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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm thinking, well, thank me up a cup of coffee
and chocolate donut with some.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Of those little sprinkles on top. Where you're going? You're
thinking from.

Speaker 4 (00:07):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three.

Speaker 5 (00:11):
Beat Hey Sam, practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
This is good Morning Beauty with both Thompson at Beth Trout.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
But nice, I've done a good job. I'll trade this
whole thing out. It's a mill of time.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Well, you've quite an impression, Saffie to be.

Speaker 6 (00:33):
You Wonder why I have his clothes when miss and
my god, he's weird there.

Speaker 7 (00:41):
I'm gone, but you're still.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Nice to me.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Wonder grief separation?

Speaker 8 (00:50):
Your got together and it's not true.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
You'll just have to taste me whensciss me you.

Speaker 9 (01:03):
We did a video component of this where people could
see acting out the songs that she catching her head.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I think that I had a so I went to
we have a special lunch today after our show. So
I went to a kickboxing class late last night, so
that I, you know, for lunch, well, because I yeah,
because I won't do my normal afternoon kickboxing class.

Speaker 10 (01:31):
Birding calories.

Speaker 7 (01:32):
You could eat ste no no.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
No, I went to a late night when last night,
and I think this is running on at the gym.
And she did end a phrase with a preposition in
that first verse, which you know that happens sometimes. I
don't know if that's what y'all were paying attention to
the grammar of the song.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
A lot going on in Sabrina Carpenter songs.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
You know, Yes, and on Sabrina Carpenter album covers.

Speaker 10 (02:00):
She's a little firecracker, little.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
And she has a little she's five, she says it.

Speaker 7 (02:05):
Yeah, used to be on uh, I mean when I
when my kids were really young. She was on the
reboot of Girl Meets World. But what it was called
she was the friend of the main character. But it
was the reboot of Boy Meets World.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
See, I had no idea that she was a Disney person.
But now it all makes sense because you think about
like Miley Cyrus and her breakout from the world of Disney,
and you know, swinging nude on a wrecking ball, and
and and and she blazed the trail.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
I'd forgotten about that, yes.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
And and and her performance that she did, I think
it was at the Grammys at the VMA is one
of those Yeah, that that raised eyebrows, and.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
The one with Robin what's his name that was at
the VMA's thick. Yeah, what happened to him?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Alan Thick's son. I think after he did that weird
video with all of the models who were topless, I
think people were.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Like, well they got sued for that song too. Yeah
he did for for the rights, I guess. Yeah, he
was like everywhere that one year and had another song.
It was two songs. And then now he's that guy
that used to be in the v M A controversial video.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, no, he's more like that guy that was the
son of the dad.

Speaker 10 (03:10):
From that.

Speaker 7 (03:14):
Exactly. But you remember that summer like that song there
were two of them. Oh, and it would everywhere.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
And I still blurred lines. Is still a really catchy tune.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
That's the one I was thinking of.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
This is still a really catchy tune. And he was
married to Paula Paula Paula, No, not that not her, she,
but he wrote a song I got to get her
back for her. Paula Patton, Paula Patton, thank you.

Speaker 7 (03:45):
There's some songs in my catalog that say bo edit.
Oh great, so you know that box next week. Well,
that's explicit that has bitten me before. The little in
the Box and the c in the Box on on
iTunes is not all is accurate?

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Oh well we got bitten.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
Yeah, we've Sabrina Carpenter has bitten us before in a
hype U you know, not a literal way, but but much.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
We're the only ones.

Speaker 7 (04:14):
She's not bitten. No, like I got you know, I
had this is a this is a it's a great bumper.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yes, and I've noticed that you've used.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
It everything words.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
I almost want to start singing.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yeah, well, we can have our own karaoke. Speaking of
we had somebody the other day. I remember we were
talking about bumpers, and you are making fun of me
because I said I had five hundred of them. Yes, well,
so I actually had a number of follow up emails
about that and what I actually meant, like, I've got
more than five hundred songs in here. I got like

(04:50):
thousands and thousands. And I know that's another humble bread.
But when I said five hundred bumpers, I'm talking about
this kind of thing because I I don't like lyrics
in my in the bumpers I play unless it unless
we're coming back. I can talking about a specific thing
and I play a song that you know. But if
I'm coming back just playing a song that sounds good
like this.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
One, it works.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
You know.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
These are edits and versions and whatever. That's what I
meant when I said I've had five hundred.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Maybe this is how the song ended up in my
brain as you played it as a bumper. Which, speaking
of that, I have to give I have to give
Bo a big shout out from Raleigh on our text
line seven oh four five, seven oh eleven ten brought
to us the State Capital liberty. Yes, liberty bu GMC,
the State Capitol wants us to know No. Raleigh said, Hey, Bo,

(05:35):
I was watching an old movie yesterday and I recognized
a movie clip that you used to rejoin the show.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
That I opened the show with today.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yes, that it was from the Fugitive. Think me up
a cup of coffee and a donut with some of
those sprinkles on it.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'm thinking, well, thank me up a cup of coffee
a chocolate donut with some of those little sprinkles off top.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well you're going to think out.

Speaker 9 (05:58):
For there was a time, because really knows, you can
only send that text if you have two movie clips Raleigh.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
But Riley said, I was proud of myself for noticing it,
but I kept thinking to myself, Bo is really good
at this production thing.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
Really Oh thanks, Roley. We don't say it enough his production.
It's incredible than I want to do a whole show
like where we don't talk.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
It's just all Bow production.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
We just come out.

Speaker 9 (06:22):
We just we suit it for the four hours on production.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
Next hour, we could do the Jim Zulkie Century podcast.

Speaker 9 (06:29):
Do you know what we're trying to say to everybody
home early on a Friday?

Speaker 7 (06:33):
Do you see you guys Monday?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
You know what we could do. We could play all
of Bo's production elements and we could tell the stories
behind them. It could be like v H one behind
the Bumpers.

Speaker 9 (06:45):
Got drunk for several years, broke up with his wife,
they got back together.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
There are a few of these that I've made when
I was drunk before. I never traffic check right now, Well,
thank you, Riley and y'all are very kind. But on
with the show because people don't want to hear about
production and the showt area.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
You don't know.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
There's several people out there.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
It's a handful, maybe maybe twelve.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
Hey, and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well, y'all keep doing great job.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
Thank you man, Keep on keeping on.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
This is good morning beat. It's booming path.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Things like this just make my day. Boomer pulls out
the Grace Grace Jones and the pull up, pull up
to the bumper. And I don't know if they still
do this, but back in the day, I mean back
when I was in college, I used to listen to
Power ninety eight and it was Nate Quick and it
was the Breakfast Brothers in the morning and already the

(07:42):
one woman party. Oh my goodness, trying to think of
they'd got Nate Knight named d C real low quiet
storm voice.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
I remember DC and the Quiet Storm.

Speaker 7 (07:52):
I think I have some DC Quiet Storm in here somewhere.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
I tell you a whole lot about my young life.
I listened to the Quiets.

Speaker 10 (07:58):
You were cool, bit was chill, That's what it was.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
I listened to that. And then who was the lady
that she had a syndicated show And she always talked
about her her kids, and she gave people advice.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Not Delilah. Delilah she's still around. Well, Delilah's not on
Powney eight.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
I loved Delilah. I would listen to Delilah all the
way when I was would drive back and forth from
Chapel Hill. When I'd come home for the weekends or
something to see my parents, I would listen to Delilah.
I'd find her on whatever station she was on. I
loved it, love song. I think any kid that was
in the car with their mom late at night, driving
home from practice or whatever, had Delilah on the What
are you saying? Like when I was in college, I

(08:40):
was like a mom.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Maybe my mom definitely had Delilah all the time. That's
how That's how I was, And.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
I loved her voice. Her voice always sounded like she
was kind of eating, like a dairy queen blizzard or something.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
She she always had.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
You guys hijack my segment to talking about Delilah. Sorry,
I mean, I'm talking Power ninety eight. Delilah was not
on Power ninety eight. But you don't even know why
I said this. In the beginning, I got a note
here from Chris Melton, who is a guy who used
to do traffic, used to do metro traffic, and one
of the stations that used to carry him was Power
ninety eight and he would they would come on in

(09:12):
the afternoon and the in the traffic sounder on Power
ninety eight back in those days was pull up to
my mom for baby, and then he would do traffic.
And he had one of my favorite traffic voices, traffic voices,
radio voices, Chris Melton. But Chris Melton is still out there.
He just texted me long here in the talk this
morning and so, uh dc, here we go crazy. Where

(09:39):
do you hear this guy's voice?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Morning? Got a p e g.

Speaker 11 (09:48):
We played the its with mister David Osia's close.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
I got another set.

Speaker 11 (09:52):
Of the quiet.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Story if people can analyst a certainly.

Speaker 11 (09:55):
Taken from his forthcoming CD, which is a entitled Fact.
I guess you could say it's all about experiencing a
loone that's.

Speaker 12 (10:03):
Mind blowing and all of that.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Goodness.

Speaker 11 (10:08):
We also hearn from the Sounds of Success on the
SOS band and tell me if you still.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Care, Okay, I'm gonna tell you something.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
So this is why I was ended up listening to Delilah.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
I I thought that dude's voice was so cool back
when I was in com was I was working here.
Then I was working here, you know, on on the side,
running the board and stuff. But I listened to all
kinds of radio and I caught when did this dude
d C who did overnights at power ninety eight and
needed the quiet storm? Now, the quiet storm concept is
not one unique to Charlotte. It's all over the country,

(10:42):
you know, playing slow songs, calling with your dedications silk. Yeah,
and you know, I'm sure he played some silk a
little freaking me, oh freaking me, baby.

Speaker 10 (10:52):
That's a little risky this early in the morning.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yes it is.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
That's a full example giving us the respectaum from the fool.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Isn't there a Philadelphia cream cheese commercial that the guy
talks like this?

Speaker 11 (11:05):
Mickey and I'm the only stood the quiet story. As
we continue the pace to an evening full of satin
and lace.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh god wow.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
He would always say, We're gonna continue the pace towards
an evening full of satin and lace. Oh my god wow.
That was his tagline. I thought this dude's voice was
so cool that when I was in college at Davidson,
I cold called him one day and said, Hey, can
I come out to the station and watch you do
your show. And he invited me out to the station
and I watched him do a show that night, and

(11:35):
he recorded all these special liners for me because I
was doing I was doing production in the Charlotte area
at the time. But I said, your voice is so
distinctive and unusual and cool. I said, I gotta, I
gotta see how you do your thing. And so I
spent like the overnight shift watching DC at Power ninety
eight when I was this kid at Davidson in the
in the nineties.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
I feel like he would be doing the show. And
I know that this is just because it's how he
sounds like the lady's man for me. Yeah, that was
about the time, like a sifter of Cavassier and a
smoking jacket.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
But he was like the voice like that was not
an act. That was like that's how that was his
vibe all the time. Nick Craig says it reminds him
of Johnny Fever from w k R k RP. But yeah,
I mean, I mean, he's got he and it was
completely different than anything else on Power ninety eight during
the day. If Chris Melton is still with us, he
knows exactly what I'm talking about. But anyway, I had
no intention of going down that route, but Chris texted

(12:30):
me right as we were talking earlier, and it's amazing
where things get sent on this show.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
So I'm so excited that we did go down that
little road right there, because I feel like I needed
some DC and a smooth pace towards some satin.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
Lacey, you have to continue the pace towards an evening
full of saturnaed.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Lace traveled down a rabbit hole. That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
You so could have done evening slow jams, Steve.

Speaker 13 (12:54):
I needed to probably smoke many more cigarettes as a
child to.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Get my voice that well as a child started.

Speaker 13 (12:59):
Yeah, yeah, because you got to get you got to commit.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
You got early. Really drop it.

Speaker 11 (13:03):
Nay, who's DC, DC, It's doing nice. We continue to
pay an evening full of sending.

Speaker 13 (13:12):
So anyway, I feel like our production director, Jerome can
can get some of those notes. Jerome can get those
those that timber to his voice.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Man, I hope Chris heard this segment because at least
one point person out there will understand I.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Think many many maybe didn't understand it, but they enjoyed it.

Speaker 7 (13:29):
They'll say, Okay, now it all makes sense. Uh, we
are going to talk about talk Bacary, I promise, and
then what upbout our next segment?

Speaker 5 (13:35):
And that was what we were planning on talking about
this time around, but we got sidetracked by Delilah and DC.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
That's what we do.

Speaker 13 (13:41):
Hey, Maddy on the phone, I wanted to touch on something
last week.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Take foot.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
That was you, buddy, that was me.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
You know what the best part of all of this
has been.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
See.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
We 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, I've got you
on the line.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Perfect.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's the greatest call the day, Betty Bank.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Jo'll have a great mourning.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I love listening to you.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
It's gonna be good morning bet and Betty.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
That's right, it's gonna be good morning BT.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Buddy by guys the.

Speaker 14 (14:17):
Bye.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
This is good morning bet with Bow and Beth.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Six thirty eight on WBT. Getting all kinds of feedback
here text line my own personal texts. Just got one
here from a guy named Chris Melton. Yeah, that Chris
Melton that we were talking about last segment. He says, uh,

(14:44):
you're less than fifteen minutes away from another dependable traffic
update from the Breakfast Brothers on Power ninety eight. But
then he says you are s thank you.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
I was like, wow, is he British?

Speaker 7 (14:58):
I was like, And then a few minutes later it says,
I meant you're awesome. I really hate auto correct. Hey,
before we move on to something else, Chris meltin, I
know you're out there because you told me you were
about a little of this. Hey twenty four Now fower
do Chris meltains, Why isn't the traffic is always backed

(15:21):
up on Independence.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Because we live in Charlotte.

Speaker 15 (15:23):
Man, That's just that's an unwritten lawn and I finish
part has.

Speaker 16 (15:26):
To be busy, Okay, man, any traffic this time brought
to you by Gray and Creech. If you're traveling on
in its full body.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Tell me that's not a cool traffic, boy, that is
a cool that's smooth like a bagel with cream cheese.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Here.

Speaker 7 (15:40):
So anyway, that's an old traffic report. So I'm not
going to confuse people out there. But to bring it
full circle, my buddy Chris out there listening still to us,
he's a radio guy at heart. Uh, and we need
to have lunch now, Tarc piccary. Yes, I said, we're
gonna get to Tark McCary A big story yesterday afternoon,
and this really came out of nowhere from just about
everybody that I can think of. And I was wondering

(16:01):
whether he would talk to anybody last night. We reached
out to him, and maybe he'll call before the show
is over. I don't know. I kind of doubt it
because it sounds to me like this. I'm sure he
got hit from every direction yesterday with people wanting to
talk to him. But the news is is that Tark McCary,
who it seems like he just left because he did
to go take a job in the Trump administration, the
deputy administrator for the Federal Transit Administration. He left his

(16:25):
job as city councilman earlier this year to take this post,
and he left, and of course when he left, they
appointed Edwin Peacock to take his place. Now, his wife
was buying to be the appointee, but the city council,
who chooses the person to serve in the interim, ended
up choosing Edwin Peacock. And now Edwin Peacock is running

(16:46):
for council again, but he's running for at large, and
so Christap McCary Tark. Mccary's wife is running now for
his former seat, Tarks, And of course the primary is
coming up next Tuesday. She is trying to become the
the nominee for the Republicans on the ballot for the fall.
So then Tark Pacari about three o'clock yesterday afternoon releases

(17:08):
a statement and I know you have it, and I
have it. I'll start you. We can tag team this
from because it's kind of long, he says. I was
brought in to the us DOT in the first wave
of this new administration to establish a new framework, set
up processes, and layout a game plan for not just
the next four years, but the next generation.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
During that time, I worked as hard as I've ever worked,
and with a great team, we achieved some amazing results
in just the last five months, clearing massive grant backlogs
left to us by the last administration, clearing red tape
that slowed down projects, establishing an AI framework for the future,
and incentivizing big, beautiful projects that are safe, family centric

(17:49):
and a good use of taxpayer dollars. One initiative I
am incredibly proud of. Jump Starting is a ten year
vision to take the global lead in autonomous trans.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
The timing is right for me to hand the baton
to the next wave of leaders, to carry on the
amazing work that's underway, and head back to my beloved
North Carolina, where I can focus on my wife's important campaign,
my family and business.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Although five months may seem brief, it felt a lot longer,
and I really loved getting to know some amazing people
that care immensely about this country. Seeing our president and
administration at work up close was an amazing honor, and
I am confident that Secretary Duffy, Administrator Mullanero, and the
countless other patriots serving this country with everything they have

(18:36):
are going to continue their amazing work and take us
to the next level.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
So that's the statement from Tark Bacari. Yesterday. His name
has been scrubbed from the dot website. They had a
short statement basically wishing him well, and so the Tark
era in that position in that department is over. And
of course now people are starting to wonder, Okay, what's
really going on here? And I heard Jensen last night,

(19:02):
and I've got a clip of what he had to
say about it. We could play a little bit later,
but until we hear from Tark. And like I said,
we've reached out to him. I told him, hey, if
you get a moment during our show today, I want
to talk about what happened. You know, you know our number.
And so maybe we'll hear from him, but I kind
of think we won't because I think he's probably if

(19:23):
it's anything like it was when he went to Washington,
he went up there, got his bearings and it was
a while before he said much about it, and I'm
sure he's going to get back home and sort of
get his bearings here and then I eventually we'll hear
more to this story. If there is more to this.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Story, you know, maybe he's because he did work for
the US Department of Transportation and he's famous for flying
planes over our area. Maybe he could just put a
banner up it tells us all.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
Well, yeah, I'm glad you said that, because it reinforces
the point. Dark always has something to say.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Hey, yeah, and he always has a creative way to
say it.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
So I'm sure he will at whatever time he chooses,
until he does. People will wonder, and I'm sure people
will speculate because you know, you heard his statement right there,
but that was a short that was a short term.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
It was.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
But hey, you know what, we're happy to have him
back in seven o four.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
I've told you all before, I'm not a big Taco
Bell guy.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
And it has broken my heart.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
But your husband is like like whatever, I'm not like,
He's like ten times in the other direction.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, I don't know. You guys have a lot of similarities.
You guys are similar in a lot of ways. But
Taco Bell, guys, Taco Bell is his late night jam sometimes.
But can I just tell you that's for the border, huh?
He heads for the border for the fourth meals that
way what they call it. There is a business story

(20:51):
that has been circulating since last week, and I'm not exaggerating.
I have to take my glasses off to be serious
about this. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that
my husband has talked about this business story pretty much
every day since it came out, and he has this
like marked on his calendar. Listen to this, folks, and
if you are a Taco Bell fan, particularly particularlyly, I

(21:12):
can never get that right. If you grew up on
it in the nineties and two thousands, this business story
is for you. Because Taco Bell on September ninth, that's Tuesday,
they are reviving their decade menu with five fan favorite
throwbacks from the nineties and two thousands and beyond.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
I'm very excited for this.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
And here's why. Here's why One Craig has been very
excited about this because one of the items that has
been gone from the Taco Bell menu for years is
the chili cheese burrito from the nineteen nineties. It is
coming back to all Taco Bells on Tuesday for.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
A limited time.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
Well, I hope it's not a limited time. That's the same.
That's the commonation that keeps happening in my house.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
I hope this is forever well.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
This is forever well.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
And there's also the no at participating restaurants, Like what
if Greg pulls up and they don't have to know.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Because there's a Taco Bell not far from where we live,
and I know that he's probably I think they open
up eleven. I think he's going to be in the
drive through. He's there now, camping out, camping out for
the Tuesday chili cheese burrito. So there are like five
or ten chili cheese burrito place like taco bells where
they're still sold where they never went away from the menu,

(22:31):
And there's literally a website that tracks those taco bells.
And we drove like an hour out of the way
going to the beach once so that he could pull
through and get these chili cheese burritos. Then we learned
that the taco bell near my dad's condo at the
beach still sells the chili cheese burritos. So when I
leave the beach every time, I have to pull through
that taco bell and get him like six of them. Oh,

(22:52):
you're such a good player to bring them back.

Speaker 7 (22:54):
It all makes sense now why Beth didn't get all
bent out of shape when we took that crazy detour
on our way to the beach to eat in an
old school pizza hut down used toe.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Oh, I'm so used to it. I'm so used to it.
But if you're wondering what else, if you're not a
fan of the chili cheese burrito, that's not the only
thing that is coming back, the seven layer burritos. Seven Bernie,
do you remember that Oh, yes, had all the good stuff.
It has refried beans, rice, sour cream, guaco, moley, lettuce, tomatoes,

(23:22):
and shredded cheese. Those are the seven layers of that burrito.
It will now be two ninety nine. Back in the
day when it came out in nineteen ninety three, it
was not two ninety nine. It was much less. It
was like eighty nine cents. Do you know what else
they'll bringing back from nineteen ninety five And I honestly
didn't know that this went away. The double decker taco. Yes,
that has the beans in between the soft shell and

(23:44):
the crunchy shell has the refried beans in there. It
will now be two dollars and forty nine cents. They're
bringing back the cool Ranch Dorito's Locos Taco.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Oh, so, I was about to ask you do they
still have the doritos? Do I believe they have the
nacho cheese for regular one? Yeah, that one never has
gone away.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
So the the Cool Ranch Dorito's Locos Taco is from
twenty twelve, and then from the very early two thousands.
They're bringing back the caramel apple and panada.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Wow, Craig, how can you not love taco? Bell? Bell?

Speaker 7 (24:12):
Craig is listening to the show right now, sitting in
front of a Taco Bell.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yeah, camping out with his chair waiting for the chili
cheese burrito.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Reeds now listen to my wife Taco Bell and all that.
And apparently, you know, they're one of the restaurants or
some of them have been using the AI drive through
ordering service like Bojangles. Yeah, and I'm assuming it's working
okay at Bojangles because they're still doing it, but Taco
Bell is having issues with it.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Yeah, it has not been a smooth roll out for
them because apparently at one am, when people are trying
to order their tacos while leaving the club, they're not
enjoying the robotic experience of trying to get their tacos.
But so here's the thing, guys, this is several months ago,
I pulled through. There's a Taco Bell at Exit twenty three,
the Gilead Road exit. There's a Taco Bell down in

(24:59):
that area, and I pulled through. I would think I
was going to a friend's house and I was just
getting a whole bunch of tacos. And there was a
young girl, it's probably in her early twenties, in front
of me, and they had the AI ordering and she
could not get it right. And I heard her say
to the speaker, this is the most stressful thing I've
ever done.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
And then it replies by going, would you like to
order our specials such and such? Right, that's not what
I said.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
I the Taco Bell AI and the Bojangles AI. I've
used both of them and it's been fine.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
But I kind of Bojangles is delightful. I missed it
is the best experience I've ever had to drive through.
Because they say it's spoke time. Can I take your order?
I need to record that one day when I drive.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Up, which, by the way, the Beau Rito's gone. It's
already gone. It was only for a limited time. It's gone.
I'm sad. I want them to bring it back. I
want them to do Taco Bell style, and I want
them to bring back the bow Rito.

Speaker 7 (25:52):
Well, I mean we've brought back We've single handedly brought
back Bojangles menu items by complaining on the air about it,
right kind of, so we just voice it int happen.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
I want the bo Rito back.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
No Craig wants all the old stuff back.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's time for a little high lights House teacher, this
is a place.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Let's go from his talk E eleven ten and ninety nine
three doublet common sense.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
This is your wake up cowho.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
This is Good Morning Beat with Ba Thompson and bed Trout.
This place is a mouth and of goodness and a
mixed up work.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
The NFL season off and running. Zokie just told you
about the real stuff, but we all, we all want
to know about the fake stuff. After one game, I'm
looking at the good Morning Bat Fantasy Football League scoreboard
Waeniac's beach Trolls thirty six Megabeth two. We all agree

(26:54):
you should put the Eagles defense in last night.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
I did put the Eagles defense in.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
There's no points for spitting.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
That should be like a point.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Well, I think expectorate Gate got us. Got got because
he was one of their main defensive players, and so
I lost points because of that expectorant. Expectorating. It's not
an expectorant. Maybe he used an expectorant.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
So they got you. They got you. Two points were
your two points?

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Thanks guys, Thanks Eagles.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Your dad's showing no mercy earlier, Well my dad.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
So guys, here's how this happened. I drafted no Cowboys,
No Cowboys, because I didn't realize all the cowboys going
I did. We were talking about Paula Cole off here earlier.
I I didn't realize when the first three rounds of
drafting that I had only Panthers on my screen. I
didn't know that I didn't have everyone on.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
The Sunday's could be a big day.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Sunday's gonna be a big day for me. But my
dad did draft cowboys. All the Cowboys went to the
waiting X team.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
This is the now the official theme song of your team.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
Oh, I went for paul Best Harry Arper. I hate
this song.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
I like Paula Cole but.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
This song.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Study them. Yeah, this is the remix.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
I don't like the whisper.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Jo.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Hey, it's says Wayne in it.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
It does Wayne Yac a cowboy fan huge.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
I didn't know that whole life, my dad might be
the world's biggest cowboy fan. That it's the entire Troutman family.
It's oh yeah, we we as a family. And I'm
talking aunts, uncles, cousins. We went to the Cowboys stadium

(28:59):
my junior year of high school. I have a picture
of my dad's standing in Troy Aigman's locker.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
That was a good morning DT humble breath.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
I don't know he'd be looking for the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
I don't you Well, that's what he wanted me to
be when I grew up. Totally still time time.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
Yeah, you know what they we talked about this.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
There should be a cults cheerleader.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
You know what they needed?

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Oh yeah, we talked about.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
You made the joke, Jim, I'm just regurgitating.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
You're gotten that joke, not all jokes. Land. That was
funny in the moment, some sort of taxi around and
then they land.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
I think what the Dallas Cowboys need is they need
a fifty year old cheerleader in a in a half top.

Speaker 9 (29:40):
That could be your for your fiftieth birthday. When that
happens in the future, that ultimate redemption story, we can
tell that I.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Actually unbelievable, out of nowhere, fifty year old I short
changed your dad. He actually got thirty six point three
to two to two point zero. Did he text you
to No, No, I'm sure he will. Now though, that's
in a fake fake football news, fake.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
Fan ball, that's what we should call it.

Speaker 7 (30:04):
In real football last night touchbacks.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Now come out to the thirties.

Speaker 15 (30:11):
Defense uninety eight number ninety eight defense matches has this
qualifiers from the game WHOA fifty nay, whoa goes off.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
So Jalen Carter the focus and the star for the Cowboys,
for the Eagles, on the.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Front line, out for the game before a snap. Here
he goes. He walks there in front of Dak Prescott.
Did he spit? Did he spit on him? Yes? He did,
think he did. There you go, There you go.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And the official was right there to throw the flag.
Brian Neil, the umpire who was keeping an eye on
that confrontation.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
No idea obviously what was said.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
But Jalen Carter out of this game for a snack, Chris,
that's first of all, I got no idea what he's thinking.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
In second, this is massive in terms of the game.

Speaker 17 (31:10):
I gotta tell you he's the best player they have
on their defense and about eighty percent of what we
were going to talk about on this broadcast because cost game,
Philadelphia Eagles, you have to double team Jalen Carter.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
You need a draft, better character.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Don't get your offense started now.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
If you take.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
Thirty six to two.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
But see that he was the best defensive player and
the only Eagles people I had on my team. Well
they won despite that, Yeah, the defense, but I only
had their defense. I didn't have any other Eagles because,
like I said, I didn't realize that I was only
drafting Panthers.

Speaker 9 (31:44):
But you could have drafted Don Henley, Glenn Fry.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
See, I can any test a Verdi all of those.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
I was trying to think of spitting moments in sports history,
Like wasn't there one with Roberto Alomar back in the
day when he played baseball?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yep?

Speaker 7 (31:58):
But I was trying to think if there are any
other are ones that are on the level of this one.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
I would bet Mike Tyson probably split out of Vander
Holyfield's ear.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
Uh yeah, which means as bad as spitting as biting
another person's ear part of ear officeyeh.

Speaker 10 (32:12):
Worse.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, I think that's worse. I think that that's bad sportsman.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
Much worse for throwing a shoe at somebody.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Can I I do want to say that Dak Prescott,
that is the best quarterback name in the world.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
No it's not, No, it's not.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
I'm doing the East Carolina game this week we're playing
Campbell University.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
Their quarterback's name is Camden six Killer. That's great, that's better.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
Camden six killer, Camden six killer five.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
Well, it's an Indian name.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I think he's.

Speaker 7 (32:42):
I don't want to say that.

Speaker 9 (32:43):
It might be I think it's Navajo. But anyway, he's
from Oklahoma and his he's a relative relation of some
sort to Jimmy six Killer, who played back in like
the seventies. Camden Camden's okay, that's great, he's their starting quarterback.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
Oh you let us do it, Zokie, East Carolina this weekend.
You'll be on the call again. What's the opponent and
the game time?

Speaker 9 (33:05):
The Campbell Fighting Campbell's six pm, Greenville, the home opener, cam.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Din, the Campbell cam did six killer the.

Speaker 9 (33:12):
Campbell Mike Mike Minner was the coach there till last year.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Former Panther Great Watch Out bas Bit.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Seven fourteen. On News Talk eleven ten WBT, we have
We'll switch gears and talk politics with Congressman Mark Harris.
He's going to join us coming up in just a
few And that is just one of many people we
have on the show today. We actually have the Bishop
Michael Martin of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese is going to

(33:40):
join us at eighth five today talking about an event
coming to the Charlotte Convention Center tonight, and Charlotte's most
beloved John Hancock in the house in the final hour.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
As always, this is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Friday Morning in the Tyboid Studio, Horse Studio. However, you say,
boeing Beth here and a lot coming up on the show,
but right now we focus on US Congressman Mark Harris,
who joins us as he does every Friday. Congressman, glad
to have you back on the show.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
Well, it's great to be with you. Bow and Beth Ipe,
you're doing great today.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
We are doing well. A lot to talk about, and
I think I'll start here. There was a Senate Finance
Committee hearing yesterday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy,
and I'm sure you heard her, Saul, A good bit
of this. I mean, you couldn't miss this if you're
watching the news or anywhere yesterday. Some of the highlights
from it. But what I'm going to do is play

(34:39):
a little bit of a montage here of RFK versus
some of the high ranking Senate Democrats I'm not taking
them away from people.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Senator, it takes it away if you can't get it
from your pharmacy.

Speaker 18 (34:51):
Well, most Americans are going to be able to get
it from their pharmacy for free dollars. Most Americans will
be able to get it from their pharmacy.

Speaker 19 (34:59):
For us is everyone who wants it.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
That was your promise.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
I know.

Speaker 18 (35:04):
I never promised that I was going to recommend products
with which there is no indication you corrupt.

Speaker 20 (35:10):
President Trump got three million dollars, Every Republican got corporate pack.

Speaker 18 (35:15):
Money for the pharmaceutical industry, Democrats as well.

Speaker 7 (35:18):
Everybody is corrupt, but you It's.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Not what we're looking at.

Speaker 18 (35:23):
I don't think so, and I think the usual I
don't even know what you're talking about.

Speaker 20 (35:27):
Kennedy one presents you with information that does not think
I did.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Not blame that shoot in you.

Speaker 18 (35:32):
I have no idea whether I have no idea, and
I never said that you're making it up interesting.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
You are exactly you are ging is honest.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Right, you want to talk about mental health and guns,
you're being in this country. If you want to talk
about mental health and gun violence in this country, we
should be talking about that because that's what's talk.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Then you already has it to the health of the
American people.

Speaker 17 (35:55):
I think that you are to resign.

Speaker 20 (35:56):
An email from a physician friend of I'm hey, Bill,
I'm not even sureing to'm asking you, but we're all
confused and concerned about who do you get the COVID vaccine?
I would say, effectively, we're denying people vaccine.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
I hate Senator Catwill I ain't wrong.

Speaker 7 (36:11):
All right, So a tumultuous day. They're in that Senate
hearing in Washington. That's where Congressman Harris is in d C.
This morning. I do uh, I want I want to
play for people what President Trump said in response to this.
I'll get to that in a minute, but I want
to get to your response first. As a congressman there,
I'm gonna what did you think about a bit of
a circus yesterday?

Speaker 6 (36:33):
Well, I got to tell you, you wonder why individuals are
willing to step in and serve their country when when
they just take that kind of berating at a at
a hearing. And so that was that was a tough hearing.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
I thought.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
RFK Junior stood in there, he took it, he gave response.
Listen the changes that have come at the CDC is
what prompted all of that, and that he he's brought
about the change of leadership there. Truthfully, I still find
people throughout my own district. Nearly every time I'm out
in the district, I'm meeting somebody that is dealing with

(37:13):
an effect side effect of the COVID vaccine. And I
think people are still reeling from the whole COVID vaccine situation,
and I think the RSK has responded to that. I
think that people are really needing their trust rebuilt in
our entire healthcare system. And I think again that's what
RFKA Junior has come in to try to do, and

(37:36):
that is to bring about some of the changes. And
the Democrats on that Finance Committee that you just played
up montage of comments just really were loaded for Bear
and decided they were going to just go after him
and attack him. But I find that when we see
all of the mismanagement that happened during the COVID situation,

(37:56):
the fact that the changes from the CDC that have
now taking place, that the Democrats would basically try to
accuse RFK Jr. Bringing chaos, I find that really rich
when you consider all of the things that our nation
went through and dealt with through that whole COVID crisis
as well. So I think that I'm gratefully stood in there.

(38:19):
I'm grateful he tried to address the questions. But again
you see the chaos, and that's when President Trump is
seeing the things that are happening that are really victories
I think for our country. The other side is always
looking for things to kind of create distractions, and I
think that's a perfect example of it.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Yesterday, what does this the new guidelines? What does this
mean for North Carolinians. I know now that it has
changed as far as people who want to get the
COVID vaccine and choose to get the COVID vaccine that
they now need a prescription. So how does it change
for every day North Carolinians Now?

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Well that I think again it's still available that folks
are able to get it, but I think the fact
that you know, it's not mandated, it's something that people
are going to really talk to their doctors about. I mean,
I remember when I first when code first hit. I
remember going to my doctor and my doctor had basically said,
you know, this is something you ought to get. And

(39:22):
later by the time we got to the end, my
doctor felt like, hey, that I probably wouldn't do it
the same way again. So I think having a situation
where now the more data that's out, the more science
it's out, individuals will have conversations with their doctors, they
will get a prescription and they'll go and get it.

(39:43):
And I think that's and people will make a conscious decision,
and I think it's an informed, conscious decision, which I
think is extremely important.

Speaker 7 (39:52):
I mentioned that President Trump did respond or we was
asked about what happened yesterday. He had a gathering at
the White House last night, hosting a table of tech CEOs,
but of course, as his custom, he had a Q
and A with press in the room as well.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Senator Bill Cassidy said, effectively, we're denying people vaccines.

Speaker 21 (40:12):
Do you have full confidence in what RFK Junior is doing?

Speaker 14 (40:15):
Well. I didn't get to watch the hearings today, but
he's a very good person and he means very well,
and he's got some little different ideas. I guarantee a
lot of the people at this table like RFK junion
I do, but he's got a different take and we
want to listen to all of those takes. But I

(40:35):
heard he did very well today. But it's not your standard.
It's not your standard talk, I would say, and that
has to do with medical and vaccines. But if you
look at what's going on in the world with health
and look at this country also with regard to health,
I like the fact that he's different.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
So there you go. I said I would, and I
wanted to play what President Trump had in response. We'll
continue with various other topics. Congressman Mark Harris is talking
to us from DC this morning.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
This is Good Morning DT with both Tubson and Beth
trout Man.

Speaker 7 (41:11):
Needs Talk eleven ten of nine three WBT coming up
at eight oh five in studio. Special guest, we have
Bishop Michael Martin of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese. There's a
big event going on at the Convention Center tonight and tomorrow,
so he will be in in just a little bit.
We have a United States Congressman from DC joining us

(41:33):
right now our continued conversation here on Friday morning with
Congressman Mark Harris. We always appreciate your time, sir.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
It's always a pleasure to be with you.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
So we have I we're watching within the next hour
or so. The next jobs report is due out from
UH and this jobs report is notable because this is
the first one, of course, since President Trump fired that
top labor depart Artment official over accusations of releasing inaccurate data.

(42:03):
So the first report since then is coming out in
just a little bit. I mentioned that President Trump had
a group of people at the White House last night,
tech CEOs and the biggest of the big I mean,
aside from Elon Musk, he was not there, but you
had Zuckerberg there last night. You had Bill Gates there
last night and a big, big, long table of people.

(42:25):
Now during that President Trump took questions as he usually does,
and this is number one, Bernie, the first Trump cut.
This is a reporter asking a question about what we're
anticipating here.

Speaker 19 (42:36):
Tomorrow we have the jobs report coming out, the first
since the BLS commissioner who you fired won't be there.
A lot of people will be turning to you to
see if you believe the data that's released.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Can you commit to say the number?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (42:51):
They come out tomorrow, but the real numbers that I'm
talking about are going to be whatever it is. But
we'll be in a year from now, when the monstrous, huge,
beautiful places to palaces of genius, and when they start
opening up, you seeing, I think you'll see job numbers
that are going to be absolutely incredible. Right now, it's

(43:12):
a lot of construction numbers, but you're going to see
job numbers like our country has never seen before.

Speaker 7 (43:17):
Okay, So that's what he says ahead of this, these
numbers coming up. Congressman, you know, what do you make
of a Friday jobs report now in light of what
we saw a month ago?

Speaker 6 (43:29):
Well, I think again the president's point being as has
been that you know, he was very upset over the
fact that the revisions that would always come out after
the fact were just dramatically off from where the actual
job numbers when they were given out actually landed. And
so I think that it's fair to point out that,

(43:51):
I mean, obviously we're going to get the numbers today
where they're going to be what they are, and folks
will react. But then again, the proof is into putting,
as they say, I think when revisions come out a
little bit later on, that's when you're going to see
what really kind of the accuracy is of the numbers
that we see today.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Do you think that because the new head of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is EJ. Antony, who was basically
an economist for the Heritage Foundation, which is a partisan foundation,
do you think that everyone is going to trust these
numbers as being more accurate, which is kind of the
question that they were asking of the President yesterday.

Speaker 6 (44:34):
Well, to your point, best, I don't know that you
get everybody in Washington to trust anything. Unfortunately, trust is
something that right now either side seems to be attacking
the other side when things come out, and you know, again,
the trust factor is not exactly at an all time

(44:56):
high among the parties involved here in the political world.
But I do think that the American people have confidence
right now in the leadership. They have confidence in the
direction that our country's going. And again, the jobs numbers,
they're just part of the overall economy. And what we're
trying to do in Congress is trying to make sure

(45:17):
that the legislation that we move forward is putting those
principles in place that President Trump set out that needed
to be in place in order to get our economy
really ramped up and moving again. I've said for a
while that when you look back prior to COVID. In
those few years right before COVID hit, the economy was

(45:38):
hitting on all cylinders. And if we're going to see
that again, we've got to get those things in place.
And with the Working Family Tax Cut, formerly known as
the One Big Beautiful Bill, that went into effect, we
genuinely believe that we've gotten the principles in place in
the last couple of months, and now we hope to
see again with certainty at that level that businesses and

(46:04):
our economy begins to move very strongly once again.

Speaker 7 (46:07):
So the Labor Department will release those numbers within the
next hour, and we'll be watching those numbers and watching
the reactions both from the American public and from President
Trump as well, because one thing is for sure, the
dynamic has changed since the last time that we got
numbers from the Labor Department, and we will see You
are in d C. No. I understand you're en route

(46:29):
to Texas later on today.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Yes, sir, I'm attending at dinner tonight in Texas and
we'll be speaking there tomorrow as part of a panel,
and then I'll be heading back to Charlotte late tomorrow
afternoon and look forward to getting back with you. It's
been a busy week. We had some amazing hearings and
the Judiciary Committee on censorship that was going on in Europe.

(46:54):
First time I had the opportunity to sit across the
table from Nigel Faraj and that was fascinating and it
was very interesting to see the things that are going
on in Europe. We need to be aware of because
oftentimes they make their way to our swords and we
want to make sure that doesn't happen when it comes
down to these censorship items.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
Right now, What was it like being in DC yesterday
when the Epstein survivors, the women who said that they
were part of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
What was it like being in Washington for that?

Speaker 6 (47:31):
Yeah, I think everybody is certainly moved. Everybody I know
and everybody I come in contact with are certainly well
aware of their presence here and just moved. I mean you,
you cannot not be moved by just what these young
women have gone through. And I'm hearing there could be

(47:54):
as many as a thousand people who was suffered at
the hands of this pedophile and look, everybody here I
think agrees that we want there to be accountability and
we want the process to be followed, and so we've
done the things. We feel like. The Oversight Committee is
working very, very hard on this. Chairman Comer is committed

(48:17):
to getting the documents. Just this week they released thirty
four thousand pages of documents that are out there. We're
trying to make sure that we protect the victims through redactions,
but the other folks, they're going to be out there.
So whatever is in there is getting out, and there's
a commitment among this Congress to get that out. I

(48:39):
do believe that with all my heart, and like I said,
we took steps even this week.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
Are you concerned about the story that broke this morning
that came from the O'Keeffe Media group, which is a
conservative media group, that they caught the deputy chief of
the Justice Department on a hidden camera and him saying
on camera that they were planning and this is according
to the report on redacting Republican names from the list

(49:07):
and leaving Democrat names on the list.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
Well, now that's true, I would certainly be concerned about that.
You're breaking news to me, that's something I have not
seen or heard at this point. Bet so I certainly
will ask some questions this morning of my staff to
see if we can find out more about that. But
you're telling me something I did not know.

Speaker 7 (49:29):
Congressman Harris, We appreciate your time as always, and we
look forward to talking to you next week.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Thank you look forward to it as well. You all
have a great weeknd.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
We are in the business of telling people what's going on, right,
That's what we live for. You get a charge out
of it. That's why I brought you into this mix,
because you enjoyed as much as I do.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
We always love these conversations because we get all sides.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
We love to get up in the morning and tell
you here's what's happening. You missed this last night or
do you know this? We want you to know now
what you do with that is your business, and I'm
here to tell you good morning.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
BT. Business is good.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
This is good morning bet.

Speaker 7 (50:07):
All right, now, go on get out of here.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Hey, you missed up my business.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Seven before eight o'clock on WBT Friday morning in the
Tyboid Studio, big story that we're following that broke yesterday
afternoon to the surprise of just about everybody. Tark McCary
is coming home.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Five months after he made the announcement. It was back
in April that he announced to all of us that
he was leaving his position on City Council to work
for the United States Department of Transportation, and then we
found out yesterday afternoon that he is headed home.

Speaker 7 (50:46):
We reached out to him. I'm sure tons of people
have reached out to him. He'll talk when he's ready,
But he said in a statement in part, the timing
is right for me to hand the baton to the
next wave of leaders to carry on the amazing work
that's underway, and head back to my beloved North Carolina,
where I can focus on my wife's important campaign, my
family and business. Brett Jensen on breaking with Brett Jensen

(51:06):
last night, his reaction or some of it.

Speaker 21 (51:09):
They have three kids, so some people are automatically, oh,
he must have been fired. I don't know, why would
he quit? Why did he quit? Well, I know it's
been a struggle. I do know it's been a struggle.
You know, she's down here by herself with three kids,
trying to raise three kids while also doing a campaign

(51:30):
for Charlotte City Council. You know, Tark has been in
financial technology fintech. That's his company incorporated with the company
that he sold, that was his company. So him leaving
DC because maybe she feels overwhelmed down here.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Is a possibility.

Speaker 21 (51:55):
You know, everyone who knows Tark and knows the situation
knows that, Look, he took a pay cut to go
to d C. You don't think there's money and financial
technology really Okay, So he took a pay cut to
go to d C. So coming back is not out

(52:15):
of the realm of possibility, especially if your wife is
here running in a campaign with three kids that missed
their dad. You know, as they always say, the grass
is not always greener.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
So that's a little bit of a Brett's reaction to
that tonight, and everyone will offer up their speculation if
he says anything further than he did in this statement.
I don't know if he will, but I think a
lot of people are going to ask him to because
of how short a time it was in DC and
how big a deal it was to uproot and go there.
I mean he left his seat on city council. Yeah,

(52:49):
and now he's back before they actually fill it in
the general election.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
You know, if you end up in a role, and
he said in his statement that he was very proud
of the work that he was able to do in
the five months that he was in the role. But
if you I think we've all had an experience where
we make a decision that we think is going to
be right for us, or we think it's going to
be right for our family, and then we get there

(53:14):
and your gut sometimes just says this is right. Your
gut sometimes tells you that maybe your priorities need to
change or need to shift. And sometimes those are the
best moments in life. When you do something. You find
it the time that you're there rewarding, but you find
sometimes the most important things that you can possibly learn

(53:34):
are when things are wrong, learning that things might not
be right, because then you can adjust accordingly. And if
that's the case, if that's what he did, you know what,
I applaud him for it, because he is under public
scrutiny and everyone will have a take on what his
decision was about. But if his decision was about his

(53:55):
happiness about his family's happiness about his ability to do
work that is meaning to him. If it was all
of those things combined, you know what I applaud him,
no matter how difficult the choice was.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
Look, I quit a job in twenty ten and Raleigh
on the morning show there. Yet I had gotten the job,
and I worked hard to get the job and thought
it was the dream job, and then realized about four
days in, in my gut it wasn't the right thing. Yeah,
I resigned. I thought I would never work in radio again.
I thought it was the worst decision I'd ever made

(54:27):
for my career. Turned out to be the best one
I ever made, because this was the right place for me.
Not there, But I wouldn't be here if I had
not gone through that process there, and for a lot
of reasons, that sort of gave me the ammunition mentally
to come here and do this. So I'm never going
to say, if you get somewhere and it's the wrong fit,

(54:48):
to not trust your gut. And maybe that's what Maybe
that's all this is. We don't know till he talks.
But when Brett started talking about you know, his reaction
to this last night, maybe it was you get there.
Everybody on the other side looks at it goes, oh,
it's a dream job working in a presidential administration. But
I'm never gonna fault somebody for even if the stakes
are that high, realizing that you're not where you're supposed

(55:11):
to be, because that right there takes courage to make
that decision.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
Courage. That's exactly that's exactly right. And you and I
have talked about it a lot, because I had the
exact same experience when I took the anchor position at
WC and C. It's a dream job for so so
many people, and I was very aware of that, and
I had to walk away because it wasn't the right
fit at the right time.

Speaker 7 (55:32):
If you hadn't walked away, if I hadn't walked away,
we wouldn't be.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Here now, exactly. And this is pure joy.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
And I have no idea what's going on with tark I.
You know, we're being transparent about things we've dealt with.
I hope he'll come on and do the same thing
with us.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
I think he will. I think he's that kind of guy.
He might be licking his wounds right now trying to
find a way to articulate it to people. And that
takes time sometimes too, because when you're in the public eye,
it is difficult to have to have these conversations in
a public setting.

Speaker 7 (56:00):
When we come back in studio for the first time,
Bishop Michael Martin of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese, big event
at the Charlotte Convention Center tonight, and his excellency will
join us in the Tyboid studio in just a moment.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.
This is Good Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman, seven.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
Minutes past eight o'clock here on News Talk eleven ten WBT,
Friday September fifth, Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman. And it
is an honor right now to welcome into the studio,
not on the phone. He's in the studio with us,
and we're so honored to have him. Bishop Michael Martin
of the Charlotte Catholic Diocese is with us. Good morning to.

Speaker 16 (56:44):
You, Good morning, Thanks so much for having me, Bo, Beth.
It's good to be with you all, especially in studio.
There's a little more familiarity rather than just talking over
the phone. So really great to be with you.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
Well, exactly, we get to see your smiling face, and
I understand why you're smiling exactly. You have a lot
happening this weekend here in Charlotte. Tell us about the
event that's happening. It begins this evening and everyone is invited.

Speaker 16 (57:09):
Yeah, every year, this is the twenty first year that
the Catholic Diocese has hosted what we call a Eucharistic Congress,
which is just, you know, maybe a more formal way
of saying, a gathering of faith, you know, where we
invite everyone. Really, you don't have to be Catholic. You
don't have to be you know, some uber religious person.

(57:31):
You can just be a person that's searching or trying
to find your way in life and wondering, you know,
where the Lord might be present in your life. And
so we take the Convention Center plus and just bring
faithful folks from all over western North Carolina and beyond
who come together for some conferences. We have a huge

(57:54):
concert tonight. It's all free. We really we just open
up the doors and say, hey, let's come together and
celebrate something greater than ourselves.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
Well, in what a year, I mean, twenty twenty five
has been quite a year within the Catholic community. That
the installation of a new pope, and we spent many
hours on the air watching that process and when it happens.
Neither one of us are Catholic hoasting this show, but
it's a huge global story and a huge Catholic community
here in Charlotte and many other places. So when that happens,

(58:23):
and I've been on the air long enough that I've
seen several of the conclaves and it covered those stories,
and when it happens, you really try to explain what's
happening to those who don't quite understand and make it
to understandable. And to have someone like you here and
have this event tonight in a year where there's been
so much excitement and interest in what's happening with the

(58:46):
installation of the new Pope, I know that this whole
year has just been kind of had its own special
energy to it.

Speaker 16 (58:51):
Absolutely, and I think the all eyes on the Catholic
Church over the last few months as we mourned the
death of Pope Francis, who was just a compelling figure
I think in the world. Uh, and then the the
conclave and then the election of Pope Leo, you know,
no less an American, you know, And and so there's

(59:14):
there's so much there. As you say, I mean, it's
been a fascinating year uh. And not to be a
name dropper or anything, but I was in Rome, uh
in the in the spring, and actually had a meeting
with then Cardinal Prevost. He and I had some things
we were working on together, only to find out, you know,

(59:34):
a few weeks later. I'm not trying to say that
my meeting with him somehow vaulted him into the.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
By any stretch.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
But but we can say that's.

Speaker 16 (59:45):
How I'm a kingmaker. But but I feel like there's
uh certainly for me personally, but I believe for the
world what it does for us is that it allows
us to pick our heads up a little bit from
our daily teens and the things that are important to us,
to maybe say, wait a minute, there's something bigger here,

(01:00:06):
and what does that really mean to me personally? And
how do I interpret some of these larger dynamics in
the world in the light of my lived experience. And
I think the world was sort of looking for some.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
Hope in.

Speaker 16 (01:00:24):
Religious leadership, let's just call it that more generically, and
I believe in Popelio we've gotten that, and certainly to
folks in the United States, there should be a tremendous
sense of acknowledgement that you know, here we are just
a country of you know, two hundred and whatever, thirty
years old, and now someone representing our country is leading

(01:00:47):
the largest single denomination in the world. So yeah, as
to your point, really fascinating year this year, and I'm excited. Obviously,
all politics is local and all you know, faith is local,
you know, So you bring it down to all right,
what's happening here in Charlotte and western North Carolina? And

(01:01:08):
you know, okay, what's my faith journey, whatever religious affiliation
I have? You know, can I find some ways to
be more intentional? Can I find some ways to be
more authentic in living out my faith journey? And you know,
at a time when folks understandably, you know, you hear
a lot of folks talk about being more a more

(01:01:29):
spiritual than religious, which I think I understand that concept,
and yet that the nature of the spiritual journey is
a communal one. You know, it's not to keep it
just for myself, but it's to share it with someone else.
And the minute I do that, now there's a negotiation,
you know. And that's really what religion is. It's two
people or more trying to get together to figure out

(01:01:50):
how they're going to live their spiritual lives together. And
so we're bringing not two people together, we're bringing over
ten thousand people together to the convention Center tonight and
tomorrow to say, okay, how are we doing this? And
so my hope is that in our locale here in
the Charlotte metro area, but we'll have people coming in
from the western part of the state and we invite anyone,

(01:02:12):
you know, as I said, people of any faith background
or of no faith who's just seeking come listen, be
a part of things. We've got a full Spanish track
as well, you know, so for folks that maybe English
is not their their first language, there's that opportunity as well.
So from the Vatican of a few months ago, not

(01:02:34):
to say that, you know, Charlotte is the mini Vatican,
but again all of it is local and so we're
trying to bolster faith by a large you know, gathering
like this.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Well in what a beautiful way to bolster faith then
through music And you have a very special entertainer this evening,
and I understand that it's free and this person has performed,
he has performed for four different popes.

Speaker 16 (01:02:57):
Absolutely met mars I guarantee if you come, if you
have ever heard any kind of Christian contemporary music, you
will hear something that he's produced. And it's just a
fabulous I've seen him at a number of different gatherings.
He performed at the National Eucharistic Congress last year in

(01:03:19):
Indianapolis and was just exceptional and just there's a sense
that through the beauty of music, we're all united in
our hearts being lifted up, you know. And I think
that's the beauty of all music that is able to
unite us in that regard.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
And so.

Speaker 16 (01:03:41):
I'm excited for tonight. It's going to be a and
tonight tends to be more young adults, but you don't
have to. We're not checking your date of birth when
you come in, So everybody's welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
Mann.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Well, here's some of Michael Maher as we go to break.
He will be performing tonight at seven o'clock concert, and
we're gonna talk more with Bishop Michael Martin ahead of
the twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress here in Charlotte at
the Charlotte Convention Center. Stay with us on WBT because he.

Speaker 12 (01:04:25):
Loqbtly my God strang them my soul. You love defense me.
You love defense me. In a wit of alone, you

(01:04:46):
love defense me. You love defens me.

Speaker 7 (01:04:53):
YEA from the WBT Old Fashioned email line GMBT show
at WBT dot com. Frequent listener Kevin says, Hey, Bo,
Matt in capital letters, mar is awesome. Surely one of
my favorites.

Speaker 16 (01:05:10):
I all have to learn to take correction watch fail.

Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
I think, I said, Michael, it's because I was thinking,
Bishop Michael Martin, That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (01:05:18):
Your brain was just ahead of your mouth. Sometimes happens
that way.

Speaker 16 (01:05:22):
And he thanks for thinking of me first.

Speaker 7 (01:05:24):
Well, I mean, hey, it all comes back to the
fact that you will be in attendance this weekend, and
so will Matt mar tonight doing a concert at the
Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five Eucharistic Congress. It's taking
place this afternoon and evening and tomorrow. And this is
a big deal as people will see all kinds of

(01:05:45):
people around the convention center in Charlotte and added traffic,
and people at a base level wonder who are all
these people and what are they doing? And we're here
to tell people, by way of Bishop Michael Martin, what
it's all about. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:05:56):
One of the beauties of the experience, especially tomorrow morning,
is we have a procession through the streets of Charlotte,
a eucharistic procession, and I think what that does is
at least our hope is to first of all, say
that God comes to be with us in the streets.
You know that God doesn't necessarily, you know, reside in

(01:06:19):
some far off place that's not accessible to us, but
rather that God wants to be with us, walking with us,
driving with us. And so we try to make that
reel by processing with our God in the Eucharist through
the streets of Charlotte, to help all of us to
know that we're not alone on this journey. You know
that God is walking with us. And so if that

(01:06:42):
snarls your traffic plans tomorrow morning, I apologize in advance.
But we'll have I think, between twelve and fifteen thousand
people strong aligning the streets of Charlotte and in prayer
together not just for their own needs, but also for
the needs of our community and the needs of the world.
And so I'm hopeful that people of all fates can

(01:07:04):
appreciate that kind of witness and that it points us
all to something greater than ourselves.

Speaker 5 (01:07:09):
Well, I'm glad you said that people of all fates,
because that is something you're making this accessible to people
of all faiths, on different kinds of faith journeys, on
different levels of their faith journey, that those people can come,
they can be part, they can listen, they can experience
and start to understand maybe more about themselves and their
own faith through this.

Speaker 16 (01:07:30):
Absolutely. I think in our world, where there's a lot
of like your email listener who uses all caps, I
think sometimes we tend to often be screaming at each
other rather than listening to each other. And so the
opportunity to come together and commit ourselves to some time

(01:07:52):
where we're listening and trying to understand ourselves but also
to try and understand others, I think that's something in
our culture that social media doesn't really permit, and maybe
even other types of media other than of course WBT,
which is all about listening. But I think we need
to really focus some attention on that and say, how

(01:08:14):
am I doing that more in my life? Am I
more screaming, am I more capital letters? Or am I
really taking a posture that says it's better to understand
than to be understood.

Speaker 14 (01:08:25):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:08:25):
I mentioned what twenty twenty five has been in many
celibratory ways, and honoring the legacy of one pope passing
and a new pope, we should also mention, of course,
a huge national story within the last couple of weeks
of what happened in Minneapolis, and we covered that story
obviously at length. And this is a time for the

(01:08:47):
community to come together and support each other when you
have something like that happen. And I know in your position,
you get questions coming your way about how to deal
with something like that.

Speaker 16 (01:08:56):
Sure, I think all anytime tragedy of any nature, and
you know, it's not about judging the depth of tragedy.
Tragedy is always personal, and my tragedy is as tragic as.

Speaker 7 (01:09:10):
Anyone else's, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:09:12):
And so we're not trying to validate someone's grief more
than someone else's, but rather to say, anytime any of
us confront these tragic moments, it pulls us up short,
and we have to ask ourselves, where is a God
when this type of thing happens? You know, in a
church no less, you know that you would think that

(01:09:33):
there are some you know the word sanctuary. You know
that we use in church all the time. You would
think that there are some sanctuaries in our world where
that we shouldn't expect that to happen. But it's a
testament to the fact that we are in a broken
world and the brokenness of the human condition. There are
no barriers to it. It can reach into any sphere

(01:09:56):
of our lives and touch us in powerful ways that
our tragic. And to think that our God is not
present to us in that myst One of the things
that Archbishop Hebda, who is the Archbishop of Minneapolis, who
spoke recently about this whole dynamic, the things he said
is God was very much present in that moment, not

(01:10:19):
just because it was a church, but in the ways
in which people reacted and responded in the midst of
something so evil, you know. And so I would hope
that all of us would not despair in those moments,
but to try to open our eyes to say, all, right, Lord,
where are you not just in that moment of tragedy,

(01:10:39):
but in the particular difficult moments that I experience and
you experience in our everyday lives and our families, people
with people we love, or in other places around the world.
So I think there's always opportunity. And what Christians believe
is there's no place that Jesus can't enter and raise

(01:10:59):
us up. There's no tomb that can't be resurrected. And
so even our worst, most miserable things, God steps in
and brings something greater out of it. It's not why
that happens, but from it, from the evil of our
broken world, God can still raise up something even greater.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
Thank you for saying that out. That's probably the most
hopeful conversation that we've had with someone about such a
tragic event. But there's so much beauty in what you
said through that tragedy. So thank you for sharing that,
and I think that that's important as we head into
the Eucharist Congress this weekend. It's this kind of message

(01:11:42):
that can touch people if they come out and participate.

Speaker 16 (01:11:46):
Right, And everyone who's going to walk the streets with
us tomorrow or who's going to walk through the doors
tonight or tomorrow, they all come with baggage. They all
come with issues that they're dealing with. And God meets
you there, meet you there, and we want to meet
you there too, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:12:03):
So it is the Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty five
Eucharistic Congress. It starts later today. There's a free concert
tonight at seven pm by Matt mar He's an international
phenomenon who has played for four popes. Four If you're
coming by after work, food and beverages on hand, and
then of course Saturday things going on all day tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Correct.

Speaker 16 (01:12:24):
Yeah, we're looking forward to having a great day and
really appreciate both of you and the team here for
bringing us on and allowing us to just share some
of that good news with our community that can always
use it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:12:39):
Thank you. It's an honor to have you in studio,
and I hope you'll come again anytime.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
This is good morning, Beatle.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
Just talk eleven ten WBT Friday morning here in the
Tyboid studio. Boy, it's a crowded studio and the bishop
left already, so he's not in here.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
Right We asked him to do to stay and do
the news quiz.

Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
Thanks again to Bishop Michael Martin. And don't forget Matt
Maher playing at the Convention Center.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
Matt m Att.

Speaker 7 (01:13:08):
I went to all this trouble to get all these
clips of Matt Marr and then I do that. Yeah,
story of my life.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
But I will, I will, I will defend you from
here until the end of the earth. That your brain
was just moving faster than your mouth.

Speaker 7 (01:13:21):
Thank you. All right, Well, we have a crowded studio here.
First of all, we have one of our favorite people
out there are a WBT superfan, Will Tims has joined
us in studio. And not just not just on any day,
this is actually Will's birthday, So happy birthday, Will welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:13:41):
Thank you now, really appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:43):
You you've visited us one time. You've been here several
times now, but one of the times that may have
been the first time, I can't remember. You actually took
part in.

Speaker 22 (01:13:51):
The New Squiz second time and you won, and you
won and you won.

Speaker 10 (01:13:54):
All right, I guess I've ever careful what I asked for.

Speaker 7 (01:13:56):
So when you do that, you have to come back,
or if you come back, you have to defend your title.
And the added pressure is I won last week, so
that the Friday News Quizz is here. Mark Garrison is
not here. I feel like I'm doing like a preamble.
It's eight miles long.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
So in studio with.

Speaker 7 (01:14:11):
Us in for Mark Garrison is wink Martindale two. Jeff Atkinson,
Hello everyone, Hello Jeff. All right, how's everybody doing.

Speaker 23 (01:14:21):
We're so great today. Today, of course, is Friday, September fifth.
You know what today is.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
It's Will Tim's birthday, National Cheese Pizza Day.

Speaker 7 (01:14:33):
Yes.

Speaker 23 (01:14:33):
On the subject of pizza, what is the world's most
popular pizza? Is it cheese pizza, Margerita pizza or Pepperoni pizza.

Speaker 10 (01:14:41):
I'm gonna say cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
I'm gonna say pepperoni. Wait a minute, you said the worlds.

Speaker 7 (01:14:48):
Were these written by Mark Okay, Pepperoni, Pepperoni.

Speaker 9 (01:14:53):
I'm gonta say playing cheese for the children?

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
That's it?

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
What you say?

Speaker 7 (01:14:58):
Well, I'm sorry, are you there?

Speaker 15 (01:15:00):
Let's say yes, yes, sir, Happy birthday, Will I said,
no problem, I'll go with cheese.

Speaker 7 (01:15:08):
All the way around.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
Margarite, I was gonna change myself on the room.

Speaker 23 (01:15:14):
It's the simplicity of the Margarita pizza that makes it
so delicious.

Speaker 7 (01:15:18):
Change so we're all equal losers.

Speaker 23 (01:15:24):
Congress went back in this session this week after taking
all the month of August off. According to Congressional Institute,
whether the reasons Congress takes an August recess a it
gets too hot in August and in Washington, and for
a long time they didn't have a C. It gives
representatives and senators a chance to meet with their constituents.

Speaker 7 (01:15:42):
Or that was B and or C. It's the law.

Speaker 10 (01:15:45):
D all the above, it's the second one.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
I'm gonna go with A that sounds that sounds like
it could be true.

Speaker 23 (01:15:51):
Hot in Washington.

Speaker 9 (01:15:52):
I must say it's all of them, because it is
all I'm gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
I'm gonna say D all of the above too, Jim Zoki.

Speaker 7 (01:15:59):
It's like I'm taking the S, A, T, D, D
Boomer what you got.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
I'll go with that so we can spend time with
their consists.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Okay, it's D A above.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Hey, we're on the board.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
It's the law.

Speaker 23 (01:16:12):
Did you know it is the law?

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
We know the law. We don't know pizza.

Speaker 23 (01:16:15):
On Wednesday, China showed off its muscle, staging a huge
military parade Antenna Tieneman Square. President Ji Jimping was joined
by leaders from a host of countries at odds with
the US, including Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim
Jong un, who traveled with Kim in a luxurious bulletproof
train that attracted a lot of attention. Was it Iran's president,

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Pakistan's prime minister, Kim's wife, or Kim's daughter.

Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
Kim's daughter.

Speaker 7 (01:16:46):
Okay, I'm gonna go Kim's daughter daughter.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
It was it was his daughter because they're wondering if
she will be his successor.

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Right, yeah, yeah, Boomer says Kim's daughter. Same thing, too
easy all the way around, right, all right?

Speaker 23 (01:17:02):
This week A new law went into effect on Monday
in South Carolina. It makes it illegal to have your
cell phone in your hand and talking while driving. You
can still use the phone through the bluetooth, of course,
which begs the question is it against the law to
eat and drive? How many states have made it illegal
to eat and drive? Two New York and California. Three

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New York, Illinois and California. Or three New York, Oregon
and California or B? See, no states have made it illegal.

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
I'm gonna go with no states. No states, no way,
I'm gonna go with B.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
I don't remember B. What was B?

Speaker 7 (01:17:41):
New York, Illinois and California.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
I am going to go with New York, Illinois and
California as well.

Speaker 9 (01:17:50):
I'm gonna say no states because I've never heard.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Of it, no states.

Speaker 7 (01:17:53):
Yeah, there you go, Jim ZOCHI, here we go.

Speaker 23 (01:17:56):
It is not against the law.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
To eat and drive.

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
I'm sure Boomer said that, right. Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:18:01):
Oh, I'm sorry that I left him out ahead here?

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
What is the score so far?

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
Do we have?

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:18:10):
Okay, all right? So Entertainment News Saturday Night Live announced
this week it's getting five new cast members for its
fifty first season, which premiere is October fourth. Who has
hosted SNL the most? Adam Sandler, Alec Baldwin, Lauren Michaels
or Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Lauren Miles. It's uh, Alec Baldwin.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
I'm gonna say, Alec Baldwin, Baldwin.

Speaker 23 (01:18:33):
Oh, when too easy? All these, I'm we're gonna have
to go to Garrison to get some harder ones.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
There we go, here's Boomer. I keep forgetting about Boomer.

Speaker 10 (01:18:42):
Sorry.

Speaker 23 (01:18:44):
Big Powerball drawing tomorrow nights one point seven billion dollars.
Last time somebody cracked the jackpot was May thirty first.
What is the highest ever payout? Two billion two point
zero four billion or two point five billion.

Speaker 10 (01:18:59):
Two point five billion, two.

Speaker 7 (01:19:00):
Point zero four.

Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
I'm going to say two point zero four as well.

Speaker 7 (01:19:05):
I want to say zero four.

Speaker 23 (01:19:07):
What was the other one point two billion or two
point five billion?

Speaker 7 (01:19:11):
I'm gonna go two, just two out? What's boomers?

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Two four?

Speaker 23 (01:19:15):
Two point oh four? All the winners. I really got
to do better.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I had gotten the market'll be winning?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
All right.

Speaker 23 (01:19:24):
Here's a sports question for mister sok. Are you ready
for this?

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:19:29):
Yeah, here we go.

Speaker 23 (01:19:31):
The NFL season, of course, kicked off last night tonight tonight.
It is the Chiefs and the Chargers. They're playing in Brazil,
second year in a row for a game in Brazil.

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
There will be a.

Speaker 23 (01:19:42):
Record seven international games this year. How many does the
NFL commissioner want to make?

Speaker 7 (01:19:47):
Take that number?

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Two?

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
Is it ten a year? Twelve a year or sixteen
a year? And I'll know, so I'll be guessing. Follows
me down the path. I will say he wants ten.
Over here, I say sixteen.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
I feel like ten seems like a nice little, nice
little number.

Speaker 7 (01:20:06):
Go sixteen two?

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
What do you say?

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
I'm thinking he watched the four schedule? Sixteen sixteen is correct?

Speaker 23 (01:20:11):
My goodness, Oh my goodness.

Speaker 7 (01:20:17):
This is usually the point where Mark says, do we
have a winner? Three way tie?

Speaker 4 (01:20:22):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:20:24):
All right, we've run out of microphone, So I wasn't participating,
just solely keeping score. As of right now, bo Jim
and Boomer are tied, so we need a tiebreaker.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Answered to the questions here.

Speaker 23 (01:20:38):
Here, let's try this one out. Give you as micro
Hell Secretary Robber. We've been covering this all day. Hell
Secretary Robert Hell Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. In a
contentious hearing yesterday. What did he say that made Elizabeth
Warren angry? He called her Pocahontas. He told her she

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took eight hundred thousand dollars from drug companies, or told
her she doesn't know how to spell CDC.

Speaker 7 (01:21:06):
Took money from drug companies. It's b it's the money, yep?

Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
How is that going to break the tie?

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Guys? J Jeff is taking a number.

Speaker 7 (01:21:16):
Between one and good at this at all?

Speaker 23 (01:21:18):
I feel awful about Let's just give it to everybody,
shall we?

Speaker 7 (01:21:22):
All right, I'm looking at the flock. Well, I'll play
three songs that I'm the one who controls the buttons
over here. So sorry, guy, it gets a trophy. Everybody
joined in together.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
I can't believe.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
Hey, but what's the name of the guy who's performing tonight.
That could have been the tie breaker question.

Speaker 7 (01:21:46):
Yeah, but then I would have lost already. Yeah, hey,
get your own show. Well, I'll show them. I'll share
my title. I'll show my title.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Saw we hard. You know it's me and Jim and Pumber.

Speaker 12 (01:22:12):
That's right, good borrow, lad borrow, he's goodmorrow bet.

Speaker 7 (01:22:30):
Well, you knew I was gonna play this. Our good
friend w GBT super fan Will, Tim's back in the studio.
We met Will several years back. He used to email
the show and he would really email with detailed I
think things that I even forgot about. Yes, this is
how closely Will listens to the show, and he's coming
out and hang out, hanging out with us today. Has

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done this a few times and happens to be on
the day he was born. So you gotta play some
Stevie Wonder for you, my friend.

Speaker 22 (01:22:59):
That's my favorite vers birthday sung. I like that better
than the happy Birthday that is just the old fashioned
one or the one that's your birthday sung.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
Oh, your dad's original birthday music.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
Well, I wasn't going to bring it. I wasn't going
to bring it up. Well, but I will.

Speaker 10 (01:23:16):
There you go, all right, then, have.

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
A nice weekend. Everybody. Everybody will you have had an
eventful summer. I think we talked to you on the
air because you were playing the piano, playing the tickling
the ivories as they say at the Charlotte Knights game.
Did you uh did you do that once or just once? Okay? Now?
Is that a thing that you'll be doing again at

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some point?

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:23:44):
For sure.

Speaker 22 (01:23:45):
Next season, they're they're going to get me in. I
feel pretty sure of that. They just had a lot
on their plate this season with entertainment because I was
kind of a last second had on if you will.

Speaker 7 (01:23:56):
Well, that's a really When we heard you were getting
to do that, we said, that's the most thing we've
ever heard. And you actually were out at Matthews Alive
last weekends.

Speaker 22 (01:24:04):
I had to do a pretty cool thing out there
for their VIP lounge. I was playing for all of
their vendors. They as you may know, this festival attracts
tons of arts and crafts vendors and so this was
an area completely not open to festival goers. I was
inside the Matthews Community Center and got to play basically
music for everybody because they were taking a break just
having snacks and I was their entertainment for a couple

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hours on Saturday at the festival.

Speaker 7 (01:24:27):
Well that's cool again. When I heard about it, I thought, well,
this is the perfect thing, the most perfect thing I've
ever heard. So he's here hanging out with us today,
and John Hancock will be here momentarily on on on
your Friday edition of Good Morning BT. So everybody stay
where you are and we will be back good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
I'm as human as anyone.

Speaker 9 (01:24:56):
I wake up every morning and despite not knowing what
to do, I put one foot to the other and
I try to make the best foot to night man from.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
His talking eleven ten at ninety nine three double e pt.

Speaker 13 (01:25:06):
I screw up all the time, but that is being human,
and that's my greatest strength.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
This is Good Morning Beat with both Hudson and Beth Trouting.

Speaker 7 (01:25:41):
Wearing a Charlotte forty nine ers hat today, just in case.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Jordan Hudson becomes I didn't want her to become too
attached to me.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
You know you are about her her age.

Speaker 7 (01:25:53):
Well, I'm I hit seventy three tomorrow, and.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Just you know, I just didn't want to run the
chance of for all of a sudden saying oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:26:06):
Well I'm gonna say it because I'm the lady in
the room. You are, in my humble opinion, much better
looking than Bill Belichick.

Speaker 7 (01:26:14):
Well, boy, what that's a.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Hell of a humble brag there.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
I feel I'll be running around.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
With a big head.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:26:22):
Next week he's gonna show up to the studio with
the cutoff the sweatshirt.

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
Yeah, it's cut the sleeves out of your shirt.

Speaker 7 (01:26:27):
You're fine, John, you don't look anything like Bozo.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
I can say bo.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
So welcome, sir. We have a lot to catch up on.
You just sat down in front of us, but before
we hit the microphone on switch, and we're reacting to
the news in political circles today that a lot of
people are wondering about. And tark Bacari is back home
after a short stay in Washington, D C. And a
lot shorter than most people thought.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
I'd like to know the story behind the story, although
I don't know whether we'll over get it or not.
I suppose you have as good a chance as anybody.

Speaker 7 (01:27:00):
But because you've.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Built a relationship with him over the years, but five weeks,
I don't know. Maybe he got there and decided this
is just about as dis joined it as I thought
it was going to be well.

Speaker 7 (01:27:17):
I mean maybe, I mean, Jensen may talk to him.
Jensen knows him pretty well. He's been on our show
a lot. I always wanted shortly after he announced that
his wife was going to run for state house last year,
I wanted to have the two of them come in
with the two of us, meaning Beth and me, in
the studio here for an hour one morning. And we

(01:27:37):
never have done that. I still hope we can do that,
especially now. That would be a really interesting conversation. But
I don't know. I mean, you're right, he may or
may not talk. I don't know. He released a rather
lengthy statement yesterday. If you're just joining us for context here,
I should read you some of it. This is Tark McCrary.
Yesterday afternoon around three o'clock releases this on all his

(01:27:58):
social media platforms. I was brought into the us DOT
in the first wave of this new administration to establish
a new framework, set up processes, and lay out a
game plan for not just the next four years, but
the next generation. During that time, I've worked as hard
as I've ever worked, and with a great team, we
achieved some amazing results In just the last five months,

(01:28:18):
and he goes through several of the things they've done.
Later on, he says, the timing is right for me
to hand the baton to the next wave of leaders,
to carry on the amazing works that's underway, and head
back to my beloved North Carolina, where I can focus
on my wife's important campaign, my family and business. That's
part of his statement yesterday. He comes back less than

(01:28:38):
a week away from Tuesday's primary, where his wife is
hoping to be the nominee for City Council District number
six in the general this fall. That, of course, is
the seat that was vacated by Tark. They appointed Edwin Peacock,
now Edmund Peacock is going to run for at large,
so that seat is now going to be up for
grabs again, and she would like to be the nominee.
So here he is, back at home, back to your

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original point, Will we ever know the whole story?

Speaker 10 (01:29:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
And then he finishes by saying that he wishes the
Trump administration all the best in their future endeavors, and
that's I'm sorry. You have to almost be in radio
to understand that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:18):
Yes, he does, he does, and he points out specifically
Secretary Duffy and Administrator Mulminaro, and then finishes it by saying,
in the countless other patriots serving this country with everything
they have are going to continue their amazing work and
take us to the next level.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
Yeah, you know, you never know what you're really reading
when you're reading it. That's like the Future Endeavors thing.
That's Radio's way of saying, we've got his passkey and
we kicked his butt.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
Out, right, we'll throw the box out later, Yeah, box
full of his stuff out.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
We've taken down all his pictures and don't even try
to find him on our website.

Speaker 7 (01:29:53):
Which he is no longer on the dot website and
scrubb from it. So you know, people will wonder until
one of the sides says something further. I don't know
if they will, but like I told Tark, I texted
him yesterday, as I'm sure every other media outlet in
town did, and said, hey, you know, if you want
to talk, you know our number, give us a call.
And we have not heard from him. Maybe we will

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next week and if he calls, we'll have him on
of course, but it is a big story because it's unexpected.
You know, it's been an interesting, sort of unusual story
that you have the spouse of someone running for their
seat that they left, and now you have him back
in town and she's locked in a battle to try
to win that seat. So I don't know. Jensen was

(01:30:36):
talking last night about, you know, the drag that it
must have been on the family to go through that
process of having him there and three kids and a
wife running for office, also trying to raise those three kids.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
It's a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
I mean, I'm sure it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
But did he not say that he was going to
get behind his wife's campaign.

Speaker 7 (01:30:53):
Yeah, so, yeah, of course he'll do that. But if
we get a chance to hear a longer version of it,
we'll certainly bring that to you. But if the reason
that he decided, as Beth and I said at the
end of the seven o'clock hour we were talking about,
if it was that he got up there and realized
it was not a fit, you know, congratulations to anybody

(01:31:15):
to be able to make that decision, no matter the
stakes of the job that you left to go for,
if you realize something is not a fit in life,
I know we both say you got to do what
you got to do. For you and your family.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
I think all three of us have at times taken
a job and known immediately it was a bad decision.

Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
Yeah, And there's something that is so uncomfortable when you
walk into a building and you know, like your body
reacts to knowing me at WBT.

Speaker 17 (01:31:48):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:31:48):
And I told the story earlier, and I've said it
a few times over the years, but I took a
job in Raleigh in twenty ten. It's the WBT equivalent
in Raleigh, the news talk station. They were hiring a
morning show host, and I got the job, and I
was three days in to the job and it did
not feel right to me for a variety of reasons,
and I resigned. And I thought at the time it

(01:32:10):
was the worst decision I'd ever made for my radio career.
But I felt like it was not a fit with
my family or anything for that time, and I said,
I got to trust my gut here, and I did,
and I'm glad I did.

Speaker 23 (01:32:21):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
I wasn't so sure about that, you know, two days,
three days, two weeks later, But as time plays out,
and now i'm you know what, fifteen years or so later,
it was absolutely the right choice, and I would not
be sitting right here with Beth Troutman and John Hancock
and all my buddies in the studio. If I hadn't
made that decision, then so.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Well, It's funny the turns you take in life, and
what seems like a tragedy or a setback sometimes turns
out to be. You know, I got fired in Jacksonville
working mornings. Absolutely loved it living on the beach, but
it turned out to a thirty odd career at here.

(01:33:03):
So you don't know, I mean, when I got fired
in Jacksonville, I thought, you know, so now what I'm
going to end up in Wishita, Kansas. And it turned
out to be the biggest break of my life. So
you just never know. You just got to keep on
moving forward.

Speaker 7 (01:33:22):
And Beth has a you know, similar story too. I mean,
you wouldn't be here if you hadn't made certain decisions
along the way in your career.

Speaker 5 (01:33:29):
Yeah, I mean, I've spoken often about, you know, being
a news anchor here in town, and it was I knew,
I knew that it wasn't the right fit for me,
and it was a very difficult decision because it is
a dream job for so many people to be you know,
the main anchor on a news station. And for me,

(01:33:50):
it wasn't the right position at the right time, for
the who I wanted to be, just as a human
being at the time, and it was a gut wrenching
decision to make.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
Same with Vince Cokeley. Yeah, Vince Cokeley had walked into
the number one anchor seat over at the number one
station in town, and he decided, that's just not.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
What I'm built.

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
And I used to have lunch from time to time.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
And here's the number one TV anchor in town asking
me about talk radio. Yeah, And I kept on thinking
to myself, are you nuts? First place, it pays at
about a third of what you're making right now, And
second of all, what are you doing? But you know,
he was a bound to determine that there was something
more important for him than reading a teleprompter.

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
And he was right.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
That was exactly the feeling that I had. And I
got the same reactions from a lot of people that
I had lunch with.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
What are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
What are you thinking? Are you crazy? I got a
lot of that. And in those first sifty not.

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
Just the money, no at all.

Speaker 10 (01:34:53):
Although it helps.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
Morning, how doing miss boat, I'm on my way to work.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
Been listening to the station for years.

Speaker 7 (01:35:03):
I went through the Murphy in the morning John Boy
Billy settled on you guys about ten fifteen years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:35:09):
Been listening to BOU for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Loved the show with Beth.

Speaker 7 (01:35:12):
And Boomer and all the guys.

Speaker 4 (01:35:14):
This is Good Morning beat.

Speaker 7 (01:35:20):
In twenty two on WBT on your Friday Morning Tyboid Studio,
Strong Bow and Beth and Hancock, Ernie and Steve and
WBT super fan birthday. Man, Will TIMPs, you're playing my
music right there.

Speaker 10 (01:35:33):
Man, that's little Mary J.

Speaker 7 (01:35:34):
Bligh who had known Bernie loves this too.

Speaker 10 (01:35:37):
Love is all we need, isn't that the truth?

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
Uh huh?

Speaker 7 (01:35:40):
So last night NFL season debut, and the fireworks in
the game were before they even had the first play.
I mean technically had the kickoff, but I mean rolled
that real quick, Bernie. Because this has been all the
talk this morning. This is from NBC as Mike Jerico
and Chris Collinsworth could not believe what they saw on

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the first drive.

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
The touchbacks now come out to the thirtieth.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
Defense number ninety eight.

Speaker 15 (01:36:08):
Number ninety eight, the defense of the hatches has this
qualifier from the game whoa fifty yr miility?

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
Whoa first off?

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
So Jalen Carter the focus and the star for the Cowboys,
for the Eagles, on the front line, out for the
game before a snap.

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
Here he goes. He walks there in front of Dak Prescott.
Did he spit? Did he spit on him? I think
he did?

Speaker 7 (01:36:37):
Yeah, we go he did?

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
He spit on official was right there.

Speaker 7 (01:36:41):
I've been trying to find the Westwood One radio call
of this because it was Kevin Harlan, and I just
I can only imagine in my head what Kevin Harland
must have said about this. I'm going to try to
find it, but the ways that I usually can get
that I was not able this morning, So I'm just
gonna have to imagine it in my head. But stept
the first game of the season. All eyes are watching

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and the dude's spitting on the guy on that like you've.

Speaker 1 (01:37:04):
Heard the speech in the locker room from the coach.
Yes after that's about as low rend as you can go.
And I hope the league does suspend him for a game.
But actually i'd be I would be more respectful if
the coach suspended him for a game. He's a heck
of a player.

Speaker 7 (01:37:23):
Well and and Chris collins Worth said, as much. You know,
Jalen Carter, if you remove him from the defense of
the of the Eagles, it's basically like removing what's the
name who got traded by the Cowboys? Who am I
thinking of? Bernie Michael Parson Parsons. I mean you basically
are are You're taking away their best guy that they

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had game planned for, and he's gone because he spit
on somebody before he really got even got going.

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
So I wondered if he changed jerseys at half time,
because have.

Speaker 7 (01:37:53):
You ever been spit on?

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Thank goodness new I I knew lou.

Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
Reed spit on me once what.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
I've told the story before, but I've never felt so
dirty in my entire life.

Speaker 7 (01:38:10):
And I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
It's just.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
I noticed yesterday he spit on him and he just
hit the jersey. I say, I would have changed with
the jersey immediately, but maybe I'm a German.

Speaker 7 (01:38:21):
You took it to a place that I hadn't even
thought of for today. But this happened last night and
I knew we'd be talking about it. I'm thinking, Okay,
what are the all time memorable moments where somebody spit
on somebody in sports, and I can think of Roberto
Alomar back in the day when he played for the
Baltimore Orioles, I think it was. But then I hadn't
even thought about the idea of have you ever been

(01:38:41):
spit on in your life?

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
I will say that one of it's probably a pet
peeve of mine. I hate seeing people spit on the
sidewalk or something in public. You know, they'll walk out
of a restaurant or a store and just spit on
the sidewalk. And I know that no, I mean, people
are just gonna be walking on it, but it and
the sound. Actually, I have a very very bad gag

(01:39:06):
reflect and it's it's starting to starting to present it.

Speaker 7 (01:39:10):
Even in sports, I mean, especially baseball. These guys are
always spitting.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
I always think to myself, it's more of a habit
than it is a need.

Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Yeah, in baseball, see baseball, it's sort of built in,
at least the old school guys, like they'll spit left
and right. It's like it's like, ahha, hockey is okay.
It's okay to fight in hockey, but nowhere else, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:39:33):
And.

Speaker 5 (01:39:38):
I'm trying to think about. That was like that happened
in front of me coming out of the chicken salad
ship the other day. I can't get out.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
You can't spit that much in a football game because
it gets on your face.

Speaker 7 (01:39:51):
Guard think about that, Beth. I'm sorry. Yeah, for a
football player, you might get caught there grating. Okay, I said,
have you ever been spit on? Have you ever spit
on someone? No? No, I'm knowing both categories.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
It's not a good spin.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
Or if I tried to spit on somebody, I ended
up spitting it on the front of my shirt.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
Yeah, it would just run down my chin. It would
just be able to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:22):
Kind of kind of kind of loses its effect when
you but it's on you. Yeah, all right, that's a
good time to take a break, Beth. Will take a
few minutes and collect yourself water, collect collect the spittle.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
This is Good Morning Beat Big Weekend presented by Watson Insurance.

Speaker 24 (01:40:51):
Friends that I know living in this town enough come
far to see them, Gonna track them down. He live
in up bred house.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
He isn't white and brown.

Speaker 24 (01:41:10):
Got took the tip before the maid and I packed
up my guitar, drop my keyl on the county red card.
Can I look up with up later, he'd go, hit
the barn.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
I need a big week?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Me go, do.

Speaker 9 (01:41:40):
You got a big week?

Speaker 16 (01:41:45):
Hid you down?

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
Run your bus?

Speaker 24 (01:41:51):
If I may shake your hand, but I won't know
your name. The joke in your language? Don't come out
say these times when I'm down in.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Its then to blame.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
I mean to be we y week.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Down.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
NFL kickoff weekend with the Panthers at Jacksonville Sunday at
one o'clock. Yeah, so, Greek Festival's going on all weekend
on the weekend long at East Boulevard, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox.
Charlotte International Arts Festival continues for the month, Charlotte Knights
on a long homestand this weekend with Jacksonville Jimbo Shrimp
tonight at seven oh four, and then the homestand continues.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
That season ends by the way later on this month.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
Steve Smith's Senior at Glory Day's Empiral tomorrow at six pm.

Speaker 7 (01:42:57):
Jorge and Hudson's U n C.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
Tar Heels and made Jerry richardson Stadium tomorrow for a
game at seven.

Speaker 7 (01:43:03):
And there's a rumor that Bill Bilichick may be there.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
How about that?

Speaker 12 (01:43:08):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:43:08):
And Super Motocross World Championship playoff at Imax tomorrow.

Speaker 24 (01:43:13):
We're back in the travel, sleep and eat across everyboard.
It neviduity, Glen, you've been the bat.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
It's best not to stay. How need be.

Speaker 4 (01:43:37):
Jeh does?

Speaker 21 (01:43:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
Big week.

Speaker 24 (01:43:47):
You know and yours.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Now you go A big weekend presented by Watson Insurance Agency.
Was protecting what's important since nineteen thirty.

Speaker 7 (01:43:58):
Four Charlotte Assents.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
Is there a season tomorrow at American Legion Memorial Stadium.
That'll be tomorrow. And don't forget the tradition of during
the first time, everybody turns around and moons the PA announcement.

Speaker 7 (01:44:12):
That's still yeah, opening night.

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
That's that's kind of what everyone kind of a.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
Weird situation breaking Benjamin in Three Days Grace at PNC.
I don't have no idea, I do it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
I think.

Speaker 7 (01:44:24):
I think it's tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
And Bluecress Camp Camp at Skyla Credit Union is on
Sunday at seven o'clock.

Speaker 7 (01:44:35):
That's the sound when everybody moons Beth.

Speaker 10 (01:44:38):
That's the best sound effect ever though.

Speaker 7 (01:44:42):
Will It's only only rival by this one. Wow, the
sequel season two.

Speaker 10 (01:44:55):
We'll make a second version of that this weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:44:57):
I might have to I knew, go to whatever links
you can to attain audio when needed for a show
in the parking lot. That's right with this phone. So
we have bath back on the not on the soccer field.
You're in the soccer field booth.

Speaker 5 (01:45:11):
Yeah, I'm up in the They do not want me
on the soccer field.

Speaker 7 (01:45:14):
Incredible to watch.

Speaker 10 (01:45:16):
I will tell you. I will tell you that I
will be in the multitasker at best if they.

Speaker 5 (01:45:22):
I not only call the games, I play them.

Speaker 7 (01:45:24):
Yeah it's Victor Kyam. I love the company so much.

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
I bought it just like a hairclub for men.

Speaker 7 (01:45:31):
And that who was the Remington guy, Victor Kyam. Okay, yeah,
so that is the big weekend on tap. I mean,
we also remind you the Diocese of Charlotte's twenty twenty
five Eucharistic Congress. We had the bishop in here last
last hour, Bishop Michael Martin, and as everyone knows, it's
Matt Maher playing tonight at seven o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Yes, he has a famous Christian artist, has played for
four four different popes.

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
Yeah, first time we've ever had the bishop in studio here.
That's pretty cool. He was there's a Catholic bishop.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Yes, he was incredible. He was incredible. I got teary
eyed multiple times just talking to him, and he wasn't
It was just his presence. He was just so lovely.
He was like a big just a big giant sunshine
that walked in here.

Speaker 7 (01:46:19):
Yeah, he got teary eyed too when he started talking
to him. Traffic check right now. Ninety three, Boomer von
Cannon was a full moon weekend, so now we have
more than one full moon tomorrow night. No, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:46:33):
We don't want to start this ritual back up.

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
That's during the first time out.

Speaker 7 (01:46:42):
That's right, that's right, the talking about love it better.
You have a window up there, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
I have a bigger, big window.

Speaker 7 (01:46:49):
Yes, you can you close the window?

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
I can close it.

Speaker 10 (01:46:52):
Yes, I sliding one.

Speaker 5 (01:46:54):
I believe it's a sliding window.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:46:56):
Yes, might need a windshield wiper. Oh well, I hope not.

Speaker 5 (01:47:00):
That's coming out of those dunes and girls.

Speaker 7 (01:47:03):
Is during the first time out, and John, yeah, first
time out. You know there was a time when it
probably would have done this.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
You know what, Boomer, there's something about me who believes.

Speaker 7 (01:47:15):
That well streaking, I mean that was pretty close.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
Did you guys do that?

Speaker 7 (01:47:24):
We're going strinking by the gymnasium and by the Grady
call center.

Speaker 5 (01:47:28):
Who's we.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Center?

Speaker 7 (01:47:35):
Long is staying the final stretch on a Friday? Bowen
Beth here Tyboid Studio, Charlotte's most beloved John Hancock taking
us home today WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC.

(01:47:57):
So this is James here says today is Friday. It's
not fry yea. Sounds so juvenile when you guys say
fry yea. Can we please just stop? Well, wait a minute,
we technically didn't even do fryye.

Speaker 5 (01:48:12):
We forgot to do well, not we forgot we didn't
have time today in today's show because we were kind
of jam packed to do our tell me something good?

Speaker 7 (01:48:19):
Yeah, I mean when he says Friday around here now,
So James, I'm sorry he doesn't like frya. But like,
it's not like we invented that. We just harnessed the
power of Boomer von Cannon.

Speaker 6 (01:48:32):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:48:33):
But we have had so much going on on the
show today. I mean, we had, we had the bishop
was in here right, What am I supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:48:42):
We had didn't do our usual Friday segment. Now, which
is now what three weeks old? Tell us something good?
We still have time. I mean, look, it's a good day.
We have Hancock here, it's will Tim's birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
It is the day before John Hancock's birthday, and like what.

Speaker 7 (01:48:56):
Three or four days after mine?

Speaker 10 (01:48:58):
It's a birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:49:00):
Was a big month.

Speaker 7 (01:49:01):
At Billick's birthday today at billis right wearing the tablecloth
with So anyway, James, I'm sorry you don't like frye.
Uh sorry, too bad. We're gonna keep doing frye.

Speaker 5 (01:49:13):
James and I have already connected. I don't know if
you saw I texted with James.

Speaker 7 (01:49:16):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, a lot more.

Speaker 5 (01:49:18):
We're already buds.

Speaker 7 (01:49:19):
Now are you giving them hugs and stuff? And James
work on the weekends?

Speaker 6 (01:49:22):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:49:22):
He loves us though, by the way, he just doesn't
love frye.

Speaker 7 (01:49:25):
Well, I mean, come on, you gotta be you gotta
be positive on Friday. You got to give people something
to look forward to the weekend with. Right, That's that's
how Big Weekend was invented. On something positive? Yeah, well,
I mean something you know, things to do? You don't
you don't do Big Weekend. So here's what you don't
want to do this week.

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
I think it was invented so I could play Tomay.

Speaker 5 (01:49:47):
But that's something good right in your in your mind.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
We had I remember we had a program director and
a consultant at the time, because for about a year
and a half, almost two years, we did five o'clock
and we would play a Petty song every Friday five o'clock.
And they hated that because it was a talk station,
and technically they were right, but they were wrong. So anyway,

(01:50:13):
it was ironic that we had picked Petty to do
that with because then while we were on the air,
he died and he, I don't know, a rock and
roller that's kind of held his chops. I think people
still like Petty.

Speaker 7 (01:50:30):
Tom Petty died while you were doing your show, Is
that right?

Speaker 6 (01:50:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:50:34):
We heard as the show started that he had been
rushed to the hospital, so on and so forth. It
took him the whole show to to finally be to
finally be announced as had passed. It was the worst
show I've ever done. And I didn't know Tom Petty.
I saw Tom Petty a few times, but I mean,

(01:50:55):
but I was just a big Petty fan, and so
this being on the air all day long. Kind of
preoccupy with whether or not he was dead or alive
was kind of disconcerting.

Speaker 17 (01:51:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:05):
Actually, the worst show I ever did in my life
was a friend of mine in Nesta's Park called and
fifteen minutes far I went on the air and told
me that my high school sweetheart had just died of cancer.
And all of a sudden, she didn't know I was
going on the air in fifteen minutes. Yeah, and that
was that was maybe the toughest show I ever did well.

Speaker 7 (01:51:27):
And then the most famous show that you ever did,
which started off I mean obviously was a very sad
and somber occasion, but you know, that show, for you
is probably the show that you're best known for. And
look what that turned into as far as far as
your father's and many other people's father's legacies that you know,

(01:51:47):
it's interesting how we handle news that we get on
the air sometimes and what you did with that day,
you know, you made a personal thing a very powerful
public thing, and now it's you know, it's dawned for
years and years.

Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Father's Day was a day when people would call in
and talk about their dads. On March the sixteenth, which
was the anniversary of my dad's death, and I have
since then over the years people have sent me. It
kind of turned into I write your dad the letter
because I found a letter I had written my dad
in his stuff when I went back for after he

(01:52:21):
had passed. And now I've had people share the letters
that they have sent their dads, and it's almost like
it's almost voyeuristic. I feel like I shouldn't be reading it.
But that's the thing. I'm one of the most proud
of that in the bike drive.

Speaker 17 (01:52:42):
But to have.

Speaker 1 (01:52:46):
Encouraged people to write that letter to their fathers and
to have them actually do it. I know there's the
fathers out there that have saved those letters. I know
there are sons out there that have found those letters
after their father passed.

Speaker 5 (01:53:00):
Changed relationships.

Speaker 1 (01:53:01):
Yeah, and that was the hope. She never I don't
think you ever necessarily take yourself so seriously in this
job that you think you're actually going to have an impact.
So to know that you did on at least a
few people is pretty pretty mind blowing to me.

Speaker 5 (01:53:21):
That's powerful.

Speaker 7 (01:53:22):
Well, And I just saw our program director sends around
programming calendar from time to time, and I just saw
the latest one. I'm not going to say the date
yet because I don't know if it's official official, but
the bike drive is on the calendar for December, so
it's coming again.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
I tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
What's else's on the calendar is on September eighteenth, we're
going to be at Watson up in Belmont for a
blood drive. We'll talk about it later, but anyway, I'm
going to show up for that and hang around and
meet people and so on and so forth. But it'll
be at Watson in Belmont on September the eighteenth. So
I'm looking forward to work to.

Speaker 7 (01:54:00):
The well, definitely much more on that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:54:03):
Happy early birthday to you, Happy late birthday to me,
Happy actual birthday to Will Tims, who is in the
studio with this. It's good to see you as always.
I love this, We love having you in here. And
thanks to everybody for a short week, but it's been
a great week. Thanks to Bernie and thanks to Steve
and of course Garrison and in for Garrison today, Jeff Atkinson, Boomer,

(01:54:25):
Jim Zochie, I'm leaving anybody else out there, oh yeah, Beth,
oh yeah. And the Carolina Ascent Game number one coming
up this weekend opening night, Megabeth, Yeah, I'll give you
one more here, Gay tipping it five? Is that five
five o'clock there?

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
Or B square?

Speaker 7 (01:54:42):
All right, you guys have a good weekend since Hancock
brought it up. Oh, I'll leave you on this.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
My baby is new volunteers.

Speaker 17 (01:54:49):
I just wish I could have told him.

Speaker 14 (01:54:53):
Leaving.

Speaker 8 (01:55:14):
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