Cochley, I mean
Vince Cocaine. Wow, Vince McMahon.

Speaker 9 (01:21:34):
I thought that was amazing. No, just not see that coming.
That's a pro bom.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
No chance.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
Say this is good morning, Bat.

Speaker 10 (01:21:52):
That's right, tell us something good on a Friday. You
know how we do it around here. Seven oh four five,
seven eleven ten text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC
also the old fashioned comment line we take them all
and we have some already.

Speaker 8 (01:22:05):
We already have some. Sarah sent us a message that
said the Road Church in mint Hill sent a mission
team to western North Carolina. In the last four days,
they have helped a family who has been without a
kitchen and a bathroom since the flood last year. They
also helped a woman whose husband was swept away in
the flood and they are helping her rebuild her home

(01:22:25):
and her front porch. I could not love that good
news more. Sarah kevy keV. I love that Kevy keV
is in our system as Kevy keV. He said, this
is a really you know what. I love this because
Kevy gets it. Kevy keV gets it that it just
the good things that happen in your life are worth sharing.

(01:22:46):
Kevy said, they finally put three creams and five splendid
packs in my bag after ordering coffee and asking for
that for two weeks. You know what, that's good news.
It took two weeks and they finally got it right
Kevy keV, and we're happy before you.

Speaker 10 (01:23:01):
Thank you, Bethy Beth.

Speaker 8 (01:23:02):
I also I got this one on my on my
personal text, and I feel like this is good news
that needs to be shared. After I heard this, the
devil doesn't make life hard for those who are already
his I finally understood why so many bad people thrive
while the good ones suffer. The struggle of the good

(01:23:25):
isn't punishment, it's proof you haven't sold your soul for comfort.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Well that's deep.

Speaker 8 (01:23:31):
Let's tell me something.

Speaker 9 (01:23:32):
Good worthy it is?

Speaker 8 (01:23:34):
So now that person says, I see my battles differently.
They're not signs of failure. They're signs that I'm still
fighting for something pure. Oh don't you feel really good
about the world listening to that? So if you're struggling
out there, it could be just because you're really good.

Speaker 10 (01:23:50):
Yeah, but don't go around telling people you're good.

Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
That's why I didn't share the name.

Speaker 10 (01:23:55):
Except right except right here over the fifty thousand watts.
Whey want you to tell us something good? Here we go, Mike.
Oh we got more.

Speaker 8 (01:24:06):
Yeah, Mike says, we are celebrating my son's fourth birthday
this weekend, and he could not be a better kid.
He's always happy and willing to give hugs to all
of his teachers. So happy birthday to Mike's four year
old son.

Speaker 10 (01:24:21):
So Ashton just sent a picture of the family there
at Disney World.

Speaker 8 (01:24:25):
Oh Ashton. So Ashton I once mistook as a male
on our show A couple of weeks ago. I read
a text from Ashton, and I said he because Ashton
has a like a garage area that they love to
like have parties, and we were talking about garages as
the new front front porches. Anyway, Ashton, Ashton's the mom
and they surprised their boys with a trip to Disney

(01:24:47):
And how cute is this picture.

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Yeah, it's like when they send the Willie Geist pictures
from you know, on Sunday today. Yes, this is our
version of that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:57):
Yes, when you send like the pictures of like little
family outings and the good things that are happening in
people's lives. And I think especially especially now, maybe more
than ever, and we were talking about this earlier in
the show, because of social media, I think we feel
more divided and feel more angered by each other. And
I think these moments show that so many good things
are happening, and that our friends and our neighbors actually

(01:25:19):
are our friends, that there are far more that that
unites us than divides us.

Speaker 10 (01:25:25):
Seven four five, seven oh eleven ten Every Friday. I mean,
the way this has sort of evolved is we most
of the time we do it at seven fifty, but
every once in a while there comes a Friday where
we just have to do it where we can do it.

Speaker 8 (01:25:37):
Hey, why not eight fifty eight fifty is a good
time to do it today.

Speaker 10 (01:25:40):
Let's see, good morning. My husband left for Minneapolis. Yeah,
left for Minneapolis this morning to go to work on
a little man's house who got damage in the flood
and no one had helped him.

Speaker 8 (01:25:53):
Oh, so Cindy's husband is working on a home in
western North Carolina. I think at Minneapolis, North Carolina. Is
there a Minneapolis in western North That's.

Speaker 10 (01:26:00):
Why I stopped you a second, because I thought, I've
lived here all my life. I don't know that I
knew there was a Minneapolis, North Carolina. But you know, hey,
if that's the case, great, But I don't know for
I don't know for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:26:13):
The fact that her husband is building a home, you know,
no matter where it is, if it's in Minneapolis, Minnesota
or North Carolina, I'm in for it. Tony said, since
the cancelation of the Mallard Creek Barbecue, please tell everyone
they are welcome to move on over and come to
the Unionville Barbecue to support Unionville schools. It's the first
Saturday in November. That's November first. People will be lined

(01:26:33):
up to get in, so come early and hungry. That's
the Unionville Barbecue on November.

Speaker 9 (01:26:39):
First, Minneapolis is a community located along US nineteen East
in Avery County, North Carolina.

Speaker 8 (01:26:46):
There you go, learn.

Speaker 10 (01:26:47):
I learned something new.

Speaker 8 (01:26:49):
Cindy's husband's in Minneapolis, North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Today.

Speaker 10 (01:26:51):
I'm a lifelong North Carolinian. I did not know that,
so I gotta say.

Speaker 9 (01:26:56):
I gotta say it.

Speaker 8 (01:26:59):
See that's some good. You learned something new today. I'm
always good to learn.

Speaker 10 (01:27:03):
We got John Hancock for the final hour, Charlotte's most
beloved and today I just realized is a very important
anniversary for him. Tell you what that is on the
way as we make our way to the final hour
of the week.

Speaker 21 (01:27:20):
Good morning, son, isn't this great?

Speaker 27 (01:27:22):
Blue sky?

Speaker 11 (01:27:23):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Fresh cut grass?

Speaker 27 (01:27:24):
Birds?

Speaker 10 (01:27:24):
Turbine first samn phonem.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
Easy from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
No, I know you could smoke on stage.

Speaker 8 (01:27:33):
You can't use a cigarette.

Speaker 4 (01:27:36):
This is Good Morning Beat with QO Thompson and Ben
troutbit Bot BNS Band's refrigeration people.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
A lot to learn about this town.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
Sweeten Friday morning in the Tyboid studio. Hey, there, Hi,
there ho there whereas John Hancock, as we can be

(01:28:07):
already already my grueling hour of work a week is
already here. Best hour of the week, right, best hour
for us.

Speaker 21 (01:28:18):
It actually is my best hour of the week. I
hope it's been a good week well, Beth, because in
fifty eight minutes it's over.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
I was just going through, just going through some some
prep stuff, and I just realized something. Let me make
sure I can advance. Sometimes I have to do some
of these things on the fly. But let me go
back to six years ago today, Ladies and gentlemen, we
joined the program already in progress that day.

Speaker 28 (01:28:53):
And from the luckiest guy. I always had a phrase
that back when I was having trouble getting hired. There
are fifth teen five hundred radio stations in this country,
and I've only worked for nine of them. So there's
a job for me out there somewhere. From the bottom
of my heart, I can't even begin to tell you

(01:29:15):
we're out of here.

Speaker 10 (01:29:21):
Six years ago, six years ago today, you did your
last afternoon show on this station.

Speaker 21 (01:29:26):
I thought about it a couple of days ago, and
then to completely bally past me too, because when you
were just saying, I thought to myself October sixteenth, October sixteenth,
my actual by contract last day was the twenty first.

Speaker 10 (01:29:44):
But your last on air day, but my last seventheen
day was today.

Speaker 13 (01:29:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
Yeah, I could hear the emotion in your voice when
you said we're out of here. That almost got me
choked up just now.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:29:56):
My big regret about my goodbye as I never said
thank you to TJ, your producer.

Speaker 8 (01:30:02):
TJ was so.

Speaker 21 (01:30:04):
Not not TJ the TJ the producer.

Speaker 10 (01:30:08):
Hear me walk down the hall and grab him, so
you can recreate it.

Speaker 9 (01:30:10):
I can run down, I can run down the hallway,
steel him away.

Speaker 8 (01:30:13):
We should do that.

Speaker 21 (01:30:15):
We've had We've had that conversation before. And you know, TJ.

Speaker 10 (01:30:18):
He's is George going together, He's he's It's okay, He's now,
He's now. He runs the board for uh mixed one
O seven point nine this morning show.

Speaker 8 (01:30:31):
He is one of the jolliest fellows. He is always smiling,
he is always positive. He is just he is He's
just so warm and lovely.

Speaker 9 (01:30:40):
Well and and i'd like to you know, he comes
by every morning. We you know trade Helloes is the
morning show producer. Guys every Friday when he comes walking
by the door every Friday, Friday Friday as he comes
marching down the hallway every Friday morning.

Speaker 21 (01:30:55):
You've done shows with him before. He's uh smarter than
you think he is. He's still and I mean that
as a compliment. You kind of take take him for
granted and then uh uh he's he's just anyway, he's
he's like a surrogate son to me.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
He uh.

Speaker 21 (01:31:18):
He and Gina who is down in Charleston now as
two kids. But these are just people that ed nexon.
Uh uh, these are just I had had some great
producers along the way, and uh, so on and so over,
but TJ is the one that all uh and Gina
or the or the two I'll always remember.

Speaker 10 (01:31:40):
I'm holding up a picture to you because that came
up in my Facebook memories today, and it's a picture
of you and me and Zochie and Boomer and uh
and TJ. We all wore Hawaiian shirts that last day
you were on the air, except me.

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
Oh it's so funny. You look at those looks like pajamas.
I is that like a extra Schmarge like that's Oh
why is it so big?

Speaker 21 (01:32:09):
The shirt?

Speaker 10 (01:32:10):
Because I borrowed it. I think I borrowed it from
We had a sales guy named Scott Whitlocker.

Speaker 8 (01:32:14):
I could have belloted that and we're not as a dress.

Speaker 13 (01:32:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:32:16):
I'm glad you liked it. So wait, look here he comes,
oh ladies, and so here here you go to TJ.
Right over here. So TJ is in the middle of
his regular shift now working on next one oh seven
nine's morning show. But we were just saying that today
is the six year anniversary of John Years last year's show,

(01:32:38):
and we said I played the very end of it.
And then Hancock proceeded to say, uh, well, there's one thing.

Speaker 21 (01:32:43):
The one regret that I had was I never said
thank you to you.

Speaker 27 (01:32:46):
Oh you did, just not on the air. You did plenty,
come on, well not that day.

Speaker 21 (01:32:53):
I was so tied up in me.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Of course.

Speaker 8 (01:32:57):
So now's your chance, and now's your chance to say
all the things.

Speaker 27 (01:33:00):
Oh you know, yeah, yeah, no, it's not needed on
the air. It's fine.

Speaker 8 (01:33:10):
Well, we were just saying, I was just saying to you,
Jay that when I got here, what gosh, almost four
years ago now, that you were just always has always
just been the jolliest, loveliest, one of the greatest people.
Every day when I especially if there's like like a
political headline that I want to talk about or like,
get off my chest. I always put my head into
the one seven nine studio and say, I'm going to

(01:33:31):
read you this headline.

Speaker 27 (01:33:32):
Yeah, we've got a joke for it. Yeah, whatever it is.

Speaker 10 (01:33:36):
See, I'm holding up this picture. Remember that picture?

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Oh wow?

Speaker 27 (01:33:39):
Yeah, everybody rocking the Hawaiian shirts. I forgot about that.

Speaker 10 (01:33:43):
Beth said, mind looks like a boat.

Speaker 8 (01:33:46):
His looks like a dress. His was ginormous, it was.

Speaker 21 (01:33:50):
See, that's pretty amazing. Six years.

Speaker 27 (01:33:52):
It does not feel like it's been six years, for sure.
And then also it feels like it's been fifteen years.

Speaker 29 (01:33:59):
So yeah, because it seem a long long time ago. Yeah,
it does, because we're out of the routine, right, Yeah.
And then think about when we were on nights. It
seems even longer ago than that.

Speaker 21 (01:34:10):
And I did nights forever, and every time we get
to daylight savings times and stuff like that. He and
I used to hate that because just when you were
going home in the dark, I mean, we might as
well have been working overnights, right, yeah, just a sense
of mind at But we always used to watch out

(01:34:33):
for each other when we were leaving because out in
the parking lot there were you know what twenty five
thirty hookers, hookers up. Well every night this was hooker
central out there.

Speaker 10 (01:34:46):
And I didn't think I was gonna be talk looking
out you were looking out for each other, how.

Speaker 27 (01:34:53):
Well this was morally speaking?

Speaker 21 (01:34:57):
Across the street was you didn't want to be there.
And to this day, if I'm walking along and I
see some like cute little blonde girl walking her dog
up and down, I always think to myself, get what
are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Right?

Speaker 21 (01:35:13):
Yeah, but you know it's all houses and some division
and stuff back there now, so it's completely change from
what it was. But it used to be one of
those parts of town where when the sun went down, right,
you did not want to be there.

Speaker 10 (01:35:27):
Now do we just kind of pull you off the
show you were doing and they're like, why is TJ leading?

Speaker 27 (01:35:31):
Or I can run two shows at once?

Speaker 10 (01:35:33):
See that's the right handwer.

Speaker 8 (01:35:34):
You've actually done that before, that has happened.

Speaker 27 (01:35:36):
I have done that a couple of times.

Speaker 10 (01:35:38):
Yes, yeah, but Matt and Liz are doing their show
and George just walks and says, hey, come on, TJ,
let's go. Yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 21 (01:35:44):
Fine. Yeah, it's kind of how it rolls.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
O needs me.

Speaker 10 (01:35:46):
It's good well, look, see, Beth, we created a moment,
we made it happen.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
You got to say thank you on the air.

Speaker 10 (01:35:52):
Six years later, and the circle is now complete and
I'll see you again in six years. Perfect, all right,
thank you, TJ.

Speaker 8 (01:35:59):
Yeah, I love you and love the Dolly Parton shirt.
By the way, he's wearing a Dolly Parton T shirt.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 10 (01:36:06):
News Talk eleven to ten WBT traffic check right now,
Boomer von Cannon, who is in the same picture I
talked about six years ago. Today we all wore the
Hawaiian shirts and said goodbye to Hancock and.

Speaker 21 (01:36:16):
What a day.

Speaker 14 (01:36:17):
Gosh, your mercy, yes, sir, And how about TJ. Man,
You're not going to find a better person on earth
than TJ. Will not find a better person.

Speaker 8 (01:36:25):
His face just is a smile. It's always smiling. His
eyes are always smiling.

Speaker 21 (01:36:30):
They're great.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Dude.

Speaker 10 (01:36:31):
Kind of reminds me of a Boomer.

Speaker 9 (01:36:32):
Actually, yeah, very similar, got it, man, he really does.

Speaker 10 (01:36:35):
Oh I wish we had down I wish we had
a CD filled.

Speaker 21 (01:36:40):
With what happens when you're not on the air.

Speaker 10 (01:36:43):
Oh oh no, thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:36:46):
No, that's probably not a good idea that that.

Speaker 21 (01:36:49):
Thing about always watch what you say in front of
a mic. Yeah, well, we didn't really follow that rule.

Speaker 8 (01:36:56):
I think we've all forgotten that rule.

Speaker 3 (01:36:59):
I didn't.

Speaker 21 (01:37:00):
You're a thing.

Speaker 9 (01:37:01):
It's just us.

Speaker 10 (01:37:02):
Nobody hears what we say.

Speaker 16 (01:37:04):
Hey, what's up? How are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
Fa?

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
Bam? I like that.

Speaker 10 (01:37:07):
I don't know what it means, but I like it.

Speaker 15 (01:37:09):
Hey, how are you hi?

Speaker 8 (01:37:10):
We're great.

Speaker 16 (01:37:11):
You were a news show that a fun to listen to.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
This is good Morning Bet.

Speaker 10 (01:37:20):
That's right on Fridays. Hancock joins the fam BAM on
Good Morning VT. I thought about you when I saw
this story, because I always think about you when anytime
anybody talks about this. I remember you talking on the
air about how many you got and how you combatd
the problem. Americans are now getting two point five billion

(01:37:45):
robo calls a month. That is the highest level in years,
according to this latest survey. And I remember back in
the day, well before smartphones. But I remember you did
a segment on the old John Hancock Show where you
told a story. And this was at a time when
you would get them on a landline and you would
just pick up the phone and someone would be on
the other end and the robocaller. And when I say robocall,

(01:38:07):
I really mean telemarketer. That's kind of what we're getting
at here. Same family, but you get a telemarketer call
and they would go through the rigamarole with you, and
then you turn the tables on them and start asking
them questions and basically force them to get exasperated with
you and hang up.

Speaker 21 (01:38:24):
Yeah, I used to play it as a game, but
you've got to give him too much credit now, So
at this point I don't mess with him. And I
don't know why it's funny you should mention it, because
this week I have had more BS phone calls than

(01:38:45):
I've had in a long long time. And I got
one of these calls the other day that you probably
have read about. And I saw a news story on
the day I got it, and that was a lady
called and said, I have your knee brace and your
back brace to a bill of medicare for and we're

(01:39:08):
ready to ship it to you. And I said, I
didn't order a knee brace and I didn't order a
back brace. She said, are you sure, and I said, yeah,
I'm pretty damn sure. I've got one leg. So there
goes one knee brace and I read about it earlier.

(01:39:29):
And then she called back the next day and there
was the same accent and said, you told you asked
me to call you back, do you remember? And I
just hung up on her.

Speaker 8 (01:39:41):
See what's nerve wracking now about these calls is because
of the invention and the advancements of AI. If they
just get you know, certain samples of your voice. There
are now spam calls that people are creating voices of
loved ones of people and making those conversations sound like

(01:40:02):
a loved one might be in trouble. And so tech
experts are saying that you need within a family a
safe word that no one else would know, so that
you can ask what that word is, to make sure
that even the voice on the other end of the
line that you might think as your husband or your wife,
or your kid or your grandma is not actually that
person because they've answered a robocall.

Speaker 21 (01:40:24):
Well, and don't say yes yeah to anything, because if
they get you saying yes, then they can use that
to get you signed up for other things. It's scary
world out there right now. I mean, you know, between
banks and stocks and all that stuff and then just

(01:40:48):
phones and mail. Some of it's so sophisticated. I'm not
glad my mom's dead, but I'm glad that she's not
there for temptation any longer.

Speaker 10 (01:41:06):
About one third of Americans say they get at least
one scam phone call a day.

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:41:12):
And there's also a skyrocket and the aunt amount of
automated texts that come in that category. We talked to
Teresa Peyton all the time about, you know, people who
get scammed by these texts that want you to click
on a link and make it look like it's legit
from somewhere. But uh, I was a little surprised that
all of a sudden the robocalls had spiked, because I
feel like, I feel like this was a much bigger

(01:41:33):
thing several years ago, and now I feel like they
the technology with smartphones has sort of allowed you to
at least screen your calls now and apparently, like you say,
John and Beth, now now the the scammers are getting
more sophisticated about making you think it's real. But again,
you were you were the you're the og of basically

(01:41:55):
telling off the telemarketer.

Speaker 21 (01:41:57):
Well, you used to mess with them at this point.
You tried to get out as clean as possible.

Speaker 10 (01:42:02):
But like, what's an example back in the day when
if you got one at home, what would you do?

Speaker 21 (01:42:06):
Well, I don't know, but I mean the world famous
one is saying, I'm a little busy right now. Don't
you give me your home phone number and I'll call
you back later. Well, I can't give you my home Powell.
Why it seems perfectly comfortable using mind.

Speaker 10 (01:42:22):
But it's but basically you just you turned the tables
on them and tried to sort of outsmart them as
they were peppering you with questions.

Speaker 21 (01:42:31):
Well, I like messing around with them, but I don't
like messing around with them anymore because, as you said, Beth,
you could be playing right into their hands. And I
know it. And then AI has made your voice, and
if they can get your voice, then they can get
you saying almost anything that you want them to.

Speaker 10 (01:42:56):
Yeah, because back then, back then they were at least
legit and and that they were calling on behalf of
a company trying to get your money. Now they can
be somebody totally different than they say. They are trying
to scam you for something else.

Speaker 21 (01:43:09):
I am my whole scenario And if a Genie came
down and offered you three wishes. One of mine would
be that bad people all die of a heart attack
right now. I just that'd be as amused as anything else,
just to see who dropped.

Speaker 8 (01:43:27):
The people you thought were good that yeah, they just dropped.

Speaker 21 (01:43:32):
But I think that would be a lot more people
than you realize. Everybody, I don't know. Everybody seems it
seems like everybody's on the take, when in fact there's
still more good people than bad. It's just that the
bad people get the press, got the attention.

Speaker 10 (01:43:52):
Well, I've got some good news coming up. After the news,
we have Big Weekend making plans and then around the
Charlotte area the Friday staple. Originally on the John Hancock Show,
and now on this final hour with you and Me
and Bath and John, this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Is good Morning, Beatty.

Speaker 21 (01:44:11):
Big Big Weekend is presented by Watson Insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Not know living in this.

Speaker 30 (01:44:18):
Town enough come far to see them, Gonna track them down.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
They live in a big house. Hated White and Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Got a tip tip for the maid and a backup
le guitar.

Speaker 30 (01:44:38):
Drop my keel on the County read it card, Gonna
look up it up later, had to hit the bar.

Speaker 25 (01:44:53):
I need a big week.

Speaker 10 (01:45:03):
Yeah, Big week can.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
Leave you down.

Speaker 11 (01:45:09):
Run you guys.

Speaker 30 (01:45:14):
That I may shake your man, but I won't know
your name.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
The joke in your.

Speaker 30 (01:45:21):
Language don't come out the same these times when I'm down,
there's nothing to blame.

Speaker 20 (01:45:34):
I need a big week.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Me that it does.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Yeah, big week, maybe down run you.

Speaker 21 (01:45:51):
Us North Carolina State Fair and Raleigh through the twenty
six Carolina Balloon Fest up in Statesville all week in
long Charlotte Checkers open their season tonight against the Iowa
Wild at Bojangles at seven o'clock. Hornets open their regular
season on Wednesday in the newly renovated Spectrum Center against

(01:46:11):
the Brooklyn Nets at seven o'clock on Wednesday. By the way,
it is and has been, Niner Nation Week homecoming against
Temple at three point thirty tomorrow. Wicked continues at the
Belt through October. The twenty sixth Charlotte FC last regular
season game fan Appreciation Night tomorrow at six pm at

(01:46:34):
Bank of America Stadium and Billie Eilish at the at
Spectrum on Sunday at seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
That's sold out.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
Every record Neve two de gla.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
You can look back, please best not to stay.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
How do you do.

Speaker 3 (01:47:11):
You Know and.

Speaker 21 (01:47:18):
Boom shack Alack All Big Weekend presented by Watson Insurance
Agency Protecting What's Important since nineteen thirty four. Renaissance Festival
continues through November twenty third. Up There in Huntersville on
Saturdays and Sundays, and Seether and Daughtry in concert at
the Skylak Credit Union Amphitheater, and the Cult will be

(01:47:43):
at the Oven's Auditorium. Seither and Daughtry would be the
Daughtry that I'm thinking of.

Speaker 9 (01:47:49):
Yes, American idol, right, yep, Chris Dawtrey.

Speaker 21 (01:47:52):
I have seen Do I know Seether?

Speaker 8 (01:47:54):
I don't know her.

Speaker 9 (01:47:55):
You know you would if you heard, if you heard
like the singles, you would be like, oh oh yeah,
those guys like one or two hit songs. They weren't.
They weren't like a you know, Metallica level of a
rock band where you knew everything from the album, but
they had a couple of them.

Speaker 21 (01:48:10):
Doctory came out of the gates big and then kind of.

Speaker 10 (01:48:14):
But you know that show is so big then that
it's interesting. Beth asked me a question earlier in the show,
and we didn't really get to elaborate on it. She says,
do you ever watch The Voice And I have watched
it occasionally, But the difference between The Voice and American
Idol to me has always been American Idol went through
that stretch where you didn't even have to win the show.

(01:48:35):
If you were in the top five, you were almost
guaranteed radio and career success.

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
Well yeah, I mean, if you think about the superstars
that that American Idol made, from Carrie Underwood to Kelly Clarkson.

Speaker 9 (01:48:46):
To the Adam Lambert, Oh my.

Speaker 8 (01:48:49):
Gosh, Adam Lambert, the Oscar winner, I can't think of her.
Oh j Jennifer Hudson.

Speaker 10 (01:48:55):
Yeah, but Jennifer Hudson and Adam Lambert are all in
the category of didn't win three and Daughtry but did
much better than some that finished higher than them. But
my point was going to be that I can name
like the first seven or eight American Idol winners. I
can't name a single person who's won the Voice.

Speaker 24 (01:49:15):
Can you?

Speaker 8 (01:49:18):
Normally? Yes, But right now I've got menopause brain and
her name disappeared into the hole where things go to
die in my head.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
But she has uh.

Speaker 8 (01:49:26):
She sang at a Panthers game last year. She sang
at the halftime. My point exactly, I have some of her, Pope, Cassidy, Pope,
thank you, I ask.

Speaker 21 (01:49:39):
You her Fantasian and American Idol.

Speaker 10 (01:49:42):
He was a winner season two, I think, and to
be to be fair, American Idol has passed the point
now where the winner automatically becomes a star. That doesn't
happen automatically anymore. But there was a stretch there where
I mean, you were amented at least out of the
gate star and some of them fell off obviously, But
I mean Beth and I worked at w CCB around

(01:50:04):
the same time where Idol was in its heyday, and they.

Speaker 8 (01:50:07):
Sent me out there to cover the American Idol from
the finale, Carrie Underwood, Carrie underwoods year, Chris Daughtry's year.

Speaker 10 (01:50:15):
Kelly Clarkson, she wanted. The one that no one ever
hears from anymore is Reuben ruben Stutter, but you hear from.

Speaker 8 (01:50:22):
Clay Aich and every now and again, every now and
again he runs for office.

Speaker 21 (01:50:26):
Carrie Underwood is probably the queen of them all. Yeah,
she's a huge career.

Speaker 10 (01:50:33):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:50:34):
She and Kelly Clarkson for sure are the probably the
biggest superstars to emerge from that show.

Speaker 10 (01:50:40):
And Kelly has turned into more of just a media
star than a pop star anymore. I mean, I can't
remember the last time she released an album that had
a hit on it, but her voice is just you know,
that drives that whole talk show that she does. So Hey,
by the way, you mentioned the Hornets and their opener
on Wednesday night. I'll repeat this because coming up on Monday, Tuesday,

(01:51:01):
and Wednesday of next week, name the fake Hornet to
win Opening Night Hornets tickets compliments of Good Morning Bat,
we have five pairs of tickets to the opening night
game against the Brooklyn Nets. And the way that you're
going to win this next week, you know how we
do the name that fake bowl game the morning after
the ball games are announced and I try to quiz
Beth on one of these balls is a fake one

(01:51:21):
that Bow made up? Well, next week it's going to
be one of these is a fake ex Hornet that
Bow made up. The other ones just are kind of
obscure ones that you forgot about. So we'll do that
starting on Monday, giving away Opening Night Hornets tickets. And
like John said, it's the completely transformed Spectrum Center that's
been I mean they've had it's been closed for so long.

(01:51:42):
Billie Eilish, is you know the big the big pattern shopping. Yeah,
so big stuff coming up.

Speaker 21 (01:51:49):
Therese a former hornet named Handcock.

Speaker 10 (01:51:52):
Really I think so, you're right. I know his first
name too, should I save that for Monday?

Speaker 21 (01:51:58):
And there was a guy named Geiger, Matt Geiger, Matt Geiger, Yes,
and Matt Geiger. My son's name is Matt Geiger. And
at the time, my Matt was little guy.

Speaker 10 (01:52:15):
And he.

Speaker 21 (01:52:19):
Picked Matt up and walked him over to the to
the hoop and handed him a basket bald and let
him slam dunk one. So it was Matt Matt Geiger
holding Matt Geiger, big old, bald headed guy.

Speaker 10 (01:52:35):
And I think Geiger was played for Georgia Tech, if
I remember correctly.

Speaker 21 (01:52:40):
He may have, and he went on to somebody from
here like Miami or somebody.

Speaker 10 (01:52:43):
Had a nice little career out of that. But you're right,
there was there's a there's an obscure former hornet with
the last name Hancock. And I'll leave it at that
as a half hint for Monday. But we'll give away
tickets next week. And we've got one more segment for
us and for Hancock, good morning, this is good beads.

Speaker 21 (01:53:01):
You know what you're like.

Speaker 31 (01:53:02):
You're like one of those great portraits you see over
a fireplace.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Words have been invented.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
To describe women like you, such as.

Speaker 21 (01:53:13):
Flinty and.

Speaker 31 (01:53:17):
Impervious.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
So you think I'm a human?

Speaker 31 (01:53:20):
No, I think you're formidable.

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
Yeah, cold, distant, like I'm frozen in some painting.

Speaker 21 (01:53:26):
Not at all.

Speaker 31 (01:53:27):
But I do think that you use your strength to
separate yourself from everyone. But it's thrilling when your defenses
are down and you're not isolated. That I believe is
you're winning Combo Killer Combo.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Actually, you know, I can't decide if do you hate
me or if you're like the only person who ever
really got me.

Speaker 31 (01:53:57):
I don't hate you.

Speaker 10 (01:54:00):
Well, since we last saw you, Hancock passing of Diane Keaton,
Beth and I talked about this on Monday, and you
said during the break, oh, yeah, that movie Something's got
to give. And this is the one that Beth arrived
at too, and it's the one that Diane Keaton said
was her favorite in her entire catalog.

Speaker 21 (01:54:19):
Well, I'd be a sucker for anything with Jack Nicholson
because I'm a big Nicholson fan.

Speaker 8 (01:54:23):
Yeah, he's so good in that film.

Speaker 21 (01:54:24):
And I don't know what his deal is these days.
He's either so eccentric, he's so eccentric, or he's so
sick he can't get out in public anymore. Right, But
I just asked you how old was she when she
did that movie? And you said fifties because she did
a nude scene in that Yeah, and she still looked

(01:54:47):
darn good.

Speaker 8 (01:54:48):
That was one of the big things that it made
headlines because I think she was fifty six fifty seven
when she was in that film. And yeah, I did
a brief, a brief nude scene where Nicholson accidentally walks
in on her as she's about to go into the shower,
and and it was it was a big deal in
Hollywood for someone that age to do a nude scene.

(01:55:11):
But she she was just her own We were talking
about this, and it's the thing that you and I
both admired about her. She was her own person. She
didn't adhere to beauty standards and fashion stands. She just
kind of did her own thing. What she did, what
she wanted to do, and what made her feel comfortable.

Speaker 21 (01:55:25):
Yeah, it was not an erotic, yeah, nude scene. This
was a oh my gosh, Diane Keaton's naked.

Speaker 8 (01:55:32):
Yeah, And he made a joke about it. He's like,
I've never seen a woman that old naked before. It
was the like the plot of the film is that
he wasn't his character wasn't into older women until he
met Diane Keaton.

Speaker 21 (01:55:46):
Well, she seemed to be her own person. Yeah, pretty much,
wearing her hats and doing her own thing. And if
Hollywood liked it, that was great, and if Hollywood didn't
like it, that was okay.

Speaker 8 (01:55:58):
Too comfortable. She seemed to comfortable.

Speaker 10 (01:56:00):
Speaking of people who have passed away, Ace Frehley, Kiss
passed away last night. You were talking about him earlier.
Of course, one of the founding members of Kiss is
that a guy you grew up listening to.

Speaker 21 (01:56:17):
Kiss was always someone that was relevant when I was
growing up. But I don't know that I was necessarily
ever a huge Kiss guy. I interviewed Paul Stanley once
he was seventy four. Freely was seventy four years old,
and it had his ups and downs with the rest

(01:56:39):
of the band, and they're all chiming in today about
what a contribution he had made and so on and
so forth. That shocked me too. Members of Kiss you
almost have to remember they're real.

Speaker 8 (01:56:59):
Right, right, They're not cartoon characters.

Speaker 21 (01:57:02):
Yeah, but they were those two that was the heck
of a band.

Speaker 10 (01:57:06):
Yeah, they were kind of in the middle. Well, look,
it's been been a great week of radio here on WBT.
Hancock always good to have you here on Fridays. And
six years ago today you did your last afternoon show,
And like Beth and I always say, we're glad that
you still spent at least one hour with not just us,
but the whole WBT listening family each week.

Speaker 21 (01:57:28):
If they'd let me take six weeks off, I'd have stayed.
I'm serious. I think what I really needed was six
weeks off is six weeks to wake up with nothing
to do. But as it turns out, health wise and
so on and so forth, it wouldn't have worked out.
So anyway, I'm probably the luckiest guy in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:57:51):
Well, we feel like the luckiest people in the world
that we get to spend Fridays with you.

Speaker 21 (01:57:56):
Oh, I'm charging you.

Speaker 10 (01:57:59):
Yeah, he's the lucky life.

Speaker 27 (01:58:01):
I mentioned that.

Speaker 10 (01:58:04):
Yeah, we all these unpaid bills. Yeah, thanks to Hancock.
Thanks to a TJ for making a cameo. Thanks to
Mark and Zochie and Sharon and Boomer and of course
Steve In for Bernie and George In for Steve. Did
I get it all right?

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
You got it right.

Speaker 10 (01:58:19):
Only one thing left to say, good talk, best good talk.
Then sorry, we're closed.

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