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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me take a wild guess. You're not calling a
wish for me a good morning? Good morning?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well no, it's not exactly a good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
You have kind of a situation down here at the
squawk the signal and it's gone all.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Walking from News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Double bet you didn't get the turbo charger.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, I'm also giving out free hugs. This is good
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Speaker 5 (00:44):
This is going to mess up the algorithm.

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This which sounds so good on FM. Just you wait,
what are you talking about? Jim?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean it sounds great at nine? Are we not
allowed to talk about it yet? We had the general
manager in here?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Every day from now on, the program director and the
general manager joining us at seven.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
O'clock with the major announcement every time.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
That's right?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
What have you?

Speaker 6 (01:10):
Will?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Not finished today?

Speaker 5 (01:11):
Work on here?

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You sports boy. I've been practicing, like while it was
in the shower, just practicing saying Charlotte's FM News Talk
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I still had to think it through. It's like it's
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Speaker 1 (01:31):
Second I don't know. I remember my coffee.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
I remember vividly. Hancock always talks about when he left
here for a while and went to go work at
one o six five, And I remember the first day
when he went there, and I was I was listening
in the car, and uh, several times he just fled out,
went let's go to skypew traffic, Jeff Pilot.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Could you just get into the things that just come
out of your mouth?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
And we've been well, you know, we've been over on
the ninety nine point seven stationed for the Panthers for
the last three years and after you know.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Many many years with WBT.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
But the first two hours of the pregame show, we're
on a local only, not on the network, and I
just went coming about next on News Talk eleven ten
wb G. I turned around looked at our producer David, like, daye.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hi, we should we should again? We already went to
break and there's no fixing it. They started playing commercials.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
You know how people have a swear jar, Yes, you
should put a jar right up here on the mantle,
and like I'm hoping that it's not gonna happen to
us very often, But I mean, come on, I got it.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Though it's a snooze jar, yo.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
We use it to take each other out to breakfast.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's our kangaroo cord for breakfast. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
So what you guys are saying is that Thursday, after
the show, we're gonna have enough after one show to
fund an entire meal from.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
All paying up front. Yeah, pay it forward.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I seriously have been trying to program my brain to
to say it. So then maybe that's why I woke
up kind of agitated. You can't fight the friction boys,
mess with my boys.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Hang on, do it again for me. Tell me the
news station's name, Charlotte's FM.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
News Talk of nine WBTS locket it and rip the
knob offf it sounds good over imagine dragons.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
If you all are new to what's going on here,
maybe you took yesterday off and we're not near a
radio or or a phone or anything like that. We
made the big announcement yesterday that this coming Thursday, WBT
moves to the one O seven point nine FM signal
one O seven point nine FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk,

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as Beth was saying, and so this is a new
thing for all of us. We haven't known about it
that long, but we're very, very excited and ready to
take this radio station into the next era.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Mad It's gonna be hot to be hired at high.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I love I love when Bernie plays sound bites of
me saying random things because I can't remember why I
said those things.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
We'll begin with, and what Bernie's getting really good at
is sneaking it is putting them in there so it
sounds like we said it.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Then it sounds like I just said that.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
You know, there's a science to that, like you have
to you have to get it on the right breath.
And there have been several times in recent weeks where
you've done it so well that, like I'm thinking, they
think we really just said that right now.

Speaker 7 (04:32):
There's also been a few times where I've stepped on
you guys. It's a hit or miss type situation there.
You should kind of kind of go with the flow there.
There's times where all pull up cuts that I'm planning
to play and then it just doesn't work out, so
I won't play it. When there's times where I'll just
step all over you guys, and then it just it
becomes a mess.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
One of the greatest things that happens in commercial breaks
here is is Bernie Bowls just playing random sound bites
of the things that we've said out loud, and it
becomes kind of a hilarious.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's like you've become Woody from Toy Story. He just
pulls a story and.

Speaker 7 (05:01):
I have the most a stake of my boot, the
most cuts for Beth, Well, anybody.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
It's one thing for you to play something that one
of us said while we're talking. It's another thing. And
this happens to me all the time. You play stuff
that I don't remember saying. Yes, I'm like, why would
I say that? Yeah, well that's what I was just
thinking with that? Why would I say it, Yeah, it's
gonna be hot? Like why did I say that? When
did I say it? Well, and with you, with you,
I know Bernie does this now and the rest of
us in the room. Sometimes when you say one of

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those things that's going to be repeated over and over,
we'll kind of look, oh, we're going to hear that
one again.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Market to tape. That's a keeper.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
So look, I don't know what the commute end for
you guys was like. There is a two hour delay
today for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools families. They were, of course,
abundance of caution here about what the black ice fear
would be after some precipitation yesterday and some cold conditions
this morning. So CMS releasing this note last night after
closely monitoring weather conditions. All CMS schools will operate on

(05:57):
a two hour delay Tuesday, December ninth. School start times
and bus pickup times occur two hours later than normal.
If you need to check more on this, you can
go to the CMS website and find out more information.
But you know, it's there was a time when when
before smartphones and the internet where if this happened, this

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is where you'd hear it. Now it's something you probably
saw when you looked at your phone. But nonetheless it's
a story to know today if you have a CMS
student or maybe you're a CMS employee.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Did we have the option of coming in two hours
late today?

Speaker 8 (06:29):
Oh no, no, no, that.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Was just for the kids.

Speaker 7 (06:31):
That was just the kids, or you like me, when
you were a kid and you watch the news early
in the morning and you see your name your school
name scroll across the bottom of Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
That was the greatest feeling. You'd wake up, open up
your curtains, you'd see a little bit of snow dusting
the ground, and then you sit with your cereal and
watch the crawl just read all of the schools and
you'd see your name. It's the greatest ceialing.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
This is Good Morning Beaty.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Coming up on six point twenty here on News Talk
eleven ten wbt Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman, we have coming
up at six thirty five, Congressman Ralph Norman is going
to join us talk about what's going on in the
wake of a second stabbing on the Charlotte light rail
in the last several months, and we'll also talk to

(07:20):
him about his run for governor. This is ramping up now.
He established a satellite office in Lexington, South Carolina, yesterday,
and you see all the candidate filings last week, and
they're gearing up for a very contentious governor's race in
South Carolina. Of course, Nancy Mace is also in that
GOP primary, and we'll see what the how this all

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plays out. But Congressman Norman, who we have not talked
to in a while is going to join us in.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Just a few minutes.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
We're excited to have him.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
So let's talk for a minute here about what's going
on again in the wake of this second Charlotte light
rail stabbing in the area of Uptown, and of course
this coming on the heels of the Arena Zerutzka tragedy,
and of course Arena's Law, which was signed into law
just a few weeks ago. An estimated three point four

(08:11):
million in funding will go towards improving the public image
of Charlotte's public transportation system following the violence on the
Cat's light rail that was decided upon last night, Monday night,
Charlotte City Council unanimously approving plans to enter into a
one year contract with Sherrie Matthews Group for marketing and

(08:32):
communications services. Officials started searching for a firm about a
month after the death of Arena Zerutzka, and now this
is what was discussed at length about last night and
decided now as we sit here on the Tuesday after
this happened on Friday. To me, that sounds a little

(08:56):
bit tone deaf coming into the first City Council meeting
last night reacting to another tragedy here now the man
was stabbed and was in critical but stable condition. But
this was not the headline I expected to see coming
out of this last night, the first time city leaders
get a chance to talk about this together.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No, and you all know this about me. I can
try to find some silver lining and things. I can
try to understand reasons for decisions. I can try to
see an issue from all sides, and in this case,

(09:36):
three point four million dollars at this point in an
ad campaign or in ad campaigns to increase what we
think about the light rail, that money could be better spent.
I mean, why not spend three point four million dollars
right now to put security guards on the train? That

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would get enough news coverage that it would increase people's
feelings and thoughts about the light rail itself. I mean
that in and of itself would be a good ad campaign,
and it wouldn't even have to be put together by
a advertising group. It could be just the story itself

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that we're spending that money to put the security guards
on the train to make people feel more comfortable being
on the train.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
We've already seen the commercial. The commercial is that things
are bad, right it needs to be fixed. And so
if you're talking about spending any amount of money on
an AD campaign, the initial reaction, I would think for
just about everybody in Charlotte would be Okay, take that
money and put it toward security.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Put it towards the security guards.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's right there for you.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
You keep telling us that we don't have the money
to put security guards on the train, but we have
money to spend almost three and a half million dollars
on an AD campaign. And I am not I am
not a negative Nelly kind of person. That is just
not my personal but this it could be better spent.
And I know that they are saying that they've been

(11:06):
looking for this ad agency since what happened back in August,
but they should have looked at what happened on Friday
and made a whole different decision. You know, that should
factor into it as well, that now it doesn't seem
like a one off type thing. It seems like something
that we need to invest resources in, and that the

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resources needed to be invested in safety and not just
not just an AD campaign to make people feel excited
about the lightrail, in actually making people feel safe on
the lightrail by having trained security guards there to protect
people when you know, in this case, what happened on
Friday A reportedly an intoxicated man caused the problem.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Who had been deported in twenty eighteen and in twenty
twenty one for arrests for violent crimes between twenty nine
and twenty seventeen. Like I said, at least what happened
last night, this discussion and this decision to enter into
this ad campaign seems tone deaf. And again, think about this.

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This is the first A week ago was the swearing
in of the new council, so this is really the
first big decision official meeting when that stuff is out
of the way, and you're talking about just meat and
potato issues here, and you have a story this big,
and a story that is amplified because of what happened
before it in August with Zurutzka, and this is the

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outcome of the discussions. It just seems to me like
it's misplaced. I don't know what's going to happen from
here on out, but as we sit here on the
Tuesday morning, that's a big head scratcher to me.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
It is to me too, and maybe maybe some councilmen
or women are listening this morning. Maybe you could call us,
maybe you could explain to us exactly why the money
is being used on an ad campaign. Again, I understand
that you started you all started thinking about this back
in August, but now we're in a completely different We're

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in a different situation and a different dynamic. And why
not spend the money on security? Why not allocate those
funds towards something that will not tell people what to think,
but actually let people decide on their own what they
think about the lightrail because you've added security to it.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Well, and I'm assuming that the ad campaign is designed
to make you feel more comfortable about coming uptown to
ride the light rail, and reality just proved that wrong.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Right, Well, that's a great way to put it. Reality
just proved that wrong. So instead, help with the actual
process of making the light rail safe. Don't ad can't
what I mean? Somebody texted in on the text line
it's like putting lipstick on a pig. It was Michael.
He said, it's like putting lipstick on a pig. Don't

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try to sell me an idea, make the idea happen.
And those are two different things that the money could
be used so much more effectively. I mean three and
a half million dollars, isn't chump change?

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Seven four five sevenh eleven ten. The text line available
to you, driven by Liberty bew at GMC will take
your phone calls throughout the morning as well. When we
come back, we're going to take a phone call from
Congressman Ralph Norman, who I know has thoughts on this story,
because we talked about him coming on yesterday, and he's
been active on social media and he was part back

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in September. You remember on the twenty ninth that congressional
hearing field hearing here in Charlotte, where you had a
number of congressmen and women from both this area and
across the country talking about what had happened with Arena Zarutzka.
Ralph Norman will join us coming up in just a
few minutes, and he may not know about this chapter
of the story. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
This is Good Morning Beatsy with both Toobson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
News Talk eleven ten, nine to nine three WBT on
your Tuesday morning, December ninth, Bowen, Beth here and our
next guest was here on September twenty ninth. During that
House Judiciary Committee Field hearing. You remember that in the
wake of the Arena Zarutzka murder.

Speaker 9 (15:15):
Let me give you a visual, Miss Federica, see your daughter.

Speaker 8 (15:23):
What about what about this? It's a chairman?

Speaker 9 (15:26):
What about this?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
This is a family before she miss chairman, is my time?

Speaker 9 (15:31):
It's not her time.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's a gentleman's time.

Speaker 8 (15:34):
It's family.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
It is a gentleman's time, and it is right. Is
a member of Congress?

Speaker 10 (15:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
What about where was her?

Speaker 9 (15:41):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
How about that statistic?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Did it help her?

Speaker 8 (15:45):
Tell me did it help her?

Speaker 9 (15:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (15:46):
It did not.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
It's a miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
That is Congressman Ralph Norman back in September here in Charlotte.
It's part of that Judiciary Committee hearing talking about and
holding up a picture of Arena Zerutzka on the law
light rail that evening in August. And now here we
are in December, and now we're talking about another stabbing
on the light rail, and we welcome Congressman Norman to

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the show this morning. Glad to have you as.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Always, well, great to be with you, Bo and Beth.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
So I played that because obviously you were part of
that group that was debating and taking questions about what
to do in the wake of the first stabbing, and
now inexplicit, inexplicably, here we are again, just a few
months later, back at the same problem on the same
light rail system.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
Congressman.

Speaker 9 (16:37):
Yeah, and if you look at the timing, on August
twenty second is when mister Rinsky lost her life, her life,
and now December fifth, got a guy, I'm struggling money
to see another Christmas, to live live one day longer,
seventy five days after miss Rinsky was killed. And I

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don't you know understand that the city, the Charlotte City Council,
is allocating three million dollars for public relations. I guess
to try to boast of the rail, of the opinion
of the rail. You know, where is it that they're
not hiring more law enforcement, more security. It's this time

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for the people Charlotte, the whole the city council accountable.
It's time for the mayor to resign. I call for
that after the murder of mister Zelenski. And you know,
it's until the people take action against the judges that
are letting these criminals loose, nothing is going to change.

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But it's a you have over fourteen hundred people that
criminals that Charlotte refuses to cooperate with, that ICE is
trying to take off the streets in Charlotte. And that's
twenty five minutes from where I live here in rock Hill.
So you know, liberal policies do not work. Politicians who

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who continue to, you know, coddle criminals, you're going to
have the same results. And that could be you know,
our daughter, our granddaughter, our aunt, our uncle that gets
murdered on a rail that our tax dollars pay for.
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think you're really hitting on something that has a
lot of people here in Charlotte, a lot of taxpayers
upset finding out about this story about three point four
million dollars being spent on a public relations campaign. We
had a listener that just texted in and said, that's
more than a Super Bowl ad and this is our
tax dollars when that money. And you know me, Congressman,

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I can try to find it positive and just about
anything when it comes to a political story. I can
try to see things from all sides. But I would
imagine this money could be better spent on not telling
people to feel safe through an ad campaign, but actually
making people feel safe by adding security.

Speaker 9 (18:56):
Well, and that's the least they can do. I mean,
were the police support the police and they just don't
do it. And the city council, this is really shocking
that they would even think about doing something like this.
But you're not the hearing that we were at in September.
You had Stephen Frederico who had his daughter murdered in Columbia,

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South Carolina, and you had the Democrats citing how the
statistics were lower than the previous year in Meckleiburg County.
A statistic is not going to bring the child back
or protect the citizens on the next time a person
gets on the light rail and it's an outrage. And
until the people, the voters in Charlotte get active and

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demand justice and throw these people out, it's not going
to change. And it's Charlotte's getting to be a real
problem when it comes to law enforcement and do the
citizens not deserve to be safe? You know, you have
a man here who was stabbed, the mister Adobie. I mean,

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he had a history, you know, aggravated battery, assault, resistant arrests,
fake eyed, the robbery, and then here he is getting
you know, he was out of the cut. He was
found again in twenty eighteen, and then he was released,
and then he came back in twenty one and look,
we've got a man who may lose his life, and
if not, we've got a long recovery period. So enough

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is enough and people are gonna have to take action.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
So the city council meeting last night, people waking up
just joining us, they did discuss in addition to this
ad campaign we're talking about, they discussed what happened. This
is a city council member, dimple ashmera.

Speaker 11 (20:41):
I'm hearing reports that the suspect may have been previously
banned from using cats. So if you can help us
clarify if that is accurate, and if the suspect was
indeed previously banned, why was he allowed back on the

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system and how are we enforcing those bands?

Speaker 5 (21:11):
And then earlier in the day yesterday, Sheriff Gary McFadden
of Mecklenburg County said this we want to.

Speaker 12 (21:17):
Blame the sheriff. Well, you deported this person twice. Does
that really work or has it work? And what would
you do after that? Come to us and say how
can we better manage this or how can we better
collaborate with this would have been a great thing, and
then we probably would have came up with funding and
better solutions.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
So, Congressman Norman, what we just saw Operation Charlotte's Web
here in Charlotte. About a week and a half ago.
You had President Trump responding on truth Social to this
second stabbing on the Charlotte light rail. He said, another
stabbing by an illegal migrant in Charlotte, North Carolina. What's
going on in Charlotte? Democrats are destroying it like everything else,
piece by piece. So do you think that this is

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going to inspire President Trump to send the National Guard here?
Do you think this means that an initiative like Charlotte's
Web is going to be back sooner than we thought?
Where do you think this is going from a from
a national perspective looking at Charlotte?

Speaker 9 (22:15):
Well, you know, the Ice just arrested over one hundred
and forty criminals and took them off the streets in
Charlotte with when they came into Charlotte. I think what
President Trump is rightfully doing is just highlighting another tragic instant.
And you've got to realize Mickelberg County is a is
a non compliant sanctuary jurisdiction, meaning they just don't the

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police do not work with ICE agents. And you know,
how long are they going to are the people going
to put up with this? And this is just a
symptom of a problem that's gonna get far worse. And
the problem you know, who's paying the price the taxpayers
with this and with the safety aspect of it. And
you know this is where vitchel any groups start. When

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you have groups, when you have a city that is
cooperating with criminals, and you know, it's it's it's unbelievable
that you have a judge, judge is that are continuing
cut letting these people go. And the Ukrainian girls, the
guy that killed her, I think his name was Brown.
The magistrate, Judge Teresa Stokes released him on a on

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a promise to appear back in court and he had
what forty h prior arrest and convictions and charges. I mean,
it's ridiculous. So the only thing's going to change is
when the people get active. And I applaud President Trump
for what he's doing. I know he's made a tremendous
difference in Washington, d c UH. And then you as

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you all know, you had two National guardsmen who bravely
defending the city get killed. I mean, it's just it's
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
We I know, we don't have you for long, Congressman,
and we would be remiss if we didn't talk to
you about your most recent campaign. What's coming up for you?
You're running for governor there in South Carolina. You have
a primary that will be head of your way in
twenty twenty six, with Nancy Mace being among the other candidates,
and right now she is making news headlines for speaking

(24:21):
out against Republican leadership, against the Speaker, Mike Johnson. What
do you see happening in South Carolina and what do
you see happening within the Republican Party right now?

Speaker 9 (24:34):
Well, when you first of all, I mean, I'm excited
about the race for governor of South Carolina for the
next eight years. Cannot take liberal leadership, and I'm the
only really one that's got a record with a business background.
But as far as the Republican Party, and I just
don't agree with and I like Nancy, but look, you

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know Republicans don't make all the right the right decisions.
But but we're on the right side of so many things,
and law enforcement is one of them when you look
at what the Democrat Party stands for, which is basically
putting handcuffs on police, and the policies like your sin
and Charlotte, North Carolina have got a stop. I will
make sure that's not the case in South Carolina because

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we've got to have. Luckily, we've got a great sheriff
who enforces the law, and we've got a city council
that would never put three million dollars for a stupid
ad campaign to try to highlight mistakes that resulted in
first the death of the Ukrainian girl now guy that
may not recover. So conservatism by Republicans is it perfect. No,

(25:41):
but we're far better than what the Democrats have put
or have done in the four years under Joe Biden
showed how liberal leadership can derail a country. And I
just thankful that President Trump has taken action and he's
got the courage to do that.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well, busy here, like Beth said, for you, coming up.
I know you established that first satellite campaign office in
Lexington in recent hours, so we'll talk to you, I'm
sure on the campaign trail, and we appreciate you calling
in this morning.

Speaker 9 (26:11):
Glad to do it. Thank you, appreciate what you doing.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Well, you heard Hillary mention it just now this has
become our daily is Netflix taking over the world?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Update?

Speaker 5 (26:25):
At least in the world of entertainment bent Now, Paramount
sky Dance, as she said, is launching a hostile bid
to buy Warner Brothers Discovery after it lost out to
Netflix seemingly in that month's long bidding war. Paramount will
go straight to Warner Brothers Discovery shareholders with an all
cash thirty dollars per share offer.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
That's the same.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Bid that Warner Brothers rejected last week, and it equates
to an enterprise value of one one hundred and eight
point four billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
One hundred and eight billion dollars. Now, what's really interesting
about all of this? As President Trump over the weekend
mentioned while he was at the Kennedy Center event that
he thought that Netflix acquiring Warner Brothers could be a
problem because they would have such a huge market share. Now,
the strange thing about this particular one hundred and eight

(27:17):
billion dollar quote unquote hostile takeover bid. Jared Kushner is
involved in this, and that is raising questions about the
President's influence on all of this, and does he have
influence in all of this. Of course, Ellison, who owns
Paramount Skydance also a big contributor to the president, and

(27:41):
the FEC has to of course approve any deal, any
merger that is this large, But it begs to it
begs the question how much will politics and nepotism and
people who contribute to political campaigns, how much will this
fluence a merger like this one? And will it influence

(28:02):
the shareholders? Because Netflix said they already had the deal inked,
they seemed to think that everything had been solidified. But
with this hostile takeover idea, I mean, shareholders are going
to be thinking about the bottom line probably before anything
else right.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
And Paramount has repeatedly contended that keeping Warner Brothers Discovery
whole is in the best interest of the shareholders. You're
seeing actors, you're seeing activists, you're seeing executives all way
in on this about what it could mean. We were
talking yesterday about all the things that if the Netflix
deal goes through, everything that Netflix would control. And it's

(28:40):
not like you're talking about David versus Goliath here. This
is more like us all sitting back and watching Goliath's
battle right right, it's Goliath versus celebrity deathmatch, right.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
And it's all intertwined in politics, and it just kind
of reminds me that we're not in the club. You know,
that there's a very small club of really rich people
and they kind of control everything, and we're not in
the club, and we just have to sit back and
watch them duke it out and maybe enrich themselves at

(29:09):
our detriment.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
This popcorn is good though.

Speaker 13 (29:12):
Okay, well we'll take this home run through them with
a fine tooth comb, cross the t's and dot the
snorecase chase.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
From Me's Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three Double BT.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Come on, cut it out, guys on special board.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is Good Morning Beat with Bo Thompson and Beth Troutman.

Speaker 14 (29:31):
All Right, that was a lot of fun right there.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
We're going for the whole buffet Crab.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Seven seven on WBT Tuesday, December ninth, from the historic
Ty Boyd Studio. Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman, Jim Zochi, Steve
Anthony and featuring Bernie Bulls.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Bernie Bowles, Bernie Bowls. Let's talk great at that bat.
Thank you, guys, I'm at keep saying that till Thursday.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, we're just gonna sound great.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, you just know sounds great right now.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
By the way, coming up Thursday, one oh seven point
nine FM WBT Charlotte's FM News Talk, we make it official.
Looking forward to it. You can hear us in an
all new location, a lot more clarity, a lot more power,
and uh, onward and upward. Carolina Panthers back on the
field in New Orleans coming up on Sunday, playing in

(30:26):
that late afternoon slate. Dave Canalis back in front of
the microphone yesterday.

Speaker 14 (30:31):
We try to heighten every opportunity because whether you're gonna
have to win games on the road, you're gonna have
to win at home, you're gonna have to win in
the elements. You're gonna have to win with crowd noise,
there's there's all of there's all these elements in every
game that really does present championship moments. And we're gonna
go down to New Orleans and that place can be
really loud, you know, and uh, a team that played

(30:51):
really good football against a really good team in the
Bucks just yesterday, and so it's easy for me to
sell it, you know, in these types of situations, especially
knowing what's in front of us and so. But the
way we do it is we take one opponent at
a time. The goal is want to know with a
chance to win the division. It's right here in front
of us.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Are you in that press conference yesterday?

Speaker 15 (31:10):
I'm just I agree, one team at a time, seven
and six Bucks, seven and six Panthers. Although one team
at a time, look at the pent the opponent, look
at the opponent.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
In front of you. Don't be looking way down the barrel.
I don't know what the barrel is.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I was thinking maybe the barrel of a shotgun.

Speaker 8 (31:32):
Yes, what kind of sport are you playing, Beth, Wow.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
I'm playing clay shooting.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah. So the Butts are seven and six, the Panthers
are seven and six. Now the Bucks, or rather the
the of the the money them trying to say they
rolled this back, can say.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
That's going to how great at that? Yes, same way
to bring home, way to bring it home.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Bo.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Coming up this Thursday night, the Bucks and the Falcons
play each other. So it is possible that by the
time the Panthers get around to play in the Saints,
they could be alone in first place. So this is
there's a lot to play out here before the Panthers
actually hit the field late on Sunday afternoon. But you know,
I know, you guys had Panther Talk last night and
coaches on the show, and this is a real opportunity

(32:20):
for this team. And now you know a lot of
these I mean, Dave Dave Canalis has always sort of
talked in cliches to a degree, you know, one game
at a time and championship mentality, but now these things
really really carry a lot of weight because one game
here means a ton towards the postseason, and you're playing
divisional rivals. Now, I mean, this is this is what

(32:43):
you want to be talking about in December.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Yeah, coach spent a lot of time last night talking
about looking down barrels and clay shooting, and at other
times he talked.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
About the games.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
But yeah, you make the Tampa Bay games, you know,
bigger and more to your advantage by taking care of
business in New Orleans regardless of what Tampa Bay does. Say,
Tampa Bay wins on Thursday, if we beat New Orleans.
If we beat Tampa Bay both times, we win. So
the head to head is what's great about that. Now,
I's asking a lot to beat Tampa Bay here and there,
but you got Seattle in the mix as far as

(33:16):
the games that we still have left as well.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
But you really do control your own destiny. As my
point of that. As far as.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Having it, you'll have to have other teams do things
to get you into the playoffs. At this point with
four games to go, so hopefully again, New Orleans is
a dangerous team since they've changed quarterbacks to Tyler Shuck.
He's not been like lighting up the league, but he's
kind of give them a consistent performer at that position
with the other players they've got, So going down there,
that's a dangerous game.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Even though the record is three and ten.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
Not only do you have to have your destiny in
your hands, if you beat your former self, you will
win the division because you have to play Baker Mayfield
twice and you play Sam Darnold against the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Oh, I thought you were saying it was a mental game.
You just have to beat yourself.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
You could totally beat the twenty twenty three Panthers.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
So I'm going to say this again because I said
this yesterday and I left off one important factor. There
are predictors, people predicting on the socials. On the socials,
folks that are saying that the Panthers are going to
go to the super Bowl this year because of predictors.
I mentioned these yesterday Ohio State won the championship. This

(34:19):
you know this year, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce,
and the season opener was against the Jags. Every time
the Panthers have gone to the super Bowl, those three
things have been true. I left off the Jags yesterday,
so I had to add that one today.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
No, you had that yesterday. No, I did that.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Off the air.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
I said it off their actually got on the air
to mention that that was the thing that was the predictor.
And I think that's a cool I mean, I know
it's random.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Is Janet Jackson performing at the halftime show?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
She didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I do that.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
In twenty fifteen, I know we had who was it?
Who was it that Beyonce? Was that the San Francis
going Beyonce?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Lady Gaga sang the anthem, oh Lady Gagott that he
could go.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
So DJ, I'm just going to be super like. I'm
going to be super positive about it, looking at those
random predictors that these weird social media people are talking about.
But they're not wrong. They're not wrong.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Hey, you know. I mean, we'll lean into whatever superstitions
we need to.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I also think it's funny that we're now saying, like,
there's the Saints are a they're scary team, they're a
dangerous team. Win like a couple of weeks ago, Like
these guys are turns, they're the worst in the league.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Oh wow, I literally heard like nice. I heard Joe
Buck say that just last night. But they just beat
the Buccaneers, which is a team tie.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
For which and they beat us.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
They beat us, They beat the two best teams in
the NFC south right, and.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
You're playing in their buildings. So you got to take
that into consistent.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
But we've not been in a postseason of seven years.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
I don't think we should be looking at our noses
eight Oh look at them, they're bad at football.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
I just think it's really funny how Baker.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Mayfield what us like to be the Saints. I don't
remember like that.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I just think it's funny how it changes. I mean,
it really is just any given Sunday that's why people
enjoy football.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
Called the NFL is not for long, got cliche.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
I know, wow, one game at a time and give Sunday.
Just say it is what it is. One time, it is.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
What it is.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
I feel like wow seven That actually sounds like me
a few minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Good morning, guys.

Speaker 14 (36:14):
Love listening y'all every morning on the way to work.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
We love it here. It's like a carnival.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
You gotta be proud.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Oh yeah, that's the most fitting term ever for the show.
We're a carnival. The only way to become president is
to win the homecoming carnival.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
This is good morning beat.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
That's right, Arnold, and that's exactly what we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Children, women choosing, men go working.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
So everyone's got to make a come on.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
I'm just leaning in to what you've been talking about,
channeling Beth Troutman.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Oh it's Jenny from the Block, I said. In the
commercial break to Jim and Bow, I said, so I
worked to Jennifer Lopez into our sports talk two days
in a row. Do you guys love talking sports with me?

Speaker 8 (37:01):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Great?

Speaker 5 (37:02):
It always comes back to Jayla. I'm just leaning in
to where you are.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Let me see I think it's a good luck charm
that she filed for divorce A bit affleck this year.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Just don't work. Heay, bad bunny. And I don't know
any of the songs.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
Well you wouldn't know if she did. I know.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, well, he was like the number one artist this
year on Spotify.

Speaker 13 (37:19):
He was.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
He was streamed on Spotify at like nineteen billion times
number one artists.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
If the schedule of a Super Bowl announcement, like everyone
went nice to go find out who he was? Maybe, well, Hi,
what's the segment.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
We've got a little Jenny from the block here. But
don't be fooled by the rocks that Beth Scott because
you be impressed by her dinner table first guys, All right,
that really didn't make any sense, did it.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
But I'm tracking with you. I'm tracking with you.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
Well, hang on, here we go. We haven't gone to
the BuzzFeed well.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
In a while, you know, and I love this well,
especially around the holidays, But listen to the BuzzFeed headline,
I haven't eaten it in years. Forty nine dishes that
were once everywhere in the seventies, eighties, and nineties but
have completely vanished.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Forty nine forty nine.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
I know we're not going to get through all of us,
but I have an issue. I have an issue with
this list because I kind of still eat all of these,
so they haven't completely vanished. BuzzFeed.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Well, I saw the list and it goes right into
what we've been talking about lately. We actually got into
a heated discussion about this just last week.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
We did.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
But I don't think that this first one is the
one that you were speaking of specifically. But the number
one item that has disappeared jello salads. Yeah, jello salads
of any kind of both. Bo has had nightmares about
his jello salad at his school that apparently had green peas.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
I mean, how does that ben happen? I mean, paars, piechs.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
I've never seen, as I said, green peas sounds like
bow was in prison.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
It just sounds to me like it was an accident
and somebody said, put it in a bowl anyway, put
it up there, they'll buy it real eat it, And
somebody did because they kept putting it out there.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
I have never seen that intentionally.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
All the jello salads I have ever eaten were all
sweet jello salads, and there was an orange one that
my mom or may that had like orange jello and
like cream cheese and orange mandarin.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Orange mandarin oranges. I hate the moon.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Oh, I loved it.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
And she would do it in a mold so that
it came.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Out all like a bunch cake.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah, like a butt cake, and then you take slices
of it put it on your plate.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
At the holidays, you also slice of jellow with peas
I do, and tangerines.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
For a second, forget that Burger.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
I think yellow salads are still a thing holiday Burger.
I think people still make jello salad at.

Speaker 8 (39:53):
The retirement community. Best my neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Tuna noodle casserole made with canned soup.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Sounds like something somebody comes up, it's in the microwave
in the office room and just clears everybody else.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
Tuna noodle casserole.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
You guys haven't had tuna neter?

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, tuna neoter casserole.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
That's what? What kind of games are you playing?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Well?

Speaker 3 (40:18):
I only had brothers tuna noodle casserole. It was so good.
My mom would make it with I mean tuna and
noodles and then you'd put the canned condensed soup like
cream of mushroom or cream of chicken, and then my
mom would crush the room for peas in there. You
can't put peas because peas are.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Delicious, always Jim, always, But then you my mom would
for jello and peas.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
She would crush laced potato chips on top of it
and it would be this whole castrole thing. She also
used to make a sparagus casserole with like the slimy
canda sparagus and cream of mushroom soup and cheese and
potato chips, and it was amazing.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
This entire segment.

Speaker 7 (40:56):
Jim has been finishing well, like before you finish what
you're saying, Jim's like, yep, I know, yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Every Tuesday we had that with you.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
And again, these are dishes that have that used to
be ubiquitous like in the seventies, eighties and nineties, but
now have seemingly vans.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
I actually actually agree with the BuzzFeed so far are
you still making that?

Speaker 3 (41:14):
I still make cast rolls with bad cash. I haven't
made tuna noodle.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
With the chips in the I haven't. How long has
it been? Are you weary clothes when you eat it?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
My husband does not eat tunas like he doesn't eat
canned tuna. So I can't make it. But for myself,
wild Coots.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Goes out and catches it free range.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Wildcot got all the minerals and things.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
I can't reel it in.

Speaker 8 (41:41):
I don't need it. Caught this in the lake.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
But I would totally make it for myself. I have
made egg noodles and throats.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
To you, you said you would, I have definitely made.
But blaming him that you don't make you otherwise.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I would. Actually I loved tuna noodle cast role. I
loved it as a kid, and I realized that that
was the eighties and nineties, So you might be right. Maybe, buzzfeeder,
I think this.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
List is spot on.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Well, I'm picturing avocado refrigerators.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
And we had that too.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
I will tell you this when we come back. There
is one on this list that if my mom broke
this out for breakfast on any given day of the week,
it completely was a damper on the day.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Oh, if you're gonna say what, I think you're.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Gonna say, it was it was I got I came
into the kitchen and she heard she poured it in
the ball, and it was it was I didn't even
want to go to school.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Today, like I'm going to. So I'll tell you what
that is. Now.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
I fear this may be a divider in the room.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
It's going to be a divider because I know which
one you're about to talk about, and I'm upset. How
do you know because I've read I've read the list,
and I know you and I know your taste buds.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Okay, we're going to find out how we like every food.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
I do love every food.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
I'm curious if we're there are forty things on this list.
I'm curious if you can't if you're talking about the
one I'm talking about. And as an extension of that,
if people will agree with this.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Did it come in a canbo?

Speaker 9 (43:02):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
No? Was anybody nude comes in a box?

Speaker 8 (43:06):
Jim, you're asked that time. You've asked that.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Well, she kept saying.

Speaker 5 (43:09):
It's not noodle, it's not tuna, neuter salad. That's what
she said earlier.

Speaker 8 (43:16):
You missed that much.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
Yeah, I'll play back for you don't want Oh yeah,
news doctor correct like that one.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
This is a water cooler show. Oh, it's the big
audio water cooler on this show.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
We try to give you the facts. We don't want
to tell you what to think. We want to tell
you what to think.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
About, but we asked that you uh remain in your
seats until the ride has come to a safe and
complete stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Enjoy the rest of your day here at Good Morning DT.
We blow Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 9 (43:42):
But it's the best group of people to have break
the swim.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
I can play off.

Speaker 8 (43:45):
You guys are fun. Oh, thank you, Bob, thank you
so much.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
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Speaker 2 (43:50):
Warms at all fun.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
All right, it is Tuesday morning and the tie boyds,
Bo and Beth and the Zoke and Bernie and Sir
Stephen of Anthony. We're talking about buzspeed list of things
that used to be ubiquitous, used to be everywhere, things
that you would eat in the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties,
but now they're gone. And there's one on this list

(44:19):
that if Mom brought it in, I hope Mom's not listening,
because I just I didn't even want to eat breakfast
the days that this happened.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
I am so upset with you because I know which
one you are talking about here, and it has not
disappeared from my home at all. I make it all
the time.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
You ready, yep, cream of wheat.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Oh that's not what I was thinking, but I still did.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
What did you think I was going to say to you?
So when I know everything about you? Oh yeah, I
wasn't thinking of that.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
I thought you were going to talk about creamed chip
beef on toast.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
No, oh stop no.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Stofers makes it in a box, but I make it homemade.
My mom made it all the time for breakfast, sometimes
for dinner. When my father in law comes day.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's comfort food.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Oh it's amazing. I make it for him every time
he comes.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Love that.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
You absolutely would love that.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Guys come to my house for breakfast one day I will.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Make I've never had. But wait a minute, it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Back to what I said, Oh ye, cream of wheat?
Do you like cream of wheat?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
So some people?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Are you with me?

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Or I've ever had it? To be honest with you,
what a lucky guy you are.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
It's cream of wheat.

Speaker 8 (45:28):
It's like an oatmeal.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
No, no, no, Like I didn't like oatmeal at first,
but I learned to like it because I realized that
it's like you have to dress it up. You have
to put some stuff down sugar, right. Uh so I'm
with cream and wheat. Well no, no, no no. I tried
the same thing, and the cream of wheat just went
really bad.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
People love I'm like Shigar diabetess, like my mom.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I walked in the kitchen.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
My mom had a cream cream of wheat. I won't
be eating today.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
My mom made cream of wheat a lot, and I
still do. I have a box of it in my
pantry right now. But people love it with like brown
sugar or maple syrup or cinnamon. I love it savory,
so I put salt and a little bit of cheddar cheese,
and I love to dip bacon, dip bacon in it
or crumble bacon on top of it. I love the
texture of it. It's it's it's kind of a long

(46:17):
Bernie kind of along the grit's line. Grits has a
much different texture than cream of wheat, and cream of
wheat has like this. It has a weedy kind of
but if you leave it in.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Your wheedy and it's creamy, it just doesn't even make sense.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
If you leave it in a bowl too long, it
does basically turn into like wallpaper pastes.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yes, putting any any amount of time it's in the
ball is too late.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Don't put it down your drain. You need to if
you have the left ever, throw it away. Do not
put it in your drain.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Get breakfast that day. That's what I do.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
It's so yummy. Try it with salt, cheese, a little
bit of crumbled bacon.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
So you thought you knew me so well, you were
dead wrong on that one.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
I really did think you were going to talk about
cream chip beef on toast, and I was going to
be so sad. And it has not disappeared from my home.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
Well, my wife makes fun of me because I like
they In grade school. One of the things they had,
and I liked this when they had it was beef
tips on rice. That's that's some cafeteria food right there.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
That could be fine dining. Beef tips on.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah, gravy on some rice and beef.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
But isn't that isn't that related food with the broccoli
and the bef? Is that what I called?

Speaker 5 (47:19):
Do you have a sports cast to do somewhere? So
we've got into sports four three four of these out
of forty.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
We've got into four out of forty nine. Actually, yeah,
so really quickly. Another breakfast one that is on this
list that still makes an appearance in my home and
oftentimes at restaurants. Still guys knocks on the door. Corn,
corn beef, pashion eggs.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
How do you do not like that? Like corn? I
do not like corned beef. I don't like what I
don't like, But you just doubled down.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Now what corn?

Speaker 10 (47:49):
Now?

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Like a deli corned beef like New York styles. It's
not my thing.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Corn beef hash.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
I live in the mustard world.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
And some Swiss crowd mustard, Yeah, the white mustard.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
What else you got?

Speaker 8 (48:05):
People have mayonnaise those like I'm tired of hearing corn beef.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Turkey tetrazini. I do remember this in the school cafeteria,
but I don't know if anybody ever made it at home?
Did anybody ever make turkey tetrasini at home?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
That same can of mushroom soup.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Yep and noodles and yummy stuff and.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Gets that those little uh fried onion ring things you
buy in a box.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Oh the French is onion straws. Yeah, that you put
on green bean casserole. Also made with a can.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
By the way, mushrooms, it does have a peace option,
I believe. Really that's like that with the peas. That's
a trash option there, Jim.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Here's one more that I'm not mad at that I
used to I used to eat this as a kid,
and I don't even know. I don't even I haven't
seen it in a deli section in a long time.
Olive loaf Hell, god, what is that?

Speaker 1 (48:52):
I hit the traffic Yeah, O, my god.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
On the radio, Like you add loafed in thing and
it makes it it's like blooney. But it had all
of this for me.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Why would you jump?

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Because it was kind of like having a pickle sandwich
were just like mixed all together. It was just all
of it. Somebody to take a sandwich with pickles on it,
then what are we doing there?

Speaker 5 (49:14):
It's a weird animal that's made that way we're doing
right now? Is Boomer? You got rescue us from that?

Speaker 8 (49:18):
Even guys in the military didn't have to eat that's right.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
Wait, Boomer is raining on your parade.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
You didn't need olive bo.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Oh heck no, Boom will eat it heats everything.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
Somebody, somebody, If you are creating some olive loaf.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
You'll be put to the head of the line. Everything
about that food is wrong. And the name, the look
of it. It's the color of olives stuck.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
In like it's like olives in Bologney.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
It's like a poked it's like a poke on. Yeah,
come on, yeah, we're done.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Visual.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
There was quite a vision.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
It's good that would never come about.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Put it on a grilled cheese sandwich.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
No, cut her microphone off. Seriously, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
I'm glad to talk to you. Guys are hilarious.

Speaker 12 (50:11):
I mean funny.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I love you. I don't get to listen to morning
radio that much.

Speaker 16 (50:16):
You guys are funny.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
And I don't mean like pH funny. I mean like
ha ha funny.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
I don't I don't find anything funny.

Speaker 13 (50:24):
So this is great.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
This is good morning, beat olive loaf.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
I didn't know I was going to hit a chord
with this.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Sometimes name was meat loaf. Meat Loaf would not approve
of this.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
It's the thing. We finally have figured out what he
was singing about. The thing that he won't do is.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Olive olive loaf.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
I'm told that line number one has Joseph and Joseph
has a question for best.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Hi, Joseph, Jesse you doing, Oh, Joseph, be nice, be nice.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
No, Beth, don't let them guys be you know, Flack.

Speaker 13 (51:04):
I ate it too.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
It's good.

Speaker 9 (51:10):
Liver, white stuff around it.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Oh, I don't know, I've had. I mean, I like
liver mush.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
It's a relative of the olive loaf.

Speaker 9 (51:19):
It's a relative.

Speaker 8 (51:22):
Don't let them guys.

Speaker 10 (51:23):
You know.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
I love you, Joseph.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You're not getting off
that easy. Joseph, When and why did you have olive loaf?

Speaker 9 (51:32):
Because it was good.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
That's sometimes that's all we had, man.

Speaker 15 (51:35):
We had to eat it.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
There you go. That's right. Olive loaf sandwiches with on
white bread with some American cheese on it, which.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
She gave it context. Either olive loaf or you die
when you put it in that context. That is exactly right.
Those are the two options.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Joseph. I'm with you. It was yummy.

Speaker 8 (51:59):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
I don't let them go. You're good.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
We will do no such things.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Thank you, Joseph.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Joseph, we appreciate you calling up.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Oh my god, I love you so much for when
you give context to the game.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Well, would you eat? Would you die? No, I'll eat
all of them. Yes, a completely different question.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
So folks have been texting into our text line seven
O four five seven of eleven ten, driven by Liberty
Buick gmc Josh says, good morning, I'm with Beth. I
used to eat olive loaf sandwiches with my grandfather.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
It's a great story. Grandma, Wow, what a memory.

Speaker 8 (52:41):
Where to bring it home?

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Best?

Speaker 3 (52:42):
And Catherine? Catherine says olive loaf was the best, Beth.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
And Cluz was like.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
All of these are scenarios, as Jim alludes to, where
you basically are given okay, keep on living or have
this like we have options like I don't know Turkey.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Wow, there's ham apparently, so Mike says, I'm with you, Beth.
Olive loaf is good. That's Mike and Gastonia. Tammy says, Beth,
I love, not loved, love currently still love.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
You're filtering the replies.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Wes says I remember having olive loaf as a kid.
It was it was good. But Wes also says I
haven't intentionally bought it since I became an adult.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
Where does one buy it?

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Okay, I'm glad you asked that because though Nina Nina says,
I still see the olive love at the deli at publics,
but she said, not many people are buying it.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
It's a lonely you skipped over that part pretty quickly.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
But we're shopping is a pleasure, and I've seen that
that's the same one.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
As that was her last summer.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Rollie says that Deets and Watson makes a mean, mean
olive loaf, and then he also pointed out that bo
would never try it.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
It's a good challenge.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
It's a challenge from rober.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
I have lost this challenge. I will not even take
the challenge.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
I can't believe that no one in here would eat.

Speaker 16 (54:14):
All of us.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
I remember seeing it in the stories, like I don't
like olives.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
First of all, well there's olive a loaf.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Wait a minute, we just got a message here from
one John Falconberry. I'm with Bo on the cream of
wheat and Beth cream chip beef on toast has another
name in the military called s O S. Blank on A.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yeah, yeah, you can fill in what the S.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Means actually, John, it's also they also substitute.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
That for olive loaf.

Speaker 8 (54:40):
Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
If you put olive loaf on toast. Yeah, I mean wow,
but I think it's that seriously. Josh just texted too,
he says olive loaf is awesome. So it's still available
at public.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Are you only getting positive replies? A special filter you're It's.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Called Beth is a filter reading her messages.

Speaker 8 (55:03):
There's a lot of positive on the text line.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
So if you like olives, and you like pickles, if
you like cool things, it's it's it's like a delicious little,
brightly flavored meat sandwich.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
All right, turn her microphone off again, all right, ladies,
So get them on here on saronon from News Talk
eleven ten and ninety nine three double e BT.

Speaker 14 (55:24):
Strange things are foot at the circle case.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
This is good morning Bet with Bo Thompson at Beth
Trout Bitch.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Watch me to changes, then try to keep up. Okay,
run off.

Speaker 5 (55:38):
Six minutes past eight o'clock here on news Talk eleven
ten WBT, Tuesday, December ninth, Coming to you from the
Tyboid Studio. Bo Thompson, Beth Troutman Jim Zochi and WBT
news director Mark Garrison is with us right now. You
heard uh the latest on the second stabbing regarding the
light rail in recent months. This one happened on Friday.

(56:01):
Of course, we know about late August and Arena Zarutzka
and the result of the Arena's Law that was signed
into uh TO being just a few weeks ago. Mark
interesting meeting last night because you had the Charlotte City
Council convening and this is the I mean, last week
was the swearing in and the new members coming in

(56:22):
and old ones exiting, so there was some some ceremonial
stuff last week. Last night was the first sort of
meat and potatoes meeting they've had with this new regime.
And what do you know, it's it's the first time
since this event that happened last week. And they did
talk about reactions to this stabbing, but interestingly, they continued

(56:46):
to talk about an advertising campaign that was agreed upon
last night, an advertising campaign about the light rail of
all things.

Speaker 17 (56:54):
I know you and I are early this morning before
the show started. We're both kind of collectively shaking our
heads over this. I got to tell you, I've covered
state and local government in North Carolina for probably well
a long time, forty years. This may be one of
the craziest things I have seen three point four million
dollars for an ad campaign that will basically say, hey,

(57:17):
forget the stabbings, the drunks, the panhandlers, and the perverts,
come on ride the train. I mean, instead, you know,
take half that money, a million and a half dollars
and put a cop on every train, which, by the way,
listen to this guy, that's what people were asking for
last night.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
I know it's going to cost more money, but it will,
in my opinion, resolve a lot of these situations.

Speaker 17 (57:42):
So see, the city has said, Katz has said, well,
we can't afford to put a cop on every train,
so they've hired these poorly trained rent a cops and
they're not on every train. And now the city's you know, saying,
but we got three point four million for an ad campaign.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
It's just hard to figure, right.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
I always try, and you know this about me, and
I've been saying this this morning. I tried to find
reason in things. I tried to see things from all sides.
I try to find silver linings, and in this it
doesn't make sense bad timing. If they had had this
in place, you know, since if they started looking for
an ad agency back in August, and they knew that

(58:23):
this vote was coming up, even they should have even
tabled the vote just because of what happened on Friday.
But that being said, the three point four million dollars
could be used so easily to put people on the train.
So instead of telling people to feel safe, people will
feel safe because they see and know that those security

(58:44):
guards are there. And we had a texter and a
listener text in named Jim who said three point three
and a half million dollars basically, you could hire fifty
three people and pay them sixty five thousand dollars a
year for private security. He did the math.

Speaker 17 (58:58):
Well, and the retic cops now don't make anywhere near that.
That's why they end up with poorly trained people to
ride the trains who have nothing but a little pepper
spray and a radio and in some cases not even
any pepper spray.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
So, I mean, this seems to me like one of
the all time tone death moments. That this would even
be on the I mean, it may have been on
the agenda. This is a kind of a no brain
brainter to take this off last night. This is not
I mean, you're talking about an ad campaign to make
people feel safe about riding the light rail. Reality shows
you right now that is not true until they do

(59:32):
something about it. And it also screams that you have
I don't know, three point four million dollars that is
available for something. Here is where it should go, it
would seem.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
And you would get free advertising from all of the
local news media when you add those security guards to
the train, and that would be a great use of
the money. It would bring people back to the train
and it wouldn't just be some you know, pie in
the sky ad campaign that is trying to influ it's people. Instead,
give people the security that they want and then they'll

(01:00:05):
get back on the train.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
Well, not to be.

Speaker 17 (01:00:09):
Too irreverent, Boomer suggested, maybe the slogan should be light
rail take a stab at it. Oh sorry, I just
thought it was funny. But think about this. We've done
a little digging and I need to do more on this.
It's a company out of Austin, Texas that they have
hired that sort of specializes in marketing for governments and cities.

(01:00:29):
Particularly they did a bunch of marketing and advertising for
the for a light rail and a train in Austin.
So that's the company that they've hired. But you know, really,
what kind of messaging do you come up with if
you can't say you will be safe. There is security
on every train. What's your message really going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
We're going to spend three point four million dollars to
tell you how good it is, and everybody knows based
on recent events, that's not the case. You had the
President who was a posting on his truth social this
weekend about Charlotte, and I think we all know that
wait till he sees this, because if he sees this
last night, I can only imagine what the reaction is

(01:01:11):
going to be. And whatever side of the isle you
fall on, you can't ignore the fact that this seems
like just a complete again back to that phrase, tone
deaf response to a story that once again has been
ratcheted up in just the last several days, almost inexplicitly, inexplicably,
in near the same place, in the same scenario, but.

Speaker 17 (01:01:31):
On a brighter note, I thought we would mention Kenyon Dobie.
He is the twenty four year old who was stabbed
in the chest last Friday night. He stood up to
a guy who was drunk and rowdy on the train
and for his trouble. He took a knife in his chest.
But he got on TikTok yesterday and said the doctors
kind of treat him like a hero.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
I know all the doctors.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
They keep coming and shaking my hand and saying that
it's an honor for them to be something new recover.

Speaker 17 (01:02:01):
He looked good. He had a big tube coming out
of his chest. He's got a long recovery ahead. He's
set up a GoFundMe to help with his medical bills.
But Kenyon Adobe is recovering and that's good news.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Much more to come on this story, no doubt, Mark,
We appreciate it, sure, eight nineteen On News Talk eleven
ten WBT Bowen Beth and the Zoke and Steve and
Bernie and don't forget we are two days away. One
O seven point nine FMWBT Charlotte's FM News Talk debuts

(01:02:35):
on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
It gives me cold chills just to hear you say it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Anyone else is going to give you cold chills.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
This after another week.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Thirteen weeks of the Good Morning VT Fantasy Football Championship Sweepstakes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Boy, do we have some results for you today.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
We decided about you know, several months ago that everybody
else plays fantasy football, why not us? And why not Beth?
For the first time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
I did not know what it was, what it meant,
how it worked, or what was going on when I
drafted my team. But I have learned. You gentlemen, have
been patient with me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
We took it all out of my brains I got.
I known nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
Let me see where should I begin here? There's so
many great storylines. I We'll start with Beth's father, the Waaniac,
who was in our league. His team's name is called
the Wayniac Beach Trolls. Uh huh, uh huh, defeating the
Burns and the Bees that Bernie bowls one this week, it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Was just week one. There's two weeks to them. Oh
oh yeah, I got another week to make up the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
Let's see to infinity and beyond. That's Sir Steven of Anthony,
the Radio Flyers, Jim Zochi. The Fins take the win,
one oh seven point eight eight to one oh six
point seven four.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
It's a two weeker.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Oh Wowker, it's at halftime.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
Yes, yeah, no, it's it's two weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
He didn't win. He's leading at halftime. That's true, we
don't give out crowns at halftime.

Speaker 8 (01:04:12):
Here's our crown team.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Wait, why is it two weeks?

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
This I don't know. I just found this out much.

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
It's no idea. It's because of the rest of the
regular season.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Wait, wait a minute, cut the music. Wait are you serious? Yes, yeah,
I did.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
We're playing for like two weeks here, yes, now, and then.

Speaker 8 (01:04:25):
And then the championship will be the last two weeks
of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
So I us knew this.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
So wait a minute. So the like, if you win
this week, you don't, it's not a win.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
This is literally a halftime score.

Speaker 7 (01:04:34):
Again, you literally will will add on to whatever score
you got last week.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Who made these rules?

Speaker 8 (01:04:38):
It's been this way?

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Bo I had idea, I've.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Never thought I lost by one point again, like I
lost it best by point one. I lost by point
again because we have eighteen He's like, no, it's it's
like it's a.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
Two week who's the commissioner of this league? It's me, Okay,
I've never played in the fantasy football league that had
these rules.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Where did we speak this out loud? That is how
we're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
You know, it's always been this way.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
Bo I will put out a box for suggestion box,
and you guys and fill out some forms there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Uh, but I don't want to hear your list already happened.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
This is so I love how angry you guys are
right now, and I love seeing you guys confused by
fantasy football.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Okay, so halftime score of the next game, Smash and
Crash Boomer von Cannon over Jason's basement, one oh five
point zero to one oh four point four four. He
beat you, he did just half.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
No, it's halftime.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
It's half time.

Speaker 5 (01:05:27):
I don't even know everybody's won or lost.

Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
So next week will be the second half of the matchup.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
You have o yep, bo we have Bad Bunny Championship
with it's half time, we have.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Bad Bunny exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
Here comes Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Oh hey, watch up all right?

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
The next halftime score kind of takes the oof out
of this one a little bit. But Megabeth one twenty five,
Marx Monstrous Team ninety six had ninety six.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
I won again, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
It's half time, may go over there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
I won half time on guys. I do kind of
love that I'm against Mark this two.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Week now, I was three people on IR and still scored.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Well, I know how to get that because he automatic drafted.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
They gave him good players.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Yeah, so the ones that are still healthy are still
they're good.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
You know, all of us in this room except for Beth,
had played fantasy football many many times, and it's just
kind of a rite of passage every season. And then
we thought, this year, we're going to let this one
play out on the air because Beth is like the experiment,
like you know, and actually we have two experiments because
Mark never even logged onto his account.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
He never created an account.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
I don't know, so auto draft for him, but anything
that happens that we talk about, he doesn't understand, he
doesn't know about it, doesn't care.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
I kind of wish that I had auto drafted. I
kind of wish that I had known it was a thing.
I kind of wish that my my filter wasn't on,
Although now I'm kind of glad my filter was on
the Panthers because I'm kind of like the sleeper team,
late round push, late round push.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
So I had all these big plans and trying to
build this all up, but Bernie just completely.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
Took the sorry about that this is how you but
if you hadn't done the segment, you would have known
the rules.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
You're exactly right. I wouldn't have known the rules.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
This is how again, guys don't talk to each other.
We didn't know the rules to this fantas c.

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
You're exactly right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
This is the most this is the you. We're keeping
you a big award.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
I'm not going to tell you about it, but we're
giving you a big award at the end of the show.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
That's not fair.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
I tried to explain this to you guys last week
about how this is just like it's two weeks worth,
and I don't think anybody heard me.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
Well obviously, yeah, I've never heard you say I built
built up this grandiose segment and Bernie's like, oh no,
I'm serious, bro, Like it's not over. I thought it
was like a joke to Jim, like you had some
inside joke with Jim.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
And then got to the third score of BO was like,
why you keep talking, it's not over, it's halftime.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
I've never heard of any league I've played. I've probably
played in forty fifty leagues over they're same. I've never
heard but why but why is it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Is it just math?

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
You get to the playoffs and your reward is leagues
just playing regular. You get to the postseason, and your
reward is you have to you have to play it
twice as long game. But I've never I don't know.
I mean, the commissioner is in the room with us,
and he has not given.

Speaker 7 (01:08:04):
We have an eight team league, and there's four teams
that are in the actual playoffs.

Speaker 8 (01:08:07):
So there's you know, four weeks left.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Are we in the playoffs?

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
Yes, just because we don't have as many teams like
actually have twelve because it's eight league.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Okay, it is now we now we have an explanation.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
So it is math. It's pay math.

Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
Are we paying you forty four million like good Dell
gets No, I wish you gave forty four.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Whatever we're paying you have, we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Have to revisit.

Speaker 8 (01:08:25):
It's not enough.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Actually, your communication skills are lacking.

Speaker 8 (01:08:28):
Bernie.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Also other news. I didn't know you are commissioner till
five minutes.

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
The slander I've taken today is of.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Course thought it was he.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
Of course thought it was Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
I thought it was Wayne. Yeah, yeah, that would explain
our whole league. Mark is our commissioner.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Well, I hope the wayneiac knows about this because he
is playing in this league from Afar.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Do I need to be looking at something else, like
other than are there players that exist somewhere out there
that don't have a team.

Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
No, you have the same players that you've always had.

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
Yes, Beth, it's called the waiver wire.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
So the waiver So but where do I go where
that when you've picked people up off the waiver wire?
Bernie's done it fort you, right, because I don't know
where the waiver are And now Bernie's telling us he's
changed the rules.

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
You just open up the app and you hit my
team and then you go to players.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
And what happened is Bernie picks bad players when he's
playing you, and he picks really good players when you're
playing me.

Speaker 8 (01:09:14):
Why does everyone accusing me of collusion at this point?

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
Because you seem to have a lot of control. You're
like the dark stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:09:19):
I'm the commissioner.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
It's like you're like a dark state. I don't know
what you are. I'm in charge of the league, and
here are the rules.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
He got rid of Xavier Legette on the team, and
then suddenly Xavier Legette got good. That was fun. That
was a fun since a xavior leget got good?

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
Doesn't that sounds like a one weeks Yeah, it's a
lot of alliteration.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Three hours.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Steve just sent me like the explanation for all of this.
This is like a this is like a bibliography.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
I'm not gonna read all that.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
Yeah, I mean I can't. I can't be expected to
process this all now. Uh And Kevin just waged in
and said what did he say? He says, Bose frustration
with fantasy football makes me think he may not be
fun to play touch football with it. Thanksgiving with the well, don't.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Play touch football.

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
It's tackle.

Speaker 5 (01:10:02):
It's tackle football. It's none that pulling the flag stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
I had a hip replace not yet.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
When I get tackled, that'll happen.

Speaker 8 (01:10:10):
That's why.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
All right, So well, Bernie, it's always nice to find
out things live on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Thanks for telling us, Bernie.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
Steve's got like a whole bound book with all the
rules in it. Maybe Steve should be the commissioner. Wow,
maybe you all should joust for the new commissioner spot.

Speaker 8 (01:10:30):
Of anger.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Yeah, so thanks he gets for studying it all up.

Speaker 8 (01:10:32):
Now we'll see how this goes next year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
I love all of you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Boycott the entire No next year, Beth is the commissioner.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Yes, I'd be the commissioner and make up rules.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
Yeah no, no, it's Steve.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
I actually like that better.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I think this is more fun.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Can you imagine we'll get to the middle of the
season and bethill say, oh, season's over. It did last night.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Think of all the chaos, how much there'll be no
waiver wire. Just whoever you drafted, who you have you
have to do the rest of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
I would do that. I would absolutely do that. No
waiver wire and extra points for people that do fun
dances in the end zone.

Speaker 5 (01:11:04):
Yep, before you got posh players got arrested. Mark might
actually access that team.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
See you did enjoy that, wouldn't you, Mark?

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
This is good morning Beat. It's time for order up
Dirty Restaurant Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
There's a fly in my soap? Could you do something
about it?

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
Can't wait to do dirty restaurants on FM.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
This time next week it'll be hot lock.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
It in, rip that knob off. How are we doing,
mister Garrison?

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
We'd be good.

Speaker 17 (01:11:36):
Hey, before I get started here with the dirty stuff,
I want to give a shout out to the Harrisburg
Lions Club. On the first Friday of every month, they
have a fish fry in Harrisburg, Holy cow. For twelve
bucks you get chicken, flounder, shrimp all on one plate, amazing,
hush puppies and it helps the visually impaired. So Harrisburg
Lions Club just knocking it out of the park, helping me.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Oh man, I want to go with you to your
next exclusion.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
Okay, sure we can work that out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
I'll have enthusiasm with it. Sure, sure, Beth, I'll see
you there.

Speaker 17 (01:12:09):
All right, let's see what we have here. We'll start
Indian trail. It's called the choke the noodle House.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Oh oh no, that's a right flag right there.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Yeah, we'll see you next Tuesday.

Speaker 17 (01:12:26):
For a dirty restaurant, go aheadas and noodles and not chicken.
The person in charge handling a fresh made roll with
his bare hands.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
Well, it is called.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
Choke the noodle house.

Speaker 17 (01:12:42):
So the inspector said, no, throw that away, wash your hands,
put on a glove and then you.

Speaker 5 (01:12:46):
Can handle customers. Roles can opener.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
You can touch that button.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
This all just sounds really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Furries.

Speaker 17 (01:12:58):
So Vince has come out as a fur can opener
stored is dirty and he even had metal chunks on
it and they needed to clean it up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Cheesecake was way too old. I'd be thrown out.

Speaker 17 (01:13:10):
Also thrown out food with no dates at all, beef, chicken,
and fried rice. The prep counter was dirty, dirty, so
it was the microwave and the rice cookers sticky with
old rice and good so the choked noodle house Indian
Trail and ninety one, how about choking those noodles? Go

(01:13:32):
to South Boulevard Here Maco Bistro had an eighty six
point five. Nobody there with any food safety training. A
repeat violation. Employees did not know what symptoms to look for,
meaning stay home if you're sick. Observed food employee wash
hands for less than twenty seconds and that was a

(01:13:53):
repeat violation. A lot of food out of date. Let
us sliced ham, turkey, oat milk, oat milk, whole milk,
no date on that premium wheat chip to beef. They
were also using unapproved wooden bowls to serve food. Bowls
that were hard to clean, not approved for restaurant use.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Oh because the wood can soak in some bacteria.

Speaker 17 (01:14:17):
Yeah, it must have been cheap. So that's the Maco Bistros,
South Boulevard eighty six point five natural pie.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
That was a recording.

Speaker 8 (01:14:27):
The bulls were a natural pun.

Speaker 17 (01:14:30):
So now we have a lock Colentana Victor Cafe. That's
a mouthful. It's in Fort Mill. I think it's a
food truck had an eighty four. There was no hot
water at the hand sink. The food at the steam
table was not hot at all. In fact, carnitos were
eighty seven degrees chicken nut hot. They didn't put dates
on anything at all, so not sure how old any

(01:14:52):
of the items were they were serving. And of course
they were using a home pesticide.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Which is not approved for restaurant use, and they had.

Speaker 17 (01:15:02):
No test strips to make sure the sanitizer was strong
enough to kill germs when they washed dishes. So like
Colinana Victor Cafe, Fort Mill eighty four, we got one
more here. This is the corner Stone Pub and Grill
and Matthew's. They had a ninety one and employee was
working with lettuce rubbed it with a wiping cloth that

(01:15:22):
she used to clean the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
What what rubbed the lettuce? What why why, I don't know, Beth.

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
The entire report today is on two levels.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Never rubbed the lettuce, No, nobody rubs Nobody.

Speaker 17 (01:15:44):
Observed a food employee handling raw chicken then put on
some different gloves without washing it. All container of boiled
eggs had been left sitting out overnight, still too warm,
so they had to be thrown out. A bunch of
items out of date chicken wings, broccoli, soup, pastas, slaw,
ranch dressing, and lettuce that all had to be thrown out.
Other items out of date marinara sauce, turkey, tomatoes, meat palls, cheese.

Speaker 5 (01:16:09):
Just threw away everything.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
There seems like all their food. Was that a day?

Speaker 17 (01:16:11):
Yeah, so it's the Cornerstone Pub and grill Matthews a
ninety one point five, but none with such a classy
name as Choked Noodle House.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
No, I can't no idea that that was even a thing.
I mean at the restaurant was like I.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
Said, here we go with a little naughty bath.

Speaker 8 (01:16:31):
That's a good woman. You're a good woman, Beth.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
So holding our fantasy draftings here?

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
M hm, so uh, gentlemen. After the soccer match on Saturday,
I went over to Optimist Haul and ate at Enot,
the Ethiopian restaurant y knot expressed, and had for lunch.
I had their vegan platter. It was spectacular. Yes, I

(01:16:56):
ate it with their enja of bread which you just
tear off little Oh yeah, with you eat everything with your.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Hand, everything with your hands. Did you wash first?

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
I did wash first and used a sanitizer, so I
double girl, I double double cleansed the hands. It was spicy,
it was delicious, It was incredible, and they had an
a they also have. They have it at Optimist halls.
You not expressed. There's also one on the plaza that
is their sit down restaurant and ninety eight sanitation.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Score A not a fork in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Huh, Well you can get a four it, but it's
way more fun to eat.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
It with the really yeah it is. You know you
could have you could have been eating amongst your neighbors
that one of them could have been the one that
called the cops on your voice.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
That's true. Did you hear that story?

Speaker 18 (01:17:36):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
To find that way do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
We get to FM? Everybody in two states will call
the cops.

Speaker 5 (01:17:44):
I'm kidding, all right, Well, thank you, Mark, I say
you're writing News Talk eleven ten WBT. When we come back,
Brett Jensen will join us Breaking with Brett Jensen of course,
so week nights at six o'clock here on WBT, no doubt.
We'll talk a bit about what has been the talk
of much of this show today, the fact that Charlotte
City Council last night discussing an advertising campaign to to

(01:18:09):
advertise the virtues of the light rail, and given all
that's been going on recently, and of course the latest
tragic happening was Friday night, and we'll talk to Brett
about that and more.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Straight ahead. This is good Morning Beating.

Speaker 16 (01:18:43):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Oh, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:18:54):
I hear that theme. You know that he is right
around the corner, Breaking with Brett Jensen here and weeknights
here on WBT, and very soon you'll hear Breaking Brett
Jensen on one O seven point nine FM. Are you
ready for this?

Speaker 6 (01:19:09):
I am. You know, I gave a little speech about
it last night, for you know, we talked about for
like five six minutes last night, and you know, I'm
just a little bit older than you and Beth, and
so I remember the moment, you know, with WBC Y
and one of seven point nine. I remember that when
John Boy and Billy went to one oh seven nine

(01:19:31):
the first time we heard them, and I was late elementary,
early junior high. It was nothing like we had ever
heard before. It was it felt a reverent and just
you know, everything that was going on and all the
characters they had on and it truly was must listen
to radio. And you know, yeah, the music was fine

(01:19:51):
and it was top forty music, but no one had
ever heard that anymore. And I want you because you're
the historian, Bo, and maybe and Beth might even know
this one is oh that I think I remember in
the early nineties, wasn't Sherry from Bob and Sherry? Wasn't
she the first female in American radio to make a
million dollars a year? I thought, I remember that report.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
I don't know if that's true. I wouldn't be surprised
if it's true, but I don't know that I know that.
So you mentioned WBCY, and we were talking yesterday about
how in nineteen eighty nine, this is when Bob Lacy
came back to do what then was the Bob Lacy
Morning Show. For the first few years of Sunny one
oh seven point nine, and then Sherry joined him and
then began the Bob and Sherry Show and network and

(01:20:37):
the rest is history from that standpoint. But you know
those call letters. I actually heard you mentioned John Boy
and Billy last night, and a lot of people don't
know that sort of footnote of Charlotte history. John Boy
and Billy made their name and their network on the
shoulders of ninety nine point seven the Fox. But their
very first time they did a show together was right

(01:20:59):
down the hall from us here at wbc Y in
the room that now actually is where wfn Z is.
But yeah, John Boy and Billy worked here at that
one oh seven point nine. Then it was called f
M one o eight, but they they were there for
a short stint and then then they moved cross town.

Speaker 8 (01:21:17):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
It was truly Muscless and radio.

Speaker 6 (01:21:20):
And like I said, all the characters and they're a reverence,
and I mean in just their southern you know, their
Southern characters, and and plus you know growing up in
Gastonia and Billy being from Gastonia, like it was it
was a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:21:34):
I mean that it was.

Speaker 6 (01:21:35):
Every morning and you'd get to school, Oh my gosh,
did you hear what they said today? Like, that's the
way it was with one of seven point nine back
then and up until gosh bo, up until high school,
I had a WBCY bumper sticker on like one of
my backpacks.

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):
Okay, well, you're he's calling out for this bath I'm
gonna have to give it to him. Way, That's not
the one I won. This is the one I want
to write here, And.

Speaker 19 (01:22:01):
We're all rid one o eight WBC why Continuous Hit Music,
the Boys Fifth Morning Show and Charlotte's Best Music.

Speaker 5 (01:22:14):
All Hit one o eight WBC. Why more the fact
I like that Brett Jensen love it? Yeah, that was
actually that was Actually I mentioned Randy and Spiff, who
came after John Boy and Billy and and there are
a couple of other people that did mornings in those
late eighties years. But back to your point, you're right,
John Boy and Billy Uh started things on All Hit

(01:22:35):
one o eight and now coming up on Thursday, we
are taking WBT to one oh seven point nine FM.
So this is a big deal, breaking with Brett Jensen
on a whole new platform, and we're all very excited
around here.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
And it's gonna be must listen to radio.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
Well it is.

Speaker 18 (01:22:52):
Well, first of all, thank you bet Yeah, that's like
the ball up. Yeah, you didn't specify, but you're talking
to me. I thought you were talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Of course, of course kidding.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Well, I know, but the thing is is that you know,
our coverage area just doubled, and the greater impact that's
going to happen one hundred thousand watts. You know, we
always called the fifty thousand wants to blow towards because
at night Canada to Cuba, but daytime, no gaps. And
as I said last night, you now get to hear

(01:23:29):
me in surround sound.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
And how great is that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
This was the whole point of all this. Yes, when
they said that is possible, we said we got to
go through with this. But hey, look I didn't. Well,
I'm fine to get off on that tangent talking about
that huge story on Thursday. But you did have Mark
Harris on your show last night. We're going to talk
more next hour. By the way, Congressman Ralph Norman is
going to join us. But you talked to Mark Harris

(01:23:53):
last night on your show, which is available on demand,
about obviously what's going on in the wake of a
second stabbing on the light rail here in Charlotte.

Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
Yeah, you know it was you know, he was very
adamant and active after, you know, with border patrol and Areta.
Zaruska is stabbing, and you know he was out there
begging the leadership to do something about it, and you know,
there was no security on the light rail, which muttered people.
Many people are wondering why he had been banned from
the light rail. The you know, the company is not

(01:24:23):
saying why they had been banned from the light rail.
They're still trying to figure out. Nobody from CATS is talking.
I mean, this is just this is getting worse and
worse and worse. And the only hope that we may have, honestly,
because you can't trust city leaders or CATS or the
security company to do the right thing, because they've shown
so far they haven't. But what you've got to do

(01:24:43):
now is on December eighteenth, the new Transit Committee, they're
meeting for the first time, and hopefully they will demand
answers and they will make them public.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
What is coming up on breaking with Brett Jensen.

Speaker 6 (01:24:56):
That's a really really good question. We are going to
get into more of the staff because I was given
some late information last night about updates to the stabbing,
and we're learning more and more about the alleged attacker
and his history and his criminal past, so we're going
to get into a lot more of that as well tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:25:14):
And also follow Brett for all the breaking news in
and around the Charlotte area. It's Brett Underscore Jensen on
X And if you're not following Brett, then you don't
know the latest as to what's going on. It's a
it's a must follow feed, always has been, and he's
breaking stories all the time for this radio station that
is soon to become one oh seven point nine FM WBT,

(01:25:36):
Charlotte's FM News Talk. Thank you Brett, Thanks guys, appreciate it.
Final hour ahead on a busy Tuesday here on Good
Morning BT from.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT.

Speaker 8 (01:25:52):
Yeah, the energy in this place is just amazing, pure energy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
This is Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson and Beth Trout.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
What I'm talking about is the pulse of the collection coming.

Speaker 8 (01:26:03):
A little percussion.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
There's the percussion. Yeah, let it kick in. News Talk
soon to be one oh seven point nine coming up
on Thursday, Charlotte's FM News Talk spread the word. We're
very excited.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Set your dials, set your settings in your car, be prepared,
and we won't miss out on anything.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
What she's trying to say is lock it in and
rip the knob off. Yes, well, we got to get
to Thursday. We are here at Tuesday. It's December ninth.
Coming up at nine thirty five, we will be joined
by Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who is going
to weigh in on what's happened here in Charlotte in

(01:26:50):
recent days. You've been hearing Mark talk about it, and
we have two about the light rail stabbing, the second
one in several months. And we're learning more about the suspect.
We're learning more about the situation that led to this.
And of course Ralph Norman is running for governor as
well in South Carolina in a very heated primary that
involves people like Nancy Mace and so as we turned

(01:27:12):
the corner into twenty twenty six, things are really going
to ramp up. He just opened a new field office
yesterday for his campaign. I believe in Lexington, South Carolina.
So we'll talk to Ralph Norman. It's been a little while,
but he'll be with us here on News Talk eleven
ten WBT. Now, last night was Monday Night Football, and
Panther's not involved in Monday Night Football this week. But

(01:27:34):
I'm thinking about Monday Night Football. And I had this
to bring up yesterday, but I don't know. We had
a little something going on yesterday that, you know, the
kind of dominated things. But forty five years ago, forty
five years ago last night on Monday Night Football, and
here on WBT, I know people who are working here

(01:27:54):
then and have heard stories about what they were talking about.
I was way too young to and to be quite frank,
I don't remember this. We were talking off the air.
We may talk about this in a minute about what's
the earliest thing that you remember as far as a
major news event. You know, I was born in seventy four,
So I'll tell you what comes to mind for me
in a minute here. But forty five years ago, last night,

(01:28:17):
while people were watching Monday Night football, is confirmed.

Speaker 13 (01:28:22):
That John Lennon, a member of the famed Defeatles maybe
the best known member there, shot twice in the back
outside of his department building in the West Dote of
New York to night, rushed to the Rose.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
Beell dead arms, dead on arrival. Now, I've heard the
audio there from Howard Cosell so many times over the years.
I feel like I heard it live, but I did not.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Actually, that's the first time I have heard that. Isn't
that strange that I don't have a memory of this
event either. I was born in nineteen seventy seven, but
I've never heard the Howard Cosell make the announcement.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Many people found out because I mean, we didn't have
the internet back in those days. We didn't have phones, smartphones,
any kind of mobile phones, and so people were watching
ABC's Monday Night Football and Howard Cosell was one of
the team members there, and.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
He broke that news to a lot of people.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
Now you may be wondering what did the reports of
the same story sound in other places.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
I'm Lennon was brought.

Speaker 12 (01:29:23):
To the emergency room shortly before eleven pm.

Speaker 16 (01:29:28):
He was dead on arrival.

Speaker 20 (01:29:31):
Doctor Stephen Lynn of New York City's Roosevelt Hospital making
the announcement that musician, composer, and former Beatle John Lennon
is dead. Lennon was shot to death outside his New
York apartment around eleven o'clock Eastern time.

Speaker 5 (01:29:41):
There were numerous wounds that entered the heart and the
large vessels within the chest, causing a massive blood loss
that could not be repaired or restored.

Speaker 20 (01:29:50):
Doctor Lynda says Lennon suffered at least seven gunshot wounds.
Lennon was ambushed as he and his wife, Yoko Ono,
were returning home from a recording session, allegedly by Hawaii
native David Chapman.

Speaker 10 (01:29:59):
Mister and came up behind them and called to him,
mister Lennon as he arrived at that doorway, and then
in a combat stance, he fired the empty the Charter
Arms thirty eight calib a gun that he had with
him and shot John Lennon.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
So some of the footage of what was happening that night,
but again, the majority of people have that memory of
Monday Night Football because even more so, I'm way way
more so than now, because you didn't have cable, you
didn't have all these other choices. You had a few
other channels, and Monday Night Football on ABC. I believe
it was the Patriots. The Patriots were playing, But I

(01:30:42):
know a lot of people that are listening to me
say that right now, that know exactly who because they
were watching it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
And they remember exactly I'm sure where they were. I
remember growing up hearing about this story later and hearing
about the shooter, Mark David Chapman, and his obsession with
the book The Catcher and the Rye. And it was
because of his obsession with that book and the fact
that the book was tied to that horrific crime, I

(01:31:09):
was almost afraid to read the book. You know, it
was taken off of reading lists. It wasn't something that
was required in any of my classes growing up or
even in high school. And I didn't read Catcher in
the Rye until I was an adult. I think I
was afraid of the book somehow because of its attachment
to that particular story. And as I was reading the

(01:31:32):
book as an adult, I kept thinking about Mark David
Chapman and thinking about the story and thinking about the
talent that he took away from us in taking John
Lennon so young. Because think about all that Paul McCartney
has created and done since nineteen eighty and think about
all that John Lennon could have brought to the world

(01:31:56):
had he were he still alive or had he lasted.
You know more.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
Decades and think about how big a deal it's been.
The few times where they've tried to reconstruct songs with
John Lennon and the Beatles. I think they've done it three,
maybe four times. I mean, I remember working here back
in the late nineties when they had that Free as
a Bird song. And this is before AI because I
know that they rebuilt another one about a year ago,

(01:32:21):
but that Free as a Bird Song was the first
time they released something that was reworked with John Lennon.
And John Lennon of course had been dead for years
at that point. But December eighth, nineteen eighty it was
the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots playing in
that game that you heard with Howard Cosell on ABC's
television network. Now, the question is what's the earliest news

(01:32:44):
event that you remember in your life? Because Beth and
I said, we don't remember that one.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:32:50):
I happen to remember the one I remember was about
a year later, and I'll tell you what that is
coming up. You know exactly what yours was. And I
asked the other guys the room here as well, but
what's the earliest news event that you remember in your
life is ours the same. No, oh it's not the same.
Not the same, okay, not the same, but the same year.

(01:33:10):
It was the same year. And actually, as soon as
I say that, I have to look up when yours happened,
because it may have been if it was before mine,
then I guess I do remember that, because I remember
the one you're going to talk about. But enough about us.
We'll tell you that when we come back, and i'd
love to hear from you. Two seven oh four, five,
seven oh eleven ten.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
This is good Morning BEATSY with Boat Hubson and Beth
trout By.

Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Forty five years ago. Last night, many many people were
watching Monday night football and got the news about the
assassination of John Lennon hard to believe, December ninth, nineteen eighty.
So we got to talking here about what is your
earliest memory of a news event in your life? And

(01:34:01):
initially I thought that we had different ones, but now
that I look at the timeline, I was mistaken on
when this happened versus when yours happened.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
So let's go ahead and hear what yours is.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
My first news event memory was the attempted assassination of
President Ronald Reagan on March thirtieth of nineteen eighty one,
which is interesting now thinking about it, because it's only
a few months later than the assassination of John Lennon.
I was four, I would and the fact that I

(01:34:33):
remember that it must have been playing on the news
in a lot in my house. But I have a
vivid memory of that particular day as a four year old.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
So I was going to say that my earliest memory
was the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and I
just remember walking into the room and I remember a
little black and white TV that it was in our kitchen.
I remember it was CBS News, maybe Dan rather than
but again I remember them talking about this Saddat and

(01:35:05):
the coverage of it, and very little else. But I
have always remembered the name Saddat, and that's where I
learned about I thought I learned what an assassination. Yes,
I learned what an assassination is, because the assassination attempted
assassination of Reagan was months earlier, but I, for some
reason didn't yet associate that word with that. I associated

(01:35:27):
it with this Saddat incident that was October sixth nineteen
eighty one, so that was a few months later than
what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:35:34):
So I guess if I.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
Remember the Reagan attempt, then that is mine too, because
it's earlier in the year.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
I'm going to say something out loud, that's very strange
about the Reagan that the night before and I was young,
and probably this could be why I remember it. I
had a dream that something bad was going to happen
to Ronald Reagan. Premonition, Yeah, as a four and then

(01:36:03):
when it did happen, it scared me as a as
a young a little young girl. I I guess maybe
always been fascinated by politics, but but the memory of
that and the Weayiact could probably verify that because I
got up talking.

Speaker 8 (01:36:19):
About its coast.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
Well, you know, you just never know. I don't know
that if that does that happen to any of you guys,
the where you've had memories of things that you had
dreams about before they happen.

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
Maybe, but I don't think that that's That's a pretty large,
pretty detailed one. Now I want to go to line
number ten. Ron You're on WBT.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Oh, I was waiting.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
Now, this is not this is this is not just
any Ron. This is the legendary former Chief Engineer Ron
Tollinson calling us today. This is a very very rare
and special occasion.

Speaker 16 (01:37:00):
It is I don't call off and I listen all
the time. I enjoy listening to you folks, and not
but just because we're friends, but you have a very
interesting program when I when I can hear it. I
wanted to chime in on the first news event that
I remember. I was six years old living in Lancaster,

(01:37:23):
South Carolina, on Grace Avenue. I came home from school
in November and it was it was a warrnage type
day that we have. You know, sometimes fall doesn't really
come really early in the South. But anyway, I remember
that mom had the windows down in the house and

(01:37:44):
I was outside in the yard playing and she just
happened to be listening to WBT radio and I could
kind of hear it in the background. And it was
when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and I remember her
hearing the fact that he that he had passed away,

(01:38:05):
and and she she started noticeably crying over that. But
that's the first one that I remember. The second I
remember was the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show,
and I remember that vividly as well. Oh what a
good one to the first couple that I remember.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Well, you know that's that right there, hearing about JFK
by way of WBT. I mean, how about that? That
is that I feel like I was saying this earlier. Ron.
You know, I obviously wasn't alive when JFK passed away,
but but that's one of those moments that you've heard
so many times you almost feel like you were, because
you know, the Walter Cronkite footage from from television where

(01:38:48):
he stopped and sort of had to collect himself.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
And as a p pretor film.

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
Yeah, and we were talking about I was mentioning the
Howard Cosell dead on arrival phrase from Monday Night Football,
But wow, I didn't. That's that's a that's quite a memory, Ron.

Speaker 16 (01:39:06):
And and ongoing from that JFK. I can remember watching
the funeral and and so on and so forth on
TV because again back then you had three channels, and uh,
when the president was on, you were screwed, you know,
so uh yeah, it was uh they were uh. I
remember the funeral procession, I mean, very vividly of of that,

(01:39:31):
so you know I lived through that.

Speaker 9 (01:39:33):
So that was my first one.

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
Ron Tollison.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
Yes, the fact that you were inspired and moved to
call us Ron just fills us with joy.

Speaker 9 (01:39:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:39:43):
And plus I have a hotline.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
So I think, yeah, he has.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
He has his own line that no one else can call.

Speaker 9 (01:39:50):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
He knows how to get right to us.

Speaker 5 (01:39:52):
So, like I said online, ten, thanks for the call.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
Ron. Hey, Buddy, Hey on the phone.

Speaker 9 (01:39:57):
I wanted to touch on something last week's tasted about.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
That was you, Buddy, that was me.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
You know what the best part of all of this
has been. See, we love our listeners and I feel
like we're all kind of family. Now Buddy calls in
about something else and he says to us, well, have
got you on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
That's the greatest call of the day.

Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
Betty bang j'all have a great morning.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
I love listening to you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
It's gonna be good morning, bet and Betty.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
That's right, it's gonna be good morning BT. Buddy, Bye, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
They bye. This is good morning Beat with Bow and Beeth.

Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
We have been so many places today. Earlier this hour,
we were talking about the forty five year anniversary. Last
night during Monday Night Football of the announcements that John
Lennon had been shot in New York. And it's been
having all of us turn back time to try to

(01:41:04):
remember the earliest thing newsworthy that happened in your lifetime.
Beth and I were talking about hours and ends up
being the same thing. We both consciously remember the attempt
at assassination assassination of Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
In March March thirtieth of nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
I mentioned that I also remember Anwar Sadat being assassinated
the Egyptian president. That actually was a few months after
the Reagan assassination attempt, and of course, in Sadat's case,
the attempt was successful, but I remember that image of
hearing it on the television in my kitchen. Steve, you're

(01:41:48):
a little bit younger than us. What's your first memory?

Speaker 21 (01:41:51):
So I had to double check which one might have
happened first, because I had two that were kind of
sticking out, and actually it turns out they were both
the same year. Her One of mine is also a
Reagan memory, and it was the tear down that wall speech, Yep,
tear down that wall, and then the other one was
Baby Jessica.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Oh my gosh, I had forgotten about baby baby Jessica
in the well and falling in that well. And then
they made a made they made a made for TV
movie about baby Jessica falling in that that that little well.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
And wasn't that in the Man in the Mirror video
Michael Jackson? Remember the Michael Jackson video.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Then removing her the news event of her being rescued,
and the.

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
Whole video was a montage of news events.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Yes, and that was in there because they pulled her out,
and I remember, maybe I might be I might be
confusing the made for TV movie which was like an
ABC or like a Lifetime movie with the actual news
event where they pulled her and it was like, man,
she's ripe.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
Maybe was the movie? Those were both eighty seven?

Speaker 8 (01:42:57):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
I was fiveish.

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
Okay, So we're starting to a trend here. It's around
four or five years old, is where we're starting to
have the memories of four events.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
You might say it's in season five of Stranger Things, right, right, right, Bernie?
How about it?

Speaker 7 (01:43:10):
Mine was a little later, I guess, because fifth grade
is really the first one I remember, and that was
nine to eleven. Nine to eleven was like the first
event that comes to mind.

Speaker 8 (01:43:19):
You were where it's very grade. It was two thousand
and one. I was. I was ten. That's fourth fifth grade.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Which what does that tell us about the nineties? Really
he was born in the nineties. There weren't really I
don't remember music much about Monica Lewinsky was.

Speaker 8 (01:43:35):
And the trial I was.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
Oklahoma City bombing was in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
Oklahoma City bombing won the.

Speaker 21 (01:43:40):
World Trade Center bombing prior to nine eleven three.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
Yeah, well, I mean it's not the first memory that
I have, but I think the most nine to eleven
is is JFK nine to eleven. For our generation, I
think most of us were in some part of grade
school when the Challenger exploded at night eighty six.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Third grade, and we had been talking about the Kristin mcculluffe,
the teacher that was going up in space and we
were supposed to watch she was going to teach from space,
and our class had been obsessed. Miss Straff was our
third grade teacher, and she had They wheeled the little
television in on that little rickey metal thing and we watched.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
And that is why I was reading about I was
reading somebody talking about that the other day for some reason,
and that fact that so many school children across the country,
really all throughout an elementary, middle school, junior high followed
that mission and followed that crew training in a closer
way than normal because of the story about the teacher.

(01:44:44):
And so then when you sat down to watch the
culmination of what of all her training, and you knew
a little bit more about her than you normally would have,
and then to see that happen in front of your
face made it that much more of a lasting sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Yes, And I remember remember being obsessed with the details
of that because we had followed it was a contest
that she won in order to be the teacher astronaut
who got to go up on the Challenger, and we
followed that entire journey, her training, everything, And I think
it was really my first understanding of tragedy and my

(01:45:19):
parents kind of having to explain all of that to me.

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
We got a couple more right that we got there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Yeah, Christian, one of our favorite Texters. Christian was texting
earlier about olive loafs and also Manwitch sandwiches. Love you, Christian,
but Christian also said good morning both our Goodmorrow, Bo
and Beth. This is Christian. Heard you guys talking about
this question here, that's Dave.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
Goodmorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
Christian says, Goodmorrow, Goodmorrow, Christian, thank you. He says, I
heard you guys talking about what news story you remember
in your life. I actually have one. I remember hearing
in the news back in two thousand and nine about
the swine flu epidemic. I'm not sure if you guys
remember the swine flu epidemic, but I remember it because
I was still in elementary school at the time.

Speaker 7 (01:46:00):
I remember this very vividly because IT'SIWO thousand and nine. Yeah,
we went on a family trip and went out to
dinner and my dad was joking around with the waiter
about how my stepmom just got over swine flu and
she just got out of prison.

Speaker 8 (01:46:11):
Oh, like that's a joke for my dad. Well, he
says that kind of stuff just to strangers.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
Just it was hilarious, just to waiters.

Speaker 8 (01:46:17):
Oh it was great. Yeah, and they bought it too.
They believed that everything.

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
Well, see a lot of these memories we're talking about
for us, and a lot of people were in this video.
So that's what we're going to send you off with
today don't forget. Coming up on Thursday, the debut of
one oh seven point nine FM, do et Charlotte's FM
News Talk, Lock it in and rip the knob off.
Good Talk, Beth, Good Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
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That's New York.

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