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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for a little hot lighthouse keeper. This is
the place. Let's go from this talk eleven ten at
ninety nine three tunky beauty, common sense. This is your
wake up col gets your mother. This is good morning
beaty with both Thompson and Beth trouting. This place is
a mouth and of goodness is a mixed up work
a widow.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Saturday night, I didn't get late.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I got in a fight. It ain't no big thing
late for my job, and the traffic was bad.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I had a born tam.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Box from my old man. It ain't no big sence.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Now Saturday night, I talking last story beyond that, it
ain't no big same.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
This sound songs different than the last time I heard it.

Speaker 6 (01:05):
Yeah, it's differently, doesn't it. So if you're hearing this
odd flapping noise, that's happening right now. Yesterday, folks, yesterday

(01:25):
it was Bo Thompson's birthday. So I brought in a
back of what I thought was horns. But it's not horn.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well wait, there's silent little yeah I took.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
I took a blow this morning and I was like,
I'm broken. It's not making a noise.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
These are like the New Year's Eve noisemakers banks.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
If they don't make any noise, they just blow a
little like.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Did you get say he's at that movie theater you went.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
You see what happens if we do it all at
the same time, right, one, two three?

Speaker 7 (01:59):
That's very nice.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
So I had this grand idea of having these horns,
and then Burdane and I were laughing after that we
realized they didn't make any noise. That I do everything
and get it almost right. Everything I do is almost good.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Are you Are you saying you need a little help, Beth?

Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yes, there we go.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Huh, there you go. That's fifty one years on this planet.
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
See, we don't have the we don't have our music.
I don't have a magic box over here to play you.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
What more do you need, Beth? You've got that, You've
got this. Yeah, I mean if you are listening on
the radio and you can't see this because we don't
have a video feed. But it's like the it's like
the little noisemakers that when you would blow it, they'd
roll out and then they make a little what like
they would have like a horn.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
It seems like they should. I thought that it would
roll out and it's got these little spark leaves on
the end. They're so cute and festive.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
And then two great sounds that sound great together.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's more of a visual.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
It really is more of a visual, which is great
for radio.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
So welcome to Tuesday, September. Second, everybody, hope you had
a great Labor Day weekend. As I said to you know,
Facebook is what is Facebook good for anymore? You know,
Facebook is basically telling people happy birthday?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right?

Speaker 6 (03:20):
Did you get a billion birthday messages?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yes, not quite a billion, but I enjoyed it more
than four hundred. No, no, no, no, But he's he's
coming up later this morning at about eight fifty. Well
I'll ask him what it's like to get that many
four hundred. Well, you know what I said yesterday. Though
I'm usually not the guy that says, hey, thanks for
the birthday greetings, but yesterday I kind of was looking

(03:42):
forward to it. I said, hey, thanks for all the
birthday greetings. They finally made it a national holiday after
all these years.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
The whole country was celebrated.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
Actually said you're welcome for I mean, you're welcome everybody.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
I hope you enjoyed your day off.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Well, we have gifts for you, Bo Thompson, and I
cannot wait. I cannot wait for you to open your gift.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Is it a medium?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
It is actually it might be a smart I cannot
wait for you to see it. And the gift is
almost as good as this horn, because.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
This is the gift that keeps on giving the whole show.
And so on my desk here it's a it's a
twelve pack of by a Coke zero orange cream, Thank
you very much. And then the bake these cookies this
morning that you love. These are the famous like sweet,
not sweet and sour, but like salty and sweet at
the same time. The chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
They're dark and milk chocolate chip cookies with sea salt.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Where did you find the eggs? Got the eggs? Eggs?
Eggs have a good price?

Speaker 5 (04:46):
How about them? Tar Heels?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well you know what that what this is?

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yes, I mean you know that. I felt like watching
the pregame show for that last night. It had a
very similar feel to Aaron Rogers when he was about
to become quarterback for the New York Jets and he
ran on the field with the flag and everybody in
New York was going crazy, and it was like it
was a little bit longer of a sustained celebration because
they actually came out and scored, and you thought everything

(05:14):
was great. But man, I put my head on the
pillow because there's no way I was staying up to
the end of that game.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
But we started Rogers just got hurt and left immediately
rights three and a half hours of pain.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Can we just talk about I'm not going to I'm
not going to sugarcoat it. But I had a terrible
feeling the second I watched him walk out of the tunnel.
He looked exhausted just walking out of the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
He was like, do I have to walk all the way?

Speaker 9 (05:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do I have to do this?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
And so I had a bad feeling from the get
go with it. But he did have the he did
have the little sleeveless sweatshirt on them.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
And you had Michael Jordan and Lawrence Taylor and Roy
Williams up there in the box, and I mean, it
was like it was as Carolina as anything has ever been.
And then all of a sudden, it was like Zochie,
said Aaron Rodgers. It was like an immediate sort of crash.
This was a slow slow, somehow was bad and got worse.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Also also very Carolina, he did, but they see Carolina
that was bad. Wow, that's a State fan. I can
say that.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
And now and now they're on to Charlotte.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
Really, yeah, that's gonna be interesting because it's not that good.
They got blown up by Upstate the other night, so
this will be interesting.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
At least somebody's going to get a win between Charlotte
and UNC.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
But they looked it wasn't so say lost. They looked
like they hadn't practiced, like they looked so unprepared to
hand the ball off, snap the ball without rolling it to.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
The quarterback, I mean pick six.

Speaker 8 (06:37):
It was like it wasn't like there was like one
thing that went wrong, Like every phase of special teams, offense,
defense was bad.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
It felt like they brought a bunch of football players
together who had never met each other.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Or it never played before.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
It wasn't that far off from that. I mean, seventy
new players and like they had a little bit of time.
But I mean compared to TCU, because that's what Kirk
kerb Street was saying on ESPN. You know this team,
uh TCU was an it was an eight or nine
when a team last.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Years usually, but I mean they kept saying seventy players.
Well they did it to themselves. No one made them
get seventy players. He obviously kicked out a bunch of
players to bring in seventy new ones.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
They thought the one coach was going to make up
for the seventy players.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Do you think do you think the Jordan Yoko conversations
are going to start happening now?

Speaker 7 (07:21):
I've already seen great memes.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He wasn't that good after Brady left.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
Actually, I mean he's got like a losing record after
Brady left, so it's not like he always wins.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
I did see the meme this morning. There's only one
man that can save Bill Belichick now, Tom Brady.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Oh do you think Tom Brady could get a master's
at Carolina? Yeah, come back and.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Be a quarterback, get an online degreenger.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Things just happened, all right. It's six or fourteen on
your Tuesday, Tuesday after Labor Day, Boomer von Cam.

Speaker 10 (07:51):
Yeah, that's birthday.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
I gave you the day off yesterday. What's up, man?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Where'd it go? Boy?

Speaker 10 (07:57):
I hope you had a great birthday. I did.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
It's It's much better than this, continuing, much better than this.
So great yesterday, let's.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Do it again. This is great. We're not waking anyone
up with these.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
That morning.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
We have to be quiet.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
These are the saddest birthday horns ever made.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
Birthday mornings that shoot planks.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Welcome to fifty one.

Speaker 9 (08:23):
I was talking about the decoration things out with a bank,
were talking about about the tar heels.

Speaker 11 (08:30):
Last how much of this game did you watch last night?

Speaker 6 (08:48):
The highlights this morning? Oh? Well, in the I saw
the walk out and I was like, I'm going to bed.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
That's really all you needed to see. I mean, stay
through this.

Speaker 12 (08:58):
At least second and goal Carolina first possession of the
ball game, Lopez in the pistol with Hood behind him.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
He will hand to him, put.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Right sids.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Touched down Carolina. What a start for Belichick in the here.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
I mean, all the tweets about Carolina is back. The
Belichick era has begun. And then forty eight to fourteenth,
here we go.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
This is gonna be great.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
And they were so excited. I mean that first touchdown yay,
and then man and.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Then everyone to Franklin Street and the stands were empty.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
After the game. If you could compare another sound to
this one, it would sound like this.

Speaker 13 (09:43):
Oh well, it was a great, uh, you know, great
atmosphere here for the game tonight. You know, fans were
at tremendous injury energy walk and you know we played
competitively but then just couldn't sustain it.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
So obviously we have a lot of work to do.

Speaker 13 (09:58):
You know, and did do a better job all the
way around, coaching, playing all three phases of the game,
just wasn't up to what it needs to be. And
I know we're a lot better than that, so we'll
need to you know, need to work on those things
and show it on Saturday and quick turnaround. But you know,
get TCU credit. They came in, did a good job
and they were clearly the better team tonight. You know,

(10:20):
they deserve to win, and they did it decisively.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
And the quick turnaround is to Charlotte, North Carolina where
the Tar Hills will play the forty nine Ers at
Jerry Richardson Stadium on Saturday. So not even not even
a week later, they get a chance to write the
ship and we'll see how this goes. But I don't know.
I mean, you talk about hype. A few things have
been hyped as much as this was last night, and

(10:44):
what a letdown for all those people. I mean, you
had LT and Michael Jordan and Roy Williams.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
It was bad.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Sandra's atar Hill grad too, so she's got mixed emotions
because she's not I said, do you like Belichick? And
she's not a Belichick ban but she sees those colors
and she sees that stadium and we've been there together
a bunch of times, so she's like, I was kind
of laughing, and she's like stooutorials.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh, I thought you didn't like them. She does.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
And that was really hard for it because I was like,
now it's Belichick and they're not good. So at least
it was like they're Belichick, but they're good.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Well, i'll tell you Bo Thompson was savage this morning
by sending me a headline. I just want to read
this headline.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Are you talking about the Luke decc article and the
Raleigh as the News and Observer.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Here's the headline for its millions upon millions, North Carolina
got sold a bill of goods. That is a brutal headline.

Speaker 8 (11:42):
Well, I have to say, as bad as it was,
it's still only the first one game that would take
some amount of time. So I don't think they're going
to lose forty eight fourteen Every week people get so
extreme in both.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Well, gosh, I hope they don't lose forty eight to
fourteen like this week.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
They won't.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
So it really makes you wonder is Belichick the magic
sauce or was it always just Tom Brady? Was it
always just Tom Brady?

Speaker 8 (12:05):
It sure seems mostly like it was Tom Brady because
then Tom Brady had success going to Tampa as he
went down there and had success.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
And then Belichick did not have all of you did not.
But I will tell you the thing. I mean, he's
on our screens right now coming out of the tunnel.
He did not seem happy to be there. He did
not seem excited. He did not seem pumped.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
He you don't know Bill Belichick, have you ever? That's
not part of it.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
He looks like that after winning the sixth Super Bowl,
like he really that's who he is.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
He is not a smiley guy.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
It's so sad. Well maybe that's the problem. You know,
you need you need more energy, more passion, and more
excitement if you're going to inspire a team to be exciting,
you have to be excited.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
DJ.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
But will it make a difference.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I don't know if anything's gonna make it excited.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
The Raleigh News and Observer Luke de Cockle I said
a long article, and it's worth it's worth an entire
read here, but I'll give you a couple of paragraphs.
It's certainly possible that this could have gone worse for
Bill Belichick in the Tar Hills, but that's an argument
over a matter of degrees. Belichick and his brain trust
promised the thirty third NFL team, and yes, this was

(13:18):
certainly at the level of what the Cleveland Browns annually perpetrate.
All there, come on, there is no reasons, he said.
The opening drive was a clean, clinical, eighty three yards
stroll to the end zone. The defense forced a routine stop.
The first six minutes of the Belichick era where everything
he promised the rest of it it looked an awful

(13:38):
lot like so many eras of UNC football previous. You
fire everyone, you bring in seventy new players, and spend
tens of millions of dollars and nothing changes.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, I know it's like rock.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
So Bill Belichick. The thing that we got here. He's
not here here, So here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Maybe wait, he's gonna be here.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
He's gonna be here in Charlotte.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
And we talk so much about it's on to Cincinnati.
Play that second clip there, Bernie, Actually this is let's see,
this is the third one, number three.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
How much teaching can you do from this video head
of Saturday?

Speaker 13 (14:19):
Yeah, well, well, you know, use it on best of
weekend to like I said, correct the mistakes from last
tonight and move on and then you know, get ready
for Charlotte. So you know, they've got a couple extra
days here, and you know they came off with disappointing
game themselves, so you know we're both a little bit
in the same boat here. But yeah, we got a
lot of work to do, and you know we'll get
out it.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
See, move on, get ready for Charlotte. It's the new
on to Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Look how we threw in that this Charlotte lost by
a lot of just be like other people have, don't
you know what we need to do.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
We need to see if we can get Bill Belichick
over to Big Dave's Cheese Steaks. Maybe that'll get him
excite head.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh yeah, for the.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Game because it's right there, Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
If you're gonna go, if you're gonna go to forty
nine er Land, you need to go there.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Go to Big Dave's Cheese Steaks. I don't get you happy.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
They brought free cheese steaks to the studio that day,
and I like them so much. I went back like
the next day. Oh yeah, all the way up to
the university area.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
Oh when I took my university city of all though,
when I go get my car fixed, a right right
over to the Big Dave's Chief Stakes.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
No programming.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Note.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
You can hear the game Friday night, I'm sorry, Saturday
night right here on WBT, and we will talk to
Jones Angel on Thursday, like normal line. That's gonna be
an interesting conversation.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Yeah, I kind of.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I would keep it till the first five minutes of
the game part of it.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
That's right. Let's just analyze the opening drive that touchdown.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, good morning, this is good morning beat.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
This is my birthday song right here, it's my birthday
we're talking about. I didn't play what I.

Speaker 8 (15:51):
Want right.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Forget that other weird song. All right, so you want
me to do this now?

Speaker 6 (15:59):
I cannot wait. I I love birthdays so much and
I've been hyper about I couldn't even sleep. I was
so excited about this present for you.

Speaker 10 (16:07):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yeah, and you're a You're a great present giver. It's
really you are.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
It's always the wrong side.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Well, but am I just talking about me? Like everybody
in here knows that since you arrived, the birthday gift
giving game has been up by all of us, which
is to say it's existent now. Whereas before nothing happened.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
You guys didn't know each other's birthday, and like a
head noder, we didn't even look at Facebook to see
it's so terrible.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Hey, congrats on your birth that's great.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
Birthdays are the.

Speaker 10 (16:36):
Again.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
You're just joining us. The first party favor is one
of these little uh noisemaker rollout things that used to
get when you were like I remember getting these on
New Year's Eve when I was a kid, and they
put it make it a.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Little horn noise supposed to.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
I think it's like all of these are broken.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Between the newsroom squeal and these little horns. Our listeners
are all like losing their minds.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
What is it? Did you say something? Chexted it? In
that they thought that something was wrong with their truck.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh, Rodney. Rodney texted and said, thank you for letting
me know that it was the computer, because he was
looking all over his truck to figure out what was squealing.
So Rodney, it's not your truck man, it's not your truck,
baby doll.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
So wow, wow, he's going to turn up his volume
on his radio. Now. So you have the famous cookies,
which are legendary cookies. Now, I mean these are the
chocolate chip cookies with the salt on them too. Whi's
got the It's a sweet and salty at the same time.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
I've just salt right, Yes, you have to order this salt.

Speaker 8 (17:31):
I have decided to describe by the way, sweet and
salty at the same time.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
And so you got a twelve pac of my favorite
coke zero there.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yeah, that was hard hard to find. I figured you
could add it to your closet of nine other million packs.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Of it my armory. Yes, but where did you find it?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Your patriots supply.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
It is going away. Well, so I tried to order
it from Walmart Plus. So you're gonna laugh at this.
My husband was on a business trail to Chicago a
few weeks ago and had used our Walmart Plus account
to have stuff delivered. So I find I found this
at Walmart Plus to have it delivered yesterday, but it
got delivered to Chicago because I didn't realize he had

(18:13):
used the account.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
He lived in Chicago and went.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
To the place he had stuff delivered two weeks ago.
So I'm really sorry about that, but I ended up
finding it.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Oh it's here, just like what was the guy who
delivered the Christmas gifts a couple of years ago.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Actually ended up being Craig.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
It was the front door, another bag here with stuff
in it.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah you ready?

Speaker 9 (18:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah yeah yeah. Oh so the box of snacks is first.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Cheese it man, You know me very well. I got
my extra toasty cheese its to eat.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
You need something, you know, to go with the cookies. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
Are you ready?

Speaker 9 (18:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
Oh it's great. Oh you did not ready?

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Oh I did?

Speaker 9 (19:02):
All right.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Here's what it is.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Folks.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
If you were listening to us last week, pick our
fantasy teams and hang on. Let me make sure I
got my machine turned up here. I have a shirt,
a purple shirt with the team logo for Yes, ladies
and gentlemen. Is this a one of a kind?

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh wow?

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Can you believe the turnaround?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's got a giant Beth face on it, and it's.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Not a sh mediums. This is you know, this is
a large that will shrink into you know, this little
bit smaller, which is what I like. We'll hold this up, Steve. I.
So there it is.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Can you wear it for the rest of the show.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
I might have to put it on.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's like Life Size had too. It's not like.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
The good news is. It's unlike a shirt that you've
given me in the past. If I were to wear
this for the rest of the show, I wouldn't look
like Bill Belichick.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well exactly. So this is the same company that I
ordered your medium from a couple of years ago that
was baby sized, so I sized up because I knew
I had experience with this company. Now, what's.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (20:04):
But can you believe that the turnaround time on that?
Oh that's for you. It's a badge for you to
wear all day long. It says birthday boy yesterday, but
wait to see you. It's just a badge for you
to wear.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
It says Ages four plus I'm glad that I got it.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
I got that at the same place I got the horn,
so it probably won't I probably won't stick. I so
Nick Craig will be proud. He sent us really quickly
that little uh that that logo that he designed.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
He just texted me and asked if it was the
logo that he made.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Yes, I quick.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Steve will send it to you next.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
So Nick Craig made the logo, but he doesn't have
a shirt.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
I'm the only one gifting him that shirt.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
I think.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
You're the only person who has one at this point.
But now that I've just now that I've designed them
through this company, I think we could order more. I
think we could definitely order more.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Well, I think you know we're talking about what should
the loser of the fantasy football league do.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
The loser, well, I mean.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
To wear the shirt.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
I'm gonna wear it anyway. I'm gonna wear it anyway.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
The loser has to wear your birthday gift. Is that
what you said? I guess.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
I think if Beth beats someone, I told her on
this on the phone, if Beth beats someone, they should
have to wear that the following day.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Whenever.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
That's what I'm getting.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
They should pass it around.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's even TCU colors who lost head last week who
like a TCU shirt.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I see Bernie makes a suggest that. She's like, oh yeah.
If I say, it's like, wait.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Aren't you playing Wayne?

Speaker 6 (21:33):
I am playing?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Ship it to Wayne and he'll have to wear it.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Nick says it's perfect.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
He's very happy with it, so he got excited.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
He's excited about it, very excited to watch to see
that shirt.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
Nick Craig designed the logo. I had it put on
a shirt and it made it here in time, so
it was not pedaled here by a man on a bike.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
But now now you can wear your fandom.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
No, you can. You're the only one who can.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
Both tried to give the shirt away to everybody, also
could pick up.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
I don't think he likes his guys.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
What if we gave it to other people to wear.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
I'm trying to share. I'm trying to share the wealth.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
I'll have one made for I'll keep these Coca colas
and these cookies.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
But bo, I do have a gift for you. Do
you want to do that next segment?

Speaker 5 (22:14):
I think we've run out for this segment, so we're
gonna have to save the we can kick it, save
the festivities for a little another segment warning circle back
traffic Jack right now, Boom or vone can just get
you some.

Speaker 10 (22:26):
More cheeses, man, you'll be okay.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm set, man, I could. I could live in a
bunker and be absolutely fine.

Speaker 10 (22:34):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
He's got a backup shirt if he needs it.

Speaker 10 (22:39):
Give you the shirt off his back.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
He's trying to He's trying to guy, he's trying to
give it away. Boomer a shirt.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
That's gonna be so cool at the next news and
Bruce when you wear that, that's right. Nice tablecloth.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Bo a few minutes before seven o'clock. We have a
Costco membership. Although my wife usually goes. I'm afraid of the.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Parking lot there, the one on Taivola.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Any of them, especially anytime near rush hour, which is
I don't know. It seems like that's when we end
up going later in the afternoon. But I guess the
time I need to go is not then I need
to take off early from this show so I can
go over for the VIP hour, which I didn't even
know is the thing.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Well, only if you have the executive membership. The executive
membership at Costco now allows you special shopping hours where
everyone is not allowed. Other members aren't allowed. You have
to pay that little extra executive membership that was.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Already a thing.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Here's what I think is going on. I think it
has been a thing, but it's been a not really
policed thing. Now they're cracking down and apparently going to
make sure that you don't get inside unless you have
proper credentials.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well it will make a difference, make a difference. But
so they just instituted I don't know, maybe six months
ago at least at the one on Tavola and the
one up in Moorsville. They didn't. You know, you used
to walk in and you would just show a little
person standing there, you're I mean, just this sweet person.

(24:25):
The sweet person stayed little buddy the vest. You would
show them your card and then you just say, they
would like wave you on in. But now they have scanners.
You have to actually scan. They have like two or
three scanners set up and you scan and walk in,
so they would be able to tell by the scan
if you have the higher level executive membership, Like I
wonder if it makes a sound if you try to

(24:46):
get in in the sneaky off hours and it's like
and you have to leave if they make you if
they make you leave. But it's now it's the just
these upper level members, the executive members. You can go
in one hour earlier than other folks. But it's only
like two days a week.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
So I even knew that a little bit about it
as we we go, like maybe once a quarter, maybe
three times a year. But there were some bigger purchase
we made and it was beneficial for us to get
the executive member card in that purchase to have that.
So that's the only and I thought they said it's
part of that, and you get to come into special hours, like, well,
that's great.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
When I come back in six months, I'll.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
Come in early.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
Well, they are on So here's the fun part. On Saturdays.
If you've ever been to a Costco on Saturday. My
in laws were in town this weekend and we took
them to Costco on Saturday. Man oh man. That was
a little Saturday and we almost went to battle. Well
enough time as to be back and beyond.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
But here's how savage Costco shoppers are. I went on
a Saturday the last time I went, and I had
a cart.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
You know, if you hit the.

Speaker 8 (25:46):
Cart from outside right, there's none inside, so it's like
from the parking lot. Basically, I'm in there, I buy
two things put in the cart. I walked around the
corner aisle. I came back. Someone had taken the items
out of my cart and took my cart. That's how
savage are, which I now had to walk out the
building and go get a new cart to come back in.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
They took your car.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Somebody took my cart.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
It was just sitting there, I mean for like one minute,
ninety seconds maybe, And I said to point as I
was walking out, I said to one of the workers,
are I go, it's place a savage.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Somebody took my carts? She went, oh, yeah, that happens
all the time.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
My dad has done that, but by accident. So he's
like walking around Costco with a full shopping cart. This
was before my mom passed away, and I could not
stop laughing at this story. But they have like getting
stuff off the shelves and then they walk away and
my mom my dad's just like pushing this cart full
of stuff. And then my mom looks at the cart
and she's like, what is all of this stuff? They

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had taken the wrong cart, and my dad said, how
did this happen? And my mom looks at him and says,
I don't know. You're the one pushing it, and he
got some embarrassed. They just left it and they left.
They didn't find the person.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
That is well, my son pulled these stuff out and
put it on the next shelf and there it was.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
And the hot dogs there are not that special. I
don't care what Winterable says.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Oh, I have not heard this sim's fighting words. I
know the pizza is good.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
People listen.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Hot dogs they do.

Speaker 14 (27:04):
I mean they're big and they're kind of meaty, but
it's nothing to put on there.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
You can get everything on the menu for less than
two dollars. Yeah, essentially it is. Well, there you go
the VIP hour at Costco and now they're gonna they're
gonna enforce it, so go at your own risk.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
I guess one wand of.

Speaker 14 (27:22):
Poker rubber rubber from.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Knees Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three double bet.

Speaker 15 (27:30):
Now, Biff, I want to make sure that we get
two coats of waxes time, not just one.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
This is good Morning Beaty with both Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 8 (27:38):
Nails, huppying, pitch and school boards up.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Washed definitely, So.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, I gotta pull out the classics. Jimmy, Conny Lance.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Good morning, and it almost makes you uncomfort almost. I
just got shushed by Jim.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Yeah, you don't step on biff.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Oh, I got it out before Beth.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
You almost biffed it. I was telling Beth off the air.
I never I never do very well when I am
the center of attention, but yesterday was. It was my birthday.
So the crew in here is making it very festive
today with noise makers that don't make it. Don't make noise.

(28:37):
You were just joining us last hour. Beth gave me
a We picked our fantasy teams last last week. You
remember that, and you remember you probably remember nobody's team.
But well, now I have an official megabeth team logo
T shirt.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
The only one in existence.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
It is a compliments of the Carolina Renal News Hour.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
Nick Craig designed the logo for me.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Because Nick Craig designed it. So now I have the
world's only Megabath T shirt.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, I have to say when Nick Craig doesn't have one.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Nick Craig does not have one yet. I'll have to
get I have to find out when Nick Craig's birthday is.
But I have to say that it is a Nick Craig,
Sir Stephen of Anthony duo because Nick Craig designed the
original logo and Bernie, Sir Stephen, thank you, sir Stephen.
If you notice used the he changed the font to
the actual Mega death font for Mega bath.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
And speaking of Bernie, the reason I'm playing the Biff
poke Roba song is because Bernie just turned the break
gave me an Atlanta Braves sweatshirt.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
I went shopping this weekend.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I walked down the hall for one minute. I missed this.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
I went to a vintage I was burning a hole
in my pockety.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
He didn't. He just kind of did it, like, hey,
but here you go shot.

Speaker 7 (29:48):
He's like, hey, this is real secretive.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
I actually played Biff pog Roba off off in the
studio for.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Did It was very cute. It was a very cute Bromo.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Oh thank you, sorry bo? Sorry did that?

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Do you know what else was really cute?

Speaker 5 (30:03):
Did you know what's happening?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Did you cry a little bit?

Speaker 10 (30:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
Crying right now?

Speaker 6 (30:07):
A little bro a little bro hugged, a little bro
hugged it out, bow hugged.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I love you, bro, Bro Toddler, I love you Beth.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
The cutest thing in the whole world, though, is I
It was early. It was early Sunday or maybe yeah,
early Sunday morning. My phone rings and it's Bernie and
I was like, I hope everything's okay. It was Bernie.
We were we were having a little little chat about
about your birthday.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Switch.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
I had a couple of things to choose from os
and I that's it.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Input on that made me feel so happy. I felt
like a mom, like like the Coles mom. Yeah, like
the Coles mom.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
This is what I was saying last hour before Beth
got here. None of us even knew each other's birthday.
And now it's like it's a thing. It's birthday.

Speaker 8 (30:53):
Now we call you and ask you which of the
items we should gets.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Do you all hate me because now it feels like
there's pressure every time there's a birthday not on Facebook.

Speaker 8 (31:00):
So I'll have about Tuesday or Wednesday. I've been I've
been in Raleigh and Seabrooks since last Thursday.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Yeah, that's the that's the easiest way to tell tell
me you're not on Facebook anymore, or you're not active.
Without telling me, you go on Facebook and the first
thing you see is happy birth All you see is
birthday wishes.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's all you see.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
And then you see like and you scroll down and
you see last years and then the years before because
that's the only thing that populates.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Yeah, all you see is birthday. Well, not active, which
I wish I could.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
See that I have. So I have four headed birthday wishes.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
I got literally like, I'm still scrolling.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Now before they think you think you're talking about me,
That's not who you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's not what I'm talking about.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
You will hear him today coming up a.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Day, four hundred birthday wishes.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Uh, do I have time to do this? I think
I do. Bernie one one. Let me have the first
one there, because this is a this is good Carolina
Panthers over the weekend doing some reshuffling of the deck
because Adam Thielen is now gone and that makes room
for Hunter Renfro to come back. So it's been a
bit of a kind of a wild goose chase for him.

(32:08):
But have you heard about how he found out that
he was back on the team, or at least how
he got in the offer.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Again, was it here?

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Was it us?

Speaker 5 (32:14):
No, it was not us, but it's something that sounds
like we would do. Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 16 (32:19):
It was good. I think they kind of knew that
Adam thing was possible, and we discussed that kind of
going out on Cuttey and so that was definitely a
thing that happened. That next morning. I was actually, you know,
I went in too. I had to get a trailer
because I had to go get a golf cart, and
so I was in there and I was talking to
some people at work. It is where the trailer was,

(32:42):
and so I was I was knoped out a phone
for thirty minutes, and my daughter's running the car like
I was right outside of the car. I willn't just
leave him in there. But they I guess I had
like ten minute phone calls from Dan Dave, my agent,
and they were all just ignored. My daughter's watching Blue
or something like you and or all of them. So
so got back in the car and and had that conversation.
I guess, I don't know that had been on Thursday maybe,

(33:05):
and then just just made sure that this is what
I wanted to do make sure that this is where
I wanted to be, which I was pretty sure of it,
but just wanted a couple of days to kind of
make sure he's good with my life and my family
and to go and get everything I got to it.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
So we always make fun of you for your phone
being thrown down a well, like they'll just disappear for
like thirty minutes hours. Well, apparently his phone went into
the well of his car with his daughter while he
was out doing some business outside the truck there, and
he got multiple messages and his daughter just ignored him,
just like keep on, Bluie.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
Could you said, like the panthers, like say a mound
of those giant conference food tables.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
He's playing hardball, guys, He's not returning the calls here.
That's right.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
We offered another million. He actually did get more money
than what the original contract.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Before he got waved.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Was Oh that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
You weren't get like a million more?

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Would you weren't here? I think it was Friday? Was
it Friday? That I could not think of his name?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
It actually happened while I was here Thursday.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
It was a Rusty Bromaker.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
Yeah, Rusty bros.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
I'm trying to think what it was. Carter is close,
Hunter runfro you very similar?

Speaker 5 (34:09):
That's right, Larry buckhoorny So seven oh four, five, seven
oh eleven ten is the text line. We just had
one text that has accused you of doing something to
the rest of the room. Right.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
James sent a text that made me laugh out loud.
He said, Beth single handedly turned you all from men
to metrosexuals. But he said so. I told him that
his text had made us laugh out loud, and he said, thanks.
You know, men don't normally recognize each other's birthdays. Lol,
it takes a woman.

Speaker 12 (34:43):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
This is music.

Speaker 8 (34:45):
We didn't know each other had birthdays, just going with
alone when they were like, oh you have a birthday?

Speaker 5 (34:51):
How about this? Speaking of the effect that Beth has
on us, five easy ways to naturally boost endorphins, besides exercise, besides.

Speaker 17 (35:03):
Do you know what?

Speaker 6 (35:04):
And doorphins do?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Dolphins make me cry?

Speaker 6 (35:06):
And doorphins make you happy, and doorphins make you feel good,
make you feel positive, and I Antoinette, Antoinette, I don't know.
I can't find it on the text line. But Antoinette
sent a message on the text line last week she
doesn't like the fact that I'm happy. So I really
wanted to to be.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Prepared to be called out on the radio text in
your thought.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Texting your thought about about my happiness. So I wanted
I saw this because I read Real Simple. Do you
guys read Real Simple magazine?

Speaker 7 (35:37):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
No, it sounds like something I would love.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
I'm definitely gonna gravitate towards something real simple.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
As opposed to pretty calculus. I would probably grab that
one off the shelf.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Well, Real Simple this weekend, and I thought maybe it
was because we were talking about happiness and whether or
not happiness is a is a is a good thing?
I personally think that it is that if you go
through life with a happy heart, or you go through
life choosing joy or choosing happiness, it's not always easy,
but it does change the outlook and the outcome of

(36:07):
your day. Does that sound too Pollyanna say?

Speaker 8 (36:10):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Sounds real simple?

Speaker 6 (36:13):
It is real simple, Jim. So, first of all, if
you want to induce, induce, Yes, induce. If you want
to create more endorphins in your life, one of the
things that you can do a cold plunge.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I don't think that's what I want to do.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
Get in a cold bathtub or you know what you
can do. You can just run the shower for thirty
seconds ice cold in the morning, after you've already taken
your shower. End it with that cold burst.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
So the way you're talking about this sounds like you
do it. I do like regularly I do today today.

Speaker 9 (36:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
So, like you start with a cold.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Shower, I don't start the shower cold. I take like
a hot shower, super duper hot shower, and then I
end with a cold burst. Can you end with a
cold burst?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Makes you happy?

Speaker 6 (36:54):
It does well. It creates endorphins in your body when
here's what the scientists say, when you're.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
Her into.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
When your body is submerged in cold water, it responds
by releasing endorphins to relieve the initial pain or discomfort
of that initial cold pledge. Is the same with really
hot sauce, like really hot peppers, like ghost peppers and
those kinds of things. This is why I also love
to eat hot sauce. If your food's a little bit painful,
your body creates endorphins. Number two, guys, please don't cut yourselves.

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Number two guys, singing or humming.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
You literally walked into the newsroom singing your song this morning.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
During breaks, you will you will hum like guys half
the time. I don't even think you realize you do it.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
I don't realize that.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
But like, it's getting louder. I both said that it's
getting louder.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
I don't mean that as a as a derogatory thing,
but it's like I've noticed it's getting louder like. I like,
I look over and I go, does she know that
she's doing that? And she doesn't know, she's just doing
She's that happy.

Speaker 7 (38:01):
It's great, look like Bernie security.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Of that was. That was recordings of the humming. According
to scientists, singing and humming have tangible, science backed benefits
for your mental health. Using your voice stimulates the vagus
nerve and creates a feedback loop of calm and feel
good chemistry. Vegas is it? It's vegas? Is your vegas?

(38:26):
What's your vegas nerve?

Speaker 5 (38:32):
This is why we don't get through lists.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
This is exactly why I'm just stretching by baggage.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
And this one's only five long? Should we just end list?

Speaker 6 (38:49):
You might have to read the vegas nerve?

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Number three, You guys need we need a musical here.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
Number four. Number four, eat dark chocolate. That's dark chocolate
in your chocolate chip cookies. Bo, that is dark chocolate
in your chocolate chip cookies. If you eat dark chocolate,
the nerve the couko naturally triggers endorphin release and also
boosts your serotonin. Number five. Perform acts of kindness. If

(39:22):
you do things that are kind, it will make you
feel good and inevitably.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Literally done all these things. You brought, all these gifts.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
You brought dark chocolate, You took a cold shower, and
you sang you've done all the five easy ways to
make us metros, I mean morphins.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Oh my goodness. All right, everybody's gonna collect themselves here
on a It's Monday after a holiday show rues my
bag of nerve. Tuesday after a Monday holiday. What I
was trying to say. And we have lots coming up
with Brett Jensen's coming up next hour. We got it's Tuesday.
I keep thinking Today's Monday, but it's actually dirty restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
You know, marks gift to you.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
This is good pointing bet with Bo Thompson and Math
troud Man, seven thirty seven on WBT on your Tuesday
after Labor Day, Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
Hope you had a nice one. Everybody back to work,
back to school today, And I want to put something
on your radar that's happening tomorrow. The Charlotte Transit Authority
is going to hold a special safety meeting tomorrow after
the blue line stabbing a few weeks ago. And you've
been hearing about this with Mark Garrison. We heard Edwin Peacock.
Of course, he's a city councilman who's also running for

(40:43):
at large city council, but he has been making the
rounds with various videos around the city. And then Friday night,
a lot of you may have missed this because you
were sort of heading into that Labor Day weekend sort
of mentality. But Edwin Peacock on Friday night got on
the light rail uptown and made the ride all the
way from one end to the other and put a

(41:05):
social media message out about what he encountered. But all
of this, as I said, as a backdrop to what's
happening tomorrow, Mark, the Metropolitan Transit Commission is going to
get together and talk about what are the next steps
after what happened with this tragedy a few weeks ago.

Speaker 14 (41:20):
Yeah, I mean, so what you have is a homeless
guy who killed this woman on the light rail. And
what has since really come out is that nobody's checking tickets.
You know, anybody can get on and ride. And I
want to play a clip because this is very interesting.
It's almost comical. You have Edwin Peacock, you know, this

(41:41):
upscale looking city council and in the background are these
rowdy guys living it up and they're having a big
party on the light rail.

Speaker 18 (41:51):
And I've also been with several people in this train,
particularly these guys behind me, where this is clearly a
rolling shelter for them.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
They're partying and having a good time.

Speaker 14 (41:59):
Now about that, You've got a city councilman now calling
the light rail a rolling homeless shelter. That's pretty astounding
when you think about it. And when nobody checking tickets,
he noticed that. He said, you know, something has got
to be done. He's asking the city staff to look
at the crime stats and try to come up with

(42:19):
some statistics. But the real question then tomorrow is what
will the Transit Commission do. Will they take a vote
to authorize more security. You know, we just we really
don't know.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
And Mayor vy Lyles, she serves as the chair of
the MTC, and this is coming on the heels of
some criticism that she's gotten with how she reacted to
the story of the young lady being stabbed in the
first place.

Speaker 14 (42:47):
Yeah, she put out a long statement. You remember last
week there was one sentence about the poor victim, and
then the rest of the statement was about the homeless
guy in his hard life. And so a lot of
people were quite upset about that, thinking that she had
more concern for the perpetrator than the victim. So a
lot of controversy, and we have to point out this

(43:08):
comes at a time when in November, we're asking taxpayers
to approve a higher sales tax to build more trains.
But will they vote for that if the trains are
perceived as dangerous and clearly right now they are perceived
as very dangerous.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
And if this story stays in the headlines, you know,
leading up to November, it probably will change the outcome
of the vote, could very easily change the outcome of
the vote if this story is still top of mind.

Speaker 14 (43:36):
And you know, but I just I'm so struck, you know,
because light Rail has been like this shiny toy that
the uptown crowd has bragged about for years. They loved it.
Pat McCrory loved it. It's been like Charlotte's grand toy.
And here is Edwin Peacock on on video for all
the world to see in front of a bunch of

(43:57):
drunks calling it a rolling homeless altar.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Think about that. That is remarkable to me.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
And think about this. You know, everybody's sort of getting
back into the routine of of you know, school and
work and what have you. On the day after Labor Day,
one week from today is primary election, man, that's right,
And then of course you head to the general and
all of these issues and this one is going to
be a front and center issue for a lot of people.
You know, crime in general. But here is an example

(44:26):
right in front of everybody. And it's not just crime,
it's you know, what's the future of the light rail
look like at a time when people are trying to
convince some people to invest further in the light rail,
and we've got the referendum coming up in November, so
all of this sort of feeds into a time where
people may have not been paying attention for a while,
but now it's about to get right back in the

(44:46):
forefront here.

Speaker 14 (44:46):
Well, you know, Michael Graff, who's a local journalist, wrote
about it to rather eloquently over the weekend. He talked
about how you used to take his kids on there
just for fun, and he quit because some drunks would
hassle them on the train. And I have to say, personally,
I have a twelve year old grandson who is a
train freak, and I mean he loves training. We used

(45:07):
to ride light rail some no more because we just
got hassled and it was just it just felt unsafe
to take him on there.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
And see, that's so unfortunate. Because I talked about this
last week. It is responsible for the growth that we've seen,
especially in the South End area. When the light rail
went up, suddenly that area developed with all of the
apartments and the walkable dog trails and all of the restaurants.
And now if people don't feel safe, then will that

(45:39):
area not be as popular.

Speaker 14 (45:40):
Well, I think it's clear. One thing that has got
to happen is there's got to be toll enforcement. You
cannot let people chest ride for free.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Well, and he talked about talking to some of the
people who were working as the attendance for the light
rail Edwin, and he said that one guy talked to
had been working long, long, and it's obvious that they
don't have as much as they need. And so again,
it's one thing to talk about the state of the
current light reel that we have, and then there's that
conversation about extending it, and how are you going to

(46:12):
get people to jump on that bandwagon if they can't
be comfortable with the safety of what already exists.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, yeah, I can't. Got a pr problem, no question
about it.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
All right, Thank you, Mark, Yes, sir, I wanted to
say hey and thoroughly enjoy the show.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
Thank you for taking the time to call in.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Well, y'all, keep worry, done a great job.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
Thank you man, Keep on keeping on.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
This is good morning, beauty, it's booing path.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Thanks for Bernie for putting together our Labor Day best
of show yesterday. I was riding around listening to a
little bit of that. Back in the day, I used
to put those together myself so I'd always know what
was coming. And in recent years Bernie's taking it over
and for good reason, doing a great job. But because
of that when I'm out doing my thing, I'll hear
stuff that I have completely forgotten about. So it's like

(47:02):
listening to this show with you and me hosting it
and not knowing what's coming next.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
I actually Bo texted me yesterday to say that he
was driving around listening to the show and he was like, man,
I forgot about some of these conversations.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
Yeah, it was the day we were talking about leaf blowing,
and then that kind of gave way to me talking
about my odd fascination with reels on my phone where
people are clearing Drake.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
Yeah, that was a good one, and the people were
standing with Bo. That's right, I stand with Bou.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
People were in support of the drain clearing and the
leaf blowing, all of those things.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
All of those things.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
We were just talking with Mark Garrison about the light reil,
and some of you all have been weighing in. I
just wanted to read some messages. Kevin sent us a
message and said we had to quit writing the lightrail
after a handful of unsafe situations. Our son is a
freshman at UNCC, and I asked him not to take
the light reel, and Aaron said that he used to
take the light reel all the time when the original

(47:58):
epicenter still existed. But he also noticed even back then,
the honor system did not work and people were riding
the light reel for free. So people have been noticing
light reel issues for quite some time. And now we're
having a larger public conversation about it because a the
vote is coming up and to increase sales tax to

(48:20):
build more light reel lines, but also the discussion needs
to happen about whether or not people feel safe.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
I was looking at some of the ongoing reporting from
various people around town about this story. Over the weekend,
Joe Bruno from Channel nine was tweeting about this and again,
if you've got kids in the car, you might want
to turn the station down for a minute because this
is rather graphic what I'm about to read, but he
talks about de Carlos. Brown is in jail and has

(48:51):
been formally charged with first degree murder. According to the affidavit,
Brown sat in the seats directly in front of Erna Zurutzka,
the woman who was killed. The train had traveled for
about four minutes after Brown boarded when he quote pulls
a knife from his pocket, unfolds the knife, pauses, then
stands up and strikes the victim three times unquote. Court

(49:12):
documents say Brown stabbed her in the throat. The affidavit
says Brown then walked away and Zerutzka went in responsive
shortly after the attack. There was no other interaction between
Brown and Zerutzka, according to police, and so the surveillance
footage basically there's nothing that you would see in watching,
at least during the time that they have the access

(49:34):
to the recording, that would indicate that there was some
sort of reason to believe this would happen. And again
that notion really really wrings home the idea of how
potentially unsafe this is because it sounds like it kind
of happened randomly out of nowhere. Now, there may be
more that comes out about this, but this is you know,

(49:56):
some of the reporting that we're hearing now based on
what's been you know, accessed, and that's just terrifying to
hear that it happened that way. It's terrifying to hear
that would happen anyway, but especially if you're watching and
it looks like two people who have no connection at
all and then in a span of just a few
seconds that happens.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
That it's literally just a random act of violence. And
I think that it does beg the conversation about security
on the train. It does make you want to come up,
make the city, want to come up with solutions for
people feeling safe. And then there is that extra conversation.
When you see random, active acts of violence in cities,

(50:40):
I mean across the country, across the state, around the world,
it makes you wonder what is happening that these acts
of violence seem to be happening more. Are they happening
more or are we just so connected that we hear
about them more? But what is going on if there
is an act of violence like this without I mean,

(51:02):
like you said, there's no provocation, no relationship between the two.
It is just a random act that makes people feel unsettled,
and for good reason. But I think the thing that
really has just broken my heart about this is that
she had fled Ukraine, a war torn country, and had

(51:22):
survived that move from Ukraine, and that she had survived
years of the war there and came here to Charlotte
to lose her life in this way, And that breaks
me for her family and for this young life cut short, and.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
We're talking in an ongoing discussion about how two things.
How safe is uptown and how you know how vacant
uptown is, and when you're talking about trying to get
people to come back to uptown, this is one of
the ways that people get to uptown. And if you
can't feel safe getting to Uptown before you even actually
are in uptown, that's another problem on top of a problem.

Speaker 6 (52:07):
We just got a text on the text line. I
don't have a name for this person, but he or
she made the point. They say in Los Angeles, the
La County sheriffs ride the Red Line and the Blue
line checking for tickets and for security. Charlotte is going
to have to put armed police on the rail line.
There's just no getting around it. Pointing out that larger

(52:30):
cities do have security that roam randomly on I haven't
ridden the subway. I haven't been to New York in
a few years. I haven't riden the subway in a while,
so I can't remember if I've ever seen security guards
roaming around on the subway or the train systems. I've
ridden the l in Chicago, and the fascinating thing is

(52:52):
is that I in New York and in Chicago. I've
ridden the train in London. I've never felt unsated on
mass transit and in these large cities. I rode the
subway maybe once when I lived in Los Angeles, but
in an earthquake prone city, I just didn't feel real.
That was the reason I didn't ride the subway much

(53:13):
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 15 (53:14):
But I.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
Wonder why we're suddenly seeing this uptick and where people
aren't aren't feeling safe.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
Well, I was in New York about what three years
ago and rode the subway quite a bit, and like you,
I don't remember specifically seeing armed guards walking around, but
by the same token, it's so busy there. It's a
completely different kind of busy than what we have here.

Speaker 6 (53:39):
Well, and you with the lightrail, you can't get onto
the subway without the ticket. They have those turn styles
that keep you from getting on. They have security guards.
When you are buying your ticket or your pass. You
either have to go to somebody at the window or
you go to one of the little automated kiosks, and
you have to have that ticket. You have to scan
it to get in through the turnstyle to get down

(54:00):
to the subway. So maybe that's the difference. Maybe that's
one of the big differences, is that you are pretty
consistently dealing with a paying customer, people who were paying
to be there.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Well, and you're also underground and there are lots of
parts of that infrastructure that we can't see, whereas pretty
much what you see is what you get with what
we have here, because it's it's still such a new thing,
and like Edmond Peacock was talking about, it's I mean
every time I've never been on our light rail here. Now,
I'm not going to sit here and say I'm the

(54:31):
best example that I write it all the time, but
the times that I have been on it, I've never
seen someone ask for a to show their ticket. Never
seen that, and I always hear that sort of refrain
is that, ah, they never do that. I've never seen
anything that makes me believe that that that you know,
description of it is untrue. So more to come on this,
and like we said as we were talking to Mark,

(54:53):
tomorrow is the meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commission, Mayor
Lyles presiding over that. Much more throughout the day and
here between now and then on News Talk eleven ten WBT,
where it's almost eight o'clock.

Speaker 10 (55:06):
What are you smiling like that?

Speaker 7 (55:08):
I just like to smile.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Smiling is my favorite?

Speaker 10 (55:10):
Make work your favorite? That's your favorite work? Is your
new favorite?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Min from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three
w BT.

Speaker 12 (55:17):
Did you enjoy the opera there?

Speaker 6 (55:20):
It's so good?

Speaker 14 (55:20):
I almost beat my pants.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
This is good morning Beatty with both Thompson and Beth
Troutman my.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Man start.

Speaker 10 (55:32):
Well.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
For a few short minutes, there was quite a time
to be a North Carolina Tar here last night.

Speaker 12 (55:40):
Second in goal for Carolina, first possession of the ball game,
bluepez and the pistol with Hood behind him. He will
hand to him, hoot right side, swear.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
They's great Carolina. What a start for Pella check.

Speaker 6 (55:55):
In the here.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Seven to nothing. All was right in the new Belichick world.
And then and then the wheels fell off. Forty eight
to fourteen, game number one for Bill Belichick and his
primarily new tar heels, seventy new players. I mean, this
was a complete overhaul, and this was the most followed

(56:19):
story in all of college football, though, I mean, I
don't think that's even arguable at this point. And you
know so, because you're watching the pregame show last night
at Keenan Stadium. They have everybody. The only person who
wasn't there was Lee Corso because his show, you know,
his final show was on Saturday. But they essentially had
the makings of college game Day on the field there
because McAfee was there and Desmond Howard and Herbstreet was

(56:42):
calling the game with Rhys Davis, so all the usuals
were there. And not only that, you had Randy Moss
and you had Teddy Bruski, who both played for Bill Belichick.
So they pulled out all the stops on ESPN. And then,
like I said, Carolina did its job for the first
the first drive and Zochie, I don't even know what
to say here. This is I mean, this is not

(57:04):
just a you know, this is not a loss. This
is a capital LSS.

Speaker 8 (57:08):
It's not for the game. It was a great night
and it was interesting. I saw a photo this morning
of the postgame press conference. You always have the backdrop
of the sponsors and whatever. They also balloons around it
like a wedding or something was going on. They said
the balloons don't hit quite right after a game, like
who puts balloons up at a press game? Postgame, a
press conference, studing podium.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
They thought they were gonna win.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
But that's the arrogance I mean, so it's like fun
going into It's like, I mean, I.

Speaker 8 (57:32):
Literally heard people like saying terms like Bill Belichick will
be able to out coach ninety eight percent of these
coaches because of it, even though he's coming to college
for the first time doing it. He's got out coach
all these guys, and they have all this money they
spent as far as the nil money, seventy new players,
which you take as meaning seventy new really good NFL
prospects because who else would he bring in but the

(57:53):
best of the best. And then as a game, war
is like, well, yeah, it's his first game and you
know they got seventy new players and he's never done
college coaching. It's like, wait, all the things you said
were positives, you're now saying are negatives.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
And I'm not saying they're not going to turn to
the round. I'm sure they'll have their successes, but they
were not close. They looked like a Division three team.

Speaker 8 (58:12):
I mean stuff that they were doing by themselves, snapping
the balls, like rolling on the ground, giving up two
defensive touchdowns. Simple handoff to start the second half goes
seventy five yards untouched for a touchdown. I mean they
looked like they were playing the smallest of small schools
against TCU. I mean they should have at least been
competitive with what they have as far as the resources.

Speaker 6 (58:31):
I have to wonder what he was like in the
locker room after, how he how does he try to
inspire these players? But what is he today? How is
he waking up today?

Speaker 8 (58:44):
He is so level stoic, if you will, that he
is kind of the same in victory and defeats. I think,
as far as if you're talking about his personality in
his mood, I don't think he's going to come in
spit in nails or doing anything different than he did
heading into SCY. I think they'll work hard at it
and get after it, and he'll probably have some words.
But he's not I've always heard this like as terset

(59:04):
as he is in these podium settings, players like Teddy Bruski.
These guys come back because they love playing for him.
When we get to dumb off the field, as some
people have, he has great relationships off the field with
many people, players and others.

Speaker 5 (59:20):
And now the spotlight looms so largely on Charlotte at
forty nine Ers, and it's a home game. It'll be
in Charlotte coming up on Saturday, and.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
The circus is coming to time.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
I'm telling you, I mean, what does this team do now?
One of the teams is going to be zero to two,
right because the forty nine ers lost their first game,
so it's not like they come in here with a
ton of momentum. So maybe maybe Belichick is thinking, Okay,
I'm glad all the hooplahs over to a degree. I mean,
it's not going to be like it was last night,
but I means, as Zokie says, at the same time,

(59:52):
it's going to be the traveling circus every week the
whole season, because either it's gonna be Belichick saving the
day or it's going to be the tra wreck that
has become Belichick at this point in his career and
he's turned it into the tar Heels it wreck. O.
Well you heard it here, folks. This is where you
heard it first eight thirteen from tar Heel grad Beth

(01:00:17):
Trap Right.

Speaker 6 (01:00:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
An important message on the email, Kevin Warren wants to
know what anybody remember the score from the NC State
game on Thursday night. I actually do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
I think gym members. I don't remember that it's twenty
four to seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
I think final Well, they were a fifteen boys favorite,
quite too much.

Speaker 7 (01:00:33):
About whatever we should have want more.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It's in C State, So you know a thing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Or two about them, don't you, Brad?

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
Yeah, eight thirteen on WBT And speaking of teams that
sort of came out of nowhere to have a nice
little weekend. There, Boomer von Cannon Florida State Seminoles looking
pretty good.

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
Well they pulled that one out. Hey, h I think
some coaching changes have really paid off in a long round.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
A new quarterback too, new quarterback look great?

Speaker 10 (01:00:58):
Old They really did it is so I was thinking that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
Man, the US Open was good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
It actually was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
It was good too.

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
It was great, great sports weekend all around.

Speaker 10 (01:01:12):
It really was. Were a Hill fan. That's your fair
second half. I heard you Bath Bath from downtown.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
It's gonna stick, just like all of the nicknames I come.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Up with, gonna be in a T shirt soon.

Speaker 8 (01:01:30):
Forget the chapel Bill, bella wreck, everything she says, turned
a new T shirt.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Because I make it so.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Side hustle.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
In my mind, and I'm long, I'm rubbing it in,
aren't I?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
You really are?

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
How about that Max Johnson there, Max said about swallowed my.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
Own I got hooked on it a little bit hanging.
That happened the TCU, the team that came in last night,
the TCU forty eight to fourteen. Here's what Kirk Kerbstreet,
who watched the game from the ESPN booth, thought of
the whole thing.

Speaker 19 (01:02:15):
Well, they're going to have to continue to recruit and develop, obviously,
but for the time being, what we saw, because no
one knew, was seventy new players. What they really had.
I mean, even trying to put our chart and our
boards together and try to figure out who's on this
team was somewhat challenging. You know, until we got about
to the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 12 (01:02:32):
What do they have?

Speaker 19 (01:02:33):
They have a team right now that's got to get
a lot better with the physicality to line of scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
They got to tackle better as a group.

Speaker 19 (01:02:39):
A lot of times they would run to the ball
in pursuit and be there and then just not finish
to play, which will drive Bill Belichick and his son
Steve the defensive coordinator crazy end of the day, they
just got to continue to find pieces. And you know
in the film when they when you're down forty one
to seven, I bet there's some guys that were starters
that maybe they didn't give quite one hundred percent. Maybe

(01:03:00):
guys that came in off the bench did. So they're
going to continue to tweak and try to get better.
But I don't know about you, but it's a team
that obviously has got a long way to go by
the time they get into conference play to try to
be a competitive team.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Forty one to seven at one point, ultimately forty eight
to fourteen. Bernie always leaves me memes on my book
in the morning it said forty one to seven. Coincidentally,
Bill Belichick was forty one when Jordan Hudson was seven.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
Memeso, which actually is not even close to right. That's
not a big enough can, that's not a big enough
happy a fifty burger.

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
It's just a ton of memes out the left throat
of Choose film.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Is it funny that forty one to seven is only
thirty four? It feels not more, It's not fifty.

Speaker 7 (01:03:44):
It feels like more.

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
It's like what I think it's forty eight years. He's
seventy three and she's twenty five. In case you haven't
heard that of the news somewhere.

Speaker 6 (01:03:52):
Yeah, I don't know if you guys know this, but
he has a young girlfriend, Max Johnson. Though Max Johnson
is he good?

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Well, So here's the story.

Speaker 8 (01:03:59):
He was the starting quarterback last year. First game, he
had a devastating leg injury to the point where they
thought he might have to have his leg amputated.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Oh my goodness, and here he is one year later.
He came back. He was the backup quarterback.

Speaker 8 (01:04:09):
It was a close competition for the starting job, and
he may be the starter after what happened yesterday in
the game. But he he came back and played through
a touchdown in the second half. So just the fact
he was back out there playing and coming back to
these the son of an NFL players, So it's it's
been a great, remarkable personal journey for him to get
back on the field a year later.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
Brad Johnson's son.

Speaker 6 (01:04:28):
That's a good story. That's a that's a good story.
So see, there are some there're some good stories coming
out of Chapel Chapel.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Thrill Chapel, Bill If we moved off a chapel Bill already,
we do.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
I think we have to move away from chapel Bill.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
You got to earn that back.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
Yes, it's going to take a minute for him.

Speaker 8 (01:04:43):
Well, I will tell you a little story about last year.
The Carolina Panthers opened their season against New Orleans and
lost something like forty one to ten.

Speaker 7 (01:04:50):
That's about right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Maybe it is forty one to ten.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
And by the end of the year we had Bryce
Young and we're beating the Falcons and scoring points. So,
I mean, it could take a while, could happen this season.
So I'm not gonna throw the whole thing for North
Carolina based on one game. It is a horrific start,
but very similar to how the Panthers started, like the
first two games last year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
He certainly can turn it around. They got enough talent
and money and resources.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
Well, they definitely have enough money and resources. I mean,
he he went out and recruited like a madman, you know,
I mean, not not a madman, but was out there
in full force recruiting. And who wouldn't want to say, Hey,
I'm going to UNC to play for Bill Belichick. I
feel like it would also because he is who he
is he's going to keep people on his team longer

(01:05:31):
and that they won't enter the transfer portal. But if
they don't win, if they're not winning, then that won't
be the case. They're going to like, you know what,
I'm going to go be a Florida seminole.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
I'm going to go to app Florida Gator, Florida State.

Speaker 6 (01:05:46):
Florida State seminole. Bill Napier is.

Speaker 7 (01:05:50):
The case for Florida. Florida.

Speaker 6 (01:05:52):
Florida Gators.

Speaker 15 (01:05:53):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
So you you mentioned the Carolina Panthers talk. You want
to you want to pick me up from Dave Canallis.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
I always need a Dave Canalis pick me up.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
So Dave Canalis comes back after the break. They have
a Labor Day practice yesterday and Dave Canalis, who is
effervescent and and upbeat as always no matter what's going
on outside, listen to this one. What a beautiful day.

Speaker 20 (01:06:16):
Oh, unbelievable, A long weekend. The guys look fresh, they
look fast, a lot of excitement out there and to
be able to get back on the grass, you know,
and continue to build this thing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
You know.

Speaker 20 (01:06:30):
As we head into the first week of the regular season,
a lot of excitement. So, you know, good competitive period
at the end, just went you know, ones on ones
at the end, best of five right there. So there's
a lot of good energy to finish the practice offense
one today. Hey, So it kind of goes back and
forth sometimes like that. But it's a really nice pass.

(01:06:52):
Brice through about a forty yard bomb to Xavier, you know,
early in the competition period to kind of elevate the
energy of it. But it was a really good practice.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Sells fired up to get back out there. They forget
about the Carolina tar Heels. Carolina Panthers got momentum.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Guys, my my, My fantasy football team might be a
sleeper might be a sleeper team. I mean if I
have Bryce Young and Leaguette and he threw a bomb
to him, yeah, forty one yards.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
Hunter Renfro, did you pick him up? You still can.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
If we had a game yesterday in our fantasy league,
you would have won. Apparently, Hm, you won practice.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
I've always been practiced. It's like I say, everything I
do is almost good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
I love how Dave Canalis.

Speaker 8 (01:07:38):
He's like leaned into this hole, this opening statement at
the podium with the exuberance. It's like a Chris Collins
were sliding in on his chair next to al Michael's
like he's just totally leaned into being in on the
gag of his exuberance on a beautiful day.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
Oh, unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
It was a beautiful day there, I mean, there was great.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
It was.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
It was one of those gorgeous Carolina days where you think,
is it October? It's that first that fake fall that
we get in September.

Speaker 8 (01:08:07):
You know, we get first I hate ball because yeah,
it is gonna be like ninety later this week.

Speaker 6 (01:08:11):
Right, you get fake fall.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
We're in the middle of fake.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
Fall, and then you get that second summer.

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
I mean it really comes down to which Carolina do
you choose to believe in today? Do you believe in
do you believe in this Carolina?

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
How much teaching can you do from this video that
of Saturday?

Speaker 13 (01:08:27):
Yeah, well, well you know, use it on best of
weekend to like I said, correct the mistakes from last
tonight and move on and then you know, get ready
for Charlotte.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Do you believe it that one?

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Do you think Jones is secretly happy that Bill's not
coming to the Coachy Show?

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
Yeahly this week?

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Imagine how that would be at top of the hill.

Speaker 6 (01:08:43):
After that performance, I think all he would do is
crush crunch ice this week.

Speaker 5 (01:08:48):
That's a good point. So yeah, there's that, and then
there's this what a beautiful day. Oh, unbelievable. So I
hope that translates into a big game because now we
head towards the sun day Panthers will be at Jacksonville
taken on the Jaguars for a game number one. Then
you got Thursday Night Football this week, NFL debut. It's
a great week. The the gulf of non non sports

(01:09:12):
has ended. We're here.

Speaker 6 (01:09:13):
Can you explain to me what I have to do
this week?

Speaker 8 (01:09:16):
For your roster should be sets as they haven't played,
so whoever you drafted, unless you want to maneuver your
bench people into the starting lineup, which you can.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
So I don't have ready, I don't have to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
You have a starting lineup right now?

Speaker 6 (01:09:28):
Okay you can.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
You can go as the coach, you can go in
there and you can tweak it if you want move
them around.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
You should be okay for a little while here, unless
one of your players gets injured, because, like Zokie says,
the bye weeks don't start for a while. So you
can stand pat or you can go pick up Hunter
Renfro if you want to.

Speaker 6 (01:09:44):
But I don't have any room.

Speaker 7 (01:09:45):
Well, you have to get drop somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
This is where you have to be g the hard
decisions that the Panthers make players.

Speaker 6 (01:09:50):
But how do I guess?

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Then they brought.

Speaker 7 (01:09:52):
Them back, so I actually just checked. You can actually
add players now, there's no claiming or anything. You can
just straight up out them to your team right now.

Speaker 6 (01:09:59):
But I have to get it is somebody.

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
You have to drop somebody, so I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:10:01):
I don't have to trade him though, so we don't.

Speaker 7 (01:10:03):
Have a waiver wire, not not right now. I think
right now Beth might be number one in the waiver order.
I don't know what that means, but that'll start week
one after you know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Oh, but this is right right now.

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
You can just pick it right If you didn't like
someone you drafted, you could go back in and pick
some players that are still out there if you want.

Speaker 7 (01:10:20):
Now, if I dropped somebody and then Beth wanted him,
and you wanted him, and Beth both you guys put
in a claim, then Beth would get him get the
good priority because I got an f Well maybe that's.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
Just someone's opinion. That doesn't That doesn't mean it's true.
You have to you have to decide whether it's true
by what you do on the field, the fake field.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
Why do I get the guy before a gym gets him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I think you're right because you got an f.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:10:45):
I think remember you had the last pick in the draft.
I had the first pick. So I think they're doing
the reverse, like so now you have the first pick
in the waiver wire.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I think it's because of that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
This has been This has been a fantasy football This
is going to be a painful year.

Speaker 8 (01:10:59):
Oh yeah, because like listening to people will talk about
their fantasy league teams and their rounds of golf and movies,
you know, slid slides from their vacation.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
I tried to make sure it was interesting last week,
and now we've turned into that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
This is good morning, beaty. It's time for order up.
Dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
Why there's a fly in my so could you do
something about it?

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
See you're thinking it's a Monday, but it's actually a Tuesday.
You're already there at dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 14 (01:11:27):
Yes indeed, And the crowd said absolutely all right, So
I guess the health inspectors had kind of a short
week last week, so I only have three dirties for
you this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Oh but there's some good one.

Speaker 14 (01:11:41):
First one is a food truck here in Charlotte called
Bemas b h e E m As Bema okay, and
their permit was suspended on the spot.

Speaker 6 (01:11:52):
Oh gravy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Because of gravy.

Speaker 14 (01:11:57):
Probably a bunch of items were just not cold in
and the inspector told the owner, look, you've got to
come up with a plan to keep track of temperatures
before we reopened this little enterprise because they had to
throw a bunch of food out it was the wrong temperature.
Oh but there's more. Oh, by the way, they had
an eighty four point five. Oh, and they were hiding

(01:12:17):
their grade card, which they're not supposed to do. So
if you go to a food truck, by the way,
they are supposed to post their score. There was an
employee preparing chutney in the hand washing sink.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Yeah, I'm not supposed to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
That is not fun.

Speaker 14 (01:12:36):
And of course they weren't washing. They were preparing chutney.
An employee was preparing plates without doing any washing at all.
No items had dates on them, and the chicken and
potato curry also had to be thrown out because it
had been sitting way too long at the wrong temp,
So they shut the truck down for the time being.
The BEMA, which normally sits on Pinnacle Drive in Charlotte

(01:12:57):
and eighty four point five. All right, friends, we have
a waffle house. This is the one on her Long
Drive and rock Hill and eighty five. You know, to me,
for a waffle house, that's not that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
They have set your expectations accordingly. That's exactly right.

Speaker 14 (01:13:14):
They had bacon strips just sitting on a storage shelf,
not wrap, just sitting on a dirty shelf.

Speaker 7 (01:13:22):
That's my personal VACTIMY tell you that home.

Speaker 6 (01:13:27):
I'm picturing just like a little piece of bacon.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
Oh it was more than one piece.

Speaker 14 (01:13:33):
Then they had tomatoes and lettuce that were not cold enough,
so if you got a BLT there, you just got
a triple bummer.

Speaker 10 (01:13:39):
Right.

Speaker 14 (01:13:40):
No sanitizer in the buckets, just water for wiping down
the counters. And they had employees cell phone stored with
the food. Why does that surprise me? At the waffle
house in eighty five and rock Hill and then also
staying rock Hill on Springsteam Road.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
The run Jack in the box. That was good.

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
Wait wait, wait where is this road?

Speaker 9 (01:14:07):
Spring?

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Where is Springsteam Road and rock Hill? Yeah, they have
visit that. Take a picture.

Speaker 14 (01:14:13):
They had a seventy nine. Oh how low can they go? Well,
there was no soap at the hands saying k at
the Jack in the box.

Speaker 7 (01:14:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:14:23):
Coach is going to weigh in. Grease and grime on
the food trays. Multiple foods had to be thrown out.
They were out of date. They were not keeping track
of how long sauces had been sitting out.

Speaker 7 (01:14:34):
Oh yeah, there is nasty sauces.

Speaker 10 (01:14:37):
Sauces.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Oh I love this one.

Speaker 14 (01:14:40):
The egg mold, you know, the little round mole that
crack an egg into to fry an egg and make
it perfectly circle. The inspector said, it has so much
grease it is no longer cleanable. Oh wow, that'd be
a nasty egg.

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:14:54):
The tupperware you use the spaghetti.

Speaker 14 (01:14:56):
I could just see Jack Jack going shut up and
eat it. The equipment was dirty with old food crumbs.
There was grease and dirt on the walls, floors and
throughout the facility, and so it was just a mess
at the Jack.

Speaker 10 (01:15:09):
In the Box.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Yeah, seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Ah wow, again, set your expectations. It's Jack and it's
Jack in the Box.

Speaker 14 (01:15:17):
I've never liked their food anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
It never does feel clean.

Speaker 6 (01:15:22):
Yeah, not that you had their tacos.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 14 (01:15:27):
They're kind of a slimy delight, aren't they?

Speaker 6 (01:15:30):
They really are.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
What's a single slice of a craft single on a taco.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
That's like college bar food at two in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
It is the weirdest taco ever, it really is.

Speaker 6 (01:15:41):
And there's kind of like deep fried or something.

Speaker 5 (01:15:43):
Yeah, it's like how did they fix this? And what
kind of dog meat is it?

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
And what is the meat?

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
What is the meat?

Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
But you're like, you're right, it's like this weird slimy delight.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Yeah, that is the one thing I would eat there.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
But that's the thing they make everything.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
Yeah, there's a lot of variety. But do they specializing
any one thing?

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
All right there, Mark Garrison specializes in dirty restaurant Tuesday.
Thank you, Mark, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
This is Good Morning Beat.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
Ten before nine o'clock on WBT Tuesday morning. Time to
check in with breaking Brett Jensen. Of course you hear
Brett Weeknight, six o'clock now on WBT Breaking with Brett,
Jensen and Jensen. Hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 10 (01:16:54):
It was nice, very nice.

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
I hope you guys did as well.

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
Perfect weather, yeah, I mean a chamber of commerce weather
this weekend. It's amazing how you start off August like
in a monsoon, and then you end it into September
with no rain in sight anywhere pre fall. Yeah. So
I want to play a clip here before I get
your take on all of this, because I know you've
been covering this. Edwin Peacock on Friday night, heading into

(01:17:17):
the holiday weekend, he goes and hops aboard the light
rail in Uptown and social media video. I won't play
the whole thing here, but i'll give you a gist
of it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
I'm ed with Peacock. It's a night, I'm riding our
light rail system.

Speaker 18 (01:17:30):
I'm going eighteen stops from South Ends, Newburn Station, the uncc's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
Main campus and back.

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
Now.

Speaker 18 (01:17:36):
A week ago our community suffered a really terrible tragedy.
Twenty four year old ERNs and Rootco, a refuge from Ukraine,
lost her life on this train in a brutal staffing.
Tonight we are mourning arena and standing with her family. Now,
as a city council member, I wanted to see things firsthand. Tonight,
I've met the two security officers that I met at

(01:17:58):
the East West station. Both carried only handcuffs and some mace,
and one told me he was on a ten hour shift. Now,
it was interesting because neither either one of them asked
me for a ticket, and I didn't see him asking
anybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
But I can tell you in their presence matter.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
I've been riding with college kids heading home.

Speaker 18 (01:18:16):
I've been with hospital workers, and I've also been with
several people in this train, particularly these guys behind me,
where this is clearly a rolling shelter for them.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
So that statement right there, calling it a rolling shelter,
that's an interesting way to describe it, but sort of
feeds into where we are. That was one week since
it happened on Friday night, and then now we know
Brett that the Charlotte Transit Authority is going to hold
a special meeting to talk about next steps after the
tragedy that happened a few weeks ago. You've been following this,

(01:18:46):
what can you tell us about the latest developments.

Speaker 9 (01:18:49):
You know, this is the thing, you know, and people
are coming out, you know, like former governor and former
mayor Pat McCrory put out a long video about it
the other day as well, you know, And I think
it comes back to simultaneous. You got to do something simultaneously. Yes,
everyone's talking about security, and you heard Edwin Peacatt going, well,
he's got Mason handcuffs.

Speaker 10 (01:19:08):
I don't know what that's going to do to anyone.

Speaker 9 (01:19:10):
But okay, especially if things break out, which they tend
to happen on buses and light rails. But the other
thing is is that he talked about it being a
moving shelter. And you know, bo Beth, maybe you guys
remember because I wasn't here at the time, I wasn't
living here at the time.

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
I was covering Clemson at the time. What was going
on when they put him the light rail?

Speaker 9 (01:19:31):
Like who decided that it was a great idea to
use the honor system because you heard.

Speaker 10 (01:19:36):
Them say, no one's asking me for tickets.

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
It's I've been all over the world, I've been all
over this country, and nowhere do they use the honor system.
People can just jump on and jump off as they
as they please. And I think that's the big thing
is that, Yeah, they're going to look at security. That's great,
But how about preventing people from being on the light
rail that aren't supposed to be on the light rail?

Speaker 6 (01:19:55):
We were talking about this earlier that you write a
lot of the other major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
they have turnstyles, security guards, you have to have a ticket.
You can't even get close to the train because of
how secure those turnstyles actually are, it would be pretty
difficult to even get down to the platforms.

Speaker 9 (01:20:16):
Yeah, and that's the thing, Beth, I mean, it's like,
you know, they spent all this, you know, this the
new text thing. It's going to be what thirty billion
dollars over thirty years or something to that effect that
they're going to get. You're telling me you couldn't put
a wrought iron fence and scanners to open up doors
left and right. I mean, to put up a twelve
foot wrought iron fence at all the stops, I mean, yeah,

(01:20:39):
that's I just don't get it. And then, like you said,
the security situation as well, I mean it's there are
a lot of fixes that should have been done many, many,
many years ago, and the fact that we are less
than a week away from the primary elections, everyone all
of a sudden wants to jump into action.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
It's a good question, and I don't know the answer
to the question about why they decided to go with
the honor system to begin with, or maybe the better
question is why has it continued to be that way
as the thing has gotten bigger, Because maybe in the beginning,
I mean, I'm with you, Brett, it seems to me
like you would that just doesn't seem in the city
the size of Charlotte. It's kind of strange that you

(01:21:18):
would just assume people were going to play by the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
But I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
And now I mean, I told Beth earlier, I said,
I don't ride the light rail a lot. But every
time I've ever anytime I've ever ridden the lightrail, somebody
with me has always made the statement somewhere like I
wonder if they're going to check to see if we
have our tickets, And no one ever did. And I
saw know so many people who've had the same experience.
They've never actually seen somebody check them. I'm not saying

(01:21:46):
that they don't. But I mean, here's something that happened,
a tragic happening a few weeks ago, that sort of
reinforces the fact that maybe they need to do it
on a more regular basis.

Speaker 10 (01:21:57):
Well exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
And you know, again, you know, a gate with turnstiles
or a scanner, you scan your ticket, whatever you're allowed
to go through. I mean, there are some relatively inexpensive
ways to do this, but yet they haven't. And here
we are, you know, many years after the fact that
this since the light rail was implemented, And you know,

(01:22:19):
I would love to have known when they're deciding and
the planning committee was putting this together. Hey, I've got
an idea. Let's not check for tickets that way, we
can lose millions of dollars every year.

Speaker 10 (01:22:30):
I want to know how that came about.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
And while you're while you're at a position where you're
trying to make the case for it to get bigger,
Now we have an example that reinforces that we can't
seem to manage what we already have. I don't know,
I mean, it's a great question. Maybe somebody listening knows
the reason why. To this day, it's still on that
quote unquote honor system where it would seem to me
that like we're all sort of saying here there seems

(01:22:54):
to be like wouldn't be that hard to fix. But
before we get before this thing extends, we'd like to
know that what's already in place has the capacity to
enforce who's on it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
I bet Pat McCrory would know the answer to that
particular question. We had a Texter text us Brett wanted
us to ask you why CMPD is not riding the
lightrail like they used to. And I don't remember the
days that they that they were, but apparently people have
a memory of CMPD being on the light rail.

Speaker 9 (01:23:23):
Well, I can tell you I think it honestly, I
think it's a very simplistic answer. They don't have enough
officers to do what they're supposed to be doing now.
I don't know if they can afford to have people
on the light rail. I mean, how long have they
been short officers? At least six years now, five six
years since, you know, since the thing of COVID when
people started leaving and they never came back. And it's

(01:23:46):
been a major major issue with CMPDE and you know,
the Sheriff's department and everywhere else is state police just
so many understaffed, and so I don't know if they can.
So that's when they're talking about, oh, we're hiring security,
but Mason handkuse, Okay, that's going to be your security.

Speaker 10 (01:24:02):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:24:03):
So one week from today is election day, Primary election day.
Got the MTC meeting tomorrow to talk about next steps
after what happened with the horrific stabbing a few weeks ago.
You got your show tonight six o'clock on WBT. What's
on tap?

Speaker 9 (01:24:19):
Yeah, So the person running against vi Lyles, Brenda McGinnis.

Speaker 10 (01:24:23):
I have a long in depth interview with him, and you.

Speaker 9 (01:24:27):
Know, he's getting a lot of endorsements from local organizations
and so I have a long in depth interview with
him tonight where he talks about exactly what you brought
up vote, how can we afford to keep expanding the
light rail when we can't protect what we have? And
of course, so we get into a lot of different things.

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
And Viye Lyles has come under some scrutiny with what
she said or didn't say in her reaction to this
stabbing a few weeks ago as well. So appointment listening
tonight starts at six o'clock on WBT. Brett, we appreciate it, man,
appreciate it. Guys, that's they're almost nine o'clock on WBT.

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Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
That can be On the week's Walker seven minutes past
nine o'clock on WBT, we were talking about the fact
that tomorrow the Metropolitan Transit Commission will hold a special
meeting to address transit safety and security in the wake

(01:25:49):
of the deadly stat stabbing in South End last month.
It was a week ago last Friday night, we heard
a city council in Edwin Peacock on social media talking
about his experience writing the transit the light rail on
Friday night a week to the day, and we're talking
to Brett Jensen, who will have more tonight on his

(01:26:11):
show about this, and Mark Garrison throughout the day. But
a lot of you on the text line driven by
Liberty at GMC weighing in on this.

Speaker 6 (01:26:18):
Yeah, Craig sent us a message that said, the homeless
actually see the light rail as a benefit of living
here in Charlotte. Betty sent us a message to the
text line. She said, and they now expect me to
vote yes in November when they're not even collecting fares.
They should be collecting the money. This let's see. I

(01:26:39):
don't have a name for this one. This person man
or woman here. She says, it's on the honor system
because all of the left Democrats think that it would
be unfair not to let the homeless people on just
because they are unfortunate. Again, this is our WBT text
line seven oh four five, seven oh eleven ten. Tim
sent us a message that said crime, crime, crime is

(01:27:02):
the bottom line. He says, get rid of the judges
that are not putting in hardcore punishments for people who
actually commit crimes, letting them back out on the streets.
This person suggested facial recognition AI at these train stops
so that people can't get on, or that they if

(01:27:24):
they are on, then they do have facial recognition technology
to see who it is that is creating the problems
or creating the crime. Sheldon sent us this message. If
they can approve a three hundred thousand dollars quote unquote
kickback behind closed doors, they should be able to approve
funding for this emergency. With the light rail situation needing

(01:27:45):
more security.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
Yeah, I mean again, I come back to that point
about a referendum to essentially extend this, and we're now
examining the issues that you have already exists. I mentioned
that Edwin Peacock was on Friday night. I want to
pick up the end of what he said because we
had to. We didn't have time for the whole clip.

(01:28:08):
But he at one point in this said that his
experience on the light rail was akin to a rolling shelter.
So here we go with Edwin Peacock on Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Night with hospital workers.

Speaker 18 (01:28:21):
And I've also been with several people in this train,
particularly these guys behind me, where this is clearly a
rolling shelter for them.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
They're partying and having a good time. So here's the
central question.

Speaker 18 (01:28:32):
Is our open gate system keeping us safe with consistent
fair checks or a stronger presence help prevent crime and disorder?

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
And I believe the answer is yes.

Speaker 18 (01:28:43):
So I've asked staff to bring us back three years
of crime data on this system and to tell us
whether offenders who were riding without paying in the first place.
And we need to set clearer standards. If you ride
this train, you must pay your fare. Our light rail
system should be safe, it should be reliable, and it
should be welcoming for all. And that is what our

(01:29:06):
city deserves, this great system that we started. Thanks for
tuning in, Dan.

Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
I just was trading messages with former Governor McCrory and
he is unable to join us right now. He's in
a meeting. But what I can do is when we
come back from this break, play you a bit of
what he said on social media over the weekend, because
he's now posted a video kind of like Edwin has
with his thoughts about where this has gone wrong and

(01:29:32):
what needs to happen in the meantime. And Pat McCrory
would know, because Pat McCrory's one of the people who
was there when this whole idea was hatched and how
it sort of came into being in the first place, right.

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
When it first started. And people are responding positively to
Edwin Peacock's video and even now here on the show
talking about the fact that this is an honor system
situation that we're dealing with with the light rail and
the fact that but there are no turnstiles, and this
texture said that we lose about fifty million dollars in fares,

(01:30:05):
mostly from white collar workers because of the way that
the light rail is set up right now, that there
would be way far more people would utilize the lightrail
if they felt safer, But we are also losing all
of the money because people aren't paying the fares who
are riding the light rail.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
Yeah, the more you think about it, the more it
does not make any sense why you would not have
some sort of I'm not saying that it's got to
be as sophisticated as it is in cities like New
York City. I mean, in some ways it probably can't
be because of the expenditure. But again, we're talking about
expanding it, and it's very obvious that we don't have

(01:30:40):
a handle on what's already here.

Speaker 6 (01:30:41):
Do you think that they were just being hopeful, thinking, oh,
Charlotte's full of Charlotte's got a lot a lot of
nice people that are going to be honest and pay
for the fares, and then this is why you can't
have nice things. This is why you can't have nice
things if you're not going to have people that are
going to be honorable.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
Well, and maybe they did do that in the beginning,
but they haven't kept up with the growth of this
because it's obviously at a point now where it's it's
not built to be able to handle that sort of
honor system. I mean, it's not like it. I mean,
what happened a week ago Friday is about as extreme as.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
You can get.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
This is Good Morning BET nine on WBT.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
Well, when Beth here on a Tuesday, that feels like, well,
it feels like a Monday, So it's going to be
a short week. Like how that works? Yes, very serious
look on your face.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Yes, I'm reading responses and text messages. People are really
concerned about the light rail here in Charlotte. And as
I'm reading this, you know, my heart goes out to
everybody who wants to utilize the lightrail more. And a
lot of people are talking about the fact that they
did they did ride the light rail when it first

(01:31:54):
opened up, when it first started here in Charlotte, and
that now that they don't feel safe and they want
to see office is on the light rail.

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
So we were talking mentioned Pat McCrory and I was
trading text with him and he can't come on live,
but he did post a video over the weekend, and
I do want to play you some of this because
he's reacting to this horrible story that, of course happened.
We could go Friday night, Charlotte.

Speaker 17 (01:32:19):
And I think the reason it's bothered me even more
is because I, along with many others, were the leaders
of getting this transit line implemented over thirty years ago
as part of the twenty twenty five Land Use Transportation Plan,
and one of the biggest concerns we had when implementing

(01:32:39):
this over thirty years ago was making sure safety was
the number one priority. So before the referendum in November
to expand a much needed transit line and other things,
I'm going to make several recommendations based upon this tragedy
and some other things that I've been hearing seen during

(01:33:00):
the past decade since I came back home to Charlotte
from Raleigh. As your governor. One is right now, immediately,
we ought to have police on every single trolley station
on our streetcar and light rail line to ensure that

(01:33:21):
the public has confidence in his safety or all that
money that we've spent will go down the drain. We've
got to have an assurance of safety number one. That
was always our number one priority at the stops, on
the trains, on the trolley. Number two, we all to
have one compliance of everyone who gets on the light
rail line or our buses has to pay. And the

(01:33:45):
fact of the matter is, I've been hearing story after
story where people just assume you don't have to pay anymore,
and it's it's forgotten, and that we aren't checking tickets.
We have to check tickets, or the homeless and the
criminals will ride the line up and down and basically
scare others from wanting to ride it for sports, entertainment

(01:34:10):
and work. Third, the streetcar, which I've never been an
advocate of. Intact, I vetoed the initial initiation of the streetcar.
It's a nice thing to have, but it's not a
need to have, and it's going to be very expensive.
But if you're going to have a streetcar, it can't
be for free. If there's anything free offered for free,

(01:34:32):
it has no value. It loses its value immediately, and
that's what's going to happen to the streetcar or the
or the light rail line if people aren't required to
pay something to ride it. And again, anything for free
has no value. And when something has no value, people
will mistreat it. And we can't afford that with the

(01:34:54):
money that we're spending on both the streetcar.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
And the.

Speaker 17 (01:34:59):
Light rail line four the twenty five year land used Plan.
The twenty twenty five plan was supposed to be high
density along the light rail line and transit lines, but
in between the lines, in between the lines, we have

(01:35:21):
residential homes. And we're supposed to protect the single family
residential properties. But when the city council allowed now multi
family within a single residential lot, it's ruining the integrity
of our neighborhoods, whether it be the West, East, North,
or South neighborhoods. And to see three homes being built

(01:35:43):
on a single family lot in the name of affordable
housing is absolutely crazy. It makes no sense and it's
not affordable housing. You're ruining the integrity of residential neighborhoods.
And just think if you bought a house thirty years
ago and all of a sudden, next door if you
have a triplex, it's it's not the best of Charlotte.

(01:36:07):
It will become It'll become Houston, Texas. And I have
no interest in becoming Houston, Texas or Portland where they
allow the homeless and criminals laying around everywhere. It's inexcusable.
So those are three or four things that I recommend

(01:36:28):
we implement immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:36:30):
That's the governor former governor on social media over the weekend.
I'm assuming by what I'm seeing in the video it's
at Lake Jimmy. But interesting thoughts there, because you know
he's talking about nothing should be for free. Well, it's
not for free. The whole point of it is is
being enforced that someone has to pay for it right
The infrastructure is not there right now to make sure

(01:36:51):
that every person pays.

Speaker 6 (01:36:53):
Right right now. It just is kind of payment recommended.

Speaker 21 (01:36:56):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:56):
It's the way that it feels because no one is
checking for the tickets. And if someone is doing the
right thing and buying the ticket or paying to ride
the light rail, if no one is checking, then the
next time you ride, you think, well, what's the point.
What's the point if everybody else, if nobody else is
doing it, and so we end up losing. I mean,
imagine all of the money that we're losing in fares.

(01:37:19):
And Eric texted us with a great point. He said,
it's odd how they make you pay for toll roads,
but it's the honor system for the train and they
are wanting more money. Why have they been giving it away?
Our roads are shy on lanes, maintenance, etc. Already. How
much are we losing in the fares that people don't

(01:37:40):
pay it?

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
You know, that's a really good point, because when you
go on the toll road, there's a sensor that can
detect whether or not when you go underneath it. There's
got to be somewhere if you buy a ticket, somehow's
a barcode sensor or something where you walk past a
certain place and it the texts whether or not you

(01:38:01):
got it or not, an either lets you in, Like
when you're at a parking gate in Uptown. Yeah, those
don't all have to be manned anymore. A lot of
them are automated. But you can't get out of the
parking deck unless you wave your barcode. So why would
you not be able to implement the same kind of
technology at the kiosk When you board the train.

Speaker 6 (01:38:19):
Right and if you wanted to buy like a fast
pass that you ride the train every day, it could
be like a little puck that you keep in your
bag and then it reads it just like the lightrail does.
We got a text this doesn't have a name, but
I think that this is an excellent question. Can we
ask for an accounting of our light rail system the
twenty twenty four total revenue, the twenty twenty four total cost,

(01:38:40):
and the net loss to taxpayers? If if we're talking
about this referendum going into November to get more money
for the train going up north to the Moorsville area.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
A lot of people want to talk about this. On
the text line seven oh four five, seven oh eleven
ten driven by Liberty View at GMC Catherine is hanging on.
We'll talk to you coming up and if you want
to give us a call as well, talk about this
hot topic. As tomorrow the MTC we'll have a special
emergency meeting to react and develop a plan stemming from

(01:39:11):
what happened a week ago Friday night on Charlotte's existing
light rail system. The horrific tragedy there.

Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
This is good Morning Bet with both Hudson and Beth's.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
Troudly nine thirty eight on WBT text line is driven
by Liberty Buick GMC seven four five seven oh eleven ten.
But the phone line says, hey, we've been here for
years at five seven oh eleven ten, like a long time.
Long time. Catherine's been waiting to talk to us, so

(01:39:43):
we appreciate her. Patient. It's going to pay off right now, Catherine.
Welcome to Good morning, Bet, Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
What's up.

Speaker 15 (01:39:52):
Well.

Speaker 21 (01:39:53):
I moved to an area between Noda and downtown Uptown
about three years ago, and I started taking the bus
quite often because it's so close to my house. And
I noticed that almost every single time I got on

(01:40:15):
the bus, there were there was no one on it,
or maybe one other person. Sometimes there were two. But
the bus is run back and forth empty a lot.
And I'm thinking, well, while I was waiting to get
to talk to you, I'm thinking, well, maybe that's because

(01:40:37):
where I live, it's only I go up and down
the bus that goes I mean, I go on the
bus that goes up and down North Davidson Street. And
maybe it's because it's only a block and a half
from the light rail and a lot of people take
the light rail. I don't know how it is on
other bus systems or you know, routes, but it's virtually

(01:40:58):
empty the vast majority of the time. And that's a
big waste of our text money. And I suspect it
is that way a lot of other places, because someone
else who doesn't live here but in the university area
said the same thing. But anyway, I would just want
to also say that I used to always pay, and

(01:41:20):
it's very cheap, and especially if you're a senior citizen,
which I am. And I got on one time in
the well. More than once this happened, but one time
I got on and got to talk to the bus
driver because it was late in the evening and it
was very hot outside and there were a lot of

(01:41:43):
to my surprise, a lot of homeless people on. And
when I got off got to my stop. Before I
got off, I asked the bus driver, I said, do
a lot of homeless people ride the bus? And she's
looked at me and slowly said, that's what makes this
job so hard. And I said, and they don't pay,

(01:42:06):
and she just shook her head. No. So it's it's
I think in a way, it's probably worse on the bus,
especially when it's very cold or very hot outside. And
you know, I can see trying to help these people,
but especially given that the fact that during the day,

(01:42:27):
most of the time, at least from where what I've seen,
they're empty. It's it's a bottomless pit of our tax.

Speaker 5 (01:42:37):
Money because you're putting the driver of the bus in
a very precarious situation, you know, I mean, you can't
make them have to enforce whether or not somebody who
gets on the bus is able to pay or not.
I mean, and I don't know when you get on
the bus. When you get on the bus, Catherine, do
you have some sort of pass or do you pay,

(01:42:58):
you know, pay your money each time.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
You get on.

Speaker 21 (01:43:01):
I got a I got I get I would get
a pass for ten rods, yeah okay, And I would
just always stick it into the place where you put
your your pass and it would stamp it out and
that would help me get on, and that would always
tell me how many rides I had left.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
But the but the the bus driver who you talked
to talking about the homeless people getting on the bus, uh,
you know, unless you're asking her to be a security officer,
which the bus drivers not. Uh, you know, that's putting
them in in a tough situation because if you tried
to enforce it, then you're in some cases put I mean,
as we've seen, you're putting your your life into a

(01:43:43):
harm's way potentially.

Speaker 21 (01:43:44):
Yeah, exactly. So you've got the two problems there. They're
they're using it as a shelter a lot of the time,
especially at night. I'll just ride it back and forth,
and during the day it's, uh, it's just almost empty
a lot of the routes, So it's not it's yeah,

(01:44:06):
it's just a big waste of our text Paerod money.

Speaker 6 (01:44:08):
I'll tell you one of the bus lines that Charlotte
that Mecklenburg County does really, really well is the Express
that goes from the north part of the city up
seventy seven down the Express Lane into downtown. And it's
like the big coach buses, and they have free Wi
Fi and a lot of a lot of the professionals
who work downtown and live in the Moorsville and Davidson

(01:44:30):
area who don't want to deal with seventy seven hop
on that bus and ride in the express lanes and
the bus passes like three Bucks and you do it
through the app. They've done that really well. The express
lines have been done really well. But you're right about
the ones just kind of going around town. They do
seem to be empty a great deal of the time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Well, I mean, Catherine is pointing this out, and it's
been brought up in various other ways across our conversation
this morning. But you know, audit not only a safety
but a usage audit of how this all is working
before we roll down that road with Gusto to try
to expand it. We've got an issue in Charlotte that's
very evident, and it's sort of the spotlighted by the

(01:45:13):
tragedy a few weeks ago. We've got an issue with
what we already have. Catherine, thank you so much for
the call. We really appreciate it. Fine, take care bye
by now.

Speaker 6 (01:45:22):
She was so sweet. I have to before we go
to break, before we get a traffic I have to
read this message from Jane, because this blew me away,
This blew my mind. Jane says, good morning all. The
last time my husband and I rode the light reel
over a year ago, a fellow rider pulled a large
snake out of his duffel bag and held it out

(01:45:45):
for us to see.

Speaker 7 (01:45:48):
Sounds awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:45:49):
Now was this a get away from me or my
snake will strike? Or was that check out my snake.

Speaker 7 (01:45:54):
Either?

Speaker 6 (01:45:54):
Or I mean that's kind of now that you're saying
it out loud, I hope it was like actual snake.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
Yeah, I'm sure was a real snake. I'm sure that
this is not an INU dyeah.

Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
Now what I said really sounds bad. Don't play that
bag on w BT the traffic check.

Speaker 6 (01:46:10):
Did I just get pumped? Did I just get pumped
to read something.

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
Out loud that you If you did, we got pumped
together because I just I took the bait.

Speaker 6 (01:46:18):
I totally trust Jane. I believe that somebody had a snake.

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
Yeah, in a bag.

Speaker 5 (01:46:23):
Yeah, but don't show it to us. Traffic check right now,
Boomer Volcanic Christmas song we have about the Christmas snake.

Speaker 6 (01:46:29):
Oh see that's Sammy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
It's Sammy. It's out season, but it is it's against
my always and my rules. If someone you must, you
must hold on.

Speaker 6 (01:46:40):
And yeah, lots of sounds cured little Christmas bellow it
st angels, bind aer and snoke blakes from those your
London nuts on the mind.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
Give you one riff here Bo Albergo and Sammy the
Christmas Snake in the corner sat works up.

Speaker 1 (01:46:56):
Sammy the Christmas Snake did all els and me all
the work stuff hit up the blue.

Speaker 12 (01:47:04):
Nose.

Speaker 1 (01:47:06):
Ain't no telling whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
Christmas in September.

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:47:12):
How about that, Jane, save me the Christmas Snake? Jane
a white reel.

Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
Jane had no idea what she was doing, or maybe
she knew exactly what she was doing. Hey, you know,
Christmas is almost here.

Speaker 10 (01:47:27):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:47:27):
That's right man, done your shopping yet? Too busy drinking
your pumpkin spice?

Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
No, how about some snake skin boots.

Speaker 15 (01:47:43):
Listen, I'm a grumpy old man. When I opened my
eyes in the morning, I'm I'm angry and I'm just miserable.
And then I start listening under your show and I
start laughing, and you guys are great.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
Look if we can turn curmudgeons into two happy people,
that's what it's all about.

Speaker 15 (01:47:59):
Hey, they're turning into a world choir party.

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
Oh I agree.

Speaker 5 (01:48:03):
Yeah, I thought he was gonna say, this is turning
into a world class interview. I love your show.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
I was here at first, I.

Speaker 1 (01:48:12):
Kind just as much right up thing here as you go, though.
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
Day after my birthday. I'm gonna play Huey Lewis if
I want to. Well, if you missed the show earlier,
the crew here, my good buddies, all of them brought
me some birthday gifts, because, as we always say in
a post Beth world, we celebrate birthdays big time around here.

(01:48:43):
Before Beth, I don't think any of us knew the
other person's birthday.

Speaker 6 (01:48:47):
Birthdays are the best. It's your day. It's your day,
and I always like to say to people that I love,
I'm so glad you were born. You make life better.

Speaker 5 (01:48:58):
Well, like I said, if you weren't this earlier. Beth
gave me several presents today, but one of them is
the only known in existence piece of swag for the
newly minted fantasy football team of Beth Troutman last week.
If you don't know the name of that team, well
you should or I should turn my volume up?

Speaker 10 (01:49:19):
Should I?

Speaker 5 (01:49:19):
Let's try this one more time. A best team.

Speaker 6 (01:49:21):
Called my team is called listen, I'm a grumpy old man,
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
Third times the charm here ready, best team called here
we go, Sorry I did.

Speaker 6 (01:49:35):
Nick Crag. Nick Crag of the Carolina News Hour, he
Carolina Journal.

Speaker 5 (01:49:41):
The Carolina News Hour would be Jones Angel.

Speaker 6 (01:49:43):
I was just watching Bill Belichick of all the New
Years Carolina Journal News Hour. He he On the day
that one of our listeners named my team, we put
it out for listeners to name my team, and Megabeth won.

Speaker 5 (01:49:55):
And no, no, Megabeth did not win. That's the one
that won.

Speaker 6 (01:50:00):
So Nick Craig then sends a logo to us and
I and this is only a few days ago that
he sent us the logo, and I immediately jumped into
action and had a shirt designed for the same day,
same day. It was the same day.

Speaker 5 (01:50:13):
The official logo of the Megabeth Fantasy Football Club is
now on a on a shirt that, for the first
time in the history of you and me doing radio together,
is a shirt I can wear.

Speaker 6 (01:50:25):
I think it's the right size because I used this
company that I used a few years ago for a
shirt for you, and it was like a child I used.

Speaker 5 (01:50:33):
I used a company for a shirt I made you
a few years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:50:36):
I have I have a habit of having shirts and
things made.

Speaker 7 (01:50:39):
You have a shirt company on a retainer Beth, I
think you do.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
That was a good morning bet humble Brad.

Speaker 7 (01:50:47):
It's like Bo has the Boys guy and retainers.

Speaker 6 (01:50:50):
But I did get it made for you because it's
your special day and I thought it would be a funny,
you know, to have another shirt that you won't wear.

Speaker 5 (01:50:57):
Well, no, that one, that one will have plenty of uses.
I think you know, you might need to borrow it
on the weeks when you win. Last year, I gave
him a Larry Butckcorn shirt.

Speaker 6 (01:51:07):
I had a shirt made that had a picture of
Bruce Hornsby on it, but it said Larry butck Corn.

Speaker 5 (01:51:12):
Because again, if you're new to the show, a couple
of years ago, we were talking about Bruce. It was
the yacht rock conversation. Yeah, and I was talking about
Bruce Hornsby, who I adamantly believe is not yacht rock,
but that's my thing. But and you were like, oh
that gout you like a Larry Buckhorn and that you
meant Bruce Hornsby.

Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
I did, I did, and I just misspoke. But then
it became a thing, and so I had a Larry
Butckcorn shirt made for him. So now it's it's it's
it's kind of becoming a thing too. Just to have
random shirts.

Speaker 7 (01:51:43):
We have to get a Hunter Renfro shirt now made.
What did you call him, Beth Rusty Bromaker. Yeah, I
think that needs to be just a picture of Hunter
Renfro just getting it on a practice and then just
just Rusty Growmaker at the bottom.

Speaker 6 (01:51:53):
Or get a get a jersey for bo with with
Rusty Bromaker's number on it and just put Bromaker.

Speaker 14 (01:51:59):
On the back.

Speaker 5 (01:52:00):
But you think about the sheer number of custom made
apparel items that you have gotten for various people since
this whole thing started. Now I have my own line
of things.

Speaker 6 (01:52:10):
You have a Leary Buckhorn shirt. The entire team has
a Zochi's Artichokes baseball shirt.

Speaker 5 (01:52:15):
We also have the oversized or undersized depending on who
you were, Christmas sweater.

Speaker 6 (01:52:19):
Giant christmasweaters with all of our faces and all of
our names on it, the ugliest Christmas sweaters in the
history of the world.

Speaker 5 (01:52:27):
I would wear mine more often in the holiday season,
except that it looks like I don't have any hands
because it's so much longer than Yes, it look like wings.

Speaker 6 (01:52:37):
It was because of the It was because of the
poorsche medium problem. That happened. You know the first shirt
that I got in that looks like a little baby
shirt that's like a halftop for bow, and so I
sized up.

Speaker 5 (01:52:46):
But then it was a it was a mid riff
shirt from the eighties.

Speaker 6 (01:52:51):
But the large was so big that it looks like
a dress. You could belt your sweatshirt and wear it
as a momo.

Speaker 5 (01:52:56):
Well, so you got me that. You got me some cheese.
It's extra toasty cheese. It you got me some some
some Coke zero with the orange cream that I like.
And and most importantly, she baked the cookies, the world
famous uh sweet but not too sweet because they're kind
of sour because they have salt on them, chocolate chip cookies.

Speaker 6 (01:53:15):
So I think they're going to become birthday cookies because
I've just started kind of baking them for perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:53:19):
Well, you know, everybody has a birthday some day of
the year, so you just make them every day. What
you think about that more?

Speaker 7 (01:53:24):
You know, I'm going to bake a everybody has a
birthday at some point during year.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Thank you, Bernie.

Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
I'm here to educate.

Speaker 6 (01:53:31):
Every day is someone's birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:53:34):
Yes, Beth, we want your barefoot baking in the kitchen.

Speaker 6 (01:53:38):
You know what I do do most of my baking
bearfooted see see.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
Mark always takes it there. You know. I say, hey,
could you bake us cookies every day? And Mark says,
I take your shoes off and go on to the kitchen.
Young Anyway, I appreciate all the gifts, y'all are great.
I don't I don't deserve all this, but but thank
you so much, and thanks to all all the birthday wishes.
My actual birthday was on September first, and so I said,

(01:54:02):
all day long yesterday, take the rest of the day
off in honor of it. You know, they finally made
it a national holiday, so.

Speaker 6 (01:54:09):
That should be a humble brade.

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
There we go, Well I can do that here.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
Yeah, that was a good Morning BT humble brade.

Speaker 5 (01:54:17):
Thanks to uh Steven, Bernie and Mark and Zoke and
Boomer and great talk Beth, Happy birthday, pot.

Speaker 6 (01:54:26):
Bye, Diver fun storming the castle.

Speaker 5 (01:54:29):
Think it a lake you could take a good bye.
You've been listening to Good Morning BT here us live
weekday mornings six to ten on WBT AM n FM
eleven ten nine to nine point three.

Speaker 6 (01:54:40):
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.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Good Morning BT | Chapel Bill Blowout | Light Rail Reckoning | Happy Belated, Bo!