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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have serious problems to solve and we need serious
people to solve them.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You cannot be serious.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
From one O seven point nine f m w BT
Charlotte's FM des Talk Beth Troutman.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
She's looking out for you.

Speaker 5 (00:14):
You always know when you listen to book.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson. That's Beth Troutman.
Luck at you you written enough of.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
Life?

Speaker 7 (00:46):
Is so brace time you want to Hell that can
make a job.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Don't just standing bad.

Speaker 8 (01:02):
Body.

Speaker 9 (01:03):
I'm like a glass when you put it off. If
you know me, you know I'm mind.

Speaker 8 (01:07):
Someone like me is I'm just find.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
No mistaken hair.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
This is what happens when we come back on December
twenty ninth.

Speaker 10 (01:15):
Apparently guys drive me crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:19):
Is the name of this little ditty?

Speaker 10 (01:22):
You can't say, Jenny, it's a little YACHTI actually don't
say this is ditty with it to tease be canceled.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, everybody knows it's little YACHTI.

Speaker 8 (01:34):
It's a little YACHTI yeah, little yacht rock. Yeah it's
oh yeah. It does actually have kind of a yacht
rock Fields.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Today has a yacht rock feel, just a whole mood.

Speaker 8 (01:46):
Yeah, what what season is it? What day is it?
What time is it?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is it big questions?

Speaker 8 (01:53):
Is it spring?

Speaker 11 (01:54):
It hit?

Speaker 10 (01:55):
Christmas Day was gorgeous? I felt like it was May gorgeous.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I played. I played golf on Saturday for the first
time in a long time. I played in shorts and
in a short sleeve shirt. I mean, it was like
the middle of May.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Even though you played.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I don't very often, but I went playing with my
brother and my son and my nephew, and first time
in a long time.

Speaker 8 (02:17):
But had you do?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
I did?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Next next subject, you see the whole I saw the
whole golf course. Got your mind.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I look. I used to play golf way back in
the day with my grandfather and he would always say,
and I didn't play that much back then, and he
would always say, you know, you come out and there's
one shot that you came to play for.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh yeah, And then the.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Other shots he'd always say, ah, too bad. The one
that'll bring you back, That's what he said, the shot
that'll make you want to come back. Because that's the
thing about golf, right, You go out there and you
play and there's enough to just make you so mad
you never want to play again. But then you hit
that one shot where you're like, I could be so good.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
I could do this.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Every day those ten seconds of those four hours. That's right.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
So my grandfather did not mince words. He would always
say if you hit a bad shot, he didn't say, oh,
it'll be fun, he'd say too bad.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I like your grandfather, I feel that would make it worse.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
You saw pretty much pretty much. I mean he didn't
he didn't sugarcoat things, and that's why we loved him.
But yeah, so, I mean, like what three two, three
days ago, it's like the middle of May. Now today
is sort of the transition day. If you go outside,
the wind's blowing, and if you've been listening to the forecast,
by the end of the day, it's going to be
much more winter like. And this is really the last

(03:30):
day we're even anywhere close to sixty. I think we're
at fifty eight right now. But the next the next
foreseeable future, we're getting into what it's supposed to be
like this time of year. So if you've liked this
sort of teas we've had the last week, don't get
used to it, because it's a it's leaving us. After today.

Speaker 10 (03:45):
It was such a strange thing. I was at my
brother's house on Christmas Day. We were outside playing with
my niece. She was in shorts and a T shirt
and had a sprayer down with the hose because she
was sweating.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Get outside, that's just completely normal activity.

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Hey, But we were playing. Have y'all heard of this
game called can Jam?

Speaker 12 (04:04):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 8 (04:05):
Oh okay, yeah. So it's a frisbee game.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Guys.

Speaker 10 (04:08):
You have two giant like almost looks like garbage cans
with a slit in the front, the holes open in
the top, and you try to knock the frisbee into
the garbage can each team.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
It's a great game.

Speaker 10 (04:17):
So I was playing can Jam with my niece and
my brother and my husband and guess what, guys, this
is like that one shot you live for. I went
and threw that frisbee and dang it if it didn't
go through the little slot, the little slot on the
front of the garbage camp.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
If you look this up like a.

Speaker 8 (04:33):
Mail flop, Yes, that's right, and it means that you
automatically win the game.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh yeah, and that was like poor person's dish golf
or what you know.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
It's like an actual like ultimate frisbee. Frisbee, like it's
a big frisbee.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Here's what happens when it's seventy five eighty degrees in
the middle of December.

Speaker 8 (04:52):
We were sweating and playing frisbee on the version.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Those are down people, right, Well, we are here today
and tomorrow this the team. Nope, we are here today.
Zochie is not here tomorrow. Oh you're off tomorrow's but
then Steve's back tomorrow. George is here today in for Steve,
and Bet and myself are back for a couple of
days here.

Speaker 10 (05:14):
So we just all wanted to hang out. We needed
some time together in this time of timelessness.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I'm not getting paid today, I'm just here. Yeah, well,
so a free one.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Well, some people call it TwixT miss. Some people call
it dead week. Some people call it feral week. I've
been I've been researching what it is this week that
we're in feral.

Speaker 10 (05:32):
Week, Like like fer I'm just wandering around to parking.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
But I think this week, this is the week where
nobody knows what day it is, nobody knows what time
it is. Like you're not at work, many of you aren't.
We're at work for a couple of days. Everything is
out of sorts, and yet the experts say that you
need this week really really much.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Le all out of sorts.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
We paused, but I don't think any of us understood
the feral comment. Like all three of us are kind okay.
I think we all got okay, stunned and we haven't
recovered from whatever that meant.

Speaker 10 (06:04):
Week where we're wild. I guess we're wild and don't
know a home base.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
I will dig into it when we get back.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Trash cans could be, could be.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'll dig into this when we come back, because that's
not something I made up. That's something that you just said.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
It like it was a unknown thing. Yeah, well, I
mean it's Fara weekly. We all know. It's very confident,
the usual Faral week.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
It's Feral day for us here. The next two days
we are, we're back. We're late, We're not late. We're
live and we're local.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Late.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Live and local is what TJ is. We are live
and local in the morning here, no tape. We're talking
to you just like you were right there in front
of us, clearly on one O seven point nine.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It'd be better if we'd record it.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Let's get a check of traffic right now, and here's
Boomer von Cannon. I hear someone got hose down over
the weekend.

Speaker 10 (06:52):
Get my niece with during Christmas Day, we were all
outside playing and she got hot and she was like,
could you just spray me with theefore she's got a.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Feral knee, said Nana hooser down.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
I can't say a thing.

Speaker 8 (07:06):
It was like summertime. We were just ready to play
in the hosepipe.

Speaker 7 (07:09):
Hey, good morning, I'm glad to talk to you. Guys
are hilarious, I mean funny.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I love you.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
I don't get to listen to morning radio that much,
but you guys are funny. And I don't mean like
pH funny, I mean like ha ha funny.

Speaker 12 (07:24):
I don't find anything funny.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
So this is great.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
This is good morning, bat.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
All right six nineteen on WBT one of seven point
nine WBT, Monday, December twenty ninth. I if I can
pull this up here, so says farh week, also known
as twixtmis or crimbo. Limbo loosely defined the period between

(07:57):
Christmas Day, December twenty fifth and New Year Day, January first,
when routines drop, work pauses, people relax, eat leftovers, watch TV,
and generally exist in a state of holiday limbo before
the new year begins. It's the time for recharging, doing
very little and indulging in simple pleasures characterized by pajamas,

(08:17):
no real schedule, and a general feeling that time has
no meaning.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Crimbo limbo. I think that's what I'm going to start
calling it. That's really good crimbo limbo.

Speaker 10 (08:27):
Do you know we were out driving around we took
because the weather was so lovely, we took our dogs
to the park and let them run around and play
thatch and all that kind of stuff. And as we
were driving around running errands, there were so many families
out at the different public parks, people out with their kids,
people out walking, people out cycling. And my husband looked
at me and he was like, I think this is
what life would be like if everybody's schedules weren't so awful,

(08:50):
that we would all be enjoying outdoor spaces together and
having community events together and enjoying our neighbors.

Speaker 8 (08:57):
Like not like that, and they can and it.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Sounds like a prison meffort. Enjoy outdoors time, guys, Let's
go to the yard.

Speaker 10 (09:04):
You do it, enjoying being with our neighbors.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
The feral The feral aspect comes from shedding normal societal
structures and routines, allowing for a more primitive, less structured existence,
like being a feral human in your own home, free
from the pressure of work and societal expectations shedding.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Did a cat write this book?

Speaker 8 (09:24):
I do like this?

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Meow? What I'm just telling you? I don't make this
stuff up.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
I wish everyone I agree with bow.

Speaker 8 (09:39):
I wish everyone could see gyms right now?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Just bies, have that queued up in the next yeah, meow, Yeah,
I'm a DJ.

Speaker 8 (09:52):
Might be my new favorite foism.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh behave.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Or the Panthers yesterday, little.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Mary Tyler markup.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
It's kind of.

Speaker 10 (10:04):
The way that things have been going, right. We win one,
we lose one, we win, so that means.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's really for ten weeks in a row, like we're
trapped in this.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (10:10):
But that's a good thing though, guys, because we play
on Saturday for a big old title, and that means
it is time for us to win.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
Win one, lose one, we win one. It's time for
us to win, right.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah. If you're just getting up, you may have missed
that that the news broke overnight or late last night.
The Panthers will play on Saturday, not Sunday of next week,
because you know how the NFL does with the final
regular season week of scheduling. They try to take the
games that mean the most or still mean something and
put them in the primetime or the standalone slots. So
the Panthers and the Bucks will play at four thirty

(10:42):
on Saturday. This will be an ESPN ABC game, so
this will be like the Monday Night Football Crew. I
guess it may be the alternate crew because ESPN also
has the Seahawks and the forty nine ers that night,
so that may the late game, maybe the Buck and
the Tory Aikman game, but either way, you got a
standalone game on Saturday, and then on Sunday, the slate
of the primetime game will Sunday will beat Baltimore at Pittsburgh.

(11:06):
So those are all the games that still mean something
for seeding or for in our case, division title. And
Zoke not the game we ordered up yesterday, but you're
still alive, so.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I give you most of the credit to Seattle. I mean,
they're thirteen to three and they're playing for the number
one seed against the Niners coming up this week.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
So they're that good.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And the Panthers, I mean, this was a three to
three game at halftime, and then the two turnovers led
to two quick touchdowns. It got to be seventeen to three,
and it was uphill after that. But I think it
was just kind of like the Panthers of that team
that's just trying to qualify, make the playoffs, get in
the seven in the NFC, and Seattle's just at a
different level right now. So I think they made us
look as bad as we did in a lot of

(11:47):
ways yesterday. Bryce Young, who has thrown four over four
hundred yards in a game this year through for fifty
four yesterday, I mean, we just had nothing. I think
we had one hundred and thirty nine yards total for
the entire game. So we just could not figure out
Seattle yesterday. But Tampa Bay again not taking them lightly,
but they've lost seven out of eight and they lost
to Miami yesterday, which has a losing record, and that

(12:08):
was a game where I think we all kind of
assume Miami was not playing for much of anything, and
Tampa Bay had to have that game. And still Tampa
Bay keeps losing, So hopefully they stay in the little funk.
They're in right now, and the Panthers can beat them again.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
So the Panthers win and they're in, except there is
a scenario where they could lose and they're in now. Beth,
you'll like this. Steve Kornacki, the guy who does all
the breakdowns.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
I love that guy.

Speaker 11 (12:32):
He takes off his little jacket and he's got his
little tie on its in the zone, he rolls up
his sleeves and he does math and he makes math
look awesome and I love him for it.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
So they use him on Sunday Night Football every once
in a while when you have these strange playoff scenarios
come up, like last night, Bernie.

Speaker 13 (12:50):
Tampa would have been eliminated if Carolina had found a
way to win that game. Instead, Carolina at Tampa, winner
takes the NFC South. Loser is done, probably, and I
say probably because the Falcons they're not back in the
playoff mix. They've been eliminated. But look at this, the
Falcons at six and nine. If they could beat the Rams,
huge if and if they could beat the Saints, they

(13:11):
could get to eight and nine. If the Bucks win
next week, they'd be eight and nine. Carolina would be
eight and nine three way tie, it's the head to
head record among all three that would decide it. Carolina
and Tampa would have split, Tampa and Atlanta would have split.
Carolina would have a sweep on Atlanta at eight and nine,
they would have the tiebreaker, they'd win the division.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
So the Falcons split tonight on Monday Night Football. So
there they have two games left to go, whereas all
the rest of us have won. Now, if they win
tonight and then they win next week, then you could
have a three way tie possibly in the end of
this division. So the Falcons can't win, but they can
have an effect on who wins and loses of Tampa
and Carolina.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
See be the most Panthers way ever making the playoffs.
We lose and watch other teams lose.

Speaker 10 (13:54):
Watch out if there's a three way tie, what do
you do? Do you just like do a dance off?

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Like what is well?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
He explained to the typebreaker listening to. The answer was
in what we was played. That's why both played it
because the common record of all the three teams playing
each other, the Panthers had the best record.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Weber, the Steve guy and all that.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
The whole math. Here's here's how it would play out,
Beth that part.

Speaker 8 (14:19):
But then what happens though.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
You have a three way to breaker and they actually
they take the head to head matchups and records of
all three teams, and then they do the two teams
and they do the math.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
They do the mass is okay, now I get it.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
That was by both played that piece of See I
don't do math, So when people like Steve do it
for me, then I play it for you.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, were you listening wrong?

Speaker 4 (14:40):
No?

Speaker 12 (14:41):
No, now, uh, this is real football.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
This is real football. We are going to have a
treat for our one o seven point nine newbies that
are that are joining us for the first time of
the last few weeks because we're slowly but surely introducing
you to some of the mainstays of this here. Good
morning BT, because we've all been together here for four years,
so we have been trying to bring you into the
mix on how we how we do things here. The
first half hour of the show, I'll really give you

(15:07):
some some questions. But when we come back. Another member
of our extended family actually is real blood family. For Beth,
it's her dad.

Speaker 10 (15:16):
Right, It is my father who was part of our
speaking of football fantasy football league. For those who have
not yet met my father, when my husband, when we
first started dating, met my father for the first time.
My dad's name is Wayne and and my husband just
started calling him the Waaniac and it has stuck because

(15:36):
he's very much that's fitting, right.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
See, I forget that part of all this. Like before
your husband came along, the Wayneiac was not a thing.
So unlike you guys were kids and they called your
your dad the wayniac.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, I literally thought so now that we embedded them,
it was from coming out of this show.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I actually like that.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Bet Oh, So that's where it came from.

Speaker 10 (15:56):
Guys, when we started this show, we called my dad
the Waneiac.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
That, but he would call it Ago. He's waiting, He's
the waiting act. I think it came from.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
So we made it popular segments. Craig made it a thing.
We made it popular.

Speaker 8 (16:07):
Yeah, Craig made it a thing. We made it popular.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, we're going to talk to him when we come back,
because he has some bragging to do this morning. Hint hint,
it was down to the wire. I do not have
any bragging to do this morning. But as I told
Beth in a text last night, I shall be the
gracious loser. There's another one for you, Berniew.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
I would never yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
So the Waitey act. Best Dad lives at North Myrtle Beach,
so he calls in from time to time because he's
you know. And one thing you'll also learn is that
we do what one show a year in the summer
from the balcony at North Myrtle Beach, so that that
tradition will be broadcast over the f M one oh
seven point nine this coming year of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Three.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
It's a trait for our new one O seven point
nine FM listeners. A member of the extended family actually
a blood relative of one of us. That would be
Beth Troutman's dad. He is Wayne Troutman, aka the Wayneiac.
I just got a note from one of our listeners

(17:23):
who said, Michael says the Beach Show DJs on ninety
one point seven done at the Coast all refer to
best Dad as the Wayniac craiksicet Royalty. I'm telling you,
like Sures Trader Bark, Wayne Troutman, this is the first
time we've talked to you on one O seven point
nine WBT. Happy almost New Year. And I don't know

(17:44):
why we're having you on today other than just to
introduce you to the folks. I think that's pretty much it, right.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Yeah, well, first of all, let's say thank you and
congratulations on being the one oh seven point nine WBT
morning talk show. I think it's one of well, you know,
I just I love listening to you every morning. Anyway,
now more people can listen on. I love that.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
I thought you were about to congratulate yourself with I
just want to congratulate myself.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
Tom is coming. Tom is coming for the hit.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's right now. The Fantasy Football Championship, first ever for
this Good Morning BT league, which extends to the Wayneac. Fact,
it includes all of us here in this room. It
includes Boomer and Mark, even though Mark doesn't know that
didn't know me play the best part final score of

(18:34):
the two week Fantasy Football Championship. Of course, it was
Wayneyac's Beach Trolls Versus Jason's Basement two seventy two point
three eight to two thirty eight point sixty four. The
the two week Championship that Bernie introduced us to two
weeks in.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Wayneiac I told bet. She texted me last night, she says,
do we need to have my dad on? I said, yet,
I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be a very gracious loser here.
And congratulations. You come in, you know, and not even
in the studio with us every day and just run
home with the championship here. Congratulations. I think that deserves
around the ball.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you very much. You
know I did decide to give out a couple of
awards good to the people here. I both you know
you won Best Competitor. Couse you were right there right
to the end. I got to remind you the very
first game, you told me that I was the only
person in America who didn't have Josh Allen and Derrick

(19:37):
Henry play him. I had them on my bend.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
You had bow next starting.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I know where he's going.

Speaker 10 (19:43):
Well, I think it's because the very first game he
was playing against me and he felt bad and he
was trying to give me a shot at winning.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, apparently you decided that you were nostalgic for that
first week, because this week you had Derrick Henry on
the bench where he scored forty five points and you
still beat me.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
So look, you you're still my best competitor.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
Bro. Now you just got to know that.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, you know, any league that has Mark Garrison and
everybody else knows that they're a better competitor. But but hey,
it was fun. We had fun with this. We we
sort of went into it with the idea that okay,
most of us have played. You know, Zoke of course
is WBT sports director works for an actual NFL team.
You got people like like Mark Harrison, anybody to this day.

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Mark never accessed his team, never logged in. I mean
I even made I even have a mug for him,
and it's gonna be news to him that he has
a team.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
I think you can lose when you don't log in,
I guess.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
And by the way, your mug, your mug that I
talked about when we gave each other the gifts last week,
your mug is coming. So that's a that's a nice
little playing gift for you winning the championship. Uh the
way in the act beach trolls. But you know, you
get Beth.

Speaker 7 (20:52):
The picture, Yes I did.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, and then you have Beth that we all thought
this was gonna be sort of an interesting experiment because Beth,
you know, sort of making decisions, not not the way
the rest of us would just kind of randomly.

Speaker 10 (21:05):
I didn't know what I was doing when we were drafting.
I had nothing but panthers on my screen, and I
thought it was because I lived in Charlotte.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
I thought it was these players are local to you.

Speaker 8 (21:15):
Thought it was a local player team to me.

Speaker 14 (21:17):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Then I realized that there was a pull down menu and.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
There were thirty one other teams, a lot of other.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Teams, so it started to slow start for me. But
I did beat Jim Zuchie point one.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
Well, Beth, we get fur the trophy before the most
improved over the season. And by the way, Bernie, Bernie,
you get the best commissioner, and you can an assist
because if you hadn't picked the two game format for
the playoffs, bo would be the winner. So I give
you an assist from my win.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
I say that way, don't you are the betsion? I
could feel bow looking without.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Looking at right now.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
One.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Well, it is true like the most Yeah, you've got
the most unpredictable, and Boomer was the most dangerous. His
crash and whatever it.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Was, that's very dangerous.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Smash and Crash was his team.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Name, and Mark got the best team without coach.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
That is true. That is true that Jim.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yes, Jim gets the Congeniality Award because he let all
these people win every week, because even though he knew
exactly what to do, he let the others win. I
won the Ality Award view Jim.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I wanted everyone else have a good time.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Thanks Jim.

Speaker 7 (22:33):
Oh speak of Jim. I got to tell you quick story.
Yesterday I was in Costco rousing down the wine isle.
I said, if I can walk up, his wife's stop
beside me. He's got on the East Carolina sweatshirt. So
I asked to go, oh, you're a pirate. If sir
ever die wherever, I'm a pirate. I said, Well, do

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you know the voice of the Pirates? He said Jim Joki.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
I said, yeah, do you know, No, I've never met him.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Said, well, he comes down here once a year. Next
time you need to meet Jim Zki. What's of the pirate?

Speaker 8 (23:08):
He invited strangers over to come great hang out.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm huge at Costco.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well, and that's the voice of the military bull winning
SeeU pirates.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Over the weekend, it was a big weekend for the ECUs.
That was big. All right.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, so this is great because not only do we
get to congratulate you on your big win, we get
to introduce you to a whole new set of listeners.
And like you said, once a year, usually in June,
sometimes July, sometimes August, but in the summer we make
a track down and do the show from your balcony
there at North Myrtle Beach. And I'm assuming that the

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invitation is there for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Absolutely, you know it's a standing invitation, and I'm already
looking forward to it. I'm planning my breakfast menu.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now, can we go to Costco while we're there? Come
here out?

Speaker 7 (23:57):
We can't.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
And we've gone to BUCkies, oh Jim, all right, we've
gone to BUCkies on the way down. We've gone to
the classic Pizza Hut there in Wadesboro and we sit
down pizza hat. We we always make it a And
we went to Mamy's past year, oh man.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
And by the way, because what Wade said, the good
hack is they have great wine prices at Costco. They
got good wines.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
I mean they do, yes, they do. That was a
good call by you love chopping there.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I think. Now it's going to be Costcoast Jim.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
To meet w BT's Jim Zokie chopping it up at
cost costco at Myrtle Beach. He'll be until two thirty Saturday.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Well, see this is great, the debut of the Wayneyac
on one oh seven point nine WBT. Hey, what are
your What are the Wayneyac's plans for New Year's What
do you do New Year's Eve?

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Actually, I've got a nice band called Too Much Sylvia, uh,
playing as a gagon right up the street. I'll be
going to see them. They have a big celebration. Got
a nice dinner planned at Barrow Night, a place where
we all went the first year you came down here.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
His native friends in town.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Never have enough Sylvia.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Ye out.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Brother, all right, Waeniac, let me come home. Happy New Year.
Congratulations for being the winner of the first ever GMBT
Fantasy Football League. Now he becomes. Now he has a
target on his back for next season.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
Oh are we doing this again?

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Speak? Bertie has a target on his back the inaugural
season and we'll make it one one game playoffs. We'll
have more people next year, We'll change it up.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
It'll be an eighteen week game. All right, thank you Wayneyac.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I love your dad new year.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yes, yes, all right, Boomer knows a little Wayneyac. Boomer
goes to the to the North Myrtle Beach trip. Smell man,
the Wayneact. You just heard of me. He just officially
extended the invitation for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
He then, okay, hey, we got a new two for
wa Wayneac now too.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
That's drinking wine spodio d. That is him man, that's well,
my gosh, half and half, yes, sir, all right, we're
eleven away from seven o'clock now live and local this
morning on Good Morning BT. You know, we had so
much coming at us those last few days before we

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got out of here, and lots of people brought by
things for us. Yes, and we did not get to one.
We should mention because he went to a lot of
trouble and we had. We were very well fed leaving
the studio that day. In that week, Holy moly, were
we ever?

Speaker 10 (26:35):
Our friend Robert texted our text line and said, hey, guys,
I have a I have a gift for you, can
I can I bring it by? And oh my goodness,
holy moly, did he ever bring by a gift instead
of just you know, a little jar barbecue sauce or
maybe like a little canister of a dry rub. Robert

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made homemade barbecue sauce, had a little label and he
calls it meat sauce. I kind of dig it, and
a dry rub that he also makes for his meat.
But not only that, he also made us brisk it
with the dry rub.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
With the sauce.

Speaker 10 (27:14):
It had some like corn sucketash in there, I mean
like a hole potatoes. It was a whole meal. And
he called it it's going to be a new thing,
brisk Miss.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
I hope it's going to be a new thing. I'd
be fine with it being a new thing. We start
new traditions all the time. And that was during our
you know, our gift giving that has morphed into several
days because you know, listeners now are participating in this
and we do it for all the folks here in
the morning and have a lot of fun with it.
But he said, how was the brisk miss gift that

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you received? And so Robert, it's our Look, I'm sorry
because we had so much going on there at the
end that we some things we ran out of time
for but I knew as soon as as I was
sort of plotting what we would do today and these
next couple of days, we needed to make this because
he went to a lot of trouble to bring something
to us and listens to the show and we hear

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from him all the time, and so it was awesome
and thank you and you're the greatest.

Speaker 10 (28:10):
Oh and I mean, I'm telling you if you like brisket.
So Robert sent us the initial message on the twenty
second and he's like, look, guys, I'm a chef and
I want to share a great meat rub and a
nice bourbon sauce. And man, was it a nice bourbon
sauce and that brisket. That brisket was like butter.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
I did not add that that was both, but I mean.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
Just tender. I want to know. So I hope, hopefully
here's my thing. I hope Robert's listening right now because
I kind of want to know how he does his brisket.
I kind of want the instructions on how to do
a brisket because the only time I've ever tried to
do a brisket came out.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
Tasting like a tire low and slope.

Speaker 10 (28:47):
It was it was rubbery. I couldn't get it tender enough.
And so maybe it's the maybe it's the combo of
the dry rub and the bourbon sauce.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Whatever it was, it was much appreciated. Mary brisk Miss, Yeah,
belated brisk Miss for us to sort of say thank
you to uh, to Robert and we appreciate you being
out there. And that was that was awesome.

Speaker 8 (29:07):
I mean just uncalled for, so much appreciated.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
It was called I would call for that again.

Speaker 10 (29:13):
Uncalled for a meeting we didn't like, we never expected it,
and it was just above and beyond, just above and beyond.
And so many people did that with us, like Christine Piano,
Christine who sent us the incredible brownies and like coffee cake.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Tim say, Chris Stapleton missed out on that.

Speaker 10 (29:29):
Give Chris Stapleton, Yeah, he's a big fan of our show,
first time a long time. And then Kevin Warren of
course with his gigantic boxes of gifts and and and
and and then Brisket Christmas Brisket.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yeah, I mean what other show gets brisket brought to.

Speaker 8 (29:44):
It right, brought right to the front door.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
It's how we roll. Uh, did you guys see this
story about Lane Kiffin what he did at a grocery
store over the.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Dropped my name. He did not.

Speaker 8 (29:56):
That's look at Costco.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Maybe he should have. So Louisiana State University had football coach.
Lane Kiffin was seen taking a shopping basket home from
the store to hold his groceries because he's Oh, I
actually had the audio right here.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Hang on here.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
This is from his daughter's TikTok.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Orangie.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
How did you bring that back?

Speaker 7 (30:17):
How did you carry it?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
You have to pay for bags, They said, you have
to pay for a bag, you know, self checkout.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
So then I just so he brought home not a
shopping cart, but you know the shopping plastic baskets that
if you don't have as much, if you don't need
a cart, but you need something the carrying basket.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, he's one of us.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
He just because I you know, I've ever stolen for
an extra bag. A lot of these places with the
shopping carts now have little sensors on the wheels that
if you go out of a certain the perimeter of
the parking deck, the lock up.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
They lock up.

Speaker 10 (30:48):
If you don't go through the checkout line, they lock up.
At the door because I had like one of the
bag Yeah, like you've been locked up.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Yes, no, it wasn't stealing.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
The first person I've met who actually knows this from experience.

Speaker 10 (31:04):
Okay, so you know if you're getting a whole bunch
of groceries and you you're not going. I don't know
if you do know this boat, but there are lines
where you can actually have a conversation with the clerk
and they do the checking out for you.

Speaker 8 (31:13):
And there's usually a bag boy.

Speaker 10 (31:16):
The bag boy brought in a shopping cart to transfer
my bags to to take it back out, but it
wasn't a shopping cart that had been through the lane.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I like your alibi, and so.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
I'm going and I'm pushing it out and then suddenly
the cart just stopped.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
I was like, what's going on her?

Speaker 7 (31:32):
You know?

Speaker 10 (31:33):
I thought there was a rock or something that was
blocking my and I was like trying to.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Like drag get thief, thief.

Speaker 10 (31:40):
I was dragging the cart, and the security guard there
was like, ma'am, what what's happening here?

Speaker 8 (31:45):
And I was like, I don't know. That does put
my bags in a cart and I won't move.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Now you sit on a throne of lies Beth trap.

Speaker 10 (31:51):
The bag boy came running back and he's like, oh sorry, ma'am,
I didn't that one didn't come through the And that's
how I learned that your cart has to go through.
There's a censor at checkout, so even if you go
through self checkout, it knows and you can push.

Speaker 8 (32:05):
Your carhops like that.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Never heard, I've never heard of idio is hair.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Is Teeter, because and my hair is Teeter. My hair
is Teeter does not happen.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
They don't have baskets. They don't have the baskets. They
only have the shopping carts. So of course I want
the little mini.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I think you're wrong about it. I think they're just
being used because I've I've had this. I thought the
same thing was going on the last couple of times
I was at my hairs theater and it turns out
they were just all dispersed. No, I asked, Oh you did.

Speaker 10 (32:33):
I asked, I said, we're the bas what's going on here?

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Where did you take my baskets?

Speaker 8 (32:40):
I asked?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Dane Kiffin took the last one.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
So Lane Kiffen, who makes ninety one dollars with his
new LSU contract, and.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
He won't pay five cents for a plastic.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
He took the plastic, So so that answers something I
didn't know because I'm thinking about the lock ups on
the on the carts. The same thing doesn't happen for
the plastic carrying milk, like how because they could put
some kind of sensor on it in the same way
when you when you, if you.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
But how would it lock up?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I don't mean it would lock up. I meant to
be a sensor that would it would it would detect
it when you walked out the door, it blows a
blue dial over.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
It got really heavy over.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
The powder.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
It's like the money, Hey got your lady.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I don't mean that, Like what would what would the
equivalent be the shopping the chopping basket locks up?

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Yeah, exactly, Like the handle doesn't work suddenly, it gets
really heavy.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
I can't even lift this now.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
But I mean, so this guy, uh, like I've never
even I've never even thought to take the plastic. But
ever no, but but Lane Kiffin does. Oh, this is
how it works.

Speaker 10 (33:42):
But it's so funny to be he could he could
have one of those reusable bags that you can carry
in and out of the store, and you can use
it as your shopping basket based basically, and then you know,
carry it out.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
What if he just brings that back and that's his
shopping basket for that store.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
Oh that'd be funny shopping.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's mine.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I brought it back, but I'm gonna take it too.
I'm gonna take it back home too.

Speaker 8 (34:04):
I own this.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I thought only California charged for bags.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah, that was the Trader Joe's. I think they charged,
don't they. There's certain supermarkets you go to. I think
you have, Well they.

Speaker 10 (34:12):
Must in Louisiana. They must because isn't that where he is? Yeah,
so they must charge from Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
So it makes it sound like that if you use
a plastic or a paper bag you have to pay
for that.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Do you know that happening anywhere else?

Speaker 10 (34:25):
My guess is it's just the plastic bags, because well,
when I lived in California, you had to pay for
the plastic bags, but you didn't have to pay for
the paper bags because they were more easily recycled.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
But that may have.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
Changed, Aldie. They make you pay for bags too.

Speaker 10 (34:38):
They do make you pay for bags. Maybe he could
have been at Aldie. They do have baskets for one
of us.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
What about publics. We haven't mentioned publics yet. Shopping shopping,
it's a pleasure.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
They have baskets and buggies. They have boat shopping.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Far Beth has gone to every store and see how
far she could get with that locking.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Up me ow.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Time for a little high lightshouse.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
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wbt Charlotte's that thembus talk common sense.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
This is your wake up col get your budd.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
This is good morning, bet with both humpson and mad Troutman.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
This place is a mountain of fusiness and a mixed
up work. Hey hey, heyy five minutes past seven o'clock
on Monday, December twenty ninth. We are live in the
Tyboid studio. Hey hey, Panthers top one yesterday at Bank

(35:35):
of America Stadium, and.

Speaker 12 (35:37):
That'll do it.

Speaker 15 (35:39):
A disappointing effort offensively for the Carolina Panthers domination by
the Seattle defense. Their offense finally got it rolling in
the second half, and the Seahawks continue on their way
to a possible number one seed in the NFC and
at least a Division title depending on what happens tonight
and tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
End of the game, our final score Carolina ten. That's
Bill Razinski on the Compass Radio Network yesterday, one of
the broadcast crews that was covering that game. In addition,
of course to Carolina Panthers Radio network, in the Seahawks
and all the other I guess it was a CBS
TV game yesterday with the Panthers lose yesterday, but move

(36:19):
on to a winner take all game Saturday. The NFL
has moved the Saturday game between the Bucks and the
Panthers four thirty this coming Saturday afternoon. And so Beth here,
Bo here, Jim here, all gang, all hands on deck
on a Monday morning, and well, it's not what you
wanted yesterday, but you do get a chance to make
it right.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
And Seattle's really good. I mean, they're thirteen and three,
they're playing for the top seed, and so I think
for the Panthers, I begin my giving credit though, a
really good Seattle team. And they made the Panthers look
as often as they did on offense one hundred and
thirty nine yards fifty four yards passing in the game yesterday.
And that game was three to three at halftime, and
then two turnovers gave short fields to Seattle. They cashed

(37:00):
in both for touchdowns, made it seventeen or seventeen to three.
At that point. We do get it down to seventeen ten,
but then we go for one on fourth down late
in our own territory because you're trying to make you know,
something happen to try to have a chance to win
the game, and that didn't work out. That led to
another touchdown short drive for Seattle. So I don't think
twenty seven to ten is indicative of the score. I

(37:20):
thought the Panthers, because of their defense, were very much
in this game. Is could not get it going offensively
yesterday Dave Canalis after the game.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
Yeah, we definitely feel the missed opportunity, but at the
same time, we know it's in front of us.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
It's clearly defined.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
It was going to come down to this game, us
handling our business and facing the Bucks one more time
on the last game of the season.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
Couldn't ask for a better situation for this.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
The guys are excited and fired up about that, and
you know, we got to get over the fact that
we missed an opportunity. You know, with the Bucks losing
that game, So but our focus has to go to
the next one really quickly.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Ay, third and twenty, I believe the face mass penalty
on JC, Yeah, what'd you see our first It was unfortunate.
You know, he rallies up to make a tackle.

Speaker 6 (37:57):
He didn't really pull the face mask, but there's contact there,
you know, and he grasped it a little bit, and
the official called it the way he saw it. And
really unfortunate happened in that situation where we could have
had a chance to get the ball back and try
to do something.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Yeah, that was a real momentum shifter yesterday and like
to have that one back, but again you do have
you have another shot here.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
And that's the thing about playing Seattle, because they're so good.
When you have those opportunities like the takeaways we had
and don't take advantage of them, there's just going to
be so few opportunities for that. And as you said,
now we go to Tampa Bay and if you literally
have all these scenarios, just win that game. You are
in the playoffs. And not only are you in your
division champion, you're hosting a home playoff game. So thanks

(38:39):
for an exciting Saturday, nice little Saturday, become.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
A nice little Saturday.

Speaker 12 (38:43):
We're in.

Speaker 10 (38:44):
I mean, if we're going based on patterns, the pattern
is that we will win on Saturday because we win one,
we lose one. We win one, we lose one. We
just lost one, so it's time to win.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Then we'd lose the playoff team.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
No, because you got a couple. Don't you have two weeks?
Do you have a week off in there?

Speaker 5 (38:58):
We won't.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Oh, you will play the next week, but let's worry
about that.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
Which playoffs the pattern restarts.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Technically, you could lose on Saturday and still win the division.
The Falcons still have two games to play. They play
on they play on Monday Night Football Tonight, and then
they will play on Sunday at one o'clock. They'll be
the Saints and the Falcons. The other divisional matchup for
the NFC South. But so if the Panthers. If the

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Panthers lose and then the Falcons win their final two games,
then each team ends up eight and nine, and if
all three teams are eight and nine, the Falcons can't
win the division. But if if all three teams are
eight and nine, then it goes to a three way tiebreaker,
and by virtue of that, it would be the Panthers
that would win, not the Bucks. And so the Panthers win,

(39:48):
you're in, but lose and you scoreboard watch and still
may get in. That's how crazy this division is, the
NFC South. I mean, there's been other years you can
think back, where it's been kind of squirrely too, but this.

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Is we did it.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
We were seven eight and one and twenty fourteen, so
and then we're actually three eight in one. We had
to win the last four games to get the seven
eight to one, and then we won a playoff game
with a losing record. I believe Tom Brady one of
his playoff years, maybe the first year they went eight
to nine. I want to say with Tom Brady, when
the Bucks have won it four years in a row,
so we'll see it. Also, obviously have a large answer

(40:21):
to that part of the equation with Atlanta because they
played tonight against the Rams, and as we know, anybody
can beat anybody. We beat the Rams, but that's gonna
be an upset if Atlanta pulls that off. But that
would be the piece that's the hardest one to accomplish,
is Atlanta winning over the Rams tonight, so we'll see
if that carries into the week or not. As far
as that scenario goes.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
I'm looking at if the playoffs started today scenario, and
if they started today, you'd have the forty nine ers
playing at the Panthers, and we saw the forty nine
ers playing last night. So no, no matter how you
shake this, I mean, the Panthers, if they get in,
they're either going to be a nine and eight or
an eight to nine team and they're going to be

(41:02):
squeaking in and whoever they play, it's going to be
a rough road. But you do get a home playoff
game because you're a division winner. So that's sort of
that technicality with the NFL, where by record, the Panthers
you know, shouldn't be a home playoff team, but because
of division play, and this is this reinforces why division
play is so important. No matter what your record is

(41:22):
outside of your division, if you win it, then you
get the perks of it. And this could play out
really well for us because we saw how important that
that home field advantage was last week. Yesterday was kind
of a different feeling and I wasn't at the game yesterday,
how did it feel to you yesterday versus the Tampa game,
I felt.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Like being in Seattle because it was drizzly and kind
of fifty ish and it's like they imported their own
weather there. Fans were great. I had a good because
of the type of game it was. It was three
to three at halftime. It wasn't as energetic. Defense will
make some big plays, and it got really loud there.

Speaker 12 (41:53):
I was.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
I was happy that when the Seahawks came out in
the pregame and all that they were being booed. A
lot of times the other team come out and you go,
where are we because you'll hear these cheers go up
and you look down and go, wait, that's the other
team running on the field. So we did definitely have
a Panther crowd there yesterday, so I thought that was good.
So they just didn't have much to cheer for when
your offense doesn't really move the football, as it turns.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Out, So again, if you're just getting up the news
is the Panthers because of the fact that this game
still means something and is the one game left in
the league that's going to decide a division. That's actually
not right in the AFC, there's still one up for grabs.

Speaker 12 (42:29):
Two.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
But next weekend for thirty on ESPN and ABC, it'll
be the Panthers and the Bucks, and then the Seahawks
and the forty nine Ers will play at eight pm
that night. So this is what happens. They take this
last weekend and when you look at the schedule at
the beginning of the season, all the times for the
final week or TBD because they want to take the
best games and put them in primetime. And so the

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Panthers by virtue of that will be the first game
of the of the weekend Saturday, four to thirty ESPN.

Speaker 10 (42:58):
The NFL has to kind of love this that everything's
kind of down to in the old bider. I feel
like that gets more eyeballs on the screen, right.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, you get in the Steelers Ravens Sunday night. That's
another division that's up for grabs, that's going down to
the last game as far as who wins it. So
that's kind of their their plan is they have a
lot of teams and with division games and the hopes
that they're they're going to matter in this way, which
it does for Carolina, Tampa Bay, that's San Francisco, Seattle
game next week and then Pittsburgh Baltimore. So it's it's good.

(43:26):
I think it'd be hard as a fan, like if
you're trying to plan, like if you're going to make
a road trip, like if you don't live in town,
like I'm gonna go see you know, the Panthers Tampa
Bay game at the end of the year. Well, it
could be Sunday night, it could be Saturday afternoon. In
this case, it was Saturday afternoon. So we got to
get some fans down there. I hope we get We
usually do have a decent amount of fans for a
big game in Tampa when those occasions have come up

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in the past.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Well here from a Baker Mayfield. A little bit later,
he was asked about his thoughts on playing the Panthers
at home in a winner go home game, and he
had more to say yesterday than he did the week before.
But you know, Baker, he's locked in and the Panthers
will be too. 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

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brought you into this mix, because you enjoyed as much
as I do.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
We always love these conversations because we get all sides.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
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 BT. Business is good.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
This is good morning BT.

Speaker 5 (44:32):
All right, now, go on get out of here. Hey,
you messing on my business.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Seven twenty on WBT, we are local live Monday, December
twenty ninth, the day that no one quite knows what's
going on, what day it is, what hour it is,
What am I supposed to be doing. I'm not at work,
I'm between Christmas and New Years? And how do we
actually do this? I'll be honest with you, I don't

(44:58):
know that we've ever been on the air for this
day before.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
Not together we have, we have not.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
I don't know that I've been by myself either. It's
just look, we're here live and local today in parts
of this week because we know we have lots of
new listeners on one oh seven point nine, we're trying
to bring as many people as possible under the tent here.
A lot of people on WBT eleven ten and nine
to nine point three before that, have been with us
for years, and we love you guys, and we want
all the new people to know what all the old

(45:24):
people know already, which is we have a good time here.
And every day we take very seriously getting you from
point A to point B in the know, wherever that is,
maybe going to school, maybe going to work, whatever it is.
We're honored that you've put the radio on one oh
seven point nine for a few more days eleven ten
and joined us here. So we're here today and tomorrow

(45:46):
of this week and just sort of helping me, helping
you navigate that what we call it, we said it
was Some people call it TwixT miss, some people call
it dead week. Some people limbo crimbo limbo.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
I love that one.

Speaker 10 (45:57):
What I hope is that people who are listening to
us right now, I hope they're on their way to
the gym, or maybe the bow Jangles drive through to
get a whole bunch of like the spectrum there Bowberry
biscuits to take back to the family, or maybe you
go to the gym and then to the Bowberry Biscuit
drive through.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
You know, just I would not recommend going to the
drive through and then the gym. Yes, that's going to
be like a bomb in your stomach.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
You'll get side stitch.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So whatever case, whatever scenario you're in.
And then some of our some of our favorite people
are probably not with us today because they sort of
shut down. But whatever you're doing, we're glad you're here.
And if you're joining us for the first time or
first few times on one oh seven point nine, welcome
to the Carnival.

Speaker 8 (46:39):
Stay with us because it's a fun ride, no matter
the day.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
I saw this recently. Actually I had this in my
bag of stuff a few weeks ago.

Speaker 9 (46:48):
Here, did you ever do dojia?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Cant?

Speaker 16 (46:51):
Do you mean?

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Would I repeat history?

Speaker 9 (46:54):
Or would I Two ways to think about it. One
is if you could go back and start from scratch,
like it's January twenty all again, would you go back
and do it differently and knowing what you know now?
Do you think there's ever a place to restart?

Speaker 13 (47:08):
You?

Speaker 9 (47:08):
Not saying others in your stead you go back and
restart doing Doge?

Speaker 17 (47:15):
I mean no, I don't think so what I think
have probably.

Speaker 12 (47:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (47:24):
Would you do doge again? Knowing what you know now.

Speaker 17 (47:28):
I mean the thing is I think instead of doing doorge,
I would have basically built, you know, worked in my
companies essentially.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
Elon Musk was a guest recently on the podcast of
Katie Miller, who is the spouse of Stephen Miller in
the Trump administration. And Katie Miller has this podcast that
she's been doing for a while, and obviously there she
gets some pretty high profile guests. Elon Musk has been
a guest recently, and she's had some other notable people.
But it's the way she ends this podcas cast asking

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the same question to every one of these guests that
has gotten some attention. I mean, the podcast itself has
gotten some attention, but we're focusing on right here is
actually the very end of it.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Right.

Speaker 10 (48:11):
She ends the podcast with every single guest asking them
what three people dead or alive they would have as
a dinner guest. Now, this is a question that gets
done often, especially around the end of the year. The
thing that really caught my attention is the Atlantic magazine
actually did a twenty twenty five ranking, which you also

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see at the end of every year, right you start
seeing the rankings of best movies, best TV shows, best restaurants, whatever.
But The Atlantic ranked these answers by guests. The answers
on Katie Miller's show of Who People in particularly celebrities,
and a lot of these are political celebrities who they
would have as their dinner guest if they could have

(48:54):
any three people dead or alive.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Now we can open this up to the I kind
of want to. In the text line, it has to
be three people or you're one of the three.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
Well, so people interpreted this differently, Cash Patel, Cheryl Hines,
they all gave three people, but the Kelly and Conway
gave two and included herself I guess as the third one.
So there, I think there are different you can you
can interpret it different ways. But in my brain, it's

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three people plus you. So you have a nice four top,
a nice four top if you're at a restaurant, you know,
not taking up any space for any extra not you know,
you're utilizing all the chairs.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
But are you a fly on the wall or are
you a questioner?

Speaker 7 (49:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:40):
A participant?

Speaker 10 (49:41):
I think that you have to be a participant because
if you're gonna see if you're going to see this
dinner party, don't you and if you're interested in this
dinner party, don't you want to be part of the conversation.
Don't you want to try to get these people to
like each other or get these people to start conversing
with each other. Don't you want them to answer the

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questions that are burning a hole in your brain?

Speaker 8 (50:04):
That's my that's my take on it.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah, I mean, I mean some people might say, I
just want to sit back and watch these three people
talk and take notes. Some people may say I want
to be the one asking the questions because I have
these are, after all, my questions, right. But I've thought
about this. We I'd love to get some feedback. Seven
oh four, five, seven oh one oh seven nine. Who
would be at your table?

Speaker 8 (50:27):
So let's go through some of the top ten that
The Atlantic put together from Kelly of Kelly, Katie Miller's guest.
Katie Miller's guests on her show Number ten was Kelly
and Conway. Now, she, like I said, picked two and
hers were Jesus and her grandmother, which I feel like
a lot of people would probably say Jesus. I think

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I think a lot of people would probably say that
because of their faith. I think other people would say
Jesus because at this.

Speaker 10 (50:57):
Point in history and how really religion is being interpreted,
especially through the lens of politics, I bet a lot
of people would love to ask Jesus, are we doing
this right? Are we getting it right?

Speaker 8 (51:09):
You know, I because you know there's that whole online
people say, what would Jesus do? Are we doing it right?

Speaker 10 (51:15):
That's the question I would ask if he were at
my dinner table. Cash Patel, Now, I feel like he
broke the rules here because he went beyond three people.
He said the entire Miracle On Ice men's hockey team
from the nineteen eighties, So I you know, I guess
maybe he was considering that one guest because it was
a whole team, But he wants that entire team, which

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I think that's pretty fascinating because I mean, if you
know that story, it's a pretty good story.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
It would be uh it would take a while, though,
like you'd have to get to I mean take a
while I get all the all the feedback, right, that would.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
Be a very long conversation. It would also be a
very long table.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
See I'm going back to the Jesus answer, and I'm
trying to think of who else would be worthy of
being at the table other than Jesus.

Speaker 8 (51:58):
Right, how do you have a common when it's Jesus
and two other people?

Speaker 10 (52:02):
I feel like, amen, I feel I feel like if
you had Jesus, then that just has to be a
one on one because anybody else would be he was.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Worthy of sitting at the table as a panelist alongside Jesus.
Like right, like, we're going to give Jesus X amount
of time and this person. I mean no, no, if
Jesus was at my table, I think he'd be the
he'd be the honored guests.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
Well, you might need you might need a translator because
he would probably be speaking Aramaic, you know, so you
might need a translator there.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
But the the the if there was one other person
that I would deem worthy of being at that table,
maybe it would be Billy Graham.

Speaker 10 (52:37):
Oh can you imagine the two of them together. You'd
never you wouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't feel worthy to
have that conversation I would in that particular dinner party.
I would just want to be a fly on the
wall and listen.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Or Bill Graham next to him, you can just give words,
Hey here, this discuss yes, Like I wouldn't want to
be part of the discussion, but maybe I would give them,
you know, the topics to talk about and I just listen. Yeah,
you know, pray go. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
So maybe maybe a round table.

Speaker 10 (53:04):
So maybe do we with this, if we're going to
talk with with our listeners about this, do we take
do we take Jesus off the dinner table, because there's
no how hell do you have that?

Speaker 4 (53:13):
And do you take you know, personal family members off
the table, like like people who must say, I've talk
to my mom, talk to my dad, right right right,
just in the interest of putting together.

Speaker 8 (53:24):
Like interesting people, are there people authors?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Not your family?

Speaker 5 (53:28):
Interesting people?

Speaker 7 (53:29):
Now?

Speaker 8 (53:29):
Come on, No, no, no, no, not that your family's
not interesting.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Family is gonna bore you.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
No, I don't mean that.

Speaker 10 (53:36):
No, I know, event to generate fascinating conversation, like your
favorite authors, maybe your favorite actors from the days of
your or your favorite politicians from you know, the founding fathers.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
So we make this accessible to everybody listening, because not
everybody listening knows everyone's father or mother, right right, Just
in the interest of conversation, here we're saying, let's talk
about non family members and then Esus is off the
table because Jesus is kind of a Look, it's it's
Jesus and nobody else, right, So that's where we are.
And this is the catalyst of this this question that

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gets asked at the end of every Katie Miller podcast.
Name the three people you'd like to share a meal
with and pick their brains or just listen to their
brains and take notes see Solving the World's Problem. Dal
all right, I think, okay, gang, I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
I'm getting into a little heavier traffic here, but I
appreciate you guys. You make my morning better every day.

Speaker 12 (54:35):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Well, thank you very much, Al, thank you very much.
You can call us Bow and death.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
If this is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
That's right, Monday morning, twenty ninth of December. We're in
the middle of that week where nobody knows what day
it is, what time it is, what they're doing here,
what station it is. How did WBT get on one
oh seven point nine. Well that's actually it's supposed to
be that way. That was a couple of weeks ago.
But if you're new to us on one oh seven

(55:05):
point nine FM, welcome to the party. This is good
Morning VT with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman, coming to
you live today from the historic Ty Boyd Studio, asking
the question that actually was asked by Katie. Now forget
Katie Miller.

Speaker 10 (55:19):
Y Katie Miller, Yes, Stephen Miller's wife who has a podcast,
and she asks at the end of.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Every glad you're here.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
This is what I'm here for, Beth, That's what.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
I'm here for.

Speaker 10 (55:32):
She asks, at the end of every podcast, who are
the three people you would want to have at a
dinner party? At your dinner party? Who are those three people?
And the reason this is a conversation we're having today
is because at the end of twenty twenty five, so
many different publications put together lists the best of twenty
twenty five, you know.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
The best movies, best TV shows.

Speaker 10 (55:52):
Well, the Atlantic put together a list of the best
answers to this question from guests on Katie Miller's podcast,
and they ranked them the top ten best answers, of course,
and of course I just closed out of it based
on most of these people are politicians or people that
are connected with the Republican Party.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
And this has gotten the text line driven by liberty
Buwick GMC seven oh four five, seven oh one oh
seven nine, and also the comment line jammed in both
places because there are different ways you can look at this.
There's the perspective of Okay, I'm gonna be selfish and
say who would I be most interested in chatting with
at this dinner table? Or you could be in sort

(56:36):
of host hostess mode saying I would like to produce
the most interesting table. You know, what's going to be
the most interesting for other people to listen to and observe.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
I think that's a great point, because if you are
being a good host of a good dinner party, then
you want to put people together at a table who
will also be engaged with each other. It can't be
just about what's interesting to you. You need to put
together a guest list that might be interesting for them.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
And I've got my mind is racing here because I'm
it's harder to do the okay, give me the three
It's much easier to say, oh, give me all these
different examples of conversations. I would want to listen to uh,
and and and maybe throughout questions, but I'd be much
more interested in listening to the threesomes that I've created

(57:24):
on my sheet here. But enough about me or not
me yet. Let's get to some of you, because some
people already some great answers here. Our buddy Kevin, Kevin
who brings us gifts, he says, Jesus, Billy Graham, and
my grandfather not so concerned with the dinner with Jesus there.
I'm guessing we would have plenty of leftovers of fish
and loaves of bread. We mentioned Jesus in our last segment,

(57:47):
and I sort of said, okay, well, how do you
how do you pick who is to accompany Jesus?

Speaker 13 (57:52):
Right?

Speaker 8 (57:52):
How do you host that dinner party?

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Body?

Speaker 10 (57:55):
Well, so like in Jesus, how can you have I
think if I were to have Jesus at my dinner party,
I think it would just be Jesus. And then I
would just let him talk, because my big question would
be especially right now because we have intertwined the politics
and faith and and and his name gets thrown out
a lot. I want to I would love to ask him,

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are we doing it right? Are we doing it right?
What are what are we getting wrong? What are we
getting right? How can we be more like you? That
would be and then just let it go. But I
don't think I think we have to take him off
the table because you can't put other people with him,
because how how could anybody measure up?

Speaker 4 (58:32):
That's Betty says it. Well, she says, in this kind
of survey, you have to take Jesus off the table
lovingly and respectively. Respectfully. I love him, but they need
to not be the son of.

Speaker 8 (58:44):
God, right right, right right, because no one can live up,
no one.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
Can share a table with him except God. I mean,
but really that's I think that one sort of we
all kind of agree that that one's in its own category, right.

Speaker 8 (58:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (58:56):
Well, okay, so Raleigh just sent us a text message
at seven oh four five A one O seven nine
and he said, I'm gonna have to start.

Speaker 8 (59:03):
By breaking Bow's rule.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Thanks a lot.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
He said I would choose and this is interesting.

Speaker 10 (59:07):
He said, I would choose Jesus, Muhammad and Abraham and
let them talk theology. Yes, so okay, that's an interesting table. Yes,
that's a good host. And he sends me off in
the direction of all these subtables that I'd like to have. Okay,
so move away from the ultimate and just go with
I'm gonna give you lists of tables that I can

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just listen to Forever, Okay, David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar,
Eddie van Halen.

Speaker 7 (59:34):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (59:34):
I don't know that they would all get along though, Bo.
That might be an awkward table.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
It's not their choice. You have to sit and be
cordial and talk.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
Bo is just listening off wedding tables that he would have.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
David Tepper, Jerry Richardson, George Shin.

Speaker 8 (59:47):
Hmm, so Panther's owner, Cam Newton.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Jake Delome, Bryce Young.

Speaker 14 (59:55):
Here we go.

Speaker 8 (59:55):
Oh, I like that table.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
See see Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James.

Speaker 5 (01:00:01):
I love this theme.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
See like I would shit back and go discuss. Yeah,
talk amongst just.

Speaker 10 (01:00:07):
See that's that's a good host. You're putting together people
who have similar interests, similar paths, who can talk and
discuss knowledgeably about the same topic.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
You want a timely one, really timely, I do, Donald J. Trump,
Vladimir Zelenski, Vladimir Putin? Do you know what you to
solve some problems today?

Speaker 8 (01:00:27):
Do you know what's funny is?

Speaker 10 (01:00:28):
That was Pete Hegseth's answer on Katie Miller's podcast, and
in this top ten list she had him listed as
the fourth best answer.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
You know, Pete said, that's Bo Thompson's answer.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
I'm gonna go with Thompson here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Let's go with Ken real quick online one. Ken, welcome
to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 18 (01:00:48):
Good morning Bo and Beth. Good to talk to you again,
yester h. Since we can't have Jesus, I will go
with Babe, Ruth, Joe Jackson and Bill Russell.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
See there you go again. You're being a really thoughtful host.

Speaker 18 (01:01:03):
Ken, Well, thank you well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
And Ken could say here, I have your original card.
I could give you right here. It's a mint condition to.

Speaker 8 (01:01:12):
Have it sitting in a glass case.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Or even if you have, you know, a card that's
not the original, you could have him sign it and
that would be worth some money right there. Kensol thinks,
so yeah, all right, Ken, good call man, thank you.
Take care than News Talk one O seven point nine WBT.
Bow and Beth here asking you the simple question. If
you were planning a dinner party and you could have
three people at the table, alive or dead, who would

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those three people be.

Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
I have a couple of dinner parties set up.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
There would be a live at the table.

Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
I haven't so you know, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Yes, that's important point learning.

Speaker 8 (01:01:46):
I have a few guest lists for you, and I'm
sure they're not going to surprise you at all.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
No, I could probably I can rattle them off right now.
It all be a part of the same a cappella group.

Speaker 8 (01:01:55):
Oh no, I have not one single a cappella singer
on this list.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
But would it be okay if it would be like
cop Rock, like a breakout and song?

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Oh y'all.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
Cop Rock disturbed me on so many levels as a
young person. So no, no one from Coprock.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Either, see you and I just immediately what is that?

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
See that?

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
When we say that, we immediately just telegraph how old
we are.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
And Bernie does too when he says.

Speaker 19 (01:02:18):
What is that?

Speaker 13 (01:02:19):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:02:19):
Google it? Google it, Bernie, and you're you'll never be
able to unsee it.

Speaker 14 (01:02:23):
Great, okay, all right, yeah, be seated. Has the jury

(01:02:43):
reached a verdict?

Speaker 12 (01:02:45):
We have you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Hit it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
He's guilted, guilty?

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
You could.

Speaker 12 (01:03:07):
He did?

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Now he's got Oh boy, cop Rock?

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
How many episodes there were six?

Speaker 12 (01:03:15):
Six?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
I think there were six total on YouTube.

Speaker 10 (01:03:18):
It looks like what's so funny is that someone sat
in a meeting around a table came up with the
idea for this show, and then it got greenlit and
it actually made it to network television.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
It was ABC, if I remember correctly, it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
Was basically Law and Order the musical.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Goodness, Yeah it was.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
And it was Stephen Botchko. Yeah, he was like the
you know, the everything he touched turned to gold back
in the eighties. This was ABC, and it may have
only been three episodes, but it was. It definitely got
canceled really quickly. Eleven eleven. Wow. This was a premiered
on September twenty sixth.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Nineteen ninety and I as the Mecklenburgers.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
As Wikipedia says, it was both a critical and commercial failure.

Speaker 10 (01:04:04):
Failure, so, needless to say, Bo Thompson, I do not
have any cast members from cop Rock in my guest
list for my fantasy Dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
If you're just joining us, there's a couple things to
catch you up on. First of all, there's a story
there's a woman name named Katie Miller who does a podcast.
She is the husband of Stephen Miller and the Trump administration.
She does a podcast and she is able to get
a number of notable people like Elon Musk, etc.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Etc.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
But The point is at the end of each one
of these podcasts, she asked the question, who would you,
living or dead, like to share a meal with three
people at the table?

Speaker 10 (01:04:42):
And The Atlantic put together a top ten the best
of twenty twenty five the best answers to this question.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
And then you mentioned something and I said, would you
have the cast of cop Rock at yours? And Bernie said,
what's cop Rock? And so we have to tell people
what coprock is because some people out there listening know
exactly what it is. Some people are like, they did
what in the nineties, and people like you and me said, yes,
we lived it, and we don't know either.

Speaker 8 (01:05:06):
Yeah, was it the nineties or was it the late eighties?

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
What did you say?

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
I hope it wasn't.

Speaker 20 (01:05:09):
This.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
September twenty sixth, nineteen nineties was the debut. It concluded
on December twenty sixth.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
Before I was even born, I watched the debut.

Speaker 10 (01:05:19):
I remember the first episode and they were like in
one of the little cop meeting briefing rooms and they
I think they danced on the desks and the tables.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Would you secretly like it if we did an episode
like that one day? Like like Beth randomly at certain
places will break out in song.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
Like a Scrubs episode.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Yes, but they do music.

Speaker 10 (01:05:39):
I would kind of love that if every answer to
every question I asked you guys had to.

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
Sing, Oh no, no, no, no, not us, Like only
one person in this room can sing, and we know
who that is.

Speaker 8 (01:05:49):
Well, it would it would be no fun, right, it's George.

Speaker 10 (01:05:52):
Sure, it would be no fun if it was just
the one person. You have to if it's a musical,
it has to be a full ensemble cast.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
I just think it's a challenge to you, the singer
of the group and member of many a cappella ensembles.
I think it should be a challenge to you to
just sort of take us off in the direction of
song whenever you see fits. That's how the show was.
You heard it right there. It's like a regular procedural drama.
Oh yeah, you know all rise, Yeah, have you reached
a verdict?

Speaker 10 (01:06:17):
And well, yes we have he's guilty anyway, Yes, I
So we have been asking this question of you because
of this top ten list that put this in our brains.
Who are the people you'd want to have at your
dinner party? And we said that we should put people
if you want to be a good host, maybe put
people together who would be interested in each other. This one,

(01:06:37):
I it's it's a dark table, but it would be
fascinating because you would get answers to the questions that
all of us have money. Fox Matt that's his name
in our system says he would love Nicole Brown Simpson,
Jean Beney Ramsay.

Speaker 8 (01:06:53):
And Kaylee Anthony.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Oh wow, that is interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:06:55):
So those are three three stories that made national headlines
that really have gone.

Speaker 8 (01:07:03):
Technically unsolved.

Speaker 10 (01:07:06):
That's an interesting one, right, because then you would ask
the questions and you would find out the answers to
the questions. Like I said, that's a heavy table. It's
kind of a dark look at this answer, but it's
an interesting to think about something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Well, so I went down some of my I mean
because I just my mind started racing, and I started
listing threesomes of people I thought would generate fascinating conversation.
And I said, one, Where's the one I was talking about?
David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Eddie van Halen. Now, if
you really want to go deep cut van Halen, you
could say David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Gary Sharon, but

(01:07:42):
Gary Sharon would only be allowed to be there for
like ten minutes. Okay. But so Kevin sends me a
note and says, no, no, no Bo, David Lee Roth,
Sammy Hagar and Casey Caseum. And I'm sure he was
thinking I was going to have Casey Kasem somewhere. If
I had to sit down and put three people together
that I think are all geniuses and just listen to them,
listen to three geniuses talk, I would put Casey case

(01:08:05):
in one because I'm a radio dude, you know that.
But this is where you're looking sort of inward at yourself,
right right, Casey Casem, Jim Henson, Oh, good one, John Williams.

Speaker 10 (01:08:16):
Okay, well, and they're also all in media in a form,
so the three of them could definitely I mean John
Williams and Casey Casem. Can you imagine that conversation, and
then you put in Jim Henson with that and have
that conversation. They all would have topics they could all
be interested in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Of course, with Jim Henson that meant you'd also get
Kermit and all the different voices that he was, And
with Casey Casem you get Shaggy. You get a little robin.
You know you get too.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
Do you think when he'd introduce himself to you, be like,
I'm Casey, Casey.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Now on with the discussion.

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
Do you take commercial breaks?

Speaker 12 (01:08:58):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Wait, I've given a bunch mind, we haven't heard any
of yours.

Speaker 10 (01:09:01):
OK, So my first one, my first dinner, would be
Elizabeth Katie Stanton, Victoria Woodhole, and Jeanette Rankin.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
I have no idea who any of those are.

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
So Elizabeth Katy Stanton was one of the founders of
the Seneca Falls Convention in nineteen forty eight, which was
the beginning of the women's rights movement. Victoria Woodhole the
first woman to run for president in eighteen seventy two,
although she could not vote, ran for president. Also was
had a Wall Street business where she made millions and

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even had a newspaper along with her sister. And then
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman ever elected to Congress.
So you have three people who were all involved in
the same movement, and then Jeanette Rankin first being successful
because the movement happened.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
And there's bo over there. All his lists are men.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
That was all women.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
I know, I've sound like mister Mann over here.

Speaker 8 (01:09:58):
I have some other lists that do include men.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
You're forty, bo, I do have more men I have.

Speaker 10 (01:10:03):
I have other dinner party lists that I tried to
put together as a thoughtful host.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Okay, and as a thoughtful host. Now I'm gonna put
together a list of three women that I would like
to see us all right, see see, all.

Speaker 10 (01:10:14):
Right, well I have I have a mix here's my
mixed table really quickly, and then we got to go
to break.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
And the next hour muppets, Hetty Lamar.

Speaker 8 (01:10:20):
Orson Wells and Carrie Grant.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Oh you Grant, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:10:24):
Because they all had really interesting careers outside of the
film industry.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
About Allen Grant from the Jurassic Park. Everybody knows that
I love it playing coast together from.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
One oh seven point nine FM, T about you bet.
Charlotte's FM does talk.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Everything that happens.

Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
Now, is happening?

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Now, what happens?

Speaker 7 (01:10:43):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth troutfith.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
I'm doing here, get your twenty two twenty one whatever say.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
As the countdown rolls off, all right, we are here,
we are live. It's Monday, December twenty People waking up,
going what day is it? Well, I just told you
what time is it?

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
Eight eight?

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Don't what year is it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
It's still twenty twenty five, but you know, twick Smiths
or some people call it the dead week. Crambo nimbo grimbo,
nimbo faral week. We learned it's the week between Christmas
and New Year's when a lot of people aren't working,
or they're dialing it back, or they're just kind of
walking around going what do I do?

Speaker 12 (01:11:28):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
We said, perfect time for us to make sure we're here,
and we are today. We'll be here tomorrow live, and
then back the following Monday. Glad to have you a
board here on one oh seven point nine WBT. We've
gotten into an interesting conversation here. We'll get back to
it in a moment. But Zoke was mentioning the fact
that the Panthers win and they're in this coming weekend.

(01:11:49):
And by this weekend, I mean Saturday at four point
thirty that's when the Panthers will pay the bucks on
ESPN and ABC. They can also lose and still get
in under a certain scenario NBC Steve Cornecki, Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:12:01):
Tampa would have been eliminated if Carolina had found a
way to win that game instead, Carolina at Tampa, winner
takes the NFC South.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Loser is done.

Speaker 13 (01:12:11):
Probably, and I say probably because the Falcons they're not
back in the playoff mix. They've been eliminated. But look
at this, the Falcons at six and nine, if they
could beat the Rams, huge if and if they could
beat the Saints, they could get to eight and nine.
If the Bucks win next week, they'd be eight and nine.
Carolina would be eight and nine. Three way tie. It's
the head to head record among all three that would
decide it. Carolina and Tampa would have split, Tampa and

(01:12:34):
Atlanta would have split. Carolina would have a sweep on Atlanta.
At eight and nine, they would have the tiebreaker. They'd
win the division that wacky NFC South. Did you hear
all that bath Nope?

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
Pencils down, Ron, Are you paying attention?

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Nope?

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
Oh my goodness, But a lot of you may have
missed because they announced this late that the Panthers are
going to play on Saturday instead of Sunday. The NFL
does this now, it's third or fourth year they've done this,
where they have all the times for the final week
of the regular season. TBD until you get right ahead
of the final week, because they want to take the
best games or the games that still mean something and

(01:13:15):
put those in the primetime slots. So you have Tampa
Bay and Carolina playing at four point thirty, and then
you'll have the San Francisco Seattle game that night, and
then you'll have the next night Pittsburgh and Baltimore closing
out the regular season. And they're all the other games too,
But some of those games don't don't mean anything at
this point, and some of them are still around for

(01:13:37):
seeding and such. But the most important game for divisional
purposes for us is that first one on Saturday. And zoke,
you were at Bank of America Stadium yesterday. The Panthers
had a golden opportunity. They did not take advantage of it.
But the Bucks did not either.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Now and they've lost seven of h so they certainly
got to be in somewhat of a panic mode the
way they started the season.

Speaker 12 (01:14:00):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
And then for the Panthers, this is what we do.
We win one, we lose one, so we don't get concerned.
We just fix what happened the day before and then
go play the next one and kill it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
And kill it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
So we'd never lose two in a round. So this
will be obviously a challenge. I was on fn Z,
I did ask and we are a three point underdog,
which I always give you three points if you're at home.
So basically it's a toss up game. And for the Panthers,
I mean, the defense has been playing really well and
they played well yesterday. A lot of those points came
off short fields, on Panther turnovers and going for fourth down.

(01:14:30):
So if you play that kind of defense, you're gonna
have a great chance to win, and then fix some
of the things on the offense. We just had zero
in the passing game fifty four yards ted Rod McMillan
had an illness yesterday. I don't know to what degree
that affected his day, but he only had one catch
for five yards. So you obviously, when you talk about
things to fix passing games, could be the first thing
that kind of comes to mind this week, as far

(01:14:51):
as taking some shots down the field and being more
dynamic in the pass game.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
So again it's Bryce versus Baker. This will be at
the Big Sombrero or you know, Raymond James Stadium what
Berman used to call it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
That's awesome. I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Yeah, that was the old stadium.

Speaker 12 (01:15:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
He used to call the the old the original Bucks
when they first started.

Speaker 5 (01:15:09):
Well, that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
The big sombrero and that had a wavy top too,
and they weren't creamstickle colored uniforms.

Speaker 12 (01:15:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
Well, now now they play in Raymond James Stadium with
the fire of the cannons and all that stuff right
across the streets.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
So football talked. Bet you wouldn't get it. But Bakers,
you may understand.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Baker Mayfield talking about the Bucks being down to their
last chance.

Speaker 19 (01:15:34):
This is our last chance, and it's blatantly obvious. There's
no more regular season games on the schedule. We have
this one back at home and comes down to execution
exs and o's. It felt like we had a good
plan going into it, and uh, players have to deliver.
When you know a division opponent as well as we
know the Panthers and they know us. It's truly about

(01:15:54):
executing your job the best your ability each play, and
that's playing some you know at this point in the season. Yeah,
there might be a couple of wrinkles here and there
with the game plan, but what you see is what
you get when you play a divisional opponents. So it's
about executing, beating the guy across from you and finding
a way to.

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
Win four point thirty on ABC and ESPN. It'll be
the first game of the Saturday Sunday groupings for the NFL,
and then it's onto the playoffs, hopefully for the Panthers.
We'll see. It's very interesting how Atlanta can't win the division,
but they can have an effect on the division because
they could end up with a There is a scenario
where all three teams could be eight to nine by

(01:16:35):
the time we're talking about this later next week. So
we've been Zokie, you've been down the hall talking to
our buddies at fn Z. By the way they're doing okay,
they holding up today.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
It is because we're used to this. We know it's
gonna be a short amount of pain and then the
next game will come it'll be a happy time.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
So we've had an interesting discussion over the last hour
or so regarding and I'll spare you all the details
of how we got to it. And here's the question.
If you could think about this during the break, because
I want to come back and hear what you say
about this, and we have some more people who want
to chime in. If you could have dinner with three
people alive or dead, a combination of three people which

(01:17:12):
would affect the conversation true, all these people would be
alive at the table ought to be a live during
the time ye earlier about that, so you can pick
Let me put it this way, pick any three people
from history, present time, or before h and put them
at that table. Who would be at your all time table?

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Have you already answered or multiple.

Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
Times we have answered, yes, I still.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Have a table.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
They've had like six tables a piece.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
I feel when Boomer comes in with the traffic report,
Hey guys, what are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (01:17:43):
I still have one table left. But we have gotten
so many good answers from our listeners, so many.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
And one from the text line that I it was
like the first one we got that we have not
mentioned yet. It was a really good one that I
want to come.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Back to you.

Speaker 7 (01:17:56):
I love you guys. You guys make ball morning. I
love driving you in and I sometimes I take the
back road so I can go a little bit longer.
Tucking hear y'all more.

Speaker 8 (01:18:04):
Oh, that's the sweetest thing. I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
Hey, boss, I've been driving all day.

Speaker 7 (01:18:11):
I'm sorry. I'm supposed to be there at seven, but
it's eleven, so I'm just goo go ahead and break
for lunch.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
Hey, look, just just blame Bowen Beth and we'll fix
it for you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
Just write me and excues.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
Can you all do that for ye?

Speaker 12 (01:18:21):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
Absolutely, be a slacker for the rest of your life.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson at Beth's Trout.

Speaker 11 (01:18:28):
Then.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
A twenty on WBT on Monday, December twenty ninth. We
are live from the Tyboid Studio Live today and tomorrow.
You're looking down the BET schedule today one oh seven
point nine. Nick Craig is in for Vince Cokeley today.
Let's see is Pete back today?

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
Should be?

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
Ye?

Speaker 14 (01:18:52):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
Pete Caleener in the house today. Robin Pafman in for
Brett winterboth today Tony Marino and for Brett Jensen go
to bio. So I was explaining that to somebody last week.
It's like, oh boy, how much time do you have?
We have time here to get back to a subject

(01:19:12):
that has been really this has been percolating on the
phone lines and on the text line driven by Liberty
Buick GMC, and it stems from a podcast question from
the wife of one of President Trump's top advisors, Katie Miller.
Do you know her? Married to Stephen Miller. Katie has
a podcast and at the end of every podcast she does,
she asks the question, tell me the three people that

(01:19:35):
you would like to sit down with at a table
and have, you know, break bread with And they can
be living, they can be passed away, doesn't that doesn't matter.
I mean, they would obviously be alive and with it
when they're at the table. But give us a give
us the table of the people you'd most like to
share a meal with and hear that conversation.

Speaker 8 (01:19:52):
And we were saying, we've been this has been evolving.
We've decided to as a good host, do you bring
together people who will be into in each other, that
have a similar background that maybe they'll all want to engage.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
With you Just now give you me that bit of information,
But I will make no sense.

Speaker 10 (01:20:08):
Well, so here's one from listener Bill which I feel
like Bill and I would be buds. Bill says, Joseph Campbell,
the writer David Lynch and Samuel Beckett. That's a good table,
but he also then wrote, Beth, don't you think you
should have Sarah Burrales, care and Carpenter and Larry.

Speaker 8 (01:20:26):
Buckhorn at a table? So that means he's a deep
cut listener the.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
First two probably not Larry Buckcorn for you, all right?

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
I could tell I could take over that table and say, ladies,
please leave, I'm gonna hang out with with Larry Buckle,
with old Larry. H this person. I'm trying to see
how I find a name in here, but I don't
think there is one. Pee Wee Herman, Princess Diana, machio Man,
Randy Savage.

Speaker 8 (01:20:48):
Can you imagine that conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
And these are people that would have conversations together.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
Yeah, I couldn't imagine that.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
It can be any of them. It can be any
of those that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
Bernie, that's whole coach. Oh sorry guys though, same kind,
same family. What you're gonna do is hul Cochin.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:21:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:21:07):
Is Randy Savad?

Speaker 5 (01:21:08):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
And Bernie is your table server. Sorry, I'll check back later.

Speaker 8 (01:21:13):
Do you do you have a table Jim that just
off the top of your head.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
That you'd read it did because you told me to
come up with one during the break, so it's very
predictable as you can imagine. We begin with dua lipa
of course, Okay, she doesn't have to sing, she just
has to be there me ow. She hosted S and
L by the way she did. She HOSTEDL and.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
She was the host and the musical guest, so she
can just be the only one.

Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
On the table.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
So that's actually a four. So that's gonna be one.
Is like, there could be a gag one or she
could actually be them. So this one I picked the
people I want you to talk to you as opposed
to like, let me think of the most significant people
in history. You said Jesus was out, which saves the
awkwardness of who ask for blessing? So he of course
he can't ask him.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Who wants to say the prayers for us?

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
So jim nance because I got to meet him. We
did a movie together. You did do a movie, tother
one of the best to ever do what I do
for a profession. I would just love to sit and
talk golf and NCAA Final fours and all the NFL
games he's doing. So jim Nantz has won do Aleipa.

Speaker 8 (01:22:17):
Would be very excited about that combo do.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
Aleapa could talk about anything with a British accent and
that's all that matters. Moving on, this one may surprise
you by I was addicted to the show. I actually
just watched another one of a couple of the shows
over the past week, and Anthony Bourdain. I just love
the show. I love the travel, the food he's writing.
I mean, he's just you know, he's just funny. I

(01:22:41):
mean I just as far and at dinner, right, So
I mean, who would be better? I just think from
a personal standpoint, I was, and I love that show.

Speaker 8 (01:22:48):
Oh that's such a good one, Jim, That's such a
good one.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
And then this other one polarizing our audience and we
would have a no politics ban on him. But it's
the first concert I ever went to. It's the one
I've seen in the concert the most to my life.
And I've seen many documentaries and Rob Schneider is Bruce Springsteen.
Oh so Bruce Springsteen because I just know his music
catalog so well, going back to my childhood and a
lifetime of that. So I have no politics band as

(01:23:13):
far as talking about that, I think, but I would
love to sit down and just talk music and the
band and all that with him.

Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
What's it like being the boss?

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
You are the boss.

Speaker 8 (01:23:21):
We'll do a Bruce would have a lot to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
Yeah, so I went for in case one doesn't show,
and yeah it is. You're always waiting. They couldn't come,
they couldn't get a babysitter.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
Yeah. Now we're gonna do like your your alternate.

Speaker 8 (01:23:37):
Right, who's the alternate that gets invited? If the others
there was?

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
The alternate is due of the alternate? No, I said
your first, you're the ultimate.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Think do is at our own table? That's true by yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
How's it over there to do? Is are you doing? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:23:48):
I got some other ones on the old text line.

Speaker 8 (01:23:50):
We've gotten so many on the text line.

Speaker 10 (01:23:52):
So let me let me go back to the uh,
back to the very beginning. Mice, Mice, Mike and Lisa
Conger said, simple answer, the good morning b.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
T crew, Please simpley come to the next news and Bruce.

Speaker 10 (01:24:06):
I love and Andy's answer, and these folks would have
a lot to talk about. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and
Donald Trump would be at his table.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
John, I'm the best, No, I'm the best yours?

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
So wait, Kenny Smith just sends this one in Winston Churchill,
Robert E. Lee, Larry Bird. Oh wow, that was not
the third leg I was thinking of he's the best
shooter of three is That's wait?

Speaker 8 (01:24:38):
Who was the first one?

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
Winston Churchton Churchill, Robert Lee and Larry.

Speaker 10 (01:24:42):
Bird Larry Bird. That would be the weirdest. That would
be the most awkward dinner party. I think what would
they will?

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Larry Bird could blend in and he setting because he
won't talk.

Speaker 8 (01:24:52):
You just sit and stare at the others.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Just look at his phone the whole time.

Speaker 5 (01:24:55):
Yeah, a bird on the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
I think Lio wouldok at her phone the whole time.

Speaker 8 (01:25:02):
Lynn wrote us and said, how about Rosa?

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
You're talking about my girl?

Speaker 10 (01:25:07):
Linz says how about Rosa Parks mother Teresa? And then
she said, in my grandmother. So I don't know her grandmother,
but she sounds like she's probably interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
How about mother Teresa and Teresa Peyton?

Speaker 8 (01:25:21):
I bet they could talk about some really as well.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Do you think her kids call her that mother Teresa?

Speaker 4 (01:25:29):
That question all these questions that blow him out of
these conversations.

Speaker 8 (01:25:32):
You just never know what the question is going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
Connie wrote us, I didn't know her grandmother, as if
there was an expectation. I didn't know our listener's grandmother,
but I'm sure she was great.

Speaker 8 (01:25:47):
Connie says, Gutenberg, Zuckerberg and Jobs. So Gutenberg, Stephen's.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
Mark, Steve Guttenberg.

Speaker 8 (01:25:56):
Well, I think probably Tony, because when.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
You say Gutenberg to me, that's who I think of.
Three men and a little lady. Tom Selleck dead dancing
and Steve text us.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Your list and we'll laugh at it. That's what it's becoming.

Speaker 8 (01:26:17):
I don't think you're probably I think she's probably.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Thinking, is it the Bible? Is it the Gutenberg Bible?

Speaker 10 (01:26:23):
I think she's probably thinking about Johann Gutenberg, the inventor, right,
Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
Again, you probably could get a word in with that group, though,
that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
Throw Larry Bird in.

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their phones.

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Connie says, Johannah.

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We had a follow up. It was not the Bible.
I guess the Bible, and quickly you know what Bible.

Speaker 8 (01:26:49):
I was right, it was the inventor.

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You know what this conversation needs and neats some do afa.

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would be fun, be a fun I'm quite as heady
as some of the other groups that right out there.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
That's one of the most that's a legendary Jim Zokie answer.
I was all ready for the you know, I get
the Hello friends and all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:27:09):
But do a Lipa?

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Who saw that one coming out of time?

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Speaker 10 (01:27:14):
I kind of saw do Alipa coming because that's that's
that's that's Jim's like number one on his his hall
pass list.

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It's it's his number one.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
She has had appeared in town in quite some time.

Speaker 12 (01:27:26):
For that reason.

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
I avoid Jim.

Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
That's a restraining order, all right.

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They always even bother.

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If you run together wait out the world on Sodas
I get my head up now, baby, stand up, because you.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
Table for one.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
Shadre even said, I can.

Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Go who would be who would be at your ultimate
table of three?

Speaker 12 (01:28:26):
Can be?

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
Anybody can be living, can be passed away. Just that
three person table.

Speaker 8 (01:28:32):
With you included four people, Yes, totally.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
It would ruin the fun if you weren't there, if
you just got them together outside the window watching.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
I gotta go to work in the morning, Alexa, I'd
like the transcription. We've gotten a lot of feedback on this.

Speaker 10 (01:28:46):
Oh my gosh, I am so so into all of
our listeners. They have come up with the greatest list.
Tricia Bo You're gonna love this one, Tricia says Henry Bogan,
Tyboid and Grady Cole.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
Where they probably had dinner.

Speaker 8 (01:28:59):
Again, that's actually true. I don't know, but this person
didn't didn't leave there two of the three for sure.
This person didn't leave their name.

Speaker 10 (01:29:09):
But you know, we talked about taking Jesus off the table,
because like, who can you put with Jesus. But we
did have some good answers, like Raley said to have
Muhammad and Abraham with Jesus and that that would be
a great discussion about theology. But this person, says King, James,
Martin Luther and Billy Graham, that would be a good
conversation of people with with like minded interests.

Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
So we got off into offshoot conversations of because I
think this is a lot easier if you don't do
the give me the ultimate, like, give me a handful
of ones that you'd just love to be a fly
on the wall for. And I said earlier, I'll go
through a few of these again. David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar,
Eddie Van Halen, all drunk, David Tepper, Jerry Richardson, George Shin, Awkward,

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Cam Newton, Jake Delome, Bryce Young.

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
I think Jake and Bryce would have a delightful conversation,
and then Kim would.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
Jay could talk to anybody of all the groups you
already had, including Abraham and Muhammad.

Speaker 10 (01:30:08):
Where he would have great But but I feel like
if he were and Bryce were having a conversation, that
Cam would just be over there judging, judging them.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Just being all can we took our hats off with
the tube?

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
Michael Jordan, Lebron, James Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
I think that would be a good table.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Billy Graham, that was yours. That's
one I'm putting out there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Oh yeah, uh, And I said, uh, let's see what's
the If you've already spoken with Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
That's true. Hey, if you want to go Donald Trump
and you want to really get something done timely, how
about Donald J. Trump? Vladimir Putin, Vladimir's Lensky.

Speaker 10 (01:30:47):
That was also Pete Hegseth's on his on his list
of three. Jay, one of our listeners, I like this one.
I think this would be a fun dinner, Jay, says
Jerry Seinfeld, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
That would be fire.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
That would be fire.

Speaker 8 (01:31:02):
That would be a good dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
Richard, you could, you could, You could interchange Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:08):
In that one too. A great joke on fire.

Speaker 8 (01:31:12):
Eddie Murphy would.

Speaker 10 (01:31:12):
Pick Tony Tony Texas seven O four five seven one
seven nine. And said Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, and Elon Musk.
So those are three inventors.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
And Ben Franklin had a wild side from the documentary,
he played hard.

Speaker 10 (01:31:33):
But if you've ever read his autobiography, he has an autobiography,
you you learn a lot about him.

Speaker 8 (01:31:39):
That's for sure. And Henry Henry Ford Franklin.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
He was known, said Henry Ford. So I thought you
said Harrison Ford. I thought that's a weird commindation. Harrison
Ford's older.

Speaker 12 (01:31:56):
But not like that old.

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
Which would.

Speaker 10 (01:31:59):
Which a christ or the one or the most current
from the show Shrinking, which is amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:32:04):
We haven't gotten Bernie's Bernie, you haven't given us a list.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
I would pick, so Robin Williams, this is be on
my serious table. Robin Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
Your serious tables with Robert Williams, like like a thoughtful,
thought provoking table.

Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
He's a deep thinker kind of guy. But he's funny too,
So I would pick Robin Williams occasionally.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Just we're just doing dead poets society talk.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
That's right. Robin Williams, Morgan Freeman and Jim Carrey. I
think those would be the three that I would have
set at the table. It's just actors that I grew
up watching that I feel like, you love, have a
deeper I don't know, like the movies that I've seen
them in they have they have, like, you know, shaped
how I view certain things in certain movies. Williams is
a timeless classic.

Speaker 10 (01:32:45):
Robin Williams and Jim Carrey both have their really funny sides,
but they both have serious sides.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
Well, like Goodwill Hunting is one of my favorite movies,
and you know The Truman Show is a is a
great movie. And then Anything and Morgan Freeman playing he
can't be at the table he's got in personal.

Speaker 8 (01:33:00):
Oh that's true. I love briest Onlinder was.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
So Jim Carrey, what's a I guess the Truman Show. Yeah,
I was trying to think it was spotless.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
I believe you did not have Steve Correll at your table.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
I would I would pick Steve. If I had an
office table, I.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Mean the office is all I would spec ninety percent
of our references or the office.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
I would pick Steve, Toby and Dwight.

Speaker 10 (01:33:22):
Jim Carrey was also in Man on the Man on
the Moon. He did the the Andy Kaufman Andy Kaufman's BioPen.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
Do not want Andy Kaufman at my table?

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:33:31):
No, that was He probably wouldn't talk. He'd probably just
sit there and tend to be awkward and then maybe
going to here.

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
I call him to say about that, George, are you
working on a list over there? Is Santo working on
his list, George, George, Santa and Hermie the dentist.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
List.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Thank you, Rudolph, of course, of course, let's Rudolph was
the star. It's a given.

Speaker 4 (01:33:54):
Eight forty three on w BAT, we're live on a
Monday morning. It's that time of year where you know
what day it is, time, it is, where you're supposed
to be. But we're here. We try to be the
constant at least today and tomorrow Wednesday, you're on your own.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Be the constant for two of the five days. We're
always here two of the five days.

Speaker 5 (01:34:12):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
We're trying to establish new routines. Hey, I'm here, all right.

Speaker 8 (01:34:17):
We're trying to establish.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Something as it fits our timing.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
We're here to establish that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
That's the joke.

Speaker 4 (01:34:28):
That's the tweet. Well before nine o'clock on WBT, our
final conversation with Mick mulvaaney coming up next hour. He
will join us by phone. He joins us every Monday
that he can, and in our final conversations every year
on this show, we always ask the two questions, what
was your story of the year and what's your bold

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prediction for the upcoming year? Teresa Payton's going to be
in studio with us for the final hour tomorrow. That's
her final conversation with us. And she's been famous us
in recent years for basically predicting the next big thing
and in some cases the next big unwonted thing.

Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
Hey, hey, ask her about the Panthers Bucks game. Oh prediction.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Yeah, tomorrow, she'll be here in studio. We could call
her textra Domis, write that one down, George.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
She would love that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
We could call her mother.

Speaker 10 (01:35:24):
Guy, guys, I know that we are switching subjects, but
I have to give Rusty a shout out. We're still
getting tons of texts about the dinner party.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Wait a minute, Lusty.

Speaker 10 (01:35:33):
Lusty says he wants his dinner table Beethoven. John Williams
and the director of the unc a cappella group that
beth might have been a member of Beethoven, like.

Speaker 5 (01:35:43):
The like the dog Beethoven, or like the composer.

Speaker 8 (01:35:46):
Like Ludwig Ludwig von Beethoven. Uh And it made it
made me laugh.

Speaker 10 (01:35:51):
But one of our texters also pointed out that if
you are going to have all of these people from
different time periods, you would have to be very aware
of the menu, food well, food alxy, different kinds of food,
items that may or may not have been available to
people of different time periods.

Speaker 8 (01:36:09):
So you would have to be aware of hated and
loved food.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
I've got Anthony Bordain at my table. He'll eat a
boar's head. Oh yes, the guy will eat anything.

Speaker 8 (01:36:17):
He'll eat anything.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
The last thing I watched he ate a bunny rabbit head.
Oh my god, would eat anything.

Speaker 10 (01:36:24):
If you travel a ton, you culturally, you're you end
up eating something you don't want, bunny rabbit head foods.

Speaker 4 (01:36:29):
That's a whole different discussion, like what would you serve
these people or what would you not serve these people?

Speaker 13 (01:36:35):
Right?

Speaker 10 (01:36:35):
Because if you had, if your table included George Washington
and Taylor Swift, you know, like Taylor Swift might like
velveta mac and cheese.

Speaker 8 (01:36:43):
George Washington, wouldn't you have wooden teeth?

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
Yeah? To choose food for him?

Speaker 10 (01:36:47):
And right, he might need he might need a different
feed for you, a textured a different texture of food.

Speaker 4 (01:36:54):
Where is this cherry from?

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
You don't know, George? A tree? You know what you did?

Speaker 12 (01:37:01):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (01:37:02):
I'm legitimately overheard completely my own conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
Jim knows history. Remember the cherry tree.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
By the way, first president.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Wow, if if you, guys, were the coincidence that he's
on the one?

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
How did Lou Garrett get Lou Garrett's disease?

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
I mean, what all the diseases he could have got?
Jesus was born on Christmas Day, the twenty fifth. Well,
the coincidence a grand tomb.

Speaker 10 (01:37:29):
Don't get me started, boys, boys, boys, So if you
think about the menu, like in this day and age,
what what kind of foods would you serve?

Speaker 8 (01:37:40):
I do know, oddly, guys, the most hated foods of
twenty twenty five?

Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
Oh you do a segue?

Speaker 14 (01:37:47):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:37:48):
How many?

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
How many?

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Twenty five? It is six six six the twenty twenty Yes, six.

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
Of the most hated foods of the year twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
I could do six. Let's go. Here are things that.

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
You do not want to serve at a dinner party.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
Number six, Yeah, five, yes, hio six.

Speaker 8 (01:38:06):
Number six. Okra, what not?

Speaker 4 (01:38:10):
Friday's Friday served that in many years.

Speaker 10 (01:38:13):
According to Food and Wine magazine, Okra carries a slimy
consistency that can be hard to make peace with for people.
The green vegetable has a natural muselage that tends to
make people stay away from it, unless, however, they know
the right way to cook it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:29):
Isn't this the season of forgiveness? So they should just
eat it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
I'm gonna it does have to be deep fried though,
no pickled. Okrap oh, that's a big note.

Speaker 8 (01:38:37):
But then some number five number five cilantro I get.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
I like cilantro topping, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
It's very polarizing to some people, taste different, and it
tastes very bad.

Speaker 10 (01:38:50):
Okay, you're exactly right, Jim Zokie. The cilantro soap ordain
taught me that is real. Approximately four to fourteen percent
of Americans carry the cilantro soap gene, meaning they're old
factory receptors immediately detect the presence of cilantro by sensing
it as soapy and bitter?

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Are you thinks I don't want to sight of cilantro?

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
T I actually when I do get the Chipotle bowl,
I get cilantro on it.

Speaker 8 (01:39:18):
Like, do you are you a soap cilantro person?

Speaker 7 (01:39:23):
Bo?

Speaker 8 (01:39:23):
I feel like you would have a soap celansdi soap you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Say, like a soapy Celestroal guy n number four.

Speaker 7 (01:39:30):
Number four.

Speaker 10 (01:39:32):
Blue cheese one of the most hated foods of twenty
twenty five. It says it smells and tastes atrocious to people.
Blue cheese carries a strong and pungent smell that, when
combined with its blue moldy appearance, makes it one of
the most disliked cheeses.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
We're talking.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
I love Come on, anything you touched The word pungent
to really ends well.

Speaker 8 (01:39:58):
I love pungent cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
You should never be blue.

Speaker 8 (01:40:01):
I think blue cheese is delight I don't mind.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
Because it's a water down version like blue cheese dressing
with wings like I wouldn't put it on a salad
I don't, but with wings, I actually don't. I don't
dislike it all blue cheese, but like crumbled blue cheese
on a salad, like.

Speaker 8 (01:40:16):
A wedge salad gem with crumbled blue cheese, a little bacon.

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
George's Bacon's bringing me back.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
George is going crazy back here.

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
Yes, that's George. That's the most vocal George has been
all dead. Yellow wedge salad.

Speaker 10 (01:40:33):
Number three, number three awful. What most people say awful
is awful awful. Specifically, liver and sweet breads are rich
and earthy, but the intensity of the flavor is too
much for most folks. Beyond just the flavor, I think
people are uncomfortable with the idea of eating organ meat,

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even though they are dense.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
Like cailsophagus, like liver mush.

Speaker 8 (01:40:58):
Yeah, like liver mush. I think these are all deep,
these are all things that you could serve at a dinner.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
Cannot do anything liver like. So, we are at a
nice restaurant in South Park and they had pat and
I already know I don't like liver and onions. I
don't like liver mushi pat. This is like everyone talks
about patti. I tried.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
I literally truly did the Tom.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Hanks napkin wiping off my tongue, like the little corn
cop thing or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
Okay, I literally don't know what that means. Yeah, what
is that?

Speaker 10 (01:41:27):
It's so it's like a ground whipped up, ground whipped liver.
So it's a very kind of ever had potted meat,
it's like a potted meat texture.

Speaker 8 (01:41:36):
Honestly, if you've had potted.

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
Meat, it's like a hummus.

Speaker 10 (01:41:40):
Yeah, it has it's a it's a it's crowned liver
into a and it's it's served, it's it's rather pricey,
and it's served with crackers and.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
Got a wine well, and it sticks with you.

Speaker 12 (01:41:52):
I like it.

Speaker 10 (01:41:54):
But I also like liver mush Where is the number?
I love these and can eat them right out of
the can right at the ten guys. Anchovies ocho sick y'all.
Grab an anchovy out of a tin, put it on
a saltine cracker with a little bit of mustard where
it is, and go for the chips.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
Caesar salad is the only time I'll have something with
any kind of anchosren I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
I love a caesar salad, but I hate when they
sneak that in there. I have to figure out where
they are in.

Speaker 8 (01:42:22):
The anchovies on a pizza.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
But these are all the foods that are going away.

Speaker 12 (01:42:26):
What is this?

Speaker 8 (01:42:26):
These are the most hated, but I think you could
serve them at a dinner party.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
These are now illegal.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
These are all the things you could you could serve
and clear clear the room of all these people we've
been talking about being at the table.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
I think they have tariff taxes of it.

Speaker 8 (01:42:41):
I think George Washington would love some awful and some anchovies.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
It's awful word you keep saying, this is the name
of liver.

Speaker 8 (01:42:47):
O f f al. It's like organed meat. Yes, awful.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
I didn't know the words when you said John Williams.
Like we all know who John Williams was, but John
Williams at dinner.

Speaker 8 (01:42:57):
John Williams a composed of composing it did like jaw.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
I don't know. There's like several basketball common name John Williams.

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
Hey, John Doe, of course John Doe.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
I know Beethoven and Mozart.

Speaker 5 (01:43:08):
Yeah the dog.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
Do you know any other casey case and sudden Williams
has a bourbon.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
That's evah number one speaking, you know John Williams.

Speaker 8 (01:43:20):
The number one most hated food. Mushrooms.

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
No, I can't eat a steak without They don't even
do anything. No, they do have some nutrients.

Speaker 8 (01:43:30):
And I love mushrooms. It's a texture thing. I put
mushrooms in chili mumbo.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
You don't like mushrooms.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
No, I'm like Jim, I like mushrooms on the right thing.

Speaker 5 (01:43:40):
Oh, you don't even like peas. You like mushrooms.

Speaker 1 (01:43:42):
I don't like peas.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
I don't like peas. Oh, come on, bo I love
peas and I'm not going to go out in my
backyard and just chomp on mushrooms if they're done the
right way.

Speaker 8 (01:43:56):
Some will kill you, yes, some are poisonous.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Yes, some you do not.

Speaker 5 (01:44:00):
It is not recommending going in your backyard to eat mushroom.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
I'm to say.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
These these smell pungent.

Speaker 7 (01:44:11):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:44:11):
It says that people who are sensitive to different textures
often don't like mushrooms or even eggplant, because they can
be spongy or slimy, depending on how they are prepared.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
Again, eggplant, I need deep pried.

Speaker 8 (01:44:24):
Again, I do love eggplant parmesan.

Speaker 10 (01:44:28):
If you grill an eggplant and you just scoop it out.
I make a really delightful vegan caeso with roasted egg plants, and.

Speaker 5 (01:44:34):
Basically said you could deep try all those things.

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
Well, not the livery liver mush which oh I love
liver mushe pea, peas and mushrooms are delightful together. Think
about they don't even try to deep fry pease how
much people don't like peas. I don't don't try anything
you've never heard of deep That's.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
Fair, Hi, Nick mulvaney up next hour, stay with us.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Let me take a wild guess you're not calling to
wish me a good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:45:04):
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Speaker 5 (01:45:04):
Well, no, it's not exactly a good morning. You have
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It's it's gone all wonky.

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And how you like me now, Mick mulvaney, You know,
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pay ten there. Yeah, I took notes. It is Monday,
December twenty ninth, Boe and Bath in the Iboyd studio.
Mick mulvaney on the line from Key West Sound Verry Christmas, everybody.

Speaker 8 (01:46:06):
Merry Christmas, Christmas, happy news.

Speaker 4 (01:46:09):
We're in that part of the year where nobody really
knows what day it is, what time it is. It's
called twixmiths or what's the other word, crimbo limbo, crimbo limbo.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
But if you tell you.

Speaker 12 (01:46:19):
There's no clearly that there's no old fashioned Catholics. Remember
there's twelve days of Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
No, that's true. Hence the song.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
How you doing this morning?

Speaker 12 (01:46:29):
I'm doing good. Do you know how many presents they've
given the song?

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:46:33):
If I did the math, let's see twelve.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
I've heard this ask before and all the math.

Speaker 8 (01:46:38):
It's really give me, give me a few and i'll
you guys talk to you.

Speaker 12 (01:46:43):
Well, Beth does the math on a piece of paper.
Just to show you. This was the Christmas bonus question
at Charlotte Latin School in the second grade in nineteen
seventy three or seventy four.

Speaker 4 (01:46:56):
And you remember this because you got it right.

Speaker 12 (01:46:58):
Yeah, but just coaes to show you what what education
was like fifty years.

Speaker 8 (01:47:02):
Ago, seventy eight presents.

Speaker 12 (01:47:06):
Now three hundred and sixty four.

Speaker 8 (01:47:07):
Oh, so are you doing every verse? You're adding every
verse in a song?

Speaker 12 (01:47:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:47:11):
Oh okay, so it gives you.

Speaker 12 (01:47:14):
So it's presence do they give in the song? It's
it's almost one for every day. It's every day except Christmas.

Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Okay, okay, okay, because I wasn't doing the math on
doing it all.

Speaker 12 (01:47:22):
Twelve on the first day of Christmas, my truella gave
to me one present. On the second day, you get
three presents. The next president, the next day you get six.

Speaker 7 (01:47:30):
Got it.

Speaker 12 (01:47:31):
I think it's twelve exponential is the is the mathematical phrase,
but again second grade math in nineteen seventy three.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
And on the thirteenth day you get nothing. Good day, sir,
and you'll like it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
Well, this is Monday, December twenty ninth, and there actually
is a good bit of a news out of Washington
to talk about. Actually this is Washington by way of
mar A Lago. Yesterday, President Trump and Vladimir Zelensky, President
of Ukraine. Here's a little bit of what they said
after meeting.

Speaker 6 (01:48:01):
In your conversation with President Putin, did you discuss what
responsibility Russia will have for any kind of reconstruction of
Ukraine post agreement?

Speaker 12 (01:48:10):
I did.

Speaker 20 (01:48:11):
They're going to be helping Russia is going to be
helping Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds
a little strange, but I was explaining to the president.
President Putin was very generous and is feeling towards Ukraine succeeding,
including a supplying energy, electricity and other things. At very

(01:48:32):
low prices. So a lot of good things came out
of that call today. But they were in the works
for two weeks with Steve and with Jared and Marco
and everybody is Russia agree.

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
Or to Putin agree to a cease fire, to allow
or referendum take.

Speaker 20 (01:48:47):
Not a ceasefire, And that's one of the points that
we're working on right now. No, not a cease fire.
He feels that, Look, you know, they're fighting and to
stop and then if they have to start again, which
is a possibility. He doesn't want to be in that position.
I understand that position. The president feels strongly about that
or something. But I think we're finding ways that we

(01:49:10):
can get around that. But I understand President Putin from
that standpoint. You know, you have to understand the other side,
and you know, I'm on the side of peace. I'm
on the side of stopping the war. So but I
think that's that's the problem that's going to get solved.

Speaker 4 (01:49:26):
So Mick mulvaney, this was the two of them talking
to reporters after meeting yesterday at mar A Lago. Now
it's important to note that Russia attacked Ukraine's capital, Kiev
with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, which killed at
least one person and wounded twenty seven. So there's you know,
there's there's activity going on all the while. Sounds pretty

(01:49:50):
diplomatic there with President Trump, and he talked to Putin
before this meeting and will again in the coming hours
and days. What do you make of where we are
here towards the first of the year with this conflict.

Speaker 12 (01:50:01):
Yeah, a couple of different takes. Let's start at the
micro level. When Trump says that he's on the side
of peace and ending the war, that's absolutely true. And
I believe that I know the man and he really,
really really wants to see the war end. So that
is that's that's a that's a genuine sentiment on his part.
I mean, once you heard, is him trying to do
what he always does, which is sell enthusiasm and optimism

(01:50:22):
and things trending in the right direction. That's his power
of positive thinking. We've talked about a lot on the show. Uh,
and all of that is great, Okay, However, the part
about you know, he's on the side of peace and
so forth, you don't get a deal until everybody's on
that same side and Putin is not there yet, and
I think Donald Trump is now to the point where

(01:50:43):
some people are starting to look at him and saying,
you know.

Speaker 7 (01:50:45):
What, yuh.

Speaker 12 (01:50:51):
He's talking. I'm trying to say, this is not cursing,
but there's there's a little there's a there's a little
amount of bs here. And eventually people are going to
start to say, you know what, we've heard the talk enough.
You know, we heard how close you are to a deal?
And I'll ask you were how close you're a deal?
You know, when Lessi's in the White House, we how
close you or to a deal? Now you say you're
ninety percent, ninety percent towards the deal, but apparently the
things that haven't worked out yet are territory and the

(01:51:12):
security agreements for Ukraine, so it sounds like they're ninety
percent not there yet. Trump is very close to getting
to the point where he's losing credibility on this. He
said we are close to a deal so many times,
only to be proven that we are not. They need
to have a win, if they need to have progress,
otherwise they're going to be accused of simply crying wolf,
and no one's going to believe anything they say. About this,

(01:51:34):
and if no one believes anything they say about it,
that is going to impact Putin's willingness to come to
the table. Donald Trump needs to establish credibility not only
with people here and people all around the world, but
with Vladimir Putin, and he's very close now to losing
that and he needs to get it back.

Speaker 10 (01:51:51):
What would you say to the people who say that
that Donald Trump is working in favoring Putin's wishes more
than some more than Zelensky's wishes. And the people who
would who would say that we promised Ukraine if they
gave up nuclear weapons that we would protect them.

Speaker 12 (01:52:11):
Here in the future, that is a fair criticism. That
last point, I think is lost on a lot of people. Indeed,
it was lost on me at the beginning of the
work because I didn't remember nineteen ninety one. It wasn't
paying very close attention to geopolitics, as a lot of
people who listening weren't. But the West, Europe and America
guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for giving up their nuclear

(01:52:31):
weapons as a part of the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in nineteen ninety one. With that as backdrop, then
many American administrations and European administrations have failed to live
up to that, and that is a fair criticism, but
they failed to live up to it. We failed to
live up to it when they invaded Crimea and the
Obama administration, and when they did Ukraine proper under the

(01:52:54):
Biden administration. So there's a lot of criticism there and
I get that, but clearly we're not going to do it.
So the question is that aled what are we going
to do now to try and fix things. I don't
see Trump as catering to the Russians. I see Trump
is sort of looking in the handover and saying, Okay,
who's a stronger actor here? Is it Russia or is
it Ukraine? And Ukraine can't even defend itself on its own.

(01:53:16):
So you know, if you sit down to cut a deal,
you know, if you want one hundred and I want
one hundred, you know, for equal partners or on equal footing,
maybe we get fifty to fifty. But if you're a
much better position than I have, maybe you get seventy
five and I get twenty five. That's reality. That's not
catering to Russia for any particular reason. That's that's simply
reflecting the world as it is.

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
Meanwhile, at one oh seven point nine FM, it's WBT
Charlotte's FM News Talk. Bo Thompson Beth Troutman live here
on a Monday, December twenty ninth, talking to Mick mulvaney,
former White House Chief of Staff, South Carolina Congressman, White
House Budget Director. You see him on News Nation and
many other media outlets talking politics and whatever else comes

(01:54:02):
our way, and happy to have him on the line
with us today. He's from the Good Morning BT Southernmost Bureau,
which is in Key West, Florida. He has been there
many times. The two hosts of the show here have not.
But you know, someday, somehow we're going.

Speaker 12 (01:54:16):
To get there. I think we're sure. Well, you know,
we ergos getting that cold snap, we're getting that as well,
then actually making it all the way down to the Keys.
It's going to be sixty one here on Wednesday. Oh
so we're breaking out the sweaters and they hear muffs,
and then we'll making sure the heat works and the condo.

Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
Several layers, layers, It's all about layers.

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
There, man.

Speaker 12 (01:54:33):
L that's a good point. Well, thank you, Yes, we.

Speaker 4 (01:54:35):
Were talking about President Trump and the fact that he
met with with Zelenski yesterday in mar A Lago and
talked to Putin before that conversation. Perhaps has talked to
him again, I don't know, but he laid out the
plan over the next several days. Now, before we get
into some other Trump headlines as it relates to this story,
you were talking about that something substantial needs to happen

(01:54:58):
here for people on both sides to sort of be
able to believe that this is going to have the
ending that he has so long said would be coming.
Do you think this is going to be resolved anytime soon?
Or are we still talking about this a month from
now the way it is now?

Speaker 12 (01:55:14):
Well, no, and I think you're sort of anticipating, Well,
come up with a new thing in for twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:55:20):
Okay, now what I was going to say.

Speaker 12 (01:55:22):
But I'm fine, there's plenty of plenty that can happen
next year. I don't think this ends this year or
next year. I really don't. I hope that it does,
and I think there's been some you know, some decent,
halfway decent progress towards it. But again, until that, until
people's perspectives most specifically Putin's change. I don't see the
motivation for him to end the war again. He's not

(01:55:44):
he's not he doesn't think like us. He's not looking
at this going, oh my goodness, I've lost this many people. I,
you know, have to figure out a way to end
the war. That's that's not what he's looking at this.
He's looking at how can I defend my nation long
term by taking as much territory in Ukraine as I
can by preventing the Europeans from getting on my border.
That's always looking at It's an entirely different perspective. Until

(01:56:04):
that perspective changes, I don't know what his motivation is
to end the war. So I got asked on a
news nation last week. We did a little thing on
predictions for next year. My prediction was that the war
would not end, that we will be having the same
conversation in twenty twenty six, and my fears that we'll
be having more meetings at mar Lago, and then as
it'll come out and say what great progress it made,

(01:56:24):
how close we are to a deal, and we're ninety
percent there, and at the same time, nothing will have
really changed substantiably. So that's one of my fears for
twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:56:33):
Six coming up in our next half hour. Mixed other
prediction about twenty six, but I mentioned we have a
few more things about President Trump to get to here.

Speaker 10 (01:56:42):
Yeah, he went on what made news headlines a flurry
of posts on social media Christmas Eve into Christmas Day,
and one of the posts that's getting so much attention
brings up Jeffrey Epstein. And I'll read this post because
I think a lot of people have probably only seen
this post in part. But this is what he posted

(01:57:03):
on Christmas. He said, Merry Christmas to all, including the
many sleez bags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles
of money, went to his island, attended his parties, and
thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to
drop him like a dog when things got too hot,
falsely claimed that they had nothing to do with him,
didn't know him, said he was a disgusting person, and

(01:57:24):
then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was
actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long
before it became fashionable to do so. When their names
get brought out in the ongoing radical left witch hunt.
Plus one low life Republican Massey. It is revealed that
they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of

(01:57:44):
explaining to do, much like there was when it was
made public that the Russia Russia Russia hoax was a
fictitious story, a total scam, and had nothing to do
with Trump. The failing New York Times, among many others,
was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty election reporting,
even to the point of losing many subscribers due to
their highly inaccurate, fake coverage. Now the same losers are

(01:58:07):
added again, only this time so many of their friends,
mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished. But
sadly that's the way it is in the world of
corrupt Democrat politics. Enjoy what may be your last merry Christmas,
President Donald J.

Speaker 8 (01:58:23):
Trump.

Speaker 10 (01:58:25):
This was his Christmas Day post. And why bring up
Epstein if you're trying to, you know, keep maybe Epstein
off the front page.

Speaker 12 (01:58:34):
Epstein not exactly the reason for the season, right, great, gracious,
you know, all it does is continue to have this
hang over them every I mean I can't but I
could not believe he mentioned Epstein on a Christmas on
a Christmas quote, and he opens himself up to all
sorts of criticisms. I mean, because if you read that
first six or seven sentences before you get to the

(01:58:56):
part about him, you can say, well, look at that,
that might describe Donald Trump, so if you didn't know
what the source of it was. So this is this
is a real tough spot for them, and I don't
understand why they just haven't pulled the scab off and
put everything out there. And I mean everything, And I
know I'm probably the minority of this, but I mean
that includes at least the victims who are of age.

(01:59:17):
You don't get to accused somebody of a crime in
this country anonymously. You know, you have you have the
right to face your accusers. So it's a different category.
If you're your minor. I get all of that. But
if you know you're a twenty eight year old woman
and you're accusing somebody of a crime, you should your
name shouldn't be blacked out. You should see the face,
put it all out, put it all out and and

(01:59:39):
let the chips fallow where they do. And don't understand
why that is, Well, excuse me why they haven't done
that yet? As We've said a thousand times on this show.
I do not believe there would be any evidence of
any criminal activity in a part of Donald Trump or else.
This would have come out a long time ago. Remember
the Democrats had this file for four years. Is there
embarrassing stuff for him, yes? Is there embarrassing stuff for

(01:59:59):
other people, yes, But you know you can get through embarrassment.
You can't survive this indefinitely. It's going to come to
the point now. In fact, it's already moving in that
direction where this will depress Republican voter turnout in the
mid terms. There are people who throw their hands up
and say, Donald Trump promised me this. He's delivered on
every promise except this. I thought he was the guy

(02:00:20):
who delivered on his promises. But if he can't deliver
on if he won't deliver on Epstein, then I'm staying home.
And that is a real problem for the Republicans. I
don't get it. I don't understand why Special Whife comes
out of Christmas, but I don't understand why he continues
to be the one to bring it up. Put everything
out there, and I mean everything, and then let the
chips fall where they may move on to solving things

(02:00:42):
like the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 4 (02:00:43):
Well, that was a long post. But the very last
sentence you have that the last sentence of the post
from President Trump, because I'm curious as to what you
think this means.

Speaker 12 (02:00:51):
Oh yeah, I means he's going to you know, jail
them or kill the ball or something like that. No,
it's just it's Trumps language. Next Christmas isn't going to
be very merry for you because you'll be an investigation
or something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:04):
Okay, Well, and that was you know, that was that
was one of the longer ones. We've talked on the
show before, and you worked five feet away from him.
You've talked about when he makes who decides to go
on these Yeah, these Twitter marathons used to be Twitter marathons.
Now they're truth Social. But let's be honest. They get
posted on truth Social and they get you know, plastered
everywhere else. So whatever platform he's putting them on, they

(02:01:27):
get out there. And we now, I mean, now it's
it's a it's a pretty normal thing for him to
kind of go on these these burners where he'll tweet out,
tweet out or whatever the verb is.

Speaker 12 (02:01:37):
Can you tell both can I'm starting to interrupt. You
can you tell I don't have truth Social? Can you
tell from the truth Social the time it actually posted?

Speaker 4 (02:01:44):
Yes, yeah, same thing as Twitter. It timestamps it.

Speaker 10 (02:01:48):
It was six fifty one pm on December twenty fifth,
on Christmas Day. On Christmas Day, according to the timestamp.

Speaker 12 (02:01:57):
On this, all right, I mean he's at mar Lago
and since it's you know, it's probably just before he
goes out to dinner. And they probably had a dinner
at seven, which means that there was probably some staff
either with him or near him, which means that other
people knew this was going out, and nobody looked at
him and said, it's president. I'm not sure this is
the best Christmas message? How does this help?

Speaker 7 (02:02:16):
You know?

Speaker 12 (02:02:16):
I was part of me was sort of, you know,
thinking it might be at two thirty in the morning,
because we've talked before. When when when do you see
him post at two thirty in the morning. It's just
him doing himself. If it's between ordinary business hours, which
is for him, you know, eleven in the morning till
seven o'clock at night, that means that there's probably staff
around helping craft it that he's bouncing ideas off of
and so forth, and it sounds like if anybody did

(02:02:37):
say that, you know, maybe this isn't the best Christmas
advice was not taken.

Speaker 4 (02:02:47):
Nine six on WBT one oh seven point nine WBT
Charlotte's FM News Talk, Bo Thompson Beth Troutman, live on
a Monday, December twenty ninth. People are off of work
this week, you're out of school, trying to figure out
what day it is, what time it is, what am
I supposed to be doing? And we decided, hey, we'll

(02:03:08):
at least offer you some semblance of normal here on
a Monday. We'll be here tomorrow Tuesday, and then we'll
be off for the remainder of the week. But we're
talking as we always do whenever we can to Mick mulvaney,
who is a longtime a member of the extended show
family here, former White House Chief of Staff, South Carolina congressman,
you see him on News Nation and Mick, as with

(02:03:29):
all our recurring guests, we always in the year this way,
and this is our last conversations for twenty twenty five.
Give us, and this can be pretty open ended whichever
direction you want to go in, but give us your
top story of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 12 (02:03:46):
Yeah, I'm going to focus on geopolitics. I think the
most significant thing to happen in geopolitics in twenty twenty
five was the attack on the Iranian facility, the nuclear
facility that if it was really as successful as we
think that it was, it changes the entire arc of
geopolitics in that part of the world, which obviously changes
politics everywhere. Removing the Iranian nuclear threat, at least for

(02:04:10):
the foreseeable future, changes the dynamic in a way that
I don't think anybody could could have anticipated going into
the year having a chance to do what we did.
There was probably something that was unforeseen going into twenty
twenty five, so I think it's probably one of the
signature successes of the Trump administration. I truly wants in

(02:04:31):
a generation opportunity to make the world better, and you know,
I hate to think that, you know, using weapons else
makes the world better, but sometimes it does. And our
ability to get that done, I think we'll pay dividends
for a long time to come in ways that people
just haven't started to fully appreciate yet.

Speaker 10 (02:04:46):
I think to that end, the end of the conflict
between Pakistan and India was a a big victory I
think for the Trump administration in that region as well.
When you're talk and you know, again you've got two
nuclear powers that don't particularly like each other and have
a very rich history in in conflict, I.

Speaker 12 (02:05:10):
Think that's fair, beeth I I just I don't I
don't know how lasting that one is. They to your point,
You're absolutely right, they still like each other and they
still have nuclear weapons, so you could you could end
up right back there again, you know, if you have
some unfortunate incident on the border tomorrow. That The reason
that my mind the Iranian thing was so difference is
it changes the game. You still hates Israel and they

(02:05:31):
s don't get along with their with their their their
neighbors in the Gulf. But now if again the intelligence
is correct and they've you know, we've set them back
dramatically on their nuclear program, that changes the dramatic be
the equivalent of taking away nuclear weapons from the Indians
and the and the Pakistani. So you're right, and I
think it's again the outcome in in Indian Pakistan is

(02:05:53):
absolutely one of the highlights of the year and again
another success for for the Trump and administration. And for
the larger diplomatic community. But I just don't know how
lasting it is compared to what you might see in
in the in the in the mid East.

Speaker 4 (02:06:06):
Now you go back to what you said was your
story of the year, the strike back in June, and
I was thinking, this news cycle moves so quickly. That
was half a year ago, and that seems like it
almost seems like five years ago in Trump world. But
when I think about what was said in the wake
of that, and of course we heard President Trump say
using those bunker buster bombs and he's talking about complete

(02:06:28):
and total obliteration, and and I remember in the hours
and days following that, as you heard him say those things,
you thought, Okay, well, you can't know that for sure
yet until you have the the people go back and
sort of take stock of what happened and the underground capabilities,
and and and and it had a lot of layers

(02:06:48):
to it. And now we're we're six months away from it.
You would you would think you would know by now
if if it wasn't the degree of damage that President
Trump said it was. But you know, I did think
in those days following it that we have to we
have to let time pass a little bit here before
you can totally know if what he's saying is true,

(02:07:09):
but it certainly appears that it was at this point
as we stand talking on December twenty ninth.

Speaker 12 (02:07:15):
That's fair. I think the way we used to handle
this in the White House is the best information we have,
the best intelligence we have available, says X, Y and Z,
and it says exactly that, which is the mission was
a success and so forth. If there's other intel floating
out there around that, I'm certainly not familiar with it.

Speaker 10 (02:07:28):
You know, Benjamin Netan Yahoo is set to visit to
visit mar A Lago with President Trump in the coming days,
and the relationship between Israel and Iran is certainly tense,
and Iran's relationship with Palestine and what's going on in
the Gaza Strip and all of the chaos that comes

(02:07:49):
in those relationships. What do you think will happen in
this I mean, this is I think the sixth time
this year that President Trump has met with Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.

Speaker 12 (02:08:00):
Yeah. Again, there's an interesting parallel between that and what
you just mentioned in India Pakistan, which is this tremendous
progress there really was a huge success again, I'm critical
of the president from time to time, as you guys
are familiar with, but it's hard to imagine him not,
you know, winning a Nobel Peace Prize for some of
the work that he and his administration have done in

(02:08:21):
the Middle East. That extends to whit cough that a
Jared Kushner as well Jared should have wanted for the
Neighbraham Accords eight years ago. The reason that that doesn't
make the top of my list is I don't know
how enduring it is now. Granted, Iran being weakened like
it is increases the chances that you've got longer term
piece a Mid East because they cannot fund people like

(02:08:42):
come alas in his bull and so forth to the
same level they could before. It's one of the reasons
that Iranian strike was so critical in my mind. But
you're right, it's a tremendous success. I hope that it
is that it is permanent and lasting. I don't know
that if that will be the case. I certainly think
the dynamics have changed. I think ourlationship with Israel's probably
never been stronger. I think more importantly, not more importance,

(02:09:03):
It's gonna have a great relationship with Israel and a
great relationship with with Saudi Arabia at the same time.

Speaker 4 (02:09:18):
One I was seven point nine WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk.
You're just joining us. Mick mulvaney is joining us from
Key West this morning. He's our weekly political expert. Former
White House Chief of Staff with President Trump in the
first administration, was also a White House budget director, was

(02:09:39):
a South Carolina congressman for several terms, and right now
you see him on places like News Nation. Just to
mention a few Mick Mulvaney, we talked earlier in the show.
I asked you to make a prediction about twenty twenty six,
and actually, as we were talking about something that has
happened in the last several days, it figured into a
twenty twenty six prediction. But let me go back and

(02:10:02):
just for a second here catch people up on what
President Trump had to say coming out of the Zelensky
meeting at Mar A Lago yesterday. So I just want
to say we've done very well.

Speaker 20 (02:10:11):
We've had discussions on just about every subject, and that
includes with President Putin before and we went into great detail,
and we likewise went into great detail today and it
was an honor to have you at mar A Lago
and have lunch. I hope you enjoyed the food. Your
people enjoyed the food. I can tell you that your big,

(02:10:32):
strong people. Your general over there looks like Central Casting.
I want to also, by the way, speaking of generals,
we have a great general, General raising Kine, who is
here someplace. Thank you, General, Thank you very much. It's great.
So mister President, maybe you want to say a few
words and then we'll speak over the next couple of weeks.

(02:10:53):
We'll speak probably quite a bit, but we'll speak tomorrow.
Thank you very much, appreciate you.

Speaker 16 (02:10:57):
Thank you so much, mister bank You, thank you forever
the Air colleagues. First of all, I would like to
thank President Trump for a great meeting, this amazing place
in his home in Mane Lago. And we had a
really great discussions on all the topics. And we appreciate
the progress that was made by American and Ukrainian teams

(02:11:18):
in these recent weeks. Special thanks to Steve with Kavan,
Jarret Kushner, and thank you too for their engagement and
full commitment. And also to our team and first of
all tourist Demo Maryland. General natav and to all our teams,
and we discussed all the aspects of the peace framework,

(02:11:39):
which includes and we have great achievements twenty point piece
plan ninety percent degree and Ukraine security grantees one hundred
percent degree. The US Europe Ukraine Security Grantees almost agreed
military dimensioned one hundred percent degree, prosperraty plan being finalized.
And we also discussed the sequencing of the following Texans

(02:12:00):
and we agree that security guarantees is a key milestone
in achieving lasting piece.

Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
That's President Zelenski and President Trump yesterday. So Mick mulvaney,
just to catch people up, we were talking about where
this is going and whether we think or you think
that there's going to be any sort of resolution anytime soon.
And one of your predictions for twenty twenty six is
that you do not think this will be solved in
twenty twenty six, correct.

Speaker 12 (02:12:28):
I just don't. I fear that it won't be because
again I look at the dynamic, and the dynamic is
that Trump wants peace and Zolenski wants peace, but Putin doesn't.
Until you change his mind and make him want peace,
you're not going to get it. My take on this
is that he's completely happy with the way things are going.

(02:12:50):
He's completely happy with sort of just playing out the Ukrainians,
the America's Europeans. Oh let's have another summit. Oh let's
put out a nice press conference. Oh let's you know,
let's more media, that type of thing. And in the meantime,
I'm going to continue to bomb Keev. So yeah, I
just until the dynamic changes that this outcome is not
going to change, which the definition of insanity doing the

(02:13:11):
same thing again again, expecting different outcomes. So until Prutin's
perspective on what's in his best interest changes, this war
doesn't stop.

Speaker 10 (02:13:21):
If your prediction is correct. Does this conflict have an
impact on the midterms here domestically, no.

Speaker 12 (02:13:29):
Foreign policy typically does not. So if you don't like
Donald Trump, you're not gonna like Donald Trump. If you
like Donald Trump, you're going to continue to like him.
But you don't change votes or people don't not show
up because of foreign policy. There are rare exceptions to that.
Bath Vietnam is one, Afghanistan may have been another, et cetera.
But no, I just don't see it moving the legal

(02:13:50):
I think other things will, but not foreign policy.

Speaker 4 (02:13:52):
Okay, that was a prediction that was the byproduct of
a current events question I had.

Speaker 1 (02:13:58):
For yet, So if I got another one, you're ready
the other one.

Speaker 4 (02:14:00):
Yes, what's for twenty twenty six? This is Mick mulvaney's
bold prediction.

Speaker 12 (02:14:04):
Big prediction that there will be a communist dictatorship, authoritarian
dictatorship that falls in the Western hemisphere. But it won't
be Venezuela. Venezuela may or may not. The one that's
going to fall in twenty twenty six is Cuba. You'll
see regime change in Cuba. You'll see the end of
the castro Esque dynasty and the communist leadership there, and

(02:14:28):
that you'll have Cuba come back into the first word
tier of Western Leanian nations this year. That's what Venezuela
is all about. In my mind, that this has very
little to do with Maduro. Maduro was running a little
bit of drugs back in twenty nineteen when I was chief.
He was still in office, he was still illegitimately elected.

(02:14:48):
All of the reasons we give now for bombing the
boats and moving in a heavy military presence existed in
twenty nineteen. What's different. What's different is I think this
leadership team made has made has come to the conc
illusion that there's a chance to topple the government in Cuba,
and that they're going to take a chance to do that.
That's obviously a life sort of goal, and rightly so

(02:15:10):
for someone like Marco Rubio. And if the Cuban American
community could could be around and live long enough to
see the fall of the Castro regime, that would be
or at least a Castro era regime that would be.
That would be fantastic. So I think that's what Venezuela
is about, and I think they're actually making progress on that.
So that's my bold prediction for twenty six that the
Cuban government of excuse me, the communist government of Cuba collapses.

Speaker 10 (02:15:32):
Well wasn't there at one point, gosh early, I guess
maybe mid twenty tens, that President Trump, before he was president,
wanted to put a hotel in a casino in Cuba.

Speaker 12 (02:15:46):
You know, it's a great point, and I hadn't thought
about that, but look at the modus operandi of the administration.
You know, remember Trump. We've told the story before about it.
We had a conversation with Kim Jong un about how
to sort of, you know, bring them into the twenty
first century by using things like tourism and casinos and
resorts and all that kind of stuff. And yeah, it
was a little bit tongue in cheek, yes, but not really. Okay,

(02:16:08):
we've heard the same thing about, you know, the reconstruction
of Gossen. That was the economic development that is the
basis for long term peace. You just heard Zelenski talk
about the rebuilding of Ukraine as that's one hundred percent
agreed to. There's like eight hundred billion dollars that the
West is going to contribute to the economic redevelopment of
Ukraine after the war. So your point is well made.

(02:16:30):
Someone is going to be on the phone with somebody
down in Cuba saying, look, you guys got a chance
here to have real wealth, real prosperity. You have completely
destroyed your island and your nation for the last what
sixty sixty sixty five years. It's time to come into
the twenty first century, and economic development's way to do it.
So change your governments to get that.

Speaker 10 (02:16:47):
I want to go back before we let you go
for the year. For the year twenty twenty five, we
were talking about a little bit about the Ebstein files
and your take on the fact that you just think
all of the information should be released. Stories came out
over the weekend that there are a million new potential
files coming out of the Southern District of New York
that the Department of Justice will have to go through

(02:17:10):
and release. I wanted to get your take on this
story that the BBC and the CBC is reporting on,
and you've seen it certainly circulating online that internet sleuths
have been able to unredact some of the Epstein files
because of the I guess misuse of Adobe in the
Department of Justice.

Speaker 12 (02:17:30):
Yeah, that's a problem, it really is. I have not
tried it myself, but I have asked people who are
much more tech savvy than I if they could really
do this, and they say that, yeah, you can can't
do with all of them, can't do with all the redactions,
but you can do it with some. Look, I think
what the Trump administration is overlooking right now? Skip ahead,
play the three moves down the chessboard. The same coalition

(02:17:52):
of folks who came together, Republicans and Democrats, a small
group of Republicans and all the Democrats to force the
discharge for to get the Epstein files for you know
out in the public. That coalition could come together again
and say, bring articles impeachment for Pambondi over the Department
of Justice. That group, that coalition has real authority. Right now,

(02:18:14):
You're not going to get rid of Pambondi, but they
could bring the articles of impeachment, and mistakes like this
are only going to feed that. So that's something that
bears watching. I think in the next you know, the
three four months, because because Thomas Massey has gone scorched
to earth. Now you've seen that Marjorie Taylor Green we
think is leaving, but she might decide to say just
to continue to vote with this. Nancy Mace has got

(02:18:37):
has really you know done in on on Epstein and
so forth. So are there enough Republicans who could come
together with Democrats to force some really really hard votes
related to Epstein, including maybe for the for the Attorney general.
That's something that absolutely bears to watch a couple of months.

Speaker 4 (02:18:54):
Okay, my bold prediction for twenty twenty six. You ready, everybody,
many great kind conversations ahead with Mick mulvaney on this show,
even Key West, Yes, yes, and if we have it
our way in person.

Speaker 8 (02:19:06):
Yes, we'll be there with you.

Speaker 4 (02:19:08):
That's right, all right, Mick, Happy New Year.

Speaker 12 (02:19:10):
I've been joined it very much to talk to show.

Speaker 4 (02:19:13):
Yes, sir, that's Mick mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff.
If you're new to the show, he joins us once
a week. This is a guy that was five feet
away from President Trump for the better part of a
year as his chief of staff at the end of
the first administration, and he joins us. He's been a
South Carolina congressman. He's on News Nation, but he's one
of those guys that when we talk all these different
political headlines, he's been there. He's been in the rooms

(02:19:34):
where the decisions get made and has just insights that
you can't get anywhere else.

Speaker 8 (02:19:39):
Yeah, and he's just a darn hoot to talk to.

Speaker 4 (02:19:44):
Yes, were you telling him? Both said, he's a darn hoot.

Speaker 8 (02:19:48):
He's a hoot to talk with.

Speaker 4 (02:19:49):
He Hey, if you're looking at your day coming up
on WBT, Nick Craig is waiting in the wings. The Incredible,
the Indestructible, the Industrial, the Industrial. Nick Craig in for
Vince Cokeley Pete Calendar returns the real, actual Pete Calendar,
Robin Paffman This afternoon in for Winnable and Tony Marino
in for Brett Jensen Tonight.

Speaker 8 (02:20:10):
You and me will be back tomorrow. We will be
here tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:20:13):
Everybody, our final show of twenty twenty five, lots to
talk about.

Speaker 7 (02:20:19):
Believe that.

Speaker 8 (02:20:19):
No, I can't. Time doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (02:20:22):
This whole this whole show hasn't made sense. No, it's
been fun, but this is that period where nobody knows
what day or time it is. Everybody's sort of like,
what do we do? You listen to this show?

Speaker 8 (02:20:34):
We won't steer you ros spend your day in time
with us.

Speaker 4 (02:20:37):
Back tomorrow six am. Until then, Good talk, Beth

Speaker 10 (02:20:41):
Good Talmo, Bye bye fun storming the cattle in get
Away if could take us there, good bye,

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