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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm as human as anyway.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I wake up every morning, and despite not knowing what
to do, I put one foot in front of the.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Other and I try to make the best choices like.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Man from Me's Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three,
Double Bet. I screw up all the time, but that
is being human, and that's my greatest strength. This is
good morning Beaty with both Thompson and Beth trouting.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Before you call me a friendly telling me I'm much
you miss me. That's funny. I guess you've heard my songs. Well,
I'm too busy for your business. Go find a girl

(00:42):
and ones too. Listen, because if you think I was
born yesterday, you have got me.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So I cut you off.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
I don't need you love because.

Speaker 6 (00:52):
I already cried enough.

Speaker 7 (00:53):
I've been done.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've been moving on since we said goodbye.

Speaker 7 (00:58):
I cut you off.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
I don't need it.

Speaker 8 (01:02):
So you can try all you have that but ready, so.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Don't do it.

Speaker 8 (01:27):
Oh yeah, ash, I remember waking up with some attitude
held that one in creeping.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
You'll blame me. You don't love the alcohol.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You're new to the show.

Speaker 9 (01:39):
Beth Troutman wakes up with a song in her head
every day, and we we thought this was interesting when
she first got here. Then we I think we didn't
quite believe you, and then you basically showed us this.

Speaker 8 (01:50):
Oh wait, you didn't believe Well, I didn't think.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't think it was going to hold it. I
believe every single day I believed in you.

Speaker 8 (01:56):
Thank you, Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (01:59):
When I realized it was a real thing, I said,
we're harnessing this. We're gonna use it, use the power
of it every day. Coming out of the first show open.

Speaker 10 (02:08):
Yes, Yeah, what did you do with all this information
prior to both doing motion?

Speaker 8 (02:13):
I wrote it down on my journal, a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
That was the end of it. Yeah, it was hidden
from the rest of the world, all the songs, all of.

Speaker 8 (02:18):
The songs, just hidden from the world because I thought
it was odd. But now, having done this for what
a couple of years now, we've been doing this, I've
learned from our callers and from our text line that
other people do this too.

Speaker 9 (02:30):
We've also learned that somebody out there, somebody always needs
to hear the song. I don't know who it is,
even days when it's really obscure. In fact, the days
when it's been the most obscure. That's when we get
notes from people that said, I really needed to hear
Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra today.

Speaker 8 (02:46):
Right or Aaron Neville. Well, Abobba needed to hear it
this morning, he said, Ah, the return of Team Bob.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And get you up. You all show.

Speaker 9 (02:58):
A social note is is that we have a Spotify
channel where all these songs congregate.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
They go.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
We send them every day.

Speaker 9 (03:05):
So if you want the most eclectic Spotify playlist.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That exists, we got it for you.

Speaker 9 (03:11):
It's the Beth Troutman Here's what I woke up to
today playlist.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We should call it Being Beth Troutman.

Speaker 10 (03:16):
Three tell in your head like John Malcolm, Like being
Beth Troutman.

Speaker 7 (03:20):
This is he little insight.

Speaker 9 (03:23):
Well, welcome to Wednesday, December tenth. Today is our final
day on ninety nine point three. This time tomorrow we
will be coming to you on FM one oh seven
point nine, the debut of one o seven point nine
FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk. So looking forward to tomorrow,
big momentous day for this radio station and the long

(03:44):
history of this radio station. So we've got a lot
to do today as well, and I got to talk
about what Zochie was talking about and mark forty four
years old Philip Rivers, former NC State Wolfpack quarterback and
longtime NFL quarterback. I mean, he's going to make the
Hall of Fame, I would think, but now if this,
this is going to delay it, because what you have

(04:05):
to have five years between your last game and your
your first ballot. And he as I was looking at
the backstory on it last night, he's already. Let's see,
Rivers is one of the twenty six Modern era semi
finalists for the Hall of Fame, and so by signing
with it with the Indianapolis Colts, he's gonna set himself
back another five years.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Twenty thirty one. Now, the class of twenty three.

Speaker 11 (04:28):
This was the first year he was eligible, wasn't it.

Speaker 10 (04:30):
Yeah, it doesn't mean he would have made it anyways,
But as far as his consideration rus it does reset
it five more years.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But he's forty four.

Speaker 11 (04:36):
I mean he's young.

Speaker 8 (04:37):
He is a probably six more kids, is a grandfather.

Speaker 11 (04:40):
He became eleven children.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
He became a grandfather this year. So I know that
that Tom Brady was older than he is currently, but
he wasn't a grandfather yet, so I bet this is
he's making history. So you know who cares about the
Hall of Fame when you're the first grandfather to play
quarterback in an NFL.

Speaker 10 (04:59):
Not the first, but the only current. Brett Farr was
actually a grandfather.

Speaker 12 (05:02):
He was.

Speaker 11 (05:03):
He was like forty forty Philips.

Speaker 9 (05:05):
Let's cut to the chase here, zo does he have
a chance to be what they need? I mean, they
are a contender and they lost their quarterback to an
achilles tear right and so he's out for the season
a year.

Speaker 10 (05:19):
Anthony Richards, in their first round pick from three years ago,
got hit in the face with those stretchy bands, so
he's been out with a facial fracture since.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Early in the season.

Speaker 8 (05:29):
He got hit in the face with a during pregame
exercise bank there's a video of it and everything.

Speaker 11 (05:35):
Yes, it's awfu, it's awesome.

Speaker 10 (05:37):
And then the great quarterback this year, Daniel Jones, another
Charlotte product, is out for the year with the knee
injury he just suffered.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Riley Leonard is questionable. He's week to week.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
So it's not known if Philip Rivers will play it
or start in this game, but he'll be on the
roster and available as either a starter or a backup.
And he it's funny, he's like best friends with the
coach of the Colts, coach Stiking.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
He is a Steve Stiking.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
Shame shame second, and they talk like every week. They
run the same offense. So he's coaching high school football
and now he's running the offense because he comes in
immediately knows the offense. He's just not in football conditioning
shape right now. But hey, Joe, you mentioned Tom Brady,
Joe Flacco, We had Benny Testaverdi.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (06:18):
The thing about Rivers, I will say he's not played
in five years, whereas like some of these guys, it's
like they've been out of the game for a year
or so.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's been five years since he played. He hasn't played
since COVID. Yeah, yes, guys.

Speaker 8 (06:30):
Recent studies suggest that the year that you start aging
the most forty four, oh, forty five.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
We'll say, he just turned forty four this week, so
he's barely.

Speaker 8 (06:40):
Well, he's at the beginning and he's starting to spiral.
You have the biggest age like decline at forty four
and then again at sixty two.

Speaker 11 (06:49):
Oh well, maybe he could play in between something all
the way to sixty two.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's going to stay level for eighteen years.

Speaker 9 (06:55):
It's gonna be a big story, and it's a it's
an even bigger story because indianapol is a contender. I mean,
this is not like him going to a team that's
just going to play out the rest of the season,
and that wouldn't happen otherwise because they're trying to salvage this.
So we'll see what happens. But Philip Rivers, former NC
State Wolfpack QB, is now with the Indianapolis Colts. So

(07:16):
one of the more intriguing late season NFL developments here,
and of course another one of those developing stories of
the Carolina Panthers, and we'll talk more about them this
morning as we get closer to their game in New
Orleans this weekend. You got Thursday Night Football Tonight again.
Let me try this again. Let me try this again.
You have the Falcons and the Bucks on Thursday Night
Football tonight.

Speaker 8 (07:36):
Oh you did it.

Speaker 11 (07:37):
It's Wednesday, Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Oh I'm wow.

Speaker 13 (07:42):
It's this one game.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
This one game is just a good cause.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
And forgot the game.

Speaker 9 (07:47):
I'm not been ahead of myself because I'm thinking about tomorrow,
and tomorrow is such a big day for this radio station.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
It is a big day.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I really thought he was so authoritative. I thought for
a moment it was actually Thursday exactly. I should have
had that in my ask.

Speaker 9 (08:00):
But wait, that's what I'm gonna do. It's like I'm
channeling Tony Marito. It's happy Cinco de Mayo.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
All right, there's precedent.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
This is Good Morning BET.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine, three WBT.

Speaker 9 (08:18):
It is Wednesday, December tenth, boen Beth here in the
Tyboid studio. And the last time I was corresponding with
our next guest, she was in Palm Beach. I know
why she was there, and we'll get to that in
a moment. But where are you now?

Speaker 12 (08:33):
I'm back in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yay, I see.

Speaker 9 (08:36):
It's I have to ask because Teresa is just all
over the place. That's always been the case with her,
and she is very likely many days when we're talking
to her to be just about two or just coming
off of one of the national morning shows, whether it's
Good Morning America or the Today Show or Fox and Friends,
whatever it is. She's in high demand all across the Country,
the founder of Forderless Solutions, and you can always follow

(08:58):
her on x and we reckon that because a lot
of times the conversations that we have here on the
air extend there and people ask her questions and she's
very interactive that way. But it's Teresa Payton, our cybersecurity expert.
Good morning to you, and what were you doing in
Palm Springs?

Speaker 12 (09:14):
Yeah, good morning. Well the weather wasn't that great, but
it was raining the whole time I was there, but
inside it was definitely sunny. I was meeting with hid
Global and their channel partners and all of their clients,
and we were talking about how AI is changing or
needs to change the way everyone thinks about physical security. So,

(09:37):
for example, if you're focused on I'm going to present
to you a key card access to a building, am
my biometrics that is not going to be good enough
anymore with deep fakes AI, the stealing of biometrics, and
so we were having sort of a futuristic conversation around
here's what's coming next, and so here's what you need
to do to prepare today to change your designs so

(09:59):
that we can be safe in the future.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
That's one of the things that I've seen a lot
of chatter about online is the stealing of biometrics, the
fact that biometrics are being utilized more and more, and
it does feel and you and I have talked about this, Teresa,
it does feel very minority report ESQ. But what can
happen if someone does steal your biometrics? I mean that
seems even on a next level of privacy violation.

Speaker 12 (10:27):
Yeah, I mean, if somebody has your biometrics, they could
potentially if the right safety nets are not in place,
they could potentially present your biometrics to a building for
access to your computer, for access to your online banking,
for access. And so this is why, you know, anybody
who uses biometrics in addition to your user ID and

(10:50):
password has to be designing different layers of safety nets
because user ID, password in biometrics is not going to
get it. And we're starting to see the reproduction of
biometrics and things like that at scale and at speed
with generative AI and other technologies coming out, and it

(11:14):
can be very convincing. You know, there's something called proof
of life that's used to authenticate in financial transactions, and
even that is being run through the paces with deep
fake technology. So I always say, like, it's not that
that technology is no good. It means you have to
have other things that you do in addition to just

(11:37):
in case you're presented with a voice clone or a
deep fake video or the biometrics of somebody and it's
not actually them.

Speaker 9 (11:44):
I got to ask you switching gears here. One of
the biggest stories out there this past week, especially in
the entertainment but also the digital realm, has been what
happens to Warner Brothers and Discovery. And initially the story
was Netflix had emerged as the exclusive negotiator, and then
over the weekend it was reported that Netflix had struck
a deal, and then earlier this week, Paramount submitted an

(12:06):
all cash, thirty dollars per share tender offer to Warner
Brothers shareholders. This is a fascinating story and even more
fascinating to sort of think about however this goes, how
many things it affects.

Speaker 12 (12:20):
I know, and I can't wait depending on how this
turns out, there should be a movie about this, and
I can't wait to watch it. You know, just the
politics and the backroom deals, and you know, I don't
really love either one option, but obviously here we are

(12:41):
with seeing things like Coca Cola McDonald's doing one hundred
generative AI created commercials. You know this is having an
impact on TV shows, on the movie industry. I didn't
love the Netflix announcement because I do love a superhero
movie in the theater. I like to also watch it

(13:03):
again a second or maybe more than second time at home.
But Ted Sarando said that he doesn't really love theatrical releases.
He actually called theaters quote an outmoded idea. So I
didn't love the Netflix saying, but I just I don't
know where it's going to land. But I do know this.
I do know that because of technology, the authenticity of

(13:27):
the TV and the movies that we watch is at risk.
And the artists who have brought us so many great
TV shows and movies, they're at risk as well.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
Speaking of AI, the President, President Trump actually is dropping
an AI executive order this week. Is this in favor
of propelling AI and making this a quicker process, or
is this trying to put up some safety rails.

Speaker 12 (13:59):
Well, I didn't read a lot about governance, guardrails and ethics.
What what I read in this bill? And maybe that's
sort of a part two. But in Part one, what
they're saying on the surface sounds like it makes sense,
which is that they're going to they want to pass
a federal law, and so the executive order. Executive orders

(14:20):
cannot compel us in the States to do anything. All
an executive order can do is compel the departments and
agencies or the military, or the White House to do something.
But what people sometimes forget is the connective connectivity between
departments and agencies tend to be regulators of private sector industry,
so that compelling can have sort of a downstream effect.

(14:43):
But what's interesting is that basically they're saying is if
you have a state law, there will be a federal law,
and the federal law will supersede the states, which obviously
you have to ask a question about states rights here.
Florida has a pretty strong AI law, and from what
I saw Governor just saying Antis mentioned that you know
that they're going to keep their law in effect. So

(15:06):
we'll see where this heads best. But it's a great question,
and I think it's another state tuned and get out
the popcorn and see kind of where this executive order
for a federal law that supersedes state laws will land.
You know, I could see the positive side of things
because we don't have a federal privacy law, and look
at what a mess our privacy is as it relates

(15:28):
to big tech, Silicon Valley social media type of things.
We don't really have a privacy bill of rights as
citizens of the United States, so you could see where well,
having something on a federal level could be helpful. But
I don't see the really good things that are already
in the state laws that have been passed in this
executive order. So more to come there.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
Speaking of more to come, next week will be our
annual conversation with you about predictions for twenty twenty six.
And if you've listened to the show over the years,
when Teresa makes predictions, they often come true, and often
come true pretty quickly. She's always sort of out there
a little ahead of things, and so I always look
forward to this yearly conversation. So we'll do that and

(16:10):
wrap up the year as well, and wrap up things
right now. Thank you so much as always well, Beth, and.

Speaker 12 (16:16):
Boat's always great to be with you, and congratulations. I
saw the big announcement about WBT, so I guess the
next time I talk to you. You'll be under the
new umbrella.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
This is Good Morning BT News Talk eleven ten, nine
to nine to three wbt BO Thompson, Beth Troutman on
your Wednesday as we continue from the legendary Tyboid Studio.
So yesterday was something we have not seen in a while.
We have not seen President Trump go out and do
a rally, a stump rally. I mean, I feel like

(16:49):
he did this a lot more during his first term.
And it was an anomaly back then because usually presidents
get elected to office and then they don't go out
and do rallies. But President Trump during his first term
did a lot of rallies, almost like he was running
for president again. And I know eventually he was, but
this was kind of a hallmark of his first presidency.
And because I remember saying to people, we never we've

(17:09):
never gotten out of election mode, you know. And so
President Trump was in Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania yesterday for
an economic speech. But I was talking to Brett Winnable
yesterday afternoon, who will, by the way, join us next
hour as he does on Wednesdays. But I was talking
to Brett Winnable, he said, what do you think he'll say,
and I said, well, it's it's one of those things
where he hasn't had this.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Type of venue in a while.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
So I have a feeling he's going to be you know,
you're gonna you're going to hear the greatest hits. You're
going to hear him riff, he's going to go off script,
he's going to sort of get things off his chest.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
And this actually comes on the heels of Susie Wiles,
his chief of staff, doing an interview where she said
that she wanted to make sure that the Republican Party
utilized Donald Trump in this midterm campaign cycle. So what
I think this was really is a kickoff, a kickoff
to the campaign cycle that Republican's quite frankly, are a

(18:00):
little bit worried about, given that the economy is on
the ballot and will be on the ballot, healthcare is
on the ballot, will be on the ballot, and Pennsylvania
right now, a lot of voters, I think are somewhere
around sixty eight percent of voters pulled by CBS said
that they no longer had faith in Donald Trump's ability
to handle the economy and the prices and the affordability

(18:23):
and so I think this was the first of many
campaign stops heading into the twenty twenty six cycle. And
he didn't shy away from talking about who's running for
US Senate here in North Carolina, even though he was
in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
And he also didn't shy away, and Winnable asked me yesterday,
what do you think we'll talk about? And I said, well,
I think the odds are pretty good he will mention
Charlotte somewhere in this because of the light rail incident
on Friday and the fact that he took the truth
social this weekend.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
To talk about it.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
So here is what President Trump said on the campaign
quote unquote campaign trail in Pocono yesterday regarding, like best said,
a race going on in North Carolina and Charlotte in particular.

Speaker 14 (19:04):
And look at what's going on in North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
We have a big Senate race.

Speaker 14 (19:09):
We have a fantastic man, Michael Wattley, running as a
Republican head of the Republican.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Party, won elections, won.

Speaker 14 (19:16):
The presidential election for US. He's running against the governor
who's a radical left lunatic, and Michael should win. I
don't know, it's hard you beat a two term governor.
But the governor didn't do a good job.

Speaker 13 (19:27):
But what's happening in North Carolina?

Speaker 14 (19:29):
Two of the most vicious murders that anyone's ever seen
in Charlotte, and it's all run by the Democrats.

Speaker 13 (19:36):
What's going on there?

Speaker 14 (19:37):
The young lady from Ukraine, you saw that one where
guy from behind just cut her throat on tape. Can't
even watch it. What's going on in North Carolina? You
need a Republican running that, and you need you've got
to have a Republican Senate to are elected if you don't,
and Michael Wattley's running, he's going to be great. So

(19:57):
we have people from North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
I wouldn't be wasting so many woods.

Speaker 14 (20:01):
Yeah, it's a senate race, but you agree with me.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
I think mister senator.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well running for senator. Yeah, not senator yet, he's not.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
Senator yet, but running. And we do have to point
out too that the President did misspeak there about the
stabbing that happened on Saturday or sorry, on Friday night.
That was That person is still alive. He is recovering
right now in the hospital and has even released a video.
So it's not two brutal murders. One was an attack.

(20:30):
Unfortunately that man is still alive.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Days are counting one of.

Speaker 9 (20:46):
My all time favorite commercials, but I'm feeling a little
bit differently about it this year.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Teresa Payton actually turned us.

Speaker 9 (20:56):
Onto this idea a few weeks ago, and she mentioned
it early. But the Coca Cola holiday commercial is back,
and it's all ai like, there's not a single thing
that's real in it. And I know you could say, well,
that's what's the difference between that animation.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (21:13):
I just remember the original that had actual trucks and
people and cans and Santa.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah, yes, Santa.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
Ta, I mean Santa and Coca Cola. Didn't first year
of this show, didn't I say, you can't have coke
without Santa, the Polar Bears and the Polar Bears.

Speaker 9 (21:28):
And you said, for that matter, that you put peanuts
in your coke. But that's another story for another day.
And actually the intention is not to talk about Coke
A Cola here. It's actually Coca Cola's biggest competitor here.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
Pepsi co Guys. PepsiCo is actually owned by something called
The Purchase, which sounds kind of fun, right, Purchase it's
a New York based company. They make Cheetos, Tostitos, and
other free do lay products, as well as the PepsiCo beverages.
Now the Pepsi Beverages listen to this for twenty twenty,

(22:00):
the new year that is just a few weeks away.
They said they will cut nearly twenty percent of its
popular products by early next year, and they will use
the savings. They sound like the this sounds like the
Charlotte City Council. They'll use their savings to invest in marketing,
to invest in marketing these products to us, but also
in improved value for customers. So people are wondering, well,

(22:23):
what in the heck does that mean? Well, they are
jumping on the make America Healthy again trend and they
are offering, they say, an introduction of new offerings with
simpler and more functional ingredients. Isn't it sad that we're
all going into twenty twenty six and they're like, Hey,
we're going to make food.

Speaker 11 (22:40):
Food, make food food again.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
How about make diet pepsi taste good?

Speaker 8 (22:45):
No, okay, those are those are fighting words, bo, Because
you know I don't drink a lot of sodas. You
actually more than anybody. You have turned me.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
On trickly soda, that's all I drink.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
You have turned me onto the zero, like Coke zero,
doctor Pepper zero, which is probably the best of the zero.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
Or if you're interested in what I'm drinking right now,
the holiday creamy vanilla Coke zero.

Speaker 8 (23:06):
You've been drinking that one on the regular, well.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
Because it's gonna go away, yeah the holidays. Like, no, no,
you don't be able to get this in January.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Stock up your closet.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
You should see it.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
But I do. I do find. I do find Pepsi
zero good. I do find diet pepsi. I like diet
pepsi better than diet coke. And again I don't drink
any of these things.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I don't even know who you are.

Speaker 15 (23:27):
Actually, just it just goes so flat so quick for me.
Pepsi just you can put it down for five seconds
and then you drink it again, You're.

Speaker 11 (23:34):
Like, oh wow, it's already flat.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Great, good job, thanks, I'm okay with regular pepsi. That's
about it. And Mountain Dew is made by pepsi.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
I will say there, Pepsi did a great job. Speaking
of spending marketing dollars, they did a great job of
marketing Pepsi and a pizza because now anytime I want pizza,
I think about a big picture of Pepsi. And maybe
that was a combination with Pizza Hut back in the day.
And okay, guys, I don't know if you've seen this
again with the marketing, so maybe Pepsi's onto something. Pepsi

(24:05):
has this commercial and it's a dude sitting in his
bathrobe and he's eaten. He's like sitting at the counter
in his kitchen and he's eating fried chicken. And it
has the most delectable sounds of him crunching into the
fried chicken and then he's like gulping down a Pepsi
zero And I adore that commercial. It is amazing. The

(24:26):
sounds are incredible and it makes me want nothing but
fried chicken at a Pepsi. And then his wife comes
in and she's like, babe, it's eight o'clock in the morning.
And the tagline is something like, you know, it's never
too early for chicken at a pepsi or something.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
You are an odd person there.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
Oh, it's so good. It's such a good commercial.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
You want to drink the pepsi because of the way
the food crunching sounds.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Oh oh wait. Okay, so I bet you. I bet you.
Our internet sleuth Steve is going to find this commercial
because the sounds, oh he already has. Guys, the sounds
of the chicken crunching and the gulping of the pepsi.
If it does not make you want pepsi and chicken,
then I think something might be wrong with you.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
If you send it over here, we might be able
to get it before the top of the hour. I'm
I'm but I'm not holding out hope that I'm going
to go get pepsi out of the machine.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
Well, we're waiting for that. Here are some of the
functional ingredient items that Pepsi will now market, it market
and release to the uh, you know, general public. Dorrito's
protein protein doritos.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, so I saw this last night. You you're the
one who eats the protein chips.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
Yeah, I have a bag of them today at the
Quest Protein Chips there. They're in my in my bag
right now.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
So is this supposed to make you want to go
drink a pepsi?

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Now?

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Well, I think this is. I mean Pepsi Co. And
the purchase company they own this, so it's it's to
make you want to go eat Dorrito's because this is
a dorito that's better for you. And they're also offering
simply naked or I guess naked naked.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
We all know there's a difference between naked and nicked.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Well, these are naked Cheetos, guys, naked Cheetos and nicked Doritos,
which contain no artificial flavors and no artificial I thought
this was already a thing.

Speaker 11 (26:01):
I've seen that those that are the Cheetos that are
like that.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
And they're lighter in color. I love this simply naked
Cheeto things.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
But it would be this is what they're using their
money to invest in.

Speaker 8 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, here we go.

Speaker 10 (26:15):
It's going to be another hot eighty with lows ranging
in the upper fifties.

Speaker 16 (26:20):
Tomorrow is more of the same.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh, I hate the sound of that.

Speaker 17 (26:27):
It's eight am.

Speaker 11 (26:32):
He just got hit by his wife.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
She sounds hot. That's what Mark took. Sorry, she sounds attractive.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Is that all I have to do?

Speaker 9 (26:46):
It's just baby, that's right, calling baby and bringing protein chips.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (26:53):
I'm so easy to bright chicken and a PEPSI.

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Mark again, I come back around to my heart. Make
diet pepsi taste good?

Speaker 8 (27:02):
I like diet pepsi. I again, I don't. At the
beginning of twenty twenty five, Bo had me on a
diet soda thing, and I I've skilled back at it.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
It so like I said, you need to lose weight, dug.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
I didn't mean it that way.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's the way it sounded. So you need to you
need to catch that be.

Speaker 15 (27:21):
You really should try this diet soda.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
I tried the diet.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
I didn't mean it that way, but he got me
and I looked on the diet zero calories.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
She signed up for PhD.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
I did PhD wave before that.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Every day.

Speaker 9 (27:40):
At the end of the show, Beth has this step
on the scale tip bo.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
Bo charges me if I gain a pound. It's like
a it's like a it's a fee I paid.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh man, I just sounded funny when you said that.

Speaker 8 (27:52):
She's got to stipulate it there, folks, He did not
call me fat?

Speaker 17 (27:56):
It is?

Speaker 11 (27:57):
Did it?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Doo p h A t oh?

Speaker 14 (27:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
See what does it mean to slide into someone's DMS.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
That sounds like a lot of fluck.

Speaker 16 (28:04):
Okay, we're not ready for that.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
From News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WPT.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
And then what does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 7 (28:11):
It has everything to do with anything.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
This is good morning Bet with quote Thompson and Beth
Trout that's all.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
With a second, we ride up De Troy's bucket.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
Eight minutes past seven o'clock on WBT on your Wednesday,
December tenth, Bot Thompson, Beth Troutman, Jim Zokie, Bernie Bowles,
Sir Stephen of Anthony, their final day on nine to
nine point three tomorrow, WBT begins broadcasting on one oh
seven point nine FM.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Charlotte's FM News Talk. This is really happening.

Speaker 16 (28:50):
I know.

Speaker 8 (28:50):
We got to get used to saying it out loud.

Speaker 9 (28:53):
So the text line seven oh four five seven oh
eleven ten, driven by Liberty View at GMC, has that
been cranking the last few minutes after talking about how
bad diet pepsi.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Is, Oh no, Kim, Kim says, no way, bo diet
pepsi all the way.

Speaker 11 (29:08):
No way, Bose.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
And then somebody, somebody, somebody always texting during conversations like this,
because we were talking about how pepsi is apparently cutting
costs and reinvesting and making their products that they do
have better.

Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, they're cutting twenty percent of their current products. But
some of the products that they do have, like the
naked it is more fun to say ned, the neked Cheetos,
and the neked Doritos with fewer ingredients and more functional
ingredients is what they're saying, Which makes me sad that
we have to, you know, change all of our food

(29:43):
to make it functional, functional food. Wow, how did we
get here?

Speaker 11 (29:47):
Doritos shaped like rice cakes?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
What does that actually mean?

Speaker 8 (29:49):
It means that the ingredients can actually be utilized by
your body.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Oh so it's a positive thing. Yeah, it's a positive
positive for.

Speaker 8 (29:56):
That, it's a positive thing. They're saying that the newest
investors in Pepsi Co are activist investors, but they're kind
of jumping on the make America healthy again train, which
is not a bad thing. If if A and they're
making you know how, I like the protein chips. Gurrito's
is coming out with a protein virgin.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Extreme kale chips. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
I'm just looking at this X this coke zero can
and it's very functional right now.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
Well it's functional in your hand, yes.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
Is like to me, Hey, it's actually no of course
all you all know maybe it is, but I'm telling
you I are always so happy. We always get messages
when we talk about stuff like this, people say, do
you know what's in? Have you read the ingredients on
the side of that can? And yes I have, and
it tastes.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Good and you still drink it? Well, okay, So Gary
wanted us to know too, because I talked about the
fact that that Pepsi did a brilliant job of marketing
the Pepsi and a pizza thing, and then we played
this Pepsi and chicken ad. Now which Pepsi? Gary wanted
me to remember that the Oh no, no, Gary wanted

(30:59):
me to know that that that Pepsi commision makes him
think of a big bucket of KFC fried chicken at
a family reunion. Uh huh, Gary, uh huh, I feel
you You.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Got the right one, baby. Uh huh Are you reading
or were you saying that I was saying?

Speaker 6 (31:13):
Good?

Speaker 8 (31:13):
Uh huh, I get it, Gary. Yes, it makes me
think of a family reunion and a bucket of chicken too.
It was justin listening in Fayetteville, he said, Beth, remember
that Pepsi co used to own Pizza Hut and KFC.
They spun it off years ago as Yum Brands. It
includes Taco Bell, KFC, and Long John Silvers. That's why
they all serve pepsi products. But they've done a great

(31:34):
job of marketing that pepsi goes with those products. Because
that pepsi and chicken commercial. If it doesn't make you
want pepsi and a chicken, I don't know what's wrong
with you and pepsi and a pizza. That was a
whole thing. And every time my husband thinks about, like
ordering a pizza, I'm like, should we get like a
two liter of pepsi? There's something in my brain. So
marketing works.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I mean, Yum brand, you brand, no matter of opinion.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
Of whether or not it's yummy.

Speaker 15 (31:57):
Yes, both sad even in the breaking the break Yeah, but.

Speaker 8 (32:01):
Yon Brands, Come on you, you know that Taco Bell
is lovely. It's delicious when you.

Speaker 9 (32:06):
Really have my jam, you know that I love talking
about it. I have nothing against Taco Bell, but that's
not the place. I usually got Pizza Hut when I can,
when when I can sit inside it.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
How do you go to Pizza Hut? We did, I know,
but it's not convenient is what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
Well, it's like say, hey, I might have lunch today,
when when we're riding the beach, it is yeah, I
will never not stop there again. Pizza Hut was almost
like fine dining when I was growing up, Like that
was like the Cadillac.

Speaker 8 (32:29):
It totally was. We drove all the way to Cannapolis
to go to Pizza Hut because Concord didn't have liquor
by the drink, and my dad wanted to have a
corps a picture of cors with his pizza banquet, so
the kids we would get a big picture of Pepsi.
My dad would have the picture of cors And and
we would even sit at different tables, so my brothers
and I would say.

Speaker 10 (32:49):
He was with his other family, which are so awkward,
probably in the same restaurants. Sounds like us driving to
the beach there next day. We all said at different
tables when we go somewhere.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
I'll be over here.

Speaker 11 (32:58):
I'll see you guys a little bit.

Speaker 8 (33:00):
But we used to prank each other. We would prank
each other at the restaurant. My little brother, poor little Bill,
he went to the bathroom and my older brother lifted
up all the cheese on his pizza and poured all
of the hot peppers the hot pepper flakes and then
just put the cheese back on the bops. It was
awful and he ate it and then threw up.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
It was like, I'm glad the story had a happy end. Yeah,
so brothers do.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
And it killed him, like why didn't you tell me?
And because I knew that my older brother would beat
me up if I if I had warned it.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
It came back to the table when we heard this.

Speaker 10 (33:39):
Better we acquaint yourself with the high life soldier before
someone tries to take away your miller time.

Speaker 9 (33:46):
I know it's banquet, but it's close enough.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
It does look like if you, if you out there
know remember what a corus banquet can looks like.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
That's what I'm not sure.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
Wait a minute, is the cores banquet can gone?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I thought it was still.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
It's still there. That's what I'm saying. If you know
what it looks like, because not everybody drinks cores banged.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
It's not like a standard one and the little bottle
if you buy the bottle, it's like a little little
small miniatures.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
Like the little red stripe.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
Yeah, I go to Harris theeter often, Bernie, a lot
of browsing going on. He's talk eleven ten WBT. I'm
over living the high life.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Just window shopping. That's right. Traffic check right now.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
Boomer Volcano to Christmas seasons made for those six ounce
Coca Cola bottles.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Oh, I enjoyed every day of the year. Bernie is
Boomer not burning Halloween that's right.

Speaker 8 (34:39):
That's not drinking, of course, he's drunk.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Watch it.

Speaker 8 (34:46):
Holy cow, what's going on Thursday?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Bernie?

Speaker 9 (34:51):
Can we go to Boomer because if not, we're going
to be late to news with Tony Marina Hair.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Good morning, love me, Harriet, Good morning man.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
This is Good Morning Beatty with both Thompson and Beth Troutba.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
You can stop texting. That's saying that Beth is right
about diet pepsi. You're not going to change my soft
drink habits this morning. It's just impossible.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (35:24):
But they're also giving advice to Bernie, who said that
pepsi goes flat. CA says, tell Bernie the mini cans
keep the fizz.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Good luck with your pepsy, Bernie.

Speaker 11 (35:35):
Hey, thanks, kay, I'll give that a shot.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I enjoy your mini can. That's right. Maybe you can
write a check for it. I'll check you, sir.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
That seems to lead us to another subject. Yeah, what,
that's ironic you would say that.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I know, I know.

Speaker 9 (35:50):
Maybe I can go write a check for a diet
pepsi and it'll taste better.

Speaker 8 (35:53):
Oh it might, because you have to put effort into
getting it, and anything you put effort into is better.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
Well, I remember when I was a kid, my mom
would always go to the Harris Theater or the A
n P or wherever the.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Grocery store and p.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
About the A and P.

Speaker 9 (36:11):
When I was a kid, I said, not like the
other day I went. I know, but memory, that's like
the seventies memories from the A and P. The Yes, So.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
When we went to the Bilo, I went to the
wind Dixie.

Speaker 8 (36:27):
We used to go to the meat people.

Speaker 11 (36:30):
And the meat people.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
She's not wrong. That was the it's the way she
says it, the meat.

Speaker 9 (36:38):
But actually on the wind Dixie, like the sign in
the front of the store, on to the right of
the logo, was the meat people.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
No, no, no, no, it was the beef people. The beef people.
You both have a shared wrong memory.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
It's you think it was the beef people.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Think it was the meat people. I told you it
was on the side.

Speaker 9 (36:57):
I think it was the beef people, but I some
but someone will tell us in a matter of seconds.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I think it was the meat people anyway, usually Steve.
But which one had the produce that was better because
of Walter?

Speaker 8 (37:07):
That was by let Okay, that was by high. It
was to buy food. Actually, guys, if if Bilo were
a thing now, it would be called.

Speaker 10 (37:17):
The bye High because of today.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
That wasn't today's price. Isn't that what Infinity's end is?
By high.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
It's kind of what whole foods is.

Speaker 9 (37:26):
Yeah, uh okay. So the whole point of me going
down the check.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Writing a line, yeah, the a m P. I remember
my mom would go.

Speaker 9 (37:34):
And this is before the days of hit the button
for cash back. It was write a check for more
than the amount that you had so you could get
some cash back when they when they put the check
in the drawer and gave you that cash.

Speaker 8 (37:45):
This was how mom fooled the wingdact in my house. Honey, money,
it's just groceries.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
That's inflation right there. But you know, and this is uh,
this is not a surprise. It comes and goes, but
there's no, a new report that we're getting even closer
to the end of paper checks period.

Speaker 8 (38:05):
Well, if they do do that, then I there are
some things that you still have to send a check
in for, I mean, for a For the longest time,
for my garbage service, I still had to like mail
a check. And they finally did the online payment thing
that you can do, but some hoa's still only take checks.
And if they're not going to take checks anymore, some
of the online payment services, even if you use your

(38:28):
routing number and your account number, they still charge you
a service fee anywhere from like three to five dollars extra.
So I kind of still like the paper check I
still have them. I don't keep the I don't keep
my checkbook in my purse the way that I used to,
and I don't write. I used to love balancing a
check book and writing we're strange.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
That's the worst activity ever.

Speaker 8 (38:49):
Oh I loved it. And when I had it balanced
out exactly with the balance, when I would go to
the bank and check the balance, I felt like this
like math genius. But you could write all tiny in
the ledger anyway.

Speaker 9 (39:00):
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve put out a notice. They
put out a notice that suggested it's considering but only
considering the quote winding down, winding down of checking services.
It now provides four banks. So if if this this
comes from the top and that all these businesses have
to conform to it, that is a thing. It's it's

(39:21):
it's one thing for you know, some people to stay
antiquated and others not. But if they if they put
the edict at the top, then yeah, this could, this
could go away.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
When's the last time you wrote a check for something?
I do it all the time.

Speaker 10 (39:35):
Really, I have our contractor oh yeah, I have to
pay you only take care of the ven mosoring this
I read a tone you mentioned. HOA is like our
place in South Carolina. South Carolina, just say this print apologies.
They're like ten years behind everything else. And so like
everything that has to do with our place at Seabrook
is like they need checks in the mail, and I'm
talking like for taxes for HOA for all that stuff.

(39:57):
And I have to find not only checks, but stamps
and envelopes and all those things people used to use
back in the pilgrim days.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
It goes to pay them money.

Speaker 10 (40:05):
They will not accept any electronic payment or like you said,
if you do, it's like punitive, It's like it'll be
an extra three percent.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Right, don't you mean back in the days of the
A and P. Yes, the MP days.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, it was no longer to be. It's no longer
on the show going to be days of yours. It's
going to be the days of AMP, days of AP,
the days of the a MP. I do still love
what it feels like to write a check. There's something
that I don't know. It feels powerful that you write
in the name of the person you're paying, you write
in the amount, and then you not only write the
amount in that little box, then you write it out

(40:36):
longhand you know, like seven dollars six over one hundred.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Hash tag barbecue. And I bet you fall out that memo,
don't you?

Speaker 6 (40:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Did you feel out that memo?

Speaker 8 (40:48):
Like this was four cheetos or whatever?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
All right, real quick, Mendy is online number two. Mendy.
Welcome to Good Morning BT.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Good morning, Hi, what's up? Hello? Hello?

Speaker 8 (41:01):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (41:02):
What can you hear us?

Speaker 18 (41:03):
I'm good. I was just calling to pay a compliment
to you folks. You're all nutcases and you're just the
most uplifting, you know, program to hear in the morning, but.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Your positive Nutcases.

Speaker 18 (41:19):
I love your laughter and it's it's just it's just
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I was asking the fellow that answered the phone, is
it just mainly better reception for one O seven point
nine or what else is is good for you?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
It's a huge, huge FM signal.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
Yeah, so bigger, more better reception, and you can keep
us on longer. So even if you're driving, you know,
to like Greensboro, you can listen to us all the week.

Speaker 18 (41:43):
Well that's good to know, as I make trips to
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out after you know, shortly after leaving.

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Chart there's nothing to listen to.

Speaker 18 (41:54):
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Speaker 8 (42:01):
Merry Christmas. What a Christmas gift you just gave us.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
That's right, louder Nutcases.

Speaker 10 (42:06):
I like how she probabs with ripping on each olie
to be uplifting. Spent that whole second ripping on each
other things.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
We said, you guys are upliftings.

Speaker 9 (42:13):
If you had a transcript of the last thirty minutes,
we've like busted on each other eight times.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Just flat. It's not them, it's just us.

Speaker 8 (42:20):
But that's what buds do.

Speaker 15 (42:21):
At least it's Thursday, right, Happy, happy Thursday to you.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
This is good morning, beaty.

Speaker 17 (42:28):
You hold it, you hear it, chase it? Good right,
you got on the phone. You got to write one

(42:49):
day back, all right.

Speaker 9 (42:52):
So this is the one great thing about diet Pepsi.
One of the greatest ad campaigns in the history of
TV in my opinion, and this Ray Charles thing was awesome.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
I'll give you that.

Speaker 8 (43:04):
I loved this commercial. It's like this commercials you want
to Sorry, I have to take my glasses.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Glasses stuck, stuck in my headphones. You can't see the radio.

Speaker 8 (43:14):
It was one of those songs I wanted to download.
This was that came out before downloading, but I want
to download it now and listen to it in the car.

Speaker 9 (43:22):
So Jim may or may not remember this. This is
this is like at least ten years ago. But we
were talking about this song one day, this ad campaign.
Uh huh and uh huh, uh huh. And the listener
emailed me and he said, you know that that song
was actually written by Prince and it was a song
that was left on the cutting room floor and it

(43:43):
never released.

Speaker 8 (43:43):
But it was a song about diet No.

Speaker 9 (43:45):
No, they made they made the diet pepsi song From
that that, Prince actually released a song called uh huh
and I and he he sent it to me and
I played it on the air and I was just
like floored by this. But listen, just listen though you'll

(44:09):
hear the you'll hear the genesis.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
I mean, how amazing is that?

Speaker 9 (44:24):
Like I never knew and the listener he texted me
about it and I was like, this is this can't
be right. And then he texted me the actual song,
which was never released. It's out there on the net
if you look hard enough. But so, one of the
greatest ad campaigns with the legendary Ray Charles actually was
that was from another musical genius that we know is
a Prince.

Speaker 10 (44:44):
What if he got Prince get paid? Since it was
basically yeah, because.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I mean, that wasn't that was the that was the
baseline and the and the rift from the commercials.

Speaker 9 (44:53):
So anyway, I wanted to find a positive thing to
say about diet pepsi and now I have.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
Well, I have more positive things to say about it.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
I don't really care about those because.

Speaker 8 (45:01):
Kay says Beth is right diet pepsi in quest protein chips.
There you go, but now they are going to be
Dorito's protein chips. But I do also want to point out,
because we were talking about the fact that paper checks
could potentially be going away, people are really upset about this.
Of Phil says paper checks are a necessity for seniors

(45:22):
who aren't as technologically advanced as the new generation of folks.
I agree with that, and this one is my favorite
text of all. Oh that this person did not leave
a name, and I kind of want to know your
name because I want to be friends. This person says,
I'm with Beth. I love a good bank reconciliation. You
can have my checks when you pry them from my
dead fingers.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (45:45):
Well, it has nothing to do with pepsi, but has
to do microphone dropped.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
We'll see tomorrow, folks.

Speaker 8 (45:49):
For me, I want to know that person because this
person also loved balancing a checkbook. I thought it was
so much fun to.

Speaker 10 (45:55):
All the conversations you could have sounded smell the podcast
sit down at.

Speaker 8 (46:00):
A desk and write you know what you wrote the
check for and two and then you do the math
and then you put it all down. I thought it
was so much fun.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
So my checkbook cover, this is how old it is.
It's like.

Speaker 10 (46:13):
It's the old panther logo before they change the panther
head of it. And it's like it's like crumbling. It's
like it's like whatever. It's like nylon is or whatever whatever.
But it's like literally like dry rot. But I don't
where do you go buy another checkbook cover?

Speaker 8 (46:27):
You can order them from the bank.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Actual cover that goes on the check books.

Speaker 8 (46:30):
If you go if you go on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
I know they exist, but why would I go to
the effort? I guess that is what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (46:35):
Well, because for the three times a year that you
have to write checks in South Carolina, you can keep
that little check book and keep your checks all handy dandy.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Right there in my penny jar with my pennies.

Speaker 9 (46:44):
Okay, So on the level of writing checks, I don't
like to write checks. I'm like you guys, every once
in a while you have to. But is anybody else
a little bit spooked by the idea of when they
want you to take a picture of the check and
then just send that. Like when you're deposit a check.
A lot of these men say, just take a picture
of the front and back of it and then text
it and that'll take care of things. I always feel

(47:04):
like that's there's not enough of a paper trail there.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Does it make sense? I think, like an email receipt.

Speaker 8 (47:12):
Or I just don't like to do an email receipt.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Couple checkings all that day. It's super convenient. You're scared
of that.

Speaker 11 (47:16):
I'm not afraid of technology.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Yeah, obvious, you want to check tomorrow? Joining us on FM?

Speaker 10 (47:22):
Were you the one that wrote Beth about big technology impaired?

Speaker 8 (47:25):
Were you the one who said that you need to check?

Speaker 9 (47:27):
Just what I'm saying is is when I do that,
there's something. Look you're talking about the act of writing
a check. I love it to me if I have
a check to deposit, I feel better if I go
and give that to the teller at the bank, or
at least go put it in the ATM machine, like
when you take a picture of it and just I
always feel like like somehow that cloud. Yes, But I'm

(47:49):
I'm the old man who doesn't like checks. I don't
write checks anymore.

Speaker 8 (47:53):
Okay, Well, here's the thing. I don't know who you
bank with, but most of the time, if you go
into your checking account and look at each transaction, there
will be a copy of the photo of that check
front and back in it. It does make convenience.

Speaker 9 (48:10):
All I'm saying is in this digital age, when people
can do AI things and they can go and manipulate
digital I just to me having a hard copy of that, like,
because when you when you write the check and send
it in and don't take a picture of it, you
actually get that check back. Remember that when you get
the check back with.

Speaker 8 (48:26):
Your when you got canceled checks.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, you get the Now you get
the image of it. Like like you're saying, if you
look at your bank statement, you get the images of
all the checks. But back in the back, in the
days before that, you would actually get the check you
wrote back to you.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
Well, the great thing is, but when you have when
you take the picture of the check and and and
deposit it is you still have the check. I realized that,
like it's in your hands so that you can put
so that you actually have the physical check instead of
them sending it.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I realized that.

Speaker 9 (48:53):
But what I'm saying is when you don't send, when
you don't physically give that to them, it seems to
me we talk so much about how people can manipulate
things that are in digital form.

Speaker 8 (49:03):
You're thinking if you don't give it to them that
maybe they'll say it was seven dollars rather than seven hundred.

Speaker 9 (49:09):
No, I'm saying, I do give I send them the
picture of it. I'm saying, what can happen to the
picture as it's getting to the to the point where
it's it's going.

Speaker 8 (49:17):
You're thinking they might manipulate it to be less money
than it is or more money.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I'm saying it's possible.

Speaker 9 (49:22):
I mean if you if you take a picture of
the check sometimes and you don't make sure that it
took the right amount, it sometimes reads your check wrong.

Speaker 10 (49:29):
Just to be the electronic guy in the room here,
when I said that, I get an immediate text from
the bank that says you just deposited seventy dollars. It's
unofficial essentially until it's official as far as what it
tells you the amount and when you did it at
what time?

Speaker 8 (49:44):
Well, and my bank has the extra level that you
take the picture of the front and back, and it
you enter the amount yourself, you digitally enter it in
so that you know it's accurately been read. If you
if you want that feature added so that you if
your check is for seventy dollars and you're worried that
it might just come up as seven dollars because of
handwriting or light ink or whatever, you can actually digitally

(50:08):
put that amount in so that you know that it's acting.

Speaker 11 (50:10):
You can alter your own check.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Bo I recommend that.

Speaker 8 (50:13):
Don't do it. It's an eagle.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I'm going to go and order checks today after.

Speaker 9 (50:17):
The show yourself a check right to say, the nineteen
ninety five Panther logo check.

Speaker 8 (50:23):
Do you know what also was really great?

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Show it to you, signed by Jim Zook.

Speaker 8 (50:25):
The checks that have the carbon copy Gabriel Jim.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Can I just get a blank checker?

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Is it? And doing any of this.

Speaker 11 (50:33):
Won't do anything with it.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
None of this is happening.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
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Speaker 9 (52:01):
So I want to you and I were talking on
your show yesterday as I joined you and you asked me, Okay,
President Trump is speaking in Pocono. He's doing the first
real sort of you know, rally type speech he's done
in a while. And I was saying to Beth earlier
in this show, I said, you know, it was kind
of a hallmark of his first administration that he never

(52:21):
really stopped campaigning. I remember thinking, I'm used to election
cycle and then the person gets elected and then you
sort of settle down into, you know, between the elections,
and we never got that with President Trump, and now
we're used to it. But I think the first term
he did a lot more of the stump speeches, and
he doesn't do as much anymore, at least if you're

(52:41):
going by what he's done since the beginning of this
second term. So there he is out in Pocono yesterday
in Pennsylvania, and I wondered, You said, what do you
think he's going to talk about? And I said, well,
given what's happening in Charlotte with the second light rail
stabbing and the fact that he got on a truth
social over the weekend and made a statement about Charlotte,
I figured it would come up.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
It did.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
Also the race per Senate that is cranking up here
between Whatley and Roy Cooper, and of course Don Brown
as well, but he did speak about these things last night.

Speaker 14 (53:12):
Here we go, Bernie, and look at what's going on
in North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (53:15):

Speaker 14 (53:17):
We have a fantastic man, Michael Wattley running as a
Republican head of the Republican.

Speaker 7 (53:22):
Party, won elections, won.

Speaker 14 (53:24):
The presidential election for us. He's running against the governor
who's a radical left lunatic, and Michael should win. I
don't know, it's hard you beat a two term governor,
but the governor didn't do a good job.

Speaker 13 (53:35):
But what's happening in North Carolina?

Speaker 14 (53:37):
And two of the most vicious murders that anyone's ever
seen in Charlotte and it's all run by the Democrats.

Speaker 13 (53:44):

Speaker 14 (53:45):
guy from behind just cut her throat on tape. Can't
even watch it. What's going on in North Carolina? You
need a Republican running that, and you need you've got
to have a Republican senator to a elected if you don't,
and Michael Wattley's running, he's going to be great.

Speaker 13 (54:05):
So we have people from North Carolina.

Speaker 14 (54:07):
Otherwise I wouldn't be wasting so many words. You know,
it's a senate race. But you agree with me, I think,
mister Senator.

Speaker 9 (54:14):
We should put out that he said two murders, the
stabbing on Friday. The person is continues to be in
stable condition, so he did not lose his life, and
we obviously hope that he gets continues to get better.
But the bigger the reason I've played that is because yes,
he did end up talking about Charlotte and the Carolina's
a good bit. What were your thoughts watching this last night?

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, look, I was waiting to hear from him in
that regard.

Speaker 19 (54:40):
Watching this thing last night was very interesting because he
actually poked a joke about getting shot in Butler, but
he was talking about everything under the sun. And a
lot of this is being driven by Susie Wilde, who
is the chief of staff in the White House, and

(55:02):
she has made it abundantly clear that he is going
to be out there on the road because there's nobody
who can do what he does. You know, Jade Vance
is obviously very effective in his way, but the president
is that's the bully pulpit right there.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Wherever he goes.

Speaker 19 (55:17):
The only the only critique I had about about last night,
you know, if kids are watching the show and things
like that, he was a little bit of curs and
going on. And I'm not a prude, Okay, I have
the farthest thing from a prude, but you know, let's
family friendly. I mean, there was a lot of essays

(55:38):
in this and that. But I thought he had great energy.
I thought that the people were dialed right in. And
I do think that as we all know this this
upcoming election with the with with Michael Wattley and Don
Brown and Roy Cooper is going to be the thing
to watch big time.

Speaker 8 (55:55):
I saw the same interview with Susie Wile about the
the whole point of having Donald Trump, you know, going
out and about is to get Republicans elected in twenty
twenty six. That he's going to be more effective than
probably anybody on the on the campaign trail, and she
said that she was going to make sure that he

(56:16):
was utilized quite a bit. How much do you think
he'll be out on the trail in the entire calendar
year of twenty twenty six before the November midterms.

Speaker 7 (56:24):
Yeah, a lot.

Speaker 19 (56:25):
I think I think He's going to be doing a
whole lot of this stuff, because what do you get
when you get Trump on a stage someplace anywhere in
the country. You have people that turn out and they
listen to what's what's going on here? And so I
think he's he's the best possible salesperson that he's got.
You've got some fraying going on inside the inside the
house and all that sort of stuff, But I think

(56:47):
he's He's going to be out there a lot, and
I think he's going to get more energy from the
from the audiences as it gets, as it gets closer
and closer.

Speaker 9 (56:54):
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We're going to break down all the stuff that's happening
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Couple of a couple of little fun surprises too as well.
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Thank you. Brett Winnable, The Brett Winterboll Show. This is
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No, it's not exactly a good morning.

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You have kind of a situation down here at the squawk.
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Speaker 3 (57:38):
This is good Morning BT with Bo Thompson at Beth Trout.

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Seven minutes past eight o'clock here on WBT, Happy holidays.
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(58:20):
Excited about it and uh mar's gonna be a big day.

Speaker 8 (58:24):
Oh so big.

Speaker 9 (58:25):
Today's been a big day. I mean we've been a
lot of places since six am. Just check out the
text line and you'll know.

Speaker 8 (58:32):
Our text line has been blowing up. I had no
idea that just this little conversation about checks and checkbooks
and writing checks and paid with tech.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
You all want to talk politics.

Speaker 10 (58:41):
People want to know about diet diets, paper checkbooks, what
you ate.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
They don't, you know, cafeterias. They don't too much of
the politics.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
So this some of my favorite texts ever have come
through because Bo, right before we talked with Brett Winterable,
was very upset about.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
I've never seen a more upsode, more upset.

Speaker 8 (59:02):
About the digital depositing of the check He needs to
to physically hand it to a teller, or he needs
to go to the ATM.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
And no, he wasn't knowing God. He want that little
thing that goes in the tunnel. I do miss that.
That was cool.

Speaker 8 (59:22):
And when a sucker came back, I know, like you
would they give you yours.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
It's not godness.

Speaker 9 (59:27):
Right.

Speaker 15 (59:29):
As a kid, you just hope that they see you
in the back seat when your parents are dropping the
check off.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
Oh, I would totally down the window.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
That sticker, sticker, I'd.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
Crank down the window and I would stick my head
out the window just to make sure that they saw me.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Showed a sticker last times sticker and a lollipop.

Speaker 9 (59:45):
No, I just want to correct you that. And it's
not that I'm not going along with technology. I understand
that we're in the digital age and that all is
what it is. I'm telling you that when I take
a picture and just send it on the back of
my mind, I'm thinking, I hope that gets to the where
it's supposed to go. I hope somebody doesn't intercept it.
I hope somebody did doesn't because all we hear, I mean,
Teresa Payton today talking about all the things they can

(01:00:06):
do with the AI and deep fakes, and so when
there's not a paper trail, and I know there is eventually,
but right there in the moment, like we used to
hand it to them and they would stick it in
the little machine and it would print out the little
you know, like it would ratify it.

Speaker 15 (01:00:21):
Oh Appire's bow room. You a check for fifty thousand
dollars posit of my account.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Thanks right, Thank you both guys. It's a fuzzy picture.
We'll just round up Dave.

Speaker 8 (01:00:30):
Dave has texted us about this very issue. Bo Dave
says Dave from waxaw here former banker and credit union
branch manager. Tell boat Ji, tell Boa to chill out
about the photo deposit the paper does it really matter?
And by the way, checks are also easy to commit
fraud with the paper checks. The same people that can

(01:00:51):
do the AI stuff and print phone checks as well.
You are welcome. All the pertinent information is in those photos,
the most important which are the routing number and the
account number. They're at the bottom of the check. Now
you know more than you ever wanted to know. The
bottom line is, if the bad guys are gonna get you,
they're gonna get you. You would be.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Scared so nothing. Dave needs to take a chill bill.

Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
You would be scared to death to see how easy
it is to rip people off, he said. Bottom line,
trust Jesus, and what Jesus to your bank, David, So
the Daves Jesus take the check. The Daves and the
David's are not with you on this boat. David says,
someone should remind Bo he's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
Got God on his shop.

Speaker 10 (01:01:35):
Lost you lost, He's got God on this long diet driving.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
At the very end, he gets religious. I said, I
don't believe in God or something.

Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
He's basically saying, the only thing you can really trust
is Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
That happens.

Speaker 10 (01:01:47):
Yeah, God be with you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
I thought.

Speaker 9 (01:01:51):
He meant, hey, you need to find Jesus.

Speaker 8 (01:01:54):
I have Jesus is the only check. David says, someone
should remind BO that when you take the checks to
the bank, they run it through a system that takes
a picture of the.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Check, so they're taking pictures too.

Speaker 8 (01:02:07):
And then in many cases they mail you the check back.
So the only thing you're eliminating is in the process
is having to make the bank take a picture or
not just take a picture and just I don't know
what that says any It's actually more efficient because you
have your check now in your hand when you take.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
The picture, is what you say?

Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
Still have that still there?

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
Yeah, you've got the proof that he says.

Speaker 8 (01:02:30):
He also used to work for a banking.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
David Peace be with you.

Speaker 10 (01:02:34):
Is banking still fun? Like both was saying that the
big walls Fargo's banking is fun.

Speaker 8 (01:02:39):
I thought banks, what I thought banking was fun to you, Bo.

Speaker 9 (01:02:42):
Now it's become this vitriol about the next time I
walk into a bank, they're going to embrace themselves.

Speaker 7 (01:02:46):
Oh, hook up to that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Here's that guy. He's gonna try to give us a
piece of paper.

Speaker 8 (01:02:50):
So he's basically David is basically telling you he actually
made the systems, the devices that took the pictures of
the checks and takes the po He actually created these,
So he's saying that what you're doing is actually adding
more work. So what what he has created takes the
work out of it, and you still have the paper
check in your hand.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
I just can't get past the end. He's like, oh, yeah,
by the way, trust Jesus, that was Let go and
let God Bo. You can do this. It's kind of
the money already right there. I have a I am
a Christian, and I know.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
Dave was just saying. I was saying, fraud happens. The
only thing you can.

Speaker 20 (01:03:25):
Really know is but much like earlier in this show,
if you just walked into the room and you heard
the end of that, you hear like, for example, if
you just walked into the room at the end of
our six o'clock hour, it sounded like I make you
step on a scale every day.

Speaker 11 (01:03:36):
That's true.

Speaker 9 (01:03:36):
And this is why I say this. This is earlier
in the show. Just so you understand what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:03:41):
Bernie.

Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
Here it is at the beginning of twenty twenty five.
Bo had me on a diet soda thing and I
I've skilled back it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
So like I said, you need to lose weight. That's
the way it sounded. So you need to you need
to catch that. You really should try this diet soda.

Speaker 8 (01:04:03):
I didn't mean it that way, but he got me.
I looked on the die.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Zero calories she signed up for PhD.

Speaker 8 (01:04:11):
I did PhD wave before that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
So I say in much the same fashion. If you
just walked into the room and BET's reading the end
of that text, and all they hear is bo, you
need to trust Jesus.

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
They're saying, Bell, you need to be nicer.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
No, see see other context. People.

Speaker 8 (01:04:28):
Robert texted in about that very thing. He said, Beth,
we all thought you counted grapes and all the calories anyway,
and that you carry your skill with you everywhere. Do
I see him like that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
I like to eat trust Jesus, Beth, I do?

Speaker 8 (01:04:42):
I do? I trust him?

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:04:43):
We all do, because because how else would you get
to the end of this show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
I mean, you gotta have somebody watching watching over us?
Is this who I think it is? Is this Barry online?

Speaker 9 (01:04:53):
One?

Speaker 6 (01:04:53):
Barry?

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
You got that ar what's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
Barry?

Speaker 17 (01:05:00):
Now? I've been a hole for dirting there and you
haven't stopped with me laughing the whole time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Well, wait a minute, there's other ways I'm listening to
the show. Oh no, I didn't have anything to do
with the show.

Speaker 17 (01:05:13):
It's YouTube, easiot.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Wait a minute, idiots.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
You're idiot.

Speaker 13 (01:05:21):
There are very very good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
What cool cool, the good kind of idiots.

Speaker 21 (01:05:25):
Yeah, this is Good Morning Beaty with Boob Regard and
Bethany the Great Berry.

Speaker 17 (01:05:35):
We miss him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
One of our all time favorite listeners.

Speaker 9 (01:05:39):
Passed away a few years ago, but he remains with
us in spirit, and today's show would be I gotta
believe as a Christian he is watching down from above
liking what he sees.

Speaker 8 (01:05:53):
I hope so he is. He's up there gigling.

Speaker 9 (01:05:56):
So you got somebody who's still up in arms about
my I talk about digital versus analog banking.

Speaker 8 (01:06:03):
Yes, this person didn't leave a name, and somehow I
got roped into.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
This such an audio guy said analog, because I did.

Speaker 8 (01:06:08):
I did say that I am a fan of the
digital check.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
I'm a fan of it as most people are. Most
people I am to a degree as well.

Speaker 9 (01:06:19):
I was simply stating something that when I do it,
it makes me makes me stop and think for a second. However,
I lost my ATM card a few weeks ago, and
I have the digital card on my phone, which Teresa
probably wouldn't like this, but I'm saying this. Even the
bad guys all your information, I'm telling you that I
have embraced digital technology.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
I was able to use my ATM card with my.

Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
Phone on the Where'd you lose it?

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
I don't know, because otherwise it wouldn't be what losing is.
The whole process of losing.

Speaker 8 (01:06:50):
You've lost it while you were at the carnival, or
you lost it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Yes, the carnival. That's where I was.

Speaker 10 (01:06:56):
How did you know all the options? I would have
thought a December carnival.

Speaker 21 (01:07:01):
Car.

Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
Why didn't I think to go back to the carnivals?

Speaker 10 (01:07:05):
By my second cotton can, dude, I realized I didn't
have my issue, but.

Speaker 8 (01:07:10):
I thought you might have a general idea of where
he lost it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I'm going to get to see the bearded lady, and
I realized I don't have my card. I don't usually
play it rejoint in the middle of a segment, but
this applies.

Speaker 16 (01:07:22):
Good morning, guys, love listening to me all every morning
on the way to work.

Speaker 8 (01:07:25):
We love it here. It's like a carnival.

Speaker 11 (01:07:27):
You gotta be proud.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Oh yeah, that's the most fitting term ever for the show.
We're a carnival. The only way to become president is
to win the homecoming Carnival.

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
This is good morning beat.

Speaker 9 (01:07:38):
That's right, Arnold, and that's exactly what we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Okay, back at it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
So I just realized that this is Bridget Bridget who
sent this message. Bo and Beth. I love you all,
but you are giving poor financial advice. Digital payments and
digital check processing is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Bob Brinker's money talk. I'm not telling people what to do.
I'm telling you what I Coridges, Why are you telling
people bad advice? That's what I heard.

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Bridget says. Digital check processing is safer, faster, and more
convenient than checks. There is massive check frauds since the pandemic.
It's actually increased with check writing. Checks are stolen from
the mail and they change the name and the amount
and then cash them. If you must write a check,
at least do not mail it. But life is so

(01:08:27):
much easier without checks. This is, according to Bridget, so
not not a lie.

Speaker 10 (01:08:33):
We've about a couple of months ago, got a keyed mailbox.
We have to have a key to open it. For
that very reason, people are able to take your checks
and change the information on it and get it. We
had one week we came home and like every mailbox
was open on our street. Every mailbox I go or getting.
They're not cheap, by the way, a couple hundred bucks
to get one of the things.

Speaker 8 (01:08:52):
Where is so does the mailman have as it's.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Got an open slot and then you have to have
the key to open.

Speaker 8 (01:08:57):
Was going to say, Oh my gosh, the mailman would
be walking around like a big old key ring.

Speaker 10 (01:09:01):
If you put like a very small box when you
other things have to go on the front stoop where
they could be stolen more easily by people.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Just take them off your speA.

Speaker 9 (01:09:08):
Thinking about Keifer Sutherland and stand by me just riding
down the pickup trump and just hitting, whacking all those
all those mailboxes that.

Speaker 8 (01:09:15):
Used to happen on my road that I grew up
on Merridge Road in concuer Merridge.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Oh, I heard birds too Bridge.

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
But people used to go down and like knock the
mailboxes with a baseball bat. And one of my high
school friends lived on the road and her dad, who
was like a local doctor, he decided he was going
to get like this steel mailbox and a super super
deep like spike that held the mailbox into the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
The pile driver you put it down there, Yeah, And
he put.

Speaker 8 (01:09:48):
This entire mailbox on the in his yard. And then
he sat there in the woods and watched and waited
for these kids to come by to knock the mailbox down,
because we had gotten them knocked down so many times.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
How many days and days was he out there waiting.

Speaker 8 (01:10:02):
I don't know, but to hear him tell the story,
it was the greatest thing in the world because they
came by with their baseball bat and it went thing
and made this big loud noise, and the bat just
shot back and broke the window out of the car.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Yes, how satisfying with that? A bit right?

Speaker 8 (01:10:16):
He said, it was the most satisfying thing ever sitting in.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
His launch that kept help the trink ha ha ha,
got you.

Speaker 8 (01:10:23):
That's the greatest story.

Speaker 9 (01:10:26):
Just for the record, I have fully embraced digital banking.
I just have one sort of hang up with one
part of it. But I love checking my account online
or just made a deposit sitting here just exactly right. Well,
even if I didn't, I could.

Speaker 6 (01:10:41):
Have I do.

Speaker 8 (01:10:42):
I think it's so lovely.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
I think it's kind of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
I do too.

Speaker 9 (01:10:45):
I just can't decide whether I want to use the
first union or the NCNB app.

Speaker 8 (01:10:49):
Oh oh, somebody did text us. Somebody did text us
and said their checkbook is so old that it still
has NCNB on the front of it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Said my old panther one. And we switched to FM tomorrow,
which SAMs for finding money. Hey, can we get to
Steely Dan FM song tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Oh you asking?

Speaker 9 (01:11:08):
You will receive Jim all right, I'm ready for one
o seven point nine FMWBT. Charlotte's FM News Talk debuts
tomorrow right here with Good Morning BT.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
This is Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Math
Trout eight thirty seven on WBT.

Speaker 9 (01:11:23):
On your Wednesday, December tenth, Bowen Beth here in the
Tyboid studio. Don't forget tomorrow, first day on one oh
seven point nine FM WBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk. On
the hotline right now is our weekly guest from Winthrop University.
He is doctor Scott Huffman. Good morning to you, sir.

Speaker 16 (01:11:43):
Good morning, hope y'all are having a great day.

Speaker 9 (01:11:45):
We are so far good. Good to have you aboard.
So let's go to Pennsylvania. Last night, President Trump holding
his first rally speech in a while, and as we expected,
he did talk about Charlotte. He did talk about North Carolina.

Speaker 13 (01:11:58):
And look at what's going on in North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (01:12:01):

Speaker 14 (01:12:03):
We have a fantastic man, Michael Wattley running as a
Republican head of the Republican Party, won elections, won the
presidential election for us. He's running against the governor who's
a radical left lunatic.

Speaker 13 (01:12:16):
And Michael should win.

Speaker 14 (01:12:17):
I don't know, it's hard you beat a two term governor,
but the governor didn't do a good job.

Speaker 13 (01:12:21):
But what's happening in North Carolina.

Speaker 14 (01:12:23):
Two of the most vicious murders that anyone's ever seen
in Charlotte, and it's all run by the Democrats.

Speaker 13 (01:12:30):

Speaker 14 (01:12:31):
a guy from behind just cut her throat on tape.
Can't even watch it. What's going on in North Carolina?
You need a Republican running that, and you need you've
got to have a Republican Senate to are elected. If
you don't and Michael Wattley's running. He's going to be great.
So we have people from North Carolina. Otherwise I wouldn't

(01:12:54):
be wasting so many words. You know, it's a Senate race,
but you agree with me, I think, mister senator.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
And again he mentioned the two stabbing incidents. The first
one Arena Zarutska, was a murder. The second one the
victim is still in the hospital and recovering, and we
obviously hope he makes a full recovery. But President Trump
speaking in Pocono last night, and the idea of him
getting back on the campaign trail, and when I say campaign,

(01:13:20):
I mean the midterms are next year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Obviously, this is a mode that he's very, very comfortable in.

Speaker 9 (01:13:26):
We haven't seen as much of that in the first
year of his second term as much as you did
throughout the first term. But he's back out there and
as a lot of people will.

Speaker 18 (01:13:34):
Say, he is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
I mean, nobody delivers the Trump message like Donald J.
Trump does.

Speaker 16 (01:13:40):
Yeah, And you know, while he hasn't been on the
road doing rallies as much at this point as he
did in his first term, he is very comfortable doing them.
But he has turned the entire government basically into a
political rally or political statement. During the government shutdown, if
you went to any government website, the first thing you

(01:14:03):
would see at the top was we have been cut
down by radical Democrats. I mean, you know, this, of
course is in violation of the Hatch Act, but everybody
just fill of course he's going to violate the Hatch Act.
But so he has been in campaign mode in literally everything,
all the way down to how his press spokeswoman responds

(01:14:26):
to questions. I think she even used your mother statement
to one of the people. So constantly in press mode.
But this is where he's at his best. This is
where he is connecting with his listeners because they are
showing up to hear a campaign rally, not a policy speech,
and it's the stuff he really loves. So I expect

(01:14:47):
to see more of this. It's also really important for
him not to lose the House entirely if he wants
to get his full agenda through.

Speaker 8 (01:14:58):
Since we're talking about cam paigns and campaign rallies, so
many people are disheartened by the amount of money that
it costs to run a campaign and how much money
is in the political process now, and the Supreme Court
on Tuesday grappled with the legality of federal limits on
the amount of money a political committee can spend in

(01:15:20):
coordination with a federal candidate. Hearing a case, the case
being the NRSC versus the FEC, and this could change,
I guess, bring more changes to campaign finance restrictions. What
do you think the Supreme Court is going to do?
And more importantly, how does that impact the election cycle?

(01:15:41):
We certainly remember Citizens United, which that was what twenty ten,
and that was you know earlier before that, in the
early two thousands, you had McCain Finegeld the legislation back
then that put caps on campaign spending. And then since
Citizens United that Supreme Court case, campaign financing has changed
changed and in corporations can can really be involved in

(01:16:04):
the process.

Speaker 16 (01:16:05):
Yeah, you've actually hit the exact steps that we should
take backwards to understand this. So this is to allow
essentially unlimited spending and almost unlimited coordination between candidates and
political committees entities what Citizens United. And the argument is, hey,
we need to combat this because these super PACs are

(01:16:27):
able to spend all this money and we the political
party can't counter it. Well, the reason super PACs can
spend all that money is because of Citizens United. A
pack is a political action committee people that don't there's
a couple of kinds people that donate to that have
to reveal who they are. Then there are these organizations
called for one C, three B, and you do not

(01:16:51):
have to say who you are when you donate to those,
and they can say, hey, we're for education, educating voters,
and they can funnel their money to super packs. So
people can give unlimited money to a superpack and you
have no idea who it is, and the super pac
can spend as much as at once. The reason that

(01:17:13):
can happen is because McCain find Old, which was a
bipartisan bill to cut back on unlimited money being able
to sway our opinions, was struck down in Citizens United.
And because of all the money flowing for Citizens United,
the actual political parties are saying, hey, we have to
spend unlimited money too to be able to counter that,

(01:17:35):
and we the voters are just going to be not
stuck in the middle, stuck under the heel of all
this money coming through. And of course these are things
our founders never even thought of or grappled with. These
are twenty first century problems, and this court is liable
to give us a situation where it's like one of

(01:17:57):
those game shows where you're in the middle of a
little glass cell with money running flitting around you and
you can grab as much as you possibly can. That's
how our elections are going to be going forward. But again,
our founders never conceived of these situations.

Speaker 6 (01:18:16):
This is good Morning, Beaty.

Speaker 9 (01:18:20):
Rolling on here on a Wednesday morning talking to Scott Huffman,
political science professor at Winthrop University. Bowen Beth here in Charlotte,
and Scott is in South Carolina. That is also where
Nancy Mace is trying to become the next governor of
South Carolina. Nancy Mace, of course a congressman right now now, Scott.
So last night on CNN, Caitlin Collins on her show

(01:18:43):
had Nancy Mace on as a guest, and this story
of her getting into an altercation with TSA members at
the airport there in South Carolina has it's back because
now there's surveillance footage that has come into the forefront.
And so Caitlin Collins, I'm going to play this whole
thing because they went on for about six minutes, but

(01:19:04):
I just want to play a bit of it, so
you all listening and get a flavor of where this
is in this story to.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Charleston Airport back in October, there was an internal police
investigation report that came out in recent days. It says
that you turned what was described as a minor communication
miscommunication by police into a spectacle and left airport employees
visibly upset. What was your reaction when you read this report?

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
Well, I well, part of the report was actually falsified.

Speaker 22 (01:19:29):
And the documents that were released by the airport yesterday,
I want to thank the airport for releasing them. We
asked for all the video, all the audio, everything, all
the body cam, and the video that was released yesterday
showed me asking TSA agents for help and for assistance,
and conveniently, there is no audio that goes with it.
And the last time that I checked was asking for
help isn't against the law, nor is being frustrated. We

(01:19:52):
saw in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death numerous death
threats just exponentially multiply. I have multiple people sitting in
jail right now, behind bars without bond because of the
death threats that I receive on a daily basis. So
I take my security seriously, and you know that to
me is very very important. And I back the blue,

(01:20:12):
I back our police, I back our security. You know,
in my district in South Carolina, I've gotten millions of
dollars for local law enforcement to support them in their
efforts to keep our communities safe. But what's not okay
is falsifying reports, falsifying incident reports. I've taken on top
cops like Kim Cheetle after Donald Trump was shot. I
helped get her force her resignation. Yeah, but you came

(01:20:33):
through with the overseat.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
You just said you backed the blue. The police quote
you in this report as you calling them e fing
idiots and e fing incompetent while stating that you're an
e fing representative and telling a TSA supervisor, I'm sick
of your I'm tired of having to wait. I should
not have to wait. All you guys are always e
fing late and this is e fing ridiculous. Are you saying, well,
you can say those things, Well.

Speaker 22 (01:20:52):
You're quoting a document that was in part falsify. They
say a lot of things in the video doesn't show
that there's no audio. I asked for all the body
camp and the audio. They also stay in the report
that there was an incident at the gate. The video
shows nothing that didn't happen. And so for me, it's
important that we tell the truth. And I've taken responsibility. Yes,
I was absolutely one hundred percent. But did you say

(01:21:14):
those things that you're not that I just know I
did not. I mean, I definitely you're saying the police
officers are lying.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
No, I'm saying that is in part false, and they
that is a falsified document.

Speaker 9 (01:21:25):
Okay, So that is a minute or so of their
conversation last night. If you want to see the full
discussion you can. It's online, easily findable. So we had
Ralph Norman on the show yesterday. He of course is
running in this competitive GOP primary for governor. There Nancy
Mace never fails to make headlines. It seems just about

(01:21:48):
the other day you're seeing something. What do you make
of that race and her standing in it and how
that may play out in South Carolina.

Speaker 16 (01:21:55):
Well, you know, she was ahead early on because of
her amazing name recognition. Because of things like this, she
had dropped down the kind of more on par with
some of the other candidates who were spending money at
that point to get the same name recognition, And now
things like this are going to be coming to the forefront.

(01:22:16):
Are you calling them liars? No, But everything they said
was false. You know, it came out that the car
she told them she was going to arrive in was
a different color than what she said it was at
a different time. The longer stuff like this drags out,
the more it's going to hurt. As her opponents get

(01:22:36):
better name recognition, like Ralph Norman, who's my congressmann, incredibly
well known in this district, but not as well known statewide.
And when they get the name recognition that she has,
then the stories about her to the degree they're unflattering
or they make her look like not focused on South Carolina,

(01:22:57):
are not going to be as good for a campaign.
But right now, her name being in the headlines, the
folks who aren't listening to your show, who only hear
it third hand, her name is in the forefront of
their minds and they know she's conservative, and that's all
they know at this point. That's going to change as
the race heats up.

Speaker 8 (01:23:17):
Well, speaking of her being conservative, she has in recent
weeks spoken out against the Republican Party, saying that the
republic Republicans are being ineffective. She has called out Mike Johnson.
Do things like that hurt her in a conservative state
like South Carolina? Or is it really just does it
just come down to name recognition.

Speaker 16 (01:23:37):
Well, There's going to be a battle for Donald Trump's endorsement,
that's for sure, because you know, a recent winter poll
showed that likely Republican voters in the Republican Gubernato primary
put a lot of weight on who Donald Trump endorses.
That said, Donald Trump is causing cracks to widen in

(01:23:58):
groups that had been going in lockstep. They're folks that
call themselves Maga Republicans. They are all in for whatever
Donald Trump does. There are a lot of folks who
describe themselves as America First Republicans, and as long as
Donald Trump was adhering to that agenda, they were in
lockstep behind him. Well, Marjorie Taylor Green is an example

(01:24:20):
of that. To the degree that Donald Trump is getting
America involved, potentially on the ground with troops in Venezuela,
getting America involved in peace negotiations, whether it be in
Israel or in Ukraine, the America First folks are not
as happy about that, and so we may see these

(01:24:40):
cracks beginning to show in South Carolina, especially if Donald
Trump is wavering on endorsing her. Whether or not he
would endorse Ralph Norman's another question, because Norman endorsed Nikki
Haley against Donald Trump in the presidential primary, so his
endorsement is going to care a lot of weight the

(01:25:01):
fight over. It's going to be brutal.

Speaker 9 (01:25:03):
Yeah, it is true that the congressman has not always
been in lockstep with President Trump over the years. So well,
it's going to be very interesting and right there in
South Carolina. Doctor Huffman, we appreciate it. He of course
a political science professor and founder and director of the
Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research. Good to talk
to you, Thanks so much, Happy to you. Thanks, yes, sir,

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(01:26:29):
Glad to have you here for the final hour today.
We were just talking to Scott Huffman about the Nancy
Mason interview last night. Nancy Mace had an altercation, an
interaction with police with TSA personnel at the Charleston Airport
back in October and got a lot of attention at
the time. Yesterday or within the last couple of days,

(01:26:50):
they've released bodycam footage of this, and so now this
story is back in the forefront. She was on a
CNN on Caitlin Collins's show last night and we started
to listen to some of the audio with Scott Huffman
and didn't have time to get to all of it.
But if you haven't heard it, I want to listen
to the back end of this just to give you
the context of.

Speaker 22 (01:27:10):
Call, and like last time I checked, you don't remember
having this tense interaction. Oh, I definitely was frustrated, one
hundred percent frustrated. I definitely when the when the law
enforcement finally showed up for the security detail, I absolutely
was frustrated. But the video that they released are showing
me asking for help, Like I asked TSA agents for
help when.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
I was there's also part of the video there's where
you speaking to a TSA agent. There's also part of
the video where you're walking down the hallway and there
are two officers behind you. I assume they're the ones
who spoke to these.

Speaker 5 (01:27:40):
And where I'm pointing.

Speaker 22 (01:27:41):
I was pointing to a security desk where the where
the airport security usually sit and wait, and I was
asking the TSA agent if she could call down to
the security desk and get assistance for me. So like,
that's not asking TSA for help, isn't attaste the law.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
But you're but are you saying that you never said
any of these quotes, that every single one is a lie.
You have to read it to me again, idiots, I
did not I did representative. I did not say that
I did not you didn't say I'm sick of your
I'm tired of having to wait. I should not have
to wait. You guys are always fing late. This is
efing ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:28:17):
No, I mean no, I did.

Speaker 22 (01:28:19):
I've never called a cop an idiot. That is a
remarkably false.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
But you're saying these police officers are lying, then who
spoke to me?

Speaker 22 (01:28:27):
I am absolutely saying that that report was falsified, one
hundred percent fictitious, falsified.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
They were not there, they did not show up.

Speaker 22 (01:28:36):
I was very frustrated with the situation because of the
number of death threats that I receive, and I expressed
that frustration. But in no way, shape or form did
I call any of them idiots. I didn't even know
that was in the report until you told me just now.
I never said I would never. I have never called
someone idiot.

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
That is that is shocking to me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
When you look back on that day and what you said.
I guess you haven't read the report of the event.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Because well I read part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
I just you know, when you let a little hit job,
do you regret. I think everyone can understand being concerned
about being a public figure, especially being a member of Congress.
Especially after the Charlie Kirk assassination. But do you regret
your actions and how you did speak towards the airport
employees or the police officers that day.

Speaker 22 (01:29:17):
Well, expressing one's frustration isn't I mean, isn't illegal?

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
Like it's not. You can be frustrating.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
I would say you committed a crime.

Speaker 22 (01:29:25):
I think they but they file a police incident report,
like you know. The idea that expressing one's frustration is
an arrestable offense is deeply is offenses. It's obscene. And
what the video showed yesterday that they released showed me
asking for help. And the video they released of me

(01:29:45):
at the gate showed me on a conference call and
then I scanned my ticket on my cell phone on
the scanning machine, and then I put my phone back
up and the airport gate agent said, I said good morning,
like there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Actually I read that they said that you didn't. The
gate agent said, you didn't actually respond.

Speaker 5 (01:30:02):
He said he said a good morning or what?

Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Because I said good morning too, and you I was
on a conference call.

Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
Okay, so you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
I just want to be clear that because I think
everyone's reading this report, we saw what Senator Timeslot, I
had to say from your home state about this, saying,
you know, it's not okay to burrate police officers and
airport staff who are just doing their jobs. And then
it's not becoming to use vulgar language as a member
of Congress.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
But you don't.

Speaker 22 (01:30:23):
I mean I use vulgar language frequently. I mean that
the president does I do. I guess because I'm a
house member. To slowly house member, I'm not allowed to
do that, I don't know, but I do express my frustration.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
I do take responsibility for my words. I always have.

Speaker 22 (01:30:40):
But the idea that I would call somebody an idiot,
I have never done.

Speaker 5 (01:30:44):
That in my life.

Speaker 9 (01:30:45):
Okay, So I wanted to give you the other end
of the audio, just for context, because sometimes these things
get played as like ten second sound bites, and I
don't think it's fair to either side. So whenever we
can on this show, that's what we try to do.
And now you you have, and again that's still not
the whole thing. You want to go find the whole
thing you can, But this is our show, not to
Caitlyn Collins's show. But I wanted to give you the

(01:31:09):
rest of the rest of the story as used to
be said on this show by Paul Harvey a long
time ago.

Speaker 8 (01:31:15):
What's actually fascinating is that the Nancy Mace has now
posted on social media. On x she posted, I misspoke
on CNN tonight. I have called one person an idiot before,
and then she retweeted or re exed or reposted a

(01:31:35):
post that she posted back on August or July twenty
fourth of twenty twenty four with representative with the representative
from Iran, and she said Iran's useful idiot was the
actual post itself that she posted. So she has retweeted
her own tweet where she did call another member of

(01:31:56):
the House of Representatives an idiot.

Speaker 9 (01:31:59):
It's going to be interesting to see how this all
plays out, because it's not the first time there's been
a footage of a Nancy Mace altercation. There was the
one in that Mount Pleasant convenience store where she got
into it with just a citizen in that room. They
were talking about, if I remember it correctly, the exchange

(01:32:20):
about transgenderism, et cetera. And so she is always seems
to make headlines, and as Scott Huffman said, because of that,
people know who she is. Now she's in a pretty
contested primary with people like Ralph Norman, who, as he
said a few minutes ago, Scott Huffman, did not as

(01:32:41):
many people know him outside of his district which is
right here close to us, and there are other people
in that primary. And then if she makes it to
the general, she is going to be one of those
candidates that's never going to be boring.

Speaker 11 (01:32:51):
That's for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:32:53):
We have it seems that in the past, I don't know,
is it the past decade, we've had a large hand
full of candidates who are never boring. Marjorie Taylor Green
certainly was that. Lauren Bobert I think people would say
has although in recent months, hasn't made headlines the way
that she has that she had in the in the past. Certainly,

(01:33:13):
Donald Trump is not boring. No one in his cabinet.
I mean, if you think about if you think about JD. Vance,
not definitely, they're not boring.

Speaker 6 (01:33:22):
This is Good Morning BT.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
Eight twenty one on WBT Don't Forget Tomorrow. I love
it when somebody hears a bump and they fist bump
in the hall.

Speaker 8 (01:33:37):
Yeah, we just had someone dance past iron window.

Speaker 9 (01:33:40):
It's a good day saw we roll one O seven
point nine FM WBT. Charlotte's FM News Talk debuts tomorrow.
We'll be moving from nine to nine point three to
one oh seven point nine. So today's our swan song
on ninety nine point three by SO. I just played
the Nancy May Caitlin Collins interview on CNN, and I

(01:34:02):
had mentioned the altercation or the interaction in the convenience
store that happened in Mount Pleasant in early early part
of this year, and I mistakenly said that it was
a conversation about transgenderism. Actually, I'm going to play that
just the beginning of it, just to set the record
straight on that, because I was not remembering that correctly.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
But I'm going to correct that.

Speaker 20 (01:34:20):
I do.

Speaker 5 (01:34:21):
I do him every year. You want to keep going?
Do you want to keep going?

Speaker 7 (01:34:24):
Keep her asking me?

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year.

Speaker 8 (01:34:29):
This year it was one simple question, show Yeah, are
you doing this?

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
I've already done one.

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
I'll do plenty more.

Speaker 5 (01:34:35):
You're always invited, Okay. And by the way, I voted
for gay marriage twice. So I'm just saying it has
everything to do with you.

Speaker 8 (01:34:45):
I do absolutely with me, absolutely if you.

Speaker 22 (01:34:49):
Want to get in my chase about town halls, you
should have shown someone last year saying oh I support yeah,
because you're.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
Getting in my face about a town hall.

Speaker 6 (01:34:59):
You could have done last year.

Speaker 17 (01:35:00):
A good question.

Speaker 6 (01:35:01):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:35:01):
So it was about initially showing up at a town
hall meeting, and then they brought a game marriage into it,
and that that escalated from there. But I just wanted
to set the record straight on on what I had
said at the end of last segment regarding the earlier
or one of the earlier moments regarding Nancy Mace. Like
I said, Beth, she's never boring. This race is going

(01:35:22):
to be interesting to watch, and we'll see.

Speaker 8 (01:35:25):
She seems to with the videos that come out of her.
You know, there was the video of her in her
pajamas at the gas station, and now this video that
is being released and partly at her request from the
Charleston Airport, and then that video that the gentleman released
to who came up to her asking about the town halls.
It seems like she has a little bit of a
hair trigger temper, you know, just that she gets angry

(01:35:48):
very easily and doesn't control her anger very easily, and
that can get you in trouble. In the day and
age that we live in, where there's a camera everywhere,
everyone has a camera, Everyone is ready and willing to
film people, especially if they are public figures, and then
you know, put that out on social media, and when
you're running for governor and trying to win a tough race,

(01:36:11):
I think people are going to be more apt, more
likely to record altercation. So you know, she'll if she
doesn't want more of these videos to come out, I
think that she's going to have to kind of figure
out how to not get angry so angry so quickly.

Speaker 9 (01:36:29):
Shifting gears to sports here for a second, of course,
the Panthers play in New Orleans coming up on Sunday.
The Indianapolis Colts, for a while this year were considered
Super Bowl favorites. They came out of the gates just
on fire. And you had a quarterback on this team
that used to play for Charlotte Lattin and a Charlotte guy,

(01:36:51):
and now he's gone down to an achilles injury. And
so the Colts, who are still very much in contention,
are as at straws about what to do, so much
so that yesterday they signed to the practice squad forty
four year old quarterback Philip Rivers, who is older than
his head coach and also his offensive coordinator, the Shane

(01:37:16):
Steiken is forty and the OC is forty one. And
so you've got a guy who has grandkids. You've got
a guy who has been out of the league for
five years now. He has not played since the twenty
twenty COVID season. He's been signed to the practice squad,
which means he could end up being the starting quarterback

(01:37:36):
for the Colts. Forty five years old, and you know,
a former NC State wolfback star as well. But the
idea that he's going to go out there, I mean,
wasn't it. Wasn't it Kurt Warner, who way back when
he first started had been working as a bag boy
at a supermarket.

Speaker 8 (01:37:53):
That's exactly who that was.

Speaker 9 (01:37:54):
And then he became the Saint Louis Rams quarterback and
took them to the Super Bowl and the rest of history.
But so it's not the first time you've had sort
of a guy come off the couch, but this is
a guy who's been on the couch for five years.

Speaker 15 (01:38:09):
Sorry, what was There's something go on my throat out
that here's the thing.

Speaker 8 (01:38:15):
I mean, Tom Brady was forty five when he retired,
but to your point, Bo, he was playing that entire time.
He didn't have the five years of not working out
to NFL standards. And I don't know if you guys
remember this, but we talked about it on the show
a couple of months ago. Stanford did a research study
and it's been everywhere, published in magazines everywhere because people

(01:38:35):
are talking about this. You have two giant bursts of
aging that happen in life where where it accelerates at
two specific points in life. One of them forty four,
the other one is sixty I think earlier I said
it was sixty two, but the other one is sixty
years old. This is according to the Stanford study. And
at forty four, according to this study, the first burst

(01:38:59):
you see maular changes linked to cardiovascular help, skin and
muscle function, and metabolizing alcohol, which we hope he's not
drinking before a game, but also how you metabolize fats
and how you metabolize caffeine.

Speaker 15 (01:39:13):
Well, he's a countryman, you know. Philip Rivers defies science
and logic. I mean, he's he could play till he's
eighty five if he wants to, Philip Rivers is the
greatest human being alive.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Well you you know a lot about Philip Rivers because
you're a wolf packer.

Speaker 11 (01:39:26):
I love Philip Rivers. Yeah, he's a great person.

Speaker 15 (01:39:28):
Now we need to pull up bo If you've ever
heard the bloopers or what him trash talking opponents like
during games, Beth would love it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Philip Rivers.

Speaker 11 (01:39:37):
He does not curse, like it's safe for work.

Speaker 8 (01:39:40):
Like he's a good he's like a nice he's a
nice angry guy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
It's like dad gum and we're going to beat you.

Speaker 11 (01:39:46):
Yeah, he says dad gummet and stuff like that, Like
he does not curse.

Speaker 8 (01:39:49):
It's well, do you love people that that that try
to smack talk? But you can tell they're too nice
to Actually he's a super nice guy, right, they just
across bad guy a meaning.

Speaker 1 (01:40:02):
Now to your point, I was looking it up.

Speaker 9 (01:40:04):
So Tom Brady won his last super Bowl at age
forty three, and then he hit rock pot.

Speaker 8 (01:40:11):
No that he hit forty four. He hit forty four.
It's the burst of ages. He didn't win a super
Bowl after that.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
It's a behind the music episode. This is how this
all works.

Speaker 9 (01:40:22):
I mean, there's the there's the storyline in every one
of them.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
So I say this that I'm sitting over here like
a grandma. I'm wearing a giant winter coat because I'm
freezing because my age has burst my molec I don't
process things anymore, and so I can't keep warm.

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
Yeah, it's all happened in the span of six am
because we don't have any heat in the building. I
am freezing news closet here too. Let me go on
record of saying I am rooting for Philip Rivers.

Speaker 8 (01:40:47):
I am dad gummet, dag gummet.

Speaker 6 (01:40:50):
This is good morning beaty Jo.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
I don't remember the song.

Speaker 11 (01:41:10):
I know, but I know best.

Speaker 9 (01:41:13):
They used to play this on NFL Primetime when the
Chargers would have highlights back in the Philip Rivers era
where he spent most of his career as the QB
for the San Diego Superchargers.

Speaker 8 (01:41:24):
Wait, so this was like five years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
No, it's more like ten to fifteen.

Speaker 8 (01:41:28):
It sounds like it's from nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 17 (01:41:31):
You know this.

Speaker 9 (01:41:32):
The song was not from the River's era. The song
is way older than that. Whenever they used to play
Chargers highlights, they'd always bring this song back.

Speaker 8 (01:41:40):
Did the cheerleaders dance to this?

Speaker 9 (01:41:42):
I'm quite sure they did, even though I didn't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
So I bring this up because I like to play
the song. And they're not even in San Diego anymore.
They're in La now.

Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
But true, they have good helmets.

Speaker 1 (01:41:53):
We were, They have their uniform, love their jersey or
on point.

Speaker 8 (01:41:56):
They look really good.

Speaker 6 (01:41:57):
They're lit.

Speaker 9 (01:41:58):
Let me let me go back to what Bernie was
saying earlier, because apparently the forty five year old Philip Rivers,
now signed to a practice deal with the Indianapolis Colts,
could end up being their starting quarterback before the season is.

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
Over because it's so many injuries and they're.

Speaker 9 (01:42:14):
Still contending, so they're trying to, you know, find some
sort of a way to to bridge this gap. And
Bernie was saying that Philip Rivers, during his day as
an NFL QB and probably back to the NC State
days as well, was a was known as a trash talker,
but PG rated right.

Speaker 8 (01:42:31):
Which I love. I love this, you know what, because
you can talk trash and still be kind of nice
about it. Andrey Andrew Luck was similar clean cut about it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:41):
And we have an example of of this montage if
you will, Yes, we do.

Speaker 11 (01:42:44):
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Hi, y'all ka play with twelve, Greg god k play
with twelve Greg?

Speaker 8 (01:42:51):
Hey, Greg, you can only play with the love and
Greg j T.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
Don't dance with him running over.

Speaker 7 (01:42:57):
I'm dancing. You weren't even close to I cannot play.
You've done to hand on it. You weren't even close.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
Alright, punch chick, run around you not not.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
A little blustered.

Speaker 6 (01:43:08):
Thanks awesome. Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:43:10):
Hi, oh honey, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
Oh a baby, oh oh suit, Oh my gosh, suit
you aggervations stew out of me.

Speaker 8 (01:43:24):
I love it, he said, GOLLI, and that aggravates the
stew out of me.

Speaker 9 (01:43:27):
She she, since she do reminded me of the late
the late Vin Scully Hall of Fame broadcaster for the
LA Dodgers and NBC.

Speaker 10 (01:43:38):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:43:38):
There was an altercation on the field late in his
career and he was trying to read lips during the altercation.
And this is one of the great soundbites that you
ever heard from a broadcaster. But immediately thought of this
when we were talking about the PG rated stuff.

Speaker 23 (01:43:52):
Now, Frank you who kind of went and threw a
shoulder block at Twenton comes out.

Speaker 7 (01:43:58):
That's Fertiliza, says Camp.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
Over and over. That is fertilizer.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
And he's hollering, I believe.

Speaker 23 (01:44:07):
At the entire San Diego team, and Guck Beckett's trying
to keep him away, and Matt wats more.

Speaker 1 (01:44:15):
That is fertilizer.

Speaker 8 (01:44:17):
That's fabulous.

Speaker 17 (01:44:18):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
That's a that's a lot of what we have here
on the morning show.

Speaker 9 (01:44:21):
You O.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
You Mother fertilizer Tomorrow it becomes FM Fertilizer.

Speaker 9 (01:44:29):
Tomorrow one oh seven point nine FM, where the F
stands for fertilizer.

Speaker 8 (01:44:34):
Fertilizer mouths that's.

Speaker 9 (01:44:38):
Charlotte's sign money FM News Talk tomorrow. So this is
the swan song for us on ninety nine point three tomorrow,
same station, new location, Good Talk, Beth Rate Talkbough and
I'd love.

Speaker 8 (01:44:53):
For you to come to a live performance of the
Tone Rangers singing live. That's something you'd really enjoy.

Speaker 7 (01:44:58):
He's good singing.

Speaker 6 (01:44:59):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:45:00):
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